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Edward III (1327-1377), Pre-Treaty period, Quarter-Noble, series Ga/Gd mule, obv. annulet stops, four lis in first quarter of shield, rev. saltire stops, small annulet to right of upper lis, 1.75g/1h (SCBI Schneider 44; N 1189/1190; S 1498). Scuffed and creased, fair to fine £200-£260 --- Provenance: N. Gordon Collection (1964-2024)
Elizabeth I, Second issue, Penny, mm. martlet, 0.50g/12h (N 1988; S 2558); James I, First coinage, Shilling, mm. lis, second bust, 5.61g/11h (N 2073; S 2646); IRELAND, Edward I, Edward I, Second coinage, Penny, type Ib, Dublin, 1.36g/5h (S 6247); together with a London Groat of Edward IV [4]. Fair to good fine, the last clipped £150-£180
William III, Crown, 1696, first bust, edge octavo (S 3472); George III, Crown, 1820lx, Halfcrown, 1818 (S 3787, 3789); George IV, Crown, 1821 (S 3805); William IV, Halfcrown, 1836 (S 3834); Victoria, Crowns (2), 1845, 1897 (S 3882, 3937); George V, Crown, 1935 (S 4048) [8]. Fair and better; the ‘1845’ removed from a mount £120-£150 --- Provenance: N. Gordon Collection (1964-2024)
Henry VIII, Second coinage, Halfpenny, mm. lis, 0.29g/6h (N 1815; S 2356); James I, Second coinage, Halfgroat, mm. rose, 0.97g/2h (S 2659); IRELAND, Edward IV, Suns and Roses coinage, Penny, Dublin, rose and sun by crown, rev. small rose at centre of cross, 0.51g/10h (S 6389A [6396]); together with other English hammered coins (2) [5]. First bent but with a rare mint reading, otherwise fair to good fine £80-£100
Elizabeth I, Sixth Issue, Shilling, mm. A, 5.13g/2h (S 2577); James I, First Coinage, Shilling, mm. lis, 5.09g/3h (S 2646); Charles II, Fourpence, 1684 (S 3384); William and Mary, Halfcrown, 1689, first shield (S 3434); Anne, Threepence, 1706 (S 3596); George II, Sixpence, 1757 (S 3711); George III, Shilling, 1787 (S 3743); George IV, Shilling, 1829 (S 3812); Edward VII, Shilling, 1907 (S 3982) [9]. Varied state £120-£150
Official fitted red leather Proof set cases (2), 1902 with space for 11 coins (Five Pounds to Maundy Penny), 1937 with space for 4 coins (Five Pounds to Half Sovereign); together with other Royal Mint cases and boxes (19) [21]. First two very fine with a little wear, others mostly better £100-£150
An important collection of documents and a notebook concerning Francis George Heath, Chief Detective Inspector for Salford County Borough Police, who was the first member of the Salford Police Force to have gone abroad for the purpose of bringing back a fugitive offender in 1904 from Cape Town. The offender was Thomas Walker, who was charged with stealing £38 and a further charge of intent to defraud a sum of £100. The notebook contains a description of events in Francis George Heath's own hand, warrants, news cuttings and letters from Whitehall. Also with the notebook is a souvenir book of Cape Town, four tribal souvenirs, two truncheons and a walking cane. Francis Heath (1860 - 1912) served for three and a half years and was known as the father of Salford Police.
Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa by the late John Leyden, 2 volumes, first edition, half-titles, 3 folding engraved maps, contemporary calf, 8vo, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1817. *CR Light browning, neatly rebacked, new endpapers, larger map slightly torn.
Mungo Park. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, first edition, folding engraved map, contemporary half calf, 4to, London: John Murray, 1815 The work is prefaced by a 10pp. additional text titled 'Account of the Life of Mungo Park', which commences with signature b, and 'vol. II'. *CR Some spotting, prefatory text with inner margin stained, neatly rebacked.
Captain W. Cornwallis Harris. Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of South Africa, first edition, hand-coloured lithographed additional title, 30 hand-coloured lithographed plates, guards, lithographed illustrations in text, contemporary half Morocco, all edges gilt, bookplate of Merthyr Guest, folio, London: William Pickering, 1840. *CR Title slightly soiled, light spotting throughout, hinge split, morocco rubbed, extremities especially so.
Augustus Earle. A Narrative of Nine Months Residence in New Zealand in 1827, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, six engraved plates (some folding), contemporary half calf rebacked, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1832. *CR occasional darkening and foxing, extremities rubbed.
Richard Colt Hoare, and others. The History of Modern Wiltshire, 15 parts bound in 6 volumes, first edition, 118 engraved plates and maps, including 2 duplicates in sepia, folding genealogies, contemporary full and half calf, bookplate of Merthyr Guest, folio, London: John Nichols 1822–1843 Loosely inserted in volume one is ANS from the author, Richard Colt Hoare, 'My dear Lord, Having heard of your arrival at Motcombe, I take the opportunity of sending you a brace of tench transplanted from your ponds to mine. I shall also be very glad to interchange Spaniel puppies with you — as I hear the families have the same good qualities. I have passed a very bad winter and am a complete cripple from rheumatism — I fear I shall never be able again to to leave home in my Bath chair. I am, My dear Lord, yours truly, R. C. Hoare, 22 April 1835, Stourhead.'. *CR This copy lacks the map for Downton, apparently never bound in. Volume 6 has a leaf of text neatly repaired. Some browning and offsetting.
Herbert Guthrie Smith. Sorrows and Joys of a New Zealand Naturalist, first edition, number 729 of 1000 copies signed by the author, numerous illustrations, original publishers cloth, 4to, Wellington, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1936; Mutton Birds and Other Birds, numerous illustrations, original publishers cloth, 4to, Christchuch: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1914; Birds of the Water, Wood and Waste, second edition, numerous illustrations, original publishers cloth, 4to, Wellington: Whitcombe & Tombs Limited, 1927; Bird Life on Island and Shore, numerous illustrations, original publishers cloth, 4to, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925; Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station, numerous illustrations, original publishers cloth, dust jacket, 4to, Wellington, A. H. and A. W. Reed, 1969 (6). *CR Mixed condition.
William Augustus Miles. A Description of Deverel Barrow opened AD 1825. Also a Minute Account of the Kimmeridge Coal Money, 2 parts in one volume, first edition, engraved titles to each part, 8 engraved plates, nineteenth century half calf, 8vo, London: Nichols and Son, 1826. *CR Spotting and slight offsetting.
William Robertson. An Historical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India; and the Progress of Trade with that Country prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope, with an appendix,.. first edition, half-title and title, two engraved folding maps, errata at rear, twentieth century brown cloth, gilt, 4to, London: A. Strahan and T. Caddell, 1791. *CR occasional spotting and browning particularly to prelims, some offsetting to title page, maps creased.
Edgar Allan Poe. Tales of Mystery and Imagination, first edition, 12 colour plates and black and white plates by Arthur Rackham, original publishers cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1935; Charles Kingsley. The Water Babies, with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith, original publishers cloth, 4to, London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.; and one other similar (3). *CR (i) occasional light age toning, dust jacket clipped, chipped and torn with loss particularly to folds (ii) Mixed condition.
La Combe de Urigny, Jacques Philippe. Travels through Denmark and some parts of Germany: by way of Journal in the Retinue of the English Envoy, first edition in English, folding engraved map of the island of Huen by William Blaeu, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, London: J. Taylor, 1707. *CR Folding map with text shaved with loss, occasional spotting, rebacked.
Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers, first edition, 43 plates by Phiz as called for, matches many of the issue points in Smith, original diced tan calf, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, first edition, early state, full suite of plates by Phiz as called for, many of Smith's issue points present, original publishers tan morocco, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844; Dombey and Son, first edition, complete suite of plates by Phiz, along with extra portrait plates, original publishers cloth, 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848; Little Dorrit, first edition, first issue, complete suite of plates by Phiz, brown buckram and calf over marbled boards, bookplate of James Pope Hennessy, 8vo, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857 (7). *CR Mixed condition.
Dr Fridtjof Nansen. The Norwegian Polar Expedition 1893-96, or Farthest North, 2 Vols, first edition, illustrated with one chromolithograph after Nansen, fold-out coloured map/chart, numerous black and white full page and in-text illustrations, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, London: George Newnes Ltd, 1898. *CR light spotting, joints cracked, extremities bumped and scuffed.
Francois Coillard. On the Threshold of Central Africa, second edition, plates, original cloth, 8vo, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1902; I. Schapera. The Bantu-Speaking Tribes of South Africa, first edition, plates, original cloth, 8vo, London: George Routledge, 1937; Captain Marryat. The Mission: or, Scenes in Africa, 2 volumes, plates, original cloth, 8vo, London: Longmans, 1845; Miss Tucker. Abbeokuta; or, Sunrise within the Tropics, fourth edition, coloured frontispiece, plates, folding map, original cloth, 8vo, London: James Nisbet, 1854; and 54 others, missionary travels on the African continent, v.s. (59). *CR Mixed condition.

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