Antiquarian Book Sale

ACADEMIE FRANCOISE. Nouveau Dictionnaire de L'Academie Francoise, Paris 1718, [2nd edn., revised mainly by F. S. Regnier Desmarais], 2 vols, half-...

BACON, Francis. Sylva Sylvarum: Or, a Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, published after the authors death, by William Rawley, London: printed f...

BAKER JR, Charles H. The Gentleman's Companion, 2 vol., New York: Crown Publishers 1946, 2nd edition, cloth boards, gilt spine lettering and decor...

BALLET. The Ballet: Its History, A Collection. BW Publications Limited in association with Marina Henderson Gallery, London, nd (1970s), no. 1 of ...

BAYLE, Pierre. Dictionaire historique et critique. second edition., rev., corr. & augm., Rotterdam: R. Leers 1702. 3 vols, engraved tiitle vignett...

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. The Story of Venus and Tasnnhäuser, London: For Private Circulation 1907, limited edition, this one of 250 on hand-made paper (...

[BEARDSLEY, Aubrey et al.]. The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Vols I to XIII. Elkin Matthews and John Lane, April 1894 - April 1897, thir...

[BERESFORD, James]. Bibliosophia; or, Book-wisdom. Containing some account of the pride, pleasure, and privileges of that glorioius vocation, book...

BETJEMAN, John. Summoned by Bells, published by John Murray 1960, first trade edition, Authors Presentation Copy, inscribed by John Betjeman in bl...

[BIBLE, Dutch. Biblia neerlandica]. Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Test...

BIBLE, English. The Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New., presumably London: Robert Barker 1614, the genealogies bound first with all...

BIBLE, The Book of Common Prayer and Administrations of the Sacraments and other rights of ceremony of the Church... Psalms of David, London: Bill...

BINDINGS. GRAY, Thomas. Poems, Eton College Press 1894, rubbed full calf with gilt decoration, split to hinge, a.e.g., 4to; KEATS, John. The Poeti...

BOOK COLLECTING. including: BROADLEY, A. M. Granger, Grangerizing and Grangerizers; A Preface to Granger Grangerized by A Grangerizer, Bridport: W...

BREVAL, John. Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, relating chiefly to their Antiquities and History, collected upon the spot and several tours sin...

BUCHAN, John. The Long Traverse, Hodder & Stoughton, first edn, 1931, frontis. org. light blue cloth with black lettering small amount of spotting...

BYRON, Lord George Gordon. The Works, John Murray, London 1823, 4 vols., with portrait frontispiece engraved by C. Warren to vol. 1, full contempo...

CALVIN, John. Institutio Christianae Religionis, Geneva 1637, quarter morocco, covers almost detached, named in ink, the spine very poor condition...

CARLYLE, J. D. Specimens of Arabian Poetry... Cambridge: John Burgess printer to the University 1796, text in English and Arabic, engraved sheet o...

CAVE, William. Apostolici or, the History of the Lives, Acts, Death and Martyrdoms. 3rd. edn. corrected, Richard Chiswell. London 1687, engr. fron...

CHAFFERS, William. Gilda Aurifabrorum: A History of English Goldsmiths and Plateworkers and their Marks Stamped on Plate, London: W. H. Allen 1883...

[CHALLONER, Richard]. Britannia Sancta: or, the Lives of the most Celebrated British, English, Scottish, and Irish Saints: who have flourished in ...

CLARENDEN, Edward Earl of. History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641, Oxford 1720 & 1721, 3 vols bound in 6, engr...

[CLARKE, Joseph Clayton] 'Kyd'. Character Sketches from Charles Dickens Portrayed by Kyd, London: Raphael Tuck nd [1889], 24 coloured plates, orig...

CLIFFORD, The Hon Robert. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism translated from the French of The Abbé Barruel., London 1797-98. 2nd edn,...

DECORATIVE BINDING. MINSHULL, J (translator). Land, Sea and Sky. London & New York: n.d.. plates and illustrations. contemporary red calf, spine g...

DEMOUSTIER, C.A. Lettres A Emilie sur La Mythologie Paris 1809, 3 vols, full calf with two contrasting morocco spine labels, extra gilt within com...

DIBDIN, Rev. Thomas Frognall. Bibliomania or Book Madness, London: for the author 1811, vignette title, illustrations, some offsetting, foxing, or...

[DICKENS, Charles]. A collection of works on Dickens, Dickensiana, books, pamphlets, magazines, engravings and the like, mainly late Victorian and...

DICKENS, Charles. American Notes for General Circulation, London: Chapman & Hall 1842, 2 volumes, half calf rubbed on spines and lacking one label...

[DICKENS, Charles], "Boz". Master Humphrey's Clock, Chapman and Hall, 1840-41, first edition, second issue in 20 monthly parts, 3 wood-engraved fr...

DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist , London: Richard Bentley 1838, first book edition, 3 vols, illustrated by George Cruikshank, original cloth, lean ...

DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy, Bradbury and Evans, first edition, 1846, original cloth, 8vo.

[DICKENS, Charles]. Sketches of Young Couples. London: Chapman and Hall 1840, first edition, illustrated by H.K. Browne, bookplate, a clean copy, ...

DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Chapman and Hall 1870, first edition in 6 monthly parts, wood-engraved plates after Luke Fildes, ear...

DICKENS, Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield with illustrations by H. A. Browne, Bradbury and Evans 1850, half calf, 8vo.

DICKENS, Charles. The Works, 'The Authentic Edition', London: Chapman & Hall 1901-06, 21 vol., colour frontispieces, plates, contemporary blue/gre...

DODGSON, Charles Luttwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'. The Hunting of the Snark, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, first edition, illustrations by Henry Holi...

EMBROIDERED BINDING [Drexel, Jeremias, S.J.]. The Considerations of Drexelius Upon Eternity, Translated by R. Winterton, Fellow of Kings Colledge ...

ERASMUS, Desiderius. Desi. Eras Mi Roterodami De conte[m]ptu mundi pia ac erudita epistola, quam conicripsit in gratia[m] ac nomine Theodorici Har...

EURIPIDES. Euripidis, Tragoediae Fragmenta Epistolae, Lipsial 1778, 3 vols, engraved portrait frontispiece, half calf, lacking two spine labels, l...

FASHION. LEVEY, Santina M. Lace: A History, London: V&A 1990, reprint, signed by the author, well illustrated, grey cloth, in dustjacket, folio; P...

FISHER, Edward. The Marrow of Modern Divinity, Touching both the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace, with their use and end, both in the...

FLEMING, Ian. Casino Royale, London: Jonathan Cape 1953, second impression, black cloth, colour photocopy of upper part of dustjacket only, glacin...

FOX, Rev. John. The Book of Martyrs, London: Thomas Kelly 1814, frontispiece (tears, part detahed), engraved title, engravings, browned, worn fu...

GUILLIM, John. A Display of Heraldrie, 1632, 2nd edition, many coats of arms with contemp. hand colour, notes to endpapers, some lacking at rear, ...

HARRISON, Major-General Thomas. The Indictment, Arraignment, Tryal, and Judgment, at large, of Twenty-nine Regicides, the Murtherers of His Most S...

HOGARTH, William, John Nichols and George Stevens. The Genuine Works of William Hogarth, illustrated with Biograhlical Anecdotes, A Chronological ...

HOLBEIN & HOLLAR. The Dance of Death; painted by H. Holbein and engraved by W. Hollar, London: C. Whittingham for John Harding 1804, portrait fro...

HUNT, John. The Ascent of Everest, edited and abridged, University of London Press 4th imp. 1961, half-title page signed by author and dated 5th A...

JEROME, Jerome K. Three Men in a Boat, first edition, second impression, Bristol: Arrowsmith 1889, title page publisher's address '11 Quay Street'...

JOHNSON, Samuel. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, printed for C. Bathurst [&c.] 1783, 4 vols., advertisement leaf at end of vol.4, c...

KIMBER, E., and Johnson, R. The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of all the English Baronets..., pub. 1771,...

LANE, Edward William (translator). The Thousand and One Nights ... The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, London: Charles Knight & Co. 1839, 3 vol., ...

LANG, Andrew. Four works: The Library. With a Chapter on Modern English Illustrated Books by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan & Co., 1881, first e...

LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Volumes in Folio, London: C. Elkin Matthews 1889, first and limited edition, autograph letter signed by Le Gallienne dated ...

LEATHER BINDINGS, Ainsworth, William Harrison. Works, pub. Routledge nd (c. 1880), 16 vols., b & w illustrations after Cruikshank and Browne, some...

LEATHER BINDINGS. CLASSICS, HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY. MIDDLETON, Conyers, The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1801, new edition, 3 vols; BELOE, Rev. Wil...

LEATHER BINDINGS. LITERATURE & THEOLOGY. THACKERY, W. M. The Virginians, 1858-59, 2 vols; RUSKIN, John. The Stones of Venice, 1898, 3 vols, and ot...