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A Three Piece Dining Room Set with Chinoiserie Decoration, 20th Century, Comprising of a Drexel breakfront, together with an unmarked side board, dining table and six chairs, including two armchairs and four side chairs.Breakfront dimensions: h: 79 1/2 x w: 54 x d: 14 in.Side board dimensions: h: 34 x w: 54 1/4 x d: 20 in.Table dimensions: h: 29 3/4 x w: 96 1/8 x d: 40 1/8 in.Chair dimensions: h: 35 x w: 20 x d: 20 3/4 in. Note condition: surface wear, scratches and losses to finish throughout set.
Did You Ever See Such Damned Stuff? Or, So-Much-the-Better. A Story Without Head or Tail, Wit or Humour. Rantum-skantum is the Word, and Nonsense shall ensue. London: "Printed by C. G. Seyffert in Pall-mall," 1790. 8vo (154 x 100mm). Woodcut headpieces and initials (lacks all before title and one leaf of "Table of Chapters", corner of B1 torn away affecting one letter on verso, B1 and B2 lightly soiled, some spotting and staining, a few leaves creased). Contemporary calf (rebacked with modern red morocco lettering-piece, joints split, quite heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: W. Eames (early signature on front pastedown). The Chapter titles give an indication of the tone of this extraordinary and nonsensical work: "Chap. I. Which promises more than it performs. Chap. II. A new form of interviews. Chap. III. All unexpected. Chap. IV. In which there is not much. Chap. V. In which the Prince does not know what to think. Chap. VI. All nonsense: so much the better. Chap. VII. Worse and worse. Is that possible? Chap. VIII. The Inquisitor-general in a terrible taking. Chap. IX. There never was a more foolish one. Chap. X. Way to break an inchantment." The author is unknown. RARE. No copy ever seems to have appeared at auction. Sold not subject to return.
GROSLEY, Pierre-Jean (1718-85). A Tour to London; or, New Observations on England and its Inhabitants ... Translated from the French by Thomas Nugent. London: printed for Lockyer Davis, 1772. 2 volumes, 8vo (208 x 130mm). (Some staining, a few short tears without loss.) Contemporary calf, spines with raised bands and red morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed, spines a little darkened, later endpapers). Provenance: Rev. Mr Spencer (label, and an early signature). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The contents list of the first volume attests to the work`s variety: it includes chapters on Combats, The Poor, Wines, Their Antipathy to the French, Commerce and Merchants, The English Melancholy, its Causes, Effects, and Remedies, National Pride, how far Melancholy may be productive of it, Suicide, Madmen and Lunatics, Freethinkers [etc.,etc.].The work is additionally remarkable for containing the first recorded account of a sandwich. "A minister of state passed four and twenty hours at a public gaming-table, so absorpt in play, that, during the whole time, he had no subsistence but a bit of beef, between two slices of toasted bread, which he ate without ever quitting the game. This new dish grew highly in vogue, during my residence in London: it was called by the name of the minister, who invented it" (vol. one, p.149). (2)
The New Plain Dealer; or Freeman`s Budgets. No. I. Containing an Impartial State of the Case between John Bull and G. R. ... The Second Edition. [General; title:] The New Plain Dealer, a Curry-Comb for Double Dealers. London: Sold for the Editor, by J. W. Fores, [1792]-May 1792. Parts I - III in one volume, 8vo (209 x 128mm). Engraved "Portrait of an English Citizen who was two Years imprisoned in English Bastilles without Trial, Conviction or Sentence," large folding letterpress table, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, folding hand-coloured plate (torn without loss of about one third of the plate), engraved plate of a fire grate at the end. Modern half calf preserving old marbled boards. Provenance: The Earl of Enniskillen (armorial bookplate). Sold not subject to return.
SCOTLAND - Robert SMALL (1732-1808). A Statistical Account of the Parish and Town of Dundee, in the Year MDCCXCII. Dundee: Printed by T. Colvill, [n.d.]. [Bound with:] Robert EDWARD. A Description of the County of Angus, Translated from the Original Latin of Robert Edward, Minister of Murroes. Dundee: T. Colvill, 1793 [And:] Statistical Accounts. Of the Town and Parish of Perth, and Parish of Kinnoul. In the Years 1794 & 1795. Perth: R. Morison, 1796. Folding table of "State of the Funds, for building a Bridge over the Tay at Perth". 3 works bound in one volume, 8vo (210 x 130mm). (Occasional light spotting and staining.) 19th-century half tan morocco gilt (rubbed). With John Smith`s Galic[sic] Antiquities: Consisting of a History of the Druids, particularly of those of Caledonia (Edinburgh, 1780, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached). The lot sold not subject to return. (2)
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