A group of mid-nineteenth century Staffordshire figures, c. 1840-45.The first depicts Queen Victoria on the throne, one of Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal and the final of a seat Prince Albert. 17 - 18 cm tall. (3)Condition: Princess Royal figure with restored crown, a restored chip to the Victoria base and to Albert's right hand.
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Two early nineteenth century pearlware jugs, c.1810-20. The first is printed in black with shooting, chinoiserie and bull baiting scenes, all with added colours. The second is printed in grey/black with two rural scenes and has painted barbering tools and the initials A M to the front: 16 - 17 cm tall. (2)Condition: First jug: chip to rim, hairline in rim, wear to spout and crack in body. Second jug: light wear and crazing. Provenance: From the Jenkins Collection.
A pair of Queen Anne brass candlesticks, first quarter 18th century, the knopped stems descending to moulded and canted square section bases, 19.5cm highThis form of candlestick incorporating a stylised 'acorn knop' is associated with the output of Huguenot metalworkers of the period. See Ronald Michaelis, Old Domestic Base Metal Candlesticks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1978, p. 18, fig. 157 for a pair of related shape.
Two Italian tinted terracotta models of Classical figures, first half 18th century, including a model of Diana in the manner of Antique examples, and a female deity holding a tambourine, each painted to simulate stone, the largest example 26.5cm high, 9cm wide; and another, similar example in painted gesso, portraying two draped maidens, 18cm high (3)Condition Report: Some chips and losses overall.One of the bases has a wooden core.The painted finish is quite distressed.Condition Report Disclaimer
A Continental gilt bronze pricket altar stick, first half 18th century, probably Italian, cast with a Solomonic stem and a triform base with cherub masks to each side, raised on claw and ball feet, with removable urn form candle socket, 81cm high overall; and another, similar, smaller, 72cm high overall including candle socket
A French or Italian patinated bronze model of a Shepherd boy after the Antique, first half 18th century, portrayed standing beside a textured tree trunk, a wolf skin draped over his shoulder, on a canted rectangular base, stamped with the French 'c couronne' control mark, 26.5cm high, 8cm wideThis bronze takes its inspiration from a 1st or 2nd century Roman marble, which is itself a copy of a Greek original. While the marble is now in the collection of the Louvre, it was previously at the Villa Borghese, Rome.The 'c couronne' was a French tax mark struck on bronzes over a certain weight between February 1745 and February 1749. The 'C' stands for cuivre (copper), one of the components of the bronze alloy.
A rare sculpted oak model of a European merchant or army officer, first quarter 18th century, Dutch or possibly French, in contemporary attire including tricorn hat, cravat and long coat with sash and billowing drape, with buckled boots, on a rectangular base, 41cm high, 16cm wideThe present lot shows similarities to depictions of East India traders manufactured in the English and Dutch colonies during the early years of the 18th century. The best-known versions of these are by Chinese plaster sculptor Amoy Chinqua. His circa 1716 model of merchant and colonial administrator Joseph Collet, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, is particularly similar in attire. As the sculpture presented here is made of oak, it is more likely an unusual European rendition of a similar subject.Condition Report: The sculpture bears the usual minor marks, knocks and scuffs overall consistent with age.There is some evidence of minor old worming, particularly to the base and the left sleeve, though this doesn't appear to be active.There is an old repair across the socle, mostly visible to the underside. There are two shallow surface inconsistencies (narrow, each circa 0.5-1cm long) to the coat, possibly inconsistencies in the timber of very small chips. The left elbow is a little scuffed.Condition Report Disclaimer
A painted dummy board depicting a lady sweeping, 18th century, depicted wearing a bonnet and a blue dress and apron, 169cm high, 89cm widePreviously exhibited at the Bowes Museum, County Durham. Please note: The board may possibly date to the first half of the 19th century. The appearance and evidence of the reverse side of the dummy board in particular appear to support it being of 18th or early 19th century in date. Condition Report: Old marks, scratches and abrasions comensurate with age and use.Old splits and chips. some old repairs. Some later screws to the stretchers of timber/ supports attached to the reverse of the board. Potential buyers should satisfy themselves in reference to the age of this item. The board may possibly date to the first half of the 19th century. The appearance and evidence of the reverse side of the dummy board in particular appear to support it being of 18th or early 19th century in date. The painted side of the board appears to have been cleaned and may incorporate some re-touching to the paint. The board is 89cm wide at the widest point. Please refer to the additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
A rare German gilt bronze alloy model of a giraffe, possibly 17th century, likely Augsburg or Nuremberg, the animal portrayed with a turned neck and stylised features, 18.5cm highThe present bronze is possibly an early rendition of a giraffe as viewed by European craftsmen. The sloped back, buckled hind legs and elongated face may not have derived from a first-hand encounter with the exotic animal, but instead bear distinct similarities to prints of giraffes that circulated at the time.A direct influence may have been the Icones, by 16th century Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner, which includes an illustration of a giraffe in an almost identical pose and with similarly pointed features.Exotic animals provided popular subject matter for bronziers and silver smiths in 16th and 17th century Southern Germany, where they were not only seen as collectible curiosities but also used as table ornaments. A well-known example of this tradition is the silver ostrich by Elias Zorer in the Wallace Collection, whose stylised and elongated features share a similar visual language to the present bronze.Condition Report: The giraffe bears the usual minor marks, knocks and scuffs overall consistent with age.There are some areas of loss and wear to the gilding, including to the face and feet. Some dark parts to gilding in the shape of 'drips', to the belly and right haunch. The gilding is quite lustrous and 'oily' overall. The giraffe appears to have been cast in two halves and there is a join running along the belly and back, and up to the neck. The hind legs are quite strongly buckled which is likely the design, though there may possibly have been some bending or damage (if this is the case it is not at all apparent). Overall this unusual and fascinating bronze is in perfectly presentable condition.Condition Report Disclaimer
A Continental sculpted white marble roundel, first half 19th century, possibly a vacant armorial plaque, the raised centre framed by a thick imbricated laurel wreath, approximately 28cm diameterCondition Report: The roundel bears the usual marks, knocks and scuffs overall consistent with age.The marble is slightly sugary and darker in colour to the edges, where there are also a handful of small losses to the edges of the laurel border and three or four tips of the leaves.There are darker marks/colours to the raised centre, possibly remnants of previous colouring.The rear is flat carved and the roundel could for example be hung on a wall, though there is no fixture for wall mounting currently present.Condition Report Disclaimer
Only Separate PublicationJoyce (James) A Protest against Plagiarism. An original printed copy of the protest and appeal issued in French by a constellation of American and European literary and cultural figures, on Joyce's birthday 2 February 1927, over the unauthorized publication of sections of Joyce's Ulysses by the American publisher Samuel Roth in his Two Worlds Monthly magazine, without permission or royalty and in 'un texte incomplete'. First and only separate publication, a fine copy, 1 pp folio, with one fold mark, in a custom made folder.Issued over the names of some 167 notable people, the protest was instigated by Joyce and was drawn up by legal friends of his (see Ellmann, 1983, 585-7). It is thus a Joyce item, although he himself did not sign. It complains about the breach of Joyce's rights as author, and invites editors and others to withhold support and publicity from Roth and his enterprises. It was later published in Transition 1 (Paris, April 1927).The signatures, in alphabetical order, include virtually everyone you ever heard of, from Albert Einstein to H.G. Wells, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery, Bertrand Russell, Marcel Prevost, Sean O'Casey, Liam O'Flaherty, E. Oe. Somerville, Italo Svevo, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Alice S. Green, Andre Gide, Augusta Gregory, Benedetto Croce, John Galsworthy, Robert Bridges, Arnold Bennett, Knut Hamsun, Wyndham Lewis, Gabriel Miro, Bunin, Luigi Pirandello, T.S.Eliot. The extraordinary range and quality of the signatories testifies to Joyce's worldwide reputation and influence, five years after publishing Ulysses.Joyce eventually secured a legal judgement restraining Roth's activities, which initially were possible only because Ulysses was for some years banned from import to the United States, hence Joyce could not establish his copyright in the usual way. See Slocum & Cahoon C68.A fragile and important item of the greatest rarity. (1)
Box: Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. thick 8vo D. [1930]. cold. frontis & bl. & wh. plts., orig. cloth; O'Casey (Séan) The Silver Tassie, L. 1929, First Edn., & The Plough and the Stars, L. 1930; & other items, some odd no's. Republican Newspapers etc., Concert Programmes for Dungarvan, some periodicals, etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
In Specially Bound Presentation BindingHutton (Alfred) Cool Steel: A Practical Treatise on the Sabre, also on Various other Weapons of the Present Day, lg. 4to, L. (William Clowes & Sons Ltd) 1889, First, port. frontis & 55 plts. (complete), specially bound in vellum, bookplate of "DuBois, Paris," good clean copy; together with Matthey (C.G.R.)ed. The Works of George Silver, comprising Paradoxes of Defence, printed in 1599 (now reprinted), 4to L. (George Bell) 1898, illus. frontis & plts. uncut, vellum backed green boards, inscribed to The Irish Fencing Club 1936. (2)
Ruskin (John) The Poems of ... 2 vols. Lg. 4to Orpington (Geo. Allen) 1891. First Collected Edn., ed. by W.G. Collington, illus. plts., thro-out, orig. green cloth; also The Stones of Venice, 3 vols. folio Orpington (Geo. Allen) 1893. Fifth Edn., illus. plts. thro.-out, orig. brown cloth. Good. (5)
The 1831 Meath ElectionCo. Meath: Rowley (Hon. Richard Thomas) an interesting early 19th Century Manuscript of Local Political interest, of 106pps., listing 960 voters (in alphabetical order), with 18 electoral districts - name, residence, landlord, value, etc., full green mor. with manuscript label. As a manuscript, w.a.f. (1)The Hon Richard Thomas Rowley (1812-1887) was the younger brother of Lord Langford of Summerhill, Co. Meath. At the general election of 1831, in which the key issue was the government's proposed reform bill, he stood for one of the two seats in Meath County (the first contested election there since 1802). There were five candidates - four supporters of reform and one (Rowley) a well-known opponent of the bill. The government feared that the quarrelling of the reformers would split the vote and give the seat to Rowley. They need not have worried - Rowley withdrew at the end of the first day's polling, having received only eight votes. (However, he was more successful in later years, becoming M.P. for Harwich from 1860 to 1865.)
The Personal Copy of Joseph Mary & Grace PlunkettHyde (Dr. Douglas) Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht, or The Love Songs of Connacht. (Being the Fourth Chapter of the 'Songs of Connaght'), now for the first time Collected, Edited and translated by Douglas Hyde, L.l.D. MRIA. Fourth Edition, Dublin 1905. Fine copy in an attractive full morocco binding, Three Candles binding label at rear.Joseph Mary Plunkett's copy (signatory of the 1916 Proclamation), with his signature in Irish on front blank dated 1911, and with a later inscription 'To John Burke, who comes like an angel of light in the dark places, from Grace Plunkett, Easter 1949.' John Burke was a solicitor and a friend of Jack Yeats and his circle.A superb association copy of a book which was one of the foundation stones of the Irish Revival. (1)
MacLean (Alistair) The Guns of Navarone, 8vo, L. (Collins) 1957, First, blue cloth, decorative d.j.; Caravan to Vaccares, 8vo L. (Collins) 1970, First, green cloth, decorated d.j.; Innes (Hammond) The Land God Gave to Cain, 8vo L. (Collins) 1958, First, cloth and d.j.; The Doomed Oasis, 8vo L. (Collins) 1960, First, cloth and d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
Venedey (Herr J.) Ireland and the Irish During the Repeal Year 1843. Trans. by Wm. B. Mc Cabe, 8vo D. 1844. First Edn., cloth; Trevelyan (C.E.) The Irish Crisis, 12mo L. 1848. First Edn. in Bk. Form, Trevelyan was infamous during The Great Famine in Ireland, 1845 - 1849; Donovan (Daniel) Sketches in Carbery, Co. Cork, D. 1876 First Edn., cloth; Croker (T. Crofton) Killarney Legends, L. n.d., cold. fold. map, illus., decor. cloth. (4)
Kathleen Clarke's CopyO'Brien (William) & Ryan (Desmond) eds. Devoy's Post Bag. Vol. One - Vol. Two, 1870-80, 1880-1928. D. 1948 & [1953]. Tall 8vo cloth in chipped d.ws, clean copies. Vol. Two Signed by the editor William O'Brien, dated Feb. 1953. Kathleen Clarke's copy (widow of Tom Clarke, who features extensively in the later letters), with her dairy account from Hughes Bros.laid in. Kathleen Clarke was a daughter of the old Limerick Fenian John Daly. She married Tom Clarke in 1899 after his release following 15 years imprisonment in England. Clarke asked her not to take part in the Rising, charging her instead with responsibility for the welfare of relatives of those who would be killed or imprisoned. The week after the Rising, she set up Irish National Aid and Victim Support, fending off various Redmondites who offered to assist her. A year later she hired Michael Collins as an assistant, giving him a platform from which he reorganised the Volunteers. She later joined Fianna Fail and was elected to the Dail, but left the party over the execution of Republicans. She was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1939, the first woman to hold the position. When it appeared that Margaret Mary Pearse might have an interest in the position, it was suggested that Mrs. Clarke might stand aside. Her response was, 'Tom Clarke's widow stands aside for nobody!'John Devoy was head of the I.R.B.'s American wing Clan na Gael and provided the financial support which kept the Irish organisation alive from the 1870s all the way to the Easter Rising. His post bag tells the inside story of fifty years of struggle, persevering through many setbacks to the establishment of an independent Irish state.
Juvenalia: [Rackham (A.)] Goldsmith (Oliver) The Vicar of Wakefield, 4to L. 1929. First Edn., with coloured plates & bl. & white illus. by Arthur Rackham, uncut, orig. gilt decor. cloth; also de Saint-Exupery (A.) La Petit Prince, 4to Paris (Editions Gallinard) 1946, with cold. illus. thro-out, orig. cold. decor. boards. (2)
Russell (Bertrand) Our Knowledge of the External World, As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy. Roy 8vo Chicago & L. 1914. First Edn., A.A. Luce's Copy; also Skeptical Essays, L. 1928. First Edn; Why I am Not a Christian, 8vo L. 1957; and What I Believe, 12mo L. 1925; Russell (B.) Has Religion made Useful Contributions to Civilization, 8vo L. 1930; Freud (Prof. S.) On Dreams, 8vo L. 1924. Signed by Anthony M. Ludovici, 1934; Zimmern (Helen) Arthur Schopenhauer His Life and His Philosophy, L. 1876. Port frontis; Mill (J. Stuart) On Liberty, L. 1864. Third; Autobiography, L. 1873. First; & Nature The Utility of Religion and Theism, 8vo L. 1874. Second Edn., All cloth, as a lot, 10 items. (10)
[James Bond] Gardner (John) Licence Renewed, 8vo L. (J. Cape) 1981, First, Inscribed by the Author, cloth and d.j., clean copy; Fleming (Ian) Casino Royale, 8vo, First Edn (Unknown Impression), lacking t.p., new end paper, original d.j by Kenneth Lewis laminated onto boards, as is; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 8vo, L. (J. Cape) 1963, cloth (no d.j.) as a lot, w.a.f. (3)
O'Connor (Frank) A Picture Book, Illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers. 8vo Dublin (Cuala Press) 1943. Lim. Edn. 40 (480) Copies, illus. unopened, cloth backed illus. boards; also Three Old Brothers and Other Poems, L. 1936, wrappers; The Art of the Theatre, D. (M. Fridberg) n.d. cold. frontis by Louis le Brocquy; and Towards an Appreciation of the Theatre, D. 1945, d.w.; Colum (Padriac) Three Men, 8vo L. 1930. Signed Lim. Edn., decor. boards, and Old Pastures, N.Y. 1930. First Edn., cloth, & d.w. v. good copy. A lot. (6)
Possibly Unique IssueUssher (James) Strange and Remarkable Prophesies and Predictions of the Holy, Learned, and Excellent James Usher, Late L. Arch-Bishop of Armagh, and Lord Primate of Ireland, Sm. 4to London (For R.G.) 1678. First Edn. (1 of 4 issues), 8pp. disbound. Ex. Rare. ESTC R504328, Notes one copy only. Not recorded by Sweeney; also Pamphlet: A List of Such of the Names of the Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty of England and Ireland, (Amongst whom are several Women and Children) .. . Sm. 4to Lond. (For R. Clavel .. and J. Watts) 1690. First and Only Edition. Title within dbl. lined border, pp [2], 5 - 52, 49 - 70, disbound, good. Scarce. Sweeney 2520?. (2)
Interesting American Association: Steffens (Lincoln) John Read Under the Kremlin, sm. 8vo Chicago (Will Ransom for The Walden Book Shop) 1922. Private Press Limited to 235 Copies, uncut, orig. wrappers, with bookplate removed; also by same author Moses in Red, The Revolt of Israel as a Typical Revolution.. 8vo Philadelphia 1926. First Edn., Signed by Louise Bryant, with book label of William C. Bullitt, orig. cloth with decor. label. (1) * John Reed, author & socialist, was married to Louise Bryant. He wrote 'Ten Days that Shook the World,' about the 1917 October Russian Revolution. He died of typhus in 1920, and is the only American to be buried within the walls of the Kremlin. Louise Bryant later married William C. Bullitt,First American Ambassador to Russia in 1933 - 36, and later from 1936 to France. He was credited as having saved Paris from bombing by the Germans. He and Bryant eventually split up acrimoniously, maybe the reason for removing his bookplate from her copy of the Reed Book. Provenance: Both volumes from the estate of Anne Bullitt, only daughter of Bullitt and Bryant. * See Biographical Note before Lot 153.
The Old Lady Says No?Yeats (W.B.). A copy of Rann, an Ulster Quarterly of Poetry, Autumn 1948, containing first publication of Yeats' poem 'Reprisals', written on the death of Lady Gregory's son Robert, 1918, but withheld at that time at her request, probably because she did not like the passage about 'half-drunk or whole-mad soldiery / are murdering your tenants there .. / Then close your ears with dust and lie / Among the other cheated dead.' A fine copy. Scarce. (1)
[Collins (Anthony)] A Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion. In Two Parts, 8vo Lond. 1724. First Edn., LXII [6] 284pp cont. calf, sm. tooled gilt border, raised bands; The Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered; Considered in a View of the Controversy, Occasioned by a [his] late Book... 8vo L. 1727. First Edn., XVI, 460pp cont. calf, dble gilt filet borders, raised bands, recent mor. label. Good copies. (2)
Heaney (Seamus) The Redress of Poetry - An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 24 October 1989, pamphlet, Oxford (Claredon Press) 1990, Signed, ptd. wrappers; Room to Rhyme, 4to Dundee (University of Dundee) 2004 ptd. boards; Vendler (Helen) Seamus Heaney, 8vo, Massachusetts (Harvard University Press) 1998, First, cloth backed boards, d.j. As a lot. (3)
O'Brien (Rev. Paul) A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language, 8vo D. (H. Fitzpatrick) 1809, First, hf. title, fold. plt., hf. calf, gilt lettered and decor. spine; Anderson (C.) Historical Sketches of the Native Irish and their Descendants - with Regard to Literature, Education and Oral Instruction, 8vo, Edinburgh (Oliver & Boyd) 1830, hf. title, dedit., advert leaf at end, boards. (2)
The Editor's Copy [Berkeley] Luce (A.A.) Editor. Philosophical Commentaries generally called the Commonplace Book - George Berkeley Bishop of Cloyne, Sm. folio L. (T. Nelson & Sons) 1944. First Edn., frontis cloth, & orig. d.w. (1) * Formerly the property of George H. Thomas, but now with a presentation inscription [to Prof. David Berman] by A.A. Luce & signed by him.
English Gardens etc: Warwick (Countess of,) An Old English Garden, lg. folio L. 1898. Presentation Copy inscribed by Author. Frontis & plts. uncut, orig. buckram, gilt decor.; Robinson (Wm.) Gravetye Manor or Twenty Years Work Round an Old Manor House, lg. folio L. 1911. First Edn., hf. title, plts. & other illus., uncut, orig. cloth; Willmott (E.) Warley Garden in Spring and Summer, lg. folio L. 1909. First Edn., hf. title, 40 full page plts., cloth backed boards. (3)
Signed by the AuthorMcGahern (John) Getting Through, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1978, First, Signed on t.p., cloth and d.j.; Amongst Women, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1990, First, Signed on t.p., cloth and d.j.; Memoir, 8vo, First, L. (Faber & Faber) 2005, Signed on t.p., boards, d.j., Clean Copies. (3)
'Just a Lad of Eighteen Summers ..'Kevin Barry [1902-1920] His personal Crucifix and Scapular, in an inscribed envelope signed by Kathleen McKenna [an assistant on the Irish Bulletin], stating they were given to Sean McKeon on November 2nd 1920 after Vespers and prayers for Barry's immortal soul. The hand-sewn scapular much worn, its ribbon in pieces, the crucifix in good condition. [The Scapular, worn by Catholics suspended from the shoulders, is a silent prayer that shows one's dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary].Kevin Barry, a medical student in Dublin, joined the Volunteers in October 1917. He was arrested on 20 September 1920, reportedly with a pistol, after an engagement in which three British soldiers (one of them slightly younger than Barry) were killed. He was sentenced to death, and in spite of appeals for clemency, was hanged in Mountjoy Jail on 1 November (All Saints Day), the first Volunteer to be executed since the aftermath of the Rising. He died on the day of Terence MacSwiney's funeral in Cork, the two events causing massive international publicity which greatly damaged the British cause in Ireland.A personal and religious memento of great significance. (1)
Co. Kilkenny: Tighe (Wm.) Statistical Observations Relative to the County of Kilkenny, 8vo D. 1802, First Edn., some fold. maps & plts. cont., hf. calf; Ryland (Rev. R.H.) The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford, 8vo L. 1824, First Edn. Lg. fold. cold. map frontis, 6 engd. plts. & maps, mostly lg. fold. hf. mor. worn. As a coll of maps & plts. (2)
The Spanish Civil WarO'Donnell (Peadar) Islanders, 8vo L. 1929. With Pres. Inscription 'To Jim O'Beirne whose freedom I feel (?) & mind I envy," orig. cloth, upr. joint cracked, stained; and, Thomas (Hugh) The Spanish Civil War, 8vo L. 1961 cloth & d.w.* Pres. Inscription to Kevin P. O'Leary (ex. Legionairo) 15th Bandera El Tercio ("C" Compania), Signed by 'Caceres Ex Fremadura Espana 1936/1937'. It also lists the various engagements O'Leary was involved in during his time in Spain; also Fox (R.M.) Jim Larkin The Rise of the Underman, 8vo L. 1957. First Edn., Signed by James Larkin, Jnr.* Jim O'Beirne fought also with O'Donnell in the Spanish Civil War, a prominent Cork I.R.A. member, he was attached to No.1 Cork Brigade. (3)

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