Robert Huish Esq 'The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa for the Discovery of the Course of the River Niger from the Unpublished Documents in the Possession of the Late Capt John William Barber Fullerton Employed in the African service,' frontispiece portrait absent, title page pasted to back board, map and 6 plates, half-leather with marbled boards, 782 pages, published by John Saunders, 25 Newgate St, London, 1836. Richard Lemon Lander was born in the Fighting Cocks Inn, Truro (now the Dolphin Inn) and educated at ‘’Old Pascoes’’ Truro, before joining a wealthy London family and travelling to Africa, with a prefatory analysis of the journeys Park, Denham, Clapperton this work contains accounts of Richard landers three expeditions through Africa. Lander will always be associated with the exploration of The Niger.Together with Cyrus Redding 'The Illustrated Itinerary of the County of Cornwall', numerous illustrations and map, London 1842. (2)
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Helen Baillie, miniature portrait of Caroline Coddington aged 12 years 1828, watercolour on ivory, inscribed verso, gilt-gesso frame, overall frame dimensions 17.5cm x 16cm. Ivory Submission Reference: 7149CCJRImage in good original condition, frame has area of gesso missing from bottom right-hand corner
Diana, Princess of Wales, photograph portrait of Diana with Princes William and Harry, signed in pen below the image "Diana 1991", in original dark green leather frame bearing Diana's crest, by Andrew Soos, Bemedek Ltd London, by Appointment To His Royal Highness The Prince Of Wales, frame height 24cmFrame in very good condition with light rubbing on bottom right-hand corner, photo probably slightly faded, signature also very slightly faded, provenance: a personal gift from Diana to her sons' piano tutor who lived at Icklesham East Sussex
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) Rotten Row Portrait; the reverse with a sketch of a horse and riderpencil on paper, unframed37.5 x 25cmProvenance:With Victor Waddington, London, where acquired in December 1966Each corner stained with yellowed remnants of adhesive and eac corner similarly with dog ear creases. Likewise, along the right hand edge there are three small rectangles of layered media which appear to be repairs to tears. Each long edge has some very small closed horizontal tears. The paper is evenly toned throughout and the pencil marks appear strong and bold. The sketch on reverse is faded. Please see additional images.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott; Leonard Huxley (edited): 'Scott's Last Expedition', London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1913, 1st edition, 2 volumes, embossed "Presentation Copy" stamps to head of title pages, photogravure portrait frontispieces of Scott and Wilson + 6 original sketches in photogravure by Dr E.A. Wilson + 18 coloured plates, and 260 photographic illustrations taken by Herbert Ponting and other members of the expedition, facsimile letter, + 2 large folding maps, all as called for, uniform original cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (2)
(Bloomsbury Group, Jean Shepeard, Doreen Kern, Francis Bacon.) Martin Harrison: 'In Camera - Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting', London, Thames & Hudson, 2005, 1st edition, signed & inscribed by Harrison to Doreen Kern (1931–2021), British Postwar & Contemporary artist, sculptor in bronze, niece of the artist and actress Jean Shepeard (1904-1989), "For Doreen with renewed thanks & kindest regards, Martin. Martin Harrison 2005", plus Typed Letter Signed and Autograph Postcard Signed from Harrison to Kern, both 2005, along with other associated ephemera loosely inserted, original cloth lettered in silver, dust wrapper, the book itself with content on Jean Shepeard pages 23, 26 & 79; Jean Shepeard (1904-1989), charcoal portrait on paper, initialled 'JS', 22.5 x 17.5cm, together with a good quantity of ephemera, photocopies/prints of other artworks by Jean Shepeard, Jonathan Poole Gallery letters, invoices, photocopies of correspondence, invoices and related ephemera, two photographs of Jean Shepeard c.1930's/40's (each 24 x 19cm), photocopies of drawings by Shepeard include portraits of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, R.O. Dunlop, Edith Sitwell, George Bernard Shaw etc etc, these all having been in the possession of Doreen Kern, who in the 1990's discovered that her reclusive aunt, Jean Shepeard, was a lost member of the Bloomsbury set. After inheriting a large black chest from her late aunt containing various portrait sketches by her and letters and photographs, Doreen Kern set about resurrecting the artistic career of Jean Shepeard posthumously; Peter Cotes: 'Thinking Aloud. Fragments of Autobiography', L, Peter Owen, 1993, 1st edition, signed and inscribed by Cotes to Doreen Kern on title page "To Doreen Kern, for the niece of Jean Shepeard: keeping alive the name of an actress, painter, and above all, her own woman...In memory, from Peter Cotes. August 1996", orig. cloth, dust wrapper; Frances Partridge: 'Good Company. Diaries January 1967-December 1969', 1995, paperback, signed & inscribed to Doreen Kern dated 26th October 1995, orig. wraps; packet containing several letters to Jean Shepeard c.1920's-1950's re her acting career, plays etc, including TLS from Assistant Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office, 4th July 1951, re requesting for omissions to be made in the play "Into Our Charge", plus others including TLS from Anmer Hall, July 19th, 1929, others Holyrood Film Productions, BBC, News Chronicle etc; plus another packet containing a good quantity of colour photographs of artworks by Jean Shepeard etc. Jean Shepeard (1904-1989) was a well known actress and artist. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1925. Sharing a flat with Peggy Ashcroft, in 1928 she bacame a member of the Emotionist Group of painters, musicians, philosophers, poets and actors which had been founded by the artist R.O. Dunlop. In 1929 she exhibited with Francis Bacon and Roy de Maistre in Bacon's Queensbury Mews rooms and in the same year she showed with The Redfern Gallery, London. Her work was admired for the sensitivity, beauty of line, vigour and character of her drawings. Her drawings were then exhibited in 1933 in a one woman show at the Lefevre Gallery in London. Somewhat on the periphery of the Bloomsbury set, Jean Sheapeard went on to exhibit with VAnessa Bell and others at the Modern Picture Library. She also performed in numerous plays at leading theatres along with John Gielgud, Jack Buchanan, Sybil Thorndike and others, and in her later years acting was the main focus of her working life
(Istanbul, Turkey.) Julia Pardoe; William Henry Bartlett (ill.): 'The Beauties of the Bosphorus. By Miss Pardoe. Illustrated in a series of views of Constantinople and its environs, from original drawings by W. H. Bartlett', London, Virtue & Co., c.1838, 88 engraved plates comprising added engraved title page, 2 portrait plates, map of Constantinople and Bosphorus + 84 engraved plates mainly architectural and topographical views of Istanbul and environs, plus a small number plates at end wider Bosphorus and surrounding area including Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Varna, Smyrna (Izmir) & Sebastopol, contemporary half calf gilt, spine gilt decorated in compartments
(Japan, History, Art, Travel.) Engelbert Kaempfer: 'The History of Japan. Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam 1690-92', Glasgow, 1906, 3 volumes, portrait frontis + 162 illustrations (including large folding map at end of vol. III) as called for, uniform original cloth gilt; S. Bing: 'Artistic Japan: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of Arts and Industries', London, Sampson Low, May 1888-February 1891, 12 assorted issues, comprising No.'s 1, 3, 5, 6, 8-12, 25, 26 & 33, numerous colour plates and b/w ills. throughout, each folio (34 x 25cm), original pictorial wraps (several with wraps detached but present, chipped/worn at edges), housed in original blue cloth portfolio, large mounted colour illustration to front cover, ribbon ties; Henri L. Joly: 'Legend in Japanese Art', London, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1908, 16 colour plates + numerous b/w plates as called for, large 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt; Douglas Sladen: 'Queer Things about Japan', L, Anthony Treherne, 1904, 2nd impression, colour frontis + 6 pages of colour plates + 30 b/w plates + pictorial end papers as called for, all after Hokusai, orig. cloth gilt (rubbed), top edge gilt; F. Hadland Davis; Evelyn Paul (ill.): 'Myths & Legends of Japan', L, Harrap, 1912, 32 colour plates by Evelyn Paul as called for, orig. decorative leather gilt, top edge gilt; D.C. Angus: 'Japan: The Eastern Wonderland', Cassell, 1910, 4 colour plates + numerous b/w plates as called for, orig. pictorial cloth gilt; Gaston Cerfberr: 'Contes Japonais', Paris, 1893, b/w ills. throughout, orig. pictorial wraps, glassine d/w; R.M. Knutsen: 'Japanese Polearms', 1963, 1st edition, b/w ills. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, d/w; plus 8 others similar including the floating world/ukiyo-e etc (18)
(Battle of Britain, WW2 RAF.) John P.M. Reid & Cuthbert Orde: 'Some of the Few', L, Macdonald, 1960, 1st edition, signed by Johnnie Johnson (1915-2001) under his portrait illustration p.35, mounted clipped signature of John Cunningham (1917-2002) under his portrait ill. p.22, further signed on front end paper by Ralph 'Tich' Havercroft and J.S. Millard, both RAF pilots in 1940, original pictorial boards
Oliver Goldsmith: 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature.', Blackie, 1859, 2 volumes, engraved portrait frontises, added engraved hand coloured title pages, numerous engraved plates of which majority hand coloured + engraved ills. in text as called for, contemporary half calf gilt; J.G. Wood: 'The Illustrated Natural History. Vol I. Mammalia; Vol. II. Birds; Vol. III. Reptiles, Fishes, Molluscs.', L, Routledge, 1862-63, 3 volumes, profusley illustrated with b/w engraved ills. throughout, contemporary half calf gilt (rubbed/worn); plus Sir Harry Johnston: 'British Mammals', L, Hutchinson, 1903, 16 colour plates + 95 b/w ills. as called for, original cloth gilt, top edge gilt, plus Knight: 'The English Cyclopaedia - Natural History', 1854-55, 2 vols in 1, 1135;1143pp + small part of vol. 3 bound in at end, b/w engraved ills,. throughout, contemp. half calf gilt (worn) (7)
Seventeen assorted illustrated titles etc, including John Lawrence (ill.); Kevin Crossley-Holland: 'Oenene in January', The Old Stile Press, 1988, limited edition, number 277 of 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author and artist, woodcut frontis and ills. by Lawrence, original pictorial cloth gilt, Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen: 'Incline Press: A Brief Illustrated History for the Oxford Guild of Printers' Millennium Project', Incline Press, 2000, limited edition, number 5 of 75 copies for subscribers, this copy stated as being bound for Brian Mills, wood engraved and tipped in ills., original cloth backed pictorial paper covered front cover; plus others Joan Hassall, Louis Wain, Gwenda Morgan, Mervyn Peake, Rex Whistler, Picasso, 'The Anglo-Saxon Review', December 1899, vol. III, 6 portrait plates as called for, 4to, original full decorative calf gilt, top edge gilt, Anthony Hamilton: 'Memoirs of Count Grammont', L, John C. Nimmo, 1889, limited edition, number 770 of 780 copies, fine full crimson morocco gilt by J. Leighton, spine gilt in compartments, top edge gilt; plus 7 others (17)
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(Arctic Expeditions, North Pole.) Edward Adams-Ray (translated): 'The Andree Diaries being the diaries and records of S.A. Andree, Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel written during their balloon expedition to the North Pole in 1897 and discovered on White Island in 1930, together with a complete record of the Expedition and Discovery.', London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1931, 1st edition in English, 103 illustrations + 6 maps (including folding map at end), plans & diagrams as called for, original cloth gilt. Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) was a Swedish engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants; together with Fridtjof Nansen: 'Farthest North', Constable, 1900, portrait frontis + numerous plates & maps including 1 folding, orig. cloth gilt, F. Spencer Chapman: 'Northern Lights. The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-1931', L, Chatto, 1932, 1st edition, frontis, folding map + 63 plates as called for, orig. cloth (3)
(Grand Tour, Rome, Vatican Costume.) 'Costumi Della Corte Pontificia', Roma, 1844, 31 hand coloured engraved plates of Vatican costume & Papal uniforms as called for, comprising hand coloured vignette title page portrait of Pope Gregory XVI, engraved by V. Mochetti after Angelo Bertini, and 30 hand coloured engraved plates, bound concertina-style into original paper covered boards (11.5 x 8cm), housed in original card slipcase (worn), orig. printed paper label "Lithographie Santarelli a Rome, Via due Macelli 63. et Via Condotti 72. Avec objets de Beaux Arts", presumably where it was probably originally produced and sold; together with another similar mid 19th Century example, 33 hand coloured engraved plates comprising portrait Pope Pius IX + 32 plates Vatican costume, bound concertina-style into original paper covered boards (11.5 x 9cm), no date/imprint, (possibly lacks title page), original card slipcase (2)
David Storey: 'Saville', London, Jonathan Cape, 1976, 1st edition, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. The author's 1976 Booker Prize winning novel, set among a South Yorkshire mining family in the late 1930s. Following the pattern of David Storey’s own early years, Saville is a remarkably honest portrait of the tensions between parents and children, the difficulties of making one’s own way in life, and the social divisions that persist still. David Storey was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1933, and studied at the Slade School of Art.
A victorian photograph album circa 1860's/ 70's containing approx 75 mounted albumen print photographs of India & Ceylon (Sri Lanka), some images of Ceylon by Skeen & Co, including waterfront/ harbour view, numbered 1219, plus portrait photo of lady captioned in pencil to mount 'Kandian Lady' numbered 1203, others portraits of people including 'Singhalese Man', 'Tamil Girl', etc, some topographical views including 'kandy from Lady Horton's Walk;, Grand Hotel Mt Lavinia, near Columbo, 'View from Mount Lavinia hotel' showing railway line hugging coastline, group photograph of local musicians in tribal / ceremonial dress, rural scenes depicting tea plantations and factories, several group photos depicting European colonial inhabitants, in Eastern India, large colonial Estate, Birdpore Estate, Piprahwa, India, Estate of William Peppe and family neat the Nepal Franker, on which a Buddhist Stupa was found containing Buddhist relics, possibly of the Buddha himself, or those of his Kingsmen, images include view villa with gentleman posied in tennis court, group photos depicting colonial and and indigenous inhabitants together, military etc, images approx 7 x 9cm- 22 x 27cm, mainly larger images, a few with pencil captions to mount, oblong folio album, contemporary decorative calf (a/f), some areas of insect damage causeing large losses to front cover
Edward Tuite Dalton: 'Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal', Calcutta, Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing', 1872, 1st edition, 40 lithograph portrait plates as called for, comprising frontispiece 'The Rest at Noon' depicting a group of Oraons taken at Ranchi by Tosco Peppe, plus 39 other, lithograph portrait plates from photos by Tosco Peppe & Sir Benjamin Simpson, each with corresponding descriptive printed tissue guard, final few plates with marginal waterstaining/ slight soiling, VI, 327 + (12)pp index at end, folio, contemporary half green morocoo (worn), rebacked retaining original backstrip , inner joints reinforces, original marbled end papers, verso FFEP with comtemporary signature/ inscription '*** Peppe Katc Chola Nagpore (?)', appears to be signature of either Tosco Peppe or another member of Peppe family, replenished front and rear blanks. The term Bengal in Dalton's time referred to what are now the Indian states of Bihar, Orissa, West- Bengal, Jharkhand, tripura, Assam, Arunacha/ Pradesh, Megalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland, and the present day country of Bangladesh. A rave and important work by the irish born Soldier & Anthropologist colonel Edward Tuite Dalton (1815- 1880), a georgraphically precise description of the lands and people with each tribe described by Dalton and portrayed in stunning lithographs. Possibly one of only 100 copies printed, and also stated in pretace of Herbert hope Risley's ethnologies of British Colonial India that 'the book is now a rare one, I am infirmed that they entire stock was destroyed by an unfortunate accident some years ago'
John Bratby: 'Breakdown', New York & Cleveland, World Publishing Co., 1960, 1st US edition, signed & inscribed by Bratby on FFEP, further inscribed by him facing contents page, with full page pencil portrait on rear end paper by him with pencil note by him beneath, plus 4 Autograph Letters Signed by him, original quarter cloth gilt, pictorial paper covered boards. Details of inscriptions, portrait sketch and ALS by him as follows: i) pencil inscription to upper free endpaper: "To Delightful, Dear, Beautiful, Paint-covered, chromatic, earthy, a cynosure, wild, nobody else could be so unwashed & also be very beautiful, the daughter of Emil Nolde, Christine, from John Bratby [,] June 25 1973." ii) pencil note to blank page facing 'Contents' : "just nobody with hands loaded with gloss paint, & looking as if Jackson Pollock had used her for a painting. Cynosure=centre of attraction" iii) on lower free endpaper, full-page head and shoulders pencil portrait of Christine with note: "Christine[.] so sorry not doing my best yet - which hopefully to come will please us each more and anyway - delighted to meet you and for letting me be close" iv) Four Autograph Letters Signed in ball-point from Bratby to Christine, dated July/August 1973, on Bratby's striking own-designed illustrated note paper (two comprising a single sheet, two comprising two sheets). Looks forward to seeing her again and asks after her health, a waitressing job she has taken, her social life, whether she would pose for him - £1 an hour. v) single unused sheet of Bratby's note paper. John Bratby (1928-1992), painter and novelist, one of the 'angry young men' of the fifties, founder of the 'kitchen sink' realist movement in art. By the early 1970's his style of painting had fallen largely out of fashion in the face of American-influenced pop art. His failure to sell most of his work at the 1973 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition was greeted with considerable 'schadenfreude' by those critics who had never liked his work. His 'portrait' of Queen Elizabeth, in particular, aroused much controversy. (A contemporary Evening Standard review of Bratby's submissions to that exhibition is included in the lot.) No biographical information to be found about 'Christine'. Unlikely, though not impossible, that she was in fact the daughter of Emil Nolde (German Expressionist painter, 1867 to 1956). More likely that the reference just represents a moment of fanciful free association on Bratby's part, not least given that there are superficial stylistic similarities between the two painters.
(Birds, Ornithology.) 'The Coues Check List of North American Birds', Boston, 1882, 2nd edition, original cloth gilt, Ferdinand Heine: 'Nomenclator Musei Heineani Ornithologici.', Berlin, 1882-1890, portrait frontis, 373pp, contemporary half morocco gilt by R.H. Porter, R. Bowdler Sharpe: 'A Handlist of the Genera and Species of Birds', London, British Museum, 1899-1912, volumes 1-5 plus index volume, uniform original cloth gilt, original British Museum Natural History tipped in slips at front; plus 2 others (10)
(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twenty Years in the Himalaya', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map, folding b/w photographic panoramic plate depicting Eastern Himalaya, 59 b/w. photographic plates, 335pp, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original pictorial cloth gilt. An account of the author's explorations in the Himalayan districts, Bruce travelled extensively in the Himalayas accompanying William Conway, and later led the early Mount Everest 1922 and 1924 Expeditions; together with Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841-1887): 'The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. edited by Alex B. W. Kennedy', Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1902, 1st trade edition, portrait frontis + 21 photographic plates + 20 chapter head piece photographs & 10 maps of which 2 full page, as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original olive green cloth gilt. Moore's celebrated account of the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge; together with Sir William Martin Conway: 'The Alps From End to End', Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895, 1st edition, 100 full-page coloured illustrations by A.D. McCormick as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and inkstamp to FFEP only, original cloth gilt (worn), top edge gilt (3)
Colonel R. Meinertzhagen: 'Nicoll's Birds of Egypt', London, Hugh Rees Ltd., 1930, 1st edition, 2 volumes, portrait frontis + 38 plates (31 of which coloured, 7 photogravure) after G.E. Lodge, Roland Green and H. Gronvold + 3 folding maps as called for, large 4to (33 x 26cm), original publisher's green cloth gilt. First edition of the most systematic account on Egyptian birds. The work is based on Nicoll's manuscript with notes and description of the Egyptian avifauna. Some ninety species of birds in the paintings on ancient tombs are identified; it is noted that many species became extinct because of the disappearance of the papyrus thickets due to the aridity of the country. Michael John Nicoll (1880-1925), assistant director of the Zoological Gardens at Giza, was an outstanding naturalist. It had always been his intention to publish a detailed account of the birds of Egypt, but he died before the completion of this work. His friend Meinertzhagen (1878-1967), a British war hero and ornithologist, was approached by Nicoll's widow to complete and publish the manuscript. (2)
John Guille Millais: 'Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches; Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them', London, Henry Sotheran & Co., 1892, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece + 16 colour lithographic plates, 18 plates in autotype + 30 wood engraved illustrations in the text as called for, all tissue guards present, plates by J.G. Millais and G.E. Lodge, folio (40 x 32cm), original half red morocco gilt by Blunsow & Co. for Sotheran & Co., top edge gilt, armorial bookplate of Carlos Rein Duffau to front pastedown. A Lovely copy of Millais' well-known monograph on the four primary species: Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan.
A collection of portrait photographs to include images of a First World War working party officer in the Lancers, RAF, 5th Dragoon Guards, Wedding group, Royal Flying Corps in 'Maternity' type jacket to the reverse ' .... Jackman aged 16 years 82 days on active service 1916 and in a different hand 4th Balloon section ...', Artists Rifles, Oxfordshire and Bucks LI, Home Guard and others.36 images. Some with notes to the reverse and other information. *CR Mixed states, some with creases, the majority very nice examples.
An eight pointed star with dark blue enamel centering on a portrait of Florence Nightingale in profile with Fleur De Lys and other symbols to the corners. Engraved to the reverse Nightingale School St Thomas Hospital, Loyalty, Joan Martin 1952. In John Pinches leather case of issue titled in gilt to the cover. The award 4cm. With an unmarked Gold brooch similar in design with Fleur De Lys to the angles. *CR Slight loss to one part of enamel, light scuffing and marking to case.
An oval portrait photograph of a young Edward, Prince of Wales, in a casual pose with jumper over his shoulders. Signed 'Edward' and 'Osborne 1907' to the mount. In a rectangular silver photograph frame with Prince of Wales Feathers to the top, hallmarked for Birmingham 1908. 33 x 20 cm. It is believed that this photograph was a gift from the young Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, (1894-1972), presumably thirteen or fourteen years old at the time. Edward joined the Royal Naval College in Osborne in May 1907 and studied there for two years before progressing to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. According to family tradition this photograph was a gift to their ancestor, a naval Officer who was working at Osborne at the time. *CR Slight fading and marking to mount. Central feather lacking top.
A portrait of a soldier in uniform wearing three medals for Crimea, Order of Medjidieh and Turkish Crimea. A sword hilt visible to the lower edge of the portrait, and collar with crown rank Oil on board under a heavy varnish, 28 x 21 cm, in oak frame, overall 33.5 x 27.5 cm. *CR Heavy varnish and horizontal damage to the centre.
* WWI Nursing. A collection of approximately 120 WWI postcards of WWI nursing, including Children's Ward, Reigate and Redhill Hospital, New Cottage Hospital Purley, a real photo postcard of Miss A.M. Beard, Matron, Purley & District Cottage Hospital, Ingrim Road War Hospital, Croydon Infirmary, Lady of the Lake Ward, Waverley Abbey Military Hospital, Hull Royal Infirmary, a portrait photograph of a highly decorated WWI nurse and further photographs of nurses, the V.A.D. on parade and other related postcards, together with a similar album containing approximately 130 postcards, this album also containing WWI women at work in the munitions factories and fields QTY: (1)
* Lendon (Warwick William, 1883-1971). Imperial Airways arrival at Croydon circa 1930s, monochrome watercolour and gouache, signed lower right, 28 x 25.5 cm, mount aperture, framed and glazed, frame size 47 x 45 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Warwick William Lendon (1883-1971) was a professional illustrator who worked in London between 1910 to 1940s. His work includes commissions for Deans London Art Agency and he also did illustrations for Punch, The Sketch and The Tatler. Lendon exhibited from 1918 to 1921 at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Society of Graphic Art, and the New English Art Club. He was elected a member of the Society of Graphic Art in 1925. His work can be found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal Air Force Museum.
* Giffard (Henri, 1825-1882). Le Ballon de Mr. H. Giffard, 1878, cabinet card photograph, mounted on card, with outer ruled border and title in red, 16 x 10.75 cm, together with another carte-de-visite photograph of Giffard's Balloon by René Dagron, circa 1878, with photographers name and address printed in purple to verso, Photographie Dagron, 1, Rue d'Hauteville, 34 Boulevard, Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, Photographie Microscopique, 10.5 x 6.5 cm, plus four other early ballooning photographs, including a carte-de-visite portrait of Léon Gambetta, by Etienne Carjat & Cie. circa 1870, a large photograph of passengfers in a hot air balloon by J. Beau, Photographie Hippique et Vélocipedique, 51 Roue de Passy, Paris, 24 x 16 cm, a carte-de-visite photographic reproduction of the Crystal Palace by T. Wright, an amateur photograph of an American airship taking its first flight at Pittsburg in 1908, with original inscription in ink to verso 'Taken in Schenley Park on October 3, 1908, its first ascention in Pittsburg length 71 ft. dia. 8 ft. weight 500lbs, frame work made of (white pine) balloon (oiled silk) 32 coats of linseed oil motor (four cylinders) run by gasoline', 15 x 17.5 cm, a stereocard photograph, circa 1880s, titled in ink to verso Avenue des Cerises a Paris, the yellow card surround stamped E.L., plusTissandier (Gaston). Le Grande Ballon Captif a Vapeur de M. Henry Giffard, Cour des Tuileries - Paris, 1878, avec de nom breuses illustrations par M. Albert Tissandier, Paris: G. Masson, editeur, Juillet 1878, wood engraved illustrations, some spotting, original pale green printed wrappers, with glassine overwrapper, a little frayed, 8vo, and a 1909 glass lantern slide of the Clément-Bayard Dirigible, entitled Take me up DearyQTY: (9)NOTE:Henri Giffard also ordered the Legion d'Honneur in 1863 for his work on steam engines, but he is best known as the inventor of the Ballon Captif a Vapeur, or hot air balloon that was exhibited during the 1878 Paris Exposition, during which passengers could experience a panorama of Paris seen from the basket, 'a panorama of Paris, seen from the basket of the large Captif Steam balloon in the courtyard of the Tuileries'. The balloon ascended to heights of 500 or 600 metres. Twelve ascents took place each day, which each ascent taking up to forty passengers.The photographic portrait of Léon Gambetta was probably published around 1870, following the Minister for Home Affairs escape from the Siege of Paris in 1870 by Balloon, becoming a French national hero as a consequence.
* German Military Beer Stein. A pre WWI porcelain lithophane beer stein which commemorates King's German Legion, 1 Infantry "König" 9th Company, München for the period of 1898-1899, finely decorated in multiple colours with transfer print and overpainted showing soldiers and the town hall, the base with portrait lithophane and the pewter cover with a jewelled glass top inset with a pictorial image of soldiers, with a heraldic lion thumbpiece, 23 cm high, together with another similar for 19th Infantry Regiment König Victor Emanuel III fighting the Italian for the period of 1911-1913, showing two military leaders and various battle scenes with three rows of names, the base with a lithophane of a courting couple, the pewter cover with a jewelled glass top inset with a pictorial image of soldiers with a heraldic lion thumbpiece, 27 cm high QTY: (2)
* Log Book. WWII Royal Canadian Air Force log book kept by Flying Officer D.H. Shorland No. 130 (Punjab) Squadron and later No. 548 Squadron in Australia, a Spitfire pilot who trained with No. 1 British Flying Training School in Texas, U.S.A., for the period January 1942 to June 1946, detailing seven operational sweeps in Spitfire V’s, mostly as close escort to bombers, during August and September 1943, with two group photographs in front of Spitfires, and a copy of Detached Flight, The Book of No. 1 B.F.T.S., Vol I, a photographic record with portrait photos of all the pilots on Courses 4, 5, 6 & 7, amongst whom was LAC A. L. Aaron who later won the Victoria CrossQTY: (1)
* WWI RAMC. An album of photographs and postcards relating to the Royal Army Medical Corps, circa 1916-17, including Ambulance train postcards, interior views of ward cars of an ambulance train, approximately 70 black and white snapshot photographs c.1916, all laid down on paper and with ink captions, for example 'D Ward on way to Middlesborough' dated 14 August 1916 showing staff and patients in a ward car, Lieutenant Frederick James Purcell Daly with No 15 Ambulance Train plus two portrait photographs of this officer, Private B Bannister, RAMC (29610) standing by an ambulance train with his dog "Punch", various locations mentioned, Aston Rowant, Langley Bassett and Netley, approximately 115 postcards (75 real photo postcards) many showing WWI hospitals including Forest Park Hospital, Fair Hope End Cross Hospital, Pendleton, Manchester, Long Eaton V.A.D. Hospital, Anstie Grange Hospital, Aahbourne Red Cross Hospital, Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol, various photographs of Sister Jenkins of the Territorial Force Nursing Service, humorous WWI hospital colour postcards, wounded soldiers being treated, ambulances and French air ambulance bi-planeQTY: (approx. 185)
* Graf Zeppelin. A table runner used on a Zeppelin circa 1930s, ivory cotton with a portrait of Ferdinand von Zeppelin within a laurel wreath surmounted by an airship and Germanic crown, stitched in red cotton with a monogram, some minor staining, 114.5 x 50 cm, together with another Graf Zeppelin table cloth, similarly stitched with a Zeppelin over a town and profiles of Graf Zeppelin, 109 x 48 plus other related textiles including a crochet RNAS table cloth, 44 x 46 cm QTY: (5)
* The Victorian 'Tel-El-Kebir' V.C. dress miniature medal group attributed to Major W.M.M. Edwards., Highland Light Infantry, who led a party of the regiment to storm a redoubt and rushed alone into the battery, killing the artillery officer in charge before being knocked out and later rescueda) Victoria Crossb) Coronation 1902 Medalc) Coronation 1911 Medald) Egypt 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebire) Khedives Star 1882-91f) Turkey, Order of the Medjidie, Fourth Class breast badge, very fine and better, swing mounted as worn, with copied research plus an original black and white portrait photograph of the recipientQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: Private collection, Devon.William Mordaunt Marsh Edwards (1855-1912) was born at Hardingham Hall, Norfolk. He was educated at Rottingdean, Eaton and Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently commissioned Sub Lieutenant in 1876. He joined the 74th Highlanders in 1877 and served in the Strait Settlements, Hong Kong and Egypt from 1882 onwards.V.C. London Gazette: 13 February 1883'On 13 September 1882 at Tel-El-Kebir, Egypt, Lieutenant Edwards led a party of the Highland Light Infantry to storm a redoubt. The Lieutenant who was in advance of his party, rushed alone into the battery, killed the artillery officer in charge and was himself knocked down by a gunner with a rammer and was only rescued by the timely arrival of three men of his regiment.'The full-size group is part of the Lord Ashcroft Medal Collection. The collection does not have a miniature group.
* WWI group to Captain A.E. Jury, O.B.E., M.I.D., Royal Army Medical Corpsa) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for Garrard & Co, London 1919b) British War and Victory Medal with M.I.D. oakleaves (Capt. A.E. Jury.)c) Special Constabulary Medal, G.V.R. (Arthur E. Jury), generally extremely fine, with an original portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, miniature dress medals and research QTY: (4)NOTE:Arthur Ernest Jury served during WWI with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette: 24 February 1917) and O.B.E. (London Gazette: 30 December 1918). He resided in Carlton, Nottinghamshire.
* Ballooning Prints. St. Cloud en Ballon, vue prise de Boulogne, by Joules Arnaut, London: Gambart, Junin & Co., 1st February 1846, by Lemercier, Paris, after Joules Arnaut, published by Jeannin, Paris, and Gambart, Junin & Co., London, large uncoloured lithograph printed, with margins, a few marks and short closed tears to blank margins, sheet size, 39 x 56 cm, together with other 19th and early 20th century ballooning prints, including an engraved portrait of Vincent Lunardi, published by John Walker 1784, several late reprintings of engravings by John Kay, a hand-coloured engraving entitled An Exact Representation of Mr. Lunardi's Grand Air Balloon, circa 1780s (some staining), an engraved group portrait entitled A Consultation previous to an Arial Voyage from London to Weilburg in Nassau (published by Henry Graves, November 1, 1843, a hand-coloured engraving portrait by N. Whittock of John Hampton, Aeronaut, born 29th August 1799, published by J. Hampton, Hanover Place, Regents Park, circa 1839, togther with an original issue of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction, Saturday June 15, 1839 with an account of Mr Hampton's ascent from Cremorne House, Chelsea, Thursday June 13, 1839, a four-page issue La Lune, 2 Juin, 1867, featuring a hand-coloured cartoon of Nadar to the front cover, etc.QTY: (25)
* A Poignant WWII D.F.M. medal to Warrant Officer (Pilot) Michael De Beauchamp Collenette, 108 & 61 Squadron, RAFVR, killed in action on 28 April 1943Distinguished Flying Medal, G.VI.R. (742200 F/Sgt. M. De. B. Collenette. R.A.F.), edge bruises and suspension loose, otherwise good very fine, with copied newspaper cuttings, plus a portrait of the recipient wearing D.F.M. ribbon, oil on board, indistinctly signed lower right, 43 x 36 cm, period gesso moulded frame, glazed, frame size 46 x 39.5 cm, and several letters from the recipient to his sister for the period of 1940-41QTY: (1)NOTE:D.F.M. London Gazette: 15 May 1942'During a daylight raid on Brest, he skilfully evaded attacks by enemy fighters, released his bombs, and returned safely to base. On another occasion, on the return journey from a raid on Emsden, he machine-gunned a convoy off the Dutch coast at a height of 500 feet in the face of severe opposition. "His coolness and his courage have been admirable"Michael De Beauchamp Collenette (1920-1943) was the son of Frank De B. (RFC) and Marie Nora Collenette of Brighton, Sussex. He enlisted as a pilot in the RAFVR in 1938 and served during WWII with 108 and 61 Squadron. He was killed in action on 28 April 1943 when Lancaster I W4898 took off from Syerston for mine laying duties over the Baltic. The aircraft was reported "presumed lost in the target area". De Beauchamp Collenette and six crew were all killed. De Beauchamp Collenette is commemorated at Frederikshavn Cemetery, Denmark.The letters included in the lot give a graphic insight into the recipient's service in the early stages of the war for example14 April 1941 'I'm sorry I didn't write to you for your birthday. I didn't forget it but I've been hellishly busy lately. I haven't even had time to shite... I did 3 raids in 5 night and the rest of the time was flying or in bed. I didn't have time to shave and I was going round dirty'20 May 1941 'I did 3 raids in 4 nights at the last full moon ... On one raid I did to Mannheim we had a pretty narrow escape. I was flying and the captain was sitting beside me as we were crossing the Dutch coast near Ostend, we got picked up by searchlights and a few moments later they let fly and the first shot exploded just in front of us. There was a terrific flash and a bang and the glass from the windscreen flew all over us and the cockpit was filled with smoke. A piece of shrapnel had gone through the windscreen right between our heads they were banging away at us for about 2 minutes and the kite was fairly riddled with holes... when it was all over the captain said "rotten shites" I couldn't help laughing.'7 July 1941 'I don't feel like writing, I'm fed up, fucked off and far from home, bitched buggered and bewildered and if I don't get some leave soon i'll go crackers.'
* Three: Second Lieutenant L. Allingham, M.I.D., Middlesex Regiment1914 Star with clasp (L-11861 C.S.Mjr L. Allingham. 4/Midd'x R.), British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oakleaves (2. Lieut. L. Allingham, good very fine, with Soldier's Small Book, three regimental cap badges, a portrait photograph of the recipient in battle dress, an officer's group photograph plus two army educational certificatesQTY: (3)NOTE:M.I.D. London Gazette: 17 February 1915.Leonard Allingham was born in Worth, East Grinstead, Sussex in 1889, he served on the Western Front with the 4th Bn, Middlesex Regiment from 14 August 1914.
* A group of five miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel C. Childs-Clarke, M.V.O., O.B.E., Royal Marine Light Infantrya) The Royal Victorian Order, M.V.O., Member’s 4th Class breast badge, silver-gilt and enamelb) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-giltc) Egypt Medal 1882-89, dated reversed) British War Medale) Khedive's Star, 1884, very fine, swing mounted as worn, with research including copied portrait photographs of the recipient in full dressQTY: (5)NOTE:Provenance: Sotheby's, 11 May 1989, lot 337 (when sold as part of a family group). Charles Child's Clarke (1861-1934) joined the Royal Marines in 1879 and served in the Egyptian Expedition. He was promoted to Captain in 1889 and Major in 1897 and during a visit to the Colonies by H.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 1901, he commanded the Marine Detachment aboard H.M.S. Ophir and as a result of this tour he was created an M.V.O. (reverse no. 34) and placed on half-pay and in 1902 he was appointed the Barrack Master at Deal. He received his O.B.E. for duties ashore during WWI.
![* [Orme (Edward)]. The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France, from the Year 1808 to 1814, under the Comma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/401be277-87ef-4c75-9ceb-b14e01181c32/a03ab323-13b4-4e09-9729-b16a01048d41/468x382.jpg)
* [Orme (Edward)]. The Battles of the British Army in Portugal, Spain and France, from the Year 1808 to 1814, under the Command of England's Great Captain Arthur, Duke Of Wellington, London: edited, published and sold by Edwd Orme, 1815, 13 hand-coloured aquatint roundels each mounted separately on card with printed text verso (6.6 cm diameter), housed in white metal medallion case by Thomason & Co, Direx, the obverse with a profile portrait of Wellington facing left titled 'Aux Dvx De Wellington', the reverse with 'Volta Pvblica' within a wreath, the Waterloo roundel pasted to the inner lid, the base with a printed roundel and the publisher's details omitted by an additional piece of paper inscribed in ink with the death date of the Duke of Wellington, the 12 loose roundels retaining some of the original string but some missing and therefore not joined together, some with old tape to retain the string, the box 74 mm diameter QTY: (1)
* Berne-Bellecour (Jean Jacques, 1874-1939). Portrait of the French aviator George Guynemer, 1918, watercolour on paper, showing the famous WWI French aviator standing next to his Spad aircraft "Vieux Charles", signed and dated 1918 lower right, 34 x 31 cm, mount aperture, framed and glazed, frame size 50.5 x 45.5 cm, biographical information (in French) to verso QTY: (1)NOTE:George Guynemer (1894-1917) was the second-highest-scoring French fighter ace with a final score of 54 aerial victories during WWI. He was a national hero at the time of his death (having failed to return from a combat mission) and this watercolour has almost certainly been commissioned as a tribute piece.
* WWI Nursing. A collection of WWI postcards, comprising an album of approximately 50 real photograph postcards, mostly female bruising, including V.A.D. Ilfracombe 1919, Commandant and Staff Waverley, Abbey Military Hospital, Nurse Cavell's Grave, Norwich Cathedral, Miss Florence Nightingale (as an older woman), several other Florence Nightingale cards, Bath War Hospital, Combe Park and various war hospitals, another album with approximately 80 WWI ship postcards, including S.S. Dunvegan Castle, P&O S.S. Egypt, Troopship Plassy, another featuring White Star Liners Olympic and Titanic, another with 35 portrait photographs of female nurses, one illustrated card of a woman in RFC uniform, a photo postcard of a woman driver of the RFC and miscellaneous cardsQTY: (approx. 170)
* Five: Lieutenant J.H. Middleton, Hampshire Regiment1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army clasp, Defence and War Medals, Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension (Lt J.H. Middleton Hampshire R.), extremely fine and swing mounted as worn, with several original photographs of the recipient's military service including a portrait in military uniform, a large group photograph titled '201st British Military Mission to Canada Petawawa 1941', Officer's Release Book and other related ehemeraQTY: (5)
VICTORIAN PORTRAIT MINIATURE, AFTER CLAUDE ALEXANDRE BELIN the painted circular female portrait signed Belin and set into a tortoiseshell trinket box with a shagreen-effect casing in salmon pink/redThis lot contains elephant ivory material. Several countries, including in the EU and USA, prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding.Ivory Act 2018 (2022) compliant with APHA registration reference 8APCETPS 8cm diameter
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