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Lot 1000
Regency Valentine, addressed to a Miss L. Shafe of White Row, Spitalfields (London), pre-stamp handstruck unpaid twopenny post, 14 February 1818. Folding paper card bearing manufacturer's watermark ('Dobbs 1815'), originally folded for the purpose of postage with the red sealing wax still present. Dobbs Patent with embossed floral border and corner designs depicting cupid in a variety of poses (firing arrows into love hearts, playing a harp) with French phrases in scrolls. Central design with manuscript romantic verse within a gilt love heart, vibrant watercolour floral border surmounted by two gilt doves and a heart pierced with crossed arrows.'An affectionate pledge of Unfeigned Attachment; From him, who upon the return of another Valentine's Day, looks forward with pleasure, to the time when his hopes may be realised; & at the altar of Hymen he shall receive the hand, accompanied with the heart of her for whom he feels - not a wild and romantic love, which abates after a short acquaintance:- but an affection which time increases rather than diminishes'. Condition very good, well-preserved with bold colours and script, several very minor archival tape repairs to short tears at extremities and on the postal address
Lot 3078
Collection of movie promo/press/publicity photographs, cards, stills, some photos bearing press stamps/captions verso. Movies include Wildcats, Ever After, The Grass Harp, Camelot, Three on a Honeymoon, Exodus, Beyond the Blue Horizon, Footlight Serenade, Ship Ahoy, Tortilla Flat, Holiday Inn. To include a photographic group portrait signed by Patricia Roc, Stewart Granger, Margaret Lockwood, Tom Wall and two others, bearing copyright stamp verso for Gainsborough Pictures (1928) Ltd. Also 18 black & white photographs/stills depicting Greta Garbo, stamped with movie titles verso
Lot 1
Atlases. Johnston (W. & A. K. Ltd. publishers), Johnston's Royal Atlas of Modern Geography, 1910, title page with old library stamp, numerous colour printed maps, including many double page, partially disbound with contents shaken and loose, slight spotting throughout, all edges gilt, boards and spine covered in later velvet, heavily worn and frayed, folio, together with an earlier edition of 1861, with Bartholomew (John). The Imperial Map of |England & Wales According to the Ordnance Survey..., published A. Fullarton & Co., circa 1870, sixteen (only) colour printed double page maps, some staining and spotting, text block detached, contemporary half calf gilt, heavily worn and frayed, spine crudely repaired, folio (Qty: 3)NOTESSold as a collection of maps, not subject to return.
Lot 145
Wyatt (Digby). Metal-Work and its Artistic Design, London: Day & Son, 1852, 50 chromolithographic plates including frontispiece heightened in gold, title-page backed on linen, library stamp to title-page and versos of plates, library plate to front pastedown, contemporary red half morocco, worn, folio (50 x 33 cm), together with a portfolio of loose chromolithographs from Wyatt's Industrial Arts of the XIXth Century at the Great Exhibition MDCCCLI (1851-3) (Qty: 2)
Lot 120
Royal College of Physicians of London. The Pharmacopoeia of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Translated into English, with Notes, Indexes of New Names, Preparations ... by the late Thomas Healde, 6th edition, London: H.S. Woodfall for T. Longman, 1793, signature Elijah Impey and ink stamp Dn Campbell to title, title and following leaf torn to lower inner corner, some dust-soiling and few marks, without front free endpaper, contemporary calf, spine worn at head & foot and title label partially deficient, upper board detached, 8vo, together with: Pharmacopoeia , Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, London: J. Nourse & T. Longman, 1771, engraved illustration to title (slightly marked to imprint), blank fore-margin of C4 torn, contemporary sheep, worn with some leather loss to upper board, 12mo, Pharmacopoeia , Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Paris: Theophilum Barrois, 1788, later wrappers using old marbled paper, 8vo, Smith (Hugh) , Medicamentorum Formulae in varias Medendi Intentiones Concinnatae, 2nd edition, London: Jos. Kippax, 1763, browning and few marks, later wrappers, 12mo in 6s, and The New Medico-Chirurgical Pharmacopoeia; being a selection of Modern Formulae, from the Private and Hospital Practice of the most eminent members of the profession, in Europe and America, for the use of surgeons and surgeon-apothecaries, by a member of the Colleges of Surgeons, of London and Edinburgh, London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1822, armorial bookplate of Lord Dinorben to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, slight wear to joints, (Qty: 5)
Lot 4
Narborough (Sir John, & others). An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North. Towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, etc. Also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, etc., 1st edition, London: for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1694, 10 engraved plates only (of 19), of which 3 folding and 1 double-page, without the 2 maps and folding letterpress table, ink-stamp to title-page, late-19th-century roan spine, no covers, 8vo (19.3 x 11.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESESTC R18669; Hill (2004) 1475; Sabin 72187; Wing N154. Sold with all faults, not subject to return.
Lot 12
Rapin de Thoyras (Paul). The History of England ..., translated into English with additional notes by N. Tindal ..., 2 volumes, 2nd edition, London: for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1732-1733, vignette titles printed in red & black, lacking both portrait frontispieces, engraved maps, charts and tables (some folding), 1 folding map lacking lower portion (torn away), 1 folding table very creased and torn, large engraved vignette headpieces, rear of volume 2 with some dampstaining in gutters, some free endpapers detached, contemporary calf gilt, worn, joints cracked, folio, together with: Ecton (John) , Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum, being an account of the valuations of all the ecclesiastical benefices in the several dioceses in England and Wales ..., 2nd edition, London: for J. and P. Knapton [et al], 1754, occasional ink manuscript annotations, title with ink ownership stamp (Rev M. P. F. R. Sparrow) at head, final printed leaf (nearly detached) with old repair at foot, some spotting at front and rear, front free endpaper (detached) with ink presentation inscription (to Montagu Pennington Sparrow) dated 1839, armorial bookplates of: Montagu Pennington Sparrow AM (at rear); Tho's Pennington AM of Bledlow, Bucks; and Cresswell Naesmyth of Posso, contemporary speckled calf, worn, front cover detached, 4to, plus: Bacon (John) , Liber Regis, vel Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum, London: for the author by John Nichols, 1786, decorative tail pieces, variable spotting, free endpapers detached, front free endpaper with ink ownership inscription, armorial bookplate of Cresswell Naesmyth of Posso, contemporary calf, worn, both covers detached, thick 4to (Qty: 4)
Lot 212
Hardy (Thomas). Jude the Obscure, (Wessex Novels volume 8), 1st edition, London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896, etched frontispiece by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, occasional spotting, ink ownership stamp to front endpaper, original cloth torn at head, scuffed and some mottling, 8vo, together with Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, 1st US edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892, monochrome frontispiece and 10 plates (2 detached frayed & torn), dust-soiled and few marks, contents shaken, original cloth, worn, 8vo, plus other Hardy titles including Tess of the D'Urbervilles, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1892, ex-library copy with numerous large ink stamps throughout and later worn quarter morocco library binding, 8vo; A Pair of Blue Eyes, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1892, without frontispiece, original cloth, rubbed, 8vo; 7 volumes of the Greenwood Edition series of Hardy's novels, mixed editions, 1971-73, original boards in dust-jackets, 8vo and 8 volumes from the New Wessex Edition, 1975-76, original cloth in dust-jackets, 8vo, etc. (Qty: a carton)
Lot 207
Vieth, Gerhard Ulrich Anton. Physikalischer Kinderfreund, volumes 1-8 (of 10) in 4, volumes 1-4 2nd edition, volumes 5-8 1st edition, Leipzig, 1801-1808 & 1802-1806, 18 engraved plates including some folding and two hand-coloured, folding table to volume 6, some engraved vignettes (including title vignettes to volumes 1-4 and 6) and occasional diagrams to text, small ink library stamp to lower outer corners of title-pages of volumes 1, 3, 5 & 7, paper repair to title of volume 5 without loss of text, contemporary boards with red leather spine labels, heavily rubbed and some edge wear, 8vo, together with [La Fayette (Marie-Madeleine, Pioche de la Vergne, Madame de)] , Zayde, Histoire Espagnole, par Monsieur de Segrais..., volume 1 only (of 2), Paris: Claude Barbin, 1670, bound without 'Un Traitte de l'Origine des Romans, par Monsieur Huet' which usually precedes the main text, some browning, old dampstaining and light soiling, marginal repairs to title-page fore-margin and at foot of final leaf without affecting text, contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine, upper joint near broken, some wear to extremities, small 8vo, plus Schubert (G.H.von) , Die Symbolik des Traumes, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, Leipzig, 1840, a little scattered light spotting or browning, engraved bookplate detached from front pastedown and adhesive remains to rear pastedown, old quarter cloth over tree boards with leather label to spine, rubbed and partly dampstained with loss at foot of spine, 8vo (Qty: 6)NOTESFirst item: This is probably the first German physics journal for children. Sold as a periodical not subject to return.
Lot 90
Charles V (Holy Roman Emporer). Formula Reformationis per Caesaream Maiestatem Statibus Ecclesiasticis in Comitiis Augustanis ad deliberandum proposita..., Mainz: Iuo Schoeffer, [1548], [2], 21 leaves, woodcut vignette to title, lacking final leaf, disbound slim folio, together with: Naturalization (Great Britain) , Some Thoughts on a Bill for General Naturalization: Addressed to those of all denominations who act upon Whig-principles, London: M. Cooper, 1751, 8pp., old horizontal folds to title, disbound folio, Smart (Christopher) , The Hilliad: an Epic Poem, 1st edition, London: Sold by J. Newbery & M. Cooper, 1753, [2], [x], 45, [3]pp., half-title present, ink stamp to title and verso of title, disbound 4to, and other disbound works including The Rout: or a Sketch of Modern Life. From an Academic in the Metropolis to His Friend in the Country, [by Richard Graves], London: J. Dodsley, 1789; Jacob's Return from London, or, His Ramble to Bath, as written, and deliver'd by Mr. Knight, at the Theatre-Royal, Bath, Bath: Printed for the Benefit of the Casualty Hospital, [1789]; The Millenium: or, Chearful Prospects of the Reign of Truth, Peace, and Righteousness, and Serious Reflections on the Commencement of the New Century ... by Thomas Howe, Taunton: Thoams Norris, [1801] (Qty: 7)
Lot 245
Priestley (T.) . The New Evangelical Family Bible;..., 2 volumes, circa 1800, sold by Alex Hogg, numerous black & white illustrations & maps, period book stamp to front endpapers, loss to head of volume 1 front endpaper, some marks & toning throughout, uniform contemporary full calf, boards & spines slightly rubbed with minor loss to head & foot, folio, together with: Kitto (John), The Pictorial Bible being the Old and New Testaments..., 4 volumes, new edition, circa 1860, numerous black & white illustrations & maps, top edges gilt, publishers uniform original embossed plum morocco, spines lightly faded & rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and other 19th century theology reference, some leather bindings, some original cloth & foreign language, G/VG, 8vo/folio (Qty: 6 shelves)
Lot 85
Aretino (Pietro). Lettere Scritte al Signor Pietro Aretino, da molti signori comunita, donne di valore, poeti, & altri eccellentissimi spiriti, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Venice, Francesco Marcolini, [1551]-1552, titles with woodcut devices, devices repeated at end, volume II colophon dated October 1551, volume II title excised at head, annotated at foot and laid down, text close-trimmed at top margin, volume I title with ink stamp removed and small repair, some light spotting and a few ink splashes, bookplate to volume II, volume I bound in later vellum, volume II in later sheep gilt, repaired, 8 vo (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Professor Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017), Reader in Medieval History, University of Liverpool. Adams 1577. Collection of 816 letters to Aretino from Michelangelo, Charles V, Titian, Serlio, Bembo, Vasari and others and including two written by Ambrogio Eusebio, who had emigrated to South America, which describe the revolt against Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Governor of the Rio de La Plata Province.
Lot 69
* Watercolour & drawings. A collection of landscapes, portraits, and other original art, 17th-19th century, including: three pen, ink, and watercolour views of landscapes & buildings by Samuel William Reynolds (1773-1835) , 11.7 x 16.7 cm (4.5 x 6.5 in) and smaller, each trimmed to image and mounted; a head and shoulders portrait of a man of the church, English, late 17th century, pastel on laid paper, 28.5 x 23.5 cm (11.25 x 9.25 in), mounted, and another 17th century pastel male portrait on paper, some surface soiling and light fading, upper right corner replaced, relined, 25 x 17.7 cm (9.8 x 7 in), tipped onto backing paper; an 18th century design for an interior panel, pen and brown and black ink, with traces of wash, ruled border in brown ink, 9.5 x 17.5 cm (3.75 x 6.8 in); a landscape watercolour on laid paper, image size 9.8 x 15.2 cm (3.75 x 6 in), mounted, with pencil caption and date in early manuscript to mount 'View near Hornsey Wood, 1781', and three hand-coloured etchings similar published by J. Williamson, 1802, stitched into blue wrappers; and a number of other drawings, including several pencil drawings of Berkeley Castle (and a watercolour of the Drawing Room there), a watercolour of Friars Wood Hall, Yorkshire, and a pen & brown ink drawing on laid paper by Pierre Edouard Frère (1819-1886) , inscribed to lower margin 'Priere - c'est une Grand-mere et ses petits enfants.', sheet size 13.3 x 10.3 cm (5 x 4 in), mounted on old paper, with signature of the artist in brown ink, window-mounted (ink stamp to mount with details of provenance: Collection of Sir Bruce Ingram. Sold at Sotheby & Co., 17th March 1965, lot 904) (Qty: a folder)
Lot 56
* Payne (Charles Johnson, 'Snaffles'). A National Candidate, A Bona Fide Fox Chaser, A Sight to Take Home and Dream About, Sandown Asking 'em the Question, Oh! To be in England now that April's there, The one to carry your Half-Crown, The Grand National The Canal Turn [and] The Soldiers 1911 - 12, late 20th century, eight reproduction colour prints with facsimile signatures and snaffle bit blind-stamp, various sizes (Qty: 8)
Lot 412
Metal Detector finds with various fragments including a fragment of a 17th century padlock and book clasp showing a large circular stamp of a rose, Roman Slegeware and a Cast Borre - Style disc brooch, common of the type found around East Anglia and a mixed group of metal buckles etc. Metal Detector finds including: a Polden Hill brooch (folded wing ends type), an incomplete lock bolt, Lozengiform horse harness pendant and a tip of a spearhead. -A.F. Turner Ltd Brass plaque, Wellington Works Dudley, a Victorian or early 20th century brass plaque which would have been mounted on a Safe which this works produced. An excellent clean example. Prehistoric Horse tooth Fossil found on the East Coast of England. In excellent condition.-Victorian Cavalry/Artillery Horses Mouth Bit, a steel piece with the brass badges mounted on the sides with the 'VR' insignia. Sadly seems to be incomplete.
Lot 59
Philately. Great Britain Empire and World stamps, V-GVI, including Penny Reds, perforated, Inland and Excise Revenue stamps, definitives and commemoratives, in a World Postage stamp album, together with a stock book containing stamps, loose stamps and envelopes, including an envelope sent from the Hotel D'Angleterre, Cairo 1897.
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