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Selection of lute and early music books to include André Deutsch - Pills to Purge Melancholy, hardback book, Speight - Bawdy Songs of the Early Music Hall, the Welde Lute Book facsimile edition and Matthew Holmes Manuscript Lute Society facsimile edition seven with Cambridge University Press slip case
Fourteen course theorbo lute, Italy, late 19th century, with fifteen ebonised ribs, the capping strips ebonised, the table with inset pierced wooden rose, the neck overlaid with bone and ebony strips, the fingerboard with inset bone plaque inlaid with ebony scrollwork and two further mother of pearl plaques, the main reflex peg box with six double courses of strings, the secondary peg box with eight single courses, labelled Parmis Massaini Faciebat Romio anno domini 1520 Body length 50.6cm, main string length 63.5cm, diapason string length 69cm*From the estate of Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys
Eleven course lute, Germany, circa 1960, with thirteen ribs of maple, the table edged with a stained hardwood, the inset fretted wooden rose with a similar surround, the peg box with a bass rider carrying the two single bass diapason strings, in modern fitted case Body length 52.4cm, string length 63.2cm*From the estate of Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys
A miniature tortoiseshell mother of pearl and bone lute, late 19th century, 17cm long, a beaded cap, each side with a central panel of flowers within a floral meander border, 23 x 15.5cm, an ebony truncheon with turned grip and a rosewood similar, 38 & 40cm long, and an oval miniature embroidered picture of a water landscape, 7.5 x 6cm, in easel frame (5).
A 19th century Meissen figure group decorated in coloured enamels. Formed as a lady, gent and child gathered around a tree on a rockwork base. The lady is playing a lute, the gent is holding his hat filled with flowers and the child is offering a flower garland over the head of the lady. Underglaze blue crossed swords mark and incised numbers, 25cm. Some repairs to the extremities of the tree.
A Dinka club Sudan with worn grooved linear decoration and a leather grip, 85.5cm long, a Chokwe club, with a carved ovoid head, 58cm long, two Tanzania clubs, 55cm and 45cm long, a Chokwe staff with a kneeling female figure and an entwined snake, 73cm long, a fine Tanzania staff, with a carved stylised bust finial and brass tip, 86.5cm long and a Batak lute hasapi, with a squatting figure finial and with animal fur, 67cm long. (7)
Poetry, chiefly 20th century, a large collection, including Bridges, Robert Poems. London: B.M. Pickering, 1873, First edition, title within ornamental border, original blue cloth, somewhat rubbed and soiled; Mackay, A.J.G. William Dunbar, 1460-1520, a Study in the Poetry. 1889. original cloth, uncut; Thompson, Francis. Poems. 1893. One of 500 copies printed, frontispiece, original grey boards, uncut, spine gilt, rubbed; another copy, Second edition, original grey boards, uncut; Turner, T. Verses and Translations. 1901. Presentation copy to Sir Hugh Walpole, signed, original wrappers; Blunden, Edmund. Pastorals. 1916. First edition, 12mo, original brown wrappers [author's first regularly published book]; Sassoon, Siegfried. Counter-Attack and other Poems. 1918. 8vo, original brown/red wrappers, some spotting, rubbed; Drinkwater, John. The Collected Poems. 1923. 2 volumes, large 8vo, number 178 of 200 copies signed by the author, original white buckram gilt, t.e.g.; Flecker, James Elroy. The Collected Poems. 1923. 4to, number 398 of 500 copies, original cloth, t.e.g.; Campbell, Roy. The Flaming Terrapin. 1924. First edition, dustwrapper, unopened; Masefield, John. With the Living Voice. 1925, number 236 of 265 copies signed by the author, original boards, dustwrapper; Baring, Maurice. Cecil Spencer, 1929. 4to, number 272 of 275 copies signed by the author, original parchment, slightly dampstained; Abbott, Claude C. Ploughed Earth. 1930, number 13 of 50 signed copies, original green buckram, spine faded; Simpson, Margaret W. The Amber Lute. 1932. signed by the author, green morocco gilt, g.e.; Contemporary Poetry and Prose. 1936-1937, numbers 1-10, original wrappers, some rubbed or spotted; Nichols, Robert. Fisbo. 1934, Number 87 of 1000 copies signed, original cloth, dustwrapper; Allott, Kenneth. Poems. Hogarth Press, 1938., First edition, original cloth, dustwrapper; Frankau, Gilbert. Selected Verses. 1943. number 15 of 18 copies specially bound and signed, original vellum, slipcase; Cruikshank, Helen B. Up the Noran Water. 1934, First edition, signed on title by the author, original cloth, dustwrapper; Cruikshank, Helen B. Sea Buckhtorn. 1954, presentation copy signed, dustwrapper; Cruikshank, Helen B. The Ponnage Pool. 1968, presentation copy signed, original cloth, dustwrapper; Blackburn, Paul. The Dissolving Fabric. The Divers Press, 1955. First edition, 4to, original wrappers; Morgan, Edwin. Glasgow Sonnets. The Castlelaw Press, 1972. Number 82 of 125 copies signed by the author, original red wrappers; Twelve Songs. The Castlelaw Press, 1970. Number 80 of 100 copies signed by the author, original wrappers; Raine, Kathleen. The Lost Country. The Dolmen Press, 1971. 8vo, limited to 100 copies signed by the author and specially bound, blue morocco-backed boards, and a quantity of similar volumes (quantity)
Berlin KPM standing female figure holding a basket of fruit and inscribed 'Geschmack' H17cm, a small Continental figure with a lute and another Condition Report & Further Details Basket chipped. Small figure has head repaired, hand missing . Other small figure has broken lute, missing hand and wings and damaged baseClick here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
A miniature tortoiseshell mother of pearl and bone lute, late 19th century, 17cm long, a beaded cap, each side with a central panel of flowers within a floral meander border, 23 x 15.5cm, an ebony truncheon with turned grip and a rosewood similar, 38 & 40cm long, and an oval miniature embroidered picture of a water landscape, 7.5 x 6cm, in easel frame (5).
Two Victorian Staffordshire flatback figures, each of a lady riding side-saddle, one entitled Empress and the other Duchess, h.26cm; together with a Staffordshire figure of a Scotsman with bagpipes seated on a horse; a Staffordshire figure of a lady in standing pose with attendant lamb; and one other Staffordshire figure of a female lute player (5)
An early 19th century yellow metal lady's full hunter fob watch in the form of a lute, having red guilloche enamel and floral inlay set with 18 Old European cut diamonds to the centre and approx 1.4mm to 1.7mm seed pearls to the base (6) and top (4) of strings, the reverse decorated in blue guilloche enamel with musical score and floral inlay, having black enamelled sides with yellow scroll work detail, further set with six seed pearls (2 deficient), having a white Arabic dial with keywind movement, diamond dimensions each approx 1.85 x 1.5mm, total weight estimated as 0.36 carats, pendant dimensions 50 x 35mm, gross weight 28.6g, not hallmarked but tested as 18ct.Condition report: Enamel is chipped to front and back.At least two pearls deficient and two worn.Strings of lute are distorted.Requires key to function (not present).Dial damaged and hands are corroded.
A 19th Century Austro-Hungarian silver and enamel decorated lidded box, the top decorated with figures seated in a garden, one with lute, the sides with floral swag decoration in relief, bearing marks to interior, right facing Minerva head with "2" and "A" left and right, "A" within a punch with cut corners for 1872 and maker's stamp "SG" within a rectangjular punch
A pair of late 18th century Derby porcelain figural candlesticks the seated figures of a man playing bagpipes with a dog at his feet and a girl with a lamb, (lute missing), each with an outswept scrolled candle sconce to one side, on pierced scroll bases, 9in. (22.8cm.) high, sconces cracked. (2)

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