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Lot 92
WW2 British Paperwork: Rare ACI's from 21st February 1940 "Armoured fighting Vehicles British & Foreign 21st February 1940" with recognition drawings of tanks and armoured cars etc: New War Map of the Western Front: How to Keep Well in Wartime: Laughs with the RAF by Giles: Daily Express War Map of Europe: War Ilustrated No115 Dec 20th 1941: Post war magazine Our Finest Years. (7)
Lot 2
‡ An Orphic poem, inscription in iambic trimeters by one Agestratos, dedicating his traveller's staff to Apollo, most probably in Doric Greek, reverse-impressed into gold foil[probably southern Greece, or just perhaps adjacent Crete, Rhodes or a few cities on the coast of Asia Minor, c. fourth century AD.] Thin gold lamella with rounded corners, with 6 lines of Greek capitals impressed into reverse, some in deliberately archaising forms, margins around all sides indicating the whole text is preserved, tiny double-lines present recording its production through an impressed or 'printed' method (see Brekle), with letters to one side more marked than other from being impressed when the original blank foil was on a slightly uneven surface, apparently never rolled up or folded (but probably affixed to a wooden staff, which then decomposed), some cracks and splits to edges, one large crack from top and bottom (but not meeting in middle and in stable condition), overall fine condition, 28 by 90 by 1mm. Provenance: 1. Most probably produced for the Agestratos addressed by the inscription, for attachment to his own traveller's staff. He may have been a wandering poet himself, and the use of gold for its production suggests his grand status. The name is commonly attested throughout the Greek speaking region.2. Miss Edith Horsley of London, amateur Cuneiform specialist and sometime volunteer member of the British Museum's department of the Middle East who sensationally discovered a missing piece of the earliest Babylonian World Map among the museum's fragment collection in 1995. The present item acquired by her in 1965 alongside other antiquities, presumably by descent (many of these sold at several stages by Pars Antiques). This item almost certainly studied while in her collection by the late Dominic Montserrat.3. Thence to Pars Antiques, London, in 2000, and one year later to the present owner.4. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 5236. Text:Some examples of script are so astonishingly rare that they appear to be unique and without comparable items for context, and these wait the recognition of some crucial piece of evidence by a scholar before we can securely place and date them. This gold foil is just such an item. Immediately before 2000, Dominic Montserrat identified it as a sixth-century BC. ephesia grammata (a mass produced form of popular magic amulet) invoking the god Phoebus Apollo. However, only in the last year or so has its inscription been recognised by G. Rocca and D.G. Muscianisi as a dedication of a traveller's staff to Apollo by one Agestratos, in a form closely paralleled by another inscription by one Leontianos in a rock-cut sanctuary to Apollo in Pisidia (modern Karabavli). The other inscription was thankfully recorded in 1888 by Sitlington Sterret (1851-1914), as it was damaged at some later point and its entire first half is now unreadable. Other than textual, there is no direct relationship between the two inscriptions, and graphical variations in the present example indicate that it had a lost record on papyrus as its exemplar. The inscription reads in translation: "To you, O Phoebus Apollo, who are the master of this road, who always delight your heart with wayfarers' libations, I, Agestratos, a musical ship [= soul], dedicate my staff. So you, O blessed one, receive joyfully the prop of my hand and the support of my knees, my traveller's staff. This offering, which supports (my) hand through the paths, now free, will take a breath from its previous labours beside you, O Phoebus" (following Rocca and Muscianisi). One aspect that the most recent study does not discuss is the fact that this is not an inscription in the purest sense, but was impressed or 'printed' from a reverse-mould into the soft surface of the gold lamella (see Brekle, 2010). This production process is known elsewhere in early Greek and Byzantine material from protective amulets, such as that with a third-century inscription in Greek to ward off leprosy now in the Getty Museum (their 80.AM.53), and earlier examples with generic Orphic or Bacchic inscriptions have been found in Greek tombs (the so-called Totenpässe). However, the method of production with the present artefact would appear to be at odds with the quality of the material here and the specific nature of its inscription. Moulds of any type are usually made to mass-produce goods, and comparison with inscriptions on contemporary Greek coins might suggest that the craftsmen who produced this went as far as producing a bronze die as if they were minting coins. However, the fact that the dedicatee is named here would render the resulting stamped lamella useless to anyone other than Agestratos himself (or a namesake). Much remains to be understood here, but perhaps the quality of the script produced by this method or a tradition of producing amuletic lamella in this format fixed the method of production here. Published: H.E. Brekle, Analyse der Herstellungstechnik der Inschrift auf einem Goldamulett in der Schoyen Collection (London/Oslo), Technischer Bericht, 2010 (online e-publication), there reproducing D. Monserrat's earlier report.G. Rocca, 'Una lamina aurea dalla collezione Schøyen (MS 5236), Alessandria 8 (2015), pp. 125-136.G. Rocca and D.G. Muscianisi, 'La lamina aurea Schøyen MS 5236', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 217 (2021), pp. 1-16.
Lot 57
The archive of the rectory of Llanegryn, Merionethshire, Wales, five manuscript documents in English on parchment[west Wales (Merionethshire) or England, dated 1634, 1654, 1655, 1667 and 1753] Five single-sheet documents: (i) Letters Patent of Theophilus, earl of Suffolk, for the release of Francis and Margaret Herbert, concerning the rectory at Llanegryn, on 57 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, with important words in more formal display script, one large penwork initial, an oval red wax seal attached (crowned coat-of-arms of earl of Suffolk), 490 by 720mm., dated 4 November 1634; (ii) judgement of the Court of Sessions held at Dolgellau, Merionethshire, before William Littleton and Edward Bulstrode, being a final concord between Sir Henry Herbert and Richard Owen and others, concerning the rectory at Llanegryn, on 30 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, one large penwork initial, with a round black wax seal attached (the Seal of the Commonwealth, with the map of England and Ireland on reverse, and the Parliament on obverse; diameter 100mm.), seal tag partly torn through due to weight of seal, 360 by 550mm., dated Dolgellau, 9 September 1654; (iii) exemplification of a fine by Richard Herbert of the rectory of Llanegryn, on 21 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, one line in formal display script, with a printed upper border of the royal arms of Charles II enclosed by red lines, remains of a round black wax seal (the great seal of the Charles II with the royal arms; original diameter c. 100mm.), 450 by 660mm., dated Bala, Merionethshire, 15 September 1667; (iv) charter of Thomas Lloyd of Fernhill, Shropshire, acknowledging a debt to Thomas Perryn of "Dollerin" in Montgomeryshire, on 23 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, with part of red wax seal, 200 by 210mm., dated Fernhill, Shropshire, April 1655; (v) indenture between Henry Arthur Herbert, earl of Powis and Viscount Ludlow, and Richard Herbert of Oakly Park (near Ludlow), for sale of the rectory of Llanegryn, on 51 long lines in a late English secretarial hand, with printed royal arms of George II and stamped seals of earl of Powys (black wax), and others (all red wax), 640 by 75mm., dated 11 August 1753; some folds, spots and stains, all in an eighteenth- or nineteenth-century wooden box lined with marbled paper, and covered with leather recovered from an earlier stamped book binding (thus cuts and scuffs visible where leather once covered the spine), this leather covering worn and damaged and coming loose at extremities, small printed number '30' on paper label pasted to front of box Provenance:1. Francis and Margaret Herbert, and their descendants, the rectory of Llanegryn, Merionethshire, Wales. Francis Herbert was the son of Matthew Herbert, MP. and sheriff of Merionethshire (d. 1611), who himself held extensive estates in Cyfeiliog and Machynlleth in Montgomeryshire, and rights and fishing interests in the Dovey in Merioneth, as well as the tithes of Llanegryn rectory.2. Henry Arthur Herbert (c. 1700-1772) of Dolgellau and Oakly Park, earl of Powis and son of Francis Herbert, MP. for Ludlow from 1727, then Lord Herbert of Cherbury from 1743, and Baron Powis and Viscount Ludlow from 1748.3. These charters are then likely to have remained in the archive of Oakly Park, in Bromfield, near Ludlow, Shropshire, after the sale of the estate by Henry Arthur Herbert to Robert Clive (1725-1774; 'Clive of India'), whose son in turn married Henry Arthur Herbert's daughter. 4. E.H. Dring (1863-1928), the first managing director of Quaritch, passing in turn to his son E.M. Dring (1906-1990), himself manager of Quaritch from 1960: a note in the hand of E.H. Dring on a brown foolscap envelope once used to store the documents, reading, "Deeds relating to the Rectory of Llanegryn, formerly in the possession of the Herbert Family, and release of same to Mr Som. Davis in 1753. The original lease is framed in Drawing Room". Acquired by E.H. Dring in or immediately before 1918.5. Quaritch of London; this archive passing to them in 1983 along with the vast Dring fragment collection and other charters.6. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS. 1623/1-5, acquired from Quaritch in August 1992.
Lot 110
Belfast & Northern Ireland: M'Comb's - Guide to Belfast, The Giants Causeway, and the Adjoining Districts of the Counties of Antrim and Down, sm. 8vo, B. (Wm. M'Comb) 1861, fold. map frontis, illus. & adverts, cloth and gilt lettering; Dixon Hardy (P.) The Northern Tourist, 12mo D. (Wm. Curry) 1830, engd. t.p., & frontis, full mor. gilt lettered spine; Elizabeth (Charlotte) Derry, A Tale of the Revolution, 4to., L. (J. Nisbet & Co.) 1835, Fourth, hf. calf, marble boards; [Olley & Co. Ltd.] Book of the Fair 1894 - Belfast, sm. 8vo Belfast 1894, frontis, illus. and map loose in pouch, decor. cloth back boards, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
![The Scarce First Edition O'Brien (Flann) An Béal Bocht, 8vo Dublin (An Press Naisiúnta) n.d. [1941]. First E](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e4c89b0-9e21-45b6-97ed-ade100bf2b2d/c80f06bf-06d2-4a55-a9be-adef012abefb/468x382.jpg)
![[Maurice (Thomas)] Indian Antiquities: or Dissertations,... of Hindostan.... of Persia, Egypt, and Greece. 7 vols. 8vo L](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e4c89b0-9e21-45b6-97ed-ade100bf2b2d/615c5b3b-9ebb-468b-9d30-adef012c6f09/468x382.jpg)
Lot 135
[Maurice (Thomas)] Indian Antiquities: or Dissertations,... of Hindostan.... of Persia, Egypt, and Greece. 7 vols. 8vo Lond. (For the Author) 1794 - 1796. [1800] First Edn., Lists of subscribers, 5 end. fold. frontis, 1 fold. map, 23 engd. plts. (19 lg. fold.), text illus. cont. tree calf type binding, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. Good. Scarce. (7)
Lot 145
Burgoyne (Lt. Gen. John) The State of the Expedition from Canada, as laid before the House of Commons,.. 8vo Lond. (J. Almon) 1780. Second Edn., 6 engd. fold. maps / plans, one map with substantial loss, some with parts loose, (but complete) others with straight tears, all badly folded, 2 with overlays, all partially hd. cold., lacks front blanks, cont. full calf, mor. label. (1)
![Military: [Harcourt (Col.)] The Regimental Records of the First Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1644 - 1842, 8vo,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e4c89b0-9e21-45b6-97ed-ade100bf2b2d/b7fc91e1-ae5c-4222-ad33-adef012c9b9d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 183
Beaufort (Dan. Augustus) Memoir of a Map of Ireland, Illustrating The Topography of that Kingdom,... 4to Dub. (Wm. Slater & Wm. Allen) 1792. First Edn., fold. map hand cold. in outline, list of subscribers, errata slip tipped in., B.P. Nigel de la Poer, cont. tree calf, gilt spine, mor. label, upr. joint weak. Good Copy. (1)
Lot 187
MainWaring (Major Arthur) Crown and Company, The Historical Records of the 2nd Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Formerly the 1st Bombay European Regiment 1662 - 1911, thick 4to, L. (A.L. Humphreys) 1911, First Edn., hf. title, frontis, fold. map and plts., green cloth gilt lettering and motif, front cover coming loose, otherwise good copy. Scarce. (1)
Lot 205
Anon. The Chinese Traveller, Containing A Geographical Commercial and Political History of China, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. (E. & C. Dilly) 1775. Second Edn., engd. frontis port. of Confucius in Vol. I, & fold. map of China as frontis in Vol. II, & 3 engd. plts. (2 fold.) plus fold table, cont. full calf, tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels. Good Copy. (2)
Lot 212
Vallancey (Maj. Charles) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I - VI. Together 6 vols. roy 8vo D. (Thos. Ewing) 1770 - 1804. Engd. port. frontis Vol. I, & plts. illus. etc. as follows: Vol. I - Lg. fold. map & 1 fold. plt. Vol. II - Lg. fold. map & 8 plts (tables etc) Vol. III - V. lg. fold. map, fold. table & 2 plts. Vol. IV - Lg. fold. map & 24 fold. & other plts. Vol. V - 14 fold. plts. as per list. Vol. VI - Fold. map & 23 varied plts., wd. cut, sepia etc., some fold., also wd. cut illus. in text. All in uniform hf. green mor. raised bands. A very clean set. Ex. Rare. (6)
Lot 218
Venegas (Miguel) A Natural and Civil History of California, 2 vols. 8vo Lond. (For James Rivington & James Fletcher) 1759. First English Edn. Two engd. frontis (each with dble view), & lg. fold. engd. map, good, but with straight fold. tear, sm. pce cut from top of title in Vol. I, some worm dam. in lower rt. hd. corner in both vols., cont. calf, mor. label in Vol. I partly dam. Scarce. (2)
Lot 222
Barker (Wm. Burckhardt) Lares and Penates; or, Cilicia and its Governors, 8vo Lond. 1853. Ed. by Wm. F. Ainsowrth. Frontis, fold. map & text illus., cont. full tan mor., lacks label; de Lamartine (A.) Souvenirs,.. Pendant Un Voyage en Orient, Brussels 1836, hf. mor.; Adam (A.) Roman Antiquities, L. 1825, calf. (3)
![R.D.S.: [Tighe (Wm.)] Statistical Observations Relative to the County of Kilkenny, made in the years 1800 & 18](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e4c89b0-9e21-45b6-97ed-ade100bf2b2d/d568cd66-793a-49a7-884c-adef012f0f12/468x382.jpg)
Lot 227
R.D.S.: [Tighe (Wm.)] Statistical Observations Relative to the County of Kilkenny, made in the years 1800 & 1801. Thick 8vo Dublin 1802. First Edn., Lg. hd. cold. fold. map, & 10 plts. (some fold. sepia), fold. tables, & text illus. 4 leaves in fine fac-simile, recent hf. calf, raised bands, gilt decor. & mor. labels. A v. clean copy. Scarce. (1) * One of the earliest, and best of the R.D.S. Surveys.
Lot 278
Fine in Original Boards Sampson (Rev. Geo. Vaughan) A Memoir Explanatory of the Chart and Survey of the County of London Derry in Ireland, Lg. 4to Lond. 1814. First Edn., dble page litho frontis, list of subs., fold. map & 6 plts. complete, uncut, orig. boards, in a recent box, hf. cloth & marble boards, paper label. V. good copy. (1)
Lot 288
With Attractive Coloured Plate Rutter (John) Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey, folio Shaftesbury & Lond. (By the Author & Chas. Knight & Co.) 1823. First Edition, Hf. title, hd. cold. frontis & add. hd. cold. title, engd. plan, lg. fold. map, hand cold. in outline, & 11 full page engd. plts. (1 hd. cold.), plus engd. text illus. thro-out, lists of subscribers, t.e.g., cont. hf. crimson mor., spine profusely gilt in panels. V. clean copy. (1)
Lot 292
Aringhi (Pauli) Roma Subterranea Novissima, 2 vols. lg. folio Rome (Typis Vitalis Mascardi) 1651. Hf. titles, red & bl. titles with engraved vignettes, and two add engraved historical titles, lg. engd. fold. map, 2 fold. plans of cemeteries, fine full page engd. plts. (some fold.); with numerous wd. cut illus. and plans in text, wd. cut heads, tails & initials thro-out, damp stain in lower rt. hand corners thro.-out, cont. full calf, professionally repaired and rebacked, with orig. tooled gilt spine laid down. Generally a very good copy. * This work expands on Antonio Bosio's 'Roma Sotteranea,' which was unfinished at the time of his death in 1629. Bosio was the first person to explore and record the catacombs.
Lot 34
Inscribed Copy from the Author Dubourdieu (Rev. John) Statistical Survey of the County of Antrim, 2 vols., D. (Graisberry & Campbell) 1812, hand coloured folding map frontis, 5 fold. charts, map, large folding plt. and 1 other (Vol. 1) frontis, 3 fold. plts. & 3 plts. (Vol. 2), contemp. hf. calf, marble boards. Good Copy. (2)
Lot 539
The Carton Copy Atlas: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (Andrew) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777, Sm. folio L. & D. 1778. First Edn., lg. fold. Map of Ireland, engd. title & dedit., & 288 full page engd. maps, lg. list of subscribers, orig. full tree calf, tooled gilt borders, gilt spine, mor. label. Carton bookplates & gilt armorial. V. good. (1)
Lot 545
Wilde (W.R.) Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Tenerife, and along the Shores of the Mediterranean..., 8vo Dublin (Wm. Curry) 1844. Second Edn., engd. map frontis hd. cold. in outline, & 1 other sim. map, text illus. thro.-out, orig. crimson cloth, rebacked; also Wilde (W.R.) The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life, 8vo D. 1849. First Edn., port. frontis text illus., orig. cloth. Both Scarce. (2)
Lot 552
I.A.S.: O'Donovan (John)ed. The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country, 4to Dublin 1843. First Edn., engd. map frontis, table, orig. cloth, v. good; Freeman (A. Martin)ed. Annala Connacht - The Annals of Connacht (A.D. 1224-1544), roy 8vo D. (Institute for Advanced Studies) 1944., 2 fold. frontis, cloth. (2)
Lot 558
Inscribed Presentation Copy Foster (Thos. Campbell) Letters on the Condition of The People of Ireland, 8vo thick Lond. 1847. Second Edn., lg. fold. map of Ireland, recent hf. green mor. gilt spine mor. labels. Valuable work on the Great Irish Famine. (1) * Pres. Cop, 'The Rt. Hon. Lord Chief Justice Campbell with the respectful Compliments of the Author.' Rare.
Lot 560
Irish Arch. & Celtic Society: Reeves (Wm.)ed. The Life of St. Columba, .. Written by Adamnan. 4to Dublin 1857. First Edn., engd. map frontis, L.S. on title, fold. tables, orig. cloth rebacked; Smith (John) The Life of St. Columba, The Apostle and Saint of the Ancient Scots and Picts., and Joint Patron of the Irish. 8vo Edin. 1798. First Edn., mor. backed boards. Scarce. (2)
Lot 568
I.A.C.S.: Reeves (Wm.)ed. The Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy; Written by Adamnan. 4to Dublin 1857. First Edn., engd. map frontis, & 1 other map, plus 5 plts. (cold.) fold tables, uncut, orig. cloth. V. good copy; also Adomnan's Life of Columba, ed. by Alan Orr Anderson, 8vo L. 1961, cloth & d.w. (2)
Lot 575
Hardiman (James) The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, Lg. 4to Dublin 1820. First Edn., engd. fold. frontis, v. large fold. map of Galway (some straight tears), lg. fold. plan, & 8 plts. & 3 vignette illus., complete, uncut, now in recent mor. backed boards. Clean Copy. (1)
Lot 68
With Fine Hand Coloured Plates Carr (Sir John) The Stranger in Ireland; or, A Tour in The Southern and Western parts of that Country, in the Year 1805. 4to Lond. 1806. First Edn., Lg. fold. hd. cold. frontis & 16 hand cold. plts. (4 fold. & 1 map), cont. hf. green mor. gilt spine. V. good copy. The Colour printed Copy Very Scarce. (1)
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