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Lot 223
Briggs (Richard) The English Art of Cookery According to the Present Practice; being a Complete Guide to all House-Keepers first edition 12 engraved bills of fare for each month of the year browning to edges of title contents ff. and last few ff. water-staining to sigs. 2S&T a few small ink splashes to L5 modern panelled calf spine slightly faded [Cagle 577; Maclean p.15; Oxford p.115] 8vo for G.G.J. and J. Robinson 1788. *** The author describes himself as `many years cook at the Globe Tavern Fleet-Street The White Tavern Holborn " and now at the Temple Coffee-House`. The work contains over 650 pages of recipes.
Lot 552
Circle of Sir Godfrey Kneller (British, 1646-1723) Portrait of the young Sir Peter Pett, Master Shipwright to Elizabeth I, with HMS Pelican behind him through a window, and Dividers and a Globe beside him, oil on canvas, 107 x 86cm (41.73 x 33.54in). Provenance: Hinwick House, Bedfordshire, thence by descent. Literature: Hinwick House Guide, p.10 "The Staircase Hall - In the picture can be seen the ship Pelican in which Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world. As a result of bullion captured from the Spanish galleons, Sir Francis changed the name of the ship to the Golden Hind", The Petts of Kent and the Rolts of Bedfordshire were cousins. H Farnam Burke and Oswald Barron, `The builders of the Navy. A genealogy of the family of Pett`, The Ancestor, X, 1904, pp.147-78 (at p.168). (The genealogy rather gives up after the late seventeenth century when the shipwrights turned into professional men and no doubt married into established and, perhaps minor landed families)
Lot 250
A large collection of assorted items relating to aeroplanes to include a Bradford Exchange tankard entitled "Dawn Patrol", a Bradford Exchange porcelain clock "Heroes of the Sky", and another similar clock, a Bradford Exchange Concorde watch, a limited edition Bradford Exchange "30 Year Concorde" plate, a Bradford Exchange British Airways Concorde limited edition signed plate, a selection of boxed Atlas toys and others, and a modern Bradford Exchange globe, etc.
Lot 1287
A silver small scent bottle, designed as a lion within a life buoy, detailed LIFE BUOY, Chester 1902, a silver small circular powder compact, Birmingham 1920, a silver thimble, a smaller thimble, a Brazilian mounted blue stone miniature globe and a Brazilian mounted blue stone miniature sailing ship.
Lot 1336
A late 18th Century Walnut Cased 8 Day Long Case Clock, John Nevill of Norwich, the associated walnut case with overhanging cornice surmounted by three globe and spike finials, to ¾ columns and moulded throat with long and shaped trunk door, decorated with concentric line inlaid detail and glazed lentical, to a panelled plinth base on bracket feet, the 12” arched brass dial signed to a silvered boss to the arch with cast and pierced urn spandrels enclosing a Roman and Arabic silvered chapter ring with outside minute track and matted centre, with subsidiary seconds and date sector, to black painted hands, the movement with plates united by four knopped pillars with anchor escapement and strike on a bell, height 91”
Lot 1344
An early 19th Century Mahogany Cased 8 Day Long Case Clock, the hood with plain frieze and overhanging cornice with swan neck finials and central globe and spike finial, over freestanding reeded columns to an ogee throat and long shaped trunk door with plinth base, to a 14” square painted dial with gilt highlighted rosette spandrels with further floral detail, to a Roman and Arabic chapter ring with outside minute track and subsidiaries for seconds and date, with pierced steel hands, to a movement with plates united by four knopped pillars and anchor escapement with rack strike on a bell, height 82”
Lot 623
Medallions - Rare Captain James Cook Memorial Medal - silver medallion by Lewis Pingo, showing a bust of Cook with script `Oceani Investigator Acerrimus` (The Most Intrepid Investigator Of The Seas), on the reverse showing the figure of Fortune holding a Naval rudder atop a globe, London:Royal Society, 1784. One of only 291 struck. Cook was elected to the Royal Society on returning from his second voyage. The Society issued this medallion in 1794 in gold (19), silver (291) and bronzed copper (574)
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