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Lot 2109
A 19th century mahogany and inlaid longcase clock, the hood with broken swan neck pediment above arched painted dial set with rolling moon and inscribed "Tos Richardson, Weaverham" and with eight day movement flanked by fluted square cut pilasters, the case with short arched door flanked by fluted uprights to a moulded plinth and ogee bracket feet, height approx 235cm.
Lot 2110
A 19th century mahogany longcase clock, the hood with broken swan neck pediment above arched painted dial with rolling moon inscribed "N. Dumvile, Stockport" with eight day movement and flanked by fluted pilasters, the case with long arched door flanked by quarter cut fluted pilasters above a stepped plinth and ogee bracket feet, height 225cm.
Lot 2117
An Arts and Crafts oak two piece bedroom suite, the wardrobe with three quarter raised gallery above a bevelled mirrored door beside a panel door set with a large copper rectangular with stylised floral sprays and broad copper strap hinges, the base set with a long drawer to splayed feet, width 122cm, a matching dressing table with mirror flanked by two copper panels, with two drawers to the upper section and a base of two short and one long drawer on splayed supports, width 103cm and an associated Arts and Crafts oak 4ft bed (3).
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Lot 2
Title Pages ([Leo Belgicus] Verduytscht door Guilliam van Aelst Den. I. Druck), Strada, ca. 1645. 3.5 x 5”. (HC) Among the most interesting decorative works of cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion. This wonderful, miniature version of the Leo Belgicus is based on the original 1538 Aitsinger form with the lion standing facing right with the right paw raised and holding a shield. This version is beautifully engraved with a stippled sea filled with a ship, a sea monster and a compass rose. The De Bello Belgico, written by Famianus Strada, a Jesuit and teacher at the Collegium Romanum in Rome, was a pro-Spanish and pro-Catholic book on the Dutch war of independence. Ref: Tooley (MCC-7) no.21. Backed with tissue to repair small tears, chips and worm holes, several of which just enter image at left and right. Marginal soiling. (B)
Lot 657
Rhodes, Greece (Rhodus), Bruyn, Reizen door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, ca. 1698. 24.3 x 8.8”. (HC) A finely engraved view of the Greek island of Rhodes, depicting the Old Town with fortifications beside a row of windmills. Numerous ships and boats sail the sea. Rhodes is famous for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Cornelius de Bruyn (1652-1726) was a Dutch artist who traveled through the Holy Land and other portions of Asia. De Bruyn had to disguise his activities because this was a repressive period during the Ottoman rule when foreigners were regarded with suspicion and the making of "graven images" was prohibited. De Bruyn avoided detection by pretending to be picnicking with two Franciscan monks who stood guard while he made his drawings. His works are particularly historically valuable because of their accuracy. Issued folding, with a couple of short fold separations in blank margins and minor soiling. (+B)
Lot 705
Antalya, Turkey (Sattalia), Bruyn, Reizen door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Asia, ca. 1698. 24.3 x 9”. (HC) A lovely view of the city of Antalya, along the Mediterranean coast of southwest Turkey. Cornelius de Bruyn (1652-1726) was a Dutch artist who traveled through the Holy Land and other portions of Asia. De Bruyn had to disguise his activities because this was a repressive period during the Ottoman rule when foreigners were regarded with suspicion and the making of "graven images" was prohibited. De Bruyn avoided detection by pretending to be picnicking with two Franciscan monks who stood guard while he made his drawings. His works are particularly historically valuable because of their accuracy. Issued folding, with a few faint creases and marginal soiling. A short fold separation in bottom blank margin has been closed on verso with old paper. (A)
Lot 711
Holy Land (Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door Wandelt van onsen Salichmaecker Iesu Christo, neffens syne Apostelen), Visscher, Amsterdam, ca. 1657. 19 x 12.5”. (HC) This fine map of present-day Israel is oriented with north to the right. There is a large, decorative title cartouche at bottom flanked by vignettes depicting the life of Christ. At top, putti hold banners with the key to the map and scale of miles. Tiny ships and the track of Apostle Paul are shown in the sea. Visscher`s trademark fishermen flank the vignettes at bottom - at left the younger Nicolas and at right the elder Claes Janszoon. Dutch text on verso. Ref: Laor no.791; Poortman & Augusteijn no.122. A nice impression and wide, original margins with a professionally repaired centerfold separation that just enters neatline at bottom. (A)
Lot 712
Holy Land (Perigrinatie ofte Veertigh-Iarige Reyse der Kinderen Israels uyt Egypten, door de Roode-Zee, ende de Woestyne tot in`t Beloofde Landt Canaan…), Avelen, Hildburghausen, ca. 1687. 17.8 x 12”. (HC) This splendid Dutch Bible map of the Holy Land illustrates the Exodus from Egypt and the wanderings of the Children of Israel in the desert. Canaan is shown divided into the Twelve Tribes. The lower part of the map is elaborately engraved with a scene of the encampment and Moses receiving the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai. At top is a scene of God`s word enlightening the world with Moses, Solomon, the apostles and evangelists. The map was based on Visscher`s map of 1650. Ref: Poortman & Augusteijn no.150. Issued folding with a printer`s crease adjacent to centerfold and light toning in blank margins. (A)
Lot 716
Holy Land (Het Beloofde Landt Canaan. Door-Wandelt van onsen Salich Maaker Jesus Christus…), Schut, Amsterdam, ca. 1730. 19.5 x 13.5”. (HC) This finely engraved and very detailed map of the Holy Land is embellished with sailing ships showing the route of St. Paul to Rome and a compass rose. Second state with Danckerts` imprint replaced by R. & J. Wetstein & William Smith (Amsterdam) and Samuel Luchtmans (Leiden). Dutch text on verso. Ref: Poortman & Augusteijn no.163. Issued folding, with light marginal soiling. (A)
Lot 868
Satire - Stock Trading (De Zuidze Compagnie door wind in top Gerezen Beklaagt nu Haar Verlies met een Bekommerd wezen), Anon., Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid…, ca. 1720. 11.5 x 7”. (HC) This engraving is from the important account of one the most infamous financial meltdowns in history, known as the Mississippi Bubble incident. This engraved view depicts a woman lounging in a lavish library, surrounded by her debit and commerce books. Beside her cherubs play music, while one holds a note that translates as "it`s not like losing what one hears," meaning that the woman may have lost all her money, but at least hasn`t lost her ability to hear. The central image is surrounded by four vignettes of others impacted by the Mississippi Bubble incident. There are three columns of verses in Dutch below the scene. John Law, a Scottish financier, established the Banque Generale (central bank) in France. He was then granted control of Louisiana and founded the Compagnie de la Louisiane d`Occident, in 1717. Law developed an elaborate plan to exploit the fabulous resources of the region, which quickly gained popularity and people rushed to invest, not just in France, but throughout Europe. This resulted in the development of several other overseas companies, such as the English South Sea Company and a number of smaller companies in the Dutch Republic. The share prices rose dramatically in a frenzy of speculation. In 1720 the bubble burst; speculators cashed in, caused a run on the shares, and the company went bankrupt. As a consequence of the failure, confidence in other similar companies failed, and thousands of individual investors across Europe were ruined. Marginal soiling and a short centerfold separation in bottom blank margin. (A)
Lot 747
WWI Diary and Scrapbook, belonging to Private James Allan of the 8th Battalion Black Watch, entries dated 1917-1919, containing 27 pages of diary entries written in very clear ink capitals, the diary records particularly hard fighting during the German spring offensive of 1918 in which the German forces advanced an unprecedented 37 miles, it records the often chaotic and tragic nature of battle in readable staccato prose with several near-misses recorded by the author, the other pages containing a sample of kilt and two identity tags (S40916 Allan J), numerous postcards, a photograph of Private Allan in uniform and a few photographs of fellow soldiers, newspaper clippings, a few original watercolour drawings, a German banknote, etc., the album is full although there are three pages where captions exist but the inserts are no longer present, the page edges dog-eared but generally in good sound condition, original limp cloth binding, 208 x 124 mm. In this thought provoking diary Private Allan records joining up on 30th January 1917, initially with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry: `Kirkcaldy. Joined up. Private Billet. Home Comforts, Uniform Provided`. After training he arrives in Boulogne on 15th October, now in the Black Watch, and things quickly heat up with his unit coming under air attack at Dunkirk, their casino billet destoyed with the loss of 60 men. On 26th October his unit march to Nieuport where he assists in tunnel building again under heavy fire with a lucky escape thanks to a dud shell. After suffering a `poisoned leg` Private Allan spends some time in a convalescent camp before returning to duty in the new year of 1918. His unit is then very mobile for a period, reaching Chippley on 25th January `After a severe march. Feet all blistered`. After a period making railway sidings he is ordered, on 26th February, to march to Moslains where they are `Billeted in tents and huts. Waiting on Word for line. Weather bitterly Cold.`. The order to advance arrives and, after reaching Sorel on 20th March, he sees comes under heavy German shelling `no shelter, troops line the road. 12pm. Clouds of gas, masks on. Germans advancing. British falling back. Mixed lots of fugitives join us with bad news of general collapse of line troops`. The falling back continues for the next few days with the entry for March 25th, at Etinheim, reading `Troops line up in street. Quarter Master exhorts men to uphold traditions of the Black Watch and hold line at all costs`. In bitter fighting the next day other units are ordered to support the Black Watch: `German attack. Rifle duel. Machine guns deadly. Heaps of casualties`. On the 27th March he records `liquid fire` being used by the Germans. The Black Watch are then relieved for a few weeks though the dangers behind the front lines seem just as deadly with the entry for April 14th reading `Narrow escape, one shell lands into water pool 20 yards from the table, next shell strikes billet, 8 men at door, 6 run to the right, 2 to left. 6 killed.`. On 20th July Private Allan is ordered over the top at Meteren and helps take a German trench under heavy fighting. Again he records tragic deaths in nealy every encounter, German snipers particularly deadly, and often an impression of chaos: `Three stragglers arrive take shelter in the wheat sheaves 5 yds in front of trench. One shot through the head. Another in the knee, third man rushes for the trench and falls dead head first into trench` and he later records narrow escapes for himself when a large piece of shrapnel misses his head by inches and on September 24th, at Ypres, he is nearly drowned when marching through swamps and clinging onto a plank until rescued. After reaching trenches that day (Sept 24th) `rats scatter` and the battalion go over the top and pass German pill boxes under heavy fire, with the advance reaching Passcendale Ridge: `German prisoners in hundreds loming in`. On September 26th he records `Germans shoot at stretcher bearers`. They finally reach the objective town of Ledeghem but soon see further heavy fighting. On the 29th, under a German counter attack, Private Allan notes `Surprise order to retreat passed down the trench. Men refuse to retreat. Commanding Officer swears to shoot the man who started the order. Germans abandon counter attack. Sad night, bury chums, their belonging`s kept. Few men left.`. He then returns to Ypres for `...supposed rest, scrubbing, cleaning, and discipline worse than the line`. Even after the armistice there is no let up in the privations suffered. Allan is sent on a train into Germany on 20th December `Eventful journey, slow train, rations chiefly hard biscuits. Troops desperate, hold up ration train at a stop station, bread, jams and whisky. Change trains...awful effects of Haig & Haig [whisky] men drop out of train.`. When they arrive 200 men are missing out of 700 who made the journey. He remains at various locations in Germany, conditions thankfully improving, before being demobilised in April 1919. (1)
Lot 64
*Marni, Ing. L., Tenerite (Flying Officer) Aviatore. An interesting and historic collection of photographs taken during the early Italian Facisti period, of aircrafted airfields, pilots and ground crews, visits by leading personalities of the regime to Royal Italian Air Force Squadrons, air reconnaissance photographs and others compiled by this officer, subjects include the official visit of Il Duce (Benito Mussolini) to the aircraft display at Campo di Centroalle on 24th May 1927, early air-to-ground views of Rome Ciampino (North & South) showing numerous hangers, aircraft and the communication network, c. 1930, the official visit of Marshall Balbo and others to Ciampino, pilots with Caproni CA73, the airfield at Montecelio, the Italian fleet at Civitavecchia in 1926, aircraft seen flying over, the experimental and test station with airship hanger at Vigna di Valle, air to ground views of Rome and Castelgandolfo, aircraft seen flying over the city, the sea plane base at Lake Bracciano with air-to-air view of a [?] Cant flying boat, the airfields at Terracina and Nettuno showing hangers, parked aircraft and fortifications, air to ground views of Perugia and others of similar interest, each subject with handwritten labels, possibly by Marni, together with this officers brass door plate, approx. 100 images contained in a folder (approx. 100)
Lot 353
*WWII?section clock, Air Ministry Air Pattern, 14in (35.5cm) diameter dial by T. W. Elliott Ltd., No. 5412, dated 1938, with correct fusee movement, the lacquered brass back plate inscribed in pencil H36, the mahogany casing stamped 39, side hinged door with stores reference label inscribed A35702/61/C22B, 21B/118, with servicing or reissue dated R.Sep.1962 and 14 AVG 64, enamelled dial (with some restoration) inscribed A.M. 1940 and dated 1938 at the base of the dial concealed by the oxidised brass rim, with bevelled glass front, within mahogany frame (restored), with associated pendulum and key (1)
Lot 581
*Forde - Dover. A rare pre-war motoring travellers car badge, c. 1930s, having decorative enamelled design of Naval Ensign motif in lifebuoy border surround, and with applied enamelled flags of European Nations to bar below including Third Reich, each separately applied with screw-mounts, some plating and enamel loss & wear; together with GB `Foreign Touring Club` pre-war motorist`s car badge, nickel-plated bronze by Caxton & Co, Westminster. One of the first regular Car Ferries plying from Dover to France, was HMS Forde, a converted naval warship brought into service after the Great War 1914-1919. Forde renamed from HMS Fleetwood was sold to Townsend Bros in 1928 and converted into a car-ferry between Dover & Calais, fitted with a stern door which folded down onto the quay. However, this was unusable, and the cars were craned on. During the Second World War Forde served under the Admiralty as a salvage vessel. Afterwards she was refitted at Southampton and returned to Dover as a car ferry on 12 April 1947. She was withdrawn in October 1949, sold to Bland Line, renamed `Gibel Tarik` serving as a car-ferry between Gibraltar and Tangiers, finally being withdrawn in 1954. (2)
Lot 220
A good early 20th Century Chinese blackwood display cabinet, the tiered upper section with crestings boldly fretted and carved with dragons and cloud motifs, the interior fitted five tiered shelves enclosed by two glazed doors, the door framing carved with fruiting vines flanked by columns boldly fretted and carved with dragons, the base fitted two frieze drawers, the drawer fronts carved in bold relief with fruiting vines, on base with apron fretted and carved with dragons and the Flaming Pearl, on short cabriole legs with claw and ball feet, 59ins (1500mm) wide x 19.5ins (495mm) deep x 81ins (2060mm) high Note : Thought to have been made by Po Sang Cheong, 46 & 49 Wellington Street, Hong Kong, circa 1915, as a wedding present for the vendor`s grandparents. With photograph of Mr P.J. Taylor, 6 Leighton Hill, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, the original owner
Lot 864
John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) - Pencil drawing (from sketch book) - "Woman Preparing to Open a Door from Inside" (possibly for Fatima - circa 1911), 9ins x 6.75ins, unsigned, in modern white wood frame and glazed Provenance : By family descent from the artist to the vendor - Exhibited at The J.W. Waterhouse - The Modern Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts, London, 27th June to 13th September 2009, The Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, 14th December 2008 to 3rd May 2009, and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1st October 2009 to 7th February 2010, illustrated as No. 84 in catalogue
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