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Lot 466
Wade (Walter) Catalogus Systematicus Plantaurm Ind all published original wrappers uncut worn front cover off [Henrey 1452] Dublin 1794; Plantae rariores in Hibernia hand-coloured plate contemporary calf rubbed attractive label of George Conolly printer & army stationer Galway [Henrey 1454] ib. 1804; Sketch of Lectures on Meadow and Pasture Grasses disbound bit soiled [Henrey 1457] ib. 1808; Salices or an Essay towards a General History of Sallows folding hand-coloured plate original boards uncut a bit worn but a very nice copy [Henrey 1456] ib. 1811; and another by the same 8vo (5)(5)
Lot 269
An Edwardian mahogany cheval mirror, the arched glass with satinwood crossbanding to the frame, the stand with boxwood trellis inlay and stringing to the cornice and supports, on outswept legs with brass castors, 185cm (72.75") high/Note: This lot has an Army & Navy warehousing label to the reverse for Lady Cobham, dated 26.3.34
Lot 237
1950`s players rugby collection: relating to the playing career of James Patrick Quinn, British Lions, England, Barbarians, Army et al to incl telegrams for selection to England, menus, itineraries, brochures, photographs inc Lions etc. ( a lot). Note: born in 1930 Quinn died in a car crash in 1986 on the way home from watching England v Wales.
Lot 302
Scarce 1940 the Army v The Empire international rugby match programme: played at Richmond athletic ground 10/2/40, charity match in aid of the Army recreational equipment fund-both teams include the following notable players Wilf Wooller, VGJ Jenkins, Travers- all (W), Sayers Capt (Ire), Cobden (NZ), Babrow Capt.(SA), Prince Obolensky, Haydn Tanner (W), etc - complete with team profiles and pictures, usual pocket folds otherwise overall (F/G).
Lot 538
World Cup 1994 award: Concacaf Federation of North America, Central America & Caribbean engraved glass award presented to Sir Bert Millichip in 1991 – celebrating Three World Cups in 25years, plus Army Association Centenary 1988 Presentation Medal in fitted case and a UEFA / CAF Meridan Cup miniature trophy for the tournament held from 26th January – 9th February 1997 (3).
Lot 572
Benjamin Samuel Bolomey (Swiss, 1739-1819) Portrait of William V of Orange (1748-1806); and Portrait of Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (1751-1820), his wife oil on canvas 118 x 90cm (46.02 x 35.1in) a pair (2) Provenance: Brigadier General Ballard, of Hadham Mill, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, by the late 19th Century, and by descent in a Hertfordshire country house Literature: Benjamin Samuel Bolomey, 1739-1819: un peintre Suisse a la Cour du Prince Guillaume V d’Orange, ed. Laurent Golay et al (Zwolle, 2001) in which there are several portraits of William V, generally showing him wearing the Garter (which he was awarded at the age of four!) and one or two of Princess Wilhelmina. Most are dated between 1769 and 1774 These exquisitely beautiful and rare portraits of William V of Orange and his consort have been in an English country house for the past 100 years. They are datable to circa 1770 on the basis of similarities in composition and dress to a pair of full length paintings of the same sitters in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. William V is wearing the Garter Star and Little George and Princess Wilhelmina is wearing the Order of St Anna, a Russian Order. Bolomey was a painter, illustrator and engraver, born in Lausanne on May 19th 1739. He studied in Paris from 1748 at the Academie Royale de peinture under the guidance of Joseph Marie Vien. He was also influenced by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) and Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (1704-1788). Boucher’s delicate rococo sensuality and de la Tour’s sensitive attention to both physiognomy and character are amply reflected in Bolomey’s own portrait works. Bolomey worked in The Hague from 1762-91 where he became official portraitist to William V, whom he painted more than twenty times; he was also director of the Academy Pictura. From there, he went to Paris before returning to Lausanne in 1792, where he died in 1819. One of his pupils in the Netherlands was Jean-Georges Teissier (1750-1821). William V (1748-1806) also known as Willem V of Orange was the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and he presided over the republic’s terminal decline. He assumed the position of Stadtholder (chief executive and military commander) in 1766 after a long regency first by his mother and then by the Duke of Brunswick following the death of his father Wilhelm IV in 1751 when he was only three years old. In 1767 William married Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820), a niece of Frederick the Great and sister of the later King Frederick William II, henceforth known as Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange. His court became a significant musical centre and he was also one of the most important art collectors of his age. His political career was less fortunate. Dutch support for the cause of the American colonies was driven by hopes of a profitable Atlantic trade but led in fact to war with England in 1780. The ignominious defeat of the Dutch in 1784 prompted the development of domestic opposition and in 1787 a group of young Patriots challenged William’s rule. In response to demands for William’s abdication, his wife called on her brother to send Prussian troops who suppressed the Patriots. Princess Frederika was feted as the saviour and true ruler of the Dutch Republic but in 1795 the Patriots returned in the wake of the invading French revolutionary army. William and Frederika fled into exile in England. After 1795 William and his consort lived variously at Hampton Court (until November 1801), Nassau, Brunswick or Oranienburg. William died at Brunswick in 1806, the same year that the Dutch Republic was transformed into a monarchy under King Louis Napoleon. Princess Wilhelmina remained in Germany but lived to see her son crowned King William I of the Netherlands in 1813. In 1814 she settled in the Netherlands again and died at Het Loo in 1820 We are grateful to Dr Joachim Whaley for his help with the catalogue entry
Lot 577
Attributed to Theodore Russell (British, 1614-1689) Portrait of Honora de Burgh, 1st Duchess of Berwick (1675-1698), wearing Pearls oil on canvas 34 x 27cm (13.26 x 10.53in) Provenance: From a Norfolk country house On the basis of a label on the reverse reading ‘Lady Berrick’ and of the similarity of this portrait with other authenticated likenesses, the painting is believed to be a portrait of Honora de Burgh, dowager Countess of Lucan and Duchess of Berwick. Honora de Burgh (also de Burgo, Burke or Bourke) was one of the most enchanting yet tragic figures associated with the early Jacobite cause. She was born in 1675 at Portumna Castle, County Galway, the youngest daughter of William Burke, the seventh Earl of Clanricarde. In 1689 she married Patrick Sarsfield (circa 1660-1693), one of James II’s military commanders in Ireland who was created the 1st Earl of Lucan in 1691, at Portumna Abbey, when she was only fifteen years old, almost twenty years younger than her husband. Following the defeat of James II’s forces at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, Honora fled her home at Lucan in County Dublin and eventually settled with her husband at the Jacobite court in exile at St Germain-en-Laye outside Paris. Now aged nineteen she threw herself into the social life of the courts of James II and Louis IV. She was reckoned among the most fashionable and beautiful women of her time and is said to have introduced the French court to ‘les contredanses Anglais’. Saint-Simon recalled: ‘Elle etait a la premiere fleur de son age, belle, touchante, faite a peindre, une nymphe’. Her husband’s death in battle in 1693 left her widowed with a young son. Two years later she married the young James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670-1734), the eldest of James II’s illegitimate sons by Arabella Churchill, and the commander of the French force in the fighting in which Sarsfield had perished. FitzJames had been created Duke in 1687, served his father at the siege of Londonderry, the Battle of the Boyne and then fought in the French army against England, as a result of which he forfeited his titles in 1695. Honora bore him one son but shortly afterwards became ill following a miscarriage. She was taken to Pezenas in Languedoc in the hope that the milder air might cure her consumption but died there aged twenty-three in 1698 after only four years of marriage. She was buried in the English convent at Pontoise; her heartbroken husband had her heart preserved in a silver box and interred at Pezenas. Her elder son James Francis Edward Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1693-1719), served in both the French and Spanish armies; he died unmarried in St Omer aged twenty-six. Her younger son was James Francis FitzJames Stuart (1696-1738), or Jacobo Francisco FitzJames Stuart, and succeeded his father as 2nd Duke of Berwick (albeit never recognised as such), 2nd Duque de Liria, 2nd Duque de Xerica, but lived his entire life in exile. Further portraits of her are reproduced in Charles Petrie, Marshal Duke of Berwick (London, 1953), from an original in the British Museum, and in Piers Wauchope, Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite war (Blackrock, 1992), from an original in Kilkenny Castle We are grateful to Dr Joachim Whaley for his help with the catalogue entry
Lot 600
George Campbell, RHA (Irish, 1917-1979) City Scene, Dublin signed lower left “G Campbell”oil on board 34 x 38cm (13.26 x 14.82in) Provenance: Bought at the Victor Waddington Gallery, Dublin, June 1956, by Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Librarian, King’s College, Cambridge Private collection, Cambridge Exhibited: Victor Waddington Gallery, Dublin, June 1956 A N L Munby was a student, Fellow and Librarian at King’s College, Cambridge. He was a bibliophile of some repute, and worked for a while at Sotheby’s in the 1940s after leaving the Army and became a Fellow at King’s in 1947
Lot 363
PROGRAMMES Fifty programmes from forties and fifties including Scottish, friendlies and Big Game. Includes Scotland v England 52, Hibs v Motherwell 51/2, Hibs v Falkirk 57/8, Arsenal v Chelsea 50/51, Ireland v British Army 50/51 (John Charles in Army team), England Amateurs v Scotland 49/50 at Hull ( light staining), Stirling v Rangers 58/9, Dundee Utd v Dunfermline 57/8, Shrewsbury v League XI 26/4/50 ( minor tape along spine), Portsmouth Res v Norwich Res 49/50 (mint), Peterborough v Bedford 52/3, Liverpool v Shef Utd 48/9 ( score on cover), Leeds and District FA v Uganda 56/7 at Elland Road ( includes players from Leeds Utd, Farsley Celtic and Yorkshire Amateurs), Gloucester v Portsmouth 55/6, Ipswich v Bournemouth 55/6, Gateshead v Carlisle 56/7, 3 x Colchester 56/7, Charlton v Stockport 47/8 (Cup), Brentford v Fulham 47/8, Cardiff v Arsenal 53/4 and Villa v Arsenal 54/5. Conditions vary but most faults are minor and condition is at least Fair-Generally good . Ascribed
Lot 896
MISCELLANY Four sporting items, Dinner Menu for the Bury St Edmunds Bicycle and Athletic Club, 14/10/1909 ( very good), ticket Royal Navy v The Army 7/3/1936 at Twickenham, small booklet "Football Competition Recorder" presented by Racing and Football Outlook, and finally Royal Navy College Athletic Sports programme/booklet dated May 19th 1886 and in good condition, sports included Heaving The Lead, Bicycle Slow Race ( I could enter that), Wide Jump, Sack Race and Three Legged Race amongst a few more standard events. Generally good
Lot 1543
CHELSEA MISCELLANY An interesting batch of 44 Chelsea home programmes between 1957 and 1977 comprising Friendlies, Neutral F.A Cup and League Cup Replays, Anglo-Scottish matches, Representative matches and one F.A Youth Cup semi-final against Arsenal 1957/58. Programmes inc: Friendlies against South Africans 58/59 and many others from the late 1950s; a rare Southern Floodlight Cup 1st round from 57/58 against Fulham (first team); a scarce Anglo-Scottish match against Bristol City in 75/76; Fairs Cup Final 1958 between London and Barcelona; London v Glasgow Boys matches in 56/57 and 60/61; a scarce 4-page programme from the match between British Army and Belgian Army 60/61; single typed sheet from the Friendly match against Arsenal in 76/77 etc. Fair-good
Lot 378
A leather Army and Navy cartridge magazine, fitted with seven fitted compartments with leather straps, stamped C with Coronet above 18cm high, 56cm wide, 16.5cm deep, and a Holland and Holland leather cartridge magazine, wooden interior with six fitted compartments and a leather strap, initials W.H.P. 15cm high, 48cm wide, 33.5cm deep. Provenance: Cowdray
Lot 257
Second World War Medal Group awarded to Major John Green inc. Defence Medal, 1939/45 war medal, Africa Star with 8th army bar, 1939/45 Star & Distinguished Service Order DSO with citation for conspicuous gallantry in action with B Squadron Special Air Service Regiment, some personal photographs, fitted case & original medal list
Lot 408
A Mau Mau terrorist Simi sword and scabbard together with three arrows with metal points and feather ends and a silvered Kenyan police button, a black and white photograph written verso. "The sword and the arrows were taken from this Mau Mau terrorist who was captured in a jungle near an army camp at Fort Essex in the Aberdaire Mountains in Kenya, East Africa in 1954". (a quantity, various dimensions).
Lot 419
Postcards : A good album of various late 19 and early 20c. scenes to include Frodingham Houses, a rare agricultural scene, quantity of other street scenes, family postcards, Duke and Admiral Jellicoe, cruiser and airship cards, a quantity of army regiments, local cards to include Scunthorpe, small quantity of coloured cards etc.
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Lot 143
L`Espine (Jean de) Excellens discours de I. de l`E 2 vol. in 1 title with woodcut printer`s device [Not in Adams] La Rochelle Hierosme Haultin 1594 bound with L`Espine (Jean de) Traite de la Providence de Dieu... title with woodcut printer`s device [not in Adams] La Rochelle Hierosme Haultin 1594 together two works in 1 vol. contemporary limp vellum lacking ties lightly soiled a very good copy 12mo Provenance: `1664. This booke doth apertayne unto me Jno. Reynolds` (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Bullen Reymes (ink signature to title): either Bullen Reymes of Westminster (1586-1652) courtier and gentleman usher to the Duchess of Buckingham or his son Col. Bullen Reymes (1613-1672) army officer MP for Weymouth colleague (and friend) of Pepys on the Fishery Corporation and the Tangier Committee and friend of John Evelyn Sir William Coventry Lord Clifford and Sir Charles Cotterell or his son Bullen Reymes.
Lot 145
Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) Les Essais title with woodcut ornament woodcut decorated initials and head- and tail-pieces ink signature to title occasional contemporary ink marginalia and underlining some staining mostly marginal (including a light stain to upper left-hand corner of title) some other light soiling or marking some creasing to corners upper hinge broken fragment of early ms. used in binding contemporary vellum ink ms. title to spine spine creased soiled [Sayce 11 `Leiden A`] 8vo Leiden par Jehan Doreau 1602. *** A rare edition.Provenance: Bullen Reymes (ink signature to title): either Bullen Reymes of Westminster (1586-1652) courtier and gentleman usher to the Duchess of Buckingham or his son Col. Bullen Reymes (1613-1672) army officer MP for Weymouth colleague (and friend) of Pepys on the Fishery Corporation and the Tangier Committee and friend of John Evelyn Sir William Coventry Lord Clifford and Sir Charles Cotterell; or his son Bullen Reymes.
Lot 832
CRIMEAN WAR RELIC THE BRASS SWORD SCABBARD OF MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLES ASHE WINDHAM, `THE HERO OF THE REDAN` for a Mameluke-hilted sword, in the original green velvet lined and fitted mahogany case with brass handle and escutcheon engraved with armorials and inscribed MAJOR GENERAL C A WINDHAM, 103cm l, mid 19th c Provenance: General Charles Ashe Windham, KCB (1810-1870) of the Coldstream Guards. A portrait of Windham, sword in hand, standing before the Redan, by Charles Cousens (c1821-1889) is in the National Army Museum. In noticing his death The Times recounted Windham`s moment of glory: "General Windham was the first to enter the stronghold, and amid the shower of bullets and cannon balls that flew around him he seemed to bear about him a charmed life. At length, finding it hopeless to obtain support by sending messengers, he coolly walked across the open space before the ramparts in the midst of a well sustained fire, to demand assistance in person . The "Royals" were then placed at his disposal; but no sooner were they pit in formation than the men in the Redan were obliged to abandon the work. The opportunity had been lost. The correspondents of the press were not slow in recording the heroic bravery of Windham on this occasion, and on the arrival of General Codrington`s despatches at the Horse Guards, the subject of this memoir was rewarded by promotion to the rank of Major-General, for his distinguished conduct in having, with the greatest intrepity and coolness, headed the column of attack with assaulted the enemy`s defences on the 8th of September 1855". The scabbard and the interior of the case in excellent condition, the exterior of the case with numerous scuff marks and old knocks and scratches but complete
Lot 234
A MEISSEN COFFEE CUP AND A LATER MEISSEN OGEE COFFEE CUP AND A SAUCER the first painted with travellers in an extensive landscape, the handle detailed in pink and gilt and with inner gilt dentil rim, the cup and saucer painted with a cavalry skirmish or scene of an army on the march in gilt borders, saucer 13cm diam, painted crossed swords and dot or crossed swords and B or star, the outside-decorated cup also painted in red onglaze MACKEL, c1760 and c1800 Wear to the gilding on the rim of the larger cup
Lot 286
A WHITE METAL CIGARETTE CASE of plain cushion form, the top cover engraved with the coat of arms of the Viceroy Wavell, accompanied by an embossed gift card inscribed From Their Excellancies The Viceroy and Viscountess Wavell, in a fitted case, 11.5cms x 8.5cms, 6oz (tests as silver) First Earl Wavell (1883-1950) was a British Field Marshall and Commander of the British Armed Forces in the Middle East during World War II. He led the British forces to victory over the Italians only to be defeated by the German Army. He was the penultimate Viceroy of India 1943-1947
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