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Click here to subscribeA Victorian mahogany eight-day dial clock, the four-pillar single fusee movement with anchor escapement and 9.5 inch cream painted Roman numeral dial inscribed 'S.R. John Walker, 1 South Molton St, London N. 709B', in a salt-box type case with side doors and pendulum adjustment flap to base, 32cm diameter.
Peake (Mervyn, 1911-68). Five original sketches and figure studies, consisting of three pencil sketches of a grotesque head, partly abstract figure, and a grotesque female tightrope walker (the latter entitled Allez Oop!), and two studies of a figure lying down, in red crayon, the first image drawn on the dedication leaf of a 1914 edition of Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad, the other four drawings executed on the rear blank leaves and endpaper at the rear of the volume, orig. cloth, spine marked and dulled, joints frayed, 8. According to later pencil notes written in the volume by Georgina Horley, later Georgina Earnshaw-Smith, the drawings were made by Mervyn Peake in her London flat (Flat C, Highpoint, Highgate), either during or just after the Second World War. The final drawing is typically signed Squeak, one of Peake's recognised psuedonyms. (1)
A collection of mostly silver items, to include a shaped circular salver, with marks for London 1932, by Asprey & Co. Ltd, of plain form with beaded border, 24cm diameter, a Scottish Georgian sugar sifter spoon, Edinburgh 1786, by PR, a cased six-piece condiment set, London 1933, by Walker & Hall, a baluster form hot water pot, London 1904, assorted caddy spoons, a drum inkwell and other pieces, various dates and makers, together with a few electroplated items, to include a pair of candelabra, a travelling watch (qty)
"Walker (A.). Ideas, Suggested on the Spot, in a late Excursion through Flanders, Germany, France, and Italy, 1st ed., 1790, errata leaf at end, contemp. half calf, upper cover detached, together with Wright (Sir Martin), Introduction to the Law of Tenures, 3rd ed., 1768, contemp. calf, rubbed and scuffed (armorial bookplate of Charles Bathurst, Lydny Park), both 8vo, plus The Natural History of Remarkable Birds with Their Habits and Instincts, pub. Graisberry and Campbell, Dublin, 1819, ten full-page woodcuts, orig. sheep, upper cover detached, 12mo, with other misc. antiquarian, mostly 18th and 19th c. (3 shelves)"
"Morris (F.O.). The Ancestral Homes of Britain, 1868, num. chromo. views, some minor marks, one plt. a little frayed and discol. to extreme margins, contemp. half morocco, spine renewed, outer corners scuffed, 4to, together with Lydon (A. F.), English Lake Scenery, pub. John Walker, 1880, twenty-five chromo. plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. red cloth, very sl. rubbed (generally in bright condition), contained in modern qtr. calf slipcase, 4to (2)"
"Oxfordshire. Sibthorp (Joanne), Flora Oxoniensis, Exhibens Plantas in Agro Oxoniensi sponte Crescents, Secundum Systema Sexuale Distributas, Oxford, 1794, some scattered spotting, untrimmed, later cloth, rebacked, together with Walker (Richard), The Flora of Oxfordshire and its Contiguous Counties (Comprising the Flowering Plants Only) Arranged in Easy and Familiar Language... , Oxford, 1833, folding table, twelve eng. plts., contemp. diced calf gilt, upper joint cracked, both 8vo, with others related (9)"
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY CIRCULAR SILVER SALVER, with pie-crust edge and three scroll feet, engraved to the centre 'Presented to Colonel Joseph Alfred Bradney O. B' by the officers of 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment 11th August 1911. 14. 75" Diameter. By Walker & Hall, Sheffield 1909. Approx 46oz.
A Dresden porcelain figural cased clock, modelled as a jolly man in a floral sprigged jacket, with tricorn hat, pulling an ornate flower painted carriage, the wheels with gilt spokes, the carriage including clock with enamel dial inscribed '*** by John Walker, 230 Regent St', brass cylindrical movement, on shaped naturalistic painted rococo plinth 24cm wide x 25cm high
Late 19th/early 20th Century heavy hobnail cut rectangular shaped biscuit box, the Walker & Hall silver plated stand with shaped border and engraved foliate decoration, the frame standing on spiral twist supports and with swing handle, the hinged cover having conforming foliate decoration and with ivory knop, 22cm high with handle up
Della Robbia vase, of oviform with a spreading neck, slip decorated with a running frieze of Grecian figures on a mottled blue and brown ground around the body and resist decorated with a similar frieze around the shoulder, inscribed to base with factory mark and painted with the artists C.A. Walker and C.S., 7 1/2in (19.5cm) high (See lot 15 for illustration).
118 Chelsea home programmes, including 20 wartimes seasons 1944-45 & 45-46 plus 1946 F.A. Amateur Cup final at Stamford Bridge, the remainder mostly dating between 1947-48 & 1953-54, 37 programmes punch-holed; sold with a 1951-52 handbook, a Tommy Walker Farewell Souvenir & Reg Groves' Chelsea from the Famous Football Clubs series (121)
Leicestershire. Morden (Robert), Leicestershire, [1695 or 1722], engraved map, hand coloured in outline with ornamental title cartouche, remargined, approx. 360 x 415 mm, together with another copy and Cary (John), A Map of Leicestershire, 1805, engraved map, hand coloured in outline, laid down onto card, approx. 480 x 430 mm, and other maps of Leicestershire by Teesdale, Walker, Moule, etc, mounted (7)
Grattan (Thomas Colley). The Heiress of Bruges; A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred, 2 vols., New York, 1830, some spotting, untrimmed, orig. linen-backed boards with paper labels to spines, soiled and some wear, tall 12mo, together with Walker (Thomas, of Trinity College, Cambridge), The Original, vol. 1 [all published], 1835, contains articles on education, marriage, pauperism, prize fights, wine, etc., contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and some wear to spine, 8vo, and Thoms (William J.), The Longevity of Man, Its Facts and Its Fictions, with a Prefatory Letter to Prof. Owen, on the Limits and Frequency of Exceptional Cases, 1st ed., 1879, author's presentation copy, signed and inscribed on fly leaf, orig. blind stamped cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, and others, various (11)
Crossley (Anthony). The Floating Line for Salmon and Sea-Trout, illust. Roy Beddington, 3rd ed., 1948, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., together with Walker (C.F.), The Art of Chalk Stream Fishing, 1st ed., 1968, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., plus Lawrence (D.H.), Pansies, Poems, 1st ed., 1929, t.e.g., orig. quarter cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some marks, all 8vo, and others various, mostly angling, Scottish history, modern literature etc., mostly 8vo but incl. Birdwing Butterflies of the World, by Bernard D'Abrera, 1975, folio in slipcase (1 shelf)
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