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Fine Books, Manuscripts, Science and Sport
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ARCHITECTURE - HEYTESBURY HOUSE A group of eighteenth and nineteenth century architectural drawings and plans for the design of Heytesbury House in Wiltshire, once the home of Siegfried Sassoon…
HAMILTON (WILLIAM) Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies [-Supplement to the Campi Phlegraei being an Account of the Great Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the Month of…
GRAVES (ROBERT) Goodbye To All That, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Jonathan Cape, [1929]
GREEN (HENRY) Party Going, FIRST EDITION, Hogarth Press, 1939
GREENE (GRAHAM) The Heart of the Matter, ADVANCE PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, EXTENSIVELY CORRECTED, William Heinemann, [1948]
GREENE (GRAHAM) Four typed letters signed ("Graham Greene") to Alan or David Pryce-Jones; and ephemera (group)
HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Apennine, ONE OF 91 COPIES, THIS THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, 1930; and 3 others, signed Huxley (4)
IONESCO (EUGÈNE) Théâtre, 2 vol., AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES TO THE TLS AND ALAN PRYCE-JONES, INSCRIBED on half-title of each volume ("Pour le TIMES Literary Suplement, Eugene Ionesco, Paris, 7…
ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER) Mr. Norris Changes Trains, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS MOTHER, Hogarth Press, 1935
JAMES (HENRY) - LEWES (GEORGE HENRY) The Life of Goethe... third edition, revised according to the latest documents, HENRY JAMES'S OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE on the front free endpaper, Smith, Elder, 1875
JOYCE (JAMES) Ulysses, 'PRESS COPY' SENT TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON MERCURY, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922
KEROUAC (JACK) On the Road, first UK edition 1958; Eliot's Four Quartets (5)
HARLEQUINADE - MANUSCRIPT Late eighteenth century manuscript pictorial flap-book, with 20 scenes
LAWRENCE (D.H.) Pansies. Poems, FIRST EDITION, 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1929; and "definitive edition" signed (2)
NERUDA (PABLO) Estravagario, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO ALAN PRYCE-JONES, INSCRIBED AT LENGTH on the front free endpaper ("To Alan Pryce Jones, Buenos Aires, Losada, 1958
ORWELL (GEORGE) Coming Up for Air, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO MAX PLOWMAN, Victor Gollancz, 1939
ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Secker & Warburg, 1945
ORWELL (GEORGE) Animal Farm, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING (with "Reprinted August 1945" on verso of title-page), Secker & Warburg, 1945
ORWELL (GEORGE) Nineteen Eighty-Four, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Secker & Warburg, 1949
POWELL (ANTHONY) A Question of Upbringing, ADVANCE PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH NUMEROUS AUTOGRAPH CORRECTIONS, William Heinemann, [1950]
POWELL (ANTHONY) A Buyer's Market, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to "Alan [Pryce-Jones] and Poppy with love from Tony, June 1952" on the front free endpaper, William…
POWELL (ANTHONY) The Acceptance World, [1955]; At Lady Molly's, [1957], FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES INSCRIBED (2)
PROUST (MARCEL, translator and editor) RUSKIN (JOHN) La Bible d'Amiens. Traduction, notes et préface par Marcel Proust, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY MARCEL PROUST "à Madame Léon Fould…
ITALIAN LACE - PATTERN BOOK [VECELLIO (CESARE)] Corona delle Nobili et virtuose donne [-Gioiello della Corona per li nobili et virtuose donne], 4 parts in 1 vol., ONE OF 4 COPIES PRINTED ON…
WAUGH (EVELYN) Decline and Fall. An Illustrated Novelette, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, Chapman & Hall, 1928
WAUGH (EVELEYN) Helena. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "For Alan [Pryce-Jones], a belated christening present from Evelyn" on the front…
WAUGH (EVELYN) The Holy Places, FIRST EDITION, 50 COPIES SIGNED, 1952; Love Amongst Ruins, and 3 ALS, 2 from Waugh (5)
WILDE (OSCAR) The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], David Nutt, 1888
WOOLF (VIRGINIA) Flush. A Biography, 1933; and 9 others (10)
YOURCENAR (MARGUERITE) Les charités d'Alcippe & autres poëmes ornés d'un dessin d'Aristide Maillol, NUMBER 152 OF 400 COPIES from an overall edition of 860 copies, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on…
ROYALTY – EDWARD (PRINCE OF WALES) Autograph letter signed ("Edward") to Lieutenant Colonel G.F. Trotter, Hotel Folkestone, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1 March 1916
ROYALTY - EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES Series of nine revealing personal letters to Freda Dudley Ward, 12 June 1919 to 8 April 1920, with envelopes and photographs (collection)
ROYALTY – EDWARD (PRINCE OF WALES) Portrait photograph signed and dated ("Edward P/ 1922"); with another as a child (2)
ROYALTY – EDWARD (PRINCE OF WALES) Autograph letter signed ("Edward P") to Colonel Birkin, 7 February 1927; with envelope (2)
LORRAIN (CLAUDE) Liber Veritatis. Or, a Collection of Two Hundred Prints after the Designs of Claude Le Lorrain, in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Executed by Richard Earlom…
ROYALTY – EDWARD (PRINCE OF WALES) Papers relating to Edward, Prince of Wales, and his sporting interests (collection)
ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARDS – EDWARD (PRINCE OF WALES) Group of five Christmas cards relating to Edward, Prince of Wales, 1912-1936 (5)
ROYAL CHRISTMAS CARD – PRINCESSES ELIZABETH AND MARGARET Christmas card signed ("...and love from Lilibet" "& Margaret"), 1946
ROYALTY - ELIZABETH II Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in the first year of her reign, after Sir Herbert James Gunn, SIGNED BY THE SITTER ("Elizabeth R. 1954") AND ARTIST ("James Gunn") beneath the…
ROYALTY – ELIZABETH II Extensive archive of autograph letters, personal memoranda and notes from Elizabeth II, to her Equerry, Brigadier Walter Morley Sale (1903-1976)
ARABIAN NIGHTS The Oriental Moralist or the Beauties of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated from the Original & Accompanied with Suitable Reflections Adapted to Each Story by the Revd. Mr.…
BIBLE - RESTORATION BINDING The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, Assigns of Bill and Barker, 1676
BROWNING (ROBERT, SNR.) Collection of over 170 lively 'grotesque' caricatures, extensively annotated, London, [1830's]
BYRON (GEORGE GORDON, LORD) Portrait of Byron, half-length, after Thomas Phillips, nineteenth century
CHAPMAN (GEORGE), BEN JONSON AND JOHN MARSTON Eastward Hoe. As it Was Playd in the Black-friers. By the Children of her Maiesties Revels. Made by Geo: Chapman. Ben: Jonson. Joh: Marston, Printed [by…
MUSIC - JOHANNES BRAHMS Cabinet-style photograph of Brahms by Fritz Luckhardt, K.K. Hofphotograph, Vienna, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE COMPOSER on the reverse to Caroline von Radio Vienna, [c.1885]…
CRANMER (THOMAS) A Defence of the True and Catholike Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Bloud of Our Saviour Christ, Renold Wolfe, 1550
DE QUINCEY (THOMAS) Printed galley proof from his essay The Pagan Oracles, [after 1858]
DUGDALE (WILLIAM) The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Warren, 1658
ECONOMICS - SOUTH SEA BUBBLE [ANDERSON (ADAM)] An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce... Containing a History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire, 2…
ELIOT (GEORGE) Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, William Blackwood, 1858
ELIOT (GEORGE) Middlemarch. A Study in Provincial Life, 4 vol., William Blackwood and Sons, 1871-1872
ELIZABETHAN ARMORIAL MANUSCRIPT Elizabethan armorial of the Nobility of England, arranged in reigns from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth I, [c.1575]
EMBROIDERED BINDING ANDREWES (LANCELOT) [Devotions] A Manual of the Private Devotions of... Lancelot Andrews, late Lord Bishop of Winchester [translated from the Greek by Richard Drake], Printed by…
ESSEX - EDWARD DE VERE (17th EARL OF OXFORD) Indenture signed ("Edward Oxenford") in ink at foot, Westminster, 10 February 1584/5
FREEMASONRY [ANDERSON (JAMES)] The Constitutions of the Free-Masons. Containing the History, Charges, Regulations, &c. of that Most Ancient and Right Worshipful Fraternity. For the Use of the…
MUSIC - SHAKESPEARE [DIBDIN (CHARLES)] Queen Mab or the Fairies Jubilee, a Cantata Composed for the Jubilee at Stratford upon Avon which was held in Honour of the Immortal Shakespeare September the…
HAMPSHIRE - OLIVER CROMWELL Exemplification of Common Recovery issued under Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector, Westminster, 28 November 1657
HUGO (VICTOR) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame...Translated expressly for this edition with a sketch of the life and writings of the author by Frederic Shoberl, Richard Bentley, 1833
MARTIN (GREGORY) A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures by the Heretikes of our Daies, FIRST EDITION, Reims, John Fogarty, 1582
POLIDORI (JOHN WILLIAM)] The Vampyre; A Tale, FIRST EDITION, SECOND SHERWOOD ISSUE, Sherwood, Neeley and Jones, 1819
SCOTLAND – SIR JOHN NISBET, LORD ADVOCATE Collection of some 30 letters relating to prominent Scottish judge and Lord Advocate Sir John Nisbet, Lord Dirleton (c.1609-1687)
STUKELEY (WILLIAM) – NEOLITHIC AND ROMAN BRITAIN Thirteen leaves of original drawings by antiquarian, natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society William Stukeley (1687-1765),
STUKELEY (WILLIAM) – COUNTY SURVEYS Fourteen leaves of original drawings by antiquarian, natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society William Stukeley (1687-1765)
STUKELEY (WILLIAM) – ESSEX Eight leaves of original drawings by antiquarian, natural philosopher and clergyman William Stukeley (1687-1765),
STUKELEY (WILLIAM) - MANUSCRIPTS Autograph research material and ephemera compiled by antiquarian, natural philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society William Stukeley (1687-1765)
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND PRIZE LISTS Archive of ships' logs, prize ledgers and family papers pertaining to Admiral Thomas Macnamara Russell (1740-1824) (collection)
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE) One Hundred Choice Hymns in Large Type, PRESENTATION COPY FROM FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, inscribed "Mrs. Bromhead with Florence Nightingale's love from a friend & fellow pilgrim…
AMERICA - [NATHANIEL FANNING] Narrative of the Adventures of an American Navy Officer, who Served During Part of the American Revolution under the Command of Com. John Paul Jones, FIRST EDITION, New…
AMERICA - SHERMAN (WILLIAM T.) Autograph letter signed to Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd, Washington D.C., 26 April 1880; in a black cloth folder
KOCH (JEAN BAPTISTE) [Memoires de Massena...], Atlas volume only, Paris, [c.1850]
NAVAL SIGNAL BOOK Manuscript signal book for the Royal Navy compiled by Lieutenant William Patey, Plymouth, 1786-1789
NELSON (HORATIO) A small group related to the Battle of Trafalgar and Nelson's funeral, comprising: (small group)
PENINSULAR WAR Manuscript journal of Lieutenant William Swabey of 'E' and 'D' Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, 27 July 1811 to 21 September 1812
POCOCK (W.I., illustrator) Historical Notices Relative to the Ancient and Modern State of the Country and City of Algier: With an Account of the Battle of the 27th August 1817
TUCKER (JOSEPH) A Narrative of the Operations of a Small British Force, Under the Command of Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty, Employed in the Reduction of Monte Video, on the River Plate, A.D.…
WATERLOO - HOUGOUMONT AND PARIS Manuscript first-hand account by Col.Aexander George Woodford, commander of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, Paris, 4 August 1815; in a dark red solander box…
WATERLOO AND HELDER CAMPAIGNS Collection relating to the life and career of Field Marshal Sir William Maynard Gomm (1784-1875) of the 9th Regiment of Foot
FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION - CHARLES CRUMP OF WOLVERHAMPTON A silver presentation casket awarded to the footballer, official and referee Charles Crump, with supporting material, dated 3 November 1913 (5)
AUGUSTINUS Opuscula... cum duplici indicio, 2 parts in 1 vol., Paris, Jean Petit, 1513-1505
BIBLE, IN LATIN Biblia latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering...…
BINDING RICHEOME (LOUYS) L'Academie d'honneur. Dressée pour le Filz de Dieu, Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1614
ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS) Habes iterum Morias Encomiu[m] [The Praise of Folly, with commentary by Gerard Lister], [Basle], J. Froben, 1515
FISHER (JOHN) Assertionis Lutheranae confutatio, Venice, Gregorio de Gregoriis, 1526
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF St John the Evangelist kneeling in front of Christ, from an illuminated Gradual, Northern France, fifteenth century
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES Two leaves from a Breviary recounting the martyrdom of St Lawrence, Northern France or Flanders, second half of the fifteenth century
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAVES Two leaves from Peter Lombard's Libri Quattuor Sententiarum, France, thirteenth century
INCUNABULA PETRUS LOMBARDUS. Liber sententiarium [With the commentary of Henricus de Gorichem, the Tituli quaestionum of Thomas Aquinas, and the Articuli in Anglia et Parisius condemnati], Basel, N.…
L'HOPITAL (MICHELE DE) Epistolarum seu sermonum libri sex, FIRST EDITION, Paris, Robert Estienne, 1585
FOOTBALL - LES CRUMP, ENGLAND JUNIORS International cap awarded to Leslie Victor ['Les'] Crump for his appearance in the 1925 'Hawthorns Series' match against Scotland in 1925, with V&S hallmark (3)
PIRANESI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) Vasi, candelabri, cippi sarcofagi, tripodi lucerne ed ornamenti antichi, 2 vol. in 1, [Rome], 1778
VITRUVIUS POLLIO (MARCUS) De architectura libri decem, Venice, Francesco de' Franceschi and Giovanni Chrieger, 1567
AMERICA – ROBERT BROWNING, SNR. Series of 43 caricatures depicting the Earles family receiving a letter from America [1833]
AMERICA – TRAVELS IN NEW YORK AND THE SOUTH Series of 36 closely-written autograph letters from William Earles (1813-1836) to his family, describing his adventures in America in the 1830's; with…
BLAEU (JAN) [Atlas maior] Nuevo Atlas o Teatro del Mundo, vol. 1-7 and 10 FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH, vol. 8-9 and 11 in Latin, Amsterdam, Jan Blaeu, 1659-1662
CHINA ALEXANDER (WILLIAM) The Costume of China, Illustrated in Forty-Eight Coloured Engravings, William Miller, 1805
CHURCHILL (AWNSHAM AND JOHN) A Collection of Voyages and Travels... in Six Volumes, 8 vol., printed by assignment by Messrs. Churchill for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1744-1747 (8)
DOUGHTY (CHARLES M.) Travels in Arabia Deserta, 2 vol., WITH CUT SIGNATURE OF THE AUTHOR, Lee Warner & Jonathan Cape, 1921
PINKERTON (JOHN) A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World, 17 vol., Longman, Hurst, 1808-1814
GERARD (JOHN) The Herball or General Historie of Plantes... very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson, Adam Islip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636
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