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Lot 153
RAFFLES THOMAS STAMFORD. The History of Java. 2 vols. Fldg. eng. map, hand col. in outline. Coloured aquatint costume plates. Other plates as called for except lacking a plate of Musical Instruments & 2 plates of Subjects in Stone. Well worn lib. bdgs. Some damp stng. (considerable to vol. 2). 1817.
Lot 355
Harrer (Heinrich). Seven Years in Tibet, 1st English ed., 1953, signed by the author, colour frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in slightly fraying dust-wrapper, together with I Come from the Stone Age, 1st English ed., 1964, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, and The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger, 1st English ed., 1965, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, plus Bell (Charles), Portrait of the Dalai Lama, 1st ed., 1946, colour frontis., numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with some minor edge fraying, all 8vo, plus two others written by Harrer comprising Return to Tibet (1984) and Lost Lhasa (1992) Neate H38-H41. (6)
Lot 20
A DIAMOND BRACELET FIRST HALF OF TWENTIETH CENTURY. Articulated sections of geometric design. Three sections each with a central peg set brilliant cut diamond estimated to weigh 0.65ct with an eight-cut diamond and baguette diamond border, each interspersed with single irregular hexagonal sections also set with eight-cut and baguette diamonds (total estimated weight for the balance of stones 9.25cts), one stone absent. One section loose. See illustration
Lot 47
A THREE STONE PINK SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND RING CIRCA 1940. Central claw set oval cut sapphire with a single claw set old cut diamonds on either side (each estimated to weigh 0.75cts). See illustration Shank tests as platinum . Sapphire of deep pink colour and loks amazingunder electric light. . Inclusions. Signs of heavy bruising. Each stone colour I/J, Vs clarity.
Lot 65
AN ATTRACTIVE THREE STONE DIAMOND RING CIRCA 1920. Claw set graduated stones estimated to weigh 0.70, 1.50 and 0.70ct respectively. Shank with carved shoulders and of an earlier date. See illustration Shank would test as 18ct gold and the claws as platinum. Stones H colour. CLARTIY: Centre Vs, one of side stones Si the other Vs. Centre with chipped girdle.
Lot 321
A collection of 9ct gold and other bar brooches, 9ct gold fob, two silver fobs, Victorian pin etc. (Q) Good time-aged condition the lot comprises-9ct gold bar brooch set with seed pearls, gilt metal circular brooch, jade green bar brooch, gilt metal locket (a/f), 9ct gold bar brooch, yellow metal bar brooch, pin set with tooth mount, yellow metal bar brooch, two Victorian pins, silver fob, 9ct gold fob, silver fob, continental silver pin set with amethyst stone, two gilt metal bar brooches and one black bar brooch probably jet.
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Lot 529
[Barlow, William]. Magneticall Advertisements: Or, Divers Pertinent Observations, and Approved Experiments Concerning the Nature and Properties of the Load-Stone: Very Pleasant for Knowledge, and Most Needfull for Practise, of Travelling, or Framing of Instruments fit for Travellers both by Sea and Land, 1st ed., 1616, 80 pp. only (of 86 pp., lacking N1-4 & O1), woodcut headpieces and initials, illustrations, occasional light soiling, a few frayed foredges, previous owner signature to title, modern cloth, small 4to. STC 1442. Contains Barlow’s discovery of the directional properties of the compass-needle. The book’s publication was the subject of a dispute with Mark Ridley, who had published his own A Short Treatise of Magneticall Bodies and Motions in 1613. (1).
Lot 333
Stone (Reynolds, 1909-1979). A series of five autograph letters signed, ‘Reynolds Stone’, The Old Rectory, Litton Cheney, Dorchester, Dorset, 2nd June 1955, to 13th February 1956, all addressed to Bernard, plus one further letter to Helen, signed Reynolds S., all concerning a proposed exhibition, and all but the first written in brown ink, the last letter giving a list of three watercolours and fourteen engravings, ‘If I can’t come and fetch the exhibits at the end of their time (a month you said?) it might be possible that John Sparrow at All Souls would consent to house them temporarily. I hope the exhibits explain themselves. I am sorry if the ones relying on lettering are not of much interest to your common room users. But lettering and typography might be of some interest in itself and is useful in its application not least to scientists. The technique also of engraving might be interesting with its impartial treatment of symbol, pattern and illusion, or fictional suggestion’, two letters with a few spots and small smudges without loss of sense, one or 2 pp., oblong 8vo, the last letter 2 pp., 4to. (6).
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