Thorburn (A.)Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, 1923, large folio, numbered large paper limited edition of 155, thirty mounted colour plates as called for, original cloth (cloth faded) £200 - 400
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Thorburn (A.)British Mammals, 1920, large 4to, numbered large paper limited edition of 155, fifty mounted colour plates as called for, original cloth (tissue guards stained, cloth faded, corners bumped) £200 - 400
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Sowerby (John Edward) et alEnglish Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants, 1863-86, twelve volumes, 1937, hand-coloured plates, t.e.g., calf by Root & Son (some wear, vol. I with cracked joints) £300 - 500
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Tunnicliffe (Charles Frederick)Colour print of an otter with a trout, 1976, Tryon Gallery, numbered limited edition of 500, signed by the artist in pencil to lower margin, image 325mm x 450mm, mounted, framed and glazed £30 - 50
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Sclater (William Lutley)A History of the Birds of Colorado, 1912, first edition, map and plates as called for, t.e.g., dust wrapper;Gray (Robert), The Birds of the West of Scotland including the Outer Hebrides, 1871, fifteen litho plates as called for, original cloth;Hosking (Eric) et al, Eric Hosking's Classic Birds, 60 Years of Bird Photography, 1993, numbered limited edition of 1000, leatherette, slipcase;Dixon (Charles), Bird-Life In A Southern County Being Eight Years' Gleanings Among the Birds of Devonshire, 1899, plates as called for, original cloth;Temperley (George W), A History of the Birds of Durham, 1951, original wraps (5) £100 - 200
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Carr (J.W.)The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire, 1916-35, two volumes, including the scarce supplement, original cloth £50 - 80
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Committee of Inquiry on Grouse DiseaseThe Grouse in Health and In Disease, Being the Final Report of the Committee ..., Volume I, 1911, 4to., fifty-nine plates, mostly coloured, t.e.g., original cloth;Hudson (Peter), The Grouse in Space and Time, the Population Biology of a Managed Gamebird, 1992, 4to., Summary Report loosely insert, original pictorial boards;idem, Red Grouse, The Biology and Management of a Wild Gamebird, 1986, dust wrapper;with one other £80 - 120
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Pritchard (Andrew)A History of Infusoria, including The Desmidiaceae and Distomaceae, British and Foreign, 1861, forty plates, many hand-coloured, marbled edges, half morocco;Landsborough (D.), A Popular History of British Zoophytes and Corallines, 1852, twenty hand-coloured plates, original cloth gilt (2) £80 - 120
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Piper (Raymond)Piper's Flowers, 1987, Blackstaff Press, large folio, numbered limited edition of 100, signed by the artist with presentation inscription, ten colour plates, each signed in pencil, quarter cloth, slipcase;idem, Three Irish Orchids, nd. [c1994], Blackstaff Press, limited edition of 125 portfolios of three prints, each print signed and numbered by the artist, with accompanying booklet, housed in large quarter cloth portfolio (2) £100 - 200
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ConchologySowerby (G.B.), Thesaurus Conchyliorum, Parts V, VI, VII, VIII and IX, 1846-8, with hand-coloured plates 41 to 54 and 68 to 101 + 31A (Part VI lacking plates), worn wraps - sold as a collection of plates;Wood (W.) & Hanley (Sylvanus), Index Testaceologicus, An Illustrated Catalogue of British and Foreign Shells .., 1856, forty six hand-coloured plates with approx 2800 figures, binding weak with gaping gutter throughout, binding broken after frontis, frontis with tape stain to gutter margin, laminated half morocco;Dixon and Watson, A Descriptive Manual of British Land and Fresh-water Shells .., 1858, Darlington; Harrison Penney, eight hand coloured plates, original cloth (worn);with a quantity of others (qty) £200 - 400
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Jardine (William)The Naturalist's Library - The Natural History of Hummingbirds , Volumes I and II, 1833, Lizars, two volumes, portrait frontis to each, sixty-six hand-coloured plates including titles, original cloth;idem, Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part 1, [Birds of Prey], nd, Lizars, thirty-four hand-coloured plates, original cloth;Wood (J.G.), Common British Beetles, nd, Routledge, twelve coloured plates, a.e.g., original cloth;with three others (7) £100 - 200
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New Naturalist SeriesBoyd (J.M.) and Boyd (I.L), The Hebrides, A Natural History, 1990, Collins, first edition, dust wrapper (priced £30) £100 - 200
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DiariesA quantity of manuscript material, predominantly early 20th century, includes Irene Lawley's commonplace book (1907) with artwork, photographs, autographs, etc; two interesting diaries of I[rene] L[awley]'s experiences in India in 1920, which describes the visit of a Crown Prince, etc. (with photographs), a photograph album with images of the novelist Hugo Francis Guy Charteris as a child, accounts of travel in England and Italy, etc.[Irene Lawley (b1889) was the only child of Beilby Lawley, 3rd Baron Wenlock, her daughter married Hugo Charteris] £80 - 120
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CookeryPetit Propos Culinaires, Essays and Notes to do with Food, Cookery and Cookery Books, Volumes 1 - 89, plus Vol 3 Supplement, February 1979 - January 2010, Prospect Books, 90 volumes, volume 1 is a numbered presentation copy, signed by Alan Davidson, original wraps;Heath (Ambrose), Good Drinks, 1939, pictorial boards;idem, Good Soups, 1935, dust wrapper;with five others by Heath, all first editions in dust wrappers (97) £100 - 200
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Observer's Pocket SeriesAn almost complete run of the series, comprising volumes 1 to 85, 87 to 90, 92, 93, 96, 98 and 99, with two volumes of no. 10, ten volumes of no. 11, two volumes of number 21 and seven volumes of 99 (the latter including three volumes of the first edition, two signed by the authors), various editions, dust wrappers and pictorial boards (111) £200 - 400
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May (Everett)Mr Everett May's Sample Sheets of Various Respectable Money-Making Businesses, nd. [?c 1860's], original wraps; [with]Laughton (James W.), The General Receipt-Book, containing An Extensive Collection of Valuable Receipts connected with domestic economy, nd., 24 page pamphlet; [with]Pamphlet, 'Recommended to H.M. Subjects' nd., 8 pages of recipes; the three in spring binder;together with eight early 20th century trade catalogues (9) £100 - 200
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Queen VictoriaThree page letter from Queen Victoria to her 'brother and cousin', The Grand Duke of Oldenburg, June 14th 1900, Balmoral, the manuscript written by another but with valediction and signature of the Queen. The letter appoints Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles as Victoria's representative to the Court of the Grand Duke [presumably Frederick Augustus II whose reign had commenced the previous day] £100 - 200
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[Strafford (Thomas Wentworth)]Knowler (William) edit., The Earl of Strafforde's Letters and Dispatches with an Essay towards his life by Sir George Radcliffe...., 1739, two volumes, folio, frontis to each (one loose with creased edges), reversed calf bindings (well worn) £100 - 200
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Holy BibleThe Holy Bible, containing The Old Testament and The New...., 1703, printed by Charles Bill, two volumes, 4to., engraved title dated 1704, diced calf (some wear):Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlasting Rest: or a Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints..., 1658, engraved frontis, half calf (worn) £80 - 120
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Underwood (Michael)A Treatise on the Diseases of Children, with Directions for the Management of Infants from Birth, 1805, Callow, three volumes, fifth edition, folding table, tree calf (worn, cracked joints);Salmon (William), Synopsis Medicinae, A Compendium of Physick, Chirurgery, and Anatomy, 1681, two parts only (of four), in one volume, portrait frontis, engraved title, fifteen plates, calf (worn);Pearson (John), The Life of William Hey .., 1822, portrait frontis, plate, calf (re-backed) (5) £100 - 200
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Anon.The British Compendium: or Rudiments of Honour ..., Volume I, parts 1 & 2 (seventh edition) and Volume II (third edition), [1731] & 1729, 3 volumes, engraved plates (some duplication between volumes), calf;Ellis (G.), Captain Cook's Second and Third Voyages Round the World ..., 1787, C.C.J. & J. Robinson, small 4to. (204mm x 127mm), portrait frontis, second and third voyages have individual half-titles, introduction commences on page 168, second voyage commences on page 170 (recto of Y1), third voyage ends on page 576, calf (re-backed);Weber (Henry), The Battle of Flodden Field, A Poem of the Sixteenth Century, 1808, frontis, two folding plates, calf (5) £80 - 120
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Perkins (John)A Profitable Booke of Master John Perkins, fellow of the Inner Temple, treating of the lawes of England, apud Richardum Tottell, 14th December, 1576, Richarde Tottel, some worming of gutter margin affecting some text, calf £100 - 200
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Humphrey (John H.)Roman Circuses, Arenas for Chariot Racing, 1986, dust wrapper;with two others (3) £50 - 100
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Josephus (Flavius)The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus ..., n.d., C. Cooke, transl. by George Henry Maynard, folio, frontis (repaired with loss), 57 plates, 2 maps (coloured in outline), and a folding plan, calf (worn) £80 - 120
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Holinshed (Raphael) et alThe First and Second volumes of Chronicles, comprising 1, The Description and Historie of England, 2, The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3, The Description and Historie of Scotland, First collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison ..., newly augmented and continued ... to the year 1586 by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others .., 1587, two volumes, folio, three further title pages; England undated, Ireland dated 1586, Scotland dated 1585, calf (worn, joints cracked, boards detached, library bookplates to pastedowns) £200 - 400
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Desaguliers (J.T.)A Course of Experimental Philosophy, 1745-4, two volumes, volume one is a second edition, 4to., seventy-eight folding plates, calf (worn, joints cracked, board detached) £200 - 300
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BindingsA small quantity of books in calf and morocco bindings £80 - 120
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AutographsA collection of autographs, including Don Bradman, Jerome K. Jerome, William Booth, Douglas Mawson, Malcolm Campbell, Frank Brangwyn, Sarah Bernhardt, politicians, actors, singers, sportsmen, etc. (list available), many with photographs, illustrations, cuttings, mounted in oblong 4to., album £100 - 200
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Cook (Theodore Andrea)The Olympic Games, Being a Short History of the Olympic Movement from 1896 up to the Present Day ...., 1908, plates, original wraps (worn, lacking rear wrap) with a typescript poem re the 1908 games and eight small amateur photographs of the games;Shakespeare (Lt.-Col.), A Record of the 17th and 32nd Service Battalions Northumberland Fusiliers (NER) Pioneers: 1914-1919, 1926, 4to., folding maps, original cloth;Handbook of the 60 - PR. B.L. Gun, 1916, with postcards of the gun (and World War I tanks), together with hand-coloured drawings of the gun mechanism in rear pocket;The Student and Intellectual Observer of Science, Literature and Art, Vols I to V, 1868-71, five volumes, colour plates, half calf;The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone nd., Adam & Co., two volumes, half calf (10) £100 - 200
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Prynne (William)The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes, In Doctrine and Practise ..., 1643, three parts bound as one, each with title page, 4to., 20th century sheep;Marmontel, Annete and Lubin, A True Story ..., nd, [c.1803], York, frontis, original wraps (well worn);Rowe (N), A New Rehearsal, or Bays the Younger ..., 1714, blue paper wraps;with a small quantity of others including a broadside of the Rules of the Leeds White Cloth Hall (qty) £100 - 200
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Slatyer (Will.)The History of Great Britanie, from the first peopling of this Island to the present Raigne of o'r hapy and peacefull Monarke K. James, 1621, Meighen, small folio in sixes, engraved title, calf (well worn);N.B., Stenographie and Crytographie, or the Arts of Short and Secret Writing ..., 1659, portrait frontis, contemporary sheep (well worn);Mason (William), Arts Advancement or The Most Exact Lineal, Swift, Short and Easy Method of Short-Hand-Writing .., 1687, portrait frontis, sheep (rubbed) (3) £200 - 400
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Mixed Ephemera, including an album of postcards, a bundle of postcards, an album of greetings cards, and an album of cigarette cards £120 - 180
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An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred and sixty pre-war cards, including saucy French cards, topography, royalty, novelty, comic, silk, shipping, social history, glamour, etc £200 - 300
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A Quantity of Mixed Ephemera, including postcards, silk cigarette cards, In Memoriam cards, Concorde menus, greetings cards, first day covers £100 - 200
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A Collection of Japanese Postcards, one hundred and fifty pre-war cards, mainly coloured topography £70 - 100
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An Album Containing Seventy Four First World War Silk Postcards, some regimentals, including RFC, RFA, Northumberland Fusiliers. ASC, RWF, etc., woven Flames cards, together with other cards £200 - 300
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An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred cards, including Yorkshire and other topography, greetings, shipping, comic, saucy cards, architecture etc £100 - 200
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A Collection of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred and seventy cards, including twenty four Cat cards (two Louis Wain), 1st world war military cards, greetings, multi-babies etc., in three albums £100 - 200
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A Collection of Mixed Postcards, approximately four hundred cards, including comic, greetings, glamour, topography, Father Christmas, Cleckheaton Football Team, novelty, and a quantity of military cards, in two albums £150 - 250
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A Collection of Postcards, including over one hundred WW1 related cards, also topography, portraits, greetings etc., in three albums; A Small Collection of 18th and 19th Century Newspapers, including Woodfall's Register, The Star etc £70 - 100
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An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred cards, including Mabel Lucie Attwell and other children's cards, Louis Wain and other cat cards, social history, topography, Father Christmas and other greetings cards, advertising etc £150 - 250
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An Album of Early Postcards, approximately one hundred and ninety cards, including Gruss Aus and other overseas cards, vignettes, cycling, real photographic social history, topography etc £100 - 200
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A Collection of Theatre and Ballet Ephemera, including an album of postcards of ballet dancers, ballet and theatre programmes, magazines, bound 'Celebrities of the Stage' publications etc £70 - 100
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An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately two hundred and eighty cards, including Cornish and other topography, comic, portraits, school groups, shipping etc £100 - 200
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An Album Containing Fifty Nine Erotic French Cabinet Type Cards, published by Ad.Braun Et Cie, entitled 'Le Meme Sujet en Moyen Format', housed in a nice gilt leather album decorated with a glamorous maiden £100 - 200
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A Large Collection of Mixed Postcards, including a quantity of Esperanto related cards, overseas and UK topography, early real photographic cards, architecture, comic, military, etc., in five albums and two boxes £200 - 300
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An Album of Mixed Postcards, approximately three hundred and eighty pre war cards, mainly topography, some real photographic £250 - 350
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A Collection of Mainly Sheffield Related Postcards, approximately one hundred and fifty cards, including social history, topography train disaster, railway stations, novelty, royal visits, industry, etc., together with other cards including royalty, greetings cards and silks., in three albums £100 - 200
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A Collection of Mixed Postcards, including railway, shipping and aviation cards, greetings, comic, Mabel Lucie Attwell, Mickey Mouse, Yorkshire, Durham, Cumbria and other topography and architecture, military, etc., in six albums £150 - 250
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An Album of Mixed Postcards, containing two hundred and ninety two pre war cards, including American glamour, beauty contest winners, Queens Dolls House and Indian subjects £100 - 200
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