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Lot 406
A 19th Century onyx gilt metal and patinated spelter clock garniture, with eight day movement striking a bell, enamel dial with Arabic numerals, the case modelled as a Classical Temple, with gilt metal columns, etc, surmounted by the figure of Joan of Arc on horseback, and flanked by a pair of marble and gilt metal five light candelabra (one candelabrum requires repair to the foot), 100cm high.
Lot 407
A 19th Century marble and patinated spelter mantel clock, with eight day movement striking a bell, white enamel dial with Roman numerals, the case modelled with a seated classical maiden surrounded by trophies of industry, including a anvil, steam train, and cog, etc, on shaped white marble base, 29cm high. (condition: dial glass lacking).
Lot 532
A collection of blended Bell`s Scotch Whiskey comprising: Bell`s Extra Special Millennium 2000, Christmas 1990, Golden Jubilee decanter, bell`s Islander 1944-1994 Normandy & Arnhem landings, Bell`s 20yr Old, Birth of Prince William, and two 18.9cl Bell`s decanters, and two boxed Ravenhead Silver Jubilee goblets. (8 bottles)
Lot 126
Maps & prints. A mixed collection of approx. 400 maps, engravings and prints, mostly 18th & 19th century, engraved and litho. maps and prints including a large collection of approx. 170 British county and regional maps by Bacon, together with further British and overseas maps by Cary, Kitchin, Hall and S.D.U.K., with topographical and decorative prints including examples by Dugdale, Byrne, Buck, Greatbach, Sands and Bell, various sizes and condition (approx.400)
Lot 164
* Aldin (Cecil Charles Windsor, 1870-1935). The Oxford Road The Angel at Henley-on-Thames, The Exeter Road The White Hart at Hook, The Great North Road The Bell at Stilton [and] The Dover Road The Bull at Dartford, pub. Lawrence & Bullen, 1903, together four chromolithographs, two with slight water staining to margins, each approx. 470 x 680mm, framed and glazed (4)
Lot 230
* Elizabethan Deeds - York. A group of three manuscript conveyance deeds in English on vellum, 2nd May 1588, 26th November 1591 & 1st June 1602, the first between Richard Vavasour and Peter Newarke concerning land in Acaster Maldis in the city of York, the second between Peter Newarke and John Gibson concerning land in Acaster, the third between John Richardson and Richard Bell concerning property in York, all with calligraphic initials and indented upper margins, the second and third with red wax seals still appended, the former with an impression of a boar`s head, the latter (slightly damaged) showing an impression of a church [St. Peter`s, York?], approx. 30 x 42cm and slightly larger (3)
Lot 237
*Medieval Deed - East Yorkshire. Manuscript conveyance deed in Latin on vellum, 21 September 1518, William Garton of Beverley in Yorkshire, workman (operarius), to Richard Bothe of Beverley, draper, three messuages lying together in the High Street of Beverley (E-W from the High Street to the land of St John of Jerusalem; N-S from land belonging to the chantry of Thurn to land belonging to the fabric of the church of St Mary Beverley), witnesses: William Pateson, Thomas Bell, William Cowper, Thomas Stevynson and John Andreson of Beverley, John Benson of Estryngton, 14.5 x 28cm, red wax seal appended (1)
Lot 239
* Norfolk/Cambridgeshire - Drainage of the Fens. A manuscript indenture of 13 parts concerning the Sessions of Sewers, 16 July 1631, between the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Bedford and his adventurers, Oliver Earl of Bullingbrooke, Edward Lord Gorges, Sir Robert Heath, Knight, His Majesty`s Attorney General, Sir Miles Sandys of Wilberton, in the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge, Sir John Charleton, Sir William Russell, Sir Robert Bevel, Sir Thomas Tyringham, Sir Robert Bell, William Sames and Samuel Spalding, calligraphic initial, 4 chisel-slits (from disinfection?), a little minor soiling but ink strong and legible, 64 x 74 cm with twelve red wax seals appended, all largely complete with a few impressions still faintly visible, endorsed. Francis, Earl of Bedford, undertook the public work of draining the Fens, the Earl and his adventurers being due to receive from the proprietors 95,000 acres being nearly a third part of the whole. The Earl of Bedford employed Cornelius Vermuyden as engineer, who become involved for the second phase of construction in the 1650s. The scheme was imposed despite huge opposition from locals who were losing their livelihoods based on fishing and wildfowling. Fenmen known as the Fen Tigers tried to sabotage the drainage efforts. (1)
Lot 327
Despiau (L.). Select Amusements in Philosophy and Mathematics; Proper for agreeably exercising the Minds of Youth, Translated from the French of M.L. Despiau..., with Several Corrections and Additions, Particularly a Large Table of the Chances or Odds at Play, The whole recommended as an useful Book for Schools, by Dr. Hutton, Professor of Mathematics, at Woolwich, 1st English edition, London: for G. Kearsley; Bell and Bradfute; and Brash and Reid, by W. Glendinning, 1801, spotting and dust-soiling mostly to title, mid 19th c. half calf, gilt and blind decorated spine, extremities slightly rubbed, 12mo. The first French edition was published in London in 1799 under the title Choix d` amusements physiques et mathematiques. The volume contains a large collection of mathematical and physical curiosities, including chapters on arithmetic ÒTo arrange 30 criminals in such a manner as to save 15 of them, &c.Ó, ÒA lady lamenting that her age was triple that of her daughterÓ, Palingenesy Ò... the art of reviving the dead and making the image of a deceased person appear in a glass jarÓ, and amusing secrets ÒTo make people in a room have a hideous appearanceÓ. (1)
Lot 34
Palmer (Edward Henry). The Desert of the Exodus, Journes on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co., 1871, half-titles, engraved frontispieces (one with contemporary hand colouring), five folding maps (most with small closed tears where carelessly opened), few lithograph plates (some tinted), ex library copy with usual stamps and labels, stamps to margins of most plates, pencil marginalia, original publisher's cloth, gilt, rubbed and slightly scuffed, 8vo, together with [Tattam, (Mrs. Henry)], Journal of a Tour through Egypt, the Peninsula of Sinai and the Holy Land, in 1838, 1839, volume one only, Richard Watts, 1841, black and white engraved frontispiece, original cloth, spine lacking, rubbed, 8vo, plus, St. John (J. A.), Egypt and Nubia with Illustrations, Chapman and Hall, 1845, numerous black and white illustrations to text, front free endpaper lacking, later cloth, joints cracked, a little rubbed and fraying, 8vo (4)
Lot 151
A Victorian majolica vase and stand, the vase of an inverted bell form with leaf and pink flower bud decoration, the seperate base of a similar decoration with cockbeaded rim and a mottled brown, green and yellow central panel, impressed Victorian registration lozenge, total height 35cm high (a.f)
Lot 281
A group of Asian bronze and metal wears, to include a Chinese tripod censer with taotie detail, 10cm diameter, a Burmese opium weight in the form of a cockerel, 7cm high, a Buddhist prayer bell (possibly Thai, lacking clapper), 17cm high, and two bowls with flared lip on raised foot rim , with molded ribbed detail to the exterior, 12cm and 14.5cm diameter respectively (5)
Lot 44
West (Rebecca). Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 2 vols., Macmillan & Co., 1946, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in d.j.s, a little stained and rubbed, some loss to foot of spines, 8vo, together with Bell (Gertrude), Persian Pictures, 1st ed., Ernest Benn, 1928, occasional small mark or stain, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, original green cloth, 8vo plus The Letters of Gertrude Bell, 2 vols., 8th impression, Ernest Benn, 1928, black and white frontispieces, original cloth in d.j.s, jackets worn with some tears and fraying, 8vo, plus other travel titles, including Flemming's News from Tartary, One's Company; A Journey through China, and Brazilian Adventure, all original cloth (14)
Lot 461
Pease (A.E.). The Book of the Lion, John Murray, 1913, black and white frontispiece, further black and white illustrations to text, scattered spotting, original red cloth, gilt decoration, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Morris (Rev. F. O.), A History of British Butterflies, 5th ed., George Bell & Sons, 1870, numerous colour plates, hinges repaired, later faux-leather, 8vo, plus Brown (Thomas), The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths, 2 vols., Edinburgh: Constable, 1832, numerous colour plates, crude repairs to initial blanks, contemporary green calf, blind stamped decoration, upper board of volume two detached, 12mo, plus other natural history titles and prints (a carton)
Lot 512
Swift (Jonathan). The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., ed. F. L. Elrington Ball, 6 volumes, G. Bell and Sons, 1910-14, original uniform maroon cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, together with Journal to Stella, ed. Harold Williams, 2 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1948, original blue cloth in d.j.s, very slightly frayed, plus Lamb (Charles), The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb, edited, with notes and illustrations, by Percy Fitzgerald, 6 volumes, 1876, original blue cloth gilt, very slightly rubbed, and other mostly 18th and 19th century English literature and criticism, many academic publications, some in d.j.s, all 8vo. From the library of the biographer and critic Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973). (3 shelves)
Lot 167
A matched set of eleven Victorian silver salts, seven by George Ivory, London 1851/53, four by Jane Bell, London 1864, of circular form on three scroll feet, with gadroon borders and embossed floral decoration, crested, 8cm diameter, 35oz, provenance Lot 812, Sotheby's, Benacre Hall, Suffolk, 9-11 May 2000
Lot 576
George Gurr, Bewhurst. A late George III mahogany long case clock, the case with moulded cornice above a pair of column supports and a rectangular moulded trunk door, raised on a shaped plinth base, the 11 inch floral painted Roman dial set a 30 hour movement with anchor escapement, striking bell. H: 200 cm W: 53 cm
Lot 1063
A longcase clock, the 28 cm square brass dial, having Roman numerals, signed Taylor Bridgnorth 606, fitted a 30 hour movement striking on a bell, in an extensively carved oak case, 207 cm high See illustration Condition report Report by RB Very much in a market fresh condition, the matt centre has some sort of gilt looking paint to it, the silvered dial is with awful varnish which makes it look brass and the spandrels have been painted to match the centre. The movement is slightly loose on its (later) seat board. The case, no glass to the hood door, carving all Victorian, the whole of the backboard has been replaced at some point, modern trunk door lock, hinges weak. Overall now requiring some work, with key, pendulum and single weight.
Lot 1067
A longcase clock, the 30 cm square arched dial, having Roman and Arabic numerals, date aperture and tablet signed John Mends Plymouth, fitted an eight day movement striking on a bell, in a mahogany and oak case, 226 cm high (over swan neck pediment) See illustration Condition report Report by RB The dial and case possibly an association, the hood door with quite a few splits and cracks, a short trunk door, with numerous parts of the cross-banding missing, part of the feet has been rebuilt, with a pendulum and two lead weights.
Lot 64
19th century French gilt metal mantel clock of drum form with fluted surround, on waisted scroll base with central handpainted floral plaque in the Sevres style, on shaped serpentine fronted white marble plinth to tapering gilt metal legs with egg and dart caps, white enamel dial with black Roman numerals having eight-day bell striking movement, the backplate marked "J.B.D. for Jean Baptiste Delettrez (1816-1887)", 27cm high
Lot 105
5 Cibrario, Luigi. Descrizione storica degli ordini religiosi. Torino Stabilimento tipografico Fontana, 1845. Insieme a Descrizione storica degli ordini cavallereschi. Torino Stabilimento tipografico Fontana, 1846. In 4° (249 x 164 mm); 4 tomi in 2 volumi. Numerose tavole litografiche a piena pagina incise da Duverger finemente colorate a mano (lievi fioriture sparse.) Legatura coeva in mezzo marocchino rosso con angoli e carta marmorizzata, dorso a 5 nervi con titolo in oro (sciupati gli angoli e i margini esterni). Bell?insieme in legature omogenee di queste due imprescindibili opere dello statista e grande studioso di araldica. Spreti 985. (2 volumi) 500,00 Starting Price:
Lot 1060
Campioni del ciclismo. Collezione montata su album amatoriale compredente trenta cartoline con firme o dediche autografe di celebri sportivi del passato, in massima parte ciclisti. Tra i nomi presenti nella raccolta Fausto Coppi, Gino Bartali (due cartoline, di cui una datata ?6-10-53?), Fiorenzo Magni, Nino Defilippis (?A Bellino, sportivamente?) e numerosi altri. Bell?insieme. Starting price: 600
Lot 11
Bressiani, Giuseppe. Le turbulenze di Cremona per l?armi della Francia, Sauoia, e Modena, de gli anni 1647. & 1648. Cremona, Giovanni Pietro Zanni, 1650. In 4° (190 x 135 mm); [8], 100 pagine. Frontespizio entro doppia cornice con vignetta xilografica raffigurante l?allegoria della città di Cremona (qualche sporadica macchia.) Legatura del secolo XX in piena pelle marrone con titolo in oro al piatto anteriore. Prima edizione di questa relazione che descrive l?attacco subìto da Cremona e paesi vicini in bell?esemplare impreziosito da un ritratto dell?autore inciso da Blanteus. 200,00 Starting Price:
![[Emilia Romagna]. Venturi, Giovanni Battista. Storia di Scandiano. Modena, Vincenzi, 1822. In 4° (293 x 205 mm); 252, [2]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cc0bbfd-89b7-41d5-9263-a401008669f0/caa5995b-c032-496c-f8a7-0f2e5076d614/468x382.jpg)
Lot 122
[Emilia Romagna]. Venturi, Giovanni Battista. Storia di Scandiano. Modena, Vincenzi, 1822. In 4° (293 x 205 mm); 252, [2] pagine. Antiporta, 9 ritratti, 5 tavole calcografiche fuori testo di cui una stampata in color seppia, 2 diagrammi ripiegati fuori testo, grande carta geografica ripiegata in fine volume. Legatura coeva in marocchino testa di moro, sui piatti elegante cornice di ferri dorati, dorso a sei nervi con titolo in oro. Bell?esemplare della rara prima edizione. Lozzi 4960. Nel lotto anche un libello illustrato da carta geografica ripiegata intitolato Gentis Ceronaie in Aemilia del 1826 e altri 2 volumi. (4 volumi) 200,00 Starting Price:
Lot 125
[Famiglie nobili italiane]. La vita dell?insigne guerriere Saporoso Matteucci da Fermo generale delle armi della republica di Ragusi. Fermo, Giovanni Francesco de? Monti, 1699. In 4° (197 x 150 mm); 120 pagine. Antiporta con grande stemma araldico, 1 tavole con il ritratto di Matteucci fuori testo incisa in rame (fioriture e bruniture.) Legatura coeva in piena pergamena con titolo manoscritto al dorso. Nel lotto altri 6 volumi dedicati a famiglie o membri di nobili famiglie, tra i quali un bell?Elogio di Carlo Roberto Dati del 1794 e un Ragionamento storico al nobil giovane Gio. Batista Gucci gentiluomo samminiatese sopra la nobiltà della sua patria e della sua famiglia del 1758. (7 volumi) 100,00 Starting Price:
Lot 162
Imhoff, Jacob Wilhelm. Stemma regium Lusitanicum, sive Historia genealogica familiae regiae Portugallicae. Amsterdam, Chatelain, 1708. Legato con Genealogiae viginti illustriium in Italia familiarum. Amsterdam, Chatelain, 1710 In 2° (345 x 220 mm); Prima opera: [2], 72 pagine; seconda opera: [8], 342, [4], 14 pagine. Frontespizi a caratteri rossi e neri, 6 tavole calcografiche nella prima opera, ritratto dell?autore e 21 tavole nel testo per la seconda (lievi bruniture, qualche alone.) Legatura coeva in bazzana marrone, dorso a 6 nervi con decorazione fitomorfa sui compatimenti, tassello rosso per il titolo in oro (rovinate le cuffie, spellature). Bell?insieme di opere di Imhoff cui si aggiunge anche altro volume intitolato Corpus historiae genealogicae Italiae et Hispaniae stampato a Norimberga nel 1702. (2 volumi) 300,00 Starting Price:
Lot 173
Litta Biumi, Pompeo. Gambara di Brescia. Milano e Torino, metà del secolo XIX. In 2° (460 x 325 mm). Album contenente tavole con ritratto di Uberto Gambara, veduta di Palazzo Alamanno Gambara a Pratalboino, tavola incisa in rame a doppia pagina parzialmente colorata da mano coeva, 8 tavole sinottiche ripiegate con stemma colorato a mano. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle rossa (sciupata). Bell?esemplare dedicato alla famiglia Gambara, estratto dal monumentale capolavoro del Conte Litta, le Famiglie celebri di Italia. 100,00 Starting Price:
Lot 194
Muzio, Girolamo. II Gentilhuomo. Venezia, eredi di Luigi Valvassori e Giovanni Domenico Micheli, 1575. In 4° (198 x 145 mm); [16], 286 pagine. Marca e fregi tipografici incisi in legno (manca l?ultima bianca.) Legatura del secolo XVIII in bazzana marrone, dorso a 5 nervi con decorazione dorata e tassello nocciola per il titolo in oro, tagli marmorizzati (pochi piccoli difetti). Bell?esemplare di quest?opera, impressa per la prima volta da Valvassori 4 anni prima. Adams M-2084. 150,00 Starting Price:
Lot 203
Pingon, Filiberto. Inclytorum Saxoniae Sabaudiaeque Principum arbor gentilitia. Torino, eredi di Niccolò Bevilacqua, 1581. In 2° (318 x 218 mm); [8], 120, [4] pagine. Frontespizio con stemma sabaudo entro cornice di duplice filetto, nel testo 43 cornici a volute xilografate, vuote ad eccezione di 5 con ritratti di Beroldo a p. 16, Umberto a p. 18, Amedeo I a p. 19, Umberto Beroldo Filiberto a p. 21 ed Emanuele Filiberto a p. 75. Grande tavola fuori testo derivante da 8 lastre xilografiche unite in un foglio dalla lunghezza di 1,30 m raffigurante la genealogia di Casa Savoia, dalle origini nel 636 fino a Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia, con numerosissimi nomi dei discendenti e numerosi stemmi, in fine del volume, epigrafe con testatina xilografata rappresentante libri, dati di registro e approvazione dell?inquisitore, nonché errata (mancanza di 2 carte finali?, foro di tarlo al margine bianco interno, tavola ripiegata con qualche brunitura, corta in testa e mancanza all?angolo esterna che lede qualche lettera.) Legatura del secolo XX in mezza tela nera con angoli, titolo dorato al dorso. Nota di possesso del Cinquecento di Antoine de Dorne al frontespizio. Bell?esemplare di questa prima edizione, tra le più rappresentative dedicate alla celebrazione di Casa Savoia, che si presenta inoltre in una rara variante con una cornice vuota, del tutto simile alle altre, incollata sul ritratto di Umberto Beroldo Filiberto a p. 21. Saffroy III, 50102; Manno e Promis, Bibliografia, 1884-1913, 165; Bersano Begey, Le cinquecentine piemontesi, 419; Spreti 3232. 200,00 Starting Price:
Lot 205
Puccinelli, Placido. Vita di S. Barnaba Apostolo primo pastore di Milano. Milano, Giovanni Battista e Giulio Cesare Malatesta, 1649. In 4° (220 x 165 mm); [8], 116 pagine. Stemma di Milano al frontespizio, testo entro cornice (poche macchie.) Legatura coeva in piena pergamena, tagli rossi. Opera poco comune che contiene l?elenco dei Sessanta del Consiglio Generale e di Provvisione. Nel lotto anche altre 4 opere dedicate a santi lombardi, con tra l?altro due edizioni sulla vita di Gerolamo Emiliani, fondatore dei chierici regolari di Somasca, del 1657 e del 1620, e la Vita di S. Corrado Eremita del 1613 con bell?antiporta figurata ed incisa in rame. (5 volumi) 150,00 Starting Price:
![[Regno delle Due Sicilie]. Collenuccio, Pandolfo, e Tommaso Costo, e Mambrino Roseo. Compendio dell?istoria del Regno di Na](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7cc0bbfd-89b7-41d5-9263-a401008669f0/d48c059f-8230-419f-9339-01000647a0ba/468x382.jpg)
Lot 210
[Regno delle Due Sicilie]. Collenuccio, Pandolfo, e Tommaso Costo, e Mambrino Roseo. Compendio dell?istoria del Regno di Napoli. Venezia, Giunta, 1613. In 4° (220 x 153 mm); 3 parti in 1 volume; [52], 443, [1]; [28], 407, [1]; [20], 264 pagine. (Fascicolo E nella seconda parte mal legato.) Legatura di riuso ricavata da un codice, due bindelle. Opera aumentata dal quarto libro alla terza parte, che copre il periodo fino al 1610, in bell?esemplare con particolare legatura. 550,00 Starting Price:
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