[Brontë, Emily]. Wuthering Heights, A Novel by Ellis Bell, volume 2 only, 1st edition, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, lacking half-title, O2 (pp. 289-90) and endpapers, a few leaves stained at foot, lightly spotted, ex-library with bookplate to front pastedown, large ink stamp to title verso, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, lower cover detached, heavily worn with backstrip deficient, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Smith 3 pp. 60-63.Exceedingly rare in any condition. Published with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey, Newby supposedly printed only 250 copies and sales were poor. The sisters had to raise £50 to cover costs and subsequently made a loss.
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Barlow (Alfred). The History and Principles of Weaving by hand and by power, reprinted, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878, several hundred monochrome illustrations, period inscription to the front endpaper, front gutter cracked, some light spotting & toning, original embossed brown cloth, front board partially detached, boards & spine slightly marked & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Bell (I. Lowthian), Principles of The Manufacture of Iron and Steel, with some notes on the economic conditions of their production, London: George Routledge & Sons, 1884, gutters cracked, some minor marginal toning & light spotting, original green cloth, slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plusDunnell (H.), British Wire-Drawing and Wire-Working Machinery [The Engineering Series], London: Constable & Company, 1925, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & toning, original green cloth boards & spine slightly rubbed & bumped, large 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th century manufacturing & mechanical reference & related, mostly original cloth, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8voQTY: (6 shelves)
Lewis (Wiliam). Stamma on the Game of Chess; containing numerous opening of games, and one hundred critical situations, new edition, London: printed for R. H. Reid, 1818, engraved title vignette, 100 colour diagrams, front gutter slightly cracked, some light toning & spotting, original blue cloth, spine faded & partially detached, front hinge cracked, boards lightly faded & marked, slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Gatty (Mrs. Alfred), The Book of Sun-Dials, 1st edition, London: Bell and Daldy, 1872, monochrome frontispiece with tissue guard & plates to the rear, pencil annotations throughout, some light toning & spotting, front & rear gutters cracked, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine rubbed with some minor loss, large 8vo, plusFausett (Bryan), Inventorium Soeulchrale: an Account of some Antiquities dug up at Gilton, Kingston, Sibertswold...., London: printed for the Subscribers only, 1856, numerous monochrome illustrations & maps, some marginal annotations in red pencil, bookplate to the front pastedown modern endpaper, some light toning & spotting, rebound with modern blue cloth spine retaining original embossed blue cloth boards & spine, slightly rubbed with some loss to head & foot, large 8vo, and other miscellaneous 19th & 20th century literature, history & reference, mostly original cloth, many in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (6 shelves)
Architectural pamphlets. A collection of 15 London-related architectural pamphlets, bound in one volume, 1857-63:1. Public Offices, and Metropolitan Improvements, by Alexander James B. Beresford Hope, London: James Ridgeway, 1857, 34 pp.2. The Expense of the Government and of Mr. Beresford Hope's Plan of Public Offices Compared, London: James Ridgeway, 1857, 8 pp., folding colour plan, autograph letter fragment by the author?3. On the Designs for the Wellington Monument. By One of the People, London: Chapman and Hall, 1857, 28 pp. 4. Public Competitions Public Works. A Letter to the Right Honourable the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, by A Bystander, London: John Edward Taylor, 1858, 12 pp. 5. New Government Offices. Remarks Appertaining to the Designs, No. 146, sent to Westminster Hall, March 20th, 1857, and impressed with the following motto "Ut Apes Geometriam", London: George Nichols, [1857], 16 pp. 6.The New Palaces of Administration. An earnest appeal to the competitors, the Public and the Committee, by a Cambridge Man, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1857, half-title, 21 pp. 7. An Address Delivered at the First Meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects in the New Rooms in Conduit Street, on Monday, November 7th, 1859, by William Tite, M. P., F. R. S. the Right Honourable the Earl de Grey President, in the Chair, London: 1859 [not published], 37 pp., errata leaf 8. Lord Palmerston and the Designs for the Foreign Office; or, Classical versus Gothic, 7 pp., reprinted from the Gentleman's Magazine 9. Shall the New Foreign Office be Gothic or Classical? A Plea for the Former: Addressed to the Members of the House of Commons, by Sir Francis E. Scott, London: Bell and Dandy, 1860, 70 pp., presentation inscription to Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885), MP and author 10. The Gothic Renaissance: Its Origin, Progress, and Principles, London: Saunders, Otley & Co., 1860, 32 pp. 11. Notes on Art, British Sculptors, Sculpture, and our Public Monuments, London: Edward Stanford, 1861, 80 pp., inscribed to title to Richard Monckton Milnes from the author 12. Strictures on the Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Concentration of the Law Courts and Offices, and on their recommendations as regards site, by Harvey Gem, London: W. Heath, 1861, 24 pp., folding map 13. Railway Communication in London and the Thames Embankment, by C. B. Lane, 2nd edition, London: James Ridgeway, 1861, 24 pp. 14. On the Egyptian Obelisks in Rome and Monoliths as Ornaments of Great Cities, read at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects, May 31st, 1858, by the Rev. Richard Burgess, followed by remarks on the application of the entasis to the obelisk by John Bell,,,, reprinted with the sanction of the council, [1858], 42 pp., folding plate 15. The Condition and Prospects of Architectural Art. Inaugural Lecture of the Session of 1863 of the Architectural Museum, delivered March 23, 1863, by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, President, London: John Murray, 1863, 34 pp., a few minor spots, bookplates of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945) and Mark Girouard, contemporary green half morocco, small gilt stamp to upper cover, joints and edges rubbed and scuffed, 8vo QTY: (1)
Three: Lieutenant C. G. B. Edwards, Royal Field Artillery and Honourable Artillery Company 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. C. G. B. Edwards. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. G. B. Edwards.) light contact marks, good very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Cedric George Billson Edwards was born in Ross, Hertfordshire, on 18 June 1894, and served as a Second Lieutenant in France from 4 December 1915. He subsequently attested for the H.A.C. as a Driver at Finsbury on 14 March 1921, and is recorded in 1939 as manager of the ‘Bell Hotel’ in Thetford, Norfolk.
Three: Band Corporal J. Vince, Royal Navy Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (J. Vince. Bandsn. H.M.S. “Inconstant”) suspension slack; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (J. Vince, Band Corpl, H.M.S. Bell...phon.) impressed naming; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, contact marks overall, good fine or better (3) £100-£140 --- John Vince was born in Fareham, Hampshire. He joined the Royal Navy as a Band Boy in January 1877, and advanced to Bandsman in August 1881. His service included with H.M.S. Inconstant from September 1880 to November 1882, and having advanced to Band Corporal, with H.M.S. Bellerophon from March 1889 to April 1892 (awarded L.S. & G.C. in September 1890). Vince was shore pensioned in August 1900, only to rejoin on 2 August 1914. He was discharged ‘not required’ on 16 September 1914. Sold with copied service papers.
A rare Great War campaign group of five awarded to Ambulance Driver, Sergeant Winifred Mordaunt, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, who was amongst the very first F.A.N.Y’s in France, was twice Mentioned in Despatches, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid 1914-15 Star (W. Mordaunt. F.A.N.Y.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (W. Mordaunt. F.A.N.Y.C.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, with bronze star; together with the recipient’s First Aid Nursing Yeomanry 1914-18 Service Medal, with four riband Stars denoting pre-War Service; and a Sandown Races Bronze Medal, 1882, reverse numbered ‘1088’, light contact marks, therefore generally very fine (6) £1,000-£1,400 --- Provenance: Provenance: A. Flatow Collection, Spink, November 1998; Julian Johnson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2017. M.I.D. London Gazette 24 December 1917 and 25 May 1918. Winifred Mordaunt, later Mrs John Geare was the daughter of Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th Baronet, of Walton Hall, Warwick. She served during the Great War as an Ambulance Driver for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry on the Western Front from November 1915. She was based with the Ambulance Motor Convoy at Boulogne, and Pat Beauchamp (a contemporary of hers at Bouglone) in her book Fanny Goes To War gives the following insight: ‘It may be interesting to members of the Corps to know the names of those who formed that pioneer Convoy. They are: Lieutenant Franklin, M. Thompson (Section Leader), B. Ellis, W. Mordaunt, C. Nicholson, D. Heasman, D. Reynolds, G. Quin, M. Gamwell, H. Gamwell, B. Hutchinson, N. F. Lowson, P. B. Waddell, M. Richardson, M. Laidley, O. Mudie-Cooke, P. Mudie-Cooke and M. Lean (the last three were new members).... We arrived at Boulogne in time for lunch, and then set off for our camp thirty kilometres away, in a British Red Cross touring car borrowed from the “Christol Hotel.” We arrived there amid a deluge of rain, and the camp looked indeed a sorry spectacle with tents all awry in the hurricane that was blowing. Bell tents flanked one side of the large open space where the ambulances stood. A big store tent occupied another and the cook-house was in a shed at the extreme corner, with the Mess tent placed about as far from it as possible! We had no telephone in those days, and orderlies came up from the Casino hospital and A.D.M.S. with buff slips when ambulances were wanted. At that time the cars, Argylls, Napiers, Siddeley-Deaseys, and a Crossley, inscribed “Frank Crossley, the Pet of Poperinghe,” were just parked haphazard in the open square, some with their bonnets one way and some another - it just depended which of the two drives up to camp had been chosen. It will make some of the F.A.N.Y.’s smile to hear this, when they think of the neat rows of cars precisely parked up to the dead straight, white-washed line that ultimately became the order of things!’ Mordaunt advanced to the rank of Sergeant, and Beauchamp goes on to mention ‘Winnie’ on several occasions throughout the book. She is also mentioned in F.A.N.Y. Invicta by Irene Ward, including Mordaunt’s post-war involvement with the organisation, when she was elected as a member of the Headquarters Staff Committee: ‘From the beginning of the inter-war period rather different personalities exercised control and the whole administrative machine was overhauled. Franklin was the first Commandant. It was also agreed to establish a more regular central committee to decide on Corps policy. The Headquarters Staff Committee consisted at first of Franklin, Joynson, A. H. Gamwell, Lowson, Mordaunt, Russell-Allen, Baxter Ellis, Mosely, Peyton-Jones, Walton and Waddell (soon to become Colston and Washington).’ Mordaunt is recorded as having been awarded the Croix de Guerre for gallant conduct during an air raid, and her two M.I.D.’s are amongst just 15 to the F.A.N.Y. for the whole of the Great War.
Pair: Lieutenant E. V. A. Bell, Royal Flying Corps and Hampshire Regiment, a F.E.2b pilot of 25 Squadron who was shot down and taken Prisoner of War during “Bloody April”, 8 April 1917 - having survived a ‘dog fight’ with Baron Von Richthofen’s Jasta 11 a few days earlier British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. E. V. A. Bell. R.A.F.) generally good very fine (2) £300-£400 --- Evelyn Victor Allen Bell was the son of the Reverend Canon J. A. Bell, of The Vicarage, Murray Road, Wimbledon, and initially served as a Second Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment during the Great War. He was attached to the Royal Flying Corps in July 1916, and carried out his initial pilot training - gaining his ‘Wings’ on 25 October 1916. Bell was appointed a Flying Officer in December 1916, and posted as a pilot to 28 Squadron. He was posted for operational flying with 25 Squadron (F.E.2b’s) on the Western Front in January 1917. Bell carried out multiple bombing and photographic reconnaissance operations, and was frequently engaged with enemy aircraft: ‘6/3/17. Photographic escort.... 2/Lt. Bell had just dropped his bombs on Mericourt, when he was signalled to by his group leader to turn round. He did so and came face to face with a Halberstadt that was diving on his tail. His observer [Sergeant Nunn] fired half a drum into it and it went down in a steep dive. 2/Lt. Bell dived after it and his observer fired the rest of the drum into it. Capt. Richardson and Sergt. Malcolm also fired at it. The hostile machine went down under control and landed, apparently safely, east of Avion.’ (Combat Report refers). Eleven days later, Bell was carrying out a photographic reconnaissance when, as a part of a force of nine F.E.2b’s, they were engaged by an enemy formation of 15-20 fighters: ‘2/Lt. Bell with 2/Lt. Green (Camera Machine) was also in the fight and drove down a hostile machine, but were shot through the engine and had to return, landing at Estree Cauchie. No particulars are to hand.’ (Ibid) As ‘Bloody April”’ began, Bell was part of a patrol which was engaged and broken up by Baron Von Richthofen’s Jasta 11 on 3 April 1917. The Baron claimed a victory for himself from the engagement, and five days later Bell’s luck ran out. He was part of a six-aircraft raid on Pont-a-Vendin led by Captain C. H. C. Woolven on 8 April. Bell and his observer, Lieutenant A. H. K. McCallum, were shot down by flak, and listed as ‘missing in action’. They were eventually listed as being taken Prisoners of War, with the Squadron ORB giving: ‘2/Lt. E. V. A. Bell [Pilot]. Lt. A. H. K. McCallum [Observer]. F.E.2b A. 813 Bombing Raid - Pont-a-Vendin. Left aerodrome 5.25 pm. Machine was returning from bombing raid and was thought to be near Mont St. Eloy about 7 pm. Pilots and observers state that all six machines recrossed the lines. Information received from the father of 2/Lt. E. V. A. Bell states that his son is a prisoner of war. Letter from Rev. J. Allen Bell dated 21/5/17 states that Mrs. McCallum has received cheques dated from Karlsruhe from her son, Lt. A. H. K. McCallum.’ Bell was eventually interned at Freiburg, where he was a member of the P.O.W. cricket team, a picture of which exists with him standing along from fellow member Captain W. Leefe Robinson, V.C. (shot down three days before Bell). McCallum’s capture statement gives the following: ‘I became a British Prisoner of War in Germany on April 7th, 1917 [Sic]. I was taking photographs and dropping bombs in the districts of La Bassee and Douai... arriving over La Bassee our formation broke up and we set to our different duties, and had to pass through a thick barrage of shrapnel from anti-aircraft guns. We were hit directly and several flying wires were cut, we continued on and we were hit again in the petrol tank and immediately after in the engine, so were forced to land over the German lines. Whilst descending, I destroyed the camera and Machine guns. We landed amongst infantry so were not able to burn machine.’ Bell was repatriated in December 1918, and relinquished his commission in October 1919. After the War he resided in The Close, Norwich. Sold with extensive copied research, including a photographic image of recipient in uniform, multiple Combat Reports, ORB entries etc.
A 19th century French miniature brass skeleton alarm clock, with silk suspension, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, also white enamel dial to the alarm with red 12, with an engraved Y-shaped frame and bell striking under a glass dome on ebonised stand, H30cmGood overall condition although the outer enamel dial is cracked and chipped just to the left of 6 o'clock, minor surface chips and scratches, the enamel alarm dial also has a crack between 8 and 10 with a couple of small visible chips to the edge
An Edison Bell Type 2 standard phonograph, with aluminium horn and cover, serial no. S61466, 32cmAppears to be in working order, cylinder does rotate when wound, the case consistent with age and use is quite surface scratched, stained and is worn, some veneer chips all visible, the gilding and black paint finish again is all quite worn consistent with age and use
A late 19thC American rosewood cased mantel clock, circular brass dial with chapter ring bearing Roman numerals, eight day movement with bell strike, the case of arched form, with glass front, gilt highlighted with flowers, on a plinth base, with mercury pendulum, 36cm high, 26cm wide, 12cm deep.
Part of the Merry Christmas collection. Designed with siam colored crystal leaves, clear crystal berries and bell mounted on rhodium hook for displaying. Includes velvet satin ribbon. Swarovski impressed mark. 1054565. This item has its original box: 4.5"L x 4.5"W x 2.5"H. Artist: Keiko AraiIssued: 2010Dimensions: 2"L x 2.5"W x 1.25"HManufacturer: SwarovskiCountry of Origin: AustriaCondition: Age related wear.
A FOLDING TRIPTYCH FIRE SCREEN BY ROBERT KIME With bell shaped feet and arched handle 92cm high, 115cm wide overall Condition Report: Brass has discoloured with time. Marks, scratches and abrasions consistent with age and use.Please see additional images for visual reference to condition Condition Report Disclaimer
A FRENCH WHITE MARBLE AND GILT METAL MOUNTED PORTICO MANTEL CLOCK MID 19TH CENTURY With gilt metal capitals, the white enamel dial within a gilt metal border supporting twin barrel 8 day movement stamped 546, striking on a bell, key and pendulum 41cm high, 24cm wide Condition Report: Restored chips to the cornice.Condition Report Disclaimer
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