POCOCK (WILLIAM INNES)Five Views of the Island of St. Helena, from Drawings Taken on the Spot: to Which is Added a Concise Account of the Island, FIRST EDITION, 5 hand-coloured aquatint views (one double-page) by T. Sutherland after Pocock, list of subscribers (listing 57 names), stiched in publisher's printed wrappers (soiled with some loss to gutter margins, detached) [Abbey 310; Tooley 381], oblong folio (310 x 450mm.), S. and J. Fuller, 1815Footnotes:VERY RARE, Rare Book Hub listing only one complete copy sold in the past forty years. A Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, William Innes Pocock (1783–1836) was the son of the renowned marine artist Nicholas Pocock. He executed his drawings of St. Helena in 1810, when the ship he was serving aboard stopped of to refit en route for China. They were published in 1815, following the exile of Napoleon to the island.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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BERRY (WILLIAM)North America Divided into its Principall Parts Where are Distinguished the Severall States Which Belong to the English, Spanish and French, large hand-coloured engraved map on 2 sheets (joined), large cartouche decorated with Native Americans, exotic parrots and creatures, old folds, upper margin trimmed within platemark and frayed with short tears touching rule border, sides margins slightl frayed with a few small tears [Burden II 532], folio (565 x 880mm.), William Berry, 1680 [c.1681]Footnotes:LARGE SEPARATELY PRINTED 'VERY RARE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA' (BURDEN), UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE NEWLY CREATED PENNSYLVANIA. 'Pennsilvania' is named within the map but with no boundary lines, and not mentioned amongst the regions that appear in the caption title at the upper border, indicating that the map was issued very shortly after the granting of William Penn's land charter in March, 1681. Burden suggests that this map may have been engraved by Hermann Moll, making it among the earliest examples of his work.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
British School, Late 18th CenturyA rare portrait of five Labrador Inuit with Catherine Cartwright at Marnham, Nottinghamshire, 1772 annotated throughout with the sitters' nameswatercolour and pencil29.2 x 33.6cm (11 1/2 x 13 1/4in).unframedFootnotes:The group of Labrador Inuit depicted in this rather extraordinary drawing travelled to England in the late 18th century with Captain George Cartwright, an English army officer and trader. Cartwright had established several fishing and furring stations along the northeastern seaboard of Canada and developed connections with the Inuit and Innu people there, who played an important role as translators, mediators and provided information on the geography and resources of the region. The group of Inuit pictured here lived alongside Cartwright's establishment in Cape Charles for a year before travelling to England, and in that time an amicable and mutually supportive relationship developed. In October 1772, Cartwright travelled to England with Attuiock, his young wife Ickongoque and their young daughter Ickeuna, together with Attuiock's youngest brother Tooklavinia and his wife Caubvick. It appears that the Inuit willingly made the journey to England, possibly interested in developing trade relations. Once in England, they were for one week put on display for paying visitors, a common practice experienced by many Indigenous visitors to Europe from the 1500s into the early 1800s. George Cartwright likely hoped to recoup some of the journey costs. They were a sensation in London, drawing large crowds and the attention of King George III and other important figures of the day. In February 1773, George Cartwright took the Inuit family away from London to Marnham, his childhood home in Nottinghamshire. It was here that Catherine Cartwright, George's sister, had many opportunities to be in the company of the Inuit family. She was fascinated by them and recorded their physical appearance as well as insightful character descriptions in her diary, as the following excerpt shows: 'All the Indians have bright black eyes and dark complexions. Cauboic is very handsome, with an uncommon degree of sense, sweetness, sprightliness, and sensibility, and of ease and gentility in all her actions and motions, & on our farther acquaintance, I found in her untutored soul native modesty, worth, and honour, with a peculiar quickness of apprehension, innocent vivacity, and affectionate temper, and engaging manner. Tooklavinia, her husband, is sensible, good-tempered, honest, disinterested, & agreeable to everybody but his wife, who hates and fears him to excess, nor has he much love for her, tho he ran away with her even against her own consent. But from what I was able to judge, he would be fonder of her, if she could reconcile herself to him. Ettinyak has handsome features, and a countenance remarkably sensible and penetrating. Econgohe, his wife, is a plain little un-genteel woman, but very shrewd & ingenious, this woman has a selfish and unpleasing temper. Ikkyuma is a striking likeness of her father in feature, countenance and complexion, & already shews an amazing fine understanding, she is very pretty, every soul doats upon her.' (Stopp 2009:56, quoting Cartwright 1909:126)Unfortunately the trip did not end well. The Inuit party contracted smallpox in the early summer of 1773, just before they were due to leave for Labrador with Cartwright. Tragically, all but Caubvick died. A few months later Caubvick regained enough strength to make the journey home with Cartwright, however it is thought that she carried the infection back to Labrador, where further Inuit became infected.Other 18th century Labrador Inuit had made similar journeys to England, however most were not as well documented as the trip made by this group. In addition to the written detailed accounts about them there are also several known portraits. An amateur watercolour of an Inuit woman, thought to be Caubvick, which is in the collection of Library and Archives Canada (see Fig. 5, p.59 in Eighteenth Century Labrador Inuit in England by Marianne P. Stopp), shows striking similarities in its style to the present work. Perhaps this drawing is by the same hand. However, it is clear from the annotations around the figures that the artist was a member of the Cartwright family, as the woman in a blue dress sitting amongst the group of Inuit is labelled as 'Aunt Catherine'. We are not aware of any other depictions of Attuiock's family with Catherine Cartwright and as such we believe this is a rare testimony to a remarkable story.For further reading on this subject please see Eighteenth Century Labrador Inuit in England by Marianne P. Stopp and 'Our Amazing Visitors': Catherine Cartwright's Account of Labrador Inuit in England by M. Stopp and G. Mitchell.We are grateful to Marianne Stopp for her assistance with cataloguing this work.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![JAPANESE EXPLORATIONSHIRASE (NOBU) Chisima Tanken-Roku [Records of Chisima], second edition, text in Japanese, 3 full-page,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b6f0ad54-212f-4204-9705-aef900e1376a/6465c251-bbfb-4f0e-ab43-aef900e2a31f/468x382.jpg)
JAPANESE EXPLORATIONSHIRASE (NOBU) Chisima Tanken-Roku [Records of Chisima], second edition, text in Japanese, 3 full-page, blue-tinted illustrations (one with long tear), 8-page advertisements printed on purple paper, publisher's pictorial wrappers, price label on upper cover, some soiling, short tear to upper cover, spine repaired [Ross 1.1.2], 8vo, Aichi, Kasuagi, 1901Footnotes:The second edition, described by Shirase bibliographer Chet Ross as 'very rare', of the first book written by Nobu Shirase, celebrated pioneer of Polar exploration. It is an account of his part in the ill-fated two-year expedition led by Captain Shigetada Gunji in 1893 to the Kuril Islands, an archipelago north of Japan. On landing on the north-eastern-most island of Senshu the crew members established themselves in a cave, resulting in the death of 10 men. Shirase and five others were left to overwinter, but with inadequate nutrition three of the party died from scurvy, before the final survivors were rescued by a ship sent by the governor of Hokkaido.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BRUCE (WILLIAM SPEIRS) - SCOTIA EXPEDITIONStation Log of the S.Y. 'Scotia,' 1902-1904, 24pp., stapled as issued, marked 'In Private Use. R.S.C.' in ink on upper cover, spotting to first and final leaf, RARE [not in Rosove], 4to, [Edinburgh, Scottish Oceanographical Laboratory, c.1913]Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE EARLY PROOF COPY OF PART 1 OF THE SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE S.Y. SCOTIA EXPEDITION. 'William S. Bruce, expedition leader, had intended the first volume of the Reports [see following lot] to be 'Narrative of the Log of the Scotia...' written by Bruce himself, but owing to lack of funds this was never published, apart from this ephemeral stapled 'Station List' with full data on weather, positionings, etc. and just a few 'Other Remarks'. These include such details as 'Attempt to land at St. Paul's Rock... 8 sharks', 'Saw green ray well', 'Prion and Wilson's petrels', 'Emperor Penguin 75lbs', and 'Wire fouled ice and on ship, hauled in again'.'The printers' proof for the log was only ready in 1913, and by this time money for publishing had dried up', so the publication was halted, the Log remaining in an archive of material donated to SPRI in 1947, where rediscovered by a research associate Peter Speak, who eventually 'published it in 1992, nearly ninety years after it had been started' (Williams and Dudeney, William Speirs Bruce. Forgotten Polar Hero, 2018).Provenance: 'In Private Use. R.S.C.', ink inscription on upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MOORE (JOSEPH)Eighteen Views Taken at & Near Rangoon; [MARRYAT (FREDERICK) AND SAMUEL THORNTON. Six Coloured Prints, Illustrative of the Combined Operations of the British Forces in the Birman Empire, 1824 & 1825], 2 works bound in 1 vol., engraved pictorial dedication leaf incorporating the title to first work, engraved pictorial list of subscribers, and 3pp. lithographed list of 'Subscriptions in India', together 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates by H. Pyall, G.Hunt, T. Fielding and others after Joseph Moore, Samuel Thornton, and Frederick Marryat, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt morocco lettering label on upper cover, worn, upper joint split [Abbey Travel 404 ('rare work'); Tooley 334], oblong folio (355 x 485mm.), Thomas Clay, [1825-26]; with the 2 rare accompanying volumes of 'Notes', one with folding lithographed map, publisher's printed wrappers, one cover detached, small 4to, T.Clay, [1825-6] (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TRIPE (LINNAEUS)'Prome. A Small Pagoda', Burma (Myanmar), albumen print from a waxed-paper negative, mounted on original card, with printed label caption beneath ('No. 5.... The carved wood work has been stripped off. The centre building is of white stucco, gilt in ornamental parts'), image 255 x 330mm., [1855]Footnotes:'In 1855, following the conclusion of the Anglo-Burmese War of 1852, a diplomatic mission was sent by the Indian Government to the Burmese court at Ava. The expedition offered rare access to the little known territories of Upper Burma... [The] official photographer was the Madras Army officer Linnaeus Tripe, who, in the course of the journey up the Irrawaddy River, took over 200 photographs on large paper negatives' (British Library, online resource), a selection of which were published in 1857. Representing some of the earliest and most celebrated photographs of Myanmar, the continuing influence of Tripe's images was confirmed by Thomas Ruff's appropriation of them for his series 'Tripe|Ruff' in 2018.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CARPENTER (PERCY)Hog Hunting in Lower Bengal, FIRST EDITION, tinted lithographed title with large hand-coloured vignette and dedication to the The Calcutta Tent Club, 8 hand-coloured lithographed plates, all mounted on printed card as issued, occasional light spotting, 2 or 3 short marginal tears repaired to margin to 2 leaves of text and one plate, publisher's cloth, rebacked in morocco [Czech, Asian, p.44; Schwerdt I, p.97], folio (515 x 365mm.), Day and Son, 1861Footnotes:RARE. 'One of the few books on pig-sticking and very difficult to find in good condition' (Schwerdt). The drawings were taken from sketches made during a meet held by the Calcutta Tent Club in March 1860 on the Sowerra Burrea Plains, near Tumluk, 50 miles south east of Calcutta. The hunt lasted three days during which time thirty-seven hogs were killed'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
COLEBROOK (ROBERT HYDE)Twelve Views of Places in the Kingdom of Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, from Drawings taken on the Spot, FIRST EDITION, 12 uncoloured aquatint plates with accompanying leaf of descriptive text, list of subscribers, dedication leaf, text leaves watermarked 'J. Whatman' and 'J. Taylor', light spotting and soiling, red morocco gilt, slight wear [Abbey Travel 419 (with coloured plates, and date 1794); Tooley 149], oblong folio (600 x 490mm.), for the Author, 1793Footnotes:RARE FIRST ISSUE, DATED TO 1793, UNRECORDED IN ABBEY AND ESTC. The plates in this copy are all dated several months earlier than those in Abbey's copy - ranging from February to July 1793, as opposed to August 1793 to January 1794. The order of the plates also differs.Provenance: Henry Barrett-Lennard; Walter Combermere Lee Floyd, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DALZELL (RONALD, EARL OF CARNWATH), EDITORLoyal Rulers and Leaders of the East. A Record of their Services in the Great War, EDITION DE LUXE IN SPECIAL BINDING, photogravure frontispieces of King George V and Queen Mary, numerous photographic portraits of Indian rulers throughout by Vandyk, Bassano, W. & D. Downey, F.A. Swaine, and others, publisher's full red morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with green and dark blue morocco onlays elaborately tooled, spine tooled with lettering in six compartments within raised bands, gilt dentelles, green silked endpapers, g.e., preserved in original fabric lined solander box (rubbed), FINE BRIGHT COPY, large 4to (304 x 230mm.), Zaehnsdorf Ltd., 1922Footnotes:RARE EDITION DE LUXE IN A 'SPECIAL BINDING BY ZAEHNSDORF' of a well-illustrated record of the rulers and chiefs of the India, Ceylon and Malaya whose involvement in the Great War as a 'potent factor in the success of the Allied cause is now a matter of history' (Foreword).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
D'OYLY (CHARLES)Views of Calcutta and its Environs, FIRST EDITION, lithographed pictorial title, 27 views on 25 tinted lithographed plates (one folding) by W. Robert and Lowes Dickinson after D'Oyly, ALL HAND-COLOURED, some heightened with gum arabic, paper guards, some spotting, front free endpaper torn, publisher's red half morocco over cloth, the upper cover gilt-blocked with illustration and title, worn with some loss to lower part of spine [Abbey Travel 497; Tooley 187], large folio (695 x 500mm.), Dickinson, 1848Footnotes:RARE ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, WITH ALL THE PLATES HAND-COLOURED.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TAYLER (WILLIAM)Sketches Illustrating the Manners & Customs of the Indians & Anglo Indians Drawn on Stone from the Original Drawings from Life, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, title, dedication leaf to Lady William Bentinck, 6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J. Bouvier after Tayler, each with letterpress description, some toning to plates (3 with minor loss to lower fore-corner), heavy spotting and foxing to text leaves, some light spotting to plate margins, contents loose in publisher's morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, loss to most of spine [Abbey Travel 465; Colas 2858], folio (540 x 375mm.), Thomas McLean, 1842Footnotes:RARE suite of plates, captioned: The Young Civilian's Toilet; The Young Lady's Toilet; The Breakfast; The Women Grinding at the Mill; The Sunyasees; The Village Barber.William Tayler (1808–1892), educated at Charterhouse, arrived in Bengal in 1829, where he served in various capacities for the East India Company. 'A keen amateur dramatist and skilful caricaturist, but while his witty portraits of Anglo-Indian notables won him some influential friends in Calcutta, the light-hearted nature of his artistic pursuits earned for him a reputation as a somewhat flighty, unserious officer' (ODNB).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Boxed Britains very rare set 35 M.G. - produced from 1937-1939 only and the largest Garden set produced by Britains, contains over 100 pieces, and over 50 flowers, with seed trays, 2 gardeners, crazy paving, rockery sections, garden walls, cold frames, pergola, grass, etcera, etcetera, all G-VG original condition restrung onto later thick card, box missing originalk insert tray, but otherwise complete lid split at all 4 corners, label dirty, base sides slightly faded but no damage,,
Timpo Toys rare boxed 3pce Cowboy and Indian sets C.S.1 and I.S.1 in plain pink boxes with contents label, contents are ex-Stoddart produced by Timpo upon Stoddart's demise, cowboy horse has broken leg, piece still present, otherwise figures VG still strung into their boxes, cowboy box worn, 1 hole and 1 tear to lid, 1 tear to base, otherwise boxes complete but worn, (2 boxed sets),
Wend-al of Blandford aluminium Nativity figures including very rare 2 piece baby Jesus in crib, with a Quiralu lying camel, all pieces with original paper labels apart from donkey, cow, Quiralu camel and crib, shepherd in brown F, all others VG original condition (14 counting baby and crib, and shepherd with camel, each as one),
Teeny Toys rare Lord Mayors Coach (2) including a boxed rare clockwork version coach and a clockwork version coal cart, both mechanisms work but require oiling, box missing both ends, non-clockwork version missing rear footman, coal cart is missing one small part to hold the shaft in place, otherwise both coaches playworn but complete, cart VG, (3 models),
Eebee Salco horse drawn vehicles comprising Circus cage, 2 X Brewer's Dray, 1 is complete but back gate is not original, other is missing 4 barrels, ladder and gate, 2 X Gypsy Caravans, 1 is complete but front wheels are loose, other is missing driver and rear steps, a Charbens rare 2-wheel diecast cart, and a few random spare pieces, models F-G, faults as described otherwise slightly playworn, (6 models),
A selection of Britains 1st version mounted figures comprising 21st Lancers from set 100 on pony horses (4), set 94 21st Lancers (3), set 108 the 6th Dragoons (2), set 8 the 4th Hussars (3), set 23 the 5th Lancers officer and trooper, a rare 17th Lancers officer and a trooper from set 73, Middlesex Yeomanry officer and troopers (2) from set 83, a set 31 1st Dragoon, overall 3 legs, 3 lance arms, 1 tail, 3 swords, 2 rifle tips missing, otherwise playworn but complete (20),
A Rare Johillco Mechanised Army Defence Set 26042/45, comprising Caterpillar Tank, Mobile Anti-Aircraft Gun, Mobile Searchlight, Long Range Cannon, strung on original card within original box, E, contents appear to have never been removed, one tank track misshapen, box P-F, lid end removed but present
A Rare Ducon Tinplate Clockwork Fire Tender Truck, assembled Ducon (Dubilier Condenser Co. Ltd) painted tinplate constructor fire engine, brass radiator grille, operational steering, hinged side-opening bonnet, clockwork motor driving rear wheels, with power take-off to water pump and key, approx 370mm in length, F, solder repair to front suspension
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