Greenwood (C. & J.). Atlas of the Counties of England, from Actual Surveys made from the years 1817 to 1833 by C. & J. Greenwood, 1st. ed., pub. April 1st. 1834, eng. calligraphic title page with vignette map of England and Wales with original hand colouring, forty-six engraved maps with original hand colouring all with ecclesiastical b & w vignettes, some slight off setting and spotting, slight dust soiling, three maps trimmed to image on horizontal margins, library blind stamp inside margins of each map, contents shaken, some maps loose, book plate of Hull public library to front pastedown, contemp. half morocco, upper board detached, spine partially lacking, worn frayed and rubbed, large folio. Chubb, CCCCLVIIIa. Sold as seen, not subject to return. (1)
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Smith (Henry Ecroyd). Reliquiae Isurianae: The Remains of the Roman Isurium, (Now Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire), Illustrated, 1852, folding tinted litho. frontis. and thirty-seven litho. plts., including few folding and some hand-col., occ. scattered spotting, ink library stamp to title and blind embossed library stamps to text & some plts., orig. cloth, frayed and worn to joints and spine, covers faded, folio, together with Barclay (Edgar), Stonehenge and its Earth-Works, 1895, b & w plts. & plans (few folding), few leaves loose, ink library stamp to title and few blind embossed library stamps throughout, orig. cloth, spine faded, 4to, with Smith (A.H., & others), Union Academique Internationale.Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain, fascicules 1-2, 4-5, 7-8 & 10 only, 1925-32, b & w plts., all loosely contained in orig. portfolios, small folio, plus one other. (10)
Aldini (Tobia & Castelli, Pietro). Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam Plantarum, que continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano, Rome, Jacobi Mascardi, 1625, eng. title page (some worming to upper portion, and frayed with some loss to fore-edge, just touching engraved area, with modern paper repair), twenty-two engraved botanical plates, including cassia, amaryllis, yucca, several aloes, cinnamon, and including some foreign plants brought back by Jesuit missionaries, one plate with erased oval ink stamp, several woodcut illusts. to text, some light browning and foxing throughout, several worm tracks to margins, generally throughout, occn. touching engraved plates, final leaf of index with old repair to lower margin, apparently without loss of text, old vellum, rubbed and some marks, slim folio. Nissen BBI 13. Hunt 208, Pritzel 1590. An illustrated description of the rare plants in the Farnese gardens in Rome, generally accepted as the work of Pietro Castelli, Professor of Botany, and founder of the Botanical Gardens at Messina in Sicily, with assistance from the curator of the Farnese gardens Tobia Aldini. (1)
Conder (Josiah). Landscape Gardening in Japan, Tokyo, 1893, tinted lithographed and b & w plates and illustrations, one leaf with frayed foredge, one or two light spots, original green cloth gilt, rebacked a little rubbed, folio, without the Supplement which was also published in 1893, together with Japanese Gardens, by Mrs. Basil Taylor, 1912, tipped-in coloured plates, presentation label and stamp, some light spotting, hinges cracking, original red cloth gilt, spine rubbed and faded, 4to, plus Florence and Ella Du Cane’s The Flowers and Gardens of Japan, 1908. (3)
![Latham (John). A General Synopsis of Birds, 3 vols. bound in six, printed for Benjamin White [and Leigh & Sotheby], 1781-](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2801034/208-2010920121317_468x382.jpg)
Latham (John). A General Synopsis of Birds, 3 vols. bound in six, printed for Benjamin White [and Leigh & Sotheby], 1781-85, together with Supplement to the General Synopsis of Birds, 2 vols., printed 1787-1801, plus Index Ornithologicus, sive Systema Ornithologiae, 2 vols., Sumptibus Authoris, 1790, eight eng. vign. titles, vol. 2 title with large horizontal tear, 138 (of 140) eng. plts., a few with later hand col., ex. lib. copies with the occ. ink stamp etc., contemp. uniform half calf, some boards detached, lib. labels to base of spines, rubbed and worn, 4to. (10)
Morris (Rev. F.O.). A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vols., 3rd ed., 1892, 248 chromolithographed plates (complete), one plates loose, library stamp to title versos only, a few spots, library bookplates, original cloth gilt, lightly rubbed, 8vo. Provenance: Stafford and Isobel Cripps (bookplates). (3)
* Postal History/Cheques/Ephemera. A quantity of early pre-postage stamp postal history, including provincial town stamps, penny post, etc., together with old Victorian cheques, assorted printed ephemera including Penny savings bank broadsheet, engraved letter heads, Victorian prescription, seamans service ticket, wine & spirit price lists, coach house, Inn & hotel itemised receipts, etc., all from the 19th c.. (-)
Book of Trades, or Library of the Useful Arts, 3 vols., 4th ed., printed for R. Phillips, 1811, sixty-five (of 68) hand-col. eng. plts. of trades, Gardener plt. with small piece missing from lower blank margin, Gold-beater plt. uncol., pubs. ads. at rear of each vol., ex-lib. with ink stamp on verso of title-pages (showing through to rectos), contents generally toned and dusty, first two leaves to vol. 2 with upper outer blank corner torn away, front endpapers with library ink stamp and label, modern qtr. morocco gilt, lightly marked in places, 12mo in 6s. See Osborne, p.110. Uncommonly found with the plates coloured. Lacking a few plates as often (the Comb-maker, the Merchant, and the Tin-plate Worker). First published in 1804-5. Osborne has only an incomplete mixed edition comprising volumes 1 and 2 in third edition and a new edition of volume 3, lacking two plates. Mrs. Trimmer’s opinion of the work was as follows: ‘A few of the Prints relate to the employments of women, namely, the Straw-Hat-maker; the Lace-maker; the Milliner; the Feather-worker; the Laundress. These we think, in general, frivolous, excepting that the Prints are pretty. We recommend this Book as a valuable acquisition to the Juvenile Library. The Plates are uncommonly good.’. (3)
Civil War pamphlet. A Cup of Sack, Prest forth of the best Grapes gathered the last Vintage, in the Loyall Converts new distempered Vineyard. Which by frequent using, will make an old lame Capon-eater, able to shake his legs, and dance as roundly and as nimbly; as a Boy of 18 years of age. Published for the good of those that are so distempered through Malignant humours; Who may be cured at a cheap rate, sole ed., printed by Jane Coe, 1644, [8]pp., woodcut of a chalice on title-page, lightly foxed and browned, close-trimmed, with occn. minor loss of text, front free endpaper with 19th c. ms. ownership signature partially scratched out, and with circular embossed stamp of C.H. Radford, armorial bookplate of the Armstrong clan of Scotland on front pastedown, early 19th c. half calf gilt, upper cover detached, rubbed, small label with ms. numerals on upper cover, sm. 4to. Wing C7597. A rare pamphlet, printed by the prolific, but somewhat illusive, Jane Coe. Jane Coe, sometimes known as Widow Coe, published a large number of pamphlets between 1643 and 1649, and was also co-publishing with Andrew Coe during this period. Jane and Andrew Coes’ press was evidently a very busy press indeed, issuing a large number of cheaply produced pamphlets, which, due to their ephemeral nature, rarely survive. It specialised in news articles, usually following a moderate parliamentarian line which was generally anti-Catholic in tone and content. A Cup of Sack, however, is rather more vehement in its exhortations at the end: ‘For the mercies of that God, which hath been merciful to you, let not m[i]llions of Protestants be murdered, and massacred by them, with millions of poor children that know not their right hand, from their left, suffer not your wives, and daughters to be ravished and deflowred, but joyne as one man, against the Common Enemy’. (1)
Jones (David). The Secret History of White-Hall, From the Restoration of Charles II. Down to the Abdication of the Late K. James (and) A Continuation of the Secret History of White-Hall; From the Abdication of the Late K. James, in 1688, to the year 1696, 2 vols., 1697, a few light spots, previous owner initials, contemporary calf, joints splitting, rubbed, 8vo, together with Emblems Divine and Moral, Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, Bristol, 1808, engraved portrait and title, numerous engraved plates, bookseller stamp, some light spotting and offsetting, contemporary calf, loss to spine, 8vo, plus The Works of Mr. John Oldham, Together with his Remains, 4 parts in one, 1684, Sir John Denham’s Poems and Translations; With the Sophy, a Tragedy, 5th ed., 1709 and Giacomo Barozzi’s Nouveau Livre des Cinq Ordres D’Architecture, 1776 (lacking two plates). (6)
Kitchiner (William). The Cook’s Oracle; Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery, on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families: also the Art of Composing...Broths, Grabies, Soups, Sauces, Store Sauces... Pastry, Preserves, Puddings, Pickles... containing also a Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families..., new ed., 1827, pubs. ad. leaf at rear, scattered light foxing, untrimmed, orig. boards, spine rubbed and printed label chipped, upper cover detached and lower cover near-detached, large 12mo, together with [Rundell, Maria Eliza], A New System of Domestic Cookery; formed upon Principles of Economy: and adapted to the use of Private Families. By a Lady, new ed., corrected, 1824, eng. frontis. (with ms. ownership name on reverse partially showing through), and nine eng. plts., correct as list, contents browned and some soiling, frontis. and title-page sl. edge-frayed, title with ownership ink stamp, hinges split, contemp. sheep gilt, rubbed and extrems. worn, spine label partly missing, sm. 8vo, plus another copy, Halifax, 1858, orig. cloth, plus twenty-three other 19th and 20th c. cookery books, incl. Francatelli’s The Cook’s Guide, and Housekeeper’s & Butler’s Assistant, 1880, orig. cloth, worn, plus a late 19th c. commonplace book containing ms. and newspaper cuttings, incl. knitting and crochet patterns, laundry tips, pot pourri recipes, hair washing receipts, etc., orig. half calf, worn, sm. 8vo. (27)
Kuiper (G. P., ed.). Photographic Lunar Atlas, based on photographs taken at the Mount Wilson, Lick, Pic du Midi, McDonald and Yerkes Observatories, University of Chicago Press, 1960, a portfolio of 230 sheets reproduced from photographs, ink lib. stamp to margin of each plate, loosely contained with orig. printed booklet (sl. soiled and usual library marks), in orig. cloth book box, soiling and wear, atlas 4to. (1)
Senebier (Jean). Recherches sur l’influence de la Lumiere Solaire pour Metamorphoser l’air fixe en air pur par la Vegetation..., Geneva, 1783, ink ownership stamp to upper margin of title, inner hinges cracked, contemp. mottled calf, lacks title label to spine, joints cracked and some wear, 8vo, together with Parkes (Samuel), The Chemical Catechism, with Notes, Illustrations, and Experiments, 9th ed., 1819, folding eng. frontis. and one eng. plt., occ. scattered spotting, contemp. half calf, joints cracked and slight wear, 8vo, with The Royal Society, Newton Tercentenary Celebrations 15-19 July 1946, pub. Cambridge University Press, 1947, b & w port. frontis. and plts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo. (3)
Textile samples. A collection of four continental textile sample books, early 20th c., comprising two Czech/Eastern European albums of mounted fabric samples, the first with 34pp., each page with numerous samples and ms. stock numbers, bearing supplier’s indistinct ink stamp on front pastedown and ms. label on upper cover ‘1923 Kanzlei’, the second with 48pp., each page with several samples and ink stamped stock numbers, ink stamped ‘Kubinzky’ at foot of each page, and two French albums of mounted fabric samples, the first with 46pp., most pages with two large mounted samples, ms. annotations and stock numbers, the other with 19pp. of mounted samples, each labelled with pencilled numbers, dated 1933 in pencil on upper cover, plus two later fabric sample books entitled Sanwa’s Fancy Pattern, 1978, various bindings (one of the French albums disbound), some wear, folio. (6)
An 1876 Pattern Martini-Henry Rifle Bayonet, the triangular section steel blade stamped R over War Department stamp, 10/82, with brass mounted leather scabbard; another Socket Bayonet, numbered 350, lacks locking ring and scabbard; an African Spear, the leaf shape blade with tapered tang and wood haft (detached); a Quantity of Gun Cleaning Rods.
A macabre parcel from the Estate of Dr A H Stamp to include a cat o` nine tails, a double thumb screw, a judge`s black cap by Ede, Son & Ravenscroft, a spiked neck or head brace, a volume of `Collection of Torture Instruments from The Royal Castle of Nuremberg, 1893` and other ominous curios
ENTERTAINMENT: Selection of signed pieces, cards, signed theatre handbills, signed postcard photographs and larger, 8 x 10s, autograph album etc., by a wide variety of actors, actresses and entertainers, including Gary Cooper, Anna Neagle, Edward Woodward, Sharon Gless, Glenda Jackson, Pamela Sue Martin, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Juliet Stevenson, Lulu, Trevor Eve, Tom Courtenay, Nigel Hawthorne, Harry Lauder, Ian Carmichael, Claire King, Johnny Briggs, Flora Robson, Shirley Anne Field, Jane Lapotaire, Julie Christie, Stephen Fry, Betty Driver, Robin Williams, Martine McCutcheon, Terence Stamp, Emma Thompson, Dani Behr, Trevor Bannister, Dean Sullivan, Susan Maughan, Frank Williams, Fenella Fielding, Richard Wilson, Nanette Newman, Eric Sykes, Ernest Borgnine, Leslie Phillips, Kathy Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Jane Powell and many others. A few non entertainment including Barbara Cartland, Delia Smith, Donald Trump etc. Generally G to VG, 309
ACTORS: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, a few 8 x 10s and letters, by various television and film actors including Timothy West, Antony Sher, Lionel Jeffries, Burt Kwouk, Richard Harris, Peter Davison, Richard Kiel, Edward Fox, Terence Stamp, Kenneth Branagh, Alan Bates, Herbert Lom, Donald Pleasance, Omar Sharif, Michael York, Daniel Day Lewis, Richard Attenborough, Simon Ward, Tim Pigott-Smith, Robert Powell, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Andrews, Jeremy Irons, Ian Richardson, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Gambon, Joss Ackland, Charles Dance, Ian McKellen, Simon Williams, Jon Finch, T. P. McKenna, Tom Courtenay, Ian Holm, Leo McKern, John Hurt, Albert Finney, Donald Sinden, Brian Glover, James Fox, Julian Glover, Leigh Lawson, Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker (both in costume as Doctor Who) etc. Many of the images are neatly dated in the corners by the collector, generally VG, 130
ACTORS: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs by various actors including Jackie Chan, Clive Dunn, George Cole, Michael York, Peter Vaughan, Robert Duvall, Herbert Lom, Terence Stamp, Robert Powell, David McCallum, Derek Jacobi, James Garner, Edward Fox etc. Many of the images are colour. VG to EX, 17
ACTORS: Selection of signed cards by various television and film actors including Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeremy Irons, Terry Jones, Ian Richardson, Donald Sinden, Alain Delon, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson, Ernest Borgnine, Julian Glover, Frank Williams, James Fox, Roger Lloyd Pack, Brian Wilde, James Garner, Terence Stamp, Stephen Fry, Ricky Tomlinson, Herbert Lom, Paul Scofield, Dick Van Dyke, Richard Briers, Ian Carmichael, Ronnie Corbett, Tom Courtenay, Clive Dunn etc. A little duplication. Accompanied by 34 unsigned 8 x 10 photographs of some of the subjects. VG, 89 + 34
ASTAIRE & ROGERS: ASTAIRE FRED (1899-1987) American Actor & Dancer & ROGERS GINGER (1911-1995) American Actress & Dancer, both Academy Award winners. Signed First Day Cover by both Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers individually, the American cover featuring a colour image of a couple dancing and bearing a postage stamp commemorating dance. Postally cancelled New York, 26th April 1978. Signed by Astaire in bold black ink and Rogers in silver ink, each with their names alone to clear areas. Together with an American First Day Cover signed by Noel Coward with his name alone in blue ink, 1956, and also including Cole Porter (1891-1964) American Composer and Songwriter. T.L.S., Cole Porter, one page, 8vo, New York, 20th November 1951, to composer Irving Schlein, on the printed stationery of The Waldorf Astoria. Porter informs his correspondent `At present any date for my next musical is much too vague. I do know, however, that Feuer and Martin have already spoken to Pembroke Davenport as to a possible musical director`. The letter is irregularly trimmed and has tape stains to the corners, one just affecting the conclusion of his signature. FR (1) to VG, 3
TENNYSON ALFRED: (1809-1892) English Poet Laureate. D.S., A Tennyson, being a signed cheque, one page, oblong 8vo, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, 14th May 1860. The cheque, unusually completed entirely in the poet`s hand, is drawn on Olding Sharpe & Co. and made payable to Alfred Howe for the sum of £50. With one penny revenue stamp affixed in the upper right corner. The cheque bears a light ink stroke cancellation through the signature. With an autograph note, unsigned, in the hand of Emily, to the verso, `Thank you for the blinds. I have no doubt they will soon arrive...` Some very light, minor age wear, about VG
DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., Charles Dickens, (a fine example with paraph), one page, small 8vo, Wellington Street, Strand, London, 17th September 1868, to Miss Dora Hoskyns, on the black and red printed stationery of the office of All The Year Round. The novelist states, in full, `I sincerely regret that I cannot have the pleasure of accepting the enclosed verses. But they are really unsuitable to these pages.` With blank integral leaf. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Dickens and bearing a penny red postage stamp. An attractive letter, EX All The Year Round was a Victorian periodical, a British weekly literary magazine founded, owned and edited by Dickens. It was published between 1859 and 1895.
![[GEORGE VI]: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. An unusual chair, specially commissioned and designed for use at](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35396/2800196/656-2010910164158_468x382.jpg)
[GEORGE VI]: (1895-1952) King of the United Kingdom 1936-52. An unusual chair, specially commissioned and designed for use at the Coronation of King George VI in Westminster Abbey on 12th May 1937. The chair has a limed English oak frame, covered in green velvet with gilt thread trimming to the seat and back and with a gilt and red thread embroidered crown and letters GR VI to the back. Makers stamp of W. Hands & Sons Ltd., 1937 to the base of the seat, with a second stamp reading GR VI (crown) Coronation alongside. Some light overall age wear, and an eleven inch cut to the velvet at the rear of the back support, about G
![[CHARLES]: (1948- ) Prince of Wales. An unusual armchair designed by Lord Snowdon and made for the investiture of the Prince](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35396/2800196/657-201091016420_468x382.jpg)
[CHARLES]: (1948- ) Prince of Wales. An unusual armchair designed by Lord Snowdon and made for the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle on 1st July 1969. The bright red stained beech wood chair, with a woven upholstered padded seat, is of a simple, stylish design and features a gilt Prince of Wales feathers to the back support. With makers stamp and date 1969 to the base of the seat. Some very light overall age wear, about VG Lord Snowdon, the Prince of Wales uncle, was commissioned along with the stage designer Carl Toms, to design the setting and furniture for the investiture. Traditionally, at Coronations, a number of chairs were provided for peers who kept them afterwards. On this occasion the armchairs were made and sold for £12 each at the end of the day. Lord Snowdon bought six.
SALISBURY MARQUIS OF: (1830-1903) British Prime Minister 1885-86, 1886-92, 1895-1902 & VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. Unusual D.S., Salisbury, and Victoria R I, as Queen, both at the foot, two pages, folio, Court at Windsor Castle, 14th July 1879. The manuscript document is addressed to the President of the Dominican Republic and officially acknowledges receipt of their letter informing the Queen that he had taken office as President on 27th February, `having previously taken the Constitutional Oath before the Congress of the Nation`. The Queen continues to offer her `sincere congratulations upon this signal mark of the confidence reposed in you by the Dominican People, as well as the assurance of our earnest desire for the Welfare and Prosperity of the Republic….` With blank integral leaf. Three letter red stamp to the first page, only just touching a couple of words of text. VG. Cesareo Guillermo (1847-1885) President of the Dominican Republic March-July 1878 and February-December 1879.
![[CHAMBERLAIN NEVILLE]: (1869-1940) British Prime Minister 1937-40. A good, original 7 x 9 photograph (very slightly neatly tr](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/35396/2800196/727-2010910164445_468x382.jpg)
[CHAMBERLAIN NEVILLE]: (1869-1940) British Prime Minister 1937-40. A good, original 7 x 9 photograph (very slightly neatly trimmed and mounted to the original photographer`s card) depicting Chamberlain seated in a three quarter length pose at his desk. Photograph by Fayer and bearing their credit stamp to the verso. Signed and annotated to the verso by Anne Chamberlain, the Prime Minister`s wife, `Taken at 10 Downing St. on March 10th 1938. Anne Chamberlain`. Some very slight, minor silvering at the edges, G. Chamberlain is captured at a pivotal moment in his term as Prime Minister; Adolf Hitler invaded Austria just two days later, on 12th March 1938, and on the 24th March 1938 Chamberlain set out Britain`s foreign policy aims in a statement to the House of Commons.
DISRAELI BENJAMIN: (1804-1881) British Prime Minister 1868, 1874-80. Signed Free Front envelope, hand addressed by Disraeli to Philip Rose at Westminster and marked Private in his hand. With affixed Penny Red postage stamp, postally cancelled London, 20th December 1862. Signed (`B Disraeli`) in the lower left corner. With red wax seal to verso. Lightly mounted, otherwise VG Sir Philip Rose (1816-1883) British Solicitor, a close friend and adviser to Disraeli.
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Small selection comprising Lord John Russell A.L.S., one page, 8vo, n.p., 2nd August n.y., to Sir Samuel, stating that he will answer his question but doubts if he can let him have some papers at the current time; William Gladstone A.L.S. on one side of a small postcard, n.p. (Chester), 8th December 1886, addressed in his hand to A. MacDonald in Glasgow (with undelivered insufficient address stamp), in full `Kindly ask the authority for the statement you report. The answer must be that there is none. There is not the slightest foundation for the story, if it exists, that I have ever said anything on the subject.`, heavy central crease; Viscount Palmerston ink signature on a large piece removed from the conclusion of a document, dated War Office, 8th April 1820. FR to VG, 3
KRUGER PAUL: (1825-1904) President of the South African Republic 1883-1900. D.S., S. J. P. Kruger, one page, folio, Pretoria, 30th August 1898. The partially printed document, in Afrikaans, relates to Daniel Jansen van Vuren and the transfer of land. An official purple ink stamp slightly obscures the first two letters of Kruger`s signature. Two small areas of paper loss and a small tear to the upper edge, not affecting the text or signature. About VG
WELLINGTON DUKE OF: (1769-1852) Anglo-Irish Field Marshal & British Prime Minister 1828-30, 1834. A.L.S., The Duke of Wellington, in the third person, one page, 8vo, London, 21st March 1833, to Mr. Payne. Wellington acknowledges receipt of his correspondent`s letter and thanks him `for the work which he has sent him`. Accompanied by an unrelated autograph envelope signed, with his initial W, addressed in his hand to Mrs. Malcolm in Oxford and marked Immediate. With Penny Red postage stamp and remnants of black wax seal. G to VG, 2
A very good cased breech loading percussion target pistol by Gastinne-Renette, 10inch sighted octagonal, signed, browned barrel, reduced and fluted at the mid-point, border and bouquet scroll engraved signed lock with traces of case-colour hardened finish, half stock with blued steel mounts, the spur trigger-guard engraved with a crest, case-colour hardened butt cap, contained in its blue felt lined, close fitted mahogany case, the lid with flush fitting brass escutcheon engraved with a crest, the inside of the lid with gilt maker`s stamp, complete with full set of commensurate accessories. Turn screw a replacement.
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