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Preisdatenbank abonnierenEphemera fine archive relating to two sisters Hilda and Catherine Weston who were maids in service in various high status houses including Brongyntyn Hall seat of the Harlech Family and Llandough Castle Glamorgan. The archive includes various portrait photographs and topogographical studies etc and a passport issued to Hilda to travel to Russia in 1908.
George II recovery document dated 1753 featuring a large engraved portrait of the King contained within elaborate borders. Document on a single large leaf of vellum some slight brittleness in folds Great seal attached though broken (repairable in our view). The document is for lands in a place called Botsborough which is possibly now the modern Putsborough in Devon
Ephemera – Royalty – Queen Victoria fine printed linen sheet issued to commemorate the reign of Queen Victoria (presumably issued at the time of the Diamond Jubilee in 1897) featuring a number of images including the Queen and various technological achievements during her reign such as the comparison between the stage coach and the motor car the development of railways etc. In fine clean condition together two further issues to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee a printed linen handkerchief issued to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of George V a silk handkerchief printed in colour to celebrate the coronation of Edward VIII in 1837 (which never took place) and a Boer War vintage printed linen sheet featuring a map of South Africa a portrait of Lord Roberts and the text (by Kipling) and music (by Sullivan) of the song `The Absent Minded Beggar`. Note: sold as a collection not subject to return.
Magicians fine group of approx 10 postcards etc of leading magicians from the late 19th/early 20th c including a group including Houdini and Laurance Spitari with autograph note by Spitari to verso a signed image of `Zanic – the Man with the Educated Hands` a further signed portrait by Spitari a signed note by Laurance Glen a signed card by Bi-Berti and autograph postcard signed by `The Great Roland` and others. Note: sold as a collection not subject to return.
WWI fine caricature portrait (approx 18x14ins) of Captain J A Barrow Royal Field Artillery signed `Con Planck France 1918` showing a pipe smoking Barrow with lit match beside a field gun together with a certificate of Mention in Dispatches (by Haig) bearing the facsimile signature of Winston Churchill.
Photographs - Approximately forty-eight carte de visite and eight cabinet portrait photographs of children, including two sat astride rocking horses, one with a toy gun, one with a toy boat, three with dolls, and several with buckets and spades or dressed in sailor costumes, contained in a leather-bound album with clasp fastening.
Photographs - A collection of family portrait, social historical and topographical photographs, including views of British Columbia, `Beyrout` (sunk gunboats in the harbour and the custom house after bombardment), Egypt and India (North West Frontier) interest, various sizes, all laid-down back-to-back on card leaves, (album).
Autographs - A small collection including Cary Grant, Frankie Vaughan (x2, including one portrait)), Anna Neagle, Lonnie Donegan (x2, including one portrait), Humphrey Lyttleton, and Tommy Steele, some clipped and mounted, (album); together with approximately fifty-five photographic, postcard and magazine portraits, some signed or facsimile signed, the signed including Jane Russell and Anna Neagle; and thirty-two jazz, skiffle and other gramophone records.
Football - BRISTOL CITY, 1952-65. Ten programmes, including those for matches v. Port Vale, 1952; Torquay United, 1952; Exeter City, 1954; and others; also BRISTOL ROVERS, 1951-54. Five programmes, for matches v. Newcastle United (F.A. Cup, 6th Round), 1951; Birmingham City, 1953; Luton Town, 1953; Oldham Athletic, 1954; and Luton Town, 1954; seven other assorted programmes, including Torquay United v. Swindon Town (F.A. Cup 2nd Round, 2nd Replay), 1952; Swindon Town v. Bristol City, 1954; Exeter City v. Bristol City, 1955; Swansea Town v. Bristol City, 1955; Charlton Athletic v. Bristol City, 1957; and others; with a Findon`s Football Handbook, 1946-7; a Racing & Football Outlook`s Football Annual, 1952-53; and two Topical Times player portrait cards, (26).Best Bid
Football - BRISTOL ROVERS (Jesse Whatley). A real photographic portrait postcard, titled `Jesse Whatley / "Benefit Souvenir" 1925`, by H.M. Veale of Bristol. Note: Jesse Winter Whatley (1895-1982), known as `Gentleman Jess`, was a goalkeeper who began playing competitively whilst in the British Army. After the First World War (where he served in the Wiltshire Regiment) he joined Trowbridge Town, but after just two months he was signed for Bristol Rovers, with whom he spent his entire professional career. Between 1922 and 1928 he played in 246 consecutive League games - a record that stood until 1953. He retired from professional football in 1930, yet continued to play at a local non-League level for a further two years, before briefly going into coaching, and then settling on a farm at Westerleigh (Glos.).
Buller, Rev. James. Forty Years in New Zealand: including A Personal Narrative, An Account of Maoridom, and of the Christianization and Colonization of the Country, first edition, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1878. Bevelled pictorial blue cloth gilt, portrait frontispiece, folding map, sixteen plate illustrations, octavo, SIGNED & INSCRIBED `Miss Randerson / with the very kind regards / of the author / July 14. 1879`.
Bomberg, David. Poems and Drawings of the First World War, limited edition 5/250, Gillian Jason Gallery, London 1992. Cloth-backed boards, glassine wrapper, stiff paper slip-case, foreword by Neville Jason, essay by Richard Cork, portrait frontispiece, fifteen plate illustrations, quarto, SIGNED & INSCRIBED `For Barney with thanks for / your help and friendship / Neville [Jason]` and `For Barney - remarkable / photographs, for a Russian / agent! Richard [Cork]`.
[Royal Interest]. The Handy Royal Atlas, published by W. & A.K. Johnson, the flyleaf signed and inscribed `Sir Charles Cust / from George [Duke of York, later King George V] & Victoria Mary / Xmas 1897`; together with a signed black and white portrait photograph of Sir Charles Cust, framed and glazed, overall 44.5cm x 38.5cm, (2).
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement. An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals, first edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London 1931. Black cloth, dustjacket, portrait frontispiece, plate illustrations, octavo, SIGNED & INSCRIBED `To Mrs Sarah Elizabeth / Mainwaring / from the Author / E. Sylvia Pankhurst / April 1956`.
A Royal Doulton Baluster Vase, by William Parker and Rosina Brown, the rim decorated with portrait busts of classical figures, and also with relief moulded geometric detail, and incised with panels of scrolling foliage in blue/ochre, on a predominantly green and mottled blue ground, incised marks, 11 ½” high
A late 19th Century Chinese Carved Ivory Fan, of 14 stick construction, the outer spines heavily carved with fruiting vine and figural detail, to intricately pierced inner spines, with an applied lace body and fitted with a gilt enamelled portrait pivot of male and female silhouette portraits within gilt cobalt blue and white enamel borders, length 11”
EBELING, Dr. F.W. W. Flogel`s Geschichte des Grotesk-Romischen, Leipsig 1862. 8vo., orig, half cloth. Portrait frontispiece and 40 plates, including chromolithographs, some folding, one of puppets with heads on flaps (one loose) -- FUCHS, EDUARD. Die Frau in der Karikatur, Munich 1907. 4to., pictorial soft cloth gilt. Illustrations, some coloured. With 13 others. (6)
SCOTLAND. A collection of 24 volumes, including: Pinkerton, John. The History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary..., 2 vols., 1797. 4to., cont. half calf gilt (old rebacks). Engraved portrait frontispiece (off-set onto title); An Enquiry into the History of Scotland Preceding the Reign of Malcolm III or the Year 1056. 2 vols., 1794. 8vo., cont. calf gilt -- Lindsay, Robert. The Chronicles of Scotland...published from several old manuscripts, 2 vols. Edinburgh 1814. 8vo., later calf. (24)
GASCOIGNE, GWENDOLEN TRENCH. Among Pagodas and Fair Ladies. 1896. 8vo., orig. cloth (discoloured). Illustrations (scribbles on half title) -- BESSO, SALVATORE. Siam and China. Trans. from the Italian by C. Mathews, n.d. 4to., orig. cloth. Portrait frontispiece and plates. With 5 other volumes. (7)
WELLBY, MONTAGU SINCLAIR. Through Unknown Tibet, 1898 (spine defective and crudely repaired). 4 folding maps in pocket at end, portrait, plates and illustrations. -- BONOMI, JOSEPH. Nineveh and its Palaces [1852] (piece missing from head of spine and lower inner joint repaired). Illustrations. Both 8vo., orig. cloth gilt. (2)
ANDREWS, JOHN and ANDREW DRURY. A Topographical Map of Wiltshire, 1773. Folio, cont. half black morocco (leather slightly frayed, stain to upper board). Index map (creased) and 18 double page engraved maps, partly hand coloured in outline, the dedication cartouche after G.B. Cipriani, with portrait of the same loosely inserted. See illustration.
HAWKER, Lt. Col. PETER. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. Ninth Edition, 1844. 8vo., orig. blue cloth, spine gilt, FINE COPY, in qtr. morocco gilt cloth box. Engraved portrait, plates and text illustrations (some spotting to plates). Bookplate of Josiah Spode.
BUTLER, SAMUEL. Hudibras. In 3 parts, Printed by T. Warren for Henry Herringman..., 1694; Printed for R. Chiswell & others, 1693; Printed for Thomas Horne 1694. Bound together, 8vo., cont. panelled calf (rebacked). Wing B6304A, 2nd part not found in Wing 1945; B6318. -- RALEIGH, Sir Walter. The Marrow of Historie, W. Du-gard for John Stephenson, 1650. 12mo., later calf (lacks portrait, spine detached). Wing R 172. (2)
CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England..., Oxford 1702 - 04. 3 vols., folio, cont. panelled calf (rebacked and repaired). Engraved portrait frontispieces, vignettes on titles. Half titles. Bookplate of John Ward of Capesthorne [Cheshire] and the Inner Temple, and signatures of a later owner. ESTC N9847. (3)
CLARENDON, EDWARD HYDE, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 3 vols., Oxford 1705 - 06. 8vo., cont. calf (not uniform, spines crudely repaired). Engraved portrait frontispieces -- LEDIARD, THOMAS. The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, 3 vols., 1736. 8vo., cont. panelled calf (joints cracked, one crudely repaired). Engraved portrait, 17 folding maps and 25 plates. With 30 others. (36)
MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. Ninth Edition, With Notes of various Authors, by Thomas Newton, 2 vols., 1790. Engraved portrait and plates -- VOLTAIRE, F.M.A. de. The Age of Lewis XIV. Translated from the French..., Second Edition, 2 vols., Printed for R. Dodsley, 1752. Engraved frontispieces. 8vo., cont. calf (some wear). (4)
HUNT, LEIGH. The Indicator, and The Companion; A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side. First Edition, 2 vols., 1834. Orig. cloth backed boards. Engraved portrait frontispiece; A Book for a Corner..., 2 vols., First Edition, 1849. Cont. half maroon morocco gilt; Works, 8 vols., 1870 - 87. Mixed editions. Cont. half calf gilt. Some vols. illustrated. With another by the same and 2 others. (15)
LEATHER BINDINGS, mostly half calf, Literature and History. 38 vols., including: Bronte Sisters. Novels, New Edition, with the Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs. Gaskell. 6 vols., 1884 - 86 (2 vols. with broken inner joints) -- Crabbe, Rev. George. The Works, 5 vols., 1823 -- Churchill, Charles. The Poetical Works...And An Authentic Account of His Life, 2 vols., 1804. Engraved portrait. (38)
MALCOLM, Sir JOHN. The Life of Robert, Lord Clive. 3 vols., 1836. Cont. straight grained red morocco gilt (a few scrapes). Engraved portrait and folding map (repaired) -- JOHNSON, Dr. SAMUEL. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. Ed. Peter Cunningham, 3 vols., 1854. Cont. calf gilt, red and green spine labels, (titles spotted). -- ,MONTAIGNE, MICHAEL, Seigneur de. The Essays...Translated into English. Eighth Edition...Peter Coste. 3 vols., 1776. Cont. tree calf (some wear). With 3 other volumes. (12)
POPE, ALEXANDER. The Poetical Works. Aldine edition, 3 vols., Bell & Daldy, 1866. Cont. straight grained blue morocco gilt, a.e.g. by Riviere. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol 1 -- SHELLEY, P.B. Poems. 1902. Cont. decorative black morocco, gilt rules and pattern of hearts and flowers, a.e.g. Illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. All 8vo. (4)
RICHARDSON, SAMUEL. The Works. With a Sketch of his Life and Writings by the Rev. Edward Mangin. 19 vols., 1811. 8vo., cont. half calf (spines faded and rubbed, lacking labels). Engraved portrait frontispiece. Armorial bookplate. With a worn 3rd vol. only of John Foxe...Acts and Monuments, 1631. (20)
PITT-RIVERS, Ltd. Gen. AUGUSTUS HENRY LANE FOX. Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore, on the Borders of Dorset and Wilts. 4 vols. (of 5), P.P. 1887 - 98. 4to., cont. blue decorative calf gilt (rubbed). Portrait, lithographic plans and plates, some hand coloured. Vol 3 inscribed "From the Author" on title. (4)
STUKELEY, WILLIAM. Stonehenge..., 1740; bound with Abury..., Printed for the Author 1743. Folio, cont. half calf gilt (rebacked, corners worn). Portrait and 75 plates, some folding (some spotting, and browning at centrefold of folding plates). Bookplate of Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers and an earlier defaced example. See illustration.
STUKELEY, WILLIAM. Itinerarium Curiosum. vol 1 Second Edition, vol 2 First Edition, 1776. Folio, cont. calf gilt a.e.g. (rebacked, 2 defects to upper cover of vol 2 and lower corners worn). Engraved frontispiece, portrait and 205 plates and maps, some folding. Bookplates of Thomas Walker (prob. late 18th c.) and Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers. (2) See illustration.
COOK, JAMES, JOHN HAWKESWORTH and JAMES KING. Set of three voyages, First Editions of first and second, Second Edition of third. Together 8 vols., 4to., and atlas folio, 1773 - 77 - 85. First voyage: 3 vols., old calf (slight wear), early issue without Directions for placing the cuts & errata. 52 charts and plates (Straights of Magellan chart torn, short tear to one plate in vol 2 not affecting image, blank corner torn away from final leaf in vol 3, pp. 772 & 776 with abrasion resulting in loss of a few letters); Second Voyage: 2 vols., cont. calf, portrait and 63 charts and plates (general chart torn and spotted in vol 1, one chart in vol 2 with small tear at fold); Third voyage: 3 vols. text, cont. calf, uniform with 2nd voyage, 24 charts and plates (lacks plate at p.5 in vol 2, occasional spotting and offsetting), atlas in cont. half calf (slight wear), containing 62 charts and plates including the death of Cook. All vols. rebacked and except for atlas with bookplates of Lord Rivers. Holmes 4, 23 & 46. (9) See illustration.
CLARENDON, EDWARD HUDE, Earl of. The Life...Written by Himself. Oxford 1759. Engraved vignette on title and portrait frontispiece (offset onto title). With vols 1 & 2 (ex 3) of The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. Oxford 1702 - 04. Folio, uniform cont. panelled calf gilt (rebacked) -- EVELYN, JOHN. Memoirs ed, William Bray. 2 vols., 4to., cont. calf (joints cracked, lower cover of vol 1 detached spine of vol 1 torn). Engraved portraits and plates. (5)
GIBB, WILLIAM. The royal House of Stuart, 1890. Cont. half brown morocco gilt, a.e.g. (upper cover soiled). 40 chromolithographic plates -- BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889. Orig. cloth (bit soiled, head and tail of spine worn). Plates. Both folio. With 3 other volumes. (5)
JOHNSON, Dr. SAMUEL. The Works, 11 vols. extended to 14, includes The Dabates in Parliament 1787 - 88, Cont. tree calf (rebacked). Engraved portrait frontispiece. Bookplate of Lord Rivers. -- BOSWELL, JAMES. The Life of Samuel Johnson. New Edition, 4 vols., 1820.. cont. ruled calf (rebacked, uniform with the Works). All 8vo. (18) See illustration.
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