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Lot 442
TWO 18TH CENTURY CHINESE MANDARIN OCTAGONAL PORCELAIN SERVING DISHES, both with similar decoration of three figures in a garden setting, the outer edges o the dishes with smaller panels of simple floral display, the large dish: 33cm high x 40.5cm wide, the smaller 25cm high x 32.5cm wide. (2)
Lot 173
EARLY 20TH CENTURY SHEET MUSIC including some rare pieces - "Are You Sincere?" written by Alfred Bryan & Albert Gumble 1908, "Just For Tonight" written by Frank O. French sung by Miss Gertie Gitana 1902 (a music hall star from Staffordshire), "Good Evening Caroline" written by Jack Norworth & Albert Von Tilzer 1908 together with a couple of Victorian Lithograph pieces including "Balmoral Waltz & Polka Dedicated by Permission to The Right Hon.ble Lady Stanley" (7)
Lot 687
POSTCARDS - TOPOGRAPHICAL & OTHER Approximately forty-six cards, including real photographic views of the Market Hall, Minchinhampton; The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow (two different); The Royal Hotel, Thurso; The Guildhall, Lavenham; Market Hall, Campden; P. & O. R.M.S. 'Strathmore'; Canadian Pacific Line 'Montrose'; H.M.S. Leander; H.M.S. Grimsby; H.M.S. Leda; H.M.S. Newcastle; H.M.S. Colombo; H.M.S. Fury; H.M.S. Vanoc; and H.M.S. Frobisher; with views of Fore Street, Cullompton (by Haley, Cullompton); High Street, Chard (publ. by White, Chard); Free Library, Taunton; Old Tudor House, Colchester; Ireland's Mansion, Shrewsbury; Fore Street, Tiverton; and others, (loose).
![[O GAUGE]. A HORNBY COLLECTION comprising a No.101, L.M.S. Tank Passenger Set, with a clockwork 0-4-0 tank locomotive, 2270,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1af1303e-e8a8-4294-a4f3-ab0400c6d65c/7a8c5031-62bb-42d9-a85e-ab190112ad20/468x382.jpg)
Lot 815
[O GAUGE]. A HORNBY COLLECTION comprising a No.101, L.M.S. Tank Passenger Set, with a clockwork 0-4-0 tank locomotive, 2270, maroon livery, three coaches, lined maroon livery, and track, boxed as one; five assorted wagons, each boxed; a Signal Cabin, Level Crossing, Single Arm Signal and a Buffer Stop, each boxed; a tunnel, unboxed; and a quantity of track, unboxed.
![[OO GAUGE]. A HORNBY NO.R3171, L.N.E.R. CLASS P2 2-8-2 TENDER LOCOMOTIVE 'COCK O' THE NORTH', 2001 lined green livery, boxed](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1af1303e-e8a8-4294-a4f3-ab0400c6d65c/77436ab2-8d50-4d08-bdb2-ab13016a4a35/468x382.jpg)
Lot 158
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910.Later Works of Mark Twain, in original cloth, 10 titles, 3 with dust-jackets: 1. Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven. NY: 1909. FIRST EDITION, a beautiful copy IN SCARCE DUST-JACKET. BAL 3511.2. The Curious Republic of Gondour. NY: 1919. FIRST EDITION IN SCARCE DUST-JACKET. BAL 3527.3. Mark Twain's Autobiography. NY: 1924. 2 volumes. FIRST EDITION, BAL STATE A, in dust-jacket and slipcase. BAL 3537.WITH: A Double Barreled Detective Story. 1902. FIRST EDITION, on laid paper. * Editorial Wild Oats. 1905. FIRST EDITION. * Extract from Adam's Diary. 1906 printing. * Eve's Diary. 1906 but later 'F-O.' * Horse's Tale. 1907. FIRST EDITION. * What is Man? London, 1910. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. * The Mysterious Stranger. 1916, but later 'B-Y,' Wyeth illustrations.
Lot 162
DANA, RICHARD HENRY. 1815-1882.Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. 12mo. Publisher's cloth, spine decorated and lettered in gilt 'THE FAMILY LIBRARY No 106' and titled [BAL's binding A], chipping to spine ends, some foxing.Provenance: Mrs. Rachel Myers (contemporary inscription).WITH: To Cuba and Back. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859. 8vo. 16 pp ads dated April 1859. Publisher's cloth.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with dotted 'i' in copyright line and unbroken running head at p 9, 'one of the most sought-after books in American Literature and very rare' (Hill pp 78-79). Dana's narrative of a voyage to Alta California in 1834-36 was one of the first to come from a deckhand rather than a ship's officer or passenger, and gives a clear picture of California in the years just prior to the influx of American settlers in the 1840s, 'our only trustworthy account before the 1849 gold rush' Grolier American 46. BAL 4434; Cowan I p 62; Graff 998; Howes D49; Johnson High Spots 26; Zamorano 80 26.
Lot 287
STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped in gilt, black topstain, all other edges untrimmed, publisher's silver dust jacket printed in blue with gold stars. Spine cloth slightly darkened, minor wear to edges of jacket, light rubbing.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, one of only 650 copies sold. The remainder of the approximately 1000 bound copies and 850 unbound copies were sold to Robert O. Ballou later in the same year and issued in an altered form. 'The most popular of Steinbeck's three early books. It points the way to most of his subsequent writing' (Moore, The Novels of John Steinbeck: A First Critical Study). A terrific, bright copy. Goldstone & Payne A2a.
Lot 288
STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.To a God Unknown. New York: Robert O. Ballou, (1933). 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine, pictorial endpapers, original just jacket, all designed by Mahlon Blaine, jacket lightly chipped at corners.FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 598 copies bound and sold. Steinbeck worked on the novel for five years, and 'may have learned more about crafting long fiction from it than anything else he worked on during that period.' A bright, clean copy of a scarce issue. Goldstone & Payne A3a.
Lot 29
RESTORATION DRAMA.5 titles: 1. CONGREVE, WILLIAM. 1670-1729. The Way of the World. A Comedy. London: Jacob Tonson, 1700. Small 4to (204 x 150 mm). Modern red morocco gilt. Spine sunned, half-title supplied from another copy, light browning. Wing C-5878; Grolier One Hundred Books famous in English Literature 75.2. LEE, NATHANIEL. 1653-1692. The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome. London: James Magnus and Richard Bentley, 1675. Small 4to (212 x 157 mm). 20th century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards by Riviere-Mounteney. Upper joint starting, minor browning. Wing L-883. Provenance: Harold Greenhill (bookplate); Robert S. Pirie (bookplate).3. ETHEREGE, GEORGE. 1636-1692. The Man of Mode, or, Sr Fopling Flutter. A Comedy. Small 4to (216 x 152 mm). London: Henry Herringman, 1676. 20th century green half morocco and marbled boards. Wing E-3374; Macdonald 110A. Provenance: Robert S. Pirie (bookplate). 4. SHADWELL, THOMAS. 1642-1692. The Lancashire Witches and Tegue o Divelly the Irish Priest. A Comedy Acted at the Duke's Theater. Small 4to (216 x 167 mm). London: John Starkey, 1682. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Very slight chipping to corners of title, some light browning. Robert S. Pirie (bookplate). Wing S-2853.5. ---. The Amorous Bigotte: with the Second Part of Teague O Divelly, a Comedy. Small 4to (214 x 162 mm). Modern red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Slight scuffing to upper cover, repaired tear at outer margin of title affecting a few letters. Wing S-2835.A fine collection of Restoration plays.
Lot 655
MEDICINE, ophthalmology - Hermann SCHEFFLER (1820-1903). The Theory of Ocular Defects and of Spectacles ... translated by Robert Brudenell Carter. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 8vo (198 x 124mm). Half title, diagrams (some light mainly marginal staining). Original pebbled cloth gilt. Provenance: John Tweed (old signature on front free endpaper); Wellcome Institute Library (stamp on verso of title and withdrawal stamp on front free endpaper). With 5 other books of related interest, namely Hans Virchow's Beiträge zur vergleichenden Anatomie des Auges (Berlin, 1882, cloth), Swan M. Burnett's A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Astigmatism (St. Louis, 1887, cloth), M. S. Mayou's The Changes Produced by Inflammation in the Conjunctiva (Hunterian Lectures, R.C.S., 1905) (London, 1905, cloth), Sydney Stephenson's Ophthalmia Neonatorum (London, 1907, cloth) and O. Haab's Atlas and Epitome of Ophthalmoscopy (Philadelphia, 1909, coloured lithographed plates, cloth). The lot sold not subject to return. (6)
Lot 686
BINDINGS - Walter SCOTT (1771-1832). The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1862. 12mo (130 x 85mm). Contemporary morocco-backed polished wooden boards with an illustration of Melrose Abbey on the upper board and beneath it printed, "Made from a Tree which grew within the Precincts of Melrose Abbey; and said, by tradition, to have been planted by one of the Monks. 'It was certainly co-existant with the Abbey at its most flourishing period.'" With 14 other books in wooden or otherwise unusual bindings including The Sermon on the Mount ([London], 1845, "illuminated" by Owen Jones throughout, contemporary morocco, rebacked), J. O. Westwood's Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible (London, 1846, coloured plates, decorated morocco), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn (London, 1867, striking green marbled and bevelled polished wooden boards), Aphorisms of the Wise & Good Illuminated by Samuel Stanesby (London, [c. 1868], highly elaborate cloth gilt), Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake (Edinburgh, 1874, 6 mounted albumen prints, binding "Made of Wood Grown on the Lands of Abbotsford" with views and portrait), Thomas Moore's Poetical Works (London, 1875, highly unusual foliate polished wooden boards incorporating portrait on the upper cover) and Alphonse Daudet's Tartarin of the Alps (London, [c.1900], in an Arts & Crafts-style blindstamped calf binding (a pencil note suggesting, "... binding in the style of Florence de Rheims - design possibly [by] Constance Carslake of the Guild of Women Binders, c.1900"). Sold as a collection of bindings, not subject to return. (15)
![[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-98)] i.e. "Lewis CARROLL". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dd3fa65e-97b1-4590-80d4-ab0d00aae4fa/77cbfa7e-1e34-4236-bdb3-ab0d01031c2d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 711
[DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (1832-98)] i.e. "Lewis CARROLL". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: Macmillan and Co., 1872. 8vo. Half title, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations by John Tenniel, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (stain to upper fore-edge towards the end, some light spotting and staining). Original red pictorial cloth gilt, gilt edges (lacks spine, some scuffing and staining). Provenance: Wilfrid Henry Burd Oldham (armorial bookplate); "E. C. Oldham, April 16th 1872, from [?]G. J. O" (inscription on half title). "Thirty-first thousand." With 7 other books including John Milton's Paradise Lost (London, 1808, contemporary calf, worn), The Arabian Nights' Entertainments ... In One Volume (London, 1824, half calf), John Tyndall's Hours of Exercise in the Alps (London, 1871, half calf, FIRST EDITION), Jules Verne's Le Tour du Monde ... Collection Hetzel (Paris, [n.d. but c. 1874], later cloth) and the same author's De la Terre a la Lune (Paris, "D' Education et de Récréation. J. Hetzel et Cie," [n.d. but c. 1875, later cloth]. The lot sold not subject to return. (8)
Lot 179
AVIATION: Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972) Russian American Pioneer of Aviation, designed the first successful helicopter. Vintage fountain pen ink signature (‘I. Sikorsky’) and date, 31st May 1933, in his hand on an oblong 12mo card; Tom Sopwith (1888-1989) English Aviation Pioneer, co-founder of the Sopwith Aviation Company. Vintage fountain pen ink signature (‘T. O. M. Sopwith’) on a small oblong 12mo piece, neatly laid down and with some wrinkling; Claude Grahame-White (1879-1959) English Aviation Pioneer, the first to make a night flight during the London to Manchester Air Race, 1910. Vintage signed postcard photograph depicting the aviator leaving Rugby in his aircraft during a London to Manchester flight on 23rd April 1910. Signed in bold fountain pen ink with his name alone to the head of the image. Some heavy surface and corner creasing; Double Eagle II Signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph by all three crew members of Double Eagle II individually, comprising Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, being the pilots of the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean, 1978. The composite image depicts the balloon in flight, a map charting the route of the historic flight and an image of the three crew members in three quarter length poses together. Signed by each in black inks to the base of the image, Abruzzo adding an inscription in his hand and Anderson adding DEII in his hand beneath his signature. The image also features facsimile signatures of each of the crew. Autographs of Abruzzo are scarce following his untimely death in an airplane crash FR to VG, 4
Lot 204
DAMBUSTERS THE: A colour 21.5 x 15 print of an Avro Lancaster aircraft of 617 Squadron (ED932 AJ-G, being the bomber piloted by Wing Commander Guy Gibson on the Dambusters Raid, 16th May 1943) individually signed by sixteen members of 617 Squadron and their Commander-in-Chief, most of whom participated in Operation Chastise, comprising Arthur T. Harris (Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command), George Chalmers (Wireless Operator with Lancaster ED886/G AJ-O), Leonard Cheshire (Commanding Officer of 617 Squadron, November 1943 - July 1944), Basil Feneron (Flight Engineer with Lancaster ED918/G AJ-F), Bertie 'Toby' Foxlee (Front Gunner with Lancaster ED909/G AJ-P), Raymond Grayston (Flight Engineer with Lancaster ED912/G AJ-N), Dudley Heal (Navigator with Lancaster ED918/G AJ-F), Sydney Hobday (Navigator with Lancaster ED912/G AJ-N), Bill Howarth (Front Gunner with Lancaster ED921/G AJ-W), Edward Johnson (Bomb Aimer with Lancaster ED912/G AJ-N), William Reid (Captured and made a Prisoner of War in Stalag-III whilst serving in 617 Squadron, July 1944. Victoria Cross winner for his actions during a raid on Dusseldorf, 3rd November 1943), Geoffrey Rice (Pilot of Lancaster ED936/G AJ-H), David Shannon (Pilot of Lancaster ED929/G AJ-L), Len Sumpter (Bomb Aimer with Lancaster ED929/G AJ-L), James Tait (Commanding Officer of 617 Squadron, July 1944 - January 1945), Bill Townsend (Pilot of Lancaster ED886/G AJ-O) and Douglas Webb (Front Gunner with Lancaster ED886/G AJ-O). All have signed with their names alone in various coloured inks to the white background. Also signed by Keith Broomfield of the RAF Museum. Some very light, extremely minor staining and a few minor corner and surface creases to the edges, about VG
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