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Lot 160
Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1763 , lower right 89 x 68.5cm (35 x 27in.) Provenance : The collection of Lionel Clark, London Sale: Sotheby s, July 24th 1929, Lot 48, bought by Asscher The collection of Leo M. Flesh, Piqua, Ohio Sale: Christie s November 17th 1967, Lot 94, bought by Leyland Anon sale, Sotheby s, March 12 1969, Lot 134 The collection of Philip Reiff, Philadelphia Literature : Edward Mead Johnson, Francis Cotes (Phaidon, 1976) p.69 no.125 (as a portrait of Sir Hector Monro)
Lot 40
Ω A Victorian painted, gilt-decorated, papier m ache and turned wood globe shaped casket on stand , in manner of Jennens & Bettridge, circa 1850, now converted for use as a humidor, the spherical top with a hinged top now revealing a cedar-lined interior with humidity gauge, the top with a painted vignette of castle ruins, decorated throughout in gilt with flowers and foliage incorporating mother-of-pearl elements, 88cm high, 40cm wide, 25cm cm diameter Please note, this lot may be subject to CITES regulations if exported from the EU.Cites RegulationsPlease note that this lot (lots marked with the symbol Ω in the printed catalogue) may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. The CITES regulations may be found at www.defra.gov.uk/ahvla-en/imports-exports/cites/
Lot 855
A 19TH CENTURY BOUDOIR EASEL TIME PIECE, in silvered case, crested with a Medici lion mask, above an alpine village scene, with figures under a clock tower, signed M. Hey, with gilt metal hands and Roman numerals, Swiss bar movement, and a chain attached for winding key, in working order, raised on three hoof feet, 5.5" (14cm) high, 3.5" (9cm) wide. (1)
Lot 865
DANTE'S INFERNO & DANTE'S PURGATORIO AND PARADISO, by Dante Alighieri, The Vision of Hell translated by The Reverent Henry Francis Cary M.A., new edition, illustrated by with the designs M. Gustave Dore, London by Cassell & Co. Limited London, Paris and New York, and the Vision of Purgatory and Paradise, two volumes with black and white illustrations, blue cloth, red and blue, 13.5" (34cm) x 10.5" (27cm). (2)
Lot 1
Baedeker (Karl). Egypt. Handbook for Travellers, 2nd edition, revised and augmented, 1885, folding colour maps (one or two slightly frayed), illustrations, front hinge a little tender, original red cloth, spine a little faded with splits to upper joint, 8vo, together with Calignani's New Paris Guide, Paris, August 1838, folding map with outline colour at end, some spotting, contemporary morocco, spine rubbed and chipped, some edgewear, 8vo, plus Guide de l'Etranger dans Paris et ses Environs, 5th edition, Paris, Grand-Hotel, 1875, illustrations and advertisements at end, some spotting, ink signature of M. Konck, par l'Administrations du Grand-Hotel to title, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, with other Baedeker European guides and Guida d'Italia, some duplicates etc (58)
Lot 106
Bee Culture. M‚moires sur les Questions proposees par l'Acad‚mie Imp‚riale et Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Bruxelles, qui ont remport‚ les prix en M.DCC.LXXIX, Brussels: De l'Imprimerie Acad‚mique, 1780, occasional light dampstaining at gutter, edges untrimmed, original paste-paper wrappers, spine worn and deficient, 4to (1)
Lot 115
Della Rocca (Abb‚). Trait‚ Complet sur les Abeilles, avec Une M‚thode nouvelle de les Gouverner, telle qu'elle se pratique … Syra, Œle de l'Archipel..., 3 volumes, 1st edition, Paris, 1790, five folding plates, final plate with light dampstain to blank margin, 3rd volume with half-title (not called for in 1st two volumes), scattered spotting, each front pastedown with decorative bookplate of David Smith, near contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides with insect damage and surface abrasion, 8vo (3)
Lot 120
Heresbach (Conrad). [Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, Collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, Councellor to the high and mightie Prince, the Duke of Cleue: containing the whole art and trade of Husbandry, Gardening, Graffing, and Planting, with the antiquitie and commendation thereof. Newly Englished, and increased by Barnabe Googe, Esquire, London: printed by T. Este, for Thomas Wight, 1596], 193 leaves only, initial four leaves and final leaf provided in facsimile, four leaves misbound (leaves O3-6), black letter text, one woodcut illustration and few woodcut decorative initials, some dampstaining throughout, worm hole & trail to upper blank margins (worsening towards rear of volume), later endpapers, 18th century sheep, modern reback and corner repairs, 4to (STC 13199, British Bee Books 9), plus an incomplete 17th century edition of Countrie Contentments by Gervase Markham, 20th century morocco, spine rubbed, slim 4to (2)
Lot 155
Quinby (M). Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained; Being a complete analysis of the whole subject, New York, C.M. Saxton & Company, 1858, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying to extremities, together with Budgen (L.M.), Episodes of Insect Life, by Acheta Domestica, Third Series, 1851, 18 hand-coloured wood engravings, endpapers renewed, original gilt-decorated blue cloth, spine restrengthened, plus Maeterlinck (Maurice), The Life of the Bee, translated by Alfred Sutro, 1902, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated vellum (by Mudie), a few marks and some light discolouration, with modern cloth slipcase, and others on bees and bee-keeping, mainly late 19th and early 20th century, mostly bound in original cloth, generally in good condition, mainly 8vo (approximately 250 volumes) (5 shelves)
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Lot 252
*Ackermann (Rudolph, publisher). Chinese paper [and] Animal paper, 1807, pair of monotone etched designs (possibly for wallpaper), each approximately 330 x 405 mm, together with Dorigny (N.), Mars, Jupiter, Saturnus [and] Sol, circa 1800, four (only) uncoloured engraved allegorical depictions of three of the planets and the sun in our solar system, each approximately 285 x 210 mm, with Bartolozzi (F.), The Truth of Infancy [and] Cherubins, published M. Bovi, circa 1792, two uncoloured stipple engravings, each approximately 215 x 315 mm, with two others similar from the same series, with approximately another sixty engravings of classical scenes, portraits, landscapes and topographical views, various sizes and condition (approx.70)
Lot 333
*Military autographs. A group of 36 letters, from British officers largely connected with the Napoleonic Wars, circa 1780s/1880s, including autograph letters from General Rowland Hill, Major General Sir John Malcolm, General George Marsden, Major General William Thomas Dilkes, General McDonnell, General Richard Fitzpatrick, Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane, General Sir Ronald Crauford Ferguson, Lord Melville, General M. de Lancey, General John Drinkwater, General John England, General James Hay, Lieutenant John King, Major General George de Grey, General Francis Gerard, General C.M. Pasley, General Sir John Doyle, General Sir Willoughby Colton, etc., some letters unsigned and in the third person, plus a few related portraits and ephemera including a copy will of General George Cary (a folder)
Lot 392
Musgrave (William). Geta Britannicus accedit Domus Severianae Synopsis Chronologica, et Icuncula quondam M. Regis Aelfredi Dissertatio, 1715, engraved dediction, three engraved plates only (of 4, includes two folding), date of imprint to title altered to 1716 in manuscript, some spotting and toning, endpapers renewed, armorial bookplate of John Earl of Delawarr relaid to upper pastedown, contemporary sheep, rebacked, 8vo, together with Julii Vitalis Epitaphium cum Notis Criticis Explictioneq; v.c. Hen. Dodwelli et Commentario Guil. Musgrave..., 1711, engraved dedication, eight engraved plates (including 3 folding), contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine lacking title label, joints cracked and light wear, 8vo, plus another copy of the same work, plus Xenophon, Xenophontis Ephesii Ephesiacorum libri V. De amoribus Anthiae et Abrocomae. Nunc primum prodeunt ... cum Latina interpretatione Antonii Cocchii Florentini, London: William Bowyer, 1726, scattered spotting, 19th century half calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, spine & extremities worn, slim 4to (4)
Lot 43
Wilme (Benjamin P.). A Hand-book for Mapping, Engineering and Architectural Drawing..., 1st edition, published John Weale, 1846, lithographic title and folding engraved 'Synopsis' frontispiece with contemporary hand colouring, additional half title, thirty-seven (only of forty-two) lithographic plates including fifteen with contemporary hand colouring and ten folding, five folding maps replaced in facsimile, several plates with frayed edges with some loss, crudely repaired, slight worming, modern endpapers, modern half calf with gilt title to spine, 4to, together with Beeton (S. O., editor), Beeton's Dictionary of Geography, A Universal Gazetteer, published Ward, Lock and Tyler, 1868, additional decorative title, 105 uncoloured wood engraved plates and eleven folding engraved maps with contemporary outline colouring, contemporary half morocoo gilt, worn and bumped at extremities, 8vo, with another ten volumes relating to cartography, mixed bindings, various sizes and condition, plus Warren (D. M.), The Common-School Geography: An elementary treatise on mathematical, physical and political geography, published Cowperthwait & Co., Philadelphia, 1869, title page with publisher's advertisment to verso, twenty-two (complete as list) engraved maps with contemporary colouring, numerous wood engravings to text, slight staining, publisher's decorative printed boards, re-backed with gilt title to spine, bumped and worn at extremities, slim 4to, with another thirteen school and general atlases similar, various sizes and condition From the library of the late Rodney Shirley. (26)
Lot 45
Young (Arthur). Travels, During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789. Undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity, of the Kingdom of France, 1st edition, Bury St. Edmunds, 1792, three folding engraved maps, including one hand-coloured, title repaired to verso, light offsetting, contemporary half calf, rebacked and repaired, 4to, together with Paris and its Environs, Displayed in a Series of Picturesque Views, from Original Drawings taken expressly for this work, 2 parts in one, 1829-31, additional engraved titles, 200 engraved views on 100 sheets by Heath after Pugin, some offsetting and scattered spotting, contemporary calf gilt, spine label lacking, slightly rubbed, 4to, plus French Cathedrals, by B. Winkles. From Drawings taken on the spot by R. Garland, with an Historical and Descriptive account, 1837, additional title with engraved vignette, 49 engraved plates and plans, light offsetting and spotting, bookplate, top edge gilt, original olive half morocco gilt, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, plus other French related including M. de Vauban's Traite de l'Attaque et de la Defense des Places, nouvelle edition, 1742, Veritable Maniere de Bien Fortifier de Mr de Vauban, 2 volumes in one, nouvelle edition, Amsterdam, 1702 and Journal of a Horticultural Tour through some parts of Flanders, Holland and the North of France in the Autumn of 1817. By a deputation of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, Edinburgh, 1823 (19)
Lot 460
The Book of Kells. Facsimile edition of MS 58 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, & Faksimile Verlag Luzern, Lucerne, 1990, sumptuous facsimile bound in original full cream kid by Burkhardt Bookbinders of M”nchaltorf, Zurich, contained in a black leather presentation box designed by Ernst Ammering, embellished with silver-plated mountings and gold embossing after medieval Irish ornamentation and the Book of Kells, large 4to, together with original commentary volume in slipcase, folio Limited edition, 1474/1480 copies. (2)
Lot 525
Muller (John). The Attack and Defence of Fortify'd Places. In three parts. Containing I. Preparations, and different operations for an attack... II. Preparations, and defence of every particular part of a fortification... III. A treatise of mines...., 1st edition, 1747, 25 folding engraved plates, advertisement leaf at end, occasional light offsetting, front endpaper detached, contemporary calf, upper cover detached, rubbed, 8vo, inscribed at front: "Major J. Wilson, 4th Regiment of Inf[an]try, 1748", together with A Treatise containing the Practical Part of Fortification. In Four Parts, by John Muller, 1st edition, 1755, 26 folding engraved plates, eight tables, light offsetting and soiling, hinges reinforced, contemporary tree calf, modern calf reback, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus The Field Engineer, translated from the French of M. le Chevalier de Clairac, by Captain Charles Vallancey. To which are Added, Remarks on Marshal Saxe's new system of Fortification, proposed in his Reveries, or Memoirs on the Art of War, 1st edition, Dublin, 1758, 40 folding engraved plates, some light soiling and small marginal waterstains, contemporary calf, rebacked, some edgewear, 8vo (3)
Lot 446
‡PHYLLIS MARY BONE RSA (1894-1972)Grizzly Bearsigned and dated 'Phyllis M. Bone, 1928'bronze8in H (20.3cm)Phyllis Bone specialised in animal sculpture. She took her sculpture diploma at the Edinburgh College of Art, before moving to Paris where she studied under Navellier. Sir Robert Lorimer later engaged her services for the animal sculpture for the Scottish War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle
Lot 469
A. M. GAUCI (op 1848- c. 1885)'Archibald', a short horn bull in a landscapesigned and dated 'A. M. Gauci, 1883' (lower right)oil on canvas21 x 27in (53.4 x 68.7cm)Provenance: Aaron Rogers; by family descent. Thence to the present vendor's familyAccording to a label on the reverse 'Archibald' or 'Sir Archibald' was one of the first foundation bulls in the Hereford Herd Book when the Society was formed in 1878. He was bred by Aaron Rogers at The Rhod, Herefordshire. A Herefordshire broadsheet records in connection with the arrival of the American buyers in 1882 that '...his nephew Aaron of the Rodd, has got a bull, a living god; you will know it when his name is called, it is the beautiful Sir Archibald'.In 1882 125 Herefords were shipped to the USA in one lot. Another of these early bulls, 'Lord Wilton' was sold in 1884 for £3,990
Lot 116
A QUEENS SOUTH AFRICA AND KINGS SOUTH AFRICA PAIR OF MEDALS, on hanging bar, QSA bars, Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony, KSA bars, SA1901 SA1902, the medals are named to 1017 Pte M. Griffin, 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers, both medals are genuine and the ghost dates 1899/1900 are clearly visible on the QSA, but both medals have been renamed
Lot 598
A QUANTITY OF BOXED AND UNBOXED OO GAUGE MODEL RAILWAYS, to include boxed Hornby Duchess Class Locomotive 'Duchess of Sutherland', No.6233, L.M.S. maroon livery (R.066), with instructions, part boxed Mainline Freight set including Class J72 Tank Locomotive No.68745, B.R. black livery (37055), with instructions, boxed rolling stock and accessories, H & M controller, Hornby turntable and a quantity of track etc
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