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ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Bloomsbury, 1997ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Bloomsbury, 1997. Sold for £43,812.50 inc. premium
FORSTER (E.M.) Barger family collection of twenty-eight autograph letters by E.M. Forster, two to his mother Lily Forster, fifteen to his intimate friend Florence Barger, two to her son Evert and nine to Evert's wife Mollie, 1915-64FORSTER (E.M.) Barger family collection of twenty-eight autograph letters by E.M. Forster, two to his mother Lily Forster, fifteen to his intimate friend Florence Barger, two to her son Evert and nine to Evert's wife Mollie, 1915-64. Sold for £17,562.50 inc. premium
AGRICOLA (GEORG) De re metallica, Basel, J. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1556AGRICOLA (GEORG) De re metallica, Basel, J. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1556. Sold for £12,562.50 inc. premium
IRELAND – WOLFE TONE, TEELING AND THE RISING OF 1798 Files of documents, kept by George Hewett, Adjutant-General of the British Army in Ireland 1791-99 and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, 1813-16IRELAND – WOLFE TONE, TEELING AND THE RISING OF 1798 Files of documents, kept by George Hewett, Adjutant-General of the British Army in Ireland 1791-99 and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, 1813-16. Sold for £11,312.50 inc. premium
LONDON - MARYLEBONE BARTLETT (J.A.) AND JOHN BRITTON. Topographical Survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone, as Incorporated & Defined by Act of Parliament 1832. Embracing & Marking the Boundaries of the Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras & Paddington, J. Britton, 25 June 1834LONDON - MARYLEBONE BARTLETT (J.A.) AND JOHN BRITTON. Topographical Survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone, as Incorporated & Defined by Act of Parliament 1832. Embracing & Marking the Boundaries of the Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras & Paddington, J. Britton, 25 June 1834. Sold for £4,437.50 inc. premium
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) A pair of silver hat pins [eighteenth century?]BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) A pair of silver hat pins [eighteenth century?]. Sold for £2,295 inc. premium
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and New Caledonia, [1880s]; and a collection of 38 loose mostly late nineteenth century albumen prints of Australia (collection)AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and New Caledonia, [1880s]; and a collection of 38 loose mostly late nineteenth century albumen prints of Australia (collection). Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

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ARCHIMEDES Opera. Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri IIII. Theodosii Sphaerica: methodo novo illustrata... per Is. Barrow, W. Godbid for R. Scott, 1675
AUCTIONEERING - DIGHTON (ROBERT) 'The Specious Orator' [James Christie]; and others, framed (9)
AUCTIONEERING GILLRAY (JAMES) A Cognoscenti contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique; and others (15)
BANKING AND GOVERNMENT – EDWARD BACKWELL Banking ledger kept in person by Edward Backwell, containing well over six hundred original acquittances for payments received, over forty of which are signed by him ("per me Edward Backwell"), kept in one volume and two loose gatherings, Excise Office, London, 18 August 1660 to 16 March 1661:ʻ4800 PAYABLE TO MEE PER ORDER OF THE COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT' – THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED LEDGER OF A BANK ESTABLISHED OVER THREE DECADES BEFORE THE BANK OF ENGLAND, WHICH ACTED AS PAYMASTER TO BOTH THE EXCISE AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, kept in person by Edward Backwell who is widely regarded as the founder of the modern banking system.
BURY (THOMAS TALBOT) Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway, from Drawings Made on the Line with the Sanction of the Company, Part I [all published], Ackermann & Co., 1837
CHIVALRY - ORDER OF THE ELEPHANT BIRCHEROD (JAN) Breviarium equestre, seu de illustrissimo & inclytissimo Equestri Ordine Elephantino, Copenhagen, Ex Reg. Majest. & Universit Typographeo, 1704
CHIVALRY [SAINT-FOIX (GERMAIN-FRANCOIS POULLAIN DE)] Catalogue des chevaliers, commandeurs et officiers de L'Ordre du Saint Espirit, Paris, Christophe-Jean-François Ballard, 1760
CHIVALRY - SPAIN, ORDER OF SANTIAGO Regla y establecimientos delia Orden y Cavalleria del glorioso Apostol Santiago, Patron de las Spanas con la historia del origen y principio deella, Madrid, 1655; and another (2)
CHIVALRY FAVYN (ANDRE) The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood. Or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the whole Christian World, 2 vol. in 1, William Jaggard, 1623
CHIVALRY [ANSTIS (JOHN)] The Register Of the Most Noble Order Of The Garter, From its Cover in Black Velvet, Usually Called The Black Book, 2 vol. expanded to 3, THE AUTHOR'S ANNOTATED AND EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY, Printed by John Barber [for the author], 1724
COOKERY Eighteenth century cookery book, comprising nearly four hundred recipes, kept in a variety of what appear to be mostly mid eighteenth century hands, some with annotations
CORN LAWS, COBDEN AND MANUFACTURING Collection of approximately 35 autograph letters written to Henry Ashworth, cotton manufacturer and founder of the Anti-Corn League, and a few pieces of epherema relating to Lancashire and East Cheshire elections, and a meeting of the Power-loom Weavers of Bolton (collection)
CRICKET WISDEN (JOHN) The Cricketer's Almanack, a collection of 65 volumes, comprising nos. 30-36, 38-49, 53-65, 69-73, 76, 78-91, 95, 103, and 8 others, John Wisden, 1893-1899, 1901-1912, 1916-1928, 1932-1936, 1939, 1941-1956, 1958, 1966 [-1986], sold not subject to return (65)
DORE (GUSTAVE) Metal stereotype plate for 'The Death of Agag' engraving in 'La Grande Bible de Tours', by E. Goebel after Doré, [c.1866 or later]
DUGDALE (WILLIAM) Monasticon Anglicanum. A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, 6 vol. bound in 8, Longman, Hurst, 1817-1830
DUGDALE (WILLIAM) The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, FIRST EDITION, GIFTED BY BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR, 1666; and 3 others, by Vignola, Dubreuil on Perspective and Henry Shaw (4)
IRELAND – WOLFE TONE, TEELING AND THE RISING OF 1798 Files of documents, kept by George Hewett, Adjutant-General of the British Army in Ireland 1791-99 and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, 1813-16; 'I HAVE ATTEMPTED TO ESTABLISH THE INDEPENDENCE OF MY COUNTRY; I HAVE FAILED IN THE ATTEMPT; MY LIFE IS IN CONSEQUENCE FORFEITED & I SUBMIT' – papers of George Hewett, prior to and during the French invasion of 1798 and campaign for Irish independence fought by Adjutant-General Theobald Wolfe Tone, including a printed proclamation headed 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Union and speeches by Bartholomew Teeling and Wolfe Tone.
JEFFERSON (THOMAS) Ship's passport, signed as President ("Th: Jefferson"), counter-signed by the Secretary of State James Madison ("James Madison"), for Nicholas Moran of New York, master or commander of the schooner Emeline, New York, 8 September 1804
JENKINS (JOHN) The Naval Achievements of Great Britain, from the Year 1793 to 1817, J. Jenkins, by L. Harrison, [1817]
LAKE DISTRICT [TOWNLEY (CHARLES)] Six Views in Lithography, Published by Subscription, Lancaster, [c.1825]; and another, both oblong folio (2)
LAKE DISTRICT FIELDING (THEODORE HENRY) AND J. WALTON. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, FIRST EDITION, R. Ackermann, 1821
LYSONS (SAMUEL) An Account of Roman Antiquities Discovered at Woodchester in the County of Gloucester, FIRST EDITION, Cadell & Davies, and others, 1797
PHOTOGRAPHY - CARTES-DE-VISITE Three good albums of photographic cartes-de-visite, [1860s-1870s]
PHOTOGRAPHY FENTON (ROGER) 'Steamer waiting for Sir C. Napier', salted paper photograph, captioned and signed by Fenton on the mount, image 142 x 200mm., [c.1845] (11)
RAILWAY PEEPSHOW The First Rail-Road in Germany Between Nuremberg and Furth [title in French, German and English], [Nuremberg, G.N. Renner & Abel, 1835]
RUSSIA - WHITE ARMY IN EXILE An Ottoman Turkish register of assets, embellished with Russian army cartoons on the blank versos, [c.1920, the register c.1900]
SMEATON (JOHN) A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, FIRST EDITION, for the Author, by H. Hughes, 1791
STEPHENSON (ROBERT) Letter signed ("Rob: Stephenson"), to Henry Kingsford of the Canterbury & Whitstable Railway, Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 June 1830; 'COMPLETION OF THE ENGINE AT CLAWS WOOD' -- ROBERT STEPHENSON ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S FIRST RAILWAY LINES.
VITRUVIUS POLLIO (MARCUS) The Architecture... Translated from the Original Latin by W[illiam] Newton, 2 vol. in 1, I. and J. Taylor, 1791
AMERICA - EAST COAST [RAMUSIO (GIOVANNI BATTISTA)] La Nuova Francia, [Venice, 1606]
AMERICA - UNITED STATES COLTON (JOSEPH H.) Map of the United States of America, the British Provinces, the British Provinces, Mexico and the West Indies. Showing the Country from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, J.H. Colton, 1853 [1854]
AMERICAS BELLERE (JEAN) Brevis exactaq totius novi orbis eiusq insularum descriptio recens edita, [Antwerp, 1566, 1567 or 1583]
BLAEU (JOAN) Novus atlas, Das ist, Weld-beschreibung... Funfter Theil [Theatrum, vol. 5, Scotland], ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S COPY, Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1654
BORDONE (BENEDETTO) Isolario... Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo... ricoreto, & di nuovo ristampato. Con la gionta del Monte del Oro nuovamente ritrovato, Venice, Federico Torresano, 1547
BOWEN (EMANUEL) A New General Map of America, Stanford, 1875; and others, miscellaneous maps (19)
BOWLES (CARINGTON) AND OTHERS Composite Atlas, [Carington Bowles (and others), maps dated between and 1771]
CELESTIAL CHARTS HOMANN (JOHANN BAPTIST) AND JOHANN GABRIEL DOPPELMAYR. Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe; Hemisphaerium coeli Boreale, each approximately 500 x 590mm.; and a duplicate of the Homann/Doppelmayr "Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale" (8)
CHINA - BEIJING DORN (FRANK) A Map and History of Peiping. With Explanatory Booklet, FIRST EDITION, Tientsin-Peiping, Peiyang Press, 1936
CHINA VILLARD (R.A. DE) Map of the Yangtse-Kiang, in Thirteen Sheets. From its Mouth to Chungkiang, and General Chart from Mouth to Source, with Plans of Shanghai, Chinkiang, Nanking, Wuhu, Kiukiang, Hankow, Ichang, and Chungking, Lights, Etc., Shanghai, [no publisher], 1895
ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND SPEED (JOHN) Barkshire Described, [c.1610], unless otherwise mentioned engraved maps, most hand-coloured; and 22 other engraved maps (34)
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND The Invasions of England and Ireland, with al their Ciuill Wars Since the Conquest; and other maps (10)
LONDON - MARYLEBONE BARTLETT (J.A.) AND JOHN BRITTON. Topographical Survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone, as Incorporated & Defined by Act of Parliament 1832. Embracing & Marking the Boundaries of the Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras & Paddington, J. Britton, 25 June 1834
LONDON CARY (JOHN) Cary's Survey of the High Roads from London to Hampton Court. Ware... Hertford, Richmond. On a Scale of One Inch per Mile; and other maps of London and its environs, including maps by Whittle & Laurie, Edward Stanford, James Wyld, George Cruchley, and Edward Mogg (18)
LONDON ROCQUE (JOHN) A Map of London and the adjacent Country 10 Miles Round as Survey'd and Publish'd in 16 Sheets by John Rocque Land Surveyor, reduc'd into one Sheet, Published according to the Act of Parliament, 1748
LONDON WELLER (EDWARD) London, J. Cary, 1808; and 7 others, London (12)
ROBERT DE VAUGONDY ([GILLES AND DIDIER]) AND C.F. DELAMARCHE Atlas universel, Paris, C.F. Delamarche, [c.1797]
ROYAL ILLUSTRATED ATLAS The Royal Illustrated Atlas of Modern Geography... Introductory Notice by Dr. N. Shaw, Edinburgh, A. Fullarton, [c.1862]; and 2 other atlases, late nineteenth century, by A.K. Johnston, and J.G. Bartholomew (3)
SURREY BRYANT (ANDREW) Map of the County of Surrey from Actual Survey... in the Years 1822 and 1823, A. Bryant, 1 June 1823
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