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Lot 77
A small early 20thC oval giltwood frame, with ribbon top, set with an image of a lady quarter profile, the frame 29cm x 22cm, further prints, pictures, mixed media, seascape, twilight evening, initialled, various other pictures, single frame triptych, Aboriginal inspired art kangaroo, etc. (a quantity)
Lot 285
MOORCROFT ART POTTERY TUBE LINED POMEGRANATE VASE of baluster form with an applied pewter collar and flared lip on a dark blue ground. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Very grubby, especially to the interior, crazing in places and minor wear commensurate with age but no obvious cracks, chips or restoration.
Lot 154
RAY HOWARD JONES (Rosemary Howard-Jones) (British 1903-1996, painted particularly along the coastline of Wales, educated Slade School of Fine Art), 'Three Cliffs, The Gower', signed and dated 1956, with label and inscription verso, oils on board, 41 x 56cm approx. (B.P. 21% + VAT) Appearing in good original condition. Bearing original label verso. No obvious damage.
Lot 548
* Bristol. Anstie (Samuel, attrib.), Bristol, 1817, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, proof before letters but after title, margins strengthened with tape, slight mount staining, 465 x 640 mmQty: (1)NOTESRare. No auction records found apart from an example sold in these rooms in April 2019. The City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery has an example of this print. The British Library has three similar aquatints after Anstie by Clark and Duberg but not this view of the city.
Lot 269
Esterly (David). Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving, 1st edition, V & A Publications, 1998, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers very lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with; MacLeod (Catharine), The Lost Prince, The Life & Death of Henry Stuart, 1st edition, National Portrait Gallery, 2013, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Martineau (Jane), Shakespeare In Art, 1st edition, Merrell, 2003, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus Lincoln (Margarette, editor), Nelson & Napoleon, 1st edition, National Maritime Museum, 2005, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other Renaissance, Baroque & 18th century British art reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks in original wrappers VG, 8vo/4toQty: (48)
Lot 321
New In Chess. Mikhail Chigorin, The Creative Chess Genius, enlarged edition, 2016, Gyula Breyer, The Chess Revolutionary, 1st edition, 2017, both by Jimmy Adams, original boards, An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4, by Viktor Moskalenko, 1st edition, 2019, The Art of the Tarrasch Defence, by Alexey Bezgodov, 1st edition, 2017, The Shereshevsky Method to Improve in Chess, by Mikhail Shereshevsky, 1st edition, 2018, together with 109 further volumes of New in Chess publications, mostly paperbacks in original wrappers, 8voQty: (114)
Lot 351
Cecil (Hugh & Mirabell). In Search of Rex Whistler, Francis Lincoln, 2012, numerous colour illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, 4to, together with; Antique Collectors' Club, The Dictionary of Picture Postcards in Britain 1894-1939, by A. W. Coysh, 1984, Maucline Ware, a collector's guide, by David Trachtenburg & Thomas Keith, 2002, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, by Edward Joy, 1977, A Dictionary of Britsh Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914, by Simon Houfe, 1978, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, spines lightly faded, large 4to, and 9 further volumes of Antique Collectors' Club publications, plus other art, decor & antique reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves & a carton)
Lot 280
The Khalili Collection. Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan II: Letters and Buddhist Texts, by Nicholas Sims-Williams, Arabic Documents from early Islamic Khurasan, by Geoffrey Khan [Studies in the Khalili Collection volumes 3 & 5], 1st edition, Nour Foundation, 2007, numerous black & white illustrations, publishers original blue cloth, spines lightly faded, large 8vo, together with; Robinson (B. W. et al), The Windsor Shahnama of 1648, Azimuth Editions, 2007, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original blue cloth spine to boards, large 8vo, and Topsfield (Andrew), Visions of Mughal India, The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Ashmolean, Oxford, 2012, numerous colour illustrations, publishers original wrappers, spine very lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, plus Carboni (Stefano), Glass From Islamic Lands, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 2001, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and other modern Islamic & Far East art reference & related, some original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks in original wrappers, 8vo/4toQty: (23)
![Conant (Kenneth John). Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200 [Pelican History of Art], 1st edition, Penguin, 1969,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/097ee6b6-2081-432a-b7f6-ac6000a6c3d8/e322baa7-d427-4d3e-8fb1-ac600117b896/468x382.jpg)
Lot 363
Conant (Kenneth John). Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200 [Pelican History of Art], 1st edition, Penguin, 1969, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in price clipped dust jacket in slipcase, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with other classical literature & art reference & related, including publications by Oxford, Yale, Pelican, Phaidon, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some paperbacks, condition is fair/good, 8voQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 124
* Albert (Prince, 1819-1861). Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, husband of Queen Victoria. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Albert', Buckingham Palace, 19 January 1847, to Lord Clarendon (as president of the Board of Trade), drawing his attention to 'L. Gruner's School Book of Patterns, which has been laid or will be laid before you by the Council of the School of Design. I consider its adoption by the Government as a measure of great utility' and concluding that it needs Clarendon's recommendation before the Treasury can sanction it, light browning to lower margin and light stain to upper margin, neither affecting signature and only touching a couple of words of text, 2 pages with blank integral leaf, 8voQty: (1)NOTESLudwig Gruner (1801-1882) was appointed as 'Advisor in Art' to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, and her consort, Prince Albert. Prince Albert promoted the School of Design, probably with the support of Gruner, who was charged with the production of a new 'Drawing-book for the School of Design'. This was intended as a continuation of the one begun by William Dyce and published in 1848.
Lot 161
* Lowther (Hugh Cecil, 1857-1944, 5th Earl of Lonsdale), English nobleman and sportsman. Two Typed Letters Signed, 'Lonsdale', 14 Carlton House Terrace, Pall Mall, London, 26 January 1914 & Lowther, Penrith, 21 September 1917, both to the editors of 'Tit Bits', the first in response to being asked his views on whether girls should learn to box, saying that his views would probably be of little interest to anyone but that 'I should do all that I could to discourage any feminine relations of mine from learning the "noble art", for I am one of those who think that a woman should have all the refinements of feeling and feminine charm; and a feeling that she is full of all sensitive feelings that a woman should have is to me the greatest charm in a woman's character. And I am always under the impression that the woman who appeals most to a man is one who may be full of courage and determination but who in everything she undertakes and in all her actions is essentially feminine. I do not think that Boxing is in the least feminine, and, therefore, it goes without saying that anything that is calculated to make a woman masculine must be to the detriment of a woman herself, and somehow there is, to my mind, something repulsive about seeing, or even thinking of, a woman boxing', with a few further comments and also adding that Foils is, on the other hand, a good sport for some women, a few pencil marks and corrections, a little spotting and soiling, 2 pages on 2 leaves, 4to, the second letter in response to whether ladies should play football, to which he replies, 'I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that I think that one game ladies ought not to play is certainly Foot-ball. It is not a game for women. There is nothing so splendid as a well set-up, active Englishwoman, and there are many games in which she can compete with man, and almost on equal terms, but Foot-ball is certainly not one of those which is conducive to either the interest of the woman or to civilisation. Foot-ball is essentially a masculine game... it would be an impossibility to recognise Foot-ball matches woman against men, which is an impossibility, as must be known to all Foot-ball players as well as it is known to myself', a little spotting and marginal browning, one page, 4toQty: (2)NOTESLord Lonsdale was an avid sportsman and a founding member of the National Sporting Club. He donated the original Lonsdale Belts for boxing and, as a keen football fan, was chairman of Arsenal Football Club for a brief period in 1936.
Lot 192
* Typographic Archive. Typographic archive of the designer David Collins (RCA, RSA), 1950s-70s, includes examples of commercial advertising artwork for ARK magazine (Royal College of Art circa 1950s), Cyrpus Airways, British European Airways (B.E.A.), furniture designs, information summaries with photographs, design layouts etc.Qty: (a carton)
Lot 372
Hockney (David). Secret Knowledge, Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 2001, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, large 4to, together with; Pope-Hennessy (John), Paradiso, The Illuminations to Dante's Divine Comedy by Giovanni Di Paolo, 1st edition, Thames & Hudson, 1993, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, minor tear to head of the spine, large 4to, and Kren (Thomas & Scot McKendrick), The Renaissance, the Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, Royal Academy of Arts, 2003, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original wrappers, large 8vo, plus other art reference & related, some foreign language, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 282
Auction Catalogues. The Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Collection, Sotheby's, 2007, includes Errata insert, original wrappers, The Wildenstein Collection, Magnificent French Furniture, Objets D'Art and Tapestries, 2 volumes, Christie's, 2005, original wrappers in levered book box, The Champalimaud Collection, 2 volumes, Christie's, 2005, original wrappers in levered book box, The Duke & Duchess of Windsor, 3 volumes, Sotheby's, 1997, original wrappers in slipcase, Ariane Dandois, 2 volumes, Sotheby's 2007, original wrappers in slipcase, together with approximately 100 art & antique auction catalogues, some original cloth in dust jackets, mostly in original wrappers, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (5 cartons)
Lot 60
Carr (Sir John). Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807, 1st edition, London: for Mathews and Leigh, 1809, 12 aquatint plates including folding frontispiece, all with later hand-colouring, blind stamp of Maidstone Museum and Public Libraries to title-page, spotting and offsetting to text-leaves adjacent to plates, final page (p. 542, with advertisement) overlaid with translucent paper, contemporary green morocco gilt, rebacked to style, 4to (26.4 x 19.5 cm), together with: Reid (John T.). Art Rambles in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, 1st edition, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878, 40 wood-engraved plates and numerous vignettes by Dalziel Brothers, inscribed 'Mrs Dodd, with kind regards from Dalziel Brothers, Christmas 1877' on initial blank, bookplate of Charles Robert Bignold (1892-1970), gilt edges, near-contemporary dark green crushed morocco gilt by Ramage, 4to (24.2 x 17.2 cm), Graham (Robert C.). The Carved Stones of Islay, 1st edition, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1895, half-title, etched additional title, map, 32 plates with captioned tissue-guards (nearly all photogravures), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original quarter cloth, a little pale mottling to sides, 4to, [Mudie, Robert]. A Historical Account of His Majesty's Visit to Scotland, 4th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1822, 4 engraved folding plates backed on linen, one other folding plate, plates variably toned and spotted, first plate unevenly folded, gilt gauffered edges, contemporary maroon morocco gilt, arms of the city of Edinburgh to sides, 8vo (21.4 x 12.5 cm), and 7 similar, Scottish history and related, 19th and early-20th century, all finely bound, including Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Cloud, Songs of the Hebrides, volumes 1-2, 1909-17 (half-title, 3 halftone plates, collation unknown, contemporary dark blue morocco gilt for Maclehose, 4to)Qty: (12)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY PART III: SCOTLAND, HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS Abbey Scenery 488 (Carr).
Lot 342
Piotrovsky (Mikhail). The State Hermitage..., 2 volumes, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2014, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, spines lightly faded, large 4to, together with Politi (Giancarlo [editor]), Toshihiro Hamano, Acadamia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, 1998, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jacket & slipcase, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, and Spies (Werner), Max Ernst Collagen, DuMont Buchverlag, Köln, 1988, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 4to, plus other art reference & related, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Lot 525
* Rowing. Robinson (Charles), The Dead Heat. University Boat Race, Saturday, March 24th, 1877, The National Events Art Illustration Society & Thomas Fox, printed by Maclure & MacDonald, uncoloured lithograph after Charles Robinson, the names of the two crews listed alongside the title, slight dust soiling, 425 x 645 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)
Lot 214
Elton (Richard). The Compleat Body of the Art Military ... Divided into Three Books. The First, containing the Postures of the Pike and Musket ... The Second, comprehending twelve Exercises ... The Third, setting forth the drawing up and exercising of Regiments after the manner of Private Companies ... Illustrated with Varitiet of Fugres of Battail, very Profitable and Delightfull for all Noble and Heroick Spirits, in a fuller manner then hath been heretofore published, London: Robert Leybourn, 1650, signatures pi2 §4 +6 A-2B4 2D2, pp. [24] 192 [4], initial licence leaf (pi1), engraved portrait frontispiece by John Droeshout, 5 plates (including double-page woodcut diagram, double-page typographic plate, and 3 folding typographic plates with woodcut embellishments, of which one made up of 3 sheets and opening to 70 cm), woodcut headpieces and initials, typographic and woodcut diagrams throughout the text, moderate browning, damp-stain to foot of licence leaf and frontispiece and to lower outer corner of title-page and subsequent text-leaf, title-page also with small red pencil-mark, E2-3 more heavily browned, faint shallow tide-mark to head of gutter in second half of volume, side-note on p. 141 shaved, U4 trimmed closely to diagram recto (p. 151), Y1 with section reattached (text disrupted but remaining legible), old ink-stain to p. 165, a few other marks, top edge gilt, early-20th-century red-brown half calf for Hatchards, slightly rubbed and marked, front joint cracking at head and foot, folio in 4s (27.2 x 17 cm), together with 1 similar work (Sir James Turner, Pallas Armata: Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War, 1st edition, 1683, damp-staining, without advertisement leaf, last 2 leaves and binding defective)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance (Elton): Cavalry Club (bookplate; ink-stamp to front free endpaper). Elton: ESTC R24314; Wing E653. First edition, rare: ESTC traces four copies in UK libraries, and eight copies in the USA. The initial licence leaf is also catalogued separately by ESTC under the number R227338 (one copy traced). Elton's work superseded William Barriffe's Militarie Discipline (1635) as the most popular military training manual in English, and it was an important reference work for English colonists in North America (see Hope, A Scientific Way of War: Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought, chapter 1).
Lot 273
Lightbown (Ronald). Mantegna, with a complete catalogue of the paintings, drawings and prints, 1st edition, Phaidon, Oxford, 1986, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, some minor toning, original cloth in dust jacket, spine slightly faded, large 8vo, together with; Bilbey(Diane & Marjorie Trusted), British Sculpture 1470 to 2000, a concise catalogue of the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1st edition, V&A publications, 2002, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers & spine slightly faded, large 8vo, and Lees-Milne (James), English Country Houses, Baroque 1685-1715,1st edition, Antique Collectors' Club, 1970, numerous black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers & spine slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plus other European, Italian & Renaissance art reference, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, 8vo/4toQty: (34)
Lot 267
Dodgson (Campbell). A Catalogue of Etchings by Augustus John 1901-1914, Charles Chenil and Co., Ltd., 1920, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning & spotting throughout, front gutters cracked, loose errata to the rear, publishers original quarter white cloth, boards & spine slightly marked & rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, large 4to, limited edition 134/325, includes Catalogue of OneHundred and Twenty-Five Etchings by Augustus E. John, The Chenil Gallery, 1919, black & white portrait frontispiece, some light spotting, publishers original wrappers, covers slightly spotted & rubbed, 8vo, together with; Carter (Charles [editor]), Etching and Dry Points from 1924 by James McBey (1883-1959), Aberdeen Art Gallery, 1962, numerous black & white illustrations, some minor toning, publishers original green cloth, spine lightly faded, large 8vo, and Kennedy (Edward G.), The Etched Work of Whistler, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1978, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, plus 4 further volumes of etching & engraving reference, including Charles Meryon, catalogue raisonné of the etchings, by Loys Delteil & Harold J. L. Wright, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1989, Catalogue of the Etchings of Joseph Pennell, by Louis A. Wuerth, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1988, 8vo/4toQty: (7)
Lot 374
De Boodt (Anselm). Symbola Varia Diversorum Principum, cum facili isagoge D. Ansemi de Boodt Brugensis, tomus tertius, Prague, 1603, engraved allegorical title, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of Marino Grimano, and 48 engraved emblematic plates, by Aegidius Sadeler, title with slight loss of paper to upper blank margin, some waterstaining and rodent damage to upper inner margins towards rear of volume, occasionally touching a few words (generally not encroaching on plate marks), contemporary limp vellum, soiled and some wear with loss to head of spine, folio, together with: Gargiulo (Raffaele). Raccolta de Monumenti piu interessanti del Rl. Museo Borbonico e di varie collezioni private, Naples, 1825, numerous line engraved plates of antiquities, occasional light spotting (heavier to front blank and title), bookplate of Thomas Worsley D.D., Master of Downing, to front pastedown, 19th century half vellum, some light soiling, 4to, plus Pennazzi (Andrea). Vita del Glorioso S. Eustizio Sacerdote, e Martire Il di cui Santo Corpo riposa nel Territorio di Soriano,..., Montefiascone, 1721, black & white engraved frontispiece by Louis Gormier, later inscription to the title page, folding plates to pp. 92 & 166, ex-library copy with associated bookplates & stamps to front endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated mottled full calf, front board & spine partially detached, boards & spine rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, and Cennini (Cennino), Treatise On Painting written by Cennino Cennini in the year 1437;..., Edward Lumley, 1844, ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown 'From the Library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith', loose binding, front gutters cracked, spine partially detached, all edges gilt, publishers original gilt decorated white cloth, boards & spine toned & rubbed with some minor tears & loss, 8vo, and Lalanne (Maxime), Traité de La Gravure, Cadart et Luquet, Paris, 1866, 8 black & white plates etched by the author, some light spotting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other 19th & 20th century miscellaneous art reference and literature, including The Royal Natural History, 6 volumes, edited by Richard Lydekker, Frederick Warne & Co., 1893-94, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves)
Lot 346
Brown (Christopher & Hans Vlieghe), Van Dyck 1599-1641, Royal Academy Publicaions, 1999, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, together with; Spicer (Joaneath A. & Lynn Federle Orr), Masters of Light, Dutch painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, Yale University Press, 1998, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly marked, spine slightly faded, large 4to, and Campbell (Mungo & Nathan Flis), William Hunter and the anatomy of the modern museum, Yale University Press, 2018, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other 19th century art reference & related, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (5 shelves)
![[Canada; Inuit people]. Drawings by Enooesweetok of the Sikosilingmint Tribe of Eskimo, Fox Land, Baffin Island [cover-title]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/097ee6b6-2081-432a-b7f6-ac6000a6c3d8/d221d7dc-170f-4379-bebe-ac600116c743/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3
[Canada; Inuit people]. Drawings by Enooesweetok of the Sikosilingmint Tribe of Eskimo, Fox Land, Baffin Island [cover-title], 1st edition, Toronto: Robert J. Flaherty, 1915, one text leaf ('These drawings were made at Amadjuak Bay, Fox Land, the Winter Quarters of Sir William Mackenzie's Expedition to Baffin Land and Hudson's Bay, 1913-14'; imprint below), 21 photogravure plates from original drawings by Inuit artist Enooesweetok (Nungusuituq), all with tissue-guards (tissue-guard for plate 7 askew), string-bound through 3 grommets in original black roan covers with title gilt to front, rubbed, loss to spine, string frayed, oblong 8vo (16 x 23 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESSee Zawadski & Poortenaar, 'Indelible Ink: The Enduring Images of Nungusuituq', Inuit Art Quarterly, 15 September 2019. In 1910 Robert J. Flaherty was engaged by Sir William Mackenzie, president of the Canadian Northern Railway, to undertake a survey of the east coast of Hudson Bay. Nungusuituq (1890-1950) served as Flaherty's guide; the expedition's best remembered contribution to posterity is Flaherty's film Nanook of the North (1922). Very rare. Four institutional copies are known: WorldCat cites copies in the British Library and Yale; Zawasdki & Poortenaar's article mentions two others, in the Government of Nunavut Fine Art Collection (currently on loan to the Winnipeg Art Gallery) and the Royal Ontario Museum. A facsimile edition was published in 2001.
Lot 528
* Sporting etchings. Slocombe (Frederick), Salmon fishing, The Fine Art Society, March 1st, 1889, uncoloured etching on vellum, remarque to the lower right of a creel, gaff and brown trout, signed by the artist in pencil to lower left, slight marginal dust soiling, 415 x 595 mm, together with Whymper (Charles). Duck shooting, The Fine Art Society, Feby. 1st. 1886, uncoloured etching on faux-vellum, remarque to the lower right of a duck feather, signed by the artist in pencil to lower left, some marginal dust soiling and slight staining but not affecting image, 400 x 570 mm, mounted, with Kirk (Alex H.). The Angler, circa 1948, etching on wove, signed in pencil by the artist to the lower left, slight mount staining, 355 x 255 mm, plus Wilkinson (Henry). Trout Fishing, circa 1980, dry-point etching, printed in colours and finished by hand, limited edition 11/75, signed in pencil by the artist to lower left, 230 x 330 mm, and Birket Foster (Miles). Mother and Children in a Country Lane, The Fine Art Society, Feby. 2nd, 1891, uncoloured etching on faux-vellum, Print Sellers Association blind stamp to lower left and signed in pencil by the artist below image to lower left, slight marginal dust soiling, 565 x 400 mm, with another 6 etchings of portraits, sporting and genre subjects, various sizes and conditionQty: (11)
Lot 335
Hale (Matthew). Historia Placitorum Coronæ. The History of the Pleas of the Crown ... now first published from his Lordship's Original Manuscript, and the several References to the Records examined by the Originals, with large notes, by Sollom Emlyn ... To which is added a table of the principal matters, 2 volumes, In the Savoy [London]: printed by E. & R. Nutt and R. Gosling, (Assigns of Edward Sayer) for F. Gyles, T. Woodward, & C. Davis, 1736, lacking portrait frontispiece, ownership signature to title, some browning, 20th century buckram, skiver title label to spines, covers dust-soiled, folio, together with a large collection of Freemasonry related reference including: Hamill (John & Gilbert, Robert), Freemasonry, A Celebration of the Craft, 1st edition, London: Greenwich Editions, 1998, colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, large 4to, Curl (James Stevens), The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry, an Introductory Study, 1st edition, London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1991, monochrome illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, Yates (Martin), Freemasonry in the Province of Somerset from 1733, 1st edition, Wedmore, Somerset: Provincial Grand Lodge of Somerset, 2010, colour and monochrome illustrations, gift inscription to front free endpaper, original pictorial boards in price-clipped dust-jacket, 4to, and other similar Freemasonry related referenceQty: (2 cartons)
Lot 279
Scharf (Aaron). Art and Photography, 1st edition, 1968, illustrated throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, a little chipped and soiled, small folio, together with: Gernsheim (Helmut), The Origins of Photography, 1st edition, 1982, illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, rubbed and slightly soiled, 4to, Lannoy (Richard), Benares seen from Within, 1st edition, Bath, 1999, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, original cloth in dust jacket, small folio, Cameron (Nigel & Goodrich, L. Carrington), The Face of China, as seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912, 1st edition, Aperture, 1978, sepia illustrations from photographs, original cloth in dust jacket, oblong folio, plus other photography history and reference including India interest and a few duplicatesQty: (approx. 55)
Lot 155
* Heath (Archie Edward, 1887-1961). An archive of manuscript and typescript lecture notes, letters, printed articles and pamphlets by Archie Edward Heath, Professor of Philosophy at University College, Swansea from 1925 to 1952, together with an oil portrait of Archie Heath by Jean Creedy, circa 1950, including lecture notes, typescript and manuscript, many with his corrections with titles including 'The Physiological Approach: Body and Mind', 'Moral Values: The Rationalist View', 'The Philosopher as Critic', 'The Demand for Construction in Philosophy', 'Disunity in the Self: Control through Knowledge', 'A Rationalist Talks About Values', 'The Relation Between Aesthetic Appreciation and Objective Reality', 'A Scientific Basis for Freedom', 'The Basis of Freedom: An Essay in Scientific Method', 'Philosophy as Poet and Prophet, Reflection in the field of values', plus printed pamphlets 'Thinking Ahead. The Place of Reflection in Civilization' and 'A Psychological Approach to the Problems of Sexual Hygiene. II. The Game of Life and the Art of Love', a manuscript letter from Albert Mansbridge (1876-1952, educator, and pioneer of adult education), some correspondence with Jasmine Chatterton, literary advisors regarding the publication of his book 'Psychology Questions Answered', 1946, correspondence with Kodak Research Laboratory regarding printing a history chart, 1955, a Trinity College, Cambridge menu to commemorate the unveiling of a statue of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 19 October 1909, signed in pencil by Heath and others, some overall toning and a few tears and folds, staple rust, all loosely contained in contemporary folder with manuscript label (some spotting), the framed oil portrait of A.E. Heath by Jean Creedy (1920-2014) measuring 38 x 27.5 cmQty: (archive)NOTESArchie Edward Heath (1887-1961) was Professor of Philosophy at University College, Swansea from 1925 to 1952, a friend of Bertrand Russell and contemporary of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who much influenced the 'Swansea School of Philosophy', which included Wittgenstein's pupil Rush Rhees, Dewi Phillips and others.
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Collingwood (Admiral Cuthbert, 1748-1810). Autograph letter signed, to His Excellency Lieutenant General Sir Hew Dalrymple, General Officer Commanding, Northern District, and Acting Governor of Gibraltar, on-board H.M.S. Ocean, dated April 25th 1807, handwritten autograph letter in brown ink, written on 4 sides of a single folded sheet, in which Collingwood provides Dalrymple with an update on the general political situation in the Mediterranean, with special reference to the administrations at Tripoli, Algiers, Tunis: 'some vessels which have spoken with - have said we are possessed of Alexandria - but examining dates, I do not think they could know it - though I hope there is no doubt of the fact. I received Mr Langford's letter, announcing the pacifick disposition of Tripoli - I believe Algiers will be disposed to peace also - but I doubt Tunis, and my reason is, there has been a constant bickering by Mr [Richard] Oglander the Consul - upon subjects not very important in themselves - and as far as I can judge of them the Bey had the best of the argument - it has been a practice to give a sort of passport to states with whom Tunis is at war - where those are detained by his Corsairs, he refers to his treaty - and finding the Passport not such as should give protection - and the persons captured, not such as should be protected, he keeps them as good prize...; Collingwood provides information on the status in general of consuls and vice consuls: 'Of the Vice Consuls I do not believe the Ministers take any cognizances - or trouble themselves about this appointment, they are persons who the Consul appoints to assist him - they have no salary from any person - but in Porte where there is a good trade they are brokers - and have fees from the ships & merchants, where there is no trade, as at Oran they make an income by their wits - as Mr. [Thomas] Foley does - ... Mr. Cartwright (the late Consul at Algiers) was recalled, amongst other reasons for condemnations - and exercising the powers of an Admirality Court - and I suppose Foley studied the Consular art under him - I have wrote to Mr. Blanckley to restrain this gentleman in his irregularities and I hope he will as far as he can - the Bey is too much afraid of the Portuguese just now - to do anything which might lessen our friendship to him. Hamut Baggia has wrote to me for Convoy for a Vessel which he is about to load with Gun powder he has sold to the Bey of Tunis - but untill it is known what part the Bey takes - and that he determines to remain neutral - his Gun powder cannot go to him - since the hostilities began in the Archipelago, a detachment of Turkish troops arrived at Tunis - which does not look favourable to Peace'; Collingwood's substantial letter ends with a reference to Nelson: 'That Don Antonio, in whose behalf Genl. Cartenas wrote to you - I understand commanded a Privateer which took Pasha(?), and behaved very ill to his prisoners - for which reason I directed him to be sent to England - as I do all privateers men who are taken in the Gib - and the crews of Vessels belonging to Bercelona - untill Mr. Geiner an English Merchant is released from his prison in the Castle of Bercelona, he was residing at Rome before the war - and went it commenced they put him in prison on suspicion of his having corresponded with the fleet - and given Lord Nelson intelligence previous to the war - I applied for his enlargement without affect and have sent a great many Bercelonians - and shall send a great many more, if they do not restore him to liberty.'Qty: (1)NOTESVice Admiral Collingwood was made Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet following the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and was tasked with blockading ports to prevent French naval and merchant activity, from 16 May 1806, serving aboard HMS Ocean, a 98 gun ship of the line. Napoleon responded with the Continental System in November 1806, which attempted to enforce a European trade embargo against Britain to try and weaken her economically. This largely failed as Britain succeeded in smuggling in goods via Spain and Russia (both of which were to be invaded by Napoleon), and developed new markets in the Americas with the support and protection of the British Navy, generally dominant in the Atlantic. Sir Hew Dalrymple (1750-1830) saw action in the 1793 Flanders Campaign against Revolutionary France, was made a Lieutenant-General in 1801 before transferring to Gibraltar in 1806 to serve under General Henry Fox, and was appointed acting Governor of Gibraltar from November 1806 to August 1808.
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Brassington (W. Salt). A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some account of the Books of the Ancients, London: Elliot Stock, 1894, half-title, colour frontispiece and plates, monochrome plates and illustrations, title in red & black, slight toning, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original brown cloth with blocked hunting scene in black to boards, light fraying at head & foot of spine, 4to, together with: Seligman (G. Saville & Hughes, Talbot), Domestic Needlework, its Origins and Customs throughout the Centuries, London: Country Life, [1926], half-title, colour frontispiece and monochrome plates, original cloth in dust-jacket, dust-jacket strengthened to verso at spine and edges, folio (limited edition 377/500), Hobson (G.D.), English Binding before 1500, Cambridge: University Press, 1929, half-title, monochrome plates, illustrations, top edge gilt, original cloth, skiver title label to spine, spine faded, folio, Crane (W.J.E.), Bookbinding for Amateurs, London: L. Upcott Gill, 1885, wood engraved illustrations, original green cloth, blocked decoration in black and gilt, spine slightly faded, 8vo, Craig (Maurice), Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800, London: Cassell & Co Ltd., 1954, chromolithograph frontispiece and monochrome plates, top edge gilt, original cloth, folio, Hobson (Anthony), Humanists and Bookbinders, the Origins and Diffusion of the Humanistic Bookbinding 1459-1559, reprinted, Cambridge: University Press, 1992, colour frontispiece, colour plates & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust-jacket, light oil stain to front of dust-jacket, dust-jacket strengthened to verso at spine and edges, small folio, Needham (Paul), Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings 400-1600, New York & London: Pierpont Morgan Library & Oxford University Press, 1979, mounted colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket, dust-jacket strengthened to verso at spine and edges, small folio,Qty: (7)
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Macquoid (Percy). A History of English Furniture, 4 volumes (The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of Mahogany, The Age of Satinwood), Lawrence & Bullen, 1904-08, numerous colour plates & black & white illustrations, some light spotting & toning, uniform publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spines slightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, folio, together with; Sparrow (Walter Shaw), Prints & drawings by Frank Brangwyn with some other phases of his art, John Lane, 1919, colour plates & numerous black & white illustrations, some light spotting & toning, publishers original cloth, boards & spine slightly spotted & rubbed, split to head of the spine, 4to, and other art & furniture reference, mostly original cloth, overall condition is fair/good, 8vo/folioQty: (3 shelves)
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Walton (Izaak & Charles Cotton). The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation..., 2 volumes, The Winchester Edition, Freemantle & Company, 1902, 30 black & white etchings plus other illustrations, some light spotting & toning, top edge gilt, uniform publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, together with; Shannon (Kevin), The Lion and The Rose, the 4th Battalion and the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 2015-17, black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, and The Caughley Society, Caughley Blue & White Patterns, 1st edition, 2012, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, limited edition, 5/500 plus other 19th century & modern miscellaneous reference, including military, fishing, art, sports, music, & a bound volume of handwritten correspondence, letters &c. by & to Lord Burghersh, 1815-16, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves & a carton)
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Morris (Edward). Constable's Clouds, Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable, National Galleries of Scotland, 2000, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publishers original wrappers, large 4to, together with: Parris (Leslie & Ian Fleming-Williams), Constable, Tate Gallery, 1991, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Godfrey (Richard), James Gillray, The Art of Caricature, 1st edition, Tate, 2001, numerous colour & black & white illustrations, publisher original wrappers, large 4to, plus Barringer (Tim, and others), Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian Avant-Garde, 1st edition, 2012, numerous colour illustrations, publishers original wrappers, large 4to, and other British art reference & related, including publications by Tate Gallery, National Gallery, NPG Publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback in original wrappers, 8vo/4to, VGQty: (88)
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Harding (Silvester). The Biographical Mirrour, or, Connoiseur's Repertory; comprizing a series of ancient and modern English portraits of eminent ... persons ... engraved from original pictures or drawings, 3 volumes, London: E. and S. Harding, 1795-1810?, text by Francis Godolphin Waldron, volume 1 with additional title, numerous engraved portraits, variable spotting and offsetting, hinges strengthened, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, spines rubbed, boards worn, 4to, together with: Glasse (Hannah), The Complete Confectioner; or the Whole Art of Confectionary made Plain and Easy ..., first edition, second issue, London: J. Cooke, c. 1765, Glasse's facsimile signature on pp.iv and 1, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue at rear (1st two leaves close-trimmed at foot affecting text), lightly toned throughout, front free endpaper deficient, each pastedown with an early ink manuscript ownership inscription, contemporary sheep, worn, boards detached, 8vo, plus: Encyclopedie Methodique, Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique des Trois Regnes de la Nature, [Insectes], 2 volumes, [Paris: Agasse, 1797], 18th part, half-title, lacking title, but with title for 19th part, 267 (of 268) engraved plates (plate 268 deficient), rectos of title and plates 131, 132 & 267 each with circular ink ex-libris stamp, 1 plate in volume 2 partially coloured with light, neat red crayon, 6 plates with some small & neat red crayon underlining, both volumes with intermittent pale dampstaining to margins at head and fore-edge, somewhat affecting a few plates, hinges cracked, 19th century quarter morocco, somewhat rubbed, corners showing, 4to, with 16 other titles including: The Pleasures of Hope in two parts, by Thomas Campbell, 2nd edition, 1800; Tratado Elemental de Botanica Teorico-Practico, by Antonio Blanco, 2 volumes in 1, 1834; The Silver Swan, a fairy tale, by Madame de Chatelain, 1847Qty: (27)NOTESGlasse: Cagle 708; Maclean pp.61-62. The second issue of the first edition of circa 1760, with J. Cooke imprint. Encyclopedia Methodique: Nissen ZBI 4621.
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Bryant (Julius & Susan Weber). John Lockwood Kipling, arts & crafts in the Punjab and London, 1st edition, Yale University Press, 2017, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with; Canby (Sheila R.), Princes, Poets & Paladins, Islamic and Indian paintings from the collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan, 1st edition, British Museum Press, 1998, numerous colour illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, and Clark (Timothy et al), Shunga, sex and pleasure in Japanese art, 1st edition, The British Museum, 2013, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other Oriental, Egyptian, & Indian art reference & related, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks in original wrappers, VG, 8vo/4to,Qty: (73)
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Barbara Firth (1928-2013), Printed proofs for Jack, written by David Lloyd illustrated by Barbara Firth, 14 printed pages 25 x 34.5 cms, Barbara Firth (1928-2013) was a children’s book illustrator specialising in animal paintings She was born in Cheshire and enjoyed drawing as a child but had no formal art education. When she was three, she began drawing plants and animals, and when she was eleven years old, her family moved to the country, enabling her to spend even more time sketching the flora and fauna around her. Firth delighted in her lack of training: and stated I have been very lucky, as my career in drawing is also my favourite hobby. She qualified in pattern cutting at the London College of Fashion and worked for 15 years for Vogue as production director on books on crochet, knitting and dressmaking. She moved to Marshall Cavendish, and there met Amelia Edwards who commissioned her to illustrate some non-fiction work. Her long term partnership was with publishers Walker Books She collaborated regularly with Martin Waddell on his Little Bear books. She won the 1988 Kate Greenaway Medal, awarded by the Library Association for distinguished illustration in a book for children, for her work on Martin Waddell's Can't You Sleep Little Bear, which has been called as perfect a picture-book as anyone could hope to makeFirth lived much of her life in Harrow, with her sister Betty and a household full of pets including Waldo the tortoise. She was survived by her sister Betty and the centenarian WaldoProvenance; This Studio collection was acquired from her estate by the vendor after the Artist’s death, and comprises original art-work from various books that she illustrated. Many of the works are annotated with studio instructions and none are signed. Very few of her water-colours have ever come on to the open market and this collection provides a unique opportunity for buyers Original illustrations for Sarah Hayes The Grumpalump (1991) are included in the sale. Good see image
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Paragon blue and gilt fine bone china tea service to include side plates, jug, sugar bowl, dishes, 12 cups and saucers, and eight Paragon Art Deco green and gilt cups and saucers (one handle broken) Note the serving platter on right hand side is Aynsley of a similar pattern, not Paragon.Blue and gilt service: 1 cup has 2cm crack to interior rim. 1 cup has 4cm crack to interior bowl of cup. 1 cup has 4cm crack to interior rim of cup. Some cups have dark staining to interiors. 1 cups is completely broken. Rubbing to gilding on central well of 5 saucers. Cream jug has restoration to spout. Some minor wear to gilding on side plates.
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