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Click here to subscribeA Wedgwood blue jasperware dressing table set, decorated neo-classical figures within acorn leaf borders. Comprising:- a rectangular tray with angled corners, 10.25in. (26cm.) diameter; a pair of candlesticks, 6in. (15cm.) high and a hair tidy with open cover, 3.5in. (9cm.) high. Circa 1900. (4).
A pair of Samson of Paris late 19th century armorial porcelain plates, one with the arms of the Royal family, the other with a Ducal armorial. 9.5in. (24cm) diameter. Together with a Spode Ironstone china plate, decorated oriental foliage, 10in. (25.5cm.) diameter and another Ironstone china plate. (All first half 19th century). Together with a pair of early 19th century French faience soup plates, blue and rust floral decorated, 9.25in. (23.5cm.) diameter and a Dutch blue and white plate, decorated a tub on a table and foliage, 7.5in. (19cm.) diameter. Together with a tureen stand in Kerdasten Japan pattern and a Fenton oriental style plate, 9.25in. (23.5cm.) diameter. (9).
Peacock (W., pub.). A Compendious Geographical Dictionary, containing, a Concise Description of the Most Remarkable Places, Ancient and Modern, in Europe, Asia, Africa, & America, 2nd ed., c.1795, six folding maps including the continents and a twin-hemeisphere map of The World, plus one folding astronomical chart, some minor fraying to outer margins of maps, contemp. calf, leather label to spine, rubbed with some fraying to extrems., together with Guthrie (William), Guthrie's Geographical Grammar, in Miniature; containing the Present State of the Several Kingdoms of the World, 22nd ed., 1810, six folding maps including a twin-hemisphere map of The World, contemp. morocco gilt, and Capper (B.P.), A Compendious Geographical Dictionary, containing a Description of Every Remarkable Place in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, 4th ed., 1813, 8 folding engraved maps and a folding astronomical table, a few spots and marks, modern buckram, plus one other similar, all 12mo (4)
Uring (Captain Nathaniel). A History of the Voyages and Travels of Captain Nathaniel Uring. With new Draughts of the Bay of Honduras and the Caribbee Islands; and particularly of St. Lucia, and the Harbour of Petite Carenage... very useful for Masters of Ships that use the Leeward Island Trade, or Jamaica, 2 parts in one, 1726-5,. lacks maps, and one leaf of contents, table torn with loss, some dust soiling and marks, contemp. half calf, worn & rubbed, lower joint cracked & weak, upper joint crudely repaired, one lower corner lacking, 8vo Sabin 98124. Sold with all faults, not subject to return. (1)
Gilpin (William). Observations on the Western Parts of England, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; to which are Added, a Few Remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight, 2nd ed., 1808, 18 sepia aquatint views, complete as list, pubs. ad. to final page, endpapers lightly foxed, 20th c. cloth, damp-mottled, gilt lettered spine, 8vo, together with Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, made in the year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Brtain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland, 2 vols., 2nd ed., 1792, thirty-one oval tinted aquas., two rect. aquas., one line sketch, five maps and a table, title-pages lightly browned, and with contemp. ms. name to upper margin, contemp. marbled calf gilt, rubbed, headcaps repaired, 8vo (3)
Taunt (Henry W.). A New Map of the River Thames, from Oxford to London, from Entirely News Surveys, Taken During the Summer of 1871: with a Guide, Giving every Information Required by the Tourist, the Oarsman, and the Angler, 2nd ed., Oxford, 1873, twenty-four sketch maps, mostly with small mounted albumen photos., commercial ads. at rear, browning mostly to endpapers, paper adhered to printed ads. on pastedowns, orig. cloth, slighlt soiled and rubbed, oblong 8vo, together with A New Map of the River Thames, from Thames Head to London... from Entirely New Surveys Finished During the Summer of 1878..., 5th ed., [1886], folding map, folding table, double-page maps with mounted photos (lacks map 17), two single-page plts., commercial ads. at rear, orig. pictorial cloth, rubbed & extrems. frayed, 8vo (2)
An occasional table, the glazed near square top with a needlework panel of a bird in flowers within a mahogany frame, on a walnut base with fluted leaf carved trumpet stem, the circular base on flattened bun feet. 18.25in. (46.5cm.) diameter. 19th century but associated.
A brass and wood Jugendstihl table centre, the cirucalr bowl supported on three external legs in the Art Nouveau manner, the sides of the bowl decorated with a continuous band of dancing, naked children playing instruments, inlaid in cut brass on a wood ground. 10.25in. (26.5cm.) diameter. Circa 1900.
Automaton Exhibition ticket. Under the Patronage of the Emperor of Austria and the King and Queen of Prussia. Napoleon Rooms, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Admit Two to the Private Inspection of Professor Faber's Euphonia, or Speaking Automaton; July 18th, 20th, and 21st ..., [ 1846?], printed circular given to T. Crofton Croker with his name inserted in ink, 1 p., integral blank, horizontal folds, minor creasing and dust-soiling, 8vo. Joseph Faber was born around 1800 in Freiburg, and after a career in astronomy was diverted into anatomy and mechanics. He read von Kempelen's book on the mechanisms of human speech and began work on a talking machine sometime during the 1820s. After some success with a machine in New York and the encouragement of Joseph Henry, Faber pursued the promotion of the talking machine. In 1846 Phineas T. Barnum, following his success with the midget Tom Thumb, talent-spotted Faber's machine, named it the Euphonia and took it off to be exhibited in London at the Egyptian Hall. John Hollingshead described his visit to see it: "I paid my shilling and was shown into a larger room, half filled with boxes and timber and badly lighted with lamps. In the centre was a box on the table, looking like a rough piano without legs and having two keyboards. This was surmounted by a half-length weird figure, rather bigger than a full-grown man, with an automaton head and face looking more mysteriously vacant than such faces usually look. Its mouth was large, and opened like the jaws of Gorgibuster in the pantomime, disclosing artificial gums, teeth and all the organs of speech... One keyboard, touched by the Professor, produced words which, slowly and deliberately in a hoarse sepulchral voice came from from the mouth of the figure, as if from the depths of a tomb. It wanted little imagination to make the very few visitors that the figure contained an imprisoned human - or half human-being, bound to speak slowly when tormented from an unseen power outside. No one thought for a minute that they were being fooled...". Melville Bell, soon to become the father of Alexander Graham Bell, was then working on a phonetic alphabet to help teach the deaf to speak. The Euphonia made a deep impression on Melville Bell and it remained with him when he took his son Alexander, then aged 16, to see Sir Charles Wheatstone. On the back of this meeting Alexander set about building his own talking head, later developing a "Harmonic Telegraph" and it 1876 he developed a working telephone with Thomas Watson. (1)
Bonet (Theophile). A Guide to the Practical Physician, 1686,. lacks half title, final leaf of table det. and defective, some embrowning throughout, occn. mostly marginal worm tracing, ownership signature of Peter Clare [probably the London Surgeon, 1738-86; see DNB], contemp. mottled calf, worn and joints cracked, folio. A re-issue of the first edition of 1684 with a cancel title page. (1)
A 19th Century rosewood Centre Table, with a gilt tooled burgundy writing inset, the frieze fitted on either side with two drawers and two dummy drawers, raised on plain rectangular columns, joined by a ring turned spindle stretcher and splayed supports with compressed bun feet, 38 ½” wide
An Art Deco period pale blue tinted glass Dressing Table Set, comprising: An oval Tray, well etched with mermaids, one playing a flute, the other clutching a wreath of scales; Together with Candlestick; Three covered Pots and a Ring Stand, (one pot and candlestick repaired)
A mixed lot of electroplated wares comprising: A circular Pot Stand of pierced form with three compressed bun feet; Together with a rectangular and baluster Table Caster; A pair of Condiment Spoons and a further example; Electroplated and ivory handled Fish Knife and Forks with silver ribbed ferrules; Antler handled Bread Knife; 10 mother of pearl handled Dessert Forks and a further example; 3 Pickle Forks; Sifter Spoon; Grape Shears; Butter Knife and Sugar Tongs
A mixed lot comprising: A Dutch white metal Tot Cup, of urn form; Together with a white metal lidded Dressing Table Pot, of oval form and a Victorian Trinket Box, of embossed circular form, with signed cartouche and plain pull-off cover, to a gilt interior, London 1890, Makers C S H, (3)
A George V silver and tortoiseshell mounted part Dressing Table Set, comprising: Hand Mirror; Hair Brush; Clothes Brush; Rectangular cut glass and lidded Pot and a further hinged lidded circular Trinket Box, each with shaped silver borders and plain polished tortoiseshell backs, various dates and makers, (5)
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