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Click here to subscribex Sudan Army Service Stamps 1905 (1 Jan.) "ARMY" Reading Down 1m. brown and carmine with small Type A2 overprint, [6] with dropped "O", neatly cancelled with part Wadi Halfa Camp c.d.s., very fine. Rare. R.P.S. (1930) and B.P.A. (2012) Certificates. S.G. A3b, £700. Photo VAT Status: Import 5% View Terms & Conditions
† Contemporary Photographs from the Printer`s Record Books The following 153 lots have been removed from the printer`s daily photographic record books, many being of hand-painted essays and unaccepted designs, and mostly mounted on card/paper. The dates stated are the entry dates into the archive record books Collections and Ranges British Empire: 1902-73 selection of forty-nine images with unadopted designs including British Antarctic Territory 1968 (15 aug.-1 Oct.) H.M.S. Endurance £1 (2, one slightly different to issued design), Ireland 1961 (7 Nov.-4 Dec.) Death Centenaries of O`Donovan and O`Curry 3p. (2, similar to issued design), K.U.T. 1958 (12 Jan) Discovery of Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria 1s.30c.; also West Indies large photographic sheet (159mm x 201mm) with fifteen images from various countries and Revenues selection with British Guiana 1939 (23 June) $4.80 (2), both unadopted designs. Photo VAT Status: Standard View Terms & Conditions
Thomson R. : An Historical Essay on the Magna Carta of King John 1829. Large 8vo. qtr. binding, maroon spine and corners, gilt. Marbled boards & eps. Engraved Tp., vignettes in the text and armorial headings and borders throughout. CONDITION REPORT: Condition : Sporadic light to moderate foxing throughout, o/w vg.
Stubbs G. : Anatomy of the Horse, 1853. Folio, hb. publisher's binding, cloth spine. 24 double page engraved plates ( inc. frontis ) labelled TAB. I - TAB. XV. Together with : Marshall J.: Anatomy for Artists, 1883. Engraved plates & illus. CONDITION REPORT: Boards & frontis. det. o/w complete. Occasional light soiling, some slight offsetting o/w clean and bright. Binding & text block split in the Marshall. ADDITIONAL INFO: Published by Henry Bohn (York Street, Covent Garden) 1863 Plates (Tables) I-VX as called for by the text which appears after plates. Text rows from p.1-68. Plain publisher's board with a cloth spine gilt titling. Boards detached. Plates and textbook quite clean
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ( Trans.Fitzgerald ). 1909. Qto. Cream buckram binding with ornate gilt titling and intricate blue and green floral decoration on spine and upper board; colour plates by Gilbert James. Ingoldsby T. : The Witches Frolic 1838. Folio, buckram binding illustrated in silhouette. Engraved illustrations by E.W. Jessop throughout with coloured initial letters. The Knight and the Lady, nd. C.1880. & The Lay of St. Aloys, nd. C. 1880. Both additional Ingoldsby titles Folio with decorated/illustrated bindings and coloured/tinted illustrations by Jessop. Together with : Wingrave M. : Quacks - The Story of The Ugly Duckling after Hans Christian Andersen, nd. C.1885. Small qto. Coloured illus.binding. Chromolithograph illus. throughout. CONDITION REPORT: Rubaiyat sporadic slight foxing o/w vg. Witches Frolic, binding darkened but sound, contents generally vg. Other titles needing some repair/restoration.
Masonic Miscellany. Gould's History of Freemasonry ( Rev./Ed. D.Wright ) Nd. C.1930. Five Vols. Qto. Hb.+ Dj. ( Caxton Edition ), complete with index vol.5. Illus. some colour plates. Together with: Grand Lodge 1717-1967. Large 8vo. Hb. and four volumes of ' Ars Qautuor Coronatorium, 1965, 1974-76. Qto. CONDITION REPORT: Gould's Djs. a little 'ragged' o/w vg.
Underground and Tube Train Selection. A miscellany of hb. & pb. titles including : Bruce J. : Workhorses of the London Underground; Nock O.: Underground Railways of the World; Edwards D.: London's Underground Suburbs; Wright J. : Circles Under the Clyde. Also included are official working regulation hand-books and reports; formats include Folio, 8vo., Hb. & Pb. CONDITION REPORT: Generally vg.
Thornbury W. : Old and New London, nd. C.1890. 6 vols. Qto. qtr. binding, gilt on spine. Chromolithograph frontis., monochrome engraved plates and vignettes in text. CONDITION REPORT: Bindings a little worn at the extremities and requiring minor restoration, o/w sound. Contents generally clean and bright.
Watkins-Pitchford D. : The Idle Countryman 1943. 1st.Ed. 8vo. Hb. + Dj. Author's own monochrome scraperboard illus. Signed by author to the title page : 'D.J. Watkins-Pitchford "B.B." '. Signed copies scarce. The Tyger Tray 1971. 1st.Ed. 8vo., Hb + Dj. Illus. by author. Scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Both dust-wrappers with some minor wear and slight loss, now in protective non-adhesive cover. Tiny stain to the top right hand corner of Tyger text block on the first 20 - 30 pages o/w both text blocks clean and bright.
Watkins-Pitchford D. : The Wayfaring Tree, 1945. Letters From Compton Deverell 1950. Both copies 1st. Eds., 8vo. Hb. with Djs. Scraperboard Illus. The Fisherman's Bedside Book, 1946. Small 8vo. Hb. + Dj.Illus. CONDITION REPORT: Djs. of Deverell & Wayfaring with some minor loss at edges, now in non-adhesive protective covers. O/w generally clean and bright.
Les Reports de Sir William Jones Chevalier Jades Un des Justices Del Banck Le Roy, 1675. Folio, contemp. calf. Decorative engraved chapter headings. CONDITION REPORT: Boards det. only upper board original; prelims, frontis & tp loose. Remainder of text block with slight marginal browning o/w clean & tight.
Pratt A. : Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies, Club Mosses, Pepperworts and Horsetails, nd., C.1870. 6 Vols. 8vo. Ornate green textured cloth binding, gilt titling and floral decoration, aeg. Chromo. plates. Together with : Ferns of Great Britain and their Allies, nd. C.1880. Binding and plates as above. CONDITION REPORT: Some very minor wear to extremities of the binding o/w vg, n/f. Text blocks - some slight sporadic foxing o/w vg. n/f.
Fleming I. : On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963; You Only Live Twice 1964; The Golden Gun 1965. All 8vo. Hb + Dj. Together with : Diamonds are Forever 1964, The Golden Gun 1971, Live and Let Die 1972, Moonraker 1972, Casino Royale 1973. All 8vo. Hb. + Dj. CONDITION REPORT: Slight foxing spots on the fore edge of the three '1st.Eds' o/w all vg+ n/f - both Djs and books. Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Oarsman's and Angler's Map of the River Thames from its source to London Bridge, nd. C.1900. Folding linen backed strip map, coloured in outline,within a cloth-bound 12mo binding together with textual commentary. Length of map approx. 2.36m! x 16cm. Printed by Edward Stanford. Together with : Ordnance Survey Map of S.W. Environs of London, 1906. Folding, linen-backed map with marbled end papers. CONDITION REPORT: Angler's map showing some signs of use and wear at extremities but basically sound. London map with small stain in trhc o/w sound; lacks slip case.
World Map : Eastern and Western Hemispheres, nd. C.1845 ( Post Wilkes' sighting of Antarctic Coast - no further detail on this map). Double folio (from an unidentified atlas). Two hemispherical engraved maps which also include dual vignettes on the lower margins featuring major rivers and mountains. All hand coloured. Both mounted, framed and glazed CONDITION REPORT: Some discolouration o/ vg.
Belcher J. : Later Renaissance Architecture in England, 1897. Seven qtr. bound titled elephant folio folders housing the original serialised publication of this work to subscribers with text and monochrome photographic plates loosely inserted. CONDITION REPORT: Some fraying of edges of contents o/w vg.
A collection of six pens and pencils, to include a matching pen and pencil Parker 75, made in the USA, sterling silver engine turned case with gilt metal end A/F together with a Parker ball point pen, two Yard o Lead propelling pencils, one silver the other rolled silver, a bankers permanent point sterling silver pencil, and a double inkwell in fitted leather case
A lady`s fob watch, signed Le Roy & Fils, Palais Royal, 13 & 15 Galie Montpensier, Paris, circa 1900, lever movement, wolf tooth winding, enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, engraved monogram, 32mm wide 19.04.13, Case with dents and surface scratches, case back with engraved monogram, dial with some hairline cracks and the dial edge at 6 o`clock is chipped, movement in going order.
An 18th century pressed horn or tortoiseshell snuff box, possibly by Jean Obrisset, stamped O B, the lift off lid with scrolling decoration around a central reserve with a figure of Anne in a statuary pose dressed as Pallas surrounded by the phrase NOVA PALLADIUM TROIAE, a Wedgwood black basalt ink well (foot removed), a 19th century glass model of an Egyptian head and an enamelled glass scent bottle (a.f)
Percy Carpenter (1820-1895) British. “Hog Hunting in Lower Benghal”, Inscribed and Titled No.1 “The Meet”, No.2 “The Beat”, No3. “Tally Ho!”, No.4 “First Spear”, No.5 “The Charge”, No.6 “The Hog at Bay”, No.7 “The Death”, No.8 “The Tent Club at Tiffin”, a set of eight hand coloured lithographs by Edmund Walker after Percy Carpenter 1861, each 14” x 19”. Provenance: The O’Shea Gallery, London, Sold Christies (Visions of India) 17.6.1998.
John Blackhurst, Crewe, an 18ct gold open faced key wound pocket watch: the chain-fusee movement having a split bi-metallic compensating balance with underslung Bosley regulation, a fully engraved balance cock with c-scroll decoration and signed to the backplate John Blackhurst, Market Street, Crewe, the gold dial with raised and engine-turned decoration to the centre, raised gold Roman numerals to the chapter ring and a subsidiary seconds dial at VI o’clock, with blued steel spade hands, the case with engine-turned decoration to the back and rim, hallmarked for 18 carat gold, London 1873, with the casemakers initials J.V within an oval, diameter: 50mm. *John Blackhurst is recorded as working as both a watch and clockmaker in Crewe in circa 1878.
A. Megget, Tynemouth an 18ct gold open faced key wound pocket watch: the chain-fusee movement having a three-arm gold balance with overslung Bosley regulation and signed to the backplate A. Megget, Tynemouth, No. 5227, the gold dial with engraved floral decoration to the centre, raised gold Roman numerals to the chapter ring and a subsidiary seconds dial at VI o’clock, with blued steel spade hands, the case with engine-turned decoration to the back and rim, hallmarked for 18 carat gold, London 1836, with the casemakers initials W.K, diameter: 50mm.
Klaftenberger, a large French four-glass mantel clock the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half hours on a gong and having a visible dead-beat escapement with jeweled pallets, the backplate signed in script for the maker Klaftenberger and numbered 28569, with a twin-jar mercury bob to the pendulum, the white enamel two-piece dial with Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands and with the escapement visible below XII o’clock, the gorge case glazed to all four sides, height 36cm. * Biography For details of C.J. Klaftenberger, and his partnership with D.F. Aubert, see lot no. 692
William Cockey, Yeovil, a mahogany longcase clock the thirty-hour birdcage movement with turned, ringed pillars, striking the hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, the eleven-inch square brass dial having a raised chapter ring engraved with black Roman hour numerals, Arabic five minute numerals and signed either side of VI o’clock Willm. Cockey, Yeovil, with cast brass female-head spandrels to the four corners and a matted dial centre, the oak case having a swan-neck pediment with brass patrae and fluted pillars to the hood with cast brass capitals, with the plain base standing on bracket feet, height 201cm * Biography William Cockey was a member of the well-known Warminster family of clockmakers and bell founders. He both made and maintained clocks for a number of churches in the area including supplying a clock for the tower at Castle Cary Church for which he was paid 8-0-0. In 1736 it is recorded in the records of Montacute Church ‘Mr. Cockey For Righting the Clock and for the Agreement for the Keeping of in Repair for ye Year 1-4-6’. From 1737 until 1761 Cockey was paid 5-0-0 per annum to look after this clock. A number of clocks are recorded by William Cockey including a longcase example in the Dorset Clock Museum at Owermoigne.
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