CARTIER: CORAL, ENAMEL AND SAPPHIRE 'OISEAU LIBÉRÉ' BROOCH, 1986The singing bird with coral corallium rubrum body, blue enamel wings and a cabochon sapphire eye, perched in front of cage, mounted in 18 carat gold, signed Cartier London, maker's mark JC (rubbed) London hallmark, European convention mark, numbered 25504, length 4.0cmFootnotes:This brooch is one of two commissioned from Cartier in 1986 by the owner's husband. The other, numbered 25504A, was presented to HRH The Princess Margaret at the opening of the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair that same year and was subsequently sold by Christie's on 13th June 2006 as lot 154.The caged bird motif was a recurrent theme in jewels by Cartier during the Second World War and was symbolic of the German occupation of France. The choice of colours, the red coral, blue enamel and white gold in nationalistic homage to the French flag. After liberation, the jewels displayed singing birds freed from their cages.For a sketch by Cartier of the 'Oiseau Libéré' brooch, see Rainero, P. et al 'The Art of Cartier', p. 298. This lot will be subject to USA Fish and Wildlife regulations if it is to be imported into the USA.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: YY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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ROOD: ART DECO DIAMOND BRACELET, CIRCA 1930The articulating links set with brilliant, old brilliant and step-cut diamonds, accented at intervals by old brilliant and single-cut diamond quatrefoils, diamonds approximately 15.15 carats total, signed Rood, length 18.8cmFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CARTIER: ART DECO DIAMOND BROOCH, CIRCA 1930The arching row of cushion-shaped diamonds within an old brilliant and single-cut diamond scrolling openwork frame, accented by baguette-cut diamonds, between Persian inspired similarly-set terminals, diamonds approximately 8.50 carats total, signed Cartier London, length 7.2cmFootnotes:For a page of arabesque patterns taken from a variety of Islamic sources headed, 'Caractéristiques arabes', in a sketchbook attributed to Charles Jacqueau at Cartier, see Rudoe, J. 'Cartier 1900-1939', 1997, ill.p.294, cat 233.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MANUFACTURE IN ART: DIAMOND BRACELET AND PENDENT EARRING SUITESpectacle-set throughout with cushion-shaped and old brilliant-cut diamonds, both signed Manufacture in Art, diamonds approximately 8.15 carats total, lengths: bracelet 14.7cm - 18.5cm (adjustable), earrings 3.9cm (2)Footnotes:Please note this lot has VAT at the prevailing rate on both the Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ART DECO EMERALD AND DIAMOND BRACELET, CIRCA 1920The central row of graduated step-cut emeralds between rows of single-cut diamonds, mounted in platinum, diamonds approximately 1.70 carats total, length 17.7cm, cased by Moira, 23 New Bond Street, London, W1.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ATTRIBUTED TO TIFFANY: ART NOUVEAU EMERALD AND DIAMOND BANGLE, CIRCA 1884Chased throughout with cloud motifs, and green enamel Mandarin symbols for fortune, love and giving, accented by rose-cut diamonds, the front inset with three step-cut emeralds between cushion-shaped and old brilliant-cut diamonds, the back applied with the Mandarin symbol for fortune, engraved M.L.S from J.F.S Jan 8th 1884, cushion-shaped and old brilliant-cut diamonds approximately 1.00 carats total, three rose-cut diamonds deficient, unsigned, inner circumference 19.0cmFootnotes:ProvenanceMary Louisa Schenck (1842-1954)Descent to the current ownerThe three bangles, lots 87, 88, 89, have been in the vendors' family for four generations, belonging to their Great Grandmother, Mary Louisa Schenck (1860-1954) and Great Great Aunt Emma Schenck (1855-1935).The ruby and chrysoberyl bangle (lot 87) is thought to have been a gift from John Frederick Schenck (1842-1905), a New York Stockbroker, on his engagement to Mary Louisa Stone. The emerald bangle (lot 88) was a gift to Mary Louisa on the birth of their daughter, Aleid Schenck in 1884.The sapphire and diamond bangle (lot 89) belonged to John Frederick Schenck's sister, Emma Schenck and was a gift from her husband Charles Rowe Shepard on their wedding day.Four generations of the family are pictured in the photograph where one of the bangles is being worn by Mary Louisa Schenck. The image was taken in 1949.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS: DIAMOND 'DISQUES' EARCLIPS, CIRCA 1935Each spiralling disc pavé-set with brilliant and old brilliant-cut diamonds, radiating from an inner border of baguette-cut diamonds, mounted in platinum, signed Van Cleef & Arpels Paris, numbered 57615, Rubel Frères maker's marks, French assay marks, diamonds approximately 7.20 carats total, length 2.90cmFootnotes:See ed. Possémé, É., 'Van Cleef & Arpels: The Art of High Jewelry', Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2012, ill. p.89 for a similar example.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TIFFANY: ART NOUVEAU GOLD, RUBY AND CAT'S EYE CHRYSOBERYL BANGLE, CIRCA 1882Chased throughout in a breaking wave pattern, the front inset with three cat's eye chrysoberyl cabochons between cushion-shaped rubies, the back with an applied gold design, possibly inspired by Islamic calligraphy, engraved Dec 12th 1882. 'KISMET', signed Tiffany & Co, one cat's eye chrysoberyl replacement, inner circumference 19.4cm Footnotes:Accompanied by a document from IAJA Expertise stating that the bangle is by Tiffany. Number: XP1347-240723, dated 24 July 2023.ProvenanceMary Louisa Schenck (1842-1954)Descent to the current ownerThe three bangles, lots 87, 88, 89, have been in the vendors' family for four generations, belonging to their Great Grandmother, Mary Louisa Schenck (1860-1954) and Great Great Aunt Emma Schenck (1855-1935).The ruby and chrysoberyl bangle (lot 87) is thought to have been a gift from John Frederick Schenck (1842-1905), a New York Stockbroker, on his engagement to Mary Louisa Stone. The emerald bangle (lot 88) was a gift to Mary Louisa on the birth of their daughter, Aleid Schenck in 1884.The sapphire and diamond bangle (lot 89) belonged to John Frederick Schenck's sister, Emma Schenck and was a gift from her husband Charles Rowe Shepard on their wedding day.Four generations of the family are pictured in the photograph where one of the bangles is being worn by Mary Louisa Schenck. The image was taken in 1949.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ART DECO SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND RING, CIRCA 1920The fancy-cut sugarloaf cabochon sapphire, weighing 7.12 carats, within an undulating single-cut diamond surround, the shoulders accented by similarly-cut diamonds and pear-shaped cabochon sapphires, mounted in platinum, ring size LFootnotes:Accompanied by a report from SSEF, stating that the sapphire in of Kashmir origin, with no indications of heat treatment. Report number 130277, dated 22nd June 2023.Accompanied by a report from AGL, stating that the sapphire in of Kashmir origin, with no indications of heat treatment. Report number 1132034, dated 19th May 2023.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ART DECO DIAMOND BANDEAU, CIRCA 1920Of openwork Greek Key design, set throughout with cushion-shaped, old brilliant and rose-cut diamonds, delicate millegrain detail throughout, cushion-shaped and old brilliant-cut diamonds approximately 22.65 carats total, length 16.4cmFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TIFFANY: ART NOUVEAU GOLD, SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND HINGED BANGLE, CIRCA 1886Chased throughout with meandering scroll motifs, the front inset with three old brilliant-cut diamonds and two cushion-shaped sapphires, engraved with C.R S to E S. April 29th 1886, signed Tiffany & Co. Paris, diamonds approximately 3.00 carats total, inner circumference 15.5cmFootnotes:Accompanied by a document from IAJA Expertise stating that the bangle is by Tiffany. Please contact the department for further information.ProvenanceEmma Schenck (1855-1935)Descent to the current ownerThe three bangles, lots 87, 88, 89, have been in the vendors' family for four generations, belonging to their Great Grandmother, Mary Louisa Schenck (1860-1954) and Great Great Aunt Emma Schenck (1855-1935).The ruby and chrysoberyl bangle (lot 87) is thought to have been a gift from John Frederick Schenck (1842-1905), a New York Stockbroker, on his engagement to Mary Louisa Stone. The emerald bangle (lot 88) was a gift to Mary Louisa on the birth of their daughter, Aleid Schenck in 1884.The sapphire and diamond bangle (lot 89) belonged to John Frederick Schenck's sister, Emma Schenck and was a gift from her husband Charles Rowe Shepard on their wedding day.Four generations of the family are pictured in the photograph where one of the bangles is being worn by Mary Louisa Schenck. The image was taken in 1949.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Airfix - Playsets [Snap-Together Models] Series No. 1685, comprising: First Issue [1966] HO/OO scale release for: Sherwood. Near Mint [figures loose], contained in a generally Very Good [some storage wear] Type 3 [1963/73] "Andrew Prewett" First Edition fully illustrated [lid art] box. Rare, the First Example of this Issue to be Sold by Vectis.
Britains - Catalogue & Toy Soldier / Military Books, comprising: 1976 Reprint of the 1939 issue Trade Catalogue. Catalogue Contains 164 Pages in 5 Sections the Cover is Illustrated with 3 Colour Soldier, Tree, Cow & Pelican Logo & a Small Quantity [13] of Associated Books & Catalogues, Includes: Johillco Facsimile Catalogue, Toy Soldier Collecting in the 21st Century [Opie], The Art of the Toy Soldier [Erlich / Kurtz], Etc. Generally near Mint overall. [Qty]
Art Including The Curwen Studio Pinter, Harold - Harold Cohen, artist - Curwen. The Homecoming. London: Karnac - Curwen, 1968. Folio, number 198 of 200 copies, signed by Pinter and Cohen, original green Terylene, slipcase, covers a little dampstained; and a paperback copy of The Homecoming;The Curwen Studio. Curwen - Peter Blake, jacket designer. Forty Years in Print. 2000. Original red cloth boards, pictorial dust-jacket/print by Peter Blake (number 81of 150 signed by Blake), red clamshell box;Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 8vo, dust-jacket;Edinburgh International Exhibition 1886. Memorial Catalogue of the French and Dutch Loan Collection. Edinburgh: T. & A. Contable, 1888. Folio, original cloth;Smith, W. Thomas. The Modern Woodcut. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1924]. Original cloth;Westhofen, Wilhelm. The Forth Bridge (Centenary Edition). Edinburgh, 1989. Folio, original blue cloth, slipcase;Salaman, Malcolm C. The Etchings of Sir Francis Seymour Haden. London: Halton and Truscott Smith, Ltd., 1923. Original quarter calf, slipcase
Gunnery Collection of works including rare trade catalogues Hotchkiss & Co. The Hotchkiss Single-Barrel Rapid-Firing Gun. A Description of the System by Alfred Koerner. Paris: printed for private circulation, 1884. 4to, original cloth, 37 [3] pp., 11 plates, comprising 7 albumen print photographs (mounted as issued) and 4 folding lithographic diagrams, bookplate and ownership inscription of Henk Visser (1923-2006), noted collector of arms and armour, booklet 'Measurements and Weights of Hotchkiss Rapid-Firing Guns ...' laid in, Hotchkiss company ink-stamp to title-page, wear to spine-ends, front free endpaper detached, text-leaves and lithographic plates toned, folding plate 10 a touch proud and consequently nicked and rumpled along fore edge;Ibid. The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon. Descriptions and Illustrations of the Systems as designed for Naval Service, Field Artillery and Flank Defence ... by Lieut. Edward W. Very. Paris: printed for private circulation, 1885. 4to, original cloth (rebacked), 30 phototype or lithographic plates, numerous repairs;Nordenfelt, Thorsten. The Nordenfelt Machine Guns described in Detail and compared with Other Systems. Portsmouth: Griffin & Co., 1884. First edition, 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked and recornered, 56 plates numbered 1-53 (including 12A, 35A, 37A), bookplates of Henk Visser (q.v.) and one John Madden (1836-1902), ink-stains to covers, occasional spotting;Whitworth, Sir Joseph. Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Ryer. 1873. First edition, inscribed for 'The Right Honble B Disraeli MP with the authors compliments', with bookplate of Sir Samuel Wilson (subsequent occupant of Hughenden Manor), 4to original cloth;and 11 others (these not collated), including: War Office, Textbook for Small Arms, 1908 and 1929 (i.e. 2 works, 8vo and 4to, original red cloth, the former ex-library); Robin Chute, Shooting Flying, A Bibliography of Shooting Books 1598-1950, 2001, first edition, one of 500 copies signed by the author, folio); Walter Winans, The Art of Revolver Shooting ... New Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1911 (4to, original cloth); G. T. Teasdale-Buckell, Experts on Guns and Shooting, 1900, first edition, secondary binding, large 8vo, original cloth); and similarNote: Note: Library Hub traces two copies only for The Hotchkiss Single-Barrel Rapid-Firing Gun, at the British Library and the National Maritime Museum, and two for this edition of The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, at the NMM and the National Army Museum; an earlier edition, published in 1879, had 15 plates as opposed to 53 in the present edition.
Sporting books 12 works Sinigaglia, Leone. Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, 38 plates, contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt doublures over red printed silk endpapers, a little rubbing;Whymper, Edward. Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. London: John Murray, 1892. 2 volumes (including Supplementary Appendix), 8vo, frontispiece, single-page map, 2 folding maps including one in rear pocket, 19 plates, folding plan of Quito, with 14 additional plates in the Supplementary volume, original green cloth gilt, bookplates, some dampstaining to supplementary volume;Ball John. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859-1852. Third edition of volume 1, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover of volume 1 detached, bookplates of Archibald Rogers;James, David. That Frozen Land. London: The Falcon Press, 1949. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;Whymper, Edward. Chamonix, and the Range of Mont Blanc. London: John Murray, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth gilt;Haskett Smith, W.P. Climbing in the British Isles. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. 12mo, original red cloth gilt;Wilson, Claude. Mountaineering. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. 12mo, original green cloth;Barrow, John. An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa... London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. Volume 1 only, contemporary diced calf, rebacked retaining portions of original spine, repairs to hinges, repair to title-page, bookplates, lacking maps;Scrope, William. Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the Tweed. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, additional title-page and 10 (of 11) coloured lithographs only, contemporary red half morocco gilt, upper cover detached;Millais, J.G. Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1894. Second edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text, original pictorial cloth;St. John, Charles. Natural History & Sport in Moray. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary half calf, some offsetting from tissue guards;Rollo, W. Keith. The Art of Fly Fishing. London: H. F. & G. Witherby, [1931]. Second edition, 8vo, original cloth, ownership signatures and blindstamp to endpapers
Art Reference works and prints Flaxman, John. Compositions from the Tragedies of Aeschylus... London: Miss Flaxman & Miss Denman, 1831. Oblong folio, 36 plates including 2 engraved title-pages, contemporary red half calf gilt;Hogarth, William. The Works of William Hogarth... London: J. Sharpe, 1821. 4to, volume 1 only with 77 plates, contemporary half calf;Hand-compiled collection of woodcuts bound into two 19th century red half-morocco volumes;Cameron, D.Y. - Frank Rinder. D.Y. Cameron's Etchings. Edinburgh: Otto Schulze and Company, 1908. 4to, number 7 of 150 copies signed by Cameron, original Japanese vellum damaged;Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The man, the image and the world. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. Original red cloth, dust-jacket;Bateman, H.M. Colonels. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1925] Original boards, fust-jacket chipped; and 4 further works by Bateman;Adhémar, Jean. Toulouse-Lautrec lithographies - Pointes seches. Paris, 1965. Folio, original cloth;[Canaletto] Fifty Drawings by Canaletto from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Johnson Reprint Company Limited / HArcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1983. Folio, number 426 of 520 sets produced with text volume and prints, in half morocco clamshell box;and 27 others, sold not subject to return
Rossini, Luigi Le antichita dei Contorni di Roma Rome, 1826. Oblong folio, 44 engraved plates only (of 72), 19th century half morocco, many plates slightly or somewhat dampstained, 5 plates trimmed or frayed with slight loss of image, 4 others trimmed to within neatline, 3 loose, one slightly frayed and discoloured at fold, one with short tear in lower margin, 2 with margins extended, a couple with small repairs, also lacking the engraved title-page, 8pp. of printed preliminaries including the printed title and the list of plates, binding worn and scrapedNote: Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club
Gunnery Collection of works, 19th and early 20th century Boucher, John. The Volunteer Rifleman and the Rifle ... Second edition, greatly enlarged. London: W. O. Mitchell, 1859. Inscribed by 'To William Roupell Esqre M.P., with the author's compliments' on the title-page, 8vo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece, 4 plates (of which 2 folding), bookplate to front pastedown, lacking front free endpaper, frontispiece offset, rear inner hinge slightly cracked;Baker, Ezekiel. Remarks on Rifle Guns: being the Result of Forty Years Practice and Observations. With Specific Remarks on Fowling Pieces. London: E. Baker, 1821. Eighth edition, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, gilt red morocco to front board, [6] 140 pp., half-title, 12 engraved plates (most hand-coloured), without 8 pp. supplement noted in other copies;Dove, Patrick Edward. The Revolver. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857. First edition, first issue, 8vo, original red pictorial boards, 5 wood-engraved plates, loss to spine;Idem. The Revolver. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1858. First edition, second issue, 8vo, original blue pictorial boards, 5 wood-engraved plates, loss to spine;Busk, Hans. The Rifleman's Manual; or, Rifles, and how to use them. London: Charles Noble, [1858]. Second edition, original cloth, rebacked, bookplate of Henk Visser, ownership inscriptions;Noel, J. B. L. The Automatic Pistol. London: Forster Groom & Co., Ltd., c.1919. First edition, small 8vo, original tan cloth;Lancaster, Charles. An Illustrated Treatise on the Art of Shooting. London: McCorquodale and Co. Limited, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, advertisement endpapers, halftone photographic frontispiece, plates, covers slightly marked, fraying to spine-ends, tips bumped, inner hinges strengthened, spotting, damp-stain to head of gutter, a few plates strengthened in margins or gutter [Chute 378: 'The first purely practical work on how to shoot straight and safely'];and 27 others, on rifles, pistols, machine guns, etc., original clothNote: Note: William Roupell (1831-1909), recipient of this copy of Boucher's Volunteer Rifleman, was a Liberal politician whose career ended in disgrace after he was convicted of forging wills and property deeds in a famous court case. Dove's Revolver is rare in libraries and in commerce: Library Hub traces one copy only of each issue in British and Irish institutions.
Waring, J. B. Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 London: Day & Son, 1863. First edition, folio (42 x 28.5cm), 3 volumes, 3 chromolithographed title-pages, 301 chromolithographed plates, many heightened in gold and silver, original bevelled and elaborately gilt tooled morocco, all edges gilt, small, neat ownership stamps of Henry How of Sevenoaks to front free endpapers, spines reinforced, final 4 plates in volume 3 bound out of order
Stuart, James and Nicholas Revett The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-27. New edition, 4 volumes, folio, 191 engraved plates, errata leaf in volume 3, corrigenda slip in volume 4, contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, blindstamp of the Glasgow Arts Club Library to title-pages, plates in volume 4 somewhat dampstained, plates in volumes 2 & 3 slightly dampstained in margins, some spotting, substantial spotting to volume 3, without the 2 engraved portraits of Stuart and Revett, rubbed, bookplates removed from endpapersProvenance:Provenance: From the Library of the Glasgow Art Club
Rawstorne, Lawrence Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game and an Improved Method of making Plantations and Covers, explained and illustrated. London: published for the proprietor, by Rudolph Ackermann, 1837. First edition, inscribed 'From Laurence Rawstorne, April /93' on the initial blank, 8vo (23.5 x 15cm), original green morocco gilt, all edges gilt, 208 pp., half-title, 15 hand-coloured aquatint plates after Rawlins, heightened to gum arabic, errata slip tipped to p. 208, spine slightly faded, custom green cloth slipcase [Abbey Life 392; Schwerdt II p. 127; Tooley 393]Note: Note: 'An esteemed book. It is realy a treatise on forestry, written with a view to laying out plantations in the way most suitable to game preservation. But the highly coloured plates mostly represent shooting scenes. They are unusually attractive, and convey a good impression of the way in which our forebears killer their game, in the beginning of the 19th century' (Schwerdt).
Waring, J. B. Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862 London: Day & Son, 1863. First edition, 3 volumes, folio (42 x 29cm), contemporary red half morocco, all edges gilt, 3 chromolithographic title-pages, 301 chromolithographic plates (numbered 1-300 300a), bindings rubbed and marked, occasional light spotting to contents
Markham, Gervase Hungers Prevention: or, the whole Art of Fowling by Water and Land London: for Francis Grove, and are to be sold by Martha Harrison, 1655. Small 8vo (13 x 8cm), [16] 285 [1] pp., 20th-century calf by Riviere & Son, all edges gilt, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations throughout the text, closely trimmed along top and fore edges, many side-notes and a few headlines shaved, spotting to first and last few leaves, without final blank T8 (mentioned in Schwerdt but not in ESTC), custom slipcase [ESTC R12445; Schwerdt II p. 12; Wing M657]Note: Note: Second edition of the earliest English work on wildfowling, intended by the author especially for use by colonists in 'the blessed plantation of Virginia', and dedicated to Sir Edwin Sandys, founder of the Virginia Company. 'Like so many booklets which were easily portable and therefore exposed to wear, this work is not often met with' (Schwerdt). The first edition was published in 1621.
Freud, Sigmund The Ego and the Id The London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition, 4to, contemporary quarter morocco, 88 pp., ex-library with related ink-stamps and labels, many leaves reinforced in gutter, several corners dog-eared, various nicks, marks and other blemishes;Burton, Richard F. The Book of the Sword. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition, 4to, modern library cloth, 299 pp., ex-library with labels to front pastedown, withdrawal stamp to front free endpaper, annotations to verso of title-page, blind-stamps to upper outer corners of text-leaves, magnetic label to margin of p. 243;Occult. The Book of Destiny and the Art of Reading Therein. By Grand Orient. London: William Rider & Son, Ltd., 1912. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, folding frontispiece showing 'The Wheel of Wisdom', ink-stamped 'presentation copy' on half-title and title-page, front free endpaper excised;Idem. Absolute Key to Occult Science. The Tarot of the Bohemians. The Most Ancient Book in the World. For the Use of Initiates. By Papus ... Second Edition Revised, with Preface by A. E. Waite. London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1910. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, ex-library, front inner hinge gone, rear inner hinge cracked
Warwickshire Large collection of local, regimental and family histories, 19th and early 20th century Bedford, W. K. Riland. Three Hundred Years of a Family Living, being a History of the Rilands of Sutton Coldfield. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1889. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 50 copies signed on behalf of the printer (Wright Dain Peyton & Co.), 4to, original quarter japon;Idem. History of Sutton Coldfield. Birmingham: The Times Printing Co., 1891. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Kemp, Thomas (editor). The Black Book of Warwick. Warwick: Henry T. Cooke and Son, 1898. First edition, deluxe issue (no limitation stated), 4to, original quarter japon, bookplate of John Tricks Spalding (noted collector of British topographical books, 1844-1924), ownership inscription;Idem. The Black Book of Warwick. Warwick: Henry T. Cooke and Son, 1898. First edition, trade issue, 4to, original cloth, inscribed 'with the editor's love' on the front free endpaper;Adderley, Henry Arden. History of the Warwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Warwick: W. H. Smith & Son, 1912. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 36 signed by the author, 4to, original cloth, binding sunned and mottled, splitting to joints;Bickley, W. B. Pedigree of the Bolding Family of Warwickshire. Birmingham: for private circulation, 1898. 8vo, original red crushed morocco gilt over bevelled boards, folding letterpress pedigree, appendix loose in end-pocket;Hervey, Sydney Henry Augustus. Ladbroke and its Owners. Bury St Edmunds: Paul & Mathew, 1914. First edition, 4to, original red cloth;Morris, Henry. Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church and Hall. London: Art and Book Company, 1897. First edition, 4to, original cloth, sunned;Badger, E. W. The Monumental Brasses of Warwickshire. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1895. First edition, out-of-series copy from the edition of 100, 8vo, original quarter japon;Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge. The Story of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (formerly the Sixth Foot), London: "County Life," Ltd., [1923]. First edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original japon gilt;Bloom, J. Harvey. A History of Preston-upon-Stour. Hemsworth: C. E. Turner, 1896. First edition, one of 25 copies, 8vo, later cloth, edges untrimmed;Hart, Charles J. The History of the 1st Volunteer Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and its Predecessors. Birmingham: Midland Counties Herald Limited, 1906. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, front free endpaper excised;Rimmer, Alfred. Rambles round Rugby. London: Percival & Co., 1892. First edition, one of 750 copies, 4to, original cloth;Cooper, William. The Records of Beaudesert, Henley-in-Arden, Co. Warwick. Leeds: John Whitehead & Co Ltd, 1931. First edition, 4to, original cloth, inscribed by the author on slip mounted to front free endpaper, occasional marginalia;Idem. Wootton Wawen, its History and Records. Leeds: John Whitehead & Son Ltd., 1936. First edition, 4to, original cloth;Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche. Rugby. The School and Neighbourhood. London: Whittaker & Co., 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Wellstood, Frederick C. Records of the Manor of Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. Transcribed and edited from the Original Manuscripts for William John Fieldhouse. Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1919. First edition, one of 105 copies, 4to, original quarter cloth, wear to spine, presentation plate inscribed to Sir Sidney Lee (1859-1926), editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, bequeathed by him to Queen Mary College, University of London and subsequently withdrawn, with related labels and stamps, wear to spine;Hudson, Robert. Memorials of a Warwickshire Parish. Being Papers mainly descriptive of the Records and Registers of the Parish of Lapworth. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. First edition, one of 250 copies, 8vo, original quarter cloth, label and withdrawal stamp of Yorkshire Archaeological Society to front pastedown;Miller, George. Rambles round Edge Hills and in the Vale of the Red Horse. Banbury: William Potts, 1896, First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Hannett, John. The Forest of Arden, its Towns, Villages, and Hamlets. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1863. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt;Bill, C. A. The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (2nd Birmingham Battalion) in the Great War. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers Ltd, 1932. First edition, 8vo, original cloth;Armstrong, Charles M. C. A Short Guide to Sherbourne and the Parish Church of All Saints. [No place:] privately printed, 1948. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by the author;and 10 others similar, most works with plates, the lot not fully collated and sold as seen
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Gunnery Specifications of Patents of Invention relating to Fire-Arms, Projectiles, etc. [volumes 1-4:] enrolled under the Act 21 James I. From 15th May 1718 to 10th September 1852 [volume 5:] filed under the Act 15 & 16 Vict. c.183. From 1st October 1852 to 31st December 1853. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1854. 5 volumes, folio (28.5 x 17.5cm), contemporary half morocco, spines lettered in gilt, marbled sides, edges untrimmed, each volume containing approximately 80 patents, separately paginated, each with royal arms to head and publisher's imprint at end, profusely illustrated with lithographic plates (most of them folding), title-page to each volume (except volume 4), volumes 1 and 5 with index at front, bindings rubbed, blind stamps (American Institute Library) to title-pages and endpapers, a few closed handling tears to folding plates Note: Note: No other set traced in auction; the Royal Armouries appear to hold three sets (Leeds, Fort Nelson and the Tower of London), their records suggesting that a further two volumes were published.Provenance: Stephen V. Grancsay (1897-1980), curator of arms and armour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (bookplates); Henk Visser (1923-2006), Dutch resistance fighter, businessman and noted collector of arms and amour (bookplates).
Arms and Armour Catalogues and reference works Clarke, C. Purdon. Arms and Armour at Sandringham. London: W. Griggs & Sons, Ltd., 1910. Folio; [and] Griggs, W. Catalogue of the Collection of Indian Arms and Objects of Art presented by the princes and Nobles of India to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales...on the occasion of his visit to India in 1875-1876. Now in the Indian Room at Marlborough House. Folio; volumes in original uniform black quarter morocco with decorative paper covers, bookplates of Michael Moad, some splitting to joints;Egerton, Wilbraham. An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms. London: William C. Allen & Co., 1880. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Brett, Edwin J. Catalogue of the Important Collection of Armour and Arms, many of which have been exhibited at the Tudor, Armada & Vietnam exhibitions... London; Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods, Monday March 18th -26th, 1895. 8vo, marked up by Alfred Nielson and inscribed to his friend in August 1895, with two additional bookplates, original paper-covered boards, joints split;Ffoulkes, Charles. The Armourer and his Craft. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1912. 4to, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket, a neat, later, gift inscription;Idem. European Arms and Armour in the University of Oxford. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1912. Original blue cloth gilt;Idem. Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London. London: HMSO, [1916]. 2 volumes, original blue cloth gilt;Idem. The Gun-Founders of England... Cambridge: University Press, 1937. Original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;Whitelaw, Charles E. European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries... London: Philip Lee Warner, [1923?] Folio, original cloth;Trapp, Oswald, Graf. The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929. Out-of-Series edition of 400, original red cloth gilt, torn dust jacket;Wilkinson, Henry. Engines of War... London: Longman, Orme, Brown, and Longmans, 1841. 8vo, original cloth gilt, library stamp; and a proof? copy, 1841, inscribed by Wilkinson to his daughter, withdrawn stamp of the Royal Armouries Library;Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph. The Crossbow. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903. 4to, original black cloth gilt, inscribed with the author's compliments;Thordeman, Bengt. Armour from the Battle of Wisby, 1361. Uppsala, 1939. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth;Stone, George Cameron. A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor. Portland: The Southworth Press, 1934. 4to, original cloth gilt;Von Kienbusch, Carl Otto. The Kretzschmar Von Kienbusch Collection of Armor and Arms. Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1963. 4to, original green cloth gilt, slipcase, bookplate of Michael Moad with signed typed letter to him from the author tipped-in;Hoff, Arne - HD Schepelern and Gudmund Bosen. Royal Arms at Rosenborg. Copenhagen, 1956. 2 volumes, 4to, original wrappers, blue dust-jackets and slipcase;North, C.N. McIntyre. The Book of the Club of the True Highlanders / Leabhar Comunn nam Fion Ghael. London: Richard Smythson, [1881]. 2 volumes, folio, 70 plates, North's signature in purple pencil to the introduction to the reader original cloth gilt in Graham and Farquharson tartans, bindings worn with some cloth torn, pages loose;and 9 others: Pollard. A History of Firearms; Clephan. The Defensive Armour and Weapons and Engines of War of Mediaeval Times, and of the "Renaissance"; Clark. Mediaeval Military Architecture in England. 2 volumes; Ffoulkes. Arms and the Tower; Penrose. Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Firearms in the Museum of Applied Science of Victoria; Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, parts 1-3 in two volumes; The Gun Trade Handbook...1906; Illustrated Catalogue of the Historical and World-Renowned Collection of Torture Instruments etc. from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg; De Lacy Lacy. The History of the Spur
Hexham, Henry The ... Principles of the Art Military ... The Second Edition newly corrected and amended. [In 4 parts, comprising:]i) The First Part of the Principles of the Art Military, practised in the Warres of the United Netherlands, under the Commaund of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange our Captaine Generall. For so much as concerned the Duties of a Souldier, and the Officers of a Companie of Foote, as also of a troupe of Horse, and the exercising of them through their severall Motions. Delft: for the lovers of the noble art military, 1642. Engraved volvelles at ²F1r. (partly pasted down as in ESTC), K1v. (slightly rumpled at inner corner), and K2r. (detached but present), engravings throughout the text (many full-page), early ownership inscription of one Henry Osborn to title-page, leaf A1 repaired, quire ²A⁶ ('Briefe Instructions of the Duties of a Horseman') bound at end of part 2[Cockle 136; ESTC R11968, 11 copies world-wide];ii) The Second Part of the Principles of the Art Military ... Consisting of the Severall Formes of Battels, Represented by the Illustrious Maurice Prince of Orange ... and His Highnesse Frederick Henry Prince of Orange ... Together with the Order and Forme of Quartering, Encamping, and Approching, in a Warre Offensive and Defensive.Delft: [no printer], 1642.20 engraved plates (all but 2 double-page, several by Hondius), very small worm-track to foot of quires I-N, associated pinhole-sized tracks to foot of a few plates[Cockle 163, with Antony of Heusden imprint; ESTC R234005, 1 one copy only, at Christ Church Oxford, and 9 copies for the Antony of Heusden imprint];iii) The Third Part of the Principles of the Art Military .... Treating of severall Peeces of Ordnance, Carriages, Engines, Quadrants, Morters, Petards, as also Instructions for Master-Gunners, and Canoniers, with Divers Instruments and Materials belonging to a Warre with their severall Uses and Practices.Rotterdam: James Moxon, 1643.3 engraved plates lettered A-C (A double-page, closely trimmed along top edge), engravings in text, I2 and M2 cancelled as usual[Cockle 164; ESTC R26057, 8 copies];iv) An Appendix of the Lawes, Articles, and Ordinances, established for Marshall Discipline, in the Service of the Lords the States Generall of the United Provinces, under the Commaund of his Highnesse the Prince of Orange. Together with the Articles of Quarter for the Ransoming of Officiers and Souldiers ... Translated out of Dutch into English.The Hague: Isaac Burchoorn, 1643.C1-2 transposed and misbound between B1 and B2[Cockle 137; ESTC R231620, 7 copies].4 parts in 1 volume, folio (35 x 21.5cm), contemporary sprinkled calf ruled in blind, rebacked, collations as in ESTCNote: Note: Second edition of an acknowledged 'tour de force of English military literature and a veritable catalogue of the Dutch contributions to the transformation of warfare in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries' (David Lawrence, The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 2009, p. 104). Henry Hexham was an English soldier who served in the Netherlands during the climactic decades of the Eighty Years' War, acting as quartermaster to Sir Horace Vere's regiment at the relief of Breda in 1625, the siege of Bois-le-Duc ('s-Hertogenbosch) in 1629, and at the capture of Venloo, Roermond and Strale and the siege of Maastricht in 1631-2. 'After Vere's death he became quartermaster to the regiment of George (afterwards Baron) Goring, with whom he served at the siege of Breda in 1637' (ODNB). The first three parts of the work were respectively published in 1637-38-40, and the appendix also in 1637.
Field sports Collection of works, 18th and 19th century Page, Thomas. The Art of Shooting Flying: familiarly explain'd by way of Dialogue. Containing Directions for the Choice of Guns for Various Occasions [...]. Norwich: printed by J. Crouse, and sold by the author, 1766. First edition, 8vo, modern quarter calf, spotting, B4 repaired [Chute 493; ESTC T201535; Schwerdt II p. 58];Hawker, Peter. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that relates to Guns and Shooting. London: Longman [et al.], 1824. Third edition ('considerably enlarged and improved'), tall 8vo, modern full morocco, top edge gilt, half-title, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 5 engraved plates (one hand-coloured), [Schwerdt I p. 235: the 'most complete edition'];Daniel, William Barker. Rural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, 1812. 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tan calf decorated in gilt and blind, engraved title-page to each volume, 68 engraved plates (several folding), title-pages spotted, bookplates, front board of volume 2 detached;[Clement, Lewis]. Shooting and Fishing Trips in England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and Bavaria. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half morocco by J. Larkins, thematic motifs gilt to spines, spines faded, spotting to blanks and half-titles;[Sportsman's Dictionary]. The Sportsman's Dictionary: or, the Country Gentleman's Companion, in all Rural Recreations: with full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. London: J. Osborn, 1744. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, 25 engraved plates (of 26: lacking frontispiece), unnumbered plate facing quire Z torn, plates 9 and 22 repaired [ESTC N23268];Thornhill, R. B. The Shooting Directory. London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1804. First edition, first issue (retaining 2E4-2F2, i.e. pp. 215-220), 4to, contemporary half calf rebacked, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1 engraved plate (of 2), 3 folding tables, half-title discarded, text spotted and browned, closed tear in 2Z2 [Schwerdt II pp. 258-9];and 2 othersNote: Note: The Art of Shooting Flying by Norwich watch and gun maker Thomas Page is 'the first book in prose solely on shooting ... Very rare' (Chute); ESTC cites three copies only in libraries world-wide: Oxford, Library of Congress, and Yale.
Olivier, Jean Fencing Familiarized or a New Treatise on the Art of the Small Sword. London: John Bell, 1780. Second edition, 8vo (20.6 x 11.5cm), 20th-century half morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, all edges gilt, engraved frontispiece and 13 folding plates, 2 sets of engraved arms in the text, title-pages and text in English and French, bookplate of Raymond Riling (1896-1974), author of Guns and Shooting: A Select Chronological Bibliography, plates toned and offset, plates 2-4 and 13 without numbers (possibly cropped by binder), plate 3 with split and faint adhesive residue at foot of fold [ESTC T135608, 3 copies in UK libraries; Pardoel 450; Thimm p. 128];Hutton, Alfred. Fixed Bayonets: a Complete System of Fence for the British Magazine Rifle. London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1890. First edition, large 8vo, original maroon pictorial cloth, frontispiece and 23 plates, loss to spine-ends, ink-stamps of the Admiralty library to prelims;Betts, J. The Sword and How to Use it. London: Gale & Polden, Limited, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original red boards printed in black, 12 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece, printer's slip tipped to title-page, ink-stamp of the War Office General Staff library dated 1908 to front board and title, shelfmark label taped to foot of spine;Castle, Egerton. Schools and Masters of Fence from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century. London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. First edition, 4to, original cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, etched frontispiece, 6 collotype plates (one chipped in margin), bookplate of the Royal Artillery Institution, related ink-stamp to half-title and title-page;Steinmetz, Andrew. The Romance of Duelling in all Times and Countries. London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, rebacked with original spines laid down, bookplates;and 10 others on fencing and swordsmanshipNote: Note: Olivier's work was first published in 1771; this second edition has new plates.
Arms and armour Group of private and institutional collection catalogues Dean, Bashford. The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1843-1909. [New York:] printed privately, 1914. First edition, one of 300 copies, 4to, original vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, etched portrait frontispiece, 53 photographic plates (mounted, numbered 1-51, including 9a and 19a), covers slightly dust-soiled and sprung, a little wear to tips, bookplate (Michael Moad) and ownership inscription;Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of European Daggers including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, 85 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;Idem. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Court Swords and Hunting Swords including the Ellis, de Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections. New York: [printed in Paris for the Metropolitan Museum of Art], 1929. First edition, one of 900 copies, 4to, later tan half sheep, tinted photographic frontispiece, 101 photographic plates, most with laid-in tissue guards;Brett, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Amour. To which are appended 133 Plates specially drawn from the Author's Collection at Oaklands, St Peter's, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Company (Limited), 1894. First edition, large 4to, contemporary red crushed full morocco gilt for Henry Arthur Johnstone, his monogram within armorial lozenge gilt to front board, tan pigskin doublures, incorporating Johstone's naval ex-libris device dated 1899 in blind, 133 plates, bookplates;Laking, Guy Francis. The Armour of Windsor Castle. European Section. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Company, 1904. First edition, 4to, original quarter pigskin, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 40 mounted photographic plates with tissue-guards, binding slightly rubbed and marked;Gibb, William. Naval and Military Trophies and Personal Relics of British Heroes. A Series of Water Colour Drawings. The Descriptive Notes by Richard R. Holmes. London: John C. Nimmo, 1896. First edition, large 4to, original red pictorial cloth gilt, all edges gilt, 36 chromolithographic plates;Drummond, James. Ancient Scottish Weapons. With Introduction and Descriptive Notes by Joseph Anderson. Edinburgh: George Waterston & Sons, 1881. First edition, one of 500 copies, large, original quarter morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, 50 chromolithographic plates (of 54: lacking plates 15-18), endpapers renewed, blind stamps of the Royal United Services Institution to heads of plates
A large 19th Century bone china vase of baluster form with dolphin handle and central hand painted panel on a cobalt blue ground with gilt highlighting and associated lid, a smaller lidded similar with winged maiden handles and an Art Nouveau example with decorative painted panels and grotesque dragon handles - various condition
Electrical controllers and switch units for 0 Gauge and other Trains, including two RailKing 'Z' controllers, 240v/120v desktop voltage converter, 20v 3A output transformer by Colworth Electronics, two H&M 'Powapack' units, one with variable wave control, Smoothflow 12v transformer and other items, most appear G, sold as works of art (qty)
A Lionel 0 Gauge (027) 3-rail electric Train Set (qty), comprising 2-6-2 locomotive No. 1666 with 2466WX whistling tender, both F-G, valve link missing from RHS of loco, with silver 'Sunoco' tank wagon (decals missing), side-tipping stake car with operating rail (stakes on fixed side missing) and Pennsylvania RR gondola in black with converter coupling, box car in orange and caboose in red, two electric points, various curved and straight track sections, 'multi-control' transformer unit and point switches, mostly F-G, controller sold as 'work of art' (qty)
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