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Lot 335
Two diamond rings comprising one single stone, diamond weight approx 0.33 carat, claw set in yellow metal, size M, along with a two stone cross over diamond ring, set with two old cut diamonds, with a total diamond weight approx 0.50 carat, with grain set diamond shoulders, set in white metal tests as platinum, size M, total combined gross weight approx 4gms
Lot 660
A NOTTS & DERBY's GT WAR BWM & SPORTING MEDAL etc. A British War Medal named to 36458 Pte M W Palmer N & Derby.R. Melville Wilson Palmer was Wounded and Discharged 24/12/1917, awarded a SWB on list F162/1 (Entitled to a Victory Medal also). A brass Sporting medal named to the 1st Vol Battn. Sherwood Foresters, Inter Platoon Comp 1918 on the reverse. A pair of handed bronze Notts & Derbyshire Regt officers collar badges.
Lot 670
SILVER 18th HUSSARS COLLAR BADGES etc. A pair of officers Q M Own 18th Hussars hallmarked collar badges with Kings Crown, Birmingham 1944. A silver Grand Hotel London, Coronation of GV & Q Mary medal. A Stonebreaks medal HM 1900 B-Ham. A number 163 silver & enamel NUTN medal, with Per Ardua ad Astra top bar W O L maker. 1916? A silver/enamel sporting medallion, Gt Eastern Athletics with gilt footballer reverse. Also a silver ARP badge. (7)
Lot 671
A ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY MEDAL & GT WAR PAIR. A 1920 award Bronze Royal Humane Society Medal named to Rev H M McL Piercy. British War & Victory Medals named to 116554 Pte H M Piercy R A M C. After service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in WW1, the Reverend Horace Melville McLeod Piercy MA. BA. was serving in Worth Mattravers near Swanage. The disaster of the Treveal on the 9th-10th January off the coast of Dorset, ended in himself and Frank Lander being awarded the RHS Bronze medal. With various copies of the disaster and unnecessary loss of life, after the Captain apparently panicked and ordered the ship evacuated. No lives had been lost until they attempted to row ashore, in the ships boats. All the crew started rowing to Chapmans Pool, when the boats were swamped and without the Reverend Piercy's timely and courageous actions, all would likely have been lost. Many publications over the years have featured the loss of the Cornish owned ship, on its maiden voyage. Many original letters from survivors and families regarding the disaster, are with this lot. A copy of the Reverend Piercy's articles regarding the rescues and losses, is also with this lot. A copper box of the Newlyn type, is also with the lot.
Lot 86
A GRENADIER GUARDS OFFICERS SWORD. A Wilkinson made George V1 Grenadier Guards officer's sword, number 68584 complete with a scabbard. Battle honours on the 32./12" length rust damaged blade on one side are Waterloo up to Hindenburg Line-France & Flanders 1918. On the other side is Namur 1695 up to the Peninsular. Initials on the blade are N D M, the hilt in exceptional condition with G-G badge inset. Complete with its brown leather field scabbard. See Illustration
Lot 143
Scotland - One Pound banknotes - to include The Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. (purple). Prefix 26L dated Edinburgh 3rd January 1950, signature J. M. Erskine (N.B. note with light crease and stain), otherwise VF and Bank of Scotland (yellow). Prefix I dated 10th February 1949 (N.B. tip of top right corner torn away and light creases noted), otherwise VF (2 banknotes)
Lot 83
JIANG ZHAOHE (1904-1986)PORTRAIT OF IVAN TITKOV, 1956 ink on paper, signed 'Zhao He' with one seal of the artist 'Zhao He', dated 1956, with dedication to 'Comrade Ivan Titkov visiting Beijing', framed and glazed50x40cm (sight)Provenance:Gifted by Jiang Zhaohe to the Russian artist Ivan Titkov (1905-1993), thence by direct family descent.Note:The painting is accompanied by a note written by Ivan Titkov: 'Jiang Zhaohe - a world renowned artist and the author of many paintings about the struggle for peace, the struggle against the militarists. In 1956, while I was on a business trip with comrade M. Mochalov, I. Sevastyanov and M. Menshikov, Jiang Zhaohe painted my portrait and presented it to me in memory of our friendship. Here it is in front of you.' Token of Friendship - Jiang Zhaohe's Portrait of Ivan TitkovWith the enormous volume of economic and cultural transfers between China and the West today, it has almost become forgotten that only decades ago, China was all but completely shut to the Western world. Between the founding of the Communist Republic in 1949 and the economic reforms in the late 1970s, China's only contact with the 'West' was with countries of the Eastern Block, in particular the Soviet Union. For Chinese artists, encounter with Russian and Eastern European artists was their only window to the art of the outside world. Many friendships were forged in the 1950s, when state-organised mutual visits between Chinese and Soviet artists were especially frequent. The friendship between Ivan Titkov (1905-1993), 'People's Artist of Siberia' and Jiang Zhaohe (1904-1986), the 'Chinese Rembrandt', is a good example. When Titkov visited Beijing in 1956, heading a delegation of Novosibirsk artists, and met with Jiang, then a member of the Chinese Artists' Association, they immediately recognised how much they had in common: both came from humble circumstances and turned as young men to art as their calling; both endured the hardships of war which informed their art; both shared in their paintings a deep sympathy for the human condition. Jiang's portrait of Titkov was completed during this visit. From Jiang's favourite three-quarter angle, it shows an artist at the height of his accomplishment looking determinedly into the distance. Confident, full of entrepreneurial energy, whilst exuding a deep humanity and compassion, the subtleties of this painting show how well Jiang understood his sitter and friend. Almost fifty years later, on Titkov's 100th birthday in 2005, this portrait would occupy a central place in his retrospective in Novosibirsk, reminding people of the great socialist-humanist artist as seen through the eyes of a Chinese painter. Jiang Zhaohe is called the father of modern Chinese figure painting for introducing Western pictorial realism, notably three-dimensionality and modelled form, into traditional Chinese brushwork. His paintings, which at a distance look like pencil drawings, are actually carried out in fine washes of ink on Chinese xuan paper, a highly unforgiving medium. Apart from reforming the traditional technique, Jiang is most celebrated for his commitment to recording the suffering of the deprived and oppressed. His masterpiece 'Refugees', portraying men, women and children displaced by the Sino-Japanese war, upset the Japanese occupiers so much that it was confiscated from exhibition twice.Ivan Titkov's paintings, similar to Jiang Zhaohe's, are characterised by the love for his people and ancestral land, in his case Siberia. In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, he devoted himself to depicting the diverse ethnicities, cultures and landscapes of this vast territory. His works, suffused with poeticism and romanticism, are painted hymns to the land of Siberia. Titkov was also a committed art teacher and initiator of the creation of regional art galleries in Siberia, the reason why he was called 'the patriarch of Siberian culture' by one art critic. Interestingly, after meeting Jiang Zhaohe in Beijing, Titkov would sometimes turn to Chinese subjects, painting actors of Peking Opera and immortals from Chinese legends.The portrait of Ivan Titkov by Jiang Zhaohe is a token of their friendship. Kept in Titkov's family until now, it will be offered for sale at the present auction.
Lot 114
Two silver machine turned cigarette cases and a card case, one hallmarked Birmingham 1919 Hasset and Harper Ltd, the other hallmarked Birmingham 1930, Charles S Green & Co, the card case embossed with winged cherub heads, Birmingham 1905, makers mark H M for Henry Matthews, total weight 294.4g
Lot 309
Edited by Captain H M Hozier - The Franco-Prussian War, with the History and Topography of the Rhine Valley by Davenport Adams, two volumes, pub. William Mackenzie, Lond, 19th century, tooled leather spines and corners, green cloth boards and the History of the Great War Vol IV, pub. The Waverley Book Co and various books of photography to include The Face of China Photographs 1960-1912, various banking schedules and other ephemera
Lot 82
Watercolours - J E Saisbury Autumn signed, watercolour, 24cm x 34cm; Teeuw, Burnham Market, watercolour, 25cm x 35cm; others, M Kerr; various, coloured engravings; shipping oil; comical golfing postcards, framed as one; W Knowles, Middleton by Youlgreave signed, watercolour, 42cm x 30cm; another, Bakewell Bridge, 27cm x 30cm; others, Alport Mill; Venice
Lot 191
Exceptional Donegal carpet in Arts and Crafts style, Ireland, early 20th century, 12ft. 6in. X 11ft. 9in. 3.80m. X 3.58m. Overall even wear with slight fraying to underturned flatweave end at lower end. Deep red field with all over very large palmettes, flowerheads and angular leaf forms; shaded purply/blue to dark blue main border with outer band of orange/yellow cloudbands; plain deep red outer border. Literature: Haslam, M. Arts and Crafts Carpets Chapter 3, From Turkey to Donegal pp. 87-145 especially pp. 102-108. Rich palette and soft handle.
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Lot 465
[Foster, Mrs E. M., active 1795-1803] Miriam, a Novel, by the Author of Frederic & Caroline, Rebecca, Judith, etc., 1st edition, printed at the Minerva Press for William Lane, 1800, 2 volumes in 1, half title to each, half titles and title pages browned, second title page slightly soiled, short closed marginal tears to volume 1 signatures B1-2, spot-marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary marbled sheep, red label and gilt floral scrolls to spine, slightly rubbed overall, some stripping, large 12mo Not in Sadleir or Wolff. Rare Regency-era society novel set in Cornwall, concerning a young woman adopted by a wealthy uncle recently returned from the West Indies. Copac traces five copies in British institutions (British Library, Cardiff, Leicester, Manchester, and the National Library of Scotland); OCLC adds one copy world-wide (University of Alberta). (1)
Lot 50
Pernety (Antoine-Joseph). The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in order to form a Settlement there; and of two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with an account of the Patagonians: Translated from Dom Pernety's Historical Journal written in French, 1st edition in English, 1771, 16 engraved maps, plates and charts, several folding (one or two small repairs to verso), wormtrack just extending into image of frontispiece map (and to title margin), some light spotting and offsetting, previous owner inscription of Henry White, 1802 to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, rubbed and scuffed, 4to Hill 1328; Sabin 6870. First English edition of Louis de Bougainville's voyage by Pernety (Bougainville's secretary) and a primary source on the Falkland Islands. (1)
Lot 504
Ross (Janet). Leaves from our Tuscan Kitchen, or How to Cook Vegetables, 1st edition, J M Dent and Co., 1899, half title, frontispiece with tissue guard, title page printed in red and black, free endpapers browned, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original red cloth, faded and marked, some minor wear, spine rolled, 8vo Bitting p. 408 (giving erroneous pagination). Copac traces seven copies in British and Irish libraries. (1)
Lot 62
White (George Francis). Views in India, chiefly among the Himalaya Mountains, edited by Emma Roberts, London & Paris: Fisher, Son, and Co., 1838, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title, 36 plates, tissue-guards, variable spotting, marginal tide-mark to frontispiece, engraved title and final 3 plates, one plate ('Part of the Ghaut at Hurdwar') misbound and slightly frayed, all edges gilt, original maroon morocco, recased, blind arabesque cornerpieces and central gilt roundels to boards, slightly rubbed, large 4to Some of the plates are from watercolours by J. M. W. Turner after White's original sketches. (1)
Lot 69
Barth (Heinrich). Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H. B. M.'s Government, in the Years 1849-1855, 5 volumes, 1st edition in English, Longman [et al.,] 1857-8, half titles to volumes 1, 4 and 5 as issued, 60 tinted lithographic plates with tissue guards, 15 folding maps, 1 folding wood-engraved plan, numerous wood-engravings to the text, publisher's catalogue to rear of volume 1, inner hinges of volumes 1, 4 and 5 variably split, spotting to edges, endpapers, prelims and folding maps (very occasionally elsewhere), small tide-mark in upper margins of a few plates, a few tissue-guards loose, closed tears to the 2 folding maps in volume 5, binder's ticket to volume 1 pastedown effaced, bookplates of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society to front pastedowns, imposed over another bookplate, original green cloth, pale mottling, spines slightly darkened and rolled, short nick to headcap of volume 1, 8vo Abbey Travel 274. (5)
Lot 96
Stanley (Henry M.). Souvenir of Dinner to Sir H. M. Stanley, London: 1890, 12 leaves of letterpress on blue or green paper, mounted rectos and versos to 6 thick card leaves, mounted Woodburytype portrait of Stanley and 4 mounted photogravure portraits of other Emin Pasha Relief Expedition members W. G. Stairs, Thomas Heazle Park, Robert Henry Nelson and A. J. Mounteney-Jephson, all signed by the sitter in blue, black or brown ink, 2 silver gelatin prints of the testimonial shield and medallions, some faint spotting to mounts and letterpress leaves, tiny nick to top edge of Stanley portrait, patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, original full calf, front cover blind-tooled with the shield of the United States emblazoned 'Stanley', extremities a trifle rubbed, tiny perforation to front board, 8vo (24.8 x 15.6 cm) Souvenir programme of the American Testimonial Banquet, held in London in May 1890 following Stanley's return from the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Some 400 copies with facsimile signatures of the expedition's participants are believed to have been printed; this is one of a handful of copies with autograph signatures. Provenance: presented by the Wellcome Foundation to Stanley's stepson Captain Denzil Stanley (laid-in typed letter signed on Wellcome Foundation letterhead from G. L. Moore, dated 25th January 1937 and addressed to Stanley at Furze Hill, Pirbright, Surrey); sold at Christie's London, 24 September 2002, The African Sale including Henry Morton Stanley Collection, lot 99. Moore's letter states 'We have a few leather-bound Souvenirs of the Dinner which are specially interesting because amongst other things they contain photographic prints of Sir Henry Stanley and of the principal members of the Expedition, each with autographed signatures'. (1)
Lot 97
Stanley (Henry M.). In Darkest Africa, 2 volumes, 1st edition, deluxe issue, 1890, 2 heliogravure portrait frontispieces and 36 wood-engraved plates, all on india paper, mounted, 6 etched plates by Montbard, signed by the artist in pencil, all with tissue-guards, 3 folding colour maps (2 linen-backed), 1 leaf of manuscript facsimile, 1 geological profile, numerous wood-engravings to the text, 1 additional wood-engraved plate not listed in contents (group portrait facing p. xiii volume 2), spotting to etched plates, additional plate and versos of linen-backed maps, mild spotting to volume 1 frontispiece and folding map, heavier spotting to etched plates and folding map versos, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original black half morocco over bevelled boards, titles and decoration to japon sides gilt, japon mottled, extremities rubbed, demy 4to Number 27 of 250 deluxe copies signed by Stanley on the limitation page. (2)
Lot 98
Stanley (Henry M.). The Congo and the Founding of its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1885, portrait frontispieces, folding map contained in rear pocket of each, illustrations, publisher's catalogue at end of volume II, a few light spots to titles, small Sotheran ink stamps at head of front endpapers, original pictorial cloth gilt, tiny tears at head of volume II spine, one corner bumped, 8vo (2)
Lot 99
Stanley (Henry M.). Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1878, portrait frontispieces, folding map contained in rear pockets, maps and illustrations, publisher's list at end of volume II, Blackie & Son Private Library labels and shelf numbers at front, original pictorial cloth gilt, small split to lower joint of volume I, spines ends a trifle rubbed, 8vo (2)
Lot 100
Stanley (Henry M.). Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, 1st edition, 1874, portrait frontispiece, two folding maps, wood-engraved illustrations, publisher's 48 page catalogue at end, a few light spots at front, previous owner signature to front pastedown, untrimmed in original green cloth gilt, a few light flecked stains to upper cover, else a good copy, 8vo (1)
Lot 101
Stanley (Henry M.). Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa, 2nd edition, 1874, portrait frontispiece, two folding maps, illustrations, a few light spots, partly unopened, endpapers renewed, original green cloth gilt, spine a little darkened and rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with Through the Dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 volumes, 1st US edition, New York, 1878, portrait frontispieces, folding map contained in rear pockets, maps and illustrations, slight marginal toning, small water stain at foot of a few leaves in volume II, original green pictorial cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, slight bowing to covers, 8vo, plus My Dark Companions and their Strange Stories, 1st edition, 1893, illustrations, presentation inscription, endpapers lightly toned, front hinge tender, original cloth gilt, light edge wear, 8vo, with three others: Coomassie and Magdala, 1874, How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa, 1872, and The Congo and the Founding of its Free State, 2 volumes, 1885, all 1st US editions (8)
Lot 102
Stanley (Henry M.). In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, 2 volumes, 1st edition, trade issue, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limited, 1890, frontispieces (wood-engraved and photogravure), 36 wood-engraved plates, 3 folding maps, 1 colour profile, damp-staining in volume 1, mild spotting in volume 2, tape-repairs to folding maps (that in volume 1 with two unrepaired splits), contemporary ownership inscription to volume 1 title page and ink-stamp to initial blank, original red pictorial cloth cloth, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, volume 1 cloth mottled, spine rolled, 8vo, together with a copy of the 1st US edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891, 2 volumes, steel-engraved frontispieces, 43 wood-engraved plates, colour profile, 3 folding maps in end-pockets, the 2 larger maps with marginal damp-staining and small holes at intersections of folds, hand-painted floral decoration to front free endpapers, contemporary gift inscriptions versos, original pictorial green cloth, extremities very slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa, 1st edition, New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1893, frontispiece and 5 plates after Frederic Remington, one repaired, original white cloth decorated in black, slightly rubbed and marked, 16mo, and 25 others, all by or relating to Henry M. Stanley, original cloth, various formats (32)
Lot 106
Wingate (Sir Reginald). Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan, being an Account of 9 folding colour maps, 4 folding plans, 1 folding map in end-pocket, 15 other maps and plans, inscribed by the author 'J. M. Cook, with F. R. Wingate's kindest remembrances, London, Oct. 1891' on the half title, endpapers renewed, original red cloth, spine faded, front board marked, extremities bumped, 8vo, together with Petherick (John), Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa, with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator, being Sketches from Sixteen years' Travel, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861, lithographic folding map, spotting to endpapers and prelims, occasionally to text, prelims creased, front inner hinge cracked but firm, ink-stamps of big-game hunter Henry Thomas Glynn (1856-1928), original brown cloth, a few marks to spine, head and foot frayed, board-corners worn, 8vo, plus Gessi (Romolo), Seven Years in the Soudan, being a Record of Explorations, Adventures, and Campaigns against the Arab Slave Hunters, 1st edition, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892, frontispiece, 11 plates, light spotting, ink-stamps of Glen Ewin, front inner hinge superficially cracked, original pictorial blue cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, and 11 similar works Presentation copy of Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan; the recipient was probably John Mason Cook (1834-1899), son of the travel agent, Thomas. He took full control of the company in 1878, and under his auspices Thomas Cook & Son were responsible for the transfer of wounded soldiers to Cairo the Battle of Tell el-Kebir in 1882, and provided river transportation for the abortive Gordon Relief Expedition of 1884-5. (16)
Lot 19
Gronovius (Jan Frederik). Flora Virginica exhibens plantas, quas Johannes Claytonus, in Virginia crescents observavit, collegit et obtulit, 2nd edition, Leiden, 1762, engraved folding map of Virginia, contemporary marginalia, a few pressed flowers loosely inserted, edges untrimmed, original wrappers bound in, contemporary calligraphic ownership inscription of one M. Davies to front panel verso, offset partially onto title, variable light spotting (the map clean), small marginal hole in sig. R2, 19th-century black quarter cloth, marbled sides, slightly rubbed, tips worn, 4to The first edition to contain the important map of Virginia, "one of the earliest botanical maps of any region of the world" (Stephenson and McKee, Virginia in Maps, p. 106). The work was "the first flora of Virginia" (Sowerby), and Jefferson used this second edition for his Notes on the State of Virginia, referring to Clayton as "our great botanist". Hunt 571; Sabin 28294; Sowerby, Library of Thomas Jefferson 1075. (1)
Lot 264
*Actors. Jones (John), Miss Kemble, published J. Jones, 1784, uncoloured half length mezzotint after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 380 x 280 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with McArdell (James), Mrs. Moffington, circa 1760, uncoloured half length mezzotint after A. Pond, 310 x 225 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Green (Valentine), Eleanor Gwynn, W. Shropshire, 1777, uncoloured mezzotint on laid after Sir. Peter Lely, very large margins, 250 x 190 mm, plus Lupton (T.), Fawcett & Kemble in the characters of Captn. Copp & the King in the Petit Comedy of Charles the 2nd. or the Merry Monarch, T. Lupton, 1826, uncoloured full length mezzotint on laid after G. Clint, good margins, some spotting and dust soiling, some creasing, occasional closed marginal tears, some repaired, 510 x 350 mm, with another copy with thread margins, and Ward (J.), Wm. Henry West Betty Aetatis suae 13, M. Betty, 1805, uncoloured half length mezzotint on laid after J. Northcote, good margins, slight marginal spotting and dust soiling, 380 x 275 mm (6)
![*Jones (John). [William Thomas Lewis, 1792,] uncoloured full length mezzotint after M. Shee, good margins, proof before title](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1580937d-4450-45cf-b668-a8d500d52e36/022b7abb-e5b9-4b4c-d9f7-c4548d3b4232/468x382.jpg)
Lot 281
*Jones (John). [William Thomas Lewis, 1792,] uncoloured full length mezzotint after M. Shee, good margins, proof before title, 600 x 380 mm, mounted, framed and glazed William Lewis was born in Ormskirk in 1748, but was educated in Ireland in Armagh. He went on to the stage at an early age appearing in both Dublin and Edinburgh before making his debut at Covent Garden in 1773. He died in Chesea in 1811. This image shows him as the Marquis in 'Midnight Hour'. The original portrait is in the National Gallery. (1)
![Suffragettes. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published Siegle, Hill & Co., [1908?], signed owner](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1580937d-4450-45cf-b668-a8d500d52e36/a1ffff19-1a64-47b5-f79e-6b49a29d9f2d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 357
Suffragettes. Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published Siegle, Hill & Co., [1908?], signed ownership inscription of 'M[ary] Richardson, London, W' to front endpaper with an ink note in another hand beneath, 'Mary Richardson, the suffragette, who tried to destroy a picture at the RA. Notes at end are dated from Holloway Prison', Mary Richardson's pencil notes at foot of final printed page and across two following pages of blank endpapers, beginning with the place and date, 'Holloway, April 1, 1914', then continuing with esoteric notes in a difficult and often indecipherable hand, some soiling, all edges gilt, original limp leather, worn and split along upper joint, 32mo Mary Richardson (1882-1961) was born in Canada, coming to Europe when she was sixteen. She joined the Women's Social and Political Union, circa 1909 and was arrested and sentenced many times. She committed her most notorious militant act for the cause in March 1914, slashing Velazquez's 'Rokeby Venus' in the National Gallery in London. This was the day after Mrs Pankhurst was arrested in St. Andrew's Hall in Glasgow and Mary Richardson wished to draw attention to "the public's indifference to Mrs Pankhurst's slow destruction" and wished to draw a parallel between this and "the destruction of some financially valuable object". She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. This volume appears to have been with her at this time. (1)
Lot 367
Arabian Nights. Arabian Nights Entertainments: consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, ... Translated into French from the Arabian MSS. by M. Galland, ... and now done into English, from the last Paris edition, 12 volumes in six, mixed editions, 1754-1763, upper margins of first titles to each volume with signature of Mary Shirley Feb ye 11th 1765, some browning, bookplate of Evelyn J. Shirley of Eatington Park, Warwickshire, contemporary calf, joints cracked, upper board of first volume loose, rubbed and worn, 12mo, together with Terentius (Publius), Comoediae Sex..., Juxta Editionem Novissimam Parisiensem, London, 1731, title in red & black with excised signature to upper margin, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo, with Fleetwood (William), Chronicon Preciosum: or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; the Price of Corn and Other Commodities......., 1745, 12 engraved plates, contemporary calf, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo, and Sharpe (Gregory), An Introduction to Universal History. Translated from the Latin of Baron Holberg..., 1755, armorial bookplates of William Lee of Hartwell, Buckinghamshire and other members of the family, contemporary speckled calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, and Rousseau (Jean-Jacques), La nouvelle Heloise, ou, Lettres de deux amants habitants d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes, 4 volumes, Rouen: Chez la veuve de Pierre Dumesnil l'an 3e de la Republique Francoise [1794/1795], contemporary sheep, gilt decorated spines, rubbed and light wear, 8vo, plus other 18th & 19th century antiquarian (34)
Lot 382
Camden (William). The History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England..., Fourth Edition, printed by M. Flesher, for R. Bentley, 1688, engraved frontispiece by R. White, title printed in red and black, some light spotting, contemporary mottled full calf, gilt decorated spine, joints partly cracked with minor wear to head and foot of spine, folio (attractive copy), together with Rushworth (John), Historical Collections, of Private Passages of State, Weighty Matters in Law, Remarkable Proceedings in Five Parliaments..., 2 volumes, 1682/1686, occasional minor marks, and small circular ink stamps of the Royal Historical Society, contemporary full calf, rubbed and some wear, later rebacks, joints cracked and upper cover to second volume detached, folio, together with another edition of the same work in 8 volumes, published in 1721, all contemporary calf, with similar rebacks, joints cracked, folio, plus Burnet (Gilbert), The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 3 volumes, 1681-1751, half-title and additional engraved title to first and second volumes, contemporary calf, with old rebacks, folio, plus other similar folio history: Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institute's of the Laws of England, 7th edition, carefully corrected, 1670, Henry Hammond, Works, 4 volumes, mixed editions, 1681-84, a worn and slightly defective copy of Dryden's Works of Virgil, 1697, with numerous engraved plates by Lombart and Hollar, and History of the Government of France, under the administration of the great Armand Du Plessis, Cardinall and Duke of Richlieu, 1657, all (except the final title) bound in leather, folio (21)
Lot 391
d'Ewes (Sir Simonds). The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, both of the House of Lords and House of Commons, revised and published by Paul Bowes, 1st edition, John Starkey, 1682, engraved frontispiece of Elizabeth in parliament, trimmed and mounted with no loss of image or text, marginal soiling, occasional fraying along fore-edge, tissue-repaired in first gathering, 18th-century bookplate of Sir William Strickland, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, folio, together with Fuller (Thomas), The Church-History of Britain; from the Birth of Jesus Christ, until the Year M. DC. XLVIII, 1st edition, printed for John Williams, 1655, 5 engraved plates (2 folding, including large plan of Cambridge), title page and divisional titles with woodcut devices, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces throughout, mild marginal worming, bookplates of Christopher Henry Oldham Scaife (academic and poet, 1900-1988) and one J. Comyns, 18th-century marbled boards, diced russia backstrip, vellum tips, joints and spine superficially cracked but firm, headcap chipped, folio, plus Chesne (André du), Histoire générale d'Angleterre, d'Escosse, et d'Irlande, 1st edition, Paris, 1614, title page in modern facsimile, spotting and browning, bookplate of the Marquis de Bertier-Pinsaguel, contemporary French sheep, rebacked and restored, laurel wreath in blind to sides, scuffed, folio, plus Burnet (Gilbert), Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1724-34, manuscript annotation to volume 2 title verso as issued, contemporary near-uniform calf, rebacked, richly gilt spines, gilt frames to sides, joints partially cracked but firm, rubbed, extremities worn, folio, and 2 similar works Wing D1250 for d'Ewes and F2416 for Fuller. (7)
Lot 406
Goodwin (Thomas). The History of the Reign of Henry the Fifth, King of England, etc., in Nine Books, 1st edition, printed by J[ohn] D[arby], 1704, engraved frontispiece portrait, light spotting to margins and appendix, 19th-century ownership inscription to title, 19th-century marbled boards, red morocco backstrip renewed, vellum tips, together with Bacon (Francis), The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, 2nd edition, printed by W. Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, 1622, architectonic woodcut title, lacking portrait and initial blank, faint spotting and soiling, small chip to bottom edge of D1, long closed tear in Y3 (text intact), contemporary calf, spine repaired and label renewed, rubbed and scuffed overall, joints partially cracked but firm, plus Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries, published after the Authors Death by William Rawley, 3rd edition, printed by J[ohn] H[aviland], 1631, lacking engraved title and portrait, woodcut headpieces and initials throughout, light browning, a few stains, front free endpaper coming loose, bookplates of Sir George Strickland, 5th Baronet (1729-1808) and his son Henry Eustatius (1777-1865), ownership inscription 'William Pratt A. M 1670' to title and related inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary mottled calf, slightly rubbed, head of spine chipped, and Bacon (Francis, & Francis Godwin), The History of the Reigns of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary, 1st edition thus, printed by W[illiam] G[odbid], 1676, lacking portrait, some light soiling, final leaf tipped in, ownership inscription of English judge Sir Robert Chambers to initial blank (1737-1803, inscription reads 'Robt. Chambers Linc. Coll. Oxon 1756'), the leaf repaired, modern calf, all folio STC 1160 and 1171 for Bacon's Historie (1622) and Sylva Sylvarum; Wing B300 for Bacon and Godwin. (4)
Lot 442
Simeoni (Gabriele). Dialogo Pio et Speculativo, con diverse sentenze, Latine & volgari, di M. Gabriel Symeoni Fiorentino, Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1560, title with printer's woodcut device, 18th century English ownership signature to head of title (not legible), and contemporary Italian ownership inscription to foot of title 'Di Donato Rofia... Sua 1569 a Cesena', numerous woodcut illustrations of coins and monuments, folding woodcut map of the Limagne in the Auvergne, errata and colophon to verso of final leaf, some spotting to first and last few leaves, and light browning at front of volume, without final blank, old diced calf, rebacked with majority of original spine laid down, rubbed and a little wear to edges, 4to Mortimer Harvard University French Books 498. First edition. Gabriele Simeoni (1509-1575) author of a number of historical tracts, emblem books, settled in Lyon, where he became a member of the scholarly circle around Maurice Sceve and Guillaume du Choul. (1)
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