*Old Master drawings. An important album of Old Master drawings and prints, principally of the Italian & Dutch Schools, including works by or after Castiglione, N. Bair, Van Stralen, Donato Creti, School of Caracci, Bartolomeo Breenburg, Sir James Thornhill, Thomas Worlidge, Gravelot, Durer, Della Bella, Julio Romano (with ownership stamp of Sir Joshua Reynolds), Bloemart, Falconet, Gerard Lairesse, Everdingen, Theodor van Kessel, Silvestre and others, 16th-19th centuries, containing seventy-five original drawings in pen & ink, wash, red chalk, five early 19th c. English watercolours and drawings (including Thomas Churchyard), 225 prints and engravings, mostly 17th-19th centuries (including John Martin, Paul Sandby, Silvestre, Mariette, Klein, Wenceslaus Hollar etc.) album leaves measuring approx 360 x 240mm, a.e.g., early 19th c. straight-grained full maroon morocco, decorated in blind and gilt, rubbed and scuffed to edges, with chased brass clasp and key, in working order, large folio Provenance: William Quilter, with his early 19th c. bookplate to front pastedown and initials to hand drawn title page dated 1831. Also with ownership signature of Sir William Cuthbert Quilter to front pastedown. Quilter, William (1808-1888), accountant & art collecter, was born on 7 August 1808, the youngest of four sons of Samuel Sacker Quilter, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah May Chapman. William married Elizabeth Harriot, née Cuthbert (d. 1874), in 1834 and they had three sons, including the art collector and politician Sir William Cuthbert Quilter and the art critic Harry Quilter, and two daughters. His notable collection of watercolours fetched £58,000 at Christies in 1875; and the value of the remaining pictures at the time of his death was £31,486. Quilter died on 12 November 1888 at his home, 28 Norfolk Street, Park Lane, London, leaving well over half a million pounds, one of the largest known estates of any Victorian accountant. Sir William Cuthbert, first baronet (1841-1911), art collector and politician. In 1883 Quilter purchased the Bawdsey estate near Felixstowe in Suffolk. He spent vast sums of money on the estate, which totalled 9000 acres, in the form of sea defences, a manor house, and an alpine garden. Quilter shared his father's interest in art collecting, although he cultivated his own unique, albeit catholic, taste. His collection included works by modern English artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelite painters D. G. Rossetti, Millais, and Holman Hunt; Royal Academicians including Sir Frederic Leighton, Sir Edwin Landseer, and Sir Hubert von Herkomer; nineteenth-century French masters, for example Corot, Daubigny, and Millet; and old masters such as Frans Hals and Velázquez. His collection was well respected. The art critic F. G. Stephens praised Quilter's collection in a series of articles written for Cassell's Magazine of Art in 1896-7. Quilter's assemblage of paintings at his London house, 28 South Street, Park Lane, was sold at Christies on 9 July 1909, realizing £87,780. (1)
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A mixed lot comprising: a Victorian Scottish mounted globular scent bottle Glasgow 1894; a Victorian beaker Birmingham 1866; a sugar spoon; seven salt spoons; a cast model pheasant (leg detached); a cased modern reproduction of a Roman spoon by A.E. Jones; a stamp moistener with a glass roller Chester 1901; a cased pair of scissors and thimble; two modern circular salts and a small quantity of miscellaneous items including thimbles (some plated) 16oz (weighable). (lot)
*British Guyana. List of Slaves belonging to Plantation Endraght and Mon Repos in the lawful possession of Frederick Cort, Attorney, of John Wilson, Executor, of Joseph Hamer, deceased, 31st May 1823, listing in tabular form the names of approx. 200 slaves including details of sex, colour, age, bodily marks, employment, condition and country, a little soiling, two leaves, and at head of first leaf the heading 'The Schedule above referred to', together with six further leaves only and presumably from the same document, numbered 8-11, 13 & 15, with the family name Hamer predominant, some soiling, all ruled in red with circular ink stamp 'Formaat-Zegel, Zuid Brabind' to left margins, 58. x 68. cm Although the document appears incomplete, the list of slaves is complete and of interest in itself. This document was completed just weeks before the start of one of the most massive slave rebellions in the history of the western hemisphere. On 17th August 1823 nearly 12,000 slaves took up arms against their masters in what is known as the Demerara Slave Revolt. The rebellion started on Plantation Success, which belonged to John Gladstone (father of the future British Prime Minister, and whose name appears on page 9 of this document). It spread to about sixty plantations along the East Coast of what is now Guyana. Unlike the earlier rebellion of 1762, this one involved African and Creole slaves, and its leadership is attributed to a white man, Reverend John Smith. The slave list here includes both African and Creole (i.e. Demerara born) slaves, many of whom would have been involved in the rebellion in August. The revolt was very significant in terms of its impact on the anti-slavery campaign in Britain, helping attract attention to the evils of slavery and to the need to abolish it. (8)
Adams (George). Geometrical and Graphical Essays, Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Intruments used in Geometry, Civil and Military Surveying, Levelling, and Perpective, 2 vols, 4th ed, corrected & enlarged by William Jones, 1813, eng. frontis. to vol. 1 (closed tear frontis. & title repaired to verso), thirty-four folding eng. plts, occ. spotting, library stamp to front endpapers, late 19th c. half calf, rubbed & some wear, 8vo (2)
Ford (Simon). The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption: Largely and Practically Handled, with Reference to the Way and Manner of Working both those Effects; and the Proper Cases of Conscience belonging to them both, 1st ed, 1655, previous owners red ink stamp to title, single ad. leaf at rear with printers woodcut device to verso, contemp. sheep, rear cover det, 8vo, together with Truehit (Rev. Aaron, of Manchester), Methodist Parsons Unmasked: In a Dialogue between Mr Priest-Ridden, and Mr Sneerer, pub. Sheffield, 1822, 32pp, bound with three other early 19th c. religious pamphlets, later half morocco gilt, a little rubbed on spine, slim 8vo, plus Cock Robin: A Pretty Painted Toy for either Girl or Boy; Suited to Children of all Ages, pub. Grant & Griffith, n.d, c. 1850, hand-col. frontis. and fifteen hand-col. illusts, single ad. leaf at rear, marginal finger soiling and one or two short closed tears, orig. printed stiff wrappers, crudely sewn on spine, soiled, slim 8vo, plus other misc. antiquarian, including 19th c. bindings and a highly defective copy of The Works of that Famous Mathematician Mr Edmund Gunter, 5th ed, 1673 (17)
Sharrock (Robert). Provinciale Vetus Provinciæ Cantuariensis, Oxford, 1664, one eng. plt, ex-lib with oval stamp to title-page, front free endpaper lacking, rear free endpaper detached, contemp. calf, rubbed, spine ends worn, remains of paper labels to spine, 12mo, together with Wright (George), The Rural Christian; or, the Pleasures of Religion, an Allegorical Poem: in Four Books, to which are added, Sylvan Letters; or, the Benefits of Retirement, 1772, eng. frontis, occn. light spotting, later sheep, rubbed, spine faded, 8vo, plus Rowe (Elizabeth), Devout Exercises of the Heart, in Meditation and Soliloquy, Prayer and Praise, revised and published, at her request, by I. Watts, Edinburgh, 1766, minor worming to fore-margin, contemp. sprinkled calf, spine rubbed and sl. worn, 12mo in 6's, plus other leather-bound antiq. books (a carton)
Spelman (Sir John). Aelfredi Magni Anglorum Regis Invictissimi vita Tribus Libris Comprehensa, 1st ed, Oxford, 1678, eng. illust. to title (with red ink armorial stamp to lower margin), seven eng. plts, eng. headpieces and one eng. illust. to text, early 19th c. calf gilt, boards, detached, folio Wing S4934. (1)
Metman (Louis and Tournelles, H. le Secq des). Le Métal, Première Partie, Le Fer, & Deuxième Partie, Le Bronze, 2 vols, Paris, c.1910, pamphlet of text to each, and numerous b & w plts. (those to first vol. with lib. stamp to versos), all loosely contained in orig. half cloth portfolios with ties, lib. labels to spine of first vol, printed upper covers, folio (2)
Palladio (Andrea). The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture, 4 parts in one volume, 1738, general title printed in red & black, eng. titles to each part, 210 eng. plts. (8. in letterpress, of 212), pubs. leaf at front of volume, initial leaves creased, few closed tears, ink stamp to upper margin of general title and to front pastedown, occ. minor damp staining to inner margins of few leaves at front & rear of volume, contemp. calf, boards detached and worn, folio Fowler 229. (1)
Greene (Graham). The Name of Action, 1st ed, 1930, some light foxing to front endpaper, orig. cloth, soiled and worn with joints frayed, ink stamp to front endpaper, together with Stamboul Train, 1st ed, 1932 (two copies), both orig. cloth, a little rubbed and some minor marks, 8vo, plus The Great Jowett, 1st ed, 1981, orig. cloth in glassine d.j, limited signed ed. 323/500, and Graham Greene Démasqué/Finally Exposed, pub. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Bulletin of the Department of Foreign Affairs, 1968, a few minor marks, orig. printed wrappers, rubbed and some marks, slim 4to, plus other Graham Greene interest, all later titles, including some first editions, many in d.j.s, 8vo (39)
Wilde (Oscar). Salome, Drame en un Acte, 1st ed, Paris and London, 1893, half-title present, title-page with design by Felicien Rops, occasional light spotting, orig. purple wrappers lettered in silver bound-in at rear, contemp. blue half morocco by Fazakerley, with his ink stamp, spine sl. faded and rubbed, 8vo Mason 348. 600 copies printed. (1)
Baedeker (K.). Italy, part third: Southern Italy, Sicily, 2nd revised ed, Coblenz, 1869, folding maps, some damp staining, orig. cloth gilt, together with Italy, first part: Northern Italy & Corsica, 2nd revised ed, Coblenz, 1870, folding maps, ink stamp to title and some spotting, orig. cloth, upper joint split, plus twelve other late 19th/20th c. Baedekers covering Italy, all orig. cloth, all 8vo (14)
Campbell (John). Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society, being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of that Country, 2 vols, 1st ed, 1822, half-titles present, hand-col. folding eng. map (lightly foxed and with two short tears), and twelve hand-col. aqua. plts. (all correct as list), some light foxing to plts, vol. 1 with ownership ink stamp to head of title, hinges strengthened, contemp. half calf gilt, rebacked preserving orig. spines, corners showing, 8vo Abbey, Travel, 328; Prideaux p.330; Tooley 127. (2)
Hooker (Joseph Dalton). Himalayan Journals, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains etc, 2 vols. in one, new ed, carefully revised and condensed, John Murray, 1855, numerous wood-eng. plts. and illusts, a.e.g, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, spine faded and stained with some chipping at head, 8vo, together with Messurier (Major Le), Kandahar in 1879, reprinted, with Corrections and Additions, from the Royal Engineers' Journal, W.H. Allen, 1880, ex-lib. copy with label to front pastedown and ink stamp to title, 40pp. pubs. ads. at rear, orig. blindstamped cloth with library labels, rubbed, 8vo, plus Greathead (H.H.), Letters Written during the Siege of Delhi, edited by his widow, Longmans, Brown, Green, 1858, presentation copy signed by the editor on half-title, folding map frontis, one gathering working loose, ads. at rear, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, a little cocked, sl. rubbed, 8vo, plus two others related (5)
Mawson (Sir Douglas). The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, 2 vols, 1st ed, 1915, photogravure frontis. to each vol, b & w and col. plts. from photos, diags. and few single-page maps, three folding maps in rear pocket of vol. 2, library stamp to title versos, orig. dec. cloth, library number to foot of spines, 4to (2)
Dugdale (Thomas). Dugdale's England and Wales Delineated, 2 vols, c.1840s, hand coloured double-page maps, numerous engraved plates, all complete as list, scattered spotting, contemp. dark-green half calf, rubbed and scuffed, thick 8vo Ex-Swindon Public Library with the usual marks including a small library stamp on the verso of each map and plate. (2)
Lysons (Daniel & Samuel). Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, vol. 2, part 2 only, (containing the County Palatine of Chester), 1810, double-page eng. map, thirty-five eng. plts. & plans (inc. some double-page & one folding), blind embossed library stamp to title, some spotting & browning, modern half morocco, 4to (1)
Bateman (James). A Second Century of Orchidaceous Plants. Selected from the Subjects Published in 'Curtis' Botanical Magazine' since the Issue of the 'First Century', 1867, 100 fine hand-col. litho. plts. (numbered 101-200), half-title present, library stamp to verso of title, orig. cloth gilt, 4to A good copy. (1)
Kurr (J.G.). The Mineral Kingdom, with Coloured Illustrations of the Most Important Minerals, Rocks, and Petrifactions, 1st English ed, Edinburgh, 1859, twenty-four litho plts. (inc. 23 hand-col.), small ink stamp & blind embossed stamp to title, ink stamp to upper margin of preface, occ. minor scattered spotting, contemp. qtr. morocco, lacking spine, folio See illustration inside rear cover of this catalogue. (1)
Taylor (John W.). Monograph of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, 3 vols, 1894-1914, numerous col. plts, b & w illusts, first vol. ex-lib with embossed stamp intermittently throughout, t.e.g, orig. cloth gilt (vols. 1 and 3 uniform), vol. 1 rubbed and sl. frayed at spine ends, 8vo (3)
A stamp collection of Great Britain (Victoria) in a very good Imperial album two Penny Blacks (MX and margins) Penny Stars complete Penny Plates (excl. 77) 212 221 and 225 unused; Two Penny Plates Bantams embossed 6d 10d and 1/- surface printed SG76 77 90 (Pl.1) 98 (Pl.4) noted; 1883 set to 10/- also £1 SG212 (Aberdeen 2/7/1894); Page MM with SG205 void centre of 4 flaw)
P. Denizot A pair of commodes Louis XV mid-18th century tulipwood kingwood and floral marquetry with serpentine marble tops one of the commodes bearing the stamp of L. Lachery both; h.87cm. w.94cm. d.50cm. Provenance Galerie Chateau La Garenne Brussels Pierre Denizot (d.1782) received master in 1740
AN EDWARD VII SILVER VESTA CASE of plain form, hallmarked Birmingham 1904, makers mark D and F; AN EDWARD VII SILVER VESTA CASE having engraved leaf designs, hallmarked Chester 1903, makers mark T and S; AN EDWARD VII SILVER STAMP CASE of envelope form, hallmarked Birmingham 1904, 54g (1.74oz) all-in (3)
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