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Click here to subscribeAn Antique Japanese Soapstone Carving depicting an architectural front with open interiors of figures, and a deer on the reverse amidst clouds of foliage & three peaks of mountains 6¼ ins x 4 ins (16 cms x 10 cms) in height. Two small 19th Century Japanese dishes with canted corners; one painted with delicate floral blooms and blue borders; 6 ins x 6 ins (15 cms x 15 cms)., the other painted with a landscape; 6½ ins x 6½ ins (16 cms x 16 cms).
A Fine Flemish Baroque Oil on Canvas depicting The Virgin & Child amidst billowing clouds with a worshiper, angel and two cherubs at their feet. The break-arch topped canvas measuring 21½ ins x 13 ins (54.5 cms x 33 cms) and fitted into a fine carved & painted giltwood surround. The dentil moulded architectural pediment centred by a roundel finial initialed RA flanked by sprays of acanthus. The swept sides bearing flaming urn finials nestled upon lavish foliate scrolls with flower head terminals, sweeping down to square canted breakfront corner pedestals surmounted by further urns of gilded flames. The inner border carved with a chain of laurel leaves and headed by a winged amorino, 36½ ins x 21½ ins (93 cms x 55 cms).
A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN MOUNTED GARNITURE DU CHEMINÉE, the clock of classical architectural form with cupola, the movement striking on a bell with painted Coats of Arms decoration together with a pair of four branch candelabra similarly decorated on velvet and gilt stands, clock 13" high, candlesticks 12" high (see illustration).
Samuel Prout (1783-1852) A large album containing views of The Seine, architectural fragments, Ferring Sussex, Launceston Castle, Saint Augustines Canterbury, Black Heath, Isle of Wight, Dover, rural scenes, small sketches, Treaty House, Uxbridge, Hastings, Saint Margarets, Kent, Harrow, Barking, Essex and others. The large bound album contains sketches, some very finished and vary in size from 3cm x 4cm to 28cm x 41cm. A number of pages have been removed and sold over the years. The album measures 49cm x 35cm and is signed on the inside cover S. Prout and has an inscription from Isabella Ann Prout authenticating the album as by her father, Samuel Prout.
Travlos-Pictorial Dictionary...Ancient Athens 1971 § Winter (Nancy A.) Greek Architectural Terracottas Oxford 1993 § Coulton (J. J.) The Architectural Development of the Greek Stoa Oxford 1976 § Ashmole (Bernard) Architect and Sculptor in Classical Greece 1972 § Lyttelton (M.) Baroque Architecture in Classical Antiquity 1974 § Robertson (D. S.) A Greek Handbook of Greek & Roman Architecture Cambridge 1929 plates and illustrations original cloth the first two with dust-jackets slightly rubbed the last with joints split; and 13 others Greek and Roman architecture v.s.(13)
A DUTCH MAHOGANY AND FLORAL MARQUETRY LONGCASE CLOCK, the brass arched dial inscribed "Fromantell and Clark", the case with long door inlaid with ferns, flowers and swags, with an oval neo-classical urn brass lenticle, the hood with square tapering pilasters with gilt brass finials, surmounted by a blind fret frieze and architectural pediment, the brass dial with serpent and mask spandrels, with a silvered chapter ring with Roman and Arabic numerals, the matt centre with subsidiary dials for alarm, seconds and date, the two train movement striking on a bell, 95" high. See illustration
A good oak coffer, the front with three panels, the central panel carved with arched architectural decoration, the above supporting bar carved with flowerheads within intertwining circles, the top of two plank construction, the sides with two panels; hinges replaced, inside fitted candle box
An alabaster and walnut casket, Malines, first half of the 17th century, architectural form, broken front fascia with niches enclosing armorials, centred by Doric pilasters, the end panels similarly designed, panelled lid with a carrying handle and two engraved alabaster tablets, velvet-lined interior, height 18cms, (7"), width 33cms, (13").
Betjeman (John and Piper, John, eds.). Murray’s Berkshire Architectural Guide, 1st ed., 1949, num. b & w illusts. from photos, orig. dec. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 4to, together with Manuale di Cecima, Pasticceria e Credenza per l”uso di Famiglia. Contenente piu di 4000 ricette e 280 disegni intercaleti nel testo... , Venice, 1910, num. small wood-engs. to text, orig. cloth, rubbed and some wear to spine, thick 8vo, plus Carson (Annette), Flight Fantastic. The Illustrated History of Aerobatics, 1st ed., 1986, 2 copies, one inscribed from the author “To Iona - with thanks for all your help and much love, 9.7.86”, the other inscribed “Iona in appreciation for all your efforts. British Aerobatic Association AGM. 1990”, with nine signatures, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. laminated pict. boards in matching d.j., folio, both VG, and other miscellaneous books, mostly foreign language dictionaries and grammar, including Irish and Russian. Ex libris Iona Radice, aviator and judge at aerobatic meetings. (3 cartons)
After Crispijn De Passe II 1597-1670- "Le Mange Royal - l`Instruction du Roy, en l`Exercice de Monter a Cheval" by Antoine Pluvine; First edition, published, Paris 1629, according to label attached verso, three plates from the original set of six engravings, each with later hand-colouring, each plate enclosed within classical architectural borders, decorated with coats of arms, each unexamined out of the frame, 33x41.8cm., ea., (3). Note: Antoine de Pluvinel`s `Le Mange Royal - Le Instruction du Roy, en l`Excercice de Monter à Cheval` was originally published incomplete after his death in 1623. An expert horseman in the Court of King Louis XIII of France, the engraved plates by the Dutch artist Crispijn de Passe II c. 1597-1670, show the techniques used during training. A second edition was published approximately two years later and was translated and re-issued several times.
Doncaster printing. A Few Slight Sketches of History, &c. Intended as Hints to Future Study, 1st ed., Doncaster, printed by C. and J. White, 1826, half-title, interleaved with a number of blank leaves, four with architectural pencil sketches by Elizabeth Wheatley, some early pencilled marginalia, scattered foxing, armorial bookplate of Edward Balme Wheatley-Balme, hinges split, contemp. green qtr. roan, rubbed and some loss to spine, boards spotted and soiled, upper cover with green roan label gilt lettered ‘E. Wheatley’, slim 8vo. The pencil sketches depict: ‘The Wigwam’; ‘Primitive Hut’; ‘A Primitive Hut, which has the origins of Columns’; ‘Temple of Theseus at Athens’; ‘Sketch of a Greek Doric Capital’; ‘Origin of the Corinthian Capital’; ‘Rise and progress of the Pointed Arch’; ‘Gradation from the Saxon to the pointed Arch’. Edward Balme Wheatley-Balme (1819-1896) was the owner of Cote Wall, Mirfield, West Yorkshire, and the High Close estate at Loughrigg, Gasmere, now owned by the National Trust. He was a considerable benefactor to the church in Langdale and also his native West Riding of Yorkshire, and a great supporter of education. (1)
Kirkstall Abbey. An Historical Account of Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, Architectural and Archaeological; with the Lives of its Abbots, from the Foundation to the Dissolution of the House, 5th ed., edited and revised by W.M. Nelson, Leeds, Samuel Moxon, 1882, mounted albumen print frontis. (oval ink stamp on verso), title-page printed in red and black (foxed), plan at rear, letterpress illusts. and decs., lacking front free endpaper, contemp. half morocco gilt, extrems. sl. worn in a few places, covers bowed, sm. 4to, (“only 100 copies printed this size”; Boyne [CXIX] lists only 2nd ed., 1861, without early photo.), together with An Historical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Account of Kirkstall Abbey; Embellished with Engravings, from original drawings, by W. Mulready, R.A. and C. Hope, 1st ed., 1827, eng. frontis. (offset to title), eng. plan, untrimmed, orig. cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine (rubbed), spine sunned and frayed at ends, edges showing, 8vo, plus another 1827 ed., plus an 1847 ed., plus A Companion to Kirkstall Abbey..., Leeds, printed by Edward Baines, 1806, eng. frontis. (lightly offset to title), orig. marbled wrappers, 12mo in 6s, plusKirkstall Abbey. An Imaginary Poem: in Three Cantos, by Oscar Smythe Lushington, 1st ed., Leeds, printed by G. Crawshaw, 1846, upper hinge split, a.e.g., orig. blindstamped stiff cloth wrappers gilt, spine faded, slim 12mo in 6s, plus fifteen other books and pamphlets relating to Kirkstall Abbey (21)
Watercolour album. Architectural Remains in Yorkshire, 1829, ten sepia watercolour vigns. of buildings, with contemp. ms. text beneath, text and calligraphic title-page within decorative ink borders (possibly created using bookbinding tools), borders hand-col. in blue, tissue guards, orig. red silk, soiled and edges worn, rebacked in cloth, covers sl. bowed, slim 4to. Watercolours of: Kirkstall Abbey; Bolton Castle; Easby Abbey; Knaresborough Castle; Bolton Abbey; Richmond Castle; Rivaulx Abbey; Middleham Castle; Fountains Abbey; and Fountains Hall. (1)
GOOD GEORGE III MAHOGANY WRITING CABINET the dentil cut moulded cornice above a fluted frieze and a pair of flame veneered panel cupboard doors with fluted bands and corner paterae, the interior with an upper shelf above two drawers and a central removable architectural recess including a lower ink bottle drawer, flanked by twenty graduated small drawers, the lower section with a green baize inset writing slide and a pair of panel cupboard doors enclosing two adjustable shelves, on banded bracket feet with spandrels 126cm wide, 198cm high, 63cm deep
A LATE 19TH CENTURY FRENCH GILT BRASS CLOCK GARNITURE, the clock in architectural style with mask mounted pediment above circular face flanked by corinthium columns, applied floral swag below on a stepped bracket base. Two train brass French drum movement striking on one bell. Flanked by two urn shaped vases, all standing on velvet covered gilt wood bases. 11" High. (3).
A HEAVY VICTORIAN BLACK SLATE ARCHITECTURAL MANTEL CLOCK GARNITURE, the case with domed portico, and three sets of reeded pillars flanking an enamel face with Arabic numerals. French two train drum movement striking on one gong together with two matching figural supporters. Late 19th century. The clock 18.5" High. (3).
A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH PORTICO CLOCK, having architectural canopy inlaid with foliate designs above a gilt metal framed white enamel face having Roman numerals, supported on gilt metal mounted barley twist columns with a inlaid panelled base and gilt metal sunburst and lyre type pendulum. Brass drum movement marked Japy Freres striking on one bell. C1830. 17.5" High.
A 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH ARCHITECTURAL BRASS SKELETON CLOCK, having two white enamel dials with Roman and Arabic numerals for hours, minutes and seconds, and with single fusee drum movement, standing on four gun barrel shaped supports with a brass cylinder pendulum, on circular wooden base under glass dome. 16" High without the dome.
A LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN BRASS PERPETUAL MOTION OR 100 DAY PILLAR CLOCK, the architectural front plate with vase shaped finials and having circular enamel dial with Roman numerals and US patent number, single train movement with flat brass rotating pendulum. Brass circular base with glass dome. Clock 8.25" High excluding dome.
An Irish Mahogany Eight Day Longcase Clock, signed Gordon, Dublin, circa 1810, the architectural case with fluted columns, nicely figured trunk door flanked by inset fluted pilasters, case with later inlay, rectangular plinth raised upon bracket shaped feet, 14-inch square painted dial with Arabic numerals and signed, spandrels depicting birds, four pillar movement with attached falseplate unsigned, anchor escapement and rack striking on a bell, 250cm high
BIBLE. KING JAMES VERSION. THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW engraved architectural title by R Vaughan, with separate title, Cambridge: John Field, 1657 and THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS collected into English meetre by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others, Cambridge: John Field, 1657, two works in one volume, 8vo (169 x 110mm) text in two colums, near contemporary black morocco devotional style binding (worn, lacking part of spine) with gilt concentric fillets joined at the corners with fleurons, a.e.g. Herbert 656. Provenance: signed and inscribed by Robert Emmerton on the pastedown "Given me by my Aunt ye Lady Vyner [viner] about the time my Brother David Dyed 1671" and engraved bookplate of F Byron. In 1696 John Emmerton of London, to whom it had been mortgaged, acquired the Thrumpton estate in Nottinghamshire. The bookplae is either that of his descendent, the Hon. Frederick Byron (1822-1861) or his son, the Rev`d Frederick Byron, 10th Baron (1861-1949).
VHAY (A L MURPHY AND DAVID) ARCHITECTURAL BYWAYS IN NEW SPAIN: MEXICO illustrated, cloth, dust jacket, New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co Inc, 1939; W G Newton - The Work of Ernest Newton RA, 1925; H Ahlberg - Swedish Architecture of the Twentieth Century, 1925; I J G Wattjes - Nieuw-Nederlandsche Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, 1929 (two copies); - Moderne Architectuur, Amsterdam, 1927; and ten others, architecture including American Architecture of the Twentieth Century edited by O Reagan and L Mumford, plates in six folios (23)
THOMAS CECIL HOWITT (1889-1968) ARCHITECT HOWITT`S ARCHIVE comprising: i) approximately 1,100 fine professional photographs of Howitt`s most prestigious civic and other buildings many by the leading architectural photographer Stewart Bale Ltd of Liverpool, 1920s-1950s, arranged alphabetically in sixty files and catalogued, including: The Exchange Buildings and Council House, Nottingham, the Portland Building at the University of Nottingham, the College of Technology for Nottingham and Derby Regional Board [subsequently Nottingham Trent University], alms houses, the one thousandth council house for Eastwood UDC, Pearson Brothers` department store, offices for The Raleigh Cycle Co, the Maudsley Building and Goldsmith House both for Trent Polytechnic, Staythorpe and other power stations, [the rebuilding of the tower of] Morley Town Hall, Leeds, the Bairnswear factory worksop, BTH offices and factory, Leicester, Birmingham Municipal Bank Headquarters, Newport, Birmingham and Oldham Civic Centres, Manvers School, Nottingham, chapels, churches, public and private houses including Howitt`s own ("The Thatch", Wollaton), interior and exterior views and progress photographs, mainly mounted whole plate [c24 x 29cm] and half-plate [c17 x 22cm] vintage silver prints and a similar file of large format photographs of the work of the Liverpool stonemason John Stubbs [when tendering for the Exchange Buildings, Nottingham contract]; a large quantity of miscellaneous photographs of the Howitt practice`s architectural projects, c1930s-70s, mostly identified; ii) a box of material relating to Howitt`s work for Oscar Deutsch`s chain of Odeon Cinemas, including plans/contracts and/or photographs, etc of the Doncaster [1937; £60,000] and Cambridge [1938; £57,600] Odeons iii) approximately 200 building contracts, mostly including plans, specifications and bills of quantities for new buildings and other works, 1930s-60s, arranged alphabetically in eleven boxes and catalogued, the clients including Barclays Bank, The Home Brewery Co, Martins Bank, the University of Nottingham, Messrs J D and W G Player, The Raleigh Cycle Co and James Shipstone & Sons, iv) Twelve ledgers including `Private Ledgers` and four Cash Books, 1929-63 v) Glass photographic negatives by Howitt, taken whilst touring Europe in the early 20th c, all quarter plate [c8 x 11cm], approximately 400, including views of buildings and street scenes in Florence, Rome and other Italian cities, Greece, Austria, Germany and the low countries vi) Approximately 40 framed photographs of the official opening of Howitt`s buildings, by the Prince of Wales [Exchange Buildings, Nottingham, May 1929] the Duke of Gloucester [Birmingham Municipal Bank, November 1933] and the Queen Mother [Oldham Civic Centre, March 1979], mainly large format silver prints, numerous emphera and press cuttings
A BLACK FOREST EBONISED WALL HANGING CUCKOO CLOCK the enamelled dial with pierced hands set in a painted wooden plate, the movement with wooden plates in architectural case, with pendulum and brass-sleeved weights, 37cm h, printed paper (fragmentary) trade label of JOH BAPTIST BE[H]A IN EISENBACH ..., c1870++Old damage and repairs
A FLEMISH KINGWOOD CABINET-ON-STAND with lidded cavetto top and a pair of geometric doors enclosing an architectural fitted interior with moulded drawers around an ebony and bone veneered and stepped recess flanked by gilt pillars, a drawer below, the stand with a further drawer, on spiral legs with flat incurving stretcher and bun feet, 138cm h; 88 x 46cm, 18th c, the stand later Purchased by the present vendors at a small shop in Brixham, Devon in the early 1960s.++The stand associated and later in part; old filled shrinkage cracks, small sections of beading/moulding replaced
A FLEMISH IVORY-MOUNTED AND EBONISED CABINET-ON-STAND of architectural form, fitted with an arrangement of drawers and doors inset with engraved ivory panels of the Christ child and scenes from the Old and New Testaments, sliding pillars revealing `secret` drawers, the central arched interior with further drawers veneered in red stained shell, the sides with rosewood inlaid geometric patterns, the stand with a drawer to the frieze and on square tapered legs, 178cm h; 130 x 47cm, late 19th c ++++
Cassas (Louis Francois) 9 prints including views, architectural plans, and relief studies, all from Cassas` Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse Egypte, engravings, each c.530 x 360mm., surface dust, occassional spotting, minor tears, Paris, Imprimerie de la République, c.1800(9)
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