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Lot 109
Ophthalmology Album of original eye studies and sketches by James Travis Whittaker, c.1873-5 containing some 40 colour sketches (watercolour with evidence of pastel) of eyes and retinas, healthy and with various abnormalities, many annotated with condition and name and age of patient, a few signed 'J. T. W.' and dated, and including a large head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman possibly with exophthalmia (28 x 22cm), the others captioned cornical cornea, varicose iris, 'Agnes Coltman, 3, epicanthus from disease of bone', 'circular saw accident', and similar (various dimensions, mainly 5 x 5cm to 12 x 12cm and larger), together with some 230 additional sketches in pencil or pen and ink, frequently captioned, including medical interest (e.g. 'M. Henderson, perforation of trachea', 'Jane Herd, 22, adenitis', two studies of deformed hands), portraits and caricatures of contemporaries and acquaintances, views (Ailsa Craig, Carlisle Castle, etc.), a long-haired spectral figure in the style of William Blake ('Shades of Night') and assorted other subjects, and a number of etchings and engravings, all mounted rectos and versos on 30 stiff card album leaves, 'Notice of Removal' plate ('J. Travis Whittaker, M.D., Physician and Surgeon') and cabinet photograph possibly of Whittaker mounted to inside front cover, contemporary dark red roan album, covers detached, several leaves looseNote: James Travis Whittaker (c.1850-1905) graduated MD from the University of Glasgow in 1876. 'In the 1888 medical directory his address is given as Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, and his list of appointments includes senior physician and ophthalmic surgeon, Anderson's College Dispensary. (Many of the vignettes in the album are of staff of Anderson's College.) He also had a remarkable list of inventions to his credit, at least one of which is mentioned in the album: the revolving midwifery forceps; the zonometer; the portable hot air and vapour bath; forceps for iridectomy; disarticulating stethoscope; elastic tourniquet with spring clips' artificial lung (giving sounds); artificial heart exhibiting action of valves and giving murmurs for teaching; insufflator; ophthalmoscope' (typed memorandum, attached to Medical History Conferences compliments slip annotated by Director Dr Nicholas Dewey, dated 1987, included with the lot). Provenance: M. D. Sanders FRCP FRCS HonFRCOphth (bookplate).
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Lot 239
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978] Important collection of autograph article all in blue or black ink on rectos only of varicoloured foolscap sheets, secured with paperclips, and comprising: 1) 'Robert Burns (1759-1959)', 20 ff., signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in title, begins 'Mrs Virginia Woolf in her essay "Gas at Abbotsford" fully showed the necessity and complete justification of the Scots Revival Movement', apparently a fair copy, published as Burns Today and Tomorrow (Edinburgh, 1959); 2) 'Introduction to "Uranium 235"' [Play by Ewan MacColl, published Glasgow, 1948]. 10 ff., signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in title, with autograph corrections; 3) Two draft articles for the Scottish Secretariat, 1920s, 'Scots in the Cabinet ('There are only three Scots in the Cabinet proper - Mr Ramsay MacDonald himself, Mr William Graham ... and Mr William Adamson ...'), 5 ff., and 'A Scottish airman', 4 ff., both with series-title 'London. Scottish letter, by our own correspondent', with autograph covering letter dated 1928 (enclosing three autographs) signed 'C. M. Grieve'; 4) Five Scottish Journal articles: a) 'Elizabeth I Scarves' ('The distributors of the Scottish Covenant Association's headsquares ...'), 1 f., finger-soiled; b) 'The Gaelic Genius' ('Remembering my earlier poems in Scots ...'), 2 ff., signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid' at end; c) 'Beyond Argument' (verse: 'It is now the duty of the Scottish genius / Which has provided the economic freedom for it ...'), 1 f., signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid in margin; d) 'The Key to World Literature. Hugh MacDiarmid replies to Moray Maclaren', 4 ff.; e)'Why Teach Gaelic?', 1 f. (annotated 'Talk of the Nation' by Macdiarmid at head; attached note reads 'MS contains more than printed'); each apparently the printer's setting copy (with associated corrections and annotations), all with later manuscript note attached recording the date of publication; 5) Collection of 'Talk of the Nation' drafts: a) 'Good for Greenock' ('Greenock Town Council's decision that the Scottish Flag is to be flown from the Town Hall annually ...'), 1 f., attached to and continuously paginated with a second article, 'Henderson Stewart drops a brick', 2-4 ff.; b) 'Scottish Farming Lesson to English' [and 6 further talks under separate headings: 'Exporting 15 Million People'; 'Queen Born and Bred a Londoner'; etc.], 7 ff., continuously paginated; c) 'Changing Scotland' [and 2 further talks: 'Large-scale transformations'; 'The Housing Problem'], 'Changing Scotland' begins 'Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the Glen Lussa hydro-electric scheme ...', 'Large-scale transformations' begins 'A few years ago the Russian scientist Lysenko was vilifed throguhout the British press', ff. 1, 4-8 [1] 12 (other leaves presumably discarded by the printers, two leaves extant in fragments only); 6) 'The Late Major C. H. Douglas', 10 ff., signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid' in title, with autograph covering note to Bill (i.e. William MacLellan, publisher) signed 'Chris', marked up for printing; 7) 'The Stuffed Lion', ('An Edinburgh art-student had a few over the eight one night'), on the Report of the Catto Committee (1952), 3 ff., extensively marked up for printing; 9. Two book review pieces: a) 'Book Reviews: A Scottish Philospher [sic] on Peirce and Pragmatism' ('A young Scottish philosopher, professor W. B. Gallie ...'), 1 f., signed 'CMG' at end; b) 'Books: Scottish Books of the Month', 4 ff., signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid' at end (1 folder)
Lot 268
Literature, music and theatre Collection of autographs, 19th and early 20th century comprising: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930). Autograph postcard signed, Crowborough, 1918. 'Dear Sir, it does seem most disgraceful [...], A Conan Doyle, Crowboro', addressed to F. W. Bennett of Bristol on recto (also in Doyle's hand), 8.8 x 11.4cm; Williams, Ralph Vaughan (1872-1958). Autograph letter signed, Dorking, [1937]. To [Frederick Allan] Wilshire (1868-1944), musician and judge, declining an invitation, 1 p., on Vaughan Williams's personal stationery, old folds; Sullivan, Sir Arthur S. (1842-1900). Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Collier', undated, arranging a meeting, 1 p.; and approx. 50 others, authors and literary figures including George Macdonald (1824-1905), autograph letter signed, 1889, Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), clipped signature retaining final 4 lines of a letter, W. Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), signed envelope, Sir Archibald Alison (1792-1867), autograph letter signed, 1848, Bayle Bernard (1807-1875), autograph letter signed, Francis Horner (1778-1817), founder of the Edinburgh review, autograph letter signed, 1807; musicians including J. L. Molloy (1837-1909, Irish composer and associate of Gilbert and Sullivan, 4 letters, including lengthy musical quotations), Frederick Ouseley (1825-1889), John Stainer (1840-1901; 2 letters), Walter Macfarren (1826-1905); musicologists (Ernest Newman, 1868-1959; Ebenezer Prout, 1835-1909), singers (Louisa Pyne, 1828-1904; John Coates, 1865-1941, letter and signed cabinet card), impresario Carl Rosa, 1842-1889), conductor Henry Coward (1849-1944), and similar, mainly complete letters, many mounted on album leaves (approx. 50)
Lot 77
Travel 20 volumes comprising: Fellowes, W.D. A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817. London, 1818. First edition, 8vo, 15 plates (11 hand-coloured aquatints, 2 etchings & 1 vignette - as called for), original boards, uncut, cloth chemise, slipcase; Du Chaillu, Paul B. Land of the Midnight Sun. New York, 1882. 2 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, folding map in pocket; Symes, Michael. Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava. Edinburgh, 1827. 2 volumes in one, 12mo, frontispieces, folding map, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms on sides; Nansen, Fridtjof. Farthest North. 1897, 2 volumes, original pictorial cloth; Grogan, E.S. and A.H. Sharp. From the Cape to Cairo. 1900, seemingly inscribed by the author with a picture of an elephant and the dates 1874-1901 (or 1874-1961), original pictorial cloth; Fullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot... after Sperm Whales. 1900, 6th impression (2nd edition), original pictorial cloth; Lynam, C.C. The Log of the Blue Dragoon 1892-1904. 1907, original pictorial cloth, rubbed; Baxter, George. The Pictorial Album or Cabinet of Paintings. Containing eleven designs executed in oil colours. 4to, pictorial title and 10 plates, original pictorial morocco gilt rather rubbed, folding box; Evans, Capt. Edward R.G.R. South with Scott. Nov. 1921, original cloth; Rutter, Owen. Through Formosa. 1923, original cloth; Enriquez, Major C.M. Ceylon past and present. [c.1920], original cloth; Gann, Thomas. Ancient Cities and Modern Tribes... Maya Lands. 1926, original cloth; Ronaldshay, Earl of. Lands of the Thunderbolt. Sikhim, Chumbi & Bhutan. 1928, original cloth; Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. 1937, original cloth, lightly soiled; Gordon, Seton. Amid Snowy Wasters.. Spitsbergen. 1922, original cloth, rubbed; [St. Andrews] Saint Andrews as it was and as it is. Cupar, 1838. 12mo, additional engraved title, plates, original cloth; Thomas, Bertram. Arabia Felix, across the empty quarter. 1932, original cloth; Scott, Hugh. In the high Yemen. 1942, original cloth; sold as a collection not subject to return (20)
Lot 81
Women in World War I Photograph album, c.1911-20 containing c.350 snapshot-style gelatin silver print photographs (8 x 6cm to 10.5 x 6.5cm), depicting a voyage to India in 1911-12 (Rajputana, Jabalpore, Simla), family recreation in England, and activities of Army Service Corps Mechanical Transport Company 882 and attached servicewomen in London, France and Belgium (with numerous images of service cars including Rolls Royces, and two larger photographs captioned 'Canadian War Cabinet Cars, Peace Conference, Whitehall Gardens, Dec 1918 Jan 1919'), 1917-20, manuscript captions throughout. Together with 7 further albums, c.1880-1910, comprising: 4 albums with in total c.250 Scottish or English views, albumen prints, many by George Washington Wilson or John Valentine, e.g. Highlands and Islands (Staffa, Fingal's Cave, Glencoe, Skye, Tobermory, castles), Edinburgh (20 of these large-format and contained in single red morocco album), and similar; 2 family albums containing in total c.220 personal and studio photographs, c.1890, one including domestic views and interiors (e.g. 'Bachelors and Spinsters Ball, Worcester, March 31st 1891'), family scenes at Wolverton Hall, Worcestershire, views including Malta and Aden, bookplate of Agatha Royds Greene (dated 1895); and a crushed blue morocco album of domestic interiors apparently in Edinburgh, 1912 (platinum prints). Also c.250 photographic cartes-de-visite, c.1860-70, including actresses ('Miss Constance Gilchrist in "Blue Beard"'; Eweretta Lawrence; Madame Modjeska; Emily Soldene; Violet Cameron; Alice Atherton), soldiers, aristocrats and royalty (Duke of Buccleuch, Duke and Duchess of Connaught, Duke and Duchess of Albany, Alexandra Princess of Wales), W. E. Gladstone etc.; 16 similar cabinet cards; 4 photographic negatives (2 of 'Maesminnon [Maes Mynan] Hall', Wales, 2 of a house named 'La Sarsonnerie' in printed caption verso, in folder annotated '4 paper negatives, late 1840s early 50s') and a photographic portrait of George Bernard Shaw, apparently signed by Shaw on verso (1 box)
Lot 293
A COALPORT CABINET PLATE DEPICTING RICHMOND CASTLE SIGNED P SIMPSON, manufactured for Harrods, Dia. 22 cm, together with a Coalport twin handled vase with slight damage and another unsigned decorative cabinet plate (3)Condition Report:One or two very light surface scratches but no deep scratches.No obvious chips, cracks or restoration that we can see.
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