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Tilson (Charlotte Sophia) The Gem or The Lady's Album. Being a Miscellaneous Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse Anecdotes, Sentiments, Reflections etc., large 8vo autograph mss. album of romantic musings on the twelve months (each month with sectional title), each section illustrated with a finely-executed ink, watercolour or pencil drawing of natural history, or figurative historical, religious, allegorical subjects, landscapes etc; pp. 307, a few blanks, custom-bound in scuffed and rubbed cream sheep with blind patterning, gilt decoration and with title stamped in gilt to cover, a.e.g. The block disbound from backstrip and stitching loosening so first two gatherings attached by a thread only. Internally sound, the colours still bright (some protective tissues remain). TILSON (1803-1892) MARRIED JANE'S COUSIN, CLERGYMAN JOHN THOMAS AUSTEN (1794-1876), IN 1832. An exceptionally fine example of a Regency lady's album, exhibiting good draughtsmanship and calligraphy (1)
Wells (H.G.) FIRST EDITION BOOKS All 8vos, original hard cloth, including: The War in the Air, 1908, London, G. Bell, 16 plates, worn pictorial cover, scattered foxing; Russia in the Shadows. London, [1920], Hodder and Stoughton, publisher's red cloth, ruled and lettered in black; Kipps. The Story of a Simple Soul, 1905, L., Macmillan and Co., adverts dated 10.10.05, original green cloth, front cover lettered in gilt and with blind panel of fruits, t.e.g.; This Misery of Boots [pamphlet], 1907, L., The Fabian Society, original pictorial green wrappers lettered in red, frayed extremities, chipping to spine head and tail; The Croquet Player: A Story, 1936, Chatto & Windus, original mottled green and black cloth; Star Begotten, 1937, C & W, dedication to Winston Churchill; Mind at the End of its Tether, 1945, Heinemann, d.j.; The Soul of a Bishop, 1917, Cassell; The History of Mr Polly, 1910, Nelson; Mankind in the Making, 1903; New Worlds For Old, 1908; God, the Invisible King, 1917; with H.G. Wells A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1966, H.G. Wells Society and The History of Mr. Wells by Michael Foot, and two others. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, varying degrees of ware to spines (some a little faded), some foxing to edges of blocks, fair to good copies overall (17)
AFTER SNAFFLES (CHARLES JOHNSON PAYNE 1884-1967) "GOOD HUNTING! OLD SPORTSMAN", (The Gunner) hand coloured print. with embossed snaffle bit blind stamp to margin, size of central image 28cm x 20cm. Plain ebonised frame and glazed, together with "Jock and The Canadian" with blind stamps and remarques, all framed.
MILITARY AND NAVAL FIGURES WITH IRISH INVOLVEMENTA COLLECTION INCLUDING- D'Evereux, General John, Commander of the Irish Legion in South America. ALS from Gresham Hotel I send you my sword to admire …… Also, his signature on a carte de visite, Gresham Hotel, 21 Upper Sackville Street. - Grenfell, Francis Wallace, 1st Baron, 1841 - 1925, Field Marshal, Commander-in-Chief Ireland. ALS. ALS to Mr A C Barber, sending his autograph, 1 side 8 Vo on Blind stamped letterhead The Royal Hospital Dublin. - McClintock, Rear Admiral, Sir Francis Leopold, 1819 - 1907; Significant Irish born Naval Officer and Explorer. ALS Monasterboice House Drogheda 6th May 1874 to the wife of another Irish Military figure Brigadier General LRB Oldfield.- Rose, Hugh Henry, Baron Strathnairn, (1801 - 1855) Field Marshal. 4pps ALS signed Strathnairn seeking details of a battle.- Sir Stapleton Catlon, Viscount Cambermere (1772 - 1865) Served in Ireland in 1790 and was returned from 1822 to 1825 as Commander in Chief, ALS. - Blackwood, Sir Henry (1770 - 1832) Irish born British Admiral, served with Nelson at Trafalgar, 3 page ALS.- Beresford Lord Charles (1846 - 1919) Rear Admiral MP for Waterford. widely known to the British public as Charles B and considered by many to be a personification of John Bull and was normally accompanied by his trademark a bulldog. ALS on Claridges Hotel letterhead to Lord Milner agreeing to meet at the Rhodes Trust.
A Chinese Chippendale display cabinet, leafy edged square plateau supported by fretworked pylon and S-form supports to pediment, pierced three quarter gallery over three shelves, display plateau to top shelf, fretworked sides, projecting base, gadrooned border, blind fretworked frieze, tapering square supports. 181cm high x 102cm wide x 40cm deep.
LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY OAK AND MAHOGANY CROSSBANDED LONGCASE CLOCK, with Halifax rolling moonphase, signed Lister and Bromley, Halifax, the 12 1/2" silvered dial with rolling moonphase and subsidiary date dial to the foliate scroll engraved centre, enclosed by scroll pierced gilt spandrels and powered by an eight day movement striking on a bell, housed in a base with swan neck pediment, blind fret carved frieze and fluted, free standing fore columns, over a long trunk door with wavy top, flanked by fluted quarter columns and raised on a conforming base with chamferred fore corners and ogee bracket feet, 90" (228.6cm) high
LATE VICTORIAN CARVED AND PIERCED DARK MAHOGANY DISPLAY/SIDE CABINET, the stooped top surmounted by a low back with three bevel edged mirrors and arched centre section, above a bow fronted cupboard with fabric lined single shelf to the mirror back interior, over and open shelf and flanked by a pair of short drawers with blind fret cut fronts and a pair of glazed cupboard doors, raised on leaf capped cabriole supports with scroll foot, 58 1/2" (148.6cm) high, 56 1/2" x 21" (143.5 x 53.3cm)
A CIRCA 1820 OAK CASED BRASS DIAL LONGCASE CLOCK by Lewis, Llanidloes, the 11.25 ins dial set with Roman numerals and figural spandrels before a single weight pendulum driven movement striking on a bell, the single door square hood with blind fretwork decoration and reeded square door flanking columns, the trunk with reeded canted sides and long shaped top trunk door, with a plain trunk base, 193.5 cms high, 60.5 cms at its widest
A 19th century mahogany library bookcase, the upper section enclosed by three rectangular glazed and moulded panelled doors revealing segmented adjustable shelves to interior, the lower section enclosed by three further rectangular but blind panelled doors, 166 cm wide x 241 cm height approx
HOSKYN, E L: Stories of Old. A&C Black, 1912, 1st. edn. With 12 coloured allegorical maps by Lillian Tennant, each showing a historical or mythological character set within a map of the country of the story’s origin. Publishers decorative boards with colour printed panel to upper cover (chipped with small loss); small blind stamp to title page: “Presentation Copy”; covers worn; maps very clean.
LIVERPOOL:1. MOORE, E: Liverpool in Charles the Second’s Time. Henry Young, 1899, Limited edition of 250 copies only, with Plates and Maps; 4to.Pplii, 188. Original cloth; small nick to head of spine; occasional foxing; o/w VG; 2. Brooke, R: Liverpool, As it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century 1775 to 1800. Liverpool, J. Mawdsley,1853, 1st. Edn. With 6 plates & 3 woodcuts. 558pp; ex-libra with small blind stamp to tp & plates; original cloth; worn & chipped; o/w G; 3. Thompson, J: Liverpool & Neighbourhood In Ye Olden Time.. Liverpool, W. Potter, 1894, 126pp. Presentation copy from author to his son; original cloth gilt; covers little blotched; o/w G+; 4. Muir, R: Bygone Liverpool. Liverpool, H. Young,1913, 1st. edn. With 97 plates; 4to. original cloth gilt; VG+; 5. Liverpool Prints and Documents Catalogue.. Liverpool, Library Museum..,1908. 4to. 374pp original cloth gilt; lacking front endpaper; occasional foxing; 6. Budden, C. W: Introduction to the Ancient Churches of the Liverpool Diocese. Liverpool, 1929, 1st. 125pp, with numerous plates. original cloth; VG; 7. Muir, R: History of Liverpool, with Maps & ill. Liverpool University Press,1907, 1st. edn. With 20 Maps & plates; original cloth; occasional foxing; o/w VG. (7)
A FIGURED MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD, IN CHIPPENDALE STYLE WITH TRELLIS PIERCED LEDGE BACK, GADROON BORDERS OVER A BLIND FRET CARVED FRIEZE, A NEST OF THREE CENTRE DRAWERS FLANKED BY END CUPBOARDS, ONE FITTED WITH TRAY SHELF AND CELLARETTE DRAWER, ON ACANTHUS CARVED CABRIOLE FRONT SUPPORTS, CLAW AND BALL FEET, 6' WIDE
Original vintage happiness propaganda poster published by the National Research Bureau featuring a motivational quote by the American author, political activist and lecturer Helen Keller (1880-1968): "Keep your face to the sunshine ...And you cannot see the shadows" in black letters over a bright stylised yellow sun and in white and yellow letters against a black background. Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. Printed in U.S.A. by the National Research Bureau, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. Excellent condition, faint staining on left margin. USA,1960s. Designer: Unknown. Size (cm):56x43
An early 19th Century mahogany kneehole desk / dressing table of small proportions, the plain top with moulded edge over a central drawer and secret drawer over a recessed cupboard door, flanked by two banks of three drawers and blind fretwork decorated canted corners, to ogee bracket feet, with replacement brass handles, 92 cm wide x 68 cm high
A Carolean carved walnut framed armchair, the caned back with scrolling acanthus carved frame on barley-twist supports with pineapple finials, the swept open arms with acanthus carved scroll ends on barley-twist supports, the caned seat with blind fretwork carved scrolling foliate decoration, raised on block and barley-twist supports united by barley-twist stretchers CONDITION REPORTS Various chips, scratches, marks, small splits, small losses etc throughout. There are woodworm holes on all elements but predominantly on the wood in the seat and to the bottom of the back splat. All over general various signs of wear and tear throughout
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