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Lot 5690
M.H. Long (second-half, 19th century), after Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851), seven Vignette Drawings, from the First Series, London: Printed and Published August 1st 1884, by George Rowney & Co., chromolithographs, 14.5cm x 20.5cm, mounted, contemporary portfolio, (1); a Victorian scrapbook of periodical and newspaper illustrations, including some caricatures, etc., marbled boards, folio, (1), [2]
![Agriculture - Loudon (J.C.), An Encyclopædia of Agriculture [...], second edition, London: Longman [...], 1831, in-text illus](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/e5481439-b29a-4768-aa7f-ac9a0109daf3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5733
Agriculture - Loudon (J.C.), An Encyclopædia of Agriculture [...], second edition, London: Longman [...], 1831, in-text illustrations, 20th century three-quarter brown calf over marbled boards, 20th century pictorial bookplate: Ex Libris R. Owen Wood, 21.3.33, 8vo, (1); [Horne (Thomas Hartwell)], The Complete Grazier [...], fifth edition, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1830, frontispiece, full-page plates, in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); Clater (Francis), Every Man His Own Farrier [...], twenty-first edition, London: W. Lewis, 1811, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, with Sandford & Howell, Shrewsbury, their ticket, slightly later ink MS ownership inscription: John Harris [...] 1844, tipped-in MS receipt by the same hand, 8vo, (1); The Farmer's Magazine, Second Series: Volume the Third/January to June 1841, [&] Volume the Eleventh/January to June 1845, printed in parallel columns, illustrated, uniformly bound in contemporary calf over marbled boards, speckled edges, 8vo, (2); [Youatt (William)], Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases, to which is added The Mountain Shepherd's Manual, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1837, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, endpapers marbled en suite, speckled edges, 8vo, (1); Boussingault (J.B.) & Law (George, translator), Rural Economy [...], London: H. Bailliere, 1845, contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, red-speckled edges, contemporary pencil presentation inscription, 20th century pictorial bookplate: Ex Libris R. Owen Wood, 11.12.33, 8vo, (1), [7]
Lot 5739
Bindings - Scotland, Theology, Bonar (The Rev. Andrew, editor), Letters of Samuel Rutherford, With Biographical Sketches of His Correspondents, With Sketch of His Life, first and only edition, two-volume set, Edinburgh: William P. Kennedy, 1863, uniformly bound in contemporary Gothic Revival black morocco, the bevelled boards panelled in blind with a double-fillet border, the angles enclosing quatrefoils gilt, the spines gilt-lettered and tooled within raised bands, all-edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, [2]
Lot 5741
Botany, Husbandry and Gardening - Grew (Nehemjah, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, and of the College of Physicians), The Anatomy of Plants/With an Idea of a Philosophical History of Plants/And several other Lectures, Read before the Royal Society, first collective edition thus, [London]: Printed by W. Rawlins, for the Author, 1682, title printed within a black-ruled border, floriated initials, defective, pp: [xx], 24, [x], 14, 41-49, [1] (blank), [ii], 57-[214], [ii], 221-290, 297-304, [20], 27 full-page scientific plates, [4] (blanks), contemporary blind-panelled calf, some MS inscriptions, folio, (1); Bradley (Richard), two titles in one volume: New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, Both Philosophical and Practical [...], [bound and issued with], The Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar (sic) [...], corrected third edition, London: W. Mears, 1720, only Part II and Kalendar (sic) with title-pages - printed in red and within black-ruled borders, lacking overall frontispiece, illustrated with 11 plates (of which 8 are folding), profuse ornamental headers, tailpieces, vignettes and opening letters, contemporary two-tone panelled calf, contemporaneous ink MS and ownership stamp: D. George, 8vo, (1); [Mortimer (John), The Whole Art of Husbandry [...], London: 1716], lacking title-page but retains frontispiece, opens on A2, illustrated with in-text illustrations, contemporary panelled calf, slightly later ink MS ownership inscription: George Scattergood's Book July 24 1756, 8vo, (1); Bradley (Richard), A General Treatise of Husbandry and Gardening [...], volume I only, London: T. Woodward, 1724, illustrated with 5 plates (of which 3 fold-out), contemporary panelled calf, 19th century ink MS ownership inscription: Thos Taylor Gooding, 8vo, (1); Harrison (Joseph), The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine, January to December, 1840: Volume VIII, London: Whittaker and Co., 1840, additional engraved title, 13 full-page hand-coloured plates, contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled endpapers en suite, 8vo, (1), [5]
Lot 5746
Children's Book - Mare (Walter de la) & Lathrop (Dorothy P., illustrator), Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems, signed by the author, first and limited edition numbered 187/325, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1922, 3 colour plates and further b/w plates, contemporary pictorial vellum gilt over boards, top-edge gilt, others uncut, large 8vo, [1]
Lot 5748
Children's Books - Dickens (Charles), A Christmas Carol, Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, first edition thus, London: William Heinemann, 1915, colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations, contemporary cloth pictorial gilt, 8vo, (1); Baxter (Doreen), Fairyland Frolics, first and only edition, Leicester: The Brockhampton Press Ltd, 1950, colour plates, b/w in-text illustrations and vignettes, contemporary drab cloth only, 8vo, (1); Andersen (Hans), Fairy Tales, with Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson, [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited for Boots [...], [1927], tipped-in colour plates, contemporary red cloth pictorial gilt, 4to, (1); Kingsley (Charles), The Water Babies, Illustrated by James Willcox Smith, [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited for Boots [...], [1929], tipped-in colour plates, contemporary green cloth pictorial cloth, 4to, (1); The Everyday Fairy-Book; later 20th century modern first editions, (2); etc., [9]
Lot 5758
Geology, Local Interest - Local Provincial Imprint, Watson (White, F.L.S.), A Delineation of the Strata of Derbyshire, Forming the Surface from Bolsover in the East to Buxton in the West, By A Plate, Designed From A Tablet, Composed of the Specimens of Each Stratum within the Above Line [...], Together with A Descriptions of the Fossils found in these Strata; and also Of the Nature and Quality of the respective Soils, first and only edition, Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd, 1811, pp: fold-out strata frontispiece (repaired), [2], viii, [2], iii, [1] (blank), [2], 76, [2] (adverts & blank), illustrated with 1 full-page plate, later quarter polished calf over marbled boards, 4to, [1]
Lot 5764
History and Topography - Camden Society: Bruce (John, editor), Charles I in 1646: Letters of Charles the First to Queen Henrietta Maria, 1851, [&] Gardiner (Samuel Rawson, editor), Narrative of the Spanish Marriage Treaty, 1869, later institutional black cloth, 4to, (2); Nolan (E.H.), The Illustrated History of the War Against Russia, two-volume set bound as eight, London: James S. Virtue, [n.d., 1855-1857], 20th century institutional cloth, 8vo, (8); A Series of Letters to the Earl of Malmesbury, His Family and Friends from 1745 to 1820 [...], two-volume set, London: 1870, institutional bindings, 8vo, (2); other politicians, including Lords Shelburne and Liverpool; Paris Peace Conference; Williams (Leonard), The Land of the Dans, London: 1902, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Macmillans Highways and Byways, various; Cotswolds, Lake Counties, North Wales, etc., 19th century and later, various; bibliography; [57]
Lot 5767
Jacobitism and Jacobites - A Grandee of Carlisle's Copy, Mounsey (George Gill, editor), Carlisle in 1745, An Authentic Account of the Occupation of Carlisle [...] By Prince Charles Edward Stuart [aka Bonnie Prince Charlie], first and only edition, London: Longman and Co., &, Carlisle: James Steel, 1846, pp: x, 270, additional engraved title-page with numismatic vignettes, fold-out map, 5 full-page plates, some vignettes, contemporary gilt pictorial and blind brown cloth, yellow endpapers, 8vo, [1] Provenance: George Head Head (c. 1795-1876), of Rickerby Hall, Cumbria, his crested bookplate to pastedown. Head, a well-noted slavery abolitionist, was also a mayor, magistrate, banker, and mine owner in his native Carlisle.
Lot 5770
Literature - Trollope (Anthony), Can You Forgive Her?/With Illustrations, first editions, two volumes bound as one, London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-1865, contemporary quarter green roan over marbled boards, rebacked to style, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary book label: Dr. Atkinson, Royal Military College, 8vo, (1); Gilfillan (Rev. George, editor), [Burns' Works], The National Burns, including the Airs of All the Songs and an Original Life of Burns [...], London: William Mackenzie, [n.d., c. 1875], engraved title-page, frontispiece and full-page plates, in-text illustrations, contemporary green half-morocco gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 7 flyleaves pasted with contemporaneous periodical literary notices and scraps, 4to, (1); Scott's Poems, Edinburgh: 1864, 8vo, (1); prize binding, (1), [4]
Lot 5775
Mathematics - Presentation Copy, Scottish Imprint, Leslie (John, F.R.S.E.), The Philosophy of Arithmetic; Exhibiting a Progressive View of the Theory and Practice of Calculation, with an Enlarged Table of the Products of Numbers Under One Hundred, first edition, inscribed presentation copy from the author, Edinburgh: Printed by Abernethy & Walker [...], 1817, pp: iv, 240, fold-out 10-fold multiplication table, contemporary boards as issued, 8vo, [1]Provenance: ? James Stodart F.R.S.L. (1760?1823)?, the London cutler and scientist, whom in 1818 began a series of experiments with Michael Faraday on the alloys of steel. Contemporary ink MS presentation inscription to recto pastedown: To James Stodart Esqr., with the Author's best respects.
![Miscellaneous - Battlefield Medicine and the French Revolutionary Wars, Roucher [(Pierre Jean)], Traité de Médecine Clinique,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/2649f58d-7b11-4b05-bbf5-ac9a0109f8c8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5778
Miscellaneous - Battlefield Medicine and the French Revolutionary Wars, Roucher [(Pierre Jean)], Traité de Médecine Clinique, sur les Principales Maladies des Armées [...], two-volume set, first edition, Montpellier: 1798, original wrappers with contemporary bookseller's ticket, 8vo, (2); [Burlamaqui (Jean-Jacques)], Suite des Principes du Droit Politique [...], Geneva and Copenhagen: 1764, contemporary wrappers, later Shield Armorial bookplate: Rowland Hunt Esqr., Boreatton, 8vo, (1); 17th century calf bindings, (2); Théatre Complet de Émile Augier [...], six-volume set, Paris: 1876-1877, early 20th century institutional cloth, 12mo, (6); Voltaire, La Pucelle d'Orléans, Rouen: 1880, Bumpus three-quarter calf, 12mo, (1); Histoire des Colonies Françaises et de l'Expansion de la France dans le Monde, six-volume set, Paris: Société de l'Histoire Nationale, 1929-1932, institutional blue cloth, 4to, (6); etc,. [27]
Lot 5779
Miscellaneous - Children's, Grahame (Kenneth), The Wind in the Willows, with a Frontispiece by Graham Robertson, fifth edition, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1910, contemporary pictorial green cloth gilt, 8vo, (1); World War One, Grave (L.W. de), The War History of the Fifth Battalion the Sherwood Foresters, Notts and Derby Regiment 1914-1918, Derby: Bemrose & Sons Limited, 1930, red cloth, 8vo; Fleming (Ian), Pan paperback editions of James Bond, 007, various titles and dates, another non-fiction work, (11); early 20th century Derby School leather prize bindings, mainly Classics, various sizes, (6); Pogány (Willy, illustrator), Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd., [n.d.], colour plates, contemporary calf binding (lacking spine, front board loose), 8vo, (1); Wilde (Oscar), two works: An Ideal Husband, seventh edition, [&], Lord Arthur Savile's Crime [...], sixth edition, London: Methuen, 1912, contemporary cloth, 12mo, (2); eleven volumes of Charles Dickens, various titles, London: Chapman & Hall, various dates, uniformly bound in quarter-roan over marbled boards, 8vo, (11); Sir George Gilbert Scott's memoirs, first edition, London: 1879, cloth, 8vo, (1); Hilton (James), To You Mr Chips, first edition, London: 1938, cloth, 8vo, (1); Abraham (J. Johnston), The Surgeon's Log: Impressions of the Far East, London: 1926, blue cloth, 8vo, (1); further 20th century travel, various accounts and parts of the globe; etc., [53]
![Miscellaneous - Literature, Binding: Moore (Thomas), Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance, London: Longman [...], 1861, printed i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/decb96c5-2b2e-4f3c-af66-ac9a0109fad0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5781
Miscellaneous - Literature, Binding: Moore (Thomas), Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance, London: Longman [...], 1861, printed in black-lined borders, full-page chromolithograph, in-text engravings, finely bound in red morocco elaborately gilt, all-edges gilt, 20th century armorial bookplate: Chapman-Purchas, 4to, (1); [Barham (Richard)], The Ingoldsby Legens [...], Second Series, third edition, London: Richard Bentley, [n.d., 1842], engraved title, contemporary quarter-morocco over marbled boards by J. Collins, Bookbinder, Dublin, ticket, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (1); Crabb (George), English Synonymes (sic) [...], third edition, London: 1824, half-calf over moiré boards, 8vo, (1); The Casquet of Gems [...], Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, [n.d., c. 1875], printed within black-lined borders, contemporary blind-stamped green morocco, all edges gilt, 8vo, (1); Goldsmith (Oliver), A History of the Earth and Animated Nature [...], volume I only, London: Blackie and Son, 1861, illustrated, contemporary polished mauve calf, blind-tooled, 4to, (1); Browning (Robert), Dramatic Idyls (sic), first edition, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879, 20th century gilt-lettered red morocco over cloth, ex-lib Nottingham Public Libraries, 12mo, (1); Neues Magazin für die Liebhaber der Entomologie, volume II only, Zürich: 1785, contemporary calf over speckled boards, 8vo, (1); The Quarterly Review, Vol. XLV, April & July, 1831, London: John Murray, 1831, quarter-calf, Plain Armorial bookplate: Gerard Noel, Catmose, 8vo, (1); etc, [10]
![Miscellaneous - Redfern (Francis), History and Antiquities of [...], Uttoxeter [...], second edition, Hanley: Allbut and Dani](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/d5291666-1261-4df4-bcbb-ac9a0109fc1b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5783
Miscellaneous - Redfern (Francis), History and Antiquities of [...], Uttoxeter [...], second edition, Hanley: Allbut and Daniel, 1886, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1); Ornithology, Morris (Rev. F.O.), A History of British Birds, volume I only, fifth edition, London: 1903, hand-coloured plates, contemporary green cloth, 4to, (1); ditto, A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland [...], volumes I-III only, first edition, London: William Mackenzie, [n.d. 1870], colour plates, contemporary cloth, 4to, (3); Hutchinson's Popular & Illustrated Dog Encyclopædia, volumes I-III, [n.d.], Art Deco cloth as issued, 4to, (3); etc., [10]
![Miscellaneous - Stuart (Robert), A Dictionary of Architecture [...], Illustrated by One Thousand Drawings of Subjects referre](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/eb2c9bcf-d8ed-416d-867f-ac9a0109fd63/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5785
Miscellaneous - Stuart (Robert), A Dictionary of Architecture [...], Illustrated by One Thousand Drawings of Subjects referred to in the Work, three-volume set, London: Jones, & Co., [n.d., 1825], 19th century quarter-calf over cloth by Eyre & Spottiswoode, stamped, book label: Arthur R. Plowman, 8vo, (3); Medicine, American Imprint, Armstrong (John, M.D.), Facts [...] Relative to Puerperal Fever, Scarlet Fever, Pulmonary Consumption, and Measles [...], first American edition, Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke & Sons, 1823, contemporary calf, 8vo, (1); Mathematics, Clairaut [(Alexis Claude)], Élémens d'Algebre [...], volume II only, Paris: 1801, fold-out algebraic charts, 19th century institutional brown cloth, 8vo, (1); Jamieson (Alex:r), Mechanics for Practical Men [...], Illustrated By Examples and Diagrams, London : Henry G. Bohn, 1850, 19th century institutional red cloth, 8vo, (1); Leigh's Road Book of England and Wales, 12mo, (1); The Co-Operative Wholesale Societies Limited Annuals: 1892, 1906, 1917, & 1918, various cloth bindings, 8vo, (4); railways, (2); etc., [14]
Lot 5787
Mysteries and the Unknown - Casteret (Norbert), Mission Underground, first English edition, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1968, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Labat (Pierre), The Marvellous Kingdom, first English edition, London: Odhams Press, 1956, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Lovelock (James), Life and Death Underground, first edition, London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1963, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Holiday (F.W.), The Dragon and the Disc: An investigation into the totally fantastic, first edition, London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973, h/b, 8vo, (1); Croix (Robert de la), Mysteries of the Sea, first English edition, London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1956, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Owen (Roderic), The Fate of Franklin, London: Hutchinson, 1978, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); others, various, (10), [26]
Lot 5789
Poetry - Moore (Marianne), Collected Poems, first edition, Faber and Faber Ltd: 1951, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Duffy (Carol Ann): The World's Wife, first edition, Picador: 1999, h/b, d/j, 8vo, [&] Rapture, first edition, Picador: 2005, red cloth, 8vo, (2); Lewis (C. Day), Collected Poems, first edition, Jonathan Cape with The Hogarth Press: 1954, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); more Cecil Day Lewis, (2); two copies, Hughes (Ted), Birthday Letters, first edition, Faber and Faber: 1998, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (2); Dylan Thomas, Simon Armitage; Max Beerbohm, Edith Sitwell; early 20th century prize bindings, Shelley's Poems and Galsworthy's Plays; 19th century reprints of earlier classics; modern Faber and Faber, various; etc., [4 boxes]
Lot 5790
Political Theory - Paine (Thomas), Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution, [bound with], [...] Part the Second/Combining Principle and Practice, both first editions, London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, 1791; Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1792, pp: [3] (supplied in facsimile, half-title, title and dedication), [2], 78; [2], 91, [3], [4] (advert and blanks), contemporary calf boards, in-keeping morocco reback, refreshed endpapers, 8vo, [1]
Lot 5809
Pulp Fiction - Ace-High Magazine: Western, Action and Sport Stories, First June, First September, Second September, First November, 1931 (4); Ace-High Novels Monthly, July & August 1932 (2); Ace-High Western Magazine, Volume I, No. 2, September 1936 (1); Wild West Weekly, June 1939 (1); Frontier Stories, Volume 14, No. 2, Spring Issue 1939(1); Dime Western Magazine January 1934 (1); Dime Sports Magazine, October 1937 (1), original wrappers, [11]
![Topography - Yorkshire: Allen (Thomas), A New and Complete History of the County of York [...], Illustrated by a Series of Vi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/84d07e28-c657-4cff-b9eb-ac9a010a1886/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5836
Topography - Yorkshire: Allen (Thomas), A New and Complete History of the County of York [...], Illustrated by a Series of Views, Engraved on Steel from Original Drawings by Nathaniel Whetlock, four-volume set, London: I.T. Hinton, 1828, 109 plates across the four volumes, later cloth over marbled boards and calf tips, red-speckled edges, volume I with early 20th century pictorial bookplate printed on blue paper: Ex Libris W.E.Tate, 8vo, (4); Provincial Imprint, [Mason (J.)], The History and Antiquities of Thorne, with Some Account of the Drainage of Hatfield Chase, first edition, Thorne: Printed and Published by S. Whaley, 1829, contemporary calf over marbled boards (worn, losses), 12mo, (1), [5]
Lot 5840
Travel - India, Forbes (Gordon S., Madras C.S. (Retired)), Wild Life in Canara and Ganjam, first and only edition, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1885, pp: xvi, 270, [2] (publisher's advert), illustrated with 3 full-page chromolithographs (of 4, lacks frontispiece), 20th century cloth, 8vo, (1); Thomson (W.M., D.D.), The Land and the Book: or, Biblical Illustrations [...] of the Holy Land, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872, fold-out maps, full-page colour plates, in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter green calf over cloth, upper cover blocked in gilt: Worcester, Lichfield and Hereford Training College 1873, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, (1); Warburton (Eliot), The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, volume I only, sixth edition, London: Henry Colburn, 1847, full-page lithograph plates, contemporary cloth, 8vo, (1), [3]
![William Shakespeare, Rare Unrecorded Edition on ESTC, [?Boydell (John)?], A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c., in the Shakes](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7bb6c172-5ffb-4376-a617-ac8b00e6e08b/7be4801d-e794-4004-8d49-ac9a010a1be0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 5842
William Shakespeare, Rare Unrecorded Edition on ESTC, [?Boydell (John)?], A Catalogue of the Pictures, &c., in the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall-Mall, London: Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold at the Place of Exhibition, 1791, pp: xiv, [2], 169, [1] (blank), as well as Boydell's Gallery the text includes an account of the Houghton Collection of Pictures purchased from the Walpoles by Catherine the Great of Russia, later boards, 8vo, (1); Westmacott (C.M.), British Galleries of Painting and Sculpture, Comprising a General Historical and Critical Catalogue with Separate Notices of Every Work of Fine Art in the Principal Collections, Illustrated with Engraved Portraits and Interior Views [...], First Part (all published), London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824, pp: [2] (blank), viii, 240, illustrated with stipple engraved frontispiece, 4 line engraved full-page plates of interiors & collections, in-text wood engravings of architectural vignettes and allegories, comprising accounts of the royal, noble, institutional and private art collections of Carlton House, Buckingham Palace (then House), the National Gallery (formerly Angerstein's), Cleveland House, Kensington and St. James's Palaces, the British Museum, and Thomas Hope, contemporary green cloth over boards, 8vo, (1), [2]
Lot 5844
Local Strutt Family Provenance, Gibbons (Lee), The Cavalier: A Romance, volumes I-II only (of III), first edition, LondOn: Longman [...], 1821, contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled endpapers en suite, early 19th century crest bookplate of Lord Belper surmounted by a baron's coronet, 8vo, (2); Aikin's Select Works of the British Poets [...], nine volumes only: I-III, V-X, London: 1821, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 12mo, (9), [11]Provenance: 1) Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper PC FRS (1801 - 1880); presumably sold, Christie's, Printed Books: The Property of the Lord Belper, December 15th 1976.
Lot 5407
The Cult of Napoleon - a white metal medallion, Emperor Napoleon, Died 5th May, Buried in Ruperts Valley St Helena 9th May 1821, obverse with portrait bust in wreath, reverse inscribed with biography, BORN 15 AUG. 1769. GEN. AT THE SIEGE OF TOULON 1793. COMMANDED THE ARMY OF ITALY 1796. BATT OF LODI: CASTIGLIONI & ARCOLA 1796. SAILED FOR EGYPT 16 MAY 1798. RET. 7 OCT. 1799. DISOLVED THE CONVENTIONAL GOV. 9 NOV. 1799. DECLARED FIRST CONSUL 10 NOV. 1799. PASSED MT ST BERNARD 15 MAR. BATT. OF MARANGO 16 JUNE 1800, THE CICALPINE REPUBLIC PLACED UNDER HIS GOV. 26 JAN. 1802. THE LEGION OF HONOR INSTI TUTED 15 MAY 1802. DECLARED CONSUL FOR LIFE 2. AUG. 1802. CON QUERED HANOVER 5 JUNE 1803 ..., 5.5cm diam
Lot 5418
Wireless, Radio and Communication History - an Edwardian silver desk model, of Marconi's Disc Discharger, the first means of producing musical notes in the transmission of Wireless telegrams, patented in 1907 and used for long distance correspondence, Cornish serpentine base, 9cm high, London 1912, fitted morocco box
Lot 5549
World War One - Yorkshire Interest, a Memorial Plaque, Lance-Corporal Edward Jobson, Royal Engineers, of the New Inn, Thornton-le-Dale (formerly of Shipley), glazed easel mourning frame; Jobson was possibly the beau of Miss Annie Skaife, Farmwood, Ascot, Berkshire, whose three miscellaneous scrapbooks are included, they comprise a telegram from the Lance-Corporal's parents informing her of him being injured, a letter from Buckingham Palace thanking her for her contribution of 2s 6d to Princess Mary's Soldier's Christmas tin fund, as well as numerous b/w, colour and some comic postcards blank or addressed to her, mostly war-related, newspaper cuttings, portrait photographs, programme 'Choral Commemoration of the Heroic Deeds of the First Seven Divisions, Mons to Ypres, 1914/Royal Albert Hall [...] December the Fifteenth, 1917 [...]', further ephemera; etc., some content loose, [archive collection]
Lot 162
Two Japanese ivory sectional okimono, Meiji period (1868-1912), the first modelled as a fisherman holding an eku bo (fisherman's paddle), raised on a naturalistic base, signed, height 20cm, the other modelled as a farmer with a basket of faggots on his back, unsigned, height 14.5cm. (2)Subject to CITES regulations, this lot will require a re-export permit if shipped outside the mainland UK.
Lot 165
Two Japanese sectional ivory Okimono, Meiji Period (1868-1912), the first a Bijin holding a musical instrument, height 18cm, the other a fruit seller and boy, on a later base, height 13cm.Subject to CITES regulations, this lot will require a re-export permit if shipped outside the mainland UK.
Lot 516
A collection of Victorian and later commemorative silver teaspoons some with engraved bowls and each with crest finials to include Edward II First Prince of Wales, Coronation of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth of the Bahamas etc., sizes ranging 10cm-15cm, total weight 12.3oz, various assays, dates and makers. (19)
Lot 980
Two early 20th Century French walnut bedside cabinets, each with quarter veneered drawer fronts and side panels over acanthus carved cabriole legs, the first with a square moulded rouge marble top above a single drawer and dummy drawer panelled marble lined cupboard, height 85cm, width 37cm and depth 37cm, the second cabinet with a top of cartouche outline over a single drawer and a floral panelled cupboard with marble lined interior, height 83cm, width 38cm and depth 38cm, both S/D. (2)
Lot 113
France - Colonies - Anjouan : 1892-1915 Superb collection in stockbook with mint & used accumulation of definitive issues with complete 1892 first issue mint (three sets) and one set used plus additional values inc two x 1fr, 1900 10c, 15c and 4 x 35c used and 3 x 10c, 3 x 15c, 35c and 50c mint/unused, 1912 surcharges duplicated range with narrow opt one used set plus many others values and approx 7 mint sets plus additional values, wide surcharge 10c on 40c and 10c on 45c used, Fournier Forgeries, Millicemes, straight line 'ANJOUAN' handstamps on Postage Dues, postmarks inc many used with MADAGASCAR & DIEGO SUAREZ cancels and the odd multiple. Also a group of covers & postal stationery inc 1914 cover with strip of five 5c on 4c tied by AMBILO BE cds's, five PPCs with 1c or 5c frankings and two covers showing ANJOUAN stamps used in MADAGASCAR. Also photocopy of the SG specialised listing, a guide to identifying the Fournier forgeries and a small booklet in German on the stamps & postmarks of Anjouan. A super lot to build on. (480+ stamps, 14 covers & 3 reference works, the stamps alone cat £3700+++) HEAVY/OVERSIZE LOT - OVERSEAS SHIPPING SURCHARGE APPLIES. [US1]
Lot 16459
Sudan : 1932-52 Mint and used collection of Air Mail stamps and covers in a loose leaf album with 100s of stamps and 32 covers including 1931 set in panes of 60 or 40, 1931 four First Flight Covers to England, 1931 First Flight Covers MALAKAL to MWANZA, Tanganyika, KHARTOUM to ATHENS, KHARTOUM to CAPE TOWN, 1931-7 set with shade and perf varieties, also set in mint blocks, used sets, 1938 Registered cover PORT SUDAN to ASCENSION ISLAND via Nigeria, 1932 Registered cover PORT SUDAN to CASABLANCA, 1931 Registered cover PORT SUDAN QUAYS to DARTMOUTH, Devon, 1936 Registered cover PORT SUDAN to MARSEILLES, 1931 First Flight Cover HALFA to CAPE TOWN, 1936 cover PORT SUDAN to LIMERICK, Sudan Railways envelope to England, 1933 much travelled cover to CEUTA, Morocco, re-addressed to Liverpool, returned to Khartoum, 1935 surcharges in mint blocks, misplaced surcharges, used set, 1938 surcharge set in mint blocks, 1950 set mint and used and set in mint Plate blocks, an interesting original lot. HEAVY/OVERSIZE LOT - OVERSEAS SHIPPING SURCHARGE APPLIES. [US1]
Lot 7919
Great Britain - KGV : (SG 456a) 1935 Silver Jubilee 2½d, the famous Prussian blue, superb mint small hinge trace full fresh original gum example (light historical pencil annotation), fabulous fresh colour, perfs and centering. Unusually we've been fortunate to handle probably more than our fair share(!) of this rare colour error stamp within the past five years. Barely an example encountered is in top condition, most come with minor imperfection / blemish. This is the second time that we have handled this example, the first time realising precisely £10,000=. No faults example, accompanied by clear 1956 BPA Expert Committee photo-certificate signed by philatelic 'glitterati' Robson Lowe amongst others. As fresh today, 64 years later. Accompanied by superb colour 'normal' for comparison. Magnificent and RARE Cat £12000 (image available) [US2]
Lot 8296
Great Britain - QEII (decimal) : 1973 INIGO JONES UNIQUE Rosaline Dease original hand drawn first rough sketch artwork affixed to her headed notepaper, numbered 1-5, and comprising 3p Covent Garden; 9p (changed to 5p) Country House, Prince's Lodgings, Newmarket; 7½p (changed to 5p) Costumes; 9p (changed to 7½p, and again to 5p) Theatre Oberson's Palace; and 5p Banqueting House, Whitehall. Each in sepia ink with various violet and red notes on the paper surrounding them. A spectacular group. (5 items) (image available)
Lot 339
AN AESTHETIC MOVEMENT POWELL BISTOP & STONIER EARTHENWARE COFFEE CUP AND SAUCER, C1880, GREEN AND SEPIA PRINTED MARKS INCLUDING ORIENTAL IVORY AND PODR MARK, PATTERN A2561 AND MISCELLANEOUS LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH C CERAMICS, TO INCLUDE A VICTORIAN MARBLED EARTHENWARE ORIENTAL TOOTHPASTE POT AND LID In generally good condition including the first item
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