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Click here to subscribeA RARE 17TH CENTURY GILT-METAL MOUNTED BLOODSTONE PENDANT WATCH CASE of faceted octagonal form with a suspensory ring & turned finial, the hinged cover revealing a later-added vinaigrette grille with a spring catch closure, unmarked, probably 1650-1700; 1.9" (4.8 cms) long *The style of the grille probably indicates that is was added during the 1850`s or 60`s.
A RARE VICTORIAN SCOTTISH PHYSICIAN`S BOX of shallow oblong form with rounded corners and "neo-gothic" engraving, crested & inscribed "JESUS ONLY", the gilt interior divided into nine compartments (eight small & one large) to take a pill form or powdered drug, each with a hinged cover, inscribed with the abreviated name of the drum & its weight, the inside cover inscribed "Alexander R. Simpson MD from Mrs Barbour", maker`s mark "RJ", Edinburgh 1861; 3.25 (8.2 cms) long; 5 oz *Alexander Russell Simpson was Professor of Medicine & Midwifery and the Diseases of Women & Children in the University of Edinburgh and nephew of the famous Sir James Young Simpson (1811-1870), who became Professor of Midwifery at Edinburgh University in 1840, Physician to Queen Victoria in 1847, President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1850 and Baronet in 1866. A man of enormous energy and great personal charm, Simpson was a keen controversialist and much loved physician. His contributions to obstetrics are overshadowed by his discovery of the anaesthetic effects of chloroform in November 1847. After ether was discovered in 1846, Simpson was quick to use it to relieve the pains of labour, earning the gratitude of countless women & the condemnation of some members of the church and the medical profession. Simpson was a doughty advocate of the cause of general anaesthesia and his final vindication came when Queen Victoria had chloroform at the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853.
A rare Australian seaweed pattern transfer printed and painted oval plate from the Fereday service, Spode, Staffordshire, England, made for the Tasmanian market circa 1825 Marked with a central crest of a tree fern with a suspended hunting horn, a running fox below and the motto PER SYRTES AESTUOSAS from Horace’s Ode 1.22 also marked to the reverse Mr.. Dudley Fereday Sheriff (sic) of Van Diemen’s Land.» 32cm long, 21cm deep. Provenance Made for Mr Dudley Fereday, Sheriff of Van Dieman’s Land
A rare Australian seaweed pattern transfer printed and painted oval plate from the Fereday service, Spode, Staffordshire, England, made for the Tasmanian market circa 1825 Marked with a central crest of a tree fern with a suspended hunting horn, a running fox below and the motto PER SYRTES AESTUOSAS from Horace’s Ode 1.22 also marked to the reverse Mr. Dudley Fereday Sheriff (sic) of Van Diemen’s Land.” 32cm long, 21cm deep. Provenance Made for Mr Dudley Fereday, Sheriff of Van Dieman’s Land
A rare cedar armchair, Tasmanian origin, Australian, circa 1830 with straight side pilasters 100cm high, 76cm wide Provenance Left to the vendor by their grandmother, Margaret Brownell of Hobart (died August 1962) - wife of Augustus Spencer Brownell of Brownell Bros. department store in Hobart. Brownell Bros. was founded by William and Thomas Brownell, sons of Dr. T.C. Brownell who arrived in Hobart 1830 from England, who, among other occupations was the Assistant Colonial’s surgeon at Port Arthur. Thence by descent.
A Rare George IV Scottish Silver Mounted Copper Eight Key Bugle by Curtis and Son, Glasgow, the bell with silver flange rim richly chased and repousse with fruiting vine and engraved RICHD. CURTIS & SON FECERT. GLASGOW, with silver mounts and keys, hallmarked for Glasgow 1825, 46cm including mouthpiece **Provenance:- Reputed by descent from Colonel Blackburne, MP for Hale, who was a friend of the Duke of Wellington
Bouvet (Joachim). L’Estat Present de la Chine, en Figures dedie a Monseigneur Le Duc & à Madame la Duchesse de Bourgogne, Paris, Chez Pierre Giffart, 1697, forty-two hand-col. eng. plts., heightened with gold, some offsetting and browning, a few minor marginal damp stains, short closed tear to lower margin of plt. entitled ‘Officier de robe Mandarin du 9 Ordre’, with sellotape repair on verso, contemp. gilt-panelled red morocco with central royal crest of King Louis XIV of France, spine with raised bands, compartments with gilt fleur-de-lys tool in centre and volute cornerpieces, covers with gilt triple fillet border, inner triple fillet panel with fleur-de-lys tool at each outer corner, enclosing the oval armorial, gilt chevron roll on board edges and turn-ins, minor wear to extremities, folio. Without portrait frontispiece (sometimes present), with 42 plates only (of 43). Rare, only one UK location found (British Library). Father Joachim Bouvet. (1656-1730) was a French Jesuit missionary. He was one of the first Jesuits selected by Louis XIV for the mission in China he and his associates were commissioned by the Academie des Sciences to make astronomical observations, determine geographical positions and to collect various scientific data. The mission arrived in Peking in February, 1688 and were favourably received by the Emperor Khang-hi. So far did they win his esteem and confidence that he gave them a site within the palace enclosure for a Church residence which was finally completed in 1702. For nearly fifty years Father Bouvet shared all the labours of the missionaries and did much to advance the interest in Christianity and to facilitate the entrance and labours of his fellow missionaries. His Chinese name was Petsin. (1)
Calvert (Frederick). Rural Scenery: Coloured, pub. Hodgson & Co., c. 1825, half-title, hand-coloured pictorial title, contents list and sixteen hand-coloured vign. litho. views, a little soiling throughout, old waterstain to lower outer corner of one leaf not affecting image, orig. half morocco over boards with pictorial upper cover (covers rubbed and soiled), some edge wear, rebacked, oblong folio. Rare. (1)
Marsh (Othniel Charles). Dinocerata. A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals, 1st ed. (United States Geological Survey vol. X), Washington, 1884, fifty-six litho. plts. including seven folding, wood-eng. illusts. to text, some light offsetting of plts. to accompanying text leaves, occ. dampstain to lower margins, author’s signed presentation inscription to front f.e.p. ‘Mrs Anna P. Draper, with kind regards of O.C. Marsh’, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, contemp. red half morocco, sl. rubbed, soiled and darkened, amateur refurbishing to joints and spine ends coloured to match, folio. This is one of the rare large paper copies printed two years earlier than the standard monograph printing, and was produced at Marsh’s own expense for dignitaries and friends. Mrs Anna Palmer Draper (died 1914) was married to Professor Henry Draper, the noted astronomer, long associated with Harvard University, and the donor of the Draper Memorial to that institution. (1)
Napoleonic Wars. The Soldier’s Calling, c.1804, 11pp., title page with ownership inscription “Robt. Chadwick his Book April 1 1804”, slight spotting and dust-soiling to first and last leaves, stitched as issued, 12mo. Rare, No copy located. A rallying call to the British people during the time of threatened invasion by France. (1)
Raimondo (Annibale). Trattato utilissimo et particolarissimo del flusso & riflusso del mare.. , 1st ed., Venice: Domenico Nicolini, 1589, printers woodcut device to title and to colophon on final leaf verso, eight woodcut illusts. to text, several woodcut initials, two old ownership inscriptions to title including ‘Joh Laur Loelig Dr 1692’ [Johannes Laurentius Loelius, Doctor of Philosophy and Medicine], later bookplate of Ernst Conrad Stahl to front pastedown, contemp. blind-stamped vellum with stamped date 1592 to upper cover, lacks ties, some rubbing and wear, rebacked in modern tan calf with remains of orig. spine relaid, 4to, contained in modern purpose-made slipcase. A nice copy of this rare treatise on astrology. Adams R33 (one copy at Trinity College). (1)
Baerle (Jan van). Den schat der godlijcker liefden, is dit boecxken ghenaemt, volva gheestelijcke oeffeningen meditatien en vuerige gebeden..., Ghemaect en tsamen vergadert doer dye Carthusere tot Colen gheuisiteert, en ghecorrigeert bide E.H.M. Jan van Baerl, Antwerp: Symon Cock, 20 May 1533, [1], 131 leaves (complete), black letter, twenty-three lines to a page, minor soiling, later gilt-dec. panelled calf incl. floral tools and Greek key rolled border, rubbed, sm. 8vo (140 x 95 mm). Rare, early printed Dutch book of devotion. Worldcat suggests only three copies (1532?) all held in the Netherlands. (1)
Folio Society, 170 vols., c. 1970s-2000s, incl. The Rare Adventures and Painful Peregrinations of William Lithgow, ed., Gilbert Phelps, 1974; Travels in the Interior of Africa, by Mungo Park, 1984; Lost City of the Incas, by Hiram Bingham, 2004, etc., orig. cloth, mostly in slipcases, 8vo/4to, VG. (170)
* Proaustraliceras gigas (Sowerby): An extremely rare complete example of the uncoiled (heteromorph) ammonite, Atherfield, Isle of Wight, Lower Cretaceous, Ferruginous Sands Formation, 125 million years old, 40 cm long. Specimens of this impressive species were highly sought after by Victorian collectors and are only found in one locality. This ammonite starts its growth as an open coiled nucleus and terminates in a ‘shepherd’s crook’ or ‘crozier’ body chamber. Seldom do examples like this come onto the market. (1)
* A very rare white nephrite jade articulated prayer wheel, 18th century , the flawless material carved to each side with a centralised medallion with coma designs, each side sightly recessed within a linear border, the central spinner neatly fretted out and totally functional, the exterior edge decorated with confronting scroll-like decoration, 6cm diameter, in original fitted box with collectors’ label attached. From the Erik Hancock Collection. (1)
GAETANO CROCCO (1877-1968) Italian Scientist and Aeronautic Pioneer and Founder of The Italian Rocket Society, a rare folio of designs for a Transatlantic Passenger Flying Boat with drawings by Crocco, associated typed and manuscript correspondence dated 1930 and associated literature including Patent Application
A Second World War Group of Six Medals, posthumously awarded to Colonel Guy Wordsworth-Gibson of the First Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, comprising 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with clasp 1ST ARMY, Defence and War Medals and Dunkirk Medal. Together with related items including a rare miniature enamelled metal Regimental drum presented to him as a Subaltern on leaving Sandhurst, two silver cigarette cases, the interiors engraved with places and dates of service beginning Sandhurst 1918 to Gawnpore 1933 and Tunisia 1943, three Indian silver regimental ash trays, a steel cased calendar pocket watch, a silver cased wristwatch, a pair of 18ct gold cufflinks and a sweetheart brooch with enamelled and diamond set badge, three cap and lapel badges, his camera, parallel rule and a large photograph album. The album contains numerous personal photographs showing his army and home life in Razmak, Waziristan and Mussoorie, India in the 1930`s. **Colonel Guy Wordsworth-Gibson was killed at El Alamein, Tunisia, North Africa,
A Rare North American Paleo-Indian Folsom Type Point, (spear tip of the Cumberland variety), 8.5cm; a Paleo-Indian Fluted Point, of Clovis type, the tip reworked to form an arrowhead, with traces of the original side fluting, 5.5cm (points of these type have been found with the bones of extinct mastodon and mammoth, circa 11,000 and 10,000 BC) **Ex: Innes Collection
A Zulu Two Handled Wood Meat Dish, of dished oblong form, with amazumpa decoration, pierced side handles, and on four stilt feet, 46cm; Thirteen Pieces of Zulu Beadwork, including a rare single colour blue bead skirt, a bunch-beaded pound necklace, chokers, anklets and bracelets; a Zulu Hardwood Cane, with ovoid pommel and slightly wrythen haft; two Zulu Hunting Spears and a Stabbing Spear, with hide bound hafts (18)
A Rare Alexander Henry 450/577 Falling Block Volunteer Rifle by Westley Richards, the 84.5cm steel barrel stamped Henry Patent Rifling on the top, with hinged ladder rearsight, the left side of the action stamped HENRY`S PATENT, the right side W.R.A.& CO 1871, the lock plate stamped ALEXR HENRY, walnut full stock stamped on the butt with broad arrow N.S.W. 72 for the New South Wales Government, with steel bands, trigger guard, sling swivels and butt plate
A rare 1960`s crash helmet, formerly the property of Donald Campbell (1921-1967), with silvered finish and leather interior, marked size 3 `regular`, serial number 4954 and inscribed `Hawker Blackburn Dunsfold`, with darkened Perspex visor, c1965. Provenance: Leo Villa OBE; thence by descent to the vendor who entered it for auction in a Nottingham sale June 1st 2001, lot 1212. The current vendor acquired it at that sale and it is now sold with press cutting and the sale catalogue.
A rare design swinging cherub pendulum French clock, the alabaster case in very unusual pillared form surmounted by a drum, the movement with distinctive double `scape wheel by Farcot, Paris, partly skeletonised and visible through the enamel chapter ring Bid Online at www.theauctioncentre.co.uk
A very rare wineglass cooler from the Prince of Wales service by the Perrin Glassworks, Warrington 1806-10, cut with the Prince of Wales feathers and the motto `Ich Dien`. This is from a service specially ordered by Prince George following a visit to Liverpool in 1806. Most of the service is at Windsor Castle.
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