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Lot 524
* Robert Burns - `Tam O`Shanter`. An unusual late Victorian Scottish folk-souvenir depicting the subject meeting with the Grim Reaper, a finely carved allegorical scene, delicately detailed showing supreme craftsmanship, set in a circular velvet-lined glazed maple-framed casing, 12in (31cm) dia. (1)
Lot 610
* Prisoners of War in Java. An autograph album compiled by G.M. Evans while at Tandjong Priok prison camp, Java, 1942-45, a mixture of drawings, quotations with signatures and inscriptions on fifty-three pages, mostly written to rectos only and largely in pencil, the first page written in memory of the officers and men of the 240 [241?] Battery, 77 HAA Regiment, Royal Artillery killed on active service in a rail crash near Melang, Java, 4th February 1942, a drawing of a cavalier with a gun signed S. Freeman, Java 1942, a poem by Wilfred Gibson signed Wm Spence, Java, Christmas 1942, a pencil drawing of Rhodes memorial, Cape Town, signed J.D. Williams, Java 1943, a page listing Cardiff City and Wales International football matches played in by Ernie Curtis (including FA Cup winning team 1927 and runner-up 1931), signed and dated 1943, a pencil cartoon of P.O.W. camp life, signed GME, a coloured pencil drawing of a Javanese actor, signed Larry O`Mahony (died Thailand 1943), a pencil drawing of HM Kortenaer, signed J. de Greaff, 1942, coloured drawing of the regimental crest of the 77th (Welsh) Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, signed Lionel H. Stanton, Tandjong Priok, Java, 1943, one page with num. signatures under the heading Ward 12, Vincentius Prisoner of War Hospital, Batavia, Java, June 1943, etc., mostly written or drawn to rectos only with some items pasted in, a little soiling, contemp. canvas covered boards with ink lettered upper cover, stitching broken and contents loose, narrow oblong 8vo. A full list of contents available by fax or post. (1)
Lot 72
T. Yates, British School - `Ships of War Passing the Straights of Gibraltar to the Eastward` (View of the Men-o`-war in Calm Waters with the Rock of Gibraltar in the distance), watercolour signed and dated 1790 recto, inscribed verso, approx 19cm x 27cm, within a verre églomisé mount and period gilt composition frame.
Lot 1868
Gavin O`Keefe (contemporary), Survival of the Fattest, gouache and collage, 59cm x 26.5cm. This picture won 3rd prize in the 1998 Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour competition.; together with a poster of the 1998 competition. Please note this lot may be eligible for Droit de Suite
Lot 98
O`Connor (R.). An Introduction to the Field Sports of France. Being a Practical View of Hunting, Shooting and Fishing, on the Continent..., 1846, b&w illusts. to text, publishers book list at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems., 8vo, together with Watson (John ed.), The Confessions of a Poacher, 1893, b&w plts. and illusts., publishers book list at rear, recent half morocco gilt, bound with orig. printed upper wrapper, 8vo, plus Byng (Arthur H & Stephens, Stephen M., ed.), The Autobiography of an English Gamekeeper (John Wilkins, of Stanstead, Essex), 1892, port. frontis., five eng. plts. (as list), untrimmed, orig. gilt dec. printed cloth, rubbed, 8vo, plus three others (6)
Lot 318
* Cricket. Broadside, `Cricket! The opening day of the Gateshead Borough Cricket Club will take place on Whit-Monday on their new Ground near the Flats, on which occasion a Grand Match will be Played between the Married and Single Members. Wickets will be pitched at One o`Clock precisely`, n.d., c.1840, black and white printed broad side with wood eng. vignette of a cricket match, near contemp. manuscript date of 1840 in margin, professional restoration to upper right corner, 285 x 230 mm. An unrecorded piece of cricket ephemera in very good condition. (1)
Lot 410
Lever (Charles). The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, [1839];Charles O`Malley, The Irish Dragoon, 2 vols., [1841]; Jack Hinton, The Guardsman, [1842]; Tom Burke of "Ours", 2 vols., [1843]; The O`Donoghue; A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years ago, [1845]; The Knight of Gwynne..., 2 vols., 1853, together 9 vols., numerous etched plts. (some vols. with addn. etched title pages), occ. scattered spotting, uniform near contemp. half calf gilt, one title label lacking, 8vo, together with [Surtees, Robert Smith], Sporting Tours, 6 vols., c.1870s, hand-col. etched titles and plts., etched illusts. to text, contemp. uniform half calf, gilt dec. spines (one vol. in non-matching half calf), 8vo, with Homer, The Iliad of Homer Rendered into English Blank Verse, to which are Appended Translations of Poems Ancient and Modern by Edward Earl of Derby, 2 vols., 9th ed., 1874, contemp. gilt dec. calf, gilt school armorial to centre of each board, 8vo (17)
Lot 534
Nobel Prize for Physics. A group of thirteen offprints and journal issues by C.G. Barkla (Nobel 1917), c. 1905-26, together with a group of twelve items by and about Max Planck (Nobel 1918) and eleven items by Ernest O. Lawrence (Nobel 1939), mostly orig. printed wrappers and one bound journal, 8vo/4to (36)
Lot 1005
Beckett (Samuel), Williams (William Carlos), McAlmon (Robert) et al. OUR EXAGMINATION ROUND HIS FACTIFICATION FOR INCAMINATION OF WORK IN PROGRESS, original paper wrappers, unopened, lower backstrip bumped and with chipping/short tears to upper and lower wrappers but o/wise a VERY GOOD COPY, 4to, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1929. Includes Beckett`s `Dante... Bruno. Vico.. Joyce`.
Lot 1743
Beerbohm (Max) The dreadful dragon of Hay Hill, 8vo, cloth, d-j, colour frontispiece, 1928, first edition; Hazlitt (W.) Liber amoris, 12mo, wrappers, slipcase, one of 925 copies on Van Gelder, Portland, Maine, 1908; Wilde (O.) The soul of man under socialism, with a preface by Robert Ross, 12mo, cloth, 1919, new impression; Chesterton (G.K.) The everlasting man, 8vo, cloth, [1925], first edition; Forester (C.S., editor) The adventures of John Wetherell, 8vo, cloth, d-j, 1954, first edition; Lewis (C.S.) Surprised by joy, the shape of my early life, 8vo, cloth, d-j, 1955, first edition; Wilson (A.) The middle age of Mrs Eliot, 12mo, cloth, 1958, first edition; Ackroyd (P.) The last testament of Oscar Wilde, 8vo, cloth, d-j, 1983, first edition, and 2 others (10).
Lot 1760
Leisinger (Hermann) Romanesque bronzes, church portals in mediaeval Europe, 4to, cloth, d-j, plates, 1956; Evans (Joan, ed.) The flowering of the Middle Ages, folio, cloth, d-j, plates (some colour) & illustrations, 1966; Swarenski (H.) Monuments of Romanesque art, the art of church treasures in North-Western Europe, 4to, wrappers, plates, 1974; Mazal (O.) Der Aristoteles des Herzogs von Atri, folio, cloth, d-j, colour plates, illustrations, Graz, 1988, and 1 other (5).
Lot 365
A SELECTION OF GREAT WAR PERIOD FAMILY MEDALS for W.J. and W.G. Donald, ERA 1 and ERA 4 Royal Navy, comprising a Queen Victoria narrow suspender Royal Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 2nd Type for W.J. Donald ERA/CL HMS Vivid with remnants o f ribbon, The Great War Service Medals, The Campaign Medal and The Great War of Civilisation and a further Great War Civilisation Medal for Private William French, Tank Corps No.111929 and another Medal and an Empire Games Medal, 24th May, 1926, Toge ther with a series of photographs and documents of the gentlemen pertaining to their military service to include 1. RAF VR Service Notice. 2. Service and Release Book and 3. Engine Room Artificers and Trade Certificates, etc
Lot 213
Early 18th century English fusee verge pocket watch, the movement signed Joseph Windmills, London, circa 1700, pierced engraved balance cock and silver regulating dial over pierced tulip pillars, white enamel dial with black Roman numerals and outer five minute divisions, winding hole at the three o`clock position, gilt metal consular ivory case, 51mm (restoration to the dial)
Lot 236
Early 19th century fusee verge hunter pocket watch, hallmarked London 1800, the movement signed John Hayter, Wells, with engraved balance cock, flat steel balance and regulator, unusually engraved with a hare and snail, the white enamel dial with winding hole at the three o`clock position within a consular plain outer case, 56mm
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