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* HELEN M TURNER PAI PPAI (SCOTTISH b. 1937),REFLECTIONSoil on canvas, signed, titled label versoimage size 72cm x 76cm, overall size 85cm x 90cm Framed and under glass.Note: Helen Turner was born in Glasgow. When she left school she joined the design studios of James Templeton and attended Glasgow School of Art in the evenings from 1952 to 1960. There she studied drawing, still life and portraiture under Trevor Makinson and William Gallagher. Continuing her career with James Templeton and other companies, she became a documented designer in Aubusson and Beauvais, travelling extensively throughout the world. Helen's designs can be seen in the Waldorf Astoria, Turnberry Hotel, San Francisco Opera House, The New York Plaza, P & O Cruise Liners and many Casinos throughout the world. Eventually, she gave up her design work to become a full-time artist. Helen was elected President of the Paisley Art Institute from 2001 to 2004. She is also a member of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists and exhibits regularly in galleries throughout the UK. Helen won the East Linton Award in 1972 and 2004 and was commended in the Soroptomists' International Fine Art Award in 1992. In 2000 she became a Diplomat of the Paisley Art Institute [PAI]. Helen has work in the corporate collections of Robert Fleming Holdings (The Fleming Collection), Dunedin Fund Managers, Aberdeen Asset Management, the TSB, South Ayrshire Council, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Ramco Oil and Baillie & Gifford. Known private collectors include Lord Morton and Lord McLean.
Oak moulded cushion display case, the hinged cover with bevelled glass enclosing and open interior, 21.5" wide, 13" deep, 3.25" high (key); together with a pine chest with rope handles, 26.5" wide, 10.25" deep, 8" high; also a Military ebonised box with leather handle stamped 'A M' with a crown logo no. 5A/2334 to the hinged cover, 10.5" wide, 8.5" deep, 7.75" high (3)
History and Antiquarianism. Approx. 30 volumes, including [Gordon (George)], The History of our National Debts and Taxes [...], Part II only, London: M. Cooper, n.d. [?1751/52], repaired later papered boards, 8vo, Fleetwood's Chronicon Preciosum, London: T. Osborne, 1745, original calf, some losses, 8vo, Lowth (Robert), The Life of William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, third edition, author's presentation inscription, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1777, original calf with faults, 8vo, Granger's Biographical History of England, two volumes, London: T. Davies, 1769, reinforced gutter, rebacked calf, 4to, Biographica Britannica, volume IV only, London: W. Meadows, et al., 1757, rebacked and repaired calf, folio, Gundy's Strangers Guide to Hampton Court Palace, London: George C. Bell, 1855, repaired contemporary quarter-calf, 8vo, Letters of the Prince de Ligne, two volumes bound as one, London: W. Flint, et al., 1809, rebacked calf, 8vo, others early 19th century and later, comprising Brand's Popular Antiquities, Camden Society, The Gentleman's Magazine, etc.
Pamphlets. [Burke (John French, compiler)], Cottage Economy and Cookery, from Essays Submitted to the Royal Agricultural Society, Grantham: S. Ridge, 1843, original wrappers, 8vo, Laughton (James W.), The General Receipt Book [...], London: Printed & Published by W Mason, n.d. [c. 1835], original wrappers, 8vo, Paxton (Sir Joseph, MP), The Cottager's Calendar of Garden Operations, London: Published at the office of The Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1862, original green printed wrappers, split, 12mo in 6s, Doyle (Martin), Cottage Farming, or, How to Cultivate from Two to Twenty Acres [...], London: Groombridge and Sons, 1870, original green cloth, 8vo, Laing (Jeanie M.), Modes of Grinding and Drying Corn in Olden Times, Brechin: D.H. Edwards, 1885, original wrappers, 8vo, (5).
[Eastern Orthodox Church]. Probably the Great Horologion, or Book of Hours, printed for the Greek Orthodox Church in Venice, two parts in one, [Venice: Nikolaos Glukus/Nicholas Glykei/Nicolaos Glykes], 1785, printer's device, ornamental woodcut title-page, illustrated with a further 6 woodcuts, black-ruled, pp: 263, [1] (blank); 168, signatures: A¹², B?, C¹², D?, E¹², F?, G¹², H?, I¹², K?, L¹², M?, N¹², O?, P?; a-b¹², c?, d¹², e?, f¹², g?, h¹², i?, contemporary black shagreen gilt over wooden boards, worn with some losses, all edges gilt, lacking clasps and ffep, 12mo. Provenance: Revd. C. Comberbach, 19th century book label to recto pastedown. Probably the Roman-Catholic convert Charles Comberbach, at one time chaplain to the recusant Thomas Stonor, Stonor Park, Oxfordshire.
[Snart (Charles, editor)], Selection of Poems, two-volume set, sole edition, Newark: Printed and Sold by M. Hage, et al., 1807-08, volume II includes 'The Mountain Violet, page 66, which has before been attributed to a young Lord Byron, 20th century morocco over boards, ex-lib, 8vo, a further nineteen volumes, mostly Nottinghamshire authors and imprints, but with some post-Romantic literature, all ex-lib, including Driver (Henry Austen), Harold de Burun: A Semi-Dramatic Poem; in Six Scenes, first edition, London: Longman, et al., 1835, later boards, 8vo, Millhouse (Robert), The Destinies of Man, two parts in one, first edition, London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1834, original publisher's moiré cloth, with faults and losses, 12mo, Gally Knight, Phrosyne: A Grecian Tale, [with] Alashtar: An Arabian Tale, first edition London: John Murray, 1817, disbound original marbled wrappers, 8vo, Mason (Jonah), Poems, Devotional and Miscellaneous, first edition, London: Hamilton, et al., 1831, later buckram, 12mo, Anon, Senacherib: A Sacred Lyrical Drama [...], sole edition, Nottingham: T. Forman, 1851, rebacked and laminated original wrappers, 4to, Leigh Hunt, Juvenilia, fourth edition, London: J. Whiting, 1803, later morocco over cloth, 8vo, Prior (James), Poems, Nottingham: H.B. Baxton, Mansfield: F. Willman, 1925, original wrappers, 8vo, George Bird, etc., (21).
An American Quaker in England. Woolman (John), The Works of, In Two Parts, first English edition, London: T. Letchworth, 1775, pp: xvi, 319 contemporary speckled calf, 8vo, further works, including an Elzevir imprint of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido, Leyda [i.e. Leiden]: Giovanni Elsevier, 1659, etched title-page, contemporary speckled calf gilt, 12mo, Rollin's Method of Teaching and Studying Belles Lettres, four-volume set, second edition thus, Dublin: M. Rhames, 1737, contemporary calf, 12mo, & Law's Call, tenth edition, London: G. Robinson, 1772, contemporary speckled calf, 12mo, (7).
Byron. ?Byron (Lord) & Volpi (Odoardo, editor and translator; ?pseudonym of Shannon (Edward N.)), Arnaldo; Gaddo; and other Unacknowledged Poems by Lord Byron, and Some of His Contemporaries, sole edition, [issued with] The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volpi's translation [i.e. Shannon's], two parts in one, Dublin: Published by W.F. Wakeman, 1836, half-titles, complete, pp: xii, [2] (contents leaf), 184, [2] (Gerbino the Beautiful divisional title leaf), 185-296; xxxiii, 66, [2] (errata/colophon leaf); signatures collate: [A?], B-M?, N?, O-U8; *?, *?, 2A-2D?, [2E²], lacking ffep, contemporary publisher's cloth over boards (chipped & split, with slight wear), ex-lib, with their institutional plates/labels and stamps, 8vo. Generally attributed to Shannon, see O'Donoghue, D.J., The poets of Ireland, Dublin [etc.] 1912, p. 420, however, the parody has also been attributed to Edward Fox. The only two auction records we have been able to trace for this book are for 1894 and the Barnwell copy in 1921; the latter was listed as 'EXCESSIVELY RARE,' which, given the paucity of records, we are inclined to agree with.
Female Enlightenment Ownership. Rollin's Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, eight-volume set, sixth edition thus, London: J. and F. Rivington, et al., 1774, engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo, (8). Provenance: 1) Louisa Pereira (?Anglo-Portuguese), her contemporary gilt-lettered morocco labels to the foot of each spine; 2) 'Henrietta Skone/given to her by her Father/8 Volume Complete/November 16 1825'; ink MS inscription to recto of volume I ffep; 3) 'Left to M. J. Lo*t/1872,' inscribed beneath.
Miscellaneous. Ornithology, Scott (Peter), Wild Chorus, copy no. 348/1,200, signed and numbered by the author, first edition, London: Country Life Limited, 1938, tipped-in colour plates, some b/w plates and in-text illustrations, original publisher’s blue cloth, top-edge gilt, others uncut, large 8vo, China and Japan: Nakahara (K.), Hashizume (M.), & Ohara (Koun, Arranged by), Moribana & Heikwa: Selected Flower Arrangement of the Ohara School, first edition, Printed by Jigyokudo, October 1934, concertina book with colour plates, 8vo, another two books, similar, Menpes (Mortimer), Japan: A Record in Colour, Edinburgh: A. & C. Black, n.d., split, original cloth, 8vo, reference works on Chinese works of art, including jade; Bainbridge (Henry Charles), Peter Carl Fabergé: An Illustrated Record and Review of his Life and Work, A.D. 1846-1920, 1949, original teal dustjacket over publisher’s red cloth, 4to, botany, (11).
Miscellaneous. Scarce Victorian Poetry Dedicated to the 1st Duke of Westminster, Naylor (R.A.), Nugæ Canoræ, sole edition Printed for Presentation Only/[By] Bowker Brothers, Middle Row, Goswell Road, London, n.d. [1888], original cloth gilt, the upper-cover centred by the Grosvenor crest, all edges gilt, 4to, Eliot (George), The Spanish Gypsy: A Poem, first edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1868, lacking ffep, original cloth, 8vo, Hyndman (H.M.), The Bankruptcy of India […], sole edition, London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1886, lacking ffep, original cloth (tired), 8vo, Anon, Etiquette; or, the Perfect Lady, London: Milner and Sowerby, n.d. [1855], original publisher’s green cloth, small 8vo, Second World War, The Diary of 85 (Essex) Medium Battery Royal Artillery 1943-1945, Margate: Printed by W.J. Parrett, Ltd, 1947, cloth, 8vo, Thackeray (W.M.(M), The English Humourists of the Eighteen the Century, London: Smither, Elder and Co., 1858, publisher’s cloth boards, 8vo, Travel, Enock (C. Reginald, F.R.G.S.), Peru, first edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908, presentation copy blind stamp, original cloth, 8vo, further travel, Salisbury (William), The Botanist’s Companion, volume II only, London: Longman, et al., 1816, publisher’s boards, 12mo in 6s, The Mirror, volume II, 1823, original publisher’s boards, 8vo, Moat’s Short-Hand, 1833, calf over marbled boards, tired, 8vo, Mark Twain, John Ruskin, 8vo, Wardle on Silk Fibre, 1908, original cloth, 8vo, Victorian building, construction, and manufacture, etc., (33).
Theology. Patrick (Simon), The Parable of the Pilgrim: Written to a Friend, second edition, London: Printed by Robert White for Francis Tyton at the Sign of the three Daggers in Fleetstreet (sic), 1667, complete with imprimatur leaf, pp: [xvi], 527, gutter worm trails from [A1] and diminishing to Ee3, contemporary two-tone gilt-panelled calf, later rebacked, some wear, 4to, Brevint (Daniel), Saul and Samuel at Endor, or the New Waies (sic) of Salvation and Service, Which usually temt (sic) Men to Rome, and detain them there [...], As also A Brief Account of R.F. his [...] Vindication of the Roman Mass, first edition, Oxford: At the Theater, 1674, engraving and imprimatur leaf, pp: [xvi], 413, [1] (errata), split at A2, everything before has been repaired at the gutter, contemporary calf, disbound, 8vo, Newman (John Henry, D.D., of The Oratory), A Letter Addressed to His Grace The Duke of Norfolk on the Occasion of Mr. Gladstone's Recent Expostulation, first edition, London: B M Pickering, 1875, 131pp, finely bound in contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt over marbled boards, all edges gilt, ex-lib bookplate and markings to endpapers, 8vo, (3).
Travel. Livingstone (David), The Last Journals [...], two-volume set, first edition, London: John Murray, 1874, illustrated with fold-out maps and full-page plates, original publisher's pictorial cloth (split gutters, but holding together), 8vo, Stanley (Henry M.), Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, first American edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874, 2 fold-out maps (of which the largest is torn), illustrated with plates, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, (3).
Wells (H.G.), The Time Machine: An Invention, first edition, ?first/?second issue, London: William Heinemann, 1895, pp: [viii], 152pp; 32pp of publisher's advertisements including those for 'The Manxman' but not 'The Naulahka', original publisher's buckram, puce pictorial design and lettering, all edges uncut, 8vo. Provenance: Ex Libris M. Bernard Thorold (?1942-1979); his armorial bookplate to ffep.
Miscellaneous Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century English Manuscripts. Mostly vers de société and further poetry, with an occasional letter, including Robert Southey (1774-1843), ‘Mary [&] Sapphics’, 8pp, n.d. [early 19th century), not in the author’s own hand, William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), ‘Winter Evening at Home’, with an epigram and an address, 2pp, the paper watermarked 1812, apparently not in the inspirer of the Romantic poets’ hand, John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley (1772-1840), of Saltram House, Devon, ‘Parody on “Buy a Broom” – By Lord M: From Saltram’, 20 lines in imitation of Robert Burns, ‘Dark Prophets ***’, n.d. [mid-18th century], 2pp of ink manuscript verse, Antique Buying in 18th Century Denmark, 1pp letter, n.d. [18th century], addressed ‘To His Excellence the Engl: Minister at Copenhagen’ viz. the purchase, via a Lady Müller, of an antique casket, ‘a very antick (sic) piece of ivory: a little Chest to keep or beware precious Stones &c, and after all meaning it has been once in the Cabinet of Ludwig XIV [?Louis XIV]. […] It is supposed, Your Excellence will find the price of 10£ or about 100 Dollar Danish – not to (sic) much’, Epicureanism, a poem on the pleasure of drink and the table, illegible in places, but ‘Approved by the Bacchanalian Society/Robin Red Nose/Secretary/Sots Hole/Walsall, 6 Jan:y 1818’, inscribed on 2pp of further manuscript, Henrietta Cholmondeley, Baroness Delamere (née Williams-Wynn; d. 1852), ‘Flowers which serve for the construction of Flora’s Dial’, presumably for the garden of Vale Royal Great House, 1pp, n.d., ‘Lines on the birth of a Son to Tho:s Cholmondeley Esqr’, 1pp of celebratory, if unsophisticated, verse, probably commemorating the birth the MP for Cheshire (1726-1779) or his son of the same name, later 1st Baron Delamere (1767-1855), n.d., George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746-1816), 1pp ALS, signed Warwick and dated 1799, ‘The Adventures of Brunswick’, 2pp of comic verse on a flea-infested bed, n.d., singed Harriot, transcript en suite, ‘An Arab girl who, when I was carried wounded into Jericho, rendered one assistance, was ordered to withdraw’, 2pp of ink MS. verse, ‘Poor Robin’s Dream’, n.d. [final-quarter 18th century], defective, extracts from Poems by Thomas Moore Esqr., dated 1804, further poetry, etc., (18).
Botany. Withering (William), A Botanical Arrangement of all the Vegetables Naturally Growing in Great Britain [...], two-volume set, first edition, Birmingham: M. Swinney, 1776, 12 folding and full-page engraved plates, reinforced recto and verso gutters, rebacked calf over contemporaneous marbled boards, 8vo, (2). Provenance: Marmaduke John Teesdale, 19th century armorial bookplates.
A 19th Century taxidermy short eared owl mounted in a naturalistic setting and set on flattened glass dome on ebonised wood base - with handwritten label to front Short eared owl fern, shot on the high grounds at Over-Kinsford by William W. M. Middleton 15th October 1875, with further indistinct details of the taxidermist
Lieut. A.W. Hartshorn: his 1st World War Victory and War medals (only named) and named insignia bracelet with initials for the Machine Gun Corps - sold with M.26711 J.G. Turnbull E.R.A. 4. R.N.: Victory and War medals with remains of boxes - all with ribbons, also a gold plated photograph locket
Lautrec by Lautrec by P Huisman & M G Dortu 1964 First Edition Hardback Book with Slipcase and 274 pages published by Macmillan and Co Ltd good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99
A History of Everyday Things in England by M & CB Quennell 1945 Third Edition Hardback Book with 242 pages published by B T Batsford Ltd good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99
Kenneth Williams Signed Book - Acid Drops by Kenneth Williams 1980 First Edition Hardback Book with 176 pages Signed by Kenneth Williams on the Third page published by J M Dent & Sons Ltd good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell Cancer Charity. We combine shipping on all lots. Single book £5.99 UK, £7.99 Europe, £9.99 ROW. We can ship a parcel up to 20kg which will take approx. 40 books in UK £12, EUROPE £39.99, ROW, £59.99
18ct Gold Good Quality Emerald and Diamond Set Dress Ring fully hallmarked to interior of shank. The princes cut square emerald of excellent colour and clarity. The ring brilliant cut diamond of good colour and clarity. Est diamond weight 0.50cts est emerald weight 0.50 pts. Ring size M-N Weight 5 grams.
Stamps Interest Old time 19th century collection on 9 hagners A to W mainly used with some cds + some mint - mainly Europe & Scandinavia includes Sweden 1855 9ore cds cat £375 + 1872 6ore cds cat £65, Hamburg 1862 1¼ m/mint cat £160, Argentina 1862 imperf set of 3 unused cat £450, Austria 1863 perf 14 15kr cat £140, Belgium 1893 2 franc mauve cds cat £75, Brazil 1850 imperf 300 reis cat £65, France 1862 1 cent cat £50, these cat £1,380 from 2018 cats etc - total cat is approx £3,600 some imperfections. (280 stamps) The odd duplicate.
Ladies 18ct White Gold Pleasing Diamond Set Dress Ring marked 750 to shank. The well matched white diamond also of excellent clarity. Estimated diamond weight 2.00 cts. Please note the diamond extend to shank - please see photo. Ring size M-N, weight 5.2 grams. Low estimate. Shank and setting of excellent condition.

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