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Lot 240
Three: Sergeant A. Lakin, Brabant’s Horse and Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry, later 4th South African Horse and South African Service Corps Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (43337 Serjt: A. Lakin. Thorneycroft’s M.I.); British War and Bilingual Victory Medals (Dvr. A. Lakin. S.A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240 --- Alexander Lakin attested initially for Brabant’s Horse and served with them during the early stages of the Boer War before being discharged, time expired, on 9 February 1900. He subsequently attested for Thorneycroft’s Mounted Infantry on 21 February 1900 and saw further service with them, before being discharged at his own request on 9 November 1900. He saw further service during the Great War with both the 4th South African Horse from 17 March 1916 to 14 April 1917, and then with the Motor Transport Section of the South African Service Corps from 12 June 1917, until finally discharged on 10 February 1919. Sold with the recipient’s four original Certificates of Discharge from the four above-mentioned units, the first two in relic condition; and other ephemera.
Lot 272
Three: Petty Officer H. Rice, Royal Navy British War and Victory Medals (150839 H. Rice. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (150839 Henry Rice, P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Nelson.) very fine (3) £70-£90 --- Henry Rice was born in Holborn, Middlesex, on 13 February 1874 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 13 August 1889. Advanced Petty Officer First Class on 21 October 1903, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 25 February 1907. He was shore pensioned on 12 February 1914, and joined the Royal Fleet Reserve the following day, before being recalled for War Service on 2 August 1914, serving in H.M.S. Excellent from 22 July 1916, and later in the Armed Boarding Vessel S.S. Peel Castle. He was shore pensioned on 25 February 1919. Sold with copied record of service and other research.
Lot 358
The Indian Mutiny medal awarded to Assistant Surgeon L. F. Dickson, 2nd Sikh Police Corps, who was also attached ‘in medical charge in the field’ to Shannon’s Naval Brigade, February-September 1858; he afterwards emigrated to Australia but finally settled on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where a nature reserve today bears his name Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Lucknow (Asst. Surgn. L. F. Dickson 2nd Sikh Police Corps) good very fine and rare £1,200-£1,600 --- Lindsay Frederick Dickson was born on 26 October 1834, at Cheltenham, son of the distinguished physician Samuel Dickson later of 28 Bolton Street, Mayfair and his wife, ‘the beauty of Edinburgh’, Eliza, daughter of David Johnston of Overton and niece of Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. Samuel, after serving with the 30th Regiment of Foot in Madras for five years, published a book on the tropical diseases of India. His surgery of over 7,000 patients in Cheltenham made him a wealthy man but Samuel Dickson was a controversial physician who, by 1860, at his own expense, produced a monthly hand-written journal, The People’s Medical Enquirer, in which he advanced the cause of Dicksonian truth whilst exposing the errors of others. Samuel waged a long campaign against bloodletting which, he felt, weakened patients and instead he advocated the use of stimulants such as Quinine and alcohol. His lectures on the ‘Fallacies of the Faculty’ and the ‘Chrono-thermal System of Medicine’ were treated by the medical establishment with scepticism and he was ostracised by his peers. While he was not without supporters in England, his chief following was in the United States where the Penn Medical College of Philadelphia was founded to teach his doctrines. Lindsay was educated Aberdeen University, King's College, London, M.R.C.S. 1856 and L.S.A 1856, and St. Andrews, Scotland, M.D. 1857. He was appointed Assistant-Surgeon, 4 August 1857; Surgeon, 4 August 1869; Surgeon-Major, 1 July 1879; Brigade-Surgeon, 27 November 1882, and retired the following year. His Employment and Services in the Field plus additions are as follows: He arrived at Calcutta, 5 December 1857, and was appointed to accompany a detachment of recruits of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Fusiliers from Barrackpore to Cawnpore where, on 8 February 1858, he was appointed to the Shannon’s Naval Brigade, being present with it until its departure back to Calcutta in September 1858. He was in medical charge in the field in the absence of Surgeon Flanagan, who had been taken with fever. ‘The Devil's Wind’ by Verney states that the hospital at Lucknow was in such an exposed position that it was relocated to a village 150 yards away. The enemy received information of the move and redirected their fire, whereby two camels were killed by round shot and another went through the building where Dr. Dickson and some staff were operating. On 10 October 1858, he took medical charge of a detachment of recruits, 70 women and 70 children to Allahabad per the flat Mala Ganga arriving at Calcutta on 10 November. On 18 November 1858, he took medical charge of the 2nd Sikh Police Battalion at Bulleah which was engaged in protecting the Gorackpore Frontier towards Nepal. In January 1859 he transferred to 20th Regiment Punjab Infantry, during several expeditions against flying parties of rebels in the Shahabad District. In September 1859 he was placed in medical charge of the 3rd Sikh Cavalry at Tirhoot and accompanied the regiment to Segowlee until forced by illness to go to Dinapore, where he was ordered to England for 15 months on Medical Certificate, returning to India on 9 August 1861. He served 5 years with the Mewar Infantry, with a brief period with the Malwa Bheel Corps; served 2 years, Bengal Artillery; 8 months, Bengal Sappers and Miners; 6 months each with 25th and 28th Bengal Native Infantry; and one year with 13th (Shekhawatti) Native Infantry. He served further various lengths of service in Civil Charge of the districts of Azimgarh, Mymensingh, Nagode and Roorkee. On 15 June 1869, Lindsay Frederick married Charlotte, the daughter of John Kirkpatrick, former Chief Justice of the Legislative Council of the Ionian Islands, and his wife Jean, at Edinburgh. Through her uncle William Kirkpatrick of Malaga, Charlotte was a direct cousin of the future Empress Eugenie. Charlotte bore Lindsay 8 children, although 3 died tragically young. On retirement, after serving for 22 years and 6 days, he sailed with his family to Australia. The Register of the Medical Practitioners for 1885 in the Victorian Police Gazette shows that Dr. Dickson had already registered in Melbourne as early as 7 May 1880. Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac for 1881 shows that he also registered in the town of Bothwell, a remote outpost on the island. Dickson and family remained in Australia for 5 years. In the late 1880s Dickson joined an established community of soldiers’ families who had come from India to settle on Vancouver Island. They were attracted in part by the excellent trout and salmon fishing on Cowichan River and Lake, but also by low property prices. Dickson bought a property on Denman Island and a house in Vancouver, wintering in Santa Cruz, California where he established a medical practice. In 1889 he further purchased the Cowichan Lake Hotel, remotely located on the mouth of the Campbell River. An Angler’s Paradise – Sport fishing and Settler Society on Vancouver Island 1860s-1920s, by Diana Pedersen, gives an atmospheric account of their lives and experiences with Dickson being one of the leading citizens of the community. At Santa Cruz Dickson was exposed to the new pastime of big-game fishing that was sweeping the sporting world. He brought his knowledge of angling for large salmon from Monterey Bay to the Campbell River, where he was considered an authority on tackle and lures, and even patented a reel of his own design at El Paso. In 1903 he created two salmon-angling world records at the Campbell River; the first, confirmed by the The Field magazine, to which Dickson contributed many articles, was for the greatest weight of salmon caught by a rod in one day; 12 Tyee (Chinook) salmon were landed weighing 458 pounds. The second was for the greatest weight of salmon caught by a rod in 16 days of fishing, an impressive 92 Tyee weighing 3,665 pounds. As a respected medical authority, his expertise was sought by provincial and legal health authorities. At the time of a local outbreak of smallpox he was appointed Municipal Health Officer and Public Vaccinator for the Cowichan District. Between 1890 and 1893 he served as medical examiner and testified at inquests in several cases of accidental or unexplained deaths. In October 1891 he rowed 40 miles to Saturna Island to conduct a post mortem examination on a man who had fallen and died during an attack of delirium tremens. His wife Charlotte, who had diabetes and had been ill for some time, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Victoria in February 1907, aged 64. Dickson died of throat cancer on 25 April 1908, but not before he had married Elizabeth in October 1907. Both Lindsay and Charlotte were buried in the family plot at Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria. After a 10 year campaign by the Denman Conservancy Association, 134 acres of forested land and foreshore, part of the Lindsay Dickson estate, was purchased by the Province of British Columbia in 2001 and transferred to the Islands Trust Fund. It is now known as the Lindsay Dickson Nature Reserve, making it one of the most pristine unlogged forests in British Columbia. Lot is sold with a comprehensive file of research together with Wills and the service reco...
Lot 550
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1914, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, a nice example of flat construction, with good finish remaining to the central iron core, sharp points to the arms of the cross, minor paint losses to the date and the tips of the crown. Original pin, hook and hinge, marked ‘KO’ below the hook indicating the King of Prussia or his commission manufacture. A small number ‘7’ hand engraved on the reverse side of the award. Fitted into its original fitted case with imitation leather covering, gold blocked image of the Iron Cross to the exterior lid, upper inner lid silk good with purple velvet case, some minor losses to the imitation leather on the rear of the box and some slight distortion to the right hand side of the lid of the box itself, nearly extremely fine £160-£200
Lot 324
Pair: Air Mechanic First Class R. Wood, Royal Navy General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (FX.821712 R. Wood. A.M.1. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (FX.821712 R. Wood. Air Mech.1. H.M.S. Condor.) mounted court-style as worn, nearly extremely fine (2) £100-£140
Lot 539
Miniature Medals: A selection of mainly Canadian miniature medals, including Volunteer Medal for Korea (5); Medal for the First Gulf War (9); Centenary Medal 1867-1967 (4); 125th Anniversary Medal 1867-1992 (5); together with various other Commonwealth Independence Medals, generally extremely fine as struck (lot) £60-£80 --- Sold together with a mounted group of five miniature Nepalese medals; and a small selection of miniature lapel rosettes mainly relating to Eastern European Orders of Knighthood.
Lot 444
British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Major E. L. Mackenzie.; Major E. P. Freeman.) first with significant dig to obverse field, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £80-£100 --- Edward Leslie Mackenzie was born on 6 May 1870, the son of Major C. G. Mackenzie, 28th Regiment, and was gazetted to the Royal Sussex Regiment on 29 October 1890, becoming Lieutenant on 10 February 1892, and Captain on 4 February 1899. He served with the Regiment during the Boer War in South Africa, taking part in operations in Orange River Colony, from January to 31 May 1902. Severely wounded, he was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901); received the Queen’s Medal with four clasps; the King's Medal with two clasps; and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (London Gazette 27 September 1901). The Insignia of the D.S.O. was presented to him by H.M. King Edward VII on 29 October 1901. He was subsequently employed with the West African Frontier Force from 8 September 1905 to 14 July 1912, and served during the Great War in the Asian theatre of War from 17 August 1915, being promoted Lieutenant-Colonel that same month, and commanding the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. He was created a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1919. Eric Payne Freeman attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them initially during the Great War at home before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in December 1914. He was advanced Captain in October 1915, and proceeded to France with this unit in March 1916. When the commanding officer was killed after the Battle of the Somme in September, he took over command of the battalion and, after reorganising it, served for a time on the Brigade Staff. He rejoined his unit as second in command in November 1916, and shortly afterwards was transferred as Instructor in the 39th Divisional Schools, for which work he was very highly commended by the Divisional Commander. He was then given command of the Reinforcement Camp where he stayed until rejoining his unit in March 1918. He was killed in action on 23 March 1918, during the opening days of the German Spring Offensive, during a rearguard action in front of Péronne. He is buried in Péronne Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Sold with copied research.
Lot 232
Five: Captain and Quarter Master S. Baldwin, 1/5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Transvaal (4025 Cpl. S. Baldwin, 2nd Hampshire Regt) suspension claw re-pinned and loose; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4025 Serjt: S. Baldwin. Hampshire Regt); British War Medal 1914-20 (Q.M. & Capt. S. Baldwin.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Q.M. & Capt. S. Baldwin. Hamps. R.) officially renamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (4025 C. Sjt: S. Baldwin. Hants: Regt) mounted for wear, first two with edge bruising, nearly very fine, remainder good very fine (5) £200-£240 --- Stephen Baldwin served with the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment during the Second Boer War, and advanced to Colour Sergeant (awarded L.S. & G.C. in October 1911). He was commissioned Honorary Lieutenant and Quarter Master and was posted in that capacity to the 1/5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in August 1914. Baldwin proceeded with the Battalion to India in October 1914, and stayed there for the remainder of the war and the following conflict on the North West Frontier. He advanced to Captain and Quarter Master, and returned to England in November 1919. Sold with copied research.
Lot 217
An interesting and rare group awarded to Lieutenant Robert Pigou, Bengal Engineers, one of the Engineers at the Cabul Gate during the storming of Ghuznee, who was afterwards killed whilst attempting to reduce a fort in Afghanistan when, having cut his fuse too short, he was blown up and his body thrown a distance of eighty yards by the sudden explosion of the powder bags (a) Ghuznee 1839, unnamed as issued, with original suspension (b) Royal Humane Society, large silver medal (Successful), (R. Pigou Armo. Vit. Ob. Serv. Dono Dat Soc. Reg. Hum. 1836) (c) Georgian silver presentation Snuff Box, hallmarked London 1825, maker’s mark ‘T.E’ for Thomas Edwards, the gilt inner lid with inscription ‘Presented to Ensign Pigou, by the E.I.C. Sappers & Miners, as a humble token of their gratitude in his saving the life of one of their comrades whilst pontoning [sic] on the river Medway on the 27th August, 1835’, the R.H.S. medal with edge bruising and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine, otherwise good very fine (3) £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: Brian Ritchie Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2004; Jack Boddington Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2006. Robert Pigou was the son of Henry Minchin Pigou, B.C.S., of Banwell Castle, Somerset, the Commissioner for Revenue at Jessore, and was born in India on 5 October 1816. He was baptised at Dacca on 13 October of that year, and in due course was sent home to Rugby School. He was nominated for his Cadetship in the Bengal Engineers by P. Muspratt, Esq., at the recommendation of ‘the executors of the late D. Stuart, Esq.,’ and was admitted to the Establishment in August 1830. Between 1833 and 1834 he attended Addiscombe and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 12 December of the latter year. He continued his studies at Chatham, and while there became conspicuous by his gallant conduct in saving the life of one Private Edward Williams on 27 August 1835. His selfless act was reported to the Royal Humane Society by Colonel Pasley in the following terms: ‘Sir, - I beg leave to make known through you the gallant conduct of Mr Pigou, yesterday, in saving a man’s life at Pontoon practice, as reported to me by Captain Alderson, of the Royal Engineers, who was the senior officer present when the circumstances occurred. The East India Company’s sappers and miners were employed at the time, in concert with the Royal sappers and miners, the men of both corps being mixed in each Pontoon, according to custom. Mr Pigou had command of one Pontoon: and in returning to his moorings, on leaving off for the afternoon, Private Edward Williams fell overboard into deep water, the tide running very strong at the time, so that he must have been drowned, but that Mr Pigou, who is an excellent swimmer, immediately plunged in after him, and saved him, all the other Pontoons being at some distance at the time. The man himself could not swim. I have noticed Mr Pigou’s conduct, in order that he may meet with that praise which he deserves; and I have great pleasure in now reporting the circumstance. I remain, C. W. Pasley, Col., R.E.’ The Royal Humane Society’s Silver Medal medal was subsequently voted to Pigou in January 1836 (Morning Chronicle 19 January 1836). Pigou arrived at Fort William in July 1836 and was appointed assistant to Captain Fitzgerald, the Garrison Engineer at Fort William and Civil Architect to the Presidency. He went on to serve in the Canal Department, and to work on the surveys of the Pertraub Kally creek and the Aolabariah Road and Canal. In July 1838, Pigou’s services were brought to the notice of the Governor-General and he was subsequently directed to join the headquarters of the Bengal Sappers and Miners at Delhi on account of his esteemed ‘scientific attainments and high promise’. Later that year he qualified as an Interpreter and was placed at the disposal of Sir William MacNaghten, the scholarly and autocratic Envoy and Minister to the Court of Shah Soojah-ool-Moolk, who was to accompany the Army of the Indus on its circuitous march into Afghanistan, following Lord Auckland’s decision to depose Dost Mohamed. Accordingly Pigou was one of the Bengal Engineer officers under Captain George Thomson, who went ahead of the Army with the 2nd and 3rd Companies of the Sappers and Miners to Rohri to make the necessary preparations for the crossing of the Indus. Under normal circumstances, given trained men, good boats or pontoons, and plenty of material at hand, building a bridge to span the river - which at this point ran in two channels, of 133 and 367 yards, separated by the fortified island of Bukkur - would not be difficult. But Thomson, Pigou and the others were faced with every difficulty. At first only eight boats could be procured and all good timber had to be floated 200 miles downstream from Ferozepore. The Sappers had to make 500 cables of grass and manufacture all the nails they required. None of the young officers had any practical experience of large floating bridges, nor could anyone speak the dialect of the local labourers. Furthermore the current was rapid and floods often endangered the whole structure. Nevertheless, the Indus was bridged successfully and, by 18 February 1839, 38,000 troops and camp followers, 30,000 camels, artillery, and ordnance carriages had crossed easily and safely. After a long and laborious march to Candahar via the sombre defile of the Bolan Pass and the mud village of Quetta, the Army was exhausted; paralysed by its loss of transport animals and on the point of starvation. On 27 June, 7,800 fighting men including the Engineers who had bridged the Indus, plodded on towards Ghuznee, which, unbeknown to MacNaghten, had been heavily fortified by Hyder Khan. The Commander-in-Chief, Sir John Keane, was ill-prepared to lay siege to the fortress and found himself in a desperate quandary. He had no more than a few days’ supplies and was being carefully watched by two large armies of Ghilzai tribesmen. Once again Keane was obliged to seek the advice of his Chief Engineer, Captain Thomson, who suggested blowing in the Cabul Gate. The gate was duly blown at dawn on 23 July by the Explosion Party, led by Captain Peat of the Bombay Engineers, and Lieutenants Durand and MacLeod of the Bengal corps. Pigou, leading some Sappers equipped with two scaling ladders, took part in the assault with the main storming party under Brigadier-General ‘Fighting Bob’ Sale, and was engaged in the hand to hand fight in the gateway. After the capture of Ghuznee, Pigou continued with the Army to Cabul which was entered unopposed on 7 August. In early January 1840, Pigou marched out from the British cantonment at Cabul with a force under Lieutenant-Colonel Orchard to reduce the fort at Pushoot, fifty miles northeast of Jellalabad. He was duly selected to lay the powder by the fort’s inner gate and ignite the charge, being three times obliged to advance to the gateway under a heavy fire. Unfortunately his efforts to flash the train were foiled by a heavy downpour of rain. Nevertheless he was praised in Orchard’s despatch for his gallant and meritorious conduct (Calcutta Gazette 15 February 1841). On 25 January 1841, he was promoted Lieutenant, and the next month took part in the expedition under Brigadier Shelton against the Sangu Khel in the Nazian Valley. On 24 February he made the fatal error of cutting his fuse too short and was unable to make good his retreat before the explosion took place. Brigadier Shelton afterwards reported, ‘A few men held out in two Forts and obliged me to blow open the gates which was effectually accomplished by Lieut. Pigou of the Engineers supported by the Li...
Lot 339
A fine 2-clasp ‘Boat Service’ N.G.S. awarded to Captain of the Forecastle Thomas Melvill, who participated in the boats of the Bacchante in three hard-fought actions which resulted in the capture of thirty-three enemy vessels on the Adriatic coast Naval General Service 1793-1840, 2 clasps, 1 & 18 Sep Boat Service 1812, 6 Jan Boat Service 1813 (Thomas Melvill.) light contact marks to edge and small bruise to Queen’s cheek, otherwise very fine £7,000-£9,000 --- Provenance: Payne Collection 1911; Hamilton Smith Collection, Glendining’s, November 1927; Glendining’s, July 1975; Spink, March 1995; John Goddard Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, November 2015. 1 & 18 Sep Boat Service 1812 [21 issued] - 8 known, including examples in the National Maritime Museum, and the Royal Marines Museum (2).

6 Jan Boat Service 1813 [26 issued] - 9 known, including examples in the National Maritime Museum, and the Royal Marines Museum (2).

Thomas Melvill (Melvin on Baccante’s muster list) is confirmed on the rolls as Captain of the Forecastle aboard the Bacchante for both clasps. Born in Fifeshire, he joined the Bacchante in that rate on 31 October 1811.

On 1 September 1812, a party of 65 officers and men in five boats from Bacchante, under the command of First Lieutenant Donat Henchy O’Brien, cut out and captured two French gunboats, the xebec Tisiphone and seven vessels of a convoy in Port Lemo, Istria, in the Adriatic. ‘On his approach to the xebec with muffled oars, Lieutenant O’Brien was hailed by a stentorian voice “come alongside you English bastards”. O’Brien, without correcting the speaker on his national antecedents, thanked him for his polite invitation and assured him he would be with him immediately - he was, the British sprang on board the enemy vessel and the Frenchmen after discharging an ineffectual volley of grape and musketry, dropped their lighted matches and jumped overboard.’ The second date on this clasp does not appear on the official list and some authorities state it to be an official error not relating to the award at all. However, as will be seen from the following extract from The Royal Navy by W. Laird Clowes, it was obviously an error in the original Gazette notice that was clearly corrected prior to the issue of the double-dated clasp:

‘On September 18th [1812], having chased a convoy in the passage between Vasto and the island of Tremiti, off the coast of Apulia, Captain William Hoste, of the Bacchante 38, despatched his six boats, under Lieutenants Donat Henchy O’Brien and Silas Thomson Hood, to follow up the enemy, the wind having failed the frigate. The convoy, of eighteen merchantmen, anchored and hauled aground, having outside of it eight armed vessels, carrying among them eight long guns, six swivels, and 104 men. The attacking party numbered only 72, but it rowed in with such determination, and boarded with such dash, that the enemy fled incontinently, leaving the entire convoy to the victors.’ Both of the distinguished actions of 1st and 18th September are reported in the London Gazette of 1813, pp 163-4. Lieutenant O’Brien was promoted to Commander on 22 January 1813, for this and previous actions.

At dawn on 6 January 1813, when H.M. ships Bacchante and Weazle were lying becalmed to the south-east of Cape Otranto, five French gunboats were observed, three in the south-west making for Otranto and two heading south-east. The Weazle was directed to attend to the smaller division and Lieutenant Donat Henchy O’Brien to the larger one in Bacchante’s barge. At 8.00 am, after a long pull, Lieutenant O’Brien overtook and captured the sternmost gunboat of two guns. This was left in the hands of Midshipman Thomas Hoste, who, after securing the prisoners, worked the bow-gun of the prize against her late friends. Lieutenant O’Brien pushed on and captured the two other gunboats making towards Calabria. The Weazle, unable to catch up with the smaller division, sent in two boats under the orders of Lieutenant Thomas Wholey and, together with another boat from the Bacchante, under the orders of Master’s Mate Edward Webb, boarded and carried the two gunboats successively, each after a determined resistance.
Lot 1
A Great War D.S.O. group of five awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Kilner, Royal Field Artillery, who was twice Mentioned in Despatches Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Paardeberg, Cape Colony, Belfast, unofficial rivets between first and second clasps (Major. C. H. Kilner, 62/Bty., R.F.A.) engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Lt. Col. C. H. Kilner.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted (the DSO in gold and the clasps on the miniature QSA in the correct order) and both housed in a fitted case, nearly extremely fine (5) £1,800-£2,200 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918. Charles Harold Kilner was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 15 August 1864 and was educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery on 5 July 1884 and was posted to the 1/1 North Irish Battery, serving with them in India from September 1885. He was promoted Captain in August 1893 and having returned to the U.K. took part in the Jubilee celebrations whilst serving with 86th Battery, R.F.A. Kilner served with both the 62nd and 129th Batteries in South Africa during the Boer War, and as Second-in-Command at Paardeberg witnessed the guns of the 62nd being used to fire into Cronje’s laager. He saw further action at Poplar Grove (12 March 1900), Vet River (5-6 May 1900), Zand River, and Belfast (26-27 August 1900). Whilst in South Africa he was promoted Major on 15 March 1900. Having transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Kilner was recalled for service at the start of the Great War and was employed initially at the Cable Census Office from 9 August 1914, until volunteering for front-line service in October 1915. Granted the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, he was given command of 186th Battery, and served with them on the Western Front from March 1916. He served with this Battery during both the Somme campaign and later at Passchendaele (where he was recommended for promotion to Brigadier), and for his services he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 18 May 1917 and 14 December 1917). He returned to England in November 1917, and having been awarded the D.S.O. was subsequently employed as Assistant Manager, Inspection Department, Ministry of Munitions. Kilner died in Southsea, Hampshire, on 2 August 1936. His son Hew Ross Kilner, also had a distinguished career in the Royal Field Artillery, and was awarded the Military Cross in the same Gazette that his father was awarded his D.S.O. Sold with the recipient’s personal leather bound journal giving details of his life in the Army; the recipient’s Commission Document, dated 1884; Certificate for Special Promotion, dated 1887; Veterinary Course Certificate, dated 1891; a Great War Trench Map (Violaines ands Rue de Marais sector), with positions of 186 Battery during the Somme campaign marked; the recipient’s Passport, dated 1921; various contemporary portrait and group photographs and photographic images; other documents and ephemera; and copied research.
Lot 546
Germany, Prussia, Iron Cross 1870, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, a scarce example from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, flat construction, good finish to the central iron core, some slight loss of paint to the date, ‘W’ and crown. Original pin, hook and hinge. A small number 6 is hand engraved to the reverse side of the award, nearly extremely fine, scarce £800-£1,000
Lot 360
The Zulu War medal awarded to Private Frederick Seymour, 3/60th Foot, who was afterwards killed in action during the First Boer War in the disaster at Ingogo River on 8 February 1881 South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (1230 Pte. F. Seymour, 3/60th Foot) attractively toned, nearly extremely fine £1,800-£2,200 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, La Crème de la Crème, April 2002. Frederick Seymour was killed in action at Ingogo River on 8 February 1881.

The following extract is taken from Rifleman and Hussar, by Colonel Sir Percival Marling, V.C., C.B.:

‘About 2.30 p.m. Sir George Colley sent Captain McGregor, R.E., to Colonel Ashburnham with a message that he was to send a company of the 60th Rifles out to the left, as he thought the Boers were going to rush the position. Colonel Ashburnham pointed out to the Staff Officer that ‘I’ Company were the only reserve he had, and asked would not half a company be sufficient. The Staff Officer replied “My orders are, sir, from the General, that you are to send a company, and if you will let me have them I will show you where to go. This company, ‘I’, was commanded by Lieutenant Garrett, the other subaltern being Lieutenant Beaumont. The Staff Officer, Captain McGregor, went out with them, mounted. There is no doubt that he took them farther than he should have done. Captain McGregor, R.E., was himself killed. It was inevitable, considering the mark he presented. ‘I’ Company and the Boers were now only about 50 yards apart. Garrett was killed quite early, and every man in the company except 9 was either killed or wounded. Nothing could have been more gallant than their behaviour, many of them being quite young soldiers.’

Casualties in the 3/60th at Ingogo River amounted to 4 officers and 61 other ranks killed or died of wounds, a few of whom were drowned. A further 2 officers and 53 other ranks were wounded.
Lot 309
Six: Lance-Bombardier C. T. Evans, Airborne Forces, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (1137134 LBdr C T Evans RA) the first five mounted as worn with named card box of issue; the GSM a somewhat later issue and mounted separately, nearly extremely fine (6) £140-£180 --- Sold with the recipient’s tunic, complete with cloth unit insignia and riband bar; Airborne Forces beret and ties; the recipient’s card identity discs; and a large quantity of related ephemera including the recipient’s Soldier’s Release Book. Sold also with an unrelated Second World War period scrapbook with numerous photographs and postcards relating to all three services; a silver prize medallion inscribed ‘Best Bombing Score Course 100, Sgt. R. G. Hogg, 9.A.O.S.’; and other ephemera.
Lot 340
The 11-clasp Peninsula War medal awarded to Colour-Sergeant Jacob Wiley, 83rd Foot, who was wounded in the left arm at the battle of Talavera, and in the head and back at the siege and storming of Badajoz Military General Service 1793-1814, 11 clasps, Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse (Jacob Wiley, Serjt. 83rd Foot) old repair to lower left side of carriage, suspension post re-affixed, polished, otherwise nearly very fine £3,000-£4,000 --- Jacob Wiley was born in the Parish of Clonmagh, Queen’s County, Ireland, and attested for the 2nd Battalion, 83rd Foot, on 12 February 1808, for 7 years. He was discharged at Dublin in the rank of Colour-Sergeant on 14 February 1815, having completed his first period of service. The Surgeons’ report states: ‘We do certify that Colour Sergt. Jacob Wiley has been wounded at the Battle of Talavera de la Reya in the left arm on the 28th July 1809 - He was also wounded at the Siege & Storming of Badajos in the Head & Back.’ Major James Sullivan, Commg. 2/83rd, further noted: ‘Sergt. Wiley always conducted himself as a brave & steady soldier, and should the Medical Board consider him unfit for service in consequence of the wounds received, I beg leave to recommend him for a pension.’ Wiley was duly admitted to an out-pension at the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, on 22 February 1815. He died of insanity at Maryborough asylum on 9 October 1858. Sold with poor quality copied discharge papers and pension records.
Lot 176
A very fine Heavy Cavalry Commander’s C.B. and Army Gold Medal pair awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Serjeantson Prescott, 5th Dragoon Guards, who was slightly wounded when in command of his regiment in their famous famous charge at Llerena on 11 April 1812, when the French cavalry was thrown into confusion and swiftly broken; he subsequently commanded the 5th Dragoon Guards at Vittoria and Toulouse, for which he received the Gold Medal with Clasp, and was appointed C.B. in June 1815 - his premature death in June 1816 ‘was a very great loss to the regiment’ The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s breast badge, 22 carat gold and enamels, hallmarked London 1815, maker’s mark ‘IN’ for John Northam, complete with correct 2-inch wide gold swivel-ring suspension and gold ribbon buckle; Field Officer’s Small Gold Medal, for Vittoria, 1 clasp, Toulouse (Lieut. Colonel S. Prescott) complete with gold ribbon buckle, the medal and the clasp each in their own individual silk-lined red leather Rundell Bridge & Rundell cases of issue, together with his Order of the Bath Chapel Stall Plate inscribed ‘Serjeantson Prescott Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel in the 5th (or Princefs Charlotte of Wales’s Regiment of Dragoon Guards Companion of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath Nominated 4th June 1815’, a few very minor chips to the wreaths of the first, otherwise extremely fine (4) £24,000-£28,000 --- Serjeantson Prescott was appointed Lieutenant in the 5th Dragoon Guards on 8 March 1807, from Lieutenant, 91st Foot, becoming Captain on 14 March 1810. He was promoted Major on 26 December 1811, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 14 June 1815. He served with the regiment in the Peninsula from September 1811 and, in the absence of Ponsonby, commanded the regiment at Llerena (Villa Garcia) where he was slightly wounded and mentioned in despatches: “While the Major-General [Le Marchant] is perfectly satisfied with the zeal shown by every individual of the brigade in the execution of his duty on that occasion, he considers that the charge made by the 5th Dragoon Guards deserves his particular admiration and approval, and he requests that Major Prescott and the officers of that corps will accept his nest thanks as well for their services as for the credit which their gallant conduct reflects on the command, which he has the honour to hold.” Prescott was again in command of the regiment at the battles of Vittoria and Toulouse, at which last battle the 5th Dragoon Guards were instrumental in saving the Portuguese guns from capture. At the end of the war he received a gold medal with one clasp, and the C.B. Although the regimental history makes no specific mention of his presence at Salamanca, his presence there is confirmed in Challis’s Peninsula Roll Call. After the death of Le Marchant at Salamanca, Colonel Ponsonby took over the command of the brigade, Prescott getting the command of the 5th Dragoon Guards. Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott died on 23 June 1816. The charge at Llerena (Villa Garcia) On the evening of 10 April 1811, General Stapleton Cotton climbed the steeple of a church in Bienvenida. He knew that the French were occupying Llerena and saw that there were considerable numbers of French cavalry five miles closer to him near the village of Villagarcia. Cotton decided that he should attempt to trap the French cavalry with his superior forces. During the night he despatched Ponsonby with the 12th and 14th Light Dragoons to probe the Villagarcia area, whilst Le Marchant was sent on a circuitous march to get on the French left flank and, it was hoped, cut off their retreat. Slade was also instructed to concentrate his brigade on Bienvenida, though he seems to have been tardy in moving. Cotton retained the 16th Light Dragoons as a reserve. At some time during the night Cotton realised that Ponsonby's force might alert the French before Le Marchant was within striking distance and despatched an aide-de-camp with orders to halt the light cavalry; unfortunately the order arrived too late. Two squadrons of the British light cavalry had forced the French vedettes out of the village of Villagarcia but, around dawn, had run into the full force of the French cavalry and were then chased back. Ponsonby subsequently found his two regiments faced by the three strong regiments under Lallemand and had to make a controlled withdrawal whilst skirmishing against heavy odds. Following his orders, Le Marchant had moved his brigade through the night over tortuous terrain for a considerable distance. Coming down from rugged hills bordering the plain where the action was fought, Le Marchant and the 5th Dragoon Guards had pulled considerably ahead of the other two regiments of the brigade. Le Marchant noticed, looking through the trees of the wood his men were moving through, that French cavalry, drawn up in two deep columns of squadrons, were pushing the six squadrons of light dragoons back towards a narrow ravine flanked by stone walls. Le Marchant realised that an immediate charge was needed before Ponsonby's squadrons were forced into the congested and broken ground to their rear. Lallemand, it is recorded, caught a glimpse of red-coated figures in the woods to his left and rode to alert General Peyremmont, who was leading the 2nd Hussars. Peyremmont scorned Lallemand's concerns, saying that the British dragoons were probably a small detachment who had lost their way. At this point the advantage that the French had enjoyed in the action was suddenly reversed and Le Marchant, with the 5th Dragoon Guards, who were his leading regiment, emerged out of the woods entirely unobserved. Instantly realising the situation, he did not wait for the whole of his brigade, but, forming the 5th Dragoon Guards into line of echelon of squadrons as they came out of the defile, bore down at their head straight on to the left flank of the five French regiments, completely rolling them up and pursuing them for four miles, almost into Llerena. The French rallied briefly at a ditch halfway to Llerena, but they were outflanked by the 16th Light Dragoons and were forced into flight once more. A few hours later the French abandoned Llerena and continued their retreat out of Extremadura. Llerena, though now almost forgotten, created a great stir at the time, and rightly so, as it was a most gallant feat of arms, never excelled on any occasion, even by British cavalry. Sold with comprehensive research.
Lot 554
Germany, Third Reich, Iron Cross 1939, First Class breast badge, silver with iron centre, a toned slightly convex constructed example, non-maker-marked, with original pin, hook and hinge. Fitted into its small delicate imitation leather covered presentation case with a large bright image of the Iron Cross silver blocked to the exterior lid. The upper inner lid is in cream silk with a cream flock base. Fitted into a (possibly non-original) card box, maker marked ‘C.E. Juncker, Berlin’, nearly extremely fine £200-£240
Lot 99
Pair: Trumpeter W. R. McGregor, Royal Horse Artillery Afghanistan 1878-80, 1 clasp, Ahmed Khel (4661. Trumpr. W. R. Mc.Gregor. A/B. R.H.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (Sergt. W. R. McGregor Bazar Sergt. Cawnpore) mounted court-style for display, minor edge nicks and light contact marks, very fine (2) £240-£280 --- William Robert McGregor was born in Sheerness, Kent, on 17 February 1855 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Westminster Police Court on 17 March 1869, aged 14. He served with the Royal Horse Artillery in India from 21 October 1870, and served during both the first and second phases of the Second Afghan War. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 30 August 1887, and was discharged on 6 August 1890, after 21 years and 143 days’ service, of which almost 20 years were spent soldiering in India. Sold with copied record of service.
Lot 323
Sigourney, Mrs L. H. Poetry for Seamen Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1845. 8vo, side-stitched in original buff card wrappers, viii 63 pp., spine partly perished, covers cockled and marked, spotting to contents, date added by hand to title-pageNote: Note: First and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed 'Dr Demetrius Stamatiadis, from his friend, the author, Hartford, Sept 27th 1845' on the front cover; a total of 1,000 copies were printed, and apparently bought up by a local benefactor for free distribution to sailors (Haight, Mrs. Sigourney: The Sweet Singer of Hartford, 1930, p. 177). Sigourney was 'one of the first American women to succeed at a literary career' (Ency. Brit.). One other copy traced at auction (New York, 2006), restitched and lacking the half-title.
Lot 3
Darwin, Charles Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8vo, [5] viii-xiv 629 pp., original vertical-ribbed purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, half-title, 2 engraved folding maps ('The Southern Portion of South America' and 'Keeling Islands'), wood-engraved illustrations in text, publisher's 16 pp. catalogue dated August 1839 bound in at rear, additional slip tipped to final page of catalogue advertising further titles by Darwin. Cloth unevenly sunned, nicks to spine ends, very small tear to middle compartment and small ink-mark to foot, a few bumps to extremities, front inner hinge cracked, spotting to early leaves, first map slightly offset, second map spotted and with closed handling tear extending into frame only. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery [Freeman 11 binding variant b]Note: Note: First edition, first separate issue and the second overall, of Darwin's first published book. It originally appeared as the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle early the same year; the present issue uses the same sheets but has a cancel title-page and the volume-title (pp. [v-vi]) is discarded. Copies are also found in blue cloth; occasionally the two maps are loose in an end-pocket rather than inserted into the text.Provenance: 'Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen, the gift of his father, Nov 15th 1839' (inscription to front free endpaper); Christie's, Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 14th November 2007, lot 90.
Lot 236
Wesley, Charles Hymns and Sacred Poems Bristol: E. Farley, 1755. Second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, 332 [11], 336 [11] pp., title-pages lightly browned along edges and with indeterminate early ink inscriptions, small ink-stain to fore margins of early leaves in volume 1 (including title-page), ink-stamps (B. B. Bennett, Trinity College, Cambridge) to front free endpapers [ESTC T31329]Note: Note: The first edition appeared in 1749. Charles Wesley had the work published in order to prove his financial viability to the family of Sarah Gwynne, whom he married in the April of that year.
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Lot 6
Ornithology and natural history Collection of works Maxwell, Sir Herbert. Memories of the Months. First [-Seventh] Series. London: Edward Arnold, 1900-22. First editions (except volume 1: third edition), 7 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, numerous plates (mainly photogravures), volumes 1-6 each with a tipped-in autograph letter signed from Maxwell to J. Logan Mack (Edinburgh solicitor and author of The Border Land: From the Solway Firth to the North Sea, 1926), volume 7 inscribed by Maxwell, Mack's bookplate to each volume, volume 3 half-title repaired, bindings slightly rubbed and marked;Scott, Sir Peter. Wild Chorus. London: Country Life, 1938. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,250 copies signed by the author, 4to, original blue cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 24 mounted colour plates, numerous halftone plates;Seebohm, Henry. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. Edited (after the Author's Death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth, 60 chromolithographic plates, binding slightly marked, plates spotted, rear inner hinge cracked;Armour, G. Denholm. Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters by Peter Beckford. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1910. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 350 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original brown pigskin gilt, 25 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and rubbed and with loss to head;and 5 others similar
Lot 317
Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel The History of the most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha Formerly made English by Thomas Shelton; now revis'd, corrected, and partly new translated from the Original. By Captain John Stevens ... In Two Volumes [And:] A Continuation of the Comical History of the most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha. By the Licentiate Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda. Being a Third Volume; never before printed in English ... Translated by Captain John Stevens. London: for R. Chiswell [and others], [A Continuation:] for Jeffrey Wale; and John Senex, 1700 & 1705. 2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (18.2 x 11.2cm), c.1800 calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, edges sprinkled blue, History with 34 engraved plates including frontispieces, Continuation with 13 engraved plates (no count provided by ESTC), moderately browned, closely trimmed along top edges, a few headlines and page-numbers shaved [ESTC R29188 & T89686]Note: Note: First edition of this rare English translation of Don Quixote, and the first edition in English of the spurious continuation by the pseudonymous Alonson Fernandez de Avellaneda. John Stevens (c.1662-1726) was a London-born translator, antiquary and Jacobite army officer of probable Spanish origin. ESTC traces nine copies world-wide for The History; no other first edition set (with or without the continuation) is traced in auction records.
Lot 298
Rackham, Arthur Collection of works The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 765 copies signed by the artist, 4to, recent cream quarter vellum in imitation of the original binding, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 9 tipped-in colour plates, toning to text-leaves, a few spots, limitation leaf (with half-title recto) slightly browned and with show-through from signature, faint tide-mark to top edge of a few leaves;The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. [Volume 1:] The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. [Volume 2:] Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. London: William Heinemann, 1910-11. 2 volumes, first trade issues, (Rhinegold and Valkyrie a second impression), 4to, original tan pictorial, cloth gilt, 34 and 30 colour plates, Rhinegold with spotting to outer leaves, Siegfried cloth sunned, gift inscription to initial blank;The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C. S. Evans. London: William Heinemann, c.1920. 4to, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine sunned, repriced), tipped in colour plate;Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. First trade edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, 16 colour plates;English Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1918. First trade edition, 4to, original red cloth, 16 colour plates, spine faded and rolled, front inner hinge cracked;The Ingoldsby Legends. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to original blue cloth gilt, 24 colour plates;Grimm's Fairy Tales. London: William Heinemann Ltd, c.1909. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 40 colour plates, variable spotting to text;and 12 other books illustrated by Rackham, including The Wind in the Willows, Gulliver's Travels, Tales from Shakespeare, English Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, together with 3 mounted Rackham prints and 2 Rackham calendars (one with slip for January torn away)
Lot 5
Carson, Rachel L. Under the Sea-Wind A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. First edition, first printing, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, 8 plates by Howard Frech, dust jacket, spine very slightly faded, dust jacket with a few shallow nicks and chips to extremities, mottling to rear panel and along extremities in places, spotting to versoNote: Note: The author's first book, rare in commerce. The lot sold with copies of The Edge of the Sea (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955) and Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962), both first editions, first printings, original cloth bindings, with the dust jackets (The Silent Spring price-clipped).
Lot 306
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets London: Bloomsbury, 1998. First edition, first impression, hardback, signed by J. K. Rowling on the dedication page, 8vo, original pictorial boards, spine rolled, wear to spine-ends, a few very small dents to head of front board, tips bumped, marking to endpapers, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, text-block toned, occasional finger-soiling and a few other marks, pp. 67/8 and 145/6 with handling tears at foot of gutter not affecting text [Errington A2(a)]
Lot 219
Antiquarian Collection of bindings Shakespeare, William. The Works. Imperial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. London: Virtue & Co., Limited, [1873-6]. 2 volumes bound in 3, large 4to (37 x 27cm), contemporary green morocco gilt over heavy bevelled boards, gilt gauffered edges incorporating a Greek-key roll, broad turn-ins richly gilt, 46 steel-engraved plates including frontispieces and additional vignette title-pages, tissue-guards, rubbing to joints and extremities, light discolouration to boards, volume 3 front joint cracked at foot;Kay, John. A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Edinburgh: Hugh Paton, Carver & Gilder, 1837. 2 volumes, 4to, volume 1 pp. 277/8 torn without loss, 358 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, morocco labels, rubbed, one cover detached;and 13 others (these not collated), mostly leather-bound, including: James Gairdner (editor), The Paston Letters A.D. 1422-1509. London: Chatto & Windus, 1904 (6 volumes, 4to (21.5 x 15.5cm), contemporary crushed dark green half morocco, gilt spines, marbled boards, coat of arms incorporating three cockle shells dexter and entwined serpents sinister gilt to front boards, top edges gilt, title-pages in red and black); [Joseph Hewlett], Peter Priggins, the College Scout. Edited by Theodore Hook. With Illustrations by Phiz, London: Henry Colburn, 1841 (3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary green half calf, gilt spines, etched plates, rubbed, plates spotted); P. Hately Waddell, Life and Works of Robert Burns, Glasgow, 1867 (4to, contemporary half calf, hand-coloured frontispiece); Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Poetical and Dramatic Works, 1844 (8vo, contemporary maroon morocco with arabesque decoration gilt to sides); Reginald Heber, The Poetical Works, 1845 (8vo, contemporary straight-grain blue morocco gilt); Lord Guthrie, Robert Louis Stevenson: Some Personal Recollections, 1920 (first edition, one of 500 copies, 8vo, original cloth); Robert Burns, The Works, Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877-8 (6 volumes, 8vo, original orange cloth gilt, engraved plates)
Lot 48
Chapman, Abel Collection of works On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa with Studies in Bird-Life. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 2 photogravure plates including frontispiece, 32 halftone plates, 4 pp. advertisements to rear, inscribed to 'The skipper, from the author' on the front free endpaper, rubbing to extremities, split to head of front joint, spotting to endpapers [Czech Africa p. 59];Savage Sudan. Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1921. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, map frontispiece, 29 halftone plates from photographs, cloth slightly rubbed and marked [Czech Africa pp. 59-60];First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling. London: Horace Cox, 1896. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates as called for (several folding), occasional spotting to text;Wild Spain (España Agreste). London: Gurney and Jackson, 1893. First edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper ('Abel Chapman, nest off Crowhall Moor, June 23, 1927'), original cloth (recased), folding map, all plates as called for;Unexplored Spain. London: Edward Arnold, 1910. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth gilt, all plates as called for, spine slightly rubbed.Together with 12 others (these not collated), including: Abel Chapman, The Borders and Beyond, 1924, Retrospect, 1928, Wild Norway, 1897, Memories, 1930 (all first editions, original cloth), and Bird-Life of the Borders, 1907 (second edition, original cloth); Frederick Courtenay Selous, Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa, 1893, A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa, 1893, Sport and Travel East and West, 1900 (first, third and first editions, all in original cloth); J. G. Millais, The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 1904 (first edition, one of 1,025 copies, 3 volumes, large 4to, original cloth, plates, cloth mottled, wear to spines), The Wildfowler in Scotland, 1901 (first edition, 4to, original half japon, mottled), Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, 1918 (first edition, original cloth, ex Aberdovey Literary Institute), Wanderings and Memoires, 1919 (first edition, original cloth)Note: Note: '[Chapman's] African adventures culminated in On Safari (1908) and Savage Sudan (1921) - the first natural history book about this area - which were entertaining and vivid accounts of east Africa and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan' (ODNB).
Lot 287
§ Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1966) 'Impieta', 1925 woodcut, showing a bacchante carried by Bacchus and a faun, signed and dated by Waugh lower right, title lower right, both in pencil, mounted, framed and glazed, mount aperture 8 x 10.5cmNote: Note: A rare survival from the young Waugh's brief period as an aspiring artist, dating from the year after he left Oxford with a disappointing third-class degree in history, and three years before he published his first book, a study of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. One other copy traced, at the Harry Ransom Center (accession number 94.14.6), where catalogued as a 'Nude man and satyr carrying man's body with chalice in hand'.Provenance: Presented by Waugh to Joyce Gill (née Fagan), a long-standing friend with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner (see lot 284); thence by descent.
Lot 246
Macpherson, Sir William Grant and other Medical Services Surgery of the War London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1922. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, 23 colour plates, numerous illustrations in the text (wood-engraved and from photographs), occasional marginalia and underlining in pencil and ink, unopened in placesNote: Note: Scarce in commerce; the printer's slug to the foot of each contents page indicates that there were 1,000 copies of the first volume and 1,500 of the second. The work was published as part of the History of the Great War Based on Official Documents series.
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Lot 271
Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped [and:] Catriona London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1886-93. 2 works, 8vo, 20th-century crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere (blue and green respectively), gilt edges, half-title to each work, Kidnapped with folding map frontispiece and 17 pp. advertisements to rear, Catriona with list of author's works to front and 18 pp. advertisements to rear, both with original cloth covers and spine bound in at rear, Kidnapped with a few light spots to lower margins and repaired closed tear to final leaf of advertisementsNote: Note: First editions; Kidnapped is a first issue, with 'business' for 'pleasure' at p. 40 line 10, 'nine o'clock' for 'twelve o'clock' at p. 64 line 1, 'Long Islands' for 'Long Island' at p. 101 lines 9-10, and pressmarks 5G.4.86 & 5B.4.86 in the advertisements.
Lot 296
Kipling, Rudyard Collection of works Just So Stories for Little Children. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1902. First edition, 4to, original pictorial cloth, inscribed by Henry Shackleton (father of Ernest H. Shackleton) to his daughter (and Ernest's sister) 'Eleanor Hope Shackleton, from Daddy, Dec. 8, 1902', with the Shackleton family bookplate on front pastedown, binding worn and sunned, inner hinges cracked, occasional pencil markings;The Five Nations. London: Methuen and Co., 1903. First edition, signed by Kipling on the title-page, 8vo, original red cloth, bookplate (Mildred Chelsea), rear inner hinge partially cracked;The Second Jungle Book. With Illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, small damp-stain and erased pencil inscription to head of title-page, spotting towards rear;Traffics and Discoveries. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. First edition, 8vo, later half morocco by Delrue, a little damp-staining to fore edge and front pastedown;and 13 others including first editions in the original cloth of Kim, Captains Courageous, Soldier Tales, etc.
Lot 105
Shah Jahan Begum, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1838-1901) Tahdhib al-niswan wa-tarbiyah al-insan [Arabic title, i.e. 'The refinement of women and the education of mankind']. Bhopal: Matba' al-Sadiqi al-Ka'in, 1302 AH [1884/5 CE]. 8vo (24.8 x 16.5cm), contemporary half cloth, marbled sides, 7 491 pp., text in Urdu with occasional Qur'anic quotations in Arabic, lithographed throughout, browning, variable marginal worming, pp. 47/48 and 49/50 torn, pp. 381/2 dog-eared with paper consequently thinning along creaseNote: Note: First or early edition of the third Nawab Begum of Bhopal's advice manual for women, a work 'wholly unprecedented in Urdu publishing' (Metcalf, 2011); secondary literature variously cites original publication dates of 1883/4, possibly a miscalculation of the range covered in the Gregorian calendar by the Islamic year 1302, and the evidently incorrect 1889; no other copy traced in commerce or in readily visible library catalogues.Bhopal was unique among the princely states of British India for being ruled by a dynasty of four successive women. Shah Jahan Begum's work covers all aspects of a woman's life, including medical advice, correct ritual practice, fitness and exercise (notably horsemanship), and even sexual activity. Remarkably, she 'asserted a woman's right to carnal pleasure using her own experiences as illustration. Specifically, she explained how she had not felt sexually fulfilled by her first husband, the much older and already married Baqi Muhammad Khan, with a consequence that her whole youth had been lost in "suffering and sadness" ... After his death, however, things improved dramatically thanks to her controversial remarriage in 1871 to her personal secretary, Siddiq Hasan Khan. The pleasure resulting from this sexual coupling led her to assert that she had never been so happy' (Lambert Hurley, 2014).Literature:Barbara Metcalf, 'Islam and Power in Colonial India: The Making and Unmaking of a Muslim Princess', The American Historical Review, vol. 116, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1-30.Lambert-Hurley, 'To Write of the Conjugal Act: Intimacy and Sexuality in Muslim Women's Autobiographical Writing in South Asia', Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 23, no. 2, 2014, pp. 155–81.
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Lot 46
Abyssinia [Ethiopia] Parkyns, Mansfield Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 18 plates, folding map, 13 text illustrations, mottled calf, spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering pieces, signatures to endpaper of Reginald Huth, 20th April 1910Note: Note: A fine copy.Parkyns spent over three years in Abyssinia, which he described in his travel book Life in Abysssinia : being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country. The first edition of the book was published in two volumes by the English publisher John Murray in 1853. It was dedicated to Lord Palmerston, and made many references to and comments on the famous Scottish traveller James Bruce, who had travelled to Abyssinia between the years 1768 and 1773. For the second edition, published in 1868, the author wrote a completely new introduction dealing with recent Abyssinian history and methods of government at the time of the Abyssinian expedition commanded by Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala. In short, Parkyns described the political changes which had occurred after he left the country. He was hoping to offer the Victorian reader "a tolerably accurate idea of Abyssinia and Abyssinians". The book consists of 41 chapters which are divided into two volumes. Each of them covers different subjects, including travel, manners and customs. The first volume describes the journey from the coast to the capital and Parkyns's visit to the northern provinces, encounters with others, learning local languages and gaining new experiences. The second volume describes Abyssinian manners and customs, natural history and Parkyns's route from Adoua to Abou Kharraz on the Blue Nile. In total there are 33 illustrations after Parkyns's own watercolours. A map at the end of the books shows a part of Abyssinia and Nubia to illustrate Parkyns's journeys. In the introduction to his book Parkyns stated that it was neither a scientific work nor an entertaining one, but a faithful account of what he witnessed and experienced during his time in Abyssinia. Parkyns was particularly interested in learning about Abyssinian customs and its natural history. He took careful observations on native birds that he had never seen before. He believed that by identifying with the natives he could attain the best results, so on leaving Massawa he decided to eschew European comforts and throughout his time in Abyssinia he wore only Abyssinian clothes, walked barefoot, had an Abyssinian hairstyle, and ate whatever was offered to him. He gave detailed descriptions of, amongst other things, Abyssinian manners and customs, habits, personal appearance, births and marriages, deaths and funerals, religion and superstitions.Provenance: Reginald Huth (1853-1926), Collector of Coins and Medals, son of Charles Frederick Huth, art collector.
Lot 62
Ottoman Empire - Penzer, N. M. 4 volumes The Harem. An Account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans. London: G. Harrap, 1936. First edition, 4to, blue morocco gilt by Henry R. Nevill, 3 autograph letters loosely inserted from the binder in part discussing the binding, geometric pattern on both covers, g.e.;Ibn Battuta. The Travels, edited by Sir Hamilton Gibb. The Hakluyt Society, 1958-62, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, dustwrappers;Varthema, Ludovico di. The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, In Persia, India and Ethiopia. The Hakluyt Society, 1963. 8vo, translated by J.W. Jones, edited by G.P. Badger, folding map, original blue cloth gilt
Lot 58
Iraq Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon by William Beaumont Selby, Commander, Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia. [Series title at head:] Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. No. LI.–New Series. Bombay: printed for government at the Education Society's Press, Byculla, 1859. First edition, 8 pp. text (single unsigned gathering, stitched as issued), 2 hand-coloured lithographic folding plans, 'Sheet I' dimensions 130 x 59 cm, with 2 inset views, 'Sheet II' dimensions 59 x 67cm, housed in original blue-green cloth chemise with printed label to front. Wear and worming to chemise, Foreign Office Library bookplate and pocket to inside cover, text with a few small worm-tracks, damp-staining and partial browning to title-page, manuscript shelfmark numbers to p. 3, both plans toned, 'Sheet I' with a few small worm-tracks, a few punctures along one transverse fold, strip of adhesive-related light browning along join of two sections, Sheet II' with a few minute worm-tracks, small tear at one intersectionNote: Note: No other copy traced in auction records.
Lot 281
Pornographic novel - circle of Oscar Wilde Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal A Physiological Romance for Today. Cosmopoli [probably Paris: Renaudie], 1906. 2 volumes in one, square 8vo (17.2 x 13cm), contemporary half japon, [4] 148, [4] 178 pp., title-pages printed in red and black, half-titles with limitation statements verso, endpapers renewed, wear to extremities, contents toned, title-pages and early leaves of each volume browned, volume 1 with repaired closed tears to margins of title-page and p. 20/21 and 21/22, pp. 129/30 with repaired tear through text, volume 2 title-page with ink-stamp 'London 1922' verso, pp. 31/2 with slight marginal loss, pp. 65 with repaired tear through text [Peter Mendes, Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800-1930, 87-B]Note: Note: Second edition, one of 200 copies, extremely rare, with no other copy traced in auction records, and one copy traced in institutions, at the British Library.First published in 1893 by Leonard Smithers, Teleny was the first novel in English 'in which the main story was concerned with homosexuality at its fullest extent [that is, in sexually explicit terms] ... The author, or authors, of Teleny were alone in their day in England in attempting to record the special atmosphere of homosexual intrigue and the emotions of men involved in … a liaison' (Reade, Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850 to 1900, 1970, pp. 49-50).Charles Hirsch, owner of the Librairie Parisienne in London, recalled in his introduction to a French translation published in the 1930s that the manuscript was originally deposited at his shop by Oscar Wilde sometime in 1890. Wilde left instructions that the sealed parcel be held until requested by one of his friends, presenting his calling card. The process was repeated several times, with the parcel being retrieved and returned by different callers before finally being returned to Wilde. The extent of Wilde's personal contribution to the text has been debated, but the work is now thought to be the work of a number of authors in his circle, composing the text in the round-robin tradition (see Nelson, Publisher to the Decadents: Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson, 2000 pp. 34-6).
Lot 286
Waugh, Evelyn (1903-1996) Three first editions from the library of his lover Joyce Gill Decline and Fall, an Illustrated Novelette; Black Mischief; The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1928-32-57. 3 works, first editions, first impressions, 8vo, original cloth, Pinfold with dust jacket, Decline and Fall and Black Mischief each with ownership inscription 'Joyce Gill, 10 Pitt St, W8' and Pinfold with gift inscription 'Joyce, for her birthday, with love from Louis, 1957' to front free endpaper. Decline and Fall: spine rolled, fraying to spine-ends, Mudie's Select Library label to front cover, tips bumped, textblock toned, abrasion to front pastedown, cut-out magazine portrait of Waugh pasted to half-title, half-title spotted, small marginal hole to pp. 31-4, small closed to pp. 93/4, old adhesive repair to rear inner hinge, a few other marks. Black Mischief spine rolled, rear joint split, light spotting to front. Pinfold: spine rolled, light spotting to outer leaves, dust jacket spotted and chipped.Together with a collection of Evelyn Waugh first editions from the library of Joyce's son (Dominic Gill): Basil Seal Rides Again, 1963, 2 copies, respectively one of 1,000 for the USA and 750 for the UK and rest of the world, both signed by the author, UK issue spine sunned; Scoop, 1938, 2 copies, spines sunned, one spine also marked; Black Mischief, 1932, spine sunned and rolled, spotting to outer leaves; Put Out More Flags, 1942 (with dust jacket); and 9 others (Remote People; Love Among the Ruins, 2 copies, with dust jackets; Men at Arms; Put Out More Flags; Remote People; Labels; A Tourist in Africa, with dust jacket; Waugh in Abyssinia, rebound, ex-library; and Helena, first US edition)Note: Note: Joyce Gill (née Fagan) was a long-standing friend of Waugh's with whom he had a passionate affair during the unhappy period of the drawn-out annulment of his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner ('She-Evelyn').A sometime music-hall performer, and later secretary and assistant to the author Clifford Bax, Joyce was introduced to Evelyn by his brother Alec at the Cave of Harmony nightclub, Fitzrovia, around Christmas 1923. She was enchanted by his stories of Oxford life, and once term restarted she was invited to a party hosted by Evelyn in Oxford, successfully dressing as a man in order to evade the attentions of the university proctors. From that point they maintained a flirtatious if casual friendship. In 1928, following Joyce's marriage to American businessman Donald Gill and Evelyn's to Gardner, the Waughs lived in Joyce's flat on Canonbury Square — their first marital home.Though the full nature of Joyce and Evelyn's relationship remains obscure, a letter written to Evelyn by Joyce in 1938 after his second marriage and excerpted in Selina Hastings's 1994 biography is evidence of a powerful and enduring connection. According to Hastings, ‘Joyce was lively, attractive, intelligent, and fun. Half Irish and a couple of years older, she could hardly have been more different from Evelyn in taste and temperament: very musical, a committed socialist, an agnostic briskly dismissive of religion, she was unconventional even by the standards of the bohemian world in which she moved … Whatever happened between Evelyn and Joyce must have come to a head during the summer of 1935, for shortly before his departure for Abyssinia Evelyn asked Joyce to leave her husband and go with him. The probability is that although deeply in love with Laura, Evelyn was overwhelmed by the depressing likelihood that he would never be able to marry her. On the point of going abroad for an indefinite period, in a state of heightened emotional and physical responsiveness, the temptation of an affair with Joyce was irresistible ... It was, she later told one of her daughters-in-law, the most painful decision of her life: the affair was a passionate one, the prospect of adventure extremely tempting; but she loved her husband, by whom she now had two little boys, and so decided against running off with Waugh’ (Evelyn Waugh, pp. 328-9).The 'Louis' who inscribed this copy of The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold for Joyce was the man of letters Louis Wilkinson (1881-1966), best known under his pseudonym Louis Marlow, and remembered as a champion of Oscar Wilde and for his association with the Powys brothers and Aleister Crowley.Provenance: By direct descent from Joyce Gill (first three items).
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Lyell, Charles Principles of Geology Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation. London: John Murray, 1832-32-33. 3 volumes, 8vo (21.3 x 13cm), xvi 586, xii 330, [iii]-xxxi [1] 398 109 [1], later calf, volume 1 with engraved frontispiece, plate and folding map, volume 2 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and hand-coloured folding map, volume 3 with hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, 4 engraved plates of shells, and hand-coloured map of south-east England, bound without half-titles, volume 1 plates spotted and offset, volume 2 sig. M with light staining in gutter, spotting to map and adjacent leaves, volume 3 shell plates spotted, map offset, short closed marginal tear in text-leaf K5, bookplates of Thomas Swanwick M.D. (c.1790-1859) to each volume (reimposed), his ownership inscription to versos of volume 1-2 title-pages, bookplate of Henry and Carol Faul to volume 3 [Cf. PMM 344; Ward & Carozzi 1408]Note: Note: Second edition of volume one, first editions of volumes two and three; volume one was first published in 1830. Lyell's revolutionary work is considered the foundational statement of what came to be known as the 'uniformitarian' school of geology, which in attributing geological phenomena to immutable laws challenged the prevailing 'catrastrophist' view which assumed the literal truth of the biblical narrative and found explanations in supernatural interventions, such as the great flood. The second volume concerned the organic realm and paved the way for Darwin in rejecting Lamarck's theory of the incessant mutability of species, 'arguing instead that they were real stable entities, and that they appeared and became extinct in a piecemeal manner in time and space' (ODNB).
![Hume, David Political Discourses Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752. First edition, 8vo, [iv], 304, [vi], [ii (adv](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/21b99c08-7e41-44b1-b2bb-b00e00af8ab0/ee741bd1-df46-4ea7-a650-b02100b02dab/468x382.jpg)
Lot 259
Hume, David Political Discourses Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752. First edition, 8vo, [iv], 304, [vi], [ii (advertisement leaf)], errata to contents leaf verso, contemporary calf, gilt crown in compartments, Earl of Rosebery's bookplate superimposed upon another, 'PLC Lorimer' in ink in small letters on front endpaper, a trifle rubbedNote: Note: Considered the foundation of classical monetary economics, seven of the twelve discourses being on economics.
Lot 55
Arabia Collection of works Palgrave, William Gifford. Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, half-titles, 5 folding lithographic maps and plans, advertisement leaf to rear of each volume, bindings rubbed and marked, evidence of removal of labels from front boards, volume 1 front inner hinge tender, map of Arabia facing p. 1 with 8cm closed handling tear to inside fold and shallow chipping along fore edges [Macro 1731 for the first edition]Thomas, Bertram. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1931. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all photographic plates as called for, maps in text, spine faded, fraying to foot of spine, spotting to text-leaves [Macro 2182]; Young, Sir Hubert. The Independent Arab. London: John Murray, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 3 folding maps, dust jacket (spine panel darkened and chipped);Philby, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty Quarter. London: Constable & Company, 1933. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, folding plan, 2 folding plates, 32 halftone photographic plates, pp. 19/20 creased, a few spots to text [Macro 1781]Meinertzhagen, Richard. Birds of Arabia. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, 5 halftone photographic plates numbered 1-9, 19 colour plates, dust jacket price-clipped, nicked and slightly dust-soiled;and 12 others (these not collated), including: Bertram Thomas, Arabia Felix, 1932 (first edition, second impression, original cloth); idem, The Arabs, 1937 (first edition, original cloth); G. Wyman Bury, Arabia Infelix, 1915 (first edition, original cloth); Harold Ingrams, Arabia and the Isles, 1942 (first edition, original cloth); D. van der Meulen, Aden to the Hadhramaut, 1947 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Wilfred Thesiger, Desert Borderlands of Oman [extracted from The Geographical Journal], 1950 (later card wrappers); Richard Meinertzhagen, Pirates and Predators, 1959 (first edition, original cloth, dust jacket); Charles M. Doughty, Travels in Arabia Deserta, New York, 1923 (2 volumes, original cloth); and 4 similarNote: Note: Palgrave's work is of special importance for the history of the modern Gulf states as well as what is now Saudi Arabia. In the second volume chapter 14 covers Bahrain and Qatar, while chapter 16, headed 'The Coasts of Oman', covers Sharjah and elsewhere.
Lot 92
Delhi History of Delhi the Imperial City A Most Comprehensive Account of the History and Archaeology of Delhi (with Numerous Illustrations). By Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad ... Volume I. History, 1450 B. C. to 1919 A. D. [Volume II: Archaeology. Volume III. Archaeology (Continued)]. [Urdu title:] Waqi'at-i dar al-hukumat Dihli. Delhi: I. M. P. H., 1919. 3 volumes, large 8vo (26 x 16cm), contemporary cloth (volume 1 rebacked), text in Urdu (with occasional English and Hindi), lithographed throughout (except English title-pages, letterpress), 153 plates (nearly all lithographic; 4 halftone), several folding, volume 1 lacking at least pp. 1-8, Urdu title-page remargined and laid down, marginal tears to pp. 9-34, pp. 35/6 repaired, pp. 600-640 with large worm-track in text, loss to pp. 985-110, holes in a couple of plates, retaining original rear wrappers. volume 2 spine misnumbered, title-pages damp-stained, small repair to pp. 1/2, pp. 679/80 torn, tears to plates facing pp. 10, 41 and 221, retaining original rear wrapper, volume 3 with closed tear to Urdu title-page, original wrappers previously tipped in (now detached). Together with duplicates of volumes 2 and 3Note: Note: First edition thus, one of 1,000 copies, no other copies traced in auction records. The work is largely an Urdu translation of the Archaeological Survey of India’s List of Muhammadan and Hindu Monuments in Delhi Zail (1915-1922), the standard work on the subject, but provides additional maps and information on local traditions. Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad is described on the title-pages as 'first talukdar (collector and district magistrate) ret[ired], H. E. H. the Nizam's government, author of the histories of Vijayanagar and Bijapur, Iqbal Dulhan, Husn-e-Muashrat, Islah-e-Maishat, etc., etc., and translator of Dr. Stall's Self and Sex series'.
Lot 78
India - Malayalam printing Compendiosa legis explanatio omnibus Christianis scitu necessaria Malabarico idiomate [Title in Malayalam at head:] Nasranikal okkakkum ariyentunna samksepavedarttham]. Rome: [no printer], 1772. 8vo, contemporary boards, signatures pi1 A-R8 S2, Malayalam types throughout (except for title-page, partly in Latin), wood-engraved vignette to title-page and first page of text, decorative borders throughoutNote: Note: First edition of the first book printed entirely in Malayalam, a catechism by Clemente Peani (1731-1782), missionary for the Propaganda Fide in Kerala. He also produced a Malayalam alphabet (Alphabetum Grandonico-Malabaricum), printed in the same year, but only partly in Malayalam.
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Burns, Robert Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Edinburgh: for the author, 1787. First Edinburgh edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xlviii, 9-368, engraved frontispiece portrait, list of subscribers, modern period-style panelled calf, red morocco lettering piece, some light dust-soiling, p. xlvii with small strip torn from blank fore margin, closed tear to p. 159 and 317, a few short closed marginal tears
Lot 49
Churchill, Winston S. The River War An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. First edition, first impression, one of 2,000 copies printed, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, cloth rubbed, mottled and faded, spines strengthened, variable spotting to contents, contemporary ownership inscriptions to half-titles [Cohen A2 (a)]
Lot 273
Stevenson, Robert Louis A Child's Garden of Verses Illustrated by Charles Robinson. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1896. First illustrated edition (second overall) 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, with the dust jacket, 16 pp. publisher's catalogue to rear dated 1895, dust jacket with a few chips to extremities, spine-panel toned, front flap largely torn away, browning to endpapersNote: Note: A notably early example of the dust jacket. A Child's Garden of Verses was first published in 1885.Provenance: Margaret De Courcy Lewthwaite Dewar (1878-1959), Scottish designer and member of the 'Glasgow Girls', with her self-designed bookplate (see further Lyon & Turnbull, Design Since 1860, 19 April 2023, lot 253).
Lot 203
Golf Collection of rare biographies, manuals and club histories Tulloch, W. W. The Life of Tom Morris, with Glimpses of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities. London: T. Werner Laurie, c.1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, 25 halftone photographic plates including frontispiece (listed as 27, with 2 plates each containing 2 images), spine rolled, binding slightly rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription to initial blank, occasional spotting to text-block;Idem. The Life of Tom Morris. London: Ellesborough Press, 1982. Facsimile edition, one of 100 copies signed by J. H. Neill, captain, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, 1981-2, 8vo, original green morocco, all edges gilt, slipcase, spine sunned, section of discolouration to upper inner corner of front board;Forgan, Robert. The Golfer's Manual, including History and Rules of the Game, with Hints to Beginners. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. (Limited), c.1907. Presumed seventh edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 8 halftone photographic plates (including a portrait of 'Old Tom Morris' as frontispiece), 4 pp. advertisements to rear, with the 'Rules of Golf' section dated 1904, and notice of James Anderson's record round on St Andrew's Links in 1906 to verso of contents page;Dow, James Gordon. The Crail Golfing Society 1786-1936. Being the History of an Eighteenth-Century Golf Club in the East Neuk of Fife. Edinburgh: published at the office of Golf Monthly, 1936. First edition, one of 250 copies only, 8vo, original two-tone cloth, 7 halftone photographic plates, pale mottling to covers, blind stamp (Broadleys, Crail, Fife) to title-page;[Knight, William Angus, editor]. On the Links. Being Golfing Stories by Various Hands. With Shakespeare on Golf. By a Novice. Also, Two Rhymes on Golf by Andrew Lang. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1889. First edition, 8vo, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, 8 pp. advertisements, custom case;Flint, Violet. A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil on the Links of St Andrews. St Andrews: W. C. Henderson & Co, 1897. Third edition, 4to, later cloth, 8 plates, text spotted;and 12 others, including: J. B. Salmond, The Story of the R. & A., 1956 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, torn dust jacket, inscribed by the author on the title-page, signed by various R & A members on the front free endpaper including Ferguson Morton, Baron Morton of Henryton, Charles MacAndrew, Baron Macandrew, and similar); The Book of St Andrews Links, Ellesborough Press, 1984 (facsimile edition, one of 200 copies signed by golfer J. Stewart Lawson, 8vo, original green morocco, spine sunned, slipcase); Robert Forgan, The Golfer's Manual, c.1980 (facsimile edition of the 1897 edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andra Kirkaldy, Fifty Years of Golf: My Memories, 1921 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Andrew Lang & others, A Batch of Golfing Papers, c.1892 (original cloth, ex library); Violet Flint, A Golfing Idyll, 1978 (facsimile edition, of 150 copies); 2 others editions of Lang's work; and similar
Lot 45
Polar exploration Collection of works Evans, Edward. South with Scott. London: W. Collins son & Co. Ltd., 1922. First edition, fifth impression, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed by Evans 'To Mr & Mrs H. D. C. Jones with nicest thoughts from the author, 1923' on the front free endpaper, 3 maps (of 4: lacking 'Track Chart'), cloth cockled and mottled, spotting to outer leaves [Rosove 117.A5];Borchgrevink, C. E. First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900. London: George Newnes, Limited, 1901. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, endpapers renewed [Rosove 45.A1.b: 'Presumably a secondary binding, and considerably scarcer'];Mikkelsen, Ejnar. Conquering the Arctic Ice. London: William Heinemann, 1909. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth, frontispiece, folding map, 2 further maps and numerous illustrations in the text, binding rubbed and marked, labels and markings of Mudie's Select Library to front cover and endpapers, rear inner hinge cracked;Worsley, Frank. Under Sail in the Frozen North. London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., 1927. First edition, 8vo, original light blue cloth (probably a secondary binding: usually in dark blue), 32 photographic plates (many with blue tint), folding map;Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, mottling to lower fore corners of boards [Rosove 178.A1];and approx. 40 others (these not collated), including: Richard E. Byrd, Discovery, New York, 1935 (first edition, original cloth); Robert E. Peary, Nearest the Pole, London, 1907 (first UK edition, original cloth, spine defective); Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, London: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897 (first edition, 2 volumes, volume 1 in contemporary half morocco, volume 2 in original cloth); Herbert Ponting, The Great White South, 1930 (original cloth); Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World, 1952 ('one volume edition', 1952, original cloth, ex-library); Vilhjalmur Stefansson, The Friendly Arctic, New York, 1921 (first edition, original cloth); F. Spencer Chapman, Northern Lights: the Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-31, 1934 (original cloth); Hugh Robert Mill, The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton, 1923 (first edition, original cloth); Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, The First Flight across the Polar Sea, London: Hutchinson & Co., [1927] (first edition, original cloth), and similar
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[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, Robert Cockburn Mossman and J. H. Harvey Pirie] The Voyage of the "Scotia" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration in Arctic Seas. By Three of the Staff. First edition, 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, 58 photographic plates including frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), decoration and lettering on spine rubbed away as usual, tips bumped, text-block toned, a few leaves spotted, pp. 41-44 clumsily opened, short closed tear to large folding map at rear [Rosove 50.A1.b]Note: Note: Inscribed by the expedition leader to the then prime minister on the half-title, the inscription reading 'The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, P.C., M.P., with compliments from Wm. S. Bruce, Edinburgh, 1910'. Rosove cites a copy inscribed by Bruce to Churchill at Edinburgh in the same year, in the same variant binding with purple endpapers.
Lot 115
Wit, Frederick de Africa Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula denuvo correcté revisa, double page engraved map, 487 x 573mm, Amsterdam [after 1685], slightly brownedNote: Note: First published in Amsterdam in 1670. There were at least 6 states, the 4th state printed in 1685 did not have the privilege, present under the caption in this copy, so this would be the 5th or 6th state published after 1685.
Lot 295
Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book London: Macmillan, 1894. First edition, 2nd printing ["First edition May 1894, reprinted June 1894"], plates, ownership inscription of Marion Isabel Durand July 1894 on blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges splitting, somewhat rubbed and soiled;The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan, 1895, first edition, plates, ownership inscription "Maria Durand, Xmas '95" on recto of blank leaf before half-title, original blue cloth gilt, g.e., hinges slightly split, somewhat rubbed and soiled
![[East Indies Sailing Directory] A New Directory for the East-Indies containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/21b99c08-7e41-44b1-b2bb-b00e00af8ab0/b2b8b875-69ce-49a3-806c-b00e0116d623/468x382.jpg)
Lot 79
[East Indies Sailing Directory] A New Directory for the East-Indies containing I. The First Discoveries made in the East Indies by European Voyages and Travellers. II. The Origin, Construction and Application of Nautical and Hydrographical Charts. III. The Natural Causes ... of the Constant and Variable Winds ... throughout the East-India Oceans and Seas. IV. A Description of the Sea Coasts, Islands Rocks ... etc. in the Oriental Navigation. V. Directions for navigating in the East-India Seas ... VI. Directions for sailing to and from the East-Indies ... The whole being a Work originally begun upon the Plan of the Oriental Neptune, augmented and improved by Mr. William Herbert, Mr. Willm Nichelson, and Others; and now methodised, corrected, and further enlarged, by Samuel Dunn. London: Henry Gregory, 1780. Fifth edition, 4to (28.7 x 20.8cm), contemporary sailcloth stitched over boards, xxxvi 544 pp., engraved plate facing p. 341, engraved headpiece, without frontispiece noted in other copies, with detailed contemporary annotations to pp. 377, 378, 379, 381, 394, 397, 409, 520, 521 (in chapters 'Directions for Sailing toward the China Seas' and 'Directions for Returning from the China Seas'), in at least two different hands (signed J. Rossiter and S. Cooper), old ink-stamp ('S. E. Howell') to head of title-page, ownership inscription to front free endpaper and initial blank, toning, spotting to title-page, plate and adjacent text-leaves, scattered light spotting and soiling elsewhere [ESTC T146275]Note: Note: An engrossing artefact of late 18th-century trade and maritime exploration in the East Indies, containing annotations demonstrating first-hand knowledge of the waters around Java and Sumatra, and retaining an early makeshift covering of crudely stitched sailcloth, in a good state of preservation. Le Neptune orientale, the basis of the work, was first published in 1745; Herbert's New Directory for the East Indies first appeared in 1758. This fifth edition is considerably expanded from all preceding iterations, which all had 144 pages, suggesting that only limited changes if any had been made previously. All editions are rare in libraries and in commerce.
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Impressionism Group of catalogues raisonnés and other reference works 1) Maneti) Denis Rouart et Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Edouard Manet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975. 2 volumes, folio, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Edouard Manet. Graphic Works. A Definitive Catalogue Raisonné. Jean C. Harris. New York: Collectors Editions, 1970. 4to, original cloth;2) Degasi) Paul-André Lemoisne. Degas et son œuvre. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1984. 5 volumes, 4to, original blue cloth, illustrated throughout with reproductions of Degas's works;ii) The Notebooks of Edgar Degas. A Catalogue of the Thirty-Eight Notebooks in the Bibliothèque Nationale and Other Collections. Theodore Roeff. Newly revised edition. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1985. 2 volumes, 4to, original pictorial boards;iii) Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1918 - Vente I + II. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1918 - Sales I + II. [And:] Vente atelier Edgar Degas 1919 - Ventes III + IV. Degas's Atelier at Auction 1919 - Sales III - IV. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original red boards, printed and glassine dust jackets;iv) Degas. The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes. Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;3) Pissarroi) Wildenstein Institute. Pissarro. Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan: Skir/Wildenstein Institute Publications, 2005. First edition, 3 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets, pictorial slipcase;ii) Camille Pissarro. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) Ludovic Rodo Pissarro et Lionelle Venturi. Camille Pissarro. Son art - son œuvre. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;4) Moneti) Daniel Wildenstein de l'Institut. Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothéque des arts [-Wildenstein Institute], 1979-99. Volumes 2-5 of 5, 4to, original cloth, volumes 2-4 with dust jackets and slipcases;ii) Daniel Wildenstein. Monet or the Triumph of Impressionism [volumes 2-4: Catalogue raisonné]. Cologne: Taschen/Wildenstein, 1996. 4 volumes, 4to, original cloth, slipcase, retaining original cardboard packing case with handle;5) Renoiri) Renoir. Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville. Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Paris: Editions Bernheim-jeune, 2007-2010. Volumes 1-3 (of 5), 4to, original cloth, dust jackets;ii) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. L'œuvre gravé et lithographié ... Catalogue raisonné. Loys Delteil. Edited by Alan Hyman. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1999. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (small nick to rear panel);iii) Renoir. Watercolors and Pastels. Selected with an Introduction and Commentaries by François Daulte. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1959. 4to, original quarter cloth, 24 colour plates, acetate dust jacket;6) Othersi) Marie Berhaut. Gustave Caillebotte. Catalogue raisonné des peintures et pastels. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée avec le concours de Sophie Pietrie. Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket, slipcase;ii) Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, Yves Rouart. Berthe Morisot 1841-1895. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Montolivet: CERA-nrs éditions, 1997. 4to, original cloth, dust jacket;iii) François Daulte. Alfred Sisley. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, 1959. One of 1,200 copies, 4to, original cloth, dust jacket (slightly chipped and toned)Note: Note: Facsimile reprint of the first edition of Lemoisne's definitive catalogue raisonné, originally published in four volumes in 1946-9; the Supplement (volume 5), by Philippe Brame and Theodore and Arlene Reff, is published here for the first time.
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§ Alfred G. Buckham (1879/80-1956) Edinburgh, c.1920 gelatin silver print photograph, 45.8 x 38.5cm, showing an aerial view of Edinburgh from the north-west, looking towards Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat with Edinburgh Castle in the foreground, mounted, framed and glazed, signed and titled by the photographer in pencil on the mount ('Edinburgh, Alfred G. Buckham Capt., late RAF'), oxidisation along edgesNote: Note: Alfred Buckham served as head of aerial reconnaissance for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War and subsequently as an officer in the RAF. Despite being invalided out of the RAF after several near-fatal crashes that left him permanently disabled, he went on to achieve renown as a photographer specialising in aerial views 'of such poetic sweep and majesty that ... they remain singular achievements in the art of aerial image making' (American Photographer, August 1989).
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Woolf, Virginia 10 works The Years. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell, some chipping and slight loss to jacket, hinges split;Flush. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First American edition, 8vo, original brown cloth, without dust-jacket;Roger Fry, a biography. London: The Hogarth press, 1940. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, a little loss and tearing to dust-jacket;Between the Acts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941. First American edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, without dust-jacket;The Death of the Moth. London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. Second edition, 8vo, some chipping and slight loss to dust-jacket;The Moment, and other essays. London: The Hogarth Press, 1947. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth gilt, some slight loss to dust-jacket spine;The Captain's Death Bed. London: The Hogarth Press, 1950. 'Uniform edition', 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dust-jacket price-clipped;A Writer's Diary. London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First edition, 8vo, original orange cloth, dust-jacket only very slightly chipped;The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1955. Eighth impression, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, some minor chipping to dust-jacket;Granite & Rainbow. London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, torn dust-jacket with some loss
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Stein, Sir Aurel Two works On Alexander's Track to the Indus. Personal Narrative of Explorations on the North-West Frontier of India. London: Macmillan & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece, plates, 2 coloured folding maps at end, original red-brown cloth, with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g.;On Central-Asian Tracks. London: Macmillan & Co., 1935. First edition, 8vo, plates, some coloured, folding map, original red-brown cloth with embossed gilt medallion on front cover, dustwrapper strengthened on verso, price-clipped and with a couple of tears repairedNote: Note: Very good copies. Inspired by Sven Hedin, Stein took part in several expeditions in Central Asia, gathering numerous artifacts and antiquities. The British Library's Stein collection of Chinese, Tibetan and Tangut manuscripts, Prakrit wooden tablets, and documents in Khotanese, Uighur, Sogdian and Eastern Turkic is the result of his travels. Loosely inserted is a New Year card from Rt. Hon. Leo Amery, Secretary of State for India and Burma 1940-45.
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[Egyptology] - Carter, Howard Three letters written to Howard Carter, with his signature 1) Addressed 22nd March 1929, typed letter in French from H. de Bildt of the Royal Swedish Legion in Egypt, thanking Carter for his permission to make an alabaster copy of the King's Wishing Cup but explaining that there is no craftsperson able to undertake the work, before discussing the possibility of taking a mould of the cup, with a signed autograph note by Howard Carter to the lower margin reading "Thank you for your ? & I am in agreement with the above, Howard Carter, 22nd March 1929", 21.5 x 27cm;2) Addressed 19th November 1929, typed letter in French from Gaultier, Inspector General of the Service des Antiquités, requesting two series of enlarged photographs of the antiquities of Tutankhamun's tomb, with a signed autograph note by Howard Carter in blue pencil to the lower margin expressing that he has "no objection to this demand", 16.7 x 20.7cm;3) Addressed 14th March 1931, typed letter in French from Gaultier, Inspector General of the Service des Antiquités, requesting permission for secondary-school teacher, Mr James Silverman, to reproduce some photographs of Tutankhamun's tomb onto glass slides, with Howard Carter's signature to the lower margin dated 21st March 1921 and 'No Objection', 16.7 x 20.7cm;[WITH] 3 hand-coloured lantern slides, depicting The King's Jewellery Box, The King's Diadem, 'King Tut. in his tomb in the outer coffin'Note: Note: The 'King's Wishing Cup' was Howard Carter's name for the lotus, or alabaster, chalice from the tomb of Tutankhamun. It was one of the first discoveries made upon entering the tomb. LOT AMENDMENT: Please note that this no longer contains the 'The King's Wishing Cup' (the lotus chalice) glass lantern slide shown in the photographs.
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