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A pair of pine pilasters, with Ionic capital, fluted shaft and moulded plinth, painted, 270cm h; 39cm w, 12cm d, late 19th/early 20th c In good condition

A pair of carved pine pilasters, with fluted pediment, leafy capital and clustered shaft, 207cm h, 35cm w In good condition

Jessie M. King, (Illus.) THE ENCHANTED CAPITAL OF SCOTLAND From a story told by a Merchant of Edinburgh, retold in words by Isobel K. C. Steele, A Plaid Publication, printed by C. J. Cousland & Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, in publisher's blue cloth

1708. 7 Anne. contemp. calf, rubbed, folio. includes An Act for Naturalising Foreign Protestants; An Act for Enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England..; An Act for the better Preservation of Parochial Libraries in.. England; and An Act for Improving the Union of the Two Kingdoms [England and Scotland]. (1)

1717. 4 George I [includes the Transportation Act],. some text stained, first leaf inserted from a smaller copy, contemp. calf, slightly rubbed, folio. Contains An Act for the Further Preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons, and Unlawful Exporters of Wooll, and for Declaring the Law upon some Points relating to Pirates. This statute, known as the Transportation Act, allowed for transportation not only as part of the pardoning process in the case of capital offences, but also as a penalty for a wide range of lesser crimes, including grand larceny. Parliament went on to pass another sixteen Acts between 1720 and 1763 that established transportation as a penalty for crimes from perjury to poaching. Returning from transportation was a capital offence. Also includes An Act to Enable His Majesty to be Governor of the South?Sea Company [Sperling 75]; and An Act for Relief of the Wholesale Traders and Dealers in English Bonelace, by Obviating several Doubts in the several Acts for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars. (1)

1719. 6 George I,. contemp. calf, rubbed, folio. Includes An Act for Enabling the South?Sea Company to Increase their present Capital Stock and Fund.. [Sperling 158]; An Act for the better Securing the Dependency of the Kingdom of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain; An Act for preventing the Carriage of Excessive Loads of Meal, Malt, Bricks, and Coals, within Ten Miles of the Cities of London and Westminster; and An Act for better Securing certain Powers and Privileges intended to be granted by His Magesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea.. (1)

1722. 9 George I,. [includes the Workhouse Test Act], contemp. calf, worn, folio. Contains An Act for Amending the Laws relating to the Settlement, Imployment, and Relief of the Poor. Statute, known as the Workhouse Test Act, was sponsored by the SPCK. It encouraged parishes to found workhouses to provide the poor with work and accommodation. Also includes An Act for Enabling His Majexty to put the Customs of Great Britain under the Management of One or more Commissions, and for better securing and ascertaining the Duties on Tobacco..; An Act for the more effectual Punishing wicked and evil?disposed Persons going Armed in Disguise, and doing Injuries and Violence to the Persons and Properties of His Majesty's Subjects..; Acts to inflict Pains and Penalties on John Plunket, George Kelly alias Johnson, and Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester; and Acts relating to the South Sea Company. The "Act.. for Punishing wicked and evil?disposed Persons" became known as the "Block Act", and created about fifty new capital offences, including killing game, breaking down fences, and going in disguise. (1)

Bentley (W. Holman). Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, as Spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa, 2 vols. incl. appendix, pub. Baptist missionary Society, 1887-95, folding table to rear of volume one, orig. blue cloth gilt and contemp, calf respec., rubbed, together with Kalati ya Loba, Bwambu Bo Dualla. Scriptures in the Dualla or Cameroon's Language, Cameroons: Baptist Mission Press, 1855, orig. cloth, worn to spine, 8vo, plus others retating to African languages and Biblical translations (13)

[Crashaw, William]. The Italian Convert: Newes from Italy of a second Moses:Or, the Life of Galeacius Caracciolus, the Noble Marquesse of Vico. Containing the story of his admiral Conversion from Popery .. Written first in Italian [by Niccolo Balbani], thence translated into Latine by the reverend Beza; and for the benefit of our people, put into English, 1662, six eng. plts., contemp. sheep, a little worn on spine, small 8vo, together with Richardson (Samuel), The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Abridged .. 10th ed., London: Printed for Newbery and Dublin printed by P. Wogan, 1801, orig. boards, spine chipped, 12mo, plus Hargrove (E.), The History of the Castle, Town, and Forest of Knaresborough, with Harrogate, and its Medicinal Waters, 4th ed., York, 1789, eng. frontis. and a few other eng. plts., folding eng. map, hand?col. in outline, early cloth?covered boards, rubbed, small 8vo, plus Lysons (Rev. Daniel), The Environs of London: Being an Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, within Twelve Miles of that Capital, 5 vols., 1796-800, num. eng. plts. and plans, some folding, contemp. mottled calf, most covers det., 4to, and other misc. antiquarian, etc. (a carton)

Fordyce (William). A History of Coal, Coke, Coal Fields, Progress of Coal Mining, the Winning and Working of Collieries, Household.., Coking, and Other Coals, Duration of the Great Northern Coal Field.., Iron, its Ores, and Processes of Manufacture, More Particularly with Reference to the Recently?Discovered Iron Ores of the Cleveland District and of the Blast Furnaces Erected in the North of England. Including Estimates of the Capital Required.., pub. 1860, folding litho map frontis., thirty?three eng. plts. (inc. 1 double?page), occ. scattered spotting and slight damp staining to lower outer corners of some plts., text a little yellowed, contemp. cloth covered boards with recent calf spine and corners, folio (1)

English silversmiths. Assignment of the Share of Mr. Henry Chawner and Mrs Rebecca Emes, in the Capital, Goodwill and Effects of the Expired Partnership of Widow Emes and Barnard and mutual Releases, dated 20th February 1829, large vellum four?page indenture, red?ruled, signed and sealed by Henry Chawner, Rebecca Emes, Edward Barnard, and [his sons and partners], Edward Jun., John and W[illiam], 68 x 77 cm, together with the Stock Debtor and Stock Balance book for the firm of Edward Barnard and Rebecca Emes (and Henry Chawner), from its creation on the death of Emes's father John Emes in 1808 to 1824, with annual accounts and names of stock debtors, trades and amounts, breakdown of rent and taxes, finished stock duty marked and selling prices, each year signed off by one or more of the three partners, 224pp, 40pp blank at rear, orig. reversed calf with leather label, some wear, 4to (2)

Suffolk ? Manor of Holderness. Interesting Elizabethan Quitclaim, dated 3rd July 1586,. reciting the will of Francis Boldero, by which he left the site and capital messuage of the Manor and Grange of Holderness, alias Eastgate Barnes, and divers other lands in Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk to his son Henry, in default to his daughter Ann and in default of her to his brother John. Henry to pay Ann 500 marks, the document recites the death of Francis and the entry of Henry into the premises, making due payments and that Thomas Duddeley and William Baynham now give up all claim to the property, with two seal tags including one with pendant wax seal attached, with translation (1)

A pair of Victorian silver on copper Corinthian column candlesticks, each with acanthus capital, stop-fluted shaft and on spreading square base, 31cm high.

A pair of Victorian silver on copper column candlesticks, each with leafy fluted capital over plain shaft and spreading gadroon moulded square base, 34cm high.

An early 19th century polychrome decorated bone alphabet tablet, painted with capital letters in four bands with leafy floral motif and waisted handle pierced for suspension beneath, small loss to one corner, 9.4cm high.

A Continental carved wooden capital, early 19th Century & later, of Baroque design with central putto mask, 34cm height x 38cm length.

A pair of George III silver candlesticks, with gadrooned and fluted decoration, each capital supported upon a tapering column and swept circular base, loaded, maker Matthew Boulton, Birmingham, 1801, 12.25 ins.

A VICTORIAN GILT METAL FOUR GLASS MANTEL CLOCK, the case with cloisonne-style enamel decoration, with central floral capital above, the eight day movement with mercury compensating pendulum, striking on a gong, 16" high

A 19th century bronze lamp stand, the round gadrooned top supported on a sphinx with lobed column and ionic capital on three legs with paw feet, on triform base, 125cm high

George IV Decanter Label formed as the capital letter ‘M’, maker C.R., London 1828, another, rectangular form, enamelled, “Sherry”, London 1979 and a Victorian Caddy Spoon, (a.f.), (3).

Six ladies gold cased wristwatches, the makes including: GARRARD, CAPITAL and ROTARY.

Lysons, Daniel (1762-1834), The Environs of London: Being An Historical Account of the Towns, Villages, and Hamlets, Within Twelve Miles of the Capital, London, for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1800-1811, 4to (310 x 235mm.), two volumes in four, 4 engraved titles, 3 maps, 2 folding plans, double-page facsimile letter, 53 plates, 1 hand-coloured,1 double-page, 3 folding, contemporary calf, boards detached, armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Taylor, Second Edition

A Regency mahogany side table, having a bow fronted moulded edge above the frieze with applied turned moulding flanked on either side by similar mouldings to each capital and standing on four turned tapered reeded legs. Width 32ins.

Stanley (Henry M.). How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone, 1st ed., 1872, mounted photo. port. frontis. with facsimile signature, folding maps (some with closed tape repairs), numerous wood engs., 8pp. pubs. ads. at rear, some occ. light scattered spotting, orig. pict. cloth gilt, neatly recased, thick 8vo, together with Ellis (William), Three Visits to Madagascar during the Years 1853-1854-1856, including a Journey to the Capital ..., 4th thou., 1858, wood engs. to text, contemp. half calf gilt with morocco label, slightly rubbed, 8vo (2)

*Yorkshire. Vellum Quitclaim manuscript document, dated 20th July 1561, from Francis Cholmley of Rudby in Cleveland, and his wife Joan, to Robert Yowertt and his son Thomas Yowertt of Baysedall (Bilsdale) in Yorkshire, a capital messuage called Nunhouse in Nunthorpe in [Great] Ayton, sold by Francis Cholmley, his wife Joan, to Robert Yowertt and his son, with two seal tags one still retaining fragment of pendant wax seal, with translation (1)

Brass mounted Corinthian column oil lamp, the spiral glass pillar on brass stepped base and with brass capital, converted for electricity, 19in (48cm) high

RŸtlinger (Johan Caspar) Neuw zugerichte Schreibkunst, engraved title-page and 24 plates, each with a large capital letter and text, seven with complete alphabets above or below, other with calligraphic decoration, two small wormholes throughtout, some leaves frayed at outer margin, contemporary vellum, owner's calligraphic inscription on upper cover, oblong folio, Zurich, 1619

A carved wood torchere in the baroque style of William Kent, green painted with gilded highlights, the hexagonal top with a gadroon edge, the open triform stem with foliage carved capital and scroll shoulders above pendants of bell flowers, the triform base with panels and tassels, foliage carved scroll legs linked by floral festoons. 4ft. 9in. (145cm.) late 19th century.

A brass table lamp on spiral column, with scrolled capital on square stepped base, 2ft 1ins

A large Jerusalem mother of pearl and wood altar cross, probably 18th century, depicting the fourteen stations of the cross, decorated with incised and carved mother of pearl panels, mounted on a brass fixing attached to an early white marble capital, h.264cm., w.125cm. losses

A Pair of Prints, the President's House Washington, and Capital of The United States Washington (2)

A Victorian oil lamp, the corinthian capital on a cut glass shaft and stepped square foot, 48cm h, adapted for electricity . The plating worn on the angles and highlights showing brass, the cut glass shaft undamaged and original - a good example

A pair of George III Derbyshire alabaster columns, the turned vase finial on a square capital and reeded tapering pillar with conforming stepped square plinth, 41cm h. Minor losses, breaks and old repairs but in generally good original condition. No professional restoration

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN CANDLESTICKS each with Corinthian capital, repousse floral decoration to the stem and stepped square base, by Edgar Finlay and Hugh Taylor, 1886, loaded, 16cm. high (2)

THE RESIDUE OF A SPODE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICEEach piece strikingly printed and painted in shades of green with flowering peonies issuing from rockwork and gilt bamboo, comprising: sugar basin and cover, muffin dish base, one oval dish, three large teacups, six medium teacups, four small teacups, seven coffee cans of,which four are Copeland Garrett examples, three large saucers, nine medium saucers, five small saucers,one saucer dish,two egg cups,seven side plates, printed and capital script mark, pattern no. 1653

A Composition Stone Cubic Sundial, with three bronze gnomons (one lacking), on an associated composition stone Corinthian capital on a plain cylindrical cream composition stone column, in turn upon a circular flat plinth in two D shape sections, upon four stone vase supports, {the column and sundial only 206cm high, the circular plinth 150cm diameter, the vase supports 53cm high}

A Regency Period Carved White Marble Fire Surround, with double breakfront mantel shelf, the ogee moulded edge with ropetwist string, over tong and dart, the central chimneypiece tablet carved in high relief with the head of a classical woman with ribbons issuing from her hair, flanked by a frieze of acanthus scrolls and shells, with triple seeded flowerheads to each jamb capital, over grooved and scrolled swept acanthus uprights from a shaped square basal plinth, main tong and dart inner carved flange, {172cm wide, 155cm high, maximum depth 24.5cm}; sold together with A Black Painted Iron Fluted Fire Back, Hearth Plate and Grate

King, Jessie M. (illus.) "The Enchanted Capital of Scotland" by Isobel K.C. Steele, with cover, pub. Plaid, Edinburgh

King, Jessie M. (illus) "the Enchanted Capital of Scotland", by Isobel K. Steele, pub. Plaid, Edinburgh and White, Colin "The Enchanted World of Jessie M. King", pub. Canongate 1989, and "Drawings of Paris by Jessie M. King", pub. The Fine Art Society Ltd., Edinburgh and London (3).

Four Teachers whisky water jugs by Seton Pottery, oval tapering form, with logo and motif in black and brown over cream, one celebrating Glasgow Cultural Capital of Europe, 1990 and three similarly decorated ashtrays (7)

*Essex - Canewdon and Creeksea. Assignment of a lease for 99 years, dated 3rd February 1653/4, of a capital messuage, farm and marshland in the parishes of Canoden [Canewdon] and Crixy [Creeksea], called Bernemarsh alias Barnmarsh, containing 700 acres, from Edward Campion of London, merchant, and the executors of Gamaliell Catelynn, esq. deceased, (Richard and Elizabeth Wynne, Owen Brett, Lancelot Lake and William Domvile) to John Glynn, Robert Jones and Harbert Springett, large title deed, on two membranes of parchment, written in English, which recites several earlier deeds, the first being a 1641 lease for 99 years of the Manor of Lambourne Hall in Canewdon, signed and sealed by the lessors and endorsed with a memorandum by Harbert Springett that he was not party to this deed (1)

*North Yorkshire - Croft, Jolby. Deed of Gift from Henry, son of Alan de Joleby to Halnath de Halnathby [Halnaby Hall] of a capital messuage and three sellions in Joleby in Croft, with the names of six witnesses, undated but probably early 13th c., small parchment title deed in Latin, with a seal tag but seal missing. The English Place Name Society's volume for the North Riding of Yorkshire mentions "Col. Parker suggests that Halnaby took its name from one Halnath who lived there c. 1218", but has forms e.g. Halnathebi from 1170 onwards. (1)

Payne (A.H., pub.). Berlin and its Treasures. Being a Series of Views of the Principal Buildings, Churches, Monuments, etc., with a Selection of Subjects from the Royal Picture Gallery and other Collections of Paintings; together with Interior Views of the New Museum and Copies of the Modern Pictures which Adorn its Walls. Accompanied by an Historical Descriptive Account of the Prussian Capital, n.d., pub. Leipzig & Dresden, c. 1840, eng. frontis., addn. vign. title, numerous steel eng. plts., contemp. plum half morocco, gilt dec. spine, 4to (1)

Latham (Wilfrid). The States of the River Plate: Their Industries and Commerce. Sheep-Farming, Sheep-Breeding, Cattle-Feeding and Meat-Preserving; Employment of Capital; Land and Stock, and their Values; Labour and its Remuneration, 1st ed., 1866, half-title present, 24pp. pubs. cat. bound in at rear, untrimmed and mainly unopened, orig. cloth gilt, slightly faded on spine, 8vo (1)

Alcock (Sir Rutherford). The Capital of the Tycoon: A narrative of a three years' residence in Japan, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1863, half titles present, two fldg. maps, sixteen tinted litho plts., num. wood engrs. to text, all correct as list, some spotting and browning, mainly to margins, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo. An interesting description by an acute observer. (2)

John Leech, Don't move there, we shall clear you!; No Consequence; A Capital Finish, each chromolithograph, each s. 53.5 x 74 cm

ECONOMICS THEORY & FINANCE - BUXTON, Sydney. FINANCE AND POLITICS; An Historical Study 1783-1885. In Two Volumes. Vol. I [-II]. John Murray, London, 1888. FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, 8vo; with the book-plate of the Marshall Library of Economics, University of Cambridge and their stamp on titles and final page; later library buckram, spines lettered in gilt; ROBINSON, Joan. THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL Macmillan & Co., London, 1956. FIRST EDITION. 8vo; original cloth, printed dust-wrapper, dust-soiled; GILBART, J.W. LECTURES ON THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF ANCIENT COMMERCE Waterlow and Sons, London, 1847. First Edition, Presentation Copy. 8vo; inscribed by the author at head of title; recent blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; and 40 others, including works by Pigou, Hayek and J.M. Keynes. (44)

PAIR DRAWINGS ANTOINE LELOUP (BORN 1730) Vue de la Ville de Cologne Sur le Rhine Vue de la Ville Padderborne Capital de la Principaute oe ce.nom Monochrome watercolours, a pair 3 3/4" x 5 3/4" (9.5cm x 14.5cm) signed

A 17th Century antique carved oak panel depicting a figure before five dogs, losses, 16 x 32cm, together with a carved oak capital, 53cm and an oak quatrefoil panel, 23 x 23cm (3)

Milne & Campbell, c. 1765 - a tablespoon, Hanoverian pattern, betrothal initials WA.E (four bottom marks - M&C; Glasgow town mark; M&C; capital O) (10;7/10).

A set of four late George II cast candlesticks, each with a leaf chased knopped stem, round capital with rope-twist borders, on shaped square base with leaf chased corners and crests, London 1759 by William Gould, 26cm high (10.25in), 2325g (74.5 oz)

J. Zucchi - 'Cornice, Frieze, and Capital for the Screens in the Saloon', after Robert Adam, Architect, 1770, publ. as the Act Directs, June 1774; engraving, 56.3x42.2cm: Together with one other similar engraving after designs by Robert Adam tiled :'Parts at large of the Gateway at Sion', publ. 1769, 57x43cm., (2)

A 19th century carved oak large fireplace, the leaf cornice above a panelled frieze centred an armorial to strapwork cartouches and masks, on corinthian capital fluted columns with cherub and fruit bases, 4ft x 3ft 7in (122 x 109.3cm) inside measurement. constructed using earlier element.

A gilt brass and ebonized table lamp, with a corinthian capital and a fluted column to a square stepped base, 19.5in (49.5cm) high.

Carved stone Capital, decorated with a central rosette, flanked by scrolls, of arched form, 110cms, (3'7").

A Victorian marble bust of a lady, wearing a cloak with a star design, 30cm high, on a Victorian ebonised column with a Corinthian capital, 113cm high

A late Victorian table oil lamp base with fluted column and Corinthian capital, the square stepped base embossed with rams head and acanthus leaf swags, 15.75ins high (converted to electric table lamp - will need to be rewired by a qualified Electrician). See lot 325 for illustration.

A pair of late Victorian silver dwarf candlesticks by Martin and Hall, Sheffield 1895, each raised from a square base with acanthus border below ram mask decorated corners with swags supporting a fluted column with Corinthian capital, 17cm high, loaded.

London Magazine: Or, Gentlemen's Monthly Intelligencer, vol. 29, 1760, several eng. maps and plts., including a plan of the town and fortifications of Montreal in Canada, a plan of the city of Berlin, a view of the taking of Quebeck by the English Forces commanded by General Wolfe, a view of the town and road of Fonchal, the Capital of Medera, etc., orig. qtr. calf, some wear, thick 8vo, together with Shenstone (William), The Works in Verse and Prose, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1765, eng. frontis. and vign. title to each, ex-lib copy with ink stamp to verso of each title, contemp. calf with old reback, 8vo, with other misc. antiquarian, 19th c. literature, etc. (a carton)

Hooper, W. Eden, The British Empire in the First Year of the Twentieth Century and the Last of the Victorian Reign its Capital Cities and Notable Men, London, Heywood and Company, [n.d.], 4to (275 x 220mm.), two volumes, plates, illustrations, maps, some folding, original vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, t.e.g., One of a 1000 Edition de Luxe Limited Edition copies