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Lot 181
GEORGE III: (1738-1820) King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland 1760-1820. D.S, George R, as King, at the head, three pages, folio, Court at Saint James's, 30th April 1802. The manuscript document grants Isabella Frances Master, widow of Richard Master, former Consul at Algiers and Governor of Tobago 'who fell a sacrifice to the unhealthiness of the climate', a yearly pension of £200 and further grants Sir Abraham Hume a yearly pension of £100 in trust for the children of Master. Countersigned by Henry Addington (1757-1844, Viscount Sidmouth, British Prime Minister 1801-4) and several others. Extensive splitting to folds of third page and some minor splitting to other folds. G Sir Abraham Hume (1749-1838) Politician and one of the Founders of the Geological Society. Hume amassed a famous collection of minerals and precious stones and was a large purchaser of pictures by the old masters.
Lot 188
CHARLES: (1948- ) Prince of Wales. A good A.L.S., Charles, two pages, 8vo, London, 25th January 1980, to Mollie Travis, on the printed stationery of Buckingham Palace. The Prince sends his correspondent a copy of the address he made at Lord Mountbatten's memorial service ('in case you might like to have it') and concludes by sending his best wishes for the New Year. Together with the folio printed address referred to which was delivered by the Prince of Wales at the Memorial Service in St. Paul's cathedral on 20th December 1979. Accompanied by the original envelope. Also including a printed 4to copy of the Order of Service for a Memorial Service for Earl Mountbatten of Burma at Romsey Abbey, 17th February 1980, and a photocopy of an A.L.S. by Prince Charles and Princess Diana, one page, 4to. Highgrove, 22nd November 1981, to the staff of Broadlands Estate. The letter, the body of which is in the Prince's hand, sends thanks for an original piece of engraved glass presented 'as a special memento of our honeymoon at Broadlands'. VG to EX, 4 Mollie Travis was employed as the archivist at Broadlands, the country estate of Lord Mountbatten in Romsey, Hampshire. Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. British Admiral of the Fleet during World War II, the last Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1947). Mountbatten was a strong influence in the upbringing of his grand-nephew, Prince Charles, and later acted as a mentor to the Prince of Wales.
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Lot 48
1847-1850. The Irish Famine. Ship's log of HMS Terrible including accounts of relief being provided in IrelandAccount describes, inter alia, from March 1847 loading stores and bales of clothing with Mr Higgins, agent for the relief association for Belmullet. Other items carried to Ireland for famine relief included seed, bags of bread (35 to 495 at a time), sacks of barley, seed oats, swede, parsnip and turnip seed.Later entries refer to the 1848 Irish Rebellion and the Crimean War. A fascinating account of relief efforts during the famine. Folio, 100+pp, manuscript, including logs of HMY William & Mary and HMS Dragon.
Lot 65
1890 (March) Ancient and Most Benevolent Order of the Friendly Brothers of Saint Patrick, list of Knots, officers and members.Falconer, Dublin.March, 1890, large folio, 202 pages with printed lists of the names & addresses of officers and members of the fraternal society's Knots in Dublin, Armagh, Athlone, Bath, Carlow, Cork, Derry, King's County, Limerick, London, Tyrone and Dormant Knots, blank ledger pages follow the printed lists, presumably for new members. Quarter green calf and green cloth gilt. An important record of this Irish fraternal society. Other Notes: See also lot 340.
Lot 71
An archive of postcards and albums pertaining to Olive Russell and Family, circa 1900-75.The collection comprises three small oblong folio albums and twenty postcards. The first album begun October 12th, 1900 and contains over 100 autographs; the second album begun May 1906; the third album begun January 1909.
Lot 1010
BULL Henry Graves, The Herefordshire Pomona, Hereford and London 1876-1885, 2vols folio, half morrocco, 77 lithograph colour plates, plates clean, some browning on some of the tissue guards (2) Condition Report / Extra Information Half morocco binding is sound but slightly rubbed at extremities.Cloth a little soiled and spotted in places.William De Ives bookplate front end paper vol.I and front blank leaf vol.II.According to the vendor (family provenance), the book was once owned by Justin Brooke, Suffolk fruit-grower and author.No errata slips or extras but both volumes complete.No inscriptions.Plates are clean but some browning to tissue guards.Small holes to top outer edge corner of front blank vol.I and rear blank.Some foxing to title page and prelims vol.II.Some pages with slight signs of use.
Lot 1018
DENON, Dominique Vivant Bason, Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte..., Paris 1802 (Anx), 1st edition, folio, very worn old calf, lacking spines, shaken, the plate volume has 140 of the 141 plates called for, lacking plate 5, but in addition at the back are duplicate plates for 104, 105, 106, 108 and 110, the lower third of all the plates have been badly damp-stained, probably beyond redemption (2)
Lot 1197
Racing Club Paris v Racing Club Buenos Aires, 4 press photographs relating to match played in Paris on 2/2/1950. Three 7" x 5" editions with no of folio from Les Mirror Des Sports, both teams going on to field with national flags and team photo Racing Club Buenos Aires taken with rest of party before kick off and press photo 7" x 2 1/2" of 5 Argentinean players (4)
Lot 28
Collection of Folio Society books with outer covers including 'Gods, Graves and Scholars', 'The English Christmas', 'The Road to Oxiana', 'Mission to Tashkent', 'The Twelve Cesar's', 'Arabian Nights', 'The Folio Book of Days', 'The Secret History', 'Myths and Legends of India', 'East of the Sun & West of the Moon', 'King Ross the Ottoman Empire', 'The Icelandic Sagas' and 'Tanglewood Tales' (13)
Lot 537
Georges Goursat (SEM) (1863-1934) - Two folios of various colour prints, mostly humorous and satirical, the majority titled in pencil and some annotated, approx 40-50 in total Condition Report / Extra Information Prints are generally good and clean.Some handling wear to edges only.One folio entitled Monte Carlo to cover, the other is untitled.
Lot 45
Mark Gertler NEAC (British 1891-1939): Head of a Young Girl, pencil signed and dated 1913, 23cm x 18cm (unframed) Provenance: by family decent from the collection of Francis Bate (1853-1950) a founder member treasurer and secretary of the New English Art Club Condition Report Some foxing - visible on the photo. The sketch is mounted between two boards and was part of a folio which have never been framed, it is difficult to say whether the paper is stuck to the back board Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Lot 1
Augustine (Saint). Explanatio psalmorum, Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1497, 4 parts in 1 volume, 426 leaves (complete), Gothic types, text in double column, 65 lines and headline, rubricated manuscript initials around printed guide letters (heightened in metallic ink at a later date), several leaves sometime dog-eared and subsequently turned back up, sporadic ink- or oil-staining, heavier to title page and one ink-blot to part 4 Aa7 recto partially obsuring a word, but otherwise largely confined to margins, intermittent pale damp-staining to lower outer corners, a few leaves (part 3 bb2 and gg8-hh1, and part 4 Ee5) with shallow chips in the same place (text never affected), marginal repairs to part 2 B5 obscuring 2 side-notes and to part 4 Aa2 not affecting text, near-contemporary inscriptions to first title page, contemporary manuscript foliation, frequent contemporary Latin marginalia in red or black ink (occasionally trimmed), modern half calf, folio (29.5 x 20.5 cm) Goff A-1274, Hain-Copinger 1975. Second Amerbach edition, the first edition to contain the fourth part, 'Principalium sententiarum in explanatione libri psalmorum divi Augustini Annotatio'. The first edition overall, probably printed in the Netherlands in 1485, is considered unprocurable. Provenance: laid-in autograph letter signed from one William Lawson, dated Brasserton, 1 May 1860, to Reverend John Prior of Kirklington, presenting the volumeas 'a suitable companion for your Bellarmine on the Psalms', and claiming that this copy once belonged to Bishop Beveridge, that is, William Beveridge (1637-1708), Bishop of St Asaph. (1)
Lot 100
Gould (John). A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America, 1850, 32 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Gould and H.C. Richter, printed by Hullmandel and Walton, slight fraying to a few fore margins, a few small marginal repairs, some light spotting, a couple of small holes to text leaf for first plate, 19th century Henry Sotheran bookseller label to front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary green morocco gilt, neatly rebacked with original spine relaid, edges a little rubbed and scuffed, folio (sheet size 55 x 36.5 cm) Anker 176; Great Bird Books, page 78; Nissen IVB 346. First edition of Gould's first monograph on game birds, dedicated to the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte, author of American Ornithology. Gould added 24 new species to the 11 American partridges previously recorded, many of which are illustrated and described here for the first time. (1)
Lot 103
Highgrove Florilegium. The Highgrove Florilegium, Watercolours depicting Plants grown in the Garden at Highgrove, 2 volumes, The Prince's Charities Foundation/Addison Publications Ltd., 2008-09, 124 fine colour facsimile plates by Anne O'Connor, Beverly Allen, Josephine Elwes, Jenny Phillips, Sally Grosthwaite, Jill Coombs and many others, each with embossed blindstamp to lower outer corner giving the copyright, and the plate and edition number in pencil, the plates printed on American Cotton paper, the text on Somerset Bookwove, text decorations and endpaper designs by Richard Shirley Smith, original dark red quarter goatskin gilt, by Stephen Conway, after a design by James Brockman, with gilt hand-tooling by James and Stuart Brockman, dark red goatskin fore-edges, atlas folio, 66.5 x 48 cm Limited edition 129/175, signed in ink by Prince Charles to the preface page of the first volume. All 124 plates, each by a different artist, have been signed in pencil by that artist to lower margin. (2)
Lot 109
Heylyn (Peter). Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and the Isles thereof..., Revised, Corrected, and Inlarged by the Author himself immediately before his Death, London: Philip Chetwind, 1670, additional engraved title (with stain to lower margin and ink stamp to verso, with light show-through), letterpress title printed in red and black, four folding engraved maps only (of 5, includes map of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with California shown as an Island), lacking double-hemisphere map, each map with ink stamps to verso and ink stamp to upper margin of B1, occasional browning and spotting, endpapers renewed, front pastedown with bookplate and partially removed library label, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, library gilt stamp and classification number at foot of spine, folio Wing H1693. (1)
Lot 123
Langlois (Hyacinthe, publisher). Atlas Universel pour la G‚ographie de Guthrie, nouvelle edition, Paris, 1802, printed title and contents list, engraving of an armillary sphere and 31 engraved maps (correct as list), all but one with contemporary outline colouring, including nine folding or double page maps, occasional marginal staining, later endpapers, modern half calf gilt, slim folio Includes a large folding map of the North West American coast from California to Alaska. (1)
Lot 125
Brue (Adrien Hubert). Atlas Universel de G‚ographie physique, politique, ancienne & moderne, contenant les cartes g‚n‚rales et particuliŠre de toutes les partes du monde...., seconde edition, Paris, 1830, calligraphic title, contents list and dedication, fourteen ancient world and fifty-one modern world maps, all with contemporary outline colouring, slight offsetting, each map with the author's printed ink and blindstamp, bookseller's label to front pastedown, hinges a little weak, publisher's title label to upper cover, marbled boards, contemporary half calf gilt, a little worn and bumped at extremities, folio Large detailed maps which are distinguished by their careful presentation, numerous annotations and references to sources such as Arrowsmith and Humboldt. (1)
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