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Lot 13
Guignes (Chr‚tien-Louis-Joseph de). Voyages … Peking, Manille et l'Ile de Francem faits dans l'intervalle des ann‚es 1784 … 1801, Atlas [only], 1st edition, Paris: Imprimerie imp‚riale, 1808, 60 engraved plates containing 92 discrete images, 6 maps of which 4 folding, 2 additional engraved plates after Guignes not called for in list of plates bound in, entitled 'Pagode Chinoise situ‚e … l'entr‚e du Port de Macao' and 'Vue de la Porte occidentale de la Ville Tartare … Peking', light to moderate spotting, occasional marginal damp-staining just encroaching on edges of final few plates and maps, ink-stamp to title page, bookplate, all edges untrimmed, contemporary pink paper boards, worn, front board detached, folio (43 x 26.5 cm) Cordier Sinica 2351-2. (1)
Lot 135
Guillemard (Francis Henry Hill). The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea, with Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various Islands of the Malay Archipelago, 2 volumes, 1st edition, John Murray, 1886, 14 maps (13 coloured, 4 folding), 30 plates including two hand-coloured frontispieces, a little light browning and staining to margins of early leaves of both volumes, oval ink library stamp to titles, blank frontispiece rectos and one half-title, publisher's presentation blindstamp to half-title of volume 1, modern half calf gilt, 8vo (2)
Lot 148
Meinertzhagen (Richard). Birds of Arabia, 1st edition, Oliver & Boyd, 1954, colour and black & white plates and illustrations, folding map in pocket at rear, ownership signature of Martin Woodcock dated April 1956 to front free endpaper, the author's printed funeral order of service (1967) and various related cuttings loosely inserted, original buckram in slightly frayed and soiled dust jacket, 4to, together with Ticehurst (Claud B. et al), A Survey of the Fauna of Iraq. Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, etc., made by Members of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force "D" 1915-1919, published by The Bombay Natural History Society, [1923], black & white maps, plates and illustrations, modern red half morocco gilt, plus Paludan (Knud), On the Birds of Afghanistan, Copenhagen, 1959, black & white illustrations, folding map, modern buckram with original printed wrappers retained, author's signed presentation inscription to Charles Vaurie to upper wrapper, Vaurie's name stamp to wrapper and book label to front pastedown, both 8vo, plus others related including one volume of Ibis and other journal extracts with six mostly small original watercolours (and one pencil drawing) of birds pasted in (10)
Lot 231
Shropshire. Greenwood (C. & J.), Map of the county of Salop from an actual survey made in the years 1826 & 1827, published July 2nd. 1827, large scale engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, calligraphic title, compass rose, table of explanation and a vignette of the south west prospect of Shrewsbury, inset map of part of Shropshire, slight staining and offsetting, library stamp below cartouche, edged in green silk, several library stamps to verso, library label to endpaper and inside lid of book box, 1485 x 1230 mm, contained in a contemporary green morocco gilt book box, rubbed and worn at extremities (1)
Lot 280
*Shepherd (David). 'Serengeti', Solomon & Whitehead, 1985, with FATG blind stamp, signed in pencil lower right, 45 x 83cm, limited edition 528/850, together with five others by David Shepherd including 'Cool Waters', Solomon & Whitehead, 1987, FATG blind stamp, signed in pencil lower right, 50 x 80cm, limited edition 637/850, 'Rhino Beware', Solomon & Whitehead, 1988, publisher's blind stamp, signed in pencil lower right, 53 x 82cm, limited edition 444/1300, 'Arabian Oryx', Solomon & Whitehead, 1990, publisher's blind stamp, signed in pencil lower right, 52 x 79cm, limited edition 987/1500, 'Cool Cats', Solomon & Whitehead, 1985, FATG blind stamp, signed in pencil lower right, 27 x 42cm, limited edition 448/850, 'Porkers', circa 1980s, FATG blind stamp, signed in pencil lower right, 27 x 42cm, limited edition 154/850, all in gilt frames, glazed (6)
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Lot 301
Bible [English; Douai-Rheims version]. The New Testament of Jesus Christ ... the fourth Edition, enriched with Pictures, [Rouen:] John Cousturier, 1633, 6 full-page engravings depicting the evangelists, St Paul and St John the Apostle, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, lacking engraved title page, plate (depicting the Pentecost) and quire 2Y (comprising 4 index leaves), browning, a few marks, contemporary calf, rebacked and relined, worn, front joint cracked at foot, 4to (23.7 x 17.5 cm), together with: Bible [Welsh], Y Bible Cyssegr-lan; sef, yr Hen Testament a'r Newydd, London: Thomas Baskett, 1752, also including the Book of Common Prayer and the Psalms, lacking the Apocrypha, mild browning, a few 19th-century inscriptions including a genealogy, contemporary tree calf, early 19th-century tree calf, joints partially split but firm, 8vo, Bunyan (John), The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to come, Newcastle: M. Brown, 1786, engraved frontispiece by Ralph Beilby, spotting and browning, near-contemporary ownership inscriptions to frontispiece verso (showing through), title page and blanks, related newspaper clipping tipped to front pastedown, contemporary calf, red morocco label, some minor wear, 8vo Huntington (William), A Key to the Hieroglyphical Print of the Church of God, in her Fivefold State, 1st edition, for the author, 1791, contemporary tree calf, slightly rubbed, 8vo, [Molindes, Franz], Pietas quotidiania, erga divinissimum humani generis redemptorem, fidei authorem, salutis consummatorem, Jesus crucifixum, Wroclaw: Typis Academicis Collegii Societatis Jesus, 1738, old ink-stamp to title page, endpapers renewed, contemporary sprinled calf, 12mo (13.6 x 8 cm), and 1 other Darlow & Moule 370, Herbert 479 and STC 2946 for the first item; Darlow & Moule 9600 for the second (their copy also lacking the Apocrypha). ESTC traces one copy only for the Newcastle edition of Bunyan (Newcastle Central Library), and eight for the key to Huntington's popular engraving. OCLC locates one copy for this edition of the final item (Molindes), at the National Library of Poland. (6)
Lot 320
Eliot (George, i.e. Marian Evans). Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, 4 volumes, 1st edition, William Blackwood, 1871-1872, first volume with errata slip present, bound without half-titles, occasional light spotting mostly at front and rear, front free blank endpapers with signature S.M. Socendy(?), hinges split, contemporary dark green half morocco gilt (with ink stamp to endpapers 'Mudies Select Library"), extremities rubbed, 8vo Sadleir 815; Wolff 2059a. (4)
Lot 327
Giovio (Paolo). La Prima Parte dell'Historie del suo Tempo, translated by Lodovico Domenichi, Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1558, title within historiated border and medallion portrait to verso, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device to final leaf verso, some spotting, occasional browning and marginal dampstaining, closed tear repair to lower margin of 3d3 not affecting text, narrow upper and foremargins, small ink library stamp to title margin and 19th-century inscriptions at foot and to front endpaper, two book tickets to front pastedown, 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards with leather label to spine, rubbed, 4to (215 x 145mm) Part I only of a work originally published in 2 volumes in 1551-53. Provenance: From the Library of Cecil H. Clough (1930-2017). (1)
Lot 342
Pecquet (Jean). Experimenta nova anatomica, 3rd edition, Paris: Cramoisy, 1654, 6 engravings in the text (1 full-page), intermittent light damp-staining, contemporary speckled English calf, rebacked to style and relined, superficial stripping to front board, 4to (18.6 x 13.6 cm), together with Bartlet (John), Pharmacopoeia Hippiatrica: or, the Gentleman Farrier's Repository, of Elegant and Approved Remedies for the Diseases of Horses, 1st edition, Eton: by J. Pote for T. Pote, 1764, errata leaf, library stamp to title page verso, occasional light soiling, worming in top margin of quires O-S, contemporary ownership inscriptions to initial blank, modern quarter calf, 8vo (17.4 x 10.5 cm), Berkeley (George), Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, 2nd edition, improved and corrected, London: for W. Innys, and C. Hitch, and C. Davis, 1744, uncut in original wrappers, wear to spine-ends, 8vo, and 1 other (an ex-library copy of Richard Owen's History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds, 1st edition, 1846, contemporary calf, 8vo) Garrison & Morton 1095 for the first edition of Pecquet's work (printed in 1651). ESTC traces nine copies in UK libraries for Bartlet's work. (2)
Lot 345
Ricardus de Media Villa (i.e. Richard of Middleton). In quartum sententiarum theologicarum Petri Lombardi, [Lyon: Simon Vincent], 1512, [34] + 290 leaves, text in black letter, rubricated, title page printed in red and black with pictorial woodcut border, woodcut initials throughout, title page slightly soiled, ownership inscription dated 1669 and marginal ink-stamp recto, effaced inscription dated 1575 verso, occasional small chip in lower edges never approaching text, short tear in final leaf affecting a few words, contemporary calf over wooden boards, covers blind-tooled with outer frame of Latin text enclosing diamond lattice with interstitial foliate lozenges, worn, spine defective, clasps gone, old library label pasted to front board, 4to (21.8 x 14.8 cm) Adams M1423, Shaaber R43. (1)
Lot 346
Richardson (John). Theoretic Hints of an Improved Practice of Brewing Malt-Liquors; including some Strictures on the Nature and Properties of water, Malt, and Hops, The Doctrine of Fermentation, The Agency of Air, The Effects of Heat and Cold On fermented Liquors, &c. &c., 1777, [2],74pp., without half-title, title browned to margins, bound with Statical Estimates of the Materials of Brewing; or a Treatise on the Application and use of the Saccharometer; An Instrument constructed for the purposes of regulating to advantage the Oeconomy of the Brewhouse; and of establishing the Means of producing Uniform Strength in Malt-Liquors..., 1784, xx,[4],243,[9]pp., folding engraved plate, final leaf of text signed by the author, final index leaf with small hole, bound with [Baverstock, James], Hydrometrical observations and experiments in the brewery, 1785, [2],xvi,104pp., without half-title, advertisement leaves and errata at rear also lacking, bound with Richardson (John), Remarks on a Pamphlet entitled Hydrometrical Observations and Experiments in the Brewery; in a letter to Mr. More, Secretary to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. To which is subjoined an advertisement, pointing out the easiest methods of applying the Saccharometer, in order to produce uniform strength in malt-Liquors; addressed to those Brewers who may be averse to calculations, 1785, [2],95,[1]pp., without half-title, ink monogram J.B. and crest stamp to title of each work, occasional toning and spotting, free endpaper with signature J. Baker 1785, contemporary calf, lacking title label to spine, joints split and some wear to extremities, 8vo (1)
Lot 363
Watson (J., publisher). Great-Britain's Memorial. Containing a Collection of the INstructions, Representations, etc. etc. Of the Freeholders and other Electors of Great-Britain, to their Representatives in Parliament, for these Two Years past, [bound with:] The Second Part of Great Britain's Memorial, 2 volumes in 1, 1st and 2nd editions, J. Watson, 1741-2, final advertisement leaf to each volume, mild spotting and browning, modern half calf, 8vo, together with: [Salisbury imprint], A Companion in a Post-Chaise; or, an Amusement for a Leisure Hour at Home: containing a Careful Selection from the most approved and entertaining Pieces, in Verse and Prose, that have appeared for many Years past, 1st edition, Salisbury, Sealy and Hodson, 1773, spotting and browning, marginal stain to first 2 quires, modern half calf, 8vo, [Chelsum, James], A History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto, 1st edition, Winchester: J. Robbins, 1786, mild spotting and browning, contemporary manuscript annotation naming the author to title page, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo, [Crokatt, Gilbert], The Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence; or, the Foolishness of their Teaching ... the Third Edition, with Additions, London: for M. Smith, 1719, half-title lacking, spotting and browning, ink-stamp of William Shand to title page, bookplate of John Sparrow to front pastedown, modern half calf, 8vo, Weber (Friedrich), Historiae Muscorum hepaticorum Prodorum, 1st edition, Kiel: Aug. Hesse, 1815, pp. 87/8 duplicated (possibly a cancel), both leaves tape-repaired, spotting and browning, marginal damp-staining, modern half calf, 8vo ESTC traces 13 copies of the first part of Great Britain's Memorial (5 in the UK), and four copies only of the second edition of the second part, which contains texts published to June 1741 (the first edition, of which ESTC traces three copies, ended on 1 May). Six copies only located by ESTC for the Salisbury-printed Companion in a Post-Chaise. (5)
Lot 414
Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes in 6, 1st editions, 1st impressions, Thornton Butterworth, 1923-31, 46 maps, charts and tables (most folding), 11 plates, errata slips to volumes 1 and 3, variable spotting and browning to endpapers and preliminary leaves, ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, Times Book Club tickets to rear pastedowns of volumes 3 parts 1 and 2, discreet library stamp in blind to volume 5 rear free endpaper and pastedown, original blue cloth, light rubbing to extremities, a few shallow nicks to headcaps, a few corners bumped, 8vo Woods A31(a). (6)
Lot 433
Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, with a Preface by George Saintsbury, 1894, black & white frontispiece and numerous illustrations, light spotting to first and last leaves, hinges cracked, all edges gilt, original blue-green cloth, with elaborate peacock design in gilt, some light marks, front cover with tiny wormhole at top inner corner (just grazing endpapers), dulled spine with ends a little frayed and 1cm split at head, 8vo, together with The History of Henry Esmond..., by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1905, black & white frontispiece and numerous illustrations, stitching a little strained, endpapers lightly toned, front free endpaper with contemporary ink ownership name, all edges gilt, original elaborately gilt decorated blue-green cloth, extremities slightly rubbed, spine dulled, 8vo, plus Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World, by Fanny Burney, 1903, black & white frontispiece and numerous illustrations, light spotting to fore margins, title with embossed stamp 'Presentation Copy', all edges gilt, original elaborately gilt decorated blue-green cloth, lightly rubbed in places, spine dulled, 8vo, with 32 others similar, including titles illustrated by Hugh Thomson, E.J. Sullivan, R. Caldecott, and others (35)
Lot 440
Archery. A Bibliography of Archery by Fred Lake and Hal Wright, Manchester: Simon Archery Foundation, 1974, original green mock leather, 4to, together with Chinese Archery, by Stephen Selby, Hong Kong University Press, 2000, black & white illustrations, ink stamp to title, original printed wrappers, 8vo, with other Archery related including The Archer's Craft by Adrian Eliot Hodgkin, 2nd edition, 1974, Longbow by Robert Hardy, 1st edition, 1976, The Medieval Archer by Jim Bradbury, 1985, The English Bowman by T. Roberts, reprinted, 1973, plus other fishing and shooting reference, including Lonsdale Library titles, and 12 victorian and later sporting and coaching prints, all framed and glazed (3 cartons)
Lot 448
Miles (Henry Downes). Pugilistica. The History of British Boxing, 3 volumes, published John Grant, Edinburgh, 1906, additional half title, numerous uncoloured plates and illustrations, later ownership stamp to front endpaper, some old adhesion scarring to front pastedowns, slight spotting to front and rear of each volume, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, publisher's decorative brown gilt cloth, very slight wear to extremities, 8vo, together with Henning (Fred), Fights for the Championship. The men and their times, 2 volumes, published Licensed Victuallers Gazette, circa 1900, additional half title, volume one lacking front endpaper, numerous illustrations throughout, hinges cracked, contemporary red cloth, spines faded, worn at extremities, 8vo, with other volumes similar relating to boxing and prize fighting, plus an aquatint portrait by W. M. Fellows of Thomas Cribb and an etching of two prize fighters (Gregson & Gully), both framed and glazed, with other reproduction prints of juvenile boxing, plus a set of Jane Austin novels published by the 'Folio society' (1 carton)
Lot 511
Wilson (H.W.). Ironclads In Action, a Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895..., 2 volumes, 1896, numerous monochrome maps and illustrations, minor marginal toning, uniform original gilt decorated blue cloth, spines lightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Russell (W. Clark), Collingwood, 1891, 12 monochrome illustrations, ex library stamp to front endpaper, some light spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards and spine lightly rubbed, 8vo, and Sloane (William Milligan), Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 4 volumes, New York, 1896, numerous colour and monochrome plates, some minor toning, uniform original gilt decorated red cloth, spines slightly faded and rubbed, large 8vo, plus other late 19th and 20th century Napoleonic era, military history and miscellaneous reference including The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, 8 volumes by Colonel Gurwood, 1852, mostly original cloth, G/VG, 8vo/4to (5 shelves)
Lot 6
Churchill (Winston S.). Ian Hamilton's March, 1st edition, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900, half-tone frontispiece, folding colour map, sketch-maps in text, 4 + 32 pp. advertisements to rear, map slightly spotted, bookplate of the earls of Northesk, ownership inscription 'Northesk, Dec 1st 1900' to initial blank, original red cloth, spine sunned, headcaps slightly frayed, damp-stain to rear board, corners slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Savrola, a Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, 1st UK edition, 1st issue, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900, publisher's imprint to title page verso dated 1899, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, browning to endpapers and blanks, ink-stamp of the Kyrle Society, Manchester to initial blank, original green cloth, spine relined, slightly nicked at foot, a few pale marks to boards, lower outer corner of front board bumped and worn, 8vo Woods A5, A3(b). Provenance (Ian Hamilton's March): David Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk (1865-1921). (2)
Lot 602
Shop fitting designs. A sketchbook containing original pencil designs for shop fittings, show cases, enclosures, shop signs etc., produced by James M. Mair, complete shop fitter and show case maker of 220 (& 48-56) Albert Road, Pollokshields, Glasgow, early 20th century, 18 leaves with 16 pages of detailed and finely executed pencil designs and drawings, pencil ownership to front pastedown and ink stamp to lower pastedown, original cloth, slim oblong 4to (20.3 x 30.3cm) (1)
Lot 664
Fenelon (Francois de Salignac de la Mothe). Little Tales, 4 volumes, 6th edition, Guben, Germany: F. Fechner, and London: A. & J. Myers, circa 1850s, eight hand-coloured lithographed plates, including frontispieces, each title with blind-embossed bookseller's stamp from Guben, scarce light spotting, similarly bound in original gilt patterned paper boards, each with embossed floral motif onlaid in centre of upper cover, some joints and spine ends lightly rubbed, rear joint of volume 3 slightly splitting at tail, contained together in original decorative cardboard box (worn), lid (two corners split) with remnants of embossed decoration and wording 'The Lilliputian Library', 71 x 102 x 26 mm (2.75 x 4 x 1 ins) See Welsh 2799 and 2800. Not in Osborne or Gumuchian. Ours agrees with the Bodleian Library's copy, although their description does not state edition. Volume 1 contains 'Story of Flora', 'The Ape', 'The Two Mice'; volume 2 'Alibée, 'The Young Princes', 'The Bee and the Fly'; volume 3 'A Journey to Fairyland', 'The Story of an Old Queen and a Young Peasant'; volume 4 'The Island of Delight', 'The Cat and the Rabbits', 'The Meeting of the Animals to Choose a King'. A rare survival. (1)
Lot 724
Kipling (Rudyard). The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book, 1st editions, Macmillan, 1894 & 1895, b & w illustrations, some full-page, half-titles present, second volume with advertisement leaf at rear, intermittent spotting, first volume with faint circular embossed stamp on title 'Presentation Copy', and with early ownership name on verso of front free endpaper, second volume with later ink inscription on preliminary blank, some blemishes to endpapers (including those to first volume with some glue remnants), all edges gilt, original gilt decorated blue cloth, both with some rubbing and marks, first volume with slight mottling to covers in places, second volume with small nick to spine and a .25" repair to lower joint, 8vo, housed together in a custom-made patterned cloth-covered slipcase (2)
Lot 803
Omar Khayyam. Rubaghat Omar. I. Khayyam. Lucknow. A.H. 1312 (so titled to spine), i.e. Lucknow, 1894, Persian lithographed text, marginal manuscript quatrain numbers, a little light spotting, original orange wrappers (bookseller ink stamp at foot of upper wrapper), top edge gilt, contemporary green half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, spine faded to brown, light edge wear, 8vo Provenance: Edward Heron-Allen's copy, his inscription, March 1897 and annotations to front endpaper. (1)
Lot 819
Fleece Press. Tom Chadwick and the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, by Julian Francis, Fleece Press, 2012, colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, including many tipped in, and a few folding, with an original wood engraving frontspiece entitled Wayside Laundry, original quarter orange cloth over patterned boards, paper label to spine, with slipcase, large square 4to, printed in an edition of 150 standard copies, together with Barnett Freedman, The Graphic Art, by Ian Rogerson, Fleece Press, 2006, numerous colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, including several folding, original red cloth with paper label to spine, large 4to, printed in an edition of 500 copies, plus Mr Derrick Harris 1919-1960 by Simon Brett, Fleece Press, 1998, colour and monochrome plates, with two separate portfolios of illustrations, all contained in original pale yellow cloth drop-over bookbox, oblong folio, printed in an edition of 280 copies, and 8 other Fleece Press publications: Edward Walters Printer & Engraver, 2013, Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt, by Brian North Lee, 1988, Margaret Wells, A Selection of Her Wood Engravings, 1985, A Lakeland Diary, by Enid Wilson with wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsley and Edward Stamp, 1985, The Auto-biography of Luke Hansard, 1991, Bookplates by Simon Brett, 1989, Herbert Hodgson Printer, Work for T.E. Lawrence & At Gregynog, 1989, and The Last Autobiographical of Thomas Bewick, with a commentary by Iain Bain, 2015, several with slipcases, 4to/8vo, all VG (11)
Lot 871
Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). A group of three scrap albums compiled by Leila Evelyn Landon, relating to the events of the Second Boer War, with some references to her husband Major Kenneth McLaren's involvement in the War, and a revealing telegram from Baden-Powell, 1899-1901, largely comprising hundreds of cuttings from newspapers and magazines of the day, one cutting [Daily Mail, 17 April 1900] giving the first news of McLaren's capture, 'he was now lying dangerously wounded in a laager two miles from the town. Owing to this officer being a Freemason, and to his meeting brother masons among the Boers, he is receiving every attention, and their anxiety on his account is quite remarkable. They send daily bulletins, and the last accounts were favourable. Sarah Wilson'; plus occasional further pencil corrections and notes to cuttings; a few scattered related ink signatures of officers involved including R.S.S. Baden-Powell, H. Plumer, W.P. Symons, Fred. Hammersley, A. Wormald, D.E. Wood, E.D. Miller; a pencil sketch map of Camp Junction, Limpopo; two menu invitations to Private W.H.F. Landon (Leila's brother); plus various telegrams sent to Mrs McLaren, mostly by her husband, messages reading: 'Buller has relieved Ladysmith', 1 March 1900; 'Cronje has surrendered', 27 February 1900; handwritten copy of a telegram sent by Lord Roberts to Colonel Plumer after the Relief of Mafeking; 'Roberts has taken Pretoria after twelve hours fighting' (date stamp indistinct); 'Splendid victory by Hunter 500 Boers captured' (30 July 1900); plus an interesting telegram sent by Baden-Powell to McLaren, received by the Eastern Telegraph Company from Funchal via Eastern, 23 July 1901, to McLaren, S.A. Constabulary, Colonial Office, London, 'Could you put me up Friday night incognito Bloater'; plus a few items loosely inserted including a short autograph note initialled in Kenneth McLaren's hand, Shashi Patrol, December 1899, concerning reconnaissance, a total of approximately 110 stiff card leaves, some leaves detached, contemporary red half roan, worn, covers detached and backstrips deficient, folio Kenneth McLaren was a Major in the 13th Hussars Regiment of the British army. After his military service he assisted with the growth of the Scouting movement, founded by his friend Robert Baden-Powell. In 1898 McLaren married Leila Evelyn Landon, who died in 1904. During the Second Boer War in South Africa McLaren was gravely wounded at the siege of Mafeking in March 1900, falling prisoner to the Boers. McLaren first met Baden-Powell (also a 13th Hussars officer) in 1881. Although McLaren was 20 at the time, Baden-Powell nicknamed him 'The Boy', on account of his young appearance. In turn, McLaren's nickname for Baden-Powell was 'Bloater'. The two became good friends, their relationship being one of the most important friendships in Baden-Powell's life. McLaren was one of the staff at Baden-Powell's Brownsea Island Scout Camp in 1907 and Baden-Powell convinced McLaren to be his first manager at the C. Arthur Pearson Ltd office of The Scout magazine but McLaren resigned that position in March 1908. Relations between the two ceased upon McLaren's second marriage in 1910 to Ethyl Mary Wilson (his nurse). Baden-Powell considered Ethyl below McLaren's station and advised against the marriage. There has been much speculation about Baden-Powell's sexuality, much of this attention following in the decades since Tim Jeal's exhaustive biography Baden-Powell (Hutchinson, 1989), wherein he closely scrutinised the relationship between 'Bloater' and 'Boy'. Jeal stopped short of concluding that the relationship was in any sense sexual or romantic, but reveals a very close bond which, had it been made public, would have scandalised Edwardian social attitudes. Tim Jeal wrote that 'The available evidence points inexorably to the conclusion that Baden-Powell was a repressed homosexual'; but the telegram from Bloater to McLaren included in these albums hints that the relationship may have been more than just platonic. Certainly, the fact that McLaren's wife Leila, who compiled these albums, saw fit to include this telegram, the meaning of which must have been clear to her, suggests that she privately accepted the relationship or affair, whatever her true feelings about it were. (3)
Lot 887
*Elizabeth II (Queen of Great Britain & Philip, Duke of Edinburgh). Full-length portrait of the couple in full ceremonial dress, 1990, black & white photograph, 21 x 16.5cm, signed in ink autopen, 'Elizabeth R' and 'Philip' to lower mount and dated 1990, mounted in dark blue straight-grain morocco desk frame by Paul Longmire of St James's, London, overall 33.5 x 26cm, together with a printed invitation to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953, printed in blue on card with embossed stamp lower right and oval ink Earl Marshal's Office stamp to verso, completed in manuscript for Mr and Mrs David Llewellyn, 22.5 x 27cm, in original postmarked envelope, dated 12 May 1953 (2)
Lot 889
*Hamilton (Emma, 1765-1815). Autograph letter unsigned, '12 T P', postmarked 18 July 1814, to her admirer Colonel Sir Richard Puleston, staying at Duke's Hotel, Jermyn Street, a brief note stating that she cannot visit him but that he can visit her, 'I shall not be able for some days in the next week to go there so perhaps you will call on me some morning. God bless you', one page with autographed address leaf, postmark Unpaid stamp, seal tear with blank paper loss, a little dust-soiling, 8vo This letter was written while Lady Hamilton and her thirteen-year-old daughter were living at 12 Temple Place, a sponging house within the rules of the King's Bench. As Emma points out in the letter, she was allowed to receive visitors but not allowed out herself. She had been arrested five days earlier, on 13 July, and forced out of her Bond Street apartments. In the ensuing days her remaining worldly goods at Bond Street were all sold off by order of the Sheriff in order to pay her creditors: 'two of Nelson's sea chests, the remains of Hamilton's rare books, Horatia's doll's bed, a four-poster mahogany bed, a piano, her writing desk, dressing table, Grecian couch; all her glass and china; her valuables - her diamond watch, a gold box presented to Nelson in 1802; and even all her books and magazines' (Julie Peakman, Emma Hamilton, 2005, p. 159). (1)
Lot 910
*E. P. Goldschmidt and Company. Collection of business effects, comprising an E. P. Goldschmidt and Company blind stamp desk embosser with gilt painted floral decoration (some rubbing), Lloyds Bank accounts book for the years 1926-8, small brass-inlaid rosewood box with micro-mosaic roundels and button catch (containing numerous copies of Goldschmidt's personal gilt morocco bookplate), a small pedimented glass-fronted 2-tier wooden bookcase, and 2 copies of the Christie's sale catalogue 'The Stock and Reference Library of E. P. Goldschmidt and Co. Ltd.', Christie's, 1993 (one disbound and apparently marked up by Goldschmidt's partner Jacques Vellekoop, the other in modern half morocco with leather-entry slipcase) (a carton)
Lot 960
Heaney (Seamus). Door Into the Dark, 1969; Preoccupations, 1980; The Government of the Tongue, 1988, 1st editions, Door Into the Dark ex-libris with stamp and marks erased from title and front endpaper and pastedown, a few minor spots, small cleat tape marks front and rear to Preoccupations, Preoccupations signed to title by the author with a loose postcard to Stephen Parr commenting on Parr's writing, original cloth, dust jackets, sticker residue at foot of Door Into the Dark spine, 8vo, together with 10 others by Heaney including The School Bag (with Ted Hughes), 1997, Beowulf, 1999, District and Circle, 2006 and Human Chain, 2010, all signed by the author, plus Sweeney Astray, 1983 paperback with a loose letter, 30 March 1986, regretting he was unable to give a reading at a Buddhist event (13)
Lot 982
Powell (Anthony). The Acceptance World, 1955; At Lady Molly's, 1957; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, 1960; The Kindly Ones, 1962; The Valley of the Bones, 1964; The Soldier's Art, 1966; The Military Philosophers, 1968; Books Do Furnish a Room, 1971; Temporary Kings, 1973; Hearing Secret Harmonies, 1975, 1st editions, a few marginal spots and previous owner inscriptions, Acceptance World with 'Overseas Edition not for Canada' ink stamp to rear pastedown (repeated at foot of dust jacket rear panel), Rex Whistler designed bookplate, Hearing Secret Harmonies rear endpaper torn with loss, original cloth (some fading to one or two spine ends), dust jackets, four titles price-clipped, Acceptance World reinforced to verso, some fading to spines, a few small nicks and stains to rear panels, 8vo (10)
Lot 999
Wodehouse (P.G.). Money For Nothing, 1928; Summer Lightning, 1929; Big Money, 1931; The Luck of the Bodkins, 1935; Laughing Gas, 1936, 1st editions, a little light spotting and toning to a few endpapers, Summer Lightning lacking front endpaper, Big Money with one leaf detached with frayed fore margin and library stamp and label removed from front pastedown, original cloth, spines (and extremities of Summer Lightning and Big Money) faded, 8vo, with other first editions in jackets of Galahad at Blandings, 1965, Plum Pie, 1966, The Girl in Blue, 1970, Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, 1972, Bachelors Anonymous, 1973 and Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, 1974, plus others, second printings, reprints etc (approx 80)
Lot 1266
Tinplate Gauge 1 Midland Railway Freight Stock, comprising Märklin MR open wagon no 7801, Large cattle wagon no 7804 and single-ended brake van 7805, all with Gamages stamp to underside, together with Carette-for-B/L 'cheapie' open wagon 1912, brake van M.1911, all G-VG, and a Märklin Refrigerator Meat Van, faded and with replacement (Carette-type) couplings, P-F (6)
Lot 2465
A collection of Shorter and Sons character jugs of various sizes including; Pedro, Green back stamp; Long John Silver; Toby No.2 pink coat etc together with a box of Royal Doulton large character jugs including; Lumberjack D6610; Old Charley D5620; The Trapper D6698; Yachtsman D6820; Granny D5521; The Poacher D6429; Sairey Gamp D5451; Beefeater D6206; Pied Piper D6403, (two boxes)
Lot 3141
A large collection of stamps to include;Westminster collection in a blue ring binder x 72 FDCWestminster collection in a blue ring binder x 49 FDCWestminster collection in a blue ring binder x 60 FDCWestminster collection in a blue ring binder x 35 FDC and coins at rearWestminster collection in a blue ring binder x 49 FDCWestminster collection in a blue ring binder x 35 FDC and pack of post cards and book on FDC and a quantity of loose FDC's and a 8 paper backed stamp albums
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