POTTER (BEATRIX) 1866 - 1943, CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR, FAMOUS FOR HER PETER RABBIT CHARACTERS, A GOOD FOUR PAGE MANUSCRIPT LETTER, signed Beatrix Potter, addressed c/o Messrs. F. Warne & Co., Sept. 26. '13, slight foxing. * A delightful letter to Joy Shapland which includes sketches of pigs. She writes of having been ill and her disappointment with her latest book (The Tale Of Pigling Bland), which her publishers insisted she wrote "the printers said all the little friends would be disappointed if I did not screw out my usual Christmas book".
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British School 19th century- The SS Brittany steaming out; black chalk on buff paper, 28.5x57cm: A. Leickert, 19th century- A fishing harbour; watercolour, signed, 31.5x50cm: W G R Masters- Man-O'-War in choppy seas; watercolour, signed and dated 1846: Manner of Willem van de Velde- Naval shipping scene; pen and brown ink and wash, nears initials, (4)
An Air Ministry Camera Type G45 No 39606 by Williamson Mfg o Ltd in it's wooden carrying case,an Air Forces U.S Army Camera Aircraft Type K-20,No. AF42-63391 b y Fairchild Aviation Corporation,a Franka Frankerette Super roll film camera with accessories,and an aircraft camera film magazine (4) a/f.
Hiller (Elizabeth O.). The Calendar of Luncheons, The Calendar of Sandwiches & Beverages/The Calendar of Cakes, Fillings and Frostings, New Calendar of Desserts, n.d., pub. P.F. Volland Co., Illinois, c. 1920s, together four orig. recipe calendars, all orig. printed wrappers with silk ties (the first calendar contained in orig. cardboard box, somewhat broken), each approx. 28 x 14 cm. (4)
Lloyd (W.W.). P & O Pencillings, published for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, [1891], twenty-four mounted chromos., inc. title, b&w illusts., single-page map to rear, some light foxing to first and last few leaves, minor stain towards lower inner margin of first two leaves, a.e.g., orig. brown half morocco, rubbed and scuffed to joints, covers with some surface discol., large oblong 4to Limited edition 40/300, signed by the author. (1)
Miscellaneous books all printed in German, mostly late 19th and early 20th c., including Malaria Gold und Opium, Mit Stötzners Hei lung kiang-Exhibition in die unersorschte Mandschurei von Frithjof Melzer, 1929, Der Drache und die fremden Teufel, von Johan Gunnar Andersson, 1927, Fridtjof Nansen, Sibirien, ein Zukunftsland, 1914, Die deutschen fayencen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, von O. Riesebieter, 1921, Japanische Schwertzieraten, von Gustav Jacoby, 1904, etc (2 cartons)
19th Century English School - Pair - Pencil and watercolour caricatures - “O save us Mr Rooney, what’s amiss with you - you look like a scared magpie, etc”, and “Mr Rooney thinks his friend the heaviest burden he ever had and wasn’t it mighty cute, etc” - Interior scene with Mr Rooney and young lady, and Mr Rooney pushing another gentleman in a wheelbarrow, each 6.75ins x 9.75ins, one monogrammed in red “S.R” or “S.B.” (?), in gilt and ebonised moulded frames and glazed
A cast commemorative medal commemorating Lady Arabella Stuart (1575-1615) depicting a half-length portrait holding a book inscribed *O God Grant Patience In That I Suffer Vrang* with six line verse to reverse Diameter 5cm Note; Lady Arabella Stuart claimant to the throne was imprisoned in the tower for her marriage without Royal consent to William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset.
ABERDEEN - a Scottish provincial pair of Fiddle pattern plated dessert spoons with marks for George Jamieson marked 1 G J ABDn O E&Co below crown a pair of King's pattern dessert spoons by D Fraser Inverness marked DF Edinburgh 1829 and a Fiddle pattern teaspoon by William Hannay of Paisley marked WH (in scalloped punch) Edinburgh 1811 (5)
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