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Click here to subscribeMalayan StatesSungei UjongRevenue 1880 $1 blue and black (faults, rare), 1885-90 italic type 20c. and c.1890 2mm. spacing 3c., 30c., $1 and $5 (surface fault); scarce. Barefoot 2, 6, 15, 18, 20, 21; £300 Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great Britain1841-54 One Penny Red-Brown"Black" PlatesPlate 2: PL constant variety, large to enormous margins and showing a portion of the adjoining stamp at left, upright and fairly central deep blue Maltese Cross cancellation (not tied) on entire dated 4 Oct. 1841 to St. Austell with framed "No. 1" receiving house handstamp of St. Agnes and matching deep blue Truro c.d.s. alongside; two vertical fining folds, clear of the adhesive, fine. An extraordinarily rare combination and a wonderful cover. Specialised AS18vc, £7,250. Photo Subject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Great BritainChannel Islands1948 Third Anniversary of Liberation set, imperforate imprimatures, each from the left of the sheet and with "n/p/imprimatur" handstamp on reverse, unmounted mint, fine and rare. Specialised £6,500. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) India1948 Gandhi 1½a. imperforate colour trial in blue-green on unwatermarked gummed paper. Very rare with gum, nearly all recorded examples usually being affixed to paper or card. B.P.A. Certificate (2015). Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
(x) Falkland Islands1933 Centenary IssueCovers1933 (2 Jan.) envelope registered from South Georgia to Ronald Southey in Kent, bearing £1 black and carmine neatly cancelled by "south georgia" SG.1 c.d.s. and used on day of issue; fine and rare. Photo Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Great BritainQueen Elizabeth II Issues1985 Christmas Genie 17p. horizontal pair, variety imperforate, very minor bend; unmounted mint. Rare. Brandon Certificate (2012). S.G. 1304a, £8,250. Photo Quantity: Circa 4 mint pairsSubject to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium. For more information please view Terms and Conditions for Buyers.
Christie (Agatha). Ten Little Niggers, 4th impression, Collins Crime Club, November 1942, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, original cloth (slightly rubbed and faded along upper and lower edges) in original 4/6 dust jacket, minor dust-soiling and a few short closed tears, a little chipped at head and foot of spine, 8vo A very good example of this rare dust jacket which differs from that of the infamous first edition of 1939. This green and yellow dust jacket with letterpress in black and white has no pictorial elements and lists other detective novels up until 'Evil Under the Sun' on rear panel. (1)
Welsh Mormonism. John Davis, Ffordd y Bywyd Tragywyddol, a Ddarlunir yn yr Ysgrythyrau Santaidd, 1st edition, Merthr-Tydfil, 1850, 12 pp., disbound without covers, slim 12mo Dennis, Welsh Mormon Writings 38. John Davis, An Early Convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, succeeded to Captain Dan Jones as Chief Spokesman for the Religion in Wales. Rare. (1)
Games and pastimes. Youthful Sports, a new edition, Wm. Darton and Josh. Harvey, July 11th, 1804, vignette title-page, and thirty engravings on letterpress, some light spotting and toning, two facing pages with some juvenile colouring, disbound and loosely inserted into later marbled wrappers, 12 x 8cm (4.75 x 3ins), together with Hack (Maria), Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers, 4 volumes, 3rd edition, printed for Harvey and Darton, 1823, engraved frontispiece to each (that to first volume slightly frayed to fore-edge, just clipping head-line), some spotting and toning, D5 in volume 3 with lower corner torn away (with loss of a few letters), contemporary ownership name on front free endpapers, volumes 1 and 4 lacking rear free endpaper, original red roan-backed marbled boards gilt, extremities rubbed, spines faded and with some minor loss at ends, 12mo in 6s, housed together in a modern card slipcase, plus [Strickland, Agnes], The Moss-House: in which many of the Works of Nature are Rendered a Source of Amusement to Children, 1st edition, William Darton, 1822, six engraved plates, including frontispiece, lightly offset to text, front hinge splitting, early manuscript name on front free endpaper, blue sprinkled edges, original roan-backed marbled boards, extremities a little rubbed in places, 12mo in 6s, plus other antiquarian children's books similar Provenance: from the library of a descendant of the publisher William Darton. Darton G1074(3): the first edition of 'Youthful Sports' was published in 1801, and all editions are rare. It contains descriptions of such games as: Battledore and Shuttlecock; Quoits; Blindman's Buff; Flying the Kite; Bow and Arrow; Stilts; Marbles, Peg Top; Trap Ball; Air Balloons, Dressing Dolls; Bird Nesting; Whip Top; and Badger the Bull, or Bait the Bear. (19)
An extremely rare Trix OO Gauge French 'Nord' 4-4-0 Locomotive and Tender: finished in Nord brown livery, the loco with no 52896 and tender no 68374, the locomotive with authentic 'B' chassis on original 'thick' wheels, overall VG, some careful re-touching to locomotive cab roof and boiler, slight loss of transfers to left side of tender due to casting marks, unboxed
WWII Royal Navy Dunkerque SS Medway Queen: framed colour print depicting the vessel in act of rescue off Dunkerque 1940, together with a rare "British Armed Forces" special-issue One Pound bank-note number AA/T 915090 (found in the original frame-backing - now reframed), also with three further small framed photographs of merchantman the clipper-ship Cutty Sark in sail, SS Athena & HMS Edinburgh c1941/42. (5)
A substantial collection of Meccano parts in 12 card boxes, with gears including 3 rare spiral bevel sets, ball-race set, chains and chain-wheels, pulleys, road wheels, girders, plates, electric motors, 'Magic' clockwork motors, and many other parts, from various periods but including some later plastic parts and small boxed sets, G-VG (12 boxes)
Vintage Rivarossi HO Gauge Coaching Stock: a rare a very early 'Bakelite' Nord-Milano 1st/3rd Class trailer coach in deep red colouring, (glazing strips missing), two early V BZ (2507) brown coaches with metal footboards, an early Bakelite V Di Baggage van, and a slightly later ref 2514 Whistling Baggage Van, overall G-VG, in replacement boxes (5 in 4 boxes)
Trix Twin Railway OO Gauge Coaching Stock: three rare 7" Green coaches, comprising one 3rd Class saloon with TTR markings to side and pre-war couplings, and two 2nd Class saloons labelled 'Paris-Strasbourg-Basle-Zurich', with later couplings, all P-F, substantial paint loss to each, all unboxed (3)
*Leicestershire Manuscript Survey. A manuscript survey entitled 'An Exact and Perfect Survey of the Lordship of Bringhurst in the County of Leicester, being taken and admeasured by the Purch of 16. 1/2. foot, according to the Statute. De Terris mensurandis, by Vincent Wing Supervisor, Octob: 1658', ink on paper, 11 leaves (half-title, title, text, final 2 leaves blank), half-title torn with loss and laid down, large tear to title affecting blank areas and border only, several text leaves torn across without loss and leaves strengthened on foremargins, stitched and rolled in a contemporary vellum sheet with original ties intact, contemporary manuscript surveying notes to vellum inner surface, 4to (text leaves 20 x 15cm unrolled) Vincent Wing (1619-1668), English astrologer, astronomer and land surveyor. Born in North Luffenham, Rutland, he was a highly accomplished mathematician and by the age of 20 he was already a professional land surveyor, almanac-maker and astrologer. He is now chiefly remembered as an astronomer and was notable as a champion of the new astronomical systems of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe. However, it was mostly through his work as a land surveyor that he made his living and, in 1664, he published 'The Art of Surveying'. This manuscript survey gives a rare insight into his practices and presentation of his work. It refers to an open plan field system with the strips of land held by various tenants; a mixture of freehold and copyhold, as the land in Bringhurst was not enclosed until 1804. Tenant names include Sir John Norwich (freehold land) and Richard Green (freehold and copyhold land). Although a few of his maps are known to have survived, no other of his land surveys have been located. (1)
Royal Asiatic Society. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1st edition, 3 volumes, Parbury, Allen & Co., 1827, half-titles to volumes one and two (not called for in volume three), eighty one engraved and lithograph plates (two with contemporary colouring), including views of antiquities, sculptures, facsimiles of asian scripts etc. (some folding) errata slip to first volume, contemporary half calf, Signet Library gilt stamp to upper board of each volume, very slightly rubbed, 4to A surprisingly rare publication, the contributors to which include John Francis Davis, Henry Colebrooke, Sir John Malcolm, James Tod, R.M. Grindlay, William Marsden, and many others. The subjects include marriage ceremonies of the Hindus, white elephants, the wild dog of the Western Ghats, the cave temples of Ellora, the sheep-eater of Hindustan, the Purik sheep of Ladakh, the Sutlej Valley, and others. (3)
Qur'an. Arabic Qur'an with interlinear translation in Urdu and Persian, Dhaka, Bangladesh, circa 1850-70, lithograph printed throughout, Arabic text highlighted in orange wash, interlinear translations in Urdu and Persian, printed commentary to margins, one or two manuscript annotations (possibly in the hand of Rev. Bevan Jones), marginal paper repair to first few leaves, later patterned endpapers, 20th century green cloth envelope-style binding, folio 32 x 24cm (12.5 x 9.5ins) Rare. From the collection of Rev. Lewis Bevan Jones, Baptist missionary in India (biography of Bevan Jones loosely inserted). (1)
Wansleben (Johann Michael). The Present State of Egypt; Or, A new Relation of a Late Voyage into that Kingdom. Performed in the Years 1672 and 1673 by F. Vansleb, R.D., Wherein you have an exact and true Account of many Rare and Wonderful Particulars of that Ancient Kingdom. Englished by M.D. B.D., London: Printed by R[obert]. E[veringham]. for John Starkey, at the Miter in Fleet-street, near Temple-Bar, 1678, [6], 253, [11]pp., preliminary license to print not present, ink stain to text leaf B3 and verso of final leaf S4 (bookseller's advertisement), repair to fore-edge blank margin of B7, some close-trimming at head and foot occasionally affecting few running titles, catchwords & signatures, 19th century calf, hinges repaired, spine rebacked, rubbed to extremities, 8vo Wing W711, ESTC R38063, Blackmer 1770. This volume is a translation of Nouvelle relation en forme de journal, dun voyage fait en Egypte, published in 1677. This was Wansleben's second journey into Egypt (April 1672 to October 1673), and he travelled further south into Egypt than any other traveller up to that time. He accumulated a considerable collection of oriental manuscripts which were deposited in the French royal collection. He travelled further south into Egypt than any other traveller up to that time. (1)
*Suffragettes. Souvenir of the Women's Suffrage March and Mass Meeting at the Albert Hall, Saturday June 13, printed and published by Mrs S. Burgess, [1908], wood-engraved crepe paper handkerchief with colour-printed border of roses and flags, with central vignette portrait of Lady Henry Somerset(?), slight toning but otherwise very good, 36 x 38cm Rare. (1)
Morris (F.O.). A Natural History of British Moths, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1871, 132 hand-coloured lithograph plates, original uniform publisher's green blindstamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and dulled to spines, 4th volume with some light surface damp marking to upper cover, large 8vo, togteher with Sowerby (John E. & Johnson, C. Pierpont), British Wildflowers, re-issue: to which is added a supplement... by John W. Salter and John E. Sowerby, 1894, numerous hand-coloured lithograph plates, some light scattered spotting to preliminary leaves, all edges gilt, original green cloth gilt, generally in bright condition, large 8vo, plus Wood (Reverend J.G.), The Illustrated Natural History, 5 volumes, George Routledge, circa 1860s, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, some light spotting to preliminary leaves, marbled edges, original uniform gilt-decorated dark green cloth in bright condition, large thick 8vo, and other 19th century natural history, including R. Bowdler Sharpe, Birds in Nature, 1888, E.J. Lowe, Ferns: British and Exotic, 8 volumes, 1st edition, 1856-60, numerous colour printed plates, original uniform blindstamped green cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, spines darkened and with some wear to head and foot, large 8vo, E.J. Lowe, A Natural History of British Grasses, 1858 / A Natural History of New and Rare Ferns, 1864 / A Natural History of British Grasses, 3rd edition, 1891, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, 10 volumes only, etc., all bound in original cloth, mainly 8vo (37)
A commemorative F-S commando fighting knife with leather scabbard in mahogany effect display case, a rare commemorative produced by Wilkinson Sword in 1950, hand forged in a quantity of two hundred mainly for shop displays, subsequently badly treated but sent back to the manufacturer in the 1970s where the blade was polished and re-embossed, a new grip fitted and leather sheath provided, the blade embossed 'Wilkinson Sword Co Ltd, London' and 'Commando Fighting Knife 1939-1945' to one side, leaf embossed to the other with the words 'Hand Forged by Tom Beesley, the Famous Swordsmith of Stalingrad Sword Fame' along with correspondence letters and associated ephemera, 28.5 cms long the knife
A rare Jaeger Le Coultre circa 1948 Mk II RAF issue pilot's chronometer wristwatch, circular black dial with Arabic numerals, luminous hands and points in a steel case, marked to the back with broad arrow 6B/3462817/48, on a brown leather strap with dial cover (Provenance: with the same owner since 1963 who worked at Wylfa Nuclear Power Station, in 1967 the watch was compulsory sent to have the luminosity on the fingers reduced to a safe dose by CEGB, as it was registering on the equipment at the entry and exit points of the site), (wear and tear age commiserate, appears to be a non-runner, we cannot access the movement)
Royal Memorabilia.A personal reading accessory, the mahogany stand with folding wire frame and canvas lap support, bearing the impressed monogram of Queen Mary, wife of George VI . Associated with this an extensive collection of royal memorabilia, including a rare group photo of George V, Edward VIII and George VI. Also the complete eight issues of The British Gazette during the General Strike and several other photos and newspapers of historic value.
TROIKA POTTERY. A rare Troika Pottery, St. Ives cube shape vessel on four feet with twin-handles. Shape possibly based on Oriental incense burners for use with an incense stick? Different painted design to each side. Height 14.5cm. Unmarked but original price marked on base at 55/- (shillings).
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