Unique/Rare Old Photographs, Albums and Books Sold

Unique or rare photographs, albums, books and other historical documents from the 1800s and early 1900s

Unique or rare photographs, albums, books and other historical documents

This website offers for sale items of historical significance which are either unique - the only one in existence - or appear for sale so rarely that you could search for years before coming across another.

This page contains a small selection of items previously listed by us but now sold - click on any item for further information. Return to our main home page to see a changing selection of items still available.


1910: A photographic record of coaching in Surrey and Sussex Sold	1913: An early account of a war photographer in action in the Balkans Sold	1936: Bristol household manufacturing and trade in the 1930s Sold
1938: Privately published - Royal Navy destroyer on the China Station Sold	1903: An early homeopathic cure for hay fever, published in America Sold	1940: German atlas of 117 English city and town plans for Operation Sealion Sold
1880: 40 engravings of old Edinburgh Sold	1903: Ransomes agricultural steam and oil-fired engines Sold	1926: Privately printed work on road construction in Britain Sold
1912-13: Original and unique British army airships flight reports Sold	1888: Glasgow Victorian cast iron pipe founding practice at Lochburn Iron Works Sold	1925: 175 unpublished private photographs of army life in Iraq, 1925-1926 Sold
1912-13: Unique photograph album of Manchester factory life in the early 1900s Sold	1913: Yorkshire industry and heavy engineering prior to the First World War Sold	1928: Photograph album of the L.M. & S. Railway at Manchester Sold