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Click here to subscribeA mid-nineteenth century Sevres-style shaped circular porcelain plate, decorated with a portrait panel of Gd. Turenne, within gilt circular cartouche applied with red, white and turquoise jewels, within a floral band, cobalt blue border. Pseudo crossed L mark to underside. 24 cm wide.Condition: Wear to detail gilding around rim, some jewels missing.
A mid-nineteenth century Sevres-style shaped circular porcelain plate, decorated with a portrait panel of Henri de Guise, within gilt circular cartouche applied with red, white and turquoise jewels, within a floral band, cobalt blue border. Pseudo crossed L mark to underside. 24 cm wide.Condition: Wear to detail gilding around rim, some jewels missing.
Follower of William Hogarth, portrait of Catherine Cheshire aged 13, half length, in white dress, stroking her pet dog, indistinctly inscribed and dated u.l., inscribed on old label verso, also inscribed and dated 1755 on stretcher, oil on canvas, 31 by 25cm, in a mid 19th Century gilt gesso frame
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer, London: 1687. Folio, full calf, sympathetically rebacked, featuring engraved pictorial frontispiece depicting portrait of Chaucer, engraved coat-of-arms page, and advertisement page at end. Contents generally sound with intermittent wear and crude paper repairs, mostly confined to the bottom of the pages but worse to the introductory pages; title and frontispiece laid on paper
Photographs. Collection of photographs relating to Staffordshire (predominantly Newcastle-under-Lyme), including cabinet cards and carte-de-visite portraits of residents, topographical views, halls/houses, street scenes, shop fronts, schools (class portraits), WW1 soldiers and nurses, postcards, stereoscopic cards and later photographs. To include photographs of W. Cleaver hairdressers, Carlisle Street; royal visit to Birchenwood Colliery in Kidsgrove, 1913 (and other press images of colliery bearing 'The Motor' stamps verso); press images of factory workers and processes at Wedgwood (stamped 'Bullock & Son, Crewe' verso); The Butcher's Arms, Chesterton; Wedgwood staff portrait 1930; Lord Charles Beresford; Edwardian football team portrait by A. J. Sims of Madeley; real photographic postcard of prize pigs in the 1907 Staffordshire Show; St. Patrick's Day parade in Newcastle by H. D. Taylor; Boyles Hall Shaft, 'where 150 men were rescued', and others, including later photographs of buses, in four box files (4)
Winston Churchill (1874-1965), photographic war-time portrait by Walter Stoneman, bearing signature/autograph in black ink to margin, in period frame (unglazed) with Phil J. Simmonds label verso, 12.5cm by 9.5cm (mount window)Provenance: Vendor of the visitors book for Ye Olde King's Head in Chigwell, Essex (featuring Winston and Clementine Churchill). NB: Please see Lot 1
Harris, John. Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, first edition of the second volume, London: Daniel Brown et al., 1710, red & black title page, seven engraved plates (six folding), plus numerous smaller illustrations within the text, 12 pages of subscribers. Folio, full contemporary panelled calf with raised bands, armorial bookplate to front pastedown for Thomas Wallis, M.D., plus ownership inscription for the same on front free endpaper (Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1717). Contents generally very good and bright, occasional pale spotting; binding tight and solid, some wear to calf, lacking title label. Together with another edition of the second volume, published 1736 for J. Walthoe et al., with engraved frontispiece portrait; folio, full contemporary calf with oxblood morocco title label (2)NB: Lexicon Technicum is considered the first alphabetical encyclopedia written in English
Sanderson, William. A Compleat History of the Life and Raigne of King Charles, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1658. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Charles I, engraved portrait of the author, woodcut capitals and headers. Small folio, full contemporary calf. Contents generally good and clean, some very pale spotting; contemporary owner inscriptions for George Langlands; occasional neat contemporary owner annotations to margins; a few old paper repairs at the bottom of opening pages; calf binding worn but solid
Collection of books bearing armorial bookplates for Rev. Thomas Levett of Staffordshire: The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, [by Edward Young], London: R. Dodsley, 1749, bearing owner inscription to front pastedown, 'Thomas Levett, Oct. 1841'; The History of Great Britain, by Robert Henry, in 12 volumes, London: Cadell and Davies, 1805, engraved folding frontispiece portrait to first volume; History of Great Britain, by James Pettit Andrews, in two volumes, London: Cadell and Davies, 1806; Twelve Sermons and Discourses, by Robert South, Vol.V only, London: Jonah Bowyer, 1717. Full contemporary calf, bindings worn, lacking title labels, some with detached boards (15)
After Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). Portrait of Michel Le Blon, Dutch silver engraver and art dealer, copper engraving by Theodor Matham after van Dyck, on laid/chain-lined paper, rich impression with velvety black ink, published 1630-1640 according to British Museum. Framed, unglazed, 28.5cm by 18cm. Portrait of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, copper engraving by Hendrick Snyers after van Dyck, laid paper, rich impression, published 1645-1655 according to British Museum. Framed & glazed, 27.5cm by 19cm (2)
An interesting 1960s Omega Seamaster De Ville 18ct gold gentleman~s wristwatch, 34mm case, silver dial with baton numerals and date aperture, with addition of printed portrait, appears to run, on an 18ct gold bracelet, partly sprung links near clasp, overall in very good condition and not much wear, movement not inspected at time of cataloguing, 89.5g. This watch was given to the vendor~s father in 1966 by Hakim of Bahrain, his highness Sheikh Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa
An important and rare George II York House Factory enamel table snuff box, transfer-printed in puce after Simon François Ravenet (1706-1774), the rectangular hinged cover with Britannia presenting a medal and flanked by the allegories of Art and Science, enclosing a bust-length portrait profile of Frederick, Prince of Wales, the sides with amorini emblematic of the Arts, Sciences and Commerce within alternating Rococo C-scroll borders, the base with martial amorini, the British lion and centred by a military trophy, gilt-metal mounts, 8.5cm wide, Battersea, c. 1753-1756This very box is described and illustrated: Benjamin (Susan), English Enamel Boxes, London: Orbis, 1991, page 38: figure 2, and is also illustrated on the dustjacket.
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