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Lot 80
PROMOTIONAL ITEMS - STEVIE WONDER/WINGS. Record label promotional items to include: perspex globe and mount issued for Stevie Wonder - Secret Life of Plants, Paul McCartney and Wings 'Red Rose Speedway' promo issue frisbee, Polydor 'A Hunk of Funk' eight unused stickers, mini card 3D Warner Brothers Van Halen pop up display, a German Joe Cocker press book.
Lot 75
M.I. Hummel - 26 miniature plates collectors series including Heavenly Angel, Globe Trotter, Goose Girl, Postman etc.; others including 1989 Collectors' Plate 'Wash Day' (all boxed); 12 Hummel silver plated collector teaspoons, (boxed); 12 Danbury Mint M.I. Hummel Collector Plates entitled 'Little Companions' (all boxed, some with certs.)
![[Darwin, Charles] Fitzroy, Robert, and King, Philip Barker Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/34f3d4a9-9654-4e9b-9c4c-aa8900bb1226/515e359b-c434-4311-bc00-aab700de0d9b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 149
[Darwin, Charles] Fitzroy, Robert, and King, Philip Barker Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, Describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of the South America, and the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. Vols I+II with Appendix to II. Henry Colburn, 1839. 8vo (3 vols). Full blue calf, sometime rebacked preserving original spines, boards ruled in gilt with blind roll-tooled border, red speckled edges; I: 11 plates; II: 30 plates; Appendix: 1 folding map, 6 plates; lacking all loosely inserted maps. First edition. Whilst lacking the more famous Darwin contribution, the two journals of the voyages prepared by Fitzroy (and the appendix of more in-depth study) remain an important text in the history of science. With the suicide of Stokes (whose journal is a major element of the first volume) and the retirement of Captain King, Fitzroy found himself the guardian of the vast array of documentation the voyages had produced - far more than would fit in a single volume. In the end, an agreement was reached with Darwin. Fitzroy would present the material for which he was responsible, whilst Darwin provided a third volume made up of his account of the voyage. Fitzroy's work may be overshadowed in the popular imagination by his more controversial partner, but his contributions were on less important - his surveys of South American waters were so accurate they are still the foundation for many charts of the area. Fitzroy was deservedly awarded the gold medal of the Royal Geographic Society on his return and his two volumes are a major source on the route traversed by the expedition. Fitzroy would undergo a seeming religious conversion by the time of his account of the voyage, repudiating his doubts in the literal truth of Creation, being particularly dismayed by Origin. His scientific work continued though, ultimately leading him to the creation of the Meteorological Office, in which role he invented the weather forecast in an effort to reduce loss of life at sea. Whilst Fitzroy is mostly remembered today as Darwin's Captain, he is much more than this. A principled man who devoted himself to duty - to the point of leaving only his debts for his family - he was a scientific officer who recognised the importance of Darwin's work, even if he later disagreed with the ultimate direction such work would lead. His work is still a hugely important source of scientific, maritime, ethnographical and historical information and remains a landmark in science.
![[Surtees, Robert Smith]. "Ask Mamma", or the Richest Commoner in England, 13 monthly parts, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f18384cb-a82f-48dc-9fe9-aab801078ac9/303d41ee-3e39-4901-be84-aab901153864/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
[Surtees, Robert Smith]. "Ask Mamma", or the Richest Commoner in England, 13 monthly parts, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1857-8, 13 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech (heightened in gum arabic), all advertisements and slips as called for, plate in part 4 offset, original printed wrappers, part 1 spine worn, front wrapper slightly chipped, minor wear to spine-ends of a few other parts, together with: Mr Facey Romford's Hounds, 12 monthly parts, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1864-5, 24 hand-coloured etched plates by John Leech or Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), without advertisements 'Note of Lever's Martin ...' in part 6, 'Just Published ... The Belle of the Village' in part 7, and 'Liverpool London & Globe Insurance Co.' in part 11, but with Chapman and Hall advertisement slips not listed in Tooley in parts 3, 9 and 12, original printed wrappers, spine of part 1 (first issue copy: see note) slightly chipped, minute chipping to spine-ends of a few other parts, part 7 wrappers slightly dented, each work housed in a custom red quarter morocco drop-back box with matching chemise, 8vo (Qty: 2)NOTESTooley 472 & 475. Part one of "Ask Mamma" is a first issue, with the title on the front wrapper in outline rather solid letters. The set of Mr Romford's Hounds contains two copies of the first part: one of the first issue, with the title 'Mr Romford's Hounds' on the front wrapper, and one of the third issue, with the title 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' in solid letters.
Lot 40
A Disney Who Framed Roger Rabbit musical snow globe, playing Hungarian Rhapsody, together with a Snow White and The Seven Dwarves musical snow globe, playing I Whistle A Happy Tune., Disney Beauty and The Beast musical snow globe, playing Once Upon A Dream., and a Disney Chip and Mrs Potts figures. (4)
Lot 20
A Phillips 12 inch terrestrial globeTogether with a Phillips 12 inch celestial globe en suite, both typically mounted on ebonised stands. 42.5 cm high overall. (2) CONDITION REPORTS: Both generally good, with expected wear, former with some scuffing and minor loss, stand a little loose, latter general good, both could do with a light clean.
Lot 93
An early 20th Century Moorcroft baluster vase decorated in the Pomegranate pattern with a band of fruit and berries against a blue wash ground, impressed mark, monogrammed in green, height 12cm, restored, together with a footed vase of globe and shaft form decorated in the Pansy pattern, impressed mark and monogram in green, A/F. (2)
Lot 30
A late 19c German novelty clock in the form of a globe mounted on a stand supported by four pillars. The globe in 4in in diameter and has the arabic numerals attached to it. Above and to one side are two cherubs with butterfly nets (one missing) and the single train movement has a free swinging pendulum, the bob of which is also globe shaped. The metalwork items are bronzed and the base and top panels of the stand are of stained wood. The clock stands 12in tall overall.
Lot 187
World.- Reclus (Élisée) The Earth: a Descriptive History of the Phenomena of the Life of the Globe, 2 vol., double-page colour frontispiece and 23 plates, some double-page, illustrations, occasional faint spotting, 1 signature loose (2D, vol. 2), vol. 2 cracked hinges, original cloth, a little rubbed, 1871 § Symonds (John Addington) Sketches in Italy and Greece, occasional faint spotting, previous owner's ink stamp to title, publisher's advertisements bound at end, original cloth, rubbed and worn, 1879 § Byrd (Richard E.) Discovery, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, original cloth, lightly browned spine, spotting to upper cover, New York, 1935; and 5 others, 8vo (9)
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