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Lot 267
A FRENCH ENAMELLED GLASS MAMLUK STYLE FLASK, PHILIPPE-JOSEPH BROCARD, PARIS, CIRCA 1880 flattened moon form, the amber tinted glass body enamelled in turquoise, white and red and gilded with arabesque strapwork roundels to each side within beaded borders, gilt scroll work between and to the flared neck, scroll handles applied to the shoulder, signed Brocard Paris in iron red script above the foot 16.5cm high Judy Rudoe (Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A catalogue of the British Museum collection, second edition, 1994, no. 27) states: 'P.-J. Brocard started his career as a restorer and collector of antiques; fascinated by the Mamluk mosque lamps in the Musee de Cluny, Paris, he began to collect them himself and thus had models close at hand to study. Mosque lamps were luxury objects for hanging in mosques and mausolea and were the most spectacular achievements of enamelled glass from Mamluk Egypt and Syria from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. Brocard was among the first to revive Islamic enamelling techniques: vitreous enamels were applied to the surface of the vessel and then fixed by firing so that the enamels fused to the surface. The gilding was applied beneath the enamels in the form of gold leaf or powdered dust and similarly fused to the surface in the firing.'
Lot 3603A
Local History - History of Chesterfield, Wilfred Edmunds, Ltd., Chesterfield 1974-1992, five volumes (lacking Volume II Part 1); Porteous (Crichton), Pill Boxes and Bandages: A documentary biography of the First Two Generations of Robinsons of Chesterfield 1839-1916, Robinson & Sons Ltd., Chesterfield [1960], hb, dj; Robinsons of Chesterfield Centenary: An epic account of the growth of the firm of Robinson and Sons Ltd. of Chesterfield, 1839-1939; Robinson (Philip), The Smiths of Chesterfield: A History of The Griffin Foundry, Brampton, 1775-1833, Robinson & Sons Ltd., Chesterfield 1957, hb, dj; Chesterfield Education: The Record of Four Years of Experiment and Reconstruction: Prepared in accordance with a Resolution of the Chesterfield Education Committee, by Members of the Staff of the Education Office, Bales & Wilde, Chesterfield 1932, hb; Who's Who In Derbyshire, Limited Edition No. 223, Ebenezer Baylis & Son Ltd., Worcester 1934, hb; Firth (J.B.), Highways and Byways in Derbyshire, MacMillan and Co., London 1908; Derbyshire Life and Countryside, various, bound in two binders; Derby history; local pamphlets, various, some scarce; transport, topography, etc (qty)
Lot 3625
Wallace (Edgar), The Keepers of The King's Peace, Illustrated by Maurice Grieffenhagen, first edition, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London 1917, 303pp, adverts (16), green cloth boards as issued, signed by the author, inscribed copy with ink MS dedication to the author's daughter, dated 1917 next to pasted photograph portrait of the creator of King Kong, 12mo
![Miscellaneous - Anonymous [Bladen, (Martin)], An Impartial Enquiry Into The Management of The War In Spain, By The Ministry A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/83a98df0-70d8-49aa-a40c-a6be00c4b6ae/00fd0745-9176-445b-f4b9-f8854f61d2a2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 3610
Miscellaneous - Anonymous [Bladen, (Martin)], An Impartial Enquiry Into The Management of The War In Spain, By The Ministry At Home [...], John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, London 1712, first edition, [vii], 265, 139pp, calf binding, shield armorial bookplate of Frederick Keppel, 12mo; Law - Seffions Cafes (sic) Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench, Chiefly touching Settlements, From The latter End of Queen Anne's Reign to the prefent (sic) Time: With Two Tables, the one of the Names of the Cases, the other of the Principal Matters therein contained, second edition, Catherine Lintot, In the Savoy, [London 1760], full contemporary calf, title-page with ink MS owner's inscription W Jamson 1799, ex-libris Nottingham Law Library stamps and bookplates, octavo; Anonymous [Nary, (Cornelius)], A Modeft (sic) and True Account of The Chief Points In Controversie (sic), Between the Roman Catholicks (sic) And the Protestants: Together with fome Confiderations (sic) upon the Sermons of a Divine of the Church of England, Antwerp 1705, [xii], 302pp, contemporary speckled calf, book label of John Reed, Mexborough, 12mo; Beveridge (William, D.D.), Thefarus (sic) Theologicus: Or, A Compleat Syftem (sic) of Divinity Summ'd up in Brief Notes Upon felect (sic) Places of the Old and New Teftament (sic) [...], W. Downing, London 1711, volume IV only, contemporary embossed calf, octavo; The Fourth Volume of Letters Writ by a Turkifh (sic) Spy, Who Liv'd Five and Forty Years Undifcover'd (sic) at Paris, twelfth edition, A. Wilde, London 1748, contemporary binding, 16mo (6)
Lot 3618
Stanley (Henry M.), How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discovers In Central Africa; Including Four Months' Residence With Dr. Livingstone, first edition, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London 1872, xxiii + 736pp + adverts [viii], six maps, numerous illustrations, mounted photographic frontispiece of the author, original pictorial boards as issued, 8vo
Lot 3611
Natural History - Conchology - Donovan, F.L.S (E), The Natural History of British Shells, Including Figures and Descriptions of All The Species Hitherto Discovered In Great Britain, Systematically Arranged In The Linnean Manner, With Scientific and General Observations On Each, first edition, F. and C. Rivington, London 1799-1802, four volumes 'bound as two, hand-coloured engraved plates throughout, marbled boards and endpapers, 4to
Lot 3584
Botany - Gray (Samuel Frederick), A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, According To Their Relations To Each Other, As Pointed Out By Jussieu, De Candolle, Brown, &c., Including Those Cultivated For Use [...], first edition, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London 1821, two-volume set, xii, xvii-xxviii + 824pp, viii + 757pp, hand-coloured plates, period cloth board, the spines with leather title labels, octavo
Lot 1353
Books - Sitwelliana - Sitwell (Dame Edith), Street Songs, first edition, MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London 1942, hb, dj; others, including, A Poet's Notebook, first edition, MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London 1943, hb dj, Green Song And Other Poems, first edition advance review copy [inset leaf], MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London 1944, hb dj and The Song of The Cold, first edition advance review copy [inset leaf], MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London 1945, hb, dj; other works by Dame Edith; Sitwell (Sir Osbert), Laughter In The Next Room, uncorrected proof copy, MacMillan & Co. Ltd, London 1949; others, Left Hand, Right Hand and Nobles Essences, both hb, dj; Sacheverell Sitwell (3); etc
Lot 1371
Antiquarian and Later Books - Fleming (Ian), The Spy Who Loved Me, first Book Club edition, The Book Club, London 1962, hb, dj, 12mo; partial Works of Charles Dickens, Chapman and Hall, London 1890 and onwards, period buckram (18); Brimelow (William), Centenary Memorials of The Independent Methodist Church at Roe Green, Worsley, [Privately Printed] 1908, hb, period red cloth; Forester's Hornblower, various; royal commemorative issue newspapers, 1902 and 1952 (2); Victorian birthday books; Police Diary 1951; various parish handbooks; advertisement endpapers; Victorian and later fiction; classic literature, including poetry; qty
![[BRONTE (CHARLOTTE)] SHIRLEY A TALE BY CURRER BELL AUTHOR OF "JANE EYRE", FIRST EDITION three vols, adverts (pp318-320) at e](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/13371180-6317-47f2-af1d-a6b80108359a/e8a2f4ba-599c-4257-ff0f-ad17a97af906/468x382.jpg)
Lot 676
[BRONTE (CHARLOTTE)] SHIRLEY A TALE BY CURRER BELL AUTHOR OF "JANE EYRE", FIRST EDITION three vols, adverts (pp318-320) at end of vol III (with "lately Published the third edition of Jayne Eyre") pale yellow endpapers, original dark greyish red ribbed cloth the corners stamped in blind with borders, spines wanting early ownership signature (Henry S Wildes) and round WEST MALLING BOOK SOCIETY stamp to endpapers, 1849
Lot 654
†EDWARD BAWDEN, RA (1903-1989) BRIGHTON PIER linocut in colour on wove from the first edition, signed by the artist in pencil, dated 1956 and inscribed Brighton Pier, 55.5 x 147.5cm Provenance: Dr Eric Benjamin Stauss (1894-1961) the eminent psychiatrist of 45 Wimpole Street, London, by whom given to the family of the present vendor. E B Strauss enjoyed the confidence and trust of some of the most remarkable figures of pre and post war Britain. These included Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Ian Fleming. In a letter to Strauss of 5 January 1955 Fleming informs the doctor that "A perfectly horrible man' [Drax] whose appearance in Fleming's forthcoming thriller 'Moonraker' resulted from his having borrowed Strauss' book Men of Genius (see The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters, 2015). ++In excellent untouched condition in the original late 1950s gey, black and yellow painted wood frame with on the backboard the trade label of Alfred Stiles & Sons Ltd, London. Fresh to the market not hitherto offered for sale
Lot 74D
World War II Interest Books: Rommel by Desmond Young. London: Collins, 1950. First edition, 8vo (214 x 135mm.) Original cloth, dust-jacket; The Wooden Horse by Eric Williams. Collins 1949. First edition; The Iron Duke - The Regimental Magazine of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment August 1940; The Battle of Britain No. 21 - David Garnett & James Gardner. Puffin Picture Book (c. 1941); Aircraft of World War 1 & 2 b y John WR Taylor. Hippo Books 13 & 16 (c. 1960's). (7)
Lot 74B
A Small Quantity of Irish Interest Books & Pamphlets to include Inns and Taverns of Old Kilkenny by May Sparks. 10pp, pamphlet, illustrated. Printed: Kilkenny People, no date, First Ed; The Dublin Grand Opera Society 1941 - Pamphlet; Books Relating to Ireland History & Topography Catalogue 14; Ghosts by Maelsechlin. Privately printed & limited edition of 250; James Joyce Dubliners 1954, Irish Architectural Drawings - An Exhibition to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Irish Architectural Records Association 1965 etc (7).
Lot 25
Williams-Wynn, R. W. Lt-Col. THE HISTORICAL RECORDS OF THE YEOMANRY AND VOLUNTEERS OF MONTGOMERYSHIRE 1803 - 1908 Oswestry: Woodall Minshall Thomas & Co, 1909 First edition. B/w photographs and plates in colour. All illustrations present. Red cloth with regimental badge. Coverage of the Anglo-Boer War.
Lot 4
Various OFFICIAL JOHANNESBURG PROGRAMME OF AS & T BROADCASTING COMPANY (ASSOCIATED SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES) Johannesburg: AS & T Broadcasting Co Ltd, 20 September 1924 to 19 July 1925 First edition. This set is a full run of the more than first year of broadcasting. A rare survival of early broadcasting in South Africa. Radio came to South Africa in 1923. In 1927 the AS & T B. Co. Ltd became the African Broadcasting Company and in 1936 the S.A.B.C. Original paper covers, condition of covers vary slightly. These booklets were posted to Arthur Wellesley Cloete Smith an old boy of King Edward VII School who was awarded the Military Medal in World War I. The booklets were posted to his home at 41 Terrace Road, Bertrams, Johannesburg.(Qty)
Lot 8
Bello, A. A. S. PAUL KRUGER CERAMIC MEDALLION Portugal: Galdas, circa 1900 First edition. Bust of Paul Kruger with hole at 12 o'clock through which a suspending cord could be threaded. Manufacturer's details impressed into the clay of the reverse of the medallion. Of highest rarity because of the material of the medallion, few survived.
Lot 52
Coillard, Francois ON THE THRESHOLD OF CENTRAL AFRICA: A RECORD OF TWENTY YEARS' PIONEERING AMONG THE BAROTSI OF THE UPPER ZAMBEZI London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897 First edition. Forty four b/w illustrations from photographs by the author. Pictorial cloth, slight wear to spine edges, internal hinge split.
Lot 86
LAGDEN, GODFREY Sir THE BASUTOS: THE MOUNTAINEERS AND THEIR COUNTRY, 2 VOLS London: Hutchinson & Co, 1909 First edition. 70 illustrations and 9 maps. Cloth, slight, very occasional scattered foxing. Bookplate of A. J. Ballantine, hinge split to Vol. 1. A narrative of events relating to the tribe from its formation early in the 19th century to the present day. (2)
Lot 45
Brinton, Wilfred HISTORY OF THE BRITISH REGIMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1795 - 1895 Cape Town: University of Cape Town, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, 1977 First edition. Detailed information as to the service and movements of British Regiments. Hardback. One of the rarest and most sought after reference works on the subject. The previous owner has penned on the front free endpaper 'Copy not for sale'.
Lot 57
Dawkins and Wood THE RUINS OF PALMYRA OTHERWISE TEDMOR IN THE DESERT London: The Authors, 1753 First edition. Limited to 1000 copies. 57 engraved plates. Full leather with magnificent foliated border decoration to cover boards in gold, gold gartered Stafford Coat of Arms on front cover board, banded decorated spine, slight wear to extreme edges of cover boards, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of the Marquis of Stafford. Unlike earlier antiquarian works, Wood measured and recorded proportions of columns and remnants of friezes and ceilings - a pioneering approach that influenced British and French architects throughout the 18th century.
Lot 89
LEYDS, DR W.J. THE FIRST ANNEXATION OF THE TRANSVAAL London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906 First edition. Roll of Cape Governors, State Secretaries for Colonies, Premiers, etc and Governors of Natal. Foldout map in very good condition. Cloth, rubber stamp on title page endpapers of the Cape Argus Library. A nice association copy.
Lot 122
Whittall, W. Lt-Cdr. WITH BOTHA AND SMUTS IN AFRICA London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1917 First edition. 2 b/w illustrations and 2 maps. Cloth, spine sunned, a tight clean copy, very slight wear to bottom edge of spine. Whittall served with the Royal Navy Armoured Car Division. The books cover the German-South West Africa Campaign 1914 - 15 and the German East Africa Campaign of 1916.
Lot 18
Mellish, A. E. OUR BOYS UNDER FIRE OR FIRST CANADIAN CONTINGENT MARITIME (PROVINCES) VOLUNTEERS (OF CANADA) IN SOUTH AFRICA Charlottetown: The Examiner Office, 1900 Second edition. B/w sketches and photographs, 43 full page illustrations, nominal rolls and casualty lists. Stippled red cloth, small stain at top edge of front cover board, a tight clean copy. A rare regimental history.
Lot 113
Turnley, V. S. (Photographer) ALBUM OF INSTANEOUS VIEWS OF DURBAN Durban: The photographer, circa 1899 First edition. 7 original cabinet photographs, 17 by 11cm, set in decorated window frames with lower window containing a caption written in ink; inscription on reverse of title page. Blindstamped titled cloth. Turnley gives his address as Australian House, Railway Street, Durban. An extremely scarce privately produced publication.
Lot 51
Chapman, Charles Captain A VOYAGE FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO CAPE TOWN IN THE UNION COMPANY'S MAIL STEAMER 'SYRIA' AND TWO THOUSAND MILES JOURNEY THROUGH KAFFIRLAND AND THE DIAMOND FIELDS London: George Berridge & Co., 1872 First edition. Sepia illustrations. In quarter leather blue solander box, original paper covers faded. The trip back was through the Griqua Territory.An extremely rare publication.
Lot 109
Sutherland, Lieut-Col. MEMOIR RESPECTING THE KAFFIRS, HOTTENTOTS AND BOSJEMANS Cape Town: Pike & Philip, 1846 First edition. Half leather, banded spines, gilt top edges, gold ruling of covers; marbled endpapers. The front cover board of Vol 2 is detached but this could be secured very easily at little cost by a bookbinder (details available), otherwise a very clean bright, tight set. A few marginal pencil notes, slight foxing to prelims and title page. (2)
Lot 63
DU VAL, CHARLES WITH A SHOW THROUGH SOUTHERN AFRICA AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE TRANSVAAL WAR, 2 VOLS London: Tinsley Bros, 1884 Second edition. B/w engraved sketches, many based on photographs by H. Gros, the Pretoria photographer during the Siege. Decorated cloth, slight wear to spine edges, foliated spine decoration, slight scattered foxing. Du Val was editor of the 'News of the Camp' the newspaper he edited during the Siege of Pretoria 1880 - 1881, first Anglo-Boer War including unknown accounts of the Battle of Swartkopjes, the only British victory of the War, the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit and other actions round Pretoria. A very rare set. (2)
Lot 107
Stark, Arthur C. (Completed by W. L. Sclater) THE BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA, 4 VOLS London: R. H. Porter, 1901 First edition. B/w illustrations. Half leather, banded decorated spines in fine unread condition, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Cecily Niven, daughter of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick who wrote 'Jock of the Bushveld'. A beautiful set. Marginal annotations in pencil in places. (4)
Lot 43
Bolus, H. and two others A BOOK OF SOUTH AFRICAN FLOWERS Cape Town: Juta & Co Ltd, 1925 First edition. Col. & b/w illustrations. Pictorial cloth in poor dustjacket. and another of related interest ? BOLUS, H. M. L. AND TWO OTHERS - A Second Book of South African Flowers, 1936, slight foxing to endpapers with dustjacket frittered at spine edges. Interesting correspondence to the vendor loose in first item. (2)
Lot 37
Bent, Theodore, J. THE RUINED CITIES OF MASHONALAND London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1892 First edition. Profusely illustrated with 2 maps and 3 plans. Pictorial cloth in bright condition, initial foxing to prelims and first 4 pages as is usual with this book. A record of Excavation and Exploration in 1891 with chapter on the Orientation and Mensuration of the Temples.
Lot 118
Vinnicombe, Patricia PEOPLE OF THE ELAND: ROCK PAINTINGS OF THE DRAKENSBERG BUSHMEN AS A REFLECTION OF THEIR LIFE & THOUGHT Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1976 First edition. Col. & b/w illustrations in profusion. Grained cover board with bookplate in good dustjacket, front endpaper a bit age browned with a few marks. Otherwise a very good copy.
Lot 41
Bolus, H. ICONES ORCHIDEARUM AUSTRO-AFRICANARUM ETC EXTRA TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICAN ORCHIDS, Vol. 1 Part 1; Vol 1, Part 2, Vol. 3 London: William Wesley & Son, 1898 First edition. Col. & b/w illustrations. Cloth, damage to side edge of Vol. 1 Part 1, pages are loose in Vol. 1 Part 1 and Part 2, foxing to prelims, sello tape stain to endpapers of Vol. 3. (3)
Lot 90
Lloyd, A.B IN DWARF LAND AND CANNIBAL COUNTRY: A RECORD OF TRAVEL AND DISCOVERY IN CENTRAL AFRICA London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899 First large edition limited to 1000 copies. One hundred and forty six illustrations and maps. Bright pictorial cover boards, deep crack to internal hinge, bookplate of I. & F. Hosken.
Lot 91
Lydekker, R. THE GAME ANIMALS OF AFRICA London: Rowland Ward Ltd, 1900 First edition. B/w illustrations in profusion. Top two corners bumped, with slight rubbing to spine tops. Internal hinge cracks with nick to front free endpaper. Bookplate of Einar Lönnberg. Internally clean and tight. Small smudges to pre title page.
Lot 106
Stanley, Henry M. IN DARKEST AFRICA OR THE QUEST, RESCUE AND RETREAT OF EMIN GOVERNOR OF EQUATORIA London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890 First edition. 170 woodcut illustrations and maps. Gilt edges, the two large foldout maps in both volumes have some folds reinforced with sello tape, minimal intrusion of tape to front of map, simulated half leather with Stanley's facsimile signature on front cover boards in gold, foxing to endpapers and previous owner's label on front free endpaper.
Lot 84
Koeman, C TABULAE GEOGRAPHICAE COLONIAL BONAE SPEI EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY OF CAPE COLONY Cape Town: N. V. Hollandsch-Afrikaansche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1952 First edition. Col. & b/w illustrations. 10 plates of maps of the Cape Colony 1752 - 1812 and companion map of Governor van de Graaff of 1795 in rear pocket. Full leather VOC monogram on front cover board.
Lot 58
Delavoye, Alex M. RECORDS OF THE 90TH REGIMENT (PERTHSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY) London: Richardson & Co, 1880 First edition. Details of the 8th and 9th Kaffir Wars and Zulu War. Nominal rolls of officers etc, 1795 - 1880. Pictorial decorated cloth with slight wear to edges of spine and very slight foxing to title page edge.
Lot 69
Gorges, E. Howard Brig-Gen. THE GREAT WAR IN WEST AFRICA London: Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1930 First edition. With frontis, 191 other illustrations and 15 maps, nominal rolls of regiments, etc. Cloth, part of old dustjacket included at back of book. A rare World War I history, seldom offered for sale.
Lot 46
Bryden, H. Anderson GUN AND CAMERA IN SOUTHERN AFRICA London: Edward Stanford, 1893 First edition. A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, The Kalahari Desert and the Lake River Country, Ngamiland with notes on Colonisation, Natives, Natural History and Sport. Numerous b/w illustrations and a map. Half leather, marbled boards and endpapers, gold ruled banded spine. A fine copy.
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