Fifteen Beswick Beatrix Potter`s figures with dated brown line backstamp BP-3b, comprising `Amiable Guinea-Pig`, `Sally Henny Penny`, `Poorly Peter Rabbit`, `Jemima Puddleduck made a Feather nest`, `Mr Drake Puddle-Duck`, `Old Mr Pricklepin`, `Rebeccah Puddle-Duck`, `Little Pig Robinson`, `Pigling Bland`, `Mr Benjamin Bunny`, `Foxy Whiskered Gentleman`, `Hunca Munca`, `Anna Maria`, `Lady Mouse` and `The Old Woman who live in a Shoe Knitting`, with some matched boxes.
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A plated decanter label in the initial `B`, with engraved decoration, maker`s mark JN, a slide action pencil, designed as an axe, by S. Mordan & Co., a christening fork with mother-of-pearl handle by George Unite, another pencil, an enamelled RAF badge, a racing badge, detailed `Royal Windsor 1904`, a quantity of British and foreign coins, an oval trinket box, decorated with musicians in a garden scene, and a sewing set within a green leather case, detailed `Vickery, Regent St`.
DE LA MARE, Walter. Love. London: Faber and Faber, 1943. Second impression, 8vo (219 x 135mm.) Colour frontispiece, numerous uncoloured illustrations. Original cloth (extremities somewhat bumped, soiled and discoloured). Provenance: Joyce Grenfell (presentation inscription signed by the author with accompanying poem titled ‘Rain’); Paul Scofield (letter from Joyce’s husband, Reggie, loosely inserted). – And one other related volume (2).
SHACKLETON, Ernest. South, the Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917. London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, first impression, 8vo (247 x 153mm.) Colour frontispiece, 86 black and white full-page illustrations, 1 double-page plate, folding map bound at rear. (Browned as usual, preliminary blank with minor tear, first few leaves slightly creased, map creased and with minor tears at folds.) Original dark blue cloth blocked in silver (extremities lightly bumped, slightly heavier at head and foot of spine, small repair to edge of spine).
DIETRICH, Marlene. Marlene Dietrich’s ABC. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1962. 8vo (208 x 133mm.) Original cloth (extremities bumped), dust-jacket (slightly soiled). Provenance: Paul Scofield (presentation inscription signed by the author ‘Oh – how I wish I could write about you this morning! p.150 Marlene May 3. 1963’ to front-free endpaper in red ink).
STANFORD, Edward. Stanford’s London Atlas of Universal Geography… folio edition… third edition, revised and enlarged. London: 1904. Folio (557 x 374mm.) Title in red and black, 110 maps (93 double-page). (Some soiling, a few maps torn, map of England and Wales torn with loss.) Contemporary half-morocco (somewhat scuffed).
CRANE, Walter. Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare’s Tempest. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1893. Limited edition of 650 copies, this number 373 of 600 for sale signed by Crane and Duncan Dallas, 4to (352 x 278mm.) Title-page printed in red and black, 8 Dallastype plates. (Light spotting and some rippling to plates.) Loose as issued within original cloth box (defective and worn).
LANG, Andrew (editor). The Yellow Fairy Book. London & New York: 1894. 8vo (183 x 118mm.) Numerous illustrations, a few full-page, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. (Some light browning or soiling.) Original cloth blocked in gilt, g.e. (extremities bumped and slightly soiled, spine darkened).
An album containing approximately 200 postcards of British topographical views, including a printed postcard titled ‘Brighton Clock Tower’ and photographic postcards titled ‘Blakers’ Recreational Ground Brighton’, ‘The Drive, Chargot’, ‘Chanctonbury Ring’, ‘Saltash Bridge, Devonport’, ‘Grammar School, Newport’, ‘A Sussex Cottage Home (at Wiston, nr Steyning)’ and ‘Galashiels from Bruce’s Hill’.
An album containing approximately 176 postcards, the majority topographical views of Sussex or social history, including photographic postcards titled ‘Jack Sheppard’s Entertainers Madiera Lawns Brighton 1933’, ‘3rd Draft of R.A.M.C… upon leaving 2nd Eastern General Hospital for Oversea Service’, ‘Leasham Hill, Rye’, ‘Dental Ward, Guys Hospital’ and ‘Stephen Ward, Guys Hospital’.
A collection of approximately 235 postcards, the majority topographical views including photographic postcards titled ‘Borth-y-Gest, Garreg Gnwc Bay’, ‘Scilly Isles, St Mary’s’, ‘Scilly Isles, the Harbour’, ‘Abbey Gardens, Tresco’, ‘Portmadoc, the Harbour’ and ‘Grasmere from Fir Crag’, together with a small collection of silk cigarette cards.
A collection of approximately 85 postcards of naval interest, many titled in manuscript, the majority photographic and relating to H.M.S. Canterbury, H.M.S. Hibernia, H.M.S. Ajax, H.M.S. Vindictive, a few other ships and topographical views of related interest, including postcards titled ‘Going up the Dard’s’, ‘Divers - H.M.S. Canterbury’, ‘Pets H.M.S. Canterbury’, ‘Coaling Ship H.M.S. Hibernia’, ‘Shotley R.N.T.E.’, ‘Forth Bridge’, ‘Balaclava’, ‘Yalta’ and ‘Skutari’, together with a small collection of photographs of related interest.
MAPS. – George PHILIP and Son (publishers). The Seat of War in the East, Philip’s Map of the Frontier Provinces of Turkey, Russia & Austria, The Black Sea, &c. new edition. Liverpool, London, etc.: 1854. Lithographed folding map, hand-coloured in outline (476 x 662mm.) (Some spotting.) Folding within original boards with title (slightly rubbed). – And a collection of other printed maps (a lot).
MAP. – Edward STANFORD Ltd (publishers). The Oarsman’s and Angler’s Map of the River Thames from the Source to London Bridge. London: [n.d. but circa 1890.] Lithographed folding strip map, printed in colour (2635 x 161mm.) On five sheets backed onto linen. (Minor spotting.) Folding within original cloth with text leaves, paper label mounted on upper cover (extremities bumped and slightly soiled).
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. – Walter CRANE. Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden. [London:] Cassell & Co Ltd., 1906. 4to (248 x 177mm.) Printed in colour and illustrated throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (extremities bumped). – And a quantity of other illustrated works, late 19th and early 20th Century (a quantity).
GARDINER, Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (editor). Heath’s Book of Beauty. London: 1839-1846. 8 vols., 8vo (225 x 153mm. one larger). Engraved additional decorative titles, 99 engraved plates. (Some spotting or browning.) Contemporary morocco (1), or half-calf (7), spines gilt (extremities scuffed and rubbed, vol. 3 chipped at head of spine and repaired with adhesive tape).
WRIGHT, John. The Flower Grower’s Guide. London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited, [n.d. but circa 1896-1901.] 6 parts, 8vo (275 x 207mm.) 46 chromolithographed plates. (Minor browning and spotting to plates and occasional text leaves.) Original decorated cloth, g.e. (extremities bumped and soiled, spines darkened and chipped). – And nine other related volumes (15).
MILTON, John. Paradise Lost… a new edition. London: printed for J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1749. 2 vols., 4to (285 x 220mm.) Portrait frontispieces, 12 engraved plates, extra-illustrated with a cropped engraving of John Locke to preliminary blank of vol. I and 1 other illustration. 19th Century half-calf (rebacked, extremities bumped and scuffed). – And one other volume of related interest. (John MILTON. ‘Paradise Regain’d’, London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1752, 4to) (3).
GILBERT, Joseph Henry. Agricultural Investigations at Rothamsted, England. Washington: 1895. 8vo (223 x 143mm.) 2 folding tables, illustrations. Contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt (slightly scuffed, head and foot of spine chipped). Provenance: inscribed ‘with the author’s compliments… 1895’ to preliminary blank. – And seventeen others (18).
GALLONIO, Antonio. De SS: Martyrum Cruciatibus. Rome: ex Typographia Congregationis Oratorij apud S. Mariam in Vallicella, 1594. 4to (219 x 158mm.) Wood-engraved title vignette, 24 wood engraved plates. (Some spotting and damp-staining, ink inscription to title-page.) 19th Century vellum, the flat spine with two red morocco lettering pieces (extremities soiled and slightly bumped).
CARY, John. Cary’s New Itinerary… ninth edition. London: 1821. 8vo (177 x 102mm.) 6 folding maps. (A few maps repaired at folds, some shaved with minor loss, one map with section excised, ownership name to title-page). Near contemporary cloth (faded and somewhat bumped, preliminary blank or half-title excised).
SINGH, Jagatjit. My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1903. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905. 4to (272 x 197mm.) Title in red and black, portrait frontispiece, numerous plates. (Some spotting.) Contemporary vellum elaborately blocked in gilt, the upper cover with centrally placed armorial incorporating red and blue onlays contained within fillet borders, the spine in five compartments with raised bands, morocco lettering pieces to the second and fourth the others with a floral motif, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (slightly soiled and warped). Provenance: His Highness the Agha Khan (inscription ‘Presented to H.H., Agha Khan with the author’s kind regards. Kapurthala 7th Jan 1906’ to preliminary blank).
NATURAL HISTORY. - W.F. KIRBY. Lloyd`s Natural History… A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera. London: 1896-1897. 5 vols., 8vo (175 x 112mm.) 156 chromolithographic plates (1 double-page), 2 lithographed plates only. (Plates LXXII, LXIII, LXXVII and a few others with surface damage, plate LXXVI torn with loss, library ink stamp to verso of each title-page, some light spotting or browning.) Later cloth. - And seven other volumes of similar interest from Lloyd`s Natural History (12).
FORSTER, E.M. Where Angels Fear to Tread. Edinburgh & London: 1906. Second impression, 8vo (192 x 122mm.) (Some spotting.) Original cloth (extremities bumped, spine darkened). Provenance: Ada Borchgrevink (inscribed to front-free endpaper). Note: Ada Borchgrevink, née Ada Starr, was a friend of Virginia Woolf; this is the author’s first novel.
A quantity of mixed postcards, loose and in three albums. An interesting selection including some early photo topo including Tiverton and other Westcountry; Mabel Lucie Attwell; Bamforth song cards; sentimental greetings; embossed chromo litho Christmas and Valentine cards; Shipping; WWI period flags and military; Australia including rp Adelaide and others, c.1905 - 1920`s (a lot) ++mixed
An interesting early 20th Century collection of postcards contained in 4 albums and loose. Posted and unposted, mainly sent to the Hewitt family in Whitney, Oxon. A good selection including humour, photo topo of various areas including Scotland, Wales and the Westcountry; Animals; Children; Christmas and other Greetings; some later rp`s of Bow, Devon c.1960`s and others. c.1905 - 1960`s also 3 Elizabeth II Coronation souvenir programmes and a book of cuttings ++mixed condition
An extensive collection of covers/letters from India to UK, UK to India and internal India, either to/from Major (later Colonel) J R Hutchison DSO Central India Horse (21st King George V`s Own Horse) or Royal Indian Military College (where he was Commandant) or Miss Haughton (his fiancee then as Mrs Hutchison when she went to India) and other family related items. c.1920`s. ( large quantity)
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