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National Coal Board<P> TICKETS ISSUED TO BRITISH RAILWAYS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF COAL FROM WLESH COLLIERIES. 1940's and 1950's. 24 it...

GLASS SLIDES - COLLECTION of ca. 100 slides depicting scenes in Oxford, Oxfordshire and the Thames Valley (ca. 1900) in a box. (100)

GLASS SLIDES - COLLECTION of ca. 105 slides depicting mostly scenes in Wales and the Marches (incl. Ludlow), Scarborough & France (incl. WWI)(ca...

GLASS SLIDES - COLLECTION of ca. 120 col. & b/w slides depicting old master paintings, art, mollusca, birds and some scenes in Ireland (ca. 1890...

GLASS SLIDES - COLLECTION of ca. 220 slides depicting scenes in Holland (incl. Dordrecht, The Hague, Amsterdam, Katwijk & Leiden), Belgium (incl...

A THREE DIMENSIONAL FASHION ILLUSTRATION based on a coloured engraving from La Mode Illustree<P> ca 1860. Using green silk and other textiles ...

A NAVIGATIONAL DRAWING INSTRUMENT. Probably 18th Century. Fruitwood. With compass lines and some points marked in ink. Approx 21cm x 11cm

AGRICULTURAL SIGNBOARD. Probably from a hand-cart or horse-wagon. ca 1910. Lettered: DAVID F.POWELL, HARDWICK-COURT. CLIFFORD. Approx. 88cm x 21cm. W

TRADE SIGN. Ca 1910-20. Probably from a horse wagon. Lettered: DAVID WALL, MILHALF, WHITNEY-ON-WYE, HEREFORDSHIRE. Approx. 78cm x 32cm. Scalloped low

THE BIBLE .... R. Barker, 1615, Black letter. 4to. Lacks both titles and 3 leaves of the genealogies. A few leaves repaired. With concordance (1615) a

Cowper, (John)<P> THE EXCELLENCE OF CHARITY. A SERMON PREACH'D TO THE CLERGY OF THE ARCH-DEACONRY OF CHESTER, JUNE 3RD. 1712. AT THEIR YEA...

Gordon, (John)<P> MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN GORDON ... 1734. With engr. half-title, frontis. & plates. Orig. calf gilt with raised bands...

Vulpius, (Joannes Antonius)<P>. CARMINUM LIBRI TRES. EJUS ITEM OPUSCULA SOLUTA ORATIONE SCRIPTA, QUAE VARIIS IN VOLUMINIBUS DISPERSA AD HOC TE...

Scott (John)<P> A SERMON ....... IN COMMEMORATION OF ENGLAND'S DELIVERANCE FROM THE GUN-POWDER TREASON. 1673. [vi; 34pp], sm. 4to, disb...

Leigh (Edward)<P>. CRITICA SACRA ... 1650. 3rd ed. Folio. 2 parts in 1 vol. Title in red and black. 20th century half calf with crimson label...

CERTAIN SERMONS OR HOMILIES APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES....L. (J.Bill), 1623. 2 vols in 1. Folio. Black Letter<P> Engraved architectura...

Horatius Flaccus (Quintus)<P> Trans: E. A. de Martignac. Paris, 1696. 3rd French edition. 2 vols. 12mo. Woodcut devices to titles. V

Clarke (Liscombe)<P> A LETTER TO H. BROUGHAM, ESQ. ... IN REPLY TO THE STRICTURES ON WINCHESTER COLLEGE ... Winchester, 1818. - Bound with: A...

Nicolson, (William)<P>. THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL LIBRARY: OR A SHORT VIEW AND CHARACTER OF MOST OF THE WRITERS NOW EXTANT, EITHER IN PRINT OR IN...

Shakespeare, (William) & Knight, (Charles)<P>. THE WORKS ... CONTAINING HIS PLAYS AND POEMS. 1849 With engr. frontis. & plates. Orig. ...

Garinet, (Jules)<P>. HISTOIRE DE LA MAGIE EN FRANCE, DEPUIS LE COMMENCEMENT DE LA MONARCHIE JUSQU'A NOS JOURS. Paris, 1818. With engr. fro...

Houry, (Laurent d')<P>. ALMANACH ROYAL ANNEE M.DCC.LXXXIII. N.pl., 1783. Contemp. dec. gilt blindstamped calf. Spine, covers & corners...

Ainsworth, (Robert)<P> THESAURUS LINGUAE LATINAE COMPENDIARIUS: OR, A COMPENDIOUS DICTIONARY OF THE LATIN TONGUE: DESIGNED FOR THE BRITISH NAT...

Coxe, (William)<P> BESCHOUWING DER MAATSCHAPPIJ EN ZEDEN IN POOLEN, RUSLAND, ZWEEDEN EN DEENEMARKEN NAAR DEN DERDEN DRUK. UIT HET ENGELSCH. Am...

Boyer, (A.)<P> THE ROYAL DICTIONARY, FRENCH AND ENGLISH, AND ENGLISH AND FRENCH. 1729, new ed. rev., corr. and improv. with the addition of so...

(Johnson, Samuel)<P> THE RAMBLER. Dublin, 1752, first Dublin edition. 2 Vols. in 1. Small 8vo., orig. calf with morocco label. Spine, covers &...

COLLOQUA, ET DICTIONARIOLUM OCTO LINGUARUM, LATINAE, GALLICAE, BELGICAE, TEUTONICAE, HISPANICAE, ITALICAE, ANGLICAE & PORTUGALLICAE. Bonn, 1692....

Sieur D'***<P>. OEUVRES DIVERSES AVEC LE TRAITE DU SUBLIME ... Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1680. New edition. 12mo. With 2 engr. frontis....

Harding (S & E) <P> SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATED. Ills: F.Bartolozzi & others. 1793. Large 4to. Port. frontis, engr. title and approx 150 ...

[I.C.M.]<P> "KINDLY BLOW THOU FITFUL BREEZE". A CANZONET WRITTEN BY LORD BYRON. Dublin, n.d. Folio. 8pp. Disbound. Engr. tit...

Mawe, Thomas & Abercrombie, John, etc.<P> EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER, BEING A NEW, AND MUCH MORE COMPLETE GARDENER'S KALENDAR THAN ANY...

Markham, (Gervase)<P> MASTERPIECE REVIVED. 1685. With added laid-down engr. title. Small 4to. General title torn at margins. Lacks pp. 145/6, ...

[Goldsmith (Oliver)]<P> THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH OF BATH...1762. 1st edn. Port. frontis. C6 a cancel. Advt leaves at end of vol. Cont. speckle...

A COLLECTION OF POEMS. BY SEVERAL HANDS. R. Dodsley, 1748, 3 Vols. With engr. dec. title & vignettes. Orig. dec. blindstamped gilt calf with mor...

A COLLECTION OF POEMS IN SIX VOLUMES BY SEVERAL HANDS. Printed by J. Hughs for R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. With engr. dec. titles, 1 engr. plate, vignett

Piozzi, (Hesther Lynch)<P> ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON ... 1786, 2nd ed. Portr. frontis. from another book tipped-in before title. Co...

Pope (Alexander)<P> THE WORKS.....Ed: W.Warburton. 1751. 9 vols. Titles in red & black. 24 engraved plates. Errata at end of each vol. C...

Sheridan (Richard Brinsley)<P> THE CRITIC. 1781. 1st edition. Engr. title. [bound with] O'Keeffe (John)<P> WILD OATS. 1794. 1s...

Beaumont (Francis) & Fletcher (John)<P>. THE WORKS 1750. 10 Vols. With general title, divisional titles & 2 engr. frontis. portraits. ...

[Underwood, J.]<P> THE SNARLERS. A POEM. 1767, 2nd ed. 4to., modern quarter calf. New endpapers. (1)

Rohan (Henri Due de)<P> MEMOIRES ET LETTRES. Geneva, 1758. 3 vols. 12 mo. Cont. mottled calf. Gt. dec. spines in compartments with raised...

Campbell (Thomas)<P> THE POETICAL WORKS. 1828. 2 vols. Port. frontis. Some foxing of frontis & offsetting to first title. Cont. maroo...

Crabbe (George)<P> THE BOROUGH; A POEM IN TWENTY-FOUR LETTERS. 1810. 1st edition. A little occasional spotting. Cont. half calf gt. Maroon tit...

Shakespeare (William)<P> MACBETH Ed: Forbes Robertson. 1898. 4to. B/w plates. Signed on f.e.p. and two plates by Mrs Patrick Campbell.<P&...

Boswell, & Croker, (John Wilson) (Ed.)<P>. LIFE OF JOHNSON. 1860. 2 Vols. With frontis. & plates. Orig. dec. blindstamped gilt quart...

Thackeray, (William Makepeace)<P>. VANITY FAIR. A NOVEL WITHOUT A HERO. 1848. First edition in bookform. With wood-engr. frontis., dec. title,...

Dickens, (Charles)<P>. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 1839. First edition, second issue (with sister on p. 123). Orig. dec. pol...

Shakespeare, (William)<P> The works. Edited from the best texts. 1880. 12 Vols. 12mo., orig. crushed morocco in original box. A.e.g. Some cove...

(Lytton, Edward Bulmer)<P> ALICE OR THE MYSTERIES. 1838. First edition. 3 Vols. Small 8vo., orig. polished ruled gilt quarter calf with raised...

Thackeray (William Makepeace)<P> THE NEWCOMES. Ills: R.Doyle. 1854-55. 1st edn in book form. 2 added titles. Plates as called for. Some margi...

Boyd (Archibald)<P> THE CROWN WARD. L. 1856. 1st edn. 3 vols. 8vo in 12's. Owner's signatures to titles. Vol 1 appears to lack one, o...

Stowe, (Harriet Beecher)<P>. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Ills.: G. Cruikshank. Cassell, 1852. First British edition. With portrait frontis., title ...

Boswell, (James)<P> THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D. INCLUDING A JOURNAL OF HIS TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES ... Ed.: J. Wilson Croker & John Wri...

Sheldon, (Frederick)<P> MIELDENVOLD, THE STUDENT; OR, THE PILGRIMAGE THROUGH NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, BERWICKSHIRE, AND THE ADJACENT COUNTIES. ...

BINDING - Rogers, (Samuel)<P> ITALY, A POEM/ POEMS. Ills: after Turner, Stothard et al. 1830, 1834. 2 Vols. With engr. frontis., plates & ...

Hardy (Thomas)<P> WESSEX POEMS. L & NY 1898. 1st edn. [500] Half-title. B/w ills. Partly untrimmed. Orig. gt. dec. cloth. A very clean ...

Hardy (Thomas)<P> THE TRUMPET-MAJOR. A NOVEL. New York, 1880. First American edition. Small 8vo., orig. pictorial cloth, booklist printed on e...

Haggard (Sir Henry Rider)<P>. COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C. A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE. 1888, First edn. 3 Vols. Half-titles. Owner's stamp on f.e.p&...

Hay, (John)<P> POEMS. Boston, New York & Cambridge, Mass., 1890. With title vignette. Orig. quarter crushed morocco, t.e.g. Front cover de...

Rossetti, (Dante Gabriel)<P>. CHIMES. Ills. B. Skiold. 1969. Ltd. ed. (20/75). 7 orig. relief etchings. Folio. Unbound as issued in cloth slip...

Johnson (James Weldon)<P> SAINT PETER RELATES AN INCIDENT OF THE RESURRECTION DAY. New York, The Viking Press, 1930, ltd. ed. (158/200). True ...

Juvenal<P>. SATIRE SUR LES FEMMES. TRADUITE PAR LOUIS JARTY. Paris, [1923]. Ltd. Ed. (73/330). With stencil-col. frontispiece, plates, vignett...

Plath (Sylvia)<P> WINTER TREES. 1971. 1st edn. Orig. cloth gt. Unclipped d/w. Nice copy. CROSSING THE WATER. 1971. 1st edn. Orig. cloth...

THE LETTERS OF ABELARD AND HELOISE Trans: C.K.Scott Moncrieff. 1925. 4to. Ltd. edition (750), one of 18, numbered, bound in vellum. Partly untrimme

Schnitzler, (Arthur)<P>. CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING. Golden Cockerel Press, 1922. Ltd. Ed. (250). Small 4to., orig. cloth-backed boards, partly...

Housman, (Laurence)<P> CYNTHIA. Alcuin Press, 1947, ltd. ed. (500) signed by the author. Orig. cloth wih spine title label. Spine faded. (1)

Sitwell, (Sir George)<P> ON THE MAKING OF GARDENS. Intr.: Sir Osbert Sitwell. Ill.: John Piper. Dropmore Press, 1949, Ltd. Ed. (137/1000). Wit...

James (Henry)<P> A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS, 1913. 1st English edn. Port. frontis. Partly untrimmed. Orig. cloth gt. Auden (Wystan Hugh) &am...

[Poe, Edgar Allen]<P>. MUSE. ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY. POE MEMORIAL EDITION. New York, Carlyle Straub Publisher, 1938. Ltd. de-luxe Ed. (606...

Huxley, (Aldous)<P>. BRAVE NEW WORLD. A NOVEL. 1932. Original cloth. Spine rolled. Head & foot slightly worn. Slightly foxed. Lacks dustja...

Auden, (W.H.)<P> SOME POEMS. - THANK YOU, FOG. LAST POEMS. 1940, 1974. First editions. 2 Vols. Orig. boards, d/w. - A few pp. sl. foxed. One d...

Tolkien, (John Ronald Reuel)<P>. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING. 1957, first edition seventh impression. - THE TWO TOWERS. 1956, first edition fou...

Greene (Grahame)<P> LOSER TAKES ALL. London, Melbourne & Toronto. (1955), first ed. Orig. cloth, d/w. Small tear to bottom front d/w, Sl. ...

Fleming, Ian<P> Dr. No. 1958, first edition. Orig. pictorial cloth, pictorial d/w. Covers lightly worn, d/w sl. dam. and sl. chipped. (1)

Hardy (Thomas)<P> THE COLLECTED LETTERS. Ed. Richard Little Purdy & Michael Millgate. Oxford, 1978-1988. 7 Vols. With frontis. Orig. cloth...

Buck, (Katherine M.)<P>. THE WAYLAND - DIETRICH SAGA. THE SAGA OF DIETRICH OF BERN AND HIS COMPANIONS PRECEDED BY THAT OF WAYLAND SMITH. THEIR...

Dickens (Charles)<P> LIBRARY. 1910. 18 Vols. With gravure frontis. & plates after H. Furniss. Orig. dec. blindstamped gt. cloth, t.e.g. Oc...

Hardy, (Thomas)<P> TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. - JUDE THE OBSCURE. - THE WOODLANDERS. - WESSEX TALES. - THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE. - MOMENTS...

[WINDSOR EDITION] Ainsworth, (Harrison). NOVELS. 20 Vols. With frontis., printed ex-libris on front pastedowns & text ills. Orig. dec. gilt clot...

[WESSEX EDITION] Hardy (Thomas)<P> THE WORKS .... IN PROSE AND VERSE. 1920-1931. 23 vols (of 24) With gravure frontis. Uniform maroon cloth gt...

Wright (Patrick)<P> THE STANDARD ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MODERN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 1909-1911. 12 Vols. Col. & b/w plates. Engr. text ...

Gamgee, (John)<P>. OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. N.d. (ca. 1850). 4 Vols. in 2. With engr. frontispieces & text-ills. Contemp. polished blindstamp...

Wilson, (John M.)<P> THE FARMER'S DICTIONARY, OR A CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE ... Edinburgh & London, (ca. 1880). 2 Vols. With wood-eng...

COATES'S HARD BOOK: CONTAINING THE PEDIGREES OF IMPROVED SHORT-HORNED CATTLE. NEW SERIES. Vol. 21-23, 25-26, 29-35, 37-41, 43-45. 1876-1899. 20 ...

Haggard, (Sir Henry Rider)<P> RURAL ENGLAND BEING AN ACCOUNT OF AGRICULTURAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCHES CARRIED OUT IN THE YEARS 1901-1902. London,...

Morris, (Francis Orpen)<P>. A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS. 1895. 4th edition revised, corrected & enlarged. 6 Vols. With 394 handcol. lith. p...

Morris, (Beverley Robinson)<P>. BRITISH GAME BIRDS AND WILDFOWL. 1855. First edition. With 60 hand-col. plates with tissue guards. Contemp. qu...

Chalmers, (Patrick R.)<P>. BIRDS ASHORE AND AFORESHORE. Ills.: W. Austen. 1935. First edition. With 16 col. plates. Large 4to., orig. cloth gi...

Finn, (Frank). INDIAN SPORTING BIRDS. Calcutta, 1915, first edition. Large 8vo. With 103 chromolith. plates. Orig. cloth gilt. Untrimmed. Faded. (1)

Butler, (Arthur G.)<P> BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. Ill.: F.W. Frohawk. [ca. 1890]. 6 Vols. With chromolith. frontis. & gravur...

White (James)<P> A COMPENDIUM OF THE VETERINARY ART. 1822-23. 3 vols. 25 engr. plates. Some fldg., a few hand-col. Cont. boards; some cracking...

Buffon, (Count de)<P> NATURAL HISTORY, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR. London & York, 1812. 20 Vols. With engr. portrait frontis., engr. fold. map...

Goldsmith, (Oliver)<P> A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE. Glasgow. Edinburgh & London, 1854. 2 Vols. With portrait frontis., dec....

Goldsmith (Oliver)<P> A HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND ANIMATED NATURE ...Ed: J.F.Waller. 1876. 2 Vols. Large 8vo. Col. engraved title; col. & ...

Oldroyd (H)<P> THE HORSE-FLIES OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 1952-57. 1st editions. 3 vols. 4to. B/w plates. Maps, text ills. Orig. cloth gt...

Smith (Sir James Edward)<P> AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMATICAL BOTANY. 1819. With 15 engr. plates (of which 14 handcol.). Conte...

Baines (Henry)<P> THE FLORA OF YORKSHIRE. 1840. [bound with]<P> A SUPPLEMENT (Baker & Nowell) 1854. 2 works in 1 vol. 3 maps, 1 c...

Mawe, (Thomas)<P> EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER. 1797, 15th ed. With engr. frontis. Contemp. mottled calf. Spine chipped. Some cracking to upper ...

Pratt (Anne)<P> THE FLOWERING PLANTS, GRASSES, SEDGES, AND FERNS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THEIR ALLIES.....L. and NY [ca 1870]. 6 vols. 318 chromo...

Mellanby, (Kenneth)<P>. THE NEW NATURALIST. PESTICIDES AND POLLUTION. 1970. 2nd. rev. ed. With col. & b/w plates & diagrams. Original ...