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Good 19th Century mahogany silver table of Chippendale design, the rectangular galleried top above a blind fretwork frieze and square tapering fluted supports with pierced corner mounts, spade feet and original brass and leather casters, 36.25ins x 22.75ins x 29.75ins high Provenance: Formerly the property of Lord Baden PowellSplits to top
19th century AD. A portable leather-bound prayer book of circa 300 folios bearing ten lines of cursive maghribi script per page in sepia ink, key words highlighted in blue and red ink, a number of folios featuring polychrome illumination and magic squares inscribed with magic numbers; endpapers with manuscript annotations; blind stamped and tooled decorative binding comprising an intricate border and central floral panel with folding closure. 213 grams, 11.2cm (4 1/4"). Ex central London gallery; formerly with Bloomsbury Auctions, 9 July 2009, lot 30; accompanied by a collector's catalogue information page. A portable prayer book suitable for use as a pilgrim's travelling accessory for a journey to Mecca to perform hajj. The magic squares suggest an additional amuletic function, warding off evil. The style and execution of the binding, script and illuminated pages suggest a North African origin. [No Reserve] Text block sound and clean, endpapers worn; binding good with slight separation at hinges.
19th century AD. A vellum text comprising circa 100 folios bound between plain wood boards, blind tooled leather spine; handwritten script in black ink in double-column format, key phrases and words highlighted in red; content covers an unidentified collection of homilies relating to Takla Haymanot and Michael, along with miniatures showing Ezra, Raphael, Mercurious, Eustatius and Takla Haymanot; seven consecutive full-page polychrome devotional illuminations at the front; nine consecutive full-page polychrome devotional illuminations at the back. See for iconography Jäger, O., Deininger-Englhart, L., ‘Some notes on illuminations of manuscripts in Ethiopia’in Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, Vol. 17 (1961), pp.45-60; Choinacki, S., Wiesbaden, 1983. 1.7 kg, 25.7cm (10 1/4"). Ex central London gallery; previously in the collection of Sir Alistair McAlpine; accompanied by a collector's catalogue information page. The seven devotional miniatures of the front represent in the order the Saints to which the Homilies are dedicated, among them Saint Mikhail (Saint Michael), Bet Gorgis (Saint George), Takla Haymanot with the donor. The nine consecutive full-page polychrome devotional illuminations at the back continue the series by representing the Holy Trinity surrounded by the four Cherubims, Saint Raphael, Saint Gabriel and the three Holy Children in the fiery furnace, Saint Michael and the heavenly host, again Saint George killing the dragon, Gabra Manfas Qeddus, A saint, Saint Samuel of Waldebba horsing a lion, a pair of saints. Other two pages with miniatures inside the book represent Joshua and the Archangel Michael, and Takla Heymanot. [No Reserve] Text darkened at edges; binding with broken board detached.
17th-18th century AD. A bound book composed of paper leaves populated with two skoropis hands in black/brown ink; several pages at ends professionally reinforced with paper and tissue with some small loss of text; bound in leather over wooden boards, blind-tooled in panels with geometric and other motifs with remains of two clasps, hinges reinforced in fabric; Amsterdam mark within initials similar to Dianova no. 995, dated 1655; content comprising two independent miscellanies: one collection consisting of homilies and sermons with eschatological and popular content identified as 'from the Book of the Righteous Messiah and of the Antichrist', a story relating to the miraculous appearance of the BVM in the city of Smolensk and to Saint Mercurious, a Sermon about Saints Kirikus and Ulitus, the exemplar of the Court and the Dragon, Sermons by Palladius the Monk and by Cyril of Alexandria, Hippolytus 'Pope' of Rome, Sermon for Shrovetide, and an incomplete item concerning the Antichrist; the second collection drawn mainly from the 'Zlatoust', the traditional Slavonic anthology of Sermons and Homilies ascribed to John Chrysostom, also including Sermons on the Second Coming of Christ, and from the Easter cycle. 1.1 kg, 22cm (8 3/4"). Ex central London gallery; previously in the Paul M. Fekula collection, Sotheby's 29 November 1990; accompanied by a collector's catalogue information page. [No Reserve] Text with damp staining and darkening; binding with some leather loss over boards, reinforced hinges.
Mid 18th century AD. A leather-bound volume composed of parchment leaves, written in black ink in double-column format, rubrics in red; includes at folio 33 verso a polychrome miniature showing Virgin and Child with prostrate donor and flanking angels; at folio 62 verso a full page illumination showing the coronation of the Virgin in the upper register, Saint George on horseback spearing the dragon on the left below, with two saints on the right; bound in leather on wood boards, re-backed in sewn leather with original blind tooled decorated boards depicting an ornate cross within a geometric border. 590 grams, 19cm (7 1/2"). Ex central London gallery; previously in a Hong Kong private collection; accompanied by a collector's catalogue information page. [No Reserve] Text block with some darkening at edges, end leaf loose; binding loose with separation at hinges.
An Edwardian chinoiserie style mahogany display cabinet with breakarch cornice and blind fretwork decoration, 78cm wide x 36.5cm deep x 181cm high together with an American walnut rocking chair, 55cm wide x 109cm high (2)Condition report: Minor marks, dents and scratches due to use, otherwise in good condition; rocking chair later upholstered, minor marks, dents, scratches and wear due to age and use otherwise in good condition
Brilliantly-Crafted Antique Chiming Silver Pocket Watch. Detailed engraving on rear case. White dial with floral decoration. Good condition and in working order. Chain (not with original watch) has key attached. Chime works perfectly. 7cm full diameter. NOTE! All PROCEEDS FROM THIS SALE ARE TO BE DONATED TO GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND.
Original antique advertising poster for Salon des Cent, a commercial art exhibition based at 31 Rue Bonaparte in Paris. The beautiful art nouveau design shows a lady in a broad rimmed black hat, black cloak and fur mantle holding a white flower at a green table, with patterned green wallpaper behind her. The Salon des cent was known for selling posters and reproductions of artwork at accessible prices. Theoretically Le Salon des Cent was a group of 100 exhibiting artists, although the group varied over the years. The exhibition posters have had a considerable influence on the development of the Art Nouveau poster. Fair condition, staining, tears, paper losses, blind embossing. Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 40x29, year of printing: 1890s
A 1940s presentation Epns tray Presented to William Tyrer by the Chief Officials of the Wigan Corporation for 34 and one half years as Town Clerk (56cm x 39cm) and a presentation sculpture of a Guide Dog, Presented to the Stockton on Tees Round Table from the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and a Celtic cross on onyx base (3)
India and the British Raj - Letters from William Ewing to His Dear Brother Malcolm Hart Orr-Ewing From India 1874-1878, a finely bound one-sided family correspondence, 94pp of ink manuscript letters, each linen-laid and collated in pencil by a later hand, all the letters are addressed from Calcutta, via Brindisi, where William seems to have been involved in trade & industry (iron?), and detail the life among the burgeoning British middle-class in India in the first-second decade of the Raj, including accounts of domestic native life (picked-out with vernacular nouns and their English equivalents), typical game and other shoots, anecdotes about fellow British people on the scene, as well as curiosity and concerns for the Ewings back home in Scotland, etc., collected then bound in the latter 19th/early 20th century by Ramage, London, stamped, in brown morocco gilt, slightly bevelled boards with a graduating double-fillet gilt enclosing a singular-fillet in blind, the upper cover lettered in gilt, six-compartment spine of raised bands, gilt-fillet and blind-rolled turn-in, marbled endpapers, the recto pastedown with a gilt tooled and lettered title label, 4to, [1]
Channel Islands, American Revolutionary Wars - Ouless (Philip John, editor & illustrator), The Death of Major FRS. Peirson/6th January, 1781/Being an Account of the Battle of Jersey, with an Appendix of Historical Documents, first and only edition, Jersey: Le Lievre, Bros., 1881, text in English and French, pp: [xviii], 30, XXII, [2], [2] (errata), 8 (List of Subscribers), [1] (blank), illustrated with 7 tipped-in monochrome plates mounted within lithograph scrolling borders, contemporary fine binding of dark green morocco gilt, the upper-cover centred by the Royal Arms and directly lettered in gilt above and below, within a rounded double-fillet in blind and a larger double-fillet conforming in gilt, the lower-cover with the arms of Jersey in gilt, in conforming blind fillet borders, five-compartment spine enclosing foliate motifs between banded friezes, all-edges gilt, brown paper endpapers, 4to, [1]
Golden Cockerel Press - Chamfort (Nicolas) & Mathers (E. Powys, translator), Maxims and Considerations, two-volume set, number 251 from a limited edition of 550, 1926, titles printed in red, blue, and black, contemporary vellum over blue papered boards, fragmentary pictorial dustjackets, untrimmed edges, a couple of sporadic blind stamps, 8vo, (2); Scott (Walter Sidney, editor), two titles: Shelley at Oxford [...], [&] Harriet & Mary [...], numbers 315 & 353 from a limited edition of 500, printed in Perpetua type on Arnold's mould-made paper, gilt-lettered morocco over blue buckram, top-edge gilt, others untrimmed, 4to, (2); Coppard (Alfred Edgar) & Gibbings (Robert, illustrator), The Hundredth Story, first book printed in 'Golden Cockerel' type, number 433 from a limited edition of 1,000, 1931, contemporary green morocco over patterned boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London, stamped, top-edge gilt, other untrimmed, pictorial bookplate: Séan Ó Corcora, 8vo, (1); Whitfield (Christopher) & Sandford (Lettice, illustrator), Lady from Yesterday, 1939, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Miller (Patrick) & Webb (Clifford, illustrator), Ana the Runner: A Treatise for Princes & Generals Attributed to Prince Mahmoud Abdul, 1937, original wrappers (chipped spine), 8vo, (1); Calderon (V.G.), Phibbs (Richard, translator), & Webb (Clifford, illustrator), The White Llama, being La Venganza del Condor, 1938, original wrappers, 8vo, (1), [8]
Legal History, the Commonwealth of England & the Cromwellian Protectorate - Sheppard (William), An Epitome of all the Common & Statute Laws of this Nation, Now in force. Wherein more than Fifteen hundred of the hardest Words or Terms of the Law are Explained; And all the most useful and profitable Heads or Titles of the Law by way of Common Place, Largely, Plainly, and Methodically handled. With an Alphabetical Tables, first edition, London: Printed for W. Lee [...], 1656, printed in Roman and Italic, black-ruled title-page, historiated and foliate initials, collates complete: [A1-A4], b-e2, B- [I4], K-[T4], V-[V4], X-Z4, Aa-[Ii4], Kk-[Tt4], Vv-[Vv4], Xx-[Zz4], Aaa-[Iii4], Kkk-[Uuu4], Xxx-[Zzz4], Aaaa-[Iiii4], Kkkk-[Uuuu4], Xxxx-[Zzzz4], Aaaaa-[Iiiii4], Kkkkk-[Uuuuu4], Xxxxx-[Zzzzz4], Aaaaaa-[Iiiiii4], Kkkkkk-[Uuuuuu4], Xxxxxx-[Zzzzzz4], Aaaaaaa-[Eeeeeee2], contemporary legal calf, blind-ruled, lower-cover exposed board only, spine perished in places but holding, the top fore-edge horizontally inscribed with the author's surname, 4to, [1]
Literature - Utopian Novel, [Berington (Simon)], The Memoirs of Sigr Gaudentio di Lucca [...], first edition, London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1737, 20th century institutional quarter-morocco over red buckram, their stamps, title-page with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription dated 1755, 8vo, (1); Byron (Lord), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt, second edition, London: John Murray, 1812, contemporary marbled boards (detached, perished spine), 8vo, (1); Dickens (Charles), Bleak House, first edition, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, crudely repaired contemporary binidng, 8vo, (faults), (1); Poems on Affiars of State [...], volume IV, London: 1707, contemporary two-tone panelled calf, later blind-blocked with the armorial supralibros of Gerald Poynton Mander (1885 -1951), the Midlands antiquarian and bibliophile, is Tettenhall Wood library book label to pastedown, 8vo, (1); Inchbald's Farces, six-volumes only, London: 1815, 12mo, (6); two miscellaneous pocket volumes of Shakespeare, (2); further 18th century pocket volumes and bindings, various; Virgil's Aeneid, Plutarch, and other Classics; Izaak Walton's Compleat (sic) Angler, facsimile of the 1653 first edition, leather, 8vo, (1); The Waverley Dickens, various; etc., [2 boxes]
Miscellaneous - Johnsonia, Boswell (James) & Ingpen (Roger, editor), The Life of Samuel Johnson, two-volume set, London: Pitman & Sons, 1907, contemporary green cloth gilt, 4to, (1); Armorial Binding, Ashridge House Copy, Letters of James Boswell, Addressed to the Rev. W.J. Temple [...], London: Richard Bentley, 1857, contemporary calf gilt, the covers blocked in gilt with the supralibros of George Egerton, 2nd Earl of Ellesmere (1823-1862), marbled endpapers, 8vo, (1); Ornithology, Morris (Francis Orpen), A History of British Birds, volume III only, lacking all prelims, [London: mid-late 19th century], hand-coloured engravings, repaired half-morocco over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Bagot's Italian Lakes, Black: 1912, pictorial cloth, 8vo, (1); Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, 1834, contemporary blind cloth, 4to, (1); The Studio, volume 86, London: 1923, illustrated, contemporary cloth, 4to, (1); Memoirs, The Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre, 1909, & Lady Dorothy Nevill, 1906, (2); France Illustrated, Supplementary Volume IV: Summer and Winter in Paris, London: [n.d., c. 1850], steel engravings, half-roan, marbled edges and endpapers, plain armorial bookplate: Egerton Leigh, West Hall, High Leigh, Co. Chester, 4to, (1); gilt leather bindings; German illustrated book, tipped-in plates; etc., [19]
Private Presses - Peele (Cecily, illustrator), The Encylopædia of British Bogies, first edition, Oxford: The Alley Workshops, [n.d., 1939], [52]pp, illustrated with 24 woodcuts accompanied by quotations from literature and folk-lore, contemporary pictorial board, 8vo, (1); Gray (Thomas) & O'Connor (John, illustrator), Elegy/Written in a Country Church-Yard, London: The Rodale Press, 1955, 21pp, printed on pale green paper, illustrated with 7 woodcuts printed in green or brown, original cloth over pictorial boards, transparent lettered dust wrapper as issued, calligraphic ink MS ownership inscription and bookplate of Tom Westley (lecturer in typography), 8vo in 4s, (1); Ryder (John), A Suite of Fleurons [...], London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1956, gilt-lettered parchment over marbled boards, 12mo, (1); Binding, Earle (George Chester), "Love's not Time's Fool.", London: "Clarion" Office, [n.d., c. 1900], 36pp, contemporary Arts and Crafts limp brown calf binding, the upper-cover panelled in relief and lettered in blind, 16mo, (1); others, not private presses, including Keats (John) & Sandheim (May, illustrator), Isbaella [...], London: George Routledge, [n.d., 1910], copperplate etching frontispiece, contemporary cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); etc., [8]
Scotland - Brown (Andrew), History of Glasgow; and of Paisley, Greenock, and Port-Glasgow [...], Glasgow: William Paton, 1795, publisher's boards, Trinity College Library, Glasgow, case label and blind stamp, 8vo, (1); Keltie (John S., F.S.A. Scot., editor), A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments [...], Illustrated, two-volume set, Glasgow: M'Gready, Thomson, & Niven, 1879, contemporary boards only, 4to, (2); In the Land of Burns, Select Illustrations of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet, London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1896, contemporary green cloth, oblong folio, (1); etc,. [5]
Travel, Europe - A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy [...], sixth edition, London: 1864, contemporary cloth (split, chipped, etc), 8vo, (1); seven Baedeker Guides, comprising Northern Germany, thirteenth edition, 1900; Belgium and Holland, including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, 1901; another, eighth edition, 1885, (faults); Switzerland, twentieth edition, 1903; Northern Italy, twelfth edition, 1903; Italy, from the Alps to Naples, 1904; Hamburg und die Niederelbe, 1951, each illustrated with fold-out maps and bound in contemporary limp red cloth gilt and blind, (7); others, including Nagel, Cook, etc., (8), [16]
[TOPOGRAPHY] Westall, W. & Moule, T. The Landscape Album, Tilt, London, 1832, full dark green leather by Remnant & Edmonds (blind stamp to upper fore-edge corner of first blank), all edges gilt, sixty paper-protected engraved plate illustrations (including frontispiece, as called for), four pages of publisher's advertisements, octavo. Condition Report : Rubbed; spine ends worn; hinges tender; isolated foxing. Condition reports are offered as a guide only and we highly recommend inspecting (where possible) any lot to satisfy yourself as to its condition.
A Chinese late Qing Dynasty crackle glazed porcelain vase, 19th century, the shape of bronze archaic form with twin brown unglazed lion dog mask and blind ring handles, and central line around the middle, the whole decorated with figures on horseback in mountainous landscapes in famille verte colours, 18cm high
A small French-style three-bottle gilt decorated tabletop decanter set, two front opening doors locked by the lid, with blind fret decorated front, top and sides, the miniature cabinet 12 x 15 x 9cm, height of decanter 7.5cm. CONDITION REPORT Repair to one of the front doors, which has been glued. There are a lot of areas of the blind fret decoration missing or loose.
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976); a signed limited-edition print, 'Crime Lake', signed in pencil lower right, with blind guild stamp, number code BAH/107 lower left, 45 x 60cm, framed and glazed, frame size 75 x 87cm. †Provenance: From a private vendor who purchased it from a gallery exhibition. CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976); a signed limited-edition print, 'The Family', signed in pencil lower right, with blind guild stamp, number code FSJ/559 lower left, 26 x 21cm, framed and glazed, frame size 46 x 48cm. †Provenance: From a private vendor who purchased it from a gallery exhibition. CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976); a signed limited-edition print, 'Three Men and a Cat', signed lower right, previously in pen, the pen mark has disappeared leaving the impression of the signature, with blind guild stamp, number code CBE/215 lower left, 24.5 x 17cm, framed and glazed, frame size 44.5 x 33.5cm. †Provenance: From a private vendor who purchased it from a gallery exhibition. CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
David Shepherd (British 1931-2017) Into the Sunlight came a Tiger, numbered 586/950, signed pencil bottom right, blind stamped bottom left, measurements 38 x 68 cm (i), frame 66 x 93 cm, together with Savuti Sands, numbered 254/1000, measurements 40.5 x 62 cm (i), frame 73 x 90 cm also Evening in Africa, Numbered 1145/1500, measurements 38 x 76 cm (i), frame 68 x 103 cm (3)
An 18th century oak longcase clock, Samuel Roberts of Llanfair Caereinion, the hood with dentil cornice above a blind fretwork frieze, the trunk with shaped and cross-banded door between fluted quarter-column pilasters, the base box with cross-banded panel front, the brass dial signed 'Sam; Roberts Llan-vair', with Roman numerals to the chapter ring and Arabic numerals to the minute track, a calendar aperture inscribed '365' below, the 30-hour movement striking on a bell, with pendulum and weight, 52cm wide x 193cm high.Footnote: Footnote: Samuel Roberts is a well documented clock maker of Llanfair Caereinion in the Montgomeryshire region, now Powys, active between 1750 and the 1780s. Records indicate that he crafted some six hundred pieces, roughly twenty per year, earning him an average of £35 per year. To serve the local community, Roberts established a 'clock club' with customers paying by installments and entering a lottery for each clock as it was completed.Condition report: Hood: several dentils missing from cornice. Losses to blind fretwork frieze moulding. Fine splits to sides. General cosmetic signs of age. Dial: Fair, with minor. Signs of age. Size 12" (300mm).Movement: possible later elements. Strike is one hour ahead of hand position. Does run for around 30 seconds so needs setting up properly and will benefit from a service to re-commission.Case: Small loss to cross banding on door. Door hinges a little loose. Dints to base box moulding. Split across base box front panel. Possibly lacking plinth foot. General cosmetic marks consistent with age and use.
A George III mahogany chest on chest, the upper section with ogee and dentil cornice above a blind fretwork frieze and two short over five long cock-beaded drawers, the base with two long cock-beaded drawers, raised on ogee feet, 111cm wide x 54.5cm deep x 149cm high.Condition report: Splits to the top with some lifting at one end. Minor splits to the sides in the upper section. All handles replaced. Loss and repair to base recess beading on the left side. Losses to cock beading to the side edge of two drawers. Small veneer losses in places. General wear and cosmetic marks throughout consistent with age and use. Locks probably original but in any case contemporaneous and working (with a single key supplied).
A Victorian mahogany mirror back display cabinet, the raised back with a rectangular mirrored plate, flanked by blind fret panels, the stepped base with a bow fronted centre section, flanked by an arrangement of two drawers and two glazed doors, above a recess, on carved cabriole legs, with shaped under tier, 122cm wide.
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