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Preisdatenbank abonnierenMexico, 10 Pesos, 1959 (restrike), gold coin. Mexico, 10 Pesos, 1959 (restrike), Mexican coat of arms, featuring an eagle with a snake in its mouth, standing on a cactus and legend ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS. R. A left-facing portrait of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 8.3g, diameter 23mm, UNC.
Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1926, gold coin. Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1926, The old portrait of Queen Wilhelmina facing right with the inscription: GOD ZIJ MET ONS and KONINGIN WILHELMINA. R. The Dutch coat of arms which depicts a crowned shield featuring a lion holding a sword and arrows, with the legend KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 6.7g, diameter 22mm, UNC.
Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1912, gold coin. Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1912, The mature portrait of Queen Wilhelmina facing right with the inscription: GOD ZIJ MET ONS and KONINGIN WILHELMINA. R. The Dutch coat of arms which depicts a crowned shield featuring a lion holding a sword and arrows, with the legend KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 6.7g, diameter 22mm, cleaned but otherwise UNC.
Netherlands, 5 Guilders, 1912, gold coin. Netherlands, 5 Guilders, 1912, The mature portrait of Queen Wilhelmina facing right with the inscription: KONINGIN WILHELMINA. R. The Dutch coat of arms which depicts a crowned shield featuring a lion holding a sword and arrows, with the legend KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 3.3g, diameter 18mm, UNC.
Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1932, gold coin. Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1932, The old portrait of Queen Wilhelmina facing right with the inscription: GOD ZIJ MET ONS and KONINGIN WILHELMINA. R. The Dutch coat of arms which depicts a crowned shield featuring a lion holding a sword and arrows, with the legend KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 6.7g, diameter 22mm, UNC.
Mexico, 10 Pesos, 1959 (restrike), gold coin. Mexico, 10 Pesos, 1959 (restrike), Mexican coat of arms, featuring an eagle with a snake in its mouth, standing on a cactus and legend ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS. R. A left-facing portrait of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 8.3g, diameter 23mm, UNC.
Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1933, gold coin. Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1933, The old portrait of Queen Wilhelmina facing right with the inscription: GOD ZIJ MET ONS and KONINGIN WILHELMINA. R. The Dutch coat of arms which depicts a crowned shield featuring a lion holding a sword and arrows, with the legend KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 6.7g, diameter 22mm, UNC.
Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1912, gold coin. Netherlands, 10 Guilders, 1912, The mature portrait of Queen Wilhelmina facing right with the inscription: GOD ZIJ MET ONS and KONINGIN WILHELMINA. R. The Dutch coat of arms which depicts a crowned shield featuring a lion holding a sword and arrows, with the legend KONINGRIJK DER NEDERLANDEN, struck in 0.900 gold, weight 6.7g, diameter 22mm, UNC.
Queen Elizabeth II, Five Pounds, Guernsey Gold Proof Coin, 2020, 75th Anniversary VE Day. Queen Elizabeth II, Five Pounds, Guernsey Gold Proof Coin, 2020, 75th Anniversary VE Day Victory in Europe, with obverse portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley R. Features the image of a soldier standing in front of silhouettes of the Royal Family and Winston Churchill, it is inscribed 'GOD BLESS YOU ALL THIS IS YOUR VICTORY £5', reverse design by Mike Guilfoyle, struck in 999/1000 gold, diameter 38.61mm, weight 31.10g, in original box of issue with numbered certificate.
Circle of Fred Morgan (1847/56 - 1927), large scale portrait of 2 children, oil on canvas, unsigned, 130cm x 85cm, framedSmall 1cm canvas tear by the girl's shoe (not visible from the front), no other canvas damage patches or repairs, paint all stable, generally very good condition, frame also good
19th century oil on canvas, portrait of a young woman, unsigned, 67cm x 54cm, unframedCanvas has been re-lined, no sign of previous tears or repairs, bottom left-hand corner of canvas is lifting with slight dame staining along the bottom edge and a few very minor surface abrasions, generally good condition
Gospels.- Chemnitz (Martin) & others. Harmonia quatuor Evangelistarum, 2 vol., vol.1 engraved portrait frontispiece, additional pictorial title and full-page portrait to verso of letterpress title, vol.2 half-title with full-page engraved portrait verso, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, 2 errata ff. at end of each vol., both vol. some neat underlining in brown pencil or ink and occasional contemporary ink marginalia, some spotting or mostly light staining, mostly lightly browned throughout, attractive 19th century black crushed morocco gilt, spines in compartments, upper covers with central monogram of Rev. Theodore Williams, lower covers with central arms, some scuffing and marking, rubbed, folio, Frankfurt, for Zacharias Härtel, 1652.⁂ An attractive set of these commentaries on the Four Gospels. Provenance: Rev. Theodore Williams (1785-1875), Vicar of Hendon, who amassed a magnificent library and commissioned the finest binders of his time, including Derome, Payne, Charles Lewis, and John Clarke. He sold the library in 1827 (gilt monograms to bindings).
Bible (German).- [Luther (Martin)] Biblia das ist die gantze H. Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments, lacking front free endpaper, lacking engraved portrait and engraved title, title in red and black, wood engraved illustrations, scattered spotting and staining, one or two short tears, tiny worming affecting odd letter, bookplate, previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown and title, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, contemporary decorative calf over wooden boards, 7 metal corners only (of 8), metal clasps, lacking one, modern spine label, rubbed and worn, folio, Nurnberg, Christoph Endters, 1670
Forteguerri (Niccolò) Ricciardetto, 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 pictorial titles, initial and final blanks, the odd spot, lightly browned, handsome contemporary green crushed morocco, gilt, covers with roll tooled border within single gilt filets, spines in compartments and with double red morocco labels, some staining, g.e., 12mo (bindings 147 x 87mm.), London & Paris, Prault, 1767.⁂ An attractive set of this satirical poem, first published posthumously at the author's request in Venice in 1738, and promptly placed on the Index. The Ricciardetto had some influence on Byron in the writing of Beppo: A Ventian Story, written in Venice in 1817. Provenance: Princess Giuseppina di Lorena (ink inscription to front free endpaper of vol.1).
17th century Antiquary.- Gale (Thomas, Dean of York and antiquary, 1635/6-1702) Autograph Letter signed to Ralph Thoresby, 1p. with conjugate blank and address panel on verso, 171 x 164mm., York, 28th April 1699, thanking and returning to him the drawings of Almondbury and Maiden Castle, sending him a letter "of my old friend Pere Mabillon [Jean Mabillon(1632-1707), French Benedictine monk and scholar of the Congregation of Saint Maur]", and the antiquities of York, "we are here very poor of antiquityes. Some Observations about this City I have floating in my head; but realy have not time to putt them in paper", folds; and another, an engraved portrait of Thomas Gale, both removed from an album (2).
Law.- Jenkins (David) The Works of that Grave and Learned Lawyer Judge Jenkins, Prisoner in Newgate, engraved portrait frontispiece (very small chip lower corner, loss of letters), some light toning, hinges cracked but holding firm, contemporary calf, rubbed, [Wing ?J576A], for J. Gyles, 1648 § [Oates (Titus)] A Display of Tyranny:..., 2 parts in 1, first edition, light browning, 2 ff. with closed tears, ?lacking initial blank, contemporary calf, rebacked, [Wing O35 and O52], 1689-90 § Prynne (William) A New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny in their Late Prosecutions of Mr. William Pryn, title with partial ink inscription, small chip at lower corner (loss of some letters to psalm, and date) supplied in paper, two small closed tears with paper repairs to verso, title in typographical border (outer margin trimmed), typographical head-pieces, final errata leaf, occasional light browning or finger soiling, modern tree calf, [Wing P4018], for M. S., 1641 § The Arguments upon the writ of Habeas Corpus, ink stamp to title, ?lacking first gathering (A1-4), modern cloth, [Wing A3649], by M. F. for W. Lee et al., 1649; and 13 others, seventeenth century law, including several trial accounts, v.s. (17)
Law.- Trials.- The Only Genuine Edition of the Speeches of the Hon. T. Erskine and S. Kyd, esq. on the Trial of T. Williams for publishing Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, ink ownership inscription to title, 50pp., disbound, for Evans and Bone, [?1797] § The Whole Proceedings on the Trial... against Thomas Paine, second edition, by Martha Gurney, 1793 bound with 3 other trial proceedings, together 4 in 1, modern cloth-backed boards § Trial of Mr. Daniel Isaac Eaton, for publishing the third and last part of Paine's Age of Reason, portrait frontispiece, modern cloth, uncut, ?original wrappers bound-in, by Daniel Isaac Eaton, 1812; and 9 others relating to Paine, 8vo and 4to (12)⁂ I. Second edition: rare, first published by Debrett as The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine (1797).
Johnstone (Charles) Chrysal; or the Adventures of a Guinea, 2 vol., first edition, a few instances of minor spotting, bookplates, contemporary mottled calf, sympathetically rebacked retaining original backstrip, g.e., slipcase, for T. Beckett, 1760 § [Coleridge (Samuel) and Robert Southey] "Professor Richard Porson". The Devil's Walk, first separate edition, [c.1830], bound after The Real Devil's Walk, 1830, wood-engraved illustrations after Cruikshank, some light scattered foxing, bookplate, cloth-backed boards, corners rubbed § [Southey (Robert)] Wat Tyler, first edition, half-title, ink ownership inscription of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse to half-title, book-label, a few instances of minor spotting, contemporary calf by ?Rivière, 1817 § Hazlitt (William) Liber Amoris, engraved title with vignette portrait of Sarah Walker, three fly-titles to the parts, without advertisement leaf, bookplate, title lightly foxed as usual, contemporary calf, 1823; and c.45 others, literature, v.s. (c.50)
Parliamentary Reformers.- [Wilkes (John)] The Speeches of John Wilkes, 2 vol. in 1, contemporary half calf, neatly rebacked, boards a little rubbed, 1771 § [Cradock (Joseph)] The Life of John Wilkes, second edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece, bookplates, nineteenth century morocco-backed boards, scuffed, J. Wilkie, 1773 § State Trial for High Treason... Thomas Hardy, engraved portrait frontispiece, ink ownership inscription to title, B. Crosby, 1794 bound with The Trial of John Horne Tooke, for Allen and West, 1794 and The Trial of John Thelwall, for Allen and West, 1794, together 3 in 1, one or two instances of light spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked § Cobbett (William) A Collection of facts and observations, relative to the peace with Buonaparte, chiefly extracted from the Porcupine..., contemporary tree calf, Cobbett and Morgan, 1801; and c.25 others similar, by or relating to political and social reformers of the period, including the legal actions against them, v.s. (c.30)
East Asia.- Shipwreck.- M'Leod (John) Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, Along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account of her Subsequent Shipwreck, second edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, dated 1924, a few plates trimmed at fore-edge with partial loss to imprint, some light foxing, contemporary calf, spine gilt, lightly rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 559], 8vo, 1818.⁂ An account of the shipwreck of the Alceste in the Gaspar Strait, between the large islands Banca and Billiton in Indonesia, written by the ship's surgeon John M'Leod. The crew managed to reach a nearby island and, despite repeated attacks by Malay pirates, captain Murray Maxwell managed to bring all his men home without losing a single life. The party returned home as popular heroes and Maxwell was knighted for his service.
[Blackburne (Francis)] Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, Esq., F.R. and A.S.S., 2 vol. including Appendix, first edition, engraved frontispiece of Britannia, pictorial dedication and 29 engraved plates only (of 34/35), some by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, including portraits of Milton and one of Algernon Sydney, 4 supplied in facsimile (mezzotint of Newton, Milton portrait and plates of coins of Elizabeth and Henry IV), addenda/corrigenda leaf at end vol. 2, index, some light off-setting, scattered spotting or finger soiling, modern calf-backed cloth, [J. Nichols], 1780 § [Fraser (Simon)] Memoirs of the Life of Lord Lovat, half-title, engraved portrait plate, M. Cooper, 1746 bound with A Candid and Impartial Account of the Behaviour of Simon Lord Lovat..., J. Newbery, 1747, together 2 works in 1, some light browning and foxing, modern calf-backed boards, § [Jeffreys (George)] The Life and Character of the late Lord Channcellor Jeffereys, a few minor instances of soiling, modern cloth, for J. Pottinger and J. Seymour, 1764; and 57 others biography, memoirs and similar, v.s. (60) ⁂ I. Thomas Hollis (1720-1774) was a political propagandist, author and benefactor to many libraries and institutions, particularly Harvard in America.
Hobbes (Thomas) The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, 11 vol., collected and edited by Sir William Molesworth, portrait frontispiece, plates, vol. 1 bookplates, contemporary calf with red and black morocco labels to spines, 4 vol. missing red labels, vol. 1 upper cover nearly detached, spine ends a little rubbed, 1839; and 24 others, mainly politics and parliament, v.s. (35)
Mackenzie (Sir George) Jus Regium: Or, the Just and Solid Foundations of Monarchy, first London edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles II by P.H. van Hove, 2 advertisement leaves at end, some light staining, contemporary calf, [Wing M163], Printed for Richard Chiswel, 1684 § [Dunton (John)] Athenian Sport: or two thousand paradoxes merrily argued..., first edition, half-title, Robert S. Pirie bookplate, contemporary calf, Printed for B. Bragg, 1707 § Heylyn (John) Select Discourses, upon some Interesting and Important Subjects, first edition, contemporary sheep, [?Edinburgh], Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1770; and 4 others, 17th and 18th century, v.s. (7)
Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved folding maps, scattered very faint spotting, contemporary tree calf, gilt, green morocco spine labels, small loss to one, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, Dublin, for Luke White, 1789.
NO RESERVE Coleridge family copies.- Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Specimens of the table talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, second edition, presentation copy from J.T. Coleridge to Bernard Coleridge, (with the latter's large engraved armorial bookplate), engraved portrait frontispiece, this foxed and detached, along with front free endpapers, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later red half morocco, gilt, upper cover detached, corners worn, rubbed, especially at extremities, John Murray, 1836; and 5 others, family copies of 19th century English Literature (1 without any inscriptions), including Charles Lamb, v.s. (6)
NO RESERVE Shakespeare (William) The Works, 3 vol., edited by Howard Staunton, engraved portrait frontispiece and illustrations after John Gilbert, occasional light foxing, contemporary half calf, spines gilt, rubbed, 1862-64; and others 19th century, including 5 vol. uniformly bound works of famous dramatists, large 8vo & 4to (9)
Shakespeare (William) The Works, 4 vol., edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, light foxing, mostly to first and last few leaves, contemporary polished calf, gilt, red and green morocco labels to spines, some light rubbing but still a handsome set, 8vo, 1874.
NO RESERVE France.- Thornton (Colonel Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the year 1802, 2 vol., first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved titles, 52 engraved and aquatint plates, 10 folding, 2pp. musical score, one or two faint marginal pencil notes, vol. 2 with faint marginal staining towards end, faint scattered spotting, contemporary half-calf, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1806.
Arts & Crafts style binding.- Boswell (James) Boswell's Life of Johnson, 2 vol. in 1, portrait frontispiece to each vol., occasional spotting, lightly browned, attractive contemporary brown crushed morocco, gilt, in an Arts & Crafts style, signed with 'FG' monogram (?Frank Garrett) to rear turn-in, spine in compartments, some fading, mostly to spine, little rubbed, g.e., 8vo (binding 174 x 124mm.), 1904.
Flaxman (John) The Odyssey of Homer [ - The Illiad of Homer], 2 vol., engraved titles, 34 and 39 plates respectively, original boards, paper labels to upper covers, extremities worn, rubbed, 1805; Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus, engraved title and 30 plates, title with repaired vertical tear (no loss), contemporary half calf, loss to spine, worn, covers detached, 1795; Lectures on Sculpture, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 52 plates, 1 folding but chipped at fore-edge, a few trimmed close at fore-edge affecting imprint, contemporary calf prize binding with "Presented by The Royal Academy to Mr George James Miller" in gilt to upper cover, spine broken, lacking backstrip and lower cover, g.e., 1838, some spotting and damp-staining; with 2 others, an illustrated Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Cox's Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours, oblong folio & 8vo (6)
Letchford (Albert) A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R.F. Burton's "Arabian Nights", one of 250 copies of the "Choice Edition de Luxe", this copy unnumbered, half-title, 71 photogravure plates after Letchford (including portrait of Burton), each with printed tissue-guard, front free endpapers with fraying/worming to fore-edge, a few other leaves a little frayed or chipped at edges, occasional finger-soiling or light spotting, upper hinge cracked with front free endpaper working loose, contemporary half red morocco, spine richly gilt, rubbed, some soiling, t.e.g., others uncut, large folio, 1897.
NO RESERVE Oury (Marcelle) Lettre à mon peintre Raoul Dufy, one of 6000 copies, portrait frontispiece, plates, loose as issued, original stiff paper chemise, original morocco-backed chemise, original pictorial slipcase, a little rubbed, tape repairs to foot, Paris, 1965 § Braque (Georges) Les Facheux, one of 340 copies, plates and illustrations, loose as issued, original stiff paper chemise, original drop-back box, a little rubbed, lightly sunned spine, Paris, 1971 § Anet (Claude) Notes sur L'Amour, illustrations by Pierre Bonnard, scattered spotting, original paper wrappers, lightly sunned, a little rubbed, Paris, 1922 § Hockney (David) The Blue Guitar, plates, original boards, fractional bumping to spine extremities, dust-jacket, faint spotting, rubbing to corners and extremities, 1977; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, v.s. (4)
Private Press.- Wynne (Ellis) Gweledigatheu y Bardd Cwsc: Visions of the Sleeping Bard, translated by T. Gwynn Jones, one of 175 copies, text in Welsh and English, wood-engraved frontispiece by Blair Hughes-Stanton, original red morocco-backed patterned cloth, spine ruled in gilt, very minor scuffing to extremities, uncut, with a 4pp. publisher's extract and advertisement loosely inserted (browned), Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1940 § Ellis (Havelock) Chapman, one of 75 specially-bound copies, browning to end papers, original russet morocco, spine with title and a ladder of horizontal rules in gilt, some minor marking, t.e.g., others uncut, Nonesuch Press, 1934 § Cocteau (Jean) Tempest of Stars, Selected Poems, translated by Jeremy Reed with drawings by David Austen, edition "C", one of 15 copies signed by the translator and illustrator and with a signed original etching, from a total edition of 87, text bifolia and 26 offset colour lithographs, all loose as issued in original drop-back box, paper labels to cover and spine, Enitharmon Press, 1992 § H.P.M. Harold Patrick McGrath. one of 100 signed by McGrath and Robinson, an original etching by Alan Robinson (portrait frontispiece), portrait print of McGrath by Ned Gray in pocket at rear, illustrations by many, original paper-covered boards with mounted paper labels, Easthampton (MA), Cheloniidae Press, 1991; and 7 others, including Golden Cockerel, Stanbrook Abbey, Roycroft, Incline, and others, v.s. (11)
Cartwright (Julia) Jean François Millet, number 18 of 50 large paper copies, frontispiece and plates, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, gilt, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1896 § Catalogue of the Etched Work of Frank Brangwyn, half-title, title in red and black, portrait frontispiece, plates, tissue-guards, occasional water-staining, cracked hinges, original vellum-backed boards, rubbed and worn, staining, bumping to corners and extremities, 1912 § Johnson (Robert Flynn) & Joseph R. Goldyne. Master Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts ..., limited edition, plates, original cloth, slipcase, a little rubbed, San Francisco, n.d.; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and others art and antiquities, v.s. (c.40)
Africa.- Fitzgerald (William Walter Augustine) Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, first edition, half-titles, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 8 maps, 5 folding, 3 with tears and tape repairs, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p,71], 1898 § Lyne (Robert Nunez) Zanzibar in Contemporary Times, first edition, frontispiece, 2 colour maps, plates, previous owner's ink signature, remnants of label to front pastedown, original cloth, bumping to corners and extremities, sunned spine, 1905 § Crawford (E. May) By the Equator's Snowy Peak, first edition, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1913; and others similar, 8vo (9)
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- Wolff (Jens) Sketches on a Tour to Copenhagen, through Norway and Sweden, first edition, lithographed portrait frontispiece, 7 plates, 2 hand-coloured, illustrations, faint off-setting, occasional marginal water-staining and spotting, one or two marginal ink notes, near contemporary half-roan, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 4to, 1814.
World.- Sonnini (C. S.) Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, engraved portrait frontispiece, 27 engraved plates, linen-backed folding map, occasional damp-staining and off-setting, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed, bumping to corners, 1800 § Allom (Thomas) Constantinople ... Illustrated, 2 vol., additional engraved titles, 1 engraved map, engraved plates, tissue-guards, occasional spotting and damp-staining, contemporary half-calf, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, n.d. § Pugin (A.) and C. Heath. Paris and its Environs, 2 vol. bound as 1, additional engraved titles, small loss and staining to bottom edge, engraved plates, scattered spotting and staining, one or two pencil notes, new endpapers, contemporary morocco, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, 1833; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and others similar, v.s. (32)
Scotland.- Burton (John Hill) The History of Scotland, 7 vol., scattered spotting, occasional damp-staining, bookplate, original cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1867-70 § Memoirs of Sir Ewan Cameron of Locheill, Chief of the Clan Cameron, half-title, engraved portrait plate, detached and loosely inserted, scattered faint spotting, contemporary boards, cracked joints, upper cover becoming detached, rubbed and worn, Edinburgh, 1842 § Boswell (James) The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, sixth edition, half-title, small loss to top corner, engraved portrait plate, short marginal cut, title detached and loosely inserted, scattered spotting, cracked hinges, contemporary drab boards, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1813; and others, Scotland, v.s. (24).
Space.- John Glenn in orbit, Mercury-Atlas 6, February 20, 1962; vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, NASA S-62-307, NASA stamp and caption on verso, Age of Space cropping marks on verso, 255 x 205 mm (10 x 8 in.)⁂ A portrait of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, glancing out of porthole as he re-entered the atmosphere, taken by an automatic sequence motion picture camera onboard Friendship 7 capsule
Africa.- Peters (Dr Carl) New Light on Dark Africa, first English edition, portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, plates and illustrations, folding colour map in pocket at end, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, bookplate, original pictorial cloth, gilt, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, a little rubbed, [Czech p.128; Hosken p,157], 8vo, 1891.
Buffon (G.L.M.L., Comte de) Natural History, General and Particular, 20 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 680 engraved plates, occasionally misbound or mis-numbered, scattered faint spotting and staining, occasional faint pencil notes, previous owner's ink signature to front pastedowns, hinges strengthened, contemporary diced calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 1812 § Evelyn (John) Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, 42 engraved plates, 2 folding, 3 folding tables, previous owner's ink signature, ink annotation to vol. 2, occasional faint spotting and marginal ink-staining, contemporary calf, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, vol. 1 with lower cover detached, vol. 2 with upper cover and front free endpaper detached, York, 1786; previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, and others similar, v.s. (35)
Herbal.- Dodoens (Rembert) A nievve herball, or historie of plantes: wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes, first edition in English, translated by Henry Lyte, title within ornate woodcut historiated border and with woodcut arms of Henry Lyte verso, woodcut portrait of the author to verso of 1*6, numerous woodcut illustrations, occasional early ink marginalia, 8pp. 19th century manuscript index loosely inserted at end, lacking 1*3&4, E2-5, S1-3&5, X1, Y3, 2A5, 3F4, 3G3&4, 3H3, whole of sig. 3L, 3Q1&6, 3S5&6, 3T2, and sigs. 3U-Y at end, 1*6 misbound later within preliminaries, first few ff. detached, title with a few small holes at head (mostly marginal), frayed at outer margin (just within printed area) and soiled, E1 frayed, affecting the odd letter, sig. O & P1 mostly marginal worm trace to upper inner gutters, Y1 upper corner torn away, affecting a couple of letters of headline verso, 3N1 torn at inner margin, a few ff. with part of a margin torn away, stained, some spotting, lightly browned throughout, contemporary limp blind-ruled calf, later metal claps, short split at head of spine, lower corner of upper cover worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Henrey 110; Hunt 132; Nissen 516; STC 6984], folio, London [i.e. Antwerp], by me Gerard Dewes [i.e. Henry Loë], 1578. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Dodoens served as court physician to Emperor Rudolf II of Austria before becoming Professor of Medicine at Leiden University in 1582.
A fine pair of Henry VIII oak figural panels, English, circa 1530One male, wearing a helmet, shirt with standing collar, and chammare, with exaggerated beard and holding a 'sceptre', the other female, wearing a gabled-type hood, elegant gown with slashed sleeves, and holding a crown, both wear a chain necklace, and each topped by Renaissance scrolls, issuing pomegranates, possibly designed as a king and queen, 47.7cm high, 28cm wide, (2)Comparisons can be made with the renowned 'Sudbury Lodge Hutch', St. James's Church, Louth, Lincolnshire, carved with portrait panels of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
A rare Elizabeth I small bronze mortar, by an unidentified foundry, possibly of Norwich, dated 1598The everted rim and base cast with cords, the body with individual letter stamps 'AN???' , further indistinct stamps and the date 1598, with two small lug handles, one pierced, rim diameter 12cm, height 7.8cmLiterature: See Michael Finlay, 'English Decorated Bronze Mortars and Their Makers' (2010), p. 3, p.88 (no.158), for a Norwich mortar cast with a portrait medallion of Elizabeth I, three times, and with a single lug, formerly in the author's and John Douglas Collections. The author speculates it may have been made to commemorate Queen Elizabeth I's visit to Norwich in 1578, where she was greeted at St. Stephen's gates by the City Waits, who, with a peal of bells 'cheerfully and melodiously welcomed Her Majesty into the city' (P Cattermole, 'Church Bells and Bell-Ringing, A Norfolk Profile' (1990) p. 17.Provenance: Doughton Manor, Doughton, Gloucestershire
A group of mainly garment fastenings, 16th - 17th century, majority EnglishTo include six Tudor (or possibly earlier) copper-alloy hooked fasteners, four small buttons, one a 16th century latten openwork example, another a 17th century silver button cast with the portrait of a lady, a 15th century fastener in the form of a crown; a 17th century example cast as a lions head; a mid-17th century silver buckle and an 18th century silver shoe buckle, (18)Provenance: Many items reputedly excavated from the River Thames, London
struck during the reign of Emperor Constantine X, this coin is of a distinctive concave design, the reverse depicting Emperor Constantine X stood, facing forward with a labarum in his right hand and the globus cruciger in his left. the obverse depicting portrait of Christ raising his hand in benediction and holding the book of the Gospels, he is surrounded by a nimbus, or halo, with seriffed cross arms to symbolise his divinity, 4.4g, in magnetic capsule, in box, with certificate of authenticity
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