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A Chinese Copper Red Dragon Vase Meiping. Yuan Dynasty. Dimensions: Height 15 5/8 inches, Width 9 3/8 inches (40 cm x 24 cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

A Chinese Ru-ware Lobed Cup. Song Dynasty. Dimensions: Height 4 1/2 inches, Diameter 3 5/8 inches (11.5 cm x 9.5 cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

A Chinese Famille Verte Lotus Pond Kettle. Ming Dynasty. Dimensions: Height 10 5/8 inches, Width 7 3/4 inches (27 cm x 20 cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

A Chinese Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Vase. Ming Dynasty. Dimensions: Height 9 3/8 inches, Width 5 inches (24 cm x 13 cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

A Chinese Carved White Jade Dragon Belthook. Qing Dynasty. Dimensions: Length 5 5/8 inches, Height 1 1/8 inches (14.5 cm x 3 cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

A Chinese Carved Jade Mythical Beast. Qing Dynasty. Dimensions: Length 3 7/8 inches, Height 1 7/8 inches (10 cm x 5 cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

A Chinese Scroll Calligraphy By Zhu Yunming. Song Dynasty. Dimensions (Painting View): 53 1/2 x 20 inches (136cm x 51cm). Sakamoto Goro (1923 - August 15, 2016) was a globally renowned Japanese antique art dealer and the founder of the antique art store Buyantang. He became famous for selling a Chinese Yuan Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain Jar for approximately 176 million Japanese yen at a Sotheby's auction held in London in 1972. He was actively involved in auctions at houses like Sotheby's and Christie's and set several records for the sale of Asian artworks, bringing numerous exquisite art pieces back to Buyantang. In April 1999, Sakamoto Goro acquired a Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record as one of the highest-priced items in the auction market for ancient Chinese porcelain. Sakamoto Goro made several significant donations of Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and other artifacts to institutions such as the Tokyo National Museum, Nara National Museum, National Museum of China, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei. He often collaborated with institutions like the Tokyo National Museum and Nara National Museum for exhibitions, sharing his extensive collection of fine art with the public through museums. An example of this is the Cizhou Kiln White Glaze Basin he donated to the National Palace Museum, which was exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in 1961 and the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts in 1978. After these artworks were returned to Buyantang, Sakamoto Goro retained the temporary labels they used during their museum displays. The items being auctioned in this event are from Sakamoto Goro's personal collection, which our auction house diligently collected from a close friend of Sakamoto Goro in Tokyo, Japan. Some of the items in this auction are extensively documented in a beautiful illustrated book titled Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang, which includes detailed descriptions of patterns, dimensions, and bears the Buyantang seal. Some of the ceramics mentioned in this book were previously exhibited at the National Museums, and the labels from these exhibitions are still preserved within the book. He graciously provided us with a beautiful Illustrated Guide to Chinese Ceramics from Buyantang book to share with everyone.

Large collection of assorted Wade whimsy animals together with the Wade price Guide and The World Book of Wade Book 2.

Thonet Set of Four 'Le Corbusier' Dining Chairs model no. B9, painted white bentwood with woven wicker seat Dimensions:82.5cm high, 52cm wide, 44cm deep (32 1/2in high, 20 1/2in wide, 17 1/2in deep) Provenance:ProvenanceAcquired by Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight circa 1960 and thence by descent to the current owner. Note: The architect Leslie Martin (1908-2000) and his wife, the designer Sadie Speight (1906-92) played leading roles in twentieth-century architecture and design and as champions of progressive art. They met at the University of Manchester’s School of Architecture in the 1920s and married in 1935.Martin is renowned as much for his ground-breaking architectural practice as for his research and contribution to education. He held many important public and academic positions, including Principal Assistant Architect for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1939-48), Architect to the London County Council (1953-56) and Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University (1956-72). He was the architect of some remarkable post-war buildings, including the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank (1951), the Gulbenkian Foundation Centre for Modern Art in Lisbon (1979) and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (1988).Speight was also a qualified architect and had a celebrated career as a designer. She was a founder member of the Design Research Unit of the Council of Industrial Design in 1943, established to make designer skills available to industry. Her designs for products such as kettles, electric irons, textiles and rugs are particularly revered. After her death, Martin paid testament to Speight’s skill at converting properties in which they could live and work, creating a ‘background for living’ by the selection and placement of furniture, carpets, fabrics, upholstery, ceramics, books and works of art in homes and studios which were widely admired.One of Martin and Speight’s collaborative projects, and their most obvious promotion of contemporary art, was their involvement with the seminal 1937 publication Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art. Martin was a co-editor with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, whilst Speight acted as Secretary and Barbara Hepworth was responsible for its layout. Circle highlighted the vital British contribution to the European abstract movement and was re-printed in 1971.In 1938, Herbert Read commissioned Martin and Speight as joint authors of The Flat Book, which was published the following year. Conceived as a practical guide to contemporary furniture, fabrics and household projects, it is now considered a reference book about the 1930s Modernist aesthetic and is admired as an essential treatise on how the best of European design could be introduced into the British home. The foreword described its aim to be a ‘catalogue of well-designed furniture and equipment’ whilst attempting to ‘set out certain standards of contemporary design and…furnish at least a basis of criticism…to help the reader in selecting his flat…[and]…the problems of planning and furnishing’.Amongst the items featured in the ‘Living and Sleeping Space’ section was a ‘Nest of tables, by Marcel Breuer, birch, £3 13s 6d (Isokon Furniture Co)’ (p.116) and a ‘Plan’ chair by Serge Chermayeff, described as an ‘Easy chair, 5 gns (Plan Ltd)’ (p.134), manufactured by the cutting-edge design companies Isokon Furniture Company and Plan Ltd respectively. These items alone could be said to encapsulate Modernist living in their innovative use of laminated plywood and sleek, simplified silhouettes. Martin and Speight acquired a set of the Breuer tables (lot 122) and a pair of the Chermayeff chairs (see lot 125) in the late 1930s. They became key features of their homes thereafter, seen for example in the sitting-room and nursery respectively in a 1953 article in House and Garden about their former gardener’s cottage in Tring Park, Hertfordshire.Indeed, Martin and Speight enjoyed a longstanding friendship with Chermayeff and his wife Barbara, who on emigrating from England to the USA via Montreal in 1940, wrote to the couple: ‘We have met with great kindness and hospitality…we leave for the States on April 3 staying with Gropius…[Montreal]… is an astonishing place…the houses are incomplete and unindividual – the ‘Flat Book’ should be read.’ (Letter from Serge and Barbara Chermayeff of 28 March 1940 to Lesie Martin and Sadie Speight, Professor Sir Leslie Martin Personal Archive, National Galleries of Scotland GMA A70/4/1)In about 1960, ‘Le Corbusier’ dining chairs by Thonet were acquired for use in Martin’s studio in The Mill, the central building in a complex converted by the couple in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire (four offered here as lot 123). Photographs of them in situ are reproduced in Martin’s 1983 publication Buildings and Ideas 1933-83 From the Studio of Leslie Martin and his Associates. In the late 1970s, Martin and Speight purchased a number of ‘Carmite’ chairs by Vico Magistretti, which formed part of the ‘background for living’ at The Barns nearby, to where they moved in 1977 (five offered here as lot 124). Originally built as the village granary in 1642, it was converted and extended for domestic and professional use.Martin and Speight chose their furniture with great care, and once acquired, it was treasured. Indeed, in 1992 Michael Parkin wrote: ‘Most of the contents of the Martins' home dated from this period, from the early Thirties, with chairs by Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer, tables by Alvar Aalto, lights by Jorn Utzon and even a coffee service by Ben Nicholson.’ (Michael Parkin, Obituary of Sadie Speight, The Independent, 27 October 1992). The couple were arbiters of the very best in twentieth-century design and civilised living, in which the tables and chairs presented here played a long-term role.

Marcel Breuer (Hungarian 1902-1981) for Isokon Set of Three Nesting Tables, designed 1936 each stamped MADE IN ESTONIA (to underside), laminated birch plywood, manufactured by Venesta, Estonia for Isokon Furniture Company Ltd., London, United Kingdom Dimensions:the largest 37cm high, 61cm wide, 45.5cm deep (14 1/2in high, 24in wide, 17 7/8in deep) Provenance:ProvenanceAcquired by Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight in the late 1930s and thence by descent to the current owner. Note: This design was created in February 1936, around the same time as Breuer was perfecting the Long Chair. The earliest models of the nesting tables were made by Venesta in Estonia, with later production moved to England. The architect Leslie Martin (1908-2000) and his wife, the designer Sadie Speight (1906-92) played leading roles in twentieth-century architecture and design and as champions of progressive art. They met at the University of Manchester’s School of Architecture in the 1920s and married in 1935.Martin is renowned as much for his ground-breaking architectural practice as for his research and contribution to education. He held many important public and academic positions, including Principal Assistant Architect for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1939-48), Architect to the London County Council (1953-56) and Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University (1956-72). He was the architect of some remarkable post-war buildings, including the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank (1951), the Gulbenkian Foundation Centre for Modern Art in Lisbon (1979) and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (1988).Speight was also a qualified architect and had a celebrated career as a designer. She was a founder member of the Design Research Unit of the Council of Industrial Design in 1943, established to make designer skills available to industry. Her designs for products such as kettles, electric irons, textiles and rugs are particularly revered. After her death, Martin paid testament to Speight’s skill at converting properties in which they could live and work, creating a ‘background for living’ by the selection and placement of furniture, carpets, fabrics, upholstery, ceramics, books and works of art in homes and studios which were widely admired.One of Martin and Speight’s collaborative projects, and their most obvious promotion of contemporary art, was their involvement with the seminal 1937 publication Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art. Martin was a co-editor with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, whilst Speight acted as Secretary and Barbara Hepworth was responsible for its layout. Circle highlighted the vital British contribution to the European abstract movement and was re-printed in 1971.In 1938, Herbert Read commissioned Martin and Speight as joint authors of The Flat Book, which was published the following year. Conceived as a practical guide to contemporary furniture, fabrics and household projects, it is now considered a reference book about the 1930s Modernist aesthetic and is admired as an essential treatise on how the best of European design could be introduced into the British home. The foreword described its aim to be a ‘catalogue of well-designed furniture and equipment’ whilst attempting to ‘set out certain standards of contemporary design and…furnish at least a basis of criticism…to help the reader in selecting his flat…[and]…the problems of planning and furnishing’.Amongst the items featured in the ‘Living and Sleeping Space’ section was a ‘Nest of tables, by Marcel Breuer, birch, £3 13s 6d (Isokon Furniture Co)’ (p.116) and a ‘Plan’ chair by Serge Chermayeff, described as an ‘Easy chair, 5 gns (Plan Ltd)’ (p.134), manufactured by the cutting-edge design companies Isokon Furniture Company and Plan Ltd respectively. These items alone could be said to encapsulate Modernist living in their innovative use of laminated plywood and sleek, simplified silhouettes. Martin and Speight acquired a set of the Breuer tables (lot 122) and a pair of the Chermayeff chairs (see lot 125) in the late 1930s. They became key features of their homes thereafter, seen for example in the sitting-room and nursery respectively in a 1953 article in House and Garden about their former gardener’s cottage in Tring Park, Hertfordshire.Indeed, Martin and Speight enjoyed a longstanding friendship with Chermayeff and his wife Barbara, who on emigrating from England to the USA via Montreal in 1940, wrote to the couple: ‘We have met with great kindness and hospitality…we leave for the States on April 3 staying with Gropius…[Montreal]… is an astonishing place…the houses are incomplete and unindividual – the ‘Flat Book’ should be read.’ (Letter from Serge and Barbara Chermayeff of 28 March 1940 to Lesie Martin and Sadie Speight, Professor Sir Leslie Martin Personal Archive, National Galleries of Scotland GMA A70/4/1)In about 1960, ‘Le Corbusier’ dining chairs by Thonet were acquired for use in Martin’s studio in The Mill, the central building in a complex converted by the couple in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire (four offered here as lot 123). Photographs of them in situ are reproduced in Martin’s 1983 publication Buildings and Ideas 1933-83 From the Studio of Leslie Martin and his Associates. In the late 1970s, Martin and Speight purchased a number of ‘Carmite’ chairs by Vico Magistretti, which formed part of the ‘background for living’ at The Barns nearby, to where they moved in 1977 (five offered here as lot 124). Originally built as the village granary in 1642, it was converted and extended for domestic and professional use.Martin and Speight chose their furniture with great care, and once acquired, it was treasured. Indeed, in 1992 Michael Parkin wrote: ‘Most of the contents of the Martins' home dated from this period, from the early Thirties, with chairs by Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer, tables by Alvar Aalto, lights by Jorn Utzon and even a coffee service by Ben Nicholson.’ (Michael Parkin, Obituary of Sadie Speight, The Independent, 27 October 1992). The couple were arbiters of the very best in twentieth-century design and civilised living, in which the tables and chairs presented here played a long-term role.

Vico Magistretti (Italian 1920-2006) Set of Five 'Carimate' Chairs beech and rush seats Dimensions:75cm (29 1/2in) high, 52cm (20 1/2in) wide, 58cm (27 7/8in) deep Provenance:Provenance:Acquired by Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight in the late 1970s and thence by descent to the current owner. Note: The architect Leslie Martin (1908-2000) and his wife, the designer Sadie Speight (1906-92) played leading roles in twentieth-century architecture and design and as champions of progressive art. They met at the University of Manchester’s School of Architecture in the 1920s and married in 1935.Martin is renowned as much for his ground-breaking architectural practice as for his research and contribution to education. He held many important public and academic positions, including Principal Assistant Architect for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1939-48), Architect to the London County Council (1953-56) and Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University (1956-72). He was the architect of some remarkable post-war buildings, including the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank (1951), the Gulbenkian Foundation Centre for Modern Art in Lisbon (1979) and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (1988).Speight was also a qualified architect and had a celebrated career as a designer. She was a founder member of the Design Research Unit of the Council of Industrial Design in 1943, established to make designer skills available to industry. Her designs for products such as kettles, electric irons, textiles and rugs are particularly revered. After her death, Martin paid testament to Speight’s skill at converting properties in which they could live and work, creating a ‘background for living’ by the selection and placement of furniture, carpets, fabrics, upholstery, ceramics, books and works of art in homes and studios which were widely admired.One of Martin and Speight’s collaborative projects, and their most obvious promotion of contemporary art, was their involvement with the seminal 1937 publication Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art. Martin was a co-editor with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, whilst Speight acted as Secretary and Barbara Hepworth was responsible for its layout. Circle highlighted the vital British contribution to the European abstract movement and was re-printed in 1971.In 1938, Herbert Read commissioned Martin and Speight as joint authors of The Flat Book, which was published the following year. Conceived as a practical guide to contemporary furniture, fabrics and household projects, it is now considered a reference book about the 1930s Modernist aesthetic and is admired as an essential treatise on how the best of European design could be introduced into the British home. The foreword described its aim to be a ‘catalogue of well-designed furniture and equipment’ whilst attempting to ‘set out certain standards of contemporary design and…furnish at least a basis of criticism…to help the reader in selecting his flat…[and]…the problems of planning and furnishing’.Amongst the items featured in the ‘Living and Sleeping Space’ section was a ‘Nest of tables, by Marcel Breuer, birch, £3 13s 6d (Isokon Furniture Co)’ (p.116) and a ‘Plan’ chair by Serge Chermayeff, described as an ‘Easy chair, 5 gns (Plan Ltd)’ (p.134), manufactured by the cutting-edge design companies Isokon Furniture Company and Plan Ltd respectively. These items alone could be said to encapsulate Modernist living in their innovative use of laminated plywood and sleek, simplified silhouettes. Martin and Speight acquired a set of the Breuer tables (lot 122) and a pair of the Chermayeff chairs (see lot 125) in the late 1930s. They became key features of their homes thereafter, seen for example in the sitting-room and nursery respectively in a 1953 article in House and Garden about their former gardener’s cottage in Tring Park, Hertfordshire.Indeed, Martin and Speight enjoyed a longstanding friendship with Chermayeff and his wife Barbara, who on emigrating from England to the USA via Montreal in 1940, wrote to the couple: ‘We have met with great kindness and hospitality…we leave for the States on April 3 staying with Gropius…[Montreal]… is an astonishing place…the houses are incomplete and unindividual – the ‘Flat Book’ should be read.’ (Letter from Serge and Barbara Chermayeff of 28 March 1940 to Lesie Martin and Sadie Speight, Professor Sir Leslie Martin Personal Archive, National Galleries of Scotland GMA A70/4/1)In about 1960, ‘Le Corbusier’ dining chairs by Thonet were acquired for use in Martin’s studio in The Mill, the central building in a complex converted by the couple in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire (four offered here as lot 123). Photographs of them in situ are reproduced in Martin’s 1983 publication Buildings and Ideas 1933-83 From the Studio of Leslie Martin and his Associates. In the late 1970s, Martin and Speight purchased a number of ‘Carmite’ chairs by Vico Magistretti, which formed part of the ‘background for living’ at The Barns nearby, to where they moved in 1977 (five offered here as lot 124). Originally built as the village granary in 1642, it was converted and extended for domestic and professional use.Martin and Speight chose their furniture with great care, and once acquired, it was treasured. Indeed, in 1992 Michael Parkin wrote: ‘Most of the contents of the Martins' home dated from this period, from the early Thirties, with chairs by Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer, tables by Alvar Aalto, lights by Jorn Utzon and even a coffee service by Ben Nicholson.’ (Michael Parkin, Obituary of Sadie Speight, The Independent, 27 October 1992). The couple were arbiters of the very best in twentieth-century design and civilised living, in which the tables and chairs presented here played a long-term role.

Serge Chermayeff (Russian / British 1900-1996) Pair of 'Plan' Chairs, designed 1933 laminated beech plywood and upholstery Dimensions:77cm (30 1/4in) high, 66cm (26in) wide, 75cm (29 1/2in) deep Provenance:ProvenanceAcquired by Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight in the late 1930s and thence by descent to the current owner. Note: The architect Leslie Martin (1908-2000) and his wife, the designer Sadie Speight (1906-92) played leading roles in twentieth-century architecture and design and as champions of progressive art. They met at the University of Manchester’s School of Architecture in the 1920s and married in 1935.Martin is renowned as much for his ground-breaking architectural practice as for his research and contribution to education. He held many important public and academic positions, including Principal Assistant Architect for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1939-48), Architect to the London County Council (1953-56) and Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University (1956-72). He was the architect of some remarkable post-war buildings, including the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank (1951), the Gulbenkian Foundation Centre for Modern Art in Lisbon (1979) and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow (1988).Speight was also a qualified architect and had a celebrated career as a designer. She was a founder member of the Design Research Unit of the Council of Industrial Design in 1943, established to make designer skills available to industry. Her designs for products such as kettles, electric irons, textiles and rugs are particularly revered. After her death, Martin paid testament to Speight’s skill at converting properties in which they could live and work, creating a ‘background for living’ by the selection and placement of furniture, carpets, fabrics, upholstery, ceramics, books and works of art in homes and studios which were widely admired.One of Martin and Speight’s collaborative projects, and their most obvious promotion of contemporary art, was their involvement with the seminal 1937 publication Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art. Martin was a co-editor with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, whilst Speight acted as Secretary and Barbara Hepworth was responsible for its layout. Circle highlighted the vital British contribution to the European abstract movement and was re-printed in 1971.In 1938, Herbert Read commissioned Martin and Speight as joint authors of The Flat Book, which was published the following year. Conceived as a practical guide to contemporary furniture, fabrics and household projects, it is now considered a reference book about the 1930s Modernist aesthetic and is admired as an essential treatise on how the best of European design could be introduced into the British home. The foreword described its aim to be a ‘catalogue of well-designed furniture and equipment’ whilst attempting to ‘set out certain standards of contemporary design and…furnish at least a basis of criticism…to help the reader in selecting his flat…[and]…the problems of planning and furnishing’.Amongst the items featured in the ‘Living and Sleeping Space’ section was a ‘Nest of tables, by Marcel Breuer, birch, £3 13s 6d (Isokon Furniture Co)’ (p.116) and a ‘Plan’ chair by Serge Chermayeff, described as an ‘Easy chair, 5 gns (Plan Ltd)’ (p.134), manufactured by the cutting-edge design companies Isokon Furniture Company and Plan Ltd respectively. These items alone could be said to encapsulate Modernist living in their innovative use of laminated plywood and sleek, simplified silhouettes. Martin and Speight acquired a set of the Breuer tables (lot 122) and a pair of the Chermayeff chairs (see lot 125) in the late 1930s. They became key features of their homes thereafter, seen for example in the sitting-room and nursery respectively in a 1953 article in House and Garden about their former gardener’s cottage in Tring Park, Hertfordshire.Indeed, Martin and Speight enjoyed a longstanding friendship with Chermayeff and his wife Barbara, who on emigrating from England to the USA via Montreal in 1940, wrote to the couple: ‘We have met with great kindness and hospitality…we leave for the States on April 3 staying with Gropius…[Montreal]… is an astonishing place…the houses are incomplete and unindividual – the ‘Flat Book’ should be read.’ (Letter from Serge and Barbara Chermayeff of 28 March 1940 to Lesie Martin and Sadie Speight, Professor Sir Leslie Martin Personal Archive, National Galleries of Scotland GMA A70/4/1)In about 1960, ‘Le Corbusier’ dining chairs by Thonet were acquired for use in Martin’s studio in The Mill, the central building in a complex converted by the couple in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire (four offered here as lot 123). Photographs of them in situ are reproduced in Martin’s 1983 publication Buildings and Ideas 1933-83 From the Studio of Leslie Martin and his Associates. In the late 1970s, Martin and Speight purchased a number of ‘Carmite’ chairs by Vico Magistretti, which formed part of the ‘background for living’ at The Barns nearby, to where they moved in 1977 (five offered here as lot 124). Originally built as the village granary in 1642, it was converted and extended for domestic and professional use.Martin and Speight chose their furniture with great care, and once acquired, it was treasured. Indeed, in 1992 Michael Parkin wrote: ‘Most of the contents of the Martins' home dated from this period, from the early Thirties, with chairs by Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer, tables by Alvar Aalto, lights by Jorn Utzon and even a coffee service by Ben Nicholson.’ (Michael Parkin, Obituary of Sadie Speight, The Independent, 27 October 1992). The couple were arbiters of the very best in twentieth-century design and civilised living, in which the tables and chairs presented here played a long-term role.

Dr Who - The Complete History - The Definitive Guide to the Making of Dr Who Edited by John Ainsworth Hardback Book First Edition with 152 pages published by BBC Worldwide, UK Publishing, good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

Douglas Adams Signed Book - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams 1994 Hardback Book edition unknown with 177 pages Signed by Douglas Adams on the Third page published by Millennium (Orion Books Ltd), good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99

A WW2 era Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, with additional long service clasp, dated 1949. Awarded to Sgt Grenville Hawkins of the Staffordshire Constabulary. Also included is Sgt Hawkins wartime Defence Medal, a period photograph, his Special Constables Guide, and his WW2 era pocket book. Notes: Sgt Hawkins would have served in WW1, and his photograph shows that he was wearing the BWM and Victory Medal - the location of the WW1 medals is unknown. His pocket book has hand written entries relating to various incidents, including breeches of rules of having lights showing (during Air Raids etc). Condition: generally good. Some service wear and tear to the paper documents.

Saunders (Sarah) The Fountain of Knowledge, or, Complete Family Guide... To which are added, every Lady her own and Family's Physician, first and only edition, engraved frontispiece. Circa 1780Very worn condition with flaking outer cover and spine.Frontispiece tornThe latter pages of the book have been incorrectly numbered and amended by hand.

Three publications Hepworth: A Celebration. Edited by David Woolley. Published 1992 by Westwords Publications.Barbara Hepworth: A guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall. Published 1982 by Tate Gallery Publications.Barbara Hepworth: Centenary. Published by Tate Gallery Publications. Hepworth: A Celebration - Some creases present to the cover of the book, together with two bumps to the bottom right and top right hand corner. (Please see additional images).  Barbara Hepworth: A guide to the Tate Gallery Collection at London and St Ives, Cornwall - Some yellowing to the back cover and bumps to the corners. (Please see additional image).  Barbara Hepworth: Centenary - A number of light marks present to the cover. The inside of the book appears to be in good condition.

Range Rover Sales brochures & Catalogues, with a 1989 brochure price list and colour guide, 1986 brochures colour charts, 1992 brochure and accessories, Vouge SE 1988, folder, 1993 redefining motoring book, Velar Range Rover H/b the Land Rover experience Tom Shephard 2nd edition H/b book, 1994 Land Rover Range Rover catalogues inside slipcase, a good lot

Ferrari Testarossa sales brochure, Booklets, to include a 1984 sales catalogue, Ferrari Guide to Cars Since 1959 Maranello Concessionaires brochure 1981, 1998 Ferrari Greypaul information booklet, Ferrari Enzo autocar book, and a 1982 b Bitter car sale brochure

Wayside & Woodland Trees - "A Guide To The British Sylva", hardcover book with dustcover, dustcover has wear & tear around all corners and edges, spine and binding intact. Gold guilt on hardcover front and spine. Fair condition.

Treasures in Your Home: An Illustrated Guide to Antiques and Their Prices, hardcover book with spine and binding intact. ISBN: 0276420381. Good condition.

Patek Philippe, Complicated Wrist Watches, hardback, published by Konemann, 1999; together with Patek Philippe Collection 2022; Patek Philippe Collection Book (sealed); Chopard L.U.CEUM Traces of Time; Wristwatch Annuals 2015 and 2016 - The Catalogue of Producers, Prices, Models, and Specifications; Complete Price Guide To Watches No. 24 2004 and No. 30 2010 (8)

Legends of the Five Rings books x 27 includes Role Playing Game 3rd edition (AEG3200), The Four Winds: The Toturi Dynasty From Gold to Lotus 3rd edition (AEG3201), Art of the Dual 3rd edition (AEG3203), Masters of War: The Legend of the Five Rings Companion (AEG3205), Prayers and Treasures 3rd edition (AEG3206), Fealty and Freedom 3rd edition (AEG3210), Naishou Province 4th edition (AEG3313), Emerald Empire 4th edition (AEG3305), Atlas of Rokugan 4th edition (AEG3318), The Book of Air 4th edition (AEG3308), The Book of Fire 4th edition (AEG3312), The Book of Earth 4th edition (AEG3310), The Book of Water 4th edition(AEG3315), Secrets of the Empire 4th Edition (AEG3314), The Book of Void (AEG3317), Imperial Histories 2 4th edition (AEG3311), Great Clans 4th edition (AEG3306), Sword and Fan 4th edition (AEG3316), Enemies of the Empire 4th edition (AEG3304), Imperial Histories 4th edition (AEG3307), Roleplaying Game 4th edition (AEG3300), Night of a Thousand Screams, Death at Koten, Code of Bushido, The Merchant's Guide to Rokugan, The Way of the Lion, Legacy of the Forge, all generally Good to Good Plus. (27)

Quantity of RPG books x 21, mostly White Wolf, includes Wraith: The Oblivion (WW6600) X2, Wraith Players Guide (WW6007), World of Darkness: Tokyo (WW6103), Mediums: Speakers with the Dead (WW6102), Guildbook: Spooks & Oracles (WW6305), The Risen (WW6302), Dark Kingdom of Jade (WW6010), Demon: The Fallen (WW8200), Demon Storytellers Companion (WW8201), Fear to Tread (WW8270), World of Darkness: Gypsies (WW2223), Changeling: The Dreaming (WW7300), Noblesse Oblige: The Book of Houses (WW7305), Kithbook: Satyrs (WW7053), Ascension (WW4999), The Artisans Handbook (WW4804), Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts (WW4660), Tradition Book: Verbena (WW4659), Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers (WW4662), Swords & Sorcery Studios Angel Creatures of the Dreamseed (WW17001), all generally Good to Good Plus. (21) 

Quantity of RPG and Minuature game books x 22 includes Nights Watch Source Book A Song of Fire and Ice Roleplaying Game of Thrones (GRR2709), Hero Quest Core Rules (CB77900), Games Workshop Necromundu: Underhive Rule Book, Blood Angels Codex, Outlanders Rule Book, White Dwarf No.227, Warhammer Armies of Antiquity, Warhammer The Empire, WArhammer Age of Sigmar Blades of Khorne, Rune Quest, Luchador Painted Honor, Fairy Meat, Hellas Worlds of Suns & Stone Quick Start, Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition Rules of Play and Quest Guide, Atlantis Second Age, Fifth Edition Fantasy #5, Castles & Crusades - Shadows of a Green Sky, Masters and Minions Horde Book 1: A Swarm of Stirges (BEH-3501), Pathfinder Module - We Be Goblins Free, Exalted 2nd Edition - Under the Rose, 13th Age At Lands Edge, D6 Adventure (WEG51011), Crime Scene: Yakuza (HOG306), At The Edge of Dreams (MKY1115), Babylon 5 Security Manual, Destiny's Price (WW4040), all generally Fair to Good Plus. (22) 

Quantity of Kenner Star Wars vintage loose 3 3/4" figures x 90 includes Boba Fett, Darth Vader, Sand People, TIE Fighter Pilot, Bib Fortuna, Princess Leia Organa in Boussh disguise, Chewbacca, Zuckuss, AT-AT Driver, Max Rebo, Droopy McCool, FX-7, Princess Leia Organa Bespin Gown, Lobot, and others, all generally Fair to Good, Incomplete. Also includes Return of the Jedi story book based on the film and Tomart's Price Guide to Worldwide Star Wars Collectibles 1994, both generally Good. (qty) 

White Wolf Werewolf: The Apocalypse RPG books x 21 includes Werewolf: The Apocalypse (WW3600) x2, Werewolf Storytellers Handbook (WW3205) plus Storytellers screen, Werewolf Chronicles Volume 2 (WW3208), Book of the Wyld (WW3113), Book of the Wyrm (WW3200), Book of the Wyrm 2nd edition (WW3109), Rage Across Australia (WW3106), Rage Across Egypt (WW3114), Valkenburg Foundation (WW3101), Umbra: The Velvet Shadow (WW3204), Croatan Song (WW3112), Corax Changing Breed Book 3 (WW3077), Kinfolk: Unsung Heroes (WW3074), Subsidiaries: A Guide to Pentax (WW3211), Book of the City (WW3811), Past Lives (WW3814), Uktena Tribebook (WW3062), Tribebook: Uktena (WW3862), Tribebook: Black Furies (WW3851), Children of Gaja Tribebook (WW3053), all generally Fair Plus (spine damage) to Good Plus. (21)

DUNFERMLINE BOOKS LOT 001 A Bibliography of Works Relating to Dunfermline and the West of Fife, Including Publications of Writers Connected with the District. By Erskine Beveridge. Dunfermline: Privately Printed by William Clark & Son, 1901. Dedicated and Presented to the Members of the Dunfermline Archaeological Society, 300 copies printed, of which this was No 71, presented to Andrew Burt, Solicitor [002 ]Another copy, No 007, presented to George Beveridge. This copy has blank ruled leaves bound in [003 ]Regality of Dunfermline Court Book, 1531-1538. By [Rev] J M Webster and A.A.M. Duncan. [The Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1953] Inserted at the beginning of the book is a Tracing Forming Part of a General Plan of the Estate of Broomhall belonging to the Rt Hon The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine - lying in the Parish of Dunfermline and Shire of Fife. Surveyed by William Menzies 1771. Copied by John Menzies, Charlestown. 1834. Presentation copy from one of the Authors, “To Nell with best wishes, from J M W” [004] The Dunfermline Hammermen. A History of the Incorporation of Hammermen in Dunfermline, to which is Appended A History of the `convener’s Court of Dunfermline, Compiled from the Ancient Minute Books & Manuscripts connected wit the Craft, and Written by Daniel Thomson. Illustrated by William Thomson [Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1909] Blue Cloth, Gilt on front cover and spine LOT 005 An Old Iron Box And its Story. By Daniel Thomson, Dunfermline, 1900. Card Covers, string binding [006]Dunfermline Gas Works, 1829 - 1929. Dunfermline: Printed by David Watt & Sons, 1929. BrownCard Covers, stapled [007] A Tract, Chiefly Relative to Monastic Antuities; with Some Account of A Recent Search for the Remains of the Scottish Interred in the Abbey of Dunfermline. By John Graham Dalyell, Esq [Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Constable, Hunter, Park and Hunter, London, 1809. Boards, Repacked Bound Up with: [1] A Town Epilogue. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author by Oliver and Co, Sold by John Buchanan, North Bridge, 1804 [2] Disputatio Inauguralis de Rheumatismo, (Glasgow, 1802. Dedication: To Mr Robt Kirkwood as a mark of friendship and esteem, from the Author [3] Sotheran’s York Guide; ADescription of the Public Buildings, Antiquities etc, in and about that Ancient City. Illustrated with Copper Plates [Note: This copy lacks plates] [4] Abridgement of the Laws of Scotland relative to Hunting and Fowling, Dove-Cots and Pigeons, Rivewers, The Sea-Shores and Fushings. Compiled from the most celebrated Writers on the Scots Law, The Act s of Parliament, and Decisions of the Different Courts. By William Ross, Second Edition, Improved and Enlarged. Kelso, 1809

008 Extracts from the Kirk-Session Records of Dunfermline (from AD 1640 to 1689 inclusive); od A Glimpse of the Ecclesiastical History of Dunfermline (for a period of Fifty years). Edited by E Henderson. Edinburgh” Printed by Fullarton & McNab; Sold by J Miller & Son, W Clark and D Campbell, Dunfermline; T G Stevenson, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, 1865) Brown limp cloth; original title on front cover; spine worn; signatutre of John Swan, Leslie, on fep [009] For A Web Begun. The Story of Dunfermline; By W T Barr [Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court; London: 96 Great Russell Street, W C ; 1947. Green cloth; dw; this book was being remaindered in the 1980s, hence the good condition of the book today [010 ]Burgh Life in Dunfermline in the Olden Time. A Lecture By the Rev William Ross, Aberdour, Delivered in the Music Hall, Dunfermline, 8 Feb 1864, at the Request of the Literary Society of that Town [Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas, 1864]; speckled boards, black tape around spine; gilt title around spine (Probably all not original); Bookplate of Carnegie Public Library, Dunfermline, Reference Department [011] Dunfermline Sketches & Notes. By Robert Somerville [Dunfermline: Herbert T Macpherson, 1917]Illustrated Cream Boards; This copy has a bookplate of a Visit to Dunfermline of the American and Canadian Delegation of the Dry Goods Merchants, Thursday, 2nd June 1921 [012] Reminiscences of Dunfermline and Neighbourhood, Illustrative of Dunfermline Life Sixty Years Ago. By Alexander Stewart. With Chronological Appendix, 1064-1880. Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson, and J Menzies & Co; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co 1886; Illustrated Blue Cloth Boards; title in gilt on front cover and spine; Presentation copy “To Mrs Alexander Elder, from her sincere friend, The Author, Nov 1886;” Bookplate of William Saunders, HYS BOOKE on front pastedown; Signature of William Saunders, Edinburgh, 25 Aug 1923, on title page [013] Royal Dunfermline: A Historical Guide to the City and its Antiquities; With an Account of the Carnegie Benefactions. A Richly Illustrated Souvenir Handbook. By Alan Reid and William Kirk. Dunfermline: A Romanes & Son, “Press” Office; 1906; Green Cloth, hardback [1st Edition] [ 013 A.] Ditto, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1907. Blue Cloth Presentation Copy, “To A W Bell, Esq., with the Publishers. Comp; iments” [013B.] Another copy of the 2nd Edition, dark blue cloth, with the following inserted at beginning of volume: Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds (A.U.). 81st A.M.C., Dunfermline, 21st - 24th May May 1907. With the Compliments of the Fifeshire District [013C]. Third Edition, Revised and Extended, Dec 1908; dark blue cloth [013 D]. New and Enlarged Edition [4th Edition], Oct 1922; Light Blue Cloth LOT 013E. 5th Edition, March 1934; light blue cloth, dw (torn); presentation copy, “To Margaret, with best wishes from B & J Fraser, July 1936” [014] Dunfermline Remembered Between The Wars. By Albert F Lindon. Self Published, 1980s. Printed by Dunfermline Press (A Romanes & Son Ltd), Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline; Illustrated Card Covers; stapled [015] Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline. By The Rev Peter Chalmers; William Blackwood snd Sons, Edinburgh and London; 2 vols, 1844 and 1859; Rebound in red cloth boards, with red leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; new eps; Genealogy at end of Vol 2 [016] Another copy of above, but Vol 1 only of 1844; thick heavy bespeckled boards, leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; slight damp staining to beginning of volume, but not affecting frontispiece print or title page [ 017] The Story an Ancient Craft in An Ancient Town; Card Covers, Pp 16; about weaving in Dunfermline; No Date, c 1920s. Printed by J McOwan, Printer, 10 High Street, Dunfermline [018] Poems and Songs. By the late Thomas Morrison, Merchant, Dunfermline. Privately Printed. Dunfermline: William Clark & Son, Journal Office , 1902; brown boards; design in gilt on front cover; leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; signature of F Hudson [ie Felix Hudson, clock and watchmaker in Dunfermline], Aug 1984. The Poems and Songs in this volume were contributed by Thomas Morrison (d 1879), merchant, Dunfermline, and appear to have been printed by the latter’s nephew, Thomas Morrison, Braddock, Pennsylvania [019] A Sketcher’s Notes to Illustrate A View of the Ruins of Dunfermline Abbey; Containing Some Incidents in the Life of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. Vol II [London: Printed at The Operative Jewish Converts’Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green; folio; blue cloth boards; gilt around front and rear covers; inscription of Mrs M Balfour from the Author, on fep; Volume I was published in 1855, with sketches of the Old Church of Dun, and had nothing to do with Dunfermline [020]Scottish Reprints. City Development. A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline, Trust, with An Introduction by Peter Green. Originally published in 1904 and written by Patrick Geddes, this Reprint is a Complete and Unabridged photolithographic facsimile of the first Edition, published by Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1973; Copyright Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1973, for original text and Illustrations; and the Irish University Press for Introduction [021]. Selections from the Writings of William Stewart (Gavroche). Hardback Boards; Published by Robert Gibson & Sons (Glasgow) Limited; Printed by The Blackfriars Press Limited, Leicester, 1948 Stewart was born in Dunfermline on 8 July 1856, and died in Glasgow on 27 Aug 1947 aged 91. For over 25 years he was Secretary and Organiser of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland. He also published The Worker, a monthly Socialist Journal for Fife and Clackmannan from Bruce Street, Dunfermline, in 1898-1900 This copy has the signature of Douglas Young, 1948 on front paste-down

NO RESERVE Military.- Accurate and Impartial Narrative of the War (An), by an Officer of the Guards..., 2 vol. in 1, 2 hand-coloured aquatint frontispieces, 4 etched plates, book-label of J.O. Edwards, etched plates to vol. 1 with rather worn tissue-guards and bound tight with caption disappearing into gutter, sig. G soiled and a little frayed at edges, offsetting, some light foxing and soiling, contemporary marbled calf, lacking spine label, corners and spine ends worn, rubbed, joints split but holding, for the Author, by Cadell and Davies, [c.1795]; and 3 others, 18th century, including A Historical and Descriptive Guide to Scarborough, 8vo & 12mo (4)

BETJEMAN, JOHN. Collection of 20 Books / Literature by John Betjeman, numerous first editions, to include; ‘Ghastly Good Taste or a depressing story of the Rise and Fall of English Architecture’ by John Betjeman, First Edition Chapman & Hall Ltd, London, 1933 with fold out insert to reverse. ‘Continual Dew’ by John Betjeman, First Edition, William Clowes and Sons, London, 1937 with dust jacket. ‘Antiquarian Prejudice’ by John Betjeman, The Hogarth Press, London, 1939. ‘Old Lights for New Chancels’ by John Betjeman, John Murray, London, 1940. ‘New Bats in Old Belfries’ by John Betjeman, John Murray, London, 1945. ‘The English Scene’ a readers guide by John Betjeman, Published for the National Book League by The Cambridge University Press, 1951. ‘First and Last Loves’ by John Betjeman, First Edition, William Clowes and Son, London, 1952 with dust jacket and fold out insert. ‘A Few Late Chrysanthemums’ by John Betjeman, First Edition, John Murray, London, 1954. ‘Poems in the Porch’ by John Betjeman, S.P.C.K, London, 1954 with John Piper. ‘Summoned by Bells’ by John Betjeman, First Edition, William Clowes and Sons, London, 1960, in dust jacket. ‘High and Low’ by John Betjeman, 1966 First Edition, John Murray, London, 1966. ‘West Country Churches’ Four Essays by John Betjeman, Society of SS Peter and Paul, London, 1973. ‘A Nip in the Air’ by John Betjeman, John Murray, London, 1974. ‘Mount Zion’ by John Betjeman, 1975 Poetry Reprint Series, St. James Press, London, 1975. ‘Archie & The Strict Baptists’ by John Betjeman, First Edition, John Murray, London, 1977. ‘An Oxford University Chest’ by John Betjeman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979. ‘Uncollected Poems’ by John Betjeman, John Murray, London, 1982. ‘Ah, Middlesex’ by John Betjeman, Warren Editions, 1984. ‘Poems in the Porch’ The Radio Poems of John Betjeman by Kevin Gardner, Continuum, London, 2009. Plus, ‘Wantage Poems’ compiled by Sister Sylvia Mary preface by John Betjeman, A. R. Mowbray & Co, London, 1966 & A Catalogue of Works by Sir John Betjeman from the Collection of Ray Carter with an unpublished poem, 1983. (20)

Eight guides / annuals to include 3 x Prima Tomb Raider guides (1, 2 & 3), Star Wars The Essential Guide To Droids, Star Wars The New Essential Guide To Weapons & Technology, Ultimate Star Wars Guide, The Official Star Wars Episode II Annual 2003 & Spider-Man 2003 Annual plus book of commando comic book

Railwayana - The Midland Counties Railway Companion, Time Fares and Distance tables, 1840, Bradshaw's Railway Guide book, 1922, ABC Alphabetical guide, 1923, Lost Railways of Derbyshire, Buxton, The Peak Dovedale Illustrated Guide book, etc qty

Two plush Hug a Book Collection Charlie Bear Teddy bears, to include The Pawsome Facts Directory, and The Guide to being Bear-illiant, in purple and yellow cases.

A Nelson View of The Isle of Wight guide book, together with three others

H.J. "Jim" Joel's trophy for the Marten Julian National Hunt Guide Novices' Hurdle won by the Josh Gifford-trained Book of Gold and ridden by Richard Rowe at Sandown Park 30th November 1990, in the form of a Waterford Crystal vase, height 33cm., fine condition, with a wooden display plinth bearing a race presentation inscription Book of Gold won the second race on the card. However, it would appear that there had been a muddle with the presentation at Sandown Park as the race inscription on Mr Joel's plinth is detailed for the first race, the Crowngap Construction Handicap Steeplechase, which had been won by the Diana Grissell-trained Faaris. Provenance: the late H.J. "Jim" Joel   

Post-revolutionary France, 1827-1854i. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Cuvier (1769-1832), French naturalist and zoologist; letter to [René-Nicolas Dufriche], Baron Desgenettes; Paris, 26 July 1827 Seeks his help for M Rivière, a doctor, who wishes to exercise his art among the Egyptians; he has good certificates from many of his teachers, but believes that the name of Desgenettes would be worth more than those of the whole faculty; it would be an act of charity towards a family which singular events have made most unhappy; annotated with a prescriptionWith a lithograph of a portrait of Cuvier by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825); [Paris, c1830]The Baron Desgenettes (1762-1837), a military physician who had trained partly in London, became Chief Doctor to the French Army in Egypt. during the Hundred Days he re-assumed his role as Chief Doctor of the Imperial Guard, and assisted at the battle of Waterloo. In 1820, he was received as a member of the Académie Royale de Médecine, though he was expelled in 1822 following student demonstrations, only to be re-admitted in 1830 and elected a member of the Académie des sciences.ii. Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), French politician and diplomat, younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; letter to [Colin A] Mackenzie, esquire, 5 Hyde Park Place West, London; signs L P de Canino; Winchester, 31 March 1837Is travelling for several weeks and unable to accept his invitationLucien Bonaparte was taken prisoner in 1809 when attempting to leave Italy for the United States. The government permitted Lucien to settle comfortably with his family at Ludlow and later at Thorngrove House in Grimley, Worcestershire, where he worked on a heroic poem on Charlemagne. In 1815 he rallied to his brother’s cause but was proscribed at the Restoration.Colin A Mackenzie, esquire, was listed in the Royal Court Guide of 1842 at 5 Hyde Park Place West. In 1814 he had served in France as Commissary for British prisoners of war.iii. Philippe de St Albin, librarian of the Empress Eugénie; letter to H[enry] W[illiam] Johnston, 9 Avenue de St Cloud, Paris; Sécretariat des Commandements de Sa Majesté l’Impératrice, Palais-Royale, 30 June 1854Conveys the thanks of the empress for his book Legends of Normandy; cover stamped Service de l’Empereur (Maison de l’Impératrice)Legends of Normandy, comprising two verse romances with a dedication in verse to the Empress and running to 108 pages, was printed by E Brière, 55 Rue St Anne, Paris in 1854.According to the pseudonymous recollections of a member of the household, St Albin ‘delighted in very ancient hats and well-worn clothes, so creased and untidy that it seemed as if he slept in them’. (Le Petit Homme Rouge, Court life of the second French empire, 1852-1876, London, Chatto and Windus, 1908, p76).For another letter to HW Johnston from Sir Robert Peel, see Lot 1286

Property of a deceased's estate1972 Benelli Tornado 650SRegistration no. DBE 85KFrame no. EA*6168*Engine no. *6175*A machine for the parallel-twin connoisseur who dares to be different, this 650S Tornado was imported from Italy in 2006 and acquired from its first UK owner by the vendor's late father in 2010. The Benelli had been cosmetically restored to a high standard by the previous keeper, leaving the late owner to sort out the carburetion and change the engine/gearbox oil to a type suitable for wet-clutch transmissions. The only obvious modifications are stainless steel exhaust pipes and a Veglia 'mph' speedometer to match the rev counter. The current odometer reading is 6,096 miles (at the time of cataloguing/photography) while that of the removed 'km/h' speedometer (since misplaced) was 8,382 kilometres, making the combined total some 11,300 miles, which judging by the machine's beautiful condition may well be the distance covered from new. Prior to the carburettor settings being finalised, 'DBE 85K' was featured in Classic Bike Guide for a comparison test with a BSA Lightning (April 2011 edition, copy article available). Following a period of inactivity, the machine will require recommissioning to a greater or lesser extent and thus is sold strictly as viewed. Accompanying documents include a current V5C; expired MoTs (most recent 2016); an old tax disc; copy of previous-owner V5C; various invoices/bills; and marque-related literature: owner's manual, workshop manual, parts book. The best example of its type we have seen, 'DBE 85K' represents a wonderful opportunity to acquire one of these rare Italian thoroughbreds. Offered with keyFootnotes:All lots are sold 'as is/where is' and Bidders must satisfy themselves as to the provenance, condition, age, completeness and originality prior to bidding.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Presidium gem tester, ring sizers, a jewellers loupe and a Jewellery and Gems Buying Guide book

Prof. Uche Okeke (Nigerian, 1933-2016)One letter, A book on drawings; and three more books i) K. J. Bryant, Kano: Gateway to Northern Nigeria, A Guide-book Compiled by K. J. Bryant, (Zaria: Gaskiya, 1959).ii) K. J. Bryant, A guide to Jos (Zaria: Gasiya Corp., 1961).iii) R. Day, West African Atlas: West African Maps Prepared By R. Day, (Exeter: A. Wheaton & Company Ltd, 1961)iv) Uche Okeke, 'drawings' printed book. published by Mbari Club, Ibadan Nigeria, 1961?v) A letter written and signed by Uche OkekeFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Miscellaneous Motoring Books. A box of motoring books, various formats, hardbacks and paperbacks, mostly in good or better condition, and including: The Book of the Motor Car - A Comprehensive and Authoritative Guide on the Care, Management, Maintenance, and Construction of the Motor Car and Motor Cycle, Four Volume quarto hardback set, Caxton Publishing, circa 1920s, 200 illustrations; From Cyclecar to Microcar, by Michael Worthington-Williams, 1st Ed in DJ, 1981; Charles Rolls of Rolls-Royce, by Bruce Lawson, 1st Ed, 2013, signed by the author on the title page; The All British Standard, 6 booklets, circa 1927 to 1931, Parts Lists and Prices; Napier Motors, Ltd., Instruction Book, 10, 15, 26, 30 H. P. Types, 10th Edition, cloth rubbed and lacking title page; and several other books, similar. (Qty)

Cyclists' Touring Club Road Books. Nine octavo volumes in limp cloth bindings, all somewhat used, comprising: The British Road Book Volume I, Southern Counties, two copies, 2nd Edition, 1893 (lacking map from front pocket) and 4th Edition, 1897; Volume II, South Midland Counties, Wales & East Anglia, 2nd Edition, 1898 (soiled); Volume III, Northern Counties, 2nd Edition, 1897; Volume IV, Scotland, 1st Edition, 1897; Companion to the British Road Book Volume I, 1st Edition, 1898; Continental Road Books, France Part I, 3rd Edition, 1900 (front endpaper and title page loose, lacking map from front pocket); France Part II, 3rd Edition, 1899; and Germany, 2nd Edition, 1898. Also, The British & Irish Handbook and Guide, 1908. (10)

Cambridgeshire history MILLER (S) & S. SKERTCHLY. The Fenland Past and Present, Wisbech 1878, tall 8vo, spotting to title and coloured frontispiece, with folding Fenland map and table, plates, original bright pictorial green cloth gilt; Domesday Book Studies - Cambridgshire, Alecto Historical Editions, London, 1987-90, 3 vols, slip-cased; ATKINSON & CLARK. Cambridge Described and Illustrated, 1897, ex libris Sir James Jeans; EVERITT (N) Shots from a Lawyer's Gun, 5th edition 1910; Pevsner Guide, 1996; others by Enid Porter, L E Harris, John Humphreys, John Steegman, Peter Searby, etc.; a mounted view of Barnwell and Chesterton, coloured engraving circa 1790; with various others, mainly reference, including Records of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, The Black Books, 1897-1968, vols. 1,2,4,5, cloth; etc

6 assorted vintage adult erotic magazines together with Nude Beaches & Recreation guide book. Magazines to include Executive, Gallery, Club and Oui.

British Marvel Comics - Rampage starring The Daring Defenders #1-22 (1977-78); Science Fiction, Avengers, Comic Book Price Guide, etc. Qty

Dennys (Nicholas Belfield, compiler & editor). The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A Complete Guide to the Open Ports of those Countries, together with Peking, Yedo, Hongkong and Macao. Forming a Guide Book & Vade Mecum for Travellers, Merchants and Residents in General, 1st edition, London: Trubner and Co., Hong Kong: A Shortrede and Co., 1867, half-title, 29 maps, plates and plans (complete), most folding, map of Canton detached, Plan of Victoria, Hong Kong with white tape reinforcement to verso, a few tears to a few folds and margins, occasional light water stains to a few leaves, modern black half morocco, original cloth spine trimmed and relaid to spine, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Rarely found complete with all 29 maps and plates and appendices.

Mary’s Grammar with stories for the Use of Children by Mrs. Marcet 1860, gilt lettered cloth. Jane And Her Teacher 1840 with engraved frontispiece and title vignette, in gilt cloth. The Newest Reading made completely Easy, or an Introduction to Reading the Holy Bible by T. Davies 1840, in cloth backed printed boards. The Universal Spelling-Book Improved or a New and Easy Guide to the English Language by Daniel Fenning 1802 in leather binding (broken). Abridgment of Murray’s English Grammar 1838 in leather. Emile ou De L’Education by J.J. Rousseau, Amsterdam Jean Neaulme 1762 volumes 1 & 2 (bound in one) engraving to each volume in full leather with raised bands. Essentials of Geography by G. Berger (c.1850s), printed wrappers (7)

GLASGOW AND CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH COLLECTION OF TEXT BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND CATALOGUES (Pamela Robertson ed.), The Chronycle, The letters of Charles Rennie Mackintosh to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Hunterian Art Gallery 2001Raymond O’Donnell, James Salmon, Rutland Press 2003Patrick Nuttgens, Mackintosh and his Contemporaries, John Murray 1988(Pamela Robertson ed.), Doves and Dreams, Lund Humphries 2006Pamela Roberton and Philip Long, Charles Rennie Mackintosh in France, NGS 2005Perilla Kinchin, Miss Cranston, NMS 199Perilla Kinchin, Taking Tea with Mackintosh, Pomegranate 1998Elaine Grogan, Beginnings: Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Early Sketches, National Library of Ireland 2002(Pamela Robertson ed.), Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architectural Sketches, Hunterian Art Gallery 1999George Rawson, Fra H. Newberry, Foulis Press 1996(Pamela Robertson ed.), Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers, Cockade 1990Pamela Robertson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Art is the Flower, Pavilion 1995David Stark, Charles Rennie Mackintosh & Co., Stenlake 2004Richard Scott, The Walberswick Enigma, Ipswich Borough Council 1994Roger Billcliffe, Visiting Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Frances Lincoln 2012Charles Rennie Mackintosh Scotland Street School, Glasgow Print Studio 1980Charles Rennie Mackintosh Furniture, Glasgow School of Art 1968Charles Rennie Mackintosh Ironwork and Metalwork, Glasgow School of Art 1968Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow School of Art 1961 R. Mackintosh: The Chelsea Years, (Exhibition catalogue, Hunterian Art Gallery, 1994)David Brett, R. Mackintosh: The Poetics of Workmanship, Reaktion 1992Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1928, (Exhibition Catalogue, Scottish Arts Council, 1968)Gerald and Celia Larner, The Glasgow Style, Astragal Books 1980Ray McKenzie, Sculpture in Glasgow, Foulis Archive Press 1999Perilla and Juliet Kinchin, Glasgow’s Great Exhibitions, White CockadeCharles Rennie Mackintosh, (Exhibition catalogue, Hida Takayama Museum of Art, 1998)(William Buchanan ed.), Mackintosh’s Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art, Chambers 1998Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture Drawings Etc., Lutterworth Press 1980Alan Crawford, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Thames & Hudson 1995William Buchanan, The Art of the Photographer, J. Craig Annan, NGS 1992(William Buchanan ed.), Mackintosh’s Masterwork: The Glasgow School of Art, A & C Black 2004(Jude Burkhauser ed.), Glasgow Girls, Canongate 1990Harry Taggin et al, Glasgow Revealed, Heritage Books 1998Andor Gomme & David Walker, Architecture of Glasgow, Lund Humphries 1987Janice Helland, The Studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Manchester University Press 1996Robert Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Country Life Books 1968Timothy Neat, Part Seen, Part Imagined, Canongate 1994Alistair Moffat, Remembering Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Colin Baxter 1989A. Oakley, The Second City, Blackie & Sons 1967Wendy Kaplan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow Museums 1996The Doctor Thomas Howarth Collection, Christie’s catalogue, 1994Timothy Neat & Gillian McDermott, Closing the Circle, Iynx Publishing 2002Roger Billcliffe, Mackintosh Furniture, Lutterworth Press 1984Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement, Routledge & Keegan Hall Ltd. 1952Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style, Glasgow Museums catalogue 2018William Eadie, Movements of Modernity, Routledge 1990Robin Crichton, Monsieur Mackintosh, Luath Press 2006John Nisbet, A Sketch Book, Adam & Charles Black 1913Irene Maver, Glasgow, Edinburgh University Press 2000Roger Billcliffe, Mackintosh Watercolours, Carter Nash Cameron 1978Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Textile Designs, Pomegranate 1993Roger Billcliffe, Architectural Sketches and Flower Drawings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Academy Editions 1977(Jackie Cooper ed.), Mackintosh Architecture, Academy Editions 1984Pamela Robertson, The Mackintosh House, Hunterian Art GalleryTalwin Morris designer The Book of the Home, 6 Volumes, Gresham Publishing Co. 1900 and a quantity of pamphlets to include:Mackintosh Watercolours RSA exhibition catalogue 1986; The Private Library: Talwin Morris, Blackie and the Glasgow Style; 78 Derngate Guide Book; C.R. Mackintosh Architectural Drawings, Hunterian exhibition catalogue, 1990; Architectural Jottings, edited by Andrew Young; Charles Rennie Mackintosh Scottish Art Review 1968; The Glasgow Style Glasgow Museums exhibition catalogue 1984; The 1933 memorial Exhibition: A reconstruction, The Fine Art Society catalogue 1983; Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the Hunterian Art Gallery 1991; Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1882, exhibition catalogue 1982; Helensburgh and the Glasgow School, exhibition catalogue 1972; Mackintosh Flower Drawings, Hunterian Gallery exhibition catalogue 1993; The Hill HouseSold as seen, not subject to return Provenance:Provenance: The Estate of the late Dr James Macaulay

HENRY DORÉ "Researches into Chinese superstitions" translated from the French with notes historical and explanatory by M. Kennelly, SJ volumes 1, 3, 5 and 7 published Tusewei Printing Press Shanghai 1914 and 1922 together with various other books mainly on the subject of art and antiques to include a guide to the early Christian and Byzantine antiquities published by The British Museum, EDWIN ATLEE BARBER "Artificial soft paste porcelain" published Doubleday Page and Company 1907 the colour drawings of Thomas Rowlandson published Watson Guptill Publications Inc, New York 1947, a book on furniture in German etc (14 volumes total)

COOKERY: Harrison, Mrs. Sarah: The House-keeper's pocket-book, and compleat family cook. C & R Ware, 1760, 7th. Edn. With 20 plates. Rebound by Paul Delrue in full goatskin, with 5 raised bands & gilt tooling and new endpapers. Very nice copy; Glasse, Mrs: The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy, J. Johnson, 1803, new edn. PP: xl, 419. Cont. full tree calf and later spine; [Smith, E]: The compleat housewife; or, accomplish'd gentlewoman's companion. 1730, 4th. Edn. With six folding plates; Skuses' Complete Confectioner, a Practical Guide to the Art of Sugar Boiling in All Its Branches. No date, c1890. PP: 187 + 31 pages of adverts, including endpapers. Original boards; rubbed and with cuts; inner hinges cracked; Moxon, Elizabeth: English Housewifery, Exemplified in Above Four Hundred and Fifty Receipts.. Leeds, T Wright, 1785, 12th. Edn. With 6 plates (one torn), plus a folding plate, but only part present, and one plate with most of it missing. A/F; [William Kitchiner]: The Cook's Oracle; 1822, 4th. Edn; [William Kitchiner]: The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life By Food Clothes Air Exercise Wine Sleep &c.1822, 4th. Edn; & [Mrs Rundell]: New System of Domestic Cookery.. Murray, 1816, (8)

HUSBANDRY, Etc: GAMBADO: An Academy for Grown Horsemen Containing The Completest Instructions For Walking, Trotting, Cantering &c. 1808, 3rd. Edn. With 12 plates; BOUND WITH: Annals of Horsemanship. 1808. With 17 Plates. Folio, Light damp stain to bottom corners of the plates; one plate trimmed and another with a tear to the corner and small loss (well away from the image); Tusser, T: Five hundred points of good husbandry.. Together with a book of huswifery. 1812; Lord-Mayor of London: A present for an apprentice: or, a sure guide to gain both esteem and estate, Two editions: 1759 & 1774; Certain ancient tracts concerning the management of landed property. Reprinted. 1767. Three parts. C19 half leather. G+; Warner, F: A full & plain account of the GOUT. Dublin, J Williams, 1769;Bonnycastle, J: Introduction to Astronomy. 1803; Plus: The racing calendar for the year 1831. (8)

A collection of vintage circa 1940s onwards UK franked and unfranked postage stamps. To include a stamp accessories perforation gauge, first day covers 2011 guide book, Hawid mounts, Millennium editions, composers, historical buildings, BBC British Broadcasting Company stamps, Jane Austen and many other examples. Collected and displayed over 3 albums (one empty) and loose stamps. 

Ceramic Reference. Preller (Patricia), A partial reconstruction of the New Hall Pattern Book, [with] Supplement No. 1, including a comprehensive shapes guide, Newbury: Printed by White Horse Press, 2003 & 2008, illustrated in colour throughout, dj over green cloth, the supplement pictorial wrappers, 4to, Godden's New Hall Porcelains, Antique Collectors' Club, 2004, dj over cloth, 4to, New Hall & Friends Newsletter, Nos. 18-20, Autumn 2012-14, original wrappers, 4to, [&] Barratt (Jean), A & E Keeling, Formerly Factory X: Shapes and Patterns on Porcelain, Gomer Press, 2009, illustrated, original wrappers, 4to, (7)

Railwayana - a collection of x4 early - mid 20th Century Railways maps comprising; Tuck’s Map of the Railways of England and Wales published by Wilson, London circa 1845, The ABC Guide to London by H. Grube 1909, Collins Railway & Pedestrian Atlas of England (containing x43 maps) and On Either Side a book depicting features of interest seen by the train between London and Edinburgh. 

Thirteen Beatles group and solo albums including Beatles 1962 The Audition Tapes, Lennon Plastic Ono Band, Double Fantasy, McCartney Ram, Wings over America, c/w poster, also includes various Beatles singles and Beatle City Exhibition Guide Book

[SPORTING]. GAME-KEEPING Thirteen assorted works, including Mackie, P. Jeffrey. The Keeper's Book. A Guide to the Duties of a Gamekeeper, 13th ('War') edition, McCorquodale & Co., Glasgow & London, 1917, original cloth with pictorial onlay, twenty-two plate and text illustrations (as called for), presentation copy INSCRIBED 'With the Author's / Compliments P.J.M.', small quarto.

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A CARVED MARBLE GRAND TOUR FIGURE OF THE EPHESIAN ARTEMIS POSSIBLY ITALIAN OR FRENCH, 19TH CENTURY Depicting Artemis (or Diana) as a deity of nature, protection and of fertility, wearing a mural crown emblematic of her city protection, with multitude of breasts or egg shaped nodules, an enveloping tight sheath skirt with panels of heads of animals, plinth base 118cm high Provenance: Robert Kime (1946-2022) Collection "All cities worship Artemis of Ephesus, and all individuals hold her in honour" Pausanias "Guide to Greece", 2nd Century A.D. The Temple of Artemis was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis located in Ephesus near the modern town of Selçuk in present day Turkey. The worship was centred around the Goddess Artemis- not as the virgin huntress but rather as a goddess of fecundity and protection akin to the Phrygian goddess Cybele. By around 150 B.C., coins of the period show a figure much like this example. Most characteristic are the rows of gourd egg like objects around her upper midriff. Sometimes thought of as breasts (where the figure is then referred to as Polymastros), scholars have posited that they are instead gourds or pouches called kurša - others have suggested bees' eggs, dates and bull testes. The finest examples of mostly Roman statues of this are found in the Ephesus Archaeological Museum in Selçuk titled 'Artemis the Beautiful' and 'Artemis the Colossal'. Stylistically this example, with the distinctive exaggerated building above a plain swept veil, natural curled hair, suggests a later derivation- perhaps from the 18th century and 19th century prints produced depicting what was then referred to as Diana of Ephesus (see for example Le Magasin pittoresque, book 26, publ. Paris 1833). Examples produced by Righetti and others at this period tend to depict her more in the traditional fashion with disc like headpiece and a Polos crown. Another comparison should be made with the plaster cast version in The Sir John Soane's Museum (Museum number: SC51) as described by Soane in his 1835 "Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane"; 'A few steps up the staircase leading to the Attic story, in a niche, is a bust .... and in the niche above is a plaster Cast of the Ephesian Diana or Prolific Nature, presented to me by Messrs. Rundell & Co.' In the Curatorial Notes for the Soane example- it is commented that: "It is fascinating that the original letter sent to Soane with the statue refers to its being a cast from a Greek marble formerly in the possession of Rundell and Bridge because in fact this figure has rather a 'Regency' look and former Director, Tim Knox, has speculated that it might in fact be an early 19th century sculptor's version of the Ephesian Diana rather than a cast after the antique." As with this example from The Kime Collection, both share a softened more idealised presentation of the form with a face that is more suggestive of a Regency approach to Classical beauty. Condition Report: Wear, marks, knocks and scratches as per age, handling, use, and cleaning. The reverse shows clearly that this has been broken into several pieces at the upper end of the figure and repaired- also visible to the front. There's a clear line also across slightly lower which may be from construction suggesting use of sectional composition. Edge loss and wear- some scuffing around nose and mouth and what appears to be some deposition of material to her left cheek. old iron inserts at wrists- surface dirt which has become engrained. Wear to base edges Please see additional images for visual references to condition which form part of this condition report. All lots are available for inspection and Condition Reports are available on request. However, all lots are of an age and type which means that they may not be in perfect condition and should be viewed by prospective bidders; please refer to Condition 6 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers. This is particularly true for garden related items. We must advise you that we are not professional restorers or conservators and we do not provide any guarantee or warranty as to a lot's condition. Accordingly, it is recommended that prospective buyers inspect lots or have their advisors do so and satisfy themselves as to condition and accuracy of description All lots are offered for sale "as viewed" and subject to the applicable Conditions of Business for Buyer's condition, which are set out in the sale catalogue and are available on request. Buyers are reminded that liability for loss and damage transfers to the buyer from the fall of the hammer. Whilst the majority of lots will remain in their location until collected, we can accept no responsibility for any damage which may occur, even in the event of Dreweatts staff assisting carriers during collection.As catalogued this is 118cm high overall Condition Report Disclaimer

ROBERT G. GOWLAND: "The Oldest Clubs 1650-1850" John M. Olman and Morton W. Olman : "Olman's Guide to Golf Antiques and Other Treasures of the Game"; and Siegfried Kuebler "The Book of Tennis Rackets"; and The Racket by Gerald N. Gurney (4)Provenance: From a private East Sussex vintage fishing tackle collection.

A quantity of Vintage cameras and equipment, including an Olympus OMG, and associated lens, a Nikon FM2, and associated Nikon Micro-Nikkor-B autozoom lens, and a second Nikon camera, ref. FM2171566, and associated Nikon Micro-Nikkor autozoom lens, a Rico 500ME camera, and a group of Psion organisers, pocket computers, various models, and a quantity of camera related books, including a Leica manual and databook, a Kodak Museum book, The Fritz Henle's Guide To Rollei Photography etc

A selection of hardback and other books, relating to dolls and dolls' houses, titles including: Doll's House Dolls, by Sue Atkinson; Antique Dolls of China and Bisque, by Marjory Fainges; The Ultimate Doll Book, by Caroline Goodfellow; The Collector's Guide to British Dolls Since 1920, by Colette Mansell; The Dolls' Dressmaker, by Venus A. Dodge; The Doll's House Decorator, by Vivienne Boulton; and others, contained across two boxes.