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*Boyle (Eleanore Vere, 1825-1916). Here we are on Tom Tickler's ground/Picking up gold and silver!, pen & grey ink on paper, mounted on card, depicting a number of small girls in the countryside picking flowers, with goats and trees in the background, pencilled caption lower right, sheet size 17 x 13cm (6.75 x 5ins), together with two other small sketches by the same artist, one of a small girl cradling a dove, pencil and red ink on card, edges irregularly cut, sheet size 10.5 x 9.5cm (4.25 x 3.75ins), and the other of the Madonna and Child within an architectural setting, red ink and watercolour wash on card, with coloured paint blotches beneath, trimmed to top and left-hand edge (latter with 1" closed tear), sheet size 20 x 7cm (8 x 2.75ins), plus an autograph letter signed from Eleanore Vere Boyle to Sir William Boxall, dated Jany 16, saying that the letter would be delivered by her old friend Miss Battire, and asking if he received her Dream Book "it is the only book that I care about having done, because it is all my own - no horrid copyist employed", ending "I am far from well & long to leave this dark world for the perpetual sunshine of Cannes", single bifolium, written on all four sides, with embossed heading 'Hunterscombe, Maidenhead', faintly spotted and creased, plus a folder of approximately 45 prints and engravings of illustrations by Boyle, many relating to Child's Play, some spotted, some mounted, contained together in a green half morocco folder, lettered in gilt on upper cover 'Child's Play EVB', rubbed, lacking ties, inscribed by the artist on front pastedown 'William Bloxall Esqre. from EVB his grateful pupil Feby 1st 1852' One of seventeen drawings Eleanore Vere Boyle executed for her first book 'Child's Play', a compilation of nursery rhymes published in 1852. Considered one of the most important female illustrators of the mid 19th century, Boyle moved in artistic circles which included Charles Eastlake, Thomas Landseer, the Pre-Raphaelites and Sir William Boxall (1800-1879) who was an English painter and director of the National Gallery from 1866 to 1874. (a folder)

Decorative brass and cloisonne enamelled mantel clock, with architectural case and dome to the top

Dolce (Lodovico) L'Achille et l'Enea di messer Lodouico Dolce. Doue egli tessendo l'historia della Iliade d'Homero a' quella dell'Eneide di Vergilio, ambedue l'ha diuinamente ridotte in ottaua rima, 2 parts in 1, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut portrait of the author within large architectural border, vignettes within cartouches, historiated initials and tail-pieces, occasional early ink marginalia, some spotting, lightly browned, 19th century vellum, retaining earlier red morocco label to spine, [Mortimer, Italian, 159; Adams, D-727; EDIT 16 CNCE 17406], small 4to, Venice, Gabriel Giolito Ferrari, 1572.⁂ Reprint of the 1571 first edition.

Bible, Dutch.- Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de Canonijcke Boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments, 4 parts in 3 vol., engraved architectural title, a double-page world map, showing California as an island and 5 double-page maps and plans of The Holy Land, extra-illustrated with 2 engraved pictorial titles and 209 (of 212) plates from Figure de la Bible, The Hague, Pierre de Hondt, 1628, some water-staining at head and foot, with a little fraying to corners, occasional spotting, a few tears, contemporary panelled calf, gilt, worn at extremities, folio, Dordrecht & Amsterdam, Hendrick & Jacob Keur and Marcus Doornick, 1682. Sold not subject to return.

Egypt.- Smith (H. C.) The Fortress of Buhen: the Inscriptions, 1976; The Fortress of Buhen: the Archaeological Report, 1979, plates, several double-page, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets, slight creasing to top edge § Petrie (W. M. Flinders) The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty 1900, 2 vol., plates, original paper backed boards, 1975 § Gillispie (Charles Coulston) and Michel Dewachter, Monuments of Egypt: The Napoleonic Edition, frontispiece, plates, many double-page or folding, loosely inserted folding map, original cloth, dust-jacket, Princeton, Princeton Architectural Press, 1987; and 13 others, similar, 4to & folio (18)

A French Green Marble Clock Garniture of Architectural Form with Ormolu Mounts Including Reeded Columns, Clock 38cm Wide

Large Victorian Spode blue and white printed turkey plate, decorated with architectural and landscape decoration

A large contemporary Black Forest cuckoo clock, the architectural case decorated with squirrels, birds and woodsman, 90 x 62cm

Early 20th century AD. A matched pair of stone architectural channel covers each with lion-head detailing, inset iron tongue and hinge bar, loop to the rear. 7.2 kg total, 39cm (15 1/2"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 2000. [2, No Reserve] Fine condition.

An undated archaistic pair of carved stone architectural panels with calligraphic text to the border and median arabesque panels with armed warrior supporters, advancing sphinx and florid ornament. 6.5 kg, 45cm (17 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 2000. [2] Fine condition.

An undated archaistic pair of carved stone architectural panels with calligraphic text to the border and median arabesque panels, advancing sphinx and florid ornament. 9.0 kg, 67.5cm (26 3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 2000. [2] Fine condition.

18th century AD. A flat discoid marble(?) plaque with high relief image of nude, winged Nike kneeling to sacrifice a bull with a dagger; the bull resting on a tiered base, head drawn up vertical, forelegs bent; Nike kneeling on the bull's back, draped robe to the right shoulder, wings extended to the rear, left hand to the bull's muzzle, right hand raised with dagger above the bull's head. See Mark, I.S. The Sanctuary of Athena Nike in Athens: Architectural Stages and Chronology, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Volume XXV, 1993 for discussion of the Nike cult. 32 grams, 61mm (2 1/2"). Property of a Lincolnshire collector; acquired on the UK art market, 2010-2015. A scene of Nike sacrificing a bull appeared on the temple of Athena Nike at Athens, now in the British Museum, London, under accession number 1885,1212.1 . Another is in the Athens Acropolis museum (Acr.972"). Nike, the goddess embodying victory, was sometimes a patroness of competition in the games as well as of military conquest. A torch race, possibly the Lampas of Panathenaia, was concluded with the sacrifice of a bovine to Nike, as shown on a number of 4th century BC vases. Fine condition, edge chipped, usage wear.

Published 20th century AD. Group comprising: Spink, British Battles & Medals,1988; Taylor, The Architectural Medal, 1978; Hill, Medals of the Renaissance, 1978; Woolf, Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement, 1988; Fearon, British Commemorative Medals, 1984; Brown, British Historical Medals 3, Edward VII to 1960, 1995; Hill and Pollard, Medals from the Samuel H Kress Collection, 1967; with auction catalogues (5; Adams, Renaissance, Serenissima (2 vols.) and Duke of Northumberland); with other titles (2"). 15.9 kg total, largest 31 x 22cm (12 1/4 x 8 3/4"). Ex libris Peter Woodhead. [11, No Reserve] Fine condition; most with dustwrappers.

An undated archaistic carved stone architectural feature with central tube and four radiating felines with forelegs extended, scale texture. 2.9 kg, 21.5cm (8 1/2"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired before 2000. [No Reserve] Fine condition.

Two French architectural pictures, both as buildings, prints, (2)

A quantity of architectural drawings and blueprints

Ayling, Stephen - Photographs from Sketches by Augustus Welby N. Pugin. First edition, 2 vols, mounted frontis, 500 numbered small photographs mounted 2 on each page, coloured and decorated titles, dedication leaf and 8pp letterpress index; contemporary half morocco and cloth, gilt decorated and panelled spines, gilt edges, 4to, London: published by S.Ayling, 493 Oxford Street, 1865 Slight binding wear only (mostly spine ends), gilt device on upper covers, back endpapers little marked, Vo. 2 has heavier black marking verso of final plate and head of p.1 of index, a little slight spotting elsewhere-but mostly clean. Note: these are almost all continental sketches of buildings, architectural details, etc., not of his own designs; photo size average is 10 x 6.5cms. ; including half titles (as volume numbers)  

A hand made book called Architectural sketches - made up from various issues of "The Builder" from 1/6/1867 to 2/11/1872

WARDROBE, early 19th century, William IV, flame mahogany, with architectural cornice, two panelled doors, enclosing double hanging space and drawer below, 217cm W x 107cm H x 49cm D.

A stunning Art Deco silver and enamelled Manicure set with silver architectural rectangular stand, 5" long. The three nail tools having lozenge shape silver, black and white enamelled handles, all stamped Birmingham 1935 and S & M for Sanders and Mackensie.

A Victorian oak clock barometer The architectural Gothic case enclosing the 8cm white enameled clock dial with single train movement above a 12cm white enameled barometer dial, raised upon a stepped base, 46cm high.

A Victorian walnut Vienna style wall clockThe architectural case applied with gilt metal appliques having turned columns flanking the 13cm gilt dial with enameled bezel and Roman numerals, with a two train movement and embossed gilt metal pendulum, 88cm long.

A Regency Thomas Gammage & Son of London bracket clock, ebonised case of architectural form, 12cm silvered dial signed and numbered 4397 , fusee movement, height 30cm

PEQUEGNOT - NINETEEN ENGRAVINGS to include classical images, architectural designs etc., after artists including Albert Durer, J. J. Lagrenee, Guido Reni, Boucher, Mansart, Watteau, Prieur etc. (19)

BALTARD - THREE ARCHITECTURAL ENGRAVINGS OF THE LOUVRE IN PARIS, early nineteenth century (3)

Hilary St George Saunders, Ford at War, 1946, together with Bombed Churches as War Memorials, published by The Architectural Press, 1945, and Land at War, HMSO, circa 1944

Howard Carter (20th Century) Five architectural drawings, 1973 'Coughton Court', 'Honnington Hall', 'Compton Wynyates', 'Aston Hall' and one other signed and dated watercolour and gouache each 75cm x 75cm (5).

Attributed to Henry Moore (1898-1986) 'Four Reclining Figures with Architectural Background', circa 1974 unsigned, a proof aside from the numbered edition of 200 lithograph 72cm x 57cm. 

Cast brass and iron money bank of architectural form Condition:

A portfolio of architectural sketches and studies, and others

Four terracotta architectural tiles, one pair decorated with fruit and leaves, the other an urn, impressed 542, each height 31cm, width 30cm, depth 10cm.

Thirteen boxes of glass negatives together with one box of magic lantern slides, mostly English landscapes including many of Ilford and the Helford Passage as well as architectural scenes and some portraits.

A six box collection of magic lantern slides depicting scenes from various countries. Many landscapes, architectural scenes and portraits. Notable scenes of; Venice, Rome Amsterdam, Calcutta, Egypt and Damascus.

A French black marble cased architectural mantle clock.

A mahogany display cabinet in Georgian style, with architectural carved pediment and glazed door, on a stand with a single drawer and low shelf, width 67cm.

A collection of 19th Century Staffordshire blue and white transfer printed ceramic measuring jugs, to include seven matching quart jugs having hills and architectural scenes, two matching pint jugs decorated with willow pattern by Maling in the Eslington pattern etc.

A 19th century cast iron boot scraper of architectural form raised on oval high sided base with shaped scrape. 17cm high 28cm wide. 

An early 20th Century American Ansonia Clock Company of New York oak two train architectural mantel clock. Roman numeral chapter ring with two winding holes to the face, the movement marked for Ansonia Clock Co to the verso together with another French Alabaster mantel clock adorned with gilt angels. Biggest 44cm high 33cm wide 15cm deep. 

A Vienna-styled wall clock, oak case with opening glazed door flanked by turned decoration, surmounted by an architectural styled pediment, white chapter ring to the two-piece dial with Roman numerals, grid-iron style pendulum with bob marked R/A. Measures: 75cm high x 13cm wide x 17cm deep.

Gerard Dillon (1916 - 1971)A view of Drogheda (1943)Oil on board, 27.9 x 35.5cm (11 x 14)Signed and dated (19)'43, title versoProvenance: With Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin‘A view of Drogheda’ was most likely painted after Dillon’s visit to the town with Drogheda painter, Nano Reid (1900-1981) in 1943. The two friends may have arranged a sketching holiday after the opening of their group exhibition of watercolours at the Contemporary Picture Galleries in Lower Baggot Street in July, 1943. A Publican’s daughter, Reid was sixteen years older than Dillon but he never viewed their age difference as an obstacle for friendship. Both artists felt strongly about Ireland’s cultural heritage and admitted in interviews to having influenced each other’s work.This work is typical of Dillon’s subjects in the early 1940’s which were largely focused on everyday subjects that were linked to his daily life. His style of painting was still at an early stage of development but this visit to the town and the surrounding area had a lasting impact on him. In 1944 Dillon and Reid showed works from their sketching holiday in their exhibitions in Dublin and Northern Ireland. ‘View of Drogheda’ may be ‘Drogheda’ listed in Dillon’s joint show with George Campbell at John Lamb’s gallery, Bridge St in Portadown in June, 1944 (Cat.22). Opened by John Hewitt, the Portadown News commented that the two artists ‘cover a wide range of subjects and include landscape, the blitz and life in our cities and on things that are avoided by the majority of artists, but which when painted leave a valuable record of our time for future generations.’(1.7.44) Dillon probably didn’t intend to document this scene as a valuable record of the town but his desire to record the town and the architectural heritage in the area before Institutions were set up to protect listed buildings was a ‘valuable record’ for future generations. It has been suggested that this scene is from the south side of the Boyne looking west possibly from the vantage point of Pitcher Hill, Barack Lane or at ‘Butter Gate’. The Church across the river is probably St. Magdalen’s Church known locally as Dominick’s Church.Karen ReihillNovember, 2018(This writer is grateful for the assistance of Declan Mallon for his help in identifying the location of this work.)

ERIC WINTERS (20th British)"Messrs British Gypsum, Ltd, Kirby Thore, New Board Warehouse, Plaster Mill and Crushing Plant" - an architectural drawingPen and ink wash, watercolour and gouache, 31cm x 63cmSigned and dated Jan 65.

A Chippendale revival mahogany corner cabinet on stand, possibly Irish, architectural pediment above a deep frieze and an astragal glazed door, flanked by reeded pilasters, shaped apron carved with acanthus, shaped stretchers with octagonal upstand, cabriole legs, fluted pad feet, 219cm high, 90cm wide, c.1890

Two late 19th century sketchbooks, drawn in and compiled by T.E. Jeffery, each enclosing full-page and inserted pencil drawings and sketches of Medieval and later architectural elevations, vignettes and antiquarian details, each bound in buckram or paper covers, the buckram album with Gothic Revival monogram and dated 1897, each slim oblong 4to, [2]

Grahame (Kenneth): The Golden Age, first edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1898, pp: [vi], 196, advert [i], pictorial yellow buckram as issued, small 8vo; Dream Days, first eidtion, John, Lane, The Bodley Head, London 1899, pp: [vi], 275, 15 (John Lane: Catalogue of Publications in Belles Lettres with architectural frontispiece), pictorial yellow buckram as issued, small 8vo, (2); Stevenson (Robert Louis) and Osbourne (Lloyd), The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette, William Heinemann, London 1894, contemporary pictorial cloth as issued, 12mo, [3]

An architectural plaster cast, of a sectional frieze, cast in high relief and centred by a saintly putto's head, outstretched wings and crowned by a halo, flanked by swags of ribbon-tied laureate garlands, dart and rope twist borders, mounted oak case, 38.5cm x 94.5cm

A 19th century scratchbuilt architectural timepiece, of Big Ben, 7cm circular enamel dial, 94cm high overall, c. 1890 (faults, wormed) Condition Report: Wormed throughout but currently structurally sound.

Medical Interest - Provincial Welsh Imprint, Solomon (Dr Samuel), A Guide to Health; or Advice to Both Sexes, in Nervous and Consumptive Complaints: with an Essay on the Scurvy, Leprosy, and Scrofula; also on a Certain Disease, Seminal Weakness, and a Destructive Habit of a Private Nature, to which is added An Address [...] with Observations on The Use and Abuse of Cold Bathing, fifty-third edition, Printed by J. Painter, for the Author, Wrexham [n.d., c. 1810], stipple engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Edward Orme (1775 - 1848) after Thomas Hargreaves (1774 - 1847), full-page architectural elevation: Solomon's Place, Brownlow Street, Liverpool, contemporary speckled calf, gilt lettered red morocco title label, large 16mo; Morley (John), An Essay, On the Nature and Cure of Scrophulous Disorders, Commonly called the King's Evil [...], sixteenth edition, James Buckland, London 1777, pp: 89, facsimile frontispiece and repaired loss to half of page 89, later early 19th century buckram boards with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription, small 8vo; Anon, A New Collection of Medical Prefcriptions (sic), Distributed into Twelve Classes, And accompanied with Pharmaceutical and Practical Remarks [...], By a Member of the London College of Physicians, R. Baldwin, Jun., London 1791, contemporary mottled dark calf spine, upper cover present but detached, 12mo; Bodington (George), An Essay on the Treatment and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption, Reprinted, with a Preface by Dr Arthur E. Bodington, Lomax's Successors, Lichfield 1906, original printed boards, 12mo, [4]

Classics and Miscellaneous - Virgil, Maro (Publius Vergilius), Opera, Cum Adnotationibus Johannis Minellii, Prima Editio Simoniana Curante Aloysio Raymundo, Superiorum permiffu (sic), Naples 1702, full contemporary vellum binding, titled in ink MS to spine, thick 16mo; Horace, Flaccus (Quintus Horatius), Opera, Kegan Paul, Trench & Soc., London 1882, vellum boards, 16mo; Greek English Lexicon, mid-19th century, incomplete, quarter green leather and buckram, square 12mo; Durury (Victor), Histoire Des Romains, Depuis Les Temps Les Plus Reculés Jusqu' A L'Invasion des Barbares, volume I only, Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris 1879, illustrated throughout with full-page chromolithographic plates of antiquities & co., coloured maps, line engravings and vignettes, contemporary pictorial red buckram, large 4to; Bourassé (Abbé Jean-Jacques), Les Plus Belles Églises du Monde [...], Ad Mame et Cie, Tours 1857, full-page lithographic plates of architectural elevations, contemporary gilt-embossed green morocco spine, faux buckram boards, 8vo; Colomb (L.C.), Habitations et Édifices, fourth edition, Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris 1899, line engraved illustrations, contemporary gilt-embossed red morocco spine, faux morocco buckram boards, 4to; Farrère (Claude), [pseud. of Bargone (Frédéric-Charles)], Dix-sept Histoires de Marins, Librairie Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1914, contemporary vellum, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Hallam (Henry), View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, ninth edition, volume I only, John Murray, London 1846, contemporary full black pebble morocco binding, by White of Pall Mall, London, 1850, stamped, gilt-lettered and embossed spine, interior border, marbled endpapers, Plain Armorial bookplate: Hughes, 8vo; Thornton Abbey: A Series of Letters on Religious Subjects, volume II only, Wightman and Cramp, London 1826, contemporary quarter-calf and buckram, 12mo; bindings; etc, [18]

Indian School (mid-19th century), a set of four Company topographical miniatures, each of various Mughal temples, architectural elevations and interiors, ovals, watercolour on ivory, the largest 9cm x 12.5cm, mounted and displayed in a connoisseur's glazed easel frame

Theology - Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlafting (sic) Rest, four parts contemporaneously bound as one: first part, lacking title-page; second part, F. Tyton, 1676; third part, W.R., 1677; fourth part, F. Tyton and R. Boutler, 1677, contemporary diced calf, raised bands to spine, traces of ink MS title to spine, 8vo; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Teftament (sic) and the New, Newly tranflated (sic) out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Tranflations (sic) diligently Compared and Revifed (sic), With Marginal notes, fhewing (sic) Scripture to be the beft (sic) Interpreter of Scripture, [London], engraved architectural title-page dated 1682 with no further printing details, address To the Reader by John Canne, bound with A Small Cambridge Concordance to the Holy Bible [...] To which is Annexed Supplement [...], Printed to be bound up with Bible, Printed by John Hayes, Cambridge 1695, late 18th century black straight-grain morocco gilt (lacking upper cover), lettered spine, marbled endpapers, recto with late 18th/early 19th century ink MS annotations in mainly Greek but some English, ownership inscription: S.P. Hodgkins 1808, 16mo; Spencerus [Spencer] (Gulielmus [William]), Origenes Kata Kelsou, en tomois 8 ; tou autou: Origenis Contra Celsum, Libri Octo, ejusdem Philocalia, Joan. Field, Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] 1658, contemporary panelled calf upper board only (detached), square 8vo; Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, fourth revised and enlarged edition, J.M. for John Williams [...], London 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Frederick Hendrik Van Hove (1628 - 1698) after Willem Sonmans (fl. 1670 - 1708), contemporary speckled calf with losses and repairs, small folio; [Newman (Samuel)], A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures: With the Various Readings both of Text and Margin, In A more Exact Method than hath hitherto been Extant, third edition, John Hayes, Printer to the Univerfity (sic): For Hannah Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill in London, Cambridge 1682, contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooled spine, blind lettering, 4to [5]

Nineteenth century slate mantel clock, the two train movement by the Ansonia Clock Company, New York, the ivory coloured ornamental Roman dial with visible escapement and beetle and poker hands, in architectural style case, 29cm tall together with a c1920 French inlaid Napoloeon hat example with enamel Arabic dial, 15cm tall

A Victorian mahogany corner cabinet with architectural pediment surmounting a single glazed door, opening to reveal three plain shelves and one shaped shelf, height 122cm.

3 large French coloured architectural coloured engravings in very ornate contemporary cream and gilt frames

ƟBook of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern France (perhaps Limoges), immediately before 1439] 96 leaves (including one blank leaf, and plus original parchment pastedowns and single endleaf at front and back), complete (without Calendar, but perhaps always so), collation: i-ii6, iii4, iv8, v-vi6, vii2, viii-ix6, x4, xi8, xii4, xiii-xvii6, catchwords, single column of 18 lines in two sizes of a fine gothic bookhand, capitals touched in yellow wash and those in uppermost line with penwork decoration, versal initials and some line-fillers in burnished gold on red and blue grounds, 2-line initials in same with hairline floral sprays in margin terminating in red, blue or gold leaves, six large initials in same with full or three-quarter borders of coloured and gold rinceaux foliage, six large arch-topped miniatures, each framed within thin gold bars, with a separate set of these bars enclosing the text on the same page, with full borders of coloured and gold rinceaux foliage with some birds, 3 lines of text beneath miniature on fol. 79v erased (perhaps due to original scribal error: the text beginning perfectly at head of next leaf), some flaking from text on last few leaves, slight thumbing in places and outer upright border cropped to edge of decoration with very slight losses to edge of borders on miniature leaves, overall good and solid condition, 190 by 132mm.; seventeenth-century calf binding over wooden boards, gilt-tooled with Symbols of the Passion on each board within ornate foliate rollstamp, some small bumps and chips and with spine rebacked with sections of original leather laid on Provenance:1. Most probably written and illuminated for Maragde de Châteauneuf de Randon and Saint Ramsey or a member of her immediate family or circle, around 1439: an inscription in French in main hand on first endleaf notes her death on 29 September in that year: “Lan mil iiiic & xxxix & le iour de saint Michel xxix iour de septembre trespassa la noble demoiselle maragde de chastel no de rando, autremant apelee de saint remezi, Anima eius requiescat in pace, amen”. There are prayers here after the Penitential Psalms and Office of the Dead that ask for the reader to plead for mercy for the soul of “famula tua” (in female form) and these are accompanied by burnished gold initials ‘M’ (doubtless for Maragde). The book would appear either to have been written for her, but not yet finished at the time of her death and completed with this event in recent memory, or commissioned in her memory. Maragde de Châteauneuf de Randon and Saint Ramsey was a wealthy and influential member of the southern French nobility, whose family were vicomtes de Saint-Remeise and the barons d’Allenc. She was either the wife or daughter of Guillaume, seigneur de Saint Ramsey, near Limoges.2. Leblanc (Parisian auction house), Livres précieux, manuscrits et imprimés sur peau-vélin, du cabinet de M.**, 1811, lot 114, most probably from the vast stock of Paris bookseller Charles Chardin (1742-1826; eulogised by Dibdin, and portrayed by ‘Lewis’ in his Tour in France and Germany, II, pp. 400-04).3. In the English trade in the early twentieth century, with various pencil notes to pastedowns including the adamant “NOT FOR SALE” in capitals.4. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), of Broxbourne House (and from which his library took its name); his vol. 1249, and with his small inkstamp at each end. A number of fine incunabula from his library were presented to the British Library, with fine bookbindings passing to the Bodleian and his collection of booktrade records to the Roxburghe Club. Sotheby’s sold the reminder of his printed books on 14-15 November 1977 and 8-9 May 1978.5. Re-emerging in Sotheby’s, 3 December 2002, lot 78, and thence by descent. Text:The volume comprises: the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (fol. 2r), Lauds (fol. 9r), Prime (fol. 16r), Terce (fol. 18v), Sext (fol. 20v), None (fol. 22v), Vespers (fol. 24v) and Compline (fol. 27v); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 40r) and Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 52r; including SS. Martial of Limoges and Radegund of Poitiers); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 74r) and of the Holy Ghost (fol. 77r); followed by a long series of prayers to Christ (fol. 79v), including one to be said at Mass which claims to grant 2000 years’ indulgence, as well as the prayers to the Virgin in French. Illumination:Southern French manuscript illumination is far rarer than that from the north, and this manuscript is deserving of further study. The palette is brilliantly vivid, and some faces are so well executed they suggest the presence more than one artist. There are numerous features, such as the exquisitely detailed pink architectural canopies and skies filled with gold scroll work, which seem to fit better in northern European art, and in 2002 the Sotheby’s cataloguer drew parallels to leaves with apparent Metz illumination now in the Cleveland Museum of Art (S.N. Fleigel, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, 1999, nos. 29-33) and proposed an itinerant artist. The miniatures are: 1. fol. 2r, The Annunciation with the Angel appearing to a kneeling Virgin, within a pink architectural gothic interior with bright gold and coloured tessellated windows, the border including a cockerel and a green bird; 2. fol. 40r, David kneeling in prayer, wearing scarlet robes in a stylised hilly landscape below a deep burgundy sky filled with gold scrolls; 3. fol. 52r, Judgement Day, with Christ seated in Judgement on a rainbow as skeletons rise from their graves below, all before a vivid red sky filled with gold scrolls, border with a peacock; 4. fol. 74r, The Descent from the Cross, with the Virgin cradling Christ’s body at the foot of the Cross, before Jerusalem and a cohort of Roman soldiers; 5. fol. 77r, Pentecost, the Virgin and apostles before a brilliantly illuminated tessellated background; 6. fol. 79v, God the Father holding a Crucifix between adoring angels, seated on a great throne before a grand architectural pink canopy. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

Ned Heywood, attributed, a large salt-glazed slab built architectural model of a bomb-damaged grocers store, seemingly unmarked, 41cm high (chips and losses).SALEROOM NOTICE: The attribution to this work has changed to Ned Heywood, the same potter responsible for making the blue plaques on heritage buildings.

19th century French marble mantel clock, stepped architectural design with gilt metal pillars and pilasters, enamel dial, eight-day movement, French maker to movement, 30cm high 

Rare late 19th century German walnut cased symphonium music hall clock, the impressive architectural case with turned finials, split column and applied fret ornament, the upper part with enclosed twin train clock with silver chapter ring, enclosed by glazed door, the trunk below enclosing symphonium machine, stamped - 'Schutz Marke, Made in Germany', numbered 281181, with side lever isolating music box from clock, crank handle winder, together with approximately twenty-six discs, total height approximately 230cm CONDITION REPORT in working condition although mechanism may need attention. Currently clock is not connected to symphonium. Piece of moulding missing to base of right pillar flanking clock face. Tarnishing to silvered dial, some wear to bracket feet, overall case condition is very good. Some discs are warped, buckled and may not be playable

Lenzkirch, a 20th Century mantel clock, with brass movement striking on two coils set into a burr walnut veneered case of architectural form

The Deane Butler Architectural Drawingsfor Morristown Lattin, Co. KildareButler (Wm. Deane) Architect. An important and significant collection of original hand-drawn Architectural Drawings for various parts of the proposed re-design to Tudor-Revival style, of Morristown Lattin, Co. Kildare, on behalf of G.P.L. Mansfield in 1845. The collection consists roughly of the following:1. Kitchen Window2. Details of Bower Windows3. Sketch of Dining Room Chimneypieces 4. Plan of the Hall Ceiling 5. Cornice for Bedroom6. Elevation of Gothic .. for Ceiling of Inner Hall 7. Details of Cut Stone Work and Principal Elevation 8. Details of Drawing Room and Dining Room Doors 9. Details of Hall sash Door and Shutters 10. Rear Elevation of Lutchen Wing 11. Details of Cut Stone Work for Bower Window on principal front 12. Details of Finishing for Door and Window in Hall 13. Bower Window for Garden Front 14. Details of Gallery Railing 15. Details of Stairs 16. Elevation and Plan of Proposed Arcade 17. Details of Library Fixtures for Morristown Lattin 18. Bound Set No. 1 - Principal Elevation No. 2 - Rear Elevation No. 3 - Plan of Principal Storey No. 4 - Plan of Second Storey No. 5 - Plan of Attic StoreyNo. 6 - Transverse Sections No. 7 - Longitudinal Sections, all signed and dated by Dean Butler (24 identified plans and drawings )19. Revised Sketches and other sketches for Furniture, unsigned for Morristown Lattin -Including Elevation of cast iron Parapets (indistinctly signed) -Longitude section of Sewer, Carvings, Stairs, etc. (14 additional architectural drawings).Approx. 40 drawings in all, mostly in fine condition. A rare collection. As a m/ss, w.a.f.Note: William Deane Butler was born about 1793, son of a Dublin Solicitor. He firstly studied at the Royal Dublin Society's School of Architectural Drawing. In 1836, he was awarded a premium by the R.D.S. for Plans and Estimates for Farmhouses and Buildings. In 1837 he published a book "Model Farmhouses and Cottages for Ireland". In 1844, he is named as Architect to the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1853, he was appointed architect in ordinary to the Lord Lieutenant. He specialised in Churches, Institutional Buildings and fine Country Houses, and his work is evident throughout Ireland.

Architectural Drawing for Dunsany CastleCo. Meath: [J. Shiel] An original draft drawing, Working Drawings of Cornices, full size Dunsany Castle, 100cms x 68cms, m/ss notes. (1)