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Click here to subscribeThree cut glass scent bottles with silvered metal caps, the first with PODR mark dated 24 March 1853 azure glass with lantern-shaped cap, 10cm, 4in; a tapering example, lozenge-cut, with purple overlay, foliate cap, 8.5cm, 3 3/8in; and a bold blue overlay bottle with chinoiserie cap, 10cm, 4in
Three silver wine tasters, one circa 1800, other two late 19th Century, all Paris first chased with grape vines, other two fluted; parcel-gilt beaker, Paris, circa 1870, etched with strapwork and flowers; four beakers, Crichton Brothers, London, 1911, Elizabethan style; three piece tea set, Birmingham, 1909, spherical with engraved cornucopia; and two plated Regence style beakers 2450gr, 78oz 15dwt weight of silver
Potter (Beatrix), The Story Of Miss Moppet, 1906. Folding panorama in wallet-style case. A much used copy. With 26 other children's books (mainly of small format, early 20th century); 4 King Penguins; and 3 Sackville-West titles in dust wrappers (The Garden & In Your Garden Again being first edns) (34)
Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957), George A. Birmingham, Irishmen All, T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, 1913. With twelve colour plates by Jack B. Yeats tipped in. First edition. Crown octavo; original gilt-lettered green cloth, top edge gilt. Also with this lot, John Masefield's Mainsail Haul, Elkin Mathews, London, 1913 (second edition, revised and enlarged), with a b&w frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt at spine. And, James White, Jack B. Yeats: Drawings and Paintings, Secker & Warburg, London, 1971, first edition, with an homage by Samuel Beckett and 144 plates. Oblong quarto, in dustjacket. (3). €300-€400
Robert Gibbings (1889-1958), The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings, with some recollections by the artist, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1959. First edition. Edited by Patience Empson and introduced by Thomas Balston. A chronologically arranged catalogue of over 1,000 illustrations and designs by the Cork born artist Gibbings. Quarto; in original gilt stamped black cloth with transparent dust jacket. Also with the publisher's prospectus laid in. €100-€150
An unusual Victorian EPNS presentation set, comprising six teaspoons, sugar tongs, pickle fork, preserve spoon and butter knife, all with scroll cast Old English pattern handles and in velvet lined presentation case, RD number 225792, for 1894, the hinged cover inscribed 'Walton Quarter Mile, First Prize presented by Mrs Cooper' (11)
FOSTER, J. J. The Stuarts. 2 vols., 1902; CONCERNING THE TRUE PORTRAITURE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. 1904. Limited Editions, folio, orig. cloth gilt, and cont. black russia gilt (1904 vol. worn, upper cover detached). Portraits and plates, some coloured. The first title somewhat crudely EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with additional portraits stuck in with green masking tape, and ink annotations. With another volume. Sold not subject to return.(4)
MILNE, A. A. Now We Are Six, First Edition, 1927. Inscription on flyleaf dated Xmas 1927. 8vo., orig. red cloth gilt, d.w. (head of spine of d.w. slightly frayed, tail of spine of d.w. nicked with small loss). Illustrations. With a Seventeenth Edition of When We Were Very Young (1928), in d.w.(2).
POTTER, BEATRIX. The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies, 1909 (cracking in binding, two text leaves with short tear); THE TALE OF MR TOD, 1912 (flyleaves torn, lower one defective); THE TALE OF PIGLING BLAND, 1913 (breaking in binding, tail of spine slightly defective). First Editions. 16mo., orig. boards with inset coloured illustrations. Coloured plates and text illustrations. The first two titles with heads of spines chipped. With 12 others by the same.(15)
HALL, S. C. and A. M. The Book of the Thames, From Its Rise to its Fall. 1859. Small 4to., orig. cloth gilt, a.e.g. Numerous wood engravings in text. - LITTON, E. G. E. L., Lord. The Pilgrims of the Rhine. 1834. 8vo., cont. half brown morocco gilt, a.e.g. Engraved plates after David Roberts. Both First Editions.(2)
HUTCHINS, JOHN. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. First Edition, 1774. 2 vols. Folio, cont. calf backed boards (some wear). Folding engraved map (short tear), plates and plans as per Upcott pp.174-180. Text illustrations (final plate and last few leaves of text stained in Vol. 1). Folding pedigrees.(2).
POOLEY, CHARLES. An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Old Stone Crosses of Somerset. 1877; NOTES ON THE OLD CROSSES OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1868. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (soiled). Map in first title, lithographic plates, and text illustrations. - BARETT, C. R. B. Somersetshire: Highways, Byways and Waterways. 1894. 4to., orig. cloth gilt (bit scuffed). Four etchings and other illustrations.(3)
ROBERTS, GEORGE. The History of Lyme-Regis, Dorset . . ., Sherborne, Printed for the Author, 1823. First Edition. 16mo., cont. tree calf (old reback). Two folding hand coloured lithographic plates after T. M. Baynes. Manuscript list, before Index, of the Patrons and Vicars of Lyme Regis, taken from Hutchins's Dorset, apparently in the hand of the author, signed and dated 1823. Loosely tipped in at end is an announcement of the publication of A History of the Borough of Lyme Regis & Charmouth, issued by Landray, printer, Lyme. A pencil note on the flyleaf states that 'This one of 10 copies with coloured plates'.
HOLCROFT, THOMAS. Travels From Hamburg . . . to Paris. 2 vols., First Edition, 1804. 4to., cont. half russia gilt. Engraved vignettes in text, but lacking the plates. - CLOUSTON, K. WARREN. The Chippendale Period in English Furniture. 1897. 4to., orig. cloth gilt (spine soiled). Plates. With eight others including Society Small Talk . . . by A Member of The Aristocracy, F. Warne, n.d. (c.1880).(11)
MORRIS, Rev. F. O. A History of British Birds. Fourth Edition, 6 vols., 1895-97; A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE NESTS AND EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS. 3 vols., Fourth Edition, Revised and Corrected by W. B. Tegetmeier, 1896. Together 9 vols., large 8vo., uniform pictorial olive green cloth gilt (short nick to head of spine of Vol. 3 of first work). 394 and 248 coloured plates respectively, mostly coloured by hand.(9)
BINDINGS. 10 vols. including: Roscoe, William. The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici. Sixth Edition, 1825. 2 vols. - Thackeray, W. M. Roundabout Papers. First Edition in book form, 1863. - Dickens, Charles. The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, 1848. 8vo., mostly cont. calf or half calf. With Vol. 3 only of Thomas Day. The History of Sandford and Merton, Stockdale, 1789. First Edition.(11)
The following 7 lots were formerly in the collection of the poet Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) and his wife Sylva. BETJEMAN, Sir JOHN. Continual Dew. First Edition, 1937. 8vo., orig. cloth gilt (lightly soiled), d.w. (slightly defective). Plates. With fragment of a letter signed by the author loosely inserted.
BUCHANAN, GEORGE. Opera Omnia. Ad optimorum codicum fidem summo studio recognita & castigata: Nunc primum in unum collecta . . . Curante Thoma Ruddimanno, A. M. Edinburgh, apud Robert Freebairn, 1715. First Edition thus. 2 vols. in one. Large folio, modern qtr. tan pigskin. Engraved frontispiece. Contains a full bibliography.
LE CARRe, JOHN (David Cornwell). The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. First Edition, Victor Gollancz, 1963. d.w. - FLEMING, IAN. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. First Edition, Jonathan Cape, 1963. d.w. (head and tail of spine of d.w. frayed). With 15 other volumes including 12 vols. of Works by Dickens, Imperial Edition. 8vo., orig. cloth.(20)
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. The Poll at the Election of Members To Serve in Parliament . . . Taken before Ralph Sowerby, Esq; Sheriff, The 13th . . . and 19th Days of May, 1741. Newcastle, Printed by W. Cuthbert (1741). First Edition, 8vo., 19th c. half roan (some wear, ex library copy with stamp inside rear cover). The votes are recorded by trade, each guild being listed. The successful candidates were a Blackett and a Fenwick.
RAWLINSON, GEORGE. History of Ancient Egypt. First Edition, 2 vols., 1881. 8vo., orig. cloth (slightly soiled, lower inner joints cracked). Map, plates and text illustrations. Booklabels of William Robert Phelips. With 12 other volumes (The Queen's Prime Ministers, 6 vols., cloth, and a 4 vol. Bible 1802).(14)
TRIAL. Goodere, Samuel. The Trials of Samuel Goodere Esq; Matthew Mahony and Charles White for the Murder of Sir John Dineley Goodere, Bart. . . . At the Sessions of the Peace . . . in . . . Bristol. London: Printed for A. Millar . . ., 1741. First Edition, folio, recent green buckram (library stamp on modern blank before title). Sir Samuel Goodere, captain of the ship 'Ruby', arranged for the murder of his brother aboard the ship, but he was apprehended with his companions before he could put to sea, tried and executed. Without the initial advert. leaf, as with most recorded copies.
LESLIE, ANDREW, 1818-94, shipbuilder of Newcastle upon Tyne. Two manuscript diaries of visits to the continent in 1861 and 1863, and 1883 and 1890. 8vo., orig. cloth. The first volume contains details of business meetings relating to orders for vessels in Seville and Cadiz; with other notes on sightseeing etc. Sold with a volume of newspaper cuttings about Andrew Leslie, who was described in his obituary in the Newcastle Daily Leader on 29th January 1894 as "one of the makers of the Tyne. He was one of the pioneers of iron shipbuilding and of industry on this river . . ."(3). See also lot 1192.
CIRCLE OF ENOCH SEEMAN (c.1694-1745) PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS JAMES HARRIS OF SALISBURY (d.1733), GRANDFATHER OF THE FIRST EARL OF MALMESBURY Quarter length, wearing a brown jacket, oil on canvas, unframed 76 x 63cm. ++ Label on stretcher; old lining; repaired tear across face; hole upper left; dirty varnish
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