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Lot 263
A French Restoration Palais-Royal ormolu and engraved mother of pearl nιcessaire, decorated with cherubs, flowers and masks, the hinged lid with a foliate pierced gallery and centred with a glazed panel containing cut card or paper flowers and leaves, the interior with a mirror to the underside of the lid and with a lift-out tray, containing: a pair of mother of pearl handled scissors, a thimble and a needle case, 8cm high, 16cm wide, 10.6cm deep.
Lot 483
λ A George III rolled paper tea caddy, of navette shape, inlaid with barber's pole stringing and decorated with scrolling leaves and flowers on a green foil ground, the hinged lid with a green stained ivory finial in the form of a pineapple, revealing a lidded compartment inlaid with a burr panel, 19.4cm wide.
Lot 30
Harrer (Heinrich). The White Spider, 1st edition in English, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1959, all photographic plates as called for, ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, original boards, dust jacket (spine panel slightly chipped), 8vo, together with approximately 110 others, 20th-century mountaineering, including Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain (reprint, 1944), Karl M. Herrligkoffer, Nanga Parbat (1954), F. S. Smythe, Camp Six (2nd edition, 1938), and later works (by Chris Bonnington and others), all in original cloth or boards with dust jackets, 8vo (Qty: approx. 110)NOTESNeate H41 (Harrer).
Lot 286
* Slave Trade abolitionists. A small group of items relating to slave trade abolitionists, Joseph Sturge, George Thompson and Henry Vincent, including an autograph letter signed from Lindley Murray to Susanna Horne, 1807, ‘I have just received the most interesting intelligence of the great cause of the abolition of the slave trade, having received its accomplishment. Thos. Clarkson writes the number for it was 283, and only 16 against it. He expresses himself on the occasion, with strong and pious feelings. “I shall leave London (says he) with a heart full of gratitude to the great Parent of all mercies, that he has been pleased thus to render a portion of my life useful to my oppressed fellow creatures”’, some toning, one page with integral address panel and seal tear, tipped onto old album leaf, 4to, together with an autograph letter from Henry Vincent to William Big, 31 July, no year, Nottingham, concerning an election, ‘We desire the presence of deputies from towns where an interest is felt in the success of Joseph Sturge…’, one page with integral address panel, some browning, 4to, plus an autograph letter signed from Joseph Sturge to an unidentified recipient, Birmingham, 23 December 1841, thanking him for the pamphlet which he has read with interest and saying that he will write back next week on the franchise question, tipped onto an album leaf, some spotting, small 4to, plus the signature of George Thompson from the end of a letter (Qty: 4)NOTESLindley Murray (1745-1826), American Quaker lawyer, writer and grammarian. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. Henry Vincent (1813-1929), active in the formation of early Working Men’s Associations in Britain, chartist leader, and anti-slavery campaigner. Joseph Sturge (1793-1859), English Quaker, abolitionist, chartist and activist. He founded the British and foreign anti-slavery society. George Thompson (1804-1878), British anti-slavery orator and activist.
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Lot 350
Hiroshige (Utagawa). Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi [Fifty-three stations of the Tokaido], [c.1950], 56 coloured woodblock prints (including portrait, Nihonbashi, Sanjo Ohashi and the 53 stations), single text-leaf, all mounted to both sides of single continuous card strip concertina-bound between green silk covers, printed label to front panel, rear panel and conjugate section of the card strip containing 3 prints detached, original blue cloth chemise (worn, spine perished), oblong 4to (22 x 30 cm), together with 2 others (concertina-bound panorama on silk, depicting oblong folio, and 3 woodblock albums, part of the same series and numbered 1-3, printed on doubled leaves of lightweight paper, stitched into printed paper wrappers, probably early-20th-century, 8vo) (Qty: 5)
Lot 83
Lawson (John Parker). Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views by Clarkson Stanfield, David Roberts, George Cattermole, J. D. Harding, W. L. Leitch, Joseph Nash, Thomas Creswick, Horatio MacCulloch. Drawn in Lithography by J. D. Harding. With Historical, Antiquarian, and Descriptive Letterpress, 1st edition, Joseph Hogarth [-E. Gambart and Co.,], 1847-50, 10 original parts only, containing half-title, title-page, dedication leaf, 1-168 (of 308) pp. text (Contents and List of Plates, 2 leaves, absent), each in original wood-engraved buff paper wrappers, 51 (of 90) hand-coloured lithographic plates mounted within gilt frames on stiff card leaves as issued, heightened with gum arabic, tissue-guards, part 1 with additional 2 pp. 'Scotland Delineated Advertiser' to rear, tipped-in 'Notice to Subscribers' slip to parts 3-6, laid-in advertisement slip and bifolium to part 6, part 1 front wrapper, half-title and title-page spotted and nicked, occasional marginal spotting to text-leaves, light to moderate spotting to a few plates, chiefly above the skyline and to mounts, but sometimes stronger and more extensive, notably to plates 29 (Linlithgow Palace) and 62 (Falkland Palace), part 1 wrappers split along spine, wrappers of other parts intact but gutta percha fragile, text-leaves loose in parts 3, 4 and 10, each part laid into original patterned green cloth porfolio with green roan backstrip and gilt vignette to front panel, parts 4 and 7 spines worn and cracked, elephant folio (64 x 45 cm) (Qty: 10)NOTESProvenance: Private collection, United Kingdom. Abbey Scenery 493; not in Tooley. The very rare hand-coloured issue, housed in the original wrappers and cloth portfolios, which are unmentioned in Abbey and almost unknown in commerce; the Robert and Maria Travis copy (2005) was catalogued as retaining the wrappers but with 'contemporary cloth' portfolios. Scotland Delineated is considered of the great topographical books of the 19th century, with the splendid hand-coloured lithographs doing justice to the work of some of the finest landscape painters of the day. A full list of extant plates is available on request.
Lot 12
* Broadhurst (Arthur Brooks, 1860-1930). The personal binoculars and fishing priest of an Indian big-game hunter, i.e. 1) a pair of C. P. Goerz Triëder 12x binoculars, serial number 2568, housed in contemporary button-fastened leather case hand-painted with address panel 'Ravenoaks, Penrith, Cumberland' and motifs including a tiger, fish, stags, fish, skull-and-crossbones and swastika, red velvet lining, binoculars and case both rubbed, binoculars in good working order; 2) a wooden fishing priest (approx. length 38 cm), pommel carved in shape of human head, grip carved in ropework pattern and incorporating 2 panels lettered 'A.B.B. Feb: 1895' and 'Simon the Salmon Slayer', notched shaft, grip and shaft sometime split and skilfully braced with 4 strips of metal (Qty: 2)NOTESArthur Brooks Broadhurst (1860-1930) was an officer in the 14th (King's) Hussars, and author of the rare privately-printed journal Three Months Tiger Shooting the Deccan (Secunderabad, 1884). He was born at Cheetham Hill, Lancashire and later lived at Penrith; his father was the industrialist Henry Tootal Broadhurst. He reached the rank of captain and was gazetted adjutant of auxiliary forces in 1888. Broadhurst's authorship of Three Months Tiger Shooting appears only now to have come to light through the emergence of his autograph manuscript (see the previous lot): it was previously attributed only to 'A. B. B.', the moniker carved into the fishing priest.
Lot 86
Rowlands (Henry). Mona Antiqua Restaurata. An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the Ancient Seat of the British Druids..., with an Appendix, containing a Comparative Table of Primitive Words, 2nd edition, Corrected and Improved, London: J. Knox, 1766, folding engraved frontispiece map and 12 engraved plates, errata at rear, worm trails to lower blank margins at front of volume and upper blank margins at rear, contemporary calf, joints cracked, white paint stripe to upper panel of spine, 4to, together with Gastineau (Henry) , Wales Illustrated, in a Series of Views, comprising the Picturesque Scenery, Towns, Castles, Seats of the Nobility & Gentry, Antiquities &c., London: Jones & Co., 1830, engraved title (spotted), 114 engraved views on 57 plates, some toning and spotting, contemporary green half calf by B. Hill of Birmingham (label to upper pastedown), gilt decorated spine with black morocco title label, extremities slightly worn, 4to, with Fenton (Richard) , A Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire, 1811, engraved title with signature to upper margin, folding engraved maps and 30 plates, toning and spotting throughout, modern sheep, extremities slightly rubbed, 4to, and Jones (Harry Longueville) , Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains: accompanied by a Description, Topographical and Historical, of the County of Caernarvon, 1829, 15 lithograph plates (including frontispiece), few light dampstains and occasional spotting, original cloth-backed boards, few dampstains and slight wear, large 4to, plus other Welsh topography and Welsh history related etc. (Qty: 10)
Lot 348
Fenaille (Maurice). Etat General des Tapisseries de la manufacture des Gobelins depuis son origine jusqu'a nos jours 1600-1900, 5 volumes, Paris, 1903-1923, decorative titles printed in red and black, numerous photogravure plates and illustrations, a few light spots, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, all edges gilt, fine contemporary terracotta brown morocco (volume published 1912 sold/bound by Hatchards) , covers with central gilt ruled panel containing decorative motifs and title, spines with raised bands and gilt panelled compartments, occasional light scratches and scuffs, occasional light damp stains, folio (Qty: 5)NOTESLimited edition 144/235.
Lot 419
BRIAN BURGESS (b 1935); an oil pastel on paper, 'Agnus Dei' featuring a moustached gentlemen in hat carrying a sheep, signed lower left and dated 1993, 61.5 x 39.5cm, in kitchen panel frame. † CONDITION REPORT This lot may qualify for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit
Lot 88
A Norwegian silver and enamel necklace, designed as thirteen blue enamel demi lune links, the reverse stamped 'Norway Sterling 925S'. together with a Norwegian silver and enamel ring, a white enamelled flower brooch stamped '925S AM' with matching bracelet, an enamelled panel and link bracelet and an enamelled flower spray brooch
Lot 423
Four gold rings, one set with rectangular amethyst crystal panel, mount stamped 14 ct, ring size I, another signet, size P, ruby and diamond half eternity, size K and amethyst and cz ring, size T, all mounted in 9 ct yellow gold Being sold on behalf of Woking and Sam Beare Hospice. CONDITION14 ct weight 7.3 grams9 ct weight 9.3 grams
Lot 312
Late Victorian memorial ring, central oval panel set with seed pearl cross and black enamel, woven hair in band with letter plaques spelling 'In Memory', inside engraved 'M C F. and J.F Feb. 1875', in 9 ct hallmarked Birmingham 1876, ring size L. CONDITION 9 ct weight 2.4 gramsoval panel missing small section of enamel above cross and to each side of cross'In Memory' plaques missing enamelsolder marks are visible under central panel and there is a small hole inside the shank near the hallmark
Lot 454
Title: Flemish school, after Giovanni Battista Pagi (1554-1627): The return of the Holy Family from Egypt, oil on panel Description: Dimensions: Work: 57 x 41,1 cm Frame: 75,5 x 59,5 cm Panel marked on the backside Traces of a signature under the palm tree on the left. Compare: The painting is a copy (without the angels in the sky and on the left side) after a work of Giovanni Battista Pagi (1554-1627). The original can be seen in the Musei di Strada Nuova-Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, inv. PB 2833 (link). The drawing by Paggi is kept in the National Galleries Scotland, inv. D 3079 (link). Around 1600, the design was available in the Netherlands through an engraving by Cornelis Galle, which is kept in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, object number: RP-P-OB-6593 (link). The image soon became very popular and a very similar composition can be found in works attributed to Gerard de la VallŽe (1596/97-after 1667) and Jan Brueghel (1568-1625) and Hans Rottenhammer (1564-1625), respectively Sotheby's New York City, 3 October 1996, lot 55 and Hampel Kunstauktionen Munich, 19 September 2006, lot 267 (link and link).
Lot 458
Title: Flemish school, follower of Adriaen Jansz. van Ostade (1610-1685): Peasants making merry in an interior, oil on panel Description: Dimensions: Work: 31,2 x 24,8 cm Frame: 42 x 37 cm Compare: Christie's Amsterdam, The Decorative Arts Sale, 22-23 March 2011, lot 226 (variant on the same theme).
Lot 460
Title: Flemish school, follower of David Teniers II (1610-1690): Pipe-smoking drinking brothers in an interior, oil on panel, 18th/19th C. Description: Dimensions: Work: 21,4 x 17 cm Frame: 36,3 x 32,3 cm Monogram 'DT' in the lower left corner (David Teniers). Compare: Sotheby's London, 30 October 1997, lot 139: a similar composition can be seen in the background (link).
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