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![MISCELLANY - John GAY (1685-1732). Fables. [etc.]MISCELLANY - John GAY (1685-1732). Fables. London: Printed for J. Tonso](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a3276cf8-db78-46ec-8c8b-ad5900c80e7d/2845bb03-c797-477b-af05-ad5900e2276b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 589
MISCELLANY - John GAY (1685-1732). Fables. [etc.]MISCELLANY - John GAY (1685-1732). Fables. London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727. 4to (256 x 200mm). Title with engraved illustration, 50 engraved illustrations only ([?]of 51, lacking L4 [i.e. pp. 73-74], variable browning, spotting and staining). Contemporary calf gilt (heavily rubbed). A second volume, not present here, followed in 1738. With a quantity of very miscellaneous books and documents including John Bunyan's The Works (London, 1736, 2 vols., engraved portrait, contemporary calf, defective), [Daniel Defoe’s] The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London, 1790, 2 vols., engraved plates, contemporary calf), [Susanna Dobson’s] Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry (Worcester, 1795, contemporary calf, upper cover detached), W. H. Bartlett’s Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem (London, [c. 1844], second edition, engraved plates, original decorated cloth gilt), John M. Kemble’s Horæ Ferales; or, Studies in the Archæology of the Northern Nations (London, 1863, contemporary blue calf gilt, head of spine lacking), J. B. Waring’s Stone Monuments, Tumuli and Ornament of Remote Ages (London, 1870, original buckram, soiled), Report on Central African Rail Link Development Survey. Vol. 1. (London, June 1952, plates, folding maps, buckram-backed paper boards), a bound album containing early 20th-century monochrome photographs of American locomotives, several belonging to the "Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co."; with a manuscript Account Book relating to the Estate of Robert Hedington of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, kept from 1787 to 1853; and a collection of miscellaneous legal documents, the majority on vellum, most 18th- and 19th-century, but some earlier. Please note that only a part of this lot is illustrated. The lot sold not subject to return. (qty)
Lot 29
1992 Ford Sierra Sapphire Cosworth 4x4Registration number K813 PCMNouveau red, Recaro seatsBought in 2003 after a long search for a Sierra Sapphire CosworthWheels recently refurbishedMaintained by friend in motor trade during ownership, but no recorded history/bills as done on mates ratesx2 keysClifford alarmAn original, low mileage and unmolested CosworthBoth bumpers probably painted, drivers wing tooSome stone chips to front
Lot 211
Scotland.- Porteous (John, army officer and victim of crowd violence, c. 1695-1736).- [Examinations of the Witnesses Before the House of Lords in the Inquiry into the Murder of Captain Porteous], manuscript, 94pp. excluding blanks, printed Act of Parliament, "An Act to disable Alexander Wilson... any Office or Place of Magistracy", 2ff. of manuscript with holes slightly affecting text, slightly browned, William Roughead's copy with his bookplate on front pastedown, 20th century buckram, gilt label on upper cover, discoloured, Pro Patria watermark, folio, 1736.⁂ Porteous was appointed captain of the city guard of Edinburgh in 1726. "On 14 April 1736 a condemned smuggler, Andrew Wilson, was taken to be executed in the Grassmarket. After Wilson was hanged, perhaps because of concern about a possible rescue, Porteous asked, but was denied, permission to cut the body down early. A few minutes later when the hangman tried to remove Wilson's body the crowd began to stone the city guard and, in the confusion, the corpse was cut down and rushed off with a view to attempted resuscitation." (Oxford DNB). Porteous then ordered his guard to fire on the crowd. For this he was arrested and tried and condemned for murder. He was lynched and hanged the night before his judicial execution.Provenance: "These examinations were printed for the first time in the Trial of Captain Porteous, by William Roughead W.S. Appendix XII. (Notable Scottish Trials Series, Edinburgh: 1909.)" William Roughead (1870-1952), writer on Scottish criminal trials.
Lot 288
Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, 4 parts in 2 vol., first edition, vol.1 with initial advertisement leaf, engraved portrait, 5 maps and one plate, some worming to lower margins of vol.1 repaired, last 2 leaves vol.1 lower margin renewed, generally clean, 20th century green calf, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, g.e., [Teerink 289 etc.; Rothschild 2108], 8vo, for Benj. Motte, 1726.⁂ A handsome, complete copy of the first edition of Gulliver's Travels. The printing history and identification of this major work is notoriously complicated, with numerous papers and works written on this topic alone, since there were multiple printers, self-censorship, requests for post-printing revision, secret deliveries of the manuscript at night, and extraordinarily rapid demand from the public. This copy has some of Teerink's AA printing, with the page-numbering beginning afresh for each part; but it also has elements of Teerink B: the title-page to part 3 has the volume II statement on it, as well as Parts III and IV, and vol.1 E8 verso is misnumbered 66 (for 68). The portrait frontispiece is in the second state, with vertical chain lines and the stone below the portrait inscribed with a Latin motto.
Lot 420
Grabau (J.F., binder).- Hanscom (Adelaide, photographer).- Omar Khayyám. The Rubáiyát..., translated by Edward Fizgerald, photogravure plates by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming, all on thin tissue paper, colour-printed sheet of symbols, this copy illuminated in watercolours by Irene Stanley Martin for her brother Frederick Guile Stanley with decorative border to frontispiece, hand-coloured title and borders to text, also with illuminated presentation leaf, list of precious stones used in the binding & their meanings and fair copies of letters/verses from the contributors to the binder John F.Grabau bound in, bound in dark brown morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and set with 86 precious stones, by J.F.Grabau, upper cover with inset panel inlaid with tendrils of flowers and leaves in red, green and coral morocco all tooled in gilt and inset with gem stones around an oval recessed panel mounted with a gold urn inset with large stone, border ruled and tooled in gilt and inset with stones, lower cover with recessed panel inlaid with morocco flowers & leaves and tooled in gilt within similar border but without inset stones and central feature, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands with small gilt dots and compartments of gilt-tooled red morocco floral stem, green morocco doublures ruled and tooled in gilt with similar flowers to corners, signed "19 Grabau 27" at foot of front turn-in, crimson silk moiré flyleaves, t.e.g., others uncut, 4to (c.265 x 200mm.), New York, Dodge Publishing Company, [?1905].⁂ One of the first American literary works to be illustrated with fine art photographs. Adelaide Hanscom Leeson (1875-1931) set up a photographic studio in San Francisco in 1902 with Blanche Cumming, and in 1903 they began taking photographs to illustrate the Rubáiyát, using well-known California literary figures including Charles Keeler, Joaquin Miller, George Sterling, and George Wharton James as models. John Frederick Grabau (1878-1948) trained at Gies & Co. printers in Buffalo, NY, joined the Roycroft Bindery in 1902 and founded his own Derome bindery in Buffalo in 1905. A note at the beginning states,"These and the following Poems and Letters are copied from the Autographed volume owned by John F. and Minnie M.Grabau, and passed on to my friend Frederick G.Stanley who is much interested. March 1927. JF.Grabau, Buffalo, NY." These include pieces by Joaquin Miller, Adelaide Hanscom, Charles Keeler, George Sterling, and George Wharton James, with the latter's mounted cut-signature. The precious gemstones used are moss agate, cats-eye coral, bloodstone, turquoise, garnet, matrix, opal, amethyst sardonyx and pearl.
Lot 72
Lighthouses.- Smeaton (John) A Narrative of the Building and a Description of the Construction of the Edystone Lighthouse with Stone, second edition, engraved vignette title and 23 etched and engraved plates and charts, one or two trimmed within platemark, occasional faint spotting and marginal finger-soiling, not affecting plates, occasional pencil corrections with one to plate, contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, a little rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 15747], folio, for G. Nicol, 1793.⁂ Smeaton's own account of his great lighthouse, completed in 1759. His tower was the third on the treacherous Eddystone reef, 14 miles off the Plymouth coast. The two earlier timber structures, by Winstanley and Rudyard, had both been destroyed. Building with masonry, Smeaton devised and ingenious method of dovetailing and interlocking the blocks of stone to ensure maximum strength, and his example was followed for later towers. In the appendix Smeaton describes the construction of Spurn Point lighthouse on the Humber bank, which was also built to his design.
Lot 135
A collection of stone set white metal rings to include an emerald and diamond set ring, claw set to the centre with a round cut emerald, claw set diamond shoulders, width approx 6mm, textured shank, size L1/2, a diamond and jadeite cluster ring, comprising an oval jadeite within a border of small diamonds, width approx 16mm, size L and another jadeite and diamond cluster, comprising an elongated jadeite set either side with round brilliant cut diamonds, combined diamond weight approx 0.30ct, with diamond set borders, setting approx 15mm, size K1/2, possibly silver, combined total gross weight approx 19.2gms Condition report: good all stones present and intact, some fine scratches to metals
Lot 149
A five stone diamond and 18ct white gold ring, comprising five brilliant cut diamonds claw set in a row, total diamond weight approx. 1.25ct, assessed colour I, assessed clarity SI1, size M1/2, stamped 18K, total gross weight approx 4.7gms.Condition report: good- all stones present and intact, some wear and tear to metals and rhodium plate
Lot 150A
A 9ct gold stone set dress ring, comprising oval cut sapphire, ruby and amethyst with diamond accents, with fancy rope and bead applied decoration, width approx 8mm, size V1/2, total gross weight approx 8gms.Condition report: good- some slight abrasions to stones, minor fine scratches to metal
Lot 161
An emerald cut diamond and platinum ring, comprising a claw set emerald cut diamond weighing approx. 0.70ct, assessed colour G, assessed clarity VS2, to tapered shoulders, size K1/2, hallmarked 950, total gross weight approx. 5gms Condition report: good- stone and setting present and intact, minor wear and tear to mount
Lot 182
An early Victorian 15ct gold stone set ring, engraved band, size M1/2, total gross weight approx. 2gms, along with a illusion set three stone diamond and 9ct gold ring, size L, total gross weight approx. 1.8gmsCondition reports: all stones present and intact, wear and tear commensurate with age
Lot 183
A pair of Russian onyx and ruby 14ct gold earrings, circular form set to the centre with a ruby/paste , overlaid on onyx with faceted edge, with a decorative border of gold, diameter approx 15mm, screw post and fittings for pierced ears, marked 56 to reverse maker mark rubbed, total gross weight approx 4.7gms in a leather bound Russian jewellery boxCondition report - one stone replaced by faceted red paste, wear and tear to backs and marks rubbed
Lot 194
A 24kt gold ingot and diamond pendant, the ingot set to the top with a small diamond, approx. 0.03ct, engraved 1/8oz and .24 KT, the setting and bail a lower carat of gold, length approx. 25mm inc bail, total gross weight approx. 4.3gms, on a fine link chain stamped 14k, weight approx. 1.1gms condition report: stone intact, minor wear and tear
Lot 204
A 9ct rose gold curb link bracelet, comprising hollow textured links, with a 9ct rose gold mounted swivel fob of carnelian and bloodstone (wear to stones) along with a citrine swivel fob and two glass and gilt metal swivel fobs, (wear to fob glass and stone facets, padlock clasp, total gross weight approx 52gms Condition report: all links intact, wear and tear commensurate with age, wear to stones and glass, clasp in working order,
Lot 238
A 9ct gold fancy link guard chain, comprising belcher links with entwined lozenge links and faceted bead details, toggle clasp, length approx 60'',along with a carnelian and bloodstone fob mounted in 9ct gold, combined total gross weight approx 32.2gms Condition report: all links present and intact, some denting/marks to entwined links and faceted beads, clasp in working order, minor nibbles to fob stone girdles, minor wear and tear commensurate with ageCONDITION:chain 26.5gms fob 5.8gms
Lot 272
A collection of three gold stone set rings, to include a smoky quartz 14ct gold ring, size P and a 14ct gold and paste set 14ct gold ring, size O, combined total gross weight approx. 14.5gms and a 9ct gold and amethyst ring, size R, total gross weight approx. 1.9gms Condition report: all stones present and intact, some wear and tear to metals commensurate with age
Lot 298
A collection of four Victorian/early 20th century hard stone brooches, to a Victorian oval brooch with a large oval agate set within a scrolled engraved border of 9ct gold, length approx. 60mm, with base metal reverse and pin, along with a multi hardstone and white metal scalloped plaid brooch, set with alternate colours of hardstone, diameter approx. 50mm, unmarked with base metal pin, a rectangular cut jasper brooch with decorative white metal border, length approx. an oval and gilt metal jasper brooch, size 5mm, (4) Condition report: all stones present and intact, wear and tear commensurate with age
Lot 345A
A collection of jewellery to include an 18ct gold and diamond cluster ring, setting diameter approx 6mm, size L1/2, along with an 18ct gold three stone ring, size L, combined total gross weight approx 4.8gms and a 9ct gold and diamond double row eternity ring, total diamond weight approx 0.16ct, stapled 16 points to shank, size N, total gross weight approx 1.5gms along with a 9ct rose gold watch face and a plated ladies open faced pocket watch, together with a collection of costume jewellery including faux pearl necklaces, paste set brooches and gilt metal dress pins etc (1 bag)
Lot 110
A blue spinel ring set with a round faceted stone approx. 16mm, set in unmarked white metal size K1/2, along with an opal doublet and white sapphire set ring in yellow metal , two white metal and opal doublet rings and a manmade stone set in white metal, possibly silver combined total gross weight approx.34gms (5)
Lot 113
A pair of large stone set silver drop earrings, comprising a central rose cut pink/purple sapphire within a border of small diamonds and pink sapphires, in oxidised silver settings, size approx 55mm, total gross weight approx 34gms Condition report: all stones present and intact, some surface reaching flaws to stones
Lot 114
A collection of silver and cultured pearl earrings to include black and white pairs each approx. 12mm, on post and scroll fittings, along with pair of two way Kaori freshwater cultured pearl earrings with white topaz and black spinel flower cluster details, pearl approx. 12mm, stone set side approx. 8mm, with accompanying Gemporia certificate (3)
Lot 116
A pair of ruby and diamond silver earrings, round form each set to the centre with round cut claw set ruby, total ruby weight approx. 3.23 carats, with diamond accents, diameter approx. 12mm, clip fittings along with a pair of black spinel and silver drop earrings, the pear cut top suspending a pearl cut dropper, claw set throughout, length approx. 25mm, post and scroll fittings, total stone weight approx. 19.15 carats, both with original sales tag and Gems TV certificates
Lot 127
A silver Pandora bracelet, including fourteen white metal charms to include hearts, stone set and enamel versions, 19.5cm, in original branded box along with a silver hinged bangle with cross over detail to the front, internal diameter approx 65mm, combined total gross weight approx 72gms or 2.31oztCondition report: Good minor wear and tear
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