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Accum.Treatise on the Art of Making Wine second edition half-title engraved title-vignette of wine press 24pp. advertisements at end light spotting original boards uncut spine worn upper board lacking paper covering 1823 § Child (Samuel) Every Man his Own Brewer a small treatise explaining the art and mystery of brewing porter ale twopenny and table-beer... second edition 19pp. signed by author on verso of title modern calf-backed marbled boards for the Author [c.1790]; and 2 others on brewing 8vo(4)

Beer (Georg Joseph) Art of Preserving the Sight fifth edition engraved frontispiece original paper backed boards worn 1822 § Wesselii (Johannis) Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica de Fluxu Muliebri Menstruo morbisque inde Oriundis 28pp. rebound in modern antique style polished calf Leiden 1728 § Medical Journals collection of approx. 32 medical journals including The Lancet British Medical Journal American Journal of Medical Science etc. mostly disbound very worn c.1890-1910; and 3 others v.s.(37)

An Art Deco gentleman`s watch, stainless steel rectangular shaped, painted dial with Arabic numerals and second subsiduary dial, together with two gold plated ladies watches, two modern watches, a desk magnifying fob and a Rolex style watch bracelet

Huish (Robert) George the Third engraved portrait frontispiece additional pictorial title plates and portraits some offsetting and spotting contemporary diced calf rebacked corners worn 1821 § Authentic Records of the Court of England for the Last Seventy Years hand-coloured engraved frontispiece offsetting occasional spotting and finger-soiling modern buckram 1832 § Jacquemart (Albert) History of the Cermaic Art second edition plates and illustrations original pictorial cloth gilt spine ends and corners frayed 1877 § Reclus (Éliseé) The Ocean Atmosphere and Life 2 vol. chromolithographed plates illustrations vol.1 ocean/water-stained later calf-backed marbled boards spines faded 1873; and a small quantity of others miscellaneous v.s.

Tegetmeier (W.B.). The Poultry Book: Comprising the Breeding and Management of Profitable and Ornamental Poultry... New ed., Routledge, 1873, addn. col. title, frontis., and twenty-eight plts. by Harrison Weir, printed in cols. by Leighton Brothers, contemp. qtr. straight grained morocco, spine strip lacking, rubbed, large 8vo, together with Miles (W. J.), Modern Practical Farriery, a Complete System of the Veterinary Art..., n.d., c. 1870’s, num. col. and b&w illusts., contemp. half morocco gilt, some wear to upper cover, rubbed, folio (2)

Polke (Sigmar). The Three Lies of Painting, 1998, num. illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Hesse (Eva), A Retrospective. Exhibition and Catalogue Organised by Helen A. Cooper, Yale University Press, 1993, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, plus other modern art, photography, all VG (approx. 50)

A small quantity of various modern glass items including decanters and a small Kosta art glass bowl.

A collection of miniature modern Cloisonne items together with four Art Glass wine coasters and other items.

A modern Art Pottery terracotta bowl with incised fish decoration.

A box containing various small modern Art Glass vases.

Two cased Caithness paperweights-"Morning Dew" and "Intruder", two modern crystal sculptural paperweights of an otter and pair of dolphins, two frosted glass bird figures, a green art glass bowl, etc.

Two Georgian glass rummers, a Skruf Swedish crystal vase with abstract decoration, a blue and amber tinted art glass bowl, and five modern glass paperweights

EDWARD BAIRD (SCOTTISH 1904-1949) PORTRAIT OF A BOY (IVOR PIRIE) Pastel 25cm x 21cm (10in x 8.25in) Exhibited: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art , Edinburgh, Edward Baird, 1992

Louis Wain, four prints, Modern Art I am, `Tis Always Thus, cat as a judge and cats at the barbers, largest 22 x 17cm.

Art Deco style pottery part teaset "Modern Whieldon, Mentone", cream ground with blue and silver stylised floral decoration together with Royal Cauldon "Clair de Lune" pattern teapot of conical shape

Morris (William).- Crane (Walter) Hammersmith Branch membership card 4pp. with red-printed design by Walter Crane on first p. c.1880 § Morris (William) The God of the Poor original wrappers splitting at spine otherwise very good the Office of “Justice” 1868 § Marx (Karl) Wage-Labour and Capital translated by Joynes original wrappers some marking and chipping preserved in modern buckram chemise 1885 § Morris (William) Monopoly or How Labour is Robbed ink name on title preserved in modern buckram chemise Hammersmith Socialist Society 1893 § Municipal School of Art (The). Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Work of William Morris plates tissue-guards original printed wrappers worn at edges and corners with slight browning Manchester 1908 § William Morris Society. The Work of William Morris one of 2000 copies this inscribed to William Morris Society co-founder and Honorary Treasurer Freeman Bass illustrations original cloth-backed boards [1965]; and a small quantity of others relating to William Morris including auction catalogues pamphlets related 20th century correspondence and various periodical publications by the William Morris Society v.s.(sm.qty)

Tenniel/Lewis Carrol Wasp in Wig 3 pp. on a single sheet folded to make 4 pp. comprising 140 words with an original rough ink sketch at head of first page 8vo Portsdown Road [London] June 1 1870 the long-lost “Wasp in a Wig” letter in which Sir John Tenniel discusses revision of an illustration for Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There and proposes the omission of the Wasp episode from the book. The letter was reproduced in facsimile in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll [London 1898; New York 1899] by Dodgson`s nephew Stuart Dodgson Collingwood but the location of the original document has been a mystery for more than a century. The contents of the episode itself were unknown until Dodgson`s own galley proofs appeared at auction in 1974. In 1977 a scholarly edition of the narrative was published containing a copy of the facsimile originally provided by Collingwood. Despite the fact that Dodgson and Tenniel are immortally linked in literary history it is well known that the relationship between author & artist was a prickly and difficult one. Tenniel found the Rev. Dodgson to be pedantic and overbearing in his direction of the project of illustrating Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and tried to evade the chore of illustrating its sequel. After the publication of Through the Looking Glass. Tenniel turned down later proposals from Dodgson claiming that he had entirely abandoned book illustration. Tenniel himself was not always easy-going: it was at his insistence that the first printing of Alice. was suppressed because the artist felt that the illustrations had been too faintly printed and he was apparently quite hostile to the wasp passage; Collingwood quotes Tenniel as declaring that “a Wasp in a Wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art a phrase that does not appear in this letter. Both parts of this brief letter are important. Tenniel heads the letter with a rough but clear sketch of the nightmarish railway-carriage episode from Chapter Three: Alice is depicted seated across from a billy goat and a man dressed in white paper, while a station guard peers at her with opera glasses through the carriage window. In his first paragraph Tenniel suggests that when the train leaps the brook at the end of this passage, it would be preferable for the jarred Alice to seize the goat`s whiskers than the hair of an old woman whom Dodgson had evidently originally written into the scene. Tenniel`s proposal was clearly successful, as there is no old lady in the published text or illustration. Then Tenniel goes on to confront his waspish adversary: Don`t think me brutal but I am bound to say that the `wasp` chapter does not interest me in the least & [that (crossed out)] I can`t see my way to a picture. If you want to shorten the book. I can`t help thinking--with all submission--that there is your opportunity.” Again Tenniel got his way and the peevish wasp disappeared for more than a century. It seems that little or none of the working correspondence between Dodgson & Tenniel has survived so this note furnishes a unique glimpse of the process of developing and perfecting the Alice books. A fair quantity of Tenniel`s sketches have been preserved but this may well be the only spontaneous drawing of its type. The text of the letter and the drawing have been available since 1898 thanks to Collingwood; but this small sheet of paper is the irreplaceable original creased and lightly soiled with a couple of neat docketing numbers but overall very good housed in modern cloth drop-back box. ***The legendary Long-Lost Wasp in a Wig letter [Collingwood Life and Letters pp.146-148.; Gardner editor The Wasp in a Wig passim.; Lewis Carroll Handbook” pp. 63-64 232; Schiller Census [of] Sir John Tenniel`s original drawings to [the Alice books] contained in Alice`s Adventure in Wonderland. An 1865 printing. pp. 54-106 (but not mentioning this sketch)].

Art Reference A collection of approximately 100 volumes of art and antiques reference, all modern, mixture of 4to and 8vo, to include Hayward Gallery Art and power, Europe under the dictators 1930-45. London, 1995. 4to, softcovers, in original selophane wrapper; Kaplan, Wendy Charles Rennie Mackintosh. London, 1996. 4to, original soft covers; Judge, Mary A. Winslow Homer. Switzerland, 1986. 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper; Tinterow, Gary Portraits by Ingres, image of an epoch. New York, 1999. 4to, original soft covers; Lee, Jane Derain. Oxford, 1990. 4to, original cloth, dustwrapper; Marini, Marino Milan, 1989. 4to, original soft covers; and a quantity of other volumes including a collection of catalogues from Modern Art Oxford (qty)

Art Reference A collection of circa 60 volumes of art and architectural reference, all modern, mixture of 4to and 8vo (qty)

A modern art sculpture of abstract face on wood plinth signed 56cm

[GLASSE, Hannah.] The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy… by a Lady… a new edition. London: 1770. 8vo (194 x 115mm.) Numerous manuscript additional recipes in a near contemporary hand, verso of title and bound at rear. (Some spotting and browning.) Modern half-calf (endpapers replaced).

Four modern Art Deco style glass scent bottles.

TWO BERLIN ART DECO WHITE PORCELAIN FLARED VASES, 5 1/2" and 7 1/4" high and a modern Meissen plate, decorated fruit, 11" diameter (3).

A 1970`s Poole "Delphis" pottery dish with green and orange foliate decoration on a yellow ground, a Royal Doulton salt glazed stoneware tobacco jar with verse "The value of tobacco is best understood........", a modern art pottery fish dish, a Claverdon pottery bowl and a novelty basket of flowers salt and pepper cruet

A 1970`s Poole "Delphis" pottery dish, a modern Crown Devon Art Deco style twin handled vase, a Maling "Azalea" pattern jug, a Crown Devon "Rouge Royale" type vase with dragon decoration, a Royal Doulton flambé figure of a cat, and a small Imari porcelain dish

A collection of glassware to include a set of eight cut glass wines, a cut glass decanter, cut glass fruit bowl, two modern millefiore paperweights, an art glass dish with blue and lilac swirled decoration, signed "Telos `92", etc.

Neumann Construire et de Gouverner les Serres half-title 21 plates on 20 sheets Paris 1844 bound with A*** Pratique de l`Art de Chauffer half-title 21 plates on 19 sheets Paris 1884 some browning and foxing modern dark green calf over old marbled boards boards rubbed oblong 8vo ***On greenhouses.

* Lockheed P-38 “Lightning”. An important collection of photographs of this iconic WWII aircraft, many from private archives of air and ground crews, some superb air-to-air aicraft portraits, nose-art, construction and assembly details, fighter and photo-reconnaissance versions, cockpit details, operational, repair and maintenance images, some dramatic photographs, a few in colour, some accidents, post war air racing, N67864 rounding a pylon and others of similar interest, approx. 80 images, contained in a modern ring binder (approx. 80)

* Marsh (Alan). A collection of eight original art work pictures, late 20th c., pen & ink drawings (few signed), including “The Chinese Rolls-Royce” and “The Caddie”, together with related paperwork and photocopies of orig. artwork, contained in modern plastic ring binder (a folder)

Five boxes of modern books on antiques, art, architecture etc.

Hoog (Michel). Paul Gauguin. Life and Work, Thames & Hudson, 1987, together with Tomlinson (Janis), Francisco Goya y Lucientes, 1746-1828, pub. Phaidon, 1994, and Gage (John), Colour and Culture. Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction, Thames & Hudson, 1993, num. col. and b & w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, and other miscellaneous art reference, including modern art, mostly G/VG (6 shelves)

A Whieldon modern Art Deco style Dinner Service, all decorated in the manner of Clarice Cliff with abstract, floral and geometric designs, and comprises a two-handled covered Soup Tureen, a pair of similar Vegetable Tureens, four graduated oval Platters, twenty-six circular Plates in sizes and twenty-four circular Bowls in sizes

ART DECO, SUBJECT. REPORTS ON THE PRESENT POSITION AND TENDENCIES OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS AS INDICATED AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF MODERN DECORATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS PARIS 1925 PLATES, CLOTH [LONDON:] DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE [1925]

"A modern Soga, Japan Loetz-style glass vase of Art Nouveau form, h. 16 cm"

"A modern Moorcroft limited edition vase of elongated ovoid form, decorated with irises in the Art Nouveau manner, 43/50, h. 21 cm"

"A modern Moorcroft `Lamia` jug of slender form with Art Nouveau style handle, h. 24 cm, factory second, with presentation box"

A modern Masons `Art Nouveau` jug transfer printed with stylized whiplash design

SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY R.A. (1755-1839) AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS PRA - Portrait of Mrs Mary Robinson, half length, wearing a black dress and hat, a landscape beyond, inscribed `Mrs Mary Robinson`, oils on canvas in carved giltwood frame, 29" x 24". (see illustration). This painting was one of a number of copies painted by Beechey after Reynolds which according to James Northcote so impressed Reynolds that when he saw them side by side he declared he had great difficulty in recognising his own works. The original hangs at Waddesdon Manor. Provenance: Alaric Watts; Charles Russell sold by his Executors, Sotheby`s, 30 November 1960 Lot 93 bt G.V.R. Lillie for 120 guineas; Sotheby`s 24 November 1999, Lot 712; Literature: A. Watts, The Cabinet of Modern Art, pages 102-103; W. Roberts, Sir William Beechey R.A., 1907, pages. 70-71.

A pair of modern Spanish Art Deco style three branch ceiling light fittings with alabaster shades.

Wilenski (R.H.) MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS, colour and black-and-white plates, lacks ffe, publisher`s blue cloth (spine sunned, marks), large 8vo, London: Faber, 1959. With a quantity of art books.

A modern Art Deco style diamond and 9ct white gold bracelet

Three items of modern art glass

An art pottery twin handled vase covered in a black lustre glaze, a similar planter, a pair of small modern cast iron garden urns and two flower holder inserts

A large modern Tiffany style pendant light shade with floral decoration in the Art Nouveau manner

WILLIAM JOHNSTONE (SCOTTISH, 1897-1981) A FOETID LIFE Bas-relief, plaster on plasterboard in perspex box 94cm x 124.5cm (37in x 49in) Following a successful career as a teacher in London, in 1960 Johnstone retired to the Scottish borders, where he continued to paint. In the 1970s he began making thick plaster reliefs, such as this piece. These grew from an interest in the properties of plaster, which he had previously experimented with in paintings during the 1920s, its rough texture forming a contrast to a smooth, painted surface. Using a trowel to set the plaster in place, he had only a short amount of time to work with the plaster before it set, letting chance play a role on the formation of each work. He explained, ‘I knew that in myself I must produce a condition, relaxed and free from thought or deliberation; that which would be produced through my hands would then be from my inner self and completely unconscious.’ A similar example to the current painting is held in the permenant collection of National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh - `Embryonic`, 1972 - 1973.

Masters of Modern Art book by Frank Brangwyn RA, Masters of Etching, Frank Brangwyn & Brangwyn etching Santa Maria from Street (3)

John Bowes R.Cam.A. (1899-1974), Still life with bottle, signed, oil on canvas, 42.5 x 52.5cm.; 16.75 x 20.75in. * Educated at Manchester Grammar School and attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in World War I. Was professional singer, while also painting, for 20 years until 1943, then when became deaf took up painting full-time. Was made a member of the RCamA in 1965, also joining Manchester and Liverpool Academies, Manchester Society of Modern Painters and Lancashire Group of Artists. Had solo shows starting with 1946 at Salford Art Gallery, including retrospective at Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, 1971. Public galleries in Derby, Liverpool, Salford, Southport and Newcastle upon Tyne hold his work.

A small modern ovoid Moorcroft vase decorated in the Art Nouveau manner, signed, height 4" This lot is available for Online Bidding

WWI trench-art brass shell case lidded container with bluebird design to lid and side engraved `Flandres 1917-18`; brass vesta case; brass matchbox holder with Canada Overseas` emblem; an inlaid wooden box `Jamaica 1944`; 3 modern Zippo lighters; marbled

DAME LAURA KNIGHT FOR CLARICE CLIFF, GROUP OF EIGHT `CIRCUS` DINNER PLATES, DESIGNED 1934. printed and painted in gilt and coloured enamels with clowns, acrobats and performing animals, printed factory marks (8), Note: In 1934, Harrods organised an exhibition called `Modern Art for the Table`, featuring ceramics and glass designed by leading artists of the day, including Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Dame Laura Knight. Their creations, which consisted of hand-painted designs for pottery, and cut and engraved patterns on glass, were produced by leading tableware manufacturers such Clarice Cliff (A J Wilkinson`s Ltd, and their subsidiary Newport Pottery) and Stuart Crystal. A year later the merits of this collaboration were displayed once again, this time in a high-profile exhibition at the Royal Academy, called British Art in Industry and the following seven lots were made for this venture.

Three items of modern art glass

Reaumur (Rene-Antoine Ferchault de). The Art of Hatching and Bringing up Domestick Fowls of all Kinds, at any Time of the Year. Either by Means of the Heat of Hot-Beds, or that of Common Fire, 1st English ed., 1750, half-title, fifteen folding eng. plts., letterpress engs., head and tail-pieces and initial letters, occn. minor foxing, A2-A4 with faint water-stain, upper hinge repaired, contemp. calf, rubbed, sometime rebacked, modern contrasting morocco spine labels, 8vo. (1)

La Chambre (Marin Cureau de). The Art How to Know Men, Rendered into English by John Davies of Kidwelly, 1st ed., 1665, eng. frontis. (A1v), closed tear repair to title verso, some spotting or soiling throughout, later pencil marginalia including note to (later) front endpapers, a.e.g., modern brown cloth, orig. gilt-dec. calf spine relaid with sl. loss to head and foot, rubbed, 8vo. Wing L128. (1)

Art Exhibition Catalogues. A collection of 500+ various modern and contemporary art exhibition catalogues, c. 1960 onwards, British and European interest, mostly orig. printed wrappers, various sizes, generally VG (8 cartons)

Hamilton (Peter). Robert Doisneau. A Photographer’s Life, 1st ed., 1995, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Nickel (Douglas R.), Carleton Watkins. The Art of Perception, with an Introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000, num. sepia illusts. from photos, some folding, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, plus Haworth-Booth (Mark), The Art of Lee Miller, V & A Publications, 2007, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 4to, and others related, mostly G/VG (5 cartons)

Magazine of Art" 1891 & book on "International Modern Glass" by Geoffrey Beard "

An Art Deco pendant set with seed pearls and 2 peridot droppers, stamped 9 ct, on a modern 9 ct gold chain, together with a pair of peridot and seed pearl set pendant ear-rings.

A modern Burleigh ware Art Deco style jug with galleon and fish decoration, a Cottage ware plate, a plated metal mounted dressing table set, a Western Germany pottery vase, etc

AFTER MUCHA "Study of girls in the Art Nouveau style", set of four modern prints

2 Doulton stoneware ashtrays, 4" diameter, a C19th Jackfield art nouveau hand painted teapot, 5 1/2" high, a Dutch Aarnhem art nouveau hand painted ewer, 6" high, a modern Worcester blue and white vase, 6" high, a Kaiser white glazed porcelain vase, 5" high etc.