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Lot 2344
Late 19th century honey-oak folio stand by Gillows of Lancaster, with adjustable lattice supports on H-shaped base and bun feet with castors, stamped - Gillows Lancaster, 65cm wide CONDITION REPORT Central dividing gallery which runs the width of the stand (upon which the pictures sit) is detached (sits on two plugs - one broken). Minor stains, scratches, and general wear commensurate with age. Otherwise ok. Mechanism functions. Depth at bun feet 77cm. Approx height 100cm
Lot 48
Studio of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg R.A. (Strasbourg 1740-1812 London), Noah's Sacrifice, oil on canvas, later laid on board, framed. 123cm by 99cm. Note: De Loutherbourg was a painter, stage designer and illustrator, the son of an engraver and miniaturist. He moved to Paris at the age of 15 where he trained under Carle van Loo and Giovanni Battista Casanova (brother of the famous Venetian adventurer) and painter of battle, hunting and equestrian scenes. During the 1760's he enjoyed some success at the Paris Salon, mainly with landscapes. In 1771 he settled in London armed with an introduction to the actor-manager David Garrick for whom he became a designer of stage sets at Drury Lane. He later launched his own theatrical entertainment, the Eidophusikon. He became an R.A. in 1781 having enjoyed considerable success at Academy exhibitions. In his later work he turned increasingly to history painting including biblical subjects. This coincided with a period in London when a number of large-scale publishing ventures for illustrated books were launched. One of the most famous examples of these handsomely-printed large folio format publications was Macklin's Bible in the 1790's for which de Loutherbourg was commissioned to produce twenty-two paintings one of which was Noah's Sacrifice. The subject work may have been offered at auction by Peter Coxe, Burrell and Foster at Mr. Squibb's Great Rooms Saville (sic) Row, Monday May 5th, 1800, "A Catalogue of a Most Valuable and truly Capital Collection of Modern Paintings......the Property of Mr. Macklin.....comprising in Painting the works of ........Loutherbourg....." with lot 35 listed under "Copies" and described as "Loutherbourg Noah's Sacrifice".
Lot 696
Craig, Maurice. Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800 Cassell & Co Ltd, London, 1954, Folio. Colour Frontispiece, 47 pages of Text and 58 full-page-plates with examples of rare bindings, blue cloth gilt title. Former copy of Leeds College of Commerce with a very subtle library stamp verso the titlepage only.
Lot 585
1796 & 1840 Two editions of Bunting, Edward. A Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland Two editions, small folio, the 1796 edition together with his dissertation on the Egyptian, British and Irish harps; the 1840 edition together with his dissertation on The Irish Harp and Harpers. The 1796 edition rebound, but lot includes the original marbled boards. (3)
![1812 [Distilling in Ireland] - House of Commons. A Bill to provide for the Regulating and Securing the Collection of the Duti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/5d354f06-3c9d-4d2b-ba09-a75b00c86713/b0771b3a-d1c6-497f-b81e-3c4d3ecf96c1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 699
1812 [Distilling in Ireland] - House of Commons. A Bill to provide for the Regulating and Securing the Collection of the Duties on Spirits distilled in Ireland from Corn, malted or unmalted, in Stills of and under One hundred Gallons Content. Original Bill. London, House of Commons, 1812. Folio. 22 (2) pages. Original Softcover.
Lot 1763
A FINE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUARIAN MAPS OF CUMBRIA AND WESTMORLAND Forming an impressive cartographic record of the region c.1650-1850, by some of the most famous map makers; single sheets (often double-page), 8vo to large folio size, in generally good condition, and in most cases with contemporary or early hand colouring: Saxton (Christopher) Cumbria sive Cumberlandia, engraved by William Kip with early hand colour for Camden's Britannia [1607], Latin text to verso; Blome (Richard), A Generall Mapp of the Countie of Cumberland [&] A Mapp of the Countie of Westmorland, 1672, with a combined 'Generall Mapp' of both counties of the same period (Blome also?); Blaeu (Johannes) Westmoria Comitatus Anglice Westmorland [&] Cumbria vulgo Cumberland [c.1645 or later], both with Latin text to verso; Jansson (Jan) Cumbria & Westmoria vulgo Cumberland & Westmorland [c.1650], Dutch text to verso; Morden (Robert) Cumberland, [1695 or later], Swale and Churchill; also a stained large Westmorland published by Greenwood 1830 (eng. J. & C. Walker), plus a quantity of smaller maps from well-known 18th and 19th century publications by Cary, Kitchin, Pigot, etc. (some reduced versions/copies of earlier maps), with a map from an unidentified German atlas, plus a reproduction of Saxton's 1576 Westmorland map [with:] strip road maps from John Ogilby's Britannia (1698 edition?), some plates from the reduced Ogilby by John Owen and Emanuel Bowen [1720], with the two relevant county maps from the same volume; some road maps from later guides, some tables of travelling distances, often with armorial embellishments and a Map of the Black Lead Mines, 1751, for the Gentleman's Magazine Lot includes four British Isles maps, including Hole (William) Englalond Anglia Anglo Saxonum Heptarchia, [c.1637], early hand colour; Morden's Britannia Romana [&] Britannia Saxonica (engraved by J. Sturt) [c.1700] and Burghers (Michael) Britannia Saxonica, [c.1715]. Framed and glazed (verso glazed in some cases), a few smaller mounted or loose sheets (approx. 57)
![Hunter [Joseph] : Hallamshire, The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, pub. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/336ef012-0517-43a4-9847-a74e00afeb79/7aacfb52-5c80-484b-804c-61d2ba994878/468x382.jpg)
Lot 794
Hunter [Joseph] : Hallamshire, The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, pub. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819, first edition, folio, brown cloth binding; The History, Guide and Description of the Borough of Sheffield, by William White and printed for him by the Wicker Library, 1833; Sheffield and It's Neighbourhood Illustrated, pub. A.W. Bennett, London, first edition, with 16 original albumen photographs and 10 vignettes. (3)
![Jones [Owen] : The Grammar of Ornament, pub. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910, folio, 112 colour plates with tissue guards, gil](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/336ef012-0517-43a4-9847-a74e00afeb79/9a649570-3d0c-4c89-d591-f9ac4cc47044/468x382.jpg)
Lot 781
Shaw (Rev. Stebbing) The history and antiquities of Staffordshire, 1798, 1801, London, Nichols, 2 volumes tall folio, large paper copy, contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, 2 folding maps, many copper-engraved plates. Provenance: Stafford Hall [with:] Dugdale (Sir William) Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1730, London, printed for John Osborn & Thomas Longman, 2nd edition, 2 volumes folio contemporary calf (in total 4 vols.)
Lot 817
{} A collection of 18th century and Victorian sets of books on British history and family pedigrees, with a Yorkshire emphasis: Neale (J.P.) Views of the Seats of Nobleman and Gentlemen, 1824(-29), London, 5 vols., 8vo, second series, engraved plates, full tree calf gilt; Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York, London, 1805, small folio, plates (incl. aquatints), polished calf with gilt armorials to covers; [Anderson (Adam)] An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce, London, 1787, (4 in?) 3 vols, 4to, incl. Appendix, folding map, recent half calf; Morris (Rev. F.O.) A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, [1879-80], London and Leeds, 7 vols. incl. the rarely found Fac-Simile of Autographs of Subscribers (1880, A. Clarke, with illus. title), 4to, chromolithographic plates, original decorated cloth gilt; Collins (Arthur) The Peerage of England, 1799(-84), London, 9 vols. 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved plates of coats-of-arms; Robertson (William) The History of America, 4 vols., and three other titles by the same author, viz.The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI, fourteenth edition, 2 vols.; An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge which the Ancients had of India, third edition; The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V, eighth edition, 3 vols., the ten 8vo vols. uniformly bound in speckled calf gilt, plates and folding maps; The Great Governing Familes of England, 2 vols [together with:] Bogg (Edmund) A Thousand Miles in Wharfdale; Wheater (W.) Some Historic Mansions of Yorkshire, 2 vols.; White (John) Rural Architecture, 1856, Glasgow, Blackie, split folio in original cloth boards [&] vols 5-9 from the Cambridge Natural History, half green calf , plus other odd volumes (qty, 4 boxes)
Lot 772
Campbel (Colen) Vitruvius Britannicus or The British Architect, 1967, Benjamin Blom, New York, facsimile edition in three folio volumes, plus Blom's 8vo Guide to Vitruvius Britannicus [index], all in the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with original prospectus by B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd (London WC1) and his receipt to original subscriber E. Carter (Carter's ownership inscription to f.f.e.p.s); with original cardboard boxes for Vols I and II, and book The Architecture of Colen Campbell [with:] Designs of Inigo Jones (originally published by William Kent), 1967 [&] Paine (James) Plans, Elevations and Sections of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, 1967, Gregg Press, Farnborough, two large folio facsimile reprints, plates, many folding, original cloth, and a smaller, slimmer book reproducing designs by Jones and Kent [plus:] three portfolios of facsimiles of 18th century engravings of Richmond, Twickenham and Westminster (incomplete), and six real c.1750s engraved architectural plates of London buildings (12)
Lot 765
Whitaker (T. D.) The Histories and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven in the County of York, 1878, Leeds, Dodgson & London, Cassell, Petter...,thick folio, large paper copy of the third edition, 62 plates including portrait frontis, additional pictorial title in colour, two maps, two coloured geological plates, 26 hand-coloured plates, predominantly aquatints, folding pedigrees, a handsome volume in recent half sheep, t.e.g.
Lot 763
Literature, history, biography and reference: a collection of mostly Victorian and early 20th century books, 12mo up to folio, many of the larger volumes with copious illustrations, publisher's cloth or smart leather bindings. Sets (some incomplete) including: The Popular History of England [&] Cassell's History of England; Lingard's History of England; Hammerton (Ed.) The War Illustrated Album De Luxe, 1915, Amalgamated Press, 6 vols.; Wonderful London and other graphic albums; Life and Times of Gladstone; an odd issue of the Lady's Magazine 1792; several misc. 19th c. histories, prayer books, the Bible etc. Also collected editions of Dickens, Thackeray; the full set of 25 vols. of Scott's Waverley Novels, 1850s, Ediburgh, A & C Black, full morocco gilt, with a further 24 slim 8vo vols. in soft leather of his works; Bulwer Lytton [Works], 1850s, 15 vols., half calf; Masterpiece Library of Short Stories, The Educational Book Co., 20 vols.; Kingsley (C.) [Works], 1890s, MacMillan, 11 vols. 8vo, armorial bindings for Trinity College Cambridge (qty, 10 boxes)
Lot 782
THREE ANTIQUARIAN WORKS, SCOTTISH INTEREST Douglas (Sir Robert) Baronage of Scotland containing an historical and genealogical account of the gentry of that kingdon,1789, Edinburgh, sold by Bell & Bradfute et al. folio illustrated with engravings of the coat of arms, contemporary quarter calf [&] Crawfurd (George) Peerage of Scotland...1716, Edinburgh, printed for the author: Sold by George Stewart, folio contemporary calf [with:] Pont (Timothy) Cuninghame Topographised... 1604-1608. With Continuous Illustrative notices by the late James Dobie of Crummock....1876, Glasgow, John Tweed, 4to, original boards, large folding map, plates and text illustrations (3)
Lot 735
The Temple of Flora, The Folio Society facsimile reprint in quarter green morocco and pictorial cloth, in the publisher's solander box along with the 4to Commentary volume and two loose reproduction plates in custom sleeve [with:] Audubon's Birds of America, NY, Abbeville Press [&] All the Worlds Birds (reproducing Buffon's plates), 2008, Rizzoli, both in their original slipcases. All three books in fine condition (3)
![[LITERATURE] Joyce, James. Ulysses, limited edition 285/1750, Folio Society, London, 2004, full turquoise blue goatskin gilt](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/78bda77b-00f9-46f5-a01c-c1aad91e09bc/468x382.jpg)
![[LITERATURE] Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, limited edition 341/1250](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/714b0e56-fe75-46f0-ab9f-509b4be7dc74/468x382.jpg)
Lot 405
[LITERATURE] Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, limited edition 341/1250, Folio Society, London, 2005, full tan goatskin gilt, top edges gilt, plate illustrations by Quentin Blake, quarto, together with a booklet, Reading Don Quixote, both in a clamshell box.
![[LITERATURE]. FOLIO SOCIETY Forty-nine assorted volumes, thirteen of them with slip-cases.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/513822c2-35d9-470c-9311-ffa55a3bdf52/468x382.jpg)
![[HISTORY] Tenison, E.M. 'Noble Arts, Especially Maps:' Notes on Hitherto Unknown Examples of Sixteenth Century Cartography.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/95a49685-034b-47cf-f284-a4e0b02642dc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 417
[HISTORY] Tenison, E.M. 'Noble Arts, Especially Maps:' Notes on Hitherto Unknown Examples of Sixteenth Century Cartography. With Annotated List of Maps, Charts, Documents, and Pictures, limited edition of 325, for the author, Glasgow University Press, 1932, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, together with ten prints (on nine sheets, as called for), each 58.5cm x 45cm, in cloth folio case, (lacking the volumes of text comprising Elizabethan England to which this was the illustrative accompaniment).
![[TRAVEL]. VENICE Ongania, Ferdinando, editore. Calli e Canali in Venezia, 1890-91, in ten parts, with original paper wrapper](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/0cad73d2-6516-424d-c510-4e91de4bc3f7/468x382.jpg)
![[MISCELLANEOUS] The Illustrated London News, Volumes 18-19 (1851), as dated, half calf, illustrations throughout (some foldi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/2b217083-52b9-4e5e-c7db-18761b43a6ce/468x382.jpg)
![[ATLAS] The Queen Mary Atlas, limited edition 565/1000, Folio Society, London, 2005, full crimson calf gilt by Smith Settle](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/30eb07cd-8147-4807-82c6-a760009b0b14/7a624eb2-d070-488b-a3ec-eb0dca6f395e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 147
A bound typewritten report dated London's Underground 1931, Upon Investigations into London's Underground Tube Rolling Stock with Reference to weight reduction, together with observations on the respective uses and advantages of steel and aluminium, by N T Dowling, 154 pages with tables and original photographs, along with a bound folio of Route Plans for the Victoria Line dated 1965, scale 88 feet to 1 inch
Lot 130
WREN CHRISTOPHER: (1632-1723) English Architect. An attractive D.S., Chr. Wren, (twice), two pages, large folio, Chelsea, 15th October & 12th November 1700. The neatly and boldly penned document is a page (numbered 161 and 162 at the head of each side) removed from the official ledger of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea and is an 'Abstract of the Expense of Provisions' for the two months in which Wren, in his capacity as a Commissioner of the hospital, and two other commissioners, Viscount Ranelagh (Paymaster of the Forces) and Sir Stephen Fox (Commissioner of the Treasury) authorise Ralph Cooke, Treasurer of the hospital, to pay various sums to listed individuals in payment for their provisions, the total payable for September being £510.14s.6¾d and for October £459.14s.1¾d. Each of the tradespeople have individually signed the document as confirmation of having been paid, and include Charles Hudson, butcher (£159.12s.8d), Thomas Marston, baker (£63.19s.8d), John England, brewer (£72.18s.11d), Robert Madock, cheesemonger (£80.10s.7¼d), John Gill, whitster (£74.14s.3½d; a whitster supplying bleach for whitening clothes), Elizabeth Hastings, tallow-chandler (£6.14s.9¼d; a tallow-chandler supplying candles made from animal fats), Barthalina Fells, lamps (£6.16s.9d) and Henry Powell, steward (£45.6s.10d). Individually signed by Wren, Ranelagh and Fox to either side of the document. An interesting and very handsome document. Some extremely light, very minor age wear to the extreme edges, not affecting the text or signature, VG Richard Jones (1641-1712) 1st Earl of Ranelagh. Irish Peer & Politician. Paymaster of the Forces 1685-1702. Ranelagh was expelled from the House of Commons in 1703 when discrepancies were found in his accounts as Paymaster, and he was discovered to have appropriated more than £900,000 of public funds. Sir Stephen Fox (1627-1716) English Politician. Paymaster of the Forces 1661-76 and 1679-80. Fox founded the Royal Hospital Chelsea, from where the present document originates, to which he contributed £13,000. Unlike some other statesman of his day, Fox grew rich in the service of the nation without being suspected of corruption or forfeiting the esteem of his contemporaries. The Royal Hospital at Chelsea was founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans and opened its doors to the Chelsea Pensioners a decade later (mismanagement by Ranelagh, a signatory to the present document had caused the delay). Wren was responsible for designing the hospital and the hospital's chapel is a fine and rare example of the architect's pure ecclesiastical work.
Lot 134
MACGREGOR GREGOR: (1786-1845) Scottish Soldier, Adventurer, and Confidence Trickster. A scarce D.S., Gregor MacGregor, one page, large folio, London, 28th April 1834. The unusual printed document, in English and French, is a Poyaisian Land Grant for 200 Acres, fraudulently issued by MacGregor and numbered Class F. No. 932, the text providing a 'Copy of the ORIGINAL GRANT from the King of the Mosquito Shore and Nation, to His Excellency General Sir Gregor Mac Gregor', detailing the boundaries of the land '…from the mouth of Zacarylyon River, in Longitude 85 8' West, and following the eastern bank of the said river, South, to Latitude 15° 37' North…' and further continuing with a testimonial from William Smith stating he was 'Mate of the Ship called the Honduras Packet, trading between Poyais and London…he was present at Cape Gracias à Dios, and did see the Paper Writing hereunto annexed…' and concluding 'We, Gregor Mac Gregor, Cacique of Poyais, do hereby certify that the Bearer hereof is entitled to Two Hundred Acres of Land in that part of the Poyaisian Republic called Poyais Proper…' Signed by MacGregor to the foot and countersigned by four 'Trustees'. Some neat splitting at the central and vertical folds, partially repaired to the verso with tape, with light age wear, GMacGregor attempted, from 1821 to 1837, to draw British and French investors and settlers to 'Poyais', a fictional Central American territory that he claimed to rule. Hundreds invested their savings in supposed Poyaisian government bonds and land certificates, while about 250 emigrated to MacGregor's invented country in 1822-23 to find only an untouched jungle; more than half of them died. MacGregor's Poyais scheme has been called one of the most brazen confidence tricks in history.
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