Lot 9
Egypt and the Middle East Watercolours.
A good collection of twenty-seven watercolour views of the Nile produced during a winter cruise in 1864-65. Depicting ancient sites and landscapes of Upper Egypt, Nubia, and the Second Cataract.
1864-65, twenty-seven original watercolours on paper, comprising one three-part panorama (13 x 108.5cm), three two-part panoramas (13 x 72.5cm), seven panoramas (13 x 36cm), ten large watercolours (26 x 36cm), and six other watercolours (ranging between 20 x 30cm and 16 x 23cm). All with original manuscript paper labels recording the date and scene depicted. All mounted on new card mounts and housed in a custom green cloth box with morocco title label lettered in gilt.
£500-700 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 14
Grasset (Eugène)
Plants and their Application to Ornament.
London: Chapman & Hall, [1897-97], folio, seventy-two colour plates, a few marked, one with light spotting but majority bright and clean, title-page leaf browned and loose, contemporary green cloth, edges a little rubbed/worn.
£400-600 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 48
SAS War Diary 1941-1945. The Originals Edition
London: Extraordinary Editions, 2011, numbered limited edition of 100 copies signed by Jimmy Storie, last surviving member of The Originals, 'those few men who survived SAS Operation One', facsimile with colour and monochrome illustrations, original blind-stamped leather with leather strap, contained in bespoke 'ammunition box', thick folio.
£600-1,000 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 53
The Westmorland Advertiser, and Kendal Chronicle.
Thirteen issues of The Westmorland Advertiser and Kendal Chronicle - New Series, comprising: volume one, nos. 2-8, 10-14, January to April 1820 and volume eleven no. 77, June 23, 1821. Kendal: Printed and published by Richard Lough, Finkle Street. Volume 1 issues sewn together, volume 11 loose, all held in worn cloth-backed folio.
No. 5-10 of volume one are election issues. Vol. 1 no. 5 includes the announcement of the death of George III.
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£100-200 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 65
Turgot (Michel Etienne)
Plan de Paris.
Eighteen numbered folding engraved plates by Claude Lucas after Louis Bretez, forming a birds-eye plan of 18th century paris, plus key map, lacking numbers 18 and 19, [1739], disbound, plate 4 torn without loss, plate 13 torn with significant loss, 2 and 5 torn along fold, other small tears and edge-wear, majority browned, each sheet approx. 550mm by 840mm, index sheet 648mm x 840mm.
The entire complete plan measures 2.5 x 3.2 metres and is renowned for its depiction of Paris before it was re-developed by Haussmann in the 19th century.
£500-1,000 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 79
Blome (Richard)
The Present State of His Majesties Isles and Territories of America.
London: Printed by H. Clark for Dolman Newman, 1687, octavo, [8], 262, [42] pp., including 6 pp. advertisements at rear, engraved portrait frontispiece, seven engraved folding maps after Robert Morden, one plate of sundials, some mis-pagination but text and register continuous, U5v with horizontal line below text and catchword: 'Books', brown stains to p. 65, N5 with large tear affecting text (two missing words supplied in manuscript) and repairs, maps a little creased mainly to edges, general light age-toning, near contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, corners bumped.
First edition of this important work on the English colonies in America and the West Indies in the 17th century.
£1,500-2,500 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 88
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences Compiled Upon a New Plan. In which The different Sciences and Arts are digested into distinct Treatises or Systems; and The various Technical Terms, &c. are explained as they occur in the order of the Alphabet.
Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, Sold by Colin Macfarquhar, 1771, first edition, volumes one and three only, quarto, ninety-eight plates (of 99, lacking plate XV from volume one), vol. 3 lacking title-page and possibly half-title, also lacks pp. 181-184 where duplicates of pp. 367-370 are bound-in instead, some other mis-pagination but text continuous, general age toning and finger-soiling, contemporary ink inscription to half-title of vol. 1, plate XIII torn with marginal loss, half-title and final leaf of vol. 1 heavily creased, contemporary differing calf bindings, upper joint of vol.1 cracked but holding, both worn/rubbed and corners bumped.
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Uncommon at auction, particularly copies with the plates from the midwifery section - George III commanded that they were removed from every copy.
£400-600 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 107
Hunting Journal
A detailed journal of shooting, fishing and stalking kept by H.D.K. Money. Ink manuscript entries from 1914-1944 on approximately 114 pp. plus blanks, as well as photographs, sketches and other ephemera, including fishing permission slips, correspondence and feathers. The entries cover shooting and fishing trips across the UK as well as in India, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Baluchistan, Lahore, Persia, China. Most entries include a remark, commenting on the conditions, weather and scenery, as well as more interesting comments such as July 1918 in Palestine: "Shot with confiscated German guns - 16 bore - and odd German Cartridges". There are also a few personal remarks not related to hunting, such as: November 30th 1920 "Married Ruth at St Pauls, Knightsbridge" and September 3rd 1939 "Outbreak of War. (my birthday!)". Full leather binding gilt by Websters, London, 'H.D.K, Money' in gilt to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, oblong quarto, together with:
Another Game and Fishing Book, compiled by John H. Oakley (possibly a close friend of H.D.K. Money). Entries covering the period 1884-1937, approximately 108 pp. plus blanks, recording fishing and shooting around the UK, several photographs mounted on album pages and loose. Full leather binding gilt by Webster and Company, London, 'John H. Oakley' and 'Game & Fishing Book' in gilt to upper cover, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, slipacase, oblong quarto, together with:
Another Game Book/Register.
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H.D.K. Money possibly Harold Douglas Kyrle Money.
£200-400 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 108
Victorian Autograph Album
A Victorian autograph album containing mostly 19th century autograph letters signed, signed free fronts and envelopes, and cut signatures by notable period of the period, including Charles Dickens, autograph letter signed (ALS), Tavistock House, 1857, with the signed envelope panel for the letter, John Stuart Mill, one side of heavily trimmed ALS, no place, no date, Joseph Hume, three-page ALS, 1837, John Ruskin, one page ALS, Brantwood, Coniston, 18th May [18]83, George Cruikshank, signed envelope panel, Cardinal Newman, one page ALS, William E. Gladstone, single page of ALS, Reb. F. O. Morris, cut signature, John Lillywhite, one page ALS, George Peabody, cut signature, and others, including many Members of Parliament, Bishops, etc. Approximately 202 signatures, all mounted on rectos and versos of album leaves (183 pages), pen captions identifying the signers, with 11 loose signatures/letters and a manuscript index loosely inserted, first leaf with ownership inscription 'Charles Wilkinson, Bank House, Kendal', some spotting and foxing throughout, limp roan binding, partially detached, marbled endpapers.
£400-600 plus buyer’s premium
Lot 112
Rome Photographs
Twenty-six large albumen print photographs of Rome, including images of the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Temple of Vesta, the Vatican Palace, the Arch of Constantine, etc., as well as nineteen albumen print reproductions of details iniside the St Clement Basilica.
No dates, [c.1860s or slightly later], all mounted on card, the majority of the Rome views with blind-stamp of Joseph Spithover to corner of mount and pencil caption, St Clement Basilia prints with Latin caption beneath, various image sizes, including 330mm x 410mm, 293mm x 261mm, 274mm x 418mm, 330mm x 267mm, card mounts soiled and frayed edges, prints generally clean and bright.
£300-500 plus buyer’s premium
