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Ballooning.- Anonymous (probably late 18th century) Original drawing of a "lost" print, showing an [imagined] flight in Barcelona 1678 with a pilo...

Ballooning.- Joly de Saint-Valier (Lt.-Col.) Lettre...a Madame la Princess de⁂, a Petersbourg, sur les Balons appellés Globes Aëro-statiques, 56pp...

Ballooning.- 3 scrapbooks of pamphlets, periodicals, extracts and newspaper cuttings relating to ballooning compiled by Hatton Turnor, presumably ...

Ballooning.- London.- Murray (John, publisher) The Ascent of Mr Sadler and Captn. Paget from Hackney, 12th Augst. 1811, etching with pale wash, on...

Ballooning.- Remarks on the Ellipsoidal Balloon, propelled by the Archimedean Screw, described as the New Aerial Machine, now exhibiting at the Ro...

Ballooning.- Hampton (John) Disclosures relating to the loss of Mr.Hampton's Albion Balloon, together with the particulars of a New & Splendid Bal...

Ballooning.- Turnor (Hatton) Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere, first edition, the author's son Christopher H.Turnor's co...

Aeronautics.- [Pocock (George)] A Treatise on the Aeropleustic Art, or Navigation in the Air, by means of Kites, or Buoyant Sails; with a descript...

Binding.- Butterfly (The), New Series Nos.1-12 [complete set], 2 vol. in 1, plates, illustrations and decorations, bound in russet calf in Art Nou...

Cruikshank (George) The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams..., 4 vol., first edition, re...

Cruikshank (George) The Comic Almanack for 1835 [-1853], 19 vol. [ a complete set ] in 9, first editions, 195 etched plates by George Cruikshank, ...

Cruikshank (Robert).- [?Taylor (John)] Monsieur Nongtongpaw, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and 5 plates by Robert Cruikshank, with pl...

NO RESERVE Mayhew (Ralph) & Burges Johnson. The Bubble Book, Nos.1-12 (of 14), each with 3 gramophone records loose in pictorial sleeves, one or t...

Miniature Book.- Tuer (Andrew W., editor) Quads for Authors, Editors, & Devils, illustrations, original vellum with long silk ties (all but one in...

NO RESERVE Tuer (Andrew W.) The Follies & Fashions of Grandfathers (1807), first edition, plates, some hand-coloured, some folding, later blue cal...

NO RESERVE Erotica.- Burns (Robert) The Merry Muses, a few spots, later half red morocco, by Root & Son, spine gilt with floral motifs, t.e.g., ot...

[Disraeli (Benjamin)] The Young Duke, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles in vol.2 & 3 (not called for in vol.1), with 2 leaves of Notes at end of ...

NO RESERVE Kingsley (Charles) The Saint's Tragedy, [the author's first book], first edition, half-title, ink signature to head of title, bookplate...

Games.- Hoyle (Edmund) A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist, fourth edition, with preliminary leaf 'To the Reader' signed by Hoyle (trimmed at he...

NO RESERVE Hair.- Truefitt (H.P.) New Views on Baldness; being a Treatise on the Hair and Skin, first edition, illustrations, light spotting to ti...

NO RESERVE Nicholls (George J.) Bacon and Hams, first edition, chromolithographed frontispiece of a pig with 14 ever-diminishing fold-out flaps sh...

Bawden (Edward).- Yorke (Malcolm) The Inward Laugh: Edward Bawden and his circle, one of 675 copies, original cloth backed patterned-paper boards,...

NO RESERVE Gerlach (Martin, editor) Allegorien und Embleme/Allegories and Emblems, 2 vol., mixed set (vol.1 'Allegorien' in German, vol.2 'Emblems...

NO RESERVE Nicholson (William).- Henley (W. E.) London Types, 12 colour plates by William Nicholson, original cloth-backed boards with the Bus Dri...

NO RESERVE Nicholson (William).- Kipling (Rudyard) An Almanac of Twelve Sports, 12 colour plates by Nicholson, pictorial advertisement for 'An Alp...

Barrie (J.M.) Peter and Wendy, first American edition, first printing with "Published October, 1911" and publisher's seal to title verso, frontisp...

Devastation of War.- Harrison (Percival Neale) Tyrtaeus and other stories..., 91pp., typescript, manuscript title in black ink with vignette of da...

Nesbit (E.) The Railway Children, first edition, frontispiece, pictorial title and 18 plates by Brock, 10pp. advertisements, lacking front free en...

Nielsen (Kay).- [Asbjornsen (Peter Christen) and Jørgen Moe]. East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, early reprint, illus...

Pogany (Willy).- Rolleston (T. W.) The Tale of Lohengrin, first trade edition, colour tipped in plates, decorations and profuse illustrations by W...

NO RESERVE Legrand (Edy) Voyages & Glorieuses Découvertes des Grands Navigateurs & Explorateurs Français, first edition, numerous pochoir illustra...

NO RESERVE Leighton (Clare) The Musical Box, colour illustrations, original glazed pictorial boards, a little soiled and browned, spine worn, Goll...

Lind[say] (Ruby) The Drawings of Ruby Lind. (Mrs. Will. Dyson), first edition, tipped-in portrait, illustrated title, plates, some colour, some on...

Nicholson (William) The Book of Blokes, first edition, signed presentation inscription from Nicholson to front pastedown, 29 colour crayon illustr...

Scott (Peter).- Shackleton (Keith) Tidelines, with a Foreword by Peter Scott, signed presentation inscription from the author and Scott (with a dr...

Shell Guides.- Betjeman (John, editor) Cornwall Illustrated in a Series of Views, second edition, 1935 § Byron (Robert, editor) Shell Guide to Wil...

Steadman (Ralph) First Folio, number 10 of 10 portofolios, 10 broadsheet poems printed on a variety of papers, each poem limited to 50 copies and ...

Steadman (Ralph).- Stone (Bernard) Emergency Mouse. A Story, first edition, signed by the author and illustrator on title, light toning to spine, ...

NO RESERVE Typography & Design.- Harling (Robert, editor) Alphabet and Image, vol.1-8 [&] Image, vol.1-8, [complete sets of each run], original pr...

Bird & Bull Press.- Heaney (Howell J.) & Henry Morris. Thirty Years of Bird & Bull: A Bibliography 1958-1988, number 108 of 300 copies with additi...

Fanfrolico Press.- Nietzsche (Friedrich) The Antichrist...A New Version in English by P.R.Stephensen, number 72 of 550 copies, printed in blue and...

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Romaunt of the Rose, number 248 of 500 copies on hand-made paper, double column, tipped-in colour plates by Keith Henderson...

Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Canterbury Tales, 2 vol. including introductory essay by Peter Holliday, facsimile of the Golden Cockerel edi...

Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey) Troilus & Criseyde, 2 vol. including introductory essays by Barry Windeatt and Roderick Cave, facsimile of the Go...

NO RESERVE Golden Cockerel Press.- Gray (Thomas) Elegy written in a Country Church-yard, number 107 of 750 copies, full-page wood-engraved illustr...

Gregynog Press.- Milton (John) Four Poems: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Lycidas, number 84 of 250 copies on Japanese vellum, wood-engraved ti...

Guthrie (James, printer) Te Deum Laudamus and Nunc Dimittis, Black Letter Series No.1, number 76 of 150 copies, printed in black, gold & silver, i...

NO RESERVE Incline Press.- Deadman (Derek) & Rigby Graham. A Paper Snowstorm: Toni Savage and the Leicester Broadsheets, number 60 of 200 copies s...

Pear Tree Press.- Guthrie (James) A Little Book of Book-Plates, number 47 of 100 copies, colour illustrations by Guthrie, original marbled wrapper...

Pear Tree Press.- Poe (Edgar Allen) Some Poems of Edgar Allen Poe, first edition, limited edition of 150 copies, proof copy, part I only, introduc...

Shakespeare Head Press.- Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Epipsychidion, one of 500 copies, printed in red and black, original limp vellum, some bowing, 8vo...

Steam Press.- Steadman (Ralph) First Folio, number 3 of 10 portfolios, 10 broadsheet poems printed on a variety of papers, each poem limited to 50...

Tanner (Robin).- Gray (Thomas) Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, number 35 of 100 copies signed by the artist and with an original initialled...

Tern Press.- Jefferies (Richard) A Rook Book: An Anthology of Writings, number 7 of 15 copies with original drawings, from an edition limited to 1...

NO RESERVE Bibliography.- Smith (Walter E.) Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, 2 vol., illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, very light...

Printing & Typography.- British Printer (The), vol.4 (comprising 6 issues bound in 1 vol.), frontispiece, decorative title printed in colours and ...

Papermaking.- Hughes (Sukey) Washi: The World of Japanese Paper, number 549 of 1000 copies, tipped-in samples, illustrations, original cloth-backe...

Bible, French. La Bible, qui est Toute la Saincte Escriture: contenant le Vieil & le Nouveau Testament. title and text ruled in red throughout, fr...

NO RESERVE Saint-Glas (Pierre de) Contes nouveaux en vers, initial and final blanks, title with small woodcut ornament, woodcut head- and tail-pie...

Villefore (Joseph-Francois B.) Les Vies des SS. Peres des Deserts d'Orient, 5 vol., woodcut device to titles, engraved frontispiece, engraved full...

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