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Lot 159
IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE OFFICER’S PAPERS, 11th ARMOURED DIVISION 1941-1945. CAPT. STOCKDALE. This large collection includes, Stockdale’s Intelligence File containing, exercises conducted in 1941/42 one looking at the responses to a German invasion. Also assessments of German Armoured and Airborne forces etc. In addition a “Top Secret” assessment of Market Garden presented at the Staff College, November 1944 with supporting map, together with similar report on the Ardennes battle with some interesting maps. Also substantial “Most Secret” documents on the Tunisian invasion, including plans, hand coloured maps, German tactics etc. Together with very rare original handwritten” war diary log” for First Army Command (Tunisia) c. 100 pp., Also Order of Battle for the Assault. Similar papers dealing with occupation of Norway, includes Orders of Battle added to map and German “reservations and dumps”. In addition maps, numerous letters and his wartime steel document box. Overall a very desirable collection providing both first hand and unique material.
Lot 163
PORTSMOUTH WORLD WAR II DIARIED ARCHIVE. Very detailed collection of Twenty Eight large notebooks detailing the author’s experiences in Portsmouth, including bombing raids, supported by press cuttings etc. This is one of the most detailed accounts we have seen and represents a mine of first hand material covering Portsmouth from 1939-45. Heavy lot.
Lot 195
NORTH RUSSIA OPERATION ARCHANGEL NAVAL DIARY & MEDALS, FREDERICK JONES 22539. Interesting handwritten diary describing in considerable detail his voyage to Archangel/ Murmansk and the actions against the Bolsheviks in 1918 “Our landing party carry out an expedition by rail against Bolsheviks in Armoured cars” His ship is hit by shell fire before the Bolsheviks retire, wounded Officers named, his anger is reflected in comment “ no mercy for them… a bullet is the best treatment” 65pp., (first page missing,) Medals include 1914-15 star, and some from WWII. Interesting collection.
Lot 215
ORIGINAL WWI PANORAMA NO P157 MONT DES CATS, KEMMEL HILL, 24-JULY 1918 FIELD OF VIEW 88 DEGREES. Interesting original panorama from the British trenches looking over the German positions, some of which were captured during the German April Offensive. In the distance are the dominating Kemmel Hill and Mont des Cats, with destroyed villages in the foreground. The first section is a photographic trench map showing the position from which the panorama was taken. c.6 feet in all. A few minor edge wear, else very nice condition. Rare item,
Lot 117
FORD MADOX BROWN A RECORD OF HIS LIFE AND WORKS FIRST EDITION CIRCA 1896 AND SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE, the book was published by Longmans Green and Co and authored by Ford M Hueffer. Gilt tooled decoration to the cover. Some light foxing. Carte de Visite by Ernest Edwards and shows full length image of Ford Madox Brown with inked signature underneath. Accompanied by a small publication on Ford Madox Brown by Helen M Madox Rossetti published in 1902 and a signed Carte de Visite of fellow artist and founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Sir John Everett Millais. Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) was an English artist of moral and historical subjects. His most famous painting was titled “Work”. He was known for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.
Lot 21
RAF PILOTS FLYING LOGBOOK F/LT J.F.L. WOOD. Unusual record in that F/LT Wood includes a four page summary of his first world war flying record (over 400 hours) and then continues with his training with 215 Squadron etc in February 1940,some of it on Wellingtons. The training and other activities continues until May 1945. Also some excellent photographs, some from WWI & a well executed head and shoulders charcoal drawing of him “Woodie” in flying gear dated 1944. A quantity
Lot 265
QUANTITY OF COMPLETE AND PART SETS OF CIGARETTE CARDS, including complete set of Ogdens Smugglers and Smuggling, complete set of Wills Old English Garden Flowers, Wills Arms of the British Empire (set of 50), Wills Flowering Trees and Shrubs, complete set Players Cricketers 1934, complete set Players Ceremonial and Court dress, complete set Wills First Aid, complete set of Wills Wild Flowers, plus others. Single cards including Salmon & Gluckstein Ltd Heroes of the Transvaal War Lieut Gen Chas Tucker, early Players Highland Clans Chisholm and two early Gallaher’s cards of Scottish regimental interest. Various conditions. (Viewing strongly recommended)
Lot 217
ORIGINAL GREAT PHOTOGRAPHS, CONNAUGHT RANGERS TRENCHES WESTERN FRONT. Collection of 9 original photographs originally in the possession of Captain Jourdain, Connaught Rangers) all captioned on reverse, ie Junction of Pelican Avenue and the Old British First Line… 23/11/17, Front line Croiselles Section Nov. 1917 men of 6th Bn The Connaught Rangers etc. all 16 cms x 11cms and in vgc.
Lot 213
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM FIRST AID NURSING YEOMANRY (FANY) 1910-1911. Some very rare early and very good images of this unit in 1910-11, shows female troopers in uniform and on horseback, mouting up in town street, outstanding image of horse drawn ambulance with mounted yeomanry in support, also signalling with full equipment , raising tents, camp site, cooking and preparing tea and cakes!, loading wounded as part of training. Most images full page, others tipped-in 30 photographs in all in album.
Lot 187
FIRST WORLD WAR ORIGINAL MAP SHOWING MOVEMENTS, CAPTURES & HEADQUARTERS OF BRITISH 17TH DIVISION “100 DAYS” CAMPAIGN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER 1918, WESTERN FRONT. Very large folding map c.11 feet x 3.5 feet! (2 joined) showing the stages of the 17th Division’s advances against the Germans, with captures etc, clearly indicated at each stage. No doubt the map was used by the Division HQ Staff and is a very unusual item providing a very effective diagramatic representation. Linen map, rolled. Bulky item.
Lot 142
HISTORICALLY INTERESTING 1914 XMAS TRUCE ACCOUNT, LETTERS, PHOTOS & ACCOUNT OF WAR EXPERIENCES OF SECOND LIEUTENANT HUGH C.BARKER LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE & MACHINE GUN CORPS, this important collection including handwritten account of his war experiences dated October 1915. Also substantial collection of letters from the Western Front from late 1914, through 1915 and with others from 1916 & 1917. It is believed Hugh was transferred to Egypt and Palestine until the end of hostilities. The account provides considerable detail particularly of this early time at the front. After training at Crowborough he arrived on the Western front in November 1914 and was sent straight to the front line at Ploegsteert Wood. He describes in detail nights in the trenches, stand to, shelling and sheer random nature of casualties. Of major historical interest is his full page hand written account of the so called “X-Mas Truce” of 1914, he states that he experiences the carols and banter across the lines on Christmas (X-MAS) eve. He returned to billets and when he comes back to the trenches around 11 am both German and British are strolling around No Mans Land. He describes exchanging cigarettes for cigars from the enemy soldiers and German bodies are collected for burial. He states that the troops involved are Saxons who don’t want to fight their English Friends. First hand written accounts of the Christmas truce of 1914 are very rare and make this collection an outstanding item of historical interest. In addition to the account, the sheer numbers of letters, photographs and other ephemera tell the story of one officers war and his involvement in one of the most notorious acts of humanity seen in one of the bloodiest and inhumane conflicts of the 20th century.
Lot 3653
Willis (Michael), Cookery Made Easy; Being A Complete System of Domestic Management, Uniting Elegance With Economy, To Which Are Added, Instructions for Trussing & Carving, Methods of Curing, first edition, Orlando Hodgson, London [c. 1825] (lacking title-page), xii+216pp, frontispiece engraved by Brooke, four diagrammatic plates, tables, period boards
Lot 3593
Botany - Bishop (Matt), Snowdrops: A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus, first edition, The Griffin Press, Maidenhead 2001, 362pp, hb, dj, scarce; Stern (F.C.), Snowdrops and Snowflakes: A Study of the Genera Galanthus and Leucojum, With two illustrations in colour by E.A. Bowles and one in colour and line drawings by Margaret Stone, The Royal Horticultural Society, London 1956, 128pp; Jackson (Edna), Snowdrops, second impression, S.W. Partridge & Co., London [1903], 102pp (3)
Lot 3659
Botany - an unusual and rare late George III card game, Botanical Pastime, in a Series of Questions & Exemplifications, Calculated to render the first and more uninteresting part of the Study an agreeable Amusement., Printed for Darton, Harvey & Co., Gracechurch Street, [London c. 1813], Price 5s. plain [...] 7s. coloured, the cards measure 11.8cm x 7.6cm, printed pink title-card, 65 cards including introduction, key and 63 playing cards (harlequin numbering, some printed with monochrome botanical illustrations) For a similar example see Toronto Public Library, Record ID 2884022. Little is known of this scarce card game, however what we do know is that the game was advertised in 1813 in B.M. Forster's 'Botanical illustrations of the twenty-four classes in the Linnaean system of vegetables' and was inspired by Priscilla Wakefield's 'An introduction to botany in a series of familiar letters'. Cards are dealt to players with the possessor of card 102 starting the game by asking the question on that card. The player with the appropriate answer reads it aloud, and carries on the game by asking another question found at the bottom of the same card.
Lot 3276
Local Interest - an early 19th century pewter circular inkwell, reputedly given by Florence Nightingale OM (1820-1910) to her maid Jane Brocklehurst, of Lea, Derbyshire, with whom long in service, hinged dome cover lifting to reveal a glass well, five pierced apertures for quills or pens, 12cm diam; an associated Victorian leather-bound photograph album, 32pp mounted with 35 albumen photographic prints mainly shaped quarter-plate sized, depicting Embley Park, house, gardens, park, lodges, gates and estate houses, with several family groups including recipeint posed with her mother and W. Shore Nightingale, also Florence Nightingale with her sister, also Wellow School under construction (thus 1876), St. Margaret's Church, Wellow (where Florence is buried), Broadlands from the lake and of Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, all c. 1870s, the flyleaf inscribed in ms. M G Bratby/Decr 1876/from B L, and first page 'Born Feb 4th 1794/Died Jany 5th 1874, the album 25.5cm x 18.5cm overall, with a typed copy of Mrs. Brocklehurst's obituary and some grave inscriptions. Jane (Ann) Lock was baptised St. James's Piccadilly, in 1829, and entered service with the Shore Nightingale family of Lea, Derbyshire, and Embley Park, Hampshire in her teens and remained with the family, latterly in Derbyshire until her death at Fishpond Farm, Lea, in 1917. She married William Brocklehurst of Winster, later the Lea estate foreman, and had two sons and a daughter. Provenance: By repute, Florence Nightingale OM; presented to Jane Brocklehurst (née Lock) and thence by direct descent to the present vendor. Mrs. Brocklechurst said the inkwell was that taken by Miss Nightinghale to Crimean War. Condition Report: Inkwell lid detached. Some photographs in album spotted.
Lot 3634
Phelan (Jim), We Follow the Roads, first edition, Phoenix House, London 1949, 220pp, hb, dj; Phelan (Jim), Wagon-Wheels, Illustrated by Maurice S. Dodd, first edition, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London 1951, 224pp, signed and dedicated by the author, hb, dj; Phelan (Jim), Tramping the Toby, first edition, Burke, London 1955, 222pp, hb, dj (3)
Lot 3617
James Bond - Fleming (Ian), For Your Eyes Only: Five Secret Occasion in the Life of James Bond, first edition, Jonathan Cape, London 1960, 252pp, hb, dj, 12mo; other first editions, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man With the Golden Gun; and, Dr No, second impression, Jonathan Cape, London 1958, 256pp, hb, dj, 12mo (5)
Lot 3393
A Neo-Renaissance style chrome plated mantel clock, 11cm dial with Roman numerals, twin-winding holes, Japy Freres 14-day movement striking on a bell, the case crested by a piping putto and cast with masks, shells, scrolls, flowers and diapers, fluted columns to angles, lion paw feet, 43cm high, first half 20th century
Lot 3556
Turkish/Levantine Interest - a 19th century brown leather photograph album, entitled On The Bosphorus 1884, containing 24 b/w photographs of Istanbul views including Hagia Sophia, domestic Ottoman scenes, figures in national dress and landscapes, the mounts titled in ink mss. throughout, the front endpaper inscribed A little Souvenir of a memorable summer, with very friendly regards and best wishes from D. Mackenzie Wallace, Constantinople[,]October 1884, the pages measure 35cm x 47.5cm, ex-libris Francis Marion Crawford [1854-1909, the famed American novelist who went on to write a history of Constantinople in 1895], 36cm x 48.5cm overall Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallce, KCIE, KCVO (1841-1919) was a Scottish public servant, editor and foreign correspondent of The Times [of London]. From 1878-1884 Mackenzie Wallace was in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) investigating the Balkan peoples, their problems which culminated in all too frequent Balkan crises that in themselves lead to the First World War.
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Lot 3585
Anonymous [Richard Allestree], The Causes of the Decay of Chriftian Piety[...]Or An Impartial Survey Of the Ruines of Christian Religion, Undermin'd by Unchriftian Practice (sic), R. Norton for T. Garthwait, in S. Bartholomews Hofpital (sic), near Smithfield, London 1667, first edition, 8vo, xx + 450pp, title-page vignette with a burning ship and entitled from the Vulgate Bible, Matthew 13:28, Inimicus homo fecit hoc (the enemy did this), engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), monogrammed, full period binding, raised banding to spine, contemporaneous and later inscriptions of ownership
Lot 363
John Henning , a George IV deal cased set of fifty plaster figural relief... John Henning (1771-1851), a George IV deal cased set of fifty plaster figural relief panels after the Parthenon frieze, dated June 1820, the larger panels approximately 24 x 7cm, many inscribed for 'HENNING' and dated, arranged on seven stacking boards, the box with lift off cover and hinged fall front, 23cm high, 45cm wide, 30cm deep John Henning, a Scottish born artist was one of the first to access the Elgin Marbles following their acquisition by the British Museum in 1816 and like most who saw them, was struck by their beauty. He embarked on a project of making models of the Parthenon and Phigaleian friezes, restoring the missing elements, an undertaking which he felt was not only useful for his own artistic gain, but also for pecuniary reasons. His initial studies in ivory were unsuccessful and so he used intaglio carved slate as moulds for plaster casting, producing small tablet sections which were sold in boxes. Working for Josiah Wedgwood at the time, Henning took twelve years to complete the reliefs
Lot 377
A Paris porcelain mug or pot a boire , 1790-94 A Paris porcelain mug or pot a boire (Christopher Potter, Rue de Crussol), 1790-94, painted in colours with a panel of a vase of flowers reserved on a scrolling foliate ground within gilt vine borders, 13cm high, gilt mark Potter a paris Christopher Potter (c.1751-1817) was originally a Cambridgeshire land owner and army victualler. By 1789 he seems to have been in Paris, probably as a result of the scandal surrounding his unseating from the parliamentary constituency of Colchester for corrupt practises. In June 1789 he petitioned the National Assembly for an exclusive right to open a workshop to decorate and print on glass and ceramics but was turned down. He nevertheless took premises on the Rue de Crussol under the name Manufacture du prince de Galles and completed his first order in 1790 before selling the company to its director, Louis Blancheron in 1794. Around this time he re-opened the Chantilly Factory, closed because of the revolution and had further potteries at Montereau and Forges-les-Eaux. Cf. Victoria and Albert museum, no. C.20-1913 for a smaller mug of similar shape with different decoration but similar mark.
Lot 268
A LARGE BOX CONTAINING BANKNOTES AND COIN COVERS, to include three albums of World banknotes, many crisp uncirculated with one album of first runs, albums containing many coin covers, with some missing coins, a 2002 sealed four coin set Manchester Commonwealth Games with rare Northern Island coin, many others
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