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Lot 1003
Stamp collection on 17 album leaves. Includes stamps from Japan and USA. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 960
South American stamp collection on 42 loose album pages. Includes stamps from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and more. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 929
1991 yearbook stamp folder. Andorra French and Spanish all unmounted mint condition. Catalogues at nearly £45.. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 1023
Victoria stamp collection on A4 sheet. 17 stamps. Could be high value re shades perf of wmks. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 928
Souvenir stamp packs books. 5 packs included. Covering Belgica 1972, Palace of Westminster 1973, 25th anniv of Coronation 1978, Silver Jubilee 1977 (2 items).. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 931
1989 yearbook stamp folder. Andorra French and Spanish all unmounted mint condition. Catalogues at nearly £30.. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 904
GB and German stamp collection. 13 stamps. High catalogue value. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 973
French stamp collection commemorating the 1 year anniv of General de Gaulle. Includes 5 sets mint condition and minisheet unused. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 163
The Dambusters Stamp sheet with ten 1st class stamps showing the raid, from Battle of Britain historian Ted Sergison collection. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 932
1987 yearbook stamp folder. Andorra French and Spanish all unmounted mint condition. Catalogues at nearly £60.. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 927
World stamp collection over 18 pages. Includes Mozambique, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria and more. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 535
1971 RAF Medmenham 25th ann Radio Inspectorate cover, comm the closure. Signed by Grp Capt Adams, Concorde stamp, flown from UK to Cyprus, Malta, Gibraltar. Military autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 572
Battle of Britain World War Two cover signed by Wg. Cmdr. M. F. Anderson DFC (No. 604 Sqn. ). Dowding and the Battle of Britain - Battle of Britain Fighter Association and the Dowding Memorial 1988. Cover design illustrates a Hurricane of No. 56 (F) Sqn, intercepting a Heinkel He 111 over London's Dockland, September 1940. Special hand-stamp 'Lord Dowding Memorial Statue', St. Clement Danes, London WC2, 30 Oct. 1988. Military autograph. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 886
New Zealand stamp collection on 34 loose pages. Contains a lot of mint and value. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 957
BCW stamp collection on 3 stockcards. Includes Newfoundland, Rhodesia and Cyprus. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 883
German stamp collection in stock book. 100+ stamps over 16 pages. High value catalogues at nearly £1000. Mostly prior to 1960. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 924
World stamp collection in black Stanley Gibbons stockbook. 150+ stamps. Includes India, Poland, USA, Switzerland and France. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 885
World stamp collection. 28 loose album pages. Includes stamps from Israel including JNF labels, Romania, Russia and USA. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 889
British commonwealth stamp collection on 27 loose album pages. Letters R-z. Includes South Africa, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 1025
GB stamp collection. 93 stamps over 9 loose album pages. QV to George VI. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 987
GB stamp collection in stock book. 100+ stamps. QV through to QEII. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 897
British commonwealth stamp collection on stock cards. High catalogue value, mainly mint, some unmounted. Includes Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Bahamas. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 887
British commonwealth stamp collection on 13 loose album pages. Letters J-N. Includes Montserrat, Papua and New Guinea, Palestine and more. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 930
1990 yearbook stamp folder. Andorra French and Spanish all unmounted mint condition. Catalogues at nearly £35.. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Lot 308
Taisnier (Jean). Opus mathematicum octo libros complectens, innumeris propemodum figuris idealibus manuum et physiognomiae, aliisque adornatum, quorum sex priores libri absolutissimae cheiromantiae theoricam, praxim, doctrinam, artem, & experientiam verissimam continent. Septimus physiognomiae dispositionem, hominumque omnium qualitates & complexiones. Octavus periaxiomata de faciebus signorum, & quid sol in unaquaque domo existens, natis polliceatur. Remedia quoq; omnium aegritudinum complectitur. Et naturalem astrologiam atq; effectus lunae quoad diversas aegritudines. Item isagogen astrologiae judiciariae, et totius divinatricis artis encomia. Ombibus Matheseos, Cheiromantiae, Philosophiae, & Medicinae studios utiles ac necessarii, 1st edition, Cologne: Joannem Birckmannum & Wererum Richwinum, 1562, woodcut device to title and with ownership inscription to upper blank margin 'Abraham Linezar Anno Domini 1564' and early annotation, woodcut portrait and ink library stamp to verso, numerous woodcut decorative initials and illustrations, woodcut portrait to verso of final leaf of index, blank leaf 2K4 present at rear with early annotation, blind stamp to A1, early annotations, underscoring and marginalia, some dampstaining throughout, occasional marginal fraying (mostly at front & rear), old margin repair to G3, 2O3 & blank 2K4, leaves Y2 & Y3 loose, sprung & frayed to margins, lower outer corner of 2P1 excised, some worm trails and worm holes to fore-edge blank margins, occasional browning, spotting and few ink marks, old limp vellum (possibly from another volume?), faint blind stamp to upper cover, without ties, folio in 4s (30 x 20 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams T69; Graesse, Bibl. magica 100; Poggendorf II, 1066. First edition of Taisnier's work on palmistry and astrology.
Lot 462
Yule (Henry) . The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian,..., 2 volumes, 1871, numerous colour & monochrome illustrations, folding map to rear of volume 1, folding colour plate to volume 2 front pocket, some light toning throughout, ex-library copy with associated marks, uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards & spines slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, together with Huntington (Ellsworth) , The Pulse of Asia, 1st edition, 1907, numerous monochrome illustrations, 'presentation copy' blindstamp to head of title & dedication pages, some light toning, original green cloth, boards & spine slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Srinivas (M. N.) , Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India, 1st edition, 1952, Oxford, 12 black & white illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, contemporary inscription & ink stamp to front endpaper, some light toning, original blue cloth, 8vo, plus other late 19th & early 20th century India history, reference & related, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves & a carton)
Lot 229
* McClean (Francis Kennedy, 1876-1955). A group of 26 autograph letters, mostly signed F.K. McClean, various places including London, India, Australia and Tahiti, circa 1901-08 and some undated, including 17 letters to his friend Bill [William N.], mostly from India, circa 1900-02, while working as a civil engineer in the Indian Public Works Department [1898-1902], one undated letter from The Grand Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand, mentioning that he had been up to Perth and called at the Observatory and ‘At Sydney I had no peace as the local star gazers got up a special meeting and I had to get with my hind legs and talk’, but generally writing about family and friends and some of his working life in India and one undated letter written from the Royal Aero Club announcing his engagement to Aileen Wale, plus 2 letters to his father from London and Bombay, plus 7 letters to his mother, mostly undated but circa 1900s, and written between Aden and Australia, giving details of his travels plus general family chit chat, the longest letter written at Tahiti, 5 January 1908, giving diary details of his travels, a total of approximately 90 pages, mostly 8vo, plus a typed copy of the Tahiti letter, a typed extract from a letter to Professor Turner about coconut hooking and turtle turning, and a cabinet card of McClean with studio stamp of George Glanville to mount verso (Qty: approx. 30)NOTESLieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis Kennedy McClean was a British civil engineer and pioneer aviator. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Aero Club and one of the founders of naval aviation and amateur flying. Through his astronomer father’s influence (Frank McClean) he was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer with a special interest in solar eclipses. He was a volunteer assistant on the 30 August 1905 solar eclipse expedition to Palma, Majorca. In 1908 he flew with Wilbur Wright at Le Mans, and in 1909 began a cooperation with the Short Brothers to develop heavier-than-air aviation in Britain.
Lot 250
Berneburger (Johannes & Petrus Renartus). Ad sequentia iuris axiomata . De Iniuriis Et Famosis Libellis Deo Auspice , Mainz : Gasparis Behem, 1589, 8pp., ink marking to lower outer corner of title, disbound 4to, together with: Newenfeldius (Conradus & Lucas de Linda) , Tiberii Principatus Confirmandi Arcana : Ex 2. libr. Annal. Tacit. juncto Suetonio desumta, Wittenberg: Johannis Haken, 1648, [24]pp., manuscript numbers & mark to lower outer corner of title, disbound 4to, Mu?ller (Peter & Kaspar Creutzing) , Dissertatio de jocalibus vom Weiber-Schmuck, Jena: Typis Erichianis, 1721, 72pp., manuscript number to upper outer corner of title, some spotting, disbound 4to, Weyers (Hendrik Engelinus) , Initium disputationis de libri Apocalypseos argumento sententia et auctore, 2 parts in one, Leiden: S. & J. Luchtmans, 1828, half-title with short closed tear & ink stamp, some fraying and corners and margins throughout, disbound slim 4to, and approximately 48 other similar continental 18th-early 20th century pamphlets, many published in Leipzig, relating to theology, law & classical subjects, few in wrappers, mostly disbound slim 4to (Qty: small carton)
Lot 184
* Aldin (Cecil, 1870 - 1935). The Bell at Stilton & The George at Dorchester, two photolithographs heightened with body colour, each boldly signed in pencil by the artist below image, each with the blind-stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild and each with an original pencil drawing remarque, a man leading a cart horse and a terrier respectively, each approximately 380 x 410 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 2)
Lot 316
Porcacchi (Tommaso). Funerali antichi di diverso popoli, et nationi, 1st edition, Venice: Simon Galignani, 1574, engraved architectonic title-page and 23 engravings in text by Girolamo Porro, title-page with adhesive staining to inner margin, blind-stamp ('Bibliothecae S. Mariae Tamlact. Ord. Praed') just encroaching on image (stamp repeated on initial blank) and old inscriptions to upper and lower margins, occasional light damp-staining, colophon leaf (O4) laid down, early-20th-century library ticket housing mounted to front pastedown, 19th-century diced calf, front board detached, worn, 4to (26 x 20 cm), together with: Camilli (Camillo), Imprese illustri di diversi, coi discorsi, 1st edition, Venice: Francesco Ziletti, 1586, engraved architectonic title-page and 108 engravings in text by Girolamo Porro, bound without engraved title-pages for parts 2 and 3 (both signed A1), bookplate of Patricia Milne Henderson, text-block loose in contemporary vellum covers, 4to (20.3 x 14.9 cm) (Qty: 2)NOTESAdams P1903 (Porcacchi); Cicognara 1766 & 1870 (Camilli); Mortimer Italian 395 (Porcacchi) & 99 (Camilli).
Lot 209
* Thorburn (Archibald). Partridge - Spring, published W. F. Embleton, 1927, colour printed photolithograph, signed by artist in pencil below image to lower left, blind stamp of the Fine Art Trade Guild to lower left, 345 x 470 mm, mounted, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESOne of the 'Four Seasons' of Game Birds.
Lot 34
Maffei (Giovanni Pietro). Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. Selectarum item, ex India Epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. Omnia ab Auctore recognita, & nunc primum in Germania excusa, Cologne: In Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylii, 1589, title with printer's woodcut device, early inscription to upper blank margin and square paper patch to lower blank margin obscuring ink stamp, folding uncoloured engraved world map 'Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio, Pet. Maffei Historiae Harum Verissimae, Dedicata' (platemark 260 x 485 mm), with small rust spot, a few decorative woodcut initials, initial two leaves loosening, occasional light toning and minor dampstains, 20th-century bookplate of Dr. E. Vandenbergh to front pastedown (possibly later paper), without front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, manuscript title to spine (torn and with some loss at foot), slight wear to lower joint, lacking ties, folio (30 x 18.7 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams M92; Cordier Sinica 782; Sabin 43770 (note); Shirley The Mapping of the World , 166; cf. Borba de Moraes p. 9 (first edition, Florence, 1588). First edition printed in Germany. Maffei's history of the East and West Indies provides much important information on India, China, Japan and Brazil. 'Later issues are recorded from Venice, Bergamo and Antwerp but only those from Cologne in 1589 and 1593 contain a world map' (Shirley).
Lot 84
Aleph (William Harvey). Geographical Fun, being humorous outlines of various countries..., London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868], half-title, 12 (complete) allegorical colour lithographic maps, publisher's advertisements to rear, stitching broken, contents shaken and loose, 2 maps (Prussia and Germany) with fraying and dust soiling to upper margin, slight finger soiling, some staining to endpapers, slightly later gift inscription and ownership stamp to verso of front blank, contemporary quarter cloth with publisher's decorative printed boards, boards scuffed, stained and heavily worn, slim 4to (Qty: 1)
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Lot 48
[Rowlandson, Thomas, illustrator]. Naples and the Campagna Felice. In a Series of Letters addressed to a Friend in England, in 1802, 1st edition in book-form, London: R. Ackermann, 1815, 16 plates including frontispiece and additional vignette title, all hand-coloured aquatints (except plate 4, hand-coloured etching), 2 hand-coloured maps (1 folding), list of plates, occasional finger-soiling and staining, damp-staining in gutter towards front and rear, ink-stamp to title, repair in text-leaf R2 obscuring text verso, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, 8vo (24 x 14.2 cm), together with: Warden (William), Letters written on board His Majesty's Ship the Northumberland, and at Saint Helena; in which the Conduct and Conversations of Napoleon Buonaparte ... are faithfully described, 3rd edition, London: R. Ackermann, 1816, frontispiece, 2 plates, half-title discarded, spotting to plates, bookplate of Michael Jaffé, contemporary half calf, morocco label with gilt armorial of John Bligh, 4th Earl of Darnley (1767-1831), 8vo (21 x 12.7 cm), Maundrell (Henry), A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem; at Easter, A.D. 1697. The Seventh Edition; To which is now added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia, Oxford: printed at the Theatre for W. Meadows, 1749, 14 engraved plates (of 15), one repaired, another partially split along fold, toning, title marked, bookplate of Patricia Milne Henderson, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, 8vo (19.6 x 12.8 cm), and 7 others, 19th-century English accounts of European travel, leather-bound, of which 2 ex libris the dukes of Buccleuch, including Gell, The Itinerary of Greece, new edition, 1827 (Qty: 12)NOTESAbbey Travel 166 (Rowlandson); ESTC T100591 (Maundrell); Tooley 419 (Rowlandson).
Lot 299
Medical pamphlets & printed dissertations. A large collection of approximately 500 medical & science related pamphlets, majority published in Germany, 18th-early 20th century, including: Dissertatio inauguralis medico-forensis sistens moderatam disquisitionem canonis istius juridici quod scilicet non sit homicida quæ abortum procuret, antequam anima corpori sit infusa, by Johann Juncker & Justinus Bertuch, Halae Magdeburgicae: Joannis Christiani Hilligeri, [1746], 32pp., title imprint cropped at foot, dust-soiled and few ink marks, disbound slim 4to; Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica Sistens Observationem de Singulari Renum Abnormitate ..., by Aemilius Carolus Ernestus Reineger, Leipzig: Litteris Staritzii, [1817], [8],24pp., 1 hand-coloured engraved plate, disbound 4to; De aneurysmate aortae, Dissertatio anatomico-pathologica, by Joannes Henricus Guilielmus Ehrhardt, Leipzig: C.P. Melzer, [1819], [4],36pp., 1 engraved plate, later wrappers, slim 4to; De potioribus arteriae aneurysmaticae ligandae methodis praemissis duorum aneurysmatum feliciter sanatorum historiis, by Karl August Kuhl, Leipzig: literis Straitii, [1824], [2],30pp., 4 engraved plates, ink stamp to verso of title, light dampstaining and spotting, original wrappers (damps soiled at foot), slim 4to; Animadversiones quaedam de pathologia comparata in universum et de chordapso Vegetii in specie, by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Funke, Leipzig: G.T. Hoehmii, [1832], [8],3-24pp., 1 hand-coloured engraved plate, ink stamp to verso of title, original wrappers, slim 4to; Dissertatio inauguralis medica de Coffea, by Karl Julius Marcus, Leipzig: Karl Melzer, [1837], 29pp., first & last few leaves torn & frayed to margins, dust-soiled and dampstained, disbound slim 4to, with others similar, some in original wrappers, or disbound, mostly slim 4to & 8vo, and a volume containing 20 late 19th/early 20th century science related pamphlets & dissertations (Qty: 2 cartons)
![[Royal College of Physicians of London]. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis , Amsterdam: Isaacum Tirion , 1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45651768-0840-4e6b-a25a-ab4401107d4e/4be75357-4bd9-494b-9e7a-ab450107bd6f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 306
[Royal College of Physicians of London]. Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis , Amsterdam: Isaacum Tirion , 1746, folding engraved plate, oval ink stamp to title, occasional light dampstain to upper blank margins, contemporary vellum, spine torn at foot, few marks, 8vo, together with Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis. Uns cum Meadiana, 2 parts in one, Frankfurt, Haeredes Stockii Schilling et Weber, 1761, folding engraved frontispiece, ink stamp & inscription to title, bound with: Woltter (J.A.) , Pharmocopoea militaris. Nach denen Grundlehren wohleingerichtete Apothek zum nu?tzlichen Gebrauch fu?r die Soldaten-Spita?ler enthaltend die treflichsten Hu?lfsmittel wodurch alle Krankheiten mit geringen Kosten, schnell, sicher und angenehm ko?nnen geheilet werden, Frankfurt, 1759, contemporary half calf, gilt decorated spine, paper sidings to boards worn, extremities rubbed, 8vo in 4s (Qty: 2)
Lot 320
Aesop. Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French & Latin, The English by Tho. Philipott, the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington, Illustrated... by Francis Barlow, 1st edition, London: printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666, additional engraved title, 108 engraved illustrations, lacking engraved frontispiece and pp. 1-4 at front, additional and letterpress titles laid down, a few tears and repairs, burnholes and ink splashes, some light toning and soiling, a few wormholes and tracks at gutter towards end, bookplate to letterpress title verso, later calf gilt, upper cover detached, lower joint cracked, a little rubbed with some edge wear, folio, together with: Guillim (John). A Display of Heraldrie, 3rd edition, corrected and much enlarged by the author himselfe in his life time, London: Thomas Cotes for Jacob Blome, 1638, woodcut coats of arms, 2G3-4 margins repaired, occasional light spotting and soiling, small marginal wormtrack to last few leaves, previous owner name John Pimlott to title, perforated stamp of Allan Wyon, chief engraver of Her Majesty's Seals to title margin, his bookplate, later sprinkled calf gilt, upper corners repaired, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESFirst work: ESTC R477463; Wing A696. Second work: STC 12503.
Lot 233
* Postal History. A group of postally used legal correspondence to and from Thomas Adams, Attorney of Alnwick, 1756-1798, a total of 28 items with various postmarks including Newcastle, Durham, Belford, London, Berwick, Morpeth, etc., mostly 4to, together with an autograph letter signed from the English Critic and Poet Joseph Warton (1722-1800), a later copy of a letter from the Duke of Marlborough, various hinge stamps on torn stamp album leaves, an 1898 British military telegram from Berber-Wadi Halfa Hunter to Major A.E. Sandbach, a small group of mid-19th century prestamped British envelopes, all somewhat soiled, etc (Qty: a folder)
Lot 281
Pamphlets. The Woman's Labour: An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck; in Answer to his Poem, called the Thresher's Labour. To which are added the Three Wise Sentences, taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III and IV, by Mary Collier, now a Washer-Woman, at Petersfield in Hampshire, 3rd edition, London: Printed for the Author & sold by J. Roberts, 1740, [5], 6-30 pp., damp & dust-soiling, marginal fraying and few closed tears, worn, stitched as issued, 8vo, together with: Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq; one of the Representatives in Parliament for the City of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. Sheriffs of that City, on the Affairs of America, 4th edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1777, ink stamp to title and following leaf, title with ink stain at head and tears to margins (repaired to lower margin), some toning, disbound 8vo, and Oration delivered before the Legislature of Massachusetts, at their request, on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington, by Francis C. Gray, Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1832, presentation slip for the Library of the Mass. Historical Society tipped onto final leaf (slip torn with manuscript loss), disbound 8vo, Substance of the Speech delivered by Lord Grenville, in the House of Lords, November 13, 1801, on the motion for an address, approving of the Convention with Russia, London: Cobbett & Morgan, 1802, some spotting to title, disbound 8vo, and Fragmenta Chirurgica & Medica, by William Fordyce, London: Ex officina T. Spilsbury. Prostant apud T. Cadell, 1784 , engraved title and one plate, disbound 8vo, A Familiar Treatise on Asthma, Difficulty of Breathing, Wheezing, Winter Cough, and Consumption of the Lungs..., by [James T.] Fisher, Surgeon, Formerly an Asthmatic Invalid, 3rd edition, enlarged, London: Printed by R. Cantwell, 1811, title & advert leaf (lower wrapper) at rear dust-soiled, torn & frayed, stitched as issued, 8vo, and other 18th & 19th century pamphlets, including literature, poetry, plays & dramas, tragedies & comedies, and few political & continental etc. (Qty: approx. 80)
Lot 324
Richardson (Jonathan, Elder & Younger). An Account of some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy etc., with Remarks, 1st edition, London: J. Knapton, 1722, bookplates of Michael Jaffé, Richard Skelton Storry and one unidentified owner, section excised from initial blank, 19th-century diced quarter russia, joints cracked, 8vo (19.8 x 12.2 cm), together with: Thicknesse (Philip), Useful Hints to those who make the Tour of France, in a Series of Letters, written from that Kingdom, 2nd edition ('corrected'), London: G. Kearsley, 1770, slightly browned, half-title discarded, C9-10 and E1 torn at corner not affecting text, extensive closed tear in E3, contemporary vellum, dust-soiled, label worn, boards bowed, large 12mo (17.4 x 11 cm), Du Fresnoy (Charles Alphonse), The Art of Painting. Translated into English Verse by William Mason, with Annotations by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1st edition, York: A. Ward, 1783, half-title, advertisement leaf, bookplate of Patricia Milne-Henderson, bound c.1836-43 in blue full calf by Hering (ink-stamp with address 9 Newman Street), gilt arms of John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarborough (1788-1856) to covers, rubbed, some light wear, 4to (27.1 x 20.8 cm), Reynolds (Sir Joshua), The Works ... to which is prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Edmond Malone, 3rd edition ('corrected'), London: for T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1801, half-titles to volumes 1-2, engraved portrait frontispiece, occasional spotting, bookplates of Patricia Milne Henderson, additional bookplate partly effaced from volume 2, contemporary diced half russia, 8vo (21 x 12.5 cm), and 14 others, on art and artists including Reynolds, 18th and 19th century (Qty: 28)NOTESESTC T150535 (Richardson), T85252 (Thicknesse; three copies in the UK), T22461 (Du Fresnoy).
Lot 219
* Harington Family Papers. An assorted collection of manuscript ephemera and printed material, etc., relating to the Harington family, mostly 18th & 19th century, but including deeds and legal correspondence from assorted family affairs, comprising approximately 20 folding vellum deeds (generally soiled), numerous bundles of folded and tied legal letters, sundry old newspapers, a few printed books including the Law List for 1878 with ownership stamp of N.J. Harington, a Victorian commonplace book, with approximately 80 leaves of biblical quotations and notes and armorial bookplate of the Harington family, a sammelband of mid-19th century autograph letters from members of the Harington family, including 2 letters written by Cecilia, the wife of the Reverend Richard Harington DD, principal of Brasenose College, Oxon, in her childhood, 3 written in his childhood by Richard Harington, the eldest son, 2 by Charles Harington, his brother, and one by Margaret Harington, and then many from the Reverend Richard Harington to his eldest son Richard at Eton, plus a Victorian barrister’s wig and gown, the wig in an enameled tin box with ownership name of John Harington to lid, the gown in a velvet sack with embroidered initials for Sir Nicholas J. Harington, the archive largely contained in a solicitor’s tin trunk with stamped name of Sir Richard Harington, and the newspapers contained in a very worn cloth-covered wooden chest with brass handle and the gilt name of Sir R[ichard] Harington still visible (Qty: a tin trunk + box)NOTESThe Harington Baronetcy, of Ridlington in the County of Rutland, created in 1611 for Sir James Harington (1542-1614), younger brother of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton. The archive here present and in the following lot largely relates to the 8th to 12th Baronets, respectively Sir John Harington (1760-1831), Sir James Harington (1788-1835), Sir John Edward Harington (1821-1877), Sir Richard Harington (1835-1911) and Sir Richard Harington (1861-1931). Sir Richard Harington, 12th Baronet, was called to the Bar in 1886 and practised as a barrister on the Oxford Circuit before taking up an appointment in Bengal in 1899. See also lots 220, 222 & 230.
Lot 268
Freeth (John). The Political Songster or, a Touch on the Times, on various subjects, and adapted to common tunes, sixth edition, with additions, Birmingham: by Thomas Pearson, for the author, 1790, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, additional leaves 37?-40?, p.192 with 'Finis' at foot, followed by gatherings T & U? (pp.197-220) and U (six leaves of subscribers), some light spotting, mainly to first few leaves, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th century half dark green morocco, extremities minimally rubbed, gilt lettered spine, 8vo, together with: Riccoboni (Luigi) , An Historical and Critical Account of the Theatres in Europe ..., 1st edition, London: T. Waller and R. Dodsley, 1741, front pastedown and free endpaper with armorial bookplate of Buchley Park Worcestershire, book ticket and embossed stamp of Pull Court Library, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine relaid, corners showing, front joint with 3 wormholes at foot (affecting front hinge at foot), 8vo, Collins (John) , Scripscrapologia; or, Collins's Doggerel Dish of All Sorts, consisting of songs adapted to familiar tunes..., 1st edition, Birmingham: by the author himself, 1804, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-title (dust-soiled) with early ink signature at head, some light spotting, occasional dark stain to fore-edge, modern quarter brown morocco, gilt lettered spine, extremities minimally rubbed, 8vo, and others including The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764; New Ballads, to Old Familiar Tunes, by J. Freeth, Birmingham: for the author, 1805 (pp.24) (Qty: 11)NOTESPolitical Songster: ESTC lists several copies of this edition, with differing paginations. Our copy appears to tally most closely with T98385. Freeth was a Birmingham landlord who became famous for his humorous, political, and patriotic songs which he set to popular tunes. He would regularly sing them to crowds of customers, earning himself the nickname 'the Birmingham poet', and becoming famous throughout the nation as a political ballad writer. Scripscrapologia: contains 'The Desponding Negro, A Song' on pages 122-123.
Lot 96
British Isles. Blaeu (Johannes), Insulae Albion et Hibernia cum minoribus adjacentibus, circa 1645, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, old ink stain affecting image, slight creasing, old blind-stamp just affecting image, old library stamp to verso, 380 x 445 mm, Latin text to verso, together with Anglia Regnum, [1645 or later], hand coloured engraved map, slight creasing largely confined to margins, some marginal staining, 385 x 500 mm, no text on verso, with Mercator (Gerard). Anglia Regnum, circa 1613, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, toned overall, one wormhole in margin, one small rust stain affecting image, 350 x 460 mm, French text on verso (Qty: 3)
Lot 15
Chinese Export School. Album of pith paintings, Yut Shing, Canton, 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper (33.5 x 21.5 cm), some heightened with metallic pigments, each mounted to a separate sheet of laid paper and with mounted border of blue silk ribbon, offsetting, a few marks in plain backgrounds, ribbon lifting or creased in places (absent along bottom edge of second miniature), face of the third miniature slightly smudged, chip to background of ninth miniature not touching image, possible customs stamp '150 Yutshing' in red ink to front pastedown, contemporary Chinese binding of patterned red silk over limp paper boards, green silk ties, wear to bottom edges of covers, delamination at lower outer corner of rear cover, folio (36.5 x 24.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESMost of the miniatures depict swordsmen (and one swordswoman) in various poses; there is also a dual-axe wielder, a juggler, an archer, and two unarmed figures. All are pictured in elaborate costume rendered in fine detail, and four of the figures are in dragon robes.
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