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Click here to subscribeLear, Edward Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania London: R. Bentley, 1851. First edition, 8vo, map and 20 tinted lithographed plates, contemporary brown half morocco, spine gilt, rebacked retaining original spine, corners slightly rubbedNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
[Morean War, 1684-99] A Journal of the Venetian Campaigne A.D. 1687, Under the Conduct of the Capt. General Morosini, General Coningsmark, Providitor Gen. Cornaro, General Venieri, &c., translated from the Italian original... Licensed, Decemb. 16. 1687. London: Printed by H.C. and sold by R. Taylor, 1688. 4to, [viii], 44, woodcut arms on title, good facsimile of the map of Morea by John Seller, modern quarter vellum and letterpress boards, [ESTC R39041]Note: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
West Africa and Slavery 10 volumes Collier, Sir G.R, Sir Charles MacCarthy, and other Official Sources. West African Sketches, compiled from the Reports of. 1824. 8vo, later inscription at head of title, original boards, uncut, rebacked; Geschiedenis van het Britsche Gezantschap in het Jaar 1817, aan den Koning van Ashantee. Amsterdam: J.C. van Kesteren, 1820. 8vo, coloured frontispiece, half calf, title repaired, frontispiece trimmed, some soiling; Lee, Mrs R. (formerly Mrs T. Edward Bowdich). Stories of Strange Lands. 1835. 8vo, First edition, lithographed plates, original cloth, slightly spotted; Alexander, James Edward. Narrative of a Voyage of Observation among the Colonies of Western Africa. 1837. 2 volumes, 8vo, plates, map, modern quarter calf, several library stamps, some staining and spotting; Bowdich, T. Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee. 1873. 8vo, folding map, original brown cloth gilt, library stamps to title; Ramseyer and Kuhne. Four Years in Ashantee. 1878. Second edition, 8vo, plates, original cloth; Kemp, Rev. Dennis. Nine Years at the Gold Coast. 1898, 8vo, presentation copy from the author, original cloth, slightly rubbed; Macdonald, George. The Gold Coast past and present. 1898. 8vo, plates, original cloth, a few small stains, new endpapers, slightly rubbed; Moore, D. and F.G. Guggisberg. We two in West Africa. 1909. 8vo, plates, contemporary half calf, rubbed; sold not subject to returnNote: Provenance: From the library of the late William St Clair, FBA, FRSL.
[Jesuit exile press] Two Treatises of Mentall Prayer, and of the Preference of God Composed by the R. Fa. Alfonsus Rodriguez of the Society of Jesus, in his Worke intituled, Of Religious Perfection. Translation out of Spanish. [Saint-Omer: English College Press], 1627. 8vo (14 x 9cm), contemporary limp vellum, woodcut device and type-ornament border to title-page, type-ornament headpieces and woodcut initials, binding soiled, text remaining attached to binding by one cord only, front free endpaper lacking, loss to upper fore corner of title-page, occasional damp-stains and other marks, a few small worm-tracks in gutter (text never affected) [ESTC S106082; STC 21149]Note: Note: ESTC traces eight copies world-wide. The English Jesuit college at Saint-Omer was founded in 1593. Its members fled to Bruges in 1762 following the expulsion of Jesuits from France.
James IV, King of Scots (1473-1513) Letter signed to William Graham, future earl of Montrose, Edinburgh, 8th May [1500] Single sheet of laid paper (15 x 29.7cm), 13 lines written in a clerical hand with James's autograph signature 'James R' at foot, dated '1500' verso in a contemporary hand, remains of red wax seal, dust-soiling and damp-staining, old folds, partially split along central fold, nicks to extremities, remnants of mounting versoNote: Note:James writes to a key ally later to die by his side at Flodden requesting that he permit 'our most lovit familiar squier & servitour Patric of Kincaid' to prolong a lease (tack) on land in Balmore, Stirlingshire.The recipient, William Graham (1462/3-1513), third lord Graham, had previously been loyal to James IV's father James III, and may have been with him at Sauchieburn where he met his death at the hands of rebels under the nominal leadership of the future James IV, then the Duke of Rothesay. 'A pragmatic switch of allegiance saw Graham sitting in James IV's first parliament, on 6th October 1488, and he subsequently received grants of the lands of Aberuthven and Inchbrakie in Perthshire. On the occasion of James IV's marriage to Margaret Tudor in 1503, an earldom was created for Graham out of the Lindsay dukedom of Montrose, which had lapsed to the crown on the death of David Lindsay, and possibly in recognition of his hereditary charter for the lands of Old Montrose. This rewarded Graham for his loyalty and sought to counter the influence of the Lindsays, whose bitter feuding had destabilized Angus' (ODNB). At Flodden he was one of nine Scottish earls to die, alongside the king himself.
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Collection of autograph letters to Ada Hartnell, c.1873-81 18 in total, various extents, 31 pp. overall, most on a single bifolium of Ruskin's Brantwood stationery, other letters written from Woodstock Road, Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Gueux, and Keswick, a few with no place named, several undated, most addressed to 'My dear Miss Hartnell' and signed 'J Ruskin', two to 'My dear Ada' and signed 'J Ruskin', one to 'My dearest Ada' and signed 'Ever your loving JR', and one to 'Dear Ada' and signed 'J R', one letter (Gueux) torn in half but full text apparently intact, one letter with signature removed. Together with 8 envelopes addressed by Ruskin to Hartnell, and an autograph letter signed to Hartnell from Joanna Severn ('[I] am glad … to tell you that after many months of anxiety about the poor master he is at last showing signs of betterness, for which I am infinitely thankful', with envelope) (1 folder)Note: Note:A remarkable collection of newly discovered letters casting light on Ruskin's tormented later years and his relationship with an intriguing female acquaintance, whom he clearly held in high esteem, but about whom little remains known.Ada Hartnell was one of the 32 original members of the Guild of St George, the utopian social organisation Ruskin established in 1878 on the model of the guilds of medieval Venice. She is mentioned by Ruskin in Fors Clavigera as one of a select group of guild companions 'in whose future adherence and support I have entire trust'. During the time these letters were written she lived first at 79 Falmouth Road, London, and later at 6 Brighton Villas, Northumberland Park, Tottenham.Ruskin's mental stability suffered badly during his seventeen-year relationship with Rose La Touche, who died in 1875. In February 1878 he experienced a total collapse, followed by several further attacks between 1881 and 1889, after which he 'gradually retreated into silence, saying little, and writing few letters' (ODNB), living in seclusion at Brantwood under the care of his relation Joanna Severn.The earlier letters in the collection suggest that Ruskin frequently visited Hartnell in London. His letters proposing to meet can strike an importunate note, and the type of assignation proposed is in one instance unexpected:'Would you like to come to the Pantomime at Drury lane to-morrrow with me. You would have to meet me at my good old servants' teashop, 29 Paddington St, Portland place - and I would take the greatest care of you and drive you home. Send me a line here'In letters evidently written in the aftermath of his crisis, Ruskin confides in Hartnell about the debilitating effects of his mental state, while demonstrating an urgent concern for Hartnell's own health and living arrangements, an intense dynamic encapsulated in one letter from Brantwood:'I have had several very bad sleepless nights myself, lately - but the mental gloom causes them - it is not the consequence of them. That darkness over the whole world becomes more and more definite to me as one of judgement, and every voice [...] is of the night. I can only keep my strength by refusing to think, and going on with work that I still have pleasure in - and pleasing any body I can innocently please. But I've been freed to write something serious just now - in which your letter helps me so much - you will have it in a week [...] I am so very thankful your health is on the whole better [...] Shall I see if I can get better lodging for you near my museum at Sheffield - there's no smoke unless with strong southeast wind, and lovely country close by, being certainly as cheap as near London. Please think about this and write again'The later letters also contain much discussion of guild matters, with Ruskin musing on his own suitability to lead 'until they find somebody better', discussing the publication of Fors, indulging in a schoolmasterly harangue in which he dismisses Praeterita as 'mere gossip', and welcoming positive reports of a recent number of Proserpina; Joanna Severn finds frequent mention as someone evidently known to Hartnell and with an interest in her well-being.
Eminent Victorians The Kinnear family autograph album containing 70 complete autograph letters and 28 clipped signatures, sentiments or signed postal covers, mounted rectos and versos in c.1890 maroon skiver album (spine defective), gift inscription 'Winifred D. Kinnear, from her mother, Christmas 1893' to front free endpaper. The complete letters all 1 p. unless stated, recipients include Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-1894, Scottish photographer and architect, and from 1884 colonel of the Midlothian Coastal Artillery Volunteers, addressed variously as 'Mr Kinnear', 'Colonel Kinnear' and similar), George Lillie Craik (1798-1886, Scottish writer and critic), S. C. Hall and 'Mrs Hall' (probably Samuel Carter Hall, 1800-1889, journalist, and his wife, Anna Maria Hall, novelist, 1800-1881), the Lord Advocate, and others, authors in order of appearance include:Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), prime minister, 1888, 'My dear Colonel ... We make a rule of never having anything to do with bazaars on principle, & I could not well make an application to the Queen under present circumstances ...', 2 pp.;William Clark Russell (1844-1911), writer of nautical fiction, 1890, 'Yet another question - in how many chapters would you wish the story written: taking 56,000 words as the basis of the subdivisions?';William Howitt (1792-1879), historian, 1859, on a response to a request for literary anecdotes ('The late John Murray the very last time I saw him told me a very good anecdote ...'), 3 pp.;William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), undated, 'Dear Mr Coutts, Will you kindly keep 4 places for 4 ladies, friends of mine who wish to hear my last words before going to America, faithfully yours, W M Thackeray';Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), 1844, fair copy of the poem 'To Major General W. Napier', 2 pp.;Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), Ambleside, 1862, on the misuse of charitable funds, 4 pp.;Robert Browning (1812-1889), dated Hatcham, 24th May, no year, 'Dear sir, I am unluckily engaged this morning. Do what seems best about the entitling-business. Pray remember to send proof copy';Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (1789-1849), author, 1848, 2 pp.;Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860), 1856, on Scottish marriage laws, written a year after his resignation as prime minister over his prosecution of the Crimean War, 2 pp.;Charles Lyall (1797-1875), geologist, undated, 'My dear Lord Advocate, Tomorrow at the hour you mention Sir J. Lubbock, Mr C. Darwin and two others expect me to a geological appointment in Kent. Never the less if you cannot change it for this day at any hour you like ... I will sacrifice my other engagement ...';Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885), author, 'I find I have not a scrap of Keats's unpublished writings in town ...';Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), historian and politician, Albany, London, 1833, to the Lord Advocate, concerning Liberal electors in Edinburgh, 4 pp.;Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), novelist and politician, a letter of thanks, signed 'ELB';Caroline Norton (1808-1877), writer and campaigner for marriage reform, apologising for 'the delay respecting Mr Lane's curious and valuable drawing', 2 pp.;Sir Charles Locke Eastlake RA (1793-1864), artist and author of Hints on Household Taste, 1879;George Henry Lewes (1817-1878), philosopher, critic, and partner of George Eliot, 186[?], to John Boyd Kinnear, on Fortnightly Review stationery;William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), pioneer of photography, undated, addressed on verso to 'Mr Kinnear', almost certainly Charles George Hood Kinnear, 'D[ea]r Sir, I could send you if wished, 20 or 30 more of the steel [?] for distribution to individual members of the phot. soc[iet]y but they are for the same plates as those already sent, as I have no others here at present. I am glad you think they promise well, and remain, yours truly, H. F. Talbot', 2 pp.;Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Royal Hotel, Glasgow, 8 October 1858, in the third person, 'Mr Charles Dickens is happy to have the honor of accepting the invitation for the 19th of the present month, with which he is favoured by the mayor of Birmingham';Ada Ellen Bayly, 'Edna Lyall' (1857-1903), writer and suffragette, [18]96;William Powell Frith RA (1819-1909), artist, 1874, concerning a private view, 3 pp.;Frederick Tennyson (1807-1898), poet and brother of Alfred, St Ewolds, Jersey, 1891;Thomas Faed RSA (1826-1900), artist, 2 pp.William Holman Hunt OM (1827-1910), artist, Draycott Lodge, Fulham, 1886, to George L. Craik, 'I have written a letter .. which explains my views as to the of the plate now ... I will work on the proofs in two or three places with brown, but we will talk of this afterwards ...', 2 pp.;and others.Other signatures (not full letters) include: Queen Victoria ('Victoria R), Walter Besant, Lord Palmerston ('I have not the least intention of agreeing to Cowars motion' P 16/2-54'), William Ewart Gladstone, and similarNote: Provenance: The Kinnear family of Kinloch House, Collessie, Fife, thence by descent to Elizabeth Hay (née Kinnear, 1924-2017), godmother of the vendor. See lot 60 for further material from the same source.
Attributed to Charles George Hood Kinnear (1830-1894) Album of salt prints from calotype negatives, c.1846-8 containing 120 photographic salt prints from calotype negatives, pasted onto rectos only of thick paper leaves, photograph dimensions mainly approx. 15.5 x 11.5cm or similar (leaf dimensions 27 x 22cm), many with bevelled corners, a few arch-topped or in octagonal, oval or circular form, with pencilled captions, dates and foliation, prints towards rear within brown ink frames, the album retaining two initial blanks, one with partial list of subjects, one with ownership inscription reading in part 'Letham Grange, Arbroath, the photographs comprising: 32 portraits of sitters of various social classes, including 'a poacher', 'a smith', various other tradesmen or farmhands (e.g. a man seated with horse tack, a man holding a trowel, and a man holding a log and axe), and smartly-dressed figures, several named, including 'R. Rutherford', 'Dr Burt, 'Capt Maitland R.N.', 'J. G. Murray' (this figure holding a shotgun), Robert Murray (2 portraits), 'An A.R.S.A.' (identified in list at front as J[ohn] C[rawford] Brown [Scottish painter, 1805-1867]), a young woman in a patterned dress (2 portraits), a young boy with a riding crop, a boy seen through a gate in a garden wall, and a man in top-hat posing in stone Gibbs-surround doorway; studies including a still life of game; 2 smaller prints on one mount, respectively titled 'Lacock Abbey, Wilts, from a Talbotype;' and 'Shakespeare's house from a Talbotype'; 14 prints not from life (i.e. from prints or paintings); and numerous views of Kinloch House and its grounds and outbuildings, Collessie (village in Fife), Kames House (Berwickshire), Cunnoquhie House, Falkland Palace, Inchrye Abbey, and Edinburgh (Scott Monument, St George's Church, St John's Chapel, High School, Pitt statue, gaol, and similar); together with 4 photogenic drawings of tree-leaves or grasses (these not from negatives, and in addition to the 120 mentioned). Contemporary fine-diaper cloth album, gilt-lettered 'Calotypes' on front cover, rebacked and recornered, endpapers renewed with bookplate (containing arms of the Kinnear family) reimposed to front pastedown, a few mounts stained from adhesive, a few prints with pencilled embellishments in some cases adding architectural detail, final 11 leaves detached but remaining conjugate, lacunae in foliation indicating a few leaves excised.The album is sold with an extensive collection of related material, including:1. 4 additional photograph albums:a & b) Two albums respectively containing 60 and 25 albumen prints mainly of architecture in Scotland and Northumberland, 1890 & 1892, all approx. 15 x 20cm, mounted rectos only on stiff card, and including Drygrange House and Compstone House, both designed by Kinnear's architectural firm Peddie & Kinnear (with captions to that effect, i.e. 'Drygrange House - C.G.H.K. fecit'; 'Compstone House, Kirkcudbright, C.G.H.K. fecit'), and a few family portraits and non-architectural views, pencilled captions to mounts (in a similar hand to those in the calotype album);c) Album of 52 albumen prints, 1887, including Oxford colleges, Scottish houses including Drygrange (see above), jubilee celebrations at Kinloch, a portrait Wellwood Herries Maxwell of Munches House (Liberal politician, 1817-1900; Kinnear's wife was Jessie Jane Maxwell), outdoor scenes including three figures on a wooded path (one figure identified in a later hand as 'C. M. K.', i.e. Kinnear's son Charles Maxwell), and similar, all approx. 15 x 20cm or slightly smaller, pencilled captions throughout (in a similar hand to the preceding items);d) Album of approx. 60 silver gelatin prints, c.1902, mainly Scottish views and family scenes, including the Maxwell family at Munches House, puffins on Handa Island, etc.2) Album of architectural sketches, signed and dated C. G. H. Kinnear, Genoa, 1854, approx. 30 leaves + blanks, annotated pencil sketches on rectos and versos, including studies of architectural detail (tracery, mouldings, doorways, elevations, etc.) in both Genoa and Pisa;3) Charles George Hood Kinnear's diploma of election as associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, 1893, lithographic document on vellum, signed by Queen Victoria ('Victoria R');4) A large volume of Kinnear family documents and letters, 18th-20th century, approx. 200 in total, including letters from Charles's brother John Boyd Kinnear (1828-1920), Liberal politician, letter to John Boyd Kinnear from John Bright, various deeds (including sasines, on vellum), bonds, contracts, inventories, album of 15 watercolour views in France and Ireland, 1920s, scrap albums belonging to Elizabeth Anne Kinnear including a menu inscribed by ornithologist Peter Scott (1909-1989), and similarNote: Note:A highly important and newly discovered album by a pioneer of photography, dating from within a few years of Fox Talbot's invention of the calotype method and its introduction to Scotland in 1841 by Sir David Brewster.Charles George Hood Kinnear was born in 1830 at Kinloch House, near Collessie, Fife, into a wealthy banking family. In 1849 he was articled to Edinburgh architects William Burn and David Bryce. It is suggested in the Dictionary of Scottish Architects that he may have learnt photography from Bryce, though the dates in this album indicate that his photographic experiments pre-date their known professional association.Kinnear became a founding member of the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1856, and in the same year entered into partnership with Edinburgh architect John Dick Peddie. In 1857 he went on an architectural and photographic tour of northern France using a new form of camera with a conical bellows which 'set the pattern for nearly all subsequent cameras' (Schaaf & Taylor). His final public exhibition of photographs was in 1864, after which his architectural work absorbed most of his efforts; the firm of Peddie & Kinnear had become hugely successful, securing major commissions for private houses, public buildings and churches throughout Scotland which remain major landmarks to this day, including Edinburgh's Cockburn Street, and the hydropathics at Dunblane, Craiglockhart and Callander. He was elected associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1893, and died suddenly at his offices in Edinburgh in 1894.A full list of the contents of the main album in this lot is available on request. Lot 57 in the sale, the Kinnear family autograph album, contains letters to C. G. H. Kinnear from various figures including Fox Talbot.Further reading: Schaaf & Taylor, Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (2007), p. 338.Provenance: Inherited by the vendor from Elizabeth Hay (née Kinnear, 1924-2017), descendant of C. G. H. Kinnear.
Indian Mutiny Group of works on the Siege of Lucknow ex libris Thomas Knight, defender of the garrison 1) A Personal Journal of the Siege of Lucknow. By Captain R. P. Anderson. London: W. Thacker and Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 6 pp. advertisements, inscribed 'Thomas Knight, Late Hospital Sergt, 32 Regt, one of the garrison of Lucknow', covers very rubbed and marked, inner hinges cracked, occasional soiling;2) A Memoir, Letters, and Diary of the Rev. Henry S. Polehampton ... Chaplain of Lucknow. London: Richard Bentley, 1858. Second edition, 8vo, contemporary red half roan, 3 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece, extra-illustrated with a folding watercolour of the colours of the Cornwall Light Infantry (bound in at rear), inscribed 'Presented to Hospital Sergeant Thomas Knight 32 Regt by a sincere friend Mrs E. Polehampton, London, 18 Novr 1858' on the original front free endpaper (retained in rebinding), pencilled ownership inscription (Thos Knight, 18 Nov 1858) to initial blank, pencilled annotations to endpapers, toning throughout, occasional finger-soiling and other marks, frontispiece with short marginal tear, one plate chipped in margin, I7 repaired in fore margin;3) The Defence of Lucknow. A Diary ... by a Staff Officer [Thomas Fourness Wilson]. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1858. Second edition, 16mo, contemporary red half morocco, engraved plan (laid down), inscribed '32 Regt, Thomas Knight, one of the defenders of' on title-page, binding marked, contents toned and with a few spots and marks;4) The Siege of Lucknow. A Diary. By the Honourable Lady Inglis. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, inscribed 'Mr T. Knight, with his old friend Colonel Murphy's compliments and kind regards, May 1892' on half-title;5) The Relief of Lucknow. From an Unpublished Work, by the Guide, T. H. Kavanagh, Esq. (Victoria Cross,) Assistant Commissioner in Oudh. London: W. S. Kirkland & Co., 1860. First edition, large 8vo, contemporary calf, 58 pp., spotting, this work without indication of Thomas Knight's ownershipNote: Note: Thomas Knight, hospital sergeant at Lucknow, is described in Polehampton's account as 'a very good man and brave soldier' (the relevant page, 253, is annotated in the present copy). Library Hub traces five copies only for Anderson's work; one other copy of Kavanagh's work traced, in the Royal Collection.
Watkins, Dudley D. (1907-1969) Oor Wullie, original pen and ink sketch, 1940 showing Wullie on his bucket, saying 'I'm fed up again!', signed and dated lower right, on leaf of light blue paper (9.8 x 11.8cm), in an autograph album containing 12 additional sketches in various media (watercolour, pen and ink, or pencil), including: James Leuchars 'Jimmy' Crighton (1892-1962), 'Korky the Cat', signed 'J L Crighton', dated 1940, (pen and ink with bodycolour); three sketches possibly by George Ramsbottom (1903-1989), comprising a cowboy on a horse, a man on an elephant, and a vicar in a bowler hat with caption 'Seeing what an awful time I took to put something in your little book I feel that I really should draw something that is very, very good!', all signed 'G. R.' and dated 1940; David M. Ogilvie (?-?), Young boy with a shovel and fire bucket, dated 1940; and others including an anthropomorphic rabbit with caption 'Gee Norma, we've been trying for hours, but we just can't think of anything to draw in your book', signed Balch, 1951; and similar; many leaves loose (including 6 with sketches, but not the Oor Wullie)Note: Note: An early original sketch of Oor Wullie dating from four years after the appearance of the first Oor Wullie comic strip in 1936, and the year before the first Oor Wullie annual in 1941. The album may have belonged to a young girl with a relative who worked at D. C. Thomson, as Jimmy Crighton, George Ramsbottom and David M. Ogilvie were also D. C. Thomson artists. Dudley Watkins only began signing his published work in 1946, 'a privilege afforded to only a few comic strip artists in those days (it also ensured his loyalty to Thomson following attempts by a rival publisher to lure him away from Dundeed)' (David Anderson, 'How Beano and Dandy Artist Dudley D. Watkins made Generations of Comic Fans Roar with Laughter', 25th June 2021, online). His other creations including Desperate Dan for the Dandy and Lord Snooty for the Beano.
Children's and illustrated books Large collection of works, many signed Pullman, Philip. Northern Lights. London: Scholastic Limited, 2008. 2 copies, signed limited editions, each one of 3000 copies signed and numbered by Pullman, original boards, dust jackets, slipcases;Hughes, Ted. Collected Animal Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1995. First collected edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, single slipcase, signed by Ted Hughes and illustrator Chris Riddell on volume 1 half-title;Idem. Flowers and Insects, some Birds and a Pair of Spiders. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, 8vo, original boards, dust jacket, signed by Ted Hughes on the title-page, and inscribed by Lisa Baskin (wife of the illustrator Leonard Baskin and an artist in her own right) on front free endpaper;Idem. Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. First edition, 4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by illustrator Chris Riddell on the title-page;Idem. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. Illustrated by Jackie Morris. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. First edition thus, 4to, original pictorial boards, signed and with an original pen-and-ink sketch by the illustrator on the title-pagePratchett, Terry. Eric. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First edition, 4to, original boards, dust jacket, signed by Terry Pratchett on the title-page;Bond, Michael. Paddington's Storybook [and:] Paddington and the Grand Tour. London: Collins [-HarperCollins], 1983 & 2002. 2 works, 4to, original boards, dust jackets, respectively inscribed and signed by the author, second work jacket price-clipped;Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. A New Edition. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, c.1920. 4to, recent green full morocco, tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards;Ransome, Arthur. Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp. In Rhyme. Illustrated by Mackenzie. London: Nisbet & Co., c.1920. 4to, original pictorial cloth, tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards;Nielsen, Kay (illustrator). Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920. 4to, original green moiré cloth with lavish pictorial design to sides, spine sunned, torn dust jacket laid in;Idem. In Power and Crinoline. Fairy Tales retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1920. 4to, original quarter cloth, tipped-in colour plates, binding slightly soiled, front inner hinge cracked;Doyle, Richard and J. R. Planché. An Old Fairy Tale Told Anew in Pictures and Verse. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1865?]. Presumed first edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, sig. B working loose;and 15 others, including works by Kathleen Hale, Michael Morpurgo (signed), Michael Foreman (signed), Ivor Cutler (signed), and more
MacDiarmid, Hugh [Christopher Murray Grieve] Collection of signed copies including: Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish Garden. Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original laminated boards, each signed by MacDiarmid and Trevlyn on the front free endpaper;Cunninghame Graham. A Centenary Study. Glasgow: Caledonian Press, 1952. 4 copies, first editions, 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets, 3 inscribed by MacDiarmid (recipients comprising Ian S. Munro, Edward Nairn and Ian Watson, and F. G. Scott), one signed by MacDiarmid and additionally inscribed author of the foreword R. E. Muirhead;The Uncanny Scott. London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1968. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 40 copies bound in blue buckram and signed by MacDiarmid, together with 2 copies of the trade issue, both signed by MacDiarmid, all with the dust jackets;Ulysses' Bow. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1977. Broadside (22.5 x 14.6cm), signed by MacDiarmid, in original cloth chemise with printed label to front ('This is one of ten copies on Hodgkinson hand-made paper');Sydney Goodsir Smith. Edinburgh: Colin H. Hamilton, 1963. First edition, one of 35 copies signed by the author and specially bound, from the total edition of 135, 8vo, original cloth, glassine dust jacket;and 12 others including: Song of the Seraphim, [no date], each one of 100 copies signed by MacDiarmid; A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, 1962, fourth edition, signed by MacDiarmid; Annals of the Five Senses, new edition, 1983, inscribed by Valda Trevlyn; Joseph Chiari, Collected Poems, with a Preface by Hugh MacDiarmid, London: Enitharmon Press, 1978, 2 copies, each one of 30 signed by Chiari, 8vo, original red quarter morocco; and similar (some unsigned)
Tragara Press 25 volumes Rolfe, Frederick William. The Reverse Side of the Coin. Correspondence... Grant Richards, 1974, number 8 of 95 copies, original marbled wrappers;Rolfe, Frederick William. The Reverse Side of the Coin. Correspondence... Grant Richards. 1974, limited to 95 copies, proof copy on lilac paper, initialled by Alan Anderson, original marbled wrappers;Weeks, Donald. Frederick William Rolfe & Artists' models. 1981, 2 copies, both one of 115 copies, original dark green and marbled wrappers:Rolfe, Frederick William. Frederick Rolfe and the Times 4-12 Feb. 1901. 1977, number 52 of 175 copies, original brown wrappers;Weeks, Donald. Frederick William Rolfe, the 1903 Conclave & Hartwell de la Garde Grissell. 1982, number 17 of 110 copies, original wrappers; Weeks, Donald. Rolfe without Frederick. 1983, number 15 of 110 copies, original sand yellow wrappers;Rolfe, Frederick William. Aberdeen Interval. Some Letters... to Wilfrid Meynell. 1975. Copy R of 20 copies on hand-made paper, cloth-backed marbled boards; Rolfe, Frederick William. A Letter to Father Beauclerk. 1960, number 10 of 20 copies, original marbled wrappers;Weeks, Donald. Two Friends. Frederick Rolfe and Henry Harland. 1978, number 68 of 125 copies, original brown wrappers; Weeks, Donald. Frederick William Rolfe, Christchurch and The Artist. 1980, number 8 of 125 copies, original maroon wrappers;Weeks, Donald, editor. Frederick Rolfe's 'Reviews of Unwritten Books' III. 1987, number 16 of 110 copies, original red wrappers;Different Aspects. Frederick William Rolfe & the Foreign Office. Venice. 1976, number 65 of 125 copies, original green wrappers;Symons, Julian. The Object of an Affair. 1974, limited to 90 copies, one of 25 signed by the author, original marbled wrappers;Harris, Roland. A Sequence of Little Sonnets. 1971, one of 130 copies, original marbled wrappers;Sanderson, John. Frank Olsen. Theatre Organ Virtuoso. 1985, proof copy, out of series, initialled, original marbled wrappers;Sanderson, K.W. Belgrave Crescent Gardens. 1983, limited to 300 copies, one of 10 additional copies on Zerkall Paper, original wrappers;White, John Talbot. A Sequence for Modigliani. 1985, one of 20 copies, folded as issued;White, John Talbot. The Tattered Outlaw. 1957, number 26 of 65 copies, original patterned wrappers; Cory, William Johnson. Rhymes after Horace. 1982, number 15 of 115 copies, original blue wrappers; Adlard, John. One Evening of Light in London. 1980, number 39 of 145 copies, original light brown wrappers;Wratislaw, Theodore. Three Nineties Studies: W.B. Yeats, John Gray, Aubrey Beardsley. 1980, number 37 of 95 copies, original maroon wrappers;O'Connor, Frank. For a Two-Hundredth Birthday. 1986, number 79 of 125 copies, original floral wrappers;Rolfe, Frederick William. Reviews of Unwritten Books: IV, proof sheets from p.5 to 26 only, loose, unbound: andThe Peacocks Press. Corvo, Baron. A Letter from Baron Corvo to John Lane. 1958, number 6 of 30 copies, original blue wrappersNote: Note: The Tragara Press was founded in Edinburgh in 1953 by printer Alan Anderson (1922-2016) and operated until 1991.
Gill, Eric (1882-1940) Carved presentation plaque on wood, 1908 recto with incised inscription 'An Graf Kessler, MCMVIII', verso with incised inscription 'A E R GILL carver' (the initial 'R' with Elizabethan-style cadel), shaped and scalloped edges, together with another panel with similar edges but no inscription, the two together intended as a case for a presentation address on vellum for Harry, Graf von Kessler by Edward Johnston (not present), and accompanied by an autograph letter signed from Johnston to Gill presenting the address, dated Laurencekirk, 1908 ('Dear Gill, I hope this will do [...]', 4 pp.), partial loss of conjoining wooden supports [Evan Gill, Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill, 145]Note: Note:Harry, Graf von Kessler (1868-1932) was 'the first of Gill's grand patrons, and their relationship is an interesting one because it set a pattern of success which was continued and which brought him commissions of the calibre he needed' (Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill, 2011 edition, p. 95). Gill's first commission from Kessler was for a set of title-pages and headings for the Grossherzog Wilhelm Ernst Ausgabe of classic German authors. These were Gill's 'earliest typographic work' (Evan Gill, Eric Gill: A Bibliography, no. 302); between the wars he worked frequently for Kessler's Cranach Press.Provenance:1) Evan Gill, brother and bibliographer of Eric Gill, listed as 'now in the collection of Evan R. Gill' in The Inscriptional Work of Eric Gill (1964).2) Sotheby's, London, 14th March 1979, lot 254 (sold for £400 to G. F. Sims, bookseller, Hurst, Berkshire).3) Property of an English collector.
Royal Hampshire Regiment 2/7 Gurkha Rifles Malaya DSO Group of 7 Medals. Awarded to Lieutenant Colonel John Hamilton Allford who was awarded the DSO for operations as a Battalion Commander of the 2/7 Gurkha Rifles Malaya 1954. Comprising: Distinguished Service Order (EIIR), 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, 1st Army Clasp, Defence Medal, War Medal, General Service Medal, Three Clasps PALESTINE 1945-48, MALAYA, CYPRUS, MID OAKLEAF, (LT COL J.H. ALLFORD R. HAMPS), EIIR Coronation Medal. Group mounted as worn have been lacquered. The Citation for the awarded of the DSO was raised on the 13th November 1953. Lieutenant Colonel John Hamilton Alford 2/7 GR Lieutenant Colonel Allford assumed command of his Battalion in January 1953 and between April and October commanded operations against the communist terrorists in the Bentong District of Pahang, Malaya. Throughout this period of six months Lieutenant Colonel Allford inspired his Battalion by outstanding leadership, level headed skill and fine personal example. He maintained a magnificent fighting spirit throughout the Battalion area. These operations culminated in the death in action of two of the terrorists most important leaders a severe blow for the enemy, not only in the Bentong district but throughout Malaya. Lieutenant Colonel Allford who led a number of operations himself has set a magnificent and outstanding example of determination, skill and leadership. He has by his personal efforts made a notable contribution to the campaign in Malaya. Mention in Dispatches London Gazette 14/7/59. Lieutenant Colonel John Hamilton was commissioned into the York & Lancs Regiment October 1940, In 1946 he was appointed a Captain with the Hampshire Regiment and was posted to Palestine. The medal roll shows during this period he held the rank of Major Acting Lt. Col and was serving with the 1st Bn Royal Hampshire Regiment. The Battalion returned to the UK in October 1947. A year later in 1948 he was attached to the 7th Gurkha Rifles. In 1958 he is noted as serving wit the rank of Lt. Col at Polemidhia Camp, GOC Cyprus. It is assumed his MID is for services during his tour in Cyprus.
Attributed 1914 Field Service Pocket Book brown linen covered book. The interior page named in pencil ""R G H Yeatherd March 1916"". Together with French linen backed paper map covering Amiens ...Similar of Belgium Hazebrouck ... Musketry Regulations Part 1 and Part II ... Ground Engineers Manual. Yeatherd served 1st Cav Div 2nd DG missing in action 15 Sept 1916. No known grave. Thiepval Memorial. Comes with history of the family and copy photo.
1937 Pattern Officer's Battledress Jacket etc khaki woollen, single breasted, closed collar, short jacket with lower extended belt. Pleated chest pockets with buttoned flaps. Embroidery Captain rank stars. Left chest with WW1 medal ribbons. Internal issue label dated "1942". Together with a Royal Engineers Officer's utility pattern service dress tunic. Khaki, single breasted, open collar tunic. Bronzed flaming grenade collar badges. Patch chest pockets with buttoned flaps. Lower hidden pockets with plain flaps. Bronzed Lieutenant rank stars. Brass, KC GRVI RE buttons. Separate belt with ink name "R O Boyd 4/44".
Scarce RFC Named 1908 Pattern Open Top Holster brown leather, open top holster with top securing strap. Rear brass belt hooks for the 1908 pattern belt. Brass cleaning rod. Rear with maker "Federation" dated "15". Ink name "9989 R B Coulman". The front scratched "RBC" and stamped "19 Sqn RFC". Minor service wear. Reginald Barlett Coulman born 14/9/1896 Chiswick Middlesex. Mechanic 1st Class Wireless Operator. Served 42 Sqn. and 19 Sqn. Joined RFC Oct 15th 1915. Promoted Sept 1st 1917. Died 1970 Warwickshire.
Brass Infantry Shoulder Titles including Northampton ... R W Kent ... Norfolk ... Royal Sussex ... RB ... Kings ... Leicester ... Queens ... Lincoln ... Suffolk ... Cheshire ... Worcestershire ... S Lancashire ... D of W ... W Riding ... S Stafford ... Kings Own ... W York ... Loyals ... N Lancashire ... Border ... Middlesex. 25 items.
Richard I (1189-1199), Pennies (2), both class IVa, London, Aimer, aimer · on · lvnd, obv. reads re for rex, 1.00g/6h (SCBI Mass 918ff); Ricard, ricard · on · lvn, reads r · e · for rex, 1.29g/2h (SCBI Mass 929ff; N 968/1; S 1348A) [2]. Fine, both small of flan £80-£100 --- The first coin shares the distinct obverse die with a Willelm reverse (SCBI Mass 946)
Henry III (1216-1272), Pennies (3), all class VIIa1, Canterbury, Iun, ivn on cante, s with large serifs, 1.45g/11h (SCBI Mass 1905, this coin); Roger of R, ro[ge]r [of] r on ca, 1.40g/4h (SCBI Mass 1921, this coin); Tomas, tomas on cant, 1.35g/2h (SCBI Mass 1939, this coin; N 978; S 1356A) [3]. Fine to very fine £120-£150
Henry III (1216-1272), Pennies (4), all class VIIa2, Canterbury, Roger of R, roger of r on ca, 1.30g/12h (SCBI Mass 1925, this coin); Samuel, samvel on cant, 1.47g/8h (SCBI Mass 1930, this coin); Tomas, tomas on cant, 1.45g/10h (SCBI Mass 1941, this coin); Walter, water on can, 1.38g/5h (SCBI Mass 1945, this coin; N 978; S 1356A) [4]. Fine to very fine £150-£200
Henry III (1216-1272), Pennies (4), all Canterbury, class VIIb2, Henri, henri on cant, 1.46g/4h (SCBI Mass 1983), class VIIb3 (3), Ioan Chic, ioan chic on ca, 1.43g/11h (cf. SCBI Mass 1992); Ioan F.R, ioan · f · r · on can·, 1.32g/1h (SCBI Mass 1994, same rev. die), Osmunde, osmvnde on ca, 1.38g/8h (SCBI Mass 1996, same rev. die; N 979; S 1356B) [4]. First about very fine, others fine or better £150-£180
Henry III (1216-1272), Pennies (6), all Canterbury, class VIIc1, Henri, henri on cant, 1.36g/10h (SCBI Mass 2052); Ioan, ioan on canter, 1.41g/4h (cf. SCBI Mass 2053); Ioan Chic (2), ioan chic on ca, 1.32g/6h, 1.32g/5h (SCBI Mass 2054); Ioan F R, ioan • f • r • on cant, 1.33g/9h, 1.50g/12h (cf. SCBI Mass 2060; N 980; S 1356C) [6]. Fine to very fine, toned £120-£150
Henry III (1216-1272), Pennies (4), all Canterbury, class VIIc2 (2), Iohan F R, ioan f · r · on can, 1.45g/2h (SCBI Mass 2061, this coin), Nichole, nichole on can, 1.42g/9h (SCBI Mass 2067, this coin); class VIIc3 (2), Iohan Chic, ioan [ch]i[c] on c, 1.34g/10h (SCBI Mass 2058, this coin), Willelm, willem on can, 1.33g/4h (SCBI Mass 2084, this coin; N 980; S 1356C) [4]. Fine or better £120-£150
Hattatt, R., Ancient and Romano-British Brooches, Milborne Port, 1982; Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts, Oxford, 1989; Seaby, H.A., et al, Roman Silver Coins, Vols I-V, London, 1978-87; Sear, D.R., Roman Coins and their values, 4th ed., London, 1988; Roman Coins and their values, Vols I-II, 5th ed., London, 2000, 2002 [10]. Fine to very fine £40-£60
Knights Templar, Winnipeg, a silver and enamel cross by Dingwall, 36 x 35mm, with ribbon (broken) and two bars; a brass and enamel badge by R. Hemsley, Montreal, with a Farthing set in the centre, 41 x 35mm; a brass and enamel badge by R. Dingwall Ltd, Winnipeg, 39 x 23mm, with suspension bar [3]. Very fine or better £60-£80
FRANCE, Comité Français des Expositions à l’Étranger, 1899, a bronze award plaque by L.-A. Bottée, named (H. Leauté), 64 x 42mm (PBE 19; Coll. R. Marx 386; BM Acq. 1978-82, p.38, 18; BDM I, 232; cf. DNW 190, 1250); Mont Saint-Michel, 1911 [struck 1918], a bronze plaque by C.-L. Picaud, 73 x 52mm (CGMP p.312; cf. DNW M1, 1654); 150th Anniversary of the Banque de France, 1950, a bronze medal after R. Dumarest, named (Janine Secretin), 68mm (cf. DNW M12, 479); Bicentenary of the Birth of Jean-François Champollion, 1990, a bronze medal by. R. Corbin, 81mm; ROMANIA, Centenary of the Birth of Dr Carol Davila, 1928, a bronze medal by A. Lavrillier, 80mm (cf. DNW 49, 1032); together with other bronze medals (2) [7]. Fifth about very fine, others very fine and better; second in non-original green case £50-£70
FRANCE, Enfant aux Roses, 1906, a bronze plaque by O. Yencesse, 54 x 33mm (Maier 196; Coll. R. Marx 159; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.369, 7; Jones, Art of the Medal, 334a; BDM VI, 695; cf. DNW 187, 782); Jeune Femme, 1922, a cast bronze medal by H. Calvet, 100mm (cf. BDM VII, 147); L’Automne, a brass plaque, unsigned, for La Gerbe d’Or, 111 x 78mm [3]. First very fine, second extremely fine and patinated, mounted on a backing board with loop for suspension, last fine £80-£100
Portugal, Manuel I (1495-1521), Portugues of 10 Cruzados, Lisbon, i emanvel r portvgalie al c vl in a d g, i c n c ethiopie arabie persie, crowned shield flanked by two annulets, rev. in hoc signo vincees, cross, all ns on both sides retrograde, 35.36g/8h (Gomes 74.07; F 20). Contemporary (?) punch-mark on reverse, small bruise and minor marks on edge, otherwise about extremely fine, very rare £20,000-£30,000 --- A specific gravity test carried out on this coin revealed the metal content to be 99.5% gold and 0.4% silver. Many specimens of this coin show a similar test mark, often in the same position. Some show signs of this being tooled out or repaired
A 9ct gold fracture filled ruby and diamond ring, with an oval mixed cut fracture filled ruby claw set, approximately 10 x 8mm, to shoulders grain set with eight cut diamonds to a tapered shank, Birmingham 2010,together with a pair of 9ct gold fracture filled ruby single stone stud earrings, fracture filled rubies approximately 8 x 6mm, with post fittings, butterflies deficient, Birmingham, 4.22g total (3)Condition ReportMaker's mark CR, R&C.Some surface reaching inclusions to fracture filled rubies.Some tarnish to mounts.Appear to be in an unworn condition.
A 9ct gold coated 'mystic' topaz and diamond ring, with a round mixed cut coated 'mystic' topaz, approximately 10.9 x 10.9mm, to shoulders grain set with eight cut diamonds, and a plain shank, Birmingham,together with a gold coated 'mystic' topaz and diamond pendant, with an oval cut coated 'mystic' topaz in a claw setting, to split bale claw set with brilliant cut diamonds, tested as approximately 9ct gold,18.5mm long, suspended on an 18ct gold curb chain, approximately 450mm long, 7.82g total (2)Finger size N¼Condition ReportMaker's marks ring R&C, chain GFC.Minor tarnish to mounts.All appear to be in an unworn condition.
A gold rhodolite garnet pendant,with an oval mixed cut and a round mixed cut rhodolite garnet, claw set, to an articulated 'V' bale, 21mm long, tested as approximately 9ct gold,together with a pair of rhodolite garnet and diamond stud earrings, with post and butterfly fittings, Birmingham, approximately 11 x 5mm, 2.84g total (2)Condition ReportMaker's mark R&C.Some tarnish to mounts.All appear to be in an unworn condition.
A 9ct gold rhodolite garnet and diamond ring,three oval mixed cut rhodolite garnets, claw set, to shoulders with a row of brilliant cut diamonds, to a plain shank, Birmingham 2010, head approximately 18 x 7mm,together with a pair of 9ct gold rhodolite garnet and diamond earrings, an oval mixed cut rhodolite garnet, approximately 5 x 7mm, claw set, surmounted by a trefoil of rub set diamonds, to post and butterfly fittings, Birmingham, 4.48g total (3)Finger size N½Condition ReportMaker's mark CR, R&C.Considerable tarnish to ring mount.Gaps between the three garnets in the ring are not even.Appears to be unworn.Surface reaching inclusions to diamonds.
Three 9ct gold rings,comprising a fracture filled ruby and diamond ring, approximately 9.8 x 10mm, Birmingham 2010, a garnet cluster ring, 12.83 x 22.38mm, Birmingham 2010, and a zircon and diamond ring, 8 x 6mm, Birmingham, 7.32g total (3).Finger size M¾, N¼, NCondition ReportMaker's marks CR, CR, R&C.Ruby sapphire and diamonds showing surface reaching inclusions.Some tarnish to mounts.
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