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Lot 57
John Speed (1552-1629), Map of the Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, inset plans of the capital cities of London and Edinburgh, surmounted with the royal crest and decorated with sea monsters, sailing ships and an elaborate compass rose, sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street & Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1676, with later hand colouring, English text on verso, engraving, 40 x 53cm.; 15.75 x 21in.
Lot 512
A matched set of four modern cast silver three-light candelabra, maker's mark of JCL, London 1961 and 1966, tapering fluted baluster columns with foliate shoulders, with a central spool shaped capital and two scroll arms each supporting a spool shaped capital, gadroon borders, on raised circular bases, height 42cm, approx. weight 204oz. (4)
Lot 306
PAIR OF EDWARDIAN SILVER NEOCLASSICAL STYLE COLUMN CANDLESTICKS maker James Deakin & Sons, Sheffield 1902, sconces with beaded rims, palm frond pattern capital, twist column, square plinth base decorated with repeating cameo and swag design with beaded borders, approximately 592g gross (base loaded), 15cm high
Lot 1078
A Burnley signed Howard Hotel, London, dinner menu 24th August 1948, the team in the capital in preparation for the following day's away fixture at Charlton Athletic, signed in pencil to the reverse by 12 Burnley players including Strong, Woodruff, Attwell, Brown, Bray, Chew, Morris, Potts etc.
Lot 1101
A Manchester City signed Howard Hotel, London, dinner menu 26th March 1948, the team in the capital for the match v Chelsea, signed in pen to the reverse by 12 City players including Swift, McMorran, Fagan, Walsh, Westwood, Linacre, Sposton, Black, Smith, Clarke & Emptage & reserve Jimmy Munro
Lot 38
A Golden Gloves 1933 lightweight runner-up belt awarded to Ernie Smith of Ireland after defeat to Eddie Ward of the United States, gilt-metal clasp and buckle with enamel stars & stripes & Irish tricolor flags, central boxing scene and inscribed INTERNATIONAL GOLDEN GLOVES, UNITED STATES vs IRELAND, LIGHTWEIGHT, RUNNER-UP, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 1933, red, white & blue belt with clasp diamond inset, with its red, white and blue belt The Golden Gloves was an international amateur boxing tournament inaugurated in 1931 between the USA and European boxers. In 1933 The Irish Free State sent a team including the lightweight Ernie Smith to Chicago for the tournament. He was a blacksmith by trade iat Kennan and Sons in Dublin and Smith trained at St Andrews Boxing Club in the Irish capital It was Smith's second successive visit to the USA having been part of the Irish boxing team at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games where he was defeated by the eventual Argentine gold medal winner in the featherweight division Carmelo Robledo. At the time of the Golden Gloves tournament Smith had already notched up 126 career victories, 49 by k.o.
Lot 2
A Delightful Jacobean Carved & Parcel Gilt Oak Term. The elaborately carved piece having a scrolled capital above an arched gallery niche enclosing the figure of a musician strumming a lute, with a seated dog blowing a horn below, and a small recessed panel backed in gilding to the base, fitted with a gilt metal mount with socket (probably for a sconce), 26½ ins (67 cms) high, 4 ins (10 cms) wide.*
Lot 456
ADELAIDE OF SAXE-MEININGEN: (1792-1849) Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover, spouse of King William IV. The capital city of South Australia is named after her. Concluding page of an A.L.S., with her initial A, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. ('Thursday Afternoon'), to an unidentified correspondent, featuring several lines of holograph text, in part sending regards to Miss. Allendale. One neat split to the right edge of the central horizontal fold, only very slightly affecting one word of text and not the signature. Together with an ink signature, with her initial A, on a small oblong 12mo piece apparently clipped from an envelope wrapper and with the words 'The Bishop' in her hand above her signature. Neatly laid down. About VG, 2 £80-100
Lot 497
Unpublished Letter Patrick Pearse, Thomas Mc Donagh & St. Enda's Pearse (P.H.) A very important autograph manuscript draft letter by P.H. Pearse, appealing for funds and explaining his plans for St. Enda's, at the end of its first year in existence, dated 29th June 1909.Folio, 4pp., with a covering typed letter signed by Thomas Mc Donagh, 2pp., dated 8th July '09, forwarding the letter in Pearse's absence and adding his own account of Pearse's financial situation, the prospects for the school, etc. Pearse's letter is unpublished. He begins by describing the school's achievements in its first year. 'Mr (Eoin) Mac Neill said that the school had been a success, not merely on its own grounds, and within its own classrooms, but in the homes of its pupils, and that none knew that fact as well as those who were privileged to send their children to the school. Personally, I do not ask for any higher approbation than this of the founder of the Gaelic League…. During the past year we have provided a secondary education, Irish in complexion but embracing the full scope of a College curriculum (the highest class being of University 1st Arts standard) for seventy boys. We are now confronted with the necessity of increasing our accommodation and perfecting our equipment in order to cope with the large influx of pupils which we expect… Having shown the entire feasibility of my venture… I now feel justified in approaching four or five friends whom I believe to be interested in the future of Irish education, with a proposal that they should join in a scheme to ensure the development and permanence of the great work we have undertaken…' He goes on to explain that the school receives no grant or subsidy from any quarter, and was precluded from accepting Government aid; the funds needed to purchase and equip the premises at Cullenwood House were provided by himself and a few friends. 'This therefore is my first (and I hope will be my only) appeal for anything in the nature of an endowment. I should add that for the present I am accepting no salary or other emolument as Head Master …' He then sets out a detailed list of necessary improvements, including new lavatory and refectory, physico-chemical laboratory, and a chapel or oratory, costing in all some £720, which would leave us fully provided and equipped for many years to come.. . It has been suggested to me that you might be willing to become a benefactor of the School to the extent of endowing it with funds for the carrying out of one or more of the foregoing items: my idea is that those who help should form a body of 'founders' or patrons who might be entrusted with the duty of 'visiting' the school and would act as a kind of consultative council. I will not unduly press the matter on you, but feel sure that, if you can see your way to become a 'founder' of Scoil Eanna in the manner indicated, you will be more than repaid by the success of what I believe to be by far the most important educational undertaking that has been launched, in Ireland in our time… .' The letter is clearly a draft, and has many corrections in Pearse's hand. It is fully signed by him. Mac Donagh's covering letter is addressed to 'a Chara Dhil' ('dear friend'), a Mr. O'Hanrahan of Kilkenny, with whom he had previously discussed St. Enda's needs. Mac Donagh had taught in St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, prior to moving to Dublin. He explains that Pearse has sent four copies of the enclosed draft letter to four or five friends. '(I) send it to you in hopes that you see your way yourself to join our undertaking… Neither Mr. Pearse nor I regard this as a personal matter. It is really one for the country and more especially one for those in our movement. He, as he says, receives no salary from the school, and indeed has to forego half his salary as editor of "An Claidheamh" (Solais) and live on the other half. His income is now just £100, I have made a sacrifice to come here too, and am now in receipt of a much smaller salary than I have had these seven or eight years. But on the other hand we understand that this way of serving the cause is our choice, and that you and others may prefer other ways. You and I knew each other well enough to understand each other, and anyhow I am not asking a personal favour…' With a good signature, in Irish, Tomas Mac Donnchadha. Educational scholars now agree with Pearse's judgement, that St. Enda's was the most important Irish educational venture of its time; but it never was a financial success. Pearse's appeal was the first of many such, and he was never able to establish the school on an even keel financially. This was not altogether his fault, since he was hampered from the start by lack of capital. While other similar letters are in O'Buachalla's collection, the present letter is earlier and goes into greater detail about his plans for the school than those published by O'Buachalla. Thomas Mac Donagh was associated with the school from the start as lecturer in English, and as Pearse's trusted deputy. He later became assistant in the English Department at U.C.D., but retained his connection with St. Enda's. He was a founder member of the Irish Volunteers, became its Director of Training, joined the IRB in 1915 and was a member of its military council, which planned the Rising. With Pearse he signed the 1916 Proclamation; he commanded the garrison at Jacob's Factory while Pearse was in command at the G.P.O. He was shot by firing squad on 3 May, 1916, the same day as Pearse. A British officer said 'They all died well, but Mac Donagh died like a prince.' Although Pearse and Mac Donagh were closely associated in all their public activities, documents linking them directly as this one, are very rare. A superb memento of two visionary educationalists and revolutionaries. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
Lot 294
COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA including black and white movie press stills and later colour lobby cards, various bound typed film scripts 'The Matrix' written by Larry and Andy Wachowski April 8 1996, 'Halloween' screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, 'Making Waves' a six episode serial by Donna Franceschild (signed), and others, various Western comics, Scottish theme reprints after the originals published by E.Jackson 1786, and 'Royal Commission on Capital Punishment - Minutes of Evidence' 1949-1953, viewing required
Lot 224
EARLY FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE RISINGMcKenzie, F.A., The Irish Rebellion: What Happened - And Why, London, 1916, published within within months of the rebellion's end. McKenzie wrote in the preface: This little book describes what I saw and learned in Dublin during the Easter rising of 1916. [The capital R wasn't added until later] Two representatives of the Canadian Press were chosen to visit Ireland while the fighting was on. I had the good fortune to be one of them.”McKenzie was a seasoned war correspondent, who, because he was neither British nor Irish, wrote from a different angle - his years of experience gave him a journalist's eye for the detail of not just the rebellion, but its causes and background as well.
Lot 254
MICHAEL COLLINS FUNERAL PROCESSIONA monochrome photograph, Dublin, 1922, c. 15.5 x 20.5cm. Held on 28 August 1922, the Irish Independent reported the event as the ‘Greatest pageant of sorrow ever seen in Dublin: a cortège three miles long.’ An estimated 300,000 people lined the streets of the capital as the funeral procession wound its way to Glasnevin Cemetery.
Lot 72
P.H. PEARSEAn important collection of five autograph signed letters to his legal advisers, Gerrard & Co. of Westmoreland St., Dublin, 1911-1912, on headed St. Enda’s paper, mostly concerning financial and/or legal matters arising from his plans for St. Enda’s, some illustrating Pearse’s chronic shortage of money, as follows:1. ALS on Sgoil Eanna paper, 24 Feb. 1911, objecting to a clause in a contract. ‘I am surely entitled to the lands and to all profits and emoluments accruing from them as from August 1st. I accept the other figures and calculate that the amount due is therefore £92.4.1. P.S. - Please make out at once agreement for letting large lawn @ £57 from Mar. 1st to Feb. 1st, to Fallon, Rathfarnham, no rersponsibility for fencing etc. to be on me.’ With a good signature.2. ALS on Sgoil Éanna paper, 28th June 1911, enclosing Mr. MacManus’ letter. ‘I think you may go ahead on the strength of this, especially as I told Mr. MacManus some time ago that we were making an assignment to Mr. Dolan for the benefit of the two of them (Dolan and MacManus)’. This is probably the writer Seamus MacManus, one of the backers for St. Enda’s. With a good signature.3. A remarkable ALS dated 19th Oct. 1911, on Sgoil Eanna paper (large sheet). ‘I enclose cheque £52.10.0 and bill signed at bottom. It is better that I should meet neither Vanston nor Farmer, as it would be difficult for me to restrain my inclination to assault them. I was very nearly assaulting Mr Vanston in a tramcar the other evening, but was restrained by respect for his years and feebleness. So I gravely acknowledged his salute instead.’ With a bold signature, underscored.4. ALS on Sgoil Éanna paper, 21st Feb. 1912. ‘Mr. Vanston has written me that unless I let him have cheque for £50 today he will at once issue writ for amt. of promissory note, costs, and interest. I cannot, unfortunately, let him have it today .. Could you ring up Vanston and Farmer and do your best to get them to agree to either of my proposals - (1) to renew the bill for a month, or (2) to wait until I can let them have the £50, which should not be very long.’ With a copy appended of Pearse’s letter to Vanston, explaining that money from his pupils is slow coming in, one man’s little daughter ‘is this week undergoing an operation in which her life trembles in the balance, & in the circumstances I do not care to write him’, etc.5. ALS on Sgoil Eanna paper, 1st Sept. 1912, 2 pp, saying he now has £225.10s. in cash and promises, and listing ‘all those who served writs during last twelve months’, including Farmer Bros. (Vanston, Solr.) and seven others, with reference numbers added in another hand. The amounts of the writs are not given here. ‘If all goes well tomorrow, it is essential that all creditors should have communication Tuesday morning, explaining the situation.’ With a good signature, underscored.These letters appear to be unpublished, and some of the detailed information is new, particularly the list of writs outstanding (item 5). The threat of personal violence in item 3 is striking, coming from the usually urbane and unflappable Pearse. He never had the capital needed to establish St. Enda’s securely, and this letter vividly indicates his frustration. Messrs. Farmers were the builders making alterations at The Hermitage for St. Enda’s; Vanston was their solicitor. The correspondence is generally in very good clean condition.
Lot 746
Brunelot, Paris, a French brass carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a platform lever escapement and striking the hours and half-hours on a bell, with the backplate stamped with the trademark of Brunelot, a capital B within a circle, the inside of the plates stamped with the serial number 1684, the white enamel dial having black Roman numerals steel moon hands and signed for the retailer Howell & James, To the Queen, London, the brass corniche case with a three-bail carrying handle, height 13cm/16cm, handle down/up.
Lot 430
Russia, Nicholas II (1894-1917), large gold award medal ‘For Zeal in Services to the Government’, undated, by A. Vasyutinsky and Klenov, bust of Nicholas II l., rev. FOR ZEAL in Cyrillic, within cascading partial wreath, 51.5mm., 75.05gms. (Diakov 1138.1 [R3]), integral suspension loop, struck with a light matt surface, minor handling marks and scratch on reverse near the loop, extremely fine, rare, and a particularly handsome image of the last tsar!. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born near St. Petersburg on 18 May 1868. He was the eldest son of Tsar Alexander III, and when he succeeded his father in 1894 he had no real experience in governing. He married Princess Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt in the same year he gained the throne, and within a few years they had four daughters and a son, Alexis, who suffered from haemophilia, a disease of the blood. It was a time of colonial expansion by European powers, and not to be outdone by rivals Tsar Nicholas encouraged Russian expansion into Manchuria, which provoked war with Japan in 1904. Russia was defeated and this led to internal strikes and riots until, in January 1905, on ‘Bloody Sunday’, the army in St. Petersburg shot into a crowd demanding radical reforms. The coming storm would alter Russian history forever. In quick succession, the renegade priest Rasputin, who exerted excessive influence over the Romanovs, was murdered by irritated nobles in late 1916, and just two months later demonstrations disrupted in the renamed capital, Petrograd. The army deserted Nicholas, who was forced to abdicate, grant a constitution, and watch the Duma (parliament) take control that had always been the right of the monarchy. The royal family were imprisoned and moved to a number of secret locations, finally being held at Yekaterinburg in the Urals. By October of 1917, the Bolsheviks seized control of the shaky, provisional government. Civil war erupted. In the middle of July 1918, the former tsar and his entire family were infamously executed by their captors as anti-Bolshevik forces grew nearer to Yekaterinburg. It has long been believed that the leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, personally ordered the last of the Romanovs to be put to death.
Lot 1343
Tapestry upholstered giltwood stool raised on turned and block understructure, early elements, together with an Italian giltwood torchère (2) CONDITION REPORT Stool- generally some deterioration to paint and gesso understructure, joints loose, deterioration losses and significant wear to tapestry cover. Torchere- wormed, some losses to capital and elsewhere. Mouldings are only present to front face of torchere, it is unclear if the reverse has lost mouldings or was never finished. Some splits and other general deterioration
Lot 1098
Anglo-Gallic. Edward the Black Prince, prince of Aquitaine (1362-1372) AV Leopard d'or. Aquitaine, c.1357-1360. + ЄD : PmO : GnS : [AnGLI]Є : P'nCPS : AQVITNIЄ, crowned leopard passant left, raising right forepaw, within tressure of 10 arches, quatrefoils on points and within spandrels; double quatrefoil stops / + XPC : VInCЄT : XPC RЄGnAT : XPC : IMPЄRAT, floriate cross within quatrefoil, leopards passant in angles. Withers & Ford 150; Schneider –; Elias 140; S 8121; Friedberg p. 212, 4. 3.47g, 29mm, 10h. Extremely Fine. Sharply struck and in exceptional condition for the type. Rare. From the Dr. Murray Gell-Mann Collection. An exceptional military commander, Edward 'the Black Prince' was the eldest son of King Edward III, on whose behalf he campaigned in France from the age of 15. Scoring decisive military victories over the French at Crécy in 1346 and Poitiers in 1356, the Black Prince twice crippled the French army for a decade each time. Struck at the height of the Black Prince's popularity, the leopard d'or is an example of his use of iconography to bolster the English position in Aquitaine, as it appears to deliberately supersede the French mouton d'or – the Paschal Lamb on the obverse and the fleur de lys on the reverse are all replaced by English leopards. This coin was one of the last issues of leopards struck in the period 1357-1361, and the entire series was probably recalled in 1361, when Edward III renounced his title of King of France in exchange for ratification of his possession of Aquitaine in the Treaty of Brétigny. The captured French King John II had to pay three million gold crowns for his ransom, and would be released after he paid one million; he was also required to provide numerous hostages, including two of his sons. While the hostages were held, John returned to France to try and raise funds to pay the ransom. In 1362 John's son Louis of Anjou escaped captivity. John thus felt honour-bound to return to captivity in England, where he died in 1364. In 1362, the Black Prince was invested as Prince of Aquitaine. He and his wife Joan of Kent moved to Bordeaux, the capital of the principality, where they spent the next nine years, and had two sons. The elder son, named Edward after his father and grandfather, died at the age of six. Around the time of the birth of their younger son, Richard (who would become King Richard II), the Black Prince was lured into a war on behalf of King Peter of Castile. The ensuing Battle of Náera in 1367 was one of the Black Prince’s greatest victories. While the English longbow again demonstrated its devastating power, driving off the opposing cavalry, unlike in other battles of the Hundred Years' War however, at Nájera it was the English who assaulted the French lines, with the English vanguard pinning the French formation while their mounted knights flanked and routed the enemy lines. Yet it was this campaign that shattered the Prince's health, and he died some nine years later after a long-lasting illness contracted in Spain, becoming the first Prince of Wales not to become king, and thus robbing England of a capable and greatly respected heir.
Lot 144
Islands off Thessaly, Skyros AR Stater. Circa 480 BC. Two goats back to back on either side of fig leaf, heads reverted / Stellate floral pattern within square incuse. J.M. Balcer, SNR 57 (1978), p. 96, 6, pl. 25 (same dies). 8.07g, 27mm. Very Fine. Extremely Rare, Balcer cites only 2 examples: ANS, New York (Skyros hoard. IGCH 31) and Athens, Numismatic Museum. This didrachm and other silver coins of the same type are all very rare and were often overstruck on Attic-weight coins of Akanthos. Since one such coin was found on Skyros (Balcer, no. 46) and six others were in the possession of an inhabitant of the island, it would appear that they were struck on Skyros prior to the arrival of Kimon, c. 475 BC. See J.N. Svoronos, JIAN 3 (1900), pp. 39-46 and Balcer, pp. 69-101. In the early fifth century an expedition was mounted to the island of Skyros under the command of the Athenian general Kimon, ostensibly under the auspices of the Delian League. The conquest of the island is mentioned by Thucydides (1.98), but Plutarch’s version in his Life of Kimon is much more detailed (Life of Kimon, 8). According to Plutarch the island was inhabited by non-Greek Dolopians whose constant plundering of ships, including those which were trading with them, eventually resulted in a request for Athenian intervention, addressed directly to Kimon, whose expedition ‘cleared the sea of pirates’. To complete this heroic effort, Kimon also fulfilled the edict of the Delphic oracle by ‘discovering’ the bones of the Athenian hero Theseus on the island – who, it was said, had been murdered by the jealous and fearful king Lycomedes – and returning them to Athens. Plutarch relates that he identified as the remains of Theseus “a coffin of a great corpse with a bronze spear-head by its side and a sword.” Thucydides, who was to some extent a contemporary of Kimon, and whose account precedes that of Plutarch by over four centuries, is much less elaborate in his description of the invasion, and simply tells us that the Athenians enslaved the local population and established a colony of Athenian citizens there. De Souza (Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World, Cambridge University Press, 1999) points out that Plutarch’s account is the only one to mention piracy (Diorodus and Pausanias also cover the invasion of Skyros), and it is unconvincing, and appears very much like an attempt to justify Athenian aggression. Dawe (Scandal at Skyros: The Delian League, Plutarch and the Maligning of the Dolopians, Studia Antiqua 6.1, 2008) arrives at the same conclusion, and contends that the real purpose of the expedition was to decrease Persian influence by removing a Medizing people from the Aegean, to expand the influence of Athens, and to add to his own political capital by returning the bones of the Athenian hero Theseus. Modern historians have tended to take Plutarch’s account at face value, and not question either his facts or motives, or why his version should differ markedly from those of Thucydides, Diodorus or Pausanias. Given no further evidence of piracy other than Plutarch’s word for it nearly half a millennium after the event, it seems probable that rather than being the product of a pirate gang, this coin represents one of the last remnants of a people exterminated by Athenian imperialism; a people who in the days of myth had supposedly sheltered the young Achilles at the request of his mother Thetis.
Lot 74
Sicily, Akragas AR Tetradrachm. Circa 460-446 BC. Sea eagle standing left on Ionic capital, AKRACANTOΣ around / Crab; spiral floral ornament below; all within shallow incuse circle. SNG ANS 982 var.; Lee Group II; SNG Lockett 696. 17.23g, 24mm, 2h. Near Extremely Fine. Attractively toned. Rare. Ex Tkalec Auction, 17 May 2010, lot 3.
Lot 791
Domitian AR Denarius. Rome, AD 87. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VII, laureate head right / IMP XIIII COS XIII CENS P P P, Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column, with spear in left hand and shield in right, owl at feet to right. RIC 507; RSC 218. 3.43g, 20mm, 6h. Good Extremely Fine.
Lot 829
Caracalla AV Aureus. Rome, AD 204. ANTON P AVG PON TR P VII, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA PARTHICA MAXIMA, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm. RIC 79; Calicó 2844 corr. (this coin); Hill 680. 7.42g, 20mm, 6h. Good Very Fine. Very Rare. Septimius Severus’ Parthian campaign was concluded in 198 with the capture of the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon. On this occasion Septimius was acclaimed imperator for the eleventh time, and he received the title Parthicus Maximus. His successful campaign was celebrated on coinage over the next few years, and an arch was erected in Rome in commemoration of the event in 203. In the wake of his great triumph, Septimius elevated Caracalla, who had campaigned with him in the east, to co-augustus. That the coinage of Caracalla shared in the celebration of his father’s Parthian victory is attested to by the reverse of this aureus. We find Caracalla bearing the title given to his father, Parthicus Maximus, along with a figure of Victory. As Caracalla neither gained the military victory as Emperor or as a military leader, this aureus demonstrates that victory was also an abstract quality associated with emperorship. The willingness of Septimius Severus to share his victory names with his sons reflects his desire to create a strong and lasting dynasty.
Lot 24
Denham (Major Dixon, Clapperton, Hugh and Oudney, Dr.). Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1826, large folding engraved map at rear of first volume (with some light offsetting), 12 engraved plates, including 2 partly-coloured, 2 folding maps to second volume, some marks and scattered light spotting, small library ink number stamp to verso of title pages, later red half morocco, rubbed and with classification label to foot of spine of each volume, 8vo, together with Cailli‚ (R‚n‚), Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo; and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, performed in the years 1824-1828, 2 volumes, 1st English edition, 1830, lithograph portrait frontispiece to first volume, folding engraved map, and some full-page wood engraved illustrations, library stamps to preliminary leaves erased, later light brown half morocco, heavily rubbed and marked, and somewhat worn, with spine to first volume detached, 8vo, plus other various 19th century travel, various, including Cornwallis Harris, The Highlands of Aethiopia, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, 1844, H. W. Bates, Illustrated Travels: a record of discovery, geography, and adventure, 6 volumes, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, circa 1870s, C. G. Schillings, With Flashlight and Rifle, 2 volumes, 1906, John Martineau, Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere, 2 volumes, 1895, W.A. Wills and L.T. Colingridge, The Downfall of Lobengula: The Cause, History, and Affect of the Matabeli War, [1894], etc., all ex-library copies with usual marks, 8vo, 4to Sold as seen, not subject to return. (24)
Lot 430
Michelotti (Francesco Domenico). Sperimenti Idraulici. Principalmente Diretti a Confermare la Teorica, e Facilitare la Pratica del Misurare le Acque Correnti, 1st edition, Turin, 1767, folding engraved portrait frontispiece, titles with engraved vignettes, nine (of eleven) folding engraved plates, seven double-page tables, modern cloth, 4to, together with Tunis Earthquake. Rela‡am do Terremoto que ove na Cidade de Tunes, capital daquelle reyno, esseitos que causau nos Barbaros aquello ruina supersticiosas depreca‡oˆs que fizerao, parte segunda e fim da Historia escrita por Hum Curioso..., Lisbon: Manuel Alvares, [1753], 8pp. (b1-4), 19th century ownership inscription of Manuel Bernardes Branco (1832-1900) to title, modern paper wrappers, 8vo Francesco Domenico Michelotti (1710-1787) was professor of mathematics at the University of Turin and a pioneering topographic and hydraulics engineer. (2)
Lot 73
Lysons (Daniel). The Environs of London, being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages and Hamlets, within twelve miles of that Capital., 5 volumes, Cadell and Davies, 1796-1800, engraved map frontispieces to volumes one and two, engraved titles, folding tables, numerous engraved plates (including one coloured), scattered spotting and some offsetting, contemporary marbled calf, all rebacked (most with original spines relaid), 4to (5)
Lot 2
RAF Signed Cover Collection 2 in Superb Album With Slipcase. 25 (approx) covers including rare varieties housed in expensive Importa Blue cover album with slipcase. Covers have a retail price of over £800 including DE1159 1972 112 Squadron Standard Presentation cover, flown in a Canberra of TFF 56 Sqn on an exercise sortie against 112 Sqn. Unidentified signature. RRP £12 DE1161 1970 55th Anniversary of the formation of 204 Sqn. Issued by the Philatelic Club of RAF Ballykelly. Flown on a routine maritime patrol to Ocean Station India and signed by Wg Cdr E P Wildy, OC 204 Sqn. RRP £20 DE1171 1992 King George's Fund for Sailors, 75th Anniversary Covercraft cover with full illustration of HMS Dunraven in 1917. Signed by Vice Admiral Sir John Coward DSO, Captain of HMS Brilliant in the South Atlantic. RRP £40 DE1185 1973 30th Anniversary of the Battle of North Cape HMS Belfast Historic Battles cover. Flown in a Schweizer Teal Amphibious Aircraft from Biggin Hill to HMS Belfast moored on the Thames. Signed by the pilot Lt Cdr T E Sargent. RRP £15 DE1190 Fleet Air Arm Museum flown cover, Royal Navy International Search and Rescue Team, flown in the International Helicopter Rescue Competition in a Wessex Mk1. Signed by the pilot. RRP £25 DE1191 RAF Newhaven Disbandment of 1107 Marine Craft Unit carried on board HM AFV 5012 to sea during trials from Newhaven. Flown in a Chipmunk and signed by the pilot. RRP £10 DE1192 Unusual 1981 Marriage of the Prince of Wales postcard, with Royal Wedding stamp and London postmark. Flown in a Balloon to commemorate the event, with extra balloon stamp and two red Charles and Diana postmarks. Flown cachet and signed by the pilot W/Cmdr Turnbull. RRP £20 DE1202 13 oct 92 BFPS 2336-Single European Market-Flown to the Capital Cities of Europe.Signed.by O.D.No.111(F) Sqn. RRP £7.50 DE1222 SC21 RAF Little Rissington 60th Anniversary of the Central Flying School. Flown in a Varsity Mk 1 on a Training flight. Scarce Muscular Dystrophy variation signed by Flt LKt W E P Johnson AFC, pilot of Gamecock J 8047 which is featured on the cover. He flew in 1929. Limited edition numbered 59 of just 100. RRP £45 DE1231 SC21 RAF Little Rissington 60th Anniversary of the Central Flying School. Flown in a Varsity Mk 1 on a Training flight. Signed by the pilot Flt Lt R N Swan, the Course Member Flt Lt M Hogg and the Supernumary M Plt K T Massey. RRP £20 DE1241 SC23 RAF Pitreavie Castle, 30th Anniversary of the Inauguration of Coastal Command Air and Sea Rescue. Flown in a Whirlwind helicopter from Air Force Vessel No. 1383 to RAF Pitreavie Castle. Scarce Muscular Dystrophy variation signed by Wg.Cdr. Bennett, who flew Walrus W2710 of Middle-East Air Sea Rescue Service. Limited edition numbered 27 of 48. RRP £25 DE1243 SC23 RAF Pitreavie Castle, 30th Anniversary of the Inauguration of Coastal Command Air and Sea Rescue. Flown in a Whirlwind helicopter from Air Force Vessel No. 1383 to RAF Pitreavie Castle. RRP £7.50 DE1248 SC24 RAF Andover 60th Anniversary of the 1st Long Distance International Air Race. Flown at 2000 feet in a Devon over the 1911 route. Signed by the pilot who flew the covers Sqn Ldr N Lea. Rare variety also signed by Warrant Officer Ernest Folley AFC, known as the man who made the Blenheim safe for the RAF. He crash-landed a Blenheim in 1938, identifying a common engine problem which would then be sorted. RRP £35 DE1249 SC24 RAF Andover 60th Anniversary of the 1st Long Distance International Air Race. Flown at 2000 feet in a Devon over the 1911 route. Signed by Warrant Officer Ernest Folley AFC, known as the man who made the Blenheim safe for the RAF. He crash-landed a Blenheim in 1938, identifying a common engine problem which would then be sorted. RRP £30 DE1253 SC24 RAF Andover 60th Anniversary of the 1st Long Distance International Air Race. Flown at 2000 feet in a Devon over the 1911 route. Scarce variation with Belgian and Dutch cancellations, autographed by Lt Col Henon of the French Air Force who was one of the last pilots to land at Vincennes airfield. RRP £20 DE1256 SC24 RAF Andover 60th Anniversary of the 1st Long Distance International Air Race. Flown at 2000 feet in a Devon over the 1911 route. Signed by Battle of Britian veteran Richard Jones, 64 and 19 Sqn. RRP £25 DE1258 SC25 RAF Colerne, 50th Anniversary of No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment. Flown in a Handley-Page Hastings from Jersey, Channel Islands to RAF Brize Norton. Signed by AVM B P Young who flew Sunderlands with Coastal Command. RRP £18 DE1286 1970 RAF Escaping Society SC28 Westland Lysander RAFES Duke of Yorks cover. 25th Anniversary of the RAFES postmark and flown from Northolt to Wildenrath, Germany. Signed by WWII escaper Group Captain Bill Randle who was shot down over Belgium and escaped with the aid of the Comete Line through France, across the Pyrenees and into Spain. RRP £25 DE1298 1970 RAF Escaping Society SC28 Westland Lysander RAFES Duke of Yorks cover. 25th Anniversary of the RAFES postmark and flown from Northolt to Wildenrath, Germany. RRP £7.50 DE1311 1970 RAF Escaping Society SC28 Westland Lysander RAFES Duke of Yorks cover. 25th Anniversary of the RAFES postmark and flown from Northolt to Wildenrath, Germany. Signed by Hajo Herrmann, the high scoring WWII Luftwaffe pilot who received the coveted Knights Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. RRP £55 DE1345 SC38 RAF Manston 25th Anniversary of the Formation of the RAF Education Branch. Flown on 12th October 1971 from Army Parachute Centre, Netheravon to overhead RAF Manston in a Dominie. RRP £7.50 DE1352 SC38 RAF Manston, 25th Anniversary of the Formation of the RAF Education Branch. Flown on three flights: Manston to Lyneham in a Hercules, on a local flight in a DH89 and Lyneham to Manston in a Dominie. Signed by the pilot of the Dominie A E Rose. RRP £10 DE1376 SC40 RAF Hendon, Commemorating the Opening of the Royal Air Force Museum. Scarce variation flown on a test flight from the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment at Boscombe Down in the only remaining Javelin in the world. Signed by MRAF Sir Dermot Boyle who was Chairman of the RAF Museum. RRP £35 DE1377 SC40 1972 Official Silver Wedding FDC Cat RRP £40. RAF Hendon, Commemorating the Opening of the Royal Air Force Museum. Flown on a Commemorative World Record flight in a Meteor and signed by the pilot. RRP £30 DE1381 SC40 RAF Hendon, Commemorating the Opening of the Royal Air Force Museum. Flown in a Meteor T7, an Andover Mk II and a Whirlwind. Signed by WWII Victoria Cross winner Bill Reid VC. Unusual to see his signature on this cover RRP £45 DE1382 SC19 RAF Cosford First RAF Rocket Mail cover signed by Wing Commander George Harkness OBE AFC who flew the Fury at Northolt before going to the Middle East with 70 Sqn, flying Wellingtons. Post War, he was in Transport Command at the time of the Berlin Airlift. RRP £40 DE1383 SC19 RAF Cosford First RAF Rocket Mail cover. Flown in a single stage mail cargo rocket and delivered to Cosford. RRP £20 Good condition. Est: All signed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity and can be shipped worldwide.
Lot 259
22 EFE commercial vehicles. 5x Atkinson Tanker, FINA. 2x Atkinson 8 wheel tanker Suttons. 2x Atkinson 8 wheel flatbed, Suttons. 7x AEC Mammoth - tanker, Whitbread. 2x box vans, Welch’s. 2x flatbeds, BRS and JD Loan. 2x Wagon, Mobil and Lacons. An Atkinson car transporter, TSL. 3x articulated flatbeds – 2 Atkinson and a Bedford TK etc. Plus 3 Corgi Classics Bedford OB coaches and an OOC Bristol L6A Maidstone. All boxed, minor/some wear. Contents VGC-Mint. (26).Together with a small number of transport books including ‘Leyland Bus’ published by PRC, ‘RT The Story of The London Bus’ Capital. ‘RF’ Capital, ‘British Lorries 1900-1992’ Ian Allan. ‘Tri-ang Railways Volume 1’ New Cavendish. Plus a few others.
Lot 232
20 EFE Buses and Coaches. Including – Daimler DMS, Midland Red. Plaxton Panorama B.A. RML Routemaster, Metroline. Plaxton Pointer Dart, First Capital. Leyland Atlantean, Gay Hostess. Bristol Rell, Southern Vectis. Alexander Fleetline, Midland Red. Leyland Olympian B, Riverside London. 2x AEC Renown, Barton and King Alfred. Leyland National MK1 Long, Green Line. Plus a BET RC Coach, Green Line etc. All boxed, minor wear. Contents VGC-Mint. Please note: this collection of buses and coaches does include ex display examples and therefore a few may be in associated boxes.
Lot 340
A pair of silver plated four light candelabras, each with four urn shaped scones having a ribbon and mask decoration, detachable drip pans, supported by leaf capped scroll arms with rams head and hoof terminals, square section tapering capital and terminating in square foot with family crest cartouche, filled, height 49cm. (4)
Lot 373
A George V silver photograph frame, of rectangular form with raised capital with canted corners, decorated with engine-turned geometric detail in the Art Deco style, having a wooden back with easel strut support, hall-marked for Mappin and Webb Limited, Birmingham 1928, height 36 cm, length 23 cm approx
Lot 375
A George V silver photograph frame, of rectangular form with raised capital, decorated with engine-turned geometric detail in the Art Deco style, having a wooden back with missing easel strut support, hall-marked for Mappin and Webb Limited, Birmingham 1926, height 33 cm, length 21 cm approx (a/f)
Lot 3299
A Victorian yellow metal combination propelling pen/pencil, hexagonal barrel with two separate projecting ferrules for pen nib and pencil, ornate capital inset with a carnelian, chased throughout, 10.1cm long, c. 1890; another similar, white metal, the barrel with two flowerhead-capped thumbpieces, capital with amethyst coloured stone, 10.7cm long, c. 1890 (2)
Lot 163
A George III mahogany table clock with pull-quarter repeat on six bells... A George III mahogany table clock with pull-quarter repeat on six bells William Glover, Worcester, circa 1780 The five pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with pull-quarter repeat sounding on a graduated nest of six bells and verge escapement regulated by lenticular bob pendulum with pivoted rise/fall regulation to suspension, the backplate engraved with intense symmetrical foliate strapwork, the 7 inch brass break-arch dial with shaped false bob and calendar apertures to the Ho-Ho bird and oriental mask inhabited rococo scroll engraved centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with pierced blued steel hands and applied rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles beneath twin subsidiary Strike/Silent selection and regulation dials set within a foliate scroll engraved field and incorporating a recessed shaped signature plate engraved William Glover, Worcester to arch, the bell top case with hinged brass carrying handle and four pineapple finials to superstructure over front door with brass fillet inset glazed dial aperture and scroll pierced upper quadrant frets, the sides with full-height arched glazed apertures and the rear with conforming break-arch glazed rectangular door incorporating further upper quadrant frets and set within the frame of the case, on cavetto moulded skirt base with brass bracket feet, 44.5 (17.5ins) high excluding handle. A William Glover is recorded in Baillie, G. H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as working in Worcester from 1751 until his retirement in 1758. Another with the same name (believed to be a nephew) is also recorded as coming from London to Worcester in 1758; he opened a shop in Tewkesbury in 1764 and worked until at least 1767. Finally Baillie also notes a third record of a William Glover Working in Worcester 1764-71 who also opened a shop in Tetbury in 1764, it is possible that this is a record of the same nephew. The current lot is very much in the London style but with perhaps a little more engraved decoration than would normally be found on a London clock - this is perhaps to be expected for a clock made in the provinces by a maker trained in the capital.
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