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Click here to subscribeAn early 19th century manuscript recipe book, culinery, medicinal, and household, with an index to the first four leaves, the principal text of 124 pages (numbered) and including recipes for mince pies, India pickle, Buckingham puddings, stewed pigeons, orange marmalade, calves feet jelly, grape wine, Dr Oliver's biscuits, Fitzherbert pudding, green gooseberry wine, ginger beer, and others, vellum bound.
A pair of sailors embroidered panels, worked in woollen threads. The first with a central photograph of a sailor from HMS Raleigh surrounded by embroidered draped flags, trailing roses and topped by a crown, and the second featuring a masted British ship also surrounded by draped flags. Mounted, glazed and framed, 30.5 x 30cm & 33.5 x 28.5cm
A Minton globe pot pourri, circa 1825-30, painted with a landscape view titled 'Near Verona' and florally encrusted with green twig handles, underglaze blue crossed swords to the cover, (flowers chipped), 26cm overall diameter, 16cm high. Note: See Godden G.A, Minton Pottery and Porcelain of the First Series 1793-1850, Herbert Jenkins, 1968, plates 95-97
A Country House library bookcase, early 19th century, mahogany, satinwood and marquetry, the ball moulded stepped cornice and scrolling leaf marquetry inlaid frieze over four rectangular glazed cabinet doors with outer chequered ebony stringing and double arched glazing bars opening to reveal adjustable shelves, the centre section with deep double conch shell inlaid secretaire drawer front opening to reveal an arrangement of four short graduated centre drawers flanked by five pigeonholes over a long shallow drawer and long narrow pigeonhole with a single oval panel cabinet door to each end, the secretaire drawer over two urn and swag inlaid cabinet doors revealing two pull-out trays flanked by a crossbanded and marquetry inlaid cabinet door to each end depicting the arts, opening to reveal an arrangement of five graduated, mahogany fronted drawers fitted with brass, rectangular swing handles with hexagonal discs, raised on four short square tapering front Adam inspired feet, 255cm wide, 260cm high to the centre, 60cm deep to the centre. Provenance listed in the catalogue of the Riccall Hall sale, Yorkshire, lot number 686, the sale by order of the executers of the late Lord Danesfort, K. C., J. P., the sale, a three day sale, September 24th, 25th and 26th 1935, auctioneers Richardson and Trotter, York, the bookcase has a chalk inscription to the back 'From Riccall Hall, September 28th 1935', Lord Danesfort formally John George Butcher, Barron Danesfort (1853-1935), Lord Danesfort was captured by 'Spy, characterturist and portrait painter for Vanity Fair Sir Lesley Ward (1851-1922), a published watercolour in Vanity Fair, November 1901 of John George Butcher, Barron Danesfort, he was later noted in 1934 as a champion of the Southern Irish loyalist along with Lord William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish and Lord Edward Henry Carlson.The bookcase design draws influence from Chippendale, Hepplewhite and Adam and is most probably Irish from the first quarter of the 19th century.
Hall (Edith King). Adventures in Toyland, nd., [c1897], colour plates, a.e.g., pictorial cloth; Parker (B. & N.). Cinderella At The Zoo, nd., first edition, 16 chromolithos. (one detached and edge frayed, illustrated boards (becoming detached); Fougasse. Drawn at A Venture, 1922, 4to., pictorial boards; Lucas (Mrs Seymour). Granny's Story Box, nd., chromolitho. plates, cloth-backed illustrated boards; with a small quantity of others (qty)
Harris (Joel Chandler) 'Uncle Remus'. Daddy Jake The Runaway and Short Stories Told After Dark, 1890, 4to., first English edition, pictorial cloth; Crossland (T.W.H.). Grant Richards's Children's Annual for 1904, 4to., cloth; Gomme (Alice B.). Children's Singing Games, 1894, cloth; with a quantity of related volumes (12) (qty)
Richardson (Samuel Tuke). Splutterings of a Sporting Pen, nd., oblong folio, cloth-backed pictorial wraps; id., Some Episodes in the Zetland Hunt Point to Point Steeplechase, nd. [c1892], oblong 4to., pictorial wraps; id., The World's First Railway Jubilee, 1876, oblong folio, cloth backed pictorial wraps; id., The Friends in Council, nd., oblong folio, cloth, with two others, one an 1875 second edition, both in cloth-backed pictorial wraps (6)
Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, first edition, cloth; [Bannerman (Helen)]. The Story of Little Black Quibba, nd, green pictorial cloth; The Tell-Tale, 1823 [bound with] Hofer the Tyrolese, 1824, engraved plates, half calf; Little Coons A.B.C., Dean's Nursery Series, card wraps; Gibbs (May). Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, nd., cloth-backed pictorial boards; with six others (11)
Lear (Edward). Nonsense Drolleries, 1889, cloth-backed boards; Gorse (Golden). Moorland Mousie, 1929, first edition, illustrated by Lionel Edwards, dust wrapper; Prior (Enid) & Camm (Florence). Bushland Broadcast, 1933, signed by author and illustrator, pictorial boards; with a quantity of others (qty)
Lady Wheeler Cuffe (Charlotte)-Original Artwork. A collection of watercolours and sketches including approx 40 views of Burma and Korea, (some unfinished, some initialed 'C.I.W.C.and dated 1897-1907), one envelope of other material refers to sketches by Lady Cuffe., some earlier works initialed C.I.W., includes 22 watercolours mounted in defective album (Note; Lady Wheeler Cuffe (nee Williams) 1867-1967 travelled to Burma with her husband, an Imperial official, she was the first botanical artist to reach some of the remote areas of the country). Provenance; Lyrath House, Co. Kilkenny (qty)
Story (Jack Trevor). Live Now, Pay Later, 1963, first edition, dust wrapper; Tanner (William 'Bill'). The Book of Bond, 1965, first edition, reversible dust wrapper; Crisp (Quentin) The Naked Civil Servant, 1968, first edition, dust wrapper; Deighton (Len) Only When I Larf, 1968, first cloth edition, dust wrapper; with a quantity of related volumes (qty)
Fleming (Ian). Thunderball, 1961, Cape, first edition, dark brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamped skeletal hand to upper board, dust wrapper; id., You Only Live Twice, 1964, first edition, black cloth with silver spine lettering and gilt Japanese lettering to upper board, dust wrapper (2)
The Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Bronte . Villette, Shirley, The Professor, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, 1922, 6 vols., colour illustrations by Edmund Dulac, Riviere half calf, spines faded; Gaskell (E.C.). The Life of Charlotte Bronte, 1857, 2 vols., first edition, recent half calf; with two related volumes (10)
First World War. An Album, containing letters, official documents, maps, photographs, etc. relating to Cyril Pease who served as an ambulance driver with the Red Cross on the Italian Front from 1915 to 1917 and then applied for a Commission in the Royal Naval Air Service; An Album, containing photographs, watercolours of the battlefield, cards, letters, map, etc. relating to Pease family members with POW, Medical and W. Yorks interest; Tatham (M.) & Miles (J.E.) The Friends Ambulance Unit 1914-19, nd., [c1919], folding maps, cloth; Shields (Hugh John Sladen) A War Diary, August 12th-October 25th, 1914, Royal Army Medical Corps, medical officer to Irish Guards, killed in action, private printing, card wraps (spine worn); Trevelyan (G.M.) Scenes from Italy's War, 1919, cloth; with six Red Cross journals (11), with a further album and quantity of related letters, photographs etc
Railways. Griffiths (Roger) & Hooper (John). Great Northern Railway Engine Sheds, 1989-2000, 3 vols., 4to., first editions, dust wrappers; Kelley (Philip J.). Road Vehicles of the Great Western Railway, 1980-82, 2 vols., 4to., dust wrappers; Cummings (John). Railway Motor Buses and Bus Services...1902-1933, 1978-80, 2 vols., first editions, dust wrappers; with eleven others (18)
Quaker Family History, Memoirs and Memorials. Friends of a Half Century, 1891, large 8vo, cloth; Hill (William I.). Willem Sewel of Amsterdam, the First Quaker Historian of Quakerism, 1933, cloth; Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, 1847, 2 vols., cloth; Orme (Eliza), Lady Fry of Darlington, 1898, cloth; Budge (Frances Anne). The Barclays of Ury, 1881, cloth; with a quantity of others (qty)
Henry Pease Archive. A collection of 19th century material relating to Henry Pease M.P. and the town of Darlington, contained in three albums, the archive includes numerous manuscript letters, documents and broadsides relating to the 1859 South Durham Election, a number of interesting anti-Quaker election posters, printed speeches, items on education and the Board of Health in Darlington, plans, proposals for the new park, as well as material relating to Henry Pease's peace mission to Russia with two leather wallets containing his passports. [note; Henry Pease, 1807-1881, played a major role in the development of the railway, opening the Stainmore line in 1861 and founding Saltburn as a railway resort, MP for South Durham 1857-1865, he was the first mayor of Darlington. A Quaker, in 1854 he travelled to Russia with two others to meet the Emperor Nicholas in an attempt to avoid the Crimean War. DNB),
Shackleton (E.H.). The Heart of the Antarctic, 1909, 2 vols., colour plates, one folding map only in rear pocket, cloth; Nansen (Fridtjof) The First Crossing of Greenland, 1890, 2 vols., folding maps, cloth (worn with loss); Fitz Gerald (E.A.) The Highest Andes, 1899, folding maps, cloth (5)
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![Barrie (J.M.). Peter and Wendy, nd., [1911], first edition, 12 plates and illustrated title page by Bedford, decorative clot](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10041/2748757/20-165-10041_468x382.jpg)
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