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Click here to subscribeCeylon - Forbes, Jonathan. Eleven years in Ceylon. Comprising sketches of the field sports and natural history of that colony. London: R. Bentley, 1840. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispieces and 4 plates including 2 aquatints, modern half calf, half title, frontispiece and title of volume one reinforced at inner margin, plates in volume 2 waterstained at upper margin, some browning
Ceylon - Heber, Reginald. Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India... with notes upon Ceylon. London: John Murray, 1828. First edition, 4to, engraved map by Walker, hand-coloured in outline, 10 plates by Finden after Heber, contemporary calf gilt, plates foxed, neatly rebacked. Provenance: Knowsley shelf-mark and Earl of Derby bookplate
Ceylon - Herdman, William A. Report to the government of Ceylon on the pearl oyster fisheries of the gulf of Manaar... with supplementary reports upon the marine biology of Ceylon. London: Royal Society, 1903-06. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to, 169 plates, some tinted and printed in colour, original red cloth. Note: Nissen ZBI 1897 (erroneously calling for 170 plates). Provenance: Royal Society of Edinburgh, small stamp at foot of titles
Ceylon - Haeckel, Ernst. Wanderbilder nach eigenen Aquarellen und Oelgemaelden. Erste und sweite Serie: di Naturwunder der Tropenwelt Ceylon und Insulinde. Gera: W. Koehler, 1905. First edition, folio, 4 uncoloured and 40 coloured plates, original green pictorial cloth portfolio, lettering in gilt on upper cover, joints rubbed
Ceylon - Barrow, George. Ceylon. Past and present. London: J. Murray, 1857. First edition, 8vo, folding engraved map by John Arrowsmith, advertisements at end, original cloth gilt, rebacked retaining most of the original spine, rubbed; Knighton, William The history of Ceylon from the earliest period to the present time. London, 1845. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, some fading to spine, some foxing; Eckard, J.R. Personal narrative of residence as a missionary in Ceylon. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, [c.1844]. 12mo, roan-backed boards, spotted, worn; Ferguson, J. Ceylon in 1903. Colombo: 1903. 8vo, plates, half morocco, spine defective; D`Oyly, John. Diary. Colombo: 1917. 8vo, original wrappers, repaired (5)
Ceylon - Knox, Robert. An historical relation of the island of Ceylon. London: Richard Chiswell, 1681. First edition, folding engraved map and 15 plates, final advertisement leaf & folding map with short split at folds, 7 plates with tears slightly affecting engraved area, some rather crudely repaired on the verso, some staining, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, corners neatly repaired. Note: Wing K732
Ceylon - Moon, Alexander. Indigenous and exotic plants growing in Ceylon. Colombo: Wesleyan Mission Press, 1824. First edition, 4to, text in Roman and Sinhalese letter, [Pritzel 6400], (lacks Sinhalese title, pp.39/40 in part 2 and pp.17/18 in part 3, last 3 leaves somewhat defective land laminated, many tears, some repaired, appear very brittle, later red roan, rebacked, covers worn; Bonavia, E. The cultivated oranges and lemons of India and Ceylon. London: W.H. Allen, 1890. 2 volumes (text and plates), 8vo and oblong 8vo, 259 lithographed plates only (of 269), some defective and repaired with loss, many torn and repaired, some bound out of place, paper of many of the plates very brittle, some foxing, original cloth, very stained and rubbed; Sabonadiere, W. The coffee-planter of Ceylon. London: 1870. Second edition, 8vo, 3 engraved plates, original cloth; Dept. of Agriculture, Ceylon A manual on the weeds of the major crops of Ceylon. 1951. 4to, coloured plates, half calf; and 2 others (7)
Ceylon - Percival, Robert. An account of the island of Ceylon. London: C. & R. Baldwin, 1803. First edition, 4to, folding engraved map by Arrowsmith hand-coloured in outline, and 3 folding engraved charts, original boards, uncut, a few small spots and stains, neatly rebacked. Provenance: Henry Bowyer, near contemporary signature
Ceylon - Selkirk, James. Recollections of Ceylon after a residence of nearly thirteen years. London: J. Hatchard, 1844. First edition, 8vo, lithographed map and 9 tinted plates, one on india paper, one plate detached, original green cloth gilt, somewhat foxed, rebacked retaining original spine, binding rather stained and worn; Knox, Robert An historical relation of Ceylon. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1911. 8vo, number 18 of 100 copies signed by the publisher, engraved plates, original vellum-backed cloth gilt, t.e.g., others uncut; Toussaint, J.R. Annals of the Ceylon civil service. Colombo: 1935. 8vo, plates, half calf gilt (3)
Ceylon - [Suckling, Horatio John]. Ceylon, a general description of the island, historical, physical, statistical. London: Chapman and Hall, 1876. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, folding engraved map, half title, errata slip at end of volume 2, original green cloth, short tear to map, occasional light foxing, recased, a few light marks
Ceylon - Woodhouse, L.G.O. & G.M.R. Henry. The butterfly fauna of Ceylon: Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1942. First edition, 4to, map and 50 plates, 37 coloured, contemporary cloth, occasional light foxing, rather rubbed; Deraniyagala, P.E.P.The tetrapod reptiles of Ceylon: Ceylon: 1939. Volume 1 only [all published], large 8vo, 24 photographic plates, later red calf gilt, occasional very light spotting; Sanderson, G.P. Thirteen years among the wild beasts of India. London: 1878. 8vo, plates, maps, contemporary half calf; Wall, F. Ophidia taprobanica or the snakes of Ceylon. Colombo: H.R. Cottle, 1921. 8vo, frontispiece, folding map, original cloth (4)
Ceylon - Woodhouse, L.G.O. & G.M.R. Henry. The butterfly fauna of Ceylon. Colombo: Ceylon Government Press, 1942. First edition, 4to, 50 plates, 37 coloured, coloured map, contemporary cloth, slightly marked; Baker, Samuel W. Wild beasts and their ways. London: Macmillan, 1890. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, original cloth, some spotting, spines slightly faded; Tennent, J.E. Sketches of the natural history of Ceylon. London: 1861. 8vo, 10 plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Cave, H.W. Golden tips. London: 1904. Third edition, 8vo, illustrations, original cloth gilt; The Prince of Wales` Eastern book. London: [c.1922]. 8vo, original cloth (6)
CARTER (NICK & CAROL) - The Distinguished Flying Cross and How It Was Won, 1918 - 1995, 2 vols., Savannah 1998, orig. blue cloth; MIDDLEBROOK (MARTIN & EVERITT CHRIS) - The Bomber Command War Diaries, an operational reference book, 1939 - 1945, Viking 1985, signed by author on title page, orig. cloth, d.w.; MASON (FRANCISK) - The Hawker Hurricane, 1962, first edition, num. b & w illustrations from photographs, d.w.; CHORLEY (WR) - Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 7 vols, 1992 - 2002; FRANKS (NORMAN LR) RAF Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War, 3 vols. 1997 - 2000 (14)
BRICKHILL (PAUL) - The Dam Busters, Evans London 1951, first edition, orig. cloth, d.w.; together with Reach for the Sky, seventh ed. 1955, orig. cloth. d.w.; RAWNSLEY (C F & WRIGHT R) Night Fighter, Collins, London 1957 second ed. orig. cloth d.w.; HARRIS (SIR ARTHUR) - Bomber Offensive, London 1947, first edition, orig. cloth. d.w., and four related titles (8)
REMARQUE (ERICH MARIA) All Quiet On The Western Front, translated by A.W. Wheen, first American edition, Boston 1929, orig. buff cloth; BRENNECKE (H. J.) Ghost Cruiser H.K. 33, William Kimber 1954, paper covers with publication date stamp to the top cover and owners name and address in ink, together with six further related titles (8)
WHISTLER (REX. ILLUST.) The Last Uptake or The Estranged Sisters by Simon Harcourt-Smith, Solstice 1967, illust. orig. red cloth, dust jacket; AVILOV (LYDIA) Chekov in My Life A Love Story, illust. Lynton Lamb, Lehmann 1950, orig. blue cloth, dust jacket; MAURIER (DAPHNE DU) Rebecca. Victor Gollancz 1938, first edition, orig. black cloth gt. lettering, no dust jacket; HAGGARD (H. RIDER) Pearl-Maiden, Longmans 1903, first edition, blue cloth, gt. lettering; HAGGARD (H. RIDER) Fair Margaret, Hutchinson 1907, first edition, blue cloth, gt. lettering (5)
BRAINE (JOHN) Room At The Top, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, first edition, orig. green cloth, gt. dust jacket; CRAXTON (JOHN ILLUST.) The Poets Eye. Anthology chosen by Geoffrey Gryson, Muller 1944, first edition sixteen full paper col illustrations, orig. dual col. dec. cloth, dust jacket; GREENE (GRAHAM) The Quiet American, Heinemann 1955, first edition orig. blue cloth gt. dust jacket; GREENE (GRAHAM) Our Man in Havana, Heinemann 1958, first edition orig. blue cloth, dust jacket; MAUGHAM (W SOMERSET) Then and Now, Heinemann 1946, dust jacket (5)
BOGARDE (DIRK) Closing Ranks, signed on f. f. e. p.; A Particular Friendship; A Period of Adjustment; For the Time Being; Cleared for Take-Off; Great Meadow, A Short Walk from Harrods; Jericho; all first editions d. w. together with Baker (Tom) The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, first edition, signed (9)
Muir (Frank). The Frank Muir Book, an irreverent companion to social history, Heinemann 1976, first edition, signed by author on f.p.e.p. black cloth, dw; Ziegler (Philip) Mountbatten The Official Biography, Collins 1985, First edition, signed by author on title page, blue cloth, d.w.; Rushdie (Salmon) The Satanic Verses, Viking 1989, dw; Midnight`s Children Cape 1981 reprint, dw; Bedford (Sybille) Aldous Huxley A Biography 2 vols. Collins 1973, dw; slip case, Beken (of Cowes) A Hundred Years of Sail, Collins 1981, numerous b/w illustrations, red cloth dw (7)
PAUL DE BORMAN, LAWN TENNIS, Brussels, April 1906, 8, First Edition, Presentation Copy, half title inscribed; "A la Comtesse Henry de Baillet Latour. Hommage de l'auteur, Paul de Borman, Bruxelles, le 10 Octobre 1909", 77 pages plus tables and advertisements at end, text in French, contemporary limp calf gilt, (extremities slightly rubbed), Lawn tennis did not become fashionable in France or Belgium until 1920-1915, and this work was therefore published at an early stage in the development of the French game., Provenance: With bookplate of Elis Alex de Baillet-Latour. Comte Henry de la Baillet-Latour was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 to 1942, Christie's South Kensington: Tennis and Racket Sports, 16 June 1995, Lot 4
Spirits;Endo Brewery Keiryu Daiginjo-shu 2008, Grappa Koralis 24 Mesi Barrique, New Grove Oak Aged Rum, Napoleon XO Brandy, ULLR Nordic Libation,Lagavulin Distiller`s Edition 1991, Armagnac Marcel Trepout Apotheose 30 YO, Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey, Nederburg Solera Potstill Brandy, Mackmyra First Edition, Mackmyra Privus: 04, Oude Meester Reserve 12 YO Brandy.
* The Wrest Park Finials: A pair of extremely rare and fine lead lidded finials attributed to John Van Nost: 274cm.; 108ins high overall The garden at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire begun in the 1680's by Antony Grey, 11th Earl of Kent and continued by his son, Henry, created 1st Duke of Kent was one of the grandest and most admired gardens established in England in the first part of the 18th Century. It's roots lay in the Anglo- Dutch gardens of the 1690's and were intended to convey the Grey family's political support of William and Mary and the Glorious Revolution. Among contemporary documents that demonstrate Wrest's high reputation is the record of a garden tour in 1735, in which the gardens were described as " undoubtedly some of ye finest in England". Wrest had already been singled out for praise in 1781 in the Ichnographica Rustica of Stephen Switzer and John Mackay who included it in the fourth edition of his Journey through England in 1724 repeated what was probably the standard view of Wrest when he called it "A very magnificent, noble Seat, with large Parks, Avenues and fine Gardens". Wrest was one of only four estates that appeared in multiple views in Kip and Knyff's Britannia Illustrata. A generation later in 1735 Wrest was one of the earliest great gardens to be published in a large garden plan by John Rocque in which these finials can be seen flanking the entrance to the Duke's Square garden. John van Nost who died in 1729 was from a family of sculptors of Flemish descent. He had his own yard in the Haymarket, London by about 1687 and soon established himself as the leading maker of 'Marble and Leaden figures, Busto's and noble Vases, Marble chimneypieces and curious Marble tables'. John van Nost is recorded as having supplied the two large lead vases, still in the Wrest Bowling Green House and eight lead heads for the Duke of Kent in 1725 , and it is generally accepted that he supplied the impressive lead statue of William III in1710-20 which still stands in front of the Pavilion at Wrest. Stylistically, however, this impressive pair of lead finials with their strongly modelled amorini or cherub heads date to the very early part of the 18th century and were probably commissioned by the 11th Duke prior to his death in 1702. They were cast using the cire perdu or lost wax process which gives a crispness of detail and modelling seldom achieved in later works. The flame terminals, in particular are a tour de force with each flame tendril separately accentuated. By the late 1720's however, both finials were on pedestals dedicated to the 1st Duke's children; Anthony de Grey, Earl of Harrold who died in 1723 and his favourite daughter Annabell who died in 1727. They were placed in the Duke's square garden and removed by the vendors great grandfather when Wrest Park was sold in the late 1930's. A Portland stone sundial attributed to van Nost and originally at Wrest sold by the same family who bought Wrest Park in 1917 and thus with an identical provenance to these finials, was sold by Sotheby's on 15th June 2004. This carried a bronze sundial by the celebrated clockmaker Thomas Tompion. The pedestal is virtually identical to one at Kew Gardens, documented as being made by van Nost, which originally stood a Kensington Palace and was made for William III between 1688 and 1702. Literature; The Duke of Kent's garden at Wrest Park by Linda Cabe Halpern, published by the Journal of Garden History. Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis Auction catalogue of the sale of Wrest Park, July 1917 Provenance Wrest Park, near Shefford, Bedfordshire, seat of the Grey Family, Earls and later Dukes of Kent. The Park was purchased in1917 by the great grandfather of the current owner.
Isaac Kahn, Acrobat born 1950 Bronze variegated green patination from an edition of 9 48½cm.; 19ins wide by 40cm.; 16ins high Isaac Kahn was born in 1950 in Kaunas, Lithuania. When he was 14 he moved to Israel where he enrolled in Art College before moving to Uruguay in 1973 where he continued his studies at the University of Plastic Arts in Montevideo. In 1975 at the age of 25 he presented his first one man exhibition in the exhibition hall of Montevideo where one of his works was purchased by the widow of the President of Uruguay. . In 1984 he began working in Italy before settling there in 1991. He opened a gallery in Verona showing his work. He has exhibited widely and his work can now be found in public and private collections in the USA, South America, Israel, Europe, Japan and Korea.
SMYTHE, John. Certen Instructions, observations and orders Militarie, requisit for all Chieftains, Captaines, and higher and lower men of charge, and Officers, to understand, know and observe. Composed by Sir John Smythe: knight, 1591. London: 1594. First edition, 4to (188 x 132mm.) (Slightly shaved.) Late 19th century speckled calf gilt, by Riviere & Son, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering pieces in the second and third, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, g.e. (slightly rubbed). Provenance: A.J. Partridge (receipt from Maggs Bros dated 25.7.1977). Note: very rare: no copies are listed as having sold at auction in the past thirty-five years. A reprint with a variant title was published in 1595. STC 22884 (recording 2 copies, one at St. John's College, the other the imperfect Huntingdon Library copy); ESTC (RLIN) S111035; OCLC 84758099 (recording only the imperfect Huntingdon Library copy).
GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS (publishers). - Lucius APULEIUS. The xi. Bookes of the Golden Asse. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: 1923. Limited edition of 450 copies for sale, this number 167, 8vo (255 x 192mm.) (Light spotting to first and last few leaves.) Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards (soiled or browned). - And two other limited edition works (3).
ROSSER, W.H. How to Find the Stars… second and thoroughly revised edition. London: [n.d. but circa 1920.] 4to (313 x 246mm.) 4 folding plates. (First and last few leaves browned.) Original cloth (extremities slightly scuffed and bumped). Provenance: Stanley Leonard Barry (signature dated 'Oct/07' to front-free endpaper).
UPWARD, Edward. Journey to the Border. London: published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition, 8vo (181 x 118mm.) (Light marginal browning.) Original cloth (extremities lightly bumped), dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell (slightly soiled, spine slightly chipped at head and foot of spine).
TOLKIEN, J.R.R. The Return of the King being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1955. First edition, 8vo (220 x 137mm.) Folding map printed in red and black at rear. Original cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (minor nicks, spine damp-stained and darkened).
DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Through the Magic Door. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1907. First edition, 8vo (189 x 122mm.) 16 plates. (Occasional light spotting or browning.) Original cloth (discoloured, rebacked with old spine laid down). Provenance: author's presentation copy, inscribed at the head of the title-page 'With Arthur Conan Doyle's kind remembrances Xmas 1907'.
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