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JAMES MCBEY (1883-1959) TWO ORIGINAL GREETINGS CARDS: 1928 AND 1933. 1) A portrait of a printer with a young girl in the workshop. Pen and wash sketch, on brown paper, inscribed: "I hope the New Year will prove still another good one, James McBey 1928", 23cm x 16cm; also 2) A portrait of the same gentleman at the printing press. Pen and wash sketch,on brown paper, inscribed: "With all the best wishes for Xmas 1933 - I hope there's a break in the clouds at last, James McBey, Rabat Morrocco, 14 December 1933", 13 cmx 19cm; a letter verso reads: "Dear C.... We are marooned here for God knows how long as there has been 40 days rain and all the railway have been washed away. I'm to try to get this air mail. I often wonder if things have taken a turn for the better, and would like if you would send me a note to the British Post Office, Tangier, Morocco. Wish best wishes for us both Yours James McBey, Rabat, Morocco, 1933." (2)
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JOSEPH SIMPSON (1879-1939) PORTRAIT OF FRANK BRANGWYN Engraving, signed and numbered 69/75 in pencil, PUNT GUNNER, Engraving, on blue paper, signed and numbered 10/75 in pencil, uframed A PIPE MAJOR, Engraving, signed and numbered 4/75 in pencil, unframed 21cm x 35cm, 21.5cm x 30cm, 20cm x 15.5cm respectively (3)
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A pair of lead models of greyhounds, late 20th century, cast after the model of the bitch Eos, by John Francis (1760-1861), portrayed standing, with raised, alert heads, the tails curling back to the legs, 80cm high, 102cm long. The original bronze model of Eos, Prince Albert's favourite greyhound, was exhibited at the Royal Academy by Francis in 1848. Albert had brought Eos with him from Germany in 1840 when he married Queen Victoria. He commissioned models for both the Italian Gardens at Osborne House and also for Windsor Castle. The Queen also commissioned a portrait oil of the hound from Sir Edwin Landseer (1803-1873) as a gift for the Prince, now in the Queen's Collection at Buckingham Palace.
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A late 19th century satinwood and painted elbow chair, in George III style, circa 1890, painted throughout with flowers in the neoclassical style, the rectangular back with pierced trellis splats centred by a male and female portrait, above downswept arms, on square tapering legs with spade feet, 56cm wide
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A late 19th Century gilt metal mounted and alabaster Mantel Clock, the plinth shaped case surmounted by lacquered brass finials, with applied portrait medallions, over further finials, on a shaped plinth base, on compressed bun feet, to a cast brass bezel enclosing a Roman chapter ring, and circular brass movement, with anchor escapement, and outside count wheel strike on a bell, height 14 ½”
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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: printed for Lackington, Allen and Co, 1815. New edition, 8vo, 12 volumes, portrait frontispiece (offset onto title of volume one), folding map, contemporary diced calf gilt, some slight cracking to hinges, some corners bumped, some foxing to endpapers, interiors in the majority clean (12) Note: An attractive set of a classic work in contemporary calf
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Nonesuch Press - Burton, Richard. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London, 1925 4to, 2 volumes, one of 750 copies, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer, original quarter vellum gilt, backstrips heavily rubbed, fading to boards, corners bumped, interior clean; Herbert, George The Temple. London, 1927 8vo, number 577 of 1500 copies, portrait frontispiece, original decorative cloth, some browning to endpapers, offsetting to title; Beckford, William Vathek. London, 1929 8vo, illustrated by Marion V. Dorn, number 175 of 1050 copies, original quarter vellum gilt, corners bumped, interior clean (4)
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Neild, James. State of the Prisons in England, Scotland, and Wales, extending to various places therein assigned, not for the debtor only. but for felons also, and other less criminal offenders, together with some useful documents, observations, and remarks, adapted to explain and improve the conditions of prisons in general. London: John Nichols, 1812. First edition, 4to., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved plan of Newgate, contemporary half calf, modern rebacking, original lettering piece retained, neat repair to the lower margin of p. 149 Note:Goldsmiths' 20587. Neild was treasurer of the Society formed in 1773 for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts and remained associated with the Society until his death. An important part of the Society's activities was the visitiation and investigation of prisons in England, Scotland and Wales and petitioning for the release of debtors. The Society achieved the release of some 19063 debtors (with 11399 wives and 32871 children)
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Brooke, Frances. The Excursion. By Mrs Brooke; Author of the History of Lady Julia Mandeville and of Emily Montague. London: T. Cadell, 1777. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, half-titles, contemporary half calf with marbled sides, red morocco lettering pieces, occasional light spotting, small stain to B10-11 of volume 1 Note: Frances Brooke (1724-1789), novelist, playwright, essayist and translator, was a member of the vibrant literary scene in late eighteenth-century London that included Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Anna Seward and Hannah More. In 1755-56 she edited a weekly periodical, The Old Maid, and in 1763 published her first novel, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. David Garrick's failure to stage her play Virginia: a Tragedy led her searingly satirical portrait of him in The Excursion Provenance: Henrietta Makdougall, contemporary inscriptions on endpapers.
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Scotland - Chalmers, George. The Life of Thomas Ruddiman. London, 1794 8vo, appendix No. 3 present, lacking portrait frontispiece, original boards, rebacked, some water staining to first few leaves; Chambers, Robert Traditions of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1825 small 8vo, 2 volumes, contemporary calf, rebacked, interior clean; Chambers, Robert The Life and Works of Robert Burns. Edinburgh, 1886 the library edition, 8vo, decorative green calf gilt extra, backstrips worn, splitting, backstrips loose, interior clean; Nettlebottom, Nehemiah The Fudge family of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1820 second edition, 8vo, original boards, some cracking to backstrip; Edinburgh A weekly magazine or Edinburgh Amusement. Edinburgh, 1772 8vo, volume XVII, modern quarter calf gilt, interior clean; Cockburn, Henry Journal of Henry Cockburn. Edinburgh, 1874 8vo, 2 volumes, later half calf gilt, some rubbing, interior clean and 13 others volumes (23)
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Knights Templars of New York Certificate that 'Our trusty and well beloved Brother Sir Anthony Charleton was by us Dub'd a Knight of the most Noble and Right Worshipful order of Knights Templar. we also certify that he is a Loyal Arch Excellent Mason. Given under our hand at our encampment at New York Island, 25 Sept., 1780 Tho. Stewart, G.M., Cha. Morison, & Peter Tayler, Gmo., Ja. Harvey, scribe', manuscript on vellum, black wax seal, 22 x 19cm, framed and glazed; and a framed silhouette portrait reputedly of Sir Anthony Charleton, 9 x 6cm (2) Note: The Knights Templar is the name of a Masonic-related organization, part of a branch of Freemasonry called the York Rite. The date is very early in the establishment of the Knights Templar in America. We have been unable to find any further information on the individuals mentioned, but imagine that they were the three primary officers and the secretary (scribe) of the commandery where Charleton held membership The miniature portrait is reputedly of Sir Anthony Charleton, but dates from c. 1820 and depicts a gentleman in his twenties or thirties
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Theatre--Wyndham, Sir Charles (1837-1919), actor. An autograph album compiled by Mrs Wyndham with the signatures, many with quotations by fellow actors and actresses including Henry Irving, Charles and Ellen Kean, Fanny Stirling, Daniel Bandmann, Mary Frances Scott-Siddons, Kate J. Bateman Crowe, Ada Cavendish, J.B. Blackstone, John Lawrence Toole, Charles Neaves, William Charles Macready, Andrew Halliday, musicians and composers including Sir Charles Halle (with 5 bars of music), W.S. Gilbert (with self portrait caricature as Bab), and artists, Henrietta and Edward Ward, Sam Bough (with watercolour study for a picture of Cazow Forest 1851), William Leighton Leitch (with study of a Swiss backdrop for the operetto Maid of Switzerland), Sir Edwin Landseer (with ink sketch, cropped, of Edward Parratt Esq.), William Powell Frith (with ink sketch of a head), Walter Williams (with 2 small ink sketches, one of Mumbles Castle, S. Wales), W. Holman Hunt, George Cruikshank, Keeley Hallswelle (with watercolour sketch of a dead figure), Kenneth Macleay (with sketch of Glen Cloy, Arran, 1864), William McTaggart, Charles Lees, John Hutchison & many others, contemporary red morocco, upper hinge broken, c.1870-1880
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Miscellaneous - Milton, John. Paradise lost and Paradise regain'd. Birmingham: printed by John Baskerville, 1760 2 volumes, contemporary calf gilt, red and black labels, hinges split, worn at edges, interiors clean, owner's ink inscription on titles; Lawrence, Richard The complete farrier and British sportsman. London, 1816 4to, frontispiece, 12 plates, contemporary quarter black morocco gilt, red label, rubbed, cloth torn and peeling from board, foxing, offsetting, owner's ink inscription on front endpaper; Flaxman, John The iliad of Homer. 39 engraved plates [with] The odyssey of Homer. 34 engraved plates [with] Compositions from the tragedies of Aeschylus. 31 engraved plates, all London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1805 oblong folio, half black calf, red label, rubbed at hinges, cracking, corners worn, browning along lower and right edge, foxing throughout; Johnson, Samuel The lives of the English poets and a criticism on their works. Dublin: for Whitestone, etal, 1781 8vo, 3 volumes, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, boards loose, hinges split, rear endpapers of volume II torn, some foxing to upper edges of volume III; Ibid The lives of the most eminent English poets. London: for J. Buckland, 1793 8vo, 4 volumes, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf gilt, worn, boards loose, browning to edges, offsetting to title of volume I; Ibid Miscellaneous and fugitive pieces. London: for T. Davis, 1774. Second edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, contemporary tree calf gilt, red and black labels, dutch marble endpapers, rubbed, hinges weakening, occassional foxing and 2 others (15)
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Guillim, John. A Display of Heraldrie. the fourth edition. London: Jacob Blome, 1660 woodcut coats-of-arms, contemporary calf, [Wing G2219], upper corner of HHH1-QQQ1 cut away with loss of page numeral, lacking P4 and Q1 lower corner of RR1-2 torn away with loss of a letter, rebacked, slightly rubbed, short split at head of upper joint; Thomson, James The Seasons. Perth: R. Morison, 1793 4to, additional engraved title, portrait and engraved plates, contemporary diced russia gilt, spine gilt; Demosthenes. Orations. London: A. Millar, 1757 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, one cover detached, Blackstone, Sir William. Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1787 tenth edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed; Warton, J. An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, 1806 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, rubbed, one cover virtually detached; Ramsay, Allan. The Gentle Shepherd. New York, W. Gowans, 1852 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt; and 6 others, worn (Histoire des Guerres Civiles de France, The Scottish Nation) (17)
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Halford, Frederic M An Angler's Autobiography. London: Vinton, 1903 number 5 of 100 copies of the edition de luxe signed by the author, half-title, portrait frontispiece, plates and 27 mounted india-proof photogravures, with tissue guards, publisher's green crushed morocco gilt, fish motifs on spine, a few plates lightly spotted, one at p. 76 with marginal tear, edges of binding rubbed, covers slightly scratched
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Phillip II, King of Spain, 1556-1598. Carta Executoria de Hidalguia in favour of Francisco de Escalante of Seville, royal official in Seville and Granada, in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 43 leaves, (7 blank), plus 2 contemporary flyleaves, lacking one leaf after f1 otherwise complete, 34 lines, written in dark brown ink in a fine rounded gothic hand, every page within a gold border with elaborate foliate flourishing at top and bottom of pages, fourteen large illuminated initials- (3 to 10-line, mostly 7 line) in designs of gold heightened with colour on coloured grounds with white tracery, large portrait miniature of Philip II enthroned, 107 x 97mm., showing the king seated on a renaissance throne lettered ''Filipus 2'', four pages with full-page miniatures or coats-of-arms surrounded by full borders, showing 1) the Crucifixion, the grantor and his son kneeling by the Cross, landscape background, scatter border of naturalistic flowers in the Ghent/Bruges style, 2) St. James on horseback vanquishing the Moors, landscape background, border of putti,caryatids, etc. 3) and 4) coats-of-arms within very elaborate mantling and with full borders including flowers, putti with masks, etc., additions at end, signatures at both ends, fine contemporary Spanish goatskin gilt and blind-stamped over paste boards, roll-tooled in concentric panels of classical heads within foliage, military accoutrements and ropework designs, gilt stamped with floral and rosette tools and a cockle shell, binding skillfully repaired, 304 x 213mm., [Granada, 9 December, 1564], green morocco-backed buckram box Note: The fine Grenadan binding is by the same binder as a Carta Executoria of 1570 which was lot 2997 in the sale of Major J.R.Abbey at Sothebys, 20 June 1978; the first and second roll-tooled borders are identical with the first and third on the Abbey binding and four of the small gilt floral stamps occur on both bindings
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Pinkerton, John. The History of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart to that of Mary. London: C. Dilly, 1797 first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt with red morocco lettering and volume pieces and black morocco onlays, bookplates and inscription of James Wedderburn of Clapham Common, upper joints splitting Note: A finely bound copy
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Natural History & Gardening - Loudon, J.C An Encyclopedia of Plants. London, 1836 8vo, modern half calf gilt, interior clean; Thompson, Robert The Gardener's Assistant. London, c.1870's, 8vo, 12 coloured plates, contemporary half calf, upper board loose rubbed at edges, ink stamps to title and half title; Goldsmith, Oliver A History of the Earth and Animated Nature. London, 1848 8vo, 2 volumes, engraved titles with hand coloured vignettes, portrait frontispiece in volume I, 45 hand coloured plates, modern cloth gilt, new endpapers, staining to titles, some foxing; Kirby, W.F. European Butterflies and Moths. London, 1882 4to, 60 [of 61] coloured plates, half morocco gilt, hinges cracking, rubed at edges, some foxing; Sowerby, G.B Monograph of the Genus Conus. London, 1858 8vo, 36 plates, original cloth gilt, rubbed, corners bumped, some light foxing and 11 others. Sold not subject to return. (17)
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Flavell, John. The works. Edinburgh: heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, 1701. Folio, 2 volumes in 1 engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved emblematic plate, folding plate of a "Spiritual Compass", modern half sprinkled calf, marbled boards, small marginal tear to portrait frontispiece, frontispiece laid down, fraying to margin of titlepage, titlepage also laid down.
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Geology--Werner, Abraham Gottlob. New Theory of the Formation of Veins; with its application to the art of Working Mines. Edinburgh: for A. Constable, 1808 first English edition, translated by Charles Anderson, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary calf, slight browning and offsetting to title, rubbed, upper hinge weak; bound with Henry Reeve's An Essay on the Torpidity of Animals, 1809
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Halford, Frederic M Floating Flies and How to Dress Them. London: Sampson, Low, 1886 first edition, large 8vo, half-title, title in red and black, 10 hand-coloured plates, illustrations in text, 32 page publisher's catalogue at end dated October 1885 publisher's brown cloth, t.e.g., uncut; The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. London: Routledge, 1913 first edition, large 8vo, frontispiece & 43 plates, original black cloth, extremities lightly rubbed; Making a Fishery. London: Cox, 1895 first edition, 8vo, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 4 plates, illustrations, publisher's blue cloth, inscription of G. Thomas 1896 on endpaper (3)
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Halford, Frederic M Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice. London: Sampson, 1889 first edition, 8vo, 26 plates (5 colour), advertisement leaf, publisher's brown cloth gilt, inscribed "J.R. Walker from R.C.N. Palaviet, 1894" on half-title, head of spine slightly rubbed; Modern Development of the Dry Fly. London: Routledge, 1910 first edition, 8vo, half-title, portrait frontispiece, 43 plates (25 coloured), illustrations in text, publisher's dark blue cloth, armorial bookplate of Hon. John Wayland Leslie of Combe Court, spine slightly faded; Dry-Fly Entomology. London: Vinton, 1897 first edition, large 8vo, 28 plates (10 hand-coloured), illustrations, publisher's blue half roan, light discolouration to some plates, slightly rubbed, inscription of Henry Norman 1897 (3)
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Henderson, William. Notes and Reminiscences of My Life as an Angler. for private circulation only. London: printed by Spottiswoode, 1876 first edition, 8vo, author's presentation copy inscribed "W.H. Mellish Esq. from Mr William Henderson, 19 Nov. 1891 in remembrance", mounted albumen portrait, 5 wood-engraved plates, publisher's brown cloth, [Westwood & Satchell, p.114]
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Johnson, T.B The Sportsman's Cyclopedia. London, 1831 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 30 plates, [one coloured and folding], contemporary half calf, rubbed, some spotting, owner's ink inscription to title; [Sport] Field Book. London, 1833 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed at edges, some browning to title; Needham, T.H. The Complete Sportsman. London, 1817 8vo, later half green morocco gilt, sunned, bookplate (3)
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Kelson, George M The Salmon Fly: How to Dress it and How to Use it. London: the Author, 1895 first edition, 4to, portrait and 8 coloured plates, illustrations in text, advertisement leaf before title and 45pp. publisher's advertisements at end, original cloth, rebacked retaining original spine, rubbed and faded Note: A seminal work on the salmon fly. No copy in the John Simpson Angling Library
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Maxwell, W.H Highlands and Islands. London: George Routledge and Co., 1852 8vo, two volumes in one, illustrated, portrait frontispiece, autograph letter signed by author laid in dated March 1840 contemporary full green morocco gilt extra, t.e.g., rubbed at extremities, browning to page edges, bookplate
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St John, Charles. A Tour in Sutherlandshire. London, 1849 8vo, 2 volumes, 10 plates, original green cloth gilt, backstrips faded, staining to boards, some foxing to early pages, bookplates; Ibid Natural History and Sport in Moray. Edinburgh, 1863 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary tree calf gilt, a.e.g., some cracking to hinges, interior clean, bookplate, a fine copy; Ibid Short Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. London, 1893. New edition, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, illustrations in text, original green cloth gilt, a fine copy (4)
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Hamilton, George, surgeon. A Voyage round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. Performed under the Direction of Captain Edwards in the Years 1790 1791 and 1792. Berwick: Printed by and for W. Phorson, B. Law and Son, London, 1793 first edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait, contemporary quarter calf with marbled sides and vellum tipped corners Note: A very good copy of the first edition in a contemporary binding. “With Bligh's return to England in 1790 the news of the mutiny on the Bounty became known. The authorities sent the frigate Pandora, under the command of Captain Edward Edwards, to capture the mutineers. George Hamilton, the ship's surgeon, maintained this account of the voyage. In 1791 the expedition arrived at Tahiti and arrested fourteen of the mutineers. A cage constructed on the quarterdeck of the ship to hold the prisoners was nicknamed "Pandora's Box."After leaving Tahiti, the ship was wrecked on the Pandora Reef in Endeavor Strait. Captain Edwards left the prisoners to drown, but the master-at-arms dropped the keys to the mutineers and ten of the fourteen survived. Returning to England in 1792 the mutineers were tried by a court-martial; three were hanged, the rest aquitted or pardoned" (Hill, 766); Ferguson 151. Provenance: Sir Henry Hay Makdougall of Makerstoun, armorial bookplate
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Skye - Gordon, Seton. The Charm of Skye. London, 1929 8vo, presentation copy by the author to John Mackenzie of Dunvegan, signed on front free endpaper, autograph letter signed from author tipped in, illustrated, original blue cloth gilt, boards stained, interior clean; Forbes, Alexander R. Place Names of Skye and adjacent Islands. Paisley, 1923 8vo, portrait frontispiece, original green cloth gilt, head and tail bumped, interior clean; MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin Over the Sea to Skye. London, [no date], 8vo, illustrated, original blue cloth gilt, faded backstrip, interior clean; Johnston, W. & A.K. Map of the Island of Skye. Edinburgh, c.1850's, approx 56cm wide by 72cm high, hand coloured in outline, previous folds, original red cloth gilt, upper board loose, backstrip and inner hinge tape-repaired, some foxing; Smith, Alexander A Summer in Skye. Edinburgh, 1912 8vo, illustrated, original blue cloth gilt, sunned, interior clean; Ferguson, Malcolm Rambles in Skye. Irvine, 1885 8vo, frontispiece, original red cloth gilt, bevelled boards, stained, interior clean and 15 others (25) Provenance: Bookplates of John Mackenzie of Dunvegan
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