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Sanger R. : The Martinsyde File, 1999. (Scarce); Legg R. : Dorset Flight, The Complete History, 2001; Haddow G. :The German Giants - R Planes 1914-18, 1969; Barnes D. : Cloud Cover,nd.; Richards D. : The Royal Air Force 1939-1945, 3 Vols. 1953. Rosen G. Thrusting Forward, 1984. Together with twelve other related titles, varying formats.
Bacon. R. : British Motorcycles of the 1930s, The A-Z of pre-war Marques - from AER through to Zenith, 1986 and Illustrated History of BSA Motorcycles, 1995. Currie. B. : Great British Motor Cyles of the Fifties, 1980 and Great British Motor Cycles of the 30s, 1991. Wilson. S. : Classic British Motorcycles, 1998. Willoughby. V. : Classic Motor-cycles, 1992. All qto. hb. Together with ten plus motorcycling titles. Also included: Higgins. L. : Private Owner, 1948; Williams. L. : Austin 7 Specials, 1959 and Havart. M. : "One Off", 1953.
Shooting & Hunting Miscellany : Hawker P. : Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all That Relates to Guns and Shooting, 1844 (9th.Ed.); Teasdale-Buckell G. : Experts on Guns and Shooting,1900; Walsh J. : The Modern Sportsman's Gun and Rifle, including Game and Wildfowl Guns, Sporting and Match Rifles and Revolvers, Vols. 1 & 2. Vol.1 1882. Vol.2 Facsimile Limited Edition, 1986. (390 of 1500); Greener W. : The Gun, 1967; Payne-Gallwey R. : Shooting, Moor and Marsh, 1887. 2nd.Ed. Badminton Lib. All 8vo. Hb. of varying dimensions, all with either engraved or photographic illus. together with contemporary advertising features. CONDITION REPORT: Hawker title with a basic rebind; Walsh Vol.1. binding complete but requiring repair. Others good to vg.
19th.C. Topographical Miscellany : White W. : History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire, 1872; Manning S. : American Pictures; Lovett R. Irish Pictures, 1888 & Welsh Pictures, 1893; Green S. : Pictures from the German Fatherland & French Pictures; All small folio, most with decorated/illustrated bindings and engraved plates. Dutt W. : The King's Homeland, Sandringham and North West Norfolk 1904, 1st.Ed. Introd. by Rider Haggard. Plates. Besant W. : London in the Eighteenth Century, 1902. CONDITION REPORT: Bindings to some titles complete but needing repair. O/w generally vg.
Children's Miscellany : Ingoldsby T : Witches Frolic, 1888. 1st.Ed. Folio. Cream buckram illustrated binding. Tinted engraved illustrations by Jessop, decorated initial letters in red with decorative typography. Grace W.G.: Cricket - A Popular handbook of the Game, 1887. 8vo. Hb. Illustrated. Scarce. Kipling R. : Just So Stories for Little Children, 1902. 1st.Ed. Small qto.Orig. red cloth binding. illus. Milne A.A. : Winnie the Pooh, 1934; The House at Pooh Corner; Now We Are Six, 1934. All 8vo. Hb + Dj. Shepard illus. Briggs R. : Fairy Tale Treasury, 1972. 1st. Ed. qto. hb./Dj. CONDITION REPORT: Witches - gutta percha disintegrated ( feature of all other available copies ), strip of cloth missing from rear board o/w clean and bright iternally; Cricket vg/nf copy; Kipling very well used but complete; Milne copies - djs somewhat discoloured and small marginal loss o/w complete, bindings a little faded where dj. is worn/loss, internally clean amd tight.
The Oakley ( Bedfordshire ) Hunt. Godber J. (Ed.) : The Oakley Hunt, 1965. 8vo. Beds.Hist.Soc.Pub. Map of the Oakley Hunt Country - Eight Ordnance Survey linen-backed Map sections, 1880, featuring the area covered by the Hunt delineated by hand-coloured outline, all housed in qto. sized slip case. Three other smaller booklets on this Hunt. Together with Greaves R. : History of the Burton Hunt and a map. All items very scarce. CONDITION REPORT: Generally vg.
Saxton W. : Northamton (sic ), Bedfordiae, Cantabrigiae, Huntingdoniae et Rutlandiae. Comitatuum Vicinarumq regionum partium adiacent noua veraq descriptio. A.D. 1576. Printed probably in 1579. Mounted, framed and glazed. CONDITION REPORT: Slight loss of definition to the printed margin on the lower l/h and top r/h otherwise a very clean clear edition.
Darby. H. : Domesday Gazettier, 1975; Bates D. : A Bibliography of Domesday Book, 1986, Thornton. D : Domesday Names, 1997, Darby. H. : The Domesday Geography of South-East England, 1962 (together with 3 other regional surveys), Keats-Rohan. K. : Domesday People, 1999, Fleming. R. : Domesday Book of the Law, 1998, and Folio Society Edition of the Domesday Book, 2003. Four vols. in slip case together with 30 plus other related academic titles. 8vo hardback and paperback
Magna Carta. Holt. J. : Magna Carta, 1992; Sandoz. E. : The Roots of Liberty. 1993; McKerchnie. W. : Magna Carta, 1914; Turner. R. : Magna Carta, 2003 (signed dedication by author to James Holt) and Thomson. R. : An Historical Essay of the Magna Carta of King John. nd. Cira. 1830. Fine binding. Together with twenty other related titles.
Law, Politics and Government. Eales. R. (Ed), Political Context of Law, 1987; Richardson. H. : The English Parliament in The Middle Ages, 1981; Ullman. W. : Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages, 1961; Prestwich. M. : War, Politics and Finance, 1972; Threharne. R. : Simon De Montfort and Baronial Reform, 1986; Brand. P. : Kings, Barons, and Justices, 2003. Together ten other plus other related titles.
Sutton. A. : The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 1982, 6 vols. in slip case; Coss. P. : Lordship, Knighthood and Locality, 1991; Harvey. R. (Ed.), The Ideals and Practice of Medieval Knighthood, 1990; Hilton. R.(Ed).: Peasants, Knights and Heretics, 1976; Wilson. C. : The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages, 1987; Farrer. W. : Honors and Knights' Fees, 1925, 3 vols.; Crouch. D. : The Image of Aristocracy in Britain 1000-1300, 1992. Together with twenty-five related academic titles, small qto. 8vo. CONDITION REPORT: The Complete Peerage... is bound in cloth with plastic wrappers ontop
Davis. N. (Ed): Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, Parts 1 and 2, 1971/76; Gairdner. J. (Ed) : The Paston Letters, 1986; Lester. G. : Sir John Paston's 'Grete Boke' (as descriptive catalogue), 1984; Round. J. : Studies in Peerage and Family History, 1970; Mertres. K. : The English Noble Household 1250-1600,1988; Herlihy D. : Medieval Households, 1985; Helmholz. R. : Cambridge Studies in England Legal History, Marriage, Litigation in Medieval England, 1974; Brooke. C. : The Medieval Idea of Marriage, 1989; Smith. R. : Land, Kinship and Life-cycle, 1984; Lynch. J. : Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe, 1986; James. M. : Family Lineage and Civil Society, 1974. Together with twenty plus further related titles concerning historical family life and kinship.
Thoresby. R. (Ed. Whitaker); Ducatus Leodiensis or the Topography of the Town and Parish of Leedes, 1816. Together with - Whitaker. T. - Loides and Elmete, Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale and The Entire Village of Vale of Calder, 1816. Both vols. folio in a fine common qtr binding, marble boards and end papers, engraved plates, folding charts etc. TEG.
Holt. J. : Robin Hood, 1984; Knight. S (Ed). : Robin Hood, Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism, 1999 & Robin Hood, The Forresters Manuscript, 1998; Dobson. R. : Rymes of Robyn Hood, Introduction to the English Outlaw, 1976; Keen. M. : The Outlaws of Medieval Legend, 1961; Burgess. G : Two Medieval Outlaws Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn, 1997; Mastoris. S. : Sherwood Forest in 1609, (Thoroton Society), 1997 (in slip case with numerous folding maps. Together with twenty-five plus on this same figure.
Hales. J. (Ed). : Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript Ballards and Romances, 1867. Five vols. 8ov. fine qtr. binding, gilt ribbed spine, teg; Wright. T. : The Political Songs of England, 1839. 8ov. fine qtr. binding, teg; Aytoun. W.: The Ballards of Scotland, 1861. Two vols. small 8ov. aeg; Whitelaw. A. : The Book of Scottish Ballards, 1845; Harland. J. : Ballards and Songs of Lancashire, 1865; Greene. R. (Ed). : The Early English Carols, 1977; Child. F. : The English and Scottish Popular Ballards, 1962 (five vols. in three).
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. Consisting of old heroic ballards and songs, 1775. Vols. 1 to 3, 8vo. Contemporary binding. Engraved frontis. Vargysa. L. : Researches into the Mediaeval History of Folk Ballard, 1967; Southworth. J. : The English Medieval Minstrel, 1989; Percy. T. (Ed Wheatley H.) : Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Consisting of Old Heroic Ballards and Songs, 1965, three vols; Palmer. R. : A Ballard History of England, 1979; Fowler. D. : A Literary History of the Popular Ballard, 1968; Bullock-Davies. C. : Register of Royal and Baronial Domestic Minstrels 1272-1327, 1986. Together with twenty-five plus further titles on the history of ballard and song.
Wright. T. : Essays on Literature, Popular Superstitions and History, 1846, two vols: Loomis. R. : Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 1959; Tristram P. : Figures of Life and Death in Medieval English Literature, 1976; Sanders. C. : The Forest of Medieval Romance, 1993; Owst. R. : Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England, 1961. Together with fifteen other titles relating mainly to medieval literature.
Thomson. R. : William of Malmesbury, 1987; Scammell. G. : Hugh Du Puiset, A Biography of the Twelfth-Century Bishop of Durham, 1956; Mayr-Harting. H. : Saint Hugh of Lincoln, 1987, Barlow. F. : Thomas Becket, 1986; Duggan. A. : Thomas Becket, A Textural History of his Letters, 1980; Mason. E. : St Wulfstan of Worcester c. 1008-1095,1990; Vaughan. R. : Matthew Paris Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 1958; Cheney. M. : Roger, Bishop of Worcester, An English Bishop in the Age of Becket, 1164-1179, 1980; Southern. R. : Saint Anselm and his Biographer, A Study of Monastic Life and Thought, 1059-c.1130, 1963. Together with twenty plus further biographies of medieval, religious and political figures.
Simpson. G. : Edward I and the Throne of Scotland, An Edition of the Record Sources for the Great Cause, 1290-1926, Vols. 1 and 2, 1978; Ritson. J. : Annals of the Caledonians, Picts and Scots and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, Galloway and Murray, Vols. 1 & 2, 1828; Stevenson. D. : Scottish Texts and Calendars, 1987; Ritchie. R. : The Normans in Scotland, 1954; Barrow. G. : Regesta Regum Scottorum, Vols. 1, 2 & 5, 1960/71/88. Together with ten plus other Scottish titles.
McKitterick. R. : The New Cambridge Medieval History II, 1995, Vols. 2, 3, 5, 6 & 7; Summerson. H. : Medieval Carlisele - The City and the Borders from the Late Eleventh to the Mid-Sixteenth Century, 1993, Vols. 1 & 2; Latham. R. : Revised Medieval Latin Word-List From British and Irish Sources, 1965; Duby. G. : Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West, 1968; Cheney. C. : Medieval Texts and Studies, 1973; Gransden. A. : Legends, Traditions and History in Medieval England, 1992; Rashdall. H. : The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, 1936, Vols. 1 & 3; Wood. M. : The English Mediaeval House, 1983; Beresford. M. : Medieval England an Aerial Survey, 1979. Together with forty other medieval history titles.
Hume. D : The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to The Revolution in 1688, Vols. 1 to 6, 1983; Alan. D. : The Houses of The Royal Society of Arts - A History and a Guide, 1966; Powicke. F. : The Loss of Normandy (1189-1204) Studies in the History of the Angevin Empire, 1913; Clark. C. : Words, Names and History, 1995; Brooke. C. : The History of London - London 800-1216: The Shaping of a City, 1975; Brooke. G. : English Coins From the Seventh Century to the Present Day, 1966; Gaunt. R. : Unhappy Reactionary: The Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle-Under-Lyne 1822-50, 2003; Gransden. A: Historical Writing In England c. 500 - c. 1307,1974 and Historical Writing in England II c. 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century. Together with fifty plus other Vols. of general history titles.
Postan. M. : Essays on Medieval Agriculture & General Problems of the Medieval Economy,1973; Britnell. R. : Progress and Problems in Medieval England - Essay in Honour of Edward Miller, 1996; Sanquist. T. : Essays in Medieval History, 1969; Rosser. G. : Medieval Westminster 1200-1540, 1989; Sayles. G. : The Functions of the Medieval Parliament of England, 1988; Murray. A. : Reason and Society in the Middle Ages, 1978; Smalley. B. : Historians in the Middle Ages, 1974 and Studies in Medieval Thought and Learning from Abelard to Wyclif, 1981; Pearsall. D. : Landscapes and Seasons of the Medieval World, 1973; Daiches D. : Literature and Western Civilization - The Mediaeval World, 1973. Together with forty plus titles on academic Medieval History Studies.
Freeman. E. : The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First, Vols. 1 & 2, 1882; Rodd. T. : History of Charles the Great and Orlando, Vols 1 & 2, 1812; Eyton. R. : Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II, 1878; Norgate. K. : Richard The Lion Heart, 1924; Gillingham. J. : Richard I, 1999; Denholm-Young. : Vita Edward I Secundi, 1957; Turner. R. : King John, 1994; Carpenter. D. : The Minority of Henry III,1990; Jordan. K. : Henry the Lion A Biography, 1986; Harris. T. : Restoration Charles II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685, 2005. Together with forty plus other royal and other historical biographies.
Flanagan. M. : Irish Society Anglo-Norman Settlers Angevin Kingship Interactions in Ireland in the Late Twelfth Century, 1989; Elton. G. : Royal Historical Society - Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History, 1984; Orpen. G. : Ireland Under the Normans 1169-1216, Vols 1 & 2, 1911; McNeill. T. : Anglo-Norman Ulster - The History and Archaeology of an Irish Barony 1177-1400,1980; Connolly. P. : The Dublin Guild Merchant Roll, c. 1190-1265, 1992; Lydon. J. : The English in Medieval Ireland, 1984; Otway-Ruthven. : A History of Medieval Ireland, 1980; Frame. R. : Ireland and Britain 1170-1450, 1998; Sayles. G. : Documents of on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council, 1979 & The Administration of Ireland 1172-1377, 1963. Together with twenty other titles relating to Irish history.
White. S. : Sir Edward Coke and the grievances of the commonwealth, 1979; Hanson. M. : Ducal Estate Management in Georgian Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire : the Diary of William Gould 1783-1788, 2006; Davidson. H. : Patterns of Folklore, 1978; Clark. J. : The Observances in use at The Augustinian Priory of S. Giles and S. Andrew at Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, 1897; Hallam. H. : the Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. II 1042-1350, 1988; Tawney. R. : History and Society Essays, 1978; Caenegem. R. : Law, History, The Low Countries and Europe, 1994; Edrich. R. : Bayley's Children Wrekin College 1880-2005, 2005; Mosslang. M. : British Envoys to Germany 1816-1866, Vol. III, 2006; Cowdrey. H. : Popes, Monks and Crusaders, 1984. Together with eighty plus other general history titles.
Freeman. E. : The History of the Norman Conquest of England its Causes and its Results, Vols. 1 to 6, 1878; Alexander J. : Norman Illumination at Mont St. Michael 966-1100, 1970; Williams. A. : The English and the Norman Conquest, 1995; Turner. R. : Judges, Administrators and the Common Law in Angevin England, 1994; Green. J. : The Aristocracy of Norman England, 1997; Hollister. C. : Monarchy, Magnates and Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World, 1986; Norgate. K. : England Under The Angevin Kings, Vols. 1 & 2, 1887. Together with thirty plus academic titles on Norman and Angevin England.
McKinley R. : English Surname Series - Four titles in this series for Sussex, Lancashire, Norfolk & Suffolk and Oxfordshire & A History of British Surnames, 1990; Withycombe. E. : The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names (Second Ed.), 1950; Reaney. R. : The Origin of English Surnames,1967; Franklin. A. : Dictionnaire Des Noms, Surnoms Et Pseudonymes Latins de L'histoire Litteraire du Moyen Age (1100 a 1530), 1966.
A Royal Worcester vase with flared rim painted with fruit by R Poole (signed), and bearing No. G957 to base, together with a silver based whist marker by James Deakin & Sons with ivorine tiles CONDITION REPORTS Marker has denting, scuffs and wear, and discolouration and wear to the tiles. Vase has light general wear, but overall appears sound and in good condition. Vase approx 8cm high.
AUSCHER (Jean). Réunion de 4 gravures en couleurs pour « Têtes d’Affiche ».Yvette Guilbert, Maud Loty, Raquel Meller et Vera Sergine.Joint : 11 illustrations diverses en noir ou en couleurs de Ch. Gir, R. Hayem [portraits de Anabella, Ch. Boyer, P. Brasseur, D. Darrieux, H. Garat, Greta Garbo, F. Gravey, G. Morlay, J. Murat, P. Richard-Willm, T. Rossi, S. Temple].
CHANTEURS – CHANTEUSES… Réunion de 19 programmes divers, de différents formats.Damia par Henri Béraud, photos de Germaine Krull. – Rythmes. 1929. – Music Hall. Photos de B. M. Bernand. – BRUANT (A.) – GARAT (H.) – OSWALD (M.) – PONS (L.) – KIEPURA (J.) – ROSSI (T.) – GEORGIUS. – DUBAS (M.) – BOYER (L.) – VENTURA (R.) – GUILBERT (Y.) – SOREL (C.) – IRWING (Sœurs). Etc. Joint : 8 petites publicités diverses.
COCTEAU (Jean). Schéhérazade. Album mensuel d’œuvres inédites d’art et de littérature. Directeurs : François Bernouard, Jean Cocteau et André Paysan. Paris, À la Belle Édition. [François Bernouard], 10 novembre 1909 - 15 mars 1911. 6 fascicules in-4 carrés en ff., couv. ill. par P. Iribe.Très rare collection complète de cette revue littéraire de luxe. Exemplaire sur vergé. Illustrations d’après P. Bonnard, Boussingault, Dresa, Dunoyer de Segonzac, A. de La Gandara, Marie Laurencin, André Mare, L.-A. Moreau, L. Suë et P. Iribe, dont la sultane nue qui orne la couverture passait pour une audace dérogeant aux convenances.Jean Cocteau, alors âgé de 20 ans, en est le fondateur, avec son condisciple François Bernouard et Maurice Rostand. Sa contribution porte sur les cinq premiers numéros : une nouvelle, « Comment mourut Monsieur de Trèves », quatre poëmes : « La Nuit quitte un parc », « Soir inutile », « Le Beau tapage », « À la fenêtre », et enfin sur une musique de Tiarko Richepin : « Sur la mort d’une belle dame ».Textes de P. Adam, Alain-Fournier, G. d’Annunzio, G. Apollinaire, A. Arnoux, Nathalie Clifford, Barney, F. Carco, R. de Gourmont, Sacha Guitry, F. Jammes, S. Mallarmé, H. de Régnier, E. Rostand, A. Salmon, etc.
COCTEAU (Jean). Réunion de 8 vol. in-4, in-8 ou in-12 br., certains en édition originale.Adieu à Mistinguett. 1956 ; 1/10 sur Hollande. - Notes sur le Testament d’Orphée. 1960 ; 1/11 sur vergé. - Le Testament d’Orphée. 1960 ; 1/11 sur vergé. - Une Encre de lumière. 1989. - L’Ange Heurtebise. R. Bonargent. 1989. - Lettre à San Antonio. 1994 ; 1/50 sur vergé. - Carnet de l’Amiral X […]. 1997 ; 1/33 sur Johannot. - L’Aigle à deux têtes.
COCTEAU (Jean). Réunion de 28 photographies de différents formats.Avec Picasso et Maurice Thorez. - Avec Jean-Paul Sartre. - Avec Touchagues et Georges Braque, Chez les Anchorena, devant le piano décoré par Cocteau, dont les lignes ont été peintes à l’huile par Valentine Hugo (7 clichés). - Seul à différentes époques de sa vie. Clichés de : United Press, Jahan, Lipnitzki, Waléry (signé l’encre), Apis, R. Cohen, A.D.P., Interpress, Harry Berger, Serge Lido. Joint : 2 clichés avec É. Piaf dans « Le Bel Indifférent ».
COMÉDIENS, etc. Réunion de 246 cartes postales, réunies en un album in-4 obl. un peu usé.Le Bargy, B. Bovy, Dussane, Escande, P. Mounet, S. Bernhardt, Réjane, D. Grey, S. Judic, A.Cocéa, C. Laparcerie, A. Tissot, Gémier, V. Francen, Lugné-Poë, M. Moreno, M. Marquet, Mistinguett, J. Coquelin, H. Baur, G. Dorziat, M. Dearly, Polavie, T. Bernard, J. de Féraudy, J. Yonnet, P. Bertin, Damia, Dranem, Polin, F. Mayol, H. Varna, Musidora, M. Chevalier, Tikanowa, V. Hyspa, Saint-Granier, M. Linder, R. Clair.La grande majorité fait partie de la série « Nos Artistes dans leur loge » avec fac-similés de signatures.
GUITRY (Sacha). 14 ouvrages, dont des inédits posthumes.Beaumarchais (ill. H. Jadoux, R. Solar 1950). N’écoutez pas, Mesdames ! (ill. J. Ferrand, R Solar 1950, signé par l’auteur). Cent merveilles (R. Solar 1954). La Maladie & Mes médecins (ill. de l’auteur, R. Solar 1955). Si j’ai bonne mémoire (Sélection des Amis du livre 1955). L’Esprit (Le Livre Contemporain 1958).Remontons les Champs-Élysées. Vive l’Empereur ! (Librairie académique Perrin 1962). Des merveilles ou de Léonard de Vinci à Rouault (id. 1968). Le Petit Carnet rouge et autres souvenirs inédits, p.p. H. Jadoux (id. 1979). Si j’ai bonne mémoire, et autres souvenirs (id. 1980). À bâtons rompus, p.p. H. Jadoux (id. 1981).La Maladie (Luce Fieschi 1984, sous emboîtage). Pensées, Maximes et anecdotes (Le Cherche Midi 1985). Bloompott (Écriture 1995). La Gloire de Sacha Guitry [anthologie par L. Pauwels] (Club des Amis du Livre 1961). Un demi-siècle d’amour, de théâtre et d’esprit [anthologie], préface d’Alain Decaux (France Loisirs 1996).
SACRE de Paris (Le). « Elle », 1948 ; in-4 br., couv. ill. par Chagall.Illustrations en couleurs de C. Bérard, L. Fini, Daragnès, A. Dignimont, Vertès, Touchagues, etc., pour des textes de G. Apollinaire, M. Aymé, L. de Vilmorin, Colette, M. Achard. Portraits photographiques de G. Braque, C. Bérard, Picasso, Cocteau et Sartre.Joint : Seize signatures pour une. 1946 ; in-4 br. Plaquette éditée par les parfums Carrère. Texte de Colette, etc., et illustrations de C. Bérard, J. Cocteau, Daragnès, Noël-Noël, R. Oudot, Touchagues, Dignimont, etc. - Ces plaisirs. 1934 ; ill. de J. Bruller, E. Legrand, J.-E. Laboureur et Gaboriaud.
A rare Lalique Tananarive clear, frosted and enamelled glass box introduced 1925, circular form with fluted sides, the cover with domed oval, surrounded by black enamelled decoration depicting stylised gazelles amidst scrolling foliage, the base engraved `R Lalique France`, 4 5/8in. (11.75cm.) diameter, cover broken and repaired.
Two signed Battle of Britain limited edition prints with pilot and command signatures after originals by Keith Broomfield, pub. c.1980, one depicting the Hurricane Mk.1, bearing thirty-two signatures of WWII heroes such as Douglas Bader, R. J. McNair, Sir John Grandy etc., numbered 811/1000; the other depicting the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.1A, bearing twenty-three signatures including W. J. Corbin, S. N. Rose and A. R. Right, numbered 82/1000, each 12¼ x 18½in. (31.75 x 47cm.). (2)
A rare Chinese export plate late 18th century, Ch`ing dynasty, for the Munro clan of Scotland, the top of the plate decorated with an eagle beneath an unfurled scroll bearing the family`s motto `Dread God`, the bottom bears the family crest of an eagles head within a shield, each side has a gilt scalloped cartouche depicting scenes of galleons in the harbour, the central section of the plate features Asiatic pheasants perched upon a branch of flowering Peonies, 9in. (22.8cm.) diameter. * The Munros of Foulis have a unique family tree which covers 1333 to 1746. In more recent times, General Sir Hector Munro of Novar was a soldier who gained fame in India in the 1770s and 1780s. Hector Hugh Munro wrote books under the pseudonym of "Saki" and was killed in the 1914-18 war. Mountaineer Sir Hugh Munro was responsible for creating the list of mountains in Scotland above 3,000 feet which are named after him - the Munros. Jay R Monroe, founder of the Monroe Calculating Machine Company of the USA was one of the first to put mass produced calculating machines on the market in 1919. His son presented one of these machines to the Clan Munro museum in 1982.

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