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A model of a hot air winding engine, built by the late Mr Brian Marshall of Chichester, with central spoked flywheel on turned mahogany supporting frame, the hot air engine on table support with brass spirit fired burner, the single cylinder being water cooled and linked to unusual pedestal supported fined brass cooler, 25cm x 17cm, 37cm high.
A well engineered model of a Stuart Turner ‘James Coombes’ live steam table engine, built by Mr N. Hooper of Devon to the Andrew Smith design which is reputed to be based on the Bristol colliery engine which ran for over a hundred years, with single cylinder 1 inch bore x 2 inch stroke, supported on four turned columns, cylinder drain cocks, speed governor with shut off linkage to steam inlet, finished in green paintwork with polished brightwork, stands on a hardwood plinth, 36cm high overall.
L'Estrange (Sir Roger) - Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists... lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, with engraved plate, Alphabetical Table of Fables, torn at corner with loss, some light finger-soiling, contemporary ink annotation and stains to last page, later tree calf, gilt, spine with raised bands, [Wing A706], 4to, R.Sare, T.Sawbridge, B.Took, M.Gillyflower, A. & F. Churchil and F.Hindmarsh, 1692.
[Holmes (Oliver Wendell)] - The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, first edition, first issue , letterpress title printed in red & black with period after Company , additional title, 8 plates, advertisements on endpapers, original green cloth, gilt title with 4 gilt monograms on spine, minor rubbing and spotting, but overall a very good copy, 8vo, Boston, 1858.
Darwin (Charles) - The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, sixth edition, "with additions and corrections" (thirteenth thousand), folding lithographed table (light spotted), lacking half-title, a little cropped, modern half green morocco, gilt, by Bayntun-Rivière, quotation "There is grandeur in this view of life" in gilt on upper cover, spine gilt, g.e., 8vo, 1873.
Holmes (Oliver Wendell) - The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; The Professor at the Breakfast Table; The Poet at the Breakfast Table, together 3 vol., each one of 250 large paper copies , illustrations by H.M.Brock, vol.1 with A.L.s. from the artist tipped in, modern half morocco in different colours, spines gilt, t.e.g., 1902 § Forster |(E.M.) The Celestial Omnibus, 1911 § MacCarthy (Desmond) Portraits; Criticism; Experience, together 3 vol., each one of 150 or 100 copies, the first two signed by the author, 1931-35 § Lang (A.) Adventures among Books, A.L.s. from the author loosely inserted, 1905 § Tillotson (Geoffrey) Augustan Studies, tipped-in A.L.s. from the author to Jack Hodges " I don't suppose you'ld want a headship, but what a fine headmaster you'ld make ", 1961 § Connolly (Cyril) Enemies of Promise, signed presentation copy to John Hayward , 1938; The Unquiet Grave, inscribed by the author to Tom Driberg, 1944, all but the first first editions , original cloth, the last two with dust-jackets, some a little rubbed with slightly faded spines ; and c.50 others, essays, criticism etc., 8vo & 4to (c.60)
Visscher (Nicolaes) - Carte de l'Afrique Meridionale, ou Pays entre la ligne & Le Cap de Bonne Esperance, et l'Isle de Madagascar, southern Africa with inset maps and view of the Cape of Good Hope and Table Mountain, title panel above, engraved map with original hand-colouring, 510 x 580mm., slight wear at head and foot of central vertical fold, faint spotting, Amsterdam, Nicolaes Visscher's widow, c.1710.
Reeve (Lovell Augustus) - Conchologia Systematica, or Complete System of Conchology..., 2 vol., first edition , folding table and 301 hand-coloured engraved plates, some light offsetting and occasional foxing, contemporary calf, gilt, covers elaborately tooled with foliate borders, rebacked and recased preserving original covers (with several repairs to insect damage), g.e., [Nissen ZBI 3332], 4to, 1841-1842.
An early 20th century Jacobean style extending oak refectory style table, bearing ivorine label reading 'The Ee-Zi-Way Extending Dining Table, rectangular top over carved frieze, on robust carved baluster legs, with central stretcher and splayed feet, 197cmW x 91cmD x 77cmH (fully extended)
CIRCLE OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH R.A. (1727-1788) A portrait of John Parke (1745-1829), seated at a table beside an oboe and holding sheet music, three-quarter length, oil on canvas, 48" x 37.5", in a gilt gesso frame bearing namepiece "John Parke. Thomas Gainsborough. R.A.". John Parke (1745-1829) oboist, who studied the oboe under Simpson and musical theory under Baumgarten. John Parke was appointed principal oboe at the opera, and in the same year he played at the first Birmingham Festival, and also at the Three Choirs Festival at Hereford. He continued to perform at The Three Choirs Festival for 35 years. During his career he was also a concerto player at Vauxhall Gardens, first oboe at Drury Lane Theatre, and a chamber musician employed by the Prince of Wales. Provenance: The Batten family, Church Farm, Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset.
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARCHITECTS TABLE, the rising top with easel support and candlestand above a fitted drawer with compartments and rotating inkwell, on separating front legs with internal columns and conforming rear legs, 34" high x 36" wide. Provenance: The Batten family, Church Farm, Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset. Provenance: The Batten family, Church Farm, Ryme Intrinseca, Dorset.
A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH "REGENCE" STYLE CENTRE TABLE with a rectangular panel of grey marble within a gilt border, on a gilt and grey painted frieze and four conforming legs with pierced and gilt decorated detailing tapering to a wavy "X"-form stretcher, with gilt leaf decoration, on short fluted and foliate carved legs, 32" high x 29" wide. See illustration. Provenance: Sotheby's Amsterdam auction "Of Royal and Noble Descent", February 2003, at which time the provenance was "The Majorits Palace, Vienna", laterly the Chateau de Magnanne, Loire Valley, France, the property of the Marquis de Magnanne.
A LARGE FRENCH REFECTORY STYLE TAVERN OR HALL TABLE, the broad single plank top with applied border, on later square section chamfered uprights, 28" high x 146" x 34", possibly 17th century and later. See illustration. Provenance: From the Chateau de Magnanne, Loire Valley, France. Property of the Marquis de Magnanne.
A LARGE ITALIAN WALNUT CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top with two central planks within a bordered surround, on a fluted frieze, on twelve tapering stop fluted legs and square section stretchers, possibly Venetian, 17th century, 34.5" high x 108" x 57". See illustration. Provenance: From the Chateau de Magnanne, Loire Valley, France, property of the Marquis de Magnanne.
A REPORUDCTION 'MID SIZED JUPE' EXPANDING DINING TABLE, the broad top in eight sections, on a heavy turned central column and quadraform base, with heavy Regency style animal paw feet, the eight additional leaves stored in a fitted stand, the table 29.5" high x 73" wide (closed). See illustration.
Chinese porcelain table screen enamelled in colours with figures by the Great Wall of China, with calligraphy and red mark, in a carved and pierced hardwood stand, image size 35.5cm x 26cm, Overall condition good no damge to frame or plaque some slight scratches to frame In our opinion this item is circa 1900
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