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Lot 428
KIPLING RUDYARD: (1865-1936) English Author, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1907. Dark ink signature (`Rudyard Kipling`) on a small clipped piece. Neatly laid down to a page removed from an autograph album alongside a similar clipped piece signed by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) English Writer. Together with Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Scottish-American Industrialist. Dark fountain pen ink signature, and several additional words in his hand, dated Skibo Castle, 11th June 1901, on an attractive postcard featuring a colour design and the coat of arms of Aberdeen. G to VG, 2
Lot 458
GREENAWAY KATE: (1846-1901) English Children`s book Illustrator and Author. A.N.S., K. Greenaway, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to an unidentified correspondent, and quite possibly the concluding page of a longer letter. The artist writes, in full, `I wish you would give me if you have it one of the covers of Wideawake. The child with her hands folded (I don`t mean the cover; only the print that is on it.` Together with two original unsigned pencil drawings, apparently by Greenaway, each one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., the first depicting a mother and young child standing together in a full length pose, annotated in pencil `figures too straight`, and the second showing an open window. Some slight foxing and age wear, G, 3
Lot 597
GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) Indian Spiritual and Political Leader during the Indian Independence Movement. Bold, dark fountain pen ink signature (`M K Gandhi`) on a page contained in an autograph album. Dated 28th October 1931 in pencil in the hand of a collector at the base. The album also includes eighteen other signatures including Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) Indian Philosopher, first Vice President of India 1952-62, second President of India 1962-67, S. Bhoothalingam (Finance Secretary), V. S. Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946) Indian Politician & Independence Activist, a close friend and associate of Gandhi etc. All of the signatures were collected by Odile Pajor between 1930-35. Together with three other autograph albums containing numerous other signatures, many accompanied by verses and drawings, collected by Pajor during her travels to London, Paris and Madrid etc., in the 1920s and 1930s, including family members and friends etc. Generally VG, 4 On 28th October 1931 Mahatma Gandhi was in London and delivered a speech on Child Education at the Montessori Training College.
Lot 598
GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) Indian Spiritual and Political Leader during the Indian Independence Movement. Rare autograph quotation signed, M K Gandhi, on an oblong 12mo page contained in a green leather bound autograph album, n.p. (Lucknow), 11th April 1936. Gandhi pens a brief quotation, ‘There is no regeneration without selflessness’, signing his name and adding the date in his hand beneath. The album also includes seventeen other signatures and quotations by various individuals associated with the Indian Independence Movement including Yusuf Meherally (1903-1950, Indian Freedom Fighter and Socialist Leader) A.Q.S., ‘Live Dangerously, Yusuf Meherally’, Lucknow, 11th April 1936, Minocher Rustom Masani (1905-1998, Indian Politician) signature and date, Congress House, Bombay, 13th April 1936, Achyut Patwardhan (1905-1992, Indian Politician and Philosopher, founder of the Socialist Party of India) A.Q.S., ‘Better live as flame for a moment, than smoulder for ever as mere smoke’, Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya (1880-?, Indian Independence Activist and Political Leader) A.Q.S., ‘Texts have not conduced to the formation of ideas or formulation of ideals. They must be evolved for oneself by hard study in the university of life’, 15th April 1936, Sardul Singh Caveeshar (1886-1963, Indian Newspaper Editor, a major figure in the Indian Independence Movement) A.Q.S., ‘Do your best for your country’, Lucknow, 14th April 1936, Zakir Hussain (1897-1969, President of India 1967-69) A.Q.S., ‘Do one thing and do it thoroughly’, 17th April 1936, Sri Prakasa (1890-1971, Indian Politician & Freedom Fighter) A.Q.S., ‘A good citizen alone is a true patriot’, Bhulabhai Desai (1877-1946, Indian Freedom Fighter) A.Q.S., ‘Never look back…Always trust the future, it will never fail you if you act with a right eye to National good’, Ziauddin Ahmed (1878-1947, Pakistani Mathematician & Politician) A.Q.S., ‘Be honest to yourself’, Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961, Indian Statesman and Independence Activist) A.Q.S., ‘Burma has a great future & an alliance between Burma & India is sure to help both countries in their common struggle against imperialism’, 19th April 1936 and Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964, Prime Minister of India 1947-64) Bold signature and date April 1936 in his hand. The majority of the entries have been transcribed in an unidentified hand into Urdu on the opposite pages. A fascinating and rare grouping of signatures. One page loose and the album with light overall age wear and some scuffing. Spine and covers a little worn, G The signatures were evidently obtained during the meeting of the Indian National Congress at Lucknow in April 1936. The Indian National Congress, founded in 1855, had celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1935 although no annual session meeting occurred that year because of the political turmoil in India and the imprisonment of most of the Congress leaders. Jawaharlal Nehru served as President of the Indian National Congress for the first time in 1936 and his Presidential address condemned fascism.
Lot 663
AVIATION: Selection of signed First Day Covers by various aviators, and some military and naval leaders, including Don Bennett, George Burges, Desmond Dreyer, Ivor H. Cosby, George `Bud` Day, Neville Duke, L. S. Snaith, Peter Le Cheminant, Alan Deere, Edgar Percival, Jean Batten, John Bamford GC, K. S. Hughes GC, Ian Fraser VC (2), etc. Generally VG, 29
Lot 751
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: A good autograph album containing over 60 signatures by a variety of famous individuals including Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford, Elinor Glyn, Josef Hofmann (A.M.Q.S.), Emile Coue, George Duncan, Abe Mitchell, Ernle Chatfield AF, Jack Dempsey, Cedric Hardwicke, Barry Domvile, V. K. Wellington Koo & Hui-lan Koo, Stanley Baldwin, Eric Geddes, Lord Cavan, James Mollison, Augustus John, Robert Cecil, R. B. Bennett, Tom Webster (original pencil sketch of the boxer Joe Beckett), Fritz Kreisler, Nancy Astor, Robert Laird Borden, John French, Stephen Donoghue, 5th Earl Howe, Gloria Swanson, Edmund Gwenn, Robert Taylor, Emlyn Williams, Victor McLaglen, Robert Baden Powell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Nellie Melba, Evangeline Booth etc. Some pages multiple signed and most annotated by collector in a feint ink. All of the signatures were collected on various Ocean liners including SS Olympic during the 1920s and 1930s. Some light age wear, G
Lot 768
LITERATURE: Selection of over 60 signed clipped pieces (many small) by various writers and novelists, each laid down to the recto and verso of six 8vo pages removed from an autograph album, including Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle (weaker contrast), W. B. Yeats, Arnold Bennett, H. Rider Haggard, Sabine Baring Gould, Jerome K. Jerome, Arthur Pinero, Hall Caine, Gilbert Parker, John Masefield, Israel Zangwill, John Drinkwater, Alfred Austin, Ouida, Clemence Dane etc. FR to generally G, 6
Lot 231
Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls, 1st ed., [1895], col. illusts. throughout, free endpapers browned, front free endpaper creased, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-soiled and edge-rubbed, oblong 4to, together with another copy similar. The first title in the series. (2)
Lot 232
Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Golliwogg at the Sea-Side, 1st ed., 1898, col. illusts., title-page toned, one or two minor edge-tears and marks, but generally a fresh copy, orig. linen-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and lightly dust-soiled, oblong 4to, together with The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls, some tears and one page detached, orig. linen-backed pictorial boards, rubbed and marked, oblong 4to (2)
Lot 233
Upton (Florence K. and Bertha). The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls, 1st ed., [1895], col. illusts. throughout, free endpapers browned, early ms. ownership signature on front free endpaper, orig. cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-soiled and edge-rubbed, oblong 4to, together with another copy similar. The first title in the series. (2)
Lot 171
Maps. A collection of twenty geological, ethnological, hyetographic, tidal and comparison maps and charts, pub. William Blackwood & Sons, c.1870, folding engraved maps by W & A. K. Johnston, several with original outline colouring, occ. spotting and finger soiling largely confined to margins, each approx. 505 x 610mm (20)
Lot 383
Hardy (Thomas). The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. A Novel, New York, Harper’s Franklin Square Library, Harper & Brothers, June 29, 1883 [drop-title], 28pp., incl. 6pp. pubs. ads. at rear, four full-page b & w illusts., paper stock browned and brittle, with first few leaves chipped at edges, and first leaf detached, prelim. blank facing titled inscribed by the author ‘Uncorrected by the author. Thomas Hardy. May 14:1916’, marbled endpapers, front pastedown with bookplate of Clement K. Shorter, front free endpaper with mounted postcard to Clement Shorter inscribed in the author’s hand ‘With best wishes. T.H.’, t.e.g., early 20th c. turquoise half crushed morocco, rubbed, marbled sides browned and with some marks, slim 4to. A very early edition of this - in Hardy’s own words - “short hastily written novel”. It constituted his first contribution to ‘The Graphic’ in England, appearing as the Summer Number for 1883, as well as simultaneously (in seven instalments) in ‘Harper’s Weekly’ in America. Knowing tha.t the pirate publishers would be quick to copy it, Harpers published this version, constituting the entire piece, as a volume of Harper’s ‘Franklin Square Library’ at the end of June - four days after the Graphic appearance, and when only one of the seven American instalments had come out. It wasn’t published again in the UK until it was included in ‘A Changed Man’ in 1913. This copy belonged to Hardy’s friend, the journalist and literary critic Clement K. Shorter. (1)
Lot 14
A Second World War RAF Group of Four Medals, posthumously awarded to 1144814 Flight Sergeant K Antcliffe, comprising 1939-45 Star, France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals, in cardboard box of issue, together with his Navigator`s, Air Bomber`s and Air Gunner`s Flying Log Book, entries begin 14.06.43 and end 31.03.45 when he failed to return, also with a portrait photograph and a booklet from the Imperial War Graves Commission - "Their Name Liveth"; a Second World War Group of Four Medals, awarded to W H Hallam, Royal Artillery, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star, Burma Star and War Medal, in cardboard box of issue, together with his Pocket Bible.(12)
Lot 1110
English School (c. 1635) Portrait of a Gentleman, believed to be Thomas Parr, oil on canvas, Inscription Tho Parr. Aiged. 152.A.[o] 1635, Bearing inscription Tho.[s] Parr Aged 152, Anno 1635, 65 x 52.5cm (251/2 x 205/8in) Thomas Parr, it is alleged, lived to the extraordinary age of 152. Parr became a celebrity, albeit briefly in his own lifetime in 1635, when Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel encountered him in a small hamlet near Shrewsbury in Shropshire and determined to bring him to London and exhibit the marvel at court. He was duly introduced to King Charles I and there are details of their exchanges. The hospitality and acclaim overwhelmed Parr. He died at Arundel’s house and a post mortem was carried out by the famed physician Dr William Harvey. ‘Old Parr’ as he was known was buried at Westminster Abbey by order of the King. The inscription on his gravestone reads: THO: PARR OF YE COUNTY OF SALLOP. BORNE / IN AD: 1483. HE LIVED IN YE REIGNES OF TEN / PRINCES VIZ: K.ED.4. K.ED.5.K.RICH.3. / K.HEN.7.K.HEN.8.K.EDW.6.Q.MA.Q.ELIZ / K.JA. & K. CHARLES. AGED 152 YEARES. / 7 WAS BURYED HERE NOVEMB. 15. 1635.
Lot 23
Huxley (Julian) Essays of a Humanist, from the library at Saltwood Castle, inscribed to Sir Kenneth Clarke (as "K") by the author, original cloth, stained, 1964 § Bell (Adrian) Men and the Fields, coloured lithographs by John Nash, original cloth, dust-jacket, 1939 § Gautier d`Agoty (Jacques) Plate of Mixed Race Siamese Twins, printed in colours, lettered as plate V, No. 10, framed and glazed, c.220 mm x 150mm, 1756; and others, Science, v.s. (c.35)
Lot 276
Langdon (Perceval) The Opening of Tibet, first American edition, mounted colour frontispiece, plates, one with tears, modern green half morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, New York, 1905 § Hemeling (K) English-Chinese Dictionary of the Standard Chinese Spoken Language, contemporary cloth library binding, original front wrapper/title bound in, Shanghai, 1916 § Leach (E.R.) Social Science Research in Sarawak, folding map, modern library buckram, library stamp to verso, bookplate, H.M.S.O., 1950, v.s. (3)
Lot 1017
Babelon, E., Guide IllustrŽ au Cabinet des Medailles et Antiques de la Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, 1900, xv + 368pp, engraved illustrations; Pal, H., Numizmatikai Kšzlšny, vol. XXV, 1926, Budapest, 1928, viii + 226pp, 9 plates, tables; Seltman, C., Greek Coins, 2nd edn, London, 1955, xxvi + 311pp, 64 plates; together with other references (14), by Hill, Bernhart, Imhoof-Blumer, Bourgey, Reece, etc [17]. Publishers’ bindings
Lot 1044
Lange, K., MŸnzkunst des Mittelalters, Leipzig, 1942, 94pp, 64 plates; Raymond, W. (ed), The Standard Catalogue of United States Coins, 17th edn, New York, 1954, 231pp, illustrations in text; Scheuch, K., Spenden-Medaillen aus porzellan und ton, Ober-Eschbach, 1966, 107pp, illustrations in text; Lopez-Chaves, L., and Yriarte, J., Catalogo General de la OnzaÉde Espa–a y America, 1st edn, Madrid, 1968, 75pp, illustrations in text; Sobin, G., The Silver Crowns of France 1641-1973, Teaneck (USA), 1974, viii + 259pp, illustrations in text; Droulers, F., Les TrŽsors de Monnaies RoyalesÉdŽcouverts en FranceÉdepuis le xixe sicle, Monte Carlo, 1980, 260pp, map tipped-in; Holtz, W., Lexikon der MŸnzabkŸrzungen, Munich, 1981, 606pp, illustrations in text, dj; Labrot, J., Une Histoire Economique et Populaire du Moyen Age: Les jetons et les mŽreaux, Paris, 1989, 235pp, illustrations in text; Rylov, I., and Sobolin, V., Russian and Soviet CoinsÉ1700-1993, Moscow, 1994, xx + 298pp, illustrations in text; together with other references (45), by Meier, Divo (several), Herinek, Gadoury, Schulman, Jaeckel, etc [54]. Publishers’ bindings; first with spine taped Not suitable for shipping
Lot 68
A BADEN MODEL 1824 PIONEER SHORTSWORD AND A SAXON MODEL 1849 ARTILLERY SHORTSWORD the first with blade stamped `S&K` for Schnitzler and Kirschbaum of Solingen, and dated 1841, regulation brass hilt stamped with the number `V333`, in its brass-mounted leather scabbard; and the second with blade stamped `Knecht` and `Solingen` at the forte on the respective faces, regulation brass hilt stamped with the number `5.R.5.89`, in its scabbard with locket stamped en suite the first: 47.5cm; 18 3/4in blade (2)
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