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Lot 41
A set of four early 19th century English hand-painted plates; with four further; a pair of Royal Crown Derby plates; and a Continental part dessert service (qty) CONDITION REPORT: Each item with some light surface scratches, rubbing and wear. Some plates with light crazing. Derby plates painted by F Garnett. Otherwise OK.
Lot 132
An Extremely Large Chinese White Marble Buddhist Stele, Northern Qi Dynasty style. Standing at 83cm tall this extremely large and impressive Chinese white marble Buddhist openwork Stele, Northern Qi Dynasty style with traces of colour is carved to front and reverse. The front depicting a central seated figure of Bodhisattva flanked by disciples with flying asparas above holding a beaded garland and below a pair of guardian lions below. The reverse carved with other Buddhist figures. 83cm height x 50cm width Reference: For similar Buddhist Stele example see 'New Discoveries in China' by Danielle and Vadime Elisseeff - Chartwell Books Inc. Page 161 item 122-123 Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1990's with original purchase receipt dated 28th May 1992 from Dragon & Friends Antique Co. Hong Kong and held in an English private collection until now.
Lot 16
A Very Rare Japanese 19th Century Stoneware Jar Signed Sakurai no Sato. From Sakurai village in the Province of Settsu. Coated in a speckled dark brown glaze with thick runs of blueish-white overglaze around the small mouth. With an impressed mark to the unglazed lower body reading “Sakurai no Sato”. With a fitted ivory lid, the underside coated in gold leaf. Two old paper labels to the base showing museum or collection numbers. Diameter 8.5cm. Mid 19th Century, c.1850.For reference and an illustration of an almost identical jar see “Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery”, published 1900, item 608.Provenance: from the collection of the late Brian Page (1938-2018), the well-known Oriental art and antiques dealer from Brighton.
Lot 1445
Indiana Jones Stunning Original Variety Advert Signed By George Lucas & John Williams It is a first edition 'for your consideration' Variety magazing advert from 1985 for 'Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom'.It was signed in Los Angeles 1990 by composer John Williams, and then at a private event in 2005,London by George Lucas. It is very hard to get these 2 iconic signatures together on one item.
Lot 1489
Indiana Jones Stunning Original Variety Advert Signed By George Lucas & John WilliamsThis is something special and very rare, it is a must for any film or music fan. It is a first edition ‘foryour consideration’ Variety magazing advert from 1985 for ‘Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom’.It was signed in Los Angeles 1990 by composer John Williams, and then at a private event in 2005,London by George Lucas. It is very hard to get these 2 iconic signatures together on one item.
Lot 85
SCANDI-FRANCAIS LUMIERE ET GLASS - a unique French sand glass Coolie Hat table lamp, on wood stem with chrome base, shade circa 1950s, shade width 35cm, height 35cm Good original condition, shade has numerous small chips to the rim but only really noticeable if looking closely, otherwise no condition issues, working order but we recommend having the item PAT tested before use.
Lot 210
* Restoration of Charles II. Wednesday May 9. 1660. Resolved upon the Question by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That all and every the Ministers throughout the Kingdom of England, and Ireland, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Twede, do and are hereby required and enjoyned in their publick prayers, to pray for the Kings most Excellent Majestie, by the name of our Soveraign Lord Charles... and for the most Illustrious Prince James Duke of York, and the rest of the Royal progeny...and for the hearty, loyal, and dutiful Conjunction of the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament, and the Universal Concurrence of all the Commanders and Forces, both by Land and Sea, to receive His Majesty into his Dominions and Government..., printed by Edward Husbands, and Thomas Newcomb, Print[ers to the] Commons House of Parliament, May 9, 1660, single-page printed broadside proclamation, with royal coat-of-arms at head, single woodcut initial, some creasing, blank portion to lower left corner missing, and larger portion to lower right corner missing with minor loss of text, 370 x 300 mm (14.5 x 11.75 ins), together with: The honest Cryer of London, [printed for George Thompson, 1660], single-page printed broadside in three columns, some creases and marginal fraying, close-trimmed to lower margin, with loss of a few words, 365 x 275 mm (14.25 x 10.75 ins), plus: By the King. A Proclamation for Reassembling the Parliament printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barber, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1667, single-page printed broadside proclamation, in black and roman letter, with royal coat-of-arms at head, single woodcut initial, some marks to margins, laid down on later backing paper, 355 x 273 mm (14 x 10.75 ins), and three other broadsides: A Proclamation for the Apprehending certain Offenders therein named, and for the better Security of His Majesty and his Government, from Dangers arising from Popish Recusants, 17 November, 1678, printed by John Bill, Christopher Barker, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, 1678 (Wing C3435), single-sheet proclamation printed in black letter, with royal coat-of-arms at head, laid down on later backing paper, with three small areas of loss, affecting text, 520 x 298 mm (20.5 x 11.75 ins), Queen Anne. A Proclamation, for a Publick Thanksgiving, 26 September 1710, single-sheet proclamation, printed in black letter, some loss to lower margin, affecting text (replaced with later blank paper), and [A more exact and necessary Catalogue of Pensioners in the Long Parliament than is yet extant:] Together with their several gratuities, [London, circa 1680], single-sheet broadside printed in three columns, listing public figures during the Commonwealth and their excessive salaries and rewards, lacking the first line of the printed title (added in brown ink in a contemporary hand at the top of the sheet), 295 x 340 mm (11.6 x 13.5 ins) (Qty: 6)NOTESWing E2265C; Steele 3197, for the first item; Wing 3401 for the third item (Proclamation for Reassembling the Parliament); Wing M2698; Kress S1202; ESTC R9672 for the sixth work. Following the Declaration of Breda, which promised to pardon all those who had committed crimes against Charles II and his father, to honour sales of land, to tolerate all religious faiths, and to pay the army, Charles was proclaimed King on the 8th May and invited by Parliament to return to England, bringing to a swift end the puritan strictures of the interregnum. An interesting contemporary inscription in brown ink to verso gives the prices of a number of books: 'Digby. 1/6. Scot. -1. or 5/6. Barbadoes 6/6. Gage -6/6. China -8/6. Heylin 1-3. Sharrock. 1-6. Vulgar Errors. 8'. The second item, The honest Cryer of London, is a witty satire on the follies of allegiance, religion, regicide, and the excesses of parliamentary bureaucracy during the interregnum. The third item requests the return of Parliament, following the Dutch raid on the Medway at Chatham, during the second Anglo Dutch War.
![Marine Insurance; South Sea Bubble. Six broadsides, [1720], comprising: 1. Reasons humbly offer'd by the Insurers of Ships an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/e3936bdd-e156-4746-8f01-abd600c756cb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 242
Marine Insurance; South Sea Bubble. Six broadsides, [1720], comprising: 1. Reasons humbly offer'd by the Insurers of Ships and Merchandize, at Sea, single half-sheet, docket-title, closely trimmed along top edge, 2. A Letter to a Member of Parliament. By a Merchant ... T. S., single half-sheet, docket-title, marginal excision to lower inner corner shaving a few letters recto, 3. A Second Letter to a Member of Parliament. By a Merchant ...T. S., single half-sheet, docket-title, 4. A Letter to the Chairman of the Committee. By a Merchant ... T. B., single half-sheet, docket-title, square brackets around pagination verso just shaved, 5. Reasons humbly offer'd by the Societies of the Mines-Royal, etc. who insure Ships and Merchandize, with the Security of a Deposited Joint-Stock, 3 [1] pp., docket-title, damp-stained, 6. Reasons humbly offer'd against giving the Benefit of Lending Money on Bottomree, to the Societies for Insuring Ships and Merchandize, single half-sheet, docket-title, damp-stained, all toned, disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, pencil annotations to head, folio (approx. 31 x 20 cm, except item 1, 33.3 x 20.5 cm) (Qty: 6)NOTESESTC T17279 (five copies), T17264 (five copies), T17265 (five copies), T17263 (five copies), T17284 (ten copies), T17294 (nine copies); Hanson 2838, 2839, 2840, 2843, 2835, 2841. Item 1 presents the arguments for private marine insurers, items 2-3 the opposing arguments in favour of marine insurance societies; item 3 also answers 'the only objection that remains against one ... at present distinguished by the odious Names of Bubbles'; item 4 is addressed to the chairman of the relevant parliamentary committee by a subscriber to a marine insurance society established 'at the Marine Coffee-house, in Birchin Lane, for 2,000,000 l.'
![[Sermons]. Group of sermons and tracts, 17th-19th century, comprising: 1. Mary's Choice, or the Choice of the truly Godly Per](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/31cd0760-1176-4bbc-9173-abd600c76757/468x382.jpg)
Lot 255
[Sermons]. Group of sermons and tracts, 17th-19th century, comprising: 1. Mary's Choice, or the Choice of the truly Godly Person opened, and justified, in a Sermon at preached at the Funeral of Mrs Anne Petter ... by John Glascock, 1st edition, London: for Samuel Gellibrand, 1659, ESTC R6625 (incorrectly calling for 6 preliminary pages; 11 copies), Wing G842, 2. Sheba's Conspiracy, and Amasa's Confederacy: or, a Modest Vindication of the National Association entred into by the Honorable House of Commons Feb. 25th 1695. Being a Sermon preach'd in the Parish-Church of St. James Clarkenwell, March 29th. By D. Pead, 1st edition, London: for T. Parkhurst, 1696, ESTC R3632 (15 copies), Wing P964, 3. Three Speeches spoken at a Common-Hall, Thursday the 3. of July, 1645. By Mr. Lisle, Mr. Tate, Mr. Brown, Members of the House of Commons: containing many Observations upon the Kings Letters, found in his own Cabinet at Nasiby fight, and sent to the Parliament by Sir Thomas Fairfax, 1st eiditon, London: Peter Cole, 1645, closely trimmed along top edges shaving title border and page-numbers, ESTC R200154, Wing T1121, 4. The Way to the Sabbath of Rest. Or the Soul's Progess in the Work of the New-Birth. To which are now added, two Discourses of the Author, never before printed ... By Mr. Thomas Bromley, 3rd edition, London: J. Baker, 1710, marginal damp-staining, ownership inscription dated 1845 to title-page, ESTC T115982 (13 copies), 5. A Sermon preached at Kidderminster, November 28, 1742, on Occasion of the much lamented Death of the late Reverend Mr. Matthew Bradshaw. In which are some Memoirs of a few Non-Conformist Ministers in that Neighbourhood ... by E. Latham, 1st edition, London: M. Fenner, 1743, ESTC T74245 (16 copies), 6. Of Temptation, and the Means to Prevent its Prevalence. A Sermon preached at Founders-Hall, in Lothbury, Octob. XX. 1715, By Samuel Rosewell, 1st edition, London: for M. Lawrence, 1715, headlines shaved, old inscriptions to title-page, price effaced, ESTC T1456 (3 copies), 7. Sobermindedness Recommended: in a Sermon preach'd to a Society of Catechumens in Jewen-Street: on April the 22d. 1717 ... by Edmund Calamy, 1st edition, London: John Clark and John Marshall, 1717, ESTC T137406 (12 copies), 8. Zion's MInisters clothed with Salvation, and her Saints shouting for Joy. A Sermon preached ... at Bromsgrove ... 25th of May, 1768, 1st edition, London: for John Robinson, 1768, tear with loss of text to D1, footnote on p. 25 shaved, ESTC T104315 (8 copies), 9. A Pastor's commending of his People to God considered ... in a Sermon preached to the Congregational Church at Cambridge, October 13, 1754. By John Conder, 1st edition, London: J. Buckland, 1755, gift inscription to title, p. 34 headline shaved, ESTC T25554 (14 copies), 10. A Sermon preached by the R. Rev. Dr. Hussey, in the Spanish Chapel on Sunday the 2d of March, 1800 and taken in Short-Hand by a Gentleman Present, 1st edition, London: R. Brown, 1800, ESTC T493390 (2 copies), and 5 others, all disbound apart from items 1 (20th-century green half morocco) and 4 (contemporary panelled sheep, worn, joints cracked), variable spotting, soiling and browning, 8vo or 4to (Qty: 15)NOTESItem 10 is a rare example of a Catholic sermon, ESTC tracing two copies only (British Library and St Louis University in the USA).
Lot 256
South Sea Bubble; Fisheries. Four broadsides, c.1720, comprising: 1. Proposals for Establishing the British Fishery, commonly call'd Robin's Fishery, [London?, c.1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 2. Rasons [sic] humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for incorporating the Subcribers for carying on a National Fishery, [London?, c.1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 3. Rasons [sic] humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for incorporating the Subscribers for carrying on a National Fishery; and to raise for the Publick Service 1,500,000 l., [London?, c.1720], single half-sheet, text recto and verso, docket-title verso, 4. The Case of the Company of the Royal Fishery of England [London?, c.1720], single broadsheet, 3 pp., docketed verso of conjugate leaf, each disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, variably damp-stained, pencil annotations to head, approx. dimensions 32 x 20 cm (Qty: 4)NOTESESTC T17291 (five copies), T17298 (five copies), T17276 (two copies), T18223 (six copies); Hanson 2608 ('a bubble'), 2610, 2611 ('a revised edition of the preceding'), 2604. Item 1 ( Robin's Fishery ) may relate to South Sea Company founder Robert Knight (1675-1744): there is a James Cole engraving entitled The Bubblers Bubbl'd, or The Devil take the Hindmost (c.1720) which mentions 'Robin's Fishery for Gudgeons', understood as a reference to Knight (see Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Division I, Political and Personal Satires , volume 2, no. 1625). Items 2 and 3 propose a fishery with a joint stock of £10,000,000: 'The reason for proposing so large a capital, is that if this honourable house thinks fit the subscription for the British Fishery, (commonly call'd Garraway's) may be made part thereof'. Garraway's was a coffee-house on Exchange (or Change) Alley, Cornhill; its eponymous scheme was a noted bubble.
Lot 258
Tacitus. Opera quae exstant a Justo Lipsio postremum recensita, eiusque auctis emendatisque commentariis illustrata: item C. Velleius Paterculus cum eisudem Justi Lipsi auctioribus notis, Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1648, signatures *8 A-Z6 a- z6 Aa6 Bb8 2A-2C6 3A-3G6 3H8, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, colophon leaf, final blank (3H8) apparently original, variable light browning, faint tide-mark to head of gutter in quires S-U, marginal paper-flaw to K2, tears at at lower outer corners of h1 and v1, bookplate effaced from front pastedown, a few other trivial marks and spill-burns, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title, 'mandorla' centrepieces in blind to sides, slightly marked, small paint-mark to foot of spine, original green cloth ties largely extant, folio (39 x 24.5 cm) (Qty: 1)
Lot 260
Textiles. Six broadsides, 1720-7, comprising: 1. The Case of the Poor Straw-Hat-Makers, in the Counties of Hartford, Bedford, Buckingham, etc., [1720], single half-sheet, docket-title verso, contemporary manuscript correction, browned, 2. Reasons for encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail-Duck, and the Growth of Hemp and Flax in Great Britain, [1720], single half-sheet, docket-title verso, slightly damp-stained, 3. An Act for preventing Journeymen Shoemakers selling, exchanging, or pawning Boots, Shoes, Slippers, Cut Leather, or other Materials for making Boots, Shoes, or Slippers; and for better regulating the said Journeymen, c.1723, 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title, sheet separated along central fold, 4. An Act to prevent several Frauds and Abuses in the Dying Trade, [1727], 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title, 5. A Bill for the Effectual Preventing the Importation of Foreign Thrown Silk, which shall be coarser than those known by the Names of Third Bolognia, and Second Orsoy, and all Trams into this Kingdom, from Italy, Naples, and Sicily, for better employing the Poor, and preserving the Silk-Throwing Trade in this Kingdom, [1727], 3 [1] pp., woodcut head- and tailpieces and factotum, docket-title, 6. Reasons humbly offered by the Weavers of London, against a Bill now depending in Parliament, entitled, a Bill for the more Effectual Preventing the Importation of Foreign Thrown-Silk, etc., [1727], single half-sheet, woodcut factotum, docket-title, browned along edges, all disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter, pencilled annotations to head, folio (32.5 x 20.5 cm) (Qty: 6)NOTESESTC T18224 (four copies), T17275 (six copies), N/A, T16387 (three copies), T16381 (three copies), T16414 (seven copies); Hanson 2624, 2616, N/A, N/A, 3696, 3697. The first item calls for restrictions on imports from Holland and Livorno ('Leghorn'). The second item cites a possible war with Russia or Holland as a reason for increasing the manufacture of sail-duck.
![[Voltaire]. Sermon du rabin Akib, prononcé à Smyrne le 20 Novembre 1761. Traduit de l'Hébreu [caption-title], [London?: no pu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/936cf46c-8162-402a-be2c-abd600c76da3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 263
[Voltaire]. Sermon du rabin Akib, prononcé à Smyrne le 20 Novembre 1761. Traduit de l'Hébreu [caption-title], [London?: no publisher, 1761?], 22 pp., a few spots and marks, bound after: [Maty, Matthew], Epitre au chevalier d'Oliveyra sur le dernier acte de foi le Lisbonne. Par Mr. de ***, Geneva [i.e. London?]: [no publisher], 1762, 24 pp., engraved title device, a few marks, 2 works in 1 volume, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, corners worn, 8vo (18 x 11.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC N48650 & N48153; Bengesco IV 2333 for Maty’s work (with apparently misprinted date of 1772); this edition of Voltaire’s work not in Bengesco, but cf. II 1667 for two other editions each with 15 pp., and supplied imprints of Geneva, 1761 and Paris, 1762. See further J. Patrick Lee, ‘The Apocryphal Voltaire: Problems in the Voltairean Canon’, in The Enterprise of Enlightenment (2004) , eds. Pratt & McCallam, pp. 270-2. Very rare early edition, and possible first edition printed in England, of Voltaire’s important philosemitic critique of religious fanaticism, written in response to the execution of Jesuit priest Gabriel Malgarida at Lisbon (1689-1761). It was his first philosophical sermon to be published, and ESTC notes that the ‘presence of press figures [in this edition] suggests an English origin’. The first-bound item is a very rare Voltairean pastiche on the same subject, once attributed to Voltaire but now thought to be by Dutch Huguenot refugee Matthew Maty (1718-1776), who was first principal librarian at the British Museum from 1772 until his death, and a practising physician and author. According to Lee (see above) only 20 copies were printed. ESTC traces one copy only of each work, both at the University of Texas, WorldCat adding copies of Maty's work at the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France; for Voltaire’s work WorldCat identifies seven copies apparently with the same extent (22 pp.) as our copy, but on inspection only that in the National Library of Israel has 22 pages, the others all comprising 15 pages only, and presumably representing one of the editions cited by Bengesco.
Lot 265
Wine. Reasons humbly offered by the Merchants Trading in Wine, for Encouraging and the better Carrying on the said Trade, [London, 1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, 31.5 x 20.2 cm, together with: ibid., The Case of the Merchants, Importers of Wines into the Port of London, [London, 1720], single half-sheet, text on recto, docket-title verso, first word of title shaved , closely trimmed in gutter shaving two side-notes, 31.4 x 20.8 cm, Gunpowder, A Bill for making more Effectual an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His Majesty's Reign, Intitled, an Act for preventing the Mischiefs which may happen, by keeping too great Quantities of Gunpowder in or near the Cities of London and Westminster, or the Suburbs thereof, [London, 1725], 3 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and factotum, docket-title to final page, folio (32 x 20.4 cm) , all disbound, faintly creased from folding, pencilled annotations to head (Qty: 3)NOTESESTC T17290 (eight copies), T12674 (three copies), T17339 (one copy only: British Library); Hanson 2677, 3973, 2499. The first item calls for a relief on duty charged on imported wine found to be defective but 'not so bad as to go either to the still, or make vinegar', and for an increase in the time limit for the export of wines, 'by which means we could not only supply our own plantations ... but we might also supply several other places in Europe and Asia with wine, to the great benefit of the British trade'. The second calls for 'equality with the out-ports [Southampton, the Cinque Ports, Chester, etc.] as regards duties' (Hanson).
![Barotti (Giovanni Andrea, 1701-1772). 'Notizie intorno a M. Girolamo Vida' [caption-title], c.1771-2, Italian manuscript in b](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/87bd61ba-4701-4b41-8bf5-abd600c7750f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 269
Barotti (Giovanni Andrea, 1701-1772). 'Notizie intorno a M. Girolamo Vida' [caption-title], c.1771-2, Italian manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, [320] pp., damp-staining (stronger to outer leaves, gradually receding into gutter towards centre of volume), patterned pastedowns, bookplate ('Libreria antiquaria di Ulrico Hoepli Milano'), edges dyed red, contemporary marbled sheep, red spine-label with gilt title 'Vida / Poetica / Barotti', wear to extremities and sides, 4to (26.4 x 18 cm) together with 4 other Italian mansucripts: 1. [Historical notices on Italian families], c.1750, sammelband of extracts from various manuscripts in different hands, approx. 100 pp. + blanks, a few worm-tracks, stronger towards rear, 3 pamphlets bound in at rear: Riflessioni sopra i fatti, e ragioni gia publicate in volgar lingua da Francesco detto Sforza nelle causa Roma filiationis contro ... Prencipe Savelli Cesarini Sforza, Monopoli: [no publisher], 1743 , 44 pp., spotted, worming ; Moto proprio della santita di nostro signore Benedetto Papa XIV sopra il legato, e suo moltiplico lasciato dal fu marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, Rome: Stamperia della Rev. Cam. Apostolica, 1741, [16] pp., spotted, untidy pencilled marginalia; Copie des lettres des lettres qui accordent et font revivre l'ancien titre de comte de Cinarca à M. Ottavio Colonna d'Istria, [1777], 4 pp., annotation '6178' to front pastedown (possibly indicating Phillipps Manuscripts 6178, i.e. 'Familie Romane,12 vols'), contemporary carta rustica, 4to (27.5 x 20 cm), 2. [Biographical dictionary of Italian authors], c.1750, [282] pp., evidently one volume only of a larger work, all the authors with names beginning with 'B' or from Brescia, related manuscript booklet bound in at front, contemporary boards, 4to (21.5 x 15 cm), 3. 'Notizie storiche spettanti ad alcuni illustri sappetti della citta di Chiari', c.1750, 48 pp., modern boards, 4to (20 x 14.8 cm), 4. 'Tractatus de Eucharistia' [-'De sacricifio missae'], 1868-9, 246 96 [2] pp., book-label of John M. Farley (likely the American cardinal, 1842-1918), contemporary half vellum, 8vo (19.2 x 12.5 cm) (Qty: 5)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. The first item is a manuscript copy of Barotti's annotated Italian verse translation of the De arte poetica of Italian humanist Marco Girolamo Vida (c.1485-1566). The translation itself occupies about 100 pages, and the commentary and notes are much more extensive than those in the printed version, which appeared at Rome in 1838. There is a note on the initial blank (probably by Cecil Clough), stating: 'This is almost certainly a transcription in the hand of Cesara Lodovico Barotti, son of Gian Andrea ... See the xerox from MS I 439 Bibl Com. Ferrara. This MS and likewise I 424 have the annotazioni for the full text. This suggests Cesare was doing the transcription when his father died then abandoned it ... Copied c.1771-2'. The photocopied example of Cesare Lodovico Barotti's handwriting mentioned in this note is laid in.
Lot 280
Education. A manuscript Sunday School Ticket Book, Deighton, West Yorkshire, 1823, 179pp. ruled in red ink, and completed in a neat sloping hand, wormhole to top right corner beginning approximately a third of the way through, and becoming a small trail by the end (no loss of text), inscribed on front free endpaper 'Deighton Sunday School Ticket Book, John Wiley Master, 1823', pastedowns with some sealing wax remains, original reverse calf, sometime rebacked, soiled and some wear, with crude ink label mounted on front cover, 4to, together with a manuscript book belonging to Edith Fisher, 1855-1863, approximately 40pp., comprising a variety of writings mostly in one hand, including a tale about pet dogs in India, an account of a trip to France, and a section titled 'Book of Nonsense' containing limericks in imitation of Edward Lear with varying initials, some leaves excised, and stitching broken, original half roan, rubbed and extremities worn (Qty: 2)NOTESA scarce item of juvenilia, detailing all the names of the pupils of Deighton Sunday School, and their achievements. It was the practise in Sunday Schools to reward pupils with tickets for their efforts in learning the Bible, or reciting catechisms, hymns, and appropriate poetry and prose. If students earned enough tickets they were rewarded with a suitable gift, often a Bible or other edifying text.
![[Italy]. Three manuscripts, 18-19th century, comprising: 1. 'Memorie antiche, e recenti dell'antica città di Norcia tomo prim](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/fd6d40b3-07c2-45d6-91ad-abd600c7805e/468x382.jpg)
Lot 285
[Italy]. Three manuscripts, 18-19th century, comprising: 1. 'Memorie antiche, e recenti dell'antica città di Norcia tomo primo ... Diligenza, ricerca, e studio di un minorita. Data in luce sul principio del secolo XVIIII [i.e. 1800]', [6] 531 pp. (a few inconsistencies in pagination), 33 lines to the page, majuscule chapter headings with rubricated capitals and gilt ornaments, rubricated capitals and text in red frames throughout, calligraphic title-page incorporating heraldic emblem and heightened in gilt, 3 heraldic emblems in pen-and-ink and watercolour heightened with gold to p. 5, allegorical tailpiece at p. 37, pp. 360-9 containing copies of memorial inscriptions in roman capitals, 2 printed pamphlets bound in at rear (Lettera apologetico - istorico - critica sopra uno scritto divulgato contro l'antichissima città di Norcia, Norcia, 1788, 35 pp.; Cajetani Bonanni Romani ... Episcopi Nursini ... Epistola Pastralis, Rome: ex Typographia de Romanis, 1821, 16 pp.; both variably spotted and wormed), slightly browned, occasional spots and stains, frequent manuscript corrections on slips pasted over original text, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine and within decorative cartouches to covers, rubbed and soiled, wear to spine-ends, ties renewed, folio (26 x 18.5 cm), 2. 'Apparecchio alla storia di Albano' [volume 2:] 'Notizie istorichi di Albano e suoi contorni' [spine-titles], 2 volumes, c.1800?, approx. 380 + 440 leaves, volume 1 with additional documents and sections from other manuscripts bound in (including 10 folding leaves to rear), volume 2 apparently bound from 3 discrete manuscripts possibly in the same hand (the paper of different dimensions), the final part (approx. 60 leaves) containing ecclesiastical inscriptions transcribed in square capitals with rudimentary diagrams, first few leaves in volume 2 wormed and paper partially corroded in places from ink, a few other marks, contemporary half vellum, gilt spine labels incorporating name of author 'Lorenzo Rè', rubbed, worming and water-damage to foot of volume 2 spine and front board, folio (27 x 19.5 cm), 3. 'Volume in cui si contengono molte copie d'istromenti, e contratti antichi, in tempo de Signori Orsini risguardanti lo stato di m[on]te libretti comprata da Signori Barberini', 1758, [4] 252 leaves, ink corrosion to decorative frame around title and to text on penultimate leaf, worm -track in gutter of leaves 50-70, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked, extremities worn, folio (26 x 18.3 cm) (Qty: 4)NOTESProvenance (all items): 1) Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), British archaeologist in Italy and director of the British School at Rome (bookplates; manuscript aquisition notes). 2) Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Another copy of the first item is located in the Archivio Diocesano di Norcia (see Cordella & Criniti, 'La Sabina settentrionale: Norcia, Cascia e Valnerina romane', in Ager Veleias 2.06 (2007), p. 16), but the work appears to be unpublished; a laid-in typescript note (possibly Clough's) identifies the author as 'Padre Francesco Antonio Rocci'. The Lorenzo Rè apparently named as the author on the spines of the second work may be the Italian archaeologist who was professor of archaeology at the University of Rome until he was succeeded by his pupil Antonio Nibby in 1820.
![[Yorkshire]. Group of manuscripts and ephemera, 18th-20th century, comprising: 'Hunting Diary. York & Ainsty. 1911-12 [19](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/61dc0327-7bdf-4708-8e16-abd600c790a1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 292
[Yorkshire]. Group of manuscripts and ephemera, 18th-20th century, comprising: 'Hunting Diary. York & Ainsty. 1911-12 [1912-13]' [cover-title], 2 volumes, 1911-22, fox-hunting diary, printed headings, ruled in red, completed in manuscript on approx. 190 pp. including lengthy remarks, contemporary black skiver over flexible boards, wear to extremities, large 4to (32.6 x 27.2 cm), [Landowner's household ledger], 1738-46, mentioning places chiefly near Wakefield including Little Smeaton, Knottingley, and similar, 258 pp., contemporary vellum, remains of tawed ties, marked, folio (31.6 x 20.4 cm), 'In the Matter of the Revd Edward Frank clerk of unsound mind. The first account of Sir William Bryan Cooke Baronet the receiver ad interim of the estates of the said Edward Frank appointed ... on the 11th day of August 1825 ... As to the rents of the estates in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk [...York]' [caption-title], 1825-35, [362] pp., contemporary vellum, manuscript cover-title, heavily dust-soiled, rubbed, folio (35.5 x 23 cm), and 7 others, including: 1) [Leeds builder's ledger], c.1850, 78 pp., red skiver wallet binding, rubbed, 8vo; 2) [Testimonial photograph album presented to William Roscoe as chairman of governors at Leeds Modern School], 4to; 3) [Minute book of Halifax Art Union], c.1850, spine worn, 4to; 4) 'A Short History of Chapel Allerton, Allerton Gledhow, Allerton Grange, and Moor Allerton. Volume 1. A. E. Sandford, 1960' [cover-title], typescript with mounted gelatin silver print photographs, 4to; 5) Friendship album, 1856-1908, on varicoloured paper, blind-stamped dark blue roan, shaken, worn, 4to (Qty: 11)NOTESThird item: Sir William Bryan Cooke, 8th Baronet (1782-1851), of Wheatley Hall, was sometime mayor of Doncaster.
![Cherry-Garrard (Apsley, 1886-1959). The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913, One Volume Edition [Library Edition]](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/91071b44-4063-4834-ac1f-abd600c58b78/468x382.jpg)
Lot 4
Cherry-Garrard (Apsley, 1886-1959). The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913, One Volume Edition [Library Edition], London: published by the author and distributed for him by Chatto & Windus, 1951, coloured frontispiece, 8 plain plates and 4 maps including 2 folding, signed ink presentation inscription from the author to front free endpaper, 'To Mrs Reynell in gratitude, 1947 to 1951, from Apsley Cherry-Garrard, October 25th 1951, partly uncut, original blue cloth gilt in dust jacket, slightly dust-soiled and chipped at edges, with a little loss to upper margins, large 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESSpence 286. The first edition of Cherry-Garrard's Antarctic Classic to contain the author's Postscript written in 1948. A nice copy of an important association item. The recipient of this copy was Una Mary, the widow of the psychiatrist Walter Rupert Reynell (1885-1948). Cherry-Garrard had been deeply affected by the deaths, particularly those of Wilson and Bowers, with whom he had made the journey to Cape Crozier on Robert Falcon Scott's Terranova Expedition. He suffered from depression and what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder for the rest of his life. Cherry continually revisited the question of what alternative choices and actions might have saved the South Pole team, notably in this classic book, The Worst Journey in the World , first published in 1922. Rupert Reynell was one of the psychiatrists who looked after him from 1947 and got him on his feet again after a cataleptic stroke in the summer of 1946, which had left him bedridden for nearly a year. Sadly, Cherry's good friend Reynell died suddenly in 1948, but for some six years Cherry was mentally happy and became interested in, among other things, book-collecting and cruising in the Mediterranean. However, with inexplicable suddenness Cherry broke down again in the Autumn of 1953, being thereafter cared for by Dr. Gordon Mathias until his death in 1959.
Lot 426
* Aesop Fables. A pair of watercolours, inscribed by George E. Lodge (1860-1954), 2 pencil and watercolour sketches, one illustrating The Fox and the Crane, the other The Frogs Who Desired a King, both inscribed in ink and signed lower left 'To Julius with all best regards and sincere thanks Geo E. Lodge' (that to first item partially rubbed away), matching mounts and frames, glazed, first item with label on backboard 'The Chapterhouse Collection From the private ownership of Gillian and Hugh Fry' (Qty: 2)NOTESHugh and Gillian Fry were from Southwell and had a connection to Southwell Minster and its regular art exhibitions. More akin to the work of Charles Robinson than George Lodge, these two watercolours may have been part of his collection and simply gifted, rather than executed, by him. Curiously a further inscription in pencil (in another hand?) is below each image (obscured by the mount): '1918-1919. For "Birds of Britain and Ireland" Lilford Aviaries, England. JEL'.
Lot 434
* Folkard (Charles, 1878-1963). The Pirate Ship, pen, ink, and watercolour, depicting a crowded sailing ship flying a Jolly Roger flag, filled with ten cavorting pirate mice and imps accompanied by a frog, the vessel with newspaper hull, a tiller of spent matches, a mast of pencils and wooden cotton reel with a patched sail, and with a parrot perched on the mast, foreground with a large fish in the sea cocking a snook with his tail, signed lower left, some light spotting to sky and clouds, 23 x 18 cm (9 x 7.25 ins), mounted, together with: "Faithful John", pencil on paper, depicting a galleon with various figures on board, one playing a flute, with 3 ravens in the air above, titled in pencil to lower margin below image, 26.5 x 16.5 cm (10.5 x 6.5 ins), mounted Owl and Crescent Moon, pen, ink, and watercolour, on translucent paper mounted on card, depicting a long-eared owl perched on a branch of oak leaves and acorns, against a crescent moon, verso with the artist's name and address in pencil, 16.5 x 11.5 cm (6.5 x 4.5 ins), mounted The Folkard Font, pen & ink on paper in the artist's hand, showcasing a calligraphic font, with upper and lower case letters and Arabic numerals, horizontal fold, 21.5 x 16.5 cm (8.5 x 6.5 ins), mounted A Sussex Cottage, pencil and gouache on paper, depicting a clapperboard house with tall chimneys and a picket fence, 11.5 x 9 cm (4.5 x 3.5 ins), verso with mirror image of cottage blocked in colour, 13.5 x 11 cm (5.25 x 4.25 ins), and another version of the cottage in pencil, spotted, 18.5 x 13 cm (7.5 x 5 ins), mounted, plus a caricature head & shoulders self-portrait, pencil on paper, with flap to fold down revealing a cavernous mouth, signed and dated 1945, 11 x 11.5 cm (4.5 x 4 ins), and a pen & ink sketch of a seated monkey painting onto a hand mirror, captioned "I'm painting my own portrait" within frame to upper margin, irregularly trimmed, laid down on card, 9 x 6 cm (3.5 x 2.5 ins), mounted, plus a small quantity of children's books illustrated by Charles Folkard, including: Tales Old and New, 6 volumes, original cloth (one crudely rebacked); How Lotys Had Tea with a Lion; The Jackdaw of Rheims; 8 Teddy Tail series (generally in poor condition); and a small scrapbook of Teddy Tail cartoon cuttings (Qty: 27)NOTESProvenance: From the artist's studio and thence by descent. The entertaining picture of the pirate ship appears not to have been published. The second item is a preparatory drawing for 'Faithful John', one of the tales contained in the first Folkard edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales , which was published by A. & C. Black in 1911. The Folkard Font was designed by the artist and used extensively both by him and others, its popularity resulting in a version which is still in use today. The Folkard Font has swashed capital letters and variant forms of a number of the letters and has become popular as a font for book covers and merchandising, particularly in association with fairy and fantasy subject matter. Charles Folkard owned a seaside cottage, which he and his son built, at Winchelsea in Sussex, and the clapperboard house drawings in this lot were almost certainly executed there.
![Trimmer (Sarah). A Description of a Set of Prints of English History, 2 volumes, London: John Marshall, [between 1808-1828],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/001257aa-d93a-45da-88a3-abd500ca3cc0/c5b3386f-4ee3-46ba-9f6a-abd600c81137/468x382.jpg)
Lot 442
Trimmer (Sarah). A Description of a Set of Prints of English History, 2 volumes, London: John Marshall, [between 1808-1828], plus [A Series of Prints of English History], [after 1792], together 3 volumes, the 3rd volume with 64 engraved plates but lacking title, some plates dated 1792, 1st two volumes generally toned with occasional minor spotting, all endpapers renewed, uniform contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked (beige calf), corners recovered, 12mo, together with: Goldsmith (Rev. J.) , A Grammar of General Geography, for the use of Schools and Young Persons, new edition, [1834], engraved frontispiece with volvelle, engraved title toned and nearly detached), 7 folding engraved maps (including double-hemisphere map), some with short closed handling tear, 2 partly detached, 11 engraved plates (most spotted), 4pp. publisher's advertisements at rear (dated 1834), front hinge cracked after title, contemporary reddish-orange morocco, rubbed and marked, spine faded, front cover stamped in gilt, 12mo, plus: Norton (Caroline Sheridan) , Mrs Norton's Story Book: compiled for the amusement of her children, new edition, London: John Harris, 1830, engraved frontispiece and plate, with some spotting and dust-soiling, dampstaining to lower right corners, title dust-soiled, stitching strained, original morocco-backed printed stiff wrappers, spine faded & worn, rear cover somewhat dampstained to lower left corner, slim 8vo, and 15 others antiquarian children's, including a chapbook: The History of Tommy and Harry, York: J. Kendrew, circa 1820 (Qty: 20)NOTESFirst item: Gumuchian 5634 for A Series of Prints of English History, circa 1815 edition ; Osborne pp.174-175 for earlier (?) editions of both titles.
Lot 1316
Novelty lucky number generating machine to choose random lottery numbers, H: 90 cm. This lot is not available for in-house P&P, please contact the office for more information.Condition Report: All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Lot 1424
Red GPO Retro Memphis Music Centre ? three speed turntable, MP3/USB player, FM Radio with remote control. P&P Group 3 (£25+VAT for the first lot and £5+VAT for subsequent lots)Condition Report: This item was working at lotting. All electrical items in this lot have been PAT tested for safety and have passed. This does not confirm that the item is in full working order.
Lot 102
* Cartographers. A collection of thirteen portraits of cartographers, 16th - 19th century, including Galle (Philip). Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. orben, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium, Antwerp, circa 1595, hand coloured portrait of Abraham Ortelius, slight spotting to margins, 325 x 220 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Westermayr (C.). Nicol. Sanson, D. F. Sotzman, Joh. Bapt. Homann, Guillaume de L'Isle, Alex Hub. Jaillot, Edme Mentelle [and] Gerhard Merkator, circa 1800, seven uncoloured engraved oval portraits with title and birth and death dates below image, each approximately 135 x 85 mm, with Munster (Sebastian). Untitled portrait, circa 1550, uncoloured woodblock potrait of Munster seated at a desk holding a quill and paper, Latin text to the right hand side below and on verso, image size 120 x 100 mm, plus Vinkeles (R.). Petrus Pancius [and] Gerardus Mercator, 1790, pair of hand coloured portraits after J. Buys, each 150 x 90 mm, with Hubert (Francois). Mathieu Merian..., circa 1750, uncoloured engraved portrait, trimmed to plate mark and laid on later paper, 135 x 90 mm (Qty: 13)NOTESThe first described item is the most famous portrait of Ortelius and appeared in the 1579 edition of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', the first modern Atlas.The text below the image translates as 'By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world, by looking at his face, Galleus gave them Ortelius'. Marcel van den Broecke, Ortelius Atlas Maps, p.14.
Lot 200
Apothecaries. Four bills and broadsides, 1724, comprising: 1. A Bill for the better Viewing, Searching and Examining of all Drugs, Medicines, Waters, Oyls, Compositions, used or to be used for Medicines in all Places where the same shall be exposed to Sale, or kept for that Purpose, within the City of London and Suburbs thereof, or within Seven Miles Circuit of the said City: And also, for the providing a Remedy for the President and College of Physicians in London, to have the Bodies of Persons executed for Felony, or other Offences, within the City of London, and Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, according to the Charters within mentioned, [London, 1724], 7 [1] pp., woodcut headpiece and initial, docket-title to final page, creased from folding, folio (31.5 x 19.8 cm) , 2. Reasons for the Wardens of the Apothecaries being joined with the Censors of the College in their Viewing, Judging, and Destroying of Defective and Corrupted Drugs and Medicines, [London, 1724], single half-sheet, docket-title verso, small hole in gutter, 30.5 x 20 cm, 3. Reasons humbly offered against Part of the Bill, for the Better Viewing, Searching, and Examining of all Drugs, Medicines, etc., [London, 1724], single half-sheet, type-ornament headpiece, docket-title verso, spotted, 30.5 x 20 cm, 4. The Case of the Drugists [sic], Grocers, and other Dealers in Coffee, Tea, etc. in Relation to the Bill now depending concerning those Comodities [sic], [London, 1724], single half-sheet, docket-title verso, small hole in gutter, 30.5 x 20 cm, each disbound with stab-holes visible in gutter and pencil annotations to head (Qty: 4)NOTESESTC T17336 (four copies, all in the British Library), T17399 (three copies), R187214 (the same title also listed under two other citation numbers; four copies cited in total), T17398 (three copies); Hanson 3290, 3297, 3298, 3293. The final item (4) protests against the empowerment of officers for inland duties to conduct unannounced night-time audits and the requirement for sellers to record the names and addresses of all customers when 'many thousands of retailers and coffee-house keepers can hardly write'; it also requests that dealers 'may be admitted to pay the Inland Duties, according to the East India Company's nett weight'.
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