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Central Asiatic Expeditions (Roy Chapman Andrews, Leader). The Permian of Mongolia. A Report of the Permian Fauna of the Jisu Honguer Limestone of Mongolia and its Relations to the Permian of other Parts of the World, by Amadeus W. Grabau (Natural History of Asia, vol. IV), pub. American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1931, folding map and table, thirty-five half-tone plts. at rear, orig. yellow cloth, lettered and blocked in black, with matching d.j., thick 4to. A good copy. (1)
Wiltshire. Simmons (Matthew), Wiltshire, [1635 or later], uncoloured engraved miniature map, slight dust soiling, 105 x 105mm. Engraved by Jacob van Langeren, these `thumb nail` maps were first published in `A Direction for the English Traviller` in 1635. It combines John Norden`s recently invented distance table and a very naive map which concentrates on the county rivers, squashed into the lower right corner. Scarce. (1)
* Gillray (James). Search Night - or - State Watchmen mistaking Honest men for Conspirators. Vide State Arrests, pub. H.Humphrey, March 20th 1798, etching on wove with bright original hand colouring, laid onto an old album page, 260 x 360mm (10.25 x 14 inches) Pitt and Dundas break down the door on a coven of `conspirators`. This den of republicans is comprised of the leading members of the Whigs. Fox and Sheridan escape through the loft, The Dukes of Bedford and Norfolk flee up the chimney, three more hide under the table; only Lord Moira stands his ground. The room is littered with `bonnet-rouges`, broadsides of the guillotine and portraits of Napolean and Robespierre. A chest of Jacobite daggers spills onto the floor. (1)
* Newton (Richard). The First Interview, or an - Envoy from Yarmony to Improve the Breed, pub. S.W.Fores, 1797, etching on wove with original hand colouring, trimmed to neat line, 240 x 325mm (9.5 x 12.75 inches) A caricature which reproduces the initial meeting between The Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick. The prince is portrayed as having an enormous belly which is carried on the back of a negro servant. A carpenter cuts an oval into a table to accommodate the prince`s stomach and ponders on how the prince will `reach` his new bride. Naive, but bawdy and vicious with an almost comic strip quality this caricature typifies Newton`s style. (1)
* Newton (Richard). Over Weight_or the Sinking Fund_or the Downfall of Faro, pub. S.W.Fores, March 14th 1797, etching on laid with original hand colouring, upper margin strengthened on verso 280 x 370mm (11 x 14.5 inches) The weight of the obscenely obese Lady Buckinghamshire plunges her carriage through a weigh station. Lady Buckinghamshire had recently been exposed as having duped and cheated gullible young men at the gaming, or `Faro` table. (1)
Pasley (Charles William). Observations on the Expediency and Practicability of Simplying and Improving the Measures, Weights, and Money, used in this Country, without materially altering the present standards, 1st trade ed., 1834, 320 pp. [sic], wood eng. illusts. to text, pp. 175/176 (cancel) with marginal manuscript note of explanation in the holograph of J. W. Connolly, vertical split to lower half of leaf with archival tape repairs, presentation note by Connolly to title, Brompton Barracks, 8th September 1862, noting that the book was given to him by Captain Pasley R.E., the son of the author, eight-page autograph letter signed from Pasley Junior to Connolly tipped-in at front of book and dated 3rd December 1862, wherein Pasley explained his theory about why other copies of the book end on page 176, with an additional note by Connolly on the same subject to front free endpaper, and a further two page autograph letter from Pasley dated 8th September 1862 concerning his father and this book, orig. cloth with printed paper label to spine, spine frayed and label chipped and browned, 8vo. Kress C3813. This copy is a bibliographical curiosity, containing some 144 pages more than all other copies traced in libraries, but according to Pasley Junior`s long letter not unique: `In one of many copies which I possess of the edition in pp. 320, I have found, one a flyleaf a manuscript note in my father`s handwriting, and, from the freshness of the ink, evidently a recent date, which seems to decide the question. It is as follows: ÒNB. This book was not published in its present state, nor even finished, though very little was wanting to complete it according to the plan I had in view; because a Select Committee of the House of Commons with Lord Ebrington as Chairman was appointed for the revision of the Standards of Weights and Measures whilst the Work was in progress, which induced me to cut it short at the end of Article 294 [293] pages 176 & 177, and publish it forthwith, in hopes that it might lead to the Decimalization of our National Weights, Measures, and MoneyÓ ... I have no doubt the work as it stands is still incomplete, and that my Father intended to add to it, as well as to complete the table of Contents, and that the book, as it now is, has never been strictly speaking published, although a sufficient number of copies have been made up to meet an occasional, but not frequent, demand on the part of persons who take a special interest either in the subject or in the Author`. (1)
Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romains..., Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amiot..., 1631, printers woodcut device to title and with early ink ownership annotations, woodcut illust. decorations throughout, incomplete lacking numerous leaves including front blank (A1), pp.3-18 (B2-C3), pp.197-242 (S3-Y1), pp.709-744 (3P1-3R6), pp.985-1014 (4P1-4R3) and pp.1153-1184 (5F1-5H4), repaired closed tear to leaf H3, repaired small hole to leaves 5P4-5P8 (final 5 leaves of table at rear), some minor dampstaining mostly to upper margins at rear of volume, endpapers replaced, early 18th c. speckled calf, 20th c. reback, board edges rubbed, folio. STC 20070. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
Brooke (George Cyril). A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum. The Norman Kings, 2 vols., 1916, numerous b & w plts., one folding table, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Kenyon (Robert Lloyd), The Gold Coins of England, Arranged and Described: being a Sequel to Mr. Hawkins` Siver Coins of England, pub. Bernard Quaritch, 1884, eng. frontis. and twenty-three plts., t.e.g., orig. publisher`s qtr. sheep gilt, spine rubbed and worn, 8vo, with Head (Barclay V.), Historia Numorum, A Manual of Greek Numismatics, new enlarged ed., Oxford, 1911, b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, thick 8vo, and Allen (D.F.), A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum. The Cross and Crosslets (`Tealby`) Type of Henry II, pub. 1951, b & w plts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus British Numismatic Journal, vols. 9-11, 1912-16, b & w plts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, 4to (8)
Walker (Richard). The Flora of Oxfordshire, and its Contiguous Counties (Comprising the Flowering Plants only), Arranged in Easy and Familiar Language, According to the Linnaean and Natural Systems, 1st ed., Oxford, 1833, twelve eng. plts., folding table, interleaved with blanks, contemp. manuscript annotations, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with Warton (Rev. Thomas), The History and Antiquities of Kiddington: First Published as a Specimen of a History of Oxfordshire, 3rd ed., 1815, eng. frontis. (heavily spotted), contemp. half morocco gilt, rubbed and some minor wear, slim 4to, plus Excursions in the County of Norfolk: Comprising a Brief Historical and Topographical Delineation of every Town and Village... , 2 vols., 1818, folding map and plan, num. eng. plts., some minor scattered spotting, contemp. polished morocco, spines with raised bands and contrasting labels, sl. rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous topography, mostly Oxford and Cambridge interest (a carton)
Four Victorian silver tablespoons, by George Adams, London, 1871, two table forks, Glasgow, 1847, six dessert spoons, six teaspoons, a tablespoon, four table forks, by Richard Martin & Ebenezer Hall, London, 1874, silver tablespoon by George Adams, London, 1871, six George IV Irish silver fiddle pattern forks, Dublin, 1822, and two George IV irish silver teaspoons, Dublin, 1826, 51oz, (32), PROVENANCE: all engraved with the crest and some with the motto of the Stewart family. Granddaughter of FH Burberry.
Rare and unusual George I clock by Richard Glynne, London, circa 1720-1725, a fruitwood cased table clock (probably previously ebonised), surmounted by a revolving celestial globe showing phases of the moon on brass S supports with a flower and foliage engraved front bracket above the inverted bell top. The brass 7.5" dial has a very rare trefoil shaped chapter ring (see below) with Roman numerals, and the spandrels are engraved with figures emblematic of the seasons. The centre of the dial has a matt finish. The arch has a subsidiary dial with twin rings one showing minutes and the other lunar dates for the phases of the moon with Arabic numerals (hands missing). On brass ball feet. There are glazed sides and doors enclosing the eight day single train fusee movement. The brass back plate is engraved with scrolling foliage and "Richard Glynne Londini fecit", 25.25" high There are several unusual features in this clock 1 The case is surmounted by a revolving moon phase globe driven by a vertical pillar and a series of cogs from the movement. Knowing the correct moon phase was important because trips on horseback or by coach were much less safe on a dark night and crops could be harvested by the light of the moon. This however is an unusual way of depicting phases of the moon. 2 The trefoil shaped chapter ring is extremely rare although there are a few examples by Glynne`s contemporary Richard Street (See below) On 28th May 1982 Sothebys sold a wall clock by Richard Street of Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street. (Lot five in the sale described as a "sale of nine English clocks"). The clock had previously been sold by them in 1953. The similarities of the two dials are striking not only because of the shape of the chapter ring which was described as pear shaped but because of the style of the engraving of the foliage and numerals and the matt finish to the centre of the dial. Street and Glynne worked close to one another; Street is recorded in Fleet Street until he is thought to have died in 1722 and Glynne was in Fleet Street from 1718-1729 when he retired. 3 The single hour hand mechanism. The shape of the chapter ring means that there must be special arrangements for the single hour hand the shape of which again very closely resembles the hand in the Street clock. The whole of the inner dial revolves and the hand is fixed but has to follow the contours of the inner border of the chapter ring. This is achieved by a spring loading which seems to be the same in both clocks. Street was a distinguished but little known clockmaker whereas Glynne although also described as a clockmaker was much better known for his finely engraved scientific instruments. It is reasonable to suggest that the eccentric dial may well have provided by Street although it is conversely equally possible that the dials were made by Glynne and used by Street in his clocks! There may also have been a contribution from Glynne`s business partner in the 1720s Anne Lea, whose father and mother Philli and Anne Lea were noted ma and globe sellers.(See below) HISTORICAL NOTES RICHARD GLYNNE Richard Glynne (1681-1755), was apprenticed to Henry Wynne in 1696 in the Clockmakers` Company of which he became a freeman in 1705: he became Steward of the Company in 1725. He worked first at the sign of the Atlas and Hercules (1712-16) in Cheapside and subsequently (1718-29) opposite Salisbury Court in Fleet Street, London. On obtaining his freedom in 1705, he married Anne Lea, the daughter of the noted ma and globe-sellers Phili and Anne Lea (see below). From at least 1712 he was working in association if not in formal partnership, with his mother-in-law, advertising a new pair of globes in 1712, and publishing and marketing maps. In parallel with this activity, he made and sold `all sorts of Mathematical instruments, either for Land or Sea, according to the newest improvements` as he stated in an advertisement in 1726. There is another reference to advertising `all Kinds of Dials, Spheres and Globes of all Sizes.` A variety of scientific instruments by Glynne are indeed known. All are of high quality, with clean, well executed engraving uncluttered by unnecessary decoration. Glynne`s fine instruments recommended themselves to a fashionable clientèle, and he was sufficiently successful to be able to retire at the relatively early age of 49 in 1729, his stock being auctioned at the sho of the optician Edward Scarlett in 1730. There is an impressive armillary orrery in the Science Museum in Oxford, dating from around 1720 and standing just over a metre in height. The Museum state on their website that it must have been at the to of his range: an impressive and expensive purchase by one of his most wealthy customers. RICHARD STREET Richard Street was apprenticed to Thomas Tompion; he became a freeman of the Clockmakers Company in 1687 and was elected Junior Warden in 1713. He worked in Shoe Lane just off Fleet Street and there is evidence that he was responsible for some of Tompion`s repeating watch movements. He was undoubtedly well connected and probably his most famous commission is the important Degree Clock which is now at the Old Observatory at Greenwich. This may have been "The black clock on the back stairs" described in Sir Isaac Newton`s personal papers after his death. Sir Isaac had also commissioned from Street a fine and highly unusual clock as a gift for Doctor Bentley who was Master of Trinity College Cambridge in 1708, it apparently had an eccentric chapter ring and an expanding and contracting hand. There is no record of him after 1722 when it is presumed he died.. The dial of the wall clock sold by Sothebys and mentioned above has striking similarities to the dial of this clock by Richard Glynne ANNE LEA Anne Lea was mother in law of Richard Glynne and inherited from her husband Philli who died in 1700. He had been apprenticed to Robert Morden in 1675 and by 1683 was in business as a globe maker with Robert Morden and William Berry. He was one of the leading English map-makers and publishers of his day and described himself as a globe maker in advertisements and in a catalogue of "Globes, spheres, maps, mathematical projections, books, and instruments" in the 1790s. On his death he left a third of all his maps, plates and globes to his wife with the remainder to his children. She also inherited one third of his globe plates. Their daughter, also Anne, married Richard Glynne. Mother and daughter therefore would have inherited a large part of Philli Lea`s stock in trade, which would have been available to Richard Glynne. CONDITION Multiple images of this clock are available. Buyers will be able to assess the condition from these images. The following comments may be of further assistance. There is a screw thread at the to of the globe and obviously a finial is missing from here The glass on the globe is badly cracked The hands from the subsidiary dial are lost. We have removed the globe and to plate and have found no other screw holes in the case indicating that the globe is an original feature and was not added later in place of a handle. Several cogs in the mechanism for driving the globe are replacements The escapement and pendulum are replacements for an original verge escapement. The two large brass brackets holding the clock in the case are not original. There is a hole drilled in the base of the case where it is assumed that some support for the movement was housed but is no longer there. The brass feet are thought to be replacements PROVENANCE This clock is has been sent in for sale by executors from an estate in Winchester. Family tradition indicates that this clock was inherited through the Bohn family of Hull and through earlier connections from the Boleyns.
Oak circular extending dining table, the central pedestal with four scrolling supports carved with a hound, fox, boar and stag, with fold-down supports when fully extended, with three extra leaves, 100" fully extended, set of six oak rail back dining chairs, and sideboard with glazed doors on carved lion supports over two drawers and cupboard on square base, 92" high, 56" wide, 21" deep,
19th century rosewood and floral marquetry inlaid octagonal table, on a later carved mahogany column and three scrolling feet, PROVENANCE: original receipt, 1971, for purchase from Alan Bennett Antiques, Truro, Cornwall, £32. 28 x 21 x 21in. (71.12 x 53.34 x 53.34cm)
Regency mahogany tea table, with fold over top, on a turned and carved column, four scroll supports and lion`s paw feet, PROVENANCE: Original receipt, Feb 1966, £52 and 10 shillings, John McMaster Period Furniture, Brasted, Kent. 28.50 x 36 x 18in. (72.39 x 91.44 x 45.72cm)
Early 19th century French Kingwood and brass inlaid work table, the serpentine lift-u to with internal mirror, over a single drawer on shaped and brass mounted cabriole legs, PROVENANCE: Original receipt from Red Tiles Antiques, Uckfield, Sussex, Jan 1974, £260. 30 x 25 x 17.50in. (76.20 x 63.50 x 44.45cm)
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