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Tasso (Torquato). Aminta, Favola Boscareccia di Torquato Tasso con le annotationi d'Egidio Menagio, Paris: Augustin Curbe, 1655, title with engraved vignette, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, 2 printed leaves of errata present at end, armorial bookplate of F.E. Sotheby Ecton to front pastedown, contemporary full calf gilt armorial binding of Elizabeth Carey Mordaunt, with her large gilt initials surmounted by a coronet to centre of each cover, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, good-quality 19th century gilt-decorated reback, small 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Elizabeth Carey Mordaunt (1632-1679) married the English royalist John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt on 7th May 1657. Lord Mardaunt (1626-1675) was an ardent supporter of Charles II, and was tried and acquitted of treason by a vote of 20 to 19 in 1658. He was appointed Constable of Windsor Castle and Lord Lieutenant of Surrey following the Restoration, and in 1666 was charged in the House of Commons with the imprisonment of William Taylor, Surveyor of Windsor Castle, and having raped Taylor's daugher. John and Elizabeth had 11 surviving children.

Attributed to JOHN CONSTABLE (1776-1837) "Landscape with Church", oil on paper unsigned indistinctly inscribed in pencil and pen verso, 7.8cm x 10.8cm, inscribed to rear of frame "John Constable XLG Duke Collection...."

A collection of various books to include EARL BATHURST "A History of the VWH Country", published Constable & Co. Limited London 1936, tooled and gilded clothboard bound, together with "The Lonsdale Library - Salmon Fishing Volume X", "The Lonsdale Library Volume VII Fox-Hunting", "A History of The Old Berks Hunt 1760-1904" by F C LODER-SYMONDS and E PERCY CROWDY, one volume THE EARL OF MAYO "A History of the Kildare Hunt", G M TREVELYAN "Illustrated English Social History Vol IV" (6)

AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY SPODE DINNER PLATE, possibly once the property of John Constable RA and a further collection of ceramics and glass

THREE 19TH CENTURY GILT PICTURE FRAMES and an oak picture frame, all from the family of John Constable RA, the latter previously having held a painting by Constable of his family

TWO BOXED CORONATION MEDALS 1937 QUEEN ELIZABETH/GEORGE VI AND 1953 QEII, boxed Festival of Britain medallion, two x gold coloured George VI/QEII medallions, KSLI cap badge, bi-metal, two brass army uniform buttons, five metal collar dogs and an instruction book for a Special Constable, Shrewsbury Borough Police

A pair of silver candlesticks awarded to H.N Knox KNGTT, the head constable of Dover in November 1902 for valued service in the givers mayoralty during a coronation year.

A print after John Constable and similar

A lot comprising a mounted WWI group of four including a 1914 star and a long service and good conduct medal to 1024492 Sjt. R. Constable R.A. with a WWII group of four and a maritime service medal to 1536922 gunner R. L. Constable Condition Report: Available upon request

15 volumes of 'The Works of William Shakespeare' published by Archibald Constable, 1902.

George Bernard Shaw: 'The Works', London, Constable, 1930-1938, limited edition (1,025), 33 volume set, uniform original green cloth gilt (33)

W. Heath Robinson: 'Bill The Minder', London, Constable, 1912, 1st edition, 16 mounted coloured plates as called for, (internally plates and leaves VGC, frontis lacks tissue guard, all others present), 4to, original decorative cloth gilt, mounted coloured illustration to top board

W. Heath Robinson: 'Bill the Minder', Constable, 1912, 1st edition, 16 mounted coloured plates as called for, 4to, original decorative cloth gilt (backstrip slightly discoloured in places), mounted coloured illustration to top board

CONTINENTAL SILVER CASKET, probably Dutch, rectangular form, the hinged cover embossed with a tavern scene, gilt-washed interior, the four-sided panels each decorated with courting and figural scenes, raised on four ball feet, 15cm long (c.13.8oz) Provenance: A descendant of John Constable RA

GENTLEMAN'S PAINTING PALLET AND BRUSHES STOCK PIN, on unmarked yellow metal, in a fitted presentation case, together with three other pieces of jewellery Provenance: A descendant of John Constable RA

ENGLISH SCHOOL, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY Half-length portrait of a young man wearing a green jacket and open shirt, various inscriptions verso, including "Said to be Gainsboro" (sic), oil on canvas, 18cm x 15cm (oval) Provenance: Hugh Golding Constable (1868-1949), the grandson of John Constable RA

CONTINENTAL SCHOOL A bust-length portrait of a lady wearing a silk dress and a feather-plumed hat, oil on canvas, 65.5cm x 54.5cm Provenance: A descendant of John Constable RA

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CRESWICK (1811-1869) Coastal scene with waves rolling over rocks at the foot of the cliffs, oil on panel, 10.5cm x 15cm Provenance: Label verso stating "By Creswick RA, spotted by E.M.C. in an art shop in Harrogate. The art man bought it at Christies. Bought for £3.10 by H.G.C. and given to E.M.C." E.M.C. is Elinor May Constable (1871-1947) and H.G.C. is her husband Hugh Golding Constable (1868-1949), the grandson of John Constable RA A descendant of John Constable RA

Richard Constable (1932-2015), Boathouse, signed and dated Nov. 18th 1995 lower centre, gouache, 27.5 x 37 cm

CAMINADA JEROME.  Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life. 2 vols. Illus. Orig. green cloth gilt, internal browning & spotting. Manchester, 1895; also William Chadwick, Reminiscences of a Chief Constable, Manchester, n.d. & 9 others, true crime & detection.  (12).

ARTHUR WELLSLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, KG, PARCHMENT COMMISSION SIGNED (AS CONSTABLE OF THE TOWER OF LONDON) TO WILLIAM TREW, YEOMAN, 28 FEBRUARY 1843

Pair of Masonic jewels to include an example of second degree impressed Brother Albert Copday by the Silver Owl Lodge No 2761 on 23rd May 1928, hallmarked, suspended by ring and bar onto blue ribbon, together with hallmarked Independent Order of Oddfellows of Manchester Vastey in a presentation case, together with Police Special Constable medal for long service 1941 clasp impressed to Archibald Copday

Follower of John Constable, early 20th century oil on board, extensive landscape, unsigned, 12" x 9", unframed

Constable - a New York Private Collection, by Leslie Parris 1994

After John Constable, The Haywain, contemporary oil painting, on canvas, 61cm x 91cm.

A pair of late-Victorian silver wine tasters, by J and J Maxfield, Sheffield 1896, circular form, swirl fluted decoration, ring handle with an oval thumb-piece, engraved with a crest, length 11.5cm, approx. weight 5.2oz. (2) The crest is that of Constable, Gooch, Gordon, Graham, Greenhaugh and other families.

After John Constable, a black and white engraving by C Cowsen

Four prints, including Constable and Tom Dodson , the latter being signed and blind stamped

1000 Chairs by Charlotte & Peter Fiell, British 19th Century Marine Painting by Denys Brook-Hart, The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Howard Hibbard, Constable by Michael Rosenthal, The Times Complete History of the World and Atlas and Oxford Thesaurus & Dictionary (8) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Three framed & glazed Prints to include; Ltd edition pencil signed to margin "Lo Cole" & numbered 4/20, Oriental study of four nudes & "Death of Constable Scanlon" by Sidney Nolan"

Derbyshire Policing History - an archive relating to the career of Constable 211 R Senior, his notebooks covering the period from 18th May 1958 - 9th May 1965, numerous entries detailing his beats around the Dronfield area, cars stopped, Express Messages regarding wanted assailants, statements (including that of a man arrested for indecent exposure in 1964), a binder relating to Derby County and Borough Constabulary Syllabus C.I.D Course 'A' held at Police Headquarters Matlock, Monday 23rd October 1967 to Friday 10th November 1967, several Crime Intelligence Bulletins, one (August 1967) explaining that 'as a result of the country-wide increase in the use of drugs for 'kicks' by the younger generation a Special Squad has breen established within the Force to deal with this problem. It may not be a major threat in Derbyshire as it is in some areas, but at least we are aware of its potential dangers and we are ready to deal with it'', a Derbyshire Constabulary helmet, buttons, badges, whistle, etc

Miscellaneous - [Galt (John)], George the Third, His Court, and Family, two-volume set, London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1824, stipple-engraved portrait profile frontispieces and full-page plates, contemporary blue straight-grained morocco gilt and blind tooled, the spines further gilt tooled and lettered (rubbed, scuffed and chipped), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary Plain Armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: John White, later 20th century armorial bookplates opposite: Robert Innes-Smith, 8vo, (2); Robertson (William), The History of the Reign of Charles V [...], fourteenth edition, four-volume set, London: Printed for Cadell and Davies [...], 1817, contemporary publisher's boards, 20th century armorial bookplates to each recto pastedown: Robert Innes-Smith, 8vo, (4); National Portrait Gallery, an album of lithographic plates of 19th century statesmen and politicians, [London c. 1875], contemporary half-calf and cloth, marbled endpapers, 20th century armorial bookplate: Robert Innes-Smith, 4to; [Scott (Sir Walter)], The Fortunes of Nigel, first edition, three-volume set, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable [...], 1822, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards by J. Neilson of Glasgow, his ticket, (faults, worn and disbound), 12mo, (3); further 19th century literature and belles lettres, including Shakespeare, various contemporary leather and part-leather bindings, mixed sizes; Theology: [Allestree (Richard)], The Whole Duty of Man [...], London: Printed for W. Bent [...], [n.d. 1810], engraved frontispiece, contemporary mottled calf, 8vo; Perrin (John), Entertaining and Instructive Exercises, with the Rules of the French Syntax, twelfth edition, London: Printed for Law and Whittaker [...], 1815, contemporary calf, 12mo; Victorian prize binding; etc, [21]

Natural History - Botany, Hulme (F. Edward), Familiar Wild Flowers, with Coloured Plates, five-volume set, London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [n.d., 1875 & onwards], 20th century brown buckram enclosing contemporary marbled endpapers, edges marbled en suite, 8vo, (5); Robinson (W., F.L.S.), Alpine Flowers for English Gardens, with Numerous Illustrations, London: John Murray, 1870, contemporary blue cloth, 8vo; Russell (T.H.), Mosses and Liverworts [...], London: Sampson Low [...], 1910, contemporary green cloth gilt, 8vo; Knight (A.E.) & Step (Edward), Hutchinson's Popular Botany [...], two-volume set, London: [n.d., c. 1890], 351 b/w illustrations and 9 coloured plates, green calf gilt over buckram boards, 8vo, (2); Ross-Craig (Stella), Drawings of British Palnts, Parts I to XXXI, London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1948-1973, contemporary pictorial wrappers as issued but for disbound XIX, 8vo, (31); Watsonia: Journal of the Botanical Society of the British Isles, 1949-2010, harlequin cloth, 4to and 8vo, (26); Botanical Society of the British Isles: Proceedings, Volumes 1 to 7, 1954-1969, red cloth, 8vo, (7); Botanical Society of the British Isles News, No. 1, January 1972, to No. 110, January 2009, green cloth, 8vo, (8); Zoology & Ornithology, Lankester (E. Ray), Extinct Animals, with 218 Illustrations, London: Archibald Constable & Co Ltd, 1905, contemporary red cloth, 8vo; Kirby (W. Egmont), Butterflies & Moths of the United Kingdom [...], London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [n.d., c. 1900], 70 colour plates, contemporary green cloth, pictorial gilt, 8vo; Finn (Frank) & Robinson (E. Kay), Birds of Our Country: Their Eggs, Nests, Life, Haunts and Identification, two-volume set, London: Hutchinson & Co., [n.d., c. 1920], 800 b/w illustrations, 30 colour plates, green cloth, gilt lettered and blind pictorials, 4to, (2); Harris (J.R.), The New Naturalist: An Angler's Entomology, London: Collins, 1952, green cloth only, 8vo; further fishing; etc, [

Binding, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Illustrated by Ronald Balfour, signed by the illustrator, second edition, London: Constable and Company Limited, 1930, 6 tipped-in colour plates, 32 tipped-in b/w plates (some of which are heightened with colour), 20th century blue morocco, signed with a gilt bird rebus, blind lettered upper-cover, marbled endpapers, 8vo

Science, Natural History and Cartography - Rhind (William), A History of the Vegetable Kingdom [...], Revised Edition, with Supplement, Illustrated by Several Hundred Figures [...], London: Blackie & Son, 1868, lacking colour plates, rebacked green morocco spine over contemporary marbled boards, Plain Armorial bookplate: W.S. Cooper, later Golden Age Armorial bookplate: Ex Libris E. Mary Bradford-Bentley, 4to; The Ready Reckoner, or, Trader's Correct Guide [...], Calculated by William Taylor [...], Birmingham: Printed by J. Belcher, 1792, contemporary calf boards rebacked with 19th century canvas, contemporary and later ink MS inscriptions, annotations and calculations, 12mo; Cary's New Itinierary [...], tenth edition, London: G. & J. Cary, 1826, lacking title-page, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, large 12mo, (faults); Bacon (Francis), The Novum Organon, or A True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature, Oxford: at the University Press, 1855, contemporary cloth (split loose spine), ownership inscriptions, 8vo; Hay (Alfred), An Introductory Course of Continuous Current Engineering, London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1907, Northampton Institute green calf prize binding, 8vo; Milner (Rev. Thomas), The Gallery of Nature [...], London: Wm. S. Orr & Co [...], [n.d. c. 1846], contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 4to; etc, [7]

Amazing collection of lobby cards and stills full sets and part sets including Carry on Constable, Carry on up the Jungle, Carry on Henry, Carry on Girls, Carry on Jack, Carry on Doctor, Abroad and other Carry Ons, Scaramouche st Stewart Granger, Seven Year Itch st Marilyn Monroe, Saint Joan, Man without a Body, It Always Rains on Sunday, Kes transparency, items from BFI, Mac cinema inc Woodstock, The Crow, Point Blank, Clint Eastwood, Goodby Mr Chips etc plus many other lobby cards inc Howard, David and Goliath, Silence of the Lambs, Woman in Red, Please Sir, Blue Lagoon, Star Trek, Disney, Top Secret, Fall of the House of Usher, Tony Rome, etc.

Postcards, Tony Warr Collection, a small mixed selection of approx. 17 cards illustrated by G E Shepherd all published by Tuck from various series. Themes include Naval, Diablo, Christmas, Old Salts, Cricket, & Special Constable (mainly gd)

A George V Special Constabulary Medal, For Faithful Service, named to John Francis, Norfolk Constabulary Special Constable lapel badge, WWI silver wound badge, Coronation medals and cap badges, and sundries. (qty)

Children's literature, to include L T Meade, Seven Maids; Wild Kitty; Gordon Stables, Twixt School and College; Fred Whishaw, Harold The Norseman; and Bloundelle - Burton, The Desert Ship., together with Joseph Pennell & J C Squire. A London Reverie, first edition, gilt tooled brown cloth, published by MacMillan & Company, London 1928., H R Robertson. Life On The Upper Thames, published by Virtue, Spalding & Co, London 1875., Oliver Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield, illustrated by Edmund J Sullivan, gilt tooled green cloth, published by Constable & Co Ltd, London 1914., and The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, privately printed for The Navarre Society Ltd, London 1930. (18)

A collection of art books, to include The Paintings of Vemeer, Phaidon Edition, published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London 1940; The Flemish Primitives by Leo Van Puyvelde, Marion Press, 1948; John Constable - The Man and His Works, and others, together with a boxed set of 12 Art Appreciation slides by Visual Publications Production (qty)

A lignum vitae presentation truncheon for WWI Service in Kent (Swanley) Special Police, polychrome transfer crowned GR, Horse of Kent in ovoid inscribed “Special Police. KCC” with scroll “Swanley” below, and “Special Constable 1914-1919”, shaped grip, 15” overall; an enamelled lapel badge “Special Police. KCC” and a pin back disc inscribed “K.C.C. Special Constable” issued during the General Strike, 1926. Good Condition Plate 16

Louis Whirter (1873-1932), etching, L33 - Sept 23rd 1916, signed in pencil, 47 x 51cm.The burnt-out hull of Zeppelin L33 in a field near Brentford, Essex. Having bombed Bromley & Bow, East London, it was attacked by a squadron of night fighters that caused enough damage for the commander, Kapitan-Leutnant Alois Bocker, to make a forced landing rather than attempt the return across the North Sea. Landing at Little Wigborough, 6 miles from Colchester, with no fatalities, the crew set fire to the hull, then surrendered to a single special constable! It is said that these were the only armed German personnel to set foot in England during the war. Enough remained of the zeppelin to help British engineers design the R33 airship.

After John Constable - Figure on a bridge in a river landscape, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 24 x 29cm

A pair of Coalport Eagle vases of twin handled urn form, the cover with eagle finial, to commemorate the bicentenary of the birth of JMW Turner and John Constable, both limited edition 90 of 100, height 32cm, one cover A/F. (2)

Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage...,London: A. W. Webster, 1835 4to, mounted frontispiece, some foxing, modern cloth; NORDENSKIOLD(A E) The Voyage of the Vega, in 2 vols., 1881, 8vo, original cloth, folding maps, illustrations; NANSEN (F) Farthest North, 2 vols., 1897, large 8vo, illustrations, cloth; HAYES (J G) Antarctica, 1928, 4to, plates, cloth; ROBERTS (Morley) The Western Avernus, Constable & Co 1896, 8vo, pictorial cloth gilt (7)

Grimm's Fairy Tales, Constable & Co 1909, small 4to, 40 tipped in colour plates, original red cloth gilt, slightly age marked

A rare and fine miniature steelyard by John Joseph Merlin (1735-1803), c.1780, with a graduated beam with fine adjustment calibrated counterpoise, with silver pan within an original shaped green-stained shagreen case with silver metal mounts, beam 7.1cm long John Joseph Merlin was born in Liège in 1735 and came to England in 1760. By 1793, he is described as a 'goldsmith, jeweller, watchmaker, harpsichord and musical instrument maker and general mechanic'. Somewhat of an eccentric, he went on to achieve celebrity at a function by playing a violin of his own make, on roller skates, where he impaled himself against a mirror valued at £500, smashing it to smithereens along with the instrument, and wounding himself most severely. Also known for producing numerous novelties, mechanical dolls and entertaining items, an invalid chair, a personal weighing machine, a roasting jack, and a watch for John Constable, he is also mentioned in Dr Johnson's diary for 28 March 1782: 'Merlin's steelyard given me'. Merlin's silver swan automaton is in Bowes Museum and his portrait, painted by Gainsborough in 1781, hangs In Kenwood House, depicting him with coin steelyard in hand. Merlin died in 1803 and most of the stock from 'Merlin's Mechanical Museum' was sold to Thomas Weeks for his newly opened museum in Tichborne St., London. See 'John Joseph Merlin, The Ingenious Mechanick', published by Greater London Council, 1985.

The Hundred Best Pictures being the Gems from the Galleries of London, Liverpool, Birmingham etc including works by Sir L. Alma-Tadema, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, John Constable, Millais, Rossetti, Whistler and others arranged by C. Hubert Letts, 1901 bound in contemporary half leather, Old English Colour Prints from The Studio 1909-1910 and A Pictorial Biography of Queen Alexandra 1844-1925 printed on hand-made paper and bound in gilt decorated vellum (3)

School of John Constable - Oil on Canvas - his son John Charles as a "Young Waltonian"

CHARLOTTE OF MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ: (1744-1818) Queen Consort of the United Kingdom 1761-1818. Wife of King George III. A.L.S., Charlotte, one page, 8vo, Windsor, 25th February 1811, to the Earl of Courtown. The Queen acknowledges receipt of the communication from her correspondent delivering news of 'the Death of Poor Lrd. Cardigan' and asks the Earl to convey her condolences to Lady Cardigan upon her loss, concluding 'I beg you to Believe that in His Death I regret a very good and Excellent Man'. With blank integral leaf. Accompanied by the original envelope wrapper addressed in the Queen's hand and bearing a red wax seal (cracked and the wrapper with numerous large tears and some areas of paper loss). Some minor foxing, otherwise VG James Stopford (1765-1835) 3rd Earl of Courtown. Anglo-Irish Peer and Politician who served as Treasurer of the Household 1793-1806, 1807-12. James Brudenell (1725-1811) 5th Earl of Cardigan. British Courtier and Politician, Master of the Robes 1760-91, Keeper of the Privy Purse 1773-1812 and Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle 1791-1811. The Earl died at the age of 85 in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, on 24th February 1811. The 76-year-old Earl of Cardigan took the 32-year-old Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave to be his second wife in 1791. The Countess served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1793-1807.

David Lucas after John Constable, two mezzotints, The Glebe Farm and River Stour, Suffolk, 14 x 22cm

Two boxes of various art reference works including Ardizzone, Michael Ayrton, Constable and various others

Vintage Hallmarked .925 STERLING SILVER Medallion Of John Constable Boxed (70g)

Medals: a World War II group; together with related police medal to Constable Thomas Evans; a 1953 coronation medal; and three other enamel medals.

Box of assorted items to include; carved wooden elephant bookends, EPNS salt, cream jug and sugar bowl, plated rose design preserve jar with spoon and blue glass liner, Nao Spanish porcelain figure of dogs in a basket, Spode miniature mug, Limoges miniature basket, cut glass gravy boat, two American half dollar coin in Kennedy commemorative cases, continental plate with hounds and a small landscape furnishing print after Constable of 'The bridge over the Stour'. (B.P. 24% incl. VAT)

A Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, (George VI), awarded to SERGT.GEORGE A.RICHARDSON, 107, Metropolitan Police, in box of issue, with a Defence Medal and a 1914-1918 Durham City Special Constable Medal, to J.G.A.Richardson; a Single British War Medal, awarded to J. 80625 F.W.PETERS. BOY.1.R.N.; also, a Defence Medal, a white metal Edward VIII Coronation medallion, a gilt metal 1953 Coronation medallion and a 1977 crown (8)

A First World War Special Constable's Truncheon, in mahogany, transfer decorated in colours and gilt with crowned GR cypher, coat of arms for Burnley, Special Constable, 1914-1918, with ribbed grip, 37cm; a Copper Powder Flask by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield, with basket weave and leaf tip decoration, the brass charger with enclosed spring (2). . 1 - Miinor scratching, generally in good condition. 2 - Dent to one side at the base.

A Victorian Ebonised Walnut Police Truncheon, the body painted with a crown over the Royal Coat of Arms and VR cypher in colours and gilt, with ring turned grip, 45cm; a Wood Truncheon, the black painted body decorated with the coat of arms for the City of York in colours and gilt, with brown painted wood grip, 44cm; a Late 20th Century Ebonised Police Baton, the body impressed with Canadian patent marks and maker's name POLITEK INC.; a Pair of Hiatt Police Handcuffs, numbered 901 and dated 1960, in leather pouch numbered 901 and issued to 901 Constable J W Potts by Leeds City Police, together with photocopies of frontispiece of book The Leeds Police 1836-1974 and page on which he is mentioned (4)

A 1914-1919 Special Constable truncheon, 39 cm

Fifteen boxes of various reference books, mainly on the subject of art, sculpture, design, etc, to include "The Painting of William Blake" by Darrell Figgis, velum bound, published by William Brendan and Son Limited, Plymouth, limited edition copy No'd. 30 and signed,"Constable and His Drawings" by Ian Fleming Williams, published by Philip Wilson Publishers Limited London, "Painting in Naples from Caravaggio to Giordana", published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson London