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Lot 105
Scottish Military Rolls of Honour, including McKenzie, W.J., editorThe Morayshire Roll of Honour. Elgin, 1921. 4to, original blue cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, binding slightly marked; High School of Glasgow The Book of Service and Remembrance, 1939-1945. 1948m 4to; Arbroath Roll of Honour. Arbroath and District 1939-45. Small 4to; [Glasgow] The Glasgow Academy Roll of Service 1939-1945. 1951, 8vo; Bo'ness and Carriden Parishes Roll of Honour 1939-1945. 8vo, half morocco; University of Honour Roll of Honour 1914-1919. 1921, 4to; University of St. Andrews The Roll of Honour 1939-45; Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited Roll of Honour 1914-1918. 8vo; [George Watson] A Memorial Record of Watsonians who served in the Great War 1914-1918. 1920, 4to; [George Watson] The Watsonian War Record 1939-45. 1951, 4to, dustwrapper; Royal High School Roll of Honour 1939-45; Glasgow Academy Roll of Honour 1914-1918, 1933; Ashdown, C.H. The Old Albanian. 1899-1902; George Heriot's School Roll of Honour 1939-45. 1950; Soldiers died in the Great War. The Highland Light Infantry. 1988; The Gordon Highlanders, (reprint), wrappers; and 1 other: War Graves
Lot 116
Brown, George Mackay, a collection of autograph and typescript items, comprising1) Autograph "Coal", 7pp. story of coal and Brother Julius at Newbattle Abbey, revised in pencil, with autograph note at top "shortened version instead of this"2) Autograph Addendum to STV script by Ian Grimble "The Holy Stones", 3pp., 4to, numerous corrections, additions and deletions, initialled and dated "GMB 18/19 May 1976"3) Autograph Under Brinkies Brae, dated 29-5-80, 2pp., 8vo, black biro, corrections in pencil, also marked "not published GMB" in pencil at head of page 1 [Draft, apparently not published, of one of his weekly contributions to The Orcadian 4) Typescript. Christmas Visitors, a Story, dated 18 Nov. 1982 (struck through), 8pp. including title, 4to, numerous pencil additions and corrections [First published in Christmas Stories, Perpetua Press, 1985]; 5) Typescript. "Dialogue", dated Stromness, 1975. Folio, 12pp., numerous corrections and additions in pencil, annotated "Corrected script" on title leaf; 6) Skatehorn the Tramp, 2pp., large 8vo, 35 lines of poetry, half scored through or deleted, initialled, undated [Possibly an ear early draft of part of The Horse Fair from The Wreck of the Archangel (1989); 7) Typescript. The Living Poet, 5 leaves 4to, partly scared through and with pencil notes [possibly script for broadcast, 1979], with note "In Voyages, 1983"; 8) Autograph Ballad of the Golden Bird. 12 leaves, large 8vo, black biro, undated, each leaf lightly scored through [Published as The Golden Bird: Two Golden Stories, John Murray, 1987; 9) Autograph A Spell for Green Corn - 1 [1961-62] The Maskers (a play), 21 leaves, 8vo, red, blue and black biro, corrected in pencil, note on verso of last leaf "Written 1965 ? 1966 ?", Cancelled (scored through), revised 17 - Dec. 1974" [First published Hogarth Press, 1970]; 10) Autograph Song for the Spring of Equinox. 12pp on 12mo notepaper, autograph manuscript, pencil and biro, signed 1/3/1996; 11) Typescript Keepers of the House, December 1976, 14 leaves, 4to, autograph corrections, note on title page "The Old Stile Press (1986), limited edition, working copy"; 12) Autograph Foreword: The Lordly Ones (Anthology of Stones, ed John Matthews) 1994, 2pp., 8vo, black ink, signed George Mackay Brown; 13) Typescript. The Third Magus. 9pp., 4to, dated October 1978, annotated in pencil including note "Not to be used" and "Working copy", [1st published in Andrina & other Stories, 1982); 14) Autograph Kirkwall: Conservation Area (Foreword), 4pp. 4to, initialled GMB March 1985, some pencil annotations; 15) Autograph Perilous Seas. A Dramatic Biography of John Gow the Pirate (1798-1725) in six parts. Signed and dated October 1954, parts 1 and 4-6 only, 113 pages, 8vo, pencil, red underlining of stage directions; 16) Autograph. 2 pp., 8vo, uncaptioned "Light and sea-noise and soil of Birsay", ink, corrections and additions in pencil; 17) Typescript. Magi I, 3pp., folio, torn in 4 and stapled back together, lacking 1 corner (with text), with photocopy of the poem written out in another hand; 18) Typescript The Third Magus, 9 pp., 4to, dated October 1978 at end, 1st page lightly scored through with pencilled note "Not to be published GMB"; 19) Autograph 2 manuscript leaves, one with notes of The Scotsman review of best books 1994, the 2nd a note on envelope verso: Maeshowe: Poster Poem for National Museum of Scotland, initialled "GMB 5-iii-96"; 20) Typescript "A Christmas Story", pp. 2-7, lacking page 1, pencil revision to last page.
Lot 133
Fleming, IanFrom Russia, with Love. London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. First edition, first impression with 'first published 1957' to copyright page and rear flap of dust-jacket blank, 8vo, original black cloth with gun and rose motif, dust-jacket not price-clipped but with a little chipping, slight darkening, a couple of foxing stains and some slightly indented marks to lower cover, very small closed tear to p.197, a few light internal marks, slight foxing to fore-edges and small damp spot to upper edge not affecting pages
Lot 134
Fleming, IanGoldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, 1959. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth with skull motif, dust-jacket not price clipped but with one small repair to a fold, slight foxing and darkening and a little chipping and rubbing, a few light marks to covers, a few small internal marks
Lot 205
Jamaica - Gosse, Philip HenryIllustrations of the Birds of Jamaica. London: Jacob van Voorst, 1849. Large 8vo, plate volume only, 52 hand-coloured lithographed plates, some heightened with gum arabic, 4pp. text including title, contemporary half morocco, light worming slightly affecting title and margin of 2nd leaf, light stain to some inner margins, lower margin of 7 plates strengthened on verso, one plate (Himantopus nigricollis) with loss to imageProvenance: The Library of a Country House.Note: A Rare Work by "the father of Jamaican Ornithology".Gosse had been interested in natural history since childhood and by the age of 34 had already published popular scientific books and contributed scholarly papers to the Royal Society. In 1844 he travelled to Jamaica to collect exotic insects and other specimens on a commercial basis. Gosse spent 18 of the happiest months of his life in Jamaica, and collected insects assiduously, some 7,800 of them. But his real interests lay more in ornithology. This fascination led to the publication of three books: The Birds of Jamaica in 1847, its accompanying plate volume, Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica in 1849, and A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica in 1851. His books were well received at the time but none were reprinted.Gosse was meticulous and painstaking in his observations, drawings and watercolours, saying that he devoted himself to recording “the condition of living things, of things in a state of nature … their songs and cries; their actions, in ease and under the pressure of circumstances; their affections and passions, towards their young, towards each other, towards other animals, towards man; their various arts and devices, to protect their progeny, to procure food, to escape from their enemies, to defend themselves from attacks; their ingenious resources for concealment”, and so on. Gosse also succeeded in conveying in words the impression of bird calls and songs, a very hard thing to do, analysed their nests in minute detail and kept birds in captivity whenever he had the chance, the better to observe them at close quarters.The Birds of Jamaica, with the illustrated plate volume, Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica, is regarded as the ornithological classic of the English-speaking Caribbean, and David Lack in Island Biology Illustrated by the Lands Birds of Jamaica notes that “it was far ahead of its time and remained one of the best bird books on any part of the world for at least half a century", while Gosse himself has become known to posterity as "the Father of Jamaican ornithology." The text volume is easy to procure at a nominal sum.
Lot 207
Knip, Antoinette Pauline Jacqueline and Temminck, Coenraad JacobLes Pigeons. Paris: Mme Knip & Bellizard, Dufour & Cie., Typographie de Firmin Didot, [1838-43]. Second edition of volume 1, First edition of volume 2, large folio (533 x 348mm.), 2 volumes, [4], 135, 128, 30, [3]; [4], 114, [2]; half-titles, 147 plates printed in colours and finished by hand after Knip, by César Macret , tissue guards, contemporary green quarter morocco, spines gilt, lightly rubbed, some plates with slight offsetting, discolouration or light spottingProvenance: Pencil note on rear endpaper "Complete, Bernard Quaritch Ltd, GHB"; The Library of a Country House.Note: A tall complete copy of Knip's masterpiece, with the very rare second volume published in 1838-43, volume II "SAID TO BE PROBABLY THE RAREST ITEM IN THE WHOLE OF ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE" (Wood), containing "AMONG THE FINEST OF ALL BIRD PLATES" (Fine Bird Books). This work contains 2 of the very rare plates "avant lettres" not referred to in the standard bibliographies. Publication of the work had commenced in parts in 1808 under the longer title Histoire naturelle générale des Pigeons but rivalry between the artist, Antoinette Knip (née Courcelles) and the author of the text, Coenraad Temminck, led Madame Knip at the publication of the 9th (of 15) parts to appropriate the work to herself, issuing the work under the revised title Les Pigeons, par Madame Knip, née Pauline de Coucelles, with Temminck's role relegated beneath to "Le text par C.J. Temminck". However the copy she sent Temminck did not have the altered title so by the time the work came out and he saw the altered title it was too late. This publishing history explains the hiatus betwwen p. 13 of the Discours and the first leaf of text, describing plate 1, being numbered as [p.23]. Pauline Knip had powerful friends at court, being a close friend of Marie Louise, husband of Napoleon Bonaparte, and Temminck found it impossible to get justice, his only recourse being to republish the text in 3 octavo volumes in 1813-1815.Antoinette Pauline Knip was an exceptional ornithological artist and in 1805 had provided the beautiful plates for Desmaret's Histoire naturelle des tangaras, des manakins, et des todiers. One of the more famous prints in Les Pigeons is of the Mauritius blue pigeon, now extinct. A copy of this work, quite possibly Temminck's own copy, with the text originally envisaged by Temminck, and with 5 original unsigned watercolours, most probably by Knip, and with additional hand-colouring to the perches, was sold at Christie's, 28 November 2001, lot 58, (£30,000). [Fine Bird Books 86; Nissen IVB 511; Zimmer 356]
Lot 209
Levaillant, FrançoisHistoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes. Paris: J.E. Gabriel Dufour & Amsterdam, 1801 [-02]. First edition, Volume 1 (all published), large 4to (352 x258mm.), [4], 4, 152; half-title, 49 fine plates printed in colour and finished by hand, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt, uncut, short split at head and base of upper joint, short split at head of lower joint, a little light spotting to some platesProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: First edition. Originally published in eight parts, Levaillant's Histoire Naturelle d'une Partie d'Oiseaux Nouveaux et Rares de l'Amérique et des Indes was available in three states: folio, with both coloured and uncoloured plates; large quarto, as here, with coloured plates only; and quarto, with uncoloured plates only. The fine portraits are of birds from the Bucerotidae and the Cotingidae families that Levaillant did not include in his earlier work “Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d’Afrique” (1799-1802). "These plates were printed by Langlois, who did almost all the colour-printing for Levaillant .... French colour-printing of this period ... has never been surpassed" (Fine Bird Books). François Levaillant (1753-1824) was born in Paramaribo, the capital of Dutch Guiana, the son of the French consul. He was sent by Jacob Temminck to South Africa where he collected and sent back over 2000 bird skins, which were studied by Jacob's son, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and housed in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Leiden. On his return to Paris Levaillant published two best-selling accounts of his voyages in South Africa and the present work, followed by the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique (1796–1808, 6 vols.) with drawings by Jacques Barraband, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis (1801–06), Histoire naturelle des cotingas et des todiers (1804) and Histoire naturelle des calaos (1804). Levaillant was opposed to the systematic nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus and only gave French names to the species that he discovered. When the birds were later given binomial names by other naturalists, quite a few were named after him including Levaillant's barbet (Trachyphonus vaillantii), Levaillant's cisticola, Levaillant's cuckoo, Levaillant's parrot, Levaillant's tchagra and Levaillant's woodpecker (Picus vaillantii). "Levaillant was, until exceeded by Gould (and until now only by him), the producer of the most comprehensive series of works on exotic birds” (Fine Bird Books, p. 118). Ayer/Zimmer 392; Fine Bird Books 90; Nissen, IVB 557
![Meyer, Henry LeonardIllustrations of British Birds. London: Longman & Co., [1835-41], First edition, 1st or 3rd issue, 4](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/995d0a98-e61e-4583-a33d-166ce232c9c8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 214
Meyer, Henry LeonardIllustrations of British Birds. London: Longman & Co., [1835-41], First edition, 1st or 3rd issue, 4 volumes, 4to (380 x 270mm.), lithographed throughout, titles, 313 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates (as called for in the "Contents" leaf of each volume), original green ribbed cloth, uncut, spines lettered in gilt, bookplates, occasionally a little light spottingProvenance: The Library of a Country House.Note: “One of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology” (Mullens and Swann). As originally issued with 313 plates. A slightly later issue was produced with an additional 5 plates of eggs. This set has a list of Contents in each volume calling respectively for 78, 73, 80, & 82 plates, (total: 313). The present set has the first issues of the title-pages (no full stop after Longman & Co). Hale describes the complex publication history of the work, locating 44 copies of this edition, many of which had varying numbers of plates due to the haphazard manner in which the work was published and Meyer's constant desire to improve the illustrations. W.G. Hale, The Meyers' Illustrations of British Birds (London, 2007). Nissen IVB 627; Fine Bird Books, p.93.; Mullens and Swann, p.398.
Lot 216
Temminck, Coenraad Jacob and le Baron Guillaume Michel Jérome Meiffren Laugier de Chartrouse.Nouveau Recueil de Planches Coloriées d'Oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon. Paris: F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg: Même Maison; Amsterdam: Legras Imbert et Comp. [1820]- 1838-[1839]. First edition, 5 volumes, large 4to (353 x 260mm.), half-titles, 597 (of 600) finely hand-coloured engraved plates after Nicolas Hüet and Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, & others, (2 double-page, 3 folding), contemporary green half morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, some light spotting and some light offsetting, lightly rubbedProvenance:The Library of a Country House.Note: 'UN DES LIVRES LES PLUS BEAUX ET DES PLUS IMPORTANTS QUE L'ON AIT SUR L'ORNITHOLOGIE' (Brunet), complete with Cuvier's rare 'Prospectus'.This fine treatise, with its remarkable coloured plates, was intended as a supplement to Buffon's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux (1770-1786). This is a particularly large example of the quarto issue of this massive work, originally published in 102 parts over almost two decades from August 1820 to January 1839. Temminck supplied most of the text, while the key contribution of Baron Laugier de Chartrouse lay in providing specimens for the plates from his collection. Published in both folio and quarto formats, uniform with Buffon's work, the work is found with the text and plates bound either in systematic order, like the present copy, following Buffon's species and plates (as described in the 'Table Méthodique' at the beginning of volume 1), or in order of publication. Temminck, director of the Museum at Leiden, is regarded as one of the foremost ornithologists of his time. Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768 – 1849) was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated birds, mammals and reptiles in a large number of books. He was an outstanding ornithological artist and worked first for Empress Josephine's zoo, and then for the Natural History Museum in Paris. He drew the natural history specimens collected on a number of important French geographical and exploratory expeditions including Dumont d'Urville's Voyage de l'Astrolabe, Freycinet's Voyage autour du Monde, Laplace's Voyage autour du monde and others. Early in his career Prêtre worked closely with Temminck who paid him the compliment of naming the red-spectacled parrot after him (Phaethornis pretrei). A prolific artist, he also illustrated Palisot's Flore d'Oware et de Benin, Tussac's Flore des Antilles, the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles published between 1816 and 1830, and the ornithological works of Lesson, Temminck and Vieillot. The plates are superbly hand-coloured. Anker 503; Fine Bird Books, 1990, p. 147; Nissen IVB 932.
Lot 246
Sweet, RobertThe Florist's Guide, and Cultivator's Directory; Containing Coloured Figures of the Choicest Flowers, Cultivated by Florists, including Ranunculus, Carnations, Picotees, Pinks, Roses, Georginas, Polyanthus, Auriculas, Hyacinths & Tulips. London: James Ridgway, 1827-32. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 146mm.), 200 hand-coloured engraved plates J. Watts after Edwin Dalton Smith, contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides, spines lettered in gilt, a fine setNote: Robert Sweet (1783–1835) was a prominent English botanist, horticulturist and ornithologist.Born at Cockington near Torquay, Devonshire, England in 1783, Sweet worked as a gardener from the age of sixteen, and became foreman or partner in a series of nurseries close to London at Stockwell, Fulham and Chelsea. In 1812 he joined Colvills, the famous Chelsea nursery, and was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society. By 1818 he was publishing horticultural and botanical works.He published a number of beautifully illustrated works on plants cultivatd in British gardens and hothouses. The fine plates were mainly drawn by Edwin Dalton Smith (1800–1883), a botanical artist, who was attached to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. His works include Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis(1818), Geraniaceae (five volumes) (1820–30), Cistineae, Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (1826–27), Flora Australasica (1827–28) and British Botany (with H. Weddell) (1831). He died at Chelsea, London in January 1835. Aside from a little light offsetting from some plates to facing text, a tiny light dampstain to the extreme lower corner of a few leaves, and a very few light spots this is an exceptionally clean fresh copy with fine bright colouring.
![[Crimean War] Battle of Inkerman - Lt. Col. HallewelleAnnotated watercolour view of part of the site of the Battle of Inkerma](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/907a6bc7-f1cc-4094-d17f-ee4e456f013f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 252
[Crimean War] Battle of Inkerman - Lt. Col. HallewelleAnnotated watercolour view of part of the site of the Battle of Inkerman by Lt. Col. Hallewelle, entitled "Sketch (from the original in the Quartermaster General's Office by Lt. Col. Hallewell, A.q., M.g.) from left bank of ravine leading to Sand bag Battery, Are embraced, about 135 degrees. For illustration of part of Staff Survey", signed by Col. Hallewelle, 285 x 1350mm., depicting the Ruins of Inkerman with individual salient features identified in ink, framed and glazedNote: Colonel Edmund Gilling Watts Hallewell (April 1822 – 1869), became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General to the Light Division and fought at the Battle of Alma in September 1854, the Battle of Inkermann in November 1854 and at the siege of Sebastopol in the Winter of 1854 during the Crimean War. He was promoted to brevet major in December 1854, to lieutenant-Colonel in November 1855 and to colonel in November 1860. He went on to be Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in March 1864.
Lot 271
Gregory, JohnGregorii Opuscula: or, Notes & Observations upon Some Passages of Scripture... London: R. Royston, 1650. Small 4to, contemporary calf, joints split, some rubbing, a little light marginal worming and small tears not affecting text, bookplate [ESTC R14029]Provenance: Bookplate of the Reverend the Honourable Sidney Meade, Canon of Salisbury and son of the third Earl of Clanwilliam
Lot 281
Scottish folklore, beliefs and early religionMiller, Hugh Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1835. 8vo, contemporary calf; Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1823. 8vo, contemporary half calf; Buchan, Peter Gleanings of Scotch, English, and Irish scarce Old Ballads. Peterhead: Lewis Smith..., 1825. 12mo, contemporary half-calf; Cumming, Annie and Bella Golspie, Contributions to its Folklore. London: David Nutt, 1897, 8vo, original green cloth gilt; Knight, G.A. Frank Archaeological Light on the Early Christianizing of Scotland. London: James Clarke & Company, 1933. 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Shaw, Margaret Fay London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1955. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt; Craig, Robert Scottish Myths... Edinburgh: MacLachlan and Stewart, 1882. 8vo, original green cloth gilt; and 30 others, sold not subject to return (38)
![Cameron, Julia MargaretLittle Margie [Thackeray] 'Christ Kind', c.1865, albumen print, 34 x 26cm, laid onto original mount an](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/b634d8af-52da-4b7c-f0fb-dde6c6fa5b97/468x382.jpg)
Lot 293
Cameron, Julia MargaretLittle Margie [Thackeray] 'Christ Kind', c.1865, albumen print, 34 x 26cm, laid onto original mount and signed by Cameron, framed and glazedNote: "When Julia Margaret Cameron took up photography in 1864, she passionately embraced allegory as her preferred artistic impulse and arranged her sitters in poses taken from classical literature, the Bible, contemporary poetry, and recent history. She called these photographs her 'fancy subjects'…" [Rosen, Jeff, Julia Margaret Cameron's 'Fancy Subjects', 2016, p.1]Julia Margaret Cameron's photograph of Little Margie, commonly known as 'Christ Kind', or Christ Child, is an example of Cameron's attraction to allegory in her work. Here, Cameron has recreated the Germanic Christkind - the infant Jesus who delivers presents to children on Christmas Eve. Margie Thackeray, the adopted granddaughter of William Makepeace Thackeray (and his great-niece), is pictured with her hair brushed out, almost to create a halo around her head, giving her an angelic appearance. Cameron's use of strong light catches the crown of the child's head, which is contrasted with the dark behind, again to create the perception of holiness. Julia Margaret Cameron certainly regarded her photography as an artform, writing to Sir John Herschel (father of the sitter in lot 295): "My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art…" [Rosen, p.2, quoting from Ford "The Cameron Collection]. To this end, Cameron manipulated her photographs to some extent. Cox and Ford write: "If parts of an image were unsatisfactory to her, she engraved lines onto the negative, scratched and painted the collodion, and doctored the image as necessary to suit her expressive needs." [Cox, Julian & Colin Ford. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs, 2003, p.50]. Similarly, Cameron chose to create a slight blur in many of her photographs, by not tightening her lens to the same extent as many photographers of the day, and eschewing devices such as head restraints for her sitters [Cox & Ford, p.50] This effect can again be observed in the diffusion of Margie Thackeray's hair.
![Rackham, ArthurSome British Ballads. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919]. 4to, number 459 of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rac](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/aa992f49-efcc-4b89-b25c-79412446194a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 345
Rackham, ArthurSome British Ballads. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1919]. 4to, number 459 of 575 copies signed by Arthur Rackham, 16 colour plates by Rackham, original quarter vellum, some dust-soiling to covers, a few light internal smudges; Kipling, Rudyard Sea and Sussex. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926. 4to, one of 500 large paper copies signed by Kipling, 24 colour plates by Donald Maxwell, original quarter vellum, contemporary ownership stamp to front free-endpaper (2)
![Daniel, William BarkerRural Sports. London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1807. 4 volumes including Supplement, large 8vo, engraved t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/3e495c48-b243-4eb2-fd67-2faa84d5356f/468x382.jpg)
![[Brand, John, of Borrowstounness]A Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland, Pightland-firth & Caithness... Edinburgh: printed by](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/322979bb-19b7-4047-8039-a09fa245a69d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 413
Oxfordshire - Skelton, Joseph - Large Paper Subscriber's CopySkelton's Engraved Illustrations of the Principal Antiquities of Oxfordshire, from Original Drawings by F. Mackenzie. Oxford, 1823. Large 4to, large paper Subscriber's copy ("Subscription copy" at head of frontispiece), engraved frontispiece, title-page,. map and 48 plates on India Paper, engraved illustrations on the letterpress, list of subscribers, contemporary dark blue morocco panelled morocco gilt, g.e., a little light spotting, slightly rubbed
Lot 51
Crane, WalterTriplets. Comprising the Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet, and The Baby's Own Aesop. London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd., 1899. Oblong 4to, number 160 of 750 copies, original quarter vellum over brown cloth gilt, ownership inscription to fly-leaf, some foxing and spotting throughout, some soiling to covers and damage to spine ends; Aldin, Cecil The Romance of the Road. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928. Folio, number 100 of 200 copies signed by Cecil Aldin, folding map, frontispiece, 9 plates, original vellum gilt, bookplate, inscription in blue biro, a little light foxing, slight discolouration and marking to covers (2)
![Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Långstrump [Pippi Longstocking] - the first three booksPippi Långstrump. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1c32cd2c-9739-409c-b0e7-a8ef00d40838/d38de97a-22e5-49c5-b817-166deb093fa4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 55
Lindgren, Astrid - Pippi Långstrump [Pippi Longstocking] - the first three booksPippi Långstrump. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, [1945], ownership signature to free-endpaper, pp.49-56 with some small puncture holes, closed tear to pp.125-6 & 129-30, hinges repaired, some soiling and chipping to boards; [Idem] Pippi Långstrump går om Bord. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, [1946], ownership signature erased from endpaper, some soiling to lower board; [Idem] Pippi Långstrump i Söderhavet. Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren, [1948], a little creasing to pages, occasional very light soiling; all first editions, 12mo, original yellow pictorial boards with cloth spines, pages generally browned, a little splitting to hinges (3)
Lot 66
Giovio, PaoloVitae Illustrium virorum Tomis duobus, comprehensae & propriis imaginibus illustratae. Basel: Petri Pernae, 1678-1677. Folio, two volumes in one, [12], 427; [8], 225; title within ornate pictorial woodcut border, numerous fine woodcut portraits, [this edition not in USTC]; [bound with:] Regionum et Insularum atque Locorum Descriptiones, videlicet Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae, Orchadum. Basel, 1578. Folio, 156, [7], later vellum-backed boards, red morocco lettering piece, a few light spots, variable worming to some margins, boards a bit soiled and rubbed
Lot 72
Melanchthon, PhilippEpigrammatum Reverendi et Clariss. viri Philippi Melanthonis libri sex. Wittenberg, Johann Schwertel, 1575. 8vo, [148 leaves], (A1-T4), woodcut portrait on title, later (?19th century) vellum, brown morocco lettering piece, [USTC, recording 6 copies in Germany], a little spotting, occasional light marginal dampstaining
Lot 74
Tertullianus, Quintus Septimus FlorensOpera. Q Septimii Florentis Tertulliani inter Latinos ecclesiase scriptores primi... è tenebris eruta atque à situ pro virili vindicata. Basel: Johann Froben, 1621. Folio (in sixes), [28], 615, [1], [68], title-page, dedication and a1 within woodcut border, woodcut initials and ornaments, 20th century red morocco lettered in gilt, small hole at foot of title just affecting woodcut & several words deleted with ink, some early marginal annotations, occasional soiling and staining, mostly to fore-margin, mostly light, [USTC 679658; 34 copies]
Lot 96
Military History, a quantity, including Shipp, JohnThe Military Bijou. 1831. 2 vol., 8vo, modern boards; Farie, R. Campaign in France in the year 1792. 1849, 8vo; Younghusband, G.J. The Story of the Guides. 1908, 8vo; Gretton, G. le M. The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment from 1684 to 1902. 1911, 4to; [Blampied, H.J.] With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916-1917. Bombay, 1918, 8vo; Lowe, W.D. War History of the 18th (S.) Battalion Durham Light Infantry. 1920, 8vo; Thompson, R.R. The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division 1914-1918. 1923, 8vo; Ewing, J. The Royal Scots 1914-1919. 1925, 2 vol., 8vo; Wauchope, A.G. A History of The Black Watch [Royal Highlanders] in The Great War. 1925- 26, 3 vol., 8vo; McCance, S. History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. 1927, vol. 1 only, 4to; Ross of Bladensburg, John The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. 1928, 3 vol. including map vol., 8vo; Gardyne, C.G. The Life of a Regiment. The History of The Gordon Highlanders. 1929, 3 vol., 8vo, dust-jackets; Gillon, S. The K.O.S.B. in the Great War. [c.1930], 8vo; Erskine, D. The Scots Guards 1919-1955. 1956; and a quantity of similar material, mostly original cloth
Lot 317
A French pressed bisque fashionable doll, probably Francois Gaultier, the socket shoulder head with deep blue striated glass eyes, close mouth with darker pink detail, light brows, ears pierced into the head, gusseted lid body with illegible shop ink body stamp, individual stitched fingers, cork pate with remains of replacement mohair wig, white muslin dress, undergarments, a knotted string snood and wonderful brown leather heeled boots No.0 - 12¼in. (31cm.) high (hairline to her left side of face and chip to the top back of shoulder plate, wear to body)
Lot 309
An unusual fine English turned and carved painted mid 18th century wooden doll, with face turned slightly to the right, dark inset glass eyes, unusually carved ears, the light lined eyebrows emphasised by a row of dots above, which also border the eye sockets, delicate profile and slight cleavage, the arms of stuffed cotton and painted wood, her light brown hair wig decorated with artificial flowers and net, wearing original eau de Nil blue silk sack back open robe “à la Française“ with matching petticoat and stomacher, the silk woven with a spot motif, the petticoat with horizontal pleated frilled bands, the open robe trimmed with padded rouleaux robings, the sleeves with triple ruffle cuffs, the stomacher and cuffs trimmed with silk blonde, a matching gathered choker, white linen corset with blue ribbon trim, a linen pocket, cotton shift, a short petticoat of woven diamond design, a short petticoat of linen with stitching simulating quilting and two further long petticoats of ribbed cotton, 1760s - 11½in. (29cm.) height of torso, possible original height - 18in. (45.5cm.) (missing legs and eight fingers, rub to nose, slight wear and silk perishing at hips); a child’s matching eau de Nil silk covered party mask with scalloped gathered top and an original note left by Mrs Frederica Capel-Cure née Cheney dated February 18th 1867, in which she leaves these dolls to her nephew Family history dictates that this group of dolls and textiles, lots 309 to 315, belonged to Isabella Byne, who was born in 1745 and died in 1797, aged 52. She married Ralph Carr in 1758, aged just 13. From research, it appears that Isabella had five children, including three girls: Isabella Carr, born in 1760, Annabella Carr, born in 1763 and Harriet Carr, born in 1771. Therefore it is most probable that the three dolls, dating from around 1760 and the 1780s, were purchased either for these girls or purchased and kept by Isabella as mementos of the girls. They have always passed down the female line, staying in the same family for the last 250 years: Isabelle Carr, née Byne. Harriet Cheney, née Carr – wife of General Cheney of Langley, Derbyshire and Badger, Shropshire. Frederica Capel-Cure, née Cheney - wife of George Capel-Cure. They have remained in the Capel-Cure family home, Blake Hall at Ongar in Essex, since the late 19th Century. Special Auction Services would like to thank Olivia Bristol and Patricia Frost for their kind assistance in cataloguing this collection.
Lot 84
Jasper, a Merrythought 1930s teddy bear, with light golden mohair, orange and black glass eyes, black stitched nose, mouth and remains of claws, swivel head, jointed limbs with cloth pads, inoperative growler, woven yellow and black label and knitted cardigan - 19in. (48cm.) high (bald body, bald spots and general wear)
Lot 82
A British teddy bear 1930s, probably Farnell with light golden mohair, orange and black glass eyes, pronounced muzzle, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed limbs with large feet, hump and inoperative growler - 19in. (48.5cm.) high (ears replaced, repaired tears to top front, pads and some black stitching replaced, wear and balding)
Lot 220
An unusual Omega teddy bear 1920s, with light brown mohair on black backing cloth, clear and black oily eyes with brown painted backs, pronounced muzzle, black stitched nose, mouth and claws, swivel head, jointed limbs with felt pads, hump and inoperative growler - 14½in. (37cm.) high (large patch to top of head, balding and general wear) and a peg wooden doll in blue velvet - this bear and doll are known as Buster and Harriet
Lot 316
A French pressed bisque fashionable doll, the socket shoulder head with deep blue striated glass eyes, closed mouth with darker pink detail, light brows, gusseted kid body, hinged arms with finger sewn together, remains of blonde skin wig on cork pate, a cream and blue striped two piece dress with green ribbon trim, a similar dress with black and white check with pink ribbon trim decorated with morning glory and another blonde? two piece dress with pink trim, undergarments and straw hat with purple trim - 11in. (28cm.) high (chips to lower front and back of head, hidden inside shoulder socket, some wear to body and clothes)
Lot 479
A French pressed bisque fashionable doll, with socket shoulder-head, dark blue striated fixed glass eyes, closed mouth with slight smile, light brown brows, pierced ears, blonde mohair wig on cork pate, jointed wooden kid covered body with bisque forearms, carved toes, café au lait dress, bonnet, parasol, underclothes and one red boot, probably Jumeau - 17¼in. (44cm.) high (two fingers chipped on right hand, firing crack behind left ear)
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