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Click here to subscribeA Tri-ang Minic Chrysler Airflow saloon pre-war green good-fair condition (lacking one tyre; untested); an inlaid wooden cribbage board with retailer's label for Gamage's; a pack of playing cards promoting the British India Steam Navigation Company; a Pepys 'Kargo' golf card game; an Independent Coal & Transfer Co. 'Moving Puzzle'; four 20th century souvenir fans; and other items.
A collection of games including Jiggle-Joggle the frog race game boxed; Rolo-Boko boxed; Hustled History boxed; the Fred Perry Wimbledon Game by Pepys boxed; a set of 'Old Holborn' promotional plastic dominoes in original yellow tin; Oscar the Film Stars Rise to Fame; Cooncan cased; and others.
SAMUEL PEPYS: THE DIARY, Eds R C Latham and W Matthews, 1970-83, 11 vols, orig cl d/ws + HENRY B WHEATLEY: SAMUEL PEPYS AND THE WORLD HE LIVED IN, 1880, 1st edn, orig décor bds gt + ARTHUR BRYANT, 4 ttls; SAMUEL PEPYS THE MAN IN THE MAKING, 1933, 1st edn, orig bl stpd cl; SAMUEL PEPYS THE SAVIOUR OF THE NAVY, 1938, 1st edn, orig bl sptd cl; SAMUEL PEPYS THE YEARS OF PERIL, 1947, 1st edn, orig cl; PEPYS AND THE REVOLUTION, 1979, 1st edn, orig cl d/w, (16)
Pepys (Samuel). Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. ... Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the Original Short-Hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke, 2 vols., Henry Colburn, 1825, engraved frontispieces, six other eng. ports., one engraved plate, one double-page plan, two pedigrees, and a facsimile of Pepys's shorthand, the plates offset, some other light spotting, contemp. diced calf, rubbed, joints restored, 4to The first attempt at publication of Pepy's Diary. (2)
WALTON, Izaak - The Compleat Angler, illust. by Arthur Rackham, 1st edition thus. London 1931, black and gilt cloth, PEPYS, Samuel - Everybody's Pepys. illust. by E. H. Shepard, London 1926, numbered 8/350, and signed by Shepard, original cloth, spine faded, spotted, together with six other titles. (8)
A fine and rare Charles II turned lignum vitae wassail bowl and cover late 17th century with a ring turned lid incorporating a smaller goblet shaped vessel which has a baluster turned stem the conforming bowl with ring turned decoration the squat baluster turned stem on a raised and stepped base the interior features an old repair where a brass rivet has been used bowl; h.27.5cm. diam.25cm.; with lid; h.44cm. The goblet shaped vessel on the top may well have had a lid and was possibly a spice box see Owen Evan-Thomas Domestic Utensils of Wood Stobart Davies 1973 p.20 pl.7 for a similar example incorporating a spice box on baluster turned stem. Evan-Thomas also illustrates a very similar bowl and cover (pl.10) which lacks the bowl of the spice container and features stumps from former finials. The example offered here features three filled holes to the lid which probably held finials which would have been used as stands to support tumblers. The words 'waes-haile' 'was-haile' or wass-heil' have all passed into our language as 'Wassail'. Wassailing is a term used to describe community drinking usually associated with festive occassions. It is sometimes translated as 'be whole/be well'. Recipies vary according to local customs. Good ale or in some cases wine were the bases to which sugar cloves and cardamons were added together with a small roasted apple for each drinker. Egg white was added to produce a froth giving rise to the name 'lamb's wool'. There is an entry in Samuel Pepys diary on the 21st of November 1660 in which he writes 'lay long in bed this morning my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner sent me a cupp of lignum vitae'. This reference is interesting for two reasons through the fact that wood turners were working with this prized wood and that it was a worthy gift exchanged within fashionable society. This suggests that worth was attached and that this exported material would have been costly. Pepys certainly felt it worth mentioning it in his diary. à W
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles II, Coronation 1661, the official Silver Medal, by Thomas Simon, crowned bust right, wearing ornate lace cravat, rev the King enthroned, crowned by Peace, 30mm (MI 472/76). Nearly extremely fine, lightly toned. The medal struck for distribution at the Ceremony on Tuesday, 23rd April, 1661, as noted by Samuel Pepys, “And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any.”.
RAY (JAMES) A Compleat History of The Rebellion, From its first Rise, in 1745, to its total suppression at the glorious Battle of Culloden, in April, 1746, engr. portrait plate, 2 battle plans, contemp. calf, spine worn, sprung, missing endpapers, browning, Whitehaven, Printed for the Author, 1755--DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS, F.R.S., 4 vols, 4th ed. revised and corrected, plates, folding map, orig. dec. cl. gilt, spines faded, 1 joint split but still tight, headcaps worn, 1854 LOCATION B
Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley, 10. vols., Bell & Sons, 1903 4, numerous ports., plts. and tables etc., light spotting to fore edges, t.e.g., handsome contemp. full calf with gilt dec. spines and contrasting morocco labels by Riviere & Son, 8vo See illustration inside front cover of this catalogue. (10)
Binding. Everybody's Pepys, the Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669... illust. Ernest H. Shepard, 1932, numerous b & w plts., modern full crushed and polished green morocco gilt by Riviere, spine sl. faded, upper cover with coloured leather onlay depicting Pepys, contained in cloth slipcase, 8vo (1)
Scrapbook. A scrapbook of chromolithograph illustrations and cards, dated Christmas 1882, approx. 125 attractive chromos laid-down onto thirty-nine album leaves (inc. many with a festive Christmas theme), hand drawn decoration and poems etc. to numerous leaves, some damp staining to first & last leaves, contemp. gilt dec. cloth, damp soiled, folio, together with Pepys (Samuel), Diary of Saml. Pepys with Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke and with Numerous Portraits, 6 vols., 1889, b & w plts., orig. two tone cloth, darkened to spine and slight wear, 8vo, plus other 19th/20th c. literature etc. (a carton)
Miscellaneous antiquarian, literary sets, bindings, etc., incl. The Book of Common Prayer, 1762, The Newcomes, 2 vols. & The Virginians, 2 vols. by W. M. Thackeray, 1st eds., 1854-55 & 1858-59, Memoirs of That Great Favourite, Cardinal Woolsey, 1706, Cecilia: or, Memoirs of an Heiress by Fanny Burney, 4 vols., 9th ed., 1809, Histoire des Croisades, par Michaud, 6 vols., 1841, Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, ed. Richard Lord Braybrooke, 5 vols., 2nd ed., 1828, Works of Lord Byron, 17 vols. (complete), 1833-35, etc., all leather-bound, mainly 8vo (3 shelves)
PEPYS (S), DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPYS... 4 vols (Braybrooke ed) quarter leather and marbled boards, royal 8vo, 1887; and 4 vols (only) from another edition; MACAULAY (LORD), CRITICAL & HISTORICAL ESSAYS ... 3 vols, quarter leather and marbled boards, 1849; THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE, volumes I-IV, 1860/61 (15)
Fielding (Henry), The History of Tom Jones a Foundling, 1932 2 vols, in dw's. With: Diary & Correspondence of Samuel Pepys (4 vol set, 1867, green cloth gilt); Longfellow's Poems (1902, decorated vellum spine); Ben Jonson Selected Works (Nonesuch Press nd); Swift (Nonesuch Press 1934); The Poetical Works of Wordsworth (1905, Maud Cunard's copy); Collected Verse of Rudyard Kipling (1912, 2nd edn); & Ingpen's The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2 vols, 1914-15) (13)
WHEATLEY (HENRY B.) The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wheatley edition, out of series copy from a run of 1000 copies, 18 vols., plates, contemporary half red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., uncut, spines rubbed and worn, one or two chipped with loss, 8vo, Boston, 1896; together with a set of British Poetry works, (qty).
Autograph Album. Approx. 300 cut signatures, mostly 19th c., arranged by categories including leaders, India, the Church, Science, Literature, Military, etc., signatures include Queen Victoria (three), Florence Nightingale, Randolph S. Churchill, Robert Cecil, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl Russell, William Ewart Gladstone, Arthur James Balfour, Viscount Palmerston, Joseph Chamberlain, Anthony Ashley Cooper. Reginald McKenna, Charles John, Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, First Earl Northbrook, Viscount Curzon, Sir Charles Napier, Joseph Lister, Victor Horsely, William MacCormac, Sir Lucas Pepys, Sir William Jenner, Frederick Treves, James Paget, Guglielmo Marconi, John Strutt, Norman Lockyer, Frederick Abel, Jospeh Hooker, Walter Besant, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sir William Napier, Benjamin Jowett, Richard Temple, Sir John Moore, Robert Anstruther, Ralph Abercromby, John Hely-Hutchinson, Sir John Doyle, Duke of Wellington, Sir Thomas Picton, Thomas Graham, Kenneth Howard, Sir Edward Pakenham, Fitzroy Somerset, Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Lord Rokeby, Jeffrey, Lord Amherst of Montreal, Sir william Myers, Sir Charles Green, Major-General Robert Ross, Gathorne Hardy, etc., most pasted in plus some loose, plus a Queen Victoria signed Royal Pardon loosely inserted, 19th-c. half morocco, rubbed, folio. The signatures were collected by Lt. Col. Francis Arthur, O.B.E., who worked at the War Office 1922-45. (1)
Pepys (Samuel). The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews, vols 1-9 only, 1971-76, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in slightly chipped d.j.s, 8vo, together with Ford (Richard), A Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home, [1845], 3 vols., pub. Centaur Press, 1966, b & w frontis. to each, two folding maps at rear of vol. 1, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, with other history, literature, etc. (3 shelves)
An early 19th century Southern Indian ivory and horn 'Pepys'-type chess set, each king 11cm high, the (white) ivory king and one bishop damaged with old sealing wax repairs and one (black) horn rook and bishop with foot-rim chips, together with a set of accompanying turned draughts pieces comprising 15 ivory and 16 horn examples, each chess and draughts side contained in one of a pair of Vizagapatam ivory veneered sandalwood boxes, each decorated in black pen work with traditional figural scenes and arabesque scroll borders, enclosed by a sliding lid with brass escutcheon and white metal lock, each box 21cm long, 15cm wide (qty)
* Essex. Collins (Captain Greenvile), Harwich Woodbridg and Handfordwater with the Sands from Nazeland to Hosely Bay, [1686 or later], hand coloured engraved chart, dedication to Samuel Pepys, num. rhumb lines and soundings, two inoffensive small wormholes, not laid down, approx. 445 x 570 mm, framed and glazed. (1)
Pepys (Samuel). Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., Secretary to the Admirality in the Reigns of Charles II and James II, Comprising His Diary from 1659-669.. and a Selection from His Private Correspondence, edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke, 5 vols., 2nd ed., 1828,. eleven eng. plts. (inc. 4 folding), some occ. minor scattered spotting, late 19th/early 20th c. half calf with raised bands, gilt dec. spines with red morocco labels, 8vo (5)
Historical manuscripts commission, 158 vols., c. 1880s-1970s, ex-library copies, including America Manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Manuscripts of Pepys, Stuart Papers belonging to the King, etc., mostly bound in contemp. library cloth, rubbed and some occn. wear, large 8vo (158)
Sotheby's catalogues: A run of silver sale catalogues cloth bound in sixty volumes, with gilt tooled spines, some annotated. From The Sale of Fine Old English and Irish Silver of July 1923 to November 1998. (60) - (including the Well Known Collection of Relics of Samuel Pepys, 1st April 1931).
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