Coach Making. The important and extensive archive of Holmes & Co., later Sanderson & Holmes, of Derby, carriage and later motor car body makers, early 19th c and later. For the full description please visit www.mellorsandkirk.com to view the online catalogue.The archive comprising:Light Chariots, an early-mid 19th c portfolio of 4 carriage designs with folding flaps by J. Gilfoy, signed, pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache on card, some heightened in gum arabic, 23.5 x 39cm, two flaps detached, each pasted onto concertina boards, contemporary red straight-grained morocco over boards, scuffed wear, MS label to upper-cover, folio (40.2 x 25.5cm); Single and Double Headed Sociables, 427, an early-mid 19th c portfolio of 4 designs by J. Gilfoy, some folding flaps, pen-and-ink, watercolour and gouache on card, some heightened in gum arabic, 23.5 x 39cm, pasted down, and 3 loosely-inserted pen-and-ink further designs, indistinctly signed, 14.7 x 24cm, similarly binding to the former, folio (40.5 x 25.5cm);Broughams and Clarences, 429, a conforming portfolio of two designs, conforming media, unsigned, 22.5 x 39cm, album bound en suite to the latter, folio (40.5 x 25.5cm);Holmes & Co., Coach and Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen of England and Empress of India, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and Royal Family, n.d., an album of lithographed 10 designs, picked-out in gouache and gum arabic, with accompanying manuscript leaves, the whole prefaced by a letterpress leaf, some movement, contemporary morocco over boards, gilt, lettered upper-cover, all edges gilt, foliate endpapers, oblong 4to (15.7 x 25.2cm); Holmes & Co,. Coach & Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to the Queen & Royal Family, n.d., an advertising album of 25 lithographed designs, picked-out in gouache and gum arabic, prefaced by a letterpress leaf, contemporary cloth over boards, gilt, oblong 4to (16 x 26cm);Holmes & Co,. Coach & Harness Makers, By Special Appointment to the Queen & Royal Family./To be kept. Duplicate of Book/Sent o Messrs. Ross & Co., Bombay, [India], dated 5th January 1874, 61 designs, heightened gouache or gum arabic, accompanying MS letterpress leaves, the whole prefaced 2 lithographed letterpress leaves, disbound, original red cloth over boards, gilt, split contemporary parchment wrapper inscribed in manuscript, oblong 4to (16.5 x 26cm); 35 hand-coloured loose designs, mid-late 19th c, mixed sizes, 6 monochrome designs conforming, and 17 mixed media prints, mixed sizes;Victorian prize medals and medallions. 1) Great Exhibition 1851 AE prize medal by W. Wyon RA, Royal Mint, awarded to H. & A. Holmes, Class V A, 76mm, original fitted morocco Barnby of Clerkenwell presentation case, 2) The Worshipful Company of Coach Makers and Coach Harness Makers, Herbert Mountford Holmes, Master 1872-1873, silver-gilt coloured metal, 56mm, original Wyon morocco presentation case, split, 3) London International Exhibitions 1862 AE prize medal by Wyon, H. Holmes, Juror, Class VI, 76mm, original presentation case, split, 4) two London International Exhibitions 1874 AE medals, named to H.M. Holmes for Service, [&] Herbert & Arthur Holmes, Catalogue No. 6416, 51 and 50mm, original cases, 5) International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce & Manufacturers, Liverpool, 1886 AE medal by Elkington & Co., 50mm, original morocco presentation case, & 6) International Inventions Exhibition 1885 AE medallion, 45mm, cased, (7);Royalty. The firm's finely bound ledger detailing work commissioned by and executed for Queen Victoria, dated 28th September, 1849 to 11th March, 1861, [3]ff of manuscript only, primarily repairs and a few supplies, but for ' a new light and highly finished Clarence complete and delivered at the Royal Mews (Osborne) [...] £190-0-0 ' and a later Stanhope Phaeton at £110-0-0, the rest of the volume ruled but blank, sumptuously bound by Bemrose & Sons of Derby, their tickets, in full contemporary red morocco over boards, the covers ruled with five alternating gilt fillets enclosing a blind double fillet, the spine with five compartments, tooled in gilt with royal crowns and insignia, lettered with the then Queen's V.R. cypher, P.R. for the Prince Consort, titled and signed by the bindery, rolled anthemia turns-ins and dentelles, gilt gauffered edges, sewn silk end bands, marbled endpapers, original limp morocco wrap, worn, folio (33.6 x 22.5cm), loosely-inserted 1pp ALS from a indistinct courtier to Holmes, dated Windsor Castle, December 29 1846; Royal Warrants. Queen Victoria, two, dated 26th April 1849 and 4th December 1884, signed by Henry, 13th Duke of Norfolk, and Hugh, 1st Duke of Westminster respectively, as Masters of the Horse, each with red wax seals and later MS cancellation inscriptions, mounted and framed as one, 56 x 64.5cm overall; Royal Warrant. Queen Victoria, dated 12th June 1893, signed and sealed by William, 1st Viscount Oxonbridge as Master of the Horse, mounted and framed, 51.5 x 39cm;Royal Warrant. Adelaide, Queen Dowager, dated 27th December 1841, signed and sealed by Basil, 7th Earl of Denbigh, as her Master of Horse, mounted and framed, 51.5 x 39.5cm;Royal Warrant. Prince Albert, later Prince Consort, dated 8th November 1841, signed by Lord Robert Grosvenor, later 1st Baron Ebury, as Groom of the Stole, mounted and framed, 52 x 39.5cm; Royal Warrant. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), dated 20th May 1863, signed and sealed by Francis Knollys, later 1st Count Knollys, mounted and framed, 53.5 x 40.5cm; Royal Warrants. George V, two, dated 16th February 1911 and 5th May 1915, each signed by Bernard, 8th Earl of Granard, as Master of the Horse, each with later noted cancellation, mounted, the largest 42 x 27.5cm; Patents. No. 765, ""Improvements in the manufactures of tyres (sic) for wheels"", Mr. H.M. Holmes' duplicate specification, Patent dated April 5th 1855, [4]ff, MS on parchment, No. 176, ""Improvements in Carriage Springs"", 1861, printed and hand-scrivened over two sheets ofvellum, signed and with Queen Victoria's Great Seal present, toleware case, the document 52 x 77cm, and No. 2902, ""Improvements in axle-trees for carriage and other vehicles"", 1869, printed and hand-scrivened over two sheets of vellum, signed and with Queen Victoria's Great Seal present, toleware case, the document 52 x 77cm, (3);Photography. A disbound album of approx. 60 Victorian and later albumen prints and photographs of carriages and motor car coachwork, dated 1873 and onwards, some mounted but most loosely-inserted, including The Prince of Wales, Landau for India [the 1875-6 tour of the later Edward VII], his luggage van for the same visit, The Duke of Norfolk's 1879 barouche, The Maharajah of Cutch's barouche, the Earl Grey's, four images of the Paris Exhibition barouche, phaetons for the Marquess of Hartington and the Earl of Loudon, R.W. Chandos-Pole's four-in-hand drag, later images, without inscribed mounts, are dominated by motor cars, mostly civilian saloons, an occasional Red Cross ambulance c. 1914, further printed ephemera, including Daimler adverts, some plans/blue prints, etc., index leaf defective, some movement, folio (38 x 34cm); Petty Cash Book, dated and including payments from 18th January, 1813 - 14th May, 1822, approx. [244]ff of MS accounts in several hands, named workers and trade suppliers & some of their materials, some horse dealers; many of their clients, the aristocracy and gentry, including Bagots and Thynnes, various clergymen, the burgeoning industrial and professional classes, etc., contemporary reverse calf, blind-ruled, slightly chipped and worn, but good, rubbed gilt-lettered morocco piece, speckled edges, marbled endpapers, folio (33 x 22cm);
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Female Novelists. Austen (Jane), Brock (Charles E., illustrator), & Thomson (Hugh, illustrator), five of Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, comprising Pride and Prejudice, 1898, Sense and Sensibility, 1898, Emma, 1898, Mansfield Park, 1901, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, 1902, half-titles, frontispieces and full-page plates, original publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered textured boards, spines somewhat scuffed, overall light wear and bumps, but without any split joints, etc., all edges uncut, 8vo, (5)
Art. Hayley (William, Esq.), The Life of George Romney, Esq., first edition, Chichester: Printed by W. Mason, for T. Payne, 1809, illustrated with 12 full-page engravings as called for, of which plate no. 3 Sketch of a Shipwreck after Romney was engraved by William Blake, contemporary diced russia gilt, light worn losses, rebacked, marbled endpapers, 4to Provenance: John Bolton (1756-1837), merchant, slave trader and owner; early 19th c armorial bookplate.
Attributed to Symphorian Reinhart (German printer, first-half 16th c) after Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472-1553) - The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles, the set of book illustrations from Martin Luther's Das Symbolum der Heiligen Aposteln, Wittenberg: Georg Rhau, 1548, woodcuts, 16.5 x 13cm, hinge-mounted on album leaves, (12) Each trimmed to border and hinge-mounted. No discernible repairs. Some toning, light soiling and a few surface abrasions; as evidenced by images.
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India. H[ogarth] (T.B., RA), The Griffinage of the Hon. Newman Strange. An Indian Story, In Twenty-one Episodes [...] Photographed from the Original Drawings by J. Hogarth, Jun. London: J. Hogarth, Dec. 20, 1862, half-title, 21 letterpress leaves with accompanying mounted albumen print photographs of pen-and-ink drawings, each 16 x 22cm, of which No. XXI's leaf has a stable lower-margin 3cm vertical tear and certainly not affecting the image, a few extant tissue-guards, some light marginal soiling, an occasional foxed spot, recto gutter split with some light movement, original publisher's cloth, upper-cover lettered in gilt, the binding worn, stained, and with some losses, recto and verso upper-joints starting to split, minor mildew to pastedowns, fragmentary ffep, the margin of the recto pastedown and the corresponding, and a trifle tatty, half-title with very minor worm trails, oblong folio (26.5 x 37.5cm) Provenance: Captain Alfred Sackville Cresswell (1878-1915), of Beacon Hall, Benenden, Kent; verso of frontispiece with his ink stamp.
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Bindings. The Book of Common Prayer, [...] Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, London: Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd, 1710, [bound and issued with] The Whole Book of Psalms, London: Printed by William Pearson, for the Company of Stationers, 1711, first title with engraved portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne, black-ruled title-pages, double-column, early 19th c mauve calf, blind-rolled foliate borders, spine sunned, light rubbing, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, The Book of Church Services Complete, printed on India paper, Cambridge: Printed by J. & C. F. Clay, at the University Press, n.d. [c. 1905], general and divisional titles, double-column, finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full black morocco over boards, in the Arts & Crafts taste, the upper-cover tooled in gilt with a crucifix, six-compartment spine of raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt line dentelle, foliate rolled and signed turn-ins, 8vo, Baxter (Rev. Richard), The Saints' Everlasting Rest, London: J.F. Dove, n.d. [c. 1820], original calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, with rare original travelling or presentation roan case, 12mo, [&] The Holy Bible, Stereotype Edition, London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1817, double-column, contemporary black sombre morocco binding, (4) Provenance: 1st: 1) Theodosia Cavers, Edn [Edinburgh?], Jun ith, 1764, dated female manuscript ownership inscription to verso of title-page. 2) mid-19th c ownership inscriptions of the Walkers of Leith to ffep, dated 1841 & 1861.
Illustrated Books. Brangwyn (Frank, RA) & FitzGerald (Edward, translator) The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, one of 350 copies on hand-made paper, London & Edinburgh: Published by T.N. Foulis, Printed by M'Lagan & Cumming, November 1919, printed within 'illuminated' borders, tipped-in colour plates, original publisher's parchment over boards, some light wear and one discreet upper-joint repair, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to
James Bond, 007. Fleming (Ian), The Spy Who Loved Me, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, original publisher's pictorial dustjacket designed by Richard Chopping, black cloth, 8vo A good copy. The dustjacket good, only affected by some light soiling and abrasions, occasional browned/foxed portion. The black cloth spine, resulting twist to text block. The text block with some occasional and light foxed portions.
The Gun at Home and Abroad, four-volume set, copy no. 140/500, London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1912-15, being volumes I: British Game Birds and Wildfowl, II: British Deer and Ground Game, III: The Big Game of Africa & Europe, & IV: The Big Game of Asia and North America, red and black titles, red initials, illustrated with mixed media plates, original publisher's brown morocco gilt over boards, sunned spines, some light rubbing, top-edge gilt, others uncut, 4to, [&] Maxwell (The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert, Bart, etc., editor), Fishing at Home & Abroad, copy no. 140/750, London: The London & Counties Press Association Ltd, 1913, red and black title-page, red initials, mixed media plates, uniformly bound en suite to the latter, 4to, (5)
Children's and Juvenile Books. Crane (Walter, illustrator), How Jessie Was Lost, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1868], chromolithographic printing, 8pp, original pictorials, wrappers, creased and starting to split, but OK-good, 8vo, idem., The Three Bears, London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [inscription dated 1874], a defective copy, original wrappers, heavily worn, 8vo, Robinson (Gordon, illustrator), The ABC of Nursery Rhyme, New York: Sam L Gabriel Sons & Company, n.d. [c. 1920], original pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Disney (Walt), Mickey Mouse and Bobo the Elephant, first edition, Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co., 1935, illustrated, original pictorial papered boards, slight twist, scuffs and light chips, lacks ffep, 16mo, [Ireland] Erin's Hope. Irish Church Mission Juvenile Magazine, January, 1886, original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers, 8vo, Anon, Plenty To Do. Birds' Nest Stories No. 20., Dublin: George Drought, 1884, original chromolithographic pictorial wrappers, 16mo, an Irish chapbook, n.d. [c. 1830], later manila wrappers, 12mo, (7)
The Inklings. Tolkien (J.R.R.), The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, first edition, twelfth impression, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1961, frontispiece, original pictorial dustjackets, chipped, creased and some light handling grime, green cloth, spine with sunned spots, cartographic endpapers, 12mo
![Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert, Doctor of Physick (sic)), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], Beautified with Ma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/662cb969-5584-4034-a004-b10000c209d5/1213769c-2aa1-4576-8f82-b100010761cd/468x382.jpg)
Local Interest. Thoroton (Robert, Doctor of Physick (sic)), The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire [...], Beautified with Maps, Prospects, and Portraictures (sic), first edition, London: Printed by Robert White, for Henry Mortlock, at the Sign of the Phœnix in St. Paul's Church-yard, and the White-Hart in Westminster-Hall, 1677, double-column, pp: [vii], 507, [1] (blank), 8 (The Index of Armes (sic)), [36] (indexes), repaired black and red title-page, pages 201-204 supplied in early 19th c pen-and-ink facsimile, double-page county map and 10 double-page plates only, of which 3 have been repaired, 3 full-page plates, occasional, light worm trails in places, mostly marginal, occasionally within text, but with no loss of sense, a couple of leaves soiled, rebacked and recornered calf gilt of c1800, contemporary red-stained edges, marbled endpapers, folio (35.6 x 24cm), [Wing T1063] Provenance: James Thorpe, armorial bookplate to recto pastedown, recto blank with MS ownership inscription: James Thorpe, 1842.
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China, Chinese Taoism. Laozi & Heysinger (I.W., editor), The Light of China/[The Tao Te Ching], inscribed presentation copy from the author, Philadelphia: Research Publishing Co., 1903, 165pp, original publisher's cloth, the spine's lettering dulled, 8vo Provenance: Sir Oliver Lodge FRS (1851-1940), physicist, spiritualist and parapsychologist; ink manuscript presentation inscription addressed to him from the editor on ffep.
Theatre. The London Palladium, early 20th c and later, comprising "O-Kay for Sound" by George Black, the 14th September, the 1936 programme, original Art Deco pictorial wrappers, creased, 4to, and original advertising poster for the same show, London: [printed by] Tribe Bros., [1936], lithograph, some losses and light repairs, 49.5 x 51cm, further Palladium programmes, including "Shake Your Feet" arranged by Charles Gulliver & Laddie Cliff, [1927], original pictorial wrappers, repaired and now disbound, creased and chipped, 4to, November 1934 variety programme, including Gracie Fields, original Art Deco pictorial wrappers, repaired and now disbound, 4to, September 1937, "London Rhapsody": A Symphony of a Great City, with Flanagan & Allen, original pictorial wrappers, creased from former folding, 4to, June 1938 variety programme, original wrappers, loosening/loose, 4to, "Round About Regent Street" by George Black, 11th November, 1935, in-text adverts, original pictorial wrappers, repaired, slight wear, 4to, 1947 variety programme, 8vo, two Royal Variety Performance programmes, 1973 & 1978, original card wrappers, 4to, (10)
Woolf (Virginia), four association copies from the library of one of her biographers, each Uniform Editions from The Hogarth Press, comprising Mrs. Dalloway, first edition thus, second Hogarth Press edition overall, 1929, original publisher's dustjacket over green cloth, spine faded, scuffed and chipped, further light wear, ffep with contemporaneous ink MS presentation inscription, A Room of One's Own, first edition thus, second Hogarth Press edition overall, 1931, original cloth, fading, Flush: A Biography, first edition thus, second Hogarth Press edition overall, 1933, frontispiece, original publisher's dustjacket over green cloth, faded spine with tears, [&] Orlando: A Biography, sixth impression, 1949, original dustjacket over green cloth, some fading and wear, 8vo, (4) Provenance: from the library of Roger Poole (1939-2003), literary theorist and man of letters, authority on Virginia Woolf and Kierkegaard, author of 'The Unknown Virginia Woolf ' (first published 1978).
Female Novelists. Austen (Jane) & Brock (Charles E., illustrator), Pride and Prejudice, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903, half-title, frontispiece and plates, some prelims with minor markings and occasional creasing, first leaf of introduction with Leeming Men's Improvement Society library stamp, minor splitting and minor movement, but stable, original publisher's red cloth, some light wear, uncut, 8vo
The Inklings. Lewis (C.S.), An Experiment in Criticism, association copy with autograph postcard from the author, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1961, half-title, loosely-inserted MS 'letter' in Lewis's elderly hand, inscribed on a pre-paid postcard, dated 19th October [1961], The Kilns, Headington Quarry, Oxford, and addressed to Roger Poole, Trinity College, Cambridge, replying to the latter's letter of approval viz. the book (i.e. the Experiment) and saying that though 'I am still [...] ill and do not improve: but not too ill to have a talk with you if you are in Oxford [...]', original publisher's dustjacket over blue cloth, very light soiling from handling, 8vo, [&] idem & Fowler (Alastair, editor), Spenser's Images of Life, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 1967, crudely replaced ffep, original publisher's dustjacket over blue cloth, slightly starting to split, some signs of handling, 8vo, (2) Provenance: from the library of Roger Poole (1939-2003), literary theorist and man of letters, authority on Virginia Woolf and Kierkegaard.
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Cookery. [Rundell (Maria)], A New System of Domestic Cookery, London: Printed for John Murray, 1816, engraved frontispiece and 9 plates as called for, split gutter but holding, contemporaneous cloth, 12mo, a later edition, with A New Chapter on French Cookery, first thus?, 1831, frontispiece and 9 plates as called for, contemporary quarter-diced calf over marbled boards, split and rubbed, with light losses, ownership inscription to ffep: Draper/Becks Field, 8vo, idem, 1833, split, contemporary quarter-calf over papered boards, 8vo, two defective copies lacking titles and frontispieces, unexamined thereafter, contemporary quarter-calf bindings, 8vo, [&] Rundell (Mrs.), A New System of Domestic Cookery, London: Printed for T. Allman, n.d. [c. 1830], splits and uneven leaves, wood-engraved plates, original publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo, (6)
Christmas Greetings Cards. A collection of approx. 915 polychrome cards, late 19th/early 20th c, approx. 150 of which are after designs by Felix Dussot, mixed subjects, various publishers, mostly printed by chromolithography, collected and preserved in four modern albums, mixed bindings, 4to, (4) Generally clean and fresh, some light wear in places.
A Victorian silver trophy goblet, London 1846 (makers mark rubbed), with floral decoration, inscribed 'The Guiting Cup', 17cm high and another silver trophy cup, HM, Birmingham 1927, with lion mask headed scroll handles, inscribed 'The Pilkington Memorial Cup for Special Puppy', 16cm high, total approximately 425gPuppy cup - Some slight surface wear and knocks in line with age and usage. Lugs under the foot show it would once have had a plinth. Guiting Cup - Overall good condition, light wear commensurate with age.
Vickers Supermarine 'Spitfire' facsimile of the original June 1939 sales brochure, in English and French, printed in blue and sepia with sepia illustrations from photographs, comb bound with pictorial card cover, 22cm x 35cmwith later added pilot signatures in pencil to title page.Generally very good condition overall, with minimal visible wear aside from some light wear and creasing around the corners and very light foxing.
A set of six William Tillman mahogany dining chairs, each with reeded uprights and fluted bar backs, the drop-in seats upholstered in a patterned fabric, height to seat 46cm, height to top back rail, 85cm highAll over good condition. Bleached mahogany a little faded. Later reupholstered. Scuffs and light scratches to legs and slight scratches and scuffs with minor dents to backs. Upholstery in good condition with minor wear and discolouration
A Regency Gothic sofa with triple triangular arch back, each with bobbin turned five arched splats to the backs, the lower rail mimics the top rail, the sides with matching single arch backs, the cane seat on bobbin turned front legs, 150cm wide, 57cm deep and 90cm highThe design of this settee has often been attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. A set of six chairs with a similar design were offered: Dawsons Auctioneers, 25 May 2023, lot 347 stamped GW. All over good condition. Back faded and dry. Later recaned. Some damage and bowing to caning and pictured. All over slight scuffs and light scratches commensurate with age and use. Castors with corrosion. 1cm old chip to centre front seatrail. Some joints later reglued.
An 18th Century style Neoclassical four-poster bed, the arch top canopy hung drapes throughout and with turned and carved foot posts, 151cm wide x 216cm long, 22cm highThe headboard panel in four sections with movement gaps, the finials possibly later, the mattress approximately 191cm x 137cm. the posts with some restorations, The fabric canopy with dustmarks and some staining and light tears
A large Continental ebonised bookcase, the upper section with a moulded cornice above three glazed doors enclosing oak lined shelved sections, the base with two panelled frieze drawers above two faux drawer fronted cabinet doors enclosing two adjustable shelves, on moulded feet, 168cm wide, 63cm deep, 275cm highAll over good condition. one piece of corner moulding detached but present. Keys present. Left side with some scratches to finish. all over scuffs and light scratches to use areas. Movement crack to right side of lower cabinet. Sign of wear commensurate with age and use.
A Regency mahogany tilt top breakfast table, the oblong top on a turned column, the four scroll legs with lion mask caps and castors, 137cm long, 98cm wide, 72cm highOverall good country house condition with scuffs, light scratches and knocks commensurate with age and use. The top in two boards with very slight movement. A stable very slight movement split to one side. The base with knocks and bumps and the brass castors caps slightly loose.
A Victorian walnut credenza, the arched mirror back above a marble top, the base enclosed by three mirror panelled doors, 136cm wide, 45cm deep, 163cm highAll over good condition. Sunfaded veneers and solid wood elements. All over light scuffs, marks and wear commensurate with age and use. original marble top and mirror plates. Marble top in good condition with very light edge chips and surface scratches. Scattered discolourations. Doors and locks in good working order with two keys present, each of the three cabinet sections with a shelf. The plinth base with scuffs and wear. Marble top, cabinet and mirror section can be separated. Mirrored superstructure in good condition with original mirro plate. Fading and signs of wear. carved crest a little loose but n good unrestored condition. Mirror plates all with some corrosion and tarnishing.
ARR Richard C Blomfield (1930-2007)Still Life on a Ledgebears label to the reverseoil on canvas56cm x 51cm In a modern frame. Artwork is generally in very good condition, with only minor visible issues, including light craquelure. It does not appear to have been relined. Some wear, loss and surface scratching to frame.
"England Delineated" in two volumes, London printed for Lackington Alain & Co, Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square 1801, engraved vignette on tp, engraved plates with tissue guard between each plate and text, light foxing, rebound later, half-calf over marbled boards with gilt rules and pastedown to backstrip, all speckled edges, leather has some rubbing and vol 2 a bit of loss (2)
Luther Dr. Martin. " A Commentarie of M. Doctor Martin Luther upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Galathians......" Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier, dwelling within the Blacke frears of Ludgate ..1575, inked dates on the title page, woodcut vignette, contemporary full leather, the boards with tooled panels, front board detached, stitching seen PLEASE SEE NUMEROUS ADDED IMAGESCondition ReportThe bible is not collated, the final page number is 282 . The binding is tight but there are light damp stains on the fore edge and subsequently on the pages. Ink inscriptions verso 'To the Reader' , underlining in the introduction, there is worm damage - please see images, none affect the text. The binding is tight, and the text clear, with type annotations. It measures 20 cm x 15 cm PLease see numerous added images
Mantel, Hilary. The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy " Wolf Hall" Fourth Estate 2009, signed on the title page by the author 'Best wishes..' black boards, dustwrapper, not price clipped, " Bring Up the Bodies" Fourth Estate, 2012, Limited Edition, signed by the author on the title page, black boards, front board has a dent top right hand and the corners bruised, dust wrapper has creases top and tail and upper cover, " The MIrror & the Light" 4th Estate 2020, Limited Edition, signed on the half title by the author, turquoise pictorial cloth and gilt titles to back strip, dust wrapper not price clipped. The first two books in Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, winners of the Booker Prize. ( 3)
Collection of prints, postcards and letters of locomotive and local interest, predominately pre WWII, including a number of Victorian envelopes bearing Cheltenham addresses with 1d Penny Reds, an autographed photo of Val Doonican, a Cheltenham Gas Light Company receipt dated 1831, a folding Bacon's Cycling and Motoring Map of Cheltenham, a large collection of late prints of early 20th century locomotives, a group of Cheltenham Newspaper Company prints depicting heavy snowfall (mid-century) and others
WINSTANLEY; an early 20th century ceramic model of a seated cat, inscribed '42, Kensington' to base, and indistinctly signed, together with matching model of a recumbent cat, indistinctly signed to base, and six ceramic models of its kittens, all indistinctly signed to base (8).Condition Report: no signs of damage to any of these itrems, no cjips, crakcs or losses, just light surface wear, crazing and crackleing to the glaze.
MIXED WOODS PARCEL OF VINTAGE OCCASIONAL TABLES, comprising two tier oak table, shaped supports, 72 (h) x 51 (w) x 33cms (d), two tier rectangular oak table, 71 (h) x 46 (w) x 33cms (d), round mahogany example, glass protected tapestry inset, splayed supports, 47 (h) x 45cms (top diam.) , three tier example, 45 (h) x 33 (w) x 27cms (d) and a set of two light wood side tables, 45.5 (h) x 41 (w) x 35cms (d) the largestProvenance: private collection Conwy
THREE OCCASIONAL FURNITURE ITEMS, comprising light wood framed wall mirror, 125 x 160cms, mid-century light wood three drawer console table, open work turned support frame, 52 (h) x 100 (w) x 35cms (d), limed effect circular top table, pad foot supports, 47.5 (h) x 60 (diam. top)Provenance: private collection Gwynedd
Five various lady's fashion watches. Comprising; Bering, a stainless steel rectangular wrist watch circa 2013, on a black leather strap; Diesel, a matt finish stainless steel square wrist watch with a light green dial; in a white box; Yves Camani, a gold-plated rectangular wrist watch with a black dial and paste set case, in the original gold-coloured tin; DKNY, a gold-plated round bracelet watch; and Rotary, a stainless steel and gilt tonneau-shaped wrist watch, on a brown leather strap, in a Rotary blue leatherette box
A Continental porcelain three-bottle small perfume decanter case. Bears Limoges marks resembling Sevres, 6cm wide Condition Report: Overall it is in decent condition. The hinge is broken. The bottles have chips to the glass. The ceramic case has some scratches and light wear including rubbing however no obvious breakages. Would benefit from a clean.
An extensive assortment of Villeroy & Boch Manoir cream porcelain dinner and tea services. Including four tureens, two meat plates, cups and saucers, etc. Max. H22cm Condition Report: Generally appears in an excellent condition for its age, no major chips or cracks. Some signs of use, light surface marks, glaze is free from crazing, would benefit from a clean.
A collection of mostly gentleman's bracelet and wrist watches and three lady's watches. The gentleman's include examples by Accurist Chronograph date with a brushed pale-blue dial; Citron; Contima; Lorus; Marco Ceroni chronograph with a dark-blue dial, Oris; Rotary(2); Seiko Quartz(2); Spezial; and a designer signed oblong wrist watch with a blue dial and light-brown 'crocodile' strap; and three lady's gold-plated small round bracelet watches and a Bucherer wrist watch box
A Continental .800 standard hunter cased small pocket watch for the Turkish market. The white enamel dial with arrow-head indicators, a subsidiary seconds dial at 6 and blued-steel spade hands, the 44mm diameter four-piece hinged case with a base metal cuvette and with a snap-on bezel, key wind three-quarter plate lever movement numbered 233301 and signed in Arabic(?) Condition Report: The dial is in good condition with no obvious chips or cracks. The case has a number of scratches and light dents. No obvious repairs, unable to test whether functioning.
A collection of Poole Pottery animals and birds. Including two 'Studio' pieces(elephant and a bear). Max. H20cm Condition Report: Overall in good-very good condition. No apparent cracks, chips or restoration to any pieces. Some light wear (mainly to the bases) including scratches and rubbing. Slightly dusty.
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