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Click here to subscribeA pair of Danish silver two-light candelabraHolger Rasmussen, circa 1950, also stamped Sterling DenmarkThe nozzles issuing from a central 'C' scroll support embellished with further scrolls, on circular bases, height 17cm, weight 32.8oz. (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A George III silver Fiddle and Thread pattern fish slicePaul Storr, London 1817Engraved crest for Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hussey GCB GCH PC FRS (1775-1842), length 30.2cm, weight 5.2oz.Footnotes:Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hussey GCB GCH PC FRS (1775-1842) later Baronet Vivian created 1828 and Baron Vivian created 1841. He was the son of John VIVIAN (1750-1826) of Truro by Betsey CRANCH, a British cavalry officer who served in Flanders and Holland from 1800 in the Peninsular War. When in command of the light cavalry in 1814 he took part in the action at Croix d'Orade on the Ers River, where he was severely wounded. During this action the 18th Hussars seized a key bridge intact helping to isolate the French defenders of Toulouse. His crest refers to this action. In 1815 he commanded the 6th Brigade and subsequently played a major part in the Battle of Waterloo, for which he was highly decorated. After the battle he remained in France as part of the army of occupation.VIVIAN married firstly in 1804 Eliza CHAMPION and secondly Letitia WEBSTER. He left issue from both marriages and a natural son in 1802.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Britains set 2041 Clockwork Unit, light green finish with key and two original boxes (Condition Very Good, boxes Good), three race game mounted jockeys, two Metal Models mounted Police, Eastern Woman, two potted palms, three Crescent seated Children, Hill Porter with trolley and Police with motorcycles and sidecar, T & B elephant ride howdah, Britains Hospital and other items (Condition Very Good-Fair, seven damaged) (37)
Britains Matte Napoleonic Series Hougoumont 17670 French Chasseurs and Nassau Light Infantry Carabiniers 17965 and 17987, French 00151 Command, 00152 Advancing, 17298 Casualties, 17257 Mounted with Highlander, 00153 Hand to Hand and 17255 95th Foot Rifle Brigade in original boxes and clamshell (Condition Excellent, packaging Very Good) (19)
Forces of Valour 1/32 D-Day Series Transport and light vehicles diecast with plastic detailing figures and a quantity of accessories: US 2.5 ton truck and Jeep, German Kubelwagen and 88mm Flak Gun with various figures, not all Forces of Valor, and a quantity of accessories and six original boxes (Condition Excellent, two figures damaged, possibly a few parts missing, boxes Fair-Poor) 2008 (32 not counting accessories)
Britains set 2088, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at the trail, No.1 dress (one chip from chest), with Officer and set 74, Royal Welch Fusiliers with Officer and goat mascot in original ROAN boxes (Condition Excellent, fusilier officer arm missing, boxes Good, card inserts missing) and set 44, 2nd Dragoon Guards with Trumpeter in original ROAN box (Condition Good-Fair, two lance heads and one tail missing, trumpeter horse leg bent, box Fair, two corners of lid split) (21)
Josef Lorenzl (Austrian 1892 - 1950), an art deco silvered bronze figure of a dancing girl with short dress and trains attached to wrist loops on outstretched arms, cold painted with red and yellow flowers and signed by 'Crejo' who was a friend of Lorenzl, raised on oval bronze base signed 'Lorenzl' further raised on oval shaped Brazilian green onyx base, 32cm high - Condition note: Light wear to silvering and finger tips, hair and hem of dress, calf of left leg and heel
Josef Lorenzl (Austrian 1892 - 1950), an art deco silvered bronze figure of a dancing girl with ivory head and hands, wearing a long off the shoulder dress with wide front split and held with outstretched arms, cold painted with pink flowers and green foliage, signed by 'Crejo' who was a friend of Lorenzl, raised on circular bronze base signed 'LORENZL' further raised on square stepped Brazilian green onyx base, 32cm high. Condition note: Hand has probably been re-fixed out of its intended position, some light spots of wear to silvering around cuffs and neckline of dress and right shin
Bible (English; Authorised). [The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New: newly translated out of the Originall Tongues and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesties Speciall Command. Appointed to be read in churches, Cambridge: Thomas and John Buck, printers to the University of Cambridge, 1629]. Folio in sixes (295 x 192 mm), near-contemporary olive-green morocco, each cover gilt with concentric dogtooth rolls enclosing large coat of arms with crest of a gryphon statant (slightly rubbed, ties gone, score-mark to rear cover), all edges gilt, signatures [par.]6 A-3I6 3K4 3L-4A6 4B4 (4B4=blank), ruled in red throughout, woodcut initials, 18th-century bookplate (William Greene Esqr), engraved general title-page lacking, moderate browning, signatures N6-O1 and 2Q4-5 with light circular stains toward gutter, stronger staining in gutter of quires 3U-3A, leaves R5, 3B4-5 and 3L4 with closed tears extending into text (repaired in 3B5 and 3L4), New Testament title-page (3L1) with long closed tear in gutter (affecting one letter), two other closed tears and 18th-century manuscript genealogy verso, a few marginal nicks and other marks elsewhere, Book of Common Prayer bound in at front and The Whole Book of Psalmes at rear (both defective) (qty: 1) Darlow & Moule (1903 edition) 324; ESTC S107038. First edition of the King James Bible to be printed at Cambridge, a 'beautiful' edition (Darlow & Moule).
Bible (English; Authorised). The Holy Bible. Containing the Bookes of the Old and New Testament, Cambridge: John Field, [1660]. 2 volumes, large folio (457 x 290 mm), contemporary red goatskin gilt by Samuel Mearne, spines richly gilt in compartments incorporating the royal cipher of Charles II, each cover gilt with 24 impressions of the royal cipher in two different sizes between concentric floral and fillet rolls, comb-marbled endpapers, all edges and turn-ins gilt, pp. [16] 680; [2] 681-1103 [1] 1-258 [2], [2] 1-338, signatures [par.]-2[par.]4 A-3K6 3L4; pi1 3M-4Y6 4Z8 a-x6 y4 (y4=blank), A-2D6 2E8, ruled in red throughout, engraved general title-page to volume 1 by Lombart after Diepenbeeck depicting Solomon enthroned (undated; counted in pagination by ESTC), volume 2 with letterpress general title-page ('The Second Part of the Holy Bible', dated 1660) and letterpress New Testament title-page (dated 1659), engraved arms of Charles II by Hollar to each volume, 118 engraved plates mainly by Visscher or Le Blond after Heemskerck, de Bruyn, de Vos, Coninxloo, Potter and others (mainly double-page, and including a folding panorama of Jerusalem on two sheets), engraved double-page map by Hollar (facing volume 1 p. 298). Bindings variably scuffed and rubbed, superficial score-marks, ties possibly renewed, occasional light browning to contents, volume 1 with closed tear in C2, plate at p. 12 with closed tear in gutter and fraying along top edge, plate at p. 468 with split to foot of central fold, volume 2 with short closed tears in a1, D4 and N6, closed transerve tear through P2 to no loss of text, marginal nicks or tears to a few plates (facing pp. 872, 1008 and 138), and a longer closed tear and marginal fraying to panorama of Jerusalem (qty: 2) Darlow & Moule (1903 edition) 525; ESTC R17044. A splendid copy of the illustrated reissue by John Ogilby of John Field's two-volume folio Bible of 1659, in contemporary red goatskin by Samuel Mearne (1624-1683), royal binder to the restored Charles II. According to Darlow and Moule the reissue had a new general title-page dated 1660 and reading 'illustrated with Chorographical Sculps by J. Ogilby'. Our copy appears to retain the original general title-page, as it is undated and does not contain the reference to Ogilby. The number of plates is known to vary; ESTC calls for a total of 102 only. Provenance: Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet (1608-1666), diplomat, poet, translator and prominent royalist; given by him to Sir Edmund Turnor (1619-1707) of Stoke Rochford, Lincolshire, with Turnor's engraved bookplate (dated 1702) and 18th-century ink inscription 'A present to Sir Edm. Turnor from the Rt Hon. Sir Richd Fanshawe' to the initial blank of each volume (volume two with additional 20th-century annotation 'his brother-in-law, Ambassador at the Court of Spain').Without the dedication leaf to Charles II found in some other copies (see note). Volume 2 additionally with short closed tear to foot of first title-page (pi1) and spill-burn in 3X5 affecting one letter verso.
Bible (Latin). Single leaf from Jeremiah XLI-XLIII, probably Paris, c.1300, manuscript in brown ink on very fine vellum, 186 x 130 mm, in a small and rounded gothic bookhand, 2 columns, 54 lines, ruled in plummet, 3 penwork initials (2 lines) in red and blue all with elaborate marginal flourishes, chapter numberings in red and blue, capital strokes in red, a few tiny perforations (only visible when held up to light), together with 2 similar vellum leaves from Wisdom II-III and VI-IX, probably c.1300, 152 x 102 mm, in a slightly more angular gothic bookhand, 50 lines, with similar penwork initials and decoration in red and blue ink, the second leaf with small smudge not affecting legibility (qty: 3)
Sausmarez (Ronald Philip Stanley de, 1880/1-1973, Commander RN). Album of watercolour jeux d'esprit, 1947-54. Oblong folio (262 x 300 mm), contemporary 'Reedsdale' post-bound half morocco album, containing 39 postal covers expertly illustrated in pen-and-ink and watercolour with various scenes and caricatures including 4 of dancing fairies, 2 from the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the Mad Hatter's Tea Party and Alice's meeting with the King and Queen of Hearts), Father Christmas driving a sleigh, the Chelsea Flower Show, seals on an ice floe, an 18th-century rendezvous between a shepherd and his lover, Humpty Dumpty, a parade of anthropomorphic cats in the style of Louis Wain, a group of shipwrecked mariners on a raft with a sea-monster in the foreground, and various other scenes and caprices, all skilfully incorporating the address of the recipient (N. F. Pasbach, later Mrs R. de Sausmarez), together with 9 watercolours of exotic bird and plant species with accompanying manuscript light verse (e.g. nutmeg, sunbirds, the coffee-plant, each 190 x 150 mm or reverse), 9 smaller watercolours comprising a partial alphabet of exotic species (e.g. 'T is for Tamarind'; 'Y is for Yucca'; 'Z is for the Zapote', each 91 x 61 mm), and a few similar items, all mounted rectos and versos to black card album leaves (qty: 1) 'Ronald de Sausmarez was born in 1880 or 1881. He married Nora Frances Pasbach in 1947. He joined the Royal Navy and served as a Midshipman in HMS Royal Arthur, from 1897. He was promoted acting Sub-Lieutenant in HMS Blake, from 1901. He served as a Lieutenant in HMS Formidable, 1903-4, and HMS Psyche, from 1904. In 1908, he was placed on the retired list. He joined HM Naval Base, Holyhead, to plan offensive measures against submarines, March 1918. He was promoted to the acting rank of Commander and appointed Senior Naval Officer of the base, August 1918-19. He died at his home in East Molesey, Surrey, on 30 September 1973' (The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985, cited after Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge, GBR/0014/RDSA, online, accessed 26/06/2021).Amendment 6/1/21: The lot is also sold with Commander de Sausmarez's First and Second World War group miniature medals (1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals, 1939-45 Star and Defence medal) in a glazed pine frame, together with a framed photograph of de Sausmarez with his medals.
Wordsworth (William, 1770-1850). Autograph letter signed, Rydal Mount, 14 September 1849, single sheet of wove paper with black mourning border (226 x 184 mm), written in brown ink on one side only, addressed to 'Dear Mrs Lawrence', signed 'Wm Wordsworth' mounted, framed and glazed (mount aperture 217 x 168 mm; mount inscribed in pencil 'Wm Wordsworth, given to me by Mr Lawrence), creased from folding, a few light spots, browned along edges under mount (qty: 1) Writing a year before his death, Wordsworth thanks an unidentified correspondent for a literary gift ('three elegant volumes': perhaps a triple-decker) and gives an insight into his domestic situation: 'Two of my grandchildren are at present under my roof, and write their thanks ... for the interesting proof of your good wishes'.
Cope (John Heaton ARPS, 1926-2020). Photographic archive, c.1950-65. Containing 92 large-format photographic prints, nearly all gelatin silver prints, mainly 298 x 380 mm or reverse and mounted on board with pencilled title and signature ('John H. Cope ARPS') to foot, various exhibition labels to versos of mounts (e.g. Birmingham Photographic Society, Bromsgrove Photographic Society, 'LPP' [i.e. Leica Portfolio Club], Leica Fotografie competition at South Thames Camera Club in Streatham, Doncaster Camera Club, Worcestershire Camera Club, and similar), many also with pencilled production details, subjects comprising assorted studies (motion, perspective, still lifes, interiors, including a close-up of a Leica in use, titled 'My Leica 8I'), portraits and street scenes (posed and unposed, including 'Princess Elizabeth at the ''Old Crocks'' Car Rally, Birmingham, June 9th 1951', the Houses of Parliament, and presumed friends and family members), animal studies (gorilla, badger, cats), rural scenes in the Lake District (Langdale, Ennerdale, Vale of Newlands), Cotswolds (Chipping Campden, Aston-sub-Edge), Cornwall (St Ives), and elsewhere (Lymington, Brittany, various unidentified locations including atmospheric studies of fields, clouds, light formations, a Romany wagon, and similar). Together with 88 smaller-format photographs by Cope, approximate dimensions 138 x 248 mm to 205 x 292 mm, similar subjects and presentation (a few being reduced versions of the larger images), and a selection of related documents including Cope's handwritten speech notes, magazine cuttings, and similar (qty: approx. 180 mounted photographic prints and small quantity of related documents) John Heaton Cope ARPS (1926-2020) was a professional photographer with Birmingham City Council for 44 years, and towards the end of his career also worked as chief photographer at Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. He lectured on the Midlands circuit of photographic societies for three decades and was an active member of the Leica Portfolio Club. He retired to Ravenstonedale near Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria in 1993. He was an admirer of Cartier-Bresson and his son recalls a visit to an exhibition of the great photographer's work in London sometime in the 1950s-60s.Approximate breakdown as follows. Large format photographs (92): studies 17; animals 12; Lake District 8; Cotswolds 3; Cornwall 4; rural scenes (many apparently Lake District but not identified as such) 22; portraits and groups 21; city scenes 5. Small-format: studies 12; animals 9; rural scenes 35; portraits 28.
Hong Kong. Photograph album depicting a tour by Lieutenant William Gray Rawlinson (1890-1915), 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1913-14. Oblong folio album, contemporary half skiver (spine defective), 134 photographs (apparently gelatin silver prints), mainly snapshots (90 x 75 mm and similar), but several larger (up to 220 x 288 mm), mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged stiff card leaves, depicting various street scenes and views, including pagodas, temples, a racecourse, junks, Rawlinson with his horse, and many views depicting or taken from a yawl ('Irene') off Stonecutters Island and elsewhere, the album also depicting a journey home via North America including Niagara Falls (the section including several images of steam locomotives), a visit to South Africa ('J'oburg Gold Mines', etc.), and a few domestic scenes (around Penny Bridge, Ulverston), manuscript captions (some apparently by Rawlinson himself, later captions evidently by a relative), 2 Hong Kong-printed sale notices for horses belonging to Rawlinson ('The following polo ponies must be disposed of immediately owing to the D.C.L.I. being ordered to India') mounted to front free endpaper, Rawlinson's memorial card incorporating portrait photograph mounted to front pastedown ('killed in action March 14th, at the battle of St. Eloi, Belgium') (qty: 1)
Lace-making. Visit of Their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary to the Works of Birkin & Company, Nottingham, on Wednesday June 24th 1914. Oblong folio (274 x 340 mm), original light blue wrappers with gilt-embossed royal arms to front, title-leaf printed in blue, 5 engraved text-leaves printed on rectos only, 9 photogravure plates with tissue-guards, secured by a blue silk ribbon tied through three holes as issued, ribbon frayed (qty: 1) One other copy traced, at the University of Nottingham, with a different collation, though our copy is evidently complete.
Dulac (Edmond, illustrator). Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]. 4to, original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 20 colour plates tipped to japon mounts within decorative borders, contemporary gift inscription ('Jack Badeley, from Lillie Singer, Christmas '09' to recto of limitation leaf), bookplate of Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940), contemporary green morocco shelfmark label to foot of spine, ties detached and laid in, light soiling to spine and along top edge of front cover, a few scuffs and marks to rear cover (qty: 1) First edition thus, deluxe issue, number 549 of 750 copies signed by the illustrator.
Dulac (Edmond, illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. 4to, original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 28 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate of Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940), contemporary green morocco shelfmark label to foot of spine, ties lacking, a little light soiling to binding, browning to endpapers (qty: 1) First edition thus, deluxe issue, number 688 of 750 copies signed by the illustrator.
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Some British Ballads, London: Constable & Co. Ltd, [1919]. 4to, original quarter vellum, spine and covers lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 16 tipped-in colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, bookplate of Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940), a little light finger-soiling to binding, pale spotting to spine, green morocco label to foot, light browning to free endpapers and to recto of limitation leaf (qty: 1) First edition, deluxe issue, number 111 of 550 copies signed by the illustrator.
Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1917. 4to, original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 16 colour plates (mounted), 7 woodcut plates, numerous woodcuts in the text, partly unopened, bookplate of Christopher Hatton Turnor (1873-1940), spine faintly spotted, green morocco shelfmark label to foot and small abrasion above, a little light soiling to covers (qty: 1) First edition thus, deluxe issue, number 23 of 500 copies signed by the illustrator.
Haggard (H. Rider). A collection of his novels, all 1st editions, all 8vo, original cloth, and comprising: 1) She, 1887, rubbed, nicks to spine-ends, wear to tips, half-title soiled, torn in gutter, the 2 tinted lithographic plates reinserted before half-title (originally inserted between half-title and title-page, advertisement leaf present, no free endpapers, occasional finger-soiling in text, a few leaves dog-eared, 2) Maiwa's Revenge, 1888, 16 pp. advertisements, fraying to spine-ends, a few marks, 3) Montezuma's Daughter, 1893, 24 plates, 24 pp. advertisements, fraying to spine-ends, cloth on rear joint partly split, light spotting, 4) The People of the Mist, 1894, 16 plates, 24 pp. advertisements, pale marks to covers, 5) Heart of the World, 1896, 15 plates, spine faded, rolled and marked, 6) Doctor Therne, 1898, spine rolled, a little spotting, 7) Swallow, 1899, 8 plates, 8) Black Heart and White Heart, 1900, 34 plates, 4 pp. advertisements, 9) The Brethren, 1904, 16 pp. advertisements, 10) The Way of the Spirit, 1906, [8] + [24] pp. advertisements, cloth split along joints, spotting and toning, 11) Fair Margaret, 1907, 8 plates, 2 + [32] pp. advertisements, covers mottled, fraying to spine-ends, prelims strengthened with clear tape in gutter, 12) The Lady of Blossholme, 1909, 5 colour plates, 13) The Wanderer's Necklace, 1914, 4 plates, binding soiled, wear to extremities, spotting, front free endpaper excised, 14) Love Eternal, 1918, spine rolled, 15) Smith and the Pharaohs, 1920, browning, 16 & 17) Mary of Marion Isle, 1929, 2 copies, primary and secondary bindings (the latter with two-line black border to covers), spines rolled, both without the 24 pp. advertisements mentioned by Whatmore, together with 1st editions of Cleopatra and Nada the Lilly, each lacking a plate (qty: 19) Whatmore F4 (She), F7 (Maiwa's Revenge), F16 (Montezuma's Daughter), F17 (The People of the Mist), F19 (Heart of the World), F21 (Doctor Therne), F22 (Swallow), F23 (Black Heart and White Heart), F27 (Brethren), F29 (The Way of the Spirit), F31 (Fair Margaret), F34 (The Lady of Blossholme), F41 (The Wanderer's Necklace), F45 (Love Eternal), F49 (Smith and the Pharaohs), F57 (Mary of Marion Isle). Provenance: The H. Rider Haggard collection of Geoffrey Bullock, Provenance: The H. Rider Haggard collection of Geoffrey Bullock, president of The Rider Haggard Society
Lewis (C. S., 1898-1963; his copy). Heimskringla, or the Lives of the Norse Kings, by Snorri Sturlason. Edited with notes by Erling Monsen, and translated into English with the assistance of A. H. Smith, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1932. 8vo, original blue cloth, 8 plates, 4 folding maps, errata slip, front inner hinge cracked but firm, light spotting to top edges of folding maps and adjacent text-leaves, with a manuscript note on a slip of Exeter College, Oxford stationery (the note reading 'Thank you so much for a noble evening from you and Fox [...]', in an unidentified hand) and a W. Heffer & Sons catalogue subscription form, both laid in (qty: 1) C. S. Lewis's copy, with his detailed autograph annotations to the rear blank (recto and verso; 83 lines in total, the noted passages been marked in pencil in the margins), his ownership inscription 'C. S. Lewis' to the front free endpaper, and a laid-in sheet of manuscript poetry in pencil, very likely in Lewis's hand and containing two stanzas in iambic tetrameter (respectively commencing 'Thrice fortunate that man w[oul]d be / For whom so high a destiny / Was written [...]' and 'Now, as she ran, she saw her shadow /Darken before her in the meadow') together with another version of the second stanza below. A hugely evocative literary artefact and a fascinating insight into C. S. Lewis's meticulous reading habits; in his spiritual autobiography Surprised By Joy (1955) Lewis attached great significance to the 'imaginative Renaissance' which sprung from his first encounter with Norse mythology as a young schoolboy. Provenance: Laurence Harwood OBE (1933-2020), regional director, National Trust, and godson of C. S. Lewis. Laurence's father (Albert) Cecil Harwood (1898-1975) met Lewis at Oxford in Hilary term of 1919. The two became lifelong friends, and while Cecil is not typically reckoned among the usual roll-call of Inklings members, he remained very much part of Lewis's circle, and with his wife Daphne was the joint dedicatee of his 1947 work, Miracles. Cecil is perhaps best remembered as a leading advocate of anthroposophy and the Steiner-Waldorf teaching method; Laurence has been noted as 'one of the few remaining people who really knew C. S. Lewis' (Deborah Higgens, 'A Personal Tribute to Laurence Harwood, OBE', C. S. Lewis Foundation official blog, 14 December 2020, accessed 24 May 2021). Further reading: Laurence Harwood, C. S. Lewis, My Godfather: Letters, Photos, and Recollections (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2007).
Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. 8vo, original green cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge dyed red, spine faded, spotted and rolled, front board sometime bent and now with strip of cockling either side, contents in good condition - Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World. A Novel, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. 8vo, original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed blue, binding very rubbed, shadow of a label skilfully removed on front cover, markings to rear cover, inner hinges strengthened, remains of label to rear pastedown, occasional light soiling to contents, M1 with loss to upper fore corner, tear in fore margin and contiguous abrasion in text obscuring a few words verso - and 2 others (Orwell, Animal Farm, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1945, original cloth, ibid. Shooting an Elephant, 1st edition, 1950, with price-clipped dust jacket) (qty: 4)
Portal (Gerald H.). An Account of the English Mission to King Johannis of Abyssinia. Privately Printed, Winchester, Warren and Son, [1888]. 8vo, original green cloth ruled and lettered in black, [6] 123 pp., occasional light spotting, ownership inscription 'Sybil Willoughby 1932' to initial blank, extremities slightly rubbed (qty: 1) First edition, presentation copy, inscribed 'Anne F. W. Murray, from the author, 1888' on the initial blank. This work predates the author's full published account, My Mission to Abyssinia, which appeared in 1892.
Querbeuf (Yves Mathurin Marie Tréaudet, & others, editors). Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères. Nouvelle édition. Mémoires du Levant [... Amérique ... Indes ... Chine], Toulouse: Noel-Etienne Sens, Auguste Gaude, 1810-11. 26 volumes, 12mo (164 x 92 mm), contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked and relined at an early date, spines richly gilt in compartments with twin morocco labels, half-title to each volume, 54 engraved maps and plates (nearly all folding), variable light browning, folding map facing volume 16 p. 310 with old linen-tape repair verso (qty: 26) Sold as a collection of maps and plates; a full collation has not been established. The maps include Kino's Passage par terre à la Californie, Fritz's Cours du fleuve Maragnon autrement dit des Amazones, and similar; the plates include views, portraits of indigenous peoples including an Iroquois woman, a depiction of Chinese characters, and two folding tables relating to Chinese astronomy. Provenance: George Wilbraham (1779-1852), Whig politician, of Delamere House, Northwich, Cheshire (bookplates).
Roberts (David). The Holy Land. With Historical Descriptions by the Rev. George Croly, London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., c.1880. 4to (310 x 238 mm), contemporary brown morocco gilt (slightly scuffed and marked), all edges gilt, 3 parts in 1 volume, [2], 1-42, 43-85, 1-25 pp., general title-page printed in red and black, 108 tinted lithographic plates (of 120), bound without the preliminary viii pp. and divisional title-page to each part, light offsetting, occasional spotting (mainly to text-leaves facing plates, final part pp. 23-5 and the final 2 plates loose and with oil-stain to lower inner corner, together with 11 others (not collated), travel, literature and theology, mainly 19th century, all leather-bound, including Boswell, Life of Johnson, 10 volumes, London: John Murray, 1835 (contemporary purple calf, spines faded, volume 1 lacking one spine-label), Martineau, Society in America, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Saunders and Otley, 1837 (rubbed, volume 1 lacking a spine-label), Besant, Westminster, London: Chatto & Windus, 1895), and similar (qty: 22)
Drake (Francis). Eboracum: or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, London: William Bowyer, 1736. Folio (442 x 268 mm), 19th-century half calf, rebacked, 60 engraved maps and plates, many double-page (including 2 maps, hand-coloured, and a pictorial title-page to part 2), numerous engravings in the text (many full-page), very occasional light spotting, old marginal repairs to plates facing pp. 524 and 527, the 2 coloured maps (at pp. 36 and 380), and text-leaves 4E1 and 7Y1 (qty: 1) ESTC T65433. First edition, large-paper issue, one of 100 copies; there were also 700 copies printed on crown paper. Provenance: James Worsley Pennyman (1856-1924), of Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough (bookplate).
Landseer (Edwin). Engravings of Lions, Tigers, Panthers, Leopards, Dogs, etc., chiefly after the Designs of Sir Edwin Landseer, by his Brother, Thomas, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853. 4to, original cloth gilt (sunned and marked, light wear to spine-ends), [4] 28 pp., 39 engraved plates including pictorial additional title-page, a little light finger-soiling to margins, a few other marks (qty: 1) Second edition, greatly expanded from the first of 1823, which had 20 plates only.
Nelson (Thomas H.). The Birds of Yorkshire, 1st edition, London: A. Brown & Sons, Limited, 1907. 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, colour frontispieces and titles-page, half-tone photographic plates, errata slip to volume 1, occasional spotting to text-blocks - [Grouse]. The Grouse in Health and Disease. Being the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease, 1st edition, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1911. 2 volumes, 4to, original cloth, volume 1 with 59 plates numbered 1-58, volume 2 with colour map (and maps in text), volume 1 with light mottling to covers and fraying to headcaps, volume 2 text-block spotted - Burrard (Gerald). The Modern Shotgun, 1st edition, London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1931-2. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth, all halftone photographic plates as called for, text-blocks toned and occasionally spotted - and 14 others (not collated), field sports, early 20th-century, original cloth, including another copy of The Grouse in Health and Disease, Pollard, A History of Firearms, 1930 (first edition 1926), Duncan & Thorne, The Complete Wildfowler, 1911 (with dust jacket), and similar (qty: 25) Mullens & Swann p. 432 (Nelson).
New Naturalists. The Hebrides; The Soil; British Larks, Pipits and Wagtails; Caves and Cave Life, London: Collins [-HarperCollinsPublishers], 1990-3. 4 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, Hebrides with light spotting to edges and endpapers, Soil jacket with small scuff-mark to title-band on front panel and small blue ink-mark to front flap (qty: 4) Bernhard & Loe NN75A, 77A, 78A, 78A. First editions, numbers 76-79 in the New Naturalist series, of which 1500, 1481, 1601 and 1401 copies were printed.
New Naturalists. Numbers 21-40, London: Collins, 1952-8. 20 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, a little light spotting to top edges of text-blocks and to rear panels of a few dust jackets, number 20 with errata slip, 26 with bookplate of Irene D. Poulter, 28 with ink-stamp of R. S. R. Fitter to front free endpaper, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 39 with vulture bookplate of J. V. Stephens (qty: 20) Bernhard & Loe NN21A-40A (number 31 is in the secondary binding, NN31A-B2). First editions of numbers 21-40 in the New Naturalist series, including The Folklore of Birds (39) and Bumblebees (40).
New Naturalists. Numbers 41-55, London: Collins, 1960-72. 15 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, dust jackets, a little light spotting to top edges of text-blocks, numbers 41, 42 and 47 with vulture bookplate of J. V. Stephens, 44, 48 and 52 price-clipped (as issued for 48: see below), 46 with tape-residue to front free endpaper, 51 and 54 dust jackets with Duraseal removed (55 with Duraseal present; not called for in other numbers) (qty: 15) Bernhard & Loe NN41A-47A, 48A-B2-AP4, 49-50A, 51B, 52-55A (i.e. 48 in second binding variant and fourth repriced dust jacket, price-clipped and with overprice sticker for £2.50; 51 in second-state binding). First editions of numbers 41-55 in the New Naturalist series.
White (Gilbert). The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... to which are added, the Naturalist's Calendar ... a New Edition, with Engravings, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. Large-paper copy, 1 volume bound in 2, 4to (289 x 226 mm), contemporary calf, rebacked, iii-x [2] 1-301, [302]-587 [1] pp., 9 engraved plates ('Copy of a Picture in Selborne Church' and 'A Hybrid Pheasant' both hand-coloured; frontispiece 'North-east View of Selborne' folding), 2 section-titles each with engraved vignette, engraved tailpiece, bookplates of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baronet (1786-1869), politician and diarist, modern bookplates of Robin T. Comley (dated 1986), half-title discarded, plates somewhat spotted, signature 3O repaired in gutter - ibid. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... a New Edition, with Engravings, London: White, Cochrane, and Co., 1813. 4to (265 x 200 mm), contemporary half calf, rebacked and recornered with most of original spine laid down, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, collation as the preceding item but retaining half-title and with 'Copy of a Picture in Selborne Church' uncoloured, offsetting, light browning, closed tear in Y2, final leaf repaired - ibid. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne ... edited by Thomas Bell, London: John van Voorst, 1872. 2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 136 mm), 20th-century orange half calf by Bumpus, vignette half-titles, all plates as called for, bookplates of Sir Hector Livingston Duff (1872-1954), colonial administrator, joints and extremities rubbed - and 4 other editions of The Natural History of Selborne (not collated), all leather-bound, and comprising: New Edition, 1813 (2 volumes, octavo issue); New Edition, 1822 (2 volumes); The Works in Natural History, 1802 (2 copies: one in 2 volumes, the other 2 volumes bound in 1) (qty: 12) Martin pp. 106-8 (1813 edition). The first item is one of 50 large-paper copies (watermarks J Whatman 1810), with the plate of the Hybrid Bird and the plate of the painting presented to the church both hand-coloured; the second item is the quarto or royal octavo edition. It was also published in octavo (a copy of which issue is included in the lot).
A heavy 9ct gold curb chain, with bolt ring clasp, import hallmark London 1979, 775mm long, 56.46gCondition report: Bolt ring is probably a later addition, and in my opinion is probably too light for the chain.Some damage/cracks to the bolt ring.Surface mark/scratches to gold.Chain a little dirty, would benefit from being cleaned.
A white gold single stone blue zircon ring, the circular mixed cut blue zircon, approximately 12.5mm, claw set to a rex collet, with tapered chenier shoulders and a 'D' section shank, tested as approximately 9ct gold, 4.08g.Finger size F½ approximatelyCondition report: All claws have been retipped, joins visible.Light wear/nibbles to facet junctions of blue zircon.Surface marks/scratches to mount.Solder join visible at shank.
Commonwealth and Various Foreign Badges including bi-metal, KC Kings Own Malta Regiment of Militia ... Bi-metal, KC Kings Own Malta Regiment ... Bi-metal, KC Royal Malta Artillery ... Silvered Prince of Wales Light Horse ... Brass, KC 12 & 13 NZ Infantry ... 2 x brass, NZ Rifle Brigade ... Cast brass, 5th Hyderabad ... Darkened, KC Australian Commonwealth Military Forces ... Cast white metal, 1st Hyderabad Cavalry ... White metal Polish Forces.
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