A Victorian scrapbook compiled by A. F., 12th Royal Lancers, including photographs, sketches & watercolours, and 13 illustrated postal covers with stamps, 1860s to 1870s, the covers addressed to Mrs Wombwell of Chirk Castle, Captain Fletcher of York, and Miss T. Frere of Battlesden Park. Oblong folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, 38pp. Together with a guest book for Bitteswell Hall and South Walsham Hall, 1902-1913, featuring 62 pages of entries with signatures from various families including Frere, Fox, Keppel, Starkie, Bromilow, Schwabe, Selly, Morgan, Gascoigne, Jessop, Edwards, Shepherd, and others, bound in red straight-grain morocco (2)
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William IV scrapbook compiled by Lieutenant Joseph Rolfe of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, 1830-32. Containing approximately 320 pages of newspaper clippings, plus several engravings including Loss of the Fame, East Indiaman, and His Majesty's Palace, Brighton. The clippings cover various subjects such as shipwrecks, smuggling, convict ships, horse racing, literature, ballads, riddles, famous figures of the day, and newsworthy events including the death of Princess Charlotte. There is also a 'specimen of paper made in the South sea Islands from the bark of Trees'. Folio, worn half-calf, with seven loosely-inserted handwriting samples by Rolfe, 1793-94. Together with Miscellaneous Collections, again compiled by Joseph Rolfe of Mansfield, 1838, containing approximately 224 pages of newspaper clippings & prints, including two stipple engravings of a child by Emma Farhill, nautical scenes, and stipples after Raphael, quarto, boards detached, and another similar, 1840s, approximately 76 pages, boards detached (3)
Botany. A collection of 19th-century hand-coloured lithographs depicting bouquets of flowers, 24 plates in total, London: Paul Jerrard, n.d., in disbound half morocco covers. The colours are well-preserved & vibrant, some of the plates have marks & tears to edges, binding worn and detached. Together with a folio volume of reproductions of engravings designed for commercial use, Leipold Design, 1966 (2)
Miscellaneous collection of books to include a signed copy of A Change of Climate, by Hilary Mantel; a signed copy of The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, by A. S. Byatt; a slipcased Folio Society edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J. R. R. Tolkien, second revised editions, 5th & 6th impressions, 1970-71; several first editions inc. works by Mary Wesley; two fantasy paperbacks edited by Lin Carter; Folio Society edition of Dubliners, by James Joyce, and others, condition generally good but varied, collection sold as found with all faults, in one carton
Bruel, Francis-Louis. Histoire Aeronautique, [one of 325 copies], Paris: Andre Marty, 1909, illustrated with hand-coloured plates & facsimiles. Folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt by Riviere & Son, top edge gilt. Internally very clean & bright, some light handling marks in places, a few very pale spots in places, binding tight & square with some scuffing & wear
OZANAM (Msr) - Cursus Mathematics Vol I only, 1725, 6 other leather bound books (unrelated). 1. Felix Folio (sic) - Hawkess2. Tour through GB volume IV only 17793. Poetic works Addison4. Harris-Homes 5th edition 17945. Desagulier: condition rough 19 plates counted.6. Narratives of Shipwrecks7. Treatise of Architecture (Le Clerc)1732
Books - 13 shelves of miscellaneous stock, including 11 Folio Society volumes; Dulac's Arabian Nights, n.d; Churchill's The Second World War, five volume set, mixed editions and dates, 1949 and onwards, 8vo, (5); schoolboy stamp album, early 20th century, partially-filled, (1); botany and gardening; Bibles; etc
Leech (John) - Pictures of Life & Character, calf bound, Bradbury and Evans: London, 1863; together with Hogarth: Pictur’d Morals, a collection of 45 copper engraving reproduced from William Hogarth’s original works from the collection at the British Museum, selected, designed and narrated by Patricia Rose Townsend, Historical Arts: London, 1967; and a folio of prints and maps.
Three Folio Society books, titles including: The Icelandic Sagas, by Magnus Magnusson, illustrated by Simon Noyles (1999); The Icelandic Sagas, by Magnus Magnusson, illustrated by John Vernon Lord (2002); and an unopened The Vision of Piers the Plowman, by William Langland, each in slip-case. (3)
Folio Society: The Life of St Edmund King and Martyr, full Nigerian goatskin leather bound, blocked with a design by David Eccles, limited edition 34/1010, with accompanying commentary volume The Life of Saint Edmund King & Martyr, by John Lydgate, housed together in publisher's original solander box.
STAFFORD, Thomas'Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced,' folio, London (AM) 1633, eng. frontspiece of Carew, cut-out and laid down, as is the title page, gilt lined old calf with crown device to the corners, worn and damaged in places*a defective copy, lacking all of the 1st edition post pp. 388, but contains the following maps (out of the 17 called for)- Cahir Castle- Asketon Castle- Glin Castle- Carrigfoyle Castle- Castell Mang- The Castle at Limerick- Siege of Kinsale (f/o)- Halebolin- The Army in Beare- Siege of Dunboy- Muskrye- Castle Park- The Cittie of Limerick- Corke
OGILBY, John [1600 - 1676]The Fables of Aesop, folio London: (Thomas Raycroft), 1665 red and black printed title, with the 81 full-page engravings, full calf, worn, joints split, morocco label lettered in gilt, internally a very fine copy*Master of His Majesty Revells in the Kingdom of Ireland and co. founder of the Dublin theatre.
HOGARTH, WilliamThe Works … from the original plates restored by James Heath, (the text) by John Nash, large folio (603 x 700 mm), London: (Baldwin and Cradock), n.d. mezzotint and line engravings, frontispiece and the 115 plates (some double-page) as called for, half red morocco over marbled boards, spine profusely gilt in compartments, somewhat worn, upper cover and spine sprung, internally very good
Archer, Thomas "Pictures and Royal Portraits illustrative of English and Scottish History ... with descriptive historical sketches ...", 2 vols., Blackie & Son, N.D. with lettered tissue guards, small folio, bright pictorial cloth with gilt decorations, gilt insignias, gilt crests, AEG corners rather bumped, bindings tight (2)
Folio Society - Winston Churchill - The Second World War - 6 vols in set of three within slip cases, Ford Madox Ford, etc, modern first editions to include McEwan Ian " On Chesil Beach" Jonathan Cape 2007, dustwrapper, not price clipped, " Atonement" Jonathan Cape 201, dustwrapper, nnot price clipped, Toibin Colm " The Empty Family" Viking 2010, dustwrapper, not price clipped etc ( 5 boxes)
The Natural History Of Selborne Folio Edition including drawings by John Piper, second impression 1963 by Gilbert White, signed and dated Christmas 1965 by David E Scrase. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
INTERESTING RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB MOUNTED SHARE CERTIFICATE & CHEQUE DISPLAY,comprising one share certificate No. 219 '...to Certify that Mr. William Lindsay Hardie of 59 Clifford St. [sic.] Glasgow is the Registered Proprietor of One Proprietary Share of Five Pounds Fully Paid Numbered 219 in The Rangers Football Club Limited... this twenty fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.. regr. folio 73' signed by two directors and the secretary; another share certificate No. 299 '...to Certify that Robert Hamilton esq. of 18 Macintyre St. Glasgow is the Registered Proprietor of Fifty Ordinary Shares of One Pound each Numbered 7643 to 7692 inclusive... fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.. regr. folio 100' signed by two directors and the secretary; a cheque of £235-14-5 made payable to the Corporation of Glasgow dated 12th September 1922; and another cheque of £100 made payable to William Struth dated 5th June 1924, mounted, framed and under glass, 65cm x 80cm overallNote: This interesting display includes an early cheque made payable to one of the most important figures in the history of Rangers Football Club, Bill Struth. Struth was Rangers second manager, leading the club for 34 years between 1920 and 1954, as well as being the holder of a number of other positions, including director. Struth is one of the most successful managers in British football history, winning 30 major trophies in his career; a record 18 Scottish league championships, 10 Scottish Cups and two Scottish League Cups.Alongside this, we see two share certificates for the club dating from the year it was incorporated. The football club itself was formed in 1872 and was operated by four founding members, this being until its incorporation on 27 May 1899.According to the vendor, this piece was originally displayed at Ibrox Football Stadium until it was removed relatively recently.
NO RESERVE Greene (Graham) [Folio Society set of works], 6 vol. comprising Stamboul Train, Our Man in Havana, A Gun for Sale, The Confidential Agent, The Ministry of Fear, The Third Man, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, slip-case, 1996; and 30 others, Folio Society, including a different 6 vol. set of Greene, 8vo (36)
[Wyndham (John)], "John Beynon". "The Space Machine" in Modern Wonder, vol. 1, nos. 1-10, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, some chipping to spines, no. 2 with horizontal fold with some tearing, occasional fraying to fore-edges, some light foxing or marking, folio, 1937.⁂ Wyndham's novel, first published as Planet Plane in 1936 before being serialised first as "Stowaway to Mars" in The Passing Show before its appearance in the present periodical (it's first in it's revised and abridged "juvenile" form).
George Ashdown Audsley & James Lord Bowes: 'Keramic Art of Japan', Liverpool & London, 1875, volume 2 (plate volume), 51 plates (of which 41 chromolithographs), plates and leaves generally very clean/VGC, large folio, three quarter red morocco gilt, spine with raised bands, decoratively gilt in compartments
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