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Lot 163
Craig (Sir Thomas). Scotland's Soveraignty Asserted ... Translated from the Latin Manuscript ... by Geo. Ridpath, 1st edition, London: printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey, 1695. 8vo (180 x 105 mm), 19th-century 'divinity' calf, rubbed, title-page laid down, bound without pi2 (probably an advertisement leaf as in the variant imprint), leaves F3-4 transposed, 2E3 misbound after 2E5, together with:Foulis Press. Le Siège de Calais, tragédie. Par M. de Belloy. Représentée pour la première fois par les comédiens français ordinaires du roi, le 13 février 1765, 1st Foulis edition, Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1765. Small 8vo (156 x 90 mm), contemporary calf, advertisement leaf to rear, rear blank and free endpaper working loose,and 6 other works (not collated), including Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, Dublin, 1781 (2 volumes, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked), Cervantes, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha ... 6th edition, London, 1783 (4 volumes, contemporary calf, covers detached, engraved plates, book-labels of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft, c.1765-1821), D. J. Thomson Gray, The Dogs of Scotland, 1st edition, Dundee, 1891 (original cloth), and similar (qty: 13)Footnote: ESTC R228219 (Craig: seven copies in UK libraries), T174176 (Foulis Press, rare: six copies in libraries world-wide).
Lot 182
Medieval English manuscript. Illuminated folding almanac on vellum, southern England, c.1425. In Latin, written in a small legible bookhand in brown and red ink on 6 vellum leaves (folded dimensions approx. 135 x 40 mm, each except perhaps f. 5 opening ideally into six panels, dimensions when opened 270 x 120 mm), ruled in brown ink, prick-marks in margins, all leaves stitched together at foot and attached to alum-tawed leather thong, retaining but detached from original silk-lined leather covering (probably deerskin), a few small holes, mainly to intersections of folds.Contents and illumination:ff. 1-3: calendar of saints' days for March-September (i.e. only half of f.1 extant, lacking the half with January-February on flesh and hair sides respectively, leaf for October-December not present), divided into columns showing times of sunrise and sunset, sun's position in the Zodiac, Dominical letters for days of the week, and saints' days and festivals, illustrated with a total of 7 illuminated initials in gold on red and blue ground (20 x 15 mm; one for each month extant), one panel of each leaf with headings in red or brown ink incorporating decorative initials in blue amid penwork surrounds in red,ff. 4-5: tables of solar and lunar eclipses, with 64 diagrams in red, blue and gold (each approx. 16 mm in diameter), one panel of each leaf with headings as above,f. 6: large illuminated miniature of the Zodiac man (image rubbed and marked, leaf retaining only two panels apparently of six, but with only minor loss of image, the three missing upper panels presumably containing text only) (qty: 1)Provenance: available on request.Footnote: An extremely rare survival, one of perhaps 30 examples of an English folding almanac known to be extant, nearly all of which are confined to major institutional collections; intended for practical use by physicians, who used astrological calculations to establish prognoses and the most auspicious timings for medical interventions, their form allowed them to be suspended from the waist for quick reference, hence the alternative name of 'girdle book'.'From an analysis of the saints' days and festivals it would appear that [the present] calendar was made for use in the Canterbury diocese (thus confirming the south England emphasis of the astronomical calculations' e.g. St Augustine of Canterbury, in red, on 26th May, the Translation of the relics of St Thomas on 7th July, St David 1st March, St Chad, 2nd March (both of whose feasts were made obligatory in 1398), St Dunstan, on 19th May, St John of Beverley on 7th March [sic: really 7th May], and other English saints' (J. P. Harthan, Assistant Keeper of the Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, typescript description, 1960, provided with the lot).'Folded almanacs must have been common in later medieval England; however, few still exist, because of their small size and the wear and tear caused by folding and unfolding them. Most of those that do survive seem to have been intended for physicians, yet others seem to have been produced for less sophisticated users ... Astrology had a vital role in medieval medicine, because an understanding of the stars was believed to be essential to determine the best timing for various medical procedures' (Pamela Robinson, 'A "very curious Almanack": the gift of Sir Robert Moray FRS, 1668', Notes and Records of the Royal Society (2008), Vol. 62, pp. 301-314).Further reading: Cornelius O'Boyle, 'Astrology and Medicine in Later Medieval England: The Calendars of John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn', Sudhoffs Archiv 2005), Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 1–22; C. H. Talbot, 'A Mediaeval Physician's Vade Mecum', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 3 (July, 1961), pp. 213-233.Condition report: It appears that the manuscript is lacking:Half the first leaf of the calendar (i.e. three panels, containing January-February)The entire fourth leaf (containing October-December)Four of six panels from the final leaf (Zodiac man)The fifth leaf (showing lunar eclipses) is in three panels only but it is unclear what if anything is absent.
Lot 199
Wheatley (Dennis, 1897-1977). Collection of signed letters to Eileen Cond, 1933-71. 31 in total, of which 19 autograph, the rest typed, all signed ‘Dennis’ or ‘Dennis Wheatley’, all on his personalised stationery, various extents (1-4 pp.), a handful of letters with rust-marks from paperclips, overall in very good condition (qty: 31)Footnote: A group of warm and candid letters to eccentric autograph collector and hotelier Eileen Cond (1911-1984), dating back to the very beginning of Wheatley’s career. He provides detailed updates on the progress, publication and sales of his books and novels, and freely imparts his opinions on their relative merits: ‘I am glad to say that “Such Power is Dangerous” has already gone into it’s [sic] 3rd impression and generally speaking the reviews have been most kind. Personally I do not like it as much “The Forbidden Territory” but there is plenty of excitement in it and some people seem to like it better' (June 1933); ‘I am particularly attached to “Old Rowley” because it is a book that I have wanted to write all my life, but “Black August” is by far the most ambitious thing which I have attempted yet’ (January 1934). Of particular interest is a splenetic four-page critique of the screen version of The Forbidden Territory, which Wheatley believed to have been bowdlerised to avoid upsetting Russia, newly acceded to the League of Nations (December 1934). A great bibliophile himself, Wheatley also muses on book collecting and the future value of his own works: ‘[The Forbidden Factory] may possibly be of some interest by the time you are an old lady of eighty – just because it is a first edition of a first book – and in this particular instance […] half the number were issued without the map and the bulk of the remainder went to the libraries where they will be battered out of recognition. If it does therefore ever become of any interest copies in mint state will be very rare indeed’ (April 1933).
Lot 226
Suffragettes; Winston S. Churchill. The Man's Case against giving a Million Votes to Women. Edited from the Speeches delivered in the House of Commons on the Second Reading of the Parliamentary Franchise (Women) Bill, 1st edition, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. 8vo, original wrappers, [8] 113 pp., wear to spine, corner of rear wrapper torn, contents browned (qty: 1)Footnote: A rare survival. Contains 'The Undemocratic Nature of the Bill to give a Million Votes to Women. By the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, M.P.'Condition report: Wrappers beginning to separate from spine
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Lot 36
Harris (Moses). [The Aurelian: Or, Natural History of English Insects; namely, Moths and Butterflies]. L'Aurélien: ou histoire naturelle des chenilles, chrysalides, phalènes et papillons anglois, London: J. Edwards, 1794. Folio (404 x 300 mm), 19th-century green half morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments with butterfly tools, marbled sides, all edges gilt, pp. 145 [5], text in English and French, hand-coloured engraved title-page (in French only, as issued), 45 hand-coloured engraved plates (including unnumbered diagrammatic plate), text and plates both watermarked J Whatman 1794, tissue-guards, spotting to endpapers, title-page slightly spotted and with ownership inscription abraded from top margin causing small hole, plate 35 with repair to top margin extending into plate number, short closed tear to fore margin of plate 37, light spots and marks to margins of a few other plates (qty: 1)Footnote: ESTC T163472; Lisney 234.Third edition, first issue, rare: ESTC traces two copies only world-wide, at Bristol Central Library and the John Rylands Library. Manchester. The text was 'entirely reset with slight alterations'; the plates were printed from the same blocks as the first edition of 1766, albeit with the minor alterations to numbers 38 and 39 introduced for Lisney's second edition, third issue.
Lot 51
Greene (William Thomas). Parrots in Captivity, 1st edition, London: George Bell and Sons, 1884-7. 3 volumes, 8vo, original blue-green morocco-grain cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, 81 chromoxylographic plates, gift inscriptions dated 1914, bookplates of Eric Hosking, plate facing volume 1 p. 77 secured with linen tape in gutter verso, volume 3 plates occasionally offset, frontispiece and second plate spotted (qty: 3)THE LIBRARY, PICTURES & CAMERA COLLECTION OF ERIC HOSKING OBE HON. FRPS FBIPP (1909-1991)Footnote: Zimmer p. 274.Without the very rare supplementary fourth volume as usual: this was started in 1888 but only two parts with a total of nine plates were issued. Sets are also encountered in a much plainer cloth binding without the morocco grain or blind panel-stamps to the spine-compartments and covers, these presumably representing a later issue.
Lot 7
Camden (William). The Abridgment of Camden's Britannia. With the Maps of the sevrall Shires of England and Wales, London: John Bill, 1626. Oblong 8vo (185 x 138 mm), 19th-century half calf, signatures pi2 a-c4 [A-E]4 F-N4 (initial blank, pi1, discarded), engraved allegorical title-page, engraved map 'A Tipe of England' to b4 v., 51 engraved county maps (each with strapwork title cartouche), woodcut initials and headpieces, 19th-century ownership inscription to binder's blank, loss to marbled paper on covers, variable faint damp-staining to fore margins (slightly stronger in quires H and M-N), a few small worm-trails to top and fore margins not affecting maps or text, a few leaves closely trimmed just shaving c1 signature-mark and catchword, c4 headline (verso), D4 ('Glocester Shire') headline and H2 ('Darby Shire') signature-mark, title-page with small stain to corner of image, fore edge unevenly shaved and small hole to lower margin, H4 ('York Shire') with short nick at foot, a few minor blemishes elsewhere (qty: 1)Footnote: Chubb XLI; ESTC S107395.Rare miniature county atlas. ESTC traces twelve copies in libraries world-wide and it is postulated that only 200 copies were printed. The maps are notable for being the first of the English and Welsh counties to show longitude and latitude.
Lot 1442
Collection of WWI and WWII medals, emphera and miscellaneous military items to include:- medals - BWM (silver) F.J.Horwill No 7726 Devon Reg, BWM (silver) Cpl A Bovey No 4058 Devon Reg + Coronation medal, victory medal Spr J Maidment No 154022 RE & WWII, victory medal Pte H Minchin No 28441 Somerset.L.I + two cap badges (recorded in Frome Census).Emphera:- military training manuals, home guard pocket manuals, machine gun manual and other documents. Miscellaneous:- WWI RAF cap with badge and other army badges including Jellalabad items. WW1 battlefield relic, obsolete calibre officers revolver, magazine of inert 303 ammo, brass shell, rare brass ship mine finger detonator on wooden base etc. Silver trench wristwatch and pocket watch
Lot 2240
A RARE CHINESE SILVER INLAID IRON 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' ZHADOU LATE MING DYNASTY The compressed body and flared neck decorated with scenes of scholars and their attendants engaged in various activities by a lake, with bamboo, prunus, pine and rockwork dispersed throughout the setting, all raised on a short spread foot inlaid with simple flowers on a continuous band of waves, 519g, 11.4cm dia. Provenance: from a private collection, UK and USA, purchased from Sotheby & Co, London, on 13th May 1969, lot 18. The original label and a copy of the invoice are available. PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS TO BE OFFERED WITHOUT RESERVE
Lot 2515
A RARE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'MADAME DE POMPADOUR' WINE COOLER MID 18TH CENTURY The bell-shaped body with animal mask side handles, brightly painted with exotic flowers and foliage, with crests containing birds and fish, the borders with green and yellow bands, 27cm. Provenance: from an English private collection, Nottinghamshire.
Lot 2251
A RARE ZITAN FIGURE OF VAJRAYOGINI LATE QING DYNASTY Carved in a dynamic pose with a kapala in her raised left hand and a driguk knife in the right hand, adorned with a skull necklace and tiara and other ornate jewellery, standing on bodies of defeated deities with a mandorla of skulls and stylised flames behind her, raised on a lotus pedestal, the stand and mandorla possibly associated, 16cm. (2)
Lot 2516
A RARE CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'MADAME DE POMPADOUR' HANGING POTPOURRI VASE AND COVER MID 18TH CENTURY The shoulder pierced with eight vertical suspension holes, the body brightly painted with exotic flowers and foliage, with crests containing birds and fish, the borders with green and yellow bands, 22cm. (2) Provenance: from an English private collection, Nottinghamshire.
Lot 11
Shirley Eaton Handsigned Inscribed 10x8 Black and White photo. Inscribed with Im Beginning to like you Mr Bond. A rare photo with this iconic quote. Very Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 34
Shirley Eaton Handsigned Inscribed 10x8 Colour photo. Inscribed with Im Beginning to like you Mr Bond. A rare photo with this iconic quote. Very Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 20
Shirley Eaton Handsigned Inscribed 10x8 Colour photo. Inscribed with Im Beginning to like you Mr Bond. A rare photo with this iconic quote. Very Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 238
James Bond 8x10 Goldfinger photo signed with RARE hand written quote Im beginning to like you Mr Bond by Shirley Eaton. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 243
James Bond 8x10 Goldfinger photo signed with RARE hand written quote Im beginning to like you Mr Bond by Shirley Eaton. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 4
Shirley Eaton Handsigned Inscribed 10x8 Colour photo. Inscribed with Im Beginning to like you Mr Bond. A rare photo with this iconic quote. Very Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 7
Shirley Eaton Handsigned Inscribed 10x8 Colour photo. Inscribed with Im Beginning to like you Mr Bond. A rare photo with this iconic quote. Very Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 206
A rare Crystal Palace pin wheel, with pins in pressed yellow paper centred by a view and inscribed 'The Crystal Palace London - Exhibition Pins For All Nations - 1851 - Peace On Earth And Good Will To Men - Peyton and Iles London and Birm - Iles's Patent', 6.5cms dia. From the collectionof Enid Riley Part 2
Lot 260
Two rare Convent pin cushions, comprising a diamond form example, the card cover painted with a spray of flowers and inscribed 'A Trifle from the Convent', the reverse as a folding paper puzzle case one triangular section lacking, ribbon suspension, 3.6cms sq., and another similar with pressed floral printed and painted card cover, the reverse with a complete folding paper puzzle case painted and inscribed 'A Trifle from St Monicas Convent', ribbon suspension, 5cms sq. ± The last probably St Monicas Convent, Skipton, opened in 1861. A Connoisseur's Collection
Lot 279
A rare Regency red leather sewing box commemorating the Duke of Wellington's defeat of Napoleon 1813, the box of sarcophagal form raised on four brass ball and claw feet below scroll pierced corner mounts, the escutcheon, side carrying handles and lid mounts in the form of double headed eagles with sceptre and orb representing the badge of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards, the front fitted with a drawer. The interior with a printed silk lid lining depicting Wellington, standards, cannons and lion crushing Napoleon's standard inscribed 'Hancock - Sculp/Lines-Delin'. The lower section compartmentalised and fitted with two yellow silk and black printed pin cushions, two bone reels, two mother of pearl top reels, bone needle case, and other pieces, some pewter division inserts lacking, 26 x 19 x 14cms. ± On two significant occasions the Dragoon Guards changed the course of battle for the Duke and this is why their badge is often associated with him.
Lot 358
A rare French composition sewing companion modelled as the clown Albert Fratellini, the standing figure with green checked waist coat, exaggerated facial details and top hat, unscrewing at the waist and housing needle case including triple reel, signed in paint Cle Ber, complete with original rectangular card box covered in clown headed paper the interior with label 'les Fratellini Cle Ber Paris', box 10cms. ± Albert Fratellini (1886-1961) was born in Moscow to the Fratellini circus family, the Fratellini's were honoured by the President of France while at the Cirque Medarano and Albert was one of the country's best known clowns. From the collectionof Susan Franklin Part 1
Lot 41
Tunbridge ware - sewing - a rare rectangular pin cushion lid box incorporating a musical box, the sides with two bands of geometric mosaic. The musical box within the box and with a brass wire crank to the side playing a single tune, 7.2cms. ± This is the only item of Tunbridge ware incorporating a musical box that we have seen. From the collectionof Barbara Spicer
Lot 52
A rare early painted white wood Tunbridge ware cottage mounted sewing clamp, the 'C' frame painted with flowering leaf sprays, mounted to the side with a thatched cottage tape measure, the reduced silk tape inked in nails and flanked by two cottage form cotton barrels with conical roofs, the whole surmounted by a vase form pin cushion, 14cms.
Lot 56
A rare turned sycamore wool winder labelled and stamped for Thomas Barton, the dished and weighted circular base to a two part turned stem with four adjustable arms each with turned post below a wool ball cup, 17.5cms dia. at base, 22cms high, labelled to base 'T. Barton Late Nye Manufacturer, Mount Ephraim And Parade Tunbridge Wells', the four arms each with oval impressed stamp 'Thomas Barton Manufacturer Tunbridge Wells', one arm reduced, with only half of stamp visible, one post replaced. ± See lot 438 in our sale of 16 June 2021 for a purse making frame which carried a similar apparently previously unrecorded oval stamp 'T. Barton, Tunbridge Ware, Tunbridge Wells'. The undecorated and utilitarian nature of these pieces suggests that Barton may have been responsible for a range of 'utility' wares associated with sewing, aside to his more decorative wares. A passion for collecting lasting forty years Part 2
Lot 598
A rare early 19th Century bone knitting stick and two bone stilettos, probably French Napoleonic prisoner of war work, the stick of slightly curved form with belt clip to a square mount with diamond decoration below a turned needle mount, 9.4cms, the stilettos with file cut decoration, 10 and 9.5cms. (3) From the collectionof Susan Franklin Part 1
Lot 63
A rare early painted Tunbridge ware combination pin cushion and tape measure in the form of a Brighton Pavilion dome, the circular pin cushion base raised on three bun feet, the painted dome complete with original spindle wound pink silk tape measure inked in nails, tape worn with split at commencement, 7.5cms high, 4.5cms dia.
Lot 705
A rare cast metal and brass Avery needle packet box 'Elephant and Howdah', the standing elephant with brass girdle stamped 'W. Avery and Son Redditch' around the registration mark, brass casket on tray base, the pull off cover with a raised cartouche, 10cms wide, 9.2cms. ± See Meinke (Terry), a Guide to Collecting Avery Needle Cases, the top of the howdah has two slots indicating it originally had a hinged lid which is no longer present, however this lid appears to be correct and has certainly not been altered to fit the piece perhaps suggesting that the original design failed and this is an alternative version. See pages 140 (47) and 208. Registered May 27th 1880. A passion for collecting lasting forty years Part 2
Lot 749
A rare pair of 19th Century French silver figural standing needle cases in the form of a China man and lady, both in elaborate robes each holding a leaf spray in one hand, the man wearing a hat, and engraved to the rim of the base 'BF', each 8cms high. (2) ± Although there are variations, the man with a circular plain base, the lady with an engraved oval base, other details match as a pair particularly the necklaces, hand placement and costume elements, this is the first time we have seen this rare oriental version.
Lot 766
A rare dull brass fish form needle packet case, presumably for Avery, the fish hinged and with a catch, 8cms. ± See Horowitz (E) and Mann (R) - Victorian Brass Needlecases, Page 19, Plate 17, where the same fish is shown set against Avery's Patent. The fish case is also illustrated in Meinke (T) - a Guide To Collecting Avery Needle Cases, Page 142 (55) with details page 106/107 with the Patent date May 16th 1871.
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