Four pocket barometers, the first with a tiny compass set in the dial, 4.7cm diameter, the second with a silver case, London 1908, by 'J Hicks, Maker, London 8721', with altimeter, 0-10,000 feet, 5cm diameter overall, in a red leather case, the third with a dial inscribed 'R. Bailey, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham', 0-8000 feet. 5cm diameter, in a red leather case, the fourth, smaller, the dial inscribed 'J.H.Steward, 66 Strand, London' with 0-8000 feet altitude dial (4)
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A collection of 17 Pamphlets , bound in Two volumes: 1- Remarks on a late book, intitled, An Essay on the Publick Debts of this Kingdom, &c. Moore, 1727, PP:vi, 58; 2- A True and Exact List of the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of Great Britain. Matthews, 1727. PP:88; 3- [Defoe, Daniel]: The Evident Advantages to Great Britain and Its Allies from the Approaching War: Especially in Matters of Trade: To Which Is Added Two Curious Plans, One of the Port and Bay of Havana, the Other of Porto-Belo. Roberts, 1727, PP:iv, 44, + 2plans; 4- [Bolingbroke]: The Occasional Writer. Numb. I. Moore, 1727. PP:31 - 5- The Occasional Writer, Inscribed to the Person to Whom Alone It Can Belong. Drop-head; title. Grey, 1726-7. PP:16; 6- The occasional writer, &c. containing a letter. Grey, nd, PP:30; 7- The Occasional Writer. No III. to the Same. Moore, 1727, PP:31(incl. ½ title); 8- The Occasional Paper. Number I, an Essay on Bigotry. Burleigh, 1716. PP:18, (ii)adv; 9- Reasons Shewing the Necessity of Reducing the Army, And, Proving That the Navy of England Is Her Only, and Natural Strength and Security. Moore, 17/28. PP:(iv)½ t & tp, 44; 10- The benefits and advantages gain'd by the late septennial Parliament.. Moore, nd, 2nd. edn. PP:(ii), 34; 11- A Letter to a Member of Parliament in the North. Walker, nd, 3rd. edn. PP:30 (incl. ½ t & tp); 12- The Necessity of a Plot: Or, Reasons for a Standing Army. By a Friend to K. G. Drop-head title. PP:16; Vol. 2 : 13- [Lyttleton, G]: Farther considerations on the present state of affairs, at home and abroad.. Cooper, 1739. PP:(iv)½ t & tp, 60; 14- [Walpole, R]: French counsels destructive to Great-Britain.. In seven letters. By Caleb D'Anvers . Brett, 1739. PP:(ii), iv, 3-87; 15- [Wyndham, W]: A Letter from an Absented Member to a Friend at Westminster, Shewing His Reasons for Retiring Into the Country Upon the Present Situation of the Affairs of Great Britain . Standen, 1739, PP:26(incl. ½ t & tp); 16- [Walpole, R]: A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir R-- W---, C. Upon the Present Posture of Affairs.. by Caleb Danvers. Bret, 1739. PP:30 (incl. ½ t & tp), (ii); 17- A Letter to a Noble Lord, in Answer to a Letter to a Member of Parliament, for Bringing in a Bill to Revise, Amend, or Repeal Certain Obsolete Statutes, Commonly Called the Ten Commandments. . by Philocles . Cooper, 1739. PP:71(incl. ½ t & tp), (i); Plus an incomplete Pamphlet. Both volumes in the original leather backed grey paper boards; rubbed; Armorial bookplate of John Ward to front pastedown and ink listing of the pamphlets to front endpapers; browning to endpapers (2)
BINDING: 1- Motley, J L: The Rise Of The Dutch Republic. in 3 Vols. Warne, nd. new edn. Half leather; 2- Eliot, G: Novels. Stereotyped edition. Illustrated, 5 Vols. Blackwood, 1882, & nd. Cont. half leather; 3- Surtees, R S: Works, 8 Vols. Methuen, 1920, new issue. Half leather; 4- The Spectator. 8 Vols. J Tonson, 1733, 11th. edn. Cont. full speckled calf; hinges cracked; 5- Wharncliffe, Lord: The Letters and Works of Lady Montagu. In 3 Vols. Bentley, 1837. Cont. full calf. VG ; 6- Holland, Lady: Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. 2 Vols. Longman, 1855. Half leather (23)
SUFFOLK: Gage, John: 1- The History and Antiquities of Suffolk Thingoe Hundred. John Deck, Bury St Edmunds, 1838, 1st. Edn. PP:xxvii, (I), 538. With hand-coloured Engraved map and 33 other plates & maps. Cont. full calf; rubbed, book plates of William Dunn Gardner to front pastedown and of Francis A Brooks to front endpaper. Foxing to some of the plates ; 2- The History and Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk. J Carpenter, 1822, large paper copy. With 30 plates & tables (3 double-page), one hand-coloured and several hand-tinted. PP:vii, (I), 263. Folio, Cont. full morocco with gilt lettering to spine and teg. Covers rubbed & with a couple of cuts; some foxing ; 3- Hervey, W: The Visitation of Suffolk, 2 volumes, Large Paper set. Lowestoft, S Tymms, 1866. With plates and illustrations. Cont. half leather, rubbed and hinges cracked ; 4- Clarke, G. R: The History & Description of the Town and Borough of Ipswich. Ipswich, S. Piper, nd, (1830) preface and plates dated 1830. Large pager copy with a list of subscribers. PP:(xviii), 504, plus Engrave title page and 20 plates. Cont. half leather; rubbed (5)
QUAKERS: 1- Fox, George: Gospel-Truth Demonstrated.. T. Sowle,1706. PP:(Xiv), 1090, (vi). Cont. full calf; rubbed; front cover detached; Title-page torn without loss; page 559 torn and missing half of it; 2- Burrough, E: The memorable works of a son of thunder and consolation.. 1672. Folio; PP: Title (in facsimile), xlii, 896, (viii),Table. Cont. full leather & later spine; Lacking first leaf of preface, and all before b2 (an Epistle to the reader); pages brittle and many frayed or torn; browning and staining ; A/F; 3- Fox, G: A Journal... W. Richardson & S. Clark 1765, Folio, 679pp. Cont. full calf; little rubbed; Clean copy; 4- Barclay, R: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity.. Quakers . Dublin, M Fuller, 1737. PP:(xiv), 574, 9xvii), (iii)adv. ½ Title present; cont. full panelled calf; part of name on TP rubbed out, leaving small hole (4)
ESSEX: 1- Chancellor, F: The Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex. 1890; 2- Ogborne, E: The History of Essex. Printed for the proprietors and sold by R H Kelham, Chelmsford, etc.. 1814. 4to. 280pp. Lacking the frontis , all other plates and illustrations present. Original blind stamped cloth, recased with new endpapers. 3- Wright, T: The History And Topography of the County of Essex, in 2 vols . Virtue, Vol.1- 1835. PP:696(including index), Plus: Engraved title page, Large folding Map, and 35 Plates; Vol.2- 1831, PP:836(including index and list of plates), Plus: Frontis, Engraved title, And 63 Plates, Complete. Cont. half leather, rubbed. A couple of pages trimmed; occasional foxing ; 4- Wright, T: Virtue's Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain. County of Essex. 1834. 4to. PP:Extra engraved title, iv, 96, Plus 48 plates each with two views, making 96 in all out of 105 views ( lacking the frontis plus 8 views ). Cont. half leather; rubbed. Lacking front endpaper occasional foxing ; Plus: 2 large folding linen backed Essex County Council Road Maps of Essex, c1906. Tears to folds (7)
C18: 1- The Controversial Letters of John Wilkes, Esq., the rev John Horne, and their principal adherents, with a supplement, containing material anonymous pieces, &c. J. Williams, 1771, 1st. edn. PP:320. Cont. full calf; rubbed and upper cover detached; 2- Reflections on Our Common Failings. Done Out of French, by a Person of Honour. G. Croom, for R. Smith, 1701. PP:(xxii), 255, (vii) Advs. Cont. full panelled calf; with later spine; 3- Marci Hieronymi Vidae, Cremonensis, Albae Episcopi, Poematum; Part 1. Oxford, Clrendoniano, 1722. with portrait frontis. PP:2 Tile-pages (one in red and black), (xiv) Subscribers’ list, ix, (i) Errata, 145. Cont. full red morocco with elaborate gilt decoration & aeg. Rebacked with later spine; 4- Melmoth, W: The Letters of Pliny the Consul, in 2 Vols. Dodsley, 1748, 3rd. edn. PP:692 (continuous pagination), (iv) Index. C19 half leather; VG. (5)
THEOLOGY: 1- Taylor, J: The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life.. In 3 parts. R Royston, 1657. 4to. 600pp, with 13 folding plates. Half leather, hinges cracked; repair to extra engv. Title ; tears to plates, without loss. 2- Hooker, Richard: The works. Walthoe, 1723. Folio, 518pp Title in red & black; Frontis portrait and an extra engv. TP. Covers detached and lacking most of spine; 3- Hamon, J: Traités de Pénitence . Paris, Herissant, 1757. 574pp. Cont full leather; hinges cracked; 4- D. Justiniani, Sacratissimi Principis .. Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1669. 643pp. Cont. full vellum (4)
1- Ray, John: A Collection of English Proverbs.. Morden, Cambridge, 1678, 2nd edn. enlarged (118 extra pages, including appendix & Hebrew proverbs). PP: (viii), 414, (i) adv. Full calf; rubbed and hinges cracked; 2- [Etienne, R]: Causes amusantes et connues. Berlin, 1769, with 5 plates. Full calf; rubbed; 3- Fenelon: Oeuvres philosophiques. Paris, Estienne, 1726. Cont. full speckled calf; upper cover detached; 4- La Primaudaye: L'Académie Françoise. Geneva, Chouet, 1617. PP:(8), 345 leaves. Cont. full vellum and later ties; covers browned and stained; 5- Manuel des catéchismes.. Paris, Denaix, nd, c1831. 630pp; full calf; rubbed; 6- Dictionnaire des Proverbes Francois.. Frankfurt, 1750. 400pp. full vellum; 7- Binding: Livre D'heures. Tours, C1870. 608pp; colour title and 8 plates. Cont. full blindstamped leather, with clasps and gilt fleur-de-lys to edges (7)
Lady Cullum: AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, consisting of 80 items, c.150 pages of mainly autograph letters Signed, 1838-1872. Highlights include: Richard M(onckton) Milnes (made Baron Houghton in 1863): 'The fifteenth of December 1840' a poem. 2pp. signed: Paris, Jan. 1841; Edward Hogg; Mr. Jekyll (3pp, 1841. 'Country office, Spring Gardner'); Frederick Henry Turner Barnwell (2 letters, one signed F.H.T.B); Tasmania, F. R. (Francis Russell Nixon- first Bishop of Tasmania) 2PP. 1842; Sir Frederick Pollock (Lord chief Baron); Fitzgerald Gambier (Son of Sir James Gambier); William Bodham Donne (2 letters, 3pp & 4pp); Charles Waterton 'Admiral Hosier’s Ghost' transcribed from memory by Charles Waterton for Sir Thomas Cullum Baronet. 1854, 4pp neatly written; Donaldson, J W, 1832; Edwin Sidney, Lady Cullum’s Poet Laureate! (8 letters between 2 and 4 pages each, 1872-72); Rev. H. Percy Smith, Barton Vicarage, 1873 (a 3 page letter & 4 page poem signed with initials). Full morocco binding gilt and aeg, and with a lock
Sale Catalogues: 1- Forster, H R: The Stowe Catalogue, Priced and Annotated. Bogue, 1848. Leather backed boards; 2- Catalogue of the nineteen Days Sale at Stowe, Near Buckingham. Jackson, Stops, 1921. 232 pages plus 4 coloured plans (2 folding), a location map and 56 plates; bound in the original printed paper-covered boards and quarter cloth. The catalogue of the sale starting July 4th 1921. The sale consisted of 3955 lots, with lot 1 being the mansion and grounds and lot 3955 two dozen bottles of Pale sherry; 3- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's world famous home, the Freehold Sale particulars: Hampton & Sons, 1912. PP:28, (ii)wrappers. Illustrated with 21 photographs; 4- Purchasers' Catalogue of the Valuable Contents of Culloden House Sold at Auction By Messrs A. Fraser & Co. Wednesday, 21st. July, 1897. Numerous plates. PP:57+blank pages. Bound in the original leather backed tartan cloth covered boards; worn and torn ; 5- Christie & Manson Bernal: Catalogue of the Works of Art Collected by the late Ralph Bernal. 1855. 1st. PP:387, Plus 34 plates. Original cloth, recased; 6- Christie, Manson & Woods: Miniatures the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1935. PP:272. Recent plain cloth (6)
Rackham, Arthur (ill): 1- Peter Pan. Hodder & Stoughton 1907, 1 st . edn. with 50 tipped-in colour plates. 4to. original gilt pictorial cloth; tear to spine; 2- Wagner’s Rhinegold & the Valkyrie . Heinemann, 1910, 1 st . edn. with 34 tipped-in colour plates. original gilt pictorial cloth; spine torn; 3- Ingoldsby legends. Heinemann, 1920. With 24 tipped-in colour plates, 12 tinted plates plus text illustrations. Original gilt pictorial leather; chipped and spine torn off; Plus: Mitford, M R; Hugh Thomson (ill): Our Village . Macmillan, 1893, Limited edition of 475 large paper copies. 4to. ¾ leather. (4)
Russell, W. H; Dudley, R (ill): The Atlantic Telegraph. Day & Son, no date, [1866]. Folio, with a colour title page Plus 25 plates, including a colour chart (as called for). PP:v, (i), 117, (i), [4]Publisher's adverts. Original gilt pictorial cloth, rebacked with original spine and new endpapers. Damp stain to the top blank margin of all the plates (away from the images)
BIBLES: 1- (Beza?) Testamentum Novum, Greek & Latin Lacking the title-page, etc. (Geneva, 1580 or later?). PP(xii leaves), 1-256 leaves + 1-209 leaves Only; in all 477 leaves. C18 full leather; rubbed and with scattered worm damage ; 2- Gothic Gospel: Sacrorum evangeliorum versio gothica.. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1750. Large 4to. PP:lxii, (i)Errata, 384. Leather backed boards; rubbed, with plain paper remnant of spine; lacking endpapers; 3- Book of Common Prayer. T Basket, 1750; Bound With : Bible: Old & New Testament. T Basket, 1751. (general title with tears and ink writing to verso); Bound With : Brief Concordance. R Ware, 1745. Cont. full leather with one clasp; one page trimmed and a few tears and stains; 4- Baskerville Bible: Old & New Testament, with the Apocrypha.. Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1772. General title only, no TP for the New Testament; No prelims. Or engravings. Folio, Cont. reverse calf; rubbed; Lacks 3 leaves : Jumps from Daniel: Chap. vi(7) to Chapter xi(33) (4)
1- Baruffaldi G: Ad Rituale romanum commentaria.. Venice, Typographia Romondiniana, 1763. Folio, PP:viii, 288. Cont. half vellum; rubbed; 2- SANCTI BERNARDI ABBATIS PRIMI CLARAE-VALLENSIS. Volume one in 4 parts, bound in 3 volumes. Paris, M David, 1719. Folio, PP(lvi), 1576 (2 numbers to a page), cxx(2numbers to a page), (liv). Full vellum; pencil notes to endpapers; 3- Famiani Stradae Prolusiones Academicae . Oxford, Theatro Sheldoniano, 1745. PP:(xii), 325, + index. Cont. full speckled calf. VG; 4- Colloquiorum Desiderii Erasmi Roterdami Familiarum Opus Aureum. R Bonwicke.. 1717. Frontis; PP:(x), 471,+ index. Later 1/2 leather; Frontis repaired; TP and next 2 leaves corners torn off; 5- Inchino, Gabriele: Scala Coeli Sev Conciones Exqvisitissimae De Viis Coelestibvs . Cologne, P Cholinum, 1616. PP: (xxiv), 629. Full vellum; rubbed; inner hinges cracked (7)
BINDING: Bentley’s Miscellany. Vols. 1-10. ( Ed. BOZ. (Charles Dickens) till 1839, later by Harrison Ainsworth). R Bentley, 1837-1841. Contains the first appearance of Oliver Twist (1837-39); plus works by Thackeray, Longfellow and Poe. Vols. 1-6 in cont. full calf, and 7-10 in half leather. Little rubbed (10)
Richard Whitford (flourished 1854-1887) An ornate gilt and gesso framed, very well executed large Oil painting on stretchered canvas of four horses saddled up ready to replace the exhausted mounts of the avid huntsmen seen in the middle distance skirting a broad-leaf wood together with a pack of hounds in the undulating landscape. Other hunt followers on foot and on horses are seen in the landscape, some approaching down a track from a hilltop village. Signed "R. Whitford" lower right. 34" x 50" approx. This work resembles in many ways a painting by the same artist entitled "Saddling up and waiting for the hunt" which was included in the Christie's Pipewell Hall Sale, apparently with a pre-sale estimate of £15,000 to £20,000.
GROUP OF SIX MEDALS AWARDED TO MAJOR MICHAEL RAY HEEREY (''MIKE'') (16.2.26 - 31.5.19) COMPRISING THE 1939-45 STAR, FRANCE & GERMANY STAR, DEFENCE MEDAL, WAR MEDAL, QE II SILVER GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL WITH CLASP 'MALAYA' AND A UN MEDAL, ON A BAR, WITH SIX MINIATURES, THE G S M WITH THREE ADDITIONAL CLASPS 'CYPRUS', 'BRUNEI', AND 'ARABIAN PENINSULAR', BADGES & BUTTONS, TOGETHER WITH AN OCTAGONAL SECTION MAHOGANY BATON WITH TWO PLAQUES INSCRIBED 'PRESENTED TO MAJOR MIKE HEEREY, TEAM COMMANDER OF THE REDS DEVILS, OCTOBER 1964-DECEMBER 1966, WITH BEST WISHES FROM MEMBERS OF THE 'PRFFT' AND 'PASSED IN FREE-FALL BY THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT FREE-FALL TEAM (THE RED DEVILS) (L.35.2 CM) PHOTOGRAPHS, NOTES, EPHEMERA, RELATED BOOKS, CAMERA, AND OTHER ITEMS, VARIOUS (A LOT) (FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MAJOR M. R. HEEREY, TEAM COMMANDER 'THE RED DEVILS' 1964-1966).
A Diamond Bombé Cluster Ring, three rows of round brilliant cut diamonds pavé set on a plain polished shank, total estimated diamond weight 1.00 carat approximately, finger size R see illustration . The ring is in good condition. It bears no hallmark, but is stamped '18K' and '750'. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; colour J/K/L, clarity SI2/I1/I2. Gross weight 8.6 grams. CR made 17th August 2019.
A Blue Enamel Ring, the blue enamel with etched out floral motif design, finger size R, and A Pair of Matching Earrings, with post and clip fittings see illustration. The items are in good condition, with a couple of areas of enamel loss. All are stamped '750' and in our opinion would test as gold. Gross weight 16.30 grams. CR made 17.07.19.
A Synthetic Opal Ring, an oval cabochon opal in a yellow four claw setting, to fancy polished bead and matte finished forked shoulders, on a plain polished shank, finger size R see illustration . The ring is in good condition. It is stamped '750' and in our opinion would test as gold. Gross weight 4.9 grams. CR made 17.07.19.
A Sapphire and Diamond Cluster Ring, a round brilliant cut diamond centres a cluster of six marquise cut sapphires, a smaller eight-cut diamond between each, in white claw settings on a tapered shoulder plain polished shank, finger size R see illustration . The ring is in good condition. It is stamped '585' and in our opinion it would test as gold. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; caratweight 0.20, colour G/H/I, clarity SI2/I1/I2. Gross weight 3.2 grams. CR made 13th June 2019
Personal effect of Wing Commander D R Young, including his Mess Uniform, Coalport Winston Churchill limited edition boxed plate 55/15000, a wooden Squadron 97 shield, mounted Officers' Advanced Training School photograph, an impression of Aldershot News Fleet edition, two photos of Armstrong Whitworth aircraft, 5 aircraft calendars, an RAF 145 Sqn embroidered badge, Spode Limited edition boxed RAF plate 1918-1968 No 2313, mounted photo of 130 Flying Instructors course, Central Flying School July 1951 - October 1951

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