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Lot 231
GIBBENS, Nicholas - Questions and disputations concerning the Holy Scriptures : - the first part of the first Tome, cont. vellum, 4to, Felix Kyngston, title-page badly torn with loss, apart from light staining and marginal wear to the first 4 leaves the rest of the book appears complete and in good order, 1602.
Lot 245
HUGHES, Ted - Cave Birds : illust. Leonard Baskin, cloth in d/w, oblong 4to, Faber & Faber, first ed, 1978. The Coming of the Kings, cloth in d/w, 8vo, Faber & Faber, first ed, 1970. Mood Bells, pictorial boards, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, first ed, 1978. What is the Truth, illust. R.J.Lloyd, cloth in d/w, oblong 4to, Faber & Faber, first ed, 1984. With 12 other literary magazines and paperbacks, two of which are SIGNED BY TED HUGHES. (16)
Lot 290
SMOLLETT, T(obias) - Travels Through France and Italy : 2 vols, cont. calf contrasting red morocco labels rubbed, 8vo, first ed, 1766. With - The Works of Virgil, translated into English verse by Mr. Dryden, cont. calf contrasting red morocco labels rubbed on spines, tall 8vo, 1803; and 4 volumes of Don Quixote. (9)
Lot 315
THE NAVAL CHRONICLE : Vols 1 - 32 a continuous run of the first 32 vols (40 published), ports, maps, cont. green half calf, tall 8vo, margin of some volumes bear the signs of burn damage not affecting the text, a couple of boards detached. 1799-1814. * sold as a periodical, not subject to return
Lot 322
AINSWORTH, William - Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldaea:, forming part of the labours of the Euphrates Expedition : frontispiece, 3 folding plans, org. cloth re-backed, 8vo, 1838. With - Rich, Claudius James - Narrative of a Journey to the Site of Babylon in 1811, now first published : frontispiece, 4 plates, 20 folding or double-page plates, calf rebacked, 8vo, 1839. With - Barker, William Burckhardt - Lare and Penates: or, Cilicia and its Governors frontispiece, folding map, full calf, 8vo, 1853. With one other. (4)
Lot 579A
MANUSCRIPT COOKERY BOOK : first 80 pages (or so) medical receipts (inc.` pickled mushrooms,` ` Influenza in Horses,` ` Presentation of Dead Bodies.` ) + approx. 50 pages of cookery/household recipes, one page dated 1852, the hand (various) then changes (dated 1880s) over 60 pages of cookery recipes, vellum, stout 8vo, later half nineteenth century. * provenance : Bournemouth ?
Lot 584A
AGATHA CHRISTIE: A typed and signed letter on Winterbrook House notepaper dated 16th May 1974, replying to Miss Patricia Spencer, who was a deputy director of the British Red Cross Society. Christie is agreeing to an half-hour interview about her days as a VAD nurse at Torquay Town Hall during the First World War; together with a group of newspaper cuttings and souvenir issues and a group of paperback editions of most of her works.
Lot 31
AARON EDWIN PENLEY (1807-1870)The Ferry, pencil and watercolour, heightened with white 5 1/2 x 10 1/2in (13.9 x 26.6cm) Aaron Penley first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, but his main allegiance was to the New Society of Painters in Watercolours where he showed 308 works over his lifetime. He received royal patronage and was appointed watercolour-painter in ordinary to William 1V and Queen Adelaide. He painted Queen Victoria and taught her son Prince Arthur.
Lot 65
‡A COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY PATRICK PHILLIPS, A.R.W,S., R.P. (1907-1976), 1926-29 Trained at the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting under Francis E Jackson, Charles Shannon and Glyn Philpot.1933 onwards teaching at the Byam Shaw School,1940-45 War Service, 1946-55 Co-Principal of the Byam Shaw School.1954 elected to the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.1968 elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours.1977 The Chantrey Bequest purchased his portrait of Mrs Carter Gifford for the Nation. Phillips’ portraits are widely held in the National Collections as well as Tate. His commissioned work included leading personalities of the age - among them the Queen Mother. Regarded by his masters and his students as a draughtsman of exceptional talent, his work, based on unerring drawing, subtlety of tone and sensitive brushwork, goes further than mere technical merit and displays a profound empathy for his subjects. Phillips was something of a naturalist, a real countryman, and his landscapes in oil and watercolour capture rapidly and with simplicity the weather and lights of England and France. Emotion. ‘This is the Key to all work that is of any consequence’. Drawing. ‘ is to my mind the simplest method of showing the structure of things... because of its simplicity and structural ability, it is of first importance to all Artists and Craftsmen’. Portraiture. ‘The essential of a portrait as opposed to a head or figure painting, is a portrayal of the character of the sitter. To make this portrayal tell to best advantage the lighting must be simple and fall fairly fully on the features, thus producing a readable pattern of tone. The colour scheme should be kept simple so that the portrait can predominate.The simpler the pose, colour and tonal design, the more the portrait will tell’...... from the artist’s notebooks PATRICK PHILLIPS ARWS RP (1907-1976) A Folio Box containing unframed pencil, ink and wash sketches, mostly figure studies and portraits, subjects include: ‘The Philatelist’; ’Kneeling female nude’; ‘A seated female Nude’; and ‘Standing male Nude’, varying sizes 15 x 11 in (38.2 x 27.9cm) and smaller; (approx 100)
Lot 73
‡PATRICK PHILLIPS ARWS RP (1907-1976) ’Saturday Morning’- Biddy wearing a grey and white dress and brown jacket, holding a cigarette, signed and dated ‘Phillips 1957’ (lower right) oil on canvas 42 x 31 in (106.7 x 78.7cm) Exhibited: The Royal Academy, London 1958 under the title ‘Brown Study’. Air Commodore Bridget ‘‘Biddy’’ Grundy, nee Martin OBE (1920-1998), was the daughter of Major Charles Hamilton Martin and Katharine Mary, nee Nettlefold. A close friend of the Phillips family. Witty, highly intelligent and resilient this portrait captures Biddy laying aside her professional and public persona and in a more reflective and intimate mood. Biddy had a meteoric career in the WAAF/later WRAF and was the first woman (the Director apart) to acquire Air Commodore Rank.
Lot 83
‡PATRICK PHILLIPS ARWS RP (1907-1976) Portrait of Lady Joan Cunninghame, quarter-length, wearing a blue dress with diamond brooch, and a pearl necklace, signed ‘Phillips’ (lower right) oil on canvas 24 x 20 in (60.8 x 50.8cm) In a carved and gilded frame. This portrait was commissioned by the sitter’s husband, Col. Wallace Cunninghame of Caprington Castle, Kilmarnock. The sitter Lady Joan Cunninghame was the second daughter of the seventh Earl Fitzwilliam, and as a child grew up at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, During World War II the sitter’s first husband Capt Grismond Philipps was Commander of the Company guarding the Royal Family at Windsor Castle.
Lot 4
Ecclesiastical – English Civil War A Relation of the Conference between William Laud then Lord Bishop of St Davids^ now Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Mr Fisher the Jesuite by the Command of King James of ever Blessed Memorie with an answer to such exceptions as AC takes against it... London 1639. Original calf boards a little rubbed^ interior contents appear good^ folio 388pp. This was seen at the time by the increasingly entrenched Charles I as proof that his Archbishop’s doctrine was far from that of the Roman Catholics^ a vital element in his growing and continuing battle in Scotland against the Presbyterians. It did little however to absolve Laud from the nickname north of the border of ‘The Pope of Canterbury’. Religious discontent was one of the major elements in the outbreak of the Civil War three years later. This is considered the ‘second’ edition of this work – the first appearing as part two of Francis White’s ‘Replie’. This version was however greatly expanded before publication.
Lot 136
WWII – Nazis – the SS a complete register of the members of the SS dated December 31st 1938. Folio^ black cloth covers with embossed title in white lettering ‘Diestaltersliste der Schutstaffel’ [Seniority list of the protection staff]. The first two pages lists 53 officers of the SS who had died prior to the publication of the list. There is then approx 425pp of listings of the living members of the SS at the time of publication. The lists record name^ decorations^ such as the awards of the Sword of Honour^ their rank and division^ their party number^ their SS number^ date of birth and promotion details. Himmler heads the list^ which also includes some of the most heinous war criminals of all time^ such as Adolf Eichmann^ and Reinhardt Heydrich. An alphabetic index is at the rear^ together with some statistical information on the areas covered by the SS Divisions. It is unlikely that many other copies of this book exist. The present copy has an intriguing history: it belonged to a British SOE Agent who was sent to Nazi Germany during the early 1930s in order to infiltrate Nazi high command. He no doubt obtained this register in order to provide important information on who was in the SS and who he could therefore trust.
Lot 179
Historic Newspapers – Strand Magazine – Paranormal – Literature – Arthur Conan Doyle – the Cottingley Fairies edition of the Strand Magazine for Christmas 1920 in which is published for the first time Conan Doyle’s sensational assertion that two young girls in the village of Cottingley^ Yorks^ not only encountered fairies but also photographed them. The story took the post WWI world by storm and remained an intriguing mystery for most of the 20th c with the photographs defying even sophisticated scientific analysis – and was only finally unmasked as a well intentioned hoax by the girls when one of them^ as an elderly lady finally confessed on a television programme. The edition also carried original stories by P G Wodehouse and ‘Sapper’ amongst others.
Lot 210
Ecclesiastical – Sermons volume of approx 22 first edition printed sermons from 1692-1749^ each preached on the occasion of the celebration of the Restoration of Charles II^(Oak Apple Day) 4to^ calf binding little rubbed and loose but interior contents appear generally good throughout^ with ms list in an 18th c hand
Lot 212
Naval The New Navy List containing the names of all the commissioned officers in Her MajestyÂ’s Fleet....compiled by Charles Haultain^ Commander Royal Navy^ 1843 first edition^ 8vo 330pp^ original marbled boards rubbed but interior contents appear complete and in generally good order throughout. A very useful reference work.
Lot 213
Antique maps - America ? Fort du Quense Pittsburg rare printed plan of the Fort du Quense Pittsburg ?before it was destroyed in 1758? contained in a composite volume of the Grand Magazine of Magazines^ vol 2 for January ?June 1759. Original calf binding^ 8vo 372pp plus index. Appears complete and in generally good condition throughout. Other features include a depiction of a Dodo^ a map of the Province of Pennsylvania^ a New Chart of South America^ a Curious Map of some late discoveries in the terra Australis comprehending New Guinea and New Britain and various other charts and maps. A considerable number of articles on a wide variety of subjects. The Plan of Fort du Quense is rare. It shows what became modern Pittsburgh and also Braddock?s Fields where General Braddock was mortally wounded and ?the Redoubt? a fortification located further upstream along the Allegheny. This map might have some claim to be ?the first map of Pittsburgh?
Lot 239
Literature – Michael Drayton^ Elizabethan Poet England’s Heroical Epistals by Michael Drayton Esq^ London^ John Smethwicke 1637. 16mo^ modern binding^ interior contents in generally good order. Lacking engraved title page. An early edition of one of the major works by Drayton^ first published in 1597.
Lot 295
Popular verse handbill bearing two examples of verse^ c1830s both with woodcut title pieces – the first called ‘The Queen of Merry England’ in praise of the newly crowned Queen Victoria^ the second called ‘The Gipsey Girl’. Printed by Birt^ Printer^ 39 Great Str Andrew Street^ Seven Dials ‘Printing of every description done Cheap’. Approx size 26x20cm^ affixed to a backing sheet but in good order
Lot 335
Judaica photo album featuring approx 94 snapshots taken of the Kibbutz and the people working and living there at the time – c1920s/30s. Shots show individuals and groups^ some children^ people working on the land^ people building new accommodation huts^ general views of the Kibbutz and the surrounding land. An important record of what is regarded as the first Kibbutz
Lot 427
Admission ticket to Vauxhall pleasure gardens – an original printed admission ticket to the gardens with the permission ‘Admit Two – Globe’ with ms insertion ‘Tuesday July thirteen 1847’ and signed A Gore. Rare. Vauxhall Pleasure gardens was the most famous place of its kind in the country – particularly towards the end of the 18th c. First freely open^ charges were later made to access the many attractions^ but following the bankruptcy of the owners the gardens were sold in 1841 and closed permanently in 1859. The site can still be visited today on the banks of the Thames in London.
Lot 433A
India – Punjab – First Hand Account of the Sikh Wars. A Year on The Punjab Frontier^ in 1848-49 by Major Herbert B Edwardes^ London^ Richard Bentley^ 1st edition 1851. From the Library of Sir John Lawrence^ (Baron Lawrence of the Punjaub & Viceroy of India) with his bookplate to volume I^ with a handwritten transcript of a critique by John Ruskinthe writer and philanthropist John Ruskin stating this perfect book should have a place in every English library. Also contains a 4pp. Handwritten transcript of a review by the author’s wife Emma Edwardes asking Sir George Forrest whether it would be desirable if the book a ‘Year in the Punjab Frontier’ should have a condensed single volume edition as well. Two volumes. Contemporary three quarter calf with gilt compartments to spine. Vol I - xxiii^ 608 pp. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Edwardes^ & 4 plates (lacks map). Contents include: Vol II - xiv^ 734 pp. Colour frontispiece & 2 other colour plates & 2 folding. Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes (1819–1868) was an English administrator^ soldier^ and statesman active in the Punjab^ India. Edwardes served as ADC to Gough during the First Anglo-Sikh War and fought at Mudki on 18 December 1845^ where he was wounded^ and at the final bloody rout of the Sikhs at Sobraon on 10 February 1846. Following the Sikh defeat in the First Anglo-Sikh War (1846–47)^ the Punjab came to be ruled by a British Resident seated at the historic capital of Lahore^ supported by a Council of Regency acting for the infant Maharaja Duleep Singh. In 1846^ aged 27^ Edwardes was appointed by the new British Resident Sir Henry Lawrence^ as Assistant Resident. He is best known as the ""Hero of Multan"" for securing the British victory in the Second Anglo-Sikh War. On 22 January 1849 Diwan Mulraj surrendered^ following negotiations directed by Edwardes. Sir Henry Lawrence praised Edwardes`s pivotal role in the war^ stating that ""Since the days of Clive no man had done as Edwardes”
Lot 458
India Maharajah Duleep Singh Privately Printed Biography – fine 1884 first edition of Maharajah Duleep Singh & The Government^ 171pp^ privately printed for private circulation amongst Duleep Singh’s inner circle and nobles of rank. The book was the Maharajah’s auto-biography giving personal accounts and recollections of his childhood in Lahore^ his time as the ruler of the Sikhs^ his exile from the Punjab and his mistreatment by the British Government. The book was an appeal to the establishment and publications to gather support from his peers for a settlement of his financial affairs. Bound in dark red half calf by Sangorski^ with gilt edges and titles. Very rare.
Lot 461
India – rare Engraving of Maharajah Duleep Singh – fine steel engraving titled Submission of the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh to Sir Henry Hardinge^ at Kanha Cushwa^ Feb 19^ 1846^ engraved by H K Browne & Young^ and published by Tallis. Measures 28cm x 18cms. Duleep Singh’s army was defeated by the British in the First Anglo Sikh War of 1846 and he is shown here submitting to the Governor General of the British India Lord Hardinge.
Lot 464
India – rare Book on Shaheed Bhagat Singh A scarce book titled Bhagat Singh and his Comrades^ by one his colleagues Ajoy Kumar Ghosh^ who was Bhagat Singh’s comrade-in-arms and fellow accused in the Lahore Conspiracy Case 1st edition^ 1945^ 35pp^ with a 1946 presentation inscription on title page^ soft covers. Ajoy first met Bhagat Singh in Lahore in 1923 introduced by B K Dutt^ both were 15 year olds^ and became comrades in the Ghadar Party. In 1929 after the infamous Assembly Bomb^ Bhagat Singh and Dutt was arrested on the spot and Ajoy and his companions some days later after the accidental discovery of their bomb factory. Ajoy and his 12 companions where produced in court and here he met Bhagat Singh again^ and remarked ‘No longer was he the Bhagat Singh of the magnificent physique whose strength had been a byword in our party. A shadow of his former self^ weak and emancipated^ he was carried into the court on a stretcher’. Ajoy joined Bhagats hunger strike^ but on the farcical trial Bhagat Singh^ Rajguru and Sukhdev were sentenced to death by hanging^ while 7 of the men transported for life^ the others including Ajoy were acquitted due to lack of evidence. Amazing first hand and detailed account of Bhagat Singh last years from a man who had been part of his revolutionary party. Bhagat Singh (1907-31^) a Sikh Ja born in the Punjab^ was an Indian socialist considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. His legacy prompted youth in India to begin fighting for Indian independence and he continues to be a youth idol in modern India
Lot 465
India Sikh Pilot Hardit Singh Malik Photograph A vintage photograph of the first Indian Royal Flying Corps Pilot who fought gallantly in the WW1 and known for his dogfights with the infamous Red Baron. He later became the Indian High Commissioner in Canada. Photograph has stamped date on reverse 9th July 1938. Measurers 23cms x 18cms
Lot 475
India and the Punjab fine group of four ms letters written from India by a British resident 1842 to 1846 with a later letter written from Calcutta in 1887. In the first three letters the writer describes in some considerable detail the life he is leading in India^ with observations on the local population^ local conditions^ weather^ flora and fauna etc as well as his own business dealings. In the letter of 1846 he also makes reference to the Sikh Wars: ‘...I see by the papers you have heard of our wars^ our Victorious Line being the saving of the country and our own throats. There was a regular conspiracy organised^ it extended even amongst the native troops^ and though the government will not allow matters to be published we on the spot know all the plan was that on the defeat of our troops by the Sheiks [sic] (which was fully calculated on) the whole of the independent states and discontented parties were to rise simultaneously and massacre the European population throughout – we have escaped thank God this time...’
Lot 489
India – Punjab two colour printed handbills^ possibly used for recruiting Sikh troops for WWII^ the first featuring a Sikh figure in the mode of the famous Kitchener WWI poster^ and the second showing a Sikh soldier with images of the sort of India which he should protect – both with detailed printed slogans in Hindi. Both approx 18x13cm. Both in good condition.
Lot 583
A regimental silk framed panel - The Gloucestershire Regiment showing two half lowered flags, one a Union Jack, the second detailing the regiment`s manoeuvres in the Boer War 1899/02 together with a pith helmet, military papers for Charles Samuel Burge, Gloucestershire Regiment, mainly relating to the First World War and after
Lot 920
Four Royal Mail boxed presentation packs containing a large quantity of mint stamps, two further box files containing First Day Covers (1970s and 1980s), two boxed files containing further Royal Mail mint stamp collections, a shoebox containing a quantity of loose stamps, postcards and further mint collections together with six volumes of the Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World
Lot 929
A miscellaneous collection of six first editions comprising On Her Majesties Secret Service, Ian Fleming 1963 New American Library, The Looking-Glass War by John le Carr 1965, a Burnt Out Case by Graham Greene 1961 (first English language edition), Men At Arms by Evelyn Waugh 1952, The Espionage Establishment by D Wise & T B Ross 1967 together with a copy of The Second Man by Edward Grierson 1956 (second printing)
Lot 947
A small collection of miscellaneous books including a Portfolio of Photographs compiled by J L Stoddart, published by the Western Mail, Cardiff, a Book Club edition of The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming, published 1962, a 1920 edition of Little Women, the first authorised British paperback edition of Lady Chatterley`s Lover by D H Lawrence, etc
Lot 949
A large miscellaneous collection of books to include a first edition of Love Story by Erich Segal, first edition of As I Walked Out One Mid-Summer Morning by Laurie Lee, first edition of The Nearest Way Home by Daphne Fielding together with further books on gardening, including an edition of Beautiful Gardens of The World with an inscription by Tony Snowdon (from the library of Oliver Messell), together with a copy of Webster`s New International Dictionary (second edition)
Lot 951
An interesting collection of mid-20th century travel adventure and photography books, some foreign language editions, titles include a first edition of The Lost Camels of Tartary by John Hare, signed by the author, Dekho! The India That Was by Elizabeth Crawford Wilkin complete with slip cover, Mon Paris - Photographies de Sanford H Roth, texte de Aldous Huxley, etc
Lot 965
A miscellaneous collection of books comprising a first edition of The Captains Death Bed and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press 1950 complete with dust jacket, a first edition of Literature and Science by Aldous Huxley, Chatto & Windus 1963, complete with dust jacket, a first edition of Hurrah For St Tinian`s and Other Lapses by Ronald Searle 1948, The Female Approach With Masculine Sidelights by Ronald Searle (seventh impression) June 1951, Indian Album by Cecil Beaton, published B T Batsford Limited 1945-6, Jane`s Fighting Ships 1942, etc
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