Antiquarian & Collectable Books, Maps, Prints & Affordable Art

PANORAMA. Vates Secundus - Great Exhibition ‘WOT IS TO BE’, or Probable Results of the Industry of all Nations in the Year ’51, Showing what is Ex...

PANORAMA. Painted by PC (Percy Cruickshank) from the Sketches of Messrs Smith, Brown, Jones & Robinson, pub F Platta, 185 Fleet Street, n.d. circa...

PANORAMA. CMW (Catherine Mary Webber) - Geology Familiarly Illustrated, no publishers details or date, some editions being published by J B Goodin...

Maria Hack - Harry Beafoy, or The Pupil of Nature. Printed for Harvey & Darton 1830. Peter Parley’s Tales, about Boy Banditti, fables for Boys and...

R Turner - An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences:, printed London 1807, TWELFTH EDITION. John White - An Abstract of General Geography, Co...

Joseph Hinchcliffe - The Juvenile Speaker or Selections for Reading or Recitation, with introductory Remarks on Elocution, Part One, Second Editio...

Mrs Alfred Gatty - Parables from Nature, pub Bell Daldy, 1860 4th edition. Divine Breathing, or A Pious Soul thirsting After Christ in 100 meditat...

Lily Schofield - Billy Ruddylox an Ancient British Boy, pub Swan Sonnenschein, coloured plates. A F E Lepee (translated by Marie Elliott) - L’opin...

Madame De Genlis - Les Petits Émigrés ou Correspondance de Quelques Enfants;, FIFTH EDITION, 2 vols, printed Paris Chez Maradan Librairie, 1812, b...

Thomas Kentish - A Treatise on a Box of Instruments and the Slide Rule, for the Use of Excisemen, Engineers, Seamen and Schools, SECOND EDITION, p...

Mrs Sherwood - The History of Little George and His Penny, 17th Ed, pub Houlston & Son, bound together with various other similar related CHAPBOOK...

Lore Segal/ Maurice Sendak - The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, 2 vols, in publishers slipcase, pub Bodley Head, 1974 1st British Editio...

Eric Carle - The Honey Bee and the Robber, (A Moving/Picture Book), pub Julia Macrae Books (JM), 1981, 1st Great British Edition. Together with ot...

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty, pub J M Dent & Sons, 1915 1st edition thus, illustrated by LUCY KEMP-WELCH, bound in original blue cloth with gilt sta...

A quantity of VINTAGE ANNUALS to include a large run of over 45 Blue Peter Annuals, no 6-24, with some duplicates. Together with some similar era ...

MUSIC/SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI - EVELYN BARBIROLLI, Life with Glorious John, a portrait of Sir John Barbirolli, 1st edition published by Robson Books 2...

MUSIC - Sir Charles Halle's Concerts in Manchester, programmes of concerts from June 30th 1858 to March 7th 1895, compiled and edited by Thomas Ba...

APPROXIMATELY 36 PROGRAMMES FOR RICHARD STRAUSS OPERAS – 1990s & 2000s, many in German, for opera companies including Dresden Semperoper, Bayerish...

TELIOS GALATOPOULOS, MARIA CALLAS, 'SACRED MONSTER', published in GB 1998, d/w; and four related biographical works (5)

'THE OXFORD HISTORY OF MUSIC', 'Up to 1300' to '1890-1960', 6 volumes (1830-1890 missing); and SEVEN OTHER 'HISTORY OF MUSIC' (contents of one box)

BENJAMIN BRITTEN 'LETTERS', 'DIARIES' and biographical works, includes Paul Kildea (Editor), 'Britten on Music' (contents of one box)

'GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL OF OPERA' PROGRAMMES, 20th Century, approximately 36 volumes (contents of one box)

BORIS FORD 'THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN GREAT BRITAIN' complete in nine volumes, 1st ed. pub 1988, d/w

OPERA - 'THE NEW KOBBE'S OPERA BOOK' edited by The Earl of Harewood and Anthony Peattie, 11th Edition 1997, general opera reference books; 'OPERA ...

OPERA - RICHARD WAGNER, biographical works and general reference, contents of two boxes

WAGNER - ERNEST NEWMAN 'THE LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER' in four volumes covering 1813-1883, second printing, 1960, d/w; SAME AUTHOR 'WAGNER NIGHTS'; '...

CHURCHILL - ROY JENKINS 'CHURCHILL', 1st ed., pub. Macmillan 2001, d/w, edited by Mary Soames; 'SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES', letters of Winston and C...

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - ROY DOUGLAS 'WORKING WITH R.V.W.' paper back, pub Oxford University Press, re-print 1977, signed by the author; MICHAEL K...

RICHARD STRAUSS - MICHAEL KENNEDY 'MASTER MUSICIAN' pub Oxford University Press 1995, d/f; and related biographical works (some in foreign languag...

RICHARD STRAUSS, Willi Schuh - Richard Strauss Chronicle of the Early Years 1864 - 1898; Franz Trenner - Richard Strauss Werkverzeichnis and Die S...

MOZART - EMILY ANDERSON 'THE LETTERS, MOZART AND FAMILY' 2nd ed., two volumes, in slip case, d/w; H.C. ROBBINS, LONDON, 'THE MOZART COMPENDIUM, A ...

ELGAR - JOHN ALLISON, 'A STUDY OF EDWARD ELGAR'S SACRED MUSIC WITH REFERENCE TO HIS LIFE AND WORKS' one volume (a thesis submitted to the Universi...

BENJAMIN BRITTEN, GUSTAVE HOLST; GUSTAN MAHLER; JOHN IRELAND BETH BRITTEN, 'MY BROTHER BENJAMIN' 1st ed., pub. 1986, d/w; HENRY LEWIS DE LA GRANGE...

VERDI AND OPERA AND OPERATIC SINGERS - Frank Walker, 'Verdi the Man', 1st ed. 1962, pub. by Dent, d/w; and related biographical works; CORNELIUS S...

THEATRE AND FRANZ LISZT published by Constable & Co, London (a series) 'OUR THEATRE IN THE NINETIES - BERNARD SHAW' complete in 3 volumes, 1954 re...

TCHAIKOVSKY AND STRAVINSKY - ANTHONY HOLDEN 'TCHAIKOVSKY', 1st ed., pub. by Bantam Press 1995, d/w; and PAUL GRIFFITHS 'STRAVINSKY - THE MASTER MU...

MUSICAL APPRECIATION - 'SAMUEL LANGFORD - MUSICAL CRITICISMS', two copies, both 1st ed., pub. 1929 by Oxford University Press, cloth, both with de...

SCHUBERT; SCHOENBERG; JANACEK John Reed 'The Schubert Song Companion'; Erwin Stein 'Arnold Schoenberg Letters'; J Vogel 'Leos Janacek' a biography

QUANTITY OF DICTIONARIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS including 2 volume compact edition DED 1979 'Oxford Dictionary of Quotations' in slip case and with m...

QUANTITY OF ART HISTORY BOOKS AND CATALOGUES including Uffizi - 'Vasari Corridor', Giuseppe de Logu, Mario Abis - 'The Golden Centuries of Venetia...

QUANTITY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC BIOGRAPHIES including Solti on Solti, Cecil Sharp by Maud Karpeles; Clifton Helliwell, Music in the Air; together with...

QUANTITY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC BIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS including Ian MacDonald - The New Shostakovich; Michael Foster - The Idea Was Good, (B...

QUANTITY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC BIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS, including Diana Menuhin - A Glimpse of Olympus; Jeremy Siepmann - Chopin, The Relucta...

HAROLD RILEY, SOFT BACK COPY OF ‘STREET DOGS’, with artist signed illustration and dedication, ‘Dog diving for Michael, Harold 1986’

IN EXCESS OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY CLASSICAL CDs, PUBLISHED BY EMI, NAXOS, BIS AND OTHERS, OF RICHARD STRAUSS, SHOSTAKOVICH, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, PUC...

Sir Harry Johnston - Pioneers in Canada, pub Blackie and Son, 1912, illustrated with 8 coloured illustrations by E Wall Cousins, part of the PIONE...

Thomas Bell - A History of British Reptiles, pub London, John Van Voorst, 1839, 1st edition, illustrated by more than forty woodcuts. Bound in ori...

William Falconer (F.R.S. and Physician to the Bath Hospital) - A Practical Dissertation on the Medicinal Effects of the Bath Water, printed BATH b...

Edward Stanley - A Treatise on Diseases of the Bones, First Edition, pub LONDON: Longman, Brown, Green, 1849. Bound in full leather binding, five ...

Thomas Dawson - Cases in Acute Rheumatism and the Gout; with Cursory Remarks, and the Method of Treatment, printed London, for J Johnson, 1781, bo...

The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley, with preface by H C Marillier, pub Bodley Head, 1911 rpt, The Later Work of Aubrey Beardsley, pub Bodley Head,...

SCIENCE FICTION SCI-FI. A E VAN VOGT- Slan, pub Arkham House, 1946, dj priced $2.50, ex libris book plate pasted to the ffep, A BERTRAM CHANDLER. ...

WILLEM JANSZOON BLAEU ANTIQUE HAND COLOURED MAP OF GALIZIA (NORTH WEST SPAIN), with printed text verso, sheet size 18 ½” x 23” (47cm x 58.4cm), un...

GRENWOOD & Co, NINETEENTH CENTURY HAND COLOURED MAP OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER, with engraved view of ‘Lancaster Castle & Church’ beneath...

SET OF THREE (OF FOUR) MODERN REPRODUCTION SECTIONS OF AN ANTIQUE MAP OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASHIRE, each 25” x 25” (63.5cm x 63.5cm), all framed an...

ANTIQUE HAND COLOURED MAP OF CHESHIRE BY CHRISTOPHER SAXTON, 10” x 11 ¾” (25.4cm x 29.9cm)

WILLIAM JANSZOON BLAEU (1571-1638) or SUCCESSORS COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVED HAND COLOURED MAP of CARNOVONSHIRE (CAERNARVONSHIRE) and ANGLESEY with LATI...

ALISON BRITTON-PATERSON (1974) MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS ‘Burnt Undulation III’ Signed and titled to gallery label verso 19 ¾” x 39 ¼” (50.1cm x 99....

ANTONIO VILLALBA (1968) OIL ON CANVAS ‘Lillies on the Pond II’ Signed, titled to gallery label verso 19 ½” x 51” (49.5cm x 129.5cm) C/R- image ...

DAN PEARCE (1973) MIXED DIGITAL MEDIA ON BOARD WITH APPLIED PIECE IN RELIEF ‘Wings of Love’ Signed with applied circular plaque, titled to galle...