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BOOKPLATE DESIGNS AND CHRISTMAS CARDS: An Illustrator’s Scrapbook Arthur Crossingham Sprules £200.00 Ephemera Add to basket
MANUSCRIPT LETTERBOOK 1807-1838 Subject matters of Lord Lonsdale’s letters; Minute Book of the Executors of the late Dr Satterthwaite; List of the Correspondence” William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale; [Dr James Sattersthwaite]; [William Wordsworth] £350.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘TO BE OR NOT TO BE’ COMMONPLACED & SANITISED FOR THE 18TH CENTURY: Observations on Reading Vol. 2d July 17, 1720 1710s Anonymous Writer £1500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
SPECTACULAR PAPIER MACHE BINDING: Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare; Henry Noel Humphreys (editor) £750.00 Book Add to basket
NORAH HOPKINS SCOTTISH FISHING DIARY: A Keen Woman Angler’s Record Book, 1911- 1952, with links to Ballindalloch, Eilanreach and the Highlands Norah Hopkins £400.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THIRTEEN LECTURES FROM BERKELEY’S ‘RADLAB’: A ‘Paradise for Physics’ Luis Alvarez; Edwin Mcmillan; Emilio Segre, R Mozely, Herbert F York; A J Hudgins; Robert Lyster Thornton; August Carl Helmholz etc £1750.00 Book Add to basket
PICARESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EARLY MODERN PHYSICIAN: Curriculum Vitae or The Birth, Education, Travels & Life of Henry Lamp MD Written by Himself Henry Lampe £4000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
PRESENTATION COPY TO THE WIDOW OF ONE OF THE BOOK’S WRITERS County of London Plan Prepared for the London County Council [Wesley & Patricia Dougill] J H Forshaw; Patrick Abercrombie £850.00 Book Add to basket
Edward Williams of Glan yr Afon yr Afon’s BOOK OF MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS Edward Williams £125.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Testament Newydd Ein Hiachawdwr Printed for the Reverend Mr Peter Williams by Ioan Ross £125.00 Book Add to basket
LEAVES FROM THE BUIK OF THE WEST KIRKE - Manuscript Copy Incorporating Original Manuscript by David Williamson and Neil McVicar, ministers to the West Kirke Church of St Cuthbert’s in Edinburgh George Lorimer [David Williamson; Neil McVicar] £400.00 Manuscript Add to basket
A DIARIST & PHOTOGRAPHER AT EL ALAMEIN: ‘Each time I heard a screaming bomb I imagined it to be coming straight for me’ William Thomas Pritchard £1250.00 mANUSCRIPT Add to basket
SINGING, POTATO SALES & BENEVOLENCE IN SOUTH LANARKSHIRE ‘James Smellie’s Count Book in Carstairs School’ James Smellie of Carstairs £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Life and Times of the Late Duke of Wellington. Comprising The Campaigns and Battle Fields of Wellington and His Comrades by Lieut. Colonel Williams (2 volumes bound as volume 1) and The Political Life of the Duke by Thomas Gaspey Esq. and England’s Battles by Sea and Land. (Bound together as Volume 2) Lieut. Colonel Williams, Thomas Gaspey, Esq £150.00 Book Add to basket
10 poetry books signed by the author Jon Silkin, personally inscribed to a friend and collector of his work: including Amana Grass, The Lens Breakers etc Jon Silkin £175.00 Book Add to basket
FIRST EDITIONS - 2nd SERIES IN VANESSA BELL’S DUSTJACKET The Common Reader: First and Second Series Virginia Woolf £600.00 Book Add to basket
THE AUTHOR’S COPY A Chronology of Printing Colin Clair £100.00 Book Add to basket
FRIDA KAHLO & DIEGO RIVERA IN DETROIT: Lydia Cohen’s Album with Drawings by Kahlo and Rivera Frida Kahlo - Carmen Rivera; Diego Rivera £7500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
ARCHIVE RELATING TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE PSEUDONYMOUSLY CO-AUTHORED SCI-FI ‘RESURRECTION’ NOVEL, FIRE AND WATER (1920); Marwin Delcarol (pseudonym of Margot Glyn & Winnaretta Singer); Gerald Duckworth £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
ANIMA VENUSTATIS: An unpublished personally compiled selection of poetry spanning the early Greek lyrical poets through to the 1930s Anonymous Compiler £125.00 Book Add to basket
FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED COPY: Jan Christian Smuts by J.C. Smuts. Signed by the author and Jan Christian Smut’s wife Isie K Smuts Jan Christian Smuts - Isie Smuts £150.00 Book Add to basket
ARTIST’S HAND-DRAWN ‘DUMMY’ VERSION OF: Mummy Laid an Egg Babette Cole £2750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Volume 1: Matin and Vesper Bells, Earlier and Later Collected Poems (Chiefly Sacred) J R Macduff D.D. £100.00 Book Add to basket
A critic’s copy of EMPLOYMENT Eric Gill £95.00 Book Add to basket
Receipt/recipe book with links to Friston Hall, Suffolk, dated 1821 Anne Ellis £150.00 Manuscript Add to basket



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