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Lot 110
Lehmann-Dumont (Karl). Humoristische Karte von Europa im Jahre 1914, published Dresden, 1914, lithographic allegorical German propaganda map of Europe, three columns of descriptive text in German below image, old folds, 340 x 485 mm, together with: Holland (Frank). The Bulldog Line, 1916, uncoloured caricature originally published in 'John Bull Magazine' showing a British Bulldog biting down on the tail of a German Dachshund, slight creasing, 190 x 280 mm, German Propoganda Booklet. Plutokratie. England die geschichte eines raubstaates, circa 1940, eight transparent overlays on a world map, colour printed paper covers, overall size 145 x 210 mm (Qty: 3)NOTESThe first described item is an allegorical poster showing a German perspective of alliances and territories within Europe; both pictorially and in descriptive text. Germany stretches into France and seizes its shoulder. Russia - with its huge open mouth - clutches a vodka bottle and the whip of revolution and looks ready to devour its neighbours. Italy remains tucked well down in its 'boot'. Great Britain stands on bags on money whilst the British Bulldog appears to be being strangled by the snake of India as Ireland attempts to cut the chain which links it to the mainland. An inset map of Japan which Great Britain appears to have 'caught' implies that we have dragged Japan into the war. Turkey looks the other way and is shown drowsily smoking a pipe. The map is crammed with numerous subtle references to national stereotypes and historical events.
Lot 112
London. Faden (William), The Country Twenty-five Miles round London planned from a scale of one mile to an Inch, 3rd edition, 1802, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen and presented on four sheets, 1040 x 1240 mm, card chemise, contained in a contemporary marbled slipcase with printed label to upper cover, worn and rubbed, together with Luffman (John). The Seat of War between Russia and France, circa 1812, engraved folding map on two conjoined sheets with contemporary hand colouring, short split along one fold, 355 x 405 mm, contained in a contemporary paper slipcase with printed label to upper cover, worn and cracked at extremities (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst described item. Howgego, no. 188, state 6
Lot 113
London. Mogg (E. S.), Modern London and its Environs, circa 1846, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, 530 x 820 mm, together with Stanford (Edward, publisher). A Map of the Environs of London extending Twenty-five Miles fr. the Metropolis, circa 1870, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, slight overall toning, 910 x 930 mm, retaining one cloth board, with D avies (Benjamin Rees). Davies's New Map of the British Metropolis. The Boundaries of the Boroughs, County Court Districts Railways, and Modern Improvements, published Edward Stanford, 1889, lithographic map with contemporary outline colouring, dust soiled and torn horizontally in half along old linen, overall size 660 x 940 mm, retaining one cloth board, plus an early 20th century Ordnance Survey map of part of Shropshire on a scale of six inches to the mile, heavily stained, marbled endpapers, plus a mid 20th century colour printed map on silk of the coastline of Japan, 1200 x 1300 (Qty: 5)NOTESThe first item described. Howgego number 390, state 2 (a).
Lot 154
* Somerset. Jansson (Jan), Comitatus Somersettensis, Somerest-Shire, circa 1638, hand coloured engraved map, ornate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, slight text show-through, 385 x 505 mm, mounted, framed and double glazed, German text on verso, together with Saxton (Christopher & Kip William). Somersettensis Comitatus vulgo Somersett Shyre qui olim pars suit Belgarum, [1610], hand coloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 285 x 390 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first described item is in the scarce 'pre-atlas' state printed before the addition of the six coats of arms and a re-working of the title cartouche.
![* [Ireland]. 'A Survey of the the Domain, Lands, and Bogs of Clooneen ... Part of the Estate of Thomas Berry Esq. Situate in](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/13f42874-eb26-4312-97b9-ab6801190640/468x382.jpg)
Lot 208
* [Ireland]. 'A Survey of the the Domain, Lands, and Bogs of Clooneen ... Part of the Estate of Thomas Berry Esq. Situate in the Kings County. Laid down by a scale of 20 Perches in one inch ... by Mich[ael] Cuddehy', 1796, estate plan, watercolour on vellum, soiling, a few small holes, creased from folding, 35.5 x 70 cm, together with: Crewe (John, 1st Baron Crewe, 1598-1679). Document signed, 27 December 1670, leasing marshland to Henry Moore of London, manuscript in brown ink on vellum, seal tear to corner (backed with paper verso), soiling, 22 x 28.5 cm, and 3 others including 2 vellum documents (large indenture dated 1679, and a 16th-century English document in Latin) (Qty: 5)NOTESProvenance (first item): Sotheby's, 25 January 1985, lot 178 (paid £35), with envelope. Crewe, of Steane in Northamptonshire, entered parliament in 1624 as member for Amersham. 'During the Personal Rule Crewe was charged with neglect over the collection of Ship Money, and accused of maintaining puritan preachers. Nevertheless, he was appointed to an honorary post at Court in 1638, and Charles I was later reported to have said that "Crewe, though he be against me, is an honest man". As a nominal Presbyterian he supported Parliament in the First Civil War, sitting for Brackley in the Long Parliament until Pride’s Purge' (History of Parliament, online).
Lot 215
* Trade advertising. Printed advert on silk for Watt's Patent Shot Bristol, Plumbing in all it's Various Branches, Common Shot, of all sorts, Pig-Lead &c., [Bristol], circa 1790, advertisement on dark cream coloured silk printed to one side, engraved by John Doddrell, advert illustrated with image of figures shooting game and royal armorial above, some light wear to edges, & few marks mostly to corners, image plate mark dimensions 15.6 x 11.3 cm, silk sheet size 16.7 x 12 cm, together with: Broadside invitation , St. Mary Islington, Sir you are desir'd to meet many others, natives of this place on Tuesday, ye 11th day of April 1738 at Mrs Eliz. Grimsead's ye Angel & Crown, in ye upper Street, about ye hour of one: Then & there with full dishes, good wines & good humour, to improve, & make lasting that harmony, and friendship which have long reign'd among us. Stewards Walter Sebbon, John Booth, Bourchier Durell, James Sebbon. N.B. The dinner will be on the table peremptorily at two. Pray pay the bearer five shillings, [London], 1738, illustrated single sheet invitation engraved by Toms printed to one side, within decorative border, some toning, torn to upper & left margin with infill repairs, lined with tissue to verso, image 26 x 18 cm, sheet size 29.5 x 20.7 cm, Stationers trade advert , Montagu Lawrence Stationer, at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand London, circa 1770, single sheet engraved advert, printed to one side, 14.5 x 11.5 cm (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item: Rare provincial advert printed on silk. The engraving by the Bristol engraver John Doddrell of Temple, Bristol (d.1810). In 1775, William Watts, a plumber, started converting his house, near St Mary Redcliffe Church, into the world's first shot tower, in order to make lead shot by his innovative tower process. He did this by adding a tower to his house, and by excavating a shaft into the ground below, achieving a total drop of around 90 feet (27 m). By 1782, the tower was complete and in production, and Watts' process was granted a patent, which involved pouring molten lead through a perforated zinc pan into water below. William Watts was declared bankrupt in 1794, but his tower survived various changes of ownership until it was taken over by the Sheldon Bush and Patent Shot Company Limited in 1868. The tower remained a well-known feature of Redcliffe until 1968, when it was demolished to make way for road improvements.
![Bindings. [The Divine Comedy], by Dante Alighieri, 2 volumes (of 3): The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri, and The Paradiso of D](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/4966bf03-e017-4108-af22-ab68011917c8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 237
Bindings. [The Divine Comedy], by Dante Alighieri, 2 volumes (of 3): The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri, and The Paradiso of Dante Alighieri, J. M. Dent and Co., 1904, from the Temple Classics series, half-titles and titles printed in red & black, frontispiece to each volume, gilt floral endpapers, contemporary Florentine style painted vellum, the front covers with decorative initials and designs painted in red, green, pink, blue and yellow, heightened with gold, the spines with painted manuscript titles, somewhat dust-soiled, extremities rubbed, Purgatorio with small loss to foot of spine, Paradiso front joint cracked with short tear to spine covering, 12mo in 8s, together with: The Spirit of Anecdote and Wit, by John Seward, 4 volumes, London: Walker and Co., 1823, engraved portrait frontispiece to each volume, variable spotting and toning, each front pastedown with book ticket, most hinges cracked after/before endpapers, binding to 3rd volume nearly detached at rear hinge, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt, extremities rubbed, some scuffs and mottling to covers, 12mo in 6s, with 2 others (Qty: 14)NOTESFirst item: The 'Florentine style' of painted vellum bindings was created in the late 19th century by the Giannini family, who produced a range of beautifully decorated books for the art-loving English community. Other local binders quickly followed suit, and these volumes from Dante's Divine Comedy closely follow the Giannini style.
Lot 244
* Commonwealth of England. By the Protector. A Declaration of His Highnes with the Advice of the Council, in order to the Securing the Peace of this Commonwealth, London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1655, single broadside, woodcut arms and initial, black and roman letter, browned, creased from folding, a few chips and tears to extremities, framed and glazed (not inspected out of frame), 36.6 x 28.4 cm, [English School], [Portrait of a Royalist gentleman], 19th century, head-and-shoulders portrait facing left, probably depicting James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby (1607-1651), dressed in plate armour with blue sash of the Order of the Garter, water- and bodycolour on card, 18 x 15 cm, Smith (John, mezzotinter), Carolus 1th, [London]: sold by J. Smith in Russel Street, [c.1700?], mezzotint after Philip Fruytiers on wove paper, trimmed shaving imprint, adhesive staining to corners, 32.8 x 23.4 cm, and a copy of John Selden, Titles of Honor, 2nd edition, 1631 (with spurious, probably 18th-century signature 'O Cromwell' to initial blank, contemporary calf, binding broken, covers detached, several leaves loose, folio, not collated) (Qty: 4)NOTESFirst item: ESTC R211676; Wing C7075. The First Protectorate Parliament orders royalists to surrender all arms and to cease to employ any 'sequestered or ejected ministers' for the education of their children; such ministers themselves are forbidden from 'keep[ing] any school, either publick or private', public preaching, and 'administer[ing] Baptism, or the Lords Supper, or marry[ing] any persons, or us[ing] the Book of Common-prayer'.
Lot 272
Meagher (Andrew). The Popish Mass Celebrated by Heathen Priests, for the Living and the Dead, for several Ageas before the Birth of Christ: or a Sermon, Preached at Thurles, on Sunday the 2d of August, 1767. To which is annexed, a Dissertation on the Conformity of Popery with Paganism, Proved, in every Point, from Popish and Pagan Authors, with an Appendix..., By the Reverend Andrew Meagher, Formerly a Priest of the Church of Rome, and Doctor of the Sorbonne; but now of the established Church of Ireland, Limerick: Printed by T. Welsh, 1771, [12], xxxviii, [2], 330, [2] pp., with list of subscribers and final errata leaf, tiny hole to 2A1 affecting couple of letters, contents leaf pinned in place, some dust-soiling and light dampstaining, bookplate and ink stamps to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, some wear to extremities, rubbed, 8vo, together with: Edwards (Jonathan) , A History of the Work of Redemption..., 4th edition, Edinburgh: M. Gray & T. Vernor, 1793, ink stamp to front endpaper, contemporary marbled calf, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint split, 8vo, and 2 others, A Letter from Rome, shewing an exact conformity between Popery and Paganism, by Conyers Middleton, 4th edition, 1741, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, and The Conformity between Modern and Ancient Ceremonies, [by Pierre Mussard], 1745, ink stamp to title, contemporary calf, boards detached, worn, 8vo (Qty: 4)NOTESFirst item rare.
Lot 30
"Sino-Japanese Disturbances". Souvenir Album, Shanghai, 1932, two maps, numerous photographic illustrations of the Japanese army in action in Shanghai, one tissue guard torn, one or two spots, original silk-lined boards, paper label to upper cover, upper cover detached, lacking one silk tie, some spotting and soiling, oblong 4to, together with two others: Alice Mabel Bacon's Japanese Girls and Women, 1902, and a printed album of sketches from the Japanese front line in Manchuria, circa 1933 (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item records the 'January 28' or Shanghai incident (January-March 1932) which began after a Chinese uprising against Japan in the international District of Shanghai.
Lot 333
Tichy (Gyula, illustrator). Egy Tusos Uveg Mesei, edited by Simon Pollack, Budapest, 1909, frontispiece , 35 plates, 3 vignettes, staple rust, original wrappers with illustration to upper wrapper, green ribbon at head and foot of spine (lower ribbon broken, small tears and splits to spine), 4to, limited edition 4/25, together with: Koussikoff (Alexandre). Le Sablier. Poeme en trois nuits traduction de Y. Sidersky, Paris, 1924, 8 illustrations by Victor Barthe, light offsetting to tow text leaves, a few light spots, contemporary presentation inscription and loose letter, original wrappers, small splits to spine, 4to, limited edition of 500 (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst item a rare Art Nouveau erotic work by Hungarian artist Gyula Tichy (1879-1920).
![Busby (Thomas Lord). Costume of the Lower Orders of London, 1st edition, London: for T. L. Busby by Baldwin and Co., [1820],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/cfc67daf-27fa-45df-97a9-ab6801189610/468x382.jpg)
Lot 36
Busby (Thomas Lord). Costume of the Lower Orders of London, 1st edition, London: for T. L. Busby by Baldwin and Co., [1820], iv + [24] pp., 24 hand-coloured etched plates, spotting and staining, Mechanical Figure/Owen Clancy description leaf with repaired closed tear, repaired closed tear to Shoe-Black plate not touching image, modern red half morocco to style, gilt morocco label to front board, 4to (29.4 x 21.5 cm), and one other item (24 of 32 hand-coloured etched plates from Real Life in London, London: Jones & Co., 1821, all loose) (Qty: 2)NOTESAbbey Life 423; Tooley 123. WIth watermarks dated 1817 to text and 1819 to plates as noted by Abbey. The 'Fortune Teller' plate is unsigned, which according to Abbey and Tooley indicates a first issue, but the imprint of Baldwin and Co., is said to indicate a later issue, with first-issue copies containing the imprint 'Baldwin, Cradock and Joy'. In this copy the caption on the 'Mat Man' plate has been corrected from 'Mattman', which might suggest a later issue, but the correction has been made by abrading the paper, not the plate itself.
Lot 77
* Canton and Hong Kong. Canton River and adjacent Islands from the latest Surveys. The Hong Kong or Broadway River reduced from a Chinese Manuscript, published H. Colburn, 1845, Engraved map by Isaac Purdy with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of part of the Canton River, old folds, small area of repair to one fold, 410 x 430 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Bellin (Jacques Nicolas). Carte de l'Entrée de la Riviere de Canton dans la Chine, circa 1760, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some oxidisation to old colour, 225 x 175 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first item described is rare. The chart shows in great detail Hong Kong Island, Lantau, Macao, Canton and localities, forts, islands along the then-named Canton River (now more commonly called the Pearl River), also showing the Boca Tigris estuary and the positions of the Small Bar and Second Bar used as anchorage points in the 19th century, as well as Dane Island, French Island and Whampoa Island seen in China Trade paintings of the period. The inset map of the Canton River shows the position of the British squadron off Hanan Island just outside Canton City during the first Anglo-Chinese War ('Opium War') of 1838-1842, which resulted in Hong Kong being ceded to Great Britain in 1842
Lot 96
Gillray (James). A New Map of England & France. The French Invasion; - or - John Bull bombarding the Bum-Boats, H. Humphrey Nov 5th 1793 [but H. G. Bohn edition, circa 1851], hand coloured etched allegorical map, 350 x 250 mm, together with Fighting for the Dunghill; - or - Jack Tar settling Buonaparte, H. Humphrey Nov. 20th. 1798 [but H. G. Bohn edition, circa 1851], hand coloured engraved caricature showing Jack Tar/John Bull giving a bare-chested Napoleon a bloody nose as they straddle the northern hemisphere of a globe showing Europe, re-margined along upper border, uncoloured caricature on verso, 280 x 365 mm (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first item described is a gloriously rude caricature which shows a stylised map of England and Wales with the county of Durham turned into the face of King George III. The king is shown defecating on France; his faeces gradually evolving into warships which threaten the coast of northern France. One of Gillray's most vulgar cartoons which captures the belligerent spirit of 'John Bull' in the face of the tyranny of France and Napoleon.
Lot 423
WW2 Period German Kriegsmarine Ward Room / Office Wall Clock.A good and clean example the silvered dial, with a Kriegsmarine Eagle dive and separate second sweeping hand and dial. Mounted onto a polished wood frame. The works are unsigned. Separate key present. Appears to be in running order. Diameter of dial 21.5 cm. Offered as an historical item only; the instrument’s working is neither warranted or implied.
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