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Lot 392
Order of Payment, 1721, instructing the Treasury to pay £17 5s to Henry, Earl of Rochester, as 'ranger or keeper of the of His Majesties Park called New Park at Richmond, to disburse to staff listed in the document, signed by Charles Turner, R. Edgecombe and Henry Pelham and examined by Lord Onslow. Signed by Rochester on the reverse, handwritten, folio, trimmed at top, bottom and left, ink cancellation, fine. Sir Charles Turner (1666 - 1738), 1st baronet, Teller of the Exchequer.Richard Edgecumbe, Lord of the Treasury.Henry Pelham (1694 - 1754), Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and in 1743 became Prime Minister.Henry Hyde, 4th Earl of Clarendon and 2nd Earl of Rochester (1672 - 1753), MP for Launceston, appointed to the Privy Council in 1710, Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Lot 29
Various Africana Auction Catalogues by Richard R Currie and an Africana price-list (1943-1947) 330 x 205 (1) 24 February 1943. `Captain A J Griffin`s magnificent Africana collection` including approximately 500 books by Isaacs, Kolben, Burchell (the 2-vol set in original binding), Latrobe, Campbell and Harris (both with coloured plates). Page 1 includes the note: `Collectors should bear in mind that Africana is daily becoming more difficult to secure, and the destruction of many thousands of rarities in the London Blitz has increased the scarcity.` - Richard R Currie, The Old Mart, Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. ii + 35 mimeographed pages describing 475 lots. The list comes under cover of a letter from Eva V Rose, of Fox Street, Johannesburg, who compiled the catalogue `and handled every book in the collection`. She was prepared to act for buyers `on the usual 10% buying commission`. (2) 24 and 25 October 1945. The same auctioneer and the same Eva V Rose. This time 758 items of Africana and 47 works of art. There is no single main seller. i + 39 pp (Africana) + 8 pp (paintings) + 12 pp (non-Africana items). (3) March 1947. A priced catalogue of a large private collection of Africana collected over more than 20 years from `Africana Private Collector` c/o P O Box 455 Port Elizabeth. 23 pp + 1 p addendum (p 18 missing). This copy was returned to the sender with a one-penny stamp. No money was required until the wanted item was delivered. High-priced items included 27 pounds 10 shillings for a Roupell; 24 pounds 10 shillings for a Golden Cockerel edition of Sparrman, `finished on 27 October 1944 on mould-made paper`, No 6 of 50 specially bound copies in white pigskin, gilt, in cloth case; and 19 pounds ten shillings for a Fairbridge; and the same for a first edition of Olive Schreiner`s `Story of An African Farm` (Ralph Irons, 2 vols, 1883, `original decorated cloth, good state`). Good Johannesburg and Port Elizibath Richard R Currie and others 1943-1947
Lot 86
Hutchinson (John) A BOTANIST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 252 x 160 x 40 mm Foreword by Field-Marshal the Rt. Hon. J.C. Smuts. Illustrated dust jacket worn on top edge and top of spine. Top and lower edge inside dj re-inforced with brown paper strip. Dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Slightly scuffed on lower edge of spine. Front and back endpapers show some foxing, but all inner pages very clean and bright. Neat bookplate on front paste-sown endpaper. Frontispiece colour portrait of General Smuts. Copiously illustrated with b/w photographs, sketches, line drawings of botanical details, folding maps, full-page maps to illustrate regional distributions and regions visited by the author. Pages i-xii pp 1-686 An account of Hutchinson`s botanical expeditions to various parts of Africa. The author`s background as a botanical specialist from Kew was well known, and in South Africa he was given friendly reception by eminent South African botanists. But it was his association with General Smuts, himself a botanist of note, that makes this book so interesting. Smuts accompanied him across the Limpopo to Zimbabwe and Tanganyika. Very Good London P. R. Gawthorne 1946
Lot 118
BOLSTER R. C Land & Sea Birds of the South West Cape (Inscribed by author) Increasingly collectable early guidebook on the birds of the region. 239 pp with colour plates and text drawings, fold out diagram at back of book, Good condition with sunned dw,some edgewear on dustjacket, some light foxing in prelims only, inscr by author inside covers. Good Cape Town Speciality Press of SA 1931
Lot 147
MacDonald R F In die Skaduwee van die Dood The author took part in the guerilla war, was wounded at Springfontein and captured. He was transported to Graaff-Reinet, where he was tried and condemned before being reprieved later. Afrikaans text.246 pp with bw illustrations and map. In original linen-covered boards, good condition with ownership in prelims; with dustjacket with a section at the top of the spine which has been amateurishly repaired Fair Pretoria Nasionale Pers, Ons Geskiedenis Series 1943
Lot 262
M`Nab (William R.) A TREATISE ON THE PROPAGATION, CULTIVATION AND GENERAL TREATMENT OF CAPE HEATHS. 8vo (215 x 140 mm) In a Climate Where they Require Protection During the Winter Months. 43 pages, hand coloured engraved frontispiece of Erica Aristata, original printed yellow paper wrappers bound into half leather with marbled paper sides, bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp below the date on the title page. There is some foxing on the endpapers and a few spots in the text, some notes in an old hand on one of the final blanks, overall a very good copy. William MNab superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. Very good Edinburgh Thomas Clark, 38 George Street 1832
Lot 372
Baines, Thomas Explorations in South-West Africa 229mm x 158mm This is copy number 41 of the Collectors` Edition limited to 90 copies. It is a facsimile reprint of the 1864 edition whose sub-title is: `Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls.`Housed in the original green buckram book cloth covered slip case.Quarter red leather binding with gilt titling on the spine, title label, blind stamped decorative device on the green buckram boards. Top edge gilt.Number VI in the Heritage Series.Dark maroon coloured map motif end papers. Introduction by Frank R. Bradlow. xii + xiv prelims, 535 pages, 3 fold out maps, colour and black and white illustrations with additional colour plates after Thomas Baines paintings that do not appear in the original edition.CONDITION DETAILS: Close up images of the spine are provided to show the extent of the sun fading to the spine in detail. Also shown is a dark mark at the very base of the spine. Overall a clean and unread copy with minor signs of age and use such as a light crease down one side of the slip case. Attractive Salisbury, Rhodesia Pioneer Head 1973
Lot 97
A George V Military Medal awarded to 9862 Private H. R. Plested of the Royal Berkshire regiment, together with 1914 'Mons' star with 5th August - 22nd November 1914 bar and the British War and Victory medals, together with a set of three Second World War medals; together with four further Second World War medals to include 39-45 star, Burma star, Defense and Victory medals (10)
Lot 1184
1840-1970 M & U collection housed in a Lighthouse album from 1840 1d OJ - fine four margins cancelled red MC, another 1A faults, 1840 2d NK- faults, 1841 2d (2), 1867-83 wmk Anchor 5s Pl. 4 (SG.134), 10s (SG.135), each cancelled by barred oval `R`, 1883 2/6d, 5s & 10s FU, 1884 £1 brown wmk Crowns FU (SG.185), 1888 £1 brown wmk Orbs good U (SG.186), KEVII to 5s, KGV incl. 1924/5 Wembley sets M, 1929 £1 PUC VFU, 1934 Photogravure set M, 1937 Defin set M, plus Sideways & Inverted sets M, 1948 Wedding M, QEII incl. ranges Wildings, commems incl. some phosphors etc. (100`s) Symbol: JC
Lot 1276
NORTH EAST ENGLAND 1850 cover from R & W Haworth of Forth Banks, Newcastle to the Glasgow & Ayr Railway Co. agreeing that their order for six passenger engines & tenders could be altered, franked 1841 1d - enclosure with attractive illustrated steam engine headed paper, 1856 cover from Jamaica to Newcastle, redirected to Temple Sowerby with 1d red (crease), tied Gateshead sideways duplex, 1878 1d Pink stationery envelope from West Hartlepool to Germany uprated with 1½d Pl.3, tied West Hartlepool duplex. Symbol: D
Lot 242
A silver key wound pocket watch by James Scott of Kendal no:47677, having Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds, Chester 1869 Thomas R Russell & Co, with a white metal watch chain with HM silver horse shoe charm, and another keywound pocket watch having Roman numeral dial and subsidiary seconds in a nickel case
Lot 242
A silver key wound pocket watch by James Scott of Kendal no:47677, having Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds, Chester 1869 Thomas R Russell & Co, with a white metal watch chain with HM silver horse shoe charm, and another keywound pocket watch having Roman numeral dial and subsidiary seconds in a nickel case
Lot 520
A Regency rosewood Davenport by T & G Seddon with a shaped gallery with a hinged fall front with a green and gilt tooled leather writing surface above a hinged ink well with two glass ink wells with screw tops, pen tray above four long graduated beaded drawers with turned wood handles, panel back raised upon compressed vase shape feet, the top drawer with a printed label, manufacturers to Her Majesty T & G Seddon No: 3509, Grays in Road, London, R Vizer, 87cms high x 51cms x 54cms (illustrated)
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