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Click here to subscribeLenz, E. von dating: late 19th Century provenance: Germany "Die Waffensammlung des Grafen S. D. Scheremetew in St. Petersburg", Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig, 1897. Folio with 232 pages and 26 plates. Red fabric, hard cover with golden title and coat of arms. dimensions: height 34 cm.
HENRY (HARRY) EPWORTH ALLEN R.B.A., P.S. (1894 - 1958) A folio of eighteen unframed, unsigned, reproduction woodblocks, linocuts and stencils on paper, each numbered 15/25 in pencil to margin, blindstamped, showing various subjects, titled on frontice page, such as, 'Achill Cottage, An (Galway)', 'Boats', 'Winter' and 'Froggatt Bridge', published with Derwent-Wye Fine Art, Derbyshire, 33cm x 46cm. (ARR).
19th Century English School - Two albums and a small folio containing watercolour studies, mainly botanic and still-life with some landscapes etc, some bearing initials and names including; Mrs Davis, E.D., Miss Beddowe, E.B.B., L.R.G. etc, some dated from between the years 1836 and 1888 Condition: Some are foxed and with minor staining - would suggest viewing this lot in person
Bertie Charles English FRPS - A collection of forty-two exhibition size photographs, mainly dating from the 1940's and being character studies, portraits and animal studies average size 37cm x 30cm approx, all unframed but mostly mounted together with his Royal Photographic Society enrolment certificate dated 1941 A.R. Bertie Charles English lived in Streetly near Birmingham and exhibited at the London Salon Of Photography, Newcastle Photographic Society, Leicester Photographic Society, Sunderland Art Gallery amongst others Condition: These photographs would appear to have spent most of their life in a folio and are therefore largely in good condition - **General condition consistent with age
A William IV rosewood vanity box, having lacquered brass re-enforcement and flush fitting flank handles, the hinged lid with a Bramah lock, enclosing a maroon fabric lined and tray fitted interior, containing engraved, pierced and engine turned silver topped, cut glass receptacles, a blotter and folio impressed Briggs, 27 Picadilly, London 6''h 13''w
ASSORTED SECOND WORLD WAR AVIATION COLLECTABLES comprising a book, So Many. A Folio Dedicated to All Who Served with R.A.F. Bomber Command 1939-45, W.H. Smith, 1995, the half title with a pasted slip signed by sixteen airmen, including those of 617 and 635 Squadrons; a Hurricane Mk I wall plaque, boxed; and a Gearbox No.11503, 1942 F4F-4 Wildcat, boxed, (3).
Mixed volumes including The Century Book of Gardening from The Country Life Library, bound with pictorial cloth, folio Hamilton, Nora Rowan "Through Wonderful India and Beyond" Rankin, E Prof "The Steam Engine", Michelin Guide to France 1912, Arthur Mees Yorkshire, North Riding and assorted volumes (1 box)
Quantity of illustrated books including:- Detmold, E J "The Book of Baby Birds", Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, initial pages coming loose, plates nice and clean, pictorial boards Edwards, Lionel "Beasts of the Chase", Putnam & Co 1950, numerous illustrations, colour plates, red cloth, black titles, dust jacket but not price clipped but chipped and with loss Dowd, J. H. "Important People", Country Life Limited, 4th impression 1934, cream boards with blue titles, yellow dust jacket "Fables de la Fontaine", J J Grandville (ills.), Paris, Libraire Garnier Freres 1926, advertising on end papers, colour plates, black and white illustrations, contemporary pictorial boards very worn and bumped Comming, Primrose "Silver Snaffles", illustrations by Stanley Lloyd, Blackie, orange cloth, dust jacket Williams-Ellis, Amabel "The Arabian Nights", illustrated by Pauline Diana Baynes, Blackie 1963, blue cloth, gilt titles Dulac, Edmund (ills.) "Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, Fairytales", Hodder & Stoughton Limited n.d., colour plates tipped in with picture guards, frontis tissue guard loose, pale turquoise cloth, gilt titles, black pictorial leaping horse to front board, dust jacket, has been coloured in, rather chipped Folio Society "The Song of Solomon" with slip jacket Barry, J. M. "Peter Pan and Wendy", decorated by Gwynedd M Hudson, colour illustrations and plates throughout, pictorial cloth, backstrip almost detached and faded, corners bumped Vernon Stokes, G. "A Town Dog in the Country", colour and other plates, front board and title page separating, illustrated end papers, illustrated boards, front worn and other volumes (1 box)
Rackham, Arthur ills. " The Ring of the Niblung...The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie by Richard Wagner" translated by Margaret Armour, col.plates, decorated end papers, blue cloth, black titles, some staining to front board, " The Poems of Nizami as described by Laurence Binyon", The Studio Limited London, 1928, full col. plates, text, wood cut and black and red text to title page, dust jacket, some chips, folio, Griset, Ernst " Aesop's Fables" Cassell, Petter and Galpin, some foxing, frontis detached, front board coming loose, green cloth, gilt decorations, Cotterill H.B. " Homer's Odyssey....." ills by Patten Wilson, George G. Harrap 1911, Ballentyne Press, blue cloth, gilt and blue titles, Heath Robinson W. , ills " The Works of Mr Francis Rabelais....", 2 vols, Navarre Society, white cloth, gilt titles and rules, dust jackets and one other volume (7)
Bentley, E L "Bentley's Second Phrase Code", fifth reprint, text identical with original, pub. Bentley's Codes Limited, London EC3 1949, accompanying letter from Bentley's Codes Limited bearing the signature P H Bentley, Director, with "Private Telegraphic Code", "Sogeco", copyright December 1926, pub. Codes Telegraphiques Georges Lugagne, Marsaille, two vols. large folio, half-leather, gilt titles (3)
MEMOIRS OF MADAME DU BARRY, ill W R Flint, Folio Society, 1956, 1st edn, orig cl bkd bds gt + GILBERT WHITE: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, Folio Society 1962, orig cl gt s-c + MAJOR JOHN CORNEILLE: JOURNAL OF MY SERVICE IN INDIA, Folio Society 1966, orig cl gt s-c + EMILY BRONTE: WUTHERING HEIGHTS, NY, Random House, 1943, orig cl bkd bds gt + four others Folio Society (8)
LE NEVE (JOHN) - FASTI ECCLESIAE ANGLICANAE OR AN ESSAY TOWARDS DEDUCING A REGULAR SUCCESSION OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL DIGNITARIES IN EACH CATHEDRAL, COLLEGIATE CHURCH OR CHAPEL ... IN ... ENGLAND AND WALES, FOLIO, EVERITT COLLECTION LABEL AND LARGE OVAL WATERCOLOUR ARMS OF THROCKMORTON TO INNER COVER, CONTEMPORARY PANELLED CALF, WORN, 1716 AND VARIOUS OTHER 18TH AND 19TH LEATHER BOUND BOOKS
Circa 1450 AD. A manuscript folio with block of blackletter text ornamented with versals in gold, blue, white and red and marginal black and red curlicues; the text from the book of Luke (1:78); mounted in a card frame with transparent window. 75 grams, 35 x 25cm including frame (13 3/4 x 9 3/4"). From the private collection of a German gentleman; acquired prior to 1982. Fine condition.
Published 1677 AD. Translated into English by Clement Edmonds (1567?-1622), fifth edition, entitled The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar of his Wars in Gallia and the Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey, printed by Tho. Newcomb for Jonathon Edwin at the Three Roses, Ludgatestreet, 1677; Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries of the Civil Wars betwixt Him and Pompey, printed by Tho. Newcomb for Jonathan Edwyn, MDCCLXVI and A Continuation of the Wars in Gallia, by same printer but dated 1676, concluding with The Manner of Our Modern Training, or Tactick Practice, being an essay on military tactics suitable for 'modern' (17th century) usage; [red/black and black titles (3); preface (unpaginated) including a leaf of publisher's advertisements of other works, 12pp; Life and other matters (unpaginated), 36pp.; text 332pp; folding plate at p.298]; folio, modern full calf binding with gilt-lettered spine label by Salisbury Bookbinders (with invoice 28 January 2003 and costing £190). STC C200; ESTC R16632; Cockle 71; Moss I:241; see Brueggemann, 519-20. The Commentaries of Julius Caesar have long been an important text in military training and this work is one of the earliest English translations to have been prepared; Clement Edmond(e)s was a government official, widely respected for his knowledge of military theory, he was Member of Parliament for Oxford University in 1621 and then appointed Secretary of State; this is the second, expanded edition published after his death. 1.5 kg, 31.5 x 21cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4"). Dr Brian Poole Collection, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK; acquired 2002; formerly Bishop's Palace Library, Salisbury. "Good condition; some browning and minor paper faults, a few contemporary ink notes, one engraved plate present. Scarce early translation."
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