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Lot 1440
Rare First Edition Long Out Of Print 'Close Encounters' Promo Signed By 2 Legends. This is something really rare and a must for any film music or Sci-Fi fan. It is a first edition rare & long out of print Academy Award For Your Consideration Promo from 1978 for 'Close Encounters OfThe Third Kind', it was signed at 2 events by 2 legends. John Williams signed it in 1998 at the LSO concert at the Barbican in London and Steven Spielberg signed it at the 2008 War Horse Premiere in London. It has been in storage and only came out for the signings so it is in incredible condition andwould look sensational framed.
Lot 1094
Pinder Et La R.T.F. - La Nouvelle Piste Aux Etouiles 63 Une Realisation De Gilles Margaritis - An original rare vintage 1960's circus point of sale ticket advertising poster featuring Les Rivels The most famous clowns of the time. The poster showing three clowns each with instrument and a flapper girl around a a globe. Measures; 65cm x 42cm.
Lot 1007
A very fine ivory netsuke by Masanao of Kyoto, carved as an acolyte, or other figure, seated on the back of a recumbent water buffalo, 6cm long, signed in a wavy reserve beneath the right haunch, Masanao. Edo Period, late 18th Century.Provenance: The Property of a Lady. From a Private Collection, acquired by her Great-Grandfather, and all collected prior to his death in 1944. This rare subject for Masanao is thought to be both the only example of its type, and unrecorded hitherto. For another example of Masanao's late 18th Century water buffalos, compare Lot 119 from the Harriet Szechenyi sale at Bonham's on 8th November, 2011.PLEASE NOTE: THIS ITEM CONTAINS OR IS MADE OF IVORY. Buyers must be aware that regulations of several countries, including USA, prohibit the import of ivory, or any goods containing ivory. Ewbank's advise prospective purchasers who intend to ship this lot to another country that they must familiarise themselves with the relevant import/export regulations prior to bidding. They are responsible for their shipping arrangements, and the onus is therefore on them to arrange their own shipping .AMENDED CONDITION REPORT. Please note that there are some areas of deterioration. These include: prominent age cracks across the left and right sides of the animal's body. These extend round to the rear and across the tail. The right horn has some detail that is either repaired, or chipped and cracked. The seated acolyte is either repaired, or the carving associated. There are 13 images online to assist, but please inform Ewbank's if further assistance is required.
![OSSIP ZADKINE [1888-1967] Daphne Treeform, 1964.lithograph on Barcham Green paper, edition of 150, published and printed at C](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/875bdcaf-981c-4553-b4eb-aadb00e3a0de/b1c4f5f9-9689-46f8-b884-aadb00e48cd1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 20
OSSIP ZADKINE [1888-1967] Daphne Treeform, 1964.lithograph on Barcham Green paper, edition of 150, published and printed at Curwen Studio, signed in pencil [very rare, the majority of the edition was signed in the plate only] and signed in the plate, and numbered 32/150. 79.5 x 57cm [sheet size]. Unframed.Provenance: publisher's archive. [very good condition]. Buyers premium of 20% + VAT is payable on hammer price of all lots in this auction. Artists Resale Rights [ARR] of 4% are payable on the hammer price of all lots selling for the UK £ equivalent of 1000 euros or more. Bidding via The-Saleroom.com incurs a fee of 4.95% + VAT on hammer price.
![MICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Sleeper in Flight, 1943. oil on board, signed. 60 x 74 cm [overall including frame 81 x 93 cm]. Pro](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/875bdcaf-981c-4553-b4eb-aadb00e3a0de/359c6af0-3f9b-4734-adef-aadb00e4d4ae/468x382.jpg)
Lot 240
MICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Sleeper in Flight, 1943. oil on board, signed. 60 x 74 cm [overall including frame 81 x 93 cm]. Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London, January 1945 [one-man exhibition]; Robert Donat [the actor]; private collections, UK. Literature: 'Paintings by Michael Ayrton', 1948, James Laver, Grey Walls Press, pl. 12 [illustrated]; 'Michael Ayrton..', P Cannon-Brookes, 1978, Birmingham Museums Press, p. 17, pl. 23 [illustrated]. One of Ayrton's most important Neo-Romantic paintings - his early Neo-Romantic oils are very rare. [very good condition - unexamined out of frame]. Buyers premium of 20% + VAT payable + 4% ARR.
![MICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Minotaur Rising, 1971. etching, edition of 75, artist's proof X/X. Signed in pencil [rare, most of](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/875bdcaf-981c-4553-b4eb-aadb00e3a0de/c428165c-1932-4689-beac-aadb00e52ef3/468x382.jpg)
Lot 88
MICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Minotaur Rising, 1971. etching, edition of 75, artist's proof X/X. Signed in pencil [rare, most of the edition was signed with the studio stamp signature]. 40 x 54 image cm [overall including frame 65 x 85 cm]. [very good condition - unexamined out of frame]. Buyers premium of 20% + VAT is payable..
![MICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Minotaur as Yearling, 1971. etching, edition of 75, artist's proof X/X. Signed in pencil [rare, mos](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/875bdcaf-981c-4553-b4eb-aadb00e3a0de/79451f37-f5d7-4b1f-a00b-aadb00e52fd5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 89
MICHAEL AYRTON [1921-75]. Minotaur as Yearling, 1971. etching, edition of 75, artist's proof X/X. Signed in pencil [rare, most were stamped with studio stamp signature only]. 34 x 54 cm image [overall including frame 65 x 85 cm]. [very good condition - unexamined out of frame]. Buyers premium of 20% + VAT is payable.
Lot 200
RARE 1973 BLANK DAVID BOWIE ALADDIN SANE POSTER. A rare 1973 David Bowie official 'Mainman' issued Aladdin Sane promotional poster depicting the famous 'Duffy' image. This version notable for lacking any text to lower portion of image. Measures 30 x 40". In F condition with tape marks, creasing, some discolouration.
Lot 231
DAVID BOWIE 1969 GRAVESEND HANDBILL. A rare handbill for the infamous Halloween 1969 David Bowie performance at General Gordon Hotel on Friday 31st October 1969. Measures 5 x 8". Very good condition, with centre fold. Bowie was reportedly booed offstage by an unhappy crowd, who didn't appreciate his impromptu poetry reading.
Lot 48
FREDDIE MERCURY ALBUMS/SINGLES - CDs. Extremely rare selection of 5 x CDs. Titles include Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe - The Golden Boy / La Japonaise / Barcelona (UK Promo, POLYCD 3 125211 01 %), The Golden Boy (Polydor 080 580-2, 2 copies: V.P.L. No. 0000 210 034 / 0000 210033), In Memories Of Freddie Mercury - Tribute To Freddie Mercury (Unofficial DC 01 Queen), Lover Of Life Singer Of Songs (Parlophone 00946 367169 2 3). Condition is Ex to Ex+.
Lot 56
QUEEN SOLO - 7"s. Lovely selection of 17 x 7"s. Titles include A Rare Interview With Queen (BAKPAK 1021), Killer Queen, Somebody To Love, Scandal, The Miracle, Innuendo, The Show Must Go On, Bohemian Rhapsody, Let Me Live (Pic Disc), Too Much Will Kill You, The Invisible Man (Clear), No-One But You (Pic Disc), Under Pressure (Pic Disc), Interviews With Roger Taylor & Brian May Recorded May 1982 (Pic Disc, 2 copies). Condition is generally Ex to Ex+.
![* Berkshire. Speed (John), Barkshire Described, published John Sud[bury] and George Humble, [1616], engraved map with contemp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4ed434fc-96bc-4961-9100-aaef00bec11d/23ee89a2-ea6d-4f0e-8661-aaf1010ec09a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 14
* Berkshire. Speed (John), Barkshire Described, published John Sud[bury] and George Humble, [1616], engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, some oxidisation causing cracking to paper, 385 x 510 mm, Latin text on verso, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESA rare combination of early hand colouring and the scarce edition with Latin text on the verso
Lot 210
Gould (John). A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds, 25 original parts, 1st edition, London: published by the author, [1849]-61, 360 hand-coloured lithographic plates, all text-leaves as called for, faint spotting to initial plate in parts 1-3, shallow tide-mark to bottom edge of final 4 plates in part 3, scattered black specks in plates of parts 7-8, Hypuroptila buffoni plate in part 7 soiled, paint-splashing to Hylocharis lactea plate in part 18 (colourist's error), a handful of plates partially offset, endpapers spotted, a few pastedowns cockled, otherwise only a few trivial spots and marks, contents clean and fresh overall, each part in original pale green printed paper boards with green cloth backstrip, covers slightly marked or dust-soiled, wear to board-edges, tips bumped, large folio (56 x 38 cm) (Qty: 25)NOTESAnker 177; Fine Bird Books pp. 35-40 & 102; Mullens & Swann p. 240; Nissen IVB 380; Wood p. 365; Zimmer pp. 263-4. An extremely rare complete set preserved in the original parts. '[T]he most stupendous of tropical publications ... the Trochilidae of Gould is his masterpiece, and must ever remain a feast of beauty and a source of wonder' (Fine Bird Books). 'The humming-birds of the Americas intrigued Gould and he became an authority on them. He displayed them in a special building he was allowed to build in the zoological gardens at the time of the 1851 Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace. More than 80,000 people visited his display, including Queen Victoria . The following year Gould obtained permission to continue the exhibit. His Introduction to the Trochilidae or Humming-Birds was published in five volumes from 1849 to 1861, with 360 plates, in which the brilliant natural iridescence of the humming-birds was portrayed by the application of gold leaf' (ODNB). Only two other sets in the original parts traced in auction records (Christie's London, 21 November 1981, the bindings compromised; Swann, 9 October 1980, lacking four plates).
![Kyosai (Toiku Kawanabe). Ehon Taka Kagami [Picture-Book Mirror of Hawks], 5 volumes bound in one, [Tokyo, 1866-1880], fine mo](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4ed434fc-96bc-4961-9100-aaef00bec11d/a4be0491-e16c-4de4-9a2a-aaf1010f3a21/468x382.jpg)
Lot 212
Kyosai (Toiku Kawanabe). Ehon Taka Kagami [Picture-Book Mirror of Hawks], 5 volumes bound in one, [Tokyo, 1866-1880], fine monochrome woodblock i llustrations throughout (title to fifth volume with partial colour), stitched Japanese-style, spine gilt decorated, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 2 woodcut titles printed on thin paper (here bound before the fifth part, and at the end of the volume), bound in near-contemporary red half calf, 22.3 x 15.8 cm (8.75 x 6.25 ins) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Ralph William Frankland Payne Gallwey (1848-1916), 3rd Baronet of Thirkleby Park, Thirsk, engineer, historian, artist, and huntsman, and author of The Book of Duck Decoys (1886), Letters to Young Shooters (1890, 1892 and 1896), The Crossbow (1903), and other works. With handwritten inscription by Payne Gallwey to front blank in pencil: 'This capital treatise on the use of the Goshawk in Japan consists of a series of small booklets bound up and which I purchased at Liberty's Regent St., 1889, on their arrival in England. R.P.G.', and with bookplate of the Library, Thirkleby Park, Thirsk to front pastedown. A later handwritten note tipped on to the front pastedown states that this work is now the property of 'F.P. Davis, 171 Roseberry St, Ardwick M/c. 11, bought at the Thirkleby Hall sale'. Thirkleby Hall was put up for sale following the death of Sir Ralph's son and male heir in the first world war. Harting 371; Schwerdt III 245. Kyosai's Ehon Taka Kagami, or Mirror of Hawks, published in five parts in Tokyo by Nakamura Sasuke is an important source book for the history and practice of falconry in Japan. It records, for example, the methods of care, raising and training of the Siberian goshawk, considered the best bird for use in falconry in Japan since ancient times. According to Schwerdt, the work is "a very comprehensive and instructive treatise on falconry. It is rare, only seven copies having been traced in European libraries" (Schwerdt, volume III, page 245).
Lot 236
Cuvier (Georges). Les oiseaux décrits et figurés d'après la classification de Georges Cuvier, Paris: J. B. Baillère et fils, 1869, half-title, 72 hand-coloured engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive text, bookplate of Robert-Daniel Etchécopar (1905-1990), French ornithologist, contemporary green quarter sheep, 8vo (23.5 x 14.5 cm), together with: S undman (Gösta, & Johann Axel Palmén). Finska Fogelägg, 1st edition, Helsinki: Finska Litteratur-Sällskapets Tryckeri, 1879-[88], 8, 14, 10, 12, 16 pp. including 5 part-titles, lithographic general title-page, 25 chromolithographic plates of eggs, some slightly spotted, ink-stamp comprising coronet and monogram to initial blank, modern green full morocco over bevelled boards, oblong folio (24.5 x 33.5 cm), König (Alexander), Die Vögel am Nil ... zweiter Band. Die Raubvögel [all published], [Bonn: privately printed, c. 1936], 56 plates numbered 1-55 (most in colour), modern green crushed full morocco gilt, 4to (28.6 x 21.3 cm), and 2 others, continental ornithology, leather bindings (Qty: 5)NOTESAnker 266 (König); Nissen IVB 524 (König); Ronsil p. 119 (Cuvier); Wood p. 587 (Sundman); Zimmer pp. 611-12 (Sundman: 'A series of good chromolithographic plates'). Sundman's work is rare. It was originally issued in nine parts, with text appearing only for the first five.
Lot 248
König (Alexander Ferdinand). Reisen und Forschungen in Algerien, 2 volumes in one, 1st edition, [Berlin: R. Friedländer, 1895-6], 24 photographic plates, 14 hand-coloured lithographic plates after J. G. Keulemans or E. de Maes, 2 chromolithographic plates, folding map, pencilled marginalia to volume 2, rear inner hinge tape-repaired, contemporary pebble-grain maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, 8vo, together with: Hume (Allan, editor), My Scrap Book: or Rough Notes on Indian Oology and Ornithology, 2 parts in one volume [all published], 1st edition, Calcutta: C. B. Lewis, 1869, browning, closed tear to pp. 259/60, a few marginal worm-tracks to outer leaves, original blue cloth, recased, 8vo, Harvie-Brown (John Alexander), Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871, Archangel, 1872, Petchora, 1875, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, 25 plates, 4 folding maps, original red cloth, 8vo, Wright (R. G., & Douglas Dewar), The Ducks of India, 1st edition, London: H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925, 22 colour plates, original cloth (spine faded, mottling to covers), dust jacket (edges reinforced with tape verso), 8vo, and 3 similar works, including Salim Ali, Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, 10 volumes, 1st edition, 1968-74 (Qty: 17)NOTESWood pp. 420 (König), 394 (Hume), 637 (Wright); Zimmer pp. 313 (Hume), 292-3 (Harvie-Brown). König's work is rare, with no other copy traced at auction, and no record in Nissen or Anker. It may have originally appeared in the Journal für Ornithologie, which is referenced in the captions to the colour plates. The photographic plates include several interesting ethnographic studies.
Lot 254
Maynard (Charles Johnson). The Warblers of New England, 6 parts in one volume, 1st edition, West Newton: C. J. Maynard, 1901-4, [8] 138 pp., 12 engraved plates hand-coloured by the author, each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, plates 1-6 each with uncoloured duplicate, original green card wrappers for each part bound in (each front wrapper hand-numbered '8' in pencil), errata slip, fore edge untrimmed, modern cloth, 8vo (23.8 x 15.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESNissen IVB 616; cf. Wood p. 455 (later edition). Number 8 of an unknown number of copies. Rare: no copy traced in auction records for the last 40 years.
Lot 256
Mosley (Seth Lister). A History of British Birds, their Nests, and Eggs, with Hand-Coloured Figures of all the Species and Varieties, with Text revised by a Fellow of the Zoological Society, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 'superior' issue, Huddersfield: S. L. Mosley, [1881]-92, 276 hand-coloured lithographic plates (160 of birds, numbered 1-163 with 158-9 never issued and 150-1 on a single sheet, and 116 of nests eggs, numbered 1-115 with 109 bis), tissue-guards throughout, volume 1 with autograph letter signed from Mosley dated 1906 tipped to preface leaf, errata slip tipped to description leaf of plate 53, volume 3 with contents bound out of sequence but all present (no title-page issued), original pink paper wrappers bound in throughout, 7 advertisement slips and notices bound in at rear, and all edges untrimmed, contemporary near-uniform half calf, volumes 1 and 2 spines rubbed, 8vo (21 x 13 cm and 22.6 x 14.2 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: 1) Philip Brookes Mason (1842-1903), physician, collector and naturalist (book-labels to volumes one and two). 2) William Herbert Mullens (1866-1946), co-author of A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917) (bookplate to each volume). 3) Thomas Parkin of High Wickham, Hastings (bookplate and ownership inscription to each volume). Mullens & Swann pp. 420-1; Nissen IVB 650; Wood p. 473. All published of this very rare, highly ambitious provincial treatise, which appeared over several years and was intended to run to five volumes. This is the 'superior' edition, identified as such on the title-page of volume one, and to the wrappers for each part of volume three, which are bound in; there was also an 'ordinary' edition. Lister made contributions to entomology as well as ornithology, and was the first curator of the Tolson Museum in his native Huddersfield, having previously been lecturer and curator at Huddersfield Technical College.
![Mosley (Seth Lister & Frederick Ormrod). An Account of the Birds of the Huddersfield District, 1st edition, [Huddersfield]: i](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4ed434fc-96bc-4961-9100-aaef00bec11d/d5c66b52-9bd1-4edc-9d0e-aaf1010f5560/468x382.jpg)
Lot 257
Mosley (Seth Lister & Frederick Ormrod). An Account of the Birds of the Huddersfield District, 1st edition, [Huddersfield]: issued privately to subscribers only, [1912-15], [12] 7-64 64-103 [3] pp., halftone portrait frontispiece, 39 hand-coloured lithographic plates, 38 hand-coloured lithographic maps of bird distributions, occasional spotting to a text, a few trivial spots to plates, map CC slightly cockled, bookseller's ticket (J. Broadbent & Co., Huddersfield) to front free endpaper, contemporary red quarter sheep, spine sunned and scuffed, 8vo (21.5 x 13.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESBallance p. 341; Nissen IVB 651; Wood p. 473; not in Mullens & Swann or Zimmer. 'This rare work was printed by the authors on a hand-press and issued in 20 parts, the 40 "crayon-watercolour plates" being prepared by a "new hand-process". The maps show the distributional areas of certain species - altogether a creditable and useful treatise on local ornithology' (Wood). Ballance, Nissen and Wood each cite 40 plates and 40 maps. However, the British Library cites 38 plates, and the maximal collation otherwise traced at auction is a copy with the frontispiece, 39 plates and 38 maps (in 2013), in addition to two copies with the frontispiece, 39 plates and 37 maps, and two more copies with 39 plates and 37 maps but the frontispiece unmentioned. With the exception of the final two plates, respectively the black-headed gull (numbered 38) and the red-necked grebe (unnumbered), and the map corresponding to the first of these, the plates and maps are tabulated in the text itself, with no apparent lacunae. OCLC identifies four institutional locations world-wide: British Library, McGill, Oxford, and Trinity College (Connecticut).Note: an additional copy has since been examined which contains a plate depicting the eared grebe, not present in this copy (4/11/2019).
Lot 267
Stonham (Charles). The Birds of the British Islands, illustrated by Lilian M. Medland, 5 volumes, 1st edition, London: E. Grant Richards, 1906-11, half-titles, title-pages printed in red and black, 2 folding maps, double-page key plate, 318 hand-coloured gravure plates, all with captioned tissue-guards, extra-illustrated with 10 coloured photographic plates of eggs in volume 2, text-leaves spotted and browned, occasional spotting along edges of plates (mainly in volumes 4-5), top edges gilt, others untrimmed, contemporary dark green crushed half morocco for Hatchards, green cloth sides, spines sunned to tan, 4to (31.6 x 24.8 cm) (Qty: 5)NOTESMullens & Swann p. 566; Nissen IVB 898; Wood p. 584; Zimmer pp. 604-5. A very rare hand-coloured copy; the author's own copy, which appeared at auction in 2002, contained a limitation leaf stating that 'not more than 15 copies will be coloured by hand by the Artist'. 'A very fine bird painter, [Medland] was the daughter of a wealthy London naturalist and big-game hunter' (Olsen, Feather and Brush: Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art , p. 88). She later emigrated to Australia, where she collaborated with ornithologist Gregory M. Mathews.
Lot 271
Webber (Charles Wilkins). Wild Scenes and Song-Birds, 1st edition, New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1854, 20 chromolithographic plates, plates slightly toned and offset and with a few spots mainly to margins, but remaining bright, all edges gilt, original deluxe binding of dark red morocco over bevelled boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and blind, 8vo (24.6 x 16 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESNissen IVB 974; Wood p. 620; Tyler (ed.), Western Art and Western History , p. Zimmer p. 667 (1858 edition). In addition to ornithological subjects, this work notably contains five plates of Native American life after pioneering Baltimore-born artist Alfred Jacob Miller, who visited the Rocky Mountains in 1837. Rare in the publisher's deluxe binding.
Lot 29
* Cracow. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz), Cracovia Minoris Poloniae Metropolis, Cologne, circa 1617, large engraved city panorama on two conjoined sheets with contemporary hand colouring, old folds, slight creasing, 365 x 1045 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESA rare prospect of Krakow, less common than most of the other plans in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' because it only appeared in the sixth and last volume and its size and the fact that it was folded predicated against it surviving in good condition. It shows the city from the west, with the neighbouring towns of Kazimierz & Kleparz. Their names are given on banners in the sky alongside their armorials. It is possible that the scene in the foreground represents the entry of the Polish king accompanied by knights and ecclesiastical dignitaries. The banderole celebrating Cracow as the royal residence would seem to confirm this, however Georg Braun was ill informed, for Cracow had been replaced as the capital by Warsaw under Sigismund III between 1596 and 1611 (Taschen).
Lot 362
Grummet (Christopher, attributed). Sanguis Naturae, or, A Manifest Declaration of the Sanguine and Solar Congealed Liquor of Nature. By Anonimus, printed for A.R. and sold by T. Sowle, in White-Hart-Court in Grace-Church-street, 1696, title, To the Reader leaf, and 112 pages, early ownership inscription to title 'George Sharpe His Booke', title and final leaf with some browning to outer margins, modern calf to style by Bernard Middleton, small 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESDuveen, Bibliotheca Alchemica 539; ESTC R9078; Wing G2164A. Rare. The last copy at auction Sotheby's London, 29-30 June, 1964. Isaac Newton owned a copy of this work with his manuscript inscription inserted 'Sanguis Naturae, at Sowles a Quaker Widdow in the White-Hart Court at ye upper end of Lombard Street' (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Memorial Library).
Lot 366
Leech (John, illustrator). The Comic History of England, by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1st issue, The Punch Office, 1847-8, title-pages printed in red and black, 20 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates, numerous wood-engravings in the text, half-titles printed in red, plates offset onto tissue guards, a few captions cropped, together with: The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, 1st edition, 1st issue, Bradbury and Evans, [1851], engraved title-page printed in red and black, 10 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates, plates offset onto tissue guards, a few captions cropped, all edges gilt, uniform late-19th-century red crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, extremities rubbed, rear cover of Rome lightly scratched, 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Arthur G. Soames (1886-1962), army officer and father of Christopher Soames, Conservative politician and son-in-law of Winston Churchill (engraved bookplates). Tooley 295 & 298. Tooley considered The Comic History of England 'among the most popular and best of Leech's work', while noting that the Comic History of Rome is 'more rare [sic]'.
Lot 385
Atabey (Sefik E.). The Sefik E. Atabey Collection, The Ottoman World, Text by Leonora Navari, 2 volumes, Shapero, 1998, colour and monochrome illustrations throughout, original gilt decorated red mock leather, folio, VG, together with The Sotheby's 3 volume catalogue for the sale of this collection, in slipcase, plus Wantrup (Jonathan), Australian Rare Books 1788-1900, 1st edition, Hordern House, 1987, tipped in colour frontispiece, monochrome illustrations, original cloth gilt in dust wrapper, spine sunned, large 8vo, and other travel and topographical bibliographies, including Cordier, Bibliotheca Indosinica, 3 volumes, Burt Franklin, 1967, John Lust, Western Books on China published up to 1850, Bamboo Publishing, 1987, George T. Lawley, Bibliography of Wolverhampton, Bilston, 1890 (limited edition 11/50, signed by the author), etc, all original cloth, several in dust wrappers, 4to/8vo (Qty: 20)
Lot 59
Heather (William). Untitled Composite Atlas of fourteen Sea Charts of the British coastline, 1793 - 1805, fourteen uncoloured folding and double page engraved charts, many with insets, with a double page engraved plate of Maritime flags with bright contemporary hand colouring at rear, bookplate of William Heather 'Chart and Map -Seller, The Navigation Warehouse, 157 Leadenhall Street' to front pastedown, contemporary half calf, over marbled boards, bumped and worn, large slim folio (Qty: 1)NOTESRare. No extant copies found. The charts consist of:- 1. Large untitled map of the British Isles orientated to the West, 780 x 1800 mm, published 1793. 2. Chart of the Downs and Margate Roads, 635 x 795 mm, published 1797, 3. Chart of Spithead, 635 x 785 mm, published 1797, 4. Chart of Plymouth Sound, A New Chart of the Race of Portland & A New Chart of the Entrances to Falmouth & Helford (three charts of one sheet), 645 x 800 mm, published 1798, 5. Heather's New & Improved Chart of the Isles of Scilly, 650 x 795 mm, published 1803, 6. Chart of the English Channel, 795 x 1880 mm, published 1805, 7. Chart of the Bristol Channel, 640 x 920 mm, published 1803, 8. A New and Correct Chart of St. George's Channel, 795 x 1850 mm, published 1804, 9. New and Improved Chart of the Hebrides or Lewis islands and Adjacent Coast of Scotland, 790 x 1250 mm, published 1804, 10. Heather;s New and Improved Chart of the Orkney Isles, 645 x 930 mm, published 1804, 11.New Improved Chart of the North Sea or the German Ocean, 950 x 1275 mm, published 1801, 12. Chart of the East Coast of England and Scotland from The Humber to Aberdeen, 645 x 785 mm, published 1798. 13. Chart of the East Coast of England, 645 x 785 mm, published 1802, 14. Chart of the Entrances to the River Thames, 640 x 790 mm, published 1801. William Heather occupied the premises on the bookplate from 1793 - 1812
![Herefordshire. Bill (John), Herefordshire, [1626 ], uncoloured engraved map, slight text show-through, 90 x 125 mm, English t](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4ed434fc-96bc-4961-9100-aaef00bec11d/ff20d11e-c27c-4346-bfe1-aaf1010ee1f0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 62
Herefordshire. Bill (John), Herefordshire, [1626 ], uncoloured engraved map, slight text show-through, 90 x 125 mm, English text on verso, together with Simmons (Matthew). H ereforshire with some confining Townes, [1635 or later], uncoloured engraved triangular mileage table with a simplified miniature map to lower right corner, engraved by Jacob Van Langeren, overall size 105 x 105 mm, near contemporary manuscript text to verso, with a later 1657 edition with the enlarged county map, with Ramble (Reuben). Herefordshire [1845], uncoloured map surrounded by lithographic topographical vignettes with contemporary hand colouring, overall size 190 x 155 mm, supplied with a page of contemporary descriptive text, plus Bowles (Carington). Bowles's Reduced Map of Herefordshire, [1785], uncoloured engraved map, 160 x 180 mm (Qty: 5)NOTESFive rare miniature maps of Herefordshire.
![* Poland & Pomerania. Lubben (Eilhard), Nova Illustrissimi Principatus Pomeraniae Descriptio, Amsterdam, 1618 [but 1757],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4ed434fc-96bc-4961-9100-aaef00bec11d/e26d8401-221c-4089-a5b1-aaf1010ef469/468x382.jpg)
Lot 94
* Poland & Pomerania. Lubben (Eilhard), Nova Illustrissimi Principatus Pomeraniae Descriptio, Amsterdam, 1618 [but 1757], large engraved wall map on twelve conjoined sheets, engraved by Van Gellkerchen, contemporary outline colouring, the margins decorated with forty-six views of cities and towns, each sheet approximately 420 x 540 mm, overall size 1245 x 2160 mm, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESArguably the rarest and most important map of Pomerania. Created by Professor Eilhard Lubben under the instruction and patronage of Philip II, Duke of Pomerania, this monumental wall map illustrates and maps the country in extraordinary detail. Lubben surveyed the country in 1611 and 1612 and the map was eventually published in 1618. It is decorated with noble arms, a genealogical tree, portraits (including a prominent engraving of Philip II), and 46 town views. A few examples were presented to the Pomeranian court, but the shortage of paper and the thirty years war prevented the printing of additional examples and no extant copies of the 1618 printing are known. Geelkerken's copperplates were rediscovered in the eighteenth century in Stralsund (a town featured in a vignette on the map), and in 1757 the map was reissued, but Scharfe notes that "again only a small number of copies were printed and so this edition is a very rare object today". Lubben's map remained the only piece of significant cartography on Poland until the Prussian surveys of the 18th century and it remains as one of the finest examples of large scale surveying and mapping. Only a handful of copies are known and this particular example is in particularly fine condition.
Lot 190
George Cross multiple signed 1995 Gallantry cover. Signed by 13 GC, 1 VC winner. Rare Richard Moore GC, James Beaton GC, Frederick Fairfax GC, Kenneth Farrow GC, Henry Flintoff GC, John Gregson GC, Eynon Hawkins GC, Frank Naughton GC, Geoff Riley GC, John Rowlands GC, Henry Stevens GC, Phillip Yates GC, Edward Kenna VC. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 191
George Cross multiple signed 1995 Gallantry cover. Signed by 13 GCs. Rare Richard Moore GC, James Beaton GC, Frederick Fairfax GC, Kenneth Farrow GC, Henry Flintoff GC, Anthony Gledhill GC, Eynon Hawkins GC, Frank Naughton GC, Geoff Riley GC, John Rowlands GC, Henry Stevens GC, Phillip Yates GC. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 1
Flight Lieutenant Richard Hillary one of the Rarest Battle of Britain autographs signed to the inside page of his book The Last Enemy printed in 1942. This is a rare First Edition. He was badly burned in the Battle of Britain and tragically killed in 1943 in a Night training flight. Hillary was called up to the Royal Air Force in October 1939 and in July 1940, having completed his training, he was posted to B Flight, No. 603 Squadron RAF, located at RAF Montrose, flying Spitfires. The Squadron moved south to RAF Hornchurch on 27 August 1940 and immediately saw combat. In one week of combat Hillary personally claimed five Bf 109s shot down, claimed two more probably destroyed and one damaged. Hillary wrote about his first experience in a Supermarine Spitfire in The Last Enemy: The Spitfires stood in two lines outside 'A' Flight pilots' room. The dull grey-brown of the camouflage could not conceal the clear-cut beauty, the wicked simplicity of their lines. I hooked up my parachute and climbed awkwardly into the low cockpit. I noticed how small was my field of vision. Kilmartin swung himself on to a wing and started to run through the instruments. I was conscious of his voice, but heard nothing of what he said. I was to fly a Spitfire. It was what I had most wanted through all the long dreary months of training. If I could fly a Spitfire, it would be worth it. Well, I was about to achieve my ambition and felt nothing. I was numb, neither exhilarated nor scared. I noticed the white enamel undercarriage handle. "Like a lavatory plug," I thought. Kilmartin had said, "See if you can make her talk." That meant the whole bag of tricks, and I wanted ample room for mistakes and possible blacking-out. With one or two very sharp movements on the stick I blacked myself out for a few seconds, but the machine was sweeter to handle than any other that I had flown. I put it through every manoeuvre that I knew of and it responded beautifully. I ended with two flick rolls and turned back for home. I was filled with a sudden exhilarating confidence. I could fly a Spitfire; in any position I was its master. It remained to be seen whether I could fight in one. On 3 September 1940 he had just made his fifth "kill" when he was shot down by a Messerschmitt Bf 109 flown by Hauptmann Helmut Bode of II./JG 26: I was peering anxiously ahead, for the controller had given us warning of at least fifty enemy fighters approaching very high. When we did first sight them, nobody shouted, as I think we all saw them at the same moment. They must have been 500 to 1,000 feet above us and coming straight on like a swarm of locusts. I remember cursing and going automatically into line astern; the next moment we were in among them and it was each man for himself. As soon as they saw us they spread out and dived, and the next ten minutes was a blur of twisting machines and tracer bullets. One Messerschmitt went down in a sheet of flame on my right, and a Spitfire hurtled past in a half-roll; I was weaving and turning in a desperate attempt to gain height, with the machine practically hanging on the airscrew. Then, just below me and to my left, I saw what I had been praying for – a Messerschmitt climbing and away from the sun. I closed in to 200 yards, and from slightly to one side gave him a two-second burst: fabric ripped off the wing and black smoke poured from the engine, but he did not go down. Like a fool, I did not break away, but put in another three-second burst. Red flames shot upwards and he spiralled out of sight. At that moment, I felt a terrific explosion which knocked the control stick from my hand, and the whole machine quivered like a stricken animal. In a second, the cockpit was a mass of flames: instinctively, I reached up to open the hood. It would not move. I tore off my straps and managed to force it back; but this took time, and when I dropped back into the seat and reached for the stick in an effort to turn the plane on its back, the heat was so intense that I could feel myself going. I remember a second of sharp agony, remember thinking "So this is it!" and putting both hands to my eyes. Then I passed out. Unable to bail out of the flaming aircraft immediately, Hillary sustained extensive burns to his face and hands. Before it crashed he fell out of the stricken Spitfire unconscious. Regaining his senses whilst falling through space, he deployed a parachute and landed in the North Sea, where he was subsequently rescued by lifeboat Lord Southborough (ON 688) from the Margate Station. Hillary was taken for medical treatment to the Royal Masonic Hospital, Hammersmith, London; and afterwards, under the direction of the surgeon Archibald McIndoe, to the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, in Sussex. He endured three months of repeated surgery in an attempt to repair the damage to his hands and face, and went on to become one of the best known members of McIndoe's "Guinea Pig Club". He wrote an account of his experiences, published in 1942 under the title Falling Through Space in the United States, and as The Last Enemy in Great Britain.In 1941, Hillary persuaded the British authorities to send him to America to rally support for Britain's war effort. While in the United States, he spoke on the radio, had a love affair with the actress Merle Oberon, and drafted much of The Last Enemy.Hillary managed to bluff his way back into a flying position even though, as was noted in the officers' mess, he could barely handle a knife and fork. He returned to service with No 54 Operational Training Unit at RAF Charterhall after recovering from his injuries, for a conversion course to pilot light bomber aircraft.Hillary was killed in his 24th year on 8 January 1943, along with Navigator/Radio Operator Sgt. Wilfred Fison, when he crashed a Bristol Blenheim during a night training flight in adverse weather conditions, the wrecked aircraft coming down on farmland in Berwickshire, Scotland.A funeral took place at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 25 January 1943 at 12:30pm, followed by the cremation of his body at Golders Green Crematorium, where he is commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial. His ashes were scattered from a Douglas Boston over the English Channel by his former 603 Squadron commanding officer, Wing Commander George Denholm.His autograph in uncommonly rare and highly sought after. Has lost the dust cover but in very good condition considering the age. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 100
South Africa. Royal Durban Rifles Victorian pre 1889 Officer’s pouch belt plate.A good rare die-stamped silvered example. Crowned Maltese cross mounted with title strap; strung bugle to lightly domed centre; strung bugle to voided centre. Three screw posts to reverse. Toned otherwise VGCIn 1889 became Natal Royal Rifles and in 1895 The Durban Light Infantry
Lot 102
South Africa. Natal Royal Rifles Victorian Officer’s pouch belt plate circa 1889-95.A good rare die-stamped silvered example. Crowned Maltese cross mounted with title strap; strung bugle to lightly domed centre. Three screw posts to reverse. Toned otherwise VGCNatal Royal Rifles and in 1895 The Durban Light Infantry
Lot 104
66th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (Liverpool Volunteer Borough Guard) Victorian Officer’s pouch belt plate circa 1860.A fine rare die-stamped silvered example. Oval strap inscribed “LIVERPOOL VOLUNTEER BOROUGH GUARD” surmounted by Liver Bird, ‘66’ to lined centre. Two screw posts and loop to reverse. Legs to bird repaired otherwise VGCFormed 25.4.1860 as part of 1st Admin Battalion which was redesignated 1st VB The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) in March 1888.
Lot 106
Liverpool Irish Rifle Volunteers Victorian Officer’s pouch belt plate.A fine and rare die-stamped silvered example. Crowned ornate shamrock sprays, central disc with monogram “IRV”, below, the Harp. A scroll at the base, “ERIN GO BRAGH”. Complete with mirrored backing plate. Four screw posts to reverse. VGCInitially the 64th (Liverpool Irish) Rifle Volunteers based at 9 Everton Crescent, Liverpool. redesignated 18th (Liverpool Irish) Rifle Volunteer Corps in 1880, and the 5th (Irish) Volunteer Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) in 1888.
Lot 12
Her Majesty’s Reserve Regiment of Dragoon Guards Boer War Victorian Officer’s helmet plate.A fine and extremely rare example. Silver hobnail eight pointed star mounted with gilt oval Garter on a rich blue enamel ground. To the centre a silver foliated “RR” cypher set on a translucent red enamel ground. Three clipped loops to reverse. Graze to blue enamel at 11 o’clock and slightly toned otherwise GC.HQ Newbridge, County Kildare. Formed February 1900; disbanded 14th May 1901.
Lot 127
14th (Edge Hill) Lancashire Rifle Volunteers Victorian Officer’s pouch belt plate circa 1859-62.A fine and rare die-stamped silvered example. Crowned rope edged strap “LANCASHIRE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS”; ‘XIV’ to the voided centre. Two screw posts to reverse. VGC14th formed in the eastern part of the City of Liverpool at Edge Hill 10th November 1859.; absorbed by the 1st Liverpool Corps in 1862.
Lot 129
8th (Scottish) VB Liverpool Regiment 1901 Birmingham hallmarked silver Officer’s pouch belt plate. A fine rare die-stamped example by F & S (Fattorini & Sons) HM Birmingham 1901. Crowned thistle sprays enclosing oval strap “THE KING’S LIVERPOOL REGT.”; “8/SCOTTISH/VB” to seeded domed centre. Three screw posts to reverse complete with washers and hooped nuts. VGCRaised 4th October 1900 with HQ at 22 Highgate St. 16th April 1901 Highland Dress sanctioned. Forbes tartan worn, taken from first CO Col.C.Forbes Bell VD
Lot 13
Scottish. Gordon Highlanders Victorian Officer’s Foreign Service helmet plate circa 1881.A very fine and rare rich gilt example. Crowned star mounted with laurel sprays and Garter; black velvet centre bearing silver crest of the Marquis of Huntly (issuing from a ducal coronet a stag’s head and antlers). Three loops to reverse. VGC
Lot 179
Indian Army. 41st Dogras Officer’s waist belt clasp circa 1903-22.A fine rare gilt example. Circlet ornamented with laurel; burnished centre mounted with Imperial crown over “41” with “DOGRAS” below. Ornate rococo ends. VGCRaised 1900 as 41st (Dogra) Bengal Infantry; redesignated 41st Dogras in 1903 and became 3rd & 10th Bns. 17th Dogra Regt in 1922.
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