Italy. An album of 56 mounted albumen print views of Rome, c. 1870, including temples, buildings, ruins and sculptures, mostly 18 x 25.5cm and similar sizes, the majority mounted singly to rectos of 48 stiff card leaves, brief pencil captions in English to lower mounts, original gilt-decorated vellum with small ink stamp of the photographer at foot of spine, 'H. Andersen Roma' in original limp red morocco dust jacket, rubbed with some edge wear and small split to lower panel, 4to, together with another album of 63 mounted albumen print views of Italy, circa 1870s, including views, buildings and interiors in Venice, Verona, Siena, Milan, etc., 19.5 x 25cm, some with printed captions in the negative to lower margins, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with neat English ink captions beneath, some spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, cracked on joints, some edge wear, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESH. Andersen may be Hermann Andersen who joined the firm of Stillfried & Andersen, operating in Yokohama, Japan between 1876 and 1885.
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* Africa. A collection of 210 photographs, predominantly of West Africa, by Julius Friend (1898-1982), circa 1941, gelatin silver prints, mostly people, scenes, views and some genre subjects in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, but also including photographs of Port Sudan, approximately 120 with Friend's copyright wet stamp or manuscript name to verso, and some with captions, probably in Friend's hand, various sizes but many 21 x 16 cm and similar, together with Major Julius F[rederick] Friend's typescript account of a trip to West Africa titled 'African Journey', early 1940s, [4], 109 leaves typed to rectos only, scattered manuscript corrections, title and preliminary leaves slightly soiled, punch holes with tie, original soiled and worn plain wrappers with manuscript title retained, folio, plus a small group of 14 miscellaneous photographs, various cuttings, featuring Friend's photographs, etc. (Qty: approx. 230)NOTESSee also lots 164, 170 & 171.
![* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and the Fairies [and] Iris and the Gnome, July & September 1917, printed by Harold Snelling,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e81e3ae-22b0-49bc-93b7-aacd0108d8fe/efb8a0ee-da0a-4df7-a208-aace011332ce/468x382.jpg)
* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and the Fairies [and] Iris and the Gnome, July & September 1917, printed by Harold Snelling, circa 1920, a pair of vintage sepia gelatin silver print photographs, 15 x 20cm and 20 x 15cm respectively, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title and copyright stamp to lower margins, first photograph a little scratched at bottom right-hand corner and mount corners slightly bruised, second photograph with small diagonal crease to upper left corner and tear with small loss to bottom left corner of image and accompanying loss of mount corner, other mount corners bruised (Qty: 2)NOTESA pair of the larger format photographs from this infamous photography hoax of the summer of 1917 when perpetrated by Elsie Wright and her younger cousin Frances Griffiths in Cottingley, near Bradford, Yorkshire. Unable to confess their hoax due to the embarrassment caused by the publicity and support of celebrities including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the two girls were persuaded to take more photographs in the summer of 1920. Three more photographs were produced and the ensuing photographic prints available to the public were lettered A to E.
* Industrial Photographs. A group of 40 photographs of the construction of the Mersey tunnel, by Stewart Bale, Liverpool, circa 1929-33, including 21 with captions and dates in the negative, one two-part panorama of the opening ceremony, mostly excavation and construction scenes, all but 14 with photographer's embossed stamp to lower margin and wet stamp to verso, 23.5 x 29 cm, together with seven related contemporary catalogues and pamphlets on the Mersey tunnel, all contained in a soiled and worn canvas portfolio, with ownership name of J.H. Wallace of Robert McAlpine & Sons to inner flap (Qty: 48)
* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and the Fairies, photograph of Frances 'Alice' Griffiths, taken by her cousin Elsie Wright, July 1917, printed by Harold Snelling, circa 1920, vintage sepia gelatin silver print photograph, 15 x 20cm, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title and copyright stamp to lower margin, mount corners a little bumped (Qty: 1)NOTESLarge version of the first and most well-known photograph of this infamous photographic hoax.
* Cottingley Fairies. Fairy offering flowers to Iris, 1920, vintage gelatin silver print photograph of Elsie Wright taken by her cousin Frances Griffiths, 15 x 11cm , white border, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title copyright stamp to lower margin (Qty: 1)NOTESThe fourth in the series, lettered 'D'.
* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and leaping fairy, 1920, vintage gelatin silver print photograph of Frances Griffiths taken by her cousin Elsie Wright, 15 x 11cm, white border, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title and copyright stamp to lower margin (Qty: 1)NOTESThe third photograph in the series, lettered 'C'.
* Nudes. A collection of 22 gelatin silver prints by Bertram Park, circa 1930s, mostly of one or more female nudes, many stamped to versos, various sizes, the largest 29 x 21cm, the smallest 10 x 7cm, contained in a contemporary Bertram Park card portfolio with gilt stamp and label (Qty: 22)
* Barnes (Julian, born 1946). Portrait of the author Julian Barnes standing in the doorway of a study by an unidentified photographer, circa 1980, vintage gelatin silver print, framed and glazed, together with photographic portraits of Evelyn Waugh and William Faulkner by Carl van Vechten, 23 x 16 cm and 24 x 18 cm, photographer's embossed stamp to lower dark area of image, plus further good gelatin silver print portraits of William Somerset Maugham (montage of four small portraits by unidentified photographer), P.D. James (by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies) and Robert Lowell (by Judith Aronson), all framed and glazed (Qty: 6)
* Israel. A group of 47 photographs of Israel by Harry S. Deutsch, circa 1970s, vintage gelatin silver prints including two 2-part panoramas of Israeli tanks attacking during the Conflict with Syria (18 x 47.5 cm), plus other military scenes after the Conflict, construction and city views, etc., ink captions and photographer's wet stamp to versos, mostly 17 x 23.5 cm but including some smaller, including 5 small contact prints (Qty: 47)
Lucian Ercolani - Ercol - A rare pair of original 1950's retro vintage beech and elm low windsor easy / lounge chairs / arm chairs having a hooped rail backrest with shaped arm rests. Complete with blue fabric seat cushions. Blue makers stamp to underside. Fully reconditioned. Measures: 80cm x 51cm x 66cm.
A collection of British stamp first day covers mostly loose examples with six albums and some still on envelops. Various types to include sporting related, Victorian Britain, Children's Literature, Thomas Hardy, Cotswold Wildlife Park, Metropolitan Police, London Landmarks, St. Valentine's Day, Theatre History etc.
A collection of mainly silver proof commemorative coins, coin sets and 1st day coin and stamp covers, along with a 1923 silver Liberty one Dollar coin, to include a Coronation issue set of silver gilt stamp replica's 1984-87, UK £1 silver proof collection, 1990 silver proof five pence two coin set and others
An oxidised and lacquered brass theodolite Supplied by J.B. Tibaut-Disempleare, Brussels, late 19th/early 20th century The telescope with rack and pinion focus adjustment and mounted via a pivot onto a pierced two-part support over rotating limb applied with spirit level and with silvered Vernier scales to each end for reading against the fixed silver divided horizontal degree arc beneath, fitted with a glazed compass annotated N, E, S and O within degree circle and the underside with lockable rotating pivot over ball and socket joint with turned tapered tripod socket beneath, in original oak box with applied paper trade label J.B. Tibaut-Disempleare,… MAGASINS, Rue de Laeken 15-17, BRUXELLES… and inked stamp J.B. Tibaut Disempleare, Bruxelles to the interior of the lid, the box 33.5cm (13.25ins) wide.
Ï’ A silver cased verge pocket watch The movement signed for Henry Hindley, York, circa 1750 The gilt full plate fusee movement with four square section baluster pillars, scroll-pierced fusee stop-iron block and verge escapement regulated by sprung three-arm steel monometallic balance set beneath fine grotesque mask and foliate scroll engraved and pierced balance cock with faceted diamond endstone and conforming applied infill plate around the silvered regulation disc opposing engraved signature H. Hindley. York 842, with gilt dust cap similarly signed and later circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with gilt spade hands, now in a silver case with suspension post fitted with hinged loop, indistinct marks probably for London 1827, the backplate 3.5cm (1.25ins) dialmeter; the case 4.3cm (1.75ins) diameter, and an Anglo-Indian ivory mounted tortoiseshell display case, Vizagapatam, India, mid to late 19th century, the sandalwood interior with hinged watch-holder faced with fine foliate scroll engraved ivory and with pivoted strut to rear, the exterior modelled as a domed casket applied with figural engraved fretwork oval panel between entwined scroll decorated studded straps within ropetwist border applied with further smaller angle straps to lid, the front sides and rear with further fretwork panels and straps, on small reeded silver coloured metal feet, 11.5cm (4.5ins) long, (2). Henry Hindley was born in Great Harwood, near Blackburn, Lancashire 1699, little is known about his early life, however by the mid 1720s he was making clocks in Wigan where he repaired the church clock in 1726. Hindley moved with his young family (including his son, Joseph born 1728) to the prosperous city of York where, after making clocks for the Mansion House and Guildhall, he gained his Freedom of the city in 1732. Hindley s talents were such that he equipped his workshop with tools of his own design including an important dividing and wheel cutting engine, a screw cutting lathe and a fusee engine. As well as domestic clocks Hindley received commissions for several turret clocks including York Minster and supplied a range of scientific instruments including two important equatorial telescopes for the Duke of Norfolk and William Constable. By the 1760 s Hindley s health had deteriorated to the extent that an ever increasing proportion of the business was handled by his son Joseph. Henry died in 1771 with his son and successor Joseph unfortunately dying just three years later in 1774, before he had had the opportunity to stamp his own mark on the family firm. Hindley s work demonstrates a highly inventive exacting approach with each clock perhaps varying in some way to its predecessor ensuring constant refinement in design and layout. The quality of the finish of his work is generally exceptional being comparable to the very best London makers of the period which is why many collectors refer to Hindley as the Tompion of the North. The highly decorative and finely executed watch case included in the current lot is a fine example from the Indian Vizagapatam workshops made for the British market during the time of Colonial rule. Stylistically the pierced panels and simulated strap decoration applied to the current lot would date it most likely to the third quarter of the 19th century as earlier pieces tended to be entirely veneered in ivory and often engraved with Neo-Classical motifs. Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
A fine French gilt brass miniature carriage timepiece with painted porcelain dial A.B., late 19th century The eight-day single train movement with silvered platform lever escapement and backplate stamped with AB, DEPOSE trademark to the lower left hand corner, the rectangular porcelain dial finely painted with an 18th century scene of a bagpiper courting a companion beneath gilt Roman numeral chapter ring and fine pierced blued steel hands, the frosted gilt bevel-glazed case a variant of the cannelee and of Mignonette No. 1 size with reeded hinged brass carrying handle over canted angles, 3.25ins high excluding handle. The maker’s mark AB is not recorded in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development although Allix does note a handful of unidentified stamps based around the letter B. One possibility maybe that this stamp relates to the business of Achille Brocot but during the period it was under the ownership of his son who succeeded Achille in 1878 or G.E. Gibaudet who ran the business from 1889.Miniature carriage clocks are called Mignonettes or ‘little darlings’ and come in three graded sizes with No. 1 being the smallest.
An ‘Excelsior’ telegraphic date and time stamping machine Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company, New York, early 20th century The clockwork driven-machanism incorporating a series of wheels for independently advancing five sets of stamps for minutes, hours, date of the month, month and year, set between thick lacquered brass shaped plates over an electromagnetic coil operating a lever for raising a pad towards the time and date stamp assembly with track for ticker-tape type paper to pass between, the front with canted top rail engraved Excelsior and thick bevel-glazed panel concealing the coils to lower section, on moulded cast iron base, (lacking top and rear glasses and small tape spools), 20cm (8ins) high; with a brass tape feed spool incorporating automatic braking system, 15cm 96ins) wide, (2). John Nelson Gamewell is recorded on The Firefighters Hall, Minneapolis website as born in Camden, South Carolina, in 1822 and died at Hackensack, New Jersey, on July 19, 1896. He saw the Channing and Farmer fire alarm system, recognized its value, and in 1855 purchased the rights to construct the fire alarm in the southern and western states. In 1859 he purchased all of the patents and launched his career in the Fire Alarm Telegraph field devoting his entire business life to its introduction and improvement. His business venture was cut short from 1861 to 1865 during the Civil War. As a southerner, Gamewell had returned to South Carolina and the U.S. Government confiscated all his patents on the Fire Alarm Telegraph system and proceeded to sell them at public auction. An employee, John Kennard of Boston, went to Washington prepared to pay $20,000 for the patents. He bought them for the meager sum of $80.00 and returned them to Gamewell after the war. Shortly after the wars’ end, Gamewell again actively pursued the business under the name ‘American Fire Alarm Telegraph, John N. Gamewell & Company, Proprietor’. In 1879, John Gamewell reorganized his company under the new name of ‘Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Company’, made significant changes in the size and appearance of the fire alarm box and made improvements in its signaling mechanisms. The 'American Fire Alarm Telegraph' era came to an end but under the reorganization, the name 'Gamewell' would become synonymous with Fire Alarm Telegraph. The current lot would have been used in a fire alarm system to record the time of an event. The dates on the year spool start at (19)20 and end at (19)46 suggesting that it was made prior to 1920.
A fine and extremely rare pair of early Victorian mahogany small library mantel timepieces supplied to H.M. Government General Register Office Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, London, circa 1837/8 Each with substantial rectangular four pillar single fusee movement with half deadbeat escapement for regulation by heavy disc bob pendulum suspended from typical wide-jaw backcock, the backplates signed VULLIAMY, LONDON over serial numbers 1363 and 1364 with the latter also incorporating a circular GVR stamp, each 4 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with finely engraved Royal VR monogram over signatures VULLIAMY, London and designation GENERAL REGISTER OFFICE to centre, with blued steel spade hands, the rectangular cases each with tablet upstand over crisp cavetto cornice and full-width front door incorporating circular glazed dial aperture inset with a moulded silvered brass bezel, the rear with plain rectangular door, on skirt base with squab feet, (both lacking pendulums), 25.5cm (10ins) high. Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy is recorded in Baillie, G.H. Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World as born 1780 to Benjamin Vulliamy and gaining his freedom of the Clockmakers' Company in 1809. He worked from 52 Pall Mall, served as Warden 1821-5 and was appointed Master five times. He was the last of the celebrated dynasty of Royal clockmakers which started with his grandfather, Justin, forming a partnership with George II's clockmaker, Benjamin Gray. Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy was perhaps one of the most influential horologists of his time publishing many works and undertaking numerous high profile public commissions as well as holding the Royal Warrant. He supplied many clocks to the Royal family including the turret clock for Windsor Castle in 1829 (replacing an earlier movement by Joseph Knibb); however his horological legacy is perhaps somewhat slightly blighted by his tendency to undertake controversial alterations to earlier important clocks by makers such as Tompion. The Vulliamys started numbering most of their clocks from 1788 until 1854. Two of the original Vulliamy work books still survive in the library of the British Horological Institute at Upton Hall, these often can provide valuable information regarding the manufacture and provenance of many clocks made by the workshop. Unfortunately the records are incomplete hence only note clocks with serial numbers 296-469 and 746-1067. There is also a third surviving Vulliamy workbook, relating only to repairs and servicing dating to the period 1846-53. Interestingly this volume records at least sixty five clocks being in the possession of the government ‘Office of Works’ and another forty being in the possession of Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. The General Records Office (GRO) was established by the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 with Registration commencing in July 1837. The first registrar general was Thomas Henry Lister whose responsibilities grew to also include that of conducting the first census for England and Wales in 1841. In 1972 the GRO became a sub department of the newly established Office of population Censuses and Surveys and 2007 witnessed the passing of Statistics and Registration Service Act leading to the establishment of the non-ministerial UK Statistics Authority. In order for the GRO to remain ministerially-accountable the office became part of the Home Office Identity and Passport Service at this time. The current lot is extremely rare being a pair of timepieces with consecutive serial numbers supplied by Vulliamy for H.M. Government offices. Roger Smith in his article entitled Vulliamy Clock Numbering, A Postscript, published in Antiquarian Horology Vol. 21 No. 5 (September 1994), used surviving data in the records of the British Horological Institute at Upton Hall and known documented examples to compile a graph from which unrecorded clocks can be fairly accurately dated. According to this chart numbers 1363 and 1364 would appear to have been supplied in 1837/38 -indicating that the present timepieces were most likely supplied to Whitehall for use in The General Records Office at the time of the department’s establishment. Although timepieces supplied by Vulliamy for use in H.M. Government offices do turn-up at auction from time to time most seem to be drop dial wall timepieces. One such example, engraved with the Royal V.R. Cypher and banner POOR LAW COMMISSION was sold in these rooms on 15th March 2018 (lot 121) for £6,500 hammer; whilst another, this time inscribed PAYMASTER OF EXCHEQUER BILLS over date AD 1842, was sold at Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood, Exeter, on 7th October 2015 (lot 744) for £8,800 hammer. A third example still resides in the Lord Chancellor’s office inscribed BAIL COURT over AD1845. Small mantel timepieces marked with the Royal cypher and Government office designation appear to be much rarer with, to the best of the cataloguer’s knowledge, apparently none appearing at auction within the last ten years. This may be be in part due the much smaller and more portable nature of these timepieces resulting in them perhaps being less likely to have been engraved with the full cypher and designation when made for practical reasons. Indeed one such timepiece (from the same source as the present lot) is also included in the sale This example only bears the signature to the dial but evidence of labels and other markings to the case strongly suggests that this third timepiece was supplied for Government office use. Another closely related small mantel timepiece, perhaps also supplied for Government use, was sold in these rooms on 20th September 2016 (lot 76) for £14,000; an auction record for a timepiece of this type.Close examination of the current lot throws-up some interesting observations most noticeably the choice of veneers for the sides of each of the cases which are an exact match for each side of both timepieces. Also it would seem that at one point they were overhauled at the same time in the same workshop and the texturing to the silvering of the dials are slightly different indicating that re-silvering was executed by different workmen.
Ï’An unusual French cloisonné panel inset brass and ebony miniature carriage timepiece Probably by A. Dumas, Paris, late 19th century The eight-day single train movement with silvered platform lever escapement and backplate stamped with oval trademark AD over number 1336 to the lower left hand corner, the dial with fine engraved gilt brass and polychrome cloisonné enamel mask decorated in light and dark blue stylised foliate designs incorporating simulated agate accents around a recessed circular white enamel Roman numeral dial with Arabic five minutes to outer track and fine blued steel spade hands, the case of Mignonette No. 1 size with hinged brass carrying handle over rectangular panel centred ebony top panel moulded brass cornice with canted angles continuing down the ebony uprights, the sides with conforming blue and simulated agate accented cloisonné enamelled engraved gilt brass panels and the rear with bevel-glazed door, ebony skirt base with brass cavetto top mouldings and disc feet, 3.25ins high excluding handle. The AD oval trademark stamped to the backplate of the current lot is noted in Allix, Charles and Bonnert, Peter CARRIAGE CLOCKS, Their history and development as appearing on the gong blocks of French carriage clocks. Allix also notes in his biographical entry for A. Dumas that the eminent French horologist, Claudius Saunier, commented that Dumas specialised in Mignonettes and that he also even made cases and gongs. With this in mind it would be logical to speculate the oval AD stamp that appears on gong blocks as well as the backplate of the current lot is for A. Dumas. Miniature carriage clocks are called Mignonettes or ‘little darlings’ and come in three graded sizes with No. 1 being the smallest. The current lot is extremely unusual in that the case is ebony and brass as the mixing of case materials used for miniature carriage clocks is very rarely seen however a timepiece with a closely related case albeit in ivory rather than ebony is illustrated in Roberts, Derek CARRIAGE and Other Travelling CLOCKS on page 139 (Fig. 9-5). Ï’ Indicates that this lot may be subject to CITES regulations when exported. Please see our Terms & Conditions for more information.
A French aneroid ‘Holosteric’ barometer with thermometer Retailed by Ducatillon, Paris, circa 1860 The 4.75 inch circular silvered register with open centre revealing the aneroid mechanism with arched upper scale calibrated in millimetres and with weather observations in French to outer track, inscribed BAROMETRE, HOLOSTERIQUE incorporating HPBN circular trademark for Naudet, Hulot et Cie, the lower section with curved mercury tube THERMOMETRE CENTIGRADE and inscribed DUCATILLON OPT’N 29. B’D DES CAPUCINES PARIS to lower edge, set behind circular glass fitted with a brass recording pointer into a moulded brass case with repeat trade stamp to rear and suspension ring to top, diameter 13.5cm (5.125ins); with an ebonised and faux marble cradle stand, (some damage) 21.5cm (8.5ins) high including the barometer. Naudet Hulot et Cie capitalised on the expiration of Vidie’s patent rights for the aneroid barometer in 1859 by putting into production their ‘Holisterique’ (solid) barometer of which several thousand were made up until 1866.
Philately; A collection of GB, Commonwealth & World stamps, to include Australia 1945 Visit To The Duke of Gloucester, red back, blue back, perforated 1946 kangaroo orange back, New Zealand, Basutoland, various other mid 20thC, a George V stamp album containing other world used, Aden, India, early 20thC and later, Gwalior, GB 2/6 green back, brown back, 5S red back, mainly mid 20thC, German Marks, Baden, USA Confederate States, Cuba, Canada, French Colonies, other albums, Christie(Agatha) The Murder At The Vicarage book, etc. (a quantity)
Various GB and world used stamps, a Trusty stamp album containing a quantity of GB and world used collectors stamps, etc. Denmark, Czechoslovakia, etc. various other used stamps, Sierra Leon Anniversary of Independence and other examples, United States of America various mid 20thC and other, GB green backs, purple backs, other mid 20thC, 1851-1951 Festival of Britain, Victorian penny red, 2d blue, perforated green blank stamps, other GB, etc. (4 albums and some loose)
Hanway (Jonas). Advice from Farmer Trueman , to his Daughter Mary, Upon her going to Service. In a Series of Discourses, designed to Promote the Welfare and True Interest of Servants, with Reflections of no less importance to Masters and Mistresses, 1792, occasional spotting, short paper fault tear to lower outer blank corner of T1, manuscript ownership label of Betty Johnson of Eccleston to front pastedown, rear free marbled endpaper replaced, cloth hinges, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, recent green morocco spine labels, 12mo in 6s, together with More (Hannah) , Christian Morals, 2 volumes, 1813, closed tear to H10 in volume 1, contemporary half calf gilt, 12mo, plus Sharp (Granville) , A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a share in the Legislature; which is the Fundamental Principle of the British Constitution of State, 2nd edition, 1775, half-title, ink stamp at foot of first leaf of preface and to verso of final leaf of text, edges untrimmed, original boards, rebacked preserving original printed title label, 8vo (Qty: 4)
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Hills (John Waller). A Summer on the Test, Philip Allan & Co., [1924], 12 drypoint etchings by Norman Wilkinson, original contrasting cloth, some fading to spine, 4to, limited signed edition 286/300, together with Calderwood (W.L.) The Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland, 1st edition, 1909, colour and half-tone illustrations, blindstamp to title and small number stamp to verso, some light spotting, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco, 8vo, plus other fishing including William Scrope's Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the River Tweed, 1885, Augustus Grimble's The Salmon Rivers of England & Wales, 2nd edition, 1913 and others by G.E.M. Skues, W. Earl Hodgson, E.E. Briggs etc (Qty: 28)
Dieffenbach (Ernest). Travels in New Zealand; with Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany, and Natural History of that Country, 2 volumes, John Murray, 1843, 4 tinted lithographic plates including frontispieces, 1 engraved plate, 4 pp. advertisements, lithographic plates toned, front free endpapers marked, volume 1 rear inner hinge cracked, original green cloth, spines and extremities sunned, spine-ends frayed, tipped bumped, small tear to volume 1 front board, together with: Meade (Herbert), A Ride through the Disturbed Distrcts of New Zealand; together with Some Account of the South Sea Islands, 1st edition, John Murray, 1870, 4 chromolithographic plates including frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding), 32 pp. advertisements, old ink-stamp to title-page, inner hinges partially cracked, original pictorial cloth gilt, foot of spine marked from removal of label, short split to head of rear joint, [Wakefield, Edward Jerningham], The Hand-Book for New Zealand: consisting of the most Recent Information. Compiled for the use of Intending Colonists, 1st edition, John W. Parker, 1848, 2 pp. advertisements, original cloth, spine faded, [ Maning, Frederick Edward], Old New Zealand: being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times, 1st edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1853, ownership inscription dated Dunedin, 1870 to title-page, original blind-stamped cloth, short split to head of front joint, Shortland (Edward), Maori Religion and Mythology, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882, ink-stamps to title-page and a few margins, associated library plate to front pastedown, inner hinges cracked, original cloth, and 8 other 19th-century works on New Zealand including emigrant handbooks, all original cloth, 8vo (Qty: 14)NOTESDieffenbach's work not in Abbey.
Boehme (Jacob). Einleitung zum Wahren und gründlichen Erkänntnis des grossen Geheimnisses der Gottseligkeit: Gott geoffenbaret im Fleisch; bestehende in einem kernhafften Auszug aller theologischen theosophischen und philosophischen Schrifften und Zeugnissen..., Amsterdam: R. & G. Wetstein, 1718, engraved frontispiece, browning and spotting throughout, printed ownership label of W.H. Whinfield to front pastedown and small withdrawn ink stamp to front free endpaper, contemporary vellum, manuscript title and gilt library classification to spine, 4to, together with Breitkopf (Bernhard Christoph). Die verschiedenen Meynungen einiger Weltweisen von der Existenz der Seelen der Thiere in einer Gesellschaft guter Freunde untersucht , Leipzig: Breitkopf 1743 , 96pp., wood engraved vignette to title and decorative tailpiece, bound with Die Frage, ob die Seelen der Thiere Verstand haben? in einer Gesellschaft guter Freunde untersucht, Leipzig: Breitkopf 1742, 96pp., wood engraved vignette to title and decorative tailpieces, bound with [Winkler, Johann Heinrich] , Philosophische Untersuchung der Frage, Ob die Seelen einiger Thiere einen gewissen Grad der Vernunft haben, in einer Gesellschaft guter Freunde angestellet, Leipzig: Breitkopf 1742 , 93pp., wood engraved vignette to title and decorative tailpiece, bound with [Winkler, Johann Heinrich] , Philosophische Untersuchung der Frage, ob die Seelen der Thiere mit ihren Leibern sterben? in einer Gesellschaft guter Freunde angestellet, Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1743, 88pp., wood engraved vignette to title, 19th century half vellum, title in manuscript to spine, 8vo and Lessing ( Gotthold Ephraim). Sämmtliche Schriften , 32 volumes in 16, Berlin, 1825-1828, ten engraved plates and one folding table, occasional spotting and few marks, contemporary uniform black boards gilt, orange title labels (two torn with loss), some light wear to extremities, 12mo (Qty: 18)
Godwin (Francis). A Catalogue of the Bishops of England, since the first planting of Christian religion in this Island, together with a briefe History of their lives and memorable actions, so neere as can be gathered out of antiquity, London: George Bishop, 1601, black letter text, some underscoring, toning and occasional spotting, modern antique style half calf, gilt decorated spine with maroon morocco title label, marbled sides to boards, 8vo, together with [ Agard, Arthur & Powell, Thomas] , The Repertorie of Records: Remaining in the 4. Treasuries on the Receipt side at Westminster..., with a briefe introductiue Index of the Records of the Chancery and Tower ... as also, a most exact Calender of all those Records of the Tower..., London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet for B. Fisher, 1631, some dampstaining and toning throughout, small cancelled inkstamp at foot of A2 and endpapers, 19th century boards, joints split and weak, worn, slim 4to, with Elstob (Elizabeth) , An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory: Anciently used in the English-Saxon Church. Giving an Account of Conversion of the English from Paganism to Christianity. Translated into Modern English, with Notes, London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1709, engraved frontispiece (cancelled library stamp to verso and verso of final leaf of text), without front free endpaper, library stamps & labels to front pastedown, contemporary blind panelled calf, joints cracked, 8vo, plus [ Lowndes, William] , A Report Containing an Essay for the Amendment of the Silver Coins, 1695, short worm trail to fore-edge margins, modern quarter calf, gilt decorated spine, slim 8vo (Qty: 4)
Darwin (Charles). The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, ot the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th edition, with additions and corrections to 1872, thiry-third thousand, 1888, folding diagramatic plate, 32 pp. catalogue at end, Birkbeck College Library blindstamps to front endpaper and title, original cloth gilt, small tear at foot of spine and head of lower cover, 8vo, together with The Power of Movement of Plants, 1st edition, 1880, illustrations, 32 pp. publisher's catalogue at end, light toning, library stamp to title, library labels and stickers front and rear, chips to endpapers, original cloth, spine darkened with tear at head and shelf number, plus two others: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, new edition, 1870 (ex-libris in prize binding, lacking spine & boards detached) and Hugh Miller's The Testimony of the Rocks, 38th thousand, 1870 (Qty: 4)NOTESFreeman 423 & 1325 for first two works.
Aynsley (Harriet Georgiana Maria Murray-). Our Visit to Hindostan, Kashmir, and Ladakh, 1st edition, W. H. Allen & Co., 1879, half-title, chromolithographic frontispiece (spotted, tissue-guard repaired), contemporary prize plate to front pastedown, all edges gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, 8vo, together with: Younghusband (George John, & Frank E.), The Relief of Chitral, 1st edition, Macmillan and Co., 1895, 24 plates, maps and plans (2 folding), 4 pp. advertisements, W. H. Smith blind-stamp to front free endpaper, joints partially cracked but firm, original maroon pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, and Younghusband (George John), Eighteen Hundred Miles on a Burmese Tat through Burmah, Siam, and the Eastern Shan States, 1st edition, W. H. Allen & Co., 1888, folding map frontispiece, 11 lithographic plates (of 12: lacking the plate facing p. 29), 48 pp. advertisements, contemporary prize plate, original red cloth, spine faded, marked, 8vo (Qty: 3)
Green (William). Seventy Eight Studies from Nature... from Drawings made by Himself, 1st edition, 1809, 78 soft ground etched plates on 53 sheets, each plate leaf recto with circular ink library stamp to blank upper outer corner, and also centrally on verso, title (soiled with edge tears and losses) laid down, circular ink library stamp centrally to title and at head of first two printed leaves, some light finger-soiling, mainly to fore-margins, front free endpaper with library slip and sticker, 20th century cloth, front cover and spine somewhat soiled and marked, oblong folio (Qty: 1)
Forbes (Edward & Hanley, Sylvanus). A History of British Mollusca, and their Shells, 4 volumes, London: John Van Voorst, 1853, large paper copy, 203 lithograph plates, all but 2 hand-coloured, many plates with manuscript numbers written to caption key, occasional light toning to text, ink stamp to endpapers, all edges gilt, near contemporary gilt and blind decorated red morocco, lightly rubbed, large 8vo (Qty: 4)
Nicholson (John) . Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, limited edition of 100 copies, 1889, book stamp to foot of front endpaper, black & white advertisement to rear, original gilt decorated red cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, together with Cromwell (Thomas) , Excursions in the County of Norfolk:..., 2 volumes, 1818, folding county map frontispiece and numerous black & white engraved plates, some light spotting, uniform contemporary gilt decorated green half calf, boards rubbed, spines faded & slightly rubbed to head & foot, 8vo, and Hare (Kenneth) , London's Latin Quarter, 1st edition, 1926, 36 colour and black & white illustrations by Dorothea St.John George, some light spotting & marginal toning, original decorated cloth, spine lightly rubbed to head & foot, 4to, plus other 19th century & modern British topography reference & related, including Cornish reference, publications by Batsford, Christopher Johnson, T.N. Foulis, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (Qty: 6 shelves)
[Aikin, John]. England Delineated, 2 volumes , 1st edition , London: Lackington , Allen & Co., 1804, engraved title to each volume, 147 engraved plates (of 148), each with tissue guards, plate of Powis Castle torn and repaired to lower margin (slightly affecting plate mark), bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft to upper pastedowns, contemporary half calf with vellum corners, spines slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Warner (Richard) , A Tour through Cornwall, in the Autumn of 1808, Bath: Richard Cruttwell, 1809, sepia aquatint frontispiece, few wood engraved maps, light toning and spotting, bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft to upper pastedown, contemporary half calf with vellum corners, upper joint slightly rubbed, 8vo, with Gilpin (William) , Observations on the Western Parts of England, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty. To which are added, a few remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight, 1798, ink stamp to title M. Lukis at head of title with ink splash to fore-edge, 18 sepia aquatint plates, bookplate of F.C. Lukis to upper pastedown, recent cloth hinges, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining morocco title label, 8vo, with Pennant (Thomas) , The Journey from Chester to London, 1811, engraved frontispiece torn with loss and repaired, five engraved plates, some toning & spotting, modern calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, 8vo, and Skrine (Henry) , Three Successive Tours in the North of England, and Great Part of Scotland, 1795, near contemporary calf, rebacked, board edges worn, slim 4to, with Shaw (Stebbing) , A Tour to the West of England, in 1788, London: Robson & Clarke and J. Walker, 1789, light dust-soiling mostly to first & last leaves, scattered spotting, modern quarter calf, 8vo, plus the Yorkshire section of The Modern Universal British Traveller, 1779 and Yorkshire section of The Complete English Traveller, 1773, both in modern gilt panelled mottled calf, slim folio (Qty: 9)
La Motte (Antoine Houdar de). Les Oeuvres de Theatre..., avec plusieurs Discours sur la Tragedie, 2 volumes, 1st collected edition, Paris: Gregoire Dupuis, 1730, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated spines, small 8vo (the work includes reference to Voltaire), together with Occasional Papers , A Collection of the Occasional Papers for the Year 1716 [-1717], 2 volumes, 1716-1718, each volume comprising twelve parts with individual titles, general titles with contemporary ownership stamp to lower blank margins, some toning, front pastedown of first volume with contemporary engraved bookseller's round label of Thomas Field of Paternoster Row, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spines (gilt faint), joints cracked and light wear to extremities, 8vo, with Earbery (Matthias) , The Occasional Historian, numbers 1-4 in one, London: J. Wilford, 1730-1732, library ink stamps throughout, one folding table, library bookplate and ink stamp to front endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt decorated spine lacking title label, joints split and worn, 8vo (Qty: 5)
Bordone ( Benedetto ). Isolario, nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo, 2nd edition, Venice: for Nicolo d'Aristotile Zoppino, 1534, title-page printed in black with woodcut border, full-page diagram, 3 double-page maps (Europe and North Africa, the Aegean, and world), double-page plan of Venice, 4 smaller double-page maps (Crete, Euboea, Cyprus and Sicily), plan of 'Temistitan' (Mexico City), and approximately 100 further maps, all woodcut and in the letterpress, signature G4 slightly marked verso, a few trivial marks to margins, old ink inscriptions in Italian to foot of title-page and margin of final leaf, title-page with ink-stamp not affecting text, 2 printed catalogue descriptions mounted to front pastedown, 19th-century Italian half vellum, folio (29.7 x 20.2 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAdams B2482; BM STC Italian p. 120; Harrisse 187; Sabin 6419; cf. Borba de Moraes I p. 98, Mortimer Italian 82, Shirley British Isles 19 & World 59. A clean and fresh copy of Bordone's celebrated atlas of the world's islands, first published in 1528, and the second work of its kind, after Sonetti's Isolario of 1485. The double-page world map is one of the earliest known on oval projection. The work also contains 'the first printed map specifically of North America' (Suarez, Shedding the Veil: Mapping the European Discovery of America , p. 66), 'the earliest known printed map of Japan' (Stjorms et al., eds., Mapping Asia , p. 137), a plan of 'Temistitan' (Mexico City) before its destruction by Cortes, and numerous maps of the Caribbean islands in addition to those of the Mediterranean. This second edition 'contains the notice of the conquest of Peru and the victory of Pizarro on March 5th, 1533, one year prior to the publication of the book' (Borba de Moraes).
Benyowsky (Maurice Auguste, comte de). [ Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky ... Consisting of His Military Operations in Pol and , his Exile into Kamchatka, his Escape and Voyage from that Peninsula through the Northern Pacific Ocean, Touching at Japan and Formosa, To Canton in China, 2 volumes, 1st edition, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790], both volumes lacking title-pages (provided in loosely inserted photocopy facsimiles), half-title to volume 1, 23 engraved plates, maps & plans (many folding), few plates close trimmed and some dust-soiling to folds, leaf K4 (pages 71/72) lacking in volume 1 (provided in loosely inserted photocopy facsimile), ink stamp to final leaf of text in each volume, occasional spotting, modern half sheep gilt, 4to (Qty: 2)NOTESProvenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon. Cordier Sinica 277; Cordier Japonica 454. Benyowsky was exiled to Siberia by the Russians, and led seventy prisoners on an escape mission out of Kamchatka, sailing to Japan, Formosa, and China. His memoir provides accounts of Siberia, the Russian fur trade, and the customs of Kamchatka. The escape party also allegedly reached the Alaskan mainland.
World War I; Mesopotamian Campaign. Summary of Papers dealing with Military Policy in Mesopotamia during the Period between the Battle of Ctesiphon (22nd November 1915) and the end of July 1916, 1st edition, Simla: Government Central Press, 1916, 97 pp. 3 folding tables to rear, original printed blue boards, cloth backstrip, front board slightly spotted and cockled, upper outer corner bumped, small portion of loss to paper at lower outer corner, 3 foolscap carbon typescript leaves laid in (transcribing a telegram from General Officer Commanding, Force D, to Chief of General Staff, dated 13 March 1916, blind stamp of India Office, secured with drawing pin), folio (33.1 x 20.6 cm), together with: An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December, 19178, to December, 1918, with ... an introductory note by Major-General Sir H. D. Fanshawe, 1st edition, St Martin's Press, [1919], 74 pp., mounted halftone portrait frontispiece, 7 folding battle plans, folding map, extra-illustrated with 2 gelatin silver print photographs (military group portraits), without the endpocket containing 20 photographs noted in some institutional copies, bookplate and ink-stamps of Frank Palmer-Stone, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original blue quarter morocco, 4to (25.5 x 19.2 cm) , and 'Evidence before Mesopotamia Committee' [cover-title], approx 40 pp., excised from a single publication and containing legal depositions from Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake, later cloth, folio (31.6 x 20.6 cm) (Qty: 3)NOTESFirst item: very rare official report, marked 'secret' on the front cover; the imprint slug on the final leaf suggests that 100 copies only were printed, of which this is number 17; no copies traced in libraries world-wide or in auction records. OCLC traces seven copies world-wide for the second item, of which the author is identified in the introduction as Lieutenant-General W. E. Wilson-Johnston.
* Darwin (Charles Robert, 1809-1882). Autograph letter signed 'Charles Darwin', Down, Bromley, Kent, 8 December 1858, to J[ohn] Higgins, thanking him for his note and 'half years account & for £250: 6: 2 placed to my account at the Union Bank', signed by Charles Darwin across affixed one penny duty stamp at foot, one page, 8vo, tipped on to mount and matted longitudinally with two further manuscript items, a receipt of £2 from Thomas Turner (by payment of John Higgins) for an annual subscription, 11 June 1863, signed by Charles Mason, one page, oblong 8vo, plus a second receipt from Wintringham & Bennett [timber merchants] made out to John Higgins, 22nd November 1858, one page on blue paper, 4to, overall 80 x 37cm (Qty: 3)NOTESJohn Higgins (1795/6-1872) acted as Charles Darwin's land agent from 1845, when Robert Waring Darwin (Charles's father) bought, on his son's behalf, a farm in Beesby, near Claythorpe and Alford in Lincolnshire. Higgins managed the farm and collected the rent for Charles Darwin, while living himself at Alford Manor House, Alford, Lincolnshire. Higgins also acted as agent for Darwin's sister Susan and their father Robert. Lincolnshire Archives hold 35 letters from Darwin to Higgins, largely of similar content. See the online Darwin Correspondence Project for full details.
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