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Click here to subscribeWilliam Minshall Birchall, (1884-1941), Off Maplin Sand, ink sketch, signed, titled and dated 1926 lower left, 26 x 47.5cm.Condition report: In Perspex frame. Vertical crease from top to bottom near funnel of the ship. Further vertical creases to either side. Another crease to bottom right corner. Ink is faded.
Africa.- St. Helena.- Descriptive Sketch of the Island of St. Helena (A), single sheet, text printed in 5 columns beneath large engraved view of St. Helena by Edward Orme after G.H. Bellassis, verso with text and articles also in 5 columns, clean tear into image, folds and creases, slight staining, 'The Observer', Sunday, October 1st, 1815.⁂ Single sheet newspaper with one side devoted solely to the engraving and accompanying lengthy description of the island's history, geography, climate and economy, and mentioning Napoleon's captivity there. Rare, a similar item is mentioned on RBH in a 1953 Maggs catalogue, though that was a leaf of text accompanying 4 aquatint views and was dated November 1st, 1815, presumably therefore a reprint of this, the original as it appeared in The Observer a month earlier. Another broadside from 1815 under the same title has text in 2 columns and a coloured aquatint view.
NO RESERVE May (G.) Ballooning: a concise sketch of its history and principles, first edition, folding wood-engraved frontispiece, 48pp. publisher's illustrated catalogue at end, endpapers browned, original cloth, gilt, lightly damp-stained, 1885 § Nobbs (Moses James) Old Coaching Days: Some Incidents in the Life...the Last of the Mail Coach Guards, portrait frontispiece, original limp cloth, spine faded, [1881] § Endless Amusement: a collection of nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in various branches of science, sixth edition, folding wood-engraved frontispiece, illustrations, original embossed cloth, gilt spine faded, 1834, 8vo et infra (3)
Various mainly early 20th century works, including: EDWARDS (L) My Hunting Sketch Book, 1928, 4to colour plates; My Scottish Sketch Book, 1929 first edition, mounted colour plates, cloth; others by Payne-Gallwey, Munnings, Nimrod [Pseud. C J Apperley], Hawker, Simpson, etc. Kings of the Rod and Hunting Field, in 3 vols, 1899-1901, 8vo, half morocco; Hawker etc
John Mollo - Original costume design for Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, signed and dated 1982, sketch of V. Hesse German Guest at Eskers Shoot, framed, 20 x 30 cm. Background - John Mollo (18 March 1931 – 25 October 2017) was a British costume designer and book author, most known for his Oscar-winning costume design for the Star Wars film series.Provenance: The vendors father (R.I. Davis) worked for the Theatrical Costumiers Morris Angel. In addition he is the author of Men's 17th and 18th Century Costume, Cut and Fashion, Men's Garments 1830-1900.
The Dark Crystal - Fairies book with hand drawn pencil illustration to the inside page by Brian Froud (born 1947) English fantasy illustrator who was the concept artist on Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal. The Sketch is dedicated 'To Steve & Barbara - Whilst on the Dark Crystal 1981' the pencil sketch measures approx. 18 x 18cm. The book is printed by Pan Books and published in 1978. Steve Rice whom the sketch was dedicated to has included a photo showing him on set of The Dark Crystal.
Various historical autographs, letters, etc. to include Charles John Brandling (DA 1856), various letters with wax seals, 18thC and others, early 19thC and others, 1830 and letter, Carlo Pellegrini sketch and annotations, Edward Duke of Kent letter for Grimsby Lincolnshire, another for C Tennyson, addressed 23 Lincolnshire Fields, London from a M Rupels, another in same hand addressed 4 Park Street, Westminster, letters associated to Charles John Brandling, etc. (a quantity)
PRISCILLA GURNEY "Memoir of Priscilla Gurney" a handwritten manuscript in two volumes including subjects such as "Sketch of the Earlham Family", "Illness and death of their father", "Priscilla unites herself more closely to friends and becomes a minister", "Priscilla's account of the death of Henry Gurney", "Extracts from her letters to Maria Fox", "Marriage of her brother Joseph", etc. circa 1815-21 together with another volume of part-handwritten manuscript entitled "Stepping Stones to Heaven Oct 24th 1878" leather bound CONDITION REPORTS Unable to establish whether written personally by Priscilla Gurney or copied from her memoirs at a later date. Both are handwritten and in the same handwriting. The handwtiting in the third book is very similar but not as neat as the other two. No corrections to the written text.
FAMOUS MEN & WOMEN: A good miscellaneous selection of signed pieces, cards, album pages etc., by a wide variety of famous men and women including King George III, King George IV (as Prince Regent), Jussi Bjorling, Bernard Freyberg VC, Kingsley Wood, R. Stafford Cripps, Richard Casey, Herbert Morrison, Chris Bonington (with a small sketch of a mountaineer on a summit), Brian Clough, Harold Pinter, Colin Dexter, Henry Cooper, Doris Lessing, Edward Albee, Pamela Cundell, Lucien Romier, Mary Wilson, Lord John Russell, Julian Lennon, Alexander Brailowsky, Feodor Chaliapin, Alan Jay Lerner, Irving Berlin, Michael Tippett, Carlo Maria Giulini, Yehudi Menuhin, Richard Rodgers, Robert Millikan, Humphry Davy, Hank Snow, Viv Nicholson, David Essex, Juliet Stevenson, Bud Flanagan, Marcel Vertes, Nellie Melba, Gilbert Frankau, Philip Zec, Virginia Holgate, Laurie Lee, Tom Stoppard, Lucy Fleming, Daphne du Maurier, Fay Weldon, Roy Fuller, Anita Brookner, Brigid Brophy, Evelyn Anthony, Alan Bennett, Tom Sharpe, Georges Simenon, James Earl Jones, Luciano Berio, Hammond Innes, Lord Home, Catherine Cookson, Fred Dibnah, Christopher Cockerell, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Harold Wilson, David Attenborough, Simon Rattle, Alan Sillitoe, John Gielgud, Susannah York, Humphrey Lyttelton (signed self-caricature), Bernard Lovell, Claude Auchinleck, William Slim, Erroll Garner, Alan Ayckbourn, James Callaghan, Arnold Wesker and many others. Generally VG, 135
BUCKLEY CECIL W.: (1830-1872) British Royal Navy Captain, Victoria Cross winner for his actions on board HMS Miranda in the Crimea on 29th May 1855. Buckley was the first winner of the Victoria Cross to be actually gazetted. A sentimental original pen and ink sketch, unsigned, by Buckley, on an 8vo page, the image depicting the Cemitério dos Ingleses, Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro, with emphasis on a grave flanked by trees. In a neat script to the verso Buckley has penned the inscription, 'Sacred to the memory of Percy Johnson Buckley who departed this life 2nd of April 1850 aged 17'. A unique and affectionate memento. With minor age wear to the folds, only very slightly affecting the text, otherwise VG Buckley refers to the events of his brother's death in a letter of 13th May 1850, in which he states, in part, 'Before 24 hours he fell into a state of delirium… with few lucid intervals and continued until the evening of the 1st April… He lingered until the following morn and then God took him to himself… He was buried the same evening that he died in the English burying ground called the Gamboa… I intend to have a stone with a simple inscription placed on the spot of his earthly resting place.' The Cemitério dos Ingleses, Gamboa, a cemetery in Gamboa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is also known as the English Cemetery or the British Cemetery Gamboa.
SECOND BOER WAR: A small, interesting selection of manuscript items relating to the Second Boer War comprising an excellent original pen and ink sketch on an 8vo sheet of printed stationery from the Red Lion Hotel in Henley-on-Thames, the image depicting a Boer soldier standing in a full length pose wearing his uniform and with his face masked, a pistol and dagger positioned in his belt and holding a sword in one hand and a flag emblazoned with a skull and cross bones in the other. The words Masked Enemy appear at the base of the sketch along with the signature (initials only) of the unidentified artist and the date, 25th September (n.y.) in his hand. A note, also in his hand, appears at the head of the page, addressed to 'My dear Editor'; Frank Dadd (1851-1929) British Painter & Draughtsman whose subjects included various aspects of the Second Boer War. Brief war date A.L.S., Frank Dadd, one page, 8vo, Blackheath, 15th July 1901, to Frank Downing, sending his autograph in response to his correspondent's request; a partially printed D.S. by the Assistant Provost Marshal at Pretoria, one page, small oblong 8vo, Pretoria, 1st July 1901, being a Pass issued during the Second Boer War to a Miss Malan, authorising her to hand over a parcel to a Mr. Fischer, possibly a Prisoner of War; James Gage Hyde (1872- ) South African Farmer who had joined the Irish Fusiliers in action at the Battle of Nicholson's Nek on 30th October 1899 and was captured by the Boers and imprisoned at Pretoria alongside Winston S. Churchill. A war date manuscript D.S., J Gage Hyde, being a signed cheque, one page, slim oblong 8vo, Waterval Z.A.R., 30th March 1900 (just over one month after the Relief of Ladysmith). Completed entirely in Hyde's hand, the cheque is drawn on the Ladysmith branch of The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd and is made payable to A. C. Evans for the sum of £5. Some very light, minor age wear, generally VG, 4
An extensive collection of Georgian and Victorian and later works on paper, prints and ephemera, across two boxes, including an interesting annotated sketch of flowers, an 1838 etching of Ceylon in the orientalist tradition, an etching of 'A Parliamentary Group, seized with sudden drowsiness upon a prosy orator rising to speak' published 1832, 'Transformer Abstracts' and 'Beechams Help to Scholars' booklets, highly ornate printed patent for 'Severn Velvet Carpets' and others (100+)
Of local interest: A selection of Newbury related collectables, including a metal Barnes and Co 'For Sale' sign, approximately ten 1950's programmes for performances at the Corn Exchange, a watercolour painting of the bridge over the canal, 27cm x 36cm, a pen and pastel sketch of The Queen Arms Hotel, 20cm x 30cm and an oil on canvas of houses alongside the canal, signed and dated 'L. Gilder 1975' (lower left) (14+)
Alfred Chantry Corbould (1852-1920) ''Admiration - A Sketch by the Post Office'' Signed, pen and ink, wash, and heightened with white, in monochrome, with further vignette sketches on the same sheet, to include : ''The Royal Scots Greys; Ready to Go On'', '' Curious Effect at the Back of the Stands under the Gallery'', ''10pm Good Night Old Boy'', ''Last Touches to the Mahdi'', ''A Sketch outside the Gates in Barford Street'', 37.5cm by 28.5cm . Significantly stained paper with small to large sized foxing spots throughout. Staining particularly apparent in a more pronounced vertical band along right hand side edge. Superficial surface scratch running horizontally across the back through the lady's black cloak standing towards the upper right. General creasing to lower right hand corner. No evidence of cockling. Not examined out of the frame.
2 Henry Moore shelter sketch prints circa 1940, 1 Elisabeth Frink lithograph circa 1975, 2 Henri Matisse prints circa 1935, 1 Eric Gill engraving from 25 Nudes circa 1938, 2 Pablo Picasso lithographs (Mourlot) circa 1959 and 2 Georges Braque lithographs (Mourlot) circa 1959. (9 in total, all mounted and unframed).
A collection of 7 folders of trading cards including James Bond, Conan, adult, etc. ****Condition report**** No sketch or autograph cards in this lot.FPG cards - Sanjulian collection - John Berkey science fiction ultraworks - Richard Hescox family collection - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Art OK Keith Parkinson - Fantastic art of Mike Ploog - Janny Wurts - Darrell K Sweet - Barclay Shaw - Jeff Easley - David Mattingly.Master cards - scooters.Graffiti - Goldeneye.Inkworks - Tomorrow never dies - the world is not enough.Rittenhouse Archives - Die another day - Skyfall - Quantum of solace - Casino Royale.Artworks - Olivia DeBerardinsComic images - Blueprints of the future: Vincent Di Fate - Conan: All Chromium: Conan II
A pencil sketch book of maritime and harbour scenes by Rear Admiral Frederick Schomberg, together with a framed photograph of his daughter and one of his himself. Also a copy of his brother’s Will, Sir George Augustus K.G.B., his commissions to Commander of HMS The Queen and HMS Trafalgar, an appointment letter as the Harbour Master Holyhead, Honorary Membership R.Y.S. and various letters to and from The Admiralty.Condition ReportAll look to be Scottish scenes, 36 drawings in total.
Laurence Stephen Lowry R.A. (British, 1887-1976)Deal Beach; Deal Sketch Two offset lithographs printed in colours, 1973, each on wove, the first signed in pencil, the second signed in blue ink, each from the edition of 850, both published by Venture Prints Ltd., Bristol, both with the Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamp, 260 x 505mm (10 1/4 x 19 7/8in)(and smaller)(I)(2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR
A 1940's autograph album containing numerous England, Arsenal and Portsmouth FC players signatures including Kenneth Wolstenholme, Lew Morgan, Frank Swift, Stanley Matthews, Stan Mortensen and Tommy Lawton among many others, as well as a number of assorted artworks including a pencil sketch of Winston Churchill etc.
Late 19th/early 20th Century School, British three-masted merchant ship firing on a small sailing ship, unsigned, w/c, 20x27cm, together with a watercolour & pencil sketch of sailing barges off a rocky coastline, 10x17cm, and another of boats at low tide, titled 'Poll Creek' by J Rockett, 24x34cm (3)
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