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Lot 563
An impressive and large antique clock garniture c1870 by Demuer Du Roi, the ormolu and blue glazed porcelain clock designed as a monumental vase with putti and satir masks, the finely painted white enamel dial with royal blue painted roman numerals, the movement striking on the hour, on a base of finely cast ormolu putti and garlands, en suite with a matching pair of royal blue porcelain and ormolu six light candelabra, 73 x 67cm approx
Lot 836
Robert Thompson Mouseman: A small light oak refectory table with Adzed top (70cm x 107cm) together with four matching open lattice back dining chairs, all with trademark mouse decoration on legs. (Chairs sympathetically recovered in tan leather). NB originally purchased by the vendors in 1995 from Robert Thompson's Craftsmen, Kilburn, York as 'secondhand' (see invoice).
Lot 1
Lizars’ Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas:Edinburgh, W H Lizars, nd, c.1842; with 68 double-page hand coloured maps, numbered 1 to 31 and 33 to 69 (no map 32 as correct). Folio; this volume includes the two important maps: The United States and Mexico, both showing Texas as The Republic of Texas. Covers worn and detached; light damp staining to folds of many maps; two maps little frayed at edges; o/w G (sold as a collection of plates not subject to return)
Lot 100
GENERAL ANTIQUARIAN:1. Wright, G N: Ireland Illustrated. Fisher, 1831, 1st edn. with 40 plates (80 views). 4to. Light damp stain to some corners and edges; occasional foxing;2. Sutherland, G: The South Australian Company. Longmans,1898, 1st edn. Plates and illustrated. Modern half leather. VG;3. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack; Bound with: The English Registry; Bound with: Dublin Directory. All three for the year 1799. Contemporary full calf, gilt. The first work has pages 25-32 blank; otherwise complete. No map present;4. Plus two other works: Sanskrite et Latine, 1838; and W Gilbert, sketch of his magnetic philosophy, 1902 (5)
Lot 104
The Domestic Poultry Instructor:To which is added:Instructions in the Management of Bees,L, Orlando Hodgson, nd (inscription dated 1837). Illustrated with a folding handcoloured frontis plate; pp24 (incomplete) and wrappers. Light damp stain to frontis; o/w G; scare (no copy at The British Library)
Lot 151
EGYPTOLOGY, ETC:1. De Garis Davies, Norman: The Rock Tombs of El Amarna. In six volumes. The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903-1908, 1st edns. I: The Tomb of Meryra. viii, 56, (2)pp., 42 plates (partly double-page). II: The Tombs of Panehesy and Meryra II. viii, 48, (4)pp., 47 plates (partly double-page). III: The Tombs of Huya and Ahmes. With an appendix on the Greek graffiti by Seymour de Ricci. x, (2), 41, (3)pp., 40 plates (partly double-page). IV: Tombs of Penthu, Mahu, and others; viii, 36, (2)pp., 45 plates (partly double-page). V: Smaller Tombs and Boundary Stelae. vi, (2), 37, (3)pp., 45 plates (1 colour; partly double-page). VI: Tombs of Parennefer, Tutu, and Aÿ. (6), 44, (2)pp., 44 plates (partly double-page). Small folio; publisher's quarter cloth. Volume three with light red stain to front cover; o/w G+;2. Yahya, Eid Al (Editor): Travellers in Arabia: British Explorers in Saudi Arabia. Stacey International, 2006, 1st edn. dw. Inscribed and signed to Michael Ri
Lot 194
MODERN FIRSTS:1. Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake. Faber, 1939, 1st edn. original red brick cloth. Small stain to top of title page and browning to last page; o/w VG;2. Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea. Cape, 1952, 1st edn., dw (7s. 6d.net). Light fading to cover edges; o/w VG;3. Steinbeck, John: East of Eden. NY, Viking press, September 1952, 1st edn., dw ($4.50). With tears; o/w G;4. Colmore, Gertrude: Suffragette Sally. Stanley Paul, nd (1911), inscribed: Xmas, 1913; pp318, (ii), 16(publishers adverts). G+;5. James P D: Death of an Expert Witness. Faber, 1977, 1st edn., dw (£3.95). VG (5)
Lot 233
MAWSON, Sir Douglas:The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914,In two volumes. Heinemann, 1915, 1st edns. With maps and plates, plus three folding colour maps in the pocket of volume 2; original blue cloth boards with silver pictorial inlay. Light foxing; o/w VG (2)
Lot 250
BLYTON, Enid:A Complete Set of the ‘Famous Five’ books,Twenty-one works; all 1st eds., 1st impression 1942-63; all with dust jackets: (facsimile to the first one, original 7s. 6d. to ‘Five go to Billycock Hill; all the others are in later dust jackets’. All dust jackets with varying degrees of rubbing, cuts and small loss. The illustrations by Eileen Soper. Condition: 1. spine rubbed and creased; front inner hinges cracked; 2. ink drawing to front cover; inscription to front blank endpaper; small piece cut out from the back blank endpaper; 3. foxing to half title and title page; 4. covers soiled and torn along the side; name to endpapers and copyright page; inner hinges cracked; 5. covers little grubby; 6. spine darkened and with small cut; 7. covers damp soiled; 8. light stain to front cover; 9. indentation to verso of frontis and title page; last page torn at corner with small loss; spine little faded; 11. spine little faded and biro scribble to front cover; front hinges cracked
Lot 251
CARROLL, Lewis:Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, three illustrated editions:1. Rackham, A. Heinemann, nd (1907), 1st edn. Original gilt pictorial cloth and pictorial endpapers. 13 colour plates. Spine faded; small stain to front cover; light foxing; o/w G;2. Tarrant, Margaret W. Ward Lock, nd, (1925), part of the ‘Prince Charming’ colour books; dw (6/-). 48 colour plates (44 plates plus the colour endpapers), pp332, (xii)adverts. Original pictorial cloth; dw torn with small loss; inscription to verso of frontis; light foxing o/w VG;3. Attwell, Mabel Lucie. Raphael Tuck, nd, inscription dated 1918, 1st edn. 12 colour plates plus text ill., 4to. original red and gilt decorative covers, teg and pictorial endpapers; one of the text illustration nicely coloured-in. Browning to endpapers; o/w VG (3)
Lot 287
(BEWICK, John) (illustrator):Emblems of mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people,T Hodgson, 1789, 1st Bewick edn. PP: xxviii, 52; with frontis. Plus: 51 illustrations. Later three quarter leather over marbled boards, endpapers and aeg. Long inscription (about the book) to front blank endpaper; name at top of title page; light browning
Lot 299
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator):Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes,NY, The Century Co., nd (1913) limited edn of 150 copies signed by Rackham, but not numbered. 13 colour plates. 4to. original white cloth with gilt decoration and lettering and teg. Covers little rubbed; light offsetting; o/w G+
Lot 319
SMITH, George:A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the Most Approved and Elegant Taste,London, J Taylor, no date c.1808 (the plates are dated 1804-1807). With 159 hand coloured plates; there are supposed to be 158 plates, however four are missing and replaced with contemporary watercolours; half leather binding. As stated, lacking four plates and replaced with original watercolours; the title page and few plates are professionally repaired; occasional light staining; o/w VG George Smith (1765-1844) was a Scottish-born architect.
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Lot 440
SHROPSHIRE AND MONTGOMERYSHIRE LIGHT RAILWAY ONE RAILWAY GROUP RE WORKING INSTRUCTIONS, [1955] 2 folding maps as called for, 94pp, original cloth + BRITISH RAILWAYS (PUB): RULES FOR OBSERVANCE BY EMPLOYEES, 1st January 1950, original cloth + P RANSOME-WALLIS: LOCOMOTIVES THROUGH THE LENS, 1948, 1st edition, original cloth + NOTES ON MILITARY RAILWAY ENGINEERING PART II ENGINEERING 1940, NOTES ON MILITARY RAILWAY ENGINEERING PART IV OPERATING 1942, each pub "under the authority of the Quartermaster General, the War Office February 1940, March 1942", uniform green cloth gilt, 2 volumes (5)
Lot 498
PIAZZI SMYTH: OUR INHERITANCE IN THE GREAT PYRAMID..., September 1877, original cloth gilt + E A WALLIS BUDGE: THE NILE - NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT, 1907, original decorative limp cloth gilt, inner joints split, + WILLIAM OSBURN: THE MONUMENTAL HISTORY OF EGYPT..., 1854, 2 volumes, original cloth gilt + H FORBES WITHERBY: LIGHT FROM THE LAND OF THE SPHINX, 1896, original decorative cloth gilt, top edges gilt (5)
Lot 652
Manuscript Diary of a Journey at Sea Aboard HMS Troop Ship Jumna, from England to India 19th December 1880 to 16th January 1881, compiled by a Charles Pearson, Lance Corporal Her Majesty's First Battalion 17th Regiment, 47 pages of daily manuscript entries detailing journey through Bay of Biscay, Cape Finisterre, Portugal, Cape Trafalgar, Morocco Coast, Malta, Suez Canal, Great Bitter and Small Bitter Lakes, Abyssinia Coast, Bombay Harbour, Invaliding Hospital at Colaba, diary ends on arrival in India before onward to travel to as yet unknown destination "...by palm tree Sunday 16th January 1881, this morning reveille sounded at 3.30am and soon after everyone was astir, anxiously waiting to get on land but of course the gentle sea must be looked after first and accordingly they disembarked at 7am our turn coming next, the officers and baggage following directly afterwards only a few yards to go and we were at the camp siding on the great Indian and Peninsula Railway tea and bread was served out and at 1pm we were packed like so many sheep in the carriages for Deolali [former British Army Camp and source of the British slang "Doolally"], there to await further orders as to our destination and such is our voyage to India in Her Majesty's Troop Ship "Jumna" her motto being "Heavens Light Our Guide" and may God grant us health and strength to return to dear of England in time to come, none the worse for our outing and now dear friends I must come to a close hoping my journal (excusing all mistakes and irregularities) may be interesting to your ... Yours very respectfully Charles Pearson... ", with original pen, ink and watercolour sketch depicting Cape Finisterre North West Coast of Spain, manuscript caption "Cape Finisterre sketched as we passed about 10.30am December 22nd 1880 C Pearson", lacks top plain paper wrap, together with the original wax paper envelope the journal was sent in back to England with Indian stamps and postmarks addressed to a Mrs H Goddard of Wigston, Leicestershire, England, very worn
Lot 346
W. Hubbick, 1661, three medals; S. Ingham, 27595, two medals, Durham Light Infantry; A. Hubbick 4975, Great War for Civilisation Medal, Durham Light Infantry; Atlantic Star, 1939-1945 Star and General Service Medal, unascribed; a collection of postcards, war scenes or related, some addressed to W. Hubbick; and a Hubbick family bible
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