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Lot 135
Banknotes, Great Britain, 10/- Peppiatt Brown (1), Purple (3), Beale (1); £1 Warren Fisher; Peppiatt Blue (4), Beale (2), O`Brien (2), later issues (4) ; £5 White Beale 1950, Britannia type O`Brien (1), later types Hollom (1), Gill (3), Kentfield (1), Lowther (1); £10 Gill (1), Kentfield (1); £20 Somerset (1), Lowther (1); Scottish £1 (2); other notes (7), mostly EF or better
Lot 90
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) The gelatinous watches o lithograph with etching printed in colours 1974 signed in pencil inscribed E.A. an artist`s proof aside from the edition of 195 on Arches paper with full margins in good condition apart from a few handling creases in margins 740 x 550 mm (29 1/8 x 21 5/8 in)
Lot 67
Britton (John). The Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain Represented and Illustrated in a Series of Views, Elevations, Plans, Sections and Details of various Ancient English Edifices, vols.1 & 4 (only), 1807 & 1814, dec. half titles, 105 eng. plts., some spotting throughout, vol. 1 a.e.g., contemp. dec. blind stamped calf, gilt dec. spine, rubbed, worn and frayed, vol. 2 disbound, folio, together with, Hall (S.C.), The Baronial Halls and Ancient Picturesque Edifices of England...., vol. 1 (of 2), pub. Henry Sotheran & Co., 1881, thirty-six tinted litho. plts. (complete as list), occ. spotting throughout, some plates loose and shaken, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and frayed, folio, with, Morris (Rev. F. O.), A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain, vols. 1, 3 (2 copies) & 4 only, n.d., c.1880, numerous chromolitho. plts., occ. spotting, a.e.g, orig. pubs. dec. cloth, rubbed and frayed, vol. IV disbound, 4to, plus approx. 175 loose plts, together with one other similar. Sold as a collection of prints, not subject to return. (8)
Lot 302
* French Revolution Archive - Camille Desmoulins & Dillon Regiment. Camille Desmoulins and his Wife, Passages from the History of the Dantonists, Translated from the French of Jules Claretie, by Mrs. Cashel Hoey, 1876, extra illustrated with b & w plts., t.e.g., near-contemp. blue half calf gilt, rubbed, together with Desmoulins association items, including a small manuscript copybook belonging to Camille’s wife Lucile and referred to extensively in the printed book (pp. 130-150), ‘It is only a small copybook, with a red cardboard cover; and it consists of twenty-two leaves of thick, rough, yellow paper, only thirteen being written over in Lucile’s hand. It contains verses composed in honour of Madamoiselle Duplessis, or copied by her from the different collections in vogue at the time. Baron de Girardot, to whom the little volume belonged, wrote the following words on the first page: [in translation]: “Written by the hand of Lucile Duplessis, wife of Camille Desmoulins. This book was given to me in Paris, by Lucile’s sister, in 1834, B. de Girardot”. The book is at present the property of M. de Lescure, who kindly permitted me to see it... ‘, contemp. red boards with marbled backstrip, 24mo, also the original autograph letter from General Dillon written to Camille, Madelonettes, 26th July 1793, 7 pm, translated in full on page 252 of the book, asking Camille to see his cousin Fouquier de Tinville, ‘See him, I beg of you; induce him to finish, as he promised. He knows my innocence; my request is worthy of you, my kind and upright defender; only a word from your cousin is wanted. See him very early tomorrow morning; let him say this word, and give back to the republic a man who only aspires to save it from the tyrants who are advancing with rapid strides’, one page with integral address leaf and seal, old ink stamp ‘Papiers Cam. Desmoulins’ at head of letter, 8vo, plus a printed copy of ‘Lettre de Camille Desmoulins, Depute de Paris a la Convention, au General Dillon, en prison aux Madelonettes, Paris’, 1793, uncut, sewn as issued, sl. frayed and soiled first and last leaf, plus ‘Le Vieux Cordelier: Journal’, ed. Camille Desmoulins, 7 issues [complete, Paris, 1793-94], 172 pp., uncut, some soiling and damp staining, all sewn as issued, slim 8vo, plus an interesting group of twenty-six manuscript and six printed items, the majority relating to the Dillon Regimen before, during and after the French Revolution, including two documents signed by the Colonel of the Regiment [Arthur] Dillon, both 13th August 1784, and ‘Abstract pour servir au payement de 8 mois’, 25th August 1797, one page with numerous signatures including Lieutenant Colonel Dillon, three separate bifoliums of receipts and expenses for 1771 and 1772, documents signed by O’Mahony (29th July 1816), Walsh-Serrant (9th March 1787), O’Moran and Gormocan (24th January 1792), a letter signed ‘E. Dillon’, 28th July 1702, writing in French of the death of MacDonogh to Jen [his wife?], documents signed by Macdonald, Clarke, translated copy letter from Dillon to Phillipe de Colloredo [1847?], a letter to Dillon from Tolendal(?) dated 11th September 1847, a document being the award of Croce d’Oro di Devozione to Conte Augusto Enrico Dillon, 9th February 1847, an autograph letter signed from Le Comte de Lally-Tolendal to ‘le Baron’, etc., the majority of manuscript items one or two pages, 4to/folio, two of the printed items being Revolutionary laws relating to Dillon (no. 1691, 11th May 1792 & no. 2193, 20th August 1792) A significant archive. The Dillon Regiment was first raised in Ireland in 1688 by Theobald, 7th Viscount Dillon. After the Treaty of Limerick in 1691 the Regiment transferred to the service of the Kings of France under its present name. From 1777 to 1782 the Regiment fought as part of the French expeditionary force in the American Revolution. It remained faithful to France after the French Revolution. The Regiment’s commander at this time Arthur Dillon (1750-1794) was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Camille Desmoulins (1760-1794) was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution, being closely associated with Georges Danton. While awaiting his trial and execution, Desmoulins wrote love letters to his wife Lucile, not knowing that she had been arrested and that these letters would never be received. According to some accounts, he only learned of his wife’s arrest on his way to his own execution along with a group that included Danton (5th April 1794). As he was being led to the guillotine he fought to resist his captors, crying out to his wife and reciting passages from the letters he had written to her. Lucile was herself guillotined eight days after her husband. (a folder and a book)
Lot 320
* Nelson (Horatio, Viscount, 1758-1805). Autograph letter signed, ‘Nelson & Bronte’, Merton, 15th December 1801, to Halloran, ‘I am sorry that your wishes and expectation for the establishment of a naval academy should have fail’d, but the expense few could afford, with respect to your second plan it must be submitted to Ministers and the first Lord of the Admiralty must be the friend of it, or it cannot be supported. I am free to confess that I have no interest to bring forth such a plan if on reflection it should be deemed feasible, therefore I must necessarily beg leave to decline give(?) you the trouble of submitting that to me which I have no power to promote, but Believe me Sir with every good wish your most obliged Servant, Nelson & Bronte’, browned with some chipping and fold wear, some loss to left margin, several small holes touching lettering but not affecting sense except the name of the recipient lower left (Re[...] Halloran), a few old tape and adhesion marks to verso, 230 x 185mm. Though it is not conclusive the most likely recipient would seem to be Lawrence Hynes Halloran [O’Halloran], 1766-1831, a poet and writer born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Though he practised as a curate he had not been ordained. He became chaplain in the Royal Navy and was on board the Britannia, the vessel which carried the flag of Admiral the earl of Northesk, third in command at the Battle of Trafalgar. ‘During the battle itself Halloran, who had a very loud and clear voice, stood beside the commander and repeated the word of command through a speaking-trumpet after him. He soon published ‘A sermon on occasion of the victory off Trafalgar, delivered on board HMS Britannia at sea, 3 November 1805’, and ‘The Battle of Trafalgar, a Poem’ (1806)’ (DNB). He continued to declare himself a doctor in divinity and in 1818 he was sentenced to seven years’ transportation for forging a frank on a letter. He subsequently established a school at Sydney, New South Wales, and died there on 8 March 1831. An armistice had been signed between Britain and France on 1st October 1801 and on 22nd October Nelson had returned to his recently purchased home of Merton Place, Surrey. (1)
Lot 414
Scotland - Parliament. The Laws and Acts made in the Sixth Session of the First Parliament of Our most High and Dread Soveraign William..., Holden and Begun at Edinburgh, September 8. 1696. By John Earl o Tullibardine, Viscount of Glen-Almond, Lord Murray; and Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Scotland..., Collected and Extracted from the Registers and Records of Parliament, by Charles Earl of Selkirk, &c. Clerk to His Majesties Council, Exchequer, Registers and Rolls, &c..., Edinburgh, 1696, bound with The Laws and Acts Made in the Seventh Session of the First Parliament of Our High and Dread Soveraign Will;iam..., Holden and Begun at Edinburgh, July 19, 1698..., pub. Edinburgh, 1698, contemp. panelled calf, boards detached, folio, together with Radcliffe (John), Dr. Radcliffe’s Life, and Letters, with a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament, 3rd ed., 1716, few worm trails to text, contemp. panelled calf, upper board near detached, lower joint cracked, 12mo, with Garth (Sir Samuel), The Dispensary: A Poem in Six Canto’s, 3rd ed. corrected by the author, 1699, ink erased signature to title, library bookplate & ink stamp to verso of title, library bookplate to upper pastedown, contemp. panelled calf, upper board detached, lower joint cracked, rubbed, 8vo, plus other 17th-19th antiquarian and pamphlets, many incomplete (a small carton)
Lot 452
Corelli (Arcangelo). Sonate a Violino e Violono o Cimbalo... da Fusignano Opera Quinta, 2 parts in one, John Johnson, c.1750, eng. port. frontis. by S. Cole, eng. title, and 69pp. eng. musical notation, lightly finger-soiled, endpapers renewed, sprinkled edges, modern half calf over contemp. marbled boards (latter rubbed at edges), 4to (1)
Lot 517
O’Connor (John). Dukes Village, A Suite of Wood Engravings by John O’Connor, introduced by Graham Williams with more than a little help from the artist, Florin Press, 1988, wood engraved illusts. in colour, orig. boards, 8vo, together with Stone (Reynolds). Boxwood, 16 engravings by Reynolds Stone, illustrated in verse by Silvia Townsend Warner, pub. Monotype Corporation, 1957, b&w wood eng. illusts., orig. black boards with glassine d.j., slim 8vo. Limited edition 64/70, signed by artist and author. (2)
Lot 645
Horatius (Flaccus Quintus). Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex Recensione & cum Notis Atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii, Amsterdam, 1713, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, occasional light spotting and ink stains, previous owner signature to title, contemporary calf, rubbed and scuffed, 4to, together with Spender (Stephen), Journals 1939-1983, ed. by John Goldsmith, 1985, half-tone plates, original cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, limited edition, 95/150 signed by the author, plus O’Brien (Edna), Lantern Slides. Short Stories, 1st ed., 1990, text block lightly toned, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, inscribed by the author, together with others including 23 odd vols. of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 1880-1921, Henry Spofford Canfield’s A Maid of the Frontier, 1898, Mary Hooper’s Cookery for Invalids, Persons of Delicate Digestion and for Children, 1876 and Andrew McCall’s The Au Pair Boy, 1968, inscribed by the author (6 cartons)
Lot 716
Dexter (Colin). The Remorseful Day, 1st ed., 1999, author’s signature on Hammicks Bookshops label pasted to title, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, together with Cornwell (Patricia D.), The Body Farm, 1st ed., USA, 1994, signed on title by the author, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, with other miscellaneous books, mostly recent hardback fiction in d.j., including Dick Francis, John Le Carre, Stephen King, Thomas Harris, Ruth Rendell, Patrick O’Brian et al, mostly G/VG (6 shelves & a carton)
Lot 33
A 9 Carat Gold and Enamel Independant Order of Foresters LBC Jewel, the reverse engraved with a presentation inscription to Court Bramley 2189 Bro.J.Wormald, Chief Ranger 1916, with ribbon and gilt metal bar pin, cased; another Silver Gilt and Enamel Example, dated 1916-1917; two Silver Gilt and Enamel I O F "Yorkshire High Court Orphan Fund" Jewels, awarded to the above recipient, one as Chairman, the other as Life Governor; a Gilt Metal and Enamel I O F Lapel Badge and Breast Badge. (6)
Lot 69
An Original Photograph of General Frank O`D Hunter C-in-C 8th US Army Air Force, with his staff including his ADC Captain Rathbone, framed, together with a set of six Phil May cards made to commemorate the opening of the 8th US Air Force Museum, Duxford, framed as one; Phil May - "Luftwaffe Types", a set of three pen and watercolour studies produced as illustrations for the book "Battle of Britain", published by Elvington Air Museum, signed and framed as one; Phil May - "The Battle of Britain Trio", Spitfire, Defiant and Hurricane, a set of three signed colour prints, framed as one. (4)
Lot 994
Charlotte Wylie or Wyllie (nee Major) (fl. 1872-1893) "The Ballad of Sir David Graeme", watercolour laid down on canvas, 28" x 22.5" In traditional Pre-Raphaelite style, this water-colour depicts the story told in the ballad by the 19th century Scottish poet James Hogg, from his collection of writings, which he called "The Mountain Bard", dating from 1807. THE BALLAD; Hogg`s ballad imitation `Sir David Graeme` is Hogg`s literary ballad in response to `The Twa Corbies`, which had appeared in the third volume of the Minstrelsy. `Sir David Graham` first appeared in the Scots Magazine September 1805, where it is presented straightforwardly as `a border ballad`. The dramatic focus is on the `lady fair` suggested in the narrative of `The Twa Corbies`, who in Hogg`s ballad waits for her slain knight and eventually discovers his raven-pecked corpse. The "fair lady" of the story watches from her window in vain for the coming of her "noble Graeme," who had vowed that the hate of her father and brothers would not keep him from coming to carry off his fair lady on St. Lambert`s night. The sun had drunk frae Kieldar Fell His beverage o` the morning dew; The deer had crouched her in the dell, The heather oped its bells o` blue. The lady to her window hied, And it opened o`er the banks o` Tyne; An` "O! alack," she said, and sighed, "Sure ilka breast is blythe but mine?" Her forebodings prove only too true, for her lover`s faithful hound seeks her out, and, with mournful looks, induces her to follow him over Deadwater Fell, and guides her to a lonely spot where the raven-pecked body of the gallant Graeme, slain by her brothers, is lying. A label on the reverse of the picture, in Charlotte Wyllie`s hand, includes a verse from the ballad of the discovery of the Knight`s body, as portrayed in the picture, which reads: "She gae ae look she need it but one For it left her sweet uncertaintye She saw a wound through his shoulder bone And in his brave breast two or three" PRE-RAPHAELITE CONNECTIONS; It is interesting to speculate that the "lady fair" in the watercolour is a likeness of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddall (1829-1862) who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In 1852, she famously posed for Millais` Ophelia by floating in a bathtub to model the drowning subject of the painting. She married Rossetti in 1860 but became addicted to laudanum and died the following year. Charlotte Wyllie, was a friend of Lawrence and Laura Alma-Tadema and the Pre-Raphaelites who shocked stuffy Victorian society. Charlotte`s work included portraits, genre scenes and symbolical subjects, but was never extensive and is rare. She exhibited at London`s Grosvenor Gallery, a flagship for the Aesthetic Movement which launched in 1877 as a liberal alternative to the Royal Academy, and one of the few to encourage women artists. Laura Alma-Tadema was a fellow exhibitor at the Grosvenor. She had particularly close artistic connections with G F Watts and may have been envolved as a collaborator in some of his work. An oil painting "A wanderer in the Elysian Fields" was sold at Christies lot 102 on 11th June 2004. BIOGRAPHY; Charlotte Wyllie, (spelt Wylie by her,) née Major, (fl 1872-1893) was married to the artist Charles William Wyllie (1853-1923) and brother of the better known exponent of marine and shipping subjects, William Lionel Wyllie, R.A. (1851-1931). Little is known about her, even her dates being uncertain. Her husband, Charles, was one of the artists who painted a series of 45 panels in the entrance hall of the Alma-Tademas` home and studio in St John`s Wood and a small portrait that Alma-Tadema painted of Charlotte was almost certainly done in return for her husband`s work. Later, when her old friend, the popular Victorian painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts was leaving Little Holland House prior to it being demolished, Charlotte, dismayed at the thought of the destruction of all the frescoes, insisted she could have them removed from the walls at great personal cost. Watts offered them to Charlotte as a gift, but she declined and they were later presented to Leighton House, where they remain today PROVENANCE; Label verso with extract of a poem by James Hogg, "Sir David Graeme", from the "Mountain Bard". Also inscribed "Mrs C Wylie, 3 Earls Terrace, Kensington" which is only a short distance away from George Frederick Watts home at Little Holland House, 6 Melbury Road, Kensington. This water-colour was purchased in a small Bournemouth Auction about 6 years ago, without attribution. Nothing is known of its whereabouts in the previous 130 years. It is a rare and previously unrecognised painting by a mysterious woman painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Lot 312
SHOTGUN CERTIFICATE REQUIRED FOR THIS LOT A 12 Bore Side by Side Double Barrel Shotgun by Charles Lancaster, London, the 76.5cm damascus barrels signed CHARLES LANCASTER, 151 NEW BOND ST. LONDON PATENT HAMMERLESS GUN on the top rib and numbered 07044, with signed and foliate engraved box lock, over-lever break, slide safety, chequered and well figured walnut butt and fore-end, the butt set with steel game counter, in a stitched leather leg o` mutton case with brass fittings.
Lot 1110
English School (c. 1635) Portrait of a Gentleman, believed to be Thomas Parr, oil on canvas, Inscription Tho Parr. Aiged. 152.A.[o] 1635, Bearing inscription Tho.[s] Parr Aged 152, Anno 1635, 65 x 52.5cm (251/2 x 205/8in) Thomas Parr, it is alleged, lived to the extraordinary age of 152. Parr became a celebrity, albeit briefly in his own lifetime in 1635, when Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel encountered him in a small hamlet near Shrewsbury in Shropshire and determined to bring him to London and exhibit the marvel at court. He was duly introduced to King Charles I and there are details of their exchanges. The hospitality and acclaim overwhelmed Parr. He died at Arundel’s house and a post mortem was carried out by the famed physician Dr William Harvey. ‘Old Parr’ as he was known was buried at Westminster Abbey by order of the King. The inscription on his gravestone reads: THO: PARR OF YE COUNTY OF SALLOP. BORNE / IN AD: 1483. HE LIVED IN YE REIGNES OF TEN / PRINCES VIZ: K.ED.4. K.ED.5.K.RICH.3. / K.HEN.7.K.HEN.8.K.EDW.6.Q.MA.Q.ELIZ / K.JA. & K. CHARLES. AGED 152 YEARES. / 7 WAS BURYED HERE NOVEMB. 15. 1635.
Lot 1010
A Collection of Hornby and Tri-ang `OO` Gauge Trains and Accessories, including two boxed Tri-ang/Hornby locomotives - `Evening Star` and `Flying Scotsman`, three boxed Hornby locomotives - Black Five Class, BR Co-Co Diesel and BR B12 Class, Tri-ang - `Winston Churchill`, also unboxed rolling stock, trackside accessories, power units and track; Hornby `O` Gauge `M` Series Train Set, in three cases and two boxes
Lot 1302
Four Albums of Signed Photographs and Letters from Entertainers and Authors, mainly from the 1950`s to the 1980`s, including Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier and Catherine Cookson (letters), George Peppard, Roger Moore, Russ Conway, The Merseybeats, Leslie Phillips, Joan Simms, Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Sophia Loren, Maureen O`Hara and many more; Two Small Autograph Books, containing mixed autographs, including Shirley Bassey, Robert Morley, Charles Hawtrey, Gina Lollobridgida and many more
Lot 3095
Neapolitan School, 19th Century A man 'o' war before Vesuvius in the Bay of Naples; and A man 'o' war before Vesuvius at night each inscribed 'Eruzione del Vesuvio de Agosto 1833' and 'Veduta della Radade Napoli 1833' (lower edges) gouache on paper 6½ x 9½ in. (16.5 x 24.1 cm.) to image edge a pair (2) View on Christie's.com
Lot 8
REGENCY GLASS RUMMER the bucket bowl profusely engraved with a panel depicting a scene from Burns` Tam O` Shanter of his flight across the bridge on horseback, the opposing cartouche with monogram and date 1823 and motto `Friendship` flanked by dolphins and surmounted by a basket of fruit 16cm high
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