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A Chinese famille rose baluster vase: enamelled with a presentation scene depicting the Immortal Shou Lao with officials and attendants in a formal garden, a diaper border above divided with panels of peaches, iron-red apocryphal Qianlong seal mark, Republic/20th century, 44cm [rim with cracks and section lacking] and wood stand.* Provenance Herbert Sutton [1887-1952] and thence by family descent. See lot 1394 for full provenance].
A mixed group of Chinese porcelain: comprising a deep dish with incised peony decoration under a dark celadon glaze, 25.5cm diameter, a food container and cover decorated with female figures within a garden, four small blue and white dragon bowls, apocryphal Jiaqing seal marks, together with a small famille rose saucer dish, [chipped].
A Chinese carved cinnabar lacquer box and cover: of circular form, carved to the centre with a mountainous river landscape with figures in a fenced garden and in a pavilion, the sides and base with chrysanthemum and foliage and key fret border to the circular foot, the base with later incised and gilded Qianlong six-character mark, 30.5cm. diameter (minor losses and age cracks).
Eight silver and other pocket watches: a Centre Seconds choronograph pocket watch, the movement having a lever escapement and signed on the backplate J. Harris & Sons, London & Manchester, the case hallmarked for silver, Chester, 1900, along with the case makers initials JH&S for Joshua Horton & Son of Hatton Garden, London, diameter 60mm.An open-faced pocket watch, the movement having an engraved balance cock to the lever escapement, the case hallmarked silver, Chester 1895 along with the case makers initials IJTN for Isaac Jabez Theo Newsome of Coventry, diameter 54mm.An open-faced pocket watch, the dial signed for Spikins From Dent, 84 High Street, Deptford, London S.E., the case hallmarked for silver Birmingham 1904 along with the case makers initials WHS for William Henry Sparrow of Spencer Street, Birmingham, diameter 54mm.A ladies open-faced pocket watch, with a cylinder escapement, the case hallmarked for silver, Birmingham 1885, along with the case makers initials LG, diameter 38mm.Roskopf, a Swiss Made pocket watch, the case stamped 0.935, Roskopf Patent, diameter 38mm.Three further pocket watches.
Cigarette Cards 2 Full Sets of 50 plus 3 Part Sets Full Sets are Garden Hints and Military Uniforms of the British Empire overseas W.D. and H.O. Wills and John Player and Sons, Part Sets are Coronation Series Ceremonial Dress 50 mixed, Motor Cars 40 mixed, Birds and Their Young 20 cards, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
3 x Tate Gallery Exhibition Posters plus 2 other exhibition Posters Including Covent Garden Market, William Blake, Turner and the Human Figure 1989, Les Ballets 1933 (Brighton Museum and Art Gallery), Sanderson (1860-1985 125th Anniversary Exhibition 1985), good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Laurie Lee As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning illustrated by Leonard Rosoman published Andre Deutsch 1969 first edition in dust-wrapper. Letters From Compton Deverell 'BB' with illustrations by Denys Watkins-Pitchford 1950 first edition in dust-wrapper. The Cotswolds some stories of the Lovely Villages by Eric R. Delderfield with photographs 1961 and another copy WITH two copies of Wild Visitors to a Cotswold Garden by Ernest Harris 1936 illustrated (6)
The European Garden Flora (volumes 1-6 complete) A Manual for the identification of Plants cultivated in Europe, both out-of-doors and under glass, published Cambridge University Press 1986-2000 with illustrations. Flora Chorca Dhuibhne 1995. Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica Trans by Stephen Freer. Flora of Connemara and the Burren 1983. John Lindley, Gardener Botanist and Pioneer Orchidologist and four others (14)
Gravetye Manor or Twenty Years' Work round an Old Manor House being an Abstract from the Tree and Garden Book of Gravetye Manor Sussex, kept by the owner William Robinson, published John Murray 1911 first edition folio with etched frontispiece and other illustrations. Bound in full limp vellum with gilt title and ties
An extensive set of Portmeirion Botanic Garden pattern dinner wares, comprising tureen and cover, butter dish lid, vase, two serving bowls, serving tray, large meat plate, small plate, four side plates, cased cake slice, teapot, coffee pot, six soup bowls, four cereal bowls and six side bowls, two egg cups, storage jar, six teacups, milk jug, sugar bowl and a collection of dinner plates.
17th-century English books Collection of works on politics, theology, law and literature including: [Gunpowder Plot]. Actio in Henricum Garnetum Societatis Jesuiticae in Anglia ... omnia ex Anglico à G. Camdeno Latinè versa. London: John Norton, 1607. First edition in Latin, 4to (17.8 x 14cm), 18th-century calf, title-page with armorial stamp in red ink and contemporary ink inscription (faded), contemporary marginalia and underlining, 19th-century bookplate (R. M. Beverley), initial and final blanks discarded, light browning, a few spots and marks, rear inner hinge gone [ESTC S102858; STC 11620]; Doddridge, Sir Robert, & others. The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquarian, viz. Mr. Justice Doddridge, Mr. Agar, Francis Tate, WIlliam Canden [sic], and Joseph Holland. Touching the Proceedings of the High-court of Parliament in English. London: William Leake, 1658. First edition, small 8vo (14 x 8cm), contemporary sheep, unidentified earl's crest gilt to spine, retaining initial blank and terminal advertisement leaf, bookplate (baron's coronet, name Sinclair, motto 'fide sed pugna'), spine worn [ESTC R210130]; 'Philanax Misopappas'. Rawleigh Redivivus; or the Life and Death of the Right Honourable Anthony Late Earl of Shaftesbury. London: Thomas Malthus, 1683. First edition, 8vo (17.1 x 10.8cm), early-19th-century tan calf, small hole in F4 affecting a few letters, engraved portrait frontispiece, armorial ink-stamp to title-page, marginal worm-trail from quire I to end (text unaffected) [ESTC R3409]; Forbes, William. Considerationes modestae et pacificae controversarium. London: Thomas Roycroft [and others], 1658. First edition, 8vo (15.8 x 10cm), contemporary blind-panelled sheep, old deaccession ink-stamp to title-page [ESTC R209737]; Baudier, Michel. The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain ... translated into English, by W. Vaughan. London: John Wilkins, 1671. First edition in English, 8vo (16.6 x 10.6cm), contemporary sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece by Cross, binding worn, front inner hinge tender, hole in L8 costing a few letters, lacking either final blank or endpaper, ink-stamps (Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, Glasgow) to endpapers, frontispiece recto and final page of text) [ESTC R6814]; and 16 others similar (these not collated), including: Ovid, De arte amandi ... Englished, 1662; Richard Gardiner, Specimen oratorium ... editio quinta, Oxford, 1675; Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, ex authoritate primum regis Henrici 8. inchoata, 1640 (binding worn); William Lawson, A New Orchard, and Garden ... as also, the Husbandry of Bees, 1652 (lacking several leaves); John Goodman, The Penitent Pardoned ... Second Edition, 1683 (frontispiece and title-page laid down); Peter Heylyn, Mikrocosmos ... sixth edition, 1639 (lacking at least final 2 leaves including blank, retaining woodcut architectonic title-page); Sir Robert Cotton, Cottoni posthuma, 1672 (lacking front board) and others, mainly in contemporary bindings (several bindings defective) (21)Note: The Actio in Henricum Garnetum was first published in English the previous year, as A True and Perfect Relation of the Proceedings at the Severall Arraignments of the Late most Barbarous Traitors.
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978] Collection of autograph poems most apparently fair copies, all signed 'Hugh MacDiarmid' (as part of title or at foot) unless otherwise stated, all in blue ink on varicoloured paper, rectos only, various extents and paper-sizes, and comprising: 'From "On a Cornish Garden"', 3 ff.; 'Music Not For Me. (With Compliments to Duncan Robertson, Mary Dawson, Richard Hardie etc.), 1 f.; 'A Vision of Scotland' ... From "Two Poems by Hugh Macdiarmid" (Drumalban Press, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire.)', 1 f.; 'Our Man From Nirvana (Of Michael Stewart.)', 1 f. one line corrected in manuscript, The Bog in Spring, 2 ff. (unsigned); 'Empty Vessel', 1 f.; 'The Ross-shire Hills', 1 f.; 'Bagpipe Music', 2 ff.; 'I Delight in this Naethingness', 1 f., with attached leaf containing mounted printed cutting of the published poem, and an autograph copy of another poem ('Alas! It is not given / To many Britishers to aver ...'), MacDiarmid's signature crossed through; 'The Lion Rampant, 1 f.; 'The Royal Stag', 1 f. (unsigned); and 2 similar items, undated and unsigned, apparently in MacDiarmid's hand (1 folder)Provenance: Deceased estate, Edinburgh.
New Naturalists Richard G. West's personal set of the 'Golden Fourteen' comprising: The Natural History of Orkney; British Warblers; Heathlands; The New Forest; Ferns; Freshwater Fishes; The Hebrides; The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life; Wild and Garden Plants; Ladybirds; The New Naturalists; The Natural History of Pollination. London: Collins [HarperCollinsPublishers], 1985-96. 14 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets (Orkney and British Warblers each with Duraseal protector as issued), a few bumps to extremities (Orkney top edge of front board and lower fore corners of both boards; Hebrides corners; Caves lower fore corner of front board), Orkney with dust-soiling to Duraseal on rear panel, Hebrides and Soil with a few small marks to dust jackets, very slight fading to spines of dust jackets of Heathlands, Ferns, and Wild and Garden Plants, stronger fading to jacket spines of Freshwater Fishes and The Natural History of Pollination, spine of Ladybirds notably bright [Bernhard & Loe NN70A-83A] (14)Note: First editions of numbers 70-83 in the New Naturalist series, with Orkney and British Warblers both in first state; Heathlands and The New Forest are both true first editions, with dust jackets retaining 'Collins' on the spine and the printed price on the front flap (removed for the Book Club editions). The respective print runs were: 725, 725, 880, 1850, 1550, 1470, 1500, 1481, 1601, 1401, 1404, 1400, 1489 and 1472. Provenance: Professor Richard G. West FRS FGS (1926-2020), British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist, and co-editor of the New Naturalist series, all with his bookplate.

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