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Lot 195
The following collection of Powder Flasks can nearly all be identified in Ray Riling's illustrated book 'The Powder Flask Book', a copy of which is in the book section of this Auction A COLLECTION OF FIVE 19TH CENTURY POWDER FLASKS including a Dixon with floral lattice decoration, an embossed J W Hawksley, two fluted body examples and one other plain, together with a pewter small shot flask (6)
Lot 669
A British War Medal and Victory Medal pair, awarded to M2-175854 Pte F Smith ASC, a photograph of Pte Frederick Sidney Smith, his Post Office Savings Bank book, a WWI silk postcard, a WWII Defence Medal, a British War Medal, awarded to 105378 Pte W S Davies RAMC, a £1 silver proof Piedfort coin, 1985, and two other silver proof coins, 1984 & 1985, both cased
Lot 27
A collection of early/mid 20th century books, including: 1930s 'Modern Woman - Beauty, Physical Culture and Hygiene', 1940s 'Knitted Garments for All', 1948 'The Complete Book of Embroidery', 1973 publication of 'The Handbook of Costume' by Janet Arnold, a quantity of Stitchcraft magazines, and other books relating to needlework, (qty).
Lot 260
A 19th Century Naval General Service Medal, 1848, awarded to G.A. (George Augustus) SCHULTZ, LIEUT R.N. (eventually obtaining the rank of Commander) with bar, NASSAU 22 MARCH 1808. Commissioned in 1775, the 'Holsteen' was a 60 gun ship of the line in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy and was captured by the British Royal Navy in the battle at Copenhagen Roads on 2nd April 1801 and subsequently re-named HMS Holstein and then HMS Nassau. On 12th April, the British sent Holstein back to Britain as she was the only one of the ships-of-the-line that the British chose to keep. Between March and September 1805, Perry & Co., Blackwell, repaired her at a cost of £22,022 and she was re-named ''Nassau'' and commissioned in September under Captain Robert Campbell for the North Sea. On 18th April 1806, Nassau was in company with Majestic, Agincourt, Dictator, Orpheus, Sparrow and the hired armed cutter Florence and helped capture the Prussian galliot Jonge Bartels, five days later, the Nassau captured the Vissery then on 2nd May, she captured the Nicholai and Martha with several other British warships sharing in the proceeds of the prize .In the late summer of 1807, she returned to Copenhagen where she participated in the second battle of Copenhagen and after the surrender of the Danish fleet, Nassau, on 21st October 1807, was one of the vessels that escorted the surrendered Danish ships from Holmen to Kronborg. On 22nd March 1808, Nassau and the 64 gun Stately destroyed the the last Danish ship-of-the-line, Prins Christian Frederik at Grenaa, off the east Jutland coast in a battle at Zealand Point. The battle cost Nassau one man killed, one man missing and sixteen men wounded. In 1847, the Admiralty awarded the Naval General Service Medal with clasps ''Stately 22 March 1808'' and ''Nassau 22 March 1808'' to any still surviving crew members of those vessels that chose to claim them. It is recorded on the Medal Roll that only 31 men claimed the medal with the ''Nassau 22 March 1808'' clasp. This Naval General Service Medal is particularly interesting because its recipient, Commander George Augustus Schultz, had whilst serving as an eleven year old, not only witnessed Britain's worst naval mutiny, the Nore Mutiny of 1797, which involved the Floating Republic's 28-ship blockade of London) and its infamous leader, Robert Parker's execution; but also had shared a cabin with the condemned man on the eve of his lynching. According to William O'Byrne's "A Naval Biographical Dictionary" at about 11 pm, Parker gave him his prayer-book with these words: "Here, youngster is a prayer-book for you."
Lot 361
**Henry Scott (British, 1911 - 2005, Fellow of the Royal Society of British Artists) "The Night Watch", an atmospheric oil on canvas seascape depicting an iron clipper in full sail, signed to the lower right; original, quality frame with the MacConnal-Mason and Son, 14 Duke Street gallery label to verso and hand written annotations: "Iron clipper 'Wellington' 1,247 tons built 1874 by Robert Duncan, Clyde shipbuilder" 29cm x 44cm. (The Wellington's dramatic thirty-two year career, mostly spent between the United Kingdom and New Zealand, is recounted in Basil Lubock's book, The Colonial Clippers)
Lot 425
A Louis XV style Kingwood Centre Table of small proportions, the shaped top with marquetry decoration of a flower, a quill and stand and a music book above a single end drawer and with four slender canted cabriole legs united by similar undertier and terminating in gilt metal sabots, 42cm wide
Lot 1094
A large folder containing three shore to ship Radiograms sent on Queen Mary's first sea voyage from Glasgow, where she was built, The Queen Mary dated 24/3/1936 and 26/3/1936 'I Captained the Queens' is a book by one of Cunard captains The newspaper dated 27/9/1938, is a special supplement of The Times about both the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth ship-building projects in the 1930s, and other assorted information about this very exciting time in maritime history
Lot 2797
Hood, Allan, a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour designs for front covers including, 'The Hatchet' dated 1988, 'A Question of Identity', dated 1989, 'Venon' 1989, 'Hard Rain' 1988, together with two unframed sketches including 'Rabbit Back and Doubled' 1988 and 'Better after Cairo' 1989, all of various sizes, all appearing on book front covers all with the titles mentioned (6)
Lot 76
Saint-Non Jean Claude Richard (de). Voyage pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie... A Paris: [De l'Imprimerie de Clousier, rue de Sorbonne], 1781-1786. Cinque volumi in-folio (mm 490x320). Pagine [6], xiii, [3], 252; [4], xxviii, 1-108, [6], 109-283, [1]; [4], iv, xl, 1-130, 22, 131-201, [1]; [4], ii, xviii, 266, [4]; [4], iv, [2], 267-429, [1]. Con 9 carte geografiche a doppia pagina e 296 carte di tavole fuori testo, incise in rame, quasi tutte preservate dalle veline originali, compresa la celebre tavola del Phallus. Grande vignetta calcografica ai frontespizi, dedica incisa a Maria Antonietta, molte testatine e finalini calcografici. Minime bruniture e restauro marginale alla tavola del Phallus ma ottimo esemplare, con i cul-de-lampe del secondo volume stampati in nero e bistro. Legatura coeva in vitello bruno marmorizzato, piatti incorniciati da triplice filetto in oro, dorso a sei nervi, ai comparti ferro di melograni e tasselli in marocchino rosso e verde con titolo e numero di tomo impressi in oro, tagli rossi, qualche spellatura. Ricercata e splendida prima edizione del più importante e monumentale libro di viaggi illustrato di tutto il Settecento, dedicato ai Regni di Napoli e di Sicilia. Di assoluto rilievo l'apparato iconografico che consta di alcune carte geografiche e mappe topografiche a doppia pagina e quasi 300 tavole calcografiche con vedute di città e monumenti, dettagli edilizio-architettonici degli edifici descritti nel testo, oggetti d'arte e reperti archeologici tra cui qualli dei siti di Pompei. Questa opera preziosa, che fornisce quindi importanti testimonianze dei monumenti e dei ritrovamenti archeologici fatti al tempo, fu stampata "aux frais de l'auteur, l'abbé de Saint-Non, qui se ruina dans cette entreprise. Beaucoup des culs-de-lampe représentant des antiquités sont gravé par lui" (Cohen-Ricci, 928-930). Blackmer, 1473: "One of the monuments of french eighteenth-century book production"; Millard, French 148: "the completed work is one of the most beautiful that a private person has ever produced, and it is unparalleled among the sumptuous voyage pittoresque publications".
Lot 192
Cornazzano Antonio. De Re Militari nuovamente con somma diligentia impresso. (Al colophon:) Impressi in Firenze: per li heredi di Philippo di Giunta, 25 maggio 1520. In-8° (mm 153x89). Carte: 183, [1]. Frontespizio in cornice silografica architettonica. Marca tipografica giuntina incisa su legno, al verso dell’ultima carta. Buon esemplare, diffuse bruniture, fioriture; alcuni aloni. lieve gora al margine interno inferiore delle prime cinque carte; piccoli fori di tarlo al margine inferiore bianco delle ultime carte e al contropiatto posteriore. Abraso il contropiatto anteriore. Legatura coeva (forse milanese) in marocchino bruno su piatti in cartone, decorata in oro. Piatti inquadrati in ricca cornice a ghirlanda, con ferri a rametto in punto d’angolo. Nello spazio centrale quattro ferri accantonati, con cinque elementi fiammati a corona; ai lati elementi ferri foliati, due fiorellini esalobati, elementi fiammati singoli e quattro motivi a nodo circondati anch’essi da fiamme. Al centro il nome dell’autore ‘CORNAZANO’ in lettere dorate, inscritto in cerchio delimitato da ghirlanda e circondato da foglie aldine, cerchielli e fiorellini esalobati. Al piatto posteriore, composizione di rametti fiori all’interno di medesimo cerchio con ghirlanda. Dorso a quattro nervi, agli scomparti motivo a nodo con fiamme. Tagli dorati e cesellati, con motivi di nodi intrecciati, scurita la doratura al taglio di testa. Qualche spellatura, più evidente al piatto posteriore, leggermente usurati gli angoli, piccole mancanze al dorso in corrispondenza delle cuffie di testa e di piede. Al frontespizio biffata una antica nota di possesso, rimossa altra nota di appartenenza con conseguente abrasione della carta.  Edizione giuntina del poemetto volgare del letterato piacentino, in legatura coeva caratterizzata dalla presenza di ferri a fiammella, disposti singolarmente, a quarto di cerchio agli angoli e infine a comporre motivo a nodo. Tale elemento decorativo fu usato da legatori attivi sia a Venezia, sia a Milano. La particolare ghirlanda del cerchio centrale è simile a quella individuata in alcune legature milanesi eseguite nei primi decenni del Cinquecento, alcune delle quali commissionate da Jean Grolier durante gli anni del suo secondo soggiorno nella città lombarda, tra il 1515 e il 1521 (si veda ad esempio la legatura riprodotta da A. Hobson in Renaissance Book Collecting, Cambridge 1999, tav. 19). Particolare che porta a ipotizzare una produzione milanese anche per la legatura del volume qui presentato.
Lot 465
Rock, seven albums including Gentle Giant - Octopus (vertigo large swirl), Deep Purple - Self Titled (A1/B2 no EMI with Factory Sample Sticker) EX/EX+, Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother ( A1/BI No EMI) VG++/EX+, Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (Complete With Cards And Posters all EX) VG++/EX+, Genesis - Nursery Cryme ( 1U/2U Charisma Pink Scroll Labels marks to A-side label) VG++/EX, Uriah Heep The Magicians Birthday ( Bronze A1U/B1U with Lyric Inner) EX/EX+ and Patrick Woodroffe and David Greenslade The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (double album with Book) EX/EX/EX
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