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Harewood House to Constantinople: October 2026 Catalogue

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MANUSCRIPT BY A HALIFAX FRIEND OF ANNE LISTER - ‘GENTLEMAN JACK’ - & FIRST COUSIN OF HER WIFE: Etymological Addition to “English Etymologies” by “H Fox Talbot, Esq:” with Critical Observations William Priestley [Henry Fox Talbot] £3500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘I POSSESSED AN UNRIVALLED COLLECTION OF KELMSCOTTIANA’ Cockerell: Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, friend of Ruskin and William Morris - with autograph letters SYDNEY CARLYLE COCKERELL £950.00 Book Add to basket
Early 19th Century Children’s Book-Illustrations in a Scrap Album Unknown Compiler £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Franklin's Way to Wealth or, Poor Richard Improved [with] A Memorial for Children... Sixth Edition [with] A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Benjamin Franklin; George Hendley; William Law; Elizabeth Belson, £90.00 Add to basket
Spanish-Influenced Sketchbook & Friendship Album from 1890s Valencia Anita Bartle £450.00 Manuscript Add to basket
1920s Sketchbook by the future Illustrator of T S Eliot, Hillaire Belloc & Damon Runyon Nicolas Clerihew Bentley £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Seaside & Maritime Artist’s Sketchbooks of Hastings and the English South Coast J T Wilson £450.00 Sketchbook Add to basket
The True French Grammar, with a French Rudiment... For the Use of the Young Princesses Michael - Michel - Malard £650.00 Book Add to basket
A Century of Wrong - Issued by State Secretary Reitz Jan Christiaan Smuts; F.W. Reitz; W.T. Stead £75.00 Book Add to basket
CLEMENT ATTLEE’S GRANDAD’S CASHBOOKS: John Attlee Corn and Seed Merchants, Dorking John & Richard Attlee, Corn and Seed Merchant £300.00 Manuscript Add to basket
‘AS FAR AS EUROPEANS ARE CONCERNED... A NEW PLACE’ A 625 mile Journey around Ugandan Lakes Kioga and Kivania and Surrounding Waters by the Director of Uganda Railways Benjamin Eastwood £1750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
The Devil’s Happiness [and other prose and verse] Jeannie Graham Hill £75.00 Book Add to basket
The Holy Bible in Tamil British and Foreign Bible Society £250.00 Book Add to basket
Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings [with] His Majesties Declaration Concerning the Treaty And His Dislicke of the Armies Proceedings... Isle of Wight John Gauden; King Charles I £125.00 Book Add to basket
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle £275.00 Book Add to basket
Calder Alexander Calder; James Johnson Sweeney £175.00 Book Add to basket
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE COMPLETE WORKS - A Shakespearean Gift from Robertson Davies to his Daughter, Miranda William Shakespeare £350.00 Book Add to basket
Lotos Leaves: Stories, Essays and Poems by Members of the Lotos Club - Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain etc Wilkie Collins; Mark Twain; John Elderkin, John Brougham £275.00 Book Add to basket
Harewood House - VAD Nurse Beilby’s Convalescent Autograph Album Nurse Beilby; Harewood House £450.00 Manuscript Add to basket
FIRST UK EDITION: Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell £475.00 Book Add to basket
Constantinople at the end of the Ottoman Period: A Young Woman’s Watercolour Album Gretchen D £250.00 Sketch Book Add to basket
Brother Placidus, and Why He Became a Monk Joseph Letcester Lynne under the pseudonym A Monk of Llanthony Abbey, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire; £85.00 Books Add to basket
The Telepathist - Proof Copy with Author's Corrections John Brunner £225.00 Book Add to basket
Thumb-O-Graph Album: Imprints of Thumbs Dow & Lester £100.00 Book Add to basket
Scientific and Arithmetical Schoolboy Manuscript from Mr. Gibson’s Whitby School J. Harrison £85.00 Ephemera Add to basket



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