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Click here to subscribeA Large Kraakporselein Blue and White Dish, first half 17th century, the octagonal centre painted in greyish blue with vase of flowers on a rock plinth, cliffs and crags seen across the terrace beyond, the everted rim divided into typical compartments of Precious Objects, repeated triple flowerheads in between, unglazed footrim interior with chatter marks, 49.7cm (glued chip on rim, fritting)
An Eastern European Turned Wood and Polychrome Painted Sewing Necessaire, as an onion domed kiosk, of circular section with eight arched windows to the stepped first stage, with moulded and "tiled" lower roof supporting an onion dome on a crenellated collar, the onion unscrewing to reveal a dished recess and pin cushion, the lower section containing a bodkin case and cover, 18cm high
R-Type Continental Sales Brochures Four items describing and illustrating this most desirable of post war grand tourers. The first item is 1955 model year being a large format (31x24cm), 8 page b/w brochure with light blue card covers embossed with blue script giving full illustrations, technical specifications and prices. Very slight damp damage to centre pages and a small amount of staining to front cover. Plus 1953 catalogue of smaller format (25x19cm), 12 b/w pages with blue embossed card covers in excellent condition and 2 factory-reprinted road tests from The Autocar. (4)
Large Dunlop Two Piece Tin Sign Dating from 1930's advertising 'Fort' tyres. Features a Turner image of the first petrol car from 1888 below the slogan 'Leave the Past' and above 'Dunlop Fort. The Tyre For Modern Motoring'. Complete but faded with an extensive patina of rust but still impressive. 90x120cm
Tonga Islands, a lure hook, with whalebone shank, pearl-shell plate and barbed turtle shell point, with fibre snood bindings and hackle, 6.25in long; together with a plaited woven fibre carrying strap; and two Maori lure hooks, carved wood shanks with abalone-shell plates and barbed bone points, 6.5in and 6in long, all first half of the 19th century. (4)
WHITEFIELD, GEORGE. A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia. In Two Parts. Part 1. From London to Gibraltar. Part II. From Gibraltar to Savannah. The fifth edition. London:1739. Bound with: A Continuation of the Reverend Mr Whitefield's Journal, from his Arrival at Savannah to his Return to London. Second edition. London: 1739. Bound with: A Continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's Journal from His Arrival in London, to His Departure from thence on his Way to Georgia. Second edition. London: 1739. Three volumes in one. With advertisement leaf for his 'Account of Money receiv'd and expended by the Rev. Mr. Whitfield, for the Poor of Georgia: With proposals for erecting an Orphan-house, at Savannah'. 8vo, old full calf; binding worn, first title somewhat browned.
[THE NEW TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST, translated faithfully into English, out of the authenticated Latin....Printed at Rheims by John Fogny. 1582]. Lacking title-page and leaves a1 and a3 (the first and third leaves of 'The Preface to the Reader'). Last leaf soiled and worn on blank margin; a few other leaves with worn blank margins and with some light soiling, very slight occasional marginal worming. Woodcut initial letters throughout. 4to, old heavy boards now largely stripped of the original leather. The first edition of the Douai New Testament.
ARIEL POEMS. A fine run of these publications being 1st Series numbers 1-38. Including first editions of works by W.B.Yeats, T.S.Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Vita Sackville-West & others, with illustrations by Spencer, Nash, Ravilious, Kauffer, Tennant, Sutherland, Freedman etc. 38 issues, each 8vo, original wrappers; one with wrappers detached else excellent.
GOODMAN, JOHN. Poems and Selections with an Address. Cleveland, Ohio: 1877. First (& only?) edition. 8vo, pp. 80; unbound. Title-page detached and slightly torn; first and last leaf browned or soiled. Inscribed and signed on title "Presented by the Author, Sunday June 29th 1884. John Goodman".
ST. LUCIA & AFRICA: the albums of Lt.-Col. William Albert de Courcy King, D.S.O., R.E. The first album opens whilst he is at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and includes military group photographs, programmes for aquatic & athletic sports, cricket fixtures etc. Together with correspondence regarding his entry to the School of Military Engineering, Chatham, a group photograph, various certificates and his commission, as a 2nd Lieut., signed by Queen Victoria, 1894. Following his posting to St.Lucia the album contains 32 sepia toned photographs, mostly full-plate, of St.Lucia including a series of 11 interesting photographs (most 11 x 8 inches) of the construction of a gun emplacement. Also a St.Lucia Gazette special number being a proclamation of the accession to the throne of Edward VII and other certificates, newscuttings etc. 43 photographs in all. Folio, oblong folio, disbound. The second album largely concerns his posting to South Africa and includes 25 mounted photographs of South Africa, military groups, 5 showing the destruction in Bloemfontein in 1904; the smallest 3.25 x 2.5 inches, the largest 11.25 x 9.5 inches. Together with a plan of the "blockhouse line, Carnarvon-Willeston" scale 4 miles to 1 inch, 28 x 8 inches; telegrams regarding relief works in Bloemfontein; a penciled note addressed to "Masser" wishing "health to Briton and Britons" - "Written by a West Indian, one of R.E. labourers formerly in the W.I.R., and served in Ashanti 1874"; 5 printed licenses, filled in by hand, "to hunt any wild animal" 1903-05; and two gun licenses. Oblong folio; binding dishevelled. 1894-1905. (2)
POTTER, BEATRIX. A group of 11 first editions of the works of Beatrix Potter, as under, with an interesting association; some were given to the children of Zorah Godden by Beatrix Potter's cousins H. Mary Hutton and Caroline Hutton of Harescombe Grange and some bear inscriptions to that effect or contain correspondence. Leslie Linder in 'A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter' (Warne, 1971) refers to Beatrix Potter staying at Harescombe Grange and notes that "The Tale of Mr Tod" is dedicated to Caroline's son. 'The Roly-Poly Pudding' below contains, loosely inserted, an autograph letter (4-sides 12mo) from H. Mary Hutton to Zorah Godden dated Dec. 3rd 1908. "I am sending you for the children B. Potters 2 last books. Jemima Puddle-duck very likely you have, as it came out some weeks ago......but the other one has only been out about 10 days....I was stopping with B. Potter in the Autumn at her farm in the lake district which provided her with the chimney in "Roly-poly". Nearly all the indoor pictures in it are also taken from rooms in her farmhouse where she has a very nice hall, which she uses as a dining room, with about 8 oak doors in it furnished with brass handles. Very picturesque but somewhat draughty......" . 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-duck' contains, loosely inserted, an autograph correspondence card, Dec. 8th 1908, from H. Mary Hutton "All the views in "Jemima" are taken from B.P."s little domain at Sawrey, near Lake Windemere ...". The collection comprises: THE TALE OF SQUIRREL NUTKIN.1903. Lacking backstrip and 1 leaf, boards loose, inscription in ink on endpaper. THE TALE OF TWO BAD MICE. 1904. Lacking backstrip, loose, surface adhesion/damage to 7 pages . With note loosely inserted "Given by Mary Hutton (Miss Potter's cousin)". THE PIE AND THE PATTY PAN. 1905. Backstrip chipped and partly detached, some browning and foxing. Illustration of cat on upper cover partly rubbed away. Plain mottled endpapers Inscribed to Zorah Godden by H. Mary Hutton and dated Nov. 1905. THE STORY OF THE FIERCE BAD RABBIT. 1906. In wallet panoramic form; some creasing, tab cover worn. "London & New York" on back. THE STORY OF MISS MOPPET. 1906. In wallet panoramic form; some creasing, lacking tab & tab cover. "London & New York" on back. THE TALE OF TOM KITTEN.1907. Lower joint partly split, some rubbing to boards and cover illustration, some leaves loose. Surface damage due to adhesion of one leaf of text and facing plate. THE TALE OF JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK. 1908. Backstrip chipped. Inscribed to Zorah Godden by Mary Hutton and dated Xmas 1908. With the correspondence card referred to above loosely inserted. THE ROLY-POLY PUDDING. 1908. Binding little rubbed, frontispiece detached. 'All rights reserved' at bottom of title. Inscribed in pencil "Zorah M G Godden from Caroline & Mary Hutton". With the autograph letter referred to above loosely inserted. THE TALE OF THE FLOPSY BUNNIES. 1909. (with Notice Board in illustration on p.14). A very slight chip to headband else a very good copy. GINGER & PICKLES. 1909. Lacking backstrip, boards detached, stitching slack, small piece chipped from inner blank margin of one text leaf. THE TALE OF MR TOD. 1912. Spine browned else very good.
TANK CORPS - WW1 : COL.THEODORE JOHN UZIELLI D.S.O. (1882 - 1934). 1st Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Medal group: D.S.O.; M.C.; 1914 Star with bar; War Medal; Victory Medal (MID emblem missing); Delhi Durbar Medal; Legion of Honour (Chevalier), and his regimental helmet badge; together with an album containing largely newspaper cuttings recording the progress of the war but also including a Tank Corps Christmas card for 1917 and a typed letter signed, from Clive Wigram, to Col. Uzielli, thanking him for an original drawing (?) of the card that he had sent to the King "His Majesty is delighted to have this sketch of the first Xmas card of the truly British Tank Corps". Together with a duplicated letter, in script, written on the eve of the Battle of Cambrai*, from the Commander of the Tank Corps, Hugh Ellis, dated 19th Nov. 1917, & distributed to tank commanders "Tomorrow the Tank Corps will have the chance for which it has been waiting.....to operate...in the van of battle...It remains for unit commanders and for tank crews to complete the work by judgement & pluck in the battle itself...I propose leading the attack of the centre division" (with a portrait of Ellis mounted to the reverse). 4to, cloth; binding dishevelled. Col. Uzielli, was Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster, Machine-Gun Corps (Heavy Branch) and subsequently Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Tank Corps. He was mentioned in dispatches 5 times and received the Military Cross (M.C.) in 1916, the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O) in 1918, and the Legion of Honour.
Four reference books on blue-printed pottery: A.W. Coysh Blue and White Transfer Ware 1780-1840 (David & Charles, 1970, first edition with dust jacket); A.W. Coysh Blue-Printed Earthenware 1800-1850 (David & Charles, 1972, first edition with dust jacket); A.W. Coysh and Frank Stefano Jr. Collecting Ceramic Landscapes (Lund Humphries, 1981, first edition with dust jacket, signed by both authors); and N. Hudson Moore The Old China Book (Tudor Publishing, 1937 reprint)
Two pearlware groups of the 'Sailor's Departure' and the 'Sailor's Return', each group typically modelled in a fond embrace and painted with coloured enamels, the shaped iron-red bases titled Departure and Return, 24cm high, first quarter 19th century (some enamel flaking, overpainting and small chips and repairs)
A pearlware cow creamer, modelled standing on on a stepped and shaped rectangular base with canted corners, attendant maid milking the cow, painted in shades of brown and ochre mottled glazes, the base with mottled blue frieze, 18cm in length, first quarter 19th century (replacement cover, restored tail and horns)
Various items of Spode porcelain, comprising: a sauceboat, pattern no. 1869, printed in iron-red and gilt with Chinese vases issuing flowers, printed and painted marks (some rubbing); a lilac-gound two-handled sugar box and cover, pattern no. 2197, script marks; an egg cup stand and five egg cups, sparsely decorated with gilt-line rims, iron-red script mark (one egg cup with rim chip); a pair of Bute shape blue-ground teacups painted in iron-red and gilt with stylised flowers; a pair of London shape coffee cups, pattern no. 2251; and a pale-blue bat-printed coffee can, first quarter 19th century
William and Mary (1688-94), halfcrown, 1689, first shield type, fine; miscellaneous later silver coins (102), including Victorian crowns (5), halfcrowns (7), florins (11), shillings (18), et infra (10), but also George III, halfcrowns (2), and a George II, shilling, 1758, mixed grades but mostly well-circulated; other coins (about 40), mostly regal coppers; modern crowns of 1935 & 1951, both boxed as issued; a large silver medal for the 1897 Diamond Jubilee, by ? (Brown 3587), rare, and a similar medal for the 1937 Coronation, the last mint state, in Royal Mint fitted case of issue -about 147
George III - Victoria, copper farthings (11), 1806, die flaws, extremely fine, 1822, 1823, both good very fine, 1826 first issue, virtually mint state, 1829, scratched, fine, 1831, 1834, 1837, 1853 (3), very fine to extremely fine; with half-farthing, 1844, good extremely fine and quarter-farthing, 1852, good very fine - 13
George V (1910-36), first issue, halfcrowns (7), florins (4), shilling (1) and sixpence (1), various dates 1914-19, all good very fine; later silver of George V and George VI, comprising halfcrowns (28), florins (19), shillings (8) and smaller (9), various commoner dates 1921-46, good very fine to extremely fine; and cupro-nickel halfcrowns (5), florins (7) and shillings (2), 1947-51, mostly extremely fine - 91
Three to Gunner W.A. Harris, Royal Garrison Artillery: Queen's South Africa, 1899, 6 bars, T. Hts., Rel. of Ladysmith, Belfast, L. Nek, C.C., O.F.S. (4th M.B.); King's South Africa, 1901, 2 dated bars; Army L.S. & G.C., Geo. V, type 1, first two good fine, the last better; mounted for display in a glazed frame -3
[Cooper, James Fenimore] The Spy, 3 volume, first English edition, B1 of volume 3 loose, frayed and slightly soiled, rather spotted, lacks final blank in volume 1 and 2, D10-11 with stain and hole in lower margin and loss of two letters, a few short marginal tears, contemporary half calf, worn, lacks spine to volume 1 and part of volume 3 spine 12mo, G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822; [Brunton, Mary] Self Control, a Novel, 3 volumes, second edition, half titles, some soiling and spotting, contemporary half calf, worn, 12mo, Edinburgh, 1811 (6)
Frost, Robert. Forest Flowers. An early poem recovered, 2 copies, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, LIMITED TO 400 COPIES, designed by E.M. Abbott, one leaf folded twice, extra leaf of amendment loosely inserted; 8vo, Amherst, Mass., Friends of the Amherst College Library, 1978; and a copy of "The Testing Time for Loyalties", an appeal for the Dartmouth College Alumni Fund for 1942, with a woodcut by J.J. Lankes, and containing an extract from Frost's "Build Soil - A Political Pastoral"
Le Carre, J. The Looking-Glass War, FIRST EDITION, 1965; Koestler, A. The Ghost in the Machine, FIRST EDITION, 1967; Deighton, Len. An Expensive Place to Stay, with "Top Secret, In Transit Docket" loosely inserted, slight wear to dust-jacket, 1967; Ayrton, M. The Maze Maker,1967; dust-jackets; and Ian Fleming's Diamonds are Forever, 1965 and Goldfinger, 1959, without dust-jackets (6)
Douglas, Robert. The Peerage of Scotland, FIRST EDITION, 10 engraved plates, list of subscribers, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached, folio, Edinburgh, 1764; Wright, T. The Roll of Arms or the Princes, Barons & Knights who attended King Edward I to the Siege of Caerlaverock, in 1300, 5 chromolithographed plates, occasional spotting, contents loose, original cloth gilt, 4to, 1864 (2)
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