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Click here to subscribe*A circa 1908 Dursley Pedersen Gentleman's Bicycle. A size '2' machine with a frame number of 5436, it is in good original, unmolested condition and features three-speed Pedersen hub, chain-case, inverted brake levers, bell, correct brakes back and front, lamp bracket and good useable saddle. A grand survivor (1)
Philipson, John - Coach Building, 1897, George Bell & Co. Morgan & Company Carriage Builders catalogue, May & Jacobs Carriage Designs 1887, Suspension of Carriages by William Philipson, 1887, with folding diagrams and 'prize essay' text, Coachbuilding by Cecil Robertson, 1929, with advertisements and quality images, together with Early Days of the Sun Fire Office, 1910 with colour illustrations, all in good fettle (7)
Bell (John Thomas William) Plan of the Hartlepool Coal District in the County of Durham including part of the Wear District in the Same County, being the First of a Series of Plans of the Great Northern Coal Field..., 1843, Castle Eden, large hand coloured map, linen-backed, (wear to lower edge); with four Ordnance Survey maps of Hartlepool, 1/2500 scale c.1859, coloured, rolled sheets (5)
Morris (F.O.) A Natural History of British Moths, 1872, Bell, four volumes, 132 coloured plates, recent quarter calf on original boards; idem, A History of British Butterflies, 1860, Groombridge, 71 hand-coloured plates, 2 plain plates, original cloth; Kirby (W.F.) European Butterflies and Moths, 1882, Cassell, two volumes, 61 hand-coloured plates, 1 plain plate, recent half calf (7)
Sowerby (J.E.) et al English Botany; or Coloured Figures of British Plants, 1873, Bell & Hardwicke, third edition, eleven volumes, 1834 hand-coloured plates including approx 16 double page (one single page plate torn without loss), t.e.g., half morocco (defective bindings - gutta percha perished, loose pages) [sold not subject to return]
Pepys (Samuel) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1893-6, Bell, thirteen volumes, including Index, 1899; Pepysiana, 1899; Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1926, (two volumes), and Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1929, t.e.g., uniform cloth gilt; Combe (William), The First Tour of Doctor Syntax ..; The Second Tour .., The Third Tour .., 1855, Nattali and Bond, three volumes, coloured plates, t.e.g., uniform half morocco by Galwey; Thackeray (William Makepeace), A collection of six novels, uniformly bound with t.e.g., in half crimson morocco by Sotherans; with nine others
Antiquarian Books - Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London 1899, half leather; Maxwell Lyte (H.C.), A History of Eton College 1440-1875, MacMillan and Co., London 1877, full Morrocco; The Poetical Works of John Dryden, edited by the Rev. Richard Hooper, M.A., George Bell and Sons, London 1891, Repton School prize bindings, five-volume set; Dickens; leather bindings; etc
A late 19thC French bronzed spelter and marble clock garniture by Marti, one barrel clock flanked by a seated classical figure, Le Penseur, floral painted enamel dial bearing Arabic numerals, eight day movement, half hour striking on a bell, raised on a rectangular white marble base and four paw feet, 36cm x 16cm x 29cm, and a pair of vases and covers of urn form raised on three goat monopodia, square marble base, raised on paw feet, 33cm high.
Fourteen pieces of various glassware to include a set of five flash overlaid cut glass hock glasses and two similar wine glasses, clear hock glass with engraved decoration of fruiting vines to the bowl raised on notched hexagonal stem with central blue triple helix surrounded by white latticino twist, air twist champagne flute, millefiori bell, pair of Murano candle sticks, globular Art Glass vase etc
Ireland. A mixed collection of fourteen maps, mostly 17th - 19th century, engraved maps, including regional, country and town plans, with examples by Chatelain, Seale, Mercator, Mitchell, Bonne, De Vaugondy, Hall, Dower and Bell, occasional duplicates, together with a mixed collection of twenty-five topographical views, various sizes and condition (approx.39)
Rossetti (Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882). Poems, 1st edition, F.S. Ellis, 1870, inscribed by the author at the head of the half-title 'To Miss Boyd from her friend D.G. Rossetti April 1870', patterned endpapers, untrimmed, original gilt decorated blue-green cloth, upper cover with cloth lifting slightly, but a bright copy, 8vo Provenance: from the library at Penkill Castle. Penkill was the home of Alice Boyd and Scottish artist William Bell Scott, and was frequented by Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers, such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris and Christina Rossetti. In 1862 Dante Gabriel Rossetti executed a pencil drawing of Alice Boyd, and during two of his stays at the Castle - in 1868 and 1869 - he did most of the writing and editing of his 1870 'Poems', so it is fitting that he should present his host and close friend with a copy. (1)
*Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Two autograph letters signed, 'J. Ruskin', Winn[ingto]n, 12 October [1864], to his mother Margaret, I was pleasantly surprised by the packet this morning - with your pretty little notes on the two ends. It was a pleasant packet too, for it contained the first nice message from Rosie that I've had for ever so long I wrote to Mrs L [La Touche] that I wanted her to make some purses and bags for my money for me, and she apologizes for this one's not being pretty by telling me it is of Oriental stuff which Rosie says represents in its pattern, "a heart's-ease in the middle of a rose and it must be sent to St C" [St Crumpet, Rose La Touche's pet name for Ruskin]. Lily is very lovely sight just now - she is so exactly what a girl ought to be - not a bit of showiness or display in her dress or ways - nor even any of the unavoidable and perpetual conspicuousness which there is in the faces of some pretty girls, whether they like or not. Lily always gives one the idea, I don't know how, of having just come out of a nursery where she has been taking care of her younger brothers and sisters - and has a curious little careful look and way, with all her fun, which reminds one of what one usually sees in poor children - She has been growing fast taller, but her face remains small - so that the proportion is far more beautiful than it was - and she has a little quiet dainty frock, striped dark blue and white with a little bossy dark blue knot like the tiniest bud of hollyhock, here and there about it - and it altogether is something unspeakable. I am so very sorry for my bad writing - but you wouldn't like me to write carefully - so here it is as it comes', 4 pp. on black-edged mourning paper, the second letter dated Sunday [16 October 1864] with reference one more to Lily 'who is a great joy to me. I was not wrong about the little blue-striped frock - it has been made in Paris for her, & sent over: but it isn't showy in the least; only just right... ', 2 pp. on black-edged mourning paper, plus a third incomplete letter to his mother, being the final leaf, signed J. Ruskin, probably Dublin, 18 May 1868, written a day or two before his visit to Dr Evory Kennedy at Belgarde, with reference to the Kennedys and the Lawrences, also Serjeant Armstrong and Lily, 'Lily, my Lily of the Ethics of the dust, is therefore lady of the house, for her mother leaves nearly everything to her - she is not quite 18 - perfectly simple, gentle and resolute - the nurse and firm governess of the younger children - and the most beautiful creature in face and form I ever saw anywhere - but she has none of Rosie's genius, or wild spiritual nature - For a perfect woman, I never saw Lily's like: with her dark-eyed delicate head and white shoulders and long white satin dress, at a full dress party on Saturday she was like a princess of the Arabian nights - and was up at half past five next morning to get me my coffee and taken me a five-mile walk before breakfast with one of her younger sisters but without the slightest change from the child-simplicity of her school days. Her mother is gentle and nice - and very kind to us', 2 pp., all 8vo All published in Van Akin Burd (editor), The Winnington Letters: John Ruskin's Correspondence with Margaret Alexis Bell and the Children at Winnington Hall (1969), letter numbers 324, 326 & 464. The letters and books in these Ruskin lots come from the family of Lily Kevill-Davies (nee Armstrong) by direct family descent. (3)
Inder (W.S.). On Active Service with the S.J.A.B., South African War 1899-1902, Kendal, Atkinson & Pollitt, 1903, monochrome illustrations after photos, author's presentation inscription to front blank 'To Cousin Ethel with love from Will Inder', original green cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Brasbridge (Joseph), The Fruits of Experience; or, Memoir of Joseph Brasbridge, written in his 80th year, 1824, portrait frontispiece, untrimmed, some marks and soiling to first few leaves, later half green calf gilt, rubbed and a little scuffed, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous history, military interest, including Louis Creswick, South Africa and the Transvaal War, 8 volumes, 1900, Churchill, The Second World War, 6 volumes, 1950-54, Civil War Album, complete photographic history of the Civil War, edited by William C. Davis, and Bell L. Wiley, 2000, etc. (3 shelves)
Allen (Thomas W., editor). Homeri Ilias, volumes 1-3, Oxford, 1931, previous owner stickers to title-pages, original red cloth in price-clipped dust jackets, covers slightly toned, 8vo, together with Paton (W.R. & Hicks, E.L.), The Inscriptions of Cos, 1st edition, 1891, additional period letters tipped in to front pastedown and half-title, contemporary inscription to front endpaper, some light marks, guttering split, original white cloth, spine toned and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus Glueck (Nelson), The Story of the Nabataeans, Deities and Dolphius, 1st UK edition, 1966, numerous black and white illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, covers rubbed and torn with minor loss, 4to, plus other late 19th-century and modern Greek and Classics reference and related, including publications by Oxford, Cambridge University Press, Princeton, Routledge, G. Bell & Sons, Journal of Hellenic Studies, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)
A Chinese cameo glass vase, 19th/20th century, of ovoid form, the disc cover with flower finial, the opalescent white glass cased in jade green and etched with a fanciful bird in flight above flowering prunus and peony branches, 16cm high, together with a Chinese blue glass bowl of inverted bell form, 11.5cm dia. (2)
A Chinese mother of pearl and jade inlaid rosewood hexagonal treasure box, Qing Dynasty, the moulded cover with a central nephrite jade bell form finial finely carved with bats, dragons, flowers and foliage, surrounded by four mother-of-pearl bats within a meandering flower border, each of the five sides inlaid with mother-of-pearl birds and insects in branches and lines of script within fret and flower borders, the interior with lift-out tray, 30cm high, 30cm across. Footnote: A comparative treasure box can be found in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Beijing, inset with a jade bi disc and made in the Qianlong reign. See Maxwell K. Hearn, 'Splendors of Imperial China', pp.140-141.
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