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Click here to subscribeA retro 20th century oak architects / engineers plan chest of drawers / map chest. The chest having a bank of 10 drawers split into five & five. The flat deep drawers having recessed handles to the drawers and all being raised on a plinth base with a red vinyl top. Measures approx. 92cm x 146cm x 89cm.
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Woodblock print on paper titled "Rozan" depicting a landscape of a body of water in front of a towering mountain, ca. 1939. Pencil signed along the lower right; titled along the lower left. Jizuri seal along the left margin.The jizuri "self-printed" seal indicates that the printing process was directly supervised by him and that he played an active role in the creation of this print. These seals were typically reserved for only the highest quality impressions as decided by Yoshida.One of the leading figures in the Japanese Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Fukuoka in 1876. In 1893, he moved to Kyoto and studied yoga and nihonga styles of painting and watercolors. It came only in middle age he started collaborating with the shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Despite his late debut as a shin-hanga printmaker, he successfully put himself on the map as the greatest artist of the shin-hanga style and is especially noted for his excellent landscape prints. His prints are highly recognized in both Japan and overseas.Height: 11 in x width: 15 3/4 in.Condition:The colors are bold and bright. There are no tears, creases, or restorations. There is some light wear along the edges. There are two pin holes along the upper corners. The work is not framed.
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Woodblock print on paper titled "Hokuryo" depicting a large building with robed figures in front, ca. 1937. Pencil signed along the lower right; titled along the lower left. Jizuri seal along the left margin.The jizuri "self-printed" seal indicates that the printing process was directly supervised by him and that he played an active role in the creation of this print. These seals were typically reserved for only the highest quality impressions as decided by Yoshida.One of the leading figures in the Japanese Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Fukuoka in 1876. In 1893, he moved to Kyoto and studied yoga and nihonga styles of painting and watercolors. It came only in middle age he started collaborating with the shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Despite his late debut as a shin-hanga printmaker, he successfully put himself on the map as the greatest artist of the shin-hanga style and is especially noted for his excellent landscape prints. His prints are highly recognized in both Japan and overseas.Height: 11 in x width: 15 3/4 in.Condition:There are no visible tears or creases. There are two minute losses along the corners of the top margin. The sheet is faintly yellowed. There are no signs of restoration under UV light. Not in frame.
Currier and Ives, United States. Hand-colored lithograph titled "George Washington," depicting a three-quarter portrait of the first President of the United States, George Washington. He gestures with one hand towards a map.Provenance: Distinguished Corporate Collection, Ohio.Literature: Gale Research Company, "Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonne," Volume 1: A-N (Gale Research Company: Detroit, 1984). Number 2553, page 265.Currier and Ives was founded by Nathaniel Currier (American, 1813-1888) in 1835 as "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints," but changed its name with the addition of James Merritt Ives (American, 1824-1895) in 1857. The company created over 7000 popular lithographs depicting American life until 1907.Sheet; height: 16 in x width: 11 in.Condition:The sheet is toned. There is some soiling along the edges. Some light areas of foxing. Soiling to the verso. Pencil inscription "XO -" along the verso. Two areas of light skimming, likely from a previous framing, along the upper left and right corners along the verso. No evidence of restoration when viewed under UV light. The work is not framed.
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Woodblock print on paper titled "Tsukiyo no Taji Maharu, dai yon (Moonlight of Taj Mahal No. 4)" depicting the Taj Mahal at night. Pencil signed along the lower right; titled along the lower left. Jizuri seal along the left margin.The jizuri "self-printed" seal indicates that the printing process was directly supervised by him and that he played an active role in the creation of this print. These seals were typically reserved for only the highest quality impressions as decided by Yoshida.One of the leading figures in the Japanese Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Fukuoka in 1876. In 1893, he moved to Kyoto and studied yoga and nihonga styles of painting and watercolors. It came only in middle age he started collaborating with the shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Despite his late debut as a shin-hanga printmaker, he successfully put himself on the map as the greatest artist of the shin-hanga style and is especially noted for his excellent landscape prints. His prints are highly recognized in both Japan and overseas.Height: 11 in x width: 15 3/4 in.Condition:There are no visible tears. There are minute losses along the extreme edge of the top margin. There is a small crease across the top left corner. The sheet is yellowed and there is faint foxing throughout the margins. There are faint scuffs across the lower left quadrant. There are no signs of restoration under UV light. Not in frame.
Hiroshi Yoshida (Japanese, 1876-1950). Woodblock print on paper titled "Summit of Fuji" depicting a view of the trail leading up to the summit of the famous Mount Fuji. From the series "Ten Views of Mt. Fuji," ca. 1928. Pencil signed along the lower right; titled along the lower left. Jizuri seal along the left margin.The jizuri "self-printed" seal indicates that the printing process was directly supervised by him and that he played an active role in the creation of this print. These seals were typically reserved for only the highest quality impressions as decided by Yoshida.One of the leading figures in the Japanese Shin-hanga movement, Hiroshi Yoshida was born in Fukuoka in 1876. In 1893, he moved to Kyoto and studied yoga and nihonga styles of painting and watercolors. It came only in middle age he started collaborating with the shin-hanga publisher Watanabe Shozaburo. Despite his late debut as a shin-hanga printmaker, he successfully put himself on the map as the greatest artist of the shin-hanga style and is especially noted for his excellent landscape prints. His prints are highly recognized in both Japan and overseas.Height: 11 in x width: 15 3/4 in.Condition:There are no visible tears. There are two minute losses along the corners of the top margin. There is faint creasing throughout the right margin. The sheet is yellowed and there is foxing throughout. There is faint soiling across the lower right corner. There are no signs of restoration under UV light. Not in frame.
Crawfurd (John) Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava, in the Year 1827... With an Appendix, containing the Description of Fossil Remains, by Professor Buckland and Mr. Clift, first edition, lacking half-title, with 5 aquatint plates (3 hand-coloured, 2 with sepia or grey wash), 5 lithographed plates of fossils, engraved plan, folding engraved map, wood-engraved illustrations, some light foxing to lithographed plates, map and plan, map also offset and with small hole at fold, text very clean and bright, contemporary calf, very slightly rubbed, a few minor scratches, rebacked preserving old roan label, new endpapers, [Abbey, Travel 405], 4to, 1829. *** Account of a successful mission to Burma to establish a trade treaty.
Kunike (Adolf Friedrich) Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes von seinem Ursprunge bis zu seinem Ausflusse in das schwarze Meer, forward by Dr. Georg Rump, 264 fine hand-coloured lithographed plates, light damp-staining, occasional foxing and very light toning, creasing to letterpress leaves, ink inscription to foot of title, linen-backed map of the Danube loosely inserted, 20th century boards with 19th century spine, spine rubbed, [Bobins 1445], oblong folio, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. *** A complete set of this superb sequence of lithographs by Kunike following the course of the Danube from its source to the Black Sea. The commission for producing the original drawings on which Kunike based his lithographs was initially undertaken by Rudolf Alt until his fear at the dangers inherent in the later reaches of the Danube as it entered the Ottoman Empire caused him to resign at the mid-point, leaving Ludwig Erminy to complete the sequence. We can trace no other complete hand-coloured set appearing at auction.
Isenring (J.B.) Thurgegenden. Eine Sammlung Malerischer Landschaften an und in der Naehe der Thur, engraved title with oval vignette, 4 explanatory otline plates, 20 fine hand-coloured aquatints and map, tissue-guards, some foxing to title and some margins, plate 14 rather stained, contemporary tree sheep, rubbed, [Bobins 1440], oblong folio, Luetisburg im Toggenburg, 1825. *** Fine series of Swiss views with delicate colouring. Provenance: Bernet Mittelholzer (bookplate).
Postcard collectors catalogues and magazines together with 2 maps, one Bartholomew's Sheet 18 Birmingham District scale 12 miles to an inch and a 1917 Carte-Guide Campbell No2 Nord automobile club map and a quantity of clear postcard protector sleeves together with an early 20th Century postcard album and contents together with loose postcards to include mid 20th Century American buildings and architecture, Cunard Line RMS Franconia, early 20th Century Tunis and Tangiers scenes and mixed holiday postcards from around the World Location:RWM
Island Stories. Shanghai 1905. 'Extracts From The Papers of Mr John Westwood, Mariner of London and Shanghai, with Original illustrations From Descriptions Supplied By The Author', 'Shanghai: Printed At The North-China Herald Office 1905' and a 'Map & Guide of Peking, Japan Tourist Bureau, Tokyo' and items of ephemera with some relating to William Leach. Provenance: From the estate of William Arthur Blackburn Leach.DOB: 2nd Jan 1872.Leach was born in Norwich where he attended a local grammar school, later becoming an apprentice carpenter and engineer. In 1902 after he had qualified, he went to China where he obtained a position in the Public Works Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council. He spent his working life in Shanghai until he left in 1926.During his time in China he held interests in a Christian Mission school and helped to support street children.He seized every opportunity to visit other parts of China and took thousands of photographs. He purchased widely on his travels, particularly woodcarvings, bronzes, traditional kimonos, paintings and porcelain. He treasured silver items and bought much to take home. He travelled home at least four times during his stay in China and these return visits were round-the-world trips in which he travelled through and visited Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Egypt and The Holy Land, the Far East, Canada and USA.On his return to the UK he lived in Northampton where he was a lay preacher and a local councillor. He gave a great many talks on his experiences in China and the many other Countries he had visited.He died in 1962. Very good internaly, slight ware to binding but very good general condition, light spotting, 154 pages runs true, plates complete as called for. Map of Peking 39 x 54, very good condition, folds out.
CLASSIC MALT MINIATURE COLLECTION (7 X 5CL) INCLUDING LAGAVULIN 16 YEAR OLD WHITE HORSE 5CL Lagavulin 16 Year Old White Horse - 43% ABV / 5clGlenkinchie 10 Year Old - 43% ABV / 5clOban 14 Year Old - 43% ABV / 5clBlair Athol 8 Year Old - 40% ABV / 5clTalisker 10 Year Old Map Label - 45.8% ABV / 5clDalwhinnie 15 Year Old - 43% ABV / 5clCragganmore 12 Year Old - 40% ABV / 5cl
2 CLASSIC MALT MINIATURE SETS (13 X 5CL) SINGLE MALT Cragganmore 12 Year Old - 40% ABV / 5cl x 2Dalwhinnie 15 Year Old - 43% ABV / 5cl x 2Glenkinchie 10 Year Old - 43% ABV / 5cl x 2Oban 14 Year Old - 43% ABV / 5cl x 2Talisker 10 Year Old Map Label - 45.8% ABV 5cl x 2Lagavulin 16 Year Old White Horse - 43% ABV / 5cl x 2Blair Athol 8 Year Old - 40% ABV / 5cl Qty: 2
A Glass Topped Hardwood Cigar Humidor, W = 34cm, H = 15cm, D = 24cm with a World Map Design Hardwood Cigar Humidor, W = 35cm, H = 17cm, D = 25cm, with 2 E P Carrillo The Inch Maduro No 70 Cigars, an Aluminum Table Top Quad Guillotine Cigar Cutter, and an Aluminum Oval AshtrayDeceased estate. From a private collection in London.No keys/humidification units for either humidor. Veneer slightly damaged on left bottom of world map humidor.
Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724): 'Tabula Ducatus Carnioliae...', hand-coloured copper engraving, ca. 1720Work: ca. 57,8 x 48,3 cm Paper: ca. 59,5 x 50 cm Frame: 80,5 x 71,9 cm This 'Tabula Ducatus Carniolae Vindorum Marchiae et Histriae' map depicts current Slovenia and the surrounding areas
Mixed ephemera some local interest viz Colchester, East Bergholt to incl early map of Suffolk, Great Western Railways Map, 18th century Indenture Documents, transport tickets, 1937 Coronation magazines, advertising booklets for Berry's Lighting and Heating, Pestucci drawings and others (qty)
Bacon, George W. New Large Scale Atlas of the British Isles, London: George W. Bacon, [c. 1885], featuring most of the hand-coloured lithographic maps, lacking No. 100 (The World), 4to, boards detached, title & prelims torn/creased, the maps appear well-preserved & bright. Together with Railway Map of England & Scotland, London: G. F. Cruchley, [c. 1848], dissected, linen-backed, hand-coloured engraving, 72 x 53.5cm, three early-20th century folding maps of Derbyshire and England & Wales, and an early copy of The Highway Code, [c. 1935]. Condition varied, sold as one collection with all faults (6)
Robert Morden - a late 17th century hand coloured & engraved map of Durham. With cartouche to upper left hand side reading Episcopaius Dunelmensis vulgo the Bishoprick of Durham by Rob. Mordern. To lower right, sold by Abel Swale Awnsham & John Churchil. Framed and glazed. Measures approx. 43cm x 37cm, 57cm x 52cm to include frame.
A LATE GEORGE III / REGENCY EMBROIDERED MAP SAMPLER OF ENGLAND AND WALES BY M.BREWSTER (2)Late 18th / Early 19th Century Worked in various wools, undated moulted in a moulded ebonised frame, 48.5cm wide; 57cm high; Together with a Regency sampler by Jane Dale, ‘Aged 12 Years’, with alaphbet and two blessings, worked in various wools and cottons on a linen ground, rosewood veneered frame, 38cm wide; 48.5cm highCondition report: The map: some thinning areas, fading and discolouration. The most obvious area of repair/disrepair is around the bottom edge of Southern Ireland and also towards the East coast, Essex area. Dark discolouration coming in from the left hand side - as can be seen in the image. The top edge of frame with some old worm, and related loss to the top left corner. The sampler: discolouration and fading there too, with a diagonal line of dark discolouration to the bottom right with other smaller patches. see extra images.
The first a map of Gloucestershire, Saxon (Christopher), Sculp. Hole (Gulielmus), Glocestriae Comitatus Olim Sedes Dobunorum, 1637, hand-coloured engraved map with a strapwork cartouche, a distance scale and a rose compass, 28.5 x 31.5cm (to the plate mark); the second a map of County Durham, Saxton. C, sculpt. Kip. W, Dunelmedsis, 17th century, with a strapwork cartouche in the corner, a distance scale and a half-rose compass in the lower right, 28 x 34cm (to the plate mark).The first aquatint of The Right Honourable Sir John Willes, Lord Chief Justice of his Majesty’s Court of Common Pleas by Thomas Hudson, 35 x 25cm (to the mount). The second of The Right Reverend Father in God Edward Willes, 36 x 25cm (to the plate mark). Both framed in matching gilt frames. Qty: 4 The map of Gloucestershire with notable centre crease with potential repair to the back and toning throughout. The map of Durham with notable uneven toning across the map with a considerably lighter strip down the centre.The aquatints with notable losses to the frames and some creasing to the paper. The print of The Right Honourable Sir John Willes has been cut to within the plate mark.
Britains Deetail - An unusual unboxed collection of 18 Britains Deetail predominately German Infantry 'unfinished' figures. Some of the figures are missing parts, or remain unfinished - eg German Officer missing map decal, flamethrower with unpainted tanks and the like. The figures generally appear to be in Good but unfinished condition with some minor storage related wear, Figures came from a collection belonging to the Vendors mother who was a former employee at the Britains factory in London till closure. (This does not constitute a guarantee) (K)
TWO BOXES OF VINTAGE TOYS AND GAMES, to include a French Charton foosball table football game, a pull-a-long wooden trolley containing wooden building blocks, Waddington's Jig-Map, Keyword, a quantity of jigsaws, unused tennis balls, Badminton tennis racquets, a size 2 cotton Judo suit, etc. (s.d) (2 boxes + loose)
° ° Rousselet, Louis - India and its Native Princes: travels in Central India and in the Provinces of Bombay and Bengal. Carefully revised and edited by Lieut. -Col. Buckle. 5 maps (outline colour) and a text map, num. wood engraved plates and text illus., ex. library binding of maroon half morocco and cloth, gilt top and marbled e/ps., roy.4to. 1878
° ° Atlas of India ... With an Introduction by Sir W.W. Hunter. d-page coloured index map and 15 d-page coloured others; publisher's gilt, colour and blind decorated cloth, patterned e/ps., 4to. W & A.K. Johnstone, 1894Sl. wear head of spine, front inner hinge alt. weak, o/w good. (5), 3, 20pp. and advert. leaf. with a detailed index (printed in 6 cols) on the final 19pp. There are 16 maps in the pp. of index is printed in 6 columns
° ° Tod, Lt. Col. James - Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India. 2nd edition, 2 vols. folded and coloured map, a folded facsimile and 4 folded tables; publisher's gilt pictorial and blind ruled cloth, 4to. Madras: Higginbotham and Co., 1873Ex Univ. London Lib. (with w/drawn stamps on pastedown labels, and sm. circular stamp title verso and end), just sl. worn on spines, back inner hinge weak (vol.2), some lib. label traces on e/ps. (1), xxix, 724 and (1), xxxi, 719pp.; ownership - 'Buckingham and Chandos' on half titles; this edtn. incl. a map and memoir of author. Apologies for overlooking the map's tear
° ° Wheeler, J. Talboys - The History of the Imperial Assemblage at Delhi, held on the 1st January, 1877, to celebrate the assumption of the title of Empress of India by Her Majesty the Queen. Including historical sketches of India and her princes past and present. D-page chromolithograph of the Imperial Assemblage, 2 mounted photo portraits of the Queen Empress & Lord Lytton (the Viceroy), 11 photo portraits of native princes, 13 other mounted photo plates, a d-page coloured map with 3 other maps & plans, & 2 other plates; text printed with red ruled borders; publisher's gilt pictorial and decorated cloth, 4to. 1877Some upper board discolouration, spine wear at head/tail, inner hinges cracked, soiling on e/ps. and plt. guards (also some offset), but text and plts. generally clean, creasing on some plt. fore-edge borders (on some captions but clear of plt. surfaces), front free e/p. loose. xix, 242pp. (incl. half title) and pp. (243)-48 advert for the author's 4 vol. History of India; near contemp. presentation label on front pastedown (shooting prize to Pte. Butters, 24th Mddx. Rifle Volunteers). Other plts. incl. 12 of Delhi buildings etc. (mounted photos.), 2 maps (1d-page coloured) and 2 plates (I pictorial).illus shoulkd read portraits of Queen Victoria and the Viceroy, 11 ports native princes, 13 others (buildings, etc.), d-page map and 3 other maps and plans, d-page Assemblage plate and two others, i.e. 33 plates, as listed; 1 plate loose
° ° Russell, William Howard - The Prince Of Wales' Tour: a diary in India; with some account of the visits ... to the courts of the Greece, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal. mounted photo. portrait frontis., num. engraved plates and text illus., publisher's gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down (ex library copy), roy. 8vo. 1877; Buck, Edward J. - Simla Past and Present. folded map, 51 photo. and other plates; publisher's gilt lettered pictorial cloth, patterned e/ps. Calcutta 1904; Atkinson, Capt, George Francklin - 'Curry and Rice' ... or, the Ingredients of Social Life at 'Our Station' in India. pictorial lithographed and printed titles and 38 (ex 39) other tinted litho. plates; rebound half calf and cloth, panelled spine and gilt top, 4to. ( ); together with 5 other titles on the Subcontinent (9)
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