An album of approximately 73 Old Master prints, including works by Dietzsch, Giovanni Battista Mercati, George and John Smith of Chichester, Bullinger, and others, with works after Bartolomeus Breenbergh, Ludovico Carracci, du Jardin, Nicolaes Maes, Rembrandt, etchings and engravings, various sizes, neatly hinged onto buff paper album leaves, each leaf approx. 315 x 250 mm. (12 3/8 x 9 7/8 in), mainly trimmed with small margins, owners inscription on front pastedown 'Jessie R. Spiller/ Buxton./ September 24th 1900', occasional spotting and browning, large 4to, worn, [mainly early 19th century].
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Aesop. The Fables..., 2 vol., 2 engraved titles and 110 engraved plates, with advertisement leaf following 'the Life...', some foxing and offsetting, contemporary diced calf, neat repairs to joints, rebacked preserving original backstrip, gilt, corners slightly rubbed, a tall copy, John Stockdale, 1793; Select Fables..., engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and plates, some soiling and offsetting, contemporary calf, rebacked, Birmingham, John Baskerville, for R. and J.Dodsley, 1761 § Dryden (John) Fables Ancient and Modern, engraved frontispiece, browned, modern boards, for Jacob Tonson, 1713; and 2 others, fables, 8vo & 12mo (6)
Africa.- Tucker (Alfred R.) Eighteen Years in Uganda, 2 vol., plates, folding colour map, occasional light spotting, cracked hinges (vol. 2), slight rubbing to corners and joints, 1908 § Cunningham (J. M.) Uganda and its Peoples, illustrations, map, cracked hinge, bumping to spine extremities, 1905; first editions, frontispieces, ink inscriptions, original cloth; and 6 others, Uganda, 8vo & 4to (9)
Simler (Georg) Observationes de arte grammatica. De literis grecis ac diphthongis & quemadmodum ad nos ueniant..., collation: A-G4, H8, K-L4, M8, N-P4, Q8, R-T4, V8, X-Y4, Z8, &4, cum4, rum8; A-Ξ4, AA-BB4, ΓΓ8, ΕΕ6, text in Latin and Greek, initial spaces with guide-letters, errata leaf at end, to verso a woodcut printer's device and colophon framed by an early watercolour, lacking final blank, Tübingen, Thomas Anshelm, March, 1512 bound with Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistole Familiares, cum Ascensianis introductiunculis recognitis & auctis, & argumentis illustratis..., edited by Sebastian Munro and with an introduction by Badius Ascencius, collation: A-T4.8, Aa-Tt4.8, initial spaces with guide-letters, lacking Nn1-4, Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, 1512, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink marginalia in both works in at least three sixteenth- and seventeenth- century hands, stained, some spotting, marginal repairs, a few short tears, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metals clasps (with new leather thongs), rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip in compartments, rather worn, but holding firm, thick 8vo ⁂ Two rare works. The Simler is the first edition of the first grammar of Greek printed in Germany. Simler had been director of the renowned school at Pforzheim, where he introduced the young Phillipp Melanchthon to the study of Greek. The present work is supplemented with two other grammatical writings, again presented to a German audience for the first time: Manutius' De Litteris Graecis ac diphthongis, and the popular Erotemata by the Byzantine philologist Chrysoloras. The Cicero is the first Strasbourg edition, with an introduction by the great scholar-printer Badius Ascencius. Provenance: 'Ego Georgius Sp[?] sum possessor hujus 1621' (ownership inscription to the verso of original front free endpaper); the Scolopian convent at Strážnice (South Moravian Region, Czech Republic; ownership inscription to title of the Simler 'Domus Strasneciensis Pauperum Matris Dei'). Literature: Neither in Adams; I. VD16 S-6497, VD16 M-683, VD16 M-766, VD16 S-6496; K. Steiff, Der erste Buchdruck in Tübingen, 1498-1534, Tübingen 1881, pp. 84-85; II. VD16 C-3030; Ritter no. 488; Chrisman no. A1.6.3; Muller, p. 182, no. 70.
Conjuring Posters.- Rogers (R.) Printers. The World's Mystery. Important and Expensive Engagement for a Short Season Only of M. Burnette, Royal Wizard!, wood-engraving printed in black on cream wove paper, not backed, sheet approx. 750 x 235 mm. (29 1/2 x 9 1/4 in), rolling and handling creases, some nicks and tears, unframed, [circa 1880-1900].
Satirical Pamphlets.- [Arbuthnot (John)] A Complete Key to the Three Parts of Law Is a Bottomless-Pit, 8pp., this edition with 4 lines of motto on title, [ESTC lists 6 copies only; not in BL], [London], 1712 bound with [Arbuthnot (John)] Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplified in the Case of The Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who Spent all they had in a Law-Suit, 16pp., [this edition not in BL], Printed for John Morphew, 1712 bound with [Arbuthnot (John)] John Bull In His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, 16pp., [this edition not in BL], Printed for John Morphew, 1712 bound with [Arbuthnot (John)] John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, 32pp., [this edition not in BL], Printed for John Morphew, 1712 bound with S[peed] (R[obert]) The Counter-Scuffle... Whereunto is Added The Irish Entertainment. Written by W. & G., 30pp., woodcut royal coat of arms on title, small ink marks on title, [ESTC lists 2 copies only both located in Ireland; Wing S4897], Dublin, Printed by Andrew Crooke for Samuel Helsham..., 1684 bound with [Leslie (Charles)] A Short and Easie Method with the Deists. Wherein the Truth of the Christian Religion is Demonstrated..., 40pp., [ESTC lists 3 copies of this edition all located in Ireland; Wing L1155], Dublin, Andrew Crook, 1699 bound with An Account of a Conference Between His Grace George, Late Duke of Buckingham, and Father Fitz-Gerald an Irish Priest: Whom King James II. sent to His Grace in his Sickness, to endeavour to pervert him to the Popish Perswasion, 24pp., [this edition not in ESTC, ESTC lists editions for 1714 and 1726 only], Dublin, for J. Ware, 1705 bound with Hoadly (Benjamin) The Happiness of the Present Establishment, and the Unhappiness of Absolute Monarchy. A Sermon Preach'd at the Assizes at Hartford, March 22d. 1708, 16pp., B3 small piece of corner torn away not affecting text, [this Dublin edition not in ESTC], London Printed, and Re-Printed in Dublin for R. Pue in Skinner-Row, 1708 bound with Axford (John) Hidden Things Brought to Light, for the Increase of Knowledge in Reading the Bible, The Second Edition, A2 small piece of corner torn away not affecting text, [ESTC lists 2 copies only none located in the UK], London Printed: and Re-Printed in Dublin for G[eorge]. G[rierson], 1709 bound with Beveridge (William) A Sermon Concerning the Excellency and Usefulness of the Common Prayer, The Thirteenth edition, 56pp., [ESTC lists 4 copies only; Wing B2110], Dublin, Printed by J.B. and S.P.... for Jacob Milner, 1700 bound with A Letter to the French Refugees Concerning their Behaviour to the Government, 24pp., [ESTC lists 6 copies only], London Printed: And Re-Printed... Dublin... E. Waters, 1711 bound with [Hare (Francis)] The History of the Negociations for a Treaty of Peace, In 1709. In a Third Letter to a Tory Member, 32pp., London Printed for A. Baldwin: And M. Gunne... Dublin, 1711 bound with [Oldmixon (John)] Remarks on A False, Scandalous, and Seditious Libel Intituled, The Conduct of the Allies. And of the Late Ministry, &c., 32pp., [ESTC lists 5 copies of this edition only], for A. Baldwin, 1711 bound with D'Assigny (Samuel) Religion in a Trance: or, the Groans of the Church, only edition, 34pp., [ESTC lists 3 copies only], Dublin, 1711 bound with The Report of the Commissioners for... The Publick Accounts of the Kingdom of Great Britain, 16pp., [ESTC lists 4 copies only], [Dublin], 1711 bound with [Defoe (Daniel, attributed to)] No Queen: or, No General. An Argument, Proving The Necessity Her Majesty was in, as well for the Safety of Her Person, as of Her Authority, to Displace the D... of M..., 32pp., [Dublin], Sold by E. Waters, 1712 bound with A Station List for the City of Dublin, 4pp,, drophead title, [ESTC lists 5 copies only], 1711 bound with [Defoe (Daniel, attributed to)] Peace or Poverty. Being a Serious Vindication of Her Majesty and Her Ministers Consenting to a Treaty for a Peace, 16pp., last p. blank, [ESTC lists 4 copies of this edition only; not in BL], John Morphew, 1712 bound with [Dublin]. The Case of the City of Dublin In Relation to the Election of the Lord-Mayor and Sheriffs of the said City, 16pp., dophead title, [ESTC lists 5 copies only], n.p., n.d. [not before 1711], and 3 other defective pamphlets, together 22 pamphlets in 1 vol., some headlines cropped, some staining in places, some wear, browned, engraved bookplate of Caldwell of Castle Caldwell on front pastedown, contemporary panelled calf, corners bumped, 8vo. ⁂ A rare collection of pamphlets collected by a High Tory, mostly against the continuance of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Unrecorded broadside.- On the Crucifixion of our saviour and the two Thieves, engraved broadside, 412 x 308mm., text within ornamental borders, folds, short tear at head, touching border, but without loss, small part of blank lower right corner torn away, creased and spotted, R. Hickman, 1796.
Irish Election.- The Down Squib-book: containing an impartial account of the contested election ... in May, 1831, between Lord Arthur Hill, William Sharman Crawford and Lord Viscount Castlereagh, advertisement on verso of last f., slightly foxed and browned, endpapers stained at beginning and end, bookplate of William R. McCall on front pastedown, contemporary straight-grained morocco, gilt, g.e., 8vo, Belfast, Henry Lanktree, 1831.
A mahogany longcase clock, curly pediment with quatrefoil paterae to hood supported on turned lotus leaf columns, arched 12.5in (32cm) dial with bridge before a walled town in arch, game spandrels, Roman chapter, subsidiary seconds and date dials, gilt pierced hands, signed R. Tennison/Chesterfield, 8-day movement striking on a bell, arched short door flanked by reeded pilasters, shaped skirt to base 91.5in (231.5cm).Reuben Tennison was born in Hornsea, (Yorks ER) 1799 was apprenticed 1813-1820, married Mary Thompson at Chesterfield in 1831 and had two sons and a daughter. He worked from New Square and later from Market Place in Chesterfield recorded 1827 to 1849 when he appears to have died. An oak cased clock by him was sold locally in 1991. , R Tennison, Chesterfield, two weights and pendulum
LARGE OAK STATION CLOCK, BRYSON, EDINBURGH LATE 19TH CENTURY the white enamel dial with Roman numbers and a single winding hole, inscribed 'R BRYSON'S & SONS/ EDINBURGH'; in a moulded circular case Dial 38cm diameter; 59cm diameter overall Provenance: this lot was formerly used to complement paintings displayed at the National Galleries of Scotland
PAIR OF VICTORIAN PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL GAS LAMPS, BY R.W. WINFIELD & CO., BIRMINGHAM DATED MARCH 1866 the original acid etched glass shades with pierced everted surmounts, raised on figural supports cast as Native Americans, one a chief with a bow, the other a female figure, on decorative circular stands with serpent form feet, with Victorian lozenge marks (2) 55cm high Note: R. W. Winfield & Co. were well known during the 19th century for their production of metal bedsteads, rocking chairs, gas lights and fittings. They exhibited at both the Great Exhibition of 1851, and again at the International Exhibition of 1862. At the former, they were one of 170 exhibitors awarded the council or first class medal for "superior excellence in general brass foundry, metallic bedsteads, and gas fittings." The design registry at Kew holds the design and illustration for these lamps confirming that they were produced by Winfield and registered in the summer of 1866.
Rotary Jura black PVD automatic gentleman's wristwatch, ref. R.1002.21, no. 4313, black half skeleton dial with Roman numerals and centre seconds, exhibition glazed back, original black leather strap, 42mm (3H9HBQ) *Rotary box . Condition Report: . Movement - currently functioning although part of the rotor has come loose and is detached. Dial - good. Glass - a few very minor surface marks. Hands - good. Case - light marks. Crown - functioning correctly. Strap - good. . Condition reports are provided for guidance only. Please view images and further information can be obtained upon request. Gardiner Houlgate do not guarantee the working order or time accuracy of any lots. Due to the opening of the wristwatch case backs, it is recommended watches are re-sealed by professional technicians to ensure any stated water resistance is retained.
Tag Heuer 2000 Series Professional 200m mid-size stainless steel gentleman's bracelet watch, ref. WE1211-R, no. J83995, grey dial with date aperture and centre seconds, rotating bezel, quartz, 36mm (97NVCA) . Condition Report: . Movement - currently functioning. Dial - numerous small marks. Glass - surface marks. Hands - marks and slightly dirty. Case - play in the bezel, surface scratch marks. Crown - functioning correctly. Bracelet - non genuine additional links, links slightly swollen. . Condition reports are provided for guidance only. Please view images and further information can be obtained upon request. Gardiner Houlgate do not guarantee the working order or time accuracy of any lots. Due to the opening of the wristwatch case backs, it is recommended watches are re-sealed by professional technicians to ensure any stated water resistance is retained.
THOMPSON, George: Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa... comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of the British emigrants. S. & R. Bentley for Henry Colburn, 1827, First edition, 4to. PP: xviii, (ii), 493. Complete with one folding lithographed map, Two lithographed plans (one double-page, one folding), Twenty aquatint plates (one double-page) and seventeen wood engravings in the text. Cont. full mottled calf and later spine; little rubbed; occasional foxing and the odd small tear.
1- Chatwin, Bruce: In Patagonia. 1977, first edition, dw(pc); VG; 2- Deighton, Len: Action Cook Book. Uncorrected Proof copy; label to upper wrapper and tape residue marks to endpapers; 3- Rankin, Ian: Fleshmarket Close. 2004, first edition, dw(£17.99); Title page Signed by author; VG; 4- Paretsky, Sara: V.I. for Short. 1995, first edition, dw(£14.99); Title page Signed by author; VG; 5- Patterson, R F: Mein Rant. 1940, first edition; G+; 6- Greene, Graham: In Search of a Character. 1961, first edition, dw(pc); Plus: Our Man in Havana. First edition, dw(15s.); damp soiling to dw. (7)

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