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Click here to subscribe1918 Dated Royal Flying Corps / Royal Air Force Mk1 Leather Flying Helmet, light brown leather short pattern flying helmet with fur and chamois lining. Original tailors label to the interior with 1918 date, the label is worn and frayed. Helmet has been adapted for the use of gosport tubes and later applied thick brown leather strap with buckle fitting. Helmet shows service wear.
Chandler (Richard) Inscriptiones Antiquae Pleraegne, nondum editae: In Asia Minori et Graecia, Praesertin Athenis, Colleatae., Cum Appendice. Folio Oxford (Clarendon press) 1775. First Edn., one engd. single pge plt., & 1 lg. fold. plt., some worm holes not affecting text, & lower rt. corner light damp stain, cont. calf, some wear, tooled gilt spine. B.P. (1)
A 20th century prayer rug, with decorative central panel, within borders on a burnt orange ground, 117.5cm x 80.5cm; another prayer rug with very similar design, 102cm x 87cm; a 20th century wool rug, the central panel with repeating pattern, within repeating borders, on a light and dark red ground, 173.5cm x 93cm; and a 'double' carpet cushion cover, with decorative geometric patterns, on a dark brown ground
A quantity of ladies vintage clothing, dating from the mid 20th century onwards - a pair of black Londonus trousers with elasticated feet; a pair of navy blue, red and cream flared trousers; an Italian cashmere black pencil skirt; a heavy black pleated skirt with patterned bottom in brown threads; and a patterned light brown pleated skirt; no size labels on any garment
A 20th century rectangular prayer rug, with floral decoration within borders, on a light red ground, 89cm x 57.5cm; a small rectangular 20th century rug, decorated with flowers and geometric patterns, on a mid pink ground, 103cm x 91.5cm; and another with repeating design, within a floral border, on a mid red ground, 179.5cm x 120.5cm
AN ERCOL DROP LEAF TABLE, 72cm high x 124cm wide x 113cm deep with four Goldsmith dining chairs, 97cm high (5) Condition Report:Table is of a condition consummate with its age and use. All legs are sturdy,there is some light surface wear to table top and ends of supports.. . All chairs appear in a good general condition though one has some light damage where the rail meets the seat each is structurally sound..
Opie, John Lectures on Painting. 1808. First edition, 4to, engraved plates, library stamps of the Working Men's College, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, rubbed; Fuseli, Henry Lectures on Painting, delivered at the Royal Academy. 1820. 4to, engraved frontispiece, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, library stamps of the Working Men's College; Du Fresnoy, Charles A. The Art of Painting... with annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds. York, 1783. First edition of William Mason's translation, 4to, half-title, contemporary calf, spine gilt, slightly rubbed, joints splitting; La Fontaine, J. de Fables, illustrations by Grandville. Paris, 1847. Large 8vo, illustrations, additional title, salmon red morocco gilt, occasional light marginal dampstains, rubbed, g.e.; La Fontaine, J. de. The Fables, with illustrations by Gustave Doré. Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [n.d.], 4to, plates and illustrations, contemporary red half morocco, g.e.; Wright, Thomas A History of Caricature & Grotesque in Literature and Art. [c.1864], 8vo, illustrations, later quarter brown morocco; Brand, John Observations on Popular Antiquities. 1810. 8vo, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed; Reynolds, Sir Joshua The Literary Works. 1899. 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, gilt arms on sides, g.e.; Clerk, Thomas The Works of William Hogarth (Including the 'Analysis of Beauty'), Volume II. 1810. 8vo, bookplate, dust-soiling to frontispiece and throughout, contemporary half calf, edges and corners rubbed (10)
...including the details of the erection and peculiar structure of that edifice. To which is prefixed a Historical View of the Institution and Progress of Northern Light-Houses. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824. First edition, royal 4to, 23 engraved plates including the frontispiece after Turner and secondary title vignette engraved after Miss Stevenson on India paper, engineering plates, map, and a double-page view, 19th century half calf neatly rebacked, red morocco gilt label, endpapers renewed, some foxing to plates as is usual, slight dampstain to fore-edges of many plates and to gutter of frontispieceFootnote: Note: Ruff 179; Todd & Bowden 176A. The book is described in these bibliographies of Walter Scott due to the presence of his poem "Pharos Loquitor" below Miss Stevenson's fine vignette on the secondary title. It is a facsimile of the six lines of verse he wrote in a visitors' album at a lighthouse in 1814, during his celebrated voyage round Scotland with Stevenson and the lighthouse commissioners. "Some" copies, as here, have the plate on India paper. Both bibliographies note that the total edition was of only 250 copies. The great civil engineer, Robert Stevenson, practically inaugurated the Scottish lighthouse system, and the Bell Rock lighthouse is one of his finest and most remarkable achievements.
a collection of 22 letters written between December 1880 and October 1882 by an army officer, A. Redmond B. Warrand, initially stationed in Bombay but re-stationed to Egypt in 1882 in light of the Anglo-Egyptian War, Warrand writes to his mother, father and aunt describing his situation in India (including the tale of several colleagues being attacked by a tiger: …Major Murray and Campbell were out shooting up near Burelly[?] last week, after quail…When suddenly a huge tiger who had been concealed by some low scrub made its appearance and was promptly fired upon but not much damaged… and a banquet or ball attended by both the Viceroy of India and the Maharaja, before describing his relocation to Egypt, writing: This Egyptian affair seems to be gathering like a cloud on the horizon and unless something out of the ordinary course of affairs takes place we shall have a jolly squall, which becomes reality as Warrand is involved in the Battle of Tell-el Kebir, before he finally engaging in Egyptian sightseeing and heading to Malta: On Sunday drove to the Pyramids about 9 or 10 hours from here, by Jove they are a wonderful sight. I climbed to the top of Cheops with the assistance of 4 Arabs one pulling you by each arm another pushing you behind…
The MSS of Symbol of Strife - Robert Burns, & 11 other lyrics on the Scottish Bard... Cramond Bridge, 1927. Bound 8vo manuscript, comprising a 7 page introduction dated 7.2.27 and signed George A. Fothergill; followed by 10pp. comprising two workings of Fothergill's poem "Symbol of Strife - Robert Burns", dated January and February 1927; followed by 10 leaves containing further poems on the subject of Burns dating from between 1911 and 1927; followed by 18 typewritten pages containing Fothergill's poems; contemporary blue boards, manuscript label to upper cover, bookplate, a little light internal foxing, a little wear to spine and coversFootnote: Note: The artist George Algernon Fothergill, 1868-1945, was clearly a great admirer of Robert Burns, who becomes the muse for this bound volume of manuscript and typewritten poetry. Curiously, much of the manuscript contents is written on the reverse side of Fothergill's engravings, Fothergill making a note to this effect on the contents page: "The prints, done from my pictures, which appear at the back of most of these pages have nothing to do with the verse - I was hard up for paper at the time I wrote all this so recklessly used the plates..."
A Persian Treatise on Falconry. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1908. Limited edition of 500 copies, 8vo, black and white photographs through the text, original green cloth with gilt illustration of a hunt, light spotting to paste-down endpapers and free endpapers, occasional wrinkling on edges of front pages, spots of dust-spoiling to edges of pages, bookplate of G.J.B. Barry depicting a falcon
London: by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd, 1698. 12mo, later calf, rebacked, slightly rubbed; Millan, John Arms of the Scotch Nobility. London: J. Millan, 1752, 8vo, 32 pages, engraved throughout, interleaved with blank leaves, contemporary half calf, some light dust-soiling, rubbed (2)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Willy Pogany, illustrator Faust. London: Hutchison & Co., 1908. 4to, number 51 of 250 copies signed by Pogany, 31 colour plates, original vellum gilt; Fitzgerald, Edward - Edmund Dulac, illustrator Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d. but 1909?] 'Printed from the second edition', 4to, 20 tipped-in colour plates, original cream cloth gilt, gift inscription to end-pager, a few minor creases to some plates and some light foxing in places; Dulac, Edmund Tanglewood Tales. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. 4to, 14 tipped-in colour plates, original cloth, bookplate, a little light foxing; [Idem] Treasure Island. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1927. 8vo, 12 colour plates, original brown cloth gilt, gift inscription and bookplate to endpapers; [Idem] Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1928?]. 4to, 16 tipped-in colour plates, original green cloth gilt (5)
Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. 40 tipped-in colour plates, original beige cloth gilt, a little foxing; [Idem] The Tempest. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1926. 20 tipped-in colour plates, original black cloth gilt; De La Motte Fouqué Undine. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 15 tipped-in colour plates, original blue cloth gilt, some light foxing in places; Wagner, Richard The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie. London: William Heinemann, 1910. 34 tipped-in colour plates, original brown cloth gilt, some light foxing; [Idem] Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods. London: William Heinemann, 1911. 30 tipped-in colour plates, original brown cloth gilt, ownership signature, some foxing, binding a little worn, all 4to (5)
Including 12 8vo volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham: Kipling, Rudyard Puck of Pook’s Hill. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. 8vo, 4 colour plates, original green cloth gilt; “Carroll, Lewis” [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. London: William Heinemann, [n.d. but 1907] 8vo, 13 colour plates, original green cloth gilt; Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909. 8vo, 12 colour plates, original light blue cloth gilt, ownership inscription to paste-down endpaper; Lamb, Charles and Mary Tales from Shakespeare. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1909. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, 12 colour plates, original red cloth gilt; Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol. London: William Heinemann, 1915. 8vo, 12 colour plates, original purple cloth gilt; Swinburne, Algernon Charles The Springtide of Life. London: William Heinemann, 1918. 8vo, 7 colour plates, original green cloth gilt; Some British Ballads. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919]. 8vo, 16 tipped-in colour plates, original blue cloth gilt; Der Märchenwald. Zurich: Rascher & Cie., 1919. 8vo, 12 tipped-in colour plates, original red cloth gilt, dust-jacket, a little light foxing; Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928. 8vo, 8 colour plates, original green cloth gilt; The Allies’ Fairy Book. London: William Heinemann, [n.d.] 8vo, 12 colour plates, original blue cloth gilt, school prize label to paste-down endpaper; Mother Goose, the Old Nursery Rhymes. London: William Heinemann, [n.d.] 8vo, 14 plates, original blue cloth; Phillpotts, Eden A Dish of Apples. London & New York: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 8vo, 3 colour plates, original cloth; Shakespeare, William - W. Heath-Robinson, illustrator A Midsummer Night's Dream. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1914. 4to, 12 tipped-in colour plates, modern red calf gilt, slipcase; [Idem] Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night, or What You Will. New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton, [n.d.] 8vo, 40 tipped-in colour plates, original green cloth gilt; Perrault, Charles - W. Heath-Robinson, illustrator Old-Time Stories. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1921. 8vo, 6 tipped-in colour plates, original red cloth gilt, a little foxing (15)
London: R. Scott & G. Wells, 1686]. Folio, 2 volumes in one, lacking title and frontispiece to volume 1, some spotting, first plate with contemporary inscription on verso of Charles Hobbs, Henstridge, Somerset, sectional title of De Ovo Incubato detached; 102 (of 123) engraved plates, first 2 leaves stained and loose, one plate misbound, one plate loose, contemporary calf, very worn; Arbuthnot, John Practical Rules of Diet in the various Constitutions and Diseases of Human Bodies. London, 1732. 8vo, calf, lacks upper board, a little light dust soiling; Traill, Thomas Stewart Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence. Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, 1836. First edition, 8vo; [bound with] [Idem] Suggestions for the Medico-Legal Examination of Dead Bodies. Edinburgh: A. Smellie, [1839], the author's copy with his bookplate, contemporary half calf, worn, upper cover virtually detached; sold not subject to return (3)
London: Richard Marriott, 1678. First edition, 8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece, inscribed by Walton on the title-page: "for ma[ste]r. Hon. John Lloyde I:W" [John Lloyde, a relative of Walton's by marriage] with several autograph corrections to the text which mirror some of the corrections on the errata leaf, contemporary calf neatly rebacked with later spine, some light dampstaining, bookplate, some notes on the endpaper in a later hand, in modern brown morocco folding box lettered in giltFootnote: Note: According to an early note on the fly-leaf, John Lloyde, the person to whom Walton inscribed the book, was either Walton's brother-in-law (who wrote some of the commendatory verses in the Compleat Angler) or his wife's nephew. In his will Walton bequeathed a ring to a John Lloyde.
[Venebles, Robert] The Experienc'd Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1668. Third edition, small 8vo, engraved title-page, contemporary calf neatly rebacked, a little light dampstaining [ESTC R32919]; [Idem] The Experienc'd Angler... London: Richard Marriott, 1676. Fourth edition, small 8vo, later calf, lacking much of the table and final leaves, some marginal worming occasionally affecting text [ESTC R17707]; [Chetham, James] The Angler's Vade Mecum. London: T. Basset, 1689. Second edition, 8vo, later cloth, lacking plate [ESTC R29215]; [Idem] The Angler's Vade Mecum. London: Thomas Bassett, 1681. 8vo, contemporary calf, title and two leaves in facsimile, a few repairs with occasional slight loss to text [ESTC R23536]; [Cox, Nicholas] The Gentleman's Recreation, for that Noble and Delightful Art of Angling, [1686] [extracted from The Gentleman's Recreation: in four parts]; Franck, Richard Northern Memoirs...to which is added the Contemplative and Practical Angler. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. 8vo, contemporary green half morocco gilt; Zouch, Thomas The Life of Isaac Walton... London: Septimus Prowett, 1823. 8vo, later half calf; [Idem] The Life of Isaac Walton... London: Septimus Prowett, 1823. 8vo, contemporary red calf gilt, bookplate; and another copy, stamps; and another copy, purple morocco gilt, bookplate; [Idem] The Life of Isaac Walton... London: Thomas Gosden, 1826. 8vo, contemporary half calf, bookplate; Venebles, Robert The Experienced Angler. London: T. Gosden, 1827. 8vo, contemporary half morocco; [Idem] The Life of Isaac Walton... London: Thomas Gosden, 1830. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Shepherd, Richard Herne Waltoniana. London: Pickering and Co., 1878. 8vo, original cloth; Dance, Charles Izaak Walton, a drama in four parts. London: Chapman and Hall, [1839?] 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary morocco, some darkening; [Teale, Reverend William Henry] The Life of Izaak Walton. London: James Burns, 1841. 12mo, original pink wrappers; Marston, R.B. Walton and some earlier writers on Fish and Fishing. London: Elliot Stock, 1894. 8vo, quarter morocco; sold not subject to return (17)
Wotton, Sir Henry Reliquiae Wottonianae. or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems. London: R. Marriot, G. Bedel and T. Garthwait, 1651. First edition, 12mo, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits, light dust soiling, some pages nibbled, edge of pp. 47-52 charred, later reversed calf, rebacked, lacks text after p.408; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: R. Marriot, G. Bedel and T. Garthwait, 1654. Second edition, 12mo, engraved frontispiece trimmed, engraved portraits, later calf, neatly rebacked; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: T. Roycroft for R. Marriott [&c.], 1672. Third edition, 8vo, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits, contemporary calf, worn; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: T. Roycroft for R. Marriott, &c., 1672. Third edition, 8vo, 3 (of 4) engraved portraits (lacking portrait of King Charles I), contemporary calf, repaired; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: for B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits, good 20th century half calf gilt, rusthole affecting text at p.695; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: for B. Took and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits (the first, frontispiece cut down and mounted), 19th century calf gilt, rebacked retaining original spine; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 4 engraved portraits, title with library stamp and repairs at base, contemporary calf, somewhat spotted, rebacked; [Idem] Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: B. Tooke and T. Sawbridge, 1685. Fourth edition, 8vo, 1 (of 4) engraved portraits, contemporary calf, some spotting, neatly rebacked; Quarles, Francis The Shepheards Oracles. London: John Marriot and Richard Marriot, 1646. Small 4to, later calf, lacking engraved title-page, some leaves repaired with loss to text [ESTC R217945]; Roberts, Lewes The Merchants Map of Commerce. London: R. Horn, 1671. Second edition, folio, contemporary calf, lacking 3 (of 4) maps and 5 leaves [ESTC R235234]; De Pontis - Charles Cotton, translator Memoirs of the Sieur De Pontis. London: James Knapton, 1694. Folio, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbing [ESTC R33977]; Wood, Anthony Athenae Oxonienses. London: R. Knaplock, D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, 1721. Folio, two volumes bound together, facsimile title page in volume 1, later calf retaining some of an older binding; sold not subject to return (12)
The Compleat Angler. London: Geore G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1931. 4to, number 658 of 775 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, frontispiece and 12 colour plates, original vellum gilt, slipcase, endpapers slightly browned with some very light foxing to a couple of initial leaves; another copy, unsigned, bound in embossed brown morocco gilt; another copy, the trade edition, original blue cloth gilt, dust-jacket; another copy, the US trade edition published Philadelphia, no date, original green cloth gilt; and a corresponding UK edition in original blue cloth gilt (5)
Twelve Sermons Preached. London: A. Math. for Robert Dauulman, 1632; [Idem] Two Sermons, the former concerning the right use of Christian Liberty. London: R.B. for R. Dawlman and L. Fawne, 1636. 2 works in one volume, 4to, contemporary calf, some dust-soiling, rebacked; [Idem] De Juramenti Promissorii Obligatione Praelectiones Septem. London: Pullen & Crook, 1647. 8vo, errata leaf at end, title printed in red and black, contemporary calf, some dampstaining chiefly in lower margin, some wear; [Idem] Eight Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined. London: H. Brome, 1674, first edition, variant issue, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, old boards, neatly rebacked with calf; [Idem] another copy. London: H. Brome, 1674. 8vo, first edition, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, head and base of spine rubbed; [Idem] Episcopacy... not Prejudicial to Regal Power. London: R. Pawlet, 1678. 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary sheep, Chiswick Public Library stamps, rebacked, rubbed; [Idem] Episcopacy... not Prejudicial. London: B. Pawlet, 1683, Third edition, 8vo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, rubbed; [Idem] Nine Cases of Conscience: occasionally determined. London: H. Brome, J. Wright & C. Wilkinson, 1678. 8vo, engraved title stuck down to endpaper; [Idem] De Juramenti Promissorii Obligatione. London: R. Scott, T. Basset [&c.], 1683; [Idem] De Obligatione Conscientiae Praelectiones Decem. London: R. Littlebury, R. Scott & G. Wells, 1682; Judicium Universitatis Oxoniensis. London: R. Royston, 1682, 4 works bound in 1 volume, 18th century calf, rebacked; [Idem] De Juramenti Promissorii Obligatione Praelectiones Septemb. London: B. Motte for J. Knapton [&c]m, 1719, 8vo; [Idem] Obligatione Conscientiae Praelectiones Decem. London: J. Knapton, & W. & J. Innys, 1719., 2 works bound in 1 volume, 8vo, panelled calf, rubbed; [Idem] A Discourse concerning the Church. London: for R. Taylor, 1688, 8vo, disbound, lacks imprimatur leaf, in modern light green calf box; [Idem] Eight Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined. London: H. Brome, 1674, 8vo, frontispiece; [Idem] De Obligatione Conscientiae Praelectiones Decem. London J. Martin, 1676, 2 works in one volume, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked; sold not subject to return (10)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. 2 volumes, first edition, 8vo, 2 portrait frontispieces, hand-coloured folding map, single-page map and 51 plates, original green cloth gilt, a little rubbing to joints and bumping to spine ends and corners, folding map neatly repaired to reverse, a few light internal marks (2)
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy with pencil inscription on front free endpaper "To John Horne Esq. with the authors kind regards", 4 black and white aquatint plates, bookplate 'Steve Fossett Collection of Adventure & Exploration', contemporary half calf over marbled boards, some dust-soiling and occasional spotting, small areas of dampstaining, areas of loss and rubbing to spine and corners, rubbing along edges, wear to marbled paperFootnote: Provenance: The Adventure and Exploration Library of Steve Fossett. The collection included works related to Fossett's pursuits as an adventurer. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Explorers' Club, Fossett disappeared in September 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California.
newly translated into English with large additions and improvements. London: Edmund Gibson, 1695. Folio, portrait, 58 plates and maps, with additional illustrations (including one full-page illustration) in text, crushed red morocco gilt by Bayntun & Riviere, a little light dampstaining in places, occasional internal marking, a few neat repairs to corners, margins slightly trimmed without loss to text; and a facsimile copy of the work in slipcase (2)
Venice: heirs of Aldo Romano and Andrea Asolano, 1533. Small 8vo, 183 ll., [22 leaves (the first blank)], woodcut Aldine device on title and verso of F4, eighteenth century panelled red-brown morocco gilt, Finborough Library bookplate, [not traced on USTC], title lightly soiled, occasional light spotting or dampstaining, complete to Z8, with the second part lacking quires B, C and D
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12th July 1493. Folio (456 x 309mm.), illustrated with over 1800 woodblock prints by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, rebound in 18th or 19th century calf over ?original wooden boards, the binding worn; lacking 6 leaves including 1 Contents leaf ("El-Jula - Fredericus tercius"), folios 189, 259, 260 (259 & 260 mostly blank apart from page numeral and running title), 264 and 1 blank leaf at end, title-page trimmed and laid-down, 14 leaves with new lower margin and repaired in inner margin (folio 230 with some loss of woodcut), c. 17 additional leaves repaired in inner margin (folio 87 split with some loss of woodcut), c. 15 further leaves repaired in lower margin (folio 207 with tear extending into image, 226 verso affecting a few letters); folio 299 (map) repaired in inner margin and with corner supplied in manuscript facsimile; some light internal dampstaining and discolouration, a few minor wormholes not affecting text, neat repairs occasionally with slight loss to text, a few closed tears, a small amount of paint applied to a few images, folio 169 with one paragraph of text and image of a Pope erased by an early hand, some neat marginalia in an early hand, covers rubbed, joints split [USTC 748763; Goff S-307; HC *14508; Klebs 889.1; Oates 1026; Proctor 2084; BMC II, 437]Footnote: Provenance: Bookplate of S. Leigh Taylor [d.1891], bequeathed to him by his aunt Joanna Holdsworth [d.1869]; bequeathed by Samuel Leigh Taylor to his nephew, Russell Leigh Taylor; and thence by descentNote: One of the most important German incunables, The Nuremberg Chronicle (as this work is commonly known) is the most richly illustrated printed book produced in the fifteenth century. The text is a universal history of the Christian world from the beginning of times to the early 1490s, written in Latin by the Nuremberg physician and humanist Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514) on commission from the Nuremberg merchants, Sebald Schreyer (1446-1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446-1503). Drawn by the author from multiple medieval and Renaissance sources, such as Bede, Vincent of Beauvais, Martin of Tropau, Bartolomeo Platina, Flavius Blondus, and Philippus de Bergamo, the Chronicle also provides detailed information on the history and topography of European countries and towns. The narrative is divided into 11 parts, the so-called "world ages", and is profusely illustrated with images of biblical and historical events, alongside topographical views of towns and countries in Europe and the Middle East, including Jerusalem (and its destruction) and Byzantium.
Ronaldshay, The Earl of Sport and Politics under an Eastern Sky. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902. First edition, 8vo, 2 folding colour maps, 14 plates, black and white photographs through text, original green pictorial cloth; Gubbins, Martin Richard An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh and of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. First edition, 8vo, 4 folding maps, 4 plates, contemporary red cloth with decorative blindstamping; Thurston, Edgar Ethnographic Notes in Southern India. Madras: Government Press, 1906. First edition, 8vo, 40 plates, original light blue gilt pictorial morocco; Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. (translator) Thirty Songs from the Panjab and Kashmir. London: Old Bourne Press, 1913. Edition of 405, 4to, 2 plates, music and lyrics, owner's ink stamp to free endpaper, polychrome cloth; Holmes, R.B. (photographer) The North-West Frontier of India in Picture. Bombay: The Times Press, 1919. 25 x 32cm, black and white photographs through text, 2 colour illustrations, original grey card pictorial binding; Hayden, H.H. Memoirs of The Geological Survey of India, Volume 36. Calcutta: Government of India Central Printing Office, 1904 and 1907. 8vo, folding map and 2 folding geology surveys, 14 plates, contemporary brown cloth; Edwardes, S.M. and L.G. Fraser Ruling Princes of India. Junagadh: Being a Historical, Archaeological, Political and Statistical Account of The Premier State of Kathiawar. Bombay: Times of India Press, 1907. Colour plate of Map of the Junagadh State, 6 plates with coloured photographs of princes and views on blue paper, photographs through text, original red morocco binding with gilt art nouveau-style decoration. White, Lieutenant George Francis Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains. London & Paris: Fisher, Son, And Co., 1838. 38 illustrated plates including several by JMW Turner, contemporary quarter green morocco and green gilt moir (8) Footnote:
Charles I (1625-1649), York mint, Halfcrown, Gp 3 [type 5], mm. lion, tall horseman, tail behind legs, ebor below horse, crowned square-topped shield, crowned c r at sides, 13.96g/12h (Bull 568; Besly 3A; SCBI Brooker 1081, same dies; N 2313; S 2867). Light scratches in field behind horseman, otherwise good very fine, rare £600-£800 --- Provenance: J. Tooze Collection, DNW Auction 163, 18-19 September 2019, lot 1329 [from L. Bennett]
Charles I (1625-1649), Tower mint, Halfcrown, Gp I, type 1b, lightweight issue [struck between 14 August and 7 September 1626], mm. cross Calvary (over lis on obv.), housings decorated, no ground line, plume above square-topped shield, 12.97g/8h (Bull 38L/5; SCBI Brooker 289; N 2203; S 2767). Good fine or better, extremely rare £2,000-£2,600 --- Provenance: V.J.E. Ryan Collection, Part II, Glendining Auction, 22-4 January 1952, lot 1085 (part); R. Carlyon-Britton Collection; A.E. Bray Collection, Glendining Auction, 1 May 1985, lot 116; C. Adams Collection, Spink Auction 177, 1 December 2005, lot 78; ‘Welsh Marches’ Collection, DNW Auction 154, 3 December 2018, lot 288 [from Spink]. On 14 August 1626 the Mint was instructed to reduce the standard weight of the coins (SCBI Brooker p.xxv). The light coinage was discontinued on 8 November 1626 and, until comparatively recently, only shillings were believed to have been struck. However, a few lightweight halfcrowns are also known (Spink Standard Catalogue, p.267), of which this specimen is one. Among others, Bull lists two in the British Museum, four in the Adams collection (Spink 2005) and four in the collection of the late Dr Hulett, offered in these rooms over the last five years
Charles I (1625-1649), Tower mint, Halfcrown, Gp II, type 2c, mm. portcullis, large second horseman, reads mag br fr et hib, 15.03g/5h (Bull 83/20; SCBI Brooker 316; N 2207; S 2771). Light scratches on obverse and double-struck by reverse mint mark, otherwise very fine or better £300-£400 --- Provenance: Bt Peus
Charles I (1625-1649), Briot’s Second Milled issue, Halfcrown, mm. anchor (to left on obv., to right on rev.), signed b both sides, 14.88g/6h (Bull 469; SCBI Brooker 724, same dies; N 2304; S 2858). Trace of light adjustment marks on horse and shield, otherwise nearly extremely fine, scarce £2,000-£3,000 --- Provenance: SCMB May 1956 (BL 166); Spink Auction 219, 24-5 September 2013, lot 593
Charles I (1625-1649), Oxford mint, Double-Crown, 1643, no mm., tall bust extending to lower edge, Declaration on band, three plumes above, date below, 4.47g/4h (Beresford-Jones III/5; SCBI Schneider 332; SCBI Brooker 858; N 2395; S 2742). Trace of light creasing, otherwise good very fine, very rare £6,000-£8,000 --- Provenance: Künker Auktion 117 (Osnabrück), 28 September 2006, lot 5258
Charles I (1625-1649), Oxford mint, Sixpence, 1644, mm. book on obv. only, rev. from the Groat die, 2.32g/7h (Morr. A-1; SCBI Brooker – [same obv. die as 951-2]; N 2460; S 2982). Flan chipped and cracked between 8 and 9 o’clock, a few light obverse scratches, otherwise good fine, reverse very fine, extremely rare £1,000-£1,200 --- Provenance: Silver Coins of Charles I from a Private Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 79, 24 September 2008, lot 3676; J.R. Hulett Collection, Part XX, DNW Auction 185, 1-2 December 2020, lot 72
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