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Lot 133
Marklove (H.). Views of Berkeley Castle, taken on the spot, and drawn on stone ..., Nailsworth: printed by William Partridge, 1840, 10 lithographic plates (spotted and browned), subscribers list, near contemporary green half morocco, front cover with printed paper label, worn with some losses to spine, joints cracking, boards somewhat bowed, slim folioQty: (1)NOTESAbbey, Scenery 409.
Lot 169
* Banbury. Austin (John Sunman), The Cross and Horse Fair, Banbury, Oxon, M. Billing, Birmingham, 1860, large tint stone lithograph, some creasing, slight dust soiling and staining, 465 x 820 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS Uncommon.
Lot 178
* Canals. Eginton (Francis), To the Ellesmere Canal Company this View of Pont Y Cyssyllte Aqueduct is Inscribed by their most Ob. Humble Serv. George Yates. This Grand Aqueduct was Erected from a design of Thomas Telford Esq.r Civil Engineer, and conveys the Ellesmere Canal over the River Dee at the Eastern termination of the Vale of Llangotten in North Wales; the first stone was laid on the 25th of July 1795, and the Navigation opened on the 26th of Nov.r 1805. Lenght of the Iron Work 1007 feet. Height from the surface of the Rock on the South of the River to the top of the side Plates 126 Feet 8 Inches. Breadth of the Water Channel within the Iron Work 7 Feet 10 Inches. Number of Pillars besides Abutments 18, Distance from each other, at the top 45 Feet. Depth of the Iron Plates, for Canal part, 5 Feet 3 Inches. Lenght of the Earthen Embankment south of the River, 1500 Feet; Height of D.o at the south Abutment, 75 Feet, Allen & Co., Birmingham, circa 1805, uncoloured mixed-method engraving after George Yates of Oswestry, margins dust-soiled and frayed, one closed tear just affecting image, 535 x 660 mm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal across the River Dee in the Vale of Llangollen in northeast Wales. The 18-arched stone and cast iron structure used by narrowboats and was completed in 1805 having taken ten years to design and build. It is 12 ft (3.7 metres) wide and is the longest aqueduct in Great Britain and the highest canal aqueduct in the world.
Lot 181
* Cooke (H.J.). Crumlin Viaduct, on the Taff Vale Extension of the West Midland Railway ... Designed and Erected by T.W. Kennard, Crumlin: J. M. Wilson & H.N. Maynard, [1860], colour printed lithograph on wove by Maclure Macdonald & Macgregor lithographers, short closed tear to sky upper left, lower right blank margin scuffed & corner crease, 415 x 600mm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS The lithograph depicts the viaduct spanning the Kendon and Ebbw valleys at Crumlin. A passenger train is crossing the viaduct with the town and an arched stone bridge below. Another passenger train runs on the railway passing through the town below the viaduct. In the foreground at right is a group of people looking at the scene, one of them watching through a telescope. Additional text beneath reads "Constructed exclusively of iron. Length 1658 feet, Height 200 feet. Designed and erected by T. W. Kennard Esq C.E. To whom this plate is respectfully dedicated by the publishers, J. M. Wilson & H. N. Maynard, Crumlin".
Lot 182
* Cornwall. Picken (Thomas), This View of the Botallack Mine in the Parish of St. Just in Penrith, Cornwall is respectfully dedicated to The Right Honble. The Earl of Falmouth..., Ackerman & Co., circa 1850, tint stone lithograph after Philip Mitchell, 365 x 440 mm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS A rare view of an industrial mining scene in Cornwall.
Lot 189
* Dublin. Laporte (John), Dublin from Sarah's Bridge, Thos. Macklin, October 25th, 1796, engraving with contemporary hand colouring, trimmed to plate mark, small ink stamp to lower right corner of margin, slight spotting, occasional marginal closed tears, some worming affecting image, repaired on verso, 405 x 570 mmQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS The Bridge was built in 1791 and crosses the River Liffey at a little village called Island Bridge and is about 1 mile from the city centre. The foundation stone of the bridge was laid by Sarah, Countess of Westmorland and the wife of the Lord Lieutenant, giving the bridge its name.
Lot 200
* Edinburgh. Gordon (James Jnr, lithographer), Edinburgh from the Top of Nelson's Monument. Lithographed by Jas Gordon from the Celebrated Photograph by Ross & Thomson, printed by Schenck & McFarlane and published by Jas. Wood, Edinburgh, circa 1870, tint stone lithograph, slight staining, 425 x 670 mm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS No auction records and no copies found in institutions, but there is an example in the Royal Collection Trust.
Lot 211
* Hunt (George). View on the Thames, shewing Goding's New Lion Ale Brewery, The Wharfs, Shot Factories, and the Lambeth end of Waterloo Bridge, London: John Moore, December 30th, 1836, aquatint by Geoge Hunt after Francis Calcraft Turner, printed in colour and finished by hand, thread margins, few short closed tears and surface abrasions, light toning, 450 x 620 mm, mounted, framed & glazedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS Goding's Brewery (or Lion Brewery) was built in 1836, to a design by Francis Edwards. The Goding family brewery, headed by Thomas Goding, was very successful during the nineteenth century. The site was particularly desirable as there was a waterworks nearby, which the Godings bought and incorporated into the brewery in 1853. The water used for brewing was sourced from the five wells inside the building. The brewery was taken over in 1924 by the brewers Hoare and Co., of Wapping, and was badly damaged by fire in 1931, where it remained derelict until it was demolished in 1949. The Royal Festival Hall stands in its place today and the only evidence of the original brewery is the large lion visible on the top of the building, made of artificial Coade stone which now stands at the east end of Westminster Bridge on the South Bank, now known as the South Bank Lion.
Lot 212
* Hunter (Henry). A South East view of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland in the Co. of Durham Built by Rowland Burdon Esqr. M.P., Span 236 Ft. Height 100 Ft. Spring of the Arch 33 Ft. & is to be the largest Arch in the World. The Foundation Stone was laid 24th Sepr. 1793 & the Bridge opened 9th Augt. 1796, engraving on wove after R. Johnson, few repaired closed tears to margins (mostly at foot), 350 x 420 mm, mounted, framed & glazedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS
Lot 216
* Liverpool. Maclure (A., after), Birkenhead Iron Works. Graving Docks and Ship Building Slips. Engineering & Boiler making Shops, John Laird Esqr. Proprietor, lithographed by Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor, Liverpool, circa 1890, tint stone lithograph, slight spotting and staining but largely confined to margins, one marginal repaired closed tear just affecting image, 515 x 710 mm, framed and glazed in a contemporary stained oak moulding with gilt slipQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS The Laird company was founded by William Laird, who had established the Birkenhead Iron Works in 1824. He was joined by his son, John Laird in 1828, and their first ship was an iron barge. The company soon became pre-eminent in the manufacture of iron ships and also made major advances in propulsion. In 1860, John Laird was joined in the business by his three sons, renaming it John Laird, Sons & Co. The sons continued the business after their father's death in 1874 as Laird Brothers. It merged with Johnson Cammell and Company in 1903 and became Cammell and Laird, a company at the forefront of shipbuilding. Although the company has been through many guises and various owners, bankruptcy and revival it is still known today as Cammell Laird and continues to refit and build warships and merchant vessels, including the British Antarctic Survey Vessell the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
Lot 220
* Maritime. The Cunard Royal Mail Ship "Britannia" (John Hewitt, Commander) as she appeared leaving her Dock at East Boston, February 3d. 1844 bound from Boston to Liverpool. The original print bore this inscription " "Dedicated by the publishers to the Merchants of Boston who projected and paid for a canal cut in the Ice 7 miles long, 100 feet wide, much credit was due to the Committee and to the Contractors Messrs. Gage, Hittinger & Co. and John Hill for their perseverance in accomplishing so arduous an undertaking, Presented by the Cunard Steamship Company 99 State Street, Boston. James Alexander Agent, February 1876, unattributed tint stone lithograph printed 'from the press of Ferd. Mayer, Fulton St. N. Y.', very slight staining, 480 x 630 mmQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS Published to promote the port of Boston, the depiction of the thick ice inadvertently acted as a deterrent and many foreign shipping companies and merchants sent their vessels to New York instead.
Lot 257
* Weston Super Mare. Newman & Co., (lithographers), Weston Super Mare from the Pier, A. Strowd, Weston Super Mare, circa 1870, tint stone lithograph slight marginal spotting, 265 x 380 mm, mountedQty: (1)NOTESTHE DAVID SMITH PRINT COLLECTION PART I CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT & TOPOGRAPHICAL PANORAMAS The pier at Weston was designed by Eugenius Birch and was built between 1864 - 67
Lot 71
Chinese Export School. Album of pith paintings depicting trades and professions, Canton: Wing Tai Hing, second half of the 19th century, 12 miniatures in watercolour and bodycolour on pith paper (20 x 31.6 cm) each on separate paper mount within blue paper border, printed caption in English to foot of each mount, 'Tea-box painters' chipped along edges and held loosely under border, 'Paper lantern painters' lifting and slightly chipped along fore edge and with short closed tear to lower inner corner, 'Black-Smiths' with minor chipping in image, 'Tailors' with small tear to lower outer corner, 'Shoe makers' border lifting, a few other areas of light disruption to pith paper not affecting painted images, a few marks, printed trade-label ('Wing Tai Hing, Rice-Paper-Picture Shop, in Wai Yuen Yik Street, Canton') to front pastedown, contemporary Chinese binding of patterned red silk binding over boards, silk with substantial fraying and loss, oblong folio (25 x 36 cm), housed in a contemporary Chinese blue silk portfolio with hand-painted decoration to front cover incorporating roses, fruit, golden pheasant and butterflyQty: (1)NOTESThe paintings are captioned: Tea-box painters; Paper lantern painters; Jet-stone bangle grinders; Black-Smiths; Painters and Carpenters; Mat-makers; Bamboo-chair makers; Lacquer-box makers; Tailors; Shoe-Makers; Druggists and Doctors; Tin-Smiths.
Lot 95
Lear (Edward). Views in Rome and its Environs: Drawn from Nature on Stone, London: T. M'Lean, printed by G. Hullmandel, 1841, title with lithographed vignette, 25 tinted lithographed views (complete), some occasional spotting and small marginal damp stains, gutta percha perished, contents loose in contemporary calf-backed boards, title in gilt to upper cover, spine worn with tears, lower cover faded, folioQty: (1)NOTESAbbey Travel 183.
Lot 118
A diamond crossover ring, the shank stamped '18ct plat', (lacking one stone), together with a 9ct gold paste set cluster ring (lacking one stone), a further paste cluster ring stamped '9ct silver', a pair of 9ct gold drop earrings, two pairs of yellow metal drop earrings, a single drop earring and a pair of yellow metal hoop earrings
Lot 146
A painted red cast metal postbox on stand decorated with a horse and rider and bugles, on a baluster column and stepped square base, the whole bolted to a rectangular stone plinth base, total height approx 122cm, width of postbox 42cm, width of plinth approx 46cm. CONDITION REPORT The postbox is currently locked and there is no key.
Lot 779
A platinum three-stone brilliant-cut diamond ring in claw mounts, the central stone flanked by slightly smaller stones either side, shank stamped 'Plat', middle diamonds approx 0.5ct, smaller diamonds approx 0.33ct., size M, approx 3.5g. CONDITION REPORT Clear hallmarks, some thinning to back of band.
Lot 786
An 18ct gold aquamarine and diamond cluster ring, round aquamarine (6mm diameter) surrounded with fifteen tiny old-cut diamonds set in platinum mount, size Q, approx 2.6g. CONDITION REPORT The stone shows slight wear and looks cloudy, hallmarked. Some surface scratches to aquamarine, all stones present, slight misshaping of band to one side.
Lot 814
Four fashion rings to include a 9ct two-tone gold sapphire and tiny diamond eternity ring, size N, a 9ct gold eternity ring with tiny ruby and diamonds (missing a ruby), size O, a dainty 18ct gold three tiny diamond ring (af), also an unmarked metal ring set with a carved marquise-shaped green stone cameo of a Greek lady (4). CONDITION REPORT All rings listed as gold are hallmarked.
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