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Lot 515
Porcelain figure with matte finish. Depicts vintage gray-scale Minnie Mouse from the 1931 short animated film, The Delivery Boy. Walt Disney Classic Collection backstamp. Certificate of Authenticity included. This item has its original box: 7.5"L x 7.5"W x 11.5"H. Issued: 1993Dimensions: 4"L x 3"W x 4.75"HManufacturer: Walt Disney ClassicsCountry of Origin: United StatesCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 645
Maurizio Cattelan (Italian, b. 1960), Massimiliano Gioni (Italian, b. 1973), and Ali Subotnick (American, b. 1972). Wood, brass, steel, aluminum, resin, plastic, glass, and electric lighting 1:6 scale reproduction of "The Wrong Gallery," once New York's smallest exhibition space, 2005. Published by Cerealart Multiples, Philadelphia. With the power cord and original box as well as one insert artwork. The artwork is a photo-silkscreen on glass with a resin frame by Elizabeth Peyton (American, b. 1965) titled "593 Napoleon After His Bath." The gallery is numbered 154/2500 along the underside.Height: 18 1/2 in x width: 11 1/2 in x depth: 6 3/4 in.Condition: The artwork is in good condition overall with no major issues. The lighting works though it has not been tested for prolonged use. Light wear throughout consistent with age and use. Some light wear to the box.
Lot 512
Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887-1985). Printed by Mourlot, Paris. Published by Society of Friends of the National Marc Chagall Biblical Message Museum, Nice, with the angel blind stamp along the top center margin. Signed and dated 1977 lithograph poster depicting a portion of his work "The Song of Songs III" printed to publicize the National Biblical Message Museum in Japan. With text in French and Japanese.Lot Essay:Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal}) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opera.Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern Europe and Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1923.He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." "When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is."Sight; height: 29 in x width: 19 in. Framed; height: 36 in x width: 25 1/4 in.Condition: No visible tears, creases, or losses. Light undulation throughout. The sheet is slightly toned. There is minute discoloration and foxing along the lower left quadrant and upper left margin. No signs of restoration under UV light. Framed under glass. Not examined out of frame. Light wear to frame.
Lot 1262
A fine and rare second quarter 20th Century Swiss centre-seconds two-day marine chronometer with detent escapement by Paul Ditisheim, la Chaux-de-Fonds, number 130, the three tier box with brass corners and recessed handles opening to reveal the 10cms silvered dial with up and down subsidiary wind marker over the bold signature 'PAUL DITISHEIM, LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS' and further marked 'Grand Prix Paris 1900; Grand Prix Berne 1914, 'Maker TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, HOLDER OF THE KEW AND TEDDINGTON RECORDS' and 'Maker TO THE UNITED STATES NAVY RECORD HOLDER NEUCHATEL OBSERVATORY 305 STATE PRIZES', the centre seconds hand reading against an outer Arabic scale marked in half-second increments, and enclosing the Roman and Arabic subsidiary time dial marked for hours and minutes, all framed by an angled sight ring, in a chromed bowl with integral winding key set to the underside, in chrome gimbals, the latter with a large hand-setting knob below the VI position, the lacquered movement signed in a rectangular reserve above 'CENTRAL SECOND MARINE CHRONOMETER seven swiss patents', on a cross-hatched background, the movement with a pair of circular plates mounted on the dialplate, united by turned pillars and with high beating balance wheel and detent escapement with blued steel spring and gold 'scape wheel in jewelled settings mounted on the backplate within a protective glazed cap, the three-arm balance bridge futher signed 'Guillaume Compensating Balance' and numbered 130, the outer box case with ivory plaque inscribed with maker's name, town and timepiece number, 18.5 x 18.5 x 20cms.Comparable literature:von Osterhausen: Paul Ditisheim Chronometrier, Antoine Simonin, 2003.Tony Mercer, Chronometer Makers of the World, NAG Press 1991Whitney, The Ship's Chronometer, AWI Press, 1985,von Bertele, Marine and Pocket Chronometers, Schiffer, 1991Gould, The Marine Chronometer, Its History and Development, ACC 1989.Notes: Ditisheim was a great pioneer in precision timekeeping in the early part of the last century. Mercer gives an excellent overview of the numerous prizes that were awarded to him. As well as making the smallest watch in the world for the Sultan of Oman, Ditisheim made huge improvements in the analysis and production of watch oils, investigated barometric compensation and wrote widely on other horological subjects and past makers. He was held in high esteem by his peers. Indeed, when Gould first published the standard work on chronometers in 1922, he included a picture of a very similar centre seconds chronometer in plate XXXVII as an example of modern chronometry with the following comments:"In closing this chapter, it may be of interest to give a short description of the new type of chronometer recently introduced by the firm of Paul Ditisheim, which contains a number of the devices just described.The machine, which is shown in Plate XXXVII, has, as will be noticed, a centre-seconds hand, the hours and minutes being shown on a subsidiary dial. The winding is affected by a permanently attached button at the bottom of the case, and mechanism is provided for setting the hour and minute hands in the same manner as those of a keyless watch. In addition, the balance and escapement are mounted so as to form a complete unit, and can at any time be detached (and if necessary, replaced by duplicates) without disturbing the remainder of the mechanism. The balance is of the "integral" type, with which M.Ditisheim's name has long been associated, and the escapement of the spring detent pattern, beating half seconds (although a lever escapement, beating fifths of a second, can be substituted). The machine has a gong-barrel and runs for 54 hours. experiments are, I understand, being directed towards providing later models with a barometric compensation, consisting of a moveable cap fitting over the balance.While, of course, extremely up-to-date and a very fine example of modern horological development, this design is, in a way, a complete compendium of the chronometer's history. It brings together Harrison's centre seconds hand and his provision for setting the hands, Kendall's and Cole's dials, Le Roy's going barrel, Barraud's attached key, Breguet's method of using interchangeable parts, Ulrich's plan of detachable escapement and balance, the escapements of Earnshaw and Mudge and Hutton's auxiliary. It supplies a convincing proof, if any were needed, that the development of the chronometer is by no means finished, and that while utilising to the full the knowledge of the present-day, much may also be gained from a study of the past."It is not known how many examples of these detent escapement chronometers were made by Ditisheim, but it would appear to be very few indeed. Number 230 is illustrated in Osterhausen p51, number 101 in Gould and number 112 in von Bertele.Self-declaration ivory reference NDRKD2P9
Lot 823
A Worcester scale blue coffee cup, circa 1770, with mirror and vase-shaped panels of flowers, script W mark in blue; two other Worcester cups; two Worcester style saucer dishes, 18cms; and a spoon tray with floral decoration on a blue and gilt ground, 15.5cms.Provenance: select items removed from Carrycoats Hall, Northumberland.
Lot 331
An Attractive Leyden Jar, American, c.1890, the lid impressed 'THE CHICAGO LABORATORY & SCALE SUPPY CO. CHICAGO I.L.' the clear glass hand blown jar with ground pontil mark, diamond-shaped internal and external zink conductors with French polished mahogany lod and brass conductor, height 31cm
Lot 342
Collection of 4 Victorian Inspectors Scale Sets, Comprising of; A small 7LB and 1LB set engraved for 'Lancashire County Council Wigan Divn' by De Grave & Co Makers London, in a fitted pine case, the scales with multiple exchequer and verification stamps, width 62cm, A large single 56LB tripod mounted scale engraved 'Borough of Burnley, for Outdoor Use' by De Grave & Co Makers London, in a fitted pine case, the scale with multiple exchequer and verification stamps, width 62cm, Large inspectors traveling scale set engraved 'Lancashire County Council, Kirkham Divn, by De Grave & Co Makers London, in a fitted pine case, the scale with multiple exchequer and verification stamps, in green painted pine case, width 76cm, Large inspectors traveling scale set engraved 'Lancashire County Council, Kirkham Divn, by De Grave & Co Makers London, in a fitted pine case, the scale with multiple exchequer and verification stamps, in green painted pine case, width 76cm, Large inspectors traveling scale set engraved 'Lancashire County Council, Seaforth Divn, by De Grave & Co Makers London, in a fitted pine case, the scale with multiple exchequer and verification stamps, in green painted pine case, width 76cm,
Lot 305
An Important Leitz AM Petrological Microscope From the Geological Survey, With Provenance, German, c.1936, engraved to the front of the body tube 'Ernst Leitz Wetzlar' and 'GS 280' (Geological Society) and engraved on most parts, objectives and eyepieces 'GS280', numbered on the card in the door 323053 the microscope standing on a large and heavy black enameled base, with locking adjustment to the incline, with plano-concave mirror focusing substage condenser with polariser, focusing stage to be used in conjunction with the vertical illuminator so as not to displace the position of the illuminator in relation to an external light source, stage with large removable central section so the microscope can be used with a Universal Stage, body tube with Bertrand lens (along with a hand-drawn chart ) with rack and pinion focusing, analyser with adjustment and scale, in a large wooden case with 7 Leitz objectives 6 of which are engraved GS280, a Berek Compensator engraved GS280 and engraved 1914 along with a hand-drawn chart (damaged), a cased mechanical stage, another Berek compensator engraved GS619 The microscope was sold by the Geological Society back in 1984 to Peter Aubry Sabine for £115.00 and comes with all of the paperwork relating to the sale. According to the records held by the British Geological Society the microscope was bought in 1936 presumably for Dr Phemister, who was recorded as having it in 1937. Dr. Phemister was appointed Official Petrographer in 1935, a post he held until he became Assistant Director in 1946. Dr James Phemister was a renowned geologist whose contributions to the field of earth sciences were significant. He was born in Scotland in 1903 and spent most of his life working as a geologist in the UK. Dr Phemister's expertise in the field of geology earned him a high reputation among his peers and the scientific community. Dr Phemister's career began at the University of Edinburgh, where he earned a degree in geology. He then went on to study at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained a PhD in 1928. After completing his studies, Dr Phemister joined the British Geological Survey, where he worked for over 30 years. During this time, he made significant contributions to the study of geology in the UK. Dr Phemister's work was not limited to the UK, however. He also worked on geological surveys in Africa and South America. In Africa, he worked on a geological mapping project in the Congo, where he discovered the presence of copper deposits. In South America, he worked on a project to map the geology of the Andes mountains, which helped to improve our understanding of the tectonic processes that shape mountain ranges. Dr Phemister was also an active member of the Geological Society of London, where he played an important role in the development of the society. He was elected a Fellow of the society in 1939 and served as its President from 1953 to 1955. During his tenure as President, Dr Phemister worked to increase the society's membership and promote the study of geology. Apart from his work with the Geological Society, Dr Phemister was also an accomplished author. He published several books on geology, including "The Geology of Central England" and "The Geology of the South Wales Coalfield." These books were instrumental in advancing our understanding of the geological history of these regions. Dr Phemister's contributions to geology and earth sciences were recognized by many scientific societies in his lifetime. He was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1956 for his contributions to the study of geology. He was also awarded the Lyell Medal by the same society in 1966 for his contributions to geological mapping. In conclusion, Dr James Phemister was a pioneering geologist whose contributions to the field of earth sciences were immense. His work on geological mapping and his involvement in geological surveys in Africa and South America helped to improve our understanding of the geology of these regions. His tenure as President of the Geological Society of London was marked by his efforts to promote the study of geology and increase the society's membership. Dr Phemister's legacy lives on through his numerous publications and his lasting impact on the field of geology. Peter Aubrey Sabine, (b.1924 - d.2022) was as a prominent British petrologist and mineralogist born in London in 1924. He graduated with a geology degree from Imperial College London in 1945 and joined the Geological Survey and Museum (GSM) as a Geologist. Early in his career, he helped to reorganize the Geological Museum's specimens and showcases, sparking his interest in igneous petrology. In 1951, he received his PhD for investigating the minor intrusions of the Assynt district in N.W. Highlands. He was later promoted to Chief Petrographer and set about modernizing the Petrographical Department. He realized that the polarizing microscope for the optical characterization of rocks and minerals had been overtaken by more rapid and versatile techniques. He acquired the first X-ray diffraction (XRD) equipment by the late 1950s, followed by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) equipment. By the mid-1960s, modern X-ray diffractometer and image analysis equipment were installed, making the Petrographical Department the best equipped and staffed laboratory in the GSM. Sabine conducted various petrological studies, including contact metamorphism of chalk by Tertiary dolerite intrusions, resulting in several seminal publications. He provided the first detailed petrographical description of the granite found on Rockall, a tiny Atlantic island, after the first landing by the Royal Navy in 1955. Sabine was the longest-standing member of the Mineralogical Society at the time of his death, having joined in 1945 and becoming Vice President of the Geological Society in 1966. In 1977, he became Chief Geochemist at the Gray's Inn Road office of the renamed British Geological Survey (BGS) and later returned to the Exhibition Road as Deputy Director. However, he retired at the end of 1984 when the BGS relocated its headquarters to a site near Nottingham. Sabine's legacy includes groundbreaking research and modernization in petrology and mineralogy.
Lot 151
A Rollei Rolleiflex 3.5F Medium Format TLR Camera, black, serial no. 2827614, body F-VG, camera taken impact to focussing knob, focussing sticks at 2.5m on scale, if pressure is applied to top of light meter arm housing, focussing can be advanced to close focus, 12/24 exposure switch appears to be stuck, otherwise body VG, shutter working, with Planar f/3.5 75mm taking lens, optics VG, with maker's ever ready case,
Lot 24
Y AN ASHFORD SPECIMEN MARBLE TABLE THERMOMETER LATE 19TH CENTURY With ivory vernier scale 20cm highTogether with a serpentine marble tazza, probably Cornish, 12.5cm high, 14cm diameter De minimis license ref: DBD479WKProvenance:The Fulwood CollectionCondition Report: The black marble to the thermometer has chips and losses to the angles, the ivory is discoloured, as in the catalogue description we have a licence in order to offer for saleThe mercury tube is complete and intact and there is a reading being displayedThe tazza appears to be in good condition overall - please request additional images for a view of thisPlease refer to additional images for visual reference to conditionCondition Report Disclaimer
Lot 344
WW1 British Trench Maps, consisting of linen backed example for Aubers 36 SW 1 scale 1:10,000, linen backed Belgium sheet 30 first edition scale 1:40,000, lien backed France Sheet 51B edition 2 scale 1:40,000, linen backed Belgium and France Sheet 28 edition 3 scale 1:40,000, linen backed Belgium and Part of France Sheet 29 scale 1:40,000, plus two others. (7 items)
Lot 379
Rare North Hants Yeomanry Officers Bell Top Shako Circa 1832, superb example of a large bell top style beaver body shako with superb gilt metal offcers shako plate. The plate being a large gilt metal crowned maltese cross with silver facetted centre sections to the arms, the centre of the plate having silvered Hampshire rose with around ‘NORTH HANTS YEOMANRY’. Thick brocade lace to the top of the shako and golden cap lines. White metal circular chin scale side bosses with Hampshire rose to the centre and velvet backed scaled chinstraps. Shako retains the original tan leather sweatband to the interior. Overall a superb example of an early piece of regimental headdress. Very few of these shako’s have survived in private hands. Late Rod Flood collection
Lot 117
Leicestershire & Rutland. Jansson (Jan), Leicestrensis Comitatus cum Rutlandiae vulgo Leicester & Rutlandshire, Amsterdam, circa 1650, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight staining, 440 x 550 mm, together with Blaeu (Johannes). Leicestrensis Comitatus Leicester Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1660, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, decorative mileage scale, 385 x 500 mm, Spanish text on versoQTY: (2)
Lot 95
* Devon. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the County of Devon from an actual Survey made in the Years 1825 and 1826..., July 4th 1829, engraved map with bright contemporary wash colouring, inset map of Lundy Island, calligraphic cartouche, compass rose, table of reference and an uncoloured vignette of Exeter Cathedral, 620 x 700 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Cary (John). A New Map of Devonshire, Divided into Hundreds Exhibiting its Roads, Rivers, Parks &c. October 26th 1807, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, ovoid cartouche, compass rose and mileage scale, very slight staining, 490 x 545 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Stockdale (John). A Map of Devonshire from the Best Authorities, 26th March 1805, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, compass rose and a list of the hundreds, 430 x 475 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, plus Harrison (J.). A Map of Devonshire engraved from an Actual Survey, 2nd July 1789, hand-coloured engraved and reticulated map, 345 x 470 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, and Kitchin (Thomas & Jefferys Thomas). A Map of Devonshire, 1749, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, a list of the market towns below the map, 185 x 145 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with another seventeen maps of Devon, including examples by or after Weller, James, Cary, Sayer, Hall, Moule, Smith, Hatchett/Walpoole, Kitchin J & C Walker and Whittaker , some duplicates, various sizes and condition, all framed and glazedQTY: (22)
Lot 132
Murder Map. Radclyffe (W & T), Map of the Roads, near the spot where Mary Ashford was Murdered, Surveyed by Rowland Hill & George Moorcroft and published by Rowland Hunter, 1817, engraved broadside map with two insets, one of the 'Fields on an Enlarged Scale', the other 'A Section of the Pit', descriptive text below the map, old folds, slight staining, some marginal fraying closed tears, some tears crudely repaired on the verso, 440 x 370 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:Rare. Only two copies were found on COPAC (both in the British Library). The only known published map by Rowland Hill, the founder of the 'Penny Post'. A murder of a pretty young girl had taken place near his school, at Erdington, a few miles northeast of Birmingham. The circumstances had produced much newspaper coverage but no adequate map to inform the public of the all-important topographical context. Hill measured all the features that had been mentioned in the trial and produced the above map.Mary Ashford had gone dancing on the evening of 26 May at the ominously named Tyburn House (right of centre on Hill's map). There she met Abraham Thornton, the son of a local landowner, and left the dance in his company. Her battered body was discovered the following morning in the pit (shown in cross-section as an inset on the map). A post-mortem showed that she had been raped and that she had been a virgin. Thornton was immediately arrested and charged with Mary's murder. At his trial, several witnesses testified that they had seen Thorton walking along another road at the time of the murder and the prosecution had no witnesses to counter these testimonies. The jury acquitted him; however, local and national opinion regarded Thornton as the murderer and an old law was dug up to see him face justice again. It was the ancient custom of “appeal of murder,” which was evoked by Mary’s brother, William and Thornton once again found himself arrested. However, this old law of “appeal of murder” meant that, instead of a trial in front of a jury, Thornton would face a “trial by combat.” Thornton was by all accounts a large solidly built man, whereas William was small and slight and understandably, declined to fight, and Thornton was released again. Thornton was widely regarded by the general public as guilty, and in the face of increasing harassment, he left England and settled in America. The only positive to come out of the case was that parliament almost immediately abolished the law which allowed 'trial by combat' for the 'appeal of murder'.
Lot 150
Poland. Berger (J. C.). Delineationem Liberae in Silesia Dynastiae Drachenberg..., Amsterdam, 1676, uncoloured engraved map, decorative cartouche, trimmed to the neat line, central fold strengthened and repaired on verso, repaired marginal closed tear, 510 x 570 mm, Latin text on verso, together with Pitt (Moses). Palatinatus Posnaniensis Majori Polonia Primarii Nova Delinatio per G. F. M. circa 1680, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, large uncoloured decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 455 x 540 mm, with Homann (Johann Baptist, heirs of). Lusatiae Inferioris..., Nuremberg, 1768, engraved map with contemporary wash colouring, 440 x 555 mm, plus Sanson (Nicolas). Masovie Duché et Polaquie ou sont les Palinats de Czersk, Bielsk et Plocsko, Paris, 1665, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, 410 x 540 mmQTY: (4)NOTE:The first described item is a scarce map of the Barony of Drachenberg. The map served to aid the civil litigation regarding disputed territory between the Hatzfeld and Nesselrode families whose coats of arms decorate the map. There is a later edition of this map by Petrus Schenk published in 1726.
Lot 96
* Devon. Jansson (Jan), Devoniae Descriptio. The Description of Devon-Shire, Amsterdam, circa 1650, engraved map with contemporary hand-colouring, heightened in silver, some creasing, 380 x 490 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Overton (Henry). Devoniae Descriptio. The Description of Devon Shire, 1713, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, uncoloured cartouche, heraldic shields and mileage scale, slight staining and spotting, one repaired marginal closed tear, 380 x 475 mm, mounted framed and glazedQTY: (2)NOTE:Kit Batten & Francis Bennett. The Printed Maps of Devon. Henry Overton/Jan Jansson, state 2. John Overton (1640-1713) and his son, Henry, produced a number of atlases and maps from 1665 to 1755. They never possessed a complete set of county map plates and made up their atlases in the early Dutch tradition by using the prints of other publishers, notably the maps of Blaeu and Jansson. Only when these were not available did they arrange for a plate of their own to be produced.John Overton published his 1685 atlas with a very close copy of the Jansson map of Devon. The easiest way to distinguish it from the earlier Jansson plate is the absence of the hyphen between 'Devon' and 'Shire' in the title cartouche. In 1707, John Overton sold his stock to his son, Henry, who revised the map of Devon for the 1713 issue, replacing the Jansson imprint with his own and the date 1713.
Lot 19
Marshall (John, editor). Mohenjo-Daro and The Indus Civilization, being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1922 and 1927, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Arthur Probsthain, 1931, 164 plates (including folding plans, illustrations after photographs), 2 folding maps to rear pocket of volume 1 (plus an additional large folding map of the region from unrelated work), further smaller illustrations in-text, bookplate of W and P.J. Kupfer to front pastedowns, plate V neatly repaired to upper margin, original publisher's pictorial brown buckram gilt, a few light marks, folioQTY: (3)NOTE:An excellent set of this pioneering work on Mohenjo-Daro (meaning 'Valley of the Dead Men'), the largest settlement of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Located in Sindh, Pakistan, it is one of the earliest known large cities, founded in the 26th century BCE. Marshall's 'announcement in 1924 that he had there found a new civilization of the third millennium marked an epoch in modern discovery; the so-called Indus valley civilization is now recognized as the most extensive civilization of the preclassical world' (ODNB). His 'mass excavation of large areas at Mohenjo-daro . published in 1931, showed a great city, dating from before and after 2000 BC, planned and drained on a vast scale and in a regimented fashion, with wide thoroughfares and closely built houses and workshops. Detail was lost; but, like Schliemann before him, Marshall got to the heart of the matter and gave what was needed first in the current state of knowledge, namely the general shape, the sketch, of a hitherto unknown civilization. He was a pioneer of a high order' (Ibid).
Lot 94
Devon. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the County of Devon from an Actual Survey, made in the Years 1825 & 1826..., Greenwood, Pringle & Co. 1827, large scale engraved map, sectionalised and laid on linen, contemporary wash colouring on three sheets, inset map of Lundy Island, calligraphic title, inset uncoloured vignette of a North West View of Exeter Cathedral, table of explanation and compass rose, each sheet edged in green silk, each sheet approximately 1930 x 640 mm, green card endpapers, bookplate of R. H. Johnstone, contained in a contemporary morocco gilt book box, slight wear to extremitiesQTY: (1)NOTE:Batten & Bennett. Printed Maps of Devon, number 96.
Lot 297
Banking. The Bank Restriction Barometer; Or, Scale of Effects on Society of the Bank Note System, and Payments in Gold, by Abraham Franklin, London: William Hone, [1819?], printed broadside within ruled border with two Britannia vignettes and rule to left margin, 440 x 280 mm, together (as issued) with Bank Restriction Note. Specimen of Bank Note - Not to be Imitated... [by George Cruikshank], London: William Hone, [1819?], engraved vignettes including a noose and figures hanging, signed 'J. Ketch' in the plate, 130 x 210 mmQTY: (3)NOTE:M. Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, IX, 1949; Goldsmiths' 22907.Cruikshank states that he engraved this imitation bank note after seeing the gibbet at the Old Bailey when women had been hanged for passing forged one pound notes, that its publication stopped the issue of one pound notes by the Bank of England, and that hanging for forgery ceased. The parody was very effective in raising the awareness about this issue and George Cruikshank once called the piece 'the most important design [I] ever made'.
Lot 114
Lancashire. Myers (J. F.), This Map of the Town of Preston from Actual Survey completed in the Year 1836 is by permission respectfully dedicated to the Mayor, Alderman & Burgesses..., 1836, large scale map with contemporary wash colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose and table of explanation, slight staining, some dust soiling, 815 x 1130 mm, bookplate of D. B. Anderson, bound in contemporary calf boards with circular gilt title to the upper siding, worn and frayed at the extremities, binding size 295 x 180 mm, together with Tunnicliff (William). A Survey of the County of Lancaster, circa 1790, uncoloured engraved folding map, title page and 118 pages of descriptive text, with 16 pages of heraldic shields bound at rear, partially uncut, later endpapers, bookplate of D. B. Anderson, modern half calf gilt, slim 8voQTY: (2)
Lot 273
* Gillray (James). The Cabinetical Balance. N B. The representation of, the astonishing strength & Influence of the Rays from the Rising-Sun, is taken from Sir Isaac Newtons Theory of Light.' H. Humphrey, Feby. 16th 1806, etched caricature with bright contemporary hand colouring, 350 x 250 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:BM satires 10530. The caricature shows a pair of scales. Poised on the cross beam are Sidmouth and Ellenborough The former is depressing the balance with his foot whilst Ellenborough rides piggy-back on his shoulders. This lower scale contains the 'Broad-Bottomites' or New Opposition and the upper scale holds the 'No-Bottomites', the Foxites, or Old Opposition. Fox is the most prominent and is squeezed between Erskine and Grey with Moira, in a cocked hat and regimentals, standing stiffly behind. Fox and Grey have the revolutionary 'bonnets rouges' but do not wear them. The other bowl contains Grenville, one hand on his fat nephew Lord Temple and Windham waves his hat triumphantly. The scales are suspended above the curve of the globe on which Great Britain and Europe are mapped. On the distant horizon is a setting sun containing a royal crown through which the ghost of Pitt flies weeping. The setting sun's feeble rays are outshone by the heavy beams of the rising sun which are surmounted by the Prince of Wales's three feathers.
Lot 70
Lyell (Charles). Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation, 3 volumes, 2nd edition of volumes 1 and 2, 1st edition of volume 3, 1832-33, half-title to volume 3 only, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 6 uncoloured engraved plates (light damp stain to margins of vol. 1 frontispiece), and 3 maps (2 hand-coloured and 2 folding, also includes a duplicate map 'of extent of surface in Europe' from another edition), numerous wood engravings to text, publisher's adverts at rear of each, occasional offsetting and scattered spotting, contemporary half calf with contrasting labels to spines, extremities lightly rubbed, 8voQTY: (3)NOTE:PMM 344; Dibner 96; Grolier/Horblit 70; Milestones of Science 140; Norman 1398 [all for first edition].A foundational text of modern science and a central influence on the theory of evolution. Lyell demonstrated that large-scale changes in the Earth's physical geography could be explained by uniform geological causes which could be seen in the present day, rather than by catastrophic or biblical events. The implications of Lyell's study would have a profound effect on the development of evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin read the work on his voyage with The Beagle and it greatly influenced his thinking on both geology and evolution. A second edition of the third volume was not published.
Lot 326
William Allen Boulnois, British, exh.1880- Newbold Beeches, Leamington; pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of white on paper, bears old inscribed label 'Newbold Beeches Leamington / A residence designed and / erected for W. Adams Esq: by W. A. Boulnois / 6 Waterloo Place / Pall Mall' on the reverse of the frame, 55.5 x 86.5 cm. Provenance: Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 13 September 2001, lot 156. Private Collection, UK. Note: Newbold Beeches was an imposing mansion located on a hilltop overlooking North Leamington, constructed for William Alfred Adams, who was town surveyor of Leamington Spa in the mid-19th century. It was built from the designs of Boulnois, who practiced as an artist and architect and who also designed Villa Branca on Lake Maggiore. The present drawing illustrates the grand scale of the house, whilst the blue expanse of the horizon behind, with no other buildings in sight, gestures towards its prominent and secluded hilltop location.
Lot 77
William Shayer, Senior, British 1787-1879- On the shore with boats and figures; oil on board, 25.4 x 30.3 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Shayer was celebrated as a painter of rural scenes, combining both landscape and figure studies in a manner which recalls the works of George Morland (1763-1804). His paintings often depict modest subjects set within a landscape, with the small scale of figures emphasising the countryside around them. Shayer's work very much idealises this rural existence, setting the atmosphere of peace and tranquillity against the threat of rapid urbanisation in Victorian England.
Lot 317
George Wolfe, British 1834-1890- A beached sailing vessel at sunset; pencil and watercolour heightened with white and scratching out on paper, signed 'Geo. Wolfe.' (lower right), 21.7 x 31.9 cm. Provenance: David Cross Gallery, Bristol. Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 2 March 1990, lot 229 (£985 hammer). Anon. sale, Ian Peace & Co., Yorkshire, 22 April 1999, lot 100 (£2,250 hammer). Private Collection, UK. Note: Wolfe depicted coastal landscapes across the England, from the shores of Devon and Cornwall to North Yorkshire, returning with particular frequency to the subject of beached vessels. In the present work, he has skillfully emphasised the impressive scale and grandeur of the sailing boat upon the shore, with its masts towering over the diminutive figures on the beach below, and even over the cliffs behind.
Lot 312
George Clarkson Stanfield, British 1828-1878- Two shipping scenes; each pencil and watercolour heightened with white and scratching out on paper, each signed 'G. Stanfield' (lower right and lower left), each 19.5 x 33.7 cm., two (2) Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: George Clarkson Stanfield was particularly celebrated as a landscape and marine painter, and was undoubtedly influenced by his father, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield (1793-1867) who specialised in large-scale paintings of dramatic marine subjects and landscapes. Clarkson Stanfield travelled widely throughout Europe, and it is from these visits that many of his views derive. The present watercolours demonstrate the range of which the artist was capable, with the swirling energy of one contrasting with the still, flat waters and open sails of the other.
Lot 95
Circle of Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, French 1738-1826- Allegory of Asia; red chalk on paper, 33 x 50.6 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present work, which is presumably a design for a large-scale painting, is possibly part of a wider allegorical series of the Four Continents (Africa, America, Asia, Europe). The anonymous artist has based his depiction of Asia on symbols codified in Cesare Ripa’s 'Iconologia' (1603): the camel, the woman's rich textiles, and her headdress of leaves and flowers. The other figures in this picture are dressed in rich fabrics, a sign of what Asia had to offer in textile and fabric production, and the inclusion of the obelisk presumably reflected the European fascination with the exotic landscape and architecture of Asia, as in the background of the treatment of the subject by Gottfried Bernhard Göz (1708-1774). Like representations of saints or other figures that artists aimed to identify, these attributes were important signals to historical audiences. Compositionally, the present work bears many similarities to 'Asia', from a set of the four continents in tapestry, commissioned from the Beauvais manufactory in 1786, and taken from designs by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier (see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no.1978.404.4).
Lot 133
After John Constable, RA, British 1773-1837- A view on the Stour near Dedham; oil on panel, 17.6 x 25.2 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present work is a copy of a preparatory study made by Constable for his finished 1822 painting 'View on the Stour near Dedham', held in the collection of the Huntington Library and Art Museum in California [25.18]. The Huntingdon painting features two adjacent boats towards the centre of the composition, to the right of the smaller boat at far left. The present work, like Constable's preliminary study from which it derives - a full-scale, six-foot sketch sold at Christie's, London, 30 June 2016, lot 12 - does not depict this extra boat, and places greater emphasis on the quaint cottage to the right, which is almost entirely hidden in the final composition.
Lot 112
Andreas van Rymsdyk, Dutch 1754-1786- Four portraits of sitters, bust-length; each pencil and watercolour on paper, oval, each signed and dated 'Drawn by / Andrew Rymsdyk / 1783' on the backing boards, each bears old inscribed label attached to the backing boards, each 14.2 x 11 cm., four (4). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The inscriptions suggest that the sitters are all members of the same family, perhaps 'Ambry', and includes Rev. John William, Col. George William, another John William (dressed in military attire), and Mary. Despite their small scale, these portraits are full of character, providing an evocative glimpse into 18th-century British society.
Lot 144
Circle of Pierre-Étienne-Théodore Rousseau, French 1812-1867- A wooded landscape under grey skies; oil on canvas, bears inscription 'No 430' on the upper horizontal stretcher bar, 11.1 x 26.2 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The delicate brushwork in the foreground and middle distance of the present work appears characteristic of Rousseau's technique, as does this anonymous artist's skilful use of aerial perspective and the prevailing lilac tone of the sky. Intimate in scale and painted thinly and swiftly with dabs of light cream in the middle ground, this sketch is not primarily devoted to the luminous sky, but to recording the woods and fields at dusk beneath heavy clouds. The artist has adopted a panoramic format in which parallel bands of earth and sky meet at the horizon, and indeed the wide horizontal format serves to emphasise the expanse of view. Like much of Rousseau's work, the tonality is restrained and muted.
Lot 204
William Collingwood Smith, RWS, British 1815-1887- Italian lakes; pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper, signed 'W. C. Smith' (lower left), 70.3 x 102.2 cm. (VAT charged on the hammer price). Provenance: Harrods Picture Department, London. Note: Collingwood Smith studied under the landscape artist James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) and travelled widely across Britain and Europe, producing watercolours and sketches along his way. The landscape of the Italian lakes recurs throughout his work, with the dramatic scenery clearly a great source of inspiration for the artist. Indeed, the large size of the present work enabled Collingwood Smith to fully convey the scale of the mountains, contrasting with the still lake which stretches out towards the right of the composition, effectively balancing the scene.
Lot 310
William Bell Scott, Scottish 1811-1890- Three figures in the doorway of a church; pencil and watercolour heightened with white on card laid down on board, signed with initials 'W.B.S.' (lower left), with the remnants of a watercolour on the backing board, 15.1 x 10.7 cm. (unframed). Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: Working against the backdrop of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Scott was closely associated with various prominent artists of the Victorian period, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and Arthur Hughes (1832-1915). He worked as the Principal of the Newcastle School of Art between 1843 and 1864, and, in this capacity, was one of the first artists to record the development of the Industrial Revolution, which, over the course of the 19th-century transformed the city of Newcastle. His oeuvre was varied and he executed a large body of works exploring historical and religious themes, as well as the industrial revolution and modern society. He also produced a number of more romanticised landscapes and historical scenes. The present work depicts a group of three figures huddling at the foot of the doorway of a large church or cathedral, dwarfed by its scale. A pile of baskets lies in front of them, seemingly having come from the open door of what appears to be a somewhat incongruous shed, contrasting with the grandeur of the building behind.
Lot 116
After Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, French 1774-1833- Dido and Aeneas; pencil and watercolour heightened with white on paper, 42.3 x 52.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: The present work is after a large-scale oil on canvas by Guérin, dating to c.1815, and held in the collection of the Louvre, in Paris [no.5184]. The work depicts a scene in Virgil's 'Aeneid', in which the Trojan hero Aeneas, upon his arrival into the city, tells his story to Dido, the Queen of Carthage. It was at this point that the two fell in love with each other. The composition emphasises the attributes of the two characters, with Dido's status suggested by her relaxed posture, reclining on a sofa, whilst Aeneas's helmet, often used to designate the hero, recalls his role as a soldier.
Lot 207
Collection of assorted pistol flasks of various shapes and designs including pineapple, scale finished, repoussé decorated with dog's head, repoussé decorated with American Eagle perched on revolver and others, together with a circular cushion shaped wooden pistol flask. (7) (B.P. 21% + VAT)
Lot 316
Collection of British First World War Trench Maps, the maps are attributed to Brigadier General Herbert Cecil Potter (10/10/1875-11/6/1964) Officer Commanding the 9th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, during the Battle of the Somme and 3rd Battle of Ypres, the maps, detailed below, are of areas in which Potter served throughout the war from 1914 and include detailed information of enemy trenches marked in red on each map, some are particularly evocative, the map of Hebuterne containing the village of Serre with 'Matthew', 'Mark', 'Luke', 'John' Copses, all clearly marked and bring to mind the tragic first day of the Battle of the Somme, a map of Delville Wood is annotated in pencil with 'Delville Wood and Guillemont, 9 Bde attack 16/8/1916' , another map gives the 'German Order of Battle, Cambrai 1 Dec 1917', a map of the 'Seine, Meuse, and Rhine Basins Showing Areas of Occupation of the Allied Armies Jan 1919' is marked with the ink stamp of 'HQ 9th Infantry Brigade', the maps were given to the vendor when a young man by General Potter's son Major Cecil Potter, a family friend in Somerset, some are heavily used and stained with the mud of the front line, many of the annotations on the maps are believed to have been made by General Potter contemperaneously, while some, particularly on the French made maps, are believed to have been done by Major Cecil Potter post warBrigadier General Herbert Cecil Potter CB, CMG, DSO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, educated at Bedford Modern School and Sandhurst, joined the Kings (Liverpool) Regiment as 2nd Lieutenant 29/2/1896, promoted Lieutenant, March 1899, then Captain, December 1900, seconded to a Mounted Infantry Column in South Africa 1901-02 (2nd Boer War) served in the Sudan in 1908 and the Western Front throughout the First World War, wounded through both legs in August 1914, he returned to the front line and given command of 9th Infantry Brigade in April 1916, during the Battle of the Somme General Potters recce of High Wood with two other officers, and the realisation that it was clear of Germans and could be occupied easily is detailed on Page 137/138 of 'Somme' by Lyn MacDonald, '...There was not a German to be seen. The commanders decided to look for themselves. General Potter of the 9th Brigade of the 3rd Division, with Lieutenant Colonel Elliot and Major General Watts Commander of the 7th Division were not so foolhardy as to expose themselves by walking along the track at the top of the slope but, hugging the the shelter immediatley below, clambered along to the ruined windmill, a hundred yards or so to the right.... looking across the gentlest of valleys, where the ridge on which they stood sloped down to a hollow and rose almost imperceptibly to the dark mass of High Wood itself,...Nothing stirred in the cornfields. High Wood was silent...Then they crossed the cornfield almost to the edge of High Wood. Not a shot was fired. High Wood was empty. Jubilant, excited, and anxious to push ahead, they almost ran back to the line. The troops were fresh and ready to go...', tragically, the information was not acted on in time, the Germans reoccupied the wood and High Wood was not taken until September after heavy fighting and many casualties, Potter was twice wounded at the Somme in August 1916, the second time by a 'large shell which sat down beside me and made me stone deaf for some days', Potter also served at the Battle of Arras April-May 1917, and the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) July-November 1917, as well as the Queens South Africa Medal with three clasps Potter was awarded a medal and clasp, 4th Class Osmanieh, 3rd Class Mejidieh in Sudan (1908),mentioned in depatches in WW1, decorated with the Legion of Honour by Sir Douglas Haig in November 1915, made DSO in 1917 and CMG in 1918, he retired from the army in 1927, the maps included in the lot are;Delville Wood Map, large scale, trench lines/road names marked in red (Fleet Street, High Holborn, Bond Street, Regents Street, etc) with reverse marked in pencil (believed by Major Cecil Potter) 'Delville wood and Guillemont, 9 Bde attack 16/8/1916'Trench Map - Hebuterne, Ordnance Survey 1916, scale 1:10,000 , 'Trenches corrected to 19:8:16', trench lines printed in red, additional markings in pencil (Bounderies, Pendant Alley, etc),'Matthew Copse', 'Mark Copse', 'Luke Copse', 'John Copse', which formed part of the British front line and forming up points for some of the Pals battalions are clearly marked, front of map marked 'Brigadier, Serre, Aug 1916''Seine, Meuse, and Rhine Basin Showing Areas of Occupation of the Allied Armies Jan. 1919', 1:1,000,000 scale map, showing Belgian, British, American, and French zones outlined in red, marked in pencil 'Occupation zones of the Rhineland 1919' bears stamps of 'HQ 9th Infantry Brigade' and 'General Staff 3rd Division' dated 7th February 1919French issue map of Melun, 1:80,000 scale, bottom left corner marked 'Revisee 1888', marked in pencil 'France, 1/80,000 map of Melun area (SE of Paris) probably issued in case of further retreat by BEF in August 1914'Map of Cambrai, 1:100,000 scale, British intelligence map showing German Order of Battle, Army Groups, Armies, Corps, Divisions, down to Regiments, including rest billets, all printed in red, marked to reverse 'German Order of Battle, Cambrai, 1 Dec 1917'Trench map, Ordnance Survey 1915, sheet 36c N.W. 3 and part of 1, scale 1:10,000, shows town of Loos, trench lines in red including 'Loos Road Redoubt', marked to the front in pen '**** 1915'Trench Map, scale 1:10,000, France, La Bassee, trenches marked in red including Holenzollern Redoubt, units marked in pen (19th Bde, Kings, 2nd South Staffords), marked to the front in pencil '1915'Trench Map, France, Sheet 57c S.W., scale 1:20,000, trench lines marked in red, Bazentin, Longueville, Guillemont, High Wood, Delville Wood, Flatiron Copse, Sabot Copse, Arrow Head copse, etc all shown, mud stained, marked in pencil to front 'Bazentin/High Wood'French issue map, Provins, marked bottom left corner 'Revisee 1888', marked in pencil 'Large scale map of Provins area (SE of Paris) probably issued in case of further retreat by BEF in August 1914', (qty)
Lot 317
First World War group of items to Lieutenant F.R. Bullard 2/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry, including, Yeomanry Pocket Book marked to the front 'F.R. Bullard 2/1 Derbyshire Yeomanry', Instruction to the Machine Gun booklet dated 1915, marked inside to 'F.R. Bullard 2/1 Derbyshire Yeomanry', Army Book 136 (Notebook) marked to the inside to 'F.R. Bullard, 2nd Lt., Transport Officer, 14 D.L.I.' which contains nominal roll of members of the Transport Section and their jobs, Vet, Drivers, Breakers, Farrier, etc, assorted ephemera including list of officers chargers with names and colours of each horse, C2121 Forms (Messages & Signals) with detailed notes and diagrams written on the back regarding the placement of barbed wire obstacles including man-loaded equipment scales, note from Brigade Transport Officer, 18th Infantry Brigade to Transport Officer 14 D.L.I. regarding detailing 4 men with horses or mules for transport duties in the Loos area, notes of field punishment awarded to 'Pte Fellows, H, 14488, 14 D.L.I. A Coy', (3 days C.B for disobeying G.R.O. 1032), letter to Bullard from a fellow officer dated 21/06/1917, includes some details of a trench raid, '...our last little stunt which was a complete success - Some Batt. this! Fifty Boches were killed and eight taken prisoner. Moffitt was in charge of the party, Rothfield, Bruce and an old officer Lasalles went over. Rothfield did extremely well and captured one Boche sentry at a house who he was obliged to pop in the neck before he could get him over the parapit. You must have laughed to see him roll down to our support line, Roth running like hell! I was with the M.O. but fortunately had little to do as we had but seven wounded, mostly slightly, including Bruce, and one killed...', pair of woolen puttees attributed to Bullard, Trench Map, Sheet 62c NW, River Somme, Peronne 'Trenches correct 8/1/17', scale 1:20,000, trenches marked in red including Mannheim Trench, Johannes Trench, Brasso Redoubt, Oder Trench, Koros Alley, etc, records show Lt. Frederick Ringer Bullard of 2/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry entered France on 18th October 1916 and entitled to the 1914-1918 British War Medal and Victory Medal which he applied for 25/08/1921, 2/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry was formed in 1914 and was part of 9th Mounted Brigade, 3rd Mounted Division in the U.K., in October 1916 4 Officers and 165 O/Rs from the regiment were drafted to France as reinforcements to the 14th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, including presumably Lt Bullard, Private Harry Fellows entered France on 11th September 1915 and is shown as entitled to the 1914/15 Star, BWM and Victory Medal, demobilised to Class Z, vendor states he was gifted the items by Bullards niece in the late 1990s
Lot 460
A 1950s Gentleman's Smiths De Luxe 9ct wristwatchcircular silvered two tone dial with raised gold Arabic numbers and hour markers, subsidiary seconds dial, inner minute scale and gold dagger hands, 15 jewel , manual wind movement, snap on case back hallmarked for Edinburgh 1955, 9ct gold brick link bracelet with deployment clasp, in original red card fitted box dial diameter 30mm., case diameter 32 mm., gross weight approx. 45g. Condition: Winds ticks and runs however no guarantee can be offered as to the full working order. Otherwise in good condition
Lot 461
A gentleman's Omega Geneve 9ct gold Omega Automatic wristwatch c.1970matte gold circular dial with raised gold and black baton hour markers, minute scale and date aperture at three o'clock, gold and black baton hands and centre seconds, 24 jewels automatic movement, cal 65, serial no 32947405, snap on case back signed and numbered 161/25421, associated 9ct gold Wristwear textured brick link bracelet with fold over clasps dial diameter case diameter 34mm., gross weight excluding movement 43.9g approximately and including movement 59.5gCondition: Watch winds ticks and runs however no guarantee can be offered to the the full working order Surface wear to case and case back. Dial in good condition. Bracelet is worn and links are becoming tired and lose one section a/f
Lot 709
A German double sided pocket compendium aneroid barometer, thermometer and compass c.1900 3 3/4" silvered register with exposed works and outer rotating scale calibrated 0 to 4000 for altitude barometer dial with scale inscribed in German R. Wind Vlyk M001W., reverse with black dial, silvered scale and curved thermometer tube, plated drum casediameter 4.7 cmCondition: First some corrosion to drum case
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