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Lot 1199
A 9ct gold belcher-link chain - Suspending a Silver Jubilee coin pendant - Hallmarked London - Length 49cms - Total weight approx 7.3gms - Together with a curb-link Albert chain - Stamped 9ct - Length 36cms - Weight approx 3.5gms Condition Report: Good to fair - With light surface scratches in keeping with wear
Lot 1211
An 18ct gold diamond single-stone ring - The brilliant-cut diamond to the tapered shoulders and plain band - Estimated diamond weight 0.40ct - Estimated J-K colour - P1-P2 clarity - Hallmarked London - Ring size L - Weight approx 2.5gms Condition Report: Good to fair - Light surface scratches - Diamond bright.
Lot 1222
A 9ct gold amethyst bar brooch - Hallmarked Sheffield - Length 5.5cms - Weight approx 2.9gms - Together with a peridot and seed pearl bar brooch - Stamped 15ct - Pin stamped 9 - Length 5cms - Total weight approx 2.9gms Condition Report: Good to fair - With light surface scratches - Chip to peridot.
Lot 1232
A sapphire and diamond floral cluster ring - The brilliant-cut diamond within a circular-shape sapphire surround to the textured surmount and plain half-band - Stamped 18ct - Ring size N 1/2 - Weight approx 4.8gms Condition Report: Good - With light surface scratches - Diamond lively and bright.
Lot 1234
An early 20th century 9ct god medal - The vacant shield cartouche within a scroll surround to the reverse engraving commemorating 'W. Smith of Wisbech for the Open Sausage Making competition' - Hallmarked Birmingham, 1934 - Diameter 2.6cms - Weight approx 12.8gms Condition Report: Good - With light surface scratches.
Lot 1236
A 18ct diamond single-stone ring - The early brilliant-cut diamond inset to the tapered shoulders and plain band - Estimated diamond weight 1.50cts - Estimated J-K colour, VS2-SI1 clarity - Hallmarked London, 1957 - Ring size Z - Weight approx 15.6gms Condition Report: Good - With light surface dents and scratches - Diamond lively and bright
Lot 1247
A set of 9ct bi-colour gold and diamond jewellery - To Include an openwork lattice pendant with single-cut diamond detail suspended from a curb-link chain - Together with a pair of matching earrings - Hallmarked London and Sheffield - Length of pendant 2.5cms - Length of chain 46cms - Length of earrings 1.5cms.- Total weight approx 5.6gms Condition Report: Good - With light surface scratches - One butterfly deficient.
![HIPPOLYTE MOREAU [FRENCH 1832-1927], BRONZE SCULPTURE, H 26", FEMALE FIGURE: Holding flowers in her hand. In light b](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/33875/2910694/2054-2014715173430_468x382.jpg)
Lot 3031
Historical DocumentsRalph Allen1754 (18 July) autograph letter signed "W. Warburton", to Mr. Nourse, Bookseller at the Lamb in the Strand, asking him to forward a letter "to the Genl Post office by the penny post add. to Christopher Robinson Esq at the Genl post office, who has directions abt. it." Single page (7½ x 6 inches), filing hole, centre fold split, light dust soiling to letter, with the integral address leaf written and signed as "free R.Allen" (Ralph Allen, Postmaster at Bath) with straight-line "BATH" postal marking and "20/JY" Bishop mark. The letter closes with the initials "P.P." (Prior Park, Ralph Allen's mansion outside Bath). An unusual letter with the address written by the man who devised the Cross Post system for England and Wales. Photo William Warburton (1698-1779), bishop and scholar, defender of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, a controversialist who tackled Hume, the Deists, Voltaire and Wesley. Ralph Allen (1693-1764), entrepreneur and philanthropist, friend of Pope and Fielding, notable for his reforms to the British postal system. In his youth he worked at the Post Office. He moved to Bath in 1710, where he became a post office clerk, and at the age of 19, in 1712, became the Postmaster of Bath. In 1742 was elected Mayor of Bath. He was the Member of Parliament for Bath between 1757 and 1764. He devised a system of cross-posts for England and Wales. Allen's friendship with Alexander Pope led to Pope bringing Warburton to Prior Park. This resulted in Warburton's marriage to Gertude Tucker, Allen's favourite niece, and his appointment, through Pitt's influence, to the bishopric of Gloucester. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 3035
Historical DocumentsJonas Hanway1773 (30 August) certificate of account that the purser of H.M.S. Pallas, " ... appears to be Creditor in this Office for Victualing the said ship's Company ...", from the Victulaling Office, London and signed "Jonas Hanway". Light paper ageing. Photo Jonas Hanway (1712 – 1786), an English traveller and philanthropist, was born at Portsmouth. He was the first Londoner, it is said, to carry an umbrella, and he lived to triumph over all the hackney coachmen who tried to hoot and hustle him down. This contemporary caricature attempts to show some of the reactions he provoked.HMS Pallas was one of the three 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1757 and served until her loss in 1783.Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 3092
Historical DocumentsPassports1814 (8 September) French pass for a Mr Williams, signed "Wellington" with red wax seal; horizontal creases and some light soiling but fresh and in a good state of preservation. Photo The Duke of Wellington was made Ambassador to France after the Battle of Waterloo.Foreign-Office, July 5, 1814.His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has beenpleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty,to appoint the Most Noble the Duke of Wellington,K. G. to be His Majesty's AmbassadorExtraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of-His Most Christian Majesty Louis XVIII. Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 3147
Historical DocumentsUnited States of AmericaAmerican Infantry Commission1798 (10 May) Original Printed Commission, completed in manuscript, signed by Arthur Fenner as Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence-Plantations, and by Samuel Eddy as Secretary, appointing William Tanner to be Lieutenant of the third Company of Infantry in the Town of West Greenwich in the County of Kent. Dated at foot concluding with "in the twenty second years of Independence".8 x 13 inches, wafer seal affixed upper left, folds, old repairs on verso, minor blemishes and light spotting, otherwise good. Photo Arthur Fenner (1745 -1805) served as the governor of Rhode Island from 1790 until his death in 1805 and was a prominent Country Party (Anti-federalist) leader. Arthur was governor of Rhode Island when it became the last of the thirteen states to ratify the Constitution on 29 May 1790. Samuel Eddy (1769 - 1839) served as clerk of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1790-1793. He also served as Rhode Island Secretary of State 1798-1819.For other U.S.A. items, please see lots 3072 and 3094 Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 3148
(x) Historical DocumentsGeorge Armstrong Custer1873 (15 February) personal check signed "GA Custer". Blue bank check drawn on the Planters National Bank of Louisville, payable to "John Ranch / Ninety-Two Dollars."; endorsements on the back, and some light bleed through; spindle cancel at the centre, small spindle hole towards the left, otherwise very fine. The entries are in medium brown ink used by General Custer. Photo George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) A United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, famous for his defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn.Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
![[Dawnay (Lt.Col. A.G.C.)] A MONTH ON THE MODDER RIVER WITH THE COLDSTREAM 8vo (200 x 160 mm) 16 pages, printed light card wra](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36503/2911080/5-2014627124652_468x382.jpg)
Lot 5
[Dawnay (Lt.Col. A.G.C.)] A MONTH ON THE MODDER RIVER WITH THE COLDSTREAM 8vo (200 x 160 mm) 16 pages, printed light card wrappers, stapled binding showing some rust marks. Hackett (R.G.) SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS, An Illustrated Bibliography, page132, `Pamphlet attributed to Lt.Col. Dawnay whose name does not appear in the publication. A fascinating account of a visit to Lord Methuen’s headquarters near Modder River in December 1899, including a graphic description of the battle of Modderfontein.` No place or date, Printed by John & E. Bumpus Ltd., Oxford Street, London, circa 1900. Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 6
Dawson (Captain E.) SOME NOTES ON THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA 8vo (220 x 150 mm) With Reference to Indian Volunteers. By Captain E. Dawson, R.V.R., Late Sergeant, Lumsden’s Horse. United Service Institution of India. 10 pages, printed blue light card wrappers. `With the Compliments of the Author` written in ink across the front cover. Also at the foot of the cover, `Published in the Quarterly Journal of the Institution, Simla, April 1901.` This was in Volume XXX, no. 143 of the Journal. Not in A South African Bibliography or Hackett (R.G.) SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS, An Illustrated Bibliography. Dawson describes how he joined the Volunteers, `Having previously (in December 1899) offered myself as a volunteer officer for active employment in the war, and not having been fortunate enough to be accepted, in January 1900 I obtained leave of absence from my civil service appointment, and went to Calcutta to join the Mounted Infantry which was then being raised for service in South Africa. Colonel D.M. Lumsden (Surma Valley Lighe Horse), who had obtained the sanction of the Government to raise the regiment, and made a generous donation…it was a corps of gentlemen….most of us could shoot fairly straight.`The portrait photograph below appears on page 269 of Pearse (Henry H.S.) The History of Lumsden`s Horse, London 1903 Good No place or date (Simla,1901) Click here to view further details and to bid
![[Grey (J. Grattan)] FREEDOM OF THOUGHT & SPEECH IN NEW ZEALAND, A Serious Menace to Liberty. THE STORY OF THE BOERS. 8vo](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36503/2911080/9-201462712484_468x382.jpg)
Lot 9
[Grey (J. Grattan)] FREEDOM OF THOUGHT & SPEECH IN NEW ZEALAND, A Serious Menace to Liberty. THE STORY OF THE BOERS. 8vo (205 x 135 mm) Things Worth Knowing, and Facts Hitherto Suppressed. No.2. 80 pages, printed brown paper wrappers bound into red pebble-grained cloth boards. Presentation inscription from the author on the verso of the front cover, `Alfred Marks, Esq., with J. Grattan Grey’s comps.` A South African Bibliography, volume 2, page 442, `Mr Grey disapproved the sending of contingents from New Zealand to South African War. He wrote an article in the New York Times which led to the correspondence with the Premier.` (3 copies listed). In an article in the New York Times, dated 10th June 1900 under the headline Jingoism in New Zealand: Correspondent May Be Prosecuted for Letter in the New York Times, the following appears, `A few days ago Mr. Grey issued his second pamphlet, which contains, inter alia, the literature of the peace party of Great Britain, which was sent out to the colonies for publication, but was suppressed, and now for the first time sees the light of day here.` A later article dated 2nd September 1900, summarises how the Premier of New Zealand Richard Seddon had dismissed Grey from his position of Chief of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff (Hansard) and following his continued defiance forced him to leave the country. Good Wellington, New Zealand City Printing Coy. Apr-00 Click here to view further details and to bid
![[Reconnaissance Reports, Parts I & II] RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS ON LINES OF ADVANCE THROUGH THE ORANGE FREE STATE Part I. w](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/36503/2911080/14-2014627124332_468x382.jpg)
Lot 14
[Reconnaissance Reports, Parts I & II] RECONNAISSANCE REPORTS ON LINES OF ADVANCE THROUGH THE ORANGE FREE STATE Part I. which is divided into two sections: Part I. By Majore E.A. Altham, The Royal Scots, Staff Captain, Intelligence Division, War Office. Part II. By Major M.F. Rimington, 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. The Report comprises 68 pages, Key Map to illustrate Reconnaissance by Major Altham, 8vo (245 x 155 mm), printed card covers with blue cloth back. This is accompanied by 12 folding maps. The report and maps are contained in a dark blue pebble-grained cloth box with a printed title label on the upper cover. Intelligence Division, War Office, [A. 474], 1897. With: Part II. Bt Captain A.H. Wolley-Dod, R.A. The Report comprises 30 pages, 8vo (245 x 155 mm), printed light card covers. This is accompanied by 3 folding maps – 2 large maps and Index Map. The report and maps are contained in a dark blue pebble-grained cloth box with a printed title label on the upper cover. Intelligence Division, War Office, [A. 494], 1897. These reports show to what extent the British government anticipated a war against the Boer republics following the Jameson Raid at the end of 1895.These preparations only became apparent to the Transvaal and Free State governments after copies of these reports were captured after the Battle of Talana Hill in October 1899. 1897 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 15
Watson (J. Hannan) THE TROOPER`S SKETCH BOOK OF THE BOER WAR Oblong 4to (215 x 280 mm) Unpaginated (72 pages including 4 pages of commercial advertisements), 30 full-page illustrations from sketches by the author with captions opposite, yellow pictorial card wrappers - title printed in red and black, tied with red silk thread, light staining at the top corner of some pages, a very good copy. Greenwall (R.) ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR, page 229, `Soldier-artist. Watson was a trooper with the 18th Company (Glasgow) Imperial Yeomanry...Watson`s company arrived in Table Bay on 19th March 1900...During his stay in South Africa Watson planned and illustrated The Trooper`s Sketch Book of the Boer War`. Hackett (R.G.) SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BOOKS, An Illustrated Bibliography, page 200 (illustrated on page 65), `Sketches of the Boer campaign compiled by trooper Watson of the Imperial Yeomanry, being a record of sixteen months active service. The volumes comprised of thirty sketches depicting mundane incidents in the life of a trooper on the veldt. The illustrations include scenes of camp life, outpost duty, foraging and field ablutions. Each drawing is accompanied by a descriptive text.` Very good Glasgow James Brown & Son No date (circa 1902) Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 17
Angas, George French The Kafirs Illustrated Folio (560x390mm) Limited edition facsimile reprint of hand coloured litographs published in 1849 with an introduction by Dr. Frank Bradlow. pp. 133, green simulated leather boards with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Light wear to boards, small chips to spine ends, fish moth damage to end papers, internally fine. Good Cape Town A.A. Balkema 1974 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 18
Butler (Capt. H.) South African Sketches: illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the frontier of the Cape Colony (1841) 380x280mm Lithographed title page as frontis, pp.15 of letterpress, 15 lithograph plates containing 31 drawings of which 16 are hand-coloured, most plates with tissue guards, original blind stamped cloth, gilt title on cover. Board corners worn, occasional light foxing. An early record of hunting and fauna in the Eastern Cape frontier region. Butler, a graduate of the Trinity College in Dublin, served with the 29th (The 2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. In 1837-38 he travelled to the hunting grounds of the Bontebok Flats near King William`s Town. Good London Ackermann and Co. 1841 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 24
Baden-Powell (Bt.-Colonel R.S.S.) AIDS TO SCOUTING FOR N.C.O.`s & MEN 115x90mm Baden-Powell completed this book while preparing for the defense of Mafiking in 1899. The copyright page states: `The corrected proofs of this Book accompanied the last Despatches that got through the Boer Lines. `The book is made the more interesting by the fact that its proof-sheets were actually revised by the gallant author while besieged in Mafeking, and where he doubtless puts to excellent purpose the precepts he has so clearly laid down for scouting`, - Pall Mall Gazette. pp. 138 + pp. 5 of publisher`s catalogue, further lists of Gale & Polden`s military publications appear on the front endpapers, original red cloth. Light foxing on a number of pages. The book is listed with a brass Boys Scouts crest (10x6cm). Very Good London Gale & Polden No date (1899) Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 37
Sir Percy Fitzpatrick JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD 225 x 160 x 40 mm First Edition, 3rd Impression, 1907. 22 Full-page illustrations, colour frontispiece with tissue guard. 21 b/w small drawings on almost every page. A South African classic. Fitzpatrick uses the story of Jock,the dog, to describe his adventures in the Bushveld. Edward Caldwell was brought to South Africa to do the drawings from life, while in the Bushveld. Professionally re-cased with original dark green cloth front, spine and back. Binding tight. One or two pages with small marks or tears or small bits missing from edge. Otherwise a remarkably good copy. Gilt titles and picture on front and spine. Pages and illustrations very clean. Some bumping on corners or light edge-rubbing. Pages: [i-vi]vii-xv[xvi] pp 1-474[475]. London Longmans Green and Co 1907 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 45
Simon van der Stel. Edited by Gilbert Waterhouse SIMON VAN DER STEL`S JOURNAL OF HIS EXPEDITION TO NAMAQUALAND 1685-6 275 x 185 x 25 mm This is regarded as one of the first published versions of the Journal since it was compiled in 1685-86. This manuscript was lost in 1692 and re-discovered by this editor in Dublin in 1922. It took him 10 years to complete the book, which includes the Dutch text and the English translation, and a large number of illustrations of plants and animals found on the expedition. Many illustrations, attributed to Claudius, and map. Pages: [i-iii]iv-xxviii pp 1-183, plus 7 plates and Animals, birds and reptile Folios 733-783; Plants Folios 785-869. In appendix I and II, Waterhouse quotes from Valentijn, Tachard and Ovington for contemporary comments on Van der Stel. Dust Jacket cream coloured paper, which has become light brown and brittle, cracking at all the creases. The brittle DJ has been repaired and reinforced. Dark green cloth-covered blind-stamped boards, gilt titles and gilt crest of Dublin University Press. Overall, the book, covers and binding are Very Good. Dublin Hodges, Figgis & Co 1932 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 57
M.K. Rowan THE DOVES, PARROTS, LOURIES & CUCKOOS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 235 x 150 x 28 mm First Edition, for the John Voelcker Bird Book Fund. Very detailed, yet not difficult to understand, information on each bird described. Habitat, frequency, distribution, social organisation, maintenance activities, reproduction, population dynamics and relations with man, of every South African member of the four orders of birds under the title (Columbiformes, Psittiaciformes, Musophagiformes, Cuculiformes). 8 Full-page colour plates, unpaginated, with identification picture and naming details on opposite page, by Graeme Arnott. Distribution maps. Pages: [i-v]vi-xx pp [1]2-429. Dust jacket has some light wear at spine top edge. Condition Very Good. Green paper covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Very light foxing on half-title page, otherwise no wear or staining. Book, binding, pages Fine condition. Cape Town David Philip 1983 Click here to view further details and to bid
Lot 69
Mossop, George Running the Gauntlet. Some recollections of adventure (first edition, 1937) 205 x 145 Mossop`s book - finished in 1930 and published seven years later, when he was 75 - covers his experiences, beginning in the 1860s, of the Transvaal, then `considered to be in the Wilds of Africa`. `I have never,` he wrote, `lived in a town or near one.` Chapters include `With the F L H` [Frontier Light Horse], `Ulundi`, `Laing`s Nek`, `Amajuba`, `A Transport Rider` and `Witchcraft and Baboons`. Were the book not extremely rare, with good copies changing hands for hundreds of dollars, this copy would not be offered. The mustard cloth-boards are rubbed and extensively stained, the front free endpaper has been removed, the front paste-down is scratched, the first six leaves are stained at the bottom corner and there is some staining to the page edges. However, the binding remains firm, the book is unmarked and there is no foxing or (apart from the stain referred to) any discolouration of the ix + 314 pp of unillustrated text and 2 pp of publisher`s announcements. A simple rebinding would restore much of the book`s attractiveness, making this much better than a reading copy. Fair to Good London etc Thomas Nelson 1937 Click here to view further details and to bid
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