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Framed Palace letter, appointing a Doctor John Cochrane Henderson The Title of Sherrif of the county of Westmoreland, dated 1944, a grant for that gentleman's request to hold 'coat of arms', designs for said 'coat of arms', and two finished silk embroidered versions of the arms as granted by the Lord Lyon, a lot
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A small quantity of George III Old English pattern flatware:-+ a set of twelve tablespoons, crested, by James Tookey London 1761, a Scottish soup ladle, crested, by James Hewitt, Edinburgh 1779 (This 1779 date letter is identified in the minute book of the Incoorporation as a Saxon ampersand. Jacksons Revised pp. 549), two sauce ladles, London 1807 and 1806, a set of seven dessert spoons, crested by Richard Crossley, London 1802/3 and four other dessert spoons, 46oz. (26)
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A George III Irish vase-shaped caster,+ with a wrythen fluted lower body and wrythen panels of piercing in the cover, engraved with a crest and coronet, maker's mark I L [script] for either John Laughlin Jnr, John Lloyd or John Locker, Dublin c.1775 (no date letter), 7. 25in (18.5cm) high, 6.5oz.
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A Cut-Out Silhouette of a Gentleman, seated, reading in a chair, a retirement letter pasted below the image headed "Shrewsbury 1st Feby 1812", from Samuel Sandford (died 29th October 1812), overall 43cm by 29cm, in a rosewood frame; A Cut-Out Silhouette Family Group, 29.5cm by 40.5cm overall; and An Example Depicting Napoleon on Horseback, over the gilded letter "N" within a victory wreath, 29. 5cm by 23.5cm overall, in a bird's eye maple frame (3)
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A Royal Worcester Porcelain Fruit Painted Vase and Cover, of compressed quatre-lobed form, with bud finial (cracked) to the scroll pierced cover, painted with two peaches, green grapes, two cherries, two redcurrants, brambles and two apples on a mossy bank, signed "S Roberts", black printed crown and wheel mark, year letter for 1884 and "H278", 13cm high
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A Meissen Porcelain Figure of a Woman Reading a Letter, circa 1870, wearing 18th century costume and bonnet with "dipped lace" detail, burying her left hand into her feather muff, standing upon a scroll edged base, decorated in soft coloured enamels and gilt throughout, crossed swords mark in underglaze blue (single erase mark), impressed number "43" and incised "D66", 20cm high (sections of dipped lace damaged/missing)
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A Regency mahogany Carlton House desk, the flat rectangular stage framing central writing slope with rounded internal angles, four brass letter apertures with hinged coves to the top, pierced brass gallery, drawers to front and centre and false drawers to the angles, above three frieze drawers and reeded and ring turned tapering legs, with brass caps and castors 140cm wide, 88cm high, 79cm deep For a similar example see Christie's Important English Furniture, 15 April 1999, lot 80
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AINSWORTH William Harrison Jack Shepphard: a romance ... 1st edition, port. frontis., plates by George Cruiksank, later half blue morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g., by Riviere, without the half title called for by Sadlier in vol. 3, 12mo., London: Richard Bentley, 1839 later half blue morocco, marbled boards, t.e.g., 12mo., London: Richard Bentley, 1839 [3] Note: Sadleir 14. With a one page autograph letter from Ainsworth bound in at the front of vol. 1
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CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Book of common prayer The book of common-prayer and administration of the sacraments, and other rites & ceremonies of the Church of England ... Title within an engraved architectural border by David Loggan, but without the frontis. by Hollar, Black Letter, woodcut initials, later full sprinkled calf, covers panelled with gilt filets with crown ornaments at the corners, spine decorated gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering pieces, inner gilt doublures, a.e.g., by Bedford, London: His Majesties Printers, 1662. Note: Wing B3622 Inscribed in a contemporary hand on the recto of the front blank "Ex dono D: Regis" A copy with unusually wide margins
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CURTIS William Flora londinensis: or plates and descriptions of such plants as grow wild in the environs of London ... 1st edition, with 435 hand coloured engravings on 432 plates, 6 volumes, plates numbered by hand in ink throughout, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, rubbed and with corners knocked, tear to plate 27 (no loss) in vol. 5 and with very neat marginal repair to the letter press of the Dog Rose in the same vol., a few prelim. index leaves creased, occasional spotting, otherwise a fine and completely uncut copy, folio, London: for the author, [1785-98] [6] Note: Nissen BBI 439 With "A catalogue of certain plants, growing wild, chiefly in the region of Settle, in Yorkshire" bound at the end of vol. 4, and "General observations on seeds of our best grasses" at the end of vol. 6. Vol. 1 with title with engraved vignette and 2 lists of subscribers, title to vol. 2 dated 1798 bound at end of vol. 6. Issued in 72 parts, the Flora Londinensis is much more comprehensive than its title might suggest, for it extends to most of the English flora. It could properly be regarded as the first colour-plate national flora. "Curtis adopted the novel plan of having specimens drawn to a uniform scale and to life size, and most of the plates display a high degree of accuracy. In the opinion of Salisbury, the majority of the figures 'represent the most successful portrayals of British wild flowers that have ever been achieved." (Henry II p. 67).
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DORSET Catherine Ann The peacock at home and other poems ... Later full light tan calf, spine decorated gilt, small 8vo., London: John Murray, 1809. Note: Inserted at the front is an autograph letter from John Murray to William Twopeny stating that as he had promised he would look in his sisters' library in Kent to look for the present volume which has much pleasure in offering the recipient.The letter is dated, May 1858. William Twopeny's gilt leather library label is at the front. Bound in at the end is 12 page ms with a copy of an account of the late Mrs Dorset by the Rector of Kingston by Sea and copies of poems by Mrs Dorset from MS sources.
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FOXE John Actes and monuments of these latter and perilous dayes, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles that have bene wrought and practised by the Romishe prelates, speciallye in this realme of England and Scotlande ... 1st edition, Black Letter, doublepage wood cut of the burnings in front of Windsor Castle and 47 other woodcuts in the text, 19th century full morocco, panelled in blind, lacking titlepage and all save two prelims. with letters from Archbishop Beckett before H1 [i.e. f. 56], pp. 1029 removed, corners torn in about a dozen leaves (with some loss of text), some single worm holes and patches of water staining, some folio or page numbers cropped, sold with all faults, 4to., John Day, 1563. Note: STC 11222
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Grindlay (Captain Melville). A View of the Present State of the Question as to Steam Communication with India, 1837, 100pp., half-title and single-page chart, together with Lardner (Dionysius), Steam Communication with India by the Red Sea; Advocated in a Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, 1837, 124pp., folding map and five single page charts, both recently rebound in qtr. morocco gilt, slim 8vo (2)
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Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight Album and Souvenir, a Series of Twenty Circular Tintoret Engravings of the Isle of Wight, with Letter-Press Description, pub. Ryde, J. Briddon, c.1860, 20 circular tinted litho. plts., gutta-percha perished with entire contents loose, orig. blue blindstamped limp cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 4to . Not in Turley. Ex libris Nigel Temple. (1)
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*Irving (Henry, 1838-1905). Autograph letter signed, dated November 1886, on Lyceum Theatre headed notepaper, consisting of a short reminiscence "the most 'striking' incident that I can remember was when the Slots, in Faustus [?], struck me on the head instead of carrying me up into the flies above", approx. 17.5 x 11 cm, contemp. gilt frame, glazed (1)
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Slavery. Act for Making Compensation & Satisfaction to The Royal African Company of England, for their Charter, Lands, Forts, Castles, Slaves, Military Stores, and Other Effects, 1751, Black Letter, 60pp, disbound, folio. Charles II by Letters Patent granted the rights of Africa to the Royal African Company and this important Act, which includes listings of slaves, saw the Crown purchasing back the rights to Africa. (1)
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*West Midlands - Charles I. Attractive Exemplification of a Final Concord Recovery, dated 23rd January 1638, between Alexander Wightwicke and John Byrche against Walter Wrottesley and his wife Mary for the Manors of Wrottesley, Tettenhall Clericorum and Butterton, the Grange of Woodford with thirty messuages, ten cottages, six tofts, two dovecotes, forty gardens, thirty orchards, sixty acres of land, one hundred and fifty acres of meadow, a thousand acres of pasture, one hundred acres of wood, fifty acres of heath, one hundred acres of moor, twenty acres of water, and rent in Wrottesley, Tettenhall, Clericorum, Butterton, Woodford, Trusley. Wombourne, Wolverhampton, Tipton, Grindon, Waterfall, Codsall, Bilbrook, Orton [Overton] Wightwick, Longdon, etc., together with the Manor of Lichfield and its lands, written in an attractive chancery script with decorated letter to top line, with accompanying translation. An important document covering the recovery of several Lordships and large areas of land that are now densely populated industrial areas of Staffordshire and the West Midlands. (1)
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Eadie (John). The English Bible: An External and Critical History of the Various English Translations of Scripture..., 2 vols., 1876, modern half calf gilt, red morocco title labels, large 8vo, together with Wilkins (H.J.), Was John Wycliffe a Negligent Pluralist? also John de Trevisa His Life and Work, 1915, b & w frontis., letter from the author loosely inserted, modern qtr. calf, 8vo, with Bale (John), Index Britanniae Scriptorum, John Bale's Index of British and Other Writers, pub. D.S. Brewer, 1990, recent qtr. calf, 8vo, plus eleven other 19th & 20th c. Bible studies & Bible translation reference related, majority with recent qtr. calf bindings (15)
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Livius (Titus). Historicorum Omnium Romanorum longe uberrimi, et facile principis libri omnes ..., nove editi, et recogniti ..., a Francesco Modio, 2 vols. in one, Frankfurt, impensis Sigismund Feyrabend & sociorum, 1588, large woodcut to each title, printers woodcut device to verso of final leaf, contents stained and soiled, several holes to last few pages, contemp. calf, profusely gilt, with all-over fleur-de-leys decoration, worn, thick folio, (Adams L1350), together with The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrements ..., 1669, eng. title, black letter text, ruled in red, contemp. calf, worn on spine, folio, plus Reports from the Commissioners ..., Respecting the Public Records of the Kingdom, 1800-1819, 2 vols., printed by Order of the House of Commons, 1819, eighty-six eng. facsimilies, many folding, many linen-backed, some spotting and marginal dust soiling, contemp. calf, gilt dec. spines, covers det., tall folio, and others, mostly theology, 4to & folio (21)
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Tiedemann (Friedrich). Plates of the Arteries of the Human Body, engraved by E. Mitchell, under the superintendancy of Thomas Wharton James..., with addition notes, by Dr. Knox, 2nd ed., Edinburgh, 1831, thirty-eight tinted engr. plts., bound with Scarpa (Antonio), Engraving of the Cardiac Nerves of the Ninth Pair, the Glosso-Pharyngeal..., copied from the "Tabulae Neurologicae", by Edward Mitchell, with letter-press description... by Dr. Knox, 3rd ed., Edinburgh, 1832, twenty-five tinted hand uncol. engr. plts, includ. two supplementary plts., heavy spotting or browning throughout, contemp. roan, rebacked with orig. spine relaid, some wear, 4to. (1)
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Humphreys (Henry Noel). A Record of the Black Prince, Longman, Brown, [etc.], 1849, black letter text in red and black, with six chromolithographed illusts., orig. black papier-mache binding, with sides pierced to show a crimson paper background, black roan spine, rubbed, one corner clightly chipped, a.e.g., 8vo. McLean, Design, p.104 "One of the most successful of all the gift or table books of this period. The binding is the most elaborate yet of the black papier mache kind...." McLean, Paper, p.54. (1)
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Gill (Eric). First Nudes, intro. by Sir John Rothenstein, pub. Spearman, 1954, b&w plts., orig. cloth in rubbed and chipped d.j., 8vo, together with Art-Nonsense and Other Essays, Cassell, 1929, ex-Times Book Club copy, hinges cracked, orig. cloth, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo, plus Cleverson (Douglas), Stanley Morison and Eric Gill 1925-1933, privately printed, 1983, plts., orig. printed wrappers, slim 8vo, ltd. ed. 216/230 with letter signed by Douglas Cleverdon loosely inserted, together with 16 others by or about Gill (19)
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