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RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or, a Catalogue of Heaths, in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], engraved title with vignette, 2 mounted lithographed views of the Heath-house, 2 double-page aquatint plans of the House, 4 hand-coloured window mounted botanical plates, 2 hand-coloured charts with gradations of colour by George Hayter, engraved tail-piece, very light spotting and occasional soiling, mostly to the text, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, worn, g.e. [Brunet II 1336, Nissen BBI 1849], 4to, 1825Footnotes:The first and most elusive of the Woburn catalogues, one of probably fewer than 50 copies printed, all for private distribution.Provenance: Tavistock Subscription Library, to whom this copy was donated by John Russell in 1825, with bookplate. The library was founded in 1799, and in 1810 Russell paid a guinea for membership for himself and his wife. Russell's father was Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, and in 1831 he funded the building of new premises at Court Gate for the library.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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SINCLAIR (GEORGE)Satan's Invisible World Discovered: A Choice Collection of Modern Relations, Proving Evidently, Against the Atheists of This Present Age, That There Are Devils, Spirits Witches, and Apparitions, from Authentic Records, and Attestations of Undoubted Veracity, second edition, p.204 misnumbered 294 as usual, contents leaves misbound at end, loss to lower outer corner of opening 50 leaves (affecting letters on dedication and on pp.4-28), lower margin cropped with loss of a few letters to p.171 and minor loss to one leaf of the contents, light damp-stains, short tear to last leaf, corners rounded, modern quarter morocco, rubbed [ESTC T47082], 12mo, Edinburgh, Alex McCaslan, 1769Footnotes:In this work, first published in 1685, George Sinclair, a Scottish Presbyterian professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, aimed to refute atheism and to prove the existence of Satan, witchcraft, and ghostly apparitions, by reporting a collection of supposedly true stories, including that of the Devil of Glenluce.Provenance: Veronica Murphy, 2 April 1958, inscription on first flyleaf.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FLEMING (IAN)Dr. No, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, light spotting and old pencil note to endpapers, bookseller's label on front paste-down, publisher's cloth with 'silhouette' design (second state), dust-jacket (frayed at extremities, abrasions and slight loss to fold of lower flap, toned) [Gilbert A6a(1.3)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1958]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DAHL (ROALD)The BFG... Pictures by Quentin Blake, first American edition, NUMBER 162 OF 300 COPIES signed by the author and illustrator, publisher's red cloth, gilt design on upper cover, gilt blocked and lettered spine, fine in light blue cloth slipcase, 8vo, New York, Farrer, Strauss, Giroux, 1982This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HOBBES (THOMAS)Elementa philosophica de cive, engraved pictorial title, thin trace of worming to opening half, mostly lower margin but touching letters on some pages, later vellum, upper hinge split [Willem 1048, 3 variants, our copy pp. [48], 403, issued without portrait], 12mo, Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1647--HEYLYN (PETER) A Help to English History, Containing a Succession of All the Kings of England, some early ink annotations, light damp-stain at inner margin to a few pages, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover near detached [ESTC R18864], 8vo, T. Basset and C. Wilkinson, 1680--CUMBERLAND (RICHARD) De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica, blank piece of lower margin torn away from 3 leaves, light browning throughout, several ink and numerous pencil annotations throughout, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC T101673], 8vo, Dublin, J. Carson, 1720--[CHARLES II] Eikōn basilikē deutera. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II. With his Reasons for Turning Roman Catholick... Found in a Strong Box, engraved frontispiece, later calf, worn, upper cover detached [ESTC R14898], 8vo, [London, no publisher], 1694--CALVIN (JOHN) The Institution of Christian Religion... Translated into English, title within decorative woodcut border (laid down with some small losses at lower section), arc of damp-staining to lower section of approximately 200 opening leaves, later calf, worn, joints weakened [ESTC S107162], small folio, John Norton, 1611--BURTON (JOHN) Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, 3 folding maps and plates, fore-edges softened to opening leaves, contemporary calf, worn [ESTC T153577], folio, for the Author, by N. Nickson, 1758; and 8 others (14)Footnotes:Provenance: Third title, Robert Conway, inscription dated 1769 on dedication leaf; Fourth, 'Found amongst the ruins after the destruction of the House of Commons by Fire in 1833', ink note on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
AUSTEN (JANE)Pride and Prejudice, second 'Peacock edition', illustrations by Hugh Thomson, gutter margin of pp.470-471 strengthened with archival tape and light spotting, publisher's dark blue pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., light mark on upper cover, extremities of spine slightly worn but generally fresh, 8vo, George Allen, [March 1895]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 to 1 on the reverse of the title-page, light spotting to page edges, publisher's pictorial boards (corners and spine ends bumped), pictorial dust-jacket (top and bottom edges frayed, corners of upper cover chipped with some losses) [Errington A2(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:Provenance: Given to the present owner by his mother, inscribed 'To Christian lots of love Mum x. Aug. '98' on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ALBIN (ELEAZAR)A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life: And (for those who desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author, FIRST EDITION, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by the author, each with accompanying text leaf by W. Derham, list of subscribers, plates 3 and 4 trimmed just touching text and laid down, toning and light spotting throughout, some offsetting, occasional pencil annotations, some pages creased, near contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards, upper cover near detached, worn [ESTC T85973; Nissen ZBI 58; Freeman 45; Lisney 119], 4to, for the Author, 1720Footnotes:'Each plate is dedicated to a subscriber or well-known personality, undoubtedly those who acted as patrons or took an interest in Albin's drawings of insects' (Lisney).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BOOK OF HOURS, USE OF PARISCes presentes heures a lusaige de Paris, text in French and Latin, gothic type, printed in red and black, printer's device on title and on verso of final leaf, 55 large woodcuts including Anatomical Man and calendar illustrations, numerous woodcut historiated initials throughout, tips of upper fore-corners to opening few leaves neatly repaired, light soiling to title and final leaf, modern red morocco [not in Bohatta], 8vo (170 x 110mm.), [Paris], Thielman Kerver, 1549Footnotes:Provenance: Albert Ehrman (Broxbourne Library), bookplate, and blue stamp ('AE'), and pencil inscription ('Horae on paper are uncommon. A.E'). Ehrman (1890-1969) was a diamond merchant who dated the start of his incunabula collection to 'shortly after the end of the First World War, when we were living[...] at Broxbourne in Hertfordshire' following the acquisition of a Venetian incunable from 1492 in its original binding. In 1978, part of the collection was presented to the to the Bodleian Library, through the Friends of the National Libraries, by John Ehrman, and is now known as the 'Broxbourne Collection' (see Albert Ehrman, 'Contemporary Collectors II: The Broxbourne Library', The Book Collector, 3, 1954).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LE CARRÉ (JOHN)The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, FIRST EDITION, publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, spine ends slightly rubbed, dust-jacket (price-clipped, a few light spots on lower cover), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1963This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MEGANDER (KASPAR)In epistolam Pauli ad ephesios commentarius: unà cum Joannis rhellicani epistola monitoria. Nunc recens in lucem aeditus, some light soiling and damp-staining (towards end), contemporary limp vellum, spine with title in ink and sewn with leather cords (one defective on inside), a section cut from a medieval manuscript leaf in Latin bound in as rear free endpaper, crinkled and soiled [USTC 658735], Basel, Heinrich Petri, [1534]--CLAUDIANUS (CLAUDIUS) Quotquot nostra hac tempestate extant opuscula, ad seriem subsequentem, a little worming at foot of first few gatherings (affecting some letters/words), later tree calf, rebacked [Adams C2079; USTC 181267], Paris, Simon de Colines, [colophon: May] 1530, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham (1873-1946, civil servant and administrator, Diwan of Pudukkottai state 1934-1944); Richard and Magdalen Goffin, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHESSSALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, second impression; Trattato dell' Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco di Scacchi, second edition, 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles, historiated initials, some foxing and light toning, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine, some soiling, 4to, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634Footnotes:Alessandro Salvio (1575-1640) was an Italian lawyer and acclaimed chess-player. He started a chess academy in his native Naples and was one of the most successful players of his time, excelling also in blindfold chess.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, half-title, untrimmed in publisher's cream and mustard cloth, gilt title on spine, light age soiling, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CODY (WILLIAM FREDERICK 'BUFFALO BILL')Group pertaining to the theft and recovery of jewels belonging to William Cody at Dudley, West Midlands, comprising: autograph letter signed ('Your friend/ W.F. Cody') to Walter Noel Greenwell ('My dear Noel'), confirming he has the jewels and the thief ('...the Detectives used your photograph to identify him. Although Mr Decker my secretary caught him. I think you are going to be a great artist...'), and remembering him to his mother, one page on a bifolium, gilt embossed headed paper depicting a buffalo, creased, light dust-staining, 8vo (182 x 114mm.), T.E. Ranch, Olympia, London, W., 22 June [19]03; with autograph letter signed by Cody's mistress ('Besse Isbell/ Buffalo Bill's Wild West') to Greenwell, regarding the '...picture of Col. Cody, the tent boy and myself...', hoping he has not destroyed the plate and emphatically saying '...We need a picture of that tent boy very very much – and as soon as possible...', four pages on a bifolium, gilt embossed headed paper depicting a buffalo creased, light dust-staining, 8vo (182 x 114mm.), Dudley, 17 June [1903]; a bromide photograph depicting Colonel Cody in stage costume, seated next to Besse Isbell and William Puzey standing outside a tent, 95 x 70mm., mounted on card 165 x 120mm., some surface abrasions, mount torn and scuffed, [Parade Ground, Dudley, 17 June 1903]; with two press cuttings roughly torn from the Dudley Herald describing the theft and Puzey's trial (5)Footnotes:'WE NEED A PICTURE OF THAT TENT BOY VERY VERY MUCH': A YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER HELPS APPREHEND BUFFALO BILL'S JEWEL THIEF.Buffalo Bill's spectacular Wild West Show toured extensively throughout Great Britain from December 1902 to October 1903. In June 1903 the show stopped at the Parade Ground in Dudley where he was visited in camp by a young Walter Noel Greenwell. Colonel Cody agreed that Greenwell could take his photograph, and posed alongside his assistant (and mistress) Besse Isbell and his valet William Puzey, aged 21. The following week, on 17 June 1903, it was discovered that a large quantity of Cody's jewellery had been stolen during a performance. The valet, who had also disappeared, was the obvious prime suspect: '...valued at between £500 and £600... A valet, who had access to the box in which the valuables were kept, is suspected... The articles stolen include a diamond studded pin, given to Colonel Cody by the King when he visited the Wild West Show at Olympia; a double gold rope chain, a diamond horseshoe pendant with seven stones... buffalo-head cufflinks, given by the Grand Duke of Alexis of Russia [for whom he had guided a buffalo and hunting party] and about £4 in gold...' (Dudley Herald). A report of the trial from the same newspaper describes the jewels in more detail and notes that Cody entrusted them to Puzey to put in his trunk whilst he went into the ring. On discovering the theft, Besse Isbell immediately wrote to Greenwell asking if he still had the plate negative and according to an annotation on one of the press cuttings 'Noel took photo to Colonel Cody June 18th/03'. As a result the police were able identify Puzey and he was apprehended by Louis Edward Decker, Cody's manager and brother-in-law at an address in Radcliffe Gardens, South Kensington at 10.30am on 20 June. All the jewels were recovered and after admitting the theft ('...The stuff was no good to me, and I was going to send the lot back to the colonel...'), Puzey was tried at a court in Dudley and sentenced to six months imprisonment.Besse or Bessie Isbell (b.1872) of Washington DC began to travel with Buffalo Bill's Wild West in 1900, initially to help publicise Helen Cody Westmore's book Last of the Great Scouts and then as a press agent for the show. The Billboard described her as '...a cattle queen at home, [who] owns the next ranch to Buffalo Bill, at Cody, Wyoming...' (11 May 1901). She was one of several women cited in Cody's divorce proceedings in 1905. The letters and photograph have been in the Greenwell family until recently.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GLAREAN (HEINRICH)Dodekachordon, FIRST EDITION, illustrated throughout with type-set music, woodcut thematical diagrams and tables, a full-page woodcut of a 24-string zither, historiated and decorative initials, 5-page errata at end with printer's device on verso of final leaf, first and final sections with some light browning and damp-staining and occasional stains (D6-7 with small hole causing loss of 2-3 letters), a1-2 with faint remains of old ownership inscription, these and last 3 leaves remounted at gutter, small hole in V2 with loss of one letter and note, X4 and Y6 cropped with loss of signature mark and catchword, occasional early annotations in black ink (and a couple of amendments, crossings through and some smudges), early calf, sides with gilt rule borders, repaired and rebacked preserving much of original spine [Adams G765; Hirsch, i 226; RISM, Ecrits p.366; USTC 659884], folio (302 x 203mm.), Basle, H. Petri, 1547Footnotes:ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TEXT BOOKS OF THE MUSICAL RENAISSANCE, with over 120 compositions by Josquin des Pres, Obrecht, Ockeghem, Mouton and many others. The Dodekachordon is the work of Heinrich Glarean (1488–1563), the poet and musical theorist described by his friend Erasmus as 'the champion of Swiss humanism'. In it, the author set out his revolutionary system of twelve modes, four of which were newly identified, including the major (Ionian) and minor (Aeolian) modes. These he incorporated into the traditional scheme, and he trumpeted his innovation by listing them on the title-page. The book is divided into three parts, beginning with a study of Boethius, going on to trace the use of the musical modes in plainsong and monophony, and concluding with an extended study of polyphony. It was instrumental in spreading the concept of the emotional appeal of composers such as Josquin, and influenced theorists from Merulo to Morley and Zacconi. Glarean's explanation of the musical modes is still largely accepted today.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BINDING - FRENCHL'Office de la Semaine Sainte, half-title, light toning, contemporary French red morocco gilt, 'Dubuisson plaque' design centred on a large vase of flowers on covers, spine elaborately tooled in six compartments within raised bands, g.e., 8vo, Paris, G. Desprez, 1758Footnotes:Provenance: Pirot Demolins, ownership inscription on half-title; Lord and Lady Iliffe of Basildon Park; Christie's South Kensington, 2 June 2008, lot 49.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![GELLIUS (AULUS)Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black wit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/2aa7500b-b7b9-487a-9128-afc500e8cbc0/468x382.jpg)
GELLIUS (AULUS)Noctium atticarum libri vindeuigniti [edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black within woodcut border and with large device, with final blank, Paris, Jodocus Badius Ascensius, March 1530-- MOSELLANUS (PETRUS) Annotationes.... in... Noctes atticas, title within woodcut border and with large device, [Paris, Jodocus Badius Ascensius, November 1528], 2 works bound in 1 vol., some damp-stains (light to title, mostly to fore-margins, some softening and a few small paper repairs towards end of second mentioned work), early seventeenth century French morocco gilt, covers with repeated fleur-de-lys ornaments and in the centre the arms of the College de Grassin [Olivier 1973], neatly rebacked preserving spine tooled in compartments with fleur-de-lys ornaments, corners refurbished, new endpapers, folio (330 x 210mm.)Footnotes:Provenance: Jo. ?Paruth 1790, ownership inscription in upper margin of first title; Bousson, chanoine de Poligny, bookplate; Sotheby's, 5 February 1979, lot 95.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HARTLEY (L.P.)Night Fears and other Stories, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, half-title, minor foxing throughout, light off-setting of jacket flaps onto front free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's green buckram gilt (light edgewear), pictorial dust-jacket priced 7/6 (spine soiled with some loss to head and foot), 8vo, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1924]Footnotes:FORREST REID'S COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, consisting of ghost and other short stories, some of which had appeared in the undergraduate magazine Oxford Outlook, of which Hartley had been the editor.Provenance: Forrest Reid (1875-1944, Irish novelist), signed on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LE CARRÉ (JOHN)Call for the Dead, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, SIGNED on the title-page, half-title, light toning and spotting, publisher's red cloth (spine ends slightly rubbed), dust-jacket (price clipped, spine lightly soiled with expert restoration at ends including neat ink facsimile replacement to word 'Gollancz' and emblem at foot, a few other neat repairs at folds and horizontal margins of upper cover), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1961Footnotes:SIGNED FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED WORK, marking the first appearance of George Smiley.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)Liber Chronicarum, 364 leaves (of 366, wanting 2 blanks), 51 lines and headline, double column, gothic letter, woodcut title, woodcut tile before index, c. 1800 woodcut illustrations including a large map of Northern Europe (often missing: folded, shaved at upper margin, a few neat fold repairs on verso), 2- to 8-line initials, a few ink marginalia and underlinings and early ink ownership annotations on title, tiny single wormhole to approximately 25 opening leaves, short neat tear repaired to lower margin of 9 leaves (touching letters on 4), folio 7 with margins shortened, occasional toning and light damp-stain in lower margin of a few leaves but generally good, nineteenth century marbled boards, rubbed [ISTC is00308000; USTC 748764; BMC II 370; Goff S308; GW M40786], folio (279 x 198mm.), Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1 February 1497Footnotes:THE 1497 EDITION OF THE NURMEBERG CHRONICLE, COMPLETE WITH THE FOLDING MAP. This edition, which appeared three years after the publication of the monumental Augsburg original, is in a smaller format, but is considerably rarer and is characterised by the greater number of illustrations, albeit smaller in size. This is the first Latin edition printed by Schönsperger, and includes fine impressions of the illustrations based on Wohlgemuth and Pleydenwurff's originals.Provenance: Georgius Jobst, Canonical lawyer of Passau and Regensburg ('Georgius Jobst utriusque Juris Doctor Canonicus Passaviensis et Ratisbonensis possessor est huius libri [...] 1602'), early ink inscription on title page; two other ink inscriptions in an early hand on title, first flyleaf and last flyleaf; small ink stamp 'Verkaufte Doublette' on title; Bonhams, 12 November 2013, lot 254.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece and 14 plates (of 15) after Sidney Paget, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, slightly rubbed at extremities of spine and corners but generally bright [Green and Gibson A26a], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902Footnotes:Provenance: Hildur Marie Schill, of West Hartford, CT, light pencil ownership inscription on the front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HAUCHINUS (JOANNES) AND MATTHIAS HOVIUSPastorale, ad usum romanum accomodatum, engraved vignette on title, one full-page engraved illustration, early blind-stamped vellum, upper cover stamped in gilt 'Aelsmaria. Anno 1616', soiled, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1607-[CHASTEIGNER DE LA ROCHEPOSAY (HENRI-LOUIS)] Nomenclator sanctae romanae ecclesiae cardinalium qui ab anno Christi Millesimo quippiam commentati sunt, later limp vellum, Toulouse, apud Domicum de la Case, 1614--Processionale ritibus Romanae ecclesiae accomodatum, woodcut ornament on title, 7 pages of manuscript music bound at end, with index added on lower free endpaper, contemporary calf gilt, red edges, Antwerp, ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1774--Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII, title with engraved vignette, woodcut printer's device on final leaf, title with signature excised from 2 places filled, nineteenth century green morocco gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1627--Pontificale romanum summorum pontificum... a Benedicto XIV. Pont Max., parts 3 and 4 only bound in 1, engraved vignette on titles, engraved illustrations in the text, red morocco gilt, g.e., Rome, Vincent Guerrin, 1818, folio--Missale romanum, woodcut vignette on title, 10 full-page woodcut illustration, light soiling, remnants of tabs at some fore-margins, early calf, IHS with Crucifix within heart shaped tooled in gilt on covers, rebacked to match, worn, 8vo, Paris, apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, 1603, all but the second mentioned printed in red and black, some spotting or light soiling; and 23 others, mostly theology of sixteenth and seventeenth century (29)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PALESTINE - IRGUN AND LEHI PARAMILITARY BROADSIDESA collection of 15 scarce broadsides, posters and leaflets issued by the Irgun and Lehi paramilitary groups active during the British Mandate and World War II, comprising:[Irgun] 'Notice' informing the British of Irgun's intention to fight 'the oppressors of our Homeland and the destroyers of our hope...', broadside, in English, Irgun device at head, a few abrasions and light soiling, 225 x 155mm., [late 1944][Irgun] 'Azhara! Dirua B-alkam! Warning! The Government of oppression should without any delay evacuate children, women... from all its offices...', broadside, in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, a few small stains, 280 x 145mm., [1947][Irgun] HaKetz Lehishtolelut HaPor'im [The End of the Frenzied Rioters], urging the mainstream Zionist group Haganah that they would provoke a civil war if they kept persecuting the Irgun, broadside with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 355 x 255mm., [1948][Irgun] HaYahapokh Kushi Ivuro [Can a coloured person change his skin?], urging people to leave the left-wing Mapai organization to join Irgun, broadside with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 250 x 173mm., [c.1948] [Irgun] 'To the British Soldier in Palestine!', demanding they question the justice of the British Mandate and their role 'in oppressing Jews in their homeland', broadside with Irgun device in upper margin, in English, 310 x 220mm., [1940s][Irgun] El HaAm VeEl HaNoar! [To the Nation and to the Youth!], stating the organisation's determination to fight for the liberation of the Jewish homeland from the British, who are accused of provoking conflict between the various Jewish militant groups, poster with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 500 x 355mm., [1947][Irgun] Hoda'ah [Notice], warning the British that they plan to attack British Headquarters in the Northern part of the country, in retaliation for the as revenge for the 'Hamburg disgrace' in which the SS Exodus, a ship of Holocaust survivors bound for Mandatory Palestine was intercepted by the Royal Navy and escorted back to British-occupied Hamburg, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 355 x 255mm., [1947][Irgun] El HaYishuv [To the Jewish Settlements], declaring that Irgun will continue fighting until Jewish immigration is allowed, and the administration of settled lands is transferred to the Jewish population, broadside flyer, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 220 x 140mm., [1944][Irgun] Az-hara, warning that the organisation has planted landmines beneath railways lines to prevent their use by the British military, broadside flyer, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 210 x 185mm., [1947][Irgun] Cherut [Irgun newspaper], the headline article titled 'Dov Gruner Ma'ashim' ['Dov Gruner Accuses'], reprinting Irgun member Gruner's defiant letter against British rule written after the death sentence he received for his participation in the attack of an army depot near Netanya, bifolium broadside printed on recto only, in Hebrew, remnants of old mount on verso, small piece torn away with loss of a few words of text, 340 x 495mm., [1947] [Irgun] Mul Mezimat HaOyev [Against the Enemy's Conspiracy], accusing the British of betraying the Jews, and calling upon the Jews to take up active resistance against the oppressors, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, 330 x 245mm., [1947][Irgun] El Kol Ivri BeMoledet [To Every Jew in the Homeland], calling on Jews to to act as informers to the British, whom they claim betrayed the Jewish population, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 315 x 113mm., [c.1947][Irgun] Yeda HaAm [For the Public's Knowledge], attacking the Haganah group (from whom Irgun had split), and accusing it of spreading false propaganda about Irgun, broadside, with Irgun device in upper margin, in Hebrew, 315 x 235mm., [1948][Stern Gang] HaMa'as [A Fighter's Newspaper for the Lehi/Stern group], attacking President Truman's failure to fully support a Jewish state, and the impotency of the mainstream Zionist leadership under Ben-Gurion, broadside, in Hebrew, small loss to one corner just touching a few letters, 350 x 255mm., [1948][Stern Gang] Lochamei Cheirut Yisrael [Lechi'i], Az-hara, informing the British the organisation will target Government offices, and giving advance warning to the public, broadside, in Hebrew, 250 x 180mm., [1948] HeChazi [Newspaper for the Israel Freedom Fighters], 9th issue, first and final leaf only, in Hebrew, 320 x 210mm., [1944]together 16 items, single sheets loose, some light toning or light marks, c.1944-1948 (16)Footnotes:A group of scarce broadsides issued by two major Jewish paramilitary groups, Irgun and Lehi/Stern Gang, calling on the Jewish population to oppose the British Mandate, support Jewish immigration into the region, and threaten violence against the British occupiers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PHOTOGRAPHY - GEORGE DAVISONA group of 5 vintage photogravures, including views of Harlech, Essex ('The Onion Field' and 'The Saltings'), and France, 4 SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER ('G. Davison') lower right beneath image, photogravures, all printed on Japanese paper, Harlech Castle print toned and light spotting, French view light overall spotting, early window-mounts, images typically approx. 180 x 240mm., French scene 120 x 95mm., trees 120 x 265mm., [c.1900-1920]; together with a first edition of 'The Book of Harlech' by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1920 (6)Footnotes:Group of vintage photogravure prints by George Davison (1855-1930), including views in Essex, Harlech and the surrounding Welsh area.Davison was an early champion of naturalism and pictorial photography, as exemplified by 'An Old Farmstead (1888), taken with a pinhole camera to produce a 'soft focus', [which] had won a prize at the PSGB exhibition of 1890. Retitled The Onion Field, it became his most famous photograph, and was fairly typical of his impressionist style' (ODNB). Davison was a founding member of the Linked Ring, his work published by Alfred Stieglitz in Camera Works, and having made a fortune through his early involvement with George Eastman and Kodak, was able to establish 'an extraordinary centre for the arts' (ODNB) at his home, Wern Fawr, near Harlech in Wales.Davison images comprise: 'The Onion Field', 'The Saltings', 'Harlech Castle', Trees in a landscape, and 'Fountain, Market Place, Aix-Les-Bains'.Included with the lot is a copy of fellow pioneering photographer and close-friend Alvin Langdon Coburn's Book of Harlech (1920), which includes a view of Davison's home at Wern Fawr.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ORWELL (GEORGE)Nineteen Eighty-four, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's light green cloth, red lettering on spine (some fading), publisher's red dust-jacket designed by Michael Kennard (fading, small loss at ends of spine just touching letter 'G' at foot, a few small marginal tears) [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1949This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)[The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 3 vol., FIRST ED](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/c1af172b-7742-4d82-9435-afc500e8600c/468x382.jpg)
TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)[The Lord of the Rings:] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, The Return of the King with signature mark '4' and sagging text on p.49, and 'Men' (no gap) on p.281, folding maps tipped-in at end of each volume, some browning of endpapers and slight foxing to fore-edges, publisher's red cloth with spines lettered in gilt, a little light staining, DUST-JACKETS, all priced 21s net, The Return of the King second state with reviews on rear flap, spines browned, creased and slightly chipped at top (not affecting lettering,[Hammond A5a-i-iii], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1954-1955]Footnotes:Provenance: Richard and Magdalen Goffin.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), addressed to His Majesty [George V], written in the thir](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/c40f2be8-8b28-4934-ba3b-afc500e62418/468x382.jpg)
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Autograph letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill'), addressed to His Majesty [George V], written in the third person ('Mr Secretary Churchill'), recommending William Henry Pickering, Inspector of Mines, and George Handle Silkstone for the Edward medal, first class, and that the second class medal be awarded to Isaac Hodges, Albert Moore, James Hosey and A. Jones for acts of 'distinguished bravery', initialled by the King ('Appd/ G.R.I.'), Home Office receiving date stamp, one page, on mourning paper, light dust-staining, one small tear right hand edge, filing hole, 4to (240 x 190mm.), Whitehall, 13 July 1910Footnotes:WINSTON CHURCHILL & THE NEW KING, GEORGE V, HONOUR BRAVE YORKSHIRE MINERS.The Edward medal was a civilian decoration instituted by Royal Warrant on 13 July 1918 to recognise acts of bravery undertaken by miners and quarrymen in endangering their lives to rescue their fellow workers, and divided into silver (first class) and bronze (second class) grades. Six men died when a newly dug shaft collapsed at Water Haigh Colliery on 7 May 1910, with accounts of the accident sharing the local papers with the news of the death of Edward VII the previous day. It took over a week for the bodies to be dug out of the rubble and, at the inquest, the coroner reported that he would relate the particular bravery of the rescuers to Winston Churchill, the Home Secretary, so that their actions in harsh and dangerous conditions could be properly recognised.The recipient of the first class medal, William Henry Pickering (c.1859-1912), His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Mines for the Yorkshire and North Midlands Division, was killed two years later in the Cadeby Main Colliery disaster of 9 July 1912 whilst searching for survivors of an explosion. His obituary describes him as 'one of the leading authorities on coal mining in the whole world... he was awarded the Edward Medal of the First Class for his bravery in connection with an accident at the Water Haigh Mine, Oulton, near Leeds. Five men were killed, but one, Patrick McCarthy was pinned by the legs and lingered in agony for several hours. Mr Pickering was one of six men who were decorated for endeavouring to save McCarthy. The water rose until it had reached the man's shoulders, and he became delirious, but Mr Pickering stayed by him at the risk of his own life. Two doctors and a priest were taken down to McCarthy, whose terrible suffering came to an end just as they reached him... One of the painful features of his [Pickering's] untimely end is the circumstance that he would, in the ordinary course, have been lunching with the King and Queen at Hickleton Hall at the time he was lying amid the ruins...' (Mexborough & Swinton Times, 20 July 1912).The other recipients, George Handle Silkstone (enginewright), Isaac Hodges (agent), Albert Moore (miner), James Hosey (sinking contractor) and Alfred Jones (sinker) had accompanied Pickering to the bottom of the pit. George Silkstone received an additional bar to this medal for his part in another rescue at Water Haigh in February 1911. Beset by accidents and delays, the first coal to be cut from the Silkstone seam at Water Haigh reached the surface on 20 April 1911. The colliery was closed by the National Coal Board in 1970.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BAKST - BALLETLEVINSON (ANDRÉ) Bakst. The Story of the Artist's Life, NUMBER 119 OF 315 COPIES, 68 plates (52 colour, tipped-in) after designs by Bakst, printed tissue guards (a few creased), occasional light spotting, publisher's vellum, soiled, folio (370 x 275mm.), Bayard Press, 1923This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPEDENCE[The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel] Iton Rishmi, Official Gazette](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/02e0bfb0-e8cb-4739-96ed-afc500e35fb5/350d3878-5b99-41dd-9f04-afc500ec8368/468x382.jpg)
ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPEDENCE[The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel] Iton Rishmi, Official Gazette of Israel, No.1, 2 leaves, printed in Hebrew, light old horizontal fold hole-punched in upper and lower margin, folio (335 x 210mm.), Tel Aviv, 1948Footnotes:The first appearance in print of the declaration as read out by David Ben-Gurion at 4pm on 14 May 1948 at the Tel Aviv Museum (now Independence Hall), also listing the names of the 37 members of the first Provisional Government of Israel. It heralded the end of British Mandate in Palestine, and in so doing authorised unrestricted immigration into the new Jewish state.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER)Sally Bowles, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page (crossing through his name), publisher's light blue cloth, DUST-JACKET (soiled, split at upper joint, small loss to foot of spine), 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1937Footnotes:SIGNED COPY WITH RARE DUST-JACKET of the book which was inspired by Isherwood's experiences in the Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with the nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. In 1939 Isherwood incorporated the novella into the longer novel Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration for the film Cabaret with Liza Minnelli memorably playing the role of Sally Bowles. This copy comes from a house associated with the Strachey family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WELLS (H.G.)The War of the Worlds, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half-title, 16-page publisher's catalogue (Autumn 1897) at end, light spotting, publisher's cloth, age soiled, extremities of spine slightly frayed [Wells 14], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: ?G. Freelieville, neat ink name at head of front free endpaper and title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)An unsmoked cigar, in custom-made oak presentation box with glass top and lined in purple cloth, with handwritten label 'Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., Chequers 14/11/53. LHN', cigar 180mm. long, box 235 x 75 x 40mm.; with signature ('Winston S. Churchill') on a note reading '11th December 1951/ Calculation made for Mr. Churchill!' next to some arithmetic in pencil, on 10 Downing Street notepaper, one page, 8vo (162 x 104mm.), and typed letter signed from Churchill's private secretary ('P.G. Oates') to Mr Norman, returning the aforementioned document ('...The Prime Minister has autographed it as you wished and I now return it to you...'), one page, 4to (187 x 187mm.), 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, 25 November 1953, mounted in one frame, unexamined out of frame, altogether 463 x 272mm.; together with reminiscences of meetings with Attlee and Churchill written by L. H. Norman, nineteen pages in blue biro, and other papers pertaining to the Chequers Trustees Meetings including a typed list of attendees (quantity)Footnotes:A CIGAR FROM CHEQUERS AND A NOTE FROM DOWNING STREET: SOUVENIRS AND PERSONAL REMINISCENCES FROM CHURCHILL'S AUDITOR.The recipient of the cigar and signed note was Leonard Herbert Norman of Price Waterhouse & Co. who acted as Auditor of the Chequers Trust from 1949 to 1957 and was thus required to attend their regular meetings, chaired by the incumbent Prime Minister. The Trust had been set up in 1917 when the estate was donated to the state for the Prime Minister's use by the then owner Sir Arthur Lee. Norman's memoirs, included in the lot, describe his first meeting with Attlee and subsequent meetings with Churchill, Eden and Macmillan. He appears most in awe of Churchill and was much impressed by his attention to detail and his extreme courtesy, despite increasing deafness and a propensity to leave cigars burning in an ash tray during meetings. On 14 November 1953 he attended a lavish lunch hosted by the Churchills at Chequers and describes in entertaining detail how the cigar came into his possession. After attempting (and failing) to keep up with the PM 'drink for drink' during lunch and enjoying wide-ranging conversation '...the cigar box was circulated for the second time I didn't feel equal to smoking another... but I did take one and hastily put it unseen (I think) into an inner pocket and still have it today...'.At the same lunch Norman left a note with Churchill's private secretary which was duly returned a week later signed by Churchill. The Downing Street headed paper had been used by Norman at a Trustees Meeting on 11 December 1951 to make some swift pencil calculations. Under discussion had been the number of weekends spent at Chequers by the previous Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, who was entitled to receive the sum of £15 per visit from the Trust: '...Churchill turned to the secretary and said... 'And how many week-ends is that?' (David Eccles grinned at me & said sotto voce 'Every bloody one I should think')... I was too flustered to be sure of doing a sum of simple division with Churchill looking on so I seized a sheet of 10 Downing Street notepaper lying on a table... at a later date one of the private secretaries obtained Churchill's autograph... (it was 48 weekends)...'.A typed memo recording a conversation with Lord Goddard in 1966 also included in the lot gives a further insight into the generous hospitality on offer at Chequers. After a long dinner, he writes, '...the table was littered with empty magnums of champagne... Sir Winston had drunk about a bottle of brandy and had regaled them the whole time, he rang the bell and demanded whisky and soda. They retired to bed at 4am.... At 9.30am... he had to get up to Downing Street for a cabinet meeting... so he had a light breakfast of a piece of toast and a whisky and soda...'.Provenance: Leonard Herbert Norman; thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHESSHYDE (THOMAS) Mandragorias, seu Historia Shahiludii, viz. ejusdem Origo, Antiquitas, Ususque per totum Orientem celeberrismus... De ludis Orientalium [-Historia Nerdiludii], 2 works in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-title with imprimatur on verso, text in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese, 3 engraved folding plates (one in Chinese, two of chessboards), woodcut and engraved illustrations in the text, occasional toning and light foxing, later vellum, title inked on spine [ESTC R1348; Cordier, Sinica 3142], 8vo, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694Footnotes:One of the first scholarly works devoted to Chess, and other Oriental games including backgammon, draughts and dice. Includes texts in Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew. The author, Thomas Hyde (1636-1703), was Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford and Librarian at the Bodleian Library.Provenance: Charles Bathurst, Sydney Park, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GREGORY IX, POPEDecretales, accurate diligentia nuper emendate, printed in red and black, large printer's device on title and verso of 2Uiv, one near full-page woodcut, lacks final leaf (2cx, ?blank) after table, 4 unnumbered preliminary leaves loose, light mostly marginal damp-stains but touching letters at gutter margin of opening 20 leaves, twentieth century calf, morocco spine label, red edges, worn [USTC 184022], [Paris, Jacques Ferrebouc] and Jean Petit, 20 October, 1520--GRATIANUS. Decretum argumentum plenissimum decreti hujus, printed in red and black, title within historiated woodcut border, one near full-page woodcut, lacks table (aaa-ddd8) at end, occasional light damp-staining, later vellum [USTC 155778], Lyon, Gilbert de Villiers, and Simon Vincent, 1528--Corpus juris civilis in IIII partes distinctum; Feudorum consuetudines, 2 works in 1 vol., edited by Dionysius Godefroy, titles within historiated woodcut border (the first cut away at lower corner just touching border), one folding table, some light damp-staining, later vellum, soiled, Lyon [but Geneva], B. Vincent [J. Stoer], 1583--JUSTINIAN I. Codicis Dn. Justiniani, constitutiones imperiales complectentis, libri IX priores, printed in red and black, woodcut device on title, light damp-staining, final gathering near detached, later vellum, loss to spine, Venice, [Alexander Gryphius], 1581, 4to; and 4 others, sixteenth century Canon Law (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece and 15 plates after Sidney Paget, lacks front free endpaper, light spotting to half-title, title, final few pages and edges of book block, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, extremities rubbed, age dulled [Green and Gibson A26a], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902Footnotes:Provenance: J. Pells, pencil name on half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
PATMORE (COVENTRY)Florilegium amantis, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH ILLUMINATED TITLE-PAGE, inscribed on fly-leaf to 'Frederick Greenwood,/ From Bertha and Coventry Patmore/ March 25. 1890', the printed title substituted with a fine illuminated one on vellum painted by Bertha Patmore, light blue crushed morocco by Zaehsndorf, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., spine slightly faded, 12mo, [George Bell, 1879?]Footnotes:Presentation copy from the father and daughter team of Coventry and Bertha Patmore, who collaborated on a number of specially illuminated volumes. Bertha had shown a talent for art from an early age and her work was greatly admired and encouraged by Ruskin.Provenance: Coventry and Bertha Patmore, inscription to Frederick Greenwood (1830–1909), journalist and man of letters (he completed Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Wives and Daughters after her death in 1865); Helena Watkin, friend of the Patmores; and thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in book form, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece after Daniel Maclise, 39 engraved plates by H.K Browne ('Phiz'), small wormholes in inner gutter not affecting text, offsetting to some plates, light foxing throughout, all plates browned at edges, publisher's dark olive green diaper-cloth gilt, rubbed with small abrasions at head and foot of spine, morocco-backed case [Eckel p.64; Podeschi A41; Smith I:5], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839Footnotes:Provenance: Mary Drabwell, Doncaster, early ownership inscription at head of title-page and bookseller's ticket ('Sold C. White... Doncaster') on front paste-down.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
AN OLD SHEFFIELD PLATE EGG CRUET AND SIX CUPS, CIRCA 1835 with flower, leaf and scroll chased borders, central handle, on three scroll feet. 18cm highStands upright, no rocking. One foot slightly bent, egg cup above on an angle (still held securely by pin). Three cups with dings to body, one with misshapen rim, one with casting hole/flaw to border. Some wear to plating to central handle column. Gilded cup interiors clean, not worn. Light surface scratches.
GEORG JENSEN: AN ART NOUVEAU STYLE DANISH STERLING SILVER FOUR-PIECE SERVICE ON TRAY 'Blossom' pattern, no. 2D and 2E, designed in 1905, comprising teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl and cream jug on an oval tray, the cover and tray handles cast as magnolia blossom, the two pots and cream with carved fruitwood pouring handles, the four-piece service each raised on three 'toad' feet, all with a lightly planished finish. (5) Tray 56cm across handles, 47cm excluding handles, 33.5cm wide, 122.4 troy ounces grossMarks clear and well struck to underside of each (no import marks). Service all marked 2D, tray 2E. Three wooden handles are later replacements for original ivory, carved to same shape/profile. All pieces stand upright, no rocking to feet. Light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age and use. In very good condition.
AN ELIZABETH II SILVER FLASK by W I Broadway & Co, Birmingham 2010, flattened circular form, with screw-off cover. 11cm by 9cm, 4 troy ouncesLight surface scratching. The marks are very clear and crisp. The screw-top works well and fastens tightly. Not cork but another intact material. No personalised engraving. In generally good condition.
AN ART NOUVEAU AMERICAN STERLING SILVER COMPOTE by Woodside Sterling Co, New York, early 20th Century, the pentagonal top with pierced and moulded undulating edge, repoussé with flowers, leaves and cherries, the tapering stem issuing from a stepped and spreading circular foot. 16.3cm high, 19.7cm diameter, 7.8 troy ouncesStamped STERLING and 2983 to underside, with Woodside maker's mark - clear and well struck. Stands upright, no rocking. Minor ding to stepped shoulder of foot. Light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age and use.
ASSORTED SILVER SPOONS, GEORGE IV AND LATER comprising five George IV silver teapoons, by Thomas Austin, London 1826, Fiddle pattern, engraved 'R' to terminal; and a set of six George VI silver Art Deco dessert spoons, by Thomas Bradbury & Sons Ltd, Sheffield 1938 and 1939, cased. (11) Austin spoons 14.6cm long, 8.8 troy ounces grossOne Bradbury spoon 1938, five 1939. Marks clear and well struck throughout. Light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age and use.
A GEORGE VI SILVER TEA STRAINER by William Suckling Ltd, Birmingham 1940, with foliate pierced handle and lip; together with an early 20th Century American silver miniature bon-bon dish, by Gorham Mfg Co, with pierced sides, C-scroll edge and twin shell handles, marked 'STERLING'. (2) Strainer 15cm long, 1.9 troy ounces grossMarks clear and well struck to each. Light surface marks/pitting to well base of bon-bon dish. Light surface scratches to each commensurate with age and use. In good condition.
A GEORGE V SILVER TWIN-HANDLED VASE by John Round & Son Ltd, Sheffield 1912, tall tapering cylindrical, with slender flying C-scroll handles, a bead and rope-twist rim, engraved each side with garland swags and drop pendants, raised on a stepped circular foot. 24cm high overall, 10.7 troy ouncesMarks clear and well struck. Stands upright, slight rocking to base. Foot slightly misshapen, section of rim with surface scratches to top extending approx. 4cm long. Vacant threaded screw hole to base. Light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age and use.
AN EDWARDIAN SILVER SQUEEZE BOX by Mappin & Webb Ltd, London 1903, plain circular form, the flush-hinged cover engraved with a monogram and 1905, gilded to interior. 8cm diameter, 2.9 troy ouncesMarks clear and well struck. Various minor dings to body. Light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age and use.
† TWO SILVER-PLATED WINE COASTERS circular, with gadrooned edges and turned wood bases, each with presentation inscription. (2) 16.4cm diameterThe Light Dragoons RegimentPresentation inscriptions: first, PRESENTED BY CAPTAIN T.D.WILSON, M.C. ON LEAVING. 1937 - 1947; the second, PRESENTED BY BRIGADIER W.E.H.GRYLLS, O.B.E. ON LEAVING. 1923 - 1954
A COLONIAL INDIAN SWARMI SILVER CARD CASE, MID-19TH CENTURY by Peter Orr, Madras, shaped rectangular, the front engraved with Indra riding his elephant Airavata, with two standing attendants, a tiger mask and five other deities, the reverse with a vacant shield-shaped cartouche, engraved with Lakshmi in a temple niche, an elephant, and six other deities, the whole further engraved with scrolling foliage. 9.4cm by 6.7cm, 4.2 troy ouncesHeavy gauge silver. 'ORR' mark clear and well struck. Cover hinge with very slight play in it, but sturdy. Light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age and use. In good condition.
ROYAL INTEREST: A SET OF TEN ELIZABETH II SILVER AND PARCEL-GILT COMMEMORATIVE SPOONS by the Library of Imperial History, London 1975, "The American Royal Family 1607-1776", the gilded finial of each spoon cast as the bust of a monarch from James I to George III, limited edition of 750, in a fitted presentation case. Largest 11.5cm long, 10.3 troy ounces grossMarks clear and well struck. Each marked with corresponding monarch (ie WIIIR, for William III) to top of terminal beneath bust finial. Gilding slightly worn/dull to finials. Very light surface marks and scratches commensurate with age, in very good condition.
A SILVER-PLATED TWO-TIER CAKESTAND, EARLY 20TH CENTURY by Martin, Hall & Co, Sheffield, the two rounded rectangular trays with pierced gallery sides. 34.7cm high, 27.4cm wide, 19cm deepStands upright, slight diagonal rocking between feet. The stand marked to underside and numbered '4958'. The two trays detachable. Light surface scratches commensurate with age and use.
AN EDWARDIAN SILVER AND ENAMEL BOX by William Hutton & Sons Ltd, London 1905, rounded rectangular, the hinged cover inlaid with turquoise enamel to a raised central flowerhead motif and the corners. 6.8cm by 4.2cm by 2.5cm, 2.2 troy ounces grossMarks clear and well struck. Cover hinge sturdy. Minor ding to base, very slight rocking. Small losses to all four corner sections of enamel, and to some of the flowerhead sections also. Light surface scratches commensurate with age and use.
AN ELIZABETH II SILVER AND GUILLOCHÉ ENAMEL SNUFF BOX by S J Rose & Son, Birmingham 1980, of rectangular form with a moulded border, the hinged cover painted with a pheasant in flight over a shaded guilloché enamel ground. 1.4cm by 3.3cm by 4.5cm, 1.7 troy ouncesSome enamel to the moulded border, light general wear, enamel in good condition
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