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Click here to subscribeRare 7mm crank handle gallery air gun, of German / American manufacture, octagonal 24 inch barrel fitted with dovetailed front and rear sights, cylinder, action and trigger guard engraved with scrollwork, the chequered walnut stock carved with cheek rest, the forend fitted with a rest and horn endcap, mid 19th century. No crank handle.No licence required to buy this item, purchaser must be over the age of 18.
Deactivated Smith and Wesson .38 Revolver, US Property stamped and marked 'NZ' for New Zealand Issue, serial number 7087, with twelve rounds on inert ammunition, deactivated to the latest standards in 2020, with certificate and earlier deactivation certificate.No licence required to buy this item, purchaser must be over the age of 18.
Webley Mk3 .177 air rifle, serial number 36675, 18" barrel, fitted with Parker Hale PH16M adjustable rear sight, the butt with Webley logo disk.No licence required to buy this item, purchaser must be over the age of 18. Cannot be posted to a private address and must be sent to a Registered Firearms Dealer.Condition report: The rifle is in good condition generally. The wood has very faint scratches but these are not too noticeable. The bluing has very little signs of wear and only the occasional minor rust patch on the outside of the barrel which would probably clean up well. The white letter in fill is lacking in places and has discoloured in other areas. The action works correctly and the spring feels strong. The bore looks bright without signs of rust or pitting. There is a vacant dovetail where the rear sight has been removed with the fitting of the breech mounted aperture sight.
Weihrauch HW.35 .177 air rifle, with figured and checquered special stock, serial number 747795, with Simmons 4x32 scope, together with gun slip, 113cm longNo licence required to buy this item, purchaser must be over the age of 18. Cannot be posted to a private address and must be sent to a Registered Firearms Dealer.
LES LESTON RACE SUIT WORN AND SIGNED BY SIR STIRLING MOSS This is a Les Leston original Ferrari badge race suit, in classic powder blue. The item was found in the USA in a car that was known to have been raced by the legend Sir Stirling Moss. The suit still has a label that bears his name. The suit was sent over to the UK for Sir Stirling Moss to authenticate. He confirmed that he wore the suit either in training or in racing. He then signed the suit, approving it as an exceptional item and one of one. It comes complete with replica signed gloves and helmet, also signed by Sir Stirling Moss. Each item has the correct photographic authenticity for the signatures. Duke’s are very excited to offer this unique item.
A PAIR OF CEREMONIAL HALBERDS BELONGING TO THE DUCKWORTH FAMILY OF CHESHIRE. A pair of ceremonial halberds with decorative 'blades' mounted with the Duckworth crest of a duck standing before a wheat sheaf and above the motto Nitor in Adversum. 258cm. Joseph Battersby Duckworth 1847-1912 was a successful cotton trader and business man with interests in America and throughout the Empire. It is thought by the descendants who are offering this item for sale that it may well originate from his time as High Sheriff of Cheshire.
A CEREMONIAL TRUMPET BELONGING TO THE DUCKWORTH FAMILY OF CHESHIRE. A Ceremonial trumpet by Hy. Keat & Sons of London with decorative central boss, the flared end engraved with the Duckworth family crest and motto 'Nitor in Adversum'. Mounted with a woolwork banner featuring a central cross and four sheaves of wheat, with brown cord tassels. 68cm. Joseph Battersby Duckworth 1847-1912 was a successful cotton trader and business man with interests in America and throughout the Empire. It is thought by the descendants who are offering this item for sale that it may well originate from his time as High Sheriff of Cheshire.
Six hallmarked silver mounted dressing table bottles, including one Victorian, two further hallmarked silver lids, two white metal topped peppers, two hallmarked silver mounted cut glass knife rests, three hallmarked silver handled tools, hallmarked silver collar, two further cut glass items with silver plated mounts and a shoe horn, height of tallest item 14.5cm
London. Bowles & Carver, (publishers), Bowles's New one-Sheet Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Borough of Southwark; comprehending the Outskirts and Extent of the Thames from Chelsea to Deptford Exhibiting also the New Buildings, Roads and other Alterations to the Year 1795, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, some dust soiling and slight staining, linen split along one fold, 445 x 650 mm, contained in a contemporary card slipcase, case worn at extremities, together with Miller (R. publisher). London Westminster and Southwark, circa 1820, uncoloured engraved miniature map of London, bound with 3 (only topographical views and 'A Catalogue of Books & Fancy Articles Published and Sold by R. Miller 24 Old Fish Street, Doctors' Common', map size 80 x 115 mm, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn and frayed with upper board near detached, 12mo,Qty: (2)NOTESFirst item: Howgego, Printed Maps of London, 181. state 7.
* Ogilby (John). The Road from London to Barstable in Devonshire, [1676 or later], hand coloured engraved strip road map, 'fox-hunting cartouche', 365 x 445 mm, framed and glazed, together with a hand coloured engraved smaller version of the same map by John Senex with another road map (The Continuation of the Road from London to Barnstable in Devonshire) printed on the verso, 165 x 210 mm, mounted framed and double glazed, with Owen (John & Bowen Emanuel). Untitled road map, [1720 or later], hand-coloured engraved strip road map running from Chippenham to Wells and on the verso from Marlborough to Wells, 185 x 120 mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, below the map inset into the mount is a brass 'Bath Token', dated 1811 and decorated with 'the golden fleece' of a lamb hanging from a ribbon and on the verso the legend ' A pound note for every 240 tokens given by S. T. Whitchurch and W. Dore', 35 mm in diameterQty: (3)NOTESThe first described item is Sheet 32. The road commences at Andover and runs through Market Lavington, Warminster and Bruton and ends at Bridgewater
Ovidius Naso (Publius). Opera omnia ... studio Borchardi Cnippingii, 3 volumes, Leiden: ex officina Hackiana, 1670, signatures *8 A-3G8 (3G8=blank), A-3E8, A-3E8 3F1, pp. [16] 832 [14], 805 [11], 810 [8], 3 engraved title-pages, engraved portrait and 15 full-page engravings (all counted in register), letterpress title to volume 1 only, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, dust-soiling, 8vo (19.6 x 11.5 cm), together with: Minucius Felix (Marcus). [Opera] cum integris ominum notis ac commentariis, novaque recensione Jacobi Ouzeli, Leiden: ex officina Hackiana, 1672, additional engraved title-page, contemporary annotations to endpapers, contemporary vellum, 8vo (19.2 x 11.4 cm) Cattenburgh (Adriaan van). Syntagma sapientiae Mosaicae; in quo multa ex prioibus Mosis libris eruuntur contra atheos, deistas et libertinos, 1st edition, Amsterdam: ex officina Martini Schagen, 1737, bound with: ibid., Dissertatio de multipli Noachi; adjecta altera opposita tritae opinio de turris Babelis excrutictione, item de confusione linguarum et gentium disperione, 1st edition, Haarlem: apud Joannem Bosch, 1742, 2 works in 1 volume, marginal browning, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, 4to (19.8 x 15.5 cm), and 4 others, 17th-century continental imprints, vellum-bound, including Seneca, Opera, 1st Elzevir edition, 1640, lacking signature b4 in volume 2Qty: (12)NOTESProvenance (Ovidius Naso): 'Ferguson of Raith', engraved armorial bookplates, apparently Robert Ferguson (1769-1840), Scottish Whig politician. Willems 508 for Seneca ('the most beautiful and the most sought-after' of the three Elzevir editions).
Strawberry Hill Press. An Account of Russia as it was in the Year 1710. By Charles, Lord Whitworth, [Twickenham]: printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758, engraved vignette of Strawberry Hill to title-page, errata leaf, toning, faint mark to title-page vignette, light staining to signatures M4-N2, all edges gilt, c.1900 red morocco, richly gilt spine, French fillet frame gilt to sides, 8vo (18.1 x 10.5 cm), together with: [Walpole, Horace]. Jeffery's Edition of the Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story. Translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto ... A New Edition, London: printed by Cooper and Graham, and sold by the publisher, 1796, 7 stipple-engraved plates printed in colours within gilt border, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain citron morocco, joints rubbed, mottling to sides, tips bumped, 8vo (20 x 12 cm)Qty: (2)NOTESProvenance (first item): 1) F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930), lawyer and politician, and 'soulmate' of Winston Churchill (ODNB) (engraved bookplate with style 'Viscount Birkenhead'). 2) Muriel Beckett (bookplate). ESTC T138827 & T63197; Hazen Strawberry Hill 5 & Horace Walpole p. 65.
[Poetry]. Two volumes of poetry pamphlets, 18th century, comprising: 1. Swift (Theophilus). The Temple of Folly, in Four Cantos, 1st edition, London: for J. Johnson, 1787, half-title, engraved frontispiece (damp-stained and offset), ESTC T49932 (ten copies world-wide), 2. ibid., Poetical Address to His Majesty: occasioned by the Late Royal Visit to Worcester; at the Meeting of the Three Choirs, held August the 6th, 1788, 1st edition, Worcester: John Holl, 1787, half-title, ESTC N40261 (two copies world-wide: British Library and University of Illinois), 3. Shaw (Cuthbert). Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady who died in Child-bed ... Third Edition, corrected, London: for J. Dodsley [and others], 1770, title-page browned and stained, ESTC T41389 (five copies in UK libraries), 4. [Combe, William]. The Diabo-Lady: or, a Match in Hell. A Poem dedicated to the Worst Woman in His Majesty's Dominions, London: Fielding and Walker, 1777, half-title discarded, closed transverse tear in inner margins extending into text to no loss, contemporary annotations naming characters' real identities, ESTC T31773, 5. ibid. The Diaboliad. A Poe. Part the Second, London: for J. Bew, 1778, lacking half-title, final text-leaf and advertisement leaf, staining, ESTC T112377, 5 works in 1 volume, contemporary half calf, worn, 4to (26.6 x 20.5 cm), and 1. [Jodrell, Richard Paul]. The Female Patriot: an Epistle from C[a]t[herin]e M[a]c[aulay] to the Reverend Dr. W[a]l[to]n on her Late Marriage, 1st edition, London: John Bew, 1779, half-title discarded, title-page loose, final leaf nicked and marked, ESTC T98506 (three UK copies) 2. Sargent (John). The Mine: a Dramatic Poem, 1st edition, London: for T. Cadell, 1785, half-title, light spotting, ESTC T2392, 3. [Lee, Sophia]. A Hermit's Tale: recorded by his own Hand, 2nd edition, London: for T. Cadell, 1787, half-title discarded, toning, staining, ESTC T85992 (four copies world-wide) 4. More (Hannah). Florio: a Tale for Fine Gentlemen and Fine Ladies: and, The Bas Bleu; or, Conversation. Two Poems, 2nd edition, London: for T. Cadell, 1787, half-title discarded, title-page nicked, stained and laid down, marginal loss to upper inner corners of quires K-M, final 2 leaves loose, staining, ESTC T35623 (six UK copies), 5. [Denton, Thomas]. Immortality: or, the Consolation of Human Life. A Monody, 1st edition, London: printed for R. and J. Dodsley, and sold by M[ary] Cooper, 1754, half-title loose, dust-soiling, T37010 (seven UK copies), 5 works in 1 volume, loose in contemporary half calf (very worn), cords split between quires M and N of item 4, 4to (25.8 x 21 cm)Qty: (2)
Papeles Varios . An important sammelband of 58 Royal Ordinances and Decrees relating to the administration of Spanish overseas territories in Latin America, Central America, Cuba, West Indies and Mexico, bound as one volume, 1753-1779, 577 pp., includes one item (29) on slavery signed ‘Yo El Rey’, and 2 manuscript items (33 & 44), manuscript index, marbled edges, contemporary vellum, lettered on spine, 4to (30 x 21 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESA full short-title list is available on request. The collection includes: 1. Reglamento para las Milicias de Infanteria, y Caballeria de la Isla de Cuba, 1769, 37 pp ., 13 tables (one folding) 2. Real Declaración sobre Puntos esenciales del Reglamento para las Milicias ... de la Isla de Cuba, 1771, [6] pp. 3. Adición… Milicias de la Isla de Cuba hecha para el particular govierno de las de la Provincia de Panama, 1773, 3 pp., 12 tables 4. Adición… Milicias de la Isla de Cuba hecha para el particular govierno de Puerto Rico, 1760, 6 pp., 3 tables 5. Reglamento de los Goces mensuales... Individuos del Batallón fixo de Santo Domingo, 1771, [4] pp. 6. Reglamento para la Tropa de Infanteria veterana fixa en la provincia de Yucatán y Campeche, 1778, [15] pp. 7. Relación de las Clases y numero de las Plazas... en la Gobernación de Caracas, 1778, [6] pp. 8. Reglamento del Haber Mensual.... Infanteria empleados en Cartagena de Indias, 1778, [6] pp. 9. Reglamento para las Milicias... de la Provincia de Yucatán y Campeche, 1778, 34 ff. 10. Metodo, que debera observarse en los distintos Destinos de las Americas... Cuerpo General de Artilleria, 1778, 4 pp. 13. Real Declaracion... sobre el metodo... debe cumplirse en los Dominios de América... en el Reglamento del Monte Pío Militar, 1773, 21 pp. 14. Tarifa que señala las Pensiones con que asistirá en América á las Familias de los Individuos comprehendidos en los beneficios del Monte Pío Militar, 1773, 13 pp. 15. Instrumentos que deben presentarse para obtener Pension en el Monte Pío Militar, 1762, [16] pp. 16. Reglamento para el Gobierno Interior, Politico y Económico de los Hospitales Reales, erigidos en la Isla de Cuba…1776, 43 pp. 27. Reglamento para la Reduccion de los Cuerpos de Invalidos a Compañias Sueltas... y establecimiento de la de Inhabiles en Sevilla, y San Phelipe, 1761, 40 pp. 28. [Real Orden: Playing Card Factory]. Establecimiento de una fabrica de Naipes en Málaga para atender a la falta de provision suficiente en los Dominios de América, 1776, 4 pp. The Playing Card factory at Macharaviaya, founded by José de Gálvez (later Marqués de la Sonora and Ministro Universal de Indias), was the most important in Spain. 29. [Real Orden: Slavery]. Que se obliga Don Miguel de Uriarte à abastecer por tiempo de diez años baxo la Vandera Española, conduciendo a Cartagena annualmente mil quinientos Negros, à los Puertos de Honduras, y Campeche quatrocientos, à la Isla de Cuba mil.., 1775, [19] pp., signed ‘ Yo El Rey ’ and countersigned Thomas del Mello 33. [Manuscript: Real Orden]. El Virrey de Nueva España debe costease el Juicio de la Inquisición de Mexico la conducción de los Reos sentenciados... 1776, 2 ff. 35. Real Ordenanza del Correo Maritima, 1777, 147 pp. 36. [Real Orden]. Concediendo libertad de Comercio à los Vasallos de estos Reynos, y de los de las Islas de Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, y Trinidad…, 1775, [7] pp . 37. [Decreto: Sobre el comercio de Viveres, Frutos y Generos en las Islas de Cuba y Barlovento], 1775, 2 pp. 38. Instruccion… en la libertad de Comercio... a la Isla de Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Margarita, y Trinidad…, 1775, [6] pp. 41. Real Decreto. Habilita el Puerto de los Alfaques de Tortosa, y el de Almería para el Comercio Libre à Indias…, 1778, 3 leaves 42. Real Decreto. Condiciones con que se puede hacer el Comercio desde España a la Provincia de la Luisiana, 1768, 6 leaves 43. Resolución del Rey. Embarcaciones que salgan de las Islas de Barlovento, Yucatán y Campeche... varien el parage de su descarga…, 1774, [3] pp. 44. [Manuscript: Exchange Rates]. Valor que tienen en España las monedas de Indias trahidas en su especie. Valor de las monedas de oro en Indias, y el que tienen en España, no date, 2 leaves 57. [Bula - Papal Bull]. La Iglesia puede conferir libre, y licitamente en adelante las dichas Parroquias, y otros encargos, y Oficios pertenecientes à la Curq de Almas…, 1752, 15 pp., parallel text in Latin and Spanish, paper stamp of the translator of the original bull 58. Breve de su Santidad sobre la reduccion d los Asilos en todos los dominios de España, y de las Indias cometidas á las Ordinarios Eclesiásticos…, 1773, 10 ff., parallel text in Latin and Spanish
Collecçaõ dos Breves Pontificios e Leys Regias, que foraõ expedidos, e publicados desde on anno de 1741, sobre a libertade das Pessoas, Bens, e Commercio dos Indios do Brasil; dos Excesso que naquelle Estado obraram os Regulares da Companhia denominada de Jesu…, Lisbon: Impressa na Secretaria de Estado, por especial ordem de Sua Magestade, 1760, 444 pages in total with separate pagination to each part, woodcut coat-of-arms to title, 2 folding copper engravings showing the torture and execution of those convicted, a little water staining to final four leaves, marbled edges, contemporary calf gilt with leather spine label, slightly rubbed, 4to (31 x 22.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESFrom the collection of Pedro Aparcio, with his initials on the spine. Collection of 21 Papal and Regal decrees relating to Brazil, including a number relating to the excesses of the Jesuits. Item 12 deals with sentences for the attempted regicide of King Joseph of Portugal in 1758. The events triggered by the attempted assassination ended with the public execution of the entire Távora family and its closest relatives in 1759, and were seminal in the expulsion of the Jesuits.
* Stuart (Charles Edward 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', 1720-1788). Coat fragment, mid 18th century, a small piece of off-white silk with part of an embroidered floral design in red, pink and three shades of green, a little spotting and soiling and some edge fraying, 10 x 13 cm, stitched along edges to a later piece of cloth-covered card, inscribed to verso in black ink, 'A piece of Prince Charlie's coat worn in Edinburgh in the year 1745'Qty: (1)NOTESThis item was recently discovered by its owner in among some unrelated late 19th-century Edinburgh papers and ephemera. 1745 was the year of the Jacobite rising; while in Edinburgh Charles's portrait was painted by the artist Allan Ramsay.
Printers' International Specimen Exchange . In Connection with The Paper and Printing Trades Journal, volume II, 1881, approximately 220 specimens of printing, including engravings, chromolithographs, etc., some heightened with gold, on various papers, occasional spotting, bookplate of Ernest W. Savory, Cirencester, partly untrimmed, original half vellum gilt, with vellum sides, rubbed with some marks, 4toQty: (1)NOTESThe Specimen Exchange was begun in 1880 as an offshoot of The Paper and Printing Trades Journal, published by Field and Tuer, and ran until 1898. This item, being one of the earliest volumes, includes the interesting, honest, and often amusing commentary by Andrew White Tuer and his editorial assistant Robert Hilton.
Greenaway (Kate, illustrator). The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, 1st edition, London: Chatto and Windus, [1886], colour frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations, armorial bookplate of James O'Byine, all edges gilt, original pictorial cloth, lightly browned spine minimally rubbed at ends, slim 8vo, together with: Carroll (Lewis), Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Stockholm: Förlag, 1945, 10 colour plates and numerous black & white illustrations by Robert Högfeldt, pictorial bookplate of Henning Cato, original cloth-backed boards, extremities rubbed, toned dust jacket, some edge-fraying and chips, front panel with small mark and stain to lower left corner, 8vo, and 2 others: Kings and Queens, by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, 1st edition, 1932, in worn dust jacket; Simple Heraldry, by Ian Moncreiffe and Don Pottinger, reprint, 1965, in dust jacketQty: (4)NOTESFirst item: Schuster and Engen 165.1e.
A BSA LINCOLN JEFFRIES .177 AIR RIFLE CIRCA 1907, having underlever cocking and tap loader, makers name stamped barrel and wooden stock, L 111 cmCondition Report:Corrosion spots to outer barrel, small steel plate added to side of the stock, serial number faded - possible 13607, The vendor has advised this item loads and fires however we offer no guarantee as to the working capacity of this item
* Ornithology. Gull, by Carl Friedrich, 1814, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, on brown wove paper, depicting a black and white seabird on a rock, some light spotting, signed, dated, and captioned in brown ink on verso, sheet size 24.4 x 25 cm (9.5 x 9.75 ins), mounted, framed and glazed, together with two other early to mid 19th century framed studies of birds, one a watercolour of a wheater with additional detail of the head, and the head and foot of a golden plover, toned, 24.4 x 16.4 cm (9.5 x 6.5 ins), the other comprising pen & ink studies of the head and beak of an ibis and the head, beak, foot, and nest of a reedling, lightly toned and marked, 23 x 15.7 cm (9 x 6 ins)Qty: (3)NOTESFirst item possibly by the German ornithologist Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789-1857), whose particular interest was seabirds.
A Davenport oval reticulated chestnut basket, early 19th century, having blue transfer print decoration of a rural English landscape with house and figures, 9 cm high to/w a Davenport oval stand, reticulated border with blue transfer printed Chinoiserie decoration, 26 x 20 cm, impressed factory marks to the base of each item (2)Both good condition - no chips or cracks
A Victorian silver mounted travelling dressing/toilet set, simulated ivory hand mirror, glove stretcher, brush and cuticle stick, five silver topped glass jars/bottles hallmarked Birmingham 1897, together with a separate cut throat razor, simulated tortoiseshell folding button hook, cased manicure item, all in a simulated snakeskin case with velvet and silk effect lining.
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