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Lot 606
Orkney & Shetland - 38 volumes, including Brogger, A.W. Ancient Emigrants. A History of the Norse Settlements of Scotland. 1929, dust-jacket; Traill, Walter Discourses on the Characteristics of Genuine Christianity. 1839; Torfaeus, T. Ancient History of Orkney, Caithness & the North. Wick, 1866, date in biro to title; Ferguson, M. An Autumn Tour through Orcadia and the North of Scotland. 1869, 2 photographic plates; Wilson, Daniel Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. 1863, 2 volumes; Maxwell, C.A. The Sea Kings of Orkney. 1870; Anderson, J. The Orkneyinga Saga. 1873. 2 copies; Fergusson, James The Brochs and the Rude Stone Monuments of the Orkney Islands. 1877; Craven, J.B. History of the Episcopal Church in Orkney 1688-1882. Kirkwall, 1883; Campbell, J. An Exact and Authentic Account of the greatest White Herring Fishery in Scotland. 1885; Russell, J. Three Years in Shetland. Paisley 1887; Mackinnon, J. Culture in Early Scotland. 1892; Stewart. G/ Shetland Fireside Tales. Lerwick, 1892; Green, W.C. The Story of Egil Skallagrimsson. 1893; Spence, C.S. Earl Rognvald and his Forebears. 1896; Black, G.F. County Folk-Lore, vol.3. Orkney & Shetland Islands. 1903; Hepburn, Thomas A Letter to a Gentleman from his Friend in Orkney. 1885, limited to 110 copies; Steuart, A.F. Diary of Thomas Brown Writer in Kirkwall. 1898, quarter cloth; Graeme, A. Orkney and the Last Great War. Kirkwall, 1915, quarter cloth; Mooney, J. Eynhallow: The Holy Island of the Orkneys. Kirkwall, 1923, presentation copy, dust-jacket;; Mooney, J. St Magnus - Earl of Orkney. Kirkwall, 1935; [Orkney] The Story of the House of Graemshall in Orkney. Kirkwall, 1936, quarter cloth; Lamb, G. Orkney Surnames. 1980; Dasent, G.W. Icelandic Sagas, volume 3: The Orkneyingers Saga. 1893, quarter morocco; Clouston, J.S. Records of the Earldom of Orkney 1299-1614. 1914; Cowper, F. The Vagaries of Lady Hargey. Kirkwall, 1930; The New Statistical Account of the Shetland Islands. 1841; The Statistical Account of the Orkney Islands. 1842; and 8 others, sold not subject to return (38)
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Lot 252
Gentleman's Magazine - Sylvanus Urban London: Edw. Cave [and later others], 1731-1844. First series: volumes 1-103 (up to 1834) volume 1 in second edition; New Series: volumes 1-22 (1834-1844); Index volumes: volume 1 covering volumes 1-20 (in stone grey quarter calf), index volumes 1& 2 covering volumes 1-56 and index volume 4 covering volumes 57-88 (in uniform in camel cloth); Bindings: volumes 1-25 in modern stone grey quarter calf gilt with red morocco gilt labels, volumes 26 - New Series volume 18 in modern camel cloth with red morocco gilt labels to spines, New Series volumes 19-22 in contemporary half calf; occasional sections lacking, such as October 1834 and November 1844; The Gentleman's Magazine Library comprising: Manners and Customs, 1883, Popular Superstitions, 1884, Archaeology parts 1 & 2, 1886, Roman-British Remains parts 1 & 2, 1887, Literary Curiosities and Notes, 1888, Architectural Antiquities parts 1 & 2, English Topography parts 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 & 12 only, 1892-1900, all in uniform cream cloth with some soiling and covers and spines detached from text blocks; Ecclesiology, 1894, 4to, brown quarter cloth; English Traditions and Foreign Customs, 1885, Biographical Notes, 1889, English Topography...of Nottinghamshire..., 1897, English Topography...of Warwickshire..., 1901, The Topography of London, 1904-1905, 3 volumes, all in uniform brown cloth; (quantity, sold as a periodical not subject to return) Provenance: From the collection of Major Paul Payne, Archivist to the Royal Shakespeare Company 1960-1974 Note: A carefully compiled and near-complete set of 'The Gentleman's Magazine' to 1844. An accompanying document entitled 'Explanation of the Index' gives a detailed plate count up to volume 25, whilst Todd's 1965 bibliography of the magazine (also included), has been studied and annotated in accordance with the collection. The majority of volumes have been bound in tan buckram with red morocco labels by Bayntun of Bath. The collection was started by Ralph Milbank Hudson II of the Friarage, Yarm, in County Durham, MP for Sunderland from 1918-1922. It was passed by descent to Major Paul Payne as a belated wedding present, due to his love of books. Major Payne and his wife sourced many of the missing elements from the set, and arranged for the books to be re-bound. In 1966 Major and Mrs Payne received a visit from a bibliographer of the Gentleman's Magazine who was looking to publish a replica of the work. He had been advised that this collection had one of the most complete sets of plates and illustrations to be found.
Lot 518
China, Photographs - Shanghai and the Xinhai Revolution EARLY 20TH CENTURY Photograph album, comprising 111 personal photographs of Shanghai, early 20th century, including several images of military ships, various English language shop signs for local businesses (for example Shung-Yuen the blacksmith), 12 photographs from the burial procession of the mother of Pau Ching Po, a business man in Shanghai, and several photographs of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution in Shanghai, which resulted in the overthrowing of the last Imperial monarchy in China and the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912; also including photographs of the German Theatre in the Lyceum, which was founded in 1930 as an amateur dramatics society, a photograph of the Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948) at the Club Concordia in 1904 as he laid the founding stone to the new German club in Shanghai, and three photographs of the wedding of Wilhelm Knappe (1855-1910), the German Consul-General in Shanghai from 1899-1906, largest photograph 21.2 x 15.5cmlargest 21.2 x 15.5cm Provenance: From the collection of the Merchant and Anthroposophist Johannes Gottfried William Schröder (1870-1942). Note: In November 1911, Shanghai citizens organised a rebellion and captured the city soon after, establishing the Shanghai military on 8th November of the same year. The photographs offered here depict the rebels uprising in the streets, as well as scenes of destroyed homes and weapons used when taking the city.
Lot 376
Irish Natural History, a collection of 17 volumes, including Mackay, James T. A Catalogue of the Plants found in Ireland. Dublin, 1825. 4to, part 1 only, inscribed "With the author's compliments" at head of title, later quarter calf, original marbled wrappers bound in; Mackay, James T. Flora Hibernica. Dublin, 1836, 2 volumes, contemporary half calf; [Cork] Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork. 1844, presentation inscription from the author, original quarter cloth; Dickie, G. A Flora of Ulster. Belfast, 1864, library stamp to endpaper, spine worn; Moore, David Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica. 1866, several inscriptions at head of title; another edition. 1898; Hart, H.C. The Flora of Howth. 1887Stewart, S.A. A Flora of the North East of Ireland. 1888, library stamp to half-title; Hart, H.C. Flora of the County Donegal. Dublin, 1898; Colgan, N. Flora of the County of Dublin. 1904; Stone, J.H. Connemara. 1906; Praeger, R.L. A Tourist's Flora of the West of Ireland. Dublin, 1909; Scully, R.W. Flora of County Kerry. 1916, library stamp & label; Adams, J. A Student's Illustrated Irish Flora. 1931, dustwrapper; Brunker, J.P. Flora of the County Wicklow. 1950; Stewart, S.A. A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. 1938, library stamp to endpaper; original cloth except where noted; sold not subject to return (17)
Lot 152
An Edwardian seed pearl and green stone foliate bar brooch, the scrolled foliate brooch with oval and circular cut green stones, stamped 9ct, 4cm long; together with a pair of purple paste earrings, 2.8cm long; and a garnet and white stone dress ring, the shank with 9 carat gold Birmingham hallmark, finger size P 1/2
Lot 35
An amber coloured necklace, the necklace with oval amber beads interspaced with amber coloured beads, 43cm long; together with a graduated red bead necklace; a woven blue and white beaded snake necklace; a silver coloured fish brooch, stamped 925, 9.5cm long; a turquoise and white stone cluster ring; and a silver coloured and green hardstone necklace
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