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Click here to subscribeA 19th century French alabaster cased mantel clock surmounted by a squat lidless urn with gilt metal mounts and blue and gilt painted rim, bell strike movement with bell strike and the dial with blue painted decoration and gilded Roman numerals, on a giltwood stand, the clock 15in. (38cm.) high.
A French Boulle inlaid striking mantel clock late 19th century, the balloon shaped case with gilt metal foliate scroll, husk, rocaille and mask mounts and seated putto finial, brass inlay and tortoiseshell veneers, glazed front pendulum aperture and foliate scroll feet, 5in. cast gilt brass dial with twelve Roman numeral enamel cartouches, twin barrel movement striking the half hours on a bell, no. 2909, further marked '1875', sunburst mask pendulum bob, 15¾in. (40cm.) high, with a matching Boulle inlaid base. (2) *Winds, runs and strikes. Some small blisters, cracking and deterioration to the surface of the tortoiseshell to the lower and upper side panels. A couple of small pieces of brass inlay lifting. Shrinkage crack to back of pagoda top and two to movement door. No damage to enamel numerals. Stand has some small chips and flakes from tortoiseshell to top edge of front. Good overall.
A George III Channel Islands silver Jersey pattern footed beaker maker's mark GM below fleur-de-lys, struck once to base (George Mauger, Jersey c.1770-1823), the bell shaped bowl initialled below rim 'P.LT', flared moulded foot, 3½in. (9cm.) high, weight 4.42 tr.oz. *Light surface scratches throughout, rim with flea-bite nibbles, initials rubbed a little, maker's mark, slightly miss-struck, overall good.
A Dutch, 17th century, bronze bell with Christian imagery and a Latin inscription the classical frieze incorporating cherubs and figures of the Virgin Mary praying and Jesus holding a lamb, dated 1669, Latin inscription "SAN MARIA DE BUNDE RE AV R IO. PIET. ER ON, WAN WERVEK ENDE DHEER JAECQUES LETREN 1669" with a later scrolling iron work wall bracket, bell 11in. (27.9cm.) diameter, 11½in (29.2cm.) high, bracket 28½in. (72.4cm.) deep, 29¼in. (74.3cm.) high. *Bunde is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. In 1714 the medieval church, where this bell may have come from, was replaced by the current church. The inscription refers to Saint Mary of Bunde and Pieter Wan [sic.] Wervek and the dheer Jaecques Letren, possibly maker and foundry.
A collection of Perthshire glass paperweights to include a paperweight depicting 'forget me not' or similar flowers on white upset muslin ground with three silhouette canes depicting elephant, kangaroo and deer, signature cane to base 'P 1995'; 3in. (7.6cm.) diameter; smaller weight with numerous assorted polychrome canes of shaped design with further silhouette canes, including a 'Swan', signature cane 'P 1995'; millefiori weight with assorted canes, signature cane 'P 1995'; Christmas bell paperweight, signature cane P 1994', together with a cylindrical glass paperweight with faceted sides, encapsulating millefiori design, signature cane '(I) 1978', 2¼in. (5.8cm.) high. (5)
Five illustrated works. T. W. Arnold (trans). 'The Little Flowers of St Francis of Assisi,' original ivory cloth with gilt tooled decorations embodying the arms of St Francis by Aldus Mautius of Venice circa 1500, debound colour forntis, spotting and toning throughout, Chatto & Windus, London, 1909; Margaret Gatty. 'Parables from Nature. With Notes on the Natural History,' complete edition, school prize with gilt tooled coat of arms to rubbed front board and winners inscription to front free endpaper, marbled edge, plates throughout, George Bell and Sons, London, 1888; C. Lovat Fraser (illustrations). 'Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes by Walter De La Mare,' original blue cloth with gilt embossed decorations, colour illustrations, vg, Constable & Company, London, [1924]; With two other works. (5)
CHAMBERLAYNE, John. 'Magnae Britanniae Notitia: or, the Present State of Great Britain; With divers Remarks Upon The Ancient State thereof,' Full calf rubbed with chips, loose frontis engraving, some minor browning, good to vg, D. Midwinter et al, London, 1737; David Hume. 'The History of England,' two vols, full calf, boards loose, loose title pages, toning, plates, Thomas Kelly, London, 1823; Benjamin Bell. 'A System of Surgery,' vols III and VI only, quarter calf, rubbed and bumped, good clean and tight text blocks, Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1791; With five other works. (10)
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Eug Bagues, Paris, a late 19th Century gilt metal bracket clock, of Baroque design with an urn of fruit and vine garland finial, 10cm convex enamel dial with Roman numerals, flanked by fluted pillars, on a breakfront white marble plinth raised on toupee feet, the movement striking on a bell, 34cm high, (key and pendulum)
James Powell and Sons for Hale Thomson, a silvered glass goblet, circa 1850s, green lustre internal decoration, the bell shaped bowl on a knopped baluster stem, button seal to the underside, 19cm highNote: the Whitefriars glass company produced the blanks for the patented silvered glass vessels produced by E Varnish and Co and Hale Thomson; see Evans W, et al, 1995, Whitefriars Glass, p.28 and 30 for a description and illustration of the process
Leroy, Paris, a late 19th Century French clock garniture, gilt metal four-glass case with white marble urn finial, extensive gilt ormolu mounts of bows suspending branches of fruit, 11cm white enamel convex dial with Arabic numerals, signed 'Leroy, H....de La Cour', raised on a white marble plinth, toupie feet, the movement striking on a bell, 45cm, high, the matching pair of white marble and gilt ormolu mounted candelabra in the form of Corinthian columns with vintner cherubs and trailing vine, toupie feet, 31cm high (3) (key and pendulum)
INSCRIBED FROM BURTON AND TAYLOR: 'The Letters of Gertrude Bell': London, Ernest Benn, 1930 (first 1 volume edition): publishers blue cloth with dustjacket, torn with spine deficient: the FFE inscribed 'with much love and wishing you a gloriously successful year with much happiness', and signed individually from Rosalinde Fuller, Winifred Evans, Richard Burton, Maureen Pryor and Peter Woodam, dated Bath 1948: additionally with postcard from Elizabeth Taylor to one Mme Stafford Byrne dated Feb 1964, loosely inserted. (1)
NISBET (Alexander): 'An Essay on the Ancient and Modern Use of Armories...': London, A. Bell and others, 1718: full page engraved plates, title with ink ownership crossed through upper right, front free endpaper loose and torn, contemporary calf boards, rebacked, upper detached, 8vo: PORNY (M A) 'The Elements of Heraldry..', London, printed for G C & J Robinson, 1795: 5th edition: marbled boards recently rebacked, 8vo: with 2 others, 18th century heraldry in 8vo. (4)
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY LONGCASE CLOCK inscribed "Richard Harwicke Ashwick"with an eight day bell striking movement, the brass dial with "tempus fugit" and an eagle flanked by dolphin spandrels in the lunette, with a silver chapter ring below enclosing a date aperture and a subsidiary seconds dial enclosed by mask and scroll spandrels, in a mahogany case with an arched top and fluted pilasters over a trunk door with a shaped top, on a plinth base with fluted and canted angles and ogee bracket feet, circa 240cm high x 51cm wide (maximum)Provenance: The inside of the case with a label inscribed "Ven, then Yard House, Milborne Port, 1920".
A GEORGE III EBONISED BRACKET CLOCK inscribed on a silvered panel in the centre of the dial "John Meredith, London", the eight day bell striking movement with a verge escapement, a date aperture, a bob pendulum aperture and a strike/silent indicator in the arched lunette above the silvered chapter ring, with rococo gilt metal spandrels cast and chased with leafy foliage and scrollwork, the back plate with engraved foliate decoration, ebonised case with flambeau urn finials, moulded brass bracket feet and a swing carrying handle, approx. 56cm high x 31cm wideNote: This clock is visible in a photograph of the Great Hall taken circa 1877 and in a painting of 1885.
A rose metal decorative link bracelet with attached charms, the rose metal bracelet with integral clasp stamped '9ct', suspending six 9ct gold charms, comprising; an enamelled three masted ship, a bell, a seahorse, a gargoyle, a car and a horse, total weight approx 27.3gCondition:All charms hallmarked 9ct gold, bracelet links with compressions and dents, general wear, refer to images
A Minton parian figural group of Una and the Lion after a model by John Bell (1812-1895), the nude figure seated astride a male lion, raised John Bell and Victorian diamond registration mark, impressed factory marks, 37cm high (a.f)Condition:Base cracked, top portion of one foot is damaged. Nibble to top of figure's head.
BAC Eagle GR 1 XS944, 617 Sqn 1970 print by Simon Glancey with 25+ RAF autographs. Approx 44 x 29 cm. Signed Seven WW2 617 Sqn Tirpitz raid veterans Basil Fish, Frank Tilley, Tom Bennett, Benny Goodman, John Bell, Murray Valentine, John Langston. Plus many Post War RAF commanders and pilots including Wing Commander Alistair Monkman RAF OC 617 2003, David Cooper OC 617 sqn 2008, David Arthurton OC 617 sqn 2012 the last Tornado CO. Obtained from collector with association to RAF Lossiemouth, this may be a unique autographed one off, very collectable. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
18 WW2 RAF Aircrew Prisoners of War signed hardback book Unshackled Spirit. Dust cover published 2012, book and cover both in very good condition. Prisoners Of War and the Secret Spitfire, This copy comes with a matted bookplate with a total of 18 Signatures of WW2 RAF Airmen who became Prisoners Of War. W/O Phil Bates 149 Sqd, Stalag Luft 4b, W/O W G Billy Bell 166 Sqd, Stalag Luft 4b, W/O James Copus 97 Sqd, Stalag Luft 1, W/O Don Farrington 90 Sqd, Stalag Luft 7. , Sqd Ldr Alfie Fripp, 57 Sqd, Stalag Luft 3, Grp Cpt Peter Gilpin, 253 Sqd, Stalag Luft 7a, W/O John Harrison, 106 Sqd, Stalag Luft 6, F/O Eric Hookings, 619 Sqd, Stalag Luft 3, Flt Sgt Paddy Hope 540 PRU Sqd, Stalag Luft 3/4/6, W/O Terence Kelly 258 Sqd, Hiroshima 5, W/O Bob Kendall 15 Sqd, Stalag Luft 7, W/O Frank Mannion 10 Sqd, Stalag Luft 7, W/O Tony Monk 76 Sqd, Stalag Luft 1, AC1 Ernie Mortimer, 84 Sqd, Java Sumatra Yumo Hellship Maru, W/O Joe Musgrove 214 Sqd, Stalag Luft 4, Flt Lt Hugh Parry 41 Sqd, Stalag Luft 3, W/O Ron Wade 58 Sqd, Stalag Luft 3, W/O Cal Younger 460 Sqd, Stalag Luft 3. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
WW2 617 Sqn Dambusters Tirpitz Raiders eight white signed cards loose inside Alan Cooper hardback book Beyond the Dams to the Tirpitz. Autographs includes G Johnny Johnson DFM, Basil Fish, Colin Cole, Frank Tilley, Benny Goodman, John Bell, Hughie Evans plus 1955 Dambuster Film Lancaster Pilot E Quinney and actor Richard Todd. Book has some ageing. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
The Golden Cockerel Press. Mademoiselle de Maupin, by Gaiutoer Theophile & translated by R. & E. Powys Mathers, 1938, 8 engraved plates including frontispiece by John Buckland Wright, occasional minor spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original quarter vellum bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, blue cloth boards lightly toned, 4to in 8s (limited edition 375/500), together with:Saadi. Le Jardin des Roses et des Fruits, Traduit du Persan par Franz Toussaint, Paris: Editions Claude Aveline, 1927, coloured plate, decorative initials, head and tail pieces, edges untrimmed, original printed wrappers, 4to (limited edition 81/450),Frazer (James George). The Golden Bough, a study in magic and religion, 13 volumes (including supplement), 3rd edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1936, uniform original green cloth, 8vo,Morris (Francis Orpen). A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: Bell and Daldy, 1870, numerous colour plates, some leaves detached and frayed, front free endpapers with upper outer corner excised, original cloth gilt, worn, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous books including science, medical and topography related including Balfour (Francis M.). A Treatise on Comparative Embryology, 2 volumes, London: Macmillan and Co., 1880, wood engraved illustrations, ink stamps to titles, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, 8voQTY: (a carton)
Moggridge (John Traherne). Contributions to the Flora of Mentone and to a Winter Flora of the Riviera including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa, London: L. Reeve & Co., 1871, 99 hand-coloured lithographic plates, booksellers ticket to front pastedown, previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, some pencil marginalia, some spotting to first and last few gatherings, top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco with gilt lettering to spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with:Davies (Hugh). Welsh Botanology…, Systematic Catalogue of the Isle of Anglesey in Latin, English and Welsh…, 2 parts bound in 1, London: W. Merchant, 1813, one engraved plate with a little hand colouring, light spotting and dust soiling, untrimmed, previous ownership inscriptions to title page, light spotting throughout, 20th-century half-calf, a little rubbed and worn with small areas of loss to spine and joints, title label detached, 8vo,Walcott (John). Flora Britannica Indigena: or Plates of the indigenous Plant of Great Britain: with their Descriptions taken from Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, Bath: S. Hazard, 1778, engraved frontispiece plus 169 engraved botanical plates (some with contemporary ink manuscript corrections to a few leaves with original titles lightly struck through), previous ownership inscription to front pastedown, contemporary manuscript annotations to title, modern quarter calf with gilt lettering to spine, small 4to (220 x 130 mm),Abbot (Charles). Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending such Plants as grow wild in the County of Bedford, arranged according to the system of Linnaeus, with occasional remarks…, 1st edition Bedford: W. Smith, 1798, 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, errata bound to rear, pink stain to lower margin from Cc to end (affecting 3 plates), water stain to leaves Oo to end, contemporary diced calf sympathetically re-backed with title label to spine, slightly rubbed, 4to (215 x 130 mm), and Hurtley (Thomas). A Concise Account of some Natural Curiosities, in the Environs of Malham, in Craven, Yorkshire, London: The Logographic Press, 1786, 3 engraved plates including folding frontispiece (tears to title where folded, some ink marginalia, modern grey paper covered boards with paper title label, 8vo, The Berries and Heaths of Rannoch by a Snowdrop, London: George Bell and Sons, 1881, 13 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, original red cloth binding, large 8vo, plus two othersQTY: (8)NOTE:Rees 1549 for Davies (Hugh). Welsh Botanology.Henrey II, p.73 for Abbot (Charles). Flora Bedfordiensis.
Gatty (Mrs Alfred). British Sea-Weeds, drawn from Professor Harvey's "Phycologia Britannica", 2 volumes, London: Bell and Daldy, 1872, 80 chromolithograph plates, occasional minor spotting, previous owner signature, original cloth gilt, joints and edges a little rubbed, large 8vo, together with Greville (Robert Kaye). Algae Britannicae, or descriptions of the marine and other inarticulated plants of the British Islands, belonging to the order algae, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 1830, 19 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light spotting and offsetting, bookplate, modern red cloth, 8voQTY: (3)
Newton (James). A Compleat Herbal of the Late James Newton, M. D. containing the Prints and the English Names of several thousand Trees, Plants, Shrubs, Flowers, Exotics, &c., London: Printed by E. Cave... and sold by Mr Watson..., 1752, engraved portrait frontispiece with long diagonal repaired closed tear, 190 engraved botanical plates, few plates and text leaves very lightly shaved, light dust-soiling and offsetting, late 19th/early 20th-century half calf, maroon morocco title label to spine, joints rubbed, 8vo, together with:Miller (Joseph). Botanicum Officinale; or a Compendious Herbal: Giving an Account of all such Plants as are now used in the Practice of Physick. With their Descriptions and Virtues, London: E. Bell, J. Senex, W. Taylor, J. Osborn, 1722, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, Meyrick (William). The New Family Herbal; or, Domestic Physician..., Birmingham: Printed by Thomas Pearson, and sold by R. Baldwin, 1790, engraved frontispiece, 14 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates at rear, armorial bookplate of Thomas Botfield to upper pastedown, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spine, joints cracked, spine and extremities rubbed, 8vo,Quincy (John). Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea. Or, a complete English Dispensatory..., 11th edition, enlarged and corrected, London: Thomas Longman, 1739, advertisement leaf before title, light dust-soiling and few marks, contemporary calf, joints split, 8voQTY: (4)
Sowerby (John Edward). English Botany; or coloured figures of British Plants, edited by John T. Boswell Syme, 13 volumes, including Supplement, 3rd edition, enlarged and re-arranged, London: George Bell & Sons, 1873-99, 1943 hand-coloured lithograph plates, 2 uncoloured plates in Supplement, occasional light spotting, Lady Margaret Hall library bookplate and stamp to front pastedowns, top edge gilt, original green blindstamped cloth gilt, shelf number in gilt at foot of volumes 1-12, volumes 3 & 10 rebacked with original spines relaid, one or two other spines repaired at ends, volume I lower joint split, small splits to one or two other joints, a little light edge wear, 8voQTY: (13)NOTE:Nissen BBI 2227.
Lowe (Edward Joseph). A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns, 2nd edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1864, 72 hand-coloured plates, illustrations, occasional light spotting, original green cloth gilt, some fading to spine, 8vo, together with Our Native Ferns; or a history of the British species and their varieties, 2 volumes, London: George Bell & sons, 1874-76, 79 chromolithograph plates, wood-engraved illustrations, publisher's list at end of each volume, some dust-soiling to endpapers,. original green cloth gilt, spine ends a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Fern Growing. Fifty Years' Experience in Crossing and Cultivation, 1st edition, London: John C. Nimmo, 1895, portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, colour plate, plate of portraits, a little minor spotting, light water stain to front endpapers, original cloth gilt, one or two small stains, 8vo QTY: (4)
Ephemera & Antiquarian. A collection of 18th-early 20th century ephemera, literature, prints, photographs, plans, including The Articles of the Union as they Pass'd with Amendments in the Parliament of Scotland..., London: printed for Andrew Bell, 1707, Double Marriage. A Tragedy, by M. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, London, printed for J. T., 1717, The Weesils. A Satyrical Fable:...London, 1691, a Plan Shewing the Proposed Street from St. Paul's Cathedral to Blackfriars Bridge, some leather bindings, mostly disbound pages & individual sheets, overall condition is generally fair to goodQTY: (4 cartons)
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