MAYOW, John (1640-79). Tractatus duo Quorum prior agit de Respiratione: Alter De Rachitide, Oxford, 1669, 8vo, 2 folding engraved plates at the end, contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: From the Collection of John Yudkin (bookplate). Wing 1536. RARE.
MAYOW, John (1640-79). Tractatus duo Quorum prior agit de Respiratione:…
MAYOW, John (1640-79).  Tractatus duo Quorum prior agit de Respiratione: Alter De Rachitide. Oxford: "Excudebat Hen: Hall, Impensis Ric: Davis," 1669 [including, as part of the same work, but with…
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820).  2 printed proclamations in Spanish, each 3-pages in a single bifolium, [n.p. but Madrid and/or Mexico City], 1814, 1815. (2)
MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820). 2…
MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE - Miguel de Lardizábal y URIBE (1739-1820).  2 printed proclamations in Spanish, each 3-pages in a single bifolium, [n.p. but Madrid and/or Mexico City], 1814, 1815. In…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Now We Are Six, London, 1927, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram (without the jacket). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. With A. A. Milne's Two People (London, 1931, 8vo, buckram, jacket, FIRST EDITION). (2)
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Now We Are Six, London, 1927, 8vo, illustrations…
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  Now We Are Six. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1927. 8vo (188 x125mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard (some light browning to the half title and final blank).…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1926, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original buckram. With The House at Pooh Corner (London, 1928, 8vo, original buckram), without dust-jackets. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITIONS. (2)
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1926, 8vo,…
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page. Original dark green pictorial buckram gilt…
Hammer price: £1,300
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1926, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original cloth (without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION. With Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter (London, 1927, 8vo, original cloth, FIRST TRADE EDITION). (2)
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956). Winnie-the-Pooh, London, 1926, 8vo,…
MILNE, A. A. (1882-1956).  Winnie-the-Pooh. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, some full-page (occasional light mainly marginal spotting…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MISCELLANY - comprising a highly varied collection of printed and manuscript material, including drawings and watercolours, dating from the 17th- to the 20th-centuries. Please see the detailed listing below. (qty)
MISCELLANY - comprising a highly varied collection of printed and…
MISCELLANY - comprising a highly varied collection of printed and manuscript material, including drawings and watercolours, dating from the 17th- to the 20th-centuries, including 1) Joseph Cerbantes…
Hammer price: £3,800
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - Humbert WOLFE (1885-1940). The Silver Cat and Other Poems, London, 1928, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 780 COPIES. With 34 other miscellaneous books. Please see the detailed listing below. (35)
MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - Humbert WOLFE (1885-1940). The Silver Cat and…
MISCELLANY, 20TH-CENTURY - Humbert WOLFE (1885-1940).  The Silver Cat and Other Poems. London & New York: Ernest Benn & The Bowling Green Press, 1928. Large 8vo (232 x 150mm). Printed in black and…
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Claude BLAIR (1922-2010). Pistols of the World, London, 1968, 4to, attractively bound in red half morocco, PRESENTATION COPY. With 22 related books, almost all attractively bound in near-uniform red morocco gilt. (23)
MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Claude BLAIR (1922-2010). Pistols of…
MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Claude BLAIR (1922-2010).  Pistols of the World. London: B. T. Batsford, 1968. 4to (294 x 228mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece, half tone illustrations.…
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Herbert J. JACKSON (dates unknown). European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries, London, 1923, 4to, plates, buckram. ONE OF 550 COPIES. With 21 other related works in 25 volumes. (26)
MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Herbert J. JACKSON (dates unknown).…
MISCELLANY, SHOOTING AND FIREARMS - Herbert J. JACKSON (dates unknown).  European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries ... with a Treatise on Scottish Hand Firearms by…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
NEVINSON, C. R. W. (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War, London, 1917, 4to, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON in pencil, plates, boards. FIRST EDITION. With the same artist's The Great War (London, 1918, coloured frontispiece SIGNED BY NEVINSON). (2)
NEVINSON, C. R. W. (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War, London, 1917, 4to,…
NEVINSON, Christopher Richard Wynne (1889-1946, artist) - Modern War. Paintings by C. R. W. Nevinson. With an Essay by P. G. Konody. London: Grant Richards Limited, 1917. 4to (288 x 225mm). Half…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £500 - £800
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA AND JAPAN - An album of c.176 mounted albumen silver print photographed views, [c.1880]. Please see the full description below.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA…
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, INCLUDING VIEWS OF SYDNEY, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, MANILA AND JAPAN - An album of c.176 mounted albumen silver print photographed views, [c.1880], various sizes, some mounted several…
Hammer price: £3,200
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print photographed views of the Russian colony in Urga [now Ulaanbaatar], Mongolia, the photographs of varying sizes, some mounted two to a page, [late 19th-century].
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print…
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, MONGOLIA - An album of 20 mounted albumen silver print photographed views of the Russian colony in Urga, [now Ulaanbaatar], Mongolia, signed in the plate by the photographer, in…
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PISO, Willem (1611-78) & others. De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica, Amsterdam, 1658, 3 parts in one volume, folio, additional pictorial title, illustrations, contemporary vellum. Provenance: John Yudkin (bookplate). Second enlarged edition.
PISO, Willem (1611-78) & others. De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica,…
PISO, Willem (1611-78) & others.  De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica. Libri quatuordecum, Quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet. Amsterdam: "Apud Ludovicum et Danielem Elzevirios," 1658. 3…
Hammer price: £2,200
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
POCOCK, Roger Ashwell (1865-1941, editor), and others. The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book, London, 1909, small square 8vo, frontispiece, 6-pages of "signals" printed in colours, original limp roan gilt (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. RARE.
POCOCK, Roger Ashwell (1865-1941, editor), and others. The Frontiersman's…
POCOCK, Roger Ashwell (1865-1941, editor), and others.  The Frontiersman's Pocket-Book. Compiled and Edited by Roger Pocock on Behalf of the Council of the Legion of Frontiersmen. London: John Murray…
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817). A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America, London, 1789, 4to, portrait, folding general chart, 17 plates and charts only (of 18), old boards wrapped in hessian. FIRST EDITION.
PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817). A Voyage Round the World; but more…
PORTLOCK, Nathaniel (c.1748-1817).  A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
ROWLING, J. K. (b.1965). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London, 1999, 8vo, original boards, dust-jacket. With The Chamber of Secrets (London, 1998). EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITIONS, SECOND AND NINTH IMPRESSIONS RESPECTIVELY. (2)
ROWLING, J. K. (b.1965). Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, London,…
ROWLING, J. K. (b. 1965).  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. 8vo (197 x 128mm). Half title and title both with the Hogwarts' coat-of-arms. Original coloured…
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SHURLOCK, Manwaring (dates unknown). Tiles from Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, Representing Early Romance Subjects, London, 1885, folio, frontispiece and 40 plates printed in colours, original-cloth-backed pictorial boards (shaken, text loose). FIRST EDITION.
SHURLOCK, Manwaring (dates unknown). Tiles from Chertsey Abbey, Surrey,…
SHURLOCK, Manwaring (dates unknown).  Tiles from Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, Representing Early Romance Subjects. London: William Griggs, 1885. Folio (485 x 340mm). Coloured frontispiece, title printed…
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor). Nieuwe Cronyk Van Zeeland, Middelburg, 1696 [but 1700-[?]1704], folio, additional engraved title, 3 engraved maps and 87 fine engraved plates, contemporary panelled calf gilt. FIRST EDITION.
SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor). Nieuwe Cronyk…
SMALLEGANGE, Matthaeus (1624-1710, editor and contributor).  Nieuwe Cronyk Van Zeeland. Eerste Deel [all published], Vervattende De voor uitgegeven Cronyken van de Heeren, Jacobus Eyndius, en Johan…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965). The Razor's Edge, New York, 1944, 8vo, original buckram. FIRST U.S. TRADE EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "For Madame André de Breyne, hoping she will enjoy this book. W. Somerset Maugham, June 22, 1944."
SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965). The Razor's Edge, New York, 1944,…
SOMERSET MAUGHAM, William (1874-1965).  The Razor's Edge. A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944. 8vo (197 x 140mm). Half title. Original black buckram, the publisher's device blindstamped…
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
SPEED, John (1552-1629). Sussex described, [London], George Humble, [c.1627], hand-coloured engraved map of Sussex, inset bird's-eye-view of Chichester (browned, trimmed close to engraved frame, repairs at centrefold), 390 x 510mm., framed and glazed.
SPEED, John (1552-1629). Sussex described, [London], George Humble, [c…
SPEED, John (1552-1629).  Sussex Described and divided into Rapes with the situation of Chichester the cheife [sic] citie thereof. [London:] George Humble, [c.1627]. Hand-coloured engraved map of…
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
THORNTON, Thomas (1757-1823). A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France, London, 1806, 2 volumes, 4to, portrait of the author, 53 plates, most aquatints, VERY FINELY BOUND in contemporary green morocco decorated in gilt and blind. FIRST EDITION. (2)
THORNTON, Thomas (1757-1823). A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of…
THORNTON, Thomas (1757-1823).  A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France, in the Year 1802: including a Concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and Other Field…
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
VOYNICH, Ethel Lilian (1864-1960). The Gadfly, New York, "Grosset & Dunlap Publishers", [?]1897 [but later, see note below], 8vo, burgundy buckram. PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "Mrs Lionel True's book, 20 Dec. '34. E. L. Voynich."
VOYNICH, Ethel Lilian (1864-1960). The Gadfly, New York, "Grosset & Dunlap…
VOYNICH, Ethel Lilian (1864-1960, née BOOLE).  The Gadfly. New York: "Grosset & Dunlap Publishers" [on verso of title: Henry Holt & Co.], [?]1897 [but later, see note]. 8vo (187 x 125mm). Half title,…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
WALPOLE-BOND, John (1878-1958). A History of Sussex Birds, London, 1938, 3 volumes, 4to, 53 coloured plates by Philip Rickman, original brown buckram gilt (spines faded, some rubbing to covers, without the dust-jackets). FIRST EDITION. (3)
WALPOLE-BOND, John (1878-1958). A History of Sussex Birds, London, 1938, 3…
WALPOLE-BOND, John (1878-1958).  A History of Sussex Birds. London: H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1938. 3 volumes, 4to (246 x 185mm). Half titles, titles printed in red and black, 53 coloured plates by…
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS (6)
A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE BALUSTER VASES AND COVERS (6)
19th century
Each painted with officials and soldiers in landscapes, set with lion mask and ring handles, the domed covers with buddhist lion knops, 51cm high, wood stands
One vase with rivetted repairs to the rim and neck.Some restoration to the lion knopThe other vase has a chip to the rim, approx. 1.5cm by 1cm which extends into a haircrack, approx. 3cm length.…
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £150 - £250
25 June 2025 , 01:00 BST
25 June 2025 , 01:00 BST

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