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Lot 154
Capt David Leney signed 2009 Concorde Queen of the Skies Mercury 40th ann Supersonic flight cover. 1st class stamp with image of the Captain and Heathrow special postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 155
Capt David Rowlands signed 2009 Concorde Queen of the Skies Mercury 40th ann Supersonic flight cover. 1st class stamp with image of the Captain and Heathrow special postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 156
Capt Jeremy Rendall signed 2009 Concorde Queen of the Skies Mercury 40th ann Supersonic flight cover. 1st class stamp with image of the Captain and Heathrow special postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 157
Capt Norman Britton signed 2009 Concorde Queen of the Skies Mercury 40th ann Supersonic flight cover. 1st class stamp with image of the Captain and Heathrow special postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 158
Capt Tim Orchard signed 2009 Concorde Queen of the Skies Mercury 40th ann Supersonic flight cover. 1st class stamp with image of the Captain and Heathrow special postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 159
Concorde Capt Ron Wedner signed 2003 Benham official Concorde FDC with Maldives Concorde stamp and 2004 postmark and 1st Class GB stamp with 2003 first and last flights Heathrow postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 160
Concorde Capt Sandy MacFarlane signed 2003 Benham official Concorde FDC with Maldives Concorde stamp and 2004 postmark and 1st Class GB stamp with 2004 Filton postmark. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 746
Operation Overlord the Air ForceJS50, 50thann WW2 cover. Scarce variety with HMS Endurance cachet and Falklands Stamp and signed by ship's captain. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 760
Annette Crosbie signed Queen Victoria Isle of Man 1999 British Monarchs coin FDC PNC Benham official cover. 6 stamp miniature sheet with Gibraltar 1993 Queen Victoria Crown coin inset. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.95, EU from £4.99, Overseas from £7.95
Lot 106
A stunning copper and brass wine cooler bearing the stamp for cruise liner SS Boston by G Peak and Co. Of square form with outset cylinders to hold four bottles, the cover with a turned finial and with two handles all on a round base. Measures 24cms high x 29cms diameter. The British steamer Boston was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-216 (Karl-Otto Schultz). She was on a voyage (in convoy) from St. Johns to Londonderry. Of her complement of 65, only 2 crew members survived.
Lot 256
Architecture.- Arnaldi (Enea) Delle Basiliche Antiche, e Specialmente di Quella del Celebre Andea Palladio, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 8 folding plates, small ink-stamp to title, marginal worm damage to final few leaves (repaired), nineteenth-century half calf, slightly rubbed extremities, 4to, [Fowler 30, Schlosser-Magnino 568, Cicognara 876], Vicenza, 1769.⁂ Second edition, a larger, more deluxe printing that the first edition. Arnaldi (1716-1794), architect and art historian, was responsible for the restoration of Palladio's Basilica in Vicenza.Provenance: Marchese Giuseppe Arconati Visconti (1797-1883) with his crowned oval stamp on title.
Lot 262
Architecture.- Scamozzi (Vincenzo) L'Idea della Architettura Universale, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved titles, illustrations, woodcut head and tail-pieces, bookplate, blind-stamp to title and label to title verso, lacking Registro leaf, contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine label, a little rubbed, housed in a protective slipcase,[Fowler 292, Cicognara 651, Millard Italian 123], folio, Venice, Giorgio Valentino, 1615.⁂ This was called the "bulkiest architectural treatise written in Italy" (Wittkower) and next to the Quattro Libri of his teacher Palladio, it was the most influential architectural work of the early seventeenth century. Provenance: Bookplate of Nicholas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721), first Marquis de Magny, archaeologist, and royal administrator in the reign of Louis XIV. His library was in part dispersed before his death, several copies acquired by the Earls of Macclesfield. With Foucault's large engraved ex-libris to the front pastedown, and the Earls of Macclesfield's blind-stamp and South Library Macclesfield bookplate to title and title verso. Sold as part of the Macclesfield Library, Sotheby's, October 25, 2005.
Lot 271
Galilei (Galileo) Opere, vol.1-10 only (of 13), Alessandro Volta's copy, later Giosue Carducci's copy, each vol. signed by both, usually to title, vol.10 signed twice by Volta, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.1, 28 folding engraved plates, some foxing, small ink library stamp to verso of frontispiece, uncut in green library cloth, spines lettered in gilt, 8vo, Milan, 1808-11.⁂ Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) was the Italian physicist "whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current" (www.britannica.com). The volt was named after him in 1881. Giosue Carducci (1835-1907) was an Italian poet and the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1906.
Lot 8
Americas.- Umfreville (Edward) The Present State of Hudson's Bay. Containing a full description of that settlement, and the adjacent country; and likewise of the Fur Trade..., first edition, half-title, 2 folding letterpress tables (one of imports & sales, the other of native languages), engraved plate of buffalo pound, lacking final advertisement leaf, light foxing, occasional staining to lower edge, first few leaves reinforced at inner margin, trace of stamp to foot of final leaf, later calf, spine gilt, uncut, spine a little faded, [Sabin 97702], 8vo, for Charles Stalker, 1790.⁂ One of the earliest publications on the fur trade and a rather critical account of the business practices of the Hudson's Bay Company, for which the author worked for eleven years. ESTC lists only 4 locations in the UK.
Lot 80
Xodar (Juan de) Obra devotissima intitulada de septem verbis domini, collation: a8 b4 2a-f8 g4, woodcut royal arms of Portugal to title, large woodcuts within text, woodcut decorat9ive initials, d5 repaired, colophon f. trimmed to text and window-mounted, stamp removed from title, occasional spoting or light foxing, modern crushed morocco, gilt, by Brugalla, folio, Seville, Bartolomé Pérez, 1532.⁂ Rare first edition of this work handsomely printed in Seville. Literature: Not in Adams.
Lot 92
Jerusalem.- Prado (Jeronimo de) and Juan Bautista Villalpando. In Ezechielem Explanationes et Apparatus Urbis, ac Templi Hierosolymitani Commentariis et Imaginibus illustratus, 3 vol., first edition, 3 engraved titles, portrait and 31 plates/vignettes only (of 32, lacking folding plate between pp.13 and 17, vol.1), most folding or double-page, 8 folding tables (one printed in red and black), woodcut map and other small woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, a few plates with repairs, some foxing and light staining but generally a sound copy, later vellum, red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, extremities a little worn, folio, Rome, 1596-1605.⁂ A very good copy of this monumental work on the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem.Provenance: St Hugh's Parkminster (small ink stamp to titles)
Lot 96
Barberino (Andrea da) Documenti d'Amore, first edition, engraved pictorial title by C. Bloemart after A. Camassei, 1 engraved portrait and 14 plates, woodcut ornamental initials and tailpieces, occasional faint off-setting, blind-stamp and later discreet ink-stamp to free endpapers, later vellum, red morocco gilt spine label, small ink number to spine head, [Gamba 97, Landwehr 136, Cicognara 1985], 4to, Rome, Vitale Mascardi, 1640.⁂ The plates are engraved by Bloemart, G. F. Greuter and Fabia della Cornia, and are after A. and L. Magalotti, C. Massimi, F. Zuccaro and Nicolas Poussin. Barberino later enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and privileged citizen. Provenance: Unidentified blind-stamp ex-libris to front free endpaper, an hourglass with initial R. P. and motto Dammi Tempo.
Lot 108
French bindings.- Fontenelle (Bernard le Bouyer de) and La Motte (Antoine Houdar de) Poésies, 2 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary red morocco, gilt, g.e, Geneva, 1777 § La Rochefoucauld (Duc de) Memoires, first edition, second issue, title with woodcut device, woodcut initials, ink number stamp to verso of title, red crushed morocco by Brany, Cologne, Pierre van Dyck, 1662; and 5 others, French bindings, including blue morocco by Hardy, v.s. (8)
Lot 110
Winckelmann (Johann Joachim) Storria Delle Arti del Disegno, 3 vol., second Italian edition, translated by Carlo Fea, engraved frontispieces, plates (1 folding) and illustrations, occasional faint spotting, small ink stamp to title (vol. 1 only), small tear repaired (B4, vol. 1), contemporary vellum, gilt, slightly splayed, [Schlosser-Magnino 676, Cicognara 59, Vinet 1255], 4to, Rome, 1783.⁂ This edition has become greatly esteemed for its precise and thoughtful notes, which were added contrary to the wishes of the author. This edition also adds Fea's personal essay Sulle Rovine di Roma in volume 3. Provenance: Marchese Giuseppe Arconati Visconto (1797-1883) with his crowned oval stamp at foot of title.
Lot 113
Berti (Lorenzo) Regole di Canto Gregoriano, musical notation throughout, ink-stamp and number to title, occasional faint spotting, original paper wrappers bound in, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, folio, Roma, 1836.⁂ The handwritten cursive text and musical notation are reproduced by lithograph. Provenance: ?Bibliothéque Carmelit (first three letters obscured), with ink-stamp in purple ink to title.
Lot 125
Samuel Pepys & embezzlement at Woolwich dockyard.- Middleton (Thomas, naval official, d. 1672) Letter signed to Samuel Pepys, 1p., folio, n.p., 27th October 1670, "In answer to your of the 26th. past concerning the workmanship of his Majesties Cordage in his Ropeyard at Woolwich," and docket title possibly in the hand of Will Hewer, "praies discovers touching proceedinge about ye Imbezlemt discovered by Mr Turner", and sheathing ships bottoms in lead to prevent ship worm, "The yards are supplyed with ye new sort of sheathing nails", small chip affecting two words, splash marks, folds, browned.⁂ Pepys was not greatly impressed by Middleton's bookkeeping but found him "mighty good company" and "droll upon the road". Provenance: Impressed stamp of Robert Cole at head.
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Lot 172
[Defoe (Daniel)] A View of the Invisible World; or, General History of Apparitions, 4 engraved plates, Selbourne Library ink stamp to title verso and foot of a few ff., L1 torn with some minor loss to text, some minor patches of browning or light soiling, contemporary calf, rebacked, extremities rubbed, 8vo, 1752.⁂ Published posthumously, this collection of supernatural anecdotes is wholly distinct to Defoe's earlier An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions. Defoe became interested in the supernatural late in life, and whilst believing in spirits remained sceptical of some claimants, dismissing some of the stories in this collection as products of overactive imaginations.
Lot 176
Quesnay (François) Physiocratie, ou Constitution Naturelle du Gouvernement, first edition, second issue, half-title, engraved frontispiece, later calf-backed marbled boards, Leiden & Paris, chez Merlin, 1768; with [Dupont de Nemours (Pierre Samuel)] Discussions et Developpemens sur quelques-unes des Notions de l'Economie Politique. Pour servir de seconde Partie au...Physiocratie, first edition, wood-engraved title-vignette, small ink stamp to title, contemporary French mottled sheep, spine gilt, Leiden & Paris, chez Merlin, 1767, 8vo (2)⁂ First edition of this fundamental contribution to the history of economic thought, which greatly influenced Adam Smith, who venerated Quesnay as his master. This second issue is identified by the place of printing (Leiden and Paris) and by a correction to p.104 of part 1, where the reference to Louis XV's engagement in the printing of the work was suppressed.Reference: Einaudi 4431; Goldsmiths' 10391; Kress 6548
Lot 184
Victoria (Queen).- Albert (Prince Consort, 1819-1861) The Principal Speeches and Addresses, signed presentation copy from Queen Victoria to the Rev. George Prothero, Vicar of Whippingham Church with her inscription on fly-leaf, frontispiece portrait of Prince Albert, browned throughout, frontispiece and last f. of text and lower fly-leaves slightly foxed, original cream pebble-grained cloth, gilt stamp crest and Albert on upper cover, soiled, t.e.g., others uncut, London, John Murray, 1862.⁂ Rev. George Prothero (1818-94), Rector of St Mildred's Church, Whippingham; Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1866; Canon of Westminster in 1869; officiated at the funeral of Charles Darwin in 1882.
Lot 2
Africa.- Veitch (Sophie F.F.) Views in Central Abyssinia. With Portraits of the Natives of the Galla Tribes, taken in pen and ink under circumstances of peculiar difficulty, by T.E., a German traveller, believed at present to be one of the captives there, first edition, half-title, 40 plates with guards, occasional foxing, ex-library copy with bookplate and "Withdrawn" stamp to front pastedown but otherwise unstamped, original cloth, g.e., a little rubbed, new endpapers, oblong 4to, 1868.⁂ Scarce.
Lot 21
Polar.- Rae (John) Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847, first edition, 2 folding engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, without the 10pp. advertisements at end, maps foxed and offset onto facing leaves (including title), large map with short tear at edge (repaired), some other foxing, mostly at beginning and end, ex-library copy with ink stamp to title, verso of maps and one or two other leaves, contemporary half calf, later black roan label, a little rubbed, [Sabin 67428], 8vo, 1850.⁂ Rae was sent by the Hudson's Bay Company to survey the north coast of Canada. The work provides much information on the natives of the area and also lists the fauna and flora. On a later journey he discovered the fate of Sir John Franklin and his expedition.
Lot 257
A silver half galleried and engraved desk inkstand, London 1899, with glass bottle (top lacking), a silver pocket cigarette case, Birmingham 1916, a silver pocket cigar cutter, Birmingham 1977, a silver bladed and mother of pearl handled folding fruit knife, Sheffield 1913, a sliver capped stamp holder, Birmingham 1902 and a silver topped comb, Birmingham 1920, and a white metal retractable toothpick 15.7ozt weighable (7) stamp holder in poor condition
Lot 438
1941 British Army Other Ranks Boots, in black leather, complete with the original soles. Stamped to the inside with broad arrow stamp, size and date 1941. Accompanied by a pair of dispatch riders breaches and a British officers khaki service dress peaked cap.Boots size marked 10 L and wit broad arrow stamp
Lot 479
Selection of WW2 British Military Equipment, consisting of a pair of 1938 dated British officers Binoculars stamped with makers details and “BINO PRISM No2 MK II X6 No 10899”, housed in 37 pattern webbing box with clear ink stamp date 1939 inside; 1937 pattern webbing belt and holster set with ammunition pouches; 1940 dated 37 pattern webbing ammunition pouch; 1944 dated 37 pattern webbing officers map case; Gas mask in canvas carry case and Bren Gun magazine (empty). All generally in good condition.
Lot 18
Hermes Black Kelly Retourne 35 Smooth Calf Leather Bag. Gold tone hardware. Leather interior with zipper pocket. Optional strap and clochette included. Labeled appropriately. Blind stamp Z in circle (1996). Very good condition with only slight signs of wear. Measures 13-1/2" L x 10" H x 5-1/4" D. Original box and dustbags included. Shipping $115.00 (estimate $5500-$6500)
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