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Lot 916
PAIR OF SILVER NAPKIN RINGS, maker R. Carr, of oval form, 6cm wide, contained in fitted case, along with two other cased silver napkin rings, a pair of cased silver open salts, a pair of cased silver preserve spoons, a pair of cased silver forks, a silver four divider toast rack and a Continental silver boat form dish, 365g gross
Lot 969
COMPOSITE SET OF EIGHT SILVER TABLE FORKS, comprising four by maker James Berry, Edinburgh 1828, and four by maker Andrew Wilkie, Edinburgh 1835, each of Fiddle pattern design, with engraved initial to reverse of terminal, along with two further silver forks including one Scottish Provincial silver fork by R&R Keay, 640g gross
Lot 219
Collection of books, catalogues and pamphlets relating to pistols and pistol shooting, to include: John Nigel George - English Pistols & Revolvers, R K Wilson- -Textbook of Automatic Pistols 1884-1935, Erlmeier Brandt- Manual of pistol & revolver cartridges Vol 1 centrefire, metric calibres, Erlmeier Brandt- Manual of pistol & revolver cartridges Vol II centrefire, American & British calibres, Elmer Swanson- Automatic Pistols, B J L Noel- The automatic pistol, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - Pistols (muzzle loading) photographs 7 to 12, John W Breathed & Joseph J Schroeder - System Mauser, model 1896 self-loading pistol, W H B Smith - Walther Pistols, Colt - Colt's handbook, target shooting, defence shooting, Fred A Datig- The Luger Pistol 1893 - 1945, George R Gans - Mauser pistol, model of 1932, Roger Marsh - The Baby Nambu Japanese 7mm pistol, Colt automatic pistol .45, Nationale d'armes de guerre Belgique- The Browning high power automatic pistol, Hoffschmidt E J - Know your Walther P38 pistols, Boothroyd Geoffrey - The Handgun, John Walter - Luger, the handguns of Hugo Borchardt & Georg Luger 1875 to present, H E Jones - Luger Variations. Vol. 1, Roger Marsh - Grant Hammond, Savage & Schouboe .45 automatic pistols, W H B Smith - NRA book of small arms Vol.1 pistols & revolvers, Investigation of Mr Samuel Colt, W E Fairbairn & E A Sykes - Shooting to live, Siegfried F Huebner - Silencers for hand firearms, Colt A century of Achievement 1836-1936, (25 volumes)
Lot 209
Collection of books on War topics, to include: The first world war, photographic - Laurence Stallings, Flying for News- Rue Larry, With Jellicoe in the north sea -Shaw Frank H The retreat from Mons -Corbett-Smith A, Prisoner in red Tibet -Wignall Sydney, The siege at Peking -Fleming PeterHalf-hours in air and sky -Daldy, Isbister, Legionnaire an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion -Simon Murray, The secret War of International Terrorism -Claire Sterling, Forensic chemistry & scientific criminal investigation- A Lucas, Airshipwreck- Len Deighton & Arnold Schwartzman Charles O'Malley The Irish dragoon Vol II no cover- ed. Harry Lorrequer, Theory of Ballooning four lectures- Griffith Brewer The French Foreign Legion- John Robert Young, The Wooden World- N A M Rodger Shots Fired in Anger- John B George, Mechanical Traction in War- Otfried Layriz, World Army Uniforms since 1939- Andrew Mollo A Subaltern's Odyssey A memoir of the Great War 1915-1917- R B Talbot Kelly, Weapons & Equipment of the Victorian Soldier- Donald Featherstone Adventures in the far west- William H G Kingston, Congo- Michael Crichton, The Highway Conquest of space and time Edgar- B Schieldrop Jane's pocket book 13 RPVs Robot Aircraft today John WVR Taylor, Spear-head General- Henry Maule, Room 40- Patrick Beesly, Guns, gunners and Others- Desmond O'Callaghan (30 volumes)
Lot 213
Collection of mixed books relating to shooting and hunting, to include: Phillipps-Wolley Clive - Big game shooting , Beaufort Duke of- Driving, Phillipps-Wolley Clive - Big game shooting , Walsingham, Gallwey - Shooting Moor & marsh, Walsingham, Gallwey - Shooting Moor & marsh, Walsingham, Gallwey - Shooting Field & Covert, Churchill W S - My early life, Churchill W S - Thoughts & adventures, Churchill W S - Great contemporaries, Churchill W S - Step by step, Churchill W S - Second world war vol II, Churchill W S- Into battle, Manufrance- Manufacture Francaise Armes, Churchill W S- The Gathering Storm, Manufrance Saint-Etienne, Michelin- Guide to British Isles 1914, Sir Hiram S Maxim - My Life, R S S Baden-Powell- Sport in War, Munufrance, Mechanics and Handicraft, John Leech- Pictures of life & character 1842-1864, John Leech- Pictures of life & character 1842-1864, Everett May- Respectable money making, Pretoria one hundred years 1855-1955, Pallas Johnston Miller- Travels in eighteenth century Russia, With the IRA in the fight for freedom, Meinertzhagen R - Kenya Diary 1902 - 1906, Hawker Peter- Diary of Col. Peter Hawker 1802-1852 2. vols., Manufacture Francaise Armes, Shooting the British double rifle- Graeme Wright, (31 volumes)
Lot 211
Collection of books relating to Artillery, SWAT and special forces, to include: Jane's Weapon Systems 1976 edited by R T Pretty, Jane's Infantry Weapons 1975 1st year of issue edited by Major F Hobart, Foreign weapons & equipment. USSR Artillery & rocket launchers Vol 1 part2 War Office,Foreign weapons & equipment. USSR AFV's & MT Vol 1 part 3 War Office,Foreign weapons & equipment. USSR wireless & line equipment Vol 1 part 8 War Office, Ordnance Q.F. 2-pr. Marks IX & X in tanks, cruiser HMSO, Artillery through the ages - HCB Rogers, Museum of Artillery Catalogue 1 Ordnance Woolwich HMSO, Brassey's Artillery of the World edited by Shelford Bidwell, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Artillery -Ian V Hogg, A History of Artillery - Ian V Hogg, Artillery of the world -Foss Christopher, Armoured vehicles- George Bradford, OSS Special Weapons, Devices & Equipment Offic of strategic services research & development Washington DC, S.W.A.T. team manual- Robert P Cappel,(15 volumes)
Lot 217
Collection of books relating to Guns and Shooting, to include: Perry D Frazer - Elementary gunsmithing, William Greener - Gunnery in 1858 (covers in poor condition) , Hank Wieand Bowman - Antique guns, W & C Scott & son - Breech loaders, Westley Richards 2000 Catalogue, Julian S Hatcher - The Book of the Garand, Proof House - Notes on the proof of gun barrels, American machine & foundry co. - Phase III Acoustic study program, Donald B McLean - Firearm silencers, Regulations for conducting musketry instruction of the army, W F Vickery - Advanced Gunsmithing, Firearms of the ages issue 3 Nov. 1967, HMSO - Navel Swords & Firearms, Labore - The Armourer's handbook Part II Machine carbines & pistols, W W Greener - The Gun & its Development, Golden State Arms - World's Guns & other weapons, Charles F Waterman - The Treasury of Sporting Guns, Guns. Antique & used Modern 2nd ed. 1955, Thompson/Centre arms Co. - Shooting black powder guns, National Armory Army revolvers & Gatling guns, HMSO - Treatise on Military small arms & ammunition 1888, Peter R Senich - Limited war sniping, Wilson James - The rod and the gun, Wilkinson Frederick - The worlds great guns, Durdik, Mudra, Sada - Firearms 1326 - 1900, HMSO - Text book of small arms 1929, Peterson Harold L- The Book of the Gun, Sothebys - The Visser Collection part I, Rosa J C & May Robin - The Pleasure of Guns, Escritt L B - Rifleman & pistolman, Groves J Percy - Reefer and rifleman, Graham Harry - The complete sportsman, Bowman Hank Wieand - Famous guns from famous collections, Legge Reginald F - Mainly about shooting, Parker-Hale - 1941 sporting section catalogue, Payne-Gallwey R - Letters to young shooters, Greener W W - Sharpshooting for sport & war, Admiralty - Notes on gunnery for defensively armed merchant vessels, H C B Rogers- Weapons of the British Soldier, William - The Lore of Arms, W H B Smith revised by E C Ezell - Small Arms of the World, Barry Wynne - The Sniper, Metropolitan Museum of Art - Catalogue of Arms and Armor, Richard Jefferies The Gamekeeper at home, A M Low- Modern Armaments, ed J I H Owen - Brassey's NATO Infantry & its weapons, (45 volumes) `
Lot 221
Collection of books, catalogues, reproduction catalogues, and pamphlets relating to cartridges and ammunition, to include: Speer Reloading manual number Nine for Rifle and Pistol, Herschel C Logan - Cartridges, Fred A Datig - Cartridges for Collectors Volume I Centerfire, Fred A Datig - Cartridges for Collectors Volume II Centerfire-rimfire-patent ignition, Fred A Datig - Cartridges for Collectors Volume III Centerfire-rimfire-plastic, HMSO - Handbook on Ammunition 1909 - reproduction, Eley Brothers Ltd cartridges 1910-1911, P Labbett & F A Brown - Technical ammunition guide series 1 pamphlet 5 Kynoch, Frank C Barnes - Cartridges of the world 6th edition, Gordon D Conway - Small Arms Ammunition Combatant powers WWI-II, ed. John T Amber - Handloaders Digest 4th edition, Handloaders Digest 1994, RCBS Cartridge and Chamber drawings. Copy, Nobels Ammunition price list 1912-13, Paul A Matthews - The Paper Jacket, IMR- Handloaders Guide for smokeless powders, Frank C Barnes ed. Ken Warner - Cartridges of the World 5th ed., Lyman - -Handbook of Cast Bullets, Lyman reloading handbook 45th edition, ICI trade price list 1948, Lyman - Ideal hand book reloading ammunition no. 38, Frank C Barnes -Cartridges of the World 2nd ed., Nobel - Sporting ammunition Price List 2, Ian V Hogg - Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ammunition, Berkeley R Lewis - Small Arms Ammunition at International Exposition Philadelphia 1876 (copy), Standard ballistics of Kynoch metallic cartridges, Kynock Ammunition Price List 1909 (28 volumes)
Lot 224
Collection of books relating to sporting rifles and shotguns, to include: Winans Walter - The Sporting Rifle, Graeme Wright - shooting the British double rifle, Stonehenge - The shotgun & sporting rifle, Sir Gerald Burrard - The Modern Shotgun Vol I The gun, Sir Gerald Burrard - The Modern Shotgun Vol. II The Cartridge, Sir Gerald Burrard - The Modern Shotgun Vol. III The Gun & the Cartridge, Purdey T D S & J A - The shot gun, Greener W W - Modern shot guns, Blagdon - Shooting with game and gun room, R Fraser Willett - The Good shot, Keith Dunham - The Gun Trade of Birmingham, De Witt Bailey & Douglas A Nie - English Gun makers, The Birmingham & Provincial gun trade in the 18th &. 19th century, (12 volumes)
Lot 220
Collection of books relating to USA Firearms and America at war, to include Charles R Suydam - U.S. Cartridges and their Handguns 1795-1975, Philip B Sharpe - The Rifle in America, Claud E Fuller & Richard D Steuart - Firearms of the Confederacy, John E Parsons & John S du Mont - Firearms in the Custer Battle, Lucian Cary on Guns No. 238, Harold F Williamson - Winchester the gun that won the west, Buffalo Bills Wild West programme, Dan Kurzman - Day of the bomb Hiroshima 1945, Donald B McLean - The Plumber's Kitchen the secret story of America spy weapons, W A Graham - The Custer Myth, Cooper Fenimore - Last of the Mohicans, Ford Barry - They tamed the west, William Waters - A gallery of western badmen, Chuck Lawliss - The Marine Book, Raymond W Thorp - -Bowie Knife, Frank A Moyer - Special Forces Foreign weapons handbook US army, Spot pub. Co. - Chicago gang wars in pictures, Roy F Dunlop - Ordnance went up front, Douglas D Marlin - Tombstone Epitaph, ed. by H S Commager - The Blue and the Gray, Eugene Cunningham - Triggernometry, Townsend Whelen & Bradford Angier - Mister Rifleman, Claud E Fuller - The Whitney Firearms, Roger Freeman - The US Strategic Bomber, Ordnance systems for National Defence (25 volumes)
Lot 250
Nine WWI British War Medal 1914-1918, for A.J. Atthews 147305 Royal Artillery, R Battigan 12456 North Staffordshire Regiment, E. Hitch 36334 East Lancashire Regiment, J.F.G Clowes 3930 Seaforth Highlanders, T. Pritchard 14885 Liverpool Regiment, Sergeant D. Llewellyn 1137 Royal Welsh Fusiliers, W.A. Eynon 171083 Royal Navy, T. Gibbons 23134 Cheshire Regiment, H. Morley 5455 18th Hussars Queen Mary's Own.
Lot 167
Victorian police truncheon, painted with V.R. above a coronet, initialled T.S. and dated 1840, 40.5cm longSmall hairline splits to the end the worst of which does not proceed further than the letter R. there is a small chipped or worn patch in to the tip too. The grip is free from splits but has a small area of recent wear to the edge. Dents to the body the worst of which are to the right hand side of the coronet and to the left hand side of the letter T. Scuffing, scratches, and chips to the enamel throughout. The above faults can be seen in the online images.
Lot 428
OGLE, George (1704-1746) Gualtherus and Griselda or the 'Clerk of Oxford's Tale' from Boccace, Petrarch and Chaucer. printed for R Dodsley, London 1739. contemporary full calf, restored spine, bumps etc. royal library label. 4to. (301 x 240mm) plus CUDWORTH, R, 'A Discourse concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper' printed for Royston London 1676. title page copied and pasted in, marbled boards. 4to. (330 x 210mm) Eric Gerald Stanley b/ps (2)
Lot 536
BARKER, R. (printer) A Sermon Preached Before The Kings Majestie at Hampton Court concerning The Rights and Power of calling Assemblies on Sunday the 28 of September, Anno 1606. By The Bishop of Chichester, London 1606. Tog. With IRENODIA Cantabrigiensis: Ob paciferum Serenissimi Regis Caroli e Scotia reditum mense November 1641. A Compilation of Poems collected in hour of Charles 1. Plus CHARLES 1 (1600-1649) His Majesties Message sent to the Parliament April 8 1642. Concerning His Resolution to go into Ireland for Suppressing the Rebells there . Small 6 page pamphlet. Gothic print. Dec. border to tp. Big. (3)
Lot 522
TURNER, Sharon, English Historian (1768-1847) The History of The Anglo Saxons. 2nd Ed. Longman et al, London 1807 with map (torn). 2 vols. 4to. much battered plus BONAPARTE, Lucien, Charlemagne an Epic Poem. 2 vols. 4to. Longman et al. London 1815. full calf, plus a reprint of Aesop's Fables (1609) 4to. boards loose plus Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Cottoniannae. Thomas Smith. Oxford 1696. with engraved portrait by R White, worm and damp damage. full contemporary calf. small Fo. plus two associated title (8)
Lot 728
AN ECLECTIC GROUP OF THREE OLD BOOKS TO INCLUDE: BLACKBURN, Henry, Breton Folk, R Caldecott illus. London Sampson et al. 1880, green cloth. 4to. plus Howard Pyle's Book of the America Spirit, Harper, New York and London 1923. 4to. and Thackerayana notes and anecdotes, Chatto and Windus, 1875. red cloth with gilt tooled ornament. 8vo. (3)
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Lot 505
Antiquarian Books - English Literature, Bindings - Elegant Extracts [...], seventeen-volume set, comprising Verse, Volumes I-VI; Prose, Volumes I-V; & Epistles, Volumes I-VI; London: Printed for John Sharpe, Piccadilly, [n.d. 1810], additional engraved title-pages with sentimental vignettes, contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 18mo, (17); Richardson [William], Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Character[...], London: J. Murray, 1788, contemporary calf (disbound), 12mo; Shenstone (William), The Works in Verse and Prose [...], second edition, three-volume set, London: J. Dodsley, 1765-1769, engraved frontispiece and vignette to volume I, contemporary calf, 8vo, (3); Hau Kiou Choaan: or, The Pleafing History, A Translation from the Chinese Language, volume IV only, London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, London 1761, contemporary marbled boards (disbound), 12mo; Hayley (William), Poems and Plays, volumes I, II, III, IV & VI only, London: T. Cadell, 1788, contemporary Neoclassical calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (5); Cooke's Pocket Edition of Select Novels, various, contemporary calf bindings, 18mo; [Richardson (Samuel)], Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded [...], twelfth edition, volumes I, II & III only (of IV), London: W. Strahan [...], 1785, contemporary calf gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo, (3); further 18th century imprints, including verse and prose, principally contemporary bindings, [88]
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Lot 507
Antiquarian Books - Theology - [Grotius (Hugo)], Christ's Passion, A Tragedy; with Annotations, Dedicated to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, London: Printed, and are to be Sold by Jos. Blare [...], 1698, engraved title-page, disbound, contemporary and later ink MS ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, 12mo, [Wing G2094]; Noncomformity, The Salters' Hall Controversy, 1719, various, (4); two copies, [Tenison] (His Grace Thomas Lord Archbishop of Canterbury), A Sermon Preached at the Funeral Of Her late Majesty Queen Mary Of Ever Blessed Memory, In the Abbey-Church in Westminster, Upon March 5. 1694/5, London: Printed for R. Chiswell [...], 1695, disbound, 4to, [Wing T721], (2); Glorious Revolution and Noncomformity, Anon, An Answer to the City Ministers Letter from His Country Friend, [Oxford]: 1688, disbound, 4to, [Wing A3400]; [Stillingfleet (Edward)], The Bishop of Worcester's Charge To the Clergy of His Diocese, in His Primary Visitation, Begun At Worcester, Sept. 11. 1690, London: Printed for Henry Mortlock [...], 1691, disbound, 4to, [Wing 55565A]; Two Letters to a Friend: Containing Certain Considerations Relating to the Pulpit, Licensed, Feb. 20. 1691/2, London: Printed for Tho. Bassett, 1692, disbound, 4to; Scott (John, D.D.), A Sermon Preach'd at the Funeral of Sir John Buckworth, At the Parish-Church of St. Peter's le Poor (sic, Poer) in Broad Street, December 29., 1687, London: Printed for Walter Kettilby [...], 1688, disbound, 4to, [Wing 52072]; Dr Priestley's Letters to the Candidates for Orders in Both Universities on Subscription to Articles of Religion [...], London: Sold by J. & J. Merrill [...], [n.d., 1735], disbound, 8vo; [Squire] (Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's), A Sermon Preached Before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Abbey Church, Westminster, On Saturday, January 30, 1762, Being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles I, London: Printed by J. Hughs [...], 1762, disbound, 4to; Hazeland (William), A Sermon Preached in the Chapel of the Asylum, Near Westminster-Bridge, On the Sunday before Christmas-Day, 1760, London: Printed for J. Beecroft, 1761, disbound, 4to; other pamphlets and sermons
Lot 574
Royal Navy FDC R. N. Marriot Cover. RNCC Group Series Six No. 56. 'Operation Torch' North African Landings - frontal Assault on Oran Harbour. Cover features HMS Walney and is postmarked 'History of the Royal Navy Series, Plymouth, Devon, 9 Nov. 1990. Signed Lt. Cmdr. Peter Twiss OBE DSC (Fighter pilot, Test pilot, holder of the World Air Speed Record). Military autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 200
Battle of Britain Sqn Ldr R Dalton 604 sqn WW2 RAF handwritten letter to BOB historian Ted Sergison regarding 604 & 25 Sqn. Military autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 480
BOB pilot Smythe R H 111 Sqn Signed white card. WW2 RAF Battle of Britain pilot. Comes from Ted Sergison collection. Military autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 889
British commonwealth stamp collection on 27 loose album pages. Letters R-z. Includes South Africa, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 201
Battle of Britain R S Brown 604 sqn WW2 RAF handwritten letter to BOB historian Ted Sergison. Military autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 24
Evelyn (John). Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress. Containing a Succinct Account of Traffick in General; its Benefits and Improvements: Of Discoveries, Wars and Conflicts at Sea ... with Special Regard to the English Nation; their several Voyages and Expeditions, to the Beginning of our Late Differences with Holland; in which His Majesties Title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted, against the Novel, and Later Pretenders, 1st edition, London: printed by T. R. for Benj. Tooke, 1674, without initial blank (A1) but retaining errata and advertisement (K3-4), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, wear to head of spine, worm-track to foot, surface-stripping to sides, 8vo (17.6 x 10.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) 'Charles du Bois', contemporary ownership inscription in stylised Gothic bookhand to front pastedown: possibly the English botanist and treasurer of the East India Company (bap. 1658-1740). 2) Estate of John Lawson (1932-2019). ESTC R8611; Keynes 92; Kress 1358; Sabin 23028; Wing E3504. 'Commanded by Charles II to write about the history of the conflict between the Dutch and the English over the sovereignty of the seas ... Evelyn found his labours rejected as malapropos in a time of peace. The introduction was published as Navigation and Commerce in 1674, but the rest of his history, given to Pepys for his proposed history of the navy, was lost' (ODNB). 'Contains notices of Columbus, Drake, Raleigh, and other early navigators' (Sabin).
Lot 349
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard , 20 volumes, 1968-97, numerous monochrome illustrations, all original black cloth gilt in dust wrappers, a few volumes with slight fraying to extremities, 4to (Qty: 20)NOTESEx libris Michael Jaffé (1923–1997). The lot contains: I, The Ceiling Paintings for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp, by J. Rupert Martin, III, The Old Testament, by R.-A. D'Hulst & M. Vandenven, VII, The Life of Christ After the Passion, by David Freedberg, VIII, Saints, by Hans Vlieghe, 2 volumes, IX, The Decoration of the Torre de la Parada, by Svetlana Albers, X, The Achilles Series, by E. Haverkamp Bergemann, XIII, Subjects from History, by Elizabeth McGrath, 2 volumes, XVI, The Decorations for the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, by J. Rupert Martin, XVIII, Landscapes and Hunting Scenes, by W. Adler & A. Balis, 2 volumes, XIX, Portraits, by Frances Humemer and Hans Vlieghe, 2 volumes, XXI, Book Illustrations and Title-Pages by J. Richard Judson & Carl van de Velde, 2 volumes, XXIII, Copies After the Antique, by Marjon van der Meulen, 3 volumes, and XXIV, The Costume Book, by K. Belkin
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Lot 39
[Napoleonic Wars]. 'State of New Iron Ordnance Proved at Woolwich for His Majesty's Service on the 26th and 27th June 1801 [-17th & 18th Aug[ust] 1803]', manuscript in brown ink on paper, [170] pp., comprising tables throughout, feint-ruled in red, versos with headings 'Marks and Numbers', 'Weight', 'Excess of Metal', Extreme Curvature in Bore', and 'Gauge of Instrument', cannon type and poundage and name of gunsmith recorded in left-hand margins, rectos with headings 'Remarks' and 'Condemnable by Instrument - Searching - Water Proof', contemporary vellum, royal arms gilt to front cover, vellum perished on spine but covers held by cords, covers soiled, wear to extremities, front cover bowed and with date crudely pencilled by hand, vellum lifting at corners, folio (48.2 x 35.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe majority of guns proved are carronades of various poundages, most cast by the Carron Company (of Falkirk), but many by Wiggin and Graham or other foundries. Other types of ordance include 'brass howitzers cast at the R[oyal] Foundry'.
![Ashbee (C. R.). Modern English Silverwork, 1st edition, London: B. T. Batsford, 1909, 12 [2] 15-34 [2] pp., 100 lithographic](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45651768-0840-4e6b-a25a-ab4401107d4e/12f35f04-cbc7-4a4e-bbb1-ab450107f8d4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 337
Ashbee (C. R.). Modern English Silverwork, 1st edition, London: B. T. Batsford, 1909, 12 [2] 15-34 [2] pp., 100 lithographic plates (many hand-coloured), large woodblock to colophon leaf, variable browning, original green buckram, paper spine-label, spine toned, covers slightly mottled, cockled and rubbed, faint indentation to front board, 4to (together with another copy, ex-library) (Qty: 2)NOTESNumber 23 of 200 copies only, signed by Ashbee on the colophon leaf.
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