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Lot 538
Flags and Ensigns Union Jack Benham 2001 official coin FDC PNC. C01/92 Miniature stamp sheet with 1 crown Isle of Man United Nations coin inset. Flags and Ensigns SW1 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 539
Gen Sir M Walker signed Flags and Ensigns Union Jack Benham 2001 official coin FDC PNC. C01/92 Miniature stamp sheet with 1 crown Isle of Man United Nations coin inset. Flags and Ensigns SW1 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 540
Admiral Sir H White signed Flags and Ensigns Union Jack Benham 2001 official coin FDC PNC. C01/92 Miniature stamp sheet with 1 crown Gibraltar Regiment coin inset. Admiralty Arch SW1 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 541
Marconi Wireless Benham official 2001 coin FDC PNC. C01/93. GB & Canada stamp and postmark with £2 Radio GB 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 542
Marconi Wireless Benham official 2001 coin FDC PNC. C01/93. GB & Canada stamp and postmark with 1 crown Isle of Man Marconi 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 543
Charles Wheeler signed Marconi Wireless Benham official 2001 coin FDC PNC. C01/93. GB & Canada stamp and postmark with 1 crown Isle of Man Marconi 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 544
Trevor Bayliss signed Marconi Wireless Benham official 2001 coin FDC PNC. C01/93. GB & Canada stamp and postmark with £2 Radio GB 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 £4.95, Overseas from £6.95
Lot 547
A group of miscellaneous coins including: 1955 encased farthings, wedge paperweight, German Schweizer hand magnifiying glass 3X, Magnifying 10X eye glass, desk magnifying glass (stamp version), 18th Edition 1991 Collectors Coin Booklet, miscellaneous tokens including Jetson and Eliz II Coronation Medal etc, plus three banknotes, Algeria 100 Francs, 10 Shillings Bank of England, Greece 1000 Drachma. Condition of tokens and banknotes - Poor to Fine
Lot 579
A coin cover collection album: History of the RAF including thirteen coin cover issues, examples include Gloster Meteor, Halifax Bomber, Hawker Typhoon, Supermarine Spitfire, Tiger Moth, Spitfire, Eurofighter etc. Coins in one crown, five pounds or dollar denomination. Bank of Naru, Gibraltar and Guernsey Issue with stamp cover. Condition: Unc
Lot 335
Stamp collection QV to QEII GB, Empire and Commonwealth, with QV GB Postal History material, also old Europe and world issues with opts and revenues (to include China mint and used, plus mint Shanghai Postage Due Local issues and old US issues). Collection consists of two albums and material on loose album pages.
Lot 95
Postal History and Stamp Collection, significant large ex collectors' lot. Three areas of collecting areas feature strongly, comprehensive Germany Third Reich 1933-1945 and hyper inflation period postal history, postal stationery and MNH issues. Military service and POW postal history of WW1 various nations (allied and axis) a collection of three large albums of material, curated collection of PH and some mint issues. Albums of of wide ranging and in depth United States postal history and various stamps, perfins, pre-cancels definitives etc. To include US Civil War cover and letter (with transcription), 1864 3c stamp affixed from Northern army soldier Levi Bliss from Halltown VA to New London Conn. Informative study presentations associated with these collections, as used in previous philately displays and exhibitions. Other collecting areas represented include; GB Commonwealth, 7 album collection of Isle of Man with Gibraltar QV to EII, 20th century world (including China), early Air Mail stamps and themed collections. Extensive lot, much to view.
Lot 858
AMSTERDAM OLYMPIC GAMES 1928 Aerial view of the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium with the 1928 Olympic Games Football Final in progress, Argentina v Uruguay which ended in a 1-1 draw, Uruguay won the replay 2-1 to become effectively the World Champions. Measures circa 9" x 7" and has press stamp to rear. Generally good
Lot 887
TEAM PHOTOGRAPHS Collection of eight football team photographs, all black and white, various teams and sizes, mid 50s to mid 70s , and various back stamps and legends etc: 1) European team v Benfica 8/12/70 Coluna Benefit, includes Moore, Gemmil and Osgood, 2) Spartak Trnava 29/9/70 v Marseilles, 3) Belgium 1972, 4 ) Milan 22/5/69, taken at European Cup Semi-Final v Man Utd, 5) Chile team at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, 27/9/73, 6) Vasas Budapest in France for European game, 7) Real Madrid team with French stamp, no date but probably 1950s and 8) Portugal team (probably), Eusebio in picture, probably early 70s. Generally good
Lot 70
Polar.- Arctic.- Parry (Capt. William Edward) Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper...with an Appendix, first edition, 20 engraved maps and plates, some aquatint, 4 folding, folding letterpress table, errata slip at end, 1821; A Supplement to the Appendix of Captain Parry's Voyage...1819-20, containing an Account of the Subjects of Natural History, half-title, 6 engraved plates, 1824, together 2 works in 1 vol., tissue guards, some foxing to plates, contemporary diced calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with ship motifs and red roan label, 1821-24; Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage...in the Years 1821-22-23..., 31 engraved or lithographed plates and plans, some aquatint after Capt. George Lyon, and 8 large folding engraved maps and panoramas at end, some light foxing and wrinkling from damp (but no staining), contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, green roan labels (one renewed), 1824; Journal of a Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage...in the years 1824-25..., errata leaf, 10 engraved maps and plans, one folding, and large folding map at end (tear repaired), ex-Board of Trade library copy with ink stamp at head of title, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked, 1826; Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole...in the year MDCCCXXVII, errata leaf, 6 engraved plates and plans, large folding engraved map at end, marginal foxing and damp-staining, original boards, uncut, corners worn, rebacked, 1828 § Sabine (Edward, editor) The North Georgia Gazette, and Winter Chronicle, half-title, woodcut coat-of-arms as title-vignette (repeated at head of each issue), title lacking small portion at lower edge not affecting text, lightly browned with occasional spotting, modern cloth-backed boards, uncut, 1821, together 6 works in 5 vol., first editions, [Sabin 58860, 58861, 58867 & 58868 & 55714], 4to (5) ⁂ Complete set of Parry's Arctic voyages and including The North Georgia Gazette which was produced by the crew on the first voyage when they got stuck in the ice. The second voyage includes detailed descriptions and plates of the native inhabitants and the third voyage made many important scientific discoveries. The final voyage was an unsuccessful attempt to reach the North Pole via Spitsbergen using sledge-boats and reindeer.Saleroom Notice: This is not a complete set; it does not include the scarce Appendix to the Second Voyage published in 1825
Lot 184
Leonardo da Vinci. A Treatise of Painting, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, 34 engraved plates, 4 folding, 3pp. advertisements at end, old ink signature and monogram stamp of Thomas Baskerfeild at head of title and with his engraved bookplate and notes on front pastedown, early cuttings tipped in at beginning and end, an excellent clean and bright copy, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed, spine ends worn, joints split, 8vo, for J. Senex and W. Taylor, 1721.⁂ Originally written in 1480 but not published until the mid 16th century in France.
Lot 8
Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Wit and Wisdom in West Africa; or, a Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms, first edition, half-title (small nick to upper edge), light spotting at beginning and end, ex-library copy with stamp on title and label with borrowing details on front pastedown, variant binding of original orange-brown cloth with blind-stamped border on boards and spine titled as usual but with gilt-stamped illustration of negro at foot, a little rubbed, spine faded, library label pasted on upper cover and small sticker at foot of spine, [Penzer 75], 8vo, 1865.⁂ Important work on West African languages with the information recorded in printed form for the first time.According to Penzer the first issue binding is in red cloth with blind-stamped border and no illustration on spine; the second issue or "remaindered" binding is in plum cloth with the spine titled "Negro Wit and Wisdom" and illustration at foot. This copy appears to be a mixture of the two.
Lot 378
Ballet.- Goncharova (Natalia) Ticket for the Bal Banal 1924, depicting two Spanish women, 6 copies in different states, comprising: 2 rare trial proofs on white and blue-grey paper; 2 tickets on grey paper, both with Union des Artistes Russes stamps, one with lower slip intact; and 2 on white paper, one with Union des Artistes Russes stamp (6)
Lot 22
Americas.- North America.- Whymper (Frederick) Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, first edition, half-title, folding engraved map, 16 plates, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, spotted, map torn, 1868 § Milton (Viscount) & W.B.Cheadle. The North-West Passage by Land, second edition, 2 folding engraved maps with partial hand-colouring (one linen-backed), old ink ownership stamp at head of title, light foxing, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, [1865] § Rattray (Alexander) Vancouver Island and British Columbia, first edition, half-title, 2 folding maps, folding table, 4 tinted lithographed plates, tissue guards, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some light spotting or browning, 1862 § [Traill (Catherine Parr)] The Backwoods of Canada, second edition, half-title, map, 1836 § Atkinson (Rev. Christopher W.) A Guide to New Brunswick, British North America, &c,., second edition, folding map, lithographed plate, Edinburgh, 1843 § King (Edward) The Southern States of North America, 4 vol., double-page colour map, foxing, 1875, all with plates and/or illustrations, mostly wood-engraved, all but the second original cloth, a little rubbed, some spines slightly faded; and 7 others on North America/Canada, v.s. (14)
Lot 201
Catullus (Gaius Valerius).- Guarini (Alessandro) Alexandri Guarini Ferrariensis In. C.V. Catullum Veronensem Per baptistam Patrem Emendatum Expositiones cum Indice, collation: A10 B-P8 Q-R4, italic type, commentary surrounding text double column, title within woodcut ornamental border, initial spaces with guide-letters, Q4, 18th century red deer, gilt spine in compartments and with black morocco label, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to (199 x 129mm.), [Venice], [Giorgio de Rusconi], [11 May, 1521].⁂ A rare copy of the first edition of one of the most important printings of Catullus, with a superb provenance. Guarinus based his edition on the manuscript his father had worked on, along with the work of various Catullan scholars. His knowledge of variant readings and interpretations is reflected in his discussions of textual problems, to which he sometimes contributes his own solutions. Provenance: Bernard von Mallinckrodt (1591-1664), bibliophile and originator of the term 'incunabula' in his 1639 work De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (ink ownership inscription to title, dated Vienna 1631); Hopetoun (engraved armorial bookplate); Walter Ashburner (1834-1936), bibliophile and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, (ink stamp to title). Literature: Adams C1141 (erroneously ending collation at Q4)
Lot 20
Americas.- Central America.- Squier (E.G.) Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua, 2 vol., 30 lithographed or wood-engraved plates on 29 sheets, one folding, several tinted lithographs, 4 maps, 2 folding, wood-engraved illustrations, some offsetting, original blind-stamped cloth, spines pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, spines very slightly faded, corners bumped, [Abbey, Travel 674], 1853 § Young (Thomas) Narrative of a Residence on the Mosquito Shore..., 3 lithographed plates, heavily foxed, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of title and label, later cloth, 1842 § Pim (B.) and Berthold Seemann. Dottings on the Roadside, in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito, 2 maps, one folding, 6 tinted lithographed plates, light foxing to frontispiece and title, later roan, gilt, worn, covers detached, 1869, first editions; and 2 others on Mexico, 8vo (6)
Lot 110
China.- Staunton (Sir George) An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, Atlas vol. only, 44 engraved maps and plates, some folding or double-page, foxing and soiling, mostly to margins, small ink stamp to verso of first and last plates, bookplate of John Stafford Reid Byers, later green half morocco, rubbed and repaired, rebacked, folio, [1797].⁂ Without the two accompanying text volumes, this atlas illustrates the official account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, the failure of which led to the establishment of the British trading post at Hong Kong. The fine plates by Alexander include birds, views of palaces, temples, barges and a military post, and there is also a detailed map of Macao.
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Lot 259
Economics.- French Revolution.- Apperçu de la Balance du Commerce de la France Année 1789 [...], engraving, heightened with red wash and gold, neatly presented in tables with red and yellow wash with gold ruled borders, on laid paper with large armorial watermark and countermark of D. & C. Blauw, sheet 610 x 930 mm. (24 x 36 3/4 in), central vertical fold, some tears into text, one or two with restoration, other minor nicks and tears to extremities, some small losses, rough edges, unframed, 1789.Provenance:Her Majesty's State Paper Office [bears ink stamp, centre left];Private collection, London. ⁂ Fiscal overview of France in 1789, alongside surveys of the population, finances and military forces of the principal powers of Europe.
Lot 69
Polar.- Arctic.- Lyon (Capt. George Francis) The Private Journal...during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 7 engraved plates and folding map, lacking half-title, some light offsetting, contemporary calf, spine gilt, boards rather worn, 1824; A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay... in His Majesty's Ship Griper, 7 engraved plates and folding map, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some foxing and offsetting, old boards, uncut, rebacked in calf, boards spotted, 1825 § Fisher (Alexander) A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper..., no half-title (as usual), 2 engraved maps, one folding, wood-engraved illustrations, light offsetting from maps, old ink ownership stamp at head of title, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, 1821, first editions, [Sabin 42853, 42851 & 24453], 8vo (3)
Lot 348
Shiels (George) Original typescript of unpublished novel A Yankee in the Irish Border Wars, 1 vol. in 10 parts, 195pp., some creasing and soiling, ink ownership stamp of George Shiels to upper cover, [early 20th century]; and the original typescript for Shiels' one act play Trooper's Lane, both preserved in custom folding chemise, 4to (2)⁂ George Shiels (1886-1949), wrote for the Abbey Theatre from around 1921 until 1948. Trooper's Lane was rejected by the Abbey Theatre in 1924 and appears to have remained subsequently unpublished.
Lot 38
Australasia.- Australia.- Giles (Ernest) Australia Twice Traversed..., 2 vol., first edition, 6 folding colour maps, 21 plates, with slip printed in red regarding the sale of secondhand copies of the book tipped in before text of vol.1, illustrations, occasional spotting, Ivo C.Hammet's copy with his ink stamp at head of half-titles, other small stamps of Alec P.Matheson, vol.1 hinges weak or repaired, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spines faded, [Ferguson 9914; Wantrup 202a, "arguably the most handsomely produced of late nineteenth-century Australian books"], 8vo, 1889.⁂ Ivo Hammet (1895-1975), botanist and a pioneer of Australian native plant growing.
Lot 216
Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii, et Cornelii Galli Opera, edited by Horatio Tuscanella, 2 parts in 1, collation: a8 A-X8, a-l8, title with woodcut printer's device, large partially hand-coloured woodcut printer's device to final verso, woodcut decorative initials, X7 blank, some early numbering in red ink and underlining in green ink, lacking blank X8, ink stamp to title, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over boards, upper cover with central portrait of Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (one of the founders of Helmstedt University), and with his arms to lower cover, initials 'I S R' to head of upper cover, joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 8vo (156 x 100mm.), Basel, [Ex officina Henricpetrina], [March, 1569].⁂ First edition edited and indexed by Tuscanella, who also provided a concordance. Literature: Adams C1152; VD 16 C-1743.
Lot 159
Botany.- Fern specimens.- Craig (Eric, compilor and retailer) New Zealand Ferns, 80 specimens on 40ff., each with letterpress label listing the Linnean binomial, ink stamp "New Zealand Ferns mounted by Eric Craig, Princes St., Auckland" to first and final ff., a few specimens loose or becoming so, a few with minor loss but most in excellent condition, first f. loose and a little chipped at margins, advertisement for Eric Craig loosely inserted, original decoratively carved wooden boards, lacking spine, upper cover detached, folio, Auckland, [c.1880].⁂ A good example of a professionally-produced fern album from the emporium of one of New Zealand's best known fern collectors and retailers. Eric Craig was a dealer in tribal artefacts, curios and natural history specimens.
Lot 247
Doni (Anton Francesco) I Marmi, 4 parts in 1, collation: A- X4; Aa-Pp4; a4, B-X4; AA-MM4, first part-title with large woodcut globe device of the globe from Doni's I Mondi, other part-titles with different device, each part with final woodcut device within full-page scrollwork borders, full-page woodcut portraits, A1 & A2 slightly foxed and bearing small blind-stamp, 1552 bound with [Bidpai]. La Moral Filosophia..., edited by Doni , collation: A-V4, woodcut frontispiece device within full-page scrollwork borders, title with large woodcut globe device, 1552, together 2 works in 1, numerous woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, bookplate of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, old inscription on front fly-leaf, late 17th century speckled calf, spine gilt with partly ablated volume reference to one compartment, small tear to head of spine, small 4to, Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1552⁂ The first edition of Doni's characteristically unconventional series of imaginary dialogues between numerous figures, historical and fictional, conversing and arguing on the marble steps of Florence's Duomo over a wide range of subjects, including contemporary economics, printing, literature and history. The second work present, Bidpai's fables, is significant not least as it was Doni's selection that was used as the primary source for Sir Thomas North's 1568 English translation, preceding by several years the first English editions of Aesop and the Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus Provenance: Bookplate of the noted French bibliophile Nicholas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721); the Macclesfield copy, Sotheby's October 2008, lot 4440.Literature: Adams D824 & B1997; Mortimer Harvard Italian 165 & 65; EDIT 16 CNCE 17692
Lot 415
A SELECTION OF ITEMS to include a pair of child's Victorian clogs, a lacquer work spectacle case, two mulberry wood snuff boxes, a boxed set of miniature ivory mounted dominoes, a lacquered work note pad with mother of pearl inlay, a carved mahogany Coat of Arms, A small silver tray decorated with Punch with a dog, a silver and gas stamp roller, and an early tapestry pouch ( 9 )
Lot 286
§ Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (British, 1887-1976) Huddersfield signed lower right in pencil "L S Lowry" and with FATG blind stamp offset lithograph 48 x 58cm (19 x 23in) Provenance: Bought from Beaconsfield Art Gallery, Buckinghamshire, 1975 Has slightly slipped in the frame. Some discoloration and offset stains in the margins from the mount.
Lot 293
§ Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (British, 1887-1976) The Family signed lower right in pen "L S Lowry" and with FATG blind stamp offset lithograph 29 x 22.50cm (11 x 9in) Glass scratched lower right corner and by the top edge. The image itself is good and clear. Very slight discolouration or offset staining visible especially along the bottom edge of the mount.
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