![[China]. [ Bruce, Donald]. Easy Phrases in the Canton Dialect of the Chinese Language, Canton: Customs' Press, 1866, letterpr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/26655152-a6d8-43ec-bafb-aa41011fa6e3/a64b137d-558d-4aa6-a4bd-aa42011bdc4c/468x382.jpg)
[China]. [ Bruce, Donald]. Easy Phrases in the Canton Dialect of the Chinese Language, Canton: Customs' Press, 1866, letterpress title-page in English incorporating woodblock Chinese characters, 1 p. woodblock Chinese characters (verso blank), 2 pp. preface in English, 75 pp. of English and Chinese letterpress in double column (p. 76 blank), damp-staining to endpapers and faintly to title-page, stab-stitched in contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, inner hinges cracked, worming to covers, endpapers and outer text-leaves, 4to (23.1 x 21.6 cm) (Qty: 1)Cordier Sinica 1644-5. Rare: no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce, apart from a copy cited in Cordier's Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (Shanghai, 1881). There was a second edition, printed in San Francisco in 1877, in which the preface is signed by the author.
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![[China]. Morrison (Robert). A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts, [parts 1 and 3 only; part 1 in 3 volumes],](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/26655152-a6d8-43ec-bafb-aa41011fa6e3/fd676a2e-22a4-4bb3-9121-aa42011bdce9/468x382.jpg)
[China]. Morrison (Robert). A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, in Three Parts, [parts 1 and 3 only; part 1 in 3 volumes], 4 volumes in 3, 1st edition, Macao: printed at the Honorable East India Company's Press, by P. P. Thoms, 1815-23, Chinese characters throughout, occasional woodblock illustrations in the text, spotting to binder's blanks and to a few leaves in part 1 volume 1, final leaf of part 1 volume 2 chipped and creased to no loss of text, possibly lacking one preliminary leaf in part 1 volume 3 (called for in some library collations but not in Cordier), marginal staining to part 1 volume 3 title page and to final few leaves of part 3, bookplates of Richmond College, Surrey, early 20th-century half calf, worn, covers of third volume detached, 4to (Qty: 3)Cordier Sinica 1592-3. First edition of the first Chinese-English dictionary and the pioneering Chinese scholar's 'magnum opus' (ODNB). This copy contains parts one and three, respectively 'Chinese and English, arranged according to the radicals', and 'English and Chinese [arranged alphabetically]'; part two is entitled 'Chinese and English arranged alphabetically'. The work was printed in Macao over a period of eight years, and among the difficulties Morrison faced was the theft of the entire apparatus of italic types, 'stolen before they were landed from the Ship which conveyed them from England' (author's advertisement). We trace a handful of fragmentary copies at auction; complete copies are very rare.
* Cresswell (Samuel Gurney). No. I. The Perilous Situation of H.M.S. Investigator, While Wintering in the Pack in 1850-51. Taken from a sketch by Lieut. Cresswell. "On the 8th of October our perplexities terminated with a nip that lifted the Vessel a foot, and heeled her 4 degrees to port, in consequence of a large tongue getting beneath her, in which position we quietly remained." - Extract from Capt. McClure's Despatch. Dedicated to Capt. McClure and the Officers and Seamen who Discovered the North-West Passage, by E.A. Inglefield, [circa 1854], colour lithograph finished by hand on original card mount, printed caption below the image, image dimensions, 43 x 70 cm, mount dimensions 57 x 82.5 cm, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)Rare large-scale colour lithograph after a sketch by Samuel Cresswell, second lieutenant and ship's artist on HMS Investigator, which sailed from Plymouth on 20 January 1850 under the command of Robert McClure with the aim of determining the whereabouts of Sir John Franklin. The ship became ice-bound from September 1851 to 1853, during which time Cresswell transported several invalided men to Henry Kellett's rescue ship HMS Resolute, some 160 miles away, thus becoming the first person to traverse the North West Passage. Cresswell himself returned home in the Phoenix, captained by Inglefield, and in 1854 published a visual account of the expedition, A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour... of the Voyage of H.M.S. Investigator (see Abbey Travel 644) , which contained eight chromolithographic plates, not including this or the following image. These two prints are from a series of four, of which an incomplete set is held by the Royal Museums, Greenwich.
* Cresswell (Samuel Gurney). No. IV. H.M.S. Phoenix and the Breadalbane at the Moment when the Latter Was Crushed and Sunk. The field of ice, easing off from the Phoenix, passed astern, to the Breadalbane, and entering her bow, she filled and sank in less than 15 minutes, in 30 fathoms water. Dedicated to the captain and crew of the Breadalbane, by E.A. Inglefield, [circa 1854], colour lithograph finished by hand on original card mount, printed caption below the image, image dimensions, 43 x 70 cm, mount dimensions 57 x 82.5 cm, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)Rare large-scale colour lithograph after a sketch by Samuel Cresswell, second lieutenant and ship's artist on HMS Investigator, which sailed from Plymouth on 20 January 1850 under the command of Robert McClure with the aim of determining the whereabouts of Sir John Franklin. The ship became ice-bound from September 1851 to 1853, during which time Cresswell transported several invalided men to Henry Kellett's rescue ship HMS Resolute, some 160 miles away, thus becoming the first person to traverse the North West Passage. Cresswell himself returned home in the Phoenix, captained by Inglefield, and in 1854 published a visual account of the expedition, A Series of Eight Sketches in Colour... of the Voyage of H.M.S. Investigator (see Abbey Travel 644) , which contained eight chromolithographic plates, not including this or the previous image. These two prints are from a series of four, of which an incomplete set is held by the Royal Museums, Greenwich.
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 mervailous government, 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, imprinted by Edward Allde, 1593, two parts in one, collation: A-N4, O2, P-X4, Y2; title with small woodcut device, woodcut initials, head-pieces, etc., 4 woodcut illustrations of mazes and knot gardens, lightly dampstained throughout, extreme lower outer blank corners of most leaves restored, one or two short worm tracks to lower blank margins, generally not affecting text, R2 with small burn hole to upper part of the leaf, with loss of several letters, final signature (M1-4) with increasing repairs to blank lower outer corners, with loss of one letter to Mm3, and a larger portion of text to the lower part of the final leaf (Mm4), contemporary plain vellum, soiled and marked, with extensive restoration, small 4to (Qty: 1)ESTC S104120; Henrey 200; STC 13496; Rohde; 116; David A. Smith, British Bee Books 7. Hill's 'profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees' is considered the first British bee book. Hill's manual on English gardening is also regarded as the first gardening book printed in England, the first edition of which was issued in 1563. Sold as seen, not subject to return.
* Royal International Horticultural Exhibition. May 22nd-30th, 1912, Royal Hospital Gardens, Chelsea, colour lithograph poster by Robert Shield, printed by Johnson, Riddle & Co., with overlay at foot giving the address, lined to verso with archival tissue, with closed tears and repairs at foot, water stain and adhesion mark to margins head and foot, adhered at top margin to modern thick card, sheet size 101.5 x 62.5 cm (40 x 24.5 ins) (Qty: 1)Very rare poster advertising the first Royal Horticultural Society show to be held at the Royal Hospital Gardens in Chelsea, afterwards known as the Chelsea Flower Show.
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Canada. Lescarbot (Marc), Figure du Port Royal en la Nouvelle France, Paris [1609], uncoloured map of the Port Royal settlement in Nova Scotia, engraved by Jan Swelinck, old folds, 145 x 240 mm (Qty: 1)Philip D. Burden, The Mapping of North America, no. 158. A rare map, one of three relating to North America from Lescarbot's first history of the French settlements in America 'Histoire de la Nouvelle France'. The map shows the basin of Port Royal which is now called Annopolis Royal. The buildings (including the grist mill) in the lower right corner, fortifications, gun emplacements and river inlets are clearly shown.
Alpine Club. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club [... second series ... third series], 4 volumes, 2nd edition of volume 1, 1st editions of volumes 2-4, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts [-Methuen & Co.], 1859-1932, half-titles, 23 folding maps, 8 chromolithographic plates, 12 wood-engraved plates, 16 half-tone plates, numerous wood-engravings in the text, spotting to prelims, bookplates of William Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886) to volumes 1-3, volumes 1-3 in later tan half calf, volume 4 in original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, together with: Whymper (Edward), Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 4th edition, deluxe issue, John Murray, 1893, 22 wood-engraved plates, folding map, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original decorative cloth by Zaehnsdorf, dust jacket (chipped and soiled), 4to, ibid., The Ascent of the Matterhorn, 1st edition thus, John Murray, 1880, half-title, 14 plates, folding map, small tide-mark in fore margins, all edges gilt, contemporary prize binding of red full calf calf, 8vo, ibid., Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1st edition, John Murray, 1892, 20 wood-engraved plates, 4 maps (3 folding), spotted to endpapers and folding maps, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, front joint partially cracket, 8vo, and Berlepsch (Hermann-Alexander), The Alps, or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains, translated by Leslie Stephen, 1st edition in English, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861, 16 tinted wood-engraved plates, contemporary prize binding of blue full calf, 8vo (Qty: 8)Neate A32, W65, W65, W66, N/A. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers is 'one of the most famous titles in mountaineering literature' (Neate). This fourth edition of Whymper's Scrambles amongst the Alps is 'regarded as the definitive edition' (ibid.) and is rare in the dust jacket; it was first published in 1871 and The Ascent of the Matterhorn is in fact an abridgment of the work and third edition overall. A supplementary volume to Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator was published in 1871, the year before the appearance of the main volume. Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.
* Fisher (A). Springfield Ox, Maximus. To the Trustees of the Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture, this print is respectfully dedicated, published Boston, circa 1820, mixed method engraving with aquatint by Annin & Smith, contemporary hand colouring, very slight worming to image, one repaired closed tear affecting image, slight repaired marginal fraying, 465 x 585 mm, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)A rare engraving of a prize North American ox. Not in Rothamsted Collection.
Cunynghame (Arthur). An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China, a Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Saunders and Otley, 1844, half-titles, 8 tinted lithographic plates (of 9: lacking volume 1 frontispiece, for which a photocopy has been loosely inserted), 8 pp. publisher's advertisements, damp-staining towards rear of volume 2 affecting plate facing p. 277, original green pictorial cloth gilt, rebacked with most of original spines laid down, variably faded overall, spines rolled, corners bumped, large 12mo (Qty: 2)Cordier Sinica 2370; not in Abbey. Rare: no other copies traced at auction since 1992. Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.
Royal binding; Gunpowder Plot. Prayers and Thanksgiving to be used by all the Kings Majesties loving Subjects, for the Happy Deliverance of His Majestie, the Queen, Prince, and States of the Parliament , from the most Traiterous and Bloody intended Massacre by Gun-powder, the first of November, 1605, Robert Barker and assigns of John Bill, 1640, woodcut title device, headpiece and floriated initials, text in black letter, marginal damp-staining, front free endpaper inscribed 'H L Hobart, Dean of Windsor, Nov. 5 1834, The Gift of Josiah French, Lay Clerk', engraved Hobart family bookplate with Hobart bull, all edges gilt, contemporary red goatskin for Charles II by Samuel Mearne, spine richly gilt with ear-of-corn and floral motifs, concentric French fillet frames to covers enclosing large gilt arms of Charles II to centre and his cipher to corners, slightly rubbed and marked, red silk ties perished, 4to (19.2 x 14.5 cm) (Qty: 1)ESTC S93941; STC 16502. Provenance: Charles II (1630-1685), king of England, Scotland and Ireland (armorial binding, by royal binder Samuel Mearne); presented on 5 November 1834 by Josiah French (1794-1850), lay clerk of St George's Chapel, Windsor, to Henry Hobart (1774-1846), Dean of Windsor (presentation inscription); thence by descent (Hobart family bookplate). STC conjectures a date of 1606 for the first publication of this pamphlet, with a slightly variant title (commencing 'Prayers and Thankesgiving ... '). All editions are rare, with only a handful of copies traced at auction over the last century.
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[Ryff, Walther Hermann]. Ein Newer Albertus Magnus, Von Weybern und Geburten der Kinder, sampt jhren Artzneyen... Alles auffs new gebessert, durch Q. Apollinarem, Frankfurt am Mayn: Weygandt Han, MDX_ (15??), 48 + [2] leaves (A-M4 N1-2), numerous woodcuts to text, generally toned, head or tail close-trimmed in places (affecting some catchwords or leaf numbers), occasional pale dampstain at gutter, title soiled and laid down, close-trimmed and with losses at fore-edge & lower outer corner (affecting text and woodcut border), and small worm damage at lower inner corner (affecting border), leaf II with losses at fore-edge & lower outer corner and horizontal tear (affecting text), following six leaves with losses at fore-edge and lower outer corner (affecting text), gradually reducing in scale, IX-XI with small loss to lower outer corner (XI previously repaired), some leaves previously guarded, few old repairs (three with neat manuscript of covered text), IX and final folio detached, 12 additional leaves (comprising leaves XXXVII-XLVIII from a different edition) bound in between leaves XI-XII, with some old repairs, and final few lines of additional leaf XLVIII replaced with ink trials on blank paper & followed by two additional leaves of ink trials, final blank with early manuscript annotations, front pastedown with early ink manuscript and small worm damage to lower inner corner, rear inner hinge cracked, early vellum manuscript binding, soiled and marked with loss at head of spine and some scattered wormholes, some remnants of vellum ties (Qty: 1)Not in VD16. A rare edition of this early work on gynaecology and nature.
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[Troemer, Johann Christian]. Jean Chretien Toucement des Deutsch Francos Schrifften..., Leipzig: published by the author, 1736 (year of publication expressed by a rebus), engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved double-page frontispiece with moveable element, engraved double-page title (short split to fold at tail), and 10 plates (numbered 1-8 plus 2 additional), all folding or double-page (except portrait), all printed in monochrome (in sanguine red, green, sepia, black, or blue), plate no. 8 without moveable parts (apparently never there) and with some previously offset text, dedication page with early ink signature at head, page 3 with engraved vignette, scarce minor marks or dust-soiling, three contemporary 'advertisements' added at rear, front hinge slightly cracked, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed with some wear, front cover (slightly bowed) with gilt-lettered prize stamp dated 1738, front joint partly split, 8vo (Qty: 1)A very rare copy, no others have been found with colour plates.
Honeywood (Lydia). The Cook's Pocket Companion. And Compleat Family-Guide ... To which is added, The Universal Physician, being Choice Receipts for the Curse of most disorders the Human Body is Liable to be Afflicted with. Collected by an Eminent Physician, printed for J. Staples, 1758, author's printed signature to title-page verso, 8 woodcuts of trussed poultry and game and 3 bills of fare in the text, occasional light spotting in lower margins, a few other trivial marks, closed transverse tear to leaf F4 with contiguous chip in fore margin, shorter closed tears in F5 and K1, through the text in each case but all text extant, closed marginal tear to M4, calligraphic contemporary ownership inscription ('Ann Pettifer, Hur Book, Barby, 1768') to front free endpaper verso, contemporary pen-trials and additional owership inscription ('Ann Haris') recto, original boards, tawed leather backstrip (worn), contemporary outer wrapper of vellum manuscript waste, 12mo (Qty: 1)ESTC N473760; Maclean p. 71. Not in Bitting, Cagle, Oxford or Vicaire. Rare: ESTC traces one copy only of this or any other edition (US National Library of Medicine); OCLC adds a defective copy at Princeton (lacking the final leaf, N6); Copac locates one copy of a 1760 edition by Caslon, at Leeds. Honeywood's address to the reader (A2 recto) is dated May 1757, but the work is advertised as 'this day published', with the imprint of C. Henderson, in a 1756 number of the General Evening Post ; one copy of Henderson's edition is found in libraries (Lamar University, Texas), and one in auction records, in 2011; the present 1758 edition and all other such editions as may have appeared are untraced in commerce. Maclean's entry was based on a bookseller's catalogue (Birrell and Garnet) and she does not appear to have inspected a copy herself, citing none in the British Isles or North America, an occurrence only 'in a minority of cases' (p. xxiii); her reproduction of one of the woodcuts, at p. xi, is from the Leeds copy of the 1760 edition.
Mariti (Giovanni). Del vino di Cipro, 1st edition, Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1772, engraved title-page, woodcuts of wine jars in text, engraved title-page with loss and ink-stamp at foot not affecting image or text, leaf a1 in facsimile, D6 creased, damp-staining to outer leaves and to margins, contemporary green quarter roan, 8vo (19.1 x 12.4 cm) (Qty: 1)Blackmer 1076; not in Atabey, Cagle or Vicaire. Rare: three copies traced at auction records including the Blackmer copy, the last appearing in 1991; Copac locates three copies in UK libraries (British Library, Cambridge, and National Library of Scotland). 'Cyprus had long been famed for its wines. Mariti's seven-year sojourn on the island enabled him to become familiar with the subject, and though he discusses viticulture in his work on Cyprus [1769-1776], he has here produced a special treatise on the subject which appeared before the final volumes of his monumental work' (Blackmer).
Medical remedies. 'A Collection of excellent Medicines, Balsames, Plaisters Salves, etc.', 18th century, manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, [8] + 82 pp. including title-page and list of contents , written in a neat cursive hand, approximately 25 lines to the page, text faintly box-ruled in red, browning, a few smudges and marks, occasional corrections, rear inner hinge cracked (held by upper and lower vellum cords; middle two perished), engraved armorial bookplate of Edmund Fitz Moore, contemporary vellum, manuscript spine-title ('Medical receipts'), soiled overall, boards sprung, folio (31.6 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)Contains some 125 individual recipes, including 'The oil of toads', 'A powder to be given to a woman in labour', 'A Poultis for any swelling or sore ... Approved by the La[dy] Brown and Mrs Mees', 'An ointment for the wormes ... Approved by the Lady Hide', 'A rare secret of Mathew Lasatillian an Italian for making an excellent Balsom of Sir Nicholas Lushers', 'Sir Edm[und] Staffords powder, his oil and plaister of Toads to be taken against the Plague', 'The Lady Evans receipt for the Kings evill', and more.
Ashburn (Addison). The Family Director; or Housekeeper's Assistant: containing upwards of Three Hundred original Receipts, in Pastry, Pickling, Preserving, Collaring, Making Wines etc., 1st edition, Coventry: Printed for the Author by N. Merridew, 1807, half-title present, early signature to upper margin of title, spotting and light dust-soiling mostly to first & last few leaves, contemporary half sheep, joints split and some wear to joints and extremities,12mo (Qty: 1)Oxford, p.135. Not in Cagle, Bitting, Maclean or Vicaire. Rare.
![[Borella, Mr.]. The Court and Country Confectioner: or, the House-Keeper’s Guide..., To which is added, a dissertation on the](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/26655152-a6d8-43ec-bafb-aa41011fa6e3/50f0a598-c52b-456d-b242-aa42011c9498/468x382.jpg)
[Borella, Mr.]. The Court and Country Confectioner: or, the House-Keeper’s Guide..., To which is added, a dissertation on the different species of fruits, and the art of distilling simple waters, cordials, perfumed oils, and essences, by an Ingenious Foreigner, now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador in England, two parts in 1, 1st edition, 1770, dust-soiled title laid down, with pale early ink ownership name at head, some contents leaves dampstained, occasional pale dampstaining to upper blank margins, final blank with two early ink manuscript recipes, modern cream morocco, spine with gilt lettered label, 8vo (Qty: 1)Bitting p. 49; Cagle 572. The rare first edition of this book by the "Ingenious Foreigner now head confectioner to the Spanish Ambassador in Engl and " who in a later edition revealed himself as "Mr. Borella".
House (T.). The Family Cookery, Combining Elegance and Economy: with various Receipts for Making Gravies, Soups, Sauces, and Made Dishes; Directions for Roasting and Boiling Game, Poultry, Meat, Fish, &c. and Making of Pastry and Confectionary; Directions for Trussing and Carving; Rules for Brewing and Making Wines, the Art of Pickling and Preserving, the Management of Poultry and Bees, and Bills of Fare for the Year... Forming a Complete System of Domestic Management, London: Printed and sold by J. Bailey, [1810?], [2], xii, 204, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title, 6 engraved plates (of 7), final advertisement leaf present at rear, occasional spotting and marks, ink smudge to verso of O2, few leaves slightly sprung and with consequent light fraying at fore-edge, contemporary sheep, red morocco title label to spine, upper joint slight, repair at head of spine, extremities rubbed, 12mo (Qty: 1)Rare. Not in Bitting, Cagle, Oxford or Vicaire. No copy listed on COPAC. Simon gives a publication date of circa 1810; John Bailey operated under his own name alone at 116 Chancery lane between 1808 and 1822, cf. I. Maxted's London Book Trades, 1775-1800. R. House, formerly head cook to the Duke of Portland.
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[ Montefiore (Judith, Lady )]. The Jewish Manual; or Practical Information in Jewish and Modern Cookery, with a Collection of Valuable Recipes & Hints relating to the Toilette, Edited by a Lady, 1st edition, T. & W. Boone, 1846, scattered light finger-soiling, original blind-stamped green cloth, slightly rubbed and a few minor marks, spine darkened, 8vo (Qty: 1)Bitting p. 568. The first Kosher cook-book in the English language. The anonymous author is believed to be Lady Judith Montefiore, wife of the celebrated Sir Moses Montefiore of Ramsgate. This “First Lady of Anglo Jewry” is of significance both to Anglo-Jewish history and to the history of Jewish women. While embodying all the Victorian virtues of high moral purpose, sense of duty, charity and public–mindedness, she was a fierce loyalist to her faith and her people, devoted to Jewish causes and the welfare of Jews the world over. The cookbook reflects her social position and is clearly directed at ladies who maintain households with servants. She adapts recipes to conform to Jewish dietary laws, replacing ingredients such as lard, so much used in English kitchens, and eliminating shellfish and forbidden meats. Her section on the toilette is “Victorian” in tone. She recommends simplicity in dress, considers delicate hands a mark of elegance and refinement, and carefully assesses the effect of diet on the complexion. Lady Judith sought to elevate home cooking with social polish while remaining true to the tenets of Jewish practice. Additionally she intended that her cook-book would attract the attention of “those ladies not of the Hebrew persuasion” by providing them with recipes for sophisticated fare that was only incidentally Kosher. This is a rare nineteenth century work containing over 200 recipes, in addition to a glossary of French terms and the section on beauty. However, perhaps of more importance than the recipes themselves is the book's message that one can be “genteel without being Gentile”. NB: The estimate has been revised to £3000-4000
A rare Staffordshire pearlware mug circa 1793-95, "His Royal Highness Frederic Duke of York" mounted on a rearing horse watching his troops advance into battle, the mug probably commemorates his famous victory over the French at Valenciennes in 1793, 13cm high (repaired) Various print sources and transfer-printed wares are discussed and illustrated in John & Jennifer May, “Commemorative Pottery 1780-1900,” pp. 18-20, including a similar mug on p. 20, with matching title and depicting the Duke at Valenciennes.
A rare Victorian Crossley embroidered firescreen banner, the panel decorated with a lady with attendants, a child and a dog, in various colours, the screen with a mahogany frame, on shaped end supports, label for Crossley's patent Mosaic pattern no.98, colour no.471, in later mahogany frame,52cm W.
Rare, medium size, designed by Frederick Daws. �White coat with black marking, red-brown pheasant. Marked on the bottom. A unique stylistic change from the usual Doulton�Dogs. Artist: Frederick Daws Issued: 1937-1985 Dimensions: 5.25"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Large teapot, sugarbowl, small Westcott milk jug, cups, saucers.A group of very rare Royal Doulton Gnome Seriesware. Small Westcott milk jug. 2 teacups. 2 saucers. Sugarbowl. Large teapot. Teapot Lid. Polychrome. Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with gilt decorations in motifs of flowers and nighttime stars. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton?s Burslem factory. The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood?s Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 5.75"H-tallest Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Minor restoration to milk jug
Gilt spiderwebs to bowl interior, gilt around circumference.A very rare Royal Doulton Gnome Seriesware bowl. Polychrome. Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with gilt decorations in motifs of flowers, spiderwebs, and nighttime stars. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton?s Burslem factory. The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood?s Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 9"D x 4"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Very unusual variant with plain creamware sides, no night stars.A very rare Royal Doulton Gnome Seriesware bowl. Polychrome. Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with scalloped rim and decorations in motifs of flowers and mushrooms. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton?s Burslem factory. The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood?s Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 9.5"D x 2.75"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Minor wear to paint at rim
Unusual variant with plain creamware sides.A very rare Royal Doulton Gnome Seriesware bowl. Polychrome. Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with scalloped rim and gilt decorations in motifs of flowers, spiderwebs, and nighttime stars. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton?s Burslem factory. The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood?s Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 7.5"D x 1.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
2 plates with scalloped rims, scalloped bowl, hexagonal bowl.Four very rare Royal Doulton Gnome Seriesware pieces. Small bowl with scalloped rim. Two small salad or dessert plates with scalloped rims. One small bowl with hexagonal rim. Polychrome. Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with scalloped rim and gilt decorations in motifs of flowers, spiderwebs, and nighttime stars. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton?s Burslem factory. The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood?s Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 7.5" D (plates), 6"D x 1.75"H (scalloped bowl), 6.5"W x 1.5"H (hexagonal bowl) Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Crazing and hairline cracks to plates
Large Westcott milk or cream pitcher, forest gnomes motifs.A very rare Royal Doulton Gnome Seriesware Westcott milk jug or cream pitcher. Polychrome. Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with gilt decorations in motifs of flowers, spiderwebs, and nighttime stars. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton?s Burslem factory. This piece is featured in "Royal Doulton Series Ware, Volume 3, Doulton in the Nursery," Pp. 29, 31 (1986). The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood?s Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 5.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Small chip to underside of base
Hand decorated in rare, popular Art Deco pattern.An Art Deco stoneware plate or tray in the popular Bird of Paradise pattern, hand decorated with a yellow and brown bird encircled in blue with floral and heart patterns behind and surrounding. Stamped to base ROYAL DOULTON ENGLAND, D4222. Issued: c. 1925 Dimensions: 6.25"W x 8"L Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare series, motifs of forest gnomes. Blue, orange, red, yellow.Pattern D4697, Series B. Scene 1: Six gnomes peering out from tree roots, colorful mushrooms with motifs of flowers and nighttime stars. Inspired by Arthur Rackham's illustrations for "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" (1906). Known as Gnomes in the UK, the seriesware was also referred to as Munchkins in the US, after L. Frank Baum's popular little people in the Wizard of Oz stories. Produced at Doulton's Burslem factory. The Gnomes pattern was Doulton's answer to Wedgwood's Fairyland Lustreware. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 10"D Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare early Flambe figure by the era's principle ceramic chemist.A flambe owl modeled on a highly detailed tree branch base. Exquisite detail to feathers and facial features. Artist signed by Bernard Moore (1850-1935), the English potter and ceramic chemist introduced European ceramics to flambe glazes and pottery with reduced lustre pigments. Artist: Bernard Moore Issued: c. 1890 Dimensions: 3.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare version produced in white lustre. Marked to base.A rare Art Deco sculpture, produced primarily as an ornamental decoration for a floral display. This is a rare variant produced in a striking white lustre. Marked to base ROYAL DOULTON MADE IN ENGLAND. Artist: Leslie Harradine Issued: 1924 Dimensions: 4.75"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare lustre variant, with painted features on the laughing child.A rare Art Deco sculpture, produced primarily as an ornamental decoration for a floral display. This is a rare variant produced in a striking white, purple, green, yellow and blue lustre. Marked to base ROYAL DOULTON MADE IN ENGLAND. Artist: Leslie Harradine Issued: 1933 Dimensions: 4.75"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Semi-nude in rare lustre of cream, orange, yellow, purple, red.A semi-nude study in a rare lustre of cream, orange, yellow, purple and red. A young girl standing on a stylized rock, her pose suggesting that she looks at her reflection in a pond. Marked to base SEA SPRITE HN 1261, POTTED BY DOULTON & CO., other marks. Artist: Leslie Harradine Issued: 1927 Dimensions: 5.25"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare lustre of cream, yellow, salmon, orange.A child study of a little boy playing in sand on the beach, in a rare lustre of cream, yellow, salmon, orange. Exquisite detail to sand, pail and shovel, as well as the attentive expression on the boy's face. Stamped to base CALLED LOVE A LITTLE BOY ALMOST NAKED, WANTON, BLIND, CRUEL NOW, AND THEN SO KIND, POTTED BY DOULTON & CO., other marks. Artist: Leslie Harradine Issued: 1933 Dimensions: 3.75"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare leap frogging boy, in lustre of cream, green, blue, orange.A rare M Series model only produced in miniature, the young schoolboy Robin crouches as if ready for a round of leapfrog. Decorated by celebrated designer Leslie Harradine in an exquisite lustre of cream, green, blue, and orange, stamped to base ROBIN M39, and other marks. Artist: Leslie Harradine Issued: 1933 Dimensions: 2.75"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Depicted as a fruit selling merchant.A rare and evocative glazed figurine in green, white and orange from an early edition of the Street Vendor series, a middle eastern vendor selling oranges from a basket. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1917 Dimensions: 6.25"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Rare early version of model 610, right hand fingers pointing out.Rare early version made with the fingers on the right hand pointing outward. Modeled as a central staple to Middle and Far Eastern markets, the rug merchant, with a multicolored robe, gray-blue garment, and check pattern carpet. On a black base. Stamped to base. Artist: Leslie Harradine Issued: 1929 Dimensions: 9.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
Glazed. Stamped ROYAL DOULTON ENGLAND.A rare and unusual design by Charles Noke, invoking the Middle and Far Eastern origins of the fired arts. Hand marked THE POTTER HN 1518 POTTED BY DOULTON & CO. Artist: Charles Noke Issued: 1932 Dimensions: 7.5"H Manufacturer: Royal Doulton Country of Origin: England Condition: Good
RARE SMALL TEAK BRASS MOUNTED CAMPAIGN CHEST 2ND QUARTER 19TH CENTRY in two parts, with two short over three long drawers with recessed brass handles to the drawers and sides, on bracket feet; mounted with two oval brass plaques inscribed 'Lt Gray/ 54th Regt' and 'Mr J.G. Paskel/ No. 55' 76cm wide, 88cm high, 40cm deep
A rare and unusual French gilt-brass four glass year-going timepieceCirca 1870The case of usual form and good proportion, with bevelled glass panels, engraved to the plinth 'WIND WITH CARE ONCE A YEAR' and below 'PRESENTED TO C. E. Amhurst by his brother W. J. Amhurst, 31st December 1870', the white enamel dial with Roman numerals and blued steel moon hands, recessed centre with visible Brocot escapement below a straight bridge, the movement with circular plates, fine wheelwork and large barrel mounted to the backplate, with bi-metallic compensated pendulum 35cm high
A RARE VICTORIAN LARGE ENGRAVED GILT-BRASS AND PORCELAIN STRUT TIMEPIECEBy Thomas Cole, No. 1833, London, circa 1863, retailed by C. F. Hancock, 39 Bruton Street, LondonThe shaped case variously stamped 1833, with fleur-de-lys finial, above an engraved border with octagonal bezel holding the bevelled glass, with out-scrolled feet, a hinged strut with roller to the reverse, the domed cover inscribed C. F. HANCOCK, 39, Bruton St. LONDON, with fixed winder and sliding aperture to reveal the escapement, the shaped movement with lever escapement and plain steel three-armed balance, the oval porcelain dial within an ormolu mask, the white chapter ring with Roman numerals, painted to the centre with two figures, one representing Diana, wearing a crescent in her hair, and her companion Mercury with winged helmet, a ribbon-tied vine garland above, and an oak and laurel trophy below30cm highThomas Cole (d. 1864) was the brother of the celebrated clockmaker James Ferguson Cole (d.1880), the 'English Breguet'. They were born in Nether Stowey, Somerset; their father James Cole was a clockmaker. In 1823 Thomas and James entered into partnership at 3 New Bond Street, London. When the partnership was disolved in 1829, Thomas went to work independently as a watchmaker. By 1845 he described himself as a 'designer and maker of ornamental clocks'. He exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition in his own right as well as having products he made on stands of at least four different firms, each of unique design, to ensure no conflict of interest. He exhibited again at the Paris Universelle of 1855 and at the International Exhibition in 1862, where he was awarded a medal. Elected a member of the Royal Society, he was also a member of the British Horological Institute.His innovative design and quality of work was encapsulated by Charles Frodsham, who in his official report of the 1862 Exhibition notes 'nothing could exceed the beauty of design and good taste of the varied models and general excellence of workmanship'.See John. B. Hawkins, Thomas Cole and Victorian Clockmaking, Sydney 1975, p. 75, which illustrates a strut timepiece of nearly identical pattern with silvered dial, which sold at Bonhams, London, 16 December 2015, lot 118. A similar porcelain dial strut timepiece, No. 1700, is illustrated in colour by Hawkins on page 80 and again on page 87.A virtually identical strut timepiece, by Cole, No. 1720, with silvered dial, decorated with polychrome roses, was sold at Chiswick Auctions, London, 5 December 2018, lot 193.
A Fine & Rare mahogany and brass-bound eight-day chronometerBy Hatton & Harris, London No. 505, circa 1820, the mahogany case possibly original, and certainly first half 19th CenturyThe movement incorporating earlier elements by George MargettsThe three-tier brass-bound mahogany case with hinged lid and glazed observation panel, flanked to each side by a brass carrying handle, brass bezel and locking lever, the brass bowl with lift-off convex glazed bezel, the 5in. silvered dial with Roman chapters and seconds subsidiary at the VI with 8-day power reserve below the XII, the full plate movement with four steel baluster pillars, chain fusée with maintaining power, bi-metallic compensated balance with blued steel helical spring and diamond endstone, Earnshaw spring detent escapement 21 cm square PROVENANCE: Sotheby's, London, 21 March 1975, lot 124.LITERATURE:Antiquarian Horology, the Journal of the Antiquarian Horological Society, Vol. 9, no 3, June 1975, p. 340, reporting on the sale.The partnership of James Hatton & Clement Harris, a watchmaker, was formed around 1816. It continued until the former's death in around 1824.James Hatton (b. 1776) was apprenticed to George Margetts, a celebrated chronometer maker, a contemporary of John Arnold and Thomas Earnshaw.Hatton was the son of the celebrated London watchmaker Thomas Hatton. He was a talented maker, and his innovative designs and fine quality of work can be seen in the pieces he made with Margetts, as well as those finished under his own name. Jonathan Betts discusses in his recent publication 'Marine Chronometers at Greenwich', Oxford, 2017, that it was almost certain that Hatton introduced the double frame construction for his eight-day timekeepers in order to provide adequate space for the large barrel and fusee. The design also incorporated a sub-frame for the rest of the movement and escapement. The double frame went on to be adopted almost universally and the standard form for eight-day English chronometers (as seen on the previous lot 634).Hatton may also have worked with Pendleton on improvements to the lever escapement. Margetts died late in 1804 and Hatton inherited and continued the business at 4 St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, until entering into the partnership with Harris.Hatton's inheritance from George Margetts included a number of unfinished movements. These were 'finished up' over the years by Hatton.Here in No. 505, the evidence pointing to Margetts' provenance includes the scale and shape of the frame, with its very unusual steel baluster pillars. The cutaways were intended by Margetts for his side-winding mechanism and for his rotating endstone, although he had stopped using these well before the end of his life.The bowl, which is probably again from Margetts' workshop, had to be deepened by Hatton & Harris to allow room for the balance cock, which is now sited on the backplate.Betts illustrates in 'Marine Chronometers at Greenwich' Hatton & Harris No. 590. The two compare well and are very similar. In the Ilbert Collection, now in the British Museum (1958, 1006.1942), is Margetts No. 80 which retains part of his remontoire mechanism. The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' Collection, now at the Science Museum, includes Margetts No. 102. The movements are all of the same pattern as the offered lot.
FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PROFESSOR HANS VON BERTELEA RARE AND UNRECORDED SILVER-METAL-MOUNTED EBONISED QUARTER-REPEATING AND STRIKING TABLE CLOCKThe dial and movement signed Daniel Quare, London, circa 1710, the movement attributed to the late Tompion/early Graham workshop, the replica case second half 20th CenturyThe domed-top case surmounted with a knopped baluster handle, and applied with foliate cast repoussé panels, the rectangular door, inset with a glazed panel, flanked by two shaped escutcheons and outlined with an arched beaded profile, flanked with a pair of cast and pierced spandrels, the sides each with an arched, pierced panel, with metal bead outline, with glazed back door, also with metal bead outline, on silver-metal gadrooned feet, the fire-gilt break-arched dial signed Dan. Quare LONDON in an oval cartouche amongst a design of profuse engraving, surmounted by a mask of Mercury, the messenger, wearing his winged helmet and with crossed attributes of the Caduceus and horn below, surrounded by ribbon-tied foliate scrolls, with calendar aperture above, flanked to each side by a silvered subsidiary for pendulum regulation and strike/silent, above a silvered chapter ring, blued steel hands, Roman chapters and Arabic five-minute markers, well divided with inner 15-minute divisions and outer 12-minute divisions and Gothic cross half-hour markers, with finely pierced cast spandrels, enclosing a finely matted centre, with false pendulum aperture; the twin train fusée movement, of phase two type, with profusely engraved backplate within an outlined border, signed in an oval cartouche Dan. Quare LONDON, with fruit-filled scrolls to top and base, flanked to each side by a winged female caryatid, amongst foliate scrolls, with seven knopped latched pillars, rack strike, with pull-quarter repeat on Tompion's system via double-cocked interconnected blued-steel levers, with pivoted verge escapement and scrolled-foot bell stands, the front plate with chamfered cusp feet to the cocks45cm high PROVENANCEThe late Professor Hans von Bertele (d. 1984), then by direct descent.Previously unpublished and unrecorded, this clock belongs to a group of seven table clocks, each signed and retailed by Quare, but whose movements are likely to have come from either the late Tompion/early Graham workshop, or from the workshop of one of their employees.The movement displays several features that allow this attribution - notably the robust construction, the repeating mechanism with its double-cocked arms on the back-plate, its cusped cocks, and the finishing, which is of the highest standard. The beautifully engraved back-plate, with naked winged female caryatids, is by Graver 195, who has been tentatively identified as Henry Adeane.The group of Quare Tompion clocks are illustrated, described and discussed in Richard Garnier and Jonathan Carter's The Golden Age of English Horology, Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection, Winchester 2015, pp. 286-295. There is variance between Tompion's known workshop practice and the group of seven: for instance, the group each have four pinned dial feet, whereas Tompion would use three feet, each latched. On this piece there are four latched dial feet. Another variance is that the dials on the group of seven all incorporate Quare's Indian mask spandrels, whereas this dial does not.These details, together with the fact that Tompion and Graham never used arched dials for their standard two-train striking clocks, all help confirm that Quare provided the dials and cases for these movements.Jeremy Evans has proposed that a possible candidate for this output was James Tunn (see Garnier and Carter, p. 295). He was bound to Ambrose Gardner in the Goldsmith's Company and would have been free around 1689. He was listed close to Quare's Exchange Alley premises in the early 1690s, and it has been suggested that he might have been working for him as a journeyman. In October 1697 he had his own business in Ely Court near Hatton Garden and it is likely he would have been one of the principal clock outworkers supplying Tompion. A clock by Tunn (Sold Christie's, New York, 23 April 1988, lot 35.) is illustrated in Richard Barder The Georgian Bracket Clock, Woodbridge 2001, colour plate 1, p. 50. The similarities between the dial illustrated by Barder, and the dial of the clock being offered here - they are almost identical with fine engraving and fire gilding - strongly suggests that they came from the same - ie Tunn's - workshop.Professor Hans Bertele von Grenadenberg (d.1984) was born in Austria. During the second half of the last century he formed a collection of clocks which comprised the best examples of work from England, France, Switzerland and Austria, amongst others. Highly respected in his field, he wrote prolifically and published learned articles in Antiquarian Horological Journal and The Horological Journal, amongst others. He was also an avid art collector, whilst professionally he was an industrial electrical engineer. His book on chronometers, first published in Munich in 1981, with an English language version published 10 years later, is a standard work. COMPARATIVE LITERATURERichard Barder, The Georgian Bracket Clock, Woodbridge 2001.Richard Garnier and Jonathan Carter, The Golden Age of English Horology, Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection, Winchester 2015.Antiquarian Horology, September 1982, Guy Boney, Tompion-Quare Collaboration, pp. 462 - 466.Jeremy Evans, Jonathan Carter and Ben Wright, Thomas Tompion 300 Years, Stroud 2013. Richard Garnier and Leo Hollis, Santon 2018, Innovation & Collaboration, The early development of the pendulum clock in London, No. 117, p.378. Bellmans is grateful to Jeremy Evans for his assistance with the catalogue entry.
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