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Click here to subscribeA Chinese carved and pierced bone cricket cage, of barrel form, 7 cm, a Japanese carved Ivory netsuke, Meiji period, and other items Condition report Report by NGCricket box with chips and losses and has been repaired.Acorn holder is stamped PEPYS & Co 35 POULTRY to the inside. One of the cloisonné casters is missing a cover.
Wartime Board Game 'Bomber Command', with original instructions envelope containing card counters, boxed Pepys Series Horsie-Horsie, Thomas De La Rue & Co Golliwogg A Round Game, Belisha Card Game, Riders Of The Range, Waddy Production Colomino, John Jacques Happy Families, Geo Wright & Co Change For A Shilling, F-G, boxes P-F (qty)
Four various gold fob seals, unmarked, early to mid 19th century, the matrices carved with a crest, a monogram WWP and a baronet's badge; a crest, a baronet's badge and initials GN within a belt of the Order of the Bath; a crest above a shield; and a profile bust of a gentleman, perhaps William Shakespeare; and another in gilt metal with a crest, a shield and a motto (5) The first matrix for Sir William Weller Pepys, 2nd Baronet (1778-1845). The second matrix for Field Marshal Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, GCB (1757-1849), a British Army officer who, after many commands, was finally Commander-in-Chief, India.
Charles II. An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II. after the Battle of Worcester, drawn up by himself, to which are added, his Letters to Several Persons, 1st edition, London, 1766, pale foxing, signature L1 repaired, Castle Goring bookplate, contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco spine label, rolled gilt border to covers, front joint cracked but held by cords, 8vo, together with [Blount, Thomas], Boscobel: or,the Compleat History of his Sacred Majesty's most Miraculous Preservation after the Battle of Worcester, which was fought Sept. 3, 1651, 1st Worcester edition, 1769, folding frontispiece depicting Charles's escape, 2 folding plates depicting Boscobel House and the city of Worcester, light offsetting, old tape-repair to frontispiece verso, contemporary marbled boards, sometime rebacked with sheep, cloth inner hinges, rubbed, tips worn, 8vo in half-sheets, plus Hughes (John), The Boscobel Tracts, relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester and his Subsequent Adventures, 1st edition, London, 1830, engraved frontispiece, 6 engraved or lithographic plates, occasional foxing, uncut in original boards, rebacked and relined, tips bumped, 4to, and Harris (William), An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London, 1766, contemporary sprinkled calf, minor wear, volume 2 spine repaired, 8vo, and 1 other The text of An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II was dictated by the king to Samuel Pepys and printed from his manuscript; the first Glasgow edition, printed the same year, is more usually encountered. Provenance (Blount's work): William Nash Skillicorne (1807-1887), first mayor of Cheltenham (ownership inscription and bookplate); Bonham's Oxford, Eric Quayle Library Part II, lot 729, 4 April 2006. (6)
TILLER-CLOWES FAMILY TROUPE THREE ENGLISH TRICK MARIONETTES, LATE 19TH CENTURY painted wood and fabric, comprising STRETCHING AND SHRINKING CLOWN, unclothed except for neck ruff, white face and red mohican, 68cm x 14cm x 11cm; MOTHER SHIPTON, 94cm x 37cm x 10cm (when assembled) and SCARAMOUCHE, 99cm x 25cm x 25cm (3) Note: Mother Shipton featured as a character in 18th-century plays, and in 1712 the puppeteer Martin Powell advertised the play 'Mother Shipton and the Downfall of Cardinal Wolsey'. The same play was mentioned by the American journalist James Ralph in 1728, writing about the English puppet theatre. From early Tudor times, Mother Shipton was considered a prophetess, both in her local Yorkshire and around the country. Her many prophesies are said to have included the death of Wolsey, the Civil Wars and the Great Fire of London. She appears in illustrations as an ugly old lady with a hooked nose and an upturned chin. Pepys referred to Mother Shipton, with her appearing as a character in 17th-century plays and pantomime as well as in the puppet theatre where she was usually a trick puppet who smoked a pipe. [V&A]
Two Victorian leatherbound books to include Clark's 'New Geographical Dictionary containing a description of all of the Empires, Kingdoms, States and Provinces known in the world', published by Nuttall, Fisher & Divon, Liverpool 1813, and 'The Life and Explorations of Dr Livingstone, the great missionary traveller', Adam & Co of London & Newcastle-upon-Tyne, also a bible and six volumes of 'Diary of Samuel Pepys' (9).
Culpeper (Nicholas). Culpeper's Complete Herbal..., printed by Richard Evans, 18185, 40 hand coloured plates to rear, black and white portrait frontispiece, some spotting and toning, ex libris stamp to foot of title page, modern endpapers, modern red half calf, 4to, together with Braybrooke (Richard, Lord, editor), Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S..., 2 volumes, 1825, 13 black and white plates, bookplate to front pastedown, some spotting and offsetting, uniform modern gilt decorated calf spines retaining contemporary calf boards, boards slightly rubbed with minor loss, large 4to, and Walpole (Horace), Memoirs of The Last Ten Years of the Reign of George the Second, 2 volumes, 1822, 10 monochrome plates, including frontispieces, some minor spotting, bookplates to front pastedowns, rebound uniform contemporary gilt decorated half calf, minor loss to boards and spines, large 4to, plus other 19th century history, biography and reference, including The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D., 4 volumes by James Boswell, 1805, all leather bindings, some modern rebindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/4to (69 volumes) (3 shelves)
Chambers (E.K.). The Elizabethan Stage, 4 volumes, Oxford University Press, 1967, original red cloth gilt in price-clipped dust wrappers, some minor marks and spines lightly faded, together with Vinaver (Eugene, editor), The Works of Sir Thomas Malory, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, OUP, 1967, original blue cloth gilt in price-clipped dust wrappers, a few marks and spines lightly faded, plus Margoliouth (H.M., editor), The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell, revised edition, 2 volumes, OUP, 1971, original blue cloth in frayed dust wrappers, and Pepys (Samuel), The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 volumes (complete), mixed editions, 1977-83, monochrome plates, original uniform green cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a few marks, plus other Shakespeare and 17th century English literary criticism, mostly original cloth in dust wrappers, 8vo, generally G/VG (55)
SHEET MUSIC, selection, inc. Lilac Time, The Merry Widow, Scotland The Brave, Invitation to the Waltz, Handel, Old Favourite Dances, Nutcracker Suite, Carols, Popular Marches, Daily Express Community Songbook, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, News Chronicle Song Book, Samuel Pepys Music Book etc., mixed formats, some covers loose or detached, VR, Qty.
Two boxes of mixed vintage playing cards, to include: Who's Who or Food for Thought war card game; Noddy, Tin-Tin, Black-Out, Biggles; Spelling Bee; Vacuation; Dan Dare; The Secret Seven; Rupert; several 'Pepys Series' Condition Report: All appear to be in used condition. Boxes torn and tatty. Comprises:51 TV/Film child's card games.25 Wartime card/spelling games.1 child's domino set, mostly complete.
Ashton (John). Real Sailor-Songs Collected and Edited by John Ashton, Leadenhall Press, 1891, title printed in red and black with decorative device, numerous black & white illustrations, decorative initials, head and tail-pieces, edges rough trimmed, original half vellum printed boards, some slight dust-soiling, light rubbing to extremities, folio, together with Rollins (Hyder Edward), The Pepys Ballads, 7 volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1929, a few black and white plates and illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original cloth-backed marbled boards, slightly faded to spines, 8vo, with Child (Francis James, edited), The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 10 volumes, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1882-1894, interleaved with blanks some with manuscript notes, occasional dampstaining to margins, bookplate of Milton Waldman, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, contemporary half morocco gilt, slightly rubbed, 4to (limited edition 579/1000), and Auden (W.H. & Kallman, Chester, editors), An Elizabethan Songbook, Lute Songs, Madrigals and Rounds, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1957, decorative vignette to title, musical notation throughout, occasional black and white illustrations, original cloth in somewhat worn dust jacket, 4to, and Karpeles (Maud, editor), Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford University Press, 1974, musical notation and verse throughout, original green cloth gilt, contained in original slipcase, 8vo, and Humphreys (Arthur L.), The Berkshire Book of Song, Rhyme & Steeple Chime, Methuen and Company, 1935, edges rough trimmed, original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label to spine, slightly rubbed, contained in original slipcase, 8vo, plus others similar mostly relating to British and American folk songs and traditional tunes, etc. (38)
Bindings. The Essays of Emerson (The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series), Arthur L. Humphreys, 1908, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt-decorated red full morocco (by Hatchards), inside gilt dentelles, spine very slightly faded and minor stain at foot, 8vo, together with Williamson (Henry), Salar The Salmon, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1935, all edges gilt, modern half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, 8vo, plus other various bindings, including The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited by Henry B. Wheatley, 10 volumes, 1899, bound in half plum morocco gilt by Ramage (spines a little faded), etc., mostly 8vo (15)
*Charles II (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1630-1685). Letter Signed, 'Charles R' at the head, Whitehall, 22 April 1672, addressed to the attorney general, granting the rights and appurtenance of the office of keeper of the pall mall (or pallmall) to the three sons of Laurence Dupuy and settles on them the annual allowance of 00 and the use of a house or cottage, endorsed 'Warrant for a Grant of the Office of Keeper of ye Pallmall at St James to Mr Depuis [sic] & sons in reverc'ion', countersigned at the foot by Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington, manuscript on paper, a little spotting, 2 pages plus integral blank bearing endorsements, folio The game of pall-mall, or pell-mell, played with a mallet rather like croquet, was popular with the aristocracy in the 17th century, and a court had been laid out in part of St James's near to the royal palace and close to what is now the road known as Pall Mall. Samuel Pepys described in his Diary having seen the Duke of York playing the game, and Charles II was himself a regular player. (1)
Carlyle (Thomas). The French Revolution, A History, volumes 1-3, Folio Society, 1989, black and white illustrations, uniform publisher's gilt decorated green morocco in slipcase, all edges gilt, 8vo, together with Labaree (Leonard W., editor), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, volumes 1-16, mixed editions, USA, 1961-72, colour and black and white illustrations, uniform original gilt decorated brown cloth, 8vo, and Churchill (Winston S.), The Second World War, volumes 1-6, The Easton Press, USA, 1989, uniform original gilt decorated black morocco, 8vo, plus other 20th century literature, including The Diary of Samuel Pepys, volumes I-II, edited by Robert Latham & William Matthews, reprint edition, 1971-83, uniform original gilt decorated green cloth, 8vo, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)
*A 19th century Indian carved ivory 'Pepys' style chess set, one side in stained green ivory and the other in natural ivory, king h.10cm Condition Report / Extra Information Green king - base loose.Green bishop - base loose.Green pawns - two with loose bases (one with glue residue), and one with colour loss to base.Green rook - flag is natural colour.White set good.All with minor age/handling wear.
Folio SocietySet of Samuel Pepys Diary, 11 vols, marbled boards but no slip cases, "The Great Domesday Book of Hampshire" 1988, Alecto Historical Editions, No.200 of limited edition of 1,000, folio, cream backstrip, brown cloth, three vols in slip caseStratton "Orders of Architecture", Batsford, dj"Elements of Form and Design in Classic Architecture", various biographies, novels, etc. (3 boxes)
SHEPARD (E.H.). illustrator Everybody's Pepys . . . abridged from the complete text . . . Limited Large Paper Edition. illustrated title & num. plates, e/p. maps; gilt buckram, thick 8vo. 1926. * limitation of 350 numbered copies, signed by the artist. together with some other illustrated books by this artist & others - including Hugh Thomson & Charles Brock.
Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. Third Edition. 1848. Vols 1 - 5 ( Complete ). 8vo. Hb. Full panelled calf with, ribbed spines with maroon & olive labels, gilt. Vol. 1 has frontispiece portrait of Pepys & a fold-out illustration of Pepys handwriting and code for his diary. Vol. 2 has frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Pepys. Volume 3 has fold-out frontispiece view 'View of the Interior of Mr. Pepys Library in York Buildings.' Volume 5 has a fold-out map of 'scheme of the Dutch fleet'. CONDITION REPORT: Bindings have been professionally re-backed and are a little worn and rubbed at the ext. but sound. Some minor sporadic foxing.
Fusee verge pocket watch movement, signed Chas Taylor, Bristol, no. 855, the foliate engraved balance cock with mask and diamond endstone, flat steel three-arm balance, silver regulating disc and cylindrical pillars, the dial with Roman numerals; together with a further fusee verge pocket watch movement for repair, signed Warren Ixworth, no. 837, pierced and engraved balloon balance cock with mask and diamond endstone, flat steel three-arm balance and regulator, the dial with Roman numerals, also a fusee verge pocket watch in need of repair, the movement signed John Pepys, London (3)
*Charles II (King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1630-1685). Letter Signed, 'Charles R' at the head, Whitehall, 22 April 1672, addressed to the attorney general, granting the rights and appurtenance of the office of keeper of the pall mall (or pallmall) to the three sons of Laurence Dupuy and settles on them the annual allowance of 00 and the use of a house or cottage, endorsed 'Warrant for a Grant of the Office of Keeper of ye Pallmall at St James to Mr Depuis [sic] & sons in reverc'ion', countersigned at the foot by Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington, manuscript on paper, a little spotting, 2 pages plus integral blank bearing endorsements, folio The game of pall-mall, or pell-mell, played with a mallet rather like croquet, was popular with the aristocracy in the 17th century, and a court had been laid out in part of St James's near to the royal palace and close to what is now the road known as Pall Mall. Samuel Pepys described in his Diary having seen the duke of York playing the game, and Charles II was himself a regular player. (1)
Tokens, British, London, Clare Market (New Market), halfpenny, IOSEPH ADAMS · CHEESMONGR, frying pan, rev. IN NEW ·MARKE[T 1]669, HIS /HALF /PENY /I M A (W.-; MD.-); Southampton Market, ARTHVR HOOPER FISHMONGER, A M H, flower knot between initials, rev. IN SOVTHAMPTON MARKET, HIS /HALFE /PENNY /1665 (W.-; MD.-), the first weakly struck in parts, fair to fine, the second fair, reverse better (2) Southampton Market is a previously unknown location. It was later called Bloomsbury Market. Samuel Pepys records visits here on 16th April 1667 and 9th December 1668.
Tokens, British, Southwark, Jamaica House, W. P., octagonal halfpenny, 1668, At the Jamaicoe House, man on barrel holding bunch of grapes (MD. London 1560A), fair to fine, exceedingly rare - the only recorded example *ex W. Gilbert This token was first published and illustrated as a London token by William Gilbert in 1927. Subsequent research by Michael Dickinson and Tim Everson revealed that it belongs to Bermondsey. See their article in the Token Corresponding Society Bulletin, June 2016, pp. 404-6. On Sunday April 14th 1667 Samuel Pepys visited the house with his wife, ‘two mercers’ and two of his maids, where the latter ‘ran for wagers on the bowling green.’
COFFEE TRADE: A.L.S., Mason, one page, folio, Cornhill, London, April 1674, to a Gentleman ('Much Hon…'), of Messrs Clayton & Morris, Merchant Bankers. Mason informs his landlords that he had hoped to provide the rent sooner, however, money owed to him by those he sub-lets to have not been forthcoming, promising, 'I shall have it speedly & soe soone as I can receve it I will be with you… I now scarse take dayly ye mony I spend and my charge is upon ye mattr as great as when trade was more rife…' further explaining the problems caused by moving from established premises at Glasshouse hall to a new building, 'you were pleased to treat mee about this place and gave me to hope yt it should bee built fit for mee, by yt tyme ye exchange removed from Gressham Colledge but my hopes and expectations therein were greatly disappointed the building beeing soe long before it was ffinished; the change removing most of all my ould customers had fixt themselves elsewhere…' continuing to discuss sub-lets by stating, 'I was ffaine to let them at more than a 3rd part less than I was one bid for them, & might have had, had they bin ffinisht in tyme, the letting those at an under rate & ye others lieing still dead upon my hands, together wth ye greate decay of my trade, doth threaten nothing less than my ruin of ye wise providence of ye almighty prevent not', concluding his plea, 'I am at a very greate loss in my thought conserning this matter… in hope of a trade to assure it but meeting with a disapoyntement. It is a very greate tryall; but I must submit all to ye lord and yor consideration....' A rare letter referring to the business premises of a London coffee retailer within Britain. With paper loss to the head and foot, partially affecting the text, the letter being professionally laid down to prevent further decay, with age toning and age wear. Accompanied by a full transcription, and the original typed description for the sale of the document sent to Ambrose Heal by George Sherwood, Record Searcher and Archivist, Strand, London, dated 12th August 1927. G, 3London's first coffee house opened in 1652 in St Michael's Alley, near St Michael at Cornhill's churchyard. Samuel Pepys visited the London coffee house on 10th December 1660: 'He [Col. Slingsby] and I in the evening to the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that ever I was there, and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity of company and discourse'. Ambrose Heal (1872-1959) English Furniture Designer and Businessman. Heal collected London historical ephemera, mainly from the 17th and 18th centuries, including records of tradesmen, goldsmiths, calligraphers, signboards and furniture makers.
Playing cards & card games, a collection of 25+ complete packs inc. Ardath Cigarettes, Marston's Ales, Smith's Potato Crisps, Bell's, Taylor Brothers, (Dundee), Mitchell & Butler's etc, card games inc. Fairy Tale Families by Piatnik, Famous Five Adventures by Pepys etc (all in original packets/boxes, some boxes showing some wear but cards vg)
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