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Lot 485
The Ao Naga Tribe of Assam: A Study in Ethnology and Sociology Macmillan and Co, Limited London 1925 Pictorial boards with dust jacket. 244 pages, black and white illustrations throughout. English Minor tear to the dust jacket. Pages clean. Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 454
Traditional Jewelry of India Thames & Hudson London 1997 Hardback. 431 pages, fully illustrated in colour and black & white Catalogue of 863 pieces, all illustrated and discussed in detail English Wear to dust jacket, internally clean Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 192
Longbow: A Social and Military History, paperback edition, Portsmouth, 1986 together with; Bradbury, Jim, The Medieval Archer, Woodbridge, 1985; Morse, Edward S., Additional Notes on Arrow Release, Salem, 1922; Kroeber, A.L., Arrow Release Distributions, Berkeley, 1927 (cover and first page with tears, worn); Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Volume XVII, 1885, Salem; Pszczola, Lorraine, Archery, second edition, Philadelphia, 1976 (ex-library copy); Grimley, Gordon, The Book of the Bow, London, 1958; Gordon, Paul H., The New Archery: Hobby, Sport and Craft, New York, 1939; Duff, James, Bows and Arrows, New York, 1927 (two copies); Pope, Saxton T., Berkeley (jacket worn); Hargrove, E., Anecdotes of Archery, London, 1970 (reprint); Clark, J.G.D., Neolithic Bows from Somerset, England, and the Prehistory of Archery in North-western Europe, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1963, Vol. XXIX; Pope, Saxton, The Adventurous Bowmen: Field Notes on African Archery, New York, 1926 (with the stamp of The Archers’ Company, Pinehurst, North Carolina, slight wear to jacket, fore-edges of pages 205-208 repaired); Ascham, Roger, Toxophilus, Westminster, 1902, and Manchester, 1985 (reprint); Pope, Saxton, Hunting with the Bow & Arrow, fourth impression, New York, 1930; Pope, Saxton T., Bows and Arrows, paperback, third printing, 1962 (cover worn); Featherstone, Donald, Bowmen of England, paperback, 1974; Dini, Vittorio, Dell’ antico uso della balestra, Arezzo, 1963; Wiseman, Howard, Tackle Archery This Way, London, 1959 (jacket worn); Thompson, M. & W.H., How to Train in Archery, London, 1970 (reprint); Moseley, Walter Michael, An Essay on Archery, Wakefield, 1974 (reprint); Burke, Edmund, The History of Archery, London, 1958 (cover slightly worn); Wiseman, Howard & Brundle, Fred, Archery, London, 1958 (slight wear); and Kooi, B.W., On the Mechanics of the Bow and Arrow, Groningen, 1983 (26 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 194
comprising: Werner, Jerzy, Polska Bron, Warsaw, 1974; Klopsteg, Paul E., Turkish Archery and the Composite Bow, second edition, 1947 (two copies, one cased, with case heavily worn) and third enlarged edition, Manchester, 1987; Turkiye Makaleler Bibliyografyasi, IV, 1970 (heavily worn); Faris, Nabih Amin & Elmer, Robert Potter, Arab Archery, New Jersey, 1945 (slight damage to dust jacket); Yayinlari, Vakiflar Genel Mudurlugu, Ok Meydani Ve Okculuk Tarihi, 1974 (two copies, one very worn, back cover separated); Latham, J.D. & Lt. Cdr. Paterson, W.F., Saracen Archery, London, 1970 (cover worn, binding loose, with hand-written dedication by Lt. Cdr. Paterson to Edward McEwen); J. Hein, Bogenhandwerk und Bogensport bei den Osmanen from “Der Islam”, Strassbourg, 1925/6 (ex-British Museum, covers missing), T.M. Hamilton, Colonial Frontier Guns, Chadron, 1980 (with hand-written dedication from the author to Edward McEwen); Mason, Otis Tufton, North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers, reprinted with Berke, Ernest, Chipped Arrow Heads, New York, 1972; Inuit Eskimo People of the North American Arctic, Museum of Mankind Exhibition Handlist, 1984; Laubin, Reginald & Gladys, American Indian Archery, Oklahoma, 1980; T.M. Hamilton, Native American Bows, first edition, York, 1972, and second edition, Columbia, 1982 (each with hand-written dedication from the author to Edward McEwen); and Heath, E.G. & Chiara, Vilma, Brazilian Indian Archery, Manchester, 1977 (17 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 377
History of Indian Glass. Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji Endowment Lectures, 1967 T.V. Chidambaran, University of Bombay Bombay 1969 Hardback. 212 pages, 48 black & white plates English Tears to dust jacket, wear to covers, internally clean Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 366
India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825 Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications London 1979 Hardback. 536 pages, 346 black & white illustrations, XVI colour plates English Good used condition, tear to the top front of the dust jacket, clean pages Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 456
Paintings of the Sikhs Her Majesty's Stationery Office London 1966 Hardback. 284 pages, 112 black & white illustrations W G Archer was long associated with the Victoria & Albert Museum, and wrote a number of books on Indian art and in particular Punjabi art. English Wear to dust jacket, internally clean Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 365
Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1995 Hardback. 475 pages of text, 190 black & white illustrations, XV pages of colour plates English Good used condition, dust jacket slightly faded, clean pages Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 185
comprising: Dien, Albert E., A Study of Early Chinese Armor, Artibus Asiae, reprint from Vol. XLIII, 1/2, Ascona, 1982 (slight wear); Selby, Stephen, Chinese Archery, Hong Kong, 2000; Needham, Joseph, Gunpowder as the Fourth Power, East and West, Hong Kong University Press Occasional Series No. 3, 1985 (with hand-written dedication from the author to Edward McEwen); Russell Robinson, H., Oriental Armour, London, 1967 (slight wear to jacket); Laking, Guy Francis, Oriental Arms and Armour, Wallace Collection Catalogue, 1964 (light wear); and Vianello, Gianni, Armi in oriente, Milan, 1966 (6 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 458
The Decorative Arts of the China Trade. Paintings, Furnishings and Exotic Curiosities Antique Collectors' Club London 1991 Hardback. 462 pages, fully illustrated in colour and black & white English Tears to dust jacket, internally clean Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 186
comprising: Tigers Round the Throne: The Court of Tipu Sultan (1750-1799), Zamana Gallery, 1990; Treasury of the World: Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals, The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait National Museum (unopened); Forrest, Denys, Tiger of Mysore: The Life and Death of Tipu Sultan, London, 1970 (jacket worn); Rawson, P.S., The Indian Sword, London, 1968; Lord Egerton of Tatton, Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1968 (reprint, cased); and Pant, G.N., Indian Archery, Delhi, 1978, together with what appears to be a bound proof copy of part of the latter book, with hand-written corrections (7 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 358
19, 1968 Commemoration Volume, The Cochin Synagogue 400th Anniversary Celebrations. December 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19, 1968 Kerala History Association (Regd.) and Cochin Synagogue Quatercenary Celebration Committee Cochin 1971 Hardback. 319 pages, illustrated in black & white English Wear to the dust jacket, internally clean Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 190
Field and Target Archery, Connecticut, 1961 together with: Bilson, Frank L., Modern Archery, first impression, London, 1949 (light wear to spine), and third impression, 1950; Mason, R. Oswald, Pro Aris et Focis, London, 1970 (reprint); Elmer, Robert P., Target Archery, Tiptree, 1952 (wear to jacket); Clover, Patrick (ed.), Bowman’s Handbook for the Practical Archer, first edition, Portsmouth, 1953 (with wear to jacket and some wear to cover), second edition, 1954 (with wear to jacket and some wear to cover), and fourth edition, 1957 (no jacket); Hochman, Louis, The Complete Archery Book, New York (ex-library copy); Roberts, T., The English Bowman, London, 1973 (reprint); Magical Beasts, Amsterdam; Hodgkin, Adrian Eliot, The Archer’s Craft, London, 1951 (heavily worn and torn jacket); Pope, Saxton T., Bows and Arrows, paperback, third printing, 1962 (cover worn); Wood, Sir William, The Bowman’s Glory or Archery Revived, Wakefield, 1969 (reprint); Bow versus Gun, Wakefield, 1973 (reprint); Vanhoutryve, Lic.A., Koninklijke en Prinselijke hoofdgilde SintJoris Stalen Boog Brugge, Brugge, 1985 (staining, cover worn, with hand-written dedication to Edward McEwen by the author); The Archer’s Guide by an Old Toxophilite, London, 1970 (reprint); Heath, E.G., A Hostory of Target Archery, Newton Abbott, 1973; Hein, Joachim, Bogenhandwerk und Bogensport bei den Osmanen (worn, with loose pages); Heath, E.G., Archery: The Modern Approach, London, 1966 (two copies, one ex-library, both with light wear to jacket); The Rev. Francis, P.H., Mechanical Biology, London (light wear to jacket); and How to Improve your Archery, Chicago (cover loose) (23 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 413
Lionel Wendt's Ceylon Lincolns-Prager Publishers Limited London 1950 Hardback with dust jacket. 255 pages, 120 plates printed in photogravure Series of photographs divided by subject: landscapes, types, nudes, details, buildings and ornaments, fantasy, heads. English Wear and foxing to dust jacket, some foxing inside, not affecting the plates, otherwise internally clean Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 187
comprising: Splendour of Oriental Arms, Paris, 1988; Elgood, Robert (ed.), Islamic Arms and Armour, London, 1979 (cased); Dr Artan, Tulay (trans. and ed.), Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, Memphis, 1992 (cover detached); Hirmer, Die Karlsruher Turkenbeute, Munich, 1991; Nicolle, David, Early Medieval Islamic Arms and Armour, Instituto de Estudios Sobre Armas Antiguas, 1976 (signed by the author, slight wear); Ayalon, David, The Mumluk Military Society: Collected Studies, London, 1979; and Stone, George Cameron, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armour, New York, 1961 (wear to jacket) (7 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 195
The Crossbow, Medieval and Modern, Military and Sporting, Its Construction, History and Management, with an appendix including a Treatise on The Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and The Turkish Composite Bow, London, 1903 (the appendix 1907), 220 (plus 28) Illustrations, 328 (plus 47) pages (with library label for W.F. Paterson, heavy wear to cover, especially spine, binding loosening) together with: Payne-Gallwey, Bt., Sir Ralph, Projectile-Throwing Engines of the Ancients with a Treatise on the Turkish and other Oriental Bows, London, 1907 (two copies, one with the frontispiece with the signature of Thomas M. Parr, light wear, slightly heavier to the top and bottom of the spine, the other with heavier wear and faded cover); Blackmore, Howard L., Hunting Weapons, London, 1971 (light wear to jacket); Richter, Holger, Die Hornbogenarmbrust, Ludwigshafen, 2006; Baron de Cosson, The Crossbow of Ulrich V Count of Wurtemburg 1460, 1893 (xerox copy); Bartlett Wells, H. (trans.), European Crossbows: A Survey by Josef Alm, Royal Armouries Monograph 3, 1994 (very light wear); Liebel, Jean, Springalds and Great Crossbows, Royal Armouries Monograph 5, 1998; Paterson, W.F., A Guide to the Crossbow, Society of Archer-Antiquaries, limited edition number 888/1000, 1990; Harmuth, E., Die Armbrust, Graz, 1975; Boccia, Lionello G., Nove Secoli di Armi da Caccia, Firenze, 1967 (with library label for W.F. Paterson, cased, case damaged); Phoebus Gaston, The Hunting Book, London, 1984 (slight wear to jacket); and Bailey, De Witt, et al, Guns & Gun Collecting, London, 1972 (slight wear) (13 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 198
comprising: Stone, George Cameron, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armour, New York, 1961 (cased, case heavily worn, cover worn); Reid, William, Arms through the Ages, Gothenburg, 1976; Held, Robert (ed.), Arms and Armor Annual, Volume I, Chicago, 1973 (slight wear); Held, R., A Review of 162 Antique Arms and Pertinent Objects, Lugano, 1976; Held, Robert, Art, Arms and Armour: An International Anthology, Volume 1: 1979-80, Chiaso, 1979 (large tear to jacket) (5 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 368
Kalighat Paintings: A Catalogue and Introduction. Victoria and Albert Museum Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1971 Hardback. 127 pages of text, 91 black & white plates English Good used condition, wear to dust jacket, clean pages Provenance: From the Library of the Late Peter Curnow Millett (1925-2016)
Lot 191
Handbook of Ballistics, Volume 1: Exterior Ballistics, London, 1921 (light foxing in places) together with: Lambert Jr, Arthur W., Modern Archery, London, 1929 (cover scuffed, binding a little loose); Hare, Kenneth (ed.), The Archer’s Chronicle and Greenwood Companion, London, 1929 (torn and worn jacket, light wear); Payne-Gallwey, Bart., Sir R., Letters to Young Shooters, sixth edition, London, 1914 (light foxing in places, light wear to cover, binding coming loose); Borg, Alan, Arms and Armour in Britain, Department of the Environment; Mason, Richard Oswald, Use of the Long Bow with the Pike, York, 1970 (reprint); die Turkenbeute, Karlsruhe, 1970; Mann, Sir James, Arms and Armour in England, revised edition, London, 1970; Hamilton, T.M. & Fry, Bruce W., A Survey of Louisbourg Flints, Canadian Historic Sites No. 12; Gonen, Rivka, Weapons of the Ancient World, London, 1975; Knecht, Heidi (ed.), Projectile Technology, New York, 1997; Higson, D., Seafowl Shooting Sketches. The Bullet Crossbow, Penrith, 1990 (limited edition reprint, number 87/300); Bow versus Gun, Wakefield, 1973 (reprint); Caldwell, David H., The Scottish Armoury, Edinburgh, 1979; Junkelmann, Marcus, Romische Kavallerie-Equites Alae, Stuttgart, 1989; The Horniman Museum, War and the Chase: A Handbook to the Collection of Weapons of Savage, Barbaric, and Civilised Peoples, second edition, 1929 (spine very worn); Tryon, T.B., The Complete Rehabilitation of the Flintlock Rifle & other works, Taos, 1972 (cover worn); Blackmore, Howard L., Arms and Armour, London, 1965 (binding coming loose); Lord Headly & Phillipps-Wolley, C., Broad-Sword and Single-Stick, London, 1920 (ex-library copy), Hayward, John, Swords and Daggers, London, 1963; Trench, Charles Chenevix, A History of Marksmanship, Norwich, 1972; Federazioni Balestrieri Sammarinesi, Vent' Anni di Lavoro 1956-1976 (two copies, numbered 227 and 497); and a Topkapi Museum guide (24 volumes) Provenance Edward McEwen (1934-2020)
Lot 472
Original vintage Second World War antisemitic propaganda poster issued by the Nazi occupying forces in the Soviet Union. Text in Russsian reads: Down with the Jewish spawn, The Jews have tormented the country, In alliance with the communists they started a war. Jew dominance Shake yourself off people, Take the Jew by the collar, Let him not drink your blood. / ????? ????????? ???????, ???? ???????? ??????, ? ????? ? ?????- ??????? ??????? ?????. ????????? ??????? ??????? ? ????, ?????, ???? ???? ?? ???????, ????? ????? ???? ?? ????. Design features a bearded tall man holding up a smaller Jewish man by his jacket collar. Good condition, folds, creasing, repaired tears. Country of issue: USSR, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 48.5x34, year of printing: 1920s.
Lot 1
1964 I.S.D.T and Steve McQueen Ephemeraincluding a programme for the 7-12 Sept 1964 XXXIX Internationale SechStagefahrt ISDT, in lovely condition (close inspection advised); an embroidered British I.S.D.T 1964 Trophy patch; A copy of Steve McQueen 40 Summers Ago... Hollywood Behind the Iron Curtain, Tonaka, Rin and Sean Kelly. Osaka: Cycleman, 2004 Hardcover without dust jacket, as issued. First edition signed by David Ekins and Ed Kretz, Jr with fold out poster of McQueen enclosed. The story of the first American team, including McQueen and his stunt double Bud Ekins, to compete in the off-road motorcycle race the International Six Days Trial in 1964. Together with A Birmingham Motor Cycle Club Silver and Enamel 1921 Victory Cup Fob awarded to A. E. Wood, a Redditch & District 1921 Autumn Trial fob awarded to A.Wood and an Auto Cycle Union 1919 Six Days Reliability Trial B.S.A. Class D No. 45 medallion. Close inspection advised. (Qty)Footnotes:All lots are sold 'as is/where is' and Bidders must satisfy themselves as to the provenance, condition, age, completeness and originality prior to bidding.REQUEST A TRANSPORT QUOTEPlease click the link to request a transport quote from our recommended transport company, Moving Motorcycles.To request a UK or European shipping quote - Moving MotorcyclesTo request an International shipping quote - ShippioThis Lot will be auctioned on Saturday 20 April starting at 11am GMT.'Lot to be sold without reserve.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 259
ESTIMATE REVISED Eighteen Modern hardback books, many first editions within dust-jackets and clothbound volumes includes:HEMINGWAY (Ernest). The Old Man and The Sea, first UK edition, Jonathan Cape, 1952; DU MAURIER (Daphne). The Scapegoat, first UK edition, Gollancz, 1957; DI LAMPEDUSA (Giuseppe). The Leopard, first English edition, Collins & Harvill Press, 1960; CARROLL (Lewis). Alices Adventures in Wonderland, reprint, Macmillan, 1954; FLAHERTY (Liam). Insurrection, first edition, Gollancz, 1950; TOLKIEN (J.R.R.). The Hobbit, eleventh impression, George Allen & Unwin, 1959; WAUGH (Evelyn). Brideshead Revisited, sixth edition, Chapman & Hall, 1947; together with, MITCHELL (Margaret). Gone With the Wind, reprint, 1940; JOAD (C.E.M). Shaw, first edition, 1947; SPRING (Howard). Winds of the Day, first edition, 1964; HAMILTON (Hamish). Majority 1931-1952: An Anthology of 21 Years of Publishing, first edition, 1952; SCOTT (Sir Walter), Ivanhoe, c. 1930s; King James VI & I, 1956; and five clothbound books, 8vo. (18)Condition Report: Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel - The Hobbit, 2nd edition, 11th impression, with colour frontispiece, map endpapers, original green cloth in unclipped d/jDiscolouration to the edges of the dust jacket with spotting to the inside, some wear to the edges a small rip to one fold. Ownership inscription on facing page to map. Some spotting on top corner of pages up to title page and on the bottom of page 63.
Lot 544
A small German suitcase by Vogel, containing a child's Chinese silk jacket, silk splitting, and various linen child's sailors suits/wear, to include a cap, a sleeved top and trouser, stamped 'Lille 1952', another top with a label for Rowe, various cream coloured child's waistcoats, also a leather cylindrical case containing a metal box, (qty)
Lot 264
WATTS, (Alan W.), The Spirit of Zen, A way of Life, Work and Art in the Far East, 1st edition, hardback with dustcover, London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1936Condition Report: Dust jacket tired as per image, small split to inner top left corner. There is a pencilled name and date to the first '74. Pages 7-10 there is a slight crease to the upper right corner, page 64-65 you can see the book has been pressed flat. There are also pencil and pen notes to margins and underlinings in places.
Lot 420
BATES H.E. Fair Stood the Wind for France - Atlantic, Little, Brown & Co. 1944, signed to fly-leaf, with dust jacket, Edward Garnet, Parish 1950, with dust jacket, The Modern Short Story, Nelson 1941, with dust jacket, The Nature of Love, Michael Joseph 1953, with dust jacket, The Song of the Wren, Michael Joseph 1972, with dust jacket, The Distant Horns of Summer, Michael Joseph 1967, with dust jacket.
Lot 402
BATES H.E. A Threshing Day - W & G Foyle Ltd. limited edition 29/300 1931, signed and numbered by author, blue cloth boards, together with The Hessian Prisoner, William Jackson Ltd. limited edition 343/500, signed and numbered by author, red cloth boards and Sally Go Round the Moon, White Owl Press 1932, dedicated and signed, with yellow dust jacket. (3)
Lot 423
BATES H.E. (Flying Officer X) The Greatest People in the World - Jonathan Cape 1942, with dust jacket, together with How Sleep the Brave, Jonathan Cape 1943, with dust jacket, Something in the Air, Jonathan Cape 1943, with dust jacket, War in Pictures, Oxford University Press 1942, Battle of Britain August-October 1940, There's Freedom in the Air, Derriere les Communiques, The WAAF in Action, Flying Bombs Over England. (9)
Lot 418
BATES H.E. The Two Sisters - Jonathan Cape 1926, signed to fly-leaf, with dust jacket, together with The Sleepless Moon, Michael Joseph 1956, with dust jacket, The Feast of July, Michael Joseph 1954, with dust jacket, A Moment in Time, Michael Joseph 1964, with dust jacket, Seven by Five, Michael Joseph 1963, with dust jacket, The Country Heart, Michael Joseph 1949, with dust jacket. (6)
Lot 417
BATES H.E. The Black Boxer - Pharos Editions 1932, limited edition 44/100 signed, yellow cloth boards, together with The Bride Comes to Evensford, Jonathan Cape 1943, with dust jacket, Colonel Julian and other Stories, Michael Joseph 1951, with dust jacket, The Country of White Clover, Michael Joseph 1952, with dust jacket, The Yellow Meads of Asphodel, Michael Joseph 1976, with dust jacket, Love for Lydia, Michael Joseph 1952, with dust jacket. (7)
Lot 425
BATES H.E. Day's End and Other Stories - Jonathan Cape 1928, dedicated and signed to fly-leaf, with dust jacket, Thirty Tales, Jonathan Cape 1934, dedicated and signed to fly-leaf, with dust jacket, The Cruise of the Breadwinner, Michael Joseph 1946, with dust jacket, Wild Cherry Tree, Michael Joseph 1968, with blue boards, Country Tales, Reader's Union 1938, green boards. (5)
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