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Robert Chambers, History of the Rebellions in Scotland under the Viscount Dundee, and the Earl of Marr in 1689 and 1715, Edinburgh, Constable and Co, and London, Hurst, Chance and C0, 332 pp, publisher's cloth

Horror & Supernatural.- Stoker (Bram) Dracula, first edition, first issue without advertisements, with final p. numbered 390, followed by an integral blank and printed on thinker paper stock, publisher's presentation blindstamp to title, pencil ownership inscription dated 1903 to endpaper, original yellow cloth, lettered and ruled in red, spine faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped and worn with chip to foot of spine, rubbing and soiling, preserved in custom drop back box, [Tymn 3.234], 8vo, Archibald Constable and Complany, 1897.⁂ The earliest and rarest of the all the issues, one of only a small number of copies send out for review by the publishers.

Police truncheons to include a Victorian polychrome and gilded wooden truncheon, with the Royal Crown cypher above 'Constable' within a red cartouche, the ribbed turned handle stamped 'Parker Holborn 233' at the heel, 17.5" long; also a smaller Victorian polychrome painted example with the royal crown cypher over 'V R', 12.5" long and a further plain example (3)

Victorian Scientific Exploration Literature - 1st Edition C.K Meek 'A Sudanese Kingdom' Ethnographical Study of The Jukun-speaking Peoples of Nigeria pub. Paul Kegan London 1931; Edward Adams-Ray 'The Andree Diaries Balloon Expedition to the North Pole' pub. John Lane London; Sven Hedin 'Jehol City of Emperors' pub. Kegan Paul London; 1st Edition Arthur Mangin 'The Desert World' pub. T. Nelson & Sons London 1869; 1st Edition Olave M. Potter 'Little Pilgrimage in Italy' with coloured plates and illustrations by Yoshio Markino pub. Constable & Company London 1911; 1st Edition Leonard Matters 'Through the Kara Sea'; Alberty B. Lloyd 'In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country' pub. T Fisher Unwin dated 1907; Frank T. Bullen 'The Cruise of the Cachalot' pub. Smith, Elder & Co 1899. (8)

A VICTORIAN BLACK CLOTH DEVON CONSTABLE POLICE HELMET.

ASHLEY-COOPER, F.S, 'The Hambledon Cricket Chronicle' 1772-1796, Jenkins, London 1924, blue cloth, KERR, Diana Rait, 'Hambledon Cricket and The Bat and Ball Inn', Henty& Constable, a set of Royal Mail 2005 Ashes Winners stamps and two further associated titles (5)

ARNOLD, Ralph, 'A Social History of England 55 BC to A.D. 1215', Constable, London, with a note from the author 10/4/67 plus a collection of 27 History related texts (28)

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972), 'Jefferson and/or Mussolini', Stanley Nott, London 1935, orange cloth, plus SHAW, Bernard, 'The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home', Constable, London 1933, ELIOT, T.S., 'After Strange Gods', Faber, 2nd imp, 1934, plus 15 contemporary pamphlets, booklets, C.P. Snow, H.G. Wells, Harold Nicholson etc (18)

DE LA MARE, Walter, Poems 1901-1918 - 2 vols. and 1919-1934 - 1 vol., London, Constable & Co. tooled, brown cloth, with a collection of 32 Poetry titles, 19th & 20th Century (35)

Antiquarian books and maps - A London Reverie by Joseph Pennell and J C Squire, 56 illustrations, pub London Macmillan & Co 1928, marbled boards and red leather corners and spine, A G Bradley - In The Marsh and Borderland of Wales, sketches and map by W M Meredith, London Archibald Constable & Co Ltd 1905, marbled boards, leather corners and spine, Edward Mogg Paterson's Roads, Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, 18th ed, London printed for C J G and F Rivingto etc, brown leather cover and Thomas Rickman - Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation, 7th Ed, Oxford and London, Parker & Co 1881, gilt red cloth boards, Walker's Shropshire and a folding Ordnance Survey map of Aldershot (Windsor), pub 1874 (6)

British Medals, Anne, Coronation 1702, the official gold medal, by John Croker, crowned bust l., reads FR:, rev. Anne, as Pallas, hurls a thunderbolt at a double-headed monster, 34.5mm., wt. 18.64gms. (MI.228/4; Eimer 390; Woll.ix; vL.IV, 347), reverse variety with rays below Pallas’s raised arm, 858 specimens struck, good extremely fine with even light tone, very rare *ex Duke of Northumberland Collection, Sotheby’s, 17 June 1981, lot 449 This medal has an impressive provenance, being from the collections of the Dukes of Northumberland. The first Duke, Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, KG, PC (1665-1716) was the illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine and Duchess of Cleveland. In 1701 he had been appointed Constable of Windsor Castle and would have attended the Coronation. During the reign of Queen Anne he received a number of appointments including Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire and the wonderful-sounding Chief Butler of England, a position currently held by the 18th Duke of Northumberland. He lived at Frogmore House, Windsor. Of the 858 gold medals struck, 518 were presented to Members of Parliament.

British Gendarmerie Photograph Album of Mandatory Palestine 1922-26, interesting snapshot album compiled by Constable G C Baker in the area of Surafend, Palestine. Album has many good images of locals from the village of Surafend and Richon, including Jewish children, arabs, constables in uniforms, street scenes, plus religious landmarks in the area. Album images are annotated below. Housed in a period photograph album. (102 images) The British Gendarmerie was created by Sir Winston Churchill in 1922 to police Mandatory Palestine. They were tasked mostly with keeping order and preventing riots between the Arab population and that of the Jewish. They were stilled on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the South African Constabulary. The recruits were mostly made up of members of the recently disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary. The unit was itself disbanded in 1926 when the role was taken over by the Transjordan Frontier Force.

John Constable R.A. (1776-1837)pencil, pen and brown inkDeer in the park, Englefieldinscribed Englefield Park/augt 25.18328.5 x 7.25in.Provenance: Thomas Agnew & Sons No.12106, Christie's Sale 11 Nov. 1997, Lot 37.

A Manchester Special Constable truncheon (H. Warting, 1914-1919), with Coat of Arms of Manchester and bearing name of H. Warting

A Victorian police truncheon, Colonel Thwaites, Special Constable Superintendent, Bradford, Yorkshire, (labor Riots, 1878), painted with wild boar crest and crown, H.49cm

After John Constable (1776-1837) Children at play outside a cottage Bears signature, oil on canvas, 110cm by 85cm

'Ye Old Constable Boke of Lyth & Barnby', with explanatory notes by John Crowther, pub. Stockton 1890, 1vol. Provenance: Property of a Private Whitby Collector. Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs

Dress uniform & mess kit uniform of former Assistant Chief Constable Colin Evans QPM of the South Wales constabulary

GEORGE V WWI PERIOD CEREMONIAL POLICE TRUNCHEONwith handpainted detail 'Burgh of Rothesay Special Constable G.1918 R.', 33.8cm long

LADY APSLEY "Bridleways Through History", published Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, London 1936, R.C.LYLE "Royal Newmarket", published Putnam & Co. Ltd, London 1945 WILL H. OGILVIE "Galloping Shoes" Illustrated by Lionel Edwards, published Constable and Company Ltd. London 1925 and three other books (6)

A VINTAGE POLICEMAN'S HELMET, MARKED 'POLICE', together with a Wooden Truncheon from the Borough of Walsall marked 'Special Constable' 1914-1919

Six constable police helmets, Devon and Cornwall, Thames Valley, Metropolitan, South Wales, Humberside and South Yorkshire.

An 18ct Gold Cased Hunter Chronograph Pocketwatch, the white dial with black Roman numerals and centre seconds, the movement signed "J.W. Reeley & Sons London & Liverpool Established 1790", the movement cover inscribed "Presented to Superintendent Earnshaw by a few friends on his retirement from Wigan Borough Police Force and attaining the appointment of Chief Constable of Leamington, July 1st 1902", within plain case, Chester 1897.

A miniature group of seven including CBE, WWI War and Victory duo, WWII War Medal and Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, mounted beneath photograph of recipient wearing the group identified by label as Chief Constable Arthur J Mackintosh CBE, framed and glazed. CONDITION REPORT: Frame af, visible wear, rubbing, discolouration to the medals, we cannot guarantee that the gentleman pictured is as attributed by label.

'The Adventures of The Black Girl in Her Search For God', Bernard Shaw, Constable & Co, December 1932, 1st edition with spelling error

After John Constable, The Young Waltonians, watercolour heightened with white, 25.5 x 38cm.

British Special Constable Long Service Medal slight carbonisation, named to Henry K. Rudd with: The Great War Clasp, Long Service 1929 and Long Service 1939. Accompanied with his Masonic medals including: Masonic 1938 Freemasons Hospital Service medal (named) in original box and Order of Odd fellows Manchester Unity Jewel in box.

Sundry Art reference books, to include John Walker Constable and Thomas Bush Hardy

Attributed to John Constable RA/Reclining Nude Youth/pencil, 48cm x 39cm/see illustration Condition Report: Unfortunately this drawing was subjected to water damage several years ago and although it has been dried out and partially restored there are many shrinkage creases throughout, attempts were made to flatten the picture but the flattened creases have left noticeable white streaks across the drawing, in our opinion it has been restored as much as it can be and sadly the appearance is of a rather badly damaged drawing. A photograph of the picture was shown to Annie Lyle who was of the opinion that it was probably by Constable but in the condition it was it was not worth spending money to fully attribute it.

Circle of John Constable (1776-1837): Landscape oil sketch, oil on board, H 20 x W 27 cm

RACKHAM (A), illus, HANSEL AND GRETHEL, with 20 tipped in colour plates, blue cloth with gilt lettering, Constable, re-issue, 1920 (1)

Norwich Special Constable white metal badge No. 291. Pin fitting to reverse.

Police Helmets - 1938 British MkII Special Constable Metropolitan Police S.E London. Police Sergeant Helmet 1943. 1938 British steel helmet 'Police'. And 1938/39 Metropolitan Police Inspectors steel helmet (4)

Port of London Authority Special Constable, British MkII No2 C Type steel helmet 1940, possibly Dover Harbour

WW2 medal bars (2) France & Germany and 8th Army and a Police Special Constable 1944 bar (3 items in all).

Five Reproduction Prints On Board Courtesy Of The Trustees, The National Gallery, London. Includes:The Avenue, Middelharnis By Meindert Hobbema Flatford Mill On The River Stour By John Constable Interior Of A Dutch House By Pieter De Hooch The Hay - Wain By John Constable Venice: A Regatta On The Grand Canal By Canaletto All Approx. 40 cm by 28 cm.

The Rubiyat of Omar Khayaam, illustrated by Ronald Balfour, published in 1920 by Constable & Co Ltd, together with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Ronald Searle, published in 1961 by Perpetual Ltd, and Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey, illustrated by Nelly Erichsen, W K Hinchcliff and O.F.M. Ward, published  in 1903 by J M Dent & Co in gilt cloth bindingCondition Report: Binding is a bit loose but not damaged, no foxing, plates all present.

Bowen (Emanuel, and Bowen, Thomas). Atlas Anglicanus, or a complete sett of maps of the counties of South Britain; divided into their respective hundreds, wapontakes, wards, rapes, lathes &c..., 1st. edition, printed for T. Kitchin, [1767], calligraphic title page, two general engraved maps of England and Wales and forty-three county maps of England & Wales, all with contemporary outline colouring, very occasional marginal spotting, bookplate of Wm. Constable Esq., contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, slim upright folio, contained in modern cloth book box Chubb CCXXXII, Hodson 254. The maps in the 'Atlas Anglicanus' were reductions of the 'Large English Atlas', produced by the same authors. The maps were originally issued monthly in parts with three maps to a part. Initially all the maps were published without an imprint, which was added as production progressed, thus a complete atlas would often be comprised of maps from different states. This copy is an unusual combination of the first two states. (1)

Poulson, George The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness. Hull: Robert Brown, 48 Lowgate; and W. Pickering, London, 1840-1. 4to (2 vols). Half calf over marbled boards, sometime sympathetically rebacked, spines with contrasting morocco lettering pieces in two compartments, all edges marbled; illus. with engraved plates and folding maps with woodcut illus. and pedigrees to text (all plates as called for except Library at Burton Constable Vol. II, however it includes the Dade plate 'Monument of Sir Martin de la See' in Vol. I which the plate list states was cancelled and not included).Boards a little scuffed and rubbed with a little loss, a little foxing, some offsetting from plates but, generally clean internally, a very good set.

Police Interest - World War II - an interesting collection of medals and fobs presented to Constable R W J Collier, 7 Sharock Street, Clapham, comprising Exemplary Police Service Medal, Defence Medal, Royal Military College Medal, various silver and enamel sports fobs (10)

RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator) - Snowdrop & Other Tales : 20 tipped-in colour plates, org. pictorial cloth, 4to, Constable, first thus, 1920. With - The Allies' Fairy Book - 12 colour plates, org. pictorial cloth, small 4to, Heinemann, no date, c1916. With - Goblin Market - colour frontispiece, org. pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Harrap, 1939.(3)

ETHERTON, Lieut. P.T - Across the Roof of the World a Record of Sport and Travel Through Kasmir, Gilit, Hunza, The Pamirs, Chinese Turkistan, Mongolia and Siberia : port. frontis, folding map, illustrations, org. pictorial cloth, 4to, Constable, 1911.

JOHNSON, A.E - The Russian Ballet : illust. by Rene Bull, org. cloth, 4to, Constable, 1913. With one other illustrated by George Cruikshank.(2)

SCOTT, Walter (8 works): 1- Rob Roy, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1818, first edition, first issue (with the overturned speech marks in the last line of p.193 in vol.2.). ½ titles present. Cont. half leather; rubbed; newspaper cutting pasted to endpapers; 2- The Abbot, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Longman, 1820, first edition. ½ titles not present. Cont. half leather; rubbed; 3- The Fortunes of Nigel, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1822, first edition. ½ titles present. Leather backed marbled boards; rubbed; 4- Woodstock, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1826, first edition. ½ titles present. Cont. half leather; rubbed; 5- Anne Of Geierstein, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Cadell, 1829, first edition. ½ titles present. Leather backed marbled boards; rubbed & hinges cracked; 6- Quentin Durward, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1823, first edition. ½ titles not present. Leather backed marbled boards; rubbed; TITLE MISSING from vol. 2; browning; 7- Kenilworth, in 3 vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1821, 2nd. edition. ½ titles present. Cloth backed boards; rubbed; 8- Tales of my Landlord- First series; in 4 vols. Edinburgh, Constable, 1819, 5th. edn. Leather backed marbled boards; rubbed; ½ title taken out of vol.1; foxing. (25)

A collection of eighteen Police and Railway truncheons, including William IV, Great Railway, Victoria, William IV Metropolitan Police, George Rex, Special Constable, City of London, Admiralty Special Committee, and others (see list), (18)

Colonel George Hamilton Gordon, C.M.G., D.S.O., a group of six medals, comprising Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Distinguished Service Order, 1914-15 Star, named to Major G.H. Gordon, British War Medal, Victory Medal, named to Lt. Col. G.H. Gordon, and Order of the White Eagle, Serbia, together with miniatures and a black and white studio photograph of Col. G.H. Gordon in uniform. Col. George Hamilton Gordon, Royal Field Artillery, Born March 1875, Hon Brigadier General (Retired) son of James Henry Gordon above, DSO (birthday honours) CMG 1919 (Balkans) Order of the White Eagle (Serbia), served France & Salonika (Col. Gordon's diaries are archived in the Liddle Collection (SAL 028). George Hamilton Gordon was the son of James Henry Gordon (brother-in-law of Col. W. V. Constable) served at Ballincollig, Ireland 1910-12 and during W.W.1 saw service in Salonika 1915-18. This lot also includes Army Form B. 199A., a good quantity of research papers and scanned copies of photographs of G.H. Gordon as a cadet and Col. Gordon with Winston Churchill and aeroplanes - GHG was friends with Charles Rumney Samson - together with a digital copy of his Salonika diaries. Diaries also with the Royal Artillery Museum and include correspondence in mid-1930's with Capt.Cyril Falls (military historian) about the action at Kosturino.

Colonel Willoughby Verner Constable, a pair of medals, awarded to Royal Engineers, comprising Egypt Medal, with single clasp, Suakin 1885, named to Capt'n W.V. Constable. R.E., and Khedive's Star 1884-86, together with Khedive's Star miniature and a St. John's Ambulance Association medal, awarded to Lucy Constable (née Gordon), with clasps for 1915,1916,1917,1918. Note Colonel Willoughby Verner Constable was Brother-in-Law to Colonel George Hamilton Gordon. Willoughby Verner Constable was born in Ireland on the 27th of September 1853 and commissioned a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on the 12th of September 1872. Following a period of training at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, Kent, In January of 1876 Constable was serving at Roorkee in Bengal, India. While serving there he was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1884 and in December of that same year he was serving as Assistant Engineer, 1st Grade, in the Department of Public Works, on the West Rajputana State Railway, Southern Section. This was his first of many assignments as an engineer on the railroads of India. In 1885 Captain Constable was posted to the command of Major-General Sir Gerald Graham, V.C. at Suakin in the Sudan. Sir Gerald's plan for operations in the Sudan called for the construction of a railway from Suakin to Berber on the Nile, a distance of about 280 miles. It would be fair to assume that Captain Constable's experience with railway construction in India was one of the reasons for his assignment to Suakin. This was to be his only campaign service. He retired from the Army on the 21st of December 1904 and was appointed an Honorary Colonel. He became Chairman of the Madras and South Mahratta Railway Company in 1908. This lot also includes some research papers including a resume of Constable's 23 years on the Indian Railways.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener; a hand written letter from Kitchener, 17 Belgrave Square, dated 19th July (1892): "Dear Mrs Gordon, I am going to Aldershot today until Friday for some manoeuvres. I shall try and get down to see you on Saturday or Sunday next. It was curious meeting James on the P & O that I came home by and we talked a good deal about you all and old times. Yours very sincerely Herbert Kitchener", together with correct envelope postmarked JY19 92 (July 19 1892) Lord Kitchener and the Gordon family were distantly related by marriage. This letter was written to Arabella Gordon, wife of Col. James Henry Gordon and mother of George Hamilton Gordon and Lucy Gordon (later Constable). Please see Lots 1001 and 1002.

Chambers (Robert) 'The life of King James I'In two volumes, published for Constable & Co and Hurst Chance & Co London 1830, bound in blue half calf with marbled boards, Sheridan (Richard Brinsley) 'The dramatic works' printed by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, London 1906 bound in tan calf with gilt lettering, 'The book of gems from the poets and artists of Great Britain', edited by S C Hall, first edition, published by Bell and Baldy, London 1872, bound in tan calf with elaborate gilt decoration.

Sinclair (Sir John) "An Account Of The Systems Of Husbandry Adopted In The More Improved Districts Of Scotland"Printed for Arch, Constable & Company, Edinburgh 1812, bound in half tan calf with marbled boards, "Rural Life Described and Illustrated In The Management of Horses, Dogs, Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Poultry", with illustrations drawn by Sir Edwin Landseer, two volumes, printed for the London Printing & Publishing Company Ltd circa 1870, bound in half tan calf with purple boards. (3)

A collection of leather bound booksTo include eight volumes of The Spectator, published by G. Whittingham, London 1808, bound in half tan calf, Miller (Hugh), "The testimony of the Rocks or Geology in it's bearing on the two Theologies, Natural and Revealed", printed for Thomas Constable & Co., Edinburgh 1859, bound in tan calf, Kingsley novels, Latin and English Dictionary etc. (28)

Follower of John Constable, Boy by a stream in a wooded landscape, oil on canvas, unframed, 50cm x 40cm.

2 framed and glazed Constable prints and a mirror.

A signed mezzotint portrait of John Constable by Will Henderson, together with framed print The Haywain after Constable, and Denise Shackle - country landscape, watercolour (3)

SURREY CCC AUTOGRAPHS 1952-1956 A sheet of paper, headed County Champions 1952-1956 signed by 13 Surrey players including May, the Bedser twins, Constable, McIntyre, Barrington, Stewart, Lock and Laker. Good

Craddock (Harry) The Savoy Cocktail Book, first edition, printed in black and colours with illustrations and decorations by Gilbert Rumbold, pictorial endpapers, original cloth-backed art deco texturised boards in black, gold and green, rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, spine ends frayed, Constable & Co., 1930; and 2 others, similar, 8vo (3)

Railway Interest. An Original Spring Back Album containing LNER Southern Area Norwich District Melton Constable East and West, LNER Southern Area GE Section , Guyhirne Proposal to Dispense with Signal Box, M and G N Gedney Proposed lengthening of loop, M and G N Honing Propsed closing of Honing West Signal box, Proposed Closing of North Station Signal box etc

Follower of John Constable (1776-1837) British. A Barge Approaching a Lock, with Cottages in the distance, Watercolour, Unframed, 10.25" x 8.25".

Fishing Interest, books - Northern Memoirs, calculated for the Meridian of Scotland to which is added The Contemplative and Practical Angler, written in the year 1658 by Richard Frank, New Edition wit preface and notes printed Archibald Constable & Co, 1821, uncut paper with gilt edges, gilt tooled green leather boards and spine and The Incompleat Angler after Master Izaak Walton, edited by F C Burnard, Illus Harry Furness, pub Bradbury Agnes & Co Circa 1887, coloured illustrations, limited edition no 20 out of 26 copies, bound brown leather boards, gilt tooled spine

Arthur Rackham: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, London 1915, William Heinemann, 1st ed., 12 colour plates, original wrapper (torn); The Ingoldsby Legends, Mirth and Marvels, London 1907, J. M. Dent, 24 colour plates tipped-in on dark green paper, captioned tissue guards; Some British Ballards, Constable & Co, 16 colour plates tipped-in on dark green paper, with tissue guards, bookplate to front endpaper; Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market, 4 colour plates, and illustrations by Rackham, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 8vo, George C. Harrap, 1933 (4).