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Click here to subscribeA Collection of Drawing Instruments, including a 19th century Japanned tin drawing set by W H Harling, London, containing an ivory sector, ivory scale rule, ivory parallel rule, boxwood rules, ivory handled compasses and nickel silver instruments, together with later drawing sets and instruments
America. De Fer (Nicolas), L’Amerique Meridionale et Septentrionale Dressée selon les dernieres Relations et suivant les nouvelles Decouvertes....., Paris, 1705, engraved map with contemp. outline colouring, engraved by H.van Loon, elborate b & w cartouche and mileage scale, insular California, very slight staining, 465 x 600 mm. R.V.Tooley, The Mapping of America, page. 126, no. 60 (state 2). (1)
* British Isles. Speed (John), Britain as it was Devided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons especially during their Heptarchy, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676. hand coloured engraved map, vertical margins decorated with fourteen engraved historical vignettes, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, old folds, occ. repaired closed tears, left hand vertical margin trimmed with slight loss and re-margined, 390 x 510 mm, English text on verso, framed, mounted and double glazed. (1)
* Estate Plan. Gent (William), ..... a Mapp of ......hford Parke Lying in the Parishes of Rigate and Buckland in Com. Surr. Parcel of the Possessions of the Right Honble. Thomas Ld. Windesor, Surveyd in April Anno Domini 1678, pen, ink and watercolour on vellum, decorative strapwork cartouche, coat of arms, tables of reference, compass rose and distance scale, some dust soiling, slight creasing and cockling, occ. marginal tears, two areas of loss affecting image, 520 x 590 mm, framed and glazed. (1)
Glamorganshire. Saxton (Christopher and Lea Philip), Glamorganshire Discribed by CS, Corrected and Amended by P.Lea, n.d., c.1689, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plans of Cardiff and Llandaff, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 335 x 485 mm, mounted. A clean bright example of an uncommon map. (1)
Maps. Norden (John & Kip William), Surrey olim sedes Regnorum, n.d., c.1637, hand coloured engraved map, strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, thread margins, laid on later card, 290 x 380 mm, together with Hole (William), Scotia Regnum, n.d., c.1610, hand coloured engraved map, decorative strapwork cartouche, compass rose and numerous rhumb lines, 270 x 325 mm, laid on later card, plus Mitchell (Augustus), County Map of the State of New York, pub. Pennsylvania, 1865, engraved map with contemp. hand colouring, inset town plans of Buffalo, Rochester, West Troy, Albany and the Harbour and Vicinity of New York, occ. marginal closed tears, 355 x 540 mm, and Stow (John, pub.), Creplegate Ward with its Divisions into Parishes, taken from the last Surveys with Additions and Corrections, 1755, hand coloured engraved map, with tables of explanation, 305 x 360 mm, mounted, with three others similar. (7)
Montgomeryshire. Speed (John), Montgomery Shire, pub. Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, c.1676, uncoloured engraved map, inset town plan of Montgomery, elaborate strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, frayed along central fold with slight loss, 390 x 515 mm, English text on verso, together with eight uncoloured engraved Welsh county maps by J.Archer, each approx. 190 x 240 mm, with Morden (Robert), Herefordshire, n.d. [1695 or later], hand coloured engraved map, 360 x 420 mm, plus Saxton (Christopher & Kip William & Hole William), Caernarvo Comitatus pars olim Ordovicum (2), Caermardi Comitatus in quo Dimetae olim habitarunt (3) [and] Radnor Comitatus quem Silvres Olim Incoluerunt (3), n.d., c.1637, eight uncoloured engraved maps, each approx. 270 x 325 mm. (18)
* Nottinghamshire. Speed (John), The Countie of Nottingham described, The Shire Townes Situation and the Earls there of observed, pub. C.Dicey & Co., n.d., c.1770, hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Nottingham, elaborate strapwork cartouche and mileage scale, 380 x 505 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. (1)
* Wiltshire. Speed (John), Wilshire, pub. Henry Overton, n.d., c.1710, hand coloured engraved map, heightened with gold, inset town plan of Salisbury and vignette view of Stonehenge, strapwork cartouche, mileage scale and compass rose, old folds, 380 x 500 mm, mounted, framed and glazed. (1)
* Worcestershire. Speed (John), Worcestershire Described, pub. John Sudbury & George Humble, 1st ed., [1611], hand coloured engraved map, inset town plan of Worcester, elaborate strapwork cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, English text on verso, mounted, framed and double glazed. (1)
Antiphonal. Antiphonale pro toto tempore adventus Domini et pro tempore quadragesimale, Low Countries, mid 18th c., a large and impressive folio antiphonal in manuscript on Honig & Villedary paper, watermarked with fleur-de-lys and shield (Churchill 429 & 437), carefully written in large-scale red & black ink throughout, consisting of title leaf and 354 pages, with musical notation on a five line stave in red, few corrections and small paper repairs, a number of leaves blank at end, contemp. full calf over wooden boards, engraved & chased brass corner pieces and central bosses featuring a repeated motif of a stylised dragon, spine with three stout leather strengthening pieces with riveted brass strips to each side (probably contemporary), with clasps (upper clasp defective), rubbed and some minor wear, large folio (50 x 31cm). The manuscript is the work of two female scribes from a Dutch or Belgian religious order, and their names are given on pages 303 and 353 as Vrauw Augustine van der Roer and Vrauw Francoise van Damme. (1)
* Anglo-Chinese School. Chinese musicians, & Buddhist Monks in a Courtyard, early 19th c., together two large-scale pen, ink & watercolour drawings on paper, heightened with white body colour, 37 x 41 cm (14.5 x 16.25 ins), later matching gilt faux bamboo frames, glazed. The first work is titled below the image ‘Musicians’, and the second is captioned ‘This is called “Chun Fa” in Chinese. Monks performing religious ceremonies and saying their prayers while running about at the vacant spot at 9 o’clock every night. This is only for the travellers’ amusement’. (2)
A Late 18th/Early 19th Century Portuguese Small Blunderbuss, the 24.5cm steel barrel with chiselled martial trophy to the breech, tendril engraved lock plate and trigger guard, with curved saddle bar, the hardwood full stock carved with scale work and inlaid with flowerheads, leaves and tendrils in silver wire
A 19th Century Six Shot Pepperbox Pistol, with 6.5cm steel barrels, bar hammer, rounded action and chequered walnut grip, inoperative; a G Sharp`s Patent Four Barrel Pocket Pistol, the 7.5cm steel barrels sliding forward for loading, the brass frame stamped Sharp`s & Co., Philadelphia to one side, the opposing side stamped G Sharp`s Patent 1859, action and one ebonised grip scale missing (2)
Scarce half bound book by William H Ritson Thames Embankment Officem hand writted and dated 1865, containing extensive notes and detailed scaled plans and drawings of the construction and design of the Thames Embankment, including sewage systems, scale drawings of apparatus, measurements, lists of materials etc.
A large late 19th Century Thomas Webb & Sons cameo glass Jardinaire of footed ovoid form with lobed body and flared collar cased in a graduated crushed strawberry over an opal ground and cut with a repeat scale pattern between gilded borders, enamelled RD 41925 mark, height 16.5 cm. ILLUSTRATED
A comprehensive draughtsman`s drawing set incl a 6" ivory sector and a combination ivory parallel and scale rule both by J ARCHBUTT, 3 ivory handled pens, an unusual extending swivel head compass, a proportional compass signed J ARCHBUTT etc. all in German silver and the orig set of paints on the under tray, all in orig d/t walnut box by J Archbutt, minor rust spots to a couple of pieces o/w G++
Late eighteenth century Newhall hard paste porcelain tea/coffee set, chinoiserie decorated with scenes of figures in garden, pink scale floral and foliate panels, pattern no. 425, circa 1795-1800, comprising oval teapot and having pink highlights to the spout and handle, cream jug, slop bowl, four coffee cans, six smaller tea bowls, two larger tea bowls, twelve saucers and two small plates, (some af)
A 19th century mahogany cased brass sextant by Troughton of London c.1895, no. 1087, of 8in. radius, the pierced patinated frame with vernier for the signed silver inset brass scale, fine adjustment and magnification lens, telescope opposing two sets of filters, ebonised handle to underside, signed `Captn. J. N. Campbell R. N.` to the end of arm, in the original baize lined mahogany case with accessories and Kew Observatory test certificate dated Sept. 1895.
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