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Lot 627
RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925) - A collection of 10 works of non-fiction in 12 volumes including: The Last Boer War (London, 1899, original pictorial wrappers, modern box), A Winter Pilgrimage Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy and the Island of Cyprus (London, 1901), Rural England (London, 1902, 2 vols.), Regeneration. Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain (London, 1910), The Days of My Life. An Autobiography (London, 1926, 2 vols., dust-jackets); and J. E. Scott's A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Rider Haggard (Takeley, 1947), all FIRST EDITIONS in the original publisher's cloth. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)
Lot 724
JAMES, Frank Linsly (1851-90). The Wild Tribes of the Soudan. An Account of Travel and Sport chiefly in the Basé Country being Personal Experiences and Adventures during three Winters Spent in the Soudan. London: John Murray, 1883. Large 8vo (223 x 160mm). Half title, etched frontispiece of "A Basé 'Professional Beauty'", 3 coloured maps, 2 of which folding, 5 etched plates and 40 wood-engraved plates, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (one plate detached, creased and soiled at one edge, a few other plates, including the frontispiece, detached or loose, a few text leaves torn, one with slight loss, a few dark marginal stains, some light marginal browning and staining). Original brown pictorial cloth gilt (hinges weak, split at lower joints, some fraying to head and foot of spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: The Zoological Society of London (label, recording the book's purchase in January 1884, and stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. Czech (Africa) pp.82-3. With 4 other works in 5 vols., namely [Fayette Robinson's] An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States (Philadelphia, 1848, 2 vols., plates, cloth), Frank Edward Smedley's Frank Fairlegh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil (London, [?1850], illustrations by George Cruikshank, roan-backed cloth), T. Gowing's A Soldier's Experience or A Voice from the Ranks: showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure (Nottingham, 1899, pictorial cloth) and Lady Mary Alice Young Hodgson's The Siege of Kumassi (London, 1901, lacks one plate, [?]original cloth, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (6)
Lot 287
EDEN ANTHONY: (1897-1977) British Prime Minister 1955-57. A good, interesting A.L.S., Anthony, four pages, 8vo, Chesterfield Street, London, 7th September 1949, to Lady Anderson (‘My dear Ava’). Eden thanks his correspondent for their ‘kind and entertaining’ letter which he enjoyed and continues to add ‘I am so glad that the Anglesey speech did some good in Canada. It was very generously received here, and I hope made some small contribution to stop bickering across the Atlantic, & the manoeuvres of left wing agitators here’, further sending news of his son and their relationship with an American lady, ‘Nicholas is back, & though everything is very friendly, he reports no hope of B changing her mind. American ways of life make too strong an appeal it seems, & her knowledge that these days there could be no divided life between the two countries, together with dislike of public life here, are probably decisive. It is very sad, but what I had grown to expect’. Eden again returns to his correspondent’s speech, commenting ‘I wish I had been there to applaud your speech, which I am perfectly sure charmed & thrilled your audience’, and concluding by sending his greetings to her husband, John. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Eden. A letter of fine association and content. VG Ava Anderson (1895-1974) Viscountess Waverley. English Political and Social Hostess, wife of John Anderson (1882-1958) 1st Viscount Waverley. British Civil Servant and Politician of World War II. Nicholas Eden (1930-1985) 2nd Earl of Avon. British Army officer and Politician, the younger son of Anthony Eden. Nicholas Eden was widely known to have been homosexual and tragically died, unmarried, from complications related to AIDS at the untimely age of 54.
Lot 295
NAPOLEON I: (1769-1821) Emperor of France 1804-14, 1815. A very fine L.S., Napol (a good example of the Emperor’s more complete signature, with a bold flourish), two pages, with gilt edges, 4to, Rambouillet, 10th September 1807, to Prince Eugene Napoleon (‘Mon fils’), in French. The manuscript letter is in the hand of Napoleon’s private secretary, Claude Francois de Meneval, and the Emperor states, ‘I see, according to your latest report, that the 4th regiment of riflemen has 58 horses present, the 9th has 68 horses present, the 25th has 63 horses present’ and continues to declare ‘I don’t know why these depots have so few horses when combined they have 674 men present’, adding ‘Nevertheless make sure you make as many of them as possible leave for Naples to strengthen the regiment there, and hasten their departure so that it can take place on the 1st of October’. Napoleon further asks his son to consider reinforcing the Naples army, instructing ‘Prepare for the following detachment: a captain, a lieutenant, a second-lieutenant, and 14 men from the Light Infantry Regiment. Same for the 1st Regiment of Line Infantry. I already gave you orders for the 6th regiment based in Corfu. Same for the 10th Line Infantry Regiment, for the 22nd and 20th Light Infantry, and for the 52nd, 62nd, 101st Regiments of the Foreign Legion, which will be 27000 men in total’ and concluding ‘I wish for these 27000 men to be ready on the 1st October, to go to Ancona, and from there to Naples. They can march with the 900 cavalry men’. With blank integral leaf. A letter of fine military content and good association and featuring a scarce example of Napoleon’s signature. About EX Eugene de Beauharnais (1781-1824) Duke of Leuchtenberg. French Prince, the first child and only son of Empress Josephine, the first wife of Napoleon I, by her marriage to Alexandre de Beauharnais. Napoleon formally adopted Eugene as his son. Regarded by historians as the ablest of Napoleon’s relatives, Prince Eugene commanded the Army of Italy and served as Viceroy of Italy under his stepfather.
Lot 192
WORLD WAR II – BRITISH ARMY: A rare and unusual folio (11.5 x 14) blue printed sheet entitled Memorial Hall prepared by Hadlow School in Masterton, New Zealand, and individually signed by twenty three leading British Army officers who served in World War II comprising Viscount Montgomery of Alamein FM, Lieutenant-General James Steele, General Sir Henry Wemyss, Lieutenant-General Sir Daril Watson, Major-General Francis Festing, Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Kirkman, Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding, General Sir Richard O’Connor, Major-General Sir Robert Laycock, Lieutenant-General Frank. E. W. Simpson, Sir Claude Auchinleck FM, General Sir Miles Dempsey, Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese, Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC, Lieutenant-General Sir Richard McCreery, Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Rowell, Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Horrocks, Lieutenant-General Sir W. T. Morgan, Major-General Sir Norman Weir, Major-General Sir Charles Keightley, Lieutenant-General Sir Neil Ritchie, Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Christison and Major-General Lewis Lyne. All have signed their names in fountain pen inks within blue squares and all have added their ranks alongside or beneath their signatures. An impressive and attractive grouping of signatures. Some light creasing and minor foxing to the edges and two light stains to the upper edge caused by previous mounting, none of which affects the signatures. About VG
Lot 212
BURMA CAMPAIGN: An unusual large 20 x 16 card multiple signed by over seventy individuals who served in (or were associated with) the Burma Campaign during World War II, including Mountbatten of Burma, Michael Calvert, Eric Bush, Albert C. Wedemeyer and many others from various regiments of the navy, army and air force, including Chindits. Two magazine images and a map showing the advance to Rangoon are neatly attached to the card and an ink heading to the upper edge in the hand of a collector indicates that the signatures were obtained at the 29th Burma reunion in London on 26th April 1975. VG
Lot 213
FAR EAST PRISONERS OF WAR: An unusual large 19 x 15 card multiple signed by over sixty individuals, most of them officers of World War II who became Prisoners of War in the Far East, including members of various regiments of the army and air force. Two magazine images and a map showing the fall of Singapore in February 1942 are neatly attached to the card and an ink heading to the upper edges in the hand of a collector indicates that the signatures were obtained at the 20th reunion of the Far East Prisoner of War Club in London on 7th October 1972. VG
Lot 231
JAMES II & VII: (1633-1701) King of England & Ireland and King of Scotland (as James VII) 1685-88. A.L.S., with his initial J, as Duke of York, two pages, 4to, Windsor, 9th August n.y., to the Countess of Lichfield. The Duke states that he has just received his niece's letter and adds that it was charitable of her 'to write so in favor of old Col: Legge as you have done', further explaining 'I immediately went and spoke to his Ma:, in his favor, and sent to Ld: Clarendon in whose gift it seems it is, who tho he had an engagement upon him, for an old servant of the family, will see what he can do to lett Jack Legge have it' and concluding by remarking that he is just about to leave for London and that he intends to return by Sunday. With integral address leaf in the Duke's hand and again signed by him with his initial. Bearing a small red wax seal and with some extensive brown tape repairs, not affecting the address panel or seal. Some light staining and age wear, G Charlotte Lee (1664-1718) Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, Countess of Lichfield, the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II with his mistress Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. The Duke most likely refers to Colonel John Legge (1645-1729) son of the royalist army officer William Legge (1608-1670).
Lot 232
Joseph Cribb (1892-1967) 'Willelmus De Wykeham', founder of New College, Oxford, 1926 carved stone signed and dated 41cm high.In 1906 Cribb was apprenticed to Eric Gill at his Hammersmith studio. Cribb was a skilled letter cutter and carver in his own right, gaining Gill's absolute trust and confidence and working with him on many of his major commissions, such as the lettering on Oscar Wilde's tomb. He also converted to Roman Catholicism with Gill in 1913, following him again into the Third Order of St Dominic in 1920. Cribb's apprenticeship ended in 1913 and he worked with Gill on the Stations of the Cross in Westminster until he was called away for army service from 1916 - 1919. During the latter part of his service he joined the Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries and worked with MacDonald Gill on the design of the standard war grave.
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Lot 545
[MISCELLANEOUS] Eighteen works, comprising Tylden, Major G. Horses and Saddlery. An account of the animals used by the British and Commonwealth Armies from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day with a description of their Equipment, reprint, Allen & Co. / Army Museums Ogilby Trust, London, 1980, boards, dustjacket, plate and text illustrations, quarto; Steinbeck, John. Cannery Row, first edition, The Viking Press, New York, 1945, original yellow cloth, octavo; five Noddy titles; and assorted others.
Lot 327
After MA Hayes, 'The British Army - Plate 26, 12th (The Prince of Wales) Royal Regiment of Lancers', coloured engraving, 28x34cm; together with J A Atkinson, 'Artillery Men', 19th century colour plate from 'A Picturesque Representation of the Naval, Military and Miscellaneous Costumes of Great Britain, with a descriptive essay on the subject of each plate in English and French.' (1807), 22x16cm
Lot 543
WWI Correspondence. Batch of letters (12) dated 1915/16 mostly with their postally used envelopes from a British Expeditionary Force Army Private (Victor Crowe) in the Middlesex Regiment to his sweetheart (Lydia Street) back in Hampstead. Victor (age 30) was killed two years later and is buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery. Poignant letters.
Lot 310
Cigarette cards, a collection of various Wills and Players cards, sets and part sets, inc. Player's Highland Clans, (set), Army Life (set), Live Stock (set), Riders of the World (set), some XL cards inc. Allied Cavalry (8), also Wills Nelson Series (48/50), Locomotives & Rolling Stock (40) and others (mixed condition, fair/gd)
Lot 273
‡˜A SILVER-MOUNTED MAMELUKE-HILTED PRESENTATION SWORD TO MAJOR GENERAL SIR N.R.STEWART, FROM THE OFFICERS WHO SERVED UNDER HIS COMMAND IN THE INDIAN ARMY 1897, NO. 34932, LONDON, 1897, MARK OF JOHN FRANCIS LATHAM FOR THE WILKINSON SWORD COMPANY with curved single-edged blade etched with the presentation inscription, foliage, and strapwork on one face and further strapwork, foliage and the maker's details on the other, silver-gilt hilt comprising a pair of langets decorated with a central bouquet, quillons with foliate terminals and one struck with silver marks, back-strap decorated with a running pattern of olive foliage, and a pair of ivory grip-scales retained by rivets with gilt flowerhead caps, complete with its bullion knot, in its silver scabbard with large gilt locket, chape and middle band, all cast and chased with openwork designs of foliage within beadwork frames, the locket mouth decorated with a border of plaited silver gilt, the middle band and locket each decorated with the owner's crested coat-of-arms and motto and with the presentation inscription, each fitted with a plaited silver gilt ring for suspension, and in very good to fine condition throughout, in its lined and fitted mahogany case, the lid later fitted with glass for display purposes 80.5 cm; 31 3/4 in blade Major General Sir Norman Stewart was the second and only surviving son of Field Marshall Donald Stewart who was at the siege of Lucknow and later served with distinction in the Abyssinian and Afghan campaigns. His mother was Marina Catherine, daughter of Commander T.Dabine R.N.. He was born in India, entered the army in 1871, served in the Afghan war of 1876-80, was present at the engagements at Ahmed Kheyl and Urzu near Ghuzni, being mentioned in dispatches and receiving a brevet and clasp to the medal. In the Nile Expedition of 1884-5 he was with the Indian Contingent, being present at the engagements at Hasheen and the Tofrek zariba and at the destruction of Tamai. For these services he was again mentioned in dispatches and received his brevet to Lieutenant Colonel with two clasps to the medal and the Khedive's star. In the China expeditionary force in 1900 he commanded the first infantry brigade and was again mentioned and created CB. On the death of his father in 1900 he succeeded to the Baronetcy and in 1909 he published 'My Service Days', a book of reminiscences. He died in Ealing, London aged 75. Abridged from 'The Times', 11th November 1926. John Francis Latham is recorded trading as The Wilkinson Sword Company Limited from 1897 and was appointed sword cutler to Queen Victoria. See Southwick 2001, pp. 257-258.
Lot 279
A PRESENTATION SABRE TO CAPTAIN H.B.LYNCH BY THE ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM VOLUNTEERS, DATED 1809 with broad curved blade formed with a hatchet point, etched over its surface in imitation of watered pattern, decorated with a blued and gilt frame with elaborate scrolling terminal at the forte enclosing the presentation inscription on one face and with scrolling oak fruit and foliage on the other face above the crowned regimental motto 'Liberty, Loyalty, Property' and a trophy-of-arms (the gilding and bluing with losses, edges chipped), gilt-brass stirrup hilt with a finely punched and matted surface, comprising a pair of low ogee langets, scrolling quillon, knuckle-guard pierced for a knot at the top and beaked pommel, leather-covered wooden grip retained by three rivets over gilt flowerhead washers, in its original iron scabbard with gilt-brass mounts comprising chape and a pair of bands for suspension, and applied on the outer face with the crowned regimental device cast and chased in brass enriched with silver and gilding 79.8 cm; 31 1/2 in blade The presentation inscription reads: 'Given to Captain H.B.Lynch by the Rochester and Chatham Volunteers in testimony of the high sense they entertain of his zeal and the unremitted attention he paid to the discipline of that corps, and also for his gentlemanly demeanor towards every individual during the time he was their adjutant. XII March MDCCCIX'. Major Henry Blosse Lynch (1778-1823) of Partry House, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, distinguished himself at the capture of Ciudad Rodrigo when serving in the Portuguese army under Marshal Beresford in 1812.
Lot 285
A PRESENTATION CAVALRY OFFICER'S SWORD TO MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL SEDDON, BY OSBORN, DATED 1803 of regulation type, with curved fullered blade of etched and gilt with the owner's crested arms and motto, trophies-of-arms and presentation inscription including ".....for the defence of their country 25th October 1803 and foliage on one face and with further designs including the maker's details and the crowned Royal arms on the other (areas of staining, light pitting, decoration and inscription obscured in places), gilt-brass stirrup hilt with short scrolling quillon, a pair of lion mask langets, and the back-strap and pommel formed as a finely detailed maned bridled horsehead, and finely chequered ivory grip (one small chip and age cracks), in its leather-covered wooden scabbard (worn, now in two pieces), with large gilt-brass mounts comprising chape, middle-band and locket, the latter two with a ring for suspension 74.5 cm; 29 3/8 in blade Lieutenant General Daniel Seddon began his military career as a lieutenant in the Lancashire Militia in 1778. He served in the 96th and 100th regiments of foot and was posted to India in 1781 serving in the Second Anglo-Mysore War. There he was wounded, captured, and became a prisoner-of-war until 1784 when he returned to Britain on half pay returning to India in 1788. Subsequently he served in Ireland as an officer in the 22nd Dragoons where he was again wounded. Seddon then served in Egypt in 1801 and 1802. Seddon was Inspecting Field Officer for the large Militia and volunteer forces raised to repel the threat of a French Invasion under Napoleon in 1803. When the latter invaded the Peninsular in 1808 Seddon was asked by the Duke of Wellington to join him as Brigadier commanding the Portuguese cavalry. Seddon was promoted to the rank of Major General in the British Army in 1813 and Lieutenant General in 1825.
Lot 484
A 52 BORE WESTLEY RICHARDS PATENT MONKEY TAIL BREECH-LOADING RIFLED CARBINE SIGNED WILLIAMSON, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, NO. 1017, CIRCA 1870 with sighted barrel formed with a long pronounced flat, matted over two thirds of its length and fitted with back-sight of four leaves calibrated to 400 yards (the two front leaves missing), inscribed 'Whitworth rifling' behind and struck 'P2500' on the right, patent 'monkey tail' breech stamped 'The Willamson, London' on top, signed border-engraved lock, full stock, chequered fore-end, chequered 'pistol' grip extending to a lion head, iron trigger-guard and butt-cap, two iron sling swivels, and iron clearing rod 63.5 cm; 25 in barrel Another carbine of this type, by these makers and with the same distinctive carving, is preserved in the National Army Museum (NAM. 1969-07-6-1). These were particularly popular for trade with the Boers and a number were exported to South Africa.
Lot 87
A SIAMESE (THAI) ARMY OFFICER'S SWORD, RATTANAKOSIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY of regulation type, with etched blade signed 'Joh. Fried. Boch, Hoflieferant, Berlin', decorated with the crowned Royal arms, trophies and foliage, nickel hilt with folding side-guard, decorated with the Royal arms on the outer guard, and elephant's head pommel, in its scabbard 81.2 cm; 32 in blade
Lot 1
ALBUM – NELSON, NIGHTINGALE AND OWEN'S ORANGUTANAlbum containing a series of clipped signatures of RN captains, including Horatio Nelson (with right hand), T.M. Hardy (with the Master and crew members of the Victory, 1804), Collingwood, St Vincent, Gambier and others; and letters etc. by Florence Nightingale (autograph letter in pencil, to Major-General Frederic Brine: 'I shall prove my gratitude for your most kind promise – more than kind – of 'true agency' -- -- by availing myself of it', 6 November 1876), General Sir Ralph Abercromby (fine letter signed by, writing from Marmorice Bay while preparing for his successful attack on Aboukir Bay, during which he was to be killed the following month, to Major Holloway RE, commanding the British Mission to the Grand Vizier, urging a Turkish advance into Egypt and complaining of the shambolic state of their army, 9 February 1801), Felicia Hemans (a half page from the autograph manuscript of her play The Vespers of Palermo, II 3, presented by her brother Sir Henry Browne), William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), A.H. Layard, J.D. Hooker, Richard Owen (British Museum, 11 October 1863: 'The absence of the nail on the thumb of the foot, though common, is not constant, in the female Orang-utan...'), George Everest, Thomas Woolner, and others, black morocco, stamped 'Autographs', worn, 4toThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Lot 226
TRAVEL JOURNALSManuscript journal of Thomas Trench describing the sights and hardships of a European tour undertaken in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, sailing from Ireland to France where he admires the sights of Paris and describes an unacceptable meal with the wife of the Neapolitan ambassador which 'stunk so much of garlic that I did not attempt it', to Brussels, describing a visit to the field of Waterloo ('four brothers who were employed by the British army and Buonaparte's guide have made a monopoly of showing the field and I should suppose they must before this have made a fortune...'), through Germany ('for the first time since we left England had salt spoons laid down...but we had almost forgot the use of them') to Switzerland and through Italy to Venice noting the recent return of the quadriga of San Marco pillaged by Bonaparte ('to the great joy of the Venetians'), 117 numbered pages, paper covered boards inscribed in ink 'Thomas Trench./Milan Aug.6th 1818', worn, 4to (228 x 150mm.), 2 April–4 September 1818; Manuscript journal written by George Carr in a French lined notebook of a journey through France and Italy with detailed notes of architecture, museums visited and pictures seen, taking in Paris, Turin, Bologna, Milan, Parma, Florence, Rome and the excavations at Pompeii, returning via Switzerland and the Rhine, approximately 224pp, ownership inscription of 'Mr Carr/ Hotel de Breteuil/ Rue de Rivoli', paper covered boards, manuscript label to spine, 4to (202 x 150mm.); a fair copy of the same, c.120pp, reverse calf, 175 x 110mm., 18 March – 7 September 1816 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
![[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Conditio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a4df984e-a30f-4e2c-a23c-aafb01542967/6ce73731-87e6-4333-b3da-ab05012fb694/468x382.jpg)
Lot 30
[NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)]Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Regulations Affecting the Sanitary Condition of the Army, the Organization of Military Hospitals, and the Treatment of the Sick and Wounded; with Evidence and Appendix, 6 folding graphs, 5 folding lithographed diagrams printed in colour, contemporary 4-page part summary on House of commons paper loosely inserted, publisher's blue printed wrappers, upper cover and edges of lower reinforced with cellophane, folio, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, for her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1858This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Lot 31
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the British Army, Founded Chiefly on the Experience of the Late War... Presented by Request to the Secretary of State for War, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, sending the volume to Edward Marjoribanks, her banker at Coutts, tipped-in with the original addressed envelope, half-title, additional lithographed portrait by her sister of Florence and her owlet Athena, 6 lithographed plates (all but one folding, 'Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East' coloured, 'Plan of Skutari' with short tear but no loss), contemporary brown morocco by M.M. Holloway (signed on front turn-in), double gilt rule borders on covers and in spine compartments, g.e., rubbed at edges, 8vo (210 x 135mm.), Printed by Harrison & Sons, 1858This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
Lot 34
NIGHTINGALE (FLORENCE)Autograph letter signed ('Florence Nightingale'), to Captain Frederic Brine of the Royal Engineers, thanking him for his 'kind recollection of us & the part we were privileged to take in our Country's late glorious calamity' which has touched her 'very deeply', and which she feels will please Mrs Shaw Stewart 'who superintended, during all our heaviest time, actively & efficiently at the same Castle Hospital on Balaklava Heights' and praising the Royal Engineers for their contribution towards 'the struggle for the freedom & national life of half the world' ('...I believe that we had to thank you for the erection of the Cross in question at Balaklava...'); and confessing to the crushing sense of responsibility she feels: 'As to our poor fellows, who endured so patiently, all that belongs to their Memory & their Cause must be a sacred thing to us for ever – I feel that I have been such a bad Mother to them to come home & leave them in their Crimean graves – Nothing is so interesting to me as a recollection of our brave dead and a suggestion of what may still remain to be done for our Army'; with autograph envelope, addressed to Brine at Curragh Camp, stamped and postmarked and docketed 'Miss Nightingale', 4 pages, very minor dust-staining to last page but overall in fine, fresh condition, envelope with some wear, 8vo, 30 Old Burlington Street, 24 November 1856
Lot 377
POWELL (ANTHONY)Series of over sixty typed and autograph letters signed ('Tony'), plus over sixty cards (mostly picture postcards depicting subjects of varying degrees of drollness); the letters charting the progress of each of the twelve novels of his Dance to the Music of Time sequence, namely: A Question of Upbringing ('...Heinemann's are bringing out a novel of mine which will, I hope, appear in the Autumn... ...It seems to have annoyed the Oxford Mail and the Cambridge News a great deal...'), A Buyer's Market ('...My new novel is booked for May... It is to be called A Buyer's Market, and is set in the year 1928 or thereabouts...'), The Acceptance World ('...In principle I find this place [The Chantry to which he had just moved] rather good for work, but actually I am pretty stuck in vol III. I have done about thirty thousand and really can think of nothing to say...'), At Lady Molly's ('...am still in the forty-thousand stage. Going very slowly, but fairly solidly... ...I think Lady Molly was a bit better than the last, but nothing very different...'), Casanova's Chinese Restaurant ('...Casanova has had quite a good press...'), The Kindly Ones ('...I get a certain number of complaining reviews that people who come in late don't know what is happening, but I can't think matters much in that sort of book. I've done about forty-thousand of a new one, but that gives rather an exaggerated idea of how far its got, as it will stop just short of the war, which will be going on when the seventh vol starts. As one goes on, new problems arise all the time...'), The Valley of Bones ('...The Valley of Bones comes out about the 2nd or 3rd of March. I just hit the hump of Christmas as regards getting it out earlier...'), The Soldier's Art ('...If you had any minor points about army life you wanted emphasised do let me know, as I'm grappling with the next one, and always like to have ideas... ...still a fair amount to do, as there are various technical points I can't decide just how to finish it for one thing... ...The new novel The Soldier's Art comes out on the 12 September...'), The Military Philosophers ('...I am now embarking on the War Office one, which is going to be full of difficulties... ...I'm still hard at work on the new one – about halfway through, I hope, but endless complications... ..done about two-thirds of a new one, but in a pretty good mess still...'), Books Do Furnish a Room ('...I am at about fifty-thousand, but that sounds much better than is actually the case, as there is an awful lot of work still to do... ...The idea is to do a couple more, probably bringing the last one right up to date, but it's hard to tell until one gets to it...'), Temporary Kings ('...I've reached about 40,000 with the new one, but not sure about the title yet, and still a lot of work to be done. It takes place in 1958, so there's a ten year gap between it and the last...'), and Hearing Secret Harmonies ('...I have done about 40,000 of the new one, which hasn't got a title yet, and I've no idea when it will be finished. As you can imagine, there is even more technical work to do than usual, owing to it being the last one...'); there are also a good many comments on their friends and contemporaries, including Evelyn Waugh, with whom he stayed in 1951 ('...The Waugh visit went off very well. Evelyn was in the best possible form and food and drink flowed, though I must say the sense of tension is pretty acute all the time. Every single object in the house had been bought because it is 'amusing' which is rather unrestful as you may imagine...') and later sightings ('...I saw Evelyn W the other night who had been hitting the bottle pretty hard...'), plus comments on his books ('...I thought Officers and Gents full of technical faults and failings but was never actually bored. In a kind of way I prefer that sort of Evelyn to something very finished like the Loved One...'), news of his death ('...It was indeed sad about Evelyn, though I suppose for him to come back from church on Easter Day and go to sleep in his chair was just the sort of thing he would have chosen – quiet yet dramatic. I can't say I was altogether surprised after my last view of him...'), Sykes's biography ('...I was surprised how horrified everyone was at hearing of EW on his less attractive side. One was so used to stories about him that one assumed everyone else knew how bloody he could be when in the mood...') and his own reminiscences ('...I have some plans to write some sort of an autobiography after I've finished the M of T, and (if I'm spared) I shall deal with EW against the larger background...'); Heygate, like Powell himself, was clearly an avid reader, and Powell is not shy of making recommendations ('...Do you know V.S. Naipaul's books? He is Trinidad Indian and good, and I think, also a very nice chap...'), while being mildly flattered by Heygate's book-collecting activities, which take in his own oeuvre ('...I might amuse you to hear that some of my 1st editions came up at Sotheby's last week and fetched quite decent prices, an Afternoon Men, with jacket, inscribed to Michael Salaman, going for £38...'), over 120 pages, many with envelopes, some foxing to the earlier letters, 4to and 8vo, 1950-1974
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Lot 54
[Burke, Edmund]. Broken run of The Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for the Years 1762, 1763, 1767 [all later], 1772, 1776, 1777, 1779, 1781-90 [all Dodsley], 1791-3 [Rivington, along with Robinson's New Register for 1792], 1794, 1796 [G.G.J. & J. Robinson], 1795, 1798, 1799 [Proprietors of Dodsley's Annual Register]. Various publishers, principally J Dodsley, varying dates and editions. 8vo (36 vols). Variously bound in leather; provenance: some volumes with bookplate of William Robertson, Senator of the College of Justice, other bookplates. Perhaps the two most significant volumes in this run both relate to America. That of 1776 (published in 1777) features the first British publication of the Declaration of Independence, along with contextual matter and historical accounts of its promulgation. The second is that for 1787 which included an early UK printing of the full text of the new Constitution of the United States, along with the text of Washington's transmittal letter from the Convention to Congress. This volume was printed in 1789 - the year in which Washington became President and the first Congress convened. There are two other moments of Revolutionary War interest in 1781 and 1783. 1781 features detailed accounts of the Battles of Guildford Court House and Yorktown (with the surrender of Cornwallis) as well as the story of Benedict Arnold and the hanging of his co-conspirator Major Andre. 1783 concentrated on the end of the War and the peace negotiations which followed (negotiations which had been pushed for by Burke and his allies in the House). It printed the text of the peace treaty, George III's 1782 speech and the contract between America and the French King to repay 18 million livres of loans. Finally it printed Washington's letter resigning from the Continental Army which had far-reaching influence on American constitutional history. Together with the other volumes during this period the Annual Register is a very important contemporary source for early American history from the Declaration to peace and on to the Constitution itself. According to Gephart many leading historians of the American Revolutionary period, including David Ramsay, James Murray, and William Gordon ''borrowed heavily from the Annual Register'' Gephart 1016, 2565, Lowndes 48, Sabin 1614
Lot 164
British Army in India and Afghanistan Vetch, Maj. George The Gong: or, Reminiscences in India. Edinburgh: James Hogg, 1852. 8vo, org. blind decorated cloth; 4 plates. Hobday, Maj. E.A.P. Sketches on Service during the Indian Frontier Campaigns of 1897. 8vo, org. cloth; 71 plates after drawings and photographs. First ed. Army HQ India The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account. Calcutta:Govt. of India Central Publications Branch.1925. 8vo, org. boards; lacking first map, all others as called for, w.a.f. Turner, W. A Soldier's Guide to India. Karachi: the Educational Publishing Company, 1942. 12mo, org. wrappers; b/w photo illus. With three others. [7]
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