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Autograph letters and clipped signatures, 3 albums--Barrie, J.M. A.L.S. to My dear Nicoll, extending an invitation to dinner with his uncle and sister, 2 pages, 133 Gloucester Road, 20.4.1900; Ibid. A.L.S., 5 lines, referring to a meeting, one page, 1.5.95; Stanley, H.M. signature with address; Ibid. A.L.S. to Mr Young, thanking him for two volumes, Edinburgh, 4.12.1884; Gladstone, W.E. Card signed referring to constitutional legislation, 30 Nov. 88; Hardy, Thomas A.L.S. to Dr. Nicoll, declining a lunch invitation due to prior engagement, one page, 12 Mandeville Place, Manchester Square, 10.7.91; Ibid. A.L.S. thanking correspondent for a guinea, one leaf, upper half illegible as stuck to card, Max Gate embossed paper, [n.d.], browned; Churchill, Sir W.S.Typed letter to Innes Lozan acknowledging receipt of letter, signed Yours faithfully Winston S. Churchill, one page, 105 Mount Street, 13.3.1901; Envelope, with stamp torn away, to the Secretary of the Scottish Conservative Club, signed W.S. Churchill in lower corner; Buchan, John A.L.S. claiming he does not have a photograph to send his correspondent, one page, 34 Queen Mary Avenue, Glasgow, 19.4.95; Redpath, ? A.L.S. from Jones Falls, Rideau Canal, Canada, there is no settlement between this and Hudson Bay, referring to the wilderness, canal, business ventures and Montreal, 3 pages, third page stuck down, 3 Dec. 1831; and a large quantity of autographed letters and clipped signatures, c.1850-1901, in 2 albums and one loose leaf folder, mounted on album leaves (3) Note: The letters were collected by A.S.I. Logan of Kelso who eventually became Minister of Roseburn Church in Edinburgh. His father, Peter Logan, a school teacher in Kelso, married Helen Redpath (some of whose relations emigrated to Montreal and established Redpath Sugar) and later Maria Nicoll, whose father, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, gifted books to Aberdeen University.
![Barrie, J.M. Autograph letter signed to Clare Mackay?, dated 14 Aug 1931, single sheet [18x14cm], original stampmarked envel](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2712325/225-72-10121_468x382.jpg)
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Barrie, J.M. Autograph letter signed to Clare Mackay?, dated 14 Aug 1931, single sheet [18x14cm], original stampmarked envelope, It is as good to have a letter from you as a visit from other people, so my delight is great in receiveing one. For the moment I too had starry eyes like your mother, and in a dim light and two or three drinks behind us you would not know the difference! That luncheon is still cooking away slowly so that it shall be done to a turn when the great day comes. I would cook it myself if I thought it would lead to such a commendation?, but I know that would not be the case, as eggs and bacon are all I can accomplish and though I don't burn them it must be admitted that the pan reeks? and goes up in steam. With two aprons to help us however we might manage something succulent between us, eggs and bacon being banned because the smell wakens the canary who thinks breakfast has come round again and bursts into song. Loving, JMB; Barrie, J.M. The little white bird. London, 1902, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, some marking, slight foxing (2)
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Graham, George, Bishop of Orkney Correspondence and papers, written during his occupation of the Sees of Dunblane and Orkney, and other interesting Scottish documents, all from the archives of the Graham family, two of them bearing signatures of King James I and others, 44 documents, mounted, half russia, folio, neatly rebacked Note: Includes letters from George Graham Bishop of Orkney to his son in law Patrick Smyth of Braco, to David Graham of Guthrie his oldest son, 11 March; from David Graham of Guthrie to George Graham; an Inventory of the affairs of George Graham, 1616; a letter will of George Graham, 15 Jan. 1617; Inventar of the guidis geir soumes of mony possesed and hed be Ge. B of Orknay the 4 Janner 1617; document signed by King James I and VI, Lord Balmerino, David Scone relating to George Graham, letter to George Graham from Peter Rollok, 13 June, 1604; to George Graham from Dunkell; to George Graham from James, Lord Colvill of Culros, 27 Dec.; to George Graham from D. Scone; Precept Controller from D. Scone, Comptroller; to the Laird of Gorthie from J. Grahame of Balgoune, 20 Aug., 1642; document signed by Lord Ruthven; Pack betwixt Marquis of Montrose and William Stirling, 1708; document signed by King James and Alexander Hay relating to George Graham, and document signed by Thomas Hope. George Graham was among the first ten of the Scottish clergy who accepted prelacy as instituted by King James VI. In 1607 he gave his oath of allegiance as Bishop of Dunblane, and became Bishop of Orkney on 26 August 1615. From the Sir Thomas Phillipps' Collection with MHC in pencil and note of sale at Sotheby's in 1895.
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Beroladus, Philippus Declamatio philosophi medici oratoris. De optimo statu et principe. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 1497. First edition, 4to., 38 unnumbered ll., *2 A-D8 E4, Roman letter, modern boards, minor marginal water stains and inkspots to some leaves, small contemporary drawing beneath colophon Note: BML VI 844; Goff B473; Brunet I p. 809; Klebs 182.1; Wellcome 810. This edition not in Adams, Graesse, Osler or Durling. First edition of these two pamphlets by the humanist Filippo Beroaldo. The first one contains a dispute between three brothers - a philosopher, a physician and an orator - whose father has bequeathed his patrimony to the one whose profession is the most useful to society, but it is of course the orator who gets the inheritance because, even though his profession is probably least useful, he is best at defending it (this was a literary device Beroaldus used to good effect in different works on a number of occasions). The second pamphlet is an early treastise on statecraft treatise. Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505) opened a school in his home town Bologna when he was only nineteen. Later he became Professor of Letters at the University, a job he held until his death.
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Pomis, David De Tzemach David. Venice: Giovanni di Gara, 1587. First edition, folio, the first two leaves mounted, the second at least probably contemporaneously as pagination and signatures (A3 signed 'A2') suggest this blank leaf with 'avertimento' on verso was added after initial printing, Roman, italic and Hebrew letter, woodcut arms of Sixtus V on A3 recto crossed through with a contemporary ink signed monogram 'S V', woodcut heraldic emblem of De Pomis on A6 verso, 2nd to 6th leaves (prefatory and dedicatory) with woodcut initials and decorations, modern quarter calf, title-page lightly browned, repaired at bottom, light waterstaining towards beginning and end and occasional ink or lamp oil stains, final few leaves with a wormhole in top outer corner (crudely repaired) Note: BM STC Italian Books p. 532; Adams P 1823; Vinograd, Venice 717; Habermann, di Gara 97a. First edition of De Pomis' famous Italian, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic Dittionario Novo Hebraico. This work was new in two ways, as an original digest of its major predecessors, and as a source (according to the author) of largely unknown new terms, mainly historical and scientific. The dictionary uses as its major sources the Shoroshim of David Kimchi (?1160-?1235), a philological dictionary printed before 1480; the Tishbi of the philologist, grammarian and lexicographer Elijah Levita (1468/9-1549), whose work was first published at Isny in 1541 and the Aruch of Nathan Ben Yechiel (1035-c.1110), a lexicon of the Talmud and Midrashim, published in Rome in 1462-1472, whose author according to one legend was a member of the De Pomis family. The author dedicated the work to Sixtus V, who had revoked a ban on Jewish doctors treating Christian patients, which had been put in place by his predecessor Pius V. This had been a major infringement on the life of De Pomis, who was by profession a physician, and who furthermore argued in a treatise in 1588 that it was the duty of Jewish doctors to treat Christians.
![Anderson, Joseph Scotland in Pagan times. Edinburgh, 1883-86, 8vo, 2 volumes [The iron age & The stone and bronze ages], ill](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2712325/386-72-10121_468x382.jpg)
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Anderson, Joseph Scotland in Pagan times. Edinburgh, 1883-86, 8vo, 2 volumes [The iron age & The stone and bronze ages], illustrated, original green cloth gilt, interiors very clean; Ibid Scotland in early Christian times. Edinburgh, 1881, 8vo, 2 volumes, original green cloth gilt, interiors very clean; Wentz, W.Y. Evans The fairy-faith in Celtic countries. London, 1911, 8vo, illustrated, original decorative green cloth gilt, some rubbing to edges, ink inscription on endpaper and another copy; Lysons, Rev. Samuel Our British ancestors: who and what were they? Oxford, 1865, 8vo, original cloth gilt, bookplate; and 6 others (13)
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Aristotle [The works of Aristotle, translated from the Greek: with copious elucidations from the best of his Greek commentators… by Thomas Taylor] London: for the translator, 1807-12. First edition, 8 volumes of 9, 4to., 2 folding. plates (one at the end of the Metaphysics, the other at the end of the Heavens, etc. original vellum, red morocco lettering pieces, fore-edges uncut, bindings a little spotted and dusty, some titles, the folding plates and other leaves foxed, with Taylor's signature at the end of five volumes. [and] The metaphysics. London: for the author, 1801. First edition, 4to., later paper boards, quarter cloth, fore-edges uncut, slight paper discolouration Note: Lowndes 68: Schwab 417, Raine & Mills Taylor, p. 526. Present of The Works are: The organon, 1807: On the heavens, 1807, On the soul, etc., 1808; History of animals, 1809; Parts & progressive motions of animals, etc., 1810; Ethics, 1811; Rhetoric, 1811; Metaphysics, 1812 and not including the Disseration on the philosophy sometimes found. Publication was limited to fifty sets. The 1801 edition of the Metaphysics contains material not reprinted in the collected works. Plato The works of Plato, viz his fifty-five dialogues, and twelve epistles, tanslated from the Greek; nine of the dialogues by the late Flower Sydenham, and the remainder by Thomas Taylor. London: printed for Thomas Taylor, 1804. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to., with half titles, 1 plate in volume 1, original cloth, a little rubbed, inner joints of volume 1 splitting, a little foxing but chielfly of half titles Note: Lownders 1877; Raine & Mills Taylor, p. 525 The first complete translations of the works of Aristotle and Plato into English, they are two of the most influential works of Thomas Taylor (1750-1835), who, by these and by making available in translation a vast body of Neo-Platonic metaphysical works, exerted a considerable influence on the mystical philosophical tendencies of the Romantic Movement. He marks the break with the Augustan age. Indebtedness to his works has been discerned in Coleridge, Shelly, Peacock, Worsworth, Samuel Palmer, Flaxman and Southey, and it has also been argued that Taylor constitutes one of the most important sources of the transcendtal stream in America as represented by Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Thomas M. Johnson, the Plato Club and the American Akademe of Jacksonville. But of all the poets and artists of the Romantic Movement, it has been suggested that Taylor most strongly influenced William Blake, where considerable claims for the relationship have been put forward by the works of Kathleen Raine and George Mills Harper. Certainly they knew each other, had friends in common and Taylor is recorded as having given Blake lessons in mathematics. Ther are also many instances of linguistic and philosophical parallels that could be attributed to a knowledge of Taylor's works by Blake (14)
![Gregory I, Saint, Pope Epistolae. [Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, not after 1476], large folio (403 x 279mm.), 163 leaves of 164](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2712325/562-72-10121_468x382.jpg)
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Gregory I, Saint, Pope Epistolae. [Augsburg: Gunther Zainer, not after 1476], large folio (403 x 279mm.), 163 leaves of 164 (without 5/7), 59 lines and headline, double column, headings and colophons printed in red, lavishly rubricated with red filling to small capitals and printed paragraph signs, red capital strokes and underlines, various flourishes and ornaments, nineteenth century half mottled sheep, marbled sides, 6/12 and 11/5.6 supplied from a shorter copy, 14/7 rehinged, reinforcements to inner margins of 17/4-6, tear to 17/5 repaired without loss of text, several wormholes to blank margins, some with old repairs, rebacked and repaired with spine laid down Note: First and only incunable edition of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great. The edition is dated from a rubricator's inscription in a Munich copy. Zainer was the first printer of Augsburg (1468), the first after the R printer (Adolf Rusch) of Strassburg to use Roman type in Germany, and the first to introduce woodcut capitals as a regular feature of book production. Goff G-415 (9 copies); Hain 7991* Provenance: rubricated in 1477 by someone who signed V on 1/10r, C.W.E.G. on 6/8v, W.S.D.L. A.M.S. on 6/9r, and W.S.D.L. A.S.M.S. on 17/8r; two versions of the same coat of arms, coloured, on 2/1r, in outline on 17/8r; dated on 5/6r, 6/8v, 17/8r; John Hadmar Sticht, bookplate dated 1947
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Pagninus, Santes [Hebrew title] Thesaurus linguae sanctae ex R. David Kimchi ….Sancte Pagnino Lucensi authore: contractior & emendatior. [Paris]: ex officina Roberti Stephani, [1548]. 4to., bound up to be read from right to left, printer's device on the titlepage, contemporary blind stamped and roll-tooled vellum over wooden boards, lacking ties, split to upper joint, lower corner of the upper cover worn, early ownership inscription at the foot of the titelepage, repeated on the verso of the last leaf Note: Adams P36; Renouard 71.5. Not in BM, STC French Books. Important work by the Italian Santes Pagninus who was born in Lucca about 1470 and died in Lyons in 1541. A member of the Dominican Order, he numbered Savonarola as one of his teachers. His Thesaurus linguae sanctae ranks as one of the most famous and consulted Hebrew works of reference of the High Renaissance and had a long lasting impact on biblical studies and translations. It is known to have been used in connection with the King James version of the Bible. One of several books produced between 1539 and 1549 for which Estienne commissioned a new Hebrew type from the type cutter Jehan Arnoul. Armstrong suggests that this ambitious programme of Hebrew publishing was encouraged by news of the forthcoming appointment of a King's Printer in Hebrew which Estienne subsequently held. (Armstrong: Robert Estienne, p. 120) Provenance: Ownership inscription on the titlepage and at the end of Gregorius Vogytt recording his purchase from Martina Busel in 1563.
![Plato [Greek title]. Opera omnia quae exstant, Marsilio Ficino interprete … Frankfurt: apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Ioa](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10121/2712325/681-72-10121_468x382.jpg)
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Plato [Greek title]. Opera omnia quae exstant, Marsilio Ficino interprete … Frankfurt: apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1602. Folio, printer's device on the titlepage, text in two columns of Latin and Greek, decorative headpieces and intials, contemporary calf, worn and rubbed, joints split and lacking piece from bottom of spine, title-page and last leaf dusty, contemporary Ms. initials on title-page and some occasional marginalia, lower outer corners of first few signatures lightly water stained, margins of last few leaves stained Note: Brunet IV 695; Dibdin II, p. 298-9; Graesse V 314 Provenance: Verso of the front free ednpaper signed 'Isaac Barrow 1612' (possibly that of Isaac Barrow, master of Trinity College Cambridge, mathematician and classical scholar who taught Newton) on the front free endpaper, ex libris R. Wroe, 1671 (possibly that of Richard Wroe (1641-1717) Waren of Manchester College with an interest in occultism) on the verso, with the intials H.D.L.F. on the titlepage, and with the armorial bookplate of Le Gendie Pierre Starkie.
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Simplicius of Cilicia Commentarius in Enchiridion Epicteti … cum Hiermonymi Wolfii et Cl. Salmasii animaderversionibus et notis quibus philosophia stoica passim explicatur … Leyden: typis Iohannis Maire, 1640. 4to., 4 parts, titlepage in red and black, contemporary full red morocco, covers with triple gilt fillet, gilt arms in the centre of both covers, spine decorated gilt in compartments, a.e.g., heads, tails and joints rubbed, scratch on upper cover. Note: Dibdin I p. 322, Brunet II 1012 Includes a preface by Daniel Heinsius who first planned this edition and Elichmannus, Iohannes. Tabula Cebetis graece, arabice, latine item Aurea carmina Pythagorae, cum paraphrase Arabic … cum praefatione Cl. Salmasii. Provenance: From the library of Chrétien François De Lamoignon (1735-1789), bound in his characteristic style, with his label Bibliotheca Lamoniana V 60, his ink stamp and his shelf-marks 2K 59 6060 in manuscript (with the 59 and first 60 crossed through) on the front flyleaf and the shelf-mark tooled in the bottom panel of the spine. Lamoignon was one of the earliest collectors to regularly tool the date of publication at the foot of the spine with his shelf-marks. His library was bought by Thomas Payne, who issued a catalogue of it in 1793.
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Chapman, Frederik Henrik af Architectura navalis mercatoria. Stockholm, 1768, folio (53 x 40cm.). First edition, double-page engraved title, double-page engraved dedication leaf, 3 double-page leaves of index of the plates in Swedish, French and English, and 62 double-page engraved plates (each plate 53 x 76.5cm), paper watermarked J. Honig & Zoon and C. & I. Honig, late nineteenth century black morocco-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine, binding slightly rubbed Note: An exceptionally clean copy of the most famous eighteenth century work of naval architecture. Frederik Henrik af Chapman, universally acknowledged as the father of naval architecture, was born in 1721, the son of a British Naval officer who had joined the Royal Swedish Navy in 1716, and an English mother, Susanna Colson, the daughter of a London shipwright. He spent long periods in France, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and England studying naval architecture before eventually settling in Sweden where he devoted himself to naval architecture and ship building. In 1765 he took leave of absence from his work as chief naval architect for the Swedish Archipelago Fleet based at Sveaborg (off Helsinki) to devote himslf for two years to Architectura navalis mercatoria which, in Chapman's view, exemplified the best and most interesting vessels of the time. The 62 copper engravings depict vessels and craft from both Sweden and abroad. Some were designed by Chapman himself, but many of them were vessels or types which he had encountered on his travels or seen around him, and which had attracted his interest. The book covers everything from warships to cargo boats and small fishing craft, and the plates are remarkable for their clarity, detail and beauty. The text describing the plates was not published until seven years later as one of the chapters in a book entitled Tractat om Skeppsbyggeriet. A very rare work, only four copies held by British institutional libraries (Cambridge, Glasgow, British Library and University of London).
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Sigebert, of Gembloux Chronicon. Paris: Henri Estienne, 1513. First edition, 4to., printed in red and black throughout, issue without Petit's woodcut device on title, fine white on black initials, 17th century English calf, spine with raised bands gilt compartements (rubbed), covers ruled in gilt and blind to a panel design, gilt acorn device to outer corners with central blindstamped panel, early repairs to head of spine, spine and corners rubbed, two 3cm tears without loss on last leaf neatly repaired, some soiling to title-page Note: BM STC French Books p. 401; Adams S1091; Renouard 15:9; Brunet V 378; Graesse VI 402. First edition of this classic chronicle of European events from the end of the the 4th century C4, with additions from Galfrid and Robert, Abbot of Mons, for the period after Sigebert's death in 1112 to the end of the book's span in 1220. The editor was Guillaume Parvy, bishop of Troyes who was one of the first Frenchmen to seek out mediaeval historical mss. for publication. The text is ruled and tabulated, with boxes for different regnal years in red and black, the result is typographically very attractive. Provenance: Elizabeth Armstrong's copy with her ex-libris on front pastedown.
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Steel, David The elements and practise of rigging and seamanship. London: David Steel, 1794. First edition, 2 volumes in one, 4to, engraved frontispiece and 93 engraved plates including 2 with volvelles, 2 printed tables [one folding], modern calf, spine gilt with anchor and ship motifs, the two plates to which volvelles attached repaired with slight loss, damp-stained, a few small repairs to margins Note: David Steel's work was the bible for many midshipmen who joined the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary wars and the Napoleonic wars.
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Fleming, Ian The spy who loved me. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, First edition, 8vo, dustwrapper, original black cloth, chipped at edges, owner's ink inscription on front endpaper; Ibid. Casino Royale. London, 1953. First edition, 8vo, original black cloth, lacking dustwrapper, owner's ink inscription to front endpaper; Ibid. You only live twice. London, 1964, First edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt, lacking dustwrapper, owner's ink inscription to front endpaper [scored through], pp. 31-32 torn and repaired with white tape (3)
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L'Hopital, Michel de Epistolarum libri sex. Paris: apud Mamertum Patissonium Typographum Regium, in off. Roberti Stephani, 1585. First edition, folio, large italic letter, printer's 'noli altum' device on title, ornate naturalistic initials and headpieces, contemporary vellum, very slight foxing. Note: BM STC French Books p. 265; Adams L 625; Renouard 186:3; Brunet III 1046. First collected edition of the poems of Michel de L'Hôpital (1504-1573), one of the greatest chancellors of France, foremost amongst his countrymen in attempts to reconcile both Catholic and Protestant. Throughout his life he cultivated Latin poetry writing particularly on contemporary personages and historical events e.g. the marriage of the Dauphin and Mary, Queen of Scots; the coronation of Francis II; the raising of the siege of Metz; the taking of Calais and the modern art of government. After his death his friends Pibrac, de Thou and Scévoie de Sainte Marthe combined to produce the present volume of substantially unpublished writings, in his memory. It was edited by his grandson, who preserved their chronological arrangement and thus their particular value as a continuous political commentary of the day.
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Literature - Shakespeare, William The plays of... London, 1823, new edition, 8vo, 8 volumes, contemporary diced calf gilt, rubbed, hinges splitting; Pater, Walter The Renaissance. Portland, 1902, 8vo, number 25 of 35 copies on Japan vellum, signed by the publisher, original wrappers, some chipping to edges; Lawrence, D.H. The man who died. London, 1931, 8vo, original green cloth gilt, dustwrapper, torn, some fading to cloth, dustwrapper foxed; Bottomley, Gordon The gate of Smaragdus. London, 1904, 4to, decorated by Clinton Balmer, original boards, some fading and 2 others (13)
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Martial Epigrammata. Venice: in aedibus Aldi, December 1501, 8vo, 192 unnumbered leaves, italic letter, 17th century vellum over boards, later (early C19th?) morocco lettering piece, very faint small spots on title-page, faint marginal waterstain, occasional neat contemporary explanatory notes in Latin, early bibliographical notes at end Note: BM STC Italian Books p. 420; Adams M 689; Brunet III p. 1489; Graesse IV p. 423; Dibdin II p. 229; Renouard 30:7; Gay p. 73. First Aldine edition. Unlike his other pocket classics, it does not contain a dedication by Aldus, who, according to his publishing policy, wished to provide an edition of Martial as close to the original text as possible. This edition. was very successful among scholars and bibliophiles such as Jean Grolier, who had six copies of it, including a couple on vellum.
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Antarctic and Arctic Exploration Interest: A Russian Sapphire and Ruby set 84 Zolotnik notebook, the hinged cover decorate with a sapphire and ruby spider on engraved web, having a pierced foliate clasp and silver pencil, cyrillic makers mark r.k. note: By repute and family descent this notebook belonged to either Andrew or Harry Sparr-Brown, who was the husky man aboard the R.S.S. Discovery on Scott's exploration expeditions. In this notebook is an itinerary from 6th October 1915 to 2nd November 1915 detailing the passage from Uladivostok to Newcastle.
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A WWII America military green cotton kit bag named for Wilbur L Goyer 32425024 together with a boxed game "Bingo" NB - The US soldier who owned this kit bag was stationed in Bridgwater and used to play the Bingo game with the vendor's father at the Newmarket. When the soldier left for the D Day landings he gave the kit bag and the game to him.
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Stephen Ward (British, 1912-1963) Portrait of Frederick Mullaly Esq, signed lower left "Stephen Ward '52" and initialled "FM" lower centre, charcoal and pastel, 53 x 36ccm. Freddie Mullaly, writer, was 89 in February 2007 and was featured in the Independent. Stephen Ward was a society osteopath. Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor and many famous people were among his clients. He was also an artist and drew many famous people including members of the Royal family. Lord Astor of Cliveden was a patient of Ward's on whose estate he rented a cottage, which he used at weekends. He used to take young girls down to Cliveden and out and about in London, where he would introduce them to his influential friends. One of these girls, Christine Keeler, entered a relationship with John Profumo, the War Minister, at the same time as she was having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet Naval Attache at the Russian Embassy who was engaged in espionage. When this was uncovered the Government was rocked to its foundations. Profumo lied to the House of Commons, resigning when he was found out. Stephen Ward was charged with living on immoral earnings, and, in 1963, on the final day of his trial he committed suicide before hearing the Judge pass sentence. Ward's drawing of Christine Keeler was bought by the Tate Gallery. The pictures of the Royal family were bought anonymously at an exhibition to raise funds for Ward's defence during the trial, they eventually turned up in the archives of the Illustrated London News
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Follower of Sir Henry Raeburn, RA (British, 1756-1823) Portrait of the Reverend Dr James Gilbert, half length, wearing a White Stock and Black Coat, oil on canvas, 75 x 62ccm. Provenance: Private collection, Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire. The story of the Greedy Parson is a fascinating one, it is told in the Sykes of Sledmere, by Fairfax-Blakeborough, published in 1929. Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823) was the 3rd Baronet and took the additional name of Masterman on his marriage in 1795 to the heiress Henrietta Masterman of Settrington. The local parson, the Reverend Dr James Gilbert, came to dinner with Sir Mark Sykes at Sledmere on 31 May 1802. The Reverend Dr Gilbert was Vicar of the neighbouring parish of Kirby-Grindalythe, and as a sporting parson he loved to bet, as did many country clergy with sporting tastes. The name of Napoleon was a red rag to a bull amongst Englishmen at the time. Stories abounded that Napoleon would be assassinated and Sir Mark gave his opinion that the days of the French Emperor were numbered. At the end of dinner he offered that, if any of his guests would give him one hundred guineas, he would pay him a guinea per day for every day that Napoleon lived. '"Done!"' said the Parson "I will accept that wager. Here are the one hundred guineas, I receive one guinea a day for every day 'Nap' lives from tomorrow, and you keep the balance"'. Months passed and the hundred guineas were exhausted, eventually months turned into years, without any sign of Napoleon's demise. The Parson regularly demanded his guinea a day, and this was duly paid by Sir Mark. The Parson never once suggested that the bet should be called off, and Sir Mark felt honour bound to pay. By 1804 Sir Mark had wearied of the constant demands for seven guineas per week from him (this sum would be worth £560 at today's value) and tried to end the payments. However, the Parson, who had made a considerable amount of money out of the hastily made wager, endeavoured to enforce his claim through the Law Courts, issuing a Writ against Sir Mark for arrears due to him. The case was fought at York Assizes and the Jury returned a verdict for the defendant on the grounds that the bet was not a serious engagement at the time it was made. The Parson, however, considered that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, and applied to the King's Bench in 1812 to set it aside. Lord Ellenborough in his summing up of the case concluded that the wager was calculated to induce mischief, he relieved Sir Mark of his honourable obligation, and Dr Gilbert lost his winnings in trying to gain more. For the rest of his life Sir Mark had an intense dislike of parsons, especially those with sporting interests
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Ruth Burden (British, b.1925) Contemplation, oil on canvas, 70 x 90ccm. William Scott regarded Ruth Burden as one of his star pupils. Ruth Burden was born and educated in Worcester. She studied at the Birmingham College of Art, 1945-50 under Fleetwood Walker and Katherine Fryer. She later studied and taught briefly at Bath Academy of Art (Corsham), 1950-51, under William Scott and Peter Potworowski. Ruth Burden later taught in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. Her exhibitions include group shows at New English Art Club, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society of Artists Birmingham and the Women's International Art Club of which she was an elected member. She has loaned pictures to the Arts Council, who exhibited her work in various group shows, including the Young Contemporaries and Pictures for Schools, and recently had a very successful exhibition at Duncan Campbell Fine Art in London in 2002
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Ivan Miklavec, 20th century, Portrait study of F/Lt Peter Dakeyne R.A.F, signed, inscribed "Stalag Luft" and dated 1941, oil on board, 46.5 x 32.5cm.; 18.25 x 12.75in. * The painting has various letters on verso from the Red Cross - Prisoners of War Department to the mother of the young man depicted. These state that this was painted by a fellow prisoner who was a Yugoslav from Laibach by the name of Ivan Miklavec. The two seem to have been imprisoned together at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany.
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Shelley Walter Slater Order of the Garter vase circa 1920 the central garter emblem reading the order's old French motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (shame upon him who thinks evil of it) above a raised gilt lion, the emblem surrounded by elaborate raised gilt English roses, Scottish thistles and Irish clover, on a blue blending to yellow lustre ground, the base with printed Shelley mark and Walter Slater facsimile signature, 38cm high. This unique vase is thought to have been produced for Royal Commission however it remained on display on a pedestal on the right hand side of the Shelley King Street showrooms from its creation until the Royal Doulton takeover in 1966 when it was removed and placed in the Nile Street archives. The vase can be seen on display behind R. Tatton (sales manager) and Eric Slater (Art Director) in a black and white photograph of the Shelley showroom illustrated in 'Shelley Pottery the later years' by Chris Davenport page 9 Thank you to the Shelley Group for their help in the research of this vase.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, James II, The Landing of William of Orange at Torbay, Silver Medal, 1688, by R Arondeaux, William as Roman Emperor tramples on serpent of discord and joins hands with Britannia, rev boats landing at a fortified harbour, CONTRA INFANTEM PERDITIONIS, 49mm (MI I 639/65; Woolf 3:8). Extremely fine, toned and rare. One reading of this protestant medal is that William of Orange comes to England to restore liberties lost to James, Prince of Wales. Another interpretation is that the medal denounces the Pope, who was at the time widely believed to be the Antichrist, called the Son of Perdition by St Paul.
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, Queen Anne, Victories over Louis XV, Continental Silver Medal, 1706, Anne as Minerva overwhelming Louis XV depicted as Roman soldier, rev Victory rushing across a plain with a city in the distance, and, around her, twelve shields commemorating the victories, 42mm (MI 288/97; vL V, 39). Extremely fine, attractively toned and rare. The medal satirises Louis who uses the title MAGNUS yet was defeated by a woman – Queen Anne
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, George III, George III, Golden Jubilee, Silver Medal, 1810, published by N Hyde, uniformed bust left in periwig, rev Britannia with three infants, who hold heart, the cloud-like plinth inscribed FROGMORE, 48mm (BHM 686). Brilliant, virtually mint state and in original metal protection shells. The reverse of the first was designed by Princess Elizabeth, Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg (1770-1840) and third daughter of George III
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, George III, George III, Golden Jubilee, Copper Medal, 1810, published by N Hyde, uniformed bust left in periwig, rev Britannia with three infants, who hold heart, the cloud-like plinth inscribed FROGMORE, 48mm (BHM 686); The Celebrations for the Signing of the Peace of Paris, Copper Medal, 1814, bust of the Prince Regent left, rev inscription in wreath, 46mm (BHM 830). Extremely fine and nearly so. (2)
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BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain, George III, William Pitt, Manchester Pitt Club, Silver Medal, 1814, by T Wyon Jr, after H Howard, bust of Pitt left, rev Pitt arousing the genius of Britain to resist the demons of Anarchy who have overthrown Religion and Royalty, a group of Virtues await the outcome, 50mm (BHM 771); Death of William Pitt, Copper Medal, 1806, by T Webb, bare head of William Pitt left, rev rock in storm buffeted by waves, 54mm (BHM 610). Both extremely fine, the first richly toned. (2)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Austria and Holy Roman Empire, Joseph, King of Romans, later Holy Roman Emperor (1678-1705-1711), The Siege of Landau, Silver Medal, 1702, by Georg Hautsch, armoured bust left in medallic roundel, sun, moon and stars around, rev eagle above townscape with name on ribbon, CAESAREO AVSPICIO …, 47mm (Mont 1285; vL IV, 332, 1; W 7456). Very fine, small stain by ribbon. The victory at Landau by Louis, Margrave of Baden, made the normal passage into Germany impossible. Joseph was present and it was said that when he was advised not to get into danger he replied that those who were afraid might retire.
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Louis XV (1710-1715-1774), Plague in the ‘Midi’, Copper Medal, 1723, by Duvivier and [reverse]](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2712033/1462-11-1806_468x382.jpg)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France,Napoleon, Captain Nicolas Baudin’s Expedition of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, Copper Medal, year 9 (1800), by P A Montagny, uniformed bust left, rev legend, LES CORVETTES LE GÉOGRAPHIE ET LE NATURALISTE …, 38mm (Br 72; Julius 850; MH 174). Very fine and rare. An important ‘Exploration’ medal – Baudin mapped much of the South and South-West coast of Australia. The 22 year old Louis de Freycinet, the navigator who was later to lead his own expeditions, sailed with Baudin.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, Saxony, Friedrich Augustus I (1670-1694-1733; Augustus II of Poland, 1697), Silver Medal, 1696, by Martin Heinrich Omeis, of Christiane Eberhardine, on the birth of the future August III (1696-1763), King of Poland, bust right, rev Fortune with cornucopiae from which drops crown, holding infant who holds crossed swords, lettered edge (BDM IV, 322). Very fine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany, The Lusitania Medal, 1915, The English Copy, a special production in gilt-(?)iron, 54mm, in fitted box (cf Kienast 156), extremely fine; together with a regular copy, in box of issue, with leaflet, as made. (2) It is recorded that a specimen was made in gold for Gordon Selfridge (the store magnate who was behind the production of the medal), and it is quite likely that this gilt specimen was intended for special presentation
![COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Clement XI, Albani (1649-1700-1721), Copper Medal, undated [1700], by Hamerani, bust right wear](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/1806/2712033/1552-11-1806_468x382.jpg)
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Clement XI, Albani (1649-1700-1721), Copper Medal, undated [1700], by Hamerani, bust right wearing tiara and embroidered robe, rev Christ falls whilst bearing the cross to Cavalry, 52mm (Linc 1589). Extremely fine. The medal alludes to the humility of the Pope who for three days refused to accept the pontificate
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, c.1455, Vatican, Calixtus III, Alfonso de Borgia (1378-1455-1458), the Departure of the Fleet for action against Turkey, struck Copper Medal, by G Paladino, bust left wearing mitre and stole, rev the fleet sailing, two ships in distress, HOC VOVI DEO, 41mm (Linc 388; Arm I, 296, II). An 18th century restrike of the earlier restitutional medal, good extremely fine. Much of the policy of Calixtus’s short papacy was dictated by his vow towards directing a crusade against the Turks, who had captured Constantinople two years prior to his accession
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 1526, Maria von Habsburg (1505-1558) and Ludwig II (1506-1516-1526), The Battle of Mohacs, struck Silver Medal, bust of Maria von Habsburg left within archway, wearing small ruff collar and soft hat, legend in five lines below, rev the King, mounted and in full armour, at the head of his troops, facing a Turkish cavalry charge, legend in six lines below, 45mm (Mont 587/588; Donebauer 985; Huszar 16; Horsky 730). Very fine, struck examples are extremely rare. Ludwig II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, who was killed at the Battle of Mohacs had married Maria von Habsburg in 1552
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MILITARY MEDALS, British Campaign Medals, The Sultan’s Medal for Egypt, gold, 48mm, for the campaign of 1801, with suspension chain and hook. Very fine, rare. This medal was awarded by the Ottoman Sultan Selim III to British officers and NCOs who helped defend Egypt from the invasion by Napoleon
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Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) In My Studio oil on board, signed & dated 1886 30cm x 25cm Provenance: Being sold on the instructions of the executors of an estate. Purchased by the deceased at Messrs J & R Edmiston, Glasgow, lot 55, 25th May 1972, from the collection of Mr James Meldrum, who owned several works by Lavery, four of them were sold at this auction.
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Third Reich Waffen-SS trapezoidal cloth badge, a typed file copy sheet from Bergen/Belsen Concentation Camp dated 29.12.44, for the delivery of a large cosignment of wheat and rye flour, initialled in ink, and with English translation, a British Red Cross gilt and enamel badge, buttons and British WWII medal ribbons Provenance: Mrs.Vera Miles, through her late husband Bertram (Bert) Miles, a British Red Cross serving member, the items given to him by a member of the British Forces who Liberated the Camp in April 1945
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A silver Yard-O-Led propelling pencil, hallmark London 1957, the engine-turned hexagonal barrel with engraved panel 'To Mac from Stirling', together with a photograph of Mr & Mrs McDonald Hobley with the Duke of Richmond at Goodwood and a photograph of D.J.V. McDonald Hobley with an M.G.A. f.h.c., registration mark MH 3, both captioned on the back. Provenance: the propelling pencil was given by Stirling Moss to D.J.V. McDonald Hobley, who was an usher at his wedding. (See illustration)
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Joan Littlewood, Theatre Royal Stratford, E15. Plain postcard to Francis Bacon postmarked 31st May 1967 Stratford E15, inscribed on reverse "But Francis you need not watch the show come and drink in the bar JL'”; A second postmark on reverse dated 1st June 1967. 3.5" x 4.5" Joan Littlewood 1914-2002 founded the Theatre Workshop Company and directed plays at Stratford until 1975 at which time she left the theatre and retired. She had been at the Theatre Royal since 1953 and was a friend of Muriel Belcher who was the proprietor of The Colony Room drinking club in Dean Street, Soho, frequented by Bacon. Later she was, coincidentally, involved with the first meeting between Bacon and John Edwards who became the beneficiary of the Bacon estate. Muriel Belcher had contacted Edwards at his pub in the East End and had told him to order in some champagne as she would be coming to see him with Joan Littlewood and Bacon. When they did not arrive a furious John Edwards went to The Colony Room and accused Bacon of leaving him with an unsaleable quantity of champagne as his normal clientele would not purchase it. Provenance: The Robertson Collection
Lot 2020
Un-dated hand written letter circa 1976/8 to Francis Bacon, signed John. Four page hand-written letter each page written on one side of the paper only, in relation to the publication of a book, 11" x 8½". We believe this letter to be from John Russell who was the Sunday Times Art Critic from 1945 and later moved to the New York Times in 1973. Since writing a review of an exhibition at The Lefevre Gallery in 1945 he consistently supported Bacon in reviews thereafter, often in the face of adverse criticism from other quarters, particularly in the early years. Bacon was, however, known to be volatile in relationships and this letter refers to an offer by the writer to withdrawn from his projected book, which was to be published by Thames & Hudson. There had clearly been a disagreement between the two men regarding the writer's breakup with his wife Vera and the letter is in the form of an apology and an attempt to repair relations. Russell's book 'Francis Bacon' was published by Thames & Hudson. Provenance: The Robertson Collection
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Francis Bacon, copy of two important letters to Mr. Glimsher of Pace Gallery, dated 8th March 1978 and 17th March 1978, from 7 Reece Mews, London. Both letters are hand-written and signed, 10" x 8". A third sheet of paper is included which has, in Bacon's hand, Mr. Glimsher's contact details in New York. 8th March 1978. "Dear Mr. Glimsher, thank you for your letter I have not made up my mind yet about what I am going to do so please do not announce (underlined twice) anything until I let you know, Yours sincerely, (signed) Francis Bacon". This letter was written in reply to Glimsher's offer in a letter to Bacon dated 4th March, which is now in The Hugh Lane Gallery archive in Dublin and which sets out the terms for his move to Pace. 17th March 1978. "Dear Mr. Glimsher, For the present time I have decided not to change my gallery in New York. (the not is underlined twice). Yours sincerely, (signed) Francis Bacon." These letters are well known now because of their importance in a much later legal action between the Bacon estate and Marlborough Gallery. Lawyers for the estate initiated a case against the Marlborough Gallery after the death of the artist, alleging that the Gallery had defrauded him out of substantial sums of money. In the national press in November 2001 it was reported that a rival gallery had offered Bacon £50,000 (The Lane Gallery letter refers to $50,000 not pounds) a picture but that Bacon had refused the offer as it was alleged that he had been blackmailed by Marlborough in relation to access to foreign funds based in Switzerland. Mr. Glimsher of the Pace Gallery in New York, referring to the negotiations in March 1978, said in 2001 "When Francis Bacon informed Frank Lloyd he was leaving Marlborough for Pace, Frank Lloyd told Francis Bacon that if he left Marlborough Bacon would have problems accessing funds that Marlborough paid to Bacon in Switzerland. The Bacon estate had confirmed that exposure to Inland Revenue debts would have left Bacon financially unable to care for his sister who was seriously ill at the time. The sequence of events was that Marlborough claimed that provisional arrangements had been made between the Pace Gallery and Bacon in a letter of 4th March 1978". This copy letter clearly confirms an agreement but the second makes it very clear that there was to be no change. These two letters were publicised in the national press before the case was to come to trial which was set down for hearing in February 2002. The estate, however, announced that it had settled its litigation with Marlborough shortly before it was to be heard in court, both sides paying their own legal costs. At that time Mr. Gilbert Lloyd, head of the Marlborough Gallery, commented "We are pleased that the estate has finally accepted that the entire case is completely without foundation. The case was totally unsustainable. Contrary to the estate's claims no paintings are missing, no fraud took place and there was no attempt at blackmail. The result of the action is that the estate has needlessly wasted millions of pounds on legal costs." Provenance: The Robertson Collection
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Colour photographic print, Francis Bacon and Peter Lacy seated on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean, 2.75" x 3.75", inscribed on reverse 'Dear Francis thought you were never going back to Tangier! Here is a momento of the bad company at Hopkins eighteen month's ago, God knows I miss Morocco but not Deans Bar, Love Ali Forbes" (signed). Alastair Forbes, (born 2.5.1918 died 19.5.05,) writer and critic. We have found no documentary evidence to connect Forbes and Bacon, but Forbes was well connected being the uncle of one time American Presidential candidate John Kerry. He was said to know "everyone who mattered" and could therefore easily have been acquainted with Bacon who was nine years his senior. The Deans Bar to which he refers was run by Joseph Dean and Peter Lacy used to play the piano there frequently in the late 1950s. Provenance: The Robertson Collection
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Three Anglo-Venetian wine glasses circa 1680 each conical bowl set on a hollow quatrefoil knop flanked by mereses above a wide conical foot with folded rim 14cm. to 15cm., 5.5in. to 5.875in. one with chip to merese, another with a minute rim chip (3) Glasses of this type are illustrated in the sketches of John Greene, dated 1667-1672, who was trading with Allesio Morelli, a Venetian glassmaker. A similar glass is illustrated by L.Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses, p.57, pl.27 A very similar example was sold in our New Bond Street Rooms, 14th April 1992, lot 43.
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Continental silver filigree, unmarked, possibly French, second half of the 17th century comprising: an ecuelle and cover, a casket with hinged cover and an etui containing silver-gilt spoon, cannon-handled knife and fork with steel blades and tines, finely decorated openwork wire frames incorporating stamped flowerheads, birds and masks, the knife fork and spoon probably late 17th century, the dog nose spoon with maker's mark only IIP ecuelle 9cm, 3 1/2in over triform handles 146gr, 4oz 14dwt all in Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Lady Charlotte Schrieber (1812-1895) and thence by descent. Lady Charlotte was an extraordinary woman, who in later life became a widely travelled and formidable collector. Her porcelain, playing cards and fans were bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert and British museums in 1885 and 1891. Compare the work of the casket with the steel base of a watch in the Louvre attributed to a Paris workshop 3rd quarter of the 17th century, in Michele Bimbenet-Privat, Les Orfevres et L'Orfevrerie de Paris au XVIIe Siecle, vol II, p.490
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An Edward VII silver bowl, a pair of George III two-handled silver serving dishes and a George III bowl and cover, Hawksworth Eyre & Co, Edward Fernell and John Kidder, London, 1912, and 1791 all circular, former with monteith-type rim, serving dishes inscribed to record the friendship and kindness of Eleanor Francis Pochin....who died 1823. These two dishes are inscribed in memory...by her friend and relation Charles William Packe, the bowl and cover with reeded handles and finial diameter of bowl 26cm, 10in 2736gr, 88oz
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