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Lot 83
Wright John Michael. Ragguaglio della solenne comparsa, fatta in Roma gli otto di gennaio MDCLXXXVII dal conte di Castelmaine ambasciatore straordinario della sacra real maestà di Giacomo Secondo re d’Inghilterra…in andare publicamente all'Udienza di Papa Innocenzo XI. Roma: Stamp. Dom. Ant. Ercole, 1687. In-folio (mm 340x225). Pagine 91,[2]. Con antiporta inciso raffigurante la scena dell'omaggio del Castelmaine al Papa, il ritratto della Duchessa di Modena dedicataria dell'opera e 15 stupende tavole disegnate da G.B.Lenardi, P.M.Camers ed A.Cornely, incise all'acquaforte da Arnold Van Vesterhout, raffiguranti le scene, le decorazioni delle carrozze di gala e le sculture in argento che le decoravano. Rimarchevole (oltre 1200 mm. di lunghezza, ripiegata più volte) la grandissima incisione che raffigura la magnifica tavolata preparata e decorata per il banchetto ufficiale. Legatura ottocentesca in pergamena su cartone, filetti e titolo oro al dorso. Buon esemplare, lievi sporadiche tracce di polvere, restauri al margine inferiore della tavola ripiegata. Sontuoso libro di feste dato alle stampe da Wright, al tempo maggiordomo del conte Rogert Castelmaine, ambasciatore strordinario di Giacomo II presso la corte papale, giunto a Roma nel 1686. Il volume celebra la fastosità degli eventi che ebbero luogo nel corso di tale soggiorno, dalla cavalcata d'ingresso alla dimora di Castelmaine - il palazzo del principe Pamphili a Piazza Navona - al Quirinale, svoltasi l'8 gennaio dell'anno successivo, allo sfarzoso banchetto organizzato dall'ambasciatore nella sua residenza il 14 gennaio. In tale occasione furono servite ventidue portate, su una tavola fastosamente bandita e decorata con trionfi di zucchero celebranti la gloria della Chiesa e dell'Inghilterra. Volume corredato delle splendide, celeberrime acuqaforti realizzate da Arnold van Vesterhout. Lipperheide, 2751; Vinet, 808; Pine-Coffin, 687; Cat. Ruggieri, n. 828 (1873) e n. 323 (1885).
Lot 2009
- Fitted with unique Shooting Brake coachwork (ex-chassis 1346) that HRH the Prince of Wales had Barker refinish to his own design in 1923. - Current family ownership since 1994 and enjoyed on numerous 20-Ghost Club events plus tours through Europe, South Africa and Australasia etc - Maintained by Cliff Long and will be driven to the sale - Matching chassis and engine numbers, Whitehead front wheel brakes Further Info: The exemption from capital gains tax for only or main residences has distorted property prices in the interim but when new a Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost was not so much the price of a good town house - as its modern equivalent would be today - but rather the price of a good street. Thus, it is no surprise that initial or subsequent owners often sought to prolong the lifespan of their Silver Ghosts by re-bodying them. The elegant Barker Shooting Brake coachwork which adorns the lot on offer (chassis 107EM) was originally fitted to chassis 1346 which in turn had been supplied new to W.J. Stevens Esq. of Margate, Kent as a Barker Limousine. The more sporting / utilitarian body is thought to have been constructed in 1921, a year before the car was acquired by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. The future King Edward VIII decided to put his own stamp on the Shooting Brake during 1923 by commissioning Barker to apply a bespoke walnut effect finish to its aluminium panels. An article entitled `A Royal Shooting Brake' which appeared in Country Life magazine some five years later remarked: `It is not, however, generally known that the idea of grained wood finish originated with H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, whose Rolls-Royce Shooting Brake set the fashion . . . The idea was original and experimental, but the car thus painted five years ago has been in commission ever since and has only once been revarnished. The painting is still as good as the day when it was turned out and the finish has proved as durable as any ever placed on the road . . . Experience with shooting cars suggests that they have to do all kinds of work and carry abnormal loads over impossible ground. Keepers and loaders with nailed boots, retrievers, lunch hampers, bags, gun cases and weighty cartridge magazines - all these are things which are very definitely productive of excessive wear and tear. A journey along a rather overgrown wood ride to a lunch hut will play havoc with either paint or panel that is not of the best, and there are few cars which could stand two successive shooting seasons without showing very marked exterior deterioration'. Whether there is any truth to the rumour that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales used the Shooting Brake to smuggle Wallis Simpson into and out of Balmoral is unknown (its rear compartment contains black `pull down' silk blinds). Acquired by Sir H. Mackenzie in September 1940 and Allan Grey Esq. some eight months later, the Rolls-Royce certainly spent a considerable amount of time in Scotland. Part of the Ayrshire-based John C. Sword Collection for many years, it achieved the highest price of the day - £3,100 - when the first part of the Collection was dispersed by auctioneers John Watson & Son of Glasgow on 7th September 1962. Autocar magazine carried an illustration of the Shooting Brake a week later as part of its sale report, while the successful purchaser was a Canadian solicitor John Burnett Esq. On display at the Niagara Falls Antique Auto Museum for several years and bought by Californian B. Paul Moser during 1972, chassis 1346 was subsequently divorced from the Barker Shooting Brake body and currently wears Roi-des-Belges-style tourer coachwork. The lot on offer - chassis 107EM - was supplied new to John Gardener Esq. of Glasgow as a Windovers Torpedo Tourer. Mr Gardener had Whitehead front wheel brakes fitted to the Silver Ghost in 1927 before selling it to R.G.W. Berkeley Esq. of Worcester. The latter retained the car until 1966 when D.A. Payne of Birmingham took ownership. Sporting Sunbeam Tourer coachwork for a while, the Rolls-Royce had been stripped to a `matching numbers' rolling chassis by the time that marque enthusiast David Toms Esq bought it from Adrian Liddell of Andover (who owned the famous Straker Squire Brooklands racer for many years). Mr Toms not only recommissioned chassis 107EM but also fitted it with the discarded ex-H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Barker Shooting Brake coachwork which had previously adorned chassis 1346. Although not road registered until 1924, chassis 107EM was built in 1923 the same year that the future King Edward VIII had Barker apply the wood grain effect finish to his trend-setting Shooting Brake. Partially restored since entering the current family ownership in 1994, the Barker Shooting Brake has continued to transport notable personages (including eight Lord Mayors on one occasion) as well as being enjoyed on numerous tours and rallies in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, South of France, Alps, Pyrenees and Ireland etc. An accompanying letter from Cliff Long - the former proprietor of Cliff Long (Engineering) Veteran, Vintage & Classic Car Restorations - recalls that after pre-purchase vetting `The car was sent into my workshops for regular servicing and maintenance. When I retired I continued to service and maintain the car at the owner's home on a regular basis, so therefore the car has always been well looked after and hopefully ready for any long distance rally as required at any time'. Currently MOT tested until 24th July 2015, it is anticipated that chassis 107EM will possess a fresh certificate by the time of sale. Starting readily upon inspection, the lady vendor has every intention of driving the Rolls-Royce some 95 miles to Burghley House. The Dark Green hued wings and Black leather upholstery exhibit a certain amount of patina but the car remains in fair to good cosmetic order. Boasting Royal connections thanks to the provenance of its unique Barker coachwork, this imposing Rolls-Royce 40/50hp Silver Ghost would grace many a collection (especially if the new owner had access to a suitable estate). H&H are indebted to renowned Rolls-Royce historian and co-author of `The Edwardian Rolls-Royce' John Fasal for his assistance in the preparation of this catalogue description.
Lot 2042
PLEASE NOTE: This lot's ABS warning light has recently come on. It is accompanied by a service book which contains one customer assurance check stamp followed by five service stamps only. Other paperwork on file includes a collection of invoices but no handbooks or manuals. - One long term owner and 54,000 recoded miles - Offered with original handbooks and service book containing 8 stamps - MOT'd into June next year and factory fitted Sat Nav Further info: The Arnage was phased in during the spring of 1998 as a replacement for derivatives of the long-serving Mulsanne, and was initially powered by a DOHC 4.4-litre BMW engine. However, it was around this time that Bentley passed to the Volkswagen Group, who were forced to find an alternative powerplant. In fact they sourced two and created the option of Red and Green Label Arnages, with the former being powered by a Cosworth-built version of Bentley's single-turbo OHV 6.75-litre V8, as fitted to the company's Turbo R model. Coincident with the change in engines, the models were treated to additional legroom, a stiffer bodyshell and bigger brakes accommodated by larger wheels. The Red Label offered is finished in Blue and trimmed in Beige hide. Its comprehensive equipment includes SAT/NAV and it is offered complete with the original owners' manuals and service book containing eight stamps. The odometer currently shows some 54,900 miles and is offered with an MOT into June next year.
Lot 717
A collection of stamps, Aland Island in two albums, one a collection of two hundred and fifty plus Official Post Office cards with stamp on front cancelled with special hand stamp (many stamp exhibition related), the other posters with the mint stamps attached to the front and a similar Greenland album of 160+ official Post Office cards
Lot 153
A Royal Worcester plate, painted apples and other fruit, signed P Love, 27.5 cm diameter See illustration Condition report Report by NG A couple of small heavy scratches/chips to left hand side of plate. Some rubbing to gilt rim, light in places although couple of patches of white showing through. Black stamp to reverse.
Lot 107
Oliphant (Laurence) - Masollam, 3 vol., spines a little browned, 1886 § Yonge (Charlotte M.) Magnum Bonum, 3 vol., light foxing to titles, ink ownership stamp to titles verso, spines a little darkened, 1879; Beechcroft at Rockstone, 2 vol., ink ownership stamp to endpaper, 1888 § Wistan (Aden) Lucy Francis & Cousin Bill, 3 vol., browning to half-titles, spines lightly faded, 1892, first editions, original cloth, slightl shelf-lean, spine ends and corners a little bumped but excellent copies overall ; and 12 others, Victorian first edition novels and others, 8vo (23)
Lot 167
Stevens (Wallace) - Harmonium, first edition, one of 215 copies, ink stamp to front endpaper, second state cloth-backed boards with blue, white, red and yellow striped pattern, some light rubbing and browning to head and foot, dust-jacket, spine browned, skilful repairs and restorations to head and foot, splits to upper fore-edge, some very light surface soiling, still in effect an excellent copy, 8vo, New York, 1923. The scarcest of the three states, especially with the dust-jacket.
![Australia.- Bayliss (Charles) - [Views of Sydney, New South Wales], album of 18 mounted albumen prints, all with blind-stamp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ade1929e-fcb1-4187-a999-a4aa0114d1f3/5c1d7fd9-3e46-4a5d-94ae-5f765931339a/468x382.jpg)
Lot 203
Australia.- Bayliss (Charles) - [Views of Sydney, New South Wales], album of 18 mounted albumen prints, all with blind-stamp lower left corner "C.Bayliss Photo Sydney", manuscript captions beneath, foxing to mounts, some fading to edges, original half roan, worn, covers detached, backstrip lacking, images 153 x 208mm., oblong 4to, Sydney, [c.1880]. Images include: George Street from Wynyard Street, Wynyard Square, Zig-Zag Lithgow, Prince Alfred Hospital, Pitt Street, Government House from the Domain, Coogee [beach], Circular Quay, Elizabeth Bay, Balmain Regatta.
Lot 207
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20 (Capt. John) Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 , first edition, first issue with text ending on p.768, lacking half-title and errata slip and 8pp. advertisements at end, with 4 folding engraved charts and 30 engraved plates by Edward Finden and J.Curtis after Curtis, George Back & Robert Hood, 12 hand-coloured (mostly aquatints), with separately-issued stipple-engraved portrait of Franklin bound in as frontispiece (foxed and offset on title), and with A.L.s. from John Richardson to a Mr.Parker dated 1824 concerning proofs for a Botanical appendix to another work loosely inserted in pocket at end, title with marginal tear repaired, some foxing and soiling, mostly marginal and to uncoloured plates, offsetting from and occasionally to plates, ex-library copy with faink ink stamp to verso of title and on final leaf of text but no other discernible marks, engraved bookplate of Park Benjamin, later half morocco over blue cloth, spine gilt, uncut, slightly rubbed, boards a little scratched,[Sabin 25624; cf.Abbey, Travel, 635, second edition], 4to, 1823. Account of Franklin's first expedition in search of the North-West Passage, which included a 5500 mile overland journey exploring the Arctic coast and back across the Barren Lands in appalling conditions of cold and hunger. Many of the expedition died as a result and one was murdered by a previously-friendly Iroquois voyageur. Sir John Richardson (1787-1865), physician, naturalist and Arctic explorer, who accompanied Franklin on the expedition as a surgeon and naturalist. He wrote the appendices on geology, fishes and botany for the present work. He was also the one who executed the murderous Iroquois, claiming that it was justified, a decision which received criticism on their return home but which was supported by Franklin. He later accompanied Franklin on his second expedition of 1825-27, but not the ill-fated third expedition of 1845 on which all the members disappeared, but he did set out with a search party in 1848 which was unsuccessful.
Lot 227
Raffalovich (Marc-André) - Uranisme et Unisexualite, first edition, half-title a little browned and with ink stamp to head, original cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, still excellent overal, 8vo, Lyon and Paris, 1896. A good example of this important and rare work on homosexuality.
Lot 231
Gerard (John) - The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, edited by Thomas Johnson, third edition, lacking both initial and final blanks, with engraved title and numerous woodcut illustrations, engraved title soiled and with trace of old stamp in centre, small coat-of-arms in pencil and watercolour on upper outer corner of dedication, title and following few leaves a little frayed and reinforced at fore-edge, 2A6 and 5R1 defective at lower outer corner (the first with loss of catchword and a few letters on verso), 6B2-5 (Table) defective with loss (repaired), occasional soiling, later claf, rather worn, rebacked and recornered in morocco, small scuff to spine, [Henrey 156; Hunt 230; Nissen BBI 698; STC 11752], folio, by Adam Filip Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Lot 33
of Cheriton. Flores Sermonum ac Evangeliorum Dominicalium… of Cheriton. Flores Sermonum ac Evangeliorum Dominicalium , title with woodcut of men working a printing press, woodcut criblé initials, p5-q5 misbound between q7 & q8, title with old ink inscriptions (a little soiled and smudged), one or two ink annotations to text, ink stains to b6 and o5 & 6, paper flaw hole to outer margin of c7, some other light soiling but generally clean, ex-library copy with old ink stamp on title and a few other leaves, old boards, rubbed, [Adams O53; Renouard I p.88 & III p.93], small 4to, [Paris], Josse Badius Ascensius, 1520. Extremely rare; the only printed edition of the sermons of the English monk Odo of Cheriton, who died in 1247. He was noted for his frequent use of fables and animal stories such as Reynard the fox to illustrate his sermons. No copy recorded at auction.
Lot 47
Histoire de la Campagne de M. le Prince de Condé, en Flandre en 1674 ( Chevalier Jean de) Histoire de la Campagne de M. le Prince de Condé, en Flandre en 1674 , half-title, engraved portrait, additional title, 4 folding maps coloured in outline, double-page view, 35 double-page or folding maps or plans, most with military formations in red, without the portrait of Condé, subscribers' list, licence-leaf, errata, small Russian stamp on half-title and rear free endpaper, small Russian library label on paste-down, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, gilt initials 'G W O' on front cover, rubbed, ends of spine and corners worn, joints tender, folio, Paris, Chez l'Auteur , 1774.
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