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1818 Auctioneers
Lot 101

A rams horn and burr maple table lamp with oversized decorative bulb.

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1818 Auctioneers
Lot 154

A pair of Tiffany style table lamps having dragon fly decoration to green and blue glass shade.

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1818 Auctioneers
Lot 217

A selection of vintage table linen, including embroidered items and a leather collar case.

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1818 Auctioneers
Lot 95

A 1930s dressing table Barbola mirror.

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Clarke and Simpson Auctions
Lot 5

A Day At The Seaside... Spend a day at a traditional seaside beach hut with a welcoming bottle of champagne, situated North of the iconic Southwold Pier. Carpark, toilets, boating lake, pitch & putt, cafes, tea rooms, restaurants and vintage market are all nearby. Fully kitted out with plates, mugs, glasses, cutlery etc. Gas hob and grill. Kettle (water supply nearby). Washing up equipment and tea towels. Chairs and table. Loads of buckets and spades for children. To be taken on a mutually agreed date in 2023.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 100

The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William And Queen Mary, To The Inhabitants Of The Province Of The Massachusetts-Bay In New-England. Boston in New England: Printed by B. Green, Printer to the Honourable the Lieut, Governour & Council, for Benjamin Eliot, and Sold at his Shop near the Town-House in King’s Street. 1726. Bound by Blackwell in pebbled brown boards with gilt lettering on the spine that reads “King William’s Charter To The Inhabitants Of Massachusetts 1726”, with wide gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, followed by four blank endpapers and the title page, then twelve pages of text, the two-page Explanatory Charter granted by His Majesty King George, and The Table, which is another seventeen pages long, and four more free blank endpapers at the rear. This is an historically significant document. The Charter for Massachusetts Bay was first enacted on May 14, 1692 and severely curtailed the Colony’s autonomy. It also includes the rare Explanatory Charter issued by King George on January 17, 1726, and this went even further in limiting the independence of the Colonies - the Provincial Governor was loyal to the King, and the King expanded the power of the colony’s governor, giving the governor the right to dissolve the House of Representatives and the right to veto their choice of Speaker of the House. (See pages 13 and 14 here.) The Explanatory Charter is often missing, and it is included here. The King’s radical alterations to the Charter was a major point of contention in the colonies, and a significant event leading up to America’s Declaration of Independence and the American Revolutionary War in 1776. The Explanatory Charter set the stage for war between the colonies and Great Britain and led to America’s independence and becoming its own country. The owner’s name John Goodridge is signed at the top of the title page and a partially illegible signature is signed in the margin on A2. We think the name reads Samuel Soul [illegible] County of Oxford, but we’re not sure. The title page has double-ruled borders in black, and The Table that follows the Explanatory Chapter is seventeen pages long, as called for, and is an alphabetical index of topics with double columns. There are printer’s notes in the margins - the margin notes start on page 6 and run all the way through page 14, as called for - and these are not hand-inscribed notes, but come straight from the printer; the margin notes on page 7 clearly say the Governour has Power to Adjourn Prorogue and Dissolve the Assembly as well, and that is the heart of the Explanatory Charter. Other copies we’ve seen lack most or all of the title page, or the explanatory charter, or the Table, and this copy has it all - the fourteen-page long Charter, the Explanatory Charter, and the seventeen-page long Table. Other copies tend to include laws enacted after 1726 - the Acts - and there are no Acts here, just the basic parts of the Charter. The brown boards measure 11 7/8 x 8 in. wide, with very light rubbing along the edges of the spine and at the tips, and the actual Charter shows browning, soiling, and has some holes here and there, but the text is all present, as called for. The condition could be better, but it is the words and text that matter the most here - this is one of the most significant documents in American history and eventually led to freedom for Massachusetts and the rest of the colonies.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 108

A Channel Passage And Other Poems, By Algernon Charles Swinburne, London, Chatto & Windus 1904, a rare first edition, with five raised bands, gilt titles on red labels, six gilt-ruled compartments with gilt devices and “1904” in gilt at the base of the spine, with gilt-fillet borders on full crushed Levant, gilt dentelle borders with the bookplate of Raphaeli Mauritii Bauer on swirled marbled endpapers, the half-title followed by the imprint of Spottiswoode and Co Ltd, New-Street Square, London, followed by the title page and a dedication to William Morris and Edward Burne Jones, three pages for the table of contents, and 213 pages of text followed by the imprint of Spottiswoode again at the bottom of the last page of text, and the top edge is gilt, all in a fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. Swinburne (1837 - 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. who wrote several novels and collections of poetry. He devised a poetic form called the roundel, which corresponded to the French rondeau. The title poem here was inspired by a trip to France: in 1855, Swinburne made his first trip abroad with his uncle. As they were crossing the English Channel, a violent storm thrilled the young poet with its awe-inspiring display of lightning and thunder. It was an unforgettable experience that stuck with Swinburne all his life - the poem here which recalled that crossing was written 40 years after the event, just five years before his death. He was influenced by the works of Shakespeare, Shelley, William Morris, Rossetti, Robert Browning, Tennyson, and Victor Hugo - a temple mount of writers and authors - and he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature every year from 1903 to 1907. Swinburne was also a controversial poet. He was an alcoholic and algolagniac and liked to be flogged, and he wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism, and he was considered a decadent poet; these taboo subjects often attracted Victorian ire, which led to him becoming persona non grata in high society. Rumors about his perversions often filled the broadsheets. Raphaeli Bauer (1864 - 1947) was born in Germany and was a foreign banker trading from London, as well as a stock broker at Drapers Gardens with Eustace Blundell, so he was a man of means. The title poem was first published individually in 1899, and this is a beautiful copy of the rare first edition. It’s easy to tell this is a first edition, too, because it was published by Chatto and Windus, and there is just a single date of 1904 on the title page and no other printings listed on the copyright page. (See Bill McBride, A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions, McBride / Publisher, 585 Prospect Ave., West Hartford, CT 06105.) The book is crown 8vo. and measures 7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide, with clean text and just a hint of rubbing along the front edge of the spine, at the crown and two tips. Overall a very attractive copy of this first edition by Swinburne, bound by one of the premiere binders of the nineteenth century.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 118

The Koran; Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated From The Original Arabic. With Explanatory Notes, Taken From The Most Approved Commentators. To Which Is Prefixed, A Preliminary Discourse, By George Sale, Gent. In Two Volumes,A New Edition, London : Printed For J. Walker; White & Cochrane; C. Law; J. Johnson And Co.; Lackington, Allen And Co.; J. Cuthell; J. Nunn; [et al] 1812. The two volumes have three folding genealogical charts, a folding plan of the temple at Mecca, they are 3/4 bound, with five raised bands, gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling on the spines, marbled covers, marbled endpapers, 244 pages and an 11-page Table [an index] in Vol I, with numerous footnotes, a facsimile letter about Jesus and Mohammed, a fold-out chart about the Genealogical table about the Tribes of the Genuine Arabs, and a fold-out view of the Temple of Mecca; Volume II is 509 pages long, with footnotes, and both volumes are very clean - Volume II has a little bit of spotting, but not much, and it doesn’t detract at all. There’s light rubbing at the crowns and edges of the spines, and it’s hard not to say “wow” when you open up the books and see what’s inside - the text and plates are arranged so well and are eye popping - overall a very attractive set, and each volume measures 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. wide. The Koran (or Quran, Qur’an) is the central religious text of Islam. The first edition was published in 1734, and George Sale (ca. 1696 - 1736) was a solicitor and prominent English orientalist who was the first to translate the Koran directly from Arabic to English. His translation is also notable for his inclusion of the “Preliminary Discourse”, which was a description of all that was known about the religion of Islam at the time. 

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 22

The Life Of Charles Dickens, By John Forster, London: Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly 1873 - 1874, in three volumes, with the imprint of Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, Printers, Whitefriars on the reverse of the title page, The Life Of Charles Dickens on the half-title, 8vo., five raised bands, gilt titles on red and black labels and geometric gilt patterns on the spine, gilt borders on the front and back covers, gilt dentelles on marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Wilson Noble on the front paste-downs, all edges beautifully marbled; the three volumes in fine bindings in full calf by Riviere & Son (Riviere & Son noted at the bottom of the leaf on the reverse of the front free endpaper). Volume The First, 1812 - 1842, thirteenth edition, has a portrait of a young Dickens on the frontispiece; the frontispiece was done after a painting of Dickens by D. Maclise when Dickens was just 27, and it was engraved here by R. Graves, with corrections to the first edition noted on the page before the Table of Contents, which is 12 pages long, and there are 9 illustrations listed after the Table of Contents, and this volume is 398 pages long. Volume The Second, 1842 - 1852, was published by Chapman and Hall in 1873, the frontispiece has a portrait of Dickens engraved by R. Graves after a painting done by W.R. Frith, when Dickens was 47 years old, with a tissue guard between the frontispiece and the title page; with three pages of corrections made in the later editions of the first volume noted just before the list of illustrations and 12 pages for the Table of Contents, and this volume is 462 page long. Volume The Third, 1852 - 1870, Tenth Thousand, was published by Chapman and Hall in 1874, and it has a frontispiece of Dickens engraved by J.C. Armytage after the last photo of Dickens taken when he was in America in 1868 - Dickens was 56 at the time - with a tissue guard between the frontispiece and the title page; there are 13 illustrations followed by 9 pages for the Table of Contents; this volume is 552 pages long, including the Appendix and Index, and the Appendix has some uncut pages. Each volume measures 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. wide, with light scuffs on the back of Volume I and on the front and back of Volume II and Volume III, and they don’t detract from the attractiveness of the set. John Forster (1812 - 1876) was an important Victorian English biographer and literary critic who became a close friend of Charles Dickens, he was also the literary executor of Dickens’ estate and had access to virtually all of Dickens’ letters and writings, and he was considered the officially recognized biographer of Dickens because of their friendship and his handling of Dickens’ literary estate; he began this biography of Dickens shortly after Dickens died in 1870 and finished it in 1874, and this three-volume set is the primary work by which Forster is remembered. Wilson Noble (18554 - 1917) was a barrister and Conservative Party politician in England who served as a member of Parliament (an MP) from 1886 to 1895.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 23

The Life Of Charles Dickens, By John Forster, London: Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly 1872 - 1874, in three volumes, tenth edition, bound by Morrell in red crimson, 8vo., 3/4 bound, with gilt ruled compartments and gilt lettering and gilt devices on the spine, crimson boards, with the bookplate of William King Richardson on the marbled endpapers, the half-title reads The Life Of Charles Dickens, and the top edges are gilt. Volume The First, 1812 - 1842, 1872, has a portrait of Dickens on the frontispiece; the frontispiece was done after a painting of Dickens by D. Maclise when Dickens was just 27, and it was engraved here by R. Graves, with a tissue guard between the frontispiece and the title page; with no notes about corrections to the first edition, the Table of Contents is twelve pages long, with nine illustrations listed after the Table of Contents, and this volume is 398 pages long. Volume The Second. 1842 - 1852, has a portrait of Dickens on the frontispiece when he was “AET 47”, and it was engraved again by R. Graves, with a tissue guard between the frontispiece and the title page and “1873” at the bottom of the title page, followed by the imprint of Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars on the reverse of the title page, then three pages of Corrections Made In The Later Editions Of The First Volume - it appears to be a tenth edition set which Forster himself said was needed because the demand for this biography was so high - followed by an Illustrations page with eleven plates listed, followed by twelve pages for the Table of Contents (ix - xx), with 462 pages of text, and light wear along the edges of the spine. It also has the name of the binder “Morrell, Binder, London” on the reverse of the front free endpaper. We originally believed this to be a first edition set because there are no additional printings on the title page or the reverse of the title page (see Bill McBride, A Pocket Guide to the Identifications of First Editions, West Hartford, Ct., 1995 for first editions by Chapman And Hall), but the three pages about “Corrections Made In The Later Editions Of The First Volume” appear to indicate this is a tenth edition, not a first edition of Forster’s biography of Dickens. Volume The Third. 1852 - 1870, has a frontispiece portrait of Dickens when he was “AET 56”, the frontispiece was engraved by J.C. Armytage, with a tissue guard between the frontispiece and the title page and “1874” at the bottom of the title page, followed by the imprint of Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars on the reverse of the title page and a list of Illustrations with thirteen plates, then nine pages for the Table of Contents, followed by 504 pages of text and a seventeen page Appendix, a blank leaf, and a thirty page Index, for a total of 552 pages, with very light rubbing on the edge of the spine, and it has the name “Morrell, Binder, London” on the reverse of the front free endpaper. John Forster was the officially recognized biographer of Dickens because they were such close friends and he handled Dickens’ literary estate. William King Richardson was a prominent Boston lawyer and bibliophile who assembled a remarkable collection of rare books and manuscripts that are now housed at the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Each volume measures 8 11/16 x 5 5/8 in. wide and this is an attractive set in red crimson.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 29

Recollections Of The Table-Talk Of Samuel Rogers, To Which Is Added Porsoniana, London: Edward Moxon 1856, Second Edition, with the bookplate and library plate of Charles Dickens. A collection of anecdotes of famous people of the day put together by Samuel Rogers, an English poet who was best remembered for these anecdotes of the famous figures of his time, including friends like Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron; these anecdotes provided insights into artistic and literary life in London. the book is 8vo. measures 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. wide. The book was actually owned by Dickens and was part of his personal library in his country home at Gadshill Place in Kent. The book is housed in a slipcase with a with Dickens’ crest on the cover of the outer slipcase and an inner slipcase which folds around the book and slides into the outer slipcase. The bookplate of Charles Dickens and his own library plate are inside the front cover of the book, on the front paste-down. The bookplate shows a lion laying down (that’s called a “lion couchant”) with a cross in one paw and “Charles Dickens” on the bookplate, and the library plate reads “From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June 1870”. The outer slipcase has five raised bands and reads “Charles Dickens’ Copy” on the spine, and it shows the crest of Dickens with a maroon background, a gilt lion and cross, and the initials “CD” inside a gilt circle on the front cover; in heraldry, the star-like cross is called a patoncy. The outer slipcase measures 8 1/2 x 6 x 1 1/2 in. wide, and all these details show the book actually belonged to Dickens. The book does not have a lot of value; the real value is in the bookplate and the library plate of Charles Dickens because they show the book was part of his own personal library, and his bookplate and library plate are hard to find; again, a similar book with Dickens’ bookplate and library plate sold recently at Sotheby’s in 2019 for £15,000.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 61

This is a two-volume set of The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell and published in 1791, and it is a first edition in the first state. The title page reads The Life Of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Comprehending An account of the Studies And Numerous Works, In Chronological Order; A Series Of His Epistolary Correspondence And Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; And Various Original Pieces Of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting A View Of Literature And Literary Men In Great Britain For Near Half A Century, During Which He Flourished. In Two Volumes. By James Boswell, Esq. London: Printed By Henry Baldwin, For Charles Dilly, In The Poultry, MDCCXCI. [1791] Volume I has a red label, gilt lettering, gilt decorations, and six gilt-ruled compartments on the spines, a fancy gilt border on speckled calf boards, blank endpapers, with the bookplate of Sir John C. Hobhouse Bt. on the front paste-down of each volume. and a frontis portrait of Samuel Johnson done by James Heath after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. After the title page, there’s a three-page dedication to Joshua Reynolds, an advertisement by Boswell thanking people for helping write the book, fifteen pages of an Alphabetical Table of Contents, then a leaf with Corrections for both volumes. Volume I has 516 pages of text and the second volume has 588 pages of text, and all the uncorrected errors are present in both volumes to make this a first edition, first issue set. The first volume has the all-important “gve” misprint on line 10 of page 135, and this is required to be a first issue; “gve” is the earlier state, while later states were corrected to read “give”, and only 1750 copies with “gve” were ever printed in the first print run. The two plates in both volumes are present, as called for - the Round Robin plate on page 92 of Volume I and the facsimiles of Johnson’s handwriting on page 588 of the second volume. All the mistakes described on the Corrections And Additions page in Volume I are present and uncorrected here; there are a total of twenty-four uncorrected mistakes in the two volumes that need to be present to make this a first issue - thirteen in the first volume and eleven in the second volume - and they are all uncorrected and present here. Several page numbers were misnumbered and these uncorrected mistakes are all here - pages 229, 408, 497, 504, and the last three leaves of Volume II are all mispaginated, as called for. All of these details are present and make this set a first edition in the first state. Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), often called Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He also squabbled with Lord Chesterfield over publicity for a project that was near and dear to Dr. Johnson’s heart - his writing A Dictionary of the English Language - and that squabble is detailed in the books about Lord Chesterfield’s Letters To His Son in the auction here. Boswell (1740 - 1795) was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer who is best known for his biography of his friend and writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language. John Cam Hobhouse (1786 - 1869), whose name is on the booklplates, was an English politician also known as Baron Brighton and good friends with Lord Byron when they attended Cambridge together, and after Byron died, Hobhouse read the will and took care of the funeral arrangements for Byron. He also had a sympathy for Napoleon which caused a stir after Hobhouse wrote a pamphlet speaking out against the governments in both England and France, and the French translation was seized and the translator and printer were imprisoned in France for the contents of the pamphlet. The two Johnson books are 4 to. and measure 11 1/4 x 9 in. wide, the hinges are tight and secure, there are wide margins, and there are light scuffs on the covers, light wear at the tips and on the edges of Volume II, and light foxing in the second volume. There’s also an old ink note from a quill pen and a couple of pencilled notes dating from 1843 in the margins of the second volume - they seem to be related to the uncorrected mistakes in Volume II - and there’s a short poesy pencilled in on page 345 of the second volume, and they don’t detract from the texts, but seem to add history to the books. The Life of Samuel Johnson was one of the greatest biographies in English literature, and a must-have for a serious collector of British biographies in the first state of the first edition.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 62

This is an American printing of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, in the original leather binding, with “Johnson’s Dictionary” in gilt letters on the spine, and the title page reads “Long’s Stereotype Edition, Johnson’s Dictionary Of The English Language In Miniature. To Which Are Added, An Alphabetical Account Of The Heathen Deities, And A Copious Chronological Table Of Remarkable Events Discoveries And Inventions In Europe, By The Rev. Joseph Hamilton, M.A. With A Continuation Of The Said Table To The Present Period. Also, A New And Complete American Chronology, Containing an accurate account of Events from the discovery of the New World to this time. First New York, From The Late English Edition. New-York: Printed And Published By G. Long, No.71 Pearl-Street 1817”. The binding has the title in gilt on the spine, with pieces missing from the spine label; the signature of J. Lyman and a bookseller’s label from W.B. Gilley are on the front paste-down - William B. Gilley was a member of the Association of Master Book Binders of New York from 1814 to 1820, which tells you the book had to be purchased in that time period - then the frontis portrait of Dr. Johnson by G. Long of New York, the title page, an Advertisement to the English Edition dated June 1, 1799, the text is 252 pages long with words and their meanings in double columns, then the account of the Heathen Deities, the first Chronological Table, and the Complete Chronological American Table, for a total of 293 pages in all. The first London edition was published in 1755, the first American edition was published in Boston in 1804 - it was an abridged edition because the first London edition took over eight years to compile and required six helpers and listed 40,000 words - and this is the first New York edition published in America. The book is 5 3/4 x 3 5/8 in. wide, has age wear, the missing pieces from the spine label, and it was a handy pocket guide to the English language back in the early 1800’s.

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Sarasota Estate Auction
Lot 90

Sir William Monsons Naval Tracts: in Six Books, Containing, 1. A Yearly Account of the English and Spanish Fleets, during the War in Queen Elizabeth’s time; with Remarks on the Actions on both sides. 2. Actions of the English under King James the First, and Discourses upon that Subject. 3. The Office of the Lord High Admiral of England, and of all the Ministers and Officers under him; with other Particulars to that purpose. 4. Discoveries and Enterprizes of the Spaniards and Portugueses; and several other remarkable Passages and Observations. 5. Divers Projects and Stratagems, tender’d for the good of the Kingdom. 6. Treats [Treaties] of Fishing to be set up on the Coast of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the Benefit that will accrue by it to all His Majesty’s Three Kingdoms: With many other things concerning Fish, Fishing, and Matters of that Nature. The Whole from the Original Manuscript; Never Before Published. London, for A. and J. Churchill. 1703. Monson was a successful captain in the war with Spain, and this is a first edition, with all six books included here. We thought some pages were missing in the last book, but discovered that the printer had mispaginated some pages in Book VI. Pages 537 suddenly skips to page 550, and we thought pages 538 to 549 were missing, but the second column of page 537 speaks of pirates, and the conversation is continued on the very next page, even though the next page is misnumbered. (On 537, Monson speaks of meeting a pirate named Tucker, and Monson continues to speak about Tucker on the next page, but it is misnumbered 550 instead of 538.) If this were a later edition, the misnumbered pages would have been corrected, and since the errors have not been corrected, this is clearly a first edition of Monson’s Tracts. The front of the book begins with the title page, then the Preface, followed by a five-page detailed description of the Contents of each book, then a five-page epistle to his son, and the first page of Book I is numbered 169 - and that is apparently correct, because the page numbers of the book match the page numbers in the table of contents. The first page of text on the contents page for Book I is 169, and Book I begins on page 169 - why it doesn’t start on page I we don’t know, but it is accurate. The first page of Book I is number 169. The book has six raised bands, with gilt titles on a red label and gilt devices in five of the six compartments, brown calf covers, blank endpapers, and the title page and all follow after that. The text is in double columns, and the last paste-down endpaper has a bookbinder’s label from C.S. Carpenter of Shrewsbury, Mass. Monson (1569-1643) ran away to sail the seas when he was just sixteen. He saw action in a privateer again the Spanish, then became second-in-command of a ship when he was just twenty. He saw action against the Spanish again and helped capture a rich Spanish ship - and was captured afterwards in another encounter with the Spanish and spent time in captivity. He was knighted in 1596 and led a fleet of Queen Elizabeth’s ships against the Spanish again, and this time he captured the same Spanish commander who had taken him prisoner ten years earlier. He was elected to Parliament in 1601 and was named Admiral of the Narrow Seas in 1604, and In 1614 he was sent to repress Barbary pirates who marauded the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. He saw no further active service till 1635, so he retired and spent the last years of his life writing these Tracts. He retired under a cloud, but his writings are reputed to be the first work of naval history recorded by a major participant. The Tracts were first published in the third volume of Churchill's Voyages, but they have been edited and reprinted for the Navy Record Society by M. Oppenheim, and Monson’s memoirs are regarded as the best account of naval life and activities in the late Elizabethan period, combining historical narrative with his suggestions for the improvement of the country's maritime resources, and his writings are one of the best authorities for the naval history of the early 17th century”. National Maritime Museum Cat. V, 349. Sabin 13015 (Churchill). His Tracts also contain valuable and early information on European fisheries, including whaling. The book measures 12 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. wide, the binding is tight and secure, and the text is very clean. An exceptionally rare first edition of British naval history written by an actual participant when the British navy was in its infancy.

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Lot 96

Journal Of A Voyage To The Northern Whale-Fishery; Including Researches And Discoveries On The Eastern Coast Of West Greenland, Made in the Summer Of 1822, In The Ship Baffin Of Liverpool, By William Scoresby Junior, F.R.S.E., M.W.S. &c. &c. Commander, Edinburgh: Printer For Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh, And Hurst Hurst, Robinson And Co. Cheapside, London 1823, first edition rebound in quarter calf, five raised bands, with red and black labels, gilt titles, marbled boards, blank endpapers, two fold-out maps (one titled “A Chart Of Surveys And Discoveries Made On The East Coast Of Greenland …” before the title page, another titled “A Map Of Greenland … “ dated 1823) and six other plates, as called for, 472 pages, including a table of latitudes and longitudes, remarks about Greenland, and a list of technical terms at the rear. Scoresby (1789 - 1857) was the son of the famed Arctic explorer, William Scoresby (1760-1829) and an English whaler, Arctic explorer, and scientist himself, as well as a clergyman; his works remained the classic account of Arctic and Greenland whaling throughout the 1800’s. The book is 8 Vo. and 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide, and it is in very good condition, with tight hinges and clear text. Sabin 78171. Comes with a modern book titled ”William Scoresby, Arctic Scientist” written by Tom and Cordelia Stamp and published by Caedmon of Whitby Press in 1976, with a dust jacket. The book is 253 pages long and a great supplement to the Scoresby book above.

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Lot 98

A Voyage to Hudsons-Bay, By The Dobbs Galley and California, in the Years 1746 and 1747, for Discovering a North West Passage; With an accurate Survey of the Coast, and a short Natural History of the Country. Together With A fair View of the Facts and Arguments from which the future of such a Passage is rendered possible. By Henry Ellis, Gent. Agent for the Proprietors in the said Expedition. To which is prefixed, An Historical Account of the Attempts hitherto made for the finding a Passage that Way to the East-Indies. Illustrated with proper Cuts, and a new and correct Chart of Hudson’s-Bay, with the Countries adjacent. London: Printed for H. Whitridge, at the Royal Exchange. MDCC.XLVIII. [1748] with a dedication to His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales, a Preface (vii - xxii), a List of Subscribers, including Lord Chesterfield and Charles Stanhope, a Table of Contents, and 336 pages of text, with a large fold-out of “A New Chart of the parts where a North West Passage was sought” at the front, four more fold-outs and four engravings, for a total of nine plates altogether. The book is a first edition, with five raised bands, a gilt title and gilt devices on the spine, with contemporary calf, a gilt crest on both covers, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Ditton Park, and all the edges are marbled. (Ditton Park is in the English county of Buckinghamshire and belonged to the crown in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, way back in the 1500’s.) One fold-out shows Wager Strait as a closed bay and includes the first map reference to Chesterfield Inlet (see Schwartz and Ehrenberg: Mapping of America), and apparently the crew suffered from scurvy, which Ellis attributed to two kegs of brandy obtained for a Christmas celebration. Ellis was later elected to the Royal Society for his scientific research on rust and magnetism; his research turned out to be “more or less ingenious, but wildly erroneous”. (Sabin 22312) Ellis was sent on this voyage to find the Northwest Passage and served as hydrographer, surveyor, and mineralogist on the expedition. Dobbs had been part of earlier attempts to find a Northwest Passage, one under the command of Christopher Middleton, an old Hudson's Bay Company employee, and those attempts failed to find anything. Middleton believed no passage existed, yet Dobbs refused to believe Middleton's report. A second voyage of discovery ensued in 1746, this time backed by Dobbs and his friends and commanded by two bitter enemies of Middleton and the Hudson's Bay Company. Two ships were sent on the expedition: the Dobbs Galley and the California - the title of the book here - and their search of the bays and inlets again found nothing, and according to some, this expedition proved decisively that no such passage from Hudson's Bay existed. Ellis and Dobbs continued to believe firmly in a Northwest Passage, and the controversy between Middleton and Doobs simmered for a few years, but had no definite outcome. The book contains some of the earliest information on customs of the Inuit, and you can see that in the plates and engravings here, but a Northwest Passage was never found. The book is 8vo. and measures 8 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. wide, with modest wear on the spine and corners, the first fold-out at the front has some browning, and the rest of the text and plates are clean, and all the plates and engravings are here. An interesting read about the history of Hudson’s Bay and early Canadian exploration.

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Lot 116

CHINOISERIE LAMP TABLE, early 20th century parchment lacquered and gilt chinoiserie decorated circular with tapering supports, 61cm W.

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Lot 132

SIDE TABLE, traditionally grey painted with three frieze drawers and undertier, 153cm W x 47cm x 77cm H.

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Lot 136

REFECTORY TABLE, 17th century style solid oak, rectangular cleated with twin facetted trestle column supports, 244cm W x 100cm D x 77cm H.

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Lot 153

FARMHOUSE TABLE, Provincial pine planked top on a painted base, 75cm H x 203cm x 80cm.

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Lot 155

READING TABLE, 40cm x 81cm x 71-105cm Victorian mahogany and fully adjustable.

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Lot 172

DRAWLEAF TABLE, 76cm H x 106cm W x 106cm D, 183cm extended, circa 1925, oak.

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Lot 187

WRITING TABLE, George III mahogany with full width frieze drawer and square section tapering supports, 100cm x 53cm D x 76cm H.

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Lot 206

DINING TABLE, Victorian mahogany with one extra leaf on brass castors, 71cm H x 123cm x 124cm L, 186cm extended.

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Lot 212

FARMHOUSE TABLE, 75cm H x 240cm W x 80cm D, antique pine with single drawer.

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Lot 222

TABLE LAMPS, 64cm H, a pair, gilt and perspex with shades. (2)

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Lot 223

DESK/DRESSING TABLE, 74cm H x 85cm W x 41cm D, Florentine style, cream and gilt with five drawers and a similar chest of three drawers, 71cm H x 81cm W x 3cm D. (2)

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Lot 225

CONSOLE TABLE, Rococo style, giltwood finish, white marble top, 87cm H x 130cm W x 49cm D.

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Lot 226

CARD TABLE, 77cm H x 92cm x 44cm, George III mahogany, circa 1780, with green baize top and brass castors.

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Lot 240

CONSOLE TABLE, 164cm L x 90cm H x 51cm D 20th century Continental walnut framed with a serpentine shaped marble top on cabriole front supports with ball and claw feet.

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Lot 255

LAMP TABLE, rectangular Carrara white marble top on gilt metal support, 52cm x 32cm x 65cm H.

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Lot 258

CHALON DINING TABLE, solid planked oak with two leaves and grey painted base, 160cm x 90cm x 77cm H.

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Lot 259

JULIAN CHICHESTER STYLE CONSOLE TABLE, silvered and mirrored with tapering supports, 120cm x 40cm x 76cm H.

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Lot 262

TOM FAULKNER CONSOLE TABLE, rounded rectangular travertine marble and wrought iron support, 127cm W x 31cm D x 86cm H.

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Lot 267

TABLE LAMPS, 82cm H x 41cm, overall, a pair, brass and marble, with maroon shades. (2)

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Lot 271

SIDE TABLE, 55.5cm x 76cm H, French art deco style, mirrored finish.

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Lot 279

MAISON JANSEN STYLE SIDE TABLE, wheat sheaf base, gilt metal, glass top, 67cm x 47cm x 47cm.

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Lot 306

JULIAN CHICHESTER MANU SIDE TABLE, 55cm square x 60cm H three tier.

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Lot 314

LOW TABLE, 120cm x 80cm x 49cm, metal X frame base, bronzed finished, glass top.

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Lot 320

OKA POMPIDOU COFFEE TABLE, 120cm W x 47cm H x 80cm D with a rectangular glass top.

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Lot 328

SANTA & COLE TRIPODE M3 TABLE LAMP BY SANTA & COLE TEAM, 49cm H.

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Lot 338

TOMMASO BARBI INSPIRED TABLE LAMP, 80cm H x 38cm W x 26cm D.

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Lot 351

LOW TABLE, ceramic 50cm diam x 40cm H with a circular top.

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Lot 357

RHINO DRINKS TABLE, 145cm x 46cm x 69cm, glass top, figural base.

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Lot 358

TABLE LAMPS, a pair, 73cm H x 43cm diam., Chinese export style blue and white, ceramic, with shades. (2)

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Lot 367

SIDE TABLE, 56cm x 31cm x 57cm, contemporary design, bronzed finish frame, glass top.

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Lot 391

MAISON JANSEN STYLE COCKTAIL TABLE, gilt metal frame, inserted glass top, 38cm W x 96cm W x 59cm.

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Lot 392

BESPOKE DINING TABLE, 149cm diam x 76.5cm H, stained oak with a circular top.

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Lot 406

GLASS TABLE LAMPS, a pair, purple shades, baluster shaped bases, 66cm H x 46cm D. (2)

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Lot 410

TABLE LAMPS, a pair, Murano style, oblong baluster shaped glass bases, 70cm H. (2)

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Lot 415

MAISON JANSEN STYLE PALM TREE TABLE LAMP, gilt metal, 80cm x 48cm.

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Lot 416

FEATHER CLOUD TABLE LAMPS, a pair, polished metal bases, 60cm x 40cm x 40cm.

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Lot 444

CONSOLE TABLE, 79cm H x 120cm x 40cm, shagreen finish with two drawers on brass supports.

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Lot 488

SHAGREEN CONSOLE TABLE, 150.5cm x 40cm x 80cm.

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Lot 91

DINING TABLE, Regency period rounded rectangular figured mahogany raised upon four pillar outswept support, 167cm x 111cm x 73cm H.

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Lot 1003

19th century mahogany breakfast table, the banded circular top on turned column pedestal, three scroll and foliate carved cabriole supports terminating in brass castorsDimensions: Height: 78cm  Length/Width: 107cm  Depth/Diameter: 107cm

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Lot 1006

19th century occasional table, removable mahogany tray top carved and painted with tree and flower decoration, tripod rosewood base inlaid with mahogany and crossbanded, the supports scrolled with gilt chamfered edges and splayed, terminating in brass paw feet on castorsDimensions: Height: 65cm  Length/Width: 66cm  Depth/Diameter: 66cm

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Lot 1012

Late 19th century figured walnut card table, shaped hinged swivel top with scrolling satinwood inlay and shaped edge, raised on turned and fluted vasiform supports carved with foliate design united by turned stretcher, on splayed cabriole supports with scroll carving and ceramic castorsDimensions: Height: 75cm  Length/Width: 99cm  Depth/Diameter: 52cm

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Lot 1019

Mid-to-late 20th century Sheraton style satinwood Pembroke table, the drop leaf top with segmented veneers and central oval panel with ebony stringing, crossbanded in rosewood and with edge moulding, single short drawer to one end and faux drawer to other, square tapering supportsDimensions: Height: 74cm  Length/Width: 67cm  Depth/Diameter: 46cm

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Lot 1044

Shaw and Riley of Thirsk - Regency design mahogany dining table, the banded circular top on turned pedestal, four splayed supports with hairy paw brass capsDimensions: Height: 76cm  Depth/Diameter: 153cm

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