Antiquarian Books - Wakefield (Priscilla), A Family Tour Through The British Empire; Containing some Account of its Manufactures, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, History and Antiquities: Interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes, ninth edition, Darton, Harvey, and Darton, London 1818, ink ownership inscription Sarah King Mumford 1820 ; Aikin (John), Essays on Song-Writing; With A Collections of Such English Songs As Are Most Eminent For Poetical Merit, [with a] Supplement by R.H. Evans, R.H. Evans, London 1810, xxviii + 352pp, period speckled calf; Farmer (Sarah S.), Tonga and The Friendly Islands; With A Sketch of their Mission History, Hamilton, Adams, & Co., London 1855, cloth boards; an early Victorian music book, belonging to Elizabeth Dorothy Dauhn, Abbots Bromley, of printed sheet music prefixed with a 14 page ink ms. index, oblong, period marbled boards and leather spine and angles, dated Jan. 24th 1849; Elliot (T.S.), Notes towards the Definition of Culture, first edition, Faber and Faber, London 1948, hb, dj; etc (6)
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire - An Ode to the Land of the Gaul - Sketch from Private Life - Windsor Poetics, by the Right Honourable Lord Byron, second edition published by Galignani in Paris 1818 with five pages of handwritten notes in the back and also a loose scrap of paper titled 'Lord Byron's Unpublished Letters' to one side and a letter dated July 1st 1893 on the other side.
Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914) Plain English, graphite sketch of two gentleman about to engage in a fist fight, annotated to the mount in the artist's hand 'John Bull "As you will fight, you shall have it. This time it's a fight to a finish". Punch October 11th 1899', together with a copy of a cartoon from the same series published in Punch Magazine, March 21st 1900
FIVE PAGES OF WATERCOLOUR SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHS from a Victorian album with Grubb family connections relating to Military actions in New Zealand by the 68th and 43rd Light Infantry regiments and Maori Culture circa 1860. Side 1 2 photographs of soldiers on parade possibly the 68th and 43rd Light Infantry, 17 x 22.5cm and 10 x 15cm Side 2 A watercolour view of Rangitoto and North Shore Entrance to Auckland Harbour A pen and ink sketch of Pukehniahina Redoubt at 'Gate PA' at Tauranga with key A watercolour sketch with text verso Interior of 'Gate PA' Redoubt. Commanding Officer Captain Tucker (68th Reg) dated Jan 17 1865 Two Birmese Tattooing Figures Jan 1st 1865 A photograph entitled 'Maoris with Flax Mats', 7 x 7.8cm Side 3 A watercolour sketch of 'Cabbage Tree' A photograph of 'Alexander Grubb saved from the wreck of the Colombo' A watercolour sketch of 'Freemans Bay near Auckland' A watercolour sketch View of Auckland Harbour from Public Gardens A watercolour sketch Auckland Harbour from Wynyard House Verandah A pen and ink sketch of a Tattooed Maori Side 4 A watercolour sketch of The Officers Mess at Maketu Redoubt signed with initials A.G. A watercolour sketch of Flax Drying in Matapulu (?) PA Side 5 A watercolour sketch Strelitzia Regina in Blossom in Domain-Parnell - NZ dated Jan 23rd A watercolour sketch Common Tree Fern signed A.G. and dated 24/3/65 A watercolour sketch 'View from the rifle pits at Te Manga (?) Side 6 A watercolour sketch inscribed verso A Maori Tomb, the end of a Canoe' Side 7 A watercolour sketch inscribed verso 'Interior of Matapihi PA Tauranga N.Z. not a fighting PA' dated 1860 A pen and ink sketch entitled 'Maori Weapons' with key dated 1860
EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888) A signed letter to the Hon. Augusta Bethell (Gussie), written in ink and with caricature self portrait sketch, and dated 1875. Gussie Bethell was a childhood friend of Lear's, one who he remained close to and indeed almost proposed to several times throughout his life. For more information please see 'The Jackdaws - a History of the Koe family' by Wendy Short Koe (whose grandmother was first cousin to Gussie Bethill), ISBN 0 9507542 0 X, pub. 1981
*Sells (Alfred, 1822-1908). The Needles from Barton Court Hotel, Hampshire, August 1901, watercolour on paper, inscribed and dated to lower edge, 123 x 172 mm (4.85 x 6.75 ins), window-mounted, together with 7 other 19th century drawings and watercolours, including a mid-19th century busy street scene in Shoreditch, London, with the Church of St. Leonard's, a watercolour study of rock formations and a thistle attributed to Albert Goodwin, a monochrome wash drawing of fishing boats on the shore at Hastings, by Joseph Murray Ince (1806-1859), a pencil and brown wash illustration for the Vicar of Wakefield Browne, a pencil sketch of Ballater, Scotland by Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), dated 1892, a pencil study of Harewood Castle, Yorkshire by John Scarlett Davis (1804-1844), and a watercolour view of Caen in Normandy, dated 1877, all similar size, mounted (8)
*Colquhoun (Robert, 1914-1962 & MacBryde, Robert, 1913-1966). Original sketch book of Colquhoun and MacBryde, circa 1949, containing 30 leaves of notepaper with printed all-over small check, containing sketches and figure studies, initially in dark brown and occasionally blue ink, including still life compositions, figures and horse, bull's head, donkey, etc., later with 21 studies of a standing female figure, in brown ink, the final 11 leaves with small stain to lower outer corners, and singed with slight loss to edge, original black morocco-backed upper wrapper printed with the words 'Blocco per Appunti', inscribed in pencil to upper margin 'Colquhoun MacBryde', and additionally inscribed 'Siena Pensione Senese Main St.', blue ink stain and some other marks, 120 x 180 mm (4.75 x 7 ins) Provenance: Private collection, Dorset. An important artistic document of the Scottish painters Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, which would appear to have been used by them during their trip to Italy between May and October 1949, accompanied by the poet and friend George Barker, who had been commissioned by John Lehmann to write an illustrated book about Italy (never realised). 'In Modena, Colquhoun made drawings of the puppet shows and, as planned, they visited Siena to see the famous Palio horse race which Colquhoun also sketched, intending to use these and other Italian drawings as the basis of paintings to be completed later on their return to Britain' (Roger Bristow, The Last Bohemians, 2010, page 224). (1)

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