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Lot 60
Porcelain coin bank modeled as book titled Summer Story from Jill Barklem's Brambly Hedge series. The front cover runs wild with berry brambles and flowers with two mice at a garden gate in the center. Royal Doulton backstamp. Includes original box. Original box measures 5.25"L x 4.75"W x 5.5"H. Issued: 1989Dimensions: 4.25"L x 3.5"W x 5"HManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.
Lot 230
Fore-edge paintings.- White (Henry Kirke) The Remains... With an Account of his Life by Robert Southey, 3 vol., engraved additional titles, engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. 1, occasional foxing or light browning, bookseller's label of Harry F. Marks to rear pastedowns, ahndsome 19th century straight-grain dark blue morocco, gilt, each vol. with fore-edge paintings under gilt depicting American scenes, some light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, 1822-23. *** Fore-edge paintings depicting Eugene Robertson's balloon ascent in Castle Garden, New York; a view of the south prospect of New York in 1759; a view of the east prospect of Philadelphia in 1759.
Lot 95
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***'Elizabethan Bible'.- Bible, Church Slavonic. Bibliya siretch knigi vethogo I novogo zaveta, first edition of the Bible printed in St. Petersburg, engraved title bordered by nine lush cartouches with allegorical images, fine engraved portrait frontispiece of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, engraved illustration at head of Genesis depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, numerous woodcut decorations and initials, text leaves within typographic borders, first few ff. washed and cleaned, some marginal water-staining, mostly to last two dozen leaves, contemporary calf, upper cover blind-stamped central oval with imperial two-headed eagle with three crowns, framed with olive branches and flowers, lower cover with vignette of a floral motif, spine titled in gilt and with raised bands, marbled endpapers, faded gilt edges, rubbed, head of spine and one section restored (leather added, not recently), folio (408 x 258mm.), St. Petersburg, V Tipografii Alexandro-Nevskogo Monastyria, 1751.*** The first edition of the famous "Elizabethan Bible", the collective name for the translation of the Bible into Church Slavonic, published during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The text was based on the translations to Church Slavonic done in Ostrog in 1570s (which resulted in the production of the Ostrog Bible in 1580) and Moscow in 1660s (Bible printed in 1663 in Moscow). The edition here was officially the third Bible, produced for Orthodox Christians of Russia. It first appeared in print in 1751 in St. Petersburg after more than 10 years of preparation. The print-run was quickly sold out and was followed by 11 editions during the eighteenth century. Provenance: 18th century signature in ink: “M., Ushakov " on title verso. On the front cover, over the two-headed eagle the image of an anchor is scratched. These two signs of ownership might suggest some association to Admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1745-1817) the famous naval officer of 1780-1810s, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Lot 189
Charity School Binder.- Blake (William) The Ladies Charity School-house Roll of Highgate: or a Subscription of many Noble, well-disposed Ladies for the ease of carrying of it on, first edition, drop-head title, 4 engraved plates, one with ink '17' to upper corner, lacking petition leaf and final blank, previous owner's ink signature to verso of one plate, faint staining to C2 & C3, lacking front free endpaper, contemporary black morocco, probably by the Charity School Binder, g.e., central gilt lozenge and panel, surrounded by flowers, leaves, vases, parrots head tool, 4 raised spine bands, richly gilt spine, small loss to spine foot, stab marks to fore-edges where ties were, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, [1670]. *** The binding of this example is very similar to the example in Maggs cat. 1075 item 75. With the 4 plates, entitled "Father Time", "Charity", "Front elevation of the School" and "Butterflies". Copies frequently lack one or more plate since they were used as receipts and "hung up in the School-house". William Blake of Covent Garden, was a woollen draper, the son of Francis Blake of Highgate, and founder and house-keeper of the Ladies Charity School on Highgate Hill.Provenance: Early ink signature of Hannah Pettifer. Ink signature of David Davies, dated 1799.
Lot 375
Architecture.- Middleton (Charles) The Architect and Builder's Miscellany, or Pocket Library..., first edition, 60 charming etched plates and plans, many with aquatint, all but a few with early hand-colouring, ink ownership inscription front endpaper verso, contemporary calf, gilt, red morocco spine label, upper joint split at head, lower cracked but holding, scuffed, [Berlin Kat. 2310; Not in Abbey], 8vo, for the author, sold by J. Debrett et al., 1799.*** Delightful architectural pattern book with unusual plates by a pupil of James Paine, from primitive huts to grand mansions. The designs include Gothic cottages, Regency villas, Chinese and Turkish garden buildings.
Lot 155
American kitchen gardens, orchards & vineries.- Wilson (William) Economy of the kitchen-garden, the orchard, and the vinery, first and only edition, engraved plate of vines, related contemporary ink note and cuttings on grafting to rear endpapers, foxed and stained, mostly lightly browned, new front endpapers, original boards, rebacked in blue morocco, gilt, with red morocco label, spine stained, chip from outer edge of upper board, corners worn, rubbed, 8vo, New York, Anderson, Davis, & Co., 1828. *** Rare at auction, with the Crahan / Crahan-Heck copy being the only other we can trace (1984 ($522) & 1986 (with another related $825). Wilson is described as a 'Nurseryman' on the title.
Lot 171
Vegetarian.- Evelyn (John) Acetaria. A discourse of sallets, first edition, folding letterpress table of blanched and unblanched salad greens, errata f., lacking initial blank, browned / foxed (as often; sigs. B&C less affected, as on better quality thicker paper (as noted by Keynes)), later endpapers, contemporary speckled panelled calf, spine in compartments and with later brown paper manuscript title label, head of spine and corners worn, upper joint starting but holding firm, rubbed, [Bitting p.149; Cagle 669; Henrey 117; Hunt 401; Keynes 105; Oxford p.46; Wing E3480], 8vo, Printed for B. Tooke, at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, 1699. *** On the growing, preparation and medicinal properties of salads. 'It is a cookery-garden book with excellent recipes for unusual dishes of all sorts flavored with the ever useful pot herbs grown so universally in the 17th century' (Hunt).
Lot 165
Farriery & household.- Montague (Peregrine) The Family Pocket-book: or, Fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing the Farrier's Guide; or, the horse dissected..., first edition, a few woodcut illustrations, including ‘A Summer-House in the Chinese Taste’, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. blank, without frontispiece (see note), D2 narrow piece from lower margin, affecting catchword, spotted / foxed and stained, browned (as often, but still a solid copy), 20th century blind-stamped calf, spine in compartments and with ?earlier double light brown leather labels, corners little worn, rubbed, [Maclean p.102 (erroneously dating it to c.1768); British Bee Books 105], 8vo, Printed by Henry Coote, and sold by George Paul, Bookseller near Gray’s-Inn-gate, Holborn, [c.1760]. *** Rare at auction (we can trace only two copies since 2005, one with a frontispiece and one without). With much on the horse, and including the breeding of game-cocks, the kitchen garden, cooking, pickling, preserving, bees, growing a tea tree, and printing on silk. Opinion seems to differ as to whether a frontispiece is called for in this first edition. Provenance: Cooks Books, T & M. McKirdy (small book label to foot of rear inner cover and their catalogue entry for a copy of the work loosely inserted (without a frontispiece)).
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Lot 206
Chatterton (Thomas).- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters, first edition, errata to verso of title, ink ownership inscription to head of title, very occasional light spotting, some leaves slightly trimmed, slightly rubbed, G. Kearsly, 1780 § Chatterton (Thomas) Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, fifth edition, edited by Lancelot Sharpe, additional engraved vignette title, engraved facsimile plate to face p.197, B. Flower, 1794, later half calf, 8vo (2) *** The scarce first edition of Croft's novel based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton in his adoption of the Thomas Rowley persona. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey.Complimented by a contemporary edition of Chatterton's Rowley Poems, containing the first printing of Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, only the poet's second appearance in print.
Lot 115
Book of Hours (Hours of the Virgin), Use of Paris, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 87 leaves only (including Calendar) imperfect at end, in a lettre batarde, 27 lines, in brown and red ink, 3 full-page miniatures and 12 small miniatures, (small miniatures in panels in lower margins), numerous 4,3,2 & single-line initials, line fillers, 15pp. with full margins and 124pp. partial margins, margins decorated with drolleries, animals, flowers and fruits, all illuminated in gold, red, blue and other colours, indeterminate old ink foliation, modern pencil foliation in 8's, f. 1 several holes in text, f.2 small hole, f. 61 to f. 87 staining in upper margins getting progressively worse and worn with holes from f. 71 to end repaired in vellum but with loss to last 5ff., last 9ff. (including f. 84 & 85 prayers in a different but contemporary hand) stained and torn and repaired with large loss, ff. 86 & 87 ruled in red but blank, miniatures and other decorations with some surface wear and small loss in places, some show through from decoration due to damp, margins trimmed with slight loss of decoration, old bookseller's description on front pastedown, later paper endpapers, loose in 19th century morocco, gilt, 8vo (151 x 109mm.), [France, probably Paris], [c. 1470].*** Full-page miniatures:(1). The Annunciation, arched miniature with a full border of 6 panels depicting scenes from the Life of the Virgin, surface wear with small loss.(2). Bathsheba Bathing, miniature depicting Bathsheba, with long golden hair, standing naked in a gold fountain in the garden of a castle with King David observing her with two attendants, in the background a town with many towers.(3). Job on the dunghill, with his richly dressed friends and in the background his ruined house.Provenance: (1). Miss M.M. Norton, [c. 1890].(2). Morphet & Morphet, Auctioneers, Harrogate, Sale, 7 November 1976.
Lot 1456
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS (BRITISH, 1845-1911) (2)Crucifix in a garden, thought to be in the grounds of Downside Abbey watercolour and gouache 30.5 x 22cm together with A maid on hall stairs, a pen, ink, wash and gouache by the same hand (2) Provenance Property of the artist; Thence by family descent
Lot 1457
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SYMONS (BRITISH, 1845-1911)The Garden Path inscribed and dated 'Battle, May 1 1904' (verso) watercolour and gouache on paper 35.5 x 25.5cm together with: Topiary by a house, inscribed and dated Mayfield 1898 (verso), watercolour; Garden gate beneath Laburnum, oil on canvas; Fence in sunshine, watercolour and gouache on paper; A climbing rose, watercolour and gouache on paper; and Figure in the garden, watercolour and gouache on paper, all by the same hand (6, all unframed) Provenance Property of the artist; Thence by family descent
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