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Lot 323
A LARGE COLLECTION OF VINTAGE GAMES to include; a boxed chess set and board, 2 Waddingtons Bezique markers, brass cribbage board, mini carpet bowls, Chad Valley Beetle Game, Chad Valley Dominoes, Spears Table Croquet, J & L Randell Ltd - Chinese Cheq uers, "De La Rue" Canasta, Waddingtons Lexicon "Cow and Gate" Snap, Pit card game "Bull and Bear Edition", Happy Families Circus Animals
Lot 297
*Oxford. Humphry Bodicott, vintner, Farthing, not dated, 0.8g, fine/fair with black patina, (BW 124, Leeds 27, N 3683), John Bowell, mercer at the 'Sugar Lofe', Farthing, 1657, 1.1g, fine, (BW 125, Leeds 29, N 3760), Thomas Burnham, 'at ye tenis court', Farthing, not dated, 1.3g, fine, (BW 126, Leeds 32, N 3777), Richard Carter, brewer, Farthing, not dated, 1.3g, fine, (BW 128, Leeds 34, N 3685), Thomas Combes, 'neare the East Gate', grocer, Farthing, not dated, 1.1g, fine, (BW 129, Leeds 36, N 3768), William Cornish, mercer, Farthing, 1668, 1.7g, fair to fine but fully readable, (BW 131, Leeds 40, N 3686) (6)
![*[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, fifty-fifth thousand, Macmillan](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/89b51f02-b445-45fa-8b99-a6d000acba4b/1d10539f-0fc3-45f4-9678-b8c33a8c3487/468x382.jpg)
Lot 736
*[Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, 1832-1898]. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, fifty-fifth thousand, Macmillan & Co., 1877, illustrations after John Tenniel, advert page at rear, a few minor finger marks and spotting to early leaves, author's presentation inscription in blue ink to half-title, 'Marguerite Terry, from the author, April 8, 1893', old adhesion marks to front pastedown and endpaper, light blue envelope gummed to front pastedown, all edges gilt, original presentation binding of imitation white morocco gilt, heavily rubbed and soiled, spine darkened and detached, 8vo, together with accompanying autograph letter signed, 'C.L. Dodgson', loosely inserted, written in blue ink from Christ Church, Oxford, 28 March 1893, to Minnie, 'I will very gladly send you "Alice" in white and gold: and I have sent for one from London, as I have none left here. And I won't forget to write your name in it. But what name shall I write? If "Minnie" is only a pet-name, perhaps you would rather have the real name in your book? Please tell me all your names; & also what name you would like in the book? I can remember seeing you, four times - I don't suppose you can remember seeing me ever!' continuing with brief note of seeing her first aged 2 and dancing to the piano in 1883, 'Second time, you were in a carriage, driving to Moray Lodge. I was coming away, & met you at the entrance-gate', the third time as 'Mignon', the fourth time as a boy in 'Olivia' at the Lyceum, concluding, 'I hope the fifth time will be when we shall both of us see each other. Perhaps we shall be in two trains going opposite ways, & both of us be looking out of the carriage-windows. So we shall see each other for exactly a moment-and-a-half. That will be quite long enough, don't you think?', minor soiling and old rust marks from paperclips including to centre fold, 4 pp., small 8vo Minnie Terry (1882-1964) was a child actress, the daughter of Charles Terry (1858-1933) and niece of Ellen Terry (1847-1928). Lewis Carroll found himself 'a little disappointed with Minnie Terry' as Mignon in 'Bootle's Baby'; 'she recites her speeches, not very clearly, without looking at the person addressed' ('The Diaries of Lewis Carroll', edited Roger Lancelyn Green, 2 volumes (OUP, 1954), p. 460). This letter is published in Morton N. Cohen (editor), The Letters of Lewis Carroll (2 volumes, 1979), p. 950. (2)
Lot 712
Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll' ). Lawn Tennis Tournaments. The True Method of Assigning Prizes with a Proof of the Fallacy of the Present Method, 1st edition, Macmillan, 1883, 9 pages, original printed wrappers, a little soiled, small split at foot of spine, old crease and small loss to upper corner, contained in later red cloth portfolio, 8vo Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 157. "Dodgson easily shows that a tournament in which all competitors beaten in the first round retire, and similarly in the succeeding rounds, does result in the best man winning the first prize... But as usual with Dodgson's ideals of scoring or voting, the scheme proposed is too ingenious and elaborate for general use, though terribly near perfection. The results would be many fewer competitors, a shorter tournament, and less gate-money!" (1)
Lot 103
‡ Ernest Procter (1886-1935) Ypres, the Moat from the Menin Gate; Ypres, Cloth Hall town from ruins of Cathedral Two, both signed and titled Both watercolour with conte, one on grey and one on buff paper 24 x 34cm and 24 x 31cm (2) Provenance: The Medici Society Ltd., London Painted in 1918/19 ++Both good condition
Lot 753
Highly Important Album Some of the Earliest Irish PhotographsDated 1855Coghill (Sir Joscelyn) First Secretary of the Dublin Photographic Society: A very important Album of original 'Photographs, 1855', dated on cover 1855, the album containing circa 100 numbered pages, oblong quarto, with about 140 images in various sizes, many neatly captioned, some about 6 x 8 ins, others smaller, mostly portraits but also including some important landscape photos.Portraits include Sir Joscelyn himself, his wife Katharine, the young Egerton (oval) dated June 1858, Honb. Emmeline Plunket acting a part as 'Tragedy', Thomas Greene and (presumably) his wife, various family members, various tradesmen and servants, Sir Joscelyn playing cards, a good family group at a gate, Coghill's first carte-de-visite dated 1855, a splendid gentleman said to be Don Caesar de Bazant, a sleeping child, and many images of his wife and children.Landscape photos include Drumcondra House, a superb image of Drogheda harbour with sail-boats, important views of the Boyne Viaduct under construction, Muredach's Cross at Monasterboice showing fine uneroded detail, the bridge at Finglas before the city swallowed it, the Rock of Cashel with the original village at its foot, Hore Abbey, Adare Abbey, Desmond Castle, the old Weir Bridge, Gap of Dunloe, Muckross Abbey, Holy Cross, Brickeen Bridge, Newtown near Trim, an exceedingly bare view of Killiney with the obelisk, the Meeting of the Waters, Sackville St. with the Pillar and GPO, a windmill at Feltrum, the village of Swords, Chapel Izod (still a village), and near the end Windsor and some Welsh or English views and portraits.The quality of the images is generally excellent, the prints are neatly laid down and are mostly unfaded and in good condition. The album itself is strongly bound in half leather buckram. The covers are somewhat soiled and shaken, a few early pages have been cellotaped, but in general it is holding strongly. (1)A wonderful album by one of the earliest pioneers from the very beginning of photography in Ireland. See Edward Chandler's Photography in Ireland: The Nineteenth Century [Burke 2001] for further information about Coghill and his work, and his essay on 'The Mutual Relations of Photography and Art' [1859].Provenance: by family descent
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