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Click here to subscribe[HUNTING]. Watson, J.N.P. Lionel Edwards, Master of the Sporting Scene, first edition, The Sportsman's Press, London, 1986, boards, dustjacket, colour and black and white illustrations throughout, quarto; Edwards, Lionel. Sketches in Stable and Kennel, reprint, Putnam & Company, London, 1949, tan cloth, twelve colour plate and further black and white illustrations, quarto; and five items of verse illustrated by Lionel Edwards, (7).
[EQUINE] Fisher, Arthur. Master Toby's Hunt, or the Precocious Nimrod, first edition, Country Life, London, 1934, yellow cloth, full-page and vignette illustrations by Frank Hart, quarto; Charlton, Moyra. Three White Stockings, reprint, Putnam, London, 1934, cloth, dustjacket with pictorial onlay, colour frontispiece and six black and white plate illustrations by Gilbert Holiday (one detached), small quarto; Cumming, Primrose. Silver Eagle Carries On, reprint, Black, London, 1957, boards, dustjacket, full-page illustrations by Cecil Trew, octavo; and forty-three other works, (46).
[EQUINE] Jelf, Wilfrid. Sport in Silhouette, first edition, Country Life, London, 1933, red cloth-backed boards with onlaid title label, frontispiece and a further twelve plate illustrations (two detached), quarto; Weir, Capt. Robert, & Brown, J. Moray. Riding & Polo [Badminton Library], second edition, Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1891, pictorial brown cloth, plate and vignette illustrations, octavo; and five other works, (7).
[EQUINE] Peter Biegel's Racing Pictures, Joseph, London, 1983, quarter leather, illustrations throughout, oblong quarto, in slipcase (covers damp marked); Jones, Michael Wynn. The Derby. A celebration of the world's most famous horse race, first edition, Croom Helm, London, 1979, boards, dustjacket, octavo; and thirteen other works, (15).
[HUNTING] Whitehead, G. Kenneth. The Deer of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1964, crimson cloth, dustjacket, black and white plate illustrations from photographs, maps, small quarto; Hope, Brig.-Gen. J.F.R. A History of Hunting in Hampshire, first edition, The Wykeham Press, Winchester, 1950, blue cloth, black and white plate illustrations, octavo (upper cover with label scars); and six other works, (8).
A Queen's South Africa Medal with Four Bars, awarded to DVT J.Porter RBTY RHA numbered 71719, the four bars to include Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Paardeberg and Relief of Kimberley, together with his brothers First World War medal pair awarded to Private W.A.Porter and various associated medallions and paperwork
Led Zeppelin II - (Atlantic 588 198), Stereo; An early first pressing of one of Led Zeppelin's rarest pressings - light brown E. J. Day sleeve, plum Atlantic label with Side 1 miscredit 'Lemon Song' (later changed to 'Killing Floor'), and Side 2 'Livin Lovin Wreck' (later changed to 'Maid'), Copyright Control and produced by Jimmy Page in plum section (name in blue ink to front sleeve and replaced inner sleeve) - otherwise a good chance to obtain an early pressing.
Vanilla Fudge - A Great Collection of Their First Five LP's, to include 'Vanilla Fudge', 1967, stereo, Atlantic plum label, A1/B1 matrix; 'Beat Goes On', 1968, stereo, Atlantic plum label, A1/B1 matrix; 'Renaissance' 1968, Mono, Atlantic plum, A1/B1; 'Near The Beginning', 1969, stereo, Atco, A1/B1; 'Rock Roll', 1969, stereo, Atco, A1?B1. (5)
Def Leppard a Good Copy of the Rare 'Ride Into The Sun' EP, original red 'Bludgeon Riffola' label, SRTS/78/CUS/232 matrix (the bands 1st EP, recorded November 1978); comes complete with lyric inner sheet (only given with a small portion of the first batch of the initial run of 1000 pressings) and fully signed on the rear outer sleeve this lot also comes with press photocopy extracts showing the vendor and provenance.
TWO ZSOLNAY PECS POTTERY EWERSthe first of baluster form, with trumpet neck, with raised, textured, yellow glaze, the body decorated with three loops (one damaged), the handle with similar loops, with impressed marks to base, 32cm high; the second of shaped, bulbous form, with trumpet neck, with raised, textured, turquoise glaze, the body decorated with three arches, with impressed marks to base, and a sticker for Ernst Wahliss, 30cm high (damages)
[TRANSPORT]. RAILWAY Twenty-nine books, including Rowland, Don. British Railways Wagons, the first half million, Leopard, London, 1996, pictorial boards, dustjacket, illustrations, small quarto; and Baker, Michael. The Waterloo to Weymouth Line, first edition, Patrick Stephens, Wellingborough, 1987, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, small quarto.
[TRANSPORT]. RAILWAY & BUSES Thirty-eight books, including Vaughan, Adrian. A Pictorial Record of Great Western Architecture, reprint, Oxford Publishing Co., Sparkford, 1991, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; Gough, Terry. Southern Railway Reflections: The London Area, first edition, Silver Link Publishing Ltd, Kettering, 2005, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto; and Arlett, Mike, & Peters, Ivo. Steam Around Bath, first edition, Millstream Books, Bath, 1987, boards, dustjacket, illustrations, quarto.
Palmer (Samuel, 1805-1881). Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep, 1850, (Lister E4), etching on pale cream wove paper, the 4th state (of 5), with printed title to lower margin '"Christmas" From Bampfylde's Sonnet', plate size 124 x 102 mm (4.9 x 4 ins), sheet size 290 x 210 mm (11.4 x 8.25 ins), as issued in (and included with) Samuel Palmer, A Memoir by A.H. Palmer, Fine Art Society, 1882, some scattered spotting to text, original morocco-backed cloth gilt, heavily rubbed and scuffed to spine, with some wear to joints, 4to (30 x 22.5 cm) Provenance: George Richmond (1809-1896); thence by descent. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to front pastedown 'George Richmond Esq. R.A. with A.H. Palmer's kind regards 1 May 1882', with subsequent inscription below 'Anthony W. Richmond - May 1922 from Daddy'. With two autograph letters signed by A.H. Palmer to George Richmond loosely inserted, relating to this publication, dated 16 September 1881 and November 14, 1883. The earlier letter refers to A.H. Palmer's preparations for the book, and for a future edition of Samuel Palmer's letters, requesting the use of any that George Richmond may have in his possession, and also asking if he owns any of Samuel Palmer's original work for the forthcoming Palmer exhibition to be held at the Fine Art Society in London in the autumn of 1882. The letter is written on 4 sides of a single folded sheet, and finishes in mid-sentence on the last page, indicating that a further leaf is missing. The second letter thanks George Richmond for his kind comments on the published Memoir, referring with approval to the publisher Richmond Seeley, 'a man of unusually refined literary & artistic taste'. He also asks for George Richmond's further assistance in describing the early period of Samuel Palmer's life involving William Blake and Shoreham, which he intends to publish as the opening part of the life and letters of Palmer [published in 1892], proposing 'to call upon you some morning that I might read you what I have written; & that you might kindly correct the errors of ignorance, with any further information you might think advisable, about those delightful old days.' The volume also includes a pencil annotation to the first page of text by George Richmond, giving the name of Samuel Palmer's nurse (Mary Ward), whose love of the bible and Paradise Lost was an important early influence on the artist. An important association copy of this work. (4)
*Rowlandson (Thomas, 1756-1827). Easter Monday or the Cockney Hunt, published July 14th, 1811, etching with contemporary hand colouring, 345 x 245 mm, BM 10813, together with A Mistake at New-Market, or Sport and Piety, published Thos, Tegg, 1807, etching with contemporary hand colouring, some mount staining, 245 x 335 mm, BM 10920 Two sporting caricatures. The first shows an elderly gentleman about to part company from his horse with a hunting 'Diana' boldly clearing the jump and laughing at her companions predicament. The second shows an elderly Methodist woman talking at cross-purposes with a jockey outside a pub in Newmarket. (2)
*Ostade (Adriaen van, 1610-1685). The Quacksalver, 1648, etching on laid paper, a good impression of the fifth state of nine, trimmed just outside the margins to left, right and bottom edge, plate size 148 x 222 mm (5.8 x 4.8 ins), sheet size 152 x 124 mm (6 x 4.9 ins), hinge- mounted on old card, together with Flemish School. Landscape with village amongst trees, late 16th century, engraving on laid paper, possibly by the Master of the Small Landscapes, first issued in Antwerp by Hieronymus Cock in 1559, unwatermarked, trimmed to plate margins, plate size 137 x 199 mm (5.39 x 7.83 ins), mounted, plus Sadeler (Egidius II, 1570-1629). The Good Samaritan, copper engraving on laid paper, after Jan Breughel (1568/69-1625), published by Jan van Londerseel, plate size 137 x 199 mm (5.39 x 7.83 ins), and another similar by Sadeler after Breughel the Elder, showing a riverscape with the Good Samaritan by a tree, tending to the victim's wounds, published by Jan van Londerseel, plate size 216 x 270 mm (8.5 x 10.6 ins), sheet size 255 x 340 mm (10 x 13.4 ins) (the latter two prints both early copies in reverse, see Hollstein 212) (4)
*Schutz (H.). Views of London:- Entrance of Tottenham Court Road Turnpike..., Entrance of Oxford Street or Tyburn Turnpike..., Entrance from Mile End or White Chaple Turnpike [and] Entrance from Hackney or Cambridge Heath Turnpike, numbers 3, 4, 5, & 6, circa 1810, four aquatints after Thomas Rowlandson, contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 330 x 420 mm, mounted, framed and glazed Four from the series of six. The first two were by and after Dagaty. (4)
Raverat (Gwen, 1885-1957). An album of 145 wood engravings by Gwen Raverat, 1909-28, compiled by the artist as a personal record of her work, containing 145 wood engravings, of which 80 are signed in pencil, many also titled in pencil, name and address in the South of France in pencil to front pastedown (in the artist's hand): Gwendolen Raverat, Villa Adele, Vence, Alpes Maritimes, with additional pencil note on loosely inserted sheet of paper 'In order up to 147 according to catalogue in Book I. But numbers on pages wrong', all mounted on album leaves, with titles and dates in the artist's hand in pencil to lower margin, various sizes, the largest measuring 23 x 33 cm (9 x 13 ins), the smallest 3.5 x 4 cm (1.4 x 1.6 ins), original plain cream cloth, slightly rubbed and some light soiling, folio (33 x 26 cm) Provenance: Estate of the artist, thence by descent. This album is one of several which were carefully compiled by Gwen Raverat, two of which have previously been sold through these rooms. A remarkable album of original wood engravings by Gwen Raverat, compiled by the artist as a record of her output between 1909 and 1928, including rare proofs, and many wood engravings not previously available on the market. The collection provides an almost complete survey of the artists output up to 1928, including her first wood engraving The Knight of the Burning Pestle (1909), the early work drawing on the English ballad tradition (such as May Margaret, Fair Annie, Windy Day, Despair, The Marsh, Child Stealers, Nightmare, Cobbled Yard, Annie of Rough Royal, Travellers, Expulsion, Margaret's Ghost, Clark Saunders, The Quarrel, all 1909), others from the years 1910- 12, including Wood-Nymph, Sir Thomas Browne, Anthony & Cleopatra, The Palmer, The Retreat, Flying, Gypsies, King Lear, A Dream, The Creation of Light, Pieta, The Visitation and The Dead Christ. Engravings produced during the First World War include Little Poplars, Man's End, East Lulworth Cove, The Avenue, Hoeing, The Edge of the Wood (numbers 1, 2 & 3), Poplars in France, Nativity, Winter Morning, Elms by Pond, Le Pelvoux, The Goose-Herd, Lost Traveller, Sheep, Sheep by a River, The Farm Pond, Primrose Wood, Boys Bathing, etc. Important examples of the artist's post-war output include Bathsheba (1920), Dancing Boys (1920), Village Street (1920), The Bolshevist Agent (1920) versions 1 and 2, Mountain Road (1921), Eve (1921), views in the south of France, including Olive Pickers (1922), Streets by Moonlight (1922), Bowl Players (1922), La Place en Hiver (1923), The Barber's Shop (1923), La Place en Et‚ (1923), The Town in Summer (1923), Christian Charity (1925), and also the Princess series, including The Princess in the Wood, The Princess Lost, The Princess Bathes, The Prince Hunting, The Princess Followed, The Princess in the Churchyard and The Princess by the Lake (1926-28). The album ends with some of Raverat's best work including Children, The River Bank, The Balcony, The Wild Swans, The Sleepers, Apple Pickers, The Wicked Queen, and The Low Shore. Selborne & Newman, 1-78, 80-85, 87-89, 91-135, 137-147. (1)
*Cox (David, 1783-1859). Near Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales, 1852, watercolour over pencil on pale grey wove paper, signed and dated lower left, sheet size 20.5 x 29.5 cm (8.1 x 11.6 ins), mounted, with early ink title inscription, and label of Henry Graves & Company, 44 Cherry Street, Birmingham, retained One of the artist's favourite locations, Cox first visited 'dear old Bettws'in 1844 and returned almost every year until 1856. The Royal Oak Inn, where he regularly stayed, became a rendez-vous for visiting artists and followers of Cox: 'he sat on the sofa in the parlour of the Royal Oak inn...Here he took his cigar (he smoked no pipe) and his pint of ale, with one or two cronies by his side, willing to listen and willing to teach... it was an intelligent, rational, pleasant evening's amusement, and I have heard French, German, Hungarian, English, and Welsh flowing on like a polyglot stream at the same time in that same dingy parlour.' (Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, page 172). (1)
*@Yeats (Jack Butler, 1871-1957). The Connaught Toast, 1912, ink and watercolour on paper, signed to left margin, additionally inscribed to verso by the artist with title and layout instructions in pencil to verso, additionally inscribed in blue pencil 'Reduce to 4 inches Jack B. Yeats', image size 120 x 164 mm (4.7 x 6.5 ins), sheet size 134 x 191 mm (5.25 x 7.5 ins) The original design for the Cuala Press Broadside no. 2, 5th year, A Connaught Toast, published in July 1912. The first series of the Cuala Press broadsides, each limited to 300 copies, was published in 84 monthly issues between June 1908 and May 1913. See Hilary Pyle, The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats: His Cartoons and Illustrations (1994), 1890, page 261. (1)
*Soper (Eileen Alice, 1905-1990). Girl with Cats on a Step, etching, signed in pencil, plate size 115 x 190 mm (4.5 x 7.5 ins), sheet size 190 x 270 mm (7.5 x 10.6 ins), laid down on card, with glue marks to outer edges, together with Kinney (Troy), Dancing Figure, etching, signed in pencil, plate size 165 x 165 mm (6.5 x 6.5 ins), sheet size 390 x 310 mm (15.3 x 12.2 ins), pale mount stain, plus other various etchings, including Sidney Tushingham, W.H. Sweet, Will Nickless, Charles Sainton, two by E.G. MacColl (1896-1973) of the South Moat, Mandalay, and The Palace, Mandalay, each signed with initials, and one dated 1928, and two views of Dresden by Walter Ernst Zeising (1876-1933) all framed and glazed (except the first two works) (10)
*Gillray (James, 1757-1815). The Union Club, published H. Humphrey, Jany. 21st 1801, engraving with contemporary hand colouring, a litle toned, thread margins. chipping with slight loss to upper margin, 305 x 445 mm, framed and glazed, together with Patriotic Regeneration - viz - Parliament Reform'd a la Francoise - that is - Honest men (i.e. Oppostion) in the Seat of Justice, published H. Humphrey, 1795, engraving with contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to image. crude repair to lower right corner, 310 x 410 mm, mounted, framed and glazed The first print described: BM satires 9699. A debauched and drunken scene showing the principal politicians of the day including Sheridan, Fox, Moira and the Prince of Wales variously drinking, fighting, vomiting and passed out. The second print. BM satires 8624. (2)
*Rowlandson (Thomas, 1756-1827). A French dentist shewing a specimen of his artificial teeth and false palates, published Thomas Tegg, 1811, etching with contemporary hand colouring, thread margins, 225 x 325 mm, together with The Tooth-ache or, Torment & Torture, published John Fairburn, 1823, hand coloured etching, toned overall, 265 x 210 mm Two scarce caricatures on dentistry. The first described shows the French dentist Dubois de Chemant (who introduced porcelain teeth into England) showing a potential customer a set of dentures fitted into the mouth of an extremely obese and ugly female patient. BM 11798. (2)
*Lincoln (Abraham, 1809-1865). Life mask of the beardless Abraham Lincoln, reproduced from the mould by Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895), late 19th century, cast plaster, with open head, weathered with overall dark grey patina, identified in ink to interior, 'Life mask of Abraham Lincoln, taken in Chicago USA in 1860 by Leonard W. Volk', hanging loop, 25 x 21 cm Two life masks were made of Abraham Lincoln, this first one in the spring of 1860 just before he received the Republican nomination for President; the second completed in February 1865 by Clark Mills, and featuring the President with his trademark beard. (1)
*Pyall (Henry, 1795-1833). Two O'Clock in the Morning. Rat - Tat - Tat! Tingle - Tingle - Tingle!! Who are you? (Damm the cats!) What d'ye want young woman hey? Oh Sir - Master begs you'll step over directly as Missus - if you please Sir, is taken bad in a - a - a -!!!, published Thomas McLean, circa 1830, aquatint with contemporary hand colouring, after 'Ego', trimmed to plate mark, slight dust soiling, 330 x 205 mm, together with Bunbury (William), Mutual Accusation, published James Bretherton, 1774, uncoloured etching, thread margins, 235 x 300 mm Two caricatures relating to doctors. The first a satire on the agony of a being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. The second shows two quack doctors having a heated argument in front of their opposing premises. Behind them their wives set about each other and the dispute is echoed by fights between two dogs and a pair of cats. (2)
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![[EQUINE] Fisher, Arthur. Master Toby's Hunt, or the Precocious Nimrod, first edition, Country Life, London, 1934, yellow clot](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/74b9f3c2-b6b2-4ffc-9386-a7fb00aff4f6/280daafd-b433-4e09-ac58-a7fc009b565c/468x382.jpg)
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![[EQUINE] Peter Biegel's Racing Pictures, Joseph, London, 1983, quarter leather, illustrations throughout, oblong quarto, in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/74b9f3c2-b6b2-4ffc-9386-a7fb00aff4f6/e25ef925-2fab-4374-d72a-65da4c15bab4/468x382.jpg)
![[HUNTING] Whitehead, G. Kenneth. The Deer of Great Britain and Ireland, first edition, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1964,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/74b9f3c2-b6b2-4ffc-9386-a7fb00aff4f6/2737405d-312b-4277-9f3b-e794e4b5667a/468x382.jpg)
![Gordon [Thomas]: A Cordial for Low Spirits: Being a Collection of Curious Tracts, printed and sold by R. Griffiths at the Dun](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02c98d7d-e3c7-48de-80cc-a7f600f263bb/c5cfc7ae-d22e-47ff-a078-0b20f9739c1e/468x382.jpg)
![[MISCELLANEOUS] Milne, A.A. The Christopher Robin Story Book, first edition, Methuen & Co., London, 1929, pictorial pale blu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8789d521-c7eb-4811-92f4-a7fa0101a52e/2c7313e2-6dac-484c-9382-03d6a9d2db6e/468x382.jpg)
![[TRANSPORT]. RAILWAY Twenty-nine books, including Rowland, Don. British Railways Wagons, the first half million, Leopard, Lo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8789d521-c7eb-4811-92f4-a7fa0101a52e/454e165c-9ace-4ae3-8b3b-c5eab410cab6/468x382.jpg)
![[TRANSPORT]. RAILWAY & BUSES Thirty-eight books, including Vaughan, Adrian. A Pictorial Record of Great Western Architecture](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8789d521-c7eb-4811-92f4-a7fa0101a52e/5bfae9a5-acb9-4d61-8ac0-281ecf13b418/468x382.jpg)
