February Sale - Day One

Birds. Yarrell (Wm) History of British Birds, in 3 vols 3rd ed 1856, 8vo, cloth; Bratby (M) Grey Goose, 1939; Kearton (R) British Birds' Nests, ...

General books, a box

Nature. Maxwell (Sir H) Trees A Woodland Notebook, 1915, mounted colour plates, cloth gilt; Selby (P J) History of British Forest Trees, 1842, well-il

The Gamekeeper at Home, 1878, 8vo cloth gilt; Cornish (C J) Nights with an Old Gunner, 1897, cloth gilt; Mackie (P J) The Keeper's Book, War Edi...

Military. Maxwell (Sir H) Life of Wellington, 2 vols 2nd ed 1900; Gretton (Lieut-Col G Le M) Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, 1911,

Architecture. Fergusson (J) History of Architecture, 2nd ed in 4 vols, circa 1874; Glossary of Architecture, 3 vols 1841-5; another

Various. Richardson (C J) Harding (J D) et al. Old English Mansions, 1915, plates, cloth gilt; Bates (C J) History of Northumberland, 1895; Hill (C)

Latin text. Horace's Works, in 2 vols 1750; Quinta Horatii Flacci Opera, 1699 4to (Cambridge) rebacked; Cicero's Works, 11 vols including in...

Cruchley's Travelling County Atlas of England & Wales with all the Railways & Stations, 1863, 46 folding maps, coloured, (disbound)

Equestrian. Various including Smith (T) Extracts from the Diary of a Huntsman, 1838, litho plates; Head (Sir F) The Horse and his Rider, 1860, cloth g

Charles (C J) Elizabethan Interiors, 1st ed, nd (George Newnes), ltd ed no 113 of 500, plates, folio

Blyton (Enid) a box of childrens books including Noddy, Brer Rabbit and others

Churchill (Winston S) The Great War, 3 vols nd, blue cloth gilt

American history. Williams (T H) Lincoln and his Generals, 1952; Monnett (H N) Action Before Westport, 1964; McLaughlin (J) Gettysburg, The Long Encam

Mundorum Explicatio or the explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure, 17th century small 8vo, lacks title and page adverts at end, rather soiled, cont .

Blyton (Enid) Five series, 21 vols (19 of which in dw), all 1950's and 1960's, including one 1st edition 'Five are Together Again' 1...

Rackham (A) Illus Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1935 4to, 12 colour plates as listed, full green calf gilt

Ephemera. Various including signatures of Enid Blyton and Anthony Blunt, 1940's-50's comics, Pathescope Monthly, car brochures etc

American pulp fiction, circa 1920's and 1930's (26)

Tate Gallery John Piper Exhibition, publ 1983, illustrated

Hutton (E) & Brangwyn (Frank) Illus. The Pageant of Venice, 1922 (John Lane) 4to, colour plates, dw rather worn

A collection of 30 official film studio photographs of film stars of the 1940's period, most with text to reverse

A collection of 30 official film studio photographs of film stars of the 1940's period, most with text to reverse

A collection of 30 official film studio photographs of film stars of the 1940's period, most with text to reverse

A collection of 30 official film studio photographs of film stars of the 1940's period, most with text to reverse

Philately. 'The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century' by Robson Lowe with engraved portrait of Rowland Hill published 1869

Air-Sea Warfare. Selection including 'Action Stations' listing all wartime airfields of East Anglia (15)

Wartime Leaders. Two volumes 'War Memoirs General de Gaulle', Desmond Young's 'Rommel', Glubb Pasha's 'A Soldier with t...

World Wars. Selection including Brown's 'Suez to Singapore', Marshall's 'The White Rabbit', Miksche's 'Blitzkrieg&...

Books about John Wesley. Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding & others with engraved portrait of Martin Luther published 1870 (11)

Juvenalia. First Edition (1903) 'The Just So Song Book. 'Nursery Songs and Rhymes' (1864), Facsimile Edition Tolkien's 'Mr Blis...

Cinema. Books about including Pickard's 'Companion to the Movies', 'World Film Encyclopaedia', three Speed's film Reviews a...

Escape and evasion. Foot-Langley's 'M19 1939-45', Brickhill's 'Escape or Die' Braddon's 'The Naked Island' (Ill...

'Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial and Popular Antiquities' edited by Charles Knight, published ...

'Old England's Worthies' by Lord Brougham being companion volume to 'Old England' published circa 1865 containing 72 b/w steel e...

Buildings Interiors and Exteriors. Selection including G W R 'Abbeys' by M R James, Iris Brooke's 'Four Walls Adorned', Batsfor...

County Books. Four titles by Hales, ten from King's England Series, Alan Bloom's 'The Fens' and one other (16)

Rural England. Selection in two trays including Jekyll-Jones's 'Old English Household Life', three titles by Fred Archer, titles by Ric...

Cartography. Facsimile copy of 'The County Maps of Old England' by Thomas Moule, Glanville's 'London in Maps', Skelton's &#...

Miles (W J) 'Modern Practical Farriery: A Complete Guide to all that relates to the Horse', nd circa 1876, 637pp., large quarto

'Webster's International Dictionary of The English Language' published 1894 comprising issues of 1864, 1879 and 1884, quarto, 2118 pages...

Charles Dickens 'David Copperfield' first edition 1850 in half-leather, marbled boards, illustrated H K Browne

John Foster's 'Life of Charles Dickens' in six quarter leather bound volumes published 1872-74 as copyright edition by Tauchnitz of Leip...

Charles Dickens. Novels and association material including Marzial's 'Life of C D', (1887), 'Christmas Carol' illustrated Honor...

'Pictorial Sketches from Bible Lands', Thomson's 'The Land and the Book', 'Three Hundred Bible Sketches with 300 Pictures...

Art & Collecting. Selection including Hagar's 'Dictionary of Art Terms', Hughes's 'Collector's Pocket Book', Books ...

Everyman's Library. Selection in two trays including twelve volume set of encyclopaedia (18) (25)

Cricket. Selection including three titles by Geoff Boycott, Warner's 'Lord's 1787-1945', Morrah's 'Alfred Mynn' with ot...

Set. Blackie & Son's 'The Popular History of England' published circa 1890 in six Imperial 8vo size half-volumes containing 60 plat...

Smith (Wm) & Wace (H) Dictionary of Christian Biography, in 4 vols 1900 new impression, 8vo half morocco (rubbed to edges); C.U.P. 'The Back...

Erotika Biblion Society, 'Priapeia', 1888, ltd edition 228 of 250, bookplate of Lord Battersea, and 'The Case of Impotency etc Debated.....

Belzoni (G), Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia, 2nd ed 1821, 4to, litho frontis, folding map, boards (part disboun

Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop), Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England, 1699, 4to, cont calf

Sheil (Lady) Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, 1856, illustrated, 8vo (ladies book society label tipped-in), cloth; Wolff (Rev Joseph) Narrative

Travel. Cheever (Rev H T) Life in the Sandwich Islands, 1851 12mo, frontis, full bound; Kohl (J G) Austria, 1844, calf; MacGregor (John) The Voyage Al

Wilberforce (William) Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians..., 10th ed 1811, 8vo, with author's inscription...

Various small books. History of Birds, in 2 vols, Birmingham 1743, 12mo, wood-engravings in text, (vol II lacks title); Stanley (Edward) Familiar Hist

Pope's Works in 6 vols, 1770, 12mo; Plutarch's Lives, in 8 vols, 1770, 12mo; Pope's Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, 4 vols 1769, (all ful...

Redfarn (W B) Ancient Wood and Ironwork in Cambridge, folder complete in parts with 28 plates, circa 1886

General books. A box, various

Bindings. 23 various vols literature, 19th century

Bindings. 15 various vols 8vo including Blair's Sermons in 4 vols 1800, Watts (I) On the Mind, 1809; De Lolme (J L) Constitution of England, 179...

Bindings. Various including Letters from the North of Italy to Henry Hallam, in 2 vols 1819; Moore (J) View of the Causes and Progress of the French R

Chapman (E R) Sacrist Rolls of Ely, 1907 CUP, 2 vols for private circulation, cloth gilt; Ladds (S Inskip) The Monastery of Ely, 1930 Minster Press

[Ryves (Bruno)] Mercurius Rusticus, or the Countries Complaint of the Sacriledges, Prophanations, and Plunderings, Committed by the Schismatiques on t

Cambridge-Biography-a box including Life and Letters of Sedgwick, 2 vols 1890 (CUP); Roberts (S C) The Cambridge University Press 1521-1921, in dw; Cl

Cambridge-University-related: Venn (J) Grace Book, 1910; Cambridge Essays..1855, and 1856; University Calendar for 1812; another for 1821; Wall (Adam)

Costumes of Members of the University of Cambridge, small folding sequence of coloured plates, early 19th century; Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, 1824, with

Cambridge-University: The Sizar a Rhapsody, 1799; Album of the Cambridge Garrick Club, 1836; Persius (Peter) Cambridge Odes, n.d. circa 1820; [Wright

Cambridge-topography and history: a box including Babington (C C) Ancient Cambridgeshire, 1883 2nd edition; Evelyn-White (Rev C H & H G) Domesda...

A late Victorian photograph album - Italian architecture and art, some marked Alinari or Brogi, several trimmed (68 images, 10 x 8inches)

The Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, 5 bound vols of newspapers for the years 1808 to 1812

Middleton (J) Celestial Atlas, 1842, 10 plates, oblong folio (spine damaged)

Rupert Bear (1940's-50's): Adventure Series nos 3 to 7, 9,10,20; Tourtel (M) Rupert, Three Stories..; soft back Rupert annual; More Rupert A...

Bell's Edition The Poets of Great Britain-100 vols circa 1780, 12mo, in paper covers, unbound

Quant (Mary) Daisy's Fashion Wardrobe, parts 1 to 4 (with 2 duplicates), publ. Collins 1973; Daisy's Sticker Book - Gypsy Caravan (2 copies)...

Childrens (circa 1940's-50's): Kate Greenaway Painting Book, Dean's Spring Time Painting Book, Aunt Louisa's Palette Painting Book, ...

Cherry-Garrard (Apsley) The Worst Journey in the World, 2 vols 1922 1st edition, complete with all plates and maps as listed, blue cloth covers rather

Burton (Sir Richard F) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 10 vols, Supplemental Nights, 7 vols, publ. by the Burton Club for private subscri

Dulac (Edmund) Illus. The Tempest, n.d., 40 mounted colour plates, cloth rather worn; Grahame (K) & Moony (R J E) The Golden Age, 1915, 4to, 19 ...

Dalziel Bros (illus.) A Round of Days, 1866, many illustrations, cloth gilt; Sturt (George) The Wheelwright's Shop, 1923 CUP; Collingwood (Stuar...

Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Nursing.., n.d., (spine damaged); Johnston (W & A K) Historical Atlas, circa 1890 (2)

Various, poetry etc: Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1870, illustrated, a.e.g.; Moore (T) Lalla Rookh, 1860; other items

Childrens-illustrated:various including Hall (Mrs S C) The Hartropp Jubilee, c.1840, spine damaged; Charlton (M) Patch the Story of a Mongrel, 4th ed

Art: Millais (J G) Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, 1899 2 vols, half morocco; Barrington (Mrs R) G.F.Watts, Reminiscences, 1905; Henley

Plate books: Payne (A H) Dresden Gallery, 2 vols; The National Gallery book of engravings; another; Yriarte (C) Venise, 1878 (Paris), 3rd edition, fol

General: Waite (A E) The Holy Grail, 1933; Jekyll (G) Old English Household Life, 1925 1st edition, plates; Pratt (Anne) British Grasses and Sedges, n

Huxley (Aldous) Essays Old and New, 1926 Florence Press, ltd ed no 53 of 650, signed by author, dw, t.e.g.

Huxley (Aldous) Brief Candles, 1930 (Fountain Press), 1st edition signed by author, cloth

Huxley (Aldous) Texts and Pretexts, 1932 1st edition, no 94 of 214, signed by author, t.e.g.

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, 1932 1st edition, cloth gilt

Huxley (Aldous) Chrome Yellow, 1st edition 1921, (scarce), covers rather marked

Lawrence (D H) The Rainbow, 1921 USA reprint (Huebsh) ltd ed.; The Man Who Died, illustrated by John Farleigh, 1935 in marbled boards; McDonald (E D)

Muller (Max) The Science of Language, 1861, and second vol 1864, 8vo half bound; Hooker & Anott, British Flora, 1855, half bound 12mo; Gregorovi...

Africa etc: Smith (E W) & Dale (A Murray) The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia, 2 vols in dw, 1920; Steevens (G W) From Capetown to Lad...

Topography: Fulleylove (J), Edinburgh, 1912 (Black); Melville (L) Brighton, 1909; England's Lakeland A Tour Therein, n.d. circa 1880, mounted c...

Forberg (F C) Manual of Classical Erotology, 2 vols 1884 (Manchester privately printed for Viscount Julian Smithson and Friends), ltd ed (100), quarte

Various: Collection of Historical and State Poems..Fifth Volume of Miscellanies, 1717 8vo, (bindage af); Bisani (A) Lettres sur Divers Endroits, 1791

China: Chalmers (J) The Speculations of The Old Philosopher Lau-Tsze, 1868 London, cloth gilt; Weale (B L P) Manchu and Muscovite, 1904, stain to spin

Various, a box including few bindings and vols of Bentley's Miscellany (circa 1839)