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Markham (Gervase). Country Contentments. Or, The Husbandman's Recreations ... as mainly Hunting, Hawking, Coursing ... Shooting in the Longbow or Crossbow, Bouling, Tennis, Baloone: the whole Art of Angling, and the use of the Fighting Cock, 8th ed., newly corrected, enlarged, 1656, 100pp, modern calf, 4to (1)
A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW, MID-18TH CENTURY with steel bow struck with two cross marks, retained by cords and complete with two pairs of early pom-poms, fitted with string of twisted cord (a working replacement), figured walnut tiller (light worm), lightly carved with rococo ornament, inlaid with a hunting scene in engraved staghorn on the cheek-piece, and further engraved staghorn plaques, staghorn flat, set trigger, brass trigger-guard, steel bolt-clip and iron loop, 0.3cm; 27Nin
AN ENGLISH STONEBOW, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with slender steel bow, built-in gaffle incorporating a small folding back-sight, secured in the spanned position by a slender iron collar, and figured walnut tiller with turned basal cap (chipped); and a contemporary iron goat's foot lever for a crossbow, complete with its suspension hook (one bar cracked) the first: 62.5cm; 24Kin tiller (2)Provenance: Warwick Castle, inv. nos. C004 and C008.
A large collection of books, journals and museum guides relating to the study of arms and armour comprising AROLDI (ALDO MARIO): Armi e Armature Italiane fino all XVIII secolo, Milan 1961, with its original slip-case; DUFTY (ARTHUR RICHARD): European Armour in the Tower of London, 1968; BLAIR (CLAUDE): Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork in the James A.de Rothchild collection at Waddesdon Manor; European and American Arms, by the same; PETERSON (HAROLD L) Arms and Armor in Colonial America 1526-1783; MANN (SIR JAMES): Wallace Collection catalogues; European Arms and Armour, 1962, two vols; STONE (GEORGE CAMERON): A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor (spine detached); FFOULKS (CHARLES): The Armourer and his Craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century; PAYNE-GALLWEY (SIR RALPH): The Crossbow, its Construction, History and Management; HELD (ROBERT) (Ed.): Art, Arms and Armour: an International Anthology; Livrust Kammaren BandI-IV; the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, vol. I; VI-XI (incomplete); various exhibition and museum guides including the John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, Massachusetts, The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York 1984.
A rare Chinese painted wooden arrow case,circa 19th century of tapering square section bound by a series of shaped iron brackets, fitted with hinged lid bound by an engraved iron hasp at the front and with a shaped iron boss at the top and sides, painted with large flowers emerging from clouds at the base, and the front decorated with a scrolling fire-breathing dragon, further designs of foliage and all in polychrome on a red ground; a Chinese painted arrow case, 19th century, of circular section, the outer surface painted with Buddhist motifs in polychrome on a red ground; An embroidered bow case 19th century; two Chinese bow cases, each of brass-bound stiff leather; a Siamese crossbow, 19th century; a rare Sino-Tibetan folding bow, ten further painted bows, 18th and 19th centuries, an eastern painted quiver and an Indo-Persian steel bow 19th century (qty)
Two ivory figures, the first German, the second probably French, mid to late 18th century, the first carved as William Tell standing with his crossbow, height 12.7cm, 5in; the second as a chubby putto cuddling a faithful hound, the leafy rocky base echoed by the bog oak stand, overall width 10cm, 4in, (2).
Britains Herald Series - 2 Mounted and 4 Cowboys on Foot, 2 Mounted and 1 Indian on Foot, Camp Fire, Teepee, Swoppet Cowboy - 1 head missing and other minor damages - mainly F to G. Also Swoppet Knights - Standing, with banner, firing bow, firing crossbow, with halberd, attaching with sword, kneeling with bow - mainly G - some missing weapons. Finally later Hong Kong Issues - 5 Soldiers in khaki - various poses - G. (23 figures)
A woman's or child's crossbow. German, 1st quarter 18th century. Slender blackened steel bow with original string and waxed bridle of cord. Bolt rail of engraved stag horn with inset back sight and brass bolt clamp. Nut wood stock with carved cheek. Slide and stock with engraved, blackened stag horn inlays. Set trigger with iron guard. Length 53 cm. €1,500.00
Three Vienna figures, comprising; a figure of a man wearing eighteenth century dress, modelled looking through a telescope, height 19cm (7 1/2in), impressed marks, date for 1853 (glued hand, lacks sword); a Vienna figure of a woman with a feather muff, modelled after a Meissen original, height 20.5cm (8in), impressed marks, date for 1845 (lacks right hand, some damage to lace); and a Vienna figure of a man firing a crossbow, height 15cm (6in), impressed marks, date for 1845 (damage and losses)
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