Much beloved of crime writers of the Golden Age - BAEDEKER'S HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS to include Northern Italy (1882), Southern Italy (1883), Eastern Alps (1911), Belgium and Holland (1894), Norway and Sweden (1879), Northern France (1889), Austria Hungary (1911), Switzerland, Handbook of Dalmatia published by A Hartleben 1913. All well-used in generally poor condition, four with spines missing

A small collection of vintage children's books to include a first edition hardback copy of I Had Two Ponies by Josephine Pullein-Thompson, published by Collins in 1947 with damaged dust jacket, tanned pages, Jane Leaves the Wells by Lorna Hill, hardback with plastic protected dust jacket published 1953, reprinted 1955, plus many 1960s paperbacks including CS Lewis, Enid Blyton, Susan Cooper etc

BUNYAN'S CHOICE WORKS The Pilgrim's Progress, The Holy War, The Barren Fig-Tree, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and Heart's Ease in Heart Trouble with Numerous Illustrations. Published by Cassell Petter Galpin & Co, undated. Fully bound in leather with clasp fastenings, front cover is detached, pages are tanned with some foxing but remains an impressive tome

Two leatherbound volumes printed in 1713 of Opera et fragmenta veterum poetarum Latinorum profanorum & ecclesiasticorum duobus voluminibus comprehensa (The works and fragments of the early Latin poets, secular and ecclesiastical, comprised in two volumes) by MICHEL METTAIRE. These 2 volumes are showing signs of their age with scuff marks to the leather of the covers, yellowing of the pages and some very slight water damage to one volume. Spines remain intact with all pages. Published by J. Nicholson, B. Tooke & J. Tonson, London

PLUTARCH'S LIVES, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, With Notes, Critical and Historical, And a New Life of Plutarch, in Eight Volumes by John Langhorne and William Langhorne. Volumes I, II, V, VI,VII, VIII. Printed for B Crosby and Co 1808. Each book is leather bound, two with front cover detached (still with book). Otherwise condition as to be expected with 200 year old books.

Nine volumes of Friedrich von Schiller's Sämmtliche Werke in zwolf Bänden, (All Friedrich von Schiller's Works in Twelve Volumes), printed in Stuttgart 1867. Volumes I and IX missing. Some damage to spines, all pages intact

A little slice of history - published when Napoleon had only been emperor for a year and the United States had been independent for a mere 29 years, "Memoire sur les relations commerciales des Etats-Unis avec l'Angleterre / par le Citoyen TALLEYRAND lu a l'Institut national, le 15 germinal, an 5 ; suivi d'un essai sur les avantages a retirer de colonies nouvelles dans les circonstances presentes / par le meme auteur, lu a l'Institut, le 15 messidor, an 5" (Memoir on the commercial relations of the United States with England by the Citizen Talleyrand Read at the National Institute, the 15th Germinal, in the year V. To Which is Added an Essay Upon the Advantages to Be Derived from New Colonies in the Existing Circumstances) published in London by W Spilsbury in 1805. Some foxing to endpages, damage to spine, a note that Jane Austen was still alive on the frontispiece, all pages intact. A fascinating work

Antique leather bound books in Latin to include Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis published by BELL& BRADFUTE, Edinburgh 1812, two copies of Decerpta ex P Ovidii Naonis Metamorphoseon Libris by Ovid from the studio of Joannis Dymock, published in Glasgow in 1816 (front covers detached with possible smoke damage to one copy), M. VELLEII Paterculi Historiae Romanae Quae Supersunt published in London by Jacobi Tonson and Johannis Watts 1713 (Detached front) C. Suetonii Tranquilli XII Caesares es Optima Atque Accuratissima Francisci Oudendorpii editione published in Edinburgh by A Donaldson and J Reid in 1761, and also P Terentii Comoedie ad Fidem Optimorum Codicum printed in Edinburgh by Johannis Bell in 1775 (condition poor - front cover missing and early pages separated from spine)

POEMS OF PASSION AND PLEASURE by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and illustrated by Dudley Tennant, published by Gay & Hancock in 1912 and reprinted in 1914. Coloured plates with tissue guards and captions. Some yellowing to the edges, cream cloth cover with gilt writing in tanned condition

Volumes 1 -25 of the 1891 centenary edition of THE WAVERLEY NOVELS by Sir Walter Scott, plus 2 volumes of The Poetical Works, 2 volumes of Tales of a Grandfather. The books are all hardback with leather spines with gilt decoration and marbled covers. Most show some signs of foxing and all have been covered (without adhesive) in jute or velveteen which has protected the covers through the decades