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Framed and glazed Limited edition Cecil Aldin Print "The Grand National - Belcher's Brook" with blind stamp, measures approx 71 x 46cm

An impressive late 19th Century French four glass mantle clockThe rectangular top with a blind gilt metal openwork frieze above four bevelled glass plates enclosing a 12cm gilt metal dial painted with Arabic numerals and "Guichard, Chalan & Saune", the clock with a two-train movement and a mercury-filled pendulum above a conforming openwork frieze raised upon a plinth base with bracket feet, 32cm high.

'Snaffles' 'If there is paradise on earth' An original signed print, with blind stamp, framed and glazed, 27cm x 50cm.

A group of four 18th and 19th century pencil and pen and ink drawings comprising an Arcadian landscape with circular temple and classical figures, signed bottom right J V Huysum, possibly Jan Van Huysum (1682-1749), coloured stamp bottom left, possibly museum stamp, a study of two children playing blind man's buff in the 18th century style, signed indistinctly bottom right, possibly W Beaux, a monochrome watercolour with pen landscape in the French 17th century style with rustic circular building in the foreground and a pen and ink drawing of 18th century figures in a classical statuary garden, both unsigned, all framed and glazed, largest 27 by 32.5cm, framed 44 by 54cm. (4)

George III mahogany corner cupboard, projecting dentil cornice above arched blind fret work frieze, single astragal glazed door enclosing dark green painted interior with three shaped shelves, the door with original iron curtain rail, with key, circa 1780, W86cm, H114cm Condition Report & Further Details Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

20th century oak two tier tea trolley with blind fret work decoration (W69cm, H76cm, D39cm), and an oak standard lamp

AFTER J S PROUT historic print of Newport, 36 x 30cms together with an ARTHUR L COX coloured etching with blind stamp T G P After George Morland with a family outside a house with pig and dog in a fancy antique frame, signed by Cox, 38 x 47cms Condition reports provided on request by email for this auction otherwise items purchased `as seen`

A collection of various items to include handbell inscribed "Fiddian", a smaller handbell, table bell, blind stamp for "Simpoles Limited", two seals, a Capt Fields Improved Rule by H Hughes & Sons of London, two further adjustable rules and an American coffee grinder

A collection of mostly Delta blues LPs including Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell etc.

NO RESERVE Scrapbooks & photographs.- Slade (Fanny S.) Scrapbook, photographs and scrap illustrations, watercolours, drawings etc., photographs, including: Llanberis Lake, Windsor Castle from Eton, Worcester Cathedral, Dumbarton Castle, Aberystwith, Ledbury, Downton Castle, Torrent Walk Dolgelly, Stratford on Avon, Kenilworth Castle, Eastnor Castle, c. 60pp., some ff. loose and working loose, original blind-stamped morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed, Tenbury, 22nd May 1873; and 3 other scrapbooks, sm. 4to (4).

Ruskin (John) Modern Painters..., first edition, publisher's catalogue at end, contents separating a little, original cloth, boards stamped in blind, spine gilt, rubbed and bumped, sympathetic repair to spine head, cloth lifting in a few places, [PMM 315], 8vo, 1843.

NO RESERVE Butterflies & Moths.- Newman (Edward) The Illustrated Natural History of British Moths..., wood-engraved and woodcut illustrations, contents separating in a few places, 1869 § Humphreys (H. Noël) The Genera of British Moths..., 2 vol. in 1, frontispiece and 61 chromolithographed plates, each heightened with gum arabic, lithographed divisional title, all ff. loose, a little foxing and soiling, some to plates, [1860], first editions, original cloth, stamped in blind and/or gilt, g.e., worn, second with loss and a few splits, spines faded or darkened, first shelf-lean; and 6 others, related, 4to & 8vo (8)

Jardine (Sir William, editor) The Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: The Natural History of Humming-Birds, 2 vol., hand-coloured engraved title vignettes and 64 plates, vol.I contemporary gift inscription, vol.II 2 plates shaved at fore edge with loss, contemporary full green morocco, g.e., boards ruled in gilt and tooled in blind, spines gilt in compartments, Edinburgh, 1833; Gallinaceous Birds, hand-coloured engraved title vignette and 30 plates, original cloth, t.e.g., a little marked, spine faded, shelf-lean, [?1866], both engraved plain portrait frontispiece and a few woodcut illustrations, a little faint soiling and browning, 8vo (3) Provenance: Madelaine Jay (bookplates)

Seebohm (Henry) The Geographical Distribution of the Family Charadriidæ, or the Plovers, Sandpipers, Snipes, and their Allies, first edition, first issue, frontispiece and 20 lithographed plates by Hanhart after Keulemans, each with hand-colouring, wood-engraved illustrations by J.G. Millais and others, contents separating, some ff. detached, upper hinge crudely repaired, lower hinge splitting, original cloth, stamped in blind, gilt, and black, rubbed and bumped, cocking, shelf-lean, [Anker 455; Fine Bird Books, p.141; Nissen IVB 850; Wood, p.561; Zimmer, p.568], 4to, [1887].⁂Sotheran's catalogue number 815: "only 220 copies were printed for sale illustrated with coloured plates".Provenance: Frances M. Myers and Madelaine Jay (bookplates)

NO RESERVE Yorkshire.- Hunter (Joseph) Hallamshire. The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, first edition, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, vignettes, list of subscribers, occasional marginal pencil notes, small tears, repaired (frontispiece, title & 2Q1), ex-libris blind-stamp to front free endpaper, spotting, modern half calf, 1819.

NO RESERVE Slavery.- Buxton (Thomas Fowell) The African Slave Trade, second edition, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, occasional spotting, original blind-stamped cloth, a little rubbed and marked, lacking spine, upper cover detached, 1839 § Wilberforce (Robert Isaac & Samuel) The Life of William Wilberforce, 5 vol., 3 engraved portraits, folding table, some foxing, original cloth, rubbed, spines faded, 1838, 8vo (6)

Wassily Kandinsky framed and glazed polychromatic lithograph, abstract forms with blind stamp, 1933 series re-issued in 1982, 45.5 x 58.5cm

Early 19th Century rosewood Davenport of small proportions, the swivel-adjusting top having a sloping fall with blind-tooled skiver over four drawers with wooden knob handles, the uppermost with compartmentalised interior on plinth base with concealed castors, 44cm wide x 81.5cm high Condition:

Early 20th Century mahogany-veneered serpentine-fronted chest of drawers with brushing slide, the crossbanded top over four long drawers between Chippendale-style blind fretwork decorated canted corners on squat cabriole supports, 83cm wide Condition:

Early 20th Century mahogany twin pedestal desk, the moulded rectangular top with gilt and blind tooled skiver over central frieze drawer and kneehole between two banks, each of four panelled drawers with brass swan neck bale handles, 153cm wide Condition:

An early 20th century oak davenport desk, four drawers to the right with a matching four blind drawers to the left, the desk supported on ring and wrythen turned columns

POSTCARDS - ASSORTED Approximately seventy-six cards, including real photographic views of Kerridge Hills, Bollington; St. John's Church, Bollington; Blind Joe's Monument, Alexandra Park; and the Infirmary, Macclesfield; with views of the Grammar School. Ipswich; School and School-house, Farnley Tyas; Welbeck Tunnel Entrance; Booth Bank, Millington (two different); Caldy Village, West Kirby; and others, (album).

AFTER SNAFFLES [CHARLIE JOHNSON PAYNE] (BRITISH 1884-1967) 'The Huntsman, The 'oss loves the 'ound, but I loves both' contemporary limited edition colour print, no 360/500, with vignette and blind bit stamp, 39 x 36cm

AFTER SNAFFLES [CHARLIE JOHNSON PAYNE] (British 1884-1967), Yi-hai! Indian Cavalry (B.E.F.), colour print with vignettes and blind bit stamp, 46.5 x 37.5cm

Boxed New Blind

A group of collectors' items including cased pair of binoculars, oak cased barometer, canvas cased voltmeter, blind stamp press, etc.

LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976); a signed limited edition coloured print, 'The Notice Board', signed in pencil lower right and bearing blind stamp lower left, with letter code for number 033, 40 x 50.25cm, framed and glazed.

LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (1887-1976); a signed limited edition coloured print, 'Ferryboat', published by Venture Prints in 1972, signed lower right and bearing blind stamp and letter to number code for 187 lower left, 30.5 x 40.5cm, framed and glazed.Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk

HELEN LAYFIELD BRADLEY MBE (1900-1979); two signed limited edition coloured prints, each bearing blind stamp lower left, 27 x 37cm, both framed and glazed (2).Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk

TOM DODSON; a signed limited edition print, 'Fish & Chips', no. 550/850, 30.5 x 39.5cm, and two further numbered but unsigned prints, 'The Old Town Hall' and 'A Day After Christmas' (the former af), all with Studio Arts Gallery blind stamp, all framed and glazed (3). Additional InformationThe Old Town Hall print with two holes where the picture hooks have come through the picture with the hooks visible through the two holes.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk

BERNARD MCMULLEN (born 1952); limited edition signed print, 'Belle Vue, Manchester', signed lower right and numbered 489/1000, bearing blind stamps, 42 x 66cm, framed and glazed.Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk

Peter Max, American (born 1937) Lithograph on Paper "Love" Signed and Numbered 79/300 on Lower Margin. Blind Stamps lower left. Measures 10" H x 10" W, frame measures 19-7/8" H x 19-3/4" W. Condition: Good condition Estimate: $500.00 - $700.00 Domestic Shipping: $95.00

A George III mahogany bureau, the well figured fall front enclosing a fitted interior with central cupboard flanked by blind fret carved secret compartments, six pigeonholes and six drawers, over four graduated oak lined drawers with later pierced brasses, on shaped bracket feet, 41 x 20in. (104 x 50.75cm.), 41¾in. (106cm.) high.

A good Victorian burr walnut and marquetry work table, the lobed rectangular top in quarter veneers with floral marquetry spandrels and tulip wood banding, enclosing a well fitted interior with easel back gilt tooled green leather writing surface, flanked by stationary compartments, over a single cedar lined drawer with conforming marquetry and satinwood veneered interior, the waste box below with similar marquetry and original hand blocked paper lining, raised on twin turned and blind carved supports to swept blind carved legs with brass and china castors, united by a turned centre stretcher, 28 x 18¼in. (71 x 46.5cm.), 29½in. (75cm.) high.

A George I burr and figured walnut eight day longcase clock by John Carter of London, the arched brass dial with silvered Roman chapter ring and Arabic outer minute track, gilt brass mask spandrels and matted centre with silvered sub. seconds at 12, date aperture at 6 and harboured winding holes, signed to a silvered convex roundel to arch within a foliate border and gilt brass dolphin spandrels, fronting an eight day bell strike movement with five knopped pillars, the case with cavetto moulded arched top with three gilt brass ball finials, over a blind fret carved frieze and secondary step moulded arch, on gilt brass stop fluted columns, the trunk with moulded arched and feather banded door and cross banded sides, on a cross and feather banded base with shaped bracket feet, 92½in. (235cm.) high.

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), Carpet Beaters v Bobbery Wallahs, coloured print, signed in watercolour l.r., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 50cm by 75cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), Tally-Ho Back, colour print, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 36.5cm by 46.5cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), Great Banks There Was Below in the Fields, print heightened with watercolour, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 49.5cm by 74cm, discolouration to margins

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), The Biggest Walls in the Country was in it, coloured print, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 49cm by 69cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), The Season 1939-40, colour print, signed in pencil l.r., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 51.5cm by 73.5cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), A National Candidate, colour print, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 42.5cm by 41cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), Foxcatchers, colour print, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 38.5cm by 35.5cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), The Timber Merchant, colour print, signed in pencil l.r., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 45.5cm by 41.5cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), Swagger - but a Workman, colour print, signed in pencil l.r., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 39cm by 36cm

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), 'Andsome Is - Wot 'Andsome Does, colour print, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 45cm by 42cm, slight wear and white marks to margin

"Snaffles", Charles Johnson Payne (1884-1967), The Sparrow-Catchin Sort, colour print, signed in pencil l.l., bit blind-stamp, framed & glazed, 46cm by 43cm

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, second Ticknor & Fields edition, Boston: 1866. 24mo, original blue cloth, blind-embossed boards with gilt title to spine, all edges gilt, contents good with slight foxing to plates. Originally purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, New York (paperwork loosely inserted). Together with another three copies of the same in varying condition; two copies with the scarce 'J R Stephenson' at base of spine (4) [Coigney 86]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, fourth Nicolas edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1887. Publisher's blind-embossed cloth with gilt pictorial upper board, morocco title label to spine, 32 pages of publisher's advertisements at rear (dated July, 1895). Contents generally good and bright with occasional wear/loss to page corners. [Coigney 134]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, seventh Bethune edition, in two volumes, New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1888]. Publisher's blind-embossed pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, bookplates for The Library of Adrien and Helen Falk, San Francisco. Good, clean, bright; bindings tight and solid with a little wear to extremities. (2) [Coigney 137]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler, first Le Gallienne edition, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1897. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, top edge stained green, remainder untrimmed (some pages uncut), Angler's Calendar and publisher's advertisements at rear, illustrated with views of Derbyshire (Beresford Hall, Ashbourne, Brailsford, Thorpe Cloud, Alstonfield, various pubs/inns). Contents good and bright, some foxing to endleaves; binding good and tight. Together with another copy of the same in publisher's blind-embossed coarse olive cloth. (2) [Coigney 182]

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, two copies of the first Davies edition, [1878], one in publisher's pictorial green cloth (binding as Coigney's first and second variants), the other in red pictorial cloth (Coigney's fourth variant but not blue) [Coigney 102]; fifth Davies edition, [1880], publisher's pictorial brown cloth (different to Coigney's mustard yellow) [Coigney 111]; seventh Davies edition, 1884, blue cloth with paper title label [Coigney 121]; two copies of the eleventh Davies edition, [1890], one in blue cloth with gilt spine, the other in red pictorial cloth [Coigney 149]; two copies of the fourteenth Davies edition, [1895], one in blue cloth with blind-embossed '58' to lower board (as per Coigney), the other in grey/blue worn cloth [Coigney 168] (8)

Walton, Izaak; Charles Cotton. The Complete Angler, collection of editions not listed by Coigney (or differing in some way from those listed by Coigney), comprising: Frederick Warne, "Chandos Classics", not 1888 as inscribed in pencil, doesn't appear to be recorded (no mention elsewhere of the Lansdowne advertisements to front and rear pastedown), publisher's maroon buckram with '58' blind-stamped to upper board; first Lowell edition, c.1889, Little, Brown, & Company, but unlike Coigney's [144] because the title page bears no date, publisher's red cloth; the first Cassell edition, 1886, bound together with two other Cassell titles from the same year (Sermon's on the Card and Childe Harold), not recorded by Coigney; a Cassell edition, c.1886, bound together with the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, recorded by Coigney for the first time in his addenda; an edition published in Philadelphia by John C. Winston Co., (no reference in Coigney), full leather with upper board detached; Cassell edition, 1905, in publisher's reversed calf, not listed by Coigney but referred to: 'Both Horne and Oliver list a Cassell reprint dated 1905 which they have not seen and cannot describe, the only listing which mentions it being the catalogue of C. W. Bushell's Private Angling Library (Australia), probably confused with this edition (No.226). It is therefore not listed here.'; a Davies edition not recorded by Coigney, which lists 75 Chandos Classics to front pastedown (Coigney's 103 lists 50, and his 107 lists 78); the true Japanese second edition, Tokyo, Kenkyusha, 1935, not listed by Coigney though he does say the following: 'The Kenkyusha textbook had probably two more editions between 1926 and 1936; I have not seen a copy of these' [Coigney, p.245]; a Collins edition not listed by Coigney, with seven pages of advertisements indicating that Illustrated Classics are priced at 2/6 and 5/- (Coigney 293 states 2/- and 4/-); a Nelson edition with all the main features of Coigney 390 (1954), but with gift inscription dated 1950; a Collins edition, no advertisements as in Coigney 329, binding and pages different; an edition published by Gordon Classic Library (no reference in Coigney); two copies of a Modern Library edition not recorded by Coigney, which list '362 Outstanding Books' to verso of dust-jacket (Coigney's 364 lists 341, and Coigney's 378 lists 371), along with another Modern Library edition that lists 271, one that lists 281, and one that lists 304 (17)

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947), British statesman and Conservative Party politician who served as Prime Minister on three occasions. Collection of three autograph letters addressed to Miss Ellis and The Digging Party. House of Commons headed paper, dated 17 March, 1924; 10 Downing Street headed paper, blind-stamped 'Prime Minister', dated 30 December, 1924; Palace Chambers headed paper, dated 7 April 1924. Each letter entirely handwritten in black ink and signed clearly. Housed in an envelope, stamped Prime Minister, postmarked 30 December 1924, addressed to The Digging Party, Hampden House, Great Missenden, Bucks (3)

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Dublin: Webb and Chapman, 1845. First Irish edition, published the same year as the first American edition and before the first UK edition of 1846. Publisher's original blue blind-embossed cloth with gilt title to spine, pale yellow endpapers bearing owner inscription, 'Willm Moore, purchased of Frederick Douglass at the Subscription Rooms Exteter, August 29th 1846' (it is documented that Douglass gave an address at the Royal Subscription Rooms to generate support for the abolition of slavery in the United States). Preface outlines the reasons for fleeing to England and Ireland, 'For it may not be generally known in Europe, that a slave who escapes from his master is liable, by the Constitution of the United States, to be dragged back into bondage'. Contents generally good throughout with pale spotting in places, binding tight and solid with some discolouration to edges/spine; a good copy of a scarce and important work

Laurence Stephen Lowry R.B.A., R.A., (British, 1887-1976), 'Britain at Play', colour print, signed l.r., Fine Art Trade Guild blind-stamp l.l., 47 by 61cm, framed Note: Artist Resale Rights apply

A large Pair of continental figure groups, both with two ladies and a gent playing the game Blind Mans Bluff, circa 1890, blue swords mark, 20cm high, 19.5cm diameter (2)Condition: wear to gilded rim lines, manufacturing flaws  to pink base lines, (appears to be where bases touched during firing process) Otherwise good  No damage or restoration

A George III mahogany chest on chest, decorated with blind fretwork throughout, the upper section with three short over three long graduated drawers, the base section with a brushing slide over three long graduated drawers, all drawers retaining original handles and locks, standing on bracket feet, 190cm high, 110cm wide, 60cm deep 

John Bunyan The Pilgrims Progress from This World to That Which is to Come delivered under the similitude of A Dream complete in 2 parts An Entire New and Complete Edition embellished with copperplate engravings, to which are now added Notes by William Mason, printed for Alex Hogg, no date, but inscribed 1795 leather boards professionally re-backed with raised bands, blind stamped panels and gilt lettering with copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses published 1811 bound in contemporary leather (2)    

[Binding] Paul Et Virginie by J.H. Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, published Paris 1838 with text engravings and full page illustrations, many on proof paper bound in full blind embossed leather with decorative gilt borders, both covers gilt decorated spine and gilt lettered leather label  

Beryl Cook signed print 'Birthday Cake' with blind stamp lower left and signed in pencil to lower right, 69 x 53cm overall