10th century A.D. A silver pendant showing a male figure, probably Odin, with body composed of an interlaced strip with hands gripping the edge of the frame; suspension loop in the form of a bearded male face. Cf. Arwidsson, G., Birka II: 3 Systematische Analysen der Gräberfunde, Uppsala, 1986, p.27, fig.3:23 (Tuna, Alsike Ksp. Up. Typ Tuna). 11 grams, 34 mm (1 1/2 in.). Acquired before 1990. Ex North American professional collector. Property of a French private collector. Accompanied by an X-ray fluorescent analysis test certificate dated 15 June 2016. In Norse mythology, from which stems most of our information about the god Odin, is associated with healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and is the husband of the goddess Frigg. In Old Norse texts, Odin is depicted as one-eyed and long-bearded, frequently wielding a spear named Gungnir, and wearing a cloak and a broad hat. He is often accompanied by his animal companions - the wolves Geri and Freki and the ravens Huginn and Muninn, who bring him information from all over Midgard - and Odin rides the flying, eight-legged steed Sleipnir across the sky and into the underworld. Odin is attested as having many sons, most famously the gods Baldr and Thor, and is known by hundreds of names. In these texts, Odin frequently seeks knowledge in some manner and in disguise (most famously by obtaining the Mead of Poetry), at times makes wagers with his wife Frigg over the outcome of exploits, and takes part in both the creation of the world by way of slaying the primordial being Ymir and the gift of life to the first two humans Ask and Embla. Odin has a particular association with Yule, and mankind's knowledge of both the runes and poetry is also attributed to Odin. This pendant would appear to represent Odin sacrificing himself on the world tree, Yggdrasill, in his pursuit for knowledge and the sacred runes. Odin hung himself from a branch of the world tree that hung over the well of Urd, pierced himself with his spear and looked into the sacred waters. He hung for nine days and nights poised between life and death and on the last day the runes revealed themselves to him and he gained the sacred and secret knowledge that elevated him to an even higher state in the world of the gods. The Jellinge style of art takes its name from the tenth century, Danish, royal cemetery at Jelling in Jutland, and is noted for the ribbon like animals that decorate a silver cup and a memorial stone from the site. [For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price]
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Late Predynastic-Early Dynastic Period, 3100-2850 B.C. A pink marble or alabaster kohl pot of fusiform shape, two horizontal perforated handles to the shoulder and flat base. Cf. Aston, B.G., Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels: Materials and Forms, Heidelberg, 1994, p.120, shape 77. 114 grams, 54 mm high (1 1/4 in.). Acquired Paris, France, 1950-1970. Private collection of Madeline Meunier (1921-2009). with Christie's Millon, Paris, France, 16 December 2016, lot 50 (US$1,000-1,700). Accompanied by a copy of the relevant Christie's Millon catalogue pages. Versions of this style of vessel with shallow integral handles have been found in First Dynasty contexts at sites such as Saqqara and Abydos.
2nd century A.D. A colossal Roman white marble head section copied from an original Greek Hellenistic model, roughly comprising the left half of the face of a mature male figure, showing naturalistic musculature around his eye and to his cheek, his face with a smooth over-all texture, albeit with a wrinkle at the corner of the eye and to the forehead; modelled with a full beard and shoulder-length hair; mounted on a custom-made display stand. See Aurenhammer, M. (ed.), Sculpture in Roman Asia Minor, Proceedings of the International Conference at Selçuk, 1st-3rd October 2013; D'Andria, F., Romeo, I. (ed.), Roman sculpture in Asia Minor : Proceedings of the International conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Italian excavations at Hierapolis in Phrygia, held on May 24-26, 2007, in Cavallino (Lecce), JRA Supplementary series, 80, Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2011. 27.6 kg total, 60 cm high including stand (23 5/8 in.). From an old English collection. Ex Vermot and Associates, Paris, France, 2020, lot 32. From an important Paris gallery, France. Ex private Parisian collection. Accompanied by an academic report by Prof. Neritan Ceka. Accompanied by scholarly note TL05455 by Dr Ronald Bonewitz. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.114482-195296. The deepening of the strong scaling in the part under the chin, where the neck should continue, proves that the head was made separately, to be placed on a wooden body, in the form of sculptures called acroliths, where only the head and extremities were worked in marble. At a harmonious ratio of 1:8 between the height of the man's head and the whole body, the original height of the sculpture must have been about 4 meters. The chiselling technique, the detailing of the face and eyes, and the style of drilling of the hair and beard, affirms the portrait to have been copied from a Hellenistic model and realised in the first half of the 2nd century BC. The lack of detail to the eyeball with the line of the cornea and the pupil shows that the artist wanted to honour the Hellenistic original, but the common use of the drill for the deep lines of the chin and hair, place the sculpture in the Antonine period, similar to the colossal sculpture of Jupiter Otricoli in the Museo Pio Clementino at the Vatican.
Circa 9th century B.C. A fibula formed from a single filament rolled into two 'spectacle' discs; one of the spirals terminates in a long pin, the other in a hook that serves as the catchplate; openwork figure-of-eight at the centre; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. Cf. Cassani, S., Art of the Italic People from 3000-300 B.C., Naples, 1993, p. 295, no.188, for similar. 103 grams total, 11.5 cm wide including stand (4 1/2 in.). Private collection of L. Farrow, UK. with Artemis Gallery, Colorado, U.S.A., Exceptional Antiquities Sale, 23 September 2016, lot 10 (part). Private Australian collection with collection number 16.06. Accompanied by an illustrated collector's cataloguing document. Fibulae of this type are a hallmark of Villanovan culture, first appearing in the 11th century B.C. and continuing into the 5th century B.C. [For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price]
3rd-4th century A.D. A substantial bronze mount or base fitting for the insertion of the lamp's stand or shaft, discoid with raised hub and hole, stepped profile; median flat band with enigmatic pointillé Greek inscription '????C????????C????????'. Cf. Arce, J., Ensoli, S. & La Rocca, E., Hispania Romana. Da Terra Di Conquista a Provincia dell'Impero, Venezia, 1997, p.363, fig.109. 424 grams, 11.4 cm wide (4 3/8 in.). Acquired in London in 1982. Property of a central London gentleman. This morphology, well attested in Rome, derives from refined Hellenistic models. The inscribed decoration is arranged around the central area; the first word is probably referring to ??????' (sun, sunlight), possibly in connection with the function of the lamp. However, the expression '????? ??????? ?? ?? ??????' could also refer to a Christian martyrdom, considering 'B??=B???' =heavy, in sense of bearing the weight of the nails (?????) and therefore ‘bearing the weight of the nails themselves’ (?? ?????? as contraction of ?? ?????). [No Reserve]
THREE PAIRS OF FUCHI-KASHIRA, the first of shakudo decorated with a tori and presents in the rain, the reverse of the fuchi inlaid with a poem in gold, the second of shakudo decorated with flower baskets and butterflies in various soft metals, the third of yamagane decorated with a horse and foliage in soft metals, each in a wood box. (3)
A WATERLOO PERIOD FIRST EMPIRE FRENCH MODEL 1812 CUIRASSIER'S BREAST AND BACKPLATE, the chest with raised medial ridge, rounded waist flange, turned arm and neck apertures, brass domed rivets, leather backed brass mounted shoulder straps, shaped back, leather waist strap. Provenance: Le Hussard A gentleman
A GEORGIAN PERIOD 18TH LIGHT DRAGOONS HEADQUARTERS GUIDON, the painted red silk body with central crowned flowers of the union over the motto DIEU ET MON DROIT in scrolling banner form, the corners set with vignettes of rampant horses and wreaths of the flowers of the union with central XVIII L.D. Professionally conserved, framed and glazed, this headquarters guidon is the first of five to be sold in these rooms. The guidons representing each of the four squadrons will be sold over the following four auctions.
A FIRST WAR PERIOD DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS TO SQUADRON LEADER H. J. DAVIES DSO DFC RAFVR, contained in its original box of issue with pin backed ribbon, ink named to the inside of the lid DAVIES, two newspaper cuttings enclosed one detailing the award of DSO for attacks on Berlin during the Second World War. Davies' service during the Second World War was with Bomber Command and included many sorties over Germany and attacks on the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau.
OF TIPU SULTAN INTEREST: A FINE 18TH CENTURY GEM SET GILT FINISHED INDIAN TULWAR, 84.75cm sharply curved damascus blade, the fine gilt hilt with trefoil terminal langets, the crossguard with tapering domed terminals engraved with flower heads, the scrolling knuckle guard with peacock's head terminal, the eyes set with rubies, characteristic Tipu form snarling tiger's head pommel, the eyes set with rubies, the whole finely chiselled and finished in matt gilt with tiger's pelage, further decorated over all with polished gilt bubri or tiger stripes, contained in its red velvet wrapped wooden scabbard, the three mounts decorated with chiselled tiger's pelage and bubri or tiger stripes to match. A small section of scabbard edge parted and velvet frayed or lacking, patches of rusting to blade. The gold bubri or tiger stripe design is associated only with Tipu (Tipoo) Sultan himself, weapons for his own personal use and selected weapons in his armoury. Known as the the Tiger of Mysore, Tipu had once stated that it is better to live one day as a lion than one hundred years as a jackal. Feared and hated by the British, Tipu Sultan had been portrayed as a cruel and violent man and oppressor. However he was loved and revered by many in India as an ambitious, courageous and innovative leader. Unlike his father who had come from humble origins and was illiterate, Tipu was a highly educated man with a library of around 2000 works, many of which he had commissioned himself, and had a great love of firearms and the mechanical invention. He employed European weapon makers to come to India and work for him, particularly French gunmakers largely due to his good relations with the French. They not only made weapons for him, but also instructed his own craftsmen in the European tradition. His weapons were particularly advanced for the day, including flintlock repeating mechanisms based on the systems developed by Italian maker Lorenzoni. He fine-tuned the rockets designed by his father Haidar Ali, using the superior quality hammered iron in Mysore to create advanced and highly effective weapons that inflicted many significant losses on the British troops during the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. Sold by Sotheby's, 16th July 1993, Marine Pictures and Nautical Works of Art, lot 258, from the estate of Captain William Moffat of the East India Company. This auction included six swords from Moffat's estate, five of which were Presentation swords presented to him for various acts of valour. The sixth was this sword which it is quite probable that he received when he first reached India round about 1800/01. Following the death of Tipu Sultan in 1799, Tipu's palace and treasury were plundered and many weapons bearing his bubri or tiger stripe decoration were available at this time. Enclosed by the river Kaveri not far from Mysore in Southern India lies the island town of Seringapatam (Srirangapatna). Named after its main temple Sri Ranganathaswamy which was first consecrated in 984 AD and is dedicated to the Hindu god Ranganatha (a form of Vishnu), Seringapatam has been a place of pilgrimage and worship for Hindus for centuries. In the mid 18th Century a young and assertive Muslim commander called Haidar Ali (1720-1782) altered the balance in Seringapatam which would last for around four decades. Probably originating from the migrant Arab Quraish tribe, Ali had worked as a soldier and military leader for the ruling Hindu Wodeyar dynasty in the area. He was a successful leader and gained power to such an extent that eventually in 1752 he usurped Nanjaraj and Devraj and around 1761 declared himself ruler of Mysore and took Seringapatam as his capital city. Over the coming years Haidar Ali's initial wish to be allied to the British East India Company which held power in a significant area of Southern India, turned to a hatred of the British and their actions. This led to the four Anglo-Mysore wars, the first (1767-1769) which was won with relative ease by Ali. Ali died of cancer in the middle of the Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-1784) and his son Tipu Sultan who was commanding part of his army at the time, returned to take leadership of Mysore. The Third Anglo-Mysore war (1790-1792) brought the first defeat for Mysore against Cornwallis, leading to the signing of the Treaty of Seringapatam and a curtailment of Mysore's borders. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore war (1798-1799) saw Tipu Sultan, encouraged by words of support from Napoleon, once again attempt to rid India of the British. In 1799 two British armies, one led by Colonel Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington), and an army from Bombay marched in to Mysore and besieged the capital Seringapatam. After losses on both sides, the attacking forces breached the defending walls. Tipu Sultan took to the battlements dressed in fine clothes, and with a small number of close servants and a variety of guns taken from his armoury. He fought bravely and defiantly, firing muskets loaded and handed to him by his servants, and incurring several wounds, the first being a musket ball in the right side near his chest, the second a further musket ball near the first, and then further various wounds. His horse was shot from under him. He initially resisted attempts from his followers to persuade him to step down from the fight, but eventually retreated. After the battle, with the British victorious, his body was found near the Water Gate of Seringapatam. He was buried on 5th May at the Gumbaz next to the bodies of his mother and father, and the core territory around Seringapatam and Mysore was restored to the Indian prince of the Wodeyar dynasty from whose forefathers Haidar Ali had originally taken the territory.
A FIRST WAR PERIOD GERMAN KRIEGSMARINE NAVAL OFFICER'S SWORD, 72cm pipe backed blade with spear point, etched with scrolling foliage, naval ships, crowned fouled anchor, maker's stamp for W.K. & C., regulation gilt brass hilt incorporating a crowned fouled anchor, bold lion's head pommel with red and green port and starboard eyes, ribbed marine ivory grip, folding side guard with owner's name Rehder, contained in its engraved gilt brass mounted leather scabbard. Some age cracks to grip.
FOUR MINIATURE POCKET KNIVES, the first of Scandinavian origin, 4cm blade with marble effect grip, together with two folding knives with mother-o'-pearl and horn grips and a fourth, Spanish with engraved gilt foliate and geometric design, a bag of small pocket knife blades and three conventional sized pocket knives. (Parcel)
A FIRST PATTERN FAIRBAIRN-SYKES COMMANDO KNIFE OR DAGGER, 17cm flattened diamond section blade etched with the F-S and Wilkinson emblems to either side of the forte, regulation plated hilt with recurved guard, chequered grip, contained in its brass mounted leather scabbard. Upper part of scabbard removed and lower part incised with the initials J.e.
FIVE TITLES OF AMERICAN HISTORICAL WEAPONS INTEREST, comprising 'The History of Weapons of the American Revolution', G C Neuman, 1967, with DW; 'Firearms in Colonial America - the impact on history and technology 1492 - 1792', M L Brown, 1980, with DW; 'United States Firearms - the first century 1776 - 1875', D F Butler, 1971, with DW; 'Antique Arms and Armour Annual', Ed. R L Wilson, 1st edition 1971, Texas Gun Collectors Association, paper covers; 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West - an American Legend', R L Wilson with G Martin, 1998, with DW. Average good condition (5).
EIGHT TITLES RELATING TO AMERICAN KNIVES INCLUDING BOWIE KNIVES, comprising 'American Knives - the first history and collector's guide', H L Peterson, the Gun Room Press, n.d. c.1980 with DW; 'Civil War Knives', M Newman, 1998, with DW; 'Knifemakers of Old San Francisco', B R Levine, 1978, with DW; 'American Primitive Knives 1770 - 1870', G M Minnis, 1983, with DW; 'Light But Efficient - a study of the M1880 Hunting and M1890 Intrenching Knives and Scabbards', A N Hardin and R W Hedden, 1973, with DW; 'The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Knives, Daggers and Bayonets', T Capwell, 2009, with DW; 'New England Cutlery - a Guide to New England Knives and Cutleries', P R Pankiewicz, 1986, soft covers; 'Marble's Knives and Axes', K F Schrier, 1978 manufacturer's collated catalogues, soft covers. Average good condition (8).
A SCARCE PAIR OF BOOKS, 'European Court Swords and Hunting Swords including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs, and Reubell Collections', Bashford Dean, 1929, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the companion volume 'Catalogue of the European Daggers' etc., Bashford Dean, 1929, both in original card covers with gilt tooled cloth spines. Average good condition, some crushing to the leading corners of the covers of the first volume (2).
Oppenheimer (L.J.) The Heart of Lakeland, 8vo, cloth, illus., 1908; Palmer (W.T.) The Splendour of Wales, 8vo, cloth, illus., 1932; Topping (George) Brambles In Borderland With The Clan, 8vo, cloth, illus., Carlisle 1921; Speakman (Colin) A Portrait of North Yorkshire, 8vo, cloth, illus., 1986, with dw; Rawnsley (H.D.) By Fell and Dale, 8vo, cloth, illus., Glasgow 1911; Rawnsley (H.D.) Round The Lake Country, 8vo, cloth, illus., Glasgow 1909; Payn (James) Furness Abby and Its Neighbourhood, sml. 4to, gilt cloth, illus. with original hand-mounted photographs, J. Garnett, Windermere, and Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, first edition 1869; and other books on British topography. (16)
Greenwich Hospital Estates Vs The Duke of Northumberland: an important historical and legal archive relating to a court case between Greenwich Hospital Estates as Appellants and The Duke of Northumberland (initially through his bailiff Thomas Robson) as a defendant. The case first appeared at Northumberland Assizes of 1812, but unresolved, continued as a new trial in 1814. The origin of the case was a petty dispute over the extraction of limestone by Robson from Hareshaw Common, an area of wasteland in Northumberland adjacent to Bellingham. It escalated from there to the Rights of the Duke of Northumberland as Lord of the Manor of North Tindale and the Rights of the Greenwich Hospital Estates as Lord of the Manor of Wark within Tindale. This archive contains evidence given by numerous parties concerning the use of Hareshaw Common and the emerged acceptance by both parties that Greenwich Hospital Estates had the right to the soil and its use, and The Duke of Northumberland had the right to whatever lay beneath the soil. After considerable time and expense, the case returned to the petty argument as to whether, in the course of extracting coal from the land, the Duke could claim the limestone removed in order to get at the coal. Curated by James Hedley, these documents originate from the archives of Dickson, Archer and Thorp Solicitors, Alnwick; all contained in three purpose-made book pattern boxes.
Sundry Parliamentary Acts for Civic Improvements at Newcastle upon Tyne, 1763-1846, gathered together in modern folio quarter calf and marbled boards binding; Abstracts of Parliamentary Acts for the Improvement of Newcastle in the 18th Century, 8vo, half calf binding; and three additions of the Corporation Annual or Recollections of the First Reformed Town Council, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1836; together with two signed manuscript letters from Richard Welford.
Wheatley (Dennis Yeats) Stranger Than Fiction, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1959, presentation copy dedicated to the Author's friend Edward Lydall, and dated 21st June '59, with dw; The Time Has Come... The Memoirs of Dennis Wheatley 1897-1914, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1977, signed by the Author, with dw; The Devil and All His Works, 4to, cloth, illus., first edition 1971, presentation copy signed by the Author, with dw; together with signed presentation copies of The Malinsay Massacre; Murder Off Miami; and The Man Who Missed The War.
Veitch (John) The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border, 2 Vols, 8vo, cloth, 1893; Elliot (Fitzwilliam) Further Essays on Border Ballads, 8vo, cloth, Edinburgh 1910; Keith (Edward) The Keeper of the Rede, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1929; Maxwell (W.H.) Legends of the Cheviots, 8vo, half calf, engraved frontispiece, 1849; and other books on Border lore. (9)
Wheatley (Dennis Yeats) The KA of Gifford Hillary, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1956, with dw; Evil In A Mask, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1959, with dw; The Irish Witch, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1973, with dw; Unholy Crusade, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1967, with dw; The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1971, with dw; and Desperate Measures, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1974, with dw, all presentation copies signed by the Author. (6)
Twenty-two original and copy letters concerning the 1832 Appointment of John Grey, as Receiver of the Dilston-based Greenwich Hospital Estate and his first year managing the Estates, catalogued and curated by James Hedley, together with a copy of The Hexham Historian Magazine, August 2011, which contains an article written by Hedley describing the historical background to this archive; all together in a book pattern box file bound for the purpose by Hedley; together with sundry 18th and 19th Century Acts of Parliament relating to land in the County of Northumberland.
Wheatley (Dennis Yeats) The Wanton Princess, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1966, with dw; The Rape of Venice, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1959; The Sultan's Daughter, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1963, with dw; The Man Who Killed The King, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1951, with dw; The Dark Secret of Josephine, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1955, with dw; The Haunting of Toby Jugg, 8vo, cloth, with dw; The Launching of Roger Brook, 8vo, cloth, with dw; The Shadow of Tyburn Tree, 8vo, cloth, with dw; and The Rising Storm, 8vo, cloth, with dw, all presentation copies signed by the Author. (9)
Bates (Cadwallader John) The Letters Of (Edited by Matthew Cully of Coupland), 8vo, modern half calf and marbled boards, Kendal 1906; Bruce (John Collingwood) The Life and Letters Of (Edited by Sir Gainsford Bruce), 8vo, gilt cloth, engraved frontispiece, 1905; Various Authors: Some Account of Francis Radclyffe, First Earl of Derwentwater; and three tracts relating to Francis Radclyffe, collected in a 4to, half morocco binding; Hodgson (Rev. John) An Account of the Life and Writings of Richard Dawes, 4to, cloth, Newcastle 1828, presentation copy signed by the Author; and other Northern biographies. (7)
Wheatley (Dennis Yeats) Mayhem In Greece, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1962, with dw; Bill for The Use of a Body, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1964, with dw; The Strange Story of Linda Lee, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1972, with dw; Contraband, 8vo, cloth, with dw; The Scarlet Imposter, 8vo, cloth; and Faked Passports, 8vo, cloth, all presentation copies signed by the Author. (6)
Wheatley (Dennis Yeats) The Second Seal, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1950, with dw; The Prisoner in The Mask, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1957, with dw; Vendetta in Spain, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1961; Dangerous Inheritance, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1965, with dw; Gateway To Hell, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1970, with dw; Strange Conflict, 8vo, cloth, with dw; The Forbidden Territory, 8vo, cloth, with dw; Codeword Golden Fleece, 8vo, cloth, with dw; and The Golden Spaniard, 8vo, cloth, with dw, all presentation copies signed by the Author. (9)
Runciman (Sir Walter) Collier Brigs and Their Sailors, 8vo, cloth, illus., first edition 1926; Finch (Roger) Coals From Newcastle, 4to, cloth, illus., 1973, with dw; Thompson (Roy) Thunder Underground: Northumberland Mine Disasters 1815-1865, lge. 8vo, cloth, illus., 2004; Norderhaug (Jennifer W.) Sparty Lea: An Upland Leadmining Community, 8vo, soft covs, privately published; Emery (Norman) The Coalminers of Durham, 4to, cloth, illus., 1992, with dw; and other books on mining. (12)
Wheatley (Dennis Yeats) The Island Where Time Stands Still, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1954, with dw; Traitors' Gate, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1958; They Used Dark Forces, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1964; The White Witch of the South Seas, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1968, with dw; Black August: V For Vengeance, 8vo, cloth, with dw; and Come Into My Parlour, 8vo, cloth, with dw, all presentation copies signed by the Author.
White (Walter) Northumberland and the Border, 8vo, half calf and marbled boards, second edition 1859; Neasham (George) North-Country Sketches, 8vo, marbled boards, illus., Durham 1893; Shaw-Barrow (W.) (Editor) In The Border-Country, 4to, gilt cloth, illus., 1906; Sitwell (William) The Border From A Soldiers Point of View, 8vo, cloth, illus., Newcastle, first edition 1927; and two other books on Border History.
Leatheard (Sergt. N.) Thirty-Four Years With the A (Hexham) Company of the First V.B.N.S., 12mo, original cloth, 1893; another copy in modern marbled boards; Hicks (Lieut.-Col. J.G.) The Percy Artillery, 8vo, cloth, 1899; The British Army History Records Series History of the Fifth Regiment or Northumberland Fusiliers, gilt cloth, illus. with hand-coloured engravings, 1837; Browne (Captain C.) 'C' Company 12th Battalion Northumberland Home Guard 1940-1944, 8vo, cloth, illus., Gateshead 1946; and two other volumes.
Woodham-Smith (Cecil) The Reason Why, 8vo, cloth, illus., first edition 1953; with two letters from the Author-- one in his own hand to John Colville dated 11.2.54 regarding NCO’s and Officers; the other, typed and signed, is addressed to Colville at 10 Downing Street, expressing Woodham-Smith's pleasure that Winston Churchill had shown interest in the book (Colville was Churchill’s Private Secretary) and is an extensive description of Crimean War cavalry.
Carrington (Charles) Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work, 8vo, cloth, illus, 1955; Galsworthy (John) The White Monkey, 8vo, cloth, first edition 1924, with damaged dw; together with an envelope addressed in the hand of Rudyard Kipling; a postcard of Book's Hill; a photographic reproduction of William Strang's portrait of Rudyard Kipling; and a typescript letter from Frank Swinneton.
Chapman (Abel) and Buck (Walter J.) Wild Spain, lge. 8vo, cloth, illus., 1893; Unexplored Spain, 4to, gilt cloth, illus. by Joseph Crawhall, E. Cauldwell and Abel Chapman 1910; and First Lessons in the Art of Wildfowling, 8vo, cloth, illus. with fold-out frontispiece and other plates by the Author and Charles Whymper 1896.
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