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Click here to subscribeA Mid 18th Century style mahogany ‘Pepys’ bookcase with acanthus carved cavetto cornice, a nine pane glazed door with moulded ovolo astragals, two real and two false brass escutcheons, six graduated drawers below and on short cabriole front legs, 120cm (3ft 11in) wide, 230cm (7ft 6 ½in) high.
SHEPARD, Ernest H. (illustrator). Everybody’s Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669… abridged… and edited by O.F. Morshead. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1926. Limited ‘large paper’ edition of 350 copies, this number 53 signed by the illustrator (223 x 149mm.) Decorative title, 57 plates by Shepard. (Some spotting.) Original buckram (spine faded and bumped at head and foot, small hole to lower cover). – And one other illustrated by Shepard (2).
PEPYS, Samuel: The Diary ... (ed) Robert Latham & William Matthews, 10 ex. 11 volumes, cloth in torn d/ws, 8vo, 1970-83 together with PEPYS, Sam. Diary ... (notes) Richard Lord Braybrooke, 6 vols, cloth, 8vo, 1889. With one volume of Pepys, and a 4 volume set of John Evelyn`s Diary. (21) THIS LOT NOW INCLUDES LINE 84 (PREVIOUSLY LOT 238)
Saint Dominic`s Press. The Jesus Psalter, Ditchling Common, Hassocks, 1927, pp.30, untrimmed, orig. printed wrappers (browned and foxed), upper cover sl. edge-frayed and inscribed Ôex libris: C?cili? Kynaston. ex dono: Hilarii Pepler in festo S. C?cili? mcmxxvii`, 13.5 x 10.5cm (5.25 x 4.5ins), together with Christmas Day with Mr. Pepys, Ditchling, Sussex, [1934], orig. printed green wrappers, returns lightly faded, 15 x 11cm (6 x 4.5ins), plus Golding (Louis), Sorrow of War, Poems, 1st ed., Methuen, 1919, half-title, edges rough-trimmed (foxed), front free endpaper inscribed by the author ÔG.T. Kimmins with greeting Louis Golding 24.4.19 Chailly`, orig. drab boards, spine worn and darkened, with most of paper label lacking, sm. 8vo, plus another copy of the 1st ed., orig. boards with printed paper spine label, in rubbed d.j., torn with sl. loss, plus six others, comprising two by Agatha Christie and four by or co-authored by John Fowles, incl. two signed by him (10)
An ebonised sedan timepiece. Incorporating a watch movement by John Pepys, London circa 1700 the dial and case late 18th century, The gilt full-plate fusee verge pocket watch movement with pierced square section baluster pillars, elaborate foliate pierced backcock for the plain three-arm balance, silvered regulation dial and signed John Pepys, London to backplate, the 3.25 inch convex Roman numeral enamel dial with Arabic quarters to outer track and chased gilt beetle and poker hands within glazed cast brass bezel and turned cavetto moulded surround, the rear with hinged brass cover, 13cm (5ins) diameter. John Pepys is recorded in Loomes, Brian The Early CLOCKMAKERS of Great Britain as born circa 1658, he was apprenticed to John Harris and gained his freedom of the Clockmakers` Company in 1680. He was made an Assistant of the Clockmakers` Company in 1697, Warden from 1705, Master in 1707 and is thought to have died around 1720.
PEPYS, Samuel. Diary and Correspondence… new edition. London: 1865. 4 vols., 8vo (176 x 104mm.) Plates, some folding. (Minor browning.) Contemporary brown calf, the spines gilt in six compartments, morocco lettering pieces to the second and third compartments, the others with repeat decoration in gilt, t.e.g. (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Richard W. Pitt (School prize certificate dated 1866 to vol. I and bindings). - And five others, all leather-bound (9).
A COLLECTION OF NINE MISC. SLEEVED FOLIO BOOKS INCL. CAPTAIN COOK`S VOYAGES, A HISTORY OF THE INDIANS OF THE UNITED STATES BY ANGIE DEVO,T E LAWRENCE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, THE RAJ AN EYE WITNESS HISTORY, THE SOURCE OF THE NILE RICHARD BURTON, THE FATAL SHORE BY ROBERT HUGHES, AND THREE VOLS. PEPYS DIARY
Assorted card games, including `Golliwogg`, by Thomas de la Rue, featuring the creations of Florence and Bertha Upton, 48 cards, boxed; `Noah`s Ark`, by Thomas de la Rue, 52 cards, boxed (box sleeve lacking one side); `Little Grey Rabbit`, by Pepys, 44 cards, boxed; `Woodland Happy Families`, by Pepys, pictured by Racey Helps, 43 (of 44) card, boxed; and others; together with two boxwood dice shakers.
CHARLES II, King of England, and Samuel PEPYS. A manuscript document on vellum in a secretarial hand, signed by King Charles II and countersigned by Samuel Pepys. Whitehall, London: dated 12th April 1678. 1p. folio (222 x 330mm) The document addressed to `Captn. Cyprian Southack` appointing him in command of the `Turky Friggott` [probably the Turkey Frigate], with remnant of seal (torn and neatly repaired affecting the text, some browning and soiling, small holes at folds).
Enid Blytons The Famous Five adventures, Pepys Game. Pack Happy Families, Wangler Heritage Quizz Card Game, Pepys Wild Flower. Sevens. Wills Gold Flake pack, Kan-u-Go, Mamod doll, Crescent Coronation coach, A/F, Lone Star London bus, red, another silver, miniature fan, Signalling Equipment Ltd, S.E.L., boxed, metal funnel, etc
Ballads.- Collection of Old Ballads (A)…, 3 vol., facsimile reprint, plates, contemporary half green morocco, gilt, by Ramage, spines gilt in compartments with five raised bands, t.e.g., others uncut, 1723-25 [c.1870] ? Hindley (Charles, editor) The Roxburghe Ballads, 2 vol., large paper copy, illustrations, occasional spotting, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, rubbed, rebacked preserving original spines, new endpapers, 1873-74 ? Hone (William) Ancient Mysteries Described, especially the English Miracle Plays, frontispiece, some foxing, original printed cloth, rubbed and browned, 1823 ? Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge, vol.II: Ballads, compiled by Helen Weinstein, 2 vol., original cloth, gilt, Cambridge, 1992-94; and c.50 others, miscellaneous but including more ballads, v.s. (c.60) (c.60)
Bindings.- Cervantes (Miguel de) The History of…Don Quixote of the Mancha, translated by Thomas Shelton, 3 vol., contemporary half red crushed morocco prize binding by Henry Sotheran, gilt, 1900 ? Bryant (Arthur) [Works on Pepys], 3 vol., modern brown crushed morocco, gilt, upper covers with central gilt initials `SP`, 1949 ? Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 3 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, modern brown calf-backed cloth, spines gilt, 1874 ? Tristram (W.Outram) Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, frontispiece, illustrations, occasional spotting or foxing, later black morocco, spine gilt, 1893; and c.30 others, bindings, v.s. (c.40)
Toys and games 1920s-1970s: Godall`s Bezique 1920s, La Rue Bezique 1930s, Waddingtons Bezique 1940s and 1970s (2), Muggins, Cribbage boards (2), Ernest Sewell Tiddlywink tennis circa 1920s, Peter Pan lift and stick, large animal puzzle, Matchbox with five half pennies Pepys card games and noughts and crosses and other games, P-G, boxes P-F (16)
CHARLES II, King of England, and Samuel PEPYS. A manuscript document signed by King Charles II and countersigned by Samuel Pepys. Whitehall: dated 16th September 1674. 1p. folio (298 x 185mm.) The document to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, ordering them to enter George Wingreene as Master Cook of the Fireship “Anne & Christopher”. (Mounted on a further sheet of paper, some spotting.) Framed and glazed within a pierced gilt composition section (faults). Provenance: purchased as lot 224 at Sotheby & Co in their sale of Valuable Printed Books, Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and a Russian Manuscript on 24th June 1975, by the father of the current vendor (details verso).
CARDS A number of trade cards, 47 x Soccer Bubble Gum team groups, all with team name written on top of the card, 25 x Chix Famous Footballers, 1 x Wizard card (Trevor Ford) and seven Irish International players from the Pepys International Whist Game (1940s). A total of 80 cards in plastic sleeves. Fair-generally good
A box of rolled texts and mottoes, 19th century. Black Peter miniature pack, Counties of England, I Commit Pepus Series card game, Grandfather`s Whiskers, Waddington 1/- series, The British Empire Norvic, Peter Pan Pepys Series, Kargo Card Golf, Pepys, Bobs-yr-Uncle, Waddington, Players Aviary Cigarette Cards in Players Box, Derby and Grand National Winners, 16 boxes plus box of scrolls
The Counties of England, John Jaques two packs, Englands Glory, advertising pack, Contraband card game, Pepys Series, Waddington, All British Pack with Gloster Metoer 10, unboxed Fortune Telling Pack, Carreras Ltd (incomplete 32 cards), Know your Navy, Royal Navy Careers Service, 2 packs, Spears, Bali Card Game, Harry Potter Trading Card Game and others (17)
[CHARLES II -- THE ROYAL FISHING]. Letters patent issued by Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms, 13 December 1664, grant of arms to the 'Governor and Company of the Royall Fishing of Great Britain and Ireland', in English, illuminated manuscript on vellum, with arms of the company, three-sided foliate border with Walker's arms, large foliate initial and opening letters in gold, on one membrane, 560 x 805mm, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame, small hole affecting text, some slight cockling and fading of ink). Provenance: Frederick Arthur Crisp (1851-1922, antiquarian and publisher); sold Sotheby's, 5 December 1922, lot 409A (accompanying Lever Brothers Ltd correspondence recording the purchase, along with a catalogue entry dated 27 February [n.y.], lot 493A); private collection. The short-lived Company of the Royal Fishing had been incorporated by Charles II on 8 April in the same year, the first governor being his brother, James, Duke of York (Samuel Pepys was a founding member): its privileges included the sole power of licensing lotteries. The issuing herald, Sir Edward Walker (1612-1677), was briefly an owner of New Place, Shakespeare's house in Stratford, which he bought from the estate of the poet's granddaughter in 1675. View on Christie's.com
[Marsh (Henry)] The Second Part of the New Survey first edition engraved frontispiece postscript f. I3 present at end C12 upper corner torn away affecting page number and part of printed side-note short tears to G3 & 9 within text but with no loss sig. H with a few ff. closely trimmed at fore-edge just touching a few side-notes some loss to that on I2 lacking pastedowns contemporary sheep corners worn some fading marking and rubbing remains of later paper labels to spine [ESTC M732A; cf. Blackmer 1083] 12mo J.Best for Henry Marsh 1664. *** Rare. ESTC locates only 3 copies. This second part (or supplement) was published in the same year as the third edition of the first part. It contains further accounts of the history wars government and customs and manners of the empire. Provenance: Bullen Reymes (ink signature to front free endpaper) either Col. Bullen Reymes (1613-1672) army officer MP for Weymouth colleague (and friend) of Pepys on the Fishery Corporation and the Tangier Committee and friend of John Evelyn Sir William Coventry Lord Clifford and Sir Charles Cotterell or his son Bullen Reymes.
Pepys (Samuel) Memoires... comprising his Diary 1659 to 1669... and a Selection from his Private Correspondence edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke 2 vol. first edition half-titles engraved portraits and plates genealogical tables and folding plan advertisement leaf at end of vol.1 contemporary ink signature at head of half-title to vol.1 frontispiece to vol.1 offset on title lightly foxed original boards uncut rubbed rebacked preserving original paper labels on spines (chipped) preserved in modern cloth folders and morocco-backed cloth slip-cases spines gilt very slightly rubbed 4to 1825.
Attributed to Samuel Pepys Cockerell 1844-c.1905- "Paper Chase, Hampton Court"; pen and brown ink, dated Nov 26 59, 13.3x17.8cm: Emmanuel Charles Louis Bénézit, French 1887-1975- "Fresnes, Chemin de la Glaciere"; pencil and watercolour, signed, inscribed and dated 1909, 17x21.5cm Provenance: with Mercury Gallery, London, according to label attached to the reverse of the frame: Attributed to Louisa Margaret Larking, Australian b.1898- Bowl of flowers; pen and black ink and watercolour, two, one dated 11.1.25, 15x20 and 16x16cm: Edgar James Maybery 1887-1966- "Henllys Church, Newport, Mon."; watercolour, signed and titled, 13x19.5cm: Attributed to Thomas Hartley Cromek 1809-1873- "Townsfolk of Sienna"; watercolour, 1.5x5.5cm: English School, early 19th century- "Moderate Breezes"; pen and brown ink and watercolour, inscribed in the margin, 10x13.5cm: British Provincial School, early 19th century- Landscape with a two-wheeled cart; pen and ink and watercolour, 6.7x8.5cm: Attributed to Franz Schüz 1751-1781- River landscape; black crayon on laid, bears inscription, 10.8x20cm: Sholto Johnstone Douglas 1871-1958- Figure on a woodland path; gouache and watercolour, signed with initials, 16.5x24cm (9) (part unframed)
[Pepys, Samuel]. A descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Libray at Magdalene College, Cambridge, edited by J.R. Tanner, 4 vols., pub. Navy Records Society, 1903, pencil annotations to margins, together with Samuel Pepys’s Naval Minutes, edited by J.R. Tanner, pub. Navy records Society, 1926, with, The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys, Transcribed, edited and collated with the Transcription of Mr. W. Matthews by Edwin Chappell, pub. Navy Records Society, 1935, edges untrimmed, uniform publisher’s cloth gilt, 8vo. From the library of Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985), historian and prolific writer. The catalogue of the Pepysian Library volumes contain Sir Arthur Bryant’s copious pencil annotations. (6)
Wing (Donald). Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700, 3 vols., 1st ed., New York, 1945-51, original cloth, spine labels rubbed, 4to, together with First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library Oxford, edited by Margaret Crum, 2 vols., Oxford, 1969, original cloth, price-clipped d.j.s, 4to, plus The Diary of Samuel Pepys... Edited with Additions by Henry B. Wheatley, 10 vols., 1893-99, portrait frontispiece to each, plates, t.e.g., original blue cloth, spines gilt-decorated, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with others including the Complete Works of Thomas Otway, 3 vols., Nonesuch Press, 1926 (limited edition of 1250), Tristan Leclere’s Les Femmes de Theatre du XVIII Siecle, 1911 (in full blue morocco gilt by de Samblane), The Henry Lawes Manuscript, by Pamela J. Willetts, 1969 and A Bibliography of Dr. John Donne, by Geoffrey Keynes, 4th ed., 1973. (25)
L`Espine (Jean de) Excellens discours de I. de l`E 2 vol. in 1 title with woodcut printer`s device [Not in Adams] La Rochelle Hierosme Haultin 1594 bound with L`Espine (Jean de) Traite de la Providence de Dieu... title with woodcut printer`s device [not in Adams] La Rochelle Hierosme Haultin 1594 together two works in 1 vol. contemporary limp vellum lacking ties lightly soiled a very good copy 12mo Provenance: `1664. This booke doth apertayne unto me Jno. Reynolds` (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Bullen Reymes (ink signature to title): either Bullen Reymes of Westminster (1586-1652) courtier and gentleman usher to the Duchess of Buckingham or his son Col. Bullen Reymes (1613-1672) army officer MP for Weymouth colleague (and friend) of Pepys on the Fishery Corporation and the Tangier Committee and friend of John Evelyn Sir William Coventry Lord Clifford and Sir Charles Cotterell or his son Bullen Reymes.
Montaigne (Michel Eyquem de) Les Essais title with woodcut ornament woodcut decorated initials and head- and tail-pieces ink signature to title occasional contemporary ink marginalia and underlining some staining mostly marginal (including a light stain to upper left-hand corner of title) some other light soiling or marking some creasing to corners upper hinge broken fragment of early ms. used in binding contemporary vellum ink ms. title to spine spine creased soiled [Sayce 11 `Leiden A`] 8vo Leiden par Jehan Doreau 1602. *** A rare edition.Provenance: Bullen Reymes (ink signature to title): either Bullen Reymes of Westminster (1586-1652) courtier and gentleman usher to the Duchess of Buckingham or his son Col. Bullen Reymes (1613-1672) army officer MP for Weymouth colleague (and friend) of Pepys on the Fishery Corporation and the Tangier Committee and friend of John Evelyn Sir William Coventry Lord Clifford and Sir Charles Cotterell; or his son Bullen Reymes.
"Farmyard Cries" Pepys series. Illustrated Racey Helps, Paternoster. E.J. Larby cards, "Guiness is Good For You" Waddington advertising pack, "Cow and Gate" advertising Happy Family, "Harts Squeezers. N.Y. consolidated Card Co, Club de Luxe pack by Universal Playing Card Co, London & Leeds. Bicycle new Fan Back pack by U.S. Playing Card Co, two boxed miniature sets 1930`s, Waddington Lexicon and a copy of Bestways Card Games No 185
Attributed to Samuel Pepys Cockerell 1844-c.1905- "Paper Chase, Hampton Court"; pen and brown ink, dated Nov 26 59, 13.3x17.8cm: Emmanuel Charles Louis Bénézit, French 1887-1975- "Fresnes, Chemin de la Glaciere"; pencil and watercolour, signed, inscribed and dated 1909, 17x21.5cm Provenance: with Mercury Gallery, London, according to label attached to the reverse of the frame: Attributed to Louisa Margaret Larking, Australian b.1898- Bowl of flowers; pen and black ink and watercolour, two, one dated 11.1.25, 15x20 and 16x16cm: Edgar James Maybery 1887-1966- "Henllys Church, Newport, Mon."; watercolour, signed and titled, 13x19.5cm: Attributed to Thomas Hartley Cromek 1809-1873- "Townsfolk of Sienna"; watercolour, 1.5x5.5cm: English School, early 19th century- "Moderate Breezes"; pen and brown ink and watercolour, inscribed in the margin, 10x13.5cm: British Provincial School, early 19th century- Landscape with a two-wheeled cart; pen and ink and watercolour, 6.7x8.5cm: Attributed to Franz Schüz 1751-1781- Rover landscape; black crayon on laid, bears inscription, 10.8x20cm: Sholto Johnstone Douglas 1871-1958- Figure on a woodland path; gouache and watercolour, signed with initials, 16.5x24cm (9) (part unframed)
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