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Lot 2514
JEP / Marklin and Fleischmann O Gauge mixed group of Passenger and Goods Rolling Stock consisting of JEP SNCF Pullman Bogie Coaches x 2, Baggage / Brake Coach, Fleischmann 4-wheeled 2nd / 3rd Passenger Coach together with a Marklin Covered Advertising Wagon, 1/30 2nd / 3rd 4-wheel Passenger Coach and Ref 17230 2nd / 3rd Passenger Coach. Good to Good Plus. (7)
Lot 2516
Kitbuilt O Gauge 4-6-2 Loco and Tender BR lined green A4 Class "Mallard" No.60022, 2-rail Finescale Electric. Mallard nameplate to front, running number 60022 to cab sides and British Railways transfer to tender sides. Loco and tender are hand painted, loco with back head and cab detail and fitted with a portescap or similar motor. Good.
Lot 2518
Kitbuilt O Gauge 4-6-2 Loco and Tender BR lined green Peppercorn Class A2 "Happy Knight" No.60533, 2-rail Finescale Electric. Loco and tender are heavily weighted, loco with "Happy Knight" nameplate to smoke deflectors, running number 60533 to cab side and British Railway transfer to tender sides, rear pony unit detached. Loco fitted with a portescap or similar motor. The prototype entered service in 1948 and withdrawn in June 1963, overall Good.
Lot 2519
Kit / Scratchbuilt O Gauge 2-6-0 Loco and Tender BR lined black Class K3 No.61934, 2-rail Finescale Electric. Loco and tender built with plasticard or similar material, tender partially hand painted/British Railways transfer rubbed otherwise generally Good. Loco fitted with a portescap or similar motor.
Lot 2524
DJH Kitbuilt Ref K314 O Gauge 4-6-2 Loco and Tender BR lined green Thompson Class A2 "Robert the Bruce" No.60510, 2-rail Finescale Electric. Loco with "Robert the Bruce" nameplate to smoke deflectors, running number 60510 to cab side and British Railways transfer to tender sides. Loco with cab detail and fitted with crew. Loco fitted with a portescap or similar motor. Good. The prototype was built in 1945 and withdrawn in 1960.
Lot 2531
Kit and Scratchbuilt O Gauge mixed group of Passenger and Goods Rolling Stock consisting of a Eastern Region 4-wheel Horse Box, No.E70154 and E89900 short 4-wheel Horse Box No.E158E and a Long Wheelbase CCT (Covered Carriage Truck) together with 2 further 4-wheel Horse Boxes No.B96305 and W420. All fitted with Finescale wheels and Kadee style couplings, Fair to Good. (6)
Lot 2532
Kit / Scratchbuilt O Gauge group of BR red and cream Passenger Coaches consisting of Gresley style Side Corridor Coach No.E22499 with detailed interior, Flying Scotsman coachboards, Full Brake Coach and Centre Corridor both with the Northumbrian coachboards, 2 x Eastern Region red and cream Passenger Coaches consisting of All 1st and Brake 2nd with Kings Cross Newcastle coachboards together with a Royal Mail Western Region Coach. All fitted with plastic easy build and other bogies, fitted with Finescale wheels and Kadee style couplings. Good. (6)
Lot 2533
Kit and Scratchbuilt O Gauge group of BR maroon Passenger Coaches consisting of a Articulated, Side Corridor No.E70637E Buffet Car No.E1705 (note one bogie detached), Sleeping Car No.E70760. All with Flying Scotsman coachboards, will require some work but generally Fair to Good all contained in a wooden carrying case. (5)
Lot 2534
Kit / Scratchbuilt O Gauge group of BR maroon Passenger Coaches consisting of Side Corridor Brake End No.NE1937, All 1st Centre Corridor No.NE13104, another example All 2nd No.NE25042 both with detailed interior, Full Brake No.E1961 and a 6-wheel Stove No.E70705E. Three with Flying Scotsman/Kings Cross coachboards, most hand painted will require some work, fitted with plastic bogies, Finescale wheels and most with Kadee style couplings. (5)
Lot 2535
Peco and other Commercial manufacturers O Gauge Kit and Scratchbuilt Goods Wagons consisting of Bogie Fish Vans, Horse Box, Brake Van, 16-wheel Flat U Van with load, 5 x Flats Bolster and other Wagons together with a Snowplough and 1 other item. Some will require a little work but generally Good. (12)
Lot 2537
Skytrex / Dapol and other commercial manufacturers O Gauge group of Goods Wagons consisting of Bogie Bolsters x 2, Conflat, Steel Open x 2, Tarpaulin Wagons x 2, Coal Wagons x 3 together with 2 x ICI Salt Wagons, Salt Division Wagon and a Open Wagon, some will require a little work otherwise generally Good Plus to Excellent. (16)
Lot 2538
Scratch and commercially built O Gauge Finescale group of Goods Wagons consisting of NE Long Wheelbase Gas Cylinder Wagon, Presflo Cement Wagon, 2 x 4-wheel Bulk Cement Wagons, all metal bodied generally Good to Good Plus, the lot also includes Modern Day Darstaed Bogie Goods Wagons consisting of BP Petroleum Spirit Bogie Tanker and a Weltrol Wagon. Excellent. (6)
Lot 2539
Kit / Scratch and commercially built O Gauge Finescale group of Goods Wagons consisting of Long Wheelbase Hopper, Loco Coal Wagon, Brake Vans, Trestle EA Wagon, Steel Open, Plate Wagons, Diesel Brake Tender in BR green and other items, condition varies but generally Good with some items weathered and others will require a little work. (19)
Lot 2541
O Gauge group of either Kitbuilt or Scratchbuilt BR Bogie Wagons including 3 x Salmon Flat Wagons one complete with sectional track load; Bauxite Borail. A little heavily painted generally Good Plus and 2 x BR Carflat each with a 3-car load of 1/43rd scale Corgi/Vanguard or similar British Cars (see photo), both nicely constructed and painted with plenty of detail Excellent to Near Mint.
Lot 2542
Hornby / Bachmann and Scratchbuilt O Gauge group of Station Buildings consisting of a Hornby Hobbies Skale Regis ceramic station building detailed stone work windows and doors together with 2 x Bachmann T Whalley shop fronts, large engine shed with additional base added in plasticard to match the ceramic style brick building together with a 2-road Scratchbuilt Engine Shed constructed of wood with brick effect external appearance, includes details such as guttering and has been weathered. An ideal lot for the O Gauge modeller. (4)
Lot 2543
Kit and Scratchbuilt O Gauge group of Railway Accessories consisting of a 6-track damaged Footbridge measuring 33" in length and 10" in width (84cm x 26cm) approx painted in maroon and yellow with grey stairs and walkway areas, an incomplete trestle bridge, Scratchbuilt signal box with detailed interior together with a Scratchbuilt coaling stage with detailed upper area with coal trolleys and figure. Together with 2 x Scratchbuilt town style houses together with a 2-rail motorised turntable mounted on wooden board measuring 24" across approx with detachable centre section. All will require a little work but generally Good to Good Plus. (7)
Lot 2549
Corgi Bassett-Lowke Modern Issue O Gauge Ref 990021 Limited Edition 2-6-0 Loco and Tender LMS maroon No.2945, Live Steam, one of a limited production No.559 of 750 produced, unused Near Mint to Mint box with instructions, display track all contained in a Excellent Plus box with outer mailer.
Lot 2583
Peco / Kit and Scratchbuilt O Gauge mixed group of items consisting of Lima and Kitbuilt Goods Wagons x 8, packets of Peco chairs and rail, 4 x Cooper Craft Wagon kits, small quantity of Peco Streamline, track, quantity of steel rail, quantity of scratchbuilt card and plasticard/wooden buildings, part-dismantled large scale plastic bodied Engine Shed, quantity of 2-rail track mounted on wooden boards together with a box of Scenic Material, all has suffered some damp damage and will require sorting. Condition Poor to Fair all contained in 6 boxes. (Qty)
Lot 78
Hailey (Clarence) Thoroughbred Sires, 100 photogravure plates on 64 thick paper sheets mounted on stubs, tissue guards, tables of pedigrees at end, occasional light foxing, heavier to first few leaves, rear endpapers browned, hinges tender but holding, original textured cloth, gilt, worn at spine ends and corners, otherwise lightly rubbed, Newmarket, 1908 § D'Allemagne (Henry-René) Sports et Jeux D'Adresse, plates, some hand-coloured, tissue guards (some creased), illustrations, bookplate of J. O. M. Clark, original decorative boards, spine sunned, a little rubbed and soiled, Paris, [1903], oblong folio & 4to (2)
Lot 89
Tennis.- Luze (Albert de) La Magnifique Histoire du Jeu De Paume, number 24 of 100 de luxe copies on Velin d'Arches paper, with subscriber's name "Mr. J. O. M. Clark" specially printed on limitation leaf, half-title, plates and illustrations, slight creasing to fore-margin towards beginning, bookplate of James Clark, upper hinge cracked but firm, contemporary half red morocco, gilt, rubbed, joints starting at head, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to, Bordeaux & Paris, 1933.
Lot 13
* GEORGE DEVLIN RSW RGI ROI ARWS FRSA (SCOTTISH 1937 - 2014),VIEW, SOUTH OF FRANCE watercolour on paper, signed image size 39cm x 49cm, overall size 71cm x 79cm Mounted, framed and under glass. Artist's label verso.Note: George Devlin was one of Scotland's most successful 20th century artists with numerous exhibitions in Scotland, throughout the UK and around the world. Corporate collections include: De Beers (South Africa and Switzerland); Robert Fleming Holdings; Dutch Water Board; London Stock Exchange; Arthur Andersen and Co; Scottish Television; Universities of Leicester, Glasgow and Strathclyde, Essex, Dunbartonshire, Argyll and Tayside; Edinburgh City Collection; Royal Bank of Scotland; Clydesdale Bank; Lloyds TSB; Bank of Scotland; J. O. Hambro; Mason Owen; Dunedin Trust Management; Dunfermline Building Society; Argyll Group; Scottish Friendly Society; United Distillers; Teachers Whisky; Edrington Group and Clan Donald Centre; Cunard (QM2), Dunbartonshire Educational Trust. Private collections include: Sir Tim Rice; Sir James Black; Earl Haig; Lord Maclay; Duke of Bedford and numerous collections in the UK and worldwide.
Lot 47
* HELEN M TURNER PAI PPAI (SCOTTISH b. 1937),REFLECTIONSoil on canvas, signed, titled label versoimage size 72cm x 76cm, overall size 85cm x 90cm Framed and under glass.Note: Helen Turner was born in Glasgow. When she left school she joined the design studios of James Templeton and attended Glasgow School of Art in the evenings from 1952 to 1960. There she studied drawing, still life and portraiture under Trevor Makinson and William Gallagher. Continuing her career with James Templeton and other companies, she became a documented designer in Aubusson and Beauvais, travelling extensively throughout the world. Helen's designs can be seen in the Waldorf Astoria, Turnberry Hotel, San Francisco Opera House, The New York Plaza, P & O Cruise Liners and many Casinos throughout the world. Eventually, she gave up her design work to become a full-time artist. Helen was elected President of the Paisley Art Institute from 2001 to 2004. She is also a member of the Glasgow Society of Women Artists and exhibits regularly in galleries throughout the UK. Helen won the East Linton Award in 1972 and 2004 and was commended in the Soroptomists' International Fine Art Award in 1992. In 2000 she became a Diplomat of the Paisley Art Institute [PAI]. Helen has work in the corporate collections of Robert Fleming Holdings (The Fleming Collection), Dunedin Fund Managers, Aberdeen Asset Management, the TSB, South Ayrshire Council, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Ramco Oil and Baillie & Gifford. Known private collectors include Lord Morton and Lord McLean.
![[Eastern Orthodox Church]. Probably the Great Horologion, or Book of Hours, printed for the Greek Orthodox Church i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/120ad9b2-7d6c-4223-86cb-af73010f890f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 904
[Eastern Orthodox Church]. Probably the Great Horologion, or Book of Hours, printed for the Greek Orthodox Church in Venice, two parts in one, [Venice: Nikolaos Glukus/Nicholas Glykei/Nicolaos Glykes], 1785, printer's device, ornamental woodcut title-page, illustrated with a further 6 woodcuts, black-ruled, pp: 263, [1] (blank); 168, signatures: A¹², B?, C¹², D?, E¹², F?, G¹², H?, I¹², K?, L¹², M?, N¹², O?, P?; a-b¹², c?, d¹², e?, f¹², g?, h¹², i?, contemporary black shagreen gilt over wooden boards, worn with some losses, all edges gilt, lacking clasps and ffep, 12mo. Provenance: Revd. C. Comberbach, 19th century book label to recto pastedown. Probably the Roman-Catholic convert Charles Comberbach, at one time chaplain to the recusant Thomas Stonor, Stonor Park, Oxfordshire.
![British India and the Raj. [Amir Khusrau/Amir Khusrow & Mir Amman (translator)], [The Tale of the Four Dervishe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/c4f771aa-a855-4439-99b8-af7300bfe098/468x382.jpg)
Lot 938
British India and the Raj. [Amir Khusrau/Amir Khusrow & Mir Amman (translator)], [The Tale of the Four Dervishes/B?gh o Bah?r/Kissah-i Chahar Darwesh], [?Delhi], [c. 1860], printed in Urdu, contemporary ?English quarter-calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, red-speckled edges, 8vo, another book, unrelated, Judaica, 12 numbers of an illustrated Jewish periodical, bound as one, 1888, printed in ?Hebrew, calligraphic overall title-page printed in gilt, presumably an annual run complete in itself, in-text illustrations, contemporary quarter-roan over cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine, 4to, (2). Provenance: 1st: ? presumably the Sgt. William Forbes Mitchell, formerly of the Crimean War and accidentally of the Indian Mutiny/Rebellion of 1857, whose 1857-59 memoirs (London, 1893) captured the public's attention. ; No. 3715/William Mitchell/No 8 Company/HM's 93rd Highlanders/Rawul Pindee [i.e. Rawalpindi, Pakistan]/28th October/1860, ink manuscript ownership inscription, another later, to verso: Wm Mitchell/Commissariat Department/Campbellpore [sic, Campbellpur, but i.e. Attock, Pakistan]/13th September/1861.
Lot 942
Byron. ?Byron (Lord) & Volpi (Odoardo, editor and translator; ?pseudonym of Shannon (Edward N.)), Arnaldo; Gaddo; and other Unacknowledged Poems by Lord Byron, and Some of His Contemporaries, sole edition, [issued with] The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volpi's translation [i.e. Shannon's], two parts in one, Dublin: Published by W.F. Wakeman, 1836, half-titles, complete, pp: xii, [2] (contents leaf), 184, [2] (Gerbino the Beautiful divisional title leaf), 185-296; xxxiii, 66, [2] (errata/colophon leaf); signatures collate: [A?], B-M?, N?, O-U8; *?, *?, 2A-2D?, [2E²], lacking ffep, contemporary publisher's cloth over boards (chipped & split, with slight wear), ex-lib, with their institutional plates/labels and stamps, 8vo. Generally attributed to Shannon, see O'Donoghue, D.J., The poets of Ireland, Dublin [etc.] 1912, p. 420, however, the parody has also been attributed to Edward Fox. The only two auction records we have been able to trace for this book are for 1894 and the Barnwell copy in 1921; the latter was listed as 'EXCESSIVELY RARE,' which, given the paucity of records, we are inclined to agree with.
![Fine English Restoration Binding, and a Trinity of Early Female Ownership. The Book of Common Prayer [...], Together wit](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/ecb00423-e183-430a-b01e-af7300d67198/468x382.jpg)
Lot 978
Fine English Restoration Binding, and a Trinity of Early Female Ownership. The Book of Common Prayer [...], Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David [...], London: Printed by the Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1680, [bound with] The Whole Book of Psalms: Collected into English Metre, London: Printed by J.C. for the Company of Stationers, 1676, separate titles: BCP black-ruled, Psalms with decorative woodcut border, BCP with the Royal Arms of Charles II to verso of [X4], each part printed in double-columns, signatures collating: A-U?, X?; A-E?, BCP: signature B4 defective with loss of text, signatures C4-D tatty with marginal chipped losses of letters, signatures E8 and O ditto, BCP and Psalms with some toning and occasional marginal stains in places, however mostly bright and fresh; 4ff of contemporary ink manuscript devout annotations to blanks (both recto and verso), by Frances Lloyd (the book's second owner, c. 1687), of apparent original thought and composition, including the Lord's Prayer, the creed, a short catechism, an exploration of the virtue of patience, etc., the text with further marginalia, - in the same lady's hand - but brief and mostly with some slight loss, the verso with a naive pen-and-ink sketch of a church and a pencil portrait, possibly of Thomas Roberts, 1749/50, above a marsupial, bound in contemporary red morocco, probably by Queen's Binder A (?possibly William Nott, from whom Pepys bought/commissioned a binding), richly gilt, the covers with a design of linked 'drawer handles' around floral bosses, tulips, other meandering scrolling foliage, and stars, many petals, volutes and scrolls painted black, within a blind-ruled fillet border, traces of the binder blind scoring the covers into quarters, flat spine of six compartments, alternately tooled and gilt with foliage and geometric motifs, divided by raised bands, marbled endpapers, lacking ffep, 8vo (18cm x 11.6cm). Provenance: 1) Mary Temple, presumably the original purchaser of the book &/or its binding; contemporary ink MS inscription of c. 1680 to recto blank; 2) 'Frances Lloyds (sic) Book given her by her worth friend ye Lady Temple 1687'; ink MS ditto; 3) 'Dorothy Myddelton her Book Left her from her aunt Frances Lloyd 1725'; ditto. The binding is in very good, unrestored condition. The upper-cover joints are just beginning to split, though they're stable. The corners are gently bumped. A trifle of rubbing here and there, and some very light losses lost in the overall intricacy of the design. The bottom two spine compartments have former small wormholes, nothing too alarming. The boards very gently bowing. BCP: signature B4 defective with loss of text, signatures C4-D tatty with marginal chipped losses of letters, signatures E8 and O ditto. Both the BCP and the Psalms with some toning and occasional marginal stains in places, however mostly bright and fresh.
Lot 989
Guattani (Giuseppe Antonio), I piu? celebri quadri delle diverse scuole italiane riuniti nell'Appartamento Borgia del Vaticano, first edition, Roma: Stamperia de Romanis, 1820, 41 line-engraved plates by Giuseppe Craffonara, each with accompanying letterpress leaves, some foxing in places, contemporaneous English red quarter-morocco gilt over marbled boards, rubbed with some loss, folio, Paton (J. Noel, R.S.A, illustrator), The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow, For the Members of the Royal Association of the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland, 1860, original publisher's green cloth gilt, folio, Maclise (Daniel, R.A.), The Story of The Norman Conquest, Art-Union of London, 1866, split with some slight movement, original green cloth gilt, oblong folio, (3). Provenance: 1st: George Philips, early 19th century armorial bookplate.
![Miscellaneous. [Behn (Aphra)], Love-Letters from a Nobleman to His Sister; Mix'd with the History of their Adventures, [third](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/39944de6-a124-4ff5-85e9-af7f011383ac/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1025
Miscellaneous. [Behn (Aphra)], Love-Letters from a Nobleman to His Sister; Mix'd with the History of their Adventures, [third edition, London: Printed for Daniel Brown, et al., 1708], three-parts in one as issued with continuous register, lacking overall title-page [A], lacking signatures [G7-H8] and everything following Kk, [M8] & O torn with no loss of text, calf (tired, faults), 8vo, Primatt (William), Accentus redivivi: or, A Defence of an Accented Pronunciation of Greek Prose […], sole edition, Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, For the Author; and sold by T. Osborne, et al., 1764, contemporary calf, chipped losses, back split and loosening, 8vo, The Monthly Repository, volume IV: January to December, 1804, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, Brown’s Mathematical Tables, fourth edition, Edinburgh, 1826, contemporary sheep (disbound), 8vo, The Works of Hogarth, two volumes, n.d., disbound, 8vo, Leigh’s New Pocket Road-Book of England and Wales, 1837, contemporary green roan gilt (split at front gutter), 12mo in 6s, The Remains of Henry Kirke White, Glasgow, 1825, contemporary black calf, 12mo in 6s, Peregrine Pickle, Cooke’s edition, four-volume set, n.d., contemporary calf, 12mo, Holy Bibles, six volumes, including D’Oyly’s and Mant’s edition, various imprints and dates, leather and part-leather bindings, folio & 4to, further bindings, etc., (32).
Lot 1092
Travel and Ethnography. O'Connor (V.C. Scott, Comptroller of Assam), The Silken East: A Record of Life and Travel in Burma, two-volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1904, colour plates and other illustrations, original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial gilt, top-edge gilt, 8vo, Kipling's Beast and Man in India, first edition, 1891, original cloth, faults, 8vo, Inchbold (A.C.), Under the Syrian Sun, two-volume set, first edition, London: Hutchinson and Co., 1906, illustrated, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, 8vo, two copies of Stein's Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan, facsimile editions, Mushussu Press, 2000, illustrated, pictorial bindings, 8vo, Phillott (Lieut.-Colonel D.C., translator), Khwab O Khayal, second edition, Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, and Published by the Author, 1914, original green cloth, 12mo, The Valmiki Ramayana, volumes IV & V only, Oriental Institute, 1965-66, cloth, 4to, further works, including India, Kashmir, Tibet, Mount Everest and mountaineering, Siam, The Silk Road, Arabia, Freya Stark, etc., (40)
![Wales. Jones (Thomas), Geiriadur saesonaeg a chymraeg. An English and Welsh Dictionary [...], third edition, Clwydian Pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c8165be0-1c73-412f-a81e-af7300b3c311/2703cc32-def9-4373-9d42-af7300dd6052/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1106
Wales. Jones (Thomas), Geiriadur saesonaeg a chymraeg. An English and Welsh Dictionary [...], third edition, Clwydian Press: Denbigh, Printed and Sold by Thomas Gee, et al., 1826, later 19th century half-calf over marbled boards, 12mo in 6s, Hughes (Robert), Y Gell gymysg, sef Gwaith awenyddawl [...], Albion-wasg: Caernarfon, Argraffwyd gan P. Evans, dros yr Awdwr, n.d. [c. 1820], 172pp, [bound with] Jones (Parch. John Eiddon), Cyfrol goffadwriaethol o weithiau barddonol [...], Blaenau Ffestiniog: Argraffwyd yn Swyddfa'r "Cronicl" Gan Jones & Evans, 1874, mottled calf, enclosing the second title's wrappers, 8vo, three 19th century sammelbands of Welsh titles provincially printed in Wales, another volume similar, Prichard (T. Jeffrey Llewelyn), Welsh Minstrelsy [...], first edition, London: Messrs. John and H.L. Hunt, 1821, later buckram, 8vo, (7).
Lot 1107
War Poetry. Arkwright (John Stanhope): two copies, The Supreme Sacrifice, And Other Poems in Times of War, first editions, second impressions, London: Skeffington and Son, Ltd., 1919, illustrated by Bruce Bairnsfather, Wilmot Lunt, Louis Raemaekers, and L. Raven-Hill, one with the dustjacket over original grey cloth, the other green cloth only, 8vo, the Order of Service for the poems' dedicatee, The Right Honourable Viscount Milner, K.G. (1854-1925), Westminster Abbey, Monday, May 18th, 1925, 12 noon, [8]pp, 8vo, a letter to Arkwright from The Manchester & County Bank Limited, enclosing a copy of the order of service for their post-World War One memorial service, in which "The Supreme Sacrifice" was sung, manuscript music scores for "O valiant Hearts" & "The Supreme Sacrifice", the vellum manuscript 'Address Presented to John Hungerford Arkwright, Esquire on the Birth of his Son and Heir John Stanhope Arkwright, 17th September 1872', 1pp, hand-scrivened and illuminated on vellum, 22.5cm x 17cm, loosely-enclosed in a contemporary morocco case, gilt-lettered hinged cover, Times cuttings, etc., (archive collection). Provenance: the Arkwright family of Kinsham Court, Herefordshire.
Lot 1128
Americana. Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori (1762-1829), a prince of Timbuktu, sold into slavery in Federal America, and Henry Inman (1801-1846), the artist who captured his likeness before he returned to Africa. 1pp of ink manuscript, 9 lines of calligraphic script by the amir 'Abd al-Rahman', under which is inscribed and autographed: 'This was written in my presence, and at my request by "Abduhl Rahhaman" with a reed pen. The history of this man's recovery of freedom was the subject of much interest at the time. An engraving was made of his head from a painting in Water Colours by me./H. Inman/N. York. Oct:r 15th 1828', to verso: 'Arabic Writing by them Moorish Prince. N. York. 1828. Presented to R. Gilmor Esq:r by his obliged friend and servant H. Inman, Baltimore July 9th 1833', corner-mounted, among other related papers, the MS. is accompanied by a typed and signed letter from Professor Nabia Abbott (1897-1981), of The Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago, thanking Dr Pleadwell for the enclosed photostat, one of several included within the lot, and commenting that the author (i.e. Abdul Rahman) 'is barely literate. His phraseology is odd, his spelling and grammar atrocious, and his writing unformed and inferior./ [Abbott then supplies a transcript, where possible:] The phrases, so far as I can make them out read: His name is Abd al-Rahman (ibn) Ibrahim. Allah bless Mohammed, his family, and his companions. The learned sheikh said:- "To Mecca and Medina O Allah and by Allah." Adam (?) went to Mecca...He said...Saturday...In the name of Allah the merciful the compassionate. Praise be to Allah. His name is Abd al-Rahman and...and the man...', the whole within an archive folder, (collection). The fate of Ingram's portrait of the enslaved amir is currently unknown, and it formed the subject of most of Pleadwell's correspondence in this lot, including with Dixton Wecter (1906-1950), "the first professor of American history", while was a research fellow at the Huntington Library; the subject of the amir-slave and his portrait captivated Mark Twain (1835-1910) and his imagination, whose correspondence Wecter edited. The Reverend Henry Clay Trumbull (1830-1903) had told Twain all about it and showed him the portrait, presumably then in his possession, and Pleadwell corresponded with acquaintances of Trumbull's daughters in the dashed hope of locating the original painting. Provenance: Captain Dr Frank Lester Pleadwell (1872-1957), physician, author and editor of medical texts, bibliophile and collector; the mounted life with his collection label, the Pleadwell Collection, Honolulu.
Lot 746
Art History. Da Vinci (Leonardo), A Treatise of Painting, Translated from The Original Italian, And adorn'd with a great Number of Cuts. To which is prefix'd, The Author's Life; Done from The Last Edition of the French, first English edition, London: Printed for J. Senex, at the Globe in Salisbury Court; et al., 1721, complete: A-O?, 35 engraved plates, of which 4 are folding; 1 full-page plate with a central hole, contemporary speckled calf gilt, joints cracked but holding, chipped spine and corners, but generally good, 8vo.
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