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![[Insane 17th-century annotator] The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called on Salisbury Plain. Restored](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/103db3fe-7615-4ce5-8821-aead00b5a32c/9f927344-4139-4a06-84ea-aeb400f8795d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 257
[Insane 17th-century annotator] The Most Notable Antiqui[ty] of Great Britai[n], vulgarly called on Salisbury Plain. Restored by Inigo [Jones]. London: printed by James Flesher, [1655]. First edition, folio (27.7 x 18.2cm), disbound, lacking E2, portrait frontispiece and 4 folding woodcut plates (of 7; the remaining plates with old repairs), with 3 initial blanks (all detached), title-page defective, browning, damp-staining towards front. With profuse ink marginalia throughout in a contemporary hand (closely trimmed in places; occasional concomitant paper corrosion), in English and occasionally Latin (and a few phrases in French), unrelated or only tangential to the printed text, in a rambling, scurrilous and repetitive style, with numerous references to 17th-century figures and events, and exhibiting a fixation with large sums of money, the printed dedication 'To the Favourers of Antiquity' (A4) signed 'Pembroke & Muntgomrye' in the same hand as the marginalia, the signature asterisked with an accompanying annotation by an 18th-century hand, 'This Philip E. of Pembroke and Mongomery [sic], was the writer of these wild notes. A Wood woud have less belyed him, in calling him a mad man, than in saying he was illiterate & coud not write his name', 19th-century annotation to initial blank, 'There is reason to believe that the notes scrawled upon these pages are written by the Philip Earl of Pembroke & Montgomery to whom the book is dedicated, E. D.'Note: The dedicatee of the work was Philip Herbert, fifth earl of Pembroke (1621-1669), though the 'writer of these wild notes' is more likely to have been his son, the infamous seventh earl (1653-1683), also Philip, who succeeded in 1674 and 'quickly acquired an unenviable reputation for barbarous and violent behaviour' (ODNB). He was reported by John Aubrey in Brief Lives (1680) to keep at the family seat of Wilton House a menagerie of exotic animals, was committed to the Tower for blasphemy, and killed two men in separate drunken incidents, escaping punishment first through claiming privilege of peerage, and second by royal pardon. The character who emerges from these annotations is obsessed with money, and those who have it, motifs which recur throughout a bewildering variety of ravings, doggerel verse and arbitrary lists, written in spelling eccentric even for the period, altogether suggesting a person of entirely unsound mind. If he was not the earl of Pembroke, references to Wilton House and Ramsbury suggest that he at least thought he was, and the annotations are perhaps dateable to the 1660s on the basis of a recollection that 'some 40 or rather 44 years agoe, there was a great faction betwixt ye Digberians & ye Buckingamians' (p. 26); another remark, 'How ould art thou? fifteen come Lent. If Christmasse lasted all ye year, then what should become of Lent' (p. 15), suggests that the annotator was an exact contemporary of the seventh earl's. Further examples include: 'If hee be mad as my Lady Harewood says whose tongue is not slaunder it is rather for wantinge ye ten thousand pounds an year his father promisd to give him tha[n] yt hee thinkes 6000 an year to bee too mutch for him to manage with Wilton & Ramesberye' (p. [vi]); 'And was it not strange, that in one week His Grace should loose one thousand pounds at gleeke? or 4000 ls at gleeke. Hath hee burned ye teats of her virginity? Certayneley that ould woeman wanted businesse that sette London bridge afyre, shee did [?] the city of London to ye value of cent mil escu au moins' (p. 1) 'The house of ye Howards is now goinge towards theyre woonted declininge, for when they are great, they emprison & beat, & then ye sunne leaves shining then thousand hee & shee hereticks, ten thousand hee & shee Armineans, ten thousand hee & shee Armenians, London lickpenny, Lincolne lickpenny, Mrs Sarah Graunty widdow hath a 1000 an year land of inheritance to live on' (p. 14); 'Ravilliack Crummewell is to bee pulld apeices wth 4 wild horses upon London streets & then to bee hang draiwen & quartered not decapite[d]' (p. 31); 'Hinnico Jones alias Iniguity Jones a justice of peace of ye qudrum and custos rotilorum hath for keepinge ye kinges houses in repayre deaux cens mil escu per an, three score thousand ls starlinge an year and well payed hee is 4 score years ould. Midwife Mrs Bullard midwife Mrs Whiteby midwife Mrs Cutler twoo parsons widdowes' (p. 34); 'Mathew Cardroe lyeth heer, whooe drunke too mutch of bottle bear. I care noe more to kill them in bravado then forto drinke a pipe of Trinidado [...] Tom Tippett uppe & downe doth walke & cannott see himself in his owne optick glasse' (p. 41); 'Wilton House Ramsberye house Pembrokes Earl Pembrokes & Muntgomeryes then Lord Chamberlaynes. Personal suppositum intelligens ten of 20 ls an year augmentation monye to ye Greeke lecture or buildinge at Cambridge, Oxford Caius de Antiquitate Cantabrigi' (p. 43); 'I kneaw ye 3 Mackullyes taylours all three Scottshmen & brothers ye woorst of them dyed woorth twenty-thousand pounds they three dyed in all woorth three score thousand starlinge deaux cens mil escu au moins' (p. 50); 'I was nurst 2 years at Mourtleack two years togither [...] by Nurse Beck, whoe nurst ould mad Besse Tallmatch' (p. 61); 'Sr Ferauncis Cranes hanginges all ye suits at Mourtleck upon ye Thames where I was nurst cost ten thousand pounds at least. Hee made my Lord keeper Williams ye 4 seasons of ye year & sould them to him for £500 Sir Firauncis Crane of Grafton Auditour Crane' (p. 63); 'Hee & shee marquesse Ormonde, hee & shee Marquesse Toosmond, Hee & shee Marquesse Desmond, Rabshekais & Achitophells, Madam you must bee whippt at a cart stayble, or you shall ride in a dunge cart, or have rotten eggs throwne at you[r] Irish honour' (p. 69).
Lot 115
A 19th century lath back armchair, 115.5cm high, 59cm wide, the seat 36cm wide and 40cm deep; a smoker?s bow elbow chair, 81cm high, 68.5cm wide, the seat 39cm wide and 40cm deep; a side chair, vasular splat, panel seat, cabriole forelegs, 98cm high, 55cm wide, the seat 50cm wide and 35cm deep (3)
Lot 13
A George/William IV mahogany bergère library chair, in the manner of Gillows of Lancaster and London, curved cresting rail, cane back and seat, downswept arms terminating in scroll hand rests, turned lotus-capped forelegs, brass casters, 92.5cm high, 58cm wide, the seat 49cm wide and 47cm deep
Lot 687
DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A.L.S., `A. Dumas fs´, three pages, small 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Emiles Deschanel, in French. Dumas promises that everybody will get the expected ticket for the rehearsals with spectators, and says that there will be no seat available for the premiere, although announces that `I will send to you, if I manage to!.. a balcony seat for you. It will be a nightmare to try to get two seats´ although promises he will do his best. VG
Lot 929
‘They will throw little, if any, light on the origin, construction and methods of propulsion of the objects known as Flying Saucers, or on the aims of their operators or occupants’ DOWDING HUGH: (1882-1970) British Air Chief Marshal, Commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. A.L.S., Dowding, one page, 8vo, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, 1st August 1955, to Lord Beaverbrook. Dowding commences his letter by stating ‘I think that the enclosed will amuse you’, continuing to explain, ‘It was what I gave to the Sunday Express in response to a telephonic request for my reactions after the Daily Express report on Eisenhower’s announcement of the U.S. intention to construct & launch satellites…..Needless to say, they did not print it’, and concluding by hoping that Beaverbrook will enjoy his stay on the Riviera. Together with a typescript of a letter submitted by Dowding to the editor of the Sunday Express, stating, in full, ‘I have seen the article headed “Flying Saucers – Official” in this morning’s Daily Express. It is an example of confused thinking to suppose that man-made artificial satellites have anything to do with the objects which are popularly known as Flying Saucers. There is nothing mysterious about these projected meteorological instruments; they will be made of known materials, projected into their orbits by known methods and will be subject throughout to the Earth’s gravitational field. They will throw little, if any, light on the origin, construction and methods of propulsion of the objects known as Flying Saucers, or on the aims of their operators or occupants. Daily Express “Opinion” asks:- “What about Flying Saucers now? Hallucinations? Spots on the Sun?” Anyone who has been satisfied with these explanations to date will have no cause to change his opinion because a new long-range weather recording device is projected for launching in two years’ time. Or can it be that the hitherto sceptical Daily Express is booking a seat on the Flying Saucer Band Wagon?’. A remarkable letter and document demonstrating Dowding’s firm belief in UFOs. Two file holes to the left of each piece, only affecting one word of text in Dowding’s letter. VG, 2 Max Aitken (1879-1964) 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Canadian-British newspaper publisher who served as Minister of Aircraft Production 1940-41. Beaverbrook acquired the Daily Express in 1916 and built it into the most successful mass-circulation newspaper in the world, with sales of 2.25 million copies a day across Great Britain. Dowding was a firm believer in Flying Saucers and, along with the paranormal, developed a strong interest in UFOs during the 1950s. The Air Chief Marshal is quoted as having declared ‘The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence…..More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any ‘scientific’ explanation….I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth’.
Lot 1075
HAILE SELASSIE I: (1892-1975) Ethiopian Regent Plenipotentiary 1916-30 and Emperor 1930-74. Vintage signed Christmas greetings card by Haile Selassie I, as Emperor, the stiff cream small 8vo folding card featuring a blue printed Imperial Achievement coat of arms to the cover, incorporating the emblem of The Lion's Throne of Solomon, on its seat an orb proper, on its back a Solomon's seal, flanked by the exterior ornaments of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, vested Or and Vert, on their breasts a square cross patonce and above the throne an open bible between the Amharic letters Alef, Wau and Alef, before the throne the Ethiopian Lion and the motto The Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, with a note on his procession cross, and the mantle featuring two branches of olive, crowned with the Imperial Crown of Ethiopia. With a printed greeting to the inside, in English, 'The Emperor of Ethiopia sends you his Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year', the same text penned in holograph to the opposite side in Ge'ez, in the hand of the Emperor, and also bearing the printed address of Fairfield, Bath (where Haile Selassie spent his exile in England, 1936-41). Tied with a ribbon in the colours of Ethiopia. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, and traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise about VG
![[KENNEDY JOHN F.]: (1917-1963) American President 1961-63. A very small 0.5 x 0.5" swatch of blood-stained blue leather uphol](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/b5f66d5c-4859-4b50-b487-aeb4010eedbe/c689ed40-6498-4986-b6f7-aeb7013e154c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 1169
[KENNEDY JOHN F.]: (1917-1963) American President 1961-63. A very small 0.5 x 0.5" swatch of blood-stained blue leather upholstery, originally part of the rear seat of Kennedy's presidential limousine, a modified royal blue Lincoln Continental convertible with the Secret Service code name SS-100-X, removed after his assassination. Encased ('slabbed') in clear plastic with a printed CAG certification label stating, 'Assassination of JFK Blood-Stained Leather Swatch from Dallas Limo 11/22/63'. VG Kennedy's presidential limousine featured a bespoke dark and light blue leather upholstered interior manufactured by Hess & Eisenhardt of Cincinnati, Ohio. All of the privately owned upholstery sections of the limousine SS-100-X are believed to have originated from the renowned United States Presidential collection of artifacts and autographs amassed by Raleigh De Geer Amyx. It is understood that, in 1983, Amyx obtained letters of authentication from F. Vaughn Ferguson, the White House technical service representative in charge of the presidential limousine, who assisted the White House upholsterer in removing the leather from the rear seat four days after JFK's tragic assassination and supervised its refurbishing for Lyndon B. Johnson.
Lot 607
A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD BREAKFAST TABLE with tip-up top on octagonal shaft and platform base 121cm diam. (old restoration), a George III mahogany elbow chair with carved back and distressed leather seat, a mahogany Pembroke table,107cm wide and an oak barley-twist gateleg table (all for restoration) (4)
Lot 421
A FINE ROYAL 20-BORE DOUBLE BARRELLED PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN BY TANNER OF HANNOVER, 27.255inch sighted damascus browned barrels inlaid in gold TANNER IN HANNOVER, border and scroll engraved breeches, border engraved locks finely decorated with hunting scenes, pivoting safeties, dolphin hammers with gold eyes, half stocked with steel mounts, the trigger guard decorated with wild animals, chequered wrist, silver fore-end cap and grip pommel, the underside of the fore-end with gold escutcheon bearing the crowned Royal cypher EA of Ernst August. Originally from the Schloss Marienberg, the Summer Seat of the Royal House of Hannover. Ernst August, The Duke of Cumberland, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hannover. Patination to trigger guard.
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