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A quantity of woodworking tools, including; a rebating plane detailed 'Mathieson' and 'Ts Whitehead', three moulding planes, a mahogany and steel mounted plane by 'Rob Sorby', a beech plane 17 3/4 inches, another 17 inch detailed '2 1/4' and 'J Moseley and Son', a smaller plane, a drawer knife, a scribe an three later metal tools, (13).
![Kyosai (Toiku Kawanabe). Ehon Taka Kagami [meaning Picture-Book Mirror of Hawks], 5 vols., (part 1, vols. 1-3: part 2, vols.](http://lot-images.atgmedia.com/SR/10729/2703300/126-56-10729_468x382.jpg)
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Kyosai (Toiku Kawanabe). Ehon Taka Kagami [meaning Picture-Book Mirror of Hawks], 5 vols., (part 1, vols. 1-3: part 2, vols. 1-2), [Tokyo, 1866-80], illustrated throughout with Kyosai's magnificent woodcuts, the pict. woodcut titles of the first and fourth volumes on blue paper, the pasted-down leaves at the beginning and end of each vol. (with the exception of the two blue paper title-pages) being of mica-flecked Washi paper, stitched Japanese-style into orig. yellow paper wrappers, slightly soiled, each vol. with a white paper title-slip printed in red, contained in a single blue morocco-backed lined cloth chemise, and matching slip-case, this slightly sunned, 8vo. The Schwerdt copy, with the circular engraved library bookplate on a suitable first or final blank in each volume. Bookplate of Guy Aylmer on the chemise. Harting 371. Schwerdt III p. 245 "...The book was published at Tokyo and the editor's name was Nakamura Sasuke... The ‘Mirror of Hawks' is certainly a very comprehensive and instructive treatise on falconry. It is rare, only seven copies having been traced in European libraries". Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-89) was a Kano painter, printmaker, and illustrator, the son of a samurai. At the age of six he entered the studio of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and from the age of nine became a student of the academic Kano school, studying under Maemura Towa and then Tohaku Chinshin, who gave him the name "Toiku". He exhibited at the Vienna International Exposition in 1873, and at the first and second Paris Japanese Art Exhibitions of 1883 and 1884. In the early years of the Meiji period (1868-1912) he attained considerable popularity with his political caricatures, for which he was arrested and imprisoned in 1870. His famous "Kyosai Gadan" (1887), an attempt to show a variety of traditional Japanese and Chinese painting styles, was widely appreciated in Europe, and was issued with English captions for the export market. Kyosai's "Ehon Taka Kagami" is a major resource on Japanese falconry, with wonderful woodcuts of hawks, field work, breeding, hoods, gloves, and other associated tools and items of equipment. It records the ancient Japanese methods of care, raising, and training of the Siberian goshawk, considered the best variety for use in falconry since ancient times. (1)
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Elaborate Inlaid Binding--Naturalists Pocket Book, The. Ornamented with most Elegant Engravings, Illustrated by Corresponding Descriptions, Accompanied with an Almanack. London: G. Kearsley, [1797], 12mo, engraved title page with hand-coloured vignette, engraved hand-coloured frontispiece and 12 hand-coloured engraved plates, original pink card covers, preserved in an elaborately tooled green morocco slipcase with central cartouches of onlaid beige morocco enclosing a large figurative tool of 'Fortune' on upper cover and 'Justice' on the lower cover Note: An extremely rare eighteenth century natural history ephemeral work, illustrated with fine colour plates and preserved in its original elaborately tooled and onlaid slipcase The Naturalists Pocket Book was published by the Fleet Street bookseller George Kearsley. First published the previous year, 1776 it does not appear to have survived this, the second issue. The high quality of both the engravings and the hand-colouring appear to have made the venture uneconomical at 3/6 plain or 6/- coloured The engravings by Inigo Barlow (fl. 1790's) include the Banksian Cockatoo, the Pigmy Opossum of New Holland, Birds of Paradise, Swallow-Tailed Butterfly, Parrots, Sea Anenomies and Cimelias The elaborate binding with its beige onlays and large allegorical figure tools has stylistic analogies with late eighteenth century Irish work. Representations of 'Fortune' and 'Justice' often appear on the elaborate 'Statute' bindings produced in Dublin in the late eighteenth century but this is probably a London binding. The only other copy of the 1796 issue located (Huntington) is also described as being in an elaborate inlaid binding
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Phillip II, King of Spain, 1556-1598. Carta Executoria de Hidalguia in favour of Francisco de Escalante of Seville, royal official in Seville and Granada, in Spanish, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 43 leaves, (7 blank), plus 2 contemporary flyleaves, lacking one leaf after f1 otherwise complete, 34 lines, written in dark brown ink in a fine rounded gothic hand, every page within a gold border with elaborate foliate flourishing at top and bottom of pages, fourteen large illuminated initials- (3 to 10-line, mostly 7 line) in designs of gold heightened with colour on coloured grounds with white tracery, large portrait miniature of Philip II enthroned, 107 x 97mm., showing the king seated on a renaissance throne lettered ''Filipus 2'', four pages with full-page miniatures or coats-of-arms surrounded by full borders, showing 1) the Crucifixion, the grantor and his son kneeling by the Cross, landscape background, scatter border of naturalistic flowers in the Ghent/Bruges style, 2) St. James on horseback vanquishing the Moors, landscape background, border of putti,caryatids, etc. 3) and 4) coats-of-arms within very elaborate mantling and with full borders including flowers, putti with masks, etc., additions at end, signatures at both ends, fine contemporary Spanish goatskin gilt and blind-stamped over paste boards, roll-tooled in concentric panels of classical heads within foliage, military accoutrements and ropework designs, gilt stamped with floral and rosette tools and a cockle shell, binding skillfully repaired, 304 x 213mm., [Granada, 9 December, 1564], green morocco-backed buckram box Note: The fine Grenadan binding is by the same binder as a Carta Executoria of 1570 which was lot 2997 in the sale of Major J.R.Abbey at Sothebys, 20 June 1978; the first and second roll-tooled borders are identical with the first and third on the Abbey binding and four of the small gilt floral stamps occur on both bindings
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An extensive collection of engineers and draftsmens equipment briefly comprising a marking out cabinet, various draftsmens tools, scale rules, dial test indicators, micrometres, reamers, fine tap and dye, callipers, squares, marking blocks, etc. Provenance: the inherited property of the vendor being a combination of items belonging to his great uncle who worked in London and Doncaster for the railways and notably acted as a draftsman with Sir Nigel Gresley on coaches for the Flying Scotsman.
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* Bookbinding equipment. A comprehensive collection of bookbinding equipment and hand tools, including backing hammers, squares, straight edges, glue brushes, sharpening stones, brass pressing boards and pressing tins, small bench standing hole punch, two 100mm (4") type holders, scissors, paring knives, dividers and bone folders etc. (a carton)
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Bindings. The Works of Frederick Schiller, Historical..., translated from the German by the Rev. A.J.W. Morrison, Bohn, 1853, eng. port. frontis., a.e.g., early 20th c. green morocco, with pencilled note on prelim. blank 'bound by J. Lee', spine faded and sl. rubbed, gilt dot dec. raised bands, gilt lettered direct in second compartment, remainder filled with symmetrically arranged leaf and dot tools, covers with leaf and dot roll border within single fillets, central double fillet panel filled with two circular designs, each with four flower tools in centre, surrounded by a 'wheel' of leaf tools, gilt dot roll on board edges and turn-ins, 8vo, together with two others (3)
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Swinburne (Algernon Charles). The Queen-Mother. Rosamund. Two Plays, 1st ed., pub. Basil Montagu Pickering, 1860, first issue, second state of the title-page (with 'Two Plays'), half-title and title sl. dusty, eng. initial letters & head-pieces, pencil notes to prelim. blank, with printed article tipped-in below, modern book ticket, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, early 20th c. red morocco by Riviere, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to second and third compartment, remainder gilt panelled and filled with volute tools, covers with gilt fillet, bead roll, and wide pelmet roll border, double fillet on board edges, gilt dentelles, contained in cloth slipcase, 12mo Rare. Not in Colbeck or Tinker. Pickering printed 250 copies of this first edition. Wise states that there were only twenty or fewer copies of this work with the Pickering title-page (in either state), before the sheets were transferred to Moxon (and were issued with his imprint), and that most of these were for presentation. (1)
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A quarto soft-bound diary compiled by Dr. James Williamson (1814-1899), surgeon of the Whaling Ship Lady Jane rendering a unique account of his experiences aboard the vessel during its voyage from the Tyne on the 14th March, 1835 bound for the Davis Straits. Williamson was born at Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of Rev. James Williamson, later pastor of the Baptist Church, North Shields, and studied as a doctor at the University of Edinburgh before joining the Lady Jane, the most successful ship in the National Fleet. In this manuscript he recounts many of the day-to-day experiences he had as surgeon on the ship and also describes the horrors endured by the crew when it was trapped in ice off Greenland from August, 1835 to February, 1836, with twenty seven crew dying from scurvy. In the early 1840's Williamson left university to take up an appointment as medical office for a Benefit Society in connection with the Jarrow Chemical Works on South Tyneside, while at the same time carrying on a private practice at South Shields. After some thirty years he moved to London, dying there in 1899. The Lady Jane, first launched in 1804, was finally crushed by ice during her fiftieth voyage to the arctic in 1849. Literature: The Whaling Trade Of North East England 1750-1850, Tony Barrow, 2001. Sold together with six of Williamson's bleeding tools in red morocco case, a copy of the Highbury Hill Baptist Church Monthly Messenger containing a notice of Williamson's death, and other biographical information. Provenance: A family descendant.
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