Polar Regions. Map of the Polar Regions, Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co, 1822, engraved map by W.H. Lizars, some light spotting and offsetting, closed tear to inner fold, 420 x 410 mm, together with Scott (Robert Falcon). 'Farthest South', pamphlet advertising public lecture by Scott at The Dome, Brighton, circa 1905, 4pp., 3 black and white illustrations after photographs, map of the South Pole, two central folds, light spotted (mostly confined to margins), 8vo, plus Evans (Edward). Souvenir of Lecture "The British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913", Bristol: Geo, Gordon & Son, [1913], map of the Antarctic Regions to title, black and white illustrations after photographs throughout, original grey paper wrappers, black and white portrait of Scott mounted to front cover, 8voQTY: (3)
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Half A Crown by Jo Walton Softback Book 2008 First Edition published by Constable & Robinson Ltd some ageing good condition. Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
A SILVER MOUNTED ABALONE SHELL TAZZAColeridge Collection, ModernMarked for St. James House Company, London, 1984, the shell supported by trumpet blowing cherub caryatid, 15.5cm highProvenanceTheAnthony & Marietta Coleridge CollectionA gift from John and Guy Chichester-Constable, BurtonConstable.
A FINE AND RARE GEORGE II GILT BRASS MOUNTED EBONISED QUARTER-STRIKING TABLE CLOCKHENRY HINDLEY, YORK, MID 18th CENTURYThe six distinctive double-baluster turned pillar twin chain fusee movement with arched plates measuring 10.25 by 6 inches enclosing greatwheels fitted to the narrow ends of the fusee cones, the going train incorporating perpendicular contrate drive from the centre-wheel to the escapement positioned at the apex of the plates, now with deadbeat escapement incorporating Brocot-type pallets positioned between the dial and the front plate (behind a shaped bridge) and regulated by half-seconds lenticular bob pendulum swinging to the rear, the two-in-one quarter-striking train incorporating single rack for both hours and the quarters utilising a standard snail arrangement to set the count for the former, and a second three-tooth rack stop lever (acting on a pin set in the hour rack arm) to control the latter, sounding on a graduated pair of bells with the hour on the larger and the quarters on both via dedicated hammers (incorporating Hindley's distinctive 'L' shaped springs) driven by the same pin wheel with automatic positioning via lateral pump action facilitating disengagement of the quarter hammers and engagement of third single hour hammer leading up to the hour, the backplate applied with an additional second plate finely engraved with asymmetric scrolling foliage around a central circular cartouche signed Hen. Hindley, of YORK flanked by Ho-Ho bird, lion and grotesque mask inhabited strapwork, the 7 inch arched brass dial with richly matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral dial with Arabic five minutes to outer track and signed H. Hindley, York to lower edge, with scroll-pierced steel hands and lambrequin mask centred scroll cast spandrels, the upper margin with Strike quar's/Hr/Silent selection beneath arch centred with a subsidiary seconds dial flanked by female sphinx inhabited scroll cast mounts, the plate further applied with raised ogee border mouldings incorporating architectural cavetto 'capitals' and keystone details, the ebonised bell-top case with hinged brass carrying handle and pineapple finials over complex top mouldings and arch-glazed hinged front incorporating generous gilt fillet moulding to dial aperture, foliate scroll cast gilt upper quadrant frets and applied with female term mounts to uprights, the sides with arched brass fish scale sound frets and the rear with rectangular glazed door set within the frame of the case, on stepped ogee moulded skirt base.48cm (19ins) high with handle down, 27.5cm (10.75ins) wide, 18.5cm (7.25ins) deep.Henry Hindley was born in Great Harwood, near Blackburn, Lancashire 1699, little is known about his early life, however by the mid 1720's he was making clocks in Wigan where he repaired the church clock in 1726. Hindley moved with his young family (including his son, Joseph born 1728) to the prosperous city of York where, after making clocks for the Mansion House and Guildhall, he gained his Freedom of the city in 1732. Hindley s talents were such that he equipped his workshop with tools of his own design including an important dividing and wheel cutting engine, a screw cutting lathe and a fusee engine. As well as domestic clocks Hindley received commissions for several turret clocks including York Minster and supplied a range of scientific instruments including two important equatorial telescopes for the Duke of Norfolk and William Constable. By the 1760 s Hindley s health had deteriorated to the extent that an ever-increasing proportion of the business was handled by his son Joseph. Henry died in 1771 with his son and successor Joseph unfortunately dying just three years later in 1774, before he had had the opportunity to stamp his own mark on the family firm. According to the late Rodney Law, of Hindley's work only around 15 'spring clocks' are known versus around 40 longcases (see Law, R.J. HENRY HINDLEY OF YORK 1701-1771, PART II - published as an excerpt by The Antiquarian Horological Society). Law writes that of the examples seen by him all except one have half-seconds pendulums, all but three seconds hands and the majority have maintaining power. All also have the same distinctive design of double baluster pillar following those possibly first seen on Hindley's longcase clock of 1742 suggesting that he did not start making spring clocks until after that date. The use of fusees with the large ends positioned frontwards was to reduce the degree of friction at the larger front pivot which, with the standard design, was most apparent after winding. Further refinements include 'kneed' springs (of right-angled 'L' form), and two-in-one quarter-striking using the same rack for both the quarters and the hours. Indeed it is noted by Rodney Law that the latter detail has similarities with French work suggesting that Hindley was either well-read, having studied the works of makers such as Thiout, or was kept abreast of French work by his 'ingenious Jesuit friend'The positioning of the escapement behind a bridge towards the apex of the arch of the frontplate (driven via a vertically pivoted arbor with contrate wheels), is again typical of Hindley's work and allows space for a half-second pendulum to be installed in a standard-sized table clock as well as the provision of subsidiary seconds to the arch of the dial. Indeed when fitted with his form of deadbeat escapement Hindley's table clocks would have been very good timekeepers, hence the provision of a seconds dial will be very worthwhile. In addition to these refinements the wheel train of the current clock is very finely executed with pinion counts of eight or above which, again, ensures fine accurate running. A clock by Hindley with very similar design and layout to the current movement is illustrated and described in Darken, Jeff (editor) TIME & PLACE, English Country Clocks 1600-1840 on pages 150-53.The separately engraved backplate fitted to the present clock is highly unusual. The decoration is finely executed by an accomplished engraver and can be firmly placed within the category of 'vine engraving 1740-1770' discussed in Dzik, Sunny ENGRAVING ON ENGLISH TABLE CLOCKS, Art on a Canvas of Brass 1660-1800 on pages 337-358. Indeed the quality of the engraving, both in its up-to-date sophisticated design and highly accomplished execution, would suggest that it was executed in London. It is therefore most probable that Hindley sent the plate to London to be engraved as a separate entity from the movement and fitted it over the plain backplate on completion of the mechanism. PLEASE SEE THE ONLINE 'PAGE-TURNING' CATALOGUE FOR THE REMAINING TEXT OF THIS FOOTNOTE.
AN UNUSUAL WILLIAM IV POLICEMAN'S TRUNCHEON/STABBING STICK with painted shaft inscribed in gilt WR IV Special Constable47cm overall Some loss to the paint around the top of the truncheon and also where it meets the handle, also two fine splits app. 15cm long. Extra images have been uploaded.
(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twenty Years in the Himalaya', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map, folding b/w photographic panoramic plate depicting Eastern Himalaya, 59 b/w. photographic plates, 335pp, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original pictorial cloth gilt. An account of the author's explorations in the Himalayan districts, Bruce travelled extensively in the Himalayas accompanying William Conway, and later led the early Mount Everest 1922 and 1924 Expeditions; together with Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841-1887): 'The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. edited by Alex B. W. Kennedy', Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1902, 1st trade edition, portrait frontis + 21 photographic plates + 20 chapter head piece photographs & 10 maps of which 2 full page, as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original olive green cloth gilt. Moore's celebrated account of the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge; together with Sir William Martin Conway: 'The Alps From End to End', Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895, 1st edition, 100 full-page coloured illustrations by A.D. McCormick as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and inkstamp to FFEP only, original cloth gilt (worn), top edge gilt (3)
Sale Particulars for East Barsham Manor, 1938, 'An Original and Exceptional Example of Tudor Domestic Architecture, East Barsham Manor, Walsingham...Dating from the reign of King Henry VII...Probably the Finest and Earliest Example of Tudor Architecture in England...', Constable & Maude and Andrews & Dewing, 23rd July 1938, [12]pp, 7 tipped in photographic illustrations as called for, oblong 4to, original wraps, top wrap with mounted photographic illustration (photo a/f). From the collection of Father Peter Harris
Harry Craddock: 'The Savoy Cocktail Book', London, (Constable and Company, 1930, 1st edition, illustrations and decorations printed in black and colours throughout by Gilbert Rumbold, contemporary gift inscription to half title, front pasted down/FFEP with scribbling/soiling, inner joint weak, original cloth backed art deco texturized boards in black, gold and green (rubbed/slightly worn)
R V BECKETT (ED): 2 titles: JOHN CONSTABLE'S CORRESPONDENCE, Suffolk Records Society, 1965-68, vols 3-6, 2 copies of vol 6; JOHN CONSTABLE'S DISCOURSES, Suffolk Records Society, 1970, all vols original cloth, d/ws + LESLIE PARRIS, CONAL SHIELDS AND IAN FLEMING-WILLIAMS (EDS): JOHN CONSTABLE FURTHER DOCUMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE, The Tate Gallery and The Suffolk Records Society, 1975, 2 vols, original cloth, (8)
NO RESERVE Swift (Jonathan) The Works of Jonathan Swift, and A Life of the Author, 19 vol., second edition, bookplates to pastedown, occasional light spotting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed and faded, Edinburgh, for Archibald Constable, 1824 § Johnson (Samuel) and George Stevens. Annotations Upon King John by William Shakespeare, engraved frontispiece, later ink ownership name to front free endpaper, lightly stained, for John Bell, 1787; and a large quantity of others, literature, v.s. (10 boxes)
LNER Police cape; indistinctly dated 1943(?); York & North East Yorkshire Police belted tunic; belted tunic with Chief Constable epaulettes and buttons; and another tunic with staybrite Queens Crown buttons (4)Condition Report:Condition varies depending on age but generally consistent with age and use.Cape lacking buttons and worn at collar.
Antique oval silver 2 handled tray by Charles Stuart Harris with retailers marks for Depree Raeburn & Young (Exeter) inscribed with the Exeter city crest and presented by the justices of the city to John Short Chief Constable Exeter 1901.. 46cm x 26cm & 822g ~ he was Chief Constable for Exeter 1893-1901
Orange Wednesday by Leslie Thomas 1979 edition unknown Hardback Book published by Constable and Company Ltd some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Bramshill Being the Memoirs of Joan Penelope Cope 1938 First Edition Hardback Book published by Constable and Co Ltd some ageing good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Endocrinology.- Wharton (Thomas) Adenographia: sive glandularum totius corporis descriptio, third edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and ornaments, with the final blank, modern bookplate of Victor A.Schwarz, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, splits to joints, spine ends and corners worn, Nijmegen, Andreas ab Hoogenhuyse, 1664 § Malpighi (Marcello) Opera posthuma, second Continental edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black with slip reading "MDCXVIII" pasted over date at foot, 19 folding engraved plates, some a little browned, engraved bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq. F.R.S. & F.A.S., lacking front free endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, a little rubbed, [Wellcome IV, 38], Amsterdam, 1700, 12mo & 4to (2)⁂ The first mentioned is the first thorough account of the glands of the human body; the second contains Malpighi's important work on the glands De structura glandularum conglobatorum consimiiumque partium epistola.
Ascension Island FDC 50th Anniv End of WW11 Signed by 13 all involved in WW11 8th May 1995 FDI Ascension Island Special Postmark set of 4 Ascension island 50th Anniv End of WW11 Stamps. Personally Signed by Alan W Gear 32 Hurricane Sqn, Battle of Britain fighter pilot. Sqn Ldr Lewis Brandon DSO, DFC and Bar Night Fighter Ace and author of the book Night Flyer 141 - 157 - 488 Sqn's Avis Hearn awarded M M for Bravery during Battle of Britain whilst under stuka attack on poling radar station Aug 1940. Richard Haine No 25(F) Sqn 4 Sep 1939 First Blenheim fighter patrol of War. Also 600 Sqn Battle of Britain pilot Anthony John Gledhill George Cross Holder, He was serving as a constable in the Metropolitan Police Force at the time. His partner, Constable Terry McFall, won the George Cross for the same action. They were on patrol when they were ordered to chase a car driving the wrong way down a one-way street. Fifteen shots were fired at their police car during the ensuing chase. The criminals' car crashed into a lorry, and they attacked the police officers, who were trying to arrest them. Both police officers were injured in the confrontation but managed to subdue the men until assistance arrived. Sqn Ldr J G P Millard Nos 1 and 242 Squadrons Battle of Britain fighter pilot. Edward Kenna Victoria Cross holder 2/4th (N. S. W. )Australian Military Forces. Won VC 1945 in New Guinea. was the last living Australian Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces Bill' Weatherley MM of the 'S. O. E' (Special Operations Executive ) Plt Off Peter Ayerst who achieved confirmed victories in the Battle of Britain and not eligible for the Battle of Britain Clasp John Keatings 219 Sqn Battle of Britain Air Gunner. Daphne Pearson GC Holder (25 May 1911, - 25 July 2000,) was an English Women's Auxiliary Air Force NCO and later officer during World War 11 and one of only thirteen women recipients of the George Cross to date, the highest medal for gallantry not in the face of an enemy that can be awarded to a citizen of the UK. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Welsh Costume. Rock & Co. (publishers), Welsh Costumes, 1853, twelve uncoloured engravings, slight spotting, publisher's embossed paper wrappers, oblong 8vo, binding size 105 x 180 mm, together with Humphreys (Hugh, publisher). Welsh Costumes, Taken on a Market Day in Wales, circa 1845, lithograph with contemporary hand-colouring, slight spotting to the margins, some creasing, 270 x 340 mm, with another unattributed coloured lithograph titled 'Welsh Costumes', thread margins, 280 x 360 mm, plus Rolfe (A. F.). Sally Jones, Bwlch Hill near Crickhowel (sic), Aged 105 April 10th 1846, hand-coloured lithograph, repaired marginal closed tears to the lower margin, 350 x 260 mm, and Clark (J.). Welch Beggar Woman, A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1815, uncoloured aquatint printed in sepia, 175 x 110 mm, mounted, with another two hand-coloured engravings and a reproduction from the Rock & Co, series, each approximately 110 x 110 mmQTY: (8)
Scott (Walter). Waverley Novels, 55 volumes, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable/Robert Cadell, 1816-32, including Guy Mannering, 3 volumes,1st edition, 1815, some half-titles lacking, lightly spotted with occasional dust-soiling, contemporary red half calf gilt, morocco labels, top edge gilt, raised bands, gilt foliate devices to 4 spine compartments, extremities rubbed with occasional slight loss, 8voThe Works, 51 volumes, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1819-33, engraved vignettes to titles, lightly spotted and dust-soiled, a few volumes with occasional damp stains, contemporary green half calf gilt, red morocco labels, all edges marbled, raised bands finished in gilt, slightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with:QTY: (106)
Goldberg (Norman L.). John Crome the Elder, 2 volumes, 1st edition, New York: University Press, 1978, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, tear to the head of the front cover of volume 1, minor rubbing to head & foot, large 8vo, together with:Reynolds (Graham), The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, 2 volumes, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable, 2 volumes, 1st edition: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1996, both with numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, all original cloth in dust jackets, large 8vo, plusNicholson (Benedict), Joseph Wright of Derby [Studies In British Art], 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets & slipcase, covers slightly rubbed with some minor tears, large 4to, and 11 further volumes British artist reference, 8vo/4toQTY: (19)
Nansen (Fridtjof). Farthest North, 1st edition, London Archibald Constable and Company, 1897, portrait frontispiece to volume 1, 3 folding maps (out of 4), numerous black and white illustrations, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, lightly spotted, original pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with:Scott (Robert F). The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 1st edition, 2nd impression, London: John Murray, 1905, black and white frontispieces, numerous black and white illustrations, lightly spotted, original purple cloth gilt, gilt pictorial medallions to front boards, spines faded, rubbed, 8vo, withBrögger (W.C. & Nordahl Rolfsen). Fridtiof Nansen, 1861-1893, London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1896, black and white portrait frontispiece, numerous black and white illustrations, ownership sticker to front pastedown, original blue pictorial cloth, marked and rubbed, 8vo QTY: (5)
A WWI pair to 'Capt WE R Gilmore': together with Special Constabulary Faithful Service and Long Service medals to '8985 Pte Forsyth 2/V B. Manchester Regt' also a miniature SC Long Service medal, an enamel City of Manchester Special Constable badge, a WWII German Civilian War Merit Cross and a Brazilian 8pdr shell case, inscribed 'Revolcao. S.Paulo 5-27 Julho 1924'
Automobilia - Beaumont (W. Worby), Motor Vehicles and Motors, their Design, Construction and Working by Steam, Oil and Electricity, Westminster: Archibald Constable & Company Ltd, 1900, illustrated with b/w full-page plates and in-text illustrations, original cloth, large 4to, (1); further motor car interest, engineering and mechanics; medicine; various decorative cloth bindings, etc., [13]
Bernard Shaw (George): The Works, 22 volumes only (of 33), copy number 384/1,000, first limited edition thus, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1930-1938, original dustjacket over "Celadon Green Jade" by Douglas Cockerell (unsigned), 8vo, (22); further volumes of works, but from the Standard Edition, 8vo, (14); various first editions of Shaw's works, including some illustrated by Topolski; etc., [48]Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Literature - Edwardian, Modern First Editions, and later novels, including Hudson (Stephen): Tony, first edition, London, Constable & Co. Ltd, 1924, original pictorial dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo, (1), [&] The Other Side, first edition, London: The Cresset Press Ltd, 1937, original pictorial dustjacket over green cloth, 8vo, (1); Irish Murdoch, pictorial dustjackets, (2); Hugh Walpole, various titles, some first editions; South American Romances, 1930, d/j, h/b, 8vo, (1); Pearl Buck; Theodore Dreiser; etc., [approx. 95] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
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Wells (H.G.): The New World Order [...], first edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1940 [i.e., 1939], original cloth only, 8vo, (1); The First Men in the Moon, first edition, fifth impression, London: Macmillan and Co., 1925, rare in dustjacket, original blue cloth, 8vo, (1); The Fate of Homo Sapiens, first edition, London: Secker and Warburg, 1939, pictorial dustjacket over cloth, 8vo, (1); A Year of Prophesying, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1924, blue cloth, 8vo, (1); New Worlds for Old, first edition, London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908, red cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); others, mostly first editions, [19] Provenance: the Chandos-Pole family, removed from the Library of Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
Crime and Punishment - Police History - Social Commentary - an archive of Victorian and Edwardian arrest warrants, Borough of Leicester, printed and inscribed in ink MS, including Warrant on Disobedience of Summons...that on 19th day of June 1880 Elizabeth Taylor did unlawfully assault and beat Mary Smith...signed by Mayor, John Bennett; Warrant for Assault on a Constable....Robert Collins 15th September 1892; John William Bertram, Book keeper ...then being servant to Alouicious Cooke and others did receive into his possesion the sum of nine poundsnine shillings for and on account of his said masters and did fraudulently and feloniously embezzle the same..seventeenth day of January 1872; others, assault, abandonment of family; allowing a premises to be used for habitual prostitution; obstructions and nuisances in the street; others (20)
DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND, MACCULLOCH (J.),pub. Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh; Hurst & Robinson Co., London, 1819, volume three with thirty-three engraved plates and ten coloured maps, in 20th century quarter calf with marbled boards (3 vols.)These volumes have been attractively rebound in tan calf and marbled boards; Boards domsiplay wear and tear, all have had stickers to front covers lower right corners which have left their marks, corners cut and edges with wear; Page edges ruffled, pages are somewhat wavy; Tear to lower right title page of Vol 3; Vol 3 does display foxing and browning to both pages and plates to varying degrees; additional images illustratratuve of general condition available
ARTHUR (CAPT SIR GEORGE) THE STORY OF THE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY Signed copy, Archibald Constable & Co, London 1909, 2 vol, with presentation inscription to George Nathan dated 1909, also with a letter from Arthur to Nathan on Carlton Club headed paper pasted in, and a Spy caricature of Arthur previously pasted to endpapers, now loose, blue cloth bindings with gilt cavalry banners Condition: Condition Report Shelf and age related wear, particularly to spines and corners, foxing in places to paper edges on both volumes, and end papers, browning to the papers at margins and edges, further general wear This is an auction of preowned and antique items. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and you should expect general wear and tear commensurate with age and use. We strongly advise you to examine items before you bid. Condition reports are provided as a goodwill gesture and are our general assessment of damage and restoration. Whilst care is taken in their drafting, they are for guidance only. We will not be held responsible for oversights concerning damage or restoration.
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