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Lot 333
Rare Irish Nationalist Army Rakenny Yeomanry Shoulder Belt Plate Circa 1780-83, brass oval belt plate with crowned winged harp to the centre, scroll above with RAKENNY and lower scroll with YEOMANRY. Reverse of the plate has two bolt fittings and one of two spike fittings. Semi excavated example. Units of the Irish Nationalist Army 1780-1783 are as follows, Rakenny Independents, Rakenny True Blues, Rakenny, Rakenny True Blue Independent Vols, Rakenny Independent Volunteers. NO MENTION of a yeomanry unit, BUT as many of the Irish Yeomanry were in fact DISMOUNTED, it is quite probable that the plate refers to one of these early units. Rakenny is in Co. Cavan, the only raising for Rakenny in 1803 is a small Infantry unit, 1 Company, still going in 1825. (Information supplied by K D Pickup)
Lot 778
Rare Adolf Hitler Monogramed Formal Silverware Coffee Set, large silver coffee pot with NSDAP down winged eagle and swastika flanked by AH initials, engraved decoration to the top of the coffee pot. Complete with the original handle, hinged lid and spout. Underneath is stamped with 925 silver mark and makers stamp for Bruckmann. Accompanied by the matching smaller milk jug in the same style and with the same silver and makers mark and a small double handled tankard in the same style. All remain in very good condition. Very rare set to find. (3 items) Formal silverware was produced for the German Reich Chancellery, Berghof and other residents where official engagements were held with Adolf Hitler. The silverware was produced by Bruckmann and Wellner and all had the monogram of Adolf Hitler. Much of this silverware was liberated by the American and British forces in 1945. In the TV series “Band of Brothers”, they show a scene of American Paratroopers form the 101st Airborne liberating such items.
Lot 858
Rare Russian Liberation Army (POA) “Vlasov Army” Other Ranks Side Cap, very unusual cap made in the Soviet Russian style but in German army green wool cloth. Front of the cap has cockade in the colours of white, red and blue. Interior shows evidence of once having a sweatband but no lining. Some wear and a couple of moth bites. This unit was formed in 1944 of mostly Russian prisoners of war, they fought with the German Army against the Red Army. Commanded by Andrey Vlasov, who was a defected Red Army General. Much of Vlasov’s army surrendered to the allies in 1945, but were handed over to the Soviets where many were tried as traitors and sent to the work camps. Vlasov and several other leaders were also tried and sentenced to death. Items of uniform relating to this unit are very rare and seldom come onto the collecting market.
Lot 901
Rare Early 2nd Pattern Afrika Korps (D.A.K) Field Cap, being constructed from tropical cloth with machine embroidered tropical pattern eagle and tropical pattern cockade. Cap has white soutache above the cockade with correct stitch lines from the sweatband going through the soutache and cockade. Red cloth lining to the interior with size stamping 58 and remains of the makers stamp which is not clear. Cap is complete with the original sweatband. The cap remains in very good overall condition, the cap has been folded and stored in a wartime period cardboard box believed to have once stored a gas mask or something similar. Afrika Korps caps with white soutache are said to have been worn by Army Flak units in North Africa. 2nd pattern field caps with soutache are very rare to find as only the very early production had them before the introduction of the sweatband and the order to remove soutache in 1943. (information supplied by D Fisher).
Lot 453
Rare George V Household Brigade Officer Cadet Battalion Cap Badge 1917-1919, circlet of white enamel with gilt edges. Within circlet script characters. To the centre of the badge is cipher of George V surrounded by a chain, Imperial crown to the top of the badge. Two lug fittings to the reverse.
Lot 748
Rare Imperial German Mecklenburg Other Ranks / NCO’s Picklehaube Helmet Worn by I & III / Infantry Regiment 89 and Fusiliers Regiment 90, black leather shell with brass officers style scaled chinstraps. Large Mecklenburg brass and white metal other ranks pattern helmet plate to the centre. Correct fluted spike with plain circular base. State and national cockades. Interior of the helmet is in the style of an officers helmet with fine quality leather sweatband and artificial silk lining. Two pin head size holes to the leather (not big enough or positioned for another plate to have ever been worn. Some crazing to the leather shell and the weight of the spike base has sunk the top section of the shell. Rare helmet to a very small and collectable state.
Lot 520
Rare Attributed WW2 S.O.E / Special Forces & Royal Signals Parachute Jump Wing and Associated Ephemera, embroidered SOE pattern parachute jump wing with white embroidered parachute in between blue embroidered wings of RAF style. The wing shows clear evidence of being removed from a uniform. Original named certificate of transfer to the army reserve 2362342 Ln/Cpl Norman Charles Nicklin Royal Signals; 2x Secret Embarkation Card with Nicklin details and “Duty on which bearer is proceeding PYTHON”; post war Special Forces Association Signals News Letter; silk blood chit, silk map of Greece and Yugoslavia, annotated map of Siatista-Grevena (Greece), silk code sheet for Outstation to Home, plus other items.
Lot 818
Waffen-SS Officers Brocade Belt and Buckle, fine bullion wire embroidered officers dress brocade belt with runes and oakleaves on green felt backing with brown leather tab. Aluminium officers belt buckle with RZM and SS runes markings to the reverse. Belt is complete with the end keeper tab and the cloth securing straps. Some light mothing to the green felt backing but generally a very good example of a rare belt and buckle.
Lot 900
Rare Attributed WW2 Condor Legion Spanish Air Force Pilots Wing, fine quality two piece example in silver gilt and enamel pilots wing made by ROKISKI MADRID. Complete with backing plate and lug fittings. Wing is engraved on the reverse “Juan Polo Sot”. Remains in very good overall condition. The Spanish Air Force played an important part along with the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930’s. A number of pilots also flew against the Soviet Union as part of the Blue Division along with the Luftwaffe. They were heavily involved during the Battle of Kursk.
Lot 679
Rare 1st Gulf War Period Iraqi Fedayeen Saddam Helmet, black fibre glass body with central ridged cone which runs from the centre over the top of the helmet. Rubber imprinted badge with Arabic writing and map of Iraq. Helmet retains the original liner system to the interior and has correct strap with metal clip. Styled on the helmet worn by Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, these helmets were issued to members of the notorious Fedayeen Saddam, who were Saddam Hussein’s most fanatical supporters and ruthless troops. Commanded by Saddam Hussein’s sons, men from this unit were responsible for carrying out a number of atrocities against their own people and political prisoners etc. The uniform worn by members of the Fedayeen Saddam was all black and was said to strike fear into the population and enemies of Saddam Hussein.
Lot 618
Very Rare Great War Turkish Other Ranks Headdress “Kabalak”, of crudely constructed beige heavy folded cloth with padded cloth lining to the interior. Some staining and wear to the interior of the headdress. Accompanying the item is a archive of original paperwork and personal items belonging to a Private Albert Knee who served with the Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during WW1 and who took this item as a souvenir, possibly from a Turkish Prisoner of War. Private Albert Knee served with the 8th Service Battalion Ox & Bucks Light Infantry who were raised in Oxford in October 1914. Originally serving on the Western Front before being transferred to Salonika. The battalion served as a Pioneer battalion of the 26th Division. The unit was present at the Battle of Doiran. After the Armistice the battalion moved to Mustapha Pasha, on the borders of Turkey and later Constantinople where we would assume he acquired this item of headdress.
Lot 960
Rare Great War 1918 Pattern Other Ranks Boots, brown tan leather ankle boots with dark brown leather toe covering. Brass eyelets for laces. Marked inside 354 1919 8/4. Complete with the original soles that retain the hobnails marked “GILES”. Punch holes to the top of the boots. These remain in near mint condition and due to them being dated 1919 they may have never been issued. This pattern of footwear was introduced late in 1918. Original footwear as worn by British soldiers during WW1 is extremely scarce and very seldom comes onto the market.
Lot 1000
Rare Special Operations Executive (S.O.E) Concealed Assassination Pipe Dagger, standard looking smoking pipe with the mouthpiece which pulls out to reveal a fixed scooped steel blade. The blade measures 7cms. Remains in very good condition. MI9 produced a number of concealed weapons and escape aids in everyday items of equipment such as pencils, pens, matchboxes, shaving kits etc. These were issued to S.O.E secret agents and resistance fighters working in occupied countries to silence guards or cause damage to Military vehicles etc.
Lot 822
Rare Pre 1938 NSDAP Kreisleitung Department Head Car Pennant, untouched example of the triangular pattern car pennant w ith gothic silver bullion wire K L and stylised Political eagle and swastika to the centre, on tan and off white cloth divided sections of the triangular pennant. Red ribbed cloth edging to the pennant. Mounted to the original triangular frame with attachments. Some wear and age staining but generally still in good condition. Comes with black leather foul weather cover. Good untouched example of a scarce car pennant.
Lot 862
Rare WW2 German Panzer Officers Overseas / Side Cap, fine black wool example with silver bullion piping to the crown and partial side flap. Officers bullion cap cockade and bullion dark blue / black backed officers army pattern cap eagle. Thin rose pink Waffenfarbe to the front of the cap. Black cloth lining to the interior with leather forehead cushion. Stitched to the inside of the cap is initials of the original owner “C.v.K”. Cap remains in very good overall condition.
Lot 278
FALCONRY:- A rare varvel in the form of a small disc with a "floating" ring at the back, engraved with a "T" below a stylised coronet with chevrons either side, unascribed, probably late medieval period; 0.5" (1.3 cms) diameter; 2.7 grammes *These small tags with the owner's information engraved thereon were attached to the jesses of a hawk/falcon so that the bird could be identified. This particular one has a gouge-like scratch on the front suggesting that it probably suffered damage from a metal tool, perhaps when it was excavated after having spent time in the ground, as is often the case.
Lot 322
A RARE WILLIAM III / QUEEN ANNE ASCRIBED WEST COUNTRY PROVINCIAL TANKARD of plain tapering form with incised linear and applied reeded borders, the flattened dome cover with a cast volute thumbpiece, crested, maker's mark only (struck nine times in all), by Gabriel Felling of Bruton, Somerset 1700-1705; 7" (17.8 cms) high
Lot 675
A rare late 17th century Dutch blue and white delft 'Earthquake' plate: inscribed '1692 Den 18 Septembe wasser een aertbeving overal' within a double line border, 22 cm diameter [restored].* The translation reads 'The 18 September was an earthquake everywhere'. This major earthquake centred on the Ardennes area of Belgium and caused widespread damage from the Rhineland in Germany, Champagne in France to Kent and East Anglia.
Lot 188
Bergamo.- Bellafini (Francesco) and Marcantonio Michiel. De Origine et Temporibus Urbis Bergomi...Agri et Urbis Bergomatis Descriptio, 2 parts in 1 vol., collation: a-e8 f4, text in Latin, fine italic type mirroring that of Ludovico Arrighi, initial spaces with guide-letters, final f. blank, some staining, spotting, or finger-marking, a few ff. in second work lightly browned, contemporary pre-binding limp boards, strengthened with 2 section of a 14th century vellum ms., majority of backstrip missing, worm trace to upper board, lightly soiled, with wide margins, small 4to (213 x 157mm.), Venice, [Giovanni Antonio da Sabio and brothers], May, 1532. ⁂ First editions of these works on Bergamo, which are rare at auction. The Venetian patron and art historian Michiel never completed his work, and so it is here edited by Bellafini. Bellafini's own work was later translated into Italian and this first guide to Bergamo became the first book printed in that town. Literature: Adams B481; Lozzi 316; EDIT 16 CNCE 4851.
![Smith (Adam).- Philological Miscellany (The), vol.1 only [all published], containing: Adam Smith's 'Considerations concerning](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/741af01a-e186-4f80-beb7-97c3e01f0190/468x382.jpg)
Lot 18
Smith (Adam).- Philological Miscellany (The), vol.1 only [all published], containing: Adam Smith's 'Considerations concerning the first formation of Languages, and the different genius of original and compounded Languages', pp. 440-479, first edition, a little foxed and browned, small paper flaw tear to lower margin of 2H1, ex-Board of Education Library copy with blind and ink stamps on title, modern half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, [Alston III 271, 823], 8vo, for the Editor; and sold by T,.Beckett and P.A.Dehondt, 1761. ⁂ Very rare; including the first appearance in print of Smith's influential essay on language and 40pp. of miscellaneous essays by Maupertius. Smith's essay was an expanded version one of his university lectures on rhetoric given at the University of Glasgow in 1762 and was included as an appendix in the third edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments published in 1767. ESTC lists 6 locations in the UK (BL, 3 Cambridge colleges, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford) and 3 in America (Harvard, Library Company of Philadelphia, and University of Kansas). COPAC lists a further 5 locations. We have been unable to find any record of it having been sold at auction.
![[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre: an Autobiography, 3 vol., third edition, half-titles, vol.1 with 2pp. adverti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/8aece1c1-b799-40b2-ffe0-be6d047881b9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 354
[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre: an Autobiography, 3 vol., third edition, half-titles, vol.1 with 2pp. advertisements to front and 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated May 1848 at rear, vol.3 with 8pp. Opinions of the Press at rear, some light toning and occasional light finger-marking to margins, original variant green cloth, recased, later spine labels, spines discoloured, rubbed and marked, [Smith 2 pp.29-30], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1848. ⁂ A rare variant, possibly trial binding, unrecorded by Smith, we can trace no other copy in a like binding.
Lot 326
Brontë (Rev. Patrick) A Sermon Preached in the Church of Haworth, On Sunday, the 12th Day of September, 1824, in Reference to an Earthquake, And extraordinary Eruption of Mud and Water, that had taken place ten days before in the Moors of that Chapelry, later half calf, gilt, spine faded, some light rubbing or scuffing, 8vo, Bradford, T.Inkersley, 1824. ⁂ Rare, COPAC lists only 2 copies and we can trace only 3 copies at auction in the last 50 years. On the 2nd September, 1824, the bog at Crow Hill burst, causing flooding and a landslide. Patrick Brontë had watched a coming storm with some apprehension from the parsonage, knowing that his children were out playing on the common. Eventually his worry overcame him and he ventured out to find them scared and huddled in the porch of a house. It was once there that he saw the destruction and danger caused by the eruption: a two metre-high wall of mud and water had poured down the valley, thankfully warning had been given ahead and there was no loss of life. To an evangelical like Patrick Brontë, the Crow Hill Bog Burst stood as a warning for mankind to repent before the coming end of the world.
![English binding.- Meffret. Sermones [De Sanctis], 1 part only of the 3 vol. 'Sermones', collation: A10 B-N8 NN8 O-Y8 Z6 §6 do](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/c4b08864-f01e-4a41-b679-5b609ce8fd69/468x382.jpg)
Lot 166
English binding.- Meffret. Sermones [De Sanctis], 1 part only of the 3 vol. 'Sermones', collation: A10 B-N8 NN8 O-Y8 Z6 §6 double column, 198 ff., 55 lines and headline, Gothic type, initials, small woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, paragraph-marks and initial-strokes in red, A1r the bull's head watermark picked out in red by the rubricator, the odd instance of contemporary ink marginalia, K2 tear at head within text, but without loss, some staining and spotting, final f. outer margin little frayed, ornately blind-stamped 16th century English calf over wooden boards, comprising tudor rose, floral and foliage tools, the lower cover divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, each with a tudor rose or foliage ornament, remains of original metal clasps, corners little worn, rubbed, sympathetically rebacked, later ink marginalia, folio (sheet 310 x 199mm.; binding 317 x 220mm.), Basel, Nicolaus Kesler, 1487. ⁂ A wide-margined copy of this part of Meffret's sermons, which were published between January, 1487 and May, 1488. All parts of this work are rare at auction. Literature: BMC III, 764; Goff M-442; HC 11005.
Lot 381
Shepeard (Rev. H.) A Vindication of the Clergy Daughter's School and of the Rev. W. Carus Wilson, from the Remarks in "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", light browning to text, original printed wrappers, spotted, light wear to spine, erasure mark to head of upper panel, preserved in custom folding chemise, 8vo, Kirkby Lonsdale, Robert Morphet, 1857. ⁂ Rare in commerce.
Lot 241
Emblemata.- Gomberville (Marin Le Roy de) La Doctrine des Mœurs Qui Represente En Cent tableaux La Difference des Passions, title with woodcut ornament, 103 full-page emblematic illustrations, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative illustrations, a few lower corners repaired, water-stained, contemporary mottled sheep, nick at head of spine, rubbed, [Landwehr, Romanic, 478], 8vo, Paris, Chez A. Soubron, 1683. ⁂ A rare edition of this emblematic work based on Otto Vaenius' Q.Horatii Flacci Emblemata.
Lot 237
Colossal statue of Hercules.- Cappellari (MIchele) Herculis Colossus Mantuæ Benavidiæ Patavii, title with woodcut printer's device, half-page engraved illustration of the statue of Hercules by F. Bertelli, marking and small repair to last f., lightly foxed, modern red morocco-backed marbled boards, small 4to, Padua, Pasquati, 1657. ⁂ Rare first and only edition of this poem in praise of the colossal statue of Hercules carved by Bartolomeo Ammanati for the courtyard of the Palazzo Mantova Benavides at Padua. Literature: Not in Cicognara or Gamba.
![Derome binding.- Liturgy, Greek.- Leitourgiai tōn hagiōn paterōn [graece], 2 parts in 1, collation: *2, A-P6; a-b4, A-F6, G-](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/358a14fb-3b2a-4d94-e7af-f5f7fc6bedfd/468x382.jpg)
Lot 212
Derome binding.- Liturgy, Greek.- Leitourgiai tōn hagiōn paterōn [graece], 2 parts in 1, collation: *2, A-P6; a-b4, A-F6, G-Z4; [4], 179, [1]; [16], 212 (i.e. 208) pp., woodcut device on both titles, wooduct decorated initials, head- and tail-pieces, lower margin of first two leaves water-stained and browned, foxing in places, later engraved portrait of the editor Claude de Sainctes tipped in to verso of front flyleaf, 18th-century red morocco, ascribed to Nicolas-Denis Derôme, covers framed in triple gilt fillet, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and imprint on double green lettering-pieces, compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, covers slightly scratched, a little rubbed, head of spine nicked, but overall a handsome copy, folio (289 x 189mm.), Paris, Guillaume Morel, 1560. ⁂ A splendid and rare edition of the Greek Liturgy, finely issued by the Royal printer Guillaume Morel, and edited by Claude Sainctes (1525-1591), whose name is mentioned in the preface appended to the second part of this Parisian publication. The Greek text is supplemented, in the second part, with its Latin translation, introduced by the title Liturgiae siue missae sanctorum patrum. In addition the work contains writings by the Greek Fathers Basilius Magnus, Ioannes Chrysostomus, and Saint Jacobus. The book is rightly considered one of the masterpieces published by the Typographia Graeca founded by King of France, François I. This copy is in a fine gilt-tooled red morocco binding, executed by the leading 18th century Parisian binder Nicolas-Denis Derôme (1731-1790). Provenance: early ownership inscription on the title-page, erased in ink; 'Ecole Sainte Genevieve' (stamp on the title-page); 'J. M. De Chateaugiron', 'Skinos' (both ex-libris on the front pastedown). Literature: Adams L842.
![[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", first American edition, light foxing, Cavendish Ci](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/42024a5d-163d-452f-df6a-12800e7b6c80/468x382.jpg)
Lot 336
[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", first American edition, light foxing, Cavendish Circulating Library label to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped with small chip to head of spine, some light rubbing but a sharp and excellent copy overall, [Smith 3 pp.74-75], New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ The first American edition and second overall, published only five months after the true first edition, rare in the original cloth and in such good condition. The misattribution on the title (an issue that would plague the sisters until Charlotte revealed their true identities in her preface to the second edition of Wuthering Heights) was partly the result of a deliberate attempt by Thomas Newby to confuse the authorship in order to extract more money from the American publishers.
Lot 462
Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land and Other Poems, first edition, signed by the author on title with printed name crossed through, occasional spotting, paperclip rust mark to head of half-title and front free endpaper, endpapers a little browned, original boards, a little bumped and spotted, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light staining to panels, [Gallup A35x], 1940; and a reprint of the same edition, 8vo (2) ⁂ Rare signed.
Lot 220
Kabbalah.- Aevolus (Caesar) De Divinis Attributis Quae Sephirot ab Hebræis Nuncupata, collation: a4 A-K4, title with woodcut printer's device, 2 full-page woodcut diagrams, woodcut decorative initials, a4 blank (with small section torn from foot), some water-staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, small 4to (205 x 150mm.), Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1573. ⁂ Rare second edition of this work (seemingly not listed on EDIT 16), which looks at the causes of sympathy and antipathy between objects in nature and attempts to reconcile the Kabbalah with Aristotelian and Platonic doctrine. It was originally published in Prague in 1571. Literature: Adams A309.
![[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, first issue, lacking errata slip, Wes](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/eed45556-96d3-4acd-91a8-43fc61464ec9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 331
[Brontë (Charlotte, Emily & Anne)], "Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell". Poems, first edition, first issue, lacking errata slip, Westleys & Co. binders label to rear pastedown, light abrasion mark to upper hinge, original green ribbed cloth with harp design covers, spine lettered in gilt, spine slightly faded, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, some light marking to covers but an excellent example overall, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box (spine a little faded), 8vo, [Smith 1 pp.5-6 & 12], [John Hasler, for] Aylott and Jones, 1846. ⁂ An excellent example of the scarce first issue of the Brontë poems in the rare intermediate state, Smith mentions only 7 copies with the Aylott and Jones imprint and the harp binding. Following the successes of the Brontë sisters in their publications of 1847 and 1848, Aylott and Jones wrote to Charlotte Brontë to ask her how they should proceed with regards to the unsold copies of Poems still in their possession. Charlotte in turn wrote to her current publishers, Smith and Elder, ostensibly to ask for their advice, but hinting that they might succeed in the sale of the volumes where Aylott and Jones had not. Smith and Elder decided to reissue the work under their own name and purchased the remaining 961 copies to be reoffered with a new title page and rebound in the green harp binding. Copies such as this one in the 1848 binding but with the Aylott and Jones title page likely exist because the binder either neglected or ran out of the new Smith and Elder title page. Provenance: H.Bradley Martin (auction ticket loosely inserted; sold his sale, lot 2658, Sotheby's New York, 30th April, 1990).
Lot 293
Early children's book.- The Top Book of All For Little Masters and Misses, woodcut illustrations within text, contemporary drab wrappers, nicked at foot of spine spine, rubbed, 16mo, R. Baldwin, S. Crowder and Benj. Collins, 1760. ⁂ A rare copy at auction of this charming little book. ESTC and COPAC between them list only a handful of copies. Please Note: date should read [?1760].
Lot 443
Kelmscott Press.- Menus for the Third and Fourth Annual Printers' Dinners, each 4pp., printed in red and black with press borders and device on final leaf, with note by Freeman Bass (co-founder and Honorary Treasurer of the William Morris Society) quoting Sydney Cockerell "...the two menus are exceedingly rare..." loosely inserted, both removed from album with traces of glue to edge of final leaf, damp-staining to lower inner corners, first with small tear to lower edge of first leaf, [Peterson D8], 8vo, Kelmscott Press, Friday, August 31, 1894 and Friday, September 13, 1895. ⁂ Very rare. Four annual dinners were held, these are the last two, both held at the Dumb Bell Hotel, Taplow, Berks. Peterson quotes a note by Cockerell "A very few copies of these four menus were printed. The arrangement was that of the compositors and was not shown to Morris." Having free rein the compositors used as many Kelmscott types and ornaments as possible.
![Theocritus. Idyllia, collation: a-k8; 77, [1] ff., Greek text, woodcut device on title and at end, woodcut initials, that on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/686ec625-31e8-4dc3-ecbb-775ea5b4faa0/468x382.jpg)
Lot 194
Theocritus. Idyllia, collation: a-k8; 77, [1] ff., Greek text, woodcut device on title and at end, woodcut initials, that on a4 with contemporary hand-colouring, contemporary vellum, small tear to spine, soiled, lacking ties, yapp edges, 8vo (166 x 110mm.), Florence, Benedetto Giunta, 1540. ⁂ This rare Juntine edition also includes the famous 'figure poems', typographically arranged in the shape of the objects they describe, e.g. the Pan flute and the double axe. This 1540 edition is a substantial reprint (except for the dedicatory epistle to Filippo Pandolfini, not included) of the first Theocritus issued from the Florentine printing house, which appeared in January 1515 and was edited for Filippo Giunta by Eufrosino Bonini. This copy once belonged to the great Italian bibliophile Giacomo Manzoni, whose outstanding library was sold in 1893. Provenance: "Thoma Iacobi Iacominii Tebaldutii" (ownership inscription on title, dated 1562 and annotations on first leaves in his hand); Count Giacomo Manzoni (1816-1889: ownership inscription on front pastedown). Literature: Adams T463; Camerini 237; Renouard 50.132.
Lot 383
Brontë (Charlotte) Watching and Wishing, proof copy of the poem for publication in the Cornhill Magazine, 1p., some browning and creasing, preserved in folding chemise and custom morocco-backed drop-back box (some fading), 8vo, [1860]. ⁂ Rare Watching and Wishing was first published in the Thackeray-edited Cornhill Magazine vol.2, p.741, December 1860.
Lot 155
China.- Serious Disturbance at Canton, spotting, original printed wrappers, ink presentation inscription to Robert Inglis Fearon to head of upper wrapper, spotted, small stain to foot, a little chipped and creased at extremities, rubbing, 4to, Hong Kong, 1883. ⁂ Rare, we know of no other copy in commerce, COPAC lists only one other copy (SOAS).
Lot 210
Caesar's military tactics.- Ramus (Petrus) Liber de Cæsaris militia, collation: à a-o8 P4, Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, final errata f., à4 and P4 blank, some staining and light foxing, 17th century calf, richly gilt spine in compartments, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo (157 x 97mm.), Paris, Andreas Wechel, 1559. ⁂ First edition of this treatise on Caesar's military tactics., which is rare at auction. Literature: Adams R102.
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