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Lot 482
Aluminium four step ladder table top and freestanding fan with a Connet It heater CONDITION REPORT: The electrical items included in this lot have been PAT tested and have PASSED. This test means that they are electrically sound and does not confirm that they are in working order. WE DO NOT CONFIRM WHETHER ITEMS ARE WORKING AND ARE THEREFORE SOLD AS SEEN.
Lot 1132
Bentley: An Unused Pair of Bentley Mulliner Interior Door Step Plates, (still with the protective clear film attached); a black leather wallet for the Bentley owner; and a black leather covered accessory drinks flask for the Bentley owner; A matched pair of unused Bentley Mulliner door interior step plates, as fitted to Mulliner bodied Bentley GT, GTC Mulsanne and other modern Bentley cars
Lot 281
Gillray (James). [The Caricatures of Gillray; with Historical and Political Illustrations, and Compendious Biographical Anecdotes and Notices], John Miller & William Blackwood, Edinburgh [1824 - 1827], lacking title and preliminaries, seventy-two engraved and etched caricatures, including four folding, forty-three with later hand colouring, each plate with a page of descriptive text, later endpapers, modern half calf gilt with contrasting labels to spine, oblong 4to The series was almost certainly conceived as an attempt to provide customers at the lower end of the market with an affordable alternative to Gillrays expensive originals. The printseller S.W. Fores had tried something similar in the early 1800s, paying the jobbing caricaturist Charles Williams to engrave a number of copies of popular Gillray designs which were then sold at less than the cost of the original. Miller & Blackwood simply took the scale of this piracy a step further, copying whole swathes of Gillrays back-catalogue and selling them in cheaply bound and coloured volumes. The secret of their success is financially obvious, as a customer walking into George Humphreys' printshop in 1824 would have been expected to pay between 2 and 5 shillings for a coloured copy of one of Gillrays famous caricatures. Miller & Blackwood on the other hand, could offer the same customer a bound edition of 80 coloured images for 10s 6d. It is a comparison which neatly illustrates the changing nature of the market for printed satire in this period and explains why so many of the older West End printshops began to diversify or disappear from 1820 onward. (1)
Lot 368
Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches..., Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham printer to the University, 1758, few leaves sprung and a little frayed, bound with The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and others; conferr'd with the Hebrew: Set forth and allowed to be Sung in all Churches..., Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham printer to the University, 1758, some light spotting and occasional toning, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, contemporary gilt decorated crushed red morocco, ownership gilt panel to centre of upper board for Cha: Amcotts, Kettlethorp, 1765, some wear to leather surface of boards, spine rubbed, large 4to Charles Amcotts (1729-1777) was the son of Vincent Amcotts (1679-1733) of Harrington Hall, Lincolnshire and his wife Elizabeth Quincey. He was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge on 29 April 1746 but was expelled on 9 June 1749 for drinking the health of the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie. In 1763 he was created DCL at Oxford University. He sat in Parliament for Boston in the House of Commons between 1754 and 1777. He inherited the Lincolnshire properties of Harrington Hall from his father Vincent Amcotts and Kettlethorpe Hall from his father's step-brother Charles Hall (1690-1743) and was also High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1753-54. The moat at Kettlethorpe Hall and its cleaning attracted the interest of the press during the MPs' expenses scandle of 2009, in which it was alleged claims had been made by the owner of the property Douglas Hogg. (1)
Lot 16
Baines, Edward "History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York ...", two vols, 1822, rebound with marbled bds, half leather, gilt titles and rules to backstrip "Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes, the Wapentake of Agbrigg...", 1884 Step, Edward "Animal Life of the British Isles", Frederick Warne 1927, pictorial cloth and three other volumes (7)
Lot 1019
An early Victorian mahogany step commode, with later inset hinged top, ceramic liner, later inset pull-out step, on turned legs, 43cm wide x 42cm deep x 43cm high, a small oak three leg stool, and a Dutch oak nursing chair, circa 1900, with leaf scroll carved and pierced surmount to the solid back, solid seat, on splayed feet (3).
Lot 96
Laplace (Pierre Simon, Marquis de) Traite de Mecanique Celeste, 5 vol. plus all Supplements, together 6 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding engraved plate in vol.4, Supplement to vol.3, 2 Supplements to vol.4, first without title and second without half-title and title (though their presence seems to vary from copy to copy and in this set would appear never to have been included), Supplement to vol.5 in separate vol. and with 12pp. Catalogue des Livres de Fonds by Bachelier (dated July 1827) bound in, some foxing and browning, vol.3 with some staining to lower margin of opening few leaves, uncut in original pink wrappers, spines faded and worn, paper labels occasionally chipped or peeling, upper cover of vol.3 with lower portion missing owing to damp, [Bibliotheca Mechanica pp. 197-198; Dibner, Heralds of Science 14; En Français dans le Texte 201; Honeyman 1920; Horblit-Grolier 63; Norman 1277; PMM 252; Sparrow, Milestone of Science 125], 4to (274 x 212mm.), Paris, chez J.B.M. Duprat [& others], 1798-1827.⁂ An excellent set in original condition of this monumental and highly important work on astronomy. Laplace (1749-1827), rightly called the "Newton of France", significantly develops the theories elaborated by Newton, Euler and other astronomers. "Laplace maintained that while all planets revolve round the sun their eccentricities and the inclinations of their orbits to each other will always remain small. He also showed that all these irregularities in movements and positions in the heavens were self-correcting, so that the whole solar system appeared to be mechanically stable. He showed that the universe was really a great self-regulating machine and the whole solar system could continue on its existing plan for an immense period of time. This was a long step forward from the Newtonian uncertainties in this respect [...] Laplace also offered a brilliant explanation of the secular inequalities of the mean motion of the moon about the earth - a problem which Euler and Lagrange had failed to solve" (PMM).Our set has the title-page of volume 1 and 2 in the first state with the imprint of Crapelet and Duprat and "An VII". The fifth Supplément is also printed on large paper.
Lot 637
Sextus Pompey AR Denarius. Uncertain mint in Sicily (Catania?), 42-40 BC. MAG•PIVS• IMP•ITER, diademed and bearded head of Neptune right; trident over left shoulder / Naval trophy set on anchor, top of trident visible above helmet; the arms composed of the stem of a prow in right and aplustre in left; heads of Scylla and Charybdis at base; PRAEF•CLAS•ET ORAE•MARIT•EX•S•C around. Crawford 511/2a; RSC 1a; Sydenham 1347; CRI 333. 3.74g, 19mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine; attractive old cabinet tone. Ex Molard Collection, Switzerland. It has been remarked that the coinage of Sextus Pompey was a step towards the propagandistic issues of the Roman emperors. Having decided upon an affinity with Neptune, he minted a series of coins depicting the god and continuing his theme of pietas. This virtue was highly valued in Roman society; the city's founder Aeneas' epithet is pius and tradition details that his piety was three-fold; to his father, his homeland and the gods. Pompey was not the only imperator to draw upon the Aeneas myth on his coinage (see Crawford 458/1), however he was unique in commandeering a theme and using it repeatedly. His earliest denarii feature a personification of the goddess Pietas (Crawford 477/1a), but references become subtler and more complex on later issues as per the present example. Here, Pompey Magnus is remembered within the obverse legend, with Pietas also explicitly referenced. Sextus Pompey does not allow us to forget that it was the Senate who declared him praefectus classis et orae maritima, tying his patriotism in neatly. This military title lends itself obviously to Neptune, whose portrait is displayed on the obverse. The naval trophy not only alludes to Pompey's naval victories but also to his piety towards Neptune to whom he is reported to have sacrificed 100 bulls and in whose honour a live horse was flung into the sea, along with an offering of gold (Florus 2.18.3).
Lot 353
Cyprus, Paphos AR Stater. Onasioikos, circa 450-440 BC. Bull standing left on beaded double line; [winged solar disk above, ankh to left]; all within dotted circular border / Eagle standing left; ankh to left, 'pa-si o-na' in Cypriot script around; all within dotted square border in incuse square. Tziambazis -; BMC -; Destrooper-Georgiades, p. 196, 13 = Gulbenkian 809 = NFA II, 1976, 275; Roma XIII, 405. 11.10g, 22mm, 12h. Near Extremely Fine. The fourth known example, and exceptionally complete for the issue. Of great numismatic and historical importance. From the collection of P.R., United Kingdom, outside of Cyprus before December 1992. The existence of this issue in name of 'Ona' in the style of the coinage struck in the name of Stasandros illustrates the many problems of attribution in early Cypriot numismatics. We know of coins attributed to a king 'Onasioikos' which utilise the same obverse type of a bull with ankh and solar disk, but with a flying eagle as the reverse design (BMC pl. XXI, 14 = Traité II 1306). This in itself is not unusual, since Cypriot cities often continued the same obverse type under different rulers much as other Greek city-states did. The present coin however, which bears the name of 'Ona'(sioikos), but utilises the same reverse type as the staters of King Stasandros with the only difference being the legend, suggests a more direct link between the two rulers than has hitherto been widely assumed. Indeed, the style of the reverse is so similar to archaic style issues of Stasandros (see following lot, certainly the work of the same hand), that it appears to conclusively demonstrate that this king Onasioikos was the immediate predecessor of Stasandros, since the latter retained the same types as seen on this issue for his first coinage. This theory is supported by the difference in style between the issues of Stasandros - the following lot, the 'earlier' issue, being distinctly archaic in appearance, while the 'later' issue is more classical in style. In a thorough analysis of this mint and inscriptions, A. Destrooper-Georgiades (Le monnaies frappées à Paphos (Chypre) durant la deuxième moitié du Ve siècle et leur apport à l'histoire de l'île" in Proceedings of the 12th International Numismatic Congress, Berlin 2000, pp. 194-8), proposes a sequence of kings based on the available numismatic evidence which securely places Onasioikos prior to the reign of Stasandros, who is in turn succeeded by at least two other kings, Mineos and Zoalios, who are known to history only from their inscriptions on re-engraved coins of Stasandros. The evidence presented by Destrooper-Georgiades demonstrates with a high degree of probability that the issues attributed to Onasioikos bearing the flying eagle reverse (generally dated to 400 BC without supporting evidence) are in fact an earlier issue of the same king named on the present type, and that his flying-eagle coinage should clearly be redated to before the reign of Stasandros. The archaistic appearance of the flying-eagle type weighs heavily in favour of this, since a backwards step from classical style to archaic is counter-intuitive. Destrooper-Georgiades proposes a revised dating of circa 450 BC for the flying-eagle type of Onasioikos, and a period from the mid-fifth century to the first decades of the fourth century for the standing-eagle coinage of Onasioikos, Stasandros, Mineos and Zoalios.
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