Fox Talbot (William Henry) Legendary Tales, in verse and prose, first edition, the author's half-sister's copy inscribed "Henrietta Horatia Feildi...

Maxwell (W. H.) Life of Field-Marshall his Grace the Duke of Wellington, 3 vol., plates, some foxing, library bookplates, contemporary calf, spine...

NO RESERVE Walpole (Horace) [Sale Catalogue] A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill, lithograph portrait frontispiece, wood-engrav...

Bishop (William) "The Bishop of Bond Street".- Egan (Pierce) Fistiana; or, The Oracle of the Ring, sixth edition, engraved frontispiece, presentat...

Braddon (M[ary] E[lizabeth]) Lady Audley's Secret, 3 vol., vol.1 seventh edition, vol.2 & 3 second edition, without half-titles, short closed tear...

Thornbury (Walter) The Life of J.M.W. Turner, 2 vol., contemporary red half morocco, gilt, a couple of scuffs, 1862; and 4 others, 8vo (6)

NO RESERVE Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, fourth edition (8th thousand), half-title, folding plate, lack...

NO RESERVE [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". More Tramps Abroad, first English edition, some foxing, mainly to fore-edge and first few le...

Hardy (Thomas) [Works], 19 vol., half-titles, contemporary red half calf by Bickers & Son, spines with double green morocco labels, spines slightl...

Music.- Puccini (Giacomo) Madama Butterfly, new edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Alla Siga Antonietta de Streus Giacomo P...

[Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)], "Mark Twain". Christian Science, first edition, mixed issue, portrait frontispiece dated 1906, boxed advertisement o...

NO RESERVE Stevenson (Robert Louis) Prayers Written at Vailima, colour plates heightened with gilt after illuminated drawings by Sangorski, very l...

Socialism.- Kapp (Reginald O.) The Failure of Sociology, presentation copy from author inscribed on upper cover, faint marginal spotting, original...

NO RESERVE Scotland.- Adams (Percy W.L.) A History of the Douglas Family of Morton in Nithsdale (Dumfriesshire) and Fingland (Kirkcudbrightshire),...

Food & drink.- Cuba.- Baralt (Blanche Z. de) Cuban Cookery. Gastronomic Secrets of the Tropics, with an Appendix on Cuban Drinks, first edition, i...

Keynes (John Maynard) Essays in Persuasion, first edition, some light spotting, trace of label tipped to inner margin of title, original green clo...

Judaica.- Order of Prayer to be used at the Memorial Service on ... the Day of the Funeral of His Late Majesty King George, 2 small ink-stamps par...

NO RESERVE Wine label catalogue.- Imprimerie Wetterwald Frères. Modèles pour Vins, No. 619, wine label printer's catalogue, containing c.230 examp...

NO RESERVE Bosanquet (Robert Carr) Letters and Light Verse, edited by Ellen S. Bosanquet, with 2 A.L.s. from the author to "Archie" loosely insert...

NO RESERVE Braque (Georges) Le Solitaire, illustrations, original cloth, slip-case, 1959 § Hockey (David) David Hockney, edited by Nikos Stangos, ...

Thatcher (Margaret) The Collected Speeches, first edition, 1997; Statecraft, first edition, bookplate tipped onto endpapers, 2002; The Downing Str...

NO RESERVE Byron (May) Animal Frolics, illustrations by Cecil Aldin, some light spotting, original cloth-backed boards, lightly rubbed, corners wo...

Cunningham (Peter) The Story of Nell Gwyn, extra-illustrated with 75 engravings, mostly portraits, a couple mezzotint, one or two hand-coloured, m...

NO RESERVE Dahl (Roald) Matilda, first edition, illustrations by Quentin Blake, original boards, spine ends very slightly bumped, dust-jacket, pri...

Holbein (Hans) The Dance of Death, 31 hand-coloured engraved plates after W. Hollar, 2 engraved portraits, engraved armorial bookplate of William ...

Houtin (Francois) Topiaire, one of 35 copies on verge d'Angoumois, 12 etched plates, each numbered dated and initialled in pencil by the artist, l...

NO RESERVE Original illustration.- Little Red Riding Hood, 7 illustrations of scenes from the fairy tale, pencil and watercolour, each c.260mm x 1...

NO RESERVE Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, first edition, first or second printing without "Author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit" on t...

Potter (Beatrix) The Pie and the Patty-Pan, first edition, first printing with date on title and mottled lavender endpapers, colour frontispiece a...

Potter (Beatrix) Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, first edition, colour frontispiece, plain title vignette and 14 colour plates, pictorial endpape...

Rackham (Arthur).- Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, tipped in colour frontispiece and 11 colour plates by Arthur Rackham, captioned tissue-gua...

NO RESERVE Theo, artist. Visit of a London Exquisite to his Maiden Aunts in the Country, first edition, engraved throughout with pictorial title, ...

Trollope (Anthony) How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland, first edition, half-title, colour map frontispiece, 14 lithographed plates by Mrs. Hugh Bla...

The Whittington Press.- A Book of Posters Printed at Whittington, first edition, one of 50 copies of Edition A with an additional porfolio of post...

Colour.- Syme (Patrick) Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, first edition, half-title, 13 plates containing a total of 108 mounted colour samples, c...

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***NO RESERVE Design.- [Japanese pattern book], profusely illustrated with colour pattern...

NO RESERVE Gilbert & George.- Fuchs (Rudi, editor) Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971-2005, 2 vol., signed presentation inscription from...

NO RESERVE Berenson (Bernard) Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, together 7 vol., (Venetian School, 2 vol.; Florentine School, 2 vol.; Central I...

Jewellery.- Jaffer (Amin, editor) Beyond Extravagance. A Royal Collection of Gems and Jewels, one of 600 deluxe copies, publisher's limitation car...

Loudon (John Claudius) The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the late Humphry Repton, engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous woo...

Pain (William) The Builder's Companion, third edition, 88 engraved plates only (of 92), 2 folding, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers,...

NO RESERVE Photography.- Klein (Kelly) Horse, number 444 of 500 copies with an original signed colour print, colour photographic illustrations, so...

NO RESERVE Pope-Hennessy (Una) Early Chinese Jades, one of 60 copies signed by the author and containing an extra colour plate, bookplate of art h...

NO RESERVE Tutankhamen.- Illustrated London News (The), numerous extracts relating to Tutankhamen and other archaeological subjects, mounted on st...

Birds.- Meyer (Henry Leonard) Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs, 7 vol., mixed editions, 425 hand-coloured lithographed plat...

Curtis (William) Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, vol.4, 9, 15 and 16 in 3, 164 engraved plates, all but one hand-coloured, one fol...

Dresser (Henry Eeles) Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of Bee-eaters, first edition, 34 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans, ...

NO RESERVE Fish.- Jobert de Lamballe (Antoine-Joseph) Des Appareils Électriques des Poissons Électriques, Atlas only (lacking 8vo text vol. as oft...

Kitchen gardens.- Switzer (Stephen) The Practical Kitchen Gardiner: Or, A New and Entire System of Directions For his Employment in the Melonry, K...

New Naturalist (The), 18 vol., comprising nos. 1, 2, 4, 10, 15, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 37, 38, 50, 57 & 67, most first editions, plates a...

Ocean Mosses.- Album of 58 mounted dried specimens, mounted on paper and inserted into corner slots of blank leaves with manuscript captions, with...

Coal-mining.- Sykes (John, editor) The Evidence...of the House of Lords...into...the Coal Trade in the United Kingdom...[with] a List of Explosion...

Diamonds & Pearls.- Jeffries (David) Traité des Diamants et des Perles, first edition in French, half-title, engraved vignette to head of dedicati...

Fortification.- Vauban (Sebastien Le Prestre) The New Method of Fortification...to which is now added, A Treatise of Military Orders, and the Art ...

NO RESERVE Meteorology.- Jenyns (Leonard) Observations on Meteorology, first edition, advertisement f. at end, small sticker to head of pastedown ...

Relativity.- Einstein (Albert) Relativity. The Special & General Theory, translated by Robert W. Lawson, first edition in English, half-title, por...

Surgery.- Mercado (Luis de) Institutiones chirurgicae iussu regio factae pro chirurgis in praxi examinadis, 2 parts in 1, first edition, title wit...

NO RESERVE Britain.- Bradshaw's Railway Companion Bradshaw's Railway Time Tables, and Assistant to Railway Travelling, (No.3), folding map of Rail...

Britain.- Belloni (Giuseppe, translator) Viaggio nei Tre Regni d'Inghilterra di Scozia e d'Irlanda del Signor Chantreau fatto negli anni 1788 e 17...

Railways and Canals.- Henderson's Commercial Map of England and Wales, with Part of Scotland, in which are delineated the Railways with their Stat...