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Click here to subscribePostcards, a mixed collection of approx 240 cards inc. UK & Foreign and subjects inc. comic McGill (14), Black Humour (Lewin), Glamour (Zandrino), silk, A R Quinton, Naval Shipping RP's inc. list of properties of common poisonous substances used in the War, Anti Gas School, (2) HMS Tamar (photo), Sea Cow at Simon's Town, sub crew L20 etc (fair/gd)
Cartophilic Literature, USA, an interesting selection of items of various ages inc. loose leaf 'Handbook to US Early Candy & Gum Baseball Issues' by R Egan 1969, various issues of The American Card Catalogue, including one dated 1939, various editions of 'News & Views', the journal of the US Cartophilic Society, 3 issues of 'The Trader Speaks' all dated 1976, checklist and wants list of Allen & Ginter issues plus various other checklists, booklets, magazines etc and also including 'The Sport Americana Price Guide to the Non-Sports Cards etc (gd) (40+ items)
Postcards, London Life, a selection of 10 Rotary London Life cards Series 10513, no 88, In Billingsgate Market, 89, The Opening of the London Season, 90, Queen Alexandra Buying Roses …, 98, Motor Fire Engine and Escape, also tinted Series inc. 10513, R, Flower Sellers in Oxford Circus, S, City Police Constable ..., U, Royal Exchange Constable, W, Newspaper Boy, Series 10514 A, Chelsea Pensioner, B, Big Ben's Telescope Man (mainly vg)
A George III oak and mahogany longcase clock, the 28cm brass dial with silvered chapter ring inscribed Ashton, Ashburn (sic) Roman numerals, date aperture, 30-hour movement striking on a bell, the case with swan neck pediment, shaped rectangular door to waist centred by an oval shell patera, bracket feet, 207cm high, c.1800The signature is that of Samuel Ashton the younger born at Macclesfield 1828, apprenticed to father at Tideswell 1742-49, and moved to Ashbourne c. 1750, leaving his brother Aaron to succeed to their father's business at Tideswell. The two son,s Thomas and Martin, the former working from Tideswell and the latter in partnership with his father from 1791 and his successor until his own death in 1829 [Craven, M & Hughes, R G 'Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Derbyshire' (Mayfield 1998) 57-58.] Condition Report: Generally good. Dial and movement associated with case.
Railwayana - Local Interest - a printed certificate made to mark the retirement from service of the Midland Raiwlay art Derby of the locomotive superintendent, Samuel Waite Johnson, company arms at top, early 2-2-2 locomotive in cartouche at foot, on left side a portrait of Johnson superimposed over a view of his compound 4-4- 0 locomotive no. 1000 also in cartouche below, with text expressing esteem and with names of colleagues below in four columns: R. M. Deeley, W. H. Adams, L. Archbull, J. Bunting/W. Chatterton, F. Eveleigh, H. Fowler, F. Horton/C. H. Jones, W. J. Newbould, C. W. Paget, G. F. Pratt/R. G. Rosevere, J. W. Smith, A. Whitaker, W. Marriott, 11 by 13in (28 by 33cm) in plain oak frame. Samuel Waite Johnson (1831-1912) was the son of James johnsopn, later loco superintendent on the Nortgh Staffordshire railway, and was born at Bramley Yorks and educated at Leeds Grammar School vbefore going to work with E B Wilson & Co. He was locomotive superintendent of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway to 1864, then to the Edinburgh and Glasgow to 1866, then to the Great Eastern to 1873, when he was appointed to the Midland Railway at Derby, retiring in 1903 and being succeeded by his assistant R M Deeley. He is famous for his successful Class 4 compound 4-4-0 express engines of which the rebuilt protoype No. 1000 is preserved. He died at Nottingham in 1912.
Theology - Conybeare (The Rev. W.J.) and Howson (The Rev. J.S.), The Life and Epistles OF St. Paul, two-volume set, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London 1859, illustrated throughout with full-page plates and maps, contemporary buckram boards as issued, titled paper labels to spine, 4to; Quarles (Francis), Emblems, Divine and Moral, Printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham, Sold by R. Jennings, London 1818, line engravings throughout, contemporary half-leather and buckram, 18mo; Newman ([The Blessed Cardinal] John Henry, B.D.), Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief, Preached Before the University of Oxford, second edition, Francis & John Rivington, London 1844, contemporary calf, the boards with gilt double-fillet enclosing a blind tooled anthemion tendrils, later title label to spine, marbled endpapers, 8vo; The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany: Containing Various Pieces of Permanent Interest, 1862, The Religious Tract Society, London, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 12mo; Gore (Charles), The Religion of the Church, as Presented in the Church of England: A Manual of Membership, A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London 1916, Swedish Art Deco binding of red half-morocco and printed two-tone boards, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, 16mo; The Psalter: A Revised Edition of the Scottish Metrical Version [...], Set to Suitable Music [...], Prepared and Published by Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Blackie & Son, Dublin and Belfast, 1880, contemporary straight-grain green morocco, gilt and blind tooled to each cover and spine, owner's monogram gilt lettered to foot of upper cover, 12mo; Kempis (Thomas à), On the Imitation of Christ [...], Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London 1889, contemporary straight-grain black morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Sturm [Christoph Christian], Reflections of the Works of God; and of His Providence Throughout All Nature, Translated by The Rev. Dr. Balford, two-volume set, G. and W.B. Whittaker, London 1823, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 16mo; Spangenberg (The Rev. August Gottlieb), The Life of Nicholas Lewis Count Zinzendorf, Bishop and Ordinary of the Church of the United (or Moravian) Brethren [...], Samuel Holdsworth, London 1838, contemporary half-morocco and marbled boards, 12mo; The Book of Common Prayer [...], 1851, contemporary purple morocco, 8vo; another, similar, later; Cardinal Manning; various bindings and sizes; etc
Henry Thomas Alken (1785 - 1851), by, Sporting Anecdotes: The Hunting Sweep and the Duke, or Gallantry & Galloping, a Sketch from Nature near Badminton-House [...], "Mercury" in Black, or the Sweep among "The Goddesses" [...], Plate 14, Published by R. Ackermann, at his Eclipse Sporting Gallery, [London] 1837, aquatint, 29cm x 38.5cm
Medals, WW1, group of three: 1914 - 15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, named to 683 Pte. J.D. Rogers, R. War'. R. [Royal Warwickshire Regiment], original silk ribbons; another British War Medal, named to 24227 Pte. A.E. Rogers N.Z.E.F. [New Zealand Expeditionary Force], erroneous Victory Medal ribbon, [4]
Literature - The Works of Robert Burns; with an Account of His Life and a Criticsim of His Writings, sixth edition, four-volume set, T. Cadell and W. Davies, London 1809, fifth volume bound en suite: Reliques of Robert Burns, J. M'Creery, London 1808, contemporary marbled calf gilt, gilt lettered black morocco title and volume labels to spine, marbled endpapers, contemporary ink MS presentation inscription dated 1810, later Plain Armorial bookplates: Henry Birbeck, 8vo; Provincial Imprint, A Selection of Catches, Glees, &c., for the Use of the Members of the Bath York-House Catch-Club, Arranged Under the Names of the Respective Composers of the Music, Printed by R. Cruttwell, Bath 1804, contemporary publisher's boards, 16mo; Provincial Imprint, Morsels for Merry and Melancholy Mortals, Printed and Sold by J. Raw, Ipswich 1815, aquatint frontispiece, contemporaneous cloth, 12mo; Somerville (William, Esq.), The Chase; A Poem, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., London 1802, illustrated with woodcuts by Thomas Bewick (1753 - 1828), contemporary marbled boards (disbound), 8vo; The Merry Campaign; or, the Weftminfter (sic) and Green-Park Scuffle: A New Court Ballad, B. Dickinson, at Inigo Jones's Head, over againft (sic) Exeter-Change (sic) in the Strand, London [n.d., June 1732], pp: [6], loose sheets (31cm x 19.5cm), small folio; Pamphlet, Dickinson (Robert), A Parlour Companion (Gratis): To Prevent Difputes (sic) and Settle Differences in Private Families [...], Also A Description of the Means for Rendering us Pleasant to Ourselves and Agreeable to Others [...], London [n.d., c. 1794], disbound, 16mo; Musarum Deliciæ: or, The Muse's Recreation [...], two-volume set, T. Davison, London 1817, contemporary calf, cover with gilt double-fillet, the spines with lyres and gilt lettered black morocco labels, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Elegant Extracts, six-volume set, John Sharpe, London [n.d., 1810], contemporary quarter calf, 18mo; The Flowers of Literature [...], second edition, four-volume set, Thomas Tegg, London 1824, contemporary quarter-calf, 12mo; The Works of Peter Pindar [...], four-volume set, J. Walker [...], London 1809, contemporary calf gilt, 18mo; Bloomfield (Robert), The Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem, seventh edition, Vernor and Hood, London 1803, contemporary marbled calf, relaid spine retaining original gilt lettered red morocco title label, 16mo; bindings; etc
Legal History - Bacon's Abridgment: Anon [Bacon (Matthew)], A New Abridgment of the Law, By a Gentleman of the Middle Temple, five-volume set, Printed by E. and R. Nutt [...], In the Savoy, various but conforming imprints throughout the three-decade publication, [London] 1736 - 1766, alternating contemporary panelled calf, gilt lettered red leather title labels to spines within raised bands, each volume's pastedown or endpaper inscribed with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription: Thomas Hinckley, Lichfield, crown folios, [5] Thomas Hinckley was an attorney based in Lichfield, Staffordshire, practicing from the 18th through to the first years of the 19th century, and was a noted landowner in the city as well as the village of Polesworth, Warwickshire.
Medical Interest - Provincial Welsh Imprint, Solomon (Dr Samuel), A Guide to Health; or Advice to Both Sexes, in Nervous and Consumptive Complaints: with an Essay on the Scurvy, Leprosy, and Scrofula; also on a Certain Disease, Seminal Weakness, and a Destructive Habit of a Private Nature, to which is added An Address [...] with Observations on The Use and Abuse of Cold Bathing, fifty-third edition, Printed by J. Painter, for the Author, Wrexham [n.d., c. 1810], stipple engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Edward Orme (1775 - 1848) after Thomas Hargreaves (1774 - 1847), full-page architectural elevation: Solomon's Place, Brownlow Street, Liverpool, contemporary speckled calf, gilt lettered red morocco title label, large 16mo; Morley (John), An Essay, On the Nature and Cure of Scrophulous Disorders, Commonly called the King's Evil [...], sixteenth edition, James Buckland, London 1777, pp: 89, facsimile frontispiece and repaired loss to half of page 89, later early 19th century buckram boards with contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscription, small 8vo; Anon, A New Collection of Medical Prefcriptions (sic), Distributed into Twelve Classes, And accompanied with Pharmaceutical and Practical Remarks [...], By a Member of the London College of Physicians, R. Baldwin, Jun., London 1791, contemporary mottled dark calf spine, upper cover present but detached, 12mo; Bodington (George), An Essay on the Treatment and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption, Reprinted, with a Preface by Dr Arthur E. Bodington, Lomax's Successors, Lichfield 1906, original printed boards, 12mo, [4]
Medals and Militaria, WW1, Royal Warwickshire, Too Young/Assumed Identity, Gas Warfare Instructor in Washington, group of three, 1914-15 Star, Great War and Victory Medals, named to 1422 A. Sjt. W.A. Price, R. War. R. [Royal Warwickshire Regiment], the Star named to the then Private, Pte. W.A. Price, R. War'. R., erroneous ribbon arrangement but present; his 1907 pattern bayonet, 43cm blade inscribed Wilkinson, Pall Mall, surmounted by crowned GR cypher, stamped with War Department markings to verso, two-piece wooden grip, scabbard with khaki fittings, 57.5cm long overall; framed Trench map, Fifth Army Situation Map, 5 p.m. 20th August, 1917, 39.5cm x 49.5cm; Army Reserve (Special Reservists) 6 Years' Service; 1915 Calendar and Map of Flanders and Northern France; certificates: Employment During the War, Character and Discharge; send from the Front in 1918 to America, to instruct in Washington and New York vis-à-vis gas warfare and intelligence work: Certificate of Identity, with signed photo, from the New York Office of the British Military Attaché, signed, stamped and dated 7th September 1918, Movement Order dated 7th October 1918 directing the then Sergeant William Arthur Price from Washington to New York from the British Military Mission, D.C., etc; postcards, WW1, humour: b/w (5) and coloured (2); personal possessions: gilt brass vest case, box of Cru-Steel Star Razor Blades, brown leather change wallet; (archive) William Arthur Price was the assumed wartime name of Harold Price he was too young to enlist and so assumed his predeceased brother's name and birth date, as evidenced by the carbon copy of a handwritten letter from is his son/daughter and might also explain why his Certified Copy of Attestation though filled in is not signed by a magistrate or attesting officer.
Theology - Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlafting (sic) Rest, four parts contemporaneously bound as one: first part, lacking title-page; second part, F. Tyton, 1676; third part, W.R., 1677; fourth part, F. Tyton and R. Boutler, 1677, contemporary diced calf, raised bands to spine, traces of ink MS title to spine, 8vo; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Teftament (sic) and the New, Newly tranflated (sic) out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Tranflations (sic) diligently Compared and Revifed (sic), With Marginal notes, fhewing (sic) Scripture to be the beft (sic) Interpreter of Scripture, [London], engraved architectural title-page dated 1682 with no further printing details, address To the Reader by John Canne, bound with A Small Cambridge Concordance to the Holy Bible [...] To which is Annexed Supplement [...], Printed to be bound up with Bible, Printed by John Hayes, Cambridge 1695, late 18th century black straight-grain morocco gilt (lacking upper cover), lettered spine, marbled endpapers, recto with late 18th/early 19th century ink MS annotations in mainly Greek but some English, ownership inscription: S.P. Hodgkins 1808, 16mo; Spencerus [Spencer] (Gulielmus [William]), Origenes Kata Kelsou, en tomois 8 ; tou autou: Origenis Contra Celsum, Libri Octo, ejusdem Philocalia, Joan. Field, Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] 1658, contemporary panelled calf upper board only (detached), square 8vo; Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, fourth revised and enlarged edition, J.M. for John Williams [...], London 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Frederick Hendrik Van Hove (1628 - 1698) after Willem Sonmans (fl. 1670 - 1708), contemporary speckled calf with losses and repairs, small folio; [Newman (Samuel)], A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures: With the Various Readings both of Text and Margin, In A more Exact Method than hath hitherto been Extant, third edition, John Hayes, Printer to the Univerfity (sic): For Hannah Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill in London, Cambridge 1682, contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooled spine, blind lettering, 4to [5]
Dickens (Charles): The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club, first edition, with Forty-Three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz, Chapman and Hall, London 1837, pp: xiv, [ii], 609, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards and endpapers, 8vo; another edition, 1850, quarter-calf and marbled boards, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition, With Illustrations by Phiz, Chapman and Hall, London 1839, pp: xvi, 624, contemporary green-stained quarter-calf and buckram boards, marbled endpapers, 8vo; Cockton (Henry), The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, The Ventriloquist, first edition, With Sixty Illustrations by Thomas Onwhyn, Willoughby & Co., London [n.d., 1839 - 1840], contemporary quarter-calf and marbled boards (spine detached but present), 8vo; Pictures of the French; Washington Irving; etc, [7]
Television History - Dr Who, an early and important BBC - 1, Rehearsal Script, Dr Who, Serial 'R', "The Chase", Ep.5: 'The Death of Dr Who' by Terry Nation, [...], Rehearsals: 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th May 1965 at L.T.E. Assembly Room, Wood Lane, W.12, [...], Transmission: Saturday, 19th June 1965, typed script and dialogue, pp: [i] (torn and loose at top-left margin of front page but present), each page 33cm x 21cm
Ornithology - Morris (Beverley R.), British Game Birds and Wildfowl, Illustrated with Sixty Coloured Plates, first edition, Groombridge and Sons, London 1855, pp: iv, 252, full-page hand-coloured etched and lithographed plates of birds, contemporary purple crushed morocco covers tooled in gilt and blind (disbound, lacking spine), yellow endpapers, all edges gilt, royal quarto
A WW1 1914-15 Star and War Medal awarded to Private F Sharpe, Leicestershire Regiment 1129, Killed in Action 11th September 1915, Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, together with a Great War and Victory Medal awarded to Private R Sharpe, Machine Gun Corps 103138, and a Royal Flying Corps badge.
A Queen Victoria Long Service Volunteer Force Medal awarded to Bugler R Sharpe, First Volunteer Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, 289, together with an 1889 badge, Leicestershire Regiment First Volunteer Battalion medallion, with pin attachment, and a National Rifle Association 1860 gilt metal medallion.
Dundee - A Scottish provincial cream ladle JH (unknown), marked JH, pot of lilies thrice, of Fiddle and Shell pattern with script initial ACV to terminal and shallow bowl; together with a Dundee sugar sifter spoon, by R Donaldson, marked RD, pot of lilies, DUN/DEE, of Fiddle pattern with intricately pierced bowl and script initial L to terminal (2) Length: 14.2cm and 14.5cm, combined weight 45.7g
Four gentleman's wristwatches comprising Cyma Cymaflex ref. 1070 with inset subsidiary seconds dial, black hands and Arabic numerals, silver dial and signed 17 jewel calibre R.458 movement, on expanding metal bracelet, case diameter 32mm, serial number 117957, Penguin gold plated automatic wristwatch on expanding gold plated bracelet and two Majex gold plated examples, one on brown leather strap.
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