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Lot 101
Midleton Very Rare-Bottled 1988Distilled and bottled by The Midleton Distillery Company. Bottle number 789. In original presentation case with cardboard sleeve. Good labelling. Level: low shoulder. 75 cl. Single malt, 40% volume.1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 102
Midleton Very Rare-Bottled 1989Distilled and bottled by The Midleton Distillery Company.Bottle number 494. In original presentation case with cardboard sleeve. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 75 cl. Single malt, 40% volume.1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 136
MacPhail's 2000A vatting of rare single malt whiskies the combined ages total 2,000 years.Bottled by Gordon & MacPhail. In wooden presentation case accompanied by pourer. Transfer printed labelling. Level: filled to 2 litre. Stoneware jug. 40% volume1 stoneware jugFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 2
Tamdhu-1961Bottled 2000. Distilled by Tamdhu Distillery. Rare Old. Specially selected, produced & bottled by Gordon & MacPhail. In original wooden presentation case. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 40% volume.1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 205
Midleton-Bottled 1999Distilled and bottled by John Jameson & Son, Midleton Distillery.Bottle number 1526. In wooden presentation case. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 700 ml. Single malt, 40% volume MacPhail's Rare Old-30 year oldSelected, produced and bottled by Gordon & MacPhail.Good labelling. In presentation case. Level: filled to 70 cl. Glass decanter. Single malt, 40% volume. Glenmorangie Maltman's Reserve-18 year oldDistilled and bottled by The Glenmorangie Distillery Coy.In cardboard presentation case accompanied by stopper. Level: filled to 70 cl. Ceramic decanter. Single malt, 43% volume Glenfiddich Rich Oak-14 year oldDistilled and bottled by William Grant & Sons.Good labelling. Level: top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 40% volume Bruichladdich Links-14 year old (2)Distilled and bottled by Bruichladdich Distillery.16th Hole St. Andrews (bottle 7704/18,000), The 18th Green, Royal Troon (bottle 1518/12,000). In presentation tins. Level: top shoulder. 700 ml. Single malt, 46% volume Lagavulin-16 year oldDistilled and bottled by White Horse Distillers.Good labelling. In original carton. Level: top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 43% volume5 bottles and 2 decantersFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 7
Glenlochy-1965Bottled 2002. Distilled by D & J McCallum Ltd., Glenlochy Distillery. Rare Old. Specially selected, produced & bottled by Gordon & MacPhail. In original wooden presentation case. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 40% volume.1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 79
Banff - 21 year old-1982Bottled April 2004. Rare Malts Selection.Limited edition, bottle 1736. Good labelling. In original carton. Level: very top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 57.1% volume Inchgower - 27 year old-1976Bottled April 2004. Rare Malts Selection.Limited edition, bottle 1524. In original carton. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 55.6% volume2 bottlesFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 8
Tomintoul-1967Bottled 2000. Distilled by JBB (Greater Europe) Plc, Tomintoul Distillery. Rare Old. Specially selected, produced & bottled by Gordon & MacPhail. In original wooden presentation case. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 70 cl. Single malt, 40% volume.1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 97
Midleton Very Rare-Bottled 1984Distilled and bottled by The Midleton Distillery Company.Bottle number 10947. In presentation case with cardboard sleeve. Good labelling. Level: low shoulder. 75 cl. Single malt, 40% volume, 70 degrees proof1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 99
Midleton Very Rare-Bottled 1986Distilled and bottled by The Midleton Distillery Company. Bottle number 5797. In original presentation case with original sleeve. Good labelling. Level: very top shoulder. 75 cl. Single malt, 40% volume.1 bottleFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 278
RARE WORLD WAR I ROYAL POTTERY STAFFORDSHIRE WILKINSON LTD ENGLAND TOBY JUG designed by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, this one 'Lord French'. Black printed marks to base, sold by Soane & Smith, Oxford Street, London. 24cm high approx.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: Minor paint flaking in places, particularly to the handle. Rather grubby inside and crazing present, however no obvious damage, chips, cracks, losses or restoration.
![Broadside Menu. Notes, of the Diet, at Hoghton, at the King's coming there, 1617, [privately printed by Sir Henry Hoghton], c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/fa746de9-98cc-4728-a272-ab68011901bc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 200
Broadside Menu. Notes, of the Diet, at Hoghton, at the King's coming there, 1617, [privately printed by Sir Henry Hoghton], circa 1790, printed broadside with drop-head title and four columns within typographic ornamental border, a few old related bookseller's pencil notes to upper right corner and now partially indistinct, some mostly marginal dust-soiling and light creasing, a few mostly closed tears with minor paper loss to upper left corner and large pin hole to lower left corner beneath final line of letterpress, 34 x 25 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESIn August 1617 King James I and his retinue made a return journey from Scotland to London, progressing through the length of Lancashire. One stopping place was at the mansion of Sir Richard Hoghton, where the royal party stayed from 15 to 18 August. The monarch was accompanied by his favourite George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and by the Earls of Pembroke, Richmond, Nottingham and Bridgewater, et al. The broadside here records the food eaten at Sunday's dinner, Sunday night's supper and Monday morning's breakfast on 17-18 August. Among the extravagant offerings are 'swan roast, one, and one for to-morrow', 'heron's roast cold', 'curlew pye cold', 'hot pheasant, one, and one for the King', 'quails, six for the King', 'neats feet', 'umble pye', 'pear tart', 'custards', etc. At the end of the lavish menu listings the names of the cooks and labourers are also given. It was at this feast according to one local legend that the King tasted a joint of beef so good that he famously knighted it, the beef loin henceforth being known as 'Sir Loin'. This exceedingly rare broadside predates two other rare versions printed by Thomas Walker at Preston in 1804 and by George Houghton at Chorley in 1844.
Lot 215
* Trade advertising. Printed advert on silk for Watt's Patent Shot Bristol, Plumbing in all it's Various Branches, Common Shot, of all sorts, Pig-Lead &c., [Bristol], circa 1790, advertisement on dark cream coloured silk printed to one side, engraved by John Doddrell, advert illustrated with image of figures shooting game and royal armorial above, some light wear to edges, & few marks mostly to corners, image plate mark dimensions 15.6 x 11.3 cm, silk sheet size 16.7 x 12 cm, together with: Broadside invitation , St. Mary Islington, Sir you are desir'd to meet many others, natives of this place on Tuesday, ye 11th day of April 1738 at Mrs Eliz. Grimsead's ye Angel & Crown, in ye upper Street, about ye hour of one: Then & there with full dishes, good wines & good humour, to improve, & make lasting that harmony, and friendship which have long reign'd among us. Stewards Walter Sebbon, John Booth, Bourchier Durell, James Sebbon. N.B. The dinner will be on the table peremptorily at two. Pray pay the bearer five shillings, [London], 1738, illustrated single sheet invitation engraved by Toms printed to one side, within decorative border, some toning, torn to upper & left margin with infill repairs, lined with tissue to verso, image 26 x 18 cm, sheet size 29.5 x 20.7 cm, Stationers trade advert , Montagu Lawrence Stationer, at the Globe near Durham Yard in the Strand London, circa 1770, single sheet engraved advert, printed to one side, 14.5 x 11.5 cm (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item: Rare provincial advert printed on silk. The engraving by the Bristol engraver John Doddrell of Temple, Bristol (d.1810). In 1775, William Watts, a plumber, started converting his house, near St Mary Redcliffe Church, into the world's first shot tower, in order to make lead shot by his innovative tower process. He did this by adding a tower to his house, and by excavating a shaft into the ground below, achieving a total drop of around 90 feet (27 m). By 1782, the tower was complete and in production, and Watts' process was granted a patent, which involved pouring molten lead through a perforated zinc pan into water below. William Watts was declared bankrupt in 1794, but his tower survived various changes of ownership until it was taken over by the Sheldon Bush and Patent Shot Company Limited in 1868. The tower remained a well-known feature of Redcliffe until 1968, when it was demolished to make way for road improvements.
![[Bank of England] . Some Observations upon the Bank of England, 1st edition, London: John Whitlock, 1695, [2] 26 pp., stab-ho](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/2b04c43d-7a68-4404-afc4-ab6801190e63/468x382.jpg)
Lot 222
[Bank of England] . Some Observations upon the Bank of England, 1st edition, London: John Whitlock, 1695, [2] 26 pp., stab-holes visible in gutter, dust-soiling to upper outer corners of quire A, light worming in fore margins just touching a letter in C2 verso and either side in final leaf D2, modern pencil annotation and inked letter 'C' in a contemporary hand to head of title-page, 20th-century pink crushed morocco backing marbled boards, 4to (19.2 x 14.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 278 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC R37574 (nine copies in UK libraries); Kress 1921; Wing S4539. Rare anonymous pamphlet published the year after the Bank's founding and issuing a lively challenge to its critics, in particular land bank campaigner Hugh Chamberlen (1630x4-c.1720). The author may be Bank founder William Paterson (1658-1719), whose own pamphlet , A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England (see lot 274) and the various responses to it, including Chamberlen's, are mentioned at page 18: 'The Bank of England hath not only the griping Extortioners, and the Cramp-headed Politicans of our Time to struggle with, but a gang of protest Doctors and others learned in Banks, are setting up for Authors against it'. No other copy traced in auction records.
Lot 23
Lopez de Gomara (Francisco). Histoire generalle des Indes occidentales et terres neuves, qui jusques à present ont esté descouvertes, traduite en francois par M. Fumée Sieur de Marly le Chastel, 1st edition in French, Paris: Michel Sonnius, 1568, signatures A6 A-2I8 2K2 only, lacking index (i.e. 12 leaves at end, signatures A8 B4), woodcut title-device, headpieces and initials, damp-staining and soiling, title-page repaired at foot not affecting text, early ownership inscriptions, endpapers renewed, contemporary limp vellum, soiled (16.7 x 10.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESCf. Adams L1479, Sabin 27746, Ternaux 110, all with the date 1569. Rare first edition in French of La historia general de las Indias , first printed at Zaragoza in 1552-3, 'a work of the highest importance ... indispensable to the student of Spanish affairs in America' (Sabin, describing the first edition, no. 27724).
![[Broughton, John]. Remarks upon the Bank of England with regard more especially to our Trade and Government. Occasion'd by th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/73d8abc1-90bf-4802-af6e-ab6801191a35/468x382.jpg)
Lot 241
[Broughton, John]. Remarks upon the Bank of England with regard more especially to our Trade and Government. Occasion'd by the present Discourse concerning the Intended Prolongation of the Bank. Humbly address'd to the Honourable House of Commons. By a Merchant of London, and a true Lover of our Constitution, 1st edition, London: for A. Baldwin, 1705, [8] 51 [1] pp., stab-holes visible in gutter, contemporary sprinkled calf, rebacked and recornered, 8vo (18.8 x 11.4 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 280 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC T46881; Goldsmiths' 4176; Hanson 565; Kress 2473. Rare in commerce; second and third editions followed in 1706 and 1707. Though described in the title as a 'Merchant of London', the author appears to be the John Broughton (1673/4-1720) who served as chaplain to the Duke of Marlborough. Broughton questions the expansion of the Bank's powers brought about by the War of the Spanish Succession: 'This Bank is valu'd by some as the main Support of our Government; and is indeed too great to be disoblig'd ... I thought it worth my Enquiring ... whether this suppos'd Necessity of the present Bank might not portend something Ill to our Body Politick' ('To the Reader').
![[English Civil War] . An Order of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning all such persons as have come in from the K](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/c8211ea8-8b55-4abd-be1b-ab6801191fa7/468x382.jpg)
Lot 249
[English Civil War] . An Order of the Commons assembled in Parliament, concerning all such persons as have come in from the Kings quarters, before the first of this instant December [drop-head title] London: printed for Edward Husband, printer to the Honorable House of Commons, December 18, 1645, single broadside, type-ornament border, slightly toned, creased from folding, a few faint spots and marks, a few minute worm-holes not affecting text, 2 closed tears extending into border at head, attempted repair verso, hand-numbered '94' to upper left corner in black ink, 29 x 20.5 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC R212263; Wing E2643. Very rare: ESTC traces four copies world-wide. The Rump Parliament orders 'that all such persons as have come in from the Kings quarters, being Souldiers of Fortune, and submitted to the Parliament before the First of this instant December, and also those five Colonels and Officers that came in with Captain Pickering from Worcester ... shall forthwith depart out of the City of London and Lines of Communication ... [I]f any of them shall return to the said City ... they and every of them shall be taken and proceeded against as spies'.
Lot 255
Grey (Elizabeth, Countess of Kent). A Choice Manual, or Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery: Collected, and practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the virtue of Gascon pouder, and Lapis contra Yaruam by a Professor of Phisick. As also most exquisite ways of Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c., 2 parts in one, 16th edition, London: Printed by A.M. for Margaret Shears at the Sign of the Blew Bible in Bedford Street in Covent Garden, 1670, engraved portrait frontispiece (A1) with closed tear to gutter margin (image slightly cropped at fore-edge), the second part "A true gentlewomans delight" has separate title page dated 1671 and pagination, with continuous register throughout, sewing broken throughout and leaves detached, light dust-soiling, contemporary sheep, leather torn and with loss to upper quarter of spine, worn, 12mo (Qty: 1)NOTESWing K315B for the first part (gives the date of the sixteenth edition as 1671). Oxford p.22/23 for 1653 & some later editions. Wing K317C for the second part. The title to the second part: - A True Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contained all manner of Cookery: Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying, and Candying. Very necessary for all Ladies and Gentlewomen. Published by W.G. Gent. London, Printed by A.M. for Margaret Shears at the Sign of the Blew Bible in Bedford Street in Covent Garden, 1671.
Lot 259
Holland (John). The Directors of the Bank of England, Enemies to the Great Interests of the Kingdom; and also, not just to the Trust reposed in them by the Adventurers, who chose them to do their best Endeavours, by all Honest Means, for the Advantage of the Joint Stock, 1st edition, London: for the author, [1715], 15 [1] pp., slightly browned, modern pencil annotations and contemporary ink annotations to title-page, 20th-century pink crushed morocco backing marbled boards (19.3 x 13.9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 278 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC T139807 (seven copies in UK libraries); Goldsmiths' 5235; Hanson 2179. Holland (1658-1721) was principal founder of the Bank of Scotland and became its first governor on its establishment in 1696. He resigned the following year owing to his close association with the East India Company and the bank's need for overt political backing, but 'in his writings and background advice helped to steer the bank through the difficulties of the next twenty years' (ODNB). Rare in commerce: no other copy traced in auction records.
![[Levellers]. The Womens Petition to the Right Honorable, his Excellency, the most Noble and Victorious L[ord] General Cromwel](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/a6324c90-8ff4-4891-b8ca-ab6801192b32/468x382.jpg)
Lot 267
[Levellers]. The Womens Petition to the Right Honorable, his Excellency, the most Noble and Victorious L[ord] General Cromwell [drop-head title], [London: no printer], 27 October 1651, single broadside, italic and roman types, woodcut initial, spotted and browned, creased from folding, partially separating at edges of transverse folds, mended verso along lower half of longitudintal fold, old ink-stain and 7cm closed tear to upper left corner partially mended verso, closed tear and restored paper loss to upper right corner extending into word 'Victorious L[ord]', the remainder of 'Lord' apparently never printed but sometime added in manuscript, now faded), remnants of paper adhering to corners verso where previously pasted into an album, 31.7 x 22.3 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC R211403; Wing W3332. Extremely rare Commonwealth-era broadside petition urging reform of the law in relation to debt; ESTC identifies two copies world-wide (British Library and Huntington). The petitioners, named at the foot as K. Frese, E. Bassfield, D. Trinhale, and E. Cole, complain 'that the Norman Yoke of Bondage and Oppression is still continued upon this Nation, by the impious, oppressive, delatory, and most chargeable practise of the Law, and destructive Imprisonment of Men and Women for Debt, in the several prisons, Goals [sic], Counters, holes and Dungeons of Cruelty in this Land ... [P]risons are none other then Sanctuaries ... to all unconscionable, rich, obstinate, and wilful Debtors ... [T]he two Acts set forth for release of poor Debtors [are] not worth five pounds ... but rather are become a snare to all that have reaped any benefit by them ... [T]he Head of Tyrannie being cut off in 1648 ... still liveth'.
Lot 269
Lucas (Theophilus). Memoirs of the Lives, Intrigues, and Comical Adventures of the Most Famous Gamesters and Celebrated Sharpers in the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William III and Queen Anne. Wherein is contain'd, the Secret History of Gaming, 1st edition, London: for Jonas Brown and Ferdinando Burleigh, 1714, engraved frontispiece (slightly shaved along fore edge), spotting and browning, ownership inscription 'Wm Richardson 1750' and related pen-trials to frontispiece recto, contemporary ownership inscription ('George Savile') to title-page, contemporary mottled calf, spine tooled in blind, later label, date gilt to foot, old paper shelfmark label pasted to top compartment, joints and extremities rubbed, 12mo (15 x 9 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843; bookplate to front pastedown). 2) Joseph Tasker of Middleton Hall, Essex (bookplate to title-page verso). ESTC T93145 (ten copies world-wide). Rare: a handful of copies traced in auction records, with the frontispiece often lacking. A second edition was printed later the same year, and is also uncommon. The author explains in the preface that 'Since Gaming is become a Trade, and the Adventurers thereat do not all play upon the Square, my Design in publishing these Memoirs is to detect the several Cheats which the Sharpers use in all sorts of Games on Cards or Dice'. 'Theophilus Lucas' may be a pseudonym.
Lot 272
Meagher (Andrew). The Popish Mass Celebrated by Heathen Priests, for the Living and the Dead, for several Ageas before the Birth of Christ: or a Sermon, Preached at Thurles, on Sunday the 2d of August, 1767. To which is annexed, a Dissertation on the Conformity of Popery with Paganism, Proved, in every Point, from Popish and Pagan Authors, with an Appendix..., By the Reverend Andrew Meagher, Formerly a Priest of the Church of Rome, and Doctor of the Sorbonne; but now of the established Church of Ireland, Limerick: Printed by T. Welsh, 1771, [12], xxxviii, [2], 330, [2] pp., with list of subscribers and final errata leaf, tiny hole to 2A1 affecting couple of letters, contents leaf pinned in place, some dust-soiling and light dampstaining, bookplate and ink stamps to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, some wear to extremities, rubbed, 8vo, together with: Edwards (Jonathan) , A History of the Work of Redemption..., 4th edition, Edinburgh: M. Gray & T. Vernor, 1793, ink stamp to front endpaper, contemporary marbled calf, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint split, 8vo, and 2 others, A Letter from Rome, shewing an exact conformity between Popery and Paganism, by Conyers Middleton, 4th edition, 1741, contemporary calf, joints cracked, rubbed, 8vo, and The Conformity between Modern and Ancient Ceremonies, [by Pierre Mussard], 1745, ink stamp to title, contemporary calf, boards detached, worn, 8vo (Qty: 4)NOTESFirst item rare.
![[Paterson, William]. A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England, 1st edition, London: Randal Taylor, 1694, [2] 18 pp., s](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/a23daf2a-23cd-4e9c-8f36-ab6801192f0f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 274
[Paterson, William]. A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England, 1st edition, London: Randal Taylor, 1694, [2] 18 pp., stab-holes visible in gutter, worm-track in fore margins not affecting text, title-page softened and dust-soiled, small stain in gutter, modern pencil annotations and inked letter 'a' in a contemporary hand to head, small hole in B2 just touching one word recto, 20th-century pink crushed morocco backing marbled boards, 4to (19.3 x 14.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 278 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC R10449; Goldsmith' 3039; Kress 1852; Wing P710. Attributed to Bank of England founder William Paterson and printed in the year of the Bank's establishment through the Tonnage Act, this pamphlet can be considered one of the founding documents of the English banking system. Paterson (1658-1719) was also the projector of the Darien scheme and an advocate of Anglo-Scottish union; he is remembered as 'a classic example of the late seventeenth-century projector' (David Armitage in ODNB). Rare in commerce: one other copy traced in auction records (Montreal, 1977).
![[Paterson, William]. England's Great Concern. In the perpetual Settlement of a Commission of Accounts: with Clauses and Power](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/42af6f43-84da-49ef-9dd9-ab6801192fc5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 275
[Paterson, William]. England's Great Concern. In the perpetual Settlement of a Commission of Accounts: with Clauses and Powers fixing National Benefit thereby in the several Branches following ... With a Discovery of some notable Frauds committed in collecting the Supplies, 1st edition, London: printed for D. Brown, and sold by J. Nutt, 1702, 28 pp., unopened and untrimmed, a few spots, title-page somewhat marked, later tan calf, rebacked, 4to (22 x 16.8 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC T32662 (nine copies in UK libraries); Goldsmiths' 3919; Kress 2359; Hanson 211. Rare in commerce: no other copy traced in auction records. William Paterson (1658-1719) was one of the founding directors of the Bank of England, as well as the projector of the Darien scheme and an advocate of Anglo-Scottish union; he is remembered as 'a classic example of the late seventeenth-century projector' (David Armitage in ODNB).
Lot 285
Tacitus (Gaius Cornelius). Opera omnia quae exstant ... J. Lipsius denuo castigavit, et recensuit, Antwerp: Christophe Plantin , 1581, slightly browned, marginal paper-repair to d7, spill-burn in top edge of m2, inner hinges possibly tightened, all edges gilt, manuscript catch-title to top edge, contemporary limp vellum ruled in gilt, contemporary manuscript spine-title, slightly marked, 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm), together with: Gellius (Aulus), Noctes Atticae ... Henrici Stephani Noctes aliquot Parisinae, Atticis A. Gellii Noctibus seu Vigiliis invigilatae, Paris: [Henri Estienne], 1585, title-page laid down (with small hole visible in margin), lacking blank [superscript 2]C1, 18th-century polished calf, gilt spine, rubbed, 8vo (17.3 x 10.6 cm), Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius. [Opera] nova editio. Josephus Scaliger Jul. Caesaris F. recensuit, Paris: Mamert Patisson, at the shop of Robert Estienne, 1577, lacking E7 and blanks S2 and r6, slightly browned, 18th-century polished calf, loss to head of spine, 8vo (16.6 x 10.1 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: 1) Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie (1625-1707), first lieutenant-general of the Paris police force created by Louis XIV in 1667, with engraved bookplate, annotated 'De la Reynie' (Tacitus only); 2) Sir John Trollope (1800-1874), 1st Baron Kesteven and 7th Baronet Trollope, Conservative member of parliament for South Lincolnshire from 1841 to 1868, with engraved bookplates (all items). Adams T32 (Tacitus), G366 (Gellius), C1154 (Catullus); Renouard 150:2 (Gellius: 'édition rare et estimable'), 179:1 (Catullus); Ruelens-de Backer 224:9 (Tacitus).
Lot 301
Hooker (William Jackson). Exotic Flora, Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare or otherwise interesting Exotic Plants, especially of such as are deserving of being cultivated in our gardens, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1823-27, half title for volume II only, 228 hand-coloured engraved plates only (of 233, lacking 4 plates, i.e. numbers 178-181, 2 plates numbered 163), occasional light offsetting and minor spotting, bookplates of Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919, economist and grandson of Dawson Turner), contemporary boards, modern green morocco rebacks, some light edge wear, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESDunthorne 140; Great Flower Books p. 103; Nissen BBI 920; Stafleu & Cowan 2993. Author's presentation copy, inscribed at head of volume I title 'Elizabeth Palgrave, from her affectionate brother the author'. William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), botanist and editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine became the first full-time director of Kew Gardens in 1841 married Maria Dawson Turner (1797-1872), eldest daughter of Dawson Turner in 1815; Lady Elizabeth Palgrave (1799-1852) was the second eldest daughter of Dawson Turner and married Sir Francis Palgrave in 1823.
![[Turner, Gurney]. First Impressions, or A Day in India. A Letter from an Assistant Surgeon, lately arrived in Calcutta, to hi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/afd960ae-736f-4e66-acc0-ab6801194ade/468x382.jpg)
Lot 327
[Turner, Gurney]. First Impressions, or A Day in India. A Letter from an Assistant Surgeon, lately arrived in Calcutta, to his Nephews at Hampstead, Yarmouth: Printed by Charles Sloman, 1841, [4], 42 pp., initialled presentation inscription from [the Editor] Dawson Turner to his daughter M[ary A[nne] Turner to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, original pale yellow card wrappers with printed title within decorative border to upper cover, some soiling and a little wear, spine broken and deficient with covers and several leaves now separated, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESGurney Turner (1813-1848) was the eldest surviving son of Dawson Turner, whose own son (also called Dawson Turner) played in the first International rugby match in 1871. Rare, with 'Not Published' printed on the title-page; four copies located at the British Library, University of Cambridge, Royal Society of Medicine and The Wellcome Library.
![Hunt (Sidney, editor). Ray Art Miscellany I, edited by Sidney Hunt, [1926], 16 pages of text, illustrated with reproductions](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/f700ac5b-5cc5-43c4-9134-ab6801194dcc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 332
Hunt (Sidney, editor). Ray Art Miscellany I, edited by Sidney Hunt, [1926], 16 pages of text, illustrated with reproductions of works by Malevich, Schwitters, El Lissitzsky, André Masson, Mies van der Rohe, Claude Flight, Marcel Janco, Sidney Hunt, Ben Nicholson, De Chirico, Gabo, Moholy-Nagy, texts by Schwitters, Herwarth Walden, Michel Seuphor, modernist typographic layout, original printed wrappers, stapled as issued (somewhat rusted), some marks and soiling to covers, slim 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESA rare avant-garde English periodical of the 1920s, edited by Sidney James Hunt (1896-1940), artist, bookplate designer and poet, who was secretary and treasurer of the English Bookplate Society, and succeeded James Guthrie as editor of The Bookplate. Only two issues of Ray were ever published. Despite its slender appearance, the magazine represents the continuation of modernist ideas in England after the short-lived Vorticist journal Blast, edited by Wyndham Lewis, published in 1914 and 1915, and the constructivist magazines of the 1930s such as Axis and Circle . No copy recorded of issue 1 at auction. A copy of the second issue of 1927 was sold at Bonham's Oxford, Printed Books, Maps & Photographs, 25 June 2014, lot 71. See Iris Candela, 'The only English periodical of the avant-garde': Sidney Hunt and the journal "Ray"', Burlington Magazine , April 2010, pages 239-244.
Lot 333
Tichy (Gyula, illustrator). Egy Tusos Uveg Mesei, edited by Simon Pollack, Budapest, 1909, frontispiece , 35 plates, 3 vignettes, staple rust, original wrappers with illustration to upper wrapper, green ribbon at head and foot of spine (lower ribbon broken, small tears and splits to spine), 4to, limited edition 4/25, together with: Koussikoff (Alexandre). Le Sablier. Poeme en trois nuits traduction de Y. Sidersky, Paris, 1924, 8 illustrations by Victor Barthe, light offsetting to tow text leaves, a few light spots, contemporary presentation inscription and loose letter, original wrappers, small splits to spine, 4to, limited edition of 500 (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst item a rare Art Nouveau erotic work by Hungarian artist Gyula Tichy (1879-1920).
![[Griffith, Acton Frederick]. Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica: or, A descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early En](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/cfecfaca-a1f0-4f8a-84de-ab66012f1173/6bca5ae8-6c92-443c-b2ce-ab6f01130e48/468x382.jpg)
Lot 356
[Griffith, Acton Frederick]. Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica: or, A descriptive catalogue of a rare and rich collection of early English poetry, in the possession of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. Illustrated by occasional extracts and remarks, critical and biographical, printed by Thomas Davison, for the proprietors of the collection, 1815, title printed in red and black, wood engraved illustrations, occasional minor spotting, 19th century half brown calf, gilt decorated spine, a little rubbed and scuffed, bookplate of the Duke of Bedford and H.W. Edwards to front pastedown, 8vo, together with Corser (Rev. Thomas). Collectanea Anglo-Poetica: or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue of a portion of a collection of early English poetry, with occasional extracts and remarks biographical and critical, 11 volumes (parts 1-11), Chetham Society, 1860-83, original near-uniform blindstamped cloth, spines gilt, very slightly rubbed to extremities, first 2 volumes somewhat sunned to spines, 8vo, plus Maskell (William). A History of the Martin Marprelate Controversy in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1st edition, William Pickering, 1845, author's faint ink signature dated 1845 to half-title, some marginal annotations in ink (by the author?), 20th century signature of Geoffrey Bullough to front pastedown, original blue cloth, with remains of paper label to spine, rubbed and lightly faded to spine, 8vo, and [Yeats, G.D.]. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Writings of Patrick Colquhoun, printed by G. Smeeton, 1818, engraved portrait frontispiece, 64 pp., light waterstain to lower outer corner of frontispiece, inscribed in ink to front blank 'To James Ewing Esq. with Mr. J. Colquhoun's best regards. 17 July 1824', contemporary half black morocco, heavily rubbed, slim 8vo, plus other 19th century interest, mostly cloth-bound (Qty: 30)
Lot 43
Stewart (Donald William). Old and Rare Scottish Tartans, Edinburgh: George P. Johnston, 1893, title printed in red and black with vignette, 45 colour specimens of tartan, offsetting to text opposite, occasional light spotting, armorial endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed in original black cloth gilt, spine ends a trifle rubbed, 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESSigned limited edition, number 198 of 250 copies, from a total edition of 300.
Lot 54
Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other Rare and Undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, etc., 4 volumes, London: for the author, 1743-51 [i.e. 1776], 208 hand-coloured etched plates (of 211: lacking frontispiece, unnumbered, and plates 130-1), engraved uncoloured portrait plate (‘Un Samojeed’) to volume 2 (unnumbered), engraved vignette to general title-page in volume 1, lacking text-leaf H1 in volume 3 and D1-2 in volume 4, but volume 1 with list of subscribers (A1-2) not called for in this issue, plates offset, general title-page and volume-titles in volumes 2-4 spotted and browned, discreet contemporary manuscript numbering to foot of a few unnumbered plates, closed transverse tear through plate 21, a few other minor spots and marks, each volume with French translation (Histoire naturelle de divers oiseaux) bound in at rear, volume one including Robson (publisher), Some Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Edwards (1776) and Linnaeus, A Catalogue of the Birds … in Edwards’s Natural History (1776) as issued, Some Memoirs containing 4 uncoloured engraved plates extra to the above count (of which 3 folding), contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, joints splitting, spine worn with loss of labels, 4to (28 x 22.8 cm), together with: ibid., Gleanings of Natural History, exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants, etc., volumes 1-2 (of 3), London: for the author, 1758-60, 100 hand-coloured etched plates numbered 211-310, engraved vignette to volume 1 title-page, lacking portrait frontispiece in volume 1 and text-leaves *a1-2 (dedication) in volume 2, offsetting, variable generally light spotting and browning mainly to volume 1, contemporary mottled calf uniform with the Natural History, joints partially split, volume 1 lacking one label, 4to (28.2 x 22.2 cm) (Qty: 6)NOTESProvenance: 1) Nathaniel Nicholls of Odiham, Hampshire (ownership inscriptions to Natural History part two initial blank and Gleanings general title, the latter dated 1823); 2) Frederick Baring (engraved bookplates with motto 'probitate et labore'). Anker 124 ( Natural History ), 126 ( Gleanings ), 127 (Robson, Memoirs ), 311 (Linnaeus, Catalogue ); Fine Bird Books p. 93; Lisney 190, 195, 198, 201 ( Natural History ), 192, 197, 200, 203 (French translation: Histoire naturelle ), 282 (Robson, Memoirs ), 288 (Linnaeus, Catalogue ), 205 ( Gleanings volume 1), 208 ( Gleanings volume 2); Nissen IVB 286 ( Natural History ) & 288 ( Gleanings ); Sitwell Zimmer pp. 194-6 ( Natural History ), 198-9 ( Gleanings ), 401-2 (Linnaeus, Catalogue ), 529 (Robson, M emoirs ) pp. 197-8 (French translation). First editions. A Natural History volumes one and two are Lisney’s third issue, published in 1776 by James Robson who in 1769 had acquired from Edwards all the remaining copies of the work, together with the plates and letterpress; Robson presumably reissued volumes three and four at the same time, though these copies are indistinguishable from those originally published in 1750-1. His reissue of 1776 is notable for the inclusion of two supplementary texts, Some Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Edwards , and Linnaeus’s Catalogue . Both volumes of Gleanings in this set are first issues. Lisney provides the most detailed and convincing account of the publication of this splendid work, identifying second and third issues of the first two volumes of A Natural History and a second issue of the first two volumes of Gleanings which Zimmer in each case erroneously subsumes under a misidentified ‘second’ edition (pp. 194-6 and 199-200): the true second edition is that of 1802-6, which was printed in a larger format with the text entirely reset and almost all the plates reversed.
Lot 56
Hill (Thomas). [The Profitable Arte of Gardening: to which is added much necessarie matter, and a number of secrets, with the phisicke helps belonging to each hearbe, and that easily prepared. To this is annexed two proper treatises, the one entituled, The meruailous gouernment, propertie, and benefite of bees, with the rare secretes of the honnie and waxe. And the other, The yerely coniectures meete for husbandmen. To these is likewise added a treatise of the arte of graffing and planting of trees. Gathered by Thomas Hyll, citizen of London, 2 parts in one, London: Imprinted by Edward Allde, 1593], general title (A1) lacking, second part with separate title-page and pagination, but collation continuous, partly black letter text, letterpress diagrams, woodcut initials and head and tail-pieces, some early marginalia and annotations, initial 7 leaves (A2-B4) with rodent damage to lower blank margins, some leaves torn (with loss), all outer corners throughout volume dog-eared and torn (some with loss, particularly towards rear including lower margins), dust-soiling, few stains and marks, contemporary limp vellum, torn & worn with loss, 8vo in 4s (Qty: 1)NOTESBritish Bee Books 7; Henrey 200. Rare early edition of the first popular gardening book in English (first published in 1568). Hill's work is based on a Latin work by German physician G. Pictorius entitled 'Pantoplion' and published in 1563. This volume collates A2-Y4 2A-2M4. Sold with all faults not subject to return.
Lot 66
Africa. Bailleul (Nicolas), L'Afrique divisée suivant l'entendüe de ses pricipales parties, Lyon: Daudet, 1752, large wall map with contemporary outline colouring, engraved by Delamonce on 2 conjoined sheets, the map surrounded by 30 uncoloured vignettes, old folds, slight dust soiling, slight abrasion and loss where old folds cross, 785 x 1015 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESA rare wall map. Nicolas Bailleul was a Parisian geographer of whom very little is known. He was the son of Gaspard Bailleul, also a cartographer active in the early 18th century. The map was printed by Daudet, a card merchant, map and bookseller in Lyon. We have been unable to trace a copy in the British Library catalogue or on Worldcat, but a set of Bailleul maps comprising the world and the four continents including Africa is known to have been exhibited by a continental dealer at the London Map Fair in 2019.
Lot 77
* Canton and Hong Kong. Canton River and adjacent Islands from the latest Surveys. The Hong Kong or Broadway River reduced from a Chinese Manuscript, published H. Colburn, 1845, Engraved map by Isaac Purdy with contemporary outline colouring, inset map of part of the Canton River, old folds, small area of repair to one fold, 410 x 430 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Bellin (Jacques Nicolas). Carte de l'Entrée de la Riviere de Canton dans la Chine, circa 1760, engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, some oxidisation to old colour, 225 x 175 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 2)NOTESThe first item described is rare. The chart shows in great detail Hong Kong Island, Lantau, Macao, Canton and localities, forts, islands along the then-named Canton River (now more commonly called the Pearl River), also showing the Boca Tigris estuary and the positions of the Small Bar and Second Bar used as anchorage points in the 19th century, as well as Dane Island, French Island and Whampoa Island seen in China Trade paintings of the period. The inset map of the Canton River shows the position of the British squadron off Hanan Island just outside Canton City during the first Anglo-Chinese War ('Opium War') of 1838-1842, which resulted in Hong Kong being ceded to Great Britain in 1842
Lot 93
France. Tavernor (Melchior), A true and most exact Map of the Siege of Rochell presented to the Kings Maiestie the first day of May 1628, by Melchior Tavernor graver & printer to his Ma'tie, dwelling in the Isle of the Palace at the Golden Wheate-eare, Paris Melchior Tavernor and Thomas Walkely at the Eagle and Childe in Brittaines Bursse, 1628, uncoloured engraved plan of the siege of La Rochelle, old folds, trimmed and laid on later paper, frayed and torn with some loss, part of the title is replaced in manuscript facsimile, 545 x 420 mm (Qty: 1)NOTESA rare and separately published broadside illustrating the war between the French royal forces of Louis XIII of France and the Huguenots of La Rochelle in 1627–1628. The siege marked the height of the struggle between the Catholics and the Protestants in France, and ended with a complete victory for King Louis XIII and the Catholics.
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A good collection of E Radford Burslem Staffordshire pottery circa 1920s-30 including a rare model of a seagull seated upon a rocky outcrop, together with further wares decorated with flowers to include two preserve jars and covers, vases, jugs, two vases with ribbed collars and silver lustre banding and two unusual geometric design vases (two trays, approx. 25 pcs)
Lot 328
11th Prince Albert’s Own Hussars Officer’s Busby.A splendid example tailored by Hawkes & Co . Rich black sable fur, with triple gold purl cords and gimp boss. Crimson bag with regimental style trimming of narrow gold French braid, forming a circle of eyes around the gold gimp button. . The plume is of white ostrich over crimson vulture feathers, with gilt ring and corded socket housed in its tansit/storge tin which opens both ends, Fine rich gilt gimp chinchain with velvet lining. The interior with soft leather lining and crimson silk lining this with gold tooled tailor’s details. VGC ... complete with rare matching set of Officer’s gold regimental pattern bullion cap lines. Plated section terminating in a pair of acorn finials. VGC
Lot 332
Scottish Victorian Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry Helmet circa 1877-88.A good rare example of the 1871 pattern helmet. Silvered skull with brass acanthus leaf band and a brass cruciform base supporting fluted silvered spike with black horsehair plume. To the front, a bi-metal crowned Garter resting in thistle sprays with four part title scroll below, centrally a stylised Thistle star. Two brass rosehead boss’s support a replacement velvet lined silver chinchain. The interior with leather sweatband. Skull with some minor dents. GC
Lot 337
WW2 Dunkirk Period 20/76 Royal Artillery Steel Helmet.A rare pre war example of the British “Tommy” helmet. To the shell a painted red and blue diamond with “20/76 F” in gold. Retaining original early lining, dated 1938. Overall GC slight age wear. The 20/76 Field Battery are confirmed as being present at Dunkirk in the book “The Road to Dunkirk” The war diary of the unit is held in the national Archives
Lot 340
Crimea War Period Light Dragoon Officer’s Foul Weather Shako.A good and extremely rare example of the pattern worn in the Crimea and by some of the Light Dragoon Regiments during the Charge of the Light Brigade. The body of the shako is tailored with black oilskin cloth and ornimented to each side with three small black false buttons. Gilt lion head bosses support a velvet backed interlinked gilt chinchain, with a smaller lion head and hook to the back. The interior with original soft brown leather sweatband (Stitching faults), the interior silk lining is now absent. The shako retains a very good shape.
Lot 365
Scottish. Prince Regent’s Royal Ayr & Wigtown Militia Victorian glengarry circa 1868-81 A good rare woollen example with tartan band, red toori, black silk binding and tails. Mounted with die-stamped white metal badge of title strap surmounted by Prince of Wales plumes; Thistle to voided centre. Some service wear and moth. GC Became 4th Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1881.
Lot 366
Napoleonic War Period Royal Anglesey Fusiliers Officer’s Coatee.A rare example of scarlet melton cloth, with Royal blue facings to the cuffs and stand collar, the latter decorated with two square loops of silver button mounted with a regimental button of Prince of Wales’s feathers and regimental title. The slash cuffs again decorated with square silver loops and buttons. The tails are decorated with false pockets and bullion tail ornaments depicting the Prince of Wales’s feathers. The interior with replacement lining to the body, tails retain original lining but with moth holes. Retaining 42 silver plated regimental buttons by T Shaw, London. The scarlet remains bright, with moth damage to the back, overall remains good. Royal Anglesey Fusiliers was raised in 1792 as a militia regiment associated with the 23rd Foot the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. It was stood down in 1802, only to be re-raised the following year. As a regiment it saw service in Omagh Ireland from 1811 through to 1813 and was finally stood down following the peace of 1814.
Lot 372
6th VB Liverpool Regiment 1901 to 1908 Sergeant’s Scarlet Tunic.A rare originally badged example of scarlet wool cloth with dark blue facings to the collar, cuffs and shoulder straps. The latter retaining “6/V/King’s” shoulder titles. Complete with regimental collar badges and post 1901 white metal general service buttons. Also silver bullion badges of Sergeant chevrons, proficiency stars, Marks Man and Musketry Instructor. The interior with half blanket lining and original tailor’s paper label with name “N Hobbs”. Overall GC scarlet bright.
Lot 373
Victorian Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders Militia Battalion Field Officer’s Doublet.A rare and good bright example, scarlet melton cloth, with dark blue facings to the collar and cuffs. Complete with Victorian Colonel rank insignia and bullion “M” to the bullion shoulder cords (one crown absent), Regimental buttons and collar badges. The cuffs and skirt with double bullion lace indicating an Officer of Field Rank. The interior retaining quilted silk lining. Scarlet, buttons and bullion lace remain bright. One of two small surface moth nips. GC.
Lot 382
Gordon Highlanders Officer’s Mess Coatee and anotherAn extremely rare example of the short-tailed mess uniform introduced briefly for Highland regiments in the 1920s. Scarlet single-breasted cut-away coat with yellow cloth lapels and plain cuffs with 3-button slash. Vented skirt 7 ½ in. long. Shoulder-loops of red square cord with a central row of black braid, bearing small metal rank-stars. Three regimental buttons to front, with false button-holes on left side. Scarlet lining bearing label of J&F French, Dover St, London, dated 1925 to 2Lt RN Christie ... together with an officer’s mess jacket of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders with pale yellow cloth facings and white piping. Notched roll collar, turned back to conceal six regimental buttons on the right-hand side, and with real buttonholes on the left. Four more front buttons visible below the collar. Pointed cuffs, each with two buttons. Fine shoulder-cords as for Full Dress each bearing two embroidered stars. One shoulder-cord button absent, otherwise GC. (2 items) The short-lived Mess Coatee was not mentioned in any issue of Dress Regulations and it is not clear how many officers actually wore it. Richard Norman Christie appears as a Major in the Gordons in the 1938 Army List. He became 2i/c of his Bn. and was taken prisoner and held in Oflag X11B.
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