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'A Great Number of Rare and Curious Articles, in the Finest Preservation'

February Rare Books & Manuscripts

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The Life and Trial of Richard Turpin, a Notorious Highwayman... Among which are His Daring Robberies, Never Before or Since Equalled [Dick Turpin] £250.00 Book Add to basket
Vagabond ways: An Archival Collection of Handwritten Song Lyrics, Set Lists & Correspondence Across a Musical Lifetime Marianne Faithfull [P J Harvey Van Morrison, Elton John, Bernie Taupin etc] £4000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Courage Award for the Arts from Yoko Ono to Marianne Faithfull Yoko Ono Lennon - Marianne Faithfull £750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Three Months’ Visitation, by the Bishop of Capetown, in the Autumn of 1855: with an Account of his Voyage to the Island of Tristan d’Acunha Robert Gray (Bishop of Capetown) £300.00 Book Add to basket
A CONTRIBUTOR’S COPY, WITH A LETTER FROM JOHN PIPER Collins Guide to English Parish Churches John Betjeman, John Piper [William Scudamore Mitchell] £250.00 Book Add to basket
7 Swiss songs, Scottish & Italian songs: 31 Musical imprints Bound Together I. Moscheles; F. Stockhausen; W. Ball; John Parry; George Linley; JT. Craven; Michael Kelly; Mrs Philip Millard; Mrs. Bemans; Herbert Rodwell; Henry R Bishop; Signor Mayer; Signor Rosfini; Felice Blangini; Signor Cavaliere Alfonso di Michereux £650.00 Book Add to basket
THE STORY OF HOW AMNON RAVISHED HIS SISTER THAMAR: Limited Edition illustrated by Eric Gill and translated by Rene Hague Rene Hague and Eric Gill £175.00 Book Add to basket
JOHN HEYWOOD’S COPY BOOKS No.12 1/2 - HANDWRITTEN INVOICES AND BILLS FOR THE YEAR 1876 John Heywood £85.00 Book Add to basket
Journals of the Widow of David Garrick (nephew of the actor), Friend of Hannah More, and Resident near Bristol Emma Hart/ Garrick/ Jones/ Protheroe £4500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THOMAS PILKINGTON’S OXFORD-ANNOTATED COPY Pentalogia sive Tragoediarum Graecarum Delectus, cum Adnotatione Johannis Burton. Editio Altera [Vol II only] [with] Observationes in Oedipum Tyrannum Euripides, Aeschylus, Thomas Burgess, John Burton £175.00 Book Add to basket
BOOK SAFE given to Marianne Faithfull in 1999 Marianne Faithfull £500.00 Manuscript Add to basket
CHAPBOOK-STYLE POEMS OF THE EARL OF ROCHESTER: The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, etc with Memoirs of their Lives John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; Wentworth Dillon; Charles Sackville; William Cavendish £550.00 Book Add to basket
Photography Albums Recording Architectural Inspiration & the Architect’s Arts & Crafts Hampshire home Robert Weir Schultz [Architect] £850.00 Book Add to basket
‘RIGHT NOW. WHAT A MOMENT!’ Ritz Paris Diary 2005: Journal/ Appointments Diary of Marianne Faithfull Marianne Faithfull £2000.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Gladstone & Fasque: an Archival Collection Sir John Robert Gladstone [William Ewart Gladstone] £350.00 Manuscript Add to basket
THE GENTLEMAN’S RECREATION: In Four Parts; Viz Hunting, Hawking, Fowling, Fishing... Fourth Edition Nicholas Cox; Nathaniel Rolls; Ichabod Dawks; William Sherwin; William Dolle; John Manwood £500.00 Book Add to basket
Anglo-Catholic Manuscript Volume of Hymns written by a Newly Bankrupt Clergyman John William Hewett £650.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Narrative of The Most Remarkable Events which Occurred in and Near Leipzig Immediately Before, During and Subsequent to, The Sanguinary Series of Engagements Between The Allied Armies and The French, from the 14th to the 19th October, 1813 Frederic Shoberl £50.00 Book Add to basket
The Answers of the Commons Assembled in Parliament to the Scots Commissioners Papers of the 20th And their Letter of the 24th of October Last. H. Elsynge £450.00 Book Add to basket
Letter to the Electors of Glasgow under the Reform Bill for Scotland: 12 Great Reform Act Pamphlets and Broadside Alexander Richmond etc £350.00 Book Add to basket
FIVE ANCIENT DOVECOTES IN A MINI WATER COLOUR ALBUM Brynmor Shaw £100.00 Ephemera Add to basket
The Annals of the Town of Kingston upon Hull: AN UNRECORDED CENTURY MANUSCRIPT OF AN IMPORTANT 17th CENTURY HISTORY Abraham de la Pryme £4750.00 Manuscript Add to basket
Specimen Days & Collect Walt Whitman £125.00 Book Add to basket
Cities of Splendid Progress: The Royal Visit to Dundee and Perth, July 1914 Dundee Advertiser £75.00 Ephemera Add to basket
The Glasgow Herald Royal Visit Supplement Glasgow Herald £85.00 Ephemera 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.