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Toys and Games: including Lego System 336 Fire Engine, Airfix HO-OO Paratroopers, Langley Miniature Models Gypsy Ledge Caravan, Preiser HO Mercedes Lorry Kit, Hose reels Kit, Westward Bristol LL6B Duple Kit, Mattel Rockity Rollers 10 Figure Set, 1953 Coronation Money-Box, Victory Jig-Saw Puzzle `Ambush`, Miraculum, Zoo Quest, The BenGal Table Tennis Set and others, all in original boxes with loose Tri-ang R.52 Jinty Loco, Aurora AFX Car, Motorcycles by Britains, Matchbox and other makers, Lone Star Impy Austin Western Crane and other items, F-VG, boxes P-G money box lacks box lid (a lot)
Tri-ang Hornby Locomotives and Rolling Stock: BR blue, R751 Co-Co Diesel, R758 Hymek Diesel, R152 BR green 0-6-0 Diesel Shunter, R866S LNER green B12, R 258NS LMS maroon `Princess Elizabeth` and R861 BR green `Evening Star` with R739 Crane set, various wagons and coaches, in original boxes, G-E, boxes F-VG ( 19)
* Druggist’s Notebook. A manuscript notebook compiled by Robert Bowness, 1838, containing pharmacological receipts, written in a neat hand on approx. 100 pp., ruled leaves, bookplate of R. Bownas, chemist and druggist, Boston Spa [the compiler?] to front pastedown, some soiling, hinges near broken, contemp. green-stained vellum, rubbed and soiled, 8vo, together with a notebook containing manuscript household receipts for rent, etc., partly in pen and pencil, approx. 40 completed leaves, ownership signature of John Collens, dated 1825, contemp. limp leather, worn, 8vo (2)
* Victoria (Queen of England, 1819-1901). Document signed, St. James, 8th March 1866, pre-printed document on vellum with wafer seal to left margin, completed in manuscript and appointing Robert Charles Clipperton to be consul at Nantes and the ports and places in the departments of the lower Loire and of La Vendee, signed ‘Victoria R’ upper left, countersigned Clarendon lower right, minor marks, 32 x 40cm. See also Grover Cleveland document above. (1)
Rowlandson (Thomas, illust.). A Lecture on Heads, by Geo. Alex. Stevens, with Additions, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, 1808, folding hand-col. etched frontis., twenty-four uncol. etched plts., slight browning and few marks, edges untrimmed, contemp. boards, spine torn and defective, 12mo, together with An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, new ed., corrected, revised and illustrated..., from designs, by G.M. Woodward, 1808,five hand-col. etched plts. (inc. folding frontis.), browning and offsetting, few leaves detached, near contemp. qtr. calf, spine cracked, rubbed, 12mo, with Ackermann (R., pub.), Ghost-Stories; Collected with a Particular View to Counteract the Vulgar Belief in Ghosts and Apparitions..., 1823, six hand-col. aquatint plts. (inc. frontis.), some offsetting, contemp. half calf, 12mo, plus four others (8)
House (R.). The Family Cookery, Combining Elegance and Economy: with various Receipts for Making Gravies, Soups, Sauces, and Made Dishes; Directions for Roasting and Boiling Game, Poultry, Meat, Fish, etc. and Making of Pastry and Confectionary; Directions for Trussing and Carving; Rules for Brewing and Making Wines, the Art of Pickling and Preserving, the Management of Poultry and Bees, and Bills of Fare for the Year... Forming a Complete System of Domestic Management, printed and sold by J. Bailey, [1800], eng. frontis. and addn. eng. vign. title (margins foxed), seven eng. plts., foxed and four with worming and subsequent sl. loss to upper outer corner, early ms. inscription on front free endpaper, rear free endpaper partially adhered to pastedown, contemp. marbled calf with red leather spine label, sl. loss at foot of spine, 12mo in 6s. Rare. Not in Bitting, Cagle, Oxford or Vicaire. No copy listed on COPAC. (1)
Moore (Henry & Clark, Kenneth). Henry Moore’s Sheep Sketchbook, 1st ed., 1980, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. glazed pictorial boards, a little rubbed, oblong small folio, together with a typed letter signed from Henry Moore, on Henry Moore Foundation headed paper, 30th October 1984, to Rayner Unwin, ‘I shall be happy to add my name to the list of signatories of a letter recommending Kathleen Raine for a public honour’, one page, folio, together with Newby (Eric), The Last Grain Race, 1st ed., 1956, author’s first book, b&w plts., frontis. partly detached, orig. cloth in chipped d.j., plus Jhabvala (R. Prawer), To Whom She Will, 1st ed., Allen & Unwin, 1955, author’s first book, orig. cloth in chipped and soiled d.j., plus Danielsson (Bengt), Gauguin in the South Seas, trans. by Reginald Spink, 1st ed., Allen & Unwin, 1965, col. and b&w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in chipped d.j., typed letter signed from the author to Rayner Unwin, dated 1984, 1 p., 8vo, plus other mostly hardback 20th-century art, travel writing and literature, various publishers, some inscribed and/or with autograph letters and notes loosely inserted (approx. 70)
Bindings. A collection of twenty bindings, c. early 20th c., titles incl. Commissioner Kerr. An Individuality, by G. Pitt-Lewis, 2nd imp., 1903; The World, the House and the Bar, by the Rt. Hon. Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, 2nd ed., 1930; Memoirs of a London County Coroner, by H. R. Oswald, 1936, etc., t.e.g., all similarly bound in early 20th c. half calf gilt in brown, red and green leather, a couple of vols. a little faded, 8vo (20)
Smith (G. Elliot & Dawson, Warren R.). Egyptian Mummies, 1st ed., 1924, col. frontis., b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in browned and chipped d.j., together with an autograph letter signed from Elliot Smith to Lord Moynihan, 21 August 1929, 4 pp., 8vo, plus Smith (G. Elliot), Elephants and Ethnologists, 1st ed., 1924, b & w plts. and illusts. including woodcuts, orig. cloth-backed boards, sl. rubbed, plus Procter (Richard Wright), The Barber’s Shop, revised and enlarged, Manchester & London, 1883, eng. plts. and illusts. to text, hinges sl. cracked, t.e.g., orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, all 4to, plus others various, including Egyptology and Oxford University interest (18)
Edwards (Lionel). The Fox, 1st ed., 1949, num. col. plts., b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in stained d.j., 4to, together with Hayes (M. Horace), Points of the Horse. A Treatise on the Conformation, Movements, Breeds and Evolution of the Horse, 5th ed., new imp., 1930, num. b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, some rubbing, large 8vo, plus Lyle (R. C.), Royal Newmarket, 1940, num. col. plts., b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth, 4to, plus other natural history, incl. hunting related (2 cartons)
King (L.W. and Hall, H.R.). Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries, 1st ed., SPCK, 1907, photogravure frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, large 8vo, together with Colquhoun (Archibald R.), The ‘Overland’ to China, 1st ed., London & New York, 1900, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, folding maps, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, minor wear to extremities, 8vo, plus Lyon-Goldschmidt (Daisy, Jenyns, R. Soame, and others), Chinese Art, 4 vols., 1960-65, numerous tipped-in col. plts., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j. (vols. 3 & 4 in card slipcase), 4to, and others of Chinese interest, many in d.j. (3 shelves)
Cheshire (Frank R.). Bees & Bee-Keeping; Scientific and Practical. A Complete Treatise on the Anatomy, Physiology, Floral Relations, and Profitable Management of the Hive Bee, 2 vols., 1886, num. b&w plts. and illusts., inkstamp to lower edge of vol. 1, orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, together with Scott (Peter), Morning Flight. A Book of Wildfowl, 4th imp., pub. Country Life, 1939, num. col. and b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., some tears and fraying to extrems., 4to, plus Holldobler (Bert & Wilson, Edward O.), The Ants, 1990, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., large 4to, plus other natural history related (3 shelves)
Barth (Heinrich). Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa, being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M’s Government in the Years 1849-1855, 3 vols., Centenary edition, pub. Frank Cass, 1965, folding maps, b&w plts., orig. green cloth gilt in glassine d.j.s, 8vo, together with Baikie (William Balfour), Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwo’ra and Bi’nue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda), in 1854, reprinted Frank Cass, 1966, b&w maps, etc., orig. cloth, spine faded, plus Krapf (J. Lewis), Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours During an Eighteen Years’ Residence in Eastern Africa, 2nd ed., with a new introduction by R. C. Bridges, pub. Frank Cass, 1968, folding maps, orig. cloth, spine faded, and Ingrams (W. H.), Zanzibar, Its History and Its People, reprinted Frank Cass, 1967, b&w plts., etc., orig. green cloth, plus other Frank Cass publications and reprints editions of African travel, exploration and history (mostly from the Cass Library of African Studies series), including Slaves & Slavery in Muslim Africa, ed. John Ralph Willis, 2 vols., 1985, Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa, 3rd ed., 1965, John Roscoe, The Baganda, an Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs, 2nd ed., 1965, Charles New, Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa, 3rd ed., 1971, etc., all orig. cloth, some spines sunned, 8vo. From the Library of Roland Oliver, formerly Emeritus Professor of African History at the University of London and founding editor of the Journal of African History. (68)
Wolfson (Freda). Pageant of Ghana, West African History Series, 1st ed., OUP, 1958, colour frontis., b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, together with Stahl (Kathleen M.), History of the Chagga People of Kilimanjaro, pub. Mouton & Co., 1964, folding map at rear, orig. cloth, plus Smith (Iain R.), The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890, 1st ed., OUP, 1972, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, and Charpy (Jacques), La Fondation de Dakar (1845-1857-1869), Documents Recueillis et Publiés, 1st ed., Paris, 1958, numerous colour and b&w plts., etc., including many folding, orig. cloth, large 8vo, plus other African travel, history, academic studies, etc., including many OUP publications, all orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, 8vo, approx. 100 vols. From the Library of Roland Oliver, formerly Emeritus Professor of African History at the University of London and founding editor of the Journal of African History. (3 shelves)
Prins (A. H. J.). The Coastal Tribes of the North-Eastern Bantu (Ethnographic Survey of Africa), 1952, orig. printed wrappers, together with Butt (Audrey), The Nilotes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Uganda (Ethnographic Survey of Africa), 1952, Bradbury (R. E.), The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South Western Nigeria (Ethnographic Survey of Africa), 1957, orig. printed wrappers, and Gregory (Robert G.), Sidney Webb and East Africa, Labour’s Experiment with the Doctrine of Native Paramountcy, University of California Press, 1962, orig. printed wrappers, plus a large collection of over 500 similar monographs, pamphlets and academic offprints on African history, anthrapology, archaeology, etc., including some texts printed in French, all orig. printed wrappers, mainly slim 8vo/4to. From the Library of Roland Oliver, formerly Emeritus Professor of African History at the University of London and founding editor of the Journal of African History. (4 cartons)
Stix (Hugh & Marguerite, and Abbott, R. Tucker). The Shell. Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design, pub. Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, [1968], numerous tipped-in col. plts. after photographs by H. Landshoff, minor stain to foremargins of last few leaves, orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, with other miscellaneous books including natural history, travel, architecture, history, biographies and general literature, mostly 20th-c. hardback publications, many in d.j., G/VG (6 shelves)
Johnston (Sir Harry). The Uganda Protectorate. An Attempt to Give some Description of the Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Languages and History of the Territories Under British Protection in East Central Africa..., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1902, nine folding maps, num. col. plts., b&w illusts., some weakening to hinges, orig. pict. cloth gilt, vol. 1 with small hole to base of spine, rubbed, 4to, together with Tucker (Alfred R.), Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa, 2 vols., 1908, eng. frontis. to vol. 1, col. frontis. to vol. 2, num. b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, some fraying to spine ends, rubbed, 8vo, plus Portal (Sir Gerald), The British Mission to Uganda in 1893, pub. 1894, eng. frontis., num. b&w plts. and illusts., lib. bookplate to front pastedown, orig. cloth gilt, spine faded and stained, rubbed, 8vo, plus Memoir of Bishop MacKenzie, by Harvey Goodwin, 2nd ed., pub. Cambridge, 1865 (6)
Seebohm (Henry). A History of British Birds, With Coloured Illustrations of Their Eggs, 4 vols., 1883-85, sixty-eight col. plts. (inkstamp to upper inner corner of each), t.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt by R. H. Porter, library classification no. to base of spines, rubbed and some scuffing, 8vo, together with Yarrell (William), A History of British Birds, 3 vols., 1856, num. engs. to text., modern morocco gilt, 8vo (7)
Sturges (Arthur M.). Practical Beekeeping, pub. Cassell, 1924, col. frontis., b&w plts., occ. spotting, orig. cloth gilt, slight staining to spine, 8vo, together with Manley (R. O. B.), Honey Farming, pub. Faber and Faber, 1946, b&w plts. throughout, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Simmons (S.), A Modern Bee-Farm and its Economic Management..., revised ed., 1914, ads at front and rear, b&w illusts. throughout, orig. printed cloth, spine faded, staining to covers, 8vo, together with thirty-six other bee related (39)
Hornby Railways and Dapol OO Gauge locomotives, comprising R.325 LMS 2-8-0 8F class locomotive and tender, LMS black livery, No.8027, boxed with litearature; R.349 GWR King class `King Henry VIII` locomotive and tender, GWR green livery, No.6013, boxed with literature;R.376 LMS 4-4-0 compound class 4P locomotive and tender, LMS maroon livery, No.1000, boxed; others including Hornby Railways `Evening Star` locomotive and tender, all boxed (6) Models are good but boxes are quite worn with flaps missing etc
A Royal Worcester porcelain dish of shaped oval form with handles, enamelled by R. E. Price with apples, black grapes and blackberries on a mossy ground, 24 cm long, black backstamp, together with a similarly decorated plate of ‘silver’ shape enamelled by J.B. Kerrett with pears, grapes and blackberries on a mossy ground, 30 cm diameter, black backstamp. (2)
A pair of Victorian wrought iron and brass aindirons in the 17th century style each with two ‘Haddon Hall’ type pierced and foliate decorated roundels. on swept and floral decorated stems and T-shaped supports, 58cm. high.* A similar pair of andirons are illustrated in R. Gentle and R. Field, English Domestic Brass, London, 1975, fig 130
David R Peplow - hand painted circular wall plaque, depicting pheasants in tree lined landscape, signed, red printed factory marks verso, diameter 32cm NB. David R Peplow a highly skilled ceramic and watercolour artist, employed by Royal Worcester Porcelain Company for almost thirty years. He produces the finest examples of reproduction 18th century bone china and has worked on a number of beautiful ceramic pieces for various Royal Families and in recent years has produced works of art for famous London stores. (illustrated)
Assorted militaria - World War I pair, British War Medal and Victory medal to 4998 Pte A. Cox S Lond R; World War II Defense medal; Ordnance Corp cap badge; assorted buttons and a mother of pearl formed icon relating to the Royal Artillery at Dunkirk, all contained in a World War I Christmas tin centred wooden box
R. Wymer (1849-1935) - 'Band of the 17th Lancers', watercolour, signed, 23 x 38 cm with The Parker Gallery label to reverse to/w After Hayes - 'The British Army: 17th Light Dragoons (Lancers)', lithograph, pub. by William Spooner, London with Robson & Co Piccadilly label to reverse, 34 x 44 cm and a hand-coloured lithograph 'Dress of the 17th Light Dragoons', 1810, 13 x 18 cm (3) Condition Report Very good - colours bright and unfaded

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