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James, M.R. "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" Edward Arnold 1915, 9th impression, grey cloth with black titles and red rules, inked inscription inside front board, Pardoe, Rosemary (ed)  "Tales from Lectoure" pamphlet [2006] cover ills by Nick Maloret, Asquith, Cynthia " When Churchyards Yawn..." Hutchinson & Co. 1931, black cloth, silver titles to backstrip, inked inscription dated 1931 on ffep., Jerome K. Jerome "Told After Supper" The Leadenhall Press 1891, ills Kenneth M. Skeaping, hinges cracked and binding loose, pictorial red cloth, Dale, Harrison  (ed.) "Great Ghost Stories" Herbert Jenkins 1931 , green cloth, black titles, "More Ghost Stories "Herbert Jenkins 1932, green cloth, gilt and blindstamped titles, de la Mare, Walter "Broomsticks & Other Tales" designs by Bold, Constable & Company Limited 1925, light brown cloth, gilt titles to backstrip and Benson, E.F. "The Room in the Tower and Other Stories" Alfred Knopf 1929 , Eichenberg, Fritz  ( ills.) "Tales of Edgar Allan Poe", Random House, 1944, green cloth, Sayers, Dorothy L. ( ed.)  "Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror" Victor Gollancz, 1928, black cloth, red titles, "...Second Series" 1931. "....Third Series " 1934 and other related volumes including Folio Society (2 boxes)

Great Britain - early Stuart monarchs, three silver coins, as follows: England, James I (1603-25), shilling, second or third coinage, mm. indistinct, about fine; Charles I, half-crown, Tower mint under the king, mm. crown, rev. oval garnished shield (S 2773), near fine, reverse better; Scotland, Charles I, twenty pence, ..FR ET HI REX, good fine. [3]32.16mm width of first coinThe collection of Anton Sebastianpillai FRCP (1945-2020)

Gabriel Rayes, limited edition prints; ‘ Courting couples’, ‘Distorted tower’, both signed to margin, both 1/5,51cmx37cm; cut out board figure of James Bond; Artist’s studio easel.

* Edward VIII (1894-1972), Prince of Wales, King of the United Kingdom January to December 1936, later Duke of Windsor. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Edward', Buckingham Palace, London, 15 August 1912, to Sub-Lieutenant James A. Douglas-Hamilton, thanking Hamilton for the photograph and letter which he says is a very good one, sending a snapshot (not present) 'Gun on board the "Hindustan" by that sick bay man, in case it may amuse you. I hope you are having some decent leave. I hear roumours that Queen Alexandra is not likely to leave before the 29th.. ', saying that they go to Scotland the next night, that he is sorry that Hamilton will not be able to get up North and apologising for sending this to the Yacht (HMY "Victoria & Albert") as he does not know his address at Newmarket, 2 pp. with integral blank leaf, embossed royal crest at head of first page, some spotting, 8vo, partly pasted on to an album leaf, together with a [1912] Christmas card inscribed for Douglas-Hamilton and signed by Edward on message page opposite a reproduction black & white photograph showing Magdalen College Tower, Oxford, insert on folded card with embossed crest of Magdalen College to upper cover, some browning to inner margin (from ribbons, detached but present), both contained in original envelopes addressed and initialled by Edward, the second postally used, both partly pasted to recto of an old album leaf, plus a lithographed menu for HMY Victoria & Albert, Copenhagen, 29 September 1912, with King Edward VII's embossed gilt crest upper left and colour lithographic vignette of the royal yacht adjacent, a few minor spots, 18 x 12.5 cmQTY: (5)NOTE:James Angus Douglas-Hamilton (1890-1972) gained the rank of Commander in the Royal Navy, serving in World War One and retiring in 1933. See also, lots 135, 191, 362-365, 437 & 438.

A Dupont cigarette lighter together with one other bearing St James Tower brass plaque, made by Cartier - 12cms long

Glaisher (James, 1809-1903) [and Glaisher, Cecilia Louisa, 1828-1892]. Snow Crystals, Observed by James Glaisher, Esq., F.R.S., from February 8th to March 10th, 1855, no place, [1855], letterpress drop-title and 63 wood-engraved monochrome plates printed individually in black, blue, brown, green or grey on rectos of thin card, images 75 x 75 mm, three ownership inscriptions to title, P[eter] Le Neve Foster, W[illiam] B[olger] Gibbs (in pencil) and Michael K[ingsley] Williams, sepia half-tone illustration of ‘Spray Ridges of Ice’ after a photograph by Herbert Ponting bound before title, all edges gilt, early 20th-century green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf (dated 1907), slightly rubbed, spine browned, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Peter Le Neve Foster (1809-1879) was an English barrister and mathematician. He is known as an innovative secretary of the Royal Society of Arts. Foster was an early amateur photographer, and was one of the founders of the Photographic Society and a pioneer photographer of the Calotype Club. He was a contributor to scientific and technical journals; in the Journal of the Society of Arts he wrote a good deal, but generally anonymously. He would have crossed paths with Glaisher at scientific meetings.One of his sons was Sir Clement le Neve Foster FRS (1841-1904), an English geologist and mineralogist.William Bolger Gibbs FRAS (1834-1925), was a Member of the Stock Exchange, but took a great deal of interest in astronomy, mathematics, microscopy and geology. He would have come into contact with the Foster family through shared scientific interests and related society meetings.Michael Kingsley Williams (1929-1958) switched from studying engineering to medicine while at Merton College, Oxford. He worked as a GP in Surrey for most of his life. The address given by him on the title-page is 12 Tower Park, Fowey, where his father was a vicar.Christie’s New York sold an identical set (loosely contained in a box) for USD 20,160 (27 January 2023, lot 35). Their suggestion that it was perhaps a unique set is now clearly incorrect but no other sets beyond these two have been located.As part a ‘Wonders of the Microscope’ soirée held by the [Royal] Microscopical Society of London on 11 April 1855 James Glaisher presented a special exhibition of photographs depicting snow crystals. Preparation for the exhibition was undertaken in collaboration with his wife, Cecilia Louisa Glaisher, a photographer and printer who redrew the observations for publication. During his presidency, the R.M.S. was granted a Charter and one of the Glaishers' magnified snowflakes was selected to be the Society’s official emblem, and remains so today.‘At the same time as making her photogenic drawings of ferns, Cecilia Glaisher was working with her husband, James Glaisher, superintendent of the Meteorological and Magnetic Department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, on a study of snow crystals.Their observations, made through lenses of different power, resulted in an important scientific paper, 'On the Severe Weather at the beginning of the year 1855; and on Snow and Snow-Crystals'. It was read by James Glaisher at the Fifth Annual General Meeting of the British Meteorological Society on May 22nd, 1855, and was subsequently published by the Society in their 5th Annual Report.The paper was illustrated by 151 reproductions of precise schematic drawings of snow crystal forms which, Glaisher wrote, ‘were executed by Mrs Glaisher from rough sketches of my own.’ These illustrations have been described as ‘the most accurate observations published before the development of photomicrography.’’ (Ceciliaglaisher.com)The first four pages of Glaisher’s paper (including title-page with decorative rule) contain 88 numbered black and white illustrations of snow crystals reproduced at a diameter of 2 cm each. Glaisher wrote that ‘the greater number [of snowflakes] fell during the present year (1855), and before Feb. 8’ and that they had been observed through ‘a lens of very moderate power’, adding that ‘they are chiefly valuable as showing the general effect to the naked eye.’ These are followed by 63 crystals [as in the lot offered here] seen more greatly magnified, often examined under a microscope, the result of observations on 8 days between 8 February and 10 March. They were reproduced two to a page at a diameter of 7.5 cm and were ‘selected rather as varieties illustrative of a class, than for any special symmetry of form’.

James Tower. (1919-1988) A footed earthenware bowl c.1955of tapering form, decorated with an abstract design of circles and dots in brown over a white tin glaze, painted signature diameter 19cm., height 12.5cm.Condition: Fine hairline crack running down the side approx. 6.5cm. otherwise free from chips or damage

This lot comprises an entire letter from Thomas Williams of Cardiff dated 9th July 1680 privately carried (no postal markings) to Lady Anne Jeffreys in London and an original Act of Parliament relating to Thomas Williams. In his letter he says "that is to order ye payment of fifteen pounds fifteen shillings being ye full balance of all accounts to this day, I would not press Sir George with it when I was in London......., the letter is missing part of the foot of the third page but this defect does not affect the address portion of the entire. Lady Anne Jeffreys had married Sir George Jeffreys in 1679. Sir George was labelled 'Hanging Judge Jeffreys' as a result of his actions as Judge in the case of many rebels in the Monmouth Rebellion which resulted in 160 or so executions in 1685. He was made Lord Chancellor, in the same year, by James II but arrested when the James government was overthrown in 1688 and died in the Tower of London in 1689. The original act of Parliament running to 12 papes covers the vesting of land owned by Jeffreys, to discharge various debts and for the purposes.  -

Three charming diaries with photographs, sketches and accounts of trips to Dorking, St Leonards, Torquay and Cherhill dated 1886, Tunbridge Wells, Gresford, Tedsmore, Ludlow, Ulcombe dated 1891, and Cromwell, Walmer dated 1892, written by Cyril James Humphreys-Davenport (1848-1941), British Museum library clerk, art scholar, artisan and book binder.  The first includes images of the horse and cart, Cherhill Church, Wootton Church, Barbara and W Lascelles Bartson MRC, Betchworth Park, Ashfield Brittany Road in St Leonards on Sea, pictures of 'self' in greenhouse, and at the beach, sketches of 'Dorothy', Hollington Church, Lover's Seat in Hastings, small scenes and architecture of buildings, and describes reading books such as 'A Tale of a Lonely Parish', 'Great Porter Square', 'Masollan', 'A Phantom Regiment'. The second includes notes of letting their home in London and found a six month stay at Miss Bigwood's house - Kinellan House, Woodbury Park Road, Tunbridge Wells, with small floor plan and described as 'colder than in town, most comfortable beds', March 26 ' nasty day - snow', April 5 'filled up census paper - bore', July 16 'worked at embroidered work for Queen in morn, all morn'. Includes sketches of Tedsmore Hall, Jullieallan House, Gresford, Mayfield Village, coats of arms and window panes in East Sutton Church, George & Dragon in Speldhurst, photographs of family, Council Chamber in Shrewsbury, The Chequers Inn Tonbridge and . The diary ends with an account of leaving Miss Bigwood's house and getting the train and bus home. It reads 'Ge been over inventory with Miss Place and is much dissatisfied with the state of the house and declares she will never let her home again - dirt and damages!'  The third starts with sketches of Rectory Cromwell and Newark Castle, a 'modern shop' in the market square in Newark, a house in Muskham where the Haudley's lived, a sketch of Henry Clinton at Potters Bar, sketch of Adela Stull, Kingsdown from Walmer, a charming sketch of 'the back of our house showing the wreck of The Leopard', Deal Castle, Sandown. Castle, Walmer Beach looking towards Deal, Tower of Walmer Castle 'Lord Warden in residence', naive sketch of 'the smallest house in Kent', Dover cliffs, low windows of old house in Deal. Notes of what he is reading, visiting and writing to people, watching marines drilling, children's activities etc, seeing the dancing bear, playing billiards.  Photographs of skirmishers cavalry, family on the beach, notes of what Dody (Dorothy) could say at Walmer, sketches of flowers. Includes handwritten score of The Reveille - played every morning by the bugles at the marine depot, Walmer at 5:30am.  A charming and interesting collection of diaries in very good condition for their age. -Condition Report1886 has one loose page.

1619-1620 King James I third coinage gold Laurel with a spur rowel mint mark graded Top Pop MS 62 (S 2638). Obverse: second laureate, draped and cuirassed bust with a square head, facing right with ties at neck in the shape of a double 'SS'. 'XX' mark of value behind, spur rowel mintmark and legend that reads 'IACOBVS D: G: MAG: BRIT: FRAN: ET: HIB: REX ·'. Reverse: crowned shield of royal arms, quartered by a long cross with 'FACIAM EOS IN GENTEM VNAM' around. Weight: 8.99g. Grade: MS 62, NGC Top Pop. Sealed in NGC holder (#2901843-018). The Latin legend found on the reverse of this gold hammered coin translates as 'I will make them one nation'. This inscription is taken from Ezekiel 37:22 and was chosen to indicate King James VI and I's wish to unite the then-separate sovereign states of England and Scotland. A formal political union would only be achieved in 1707, but James' accession to the English throne in 1603 brought the two nations into a personal union. Laurels were only produced at the Tower Mint in London during the reign of King James between the years 1619 and 1625 as part of his third coinage. Five different busts are used across these issues, with this example showing the second type: a medium-sized square head with the ties securing James' laurel wreath, forming a double SS at the back of his neck.

1612-1913 James I gold Britain crown coin. In VF condition, 21.5 mm diameter (mm Tower), 2.4 grams weight

ROBERT CARVER (C. 1730-91) A Capriccio Landscape based on Dunmoe Castle, County Meath Oil on canvas, 62 x 102cmDunmoe Castle, County Meath, started by Hugh de Lacy, captured by the Irish in 1641, attacked by Cromwell and restored under James II, was a site much visited by artists and antiquarians in the eighteenth century. Its proximity to Slane Castle, home of William Burton Conyngham (1733-1796), the collector and improver, no doubt encouraged its depiction and when a view of the castle by Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) was engraved for Francis Grose’s Antiquities it was described as ‘taken from an original in the collection of the Right Hon. William Conyngham’. As Peter Harbison has so ably demonstrated, Burton Conyngham was a collector and patron of rare judgment for eighteenth century Ireland who, almost single-handed, encouraged artists to consider the native ruins of Ireland as a subject for their landscapes which were compositionally often inspired by Claudean prototypes. His support of of young artists is most apparent in his collecting of drawings for various antiquarian enterprises. He provided financial and other support to a group of draughtsmen most notably Austin Cooper and Gabriel Beranger, as well as Angelo Maria Bigari and John James Barralet. In 1779, for example, Beranger and Bigari conducted a tour of Connacht at Burton’s behest, which has been characterised as ‘the most extensive archaeological survey undertaken in Ireland before the Ordnance Survey’. Burton’s patronage resulted in his ownership of what was described in 1787 as ‘the finest collection [of antiquarian drawings] made by excellent artists anywhere to be found’. Two views of Slane Abbey, copied by Beranger after originals by Jonathan Fisher (1735-1809) may have been a Conyngham commission, with Harbison suggesting that Fisher probably drew them while staying at Slane Castle. Roberts drawing of Dunmoe was engraved by Sparrow and also copied by Gabriel Bernager who inscribed his version with the proviso: ‘Compared on the spot 1779 and I found it exact except the colour which is blueish and not brown’.While Robert Carver was not one of Conyngham’s ‘young artists’, he was closely connected with several of The Dublin Group who were, notably Roberts – they both seem to have taught James Coy (c.1750-80) and were both intimate associates of George Mullins (fl. c.1756-c.1786). Roberts later re-used his sketch of Dunmoe Castle in an imaginary landscape (private collection) in just the same way that Carver does here, ‘illustrating how the antiquarianism of Burton’s circle was creatively adapted by the artists he patronised and how the reuse of elements of Ireland’s antiquities give…a distinctively Irish flavor to Roberts art.’ Exactly the same can be said in relation to Carver’s capriccio landscape sold here, where Dunmoe’s setting above the River Boyne is augmented with a typically Irish tower house on one bank of the river and a substantial red-brick structure and small church, on either side of a bridge, on the other. Carver, like other artists, responded to the setting with the castle ‘magnificently sited high above a bend in the Boyne’ (Casey and Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland, North Leinster, 225).Together with George Barret, Robert Carver was the leading landscape artist in Dublin in the 1750s and ’60s. He followed Barret to London in 1769 where he found fame, for his much-admired designs for the theatre, and status, as the President of Society of Artists. Although of an older generation, he was also closely connected with the talented coterie of artists who came to prominence in the 1760s and ‘70s and who, with Carver, can be seen as a closely interlocked ‘Dublin Group’ of landscape painters. No doubt his ‘generous and companionable qualities’ made him a mentor to younger painters. Carver’s easel paintings are rare and mostly date from his period in Ireland – the present work seems to be unique in including Irish architectural, or antiquarian remains. However, as more of them are identified his ability becomes apparent and the reasons become obvious for the contemporary praise which was showered on his productions. Here, the red dress of the reclining woman in the foreground provides an effective chromatic highlight at the centre of the composition, while the busy few inches of the paint surface including the figures and animals contrasts with the unbroken sheen of the river with long reflections cast by the late afternoon sun adding a slightly elegiac touch to the romantic, umbrageous Boyne landscape. Picturesque travellers in the foreground add a bucolic touch. The picture is painted in Carver’s early and tighter style, before his touch became free, and occasionally loose, from his experience of scene painting. An almost exact parallel can be found in the precise, almost schematic, rendering of light effects on the different facades on the brick building and on a mill in a River Landscape with Figures (Gorry Gallery, Exhibition, 19 May 2010).We are grateful to William Laffan for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.

Hull. 1681 (Oct 22) Entire letter from James Sterling in Hull, "To the Honorable The Commissioners of His Maties Ordinance and the principle officers of the land. To be left with Capt Thorburn in the Tower of London", charged 3d with "OC/24" Bishop Mark on reverse. The letter concerns the defences of Hull. Photo on Page 20.

European Arms and Armour, Wallace Collection Catalogues, Volumes I and II, London, 1962 (light wear) together with: Hyland, Ann, The Medieval Warhorse from Byzantium to the Crusades, London 1994; Curtis, John & Kruszynski, Miroslaw, Ancient Caucasian and Related Material in the British Museum, The British Museum Occasional Paper Number 121, 2002; Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978; Hayward, J.F., European Firearms, London, 1969 (ex-library copy); Hamilton, T.M., Firearms on the Frontier: Guns at Fort Michilimackkinac, 1715-1781, Williamston, 1976 (with hand-written dedication to Edward McEwen by the author); Sargeaunt, B.E., Weapons, London, 1908 (worn, with a little light foxing); Mann, Sir James, Arms and Armour in England, London, 1961 (a little wear); Norman, A.V.B. & Wilson, G.M., Treasures from the Tower of London, Norwich, 1982; Armours of Henry VIII, Department of the Environment, 1977; The Wallace Collection: guide to the armouries, London, 1982; and Royal Armouries: Official Guide, London, 1986 (two copies) (13 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)

Original antique advertising poster for the 1889 Universal Exhibition / Exposition Universelle featuring the image of Central Dome / Le Dome Central in Paris, depicting ladies and gentlemen in front of a colourful building, with statues lining the alley. The Exposition Universelle of 1889 also known as the 1889 Paris Exposition, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille, which marked the beginning of the French Revolution, the most famous structure created for the exposition was the Eiffel Tower. Among other celebrities and notable people such as the Shah of Persia Nasereddin Shah, Prince of Wales Edward VII and his wife, Princess Alexandra, artists Antoni Gaudi, James McNeill Whistler, Edvard Munch, Rosa Bonheur and Paul Gauguin, U.S. journalist and diplomat Whitelaw Reid, author Henry James, Filipino patriots Jose Rizal and Marcelo H. del Pilar, and inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, with latter visiting the exhibit where his phonograph was demonstrated. Good condition, creasing, folds, staining, tears Country of issue: France, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 60x41, year of printing: 1889.

James I, First coinage, Shilling, mm. lis, second bust, 5.74g/3h (S 2646); Third coinage, Shilling, mm. trefoil, sixth bust, 5.84g/4h (S 2668); Charles I, Tower mint, Shilling, Gp E, mm. tun, 6.10g/2h (S 2791); Shilling, Gp F, mm. tun, 6.17g/12h (S 2796); Tower mint (under Parliament), Shilling, Gp G, mm. eye, 6.02g/12h (S 2800) [5]. Varied state, first scratched, last possibly plugged at top £200-£300

Henry VIII, Posthumous coinage, Halfgroat, Bristol, mm. WS on rev only, 1.26g/12h; Penny, Tower, facing bust, 0.53g/6h (S 2413, 2417); together with other hammered coins (4) of Elizabeth I (2) and James I (2) [6]. Varied state £100-£120

Charles James Lauder (Scottish 1841-1920): Tower Bridge - London, watercolour signed 25cm x 34cm

Having a narrow eighteen lobed wavy-edge rim with triple reed and small embossed domes relating to the eighteen flutes in the deep booge, the flat well engraved with a ducal coronet and the arms of FRASER, touchmark of Thomas Chamberlain, London (fl.1732-1775), (PS1603), on rear of well, overall diameter 29.3cm (11¾in), rim width 1.7cm (¾in) The arms are Quarterly, first and fourth, azure three fraises argent; second and third, argent three antique crowns gules, beneath a Duke's coronet. They refer to Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat (1667-1747), who was created Duke of Fraser, Marquess of Beaufort, Earl of Stratherrick and Upper Tarf, Viscount of the Aird and Strathglass and Lord Lovat and Beaulieu in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), in his soi-disant capacity as the rightful James III of England and VIII of Scotland. These titles were not recognised in English, Scots or Irish law, but the titles were used in Jacobite circles in Continental Europe and recognised by France, Spain and the Papacy. The ducal coronet helps to date the dish precisely to between 1740 and 1747, when Simon Fraser was executed. His coffin plate is also engraved with these arms beneath a Duke's coronet, rather than a Baron's. It is extremely rare to find a title granted in the Jacobite peerage on a pewter plate. Nicknamed 'the Fox', Simon Fraser had a tumultuous career. A Scottish Jacobite and Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, in 1715 he supported the House of Hanover during the Jacobite uprising following Queen Anne's death but, in 1745, was slow to support the royal cause against the claims of Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), and was amongst the Highlanders defeated at the Battle of Culloden. He was subsequently confined in the Tower of London, convicted of treason and executed by beheading (he narrowly escaped being hanged, drawn and quartered) on the 9th April 1747 Literature: The pair to this Lot (sold Bonhams, Oxford, 19 April 2021, Lot 136), is discussed and illustrated Journal of the Pewter Society, Vol. 18, Autumn 2002, pp. 38-39, which also references the very small number of other recorded examples. The author, John Douglas, concludes 'these fluted strawberry dishes are obviously very rare and to find one with such dramatic associations produces a thrill not often experienced'. Peter Hornsby in Pewter of the Western World 1600-1850 (1983), illustrates two of the recorded comparable strawberry dishes, p. 135, pl. 357 and 358 A garnish of wavy edge sadware of thirty-four pieces, by the same maker and bearing identical armorials is in the collection of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers. See Supplementary catalogue (1979), SI/113/1-34.

After J Kendall - View in the Churchyard at St Edmundsbury, and View of the Saxon Tower, St James' Church, The Mausoleum, The Ruins of the Abbey Church, the Hospital in St Edmundsbury, two monochrome steel engravings, each approx 30x44cm

John Henry Campbell (1757-1828) View of Lough Erne, with Devenish Island and Round Tower, c.1821 Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 68cm (20¼ x 26¾") Provenance: By descent through the artist's family, from whom purchased by the parents of the present owners.Exhibited: Dublin, Palace of Fine Arts, Irish International Exhibition, 1907; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland James Arthur O’Connor, 1985, Cat. No. 13Literature: Walter Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913) vol. 1, p.151

Charles Dickens. A contemporary group of 38 volumes, comprising the majority of his works in book form, principally first editions, bound in uniform green full morocco, spines tooled gilt in compartments, the upper covers with tooled initials ‘C. H. T. W.’, all edges gilt, 8vo, 1836–1870RARE. Nineteenth century collections of Charles Dickens are becoming increasingly scarce to the market. The present lot contains early minor works, such as Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) and sought-after major works, such as Great Expectations (1861). The lot comprises:Sunday Under Three Heads… by Timothy Sparks, half-title, 3 engraved plates, original wrappers bound in, London: Chapman and Hall, 1836; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, without half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 41 engraved plates, many corresponding to the first state, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with an additional 32 engraved plates by Thomas Onwhyn, London: Chapman and Hall, 1837; Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi… edited by ‘Boz’, 2 volumes, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece and 12 engraved plates, ‘The Last Song’ without border, London: Richard Bentley, 1838; Sketches of Young Gentlemen, 6 engraved plates, original wrappers bound in, London: Chapman and Hall, 1838; Sketches of Young Couples, 6 engraved plates, original wrappers bound in, London: Chapman and Hall, 1840; Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy’s Progress… by ‘Boz’, 3 volumes, half-titles, 3 engraved frontispieces and 21 engraved plates, including the final ‘Fireside’ plate, with ‘arter’ on page 318, ‘XXVIX’ on page 155, and ‘mattrass’ on page 182, London: Chapman and Hall, 1838; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, without half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece with the imprint of Chapman and Hall, 39 engraved plates, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with an additional 24 character study plates published by Robert Tyas, ‘visiter’ on page 123, ‘conducter’ on page 342, and ‘Grogswig’ on page 618, London: Chapman and Hall, 1839; Master Humphrey’s Clock, 3 volumes, 3 engraved frontispieces, illustrations in text, ‘deessed’ on page 128, ‘intructions’ on page 128, and ‘Thirty-Fiftth’ on page 133, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1840–41; Barnaby Rudge, London: Chapman and Hall, 1841; American Notes for General Circulation, 2 volumes, without half-titles, with ‘xvi’ on final page of contents in volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, 1842; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 38 engraved plates, ‘thresh-hold’ on page 587, London: Chapman and Hall, 1844; Pictures from Italy, half-title, ‘canvass’ on page 112, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846; The Adventures of Oliver Twist, third edition, half-title, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846; Dombey and Son, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 37 of 38 engraved plates, lacking ‘A Visitor of Distinction’, but with 4 additional portraits, ‘amiliar’ on page 70, ‘Capatain’ on page 324, and ‘if’ present on page 426, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848; The Personal History of David Copperfield, without half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 38 engraved plates, ‘recal’ on page 16, ‘screwed’ on page 132, ‘coroboration’ on page 387, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850; Bleak House, half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 38 engraved plates, ‘elgble’ on page 19, ‘chair’ on page 209, ‘homeards’ on page 605, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853; Hard Times, half-title, ‘her,’ on page 60, ‘hese’ on page 108, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854; A Child’s History of England, 3 volumes, later edition, 3 frontispieces by F. W. Topham, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854–1855; Little Dorrit, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 38 engraved plates, ‘chimnies’ on page 342, ‘diceing’ on page 360, ‘B2’ on page 371, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857; The Story of Little Dombey, half-title, original wrappers bound in, London: Bradbury and Evans, 1858; A Tale of Two Cities, engraved frontispiece and additional title, 14 engraved plates, ‘Stryver’ on page ix, ‘affetcionately’ on page 134, ‘113’ on page 213, London: Chapman and Hall, 1859; The Uncommercial Traveller, half-title, ‘s de’ on page 20, ‘themselve’ on page 176, London: Chapman and Hall, 1861; Great Expectations, 3 volumes, vol. 1, ‘recal’ on page 84, no period after ‘other’ on page 311, vol. 2, ‘their’ on page 162, ‘recal’ on page 350, vol. 3, ‘raving’ on page 37, ‘led’ on page 150, ‘skackled’ on page 262, London: Chapman and Hall, 1861; Our Mutual Friend, 2 volumes bound as one, without half-titles, 2 engraved frontispieces, 38 engraved plates, vol. 1, ‘Dont’ on page 276, vol. 2, ‘pricipal’ on page 115, London: Chapman and Hall, 1865; The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs Gamp, original wrappers bound in, London: Chapman and Hall, 1869; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, engraved additional title and portrait frontispiece, 12 plates, ‘tower’ on page 1, ‘sentiment’ on page 131, London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.Also included in this lot is Edward Caswell, Sketches of Young Ladies, 6 engraved plates, original wrappers bound in, 8vo, London: Chapman and Hall, 1843; James Cook, Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens, 1879.ConditionLight browning and spotting, but particularly to the plates, as usual, a few volumes with rust-marks or rare minor tears to leaves, Little Dorrit with one plate loose, morocco with extremities rubbed.

A Victorian Gothic Revival white metal and gilt white metal bridesmaid's brooch designed by William Burges for Gibson, circa 1863, the circular brooch with central cross motif set with lapis lazuli, coral and malachite, engraved Gothic script initials between the coral and malachite cabochons reading '+.J.C.G.', unmarked, white metal pin (possibly replaced), 46mm diameter. Footnote:The Rev’d John GibsonBorn on 23 July 1815 in Stratford, Essex, the second son of John Gibson, an early Victorian manufacturing chemist, and his wife Ann (Nanny) Harrison. Rev’d Gibson was a scholar-clergyman who became Dean of Jesus College, Cambridge, Chair of the Cambridge Architectural Society and, in 1857, was instituted to the Rectory of King’s Stanley, Gloucestershire. He was instrumental in the Gothic Revival-inspired restoration of the Choir and Tower of Jesus College Chapel, which included input from A W N Pugin and Sir John Sutton, as well as organ cases for churches in this country and continental Europe.He was a personal friend of William Burges who, in 1863, designed a bracelet and other items of jewellery marked simply “Gibson” on the original design sketches now held in the V&A library, London. Pencil annotations state that six of this design were to be executed in silver. According to Burges' diaries, a Birmingham silversmith named Wakeman executed these designs (“Wakeman did Gibson jewly”, Burges’ Abstract of Diaries).We believe this brooch was a gift to the bridesmaids at the Rev’d Gibson’s marriage to Caroline Bendyshe, great-niece of Admiral Lord Nelson, on 28 January 1864 at the church of St James the Less, Parish of St John, Westminster. After their marriage, their friendship continued with Burges visiting Gibson and his wife at King’s Stanley the following year (“To Gibson at Stonehouse”, Burges’ diary abstract).For further information about the Rev’d John Gibson, please see The Revd John Gibson Gothic Revivalist – An Extended Chronology by Philip J Wells. Condition report:All stones are present and secure. The top coral has been reset, with the collet setting a different colour (yellow metal as opposed to white metal to the other three). The pin is secure and works well. Gross weight - 20.9g.

A folio album of private bound 18th & 19th Century sheet music and others the volume including: Wine cannot cure; Thomas Beilby, The Dying Negro … formed for promoting an abolition of the slave trade, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Dibdin (Charles) Poor Jack, London: Preston & Son, n.d., circa 1790; Dibdin (Charles), Poor Tom …, London: The Author; Jackson (William), When first this humble Roof I knew, London: Preston & Son; Paisello, Whither my love ah! Whither art thou gone, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Storace (S.) My native land I bade adieu, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; James (Charles) Melissa, London: Dale; Beilby (Thomas), The Dying Negro… formed for promoting an abolition of the slave trade, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Manuscript score for Prince of Bale’s Minnet; Dibdin (Charles), The Tar for all Weathers, London: The Author; Dibdin (Charles), The Lucky Escape, London: The Author; Joshua, Oh, Had I Jubal’s Lyre, London: J. Bland; Arnold & Pinto, If ‘tis Joy to wound a Lover; Les Adieux de L’infortune Louis XVI a son people, London: Dale’s; Shield, W., The Heaving of the Lead, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; I know that my Redeemer Liveth, London: J. Dale; Storace (Stephen), The Lullaby, London: J. Dale; ; Dibdin (Charles), The Soldier’s Adieu, London: The Author; He was Despised, Messiah, London: G. Goulding; Kilvington (T.) His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester’s March, London: The Author, 1795; Gionovichi, Rondeau; O Dear what can the Matter be, London: Preston & Son; Corri, (D.) My Ain kind Deabie: A Scotch Air, London: C. & Co.; Storace (Stephen) A Plighted Faith, London: Dale’s; Jackson of Exeter, Love in Thine Eyes, London: Bland & Weller; Percy & Antoinette (Marie), The Captive, London: The Author; The Favorite Duett of Jess MacPharlane as sung at the Dillettanti Concerts by Mr Dignum and Mr Hindle; Hook, My Heart is devoted dear Mary to thee … sung by Mr Darley at Vauxhall Gardens, London: Bland; Arnold (Dr.), Oh Happy Tawny Moor, London: Preston & Son; Hook, Sweet Kate the Irish Maid sung by Mr Page at Vauxhall, London: Preston & Son; Carnaby (W.), Song on Peace, London: Sold by Rt Birchall; Haigh (T.), The favorite Air When the Hollow Drum, London: Preston & Son; Dibdin (Charles), The Siege of Troy, London: Preston; Hook, The Wedding Day: A Favourite song sung by Mrs Kennedy at Vauxhall Gardens, London: S. A. & P. Thompson; Pleyel, Tho’ pity I cannot deny: A favorite Song sung by Mrs Crouch in the Haunted Tower, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Rimbault (S. F.) The Cottage in the Dell, London: F. Linley; pages 9-12 of A compleat delineation of the Royal procession to St. Paul’s on the 19 of December 1797; Here’s a health to those far away, London: R.t Birchall; Giordani, Queen Mary’s Lamentation sung by Sig. Tenducci at the Pantheon & Mr Abel’s Concert & c, London: J. Preston; Latour, New German Waltz, London: J. Bland; Storace (Stephen), Across the Downs this morning sung by Sig. Storace in No song, no Supper, London: Longman & Broderip [1776-1795]; Gray (J. B.), Oh! Balmy Sleep, London: Tho.s Cahusac; Knyvett, In the Dead of the Night, London: R.t Birchall; Hook, You shall be my Love … sung by Mr Darley at Vauxhall, London: Preston & Son; Sestini, The Gipsy Song; Hook, Henry & Maria or the Soldier’s Farewell, London: Preston; with further manuscript pages including composition by Mrs Siddons, How hard’s the Fate of Womankind, The Confession; Aldiborontiphoscophornio; Last May a braw Wooer; Drops of Brandy; Mozart Air; Tweedside; The Birks of Endermay; The Spectre Song; Lord of all Powers; Pleyel, It may be Love; Callicott, Epitaph; Go to the Devil and shake yourself; Whither a mile of Edinburgh; several blank musical score sheets within marbled paper boards and leather spine; together with Dussek (I.L.) A compleat delineation of the Royal procession to St. Paul’s on the 19 of December 1797, the music for the Piano Forte by I. Dussek to which is added the form of the Church Service with part of the Vocal Music sung at that celebration, London: Printed for Corri. Dussek & Co., [1798], frontispiece by T. King, folio; Introduction, The Acclamation of the People, Coronation Anthem by Handel, , (pages 9-12 bound in the larger volume), The Litany, Sanctus by Robt Hudson, The Communion Service, The Creed, A Voluntary for the Organ by Handel, God Save the King; a volume 19th century privately collated paper bound sheet music including P. Henrion, Polka, D. Magnus, Royal Schottische, Theodore Oesten, Das Alpenhorn, German Melodies, Golden Pearls, Fleurs Italiennes, G.A. Osborne Roy McGregor, Henry F. Hemy, The Sledge Bell Galop, Oscar Comettant, La Sympathie, Adrien Talexy Aurelia, Alphonse Leduc, L’Ecrin Musical, Fantasies; Away with Melancholy: A Favorite Air or Duet composed by M. Mozart, London: Bland & Wellers Music Warehouse, 23 Oxford Street, n.d. [1793-1818], folio, loose sheet music, 2 leaves, 3pp.Well used and thumbed condition, binding poor, some annotations and insciptions

The rare 4-clasp N.G.S. medal awarded to Lieutenant James Sabben, who was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar when Signal-Midshipman of the Dreadnought under Captain John Conn, and afterwards had an adventurous career in the West Indies, being once taken prisoner, and a second time wounded at the capture of the French frigates Loire and Seine at Anse la Barque Naval General Service 1793-1840, 4 clasps, Trafalgar, Martinique, Anse La Barque 18 Decr 1809, Guadaloupe (J. Sabben, Lieut. R.N.) light edge bruising and handling marks, otherwise nearly extremely fine £20,000-£24,000 --- Provenance: Glendining’s, July 1929 (Roderick Dow Collection); Glendining’s, May 1942 (Waite Sanderson Collection); Christie’s, November 1985 (ex Fergus Gowans Collection); John Goddard Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, November 2015. Trafalgar [1611 issued] - including 10 officers and 53 men of the Dreadnought. Martinique [480 issued] - including 17 officers and 58 men of Cochrane’s flagship Neptune. Anse La Barque 18 Decr 1809 [40 issued] - including Acting Lieutenant Sabben and 2 men of the Ringdove. Guadaloupe [475 issued] - including Acting Lieutenant Sabben and 3 men of the Ringdove. James Sabben was born at Portsea on 1 August 1787, and, whilst in the merchant service was a witness to the destruction of the Queen Charlotte 100, in Leghorn Roads on 17 March 1800. He joined the Royal Navy on 16 March 1803, as a First Class Volunteer on board the Dreadnought 98, and was shortly afterwards severely injured by a blow from a storm-stay-sail sheet. In August 1805 he was present off Cadiz when the Dreadnought, with two other ships of the line, was pursued by the combined squadrons of France and Spain on their return from the West Indies, whence they had been driven by Lord Nelson. On 21 October following he fought, as Signal-Midshipman under Captain John Conn, and was wounded, at the battle of Trafalgar, receiving, in consequence, a grant from the Patriotic Fund. In July 1806 he joined the Wolverene 18, Captain Francis A. Collier, and was present in her when she was hove down at English Harbour, Antigua, and lost many of her officers and crew from yellow fever. On 17 December 1806, whilst a Supernumerary in the schooner Netley, he was taken prisoner by the French frigate Thétis and brig Sylphe, and taken into Guadaloupe. He was soon, however, restored to liberty, and on rejoining the Wolverene was awarded the rating of Master’s Mate. When subsequently in pursuit of an enemy he was a second time accidentally hurt. He continued employed with Captain Collier in the Star sloop until November 1808, when, at the strong recommendation of that officer, he was received by Sir Alexander Cochrane on promotion on board his flagship the Neptune 98, part of the force engaged, in February 1809, at the reduction of Martinique. As soon as he had passed his examination, he was nominated, in March 1809, Acting-Lieutenant of the Julia 16, Captain William Dowers, and, in the ensuing August, followed that officer in the same capacity into the Ringdove 18. While officiating as First Lieutenant of the Julia, he succeeded in capturing a large French letter-of-marque brig in Trinity Bay, Martinique. When in the same sloop, at the blockade of Guadaloupe, Mr Sabben was almost daily in action, either in cutting-out vessels, in storming batteries, or in intercepting the coasting trade. He also participated in three attempts to capture or destroy the French frigates Furieuse and Félicité in the roadstead of Basseterre; the first being made at night by means of boats; the second by running the Cherub and Julia in broad daylight alongside the enemy’s ships, an attack which failed from want of wind; and the third by converting the Unité brig into a fire-vessel and sending her in by night under cover of the Julia. While attached to the latter vessel he was again very strongly recommended to the Commander-in-Chief. As Acting-First-Lieutenant, afterwards, of the Ringdove, he was wounded on 18 December 1809, at the destruction, in L’Ance la Barque, of the 40-gun frigates Loire and Seine, laden with stores and protected by numerous batteries, and also took part in the reduction of the island of Guadaloupe, where, during the absence of his Captain on shore, he held command of the ship. Sabben was confirmed to the Ringdove, 10 September 1810. After various appointments, he was placed on half-pay, after being employed in the Perseus receiving ship, off the Tower. Lieutenant Sabben is reported to have died during the year 1849.

An Ambrotype of an Artillery Sergeant. A ninth plate (2 1/2 in x 2 in) ambrotype of an Artillery Sergeant, c.1860, contained in its original leather covered wooden case, this with gilt metal frame but lacking the lid; together with a Lantern Slide of seven Tower of London Yeoman Warders (”Beefeaters”), c.1885, six of whom are wearing medals, including James Owens V.C., reasonable condition (2) £60-£80

A rare 17th century Charles I silver vervel or hawking ring, the shield-shaped bezel finely engraved with Royal coat of arms, comprising (clockwise) the rampant lion of Scotland, the lions of England and fleur-de-lis of France quartered, the harp of Ireland, and finally quartered arms of England and France repeated, the hoop engraved to the exterior in italics ‘Charles . King’, diameter 10mm. £2,000-£3,000 --- Provenance: This vervel was found in spoil heaps taken from Billingsgate in the city of London, circa 1982. Upon recent cleaning, the details of the shield and inscription became clear. The Tower of London is close to Billingsgate, and it is likely that Charles I would have kept a number of his birds of prey there. Vervels have been recorded for Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I and now Charles I, together with a significant number of hawking rings belonging to titled individuals, displaying their family crest. One known example of a vervel belonging to Charles I is held at the British Museum, Number 2000,0701.1 and also displays the Stuart Royal arms. Vervels were attached to a jess or thin strap made of leather which was the tether for the bird. Falconry was a popular sport amongst nobility in the 16th and 17th centuries using trained birds of prey to hunt small game such as rabbits. Condition Report Inscription clear, slight wear to the extremities of the shield with the surface typical of a Thames find. XRF analysis shows it is 96% silver with traces of gold, iron, lead, copper and bismuth. Weight 0.71gm.

Quantity of various makes. Spot-On Bullnose Morris (266). 2x Dinky Toys- Gloster Javelin Fighter (735) and a Massey Harris Manure Spreader. 2x Corgi Junior Ford Escort and a James Bond Citroen 2CV6. Morestone Hansom Cab. 4x Charbens Miniature series. All boxed. Together with a Husky multi garage (damaged), 5 Corgi including a Bond Bug, Jeep FC-150 Tower wagon, Land Rover 109 etc. Morestone AA Land Rover. Plus a number of Matchbox Series etc vehicles. QGC-VGC some wear/chipping mostly to loose items. £50-70

James Webb (c.1825-1895)Figures off the coast with martello tower, signed, oil on panel, 22 x 30cm

Plays with Dublin imprints.- Murphy (Arthur) The citizen: a farce. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden, Dublin, Printed for A. Leathley [& others], 1774 bound with [Cobb (James)] The Haunted Tower: A comic opera in three acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, Crow-Street, final advertisement f., Dublin, Printed by Thomas McDonnel, 1793 and 9 other plays with Dublin imprints, a few ff. loose, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, lacking backstrip, worn, but solid, 8vo. sold not subject to return.

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK WITH MOONPHASEJAMES DE LASALLE, LONDON, CIRCA 1775The five pillar two train rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch brass break-arch dial with calendar aperture and recessed bright-cut bordered silvered subsidiary seconds dial to the matted centre within applied silvered Roman numeral chapter ring with Arabic five minutes to outer track, with scroll-pierced steel hands and applied rococo scroll cast spandrels to angles, the arch with rolling moonphase incorporating engraved age-of-the-moon scale to the circumference of the lunar disc, over lunettes engraved with sunburst mask and terrestrial globes beneath signature Ja's De Lasalle, London to upper margin, the figured mahogany case with concave-sided 'pagoda' superstructure fronted with a shaped foliate pierced fret over break-arch cavetto cornice and brass stop-fluted columns flanking the hinged glazed dial aperture, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with break-arch door fronted with flame figured veneers within complex mouldings flanked by brass stop-fluted quarter columns, the plinth base with concave top moulding over raised shaped panel to fascia, on moulded double skirt incorporating shaped apron to lower margin.243cm (95.75ins) high, 53cm (21ins) wide, 26cm (10.25ins) deep. James De Lasalle is recorded in Britten, F.J. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS as working from Brookers Row, Moorfields, London in 1780 and then 42 St. Catherine's, Tower Hill 1800-18. Condition Report: Movement in fine clean working condition and appears all-original with no evidence of alteration or noticeable replacements. The dial is in fine clean condition with the only observation worth noting is that there are some witness marks from the attachment of the calendar ring pulleys and a detent pivot are visible within the matting and there is a small filled 'pin-prick' hole above the calendar aperture. The lunar disc appears to retain its original painted finish in fine condition; the silvering has some slight patchy oxidation in places. The movement and dial rest on what appears to be the original seatboard direct onto the cheek uprights of the case; it is therefore most probable that the movement and dial are original to the case. The case is generally in very fine clean condition - the lower skirt (with shaped apron) is a restoration/replacement. The top of the hood has three empty socket holes from finials which are no longer present and the rear left-hand edge (behind the quarter column) has a crack (stable) to the carcass beneath. Otherwise the case only has a few very slight bumps and scuffs and some minimal veneer shrinkage. Clock is generally in 'take-home' condition and is complete with pendulum, two brass-cased weights, case key and winder. Condition Report Disclaimer

A GEORGE III OAK EIGHT-DAY LONGCASE CLOCK WITH 'ROCKING SHIP' AUTOMATONDE LASALLE, LONDON, CIRCA 1785The five pillar rack and bell striking movement with anchor escapement regulated by seconds pendulum, the 12 inch single sheet silvered brass break-arch Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds and calendar dials and signed De Lasalle, LONDON to centre, within Roman numeral hour chapters and Arabic five minutes beyond the minute track, with blued steel hand beneath recessed demi-lune scene to arch finely painted with a rocky coastal landscape and incorporating a square-rigged armed Indiaman rocking back and forth with the motion of the pendulum, set beneath silvered upper margin engraved with leafy trails, the oak case with concave-sided 'pagoda' superstructure over break-arch cavetto cornice and fluted three quarter columns applied to the angles of the hinged glazed dial aperture, the sides with rectangular windows and conforming quarter columns set against bargeboards at the rear, the trunk with break-arch door applied with complex edge mouldings, the plinth base with concave top moulding over moulded skirt incorporating shaped apron to lower margin.228cm (89.5ins) high, 49.5cm (19.5ins) wide, 25.5cm (10ins) deep. Provenance:Previously from the estate of the late Roy Carter. James De Lasalle is recorded in Britten, F.J. OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS as working from Brookers Row, Moorfields, London in 1780 and then 42 St. Catherine's, Tower Hill 1800-18. 

A LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS, APPROXIMATELY 900, to include the National History Museum, New Scotland Yard, National Maritime Museum, Nelson Dock, North Western Railway, Nottinghill, Nurse Cavell, Old Bailey, Old Curiosity Shop, Old St. Paul's, Oratory, Olave House, Oxford Street, Paddington Station, Palace Hotel, Park Lane, Parliament Square, Peter Pan, Piccadilly, Planetarium, Poets Corner, Port of London Authority, Post Office Tower, Putney Bridge, Roman Catholic Cathedral , RAF Memorial, Regents Park, Regents Street, Richmond Bridge, Rotten Row, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Exchange, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Hospital, Royal Lancaster Hotel, Royal Opera House, Royal Residences, Sandhurst, Sandringham, Science Museum, Selfridges, Shepperton, Shoreditch, Smithfield Meat Market, Somerset House, South Bank Exhibition, Southwark Cathedral, Spencer House, Queen Victoria Statue, St. Bartholomew, St. Clement Danes Church, St. Columba's Church, St. Georges, St. Giles, St. Helens Church, St. James Palace and Park, St. Martins, St. Mary's, St. Mary Abbotts Church, St. Mary LeBow, St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, Stock Exchange, St. Olave Church, St. Peters. Streatham Common, St. Stephens, St. Thomas Hospital, Sutton Library, Tate Gallery, Temple Bar, Temple Church, The Gordon Statue, and The Mall, these are spanning early 20th century to mid-late, a great selection of topographical included with interesting buildings, national parks, and rural scenes, many with postage marks or unposted, viewing is advised

A collection of hammered coins including a Charles I hammered silver shilling, 6th bust. Tower mint sun mark, 1645-1646. An Elizabeth I hammered silver shilling, 2nd Issue (1560-1561) with cross crosslet mintmark. An Elizabeth I hammered silver threepence dated 1568. Featuring rose to obverse and off center strike to reverse. A 1606 James I silver sixpence. 2nd issue, 4th bust. An Elizabeth I silver shilling, 6th issue (1582-1600).

A COLLECTION OF TEN BOXED WEDGWOOD BLUE JASPERWARE CHRISTMAS MUGS, comprising 1971 Piccadilly Circus, 1972 St. Paul's Cathedral, 1973 Tower Of London, 1974 Houses Of Parliament, 1975 Tower Bridge, 1976 Hampton Court, 1977 Westminster Abbey, 1978 Horse Guards, 1979 Buckingham Palace, 1980 St. James Palace (10+10 boxes) (Condition Report: all mugs have certificates of authenticity, a few dust marks on some pieces, no obvious damage)

NAVY INTEREST: Various titles: BERNARD ACKWORTH: THE NAVY AND THE NEXT WAR; BERNARD ACKWORTH: THE RESTORATION OF ENGLAND'S SEA POWER (both with presentation inscriptions); COMMANDER W M JAMES; NEW BATTLESHIP ORGANISATIONS AND NOTES FOR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS; ARNOLD WHITE; THE NAVY AND ITS STORY; HAMILTON WILLIAMS: BRITAIN'S NAVAL POWER, Parts I and II; H O ARNOLD FOSTER: IN A CONNING TOWER OR HOW I TOOK HMS MAJESTIC INTO ACTION; BERNARD ACKWORTH: THE NAVY'S HERE! (8)

Assorted Stuart Hammered Coinage; 4 coins comprising; James I, shilling, second coinage (1604-19), 5.63g, mm. lis, third bust (N.2099, S.2654); Charles I, shilling, Tower Mint under The King (1625-42), 6.14g, mm. anchor (N.2229, S.2796); Charles I, halfgroat, 0.89g, mm. portcullis, CR divided by oval shield (N.2256, S.2828); and, Charles II, fourpence, 1.91g, mm. crown, (N.2768, S.3324); grading fine to near very fineMichael Whiteley Collection

Group of histories and travel accounts, 18th-early 19th century Arnot, Hugo. The History of Edinburgh, Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1779 & 1788. 2 copies, first and second editions, both 4to (26.5 x 19.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, first edition with engraved frontispiece, folding plan of Edinburgh (backed on linen), contemporary bookplate and ownership inscription (Tower of Alloa, seats of the earls of Mar), binding rubbed, contents toned, spotting to endpapers, frontispiece offset, second edition with advertisement leaf (not present in all copies), directions to the binder leaf, engraved folding plan (with short closed tear), 19 engraved plates (most folding, plate facing p. 565 repaired along top edge and with stain in image), lacking leaf 4N1 (Appendix XI, pp. 649/50, possibly cancelled), but with leaf 4N2 (Appendix XII, pp. 651/2) present in two states, the first with verso blank [ESTC T142880 & T143106];Garnett, Thomas. Observations on a Tour through the Highlands and Part of the Western Isles of Scotland, particularly Staffa and Icolmkill. London: T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1800. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 4to, 20th-century quarter calf, 2 engraved maps (one folding), 52 aquatint plates, browning and spotting to text, plates offset, a few marked, old repairs to folding map, title-page laid down, repaired closed tear in volume 1 pp. 333/4 [Abbey Scenery 482; ESTC T131649];[Thomson, William]. Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland: Natural, Oeconomical, and Literary. By Thomas Newte. London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1791. First edition, 4to, contemporary calf, engraved folding map (repaired), 23 engraved plates, front joint cracked, excision to lower margin of 2D1, damp-stains to a few plates [T1309];Carr, Sir John. Caledonian Sketches, or a Tour through Scotland in 1807. London: Mathews and Leigh, 1809. First edition, 4to, contemporary half calf, 12 aquatint plates (including folding frontispiece view of Edinburgh), front board detached [Abbey Scenery 488];and 7 others (these not collated: James Bone, Edinburgh Revisited, 1911; J. Stewart Smith, The Grange of St Giles, 1898; Clement B. Gunn & Others, George Heriot's Hospital, c.1900; James Colston, The Guildry of Edinburgh, 1887; Robert Miller, The Municipal Buildings of Edinburgh, 1895; Alexander Heron, The Rise and Progress of the Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh, 1903; D. Butler, The Tron Kirk of Edinburgh, 1906)(12) THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)

19th/20th Century School, hand coloured engravings, an assorted collection of engravings relating to British architecture and ruins, including a number of attractive Ecclesiastical studies, after James Sargant Storer (1771-1853, British), John Godfrey (19th Century), and Robert Sands (1792-1855, British), plus others, with locations including Cambuskenneth Tower, Scotland, Barfreston Church, Kent, St Sepulchre's Church, and Elgin Cathedral (approx. 50 engravings)

A collection of English hammered coins, including short cross pennies Henry II broad face GF; John, Willem B/London GF; Edward I; Edward IV half groat AF; Henry VIII two pence 1533/44 mm Catherine wheel F Elizabeth I shilling 1582/83 mm. bell AF, 1590 mm hand AF; sixpences 1575 mm. eglantine, 1583 mm. Gothic A AF, another, mm. bell AF, 1591 mm. hand Fair; 1596 mm. key AF; three pence 1570 mm castle F, twopence third issue 1565 AF another 5th issue Fair, also 1592/95 mm tun F; penny 1580/81 mm. Latin cross AF; James I: shilling second coinage 1613/15 mm 5-foil AF, another third bust mm. escallop GF, sixpence 1607 AF, twopence second coinage AVF; Charles I shillings: round shield, no lines AF, sixpence 1633/34 mm portcullis F, 1639/40 XII behind head tower mint mm. D, another mm (R) AF1640/41 mm star F; sixpences 1633/34 mm. portcullis F, 1640/41 mm. star F, tower mint two both slightly folded; silver halfpenny F; AE rose farthing double arched crown, double rose sceptres within inner circle F; Commonwealth penny AF flan slightly bent (qty)

Seven: Sergeant R. Kirk, Coldstream Guards, later Corps of Military Police and 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade, who was reprimanded for shooting down a Luftwaffe plane during the Evacuation at Dunkirk, and later became a Gold Medal winning philatelist General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2656638. Gdsmn. R. Kirk. C. Gds.) number officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display; together with the recipient’s Dunkirk Medal, traces of verdigris to F&G Star, otherwise good very fine (8) £180-£220 --- Reginald Kirk, a native of Wincobank, near Sheffield, attested for the Coldstream Guards in 1934 for four years where he took part in the Trooping the Colour and guarding of Buckingham and St James' Palaces and the Tower of London in 1935. His unit had a rare inspection by King Edward VIII at Wellington Barracks. He served with the 3rd Battalion in Palestine in 1936, where he had a painful encounter with a scorpion. Discharged on 12 August 1938, having served in an exemplary manner, he spent a short time at Sheffield Post Office, before he was back in as a reservist in June 1939. At this time the authorities were building up the Corps of Military Police (about a 1000 Guardsmen had joined the Military Police), and Kirk followed, joining them on 2 September 1939, two days before the declaration of the War. Kirk went with the Military Police to Arras with the British Expeditionary Force on 7 September 1939. On 10 May 1940 the Germans cut off Arras and the Channel Ports. On that morning, having heard heavy gunfire, Kirk took a motorbike to escort Staff Officer Colonel Herbert to Brussels, they were stopped at the Belgian border and let through after some arguments, and returned back to Arras later going through towns which were sometimes under fire from dive bombing Stukas. ‘A few days before Dunkirk evacuation, Kirk acted on his own initiative and found himself in trouble. A flight of Stuka dive bombers flew 400 feet over the flat Belgian fields. He had kept his short Lee Enfield Mark III loaded with five rounds, he pointed it an aircraft’s length in front of one of the Stukas and fired all the rounds off at the Luftwaffe Aircraft, he hit it and it crashed into the sea, he was ecstatic but there was no commendation for Reg Kirk, in fact he was quizzed “Who told you to fire on that plane?” by the miserable Sergeant “Tombstone Joe”. He had to produce his Army Book and told “You’ll be on an Army Form B252, a charge sheet”, fortunately for him the Commanding Officer had moved on, and the process of dealing with this simply fizzled away.’ Serving in Italy in 1943 Kirk volunteered for the 2nd Parachute Brigade, to complete the War as a Paratrooper. On one occasion he was photographed as his unit landed in Salonica, Greece in late 1944 by flat bottom landing craft. Demobilised in November 1945, he transferred to the Class Z Reserve on 27 August 1946. Returning to the Sheffield Post Office, Kirk subsequently became a keen philatelist, and built up a good collection of Hong Kong stamps, followed by a collection of covers, envelopes and post-cards carried by vessels of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. At the World Philatelic Exhibition in Stockholm he was awarded a gold medal for his display of P & O covers between 1836 and 1914. Sold with copied research.

NEW/ MODERN SOUL - LP REISSUES. A smashing collection of around 32 LPs. Artists/ titles include Remixed With Love By Joey Negro Vol Three Part Two (ZEDDLP045X, 2018 1st press), Jay Nemore Electrified - Alive, Tower Of Power - Step Up, Mario Biondi - Dare, Cool Million - Stronger, Chelsea Wilson - Chasing Gold, Cunnie Williams - Night Time In Paris, James Taylor Quartet - People Get Ready, Gregory Potter - All Rise, Various - Soul Togetherness 2020, Light Of The World, Myles Sanko - Memories Of Love, Rita Ray - Old Love Will Rust. Dave Lee, The Pendletons, Nate James, Fresh Band, The Topics, Little Ann, Imperial Wonders Work Of Art, Runaway Train, Diplomats Of Soul, The O'Jays, Thelma Houston, Lisa Stansfield, Jennifer Holliday, Durand Jones & The Indications. Condition is generally Ex/ Ex+/ Like New.

THE FOLIO SOCIETY, twenty-six historical titles comprising The Source Of The Nile; Richard Burton, A Brief History Of Time; Stephen Hawking, Legends Of King Arthur; Richard Barber, Legends Of The Grail; unknown (sealed) History Of The English Church And People; R.E. Latham, Life; Richard Forty, The Gunpowder Plot The Narrative of Oswald Tesimond alias Greenway, Southey's Life Of Nelson; edited by Kenneth Fenwick, Scott's Last Expedition The Journals of Captain R.F. Scott, illustrated with photographs by Herbert Ponting, Egypt Revealed Artist-Travellers in an Antique Land; T.G.H. James, Nero; Michael Grant, Hannibal; Ernle Bradford, Gaius Suetonius Tranquiius The Twelve Caesars; translated by Robert Graves, Trafalgar An Eyewitness History; edited by Tom Pocock, The Great Fire of London 1666; Walter George Bell, The Princes in the Tower; Walter George Bell, The Black Death; Alison Weir, The Great Plague In London; Walter George Bell, The Somme An Eyewitness History; edited by Robert T. Foley and Helen McCartney, Ordeal by Fire Witnesses To The Great War; Lyn Macdonald, Commando A Boer Journal Of The Boer War; Deneys Reitz, The Origins of the Second World War; The Second World War and its Aftermath; A.J.P. Taylor, The Seven Years War; Julian S. Corbett, The Boer War; Thomas Packenham, The Wars Of The Roses; Desmond Seward, all in slip cases

Eight Pieces of Scottish Provincial Silver Flatware, comprising a pair of Fiddle pattern table-spoons, by Robert Keay, Perth, circa 1810, each engraved with an initial; a Pointed Old English pattern table-spoon, by James Erskine, Aberdeen, circa 1800, engraved with the badge of the Caithness Legion and a set five Pointed Old English pattern teaspoons, by William Ritchie, Perth, circa 1800, engraved with an initial8oz 16dwt, 275gr (8)Provenance: The Perth table-spoons with William Walter Antiques, The London Silver Vaults, May 2009.The table-spoons, by Robert Keay, Perth, circa 1810: each marked with double-headed eagle and makers mark each struck three times. There is some wear to the marks but each is legible. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. Engraved with an initials 'K'. The table-spoon, by James Erskine, Aberdeen, circa 1800: marked on the back of the bowl with makers mark 'E' struck twice, three tower mark and hand with dagger. There is some minor wear to the marks but each is still legible. There is some overall minor surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. The set five Pointed Old English pattern teaspoons, by William Ritchie, Perth, circa 1800: each marked on back of bowl with maker's mark 'WR' and double-headed eagle. The marks are generally clear. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use. The surface is somewhat bright.

Approximately 70 albums including Queen, The Ramones, Roxy Music, Scorpions, Shanghai, Sun Treader, Sarstedt Brothers, The Shadows, Al Stewart, Sparks, Colin Scot, Stray Dog, Cat Stevens, Smokey, Matt Taylor, James Taylor, Talking Heads, Television, Tower of Power, Three Men Army, Trapeze, Tucky Buzzard, UFO, Uriah Heep, Vanilla Fudge, Robert Wyatt, Yes, The Zodiac etc. From the estate of music journalist Miranda Ward

Wiltshire.- William Beckford & Fonthill Abbey.- Rutter (John) A Description of Fonthill Abbey, and Demesne..., first edition, engraved frontispiece, some foxing, G3 lacking small portion from outer margin, stitched in original buff wrappers with title printed on upper cover, advertisement for Rutter's guide to Wardour Castle on inside upper wrapper, rubbed and stained, preserved in modern board folder and morocco-backed slip-case, spine gilt, Shaftesbury, 1822; Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint additional pictorial title, 12 engraved plates including 2 hand-coloured aquatints, double-page genealogical table, lacking folding plan (supplied in facsimile) and list of subscribers, wood-engraved vignettes, [cf.Abbey, Scenery 418; Millard, British 72, both large paper copies], Shaftesbury & London, 1823 bound after Britton (John) Graphical and Literary Illustrations of Fonthill Abbey, half-title, engraved additional pictorial title and 10 plates including 2 hand-coloured aquatints, 4pp. list of subscribers and advertisements at end, 1823, together 2 works in 1 vol., foxing, mostly to uncoloured plates, bookplate of John Monkhouse of Barnard Castle, Simon Nowell Smith's copy with manuscript label, contemporary diced calf, spine gilt with olive green roan labels § Storer (James) A Description of Fonthill Abbey, engraved frontispiece and 6 plates, wood-engraved tail-piece, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old spine, 1812 § Nichols (J.B.) Historical Notices of Fonthill Abbey, 11 engraved plates, modern half morocco, gilt, 1836, the first three rubbed; and 4 others by or about Beckford, 8vo & 4to (8)⁂ Various accounts and guides to Beckford's extraordinary Gothic mansion designed by James Wyatt. The construction was rushed and the huge tower collapsed several times. Beckford was forced to sell the property and most of its contents in 1822 due to financial constraints and the majority of the building was demolished in 1825.

CORGI; five boxed model vehicles, 261 Special Agent 007 James Bond Aston Martin D.B.5, 151 Lotus Mk11 Le Mans Racing Car, 478 Hydraulic Tower Wagon, 218 Aston Martin D.B.4, and Cooper Maserati F1 (5)

Murdoch (Iris). The Bell, 1958; A Severed Head, 1961; An Unofficial Rose, 1962; The Unicorn, 1963; The Italian Girl, 1964; The Red and the Green, 1965; The Time of Angels, 1966; The Nice and the Good, 1968; Bruno's Dream, 1969; A Fairly Honourable Defeat, 1970; An Accidental Man, 1971; The Three Arrows and the Servants and the Snow, 1973; The Black Prince, 1973; A Word Child, 1975; Henry and Cato, 1976, 1st editions, some light spotting to fore margins and endpapers of a few titles, bookplate to An Official Rose, original cloth (The Bell spine lettering dulled), dust jackets, a few price-clipped, a few small tears and nicks at spine ends and panel edges, 8vo, together with 8 others including Anita Brookner's A Start in Life, 1st edition, 1981 (price-clipped issue with new price sticker), The Black Tower, by P. D. James, 1st US edition, 1975, and 4 1st editions by Ngaio Marsh, including Death at the Dolphin, 1967 QTY: (22)

James Watterston Herald (British, 1859-1914)Tower of London and Traitors Gate signed and dated 'James W. Herald. 92' (lower right)watercolour45 x 29cm (17 11/16 x 11 7/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceSale; Gorringes, 26 Jun 2001, lot 513For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pair of carved and painted overdoors from Weald Hall, Essex,second quarter of the 18th century, possibly from a design by Giacomo Leoni (Italian, c.1686-1746), each with a moulded pediment over Ionic capitals, and formal leaf swags of laurel leaves and berries united by a tied ribbon,133cm wide11cm deep80cm high (2)Provenance: R C Knight & Sons, Norwich, 'Weald Hall, Brentwood, Essex, Sale of the Valuable Fixtures and Fittings', 1950, lot 100;purchased from the above by the vendor's father;thence by descent.Although Weald Hall's architect has never been confirmed, it is plausible that Giacomo Lenoni had some involvement in its design around the 1720s when he was at his most prolific (see Giles Worsley, 'England's Lost Houses', 2002, p.108). Leoni, also known as James Leoni, was born in Venice c.1686 and came to England in c.1714, aged 28, where he was instrumental in introducing the Palladian style through his publication of the first complete English translation of Palladio's 'I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura'. His designs appeared refreshing and elegant compared to the heaviness of English Baroque, and almost immediately attracted the attention of several wealthy patrons, with great commissions including Lyme Park, Cheshire, and Clandon Park, Surrey. The latter is credited as being Leoni's 'masterpiece' and an important example of the transition from Baroque to Palladianism, but was lost to a fire in 2015.Weald Hall was no stranger to the most prominent names in 18th-century art and design; Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was responsible for the naturalistic landscaping that took place around the 1730s-40s and Robert Adam was commissioned by the Tower family to produce several designs in 1778 (now housed in the Sir John Soane's Museum, London), some of which were brought to life in the Hall's dining room.Condition ReportLater white painting.

Manner of James Tower (1919-1988)Dishearthenware, glazed with blue and green pattern35cm across. Reference:Oliver Watson, Studio Pottery Phaidon, page 254 catalogue number 629 for a comparable dish. appears in good condition. Sticker residue to reverse which will clean off.

The Indian Mutiny medal awarded to Christopher James Best, an original defender at Lucknow who was the son-in-law of John Phillips, who was described as one of the bravest men in the ‘defence’; both of these men sallied out of the Residency on no fewer than three occasions Indian Mutiny 1857-59, 1 clasp, Defence of Lucknow (C. Jas. Best.) with its original named card box of issue but this with incorrect ‘Baltic’ label and rather distressed, small test mark to lower obverse rim, otherwise toned, extremely fine £2,000-£2,400 --- Provenance: Captain Tim Ash Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, December 2012. Christopher James Best was born at Cawnpore on 26 August 1820, son of Henry William, a writer, and his wife, Mary. He joined the Uncovenanted Civil Service and by 1850 was at Lucknow, an Unregulated State, working as an ‘Indexer’ in the office of the Military Secretary under Captain Fletcher Hayes. In 1851 he married Ellen, the daughter of John Phillips, recently promoted to Head Clerk of the Lucknow Residency due to the demise of Mr Hare for embezzlement. Together they had one son, John Eustace, who was to die during the siege. The removal of Mr Hare, who had been in the King's pay, gave Captain Hayes the opportunity to infiltrate the King's Palace via the newly arrived Head Clerk. Successive British Residents at Lucknow had become increasingly alarmed at the King of Oudh's profligate expenditure, chaotic administration and hedonistic lifestyle of his court, so Phillips was instructed by Captain Hayes to set about organising a loose network of informers who could pass back information and gossip from the various departments as to what was happening in the palace. He was assisted in this endeavour by his son-in-law Mr C. Best and several other relatives and in-laws within the Residency. In 1856 the Kingdom of Oudh was annexed by the authorities using a device called the Doctrine of Lapse, by which the King had no legitimate heir causing resentment which sowed the seeds of revolt. From the commencement of the siege, Christopher Best defended the Judicial Garrison or Germon's Post, named after Captain R. C. Germon, 13th Bengal N.I. It was greatly exposed to fire from the tower of Johannes’ House, just outside the Residency perimeter and from cannon and mortar fire from Phillips’ House and Garden battery which opened up with such force and accuracy that the position became untenable. It was therefore necessary to evacuate the wives and children to the cellars of the Tykhana, where the wives of the officers were sheltering. Repeated attacks were made on Germon’s Post, with the one on 20 July being the fiercest. The Uncovenanted distinguished themselves greatly, all being under arms from eight in the morning to eight at night. Copies of the original lists of those who served throughout the siege show that John Phillips, Christopher James Best (son-in-law) and William Charles Phillips (relative) all accompanied sallying parties out of the Residency on no fewer than three occasions. After the siege was lifted, Best continued to work at Lucknow until his retirement in 1880, in the Military Secretary's office being variously described as Record Keeper or Diarist and Dispatcher. He retired to West Bengal dying of double pneumonia on 9 March 1905, aged 84. He was interred in the grave of his father-in-law John Phillips, in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery at Calcutta. The grave is still extant. The anomaly of his Baltic card box of issue is the subject of an article by Captain Tim Ash, M.B.E., entitled, “From the Cold of the Baltic to the Heat of Lucknow”, published by the Orders and Medals Research Society, 1996, Vol. 35. Sold with a comprehensive file of copied research.

James I (1603-1625) - A Crown, Britain, 1604 -1619, third bust in armour facing right, reverse crown over square shield, mint mark tower, 2.5g, (N.2091; S2625).

James I (1603-1625) - A Unite, 1604 -1619, fourth bust, second coinage crowned bust holding orb and sceptre, reverse with crowned shield and IR to the sides FACIAM:EOS:IN:GENTAM:VNAM, mint mark tower, 10g, (N.2084; S2619).

A Brass-Barrelled Flintlock BlunderbussBy Barbar, Probably James 1, Circa 1745With tapering three-stage barrel turned and belled at the muzzle, the breech engraved with foliage and inscribed 'London' beyond, engraved tang, signed border engraved round lock decorated with foliage on the tail, cock en suite, figured full stock (chipped around the lock, and along the fore-end on one side), full brass mounts comprising border engraved shaped flat bevelled side-plate decorated with rocailles and foliage, draped vacant oval escutcheon with shell above, butt-plate with foliage on the border engraved heel tang, trigger-guard with early form of acorn finial and engraved with a decorative oval on the bow, brass ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped ramrod, Tower private proof marks 38.8 cm. barrelFootnotes:ProvenanceBonhams Leeds, Brampton Court House Sale Part II, 6 August 2002, lot 341Sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 29 April 2010, lot 331See footnote to lot 210For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A 55-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock Pocket Pistol By Barbar, London, Circa 1765With turn-off brass cannon barrel numbered '1' by the lug, breech numbered to correspond, border engraved brass action (tang plate repaired) signed in capitals on foliate rocailles over each side, ring-neck cock (top jaw, screw and steel all replaced), sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with a diamond-shaped panel on the bow, and figured flat-sided butt, Tower private proof marks 10.2 cm. barrel Footnotes:Probably by James 2 Barbar, apprenticed to his father in 1747For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Cased Pair Of 28-Bore Flintlock Box-Lock PistolsBy Barbar, London, Circa 1765With turn-off cannon barrels, border engraved actions each signed on a rocaille over each side, sliding trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with a foliate diamond-shaped panel on the bow, and figured flat-sided butts (one with minor repair on one side) inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and rocailles: in their later lined and fitted oak case with accessories including steel bullet mould and brass-mounted powder-flask, the exterior of the lid with vacant circular brass escutcheon, Tower private proof marks 14.9 cm. barrelsFootnotes:ProvenanceSold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 26 November 2014, lot 591The maker is almost certainly James 1 Barbar. See footnote to lot 210For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Fine Pair Of 22-Bore Silver-Mounted Flintlock PistolsBy Harrison & Thomson, London, London Silver Hallmarks For 1778 And 1779, Maker's Mark Of John KingWith two-stage barrels each with turned and roped girdle, silver spider fore-sight, gold-lined touch-hole and proof marks, and engraved gold-inlaid ribbon inscribed 'London' on the top flat of the octagonal breech, one barrel retaining much of its original finish (the other reblued), grooved tangs engraved with rococo ornament on a hatched ground, signed flat bevelled locks each with roller bearing on a ramp, gold-lined pan, and reblued safety-catch, steel-spring, top jaw and screw (one cock expertly replaced), figured full stocks each inlaid behind the barrel tang with a large owner's monogram, 'WM' in silver with finely inlaid interlaced scrollwork in silver wire above and beneath, and opposite the lock with swags of scrolls, flowers and foliage also in silver, full silver mounts comprising engraved trigger-guards with acorn finial, engraved spurred pommels each with grotesque mask cap, and turned ramrod-pipes, engraved iron side-nail washers, shaped engraved silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, and original horn-tipped ramrods each with worm (one pistol with minor surface pitting on the barrel and lock), Tower private and London Gunmakers' Company proof marks (2) 22.9 cm. barrelsFootnotes:ProvenanceOne pistol, Sotheby's Billingshurst, Arms, Armour and Militaria, 28 November 2000, lot 1006The Norman H. Dixon Collection sold in these Rooms, 18 April 2012, lot 307LiteratureNorman Dixon, Georgian Pistols ..., 1971, pp. 60-62, 86 and 94, pls. 6, 39-40 and 86Norman Dixon, 'Joseph Heylin, A Georgian Gunmaker 1730-1801', J.A.A.S., Vol. XVII, No. 3 (March 2002), p. 155, fig. 13BPenelope Harrison, one of the few women recorded in the history of London gunmaking, was the widow of John 2 Harrison. She ran the business in partnership with James Thom(p)son (John 2 Harrison's son-in-law) at 18 Swan Street, Minories from 1779 to 1803. They were Contractors to Ordnance and to the East India CompanyFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Fifteen English silver enamel thimbles by James Swann and Son, including millennium, London, Tower of London, York Minster, Shakespeare's Birth Place, Shakespeare, and others floral, willow pattern, etc.      (15)     From the collection of Celia Barrington

Henry VII, Facing Bust issue, Halfgroat, York, class IIIa, keys at neck, no tressure, 1.42g/1h (S 2214); Elizabeth I, Fifth issue, Sixpence, 1582, mm. sword, 3.11g/4h; Sixth issue, Sixpence, 1585, mm. escallop, 3.07g/12h; Seventh issue, Sixpence, 1601, mm. 1, 2.73g/11h (S 2572, 2578A, 2585); James I, Third coinage, Sixpence, 1621, mm. rose, 2.84g/11h (S 2670); Charles I, Tower mint, Sixpence, Gp D, type 3a, mm. crown, 2.82g/9h; together with other hammered silver coins (9) [15]. Fair to good fine, three pierced; a varied group £120-£150