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Click here to subscribeA Second World War German ‘Im Dienste der Sicherheitspolizei’ armband (In the service of the security Police). A dark green artificial silk armband with black printed lettering and traces of an issue stamp to the top left side. 13 x 20 cm. *CR Lettering slightly faded, otherwise nice condition.
An interesting prisoner of war study of a number of named characters performing a 'Concert Spirituel'. Two figures in uniform, one standing on top of a Red Cross parcel, the men singing either 'Gregorien' or 'Polyphonie'. Monogrammed and dated '42. Watercolour of paper with red ink stamp lower right. Framed and glazed, 31 x 41cm. *CR Faded and slight browning to the paper.
Three small Tunbridge ware boxes by or attributed to TWM Co Ltd., one with domed lid and mosaic panel of a butterfly, 10cms, another with mosaic panel of a butterfly, 9.5cms, and another in floral mosaic within geometric mosaic border, internal ink stamp, 12cms. (3) From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Buttons - various, a display of fifteen comprising a set of six in steel decorated with hunting dogs, back stamp 'Superior Extra Quality', 2.5cms, three good cinnabar lacquer carved buttons, largest 2.8cms, a large red stained carved or pressed wood Japanese button depicting a man and demon, 4cms, a set of three dragons under glass, gilt backs stamped 'Depose', 3cms, a silver pair decorated with concentric circles, 2.7cms, and a further display of twenty turquoise matrix buttons, largest 3.7cms. (35) From the collection of the late Jackie Cole
Two Tunbridge ware stamp boxes, comprising a rectangular example in geometric mosaic, the lid with 'STAMPS' in mosaic, 6.2cms, and another in rosewood with stamp 'QV Postage Stamps' within fine geometric mosaic panels, 8cms. (2) First illustrated Austen(B), Tunbridge Ware, opposite Page 28, Plate 16. From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Three rosewood Tunbridge ware stamp boxes, comprising two single examples in geometric mosaic, one with purple 'Stamp', 'QV Inland Revenue One Penny', 4.5cms, another 'QV Postage Stamps', 4cms, and a triple example, the lid with franked postage stamp 'green QV One Halfpenny', set within two combined mosaic and stick ware panels within a fine geometric mosaic border, 9cms. (3) From the collection of the late Dr. Brian Austen
Tunbridge ware - three stamp boxes, comprising a rectangular rosewood example, the lid with QV 'Postage Stamps' within a mosaic border, 4cms, another similar but 'Postage' only and with printed label for Edward Nye, 3.5cms, and a larger format rectangular rosewood example, the lid with QV ' Postage One Penny' within two panels of stick ware, one short end of lid missing, 9cms. (3)
Mauchline ware - five pieces, all rectangular boxes comprising a box with photographic lid titled 'Hamilton Cloth Factory - Twisyer At Work', 10.8cms, another similar titled 'Girl At Loom, Hamilton Cloth Factory', 11cms, a box with lock and key (colour - crest Plymouth), 11.5cms, another box (colour - Scotts Monument, Edinburgh), 10cms, and a two division stamp box (colour - Bunker Hill Monument 221 Feet High), 6.2cms. (5) From the collection of the late Christabelle and David Davey
Mauchline ware - seven pieces, foreign views, comprising a purse (Sovenir de la Louvesc), 9cms, a two division stamp box (Eglise de Fourniere / Importe), 6.5cms, a cylinder string box in alternate segments (Salies-De-Bearn), 7.4cms dia., a tumbler case (Le Pont Roulant, St. Malo), 10.4cms, a house form box (floral print / Le Touquet Les Phares / Importe), 12cms, a boat shaped box (Cherbourg - Le Port Du Roule), 12cms, and a curved paper knife (Prefailles, La Source), 27.5cms. (7) From the collection of the late Christabelle and David Davey
Mauchline ware - seven rectangular boxes, comprising (** lghtham Mote Near Sevenoaks, Kent), 10.5cms, a three division stamp box (School of Musketry, Hythe), 9.7cms, a box (Peeping Tom, Street Life In Coventry), 8.5cms, another two division stamp box (The Piers Steamboat, Walton on the Naze), 8.4cms, another (Weymouth From The Nothe), 8.2cms, a box (Sunderland Bridge), 7.6cms, and a bakers table box (Dome Of The Capitol, Washington), 10.5cms. (7) From the collection of the late Christabelle and David Davey
Two small Scottish sycamore snuff boxes, comprising an example with transfer to lid titled 'Making Bacon', foil 90%, 4 x 3 x 1.5cms, and another, a dog dressed in suit and top hat in colour titled 'Another Puppy with his Carte de Visite', retailers stamp 'Sheppard', foil 10%, 5.8 x 3.8 x 1.5cms. (2) † The second with no stamp visible but a comparable stamped 'W. Johnston, Auchinleck' known.
* Cleveland Bank Robbery. Three film stills of a bank robbery at St Clair Savings and Loan Company, Cleveland, 12 April 1957, gelatin silver print photograph film still with frames on card showing a hold-up at a bank, a little creasing at head and foot, press stamp and news wire story to verso, 300 x 140 mmQTY: (1)NOTE:The St Clair Savings and Loan Company had been robbed twice during the previous 18 months and as a result it was chosen by Thomas Story, Superintendent of Cleveland Police Communications to place a hidden camera on a trial basis. The following day the bank was robbed and this became the first bank robbery in history to be filmed by a hidden camera. The pictures were printed in the newspapers and the news with the photographs spread across the country. The robbers, Steven Ray Thomas and Wanda DiCenzi gave themselves up to police the following day, and the car driver, Rose O'Donnell, was apprehended following a tip-off by a neighbour. The use of the camera which began operating at the sound of the bank alarm, proved a major breakthrough in apprehending criminals and deterring robberies.
* Cottingley Fairies. Iris and the Gnome, copyright 1917, printed by Harold Snelling, c. 1920, vintage sepia gelatin silver print photograph, 153 x 114 mm, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title and copyright stamp to lower margin, loosely contained in original brown paper folder with embossed crown to upper cover and tipped-in tissue-guardQTY: (1)NOTE:This is the second of the five Cottingley Fairies photographs (lettered 'B'), a hoax perpetrated by schoolgirls Frances 'Alice' Griffiths and her older cousin Elsie Wright, that deceived a number of eminent figures, most notably Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first photograph, 'Alice and the Fairies', was taken by Elsie of Frances, this one by Frances of Elsie. They were taken in 1917 with three further photographs taken by the girls in 1918.
* Hardy (Albert William Thomas, 1913-1995). Hunting in War Time, 1941, gelatin silver print, printed later, signed in the lower margin, 'Bert Hardy', photographer's stamp and trimmed typed label with details to verso, image size 355 x 255 mm, modern aperture mountQTY: (1)NOTE:Published in Picture Post magazine, 1941.
* Karsh (Yousuf, 1908-2002). Portrait of the photographer by Guy Le Querrec (born 1941), c. 1970, vintage gelatin silver print, three-quarter length, Karsh about to take a photograph with his camera on a tripod in a drawing room, image 208 x 140 mm, photographer's ink name stamp to verso, corner-mounted in modern aperture mountQTY: (1)
* George IV (1762-1830). King of Great Britain, 1820-30. Document Signed by King George IV, ‘George R’, and countersigned by the Duke of Wellington, ‘Wellington’, in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance, Windsor, 5 April 1827, a pre-printed commission on vellum, completed in manuscript, promoting George Wulff (d. 1846) to Colonel Commandant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, embossed paper duty stamp, a few contemporary official manuscript notes, some soiling, 30 x 39 cmQTY: (1)
* Fenton (Roger, 1819-1869). Raglan Castle - Porch [and] Richmond, Yorkshire, from 'Photographic Art Treasures', October 1856 & July 1857, a pair of photogalvanographs after original photographs by Roger Fenton, engraved details beneath within plate impressions, 235 x 255 mm (plate mark), original sheets, the first with embossed stamp of the Photogalvanographic Company to lower margin, together with 2 further photogalvanographs, comprising 'Lynmouth, Devon' by Lebbin Colls, January 1857; Banquetting Hall, Kenilworth', from a photograph by Francis Bedford, 1 January 1864, one with small stains, various sizesQTY: (4)
* Elizabeth II (1926-2022). Queen of Great Britain, 1952-2022. Document Signed, St James's, 26 August 1955, a pre-printed pardon, completed in manuscript, concerning Thomas Nicholls who was convicted of failing to pay National Insurance contributions and ordered to pay a fine of three pounds, being hereby pardoned and the fine remitted to him, signed by the Queen at head of first page adjacent to embossed stamp, minor marks, paperclip stain at head and three file holes to left margin, not affecting signature or text, 2 pages, folio, together with an unsigned copy of another pardon for an unidentified person concerning a traffic offence in 1954, filing holes and rusted staple marks, 2 pages, folioQTY: (2)
AR * Princess Margaret (1930-2002). Countess of Snowdon, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II. Portrait of Princess Margaret by Ronald Searle (1920-2011), 1956, pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper, three-quarter length, full face, wearing a tiara, sash and evening gown with long white gloves, signed and dated lower left, a little spotting to upper margin, 51 x 30 cm, framed and glazed with descriptive label to lower mount, overall 74 x 53 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:A fine caricature portrait of Princess Margaret by Ronald Searle who produced 12 portraits that were reproduced as colour photolithographic centrefold illustrations for Punch in 1956-1957. The portraits mimicked the style of the Spy and Ape cartoons published in Vanity Fair in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. This was number 7 in the series, published in Punch, 19 December 1956. A copy of the photolithographic illustration (with printed verse by B.A. Young beneath) is pasted to backing card with Searle's ink caption details and copyright stamp dated 1956 beneath. Other subjects in Searle's series included T.S. Eliot, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Bertrand Russell and Lord Beaverbrook.
* Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon (1756-1830). Prince of Condè from 1818 to his death. Document Signed, 'Louis debourbon', Chantilly, 25 May 1678, in French on vellum in a neat secretarial hand, being a nomination of Zacharie de Charden, Clerk in Holy Orders, to the Living of the Crucifix in the Diocese of Bourges, countersigned by Caillet (Secretary), applied paper seal, Bibliotheca Lindesiana small stamp lower right, a little soiling and creasing, 27.5 x 47 cm QTY: (1)
* Architectural Photography. An album containing 64 mounted albumen print photographs, c. 1880s, mostly architectural interest including buildings and interiors identified as the work of architects William Flockhart and Ernest George & Pelo, these buildings identified as Hartford Street, Mayfair, Buchan Hill, Sussex, Collingham Gardens and Harrington Gardens, one image with embossed stamp of Bedford Lemere & Co., possibly some others by Bedford Lemere also including 4 photographs of Victoria Assize Courts, Birmingham, images 19 x 27 cm and slightly larger, the remainder of the album with smaller-format photographs of British buildings and churches, some by Frith series, James Valentine and George Washington Wilson, various sizes, many images identified in ink on the mounts, contemporary half morocco, worn, covers detached and backstrip deficient, large 4to (43 x 38 cm)QTY: (1)
* Napoleon I (1769-1821, Emperor of France). A fragment of wallpaper from the living room of Longwood House, St. Helena where Napoleon died, with foliate fleur de lys star pattern motif in green/blue on yellow background, with circular ink stamp to recto of the Agenc[e] Consulaire de France S. Heléne, with pencil note to verso 'Don de G. Colin. Papier du salon o? il est mort 1932', 18.5 x 12.5 cm, together with a Société des Amis de Sainte-Hélène typed letter signed addressed to Capt. V[ictor] Brisson, c/o Ed. Little Esq., 170 Phillip Str. Sydney, Australia regarding his new membership to the Society, dated 14 December 1932, signed by the Society Secrétaire General, also with Victor Brisson's membership card, and typed letter from Sir Spencer Davis inviting Captain V. Brisson to luncheon on Friday 4 November 1.15 pm at Plantation House (Government House), St. HelenaQTY: (4)NOTE:Longwood House, St. Helena was the final residence of Napoleon Bonaparte, who was held in exile on the island of Saint Helena from 10 December 1815 until his death on 5 May 1821. The location was wet and windswept and the interior of the house was damp and unhealthy which may have contributed to Napoleon's ill health and death. Longwood was originally a farm which belonged to the East India Company, and it was later given as a country residence to the deputy governor. The property was converted for the use of Napoleon in 1815, but following Napoleon's death in 1821, Longwood House reverted to the East India Company and later to the Crown, whereupon it was used for agricultural purposes once more. In 1858 the ownership was transferred to the French government. By the 1940s the condition of the property had deteriorated and the French government considered demolishing the building, but the decision to restore Longwood was made and it is now a museum. Captain Victor Brisson was born in France and spent many years sailing and living in the Pacific. A number of his log books from voyages between 1928-1936 are held in the Rare Book Collection at Fisher Library, University of Sydney, Australia. Captain Brisson could likely have visited St Helena in 1932 on one of his voyages and acquired the wallpaper sample at that time
* Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed by William Brooke, Lisbon, 19 June 1813, to J. J. Holford, a descriptive and spirited letter describing the destruction of the Castle at Burgos by the French Army, their retreat ‘The French, with might, haste and vigour, did slip from one mountain to another before we had scarcely time to count the valleys…’. He comments on the effectiveness of the British Army ‘in point of numbers, health, and strength’, and a unique insight into the location of his billet ‘… in this large room of Juntellas, the Elder Brother of the Baron of that Name, & where I am billeted-No 18 Rua das Chagas very near the Paulista’s Convent but called by the Irish Dragoons (in reply to the question) “of where Genl. Brooke lives” - Shag=ging St.’, some browning, 4 pp. including address panel, 4to, together with:Peninsular War. Autograph Letter Signed by Major James Hope, Lisbon, 10 March 1812, to James Hope esq., ‘I have been in Lisbon for this several days past, principally with the intention of buying horses… there is scarcely one of General Graham’s staff who has a horse to ride’, and asking Hope to write to ‘Messrs Coutts & Co to honour any bills which I may have to draw upon…’, 3 pp. with integral address panel, Lisbon ‘F’ packet mail stamp, some soiling, 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:It is likely that the second letter’s author is Colonel (later General) Sir James Archibald Hope (1786-1871). Hope saw extensive service in the Peninsular War (1808-1814) as a staff officer to Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope (later 2nd Earl of Hopetoun), then as an aide-de-camp to General Thomas Graham, and finally as an assistant adjutant-general.
* Wellesley (Arthur, 1769-1852). 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister, 1828-30, 1834. Document Signed, ‘Wellington’, in his capacity as Master-General of the Ordnance, 27 June 1822, a pre-printed commission on vellum, completed in manuscript, appointing Ralph Gore to be storekeeper on the establishment of the Ordnance at Quebec, papered wax seal and duty stamp applied, a few contemporary official manuscript notes, light soiling, 30 x 39 cm, plus another similar, 7 March 1822, appointing Ralph Gore to be storekeeper on the establishment of the Ordnance at Guernsey, and a third dated 7 February 1826, appointing Richard M. Satchwell to be fourth clerk in establishment of the Ordnance at the Cape of Good Hope, both a little dust-soiled, last with ‘Wellington’ slightly faded and lacking papered wax seal, all 30 x 39 cm QTY: (3)
* Brunel (Isambard Kingdom, 1806-1859). British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Autograph Letter Signed, 'I. K. Brunel', 18, [London, SW], 17 October 1857, to R. H. Wyatt of Great Western & Brentford Railway and the Duke of Northumberland, concerning a memorandum made by Mr Griffith and himself and 'you will find that the alterations in blue ink are not in accordance with this memorandum but directly in variance with it, some general soiling and creasing, 2 pages with integral docketed blank and institutional stamp, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:The Great Western & Brentford Railway Company was incorporated on 14 August 1855, and construction of the line and dock at Brentford began on 3 March 1856, with Isambard Kingdom Brunel as chief engineer. As Brunel underestimated the cost of building the dock, it was necessary to raise additional capital under two further acts of parliament passed in 1857 and 1859. The line and dock were officially opened on 15 July 1859.
* Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870). Cheque signed 'Charles Dickens', London, 14 January 1867, drawn on Messrs.Coutts & Co printed slip and completed in manuscript, paying Wm. Burton the sum of £7.15.9, embossed stamp upper right, with two vertical cross lines in manuscript and 'London and Westminster Bank Bloomsbury' blue ink stamp, a few light vertical folds and small pin holes to left side, 95 x 188 mmQTY: (1)
* Kotzebue (August Friedrich Ferdinand von, 1761-1819). German dramatist and writer, friend of Beethoven, and consul in Russia and Germany. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Kotzebue', Weimar, 5 October 1817, in German, to Kummer, saying that the copperplates for the almanac are mostly bad and suggesting that they use Mr Muller in the future, suggesting it is possible to find a csakan [Romantic recorder or duct flute], an instrument similar to a flute, in Leipzig and asking for one to be bought and sent on, asking for music from the new Term Catalogue, Weber's Serenade for piano forte and guitar, and other works, and asking for information about his correspondent's health, together with a second letter to Kummer, from Weimar, 23 November 1817, telling his correspondent that he has been suffering from cramps in the chest for a whole month, and that among other things clystorizing has been prescribed but that such a machine is nowhere to be found in Weimar, hoping that Kummer can find and send one from Leipzig, concluding that whoever departs first is now uncertain but that they are likely to meet again as friends [in heaven], signed 'Kotzebue' and with a p.s. querying whether the recently ordered music from the term Catalogue is still not ready, both letter somewhat browned, each 1 page with address panel and Weimar stamp to versos, repaired seal tears, 4to, plus a third earlier autograph letter signed, 'Kotzebue', [Sch]warzen, 22 January 1818, to Kummersehe Buchhandlung, asking them if they will insert an update into the new sheet of the newspaper straight away and informing them that Her Hignhess has pre-ordered 20 copies of Eckarden Schriften and if possible to put her name at the top, 1 page with integral address panel, 4toQTY: (3)NOTE:In his day, Kotzebue enjoyed a great reputation as a poet and dramatist. In 1812 he was approached by Beethoven, who suggested that Kotzebue write the libretto for an opera about Attila, which was never written. Beethoven did, however, produce incidental music for two of Kotzebue's plays, The Ruins of Athens (Beethoven's opus 113) and King Stephen (opus 117). In 1817, one of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften. This murder gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved the Burschenschaften, cracked down on the liberal press, and seriously restricted academic freedom in the states of the German Confederation.
* Lamb (Charles, 1775-1834). English essayist, poet and antiquarian. Autograph Manuscript Poem Signed, 'Charles Lamb', c. 1830, a 14-line sonnet titled 'Christian names of women / To Edith Southey' in the author's hand at head, written in black ink in a neat hand and typically sloping downwards to the right, signed at foot of sonnet, 1 page with integral address leaf, the address panel simply addressed 'Miss Southey' without any further marks, indistinct embossed stamp of a Bath paper manufacturer upper left, some light spotting, soiling and browning, a little creasing and original fold marks, 4to (230 x 185 mm), preserved in an early 20th-century gilt-titled cloth folderQTY: (1)NOTE:This is the original manuscript of Lamb's sonnet that was first printed in The Athenaeum, 9 March 1833, under the same title as here. The dedicatee and recipient of this manuscript was Edith Southey (1804-1871), eldest daughter of the poet Robert Southey. In 1834 Edith married the English cleric and antiquarian John Wood Warter (1806-1878), who is now best known as an editor of the works of his friend Robert Southey.Charles Lamb included this sonnet in a note he wrote to Charles Wentworth Dilke in February 1833. This letter [no. 540] and the sonnet are included in the various Works editions of Charles and Mary Lamb. The dedicatee of the sonnet as given in Lamb's note to Dilke is 'Edith S---' but is correctly identified in the editorial matter of the Works editions. There are two slight differences in the text as found in this original manuscript and the one included in Dilke's letter, the latter being the basis for all subsequent printed versions of the sonnet. In line 8 this manuscript has, 'Of Marthas, or of Abigails, few lines', the 'Dilke' version having 'and of Abigails'. The final line of the manuscript is written, 'All these, than Saxon Edith, please me less', the 'Dilke' version beginning the line 'These all... '.
Beattie (James, 1735-1803). Scottish poet, moralist, and philosopher. Three manuscript volumes of Beattie’s philosophy lectures, plus Natural Philosophy lectures or notes from other sources, copied or transcribed by George Milne, Aberdeen, c. 1774-75, Volume 1 covering Beattie’s Lectures on Moral Philosophy, Simple Ethicks (including foundation of Particular Virtues, The Duty we owe to God), Jurisprudence (including Authority and Law, State of Nature, Absolute Duties), Oeconomicks (including the Relation of Husband and Wife, Parent and Child, Master and Servant, Slavery), Politicks (including Democracy, Aristocracy, Monarchy, Despotism), Logik (including Mathematical Evidence, the Evidence of Christianity), 5, [1], 256 pp.; Volume 2 covering lectures on Psychology, Of External Sensations (including Taste and Smell, Touch, Seeing, Universal Grammar), Of Internal Sensations (Dreaming, Memory), Of our Speculative Powers (including Taste, Novelty, Harmony, Elegance, Beauty, Purity), Of our Active Powers (Liberty, Passions), Natural Theology (including Unity, Spirituality, Omnipotence, Eternity, Wisdom, Justice), 5, [1], 256 pp; Volume 3 with Introduction (signed ‘George Milne, 10 January 1774’), followed by a ‘Summary of the First Book of Cicero’s Offices by James Beattie LLD’; the volume concluding with material from one or more other spoken or written sources concerning post Newtonian natural philosophy of the period: Introduction to Natural Philosophy, Natural Philosophy (including Attraction, Repulsion, Motion, Wheels, Pendulum, Hydrostaticks, Fluids, Electrick and Non Electrick Bodies, Vision, Optical Instruments), 5 pen and ink plates (numbered I to V), 12, 35, [1], 38, [1], 125 pp; mid-19th-century polished calf (Seton & Mackenzie name stamp to front pastedowns) with contrasting spine labels for ‘Philosophy’ and volume number, rubbed, title spine labels of volumes 2 & 3 damaged, 4to (220 x 185 mm)QTY: (3)NOTE:James Beattie (1735-1803) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. A philosopher and poet, he spent his entire academic as Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic at Marischal College in Aberdeen. His best known philosophical work, An Essay on The Nature and Immutability of Truth in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), affirmed the sovereignty of common sense while attacking David Hume (1711-1776). ‘In October 1760 he was appointed professor of moral philosophy and logic at Marischal College … One sequel to his appointment was his election to the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, where he was able to sharpen his ideas by discussion with men of intellectual distinction, such as Thomas Reid, George Campbell, John Gregory, and Gerard. Much of Beattie's prose work, on philosophy and literature, was first presented there. Beattie held the chair until his death despite tempting and lucrative offers in the 1770s of a chair at Edinburgh and of two rich livings in the Church of England. He was a gifted and conscientious teacher, as shown by the surviving notes taken in his lectures by his students, by a journal he kept of exactly what he had taught in each session over a thirty-two-year period, and by testimonials from those whom he had taught, such as Alexander Chalmers. Beattie gave about 300 lectures annually to the arts class, in the final year of their four-year course, when the students were aged about seventeen. These discourses ranged widely over psychology, ethics, literary criticism, and natural religion. Elements of Moral Science (2 vols., 1790–93) is an abstract of his lecture course.’ (ODNB online)The Elements of Moral Science offers a more in-depth exploration of several topics only lightly touched upon in the Essay (e.g. perception, natural theology, and immortality), and offers sustained coverage of several areas, such as political philosophy and economics, that are not meaningfully discussed in the Essay. The identity of George Milne, whose name appears in the manuscript here, has not been ascertained and no lecturer or student by that name is known to have been at Marischal College during this period. It seems likely that Milne was therefore an amanuensis, transcribing or copying these lectures for someone else. Whether they were intended for publication, lecturing purposes or private use is not clear, though the pencil ownership signature of George Milne on the flyleaf of ‘volume 1’ suggests they were for himself, and neatly presented as it all is there are curiously no title-pages to front each volume.The content of the first two volumes bears a close relationship to the text and headings of The Elements and there can be no doubt that these are Beattie’s lecture notes. The spine label numbers appear to be wrongly assigned: volume 1 ends with ‘Finis, 1775’ and volume 2 with ‘vol. 1st’. The conclusion at the end of volume 1 [i.e. volume 2] gives suggestions of which authors to study from the Greek and Latin classics to his own times. David Hume’s name is conspicuous by its absence, while Thomas Reid and Francis Hutcheson get favourable mentions.The ‘third’ volume begins with an introduction and ‘Summary of the First Book of Cicero’s Offices by James Beattie LLD’ before continuing with another introduction and longer section on Natural Philosophy. This last part would not be taken from Beattie’s lectures and it is not clear whether these are lecture notes or original articles or copies of what would have been standard post-Newtonian science to be readily found in textbooks and encyclopedias of the time.The University of Aberdeen Special Collections owns a number of manuscripts of Beattie’s philosophy lectures, abstracted or transcribed by various students in the 1760s-1790s: GB 231 MS M 185 - 187; MS M 405; MS 30/1 - 53; MS 555; MS 2065; MS 2901; MS 3256; MS 3294; MS 3486; MS 3522.Important information: These manuscripts were loaned to the University of Aberdeen by the owner in 1985 and further information has now come to light from the correspondence with the deceased owner. George Milne was an alumnus of Marischal College, where he attended the second year of the Arts Course in 1775-6. The natural philosophy notes are from the lectures of Patrick Copland (1748-1822). In 1774 George Skene, Marischal’s professor of natural philosophy who had taught Copland as an undergraduate, made Copland his assistant. A year later, when Skene took on the professorship of Civil and Natural History, Copland stepped up and remained a professor at Marischal until he died in November 1822.
* India. An assorted group of 18 photographs, c. 1880-1910, albumen and gelatin silver prints, the larger photographs including 2 festival street scenes in Baroda, c. 1890, 4 views by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1910, gelatin silver prints, all numbered and captioned in the negative with studio stamp to versos, titles include The Fortress of Komalmar, View of ruins, Futtehpore Sikri, Bijapur - The execution tree, and The Lake, Eden Gardens, Calcutta, all 20.5 x 28 cm and similar, the smaller photographs including albumen prints of Indian porters, embroiderers, Chaprassis, Pankha wala and 2 men mending morhas, plus views in Lucknow, Hyderabad and Calcutta, plus a group of 23 photogravure postcards of Aden, c. 1910s, all postally unused, plus a small booklet titled 'The Austerity of the Ascetic Atri & Anasuya at the Ashram', Cape Comorin, Hari Kumari Arts, c. 1940s, with printed text and 12 corner-mounted cigarette-card size photographs not from life, original printed wrappers, oblong 16moQTY: (42)
* Limehouse Declaration. The Declaration for Social Democracy, 25 January 1981, printed statement on thick parchment paper, signed at foot by Roy Jenkins (1920-2003), Bill Rodgers (1928- ), Shirley Williams (1930-2021) and David Owen (1938- ), SDP 'Social Democratic Party' circular blind stamp lower left, faint creases to lower corners and light brown mark to verso with no see-through, 40 x 30 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:The SDP began in January 1981 with what became known as the Limehouse Declaration, a statement of intent by four former Labour Cabinet ministers, wanting a more centralist path than the Labour party. The party was formally founded on 26 March, and within a few months had formed an Alliance with the Liberal Party. The SDP merged with the Liberal Party following the General Election of 1987, the unification process being completed in 1988. The SDP blind stamp suggests that this was produced shortly after the official founding on 26 March 1981. The number of copies printed and signed is unknown and only two other copies have been located, both sold in these rooms, on 4 July 2017 (lot 251) and 28 May 2020 (lot 609).
* Titanic Relief Fund. A cheque (No. K. 18642) from The Capital & Counties Bank Ltd, for six guineas to Mrs Ada Mary West, 28 April 1917, with the Titanic Relief Fund ink stamp and three signatures and payee name in ink to verso, with blue pencil marks and Barclays Bank red ink stamp, 10.5 x 20 cm QTY: (1)NOTE:Edwy Arthur West (1875-1912), a Cornishman, married Ada Mary Worth in 1905 and had two daughters. They decided to emigrate to Florida with their two daughters to start a fruit culture business. West purchased ticket number 34651, costing £27.15s and the family embarked on the Titanic at Southampton on 10 April 1912 as second-class passengers.Ada West later recalled the events of the sinking: 'We were all asleep when the collision took place but were only jolted in our berths - my husband and children not even being awakened and it was only the hurrying of passengers outside the cabin that caused alarm. The steward bade us all get up and dress thoroughly with plenty of warm things. Arthur placed lifebelts upon the children and carried them to the boat deck. I followed carrying my handbag. After seeing us safely into the lifeboat Arthur returned to the cabin for a thermos of hot milk, and, finding the lifeboat let down he reached it by means of a rope, gave the flask to me, and with a farewell, returned to the deck of the ship'.Ada also recalled male interlopers in her boat who had hidden under the women's skirts; the men had to be asked to stop lighting cigarettes in fear of the women's skirts being set alight. She also stated that she did not fear for her husband's safety until after the ship had sank and she heard the cries of those in the water. A steward in the boat tried to soften the mood by shouting 'Pull up men -- they're singing in the other boats. Give them a shout!'. The boat's occupants apparently made enough of a din to drown out at least a bit of the carnage happening not far away. As day broke Ada stated that she saw no wreckage or bodies but could see many icebergs. Rescued by Carpathia, Ada and her two daughters were treated kindly. She later recalled another survivor scoff that it was wrong that Titanic's surviving officers were feted by the passengers and crew of their rescue ship, allegedly being treated to champagne in the first class dining saloon on the evening of their rescueAda West died in St Vincent's Nursing Home in Plympton, Devon on 20 April 1953 aged 74. One keepsake that remained in her possession for the remainder of her life was the flask that her husband had passed to her the last time she ever saw him.Her daughter Edwyna, a Titanic survivor in her own right, was married in 1941 to Clarence Patrick Erskine-Lindop (1920-2001) who later became Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Local Government in the Bahamas and he was made an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1977. The couple are also believed to have spent time living in Manhattan. Edwyna died in Plymouth in 1969.The paper Mining World wrote 'It is impossible to write without mention of the conduct of this heroic Cornishman who unquestionably might have saved his life had he chosen to take the place that, we suppose, was subsequently occupied by one of the women saved. Of such heroes the world is not worthy. Arthur West may be one of the least known of the Titanic heroes, but none will deny him the distinction of being one of the noblest'.There is a memorial to Arthur West, a former chorister, in Truro Cathedral placed there by his wife and children who had returned to live in Cornwall following the tragedy. See Encyclopedia Titanica (2020).
* Marville (Charles, 1816-1879). Cloud study above Paris, c. 1860, albumen print on original mount with embossed stamp, 'Ch. Marville photographe du Musee Imperial du Louvre', image 130 x 206 mm, mount a little creased and dust-soiled at extremities with small split to lower margin, 31 x 43.5 cm overallQTY: (1)
* Beckett (Samuel, 1906-1989). A group of 11 photographs of Samuel Beckett by John Minihan (born 1946), c. 1980, gelatin silver prints, printed later, including close-up portraits, in rehearsals, sitting on a bed and leaving Riverside Studios, 2 duplicates, all but one with undated credit stamp to verso, one image with slight scratch line in upper dark area, images 17 x 26 cm and similar, sheet sizes 29.5 x 21 cm and the reverseQTY: (11)
* Burrows (Larry, 1926-1971). Portrait of the photojournalist Larry Burrows, 1960s, vintage gelatin silver print, showing Burrows in Vietnam seated on the ground between two other men while smoking a cigarette and with 4 cameras strung around his neck, Life Magazine credit stamp and other markings to verso, image size 240 x 160 mm, together with 2 other Life Magazine gelatin silver prints, one of David Douglas Duncan photographing Ava Gardner, the other of Philip Halsman at work with nudes in a bath, both c. 1970s, stamps and annotations to versos, images 240 x 165 mm and slightly smallerQTY: (2)
HORSE RACING, press photo selection, mainly flat racing, inc. mainly jockeys & horses, in action; Lester Piggott, Peter Scudamore, John Reid, Pat Eddery, Greville Starkey, Willie Carson, Joe Mercer, Freddy Head, Ron Atkins, Ron Barry, Terry Biddlecombe, Ken White etc., all with press stamp or narrative to reverse, mainly 6 x 8, many with punch holes to top, FR to VG, 50*
HORSE RACING, press photo selection, national hunt & flat racing, inc. jockeys, horses, trainer, in action, posed; Lester Piggott, Steve Cauthen, Willie Carson, Jane McDonald, Ian Moulton, George Duffield, James Guest, Raymond Still, Brian Smart, Phillip Cheese, Clive Brittain, John Francome, Dick Pitman, Peter Scudamore, Bob Champion, Joe Mercer etc., all with press stamp or narrative to reverse, mainly 6 x 8, many with punch holes to top, FR to VG, 50*
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