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Preisdatenbank abonnierenA 19th century English pottery loving cup, moulded in relief with a Punch and Judy show, to verso with Tobias sitting for a portrait, acanthus scroll handles, 10.5cm high, c.1860 Condition Report: generally ok, crazed throughout, some staining, wear to colour in places, please refer to additional images for details
A mid-Victorian cast iron memorial portrait plaque, of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Moulded by Johnsons's Litchurch Works, Derby, head-and-shoulders length and turned to dexter in profile, circular frame surmounted by a ducal coronet, 27.5cm diam, foundry marks and dated 13th November 1854 to verso
American Whaling History - a 19th century oak portrait bust, of Owen Chase (1797 - 1869), a New England whaler and former First Mate of the fateful Essex, incised to verso Owen Chase, Nantucket, Captain of the Winslow, turned base, probably salvaged maritime timber, 39cm high, c.1860Chase is probably most famous for his ghost written Final Voyage of the Essex, an account of a whaling ship sunk off South America on 20th November 1820 after having been rammed by a huge sperm whale, an incident used by Herman Melville as one of the inspirations for Moby Dick. Having graduated from First Mate he Captained the Winslow from late 1824, fishing the Japan and Pacific Grounds on various expeditions until 1830.The trauma of the sinking of the Essex and the subsequent elongated journey home, with its immense hardships and instances of cannibalism, is said to have haunted Chase his whole life. In his latter years he began hiding food in his attic and was institutionalised for a period prior to his death.
Medallions, a mixed lot of 4: Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, victory of the Austrians & Russians over the Turks, Battle of Focsani 1789; 47 mm. 39.3gr. silver alloy: Obv. portrait facing left, Frid Josias Prinz v. S. Coburg K K G Fe Mar; Rev.: battle scene: ESs Lebe Ioseph II (above) & (in exergue): Sieg. D. Oestreicher U/Russen U Die Tur/ken Bey Foksan/D. 31.Iul. 1739, GEF corrosion spot 6 o'clock obv.& 7 o'clcok rev; France, bronze medallion celebrating the treaty of Constantinople 1724: Obv. King's bust facing right, legend: Ludovicus XV/Rex Christianiss[imus]; rev. Queen seated amongst the spoils of war, monogram MR lower left; legend (above) Virtutis et Justitiae Fama & bin exergue: Turcas inter et Russos/Pax Constituta/VIII Julii. M.DCC.XXIV, 41mm AEF traces of lustre; also Matthew Boulton's Trafalgar medallion: white metal, 49mm dia., obv. bust of Nelson left, Horatio Viscount Nelson K. B. Duke of Bronte; rev. battle scene, legend above: England Expects Every Man Will Do His Duty & in exergue: Trafalgar/Oct. 21. 1805; edge: To the heroes of Trafalgar from M. Boulton, VF but corroded esp. at edge; GB, Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee, silver, 25mm, AEF toned, [4]
Photography - an Edwardian family photograph album, of the Northumberland Collingwoods, descendants of the famous Admiral Collingwood, inscribed front pastedown, including 20 pictures of an Alpine holiday with skating, sledges, lunches, larks and scenery, further scenes at home including punting with scratchbuilt rafts, walks, a girl and the family dog playing with a fairly domesticated fox, golf, north-east coastline with puffins and seagulls, Northumbrian topography and characters, elephants and camels in an English landscape flanked by motor cars and cottages, various other motoring scenes, towns and cities, construction, real life and farms, contemporary half-calf and cloth, oblong 8vo; another album, with a young man's photographic self-portrait by a looking-glass, country house and town house interior and exteriors, various fun and games, including signalling with flags, croquet, motoring and cricket, dogs, British topography and monuments, etc., contemporary green cloth, oblong 4to; an early 20th century family photograph album of trips, including single b/w shots Wilford, Broad Marsh Reconstruction, Bridlington, Welton, Yorkshire, the majority of the album with scenes of the Devon Riviera, marbled card wrappers, oblong 8vo, c. 1930; a late Victorian family album of portrait cabinet cards, various, floral chromolithograph mounts, black leather covers, all edges gilt, 8vo, [5]
Binding - Burton (John Hill, D.C.L., LL.D.), The Book-Hunter etc., A New Edition with a Memoir of the Author, numbered limited edition 87/1000, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London 1882, pp: [vi], x, civ, 427, [i], portrait frontispiece etching of the author by William Brassey Hole RSA (1846 - 1917), further full-page lithographic plate of a library, woodcut borders, vignettes, head and tail pieces and initials, full contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, stamped, the covers with a triple-fillet and flowerhead bosses to angles, the spine with six compartments tooled with Pliny's doves in scrolling foliate compartments, titled in the second and dated in the seventh compartments with gilt-lettered green morocco labels, further gilt scroll cross dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, contemporaneous ink MS gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1889, thick 8vo
Country Pursuits - Pennell-Elmhirst (Captain "Brooksby"), The Cream of Leicestershire [...], With Illustrations, Coloured and Plain, by John Sturgess, and Portraits and Map, George Routledge and Sons, London 1883, pictorial red cloth as issued, Plain Armorial bookplate: Walter Fox Tasswill, later Golden Age Pictorial Armorial bookplate: Frances, Lady Daresbury, 8vo; A Portrait of Shooting, compiled by John Marchington, limited edition 655/1100, Anthony Atha Publishers Ltd, Rugby 1979, colour and b/w illustrations and vignettes, green leather spine and pictorial cloth boards, slipcased, 4to; The Fisherman's Record Book, blue roan gilt, oblong 8vo; The General Stud Book, Containing Pedigrees of Race Horses [...], Volume XXXVI: Parts 1 & 2, mottled boards, lettering and numbering pieces, 8vo, (2); The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853 [...], two-volume set, Greenhill Books, 1988, gilt pictorial tan cloth, 8vo, (2); etc, [13]
History and Politics - De Foe [Defoe] (Daniel), The History of the Union Between England and Scotland [...], To which is prefixed, A Life of Daniel De Foe (sic), By George Chalmers, F.R.S. S.A., Printed for John Stockdale, London 1786, lacking engraved frontispiece, early-mid 19th century red cloth, 4to; Original Memoirs, Written During the Great Civil War; Being the Life of Sir Henry Slingsby, and Memoirs of Capt. Hodgson, With Notes, &c, Printed by James Ballantyne & Co, Edinburgh 1806, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, quarter-calf and marbled boards, Plain Armorial bookplate: Godfrey Wentworth, Woolley Park, [near Wakefield, Yorkshire], 8vo; Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, London 1848, contemporary prize binding, 12mo; further 17th and 18th century histories, various; Lolme (Jean-Louis de), The Constitution of England [...], Printed for Baldwyn & Co, London 1821, publisher's boards, 8vo; Chamberlayne (John), Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia: or, The Present State of Great Britain [...], Printed for B. and S. Tooke [...], London 1723, engraved portrait frontispiece of George I, partial half-leather and cloth binding, ex Nottingham Public Library copy, 12mo; Buckle (Henry Thomas), History of Civilization in England, second edition, two-volume set, John W. Parker and Son, London 1858, early 20th century three-quarter brown morocco gilt and mustard buckram boards, top-edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (2); The Form and Order of [...] The Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, [...] Westminster [Abbey] on Tuesday the Second Day of June 1953, University Press, Oxford [n.d., 1952/53], printed in red and black throughout, contemporary blue roan, upper cover gilt blocked with fillets and crowned cypher, 4to; other royal interest; etc
History, Literature and Language - Rollin [Charles], The Ancient History [...], eighteenth edition, six-volume set, Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son, London 1835, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, some losses to spines, Plain Armorial bookplate of the Guernsey historian to each pastedown: Edgar MacCulloch, Elizabeth College Library stamps, 8vo, (6); Gibbon (Edward), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes by the Rev. H.H. Milman, six-volume set, John Murray, London 1846, fold-out engraved maps, contemporary calf and marbled endpapers, contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription, 8vo, (6); Bailey (N[athaniel]), An Univerfal (sic) Etymological Englifh (sic) Dictionary [...], fifth edition, two-volume set, Printed for J. and J. Knapton [...], London 1731, contemporary speckled calf boards (loose), later lettering pieces to spines, 8vo, (2); Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly [...], three-volume set, John Murray, London 1840, contemporary purple half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo, (3); Cowper (William), three-volume set: The Task, 1817; Table Talk, 1817; Minor Poems, 1818, Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, London, uniformly bound in contemporary Regency full iron red straight-grained morocco gilt, each cover tooled with lyres, all edges gilt, 16mo, (3); Mitford (Mary Russell), Our Village [...], three-volume set, Whittaker & Co, London 1835, contemporary green roan gilt backs and moiré boards, 12mo, (3); Gray; Goldsmith; Montrose, [26]
Miscellaneous - Bingley (Rev. W.), Memoirs of British Quadrupeds, Illustrative Principally of their Habits of Life, Instincts, Sagacity, and Uses to Mankind [...], with Engravings from Original Drawings, Executed Chiefly by Mr Samuel Howitt, first edition, Printed for Darton and Harvey [...], London 1809, lacking blanks and half-titles, presumably from later rebinding, the text erroneously paginated but apparently complete, 72 full-page monochrome plates (three damaged, a handful with marginal tears), later 19th century half-calf and marbled boards but disbound, 8vo; Goldsmith (Oliver), A History of the Earth and Animated Nature [...], two-volume set, Blackie & Son, London 1876, chromolithographic frontispieces, title-page vignettes and full-page plates, further monochrome wood engraved vignettes accompanying text, contemporary half-calf and cloth, blind tooled Gothic Revival spines, marbled edges, 4to, (2); Natural History in Anecdote [...], Arranged and Edited by Alfred H. Miles, second edition, Hutchinson & Co, London [n.d., c. 1900], full-page b/w plates, contemporary pictorial cloth, 12mo; Atkinson (Rev. J.C.), British Birds' Eggs and Nests, Popularly Described, Illustrated W.S. Coleman, George Routledge and Sons, London [n.d., c. 1890], contemporary pictorial red cloth (worn, water damaged), 12mo; Howitt (William), The Book of the Seasons; or the Calendar of Nature, second edition, Richard Bentley, London 1833, wood engraved frontispiece and vignettes, contemporary publisher's cloth, 12mo; [d'Holbach (Baron Paul-Henri Thiry)], The System of Nature [...], third edition, William Hodgson [...], London 1817, contemporary publisher's boards only (loose), 4to; Gregory (Olinthus), Mathematics for Practical Men [...], fourth edition, Lockwood & Co., London 1862, fold-out plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo; etc, [10] Condition Report: the final page number of William Hodgson's System of Nature is 623, there is no portrait of Hodgson as a frontispiee
Ruskin (John): The Stones of Venice, fifth edition, three-volume set, George Allen, London 1893, illustrated with architectural chromolithographs and b/w wood engravings by the author, contemporary quarter blue-stained calf and boards, gilt lettered spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, 4to, (3); The Poetry of Architecture [...], George Allen, London 1893, full-page colour and b/w lithographs, contemporary perished calf spine, cloth boards, ad hoc slipcase, 4to; Sesame and Lilies, eleventh edition, George Allen, London 1890, illustrated with albumen photographs of works of art, contemporary vellum binding gilt, upper-cover decorated in tones of red polychrome with the municipal Florentine fleur-de-lys, stained red edges, gilt floral endpapers, 12mo; Selections from the Writings [...], Smith, Elder and Co., London 1866, stipple engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary quarter-calf gilt and green cloth binding, recto applied with contemporary newspaper reviews/notices, 12mo; Jesus College, Cambridge Binding, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, third edition, George Allen, London 1891, full-page wood engravings, contemporary olive half-morocco and marbled gilt armorial binding, all edges gilt, endpapers marbled en suite, 12mo; etc, various, (5), [12]
Theology & Philosophy - Howel (Laurence), Synopsis Canonum S.S. Apoftolorum et Conciliorum Œcumenicorum & Provincialium, ab Ecclefia Græca receptorum [...], [William Sayes], London 1708, pp: [xxiv], 124, [ii], 158, 69, [xvii], tiel printed in red and black, half-titles black only, contemporary panelled calf, blind tooled, six-compartment spine titled in the second compartment with a lettering piece, raised bands, contemporary ink MS ownership to endpaper: Tho: Foulkes, small folio; Locke (John), Essay Concerning Human Understanding, two-volume set, Printed for C. and J. Rivington [...], London 1824, contemporary Regency diced calf, the spines gilt and blind tooled with anthemions, contemporary engraved monogrammed bookplates, 8vo, (2); Alley (The Rev. Jerome), [...], A Comparative Estimate of the Genius and Temper of The Greek, The Roman, The Hindu, The Mahometan, and the Christian Religions, T. Cadell, London 1826, contemporary grey calf, 8vo; Southey (Robert), The Book of the Church, fourth edition, John Murray, London 1837, contemporary diced calf gilt, 8vo; Butler (Charles), The Book of the Roman-Catholic Church [...], second edition, John Murray, London 1825, half-calf, 8vo; Palmer (Rev. William), Origines Liturgicæ [...], fourth edition, two-volume set, Francis & John Rivington, London 1845, contemporary calf, 8vo, (2); Butler (Rev. Alban), The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints [...], five-volume set, Virtue & Company Limited, [n.d., 1961], green buckram gilt, 4to, (5); Jenkin (Robert), The Reasonableness and Certainty of Chriftian (sic) Religion, second edition, volume II only, Printed by W.B. for Richard Sare [...], London 1708, cotemporary panelled calf boards, rebacked spine, 8vo; Whichcote (Benjamin), Several Discourses [...], volume III only, London 1703, disbound, 8vo; MacGown (The Rev. John), Infernal Conference; or Dialogue of Devils [...], Printed for Thomas Kelly, London [n.d., 1816], engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary marbled calf (faults), 8vo; Parker (Samuel), The Ecclefiaftical (sic) Hiftories (sic) of Socrates, Sozomen, & Theodorit [...], volume II only, Printed for George Sawbridge [...], London 1712, engraved frontispiece, calf spine only, 12mo; Provincial Imprint, A New Family Bible [...], Selected from the Exposition of The Rev. Matthew Henry by the Rev. E. Blomfield, Embellished with Fifty Beautiful Engravings, volume II only, Printed and Published by C. Brightly, Bungay 1808, contemporary mottled calf, raised bands to spine, 4to; Binding, Missale Romanum [...], P.J. Hanicq [...], [Mechelen] 1846, printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, wooduct vignettes, oxblood morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 12mo; Hutter (Leonhard), Compendium Locorum Theologicorum [...], Caroli Ludovici Jacobi, Leiden 1747, engraved portrait frontispiece, 20th century red cloth, 12mo; Miraculum Miraculorum [...], Joan[nis] Andr[eae] de la Haye, Ingolsadt 1726, one calf board only, 18mo; 19th century and later prayer books and devotionals; bindings; etc
Travel - Lamartine (Alphonse de), Travels in the East, Including a Journey in the Holy Land [...], with a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, Published by William and Robert Chambers, Edinburgh 1839, contemporary quarter-calf and cloth boards, later calf spine of raised bands, paper lettering piece in the second compartment, 8vo; China, Li Hung Chang's Scrap-Book, Compiled and Edited by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, with Portrait [...] and Forty-two Illustrations, signed and dedicated copy from the author, first and only? edition, Watts & Co, London 1913, red cloth, 8vo, (some water damage to covers and front flyleaf); Russia, Nansen (Fridtjof), Through Siberia: The Land of the Future [...], Translated by Arthur G. Chater, Illustrated, first English edition, William Heinemann, London 1914, contemporary pictorial cloth as issued, ex-lib University of Keele: The Library but fairly neat cancellations, 4to; [Barthélemy (Abbé Jean-Jacques)], Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grèce [...], third edition, volume II only, De Bure [...], Paris 1790, relaid contemporary cat's paw calf binding, rebacked spine, 8vo, [4]
Travel - Scandinavia - Dufferin (Lord), [Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava], Letters from High Latitudes [...], third edition, John Murray, London 1857, contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Laing (Samuel): Journal of a Residence in Norway [...], [bound with], Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland and Italy [...], Longman [...], London 1854, contemporary calf by MacLehose of Glasgow, stamped, lettering pieces to spine, 8vo; Inglis (H.D.), A Personal Narrative of a Journey through Norway, Part of Sweden, and the Islands and States of Denmark, fourth edition, Whittaker & Co, London 1837, prelims loose, tightly re-sewn text block, relaid contemporary red-stained half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo; Brace (Charles Loring), The Norse-Folk; or, A Visit to the Homes of Norway and Sweden, Charles Scribner, New York 1857, full-page steel engravings, 20th century half-calf and marbled boards, 8vo; Nansen (Fridtjof), "Farthest North" [...], About One Hundred and Twenty Full Page and Numerous Text Illustrations and Coloured Plate in Facsimile from Dr. Nansen's Own Sketches, Portrait and Maps, two-volume set, London 1898, 20th century half-calf and blue cloth bindings, 8vo, (2); another, contemporary black-stained half-calf and cloth gilt (disbound), 8vo, (2), [8]
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