Sold2022Cocktails.- [Knowles (Frederic Lawrence)] The Cocktail book. A sideboard manual for gentlemen, firstNO RESERVE Cocktails.- [Knowles (Frederic Lawrence)] The Cocktail book. A sideboard manual for gentlemen, first English edition, printed in red and black, half-title, spotted, mostly at ends, partly uSee Sold Price
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Sold2022Gilbert White 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne T. Bensley, 1789White, Gilbert 'The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton'. T. Bensley, London, 1789. First Edition, half calf with tips, stamped designs on spine with raised bands,See Sold Price
Sold2022Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, 1928.NO RESERVE Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, half-title, illustrations by Ernest Shepard, pictorial endpapers, light browning to endpapers, original pictorial pink cloth, gilt, veSee Sold Price
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Sold2022Furniture.- Hope (Thomas) Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, first edition, 1807.Furniture.- Hope (Thomas) Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, first edition, half-title, additional engraved title and 60 plates, foxed, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, rebackeSee Sold Price
Sold2023Eliot (George) Adam Bede, 3 vol., first edition, 1859; and 11 others by the same (14)[Evans (Mary Ann)] "George Eliot". Adam Bede, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, divisional fly-titles, without 16pp. publisher's advertisement at end vol. 3, contemporary ink ownership inscription tSee Sold Price
Sold2016China.- Mao Tse-tung. Quotations of Chairman MaoChina.- Mao Tse Tung. Quotations of Chairman Mao [Little Red Book], first edition, half-title printed in red, title printed in red with green imprint and border, sepia-toned portrait of Chariman Mao,See Sold Price
Sold2022South Asia.- White (J. Claude) Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East FrontierSouth Asia.- White (J. Claude) Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908, first edition, half-title, plates, 7 photogravure with tissue guards, 2 printed in red and black,See Sold Price
Sold2016Pepys (Samuel) - Memoirs...comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith from the original short-hand ms. in the Pepysian Library, 2 vol., first edition , half-titles, engraved frontispieces, 11 engrSee Sold Price
Sold2022Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries inAfrica.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa, first edition, half-title, mounted photographic frontispiece, 6 maps and plans (1 foldiSee Sold Price
Sold2023Astronomy.- Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Results of Astronomical Observations made during the yearsAstronomy.- Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Results of Astronomical Observations made during the years 1834, 5, 6, 7, 8, at the Cape of Good Hope, first edition, half-title, lithograph frontispiece, 17 engrSee Sold Price
Sold2022[MORGANN (MAURICE)] An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, FIRST EDITION, J. H...[MORGANN (MAURICE)] An Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff, FIRST EDITION, half-title, minor foxing throughout, contemporary calf, later red morocco label on spine, slight wear to edSee Sold Price
BonhamsMILL (JOHN STUART) The Subjection of Women, FIRST EDITION, 1869; and 2 others by Mill, all half ...£600
BonhamsREPTON (HUMPHRY AND J. ADEY) Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. Includ...£3,400
BonhamsIRELAND - IRISH LANGUAGE MARCEL (JEAN JOSEPH) Alphabet Irlandais, précédé d'une n...£460
BonhamsNATIVE CHIEFS AND ROYAL VISITS The Native Chiefs and their States in 1877, FIRST EDITION, 1878; ...£500
BonhamsSHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) South. The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1911-1917, FIRST EDIT...£600
BonhamsACKERMANN (RUDOLPH) A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Bu...£1,800
BonhamsKINDERSLEY (JEMIMA) Letters from the Island of Tenerife, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the ...£400
BonhamsDANIELL (WILLIAM) Sketches Representing the Native Tribes, Animals, and Scenery of Southern Afri...£400
BonhamsGODWIN (WILLIAM) Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, FIRST EDITION,J....£500
BonhamsKOLBE (PETER) Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum. das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des Afrikanis...£800
BonhamsPEASE (ALFRED E.) Travel & Sport in Africa, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902£1,200
BonhamsPOTTER (BEATRIX) The Tale of Tom Kitten, 1907; The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1911; The Tale of Pigl...£10
BonhamsPOTTER (BEATRIX) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, 1911; The Tale of Pigling Bland, 1913, FIRST EDITION...£300
BonhamsDICKENS (CHARLES) [Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christma...£600
BonhamsFIELDING (THEODORE HENRY) Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire Illustrated, in a Series of F...£600
BonhamsLAYARD (EDGAR LEOPOLD) The Birds of South Africa... New Edition. 1875; with Horsburgh's Game-Bir...£300
BonhamsGRANDPRE (LOUIS DE) Voyage a la côte occidentale d'Afrique, fait dans les annees 1786 et 17...£500
BonhamsOVINGTON (JOHN) A Voyage to Surat, in the Year, 1689... Likewise a Description of Madeira, St. J...£1,000
BonhamsSHACKLETON (ERNEST HENRY) The Heart of the Antarctic, being the Story of the British Antarctic E...£2,000
BonhamsMARR ('SCOUT' ) Into the Frozen South by Scout Marr, FIRST EDITION, 3 photos of Marr loosely ins...£300
BonhamsSONNERAT (PIERRE) Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine... suivi d'observations sur le Cap d...£300