Books, Maps & Ephemera

Lot 201 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Selection of 12 Enid Blyton books containing unverified author signatures. Books are without dustjackets (or have ripped dustjackets), but signatures ... read more

Lot 202 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Manual of Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships of the Royal Navy (1891, Darling and Son for Her Majesty's Stationery Office). Leatherbound volume of ... read more

Lot 203 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Travelogues by Lady Baden-Powell (Arthur Pearson, undated, but circa 1936-1938). This edition is unusual as it has the original dust jacket, whereas ... read more

Lot 204 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Johnsons' Rambler and Idler, with the Adventurer and Connoisseur (William P Nimmo, 1876). Complete in one volume, combining the works of Samuel ... read more

Lot 205 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

The Art Journal 1864-1877. 15 quarter leather bound folio volumes of the Art Journal, collecting volumes from 1864-1877 (London: Virtue and co). ... read more

Lot 206 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

A selection of personalised letters and photos pertaining to golfers Abe Mitchell and Samuel Ryder, including a letter to Abe Mitchell from Samuel ... read more

Lot 207 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

A History of Ireland from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Crawford Esq, Volume 1 only (Strabane, 1783). Leatherbound volume. with ... read more

Lot 208 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Terraquea or A New System of Geography and Modern History by The Rev James Gordon, Volume 1 (William Porter, 1790). Leatherbound volume

Lot 209 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Two books by H Belloc and BTB. Cautionary Tales for Children (Duckworth, 1907), along with The Bad Child's Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse ... read more

Lot 210 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood (David Nutt, 1907). With cream board binding, ... read more

Lot 211 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

The Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper MD (Thomas Kelly, 1850). Quarter leather binding with coloured illustrations, this is a renowned antique ... read more

Lot 212 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Leatherbound album of Victorian portrait cards containing approximately 49 portraits of men, women and children including some of conductors and ... read more

Lot 213 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Leatherbound Welsh language Bible (circa late 1800s) 'Bibl yr Addoliad Teuluaidd sef yr hen destament a'r Newydd gyd a Sylwadau Eglurhaol y Parch ... read more

Lot 214 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

On the Road With Wellington by August Ludolf Friedrich Schaumann (Heinemann, 1924)

Lot 215 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Album of Old Bedford postcards and pictures. Leather spine and nameplate with board binding in A4 format

Lot 216 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Limited edition (no 2 of 600, 980 in total eventually distributed worldwide) facsimile edition of The Trinity Apocalypse. This is a a copy sourced ... read more

Lot 217 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Volumes IV and V of The Spectator in Eight Volumes (H D Symonds, 1797)

Lot 218 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Le Luxe Grande edition, 1899 World's Fair Paris. A4 folder containing collection of ladies' costume design full colour prints along with the covers ... read more

Lot 219 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

'Humans in Space' book (in Russian, 1971), bearing signatures.

Lot 220 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

18th Century (1780-1782, incorrectly written as 1750-1752 by Wraxall on the title page) handwritten journal of the 1st Baronet of Ulster, Nathaniel ... read more

Lot 221 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

The Man With the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming (1st edition, 2nd state with dustcover). This is the 1st edition from 1965 of Ian Fleming's novel, not ... read more

Lot 222 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Handwritten journal detailing the patients of Hanwell asylum from 1861 to 1869. Hanwell asylum, now St Bernard's Hospital in Middlesex, was an ... read more

Lot 223 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

A Guide to the Cathedral of the Church of Gloucester (1880) by Rev n Naines and FS Waller Aran. Paperbound pamphlet-sized book detailing the ... read more

Lot 224 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

St Martin's Le Grand April 1915 magazine. A unique book on the telegraph office and postal system during the 1st World War. (227 pages)

Lot 225 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Set of 7 Dent's Nature books consisting of The Pond I Know, The Hedge I Know, The Common I Know, The Seashore I Know, The Wood I Know, The Meadow I ... read more

Lot 226 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Six Agatha Christie novels. Death in the Clouds (Crime Club, 1952), Passenger to Frankfurt (Crime Club, 1970, ISBN 000231121 6), Elephants Can ... read more

Lot 227 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Leatherbound photo album containing Victorian photographs of various people in period clothing. Approximately 120 photographs

Lot 228 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Framed 17th century map of The Road from London to Darby by John Ogilby

Lot 229 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Framed 18th century map of Northamptonshire by Rob Morden

Lot 230 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Framed 18th century map of The Kingdom of Ireland by Rob Morden

Lot 231 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Framed 17th century map of Northamptonshire by John Speed

Lot 232 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

The Earth an Intimate History by Richard Fortey (Folio Society, 2011)

Lot 233 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Cassell, 1870).. Illustrated throughout, this novel is quarter bound in leather with boards front and back and ... read more

Lot 234 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1st edition, 1837, Chapman and Hall). Quarter leather binding with marbled boards and marbled page edging. Spine ... read more

Lot 235 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Middlemarch by George Eliot (Blackwood and Sons, New Edition, possibly around 1885?). Quarter learher binding with marbled boards and marbled page ... read more

Lot 236 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

The History of the Old and New Testaments from the works of Le Sieur de Royaumont (1690). Leatherbound antique Biblical work detailing the Bible from ... read more

Lot 237 (Antique Furniture, Collectors’ Items, Selected Toys, Books, Maps and Ephemera)

Robert Morden: 'The Smaller Islands in the British Ocean', 36 x 43 cm, together with Andrew Johnston: 'A New Map of the South Part of Scotland' (2)