"CARROLL, Lewis" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1872, 8vo, illustrations by John Tenniel, original red buckram, "Twenty-Ninth Thousand". With the same author's Through the Looking-Glass (London, 1872, "Thirty-Second Thousand"). (2)
"CARROLL, Lewis" (1832-98). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London, 1872…
"CARROLL, Lewis" [i.e. Charles Lutwidge DODGSON (1832-98)].  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., printed by Richard Clay, 1872 [but October 1871]. 8vo in 4s (183 x 125mm).…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Alle de Wercken, Amsterdam, 1712, 2 volumes bound in one, folio, additional engraved allegorical title, engraved plates and c. 400 emblematic illustrations, contemporary calf gilt.
CATS, Jacob (1577-1660). Alle de Wercken, Amsterdam, 1712, 2 volumes bound…
CATS, Jacob (1577-1660).  Alle de Wercken ... Ridder Oudt Raadtpensionaris van Hollandt. &c. De laatste Druk; waar on het Twee-en-Tachtig Jaarig Leeven des Dichters beneffens desselfs Slaapeloose…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, ACT OF PARLIAMENT - An Act giving Licence for Transporting Fish in Forreign Bottoms, London, "Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector," 1657, bifolium.
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, ACT OF PARLIAMENT - An Act giving Licence for…
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND, ACT OF PARLIAMENT - An Act giving Licence for Transporting Fish in Forreign Bottoms. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September, Anno Domini 1656.…
Hammer price: £60
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) & Ford M. HUEFFER (1873-1939). The Inheritors. London, 1901, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth (some light staining). FIRST EDITION. With the same authors' Romance (London, 1903, 8vo, original blue cloth, FIRST EDITION). (2)
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) & Ford M. HUEFFER (1873-1939). The Inheritors.…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924) & Ford Madox HUEFFER (1873-1939, changed to Ford Madox FORD in 1919).  The Inheritors. An Extravagant Story. London: William Heinemann, 1901. 8vo (192 x 130mm). Half title,…
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Laughing Anne, London, 1923, large 8vo (dampstained), vellum. FIRST EDITION. NO. 4 OF 200 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To L. H. who prepared this edition for the press, her friend, J. C., 1923.""
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Laughing Anne, London, 1923, large 8vo …
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  Laughing Anne. A Play. London: The Vine Books, 1923. Large 8vo (240 x 160mm). Half title, title with a vignette of palm trees printed in green (heavily dampstained…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Nostromo, London, 1904, 8vo, (some staining and spotting), original blue cloth lettered and decorated in white, spine gilt (rubbed). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, of what is widely-regarded as the author's masterpiece.
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924). Nostromo, London, 1904, 8vo, (some staining…
CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924).  Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard. London: Harper & Brothers, 1904. 8vo (184 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's advertisement on the verso of half title, woodcut printer's…
Hammer price: £40
Estimate: £150 - £250
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
DUELLING - The Art of Duelling, by a Traveller, London, 1836, 8vo, attractively bound in later green crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. The author is unknown. RARE. With another related book in 2 vols. (3)
DUELLING - The Art of Duelling, by a Traveller, London, 1836, 8vo,…
DUELLING - The Art of Duelling, by a Traveller. Containing Much Information Useful to Young Continental Tourists. London: Joseph Thomas ... F. C. Westley ... R Willoughby, 1836. 8vo (185 x 105mm). 2…
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
FULLER, Samuel ([?]d.1736). Practical Astronomy, Dublin, 1732, 8vo, 10 folding engraved plates, 2 of which printed in sanguine, contemporary calf (rebacked). Provenance: Alice Grace (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION.
FULLER, Samuel ([?]d.1736). Practical Astronomy, Dublin, 1732, 8vo, 10…
FULLER, Samuel ([?]d.1736).  Practical Astronomy, in the Description and Use of both Globes, Orrery and Telescopes. Wherein the most useful Elements, and most valuable modern Discoveries of the true…
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £200 - £300
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
GAZIUS, Antonius (1449-1528). Corona florida medicinæ: sive De conservatione sanitatis, Venice, "per Johannem de forlivio & Gregorium fratres", 1491, folio, 125 leaves, painted initials, old calf. Provenance: John Yudkin (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. RARE.
GAZIUS, Antonius (1449-1528). Corona florida medicinæ: sive De…
GAZIUS, Antonius (1449-1528).  Corona florida medicinæ: sive De conservatione sanitatis. [Title at [a1]:]  Florida corona medicinae omnibus sanitatem affectatibus utilis & necessaria ... Capitulum…
Hammer price: £8,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
LAVATER, Ludwig (1527-86). De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, Leiden, 1659, 12mo, engraved title, contemporary vellum. This influential work on ghosts and demons was first published in German in 1569.
LAVATER, Ludwig (1527-86). De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque…
LAVATER, Ludwig (1527-86).  De spectris, lemuribus et magnis atque insolitis fragoribus, variisque præsagitionibus, quæ plerunlque obicum hominum, magnas clades, mutationesque Imperiorum prcedunt.…
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
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, 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 - 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
MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). A one-page typed letter, with greeting and signature in autograph, to Vice-Consul W. H. A. Snook, relating to a visit to Corsic; with another letter by Mountbatten; and 3 by other correspondents, addressed to Snook. (5)
MOUNTBATTEN, Louis (1900-79). A one-page typed letter, with greeting and…
MOUNTBATTEN, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-79).  A one-page typed letter, with the greeting and signature in autograph, on paper headed "Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean, c/o G.P.O.…
Estimate: £200 - £300
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
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
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
ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720.) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads, London, 1721, 4to, 19 folding engraved plates, tables, contemporary calf. FIRST EDITION. With 3 other volumes. (4)
ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700…
ROYAL SOCIETY, LONDON - The Philosophical Transactions (From the Year 1700 to the Year 1720.) Abridg'd and Dispos'd under General Heads. In Two Volumes. By Henry Jones ... Vol. IV. Containing Part I.…
Estimate: £300 - £500
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST
16 July 2025 , 01:00 BST

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