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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
INSCRIBED BY THE WELSH/ ARGENTINEAN RAILWAY ENGINEER ARTHUR COLEMAN Mapa de la Provincia Buenos Aires Recopilado por los Ingeniores Ernst Nolte; Silveira & Jorge Doclout [Arthur Coleman] £950.00 Map Add to basket
INSCRIBED TO A GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRIEND Recognition of Robert Frost: Twenty fifth Anniversary Robert Frost - Norman Douglas, Edward Thomas, Ezra Pound, Edward Garnett, W H Auden, £950.00 Book Add to basket
BELLE EPOQUE POSTCARDS: Album Pour Cartes Postales [Henry Mercier; Serjeant James J Bell] £950.00 Ephemera Add to basket
ORIGINAL ARTWORK TO ILLUSTRATE: One Day in Shakespeare’s England Gordon King; Avis Murton Carter £950.00 Book Add to basket
Archive of Letters and Postcards from Singer and Actress Eartha Kitt Eartha Kitt £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
PIG DRAWINGS MADE WITH A BLINDFOLD! ‘Pigs of My Friends’ Manuscript Violet Ada Shore £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
OCCULT TYPESCRIPTS FROM WEST LONDON: Hades from Anacalypsis [with] Phallism in Ancient Worship [and] Worship of Priapus [and] The Towers and Temples of Ireland [Godfrey Higgins] ‘Potestas’ of Putney £950.00 Book Add to basket
AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS Adam Smith £900.00 Book Add to basket
CHINA SQUADRON DIARY PATROLLING CHINESE & JAPANESE WATERS: Diary of the 2nd Commission of HMS Linnet W H Parker £850.00 Manuscript Add to basket
ANNOTATED BY WELSH-ARGENTINE RAILWAY ENGINEER GUSTAVUS COLEMAN Republica Argentina, Mapa General de los Ferrocarilles William Field [Gustavus Coleman] £750.00 Map Add to basket
Palaeontology or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations Richard Owen £750.00 Book Add to basket
IONA PRESS IMPRINT - The Death of Fraoch - Bas Fhraoich W C Ward; William Muir £750.00 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.