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Lot 3599
Local Interest - Peak District, Jewitt (Llewellynn, F.S.A.): Chatsworth, Illustrated by Upwards of Fifty Engravings, bound with, Haddon Hall: An Illustrated Guide and Companion to the Tourist and Visitor, with Notices of Buxton, Bakewell, Rowsley, Matlock Bath, and Other Places in the Neighbourhood, Illustrated by Upwards of Fifty Engravings, J.C. Bates, Buxton 1871 - 1872, contemporary buckram boards, pictorial gilt, square 8vo; Carrington (W.A.), Selection from the Stewards' Accounts Preserved at Haddon Hall, From 1549 to 1671, Bemrose and Sons, Limited, Derby [n.d., 1906], contemporary maroon cloth gilt, 8vo; Cokayne (Andreas Edward), Bakewell and Its Vicinity: Excursions, Drives, and Walks; With a Table of Authorized Carriage Fares from Bakewell to and from Haddon & Chatsworth, and Some Notes on Stone Circules and other Rude Stone Monuments, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London 1888, contemporary blue cloth gilt, 12mo; Some Scraps of History Relating to Bakewell and its Church, Compiled by William Boulsover, J. Smith, Bakewell 1908, printed card boards, 8vo; Wright (G.T., J.P.), Longstone Records, Derbyshire, Dedicated by permission to The Rt. Hon. Victor Christian William Cavendish, P.C., M.P., Benjamin Gratton, Bakewell 1906, contemporary cloth and buckram, gilt lettered upper cover and spine, 4to; Youlgreave: Stamper (W. Parker), Youlgrave (sic): A Few Interesting Notes and Facts, Printed and Published by B. Gratton, Bakewell 1902, contemporary red buckram gilt, 8vo; Some Account of Youlgrave (sic), Middleton & Alport, Printed by W. Ligo & Son, Bakewell 1931, printed card covers, 8vo; Evans (Seth), Bradwell: Ancient and Modern, History of the Parish and Incidents in the Hope Valley & District, Being Collections and Recollection in Peakland Village, Broad Oaks Press, Chesterfield 1912, contemporary green buckram gilt, 8vo; Porter (William Smith), Notes from a Peakland Parish: An Account of the Church and Parish of Hope [...], J.W. Northend Ltd., Sheffield 1923, contemporary buckram gilt, 8vo; Wood (William), The History and Antiquities of Eyam; With a Minute Account of the Great Plague [...], third edition, Bell and Daldy, London 1859, contemporary blue buckram, 12mo; Bunting (Wm Braylesford), The Parish Church of St. Thomas à Becket, Chapel-en-le-Frith, 1225 - 1925, Sherratt & Hughes, Manchester 1925, contemporary buckram, 8vo; etc, [12]
Lot 118
A George III mahogany bracket clock. The dial having gilt spandrels, silver chapter ring, the plaque inscribed Henry Codey London, date aperture and a strike/silent dial. The mahogany case having gilt acorn finials, glass panels and bun shaped feet. The double fusee movement having a verge escapement, fully engraved backplate and striking on a bell, 21" h x 12 "w
Lot 384
An early 19thC oak and mahogany longcase clock by John Wood, Grantham, with swan neck pillared hood containing a 30cm W painted and signed arched dial with floral spandrels and Roman and Arabic numerals, 8-day movement striking a bell, above a short moulded trunk door, on splayed feet 201cm H.
Lot 1556
Burslem 19thC flame mahogany cased longcase clock with 8 day movement striking on a bell, 36cm painted Roman dial, moon phase, spandrel corners representing various nations, banding and carved and turned pillars to the case and turned pillars and swan neck pediments to the hood, 224cm tall.
Lot 380
Scottish. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Officer’s Full Dress sporran.A scarce example. The black leather cantle is mounted with regimental devices and edged with a gilt metal mount with engraved decoration. The white goats hair, with five gold bullion tassels, each with a gold bullion net bell. The reverse of red leather and retaining pocket, complete with belt. Housed in the original sporran case with chamois lining to the interior. The exterior of the tin with painted name of “N.P. Farquhar A & S H”. The sporran remains in clean condition, with one or two repairs made during its working life.
Lot 392
Early 19th Century Scottish Highland Sporran.This example of white goat hair, mounted with six black tassels, each supported by a plain silvered bell. The cantle is of black patent leather, mounted to the centre with a silvered circle engraved with an armorial crest bearing the motto “Noli Me Tangere”. This is flanked by thistles and the cantle is edged with a silvered band. The reverse with leather backing and pocket. GC slight age wear.
Lot 297
An 18 th century oak longcase clock the stepped caddy top hood enclosing a 12” brass dial with silvered chapter ring and Roman numerals subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture and marked Pearson Don eight-day movement striking on a bell above a full-length trunk door between fluted quarter pilasters over an ogive moulding and on bracket feet, approx. 226cm high
Lot 1556A
A 19thC George III oak and mahogany banded and inlaid longcase clock with 8 day movement striking on a bell, 37cm arch top, painted Roman dial decorated with Highland lovers by lake and castle, spandrel corners representing the four nations, secondary Arabic dials for day and seconds and pagoda top and brass finials to the inlaid hood, raised on bracket feet, 225cm tall.
Lot 681
Chris Morris signed Mosquito Aircraft Museum MAM 5 official cover. Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the maiden flight of the prototype Chipmunk. Flown in Canadian built Chipmunk G-AKDN from Seething in Norfolk by Pilot Mr Chris Morris, who signed this cover. Centenary of the first telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell GB stamp. DHC 1 Chipmunk Hatfield Herts 22nd May 1976 postmark. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 108
Strickland (Hugh Edwin, & Alexander Gordon Melville). The Dodo and its Kindred; or the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and Other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Rodriguez, and Bourbon, 1st edition, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848, half-title, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, 17 lithographic or anastatic plates including frontispiece (2 hand-coloured, 2 tinted; 1 of the latter folding), 16 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, without errata slip, light toning, mild finger-soiling to title page and pp. 27-8, plates mounted on guards, apparent printing flaw in frontispiece skilfully restored, plate 2 slightly browned and with marginal damp-staining, ownership inscription 'Percy E. Coombe, 1896' to half-title and another 19th-century ownership inscription ('Revd Thomas Bell') to title page (see note), occasional ink or pencil marginalia and underlining to text, 7 pp. detailed annotations in Coombe's hand and mounted engravings and newspaper cuttings to terminal blanks, Niagara University library and deaccession ink-stamps to blanks, 19th-century green half calf, spine faded, joints slightly rubbed, large 4to (31.5 x 24,7 cm) Anker 486; Nissen IVB 900; Sitwell p. 145; Wood p. 585 ('The standard work on the subject'); Zimmer p. 606 ('A detailed account'). The list of subscribers records 127 copies printed. Provenance: Reverend Thomas Bell (ownership inscription), possibly the noted zoologist whose edition of White's Natural History of Selborne appeared in 1877; Percy E. Coombe (ownership inscription and annotations), correspondent of Edward Lear and of ornithologist O. V. Aplin (see Aplin, 'On the Distribution of the Cirl Bunting in Great Britain', in Harting, ed., The Zoologist, volume 16, p. 175). (1)
Lot 178
England & Wales. A mixed collection of approximately fifty maps, mostly 19th century, engraved maps, many with contemporary hand colouring, including examples by S.D.U.K., Bell, Wilkinson, Archer, Weller, J & C Walker, Hall, Arrowsmith, Bartolomew, Russell, Johnston, Neele, Dufour, Faden, Wyld, Davies and Thomson, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.50)
Lot 235
Scotland. A mixed collection of approximately thirty maps, 19th century, engraved map, many with contemporary outline colouring, including examples by S.D.U.K., Johnston, Bell, Hall, Fullarton, Blackie, Wilkinson, Collins, Archer, Dower, Cary and Laurie & Whittle, occasional duplicates, various sizes and condition (approx.30)
Lot 260
*Aldin (Cecil Charles Windsor, 1870-1935). The George Dorchester Oxon, The Bell at Waltham (2 copies), Moreton Old Hall Cheshire [and] The George at Salisbury, published Eyre & Spottiswoode, together 5 colour photolithographs, each signed in pencil by artist to lower left, each approximately 430 x 350 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (5)
Lot 323
[Bateman, John Fitzherbert]. Aquatic notes, or sketches of the rise and progress of rowing at Cambridge, by a Member of the C.U.B.C., with a Letter, containing hints on Rowing and Training, by Robert Coombes, Champion-Sculler, Cambridge: J. Deighton ; London: G. Bell, 1852, [2], xi (mispaginated, actually i-vi, ix-xi), [1], 106pp., half-title present, lacking final leaf of text (page 107) provided in facsimile, dampstain throughout volume, occasional pencil scribbles to few leaves, front endpaper with ownership signatures (including ealy signature of an Arthur D. Hughes), lacking rear free endpaper, original gilt & blind blocked blue cloth, spine worn with slight loss mostly at head and foot, few marks, slim 8vo Scarce first book on rowing at Cambridge. Robert Coombes (1808-1860) was a distinguished Thames waterman, oarsman and sculler. His first public race took place in 1838 and he was Champion of the Thames from 1846-1852. His knowledge was exploited successively by the Oxford (1840) and Cambridge (1846, 1849 both races) Boat Race crews. Cambridge asked him to coach again in 1852, but a dispute broke out about the use of professional trainers, with the result that for many years both sides avoided professionals and men of working class origins. Provenance: James Gee Pascoe Crowden CVO (1927-2016). He was an English former oarsman who competed for Great Britain in the 1952 Summer Olympics. The vice-president of the British Olympic Association and a Steward of Henley Regatta. He also served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely in 1970 and Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire from 1992 to 2002. (1)
Lot 474
Kasparov (Garry). On My Great Predecessors, 5 volumes, Everyman Chess, mixed editions, 2003-06, uniform original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, together with Cassia Editions (publishers), Bled, 1931, International Chess Tournament, by Hans Kmoch, 1987, Johannes Zukertort, Artist of the Chessboard, by Jimmy Adams, 1989, St. Petersburg 1914 International Chess Tournament, by Siegbert Tarrasch, 1993, Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory, by Macon Shibut, 1993, Carl Schlechter! Life and Times of the Australian Chess Wizard, by Warran Goldman, 1994, The Second International Chess Tournament, Moscow, 1935, by Jimmy Adams and Sarah Hurst, USA, 1998, all uniform original red cloth, 8vo, and Stohl (Igor), Garry Kasparov's Greatest Chess Games, 2 volumes, Gambit, 2005, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, plus other modern chess history and reference, including publications by Bell, Oxford, Cadogan Chess, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves + a carton)
Lot 89
Morris (Francis Orpen). A History of British Birds, 2nd edition, George Bell & Sons, 1870, 365 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, 8 pp. publisher's catalogue dated June 1882 to rear of each volume, volumes 1 and 3 almost entirely unopened, other volumes partly unopened, original green pictorial cloth gilt, minor worming to joints of volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6 and to spine of volume 4, with the pictorial dust jackets (paper-repairs verso), large 8vo, together with: A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, George Bell & Sons, 1879, 233 chromolithographic plates numbered 1-232 (including a plate numbered 17*), original blue pictorial cloth gilt, large 8vo Anker 346 (British Birds, fifth edition only); Freeman 2670 & 2673; Mullens & Swann pp. 417-8; Nissen IVB 645 & 646; Sitwell p. 125 (British Birds only); Wood p. 472; Zimmer pp. 443 & 444 (Nests and Eggs, fourth edition only). Bright sets of one of the most popular British bird books of the 19th century and of the author's companion work, the former remarkably preserved in its original dust jackets. (9)
Lot 449
A mahogany long case clock, by Thompson of Woodbridge, the painted dial surmounted by a rocking ship mechanism, 8 day movement striking on a bell, full length trunk panel door raised on a box base, the hood flanked by Corinthian columns and brass capitals, and arched pediment surmounted by turned finials, 210cm high, (Philip Thompson, 1807-1830, Thoroughfare, Woodbridge)
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