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[FLEMING IAN]: (1908-1964) British writer, author of the James Bond series of spy novels. An interesting collection of twenty-one original unsigned carbon typed copies of letters and other documents addressed to Ian Fleming by the journalist Antony Terry, and one copy of a letter from Fleming to E.A. Seal of the Foreign Office, forty-three pages, mainly 4to, various places (Bonn, Berlin, Vienna etc.), November 1949 - September 1963. Terry discusses a variety of subjects with Fleming, some concerning Cold War relations between West and East Germany and other countries, in part, 'It has been an interesting time here and I think will become more so as the Eastern election campaign gets going…..The Allies in Germany have got no clear picture yet as to what the Communists are going to do during their May Day and Youth parades. As a result official opinion is divided as to what should be done to counter them……Personally I do not think the Communists will start any rows on a large scale, though there will probably be a few fights when the more aggressive youngsters come up against the West-Berliners. It is doubtful whether the West Berlin police are capable of coping with a large scale situation, should it arise……[Deputy British High Commissioner] Steel made no bones of the fact that the British do not trust Premier Adenauer, whom he called an “old snake”…..the impression one gets in Bonn is that the German government could not care less about the British. Politically, Adenauer's eyes turn to France where Ruhr coal and French iron can do business and to America for as long as the dollars last' (22nd February 1950), 'Parachute General “Papa” Ramcke, who has recently been in the news for his build up of the “Green Devils” (the former German paratroop corps) into a new association with neo-Nazi leanings, is publishing a new book……Ramcke is said to refer to his interrogations in London and attacks Lt. Col. Scotland of the War Office war crimes staff…..Ramcke is one of the new vintage of German generals who has ambitions to be a Fuhrer. He is frowned on by some of the more “respectable” generals for being too outspoken' (21st September 1951), 'Enclosed some material - authentic - on “escape routes”……Most of the routes to the West run nowadays through Hungary and Czechoslovakia to Austria, and most of the agents are Russians or Czechs. When they arrive in Hungary and Czechoslovakia on the first stage of their journey Soviet authorities provide the agent with a Propusk (frontier-crossing identification)…..With this document the agent can travel unmolested from the Soviet zone by normal civilian transport across the demarcation line into the British or US zone of Austria…..the agent has to pass a short test in the language of the country whose nationality he has temporarily adopted, and also in the language of the country to which he is travelling……Between one and two hundred Soviet agents are sent in and out of Austria monthly in both directions from the surrounding Soviet satellites. The names of about one percent are known to the Austrian secret police…..An alternative method is for the agent to be escorted through the no-mans land of barbed wire and mines along the frontiers between Austria and Czechoslovakia and Hungary. He then crosses the border on foot and gives himself up to the nearest Austrian frontier guard, claiming that he is a refugee from Communism. His story is designed to be foolproof enough to stop the Austrian official handing him over, as they are legally bound to do, to the Soviet occupation authorities in Austria……Many of these “foot sloggers” are sent over to gain information or to penetrate “Radio Free Europe”. One agent sent for this purpose recently had memorised the names of 350 persons whom he claimed had been with him in a labour camp for political prisoners in Hungary. Repeated questioning failed to shake his story and the names were checked and found correct. He was arrested in Vienna while on his way back to Hungary “on foot”, his assignment completed' (2nd February 1954), 'Enclosed are photos (no longer present) of the Spanish Riding School, including the special one you wanted. We are still struggling in Berlin to get photos of the transvestites and I think I now have a photographer who is prepared to brave their charms, either to take some pictures of them himself, or to obtain what he calls “portraits” of them, whatever that means……I tried the Nazi treasure hunt on them [The Sunday Times] as well but it never made the grade. I am sorry, as I feel this whole story of the missing Nazi gold which…..is still buried somewhere in the Salzkammergut, is a splendid subject for a feature. I talked to the man who says he knows where it may be located but has been forbidden to do anything by the Styrian authorities because the buried boxes may also contain material about Jewish property expropriations which involves a number of people still alive. All this I should have thought would make a good dramatic story for our younger and not-so-younger readers…..I cannot help feeling that the story of those last sinister days of the war in the Alpine valleys of the Salzkammergut, with scores of SS and Quisling governments and Gestapo officials from Berlin (Kaltenbrunner was captured by the Americans in this area) wandering about with their cases of gold bars melted down from the gold teeth and jewellery of the Jews gassed in the concentration camps and looking for somewhere to bury them so that no-one else knew, and all suspecting each other, with the end drawing in and the Americans only a few miles away, should make a grisly and macabre framework for the story of the now-forbidden search…..I can't help thinking that the SunTimes doesn't know what they are missing!' (17th May 1960), 'Enclosed are the pictures (no longer present) taken of the Berlin Transvestists, together with a leaflet on the place they were taken. “Rickey Renee”, the figure in the photos in women's clothes, is an American (male), aged 25, born in Miami, Florida…..tried a tapdancing act which failed, decided being a woman was more profitable…..now finds this line in Berlin suitable to local tastes…..' (25th May 1960), 'I was so disappointed to hear that you had been here again and that I missed you only by hours. I was told to take a few days off last week, as the sort of remnants of a summer holiday which was interrupted first by the Kennedy visit and last weekend again by Harold Wilson in Hamburg….If one had known you were coming I would have returned a day earlier' (9th September 1963). The majority of the letters with file holes to the left edges, some stapled or pinned to the upper left corners, others with minor paperclip rust stains, light creasing, some tears to the edges etc. Generally G, 25 Antony Terry (1913-1992) British Journalist, a former European Editor of The Sunday Times who was first hired in 1949 by Fleming (at the time the Foreign manager for the newspaper). Terry's obituary in The Independent stated that he was 'one of the paper's most valuable assets, a one-man listening post, a fastidious checker of facts, a burrower into dark corners and a traveller who never complained of fatigue'.
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JUNG CARL: (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. T.L.S., C. G. Jung, one page, oblong 8vo, Kusnacht, Zurich, 4th August 1945, to Fritz Berner, in German. Jung thanks his friend for their letter and birthday greetings and continues to inform him that 'My thoughts have now been largely summarised in a book that Mrs. Dr. J. Jacobi compiled and which was published by Rascher in Zurich under the title “Psychological Considerations”', further remarking 'It can give you roughly an idea of my views'. Some light overall age wear and minor creasing and a few small tears to the edges, otherwise about VGJolande Jacobi (1890-1973) Swiss psychologist, remembered for her work with Carl Jung and for her writings on Jungian psychology.
APOLLINAIRE GUILLAUME: (1880-1918) French poet, playwright, novelist and art critic, an impassioned defender of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. A.L.S., Guillaume Apollinaire, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (Paris), 12th September 1917, Jean-Emile Laboureur ('Ami'), in French. Apollinaire announces 'Je suis au courant de vos avatars militaires. Avant que la guerre ne soit finie vous serez japonais c'est la grace que je vous souhaite' (Translation: 'I am aware of your military avatars. Before the war is over you will be Japanese, it is the grace that I wish you'), continuing to express his hope of meeting Laboureur next time he is in Paris and further remarking 'Je vous felicite des jolis dessins dont vous avez le livre de Billy' (Translation: 'I congratulate you on the pretty drawings you have made for Billy's book'). Apollinaire concludes by stating that he has a letter from his correspondent's friend, Johnson, whom he will write to today, and encloses a cheque 'que je n'ai pas ete toucher et qui doit etre perime. Je vous laisse le soin de le dechirer' (Translation: 'that has not been touched and which must be expired. I'll leave it up to you to tear it up'). Accompanied by the original envelope. Together with the cheque referred to, made payable to Apollinaire for the sum of three francs, signed by Laboureur and dated 13th November 1916. The cheque was evidently torn into eight pieces, but has since been reassembled and neatly mounted. Two small neat splits to the edges of the central fold of the letter, otherwise about VG, 2 Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943) French painter, designer, engraver, lithographer and illustrator. Laboureur was conscripted during World War I and acted as an interpreter for the British Army and American troops.
Twain informs his wife of preparations to their home in anticipation of the arrival of former President Grant to Hartford –‘O, we’re going to be decorated sufficient, don’t you worry about that, Madam’ TWAIN MARK: (1835-1910) Samuel Langhorne Clemens. American writer and humourist. A fine, long A.L.S., Samuel, eight pages, 8vo, 'Study' [Hartford, Connecticut], n.d. ('Tuesday. P.M.', October 1880), to his wife, Olivia. Twain commences his letter in German, stating that he arrived at 7.15pm and continuing to inform his wife of the preparations being made at their house, 'Georg hat alles gethan wie du hast es befordert. Die halle-Teppiche sind aufgehoben, die Thuren von das FrauenZimmer unde deine Schlaf-Zimmer sind geschlusselt, die Mobel sind.....weggenommen. O nein, Ich habe nicht die Warheit gesprochen: er hat nicht das Tuch vor das Sideboard fest genagelt. - Also - eferydings else ist all und ganz gut gemacht' (Translation: 'George did everything as you requested. The hall carpets are lifted, the doors of the women's room and your bedroom are locked, the furniture is……removed. Oh no, I wasn't telling the truth: he didn't nail the cloth in front of the sideboard - Also - eferydings else is all very well done'), completing the remainder of the letter in English, writing, in part, 'I found Mr. Beals hard at work in the rain, with his decorations. With a ladder he had strung flags around our bedroom balcony & thence around to the porte cochere, which was elaborately flagged - thence all the flags of all nations were suspended from a line which stretched past the green house to the limit of our ground. Against each of the two trees on the mound half-way down to our gate stands a knight in complete armour. Piles of still bundled flags clutter up the ombra (to be put up) also gaudy shields of various shapes (arms of this & other countries); also some huge glittering arches & things, done in gold & silver paper, containing mottoes in big letters. I broke Mr. Beal's heart by persistently & inflexibly annulling & forbidding the biggest & gorgeousest of the arches - it had on it, in all the fines of the rainbow, “The Home of Mark Twain” in letters as big as your head. O, we're going to be decorated sufficient, don't you worry about that, Madam. At least I infer so, from what I have seen of Mr. Beals's hand & what he holds in reserve. I don't know but he is really going to decorate us too much. However, I'm letting him go on…..But wasn't it lucky that I arrived in time to bust up that Mark Twain business? I'm in the study…..& I've got a cheerful wood fire & four gas burners going…..It would be perfect if you were here to help me enjoy it, sweetheart….I hope you are reading & not half as lonesome as you were expecting to be' and concluding by referring to an important principle in the play of the cards during Bridge, 'I've been puzzling over it, and - but you better ask Whitmore, because I want to be certain about it - is it always second hand low, even when you haven't got a high card? - & if you do, what do you infer from it? Or do you infer at all, in that case? It being your partners turn to infer, likely. I wish I had brought the book along; several of those things are not clear to me'. Twain signs off the letter in an affectionate manner, 'Acres of love to you, my best & dearest, & love also to the kids, including Jean', and in a postscript returns to the decoration of their home, 'P.S. I'm going to get Mr. Beals to change that to God Bless Our Home. He said he would have to have a new motto; so that will do first rate for a novelty. It is to go over the front gate'. A letter of excellent content providing a superb glimpse of Mark Twain in his intimacy. VGOlivia Langdon Clemens (1845-1904) Wife of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from 1870. Livy, as she was known, assisted her husband with the editing of his books, articles and lectures and Twain once wrote of her “I am as proud of her brain as her beauty”. The couple had three daughters, including Jean who had been born in July 1880.The extensive decorations to their home which Twain makes reference to in the present letter were in preparation of the visit of former United States President Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) to Hartford on 16th October 1880. Grant was seeking the Republican presidential nomination for a third term and upon his train arriving in Hartford he found that 'the city was thronged with visitors…..and the streets were lined with decorations, not only along the line of march of the procession, but elsewhere'. Twain gave a welcoming address to Grant in which the writer declared 'Your country loves you. Your country is proud of you. Your country is grateful to you. Her applauses which have been thundering in your ears all these weeks and months, will never cease while the flag you saved continues to wave. Your country stands ready from this day forth to testify her measureless love and pride and gratitude toward you in every conceivable inexpensive way. Welcome to Hartford, great soldier, honoured statesman, unselfish citizen'.
FRANCE ANATOLE: (1844-1924) French poet, journalist and novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1921. A.L.S., Anatole France, two pages, small 8vo, n.p. (Paris), n.d. (28th February 1895), to Henri Lavedan, with a small hand-stamped monogram at the head, in French. The poet writes a charming letter to his friend, commencing 'Je vous remercie de m'avoir envoye votre livre si aimable et si bon; je vous remercie de l´agréable honneur que vous m´avez fait en me dediant un de vos dialogues que j'aime tant. Cela est tellement superieur aux mimes d'Herondas et meme aux Syracusians qui sont pourtant un joli morceau' (Translation: 'I thank you for having sent me your book so pleasant and so good; I thank you for the pleasant honour you have done me by dedicating to me one of your dialogues which I love so much. This is so superior to the mimes of Herondas and even to the Syracusians which are nevertheless a pretty piece'). France continues to return the favour and 'offrir un des petits contes que je publie cette semaine en un volume, in 18, je sors (comme vous) Le puits de Ste. Claire' (Translation: 'offer one of the little tales which I am publishing this week in a volume, in 18, I go out (like you) Le puits de Ste. Claire') and in a postscript France invites Lavedan to have lunch with himself and Madame de Martel, the French writer who wrote under the pseudonym Gyp. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by France and bearing a good wax seal to the verso featuring an impression of two ladies dancing whilst another, seated, watches them. Some very light, extremely minor staining, VGHenri Lavedan (1859-1940) French dramatist and man of letters.
DAMBUSTERS THE: A good selection of signed pages (6; most multiple signed) removed from an edition of Paul Brickhill's book The Dam Busters, signed printed images (8) of various sizes (largest 7 x 9.5) each removed from magazines of books, a multiple signed 8.5 x 6.5 photograph, and nine A.Ls.S. and two T.Ls.S. by various members of 617 Squadron who participated in Operation Chastise comprising Joe McCarthy (1919-1998) Pilot of Lancaster ED825/G, AJ-T, Les Munro (1919-2015) Pilot of Lancaster ED921/G, AJ-W, David Shannon (1922-1993) Pilot of Lancaster ED929/G, AJ-L, Bill Townsend (1921-1991) Pilot of Lancaster ED886/G, AJ-O, Ken Brown (1920-2002) Pilot of Lancaster ED918/G, AJ-F, Mick Martin (1918-1988) Pilot of Lancaster ED909/G, AJ-P, Ray Grayston (1918-2010) Flight engineer of Lancaster ED912/G, AJ-N, Sydney Hobday (1912-2000) Navigator of Lancaster ED912/G, AJ-N, Edward Johnson (1912-2002) Bomb aimer of Lancaster ED912/G, AJ-N, James Clay (1911-1995) Bomb aimer of Lancaster ED921/G, AJ-W, George Johnson (1921- ) Bomb aimer of Lancaster ED825/G, AJ-T, George Chalmers (1921-2002) Wireless operator of Lancaster ED886/G, AJ-O, Douglas Webb (1922-1996) Front gunner of Lancaster ED886/G, AJ-O, Basil Feneron (1920-1993) Flight engineer of Lancaster ED918/G, AJ-F, Dudley Heal (1916-1999) Navigator of Lancaster ED918/G, AJ-F, Fred Sutherland (1923-2019) Front gunner of Lancaster ED912/G, AJ-N, Danny Walker (1917-2001) Navigator of Lancaster ED929/G, AJ-L, David Rodger (1918-2004) Rear gunner of Lancaster ED825/G, AJ-T, Grant McDonald (1921-2012) Rear gunner of Lancaster ED918/G, AJ-F, and Steve Oancia (1923-1999) Bomb aimer of Lancaster ED918/G, AJ-F. Some of the letters refer to fellow crew members. 617 Squadron reunions, Barnes Wallis etc. Some duplication. G to generally VG, 26
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[DOWDING HUGH]: (1882-1970) British Air Chief Marshal, Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Two fascinating original typed transcripts of interviews between historian Robert Wright (1906-1992) and Francis Wilkinson, at one time a subordinate of Dowding, following interviews conducted by Wright on 22nd & 23rd November 1968 and 19th March 1969 while in the process of researching his book Dowding and the Battle of Britain (1969). The typescripts, the first of which was prepared on 25th November 1968, consist of over one hundred 4to pages and inevitably contain many interesting references to Lord Dowding (referred to by Wilkinson as 'Stuffy', Dowding's nickname), as well as Winston Churchill, Keith Park, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Raymond Collishaw, Laurence Olivier (who portrayed Dowding in the film Battle of Britain), William Sholto Douglas, King George VI, the Battle of Britain, Fighter Command, Spitfire aircraft etc. Unpublished in its entirety. VG, 2
PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish painter, a co-founder of the Cubist movement. Signed colour 7.5 x 10.5 paper stock reproduction of Picasso's painting entitled Figure 1945, evidently neatly removed from a book or exhibition catalogue, signed ('Picasso') by the artist in blue crayon with his name alone to the lower border. Some very light, minor age wear to the extreme left edge, VG
RIBEIRO COUTO RUI: (1898-1963) Brazilian poet, short-story writer and diplomat, a leading figure of Modernism in its infancy. Manuscript D.S., Ribeiro Couto, one page, 4to, Geneva, n.d. (1946), in French. Ribeiro Couto responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled Enquete Mondiale ('World Survey'), with their manuscript questions at the head of the page, '1. Vos débuts littéraires furent-ils heureux ou difficiles? 2. Des moyens d'existence (un second metier ou une fortune personelle) vous permirent-ils de vous faire un nom dans les lettres, ou ne vecuites-vous que de votre plume? 3. Quel ouvrage vous fit-il le plus connaitre? Lequel considerez-vous comme votre chef d'oeuvre?' (Translation: '1. Were your literary beginnings happy or difficult? 2. Did the means of existence (a second job or a personal fortune) allow you to make a name for yourself in letters, or do you only live from your pen? 3. What book did you know the most about? Which do you consider your masterpiece?'). Ribeiro Couto provides his answers beneath, in full, '1. Je suis toujours, a 48 ans, a mes debuts litteraires - comme aux temps du lycee. Et ces debuts sont toujours difficiles, car je n'ai jamais reussi a faire ce que je voulais.....et que je veux encore. 2. Mon vrai metier c'est le journalisme. Pourtant, me voici dans la diplomatie depuis presque vingt ans. Helas! 3. Je ne suis comme que de quelques lecteurs, tres peu nombreux, et je n'ai ecrit aucun chef d'oeuvre. Mais ce viendra peut-etre. Pourquoi pas?' (Translation: 'I am still, at 48, in my literary debut - like in high school. And these beginnings are always difficult, because I never managed to do what I wanted….and still want. 2. My real job is journalism. However, here I am in diplomacy for almost twenty years. Alas! 3. I am like only a few readers, very few, and I have not written any masterpieces. But maybe it will come. Why not?'). Some very light, extremely minor age wear to the edges, otherwise VG
MANN THOMAS: (1875-1955) German novelist, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1929. D.S., Thomas Mann, one page, folio, n.p. (New York?), 11th May 1944. The typed document is an Agreement between Mann and the publishers Editora Flama of Sao Paulo, Brazil, concerning the translation into the Portuguese language of Mann's novel Konigliche Hoheit ('Royal Highness') and comprises nine clauses in which the publishers commit to publish the translated work within one year, agree that they will pay Mann an advance of $175 as well as a royalty of 10% 'of the retail catalogue price on all copies', provide twice yearly reports of sales and also provide five free copies of the book to Mann. Signed by Mann in turquoise fountain pen ink at the foot. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG
SCHWEITZER ALBERT: (1875-1965) Alsatian Theologian, Musician, Philosopher & Physician, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1952. A charming autograph statement signed, Albert Schweitzer, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., 18th May 1923, in German. Schweitzer writes, in full, 'Due to tiredness and the prose of packing for the return to Africa, all spirit has left me, so that I can neither invent a nice saying nor write one down from memory. I am ashamed before you and all the people who have written and will write so beautifully in this book. However, I write with joy and in a simple way what you already know, namely that in me you have a friend who is close to everything that happens to you in life, both sad and beautiful, and who takes great joy in your simplicity and bravery and enjoys (albeit usually tired and silent) every hour he gets to spend by your side'. Some very light, minor age toning to the edges, otherwise VG
HERGÉ: (1907-1983) Georges Prosper Remi. Belgian cartoonist, creator of The Adventures of Tintin. Book signed and inscribed, featuring an original drawing by Herge, being a hardback edition of Le Secret de La Licorne, published by Casterman, Belgium, (1947), with French text, and bearing the printed place and date, Paris, July 1949 to the lower back cover. Signed and inscribed by Herge in bold black ink to the verso of the pale blue printed illustrated front free endpaper, 'A David, un amical souvenir, Herge', and dated 3rd September 1980 in his hand. The cartoonist has also added a good original black pen and ink drawing of the heads of Tintin and his dog Snowy (who holds a bone in his mouth) in his hand alongside the inscription. With an ownership signature to the head of the title page. Some light overall age wear, slightly bumped corners and occasional light staining to the inside pages, G Le Secret de La Licorne ('The Secret of the Unicorn') is the eleventh volume of The Adventures of Tintin and was originally serialised in Le Soir from June 1942 to January 1943. The comic album story remained Herge's favourite of his own works until the creation of Tintin in Tibet in 1960.
VOLNEY COUNT OF: (1757-1820) Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, French Philosopher, Abolitionist, Writer and Politician. Author of “The Ruins: Or a Survey of the Revolutions of the Empires”. He assumed the name of “Volney”, created as a contraction of “Voltaire” and “Ferney”. Imprisoned during the Jacobin Club triumph, he could escape the guillotine. A good A.L.S., `Volney´, two pages, 4to, Paris, 24th May 1794, to citizen Salliard, his editor, in French. Volney expresses his discontent with the behaviour shown by his correspondent Salliard, the Parisian librarian of the Quai des Augustins, regarding the publication of his work, stating in part `…tu m´avais alors informé que ma première edition de “La Loi Naturelle” tirait vers sa fin, que tu avais en main le benefice de 600 exemplaires, que les 600 derniers ne pouvaient tarder de s´écouler, qu´il fallait se presser de recommence rune seconde edition, que tu m´en envoyerais incéssament les épreuves… aujourd´hui l´on m´annonce de ta part que des discussions avec les Didot imprimeurs, non seulement t´empêchent de rien terminer soit pour l´apurement du compte, soit pour l´impression, et que même tu me déconseilles d´achever l´édition; mais Citoyen voila une dépense faite; sans ton conseil je ne l´eusse pas entreprise; est-il juste qu´aujourd´hui elle me tombe en pure perte?´ (Translation: “…you had at that time informed me that my first edition of “La Loi Naturelle” was nearing its end, that you had in hand the benefit of 600 copies, that the last 600 could not be long in selling, that we had to hurry to start a second edition again, that you would send me the proofs incessantly... today I am told that discussions with the Didot printers, not only prevent you from finishing anything either because of the clearance of the account, either because of printing issues, and that even you advise me not to complete the edition; but Citizen here is an expense made; without your advice I would not have undertaken it; is it fair that today the whole falls on me as a full loss?”) Volney further asks his correspondent and wonders how is it that he was not informed of anything till now, and in order not to permit that the edition troubles go worst, and clearly not trusting Salliard, instructs what he wants him to do, saying `…il est donc evident par le fait que c´est à lui que tu remets et que je dois remettre la manutention de mes intérêts, en consequence je te prie, cher Concitoyen, de vouloir bien compter en ses mains le benefice qui me revient de la vente de la première Edition, et même de lui remettre ce qui peut en rester d´exemplaires…´ (Translation: “…it is therefore evident by the fact that it is to him that you entrust and that I must entrust also the maintenance of my interests, consequently I beg you, dear fellow citizen, to put in his hands the benefit which is due to me from the sale of the first edition, and even to give him what may remain of copies...”) With integral blank leaf. Paper bearing a “J. Honig & Zoonen” watermark. The work Volney refers to The Law of Nature, would be re-edited in 1890. Also known as Catéchisme du Citoyen Français (“Catechism of the French Citizen”) English translations of Volney's Ruins began appearing within a year or so of its first French edition, but sometime during Volney's stay in the United States, he and Thomas Jefferson entered into a secret arrangement whereby Jefferson agreed to make a new English translation of the work. Volney visited Monticello for two weeks during June 1796. The two men also met on several occasions at the American Philosophical Society. Jefferson was President of the APS at the time and sponsored Volney's induction into the organization. These meetings provided the two men with ample opportunity to conceive and discuss the project. Jefferson appreciated the book's central theme - that the empires rise if government allows enlightened self-interest to flourish. This theme, Jefferson believed, represented an excellent summary of the Enlightenment-based principles upon which the U.S. was founded. However, Jefferson insisted that his translation be published only for certain readers, due to the book's controversial religious content. Jefferson was preparing to make a bid for the Presidency of the United States in 1800; he was worried his Federalist opponents would attack him as an atheist, if it were known he translated Volney's supposedly heretical book. According to the evidence discovered, Jefferson translated the invocation plus the first 20 chapters of the 1802 Paris edition of Volney's Ruins. These first 20 chapters represent a review of human history from the point of view of a post-Enlightenment philosopher. Presumably, Jefferson then became too occupied with the Presidential campaign and didn't have time to finish the last four chapters of the book. Volney concludes the book with a call for an absolute separation of Church and State
SUN YAT-SEN: (1866-1925) Chinese Revolutionary & Political Leader, a Statesman regarded as the founding father of Republican China. Sun Yat-Sen was a Physician and a political Philosopher who served as the first provisional President of the Republic of China and as the first leader of the Kuomintang. An extremely rare D.S., in Chinese characters, one page, large oblong folio (20 x 17), 15th October 1917, in Chinese. The attractive and colourful document being the appointment of Sun Guang Ming, as a member of the fund raising committee in Hong Kong. Signed by Sun Yat-sen in his capacity as Supreme Commander of the Chinese armed forces. Also bearing to the recto the red ink seal of the Supreme Commander to the left border. Sun Wen seal alongside the Grand Admiral seal. Documents signed by Sun Yat-Sen in Chinese are of extraordinary rarity and seldom appear at auction. Some minor age wear and staining, otherwise G American Book Prices Current only record five letters, and no documents, signed by Sun Yat-sen as having appeared at auction since 1976.
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[DOWDING HUGH]: (1882-1970) British Air Chief Marshal, Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. An interesting original typescript entitled Dowding - Notes on His Life prepared by historian Robert Wright (1906-1992) while in the process of researching his book Dowding and the Battle of Britain (1969). The typescript contains over two hundred 4to pages, the result of Dowding's own recollections, covering his early life and family background, experiences with the Royal Flying Corps, his time in Palestine in 1929, recollections of various individuals including Hugh Trenchard, John Salmond, William Sholto Douglas, Arthur Tedder, Lord Beaverbrook, Robert Watson Watt, Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins etc., as well as his post-War career, belief in Spiritualism and ('the most dreadful confession of all') Flying saucers etc. VG
BAUDELAIRE CHARLES: (1821-1868) French Poet, a pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. An excellent and cleanly written A.L.S., signed with his initials`C. B.´, one page, 12mo, n.p., n.d., to a friend, in French. Baudelaire has an urgent and respectful request, stating `Mon cher Ami, Je vous serais bien obligé si vous vouliez bien me Donner, pour quelques Temps, deux ouvrages qui sont chez vous, et que je Remplacerai dans quelques jours par de nouveaux exemplaires : Je veux parler du livre sur la France impériale par un non-diplomate et des Pensée et Lettres de Joubert. C´est un peu pressé´ (Translation : `My dear Friend, I would be very grateful to you if you would give me, for a while, two works which are with you, and which I will replace in a few days with new copies: I refer to the book on imperial France by a non-diplomat and Thoughts and Letters of Joubert. It is a bit pressing´) With blank address leaf. VG Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Moralist and Essayist, a friend of Chateaubriand mostly remembered for his Pensées which were published posthumously and have been translated into multiple languages.
BERGMAN INGRID: (1915-1982) Swedish actress, Academy Award winner. An exceptional book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of Casablanca: Script and Legend by Howard Koch, First edition published by The Overlook Press, Woodstock, New York, 1973 (first printing, as stated on the copyright page), featuring various essays, the script, analysis and original reviews of the American World War II romantic drama film Casablanca (1942), signed by Bergman in bold blue ink to the half-title page, 'To Audrey - Ingrid Bergman and Ilsa Lund'. Bound in the publisher's black cloth, with gilt stamped title to spine, and accompanied by the dust jacket (some very minor, light age wear and the spine a little faded). An extremely rare (quite possibly unique) form of Bergman's signature in which she incorporates the character name of Ilsa Lund, described as her 'most famous and enduring role'. About EXProvenance: The present signed book originates from the collection of Audrey Gilchrist, a well-known in person collector of movie star autographs, based in London.
‘I have sworn a great oath never to use or countenance the use of the name “Lawrence”, as referring to me, again, in public or private’ LAWRENCE T. E.: (1888-1935) British army officer, archaeologist, diplomat and writer, renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916-18) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915-18) against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. An excellent A.L.S., T E Shaw, one page, folio, Karachi, India, 5th January 1927, to an unidentified correspondent (although evidently a writer whom Lawrence held in some esteem). Lawrence announces, 'I have sworn a great oath never to use or countenance the use of the name “Lawrence”, as referring to me, again, in public or private', continuing 'So that would settle the question of my introducing your book, I'm afraid' and explaining 'Of course I write, or rather I try to write, occasionally: unsigned articles, or articles signed by virgin names. They are worth two guineas a thousand words, which I am told is a better rate than usual. They cost me more than that, in trouble, even at my R.A.F. rate of 3/6 a day! And no publisher would be moved to publish your work, because it had an unknown man's introduction before it.' Shaw, however, offers his advice and a further clarification of his decision to his correspondent, 'But why should you think an introduction necessary?......Probably the right man will take what you have written on its merits, and that should be much more gratifying than to be helped. I did twice, in the old days, help people by introducing their books: but one, Richard Garnett, was dead, and that pardoned the offence. The other, Doughty, was a special case: I had been trying to persuade all London to reprint him, and at last one beginning-publisher said “I will, if you'll preface it” :- and what could I do? Doughty was very nice about it: but it felt like scratching one's name on Westminster Abbey. Introductions to publishers I will (and do) willingly give. Several people with good stuff have been helped by me into print. It's a matter of knowing the proper tradesmen. Have you tried Cape? He is enterprising, and the best producer of commercial books in London (for format). If you will send me a sample of your stuff I'll see that it reaches his reader (Edward Garnett, a critic of genius) with my opinion. I have no doubt that it's the right stuff: and it should be exactly right for the particular public. If Cape says “NO”, I'd suggest Faber and Gwyer for second string: but Cape an easy first. Secker is too difficult: and the big men too staid'. A rare letter of fine content in which Lawrence affirms his desire for anonymity and proves himself to be a good guide in the intricacies behind the scenes of publishing. Some very light creasing and a few minor tape stains to the lower central area of the letter, only very minimally affecting a few words of text and part of the signature, otherwise about VGFollowing his legendary exploits in Arabia, Lawrence had become a household name by the early 1920s and enlisted in the Royal Air Force in August 1922 as an aircraftman under the name John Hume Ross. However, less than a year later, his identity was exposed, and he was forced out of the RAF in February 1923. Changing his name once again, to T. E. Shaw, he repeatedly petitioned to re-join the RAF and was finally readmitted in August 1925. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom was published in December 1926 and the renewed publicity it brought resulted in his assignment to bases as Karachi, from where the present letter was written, and Miramshah in British India, where he remained until the end of 1928. Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879-1960) British publisher who founded the London publishing house of Jonathan Cape in 1921, remaining at the head of the firm until 1960. Cape established a reputation for high quality design and production and published a range of English-language authors including Robert Frost, Ian Fleming, James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence.Edward Garnett (1868-1937) English writer, critic and literary editor who was instrumental in the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. Edward Garnett was the son of Richard Garnett (1895-1906) English scholar, librarian, biographer and poet, who is also referenced in the present letter.
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[LORD BYRON]: (1788-1824) English Poet, one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Byron died at the early age of 36. The present letter is in the hand of one of the brothers Lucchesini, either Girolamo Lucchesini (1751-1825) Italian noble and Diplomat at the service of Prussia, Ambassador to Vienna, and a very skilful negotiator, or Cesare Lucchesini (1756-1832) Italian Linguist. A very interesting content A.L.S., `Lucchesini´, four pages, 4to, Florence, 3rd March 1819, to Lord Holland, in French. Lucchesini refers to an encounter with Lord Byron in Florence, stating in part `Je cherchais depuis longtemps une occasion pour vous exprimer toute ma reconnaissance, My Lord, d´avoir voulu me procurer la connaissance de Lord Byron , mais ce chef étonnant de la société romantique nous a peut-être crus trop servilement classiques pour donner plus de quelques heures à Florence´ (Translation: `I have been since a long time looking for an opportunity to express my gratitude to you, My Lord, for kindly procuring for me the acquaintance of Lord Byron, but this astonishing leader of romantic society perhaps thought that we were too slavishly classical to give us more than a few hours in Florence´) Further Lucchesini states `Il cherche cependant à me voir, et ne m´ayant pas trouvé me fit remettre votre aimable lettre, et partit pour Bologne´ (Translation: `However, he tries to see me, and not having found me, he gave me your kind letter, and left for Bologna´) Lucchesini further again refers to contemporary Italian artists and recommend works to his correspondent, saying in part `La belle Italie, où l´on aimerait tant à vous revoir, pour vous entretenir dans l´habitude de lire nos bons auteurs, j´ai donné…. Un petit livre réimprimé de lyriques par le Sieur Papi traducteur de Milton. Je vous recommande surtout d´apologie de l´assassinat…. Écrite par Lorenzo son ami et son menteur. Vous y trouverez, my Lord, une force d´expressions, et une audace de pensées, que vous êtes fait pour bien apprécier - La vie de Giacomini, qui précède l´apologie, n´a que le mérite du style…´ (Translation: `The beautiful Italy, where we would love to see you again, to keep you in the habit of reading our good authors, I gave to…. a small reprinted book of lyrics by Milton's translator Sieur Papi. I especially recommend to you the apology of the assassination…. written by Lorenzo his friend and his liar. You will find there, my Lord, a force of expression, and an audacity of thought, which you will appreciate well - The life of Giacomini, which precedes the apology, has only the merit of the style…´) A letter of very interesting literary content, also referring to Byron in Italy. Accompanied by an original 7 x 11 engraving of Lord Byron published by Blaisot. Very small minor age wear, otherwise G Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley (1773-1840) English Politician. He served as Lord Privy Seal in the Ministry of All the Talents headed by Lord Grenville.Because of his love for Teresa Guiccioli, Byron lived in Ravenna from 1819 to 1821, the time of the present letter, where he continued working on his Don Juan
The Cockeram Ring: A fine 17th century gold seal ring, the plain hoop of D cross-section, the oval flat bezel inscribed with a coat of arms with square-topped shield containing a bend charged with three leopards’ heads between three fleur-de-lis, above the shield a crest, an arm holding aloft an anchor, to each side of the shield a foliate design, the whole enclosed by a pellet border, inscribed verso with the initials ‘H.C.’ between pellets, very likely for Humphrey Cockeram of Cullompton, circa 1620, band width 20mm. £8,000-£12,000 --- Provenance: This ring was discovered in Braunton, North Devon, on 21 November 2012.. The finder, a retired schoolteacher, was landscaping the garden of his Grade II listed 16th century farmhouse and found the ring by chance whilst planting a ceanothus bush, at a depth of 10 inches. The ring is recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database Ref: DEV-85B7D4 and subsequently disclaimed as Treasure. The Cockeram family of Hillersdon are from the parish of Cullompton in Devon. The name Cockeram was mentioned in the Domesday book of 1086 and is derived from the old English word ‘Coccan” meaning ‘dweller by the stream’. Hillersdon Manor is also listed in the Domesday book and was occupied by the Cockeram family during the 17th century, the family being descended from George Cockeram (d.1577). They were great patrons of the church, his children both donated communion cups and a market cross to the town. In 1620 Humphrey Cockeram was recorded as head of the family. The manor was subsequently occupied by the Prowses during the 17th century. The find spot, Braunton, is 42 miles west of the manor house. Condition Report About very fine but with some wear to the edge of the bezel. Gross weight 10.73gm.
A late 19th century American lily of the valley diamond spray brooch, by J. E. Caldwell & Co., the realistically designed Lily of the Valley sprig set throughout with graduated rose-cut diamonds, to a knife-wire stem suspending a series of old brilliant-cut diamond flowerhead drops, all tied by a rose-cut diamond set ribbon, the reverse signed ‘J E C & CO’, stamped serial number ‘G2737’, cased, total old brilliant-cut diamond weight approximately 3.51 carats, length 7cm. £4,000-£6,000 --- J. E. Caldwell Originally established as Caldwell & Bennett in 1839 by James E. Caldwell and his partner James M. Bennett, J. E. Caldwell & Co. has been manufacturing and retailing fine jewellery in Philadelphia since 1841. During the mid 19th century the firm was the chosen by agents of the women’s magazine ‘Godey’s Lady’s Book’, best known for its hand-tinted fashion plates, to fill jewellery orders placed by its subscribers. After receiving so many requests for jewellery designs the editors began to include illustrations and descriptions of the latest jewellery fashions, suggesting that the purchases be made through J. E. Caldwell & Co. Along with Tiffany, Starr & Marcus and others, J. E. Caldwell & Co. exhibited at the 1876 Centennial Exhibitions in Philadelphia. The exhibition was in celebration of the nation’s birthday and designed to display the progress of the United States in arts, industry, science and commerce. Towards the end of the 19th century the firm manufactured beautiful Art Nouveau jewellery, set with unusual gemstones and of naturalistic design. They went on to create fine Art Deco jewellery throughout the 1920’s for which they are still recognised today. To this day, J. E. Caldwell & Co. continues to operate from its Chestnut Street location in Philadelphia.
A 1:8 scale Pocher 1932 Rolls-Royce Phantom II Drop Head Sedanca Coupe. Bodywork in black with tan interior, whitewall tyres and spoked wheels. Opening bonnet, chromed radiator, headlights and horns. With assembley instruction book. QGC-GC. In need of restoration, some small parts missing, others loose but present. £125-175
100+ mainly mid-century children's annuals, comic books, Enid Blyton books, etc. Mostly annuals including; Joe 90, The Man from UNCLE, Kit Carson's Cowboy, Tiger Tim, Danger Man, Batman, TV Tornado, Swift, The Dukes of Hazzard, TV 21, Rupert, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Boyfriend, FAB-208, The Topper Book, etc. Plus a few Enid Blyton Noddy books, Wild West books, The Saint novels, etc. AF-GC, some wear/damage. £50-80
Georgian Methodism/Methodist Hymnal. Wesley (The Rev. John), A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People called Methodists. A New Edition. London: Printed for G. Whitfield, 1798, contemporary calf over bowed boards (trifle tired, rubbed), restrained by one brass wrigglework clasp, its companion present but detached, 12mo, The Holy Bible [...], [issued with] The Book of Common Prayer, Oxford: Thomas Baskett, Printer to the University, 1755, BCP preceding HB (& repaired at the gutter), divisional BCP, HB and New Testament black-ruled titles, the text printed in double-columns, contemporary two-tone panelled calf (worn, chipped with some losses), square 8vo, Bindings, The Holy Bible, bound as two, Coldstream: Printed by Robert Kerr, for The Free Bible Press Company, 1847, printed in black-ruled double-columns, finely bound in contemporary maroon morocco gilt plus, all edges gilt, canary yellow endpapers, 8vo, Anon, The Whole New Duty of Man [...], London: James Goodwin Jun:r, n.d. [c. 1810], engraved title-page and frontispiece, contemporary sheep gilt, 8vo, (5). Provenance: 1st: 1) James Hage/His Book/1800, ink MS. ownership inscription to pastedown; 2) 20th century Briggs family inscriptions ditto; 3rd: 1) Matthew A. Muir, 19th century crested bookplates to each pastedown; 4th: 1) W:m Blunt, July the 5th 1845, ink MS. inscription to ffep.
Bibliophily. One box of pictures and prints, including Robert Vaughan (c. 1600 - c. 1663), allegorical title-page from the first edition of Herylyn's Cosmographie, engraving, London, 1677, framed, a further three framed title-pages, 16th & 17th c, Pierre Lombart (1612/3 - 1681), a plate from Ogilby's edition of Virgil's Georgics, n.d. [1654], copperplate engraving, Hogarth-type frame, Dr Syntax caricature, further book-related images, etc Mixed condition. Unexamined out of frames.
Robert Gibbings (1889 - 1958) - An Open Book, unfinished proof state, intended as the tail piece for the chapter 'The Pleasure of Reading', from Grey's 'Fallodon Papers', London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926, wood engraving, right-hand margin cut, the others uncut, 7cm x 13cm, inscribed in pencil, mounted. Provenance: 1) Martin Andrews (1950 - ), printing historian and author of a biography on the life and works of Gibbings, inscribed to verso "[...] given to him by Robert Gibbings' widow". 2) Dr John Lambert Wilson (1943 - 2022), inscribed "Given me by Martin Andrews". The surfaces of both the image and mount a trifle toned and soiled.
Scotland, Fingask Castle. An archive collection of early 19th century and later manuscripts and ephemera relating to Fingask Castle, Perth and Kinross, including some of the Bowmans' testamentary papers, dispositions, and letters, further and later bundles, an amateur named-view watercolour of the castle by a Miss B.C. Loney, a manuscript letter by the artist's sister mentioning it, an 1857 Scribbling Diary, used as an ad-hoc commonplace book/newspaper clippings album, two defective copies of the castle and its estates' particulars when sold in 1925 to H.B. Gilroy of Ballumbie, some Gilroy family papers, etc.
A Ridgway, Bates & Co vase, c1856-58, painted by Simpson with a basket overflowing with fruit suspended from festoons, a similar subsidiary panel, and to the reverse, naturalistic flowers, in elaborate cisele cartouches reserved on a cobalt ground, 30cm h Design No 1276 in the Factory Pattern Book. In the design the central panel is inscribed 'Simpson's Painting'; See Godden (G A) - Staffordshire Porcelain, fig. 640, p.476 Good condition
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Science and the Enlightenment. [Halley (Edmond, editor)], Miscellanea Curiosa [...], With several Discourses read before the Royal Society [...], London: Printed by J.B. for Jeffrey Wale, et al., 1705, lacking plate II, gutter margin with two small worm trails, contemporary panelled calf, worn, splits and chips, 8vo, Memoirs of the Royal Society; Being a New Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions [...], volume V only, London: G. Smith, et al., 1740, full-page and folding engraved plates, rebacked calf, 8vo, [&] Lettsom (John Coakley), Hunts Designed to promote Beneficence, Temperance & Medical Science, volume II only, London: J. Manman, 1801, illustrated with engraved portrait 'silhouettes' of Quaker philanthropists, contemporary quarter-calf (upper-cover detached, further wear), 8vo, (3). Provenance: 3rd: From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier, book label to recto pastedown.
Royalty. Autograph, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (1774-1850), tenth child and seventh son of George III, clipped scrap inscribed and signed: Yours very sincerely/Adolphus Frederick, 6.5cm x 12cm, mounted on a leaf with the clipped signature Mary flanked by a regal crown, wax black seal of the Spanish Royal Family, etc., On prince, Ernest coming here to dine, n.d., 24 lines of manuscript verse, presumably original composition, versifying Prince Ernest von Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (1818-1893; brother of Queen Victoria's consort, and later Duke as Ernest II) and when he 'Did honour Sir M Seymour/By coming here to dine', this poem within 2ff of further unsophisticated poetry, On the approaching Christening of the Prince of Wales, by M.M., n.d. [1841, Albert Edward, later Edward VII], 20 lines of manuscript verse, (1); Napoleon Bonaparte, a 1ff English manuscript spelling out from the Greek alphabet and calculating that the French emperor is 666, the Number of the Beast, from The Book of Revelation, 13:18, and citing the biblical passage, Louis Napoleon, 1871, by Sylvia, 4ff of ink manuscript verse, on monogrammed writing-paper, presumably viz. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (1808-1873), the last Emperor of the French (as Napoleon III) and later President of the French Republic (5).
Miscellaneous bygones and curiosities, including a 20th c bronze-patinated bronze of a farm labourer, black marble base, 13.5cm h, an early 19th century treen pedestal cup, a similar bowl, a part-19th century draughtsman's cased set of instrument, others loosely-inserted, an Edwardian EPNS-mounted gentleman's hip flask, an early 19th c marble novelty desk weight as a book, early 19th c cut copper portrait of George III, c. 1820, 36mm h, later framed, an Islamic tin-glazed inkwell, antiquities and fossils, including a 16th c bronze crotal bell, softwood carving of a shepherd, pan pipes, miniature bone dices, miniature 'toy' camera model, etc The bronze statuette generally good. Treen cup and bowl cracked and chipped. Islamic inkwell with faults. Other pieces in mixed various condition.
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Nesbit (Anthony), A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-Surveying [...], York: Printed for Thomas Wilson and Son, 1810, original publisher's boards, 8vo, Trotter (Alexander, of Dreghorn), A Method of Farm Book-Keeping [...], Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1825, stained engraved double-frontispiece, original green vellum over publisher's boards, 8vo, Balydon (J.S.), The Art of Valuing Rents and Tillages [...], second edition, London: Printed for Longman, et al., 1824, map frontispiece, original publisher's boards, 8vo, another copy, third edition, 1827, 20th century calf over cloth boards, 8vo, & another, seventh edition, 1856, original cloth, 8vo, (5).
Books. Approx. 60, antique reference, textiles, art and print-making, including Lambert’s Decorative Needlework, fifth edition, London: John Murray, 1846, original cloth, loose, 8vo, sixteen Women’s Institute sewing titles, early-mid 20th century, Gilbert (Christopher), Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, signed, two-volume set, 1978, dj, hb, 4to, Cescinsky (Herbert) & Gribble (Ernest R.), Early English Furniture and Woodwork, two-volume set, London: The Waverley Book Company Ltd., 1922, decorative leather bindings, tired, rubbed and chipped losses, folio, Harding (J.D.), Elementary Art, fourth edition, London: Day and Son, Lithographers, n.d. [c. 1850], lacking 4 plates, original cloth, disbound, folio, Islamic Metalwork in the British Museum, 1949, slipcased, further metalware, Walton’s Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, signed, 1976, further ceramics reference, Japanese prints, wood-engraving, sculpture, horology and clocks, other decorative and applied arts, various, etc
Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Royal Navy. Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett, GCVO, CMG (1863-1945), naval officer and courtier, H.M.S. Caesar's Watch, Station, Quarter and Fire Bills, printed 1895, manuscript dated 1898-99, compiled and inscribed by Godfrey-Faussett while a first-lieutenant, approx. 200pp printed &/or ink MS, including names of the seamen, a guide for training, how to prepare for armed action, abandoning ship, etc., diagrams and illustrations, similar loosely-inserted ephemera and papers, original cloth as supplied (tired), 4to, World War One, United States Navy, William Quish G.M. 2nd Class, USS Colhoun, MS diary, August 1918 - February 1919, approx. 42pp, mostly recording assisting troop ships in and around New York, including Brooklyn, and New Jersey, even sailing alongside the requisitioned RMS Mauretania, heading towards Bermuda, and on 18th November was sent to New London where a new submarine was being tried out, original cover, 12mo, a Victorian collection of ephemera, n.d. [c. 1880], tipped-in, with some loosely-inserted, mostly related to the Church of England and encompassing its High Anglo-Catholic to Evangelical creeds, including three off-prints by Alfred Gurney (1843-1898), from St Barnabas, Pimlico, nos. 85, 86, & 44, 1883-1884, ‘Expenses for altar cloth’, 1pp manuscript account, n.d. [c. 1880], a manuscript charade, citing Caroline Fiennes (née Leigh, 1825-1909), Baroness Saye and Sele, second wife of The Venerable Frederick Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele (1799-1887), the Archdeacon of Hereford; ‘Jerusalem the Glorious’ by The Rev. A. Tighe-Gregory, as a ‘Memorial to the late Hon. George Ponsonby Prittie, n.d. [c. 1871], ‘How we shall welcome our three Pilgrims!’, Miss von Zakzewska & Miss Glanford Bell, as a band and holding a flag, welcome the three pilgrims, Amy, Dora & Liza, to Germany, 19cm x 25cm, manuscript music, both libretto and score; manuscript letters and verse, including ‘On the death of my Cousin/Shipwrecked in the China Seas’ by Henry ****, n.d., 4 stanzas, pictorial letterheads, telegraph, ephemera viz. The Rambler’s Sketching Club, Fulham, newspaper clippings, including Mrs Eddy and Christian Scientists, Cardinal Vannutelli and the ‘Bishop of Animals’, Second Boer War, Recollections of a Night with the Communists, Ruskin on Architecture, etc., disbound crown folio (41cm x 31cm), Railwayana, two pieces, [Ireland], Irish Railway's Distance Book and Sea Distances, in two parts, dated 1921, 66pp of red-ruled ink manuscript tables, ffep with indistinct inscribed name (probably the compiler's) and dated 1/3/21, original green cloth, foolscap (34cm x 21cm), a British Rail 1114/1 black cloth ledger, enclosing unassociated late 19th century and later railway ephemera, foolscap (35cm x 23.5cm), and three Edwardian and later friendship albums, dated from 1905, each typically illustrated with watercolour, pencil, &/or pen-and-ink caricatures, flowers, pictures, and vignettes; manuscript sentiments and original verse and prose composition; the medium-sized album also illustrated with tipped-in photographs of country houses, with clippings from their respective writing-paper, including Bowood, Irish houses, etc., presumably inscribed by fellow house party guests, and in other places illustrated by snapshots of the signatories; the largest album from British India, citing Bombay, Lucknow, Calcutta, etc., various calf and roan bindings, 4to & 8vo (qty) Provenance: 1st: Captain Sir Bryan Godfrey Godfrey-Faussett, GCVO, CMG (1863-1945), Royal Navy career officer and courtier. After Greenwich and Dartmouth, Godfrey-Faussett was appointed an unofficial aide-de-camp to the then Prince George of Wales in 1890. His naval career continued, briefly, before he was later posted to the royal yacht HMS Osborne (1896-97), then HMS Caesar (1898-99), promoted to commander, and found himself in Prince George's entourage again (now Duke of York and Cornwall). On the prince's appointment as Prince of Wales, in 1901, G-F was promoted to Equerry-in-Ordinary, accompanied the heir to India (1905-06), and retired from active service in 1906 to permanently be in attendance. On the accession in 1910, G-F served the then George V as Equerry-in-Ordinary until the monarch's death, whence he was an Extra Equerry to the king's sons Edward VIII and George VI until G-F's own death in 1945.
A Victorian gilt brass mounted and porcelain inset marble wood book slide, BETJEMANN'S PATENT SELF CLOSING BOOK SLIDE No 5329, set with two medallions painted with putti, 41cm l, engraved brass tablet FIELD late STOCKEN 53 Regent Strt Mechanism adapted to remain closed, as a conventional example. Retaining most of the original gilding; of the fine quality for which the maker was renowned
English School, mid 19th c - Sketches Taken in North West Wales, 67, in album, each inscribed on the reverse of the preceding sketch, pencil or pen and ink, 80 x 136, in black straight grained morocco bound pocket book with yellow trade label of Henry Penny, worn Good condition and apparently complete, includes several blanks but mostly filled, one or two leaves detached
A Victorian engraved and pierced gilt brass mounted marble wood book slide, Betjemann's Patent Self Closing Book Slide No 3764, each end set with a Wedgwood or similar jasper ware cameo, 41cm l, brass tablet engraved for the retailer HALSTAFF & HANNERFORD 228 Regent St LONDON Good condition. Mechanism operative although would benefit from an overhaul
British School, 18th c - Portrait of a Man, three quarter length seated in a fur trimmed robe beside a bust and pointing to the book held in his right hand, 124 x 102cm, unframed Lined perhaps in the early 20th c, with some evident old overpainting, varnish dirty, top right corner detached from the stretchers
Hornby-Dublo part sets Rolling Stock Track Accessories and New Cavendish and Bianco Auction books, EDP12 Passenger Set comprising BR green 36232 'Duchess of Montrose', pair of maroon coaches and oval of track, in poor base only of original box,EDP1 Box comprising BR green 60022 'Mallard', LNER blue No 7 'Sir Nigel Gresley', BR black 0-602T 69567, Teak Coach and seven wagons and three Buffer stops, all in poor set box, other wagons (6), poor part painted 'Duchess of Atholl' body, metal Signal Box (2), Island Platform (no ramps), Signal, Water Crane, Turntable, Power Controller A3 boxed and unboxed Transformer and Controller and qty of 3-rail Track, Michael Foster's Hornby-Dublo Book and Christies Bianco 1996 Dublo sale Catalogue P-G, boxes P (qty)
Hornby 00 Gauge Margate Steam Locomotives and tenders, comprising BR green, R861 class 9F 92220 'Evening Star', tender damaged, R063 4-6-2 tender locomotive 70000 'Britannia' , R295 class A3 60088 'Book Law', R350 A4 class 60022 'Mallard', class 4MT tender Locomotive 46521, all in original boxes, unboxed Southern malachite green Battle of Britain class 21C166 'Spitfire' damaged valve gear, GW green Hall class 5934 'Keller Hall' , LMS black Black 5 class 5308, P-G, boxes F, all sold as found, some may have hidden damage/faults (8)
Collectable Reference Books and Hornby 00 gauge catalogues, The Story of Rovex volume 2 by Pat Hammond, Hornby companion series Gauge 0 Trains and Hornby Dublo trains, Hornby official history - Hammond, Hornby Book of Trains 25 year edition, Wild Swan paperbacks on Plastic Structure kits and Landscape modelling, Railway Stations from the Air, Locomotives in detail Merchant Navy class, Hornby Annual Handbook, Catalogues from 34th edition to 62nd edition (19, with gaps and duplication), assortment of Hornby Collector magazine and other railway magazines (qty), Ceramic collectors plate 'Smoke and Shadow', G-E, (qty)
Trix 00 Gauge Rolling Stock Track Controllers Catalogues and Matthewman Book and Graham Farish Pannier Tank and Truck, Trix, BR green Tenders (2, one good, other poor), tin and plastic open wagons (2), large qty of Bakelite Track and Points in base of set box, fibre track straights (20+), Transformers (3) and Controllers (3), Catalogues, 1939-1940, 1956, 1959, 2004/5, Tony Matthewman History of Trix book, Gresley Coaches Card Kits C1 and C3, Graham Farish GWR green 9410 Pannier tank (very good) and Open Truck, generally F-G (qty)
Large collection of Tri-ang Catalogues from No 2 and Pat Hammond Rovex History Vols 1-3 and other related ephemera and Books, Catalogues 2-4, 6-8, 16, 20, 25, Tri-ang Railways 'The First Ten Years', Tri-ang Hornby Book of Trains (2), Tri-ang and T/H Service Sheets 1955-71, Hornby Service Sheets 1972-1977 and 1998-2006 all three produce by East Kent models, Tri-ang Railway Posters 1952-65 by Dave McCarthy, Hornby Book of Trains 25 Year Edition, New Cavendish Rovex Series by Pat Hammond Vols, 1, 2 and 3, early catalogues P-F, rest generally VG (qty)
Collection of Collectors Clubs Magazines Hornby TCS HRCA Tri-ang various Catalogues, New Cavendish Hornby 0 Book Ramsey Guides and other ephemera, Graebe New Cavendish Book Hornby 0 Gauge System, Ramsey's British Model Trains 1st, 2nd and 4th Editions, Bachmann Catalogues, 1994-96, 1999, 2005, 2007, Bachmann Big Hauliers 1989 (2), ROCO 2004/5, 2005, PIKO 2005, Mainline 1979, Dapol 1989, Fleischmann 1993/4, Lima 1989/90, Marklin Digital 1990/91, Wrenn 7th Catalogue, HRCA repro Meccano 1939-40 Catalogue, Corgi 2016, Markham Collection Auction Catalogue, Model Railway Constructor Jan, Feb 1959, Meccano mag May 56 and Apr 57, Geoffrey Sinton Duchess of Hamilton and Mallard Card kits, HRCA Mags 2002-2007 (60+), TCS 1999-2008 (39), Tri-ang Society Telegraph 1999-2002 (15), Hornby Collector 1997-2008 (75), generally G-VG (large qty)
SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956) Pair of Art & Crafts oak open arm dining chairs, from the Salle Jacques Cartier dining room (both chairs stamped on underside) on Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain - one of the greatest superliner of the 1930's as detailed in the book Empress Of Britain Canadian Pacific's Greatest Ship by Gordon Turner. The chairs were designed by Brangwyn and made by H.H. Martyn & Co., Cheltenham in 1930
Quentin Blake OBE, British b.1932 - I Wish I Were a Jelly Fish; ink on paper, signed lower left 'Quentin Blake', 19 x 17.1 cm (ARR)Provenance:with Chris Beetles Gallery, London (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame);the Estate of the late David Cornwell, best-known as the author John Le CarréLiterature:Quentin Blake, 'The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse', London, Viking, 1994, preliminary work for p.215 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame)
Blair Hughes-Stanton, British 1902-1981 - Myth II, 1936; tempera on canvas, signed lower right 'Blair H S 1936' and titled and dated on a label attached to the reverse, 76.5 x 127.3 cmProvenance: the Estate of the Artist Note:Blair Hughes Stanton (1902-1981) was one of the most acclaimed artists in Britain during the interwar era, known for his role in the revival of wood engraving in Modern art. He studied under Leon Underwood at his Brook Green School alongside Henry Moore and Eileen Agar, where he developed a unique visual language, creating works that were a celebration of love and physicality. Alongside his first wife, Gertrude Hermes, Hughes Stanton became a much sought-after book illustrator, his wood engravings featuring in books by his friend D.H. Lawrence and T.E. Lawrences 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. The Myth series of paintings relates to the artist's relationship with Ida Graves, poet, novelist and associate of the Bloomsbury Group, with whom Hughes-Stanton started the Gemini Press in 1933. Their first book together was 'Epithalamion: a poem'.
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