Books, Maps & Manuscripts

Date: 15th Apr, 2026 10:30 GMT/BST
Lots: 136

To include a historically significant archive of letters relating to the family life of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), the West Yorkshire-born chemist, natural philosopher, theologian and political thinker whose work helped shape modern science. Amongst other highlights are a good first edition of An Account of the first Aerial Voyage in England... by pioneering balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi, an extensive collection of Underwood & Underwood stereoscopic cards dating from circa 1898 to 1918 comprising hundreds of cards of countries such as Palestine, Australia, Congo, Russia, and Norway alongside images of the Second Boer War and the First World War. The sale will also include a good, small section of polar exploration books, and a nice first edition copy of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, published in 1896.

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Name: Ruari Williams
Email: [email protected]

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Books, Maps and Manuscripts (135)

 

Lot 1
Aeronautics. Lunardi (Vincenzo). An Account of...

Sold for £750
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Assorted. Baddeley (St. Clair) & Gordon (Lina...

Sold for £80
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Assorted. Scott (Sir Walter). Ivanhoe; A...

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Bindings. Hill (George Birkbeck, editor)....

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Criminal Broadsides. Sentences of the...

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Lot 6
Fashion. Phillips (Richard, publisher). The...

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Leather Bindings. Sixty-four leather-bound...

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Miniature/Small Format. A collection of...

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Thatcher (Margaret). The Collected Speeches of...

Sold for £1,500
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Lot 10
[Gillray (James)]. [The Works of James Gillray...

Sold for £280
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Hockney (David). On Photography, A Lecture at...

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Synge (Edward Millington, 1860-1913). Ten...

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Barrie (J.M.). My Lady Nicotine. Boston:...

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Dickens (Charles) & Rackham (Arthur,...

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Nielsen (Kay, illustrator). East of the Sun...

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Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jeremy Fisher....

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Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny....

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Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit....

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Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Ibsen (Henrik)....

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Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Romance of...

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Shakespeare (William). [Works] - The...

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Tolkien (J. R. R.). Poems and Stories. London:...

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Tolkien (J. R. R.). Tree and Leaf. London:...

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Bindings. Pontificale Romanum Summorum...

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Lot 26
Einstein (Albert). Relativity: The Special &...

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Theology. [Keuchenius (Petrus)], Petri...

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World War II. United States Army in World War...

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Assorted. [Defoe (Daniel)]. A Tour Thro' the...

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Doré (Gustave) & Jerrold (Blanchard). London....

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Leigh (Charles). The Natural History of...

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Liverpool. Nicholson (S. & G.). Twenty-Six...

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Newcastle upon Tyne. The Newcastle Courant....

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Yorkshire. Allen (Thomas). A New and Complete...

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Maps/Atlases. Rocque (John). An Exact Survey...

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Paris. Picquet (Charles). Plan Routier de la...

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Scandinavia. Keulen (Gerard Van). Nieuwe...

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Sicily. De Wit (Frederick). Insula Sive Regnum...

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Speed (John). Oxfordshire described with ye...

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Yorkshire. Blaeu (Johannes). Ducatus...

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[Fisher (Alexander)]. Journal of a Voyage of...

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Captain Scott. Richards (R.W.). The Ross Sea...

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Cook (James) & King (James). A Voyage to the...

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Polar. De L'Isle (Guillaume). Hemisphere...

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Franklin (John). Journey to the Shores of the...

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Lot 48
Hooper (Lieut. W. H.). Ten Months Among the...

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Lot 50
M'Cormick (Robert). Voyages of Discovery in...

Sold for £450
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Lot 51
Nansen (Fridtjof). Farthest North, Being the...

Sold for £120
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Lot 52
Nares (Capt. Sir George S.). Journals and...

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Lot 53
Norgay (Tenzing). After Everest: An...

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Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Third...

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Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage...

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Parry (William Edward). Journals of the First,...

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Polar Exploration. Beechey (Captain F.W.). A...

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Polar Exploration. Cook (Frederick A.)....

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Polar Exploration. Rankin (Niall). Antarctic...

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Polar. Amundsen (Roald). The North West...

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Lot 61
Polar. Letters Written During the Late Voyage...

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Polar. M'Dougall (George F.). The Eventful...

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Lot 63
Priestley (Raymond E.). Antarctic Adventure:...

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Richardson (Sir John). Arctic Searching...

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Lot 65
Scoresby (William, Junior). Journal of a...

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Lot 67
Shackleton (E.H.). The Heart of the Antarctic,...

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Lot 68
Shackleton (Ernest H.). South: The Story of...

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Lot 69
Shackleton (Ernest H.). South: The Story of...

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Lot 70
Whymper (Edward). Scrambles Amongst the Alps...

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Lot 71
Angling. Ronalds (Alfred). The Fly-Fisher's...

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Lot 72
Baigent (W[illiam]). A Book on Hackles for Fly...

Sold for £300
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Lot 73
Cricket. Warner (P.F., editor). Imperial...

Sold for £100
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Lot 74
Edmonds (Harfield H.) & Lee (Norman N.). Brook...

Sold for £1,700
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Lot 75
Elder (Frank). The Book of the Hackle....

Sold for £200
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Lot 76
Halford (Frederic M.). Floating Flies and How...

Sold for £60
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Lot 77
Miller (Philip). The Gardeners Dictionary:...

Sold for £280
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Lot 78
Natural History. Step (Edward) & Watson...

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Lot 79
Pritt (T.E.). North-Country Flies. London:...

Sold for £90
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Lot 80
[Swift (Jonathan).] Good Queen Anne vindicated,...

Sold for £350
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Lot 81
Ariel Poems. Chesterton (G.K.). Gloria in...

Sold for £140
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Lot 82
Barstow (Stan). A Kind of Loving. London:...

Sold for £100
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Lot 83
Brontë (Charlotte, Emily and Anne). [Works]....

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Lot 84
Contemporary Vellum. Grotii (Hugonis), [Hugo...

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Lot 85
Counterculture. Burroughs (William). Cities of...

Sold for £250
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Lot 86
Dickens (Charles). "The Life of Our Lord"...

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Lot 87
Dickens (Charles). [Works] - 'Nonesuch Dickens'...

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Lot 88
Dickens (Charles). [Works]. London: Chapman...

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Lot 89
Dickens (Charles). Dombey and Son. London:...

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Lot 90
Dust Jackets - John Minton. Camberton (Roland)....

Sold for £320
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Lot 91
Ellis (Henry). Original Letters Illustrative...

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Lot 92
Folio Society. Trollope (Anthony). [Works]....

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Lot 93
Fraser (George MacDonald). A complete set of...

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Lot 94
Heaney (Seamus) & Hughes (Ted, editors). The...

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Lot 95
Hughes (Ted) & Lloyd (R.J., illustrator). What...

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Lot 96
Literature. Kipling (Rudyard). Kim. London:...

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Lot 97
Machiavelli (Niccolò). The Works of the Famous...

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