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Engraving by Lucas after Constable, East Bergholt; another Adele , "Helmingham Park Suffolk" and a "Lock on the Stour Suffolk"

Sir William Arrol and Company Ltd. Bridges, Structural Steel Work and Mechanical Engineering Productions Published for private circulation by Engineering Ltd., London, 1909 Marsh, Charles F. Reinforced Concrete Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1905, second edition Together with other assorted books, to include the works of Arthur Ransome, classic literature etc.; a quantity of Ordnance Survey maps etc. (3 boxes) Condition Report:Available upon request

Medical Interest: various texts on medicine, comprising: Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing: What it is, and what it is not, first edition, second issue, with "[The right of Translation is reserved]" at foot of title and yellow endpapers with printed advertisements dated 1860, London: Harrison,1860;Byrom Bramwell, M.D., Atlas of Clinical Medicine, 3 vols., blue cloth with gilt lettering, Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable at the University Press, 1892-1896;and John Abercrombie, Pathological and practical researches on diseases of the brain and the spinal cord, quarter leather with marbled boards, with bookplate for Dr William Sargant FRCP, stamped for Medical Society Edinburgh to title page, Edinburgh: Waugh and Innes, 1828 (5)

AFTER JOHN CONSTABLE: AN OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS DEPICTING A LANDSCAPE SCENE WITH HOUSES, Windsor and Newton canvas. 35cm x 25cm Mounted in a frame. 45cm x 35cm

A group of assorted tokens, medallions and badges; Brighton & Hove M.C & L.C.C 6.9.1924 Brighton Motor Races 750A 3rd to C.R.King bronze medalBrighton Police Special Constable enamelled brass badgeArmy Temperance Association 1897 silver medallionSociety of Sussex Downsmen 1923 black enamelled badgeSouthern Railway 'Engineman S.R' badgeWest Kent Motor Clun 1924 3 Lap H'Cap bronze 3rd medalSkidmore's Furnishing Repository token / Destroyed by Fire 1795Pidcocks Exhibition/Exeter Change London tokenT.Hardy 1794 Tried For High Treason tokenRHS A.J.Sewell gilt silver medal for Alpine Plants 9.3.761936 Hoover Spring Manoeuvres medal to T.MacDonaldThe Hoover War 1933 Mentioned in Despatches medal to T.MacDonaldClacton Butlin's 1963Butlin's Minehead 1964Butlin's Bognor Regis 1965Member of the CourtCraftsmanNational Union of General & Municipal Workers.Condition - fair, minor damage and some missing lugs.

An early 20th century Great Cape, with lion head fobs, length 86cm, a Police dress tunic with Queens crown buttons, chest size 53cm and length 81cm, a Police Constable dress tunic with crowned buttons, chest size 52cm and length 116cm, a JS Great Coat with Queens crown buttons, chest size 60cm and length 104cm together with weapon holsters, a 20th century truncheon, epaulettes and handcuffs with keys.

Two Kingston Upon Hull Special Constable 1914 brass and red enamel badges, a On War Service 1914 badge and a Hull Police Metropolitan nickel whistle.

A collection of vintage & antique Devon Plymouth & Cornwall police cap badges & tunic buttons including eight Cornwall Council 1915 Special Constable gilded badges & enamelled Cornwall P.A.M.S special constable badges

Medals of Special Constable John Clephane to include Elizabeth II Special Constabulary medal with LONG SERVICE 1969 clasp [JOHN CLEPHANE], WWII war medal, WWII defence medal, France and Germany Star and 1939-1945 star, a matching set of miniatures, a silver shield fob of the ECASA Polo League [J CLEPHANE 1937], a Heriot-Watt College Edinburgh Leith & District Master Plumbers Association scholastic medallion [JOHN CLEPHANE PLUMBING 5TH YEAR 1939-40], Royal Life Saving Society medal [J CLEPHANE JUNE 1934] etc.

George V Edinburgh Special Constable great war commemorative police truncheon, numbered 181, painted with GR cypher and Edinburgh coat of arms, 39cm long.

Medal of Special Constable Robert J Turner of the Perthshire and Kinross-Shire Special Constabulary comprising Elizabeth II Special Constabulary long service medal [ROBERT J TURNER] in original issue box, a 9JATS shoulder title and various coins including a silver proof crown 1977.

After John Constable (British, 1776-1837) a peaceful river scene with figures on the bank and a figure in a boat, watercolour, signed 'John Constable RA July 23 1832' framed and glazed, 16.5 x 24.5 cms.

"Farthest North" by Fridtjof Nansen, Constable & Co, 2 vols, 1897 first edition

Giovanni Antonio Canal, genannt „Canaletto“, 1697 Venedig – 1768 ebenda, Nachfolge desCAPRICCIO EINER PALASTLOGGIA MIT FIGURENSTAFFAGEÖl auf Leinwand.132,2 x 93,5 cm.In vergoldetem Prunkrahmen.Bei dem Gemälde handelt es sich nicht eigentlich um ein „Capriccio“, dazu ist das Gesamtgegenständliche zu entschieden realistisch, die architektonischen Einzelheiten zu detailgenau gezeigt, wie wir dies eben bei Werken Canalettos kennen. Dennoch ist hier möglicherweise eine Fantasiearchitektur ins Bild gesetzt, die vom Innern einer hohen, von Säulen getragenen Loggia mit Blick auf eine Parkmauer in ungewöhnlicher Weise auch die Raumdecke der Loggia in einem Halbbogen offen zeigt. Solche fantastischen Architekturideen sind uns von Stichen des Piranesi geläufig. Der Wechsel von Schatten im Raum und hellem, im Sonnenlicht stehendem Gebäude verleiht dem Gemälde eine attraktive Spannung. Man scheint die südlich-sommerliche Temperatur zu spüren, bei der die Staffagefiguren sich sämtlich im Schatten aufhalten. Höchst originell hierbei die Personen auf der oberen Emporenbalustrade, von der ein großes Velum herabhängt, wie ebenso der schräg im unteren Raum hängende ovale Goldrahmen oder die extrem lang herunterhängende Laterne links im Bild. Die Darstellung ist weitgehend identisch mit einem 1765 geschaffenen Werk Canalettos, mit Museumsbetitelung „Colonnade Opening onto the Courtyard of a Palace“ im Cannon Hall Museum, bei Barnsley in South Yorkshire (56 x 42 cm.)Eine weitere Version („Perspektive mit Porticus“) in kleineren Abmessungen (42 x 32,5) befindet sich in der Sammlung Carmen Thyssen Nationalmuseum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Inv.Nr. CTB 1981.39, dort mit variierenden Einzelheiten einer ausführlicher geschilderten Staffage, mit einem Bettler, einem Mann mit Kind sowie Hühnern in der Loggia, die Parkmauer ist anders dargestellt, anstelle der Vase mit Figuren bekrönt. Ferner ist eine weitere Darstellung bei Stephen Ongpi Fine Art bekannt geworden, ausgeführt in Gouache und Feder, mit Aufschrift „Anto. Canale“, in den Abmessungen 36,4 x 28,7 cm, erstmals 1919 im Petit Palais, Paris, ehem. Slg. Luigi Albertini, Rom, zusammen mit dem dazugehörigen Ölbild ausgestellt. Canaletto, in Europa längst bekannt, wurde am 11. September 1763 in die 1750 gegründete venezianische Akademie aufgenommen, und hatte dazu ein Musterbeispiel seines Könnens einzureichen, das sich heute in der Galleria dell´Accademia in Venedig befindet. Das Bildthema, von dem mehrere Versionen existieren, dessen Darstellung auch Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1698/99-1760) zu einem seiner Bilder inspiriert hat, ist 1765, also in der nämlichen Zeit entstanden, in der Canaletto sich erneut wieder Gegenständen seiner Heimatstadt zuwandte. So reiht sich das vorliegende Gemälde in die bereits bekannten Versionen ein, zum Teil auch von der Werkstatt geschaffen, die weitgehend Detailunterschiede erkennen lassen.Literatur: Vgl. Ettore Modigliani, Capolavori veneziani del’700 ritornati in Italia, in: Dedalo. Rassegna d’Arte diretta da Ugo Ojetti, Mailand/ Rom 1924-1925.Vgl. Terisio Pignatti, Il Museo Correr di Venezia: Dipinti del XVII e XVIII Secolo, Venedig 1960. Vgl. W. G. Constable, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768, Oxford 1962, Vol.1, S. 155.Vgl. Lionello Puppi, L’opera completa del Canaletto, Mailand 1968.Vgl. André Corboz, Canaletto: Una Venezia immaginaria, Mailand 1985, Vol.2, S. 768-769. Vgl. Dario Succi, Capricci Veneziani del Settecento, Turin 1988. Vgl. Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison (Ed.), The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Ausstellungskatalog, National Gallery London, 29. Januar - 23. April 1995, London 1994. A.R. (1370321) (11)Giovanni Antonio Canal, also known as “Canaletto”,1697 Venice – 1768 ibid., follower ofCAPRICCIO OF A PALACE LOGGIA WITH FIGURE STAFFAGE Oil on canvas. 132.2 x 93.5 cm.The painting is not actually a “capriccio” as the overall objective is too decidedly realistic for that, and the architectural details are shown with too much detail, as is typical of Canaletto´s works. Nevertheless, an imaginary architecture is possibly depicted here. From the inside of a high loggia supported by columns with a view of a park wall, it also shows the open ceiling of the loggia in a semi-arch in an unusual way. Such fantastic architectural ideas are familiar from engravings by Piranesi. The alternation of shadows in the room and a bright building standing in the sunlight gives the painting an attractive tension. One appears to feel the southern summer temperature, in which the staffage figures are all in the shade. The people on the upper gallery balustrade, from which a large veil is hanging, are highly original, as is the oval gold frame hanging diagonally in the lower room or the extremely long hanging lantern on the left of the painting. The depiction is largely identical to a work by Canaletto from 1765, titled Colonnade Opening onto the Courtyard of a Palace in Cannon Hall Museum, South Yorkshire (Part of Barnsley Museums, 56 x 42 cm). Another version (Perspective with Porticus) with smaller dimensions (42 x 32.5) is held at the Carmen Thyssen Collection (Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, inv. no. CTB 1981.39), there with varying details of a more detailed figure staffage including a beggar, a man with a child and chickens in the loggia. The park wall is also depicted differently, surmounted by figures instead of a vase. Another illustration by Stephen Ongpin, Fine Art, is known, executed in gouache and pen, with the inscription “Anto. Canale” (36.4 x 28.7 cm), exhibited for the first time in 1919 in the Petit Palais, Paris, formerly Coll. Luigi Albertini, Rome, together with the accompanying oil painting. Canaletto, long known in Europe, was admitted to the Venetian Academy founded in 1750 on 11 September 1763, and he had to submit a model example of his skills, which is now held at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice. The subject of the painting, of which there are several versions and whose depiction also inspired Guardi to create one of his paintings, was created in 1765, i.e. at the same time that Canaletto was again turning to subjects from his hometown. Thus, the present painting aligns with the already known versions, in part also created by the workshop, which largely show differences in detail.

A mixed lot of ornaments to include collectors plates, some depicting trains and Constable countryside scenes, Lilliput cottages, Aynsley Orchard Gold vase, paperweights and other itemsLocation:GIf there is no condition report shown, please request

Amongst Women, John McGahern, 1990, Faber, First Edition, First Printing, with Dust Jacket. Rolling down the Lea, Oliver St. John, Gogarty, 1950, Constable, First Edition, First Printing, with Dust Jacket. (2)

Collecting Golf Books 1743-1938. Aspects of Book Collecting - Hopkinson, Cecil published by Constable, London, 1938. First edition, wrappered issue, 12mo 56pp. Printed red wrappers. Tiny piece missing on front wrap, large piece missing on back cover an uncommon introduction to and bibliography for collecting golf books 'Donovan and Murdoch', presented in a handmade case with title in gold to front

The Great War, Silver War Badge, World War Two Home Defence Special Constable Long Service Group of Five awarded to Ordinary Seman/Special Constable Lewis Edmund Elliott, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Armadale Castle, and Special Constabulary comprising, 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals, (J.76939 L.E. Elliott. Ord. R.N.), 1939-45 Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, Special Constabulary Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVIR, two clasp, Long Service 1955, Long Service 1965, (Lewis E. Elliott), Silver War Badge No, (RN31363), first three contemporary mounted for wear, all lightly toned very fine (5)Lewis Edmund Elliott was born on the 28th June 1899 he joined the Royal Navy on the 28th of August 1917 stating that he was a Labourer from Godalming, Surry, he served aboard the Armed Merchant Cruiser H.M.S. Armadale Castle from the 27th of December 1917 to the 14th of January 1919, mostly employed on Atlantic Convoy protection duties.  He was Discharged to Shore in early 1919.  His papers sate “Burn on Back on Left Side”, perhaps this was the reason for the Silver War Badge.Sold with Copy Service papers, Copy Medal Roll, confirming Pair, and 1939 Register which Staes Police War Reserve T104 Section 29, Hambleden, Surrey.

A Police Pair awarded to Police Constable Francis Symonds, H Division – Whitechapel who served in 1888 at the time of the Whitechapel Murders, comprising, Jubilee (Police) Medal 1887, (PC, F. Symonds. H. Divn), Coronation (Police) Medal 1902, in Bronze, (P.C. F. Symonds. X Div.), lightly toned very fine (2)Police Constable Francis Symonds Warrant Number 54716 joined H Division in 1871 and left on the 11th of May 1892. His name appears in the list of H Division personnel in “The Case Book of Jack The Ripper”Sold with a “The Metropolitan” Patent WhistlePlease see Baldwin's film of the life of PC Francis Symonds at www.casebook.org/dissertations/h-division-personnel.html

The Great War, Special Constabulary Long Service, Trio awarded to Gunner/Special Constable Charles Robert Savage B Battery 46 Brigade Royal Field Artillery comprising, 1914-1920 British War and Victory Medals, (206075 Gnr. C.R. savage. R.A.), Special Constabulary Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, GVIR, one Clasp, Long Service 1955, (Charles R. Savage), very fine (3)Charles Robert Savage joined the Royal Artillery at Woolwich on the 16th of February 1917 stating that he was an 18 year old Horse Driver from St Pancras, London.  He served in France from 24th of June 1917 until the end of Hostilities, he was demobilised on the 3rd of March 1919.

CONSTABLE JOHN: (1776-1837) English landscape painter. A.L.S., John Constable, two pages, 12mo, Colnaghi´s (London), n.d. (´Wednesday Evg´), to William Carpenter. Constable enquires ´Did I leave a silk handkerchief at your house - it was a rich toned yellow & I might have taken to kneel upon on looking at the stock´ and concludes ´It may have been stolen´. With integral address leaf (small area of paper loss to the upper edge). Some light traces of former mounting to the upper edge of the second page, only very slightly affecting a couple of words of text. About VGConstable´s correspondent was presumably William Hookham Carpenter (1792-1866) British antiquary, and Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. The present letter was written from the art dealership P & D Colnaghi & Co. of London, the oldest commercial art gallery in the world. established in 1760.

After John Constable (1776-1837), 19th century oil on canvas - 'The Cornfield', 60.5cm x 50.5cm, in gilt frame

Graham Reynolds - The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, two vols. Published Yale 1984

Craddock, Harry (compiled by) "The Savoy Cocktail Book", Constable & Co 1930, illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, includes the errata slip for the Bacardi cocktail on page 25, decorated ep, decorated front board, has seen a little wear and the corners are bumped and rubbed 

A QUANTITY OF PICTURES AND PRINTS ETC, to include Trevor Hodkison portrait of a dog 'Chipper', signed and dated 1985, oil on board, approximate size 27cm x 23cm, an unsigned 19th century oil on wood panel depicting a water landscape with figures on a boat and a figure on the shore looking on, approximate unframed size 19cm x 33cm - paint loss to the horizontal join in the wood, bottom right corner is missing, a Stan Richards silhouette portrait of a nude female figure, oil on board, approximate size 39cm x 30cm, a Michael Lakin watercolour depicting an Orchid, approximate size 42cm x 29cm, a signed limited edition print by the same hand, an Ian Baxter limited edition print of Robin Hoods Bay, sentimental Victorian prints, two C. Fitzgeral mezzotint engravings after John Constable, open edition Lowry prints, 19th century topographical prints, a religious print with a carved wooden frame etc

A Broadhurst Ironstone part dinner service 'The Constable Series' having approximately 28 pieces, a Hummel pineapple jam pot, a handpainted Radford England floral wall sconce, a limited edition Artis Orbis Goebel 'Gustav Klimt' by Emile Floge 930/1500, etc.

Six assorted oil paintings, landscapes and a John Constable print, framed

Circle of John Constable RA (British 1776-1837): 'A Backwater on the Stour', oil on mahogany panel, inscribed verso 21cm x 28cm

August Seidel1820 München - 1904 - Berglandschaft - Öl/Lwd. 27 x 40 cm. Monogr. l. u.: A. S. Ziehrrahmen. Minim. Mängel an den Rändern. - Lit.: Th.-B. XXX, S. 455. Seidel studierte bei K. Rottmann. Er wurde von Constable und den Malern von Fontainbleau beeinflußt. Der Künstler hielt sich 1845 in Italien und 1863 in Paris auf. Seidel war ein wichtiger Vertreter der "Paysage intime". Der freie und breitflächige Pinselduktus galt zu seiner Zeit als sehr fortschrittlich.

[Scott (Sir Walter)], Novels and Tales of The Author of Waverley, twelve volume set, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., et al, 1819, half-titles bound after general title-pages, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original lettered morocco labels, slightly rubbed, some corners chipped, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; & a children's chapbook, Anon, A Catechism of Mythology [...], Winchester: Printed for Pinnock and Co. By James Robbins, 1812, original printed wrappers, somewhat worn, 12mo in 6s, (13)

Napoleon. [Scott (Sir Walter)], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (sic), nine volume set, second edition, Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Co., 1827, half-titles, contemporary black quarter-calf gilt over cloth boards, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; Copies of Original Letters from the Army of General Bonaparte in Egypt, Intercepted by the Fleet Under the Command of Admiral Lord Nelson, fifth edition, London: Printed for J. Wright, 1798, folding map frontispiece, somewhat tatty, later 19th c quarter-calf over marbled boards, rubbed, specked edges, 8vo; Gourgaud (General Gaspard), Napoleon and The Grand Army in Russia, first edition, London: Martin Bossange and Co., 1825, later cloth, split, 8vo; Fauvelet de Bourrienne (Louis Antoine) & Memes (John S., translator), Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, four volume set, Edinburgh: Constable and Co., 1831, frontispieces, some stains and marks, ex-library copies, their later buckram and stamps, uncut, 8vo; Atlas - Napoleon's Campaigns, n.d. [19th c], 16 two-page lithographed maps, culminating at Waterloo, later green cloth, school's bookplates, 4to; [collection catalogue]: Daniell (Walter V., compiler), Collectanea Napoleonica, London, 1905, original cloth, split/splitting, some wear, 8vo; [bookseller's catalogue]: Libraire Historique F. Teissèdre:~ Mémoires d'Empire /Bibliothèque du Baron Charles d'Huart, 2000, original wrappers, 4to; etc., (19)  Provenance: 1st: Thomas Cullen, contemporary armorial bookplates to pastedown. 2nd: Houghton Charles Okeover (1825-1912), of Okeover Hall, Staffordshire; crested bookplate to pastedown, somewhat scuffed. 3rd: Idwal Jenkins, 20th c bookplate.

Illustrated Books. Robinson (W. Heath, illustrator) & De la Mare (Walter), Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, London: Constable & Co Ltd., n.d. [1916], monochrome plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher's green cloth, pictorial gilt, lacking ffep, 8vo; Kurth (Dr Willi, editor), The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, Privately Printed, n.d. [1934], original publisher's cloth, 4to, (2)

Two small stoneware flagons, one with inkstamp mark for Henty & Constable Chichester

Sinclair, John An Account of the Systems of Husbandry Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1814. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, portrait, contemporary calf gilt; Idem. [uniformly bound with] General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of Scotland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1814. 5 volumes, 8vo (7)

Scott, Sir Walter Waverley Novels, 23 works in first edition [without "Waverley"] Guy Mannering; or, the Astrologer. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1815.3 volumes, first edition, second or third state; The Antiquary. Edinburgh: John Ballatyne and Co., for Longman, Hurst... 1816. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of my Landlord. First Series. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1816. 4 volumes, first edition;Rob Roy. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1818. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of my Landlord. Second Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1818. 4 volumes, first edition; Tales of my Landlord. Third Series. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1819. 4 volumes, first edition;Ivanhoe. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition, adverts in volume 1;The Monastery. Edinburgh/London: Longman, Hurst… & Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition; The Abbot Edinburgh/London: Longman, Hurst… & Archibald Constable and Co., 1820. 3 volumes, first edition; Kenilworth. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. 3 volumes, first edition;The Pirate. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition;The Fortunes of Nigel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 3 volumes, first edition;Peveril of the Peak. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. 4 volumes, first edition, some dampstaining to one volume;Quentin Durward. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 3 volumes, first edition;St Ronan's Well. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition;Redgauntlet. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. 3 volumes, first edition;Tales of the Crusaders. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1825. 4 volumes, first edition;Woodstock; or, the Cavalier... Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1826. 3 volumes, first edition, volume 1 lacking half-title;Chronicles of the Canongate. [First Series.] Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1827. 2 volumes, first edition, volume 2 lacking volume title;Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1828. 3 volumes, first edition;Anne of Geierstein; or, the Maiden of the Mist. Edinburgh: Cadell and Co., 1829. 3 volumes, first edition, with some dampstaining;Tales of my Landlord. Fourth and Last Series. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832. 4 volumes, first edition, volume 1 lacking volume title; All first editions, various states, all with half-titles unless stated, uniformly bound in olive green morocco gilt by Riviere, bookplates of Castlecraig Library (71)[All in Worthington, Greville. A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels, 1931] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman

Iceland Five works Hooker, William Jackson. Journal of a Tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809. Yarmouth: printed by J. Keymer “not published”, 1811. 8vo, hand-coloured frontispiece, 3 plates (including 2 folding), contemporary calf neatly rebacked with later spine;Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart. Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1812. Second edition, 4to, 15 plates (including 8 hand-coloured) and 2 maps (one folding), contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining contemporary spine;Henderson, Ebenezer. Iceland; or the journal of a residence on that island, during the years 1814 and 1815. Edinburgh: Oliphant, Waugh and Innes, 1818. 2 volumes, 8vo, folding map, 16 engraved plates, modern half calf, some darkening particularly to plates;Pfeiffer, Ida. Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1853. Second edition, 12mo, 6 plates, contemporary school prize calf binding;Forbes, Charles. Iceland; its volcanoes, geysers, and glaciers. London: John Murray, 1860. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, 7 plates, contemporary half calf (6)

Anderson, James An Account of the Present State of the Hebrides and Western Coasts of Scotland Edinburgh: G.G, and J. Robinson, 1785. 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt with modern spine, folding map, plate, a little foxing particularly to map;Findlater, Charles. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Peebles… Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1802. 8vo, folding map hand-coloured in outline, plate, contemporary half calf, a little rubbing, a few neat notes in an early hand, a little light foxing (2)

Gardening Including Miller, Philip The Gardener's Dictionary. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by John Rivington…, 1759. Seventh edition, folio; Loudon, J.C. Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. 8 volumes, 8vo, 406 (of 412) engraved plates, modern green half morocco; Idem. The Gardener's Magazine. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. Volume XIX only, 8vo, modern green cloth gilt; Nicol, Walter. The Gardener's Kalendar… Edinburgh: Archibald Constable…, 1812. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked with modern spine; Idem. The Planter's Kalendar… Edinburgh: Archibald Constable…, 1812. 8vo, modern boards;Idem. Another copy, modern orange cloth; Langley, Batty. New Principles of Gardening. London: A. Bettersworth and C. Hitch…, 1739. 4to, plates, modern brown cloth gilt; The Gardener's New Kalendar… London: T. Osborne, 1758. 8vo, modern brown cloth gilt;Mawe, Thomas. Every Man his own Gardener. London: C. Crowder…, 1779. Eighth edition, 12mo, modern brown cloth gilt; Reid. John. The Scots Gardiner… Edinburgh: James Reid, 1756. 12mo, contemporary calf with orange speckles rebacked with modern spine; Robinson, W. The English Flower Garden… London: John Murray, 1895. Fourth edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt;Sold not subject to return (18)  

[Scott, Sir Walter] Waverley; or, 'tis Sixty Years Since In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., 1814. First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo (18.7 x 11cm), finely bound in olive-green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, half-title and fly-title to each volume, volumes 1 and 2 retaining final leaf (blank but for printer's imprint recto; no such leaf called for in volume 3), Castlecraig library bookplates, spines slightly sunned, faded ownership inscriptions to head of title-pages, [Worthington, A Bibliography of the Waverley Novels, pp. 1-18] The Library of a Scottish Gentleman A total of 1,000 copies were printed. This set contains all the requisite printing errors cited by Worthington (though not all found in ‘some copies’ only), and 55 of 57 of his key identifying pressmarks and similar points, those lacking being the pressmark ‘7’ at the foot of volume 2 pp. 26 and 324. Worthington may be mistaken in calling for the horizontal bar on the final leaf of volume 1 to be 26 mm; it is 22 mm in the present copy, though the matter is listed only as one of his numerous ‘additional’ points.

Travel 12 works [Franklin. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea. 1823] 2 volumes, 8vo, title-pages lacking, modern half calf; Hall, Basil. Extracts from a journal written on the coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico… Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. Second edition, 2 volumes , 8vo, modern orange cloth gilt; Another copy, fourth edition, 2 volumes in maroon cloth gilt; Lyell, Sir Charles. A Second Visit to North America. London: John Murray, 1855. 2 volumes, third edition, 8vo, contemporary calf with later calf gilt spines; Dufferin, Lord. Letters from High Latitudes… London: John Murray, 1857, Second edition, 8vo, modern maroon cloth gilt; Snow, W. Parker. A Two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego… London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf rebacked with later spines; Domenach, Em. Seven Years' Residence in the Great Deserts of North America. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern green half morocco gilt; Marryat. The Settlers in Canada. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1860. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked; Hall, Captain Charles Francis. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865. ‘Popular edition’, 8vo, modern blue cloth gilt; Thomson, Sir C. Wyville. The Voyage of the “Challenger”. The Atlantic. London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. 2 volumes, 8vo, modern orange cloth gilt; Seebohm, Henry. Siberia in Europe. London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo, original cloth, rebacked; Nansen, Fridtjof. “Farthest North”… Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; sold not subject to return (20) 

Fraser, Sir William Extensive set of his histories of Scottish noble families Edinburgh: [privately printed], 1858-88. 15 works in 34 volumes, all first editions, 4to, original red cloth with large armorial devices gilt to covers unless otherwise stated, numerous plates including lithographic manuscript facsimiles. Comprising:The Stirlings of Keir, and their Family Papers, 1858. One of 150 copies, the author's copy, inscribed for him by William Stirling, commissioner of the work, and with Fraser's ownership inscription to title-page, original quarter morocco, a little rubbing and spotting;Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollok. Edinburgh: printed for Sir John Maxwell of Pollok. Baronet, by Thomas Constable, 1863. One of 150 copies, this copy inscribed on limitation leaf to Thomas Maxwell of Woodside Place, Glasgow, 2 volumes, original green cloth gilt, volume 1 front cover stained, variable spotting; History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and of their Kindred. Edinburgh: for the Earl of Southesk [by Thomas and Archibald Constable], 1867. First edition, one of 100 copies, this copy inscribed on limitation page to Lord Lindsay (Earl of Crawford and Balcarres), with Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplates to front pastedowns), spines faded and nicked, spotting to outer leaves;The Red Book of Grandtully. Edinburgh: printed for Sir William Drummond Steuart, Baronet of Grandtully, 1868. One of 100 copies, this copy inscribed on limitation page to Lord Lindsay (Earl of Crawford and Balcarres) with Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplates to front pastedowns, 2 volumes, spotting to outer leaves, volume 1 initial quire slightly loose;The Chiefs of Colquhoun and their Country. Edinburgh: for Sir James Colquhoun of Colquhoun and Luss [by Thomas and Archibald Constable], 1869. One of 150 copies, this copy inscribed on limitation leaf to George Stirling Home Drummond of Blair Drummond and Ardoch, with his bookplates to front pastedowns, 2 volumes, 4to, original red cloth decorated in gilt, spines faded;Memorials of the Montgomeries Earls of Eglinton, 1869. First edition, 2 volumes, original purple cloth;The Lennox. Edinburgh: privately printed for Richard Alexander Oswald of Auchencruive [and others, by Thomas Constable], 1874. One of 150 copies, this copy inscribed on limitation leaf to the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, with Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplates to front pastedowns, 2 volumes, spotting to endpapers, limitation leaf creased, volume 1 front inner hinge cracked;The Earls of Cromartie, their Kindred, Country, and Correspondence, 1876. One of 150 copies , 2 volumes, 4to, volume 2 inner hinges cracked;The Book of Carlaverock. Memoirs of the Maxwells, Earls of Nithsdale, Lords Maxwell and Herries. 1878. One of 150 copies, this copy presented to William Middleton of Myddleton Lodge, 2 volumes, volumes 2 inner hinges cracked;The Scotts of Buccleuch, 1878. One of 150 copies (the limitation leaf loose: apparently issued as a slip accompanying the books and never bound in), 2 volumes, Castlecraig library plates to front pastedowns, volume 2 with wear to front joint and inner hinges cracked;The Frasers of Philorth, 1879. One of 150 copies, this copy inscribed to Robert Strathern Esq., Writer to the Signet, with his bookplates, 3 volumes, wear to headcaps;The Book of Menteith. 1880. 2 volumes;The Chiefs of Grant, 1883. 3 volumes, original red quarter morocco;The Douglas Book, 1885. 4 volumes, original red quarter morocco, Talygarn bookplates, volume 4 binding marked and worn;Memorials of the Family of Wemyss of Wemyss, 1888. One of 100 copies, this copy inscribed to the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres on limitation slip mounted to front pastedown of volume 1, with Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplates, 3 volumes, original red quarter morocco by D. S. Smith of Edinburgh The Library of a Scottish Gentleman Fraser's other family histories are: Memorials of the Earls of Haddington (1889); The Melvilles, Earls of Melville, and the Leslies, Earls of Leven (1890); The Sutherland Book (1892); The Annandale Family Book of the Johnstones (1894); and The Elphinstone Family Book of the Johnstones (1897).

A WWI Victory medal to R S Thompson BRC & SJJ plus Long Service Constable medal and sports medal

HULME, F. Edward. Familiar Wild Flowers, first series with coloured plates , attractive half-calf set, each volume has some spotting in places, some bumping/rubbing at boards, London: Cassell, 1898. (5) _DIXON, Charles. Our Favourite Songbirds, London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897._ The Grouse in Health and in Disease, London: Smith, Elder & co., 1912._WHITE, Rev. Gilbert. The Natural History of Selbourne, re-backed attractive half-calf, Edinburgh: Constable, 1829_PRESTON, Rev. T. A. The Flowering Plants of Wilts, FIRST ed., Wiltshire: Natural History Society, 1888._WOOD, J. G. The Common Moths of England._LUBBOCK, Sir J. The Senses of Animals, full-calf, 1889._HALLAM, Henry. View of the State of Europe During the Middle-Ages, 6th ed., very attractive full-calf, London: John Murray, 1834. (3) _Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, 2nd ed., original cloth, 1893._EVANS, John. The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain, 2nd revised ed., London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897._TROUSSEAU, Armand. Trait Pratique de la Phthisie Laryngee, FIRST French ed., later attractive binding, Paris: Bailliare, 1837._ DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches, 8th ed., attractive half-calf, some spotting, London: John Murray, 1890._DARWIN, Charles. The Origin of Species, popular impression, London: John Murray, 1902._DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, London: John Murray, 1901._ADAM, Alexander. Roman Antiquities, 10th ed. corrected, attractive contemporary full-calf, London: T. Caddell, 1825._BOMPAS, George. C. Life of Frank Buckland, original attractive binding, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1886 (22)

BAKER III, James A. The Politics of Diplomacy, FIRST ed., SIGNED author's dedication to Howe at title page, Howe bookplate, some light spotting at text-block edges, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995._ISAACSON, Walter and THOMAS, Evan. The Wise Men, Howe bookplate, page corners turned by Howe at personal points of interest, rubbing/wear at d.j. edges, New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986._HOPPER, Kenneth and HOPPER, William. The Puritan Gift, SIGNED author's dedication to Howe at title page, Howe's page markers at personal points of interest, near fine, New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008._SHULTZ, George P. Turmoil and Triumph, FIRST ed., SIGNED author's inscription to Elspeth Howe at ffep, near-fine with slight marking at text-block edges, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993._MEYER, Christopher. DC Confidential, SIGNED author's dedication to the Howes at ffep, Howe's page markers at places of personal interest, near-fine with slight dirt spots, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005._DASH, Samuel. The Untold Story of Watergate, SIGNED author's dedication to the Howe's at ffep, Dash was a lawyer who became famous as Counsel for the Senate during the Watergate trial, some spotting around edges of text-block, toning to d.j., New York: Random House, 1976._HOWARTH, David and HOWARTH, Stephen. The Story of P&O, Howe bookplate, near-fine with some toning at spine and rubbing to slipcase, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986._Survey of London, volume XIV: The Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, 4to, Howe bookplate, some toning at edges, London: B. T. Batsford, 1932._KING, Geoffrey. The Traditional Architecture of Saudi Arabia, 4to, SIGNED author's dedication to Howe at ffep, scarce, near fine, v. light spotting head of text-block, London, I. B. Tauris, 1998._ Georgia O'Keeffe. Art and Letters, 4to, tipped-in Signed gift inscription from James A. Baker III on US Seal headed paper, Howe bookplate, light spotting at edges, New York: NYGS, 1989._ KENNEDY, J. F. Profiles in Courage, no d.j., some toning/rubbing: London: Hamish Hamilton, c. 1956._HARVEY, Robert. Global Disorder, Howe's page markers at personal points of interest, near-fine, London: Constable, 2003 (12) From the library of Geoffrey and Elspeth Howe. Geoffrey Howe (1926-2015) held two of the Great Offices of State in the UK Government: Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary. He also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons. His prominent position in UK politics in the 1980s and 1990s meant he had a profound influence over domestic, and international, policy making during a turbulent and historic era. His wife Elspeth Howe (1932-2022) also worked in politics, and later became a crossbench Member of the House of Lords serving as Baroness Howe of Idlicote.

JONES, Barbara. 5 books and 3 few greetings cards. Follies & Grottoes, 1953 First Edition, London Constable. A Partridge in a pear tree, Neville Braybrooke, illustrated by Barbara Jones, 1960 First Edition. Water-Colour Painting, London Adam and Charles Black, 1960. And two others [8]

T F DALE "The Eigth Duke of Beaufort and The Badminton Hunt", published Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd London 1901, tooled and gilded clothboard bound, together with one volume "The Duke of Beaufort's Hunt Statement of Accounts and List of Subscribers, etc. Season 1969-70" and one volume "Verderer's Map of The Beaufort Hunt"

Andreas Schelfhout (Dutch, 1787-1870) A winter landscape at sunset with windmills and skaters signed lower left 'A. Schelfhout' oil on canvas 51 x 66cm Provenance: Recorded in an inventory of items belonging to the present vendor's family in 1888, Thence by descent Schelfhout was a principal figure of the Romantic movement in Holland and the idyllic atmosphere of the present picture demonstrates why he became known as the ‘Claude Lorrain of winter scenes’.Despite this idealism and lack of topographical accuracy, the artist’s compositions were formulated from various individual elements that he’d directly observed from nature. Indeed, Schelfhout was a great advocate of en plein air sketching and travelled to England in 1835 to study the work of John Constable. This, combined with his great technical skill, meant that Schelfhout’s work retained a fidelity to nature reminiscent of the great Dutch Golden Age masters who likewise influenced him.The artist himself was hugely influential, teaching and inspiring the next generation of Dutch landscapists such as Charles Leickert and Johan-Barthold Jongkind. The painting is executed in oil on a canvas support which has been lined. The canvas is in a good condition overall with good tension and no undulations. The paint layers have been well preserved and delicate areas of impasto are still crisp. There are localised areas of overpaint, finely applied and well matched, mainly covering stress and age cracks in the sky as well as a few localised areas in the foreground. The varnish is clear, even and glossy.

Follower of John Constable A figure before cottages in a wooded landscape, a church spire beyondthe reverse inscribed 'To Lucas / from / Constable / Proof' and also bearing the name of Samuel Rogersoil on board20 x 27cmIt is likely that the inscriptions to the reverse allude to the engraver, David Lucas (1802-1881) and the art collector, Samuel Rogers (1763-1855).

Law - Justice of the Peace to include: Nelson (W.) The Office and Authority of a Justice of the Peace, London: Eliz. Nutt for J. Walthoe et al., 1718, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label, title in red and black, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements; The Justice's Case Law, London: for James Lacy et al., 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label; Higgs (Joseph) A Guide to Justices being modern English Precedents, London: for C. Ward et al., 1734, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label, 1 page publisher's advertisements, half title; [Anon] The Universal Officer of Justice, London: for John Rooke, 1730, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label; Jacob (Giles) The Modern Justice: Containing the Business of a Justice of Peace in all its Parts, London: for B. Lintot, 1720, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements; Blackerby (Samuel), The First Part of the Justice of Peace his Companion, London: for J. Walthoe, 1730, 16mo, full calf; J[acob] (G[iles]), The Compleat Parish Officer, London: for Bernard Lintot, 1726, 12mo, full calf, 4 pages of publisher's advertisements; Shaw (Joseph) Parish Law, London: for F. Cogan, 1733, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label; Shaw (Joseph) The Practical Justice of Peace ... in two volumes, London: for Thomas Ward, 1728, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label, two volumes, one page of publisher's advertisements preceding title; Burn (Richard and John) The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer ... in four volumes, London: for T. Cadell, 1788, 8vo, full calf with red morocco title label, four volumes, sixteenth edition, bookplates for Lord Sandys, with tipped in handwritten notes relating to the 'Constable of the Parish of Ombersley' and a larger leaf regarding 'some imperfections in the sixteenth edition of Burn's Justice' (14)Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Scott (Sir Walter) to include Rokeby; A Poem in Six Cantos, Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., 1813, 4to, half title, marbled endpapers, decorative speckled calf with gilt tooled spine, red morocco title label and coronet and monogram for Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire; The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857, 8vo, three volumes, full calf, marbled edges; Tales of my Landlord, Fourth and Last Series, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832, 8vo, four volumes, half calf and marbled boards; Peveril of the Peak, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1822, 8vo, half calf and marbled boards, The Lady of the Lake, Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co, 1810, third edition, full calf, monogram for Mary Hill, Marchioness of Downshire; and one other (14)Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Robinson, William Heath (illus): Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, Published By Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1914, twelve tipped-in colour plates and thirty-two monochrome illustrations, black leather spine over black pictorial cloth boards, 4to. (1)Light spotting throughout.

Rackham, Arthur (illus): The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Mrs. Edgar Lucas, London, Constable and Company, 1909, This Edition is Limited to 750 numbered and signed copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland no. 494, half title, 40 tipped-in coloured plates., black & white illustrations, heads & tails uncut, original vellum with loose ties, bookplate for Walter Seawell Ward, large 4to. (1)stains to boards (see images), ties loose but present, spotting to edges but contents generally good.

Royal Navy fiction and non-fiction, sixteen volumes: BELLOC, Hilaire - The Cruise of the Nona (Constable & Co 1925) CHALMERS, William Scott - The Life and Letters of David Beatty (Hodder and Stoughton 1951) MONSARRAT, Nicholas - HMS Marlborough will Enter Harbour (Cassell 1952, illustrated by James Holland) MONSARRAT, Nicholas - The Cruel Sea (Cassell & Co 1951) DORLING, Taprell ('Taffrail') - A Little Ship (Chambers) DUMAS, Alexander - On Board the Emma (Ernest Benn 1929) BROOKES, Ewart - Proud Waters (Jarrolds 1954) FORRESTER, C.S. - The Ship (Michael Joseph 1943) WYLLIE, W.l., & WREN, M.F. - Sea Fights of the Great War (Cassell & Co Ltd 1918) RICHMOND, H.W. - Naval Warfare (Ernest Benn Ltd 1930) DORLING, Taprell ('Taffrail') - Men o' War (Philip Allan & co Ltd 1929) with the bookplate of Mark Everard Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham LOWIS, Geoffrey - Fabulous Admirals (Putnam 1959) MARDER, Arthur J. - From the Dardanelles to Oran (OUP 1974) FIELD, Cyril - The British Navy Book (Blackie & Son) MATTINGLY Garrett - The Defeat of the Spanish Armada (Reprint Society 1961) SCHURMAN,  DM - The Education of a Navy (Cassell 1965)

Twenty-four volumes, mostly non-fiction and to include military and history: FITCHETT, W.H. - Deeds that Won the Empire (Smith Elder & Co. 1898) WOLFF, Leon - In Flanders Fields (Longmans Green 1960) FLEMING, Peter - The Siege at Peking (Readers Union 1960) FLEMING, Peter - The Sixth Column (Rupert Hart-Davis 1951) STORRS, Ronald - Orientations (Nicholson & Watson 1945) CONNELL. Brian - The Plains of Abraham (Hodder & Stoughton 1960) FARWELL, Byron -  The Great Boer War (Alan Lane 1977) BRYANT, Arthur - Years of Victory 1802-1812 (Reprint Society) OMAN, Carola - Britain Against Napoleon (Faber & Faber 1942) BARNES, J.S. - Half a Life Left (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1937) CARSON, Rachel - The Edge of the Sea (Staples Press 1955) GUEDALLA, Philip - Palmerston (Ernest Benn Ltd. 1926) Lonsdale Library Vol XVII - Sea Fishing (Seeley Service) SPENCER CHAPMAN, S. - The Jungle is Neutral (Chatto & Windus 1950) WAVELL, Archibald - Allenby in Egypt (George G. Harrap & Co. 1943) MORAN, Lord - The Anatomy of Courage (Constable 1945) (two copies) ALDINGTON - All Men are Enemies (Heinneman 1934 pocket ed.) HARRISON, William - Elizabethan England (Scott Library) DE CHAIR, Somerset - (Faber & Faber 1943) TILLOTSON, H.M. - Finland at Peace and War (Michael Russell 1993) JACKSON, Holbrook - The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear (Faber & Faber 1952) CYPRYS, Ruth Altbeker - A Jump for Life (Constable 1997) SMART, Bolase - The Technique of Seascape Painting (Isaac Pitman & Sons 1946) JORDAN, Roger W. - Merchant Fleets 1939 (Chatham Publishing 1999)

Grimm's Fairy Tales.The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.Constable, 1909, first thus, forty mounted colour plates after Arthur Rackham (one lacking tissue guard, thirteen with corner creasing, one loose, two with loose tissue guards), lacking front free endpaper, worn original cloth gilt.

Swift (Jonathan).The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ....Edinburgh: Archibald Constable ..., 1824, eighteen of nineteen volumes (lacking volume 11), portrait frontis, lemon edges, calf gilt bindings by Riviere. (18)A little foxing in places. Armorial bookplate and bookseller's description to front pastedown of volume 1. No inscriptions found. Bindings slightly dull and rubbed/scuffed in places. Top edges dust marked. Not collated. All boards firmly attached.

A QUEEN ANNE WALNUT EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCKGEORGE WENTWORTH, OXFORD, CIRCA 1715The four finned pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch square brass dial with calendar dial and subsidiary seconds dial to the matted centre, within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with fleur-de-lys half hour markers, Arabic five minutes beyond the outer minute track and signed George Wentworth, Oxon, to lower margin, with scroll-pierced blued steel hands and female mask and scroll cast spandrels within a herringbone engraved outer border, the case with ogee moulded cornice and plain frieze over glazed dial aperture to the hinged front applied with three-quarter columns to the front angles, the sides with rectangular glazed apertures and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear continuing up past the frieze to meet the underside of the cornice, the trunk with concave throat moulding over 42 inch rectangular quarter-veneered door with herringbone banded border and caddy edge moulding, the rectangular plinth base with cavetto upper moulding over herringbone bordered book-match veneered panel within crossbanded surround, on cross-grain moulded skirt.223.5cm (88ins) high, 52cm (20.5ins) wide, 28cm (11ins) deep. George Wentworth of Oxford is recorded in Loomes, Brian Clockmakers of Britain 1286-1700 as baptised at St. Thomas's in Salisbury in 1690 the youngest son of the well-known Salisbury clockmaker Thomas Wentworth senior. He was apprenticed through the Clockmakers' Company to John Knibb of Oxford in 1706 gaining his freedom the same year he married in Dinah Mose 1713. In addition to being a clockmaker George Wentworth was also a goldsmith who served as constable for a year in 1715, then Councillor in 1719 and Mayor's Chamberlain in 1727. In 1730 he repaired the Christ Church Cathedral clock and purchased a property there in 1738. He was appointed senior Bailiff that year and was the Fairmaster from 1740-43. He died in 1746/7. Condition Report: Movement is in relatively clean working condition with no visible evidence of alteration or noticeable replacements. There is some historic rebushing and light hammering around one of the movement pillar fixing points on the backplate, and a gentle clean/service is advised if intending to put into long term service. The dial is in fine condition with only slight oxidation to the silvering; hands appear original and undamaged. The movement rests on what appears to the original seatboard at the correct level in the case with no visible evidence of adjustments to the cheek uprights of the case. With this in mind we are of the opinion that the movement and dial are original to the case. The case is generally in good original condition. The slips applied to the rear of the quarter columns of the hood are later additions and there is some slight bowing to the sides and movement to the trunk door surround. The left-hand hood glass is broken. Faults to the case are otherwise limited to historic scuffing, shrinkage and a few localised veneer repairs and some variance within the colour (most noticeably towards the lower part of the base).Clock is complete with pendulum, two weights, case key and winder. Condition Report Disclaimer

Douglas (Sir Robert), THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND; CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE GENTRY OF THAT KINGDOM, first edition, full leather, embossed decoration to boards, marbled edges to block, marbled endpapers, laid paper, Bell & Bradfute et al, Edinburgh 1798; with Douglas (Sir Robert) and Wood (John P.), THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND: CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE NOBILITY OF THAT KINGDOM, FROM THEIR ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT GENERATION, second edition, 2 vols, full leather, matching embossed decoration to boards, marbled edges to blocks, marbled endpapers, Archibald Constable And Co, Edinburgh 1813 (3) (at fault)

Stewart (David), SKETCHES OF THE CHARACTER, MANNERS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND [...], third edition, 2 vols, 3/4 red leather, marbled boards, gilt embossed titles and decoration to spine, foldout map to vol I, Archibald Constable and Co, Edinburgh 1825 (2) (at fault)

Lightfoot (John). Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement in the Linnaean Method of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: printed for J. Dickson, G. Mudie and others, 1792, additional engraved titles, 35 engraved plates, a few folding (one or two small tears along folds), some offsetting and spotting, modern cloth, 8vo, together with Hooker (William Jackson). Flora Scotica: or a description of Scottish plants, arranged both according to the artificial and natural methods, 2 parts in one, 1st edition, London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821, occasional light spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, plus The Flora of Uig (Lewis). A Botanical Exploration, edited by M. S. Campbell, Arbroath, 1945 (2 copies)QTY: (5)