Ireland, Irish Ascendency - Royalty, the Court and the British Army - a large Victorian matrimonial scrapbook, compiled and illustrated by General Sir Alexander Montgomery Moore KCB (1833-1919) and his wife Lady Jane (née Colborne, d. 1919), of Garvey House, County Tyrone, various tipped-in ephemera, prints and original compositions, including a Georgian verse satire in ink MS on paper 'of about 1780' illustrating a lawsuit between the Moores and Ld Castle***; Anglo-Irish caricature, "Justice to Ireland", General Sir James Vaughan Jackson (1790-1871), in profile in civilian dress, while Commander-in-Chief in the Cape of Good Hope from 1854-59, mixed media on paper; an Anglo-Indian printed dance card from Simla, 20th August 1869, two further contemporary ball invitations to the Montgomery Moores; 2 sepia photographs of natives' executions; a handful of topographical watercolours of South-East Asia, principally architectural; some other military and topographical photographs; further ephemera illustrative of their life within the establishment of the British Raj; an 1856 MS bill for fare from the Greek island of Syra (Syros/Siros); 2 landscapes of Smyrna from the deck of *** and dated January 27th 1855, &, The French Camp at the Battle Field of Inkerman [Crimean War], February 10th 1855; a blue-printed and ink-annotated dinner menu from H.M.S. Serapis; Austria-Hungary, a bill of from the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, on the 100th anniversary of the institution of the Order of Maria Theresa, a corresponding Ordre de Bataille for a military ceremony commemorating the same occasion, 18th June 1857; Royalty, a VR orange admittance ticket from the Lord Chamberlain's office for the Montgomery Moores to attend the State Apartments, St. James's Palace, for the marriage of the Princess Royal, January 25th, 1858, pasted above the Order of Procession; Marlborough House garden party invite issued on behalf of the Prince & Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra); various Golden Jubilee invitations, including the Westminster Abbey Thanksgiving Service, Buckingham Place State Concert, Summer Garden Party; further invitations, menu cards, etc., from across the Continent; A Moorish Physician's Charm against Sickness frrom Tangiers, March 1859, tipped-in parchment; French Society visiting cards; Royal Hussars manoeuvres map, pen and ink with watercolour; further regimental ephemera; a few pen and ink, pencil or wash studies of soldiers and military manoeuvres en plein air; two sepia photographs of the French military at the Sahara Desert; country house weekend parties, a handful of photographs - guests, staff and houses; telegram; notices of the Parnell Letters, the death of Alfred, Lord Tennyson; R.H. Essex, watercolour of a Medieval head from a mural at Eton College chapel; further Etoniana, including the Boating Calendar: 1849 & the newspaper (presumably the Times) viz. the Fourth of June in 1889; a page devoted to the death of Prince Albert and Court mourning, illustrated by a print and newspaper notices; an account of the 1869 Delhi Durbar; Emperor Maximilian of Mexico Trial and Execution; Gun Experiments at Dover, a newspaper clipping mentioning General Montgomery Moore; 4 newspaper accounts of the 2nd Encampment of the Dublin Division under Lord Seaton (Lady Jane's father) at Woodlands, September 16th 1858; further newspaper clippings, one illustrating The Uses of Ammonia, another The Czar's Last Moments (presumably Tsar Nicholas I, d. 1855), 3 letters to the Times on Lord Nelson's death; two caricatures of the British Army wearing shell jackets accompanied by an account of a House of Commons debate on the subject, 25th May 1849; A Fenian Proclamation at Drogheda, some Irish ballads and poems from printed periodicals, Irish Election Committees: Drogheda Borough and further notices of Irish elections and politcs; a page devoted to prints of Napoleon and French soldiers of the early Republic; music poster, A Grand Amateur Concert, Dublin, 22nd February 1884; a page annotated and illustrated with stipple engraved portraits of the then British Royal Family, including Queen 'Snuffy Charlotte'; early 19th century and later prints, various subjects -including caricatures - and mixed media engravings, some French, a handful loosely-inserted; Punch cartoons; an early 19th century military map of Antwerp; English antiquarian and topographical watercolours; a few 17th century etchings; etc., further scraps and memories of the Victorian age, mounted on colour leaves, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards (rubbed), crown folio (41cm x 31cm, [1]
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Ireland - Association Copy, Historical Memoirs of Napoleon, Book IX: 1815, Translated from the Original MS by B.E. O'Meara, London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820, fold-out map with contemporary hand-tinting, 2 fold-out charts to verso, armorial title-page vignette of Napoleon's arms, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, early 19th century Plain Crested bookplate: Shelton of Shelton [John Willington Shelton of Rossmore House, County Limerick, (1791-1847), wounded four times at Waterloo so severely he was obliged to reture from the army on half-pay], 8vo, (1); Burke's Landed Gentry 1852, two-volume set, 19th century green cloth, dated ink MS presentation inscriptions: Sarah Ridgway [of Blenheim, County Waterford]- 1853, from her sister Harriett, large 8vo, (2); Collins (Arthur), The Baronettage of England [...], London: 1732, defective copy, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, (1), (faults); Carleton (William), Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, fourth edition, volumes I, II, IV & V only, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1836, illustrated, contemporary cloth with Celtic knots, Spade Shield Armorial bookplates: Douglass of Tilquhillie, small 8vo, (4); Proctor (Richard A.), Old and New Astronomy [...], with Numerous Plates and Woodcuts, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895, contemporary pictorial blue cloth gilt, crested bookplate: Ridgway of Ireland, ownership stamp of Egerton Castle (1858-1920, Victorian author, antiquarian and swordsman), 4to, (1); Akerman (John Yonge), A Numismatic Manul, London: Taylor & Walton, 1840, contemporary brown cloth, ink MS ownership inscriptions, 8vo, (1); Atkins (James), The Tradesmen's Tokens of the Eighteenth Century, London: W.S. Lincoln & Son, 1892, pictorial calf gilt over cloth, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: R.G. Ridgway, 8vo, (1); Smiles (Samuel), The Huguenots [...], London: John Murray, 1880, pictorial cloth, 8vo; Sullivan (Serjeant A.M., Q.C.), The Last Serjeant, London: Macdonald, 1952, d/j, red cloth, 8vo; leather bindings, some with country house provenance; etc., [19]
Militaria - India, the Boer War and the First World War - Williams-Ellis (Major Clough, M.C.) and Williams-Ellis (A.), The Tank Corps, with an Introduction by Major-General H.J. Elles, C.B., D.S.O., London: Published at the Offices of "Country Life", Ltd., [1919], contemporary gilt vellum, 8vo, (1); Tonbridge School and the Great War of 1914 to 1919 [...], London and Tonbridge: The Whitefriars Press, Ltd., 1923, contemporary cloth, gilt school armorial, 4to, (1); Trimen (Richard, Late Captain, 35th Royal Sussex), The Regiments of the British Army [...], London: William H. Allen and Co., 1878, contemporary red cloth, 8vo, (1); Chesney (Colonel Charles C., R.E.), Waterloo Lectures: A Study of the Campaign of 1815, fourth edition, London: 1907, contemporary green cloth, 8vo, (1); Indian imprints, early 20th century, (2); Harold Chapin; Captain Albert Ball, V.C., D.S.O; etc., [18]
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Antiquarianism - Dr Smith's Smaller Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities [...], sixth edition, London: John Murray, 1865, copious in-text illustrations, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Sharpe (Edmund, Architect), Decorated Windows: A Treatise on the Rise and Progress of Decorated Window Tracery in England, Illustrated with Ninety-Seven Woodcuts and Six Engravings on Steel, two-volume set, London: John Van Voorst, 1849, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo, (2); The Calendar of the Anglican Church, Illustrated, Oxford and London: John Henry Parker, 1851, contemporary half-calf over boards, 12mo, (1); 19th century Autotype Printed Catalogue of the Louvre Museum, Paris, Collection of Permanent Facsimiles, (1); Husbandry and Agriculture, Cripps-Day (Francis Henry), The Manor Farm [...], London: Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 1931, some Gothic Black Letter facsimile printing, gilt-lettered vellum over boards, 4to, (1); Mason (D. Joyce), A Regional Study of the Isle of Ely, geography dissertation, 1948-49, brown cloth binding, 4to, (1); Evans (Joan), A History of Jewellery 1100-1870, second edition, London: 1970, copiously illustrated, h/b, d/j, 4to, (1); Fortescue (John), Canteens in the British Army, Cambridge: University Press, 1928, 8vo, (1); Boscawen (W. St. Chad), The Bible and the Monuments [...], third edition, London: 1896, contemporary blue cloth pictorial gilt, 8vo, (1); Americana, Bridge (Rev. William Dawson), Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America, 1632-1924, revised edition, Massachusetts: 1924, contemporary green cloth, 8vo, (1); further heraldry and geneaology reference works, 19th century and later, various, (17); Horlogy, Kurz (O.), European Clocks and Watches in the Near East, London: 1975, contemporary grey cloth, 8vo; The Trade of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century, Bristol Record Society: 1966, contemporary cloth over boards, 8vo, (1); Classical Antiquity; architecture; topography; pamphlet monographs; etc., [approx. 80]
Books - Militaria - World War One & Two: Watson (Major W.H.L.), Adventures of A Despatch Rider, with Maps, shilling edition, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917, illustrated, green cloth, 12mo, (1); Dewing (Brigadier R.H.), National Defence: The Army, first edition, London: 1938, h/b, d/j, 12mo; Simpson (Squadron Leader William D.F.C.), One of Our Pilots is Safe, Hamish Hamilton: 1945, h/b, d/j, 8vo; further RFC/RAF interest; Nazi Germany/Third Reich: Bilder Deutscher Geschichte, 1936, illustrated with cigarette cards throughout; Alistair MacLean, h/b, pictorial d/j; Powell (Geoffrey), The History of the Green Howards, h/b, d/j; other regimental histories or studies, various; 19th century and later campaigns, including the Boer War; Royal Navy, H.M.S. Apollo 1936-1938, h/b, d/j, 8vo; etc., [2 boxes]
WW1 and later photograph album featuring The Expeditionary Force which went to Russia in 1918 in support of the White Russians. Photographs include General Maynard reviewing the troops at Murmansk, Royal Scots 'on the way home', Ust Pinega Removal Depot, Lt Colonel T C R Moore in charge of reindeer transport, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Army HQ, Kurgomen etc. Many copies / duplicates
British Army WW1 over 100 photographs collected by Frederick Coleman who was in Intelligence HQ in Italy during the war, including the Honourable Artillery Company, dispatch riders, Austrian POWs, Italian Army motorcyclists, Austrian guns captured by the Yorks & Lancs Regiment, soldiers on R&R, sports etc, panoramic and aerial photos of the trenches, strategic points, towns etc including first pontoon bridges over the Piave October 1918
Seventy-four British Army WW1 Guards and Infantry cap badges displayed by order of precedence including Grenadier Guards, the 'Buffs' Suffolk Regiment, East Surrey, Dorsetshire Regiment, Black Watch, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Seaforth Highlanders, Royal Dublin Fusiliers etc, all in glazed display frame
British Army WW1 The Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book in hardback, a regimental record written and illustrated for the most part by artillerymen while serving in the line during the Great War, formerly the property of Lieut A C Kingham, whose Military Cross medal group is lot 1054 in this sale
WW1 British Army 1912 pattern sword with bowl guard, shagreen and wire grip, George V cipher to 88cm fullered blade, Robert Mole Birmingham makers to ricasso, serial no M7513 to top of blade and engraved W L Everard, Leicestershire Yeomanry 1914, with leather scabbard, sword knot and belt straps
Ruger Old Army .44 six shot single action revolver with monogrammed wooden grips, engraved frame and named 7.5 inch barrel engraved 'Made in the 200th year of American liberty' overall length 36cm, serial number 140-28356 PLEASE NOTE THAT A VALID RELEVANT FIREARMS/SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE IS REQUIRED TO HANDLE/PURCHASE THIS ITEM.
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