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Lot 370
Hammond (Susan) Commonplace book, containing poems, watercolour, pencilled sketches, maps etc., 4to, c. 100pp., leather-backed marbled boards, [Jersey, c. 1822]. This commonplace book bears the inscription `Jersey, Susan Hammond, 1822`. It also contains a manuscript map of Jersey, as well as a pencilled sketch of `Mount Orgueil Castle with Grouville Church`. The other illustrations include watercolours of flowers, birds and soldiers, caricatures, pencilled sketches and two charming series of stick-figures, entitled `The Airs and Graces of an Assembly` and `Country Courtship`. The texts include several poems (`Ode to the Poppy`, `Evening`, `Music`, `On Quadrille`, `Waltzing`), an excerpt in French from `Otello` and `Epitaph` [on a donkey] by `the late Dr Jenner`. There are also some verses and pencilled sketch of Cumnor Hall. Susan Hammond was very likely the sister of John Hammond (1801-1880) who was born in St Helier, the son of Jacques Lempriere Hammond and Rachel Durell. The Hammonds were seigneurs de Samarès from the mid-18th century.
Lot 89
REEL & CATALOGUE (2): Braddell of Belfast 2.25" all brass trout fly reel with black handle, block foot, lacking check, c/w a scarce Braddell of Belfast angler`s guide, 116 pages, S/b with colour plates, carrying many Allcock`s items and fold out map to rear "The Irish Shooting & Fishing Agencies New Map of Ireland Bartholomew", catalogue notes established over 100 years.
Lot 79
Bingley (William) Travels in Africa 4 engraved plates advertisements original cloth-backed boards splits at spine 1819 § Hake (A.Egmont) The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon...at Kartoum frontispiece portrait folding map full morocco 1885 § Brown`s "South Africa" folding maps original pictorial cloth 1893 § Kingsley (Mary H.) Travels in West Africa plates original cloth 1897; and 5 others Africa v.s.(9)
Lot 88
Ritchie (Leitch) A Journey to St. Petersburg engraved frontispiece additional title plates original leather rubbed at corners and spine ends g.e. 1836 § Eyre (Vincent) The Military Operations at Cabul fifth edition folding map 1843 § Tilley (Henry Arthur) Eastern Europe and Western Asia tinted lithographed plates spine split 1864 § Chamberlain (Basil Hall) Things Japanese fifth edition 1905. original cloth; and 10 others Asia India and the Far East 8vo(14)
Lot 90
Read (Lieutenant R.P.) Saint Helena separately published pictorial map of Napoleon`s place of exile title and dedication upper right Napoleon`s facsimile signatures lower right with ships and spouting whales the island graphically depicting the topography trees roads and numerous buildings engraved map with full original hand-colouring 450 x 590mm. dissected and linen-backed with descriptive text pasted on verso board slipcase printed label little rubbed 8vo. Burgis & Barfoot Laurie & Whittle and others 1815.
Lot 100
Denon.Egypt Delineated 1825 engraved portrait folding map and 109 plates some folding some light spotting and soiling one or two folding plates torn one loose and frayed at edge original cloth-backed boards with paper label on upper cover very worn broken and loose folio 1825; sold not subject to return
Lot 109
Symes.Account..Embassy..Kingdom of Ava sent by The Governor-General of India in the Year 1795. first edition large paper copy half-title 2 engraved maps 1 folding and 26 plates 4 folding plates lightly foxed and offset large folding map torn contemporary diced russia garter arms in gilt on both covers spine gilt a little worn covers detached 4to 1800. ***Including a description of the plants of Burma illustrated by 8 plates..
Lot 110
Balsamo (Paolo And Thomas Wright Vaughan.) first edition folding map spotted and offset folding table little spotting contemporary half calf spine gilt rubbed front hinge tender 4to Gale and Curtis 1811 § Maffei (Count) Brigand Life in Italy: a History of Bourbonist Reaction 2 vol. half-titles little spotting original cloth gilt 8vo Hurst and Blackett 1865 § Life and Times (The) of Garibaldi the Italian Hero and Patriot chromolithograph frontispiece additional title and plates prize bookplate original pictorial cloth gilt rubbed and marked g.e. 4to n.d. § Goethe (Johann Wolfgang) Italian Journey 1786-1788. translated by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer plates some colour original patterned cloth dust-jacket large 8vo 1962 (5)
Lot 117
Bartlett (W.H.) Environs of Jerusalem engraved frontispiece and title folding plans plates illustrations original cloth gilt partly sunned t.e.g. [c.1845]; Syria the Holy Land Asia Minor... vol.II & III only additional engraved titles 2 maps 75 plates damp-stain to head of some ff. contemporary half calf worn 1838 § Thomson (W.M.) The Land and the Book tinted lithographed plates folding map title browned original cloth 1862 § Thesiger (Wilfred) Arabian Sands plates original cloth dust-jacket price-clipped some slight oxidising 1959. first editions; and 10 others Middle East v.s.(15)
Lot 120
[Kinglake (W.D.)] Eothen second edition folding hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece hand-coloured plate bookplates contemporary half calf badly worn everything detached 1845 § Malcolm (Sir John) Sketches of Persia contemporary half calf 1845 § Churton (H.B.Whitaker) Thoughts on the Land of the Morning second edition tinted lithographed frontispiece and title double-page map plates illustrations original cloth worn at head of spine 1852; and 12 others Middle East including another copy of the first mentioned 8vo(15)
Lot 122
Franklin Shores of the Polar Sea 1824 second edition 4 folding engraved charts 1 partially hand-coloured first chart with repairs some offsetting and foxing contemporary half calf corners worn lacking spine labels rubbed and scuffed [Sabin 25625] 1824 § Nansen (Fridtjof) "Farthest North" 2 vol. frontispieces plates illustrations folding map original pictorial cloth gilt and silver frayed at extremities rubbed 1898; and another Polar v.s.(5)
Lot 125
Pertusier (Charles) Picturesque Promenades 8 folding engraved plates some folding modern buckram 1820 § Johnson (E.C.) On the Track of the Crescent frontispiece illustrations folding map advertisements prize bookplate of front pastedown 1885 § Gautier (Théophile) Constantinople of To-Day additional title plates and illustrations original cloth 1854; and 7 others Turkey & similar 8vo(10)
Lot 130
Guthrie (William) A New Geographical 17th edition folding engraved maps light browning contemporary tree calf worn at spine 1798 § Howison (John) Foreign Scenes and Travelling Recreations 2 vol. vol.I lacking title contemporary calf rubbed Edinburgh 1825 § Brassey (Lady) A Voyage in the `Sunbeam` 10th edition inscribed by the author plates folding map illustrations contemporary calf gilt worn at edges 1886; and 7 others Travel 8vo(11)
Lot 133
Moule (Thomas) Great Britain Illustrated engraved additional vignette title and 118 views on 59 sheets by William Westall some early plates a little stained contemporary red straight-grain morocco rubbed and scuffed 1830 bound with Shepherd (Thomas H.) London and its Environs in the Nineteenth Century engraved additional title and 169 views on 70 sheets title margins slight stained [1829] and Elmes (James) Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century additional engraved title map and 154 views on 78 sheets 1828. together 3 works in 1 vol. some browning and foxing new endpapers modern half morocco gilt spine 4to.
Lot 148
Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Scotland 2 vol. 190 plates lacks map contemporary calf boards detached ex-library with marks foxing for Hooper & Wigstead 1797 § Johnstone (The Chevalier de) Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746. 2 portraits boards spine strip detached foxed for Longman Hurst 1820; plus 4 related vol. v.s. (7)
Lot 150
Martin (M.) A Late Voyage to St. Kilda the Remote the Remotest of all the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland first edition folding map 2pp printer`s advertisements lacks plate of bird eggs closed tear to half-title some old staining panelled calf rubbed and chipped 8vo for D. Brown & T. Goodwin 1698.
Lot 236
[Halley (Edmond)] Miscellanea Curiosa mixed edition 19 engraved plates only (all but 1 folding) and a folding world map vol. II wormholes repaired with slight loss vol. II and III dampstained some text and plates with surface wear vol. III 1 plate corner torn 1 plate torn and repaired 2A8 margin torn contemporary panelled calf corners bumped gilt spines morocco labels 8vo James and John Knapton and John Clarke 1726-23-27; sold not subject to return.
Lot 322
John Speed, map of `The Kingdome of Scotland`, 1611 or later, with hand-coloured decoration, four cartouches of members of the royal family, inset `The Yles of Orknay`, `performed by John Speed and are to be sold in Popes head alley by John Sudbury and George Humbell, Cum Privilegio 1610`, with a description of Scotland verso, 15.5 x 21",
Lot 488
Brass model of a Harrier jump jet 7" high, model of vintage air plane 6" high , a model of a Concord 5" high and two others PROVENANCE ONE MAN`S LIFETIME PASSION FOR PLANES The Geoff Stanton Collection of aeronautical memorabilia Geoff Stanton lived and breathed aeroplanes. You could say they were in his blood, a passion inherited from his father, who at 14 was an apprentice with the famous Fairey Aviation Company. But Geoff never piloted a plane. Instead, he spent a lifetime - sadly cut short by a heart attack - building a private aviation museum, which filled his one-bedroomed flat to bursting point. In the hallway, visitors were greeted by two mannequins - one a tall U,S. Air Force pilot, the other a Women`s Royal Air Force officer, each complete with flying jackets and boots. On the wall above them was a wooden propeller from a 1917 Sopwith, and below that, a huge enamel sign - too heavy to mount - advertising Shell and BP aviation fuel. The kitchen and dining area was more of a workshop but there were two big leather armchairs of 1930s vintage - Geoff would use one but the other was occupied by another mannequin ("Henry") dressed in full flying kit and complete with Air Ministry map - ready to scramble. Geoff bequeathed some of these objects but the rest (over 100 lots) of his huge collection of aeronautical memorabilia is included in this sale. The flat was crammed with display cases containing all of the items for auction. In addition, USAAF and RAF uniforms, sheepskin flying jackets, boots, helmets, goggles and gloves sit alongside Second World War cockpit instruments, gun sights, gauges, a silk Observer parachute, miniature propellers and propeller sections and even a framed piece of fabric from a Messerschmitt 109, shot down over Balcombe Down during the Battle of Britain in 1940. There are countless models of aircraft of all periods, medals, mascots, log books, badges and pins, books and postcards including a charming collection of RAF "sweetheart badges"; aircraft manuals parts and tools, brochures and hundreds of period photographs. Geoff Stanton was born in Guildford, Surrey, in 1957, the younger son of Kenneth and Kathleen. The family moved to the Isle of Wight in 1975 after Geoff`s father joined the staff of Westland Aerospace at East Cowes. Geoff suffered a heart attack and died in 2007, four months after his mother`s death. His father died last year. Geoff leaves a brother, Chris. Geoff`s interest in aviation came from his father, whose love of aircraft began in 1929 at the age of six, when Sir Alan Cobham`s Air Circus came to his home town of Banbury. Ken joined the Fairey Aviation Company as an apprentice at Hayes and Heston, working on the Swordfish biplane before the Second World War accelerated the production of more modern fighter aircraft. In the post-war jet age, Ken joined the Aircraft Inspection Directorate (AID) moving to Dunsfold Aerodrome where he spent the next 20 years working on some of the most famous and iconic Hawker jets, including the Hunter, the Harrier and the Hawk. Ken cleared both the prototype vertical take-off P.1127 and the Hawk for their maiden flights. The Hawk is still in RAF service as a fighter-trainer 35 years on, but is best known for its role in the Red Arrows display team. Geoff`s interest in aviation began when his father took him around a disused USAAF airbase at Thorpe Abbots in Suffolk, once home to the legendary Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and the U.S. 8th Air Force - the "Mighty Eighth". From then on, Geoff`s admiration for the airmen who flew these planes continued to grow and he began to build what became an awesome collection of aeronautica. However, Geoff was fascinated most in tracing the real people behind the objects and the personal stories and photographs of the airmen. In 2004, Geoff tracked down an American survivor of the B-17 plane "My Day", which was shot down over the Channel in 1943 and ditched just off the Isle of Wight. The airman, former Flight Sergeant John Mont, visited the island for the 60th Anniversary D-Day celebrations and was reunited with "My Day"s propeller. Mont wrote the following tribute for Geoff`s funeral in 2007: "I recall how very proud Geoff was to take us to the IoW Military Museum to show us the propeller and exhibit, all the while realising the hours of hard work that went into restoring it. I have always believed that propeller gave its all to save my life. There were many highlights on that trip: the flyover of "Sally B" (a B-17 Flying Fortress that is part of the UK`s WW2 Memorial Flight) at the 60th anniversary air show, meeting Mr Beken, who was part of the British Sea Rescue that was instrumental in pulling the few survivors from "My Day" out of the sea, to Mr Worsley who painted a beautiful recreation of "My Day" right before the watery crash, every detail depicting that cold December night in 1943." The painting, showing "My Day" flying over choppy water by John Howard Worsley is included in the sale. Geoff was a Life Member of the B-17 Preservation Society, which flies the "Sally B" at all the major airshows. The plane is preserved at the American Air Forces Museum at Duxford in Cambridgeshire, part of the Imperial War Museum, and Geoff spent a great deal of time and effort to raise funds to keep her flying, notably the £3,000 in sponsorship for having his pony tail cut off and his head shaved. He was also well known for his spectacular charity fund-raising feats on the Isle of Wight. For Children in Need, he walked the ramparts of Carisbrooke Castle for 24 hours dressed as Charles I and for Comic Relief, he stalked the corridors of St Mary`s Hospital dressed as a character from Star Wars, which he jokily termed "Cosmic Relief". In latter years, Geoff was deeply absorbed in researching the stories of USAAF aircrew, particularly those who had served in Britain. His collection of uniforms enabled him to dress the part for WW2 airshows and themed events. He had started compiling a book from the U.S. airmen`s own personal archives and had amassed a large collection of photos and correspondence through his regular online communications with America. His painstaking approach using a variety of data and his own encyclopaedic knowledge enabled him to identify a plane, its location and thus its mission from a simple small black and white photograph, but sadly the book cannot now be completed. His brother Chris describes his late brother as enigmatic: "At times happiest with his own company but on other occasions the life and soul of the party, and he knew how to party!" He had been an extra in the 1980 film "Wildcats of St. Trinian`s", which was filmed on the Isle of Wight, while in the mid 1980s, he pursued his other great passion of motorcycles - also inherited from his father - and was a leading biker in the Isle of Wight clubs. The last 10 years of Geoff`s life were spent first as a porter at St Mary`s Hospital, then as an ambulance technician. But not only did he help save human lives. He achieved lasting local prominence on the Isle of Wight as "Duck Man" through his care for the flightless ducklings he rescued from the hospital quadrangles after the parent birds had flown away to a nearby pond. Today a fine memorial bench and a purpose-built duck-house beside the pond provide good opportunities to reflect on all things airborne.
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