A 19th century satinwood Wellington Chest. With six graduated drawers having knob handles and side access for the key, on plinth base. Key damaged therefore not able to unlock the chest. 124 .2 cm H x 65.8 cm W x 50.2 cm D Condition Report: probably signed by somebody note worthy - take your pickit needs some veneer work but only on top right where lifted slightly and small section missing, small section missing to left Wellington side about half way down otherwise both sides and front are good with only a clean dust and polish neededwhilst there is a key , half of the workings have snapped off in the lockas I cannot open it due to the above I cannot see the stamp to the drawer however it smacks of real quality and is so likely to be signed
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A Buffet Crampon (Paris) basset horn: both hardwood sections with maker's gilt stamp and the bell sound horn profusely engraved in French: 'Apprové pour S. A. Chappell Esq London par Mr H. Lazarus' and 'Cette Corno de Bassetto a été spécialement faite sur le modèle de Mr ?Z. ?A. Pountney de Birmingham par la Maison Buffet Goumas & Co. Fabricants d'Instruments de musique a Paris, et a été expose a l'Exposition Universelle de 1878' (detailing the Universal Exhibition1878) 'Signé P. Goumas'. To include hardwood mouthpiece guard (also signed) (Individually numbered on both wooden pieces 1678, probably early 20th century (Approx. 91.75 cm).
Five pieces: 1. BERNARD CUNNINGHAM (d. 1918) - 'The Two Fours', gouache (34.5 X 22 cm, frame size 41 x 28.5 cm); 2. Paddle boat on Windermere, watercolour, monogrammed lower left (25 x 37 cm, frame size 37 x 48 cm); 3. After CHARLES HERBERT CLARK - Yachts heading out to sea, etching, signed Chas. H. Clark lower right and with Fine Art Trade Guild and M.N.D. blind stamp lower left (17.5 x 23.5 cm, frame size 30 x 40.5 cm); 4. Irish? oil on canvas board, initialled W.L. lower left. (24.5 x 34.5 cm, frame size 34 x 44 cm); 5 After NEVILE R. WILKINSON - 'Stella Maris', Medici Society print.
A mixed lot to include: a vintage circular carved printing block (possibly late 19th or early 20th century Indian (19 cm in diameter); a pair of reproduction percussion pistols; a Simplex stamp album mounted with ninety 1965 GB covers and corresponding sheets of mint stamps; 'The Mouse and His Master - The Life and Work of Terence Cuneo' (New Cavendish Books 1977 sleeved edition); a modern diorama of the Cutty Sark and 10 flag signals (25 x 57 cm); two gilt framed and glazed colour prints (a late 19th century French example and 'Blackfriars from Southwark Bridge'; a pair of Japanese Chokin plates. .
A mixed lot comprising three stamp albums and two unused ledger books: 1. 'Victory and Peace Stamps 1945-46' - a well-presented stamp album of British Colonial and Dominion stamps 'issued to commemorate the Victory and Peace after World War II'. Approx. 64 of its 67 pages with varying numbers of mint and cancelled stamps to include Antigua; Australia; Bahamas; British Solomon Islands; British Somaliland Protectorate; Cayman Islands; Cooke Islands; Cyprus; Falkland Dependencies; Fiji; Gambia; Gilbert & Ellis Islands; Great Britain; India; Kenya; Leeward Islands; New Zealand; Sierra Leone; South West Africa; Southern Rhodesia; St Lucia; Tanganyika; Turks and Caicos Islands; Uganda and the Virgin Islands. 2. a Strand Stamp Album containing a variety of early to mid 20th century worldwide stamps; 3. a small lever-arch album containing mid-20th century France and Haiti stamps; 4. an unused Collins 'Balmoral Account Book' 5. a 'Twinlock 3C Crown Binder'
Der Weltkrieg cigarette card album by Cigaretten - Bilderdienst Dresden partially stocked with WW1 interest military cards; another fully stocked cigarette card album 'Lloyd Flotenbilder' by Martin Brinkman; The 'John Bull' Portfolio of War Celebrities; 1995 booklet on Hitler's Eagles Nest; oak framed display of forty-nine cigarette silks of regimental crests, country flags etc; Lord Roberts memorial Fund For Disabled Soldiers and Sailors War Portrait Stamp Album; and other booklets and prints of military interestCondition Report:Most look to be in reasonably good condition.Cigarette silks grubby as unglazed.Lord Roberts album only partially stocked.
Late Victorian North Staffordshire Regiment Officer's Home Service Blue Cloth Helmet, having incorrect other ranks gilt metal Queen's crown helmet plate to the front with later leather backing, removable spike to the top on a shaped cruciform base with rosette fittings, rosette side bosses, brass trim to the front peak, and leather and velvet backed chin scales, with leather sweat band, the interior with makers stamp for Hawkes & Co 14 Piccadilly LondonCondition Report:Good condition with slight staining to sweatband.
ROYAL ALBERT 'OLD COUNTRY ROSES' BONE CHINA TEA SET, fir six place settings, comprising tea cups & saucers, small plates, teapot, coffee pot, milk jug, sugar bowl, bread and butter plate (23)Provenance: private collection Gwent Condition Report:No damage but please note all pieces are seconds. Each piece has a scratch through the stamp.
![[Helmont (Franciscus Mercurius van)] Seder Olam sive Ordo Seculorum, first edition, woodcut device to title and final f., ink](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/4cf86cf8-38b9-4751-a163-b05100c22ce8/468x382.jpg)
[Helmont (Franciscus Mercurius van)] Seder Olam sive Ordo Seculorum, first edition, woodcut device to title and final f., ink ?library stamp and colour crayon shelf-mark to title, 2 engraved plates, manuscript inscription in ink to front endpaper verso, and a few ff. with ink underlining to text, A6 with small hole to lower edge (partial loss of letters), modern calf, spine gilt, [STCN 864753322], 12mo, [?Leiden], 1693.⁂ A rare work by Flemish polymath, van Helmont, which combines apocalyptic elements, corresponding to contemporaneous eschatological literature in England, and mystical esoteric themes, such as transmigration of the soul.Provenance: M.?D.H Koeselitz [ink ownership inscription to title]
![NO RESERVE Britain.- [Patching (Resta)] Four Topographical Letters, written in July 1755, Upon a Journey thro' Bedfordshire,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/c1c4c455-e016-4f4a-85e6-b05100c2e6c5/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Britain.- [Patching (Resta)] Four Topographical Letters, written in July 1755, Upon a Journey thro' Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Warwickshire, &c., small tear to final ff. not affecting text, scattered spotting, ex-library with discreet blind-stamp to title, later half-morocco, ink number to upper cover, a little rubbed, 8vo, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1757.
World.- Gordon (Thomas Edward) A Varied Life, inscribed by author on half-title, frontispiece, plates, scattered faint spotting, bookplate of Peter Hopkirk, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1906 § Graham (Stephen) Through Russian Central Asia, first edition, frontispiece, plates, original pictorial cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, New York, 1916 § Aitchison (C. U.) A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads ..., vol. 11 only, ex-Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library with usual labels and ink-stamps, occasional marginal pencil markings, contemporary cloth, "Foreign Office" stamp to upper cover, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Delhi, 1933 § Brown (John P.) The Dervishes; or, Oriental Spiritualism, illustrations, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1868; and others similar, 8vo (11)
![[Kershaw (James)] The Methodist: attempted in Plain Metre, title and final ff. laid on tissue, previous owner's ink signature](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/6e8d2959-71b3-41b7-b3d1-b05100c25eee/468x382.jpg)
[Kershaw (James)] The Methodist: attempted in Plain Metre, title and final ff. laid on tissue, previous owner's ink signature to head A2, scattered spotting, ex-library with small ink-stamp to front free endpaper, modern cloth, 4to, Nottingham, for the Author, 1780 [but 1781].⁂ Rare in commerce. Last in auction in 1958.
Munitions.- Ministry of Munitions Department of Explosive Supply. Preliminary Studies for H.M. Factory, Gretna and Study for an installation of Phosgene Manufacture, edited by William Macnab, 24 folding plans and diagrams, ink ownership stamp of Kenneth B. Quinan to front pastedown, very occasional light spotting, endpapers lightly foxed and browned, original cloth-backed boards, spine lightly sunned, faint scratch to lower cover, extremities bumped and a little rubbed, particularly fore-edge of lower cover, HMSO, [c.1920].⁂ Kenneth B. Quinan (1878-1948), American-born chemical engineer who contributed to the British war effort in World War I with the design and building of several explosives factories, including the enormous factory at Gretna, which covered 9000 acres. Quinan was made a Companion of Honour, declining the knighthood offered on the basis of his US citizenship, and given the Croix de Guerre. David Lloyd George publicly thanked him in the House of Commons, saying "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan".
Decoration & Ornamentation.- Carrier-Belleuse (A.) Application de la Figure Humaine a la Décoration & l'Ornementation Industrielles, lithographed plates laid down on card with printed captions as issues, publisher's blindstamp to head, title with V&A ink library stamp and deaccession stamp to reverse, original boards, with V&A stamp to upper board and some spotting, staining to reverse of upper board and title, spine defective, contents loose, in grey cloth drop-back box, extremities rubbed and spotted, with "table" laid down on inside cover, wearing loose at joints, Paris, 1884, folio.
Palmer (Thomas) A Little View of this Old World in Two Books ..., trimmed, occasionally affecting head-lines, ex-library with neat ink-stamp to title verso, abrasion mark to front pastedown where label removed, later calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Wing P253], 8vo, for Livewell Chapman, 1659.⁂ Scarce. Only 5 on ESTC, at British Library; Dr. Williams's Library; Congregational Library; Petyt Library, and; Henry E. Huntingdon Library.
NO RESERVE Agriculture.- Johnstone (John) An Account of the Mode of Draining Land, according to the system practised by Mr. Joseph Elkington, second edition, lacking half-title, with 19 folding engraved plates, marginal staining to title, cropped, modern calf, 1801 § Brown (Robert) A Treatise on Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 2 vol., first edition, half-title (vol.1 poorly printed), 6 engraved plates (water-stain to upper outer corner), vol.1 with hole to a3 (dedication) with loss of a couple of letters), browned, a few marginal tears and repairs, modern half calf, Edinburgh, 1811 § Harte (Walter) Essays on Husbandry, 2 parts in 1, second edition, 5 engraved plates, woodcut illustrations, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, 1770 § Baird (T.) General View of the Agriculture of...Middlesex, 1793 bound with Kent (N.) General View of the Agriculture of...Norfolk, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates, one leaf torn and repaired, 1794 and Bailey (J.) & G.Culley. General View of the Agriculture of...Cumberland, 1794, the last 3 works bound in 1 vol., large paper with wide margins, each with half-title, red ink stamp to titles, some leaves browned, contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed; and another on agriculture, 8vo & 4to (6)
Voyages.- Colomb (Capt. Philip Howard) Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean, first edition, half-title, wood engraved frontispiece, plates, one folding map, previous owner's ink name-stamp to p.vii, occasional faint spotting, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, bumping and chipping to corners and spine extremities, backstrip beginning to split at upper joint but holding firm, 8vo, 1873.
NO RESERVE Crime.- Weir (Dr. McCook) Prison Despotism: a personal narrative, first edition, title detached and loosely inserted, tables at end, ex-Nottingham library with usual labels and ink-stamps, 'withdrawn' stamps to label and title, text-block broken, original decorative cloth, gilt, library label to upper cover, small loss to spine extremities, slight bumping to corners, [1885] § Andrews (William) Punishments in the Olden Time, frontispiece, illustrations, previous owner's ink signature, ex-Nottingham library with label and ink-stamp to title verso, scattered faint spotting, original wrappers silked and bound-in, modern cloth, rubbed, [?1881]; and another, similar, 8vo (3).
NO RESERVE Lee (James) An Introduction to Botany...Extracted From the Works of Dr. Linnæus, first edition, 12 engraved plates, each with leaf of descriptive letterpress, armorial bookplate of C.E. Bagge and his ink ownership stamp to front endpaper, ink marginalia to foot of I8v, light offsetting, light browning, occasional scattered spotting, description to plate 12 with tiny rust hole within text, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine label chipped, rubbed, corners and upper cover worn, joints split but holding, [Henrey 952], for J. and R. Tonson, 1760 § Thorburn (Archibald) British Birds, 4 vol., one of 205 copies, colour plates, captioned tissue-guards, bookplate, vol. 3 with ink inscription to pastedown, occasional slight cracking at gutter, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, spines lightly faded, corners bumped, rubbed, t.e.g., 1925-26; and others, natural history, v.s. (10)
NO RESERVE Almanac.- The Ladies Diary: or, The Woman's Almanack For the Year of our Lord, 1719, trimmed at foot, with loss of some text to sig. B, C4 with small loss to fore-margin, touching text but without loss, J. Wilde, 1719, bound with Andrews (William) Remarkable News from the Stars: or, An Ephemeris For the Year 1719, very small worm hole within text, becoming small trace towards end, J. Wilde, [1719], bound with Coley (Henry) Melibnus Anglicus Junior: or, The Starry Messender, J. Crook, 1719, bound with others, together 12 Almanacs for 1719 in 1 vol., printed in red and black, a few woodcut illustrations, red ink duty stamp to titles, list of contents in later ink manuscript to front endpaper, trimmed, a couple times just shaving text, occasional scattered foxing, browning, generally light but heavier at points, contemporary crimson morocco, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, one lettered "Almanack 1719", some wear to spine ends and corners, little rubbed, upper joint split at foot but holding, g.e., 8vo. ⁂ Includes Poor Robin and John Wing's almanac for the year.
Strutt (Joseph) & J. C. Loudon. The Derby Arboretum, frontispiece, illustrations, one or two full-page, ex-library with neat ink shelf-mark to title verso, abrasion marks to endpapers where label removed, later morocco-backed boards, library blind-stamp to upper cover, a little rubbed, 8vo, 1840.
Europe.- Brosset (M.) Chronique Géorgienne, half-title, folding table, scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, Paris, 1831; Histoire de la Géorgie, vol. 1 only, text in Russian, pencil note to front pastedown stating no further volumes published, [Petrograd], 1923 § Wardrop (Marjory, editor) Georgian Folk Tales, previous owner's blind-stamp to title, previous owner's ink inscription, original cloth-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1894 § Allen (W. E. D.) A History of the Georgian People, first edition, presentation inscription from author to front free endpaper, frontispiece, plates, 3 folding maps at end, original cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1932; and others on Georgia, 8vo & 4to (6)
Cameron (Kenneth Neill) and others, editors. The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library. Shelley and his Circle 1773-1822, 8 vol. only (of 10), illustrations, original cloth, vol. 1-4 with dust-jackets, price-clipped, spines toned, some scattered spotting, heavier to vol. 2, vol. 1 with tears to some joints and lower cover, the odd other small nick or short tear, all but vol. 1-2 with cloth slipcases (lightly rubbed), Cambridge, Mass. & London, 1961-86 § Rodd (Sir Rennell) and H. Nelson Gay. Bulletin [and Review] of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Rome, No. 1 & 2, No. 2 with newspaper clipping tipped onto front endpaper, No. 2 with "Presentation Copy" embossed stamp to title, some light spotting or foxing, some leaves loose or working so, a few tape marks to inside wrappers, uncut in original red wrappers, spine ends chipped and with a few repairs, a little frayed at edges, some light marks, [McGillivray X5], London & New York, 1910-13; and others, Keats and Shelley reference, including No. 3-22 of the Keats Shelley Memorial Bulletin, v.s. (c.38)
![Erotica.- [Hayn (H.)] "H. Nay". Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica, title with tear to head of inner margin and ink stamp to foot](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/d3f4eb3e-04c3-4aca-abf2-b05100c238e6/468x382.jpg)
Erotica.- [Hayn (H.)] "H. Nay". Bibliotheca Germanorum Erotica, title with tear to head of inner margin and ink stamp to foot, light browning, original cloth-backed boards, light browning, spine ends and corners bumped and worn, 8vo, Leipzig, [Privately printed], 1875.⁂ The rare first edition or this important catalogue, published pseudonymously.
Voyages.- Keppel (Captain George) Personal Narrative of a Journey from India to England, 2 vol., second edition, hand-coloured frontispieces, one folding engraved map, one hand-coloured plate, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink-stamp to front free endpaper, publisher's advertisements at end vol. 2, short tear in text to final ff., contemporary marbled boards, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 1827.
![Parliamentary Reports.- Sixth-[Eleventh] Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ...,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/8638a96b-a72a-4d2b-9fec-b05100c03eea/846429c6-ae8f-46e4-805c-b05100c268be/468x382.jpg)
Parliamentary Reports.- Sixth-[Eleventh] Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ..., 7 reports bound as 1 vol., 5 engraved plans, of which 2 folding and hand-coloured, title and front free endpaper detached, ex-library with neat ink 'withdrawn' stamp to blank, contemporary half-calf, covers detached, red morocco label to upper cover, lacking backstrip, rubbed and worn, 1829-35 § Gordon (Lewis D. B.) A Short Description of the Plans of Captain James Vetch, R.E. for the Sewerage of the Metropolis, 4 hand-coloured plans, of which 3 folding, one or two short splits to foldlines, disbound and loose within original cloth-backed wrappers, rubbed and worn, chipping to corners, defective backstrip, 1851; and others similar, folio & 4to (17)
Voyages.- Lantier (E.F.) Voyages d'Antenor en Grèce et en Asie, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved frontispieces, occasional small marginal paper defects, L7 vol. 2 with tiny marginal hole, occasional very faint water-staining, previous owner's ink-stamp to half-title, bookplate, patterned endpapers, contemporary half-calf, green and black spine labels, slight bumping to corners, [Blackmer 950], 8vo, Paris, [1798].⁂ Provenance: Ink ownership stamp of Count Lanckoronski to half-title. Bookplate of Henry Blackmer to front pastedowns.
NO RESERVE Medicine.- Marryat (Thomas) Therapeutics; or, the Art of Healing, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature to front pastedown, ex-library with usual labels, original printed boards, rebacked, rubbed and worn, 1818 § Lory Marsh (J. C.) Special Therapeutics; an Investigation into the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Diseases, presentation copy from author, half-title, ex-library with usual labels and ink-stamps, later morocco-backed boards, library blind-stamp to upper cover, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 1863; 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE Russia.- Seymour (Henry Danby) Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof, first edition, folding map, plates, publisher's advertisements to rear, small ink inscriptions and stamp to front pastedown, the odd scattered spot,original blind-stamped cloth, spine tone, a little soiled, 1855 § Massow (Wilhem von) Aus Krim und Kaukasus, first edition, plates and illustrations, folding map in colour, ink inscription and stamp to title, original cloth with pictorial on-lay, 1902, 8vo (2)
NO RESERVE Trials.- Spooner and Attwoods, Plaintiffs; and Osborn and Amphlet, Defendants. A Full and Accurate Report., ex-Birmingham Assay Office library with small ink-stamp to title verso, later crushed morocco-backed boards, rubbed, bumping to corners and spine extremities, Birmingham, 1806 § The Trial of John Folkard ..., William Folkard ..., Thomas Nugent ..., and others; for a Conspiracy to Defraud the Creditors of John Folkard, scattered spotting, ex-Birmingham Assay Office library with small ink-stamp to title verso, later half-morocco, lacking backstrip but holding firm, a little rubbed, 1812 § The Tryal of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, before the House of Peers, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink-stamp to front free endpaper, printed paper label to front pastedown, front free endpaper becoming detached, contemporary calf, cracked joints, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, for Jacob Tonson, 1710 § [Maynwaring (Arthur)] Four Letters to a Friend in North Britain, upon the publishing the Tryal of Dr. Sacheverell, half-title, scattered spotting, modern boards, 1710; v.s. (4).⁂ The first is rare, with only 2 copies on WoldCat, both at the British Library.
An unusual 19th century gold prospectors brooch in the form of a stamp mill machine. The bar brooch applied with the stamp mill, flanked to the ends with gold nuggets, width 41mm, 5.20g. Prospector brooches were brought back to Cornwall with Cornish miners after working in Australia and South Africa.
WESTWOOD, Vivienne 'Opus' A huge limited-edition manifesto 'Active Resistance to Propoganda' a manifesto by the acclaimed designer, nine cover designs were produced and this book features the 'Manifesto' cover, numbered 93/worldwide limited edition of 900, very large elephant folio measuring 90cm x 65cm, blind stamp and signature on the half title page, original cloth with leather spine, in original Vivienne Westwood branded box, Opus, London, 2008.The cardboard outer box has holes and dents in it (see image)Generally in extremely good condition and appears not to have left the protective box.
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