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PROMPT COPIES, DION BOUCICAULT’S OCTOROON & A COLERIDGE RARITY Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H W Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sheridan etc £850.00 Book Add to basket
PORTFOLIO OF 19 COMIC & MILDLY EROTIC DRAWINGS: ‘Rough Sketches C W Anderson 41 Wash[ington] Sq[uare] New York City’ Clarence William Anderson £2500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Fahrenheit 451 [First Edition] Ray Bradbury £95.00 Book Add to basket
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader [First Edition] C S Lewis £650.00 Book Add to basket
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe C S Lewis £250.00 Book Add to basket
‘TO PAUL SCHOFIELD - HAMLET V Komissarzhevsky £450.00 Book Add to basket
92 LETTERS OF A LOVESICK YORKSHIRE CLERGYMAN Joseph Foster & Elizabeth ‘Bet’ Musson £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘OLD OAK FROM SHAKESPEARE’S BIRTHPLACE’ A Relic of 19th Century Bardolotary William Shakespeare [John Marshall] £400.00 Ephemera Add to basket
THE BERNHARDT BIRTHDAY BOOK Being Quotations from the Chief Plays of Madame Sarah Bernhardt's Repertoire and other Works Sarah Bernhardt, E M Evors [editor] Max Pemberton £250.00 Book Add to basket
MANUSCRIPT ORDERLY BOOK FOR THE BRITISH ARMY IN PORTUGAL 1799-1802 Lieutenant Colonel H D Fraser £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
POST PRODUCTION SCREENPLAY Hamlet William Shakespeare £450.00 Book Add to basket
PRESENTATION COPY Classification and Uses of Finger Prints Sir Edward Henry £350.00 Book Add to basket
NEWCASTLE CARTULARY ISSUED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE NORTH, OWNED BY SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS: Newcastle Great Charter of 1601; the Decrees of December 1603 & February 1604 The Council of the North - John Feare; Francis Burrell £11500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
BRITAIN & AMERICA 1767-1812 - 25 ACTS OF PARLIAMENT Parliament £1250.00 Book Add to basket
PLATES DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK - Rare set of Separately issued Plates for Oliver Twist Charles Dickens - George Cruikshank £950.00 Ephemera Add to basket
22 IMPRINTS FROM THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES chronicling the controversial Presidency of Edward King Society of Antiquaries [Benjamin Way; Edward King] £2950.00 Book Add to basket
PENNSYLVANIA MANUSCRIPT COPY OF THE QUAKER BOOK OF DISCIPLINE ‘From our yearly meeting at Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania and the Jerseys..’ Susan Lukens - Daniel Koll £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘I AM RECKON’D A SCHISMATICK’ - Spiritual Diary, Poems and Letters of a Dissenting Cornishman Bernard Rowse £7500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
LETTER BOOKS OF A FRENCH DOUBLE-AGENT & ASSASSIN AT THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE Antoine de Guiscard, Abbe de la Bourlie, Marquis de Guiscard £12500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
EARLIEST WOMEN’S COLLEGE WEST OF THE ROCKIES Mills College Photo Album, Oakland C R Stead, R Davis etc £2850.00 Ephemera Add to basket
UNPUBLISHED ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SWISS PHYSICS - A Compendium of the Aristotelian: & Cartesian Physics John Roberts - Johann Heinrich Schweitzer £6500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
BOOK OF HOURS: Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment, 340 pages & 3 Miniatures Northern French Artist £19500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
LOST HAMLET PAINTING COPIED FROM FUSELI: A Platform before the Castle of Elsinore: Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost [Henry Fuseli - Johann Heinrich Füssli - William Shakespeare] £8500.00 Painting Add to basket
2 SETS OF 18TH CENTURY ‘CHARACTERS’ The Wooden World Dissected in the Characters [WITH] Mars Stript of His ArmourL or, the Army Display’d in all its True Colours Edward Ward ‘A Lover of the Mathematicks’ £1950.00 Book Add to basket
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY Claude Shannon, David Lewis, Thyllis Williams etc £100000.00 Book Add to basket



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Christian White Rare Books

Christian White Rare Books Ltd is a rare book business based in Ilkley, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, in the UK. We sell rare books and manuscripts through this website, via monthly newsletters and by exhibiting at book fairs. We are always looking to buy rare books and manuscripts and we're happy to chat to customers new and old.