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Spice Islands Passed in the Sea of Reading. Seventy Three Selections from the Poets of Yorkshire Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte £600.00 Book Add to basket
SCOTTISH HERBARIUM ‘Wild Flowers of Bolton [East Lothian] - September 30th 1851’ Jenny Kettlee £400.00 Book Add to basket
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope £80.00 Book Add to basket
The Works of Edmund Waller, Efq; in Verse and Prose Mr. Fenton £70.00 Book Add to basket
AUTHOR’S TYPED MANUSCRIPT: Daphne Adeane Maurice Baring £3000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
A Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata of The Oolitic Formations PART ONE, TWO & THREE and The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea - Volumes I & II Thomas Wright M.D. £185.00 Book Add to basket
The Medals of Creation: First Lessons in Geology, and The Study of Organic Remains - Volume I Gideon Algernon Mantell £85.00 Book Add to basket
The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Daniel De Foe - Defoe £125.00 Book Add to basket
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne £85.00 Book Add to basket
The Works of Mr. William Shakespear. Volume the First. Containing The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost [Shakespeare] William Shakespeare £600.00 Book Add to basket
Bits From An Old Bookshop R M Williamson £80.00 Book Add to basket
The French Constitution As Finally Settled by the National Constituent Assembly and Presented to the King The 3rd Sept 1791 [&] An Answer to the Declaration of the King of England. Representing his motives for carrying on The Present War and His Conduct Towards France [&] Report on the Commission of Arts to the First Consul Bonaparte, on the Antiquities of Upper Egypt and the present state of all the Temples, Palaces etc Thomas Christie; Thomas Paine £200.00 Book Add to basket
SLAVE PLANTATION SUGAR-CARRYING WEST INDIAN MERCHANT SHIP’S LOGBOOK: ‘Ship Mercury on her Passage to Tobago under Convoy of HMS Meleager Captain Ogle’ Robert Rising £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
YOUNG ARTIST’S TOUR JOURNAL OF BELGIUM & HOLLAND IN 1850: ‘Pen and Pencil Scraps from Belgium by Robert Taylor Pritchett’ Robert Taylor Pritchett £1950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THE COMPLETE SYSTEM OF ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING, Containing all the Figures ever used in English Country Dancing Thomas Wilson £1950.00 Book Add to basket
ORIGINS OF THE CREDIT RATINGS INDUSTRY: Minute Book of The Society of Mutual Communication for the Protection of Trade John Strongitharm etc £1950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘“BEASTLY WET”, “HORRIBLY DAMP”, “ABOMINABLE”’ Our Visit to Scotland 1892 - Three Large Manuscript Volumes ‘W.I.’ and Hannah M Young - G W Wilson, Photographer £1750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King J R R Tolkien £1750.00 Book Add to basket
ARTIST’S HAND-DRAWN ‘DUMMY’ VERSION OF: Mummy Laid an Egg Babette Cole £1500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J K Rowling £1500.00 Book Add to basket
AUTHOR’S CORRECTED COPY: Lives of the Engineers: Harbours, Lighthouses, Bridges: Smeaton and Rennie Samuel Smiles £1250.00 Book Add to basket
KETT’S REBELLION Alexandrinevilli Kettus, Sive de furoribus Norfolciensium Ketto Duce : Liber unus Alexander Neville £1250.00 Book Add to basket
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time Stephen Hawking; George F R Ellis £1200.00 Book Add to basket
‘A Passover spent in a way many a Jew from England may well envy - in the holy city of Jerusalem’: WORLD WAR I JERUSALEM ALBUM Shulamith Shabtai, Georg Fernbach, Dina C Mayer, Antonio de la Cierva Y Lewita £1250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
A LEEDS ‘DRUGGIST’’s COPY - The Housekeeper’s Butler’s and Innkeeper’s Guide for Making... British Wines [&] The School of Arts; or Fountain of Knowledge [&] The Whole Art of Confectionary, Sugar Boiling, Iceing, Candying [&] The Cattle-Keeper’s Assistant or Complete Directory S Wilkinson, S Stavely, Josiah Ringsted £1250.00 Book Add to basket



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We sell rare books and manuscripts through this website, via monthly newsletters, to private customers and by exhibiting at book fairs. We are always buying rare books and manuscripts, and happy to meet with customers new and old. Christian White Rare Books Ltd is based in Ilkley, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales but we travel throughout the UK and abroad both to buy and sell.