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Thomas C Falconer, a collection of pencil portrait studies of prominent composers,artists, authors and merchants of late Victorian and Edwardian era, including Mrs Lily Langtree (Mrs de Bathe), Sir Thomas Lipton, Sir Arthur Sullivan (autographed), Harry Alfred Lang, Edward Elgar, Signor Foli, Grant Allen, etc (11) contained in sketch book, the interior cover inscribed Thomas C Falconer, 24 Lochill Street, Glasgow
English School, 19th century Ozanne Building at Elizabeth College and Old Court, Guernsey watercolour 10 x 18in (25.5 x 46cm). * Provenance - This painting has never appeared on the market previously, having been passed down though the same family for several generations. It was given to the vendor's family when they visited Guernsey to visit a family member circa 1900. Their grandfather was the wine merchant Henry Hitchins, as was her uncle Alfred Hitchins. In 1891 they lived in View House, Canichers. A brother Reginald Hitchins was a boarder at Old College, College Street, aged 15. F.C. Horton was Assistant Master at Elizabeth College 1872-1902. His daughter Gertrude Horton married Col. Charles Henry Macintire Hitchins (No. 1986) born 1860 who attended Elizabeth College 1875-1878. The part of Elizabeth College now known as The Ozanne Laboratory was built to replace the 'House in the Close' which was demolished circa 1753. The cost of this new construction in 1760 was approx £600. Obviously this building has been greatly altered and extended since that date, however this painting gives some idea of what it looked like at the end of the 19th century. It is possible to date this painting between the years 1846 when the construction of Victoria Tower had begun, and 1874 when the building which stood at the bottom of Candie Road was demolished. In the Guernsey census of 1851 a family named Parker were residents of Old Court, Guernsey. Very little is known about this property which was almost certainly demolished to accommodate the building of the main road (St Julian's Avenue) out of St Peter Port to the western parishes. The house appears on an 1843 map and an advertisement in The Star Newspaper dated 7th May 1856 advertises Old Court for sale - The description reads; ' OLD COURT' Late in the occupation of Mrs Parker Deceased. To be SOLD or LET, for a term of years, that new MANSION, consisting of dining, drawing, and breakfast-rooms, opening on a beautiful terrace; nine bed-rooms, dressing rooms, water-closets on each floor, kitchens, butler's pantry, other convenient offices. It is enclosed within a walled garden, well stocked with choicest fruit trees, in full bearing. The premises are situate near Elizabeth College and St James's Church. For terms apply to Mr W.Le Messurier, Notary Public, Commercial Arcade.' We would like to thank The Priaulx Library, Guernsey for their assistance with this information. Further information regarding 'Old Court' can be obtained at the bottom of the web page - http://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/priaulx-library-services-case-study.asp To be sold with various related photocopies of research information.
A French ormolu and glass table lamp, possibly by Alfred Beurdeley, with a circular base and three putti with fish tail legs supporting an ovoid frosted bowl, the detachable rim with faux cascading water, the base stamped 'BY GB25,' previously a vase, now drilled through base of bowl and base, 15.75in (40cm) h. Alfred Emmanuel Louis Beurdeley (1847-1919) was a third generation Paris furniture and works of art maker, who had specialised in copies of period pieces. Many of the ormolu mounts are stamped or incised 'BY.'
Antiques & Art Reference Memorial catalogue of the French Dutch loan collection. Edinburgh, 1888. 4to, 181 of 520 copies, illustrated, original cloth gilt, faded at backstrip, interior very bright; Hind, Arthur The etchings of D.Y. Cameron. London, 1924. 4to, original black cloth gilt, rubbed at edges; Boesen, Gudmund & Boje, Chr. A. Old Danish silver. Copenhagen, 1949. 4to, original wrappers, dustmarking, chipped at edges; Davidson, George Dutch A memorial catalogue 1879-1901. Dundee, 1902. 4to, original cloth gilt, faded, some light foxing; Whitman, Alfred Samuel Cousins. London, 1904. 4to, one of 600 copies, frontispiece, original cloth gilt, rubbed at edges, some foxing to interior; and 5 others (10)
Buckham, Captain Alfred Aerial view of Edinburgh, c. 1920, silver gelatine print, 45.5 by 37cm, pencil signature on mount, framed and glazed Note: Captain Alfred Buckham [1879 - 1956] began to produce aerial photographs in 1906. The premier aerial photographer of the period his work was exhibited across Europe and the United States throughout the early decades of the 20th century. Buckham would fly day after day. At the outset of the First World War he joined the Royal Naval Air Service and was placed in charge of aerial photography with the Grand Fleet. After nine crach landings Buckham was left with a throat injury resulting in the permanent insertion of a breathing tube. Ever the dare devil, Buckham ignored his doctor's advice and continued to fly, preferring to work out of an open cockpit, standing straight up, "one cannot get succesful photographs whilst sitting in the cockpit for one's arms would almost certainly come into contact with the vibrating side of the airplane." The particularly rough weather sought after by Buckham to achieve the required cloud formations made flying especially unstable, "it is an alarming experience to find yourself lolling over the side of an airplane while the landscape climbs up to the sky and the horizon loses its horizontality and endeavours to become vertical." Buckham's photographs are a marriage of art and technology, reflecting his passions for flying and nature. Expressive skies and brooding cloud formations add an atmospheric tension to Buckham's images, enlivened further by the addition, in the dark room, of modern engineering including bridges and aeroplanes. Aerial view of Edinburgh is a stunning example of Buckham's work. The expressive, voluminous clouds roll over a small, but still imposing, Edinburgh castle with a bi-plane hanging in the air like a toy. Exhibited: Views from above. NMS Museum of Flight, 2000.
Medical - Buchan, William Domestic medicine or a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases... London, 1788. Tenth edition, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, red label, heavily rubbed at edges, some light foxing, contemporary ink inscription on title [Wellcome II, p.261]; Ferrier, David The functions of the brain. London, 1876. 8vo, illustrated, original green cloth gilt, rubbed at edges, damp marks to boards, lacking half title; Nunneley, Thomas On the organs of vision. London, 1858. 8vo, dedication from author to Sir William Shee on half title, illustrated, original cloth gilt, damp stained, some water stains to interior; Thompson, Thomas (ed.) Annals of influenza... London, 1852. 8vo, half title, original cloth gilt, damp stained, ink inscription on front endpaper; Allen, Grant The colour sense... London, 1892. Second edition, 8vo, half title, original cloth gilt, some light foxing; Swinburne, Alfred James Picture logic. London, 1887. Fifth edition, 8vo, illustrated, original green cloth gilt, contemporary ink inscription on endpaper (6)
SS MAURETANIA (HMS TUBEROSE) 1914/18 War medal, Mercantile Marine medal WWII DM in box with ribbon and later Special Constabulary medal with LS bar to David A Vaughan, Steward's Boy, together with ribbon bar, photographs in uniform and ship camouflaged. SS Mauretania Hymn book, Discharge Certificate and other paperwork. Also included is a Citation etc. for saving life in 1939 (Liverpool). NB David Alfred Vaughan joined the Royal Navy in 1916 having lied about his age. He joined HMS Tuberose being the RN name for the Cunard liner RMS "Mauretania" under the White Ensign, as a Ship's Writer. At the end of hostilities his time with the RN finished but he was asked to stay, on reversion to her original Red Ensign format. He had to be issued with a Discharge Book which at that time on entering the Mercantile Marine required the production of a Birth certificate proving he was then sixteen.
Circle of Benjamin West PRA 1738-1820- Courting couple; pen and brown ink wash, 24x32cm: Alfred Stevens 1817-1875- Arabesque design; pencil and watercolour. Provenance: with the De Pass Collection; together with other 18/19th century figurative and architectural studies, mainly pen and ink, by and after various hands, (10) (unframed)
Alfred J Bennett, British, 1886-1950- "Caudebec-en-Caux"; oil on board, initialed, 30x40cm: "Madeira, circa 1920"; oil on board, 30x40cm: Note: The Madeira painting appears in an Exhibition (no 53) of Pictures and Sketches of the Canary Islands, Madeira, Portugal, France, Etc, by Alfred J Bennett, June 15th to 20th, 1920, at The Little Art Rooms 8, Duke Street, Adelphi Strand, WC 2. A small amount of reproduced biography is available with this lot, the artist being entered into several exhibitions including the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, October-December 1912; Walker's Galleries, New Bond Street, W1, 1923; The Colour Magazine 1920; Revue du Vrai et du Beau, 1925; W R Deighton & Sons, Trafalgar Square W1
Alfred J Bennett, British, 1886-1950- Portrait of Lady Dorothy Hollis; pencil, signed and inscribed by the sitter, 36x25cm: together with four further watercolour studies to include "Tuilleries, Paris; Maderia; Kandersteg, Switzerland; Snowden; each signed, mostly circa 1920s, (5). Please see artist's notes on lot 1081 in this sale
FRANCOIS DAULTE: ALFRED SISLEY, Trans S Thorne, 1988, 1st edn, 4to, orig cl, d/w + MARY ANNE STEVENS (ED): ALFRED SISLEY, 1992, 1st edn, 4to, orig pict wraps + MERVYN LEVY (ED): THE PAINTINGS OF L S LOWRY, 1978, 4to, orig cl, d/w + EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH: LIVES OF THE GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY ARTISTS, Guild Publishing 1986, 4to, orig cl, d/w + R DORMENT AND M F MACDONALD: JAMES McNEILL WHISTLER, Tate Gallery 1994, 1st edn, 4to, orig pict wraps + WILLIAM S LIEBERMAN (ED): TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODERN MASTERS THE JAQUES AND NATASHA GELMAN COLLECTION, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1989, 1st edn, 4to, orig pict wraps (6)
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, 2 ttls: THE HOLY GRAIL AND OTHER POEMS, 1870, 1st edn, 12 mo, decor mor gt, spine gt in compartments, inner dentelles gt, aeg; THE PRINCESS, 1850, 3rd edn, decor mor gt, spine gt in compartments, inner dentelles gt, aeg + JOHN RUSKIN: UNTO THIS LAST FOUR ESSAYS ON THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1862, 1st edn, 12 mo, orig decor cl gt + WILL CARLETON: FARM BALLADS, NY 1873, orig pict cl gt + four others (8)
BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT PERSONS, ill Alfred Mills, L, Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1814, miniature book, 2 ills supplied in facs, 62mm x 55mm, later red cl + SMALL RAIN UPON THE TENDER HERD, circa 1878, miniature book, 35mm x 28mm, orig crimson mor gt, with clasp, ttl pge loose + DAILY VERSES, circa 1833, miniature book, 52mm x 29mm, orig crimson mor, crimson mor s-c + WILLIAM HAYLEY: THE TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER A POEM, 1825, small format book, added engrd ttl, port frontis, orig blind stpd cf gt + THOMAS GRAY: THE POETICAL WORKS, L, Charles Tilt, 1837, Tilt’s Miniature Classical Library Series, orig decor cf gt + JOHN MILTON: THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS, 1900, The Oxford Miniature Milton, orig limp leath gt, aeg + JOHN KEATS: POEMS, 1903, The Oxford Miniature Edition, orig limp cf gt, aeg (7)
FREDERICK LUCAS: REASONS FOR BECOMING A ROMAN CATHOLIC ------, L 1839, 3rd edn, bnd in with G J L L CRAWLEY: REASONS FOR LEAVING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND A LETTER TO A LATE PARISHIONER, York and L 1852, 1st edn + WILLIAM TOWRY LAW: A LETTER TO HIS LATE PARISHIONERS, L 1852, 1st edn + [C NOEL WELMAN] “A PROTESTANT NON-CONFORMIST”: SKETCHES OF THE TRUE GENIUS OF POPERY, 1852, 1st edn + REV J A HEARN: A LETTER ADDRESSED TO A PARISHIONER OF THE REV ALFRED BISHOP CURATE OF TICHBORNE HAMPSHIRE ON HIS ALLEGED ERRORS OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH, L 1846, 1st edn + FATHER COBB’S LETTER – FIFTH LETTER TO THE VICAR OF PRESTON, Preston 1866, 5 works, old hf cf worn
SOUVENIR OF RE-UNION OF K & J BOYS AND CELEBRATION OF THEIR SAFE RETURN FROM THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918, Ill Bert Thomas & Others, Birmingham 1920, some leaves sigd including the Chairman F T Jefferson, obl, orig pict wraps soiled + K & J WAR BULLETIN, 1920, NUMBER 174, 4TO wraps + BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER: FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE – MORE FRAGMENTS FROM FRANCE, nd, 2 vols, 4to, orig wraps, pict paper labels worn, + ALFRED LEETE: SCHMITT THE SPY AND HIS MESSAGES TO BERLIN, nd, obl, orig pict wraps, + BERT THOMAS AND WILTON WILLIAMS: ONE HUNDRED WAR CARTOONS FROM LONDON OPINION, 1919, 4to, orig pict wraps worn, + One Other (7)

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