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George I style walnut cabinet, circa 1900, having turned finials above two doors having inlaid banding opening to a shelved interior, above the lower case with two additional doors, and rising on a molded base, 97"h x 51"w x 23"d Provenance: Property from the Estate of Frank J. Caufield, San Francisco (CA) and Montecito (CA) Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

A terra cotta urn in the Classical taste, having a flame finial surmounting the tapered body with figural reserves, and terminating on a circular base, overall 24"h x 12"w Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA) Note: Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

A French Provincial two door armoire circa 1760, having a floral carved crest surmounting the two paneled doors, and rising on inswept legs, 95"h x 58"w x 24"d Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA) Note: Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

A pair of Classical style oak baluster ornaments, each having scroll carved sides, above a fluted standard and rising on a circular base, 34.5"h Provenance: Property from the Estate of Frank J. Caufield, San Francisco (CA) and Montecito (CA) Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

A Venetian giltwood, etched, and cut glass mirror circa 1870, having a floral capped urn form finial surmounting the central swag, above the highly decorated and segmented looking glass border surrounding the oval looking glass, overall 58"h x 37 Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA) Note: Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers.

A Jacobean style carved mahogany open armchair, having a scroll carved crest above a figural splat, continuing to the burgundy upholstered seat having brass nail head trim, and rising on baluster form legs, Provenance: Property from the Estate of Frank J. Caufield, San Francisco (CA) and Montecito (CA) Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

"Bruxelles, Exposition Universelle, 1935," vintage lithographic poster in colors, published by J.De Greve and Co., Fonsny, Bruxelles, printed in Belium, image: 39"h x 23.75"w, overall (with frame): 48.75"h x 33.5"w. Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA). Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

Charles-Jean Hallo (Alo) (French, 1882-1969), "Grasse Cote d'Azur, Cite du Calme, des Fleurs, et des Parfums," circa 1920, vintage lithographic travel poster in colors, signed in plate lower right, Imp. Chaix Paris, image: 38.5"h x 23.5"w, overall (with frame): 50"h x 35"w. Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA). Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

Russian School (20th century), "USSR Health Resorts," circa 1930s, vintage lithographic travel poster in colors, signed "M. Hectepoba" in plate lower right margin, possibly proof printing without bottom text, sheet: 39"h x 24"w, overall (with frame): 52"h x 36.75"w. Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA). Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

Georges Dorival (French, 1879–1968), "Rome, Par la Voie du Mont- Cenis, color lithograph and offset poster, print signed in plate lower left center, published by Affiches Photographiques Robaudy - Cannes, France, sight (image): 40.75"h x 29.25"w, overall (with frame): 53.5"h x 41.5"w. Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA). Mr. Caufield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

(lot of 8) Louis XIV style walnut-stained wood dining chairs, each having green upholstery accented with brass nail head trim, and rising on scrolled legs, 45"h Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA) Note: Mr. Caulfield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers

(lot of 4) Louis XIV style walnut-stained wood dining chairs, each having green upholstery accented with brass nail head trim, and rising on scrolled legs, 45"h Provenance: Estate of Frank J. Caufield (San Francisco, CA) Note: Mr. Caulfield was one of the founding partners of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins Caufield, and Byers.

Charles Gregory (United Kingdom, 1810-1896) important oil on canvas marine painting of the 1870 America's Cup Yacht Race, depicting the Cambria, representing the Royal Thames Yacht Club, racing against one of seventeen American schooners. The ships are in full sail, under a partly cloudy sky, with sailors visible on deck, and smaller vessels - including the Sandy Hook light ship- in the background. Signed "Charles Gregory" lower right. Titled on plaque affixed to front of frame. Label en verso of frame for RJ Stannard Picture Frame Manufacturers, London. Housed in a likely original giltwood frame with acanthus, husk and rope moldings. Sight - 27 1/2" H x 35 1/2" W. Framed - 39" H x 47" W. Note: the 1870 America's Cup was the first to be hosted in the United States, and was declared by the New York Herald that year to be "the most exciting yachting event on record." It was the first challenge to the Cup since 1851, when the yacht America had claimed the "100 Guinea Cup," an annual lap of the Isle of Wight, and brought the trophy to the United States. Nineteen years later, British tycoon James Ashbury and the crew of his yacht, the Cambria, believed she could reclaim the trophy for England. They mounted what was, ultimately, an unsuccessful challenge against seventeen schoolers from New York Yacht Club on August 7, 1870. An estimated 100,000 people watched as Franklin Osgood's Magic, the overall winner, successfully retained the cup, and became the trophy's first defender. The artist, Charles Gregory, was considered the premier yacht portraitist of his day. He was born and painted his entire life on the isle of Wight, known then (as now) as the yachting capital of Great Britain. Provenance: Private Chattanooga area collection. CONDITION: Overall very good condition with yellowing and some grime to varnish layer. Scattered craquelure. Frame: Some wear and regilding to frame; scattered shrinkage and small losses.

Two (2) Bound Groups of Japanese Woodblock Books plus four (4) loose volumes, 7 items total. 1st item: KARAKU MEISHO ZUE, HIGASHIYAMA BU (Famous Sights of the Beautiful Capital: Higas), illustrated by Matsukawa Hanzan (fl. 1850-82) and published by Akihiro Kumura, circa 1862. 8 woodblock printed volumes, ink on paper, containing illustrated views of the traditional part of Kyoto: people, festivals, gardens, temples, Samurai, and more. Fukurotoji bindings. Preserved in a blue slip case. Books measure 7 1/4" x 10 1/2". 2nd item: Takagi Sadatake (active mid 18th century), Honcho Garin - A Grove of our Country's Paintings, 1752. 3 woodblock printed volumes, ink on paper, with fukorotoji bindings, blue covers with original title slips. Various Kano school illustrations of birds, mammals, human figures and landscapes. Previous owner handwritten list of illustrations included. Dark blue slipcover case, 1 1/4" x 7 1/4" x 10 1/2". 3rd-6th item: 4 loose books of Japanese woodblock prints, including KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849), "Illustrated Selections of Chinese Poems" Vol. II and 2 volumes from "Designs for All Artisans," circa 1835; and 1 volume by unknown author/artist. 8 3/4" x 6". Provenance: by descent from the estate of Russell and Cornelia Speights, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall very good condition with toning to pages, wear to covers. Separation of one leaf pasted down to cover in volume 1. Some bookwork damage to two volumes. Wear and Fading to slipcase. 2nd item: Fair to poor condition. Significant worm damage to pages and covers. Covers with creasing, wear and fading, possible rebinding. Slipcase with fading. 3rd-6th items: Wear and fading to covers, toning and a few spots scattered worming and grime to pages, overall good condition.

Two (2) Maps of Tennessee, two (2) maps of Tennessee and Kentucky, 4 items total. 1st item: Tennessee map, from American Pocket Atlas, published by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1816. Copper plate engraving depicting Tennessee, center and surrounding areas, with cities and towns, including Knoxville, Clarksville, and Nashvill [sic], roads, bodies of water, and other points of interest, including Cragfont, the Home of General James Winchester, labelled. Title and scale of miles, top center. Map surrounded by scale notations and line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and secured to a mat. Plate - 6 5/8" H x 8 1/2" W. Sheet - 8 5/8" H x 10 5/8" W. Sight - 8 1/8" H x 10 1/8" W. Mat - 13" H x 14 5/8" W. 2nd item: Kentucky and Tennessee map, believed to be by David H. Burr, from The American Atlas, published by John Arrowsmith, London, 1839. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring depicting Kentucky and Tennessee and surrounding areas, with cities and towns, including Knoxville, Nashville, and Frankfort, roads, bodies of water, and other points of interest labeled. Title cartouche, top left. Surrounded by scale notations and a decorative border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and secured to a mat. Sheet - 8 3/4" H x 11 3/4" W. Sight - 8 1/2" H x 11 1/4" W. Mat - 12 1/2" H x 15 1/8" W. 3rd item: Map of the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, engraved and printed by Fenner and Sears Company, from The History and Topography of the United States, J.H. Hinton, ed. London: I.T. Hinton and Simpkin & Marshall, Vol. 1, facing pg. 421, 1831. Copper plate engraving depicting Kentucky and Tennessee and the surrounding areas with cities and towns, including Knoxville, Lexington, and Nashville, with Murfreesboro listed as the capital of Tennessee, roads, bodies of water, and other points of interest labelled.Title and scale of miles, top left. Surrounded by scale notations and a triple line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve and housed in a double mat. Sight - 10 1/4" H x 16" W. Mat - 14 3/4" H x 21 5/8" W. 4th item: A New Map of Tennessee, engraved by J. and W. W. Warr, from A New Universal Atlas by Henry S. Tanner, published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1841. Copper plate engraving depicting Tennessee and the surrounding areas with cities and towns, including Knoxville, Clarksville, and Nashville, roads, bodies of water, and other points of interest labelled. Two inset maps of Nashville and Knoxville, top left and right. Title and scale of miles, top center, explanation, lower left, Steam Boat Routes tables, lower right. Surrounded by scale notations and a triple line border. Encapsulated (not laminated) in a plastic archival sleeve. Plate - 12 3/8" H x 15 1/4" W. Sheet - 12 7/8" H x 16" W. Sleeve - 14 1/8" H x 17 1/4" W. All items first half of 19th century. CONDITION: All items in overall good condition with light toning/acid burn, minute foxing spots. 1st item: Pencil inscription en verso. 2nd item: Toning impressions visible en verso. David Lloyd Swift label indicates that the map was professionally encapsulated, cleaned, and deacidified on February 3, 1998. 3rd item: Toning impressions to surface of sheet. David Lloyd Swift label indicates that the map was professionally encapsulated, cleaned, and deacidified on November 1, 1989. 4th item: Pencil inscriptions, lower right of sheet. Areas of loss, largest 5/8" x 1 1/8", to sheet. David Lloyd Swift label indicates that the map was professionally encapsulated, cleaned, and deacidified on February 13, 1998.

HISTORIC PLACES IN TENNESSEE, a bound collection of photographs, prints and maps compiled by the Tennessee Society of the Daughters of the Revolution (DAR) for the Tennessee room of the DAR Headquarters, Memorial Continental Hall, in Washington, D.C., with seven gelatin silver prints by noted Nashville photographer Marvin Willard Wiles (1882-1957) and hand printed text and hand painted enhanced capital letters with vignette illustrations by Haywood Norman. Title page reads: "Historic Places in Tennessee, Selected and Presented to the Tennessee Room, Memorial Continental Hall, by Penelope Johnson Allen, State Historian, Tennessee Daughters of the American Revolution, November 1923. Inscriptions and Decorations by Haywood Norman". The book is comprised of thirty (30) photographs, illustrations, and two (2) maps, all relating to Tennessee history, each with handwritten information text pages and enhanced capital letters by Norman. Wiles' photographs include images of the front and rear of the Hermitage, Cedar Lane, the gateway to the Hermitage, The Original Hermitage, Belle Meade, the Parthenon, and The Tennessee State Capitol building. Other notable sites and images featured include a facsimile of The Timberlake Map, Tennessee's first "authentic" map, the first church building in TN, President Andrew Johnson's Tailor Shop, Jonesboro, The Boone Tree, John Sevier's Church, and the Cumberland Gap. Housed in a leather bound portfolio with marbleized end pages; wooden title placard to the front cover with hand painted Tennessee state seal. 12" H x 11 3/4" W x 2" D. Biography: Marvin Willard Wiles, son of Mary Elizabeth (nee Cruzen) and Henry G. Wiles, was born in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. He may have spent some of his childhood in Florence, Alabama, where his father had a business, and reportedly moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1895. "M. W. Wiles" and Lessie J. Hood were married on 19 May 1903 in Davidson County, Tennessee. City directories for Nashville through 1908 show him employed as a clerk or salesman, and beginning in 1909 as a photographer. Marvin Wiles opened a photography studio in Nashville in 1910, and took pictures for local newspapers, covering events such as Woodrow Wilson's inauguration and the return of soldiers from WWI. Marvin Wiles entered a partnership with Steve Hood in 1940, creating the Wiles-Hood Studio, and retired in 1954. The Tennessee State Library and Archives has a collection of 60 photographs taken by Marvin Wiles in and around the Nashville area. (source: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67955265/marvin-willard-wiles). CONDITION: Cover with overall general wear and losses, chipping to the edges, spine partially detached. Some light shedding. Interior overall good condition with light toning and wear.

Twelve (12) World War II United States propaganda posters by artists including John Atherton and Steve Broder. 1st item: Poster depicts a male soldier wearing a green helmet looking up while raising a United States flag on a pole. Text, in white across bottom left reads "To Have and to Hold!" and in large, red capital letters at the bottom "War Bonds". Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, and reads "Official U.S. Treasury Poster" across the bottom. Unframed. 28" H x 20" W. 2nd item: Poster depicts a black and white photograph of a lady's hands, wearing a wedding ring, and knitting a baby sock. Red, white, and blue stripes run diagonally from top left to bottom right behind black text that reads "For the Future – Worth Fighting For …… Worth Saving for! – Buy More War Bonds through the Pay Roll Savings Plan during the Third War Loan Campaign." Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Text at bottom reads "Interdepartmental War Savings Bond Committee." Number "8" stamped in black and "Enclosure" stamped in purple en verso. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 3rd item: Poster depicts a large color illustration of the Concord Minuteman statue with a colonial town scene in the background, including a church, town hall with clock tower, trees, and silhouettes of people walking. Blue text at top reads "For Freedom's Sake" and in all capital red letters at bottom "Buy War Bonds". Signed "JA" in bottom right for artist John Atherton.Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 4th item: Poster titled "New Air Raid Warning System" in all outlined white all-capital letters at the top, with light blue background and navy blue, red, and white text and graphics. Text describes different signals, their meanings, and mandated civilian actions in the event of an air raid in the United States. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Text at bottom reads "Approved by the U.S. Office of Civilian Defense, The Eastern Defense Command, and the First Army." Unframed. 20" H x 28" W. 5th item: Poster titled "The Greatest Investment on Earth!" on a white background depicts red, white, and blue stripes running on a diagonal from the top left to bottom right corners, with a $25 war bond with a stone house in the middle of it, superimposed over a map of the contiguous United States, while a black and white illustration of a smiling husband and wife with their two children stand in the lower left. Text at bottom reads in all capitals "For Your Country…. Yourself….Your Family – War Bonds – Through The Pay Roll Savings Plan!" Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 6th item: Poster titled "The United Nations Fight for Freedom" in white letters against a black background depicts the Statue of Liberty in white, in the lower left corner with her arm raised along the left side. The flags, in full color, of the thirty (30) countries of the United Nations are depicted with the name of each country in white text below its flag. Artist's name "Broder", for Steve Broder, appears at the center bottom. Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. 7th item: Poster depicts a subdued color scene with a deceased sailor in a blue uniform with white trim lying on a beach in the surf and a sunset sky, against a black background, with text below that reads "a careless word… – A Needless Loss." Artist's name printed below the picture "Anton Otto Fischer." Published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Unframed. 28" H x 22" W. (for the full description and condition report, please visit our website at http://www.caseantiques.com).

Three (3) Religious art work items, including French illuminated manuscript and Gothic Revival style painted chromolithographs of angels. 1st item: French gouache on vellum illuminated manuscript religious page, double sided, with black and red lettering and enhanced capital letters with gold leaf highlights. Housed and double matted under double-sided glass in a gilt wood frame. Sight - 4 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W. Framed - 11 1/2" H x 9 1/2" W. Circa 15th century. 2nd-3rd items: Two (2) Gothic Revival style framed panels, each with chromolithographic prints of angels, finished with oil or gouache. Both angels are depicted with faces surrounded by halos and wings, wearing tunics with gilt embellishments, one holding a trumpet, and one holding a drum, against flat gold backgrounds. Unsigned. Frames have pointed arch shapes with reed and ribbon and bead course moldings. Sight - 18" H x 6 5/8" W. Framed - 28 1/4" H x 17" W. Continental, circa 1900. Provenance: the estate of Kent Cathcart, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Minor areas of loss to frame. Not examined outside of frame. 2nd-3rd items: Overall good condition. Surface abrasions, largest 1 1/4", to panels. Craquelure to painting of angel with drum. Areas of loss, largest 3 1/2", natural age related shrinkage to frames.

Two (2) religious texts, including hymnal with illuminated pages. 1st item: L'OFFICE DE LA SEMAINE-SAINTE, New Edition, Latin and French text, published by La Compagnie des Libraires, Paris, 1723. Octavo, 608 gilt edged pages with illustrations to title page and capital letters, rebound in full red morocco 'plaque' binding in the style of Antoine Michel Padeloup, gilt lettering to spine, five raised hubs to spine, inner leather doublures and marbled endpapers, green ribbon bookmark. 8 7/8" H x 6" W x 2 1/4" D. First quarter 18th century. 2nd item: Partial 32mo Latin hymnal, handwritten musical staves on vellum with embellished capital letters. Two additional pages attached to back, brown leather spine and back cover with blindstamping, five raised hubs to spine, two partial metal lock mechanisms to back cover. 5 1/2" H x 4 1/4" W x 2 1/2" D. Circa 16th century. CONDITION: 1st item: Covers with wear, scuffs, cracking to spine, corners bumped. Toning, foxing spots to pages. Ink inscription from previous owner to front endpaper. 2nd item: Does not include front cover, remaining spine and back cover in worn condition with areas of loss, largest 3/4" x 1/4", areas of possible insect damage. Pages with toning, foxing spots, areas of dampstaining, wrinkling, area of burn damage, etc. to be expected from age.

Group of assorted silver pieces, including American flatware, mother of pearl handled set, English and Russian serving spoons, and souvenir spoons, 67 items total. 1st-25th items: 25 pieces of assorted American flatware and serving pieces, 4 Lunt pieces, including 2 Mount Vernon pattern teaspoons, 1 inscribed "BLAIRSVILLE PA" to bowl and 2 Monticello pattern pieces including 1 lemon fork and 1 five o'clock spoon, 2 Oneida/Heirloom pieces, including 2 Young Love pattern teaspoon and 1 Reigning Beauty baby spoon, 2-piece Gorham Rondo pattern baby fork and spoon set, 1 Watson five o'clock spoon, 1 Towle teaspoon, 1 S. Kirk & Son demitasse spoon with inscription reading "From Mother 1927", 1 Fisher butter dish lid, 1 Randahl candle snifter, 2 teaspoons, 1 five o'clock spoon, 4 demitasse spoons, 1 salt spoon, 2-piece carving knife and fork set, 1 bread knife with sterling hollow handle and Sheffield, England stainless blade, and 1 ovoid napkin ring. Ranging in size from 2 1/4" to 12 1/2" L. 26th-37th items: Set of 12 American Cutlery Company mother of pearl handled pieces, including 6 knives and 6 forks, sterling stamped to ferrules with embossed scrolling bands. Ranging in size from 7 3/4" to 8 7/8" L. 38th-39th items: 2-piece carving knife and fork set. Housed in a fitted wooden case. Ranging in size from 8 5/8" to 10 1/4" L. Case - 1 1/2" H x 12" W x 4 3/8" D. 40th item: English serving spoon, marks for John and William Deakin, Sheffield, 1885. 8 1/8" L. 41st item: Russian .875 serving spoon, marks for Kazan, assay marks for Ivan Vasilyevich Avdeyev, Moscow, 1859. 8 1/4" L., 2.188 oz troy. 42nd-55th items: 14 souvenir spoons, 2 with enamel decorations to handles, including 1 Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, TN, 1 Chicago, IL spoon depicting the Masonic Temple, 1 Acapulco, Mexico, 4 Indiana related, 1 State Capital, Denver, CO, 1 New Orleans, LA, 1 Sault Ste. Marie, MI, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, Quebec, Canada, and 3 unmarked. Ranging in size from 4 1/2" to 8 5/8" L. 56th-67th items: 12 assorted thimbles, 11 with incised decorations to surface. Ranging in size from 5/8" to 1" H. Some items monogrammed. Combined weighable sterling (including enameled spoons): 18.047 oz troy. CONDITION: Overall good condition with normal surface scratches. 38th-39th items: Surface wear to case.

English School oil on canvas painting depicting a young woman with dark ringlets and wearing a black, off the shoulder dress, seated against a red drapery backdrop. Unsigned. Housed in a giltwood frame with fishscale surface and carved corner elements, stamped "Moseley, Carver & Gilder " and "Clements, Patent" en verso. British, circa 1830. Sight - 23 1/4" H x 17 1/4" W. Framed - 30" H x 24" W. Second quarter 19th century. Note: Frame maker Robert Moseley was active in Derby for more than 50 years, trading in partnership with George Tunnicliffe, c.1808-19, Walter James Moore, c.1826-27, and his nephew Henry Moseley, 1841-46, but otherwise independently. Robert Moseley was known for his wide-ranging interests and his links to the London trade where 'Moselys corners' were used in frame making by one leading maker. He was appointed as a carver and gilder to the King in 1828, an unusual distinction for a maker outside the capital. (source: https://www.npg.org.uk/research/conservation/directory-of-british-framemakers/m). CONDITION: Overall craquelure, stretcher marks to perimeter of canvas. Areas of blistering, largest 1 3/4", to drapery. Possibly relined with areas of inpainting. Areas of loss, largest 1/8", primarily to lower quadrant. Areas of loss, largest 1", age cracks to frame. Areas of loss, largest 30" x 3/4", to gilt on exterior of frame.

1780-1853 Dublin and environs, hand-coloured engravings, View of the Black Rocks, New Town Bourne, Bray Head &c.; View of Rings End, Irish Town, Pool beg, Clontarf, Ireland Eye Dublin Bat &c.; A Prospect of Dublin, the Capital of Ireland, all published by Alex Hogg; The Four Courts, Dublin by Bartlett; and Extraordinary Meteor Seen Over Dublin, on the Night of September 2, 1853.the largest 9" x 12¾" (23 x 32cm) (5)

Victorian sampler, wool stitched on gauze, square frame with capital letters, the centre inscribed "Lorna and Philip, 29th June 1885", geometric designs and numerals etc, 26 x 21.5cm

An Orator Watch Company wristwatch, a watch movement marked chronoscope, a tank shaped Capital wristwatch and two other wristwatches, mid 20th Century

E M WELCH OF FORESTVILLE, USA; a late 19th century American eight day ogee wall clock, the circular dial set with Roman numerals above two coloured printed glass panels inscribed 'Capital at Albany, N.Y.' and 'Court-House, St. Louis', flanked by twin turned gilt columns, with key and pendulum, 82.5 x 42.2cm.Additional InformationGeneral heavy wear, not tested, no guarantee of working order, rubbing to printed detail on dial, rubbing to gilt, surface scuffs and scrapes, some splits and knocks, the right lower front section slightly separated from the base, some minor surface losses, marks, abrasions and discolouration to the glass decoration.

Royal Air Force Log Book Grouping of Flight Lieutenant E C Cox Number 15 and 29 Squadrons RAF, Served from 1939-1945, the first log book in the group is his Observers and Air Gunners log which commences with training in December 1939, he first started flying operationally as a wireless operator Air Gunner with No15 Squadron in July 1940 in Blenheim’s, he flew with various pilots including S/L Singer DSO DFC, P/O Lane-Samson DFC and S/L Webster DSO DFC, to name a few. Most of the operations at this time were bombing of the German held Belgium and French ports and invasion barges etc. On the 9th September 1940, he notes as attack on enemy shipping in Oostende, it tells of an engagement with a ME110 and how his aircraft was damaged, loose in this page are two Air Ministry images of the damage to his aircraft from this engagement, written in pencil at a later date by Cox is the comment “May have damaged the blighter!”. In November 1940 he moved to Wellington bombers and began training with them, still serving as part of 15 Squadron. In early 1941 he was involved in the bombing operations targeting the German war machine factories, oil instillations and harbours, with many of the operations noted in detail and congratulation notes from command mounted into the pages. In March 1941 he joined No21 O.T.U. In June 1941 he was involved in a bombing raid on the French capital, Paris, ephemera is added to the page for this operation. The first log book ends on 14th March 1942 when he is posted for training as a pilot. The second log book begins in May 1942 when training to become a pilot. He trains on various aircraft throughout 1942 and 1943, including Oxford’s, Blenheim’s and Beaufighter’s. In October 1943 he is transferred to 29 Squadron, flying Mosquito aircraft. Towards the end of 1943 and early 1944, he was piloting various operations and he notes down a number of engagements with the enemy, including 24th February 1944, “PATROL – DURRINGTON G.C.I 1 HE.177 DESTROYED – OUR BIG NIGHT – A FLT GET 7 AND 2 PROBABLES” a entry is made over the page to state, “E/A LATER IDENTIFIED AS HE.177 FROM II KG 100 AT CHATEAUDON”, just a couple of nights later he notes, “PATROL – 2 CHASES – 1 NEAR THING HUN SHOT DOWN JUST IN FRONT OF ME!”. The second log book ends on 24th April 1944. In June 1944 he is tasked with various operations over the French beach heads, after the Normandy invasions. On 19th September 1944, he enters into his log book “PATROL TO COVER AIRBORNE LANDINGS IN HOLLAND – ARNHEM ABLAZE!”. By the end of 1944 he was posted to No 60 O.T.U and then later in 1945 No 13 O.T.U. The second to last entry in the log is on 22.10.45 “ATTACHED FROM HQ 12 GROUP TO RAF MOLESWORTH FOR NAV DUTIES” with the very last entry being written in pencil dated 10th October 1988 on a Piper Warrior taking off from Headcorn, obviously this was a private flight he took and made a note of it in his original wartime log. Accompanying the log books is a tin of cloth insignia, including his pilots wings, medal ribbon bars and rank insignia etc.

Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of St. Anthony the Great, in the Latin translation of Evagrius of Antioch, large cutting from a manuscript leaf on parchment[France, second half of the ninth century] Cutting from the top half of a leaf, with remains of double columns of 20 lines in a fine and rounded Carolingian minuscule with et-ligature used integrally within words and a capital 'q' whose tail curves to the right presumably following Insular influence, remains of upper margin at head of cutting, some losses to edges of columns at sides and upper corners, recovered from a binding and hence darkened, scuffed and with damage, parchment slightly translucent in places, 150 by 240mm.; housed within Rendells' printed paper sleeve and within fitted cloth covered case A hitherto unidentified early-Carolingian witness to one of the fundamental texts of medieval monasticism Provenance: 1. Written most probably for use in a monastery in Carolingian France in the second half of the ninth century; and later reused on the binding of a book.2. Kenneth W. Rendell Gallery, cat. 146 (1979), no. 1.3. Sotheby's, 17 December 1991, lot 2.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1541; acquired in Sotheby's. Text and script:With this lot we begin a short selection of manuscripts in Carolingian minuscule. It is fitting that this new script, so closely associated with the return of Christian study to Europe, should be used here for this work, which was of fundamental importance for the development of monasticism in Western Europe. It was composed in Greek by Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296-373), himself one of the four great fathers of Eastern Christianity, while on his third exile from his episcopacy of Alexandria in the deserts of Upper Egypt. It is the most important source for the life of St. Anthony the Great (251-356), whose life is often thought of as the template for all future monastic callings. The work is thus both a study of a crucial figure for early Christianity, as well as a semi-autographical work of one of the earliest Church fathers to withdraw into a contemplative life in the wilderness. An early Latin translation prepared during the life of the author survives in a single manuscript, and this was superseded by that produced by Evagrius of Antioch in the aftermath of the author's death in 373. In this form it championed the spread of monasticism in the West, and was essential reading in every medieval monastic foundation. It was the subject of a new edition in the Corpus Christianorum series last year by P.H.E. Bertrand and Lois Gandt, and the present cutting contains parts of chapters 80-81 in that edition (chapters 50-51 in Migne, Pat. Lat. 73, cols. 162-3). As Bertrand notes, approximately 400 manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages, but these are overwhelmingly from a boom of interest dating to the eleventh century and later when monastic foundations reached their peak in the Middle Ages. Only fourteen Carolingian witnesses survive, with only Bern, Burgerbibliothek 376 and Munich, Bayerische Statsbibliothek, Clm 6393 (both of c. 800), certainly predating the present witness. 

Ɵ Conflictus veris et hiemis, a verse in hexameters on the debate between Spring and Winter, attributed to Alcuin of York, with the translations and miracles of St. Lomer, with further additions of Carolingian music, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment[France (most probably Blois), c. 873 and tenth century]Fourteen leaves (plus a nineteenth-century parchment endleaf at each end), all conserved in nineteenth century and many remounted on guards and thus uncollatable, wanting 2 leaves after fol. 4 and another 2 leaves after fol. 12 as well as an 8-leaf gathering (now Vatican, Reg. Lat. 479: see below), last 4 leaves smaller than others (measuring 245 by 167mm.), the verse added to original endleaf at front in double column of 41 and 20 lines in a small and legible Carolingian minuscule with an extended ct-ligature and the characters' names in margin, one descender in lowermost line extended to form an ornate penwork leaf with a bauble mounted in its stem, and main texts relating to St. Lomer in single column of 29-36 lines in two closely related precise and refined Carolingian minuscules, both with et-ligature used integrally within words (but variant forms of capital 'q'/'Q'), the second with an NT-ligature and an uncial 'N' used in main text, crucial names in capitals, some capitals touched in red and others infilled with yellow wash, text opening major sections in capitals touched with red, rubrics of elongated red capitals, small red initials, larger initials in penwork, some with baubles set within their bodies or coloured in green and red, one large initial in delicate blank parchment penwork touched in red and set within dark brown initials terminating in floral flourishes, seventeenth-century scholarly marginalia, endleaf at front reused from a sixteenth-century French choirbook with music on a 4-line red stave, some stains to areas of text, spots from old mould damage at head, margins trimmed often to edges of text, overall good and solid condition on heavy and good quality parchment, 300 by 190mm.; nineteenth-century French brown calf over pasteboards, gilt-tooled with arched frames with floral sprays at corners, with spine gilt with "De S. Launomaro - MS IXe S" An important Carolingian monastic codex, containing a celebrated verse attributed to Alcuin, the leading intellectual light of the Carolingian renaissance, as well as the earliest witnesses to prose and musical texts relating to the Merovingian saint Lomer; this probably one of the last ninth-century codices to appear on the market Provenance:1. The main texts here on St. Lomer (also Laumer and Laudomarus) must have been written immediately after the translation of the saint's relics to a church in Blois in 874 (an event these leaves record), but before the foundation of the Benedictine abbey dedicated to the saint there in 924. Another eight leaves from the centre of this manuscript are the first part of a sammelband assembled in the seventeenth century in Italy (now Vatican, Reg. Lat. 479; A. Wilmart, Codices reginenses latini, 1937, pp. 651-2, with the whole manuscript reproduced online). Those contain the opening of the life of the saint, which ends abrubtly and is completed by the two words at the top of fol. 10r here.Crucially the opening of the text in the Vatican leaves refers to the saint as 'our patron'. In addition, there is a hitherto unnoticed contemporary or near-contemporary name added to the foot of the first of the present leaves, probably identifying "Raginoldus feldracanum" as an early user or perhaps donor of the codex. The second part of his name is hard to decipher, but a late medieval hand has added "Raginoldus feldra carutasis", suggesting Carnutum/Carnotum or Chartres as his town of origin (the monastery of Saint Martin au Val du Chartres was one of the temporary resting places of the relics and the community on their way to Blois: see N. Mars, Histoire du royal monastère de Sainct-Lomer de Blois, 1646, p. 29). His name does not occur in the published research of Dom Mars, but there is an unpublished and mostly unstudied six-volume cartulary of the eighteenth century for the house in the Archives départementales de Loir-et-Cher, ms. 11 H. 128, and search for this name there may reveal much.St. Lomer was born c. 530 at Neuville-la-Mare, north of Chartres, where he was ordained as a monk, before withdrawing into the forest of Perche where he founded the monastery of Corbion in 575, becoming its first abbot. He died in 593 while visiting Chartres and was buried near there, until monks from Corbion stole his relics a few years later to return him to his own community. Following a Viking attack on Corbion in 873/4 the community and their relics fled to Parigny near Avranches and then Le Mans before being offered sanctuary within the walled town of Blois. In the tenth century they moved outside the city walls to the church of St-Lubin, and then again in 1186 to the larger adjacent site they occupied for the remainder of the Middle Ages.2. Dom Noël Mars (1612-1702), the Benedictine monk and Maurist historian of Blois; with his marginal notes and signature, including one on fol. 10r referring to the Acta Sanctorum ordinis S. Benedicti, Paris, 1668, in which footnote 'a' on p. 338 evidently refers to this manuscript: "Haec ex MS. Historia S. Launomari Monasterii Blesensis a nostro Natale Mars erudite composite didicimus". The central leaves of the manuscript may well have become detached by the seventeenth century (see below), and Dom Mars conducted much antiquarian research in the archive of St-Lomer in the last decades of that century, and this may explain this section of it ending up in his possession. In 1789 the revolutionary government of the region suppressed the abbey, and seized its church for the parish of St-Nicholas two years later. Its goods and library were dispersed at the same time, with the Vatican leaves then beginning their journey towards Rome. Delisle notes four manuscripts in the BnF. as well as another in the collection of Herzog August in Wolfenbüttel from this medieval library (Le cabinet des manuscrits, 1868, II, p. 406).3. Louis de la Saussaye (1801-1878) of the Château de Troussay, near Blois, local historian, archaeologist, and numismatist, with a note of "un manuscrit du Xe siècle ... dant la bibliothèque de M. de la Saussaye" in Dom Mars' Histoire du royal monastère de Sainct-Lomer de Blois, p. 66, n. 2 and 7, n. 2, doubtless referring to these leaves. His sale, 30 September 1887, lot 1148.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 5577; acquired Sotheby's, 5 July 2016, lot 57.Text:Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) was the central intellectual figure of the Carolingian renaissance, and was educated in the renowned cathedral school at York under Archbishop Ecgbert (himself a pupil of Bede). By the 750s he was teaching in the school and came to the court of Charlemagne at the emperor's invitation, serving as 'master of the palace school' from 782, taking over the teaching of the emperor himself and his children, and becoming a guiding hand of the religious and intellectual revolution that was to follow. In 796, when entering his old age,... read more....  To view a video of this item, click here.

Kitab Alif Laila, the Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in Arabic, short quotations added to twelve cuttings recovered from Christian manuscripts, including various Bibles in Latin and a leaf from a copy of the Decretals, a Menaion and Oktoechos or Parakletike in Greek, an orthodox prayerbook and a Bible in Armenian, and a few originally blank pieces of parchment most probably from similar Christian books, manuscripts on parchment[France, Italy, perhaps England, Armenia, and Byzantium, ninth to twelfth century, with additions from the Holy Land in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century] Thirteen cuttings: (a) Matthew 11:16-19 and 12:5-25, in Latin, double column of 13 lines in a Romanesque book script, red and blue initials, northern France, mid-twelfth century, with addition of 6 lines in Arabic naskh (Thousand and One Nights); (b) Canon Law, Decretals, similar to but not identifiable as Ivo of Chartres, in Latin, single column of 13 lines in a good Romanesque bookhand, annotations in margins, headings in capitals (some touched in red), six 2-line initials, Normandy or England, first half of the twelfth century, with addition of 2 lines of Arabic naskh ("The 27th ... the two faces ... the guardian"); (c) Malachi 1:4-10; 1:14-2:20, in Latin, single column of 32 lines in a rounded bookhand, Italy, first half of the twelfth century, with addition of 6 lines in Arabic naskh ("The tenth sitting of the literal ..."); (d) Homiliary, including part of St. Gregory: Homiliae in Evangelia, Lib. II, Hom. 31, and reading from Matthew 9:9, single column of 16 lines in good Romanesque bookhand, perhaps Italy or Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, second half of the twelfth century, with addition of 5 lines in Arabic naskh (the first and second reading according to the Wazir from the Baghari); (e) Zamagirk, part of the Armenian Orthodox Prayerbook, with readings from John and Matthew, double column of 10 lines in a sloping Armenian Uncial (erkat'agir), Armenia, twelfth century, with addition of 4 lines in Arabic naskh ("The fifth part of the twistings/turnings[?]"); (f) two fragments of Psalms, with the Name 'Elijah' in Armenian, double column of 16 lines in an Armenian Uncial (erkat'agir), Armenia, twelfth century, with additions of 2 lines of Arabic naskh (from The Book of the 40 Extracts, and Book of Manliness/Chivalry) on a paper label pasted on; (g) Menaion, part of the Office of the Apostle Bartholomew, for August 25, in Greek, double column of 30 lines in Greek minuscule, Byzantium, tenth century, with addition of 15 lines of Arabic naskh in upper and side borders (part of Thousand and One Nights and a charitable donation); (h) Oktoechos or Parakletike, liturgical book of the Byzantine Church, single column of 22 lines in a sloping Greek half uncial (the so-called 'mixed script'), Byzantium, ninth century, with addition of 3 lines of Arabic naskh (parts of Thousand and One Nights); plus four further cuttings from blank sections of parchment (but most probably also from Christian books), with (1) 4 lines of Arabic naskh ("The first part of the skilled-one and ... given to his children"), (2) 7 lines of Arabic naskh (section of the ninth part of the Service of Poetry, with a charitable donation), (3) 3 lines of Arabic naskh (Thousand and One Nights), (4) 2 lines of Arabic naskh (Thousand and One Nights); almost all approximately 150 by 170mm., some with tears and losses to edges, only one with substantial losses to edges (item a) This clutch of fragments is of breathtaking importance as witnesses to the Fall of Jerusalem; and they are most probably all that remains of a series of codices left abandoned in the city by fleeing Christians when it fell to the forces of Salah ad-din in 1187, and then reused by the Muslim conquerors as wrappers for their own books Provenance:1. Almost certainly from a library in the Holy City of Jerusalem, probably that of the Holy Sepulchre itself, the epicentre of Christendom and Christian devotion. The Crusades and the fall of Jerusalem were of the greatest importance to the history of the Middle Ages and the mind of medieval man. The call to arms to take back the Holy City gripped the population of medieval Europe and drew many thousands of them to strange lands beyond the boundaries of Europe. In addition, the eventual fall of that city to the Muslim invader in 1187 was a crippling lowpoint which inspired political and religious upheaval throughout Europe. Originally these leaves were part of a range of Christian liturgical and legal books from Western Europe, Byzantium and Armenia, dating from the ninth to the mid-twelfth century. Then they were cut up and reused as wrappers on a lengthy Arabic manuscript of One Thousand and One Nights, writing sideways along their blank spaces in handsome unvocalised naskh of not later than the thirteenth century, along with later Arabic names including an apparent reference to the Damascus historian Ali ibn Asakir (d. 1176). No other site apart from the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, and probably the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself, could allow for this mix of scripts. It is of importance that the earliest fragments here are Greek (identified and published by Aiuto in 2006 and 2008). The arrival of the Western Crusaders in 1099 pushed out the Greek liturgy from the Holy Land in favour of a Latin liturgy based on the Rule of St. Augustine. However, Greek observance did continue in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (see D. Galadza, 'Greek liturgy in crusader Jerusalem: witnesses of liturgical life at the Holy Sepulchre and St Sabas Lavra', Journal of Medieval History, 43, 2017). Under Western rule, Jerusalem was the cosmopolitan Christian capital of the East, principally French and Genoese, although the wife of Baldwin II, its ruler, was Armenian. It fell to the forces of Salah ad-Din in October 1187, when the last French nobleman in the city, Balian of Ibelin, negotiated a surrender and peaceful passage to the sea for its occupants. Immediately after the surrender of the city, amid widespread looting, Salah ad-Din ordered the closing of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ultimately deciding not to destroy it, but handing it back to the Greek authorities. Other surviving books from Jerusalem, or fragments of them, testify to the carrying of valuable codices from the city by refugees (see British Library, Egerton MS 1139; Cambridge, Fitzwilliam, McClean MS 49; BnF, mss. lat. 9396 and 12056; and Vatican, cod. Vat.Lat.5974), but it should be noted that those were grand and opulent books. What we have here are more probably the last relics of the mundane books of the religious services of the city, abandoned by fleeing Christians, and picked up by some part of the Muslim conquerors and reused for their valuable parchment.2. These entering Arabic hands in the late twelfth century, perhaps passing then to a member of Salah ad-Din's Syrian forces, where they were reused as wrappers around a copy of Kitab Alif Laila, the Book of One Thousand and One Nights. When sold last in 1993, these cuttings were reported as thought to have have survived in Damascus, and this accords with the fact that in 1187 Salah ad-Din's forces were equally composed of Egyptians and Syrians, as well as the reading of the name of Ali ibn Asakir among the additions.3. Sotheby's, 6 December 1993, lot 3.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1776, acquired in the Sotheby's sale.Read more... 

Eight English estate documents, including seven rental rolls for various estates in Somerset dated 1666, and an extract from the will of Penelope Sydenham, spinster of Crediton, Devon, dated 1769, all in Early Modern English, manuscripts on parchment or paper[Southwestern England, seventeenth and eighteenth century] Eight documents, comprising: (i) seven closely related rental rolls on parchment, containing the rentals of the manor of Chilton Dormer for the 6 months from Michaelmas 1666, as well as those of Sydenham Kitteford, Brympton Alvington and Sutton Bingham for the same time period, three of these with two copies present, all written by a single English secretarial hand, old waterstaining in places with some ink flaking and damage to edges of parchment, the smallest 260 by 170mm. and the largest 470 by 180mm.; (ii) extract from the will of Penelope Sydenham, with bequests to her family, her servants, a capital sum to be invested by the minister and churchwardens of Thelbridge for distribution of income to support the teaching of reading in the parish, the support of the school at Dulverton, and other bequests to the poor in the parishes of Chumleigh and Witheridge, on 6 sheets of paper and with 30 lines in a late English secretarial hand, attested at London on 3 February 1769, 310 by 200mm. Provenance:1. Sotheby's 17 December 1991, part of lot 41, alongside the Taunton related items in the previous lot.2. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1563/2, acquired in Sotheby's.Please note: These items are subject to the Manorial Documents Rules. As such they cannot be taken out of England and Wales without the consent of the Master of the Rolls, and future owners must inform the secretary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of their acquisition.

A small Welsh archive, most probably owned by Alban Stepneth, sheriff of Pembroke and Member of Parliament, and heirs, and including a royal Letter Patent of Queen Elizabeth I, single sheet manuscripts in Tudor English, on parchment[Wales (Pembroke and Haverfordwest) and England, mid- to second half of sixteenth century, 1601 and 1666] Seven documents, comprising: (a) Sale by "John ap Harre ap Hoell of Argoed" in the lordship of "Monhuntydale", Flint, and Agnes his wife, to "Res ap Edwardes ap Pell", of property at "Yelow", 38 long lines in secretarial hand, dated 19 November 1543, 250 by 290mm.; (b) Bond of Morgan Johns of Castle Malgwyn, Pembroke, to Alban Stepneth of Prendergast, Pembroke, with a condition referring to the sale by Johns of his part of the manor of Prendergast, to Stepneth and his wife Margaret, 23 long lines, dated 12 June 1568, 155 by 320mm.; (c) Grant by Thomas Woodford of Castle Piggin, Carmarthen, and his wife Elizabeth to Alban Stepneth of Prendergast, Pembroke, of a meadow in Prendergast next to the "friar's garden", and near the mill of "Hauford", along with other estates, 31 long lines, dated 18 August 1579, 220 by 330mm.; (d) Quitclaim by Hugh Cradocke of Haverfordwest, Pembroke, "calceolarius" (shoemaker), son and heir of the late David Cradocke and his late wife Helen Murrowe, to Alban Stepneth of Prendergast, of all right over a messuage or half burgage in "le markett Streete" in Haverfordwest, 20 long lines, dated 8 December 1582, 210 by 310mm.; (e) Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, referring to a previous grant by letters patent (7 December 1579) to Alban Stepneth of the rectory and church of St. Martin, Haverfordwest and its possessions in Pembroke and Haverfordwest, formerly in the tenure of the late Thomas Catharne, and tithes for 21 years from 29 September 1579; and granting to Philip(?), Thomas and Dorothy Stepneth, sons and daughter of Alban Stepneth, the same rectory and church and possessions for their three lives in that order, for an annual rent of £5 and other payments specified; examined by Thomas Hanbury and signed by William Bromley, 44 long lines, dated 1 July 1595, 400 by 540mm:; (f) Deed to lend the uses of a fine from Edmond Harries of "Freistrope", Pembroke, and his wife Margaret, to Alban Stepneth of Prendergast, of a house or half burgage, formerly the house of Elizabeth Morrowe, widow, afterwards purchased by Alban Stepneth, in the "markett streete" in Haverfordwest, 26 long lines, dated 24 June 1601, 220 by 280mm.; (g) Transfer by Thomas Stepney of Sandyhaven, Pembroke, of a lease of the capital messuage and lands at St. Ishmaels, Pembroke, called Sandyhaven, at an annual rent, leased then to Stepney for his life and one subsequent year, to Richard Phillipps of Loveston, Pembroke, 52 long lines, dated 24 July 1666, 420 by 480mm.; all with cockling, small smudges and faded areas, overall in fair and presentable condition Provenance: 1. Most probably the archive of Alban Stepneth (also Stepney; d.1611), of Prendergast. His family came from Hertsfordshire and rose to financial prominence through profiting from the dissolution of St. Alban's Abbey, before he moved to Carmathenshire in 1561. He was closely associated with the bishop of St. Asaph and used this position to build a large property empire in West Wales and run for public office. He served as sheriff, member for parliament and lastly governor of the town of Haverfordwest during the Civil War, in which conflict he was one of the few Pembrokeshire noblemen who remained loyal to the king. In later life he was embroiled in scandal and brought repeatedly to court. He died in 1611, and his heirs remained influential in Welsh politics until the eighteenth century. His line went extinct in 1825, at which point these records presumably left the hands of his heirs.2. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1907, acquired from the late Dr. Jeremy Griffiths (1955-1997), in July 1994. Text:Welsh manuscripts are of significant rarity on the market. The last sold in our rooms was a late sixteenth-century genealogical scroll showing the descent of the Watkins family of West Glamorgan (6 December 2017, lot 44, for December 2017, lot 44, for £3600 hammer to the National Library of Wales). 

A late 19th century ormolu mounted alabaster column with Ionic capital, on square base, 43" high

Y  A Victorian carved ivory zoomorphic hound's head sporting whistle, circa 1850,modelled as a greyhound head with ebony or lignum insert, yellow-metal chain bearing marks 9C, verso capital 'A' chain, 5.5cm in length; and a Victorian carved bone whistle modelled as the cascabel and 1st reinforce of a cannon, the 2nd reinforce section sculted as the whistle mouth-piece, soft wood insert, 5.5cm in lengthProvenance: The greyhound with Rogers de RinCondition Report: Old hairline crack to the greyhound.Condition Report Disclaimer

Steve Ferguson (American, B. 1946) "North American B-25B Mitchell Airplane" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood Commemorative Cover for the U.S. 29c Flag stamp issued August 19, 1994. That the B-25 Mitchell bomber was so effective should come as no surprise. For nearly 10,000 of these medium bombers were produced, making it the most common -- and most successful -- aircraft of its type during World War II. In fact, it was one of these dependable airplanes that carried Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle over Tokyo for a surprise attack in April 1942. Though not designed to be launched from aircraft carriers, this plane and 15 others took off from the USS Hornet and flew 650 miles to bomb the Japanese capital. Never suspecting they could be attacked at home -- in fact, they had been told it was impossible -- the Japanese people were shocked by the bold American raid. However, it would be more than two years before American bombers again ventured over the land of the rising sun. Image Size: 16.5 x 14 in. Overall Size: 20 x 15 in. Unframed. (B13203)

Chinese Gov. - Reorganization Gold Loan of 1913 Coupons. Brown 20 5, German Bank Issue or French Indochina Issue. 42-43 Coupons. The following is courtesy of John M. Thomson in the Historic Foreign Bonds of China book. 1913 - 5 Reorganisation Gold Loan The Reorganisation Gold Loan of 1913 was for the capital sum of £25,000,000. The Loan was, "...authorized by Presidential Order of 22nd April 1913 officially communicated by the Wai Chiao Pu to the Ministers in Peking of Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Japan." The newly appointed President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shih Kai, initially approached Britain, France, Germany and United States of America seeking a substantial loan to assist the fledgling government of the Republic of China. Later this group was expanded to include Japan and Russia, but eventually the United States of America withdrew from participation, leaving five countries which agreed to assist the Chinese Government with financial aid. The principal financial institutions which participated in the loan arrangements were the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Deutsch-Asiatiche Bank, Banque de I'Indo-Chine and Russian Asiatic Bank. The Yokohama Specie Bank participated on behalf of Japan, but did not issue separate bonds, countersigned by the bank. Arrangements were made as to convertibility into Japanese Yen of the bearer bonds issued by the other four issuing banks. The banks all received 6% commission allocated to each bank together with bonds issued are detailed in the data tables below: Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation £7,416,680 Deutsch-Asiatiche Bank £6,000,000 Banque de I'Indo-Chine £7,416,660 Russian Asiatic Bank £2,777,780 Russian Asiatic Bank (Belgium) £1,388,880 It should be noted that the original Russian issue bonds which were brown coloured, were subsequently withdrawn and exchanged for a series of green coloured bonds. The original brown coloured bonds, sometimes referred to as "Yellow Bonds" were annulled. Overall Size: 32.5 x 22 in. Framed behind glass.

Ed Vebell (American, 1921 - 2018) "Santa Fe Trail" Signed lower right. Original Acrylic painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood Commemorative Cover for Epic Events in American History series issued in 1985. The first of the great trails West was the Santa Fe. As early as 1619, Spain had made the little mission town of Santa Fe the capital of New Mexico, and zealously guarded it against intrusion by Americans. Then in 1821, Mexico won independence from Spain, all was changed: the new government welcomed American traders -- and textiles, tools, weapons and money -- in exchange for silver, furs and wool. It was an early explorer, William Becknell, who first marked out one of the several trails to Santa Fe, from Independence, Missouri to the Great Bend of the Arkansas, then to the Rockies and south across the Cimarron Desert to Santa Fe. Not until the acquisition of New Mexico by the United States did trade with Santa Fe become important. Scores of traders, muleteers and "bullwackers" wound their way across the plains and into the country of the Indians. The discovery of gold in California gave new life to the Santa Fe Trail, for it was an alternate route to the Pacific. The trail reached its greatest days in the 1860s when over 2,500 wagons, with over three thousand men and women and almost thirty thousand oxen made the venture in one season. It came to an end in 1880 when the Santa Fe Railroad was completed. Perhaps, in the long run, its greatest contribution was to the American imagination and American literature. Image Size: 20 x 21.25 in. Overall Size: 26.5 x 27.5 in. Unframed. (B06710)

Tom Lydon (American, B. 1944) "America and Eagle" Signed lower right. Original Mixed Media painting on Illustration Board. Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation. This artwork was originally published on the Fleetwood First Day of Issue Postal Card for the U.S. 19c Official Mail issue of May 24, 1991. Named for its striking white-feathered head, the Bald Eagle is the proud symbol of the United States, selected as the national bird in 1782 by the Continental Congress. In the Nation's capital of Washington, D.C., the proud profile of the Bald Eagle is captured in sculpture, paintings, official seals and more. One of the most striking examples is the sculpture on the East Central Pediment of the Capitol, upon which this artwork is based. Originally carved in sandstone by Luigi Persico at the urging of U.S. President John Quincy Adams, the central figures of the beautiful sculpture are America and the Bald Eagle. America stands next to a pedestal inscribed "July 4, 1776," while she holds a shield with the letters "USA." To America's left is the Bald Eagle, our chosen symbol of national pride. In 1959, Bruno Mankowski reproduced the originals, which had shown signs of age, in beautiful Georgia marble, brilliantly displaying America and her proud symbol of pride and freedom, the Bald Eagle. Image Size: 13.5 x 12 in. Overall Size: 20 x 15 in. Unframed. (B12945)

A 20thC cheque for the Capital & Counties Bank Ltd Halesworth, another for the London & Provincial Bank, partially handwritten, an early 19thC Nottinghamshire Bank cheque 7th September 1827 and another Nottingham 21st June 1852. (4)

Large impressive late Victorian silver plated five light candelabrum with a Corinthian column base and four foliate branches, with Corinthian capital candle holders and separate beaded sconces. Platers mark for Richard Hodd & Son. 75cm overall height.

Bernard J. Lucas (British, 1853-1910), Mont Orgueil from Petit Portelet, Jersey oil on canvas, signed and dated 1890, in original English, late 19th century gilded exhibition frame 41 x 59½in. (104.2 x 148.5cm.) * Provenance: By descent in the same family since the 1920s when it was acquired from a London gallery. ** Notes: Bernard Lucas was a landscape and marine painter and also an illustrator. He lived and worked for most of his life in London where he exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and Walker's Gallery. His work was also shown outside the capital at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Manchester City Art Gallery. By 1907 the artist was living at Bramber in Sussex. His Morning on the Coast of Jersey was exhibited in London at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1887. * Condition: In good condition.

Paul McCartney signature: A Capital Radio Music Awards '77 Presentation Invitation, signed by Paul and Linda McCartney and others.

PLATED METAL COLUMNAR TABLE LAMP, first half 20th century, with Corinthian capital atop a tapering, fluted shaft, on a square section pedestal and stepped base, 55cm high including electrical fitment

LATE VICTORIAN GILT BRASS AND PATINATED METAL COLUMNAR STANDARD LAMP, circa 1900, the later electrical fitment on a telescopic shaft rising from a Composite capital; the reeded stem descending to a plinth and stepped base on four paw feet, 161cm high including later fabric shade

CARVED AND PAINTED LIME WOOD COLUMN, later fitted as a standard lamp, basically 19th century, the electrical fitment above an ionic capital, the shaft with relief-carved foliate band above a reeded section, on further relief-carved foliate sections to the waisted socle and square base, 160cm high

Royal Doulton Variant Sample - Colour of ' Dick Turpin ' Wearing a Green Coat with a Black Hat, The Interior with a Thick Brown Fired Glaze, Date Number Painted to Base 4.1.36 with a Green Cross Mark and Capital A. Stamp. 3.1/4 Inches High.

Commonwealth of England. Four Declarations and Acts of Parliament, 1649-57: A Declaration of the Parliament of England, of their just Resentment of the Horrid Murther perpetrated on the Body of Isaac Dorislaus, Doctor of the Laws, their Resident at the Hague, on 12th of May, printed for Edward Husband, May 21, 1649, 3 pp., An Act for the Tryal of Sir John Stowel Knight of the Bath; Davd Jenkins Esq; Walter Slingsby Esq; Brown Bushel, William Davenant, otherwise called Sir William Davenant, and Colonel Gerrard, printed by Edward Husband and John Field, 1650, 4 pp., An Act for an Assessment at the Rate of Five and thirty thousand Pounds by the Moneth upon England, Six thousand Pounds by the Moneth upon Scotland, and Nine thousand Pounds by the Moneth upon Ireland, for Three Years; from the twenty fourth of June 1657. For a Temporary Supply towards the Maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656, printed by Henry Hlls and John Field, Printer to His Highness, 1657, 28 pp., An Act for an Assessment upon England, at the Rate of Sixty thousand Pounds by the Moneth, for Three Moneths; From the Twenty fifth day of March 1657, to the Twenty fourth day of June then next ensuing. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th day of September, An. Dom. 1656, printed by Hen: Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector. 1657, 73 pp., all with woodcut Commonwealth arms and woodcut initials, first two Acts numbered for inclusion in the annual volume, some marginal fraying, second Act with closed tears and small loss of lettering, light toning and soiling, all disbound, 8vo (Qty: 4)NOTESESTC R208594; R212926; R211052 & Wing E995D; R228084 & Wing E997 respectively. The first Declaration refers to the assassination of diplomat Isaac Dorislaus (1595-1649), who was sent to Holland by Oliver Cromwell shortly affter the execution of King Charles II to establish the embassy at the Hague, and whose presence incensed Royalist refugees who had fled to Holland with the exiled Charles II; the second Act is for the apprehension and trial of various enemies of the State in the wake of Dorislaus's murder, Sir William Davenant was reprieved with assistance of John Milton; the third Act seeks extra funding for the army and navy; the fourth Act was for raising capital to fund the war with Spain during the Anglo-Spanish War (1654-1660), during which England had formed an alliance with France in 1657.

Gregory the Great (Saint, 540-604). Moralia, omni eruditione sacrarum scripturarum refertissima: cum gemina tabula quarum una alphabetica serie materias singulas conplectitur: altera passus sacre scripture extra Job allegatos declaratorsque continet, Paris: Ulrich Gering and Berthold Rembolt, 31 October 1495, 381 leaves (of 382: final blank 2b6 discarded, but retaining medial blank T10), 51 lines and headline, double column, gothic type, printed manicules in margins, decorated throughout with initials in red around printed guide letters, paragraph markings in red, and capital strokes in yellow, lacking front free endpaper, occasional light staining to margins from bleeding of dye used on edges, tiny worm-track to lower margin of first few leaves, title-leaf (a1) tipped to front pastedown, slightly soiled and with two tears of which one crudely repaired recto, leaves C3-4 transposed, a2 with light soiling to fore margin, small marginal stain to S7, final quire (2b) browned, final extant leaf (2b5) slightly spotted, with light worming to margins and short closed tear to fore margin, concomitant worming to rear free endpaper and pastedown, early ink annotations to a1 recto (title-page), a2 recto and T9 verso (last page of main text), printer's device on 2b5 verso embellished with 4 pen-and-ink sketches of winged angel's heads. Later binding (late 16th/early 17th century) of mottled sheep over wooden boards, heavily rubbed, wear and cracking to joint-ends, a few superficial worm-tracks to covers, corners showing through, folio in 8s (28.2 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESGoff G-431; GW 11433; Hain-Copinger 7932*; ISTC ig00431000. First Paris edition, and the sixth overall, of one of the most important texts in western medieval Christianity; the first edition is probably that printed in Nuremberg in 1471. The Moralia was unprecedented in its scope and remained the dominant commentary on the Book of Job until the thirteenth century. 'Gregory began writing the commentary around 583, before he became pope in 590, and he completed it within the first year of his papacy. It was a tumultuous time in Rome. Italy was reeling from the wars of Justinian, the Lombards had occupied northern Italy, and floods, plagues, and famines had devastated the country … Clearly the sufferings of that period prompted a desperate need for the exposition of Job by those charged with teaching the Christian faith in such difficult times' (Seow, Job 1-21: Interpretation and Commentary (2013), p. 193).

South Sea Bubble; Fisheries. Four broadsides, c.1720, comprising: 1. Proposals for Establishing the British Fishery, commonly call'd Robin's Fishery, [London?, c.1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 2. Rasons [sic] humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for incorporating the Subcribers for carying on a National Fishery, [London?, c.1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 3. Rasons [sic] humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for incorporating the Subscribers for carrying on a National Fishery; and to raise for the Publick Service 1,500,000 l., [London?, c.1720], single half-sheet, text recto and verso, docket-title verso, 4. The Case of the Company of the Royal Fishery of England [London?, c.1720], single broadsheet, 3 pp., docketed verso of conjugate leaf, each disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, variably damp-stained, pencil annotations to head, approx. dimensions 32 x 20 cm (Qty: 4)NOTESESTC T17291 (five copies), T17298 (five copies), T17276 (two copies), T18223 (six copies); Hanson 2608 ('a bubble'), 2610, 2611 ('a revised edition of the preceding'), 2604. Item 1 ( Robin's Fishery ) may relate to South Sea Company founder Robert Knight (1675-1744): there is a James Cole engraving entitled The Bubblers Bubbl'd, or The Devil take the Hindmost (c.1720) which mentions 'Robin's Fishery for Gudgeons', understood as a reference to Knight (see Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Division I, Political and Personal Satires , volume 2, no. 1625). Items 2 and 3 propose a fishery with a joint stock of £10,000,000: 'The reason for proposing so large a capital, is that if this honourable house thinks fit the subscription for the British Fishery, (commonly call'd Garraway's) may be made part thereof'. Garraway's was a coffee-house on Exchange (or Change) Alley, Cornhill; its eponymous scheme was a noted bubble.

* Folkard (Charles, 1878-1963). The Pirate Ship, pen, ink, and watercolour, depicting a crowded sailing ship flying a Jolly Roger flag, filled with ten cavorting pirate mice and imps accompanied by a frog, the vessel with newspaper hull, a tiller of spent matches, a mast of pencils and wooden cotton reel with a patched sail, and with a parrot perched on the mast, foreground with a large fish in the sea cocking a snook with his tail, signed lower left, some light spotting to sky and clouds, 23 x 18 cm (9 x 7.25 ins), mounted, together with: "Faithful John", pencil on paper, depicting a galleon with various figures on board, one playing a flute, with 3 ravens in the air above, titled in pencil to lower margin below image, 26.5 x 16.5 cm (10.5 x 6.5 ins), mounted Owl and Crescent Moon, pen, ink, and watercolour, on translucent paper mounted on card, depicting a long-eared owl perched on a branch of oak leaves and acorns, against a crescent moon, verso with the artist's name and address in pencil, 16.5 x 11.5 cm (6.5 x 4.5 ins), mounted The Folkard Font, pen & ink on paper in the artist's hand, showcasing a calligraphic font, with upper and lower case letters and Arabic numerals, horizontal fold, 21.5 x 16.5 cm (8.5 x 6.5 ins), mounted A Sussex Cottage, pencil and gouache on paper, depicting a clapperboard house with tall chimneys and a picket fence, 11.5 x 9 cm (4.5 x 3.5 ins), verso with mirror image of cottage blocked in colour, 13.5 x 11 cm (5.25 x 4.25 ins), and another version of the cottage in pencil, spotted, 18.5 x 13 cm (7.5 x 5 ins), mounted, plus a caricature head & shoulders self-portrait, pencil on paper, with flap to fold down revealing a cavernous mouth, signed and dated 1945, 11 x 11.5 cm (4.5 x 4 ins), and a pen & ink sketch of a seated monkey painting onto a hand mirror, captioned "I'm painting my own portrait" within frame to upper margin, irregularly trimmed, laid down on card, 9 x 6 cm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), mounted, plus a small quantity of children's books illustrated by Charles Folkard, including: Tales Old and New, 6 volumes, original cloth (one crudely rebacked); How Lotys Had Tea with a Lion; The Jackdaw of Rheims; 8 Teddy Tail series (generally in poor condition); and a small scrapbook of Teddy Tail cartoon cuttings (Qty: 27)NOTESProvenance: From the artist's studio and thence by descent. The entertaining picture of the pirate ship appears not to have been published. The second item is a preparatory drawing for 'Faithful John', one of the tales contained in the first Folkard edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales , which was published by A. & C. Black in 1911. The Folkard Font was designed by the artist and used extensively both by him and others, its popularity resulting in a version which is still in use today. The Folkard Font has swashed capital letters and variant forms of a number of the letters and has become popular as a font for book covers and merchandising, particularly in association with fairy and fantasy subject matter. Charles Folkard owned a seaside cottage, which he and his son built, at Winchelsea in Sussex, and the clapperboard house drawings in this lot were almost certainly executed there.

Booth (Charles). Descriptive Map of East End Poverty, Compiled from School Board Reports' in 1887, 1st edition, [Macmillan & Co., 1889], lithographic plan, printed in colours, sectionalised on linen, 355 x 485 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESBased on information gathered from School Board visitors, this is the first of Charles Booth's famous poverty maps of London, published in his seminal work Labour and Life of the People, Volume 1: East London (London: Macmillan, 1889). The areas covered include Hoxton, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Mile End Road and Limehouse. When the full survey of London was published in 1891, this map was replaced with four maps of the north east, the north west, the south east and the south west of capital together with a key map which encompassed the whole. The four new maps now covered an area from Kensington in the west to Poplar in the east, and from Kentish Town in the north to Stockwell in the south. These maps are collectively known as the Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889. This earlier map has the same features as the later set, with the streets colour-coded according to the degree of wealth of the inhabitants, ranging from black ('Very poor, lowest class... Vicious, semi-criminal'), through shades of blue and purple ('Poor', 'Mixed', 'Fairly Comfortable'), to red ('Well to do'), but Booth's highest class, yellow ('Wealthy'), does not appear on this map.

Universal Magazine. A group of seven maps and plans of Canada, North America and elswhere, taken from the Universal Magazine, 1750s, including A Plan of the City & Fortifications of Louisburg, An Accurate Map of Canada, with the adjacent countries, by R.W. Seale, A New and Accurate Map of the Present War in North America, A New & Correct Map of the Coast of Africa, A Plan of Quebec, A Perspective View of Lake George, An Exact Plan of the Capital City and Port of Malta, several signed R.W. Seale, Plan of Quebec with a little damage to edges and slight loss, Map of North America, torn, but generally without loss to engraved area, plus Swire (William). Manchester and Its Environs, engraved from an actual survey made in 1824, engraved town plan, with inset vignette views, coats of arms, etc., published in the History Directory and Gazetteer of Lancashire by Edward Baines, torn along folds without loss, three smaller town plans of Stockport, Rochdale, Oldham and Ashton-under-Lyne (from the same work), and a printed plan of Peking Legation Quarter 1900-1902, as published in H.B. Morse's International Relations of the Chinese Empire (Qty: 14)NOTESSold with all faults, not subject to return.

* West Indies. Manuscript navigational instructions for entering Port Royal harbour in Jamaica, by W. May, circa 1780, 3 pp., 'After you get the length of the Yallahs keep the land on board it being clear along shore. As you run along - thus - you will soon discern the low shrubby land - called ye palsades - where this low land joins the high land you are running along - is a fort call'd Rock Fort. SSW from this fort - three or four miles is a number of sunken rocks - which ye sea beaks upon & which you must be sure to leave on your starbord hand & continue to run along the palisades - but come not nearer than two cables length - when you are high enough up to observe Port Royal, keep the middle of Fort Charles (which stands on Port Royal point) directly in a line with the whole way on Saltpond Hll - this will run you between a point on ye palisades call'd Plump Point about one mile - continue with ye above marks in one till ye make ye keys. The First is call'd Lime Bay - to be left on your harbourd hand. As soon as you pass this you will see two other keys right ahead - the Northwest one call'd Gun Key - the Southwest call'd Wreckams... As soon as you open Port Royal Church to ye west'd of Charlesfort you are clear of those knowles & may hall in to Port Royal Harbour to anchor - there is good watering at Rock Fort & plenty of wood on the Island to be purchased of the inhabitants. Not withstanding any directions that may be wrote - an intire stranger will very much hazard his ship if he venters higher than Plum Point without a pilote...', signed 'W. May', some crossings-through, small splits, a little light soiling, folds, folio, 32 x 20 cm (12.5 x 8 in) (Qty: 1)NOTESDetailed manuscript instructing a captain of a vessel entering Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica. Port Royal, lying at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica was a former Spanish colony until captured by the English in 1655 and served as the unofficial capital of Jamaica until destroyed in an earthquake in 1692. Before the earthquake it was a base for privateers and pirates, used by governors of Jamaica to defend the port, among them Henry Morgan and later Blackbeard (Edward Teach or Thatch) who used the port to attack Spanish shipping and became a notorious hotbed of drunken debauchery and prostitution. After Henry Morgan was appointed was Lieutenant Governor in 1674, anti-piracy laws were enacted and Gallows Point in Port Royal became the place of execution of many pirates, including Calico Jack and Charles Vane. The Royal Navy expanded the port into a naval base from 1735, adding dockyards, wharves, and a naval hospital.

Königsberg [and] Riga. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz), Die Furtsliche Hauptt Statt Konigssberk in Preussen [and] Riga percommode ad Duna Amnem Sita, Empoeium celebre et Livoniae Merropolis, published Cologne, circa 1618, two uncoloured engraved city panoramas on one sheet (as published), 360 x 410 mm, Latin text on verso (Qty: 1)NOTESKönigsberg is the the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad in Russia and Riga is the capital of Latvia. Originally published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'.

Gene Vincent Demo, Crazy Beat 7" single b/w High Blood Pressure - Original UK Demo release 1963 on Capital (CL 15307) - Original Capitol Sleeve - White labels with large red 'A' on A side - sticker tear on A side label, Vinyl VG

A 19th century French patinated bronze sculpture of a Shepherd. Resting against his crook and seated on an ionic capital, raised on a red oblong marble plinth over toupie feet, 32cm high.

A pair of silver candlesticks, each modelled in the form of a Corinthian capital with fluted column and raised on stepped, square and beaded bases, removable nozzles, 31cm high (loaded) (2) For condition information please view this lot on our website HERE

A quantity of framed and glazed prints to include a coloured engraving depicting a Prospect of Dublin, the Capital of Ireland, pub. London Alexander Hogg of the Kings Arms Patenoster Row and one Cecil Aldin prints

Elis, Olympia, circa 4th century BC, hemidrachm, 15mm, obv; head of Zeus facing right, rev; eagle facing right perched on an ionic capital between the letters FA, Olympia mint, possibly 107th/108th Olympiad. (1)Note: These coins were minted especially for use at the Olympic Games, with a new edition every four years. They were the only form of money accepted in Elis during the games, some were kept as souvenirs by spectators and participants.

North Yorkshire - Croft, Jolby Deed of Gift from Henry, son of Alan de Joleby to Halath 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 century, small parchment title deed in Latin, with a seal tag but seal missing Note: 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. A selion / sellion is one of the strips or ridges of land allotted for cultivation in the open-field system.

Conrad, Joseph 5 first, first British or first American editions, comprising The Nigger of the Narcissus. London: William Heinemann, 1898. First British edition, the first issue cloth with the "H" of Heinemann in capital letters at foot of spine, original grey cloth with gilt lifebelt design on upper cover, slightly rubbed at extremities; [Idem] Victory. London: Methuen, 1915, first edition, original red cloth, a few light spots, spine very slightly faded, binding with a few marks; [Idem] The Mirror of the Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906, first American edition, original pictorial blue cloth, owner's name in ink on front free endpaper; [Idem] The Arrow of Gold. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919, first edition, original green cloth, small nick at head of spine, owner's inscription on front free endpaper ; Conrad, J. & F.M. Hueffer Romance. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903, original blue cloth, rubbed, spine faded, hinges weak (5)