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Lot 863
Victorian mahogany breakfront mirror back sideboard, circa 1890, carved trellis swan neck pediment with central plinth over a galleried shelf, to a back with bevelled glass panels and column supports, over a base fitted three frieze drawers with blind fretwork decoration, central recessed shelf flanked on either side with carved raised panel cupboard door opening to a shelf and cellarette, all raised on claw and ball feet, width 181cm, depth 58cm, height 229cm
Lot 876
Victorian mahogany chiffonier, circa 1860, the shaped back with a single shelf raised on short turned columns, over a base fitted with ogee fronted frieze drawers, over two carved arched panel cupboard doors, opening to a shelf and a cellarette, raised on a plinth base, width 144cm, height 157cm, depth 53cm
Lot 33
Society of Dilettanti. The Unedited Antiquities of Attica; Comprising the Architectural Remains of Eleusis, Rhamnus, Sunium, and Thoricus, 1817, half title, list of members of the Society, 78 engraved maps, plates and plans, final text leaf and rear endpaper repaired, some offsetting and a little mainly marginal spotting, library stamps to title, labels at front, hinges reinforced, modern half morocco, upper cover gilt stamped with The Royal Institute of British Architects crest, shelf label adhered with clear tape to foot of spine, folio, together with Allason (Thomas), Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola, in Istria, 1819, half title, 10 engraved plates, illustrations, marginal library blindstamps, ink stamps to title and dedication, a little light spotting and soiling, labels at front, near contemporary half calf, a little rubbed and scuffed, shelf number to spine, folio First work Blackmer 1659. (2)
Lot 341
Escheats. Indices of Escheats to the Crown from Henry III to Henry VI (1216-1460), manuscript on paper, circa 1600, 175 leaves written on both sides in a legal hand in narrow columns, margins ruled in red, alphabetical lists of places arranged by regnal years with references to shelf-marks (eg. 24 E1 38) for the original record, at end an index listing manors, chapels and abbeys without distinction of reign, another in regnal order listing private persons, contemporary vellum, gilt arabesque on sides, paper shelf-labels on spine, small 4to, together with a partially completed manuscript book of accounts and inventory, late 18th & 19th century, possibly for Browsholme Hall, Lancashire and the Parker family, approximately 22 leaves completed, the remainder blank, contemporary vellum, soiled and worn, narrow folio Escheats are estates lapsing to the Crown usually for want of heirs, but also by forfeiture (e.g. the escheated lands in Ulster planted by the Crown under James I). Around 1600 these records would have probably been housed in the Tower of London. (2)
Lot 380
Heraldic Notebook. A manuscript heraldic notebook compiled by Sir Richard St George, circa 1625, neatly written in brown ink on laid paper, a total of 153 numbered folios including some blanks, but mostly written to rectos and versos and including occasional sketches of coats of arms, folio 12 headed 'Liber Ricardi St Georgii' with coat of arms beneath, further coat of arms to folio 13v and long prayer of Richard St George written to folios 14 and 15, 3 unnumbered leaves of index in a neat and near-contemporary hand at rear, some dust-soiling and a few minor paper repairs, ownership signature and armorial bookplate of Charles George Young to front pastedown, contemporary vellum gilt with the St George arms to both covers and Young's monogram to upper cover and at foot of spine, indistinct old ink library shelf number 'A 58' at head of spine, rubbed and slightly soiled, small 8vo (145 x 102 mm) An interesting notebook of a practising herald, containing information relating to the pedigrees, arms and raising to the nobility of notable families; also notes of arms in some churches, orders of procedure, etc. Sir Richard St George (circa 1550-1635) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London which he joined in 1602. He became Berwick Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary and then Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary. He secured an appointment as Norroy in 1604 and was knighted in 1616. He attained the position of Clarenceux King of Arms in 1623, carried out numerous visitations and was a noted scholar and antiquarian. Provenance: Bernard Quaritch (£50, 24 July 1972); Major Anthony R. Tavener. (1)
Lot 432
Euclid. The Six First, together with the Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Euclid's Elements, Demonstrated after a New, Plain, and Easie Method, by Henry Hill, 1726, woodcut diagrams, initials, head- and tailpieces, subscribers list present, occasional spotting or browning, some old light dampstaining to upper margins of early leaves, closed tear to lower margin of leaf 3O2 without loss, old ownership inscriptions of Sarah and John Hodly to final leaf verso with slight see-through, manuscript folio numbering to upper corners of rectos throughout, armorial bookplate of Earl of Roden and library shelf label, contemporary calf, edges slightly rubbed, antique-style reback, 4to (219 x 166 mm) First Hill edition. (1)
Lot 535
Siren (Osvald). Histoire des Arts Anciennes de la Chine, 4 volumes, Paris and Brussels, 1929-30, 476 half-tone plates, library stamps to lower margins of first and last plate in each volume, other stamps to titles and following leaf, top edges gilt, original wrappers bound in modern blue library cloth, shelf numbers adhered at foot of spines, 4to (4)
Lot 539
Willemin (Nicolas Xavier). Monuments Francais inedits pour servir a L'Historie des Arts depuis le VI Siecle Jusqu'au Aommencement du XVII. Choix de Costumes Civils et Militaires, D'Armes, Armures, Instruments de Musique, Meubles de Toute Espece, et de Decorations Interieures et Exterieures des Maisons, 2 volumes, Paris, 1839, half titles, two additional hand-coloured titles to volume I, 300 engraved plates, including many hand-coloured, some library stamps to margins of plates, and labels of the University of Central England and Birmingham School of Art, some light soiling and toning, volume I half title torn at foot with piece adhered to first additional title, all edges gilt, contemporary green half morocco, volume II upper joint cracking, a little rubbed and scuffed with shelf numbers taped at foot of spine, folio (2)
Lot 1709
Late 19th century musical German made mantel/shelf clock in brass and plated case with chased decoration to front, the Swiss musical movement playing 'God Bless the Prince of Wales, the red, white and blue' on the alarm, the paper Roman dial with secondary seconds and steel blue hands, 15cm tall
Lot 1386
LEWIS (James) Original Designs in Architecture: consisting of plans, elevations and sections, for villas, mansions, town-houses, &c. and a new design for a theatre . . . First Edition, vol. 1 only (of 2). English / Italian title, 22 engraved plates, subscriber's list; contemp. half calf & marbled boards (distressed), folio. printed for the author, 1780 * this vol. reissued 1797 in conjunction with a newly published second volume; the subscriber's list details several copies going to Italy, whilst Sir Joshua Reynolds, Richard Carr, Henry Holland, George Dance & James ('Athenian') Stuart were amongst the British purchasers; this copy with shelf labels - 'Luffness/D2', i.e. Luffness Castle (E. Lothian), the Earls of Hopetoun.
Lot 15
An ebonised pine chest of drawers, designed by Dr Christopher Dresser for Bushloe House, the raised back with a shelf over three drawers, with brass cruciform escutcheons and backplates with loop handles, 117.5cm wide 55cm deep 94cm highProvenance: With Christopher Wood, 2007;Bushloe House, near Leicester.Literature: Harry Lyons, 'Christopher Dresser: The People's Designer 1834-1904', 2005 illustrated p.148, plate 265.Dr Christopher Dresser designed a scheme for Bushloe House in 1880 for H B Owston.
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