Hutchinson (Horace G.). Life of Sir John Lubbock Lord Avebury, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1914, includes a handwritten letter to Prof. S. Thompson from Lord Avebury on '15 Lombard Street. E.C.' headed notepaper, 2 monochrome portrait frontispieces, volume 1 pp. xii & pedigree in facsimile, some light spotting & toning, publishers original uniform blue cloth, 'Grant's Select Library' labels to both front boards, boards & spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with; Willis Bund (J. W.), The Celtic Church of Wales, 1st edition, London: D. Nutt, 1897, pages uncut, some light marginal toning, publishers original green cloth, spine very lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, plus other early 20th-century & modern history reference & biography, including Winston S. Churchill, 12 volumes, by Randolph S. Churchill & Martin Gilbert, & publications by Cambridge, Oxford, Batsford, A. & C. Black, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
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![[Moore, John]. A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons; Comprehending all the different species known in England, 1st edition, London:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a7f3d110-11d8-4af5-b517-adf200b763f9/63088c49-11e6-472f-b3f2-adf3010549fc/468x382.jpg)
[Moore, John]. A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons; Comprehending all the different species known in England, 1st edition, London: Printed and sold by C. Barry, 1765, engraved frontispiece, 13 engraved plates, some light spotting and stains, front hinge reinforced with clear tape, bookplates of the Earl of Clanricarde and Joseph Lucas, contemporary calf, joints cracked, lacking spine label, a little rubbed with some edge wear, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: ESTC T139329.
Milne (A. A.). When We Were Young, 5th edition, December 1924, Winnie The Pooh, 12th edition, 1933, Now We Are Six, 1st edition, 1927, London: Methuen & Co., black & white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, some marginal light toning, top edges gilt, all in the publishers original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed & faded, 8vo, together with; Carroll (Lewis), Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, 88th thousand, 1899, Through The Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 62nd thousand, 1898, London: Macmillan and Co., black & white illustrations by John Tenniel, gutters cracked, some light spotting & toning, top edges gilt, both in the publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spines slightly toned, rubbed & marked, 8vo, 'B.B.', Down The Bright Stream, 1st edition, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948, 16 colour plates plus black & white illustrations by D. J. Watkins-Pitchford, minor marginal toning, original cloth in price-clipped dust jacket covers rubbed with some tears & minor loss to head & foot, 4to, and other early 20th-century & modern juvenile & illustrated literature, including At The Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald, 1st edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, 1919, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith, 8vo, & works by Beatrix Potter, J. K. Rowling, E. Nesbit, Arthur Ransome, Charles Robinson, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (6 shelves )
![J. Osborn [printed for]. Aesop's Fables with instructive Morals and Reflections, abstracted from all Part Considerations, ada](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a7f3d110-11d8-4af5-b517-adf200b763f9/87f1bf3b-225c-418a-8e54-adf301063533/468x382.jpg)
J. Osborn [printed for]. Aesop's Fables with instructive Morals and Reflections, abstracted from all Part Considerations, adapted to all Capacities; and design'd to promote Religion, Morality and Universal Benevolence, London: 1740, black & white engraved title page plus 24 engraved plates, lacks the front & rear endpapers, contemporary inscriptions to the front & rear pastedowns & to the verso of the title page, some loss to the title page & plate 1, some toning & marks throughout, contemporary full calf, boards & spine partially detached, front hinges cracked, some loss to the head of the spine, small 8vo, together with; Bingley (W.), Memoirs of British Quadrupeds,..., London: printed for Darton and Harvey et al, 44 black & white engraved plates, later endpapers, front gutters cracked, some toning & spotting throughout, heavy spotting to pp.129-145, later gilt decorated navy blue morocco, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, Morris (F. O.), A History of British Birds, 5 volumes (volumes 2-6), London: Groombridge and Sons, 1852, numerous colour plates, some light toning & spotting, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards rubbed, spines faded & rubbed with some loss, 8vo, and other 19th-century reference & plate books, including The Birds of the British Islands, 5 volumes, by Charles Stonham, London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-11, large 4to, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some original cloth, some foreign language & odd volumes, some volumes incomplete & sold as seen, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio Approximately 60 volumesQty: (3 shelves )
Lemoine (Serge et al). Gottfried Honegger, tableaux-reliefs/skulpturen 1970-1983, limited edition, Zürich: Waser, 1983, signed by the artist to the limitation page, includes a numbered & signed monochrome print 85/243, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original cloth in dust jacket, front cover with slight indentation to the top right, covers lightly toned & rubbed, 4to, 85/243, together with; Hooper (Steven), Robert and Lisa Salisbury Collection, 3 volumes, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, publishers original uniform cloth in dust jackets, tear & light damage to volume 1 front boards & cover, large 8vo, Joppien (Rüdiger & Bernard Smith), The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages, 4 volumes, 1st edition, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985-88, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, volumes 1 & 2 are ex-library copies with associated marks & stamps, publishers original uniform cloth in dust jackets, covers lightly rubbed to head & foot, folio, and other art reference, including publications by Antique Collectors' Club, Yale, V&A, Tate, many original cloth in dust jackets, some paperback editions, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
Morris (Francis Orpen). A History of British Birds, 6 volumes, 1st edition, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1851-1857, 358 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates, light spotting, original pictorial cloth gilt, backstrips uniformly faded, volume V with tear to head of backstrip, extremities worn & rubbed, 4to, together with: A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 1st edition, 3 volumes, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1853-55, 225 chromoliothographic plates, light spotting, some dust-soiling to endpapers, original pictorial cloth gilt, backstrips faded, extremities worn & rubbed, 8vo with Butler's British Birds Their Nests and Eggs, 6 volumes, 1896-98 & Sidney's The Book of the HorseQty: (16)
Hughes (Charles). Shakespeare's Europe, unpublished chapters of Fynes Moryson's Itinerary..., 1st edition, London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1903, period inscription by the author to the front endpaper, bookplate to front pastedown, some light toning & spotting, top edge gilt, publishers original quarter vellum, boards & spine rubbed, 4to, together with; Lyons (Mary Ann), Frano-Irish Relations, 1500-1610 [Royal Historical Society studies in history, new series], 1st edition, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2003, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed & marked, 8vo, Sutherland (N. M.), Princes Politics and Religion 1547-1589, 1st edition, London: The Hambledon Press, 1984, original cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and other modern history, philosophy & science reference, including publications by Routledge, Boydell, Oxford, Harvard, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
Maurice (Thomas). The History of Hindostan; its arts, and its sciences, 2 volumes, London: printed for W. Bulmer, 1795, 20 monochrome engraved plates, later endpapers with inscriptions contemporary to them, some light toning & spotting, later uniform gilt decorated half calf to marbled boards, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 4to, together with; Grose (Francis), The Antiquities of England and Wales, 8 volumes, 2nd edition, London: printed for S. Hooper, 1783, numerous monochrome engraved plates, lacking original front endpapers, some toning & light spotting throughout, later uniform half calf with marbled boards, boards & spine rubbed with minor loss, volume 1 rear board & volume 8 front board detached, large 8vo, J. Johnson et al [printed for], Maps, Plans, Views, and Coins, illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis The Younger, in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century,..., 4th edition, London, 1806, numerous monochrome maps & plates, some toning & spitting throughout, contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed with minor loss, 4to, plus a French edition of the same work, Paris: Jacquez Storti, 1790, 8vo, and other 19th & early 20th-century travel & British topography reference, including Canadian Scenery illustrated, from drawings by W. H. Bartlett, 2 volumes, by N. P. Willis, London: George Virtue, 1842, 4to, some leather, some original cloth, some odd volumes, some volumes incomplete & sold as seen, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
Neale (J. P.). Views of The Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, 6 volumes, London: W. H. Reid, 1818, numerous monochrome engraved plates, some minor toning & marks, contemporary uniform gilt decorated half calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed, some hinges cracked, large 4to, together with; Mortimer (Thomas), A New History of England, from the earliest accounts of Britain to the Ratification of the Peace of Versailles, 1763, 3 volumes, London: printed for J. Wilson and J. Fell, 1764, black & white engraved maps & plates, some light spotting & toning, contemporary uniform full calf with green & red morocco spines, boards & spines rubbed with some loss, folio, Britton (John), The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain,..., 3 volumes, London: printed for Longman, Hurst, et al, 1807, numerous black & white engraved plates, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some marginal toning, contemporary uniform gilt decorated green half calf, boards & spines slightly faded & rubbed, large 4to, and other 18th & 19th-century British topography & history reference, including The Antiquities of England and Wales:..., 8 volumes, by Francis Grose, 2nd edition, London: printed by C. Clarke, 1783, all leather bindings, some odd volumes, some volumes incomplete & sold as seen, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
Blake (William). The Songs of Experience, London: David Nutt, circa 1902, black & white illustrations by Celia Levetus, period inscription 'Jennie Cohen with love from Celia Levetus, June 1902' to the front endpaper, some minor toning, publishers original illustrated green cloth, boards & spine lightly faded & rubbed, 8vo, together with; Bridges (Robert), The Testament Of Beauty, a poem in four books, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1930, monochrome portrait frontispiece, some light marginal toning, publishers original quarter vellum, spine rubbed & cracked with minor loss, 4to, Niffenegger (Audrey), Her Fearful Symmetry, limited edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 2009, signed by the author to the limitation page, publishers original boards in slipcase, 8vo, 238/750, and other modern literature & miscellaneous reference, including The Witch of Ramoth and other tales, illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg, limited edition, Pennsylvania: The Maple Press, 1950, 8vo, 1053/1700, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves )
New Naturalist Series. The New Naturalist library, volumes 1-143, 1st editions, 1945-2021, original publisher's cloth, dust jackets, 50 & 66 reprints (all others firsts), many price-clipped, 143 with tipped-in signature (book with heavy shelf lean), many early volumes with chipping to dust jacket extremities & toning to spines (24 & 27 especially so), earlier volumes with light spotting to preliminaries, a few with bookseller's tickets to front pastedowns, 8vo, with 4 additional volumes relating to the New Naturalist seriesQty: (147)Footnote: An exceptional complete run, in excellent condition. Volumes 70 & 71 are first states.
Loftie (W. J.). The Inns of Court and Chancery, large paper edition, London: Seeley and Co., 1893, 12 black & white plates & 45 vignettes, some minor spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated quarter vellum, boards & spine lightly marked & faded, folio, limited edition 78/100, together with; Phillips (Hugh), The Thames about 1750, limited edition, London: Collins, 1951, signed by the author to the front endpaper, numerous monochrome illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front pastedown, some minor toning, publishers original cloth spine to marbled boards in slipcase, slipcase slightly marked, large 8vo, 128/200, Book of Common Prayer, The 'Book of the Common Prayer ', as issued in the Year 1549, in the Reign of King Edward the Sixth,..., privately reproduced in facsimile for Mr. G. Moreton, limited edition, Sevenoaks, 1896, some light spotting, later cloth with red calf spine labels, large 8vo, 169/500, and other London & literary reference & facsimile editions, including Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century in the Library of George John Earl Spencer, by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, London: printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, 1822, large 8vo, mostly original cloth, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/folioQty: (6 shelves & a carton)
Elwell (Charles). Corsican Excursion, 1st edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1954, 12 illustrations by Edward Lear, minor marginal toning, original cloth in dust jacket, covers lightly rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, 8vo, includes a black & white postcard of Bastia handwritten by the author, together with; Bannerman (David A. & W. Mary), Birds Of Cyprus, 1st edition, 1958, half-title inscribed by the authors, 16 colour plates & 15 half-time plates, water damage to the top quarter of the text block, some light spotting, original cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, Bergerat (Emile), A Wild Sheep Chase, notes of a little philosophic journey in Corsica, London: Seeley and Co., 1894, later inscription to the front endpaper, black & white vignettes, some light spotting & toning, original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and other modern Mediterranean islands reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, some paperbacks, G/VG, 8vo/4toQty: (3 shelves )
Plutarch. Chaeronensis Moralia,..., volume 1 (of 3), Frankfurt: Feyerabend, 1592, printers woodcut device to the title page, period ownership inscription to the underneath the publication date (washed out) & to the final leaf & recto, some minor worming to the foot of the title page to pp32, some light toning & marks, contemporary vellum, boards & spine lightly marked, 8vo, together with; Hayley (William), The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esqr. With an introductory letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper, 2 volumes, Chichester: printed by J. Seagrave, 1803, 3 black & white engraved portrait plates, some toning & light spotting throughout, uniform contemporary gilt decorated full tree calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed with minor loss, large 4to, Rees (Abraham), Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences..., 4 volumes, London: printed for J. F. And C. Rivington et al, 1787, black & white engraved frontispiece to volume 1, bookplates to the front pastedowns, some spotting, toning & marks, uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, boards & spines rubbed with some loss, folio, and other 16th to 19th-century literature & reference, including The Waverley Novels, 12 volumes, by William Makepeace Thackeray, Abbotsford Edition, Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1842, contemporary uniform gilt decorated blue half morocco, 8vo, many leather bindings, some original cloth, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio Approximately 110 volumesQty: (6 shelves )
Watkins-Pitchford (D.J., "B B"). The Idle Countryman,1943; The Wayfaring Tree, 1945; Tide's Ending, 1950; Dark Estuary, 1953, 1st editions, illustrations, a little light spotting, light water stains and presentation inscription to The Idle Countryman, original cloth (light stain to Idle Countryman, slight fading to spines), dust jackets, a few chips, tears and losses, 8vo & 4to, together with others by Denys Watkins-Pitchford including The White Road Westwards,1961, Philandering Angler (by Arthur Applin), [1948], A Child Alone. The Memoirs of 'BB', 1978, 'BB' Confessions of a Coastal Gunner, edited by Bryan Holden, 2011, limited edition 98/475, 'BB' Diary and Sketchbook 1922, edited by Bryan Holden, 2012, limited edition 286/675, Summer Road to Wales, 1964 & A Summer on the Nene, 1967 both signed by the authorQty: (54)
Freeman-Mitford (A. B.). The Bamboo Garden, 1st edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1896, 11 monochrome illustrations by Alfred Parsons, note slip to the preface, errata slip to the list of illustrations, some toning & spitting throughout, top edge gilt, publishers original gilt decorated white cloth, previous owner inscription to the front board, boards & spine slightly rubbed, toned & marked, 8vo, together with; Spurgeon (C. H.), Farm Sermons, London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1900, some light spotting, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, Allen (F. M.), Brayhard, 1st edition, London: Ward and Downey, 1890, 37 illustrations by Harry Furniss, previous owner stamps & mark to the front endpapers & half-title, some light spotting, top edge gilt, publishers original decorated blue cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other late 19th & early 20th-century literature & illustrated literature, including The Fairy Book, illustrated by Warwick Goble, London: Macmillan and Co., 1923, 8vo, all original decorated cloth, overall condition is generally good, 8vo 59 volumesQty: (3 shelves )
Carroll (Lewis). The Hunting of The Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, 9 black & white illustrations by Henry Holiday, some toning, rebound in contemporary red cloth by J. Bland & Co., spine lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with; Rackham (Arthur [illustrator]), The Springtide of Life, Poems of Childhood, by Algernon Charles Swinburne, London: William Heinemann, 1918, 8 colour plates plus black & white vignettes, previous owner inscription to the head of the front endpaper, some light spotting & toning, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, Lear (Edward), More Nonsense, 5th edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1897, 104 black & white illustrations, previous owner inscription to the front endpaper offset to the half-title, front & rear gutters cracked & partially disbound, some light toning, publishers original gilt decorated red cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed & marked, oblong 4to, and other late 19th & early 20th-century illustrated & juvenile literature, including boys & girls annuals, H. M. Brock, Charles Robinson, Frank Reynolds, Kenneth Grahame, all original cloth, overall condition is good/very good, 8vo/4toQty: (9 shelves )
Chamberlayne (John). Magna Britannia Notitia: or, the Present State of Great Britain; with divers remarks upon the antient state there of, in two parts (bound in 1), London: printed for D. Midwinter et al, 1727, black & white engraved portrait frontispiece, previous owner mark to the head of the front pastedown, front & rear gutters cracked, some toning & offsetting throughout, lacking rear endpaper, contemporary full calf, boards & spine rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, together with; Stevens (Sacheverell), Miscellaneous Remarks made On the Spot, in a late Seven Years Tour through France, Italy, Germany and Holland..., London: printed for S. Hooper, 1756, 6 black & white engraved folding plates some of which are fixed with tape, lacks front & rear endpapers, contemporary previous owner inscription to the head of the title page, some marginal toning, contemporary full calf, boards & spine slightly rubbed with minor loss, 8vo, Stow (John), A Survey of the cities of London and Westminster:..., Corrected, Improved, and very much Enlarged...by John Strype...in Six Books (bound in 2), London: printed for A. Churchill et al, 1720, later endpapers, some toning & light marks, later uniform full calf, boards & spines rubbed with some minor loss, folio, and other 18th & 19th-century literature, including An History of The River Thames, 2 volumes, London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1794, folio, mostly contemporary leather bindings, some volumes incomplete, overall condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio Approximately 65 volumesQty: (3 shelves )
Dunmore (Charles Adolphus Murray, Earl of). Scenes in Many Lands from Sketches by the Earl of Dunmore Eastern & Western Hemispheres, London: The Autotype Company, c.1897, 3-page preface, 96 collotypes (four double-page, photographic & after original artwork), one plate with marginal pen annotations, a couple of plates with marginal closed tears, one plate with marginal loss & closed tear affecting image (repaired with tape to verso), occasional light soiling & spotting (mostly marginal), original blue cloth, worn & stained in places, oblong 4toQty: (1)Footnote: Scarce, no copies traced at auction or held institutionally. There was a preceding volume entitled 'Scenes in Many Lands, Arctic to the Equator' of which we have been able to trace one copy at auction and one copy institutionally (NLS). The work includes scenes from numerous countries including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Chinese coastal areas, Japan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Canada, Lebanon, Sri Lanka & the South Pacific.
Chagall (Marc, illustrator). Maternité by Marcel Arland. Récit orné de cinq gravures hors text de Marc Chagall, Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1926, 5 etched plates by Chagall, half-title, occasional faint marginal dust-soiling, faint spotting & light offsetting to endpapers, original paper wrappers, original blue dust jacket, browned & toned, untrimmed, spine extremities rubbed, faint spotting to front cover, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Limited edition 582 of 960 on Lafuma de Voiron.
![Erotica. Nouveaux Meandres Intimes, vingt-cinq gravures sur cuivre un artiste celebre [by Almery Lobel-Riche], Paris: Aux dep](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a7f3d110-11d8-4af5-b517-adf200b763f9/8b8590b4-473d-4257-b415-adf301054feb/468x382.jpg)
Erotica. Nouveaux Meandres Intimes, vingt-cinq gravures sur cuivre un artiste celebre [by Almery Lobel-Riche], Paris: Aux depens de quelques amateurs, circa 1945, 25 engraved plates on pink and cream paper, window-mounted, loose as issued in original wrappers, green velvet chemise, slipcase some fading and light spotting, 4to, limited edition 40/60, together with a modern Oriental erotic scrollQty: (2)
Gropius (Walter). The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, translated from the German by P. Morton Shand, with an introduction by Frank Pick, 1st English edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1935, monochrome illustrations after photographs, original white cloth, lettered in red, lightly rubbed and pale discolouration to spine and edges, in price-clipped dustwrapper (designed by L. Moholy-Nagy), minor fraying and a few marks to extreme edges, several light annotations in pencil to margins [probably in the hand of Rex Martienssen], 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Author's signed presentation copy, inscribed in ink to front endpaper 'Fur die Architektur-Fakultat der University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Walter Gropius London, April 1936'. Provenance: Rex Martienssen (1905-1942), architect Heather Martienssen (1915-1979). The South African pioneer of International Modernism Rex Marteinssen (1905-1942) was the principal figure in the small modernist Transvaal Group, which included W. G. McIntosh and Norman Hanson. Martienssen published an article on "The International Tendency in Contemporary Architecture" in the South African Architectural Record in December 1931. In April 1936 Gropius wrote in response to a letter, most likely written by Martienssen, thanking him for some journals sent, sending his good wishes, as well as permission to reprint The New Architecture and the Bauhaus. See Gilbert Herbert, Marteinssen, and the International Style: the modern movement in South Africa (A. A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1975) for further information.
Kunz (George Frederick & Charles Hugh Stevenson). The Book of the Pearl. The history, art, science and industry of the queen of gems, 1st UK edition, London: Macmillan & Co., 1908, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, light spotting to endpapers, top edge gilt, original cream cloth gilt, a few small marks, 4toQty: (1)
Dunn-Pattison (R.P.) The History of the 91st Argyllshire Highlanders, now the 1st Battalion Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1910, maps and illustrations, some light spotting, endpapers renewed, original cloth gilt, rebacked with most of original spine relaid, 4to, together with Cavendish (A.E.J.) An Reisimeid Chataich. The 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, 1799-1927, privately published, 1928, maps and illustrations, manuscript list at front, original green cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, a few small damp stains, 4to, with seven others including Roderick Burgoyne's Historical Records of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, 1883 Edward Almack's The History of the Second Dragoons "Royal Scots Greys", 1908, Norman Macleod's War History of the 6th (Service) Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 1934, and Walter Richards' Her Majesty's Army, 3 volumes, circa 1890Qty: (9)
Earle (T. Algernon). List of Officers who have served in the Lancashire Hussars, Yeomanry Cavalry, with some short notes and annals of the regiment, since its formation in 1848 to the present time, 1889, 5 chromolithographed plates of uniforms, a little light toning, modern half morocco, 4to, together with Willcox (Walter Temple). The Historical Records of the Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers, from their foundation as Wynne's Dragoons (in 1689) to the present day, London: Arthur Doubleday, 1908, colour and monochrome maps and illustrations, a few small annotations, a little light spotting, previous owner inscription of 'Anglesey, 1961' to front endpaper (possibly 7th Marquess Anglesey, author and historian), top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, spine and margins of lower cover toned, 4to, plus The History of the 5th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoons from 1689 to 1799 afterwards the 5th Royal Irish Lancers from 1858 to 1921, by Colonel J.R. Harvey & Lieut.-Colonel H.A. Cape, 1923Qty: (3)
Fortune (Robert). A Journey to the Tea Countries of China; including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1852, map, 2 tinted lithographs & 1 uncoloured wood engraving, further wood-engravings in text, publisher's advertisements to rear, front hinge cracked, endpapers spotted, occasional light dust-soiling, original publisher's cloth gilt, faintly marked & rubbed, 8voQty: (1)Footnote: Abbey 529.
A German MOA 200/9 bisque-headed girl doll with red wig, closing blue eyes and open mouth with four teeth, on jointed composition body c/w cotton dresses, and requires re-stringing head undamaged although detached from body and showing light surface marks, right hand has three fingers broken off, the left hand four fingers broken off, requires re-stringing
A Fine 20th century Japanese 'Ando' cloisonne jewellery casket decorated overall with green trellis work, chrysanthemum and other flowers in bright polychrome enamels on white metal body, the locking hinged cover opening to reveal a champagne velvet lined interior, standing on four bracket feet, 21 cm w x 13 cm d x 85 cm h c/w gilt tooled green Moroccan leather travel case with velvet and silk lining and blue ribbon label for 'J. Ando Cloisonne Ware, Tokyo, Nagoya, Japan'Good condition of little use, bright enamels overall with some very minor surface scratches, opens/closes and locks smoothly, some areas of light foxing/spotting to lining of case
A quantity of vintage Naval officer's uniform, comprising four jackets and trousers, two evening dress short jackets with waistcoats and trousers, light and heavy overcoats, and two caps, braids for a Lieutenant Commander (Reserve) to/w the cap, jacket and skirt for a WRN officer, all contained in a trunk
A Chinese famille rose millefleur bowl of compressed globular form, painted in bright polychrome enamels with an abundance of various flowers and leaves against a coral ground, white interior and base with off-centre six character Qianlong mark in iron red but Republic period or later, 15.5 cm high c/w stained hardwood circular standNot chipped, cracked or damaged, light wear to enamels
A small late 19th century Chinese Canton famille rose dish with gilt foliate rim painted in the typical palette of enamels with elegant ladies on a terrace in a garden landscape setting with a bird and flower border, late Qing, 15.5 cm diameter to/w a famille rose scent bottle and stopper, 12.5 cm high, two famille rose miniature vases, 9 cm and 9.5 cm high and two cloisonne examples enamelled with dragon and flower designs, 9 cm and 9.5 cm high (6)Famille rose dish showing light wear to gilding and enamels, miniature vases with small rim chips
An Edwardian silver dressing table set with Art Nouveau borders and engine-turned decoration, comprising pin-tray, three brushes, hand-mirror, scent-bottle, cover pot, glass box, ring-box, button hook and shoe-horn, William Griffiths & Sons/Sothers, Orchard & Co, Birmingham 1908-1911, in fitted caseSilver set in generally good condition; lining of trinket box worn; some light dents to silver mounts, commensurate with moderate use; box fairly scuffed and with one clasp-lug missing
A late 18th/19th century Chinese blue and white plate, painted in underglaze blue with a large pineapple below a branch of cloves, a branch of nutmeg and trellis border, the design taken from an engraving in the medical journal 'A Compleat History of Druggs' by Pierre Pomet, published in London 1712,Light wear only
A pair of Dresden porcelain bottle vases of square baluster form, painted with alternating panels of 17th century courting couples and floral sprays on a yellow ground within gilt borders, 32 cmNo damage, light wear to gilding in parts Slight bump on yellow panel with tulip (under glaze) Three small pinholes under the glaze - situated on panel with blindfolded lady with yellow hat Minor scratches on top of glaze on purple skirt (lady wearing yellow top)
A 20th century Chinese famille rose bowl, painted with floral decoration and alternating lotus lappet banding in polychrome enamels, the interior with birds and peaches and the base with six-character Daoguang mark in seal script, 18 cm diameter to/w famille rose tea bowl painted with birds perching amongst blossoming prunus, also with Daoguang mark, 11 cm diameter, Republic period or laterlarger bowl with rim chips and hairlines and areas of wear to enamels, smaller example with light wear only
A Victorian cast iron garden bench raised on five turned legs, 140 cm long x 43 cm x 89 cm h o/all, the seat 46 cm (by repute - exhibited at The Great Exhibition) sound and original overall, multiple layers of differing colour paints, light corrosion showing though – vendor long term owned, acquired Sotheby’s Summers Place
A large antique French provincial elm and fruitwood dining table, the plank top raised on square tapering legs, 239 cm long x 88 cm x 75 cm h Overhang 3.5 cm Height to table skirt 60 cm. Table legs have been tipped. Signs of old woodworm, but not extensive. Markings - scratches (light) and rings to surface commensurate with use.
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