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Rare Books & Manuscripts: June 2026

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‘Angle of Incidence’ in The Aeronautical Journal - WILBUR WRIGHT’S FIRST PUBLICATION Wilbur Wright £4750.00 Book Add to basket
The Dance of Death; from the original designs of Hans Holbein Hans Holbein; Wenceslaus Holar £200.00 Book Add to basket
The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse £150.00 Book Add to basket
WHITBY HARBOUR AND ROYAL YACHTS: Places I have Seen and Flowers I Have Loved [Frank Meadows Sutcliffe] ‘C.G.’ £700.00 Book Add to basket
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - ROGER SENHOUSE’S ANNOTATED COPY Mr Yorick - Laurence Sterne; Roger Senhouse £275.00 Book Add to basket
Yale Class of 1826: Friendship Album with 99 Affectionate Inscriptions Elizur T Washburn etc £950.00 Manuscript Add to basket
MINIATURE COMMONPLACE BOOK AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL MANUSCRIPT: ‘Erasmus Head Anno Statis 14-15 Annoq Domini 1726 hoc scripsit et mediatus est’ Erasmus Head £3000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Notions of the Americans Picked up by a Travelling Bachelor James Fenimore Cooper £450.00 Book Add to basket
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe George Eliot £350.00 Book Add to basket
Walks in Oxford; Comprising an Original, Historical, and Descriptive Account of the Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings of The University; with an Introductory Outline of the Academical History of Oxford. To which are Added, A Consise History and Description of The City, and Delineations in the Environs of Oxford W. M. Wade £200.00 Book Add to basket
An English Woman Volunteer with ‘The Guild of Loyal Women’ during the Second Boer War Miss Gladys Wilkinson £350.00 Ephemera Add to basket
Visionary Poems and Passages or The Poets Eye Geoffrey Grigson; John Craxton £150.00 Book Add to basket
Objects of Affection and other plays for television Alan Bennett £125.00 Book Add to basket
Text-Book of English History from the Earliest times for Colleges and Schools (Harold Wilson's copy from his mother, Ethel Seddon) Osmund Airy £110.00 Add to basket
‘Words cannot express the jubilation and joy with which we greeted our leader! The liberator of our German Austria’: An Austrian Woman Hails the Anschluss Berta Hofmann £250.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Ariel; Winter Trees; The Colossus; The Bell Jar; Crossing the Water - Sylvia Plath’s Major works Sylvia Plath £450.00 Book Add to basket
Shropshire Calendar of the Criminal Prisoners Tried at Shropshire Lent Assize, March 18th, 1834 Hon Henry Wentworth Powys; John Patteson, James Allan Park £350.00 Ephemera Add to basket
THE AUTHOR’S COPY Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human Harold Bloom £650.00 Book Add to basket
Manchester Cotton Magnates’ Tour of New England and Canada [Edward Philips, Robert Needham Philips] £2500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Feathered Commonplace Book of Miss Catherine Dornford Catherine Dornford, Heaton Dornford £175.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Virginia and Maryland by H Moll Geographer. 1729 - From Atlas Minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps Herman Moll £400.00 Map Add to basket
Jonathan Swift Miniature Relief Bust Unknown £75.00 Ephemera Add to basket
In Southern Seas: A ‘Boys’ Own’ Unpublished Manuscript Adventure Story written in Felbrigg, north Norfolk Miss Valence Carter £275.00 Book Add to basket
Si iaculis astuq dolo per frondea rura/ Humani capitur simulator Simius oris - Monkey Hunt Johannes Stradanus; [Jan van der Straet] £150.00 Ephemera Add to basket
Geological Fragments Collected Principally From Rambles Along the Rocks of Furness and Cartmell John Bolton; Adam Sedgwick £175.00 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.