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Lot 125
A DERBY GROUP OF A HUNTSMAN FLAUTIST AND LADY RECLINING the lady`s right hand resting on her companion`s left arm, in brightly decorated and gilt dress before a profusely flowered bocage, on turquoise and gilt scrolling mound, 21cm h, c1768-70 According to Peter Bradshaw "a very beautiful" Derby group that was first made during the dry edge period, c1754-5. See Bradshaw (P), Eighteenth Century English Porcelain Figures 1745-1795, Woodbridge 1981, p184 and col plate P. For another example see Rice (D G), Derby Porcelain The Golden Years 1750-1770, 1983, plt 50. ++Some typical losses and restorations to extremities
Lot 287
A CHINESE IVORY CARD CASE AND COVER AND A SIMILAR BODKIN CASE AND COVER typically carved overall, the first with scenes, 8.5 and 16cm h, 19th c ++Card case in fine condition, some natural age yellowing of the ivory and dust but not damaged. The bodkin case with several minor shrinkage cracks
Lot 308
A CHINESE FINELY EMBROIDERED SILK SEAT COVER with hanging lanterns and blossom on a self patterned ground with phoenix and foliage, 54 x 53cm, Qing dynasty, late 19th c, framed and four other framed Chinese silk or cotton embroideries, c1900 (5) ++All in good condition, the first item with water stain on lower edge but a very attractive group
Lot 392
A VICTORIAN SILVER TWIN LIDDED VESTA CASE OF PILL BOX TYPE AND TWO OTHERS the first oval ended and engine turned, 6.1cm w, by Aston & Son, Birmingham 1860, the second of heart shape, Chester 1910, the third engine turned with, on the back a slot for the insertion of a ticket or photograph, unmarked, c1890 (3) ++All in good condition
Lot 635
ALLEN (R) THE MIDLAND COUNTIES` RAILWAY COMPANION WITH TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH THE LINE PASSES AND TIME FARE AND DISTANCE TABLES CORRECTED TO 24TH AUGUST ALSO COMPLETE GUIDES TO THE LONDON AND BIRIMINGHAM AND BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY JUNCTION RAILWAYS second edition, engraved title, plates and numerous illustrations, 12p of adverts on yellow paper at end, pictorial green wrappers [Ottley 6936] Nottingham 1840 § R Tebbutt, A Guide to the North Midland, Midland Counties and London and Birmingham Railways with correct time and distance tables, improved edition, folding map, plates and illustrations, green wrappers rebacked [Ottley 6940] bookplate of P H Edwards, Leicester 1841 [1842] § - A Guide of Companion to the Midland Counties Railway the first edition of the preceding item, original wrappers, bookplate of P H Edwards, Leicester 1840 (3) ++++
Lot 642
THOMAS (JOSEPH) RAILWAY ROAD GUIDE FROM LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM CONTAINING PICTURESQUE HISTORICAL LEGENDARY SKETCHES OF ITS VICINITY third edition, lithograph map and plates, several folding, one coloured, adverts, pictorial maroon cloth gilt [Ottley 6480], bookplate of P H Edwards, 1839 § A H Baily & Co, Railroadiana a History of England, first series, second edition, folding map detached and plates, lightly browned, pictorial green cloth rebacked [Ottley 6459], 1838 § Arthur Freeling The London and Birmingham Railway Companion, map and folding table, adverts, pictorial green cloth gilt [Ottley 6454] 1838 § and two others, London and Birmingham Railway maps and handbook (5)
Lot 684
CHAPMAN (W G) THE "KING" OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES folding col plate and illustrations in the text, pictorial wrappers, 1928 § six other contemporary GWR railway books "FOR BOYS OF ALL AGES," 1920/30S § London and North Eastern Railway, On Either Side, three editions, pictorial wrappers including two by Frank Newbould § various similar promotional literature and several Jubilee publications including Liverpool and Manchester Railway Centenary by C S Dendy Marshall, ex libris P H Edwards, The Whitby & Pickering Railway 1906, The London & North-Western Railway Diamond Jubilee Album, 1906 and The World`s First Railway Jubilee by S T Richardson 1876 (20) ++Although variable some items really in excellent condition and many scarce
Lot 686
MIDLAND RAILWAY TIME TABLES FROM 1ST MAY 1860 dust wrappers, Derby April 1860, very fine § Derby Mercury Extraordinary Report of the Committee of Investigation into the Shareholders of the Midland Railway Company with a Supplement, Derby, August 1848, two copies § Midland Railway Notice to Engine Men, Derby, December 1st 1863 § Midland Railway Weekend Excursions Bills, a small quantity, 1892 § Midland Counties Railway Proceedings of the First General Meeting of the Proprietors, Loughborough August 12 1836, Leicester 1836; § a small group of early railway related postal history, including letters to or about the Grand Junction or other railways, 1834-41§ four early 20th century professionally mounted photographs of Midland Railway locomotives and several Midland Railway souvenir albums and exhibition catalogue, etc (30 approx)
Lot 687
RAILWAY EPHEMERA. A COLLECTION including engraved invitation ticket to the cutting of the first sod of the Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway, several early 20th c mounted photographs, a Victorian chromolithograph greetings card of a fanciful locomotive bedecked in forget-me-nots, Shrewsbury (Joint Railways and Branches) timetable from March 1st 1868, London Brighton and South Coast Railway, Isle of Wight Paris and the Continent timetables from October 1915, L & NW Railway coloured lithograph of the Arrangement of Carriages of Royal Trains 1900 and 1901 and two others similar, Southern Railway poster Three Good Tonics by M G Compton printed in blue and red, 1937, four contemporary Southern Railway and LMS Railway excursion or timetable posters, etc (30 approx) ++An interesting selection, mostly in good condition apart from the first item that is in poor state
Lot 712
BELCHER (HENRY) ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SCENERY ON THE LINE OF THE WHITBY AND PICKERING RAILWAY IN THE NORTH EASTERN PART OF YORKSHIRE engraved plates and title by Cousens and others, embossed scarlet cloth gilt, 1836 § Frederick S Williams, Our Iron Roads their History Construction and Social Influences, first edition partly uncut, illustrated, pictorial title, embossed cloth gilt with a locomotive, 1852, both fine copies (2)
Lot 760
BUCHAN (JOHN, 1ST BARON TWEEDSMUIR) PRESENTATION COPIES AND OTHERS comprising Witch Wood first edition, signed on the title John Buchan 1927, Augustus, first edition, signed on the title John Buchan and on the ffe Joan Rate from Tweedsmuir, Nov:7:37, 1937, Men and Deeds, signed on the title and on the ffe R B Bennett With every Good Wish from Tweedsmuir Xmas 1935, 1935 and The King`s Grace, signed on the ffe R B Bennett With Kindest Regards from John Buchan 4:IV:35 § and eight others, unsigned first editions (12)
Lot 786
WILLIAM WARD, ARA (1766-1826) AFTER PHILIP REINAGLE, RA (1749-1833) THE SUPERB LILY mezzotint, hand coloured, 1799 for Dr Thornton`s Temple of Flora, laid down, 50.5 x 45cm and seven other 18th c hand coloured botanical prints, unframed (8) ++The first with some light overall staining, the other items in the lot in good condition, those hand tinted skillfully done at later date and most attractive
Lot 791
MATTHEW DUBOURG (FL EARLY 19TH CENTURY) AFTER S B CUDLIP (FL EARLY 19TH C) VIEW OF ST PAUL`S CHURCH DEPTFORD AND RECTORY HOUSE aquatint, with margins, 1822, 55 x 75cm, a lithograph of Canterbury Cathedral by George Hawkins after L L Raze, 1841 and five other early 19th c prints, four hand coloured including Laurie & Whittle, publishers, Harlequin and Mother Goose or The Golden Egg, 1807, unframed (7) ++The first two prints with creases, tears, generally clear of the image and marginal stains, not laid down. The Lawrie & Whittle print and the other two similar in attractive clean condition, the contemporary colour bright and unfaded
Lot 930
†CONRAD FELIXMULLER (1897-1977) PORTRAIT OF MR ROWLAND ABSALOM AT OXHEY GRANGE WITH "GAY DAWN" AND "DINA" signed and dated 1939, 141 x 101cm Gv. no 779 in Felixmuller`s catalogue (Gemaldeverrzeichnis). Provenance: The sitter; thence by descent to the present vendor. Exhibited: Leicester, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Conrad Felixmuller 1897-1977 Between Politics and the Studio, 17 September to 30 October 1994, Catalogue No.56. The German Expressionist artist Condrad Felix Muller (as he was originally named) was born in Dresden. After training as a painter, the young Felixmuller`s artistic development was rapid and mirrored by an acute political awareness, both in the 1914-18 war when he was a conscientious objector and during the Weimar Republic (1919-1938). Many of his pictures were shown in the 1933 Dresden exhibition of so called decadent art and also later, in the notorious 1937 Munich exhibition of "degenerate" art when 151 of his works were confiscated by the Nazis. Such persecution led him to leave Germany, travelling firstly to Norway and in 1939 to England at the invitation of Hilmar and Gonda von Stamford, nee Neale, whose double portrait (Gv. no 776) he had painted in Berlin in 1938. During the three months he spent in England, staying in Cardiff and London he painted several views of London and two or three portraits, including the present lot, of friends of the Stamfords. Felixmuller`s bravura portrait of Rowland Absalom holding his unsaddled horse `Grey Dawn` is set on the gently sloping parkland of Oxley Grange, his Hertfordshire estate. His black Labrador `Dina` completes the trio. The typical expressive use of several compositional devices result in a striking, dynamic image. This, when combined with the quintessential Englishness of the setting, is highly unusual. The leaden skies is an obvious portent of the imminent outbreak of total war as felt then by all sensible people and is especially poignant being in the hand of an anti-Nazi artist straight from Germany. The portrait also typifies the fully developed cool detachment or `Neue Sachlichkeit` (new objectivity) that marks the culmination of an approach to portraiture that Felixmuller had first experimented with on the late 1920s. To the National Socialists such discernment, with its less obviously distorted and blatantly subversive imagery might seem marginally less repugnant. Felixmuller returned to Berlin and only narrowly escaped with his life, loosing both his work and Berlin studio during the terror that was about to descend. ++In beautifully preserved untouched condition requiring only a light clean, the support not lined, holed, torn or restored, no overpainting, on the original stretchers. Entirely fresh to market not hitherto offered for sale
Lot 949
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY VIEW OF BELVOIR CASTLE panel, 19.5 x 27cm ++Cleaned with some possible localised retouching the extent of which not verified under UV light, a very attractive small landscape executed on a oak panel by an unidentified semi professional hand of probably the first half of the 19th c. In varnished giltwood cavetto frame
Lot 1037
A GERMAN THIRD REICH LUFTWAFFE FIRST MODEL DAGGER AND SHEATH with aluminium fittings, etched tiger traded mark and TIGER SOLINGEN, chain hangers and clip stamped GES. GESGH. and OLC, diamond trade mark, leather loop Provenance: A World War Two Luftwaffe pilot, by whom given to his son, the present vendor. ++The leather on the sheath showing some chaffing and minor knocks, slight wear to the leather grip, blade fitting tightly and bright, free from rust. All mounts complete and original. Not hitherto offered for sale.
Lot 56
A PAIR OF WEDGWOOD BLACK BASALT PLAQUES OF DAY AND NIGHT integral frames, 17 x 13cm, impressed mark, 19th c The subjects are otherwise known as Venus and Cupid, Night Shedding Poppies and Ceres and Triptolemus or the Muse Erato. The original model of the first is attributed to John Bacon, Senior and both were first made during the Wedgwood & Bentley period, c1777. ++Both in fine condition
Lot 2
Allom (Thomas, illust.). Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, First and Second Series, c. 1840, two additional engraved titles, two engraved maps (one folding), 93 (of 94) engraved plates only (lacking the Great Bazaar plate in first part), some spotting, contemporary half calf, lower cover detached, some wear, 4to -1
Lot 3
[Anderson, George William. A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World... Containing an Authentic, Entertaining, Full and Complete History of Captain CookÂ’s First, Second, Third and Last Voyages..., c. 1784], lacking all text before p.15, 149 engraved plates only (of c. 155, lacking portrait of Cook, World map and others), some tears and losses, soiling and stains, disbound, folio. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. -1
Lot 9
Brown (Edward). A Brief Account of Some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe ... through a Great Part of Germany, and the Low-Countries ... with some Observations on the Gold, Silver, Copper, Quick-Silver Mines, and the Baths and Mineral Waters in those Parts ..., 2nd ed., with many additions, 1685, fourteen engraved plates only (of 16), including some folding, numerous engraved illustrations to text, advert leaf at rear, ink stamp to title, dedication leaf excised at head and repaired, two single-page plates trimmed or frayed & lined to verso and few other plates repaired with occasional minor loss, some repairs mostly to margins of first and last few leaves, occoasional light damp-soiling & fraying to lower margins & outer corners, first & last few leaves loose, contemporary marbled calf, joints cracked and upper board near detached, slight wear to extremities, folio -1
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Lot 20
Faden (William, publisher). [General Atlas, c.1816,] inserted b & w litho. portrait of Princess Alexandria of Denmark, lacking title, fifty-nine (58 called for in contents list), engraved folding maps with contemp. outline colouring, some offsetting, hemispheral maps trimmed to neat line, occ. spotting, f.e.p.s, contents list and first map detached, contemp. half morocco, upper board detached, spine partially lacking, worn and frayed, folio. The atlas has maps dating from 1794 - 1816 The collation shows an additional map of France and the map of Switzerland has been replaced with a French edition of the same map. -1
Lot 51
Spallanzani (Lazzaro). Travels in the Two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines, Translated from the Original Italian..., 4 vols., 1798, eleven folding engraved plates, contemporary signature to lower margin of vol. 1 title , occasional spotting, general toning, browning mostly to first & last leaves, 20th c. half cloth, 8vo -4
Lot 56
Tott (Francois de, Baron). Memoirs of Baron de Tott. Containing the State of the Turkish Empire and the Crimea, During the Late War with Russia, with Numerous Annecdotes, Facts and Observations on the Manners and Customs of the Turks and Tartars, Translated from the French, 3 vols. including Appendix, 1785-86, scattered light spotting and marginal toning, bookplates, contemporary calf (Appendix in tree calf), a little rubbed, 8vo, together with Memoires du Comte de Bonneval, 2 vols. in one, London, 1737, occasional marginalia and library inkstamps, first title with marginal waterstain, later calf, 8vo, with three others related including Memoires du Comte de Bonneval, 2 vols., new ed., 1806 -8
Lot 60
Wyld (James, publisher). A New General Atlas of Modern Geography, Consisting of a Complete Collection of Maps of the Four Quarters of the Globe......, c.1845, title page and contents list printed in green and black, fifty-two maps on fifty-eight sheets (fifty double page and folding), all with contemp. outline colouring, and three engraved b & w tables, plus an additional uncalled for litho. map of the Ottoman Dominions (dated 1877), occ. slight offsetting, title contents and first two maps detached, occ. marginal fraying, contemp. half sheep, morocco gilt label to upper board, upper board detached, spine lacking, worn and frayed, folio -1
Lot 62
Aubrey (John). Aubrey’s Collections for Wilts, (Edited by Sir T. Phillipps), parts 1 & 2, 1821 & 1838, few woodcut illustrations, edges untrimmed, contemporary half morocco gilt, 4to, together with Bowles (W.L., and Nichols, John Gough), Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey, in the County of Wilts... including Notices of the Monasteries of Bradenstoke, Hinton, and Farley, 1835, twelve engraved plates and plans, engraved illustrations to text, pedigrees (some folding), t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, later half morocco, rubbed, 8vo, with Scrope (G. Poulett), History of the Manor and Ancient Barony of Castle Combe, in the County of Wilts, 1852, chromo frontispiece, one chromo & two lithograph plates, few wood engraved illustrations to text, bound without map (as usual), presentation copy inscribed to title page ‘Charles Stanton Esq. with the best regards of the author’, ex-lib. with label to verso of frontispiece & ink stamp to front endpaper, modern buckram, 4to, and Smith (James), Wilton and its Associations, Salisbury, 1851, wood-engraved illustrations to text by W.F. Tiffin, edges untrimmed, recent boards, small 8vo. The title of the second part of the first volume in the lot is entitled, “An Essay Towards the Description of the North Division of Wiltshire..., Typis Medio-Montanis [Middle Hill], 1838,”. -4
Lot 74
Catcott (George Symes). A Descriptive Account of a Descent made into Penpark-Hole, in the Parish of Westbury-Upon-Trim, in the County of Gloucester, in the Year 1775, now first published: to which is added, a copper-plate engraving of that remarkable cavern. Also, the narratives of Captains Sturmey and Collins, containing their descriptions of the same, in the years 1669 and 1682, Bristol, 1792, eng. plan frontis. (with light old oval ink stamp to top margin), eng. explanation leaf facing frontis., lacking half-title and final leaf of text, some dust-soiling, edges untrimmed, stitched as issued (partly broken and leaves loose), slim 8vo, together with Hardy (William), The MinerÂ’s Guide: or, Compleat Miner..., Sheffield: Francis Lister, 1748, ten woodcut diagrammatic plates, some dampstaining and worming, modern boards with original board paper laid down, 8vo, with Mantell (Gideon), A Descriptive Catalogue of the Objects of Geology, Natural History, and Antiquity, (Chiefly Discovered in Sussex,) in the Museum, Attached to the Sussex Scientific and Literary Institution, at Brighton, 6th ed., 1836, 44pp., title torn with loss at head & foot and repaired, dampstaining, spotting & dust-soiling mostly to first & last leaves, stitched as issued, 8vo -3
Lot 78
Devon. A Brief Account of the Earthquake, the Solemn Event Which Occurred Near Axmouth, Devonshire, on the 25th December, 1839, James Nisbett, 1840, 12pp., two faint horizontal folds throughout, modern marbled wrappers, with printed paper label on front cover, slim 8vo. Rare: only the British Library copy listed on COPAC. The Great Landslip of 1839, as the event at Axmouth on Christmas Day became known, was the first major landslip to be recorded scientifically and the area it created is known today as the ‘Undercliff’. With coastguard reports of flashes of fire and the stench of sulphur fumes, it was thought at first that there had been an earthquake. The massive movement of earth left a chasm filled with grotesque peaks and pinnacles extending for three quarters of a mile, with new cliff faces over 150 feet high. As news of the phenomenon spread, thousands of sightseers, scientists, and geologists arrived to view what seemed to be one of the wonders of the world. A dance called the ‘Landslips Quadrille’ was sold in London and numerous engravings of the scene were made. Queen Victoria sailed to Axmouth in her yacht to view the remarkable scene for herself. Many saw the event as a warning from God, as indeed did the writer of this pamphlet; he quotes from a friend residing in the vicinity of Axmouth who describes the events leading up to the creation of a “monstrous ravine”, calling the incident “the remarkable visitation of the Most High God of this land by an earthquake”. -1
Lot 84
Hoare (Sir Richard Colt). The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A.D. MCLXXXVIII, by Giraldus de Barri..., 2 vols., 1806, folding hand-col. engraved map, fifty-nine engraved plates, maps & plans, including frontispiece to each, (including three single-page maps & one hand-col. double-page), together with five additional engraved plates bound in at rear of vol. 2, occasional offsetting, spotting and toning, a.e.g., with gauffered edges, book label of Viscount Mersey, Bignor Park to upper pastedowns, contemporary dark blue full morocco, elaborate gilt and blind decoration, upper compartment of each spine with gilt monogram & coronet of George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex (1757-1839), large 4to. A handsome set. George Capell was the eldest son of William Anne Capell, 4th Earl of Essex, and Francis, daughter and coheir of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, K.B.. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. On succeeding his father in 1799 he inherited the Cassiobury Estate, Hertfordshire. He took the additional name of Coningsby on inheriting Hampton Court, Herefordshire and the other estates of his grandmother in 1781 He was elected Member of Parliament for Westminster 1779 & 1780; for Lostwithiel 1781-1784; for Okehampton 1785-1790; and for Radnor 1794-1799, and was Recorder and High Steward of Leominster and Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hereford. In 1786 he married Sarah, daughter of Henry Bazett of St Helena, and widow of Edward Stephenson. He was long separated from her, and when she died 1838, he remarried in the same year, Catherine, daughter of Edward Stephens, of Leadwell, in Oxfordshire. She was a professional singer and actress. The library of Sarah Capel Coningsby, Countess of Essex, his first wife, was sold by Mr Ramy, 14 Regent Street on the 13 June 1838 George Capell was succeeded by his nephew Arthur Algernon in 1839 -2
Lot 95
Meyrick (Sir Samuel Rush). Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches, 2 vols., Llandovery: Welsh Manuscript Society, 1846, lithograph frontispiece to each (one tinted), title printed in red and black, numerous wood engraved blank shields to text, original cloth gilt, spine slightly faded, folio, together with Beaufort (Henry), The Account of the Official Progress of His Grace Henry the First Duke of Beaufort (Lord President of the Council in Wales, and Lord Warden of the Marches) Through Wales in 1684, pub. 1888, photo-litho facsimile manuscript throughout, edges untrimmed, original cloth gilt, frayed at head & foot of spine, 4to, plus Owen (George), The Taylors Cussion by George Owen, Lord of Kemeys (Circa 1552-1613)..., with a short Biography of the Author, by Emily M. Pritchard, 2 vols. in one, pub. 1906, photo-litho facsimile manuscript throughout, edges untrimmed, original cloth gilt, extremities slightly frayed, folio -4
Lot 105
Smeaton (John, Civil Engineer). A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone: To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, giving some Account of the Lighthouse on the Spurn Point, Built upon a Sand, 1st ed., 1791, title with engraved vignette and early ink armorial stamp and manuscript monogram, twenty-three engraved plates, maps and plans, advertisement slip inserted at p.v, some toning & spotting mostly to leaves of text, edges untrimmed, early 20th c. antique style gilt panelled calf, elaborate gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, large folio. Completed in 1759, the lighthouse was in use until 1877, the upper section was dismantled and reassembled at Plymouth Hoe. SmeatonÂ’s first project establishing his reputation as one of the eighteenth centuryÂ’s foremost engineers. -1
Lot 130
Waterton (Charles, naturalist). A collection of books and ephemera by and relating to Charles Waterton (1782-1865), naturalist, traveller and conservationist, including Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820 & 1824, with Original Intructions for the Perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. for Cabinets of Natural History, 3rd ed., 1836, engraved portrait frontis., previous owner signature to title, a few spots, original cloth, spine a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology, First, Second and Third Series, mixed eds., 1858-62, engraved frontis. to each, pubs. lists at end, small bookplates, original blindstamped cloth, one or two small splits to joints, spines a little faded, 8vo, with other books including Charles Waterton: His Home, Habits and Handiwork, by Richard Hobson, 2nd ed., 1867, Natural History Essays, ed. Norman Moore, c. 1870 and Philip Gosse’s The Squire of Walton Hall, 1940, plus a 1 pp. autograph letter from Waterton to a Mr R Colyar, dated November 10, 1859, not recommending importing Civetta Owls from Rome, “living ones can always be purchased in the markets of Paris and Brussels. Those which I formerly bought from Rome were a failure upon the whole. Of all the books containing natural history, I recommend to your constant perusal, White’s delightful history of Selborne. This will form your style:- and Montague’s Ornithological dictionary will afford you most excellent matter for that style”, and some articles, posters, pamphlets, correspondence etc. Charles Waterton was born at Walton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire and whilst taking charge of his uncle’s estates in British Guiana he described his explorations in Wanderings in South America, first published in 1825 The book inspired the young Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace (Charles Darwin was taught taxidermy by a freed slave, John Edmonstone, who in turn was taught taxidermy by Waterton in British Guiana). He bought back curare, a powerful muscle relaxant (now used in modern anaesthesia), created the world’s first nature reserve at Walton Hall and was an early enviromental campaigner, sucessfully removing the nearby soapworks, as he proved in court that chemicals from the works had polluted the lake and trees on the estate. (small carton)
Lot 145
British Isles. Desgranges, La carte des Royaumes d’Angleterre d’Escosse et d’Irlande dediee a sa Majeste Britannique....., pub. paris, 1701, hand coloured engraved map by Roussel, inset maps of the English Channel and the Faroes, Orkneys and Shetland Islands, large ornate cartouche and mileage scale, 450 x 570mm. R.W.Shirley. Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650 - 1750 Desgranges 1 state 6 A separately published map, designed to support the claim of the Catholic monarch James II. Louis XIV had declared war on England in support of James, hoping to destroy the Anglo Dutch alliance that had brought William of Orange to the English throne. The supporting portraits by the cartouche are of James II, his wife Mary of Modena and their young son James, often called the ‘Young Pretender’. Very little is known about Desgranges, not even his Christian name or his birth and death dates. This is the last state (the first appeared in 1689, the year Louis declared war) with Desgranges name erased and repalced by Abbe Michel Baudrand. -1
Lot 149
Cassini de Thury (Cesar Francois ). Carte de France divisee en XXXI Gouvernements Militaires, et en ses Provinces..., Paris: R. J. Julien, 1751, engraved advertisment, general map of France, title and twenty-three engraved maps, all double-page, mostly hand-coloured in outline, plus three double-page engraved index leaves, plus engraved title ‘Plans et Descriptiones des Principales Places de Guerre’, engraved index entitled ‘Atlas Topographique’, incorporating general map, and sixteen engraved plates with plans and descriptions of all the town fortifications, all double-page, dampstained at front, particularly affecting first six plates (with some fraying to the advertisement, without loss), some marks and minor stains elswhere, modern antique-style mottled calf gilt, folio -1
Lot 162
Ecuador & The Galapagos Islands. Villavicencio (Manuel), Carta Corographica de la Republica del Ecuador...., pub. F.Mayer & Co., New York, 1858, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, inset map of the Galapagos Islands, slight marginal fraying, 765 x 1040mm. Rare separately published map of Ecuador, probably the first large format map of this part of South America. -1
Lot 191
Mexico. Ortelius (Abraham), Hispaniae Novae Sivae Magnae Recens et vera Descriptio, [1579 or later], engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, large strapwork cartouche, 350 x 505mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, together with Homann (Johann Baptist, Heirs of,)Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru Brasiliae Terrae Firmae & Reg. Amazonum...., pub. Nuremberg, c.1748, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, 485 x 570mm, mounted. The first described item. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.13. -2
Lot 204
Pacific Ocean. Ortelius (Abraham), Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum Regionibus Circumiacentibus Insulisque in Codem Passim Sparsis, Novisima Descriptio, [1595], hand coloured engraved map, 345 x 500mm, Latin text on verso. The first printed map focused on the Pacific Ocean, decorated with a large vignette depiction of Ferdinand MagellanÂ’s ship, The Victoria. Marcel van den Broecke. Ortelius Atlas Maps, no.12. Philip Burden. The Mapping of America, no.74. -1
Lot 220
South Pole. Mawson (Douglas), British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, Route and Surveys of the South Magnetic Polar Party 1908 - 09, From Triangulation and Traverses, pub. William Heinemann, c.1909, chromolithograph, laid on later card, 500 x 350mm. Detailed map showing the route taken by Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition of 1908 to early 1909 The map also includes the routes of the Erebus Party and the Western Party. Douglas Mawson (1882-1958) was an Australian geologist and explorer. The Australian Dictionary of National Biography gives a detailed account of his time with Shackleton in Antarctica:In November 1907 (Sir) Ernest Shackleton, leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, visited Adelaide on his way south. Mawson approached him with a view to making the round trip to Antarctica on the Nimrod. His idea was to see an existing continental ice-cap and to become acquainted with glaciation and its geological consequences. This interested him because in his South Australian studies he was ‘face-to-face with a great accumulation of glacial sediments of Precambrian age, the greatest thing of the kind recorded anywhere in the world’. After consulting with David, who had agreed to join the expedition, Shackleton telegraphed: ‘You are appointed Physicist for the duration of the expedition’. Mawson accepted, and so began his long association with the Antarctic.Although he recognized that Shackleton’s prime aim of reaching the South Pole was considered essential to financing the expedition, he would have liked more opportunity offered to the scientists. Nevertheless, the scientists’ achievements proved to be considerable and Mawson had good opportunities for glaciological and geological investigations. In March 1908 Mawson was one of the first party, led by David, to climb Mount Erebus. Next summer David (leader), A. F. Mackay and Mawson were the first to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, manhauling their sledges 1260 miles. Mawson was responsible for the magnetic observations and the excellent cartographic work. The return was difficult because of exhaustion and shortage of food. David, aged 50, suffered badly and at his request Mawson assumed leadership. The journey almost ended in disaster: having reached their main depot two days late and hearing a rocket distress signal fired from the Nimrod, Mawson, while rushing towards the ship, fell into a crevasse. Help from the ship was required for his rescue.Shackleton’s confidence in Mawson may be gauged from his instructions: should his own expedition to the South Pole not return in time, Mawson was to lead a search party. David said in public tribute: “Mawson was the real leader who was the soul of our expedition to the Magnetic Pole. We really have in him an Australian Nansen, of infinite resourse, splendid physique, astonishing indifference to frost”. -1
Lot 234
World. Ortelius (Abraham & Galle Philippe), Typus Orbis Terrarum, c.1588, hand coloured engraved miniature map of the world on an ovoid projection, 80 x 110mm, French text on verso, together with, Cluver (Philip),Orbis Terrarum Typus, pub. Amsterdam, c.1676, hand coloured engraved map of the world on a hemispheral projection, insular California, ink ownership stamp in lower margin, 150 x 260mm, plus, Ortelius (Abraham & Vrients Jan Baptist),Globus Terrestris 1600, c.1713, hand coloured engraved miniature map of the world on a hemispheral projection, repaired marginal closed tear not affecting image, 120 x 150mm. The first described item. R.W.Shirley. The Mapping of the World, no.161. Item two. Shirely no. 407 Item three. Shirley no. 231, but later issue by Lasor a Varea of Padua. -3
Lot 243
Brooke (L. Leslie, illust.). The “A.L.” Scenes in Other Lands... A New Series of Illustrations for Geographical Teaching, for Composition and Conversation Lessons, and for Decorative Purposes, Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son, c.1910, six (of nine) large linen-backed lithographed plates (lacking Canada, Holland and France), first plate with slight surface loss, some fraying and staining to margins, original linen-backed covers (worn), with title printed on front cover, held at top edge with wooden baton for hanging, 90 x 67cm (35.5 x 26.5ins) Scarce. With plates relating to Japan, India, Greenland and Lapland, Russia and Siberia, Switzerland and China. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. -1
Lot 255
* London. Dagaty, Views of London No.1. Entrance of Piccadilly or Hyde Park Corner Turnpike with a View of St. Georges Hospital [and] Views of London No.2. Entrance of St. Georges Road or the Obelisk Turnpike with a View of the Royal Circus, pub. R. Ackermann, [1797] and 1809, a pair of aquatints with contemp. hand colouring, the first described print, trimmed to plate mark and re-margined, each approx. 355 x 440mm. Uncommon. These two plates are from a series of six engravings called the ‘Views of London’ They show the main highways into London, each one controlled by a turnpike. Very little is known about Dagaty (he is not listed in Ian Mackenzie’s ‘British Prints. Dictionary and Price Guide’). Indeed for this series, the final four plates were executed by Thomas Rowlandson. It is possible that he was Edouard Gautier d’Agoty, a French painter, print maker and engraver. -2
![Bible [English]. The Second Part of the Holy Bible, Containing these Books, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes... With the Books](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2911220/279-20149713394_468x382.jpg)
Lot 279
Bible [English]. The Second Part of the Holy Bible, Containing these Books, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes... With the Books of the Apocrypha. And the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 parts in one, John Field, Cambridge, 1659-60, first title with engraved armorial at foot, text in double column and ruled in red throughout, T3-4 in NT with burnhole affecting text, some light soiling, armorial bookplate, contemporary calf, joints splitting, a little rubbed and scuffed, folio. Herbert 668 -1
Lot 284
Bindings. Bignold (Robert), Five Generations of the Bignold Family 1761-1947, and their connection with the Norwich Union, 1st ed., Batsford, 1948, portrait frontispiece, dedication from author to title, b & w illustrations throughout, ex libris blindstamp to first initial blank, a.e.g., blue morocco gilt, gilt decorated turn-ins, spine slightly sunned, 8vo, together with Roget (Peter Mark), Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, 3rd ed., 2 vols., Pickering, 1840, ex libris blindstamp to initial blank, ownership inscription to front-free endpaper verso, contemporary calf gilt, contrasting spine labels and gilt decorated spine, 8vo, plus Scott (Sir Walter), Poetical Works, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857, engraved half title, ex libris blindstamp to initial blank, presentation bookplate of KingÂ’s College London to front pastedown, a.e.g., blind stamped brown morocco with gilt armorial, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, plus Campbell (Thomas), The Poetical Works, Nelson and Sons, 1870, engraved frontispiece, ex libris blindstamp to initial blank, presentation bookplate of Wesley College to front pastedown, gilt decorated green calf by Loxley Brothers, 8vo, plus other fine bindings, mainly 8vo -48
Lot 293
Civil War. The Character of the Parliament, Commonly Called, the Rump, &c. Begun November 23 in the year 1640, with a short Account of some of their Proceedings, 1721, contemporary annotation to final leaf, bound with at front An Essay Towards Attaining a TRUE Idea of the Character and Reign of K. Charles the First, and the Causes of the Civil War..., [by Micaiah Towgood], 1748, annotation to title, lacking half-title, bound with at rear, A Memorable New-YearÂ’s Gift, The Ist of January, 1648-9. To the Rump Parliament, the General, and Officers of the Army..., 2nd ed., 1727, lacking half-title, few repairs to margins, bound with three others related, some soiling throughout, modern mock leather, 8vo, together with An Inquiry into the Share, which Charles I had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glarmorgan, Afterwards Marquis of Worcester, for bringing over a Body of Irish Rebels to assist that King, in the Years 1645 and 1646..., 2nd ed., 1756, some dust-soiling and spotting, modern mock leather, 8vo, with Noble (Mark), Memoirs of the Protectoral-House of Cromwell..., 2 vols., 2nd ed., with improvements, Birmingham, 1737, engraved portrait frontispiece, seven engraved plates (some folding, one detcahed) and two folding pedigrees, contemporary annotations, scattered spotting and occasional light worming, edges untrimmed, contemporary half calf gilt, joints cracked and slight wear, 8vo, plus others related -10
![[Dickens, Charles]. Samuel BrandramÂ’s copy of The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp, by Charles Dic](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2911220/300-201497133923_468x382.jpg)
Lot 300
[Dickens, Charles]. Samuel Brandram’s copy of The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs. Gamp, by Charles Dickens, Bradbury & Evans, 1858, numerous contemporary ink and pencil annotations and some loosely inserted manuscript leaves in Samuel Brandram’s hand, stitching broken, original printed green wrappers, lacking spine and rear cover, upper cover inscribed ‘Brandram’, slim 8vo. An interesting association copy, which belonged to Samuel Brandram (1824-1892), an English barrister known for his later career as a professional reciter. The first page of each story lists locations and dates where Brandram read that particular work (mostly the outer fringes of London, between 1862 and 1871), and the text itself is littered with excisions, additions and alterations. Brandram used to perform at Justice Talfourd’s house in Russell Square, and here he met Charles Dickens. Apparently Dickens was so impressed by Charles’s rendering of the great novelist’s work that he praised Brandram as a man who interpreted his novels better than he could interpret them himself. -1
Lot 311
Hesiod. [Hesiodou Erga kai Hemerai], Hesiodi Opera & Dies, cum Interpretatione Latina & Scholiis, utrisq; ad planiorem explicationem accommodatis. Autore Mathia Garbitio Illyrico, Graecae linguae & Moralis philosophiae in Academia Tubingensi Professore, Basel: Joannem Oporinum, [1559], first line of title transliterated from Greek and with manuscript annotation, occasional light spotting and dust-soiling, later endpapers, contemporary calf, loss at head & foot of spine and minor wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Alvares (Manuel), Emmanuelis Alvari e Societate Iesu Grammatica, sive, Institutionum linguae Latinae, 4 parts in one, Antwerp: Jacobum Meursium, 1665, [1662-1666], woodcut device to each title, general title with early inscription, bound with De Arte Rhetorica Libri Tres ex Aristotele, Cicerone, et Quintiliano praecipue deprompti Auctore Cypriano Soarez Sacerdote Societatis Jesu, Antwerp: Jacobum Meursium, 1663, woodcut device to title, light dust-soiling at front & rear, contemporary calf, worn with loss at head & foot of spine, lacking title label, 8vo, with Coelemann (Peter), Opus Prosodicum Graecum Novum, in quo syllabarum Graecarum positione, Diphthongis, & Vocabulis longis carentium, Quantitates ex Orthodoxis Patribus, Philosophis, Historicis, Oratoribus & Poetis Graecis..., Frankfurt: Jonae Rosae, 1651, woodcut illustration to title, worming to leaves at rear of volume, dust-soiled, contemporary sheep, worn, 8vo, plus one other incomplete 18th c. antiquarian volume. See Adams H480 for first title. -4
Lot 324
May (Thomas). The History of the Parliament of England: which began November the third, MDCXL, with a Short and Necessary View of some Precedent Yeares, Written by Thomas May Esquire, Secretary for the Parliament, 3 parts in one, 1st ed., 1647, imprimatur leaf, title printed in red and black with engraved rose and crown device, later endpapers, contemporary calf, old reback strengthened to upper joint, some wear to extremities, folio, together with Charles I, A Large Declaration Concerning the Late Tumults in Scotland, from their First Originalls: Together with a Particular Deduction of the Seditious Practices of the prime Leaders of the Covenanters: Collected Out of Their Owne soule Acts and Writings..., 1639, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary speckled calf, joints slightly cracked, frayed at head & foot of spine, small folio -2
Lot 331
Pole (Reginald). Libri Duo... Primus Liber de Concilio agit: alter, de Reformatione Angliae... [ed. P. Manutius], 1562, bound with De Divinis, Apostolicis, atque Ecclesiasticis Traditionibus... by Martin Perez Ayala, Colone, 1560, a few light spots, previous owner inscriptions to first title, later vellum, 8vo. First work Adams P1749. -1
Lot 334
Raleigh (Sir Walter). Judicious and Select Essays and Observations upon the First Invention of Shipping. Invasive War. The Navy Royal and Sea-Service. With his Apologie for his Voyage to Guiana, 4 parts in one, 2nd ed., 1667, engraved portrait frontis., lacking three part titles and some preliminaries, a few minor spots, later sprinkled calf gilt, jponts and edges a little rubbed, 8vo. Wing R171. Contains early appearances of ‘Tobaccho’ and ‘Tobacco’ on pages 24 and 34 in the final part. -1
Lot 338
Seward (Anna). Llangollen Vale, with other Poems, 1st ed., G.Sael, 1796, 48pp., half-title inscribed ‘from the author’ and with addition inscription ‘This is a presentation copy from Miss Seward to George Romney & was purchased by me at the Romney sale at Christies May 1894’, aquatint vignette to title, some browning to first & last leaves, edges untrimmed, 20th c. boards, slightly marked and worn, slim 4to, together with Yorke (Philip), The Royal Tribes of Wales, by Philip Yorke, Esq. of Erthig, Wrexham: printed by John Painter, 1799, twelve engraved plates, front blank inscribed by the author, occasional spotting and few marks, contemporary half calf, upper joint cracked and slight wear to extremities, 4to -2
Lot 343
Theresa of Avila (Saint). Avisos Espirituales de Santa Theresa de Jesus, Comentados por el Padre Alonso de Andrade de la Compania de Jesus, Part I only, Barcelona, En Casa de Cormellas, por Tomas Loriente, [1646], xxiv + 528pp., title with woodcut vignette, browning to several leaves towards front of volume, fraying to initial leaves, occasional minor marks, contemp. limp vellum with title handwritten in ink to spine, rubbed, covered detached, 8vo. Rare. The first part of a two-part work, this volume containing all the commentaries and the first 34 (of 69) of St. TheresaÂ’s Avisos or Admonitions. Not in NUC or OCLC catalogue (as stated in a letter from the Houghton Library at Harvard, dated January 19, 2000, to a previous owner of the volume, included with this lot). -1
Lot 361
Newton (Isaac). The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To which is PrefixÂ’d, a Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great, 1st edition, 1728, thick paper issue, engraved vignette and initial to second leaf, three folding engraved plates, spotting throughout, some marginal browning from turn-ins to first and last leaves, engraved armorial bookplate of Nicholas Aylward Vigors [1785-1840, F.L.S., F.R.S., Irish zoologist and politician] to front pastedown, with manuscript note above by the subsequent owner Mr Vowell indicating it was purchased for two shillings from VigorÂ’s sale on 7th May 1841, contemporary panelled calf, some corner wear, good quality antique-style reback, 4to. Babson 214 First edition of NewtonÂ’s attempt to employ astronomical principles to verify the chronology of ancient history. Published posthumously a year after his death, this was NewtonÂ’s last published work. -1
Lot 363
Pasteur (Louis). Etudes sur la biere ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent procede pour la rendre inalterable avec une Theorie nouvelle de la germentation, first edition, Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876, half-title, twelve engraved plates, further black and white illustrations to text, pages mostly uncut, original orange printed wrappers, slight rubbed, 8vo -1
Lot 373
Watson (James Dewey & Crick, Francis Harry Compton). ‘Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids. A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid’, and ‘Genetical Implications of the Structure of Dioxyribonucleic Acid’, pp. 737-38 and 964-67 in Nature, vol. 171, 1953, contemp. lib. buckram, sl. soiled, lge. thick 8vo. Garrison Morton 752.1. Watson and Crick shared the Nobel Prize with M.F.H. Wilkins for the molecular structure of DNA. The first article is followed by two related articles by Wilkins, Stokes, Wilson, Gosling and Rosalind Franklin. -1
Lot 374
Arne (Thomas Augustine 1710-78). Songs in the Masque of Alfred, printed for J. Walsh, [1751], engraved plates, some dust-staining to initial and final leaves, 20th century marbled paper covered boards, folio. First performed on 1 August 1740 at the Prince of Wales’ country home, with libretto by D. Mallet and J. Thomson, and featuring “Rule Britania”. -1
Lot 375
Arne (Thomas Augustine 1710-78). Love in a Village, a Comic Opera as it is PerformÂ’d at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden, first edition, printed for I. Walsh, [1763], engraved title page, 62pp engraved score with text, textblock only, a little dust-staining throughout, oblong folio. First performed at Covent Garden in December 1762 with the theatreÂ’s manager Mr Beard as Hawthorne. -1
Lot 380
Britten (Benjamin, 1913-1976). Peter Grimes, an Opera in three Acts and a Prologue derived from the poem of George Crabbe, Words by Montagu Slater, Op. 33, Boosey & Hawkes, [1945], a little spotting to initial pages, numbered 14 of an unknown edition, presented to Mrs Frank Bridge, signed by the composer to first initial blank, morocco-backed iullustrated boards, a little rubbed, 4to, together with two SadlerÂ’s Wells programs, including one for the first performance of Peter Grimes 7 June 1945, Peter Grimes was first performed at SadlerÂ’s Wells, London on 7 June 1945 It was the first of BrittenÂ’s operas to be a critical and popular success, and surprised both audiences and critics alike with its originality. Thought by many to be BrittenÂ’s operatic masterpiece, it has long been seen as a turning point in the history of British opera. Frank Bridge (1879-1941) met his wife Ethel at the Royal College of Music. He discovered the eleven-year old Britten and gave him the technical foundation on which to base his creativity. BrittenÂ’s affection for his teacher is well documented. -3
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