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Click here to subscribeA Circa 1920's Cream Silk Satin Evening Gown, the sleeveless bodice inset with diamanté highlights to full circular skirt with net hem, a cream silk two tier embroidered cape and a later ivory damask full length wedding dress, with sweetheart neckline, three-quarter sleeves and 'A' line skirt. (3)
Gentleman's Library (The), containing Rules for Conduct in all Parts of Life, first edition, engraved frontispiece, signature L misbound, lightly browned, C9 reinforced at fore-edge, contemporary panelled calf, upper joint split, by E.P. for W.Mears...and J.Browne, 1715 § Castiglione (Baldassare, Count) The Courtier; or, the Complete Gentleman and Gentlewoman..., translated by Robert Samber, contemporary ink signature to title, some browning, A4 torn and repaired, later bookplate of Edmund Randolph of Cambridge, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with red morocco label, E.Curll, 1729 § [Bellegarde (J.-B. Morvan de)] Reflexions upon Ridicule, first edition in English, browned and damp-stained, contemporary panelled calf, scuffed, rebacked, spine gilt, [Heltzel 136], Tho.Newborough, 1707, all rubbed; and 2 others including a second edition of the first, 8vo et infra (5)⁂ The first mentioned includes chapters on education, dress, gallantry, affectation, envy, idleness, wit & humour, impertinent curiosity, religion, and drinking. It is possibly by George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, who wrote The Ladies Library published the previous year. The second item is the second English translation of Castiglione's classic work, after Hoby's of 1561. Samber's translation was first published in 1724 by Bettesworth, this is the second issue with cancel title.
[Essex (John)] The Young Ladies Conduct: or, Rules for Education...with Instructions upon Dress, both before and after Marriage. And Advice to Young Wives, only edition, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, factotum initials, paper adhesions to fore-margin of A3 (?where paper previously tipped in), an excellent clean copy, contemporary speckled calf with double gilt fillet border, spine ruled in gilt, a little rubbed, slight staining to lower cover, spine ends chipped, [Heltzel 553], 8vo, John Brotherton, 1722.⁂ John Essex (c.1680-1744) was a dancer, choreographer, and dance & music instructor who became a moderniser in the art of dance teaching and brought French ideas to the London studios. This work is addressed to the parents of young ladies, advocating good conversational skills, wisdom and honesty, and the importance of both dance and music in their education. He also warns young women to be shrewd in choosing a husband.
Melly (George) Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles, 2 vol., second edition, presentation copy from the author to his niece Bessy Bright inscribed on front free endpaper of vol.1, half-titles, engraved frontispieces and map, all slightly foxed and mounted on stubs, contemporary ink signature to head of titles, attractive contemporary maroon morocco with decorative gilt border, spine gilt in compartments, g.e., spines slightly rubbed, lower covers a little stained, [Blackmer 1107], 8vo, 1852.⁂ Account of a journey through Egypt and the Sudan. Melly, a Unitarian from Liverpool, became a businessman and politician active in social reform regarding juvenile crime, education and women's suffrage. He married the sister of his friend at Rugby School Henry Arthur Bright, later a shipping magnate and friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melly's inscription reads, "Bessy Bright, October 1888. These volumes, provided with a new dress, were returned to his charming niece by her affectionate uncle - The author - October 1852". He presumably bought a second-hand copy and had it rebound for his niece's birthday.
Follower of Charles Henry Poingdestre (Jersey 1825–1905 London), Travellers in a mountainous Spanish landscape, oil on canvas, unframed, signed indistinctly lower right, possible evidence of Poingdestre's signature to lower centre, old Christies stencil verso, 36¾ x 50½in. (93.5 x 128.3cm.). * Condition: Unframed. Canvas relined, original stretcher. Extensive and heavy overpainting and repainting across the canvas - there is some evidence of the original, finer work to the young girl in the red and white dress. Possible remnant of a signature which resembles that of Charles Poingdestre to the lower centre of the canvas, just to the left of the small fallen twig with leaves. Some small paint flakes and rubs, mainly to edges and a couple of light scratches. Small indent to centre right of canvas.
RAF Military Uniform - Early 1960's in Accompanying Trunk.Comprising the property of Squadron Leader TJC Hooper.Clothing includes: A blue dress uniform complete with buttons and tin of spare mess buttons; one long and two short blue tunics, a blue great coat by Burberry, a beige tropical tunic, plus white shirts, shorts and blue trousers, socks, cumberband, waistcoat, berets, etc.Plus: A plastic bag containing various family photographs, ephemera, etc.
A 1940's Naval officer's peaked cap with King's crown badge, together with service dress jacket with WWII medal bars. Provenance: Previously belonged to George Eric Ray (Sub. Lt. G E Ray, RNVR) who is now aged 97. He was called up in October 1943 and selected for officer training in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) - the Wavy Navy. Further selected for Landing Craft, which came within the realm of Combined Operations, he was despatched to various locations along the west coast of Scotland for training, including Commando Training (because if a landing craft was hit on landing, everyone went forward!). He joined his first craft as First Lieutenant (there being only two officers, the Captain and the 1st Lt. or second-in-command), a tank landing craft LCT952, on the Medina River on the Isle of Wight on D Day + 1 (i.e. 7 June 1944) and then spent the following 12 weeks continually ferrying tanks and their crews from various destinations along the south coast to the Normandy Beaches. After a spell on the River Thames (where landing craft were tethered line abreast directly over the line of Tube Lines under the Thames, so that if a V1 Rocket (Doodlebugs) should land in the river, it would explode on a landing craft and not on the river bed), LCT952 sailed to Belgium in readiness for Operation Infatuate Early in the morning of 1 November 1944, some 15 days before his 20th birthday, and without the promised air cover (because of fog over East Anglia) his flotilla of landing craft successfully landed their units under heavy fire from concrete German gun emplacements.
An Indian Army Supply and Transport Corps Dress Tunic belonging to Major Charles Wilfred Hext, complete with Captain rank pips, post-1902 button QSA and KSA medal ribbons, named inside. Hext originally served with teh Devonshire Regiment then served in the Boer War, recieving the QSA with Natal, Orange Free State and Belfast clasps, also entitled to the KSA. He war transferred to the Indian Army before WWI and served with them until his death in Alexandria in 1919. He served with distinction during his service and was mentioned in despatches, dying of disease in 1919.
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