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A fine Victorian painted satinwood semi-elliptical side cabinet, in neo-classical style, fitted with a shallow drawer and two blind drawers to frieze above a pair of doors, painted with five classically draped female figures standing on clouds and holding flower sprays and garlands, the top with Venus and Cupid resting amidst clouds, outlined throughout with tulipwood and mahogany crossbands, boxwood and ebony stringing, embossed brass oval handles, the square tapering legs and spade feet beneath panelled pilasters headed by moulded ovals, 53in wide, 58in high, c.1880
Victorian mahogany Dickens desk, circa 1860, fitted with eight small drawers to the back and centred with a single shelf over a slope front with later tooled leather inset, opening to reveal drawers and pigeonholes, fitted three frieze drawers over pedestals with three further drawers opposing a cupboard door with a three blind drawer front, all with turned wooden knobs, raised on a plinth base, width 150cm
Collins, Greenville, Des Costes D' Angleterre, D'Ecosse et D'Irelande, [n.p.], ca. 1755, folio (510 x 355mm.), 16 engraved plates and charts (of 19), later hand-colouring, all disbound and mounted, lacking title and preliminary leaves, index leaf loose and laid down, contemporary calf, coat-of-arms blind stamped in gilt on front and back cover.
Beche, Henry Thomas de la, A Geological Manual, London, by Richard Taylor for, Treuttel and Wurtz, Treuttel Jun, and Richter, 1832, 12mo (190 x 100mm.), half title, illustrated title, illustrations, new endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, title label pasted down onto spine, Second Edition. Beche, Henry Thomas de la, How to Observe. Geology, London, Charles Knight, 1836, 12mo (200 x 110mm.), illustrations, a few leaves blind stamped with 'The North Devon Athenaeum, Barnstable', contemporary green cloth, title label pasted down onto spine, bookplate of The North Devon Athenaeum, Barnstable. With Hugh Miller's 'The Old Red Sandstone or, New Walks in an Old Field' (Edinburgh, 1865).
Special bindings - small press, John J. O'Meara (trans.) The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land, Dolmen Press, Dublin, in association with Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1976. ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES with hand-coloured illustrations and specially bound in calf with a vignette of St Brendan stamped in gilt and blind on upper board; top edge gilt and in original slipcase. SIGNED by O'Meara who translated the ninth century Latin text and also wrote the introduction. The woodcut illustrations are reproduced from Sankt Brandans Seefahrt printed in Augsburg in 1476; book design is by Dublin artist Liam Miller and set in Pilgrim type with uncial initials in Victor Hammer; printed on Van Gelder mouldmade 'Union' paper. Whilst 750 copies were made, only 50 had coloured illustrations and the special binding. A beautiful book to be treasured. €300-€400
A mahogany bureau bookcase of Georgian design, the upper part with moulded and key pattern cornice and blind fret frieze, fitted three adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of "thirteen pane" astragal glazed doors, the slope enclosing shaped interior fitted central cupboard, pigeon holes and six small drawers, two short and two long drawers under, on bracket feet, 34ins wide x 86ins high
A 30 Hour Longcase Clock by John Shepley (Stockport), the brass 107.8-inch dial with matted centre and date aperture, the chapter ring with bold 1.2 hour markers, in an oak case with shaped headed door and turned quarter columns, the hood with blind fret panel and dentil moulding, circa 1750, 207cm.
A 19th Century French Carved Giltwood Bergere, in the Louis XVI style, upholstered in turquoise damask, the back with a leaf carved frame between fluted uprights descending to padded arms and blind sides, the scrolled terminals raised on twist fluted balusters, the bowed seat on leaf carved rails and tapered twist fluted legs
A Joined Oak Buffet, the raised back with two tiers of pierced tracery panels between finialled posts over a stage with sliding panels carved with endless knot blind tracery, the canted base having three panels carved with Renaissance designs, two of these being hinged doors, over two drawers flanking a fixed panel, all carved with endless knot tracery, raised on moulded stile feet. Mid 16th century, stripped and repaired in places 152cm by 137cm by 60cm.
A 19th century Continental walnut armoire, step moulded cornice with strap work carved frieze, above a pair of doors, each panel carved with anthemion and scrolled foliage on a matted ground, enclosed by reeded full turned column supports, a moulded blind drawer below, on bun turned feet, 120cm x 194cm
[INDIA]: An album containing 43 original sepia-toned photographs taken in India comprising 15 group portraits, 4 views of the cave temples of Elephanta (10.75 x 8 inches), and 28 landscapes and architectural subjects. The landscapes include three views of the landslip at Noini Tol (one panoramic, 21.75 x 9.25 inches, stamped 'Lawrier' in blind); views in the Kangra Valley (Punjab) including bridges under construction; one with printed label "Bara Duree & Palace former residence of Katoch Raja Soojanpore". Also two Burmese subjects including "Burmese Ladies" (9.5 x 7.25 inches). Mostly captioned to the mount, a few dated 1881-1883. Largely full or half-plate, a few larger. With other material, engravings, domestic photographs, etc. Folio, contemporary half morocco; binding worn.
PHOTOGRAPHS: AFRICA / MILITARY / INDIA. A good album of 98 original photographs including 27 sepia toned images of Zulu girls, warriors, and groups, each approx. 8 x 5.5 inches; some taken in natural settings, others studio portraits (those of Zulu girls would appear to have been taken for the delectation of the military) - some stamped 'J.Wallace Bradley, Durban, Natal' in blind. There is also a page of 13 small photographs taken in Pretoria, a military group 'Det.38th Co. RE' and others taken in S. Africa. Together with, at end, photographs of Lucknow, Benares, a few in Burma; and military groups (up to full-plate), these however unidentified. Folio, old cloth-backed boards. c. 1890-1910.
A GOOD EARLY GEORGE III OAK DRESSER BASE, circa 1770, having a two piece top with canted front corners, on three graduated cockbeaded central drawers with original brass swan neck bale handles, flanked by twin shaped arch-panelled cupboards enclosing original shelving, between Chippendale-style blind fretwork to the canted corners, on original ogee bracket feet, 177.5cm x 50cm x 78.5cm high, (70in x 19.7in x 31in)
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHIPPENDALE REVIVAL MAHOGANY CHINA CABINET, the dentil moulded and blind fret carved frieze above a pair of fifteen pane astragal moulded doors, astragal moulded glazed end panels, raised on a carved moulded edge stand with cabriole legs and pad feet, 39.5ins wide x 72ins high.
The New Testament, Cambridge, John Field, 1662; The Whole Book of Psalms, for the Company of Stationers, 1684; The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford, Peter Parker, 1686, 3 works in one volume, ruled in red throughout, late eighteenth century black morocco panelled and decorated in blind, gilt edges, slightly rubbed, upper hinge broken, 8vo
*Bridget, Saint, of Sweden. Revelationes celestes pelecte spose christi beate Birgitte vidue: de regno Suecie, title within woodcut border, lacks a2, rather wormed affecting text, shaken, foot of title repaired folio, Nuremburg, Joannes Kobergers, 1517;[Le Fevre d'Etaples, Jacques, editor ] Liber trium virorum & trium spiritualium virginum. Hermae Liber unus. Ugetini Liber Unus. F. Roberti Libri duo, [&c.], title with six woodcut portraits, lacking leaf a12 of index (?blank), woodcut initials, some gatherings loose, some worming of text, chiefly from y3 to end, folio, Paris, Henri Estienne, 1513, 2 works in one volume, some damp staining, mainly of first work, contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards, somewhat wormed, lacks clasps, spine defective, corners worn
Good Victorian burr walnut harlequin davenport, circa 1850-70, fitted with a brass galleried secret rise and fall top with drawers and pigeonholes over a pull out tooled leather writing surface with pen trays and inkwell and two boxwood lined stationery drawers, all over a base with the usual configuration of four real drawers opposing four similar blind drawers with a recessed panel to the front and acanthus carved cabriole supports, all raised on bun feet and wooden castors, width 57cm
A Georgian style mahogany press with a blind fret carved Greek key border above a pair of panelled doors enclosing hanging space, two short and one long drawer below with ornate moulded brass handles raised on a gadrooned base with ogee bracket feet, carved with leaf pattern designs in relief, 49in. x 74in. high.
A brass-faced longcase clock with roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and date dials, decorated with applied spandrels to the corners and the arch, fitted eight-day striking movement, the mahogany hood with scrolling swan neck pediment and applied blind fret carved panels, flanked by fluted corinthian pilasters, a single panel door to the trunk decorated with inlaid stringing, raised on bracket feet, 86in. high. See lot 1340 for illustration.
A Victorian partner's oak pedestal desk, the moulded rectangular green leather-lined top above three short drawers to the frieze, decorated with blind fret carved lion masks and scrolls, the sides carved with the date 1877 flanking the initials N.G., with four short drawers to each pedestal similarly decorated, the obverse similarly fitted, one drawer stamped DEK, possibly the initials of Daphne Keith, 72in. x 42in. x 28.5in. high, possibly made for George Nathaniel Clayton in 1877 by Thomas Robertson of Narrowgate, Alnwick.
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