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Click here to subscribeA.H. McIntosh Of Kirkcaldy - Dunvegan range - A 1960's retro vintage teak wood extending dining table with a set of 6 ladderback dining chairs inclusive of two carvers all raised on tapering legs. Extending leaf bearing unusual McIntosh makers plaque with the Scottish thistle. Matching sideboard in previous lot. Measures 79cm x 148cm (194cm extended) x 90cm.
Assorted silver flatware, to include: a fiddle pattern caddy spoon, London 1832; a collection of mostly Victorian butter knives; a coin silver spoon and fork with classical finial; a pair of American coin silver spoons, McCarty & Hurlburt; a German table spoon etc, together with various plated, weighable silver, 14.3ozt
Thomas Kitchen, circa 1768, A New map of Westmore-land, hand coloured engraved map, 19.5cm x 25.5cm, framed and glazed, Robert Morden - Westmorland, engraved map in a book on the county with table of the county, original boards, 23.5 x 18.5cm and an 18th century monochrome watercolour of Kendal Castle, 10.5cm x 15.5cm (3).
Americas.- Mexico.- Bullock (William) Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, first edition, 16 aquatint plates, one folding, 4 hand-coloured of costumes, folding table, lacking half-title and the 2 folding engraved maps, soiled, Signet Library copy, contemporary calf, central gilt arms, rubbed, rebacked, [Sabin 9140; Abbey, Travel 666], 1824 § Tempsky (G.F. von) Mitla. A Narrative of...a Journey in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador..., first edition, half-title, 5 chromolithographed plates finished by hand (lightly foxed), one folding, wood-engraved plates & illustrations, folding map hand-coloured in outline, date erased from foot of title, contemporary calf, by Bickers & Son, rubbed, [Abbey, Travel 665; Hill 1684], [1858] § Solis y Ribadeneyra (Antonio) Histoire de la Conquête du Mexique, ou de la Nouvelle Espagne par Fernand Cortez, 2 vol., titles with woodcut device, 2 folding engraved maps and 11 folding plates only (of 12), one torn along fold, another with short tear, vol.1 with paper flaw tear to H8, vol.2 with tear to O5, lightly browned, 18th century green roan-backed tree calf, gilt, spines faded, [Sabin 86476], The Hague, Adrian Moetjens, 1692 § Domenech (Abbé Emmanuel) Missionary Adventures in Texas and Mexico, first English edition, half-title, folding hand-coloured engraved map, light spotting, contemporary half red morocco, [Sabin 20559], 1858, 8vo et infra (4)
Prose.- Drinkwater (John) The World and the Artist, number 1 of 140 copies signed by the author, original buckram, gilt, slightly soiled, At the Office of the Bookman's Journal, 1922; The World's Lincoln, limited edition, original vellum-backed boards, New York, The Bowling Green Press, 1928; Cumberland Hotel. [A descriptive brochure. By Philip Page and others], foreword by Drinkwater, collotype illustrations by the Golden Cockerel Press, number 7 of 500 copies signed by W. Walcot, Philip Page and John Drinkwater, table plan of a luncheon at the Cumberland Hotel loosely inserted, original Welsh mountain sheepskin, slip-case, [1936]; and 11 others (10 by Drinkwater) and all but 1 signed by Drinkwater, 8vo (14).
John Gay.- Anonymous (1720s) The Stage Medley Representing the Polite Tast of the Town & the matchless merits of Poet G- Polly Peachum & Capt. Macheath, etching on laid paper mounted on support with ruled black ink border, sheet 365 x 260 mm. (14 3/8 x 10 1/4 in), small repaired nicks to extremities, minor surface dirt, unframed, [1728].Literature:BM Satires 1806⁂ Satire on the popularity of Gay's Beggar's Opera, first staged in 1728, executed in the form of a medley print. At top left a print shows two oval portraits, Lavinia Fenton as Polly Peachum on the left and Thomas Walker as Macheath on the right. At bottom right is a scene in Newgate with men and women sitting round a table on which is a punch bowl and pipes; they are toasting a laureated John Gay who sits at the centre, saying 'The Beggers Opera for yr', 'G(a)y for ever', 'Let's vote him King of the Beggers' and he responds, 'Yov'e done me too great an honour but I'll -'. [BM Satires]
δ Gandhi.- Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". Fat Stock! "The Smallest Man May Own the Biggest Elephant" Old Indian Proverb, pen and ink cartoon with some blue pencil shading, pencil caption beneath, a small Gandhi sits atop a huge elephant with 'Preposterous Bill' below, two further elephants follow behind bearing the inscriptions 'Colossal Cheek' and 'Elephant Impudence' following a sign to 'Round Table Conference', signed, 316 x 387 mm., [1930-32].⁂ The three Round Table Conferences of 1930-32 were a series of conferences organized by the British Government, with the Indian National Congress participating to discuss constitutional reforms in India. There were significant disagreements between the Indian and the British political parties that the Conferences could not resolve.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
δ Gandhi.- Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". "They don't know where they're going - but they're on their way! Hitching our Wagon to a comet", pen and ink cartoon with some blue pencil shading, pencil caption beneath, the head of Gandhi flies into the sky dragging an apple cart with two gentlemen struggling to hold on, the cart is spilling over and is inscribed 'Empire Apple Cart', signed, 317 x 390 mm., [1929-31].⁂ By 1931 Gandhi had become integral to Indian national life and was the sole representative of the Indian National Congress at the second Round Table Conference, which failed to yield independence for India.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
δ Gandhi.- Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". "How to get it all in the suit case? - That is the World-Wide problem at this holiday season", pen and ink cartoon with some blue pencil shading, pencil caption beneath, with Gandhi standing wearing a loin cloth, a large question mark above his head, while he surveys items on the floor of his room, with two goats, one nibbling at a guide to London, signed, 255 x 340 mm., [1931].⁂ Gandhi's last visit to London was in 1931, where he came for the Second Round Table Conference, arriving on September 12th and staying until December 5th. He lodged in the East End and travelled all over England during his stay, but the conference failed to achieve independence for India.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
δ Churchill and India.- Fearon (Percy Hutton) "Poy". Who'll Buy? Who'll Buy?, pen and ink cartoon with some shading in blue pencil, pencil caption and explanatory note beneath, a sale of paintings depicts Churchill looking at a painting of Gandhi, a goat and a "softie" seated at a table, and Churchill saying "What will I bid? Well, tuppence for the goat.", signed, 320 x 390mm., [c.1932].⁂ Other characters in this scene subtitled "How Fares the market in the World of Art" include George Lansbury and James Maxton; De Valera, Sir Herbert Samuel and Neville Chamberlain.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Varlo (Charles) The Essence of Agriculture; being, A Regular System of Husbandry . . . suited to the Climate of Ireland . . . With the Author's Twelve Months Tour thro' America: likewise How to raise the valuable Crops: of Tobacco, India-corn and Siberian Barley, first edition, folding letterpress table, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, upper cover detached and with ink stains, rubbed, [Fussell II, pp.90-91; Goldsmiths' 13169; Sabin 98632], 8vo, printed for the author, 1786.⁂ Rare at auction, we can trace only three copies in the last 50 years. "This book I have not seen. I had a chance to buy it and failed to take it!" (Fussell).Provenance: 'Larkin Dutton's Book bought at Auction 1817, Price 25 cts' and 'Larkin Dutton's book 1819, Aston Township Delaware County, State of Pennsylvannia'. (ink inscriptions to front free endpaper).
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