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Click here to subscribedating: 15th Century provenance: Italy, Made of iron, of cylindrical shape, slightly lowering towards the slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, strengthened breech, 43 mm cal. Two cylindrical trunnions and engravings with two rings at the first part, cylindrical cascabel knot, upper vent. Scarce. length 94 cm.
dating: 15th Century provenance: Italy, Made of iron, with two, round stages, larger at the back, enlarged at the base and with big vent, lock behind a flat disk with missing part at the center of the surface. Slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, 44 mm. cal. The back featuring a large ring, carved at the borders and engraved with a stripe at the center, the border at the girdle decorated en suite. The front featuring with another ring, decorated with cannelures and grooves. Very scarce. length 119.5 cm.
dating: 1480 - 1510 provenance: Italy, Iron, smooth-bore, three-stage barrel, round at the center with octagonal edges and rings at the girdle, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, the base with rear-sight and side pan, with foresight, featuring three rings under the barrel to assemble it, the first one is deformed. Damages from rust at the first part of the surface, the rest in good conditions. Scarce. length 91.5 cm.
dating: 1480 - 1510 provenance: Italy, Iron, smooth-bore, three-stage barrel, round at the center with octagonal edges and rings at the girdle, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, the base with rear-sight and side pan, missing foresight, featuring three rings under the barrel to assemble it. Damages from rust at the first part, the rest in good conditions. Scarce. length 92.5 cm.
dating: 1480 - 1510 provenance: Italy, Iron, smooth-bore, three-stage barrel, round at the center with octagonal edges and rings at the girdle, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, the base with rear-sight and side pan, with foresight, featuring three rings under the barrel to assemble it, the first one is deformed. Damages from rust at the first part of the surface, the rest in good conditions. Scarce. length 86.5 cm.
dating: 1480 - 1510 provenance: Italy, Iron, smooth-bore, three-stage barrel, round at the center with octagonal edges and rings at the girdle, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, the base with rear-sight and side pan, missing foresight, featuring three rings under the barrel to assemble it. Scarce. length 90 cm.
dating: 1480 - 1510 provenance: Italy, Iron, smooth, three-stage barrel, round at the center with octagonal edges and rings at the girdle, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, the base with rear-sight and side pan, missing foresight, featuring three rings under the barrel to assemble it. Scarce. length 88.4 cm.
dating: early 16th Century provenance: Italy, Iron, smooth, three-stage, 22 mm cal. barrel, round at the center with octagonal edge, slightly bell-mouthed nozzle, with foresight. The base with side pan and small sight, featuring a hook 20 cm far from the nozze, featuring a ring to fix the butt at the base and at the center. Back with superficial damages from rust, center and nozzle in good conditions. Scarce. length 92.5 cm.
dating: Mid 19th Century provenance: Naples, Smooth, two-stage, 15 mm cal. barrels, octagonal at the first segment, with gilt lilies, gold marks and stamp 'FABR /DI / NAP', rings at the girdle; the second segment is slighlty bell-mouthed and with a ring at the nozzle. Backwards spring locks in a good working order. Smooth, wooden stocks, one with the front segment missing. German silver mounts. Trigger guards with finger rest, butt-plates with primer case (one cover is missing). Featuring one ramrod out of two. In a wooden case with blue-velvet lining and with fine decorations on the cover featuring mother-of-pearl inlaid works and remains of enamels. They are worth an adequate restoration. length 28 cm.
Capablanca, J(osé) R(aoul). Chess fundamentals. London & New York, Bell & Harcourt, 1921. 8°. Mit Diagrammen. VII, 246 Seiten, IX S. Specimen pages. Originaler roter Leinenband. (63) * Betts 11 - 24; Linde - N. 1359. Wichtiges Werk des kubanischen Weltmeisters Capablanca (1888 - 1942) in englischer Sprache. Zustand: Innen gebräunt und Buchschnitt fleckig, Vorsätze stärker. Einband etwas bestoßen. Beiliegt: Capablanca, J. R. My Chess Career. London, Bell, 1923. 8°. Mit 1 Porträttafel und vielen Diagrammen. XVI, 212 Seiten, 2 Bll. Anzeigen. Originaler flexibler Leinenband. Linde - N. 3043. Bekannte autobiografische Darstellung. Zustand: Kleberest auf Vorsatz. Innen etwas gebräunt und mit einigen Bleistiftnotizen. Einband etwas bestoßen.
Capablanca, J. R. Chess fundamentals. New York, Harcourt, Brace, und London, Bell, ca. 1921. 8°. Mit Diagrammen. 2 Bll., 246 S. Orig. brauner Leinenband. (44) * Vergl. dazu Betts 11 - 24; Linde - N. 1359. Zustand: Exlibris auf Innendeckel. Vorsatz fehlt. Innen gebräunt. Wenige Seiten mit Randdefekten. Einband bestoßen und mit aufgeklebter Abbildung. Rücken etwas verblichen. Beiliegen: Allen, G. The life of Philidor musician and chess - player. With a supplementary essay on Philidor as chess - author and chess - player by ... Lasa. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1865. Olmütz, Publishing House Moravian Chess, ca. 2001. 8°. XII, 156 Seiten. Orig. Pappband. / Edge, F. M. The exploits and triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy ... Nachdruck. New York, Dover, ca. 1973. 8°. Mit 4 Textabb. und Diagrammen. XIV, 203 Seiten, 8 Bll. Anzeigen. Orig. geheftet. Lusis 1323. / Goodman, K. S. The game of chess. A play in one act. Nachdruck der Ausgabe von 1944. Ohne Jahr. 8°. 22 Seiten, 1 Bl. Orig. geheftet.
Charousek. Sergeant, Philip W(alsingham). Charousek's games of chess. With annotations and a biographical introduction. London, Bell, 1919. 8°. Mit 1 Porträt und vielen Diagrammen. XXI, 1 Bl., 220 Seiten, 1 Bl., 1 Bl. Anzeigen. Originaler Leinenband. (33) * Linde - N. 3052; Betts 29 - 30: "Contains all known games played by Charousek, 146 including consultation games, annotated ..." Rudolf Charousek (1873 - 1900) spielte in vielen Turnieren mit Erfolg und galt als guter Angriffsspieler, dessen Vorliebe dem Königsgambit galt. Zustand: Privater Stempel auf Innendeckel und Vorsatz. Innen leicht gebräunt. Einband etwas angestaubt.
Fischer. Fine, Reuben. Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World's Chess Championship. The Psychology and Tactics of the Title Match. London, Bell, 1975. 8°. Mit vielen Diagrammen. VIII, 294 Seiten, 1 Bl. weiß. Originaler Pappband. (63) * Lusis 2288.1. Zustand: Vorsatz etwas gebräunt und mit Klebeschildchen. Rücken etwas verblichen. Beiliegen: Wade, R. G. und K. J. O'Connell. The games of Robert J. Fischer. With Contributions by L. Barden u.a. London, Batsford, ca. 1972. 8°. Mit 20 Abbildungen und vielen Diagrammen. 448 Seiten. Originaler Pappband. Name auf Vorsatz. Innen leicht gebräunt. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren. / Reshevsky, S. Reshevsky on The Fischer - Spassky Games for the World Championship of Chess. The complete match with analysis ... New York, Arco, ca. 1972. 8°. Mit Diagrammen. 128 Seiten. Orig. geheftet. Lusis 2295. Innen stärker gebräunt.
Marshall, Frank J(ames). My Fifty Years of Chess. Philadelphia, McKay, ca. 1942. 8°. Mit 13 Textabb. und vielen Diagrammen. VI, 242 Seiten. Originaler Leinenband. (33) * Vergl. Betts 29 - 72. Volume two in the Chess Classics Series. Interessante Ausgabe u. a. mit 140 seiner besten Partien. Zustand: Innen etwas gebräunt, Vorsätze stärker. Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen. Beiliegt: Euwe, M. From my games 1920 - 1937 ... Reprinted. London, Bell, 1938. 8°. Mit Diagrammen. 3 Bll., 232 Seiten, 1 Bl., 1 Bl. Anzeigen. Orig. Leinenband mit etwas defektem Schutzumschlag. Linde - N. 3283; Betts 29 - 36. Die Ausgabe enthält 75 kommentierte Partien von Euwe. Zustand: Innen gebräunt. Einband mit geringen Gebrauchsspuren.
Morphy. Löwenthal, J. Morphy's games of chess: Being the best games played by the distinguished champion in Europe and America, with analytical and critical notes. London, Bell, 1893. 8°. Mit einem Stahlstichporträt und vielen Diagrammen. VII, 485 Seiten, 1 Bl., 10 Seiten Verlagsanzeigen. Orig. roter Leinenband. (59) * Vergl. Linde - N. 3160ff.; vergl. Betts 29 - 82. Paul Morphy (1837 - 1884) galt als einer der größten Schachmeister aller Zeiten. Wichtige Partiensammlung mit Erläuterungen. Zustand: Buchblock gelockert. Widmung auf Vorsatz. Innen etwas gebräunt und vereinzelt fleckig, teilweise stärker. Einband angestaubt, berieben und etwas bestoßen. Rücken etwas verblichen.
Morphy. Löwenthal, J. (Hrsg.) Morphy's games of chess being the best games played by the distinguished champion in Europe and America. With analytical and critical notes. London, Bell, 1901. 8°. Mit vielen Diagrammen und 1 Porträttafel. VII, 485, 1 Bl., 29 Seiten und 1 Bl. Anzeigen. Originaler roter Leinenband mit goldverziertem Vorderdeckel. (33) * Vergl. Linde - N. 3160; Betts 29 - 82. "Bohn's Library of Sports and Games". Paul Morphy (1837 - 1884) galt als einer der größten Schachmeister aller Zeiten. Anderssen sagte nach einem verlorenen Spiel über ihn "... dieser Mann spielt wie von einer anderen Welt". Wichtige Partiensammlung mit Erläuterungen. Zustand: Buchblock gelockert. Riss zwischen Innendeckel und Vorsätzen mit Papierstreifen geklebt. Innen gebräunt, teilweise stärker, wenig fleckig und mit einigen Anstreichungen. Einband angestaubt, etwas bestoßen und Rücken verblichen.
Pillsbury. Sergeant, P. W. und W. H. Watts. Pillsbury's chess career. Second edition with nine additional games … London, Printing - Craft, (1937). 8°. Mit 1 Porträttafel und vielen Diagrammen. 226, 16 Seiten. Originaler blauer Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. (33) * Vergl. Linde - N. 3113; Betts 29 – 115. "Contains 233 games with brief notes, and a short biography." Zustand: Innen gebräunt und vereinzelt fleckig. Einband etwas angestaubt, berieben und bestoßen. Rücken verblichen. Beiliegt: Morphy. Sergeant, Philip W. Morphy's games of chess being a selection of three hundred of his games with annotations and a biographical introduction. Revised edition. London, Bell, 1930. 8°. Mit 1 Porträttafel und vielen Diagrammen. X, 351 Seiten. Originaler Leinenband. Linde - N. 3225; Betts 29 - 89. Zustand: Name auf Vorsatz. Innen gebräunt. Einband etwas bestoßen.
Yates, F(rederick) D. One - hundred - and - one of my best games of chess. A posthumous work arranged and completed by W. Winter. Edited by W. H. Watts ... London, Printing - Craft, 1934. 8°. Mit einem Porträt und Diagrammen. 182 Seiten, 1 Bl. Originaler Leinenband. (33) * Linde - N. 3268. Betts 29 - 154. Zustand: Vorsatz fehlt. Innen gebräunt, erstes Blatt stärker. Einband etwas bestoßen. Rücken verblichen. Beiliegt: Green, R. F. Chess. Revised and brought up - to - date by J. du Mont. London, Bell, 1941. 8°. Mit 42 Diagrammen. 1 Bl., 114 Seiten, 1 Bl. Anzeigen. Orig. Leinenband. Vergl. Betts 10 - 159. Zustand: Innen etwas gebräunt. Wenige Seiten mit Defekten. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren.
Author's own copy with corrections.- Trevelyan (Sir George Otto ) Interludes in Verse and Prose, first edition, author's own copy with his corrections for a second edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, title detached, original cloth, spine gilt and with ink word 'CORRECTIONS', spine darkened and with small chip from foot, lightly soiled, 8vo, George Bell and Sons, 1905.
Italy.- Baretti (Joseph) An Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy, 2 vol., first English edition, 2 plates of engraved music, some light foxing, upper outer corner of I4 in vol.2 torn away with loss of a few letters, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut, spine ends worn, T. Davies, 1768 § Bell (John) Observations on Italy, first edition, 9 engraved plates, light foxing to plates, original boards, uncut, spine worn and defective, Edinburgh & London, 1825 § Guida della Città di Firenze..., engraved plates, original printed boards, joints rubbed, upper split, Florence, A.Campani, 1830, all rubbed, 4to & 8vo (4)
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light spotting, mostly to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly worn at extremities) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book was printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES on the front free endpaper, some light spotting, mostly to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (light soiling, slightly creased and frayed at corners and extremities of spine) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY TED HUGHES, OF THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S ONLY NOVEL. According to the publishers, only 'a token quantity' of the book was printed (Tabor, Sylvia Plath. An Analytical Bibliography, 1987).Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; by descent to Olwyn Hughes, Ted's sister; Frieda Hughes, Ted's daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
[PLATH (SYLVIA)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH A POEM BY FRIEDA HUGHES relating to this copy of the book on front free endpaper, small piece neatly cut away from upper margin of front free endpaper with ink note by Frieda on the half-title [see footnote], pencil annotation ('Mrs. Prouthy') by Ted Hughes in the upper margin of p.5, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered on spine, pictorial dust-jacket (upper fore-corner of upper cover and half of inner flap with blurb torn away, the inside cover illustrated by Frieda) [Tabor A4a.1], 8vo, Heinemann, [1963]Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ONLY NOVEL BY SYLVIA PLATH, WITH AN EVOCATIVE POETIC INSCRIPTION BY HER DAUGHTER FRIEDA.It is annotated with a note and poem by the author's daughter Frieda Hughes, which suggests that this copy at one time had the autograph ownership inscription of Sylvia. On the half-title she has written 'Somewhere there is a square of paper with my mother's signature on it that fits exactly here. FH.', and on the front free endpaper she has written out a copy of her poem 'The Signature'. It begins 'One for you, one for me/The books are being/Divided between us...', with the second stanza reading 'Each book is opened, and there/She has written her name. A mother/For you, a mother for me/And suddenly, a small square/Cut from the page corner where/Her ink had dried'. The poem was published in Hughes' The Stonepicker (Bloodaxe, 2001). Ted Hughes has written 'Mrs Prouthy' at the head of one page, presumably a reference to Olive Prouty, the woman who sponsored Plath at Smith College, and is thought to have been the person on whom the character of Philomena Guinea is based in The Bell Jar.Provenance: ?Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes, one pencil note in his hand; Frieda Hughes, their daughter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PLATH (SYLVIA)The Bell Jar, ink notes inside lower cover [Tabor A4.a3], Faber, [1966]; idem, first American edition, numerous passages marked in margin, a few underlined, notes on lower endpapers [Tabor A4b], Harper & Row, [1971]; The Colossus, several pages cut out (but present), with corrections to the text, lower cover stained and scuffed, Faber, [1972]; Ariel, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket very soiled [Tabor A5b], [1966]; Crossing the Water, first American edition, annotated with numerals on index leaf, dust-jacket soiled [Tabor A11b], [1971], New York, Harper & Row--BUNDTZEN (LYNDA K.) Plath's Incarnations. Woman and the Creative Process, several passages marked in pencil or green pen in margins, with a few comments in the margins ('strange affirmation, savage & desperate...'. 'Did she!', 'No', etc.), Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1983, ALL ANNOTATED BY OLWYN HUGHES, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; and approximately 70 others by, or about or relating to Plath, a few annotations by Olwyn Hughes in three, including the biographies by Anne Stevenson and Linda Wagner-Martin (c.76)Footnotes:A collection of works by, or references about Sylvia Plath, several of which have been annotated by her sister-in-law Olwyn Hughes. The two women only met only six occasions, with the last of these resulting in an argument, for which 'it was in no small measure as self-justification and atonement that she [Olwyn] spent the next 50 years reading Plath, talking about her, loathing the feminists who made a martyr of her, and correcting what she perceived as biographical misreadings of her brother's ill-starred first marriage' (Jonathan Bate, Guardian obituary, 5 January 2016).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
KIPLING (RUDYARD)Thy Servant A Dog, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR below struck-out printed name on the title-page, with note in another hand 'Presented to Clarence Winchester who published this story in Cassell's Magazine' on verso of the half-title, publisher's limp pictorial morocco gilt, g.e., Macmillan, 1930--HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Selected Poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, publisher's parchment-backed decorative boards, spine lettered in gilt, Oxford, Blackwell, 1926--BENSON (A.C.) Rambles and Reflections, with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER tipped-in on half-title along with a picture of Benson, thanking a Miss Christmas for her 'generous letter', 1 page, dated 23 April 1907, bookplate of May Christmas, John Murray, [1926]--MASEFIELD (JOHN) The Collected Poems, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title, publisher's decorative morocco, t.e.g., Heinemann, 1923--FOWLES (JOHN) Mantissa, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page, dust-jacket, Jonathan Cape, 1982--BELL (J.J.) The Whale Hunters and Other Stories, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Clarence Winchester [editor of 'The Argosy'] with regards of J.J. Bell, 1929' on the frontispiece, with 2 autograph letters signed by Bell to Winchester, one of which asks that Winchester accept this book, dated in June and August 1929, ownership label of Winchester inside upper cover, Thomas Nelson, [1929]--GOUDGE (ELIZABETH) The Dean's Watch, INSCRIBED BY THE POET ELIZABETH JENNINGS, 'For Mummy wishing you a very happy Christmas from Elizabeth, Oxford Christmas 1960' on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket (price clipped), Hodder and Stoughton, 1960--FITZGERALD (PENELOPE) The Bookshop, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with date 'August 1995' on the title, with loosely inserted ticket to a Fitzgerald literary event from the same month, publisher's wrappers, Flamingo, [1989], unless otherwise mentioned in publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 3 others, including a copy of George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah with an autograph letter signed by Shaw's wife ('C.T. Shaw', ie. Charlotte Townsend), on paper headed '10 Adelphi Terrace' and dated 24 June 1921, sending the book to a Mr. Munro; and a programme to 'Poets in Place' signed by Christopher Fry, Robert Gittings, Leslie Norris and Ted Walker (11)Footnotes:Inscribed books by Rudyard Kipling, A.C. Benson, Aldous Huxley, John Fowles, and others.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
THORBURN (ARCHIBALD)A Naturalist's Sketch Book, 60 plates (24 in colour) by the author, contemporary red half morocco, some dampstaining to sides, Longmans, 1919--MCLEOD (NORMAN) Mountain, Loch and Glen Illustrating 'Our Life in the Highlands' from Paintings Executed Expressly for this Work by Joseph Adam, 15 mounted photographic plates after Adam, half-title loose, stain in lower margin of plates, some spotting, contemporary red morocco gilt, g.e., worn, folio, Bell and Daldy, 1869--KINLOCH (ALEXANDER A.A.) Large Game Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India, frontispiece and photographic plates, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1885--EDWARDS (LIONEL) My Scottish Sketch Book, tipped-in colour plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, Country Life, [1929]--SCROPE (WILLIAM) The Art of Deer-Stalking, new edition, lithographed plates on india proof paper (one loose), later green half calf gilt, t.e.g., Edward Arnold, 1897--MILLAIS (JOHN GUILLE) A Breath from the Veldt, plates and illustrations after the author, dampstain to margin of frontispiece (tissue guard torn), red half calf gilt, upper joint repaired, rubbed, folio, Henry Sotheran, 1895--LEIGHTON (JOHN M.) The Lakes of Scotland, additional engraved title-page and 52 plates by Joseph Swan after John Fleming, all on india proof paper, tissue guards, original maroon morocco gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, worn, 4to, Glasgow, Joseph Swan, 1834; and a group of 12 hand-coloured aquatint views of the Thames by Boydell after Farington, loose in portfolio (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BAYNE COLLECTION – LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTSCollection of over 100 autograph letters, postcards and cut signatures, assembled by author, journalist and editor Peter Bayne and his daughter Clotilda, including: writers such as Tennyson (correcting an assumption made by Bayne '...Lady Clare's first thoughts when she learns that she is not Lady Clare is for her lover... She is not calling her mother a beggar but herself...' with annotation by Bayne dated May 1890, and another note thanking him for '...your Days of Jezebel...'), Thomas Hardy (to Mrs Leslie Thomson thanking her for her letter, with autograph envelope), Matthew Arnold (two-page manuscript beginning 'From the poetry of Wordsworth we experience two prime effects...' titled in another hand 'Inscription', with printed proof, three letters and a note), William Bell Scott (manuscript poems 'The Falling Leaf', 'Left Alone' and 'Morning', signed, on a bifolium, with another letter on the sale of his house in Chelsea), Anthony Trollope (two, regarding the publication of Baynes' article on Cobden), George Bernard Shaw (typed letter, signed, praising Clotilda Marson's husband), John Masefield (postcard and proof sheets of several poems with letter from Constance Masefield), Edmund Gosse, Samuel Smiles, Austin Dobson, Elihu Burritt; various editors including Richard H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator (3), W.J. Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette, Sidney Lee (DNB), William Blackwood (Blackwood's Magazine); Michael Faraday (note 'with M Faradays Compliments'), Francis Darwin (son of Charles, refusing an invitation), psychiatrist George Henry Savage ('...I do not like the notion of secret remedies...'), physicians Hermann von Helmholtz and Sir Henry Thompson; artists Alma Tadema and Philip Burne-Jones (2), one regarding William Morris ('...when he was very vigorously working for the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings... he made a rule that he would never put a window into an ancient church...'); other figures including Sir Frederick Roberts (in the third person, on the pacification of India and justifying British rule ('...to transform rebels & dacoits into peaceable subjects of Her Majesty the Queen... It has been necessary to protect the villagers from their own people...'), Millicent Fawcett (2), Philippa Garrett Fawcett, Ray Strachey; various scholars, headmasters, bishops and clergy; with a small group of seven cut signatures, certificate granting Peter Bayne the Royal Victorian Order, Fourth Class, signed 'George R.I.' and 'Elizabeth R', May 1937, four French valentines (two cut paper, two printed on fabric), etc., usual dust staining and marks, many with remains of guard where previously attached to album leaf, 8vo and 4to, nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesFootnotes:The present collection was assembled by Peter Bayne (1830-1896), prolific Scottish journalist and author. Initially wishing to enter the church, respiratory problems made preaching impossible, so he turned to writing. He contributed to magazines such as the Edinburgh Magazine and succeeded Hugh Miller as editor of Witness and later the ill-fated Dial, which proved to be a massive financial failure. For a short time he edited the Weekly Review, the organ of the English Presbyterian Church, and for over twenty years was a regular writer for the Christian World. Through his collected essays he enjoyed some success in Scotland and America and, addition to this, he was the author of several works of English history under the pseudonym Ellis Brandt. His many essays in literary criticism put him in correspondence with the great literary figures of the day such as Browning, Carlyle and Ruskin, who were keen to correct his errors and praise his writing in equal measure, as the following lots demonstrate. After Bayne's death in 1896, the collection was inherited by his son Ronald (d.1922) whose widow, according to a note (a photocopy of which is included in this lot) passed it to his sister Clotilda Marson. When the letters were removed from the original album is not known but it has remained in the family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HURLBUTT (Frank): 'Bow Porcelain...', London, G Bell, 1926: folio, publishers red cloth, lightly sunned and rubbed else VG: together with a quantity of other books in 2 cartons, to include misc. art reference, Folio Society, small folder of engravings from Don Quixote by Westall, some historical and biographical reference, etc, generally in good condition. (2 boxes)
David Sutherland of Leith, a late 18th century 8-day longcase clock chiming on a single bell, fitted with a broken arch painted dial marked out in Roman numerals with a secondary dial at 12 o'clock and calendar dial at 6 o'clock. Housed in an oak case with an arch-topped trunk door. 204 cm high x 52 cm wide x 26 cm deepFootnote: David Sutherland is recorded in Brian Loomes's Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World book on page 751. He is listed as working between 1775-1805Condition report: Splits to the plinth door
Octavia Hill 1838-1912. ASL. A handwritten and signed letter dated Nottingham Place (London)1866 "My Dear Mirriam. I am sorry I did not answer your letter while it was wet weather and you seemed to be dull (?), long before now I hope things are all changed and your days are full of happy occupation........" Including a booklet entitled, Letter To My Fellow-Workers by Octavia Hill dated 1910 and Bell,E. Moberly Octavia Hill a Biography 1st edition.Footnote: The recipient of these letters was more than likely Miriam Bertha Joyce (Jackson) wife of The Right Hon Sir Matthew Ingle JoyceOctavia Hill 1838-1912,Was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the third daughter of merchant James Hill and his third wife, Caroline Southwood Smith.She was one of the three founding members of the National Trust, She was and radical thinker and campaigner. Her tireless work sought to improve the living conditions and environment of the urban poor focusing on their housing and championing free access to open green spaces because she understood the importance of man's connection to nature and the impact of her lifelong work is seen to this day and her belief in the importance of access to nature for human wellbeing and the need to stop the destruction of the natural landscape are now fully recognised.
A 19th-century Russian gilt brass and beadwork table candlestick with tooled neoclassical decoration 20 cm high Together with a 19th-century mother of pearl inlaid blonde tortoiseshell calling card case with hinged top, 18th H. Bell of Prescot, Lancashire mahogany cased folding guinea scaleFootnote: The candlestick was formerly the property of the Manager of the Russian state bankCondition report: The scale is OKThe candlestick is OKThe card case has a slight crack near the hinge.
A selection of silver and silver plate: a bell-shaped hallmarked silver inkwell (minus glass liner); three Islamic silver dishes (stamp to reverse) engraved with various scrolls (7.75cm in diameter) and six similar smaller examples (7cm in diameter); a hallmarked silver 'Armada'-style dish; a late 19th century silver plated dish by Reed & Barton; a pair of 19th century knife-rests modelled as rearing horses; a small circular silver box-and-cover decorated with fruiting vine to the underside and a small glass circular insert flanked by filigree work to the top; and five matching silver and yellow-enamel coffee spoons (20)
A very fine 19th century gilt-metal-cased and glass-sided carriage clock; the swing carrying handle above a white enamel dial with Roman numerals and signed 'W. Thornhill & Co., 144.154 New Bond St. London', the main dial over the alarm hand, the gilded mechanism with alarm function and striking on a bell (15.5cm high with handle down x 10cm wide x 9cm deep)
An early 19th century rosewood and brass inlaid eight-day mantle clock; the white-enamel dial with Roman numerals and signed 'RAINGO FRESA, PARIS' within an octagonal case with two applied ring handles, the gilded movement signed and individually numbered 1332 and striking on a bell, the base section with further brass inlay and four finials as pineapples and further flanked by two further applied rings, standing on four gilt-metal lion's paw feet (41cm high including handle x 33cm including gilded feet)
A 19th century mahogany and boxwood-strung eight-day bracket clock; the oval hinged gilt-metal handle above a 20cm dial with Roman numerals and signed 'Gammon, Birmingham', the twin fusee gilded movement striking on a bell, together with pendulum and key, with pierced gilt-metal fish-scale-style side sound apertures and raised on four gilt-metal ogee-style bracket feet (39cm high with handle x 30cm widest point to feet at bottom) The case appears to be in good order, the dial is a little dark and has some flecks and cracks around the winding holes although not too bad. The gilt metal ogee feet have several pieces of gilding away commensurate with age. There are a couple of small bits of veneer away from the rear of the door around the framed glass and there is a small piece approx. 1.5cm square moulding at the back away. It is difficult to tell exactly if the movement is original to the case but in the Auctioneers opinion it looks good although no guarantees can be given. The piece has come from a good private source and as we understand it they have had it in the family for many years.
A 19th century eight-day three-piece mantel clock garniture: the gilt-bronze-cased clock in reformed Gothic style with a central finial (bent) and pierced vertical tracery gallery above a painted porcelain dial with a castle by water scene and Roman numerals to the chapter ring; the lower porcelain section gilt-framed and decorated with soldiers in 17th century dress atop battlements looking over a town, the two decorated porcelain side panels with similar scenes of guards at castle doors; the movement striking on a bell and signed 'Japy Fréres'; the clock raised on four spreading square feet; the similar period, but unassociated, gilt-metal and porcelain garnitures of urn-form and having pineapple finials, mythical beast masks and ring handles, raised on elaborate cast bases (one garniture minus front left-hand foot) (the clock 33cm high) (3)
A good early 19th century brass inlaid mahogany-cased eight-day bracket clock; the figured domed top above an eight-inch cream dial with Roman numerals and signed 'P. Lacey - Bristol', flanked by two ring carrying handles above arched gilt-metal fish-scale-style sound apertures, the fine gilded twin fusee movement striking on a bell and with dogtooth and foliate engraving, with original pendulum, raised on four gilt metal ball-style feet, the front two feet with moulded decoration (42cm high x 30cm wide including handles x 17cm deep including convex glass)This comes with an insurance valuation from Montpellier Clocks in Cheltenham who original supplied the clock in 2008. They said it was circa 1825 and the valuation then is the same as that paid for it of £5,500. Signed Mr T. Birch. Looking at it from the front there is a very small fingernail sized piece of moulding away, front right where the arch meets the horizontal moulding at the top. Some of the brass stringing is very slightly proud of the mahogany. The dial looks to be in reasonable condition with some very minor pieces of paintwork away. Being super critical there are slight scuffs around the winding holes and again scratches and paintwork away. The mahogany case on top is of a nice figuring and there is a very small historic L shaped crack of about 1cm in between the 12 an 1 o’clock position at the top of the wood but in the Auctioneer’s opinion this does not detract. The sides look quite good and it is noted that looking at the from the left hand side there is a small 6.5cm piece away at the back of the “fish scale” side fret. The arched back door is glazed and there is an approx. 1cm square piece of mahogany away from the escutcheon hole on the left. The lock looks OK an it has a service ticket on it, which appears to be October 2014 by Time In Hand (Shipston) Ltd. This comes with pendulum, keys etc., and the bell is quite large and striking and the gilded twin fusee movement has been nicely engraved.
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