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Click here to subscribeWorld - California as an Island. Dufréne (Maximilien), Rudimenta Historica, sive Brevis, Facilisque Methodus Juventutem Orthodoxamnotitia Historica Imbuendi, 6 parts in 1 vol., Tirnavia, 1777, separate title to each part, with uncoloured folding twin-hemisphere World map (approx. 159 x 302 mm) and one other engraved plate of a celestial globe, 19th century half sheep, some wear with upper board near-detached, 8vo (1)
COSTUMES, OR A SHORT SKETCH OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE PRINCIPAL FOREIGN INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE, hand-coloured title vignette, 13 hand-coloured illustrations, contemporary half morocoo, worn, remains of front f.e.p. sticking to paste-down, some internal soiling and one illustration scuffed at the blank top, 12mo, London, R. Miller, n.d. {c. 1820?}--UZANNE (OCTAVE) Fashion in Paris, new ed, 24 hand-col. platess (frontis loose), orig. pict. cl, sl. worn, 4to, 1901 LOCATION L
SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) The Works, The Globe Edition, Edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, prize binding blind-stamped green morocco, rubbed, upper joint breaking, top of spine worn, 1864--SPENSER (EDMUND) The Works, With Observations on His Life and Writings, portrait frontis, title vignette, contemp. half vellum gilt with marbled boards, marbled edges, missing front f.e.p., frontis stained and loose, title pp. stained, London, Walter Spiers, 1840--CHAMBERS (R.) The Book of Days, 2 vols, prize binding, wear--and 1 other LOCATION T
A large matched pair of post war Danish cased body vases by Holmegaard in the manner of the Gulvase designed by Otto Brauer. The pair of swollen globe and shaft form with high collar necks and flattened rim detailed with a cased cherry red over opal body, each 13’ tall, one retains original label.
A MINTONS TABLE CENTREPIECE GROUP each piece with a scantily clad putto, standing, one with a crescent pierced basket (hair crack to pedestal) flanked by two circular troughs each with outset cylindrical holders, enriched in blue and gilt, puce globe mark, moulded registration mark and impressed 1577, highest 8 1/2in. (21.5cm.)
Dictionaries. The Smallest English Dictionary in the World, pub. David Bryce, Glasgow, c.1900, eng. port. frontis., orig. gilt lettered red roan, contained in orig. hinged metal locket, with inset circular magnifying glass, eng. lettering to upper side and globe to lower side, metal tarnished, approx. 34 x 28 mm, together with another copy, without locket, plus The Smallest French and English Dictionary in the World, by F.E.A. Gasc, pub. David Bryce, Glasgow, c.1900, some creasing to corners, upper hinge split, orig. gilt lettered red roan, plus two other miniature books (5)
A FINE PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOLS OF PRESENTATION QUALITY BY BOUTET DIRECTEUR ARTISTE A VERSAILLES NO. 51, ROUEN SILVER MARKS FOR 1798-1808, MAKERS MARK, IN A DIAMOND THE INITIALS IM BENEATH A FIVE-POINTED STAR with sighted barrels formed in two stages and cut with micro-groove rifled bores, struck with the mark of Jean Nicolas Leclerc (Neue Stockel 3741) and a further mark beneath the breeches, and with the maker's name 'Boutet' within a rectangle on each side of the sighting flat above, decorated at the muzzles with a band of gold foliage carrying fouled anchors, and over the breeches with a large panel filled with martial trophies, the sterns of two ships, a globe, cresents, a trident, garlands and palmette, all in gold against a finely matted ground (the barrels rebrowned, the gold with losses), engraved case-hardened breech tangs decorated with neo-classical foliage and incorporating the back-sight, bevelled locks signed 'Boutet Directeur Artiste' and 'Manufre ... Versailles' respectively (the cocks expertly replaced), gold-lined pans, set triggers, figured walnut half-stocks, finely chequered butts carved with a band of scale ornament and a demi-flower at the base on each side (small bruises), full silver mounts cast and chased in high relief, comprising trigger-guards decorated with the stern of a ship on the bow, the finial formed as a neoclassical urn with an anchor at the base and filled with a bouquet of sea-shells, butt-caps decorated with a fouled anchor issuant from a laurel wreath fore and aft, decorated with a pair of addorsed marine monsters on each side, all against a finely punched 'fish-roe' ground, two-piece scalloped side-plates, retaining much gilt wash throughout, and with no provision for a ramrod44.7cm; 17Kin (2) The use of Naval and Maritime subjects on the barrel and mounts and the high quality of these pistols would suggest that these were made for presentation to a Senior Naval Officer. A pair of pistols by the same maker, with similarly decorated barrels and with very similar silver mounts struck with Paris silver marks and the same maker's mark as the present pistols were presented by Napoleon to Captain Coronado in 1802. A further pair of pistols by Boutet also with similar barrels and very similar silver mounts struck with Rouen mark for the same period were sold Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 1st April, 2004 lot 258 (£28,680).
Samuel William Reynolds II (1794-1872), after William Owen (18th/19th century) Portrait of Elizabeth Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensbury, Seated, Three Quarter Length Holding a Book] Extensively inscribed, engraved and published by S.W. Reynolds, Bayswater, 1819, black and white mezzotinted engraving, 44cm by 34cm (17 1/4in by 13 1/2in) (pl); together with two further prints [Admiral Earl St Vincent KB, Full Length, in Naval Uniform Standing beside a Desk and a Terrestrial Globe, Holding a Sword in his Left Hand; View of Greenwich and the Thames, possibly after a Watercolour by Thomas or William Daniel] 55.5cm by 40cm (21 3/4in by 15 3/4in) and 44cm by 69cm (17 1/4in by 27 1/4in) respectively (3) *The first print is contained within an ornate black and gilded French frame which is inscribed on an old label attached to the backing board "L. Souty Fils Successor to Mason Souty, Rue Vanneau, 33 Paris" (3)
J & W Cary, London 1816: A Fine Pair of 18 Inch Diameter Library Globes], the "New Terrestrial Globe, exhibiting the tracks and discoveries made by Captain Cook; also those of Captain Vancouver on the North West Coast of America and M de la Perouse, on the Coast of Tartary, together with every other improvement collected from various navigators and travellers to the present time, with corrections and additions to 1829", made up of coloured engraved gores, the equatorial graduated in degrees, hours and minutes; and the "New Celestial Globe, on which are laid down the whole of the stars nebulae & sea, contained in the astronomical works of the Revd F Wollaston F.R.S., de la Caille, Herschel, Hevelius, Mayer, Flamsteed, Bradley & C", the solstial colure graduated in degrees, the equatorial in degrees, hours and minutes, the ecliptic graduated in days of the month, the constellations depicted by mythical beasts and figures, the stars to nine orders of magnitude with nebulae, each raised on four mahogany qu drants united by a glazed compass box, the compass paper with foliate rose, thirty-two compass points and degrees and blued needle, centrally printed "J & W Cary Strand London", on brass castors, 110cm high
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