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Lot 827

Kelmscott Press. The Order of Chivalry, Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, [1893], wood-engraved frontispiece by Edward Burne-Jones, adjacent text leaf with wood-engraved ornamental floral border, wood-engraved initials throughout, Chaucer type, bookplate of 'Rob Jones' to front pastedown, original limp vellum gilt, lacking portion of ties (one fragment loosely inserted), backstrip lightly dust-soiled, front board bowed, 8vo, (one of 225 copies)QTY: (1)NOTE:Peterson A13. The first Kelmscott production printed in Chaucer type. 'Saw the sheets of Caxton's Order of Chivalry the printing of which is just complete. It is the prettiest book yet done'. (Peterson).

Lot 836

Vale Press. De Cupidinis et Psyches amoribus fabula anilis, 1st edition, Hacon & Ricketts, printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1901, woodcut border to first text page and 5 wood-engravings by Charles Ricketts, bookplate of Edmund Bulkley to front pastedown, uncut, preliminary and rear leaves lightly spotted and toned, original holland-backed blue boards with printed paper label to front board, folio, one of 310 copiesQTY: (1)NOTE:Watry, Vale Press, B33.

Lot 838

Vale Press. Ricketts (Charles). A Defence of the Revival of Printing, London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon and Ricketts, 1899, wood-engraved ornamental border to first page and initials by Charles Ricketts, original boards, paper title labels to front board and backstrip, lightly dust-soiled and rubbed, 8voQTY: (1)

Lot 842

Wilde (Oscar). The Sphinx, with decorations by Charles Ricketts, 1st edition, London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1894, illustrated title page, one half-page illustration and eight full-page illustrations by Charles Ricketts, decorative initials, engraved bookplate to front pastedown, neat ownership inscription in pencil to rear pastedown 'E Seligmann', a few leaves to rear with small faint damp-stain to upper right-hand corner (not affecting text or image), pastedowns and endpapers lightly spotted, original pictorial vellum gilt, some staining to front board upper margin, boards slightly bowed, small 4to, one of 200 copiesQTY: (1)NOTE:Ray 262.Provenance: Possibly Georges E. Seligmann, New York art dealer and collector.A landmark in late 19th-century book production. With Ricketts in complete control for the first time, The Sphinx is seen by many as his greatest work. "No illustrated book was ever more thoroughly planned... The result is a perfect whole, as harmonious as it is dazzling" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book, 1976, no. 262). "Mr Ricketts has never made a lovelier thing than the group of maidens clustering round "the moon horned Io" as she weeps" (Pall Mall Budget, 21 June 1894).

Lot 844

Ariel Poems. Collection of 28 volumes, first and new series, 1927-54, comprising The Linnet's Nest, by Henry Newbolt (3 copies), The Wonder Night, by Laurence Binyon, Alone, by Walter de la Mare (2 copies), The Chanty of the Nova, by Hilaire Belloc, The Early Whistler, by Wilfrid Gibson, Self to Self, by Walter de la Mare (2 copies, one without rear cover), Troy, by Humbert Wolfe (2 copies including signed Large Paper edition, limited edition 428/500), To My Mother, by Siegfried Sassoon, Winter Nights, by Edmund Blunden, A Snowdrop, by Walter de la Mare, The Outcast, by James Stephens, Inscription on a Fountain-Head, by Peter Quennell, The Triumph of the Machine, by D.H. Lawrence (2 copies), Jane Barston 1719-1746, by Edith Sitwell, The Gum Trees, by Roy Campbell, Nativity, by Roy Campbell, The Winnowing Dream, by Walter de la Mare (2 copies), The Cultivation of Christmas Trees, by T.S. Eliot, Christmas Eve, by C. Day Lewis, The Other Wing, by Louis MacNeice, and Prometheus, by Edwin Muir, each with lithographed frontispiece by illustrators including Edward Ardizzone, Michael Ayrton, Hilaire Belloc, R.A. Davies, Barnett Freedman, Claudia Guercio, Robin Jacques, David Jones, Ralph Keene, John Piper, John Nash, Charles Ricketts, Albert Rutherston, James Sellers, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Stephen Tennant, and Althea Willoughby, original sewn wrappers, four new series titles contained in original envelopes, some wear to few covers, 8voQTY: (28)

Lot 845

Auden (W.H.) The Orators. An English Story, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1932, all edges gilt, finely bound in recent morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, covers with circular design onlaid in cream and grey, solander box, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "To Olive, with love from her little Wysta[n], 1932" (most likely inscribed in Auden's left hand, with the 'n' in 'Wystan' shaved when the book was rebound), note of provenance tipped-in opposite. From the library of Olive Mangeot (wife of French violinist André Mangeot, 1883-1970). Christopher Isherwood's first job in London was as secretary to Mangeot's string quartet, in 1925, and Olive became a mother figure to Isherwood and his circle of friends.Auden's second work, 1000 copies printed.

Lot 846

Benson (Stella). Tobit Transplanted, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1931, original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in dustwrapper, minimal fraying to extremities, small repair to verso of the front wrapper, together withSanson (William). The Last Hours of Sandra Lee, 1st edition, London: Hogarth Press, 1961, original black cloth gilt in dustwrapper, plus Mann (Thomas). Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man, translated from the German by Denver Lindley, 1st English edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1955, front endpaper somewhat browned, original cloth in frayed and chipped dustwrapper, and other literature and fiction of the 1920s-50s, included Alain Robbe Grillet, The Voyeur, 1959, Best Black Magic Stories, edited by John Keir Cross, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1960, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Man without Nerves, New York: P. F. Collier, 1934, Kenneth Patchen, See You in the Morning, 1st edition, London: Grey Walls Press, 1949, Edgar Wallace, Dorn Ford Yates, Warwick Deeping, Ruby M. Ayres, Francis Brett Young, Jeffery Farnol, Francis Brett Young, Taylor Cordwell, William Le Queux, F.L.M. Dell, Joseph Hocking etc., including some first editions, all original cloth in dustwrappers, some minor fraying (generally in good condition), 8voQTY: (54)

Lot 848

Bowles (Paul). The Sheltering Sky, 3rd impression, October 1949; A Little Stone, 1950; Let it Come Down, 1952; The Spider's House, 1957, all bar Sheltering Sky 1st UK editions, one or two light stains, partial offsetting from flaps to endpapers, previous owner signature to first three titles, original cloth, some fading to spines of first three titles, dust jackets, first three spine ends a little rubbed with small chips, tear and loss to rear panel and closed tear to front panel of of A Little Stone, light toning to rear panels, 8voQTY: (4)

Lot 850

Chesterton (G.K.). The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, 1st edition, Bristol & London, [1908], half-title and advert leaf at end, minor soiling and marks, front free endpaper, original red cloth lettered in black to upper cover and in gilt to spine, rubbed and a little frayed at spine ends, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:First issue without full stop after 'K' on spine.

Lot 890

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). A collection of 15 autograph manuscript letters and postcards from Seamus Heaney to Alan Hancox and Shelagh Hancox, 1986-1997, comprising three autograph letters and one autograph postcard to Alan Hancox, the first dated 191 Strand Road, Dublin 4, 8 June 1987: 'It is very kind of you to have me and Marie on June 25. Mea culpa for not coming through for the Lit-fest. Somehow, I was askew and, as usual, over-infested with things. My father was ill all last summer and I had the Eliot Memorial Lectures hanging over me like What The Thunder Said. Eheu. Eheu.', the second letter dated Durrants Hotel, London, 27. 6. 87: 'just a note, before I am swept away with the sweepings of my own activities in the next ten days in Ireland-more readings and signings...to say once again how "rich and rare" the visit to your home was, how fulfilling the event itself and how proud we feel to be the receivers of your munificence in the form of the absolutely right and unique books.', the third dated Gold Circle Club, 13 October 1988, after the lecture and the good talk in the kitchen... Dear Alan and Shelagh, When Alan spoke in his introduction about the feeling of sureness and access we experience when we all meet again, I was delighted...I suppose I just want to acknowledge that the privilege of our meetings, and the pleasurable highs we give and gain from them, mean much to me too, so much that I ask myself at a moment like this ?'then why don't you keep in touch?' the puritan self-testing streak never lets up or fades out...', the first two autograph letters with original postmarked envelope, the autograph postcard dated 5.IX.'88 offering appreciation of Alan's 1988 Cheltenham Festival 'Stunning feat of organisation once again. God's plenty, yes. But Hancox's heft and force too.', two further handwritten notes to Alan Hancox from Seamus Heaney regarding travel expenses dated 29 September 1988 and 13 October 1988, plus two autograph letters and one typewritten letter from Seamus Heaney to Shelagh Hancox dated May 5 1992, 19 January 1997, and 14 August 1997, the first offering a heartfelt appreciation of Alan who had recently died 'every time I say goodbye to Alan at Cheltenham, every time he conferred a gift of a book on me, every formal introduction that he made in the Town Hall had a kind of enhanced meaning because of the mortal stakes he was playing in year by year. I considered myself chosen as a kind of friend by him and felt the mixture of realism and affection, of vigilant enthusiasm and sardonic permissiveness all that impulse and intelligence and impatience and upbeat energy that was in him - I felt it as a kind of generous endorsement of whatever I was or was up to', the second informing Shelagh that he has had to decline the invitation to take up the presidency of the Cheltenham Literature Festival, six further handwritten postcards from Seamus Heaney to Shelagh Hancox, circa 1992-1993, four handwritten postcards from Marie Heaney to Shelagh Hancox, circa 1986-87, and a few newscuttings and related printed ephemera including a Faber publisher's typewritten schedule for Heaney's series of readings from his new book of poems The Haw Lantern, 9th-30th June 1987QTY: (19)NOTE:Alan Hancox, Cheltenham bookdealer and director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival from 1980 to 1995, who oversaw the expansion of the festival into one of the leading British literary events of each summer. Seamus and Marie Heaney regularly stayed with Alan and Shelagh Hancox in Cheltenham when they came to the Literature Festival. Alan's major contribution to, and development of, the Cheltenham Literature Festival is acknowledged in the published tribute to him by the many poets he invited, Poems for Alan Hancox, issued by the Whittington Press in 1993.

Lot 9

Lear (Edward). Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, &c., 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1851, uncoloured lithographed single-page map frontispiece, 20 tinted lithograph plates, some very light spotting to plates only, contemporary ownership signature of J. R. Gilbert to head of title, front inner hinge a little shaken, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt spine, rubbed and some marks and light overall soiling, large 8vo, together withBartlett (W. H.). The Nile Boat; or Glimpses of the Land of Egypt, 1st edition, London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1849, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved vignette title page, single page engraved map, and 32 engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations to text, 8pp. publishers advertisements at rear, original yellow chalk-glazed endpapers with printed advertisements, original gilt-decorated pale pink cloth, spine lightly faded (generally a very good copy), large 8vo, plusAlexander (Colonel Sir James E.). Incidents of the Maori War, New Zealand in 1860-61, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1863, tinted lithograph frontispiece view of New Plymouth, Taranaki, single-page engraved map, original yellow chalk-glaze endpapers, contemporary prize bookplate to front pastedown from Leek Commercial School, dated mid-summer 1869, gilt-decorated and blind-stamped green cloth, very lightly rubbed (generally in excellent condition), 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:Abbey Travel 45; Blackmer 986 (for the first work).

Lot 906

Hughes (Ted). Night Arrival of Sea-Trout; The Iron Wolf; Puma, hand-printed at The Morrigu Press, 25 March, 13 April & 14 April 1979, broadsides, printed to rectos, one or two light spots, each a proof copy from a limited edition of 30 copies and signed in pencil by the poet, and each inscribed in pencil to Alan Hancox from Ted Hughes, Xmas 1987 at foot, together with Woodpecker, Morrigu Press, August 19, 1979, broadside, limited signed edition 15/60, also inscribed for Alan Hancox, Xmas 1987, first three 30 x 20.5 cmQTY: (4)

Lot 907

Hughes (Ted, 1930-1998). A group of seven autograph manuscript letters from Ted Hughes to Alan Hancox (the last letter written to his wife Shelagh), 6th July 1983-18th March 1992, the first referring to the expedition to Lake Victoria involving his son Nicholas: 'he's now presumably dissecting Nile Perch (up to 300 lb each) on the lake shores in 98º F', and offering Alan the services of his local healer: 'Roy [Davids] tells us you had a visit to hospital, Alan. I hope that's under control. He'll tell you of a visit to our local healer & miracle-worker. Roy seemed impervious to the magic rays - though very often they are magic beyond belief. Anyway, in spite of Roy, I recommend him without reservation to everybody, and he seems to help (cure) about 4/5', another letter (dated in another hand in pencil January 1988) thanks Alan for the gift of a Shakespeare Folio, with a further letter, dated Court Green, North Tawton, Devon, 14 November 1991: 'I arrived back here to be crushed under the last minute copy-editor's adjustment to my Shakespeare Tome. So I was trying to get all kinds of little embellishments in before the whole mass sank into the fixity of type....What a marvelous volume that is. I have it open on a very fine lectern my son made...After my Shakespeare digression, I'm surveying a pile of things that I left half-started at the point of distraction. So I am trying to refix my wits to cope with a new line in productions. Sustained writing of prose - formal prose - makes many things more difficult for a while, somehow. Everything one does leaves its habit-trace.' and finishing with a reference to the latest Cheltenham Literature Festival and to the publication of an Anthology of East European Poets by his friend Danny Weissbort: 'A bookfull of quite wonderful things that will probably sink without trace in the finely huge yawn of boredom with (boredom over? boredom about?) those wretched countries. A bookful of red-hot cries from the forge of history suddenly turned to chill, remote museum pieces. I'm sending the reprint of my Shakespeare Anthology, with the Note (at the back) from which my other book emerged', and a last letter to Alan's wife Shelagh referring to Alan's death 'Dear Shelagh - I hope all's going well with you. I imagine a great many people are giving support, but if there is anything I can do - you know I would love the opportunity to do it... it's a valuable memory that Alan was so warm and often with me. Just as it's a kind of thorn in my memory that I was so late for that Shakespeare lecture the year before. I got there exactly on time, but it must have given Alan an anxious ten minutes...I've got the Shakespeare he gave me here on a lectern, and I try to read it a play a week from it - aloud to myself', together with three handwritten cards from Carol Hughes, and a Morrigu Press invoice signed by Carol Hughes, as well as two photographs of Ted Hughes and Alan Hancox at the 1992 Cheltenham Literature FestivalQTY: (13)NOTE:Alan Hancox, Cheltenham bookdealer and director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival from 1980 to 1995, who oversaw the expansion of the festival into one of the leading British literary events of each summer. He regularly chaired poetry discussions, such as Seamus Heaney's 1988 Cheltenham Lecture 'Learning from Eliot', about the influence of T. S. Eliot on Heaney's writing. Alan's major contribution is acknowledged in the tribute to him by poets he brought to the festival, Poems for Alan Hancox, published by the Whittington Press in 1993.

Lot 908

Hughes (Ted, adapter). Seneca's Oedipus, London: Faber and Faber, 1969, a few light spots front and rear, original wrappers, slight marginal toning, 8vo, inscribed to title "Ted Hughes, Jan 6th 1970, [Ex Libris R.L.S. with love from R.L.S.], To Professor Sedgewick from his hidden neighbour. Since Oedipus, tore out his eyes/How much we have enjoyed his cries/And all the associated, diverse mythological and crazy lies", together with Meet My Folks!, London: Faber and Faber, revised edition, 1987, illustrations by George Adamson, original wrappers, 8vo, inscribed "For Alan, warmest greetings from Ted, 29 November 1987, 'Out of a little grass comes a great ass', plus Season Songs, Faber and Faber, revised edition, 1985, original wrappers, 8vo, inscribed "For Alan, best wishes from Ted, 19 August 1989", with 2 others: A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse, selected with an introduction by Ted Hughes inscribed "To Beatrix Holmes, greetings, Ted Hughes. January 1975, with additional annotations, possibly by Alan Hancox, and a press cutting pasted in, and First and Always. Poems for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, compiled and edited by Lawrence Sail, introduction by Ted Hughes, inscribed to Alan and Shelagh Hancox from Lawrence Sail, 4th October 1989, with a loose inscribed card from the same QTY: (5)

Lot 91

Keulemans (John Gerrard). A Natural History of Cage Birds, Parts 1-3 (of 4) only, 1st edition, London: John Van Voorst, [1871], 3 parts bound in one, title-page, 82 pages of text, 18 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, original printed wrapper to first part bound in at front, single-leaf prospectus, and printed wrappers to second and third parts bound in at rear, top edge gilt, bookplate of John Buchanan Kinshaw, contemporary gilt blind-panelled sprinkled full calf, a little rubbed to joints and edges, upper hinge and joint weak, small folio (sheet size 28.7 x 19 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Mullens & Swann, page 327 "exceptionally fine plates"; Nissen IVB 492; Sitwell (1990), page 111. Only 4 parts of a projected 20 were issued.

Lot 912

Isherwood (Christopher). All the Conspirators, 1st edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1928, half title, all edges gilt, recent fine tan morocco by James Brockman, Oxford, covers with vertical black stripe bordered with gold and silver repeat pattern rolls and horizontal lines in black, contained in original cloth solander box, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper "bought this book in 1928. In September 1932, the author saw it on her shelves and kindly offered to add to its value by affixing his autograph. Christopher Isherwood." Printed note of provenance tipped-in opposite.From the library of Olive Mangeot, her pencil signature above inscription, Olive Mangeot, was the wife of violinist André Mangeot to whose International String Quartet Christopher Isherwood became secretary in 1928, whilst writing this his first book. Olive Mangeot became a mother figure to Isherwood and his circle of friends.

Lot 917

James (P.D.). A group of 10 first edition novels, all published Faber, 1972/2003, titles comprise, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, 1972, The Black Tower, 1975, Death of a Expert Witness (2 copies), 1977, Innocent Blood, 1980, A Taste for Death, 1986, Devices and Desires, 1989, A Certain Justice, 1997, Death in Holy Orders, 2001, The Murder Room, 2003, all but the first signed by the author on titles, some dated, original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, plus a signed postcard portrait of the author from the painting by Michael TaylorQTY: (10)

Lot 918

Joyce (James). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 2nd edition, London: The Egoist Ltd, 1917 [but 1918], a little slight toning, original green cloth, faint stains to rear cover, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Slocum & Cahoon A13. The first English edition with English sheets. The book was first published in New York by B.W. Huebsch in 1916, followed by the first English edition in 1917, circa 750 copies bound up from American Sheets (as English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it); the present copy is the first English using sheets printed in England.

Lot 919

Joyce (James). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1st UK edition, London: The Egoist, 1917, original front cover bound to rear, one leaf with marginal paper repair to upper margin (touching text), endpapers renewed, modern green crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, all edges gilt, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Slocum and Cahoon A12.The first UK edition used the remaining sheets from the first edition published in New York by Huebsch in the preceding year. This is because 'English printers would not accept the responsibility of printing it'. (Slocum and Cahoon p.19).

Lot 921

Larkin (Philip). Aubade, 1st separate edition, Madison, Wisconsin: The Penstemon Press, 1980, illustration by Kathleen Gray Schallock, contents printed on Fabriano, Richard de Bas, Japanese handmade paper, original grey wrappers, contained in original silver-lined envelope, oblong 12mo, with Kathleen Gray Schallock business card loosely inserted, together with:Larkin (Philip), High Windows, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1974, original cloth in dust-jacket, 8voQTY: (2)NOTE:The first work is a limited edition, number 96/250 initialled by the author Philip Larkin and illustrator Kathleen Gray Schallock.

Lot 923

Le Carre (John). Our Game, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, map endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, tiny closed tear at head of spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Signed by the author to bookplate tipped-in at title. In the suppressed first issue dust jacket, subsequently changed for the second impression as the author disliked the design.

Lot 928

Lewis (C.S.) Broadcast Talks, Reprinted with some alterations from two series of Broadcast Talks (Right and Wrong: A Clue to the Meaning of the Universe and What Christians Believe) given in 1941 and 1942, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1942, partial offsetting from flaps to first and last leaves, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned with tears at ends, small tear and loss to front panel, a few light stains, 8vo, together with Christian Behaviour. A further series of Broadcast Talks, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1943, original cloth, dust jacket, spine toned with tears at ends, 8vo, plus The Great Divorce. A Dream, 1st edition, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945, original cloth, dust jacket, spine a little faded, a few small tears, 8vo, together with others by or related to C.S. Lewis including Miracles, 1947, Till We Have Faces, 1956, The Four Loves, 1960, The Screwtape Letters, April 1942 reprint, Studies in Words, 1960, An Experiment in Criticism, 1961, The Discarded Image, 1964, Poems, 1964, Spenser's Images of Life, 1967 The Dark Tower and Other Stories, edited by Walter Hooper, 1977, and Collected Letters, edited by Walter Hooper, volumes I & II, 2000-2004 QTY: (58)

Lot 930

Lovecraft (H.P.) The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath, Buffalo: Shroud, 1955, original cloth, dust jackets in 2 states, first state jacket with some light ink offsetting to front panel, later state yellow jacket with very slight toning to spine, with 'Limited Collector's Edition' to front flap, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Limited edition, one of 50 specially bound copies, signed by Kenneth J. Krueger (label to colophon), editor/publisher of Shroud, from a total edition of 1500, this copy 301/1500.

Lot 941

Lovecraft (H.P.) The Outsider and Others, collected by August Derleth and Donal Wandrei, 1st edition, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1939, one or two faint spots, slight toning to endpapers, bookplate of Lyndon Han Liew, original black cloth gilt, dust jacket designed by Virgil Finlay, spine a little toned and chipped at ends, small abrasion to spine title, small chips at folds, $5.00 price intact, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The first collected edition of Lovecraft's important and best stories, mostly originally published in horror and fantasy pulp magazine Weird Tales first published in 1923.

Lot 946

Mitford (Nancy). The Pursuit of Love, 1945; Love in a Cold Climate, 1949; The Blessing, 1951; Don't Tell Alfred, 1960, 1st editions, slight toning to Pursuit and Alfred textblocks, previous owner inscription to Pursuit, original cloth, dust jackets, first two titles with small chips and tears at spine ends and corners, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with seven others including Highland Fling, 2nd impression, 1931 and Christmas Pudding, 2nd impression (both without dust jackets), Madame de Pompadour, 1954, Voltaire in Love, 1957, and The Water Beetle, 1962QTY: (11)

Lot 57

A Royal Crown Derby Olde Avesbury part tea service comprising dessert plates, side plates, tea cups and saucers, etc, first quality

Lot 66

A Royal Crown Derby Imari palette 1128 pattern dinner plate, first quality; an 1128 tea plate, second quality (2)

Lot 70

A Royal Crown Derby Posies pattern acorn dish, first quality; a Plant Tuscan China figure, Marigold; a similar trinket box and cover; a cut glass scent bottle; a pair of Nachtmann glass candlesticks; a Sampson Hancock vase, encrusted with flowers; a Czechoslovakian lustre coffee service for six; a Staffordshire flatback, Scottish huntsman on horseback; etc

Lot 1

A Royal Crown Derby 1128 pattern tea service for six comprising cups, saucers and side plates, first quality

Lot 218

A Royal Crown Derby 1128 pattern 8.5” plate, printed mark, first quality

Lot 236

A Royal Crown Derby miniature bear, Cook, others, Bear Hug, Emma, Gone Fishing and Edward, printed marks, first quality (5)

Lot 237

A Royal Crown Derby Imari palette 1128 pattern bottle vase, solid gold band, 11cm, first quality

Lot 238

A Royal Crown Derby Imari palette 1128 pattern oval trinket pot and cover, solid gold band, first quality, a similar rectangular trinket pot, first quality; an 1128 shaped oval trinket tray, second quality (3)

Lot 34

A Royal Crown Derby Imari palette 1128 pattern teacup and saucer, seconds; an 1128 tea plate, 16cm and a pair of 1128 trinket dishes, 11cm, first quality (5)

Lot 343

A Royal Crown Derby 1128 pattern plate, 27cm diameter, first quality; a pair of 1128 pattern plates, 27cm diameter, second quality (3)

Lot 360

A Paragon First Choice pattern tea service for six, comprising teapot, cake plate, side plates, cream jug, sugar bowl, cups and saucers; a set of six Royal Albert Lady Carlyle pattern teacups and saucers; others, Royal Albert Highland Thistle, qty

Lot 426

Numismatic interest: UK Crown coins, 1951 Festival of Britain BU in box with certificate; two 1953 Coronation crowns unc. in plastic cases; three 1965 Churchill crowns in William Deacons Bank wallets and three 1972 Silver wedding crowns in Williams & Glyn’s Bank folders; 1953 unc. UK specimen set sealed in plastic as issued; 1971 first decimal set, blue folder, also bank notes: Canada $1 1954 VF, Germany, Weimar Republic 20,000Mk 1923, poor & Canada 25c 1923 AF but torn & repaired; box of badges, gilt metal and enamel: ASLEF lapel, Women’s Unionist Division/ Ilkeston & Women’s National Unionist (both pin backed), Radiobus (pin badge), silver sports medal, Birmingham 1902, engraved GW, Swiss ladies’ wrist watch, slightly damaged enamel dial, .925 import marked silver case, various fragments of costume jewellery including a gold 9ct. heart ring Chester 1914, leather drawstring bag (qty)

Lot 437

Books - Local Interest and Art History - Nicolson (Benedict), Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, two-volume set, first edition; Hulton (Paul) The Work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 2 vol., 1977; others, The Pre-Raphaelites, Wright of Derby; The Sculptures of Michelangelo; Botticelli; etc

Lot 262

George I 1723 Shilling, first bust, SSC in angles. S 3647, AVF

Lot 99

British WWII Signals Collection of ephemera (3) including messages written on Army Forms for 10 ARP signallers X/329 & X/331 and a secret Cypher Message for the First Canadian Army 2nd British Army L of C, GHQ AA Troops 79th Armoured Div. Exfor Rear for the surrender of the German 21st Army Group around Dunkirk,

Lot 327

Collection of mostly diecast models, to include EFE (Exclusive First Editions), KeilKraft Edinburgh Standard Tram, Weico models tram, Corgi Seddon Atkinson Container Truck etc., and a Combat Force Super Helicopter (qty)

Lot 340

Collection of diecast models, to include Burago Ferrari F40, Burago Lamborghini Diablo, Maisto McLaren F1, Burago Lamborghini Countach 5000, Burago Grand Prix F1, Excusive First Editon Models, Matchbox 40th Anniversary Collection etc., (qty)

Lot 76

Six Ordnance Survey Maps, two one inch examples and four quarter-inch maps, together with an Aveling & Porter catalogue of steam rollers 1920, and a small collection of first day covers including Nigel Mansell (qty)

Lot 248

Two pairs of first World War medals, PTE C. Doddreall SS 15457 and GNR J.W Hodgson 73652 and a commemorative bronze medallion

Lot 256

A framed, mounted first World War pair of medals, and a death plaque to William Henry Dunkeld

Lot 706

Property from the Estate of the Rt. Hon. the Countess of Sutherland Twenty various engravings, etchings and lithographs of British historical interest, 18th and 19th century, comprising: three views of Penshurst; two etchings entitled Hall of the Earl's Palace and Doorway of the Earls Palace; Theobalds, by Edward Harding; a double full length portrait by F. Bartolozzi; Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Stratford; Lesley, Bishop of Rosse; David Leslie, First Lord of Newark; John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale; James Marquesse of Montrose; Esme Stuart, Duke of Lennox; James Stuart, Duke of Lenox; the family tree of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales; a sheet applied with a portrait of Grenville Leveson, Marquis of Stafford and various obituary notices; a sheet applied with five portraits relating to the Danish Royal family and three coats-of-arms; four copies of historical documents (20)Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 726

David Roberts, RA, Scottish 1796-1864- General view of Esouan and the Island of Elephantine; and Nazareth April 28th 1839; hand-coloured lithographs, two, each signed and titled within the plate, the first 33.5 x 53.4 cm, the second 35.5 x 52 cm (2) These works are framed and glazed, and unexamined out of the frames. General marks and scuffs to the frames. The sheets appear to have been trimmed. The sheets are cockling slightly within the frame. Possible discolouration/browning to the sheets, particularly towards the edges, and general foxing, particularly to the first sheet. Further marks and surface dirt generally. Otherwise in fair to good condition overall.

Lot 729

Oswald Heidbrinck, French 1860-1914- In Court; and The nude model; the first watercolour on paper, the second pen and black ink heightened with blue pencil on card, the first is captioned (see note), and further bears inscription 'Dessin de Heidbrinck' (on the reverse), the second signed 'Heidbrinck' (lower right), the first 28 x 24.1 cm., the second 25.9 x 26.5 cm., two (2), (unframed). Provenance: Collection of William Drummond.; Private Collection, UK. Note: The first is inscribed with a comical caption on a piece of paper (reattached to the mount): ‘Ingénieur de la Compagnie expliquait aux magistrats que la cause des catastrophes est toujours du aux voyageurs.’ This translates as ‘The Engineer of the Company explained to the magistrates that the cause of the disasters is always due to the travellers themselves.’ Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 747

William Callow, RWS, British 1812-1908- Jusa, Verona; and Carhaix, Brittany; each pencil on paper laid down on card, the first inscribed and dated 'Susa Augt 25/65', the second inscribed 'Carhaix', the first 26 x 18.2 cm., the second 29.5 x 20.2 cm., two (2), (unframed). Provenance: Collection of William Drummond.; Private Collection, UK. Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 181

A Chinese mother-of-pearl inlaid wood Apostle cross, probably Macau, first-half 19th century, inlaid with incised mother-of-pearl depicting flowers, foliage, flaming heart and bird, 44.5 high, 23.5cm wide Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 278

Two Indian miniature paintings, India, 20th century, ink and gouache on paper heightened with gilt, the first a night scene in grisaille with lovers in a forest within an oval; the second with a mounted rider on horseback, both mounted, glazed and in matching frames, frames each 41 x 33cm. (2)Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 295

Four Middle Eastern parquetry boxes, first half 20th century, each intricately inlaid in wood, mother-of-pearl, and bone with geometric patterns, 32 x 32cm; together with a pair of Indian polychrome decorated candlesticks, 26cm high; and a brass hookah stem (7) Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 381

A Continental glass six-light chandelier, first half 20th century, the open cage frame with applied flower-heads and hung with chains of facetted drops, 92cm high approx; together with a Continental cut-glass six-branch chandelier, first half 20th century, the scroll branches hung with facetted drops, 57cm diameter (2)It is the buyer's responsibility to ensure that electrical items are professionally rewired for use Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 398

Sadequain, The Holy Sinner, Edition of 1200, with dust cover, in slip case, Karachi: Mohatta Palace Museum in collaboration with Unilever Pakistan, 2003, 46cm x 29.7cmNotes: Sadequain: The Holy Sinner was published to accompany a retrospective held in 2002-2003 that featured over two hundred of Sadequain's non-calligraphic works. It reflected the artist's existential preoccupations with human suffering underpinned by his famous notion of 'mystic figuration'.This catalogue is a first edition and was part of the numbered first edition of 1200 catalogues that were published for the exhibition.Please refer to department for condition report

Lot 400

A collection of novels and reference material on literature and history, to include: The International Library of Famous Literature, ed. Dr Richard Garnett et. al., twenty volumes, half bound in calfskin with marbled boards and end pages, London: The Standard, 1900, together with John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, twenty-first edition, later three quarter morocco bound with marbled boards and end pages and gilt tooling and lettering to spine, London: J. Clarke, 1724; Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, two volumes, blue cloth bound with gilt lettering to upper board and spine, with protective case, New York: Macmillan Company, 1948; J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, first editions, London: Bloomsbury; and various others, approximately 37 books in totalInternational Library: spines are heavily worn revealing orange colour, some with splits. Most other volumes in good condition with light wear to dust covers and bindings

Lot 74

A group of British porcelain plates and dishes to include: a Minton plate, circa 1880, the rim with interlaced turquoise bandings and gilt dots; a Minton plate, circa 1880, with jewel rim, the centre decorated with fuchsias; a pair of Ridgway shell shaped dishes, circa 1825; a Minton cabinet plate and two Minton dessert plates; a low comport, probably Minton; a pair of plates, circa 1875, decorated with views of St Michael's Mount and Loch Acre; a pair of Royal Worcester cabinet plates, first period, signed E. Phillips; a pair of Derby botanical creamware plates, decorated with Common Primrose and Striped Geranium; a Royal Crown Derby plate with pink border; a cabinet plate decorated with a view of Jedburgh Abbey; a Royal Worcester cabinet plate decorated with a robin; a pair of Coalport plates decorated with floral sprigs; a Spode quatrefoil dish; and a modern Spode plate decorated with an exotic bird; together with two Vienna style cabinet plates; and a Nymphenburg reticulated plate (lot)A couple of deep scratches to one Royal Worcester cabinet plate. Drilled holes to underside of two blue ground Minton plates and one Vienna style cabinet plate. Another Vienna cabinet plate with beehive mark having drilled holes to underside with chips around holes and also having chips to underside rim, scratches to top and rubbing to gilt.The pair of Derby creamware plates with heavy crazing and scratches to underside. The Royal Worcester 'robin' plate with heavy crazing. Vienna style plate with maiden and cherubs with heavy rubbing to gilt and minor nibbles to rim. Otherwise in good condition with only minor wear to underside rims, minor scratches and rubbing to gilt highlights.

Lot 121

‡Sir Alfred James Munnings PRA (1878-1959) Chestnuts in Calcot Park Signed A J MUNNINGS (lower left) Oil on canvas 51 x 61.5cm Provenance: James D. Connell, by 1928; English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s Exhibited: Norwich, Norwich Castle Museum, Loan Collection of Pictures illustrating the work of A. J. Munnings, R.A, Aug-Sept 1928, no.114 Landscape painting was Sir Alfred Munnings' first love, a genre he turned to when he wished to paint purely for pleasure. Chestnuts in Calcot Park was probably painted in 1917, when Munnings was working at the Remount Centre, Calcot Park, Berkshire. Having lost the sight in his right eye as a young man, he was unable to enlist as a soldier when the First World War broke out. Instead, with the help of fellow artist Cecil Aldin, he found a position at Calcot as a 'strapper', which involved checking the health of thousands of horses that were arriving from Canada, before they were deployed to the front. Munnings obviously found respite and joy in painting the landscape at Calcot, as at least one other depiction of the park's chestnut trees is known. We are grateful to Dr Bill Teatheredge of the Munnings Art Museum for his assistance cataloguing the present work.

Lot 165

‡Montague Dawson RSMA, FRSA (1895-1973) The Lightning in calm waters Signed Montague Dawson (lower left) Oil on canvas 61.2 x 91.8cm Provenance: Strauss & Co, Cape Town, The Content of Harcroft House, 18 November 2019, lot 157The Lightning was the first of a very famous quartet of ‘extreme’ clippers to come out of Donald McKay’s innovative and hugely influential yards at East Boston, Massachusetts. Built to the order of James Baines & Co. of Liverpool, for their prestigious as well as highly profitable Black Ball Line of Australian packets, she was launched on 3rd January 1854, just one week before the equally celebrated Red Jacket sailed on her maiden voyage. Registered at 2,083 tons, Lightning’s design was unlike any previous large clipper and she measured 243 feet long overall, with a 44 foot beam. Primarily a passenger ship, although she also had ample capacity for cargo, she had berths for about 370 persons in remarkably comfortable accommodation and carried a crew of 87.Clearing Boston on 18th February 1854, she made an excellent run to Liverpool under the notorious Captain ‘Bully’ Forbes who then took her out to Melbourne in a splendid 77 days. She returned in an even more impressive 64 days (Port Philip to Liverpool) loaded with £1 million sterling in gold bullion in addition to a full complement of passengers, just beating Red Jacket’s time for the round trip by two days. She soon became renowned for these very fast passages, so much so that in 1857 she was one of the clippers chartered by the British government to ferry troops to India following the outbreak of the Mutiny. Returning from Calcutta, she resumed her Australian sailings and remained an extremely popular ship all through the 1860s despite the growing reliability of steam. Tragically, in the early morning of 31st October 1869, having finished loading her cargo of wool at Geelong the previous day, she was found to be ablaze and the fire out of control. In an attempt to save her cargo, she was towed out into Melbourne Harbor and scuttled well clear of the dockside. Much of her cargo was ultimately recovered but Lightning herself was beyond saving and she was destroyed shortly afterwards as being a threat to navigation.We are grateful to Michael Naxton for assistance cataloguing the present work.

Lot 37

‡Paul Riley (1963-2020) Reflecting Objects, 1991 Signed, dated and inscribed 20/1991 Paul Riley/REFLECTING/OBJECTS (to reverse) Oil on canvas 56 x 66cm Provenance: The Collection of Bob and Elisabeth Boas Exhibited: London, New Grafton Gallery, Paul Riley: First One-Man Exhibition, October 1991, no.20

Lot 185

An ARP Home First Aid case, and contents, in a black case.

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