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Click here to subscribeFour C17 Indentures & Documents: 1- Indenture on vellum, Large folded indenture with 7 seals attached. Dated 1631 signed Finch, Savage, Arton, Thomas Hatton, tear to fold and two small burn holes, (78 x 62cms); 2- Document dated 1680 the will for Sam Wightman, double sided; 3- Document dated 1696 obligation bond for Thomas Davoll, two pages each signed & with wax seal, 4to; 4- Obligation bond dated 1670, 4to. With wax seal. (4)
SMITH, Eliza: The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion..J&H Pemberton, 1742, 11th. edition, engraved frontispiece plus 6 folding engraved plates for bills of fare. PP:366, xiv(Index). Cont. full calf; rubbed; one gathering loose and with few pages frayed at edges.
Four C17 Indentures & Documents: 1- Document, dated 12 January, Charles 2 (1672) with attached addendum dated 13 Charles 2 (1673). Agreement between Dame Isabella la Warr, Charles, Lord la Warr, Robert Southwood and Edward Withers. The watermark is shield/ jug; (37.5 x 30cms); 2- Indenture on vellum dated 1636 with 50% large seal attached. In poor condition, (38 x 24cms); 3- Indenture on vellum with part seal attached dated 1672. Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey, styled Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1642 to 1666, Lord Great Chamberlain, (38.5 x 21cms); 4 Letter Dated 1657. Martyn Holbeck of Halsted signs over his tithes to William Chaplin. (4)
RUPERT BEAR: A VERY LARGE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION put together by one ardent and devoted collector, consisting of: c320 books, annuals & pop up books [including a run of Rupert Annuals from 1946-1979 (the first four soft covers), also including many facsimiles of the early ones], 28 soft toys (including a Steiff limited edn.), posters, calendars, tins of sweets, soap bars and shampoo, Etc. (Qty) For a detailed listing, please see here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b_oLtzCoH0aDA2wa53ZgnCPZQIkUeX_z
Keough, Pat and Rosemarie: ANTARCTICA: (Explorer Series, Volume I). Nahanni Productions, Salt Spring Island. 2002-7. Limited edition, No. 12 of 950 plus 50 proof copies, Signed by both Pat & Rosemarie, Also signed by Queen Noor of Jordan. 336 pages, introductory text, map, and 330 full-colour photographs and 15 duotones. Oblong folio, full grey blindstamped morocco; housed in custom-made clamshell box, stand and base. A FINE COPY. NOTE: (Pat and Rosemarie Keough were awarded the "Nature Photographer of the Year" and "World's Best Photography Book" by the International Photography Awards Committee. Antarctica also won the Benjamin Franklin Award).
ORNITHOLOGY: 1- [LATHAM, J]: A General Synopsis of Birds; Vol.2, part 2nd. 1783. 4to. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED COPY, with the original vignette tile & 19 plates (all hand coloured); PLUS an extra 96 plates (57 hand coloured); covers rubbed and spine split; 2- Linnaeus, C: Universal system of Natural History, Vols. 7 & 8 Only. nd, c1807; with 35 and 19 folding (including 8 of Falcons) hand coloured plates respectively. First vol. lacking upper cover and damp stain to inner margin of the first 100 pages; most of the plates are clean; 3- Buffon: Histoire Naturelle- Oiseaux, Vol. 8 only. 1786. with 5 hand coloured plates; Plus Natural History of bird; A/F (5)
ARCHITECTURE: 1- Colling, J K: Details of Gothic Architecture, 2 volumes. Batsford, nd, (1856, preface dated) Folio; 2- Pugin, A. W: Gothic Furniture in the Style of the 15th Century. Ackermann, 1835. 4to. Title page plus 24 plates. Boards rubbed; foxing; 3- Brandon, R & J A: Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages. 1849, 4to. original cloth gilt; 4- Small & Woodbridge: 4 titles: Architectural Turned woodwork; English Brickwork Details 1450-1750; Mouldings of the Wren & Georgian Periods; & English Wrought Ironwork Mediaeval and Early Renaissance; 5- Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, 4 volumes. 1916-1923, 4to. Full calf gilt; Plus 6 others. (18)
BIRCH, Thomas: The History of the Royal Society of London for Improving of Natural Knowledge, from its First Rise, 4 vols., For A. Millar, 1756-1757, first edition, 7 folding engraved plates & numerous text illus., 4to, PP: vi, 511, (i)Errata; (ii), 501; (ii),520; (ii), 558. without half-titles. Cont. full calf; rubbed and hinges cracked. (4)
Irwin, Eyles: A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais.. in 1777, . In letters to a lady. For J Dodsley, 1780. 4to. PP: xv, (i)Errata, 400, Plus 3 folding Maps & 3 Plates (2 folding). Cont. full speckled calf; rubbed; endpaper, title & dedication pages frayed at edges; some offsetting.
English Civil War: SPRIGGE, Joshua: Anglia Rediviva; England's Recovery: Being The History of The Motions, Actions, and Successes of The Army under The Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Kt. Captain-General of all The Parliament Forces in England. R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. 4to. PP: Coat of Arms Plate, Frontis, (xx), (i)b, (i)Errata, 335, (iv)contents, (i)b; Plus folding plate of the battle of Naseby And a folding Table. Full calf; lacking upper cover and part of spine; the frontis plate, title, & two dedication pages frayed at corners and lacking a small piece (away from text or image); folding plate with tears to two folds (no loss).
THE ANNUAL REGISTER OF A VIEW OF THE HISTORY, POLITICKS AND LITERATURE OF THE YEAR 1757-1813 Plus Index vol. for 1781 to 1792; 55 Volumes. ONLY LACKING TWO VOLUMES FOR 1763 & 1775. All in a matching half leather over marbled boards; Vols. for 1779 & 1803 lacking the covers, & vol. for 1812 is A/F. Together with a stained pine bookcase, 50cm wide x 35cm deep x 183cm high (56)
'A New Map Of Ireland From The Latest Observations', by John Senex, inscribed to the Rt. Hon. Simon Lord Louat, 1720, with hand-coloured highlights, 59 x 48cm , framed and 'The Decendants of Cateal Crovederg O' Connor, King of Connacht', a printed family tree published by McGlashan & Gill, Dublin A.D. 1861 64 x 48cm framed (2)Condition report: Map - light foxing and discolouration. Family Tree - with creases and discolouration.
FRANKLIN (BENJAMIN) - BROADSIDE: Bowles's Moral Pictures or Poor Richard Illustrated. Being Lessons for the Young and the Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c. Manchester, no date, c1815-20. engraved sheet of 25 oval images (illustrated after Robert Deighton) and surrounded with text, divided into 15 parts and mounted on lined, folding into gilt cloth covers; spine little rubbed.
1869-1882 AN ENGINEER’S MANUSCRIPT NOTE BOOK: 4to. PP: 71+50+110+14 Plates (245 pages in total), neatly hand-written in ink with numerous drawings in the text (many hand coloured), and 14 full page tipped-in plates. Subjects covered: “Brass & Iron founder” Larkin: Henry Carey Baird & Co. Philadelphia, 1881; tempering steel; Cornish Boilers; Typographical letters (8pp); Copying tracings Photographically; Hydraulic Rams; Water engines; Leith Harbour dredger; Sugar Mills; Feshn factory- made in England during 1871 and put up in EGYPT between Autumn and Spring, 1873 (pages: 53-112). vg
The Christopher Dyment Collection: MUSIC: Arturo TOSCANINI Signed Photograph. image 24 x 19 cms. Framed & glazed; Plus: Joseph Szigeti (Hungarian Violinist): Signed photograph, framed & glazed; signature faded. (2) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
LAW: 1- Domat, J; William Strahan (Transl.): The Civil Law in its Natural Order, 2 vol., J Bettenham for E Bell, 1722. PP: Lxxi, (i)b, 696; 633, (i)b; (xvi)Table. Cont. full panelled calf, rubbed & hinges cracked; damp staining to first few pages of vol.2; 2- SELDEN, John: Tracts written by John Selden of the inner Temple, 4 Tracts, the last 3 never before extant. T. Basset & R. Chiswell, 1683. With 3 title pages; PP: (xxxii), 131, (i)b; (vii), 39, (i)b; (iv), 24, (ii)Publisher’s list. Cont. full calf; upper cover detached and possibly lacking a portrait (not called for). (3)
The Christopher Dyment Collection: MUSIC: AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, with over 100 signatures mostly with musical notations, including the following: Leopold Stokowski (one page, signed with musical notation); Harry Farjeon (signature & date 23-7-01); Thomas B Knott (Musical notation: Romance for Violin & Pianoforte, 16-1-1901); Cuthbert G Whitemore (MN Liszt Rhapsody, 29-11-1900) ; Percy Grainger (Musical notation, yours cordially, 28-3-06); Tobias Matthay (MN); Ben Davies; Frederick Corder (MN, very truly yours, F Corder); Frederick Corder (MN, 21 July, 1902); Arthur Greenish; Hubert Bath; Hans Wessely; Stewart Macpherson (full page, MN, 26-x-01); Charles Saunders; Émile Sauret (full page, MN 1902); York Bowen; Montague Phillips; Alberto Randegger (full page, 2 MN, 1902); ETC.. PLUS: Full A4 page: S Baring Gould: Poem: “Christmas Carol” 5 stanza, 7 lines each, SIGNED & dated July 19, 1902: tipped-in; And: Arthur MEE: full page, “My hope in Life,…”, 11 lines, Signed. Original full leather album; rubbed, loose and with cuts. "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: MUSIC: Arturo TOSCANINI Signed: Farewell concert programme of the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, at Carnegie Hall, NY, April 29, 1936. Framed & glazed. Plus: 26 Toscanini 1935-8 concert programmes; Plus a number of other programmes (Qty) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: CHINA/STEIN, Aurel: 1- Andrews, Fred H: Descriptive catalogue of antiquities : recovered by Sir Aurel Stein … Delhi, Manager of Publications, 1935. 4to. 445pp, folding map & 3 ill. cloth backed printed paper boards; little rubbed; G+; 2- STEIN, A: Ancient Khotan Detailed Report Of Archaeological Explorations in Chinese Turkestan. 2 vols. in 1 (text & plates). NY, 1975. Folio, large folding map. G+; 3- Sir Aurel Stein's Limes report, 2 vols. 1985. 4to. original printed card covers; VG; Plus 3 others. (7) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: CHINA/ STEIN, Aurel: Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China; in Five Volumes (3 vols. text, 1 vol. plates, & 1 vol. Maps: 94 folding maps housed in a special leather case). Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1980-83. 1st. Indian edn. dws. Large 4to. the maps all with leather pull-out; G+.(5) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: ARABIA: 1- BELL, Gertrude: The Desert and the Sown. 1907, 1st. folding map & ill. Original cloth; rubbed & cut to spine; 2- Thomas, B: Arabia Felix. 1932, 1st. dw (25s.); folding colour map & plates; VG; 3- Doughty, C M: Travels in Arabia Deserta. 1926, 1st. one volume edn. dw; G+; 4- Thesiger, Wilfred: Desert, Marsh and Mountain. Motivate, 1993, dw. Signed by the author. 4to. Fine; 5- Young, G: Return to the Marshes. 1977, 1st. dw. VG; Plus 2 others. (7) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: CHINA/ ART: Warner, Langdon: Buddhist Wall-Paintings: A Study of a Ninth-Century Grotto at Wan Fo Hsia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1938, & copyright 1938. 4to. PP: xv, (i)b, (ix), 45 plates. Cloth backed boards with labels to upper cover and spine; covers little rubbed. "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: CHINA/ TRAVEL: 1- De Lesdain, Count [Jacques Bouly]: From Pekin to Sikkim.. NY, Dutton, 1908. 1st? Complete with folding map & 32 plates. original cloth gilt; cut to side of spine & inner hinges cracked; 2- Younghusband & Pereira: Peking to Lhasa; .. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1926. All plates and maps present. Original cloth; little rubbed; 3- Bailey, Col. F M: China- Tibet- Assam. Cape 1945, 1st. edn. Covers rubbed; Plus 7 others similar. (10) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influenced by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
FOREIGN TRAVEL: 1- Herndon, W L & Lardner Gibbon: Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon Made Under the Direction of the Navy Department, 2 Vols. Washington, Robert Armstrong, 1853; & Nicholson, 1854. With 5 folding maps & 52 plates. Later half leather; tear to one plate and the fold of one map (no loss); two pages with corners torn off (away from text); occasional foxing; 2- Eyre, Lieut. V: The Military Operations at Cabul .. Murray, 1843, 2nd. edn. PP: xx, 426, + folding map. Cont. half leather; rubbed; map with tear to fold and small repair to corner; 3- Rockhill, W W: Land of the Lamas, Notes of a journey through China, Mongolia and Tibet.. NY, Century Co. 1891. PP: viii, 399. With frontis, 2 Maps + ill. Original cloth; G+; 4- Hall's Voyages, 3 Vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1826,27,26. PP:322; 313; 311. with 3 engraved vignette titles. Cont. half leather; rubbed; 5- Ellis, W: Polynesian Researches. Vol. 1 only. 1832, 2nd. edn. (8)
HUMBOLDT, A VON & BONPLAND, A: Beobachtungen aus der Zoologie und vergleichenden Anatomie, gesammelt auf einer Reise nach den Tropen-Ländern des neuen Kontinents, in den Jahren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 und 1804. Tübingen, Cotta, 1806. Folio, PP: x, 212, + 14 Plates (3 in full colour & 2 partly coloured). Cont. marbled boards and leather label. Covers little rubbed; small hole to top of last plate and repaired (away from the image). Good and clean copy.
COOK, Capt. James: VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOK F. R. S. By Royal Authority, Containing the Whole of His Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy Etc. With Memoirs of His Life, and Particulars Relative to His Unfortunate Death. Embellished with engravings. J. Robins, 1822. Printed in double column; 4to. PP: (viii), 798, (ii)list of plates & advert. With 18 plates and vignettes (as called for). Cont. half leather; rubbed and hinges cracked; few wormholes to frontis and extra engraved title page; occasional foxing.
Vaughan, W. E: Autobiographica with a gossip on the art of printing in colours. Privately printed, N.P., 1900, First edition, one of a few copies printed by Vaughan's son in memory of his father. Folio, PP:32+ 5 chromolithograph plates +(i)Postscript. Original publisher's half brown morocco with cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine & top edge gilt. VG
TWO Grand Tour sketch watercolour albums (by the same hand); 1- 1881-82 Travels on the continent: FRANCE (Clermont, le Puy, St. Michel, Rhone Valley, Etc.); ITALY (The Lakes: Como, Bellagio, Lugano, Lago Maggiore, Etc.); SWITZERLAND (Lake Geneva), into the RHINE & a few back in Scotland. 75 watercolours Plus 8 sepia photos (of the same period). All loosely inserted into a quarto leather backed album; 2- 1886-87 SCOTLAND. The Lochs, the Clyde, Mull (5), Ballachulish, Ben Nevis, Skye (c10), Arran, Granton Pier, Edinburgh (View from a distance). 62 Watercolours Plus 6 sepia photos. All loosely inserted into a cont. leather backed album (two are loose). (2)
The Christopher Dyment Collection: TIBET: 1- Sherring, C A: Western Tibet and the British Borderland. The Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists. Arnold, 1906, 1st. edn. With Frontis, 2 large folding maps & ill. Later half morocco gilt; VG; 2- Rawling, Captain C G: The Great Plateau… Arnold, 1905, 1st. edn. Folding map & plates all present. Original gilt pictorial cloth; Ex-Libra with the usual stamps; G+; 3- Dainelli G: Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet. 1933, 1st. Double-page map & 32 plates (complete). Later half leather; VG; 4- Tucci & Ghersi: Secrets of Tibet. 1935, 1st. original cloth; rubbed & grubby; 5- Byron: First Russia then Tibet. 1937, 1st. G+; 6- Landor: The Forbidden Land. 2 vols. in 1. NY, 1909; 7- Bishop: Among the Tibetans. 1894. Plates & ill; PLUS: 5 similar. (12) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: JAPAN/BUDDHIST: 1- Levine, GPA: Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. Univ of Washington Press, 2005, dw, VG; 2- Crook & Osmaston: Himalayan Buddhist Villages. University of Bristol, 1994, 1st. dw, VG; 3- Chandra & Sharma: Buddhist Paintings of Tun-Huang. Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2012, 1st. dw, VG; 4- Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People. Washington, Arctic Studies Center, 2001, dw, VG; 5- Mutsu, Countess Iso: Kamakura Fact & Legend. no date, (1918), map & plates; 6- Bird, I: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 2 vols. in 1. NY, no date (1880); folding map & ill.; 7- Beal, S: Life of Hiuen-Tsiang. By the Shaman Hwui Li. 1917, new edn. Plus 6 others, similar. (13) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
Quantity of General antiquarian books, etc. including: Charles Kingsley: Water Babies, 1872. Full leather; & Kingsley’s Letters & Memories of his life, 1883, 1st. full treecalf, upper cover detached; Downs: American Furniture. NY, 1952, 1st. edn. Signed by author; Taylor: Two Loves & a life. 1854, 1st. full calf, VG; Etc. (16)
The Christopher Dyment Collection: ASIA/GENERAL: 1- Andrews, RC: Across Mongolians Plains.. NY, Appleton, 1921, 1st. All plates present; cut to spine head; 2- Ambolt, N: Karavan- Travels in Eastern Turkestan. Blackie, 1’39, 1st. dw. G+; 3- Lattimore, Owen: Desert road to Turkestan. Boston, 1929, 1st. two cuts to upper cover; 4- Waddell, LA: Among The Himalayas. Constable, 1900, 2nd. edn. covers rubbed; 5- Morden, WJ: Across Asia’s snows & deserts. NY, 1927. Covers little rubbed; pages 17-24 protruding a little; few pencil notes; 6- Goullart, P: River of the White Lily: Life in Sarawak. Murray, 1965, 1st. dw. Inscribed & Signed by author; 7- Goullart, P: Monastery of the jade mountain. 1961, 1st. dw; PLUS 11 others, similar. (18) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: ARABIA/ FREYA STARK: A collection, including Three SIGNED ITEMS: Photograph, inscribed & signed, Coyne, 1979; A Stamped addressed postcard, 12 lines, 1979; & Autograph Letter, Signed, on “Montorio, Italy” headed paper; 13 lines; PLUS 12 WORKS, including: Seen in the Hadhramaut. 1938, 1st. dw; Letters from Syria. 1942, 1st. dw; The Valleys of the Assassins. June 1934 (one month after the 1st.), cloth, rubbed & faded; Etc. (12+Envelope) (Qty) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: HEDIN, Sven: 1- Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, in 2 volumes, PLUS volume 3. NY, Macmillan, 1909, (copyright Dec. 1909 on first 2 vols.); Vol.3- London, Macmillan, 1913, 1st. edn. All 3 vols. collated complete. Original red cloth, gilt figure to upper cover and teg. Little rubbed; 2- Through Asia, in 2 vols. Methuen, 1899, 2nd. edn; & 1898, 1st. edn. Original cloth, gilt decoration to upper covers & teg; small dent to upper cover of vol.1; the 2 folding maps with crude sellotape repair; 3- A Conquest Of Tibet. NY, National Travel Club, 1934, 1st. thus. With a Special edition large folding map, loosely inserted in envelope. 4- Riddles of the Gobi Desert. Routledge, 1933, 1st. edn. folding map & all plates present; Ex-Libra, with usual stamps; map torn & crudely repaired; PLUS 6 others. (13) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: MUSIC: BIRD, John: Percy Grainger. Two editions, both inscribed & signed by Bird to Dyment. 1976, 1st. & 1999; plus a TLS, etc; Lintott, E B (ill): Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of NY, 1939-40 season. 1939, Inscribed & Signed by Lintott. Ex-Libra; plus: Weingartner, Felix: 4 works including: Buffets and Rewards. 1937, 1st dw; Plus a large collection of books on Arturo Toscanini, etc. (Qty) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
The Christopher Dyment Collection: LHASA & NEPAL: 1- Landon, P: Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People.. in 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett, 1905, 1st. edns. All maps & plates present. original cloth gilt Spines faded & covers little patchy; 2- Chapman, F S: Lhasa the Holy City. Chatto & Windus, 1938, 1st. edn. all colour & b&w plates present; pictorial cloth; little rubbed; 3- Chandler, E: The Unveiling of Lhasa. Arnold, 1905, 1st edn. All plates and map present; Ex-Libra, with the usual stamps; 4- Landon, P: Nepal, 2 vols. in 1. Nepal, 1976, reprint of the 1928 1st. edn. dw; VG; 5- Maillart, Ella K: The Cruel Way. 1949, 1st. dw. Inscribed & Signed by author, to Christopher Dyment; 6- Maillart, Ella K: The Land of the Sherpas. 1955, 1st. dw. Inscribed & Signed by author; 7- Maillart, Ella K: La Vie immédiate. (Photography). Payot, 1991. dw. vg; PLUS 8 others. (16) "Christopher Dyment (1939-2016): After reading Law at Cambridge and alongside with his career at the Law Commission he spent time travelling in east Asia and the Himalayan areas, influence by Tibetan Buddhism; and also concentrating on music. Christopher wrote numerous articles about historical conductors and also one book on Felix Weingartner, one on Toscanini in Britain and one on conducting the Brahms Symphonies."
Parson Greenwood: 1772 Diary in a specially made leather wallet (stamped in gilt with the Liverpool makers name and address): 3pp how to destroy bugs and preserving birds; 4pp at the end, in pencil; Plus a 10 page letter & papers including a flyer: “Natal Mercury Souvenir special, June 6, 1900.
Five Victorian silver teaspoons of fiddle back form bearing monograms to terminals, a Georgian silver table spoon of fiddle back form bearing monogram E to terminal, London 1820, Thomas Wallis & Jonathan Hayne, and a Victorian table spoon of similar form, London 1865 Chawner & Co, approx 267g
A Victorian ceramic scent bottle having floral and gilt heightened painted decoration, glass stopper and plain hinged lid, Birmingham 1888, C C May & Sons Condition Report in good condition, couple of small dents to tarnished silver lid. hinge good and closes ok tiny chip to bottom of stopper. ceramic body in good bright condtion with no chips or damage
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