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Lot 1071
10 large Royal Doulton lady figures including Summers Day HN3378; Autumn Breezes HN1911; Rosie HN4094; First Waltz HN2862; Elaine HN2791; Alexandra HN3286; Christmas Day 1999 HN4214; Natalie HN3173; Rebecca HN4041; Lady Charmian HN1948 All figures appear in very good condition with no damage or evidence of previous repair
Lot 107
* Minox. Minox B subminiature 8 x 11mm film spy camera, manufactured in Germany by Minox in 1956, Serial No. 896783, untested but appears to be in good working order, excellent cosmetic condition, complete with measuring chain and original leather case, together with Olympus 35 RC 35mm rangefinder film camera, made in Japan, Serial No. 285805, E.Zuiko 42mm f/2.8 lens, excellent cosmetic condition, untested but appears to be in good working order, seals may need replacing, new battery required, plus Voigtlander VITO CLR 35mm rangefinder film camera, manufactured in Germany mid to late 1960s, Color-Skopar 50mm f/2.8 lens with Pronto-LK shutter, Serial No. 5194762, untested but appears to be in good working order, some minor surface marks and paint loss in places, top plate slightly loose, complete with original leather hard case and User Manual and receipt for £22 10/- 0d dated 1961, plus Agfa Silette-LK 35mm viewfinder film camera, manufactured late 1950s or early 1960s, Color-Apotar 45mm f/2.8 lens with Pronto-LK shutter, original brown hard leather case, untested, plus a J. Thos. Rhamstine (Detroit) Super Electrophot exposure meter from the 1930s with original leather hard case and a General Electric DW-68 light meter, all items sold as seenQty: (7)NOTESThe Minox B was built by Minox in Germany and, with 384,327 units manufactured between 1958 and 1969, was the worlds most famous and widely used camera for espionage photography. The Minox-B was always ready for use, it was the first subminiature camera with a built-in light meter that did not require batteries. It was replaced by the improved Minox C, which never surpassed the popularity of the Minox-B.
Lot 140
* Military Lantern Slides. A group of 55 diapositive magic lantern slides, c. 1910-15, the majority of military and some aviation interest, showing soldiers training and fixing camp, etc., together with a group of approximately 50 military stereoviews, half of Boer War interest and half of First World War interest, mostly Underwood & Underwood or Realistic TravelsQty: (approx. 110)
Lot 212
* Cartes de Visite. An albumen print carte de visite of Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn VC, c.1864, full length and standing in uniform with cap of 33rd Foot tucked under one arm, wearing two medals, some spotting, plain card back, presented in an embossed leather desk frame, stand partly broken, together with a hand-coloured carte de visite of a Hungarian hussar, full length and standing, some spotting, printed paper label of the Hungarian photographer Abrahamovits Ferenc pasted to card mount verso, worn leather half case with gilt-embossed studio name of Mayall to base, plus 2 ninth-plate cartes de visite, one of a seated British officer, slightly cracked and scratched in lower corners, leather half case, the other identified in contemporary ink manuscript to lower mount and paper seal verso as Don Theodosio Noeli y White, a major with the Spanish Artillery at Fernando Po [West Africa] in 1862, gilt case, plus a half-length portrait of a young man in a suit [Thomas Sweetingham, c.1881-1902, 1st Tower Hamlet Rifles and No. D100 City Imperial Volunteers], gelatin silver print, creased and split, 9 x 6 cm, laid down and window-mounted in a small leather carte-de-visite desk frame, all glazed, plus A hand-painted salt print of a British Naval Officer, c.1840s, three-quarter length and standing, hand-coloured in gilt, silver, red and blue against a brown ground, wearing Naval Long Service medal and possibly St Jean d’Acre medal, contemporary manuscript colour details to card verso and possibly with the sitter’s name trimmed at head (?’Admiral Harvey’), 10.5 x 8.5 cm, contemporary blind-stamped morocco case with gilt clasp, glass looseQty: (6)NOTESAlexander Roberts Dunn VC (1833–1868) was the first Canadian awarded the Victoria Cross. He was born in York (later Toronto) in 1833, and in 1852 he purchased a commission in the Hussars. Dunn was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 when he was 21 years of age and serving in the 11th Hussars. Dunn rescued a sergeant by cutting down two or three Russian lancers who had attacked from the rear. Later in the battle he killed another Russian who had been attacking a private. He sold his commission at the end of the Crimean War but rejoined the Army in 1858 as a major in the 100th Regiment of Foot. He exchanged into the 33rd Regiment of Foot in 1864, in which regiment he remained until his death in the Abyssinian War.
Lot 215
* Military Photographs. An assorted collection of over 100 photographs of military interest, c. 1900-1950, including a small quantity of photographs, cabinet cards and cartes de visite relating to the Boer War including some ephemera relating to the Penny family, a group of approximately 50 portraits of the (?)Lascelles family including large panel prints, a partial album relating to the 2nd Battalion the King's Shropshire Light Infantry, c. 1931, and assorted individual and group assemblages, much of First World War and Second World War interest, plus an additional group of approximately 200 small snapshot photographs and negatives, seemingly related to Second Lieutenant Frank E. Siggers, 15th Middlesex Regiment, c. 1912Qty: (a carton)
Lot 219
* Military Postcards. A collection of approximately 200 mostly real photo postcards, c. 1910-45, the majority of First World War soldiers and some families, some postally used including Field Service postcards, and including a group of approximately 35 real photo postcards relating to BDSM James Gregory, RL Warwickshire Regiment while at Stalag XXI A (Posnan) & XXI D, most with stamps to versos and some addressed to Mrs Ann Gregory in Birmingham, many of these showing amateur dramatics and sporting teams, one signed by members of the football team featured in the photographQty: (approx. 200)
Lot 220
* Military Greetings Cards. A collection of approximately 60 military greetings cards and some menus including First and Second World War specimens, together with a small collection of miscellaneous mostly non-military ephemera including prints and engravings and an early Victorian scrap album with a few drawings, plus engraved lithographic views, plus a small group of photographs of yeomen warders and constables of the Tower of LondonQty: (a carton)
Lot 221
* British Topography. An assorted group of mostly late 19th-century views and miscellaneous subjects including London scenes, c. 1870-1900, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, some on album leaves and mounts and some loose, together with 2 photograph albums of snapshots, the first showing civilians in Ulster, c. 1905, featuring early cars, the second relating to the Republic of Ireland, c. 1914-32, and including scenes at the Manor Mill LaundryQty: (a carton)
Lot 223
* Tom Thumb. Mr and Mrs General Tom Thumb by Brady, 1860s, albumen print carte de visite, together with 4 miniature Tom Thumb calling cards, each 2 x 3 cm, mounted on to a card strip, plus 5 further cartes de visite, 1860s, showing Chang and Eng Bunker, the Siamese twins, Francois Lecomte, the first sea-lion tamer, Le Petit Blondin, Admiral dot by Eisenmann, and one other of two female midgets with a baby, plus approximately 60 further cartes de visite including a group of 62 cartes de visite, c. 1860s and later, including 9 ethnographic studies (6 by A.C. Atcheson, Cape Town), 5 sporting portraits including the boxer James Mace, the swimmer Captain Webb and an archer, plus a selection of portraits of very aged people, a composite carte de visite showing 'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age', 15 actresses, 2 nurses, etc., varied conditionQty: (approx. 70)
Lot 237
* Sandhurst. A military photograph album compiled by Hugh Frederic Stoneham, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 1909, as a cadet in E Company and some later material as captain of 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment, a total of 33 gelatin silver print photographs pasted on to stiff card leaves, including group activities, drills, sports, etc., various sizes, pasted on to stiff card album leaves and back to back with further ephemera including approximately 20 printed items, mostly RMC sports fixture lists plus a few matches and menus, a 1914 calendar, etc., plus various related news cuttings, some pencil and ink captions to mounts with some names identified as killed in action (in the First World War), manuscript pedigrees of the Earle and Deacon families loosely inserted, bookplate of Stoneham to front pastedown with envelope pasted below containing fragments of 'white heather given to me by Queen Mary on her visit, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Milbank, September 1914', contemporary half roan, dampstained and worn, covers near detached and backstrip deficient, folio (36 x25 cm), together with 3 brass cap badges and an anchor badgeQty: (5)
![* Thomson (John, 1837-1921). Canton Tea Hong, [Tea sifting, Guangzhou, China], c. 1869, albumen print, 20.9 x 27.0 cm, mounte](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/7533ee75-e67a-4d0e-839a-ac64011e66fb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 242
* Thomson (John, 1837-1921). Canton Tea Hong, [Tea sifting, Guangzhou, China], c. 1869, albumen print, 20.9 x 27.0 cm, mounted on an album leaf, some light marginal fading, small corner crack in negative visible to lower left corner, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink caption in an unidentified hand at footQty: (1)NOTESJohn Thomson, Illustrations of China and Its People, (1873-4), vol. 1, plate 21; John Thomson, Through China with a Camera, (1898), facing p. 54. When this privately owned collection of photographs first came to light earlier this year we were very excited. Any fresh collection of early photographs of China, Formosa (now Taiwan) and Japan is welcome and these 90 photographs were a significant find. The distinctive hand of John Thomson was familiar and easily recognised and the knee-jerk reaction was that most of the other photographs would be found to be by Felice Beato. However, on closer inspection the assumed authorship of Beato receded and the somewhat surprising name of the lesser-known American photographer Charles Leander Weed emerged from the shadows. Charles Weed is most famous for his pioneering mammoth-plate photographs of Yosemite but his work from his two periods based in China (1860-61 & 1866-70) is far more hazy. Weed photographed in Japan in 1867 during his second period out East and took photographs with both his mammoth-plate camera and his stereoview camera. Many of the photographs were published in an Oriental Scenery series in both formats by Thomas Houseworth of San Francisco in 1869. However, not only was Weed not credited but neither series appears to have been particularly successful and as a result only handfuls of these photographs by Weed are known institutionally and privately today. The Canadian Center for Architecture, the Smithsonian Institution and the Peabody Essex Museum collectively have a small number of the mammoth prints and the Tom Burdett Collection has a number of the stereoviews, while a few others are known to be owned privately. The attributions here are pieced together from these online sources and the invaluable work in various works, notably Peter E. Palmquist, 'California's Peripatetic Photographer: Charles Leander Weed', California History (1979) 58 (3), pp. 194–219, and three of Terry Bennett's books: Old Japanese Photographs. Collectors' Data Guide (2006), pp. 106-109, 115-116, 188; History of Photography in China 1842–1860, (2009), pp. 163-169; History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861–1879 (2010), p. 321. Terry Bennett's books give a useful list of titles from the Oriental Scenery series as well as up-to-date biographical information. The 'Weed' photographs offered here are largely 34 x 25 cm or similar and on comparison with online digital images photographs at the Canadian Center for Architecture and the Smithsonian they are taken from the 'centre' part of the mammoth plates. As such the compositions are altered from the full mammoth plates but it would appear that a good many of these images are not known in any format at all and so represent an important discovery in the history of western photography in China and Japan. Unlike Thomson, Weed did not publish books or document his photography career and because of the small number of photographs extant his reputation is more modest than it should be. Ansel Adams was a great fan of his landscapes of Yosemite and this new cache of photographs will find him new admirers.
![* Attributed to John Thomson (1837-1921). Nine Arch Bridge outside Soochow [Suzhou, China], c. 1869, albumen print, 24.0 x 33](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/0e26ffbf-4888-41de-a93c-ac64011e71fe/468x382.jpg)
Lot 260
* Attributed to John Thomson (1837-1921). Nine Arch Bridge outside Soochow [Suzhou, China], c. 1869, albumen print, 24.0 x 33.9 cm, ghosting figures lower left corner, together with Attributed to John Thomson (1837-1921). Great Pagoda in Foochow [Fuzhou] the largest in China, c. 1869, albumen print, 23.6 x 33.2 cm, both with slight marginal fading and light browning to upper blank corners from adhesive see-through, mounted on album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (2)NOTESFor the same attribution of the first photograph see an identical one in the Gilman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 2005.100.494.92. For a similar view of the second photograph with a Thomson attribution see accession number 2005.100.494.90. For stereoview photographs with similar titles see the Oriental Series published by Thomas Houseworth, San Francisco, 1869, Nos. 35 & 31: The Nine-Arched Bridge, near Soochow [and] The Largest Pagoda in China, at Foochow.
![* Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Bridge at Wang-Do [Wong-Du],15 miles from Shanghai, [China], c. 1867, album](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/739e9471-db8d-4345-9240-ac64011e735c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 262
* Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Bridge at Wang-Do [Wong-Du],15 miles from Shanghai, [China], c. 1867, albumen print, slight marginal fading and browning to upper corners from adhesive see-through, 23.8 x 33.8 cm, together with: Unidentified photographer. Bridge at Kahshu [?Kahpoo, now Zhapu], [China], c. 1867-69, albumen print, marginal fading, some spotting, light diagonal crease, small tear without loss to lower right corner, 25.0 x 33.8 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Soochow [Suzhou, China], c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading and browning to upper corners from adhesive see-through, 24.2 x 33.7 cm, mounted on separate album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (3)NOTESFor stereoview photographs with similar titles to the first and third photographs see the Oriental Series published by Thomas Houseworth, San Francisco, 1869, Nos. 30 & 32: Wongdu Bridge [and] Bridge, Soochow. The location of the second bridge and the likely photographer is unclear.
Lot 278
* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). Japanese Cabinet Officials with the US Minister to Japan, taken at Hama Goten, Edo, [now Tokyo, Japan], 22 September 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading, 24.5 x 33.3 cm, mounted on an album leaf, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink caption, ‘American Minister & Staff, Japan’, in an unidentified hand at footQty: (1)NOTESThis important and rare photograph taken in the dying days of the Edo period, is a variant of Charles Weed's stereoview, 'The Gorogio, or Tycoon's Cabinet, with the American Minister and his Secretary', published as no. 129 in the mammoth-plate and stereoscopic Oriental Scenery series by Thomas Houseworth & Co., San Francisco, 1869. For a description and illustration of the stereoview see Terry Bennett, Photography In Japan 1853-1912, (2006), p. 116, fig. 140. The Tom Burnett Collection of Photographs of Japan 1859-c.1912 (online), contains 27 (of the 93?) Japanese stereoviews in the Houseworth series, including two variants of no. 129. Only 4 of figures in our photograph appear in the stereoview shown in Bennett, in which a total of 8 people are posing. As with the other Weed and Weed-attributed photographs this photograph is likely made from the central part of the original mammoth plate. It is very likely Weed was the first to use mammoth-plates for photographing in Japan. The identities of the sitters is tentatively given as, left to right: Ezure Akinori (Foreign Office), General Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh (1821-1888, US Minister Resident to Japan), Ishikawa Jukei, Inaba Masami (1815-1879, daimy? of Tateyama Domain), Katsu Kaish? (1823-1899, Minister of the Army), Matsudaira Tar? (1839-1909, Commander-in-Chief of the Army), ?zeki Masuhiro (died 1867, daimy? of Kurobane Domain).
![* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). View in Yeddo [Edo, now Tokyo] (Japan), c. 1867, albumen print of the entrance to the Am](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/012ab31e-68ce-4d35-9061-ac64011e7e44/468x382.jpg)
Lot 279
* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). View in Yeddo [Edo, now Tokyo] (Japan), c. 1867, albumen print of the entrance to the American Legation, some light marginal fading, 24.4 x 33.7 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). British Legation, Yeddo, c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fading, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Garden at the British Legation, Yeddo, c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fading, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, mounted on 3 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (3)NOTESThe first photograph is the central part of the mammoth-print to be found at the Canadian Center of Architecture, titled ‘Entrance to American Legation, Yedo’, ref. PH1981:0340. That image corresponds to stereoview no. 109 in the Oriental Scenery series, by Thomas Houseworth & Co., San Francisco, 1869. See also Terry Bennett, Old Japanese Photographs: Collectors' Data Guide, (2006), pp. 106-109, which gives a numbered listing of the Houseworth series (China, 1-60; Japan, 61-153) and illustrates this stereoview on p. 109. Only one photograph of the British Legation is listed, that one (no. 107) probably corresponding to the second photograph here.
![* Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Yeddo, [Edo, now Tokyo, Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, a view across Yedo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/a5d0fd29-d979-45d0-9657-ac64011e7eed/468x382.jpg)
Lot 280
* Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Yeddo, [Edo, now Tokyo, Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, a view across Yedo rooftops, some light marginal fading, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). A Garden in Yeddo, c. 1867, albumen print of a lake or moat, wooden walkway and pavilion with several figures including a fisherman on the near bank, some light marginal fading and browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). View near Yeddo, c. 1867, albumen print of a watercourse and promontory with houses on a hillside in the background, some light marginal fading and browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, mounted on 3 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (3)NOTESThomas Houseworth’s Oriental Scenery series, 1869, featured some 30 views of Yedo (nos. 99-129) and it is difficult to specifically match up these photographs to ones on that list. The first one may correspond to one of the two titled ‘Panoramic View of Yedo’, nos. 101 & 102. For the other two see footnote to following lot.
![* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). Moat of the Imperial Palace, Yeddo, [Edo Castle, Tokyo, Japan], c. 1867, albumen print,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/190cbbce-95eb-4b84-b742-ac64011e7fcd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 281
* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). Moat of the Imperial Palace, Yeddo, [Edo Castle, Tokyo, Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fading, a few spots and slight browning to corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Imperial Palace Grounds, Yeddo, c. 1867, albumen print of the moat, some marginal fading and light browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Imperial Grounds, Yeddo, c. 1867, albumen print of a lake or moat with two figures on a short jetty on the near bank, further figures on the far side on a wooden walkway and shading under a tree, some marginal fading and light browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.8 cm, mounted on 3 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (3)NOTESFor a photograph of the first image taken from the full mammoth plate see the Canadian Center of Architecture, ref. PH1981:0345. The image here can be seen to be taken from the upper right area of the mammoth plate negative, eliminating the view of the near bank from the composition. Thomas Houseworth’s Oriental Scenery series, 1869, features thee views titled ‘Moat around the Castle, Yedo’, (nos. 117-119), and four titled ‘Tycoon’s Fishing Ground, Yedo’, (nos. 112 & 125-128). These photographs may be some of those comparable images taken from the mammoth plates.
![* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). Mississippi Bay near Yokohama, [Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fadi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/7878d2fa-21da-46e1-b98c-ac64011e817d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 283
* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). Mississippi Bay near Yokohama, [Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fading and light browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Yokohama, c. 1867, albumen print, a view over rooftops and the harbour with boats, some light marginal fading and light browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, very small split to upper right margin, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, mounted on 2 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (2)NOTESA full plate photograph from the original mammoth plate of the first photograph, titled ‘Fishing Village on Mississippi Bay, near Yokohama’, is held at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives within the Smithsonian Institution, ref. FSA.A2002.04. This corresponds to no. 139 in Thomas Houseworth’s Oriental Scenery series, 1869. In addition, Felice Beato photographed a virtually identical scene, 1864-1868, the composition cropped in very slightly from our photograph but showing three figures on the road on the left. See Anne Lacoste, Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road, (2010), plate 34. Whether Ueno Hikoma (1838-1904), who had a close working relationship with Beato, showed him and/or Charles Weed this location, it seems highly unlikely that whichever photographer was not aware of the earlier work of the other when taking this photograph. The second photograph probably corresponds to one of the two titled ‘Panoramic View of Yokohama’ in the Oriental Scenery series, nos. 137 & 138.
![* Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Entrance to Nagasaky, [Nagasaki, Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some margi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/dd4e32a6-2e98-4302-980d-ac64011e8352/468x382.jpg)
Lot 286
* Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Entrance to Nagasaky, [Nagasaki, Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading and light browning to corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Entrance to Nagasaky, c. 1867, albumen print, some fading and browning to corners from adhesive see-through, 24.3 x 33.7 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Entrance to Nagasaky, c. 1867, albumen print, some fading and browning to corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, mounted on 3 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (3)NOTESThere are 38 views (nos. 61-98) of Nagasaki in Houseworth’s Oriental Scenery series and it is difficult to be certain which these photographs may correspond to. The first two here show harbour views looking down from the hillside, while the third is from higher up, with the backs of two figures in the foreground, the distant harbour and wooded shoreline now very faded.
![* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). [Honrenji] Temple near Nagasaki, [Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fa](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/6f5565a3-8e3d-4d3f-abb1-ac64011e85aa/468x382.jpg)
Lot 289
* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). [Honrenji] Temple near Nagasaki, [Japan], c. 1867, albumen print, some light marginal fading, 25.4 x 33.8 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Temple in Japan, c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading, short split near upper right corner, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, mounted on 2 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (2)NOTESFor a full plate photograph taken from the original mammoth plate of the first photograph see the Canadian Center for Architecture, ‘Partial view of the Fukusaiji Temple complex [?], Nagasaki, Japan’, ref. PH1981:0346. The full plate shows a lot more bare ground in front of the temple, and more tree foliage to the left and right. Intriguingly, there are three near-identical photographs by Ueno Hikoma (or attributed to him) to be found in the Database of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period in the Nagasaki University Library Collection, ref. 5339, 5358, 6034, the last one dated c. 1874, all approximately 21 x 27.5 cm. It would seem very likely that the photographer(s) would have been emulating this more compact view offered here. Only two photographs in the Houseworth, Oriental Scenery series, nos. 70 & 72, have the title ‘Temple in Nagasaki’.
Lot 29
[Thomson, John & Smith, Adolphe. Street Life in London, with permanent photographic illustrations taken from life expressly for this publication, 1878], 37 mounted Woodburytypes on 36 leaves (complete), many approximately 110 x 85 cm, lacks both title-page and preface/contents leaf at front, paper repair to lower blank margins of first text leaf, final text leaf torn with some text loss affecting 6 lines, a little spotting and soiling throughout, contemporary marbled boards, crudely rebacked and recornered with cloth and modern gilt-title spine and cover labels, rubbed and soiled, 4toQty: (1)NOTESOriginally published as a monthly serial, Street Life in London was published in twelve parts. It was then published in book form in brown and variant green bindings. It is still considered a pioneering work in the history of documentary photography. The types represented here in Thomson's photographs including cab men, street doctors, public disinfectors, shoe-blacks, labourers, Italian street musicians, fruit and fish sellers, etc. While textually incomplete as described the plate leaves are all present and in good condition. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.
![* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). On the Road to 'Fusi Yama' [Fujiyama, i.e. Mount Fuji], Japan, c. 1867, albumen print, s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/ef1633b2-223e-4673-8574-ac64011e86f9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 291
* Weed (Charles Leander, 1824-1903). On the Road to 'Fusi Yama' [Fujiyama, i.e. Mount Fuji], Japan, c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading and browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 32.8 cm, together with: Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). Country Scene in Japan, c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). View in [Seto] Inland Sea, Japan, c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading and light browning to top corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.7 cm, Attributed to Charles Leander Weed (1824-1903). View in [Seto] Inland Sea, Japan, c. 1867, albumen print, some marginal fading and light browning to corners from adhesive see-through, 25.0 x 33.2 cm, mounted on 4 album leaves, 27.5 x 38.5 cm, with contemporary calligraphic brown ink captions in an unidentified hand at footQty: (4)NOTESA full plate photograph from the original mammoth plate of the first photograph, titled ‘View near Yokohama’, is held at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives within the Smithsonian Institution, ref. FSA.A2002.04. None of these photographs can be identified in the list of Houseworth’s Oriental Scenery series and may not have been part of that series.
Lot 308
* China. A concertina photograph album of 100 gelatin silver print photographs and 6 postcards of China, c. 1900-10, mostly personal snapshots and portraits, plus 6 postcards, photographs 11.5 x 15.5 cm and smaller and pasted to mounts without captions throughout, original lacquer boards, a little chipped and worn, oblong 8vo (15.5 x 20 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe album appears to have been compiled by a missionary family, stationed in China at the beginning of the twentieth century. There are portraits of western male missionaries in Chinese clothing and two of the sitters are identified in pencil as Mr and Mrs Thor and family. There are also portraits of three mandarins, images of Canton and Kuling plus four photographs relating to the Boxer Rebellion. The first photograph pasted to the front pastedown is of the English and Chinese text of an Honor Stone commemorating the English protestant missionary to China, Reverend William David Rudland (1839-1912).
Lot 329
* Japan & China. A photograph album of Japan and China, early 1920s, comprising approximately 240 gelatin silver prints corner-mounted as multiples on rectos and versos of 47 leaves, the first photograph a panoramic image (7 x 23.5 cm) of the Eho Yuen Summer Palace near Peking, the remaining photographs include some views and scenes with people in Peking, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobe, but mostly of junks, small vessels and many of ships of the Admiral Orient line, mostly 7.5 x 10 cm but some postcard-sizes and larger, uncaptioned but the majority with manuscript alphanumeric reference codes to labels pasted beneath, contemporary limp cloth with crocodile-skin design, heavily rubbed, oblong folio (25 x 32 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESThe Admiral line operated five of the US Shipping Boards '535-ft.' Liners on the Seattle to Far East route. Admiral Oriental line was acquired by Dollar Line in 1922, and later renamed American Mail Line, becoming a subsidiary of American President Lines from 1938.
Lot 336
* Vietnam. Spies in Vung Tau 1915-1920, a collection of approximately 155 glass plate negatives, showing scenes in Vung Tau, Vietnam, plus Java, Jakarta, Sarawak and the Cocos Islands, many with brown paper wrapping with three-word pencil captions, 8 x 10.5 cmQty: (approximately 155)NOTESThis collection of glass plate negatives was used by Bernard Green for his book Spies in Vung Tau 1915-1920. Sailing the G.L. Watson 1897 Rainbow. Photos of South Vietnam (Bernard A. N. Green, 2018). The negatives were acquired by Green in 1987 as a 'mystery' lot in auction and only investigated in 2017 with the aid of modern scanning technology. What Green found was a collection of photographs relating to a military mission by 5 men connected to Australia and Great Britain during a period covering the First World War. The group acquired one of the fastest yachts available, the G.L. Watson Rainbow in order to inspect and repair the undersea telegraph and radio systems that were so important to shipping safety and military information and logistics. This secretive journey took them throughout South-East Asia and Vietnam with visits to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. They spent considerable time in Vietnam taking photographs which help indicate why the French Military were building huge gun emplacements at the Cape St. Jacques (now called Vung Tau). The G.L. Watson Rainbow was later purchased by Kaiser Wilhelm II who renamed it Hamburg; its fate after that is unknown. The photographs include members of the group and their yacht (and a smaller one, The Dukongs), base camp activities and numerous photographs of mountains and landscapes of the places visited. There are also photographs of local peoples encountered as well as some of temples and houses. The identity of the photographer is unknown (he is noted simply as 'Self' in the brief captions), but his companions are identified on some of the paper wrappings of the negatives as Franklyn, Stewart, Pig, Ginger, and White, three of whom are believed by Green to be Australians. A copy of the book is included with the lot. A full short-title listing is available and all images are viewable (as positives) at the auctioneer’s online catalogue.
![India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/0438a29b-9468-4d5b-ac6a-ac64011eb2ad/468x382.jpg)
Lot 361
India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73-6 41-72 [77]-144 147-246 251-4, lithographic Urdu text within hand-coloured oval cartouches, 74 albumen print portrait photographs (9 x 5 cm) mounted to card leaves with Urdu captions (either in manuscript or on mounted lithographic slips), mounted on stubs throughout, 1 similar portrait (uncaptioned but evidently from the same series) laid in, both parts lacking the title-page and apparently the first leaf of text, one card mount (Moinuddin Mohammed Farrukhsiyar) with caption but lacking photograph, part 1 text-leaves and mounts brittle and browned, fore margins chipped and extensively consolidated with tissue-paper, similar repairs to a few leaves extending into text, a few card mounts detached or detaching from stubs (Babur, Humayun, Jahangir/Akbar, the latter both mounted either side of the same sheet), part 2 with water-damage to pp. 133-44 and 3 intervening plates, stabilised with tissue-paper, the repair just touching one corner of 2 photographs (Nawabs of Juagadh and Balasinor), the third (Maharaja of Travancore) repaired with loss, 1 other photograph (Nawab of Palanpur) with extensive loss and attempted repair, card mounts in part 2 otherwise only with variable and generally minor water-staining to fore margins (lower outer corners sometimes discreetly consolidated with tissue), contemporary red morocco binding with broad roll-tool borders gilt, rebacked with red fabric, folio (29.5 x 19 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of photo-historian Brij Sharma. An apparently near-complete copy of an extremely rare Indian publication. We trace a fragment containing six photographic portraits and their associated biographies only, catalogued as being part of a larger work titled Muraqqa' Jahan Numa ('World-Mirror Album') by Munshi Bulaqi Das, printed at Delhi's Mayur Press circa 1880. The first part contains 25 albumen prints from miniatures of Mughal rulers and their antecedents, from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second part concerns the rulers of the Princely States and associated potentates including MAHARAJA DULEEP SINGH and the sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar. It contains 50 albumen prints (including the loose, uncaptioned image), of which 39 are from life, and consequently provides original likenesses of numerous princes not otherwise well-represented in the photographic record. The quality of the paper and the adverse climate of the Subcontinent appear to have assured the work's rarity in any condition. A full list list of the figures depicted is available on request.
Lot 371
* Macpherson (Robert, 1811-1872). A group of 6 large albumen prints of Rome, c. 1860s, 4 of buildings, temples and monuments, plus one of pine trees and one of frescoes, some occasional fading, 30 x 38 cm and other large-format sizes, original mounts with Macpherson's blindstamp, plus pencil captions and negative numbers 29, 63, 144, 168, 339 & 341, mounts chipped with occasional small loss, together with 3 further large-format Italian albumen prints by Fratelli Alinari of Florence, late 1850s, the largest of the bell tower in Florence, 43.5 x 32 cm, plus 2 slightly smaller, original paper mounts with pencil inscription, the first with Alinari blindstamp to lower mountQty: (9)
Lot 379
River Thames. An album of 39 mounted albumen print views between Oxford and Richmond, c. 1890, each 10 x 18 cm and very similar, mounted to rectos of stiff card album leaves within decorative pen and ink and watercolour borders with captions beneath, some spotting and dust-soiling to mounts, one detached, watercolour monogram of the compiler (?W.P., MA) to first leaf verso, contemporary morocco over bevelled boards, gilt-titled 'Thames Scenery' to upper cover, heavily rubbed, oblong folio (24 x 30 cm)Qty: (1)
![* Fashion. Les Actualités de I'Elégance [so titled on covers], 3 albums, c. 1915-25, containing 1,130 mounted gelatin silver](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1f93c4c0-8da5-4fd7-9d28-ac6300d6554e/a68a8105-06b8-49e4-bda9-ac64011dced8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 44
* Fashion. Les Actualités de I'Elégance [so titled on covers], 3 albums, c. 1915-25, containing 1,130 mounted gelatin silver print photographs, mostly society women and some men in fashions of the day, mostly outdoor settings, mounted as pairs on album leaves and back to back throughout, a few scattered gaps, one photograph heavily creased and one with corner tear with loss, images 17.5 x 12 cm and one album including 138 smaller images, 13.5 x 9 cm, three-digit numbers in top right corners of larger photographs and lower area of smaller photographs, contemporary half morocco with gilt-titled upper covers, rubbed, oblong 8vo (24 x 34 cm)Qty: (3)NOTESA very comprehensive collection of society fashion styles from the First World War to the early 1920s.
Lot 66
* Korda (Alberto, 1928-2001). Fidel Castro playing golf in Havana, 1960, printed c. 2000, gelatin silver print, embossed stamp and photographer's signature in black fibre pen to left and right of lower margin touching image, image size 22.5 x 15.5 cm. sheet size 30 x 24 cmQty: (1)NOTESWhen Castro took power in 1959, one of his first acts was to plough up all but one of Cuba's golf courses, leaving just a nine-hole course. The exact date and reasons for this game between Che Guevara and Fidel Castro are not known. One suggestion is that Castro set up the match as a publicity stunt to mock President Eisenhower who had refused to meet him in Washington, having chosen to play golf instead. It is believed that Guevara beat Castro.
Lot 74
* Nettles (Bea, 1946-). Mountain Dream Tarot: A Deck Of 78 Photographic Cards, 1st edition, Distributed by Light Impressions Corp., Rochester, NY, 1975, a set of 78 photomechanically printed monochromatic cards plus title card (neatly signed in ball-point pen, 'B. Nettles 1977'), cards 115 x 94 mm, together with original printed tri-fold information sheet and a single sheet with other titles by Bea Nettles, all fine in original box with a second pictorial title card pasted to upper lid, a little rubbed at extremities, overall 12.5 x 10 x 3 cmQty: (1)NOTESApparently issued in an edition of 850, the idea for Mountain Dream Tarot came to Nettles in a dream while she was at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina in 1970. Inspired by the symbols found in Arthur Edward Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Nettles spent the next five years photographing members of the Penland community and her family and friends. She then assembled the images into photomontages using the symbolism of the tarot. Way before the advent of Photoshop Nettles painstakingly used darkroom techniques, retouched negatives and painting on her photographic prints to create illusions of wands flying through the air and cups hovering in the clouds. Reissued in 2001 with a 3rd edition issued in 2020, sets of the first edition are scarce, some being held institutionally at museums including the George Eastman and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Three of Swords image was used as a disc graphic on Bruce Springsteen's album Magic (2007).
Lot 78
* Pictorialism. A group of 22 mounted exhibition photographs by various photographers, c. 1915, including a seascape study with three boats in sunlight through clouds by Alfred G. Buckham FRPS, 38 x 30 cm, signed in pencil on the mount, other photographs include botanical gardens, Napier, New Zealand by Sergeant S. Tanner, views in Dinant by J.E. Coates and Alice R. Naylor, plus pictorialist scenes by F.W. Cruttenden, G. Cumber, Albert H. Redman, P. Carslen, M.A. Smart, Arthur Beard, R.W. Staff, and others, mostly gelatin silver prints, various sizes, plus one older mounted albumen print of cloisters by A. Bedding, all loosely contained in a cloth portfolio, gilt-title 'W.M. Richardson, with all good wishes from the B.P.I.P.S', some wear, 55 x 41 cmQty: (23)NOTESAlfred George Buckham (1879-1956) was the first head of aerial reconnaissance for the Royal Navy in the First World War and later Captain in the Royal Naval Air Service. After crashing nine times and undergoing surgery he was discharged as disabled. While recovering from surgery Buckham started making photo-montages, combining two or three photographs to compose a single image, even adding tiny aircraft or perhaps, as here, three sailing vessels.
Lot 95
* The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night. The Beatles with other actors and fans at Marylebone station, London, during filming for A Hard Day's Night, photographed by Lord Christopher Thynne, 5 April 1964, four strips of three unpublished 6 x 6 medium format negatives, individual frames showing: John and George (head turned away) in the train carriage with the backs of 'schoolgirl' actresses Pattie Boyd and Susan Whitman, the heads of George and John with the backs of Boyd and Whitman, George in front of John and framed by Norman Rossington (band manager) and the two schoolgirls, George talking to Wilfrid Brambell (Paul's grandfather), the remaining 8 frames on the open station platform with crowds in the background, six featuring the pair of Paul and George in various stances, one of the pair in conversation with Rossington and one blurred one of Rossington quickly escorting George to the waiting carQty: (12)NOTESProvenance: The photographer's family by direct descent. Full worldwide copyright will be relinquished by the vendor and assigned to the new owner. The negatives have been converted to positives for catalogue illustration purposes. Filming for A Hard Day's Night at Marylebone station took place over two consecutive Sundays. On this first day, over a hundred fans were filmed chasing after The Beatles. On the following Sunday The Beatles acted in the empty station without the crowds.
Lot 199
SPORTING INTEREST BOOKS to include 'Billy Wright's Book of Soccer' No. 1 1958 signed copy, A. W. Rumney - 'A Cyclist's Note Book' published by W & A. K. Johnston, Henry Cotton - 'This Game of Golf', first edition 1948 in dustjacket, 'Olympic and Early International Golf A Scrapbook' researched & assembled by Robert A. Smith, 'A History of Golf In Britain', Ivor Herbert - 'Arkle The story of a Champion', Susie Cornfield - 'The Queen's Prize' etc. togetherv with CRICKET INTEREST BOOKS to include Charles Box - 'The Theory and Practice of Cricket' Frederick Warne & Co. (lacking cover), John Nyren - 'The Young Cricketer's Tutor', David Nutt 1893 (lacking cover), W. W. Read - 'Annals of Cricket' third cheaper edition 1897, E. W. Swanton - 'The Test Matches of 1953', Peris Jones - 'Gentlemen and Players' 1989 and Eddie Lawrence - 'Somerset County Cricket Club', limited edition signed by the author 90/500 (16)
Lot 200
JACK VANCE - 'BAD RONALD', published by Underwood-Miller 1982, first trade edition, with dust jacketCondition Report:Book has light foxing on endpapers, dust jacket flaps and page edges but otherwise very goodDust jacket is a little grubby in places and discoloured with small stains on spine and nicks in edges
Lot 202
JOSEPH W. ESHERICK - 'THE ORIGINS OF THE BOXER UPRISING', published by University of California Press 1987 hardback first edition with dust jacket, A. S. WORMALL - 'DREAMS, VISIONS AND ESSAYS', published by The Society of Communion, first edition May 1927. A rare book on spiritualism cataloguing a series of incidents and experiences of the author, HJALMAR SCHACHT - 'THE MAGIC OF MONEY', translated from the German by Paul Erskine, published by Oldbourne Book Co. Ltd. 1967, rare hardback book in a dust jacket (3)Condition Report:Spine of dust jacket faded, some wear on edgesBook very good, Blackwell's sticker on back endpaper
Lot 508
ELEANOR FARJEON - 'MRS MALONE', illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, Oxford University Press 1962, first edition in dustjacket but missing first page, together with High Lofting - 'Tommy Tilly and Mrs Tubbs, Jonathan Cape 1937 first edition, Kate Greenaway - 'Mother Goose', Frederick Warne (an original and a facsimile), and Adventure Series No. 8 'Rupert and the Wicked Uncle' together with various other children's booksCondition Report:Hugh Lofting - some illustrations crayoned in Mrs Malone missing first page (not title pages) and price cut out
Lot 9098
MICHAEL RENTON (1934-2001) 'Alley Street in Rye', (from 'A Portrait of Rye') wood engraving printed on thick wove paper with monogram signature and dated 1975 in the block, provenance: Michael Renton estate, Michael Renton was the subject of the first exhibition at The Lettering Arts Trust, Snape Maltings in 2015, 10cm x 7.5cm
Lot 9099
MICHAEL RENTON (1934-2001) 'The Knight by the Lake', from 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' by Keats published by the Cherub Press in 1986, wood engraving on thick handmade wove paper, provenance: Michael Renton estate, Michael Renton was the subject of the first exhibition at The Lettering Arts Trust, Snape Maltings in 2015, 5.5cm x 7cm
Lot 9100
MICHAEL RENTON (1934-2001) 'Rye across from the River Rother', wood engraving printed on the handmade japon paper with monogram signature and dated 1971 in the block, provenance: Michael Renton estate, Michael Renton was the subject of the first exhibition at The Lettering Arts Trust, Snape Maltings in 2015, image size 10cm x 17.8cm
Lot 259
Fine Chinese porcelain vase, Qianlong six character mark, the yellow body with floral sprays, aubergine stylised handles above the bulbous body with two white ground panels depicting children in gardens playing, the base in turquoise blue and Qianlong six character mark in iron red, 38cm high. Provenance: by family descent, the vendor's maternal Scottish, Caithness "born-and-bred" grandfather - Missionary Professor Arthur Mowat purchased the vase in person from Calcutta for £8, where he lived for 21 years. He had a wife and 2 daughters. The vase was probably acquired in 1927 when he first went out to Calcutta as Head of the English Language Department in the Scottish Church College there, and again in1939. He was sponsored by The Church Of Scotland, (having qualified as Honours Medallist in English Literature and Language in 1915 from Edinburgh University carrying off many prizes and awards.) So popular were his Calcutta classes that students came from other colleges to hear him. His newspaper obituary starts: " ... A Lybster man who became one of the most distinguished professors of English Literature the Scottish Church College Calcutta has ever seen, has died."On graduation in 1915 he first began his illustrious teaching career as principal teacher of English at Wick (Caithness, Scotland) High School where he quickly made his mark as a talented teacher and fine inspiration to his pupils, as well as a golfer and footballer.In 1939 he returned from India to New College Edinburgh with a view to entering the ordained ministry of the church; but he was drawn back to to the country - this time to Murray College in Sialkot - which later became part of Pakistan - where he quickly gained a reputation as an outstanding teacher of English. He also acted for some years as Bursar of the College and devoted considerable time to the Library. He retired to Turriff in Aberdeenshire Scotland where he spent the remainder of this life, completing short spells of teaching at various schools.
Lot 370A
Books - early 20th century and later fiction, some of which are first editions, h/b, with pictorial dustjackets, various; mid-20th century Penguin Books, retro wrappers as issued; H.G. Wells; Dumas; anthologies; early 20th century and later mathematics, mechanics and engineering, etc; history; politics; etc., [5 boxes]
Lot 375
Travel - Morris (James), Venice, first edition, second impression, London: Faber and Faber, 1960, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Waugh (Evelyn), Waugh in Abyssinia, first edition, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936, red cloth only, 8vo, (1); Canada, Thornhill (John Bensley, F.R.G.S.), British Columbia in the Making, 1913, Illustrated, first edition, London: Constable & Company Limited, 1913, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); Egyptology, [...] Guidebook to Luxor [...], fourth edition, Luxor: 1942, contemporary wrappers, 8vo, (1); Daniel (Glyn), Lascaux and Carnac, first edition, London: Lutterworth Press, 1955, h/b, d/j, 8vo, (1); a mid-20th century Holiday Tour 1959 photograph album, snapshots and prints of a European motoring tour in a 2.4. Jaguar EX4500, cloth album, (1); China, Asia's First Republic: The Story of China 1912-1961, original wrappers, 8vo, (1); Cecil Beaton, (1); Folio Society, (1); atlas, (1); etc., [18]
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