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Click here to subscribeA Japanese Imari tokkuri, late 17th century, painted with chrysanthemums by a fence or magpies on a prunus branch, the top with pine handle, 20cm, and five Imari, 19th-20th century, including three bowls, painted with ho-o or chilong and a pair of tea cups, painted with figures in shaped panels, six character Chenghua mark (6)
STEVENSON (Robert Louis): 1- Underwoods. Chatto and Windus, 1887. FIRST EDITION, Number 40, of a limited edition of 50 COPIES ON LARGE HANDMADE PAPER, signed by the printers 'R. & R. Clark', pp: xvii, 139, 4to, original white cloth; recased with the original spine; covers grubby; armorial bookplate; browning to endpapers; internally very clean; 2- POEMS. Printed at the Florence Press, for Chatto & Windus.. 1913. Limited edition #136/500 on handmade paper. 4to. Original full soft vellum with ties and teg; Ties detached; light spotting to covers; o/w VG; 3- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers. Printed at the Florence Press, for Chatto & Windus, 1910; Limited edition #229/250 on handmade paper. With 12 colour illustrations after Norman Wilkinson. Original cloth backed grey boards; Covers grubby; internally clean; 4- EDINBURGH. Seeley, 1912; Limited edition #354/385. Tipped-in colour plates by James Heron. 4to. Original cloth; rubbed and smudged; 5- A Child's Garden of Verses. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896, first ill. edn. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Original gilt pictorial cloth and with the 16pp publishers’ catalogue dated 1895. G+; plus: Dickens: Dickens v. Barabbas: Forster intervening; a study based upon some hitherto unpublished letters. Sawyer. 1930, Limited edition #79/90 on handmade paper. Original cloth; spine & part of covers faded; bookplate; o/w G+. (6)
1- Washington, Irwin: Voyage d'un américain à Londres, ou esquisses sur les moeurs anglaises et américaines; in two volumes. Paris, chez Ponthieu libraire, 1822? (label stuck over the dates: A Blois, de la Librairie de Lebarbier-Poulet). PP: vii, 352; 375. Contemporary leather backed boards; rubbed and hinges cracked; browning and foxing; 2- Flaubert, Gustave: La légende de Saint-Julien l'hospitalier. Paris, A. Ferroud, libraire-éditeur., Paris, 1895, Limited Edition (50 copies grand papier velin d’arches), No. 221 of a total of 500 copies. With 26 illustrations by Luc-Olivier Merson. Full leather; rubbed and blotched; o/w VG; 3- Crebillon Fils: Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit. Paris, 1948. Limited Edition #542/850. Loose as issued with covers and the original floral slipcase. VG+. (4)
1- Galignani’s Picture of PARIS; being a complete guide to everything curious or grand in that metropolis. Paris, sold at Galignani’s, May 1818, 6th. edn. PP: xxiv(including half title), 668, 82(part 2), (ii)ads; Large folding frontis plate with coloured plan surrounded with 17 engraved views; and a large folding Menu. Contemporary full mottled leather; rubbed and hinges cracked; small marginal tear to frontis, repaired; o/w G+; 2- PARIS et ses environs. Nouvelle Librarie de La Jeunesse, Paris, no date. Ca. 1900; with 36 colour lithographs; original decorative covers; vg; 3- Lieutenant Dobbelaere & G. Caullet: Guide illustre de Courtrai. Ypres & Courtrai, 1910. With folding plan and ill. Title page Inscribed and Signed by Dobbelaere. 117pp. contemporary half leather; inner hinges cracked; o/w vg; 4- Ritchie, Leitch; Turner, J M W(ill.): Wanderings By The Seine. Longman, Rees .. nd. c1835 (inscription dated 1837). With 20 plates, including title vignette. Original decorative buckram and a.e.g. browning and foxing. (4)
1- Wright, H E; & A B Creeke Junr.: A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles. The Philatelic Society, London, 1899, First edition, Folio, original wrappers bound-in. PP: xxvi, 263, (i), +wrappers. Leather backed marbled boards, teg. Occasional foxing; o/w VG; (Scarce). 2- Postes de FRANCE, 1788. PP: iii-xl, 1-146. Lacking wrappers? Later ¾ leather; VG; 3- Baines, F E: Forty years at the Post Office; in 2 volumes. Richard Bentley, 1895, 1st. edn. With a folding map and 5 plates. Original cloth gilt; Ex-lending library with labels to upper covers; covers little grubby; inner hinges cracked; tissue guard to frontis of vol.2 damp soiled and slightly affecting the frontis portrait; 4- Tombs, R C: The King's post. 1905, 1st. Original pictorial cloth; spine faded; occasional foxing; 5- Shaw, T P G: Handbook and Catalogue of Canadian Transportation postmarks. 1963. (6)
LAKE, Veronica; [With Donald Bain]: The Autobiography of VERONICA LAKE. W H Allen, London, 1969, 1st edn, dw (36s.); half title inscribed and signed: ‘To John- the best in life to you always Sincerely, Veronica Lake’. This first English edition preceded the first American edition by two years. Small rust mark to top and bottom corner of front blank endpaper; O/W, vg. Note: The extraordinary story of one of the most interesting film-stars of Hollywood's wildest years and for a short time the number one box star, making 26 pictures. She disappeared for 20 years and was rediscovered working as a waitress in a night club, and two other signed books: Adams, Richard, Watreship Down and Andrews, Val, Murray
A modern 18ct white gold mounted opal and diamond ring, the oval cut opal of approximately 4ct, surrounded by eighteen small brilliant cut diamonds, each approximately .05ct (gross weight 6.2 grammes - ring size O), and a gold coloured metal mounted opal five stone ring, the central oval cut stone of .5ct bordered by two further of .25ct, and two of .15ct (gross weight 3.7 grammes - ring size L)
A modern gold coloured metal mounted sapphire and diamond set flowerhead pattern ring, the circular cut sapphire of approximately .25ct bordered by eleven small rose cut diamonds (gross weight 1.7 grammes - ring size K), a modern 9ct gold mounted amethyst and seed pearl dress ring, the oval cut amethyst of approximately 1.5ct contained in a border of ten small seed pearls (gross weight 3.9 grammes - ring O), and a modern 18ct gold mounted diamond solitaire, the illusion set brilliant cut stone of approximately .15ct (gross weight 2.9 grammes - ring size M)
A 22ct gold mounted citrine set ring, the oval cut stone of approximately 1ct (gross weight 3.2 grammes - ring size O), two 22ct gold wedding bands (gross weight 7.3 grammes), a late Victorian 15ct gold mounted five stone amethyst ring (gross weight 1.7 grammes), 18ct gold gemset rings (gross weight 14.5 grammes), and two 9ct gold rings (gross weight 6.3 grammes)
Oscar Ghiglia (Italian 1876-1945) - Ritratto de Valentino Oil on canvas Signed and dated G-o 910 , lower left, inscribed Ritratto de Mio Figlio Valentino , on stretcher verso 60 x 30cm (23 3/4 x 11 3/4in.) Painted in 1910. Provenance: Collection Julius Oppenheimer, London Thence by descent to the present owner
British Coins, Aethelred II (978-1016), penny, Crux type (BMC IIIa), Northampton, Bruninc, bust l. with sceptre, rev. BYRNING M-O HΛMT, voided short cross, C R V X in angles, wt. 1.23gms. (S.1148; N.770; Hildebrand 1248), small flan crack, about very fine *ex Sir John Evans ex Baldwin’s vault
British Coins, Aethelred II (978-1016), penny, last small cross type (BMC I var), Northampton, Wulfnoth, diademed bust l., small cross in l. field, rev. PVLFNOĐ M-O HΛMTV, small cross, wt. 1.18gms. (S.1154; N.777; Hildebrand 1281), small crack in centre, otherwise very fine *ex Baldwin’s vault
British Coins, Henry II, penny, short cross (1180-1189), type 1b, London, Iefrei, rev. IEFREI ON LVNDE (S.1344; N.963); penny, type 1b, London, Pieres, rev. PIERES ON LVND (S.1344; N.963); penny, type 1b, London, Pieres M, rev. PIERES M ON LVN (S.1344; N.963); penny, type 1c, London, Gefrei, rev. GEFREI ON LVN (S.1345; N.964); Richard I (1189-1199), penny, type 4a, London, Stivene, rev. STIVENE ON LVN (S.1348A; N.968/1); penny, type 4b, London, Henri, rev. hENRIC ON LVN (S.1348C; N.968/2); penny, type 4b, mint unclear, Willelm, rev. WILLELM O [......] (S.1348C; N.968/2); John (1199-1216), penny, type 4c, London, Willelm, rev. W[.........]M ON LVN (S.1349; N.968/3); penny, type 5b, London, Adam, rev. ADAM ON LVNDE (S.1351; N.970); Henry III (1216-1272), penny, type 7b, London, Adam, rev. ADAH ON LVND (S.1356B; N.979), fair to very fine (10) *ex Baldwin’s vault
Ancient Coins, Greek, Thessalian League (late 2nd to mid 1st century BC), silver stater, magistrates Pausanias and Diodoros, hd. of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath; EP to left, rev. Athena Itonia striding right; ΠAYΣ-ANIAΣ above spear, ΔI-O/Δ-Ω/P-OΣ in three lines across central fields, wt. 6.20gms. (BCD. Thessaly II 860; HGC.4, 209), about extremely fine
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