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Four 19th century Chinese architectural beams, each carved with figures

A cased set of six silver silver tea spoons having engraved architectural decoration to terminals, London 1948, Wakely & Wheeler, and two pars of HM silver sugar nips

A four piece silver tea set of oval form having moulded decoration, ivory finials, flush hinged lids to lipped rims and architectural handles, each piece bearing an inscription, Birmingham 1918, Horace Woodward & Co, approx 1720.6g

A cased set of six silver handled cake forks in the Kings pattern, Sheffield 1971, Harrison Brothers and a cased set of six silver coffee spoons of plain architectural style, Sheffield 1952, Pinder Brothers

A cased Victorian silver three piece sugar and cream set having architectural handles and gadrooned decoration, Sheffield 1895, Cooper Brothers

Victorian walnut Vienna style wall clock with architectural cresting, Roman dial with subsidiary, twin train movement striking on a coil, H142cm, with weights pendulum and key

A late 20th century craftsman built mantel clock by Tony Guilbert of Dersingham, the mahogany, crossbanded and line inlaid case of architectural form with two mulberry finials, brass dial with applied spandrels and silvered chapter ring, three train musical chiming movement, Hermle 1050-020, hand crafted in June 200, Job Nr 1452, with key, 29 by 16.5 by 38cm high.

A binder of 1939 Picture Post magazines, Remarks on Architectural Character by Rev. J.L. Petit, with Illustrations, Cathedrals, Abbey and Churches, 1896 and John Milton, Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum, 1908

A late Victorian oak cased bracket clock with architectural design, silvered Arabic dial, 8 day striking movement, 41cm tall

A pair of 19th Century wooden Grotesque Architectural heads

A 19TH CENTURY CARVED SQUARE BOX OTTOMAN with lift-up pad top, twin bands of architectural carving, supported on four recessed steel castors, 46cm high x 50cm square

EARLY 20TH CENTURY BLUE AND WHITE WASH EWER, with printed decoration in blue of figures and animals in architectural settings, along with a similarly decorated basin (2)

World.- Porcacchi (Tommaso) L'Isole piu famose del Mondo, fourth edition, engraved architectural title, 48 engraved maps by Girolamo Porro in text, woodcut ornaments and initials, lacking N3 & 4 (pp.149-152), title with a few small ink annotations and small strip of paper pasted over at foot of panel with title, browning in parts, some water-staining to lower margin, small paper flaw hole to O3, contemporary vellum, a little rubbed, lower cover stained, folio, Venice, Heirs of Simon Galignani, 1604.⁂ Atlas of the islands of the world, with several of the New World including Temistitan (Mexico), Hispaniola, Cuba and Jamaica. It was originally published in 1572 with 30 maps, expanded to 47 in 1576; this fourth edition is the first to include the final map of Istria.

Eragny Press.- Perrault (Charles) La Belle au Bois Dormant & Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, one of 224 copies, wood-engraved double-page frontispiece, borders and initials designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by him and Esther Pissarro, the frontispiece printed in grey and gold, with A.L.s. to Lucien Pissarro from Herbert P.Horne loosely inserted, bookplate of Frederick H.Evans, original floral patterned-paper boards, uncut, very slightly browned, 8vo, Eragny Press, 1899.⁂ Herbert P.Horne (1864-1916), poet, architect, typographer and designer, art historian and antiquarian who edited the magazines The Century Guild Hobby Horse and The Hobby Horse for the Century Guild of Artists. The letter to Pissarro is in reply to an enquiry as to where the paper for The Hobby Horse was made; it was apparently a French firm in the Latin quarter of Paris but Horne cannot remember the name.Frederick H. Evans (1853-1943), photographer, mostly of architectural subjects and particularly known for his studies of English and French cathedrals.

Emblemata.- Heyns (Zacharias) and Gabriel Rollenhagen. Emblemata, 2 parts in 1 vol., engraved additional architectural title, engraved title within frame to part 2, 2 engraved portraits of Rollenhagen, 200 engraved plates of emblems, text of part 2 browned, some water-staining at head, mostly in part 2, some spotting in both parts, recased in contemporary blind-stamped vellum, later neat ms. title to spine, a few small stains, Arnhem, Jan Ianzen, 1615; and another Dutch emblem book by Cats, small 4to & 8vo (2)

Emblemata.- Montenay (Georgette de) Stamm Buch, Darinnen Christlicher Tugenden Beyspiel, Einhundert auszerlesener Emblemata, text in French, Latin, Spanish, Italian, German, English and Dutch, engraved architectural title by Peter Rolos, portrait of the author, and 100 half-page emblems by Pierre Woeriot, A1&2 detached, some staining and foxing, 19th century blind-stamped panelled calf, covers detached, spine ends chipped, corners worn, rubbed, [Landwehr, German, 445; Praz p.431], 8vo, Frankfurt, Johann-Carl Unckels, 1619.⁂ The first polyglot edition of the emblems of Georgette de Montenay (1540-1571), poet and Protestant lady in waiting to Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, to whom there is dedicatory verse at the end. 'The book was intended as [an] album amicorum, with a blank for entries at the end of each emblem' (Landwehr).

Piranesi (Francesco, 1758-1810) A bound collection of 45 plates, including 'Teatro di Ercolano', 32 double-page plates, with one folding, and 13 single-page, with vedute, architectural details, plans, columns, bound with the title and 4 pp. of text for 'Teatro di Ercolano', engravings with etching on thick laid paper, various sizes, one or two marginal repairs and light spotting, 19th century diced russia, rebacked, edges scuffed, folio, [circa 1780s].

Bible, English.- The Bible, Complete Old Testament only, comprising Genesis to Prophets, double column, largely printed in black letter, general title within woodcut architectural border printed in red and black, Psalter also with woodcut border, full-page woodcut of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, lacks initial blank leaf and B1, B6 and gathering C1-6 from genealogical table at beginning, trimmed with occasional loss of headlines or side-notes, light water-stain towards end but generally clean and crisp, 17th century calf, rubbed, clasps, spine cracked, [Herbert 178; STC 2136], folio, by Christopher Barker, 1583.⁂ Handsomely printed, this was the last black letter folio edition of the Geneva version. The full text included the Apocrypha and New Testament. Later bookplate of Lord Walsingham.

Donne (John) LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, engraved additional architectural title with an oval portrait of Donne at its centre (second state), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, Aa5 outer margin torn with loss of a few printed side-notes, some water-staining, last few index ff. stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments with red morocco label, [STC 7038; Grolier/Donne 62; Grolier/Wither to Prior 293; Keynes, Donne, 29], folio, printed [by Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, in Ivie-lane, and Richard Marriot in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1640. ⁂ First edition of the first folio collection of Donne's sermons. The prefatory essay is the first printing of Izaak Walton's classic Life of Donne.

Bible, English.- The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament, and the new: newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, 2 parts in 1, ruled throughout in red, first title within engraved architectural border, some close trimming at head or foot, affecting part of the odd headline of signature, occasional spotting, [Herbert 707; Wing B2283], printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1671 [1672] bound with a 1672 Book of Psalms, contemporary blind-tooled panelled morocco, metal corner-pieces and remains of clasps, spine in compartments, spine rubbed and scuffed; and 2 others, 18th century Psalms and Common Prayer, 12mo & 8vo (3)⁂ A rare little Bible, with ESTC recording only two copies (BL and British and Foreign Bible Society).

Amsterdam.- Leth (Hendrik de, draughtsman, engraver and map publisher, 1703-1766) Description de la Fameuse ville d'Amsterdam, avec ses plus considerables, Edifices et Vues agreables, title, plan of Amsterdam, and 74 views and architectural plans in Amsterdam and its environs, probably a composite of several published suites, plates by van der Laan, Stoopendael, Smit and others, engravings, on laid paper, many watermarked with fleur-de-lis, each sheet approx. 220 x 290 mm. (8 3/4 x 11 1/2 in), some occasional spotting and light surface dirt, minor worm hole to margins in places, half calf, brown cloth covered boards, spine split and partly detached, oblong 4to, [circa 1725 or slightly later].

A Portfolio Titled "Plates Of Building Construction" By The Late W.R Jaggard, Published By The London Architectural Press

India: Photographs and Drawings of Historic Buildings, 100 Plates Produced by W. Griggs, From the Collection in the late Office of Curator of Ancient Monuments in India, London 1896, 9 fold-out chromolithograph plates, 40 full-page chromolithograph plates, further b/w line engraved architectural elevations and sections, b/w photographic reproductions of monuments and artefacts, some plates and illustrations prefaced by explanatory text, full contemporary publisher's red cloth gilt, in the Islamic taste, red endpapers, crown folio Condition Report: Minor warping to the boards and ripple to the front lower portion but stable, spine slightly sunned, head and tail cap are gently frayed, stable split to inner mid hinge, but contents tight in binding, plates good, some very minor, occasional speckling, but nothing too drastic, light soiling to spine and back board, a good copy

Miscellaneous - Memoirs of the Life, and Travels, in the Service of the Gospel, of Sarah Stephenson, first London edition, Printed and Sold by William Phillips [...], London 1807, pp: xi, [i], 204, contemporary tree calf boards, rebacked tan calf spine preserving fragmentary gilt-lettered oxblood morocco title label, contemporary ink MS presentation inscription: Eliza:th Stammers, London, to Hannah Evans, Warwick, 5th mo[nth] 25 1807, further indistinct pencil ownership inscription dated 1828, mid-19th century matrimonial architectural/pictorial dated bookplate to recto pastedown: James & Susanna W. Bissell, 1858, 12mo; Gay [John], Fables, second edition, Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, London 1728, pp: [xiv], 1 - 12, 15 - 32, 35 - 194, engraved mask vignette to the conserved title-page, further engraved pastoral and Rococo plates prefixing each fable after designs by William Kent (c. 1685 - 1748) and John Wootton (c. 1682 - 1764), allegorical woodcut tail-pieces, later 20th century calf, the spine with gilt-lettered title label and raised bands, later endpapers, chamfered pages, mid-19th century ink MS ownership inscription to title-page, small 8vo, [2]

Miscellaneous Folios - Thomas Shotter Boys Original Views of London, First Published in 1842 Now Reprinted [...] with Twenty-Six Coloured Reproductions from the Original Lithographs, the Text of 1842, and a Parallel Modern Text by James Laver, C.B.E., two-volume set, Charles W. Traylen, Guildford 1954 - 1955, each with printed card covers, red cloth portfolio binding; Repton (John Adey) and Wilkins (William), Norwich Cathedral at the end of the eighteenth century, with descriptive notes [...], limited edition 546/1000, bookplate to pastedown, Gregg Press, Farnborough 1965, fold-out architectural elevations and plates, contemporary blue cloth, pictorial printed slipcase, atlas folio; Printing The Times Since 1785: Some Account of the Means of Production and Changes of Dress of the Newspaper, Illustrated with Upwards of Fifty Facsimiles of Pages and Many Line Engravings &c., Printing House Square, London 1953, black cloth, royal folio, [3]

The Book of Common Prayer [...] [&] Holy Bible, Containing The Old Teftament (sic) and The New [...], Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb (sic), deceas'd; Printers to the Queens moft (sic) Excellent Majefty (sic), London 1703, [with] The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others [...], Printed by W.B. for the Company of Stationers, London 1703, etched and engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne to BCP, etched and engraved architectural frontispiece to Holy Bible by John Sturt (1658 - 1730), which is unusually 'By His Majefties (sic) Special Command', further full-page engraved Biblical plates and woodcut initials throughout each text of BCP and Bible, rebacked and repaired worn fragmentary panelled red morocco gilt, contemporaneous ink MS ownership and presentation inscription to BoC: This Booke (sic) was given by John Wellins to his Brother Edward Wellins and his for [...] Witnefs (sic) his (?) bands -, John Wellins 1708, small folio

Theology - Grotius (Hugo), De Veritate Religionis Christianæ [...], Impenfis (sic) Ant. Peifley (sic) Bibliop, [Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford] 1700, engraved allegorical title-page, secondary title-page with an engraved vignette of the architectural elevation of the theatre and printed in red and black, rebacked contemporary panelled calf, red speckled edges, 16mo; Secker's Sermons [...], seven-volume set, Printed for J. and F. Rivington, London 1770 - 1771, contemporary gilt ruled speckled calf, contemporary ink MS shelf numbering to recto pastedowns, 8vo, (7); Prideaux (Humphrey, D.D., Dean of Norwich), The Old and New Testament, Connected in the History of the News and Neighbouring Nations, from the Declenfion (sic) of the Kingdoms of Ifrael (sic) and Judah to the Time of Christ, eighth edition, volume set, Printed for R. Knaplock [...], London 1720, harlequin contemporary calf (disbound, faults), 8vo, (2); Bausset's Life of Fenelon, Translated from the French, by William Mudford, two-volume set, Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, London 1810, engraved frontispiece of the prelate, contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards, 8vo; Provincial Imprint, The History of the Lives, Acts, and Martyrdoms of those Blessed Christians [...], Printed J. Imison, Manchester 1785, engraved frontispiece, anachronistic woodblock illustrations accompanying text, later 19th century quarter-calf binding (faults), 12mo; Psalms and Hymns for the Use of the Parish of St. Mary-Le-Bone, Printed for H.T. Hodgson, Bookseller, London [1815], rebacked and relaid contemporary calf, 18mo; others, 18th and early 19th century, various

F. GuareliItalianate Architectural Studysigned, watercolour, 28cm x 23cm

A Medieval masonry limestone architectural corbel, naturalistically carved as a leaf, 26cm high, 13th century

A Victorian Gothic Revival architectural cork diorama, of Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland, framed case, 29cm x 40cm overall, c. 1870

An Indian hardwood architectural fragment, carved as a Corinthian capital, 27cm wide, 19th century; another, similar (2)

Local Interest - Antiquarianism, Architecture and Monuments - Peter Paul Pugin (1851-1904), a three-page ink MS inscribed and autographed letter addressed to Lord Donington of Donington Hall, from the offices of Pugin & Pugin, Architects, dated July 16th 1892; Clapham (A.W., F.S.A.), The Carved Stones at Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire, and their position in the history of English Art, Printed by John Johnson for the Society of Antiquaries, London, 1928, paper covers, thin 4to; Architectural Detail Postal Club, eight various issues, including the Rothley Cross Shaft, St. Alkmunds, Derby, each applied with b/w photographs, dated 1935 - 1940, card binders, small folios, (8), [10]

Architecture and Masonry - Mylne (Rev. Robert Scott), The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland and Their Works, copy no. 303, Scott & Ferguson and Burness & Company, Edinburgh 1893, illustrated with full-page lithographic and engraved architectural and topographical plates, contemporary pictorial cloth binding, Ex Library copy, neatly embossed library stamp to prelim and some gilt numeration to spine, crown folio; Vallance (Aymer), The Old Colleges of Oxford: Their Architectural History Illustrated and Described, B.T. Batsford, London [n.d., 1912], full-page lithographic and photographic plates, further engraved illustrations accompanying text, Neo Gothic title-page and initials, contemporary pictorial cloth binding, Ex Library copy, Nottingham Reference Library paper label to upper-cover, some institutional stamps to prelims and plate margins in places, medium folio, [2]

A PAINTED WOOD ARCHITECTURAL MODEL OF THE ELECTRIC PALACE CINEMA, HARWICH ON WOOD BASE, 71CM L, WITH RELATED BOOKLETS AND PRINTED EPHEMERA, ETC, IN PAINTED WOOD TRAVELLING CASE

A WHITE PAINTED WOOD ARCHITECTURAL MODEL OF AN EARLY 19TH C SHOP FRONT, IN PAINTED WOOD TRAVELLING CASE, 38 X 61CM

A pair of Gothic Revival oak hall chairs, architectural pierced and carved backs, boarded seat, turned tapered legs (2)

A quantity of paintings and prints to include five framed and glazed architectural prints

Two Axonometric architectural drawings 'THE CINEMA', Scale four feet to one inch, by L Phillips, 15th April 1940, with 'The Polytechnic, London School of Architecture' stamp 73 x 52cm, framed

A Victorian cast iron overmantle with architectural pediment and further classical detail surrounding a vacant mirror plate, together with one other (AF)

A reclaimed Edwardian fire surround with architectural split moulded and fluted columns and carved Art Nouveau style foliated scrolling bosses (later painted), the mantle 176 cm wide

An unusual American sheet musical architectural mantle clock with gilt highlights with enamelled chapter ring and two train Ansonia clock company movement, 35 cm high, with pendulum and a cranberry glass bowl

A Fascinating Collection of 19th and 20th Century Indian Sub-Continent Postcards. The collection contained in two albums comprises both black and white and colour photographic postcards and some illustrated postcards. The collection depicts interesting characters of that time from the highest eschelons of society down to the most humble, also a small quantity of WWI military postcards and some of geographical and architectural interest, approx 233. The second album in a similar vein contains more graphic content comprises both black and white and some colour photographic postcards and some illustrated, most notably members of the British Royal Family, Mahatma Gandhi and several of Indian nobility, approx 360.

A large architectural oak framed mirror circa 1920s with domed top, dentilated mouldings, domed and bevelled mirror with panelled sides, width 101cm & height 111cm.

A single-mounted montage of three architectural studies, charcoal, unsigned, each study approx. 30 x 20 cm

Four 19th century Chinese architectural beams, each carved with figures

Twelve assorted watercolours and prints, miniature examples including landscapes, architectural studies, a 19th Century black and white engraving, The Loyal Warrington Volunteer and other items.

Victorian black marble mantel clock, architectural pediment, enamelled dial, cylinder movement, 27cm.

18th-19th century AD. A carved rectangular marble architectural panel with inscription to each face; Side A with two lines of ornate calligraphic text deeply cut; Side B with four lines of denser text within a border, with shallow-cut diacritics, reversed in alignment with respect to Side A; mounted on a custom-made stand. 9.5 kg total, 38.5cm wide (15 1/4"). From the Dean family collection, London, UK; acquired on the London art market 1970-1980s. Fine condition, edges chipped.

11th century AD or later. A rectangular carved sandstone architectural panel with frieze depicting Virgin Mary seated on an elaborate throne facing a winged angel with staff. 11.3 kg, 40cm (15 3/4"). Property of a London lady, part of her family's Swiss collection; formerly acquired in the 1980s. Fine condition.

9th-11th century AD. A carved stone architectural bracket comprising a slender ledge with stepped cone finial to the lower face, swept underside to the triangular bracket with ribbed and lobed surface, central void containing an advancing elephant with saddlecloth and two riders supporting the ledge; mounted on a custom-made stand. 33.1 kg, 68cm including stand (26 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; from his father's collection formed in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Fine condition.

16th-17th century AD. A rectangular marble architectural panel with central lattice panel and piercedwork frame; mounted on a custom-made stand. 30 kg, 73cm (28 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; previously with a central London gallery; formerly in a collection formed in the 1990s. Fine condition, repair.

18th-19th century AD. A carved rectangular marble architectural panel with inscription to each face; Side A with two lines of ornate calligraphic text deeply cut; Side B with three lines of denser text within a border, with shallow-cut diacritics; mounted on a custom-made stand. 8.6 kg total, 38cm wide (15"). From the Dean family collection, London, UK; acquired on the London art market 1970-1980s. Fine condition, edges chipped.

Windor Castle - An Architectural History Vol I & II by William St John Hope, published at the offices of Country Life, 1913 (colour illustrations but without maps) 37 x 27cm each

MIRRORS, a pair, Architectural style, metal framed, each with an arched top, 90cm W x 171cm H. (2)

IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK, by Charles Craig, Dublin, the hood with architectural cabinet and single glazed panel door enclosing a brass dial inked with Roman and Arabic numerals, signed, the waisted trunk section with fluted quadrants and solid panel door on plinth bass and bracket feet. 234 cm high

Watson mahogany cased barometer with architectural pediment with silvered dials, 60cm long

A pair of large turned mahogany architectural columns, each with a lappet carved capital, 212cm high

Martin Hardie, architectural etching, signed, 24 x 34cm, together with Moira Orton, river landscape, watercolour

An unusual early 19th century 8-day longcase clock, the mahogany case having Gothic and Scottish styling influences, arched top hood with eagle and ball finials, turned columns flanking the opening glazed door, the trunk having Gothic top 3/4 length opening door, flame mahogany panel with banding in lighter veneers, unusual applied half round columns, fluted spear-point finials and architectural roundels, the base having lighter cross-banded frame to match the door, supported on turned and stepped feet, dial is very colourful having four seasons to the corners and a country scene to the arch, indistinctly signed, the 8-day bell striking movement is mounted directly to the dial with no falseplate, approx. 220cm tall.Estimate £300 to £500Notes: A documented history is with the clock starting from 1836 (probably less than 20 years after the clock would have been made, they could have been the first owners) with successive generations of the Carr family of Camperdown, Northumberland. Whilst the name on the dial does not appear to be Carr, there was a Joseph Carr listed as clockmaker (Loomes) in Hexham, about 25 miles from Camperdown. He died in 1775 (too early for this clock) however it is possible that there was a familial connection between them. This lot MUST be paid for and collected, or delivery arranged, no later than close of business on Tuesday. Please do not bid if you are unable to comply

Five boxes of hardback books, including architectural and historic subjects