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Click here to subscribeDickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities. Chapman & Hall, 1859, first edition, early issue; p134 line 12 'affectionately'; p213 numbered correctly. PP:viii, 254, plus 16 plates (including frontis and extra engraved title). Bound without the list of plates and adverts. Cont. full calf; rubbed and with tears to sides of spine. Small tear to margin of one plate; one gathering little loose. Occasional light foxing, on the whole clean and with clean plates.
Science: 1- NIGHTINGALE, Florence: Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not. L, Harrison, nd, (1860), first edition, early issue. with '[The right of translation is reserved]' at the base of the title page, and illustrated end-papers bearing advertisements for Burkes' Peerage for 1860, The Foreign Office List for 1860 and Anthems for Parish Choirs. PP:(iv), 79, (i)blank, Plus the printed yellow endpapers. p. 20 margin: 'Why must children have measles, &c.'; p. 40 line 23 'arrow root'; p. 44 Line 22. 'chesnuts'. Original dark brown stipple grained, embossed limp cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover. Covers rubbed, corners and foot of spine chipped, with small loss ; 2- Smiles, S: Lives of the Engineers, 5 vols. 1874; Plus 4 others: Crocker: The Elements of Land Surveying. (1817), folding colour frontis Plan and 14 plates; Child: Water finding and the divining rod (so-called), 1902; The secret instrument: (the birth of the midwifery forceps). 1947, 1st. Dw; Comic Arithmetic. Bentley, 1844, 1st. With numerous comic illustrations; Plus Three others (11)
MANUSCRIPT: S H A H (Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey), 1846-1946: A manuscript volume, 291 numbered pages: the first 18 pages are Sermons, and the rest his Journal/Diary mainly written while in Bury St. Edmunds (1871-1906). Also includes tipped-in appointments (with the Bishop’s seal)- of Rev. John Frederick Arthur Hervey, when ordained as priest, etc. Plus a tipped in 3pp autograph letter signed, from Charles Heathcote, Florys, Wimbledon Park, July 11th to the Lord Bishop of Bath & Wells (Arthur Charles Hervey) with reference to Heathcote’s brother being deprived by Alfred Lyttelton of his position as Amateur Champion of Tennis. Large 4to. cont. full leather
NIGHTINGALE, Florence: Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not. L, Harrison, nd, (1860), first edition, early issue. with '[The right of translation is reserved]' at the base of the title page, and illustrated end-papers bearing advertisements for Burkes' Peerage for 1860, The Foreign Office List for 1860 and Anthems for Parish Choirs. PP:(iv), 79, (i)blank, Plus the printed yellow endpapers. p. 20 margin 'Why must children have measles, &c.'; p. 40 line 23 'arrow root'; p. 44 Line 22. 'chesnuts'. Original dark brown stipple grained, embossed card cloth with Gilt lettering to upper cover. Very good unrestored state
BIBLE: 1542, Latin Vulgate Bible: Biblia Sacra. Printed by Gaspar Trechsel, Vienna. Lugduni (Lyons) , Apud Hugonem à Porta, 1542 . PP:(viii) including title, 1-400 (end of old Testament), 401-500, + 4 (All in leaves). Lacking 2 leaves: 247 and 248; some misnumbering of pages. Later full vellum and new endpapers; Title page frayed and repaired; ink notes and underlining (mainly in the first few pages)
1- [Seckford's Alms-House] LODER, Robert: statutes and ordinances for the government of the alms-houses in Woodbridge , in the county of Suffolk, founded by Thomas Seckford. collected and published by Robert Loder. Woodbridge, the editor, 1792, 1st and only edn. 4to. PP:Frontis Portrait of Seckford, a tipped-in engraving of: Seckford's Alms Houses, Woodbridge (Trimmed and pasted to another paper), title, (i)blank, (ii)Preface & Subscribers list( only 99 copies printed and 25 of those went to the London bookseller Nichols), Folding Genealogical table, X, 24, (ii), 7, (i), Plus a folding Coloured Plan of the estate (THE TITLE CALLS FOR 4 PLATES). Later half leather with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettered leather label to upper cover. The copy is interleafed throughout. VG; 2- Pearce, Robert: The Charities of St. Giles Without Cripplegate in the City of London. J. W. Woodley, Printer, 1882, 1st edn. Large 4to. PP:xi, 310 (includes 46 colour plans, two folding). Original cloth. Light damp staining to first few pages and couple of the plans . Also loosely inserted 3pp (Vestry Meeting, 26th June, 1901), and 8pp (Church & Charity accounts, 1900-01) (2)
Colvin Smith RSA (1795-1875) PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT (1771-1832), HALF LENGTH, IN A BLACK COAT Oil on canvas 76 x 63cm Literature: Francis Russell, ‘The Portraits of Sir Walter Scott’, 1987. Smith is best known for his portraits of Scott, the first of which was painted in 1828 for Lord-Chief-Commissioner William Adam. He was commissioned to produce a number of replicas, mostly for friends of the sitter – and the artist records that 'for seven of these Scott gave me one sitting each'. Russell writes that the number of replicas is 'the most striking confirmation of its merits'. Provenance: Christie's, 11 July 1997, lot 22.
A cased brass and lacquered 'Jena' microscope, first quarter of the 20th century, by Carl Zeiss, no. 81528, 38cm high, presented with various lenses, an 'Achromat Kondensor', a 'Bitukni' binocular attachment and user manuals, also with various accessories and slides, and with a series of receipts from the 1920s from J Young & Sons of Leicester (qty.)
[King, Thomas] Furniture Designer: The Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, in New Designs, Practically Arranged, on 72 Plates, containing 227 designs. L, T King, 1829, first edition (price £2.). All 72 plates present (18 are hand-coloured). 4to. PP: (original wrapper trimmed and mounted to front blank endpaper), (vi) Title, address & alphabetical contents, Plus the plates. Later half leather. Former owner’s name(an upholsterer in Bath) to the address and contents pages; occasional foxing and a few pin holes to first 23 pages (hardly visible). Very Scarce
Dickens, C: A collection of First Editions: 1- A Tale of Two Cities. THIS VOLUME WITHDRAWN; 2- Christmas Books. Chapman & Hall, 1852, 1st. Collected edition. Rebound in later cloth and new endpapers; 3- Mystery Of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, 1870, 1st. Edn. PP:vii, (I), 190, plus a Portrait, vignette title and 12 plates. Cont. half leather; rubbed and with cuts to spine; 4- Another copy, 1st. Edn. Original brown cloth, recased with the original endpapers, the front wrapper from one of the monthly instalments pasted to front blank endpaper; 5- Master Humphrey's Clock, in 3 vols. Chapman and Hall 1840-1841, 1st. Edn. original cloth; 6- The Chimes. Two editions: 1845, 6th. Edn. and 1886 edition (recased); 7- The Battle of Life, Bradbury and Evans, 1846, 1st. Edn. later state. 1/2 title and 2pp adverts present. Original cloth, Rebacked with the original spine and endpapers plus new endpapers; 8- The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. Bradbury and Evans, 1848, 1st. Edn. later state. PP:(ii) adverts, (ii) title, Frontis, vignette title page, (iv), 188. Original cloth, recased preserving the original covers and yellow endpapers; 9- Eckel, J C: The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values. 1913, Signed Limited edn. #154/250. Vellum backed boards PLUS three vols. of A Christmas Carol (16)
1- Wordsworth, W: The Poetical Works, in 4 volumes; Plus extra volume 5: Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems vols 1-4: Longman, etc. 1832, new edn. volume 5: 1835, first edition, with Errata slip. Matching cont. full calf with gilt decoration and aeg. Rebacked with the original spines; 2- The New Foundling Hospital for Wit . In 6 Volumes Debrett. 1784, Cont. full calf; small worm holes to the first few pages of vol. 1 ; 3- New Italian, English and French Pocket Dictionary. 3 vols. 1826. Recent half leather over marbled boards. VG; 4- 20 plays bound in one volume ; C1837; 5- 8 plays bound in one volume. C1818 (16)
Doyle, Richard: In Fairyland. A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. With a Poem, by William Allingham. L, Longmans, 1870. First edition, folio, 16 colour plates by Richard Doyle executed by Edmund Evans. Original gilt pictorial publishers green cloth; Recased, retaining the original and with new endpapers; front blank endpaper retained and has an inscription dated Christmas, 1908. All edges gilt. A couple of faint spots to upper cover; occasional foxing.
Williams, Helen Maria: Letters written in France, in the summer 1790, to a friend in England; containing, various anecdotes relative to the French Revolution.. T Cadell, 1790, first edition. PP:Title, 223, (i) blank. BOUND WITH : Three other incomplete but interesting works. Recent full morocco
Four 'Pocket' barometers, the first in a leather case, by Stanley, Grt Turnstile, London, No. 2581, with altimeter, 0-3000 metres, 17.5cm diameter 3cm deep, an Italian example in a brass case, by G De Lorenzi, Udine, inscribed 'Barometro Aneroido', with altimeter, 0-2400 metres, and enamel dish, 15.3cm diameter 1.7cm deep, another by W Watson & Sons Ltd., London in a brass case, with curved thermometer, altimeter,0-10000 feet, 4.5cm diameter 1.7cm deep, and one in a silver-plated case, by the Army & Navy Cooperative Society Ltd., with altimeter 0-10000 feet, 17cm diameter 2.8cm deep (4)
Lady Cullum: AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, consisting of 80 items, c.150 pages of mainly autograph letters Signed, 1838-1872. Highlights include: Richard M(onckton) Milnes (made Baron Houghton in 1863): 'The fifteenth of December 1840' a poem. 2pp. signed: Paris, Jan. 1841; Edward Hogg; Mr. Jekyll (3pp, 1841. 'Country office, Spring Gardner'); Frederick Henry Turner Barnwell (2 letters, one signed F.H.T.B); Tasmania, F. R. (Francis Russell Nixon- first Bishop of Tasmania) 2PP. 1842; Sir Frederick Pollock (Lord chief Baron); Fitzgerald Gambier (Son of Sir James Gambier); William Bodham Donne (2 letters, 3pp & 4pp); Charles Waterton 'Admiral Hosier’s Ghost' transcribed from memory by Charles Waterton for Sir Thomas Cullum Baronet. 1854, 4pp neatly written; Donaldson, J W, 1832; Edwin Sidney, Lady Cullum’s Poet Laureate! (8 letters between 2 and 4 pages each, 1872-72); Rev. H. Percy Smith, Barton Vicarage, 1873 (a 3 page letter & 4 page poem signed with initials). Full morocco binding gilt and aeg, and with a lock
WELBY, Adlard: A Visit to North America and the English settlements in Illinois… L, Drury, 1821. First edition. PP:xii, 224, (i)Errata & direction to binder; Plus 14 Plates (including Frontis). Later marbled boards with gilt lettered leather label and new endpapers. One page creased in the middle; occasional light foxing
FLEMING, Ian: 1- Moonraker. Cape, 1955, first edition. Original boards with silver lettering to upper cover and spine; 2- The Man With The Golden Gun. Cape, 1965, first edition with dust jacket ((18s.), VG; 3- Kingsley Amis: The James Bond Dossier. Cape, 1965, 1 st . edn. with dust jacket, VG. (3)
THEOLOGY: 1- Marchant, Jacob: Hortus pastorum et concionatorum... Paris, G Alliot, 1638. 880pp; Bound With : Candelabrum Mysticum... Paris, 1638. 369pp. Full leather, rubbed and cut; hinges cracked Ex-Libra, with small stamp to verso of first title; 2- Van Espen, B: Jus Ecclesiasticum Universum.. Coloniae, W Metternich, 1715. Folio, 1154pp. cont. full blindstamped vellum; browned; few scattered worm holes; title trimmed at top; 3- Claus, Josephus-Ignatius: Spicilegium Catechetico-Concionatorium, 3 vols. Venice, Typographia Balleoniana, Vols 1&2: 1746; Vol. 3: 1769. PP:622; 631; 443. Cont. full leather; slight variation in gilt decoration to spines; little rubbed; 4- Thenhaven, B: Nucleus Theologiae Canonico-Moralis.. Coesfeld, Haustaett, 1726. 544pp. Full speckled calf; 5- Bonifacii, J: De divae virginis Mariae. Vita et miraculis. Libri V. Cologne, B. Gualteri, 1610. 836pp. Blindstamped vellum; lacking clasps and with tears (7)
Bowdich, T. Edward: Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee.. L, John Murray, 1819, first edition, 4to. PP:viii (no ½ title), (ii)direction to binder & Glossary, 512; Plus Two Maps (one folding), folding engraved Arabic circular plate, Seven hand coloured aquatint plates (two folding, including a large folding panorama), wood-engraved 'Ichnographical Sketch', and three leaves of engraved music. Half leather and marbled boards, rebacked with the original spine. Title page and Introduction page creased; occasional foxing and some offsetting
WELLS, H G: 1- The War of the Worlds. Heinemann, 1898, 1st. edn. first or very early state, bound in the publishers grey cloth with lettering to upper cover and spine in black, And the publishers monogram in black to rear cover. PP:viii, 303, (I). No adverts. Covers rubbed and corners bumped, spine darkened; title and facing page of advert with dark offsetting stain across to middle of the pages; small stain to page viii (contents); 2- The Invisible Man. Pearson, 1897, first edition, first issue, with the first page of text misnumbered '2'. PP:(ii)blank, (ii)1/2 title & advert, (ii)title & blank, vii-viii(contents), 245, (ii)adverts. Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, and a black pictorial invisible man! To upper cover. Covers rubbed, name and date '1897' to 1/2 title; the stitching is generally a little loose, more so in the first gathering; 3- The War in the Air. George, 1908, first edition, first issue. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. 16 plates, as called for. PP:vii, (I), 389, (I), (ii)adverts. Covers rubbed, a few pages roughly opened, occasional foxing; 4- The War in the Air. Another copy, 1908, 1st. Edn. 2nd issue with a colour version of the frontispiece onlaid to the front board. 16 plates. Covers rubbed and spine darkened; inner hinges cracked, inscription to front endpaper; 5- The Wheels of Chance. Dent, Jan, 1898, 3rd. Edn. original gilt pictorial red covers. Stain to covers, spine darkened. Bookplate to front pastedown; 6- Kipps, the story of a Simple Soul. Macmillan, 1905, 1st. Edn. (6)
1- KORAN : THE ALCORAN OF MAHOMET, translated out of Arabique into French, by the Sieur Du Ryer… and newly Englished. London, 1649, first edition , BOUND WITH : 'A Needfull Caveat of Admonition…' written by Alexander Ross. Pagination: A8 a4 B-Cc8 Dd-Ff4 [-Ff4, blank]. Full leather and later spine with gilt lettered label and extra endpapers. Toning and a light damp stain to bottom margins; few ink notes in the margin and few underlinings; 2- Prideaux, Humphrey: The True nature of imposture fully display'd in the life of Mahomet. For E Curill, 1723, 8th. edn. PP:xvi, 260. Cont. calf; hinges cracked and lacking endpapers (2)
Belcher, Captain Sir Edward: The Last of the Arctic Voyages, being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, in search of Sir John Franklin, during the years 1852-53-54.. in 2 volumes. L, Lovell Reeve, 1855, first editions. PP:xx, 383, (3-24) Publisher's catalogue; vii, 419. With 4 charts (2 in the pocket), plus 36 plates (many hand coloured). Original gilt pictorial cloth; spines cut and chipped (2)
Four pocket barometers, the first, silver with altimeter 1000 - 10000 feet, 4.9cm diameter, the second brass cased with altimeter 0-15000 feet by 'J Hicks, Maker, London 8566,' with curved thermometer, 5cm diameter. the third a plain aneroid, 4.7cm diameter, and the fourth in a brass case, with altimeter, 0-10000 feet, by Negretti & Zambra London, no. 4237, 14.7cm diameter, each in leather case (4)
A reverse painted glass roundel depicting the schooner 'Cambria', 19th century, titled 'The Cambria Winning The Atlantic Ocean Race, 1870', within a gilt frame with beaded and leaf borders, a red velvet border, all within an ebonised glazed case, case 19.5cm The Cambria was comissioned by James Lloyd Ashbury, a contemporary politician and owner of a railway rolling stock manufacturer. The Cambria was the first challenge to the New York Yacht Club in the America's Cup.
Perckhammer, Heinz von: Edle Nacktheit in China. Eigenbrodler-Verlag, 1928, first edition, Stiff boards and with dust jacket. 32 black and white photographs. Text in German. Beautiful example of this scarce investigation into the Chinese nude. A small tear to the foot of the dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy
MANUSCRIPT: Olive, Princess of Cumberland (Olivia Serres, 1772-1834): A 38 page manuscript: Original Poems by Princess Olive, 1829. Each poem signed 'Olive' . The first page is headed with 'Original Poetry by Princess Olive', and the first one: 'To the Revd. Rowland Hill' and the last one signed and dated: London July 12, 1829. Bound in cont. full leather gilt, with later spine. Two papers pasted to front endpaper: 1- A hand-written note: 'The red book which you will find was once the lamented Princess Charlotte Coburg, her book' and signed GJ?; 2- A two page printed flyer: 'The Princess Olive of Cumberland to the English Nation, August 1st. 1829'. Olivia Serres was a British painter and writer. She is also known as an English impostor, who claimed the title of Princess Olive of Cumberland
1- Canning, George: Poems. 1767. Dedication page Signed by Canning ; BOUND WITH : Translation of Anti-Lucretius. 1766, Dedication page Signed by Canning. Both Printed for the Author & sold by Dodsley.. First and only editions. 4to. PP:(iv), (iii), (i)b, 91, (i)b; (iv), (i), (i)b, (ii)Preface, (ii), 428. Cont. full leather; rubbed and upper cover detached; 2- Felltham, Owen: Resolves, A Duple Century. H Seile, 1634, 5th edn. PP(vi), 448, + Alphabetical Table. Old calf; rubbed; manuscript notes to endpapers and verso of title; 3- Fenelon; John Hawkesworth: Adventures of Telemachus the son of Ulysses. Strahan, 1768, 1 st . thus. 4to. PP: xxxv (including subscribers’ list), (i) Errata, 462. with head and tail pieces. Cont. full polished calf & later spine; 4- [Fielding, S]: Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia . Printed for the author and sold by A. Millar, 1757, 1st edn. PP:(xii) including subscribers’ list, 219, (i)b. 4to. Cont. full calf and later spine; damp stain to first few pages; 5- Fielding, H: History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews; in 2 vols. A. Millar, 1749. With 11 plates only of 12? Cont. full calf; with later spine; v.2 P111/112 torn with loss of last 4 lines; 6- Somervile, W: The Chace. Bowyer, 1767. with 8 plates; Bound With : Hobbinol. 1768. Full calf and later spine. (7)
BINDING: Bentley’s Miscellany. Vols. 1-10. ( Ed. BOZ. (Charles Dickens) till 1839, later by Harrison Ainsworth). R Bentley, 1837-1841. Contains the first appearance of Oliver Twist (1837-39); plus works by Thackeray, Longfellow and Poe. Vols. 1-6 in cont. full calf, and 7-10 in half leather. Little rubbed (10)
(DENMARK): Saxo Grammaticus. Historiae Danicae Libri XVI. Ed. S.J. Stephani. Soroe, J. Moltkenius, 1644, PP:(viii) include title-page supplied in manuscript , 384, (xxii). BOUND WITH : Stephanius, S.J: Notae Uberiores in Historiam Danicam Saxonis Grammatici . Soroe, H. Crusius, 1645. PP:60, 252, (xxii). With many illustrations in the text, including a couple of full page and few half page ones. Folio, Later half leather; damp staining throughout; few manuscript notes in margins; small tear to one page, without loss. Other than the first title-page, the above collation is exact
A good quality ceramic hand painted jar with corked top, approximate height 12 cm, including cork and a paper back book, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, illustrated Axcel Scheffler, first published in 1999, part of the book prize Gold Award Winner [2], Est £20 - £40. This lot must be paid for and collected (or despatched) no later than close of business on Tuesday
A SILVER BRACELET BY GEORG JENSEN, composed of a continuous row of marquise-shaped links with chain connections, numbered 106, with maker's mark for 'Georg Jensen, since 1945', length approx. 18.3cmGeorg Jensen was born in Copenhagen in 1866. He began his training in goldsmithing at the tender age of just 14, although the young Jensen had always longed to be a sculptor. He had an opportunity to fulfil this dream when in 1884, after completing his apprenticeship, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. However, work as an artist proved unfruitful and after the death of his wife, even after trying his hand at modelling work at a local porcelain factory, Jensen was unable to support his two young sons.As a result, Jensen turned to silversmithing in 1901 and worked with the master, Mogens Ballin. In 1904, Jensen opened his own smithy in Copenhagen. His unique combination of skills and training inspired Jensen to create innovative pieces whose quality and beauty guaranteed the success that would become associated with the name Georg Jensen. Jensen’s style was exemplary of a continued burgeoning enthusiasm in Denmark for a Japanese manner of art, stemming from increased trade during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This style was decidedly un-classical, marked by an observation of nature and stylisation of motifs, both of which would lend themselves to the Art Nouveau style that Jensen was known for. By the end of the 1920s, Jensen had new stores in London, New York and Berlin. He left a legacy in design that would become internationally recognised and would guarantee his as a household name for over 100 years to come.Some of the brooches at auction are the work of Arno Malinowski, a Danish sculptor who began working for Jensen in the 1930’s. Malinowski’s designs pay deep respect to Jensen’s Art Nouveau style, setting sinuous natural forms within geometric frames, and using coloured enamel to recall Jensen’s early twentieth century use stones. The silver bracelet was designed by Nanna Ditzel for Georg Jensen in the 1970’s. She was renowned for her avant-garde attitude, fast becoming a leading figure in the regeneration of Danish design and the first woman to design for Jensen in 1954.
DANBURY MINT TOWER OF LONDON 900TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE EDITION COMPRISING AN ENLARGED PROOF SILVER REPLICA STAMP, 73 GRAMS, CASED, FIRST DAY COVER, 1ST MINIATURE SHEET, AND A C OF A NO. Q303 1ST MARCH 1978, SILVER JUBILEE TOWER EDITION PROOF SILVER STAMP, 93.5 GRAMS, CASED, AND FOUR FDC'S WITH C OF A, EGYPTIAN FDC COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL CONGRES BOTON, LE BAIRE - AVRIL 1948, CHURCHILL COVER, 8 JUL 1965, CONCORDE 3 MAR 1969 (4), OTHER COVERS TILL 1980 (52) AND STAMPS OF THE WORLD (A LOT)
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