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Lot 251
BRETT, Edwin J. A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origin and Development of Arms and Armour. To which are appended 133 plates specially drawn from the Author`s Collection at Oaklands, St. Peter`s, Thanet, and Burleigh House, London. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1894, Quarto (357 x 270mm). Printed throughout in red and black, plates. Contemporary full red morocco gilt with armorial motifs, top edges gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Anne S. K. Brown (label); Henry Arthur Johnstone (ex-libris stamp on suede liner and armorial monogram stamped in gilt on upper cover). With another volume containing works of related interest. (2) This book lot is zero rated for VAT.
Lot 372
A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY COOK, CIRCA 1800, with earlier brass barrel formed in three stages and flaring towards the muzzle, signed `Castle` over the breech, stamped with London view and proof marks, the barrelsmith`s stamp, the letters `EC` beneath a Castle, and engraved with flowers and foliage (rubbed), steel tang, signed stepped lock fitted with roller, figured walnut full stock cut with a pattern of pineapple chequering over the grip (small chips about the tang and at the fore-end, minor bruising), engraved brass mounts including stepped solid side-plate decorated with a trophy-of-arms, butt-plate and trigger-guard decorated en suite, the latter with acorn finial, a pair of moulded brass ramrod-pipes, and original horn-tipped ramrod with steel worm, 76cm; 29 7/8in . The barrelsmith`s mark appears to be unrecorded and is probably that of Edmund Castle who apprenticed to Peter Bolton in 1687. He was made Free of the Gunmakers Company in 1700, was a contractor to the Ordnance 1703-9 and is last recorded in 1747. See H. L. Blackmore 1986, p. 68.
Lot 402
A 40 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL BY JOSEPH MANTON LONDON, NO. 5107 FOR 1810, with browned scratch rifled twist octagonal barrel fitted with silver fore-sight (areas of pitting), recessed patent breech inlaid with a platinum line, platinum-lined maker`s stamp, and vent, engraved case-hardened breech tang decorated with a trophy-of-arms and with standing back-sight, signed engraved detented lock stamped `JB`, for Joseph Brazier of Wolverhampton, inside, fitted with bolt safety-catch, rainproof pan and roller, signed patent steel numbered `4141`, figured walnut half-stock, chequered butt, engraved steel mounts (pitted) comprising butt-cap, blued spurred trigger with pineapple finial, and a pair of ramrod-pipes, silver escutcheon engraved with the owner`s initial `M` beneath a Baron`s crown, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end cap, and associated horn-tipped wooden ramrod , 36.5cm; 14 3/8in
Lot 198
* Legrand (Louis, 1863-1951). Apr?s le tub, drypoint etching, signed with initials, numbered 37/50, with Gustave Pellet publisher`s circular ink stamp in red to lower right, sheet size 41 x 31.5cm (16 x 12.25ins), together with La Toilette, drypoint etching on japon, signed in the image only, sheet size 30.5 x 22.3cm (12 x 8.75ins), mounted, plus Nude washing by a tub, etching on Louis Legrand watermarked paper, numbered 21/30 in pencil, with Gustave Pellet publisher`s circular inkstamp in red to lower right corner, plate size 18 x 22.5cm (7 x 9ins), sheet size 44 x 28.5cm (17.25 x 11.25ins), mounted (3)
Lot 201
* Legrand (Louis, 1863-1951). Matinee, etching with drypoint, plate size 14.5 x 15cm (5.75 x 6ins), on Pellet et Legrand watermarked paper, signed in pencil, numbered 42/50, and with publisher`s small circular stamp to lower right corner, the full sheet, 44 x 30.5cm (17.25 x 12ins), mounted, together with La Toilette, etching with drypoint, signed in the image only, plate size 20 x 14cm (8 x 5.5ins), plus Gin, colour etching with drypoint, 1894, with signature to top left, a wiped proof, signed in pencil to lower margin, 13.5 x 28.6cm (5.25 x 11.25ins), some toning and surface flecking (3)
Lot 205
* Nevinson (Christopher Richard Wynne, 1889-1946). The Connoisseur, or In The Studio, etching and drypoint, 1922, signed in pencil to lower margin, plate size 30.5 x 22.8cm (12 x 9ins), with margins, a very good impression, framed and glazed. Guichard 72. Provenance: From the collection of Kenneth Guichard, with his ownership stamp to verso. (1)
Lot 12
Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing (with The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, and envelope), 1890 [but later], comprising 38pp. booklet, stamp-case, verso with words 'published by Emberlin and Son, 4, Magdalen Street, Oxford' printed above the Cheshire cat, and below '(post free, 13d.) price one shilling', containing stamp-holder with twelve separate pockets for stamps of different values, and orig. printed envelope (creased and frayed at edges). See Williams, Maddan, Green 223. (4)
Lot 13
Dodgson (Rev. Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing (with The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case, and envelope), 1890 [but later], comprising 38pp. booklet, stamp-case, verso with words 'published by Emberlin and Son, 4, Magdalen Street, Oxford' printed above the Cheshire cat, and below '(post free, 13d.) price one shilling', containing stamp-holder with twelve separate pockets for stamps of different values. See Williams, Maddan, Green 223. (3)
Lot 141
* Gifford (Denis, 1927-2000, and others). A collection of cartoons and caricatures, 1950s/60s, together approx. 40 pen & ink cartoons, most on paper, some on artist's board, the majority from Mick Angelo's studio (some with studio ink stamp on verso), by Denis Gifford, Dick Shunnery, Wally Robertson, etc., for Marvelman, TV Features, Creative Comics, etc., approx. 440 x 340 ( 17 x 13 ins) and smaller (approx.40)
Lot 153
Amazing Stories, approx. 70 orig. issues (incl. vol. 1,no. 5), Experimenter Publishing Company, 1926-39, a broken run, orig. col. pict. wrappers, three issues lacking covers, a few issues with library stamp/sticker to upper cover, some wear and fraying particularly to early issues, contained in eleven lever-arch files, overall VG condition, 4to. Amazing Stories was the first comic solely devoted to science fiction. (11 folders)
Lot 176
Science Wonder Stories. New Science News of the Month, ed. Hugo Gernsback, vol. 1, no. 2, July 1929, vol. 1, no. 3, August 1929, Air Wonder Stories, vol. 1, no. 5, November 1929, vol. 1, no. 9, March 1930, Wonder Stories Quarterly, Spring 1932, Summer 1932, Wonder Stories, 9 orig. issues, 1932-33, together 15 orig. issues, b & w illusts., all orig. pict. coloured wrappers, mostly with retailer's indelible ink stamp on upper wrapper, some wear and old repairs, 4to, contained in two modern plastic files, plus Wonder Stories (small-format), 29 orig. issues, 1931-36, b & w illusts., all orig. pict. coloured wrappers, some wear and old repairs, 8vo, contained in four modern plastic folders (6)
Lot 367
Clarke (Arthur C.). Prelude to Space, 1st ed., pub. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1953, original cloth, slightly rubbed, d.j., closed tear, some edge wear, 8vo, together with Interplanetary Flight. An Introduction to Astronautics, 1st ed., 1950, half-tone plates, previous owner inscription and stamp, original cloth, slightly rubbed, laminated d.j., spine a little faded, 8vo, plus A Fall of Moondust, 1st ed., 1961, original cloth, d.j., minor nicks, 8vo, with ten others by Arthur C. Clarke, including The Exploration of Space, 1951, Voices From the Sky, 1966, and Imperial Earth, 1975 (13)
Lot 491
Wren (Percival Christopher). Beau Geste, 1927, half-tone portrait frontispiece, coloured and b & w tipped-in illustrations, dedication leaf repaired, previous owner inscription, hinges cracking, original cloth, lightly rubbed, t.e.g., 8vo, Edition de Luxe, 222/1000 copies, signed by the author, together with Sitwell (Edith), Gardeners and Astronomers, 1st ed., 1953, original cloth, slightly faded, d.j., slightly rubbed with edge toning, 8vo, author's presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: "To Walter, with best wishes from Edith", plus two others, Lawrence Durrell's Clea, 3rd impression, 1960, inscribed: "Autographed for Justine and Larry Fixer by Lawrence Durrell, Paris 1960" and Till the Clouds Roll By, original sheet music from the musical comedy "Oh Boy!", lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, pub. T.B. Harms, New York, 1917 (with tears and library stamp) (4)
Lot 543
PHILIPPE STARCK: A LOUIS 20 CHAIR, with moulded mauve plastic back, seat and front legs and chrome rear legs, with stamp marks to the base. Vitra. First designed in 1991 this chair is typical of Starck`s interest in combining contrasting materials in a piece of furniture. Showing a late 20th century state of mind this chair also dismantles into its different materials for ease of recycling. This chair is No.18 in `100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection` 1996. See Illustration
Lot 1551
A Royal Worcester porcelain miniature dinner service, circa 1938, decorated with blue stars and gilt banding, comprising, six dinner, dessert and soup plates, three graduated meat plates, two tureens and covers and two sauceboats, puce printed marks to bases with stamp `Specially made for Asprey`s`, pattern No.`Z1460`, in an Asprey fitted case.
Lot 2771
A late 19th/early 20th Century bronze mounted desk blotter, surmounted with a figure of a young girl wearing a bonnet and frill dress, signed `R. Bahnert`, together with a plated desk blotter, the top hinged to reveal three stamp compartments and a pen recess, and an onyx mounted desk blotter.
Lot 197
SIX MOORCROFT POTTERY PIECES forming the Centennial Collection, including a 10" vase in the ovoid design, a 10" plate in Clematis design, a 9 1/2" vase in Hibiscus design, a 9 3/4" bowl in Hibiscus design, a 5" vase in Anemone design and a 5" comport in the Hibiscus design, all with black printed Commemorative back stamp
Lot 1245
A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD, the raised mirrored back with moulded cornice on fluted columns, arched plate flanked by bracket shelves, the base with with Art Nouveau style handles and carved foliate panels, comprising three cushion shaped frieze drawers over two panelled cupboard doors, flanking a central panel, raised on bracket feet, label and stamp for Jas Shoolbred & Co, London Rgd. No.473110, 75" wide, 80" high
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