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Click here to subscribeA Martin Brothers stoneware jug by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1878, cylindrical form, incised with stylised vertical foliate leaves, in blue and green on a buff ground, incised 222 R W Martin Southall, 1878, restored handle, 21.5cm. high ProvenanceThe Spearman collection of Martin Brothers Pottery.
English Civil War. An Exact Collection of all Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proclamations, Petitions, Messages, Answers, and other remarkable passages betweene the Kings most excellent Majesty, and his High Court of Parliament beginning at his Majesties return from Scotland, being in December 1641, and continued untill March the 21, 1643. Which were formerly published either by the Kings Majesties Command or by Order from one or both Houses of Parliament. With a Table wherein is most exactly digested all the fore-mentioned things according to their severall Dates and Dependancies, London: printed for Edward Husbands, T. Warren, R. Best, and are to be sold at the Middle Temple, Grays Inne Gate, and the White Horse in Pauls Churchyard, 1643, engraved frontispiece (with name captions to some figures in image written in an early hand, lined to verso), title with contemporary signature Wa[lter] Yonge, contemporary marginalia and underlining, few headlines at rear of volume (tables) slightly shaved, final leaf lined to verso (with evidence of early manuscript notes beneath), all edges gilt, 20th-century 'JE' bookplate to upper pastedown (John Evelyn), 19th-century terracotta brown morocco, gilt decoration to spine, faded to spine, extremities very lightly rubbed, 4to (18.3 x 14 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Walter Younge; Evelyn Library sale, Christie's, November 30, 1977, lot 522 (Christie's lot ticket to rear endpaper dated 1 Dec 1977. Sale catalogue states this lot was sold on Wed 30 Nov 1977 which was the first day of the sale of Part II of the library).Wing E1533. Enlarged edition of contemporary printed documents relating to the English Civil War, first published the previous year.The contemporary signature on the title page is possibly that of Walter Yonge (1579-1649) of Great House, Colyton, Devon, who was a lawyer, merchant and diarist. He was the eldest son of the eminent Elizabethan merchant John Yonge (d. 1612) of Colyton and his wife Alice Stere. Yonge was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and called to the bar from Middle Temple. In 1628 he took the office of Sheriff of Devon. He invested in the Dorchester Company, a joint-stock company which promoted fishing and colonisation in New England. He was a Member of Parliament for Honiton, Devon, in the Long Parliament from 1640, but did not sit after Pride's Purge in December 1648. Yonge was one of the victuallers of the Navy from 1642 to 1648. Walter Yonge lived at the Great House and wrote much of his well-known diary there (1604-1628), later published by the Camden Society in 1848.
Royal Academy Pictures. Being the Royal Academy Supplement of " The Magazine of Art”, 20 volumes, 1st edition, London: Cassell & Company, limited, 1891-1910, lacking 1892 volume, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light marginal toning, occasional light spotting, some worming to last few mages volume 1, half red Morocco, all edges gilt, covers and spines rubbed and marked, 4to, together with Abbey (J. R.), Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, 2 volumes, volumes 3 and 4 only, limited edition, London: Curwen Press, 1952-1953, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket price clipped, volume 4 lacking jacket, 253/500 and 67/400 respectively, large 4to, plus Nicolson (Benedict), Joseph Wright of derby Painter of Light, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: The Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, 1968, numerous monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust jacket, covers and spines rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, and other late 19th early 20th century British art reference and related mostly original cloth in dust jackets some original wrappers, G/VG, 4to/large 4toQTY: (3 shelves )
Ludolph of Saxony. Vita Christi Domini Salvatoris nostri A. R. P. Ludolpho Saxone Cartusiano ante CCL annos ac Sacris Evangeliis, veterumq. Patrum sententiis contexta, atque ita disposita, nihil ut eorum, qua tum ad Historice, tum ad Homiliarum totius anni rationem spectant, deesse quidquam possit. Opus ut vere pium, ac eruditum, ita singulis Christianae pietatis alumnis plurimum et solatiis et utilitatis allatorum. A Jo. Dadraeo,... multis notationibus illustratum, postrema hac Veneta editione innumeris mendis purgatum pulcherrimis figuris exornatum, Venice: Guerraeos Fratres & Franciscum Zilettum, 1581, ornate woodcut border to title, many decorative woodcut initials throughout, preliminaries misbound with erratic signatures, title trimmed to printed edge and laid on later paper, toned with small areas of loss to inner upper margin, upper right margins of first 8 leaves repaired and reinforced to verso, a few closed tears, water staining and spotting to some leaves, a few leaves very toned, some minor worming, endpapers renewed, bookplate of Hans & Gertrude Aurenhammer to front pastedown, late 18th-century full vellum, gilt morocco title label and manuscript title to spine, boards a little soiled, folio QTY: (1)
Devon. Bowen (Emanuel), An Accurate Map of Devon Shire Divided into its Hundreds. Drawn from the best Authorities, assisted by the most approved Modern Maps..., Carington Bowles, R. Sayer & Robert Wilkinson, circa 1785, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, inset city plan of the Citadel of Plymouth, large uncoloured cartouche, 540 x 690 mm, together with Darton (William). Devonshire Divided into Hundreds and the Parliamentary Divisions, circa 1833, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, uncoloured vignette of Dartmouth Castle, slight offsetting, 355 x 450 mm, with Murray (T.). Devonshire, May 1st 1830, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, tables of reference and explanation, 365 x 455 mmQTY: (3)
* Alken (Henry). Driving Discoveries, the set of seven, published by S. & J. Fuller, Jany. 1st 1817, seven (complete) humorous etchings, all with contemporary wash colouring, large margins, slight dust soiling, each approximately 235 x 310 mm, contained within a later cloth portfolio, book plate of Lewis A. Bird to the front pastedown, gilt title to the upper sidingQTY: (7)NOTE:Provenance. Beeleigh Abbey.R. V. Tooley. English Books with Colour Plates, number 25. Not recorded in Abbey. Scarce.
Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldry. The sixth edition. Improv'd with large additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, under their respective Bearings..., London: printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, in St. Paul's Church-Yard. And J. Walthoe and Tho. Ward, 1724, title in red and black, 65 engraved plates (including portraits and armorials), woodcut armorials to text, some leaves of letterpress toned and with occasional scattered spotting, later marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, near contemporary speckled calf, triple-rule gilt line border to boards with later small floral motif to board corners, neatly rebacked with gilt decorated spine with skiver title label, folioQTY: (1)
Lewis (T. R. & D. D. Cunningham). The 'Oriental Sore,' as observed in India, Calcutta: office for the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1877, complete in 59 pages, ex-British Medical Library copy with associated stamps, some light toning, contemporary blue cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed, slim 8vo, together with:Mackenzie (Morell), Hay Fever and Paroxysmal Sneezing..., 5th edition, London: J. & A. Churchill, 1889, period inscription opposite the frontispiece, some light toning throughout, ex-library copy, original brown cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed, 8vo, plusCongreve (Richard), The Catechism of Positive Religion..., 3rd edition, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1891, done minor toning, Index pasted down to the front endpaper, original green cloth, spine very lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other mostly 19th century medical reference, mostly original cloth, some ex-library copies with associated marks, G/VG, 8voQTY: (3 shelves )
World. Imperial Federation - Map of the World showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886. Statistical Information published by Captain J. C. R. Colomb M. P. formerly R. M. A. British Territories Coloured Red, published as a supplement to The Graphic, London, Maclure & Co., 24 July 1886, decorative colour lithographic map, inset map of the world showing the extent of British Territories in 1786, old folds, 590 x 770 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:A very good example of Walter Crane's subversive map of the world, published to coincide with the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. Superficially, the map appears to be a standard piece of Imperialist propaganda but it is overlaid with Socialist motifs. These include Phyrgian, or liberty, caps on the heads of the figures of Freedom, Fraternity and Federation, and the words 'Human Labour' on the sash of Atlas at the foot.
Shaw (Henry). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 volumes in one, London: William Pickering, 1843, pictorial and printed titles to each volume (volume I additional title with hand-colouring), 94 plates, most hand-coloured, many heightened with gold, numerous black & white and hand-coloured decorations and illustrations to text, scattered spotting (mainly to text and foredge), flyleaves spotted, hinges cracked before/after flyleaves, front pastedown with bookplate of James Smith, and with booksellers (and binder?) ticket William Brown, 26 Princes Street, Edinburgh, both marbled pastedowns with leather borders decorated with elaborate gilt-tooled rolls, all edges gilt, late 19th century red/brown morocco gilt, covers and spine with decorative gold-tooling, some fading, lightly rubbed, rear cover slightly marked, large thick 8vo, together with Presuhn (Emile), Les Decorations Murales de Pompei, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1878, 24 chromolithographs with numbered tissue guards (as list, but without plan of Pompeii), extra-illustrated with a further 37 similar chromolithographed plates (apparently relating to Pompeii), occasional spotting (mainly to blank margins), 3 numbered plates detached, with edge-fraying and some chips, plate 24 with small hole to blank fore-margin, title with ink ownership inscription at top, hinges cracked, near contemporary red cloth, worn, front cover gilt-lettered Peintures de Pompei, large 8vo, plus Waldheim (R. von, publisher), Vorlagen fur Textil-Arbeiten, vorwiegend nach entwurfen der hervorragendsten meister der neuzeit ..., Vienna, [1880], title in red & black, 42 woodcut and chromolithographed plates, two plates spotted, the remainder with occasional light spotting mainly to blank margins, 1 leaf of text, front pastedown with bookplate 'Rousdon, Devon', hinges cracked, contemporary maroon half morocco, rubbed and faded with some marks, front cover with gilt title, large slim 8vo, with 4 others: Some Drawings of Ancient Embroidery, by Mary Barber, London & Manchester: Henry Sotheran, 1880; Gray's Elegy, the Borders designed and illuminated by Lady Willoughby, London: Day & Son, [1866]; The Cromlech on Howth, a poem, by Samuel Ferguson, with illuminations from the Book of Kells & of Durrow, and drawings from nature, London: Day & Son, [1861]; The Book of Song, London: Chappell, [1847?], various conditions, all large 8voQTY: (7)
Taylor (Jeremy). The Great Exemplar of Sanctity an Holy Life according to the Christian Institution:..., 3rd edition, London: printed by R. Norton, 1657, engraved title plus 8 engraved folding plates plus, some light toning & minor wear, early 19th century full calf, boards & spine rubbed with a small amount of loss to the front board, folio, together with:Nightingale (Florence), Notes on Nursing what it is, and what it is not, 2nd issue, London: Harrison, [1959?], contemporary library endpapers, title page detached, some toning & light marks, contemporary blue library cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed & marked, slim 8vo, plusOrwell (George), Animal Farm, a Fairy Story, reprinted, London: Secker & Warburg, August 1945, some light marginal toning, original green cloth, spine slightly faded, slim 8vo, and other other miscellaneous 19th century & modern literature & reference, including Le Chic Parisien, 2 volumes, circa 1900, numerous colour & monochrome plates, contemporary red quarter morrocco, folio, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, overall condition is generally good to very good, 8vo/folioQTY: (6 shelves & a carton)
Waring (John Burley, editor). Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, from the Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester, Chromo Lithographed by F. Bedford, the Drawings on Wood by R. Dudley, with Essays by Owen Jones, Digby Wyatt, A. W. Franks, J. B. Waring, J.C. Robinson, and G. Scharf, Jun., 1st edition, Day and Son, 1858, 100 chromolithographic plates, some with a few marginal tears, all edges gilt, endpapers renewed, modern bevelled cloth with original decorated calf gilt upper cover and spine relaid, some wear, folio, together with: Ashdown Audsley (George & Maurice). The Practical Decorator and Ornamentist..., Glasgow: Blackie & Son Ltd, [1892], 100 chromolithographic plates, blue ink stamp of Andrew L Mazzri, London to front free endpaper, foot of title and rear endpaper, some spotting to endpapers, contemporary half morocco, some wear, folio, plus 2 others works on design with numerous chromolithographic plates, folios QTY: (4)
Kandinsky (Wassily). Uber das Geistige in der Kunst, insbesondere in der Malerei, mit acht tafeln und zehn originalholzschnitten, Zweite Auflage, Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1912, 8 monochrome plates after the Ravenna mosaics, Durer, Raphael, Cezanne and Kandinsky, ten original woodcut designs to text by Kandinsky, 5pp. advertisements to rear, original printed wrappers with woodcut design by Kandisnky to upper cover printed in green, some marks and soiling and a little fraying and wear, dark ink stain to foot of spine and lower left corner of upper wrapper, pale waterstain to lower outer corner of rear wrapper, 4to (24 x 18.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Gore Rifkind Coll. 161; The Artist and the Book, 137; Roethel 82-92.The second edition (appearing just a few months after the first) of "One of the most important manifestos of modern art. Kandinsky's book is anti-materialist and anti-naturalist, calling for painting that goes beyond a recording of the visible world. The non-objective woodcuts are historically important as early graphic demonstrations of the artist's thesis." (The Artist and the Book).
* British Isles. Speed (John), The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their Civill Wars since the Conquest, George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, large compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, some creasing, 375 x 505 mm, framed and double - glazed, English text on versoQTY: (1)NOTE:R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, number 397.
Keppel (Henry). A Visit to the Indian Archipelago, in H. M. Ship Maeander with portions of the private journal of Sir James Brooke, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1853, 8 tinted lithograph plates, linen-backed folding map bound at end of volume I, advertisement leaf at end of each volume, volume I lacking rear endpaper and front hinge breaking, first few leaves detaching, some spotting, Malta Garrison Library ink stamps to titles and plate versos, library labels, original cloth gilt, spines faded with splits and tears at ends, library labels at foot, 8vo, together with Wright (Edward). Some Observations made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c. In the Years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: A. Millar, 1764, 42 engraved plates, a few folding, volume I title relined to verso, volume II title with tape reinforcement along left margin, first leaf of text with top left corner repaired, some spotting and toning throughout, Malta Garrison Library ink stamps to titles and a few other leaves, library half morocco, a little rubbed with small losses to covers, 4to, plus 8 others including the Uganda Protectorate, by Sir Harry Johnson, 1st edition, 1902, George Grenfell and the Congo, 1st edition, 1908, Pigeons, by W. B. Tegetmeier, circa 1868, Pigsticking or Hoghunting, by Captain R. S. S. Baden-Powell, 1889, and A History of British Fossil Mammals, by Richard Owen, 1846, all ex-libris QTY: (14)
Davies (John). Allwedd duwinyddiaeth, neu, Ddangoseg ysgrythyrol..., [The key of theology, or, scriptural Demonstration: containing a summary of verses relating to the doctrinal, practical, experienced, promising and threatening subjects of the Christian religion], Carmarthen: J. Evans, 1839, bound with: Williams (William). Crwydrad dychymmyg i fyd yr ysbrydoedd..., [A wandering of imagination into the world of spirits, or, Heavenly reflections on the death of the late Reverend. Lewis Lewis...,] Caerfyrddin: Argraphwyd gan Jonathan Harris, 1831; Jones (John). Alleirydd ysgrythyrawl, neu, Fynegair i'r Ysgolion Sabbothawl, [an Index to the Sabbath Schools: containing an explanation of the old strange Words of the scriptures up...], Machynlleth: D. Pugh, 1832; Rowlands (William). "Angeu yn y crochan;" neu, Bregeth ar feddwdod: yn yr hon y dangosir ei natur, ei bechadurusrwydd a'i effeithiau ["Death in the pot;" or, A Sermon on drunkenness: in which its nature, sinfulness and effects are shown], Dinbych, Pp. 52. Thomas Gee, 1834; Charles (Thomas). Hyfforddwr yn egwyddorion y grefydd Gristionogol [Instructor in the principles of the Christian religion], Bala: Argraffedig gan R. Saunderson, 1839, text in Welsh, frontispiece, ownership signature to front free endpaper, light spotting throughout, trimmed with small area of loss to printed area to a few leaves, contemporary tree calf, a little rubbed and worn, 8vo, together with:Dawson (Bensley & Cooke, publishers). Hyfforddiadau i ymddygiad defosiynol a gweddus..., [Training for devout and decent behavior: in the public service of God more particularly in the practice of Common Prayer appointed by the Church of England], Oxford: Dawson, Bensley, Cooke, 1809, text in Welsh, contemporary ownership signature to title, extensive contemporary manuscript notation to verso of title relating to provenance and similar to endpapers and pastedowns, long closed tear to title page, tear with loss to front free endpaper, damp stain to inner margin to last few gatherings, contemporary panelled calf, scuffed and bumped with minor areas of loss, thick 8vo, plus many other volumes, many 18th century and bound in leather including Books of Common Prayer in various languages including Spanish and French QTY: (1 carton)
* Cornwall. Speed (John & Norden John). Cornwall, 1st edition, John Sudbury & George Humble [1611], uncoloured engraved map, inset plan of Launceston, good margins, central fold strengthened on verso, 385 x 510 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on versoQTY: (1)NOTE:R. C. E. Quixley. Antique Maps of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, number 11. A fine dark impression.
Milne (A. A.). When We Were Very Young, 14th edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1926, monochrome illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, some minor toning & spotting, top edge gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with:Tolkien (J. R. R.), The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 1st edition, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962, illustrations by Pauline Baynes, later inscription to the front endpaper, original illustrated boards in dust jacket, some very minor rubbing to the head & foot of the spine, 8vo, plusLear (Edward), The Book of Nonsense, later edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1901, 110 monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & marginal toning, binding slightly loose, original gilt decorated brown cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, oblong 4to, and other early 20th century & modern juvenile & illustrated literature & other works of fiction, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4toQTY: (3 shelves & carton)
Cambridge University. Collegiate Sketches or Alma Mater Illustrated, Cambridge, Brighton & London: W. Mason, W.H. Mason, & R. Ackermann, 1832, 7 hand-coloured lithographed plates, the first 5 each with several humorous captioned cartoon illustrations, the final two depicting Under Graduates and Graduates, each titled 'Costume of the University of Cambridge', and with imprint of R.B. Harraden [Cambridge], disbound with pictorial upper wrapper present (with a few small and one larger stain), but lacking lower wrapper, wrapper and leaves toned and worn, with tears and edge-fraying (some consequent minor losses to blank margins), oblong folio (28 x 38 cm) QTY: (1)NOTE:Abbey, Scenery, 83: listing 12 plates but noting that, as plates 6-12 bear an Oxford imprint and are drawn in quite a different style, 'probably, therefore, Plates 6-12 did not belong to the book as issued, but are a later addition (as are possibly plates 7 and 8 in our copy).Extremely rare: Abbey notes that the publication is 'apparently unrecorded'. We have traced only two copies in institutions (University of Cambridge and Yale Center for British Art, the latter listing 7 leaves), and found no copies sold at auction.
Stothard (Mrs. Charles). Letters written during a Tour through Normandy, Britanny, and other parts of France, in 1818: including local and historical descriptions; with remarks on the Manners and Characters of the People, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820, 22 aquatint plates (including hand-coloured frontispiece and five other hand-coloured plates), title with short closed tear to lower margin at gutter, occasional spotting, light dust-soiling and few marks, endpapers renewed with armorial bookplate of Edward Lowry Barnwell, Melksham House, Wiltshire and ex libris label of John Ewart Davies to upper pastedown, modern half calf preserving contemporary marbled boards, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, 4to, together with:Jones (Lewis Tobias). An Historical Journal of the British Campaign on the Continent, in the Year 1794; with the Retreat through Holland, in the Year 1795, 1st edition, Birmingham: Printed for the Author by Swinney & Hawkins, 1797, folding engraved map frontispiece with contemporary outline colouring (trimmed to printed edge of lower right corner and with long repaired closed tear), 4 engraved plans (2 folding, 1 with repaired closed tear, both trimmed to platemark at gutter edge), E1 with repaired hole to outer margin, hinges cracked, modern terracotta crushed half morocco over marbled boards, green morocco title and author labels to spine, 4to,Macdonald (John). Travels, in Various Parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards, by John Macdonald, a cadet of the family of Keppoch in Inverness-shire..., London: Printed for the Author, 1790, damp-staining mostly to first and last few leaves towards gutter, armorial bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus (of Antrobus Hall, Cheshire and Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire), contemporary calf gilt, morocco title label to spine, 8vo, Thicknesse (Philip). A Year's Journey through France, and Part of Spain, 2 volumes in one, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, for the Author, 1777, seven engraved plates, three plates of music, some offsetting, staining to title of volume 2, contemporary speckled calf, modern reback with morocco title label, 8vo,Orrery (John Boyle, Earl of). Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755, by the late Right Honourable John Earl of Corke and Orrery. Published from the originals, with explanatory notes, by John Duncombe, M.A., Chaplain to his Lordship, Rector of St. Andrew's and St. Mary Bredman's, and one of the six preachers in Christ Church, Canterbury, London: B. White, 1773, engraved illustration to title, browning to margins of first and last few leaves, contemporary calf, modern reback with calf title label, 8voQTY: (5)
Burton (Richard F.) The Lake Regions of Central Africa. A Picture of Exploration, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860, 12 chromoxylograph plates, folding map, wood-engraved illustrations, stitching broken in places, a few leaves detaching, some spotting and light toning, remnants of Mechanics' Institution Library labels, original red cloth, chipped Mudie's Library labels to upper covers, volume I spine torn with small losses, spines darkened, some stains and label remnants to covers, 8vo, together with A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome,.2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864, wood-engraved frontispieces (detached in volume Ii), hinges breaking, library label fragments, original burgundy cloth gilt, residue from label removal to upper covers, volume I damp stained with some wear, 8vo, plus others by Burton and related including The City of the Saints and across the Rocky Mountains to California, 2nd edition, 1862, Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po, 2 volumes in one, 1863, The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798, translated and annotated by Captain R. F. Burton, 1873, Etruscan Bologna, 1876, The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities, 1878, and The Jew the Gypsy and El Islam, 1898 QTY: (20)NOTE:Penzer pp. 65-66 & pp. 72-73 respectively for first two titles.
[Mainwaring, John]. Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel ... A catalogue of his works, and observations upon them, 1st edition, London: for R. & J. Dodsley, 1760, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by T. Chambars, contemporary ownership signature of David Hughes, dated 1756, to portrait frontispiece blank reverse, scarce spotting, pp.110-115 stained, C3 lower right corner torn away, later endpapers, modern antique-style half brown calf over marbled boards, spine and letters in gilt, with original old labels retained to front paste down of Alfred Whittingham, dealer in ancient and modern music and musical treatises, 33, Leicester Square, London, W.C., and of Charles Chapman, 8vo, together with Burney (Charles), An account of the musical performances in Westminster-Abbey, and the Pantheon, May 26th, 27th, 29th; and June the 3rd, and 5th, 1784, in commemoration of Handel, 1st edition, London: for the benefit of the Musical Fund; and sold by T. Payne and Son, and G. Robinson, 1785, engraved frontispiece plan (toned and spotted), occasional minor spotting, endpapers renewed, modern cloth, gilt-lettered spine, 4toQTY: (2)
* British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, uncoloured engraved map, large strapwork cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, the vertical borders decorated with historical scenes, good margins, very slight staining, two very small wormholes in the printed image, 385 x 515 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on versoQTY: (1)NOTE:R. W. Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, 1477 - 1650, number 317.
Shakespeare (William). Mr William Shakespeare: his Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the players his fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those editions in ten volumes octavo; with an introduction: whereunto will be added, in some other volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a body of various readings entire, 10 volumes, London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson, 1768, half-titles discarded, colophon to volume 10 with imprint to Aa2 before advertisements, margins browned to first and last few leaves to each volume, occasional light spotting throughout, 19th-century bookplate of Sarah Rooke to front pastedown of each volume, contemporary marbled calf rebacked, corners refurbished, 8voQTY: (10)NOTE:ESTC No: T138599.
Baskerville Press. Terence Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae, Birmingham: Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772, front blank flyleaf with owner's ink inscription 'T. Trollope, Coll Joan. Cant. Donam amicissimi R. Heron Prid. Kal. Decemb. 1781', upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt., all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain red morocco, gilt decorated spine, 12mo, together with:Sallust. Caii Crispi Sallustii Belli Catilinarii et Jugurthini Historiae, Edinburgh: apud G. Hamilton et J. Balfour, 1755, light damp-staining and spotting at front and rear, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt., all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grain red morocco gilt, 8vo,Vergilius Maro (Publius). P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita, 2 volumes, Edinburgh: apud G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, 1755, browning to first and last leaves, upper pastedown with armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt., all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco, gilt decorated spines and borders to boards, contrasting morocco labels, upper board of volume 2 detached, other joints cracked, title label to volume 1 lacking, 8vo,Aristophanes. Aristophanis Comoediae duae, Plutus & Nubes: cum scholiis Graecis Antiquis, quilus adjiciuntur notae quaedaun, sinul cum genino indice, London: R. Wilkin, D. Midwinter & A. Ward, & B. Motte, 1732, title and text in Greek and Latin, title and front pastedown with ownership signature T. W. Trollope 1779, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope, Bt. also to upper pastedown, contemporary calf, lacking title label, joints cracked, worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo, plus nine other similar 18th-century antiquarian works of classical authors, many with the bookplate of Sir John Trollope and ownership signatures of T. W. TrollopeQTY: (14)NOTE:1. Gaskell 47.
Archer (Edward Caulfield). Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains; with accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, occasional light spotting, Wolverhampton Library labels, contemporary half calf, volume II lower board detached, rubbed with some wear to spine, 8vo, together with Elphinstone (Mountstuart). The History of India. The Hindu and Mahometan Periods, 3rd edition, London: John Murray, 1849, folding map (detached with short tears to outer margin), lacking front endpaper, some light toning, contemporary half calf gilt, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, plus Gleig (G. R.) The Life of Major-General Sir Thomas Munro, Bart. and K. C. B. Late Governor of Madras, with extracts from his correspondence and private papers, 2 volumes, new edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, folding map with outline colour, a few leaves detaching, some offsetting and light spotting, previous owner inscription 'J. W. Fraser, Bengal Artly' at head of titles, contemporary calf, gilt arms to covers, spines rubbed and lacking 2 labels, edges rubbed, 8vo, with 4 other volumes including Interesting Historical Events Relative to the Provinces of Bengal and the Empire of Indostan, by J. Z. Holwell, 2 parts only (of 3), 2nd edition, 1766-67, and The Modern History of Hindostan, by Thomas Maurice, volume I, parts 1 & 2 only (of 2 volumes), 1802, and 2 related odd volumesQTY: (9)
Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church..., together with the Psalter or Psalms of David..., Oxford: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the University, 1717, blank leaf at rear inscribed 'Sarah Lingard lui livre lui donne'z par Monsieur de Caswall Juillet le 16 1732', monogrammed bookplate to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary gilt decorated crushed red morocco, joints cracked and worn at head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Caradoc Press. Holy Communion from the Book of Common Prayer, 1904, woodcut frontispiece, text printed in red and black with decorative initials, pages uncut, original maroon morocco, 12mo in 6s, and Bible [English]. The Holy Bible, London: R. Bowyer, 1796, engraved title, double-column text in English and French, all edges gilt, contemporary navy crushed straight grain morocco, 8vo, plus other 18th-19th century British and continental antiquarian, including theology etc., several odd volumesQTY: (a carton)
Gresham Publishing Co. The Principles and Practice of Modern House-Construction, 6 volumes, edited by G. Lister Sutcliffe, London, circa 1905, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, 4toThe Book of the Home..., 8 volumes, edited by H. C. Davidson, 1902, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated blue cloth, 8voScience in Modern Life..., 6 volumes, edited by J. R. Ainsworth Davis, 1908, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated dark green cloth, 8voThe Modern Carpenter Joiner and Cabinet-Maker..., 8 volumes, edited by G. Lister Sutcliffe, 1906, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light toning, original uniform gilt decorated green cloth, folio, all covers designed by Talwin Morris, together with other similar sets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (58 volumes)QTY: (3 shelves )
Jameson (James S.) Story of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, edited by Mrs J. S. Jameson, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1890, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, illustrations, light toning to endpapers, original green cloth gilt, a few light marks, 8vo, together with Baker (Samuel White). Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, 1st US edition, Hartford: O. D. Case, 1868, 2 maps (one folding), 16 plates, a little light toning, previous owner ink stamp to front endpaper, hinges cracking, original cloth, spine faded, 8vo, plus Pasha (Rudolf C. Slatin). Fire and Sword in the Sudan. A personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes 1879-1895, translated by Major F. W. Wingate, 1st edition, London: Edward Arnold, 1896, portrait frontispiece (detaching), 2 folding maps, illustrations, some light spotting and toning, contemporary ownership inscription at front, top edge gilt, original cloth gilt, tears at spine ends, 8vo, with other travel including Travel and Adventures of John Ledyard, [by Jared Sparks], 2nd UK edition, 1834, A Journey to Ashango-Land, by Paul B. Du Chaillu, 1st US edition, 1867 (lacking front endpapers), Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries, by John & Kate Petherick, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1869, The Ashanti War, by Henry Brackenbury, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1874, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 1909, and History of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, by W. Walton Claridge, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1915 (ex-libris), QTY: (15)
* British Isles. Speed (John), The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland, John Sudbury & George Humble, circa 1627, hand-coloured engraved map, inset map of the Orkney Islands, inset views of London and Edinburgh, central fold strengthened on verso, 385 x 515 mm, framed and double-glazed, English text on versoQTY: (1)NOTE:R. W. Shirley. Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 - 1650, number 316.
Bible [Greek - Old Testament]. Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex Versione Septuaginta interpretum. juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum, Cambridge: John Field, 1665, printer's woodcut device to title, double-column Greek text, ink stain to fore-edge margins mostly toward rear of volume, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt. to verso of front free endpaper, upper pastedown with signature of T. W. Trollope dated 1780, contemporary calf, some loss of leather at head of spine, some wear, 12mo, together with:Hutchinson (Francis). An Historical Essay Concerning Witchcraft. With Observations upon Matters of Fact; tending to clear the texts of the sacred scriptures, and confute the vulgar errors about that point. And also two Sermons: one in proof of the Christian Religion; The other concerning the Good and Evil Angels, 1st edition, London: R. Knaplock and D. Midwinter, 1718, half-title, final advert leaf, some worming mostly to fore-margins (particularly at front of volume), text-block split in two, endpapers renewed, contemporary blind panelled sheep, rebacked, worn, 8vo,Wraxall (Nathaniel William). Memoirs of the courts of Berlin, Dresden, Warsaw, and Vienna, in the years 1777, 1778, and 1779, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1800, armorial bookplate of Lord Clonbrock to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf gilt, 8vo,Swift (Jonathan). Letters, written by Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and several of his friends. From the year 1703 to 1740. Published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical, by John Hawkesworth, LL.D, 3 volumes, 5th edition, London: T. Davies, R. Davis, L. Davies [et al.], 1767, half-title to volume 1 in red and black, some toning and scattered spotting, armorial bookplate of Sir John Trollope Bt. to upper pastedowns, contemporary calf, upper board of volume 1 detached, other joints cracked, 8vo, plus other 18th-century antiquarian volumes including An Abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding, new edition, Edinburgh: Alexander Donaldson, 1778; Catalogi duo Primus Auctorum Omnium alter rerum Antiqurum..., Venice: Joannis Baptistae Pasquali, 1755; Paradise Lost. A Poem..., by John Milton, Glasgow: R. & A. Foulis, 1750; Paradise Lost. A Poem ..., by John Milton, London: W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington [et al.], 1778, etc.QTY: (18)NOTE:1. Darlow & Moule 4701; Wing B2719. The preface is by John Pearson (1613-1686), famous for Exposition of the Creed (1659), Bishop of Chester. Edited by the Unitarian writer John Biddle (1615-1662). This volume is without the Apocrypha and New Testament which is sometimes present.
British Isles. A collection of twelve maps, 17th & 18th century, engraved maps, eleven with hand-colouring, including examples by or after J. Nolin, R. Morden, N. Sanson/Tavernier, A. H. Jaillot, D. De La Feuille, J. Jansson/Van den Keere, H. De Leth, G. Le Rouge. A. De Winter [and] J. Lattré, various sizes, good condition QTY: (12)
Sudan. Fowler (John, surveyor), Sketch of the Country between Ambukol and Shendy, Taken from the Survey of Mr John Fowler C. E. to which is added Descriptive Notes of the Route, Intelligence Branch, War Office, May 1884, lithographic linear map, printed in red and black on linen, some staining, old folds, 680 x 1000 mm, together with Sketch Map of Country between Suakin and Berber with noted on the Principal Routes, Intelligence Branch War Office, under the direction of Major W. R. Fox ..., June 1884, lithographic linear map, printed in red and black on silk, very slight staining, old folds, 480 x 720 mm, with Map of the Nile Provinces from the Railway Terminus at Siût to Berber, Compiled in the Intelligence Branch, War Office, 1884, lithographic map, printed in brown and black on silk, slight staining, old folds, 1060 x 650 mm, plus Sketch Map of Nile from Wady Halfa to Khartum with noted on Caravan Routes, Navigability of Nile, Towns, Climate &c. Intelligence Branch, War Office, May 1884, lithographic linear map, printed in red and black on linen, with contemporary printed paper label of distances along the Nile, printed in red and pinned to the left-hand margin, some staining, old folds, 780 x 635 mmQTY: (4)NOTE:In the lower-left corner of the first described map is a printed note. The Information given in red on this map is quite correct and is obtained from the studies of the Soudan Railway Survey of 1872 of which I was second in charge. W. Whitworth Sept. 10th 1884. There is a later state of this map (held by the National Library of Australia), with an addition to the title which states Revised from Sketches and Information furnished by Officers during the Campaign of 1884 - 1885. This would coincide with the siege of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon. Gordon arrived at Khartoum on 18 February 1884 and the siege took place between the 13 March 1884 and the 26 January 1885. The Mahdists hearing news of an approaching British relief column, stormed the garrison slaughtering the defenders to the last man, as well as 4,000 of the town's male inhabitants. Many of the surviving women and children were enslaved by the victorious Mahdists. Advance elements of the relief expedition arrived within sight of Khartoum two days after it fell. After discovering that they were too late, the surviving British and Egyptian troops withdrew. It is therefore possible that these maps - designed for portability - were used by British officers in the relief column.
Swords Air Display team cover flown and signed by seven team members. C J Thompson, J M A Parker, M A Fox, J D Aldington, R D Thomas, M Bethune and M R Merritt. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
A composition with a standing portrait of an official : Peer Oomed Ali, and a wallahNorth India, mid 19th centuryOpaque and transparent pigments on paper, his charge identified as "judge in the adawlat of H. R the Rao of Cutah", illegible signature, dated 1850, a découpé standing figure of a Puttah Wallah, in separate opening, mounted, framed and glazed26.5 x 27cm.
AMENDMENT: Please note the publications “Rome, past and present, Studio London, Spring 1966” and Bach, H., Indian Love Paintings, New Delhi, 1985 are no longer part of this lot.Please do also note all publications previously listed under “Books on Tibetan and Nepalese Art” in this lot entry will now be sold in our upcoming Chinese, Japanese & South East Asian Art on 6th November 2024.A quantity of books on Indian, Tibetan, Islamic and Ottoman art, as well as catalogues Books on Indian ArtKhandalavala, K., et al. Miniature Painting, Lalit Kala, New Delhi, 1960Shellim, M., Patchwork to the Great Pagoda: India and British Painters, Kolkata, 1973Mehta, N. C., Gujarati Painting in the 15th Century, London, 1931 x 2Khandalavala, K., The development of style in Indian Painting, Madras, 1974Rizvi, S. A. A., Fatehpur Sikri, New Delhi, 1972Tagore, S., Rammohun Roy: His Role in Indian Renaissance, Kolkata, 1975Grindea M., Passages from India, Adam International Review, New York, 1971Colnaghi, Persian and Mughal Art, London, 1976Sharma, M. and Kaimal, P., Indian Painting, Mumbai, 2013Britschgi, J., Die 40 Groessten Meister der Inischen Malerei (1100-1900), Museum Reitberg, Zurich, 2011Pal, P., and Seid, B., Holy Cow and Other Animals: Selection of Indian Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2002Overton, K., Iran and the Deccan, Bloomington, 2020Beach, M. C., Reflection of India; Paintings from the 16-19th Century, Toronto, 1979 x 2Aryan, B.N., Hanuman: The Divine Simian, New DelhiAhuja, N. P., The Body in Indian Art and Thought, New Delhi, 2013Bach, H., Indian Love Paintings, New Delhi, 1985Europe and the Indies, BBC publications, 1970Exhibition of Dhundhar Painting, 1977 x2Isacco, E., Les pigments des miniatures indiennes, Paris, 2008Images of Krishna, Santa Barbara, 1987 Schwartz, P. R. Printing on Cotton at Ahmedabad, Indian in 1678, Ahmedabad, 1969The British in India, Brighton Museum, 1973Simmonds, S and Digby S., Royal Asiatic Society; Its History and its treasures, 1979Chandra, M., Indian Miniatures in the Allahabad Museum, 1961Bulletin of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, April 1949Book Reviews, Ars Orientalis IV, 1961Wilkinson, JVS., An Indian Manuscript of the Golestan of the Shah Jahan Period, Ars Orientalis II, 1957Chester Beatty Monographs nos. 1-3 &7, 1951-1958 Books on Ottoman and Islamic ArtHitzel, F., Turkophilia: Ottoman Art in Private collections, Paris, 2011Zietkiewicz-Kotz, J., Treasures of the Orient in the collections of the Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow, 2020Barakat, H. N., Introduction to Islamic Arts: Calligraphy: The collection of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2016De Guise, L., Al-Tibb: Healing Traditions in Islamic Medical Manuscripts: The collection of the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, 2018Freeman Fahid, D., Chess from the Islamic World: The Benaki Museum Collection, Athens, 2023Curatola, G., Al-Fann: Art from the Islamic Civilization: From the al-Sabah Collection, Milan, 2012Anand, M. R. Persian Painting, 1930Luzac and Co., Encyclopedia of Islam, supplements 1 & 2, 1934-36Set of Facsimile articles by Ivan Stchoukine, (plus duplicates) 1950-1972 Dealer CataloguesJorge Welsh, Art of the Expansion and Beyond, London, 2009Joost van den Bergh, Magic Marking: Tantra, Jain and Ritual Art in India, London, 2016 Joost van den Bergh, Tantric Drawings by Acharya Vyakul and Badrinath Pandit, 2014Francesca Galloway, Sringar: An Exhibition Celebrating Divine and Erotic Love, London, 2007Shapero Gallery, Divine Pursuits: Indian Painting Traditions from 15-19th century, 2003 x 2J Soustiel, Miniatures Orientales de L’inde, 1973J Soustiel, Miniatures Orientales de L’inde 3, 1983J Soustiel, Miniatures Orientales de L’inde 4, 1986Micheal Goedhuis, Birds in an Indian Garden, 1984Indar Pasricha, The Rajput courts, 1986 Indar Pasricha, Elephants of Fame, 1987Waddington Tooth Galleries, 1974, 1975 x 2, 1977, 1978 x 3, 1980, 1986, 1990 Auction CataloguesSothebys Parke Bernet, 26 September 1972, Bibliography, Art ReferenceSothebys London, 9 July 1987, An Apostle Mosaic from Medieval TorcelloSothebys London, 30 July 1973, Egyptian, Western Asiatic, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, Primitive, Indian, Indonesian, Tibetan and Nepalese ArtDrouot, 22 November 1960, Collection SevadjianDrouot, 20 March 1961, Collection Sevadjian pt2 x2Cornette de Saint Cyr, 23 June 1982, Collection Maldonado, TapisChristies London, 8-10 October 1991 Islamic, Indian Art, Rugs and Carpets Contemporary and OtherDoshi, S., csmvs Research Journal, Mumbai, 2019Gallery One and the Indian Avant Garde 1953-1963, Grosvenor Gallery, 2023Moorhouse, P., Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends, London, 2017Rome Past and Present “The Studio London” Special Spring number, 1926 Books on Tibetan and Nepalese Art Rhie, M and Thurman, R. The Sacred Art of Tibet: Expanded Edition, London, 1996Zanabazar, G., The Eminent Mongolian Sculptor, Ulan Bator, 1982Vitali, R., Early Temples of Central Tibet, London, 1990Pal, P., Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, Chicago, 2003Uhlig, H., On the Path to Enlightenment: The Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art at the Museum Reitberg, Zurich, 1995Weldon, D and Singer J C., The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, London, 1999Pal, P., Art of Nepal, LACMA, 1985Pal, P., Art of the Himalayas, New York, 1991Lo Bue, E., Wonders of Lo: The Artistic Heritage of Mustang, Marg, Mumbai, 2010Pal, P., Lamaist Art: The Aesthetic of Harmony, BostonKramrisch, S., Art of Nepal, ViennaKlimburg-Salter, D., Discovering Tibet: The Tucci Expeditions and Tibetan Paintings, Milan, 2016Hackin, J., La Sculpture Indienne et Tibetaine au Musee Guimet, Paris, 1931Pal, P., Vaisnava Iconology in Nepal, Kolkata, 1985Arts of Asia, March-April 2016 Asian ArtNoriko, T., The Beauty of Imperfection, Japanese Ceramics from the collection of Hans and Anita Roth, Japan, 2016
GLENMORANGIE 10 YEAR OLD GRAND SLAM DRAM 75CL HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT 40% ABV / 75cl Famous for their unique stills, each as tall as an adult giraffe, and their passion for innovation, Glenmorangie remains one of the best-selling single malts in the world. They were one of the first distilleries to experiment with cask finishing; the process of transferring spirit from one cask type to another in order to impart additional characteristics and flavours. To further this agenda of innovation, in September of 2021 Glenmorangie began production at their new “Lighthouse” facility, a futuristic R&D department protruding from the heart of their traditional distillery complex like a monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off limits to the public, it is home to a “sensory lab” as well as two of Glenmorangie’s signature stills, each of which plays host to several classified modifications. Only time will tell what exciting innovations will filter down to the rest of the industry.
GLENMORANGIE 18 YEAR OLD HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT 43% ABV / 70cl Famous for their unique stills, each as tall as an adult giraffe, and their passion for innovation, Glenmorangie remains one of the best-selling single malts in the world. They were one of the first distilleries to experiment with cask finishing; the process of transferring spirit from one cask type to another in order to impart additional characteristics and flavours. To further this agenda of innovation, in September of 2021 Glenmorangie began production at their new “Lighthouse” facility, a futuristic R&D department protruding from the heart of their traditional distillery complex like a monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off limits to the public, it is home to a “sensory lab” as well as two of Glenmorangie’s signature stills, each of which plays host to several classified modifications. Only time will tell what exciting innovations will filter down to the rest of the industry.
GLENMORANGIE 10 YEAR OLD TRADITIONAL 100° PROOF 1L HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT 57.2% ABV / 1L Famous for their unique stills, each as tall as an adult giraffe, and their passion for innovation, Glenmorangie remains one of the best-selling single malts in the world. They were one of the first distilleries to experiment with cask finishing; the process of transferring spirit from one cask type to another in order to impart additional characteristics and flavours. To further this agenda of innovation, in September of 2021 Glenmorangie began production at their new “Lighthouse” facility, a futuristic R&D department protruding from the heart of their traditional distillery complex like a monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off limits to the public, it is home to a “sensory lab” as well as two of Glenmorangie’s signature stills, each of which plays host to several classified modifications. Only time will tell what exciting innovations will filter down to the rest of the industry.
GLENMORANGIE 18 YEAR OLD HALF BOTTLE AND 10 YEAR OLD HIGHLAND SINGLE MALT Glenmorangie 18 Year Old - 43% ABV / 35clGlenmorangie 10 Year Old - 40% ABV / 70cl Qty: 2 Famous for their unique stills, each as tall as an adult giraffe, and their passion for innovation, Glenmorangie remains one of the best-selling single malts in the world. They were one of the first distilleries to experiment with cask finishing; the process of transferring spirit from one cask type to another in order to impart additional characteristics and flavours. To further this agenda of innovation, in September of 2021 Glenmorangie began production at their new “Lighthouse” facility, a futuristic R&D department protruding from the heart of their traditional distillery complex like a monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off limits to the public, it is home to a “sensory lab” as well as two of Glenmorangie’s signature stills, each of which plays host to several classified modifications. Only time will tell what exciting innovations will filter down to the rest of the industry.
1914 Star (7055 Pte. J. E. Cutler. Norf: R.) traces of verdigris, very fine £60-£80 --- John E. Cutler attested for the Norfolk Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 August 1914 as part of the first reinforcement group under Lieutenant A. C. O’Connor, which joined the Battalion at Tournans, 20 miles south east of Paris, on 5 September 1914. He subsequently transferred to the 2/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion.
Three: Cornet R. Stuart, Land Transport Corps, late 16th Regiment of Foot Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol, traces of restoration to clasps and clasp carriage (...net Robert. Steuart [sic]. L.T. Co...) depot impressed naming; Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1625 Cr. Sergt. R. Stuart. 2-16th. Foot); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue (Cornet Robert Stuart. L.T.C.) contemporarily impressed naming, pierced as issued with ring suspension, the Crimea pair heavily polished and worn, with significant contact marks to first partially obscuring the naming, these fine; the LS&GC better (3) £400-£500 --- Robert Stuart (also listed as Stewart and Steuart) served in the Crimea as a Colour Sergeant before being seconded to Headquarters on staff duty on 19 July 1855. He was commissioned Cornet in the Land Transport Corps on 26 January 1856, and was placed on half-pay on 1 April 1857.
The mounted group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Colonel R. W. C. Winsloe, 21st Regiment of Foot, later Royal Scots Fusiliers, who Commanded the Garrison throughout the Siege of Potchefstroom during the First Boer War The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, C.B. (Military) Companion’s badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with integral gold riband buckle; Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, silver; Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol; South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, re-mounted for display, heavy contact marks to the Crimea Medal, this poor; otherwise nearly very fine and better (6) £300-£400 --- Sold with the central roundel from a Royal North British Fusiliers belt buckle and associated badge, both with later suspension loops affixed. For the recipient’s full-sized awards, see Lot 34.
A Boer War D.S.O. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel W. Clifford, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, later Northumberland Fusiliers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 June 1917 Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar, central medallions both loose; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Defence of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between fourth and fifth clasps (Capt. W. Clifford, D.S.O. L.N. Lancs: Rgt:) engraved naming, small area of erasure before rank; India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn. W. Clifford D.S.O. 1st. Bn. N. Fusilrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. W. Clifford.); Mayor of Kimberley’s Star 1899-1900, reverse hallmark with date letter ‘c’, unnamed, lacking integral top riband bar, the first five mounted court-style, the last loose; together with the related miniature awards for the DSO (in gold and enamel), QSA, and IGS, these mounted as worn, contact marks to the first three, these very fine; the last three extremely fine (6) £2,400-£2,800 --- D.S.O. London Gazette 19 April 1901. Wigram Clifford was born on in Bareilly, India, on 20 February 1876, the son of Major-General R. M. Clifford, and was educated at the United Service College, Westward Ho!, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment on 25 March 1896, and served with the 1st Battalion in Ceylon from 28 May 1896 to 10 February 1899, and then with the Mounted Infantry Company, 1st Battalion, in South Africa from 11 February 1899 to 11 October 1901. He was wounded during the siege of Kimberley on 28 November 1899, and was Mentioned in Despatches on 15 February 1900. For his services during the Boer War he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, and was invested with his insignia by H.M. King Edward VII. Clifford transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers with the rank of Captain on 12 October 1901, and saw further service on the North West Frontier of India in 1908. Seconded for service as Adjutant of the Indian Volunteers on 17 August 1912, he was promoted Major on 1 September 1915. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel to command a battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in September 1916, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 June 1917, whilst serving with the 10th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He is buried in Dickebush New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Sold with copied research. For the medals awarded to the recipient’s sons, see Lots 344 and 350.
A Great War ‘Battle of Cambrai’ D.C.M. and November 1918 ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of six awarded to Company Sergeant-Major J. Rogers, Essex Regiment, who was reputedly the youngest Sergeant-Major in the British Army Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (15353 Cpl.-A. Sjt: J. Rogers. 13/Essex. R.); Military Medal, G.V.R. (15353 C.S. Mjr. J. Rogers. D.C.M. 9/Essex R.); 1914-15 Star (15353 Pte. J. Rogers. Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (15353 W.O. Cl. II. J. Rogers. Essex R.); Defence Medal, mounted as worn, nearly very fine (6) £2,000-£2,400 --- D.C.M. London Gazette 1 May 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. As N.C.O. in charge of a platoon, he was sent up to reinforce another company which, with its ammunition expended, was being surrounded by the enemy. Having organised two sections of men, he held one flank with these under very intense machine-gun fire. Though nearly all his men had become casualties, he again collected together a few remaining men and continued to prevent the enemy from gaining the position, which would have enabled them to cut off the company. By his courage and control, under very heavy fire, he rendered great assistance in saving a large number of men.’ Annotated gazette states, ‘Moeuvres, 30 November 1917.’ M.M. London Gazette 23 July 1919. Awarded ‘for the gallant services you rendered to the State in November, 1918.’ (Letter of congratulations from Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Commanding VIII Corps, refers). James Rogers was born in Colchester and served with the 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment, in France from 25 July 1915. He won his D.C.M. with the 13th Battalion in the fighting at Moeuvres on 30 November 1917, during the battle of Cambrai, and subsequently won the M.M. for services with the 9th Battalion in November 1918. He married Agnes on Armistice Day 1920, at Fordham Church, and they celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in November 1980, on which occasion the Colchester Evening Gazette published a photograph of him wearing his medals with his wife, reporting that, ‘As the youngest Sgt-Major in the British Army Mr Rogers served with the Essex Regiment during the First World War, after which he became a conductor on the buses in Colchester. After 24 years he became a chauffeur for doctors in Lexden and Colchester. During the Second World War he was in the Home Guard, while Mrs Rogers served tea to the warrant officers.’ He died at Colchester on 24 March 1981 at the age of 85. Sold with copied research including Medal Index Card, gazette notices, War Diary extracts, and several copied news cuttings announcing award of his medals.
St. John Medal for South Africa 1899-1902 (62. Pte. R. C. Smith Market Harborough Div.) nearly very fine £200-£240 --- R. C. Smith was a member of the Market Harborough Division, St. John Ambulance Brigade, and served in South Africa at the 6 General Hospital. He is also entitled to a Queen’s South Africa medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal.
Victory Medal 1914-19 (2) (128410 Gnr. G. Futrill. R.A.; 42465 Gnr. R. T. Spraggs. R.A.) edge bruising to first, nearly very fine and better (2) £60-£80 --- George Futrill was born at Littleworth North, Worcestershire, on 5 August 1893. A labourer, he attested for the Royal Field Artillery at Hilsea on 23 November 1915 and commenced training in the South West soon thereafter. His Army Service Record records a series of misdemeanours, including a number of apprehensions by civil police in Taunton, Tewkesbury and Dorchester; on the latter occasion, Futrill produced an altered permit and spent the following two weeks in detention for being A.W.O.L. Sent to France on 10 October 1916, Futrill was later posted to Wimereux with No. 84 Battery, 11th Brigade. Sometime recorded as sick, he suffered a severe shoulder injury on 4 May 1917 and was evacuated home per H.S. St Patrick. A month later, Futrill’s military career came to a sudden halt whilst poaching: ‘States - On June 16, 1917, I was out with my ordinary sporting gun, when going through a hedge a branch caught the trigger causing me blowing 3 fingers off my left hand. I went home to Barracks Hospital and was admitted and detained.’ Transferred to the Labour Corps, Futrill spent the remainder of the War with the 569th Home Service Employment Company. He later worked as a gardener and is recorded in 1939 as a patient of the Hayley Green Hospital which at that time specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis. Richard Thomas Spraggs was born in Portsmouth around 1885 and worked as a monumental mason and labourer. He attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery on 18 August 1914 in London, but his Army Service Record shows that his time in the Army was limited due to health issues which had plagued him since 1908; the recipient of ‘mercurial treatment’ - which at that time consisted of pills with the potential to poison and sometimes kill individuals - he was discharged from Depot on 31 July 1917. Returned home to 17 Harwich Place, Blackheath, Spraggs likely spent much of the 1920s employed in the construction of war memorials and sites of remembrance across the country.
Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2) (2636 Gunr. Edwin, Fox. Coast Bde. R.A.; 951. Gunner R. Harden, 9th. B. R.A.) edge bruise to first, good very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Edwin Fox was born in Radnor in 1829 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Derby on 21 May 1847. He served 10 months in the Crimea, and 2 years 7 months in Gibraltar, being discharged to pension on 12 June 1868 after 21 years with the Colours.
Pair: Private H. L. Smith, 2/5th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, who was captured at Bullecourt on 21 March 1918, the first day of the German Spring Offensive, when his Battalion was cut off and surrounded: attacked from front and rear, then enfiladed by machine gun fire and bombing at the flanks, the Battalion effectively ceased to exist by nightfall - the War Diary notes only four other ranks at muster a short while later British War and Victory Medals (97937 Pte. H. L. Smith. Notts. & Derby. R.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (2) £70-£90 --- Herbert Lewis Smith was born in Rochford, Essex, on 26 February 1899, and attested for the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He served on the Western Front with “A” Company of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters and was present in the trenches east of Ecoust (near Noreuil) at 5am on the first day of the German Spring Offensive when the Germans commenced a four-hour long artillery bombardment of high explosive, shrapnel and gas shells. This was followed by a mass formation attack at speed which overwhelmed the Sherwood Foresters; the Battalion War Diary of 21 March 1918 records 22 officers and 599 other ranks killed, wounded or missing that day. Captured and taken Prisoner of War, Smith was sent to Dulmen P.O.W. camp at Haltern am See, and was repatriated at the cessation of hostilities. Remaining in the Army, he was sent to Catterick Military Hospital on 25 March 1919 suffering from influenza but was discharged a week later. He died at Thurrock in April 1979.
Pair: Corporal R. C. H. Donnelly, Royal Horse Artillery Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2039 Bomb: R. C. H. Donnelly. U Bty: R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2039 Corpl: R. Donnelly. R.H.A.) mounted court-style for wear, edge bruising, very fine (2) £140-£180 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK --- --- Robert Culling Henry Donnelly was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1879 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Shorncliffe on 16 June 1897. Appointed Bombardier on 6 February 1898, he deserted at Shorncliffe on 11 October 1899, and subsequently confessed to having fraudulently enlisted in the Depot of the R.H.A. under the alias Regil Cuthbert. Reverting to his original name, he served in South Africa during the Boer War with ‘U’ Battery from 30 June 1900 to 6 November 1902, and was promoted Corporal on 19 June 1901. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 25 February 1905, and was discharged on 22 July 1909, after 12 years’ service. Sold with copied service papers and medal roll extracts.
Three: Private R. Bain, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) 1914 Star (929 Pte. R. Bain. 2/Dns.); British War and Victory Medals (D-929 Pte .R. Bain. 2-Dns.) nearly very fine £100-£140 --- Robert Bain attested for the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 August 1914 (also entitled to a clasp to his Star).
Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (3) (66117 Coy. Sjt. Mjr. J. Hickingbotham. R.G.A.; 49773 2/Cl.Mr. Gnr: R. H. Needham. R.G.A.; 72235 B.Q.M. Sjt: J. H. Smith. R.F.A.) first polished and worn, this fine; the rest very fine and better (3) £70-£90 --- John Henry Smith initially served during the Great War as Battery Quartermaster Sergeant, Royal Field Artillery. He was later appointed to a commission and raised Captain.
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