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Lot 226
A WWI Army Medical Service arm band, red cloth on white linen with circular AMS stamp, and inside “SLF/1917”; a yellow on royal blue silk triangular pennant of the 6th Field Force, embroidered Pegasus astride Bellerophon in top segment; a pair silk trumpet banners, 4 vertical bands: red, white, buff (?), yellow (some wear and fading); a WWI Imperial Austrian brass diestruck WBP (swivel detached but present). Generally GC
Lot 266
A continental, probably German, sidearm, plain SE blade 19”, slightly swollen towards hatchet point, small stamp (unclear) at forte, solid brass hilt, “S” shaped crossguard with plain upper and bud shaped lower quillons, finely ribbed, shallow pistol shaped grip, small crowned “Is” stamp below crossguard. GC, with a good patina.
Lot 74
A cased 5 shot 54 bore Kerr’s patent side hammer single action percussion revolver, barrel 5½” with London proofs and L.A.C mark; the frame engraved “Kerr’s Patent 11,351”, the number repeated on the cylinder; back action lock bearing small “London Armoury” oval stamp; chequered walnut butt having plain butt cap with lanyard ring. Good Working Order and Condition, retaining much original blue on barrel and cylinder; in its green baize lined fitted oak case, with trade label of “John Blanch & Son, No 29 Gracechurch Street, London”, containing double cavity 54 bore bronze bullet mould stamped “Tranters Patent”, flask marked “J S Riley Patent” retaining some original finish, nipple key with pricker, turnscrew, brass mounted cleaning rod, oil bottle, and key to the case. Plate 21
Lot 344
Philately & Postal History - Easingwold parcel post marks; Ripon parcel post; an album of Great Britain and world stamps including 100+ Victorian penny reds, half penny stamps, etc; qty of loose marked stamps from envelopes; school boy stamp album holding mainly Elizabeth II; first day covers; Railway mail service conveyance of single post stamps from various lines; large qty
Lot 346
Postal History - Railway & Stamps - an interesting mix of George III to early 20th century envelopes including illustrated Lincoln sorting carriage envelope postal mark for 1906; various half penny red bared envelopes; original wreckage postcard 'The Wreckage L&NW RY. Express at Shrewsbury, Oct 15th 1907; a Birmingham via Chester station office 'To fragile for transfer by mail apparatus' parcel label 1902; British Empire Exhibition 1924 official p.p card; letter to Edinburgh 1805; an unusual G.W.R air mail first flight envelope franked Torquay 1933 to reverse; 3d purple on yellow stamp On His Majesty's Service envelope registered rate Jedbury to Newscastleton via Hawick and Carlisle 1889, another 3d purple on yellow, Colchester July 1888; Grimsby and Lincoln sorting tender;'DAMAGED BY FIRE IN PILLAR BOX' damaged mail 1969; Island of Mull 1850; Queen Victoria 2d deep blue, sall crown, Nottingham 1855; various penny reds and 2d blue stamps; Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Co. with locomotive emblem embossed wax seal to reverse, this railway line was absorbed by the North British Railway; etc qty
Lot 349
Great Britain - Postal History & Railway - G.W.R airmail 1933 envelope baring G.W.R aviation stamp; official G.W.R envelopes from the general managers office baring the Speed and Comfort slogan; Caledonian Railway central station hotel 190; 1840 Island of Mull letter to Edinburgh; Great Central Railway official tender envelope 1920; 1848 Oban envelope; Yorkshire station postmarks; Robin Hoods Bay station post marks; Warwick penny post 1829; Halifax sorting tender; 1802 Tadcaster letter to Rochdale; L.B.S.C Railway Horsham station marks; T.P.O Scotland Caledonia envelopes dated 1865 baring penny red with postal marks; Penmaenmawr R.S.O 1911;qty
Lot 368
Postal History - Philately - York - 19th century and later, including Green Hammerton (Yorkshire) letter from Whixley Hall 1842 along with early photographic postcard of Whixley Hall; Green Hammerton double ark stamp lette baing two penny reds c.1850; letters to Boroughbridge 1852 with penny reds; eye and pen seal on penny red included letter; Green Hammerton post office stamp with comprising postcard; 1841 letter to Somerset Place; etc
Lot 395
Philately - interesting Victorian and later examples including a penny black,used with Maltese Cross, K D to upper corners, black rampant lion seal, stamped 1840 Pall Mall; a penny red and three half penny stamps,used, posted to Copenhagen; Midland Railway headed envelope with Derby postal stamp mark, penny red, NH to lower corners, North Staffordshire Railway envelope with used penny red; an early 20th century envelope addressed to Miss Helen Dickinson American Express Co, with Virginia nd London postal marks, 1932; other Victorian half penny stamps; various used penny reds,etc
Lot 411
Postcards, Stamps & Railway Interest - Benman silk cover stamp sets including 100 years Sandy Beds bird stamps; The Southwold Express railway cartoon postcard series examples; Ralph Tuck & Sons Chromo portrait gallery cards; National Union of Railwaymen membership card dated 1928; penny red; first day cover,etc housed in contemporary album
Lot 424
Postcards & Stamps - a contemporary album with Edwardian and later reproduction postcards including embroidered examples; first day covers; railway BT phone cards; stamp sets including Elizabeth II Ocean Liners, others; traction engine; locomotives; Shetland peat carriers;1950s double decker bus photograph (1)
Lot 4182
Smoking Advertising: Three 20th Century French Advertising Fans, all with double paper leaves and mounted on basic wood. The first, of fontange form, shows a young lady with lighted cigarette between her teeth, the caption reading "Fumez le papier à cigarettes JOB". The verso is plain. Overall height 9.5 inches or 24cm. Next, a folding fan of normal form, the recto advertising "Cigarettes WEEKEND", showing three people wearing yellow sweaters next to the caption "Goût Anglais", the design marked d'aprés Paul Colin, the verso with a design of a dark skinned lady wearing a red headscarf and smoking a cigarette, this time d'aprés ( possibly) Jean d'Ylery, the cigarettes being "GITANES VIZIR" in a red packet. To the left on either side is written" "Caisse Antonome d'Amortissement". Guard length 8.5 inches or 22cm.Finally, a fan advertising "Westminster Cigarettes", packed in a colourful tin with a design of the Houses of Parliament and the words "cork tipped", with a further design of a clenched fist in the centre of a pair of wings, with the words "Trade Mark". On the verso, a colourful depiction of a bird perched on a bough of Chinese blossom, with Chinese characters and red stamp to the upper left. Guard length 9.25 inches or 23.5cm (3) CONDITION REPORT: . The first two fans have wear to the left with some creasing. The third fan is crisp, guards of superior quality, slight brown marking to the recto.
Lot 4218
A Very Interesting Chinese Fan that would benefit from more research. The monture, of polished wood, is carved on both guards with various symbols and outdoor features. The gorge is plain. The double paper leaf bears a red stamp and characters above a basic rocky landscape, but to the right a clearly important person is meeting with two others, one wearing a sword. More characters in a larger format cover the verso. The paper is fairly sturdy. The vendor has noted the fan as Japanese, dating from c.1790. Guard length 13.25 inches or 33.5cmIt is thought that the fan reproduces a well-known Chinese text engraved on a slab, dating from the sixth century. It is difficult to translate literally today, but it is the epitaph of a high Imperial official and is thought to recount his genealogy. CONDITION REPORT: . some slight tears the bottom border, some light staining to the top left, recto, and darker stains seen on the verso
Lot 189
Pernot (François Alexandre). Vues Pittoresques de l'Ecosse ... avec un texte explicatif extrait en grande partie des ouvrages de Sir Walter Scott par A. Pichot, Brussels: Aug. Wahlen et A. Deswasme, 1827, half-title, lithograph vignette to title, 59 lithograph plates (of 60) and numerous vignettes, a few with tissue guards, some foxing and browning, Neatham Mill Library embossed stamp to rear free endpaper, original boards, recornered in sheep, soiled and spotted, upper joint cracking, tear across spine, some wear to extremities, 4to (Qty: 1)
Lot 20
Cary (John). Cary's New and Correct English Atlas: Being a New Set of County Maps from Actual Surveys..., 1st edition, printed for John Cary, Engraver, Map and Print-seller, the corner of Arundel Street, Strand, Septr. 1st 1787, title, dedication (with old library stamp), advertisement and contents list, 47 engraved maps (complete as list) with contemporary outline colouring, each map with a tissue guard and a page of descriptive text, slight spotting, index bound at rear, lacking endpapers, boards and some of the spine, large 4to (Qty: 1)NOTESChubb CCLX. First edition of Cary's earliest published atlas. Sold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
![Voet (Johann Eusebius). Catalogus systematicus coleopterorum [plates only], 2 volumes in 1, The Hague: G. Bakhuysen, 1806, 2](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/7600c5ee-55fd-422e-a3f8-abb400fb5cb4/468x382.jpg)
Lot 220
Voet (Johann Eusebius). Catalogus systematicus coleopterorum [plates only], 2 volumes in 1, The Hague: G. Bakhuysen, 1806, 2 engraved title-pages and 105 hand-coloured engraved plates, each tipped to a separate sheet of thick laid paper within watercolour grisaille border, mount of first engraved title-page slightly nicked and soiled, a couple of spots in image of volume 2 plate 48, a few other trivial marks, all loose in contemporary portfolio of roan-backed marbled boards with vellum tips, housed in a custom solander box with maroon plush lining, 'Index Tabularum' (20 pp.,) laid in, 4to (plate size 24 x 18.6 cm, mount size 38 x 30.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Augustin Legillon, with book-label, 'Augustini Legillon Brugensis 1809' to inside front cover of portfolio. 2) Thomas Ignatius Maria Forster (1789-1860), British scientist and early proponent of animal rights, with his ink-stamp to mounts of the title-page and of plate 26 in the first volume (depicting his pet dog, 'Shargs'), and his ownership inscriptions dated Bruges, 9 September 1836 to the former and to the inside front cover of the portfolio. Nissen ZBI 4259. A previous edition appeared circa 1766, with 72 plates only.
Lot 253
Morton (John). The Natural History of Northampton-shire; with some Account of the Antiquities. To which is annex'd a Transcript of Doomsday-Book so fas as it relates to that County, 1st edition, London: R. Knaplock and R. Wilkin, 1712, p. iv with pasted errata slip, engraved folding map by John Harris, 14 engraved plates, damp-staining to first few leaves, map browned, plates slightly spotted, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, recornered and relined, gilt arms of Beriah Botfield to sides,rubbed and scuffed, wear to extremities, folio (35.1 x 21.9 cm), together with: Leigh (Charles), The Natural History of Lancashire, Cheshire and the Peak, in Derbyshire: with an Account of the British, Phoenician, Armenian, Gr. and Rom. Antiquities in those Parts, 1st edition, Oxford: for the author, 1700, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved plates showing coats of arms, double-page engraved map coloured in outline, 22 other engraved plates, variable damp-staining chiefly to margins, affecting images in several plates, frontispiece trimmed and mounted, neatly repaired closed tears in map and plates 8 and 14 touching image in map and skirting plate-mark in plate, plate 11 trimmed to image along fore edge and with extensive repaired tear through image, plate 12 with chip in fore margin repaired verso and fraying along bottom edge, plate 17 with partial loss of image and fore margin extended, plates 18-19 frayed along fore edges, marginal repairs to title-page and text-leaves X2 and 3C1, Postscript leaf following Book III frayed, contemporary marginalia in brown ink, modern half roan, folio (35.2 x 21.9 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance (Morton): Beriah Botfield (1807-1863), antiquary, industrialist and bibliophile (armorial binding; see University of Toronto, 'British Armorial Bindings', stamp 2, online). ESTC T147393 & R20833; Freeman 2693 & 2211; Upcott pp. 1003-5 & 455-7; Wing L975 (Leigh).
Lot 267
Whitaker (Joseph Isaac Spadafora). The Birds of Tunisia, being a History of the Birds found in the Regency of Tunis, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: R. H. Porter, 1905, half-titles, photogravure frontispiece to each volume, 2 halftone plates, 15 hand-coloured lithographic plates after Henrik Grönvold, 2 folding maps, volume 1 half-title and title-page spotted, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, original dark green half morocco (ink-stamp 'Bound by R. H. Porter' to front free endpapers), volume 2 spine sunned to tan, large 8vo (26.2 x 16.4 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESTHE DAVID WILSON LIBRARY OF NATURAL HISTORY PART I Provenance: 1) Edmund Ward Oliver (bookplates), probably the solicitor and landowner (c.1838-1917) who was landlord of Joseph Conrad when the author lived at Capel House, Kent; 2) R. A. W. Reynolds (bookplate). Anker 525; Nissen IVB 983; Wood p. 624 ('this meritorious work'); Zimmer p. 671. Out-of-series copy from the edition of 250.
Lot 275
* Appleton (Thomas G. 1854 - 1924). Forget-me-Not & Sunless Days, M. Knoedler & Co. circa 1886, pair of mixed method engravings on India wove after George Henry Boughton, both proofs before title, both with blind-stamp and signed in pencil below the image by the artist and the engraver, each approximately 670 x 410 mm, uniformly framed and glazed (Qty: 2)
Lot 310
* Payne (Charles Johnson, 'Snaffles'). The Gunner, 'Good Hunting old Sportsman', circa 1916, colour lithograph finished by hand with body colour, two remarques of a bi-plane and a team of guns, snaffle bit blind-stamp, slight toning to backing paper, overall size 430 x 340 mm, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)
Lot 318
* Thorburn (Archibald, 1860-1935). Red Grouse, W. F. Embleton, 1927, colour photolithograph, blind-stamp to lower left, signed by the artist in pencil below image, 335 x 465 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, together with Feeding Mallard, W. F. Embleton, 1922, colour photolithograph, blind-stamp to lower left, signed by the artist in pencil below image, 320 x 410 mm, mounted, framed and glazed, with Winter Partridges, A. Baird-Carter, 1907, colour photolithograph, signed by artist in pencil to lower left below image, 400 x 530 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 3)
![[Florence]. Reale Galleria di Firenze Illustrata, 13 volumes (complete), in 5 series (Quadri di Storia; Quadri di Vario Gener](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/ae2b7b51-3a91-4d1f-85f5-abb400fbb6aa/468x382.jpg)
Lot 351
[Florence]. Reale Galleria di Firenze Illustrata, 13 volumes (complete), in 5 series (Quadri di Storia; Quadri di Vario Genere; Ritratti di Pittori; Statue, Bassirilievi, Busti e Bronzi; Cammei ed Intagli), Florence: Giuseppe Molini, 1817-33, numerous plates, most engraved in outline, many folding, variable spotting throughout, most front free endpaper versos with ink ownership stamp of a crane, with the initials G. M., contemporary half diced russia, gilt-decorated spines (rubbed), that to series 1 volume 1 with loss at head, 2 volumes with front cover detached, several joints cracked (1 with spine lifting), some wear to extremities, 8vo, together with: [Zacchiroli, Francesco] , Description de la Galerie Royale de Florence. Reforme?e, & augmente?e par le Chev. de G., Arezzo: chez Catherine Bellotti, 1792, folding engraved plan at rear (dust-soiled), contemporary paste-paper boards, marked with some wear and surface loss, 8vo, plus: [Coxe, William] , Sketches of the Lives of Correggio and Parmegiano, London: Longman, Hurst [et al], 1823, engraved portrait frontispiece, genealogical table, scarce minor spotting, final gathering detached, endpapers renewed, contemporary publisher's boards, rebacked, a trifle rubbed with some wear to extremities, 8vo (Qty: 15)NOTESFirst work: complete set of volumes illustrating the entire contents of the Royal Gallery of Florence, better known as the Uffizi, following the overthrow of French control under Napoleon, divided into History Painting, Genre Painting, Portraits of Artists, Statues, Bas-Reliefs, Busts and Bronzes, and Cameos and Inlays. The catalogues were written by G. B. Zannoni, Bargigli, A. Ramirez di Montalvo and Marquis T. Corsi; the plates engraved by Giovanni Paolo Lasinio (1789--1855). With a list of subscribers in the first volume, many of them English, including the architect Henry Holland.
Lot 359
Hogarth (William). The Works... From the Original Plates Restored by James Heath..., Explanations of the Subjects of the Plates by John Nichols, published Baldwin & Cradock, [1822], 155 etched and engraved plates on 116 sheets (including the two portraits), title & few initial leaves creased (ink stamp to verso of title), light dust-soiling to frontispiece, title-page and margins, few short closed tears to lower blank margins, old library label to upper pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco, gilt decorated spine with few library markings, upper joint split and lower board near detached, leather to corners torn with loss, extremities heavily rubbed and worn, large folio (63.5 x 48 cm) (Qty: 1)
Lot 370
Picart (Bernard). Pierres Antiques Gravees, sur Lesquelles les Graveurs ont mis Leurs Noms. Dessinees & Gravees en Cuivre sur les Originaux ou d'apres les Empreintes, 1st edition, Amsterdam: Bernard Picart, 1724, half-title, titles in French and Latin printed in red and black with engraved vignettes, 70 engraved plates, ink stamp to lower margins of French title, plate 34 and verso of final leaf of text, occasional spotting, some offsetting to text, later cloth hinges to marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary calf, rebacked and re-cornered, boards worn, folio (Qty: 1)
Lot 385
Waring (John Burnley). Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862, 3 volumes, London: Day & Son, 1863, additional chromolithograph title to each, 301 chromolithograph plates, some offsetting to tissue guards, light toning, ink stamp to verso of letterpress titles, library blind stamp to plates, titles and some leaves of text, armorial bookplate of George Thomas Robinson to upper pastedowns, all edges gilt, contemporary burgundy morocco by Palmer & Howe of Manchester, with elaborate gilt decoration, rubbed and worn, joints of volume 1 splitting at head, folio (Qty: 3)
Lot 459
Olivier (Jean, Fencing Master). Fencing Familiarized: or, a New Treatise in the Art of Sword. Illustrated by Elegant Engravings (L'Art des Armes Simplifie?), new edition, London: J. Bell, 1780, titles and text in English & French, 2 engraved armorials to dedication leaves, 13 engraved plates only of 14 (includes 12 folding, lacking plate 4 'of the Longe in Carte'), tissue guards, ink ownership stamp P.D. Pownoll to upper blank margin of one title, some offsetting, fore- & lower- edges untrimmed, modern sheep, maroon morocco title label to spine, 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESThimm p.211; Vigeant p. 97; Pardoel 1945; Castle, Schools and masters of fence, p. XLIX and p. 218. The new edition of this bilingual fencing treatise by the famous French fence-master Jean Olivier, dedicated to the Earl of Harrington, with new illustrations. The first edition was published by the same publisher, in 1771. Vigeant, Thimm and Castle list a copy (probably following each other) of the new edition which also has the frontispiece of the first edition, but it is not listed in the list of plates. The plate of the first position of drawing the sword was clearly made to serve as a frontispiece in this new edition. As Vigeant states, the plates of this new edition are superior to those in the first edition. "Olivier, who kept a flourishing school in St. Dunstan's Court, Fleet Street, was perhaps, after Angelo, the most popular master of the small sword in London. His work is very sound, and thoroughly justifies its French title, as it contains a simplified system, shorn of all unnecessary and obsolete details." (Castle).
Lot 480
Vigeant (Arse?ne). Petit essai historique: Un mai?tre d'armes sous la Restauration, Paris: Motteroz, 1883, 2 engraved portrait plates (double portrait) and few wood engraved vignette illustrations, front blank inscribed by the author to Henry Fouquier and with Henry Fouquier's ink stamp below, original printed wrappers bound-in at front and rear, closed tear to front free marbled endpaper, bookplate of Toupie Lowther to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary red morocco, very slight fading to title, 4to, together with: Fencing , L'Avenir de l'Escrime Francaise par le Captaine N*, Theorie, Mechanisme et Enseignement des Armes, Paris: Plon-Nourrit et Cie., 1909, monochrome plates, printed wrappers bound-in, armorial bookplate John Stanley Williams to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary red quarter morocco, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, Abdre (Emile) , Manuel Theorique et Pratique d'Escrime (Fleuret, Epee - Sabre), Paris: Garnier Freres, 1896, monochrome illustrations, toning throughout, contemporary red half morocco, extremities rubbed, 8vo, Yorick figlio di Yorik (P.C. Ferrigni) , Giostre e tornei (1313 - 1883), Rome: Fanfulla, 1883, 2 wood engraved portraits, chromolithograph wrappers bound-in, 20th century cloth, slightly dust-soiled, slim 8vo, Lovini (G.A.) , Traite d'Escrime dedie au roi Henri III par G.A. Lovino de Milan, Reproduction Reduite des 66 Miniatures du Manuscrit Italien 959 de la Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris: Berthaud Freres, [1909], monochrome plates, text & plates loosely contained in original cloth-backed printed boards, small 4to, contained in original defective slipcase (Qty: 5)NOTESVigeant - Limited edition 28/480, being one of "39 exemplaires sur vélin a la forme, avec double épreuve du portrait (nos 22 a 60)." Arse?ne Vigeant (1844-1916) was born in Moselle, France and became a Master of Arms. He was a fencing teacher to Napoleon III.
Lot 481
Hutton (Alfred). Cold Steel: A Practical Treatise on the Sabre. Based on the Old English Backsword Play of the Eighteenth Century combined with the method of the Modern Italian School. Also on Various other Weapons of the Present Day, including the short Sword-Bayonet and the Constable's Truncheon, 1st edition, London: William Clowes and Sons Ltd., 1889, half-title, photogravure portrait frontispiece and 55 plates, light toning, Authors' Club Library bookplate to upper pastedown (presented by Captain Hutton, June 1910) with withdrawn stamp, original pictorial cloth, large 8vo, together with: Ibid. , The Swordsman, A Manual of Fence for the Foil, Sabre, and Bayonet, London: H. Grevel & Co., 1891, wood engraved frontispiece and illustrations, copious pencil notes throughout, ownership name 'Richmond' to upper pastedown, original gilt blocked cloth, small 8vo, Ibid. , The Sword and the Centuries or Old Sword Days and Old Sword Ways, London: Grant Richards, 1901, half-title, monochrome portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original red cloth gilt, large 8vo (Qty: 3)NOTESThimm p.143. Alfred Hutton (1839-1910), sometimes called Cold Steel himself, published his first work, Swordmanship, in 1862, meanwhile leading the fencing club of his regiment. In 1873 he retired from the army to focus on fencing entirely, mainly paying attention to historical aspects. Cold Steel was Hutton's most important work.
Lot 483
Hutton (Alfred). The Swordsman, A Manual of Fence, A Manual of Fence for the Foil, Sabre, and Bayonet, London: H. Grevel & Co., 1891, half-title inscribed by the author to the Sword Club, wood engraved frontispiece and illustrations, upper blank margin of title and p.105 with ink stamp of the Royal Dalcassian Legation, Dublin, bookplate of the London Fencing Club to upper Pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt blocked vellum, light dust-soiling, 8vo (limited edition 33/50 printed on Whatman hand-made paper), together with: Matthey (Cyril G.R., edited) , The Works of George Silver, comprising "Paradoxes of Defence" [Printed in 1599 and now reprinted] and "Bref instructions vpo my Pradoxes of Defence" [Printed for the first time from the M.S. in the British Museum], London: George Bell & Sons, 1898, half-title, title in red & black, 8 collotype plates including frontispiece, decorative initials and few illustrations, folding table at rear, bookplate of Alfred Hutton to upper pastedown, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, original gilt panelled and decorated vellum, gilt arabesque to centre of each board, few marks, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTES(Hutton) Thimm p.143. Alfred Hutton (1839-1910), sometimes called Cold Steel himself, published his first work, Swordmanship, in 1862, meanwhile leading the fencing club of his regiment. In 1873 he retired from the army to focus on fencing entirely, mainly paying attention to historical aspects. Cold Steel was Hutton's most important work.
Lot 510
Cavalieri (Giovanni Battista). Effigies Romanorum Pontificum a S. Petro ad Pium VI ... æneis tabulis expressæ, ordine chronologico digestæ ... singulis præmissa accuratissima eorumdem chronotaxi e Gravesonio, aliisque auctoribus, 2 volumes in one, Bassano & Venice, Remondini, 1775, decorative border to titles, single engraved plate and 252 engraved portraits, library ink stamp to first title, dampstaining to lower outer blank corners, contemporary vellum, morocco labels to spine, large 8vo (Qty: 1)NOTESA portrait gallery of 252 popes from Saint Peter to the then current Pope Pius VI (1775-1799). Papal portr a it collections were produced in v a rious editions a nd by v a rious engr a vers a nd printers from the sixteenth century onwards, not a bly those of Joh a nn Huttich (1551) a nd Giov a nni Battista C a v a lieri (sever a l editions in the 1580s a nd 1590s). The portr a its here a re unsigned a nd the work is not listed in the British Museum c a t a logue, Cohen-De Ricci or Brunet.
Lot 551
Ready-reckoners. Keay (Isaac), The Practical Measurer his Pocket-Companion: containing tables ... for the speedy Mensuration of Timber, Board, &c., 3rd edition, London: printed by T. Wood, for J. Knapton [et al], 1724, pale dampstaining to last few leaves, free endpapers and rear pastedown with early ink manuscript ownership names, dated 1729 and 1739, contemporary sprinkled sheep, rubbed with some wear to extremities, rear cover dampstained, rear joint partly cracked, tall 8vo (16.6 x 5.8 cm), together with: Tables for Renewing and Purchasing of Leases as also for renewing and purchasing of Lives ..., by Gael Morris, London: by J. Brotherton, 1735, p.1 with ink manuscript authorial signature, scarce spotting, title with toned edges, front free endpaper with early ink manuscript ownership name, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed with minor surface damage to rear cover, small 8vo in 4s, plus: The Lighter-Man's Assistant, or Coal-Dealer's Guide ..., London: for Thomas Bradley, c. 1765?, title trimmed and laid down, occasional minor marks, front hinge cracked, contemporary calf, head of spine sometime repaired, small 8vo, and: The Linen-Draper's Guide; or, the Buyer's Pocket Companion, by C. Carter, London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., [1840?], a few light spots, front free endpaper with early ink manuscript ownership signature, dated 1858, original cloth, front cover with gilt title stamp, near contemporary paper wrapper, adhered at turn-ins, torn and stained with losses, tall 8vo (17.1 x 6.5 cm), with 8 others similar (including one Spanish and one Italian publication) (Qty: 12)NOTESFirst item: ESTC T225829. Other titles include: Sir Isaac Newton's Tables for renewing and purchasing the Leases of Cathedral-Churches and Colleges, 6th edition, 1742; The Gentleman's and Farmer's Assistant, by John Cullyer, 11th edition, 1839; Tables of Simple Interest and Discount, by John Smart, 1719; The Ready Reckoner; or, Trader's Sure Guide, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1831; The Ready Reckoner, for the Buyer and Seller of Corn, by John Evans, [in English and Welsh], 1840; Vox Stellarum; or, a Loyal Almanack, by Francis Moore, 1790
![[Sansovino, Francesco]. Delle Cose Notabili Della Citta? Di Venetia : Libri II. Ne quali amplamente, e con ogni verita? si co](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/3df1719c-6061-4a26-902e-abb400fc453d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 556
[Sansovino, Francesco]. Delle Cose Notabili Della Citta? Di Venetia : Libri II. Ne quali amplamente, e con ogni verita? si contengono: Usance antiche. Habiti, & vestiti ... Musici di piu? sorte. Con la tavola copiosa, Venice: Zopini & Nepoti, 1596, [16],143,[1]p., printer's woodcut device to title and early manuscript signature William Gorges, A1 torn to lower outer corner with slight text loss, occasional light worm trails, toning & light dust-soiling, 18th century sheep-backed marbled boards, joints cracked and some wear, small 8vo, together with: Whittaker (G. & W.B., publishers) , The Peerage Chart for 1823. House of Lords, London: printed for G. & W.G. Whittaker, [1823], large folded chart mounted on canvas printed in columns, with hand-coloured engravings of the five coronets appropriate for Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts and Barons at head, a few old pencilled annotations referring to omissions, the chart folded as issued, 57 x 66.5cm, contained in the original card slipcase, Duren (Johannes van, publisher) , Journal du sie?ge de Philipsbourg, pris le 18 juillet 1734 par l'arme?e de Sa Majeste? tre?s-chre?tienne, commande?e par le mare?chal D'Asfeld ; avec le plan de cette ville ... grave? sur le dessin envoye? a? Versailles par un officier ge?ne?ral, The Hague: J. Van Duren, 1734, 23,[1]pp., folding engraved map, disbound 4to, Company of Scriveners , The Case of the Free Scriveners of London: set forth in a Report from a Committee of the Court of Assistants of the Company of Scriveners, London... at their Court holden the 23rd Day of June 1748, London: Printed in the Year, 1749, additional letterpress title (both with ink stamps), bound with A Report of the Proceedings, particularly on the Commission in Error, in the cause of Thomas Harrison ... against John Alexander ... to be free of the Scrivener's Company, London: J. Williams, 1768, final leaf repaired to margins and with library ink stamp, browning throughout, modern library buckram, 4to, Somerville (William) , The Chase. A Poem, London: G. Hawkins, 1735, e ngraved title (detached), bound with: Croxall (Samuel) , A Sermon Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, on Friday, January xxx, 1729, London: J. Roberts, 1730, bound with: Middleton (Conyers) , A Letter from Rome, shewing an Exact Conformity between Popery and Paganism..., London: W. Innys, 1729, sewing broken and some leaves detached, contemporary marbled boards with remnants of calf spine, text-block broken, worn, 4to, and 3 others (Qty: 8)
Lot 562
The Gentleman's Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer, 276 volumes, 1731-1877 & 1880-94, a near unbroken run, lacking only 4 half-yearly volumes for 1878 & 1879, illustrated with numerous copper-engraved plates, maps, and engravings to text, including early publications by Samuel Johnson, one of the earliest British publications of the Declaration of American Independence (volume 46, 1776), some browning or spotting and some offsetting to maps and plates, the majority in uniform 20th-century buckram gilt with gilt-titled red leather spine labels and gilt stamp and bookplate of Gray's Inn Library, a few volumes rebound to match, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo (Qty: 276)NOTESThe volumes appear to be largely complete with virtually all their illustrations but the set has not been fully collated and is sold as a periodical, not subject to return. The American maps as listed in David Jolly, Maps of America in Periodicals before 1800 has been checked and all maps inserted and in the text are present. There is some browning and occasional offsetting from facing text, or the maps themselves, a few scattered closed tears and one or two closely trimmed to margin. 'A Map of the Icy Sea...' (1760) is trimmed at head with loss of some title lettering.
Lot 570
Dickens (Charles). A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, with Illustrations by John Leech, 1st edition, third issue, Chapman & Hall, 1843, title-page printed in red and blue, 4 hand-coloured engraved plates and 4 woodcut illustrations in text, 'Stave One' on first page of text, uncorrected text, lacks half-title and advert leaf at rear, a little spotting, large Dickens Centenary testimonial stamp pasted to Contents leaf verso, a little spotting, bound with The Chimes: A Goblin Story... , 1st edition, second issue, Chapman & Hall, 1845, additional engraved title (publishers' name beneath the cloud) and frontispiece, illustrations to text, lacks advertisement leaf and half-title at front, a little scattered spotting and minor dust-soiling, armorial bookplate of Samuel Hanson to front pastedown and later ink ownership signature of A.W.R. Charles, Hatherop Rectory, Glos to front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, gilt-decorated spine with leather label, rubbed, 8vo (158 x 100 mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESEckel, pp. 110-115; 116-118.
Lot 609
* Limehouse Declaration. The Declaration for Social Democracy, 25 January 1981, printed statement on thick parchment paper, signed at foot by Roy Jenkins (1920-2003), Bill Rodgers (1928-), Shirley Williams (1930-) and David Owen (1938-),SDPP 'Social Democratic Party' circular blind stamp lower left, minor spotting and creasing from rolling, 40 x 30 cm, together with a note on an SDPP compliments' slip with a note from Judy Price, 18 December 1981, apologising to Mr Barbary for the delay in obtaining all the signatures for the Declaration, original posting tube, postmarked the same date and addressed to Gerald Barbary in Plymouth, Devon (Qty: 1)NOTESThe SDP began in January 1981 with what became known as the Limehouse Declaration, a statement of intent by four former Labour Cabinet ministers, wanting a more centralist path than the Labour party. The party was formally founded on 26 March, and within a few months had formed an Alliance with the Liberal Party. The SDP merged with the Liberal Party following the General Election of 1987, the unification process being completed in 1988. Only one other copy of this signed document has been located (Dominic Winter, 4 July 2017, lot 257) and how many copies were printed and signed is unknown.
Lot 642
* Sitwell (Edith, 1887-1964). A series of 18 letters, six in the third person, to her insurance brokers, largely relating to jewellery purchases, 1954-1964, all to the Atlas Insurance Company, some to named individuals, together with five letters written on her behalf by secretaries, and a valuation certificate from Cameo Corner, 1958, a total of 38 pages, small 4to (Qty: 23)NOTES'... When the Manager was so kind as to insure Dame Edith's Jewellery some time ago, amongst the items was a Renaissance pendant, consisting of a Queen's Head carved out of a garnet, with a gold crown, and surrounded by branches with flowers of white enamel with centres of rubies. (To this subsequently added a brooch - value £65, I think, if I remember rightly, from Cameo Corner. ...The whole jewel was inadequately priced at the moment. Dame Edith's secretary, Miss Salter, took it the other day, to be valued at Messrs. Philipps, the antique jewellers, of New Bond Street, and they said that although it was impossible, really, to price it, as it is a work of art, they would sell it for £600. ...' '.. a deep blue, square-oblong aquamarine ring, purchased for £160. '... my sable-dyed Rolinsky coat, bought by me for £82. 19s. '... I have just (with my Guinness prize) bought two new rings from Cameo Corner ... the amount I shall pay for these will be either £175 or £180. '... One ring is an amethyst surrounded by diamonds, the other a ring of small pearls with a few tiny diamonds interspersed. ... Incidentally, I changed the amethyst ring, and the pearl ring that I bought last autumn, for a topaz & pearl ring, and three half hoop pearl rings. These came to £25 less than the others, but I shall, when I have been televised, get another ring which will increase that sum. etc. etc. ...' Edith Sitwell was well-known for her extravagant taste in jewellery, and this correspondence shows how seriously she took the question of valuing her new purchases, very many of them from Cameo Corner in Museum Street, London. Dame Edith (who, as ever, insists that she should be properly identified as 'Dame' or 'D.B.E.'), describes the individual purchases in her letters, and is most particular to ensure that she has full insurance cover when travelling abroad. The letters reveal not only an enthusiastic collector but a remarkably business-like personality. The letters are variously written from Renishaw Hall, The Sesame and Imperial Club, and Chicago, and all bear the received-stamp of the Leeds branch of the insurers, some being annotated with financial calculations in pencil.
![* Tennyson (Alfred, Lord, 1809-1892). Autograph Cheque Signed, ‘A. Tennyson’, Freshwater, I[sle] of Wight, 18 April 1861, mad](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/58510f2d-77e9-4aea-8d47-abb400fc80de/468x382.jpg)
Lot 645
* Tennyson (Alfred, Lord, 1809-1892). Autograph Cheque Signed, ‘A. Tennyson’, Freshwater, I[sle] of Wight, 18 April 1861, made out by Tennyson to James Kellway for £12 1s. on a sheet of octavo writing paper, with the bank's usual cancellations to the signature and revenue stamp, a few minor spots and creases, 11.5 x 18 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESTennyson was worried most of his life by his financial position and his household expenses, although not always with good reason. He kept his civil-list pension even after his income went up to £10,000 a year, and was, according to his publisher Charles Kegan Paul 'a thorough man of business' in negotiating his contracts. At his death he left an estate of more than £57,000, a tidy sum for one who spent a lifetime of worry about money (See Robert Bernard Martin Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart , pp. 549, 578, etc.).
Lot 711
* Beatty (Sir William 1773-1842). Autograph letter to Page Nicol Scott, congratulating him on a birth, meeting his nephew and enclosing an autograph of Sir Thomas Hardy; 5 February 1840, 3 pp., 'It gratified one indeed to have the satisfaction of an interview with your nephew, whose conversation and manners made a most favourable impression on your humble servant... I enclose the autograph of the late Sir Thos. Hardy [not present] as you desired...', he also mentions that he suffers from bronchitis 'which brought on my old enemy the gout', black seal (with show through) and red prepaid stamp to verso, one margin partially excised, folds, 4to with some press cuttings and a print of Nelson's body lying in state at Greenwich (Qty: 1)NOTESSir William Beatty (1773-1842) was ship's surgeon aboard HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, during which 62 men were killed and 109 wounded. He performed 11 amputations, saving many lives, with only six men dying from wounds. After witnessing the death of Nelson (his account was subsequently published as Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson in 1807) and at Nelson's request, Beatty preserved the body in a barrel of brandy, and later during the autopsy removed the fatal musket ball, which is now at Windsor Castle. He continued his medical studies thereafter, becoming Physician Extraordinary to King George IV and the Duke of Clarence (later William IV). He retired in 1839 and died of bronchitis in 1842. Page Nicol Scott (died aged 66 in 1848) was for 33 years a much admired surgeon to the county gaol in Norwich and an avid collector of Nelson memorabilia.
![[Price-Davies, Llewelyn Alberic Emilius, 1878-1965]. Second Boer War journal, 8 October 1900 - 24 February 1902, contemporary](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0450faa8-8d79-4719-b091-abb300cb473d/310cd499-3d6a-4c4c-b8a2-abb400fcbf1d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 731
[Price-Davies, Llewelyn Alberic Emilius, 1878-1965]. Second Boer War journal, 8 October 1900 - 24 February 1902, contemporary manuscript fair copy, [274] pp., stationer's ink-stamp 'Creswick & Co.' to rear pastedown, contemporary roan-backed pebble-grain cloth, spine worn, front joint cracking, 4to (22.8 x 18 cm), 2 pen-and-ink sketch maps laid in (12.5 x 20 cm and 25 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: Private Collection, Herefordshire. The unpublished Second Boer War journal of VC and DSO recipient Llewelyn Price-Davies, transcribed from his letters probably by a family member or other associate working under his instruction. (The two accompanying sketch-maps, presumably made on the spot by Price-Davies himself, are in a slightly different hand from the journal, and one contains an annotation seeming to address the putative copyist: 'Sorry it is rather messy but I think you will understand it. Also contours don’t end off properly at the Vaal which was put in afterwards when I found my mistake.') Although the manuscript is unsigned it is attributable with certainty to Price-Davies, then a junior officer in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, on internal evidence including the author’s vivid account of his actions at Blood River Poort on 17 September 1901 and his receipt of the Victoria Cross on the recommendation of Hubert Gough: charging a group of 400 flanking Boers, Price-Davies was shot off his horse having ‘ridden to what seemed to be almost certain death without a moment’s hesitation’ ( London Gazette , 29 November 1901). The letters relate in minute detail Price-Davies’s activity during the war’s guerrilla phase, including service in the flying columns of Dartnell and Spens, skirmishes with Boer commandos, camp life and recreation, relationships with brother officers, interactions with burghers and 'kaffirs', and the British army’s scorched earth policy and technological experimentation; there are also candid discussions of the British command including Kitchener, Gough, Buller and Allenby, and a favourable portrait of Louis Botha. Price-Davies’s family papers are now in the Imperial War Museum. The National Army Museum holds a collection of papers including 'diaries [which] relate to Price-Davies's career in the Boer War, in World War I ... and with the Home Guard (1940-44)' (Cook et al., Sources in British Political History, 1900-1951 , II p. 63). A selection of his World War I letters was published in 2013 (at The History Press, Stroud).
Lot 765
Dalton (Charles). English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714, 6 volumes, 1st editions, 1892-1904, volumes 5 & 6 ex library, the latter with several ink stamps, original half calf gilt, heavily rubbed and soiled, a little wear to spine ends, joints and extremities, gilt library stamp to upper cover and white ink classification number to spine of volume 5, large 8vo, together with: Peacock (Edward, editor) , The Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers, Containing the Names of the Officers in the Royal and Parliamentary Armies of 1642, 1st edition, 1874, original cloth, some edge wear, rebacked, small 4to, The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book... , 5 volumes, 1820 (volume 2 a modern facsimile reprint by Naval & Military Press), some spotting to older volumes, original boards with printed paper labels to spines (volume 2 original wrappers), chipped and soiled, 8vo (Qty: 12)
Lot 778
Army Lists. The Monthly Army List for November, 1890, together with: Monthly Army Lists for January 1892, June 1894, February 1895 & January 1897, ink library stamp to first and final 2 volumes, all old cloth gilt (soiling and wear) except June 1894 contemporary red morocco gilt with original printed pink wrappers retained, 8vo (Qty: 5)
Lot 812
Railways. The Origin, Progress and Present State of the Thames Tunnel; and the Advantages likely to Accrue from it, both to the Proprietors and to the Public, 7th edition, Effingham Wilson, 1827, folding engraved frontispiece and vignette to title, 28 pp., stitched as issued, some heavy spotting and offsetting to frontispiece and title, institutional ink library stamp to title, some corner curling, disbound, together with: Priestley (Joseph) , Historical Account of Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain... , 2nd edition, 1831, folding engraved map (offset to title), contemporary half calf, backstrip worn and partly detached, Stuart's Descriptive History of the Steam Engine, a New Edition, with a Supplement, Continuing the Subject to the Year 1829, Whitaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1829, engraved plates, some heavy spotting, uncut, original cloth with remains of paper label to spine, soiled and worn, plus other railway interest and related including 4 colour-printed engraved plans of London docks: Millwall Dock, 1896, East & West India Docks, Tilbury Dock and Royal Victoria & Albert Docks, all 1899, the last two with some old dampstaining to folds, linen-backed paper in cloth boards, each approximately 48 x 37 cm and similar, plus Map of England and Wales, showing the Railways, Canals & Inland Navigation, Compiled ... under the direction of Captain J.L.A. Simmons, F. Mackenzie, draughtsman, printed by Henry Hansard, 1852, sectionalised on linen with blue wash coastal outline (except East Anglia), a little dust-soiling and small splits along folds, 177 x 146 cm (Qty: 14)
Lot 829
Pogany (Willy, illustrator) . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in seven parts, by Samuel Taylor Colleridge, circa 1910, 20 tipped in colour plate, numerous monochrome illustrations, some light spotting & minor offsetting, publishers original gilt decorated green cloth, boards & spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, large 8vo, together with: Rackham (Arthur, illustrator) , Undine, by De La Motte Fouqué, 1920, 11 tipped-in colour plates, bookplate & stamp to front endpapers, The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith, 1929, David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 12 colour plates, Peer Gynt, a dramatic poem, by Henrik Ibsen, 1936, 12 colour plates, all with black & white illustrations to the text, some minor spotting & toning, all in publishers original gilt decorated cloth, boards & spines lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, and other illustrated & juvenile literature, including W. E. Johns, Edward J. Detmold, T. E. Lawrence, Edmund Dulac, W. Heath Robinson, Hugh Lofting, Arthur Ransome, Folio Society, some leather bindings, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, some amateur bindings, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves & a carton)
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