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Williamson (Henry) The Dark Lantern, original typescript with author's extensive manuscript corrections, 543pp., faint spotting to first few leaves, 1951; Donkey Boy, original...

Lot 215

08/05/2025

Williamson (Henry) The Dark Lantern, original typescript with author's extensive autograph corrections, 543pp., [c.1951]; and c.25 others by Williamson (c.25)

£300 - £400

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Europe.- Napoleonic Wars.- Neale (Adam) Letters from Portugal and Spain, first edition, engraved map frontispiece (trimmed and laid down), 12 engraved plates (one trimmed and ...

Lot 12

08/05/2025

Europe.- Napoleonic Wars.- Neale (Adam) Letters from Portugal and Spain, first edition, 1809; and another on the Battle of Waterloo (2)

£200 - £300

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Africa.- Big Game.- Harris (William Cornwallis) The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, fourth edition, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece, additional hand-coloured title and 24 h...

Lot 1

08/05/2025

Africa.- Big Game.- Harris (William Cornwallis) The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, fourth edition, 1844.

£300 - £400

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Yorkshire.- Drake (Francis) Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, list of subscribers, 60 engraved plates, plans and maps (16 double-page or folding), ...

Lot 49

08/05/2025

Yorkshire.- Drake (Francis) Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, by William Bowyer for the Author, 1736.

£400 - £600

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Britain.- Pyne (William Henry) The Costume of Great Britain, half-title, hand-coloured title vignette, 60 hand-coloured aquatints, one f. (text for The Fireman) provided in fa...

Lot 32

08/05/2025

Britain.- Pyne (William Henry) The Costume of Great Britain, 1808 [but watermarked 1818].

£300 - £400

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Oysters.- Cookery.- Martin (Alexandre) Manuel de l'amateur d'huitres, engraved folding hand-coloured frontispiece, engraved folding plate, without 12pp. advertisements, foxing, ori...

Lot 142

08/05/2025

Oysters.- Cookery.- Martin (Alexandre) Manuel de l'amateur d'huitres, Paris, Audot, 1828; and others, Oysters related (c.40)

£150 - £200

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India.- Dirom (Major) A Narrative of the Campaign in India, which terminated with the war with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, plans and...

Lot 17

08/05/2025

India.- Dirom (Major) A Narrative of the Campaign in India, which terminated with the war with Tippoo Sultan, in 1792, second edition, 1794.

£300 - £400

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Wine.- Vizetelly (Henry) The Wines of the World. Characterised & Classed,, first edition, 8 pp. advertisments at front and 11pp at end, a few spots and surface stains, newspape...

Lot 150

08/05/2025

Wine.- Vizetelly (Henry) The Wines of the World. Characterised & Classed,, first edition, 1875; and others on wine, (c.60)

£150 - £200

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Wine.- Shaw (Thomas George) Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar, second edition, folding frontispiece, some leaves becoming loose, occasional light scattered foxing, cracking to gutter,...

Lot 145

08/05/2025

Wine.- Shaw (Thomas George) Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar, second edition, 1864; and others, Wine (c.60)

£150 - £200

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Everard (Anne) Flowers From Nature, first edition, 2pp., list of subscribers, 13 hand-coloured lithograph plates, some spotting and foxing, original cloth, a little splitting down ...

Lot 200

08/05/2025

Everard (Anne) Flowers From Nature, first edition, 1835 & another (2)

£150 - £200

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Unrecorded Glasgow Cromwell.- Life (The) of Oliver Cromwel, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth, woodcut portrait frontispiece, final 'Epitaph'/advertisement f., contemporary ink n...

Lot 186

08/05/2025

Unrecorded Glasgow Cromwell.- Life (The) of Oliver Cromwel, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth, Printed by William Mitchell & James Knox, 1750.

£100 - £150

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Bindings.- Liturgie (La) c'est à dire, Le Formulaire des Prieres Publiques ...,, ruled in red, double-column, ?lacking frontispiece, previous owner's manuscript notes at beg...

Lot 56

08/05/2025

Bindings.- Liturgie (La) c'est à dire, Le Formulaire des Prieres Publiques ..., for R. Everingham & R. Bentley, 1695; and another, contemporary black morocco cottage-roof binding (2)

£400 - £600

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Rye House Plot.- The Deposition of William Carstares, when he was examined before the Lords of Secret Committee...upon the 22 of December 1684, bifolium, folds, some spotting or li...

Lot 182

08/05/2025

Rye House Plot.- The Deposition of William Carstares, when he was examined before the Lords of Secret Committee...upon the 22 of December 1684, [Edinburgh], no printer, 1684.

£100 - £150

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Walker (Anthony) The Virtuous woman found, her loss bewayl'd and character exemplified in a sermon preached at the funeral of the most excellent and religious lady, the Right Honou...

Lot 183

08/05/2025

Walker (Anthony) The Virtuous woman found, her loss bewayl'd and character exemplified in a sermon preached at the funeral of...the Right Honourable Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick, rare in commerce, Printed for Nathaniel Ranew, 1687.

£150 - £200

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Artists.- Collection of letters and some postcards, including: Edward Burne Jones (third person), Weedon Grossmith, Charles Barry (4), Henry Doulton (pottery manufacturer) (3), Ric...

Lot 167

08/05/2025

Artists.- Collection of letters and some postcards, including: Luke Fildes (2), Alma Tadema, Marcus Stone, Frederic Leighton, Ford Madox Brown, Frank Brangwyn, Sydney Cockerell, T.J. Cobden Sanderson etc., together c. 140 others, 1821-1906

£400 - £600

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Browne (Hablot Knight, artist and illustrator, 1815-82), Phiz.

Lot 172

08/05/2025

Browne (Hablot Knight), Phiz." Autograph Letter signed to Miss Mary Cream, [c. 1860], "... you should not call people names - I have never been 'an eminent man' - I am not an 'eminent man' - and I shall never be an 'Eminent man'".

£100 - £150

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Broadsides.- Bread Riots.- Magistrates (The), at a time when the urgency of their duty compels them to use every extremity of coercion for the preservation of the public peace ...,...

Lot 74

08/05/2025

Broadside.- Bread Riots.- Magistrates (The), at a time when the urgency of their duty compels them to use every extremity of coercion for the preservation of the public peace ..., printed broadside, Nottingham, Burbage and Stretton, 1800; and 2 others on the same (3)

£200 - £300

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Broadsides.- Wesleyan Methodist Association Preachers' Plan, in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit, foldlines, spotting, tape marks to corners, chipping and small loss to edges, ...

Lot 78

08/05/2025

Broadside.- Wesleyan Methodist Association Preachers' Plan, in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit, printed broadside, Camelford, Kellow, [1843]; and another (2)

£150 - £200

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Zoroastrianism.- Patrizi (Francesco) [Magia Philosophica hoc est Francisci patricii summi philosophi zoroaster], lacking title and supplied in manuscript facsimile, text within sin...

Lot 96

08/05/2025

Zoroastrianism.- Patrizi (Francesco) [Magia Philosophica hoc est Francisci patricii summi philosophi zoroaster], [Hamburg], [heirs of Jakob Wolff], [1593]; and 7 others (8)

£200 - £300

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Hebraica.- [?amishah ?umshe Torah], lacking general title, and 5ff. elsewhere (including 38 i-ii, and final blank), divisional titles within woodcut borders (one chipped and silked...

Lot 97

08/05/2025

Hebraica.- [Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah], [Frankfurt], [Friedrich Hartman], [1595]; and 25 others Hebrew (26)

£300 - £400

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Vatican Library .- Pansa (Mutius) Della libraria Vaticana ragionamenti, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title and recto of final f., woodcut samples of Hebrew, Syriac, C...

Lot 108

08/05/2025

Vatican Library.- Pansa (Mutius) Della libraria Vaticana ragionamenti, first edition, Rome, [Giacomo Ruffinelli for] Giovanni Martinelli, 1590

£600 - £800

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Sansovino (Francesco) Sette libri di satire, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut initials and head-pieces, some very faint foxing and spotting, later sheep stamped in blind,...

Lot 106

08/05/2025

Sansovino (Francesco) Sette libri di satire, Venice, Giacomo Vidali, 1573; and 4 others Italian poetry (5)

£150 - £200

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London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Dicoese of London, 2 vol., half-title to vol. 2 only, ...

Lot 46

08/05/2025

London.- Newcourt (Richard) Repertorium Ecclesiasticum Parochiale Londinense: An Ecclesiastical Parochial History of the Dicoese of London, 2 vol., by Benj. Motte, 1708-10.

£150 - £200

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Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, large paper copy, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, additional hand-coloured pictorial title, and 11 engrave...

Lot 228

08/05/2025

Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, first edition, large paper copy, Shaftesbury, by the Author, 1823; and Rutter's Description of Fonthill Abbey and Demesne, fifth edition in original printed wrappers (2)

£150 - £200

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