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Photographs, Posters & Postcards Autographs, Documents & Ephemera 7 OCTOBER 2026

British & European Paintings & Watercolours 11 NOVEMBER 2026

Circle of George Jamesone (1589-1644). Portrait of Sir Henry St George (1581-1644), circa 1620-25, oil on canvas, three-quarter length portrait of a bearded gentleman dressed in a gilt-trimmed black doublet and hose, with a large lace ruff and lace-trimmed cuffs, his right hand in his pocket, and his left hand resting on a swept hilt rapier, armorial to upper right, 129 x 102 cm (50.75 x 40 ins), 19th century black and gold painted frame (142 x 115 cm) Provenance: Collection of Michael Stanhope Dormer (1930-2019), Bowdown House, Berkshire; thence by descent. Henry St George (1581-1644) was born at Hatley St George in Cambridgeshire, the eldest son of Sir Richard St George (1555-1635), a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London, and his wife Elizabeth St John (married 1575). He entered the College of Arms as Rouge Rose pursuivant-extraordinary in 1610, and was created Bluemantle pursuivant-in-ordinary in 1611 and Richmond herald in 1616, carrying out heraldic visitations throughout the country. In 1625 he travelled to France in order to escort Queen Henrietta Maria to England, and in 1627 he was sent to Sweden to invest King Gustavus Adolphus as a Knight of the Garter. He was knighted by the Swedish king, and granted an augmentation of honour consisting of the Swedish royal arms on a canton in his personal arms. Between 1633 and 1635 Henry St George acted as his father's deputy for the visitation of London, and following his father's death he was appointed Norroy King of Arms. In April 1639 he was suspended and fined by the Earl Marshal for forging his father's signature on a faked grant of arms, but was pardoned a year later. During the English Civil War he accompanied King Charles I to Oxford where he was created a Doctor of Medicine in May 1643 and appointed Garter Principal King of Arms in April 1644, a post he held for only a short time due to his death at Brasenose College, Oxford, in November 1644. Henry St George was buried in Christ Church Cathedral.

Estimate: £10,000-£15,000

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Photographs, Posters & Postcards The Andrew Farmer North Devon Collection Autographs, Historical Documents Beatles Memorabilia & Ephemera 7 October 2026 at 10am VIEWING

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CONTENTS 19th & 20th Century Photographs

1-70

The Andrew Farmer North Devon Collection: Part I Photographs Watercolours & Drawings Prints

71-127 71-106 107-120 121-127

Vintage Postcards

128-169

Posters

170-177

Beatles Memorabilia: A Private Collection

178-181

Autographs

182-251

Historical Documents, Artefacts & Ephemera

252-288

Nathan Winter

Chris Albury

Colin Meays

Paul Rasti

John Trevers

Libraries & Collections

Photographs, Autographs & Documents, Archives & Ephemera

Antiquarian Books & Bibles British Topography

Travel & Exploration Modern Literature & Children’s Books

Maps, Atlases Decorative Prints & Caricatures

William Roman-Hilditch

Oriol Ambrogio Gali

Helen Pedder

Rachael Richardson

General Cataloguer

Fine Art

Henry Meadows

Militaria & Military History Antiques & Collectables Fossils & Minerals

General Cataloguer

Cover illustrations: Front cover: lot 7

Back cover: lot 174

Captain William Cornwallis Harris. Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa, Delineated from Life in their Native Haunts, during a hunting expedition from the Cape Colony as far as the Tropic of Capricorn in 1836 and 1837, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: W. Pickering for the proprietor, 1840, additional hand-coloured title, list of subscribers, 30 ﬁne hand-coloured lithographic plates by Frank Howard after Harris, lithograph vignettes, some spotting and occasional heavier damp staining, largely affecting text leaves, top edge gilt, contemporary red half morocco gilt by Harrison, Pall Mall, slightly rubbed, folio (54 x 37 cm) Abbey, Travel 335; Czech, p. 119; Mendelssohn I, 688; Schwerdt I, 231. The ﬁrst issue with the lithograph vignettes, not present in later issues.

£3,000-5,000 (4 November 2026)

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Wednesday 11 November

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Thursday 12 November

Antiques, Jewellery & Historic Textiles

Wednesday 9 December

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Thursday 10 December

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19TH & 20TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS To commence at 10am

4* British Royalty & Nobility. A well-presented photograph album, c. 1880, containing 38 albumen print portraits of mostly British royalty and nobility, plus some European royalty, carte-devisite and smaller vignetted sizes, neatly mounted on rectos of 20 stiff card leaves decorated with good quality hand-painted watercolour scenes, one watercolour signed ‘Alpha’ in Greek characters, three further leaves at end with watercolour decorations and no photographs, portraits comprise Queen Victoria (by Bergamasco), Duchess of Manchester, Countess Granville, Lady Archibald Campbell, Mrs Charles Cadogan, Princess Liechtenstein (née Fox), Viscountess Castlereagh, Lady Howard, Countess of Normanton, Countess of Lonsdale, Countess of March, Countess of Clarendon, Countess of Dudley, Lady Beatrice Cavendish, Countess of Dudley, Countess of Westminster, Prince Albert Victor, Princess of Wales, Prince George, Mrs. Cornwallis West, Mrs. [Lillie] Langtry, Marchioness of Hamilton, Marchioness of Ormonde, Duchess of Manchester, Prince of Wales [later Edward VII], Prince Imperial, Viscountess Newport, Crown Prince of Austria, Countess Grosvenor, Lady Carrington, Mrs Cornwallis West, Marchioness of Ormonde, Lady Musgrave, Viscountess Grimston, Countess of Lonsdale, Lady Garvagh, Lady Duncombe, Princess Louise of Prussia and Prince Arthur, all neatly captioned in ink at foot of images, contemporary black morocco by ‘Macmichael (to the Queen) 42 South Audley St. W.’, hallmarked silver outer corners and broken clasp, ornate intertwined silver monogram ‘C. B.’ to upper cover, rubbed and scuffed, slightly split at head of upper joint, 4to (33 x 27 cm)

1* Baden-Powell (Robert, 1857-1941). The Prince of Wales with Lord Baden-Powell, visiting a Scout camp, c. 1922, modern gelatin silver print enlargement from an original negative, image 44 x 56 cm, together wirh a smaller digital print of the same scene, 17.5 x 22.5 cm, both with ‘Collection David McCleave’ stamp to versos (2)

£100 - £150

2* Bedford (Francis, 1815-1894). A collection of 86 photographs of scenes and villages in England and Wales, c. 1870, albumen prints, images 20 x 28 cm and smaller, mostly unmounted and all in very good condition (86)

£100 - £150

3* Bourke-White (Margaret, 1904-1971). Violinist’s Hands of Klaus Liepmann, c. 1935, vintage warm-toned gleative silver print, pencil annotation to verso, 23.5 x 33 cm, aperture mount (1)

£200 - £300

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Lot 2

£200 - £300

Lot 3 5

6* Caldesi (Leonida , 1823-1891). A good group of 4 dilute albumen prints of British royalty, 1857, comprising images of Prince Albert, three-quarter length, 272 x 190 mm; Prince of Wales, in proﬁle, 150 x 94 mm; Prince of Wales, full face, 215 x 139 mm; and a group portrait of seven standing men, including Prince Albert and Prince of Wales, [Buckingham Palace, April 1857], 127 x 169 mm, all sitters identiﬁed in the negatives and the two of the Prince of Wales [later Edward VII] on the same sheet, each sheet 49 x 32 cm

5* Cabinet Cards. A collection of approximately 450 cabinet cards, 1870s and later, mostly portraits of unidentiﬁed men, women and children by British studios, some contained in a metal drawer, together with a group of approx. 50 postcards, a few miscellaneous photographs and approx. 100 in memoriam cards (a carton)

The sitters in the group portrait are (left to right): Colonel Phipps, Mr. Gibbs, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, Baron Stockmar, Dr. Ernst Becker and Baron Ernest Stockmar. The Royal Collection Trust has more than one print of this image, though seemingly none lettered and dated in the negatives. (4) £1,500 - £2,000

£200 - £300

Lot 6

Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

7* Cameron (Julia Margaret, 1815-1879). A partially completed album containing three photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron, and two others attributed to her or her circle, c. 1865, a total of 11 albumen prints, including four portraits from life, one photographic tableau of ‘The May Queen’, one very small photograph of Osborne House, and five small photographs from artworks, mounted on the rectos and two versos of the first 7 leaves of the album, entirely uncaptioned, with approximately 60 blank leaves at end, first five leaves detached and slightly chipped at edges, contemporary green half roan over cloth, spine and covers detached, some wear, 4to (29 x 22 cm) Provenance: Mary Ryan (1848-1914), thence by descent. Mary, the daughter of James and Anne Ryan, left Limerick, Ireland, during the potato famine. Cameron found Mary, aged 10, begging with her mother in Putney. Struck by her beauty, Cameron employed Mary as a maid in London and Freshwater, Isle of Wight, where she became a muse for the photographer. In 1867, Mary married Sir Henry Stedman Cotton, of the Indian Civil Service, who had met her while she was acting as saleswoman at Cameron’s first London exhibition, at Colnaghi. They had four children and lived in St John’s Wood, London. Mary Ryan was a frequent sitter for Cameron, and appears in two photographs in this album. The ‘May Queen’ is well documented, but the other one, showing Mary Ryan leaning forward and intimately whispering into another young woman’s ear, is unknown. In this photograph Mary Ryan is seen wearing the same plain gown as she wore in Cameron's tableau depicting Henry Cotton and Mary as Romeo and Juliet, taken in July and August 1867. The relaxed and friendly intimacy of the two women in this photograph, the plaid dress and lack of background drapery, make this highly untypical of Cameron's usual style. However, the fact that Mary Ryan is in the 'Juliet gown' does hint that it may have been taken at Freshwater at the same time as the Romeo and Juliet tableaux. One possible identity for the second young woman is Kate Shepherd, another of Cameron's staff, who acted as Mary Ryan's bridesmaid for her wedding to Henry Cotton in August 1867. Kate Shepherd's role in the Cameron household was administrative and managerial and Cox and Ford do not list her as a sitter in any of the known photographs. Kate was a brunette who was admired for her beauty, and there is even a suggestion that Henry Cotton humorously claimed on the wedding day that he had mistaken Mary for Kate. Another plausible photographer might have been Oscar Rejlander, who visited Freshwater in 1863 and 1864, when he photographed Mary Ryan and others, but none of his located photographs show Mary in this gown, or feature the second woman. The photographs are mounted as follows: 1r: Henry Taylor [reversed], by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864, arched top, 11.5 x 8.5 cm 1v: face of a young man [Charlie Hay Cameron?], attributed to Julia Margaret Cameron, c. 1867, oval print, 11.5 x 10.25 cm 2r: Annie Philpot, by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1864, arched top, 14 x 12 cm 2v: ‘Mrs. Fry Reading to the Prisoners in Newgate, in the Year 1816’, from the engraving based on an 1863 painting by artist Jerry Barrett, 8.5 x 12.5 cm 3r: Kate Ryan and an unidentified young woman [Kate Shepherd?] in a plaid dress, smiling and sharing a secret, attributed to Julia Margaret Cameron or her circle, c. 1867, arched top, 16 x 14.5 cm 4r: from a print of two cats, c. 1865, 6.5 x 11 cm 5r: a) a version of John Flaxman’s sculpture ‘Maternal Tenderness’, c. 1865, 8.5 x 5.5 cm; b) from a print by George Stodart, after a monument of Mary and the deceased Percy Bysshe Shelley by Henry Weekes, c. 1865, 5.5 x 9 cm; c) a view of Osborne House, Isle of Wight, c. 1865, 3 x 7 cm 6r: The May Queen, [featuring Caroline Hawkins, Mary Ryan, Margaret Louisa ‘Daisy’ Bradley], by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865, arched top, 18.5 x 17.25 cm 7r: ‘Odin’, after Landseer, from a print of a bloodhound, c. 1865, 10 x 11 cm Cox & Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs (2003), nos. 1-3 (Annie Philpot, ‘my first success’), 775 (Henry Taylor) and 1069 (The May Queen). (1) £4,000 - £6,000

Lot 8

8* Cartes de Visite. A large collection of approximately 1,000 cartes de visite, 1860s and later, mostly portraits of unidentiﬁed men, women and children by British studios, partly contained in 3 metal drawers (approx. 1,000)

£700 - £1,000

9* Cased Images. A group of 10 one-sixth plate cased daguerreotypes, c. 1850, all but two of female subjects, some with tinting and gilt highlights, one with taped in label identifying the young woman as Lydia Manchester Seabury [1826-1896, born Westport, Mass.], ‘sister of Rhoda’ and the date 1846 inscribed on the cushion, together with a group of 10 one-sixth plate ambrotypes, c. 1860, ﬁve with two sitters, mostly with tinting and gilt highlights, all in original leather cases with clasps, one lid detached (20)

Lot 9 Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

£150 - £200

12* China & Hong Kong. A pair of Chinese execution scene is Canton, c. 1910, gelatin silver prints, images 25 x 20 cm and the reverse, original card mounts with typed captions pasted to lower margins, ‘Ofﬁcial execution of robber on military parade ground’ and ‘Heads left as a warning to thieves in public street’, together with an albumen print, c. 1880, 21 x 28 cm, printed caption to lower margin. ‘No. 600 – The Mode of Conveyance at Hong Kong’

10* Cased Images. A group of 10 one-sixth plate hanging ambrotypes, c. 1860, including 5 portraits of women, one girl, a couple, a man and two boys, a few with tints and gilt highlights, together with a group of 10 one-ninth plate ambrotypes, c. 1860, all but one of female subjects, mostly with colour tinting and some gilt highlights, original leather cases with clasps (20)

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£150 - £200

13* China. A group of 8 photographs in ChinKiang, [Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province], China, c. 1885, albumen prints, including four rooftop views with the Yangtse beyond, one view from a hill and three views of H.B.M. Consulate exterior including one featuring memorial arches in the grounds, and two house interiors (the Consulate?), images 15 x 21 cm, mounted on rectos and versos of 6 card mounts, some with pencil captions to mounts

11* Ceylon & Europe. A large album containing approximately 200 mostly small format photographs, c. 1880s, including over 20 mostly small format (6 x 9 cm) images of people and scenes in Ceylon, plus numerous other views and scenes in UK and Europe, mostly smaller format sizes, but including some medium format, mostly arranged as multiples on rectos of 46 paper leaves, some photos loosely inserted, a total of approximately 200 images, largely uncaptioned, plus numerous other images of artworks, contemporary half calf over boards, heavily rubbed, large oblong folio (37 x 50 cm) (1)

£100 - £150

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£200 - £300

£150 - £200

14 China. Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee at Shanghai, 1st edition, printed at the Shanghai Mercury Ofﬁce, [1897], [12], 87, [5] pp., 35 mounted albumen print photographs by W. R. Kahler, images 10.5 x 15 cm and smaller, mounted one or two to a page with printed captions beneath, commercial adverts at front and rear including endpapers, contemporary ink signature of C. L. Anderson to front pastedown, many photographs with publisher’s pencil size mark-ups in the margins and three with ‘OH’ [Original Height] written in ink in the images, some spotting, heaviest to tissue-guards facing plate leaves, some toning to ﬁrst and last advert pages, inner hinges cracked, original clothbacked printed boards, rubbed and slightly soiled with slight edge wear, small folio (27 x 18 cm) Provenance: Charles Lascelles Anderson, who was employed at the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank 1897, thence by family descent. A rare photographically illustrated book, written by journalists of the Shanghai Mercury, reporting the exuberant Jubilee celebrations held in the city. (1) £700 - £1,000

16* Diableries. A group of 12 albumen print tissue skeleton stereoviews, c. 1860s, from series B (4), E (2), F (4) and P (2), pencil identiﬁcations to mount versos

15* Congo Free State. A rare ‘set’ of 24 unnumbered stereoviews by Underwood & Underwood, 1907, gelatin silver prints, mounted on curved card mounts with printed captions and publisher details, contained in original book-style cloth box with gilt-titled spine labels (24)

Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

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£200 - £300

£150 - £200

18* Early Photography. A group of 10 early photographs, 1850s1865, including ‘On the Devilswater’, by C. S. Brady, c. 1855, albumen print, 25 x 34.5 cm; The Barracks Battery, Crimea, by James Robertson, 1855, salt print, closed tears to lower right corner, 24 x 30 cm; boats in a harbour, c. 1850, salt print, closed tear in sky area, torn edges, 15 x 19 cm; a study of armour by Disderi, albumen print, 17 x 22 cm, embossed studio stamp to mount; a genre scene of a man and woman in 18th-century costume; a study of machinery; two photographs of workers with a cart; ﬁve member of a cricket or other sporting team; Hadley Bowling Club, 1865, albumen prints, various sizes (10)

£150 - £200

17* Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, ‘Lewis Carroll’, 1832-1898). Assisted photographic self-portrait [IN 2285], [?May 1875], albumen print, taken in Dodgson’s Christ Church Studio, a cropped image showing Dodgson seated in an armchair, facing right, with his head resting on his right hand, 89 x 57 mm, a little speckling of black dots, mounted onto the inside front board of an old Macmillan red cloth Alice book See R. Taylor & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll Photographer, 2002, p. 233. The uncropped image would usually measure approx. 143 x 102 mm. This version, cropped to focus in on Dodgson’s face and pose, loses the back and lower portion of the armchair, as well as his left hand and legs. (1) £500 - £800

19* Egypt. A group of approximately 45 photographs of Egyptian sites and people, by Beato and Lekegian, c. 1885, albumen prints, most unmounted, some on album leaves, images mostly 21 x 37 cm and similar sizes, and some smaller format (approx. 45)

£150 - £200

21* Evans (Frederick Henry, 1853-1943). A group of 9 photographic glass lantern slides of Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1890, all but two with white china ink titles and markings to paper masks, one of those unsigned, the remaining two with black ink inscriptions and photographer’s initials on white graph paper masks, many with small dot and cut rectangular stickers with further reference markings, likely in another hand, some seal tears but largely intact, all 8 cm square The lantern slides have the following inscriptions in Evans’s hand: Canterbury. South Side to West, signed and dated, ‘F.H. Evans ‘90’; Canterbury Cathedral. South Porch, signed and dated ‘Fred H. Evans ‘90’, paper sticker marked ‘R.1’; Canterbury Cathedral. Crypt Tomb of Cardinal Morton, signed and dated ‘Fred H. Evans ‘90’, paper sticker marked ‘R.5’; 2. Canterbury Cathedral. Christchurch Gate, entrance, signed and dated ‘Fred H. Evans ‘90’, two paper stickers with Evans’s initials and ‘G.1’; 33. Canterbury Cathedral. Corona & Trinity Chapel, to S.W., signed and dated ‘Fred H. Evans ‘90’, paper stickers marked ‘3’ and ‘R.7’; 54. Canterbury Cathedral. Norman Staircase, signed and dated ‘Fred H. Evans ‘90’, small sticker marked ‘3’; Canterbury. S. Transept, Turret &c., titled and initialed ‘F.H.E.’ in black ink, two black ‘X’ markings to paper mask, paper sticker marked ‘R.2’; Canterbury. The Angel Tower, titled and initialed ‘F.H.E.’ in black ink, two black ‘X’ markings to paper mask, paper sticker marked ‘A.3’; Canterbury Cathedral [?West Towers]. Class 5. Architecture. “Bibliophile”, (unsigned).

20* Egypt. Reminiscences of Egypt, 1894, 72 black and white photographs, laid onto 19 photograph album leaves, showing views of the Step pyramid and Kheops, the Sphinx, Mariette’s House where he lived during his exploration of the Apis Tombs, an Arab encampment near Pyramids, Temple of the Sphinx, Pyramid of the daughter of Kheops, Payramid of Khephren and Mastabas, the Step Pyramid, Temple of Horus, the Market, Afternoon tea on our Balcony - Mena, ‘Pharoaoh’s Bed’ Temple of Isis, etc., each photograph with handwritten title below, presentation inscription to ‘ Miss Constance Belliss with affectionate love from her fellow travellers Uncle, Aunt & Cousin, Xmas 1894’, all edges gilt, brown morocco with gilt title and decoration to upper board, spine partially detached, large 4to (1)

Provenance: All the Evans lantern slides, platinum prints and photogravures in this section are from the family of Joseph Malaby Dent (1849-1926), a British book publisher and founder of the ﬁrm J. M. Dent and Company. They are by direct descent from Dent’s family by his second wife, Alexandra Campbell Main (1864-1944). Evans and Dent were on friendly terms and it was Evans who introduced Aubrey Beardsley to Dent. In 1893, Evans, Dent and Alfred Harrison went on a trip to Epping Forest, all producing platinum prints of the scenery and themselves. (9) £500 - £800

£150 - £200

Lot 21

Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

22* Evans (Frederick Henry, 1853-1943). A group of 4 platinum prints of Gloucester Cathedral, 1890, all mounted on board, comprising: Crypt, 1890, signed, titled, dated, and annotated ‘64’ in pencil on mount below image, mount spotted and dust soiled to recto and verso, image 112 x 154 mm, mount 21.5 x 26.5 cm; Choir and Nave to West, 1890, signed, titled, dated, and annotated ‘18’ in pencil on mount below image, mount dust soiled and a little spotted to recto and verso, image 153 x 115 mm, mount 26.5 x 21.5 cm; Nave and Cloisters, [and] South Ambulatory of the Choir, c. 1890, 115 x 151 mm & 112 x 153 mm, some surface damage to left margin of second image, neither signed or titled, both mounts slightly spotted and dust soiled, framed and glazed, 24.5 x 29 cm overall (5)

24* Evans (Frederick Henry, 1853-1943). York Minster: ‘In Sure and Certain Hope’, from Camera Work, no. 8, October 1904, photogravure, 200 x 148 mm, tipped onto triple mount, with photographer’s embossed initials lower right, sheet size 24.5 x 17.5 cm, indistinct pencil title to lower margin of larger sheet, together with an original version of the same work taken from Camera Work, no. 4, October 1903, 200 x 149 mm, tipped onto card and original tissue and paper backing, paper mounts slightly soiled and dampstained to lower right corner, not affecting image, together with: Ely Cathedral: A Memory of the Normans [and] Ely Cathedral: Across Nave and Octagon, from Camera Work, no. 4, October 1903, photogravures, 200 x 131 & 147 x 185 mm, light creasing to three corners of the ﬁrst image and heavier creasing to three corners and upper right area of the second image, adhesion remains to corners of versos

£300 - £400

The first-named item is a reprint of the second image, which had been issued in the Evans special number of Camera Work the previous year. The reprint is blacker and stronger, though arguably too dark in places, compared to the first printing. The makers of the plates for issue no. 4, Messrs. J. J. Waddington & Company, had been ‘shocked’ at the quality of this gravure in no. 4 in particular, and offered to reprint it for free. The publishers offered a note of explanation in no. 8 and rather haughtily concluded: ‘If our readers will but compare the print in this number with that in Number Four they ought readily see that there are reproductions and reproductions, and that our critical attitude is fully warranted. To those who can not appreciate the marked difference we can but express our envy at the ease with which they can be satisfied.’ (4) £200 - £300

23* Evans (Frederick Henry, 1853-1943). Canterbury Cathedral: South Porch, 1890, platinum print, mounted on board, signed, titled and dated in ink to lower edge of mount, mount dust soiled and spotted, image 112 x 153 mm, mount 21.5 x 26.5 cm; [Canterbury] Cathedral: Choir to East (1), 1890, platinum print, mounted on board, signed, titled and dated in ink to lower edge of mount, lower left corner chipped with loss of ﬁrst word of text, mount dust soiled and spotted, image 152 x 115 mm, mount 26.5 x 21.5 cm (2)

£150 - £200

25* Fearnley (Gerald, born 1932). An archive of advertising material from Gerald Fearnley, 1970s, including approximately 60 pieces of artwork/proof sheets; 80 large mounted gelatin silver prints, approx. 29 x 37 cm and slightly smaller; 43 large unmounted vintage silver prints, mostly black and white with a few colour; a quantity of negatives and contact sheets, all housed in a large wooden print case (88 x 49 x 14 cm) (a wooden print case)

26* Female Nudes. A group of 14 large photographs of female nudes, by Mohan Juneja, Hamilton, Ontario, from his series ‘Silent Music’, c. 1970s, gelatin silver prints on thick paper, all signed, numbered and titled in pencil to versos, some dampstaining, largely affecting versos and lower margins, two lower left corners torn with loss (one just touching corner of image), images 25 x 25 cm, together with an abstract female nude study by Arnold Henderson, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1969, gelatin silver print, titled, dated and signed in pencil to verso, image size 23 x 21 cm

£200 - £300

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£100 - £150

27* Ferrier & Soulier. A group of 12 positive stereoscopic glass plates, c. 1870, including views in the Pyrenees (4), marine scenes (2), and the sculpture galleries in Versailles (5), one glass cracked, all with uniform early-style gilt borders, mostly captioned in the negatives to lower margins (12)

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£150 - £200

28* Forth Bridge Construction. An important archive of approximately 120 photographs of the construction of the Forth Bridge, probably by by Evelyn Carey, Assistant Engineer and Principal Photographer for the project, 1884-1886, albumen prints, 50 photographs mounted on card, all numbered, titled and mostly dated in the negatives (c. September 1884 to June 1885), contained in two broken morocco albums, gilt-titled ‘Forth Bridge Works’, with dates 1884 & 1885 and volume numbers 1 & 2 to spines, oblong 4to; together with a smaller album containing a further 44 mounted photographs of the construction, c. April to August 1886, also all numbered, titled and mostly dated in the negatives, ownership signature to front endpaper, ‘Thos. Scott, Forth Bridge Works’, contemporary half morocco over cloth, soiled, broken and worn, oblong folio, plus a group of 26 loose albumen prints of the project loosely inserted, c. 1886, all but two untitled in the negatives, some fraying, all numbered in ink (1-29) and signed by ‘Thos. Scott’ to versos, the photographs in the whole collection generally in good condition with occasional spotting and some corner creasing where lifting from mounts, image sizes approx. 18 x 24 cm and similar, the album mounts generally spotted and soiled, together with a defective copy of Philip Phillips, The Forth Bridge: In its Various Stages of Construction and Compared with the Most Notable Bridges of the World, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, c. 1890, original red morocco gilt, soiled, broken and worn, oblong folio Provenance (ownership signature in the third album, and signed loose photographs): Thomas Scott served as general manager for the primary contracting ﬁrm, Tancred, Arrol & Co., during the bridge’s construction. As the overall manager for the contractors, Thomas Scott was responsible for overseeing the daily operations, engineering tasks, and thousands of ‘briggers’ who were employed to build the bridge. The construction of John Fowler and Benjamin Baker’s cantilever structure began in 1883, the work beginning with the granite pier and underwater foundation work using pneumatic caissons. The complex underwater foundation phase (sinking the massive caissons and building the granite piers) was ofﬁcially completed in 1886. This archive of photographs documents this foundation period. Under Scott’s management, the team then began work on the steel superstructure itself. The bridge was completed in December 1889, and formally opened by Prince of Wales on 4 March 1890. Sold with all faults not subject to return. (3 albums + a book)

£2,000 - £3,000

29* Fox Talbot (William Henry, 1800-1877). Mount Edgcumbe House with distant valley view, Devon, [1846], salted paper print, some fading, 79 x 98 mm, mounted as issued as a plate opposite p. 143 in The Art-Union, Monthly journal of the Fine Arts, volume 8, 1846, engraved plates and illustrations, some occasional damp stain browning (not affecting photograph), original cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 4to, together with an unrelated, complete album containing 96 window-mounted cartes de visite and 16 cabinet cards, c. 1860s/1880s, mostly unidentiﬁed men, women and children, many by Dumfries studios, except the ﬁrst cabinet card by Alexander Bassano, showing Queen Victoria with her granddaughter Margaret, 1885, contemporary velvet-covered boards, rubbed, clasp broken, 4to First item: Gernsheim, Incunabula, 620; Talbot Catalogue Raisonné online, Schaaf no. 1352. (2) £500 - £800

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30* George Nightingale & Co. The Battle-Field Series, c. 1920, a complete set of 100 stereoviews of WWI battlefields, printed captions and numbers to versos, without the original card boxes, together with a loose group of 96 (of 100) small photographic stereoviews from Raumbild, ‘Der Kampf in Westen’, 1940, showing German troops on the Western Front, with the original folding Raumbil-Verlag viewer A rare complete set of the second series, published by the little-known George Nightingale & Co. of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. According to notations on the actual stereoviews, the finishing and printing was done for Nightingale by ex-servicemen at Reflex Studios, Parkstone (near Poole), a manufacturer of postcards. These images are unmounted and printed on photo paper. The first series bore the same title, but lacked the hyphen. There is some duplication between the first and second series, though this second series is better organised and includes some 30 images of the Somme battlefields. (197) £150 - £200

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31* Frederick Hollyer (1838-1933). A personal album containing 106 studio portrait photographs of notable people of the day, c. 1870s/1890s, platinum prints, 14 x 10 cm and similar sizes, mounted to rectos and versos of thick paper leaves, 99 with sitter names identified in ink in more than two or more hands to lower mounts, a few sitters represented more than once (e.g. Edward BurneJones and George Frederic Watts), one album leaf loosely inserted, contemporary buckram, gilt-stamped with Hollyer’s name and studio address to lower margin of upper cover, ‘Fredk. Hollyer / 9 Pembroke Sqr.’, soiled and heavily rubbed, black tape repairs to both joints, 4to (21.5 x 15 cm) Provenance: By direct descent through the family of Frederick Hollyer’s second wife Eleanor Mary Hollyer (18711968) who, due to the wide age disparity, is often mistakenly identified as Hollyer’s daughter. These charismatic portraits were taken in Hollyer’s Kensington studio, using his favoured platinum print process, the subjects being his friends and other people he particularly admired. The sitters include William Morris, May Morris, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Burne-Jones, Lady Burne-Jones, Ellen Terry, Thomas Hardy, George Frederic Watts, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, J. M. Barrie, Walter Crane, Andrew Lang, Bret Harte, John Waterhouse, Jean Sibelius, Joseph Joachim, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and many others from the creative, political and religious worlds. A full list of sitters, with all but five identified, is available on request. “For every negative made for profit there should be one made for love” (Frederick Hollyer, quoted from an interview for Photogram magazine, 1899. (1) £5,000 - £8,000

32* Indochina. A collection of approximately 585 original photographs of Vietnam, circa 1948-1954, gelatin silver prints, 6 x 8.7 cm, including over 500 original views of rural and urban life in Vietnam, markets, temples, local architecture, landscapes, coastal and marine scenes, with approximately 30 personal photographs belonging to a French serviceman, depicting daily life in military camps and other scenes around Saigon, a couple with light superﬁcial marks, with a manuscript love note in French ‘Je t’aime quand même, malgré tout, et quoi qu’il arrive, tu seras l’unique pour moi, Janine’ (I love you anyway despite everything and no matter what happens you will be the only one for me, Janine) (approx. 585)

£200 - £300

33* Indochina. A group of 29 photographs of views and people of Indochina, c. 1930, most with pencil captions in French and French Government of Indochina wet stamps to versos, 17 x 23 cm (29)

£150 - £200

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34* Japan. A good album containing 50 hand-coloured albumen prints of Japanese scenes, c. 1890, all featuring Japanese figures including Geisha girls, tea house scenes and trades, etc., some with numbered captions in English in the negatives (attributed to T. Enami Nobukuni, 1859-1929), including: eating macaroni, teahouse garden Tokyo, chrysanthemum seller, washing clothes, farmer’s tourist, pipe maker, Buddhist priest, sweet wine seller, Japanese kitchen, Japanese grocery, porcelain shop, shoes maker, reeling raw silk from cocoons, brewery, salted fish shop, basket maker, basket seller, shoes shop, wheat gluten seller, wrestling at Tokyo, boat play Tokyo, boys festival, spinning silk, all 20 x 25 cm or the reverse, mounted to rectos and versos of 25 stiff card leaves, contemporary lacquered wood covers with inlaid carved bone and mother-of-pearl decorations depicting two sparrows and a branch with flowers and a bird table, two small pieces missing and one detached, original gilt-decorated calf spine, oblong folio 35 x 26 cm) (1)

36* Jersey & Isle of Man. An album containing approximately 50 mounted photographs, c. 1890, albumen prints, including views of Jersey (13), Sark (3), Isle of Man (8), Constantinople (3), the others mostly of UK topography, mostly 20 x 27 cm and similar, but some smaller, mounted with some other ephemera to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves, ink captions to most mounts, contemporary half roan, some wear, backstrip deﬁcient, 4to (1)

£100 - £150

£300 - £500

37* Jones (David Keith, 1933-2022). A group of approximately 800 photographs of Kenya, c. 1980s and later, gelatin silver prints, showing people and scenes, some landscapes and natural history, including contact prints, the majority with photographer’s copyright wet stamp to versos, and a large number with pencil mark-up annotations and occasional captions, mostly 17 x 25 cm (approx. 800)

£200 - £300

35* Japan. A group of 11 delicately hand-coloured panoramic photographs of Japanese people and villages, c. 1900-10, matt toned silver prints, 12.5 x 29 cm, together with 4 albumen prints, c. 1880, of Japanese women and temples, all but one hand-coloured, approx. 20 x 25 cm and similar sizes (15)

£150 - £200

38* Lantern slides. A group of 106 diapositive and some lithographic glass lantern slides of aviation interest, early 20th century, including early machines, World War I aircraft and Zeppelins, etc., contained in a wooden slide box (106)

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£150 - £200

41* Malaysia. A photograph album compiled by H. W. Hewett, 1920s, containing a total of 66 gelatin silver prints, mostly scenes and views of Bukit Fraser and Penang Island, some including ﬁgures, railways and machinery, plus the visit or HRH the Prince of Wales to Penang, images mostly 13 x 8 cm or 10 x 7.5 cm, tipped on to rectos and versos of stiff card mounts in multiples, brief ink captions, Hewett’s ink ownership name to front pastedown, inner hinges broken, contemporary half morocco over cloth, soiled and worn, small folio (17.5 x 26.5 cm)

39* Lantern slides. A group of 93 diapositive and some lithographic glass lantern slides of China, early 20th century, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manchuria, street scenes and rural views, missionary interest, schools, military, the Great Wall, opium, and some by James Valentine, contained in a wooden slide box (93)

£200 - £300

H. W. Hewett is historically recognised as the pioneer who ofﬁcially surveyed and laid out the initial boundaries for the development of Fraser’s Hill (known locally as Bukit Fraser). (1) £150 - £200

40* Lantern slides. A group of 110 diapositive glass lantern slides, early 20th century, including 52 from the series ‘Derbyshire and the Peaks’ by George Washington Wilson, 41 of Devon and 17 of Cornwall by James Valentine, all named, numbered and with description, contained in a wooden slide box, together with 4 other slide boxes containing approximately 275 early 20th-century diapositive glass lantern slides, comprising: A group of 40 glass lantern slides of the Paris Exhibition of 1878, including three by William England and 14 tinted; a group of 54 (of 60) of the Paris Exhibition of 1889, mostly tinted; a group of 64 ‘Life Model’ lantern sides, from various series including Bamforth and York & Sons, series including My Queer Schoolfellow, Dimes and Dollars, The Old Chapel Bell, A Little Bow of blue, We Are Seven, Honour Bright; and a group of 117 glass lantern slide of occupational interest, subjects include brewing, matchmaking, steeple repairs, repairing a canal, individual labourers, Munich Trade School, etc. (approx. 285)

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42* Martinique. A rare set of 18 stereoviews by Underwood & Underwood, 1902, gelatin silver prints, mounted on curved card mounts with numbered and printed captions and publisher details, contained in original book-style cloth box with gilt-titled spine labels, ‘St. Pierre and Mont Pelee through the Stereoscope’, together with a set of 32 unnumbered stereocards by Underwood & Underwood of King Edward VII’s coronation, 1902, probably in original box with replacement label (50)

£200 - £300

£150 - £200

44* Photography. An assorted collection of photographs and related, late 19th and 20th c., including 12 stereoviews (3 diableries), 10 photos of female nudes, c. 1950s, 9 x 11.5 cm, assorted loose images, albums, postcards, a small group of magic lantern slip slides, etc. (a carton)

£200 - £300

45* Photography. An assorted collection of photographs and related, late 19th and 20th c., including literary portraits, loose images including F. L. Kennet architectural views, a few large format images, magic lantern slides of Belgian Congo, a large quantity of assorted 35 mm colour slides, etc. (2 cartons)

43AR* Mellor (Oscar, 1921-2005) Surrealist artist and photographer. A photographic archive, c. 1960-1980, gelatin silver prints, including a self-portraits, 12 medium-format negatives and a contact sheet with some images featuring Mellor standing before a castle ruins; a group of 11 enlargements for his ARPS submission, mostly portraits, 49 x 39 cm and smaller; 38 prints of female nudes, mostly 11 x 16 cm but including some larger format; and a collection of 45 semisurreal and abstract images, 11 x 16 cm, all housed in a solander box (approx. 100+)

£150 - £200

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£200 - £300

46* Mudd (James & Robert). An important group of 6 wood-framed dry-plate collodion glass lantern slides, c. 1857-1861, comprising slides of: The [Grand Central] Conservatory, Botanical Gardens, Manchester, being a rear view of the glass building showing a dome-topped central body with protruding bowed glass projection with flanking glass galleries, and in the foreground a man in a top hat is seated on a bench with a camera on the path by his feet, ‘J. R. Mudd’ etched into the negative lower left; another slide of the Botanical Gardens showing a rustic wooden bridge over a stream, similarly identified; a hand-coloured lantern slide of St Margaret’s Church, Altrincham, photographer’s printed details ‘J. & R. Mudd, 94, Cross Street, Manchester’ on paper masking strip; another hand-coloured lantern slide of Bowdon Old Church, Cheshire, similarly identified; Conway Castle, North Wales; and ‘Vessel Unloading in North Wales’ showing several boats on a shore line; image sizes approx.. 8 x 8 cm and similar, inset into wooden supports with contemporary captions inked on James and Robert Mudd opened their studio at 94 Cross Street, Manchester, in 1857, with James Mudd then moving to a new solo studio in 1861. James Mudd lived on Richmond Hill in Bowdon for nearly five decades. The 13th-century ‘Old Church’ at Bowdon (St. Mary the Virgin) shown in this slide, was demolished and completely rebuilt between 1858 and 1860, thus dating this photograph to before the demolition. Opened in 1830, the Royal Botanical Gardens in Old Trafford, Manchester, became hosts of the massive 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition. The exhibition ran from 5 May to 17 October, and remains the largest art exhibition to be held in the UK. It attracted over 1.3 million visitors in the 142 days it was open, about four times the population of Manchester at that time. The gardens closed in 1907, becoming White City Pleasure Gardens, near the present-day White City Retail Park. (6) £300 - £500

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47* Palestine Emergency of July 1947. A good group of 34 press photographs, centred on the Exodus 1947 affair, 7-30 July 1947, gelatin silver prints, press wet stamps, wire captions and other pencil reference numbers to versos, 15 x 20.5 cm and some smaller The Palestine Emergency of July 1947 intensified dramatically due to two landmark flashpoints: the interception of the refugee ship Exodus 1947 by the British Royal Navy and the spiraling violence of the Sergeants Affair. The Exodus 1947 Interception (17-18 July): The British Royal Navy boarded the ship Exodus 1947 in international waters, which was carrying over 4,500 Holocaust survivors seeking immigration to Mandatory Palestine. Following resistance and casualties during the boarding, the ship was towed to Haifa, and the refugees were forcibly deported back to Europe, turning international public opinion against British policy. The Sergeants Affair (29-31 July): In retaliation for British death sentences handed to three captured militants, the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun hanged two abducted British Army Intelligence sergeants (Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice) near Netanya after the militants were executed. The discovery of the booby-trapped bodies injured a British officer and triggered violent reprisals by enraged British security forces in Tel Aviv, leaving several Jewish civilians dead and deepening the collapse of order during the broader Palestine Emergency. This group of photographs contains images of: The Haganah ship Exodus 1947 (ex-President Warfield), photographed at Haifa after the Royal Navy boarding action; A named, identified photograph of Chaim Weizmann receiving an honorary doctorate at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 7 July 1947 – one day before his testimony to UNSCOP; Individual portrait photographs of both Jacob (Yaakov) Weiss, one of the three Irgun men hanged at Acre Prison on 29 July, and Sergeant Mervyn Paice, one of the two British sergeants killed in reprisal that same day; Documentation of the Nathanya martial law period: the post office occupation, house-to-house searches, and mass screening operations tied to the manhunt for Sergeants Martin and Paice; The UNSCOP hearing of the Arab case in Beirut, 22 July 1947, showing Lebanese Prime Minister Riad al-Solh, Syrian Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey, and UNSCOP chairman Justice Emil Sandström; A Paris press conference on the Exodus affair, 24 July 1947, with Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) and French deputies including Maître Edgar Faure, later twice Prime Minister of France; Extensive coverage of the Port-de-Bouc deportation standoff, including the Runnymede Park and Ocean Vigour, the refugees’ refusal to disembark, and French Red Cross evacuation of the sick and injured; Jerusalem rooftop street-fighting scenes, and further Aliyah Bet vessels including ‘Shivat Zion’ (ex-Louisiana) and ‘14 Giborei Gesher Zib’ (ex-Bruna). (34) £1,200 - £1,500

48* Papstein (Robert). A collection of approximately 100 photographs of Eritrea, c. 1980s, digital exhibition prints, printed c.1991, showing various images including Amna and the Egg, Napalm Girl, AK47 in Tree, Solomuna Camp: Bomb Shelter Child, Amputee Walking in Field, etc., including some duplicates, images mostly 40 x 60 cm or 25.5 x 37.5 cm Robert Papstein is a photo journalist who has travelled extensively in Africa. These photographs were all used to illustrate his book about Eritrea before its liberation in 1991. A paperback copy of the book Eritrea: Revolution at Dusk, (Red Sea Press, 1991), is included with the lot. (approx. 100) £300 - £500

50AR* Rodger (George, 1908-1995). Rabbis in the synagogue, Djerba Island, Tunisia, 1957, printed c. 1970, gelatin silver print, 29 x 22.5 cm, aperture mount (1)

49* Pictorialism. A large bromoil print of a French scene near a cathedral, by Rob Chalmers, c. 1920, signed in pencil in the image lower right, printed on card, 27 x 34.5 cm; a bromoil print by Geoffrey Chance FRPS, c. 1930, titled ‘A Wayside Chat’ and signed to lower margin, image 20.5 x 25.5 cm, laid on card; a bromoil of silver birches on Gevaluxe paper by G. L. Hawkins, c. 1930, signed in pencil to lower margin, 31.5 x 26 cm; a group of 4 platinum prints by Francis Bolton (a member of the Linked Ring), c. 1900, all unsigned, 25 x 20 cm and smaller; plus a group of 30 further pictorialist photographs, including platinum prints, early 20th century, mostly scenes in North Devon, various sizes (37)

51* Rome. A group of 3 albumen prints on card, attributed to James Isaac Atkinson Anderson (1813-1877), c. 1860, comprising: View from the Palatine toward the Colosseum, 22 x 38 cm; View of Rome from the River Tiber, featuring Castel Sant’Angelo and St. Peter’s Basilica in the background, oval print; 25 x 36.5 cm; Arch of Constantine, Rome, 31.5 x 40 cm

£150 - £200

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£200 - £300

£300 - £500

52* Russia. An album containing 101 photographs, mostly of Moscow and environs, early 1900s, platinum prints, including views in Moscow (13), Crimea (16), Nizhny Novgorod (11), Lyubertsy, Kazan, Savatov, Odessa, Helsingford (3), scenes on the Volga and other river scenes with boats, (including one of Tsar Nicholas’s yacht the Standart in the Crimea), street scenes, monasteries, rural scenes including farming, a few photographs with soldiers including one group with Grand Duke Serge, images 11.5 x 17 cm, mounted on thick paper album leaves and back to back throughout, most with brief white china ink captions to mounts, some tape repairs to inner hinges near front of album, contemporary limp cloth, rebacked with black tape, some fraying to edges, oblong small folio (18 x 25 cm) According to a supplied note, these photographs were taken by a Mr Bray, an American who had been employed to build a pipe mill, and who lived in Lyubertsy, a district to the south-east of Moscow. The uncaptioned photographs of rural scenes at the end of the album may have been taken there. (1) £300 - £500

53* School Groups. A collection of approximately 250 photographs of English school groups and some sport groups, c. 1890/1960, albumen and gelatin silver prints, including some on mounts with printed school and date details, 60 cabinet cards (in a modern ring binder), and many loose, some with school/class and date details in the negative or annotated to versos, various sizes, but mostly 20 x 25 cm and smaller, some corner-mounted and ﬁled in a modern ring binder (approx. 250)

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£150 - £200

54* Siam. A collection of 31 views of Siam, c. 1910/1920s, gelatin silver prints, including herding elephants and private residence, Bangkok, mounted to recto and verso of card, approx. 25 x 33 cm, the other smaller loose images, approx. 11 x 15 cm, including scenes o native dancers, a royal funeral procession, weaving cloth, pounding rice, cremation of Prince Mahidol [1929], views and temples of Bangkok, etc., some captioned to versos (31)

56* Spellbound. A collection of approximately 80 film stills, c. 1941, gelatin silver prints, mostly featuring Vera Russell, some with printed caption label to verso, approx. 20 x 25 cm, together with a copy of the printed piano sheet music used in the film Spellbound (released in U.S. in 1945 as Ghost Story and The Spell of Amy Nugent) is a 1941 British drama film, with spiritualism as its theme, directed by John Harlow and starring Derek Farr, Vera Lindsay and Hay Petrie. It was written by Miles Malleson based on the 1909 novel The Necromancers by Robert Hugh Benson. (approx. 80) £100 - £150

£150 - £200

55* South Africa. An album of 17 photographs of South Africa, 1870s, albumen prints, including 7 views of Grahamstown (High Street, West Hill, Beaufort Street), 5 diamond mining scenes in Kimberley (one with the photographer’s name Gray [Brothers] in the negative), 2 views of Rondebosch and one view of the Phoenix Hotel (proprietor Stephen Johnson), [Port Elizabeth], mostly mounted on contemporary card, pasted onto individual album leaves with pen or pencil captions to mounts, some marginal fraying, approx. 21.5 x 16 cm and similar sizes, two leaves detached, contemporary cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, rubbed, 4to (1)

57* Stein (Gertrude, 1874-1946). Two portraits of Gertrude Stein, by George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), [1931] and 1946, matt gelatin silver prints, the first half-length in profile, with a wooded valley behind, 11.5 x 15 cm, the second full-length and seated in her study with her poodle beside her and the dog’s portrait on the wall behind, a few dent impressions to image surface, 23 x 18 cm, aperture mounts, the first identified with subject and photographer in pencil to verso, the second with pencil inscription in the same hand, ‘Plate 82. Gertrude Stein, Paris, 1946’

£100 - £150

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£100 - £150

59* Stereoscopic Ambrotypes. A pair of stereoscopic ambrotypes of statuary in the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, possibly by Negretti & Zambra, c. 1861, one of Roman statuary, the other of the Hagar and Ishmael statue from the Tuscany section (reversed 262 on the statue base), both VG+ (2)

£150 - £200

60* Stereoviews. A collection of approximately 250 stereoviews on ﬂat mounts, c. 1870s, assorted albumen print views of UK and European scenes (approx. 250)

61* Straker (Jean, 1913-1984). A group of 7 studies of female nudes, c. 1960, vintage gelatin silver prints, all embossed with the photographer’s name to lower margins, and all with the ‘Jean Straker, Personal Copy’ wet stamps to versos, 12.5 x 9.5 cm

58* Stereoscopic Ambrotypes. A group of three stereoscopic ambrotypes, c. 1855-60, all hand-tinted with gilt highlights, one of a seated man holding a cap and cane, one of a young woman in a full dress, the last of the same woman in a group of three women, similarly dressed, matching oval apertures with gilt borders (3)

£150 - £200

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£150 - £200

62* Sutcliffe (Frank Meadow, 1853-1941). A group of 5 photographs of Whitby, c. 1885, albumen prints, all initialed and numbered in the negatives (501, 504, 543, 578, and 587), images approx. 13 x 20.5 cm, mounted on three card album leaves, including two back to back (5)

£100 - £150

65* Union Cased Images. A group of 3 one-sixth plate ambrotypes, c. 1860, the first of a young girl, housed in a union case with a design of the Deer and the Pine Tree, (Berg 1-116), the second a tinted ambortype of a woman, in a union case with Acorns 1 design (Berg 2-37), plus a union case with double image of a husband and wife, with design ‘Tasting the Nectar 2’ (Berg 2-135), the first two cases in near fine condition, the third case with a chip to upper fore-edge, otherwise near fine (3)

63* Teynard (Félix, 1817-1892). A group of 4 large salt prints from the series Égypte et Nubie, photographed in 1851/52, and printed in 1858, all on original mounts with printed captions, (Deîr, MédînetAbou (Thebes), Dakkeh (Pselcis), and Première Cataracte), but with two of the mounts cut down, images 25 x 30 cm and slightly smaller (4)

66* Union Cased Images. A group of three one-sixth plate daguerreotypes of men, circa 1850s, all contained in union cases, featuring designs of Lilies and Grapes (Berg 2-56), Geometric (Berg 3-103), and Cupid and the Stag (Berg 1-83R), all cases in near ﬁne condition

£300 - £500

64* Twentieth-Century Photographs. A large group of miscellaneous photographs, mostly early 20th century, mostly amateur smaller format gelatin silver prints, contained in 23 albums and assorted loose photos and album leaves (3 cartons)

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£150 - £200

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67* Union Cased Images. A quarter-plate colour-tinted ambrotype of seated older gentleman, c. 1860, union case with The Washington Monument, Richmond, Virginia (Berg 1-175), together with a group of 4 one-sixth plate ambrotypes of men, c. 1860, all housed in union cases with designs of Highland Chief (Berg 1-108), Daguerreian Gallery (Berg 1-118), Geometric: gold oval (Berg 3-103 G2), and Calmady Children (Berg 1-104), all cases in near ﬁne condition (5)

70* Victorian Photography. An assorted collection of approximately 50 photographs, mostly British, c. 1860s, and some later, including a mammoth albumen print showing an ironclad in dry docks under construction, c. 1860, 24 x 29 cm; a riﬂe targetshooting competition, showing ofﬁcials with telescopes and a watching crowd with top hats behind, c. 1860, 14 x 24 cm; 3 steam locomotives including one partly wrecked, c. 1860, plus other assorted albumen prints, c. 1860s and later, including photographs of various ships, rural British views, architectural interest, etc., some mounted and some loose, various sizes

£150 - £200

68* United Kingdom. A collection of 18 photograph albums, mostly late 19th century, mostly UK views, buildings, people and scenes, contained in 18 albums, various bindings and sizes (18)

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£200 - £300

69* United Kingdom. A large collection of 350+ photographs, mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints of UK views, loose or on album leaves, various sizes (approx. 350+)

£150 - £200

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£200 - £300

All photos from lot 71

THE ANDREW FARMER NORTH DEVON COLLECTION: PART I Andrew Farmer (1940-2025) was my personal friend for some 60 years. From Oxford in the 1960s until he died last year at the age of 85. He impressed initially as a person of formidable intelligence. An Oxford First and someone who never touched anything superficially. His great love was music, particularly bel canto and verismo opera and the operas of Wagner. Andrew was also creative and wrote a large number of plays, one of which, The Devil’s Tool, was produced at the Bromley College of Technology in the mid-1970s. Andrew was also passionate about justice for the underprivileged. Ealing Council mistakenly thought his fight against them for inhumane treatment of Somali refugees would come to nothing. Not so. He involved the Ombudsman who found ‘fault’ with the council and duly fined them. ‘A fine paid by us from council tax’, said Andrew – always sharp and with a ready wit. It was only in his 40s that Andrew became interested in North Devon and Lynmouth and Lynton. I visited them with a friend and couldn’t wait to tell him how impressive they were. I hoped they might become a holiday destination. Instead, he quickly saw a research opportunity which lasted the rest of his life. His collection of watercolours, oil paintings, prints and lithographs, amateur drawings, photographs, stereoviews and postcards grew to be enormous. Many of these are of high quality but, because his research interest lay in the topographical development of the twin locations, a quite nondescript amateur drawing or watercolour would sometimes reveal more about topographical development than quality items. In the later years of his life Andrew was writing up his researches in two books relating to Lynmouth and Lynton; one about their history and the other, of which he was very proud, about their artistic representation from earliest times to the twentieth century. He never finalised either but I offered the art book to the North Devon Record Office and it has been accepted and catalogued as B1596: Works in Progress of Andrew Farmer. He also wrote a further two books; a substantial history and art history of Ilfracombe and a shorter similar account of Clovelly. These have also been added to the North Devon Record Office collection. Andrew was well-known to other collectors, including Janette Rosing, and dealers in old photographs and stereoviews, in particular, Richard Meara, whom I want to thank for his invaluable help in sorting out the collection and making catalogue suggestions to help Dominic Winter prepare the many items for sale. Paul Wrigley, September 2026 Auctioneer’s Note: We had known Andrew Farmer since before the company’s beginnings in 1988. His determination to not let any new item of North Devon imagery escape his collection was legendary. Living in London, and not driving, Andrew had to weigh up whether a train journey to view our photography or art auctions, (half way to his beloved Lynton and Lynmouth), was going to be worthwhile. Catching sight of the magic words ‘North Devon’ in a catalogue description Andrew would ring for more information. In the days before emails and phone photos this led to some creative conversations in trying to describe what images we had, and for Andrew then to try and establish if these were of interest to him. With the help of Richard Meara and other allies in the British photographic world he was able to keep abreast of anything of special interest and, indeed, it was Richard who found his prize Gutch album, which kicks off the section. We extend our gratitude to Richard for his Herculean efforts in trying to disentangle and pre-sort the collection before it was collected from Andrew’s home in Ealing. While Andrew Farmer’s collection is anchored in the imagery of North Devon, he inevitably collected, both intentionally and incidentally, images of other locations. These other places were primarily South Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, with a smattering of other localities creeping in, especially with the photograph albums and loose photographs on album leaves. Each lot can be assumed to be predominantly a mixture of views of North Devon locations, the main sites being Lynton and Lynmouth, Ilfracombe, Clovelly, Minehead, Porlock, Bideford, Appledore, Hartland, Westward Ho and the Valley of the Rocks. All the photographic material in Andrew Farmer’s collection is included in this sale, along with the first portion of art works and prints. Further lots, comprising oil paintings, watercolours and drawings will feature in our 11 November Fine Art auction and other future sales. Please contact us to register your interest and to receive updates. Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

71* Gutch (John Wheeley Gough, 1808-1862). A personal album containing 25 lightly albumenised salt prints of Lynmouth, North Devon, July & August 1856, including views of the harbour and pier, the Rising Sun public house, Lyndale House, ‘The Tors’, on the East Lyn, and the West Lyn in Sir W[illiam] Herries’s grounds, each approximately 15.5 x 20 cm or the reverse, except for two 2-part panoramas (The Harbour and The Pier & Foreland), each 15.5 x 40 cm, a few with rounded upper corners, mounted within pencil borders to paper rectos of a contemporary stitched album, each neatly numbered 1-26, initialled, titled and dated in ink on the mounts by Gutch, photograph no. 16 (The Harbour at Low Water) absent, versos blank, the preliminary leaves comprising a quotation by ‘The Sketcher’ [i.e. Rev. John Eagles, 1783-1855], neatly written by Gutch to inside front wrapper, ‘This little area is a fine school, wherein the mind may learn nobility, cast off with shame every littleness of pursuit or fancy and from humility learn to be great’, the facing recto with another handwritten quotation, by Francis Bacon, ‘Joyful to receive the impression thereof, as the eye joyeth to receive light’, this page decorated with 9 cut-out sepia photogenic drawings of leaves, the verso with two mounted printed pages from a contemporary guide book to Lynton and Lynmouth, with a contemporary folding engraved map of North Devon by G. F. Cruchley then inserted to precede the first numbered photograph of the album, contemporary limp cloth wrappers over card, rubbed and soiled, upper wrapper detaching from card stiffener, paper label fragment to upper cover, oblong folio (23 x 30 cm) Provenance: Andrew Farmer, acquired from Richard Meara. Bristol-born John Wheeley Gough Gutch originally trained as a surgeon before eventually becoming a photographer. A contemporary of Fox Talbot, he was experimenting with photography as early as 1841, making him one of the earliest known photographers working in the west of England. This is one of Gutch’s five personal photograph albums extant, which are the subject of Ian Charles Sumner’s book, In Search of the Picturesque: The English Photographs of JWG Gutch 1856/59, Bristol: Westcliffe Books, 2010. The other four albums, containing photographs taken between 1856 and 1860, feature the people and places of Cornwall, Malvern in Worcestershire, Somerset, Bristol and the Lake District. (1) £2,000 - £3,000

72* Gutch (John Wheeley Gough, 1808-1862). A group of 3 lightly albumenised salt prints of Lynmouth, North Devon, 1856, two mounted on contemporary paper mounts within pencil borders, each approx. 15 x 20 cm, initialled, titled and dated in ink by Gutch on the mounts, ‘On the Lyn, Lynmouth, N. Devon / Aug. 1856’, and ‘Waters-Meet Road, Lynmouth, N. Devon / Sept. 1856’, the third a slightly smaller loose print of ‘The Tors’, 14.5 x 20 cm The photograph of Waters-Meet Road from September 1856 does not appear in the album above. Prints of the other two photographs appear in the album as nos. 8 & 22. (3) £200 - £300

73* North Devon. A collection of approximately 40 photograph albums, late 19th century, mostly albumen prints of North Devon, plus some South Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, etc., including several albums with photographs by Francis Bedford, various bindings and sizes (2 cartons)

£500 - £800

74* North Devon. A collection of approximately 60 photograph albums, early to mid-20th century, mostly gelatin silver prints of North Devon, plus some South Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, etc., various bindings and sizes (3 cartons)

£300 - £500

Lot 74

75* North Devon. A collection of approximately 60 photograph albums, early to mid-20th century, mostly gelatin silver prints of North Devon, plus some South Devon, Somerset, Cornwall, etc., various bindings and sizes (3 cartons)

Lot 75

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£300 - £500

76* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,000 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 6 large archive boxes (approx. 1,000)

£300 - £500

77* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,250 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 7 archive boxes (approx. 1,250)

£300 - £500

Lot 76

78* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,250 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 7 archive boxes (approx. 1,250)

Lot 77 33

£300 - £500

79* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,200 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 7 archive boxes 45/46/47 etc. (approx. 1,200)

£300 - £500

80* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,200 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 7 archive boxes (approx. 1,200)

£300 - £500

81* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,300 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 8 archive boxes

Lot 79

(approx. 1,300)

£300 - £500

82* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,400 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 9 archive boxes (approx. 1,400)

Lot 80

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£300 - £500

85* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,400 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 9 archive boxes (approx. 1,400)

£300 - £500

83* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,400 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 9 archive boxes (approx. 1,400)

£300 - £500

86* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,250 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, including numerous Frith series, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 12 archive boxes (approx. 1,250)

£300 - £500

84* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,400 photographs of North Devon, etc., mostly late 19th century, mostly albumen prints, various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 9 archive boxes (approx. 1,400)

£300 - £500

87* North Devon Photographs. A large collection of approximately 1,000 photographs of North Devon, etc., late 19th and 20th century, a varied collection of albumen prints and gelatin silver prints, etc., various sizes, loose and on old album leaves, contained in 9 large archive boxes (approx. 1,000)

Lot 85

£300 - £500

88* North Devon Photographs. A very large collection of approximately 2,500 photographs of North Devon, etc., some late 19th and mostly 20th century, a varied collection of gelatin silver prints, copy prints and some albumen prints and gelatin silver prints, etc., various sizes, contained in 20 archive boxes (approx. 2,500)

£400 - £600

89* Stereoviews. A collection of approximately 1,000 stereoviews of North Devon topography, etc., mostly late 19th century (approx. 1,000)

£400 - £600

90* Stereoviews. A collection of approximately 800 stereoviews of North Devon topography, etc., mostly late 19th century (approx. 800)

Lot 88

Lot 89

Lot 90 Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

£400 - £600

91*

Stereoviews. A collection of approximately 900 stereoviews of North Devon topography, etc., mostly late 19th century

(approx. 900)

£400 - £600

92* Stereoviews. A collection of approximately 1,500 stereoviews of North Devon topography, etc., mostly late 19th century (approx. 1,500)

£500 - £800

93* Stereoviews. A collection of approximately 1,000 stereoviews of North Devon topography, etc., most late 19th century (approx. 1,000)

£400 - £600

94* Topographical Cartes de Visite. A collection of approximately 500+ albumen print views, late 19th century, mostly North Devon interest (approx. 500+)

£150 - £200

Lot 94

95* Magic Lantern Slides. A collection of approximately 250 mostly diapositive glass lantern slides of North Devon, etc., mostly early 20th century, including some hand-coloured slides, contained in 3 archive boxes (approx. 250)

£150 - £200

97* Glass Negatives. A collection of approximately 400 glass plate negatives of North Devon interest, etc., mostly early 20th century, various sizes, contained in 2 wooden boxes and 8 archive boxes

96* Magic Lantern Slides. A collection of approximately 220 mostly diapositive glass lantern slides of North Devon, etc., mostly early 20th century, including some hand-coloured slides, contained in 3 archive boxes (approx. 220)

Each lot is subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 22% (Lots marked * 26.4% inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

(approx. 400)

£150 - £200

£300 - £500

98* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 2,500 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG

101* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 2,500 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG

(approx. 2,500)

£400 - £600

102* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 2,000 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG

99* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 3,000 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG (approx. 3,000)

(approx. 2,000)

£400 - £600

103* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 2,000 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG

100* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 1,800 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG (approx. 1,800)

£400 - £600

(approx. 2,000)

£400 - £600

Lot 104

104* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 1,700 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG (approx. 1,700)

£300 - £500

105* Postcards. A large collection of approximately 2,500 postcards, early 20th century and later, primarily North Devon topographical interest, including black and white and colour photographic view cards, some postally used, mostly VG (approx. 2,500)

£400 - £600

106* North Devon Ephemera. A collection of assorted printed North Devon ephemera, mostly 20th century, including photographically illustrated view books, local guides, hotel brochures, maps and street plans, cuttings, etc. (3 cartons)

£100 - £200

Lot 106

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108* English School. A collection of 25 watercolour studies of the North Devon Coast, circa 1850, together 25 watercolour studies, some heightened with bodycolour, all by the same hand, each mounted on contemporary backing paper with pencil title inscription to lower edge (From the Lime Kiln, Ilfracombe, The bathing place, Ilfracombe, Ilfracombe from Hillsborough, Ilfracombe from the Tor walk, Biddeford N. Devon, Lynmouth, Lady Herries, Clovelly from the Pier, etc.), each 17.5 x 26 cm or similar, together with other 19th century watercolour and pencil views of North Devon, many with captions, including eight views of Ilfracombe and Lynmouth, initialed E. H. and dated September and October 1816 (Harbour at Ilfracombe, View of Lynmouth looking North, View of Lynmouth looking South, Duty Head from Valley of Rocks, near Lynton, Coast near Ilfracombe, Entrance to the Harbour at Ilfracombe, View of Lynmouth looking East, etc.), each 20.5 x 29 cm, and similar (approx. 100)

107* English School. From the Road between Lynmouth & the Pier, June 25 1811, Lynmouth bridge, June 25 1811, & Lynmouth June 26 1811, together three pencil and sepia wash views on paper, each captioned in ink to lower right corner, sheet size 21 x 23.5 cm, together with Views of Lynmouth, East and West Lynn, Watersmeet & Dunster, etc., circa 1830s, a collection of 13 attractive watercolours on paper, each tipped-on to dark grey backing paper and captioned with title in brown ink to lower edge (Lynton, looking down to Lynmouth, Bridges at Lynmouth, looking up the West Lynn, Dunster Castle & Church from the mount, Waters meet, near Lynmouth, East Lynn, below the Bridge at Lynmouth, N. Devon, Entrance to Lynmouth, from the Bridge, East Lynn, Road to Waters Meet, Lynmouth, Looking up the West Lynn, at Lynmouth, Cascades in Mr. Herries's Grounds, Lynmouth, from the West Lynn, Lynmouth, looking to the Sea, Dunster Castle (2), etc.), each 23 x 30 cm, plus other 19th century watercolour and pencil views of North Devon, including ﬁve pencil studies dated July and August 1824, each captioned (Clovelly Court from the Cave, Lynmouth & Mr. Lock's house from Ilfracombe Road, Clovelly Court, the Seat of Sir James Hamlyn Williams, Lynton and Lynmouth from Mr. Lock's woods, and Lynmouth from the steep hill by Valley of Rocks Hotel), each 18 x 26 cm, etc (approx. 60)

£200 - £300

109* English School. Views in Clovelly, North Devon, 1821, a small album of nine sketches in pen, grey-black ink, and pencil of Clovelly, including three double-page, dated Clovelly September 26th 1821, From the Hermitage, From the new road, Clovelly, From the Pier, etc., original plain pale blue wrappers, stitched as issued (wrappers detached), sheet size 17 x 21 cm, together with a group of nine small landscape sketches in pencil, 1834, each initialled E. M., one or two appear to be initialed M. M., C. M. (probably members of the same family), each inscribed with location to verso in pencil (Bristol Channel near Dunster, Gateway to Dunster Castle, Cavern on the Seashore at Ilfracombe, Minehead Harbour, Crewkhorne near Ilfracombe, Church of Culborne near Porlock, etc.), each 106 x 150mm, plus other various 19th century watercolour and pencil landscape views in North Devon, including three postcard-sized landscape sketches in pencil by Charles Henry Money Mileham (architect, circa 1880) of Knowle, Ilfracombe and Berrynarbor Manor House, a view of Bideford, dated June 30th 1839, a small view of Plymouth Sound on a cloudy evening, 1839, etc., various sizes, mostly smaller format

£200 - £300

(approx. 40)

Lot 108

£150 - £200

112* English School. Combe Martin Bay from Watermouth, North Devon, circa 1850, watercolour, with caption in brown ink to lower margin of backing paper, sheet size 15.5 x 36 cm, together with nine other mostly pen, ink and wash, and some with watercolour views by the same hand of Clovelly, Smallmouth Cave, Watermouth, Berrynarbor Church, Watermouth, Seat of A. Bassett Esq., Hillborough from the Capstone Walk, and Ilfracombe Lighthouse, all mounted together on thin card backing sheets, together with another small bound volume entitled Sketches in North Devonshire, 1853, containing four pen, ink and monochrome watercolour views (Lynmouth Pier, Lynmouth, Lighthouse Quay & Hillsborough, Ilfracombe (double-page), and Castle Rock), plus other various 19th century watercolours and pencil views in North Devon, similar sizes

110* English School. Two Views of Barnstaple, July 27, 1826, pen, ink and watercolour on Whatman paper (one with partial watermark), each titled and dated lower left and lower right respectively, 16.5 x 28.5 cm, together with other mostly smaller format 19th century watercolour and pencil views of North Devon, including a study of Old House at Lynmouth, attributed to Henry Bright (according to contemporary pencil inscription), another caostal study in pencil attributed to J. H. Williams (according to later pencil inscription), a monochrome wash View of Clovelly from Mr. Loggins Summer house near Buck's [Cross] (with contemporary ink title inscription), a group of seven mid-19th century watercolour views of Lynmouth and Lynton, all by the same hand, each captioned with title, a pencil vignette view of Lynmouth Pier, titled and signed T. H. Harvey, 1828, two watercolour studies of waterfalls near Lynmouth, one inscribed In Mr. Herries grounds Lynmouth, circa 1830s, 14 x 21 cm, etc., mostly similar sizes (approx. 60)

(approx. 50)

£200 - £300

111* Callow (William, 1812-1908). Devon Water Mill, with passing shower, 1869, watercolour with traces of white bodycolour, faintly signed and dated towards lower left, 22.5 x 50.5 cm, together with Carter (Henry Barlow, 1803-1868). Lynmouth & Mouth of the Lynn, North Devon, circa 1861, two ﬁne pencil landscapes, each 11.5 x 18 cm, window-mounted, with a later inscrption: taken from an album by Henry Barlow Carter, plus various watercolour and pencil landscapes of North Devon, including a pencil study of Watermouth Castle and harbour by John Townshend, a watercolour study of boats and wooden houses on an estuary by Abraham Hulk, two pencil and chalk studies by John Lewis Roget (Rocks near Wilders Mouth, Ilfracombe, & Fragments of Rock under Capstone Parade, Ilfracombe, a watercolour view of Lee near Ilfracombe by Henry Gastineau (1791-1876)), signed, 22.5 x 32.5 cm, etc., mostly similar sizes or smaller (approx. 70)

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£150 - £200

113* English School. View of Ilfracombe Harbour, circa 1850, pencil on paper, 17 x 21.5 cm, accompanied by Certiﬁcate of Authenticity from Sulis Fine Art, dated 2014, together with other 19th century pencil, wash and watercolour views of North Devon including two pencil and pale blue wash scenes in Torrington (Saint Giles in the wood near Torrington and Torrington from School House Lane), circa 1840s, 26.5 x 33 cm, a pen, ink and brown wash study of Cawsand, Plymouth Sound, dated May 20, 1859 (mounted), and others, similar sizes (approx. 50)

£300 - £500

£150 - £200

115* Callow (William, 1812-1908). On the Devon Coast, 1852, watercolour with brown ink on paper, signed and dated lower right, sheet size 28 x 50.5 cm, laid down on backing card, together with Mitchell (Charles Henry, 19th century). On the Coast near Lynmouth, North Devon, watercolour with body colour, signed lower right, sheet size 28 x 45.5 cm, plus Green (Nathaniel Everett, circa 1833-1899). Figures on the Coast, North Devon, 1857, watercolour, signed and dated lower right, sheet size 30.5 x 48.5 cm, and other larger format watercolour and some pencil views of North Devon, including W. Turner, Henry Jutsun (Clovely, North Devon, 1850), a group of 18 watercolour views in Somerset, inclduing Long Ashton, Minehead, Old Rectory, Puckington, North Stoke Church, Farley Castle, Valles Near Frome, Pendover, Oare Church near Exmore, Stoke Pero, Walton Old Church, Walton Bay, Orchardleigh, Bream Church, Bevern on the Bristol Channel, etc, all signed with initials W. W. W., sheet size 18 x 28 cm and smaller, mounted on ﬁve large card backing sheets, with locations annotated in brown ink to verso

114* Needham (Joseph, circa 1810-1880). View near Lynton, 1869, watercolour heightened with bodycolour, with scratching-out, signed, dated, and titled to lower right, sheet size 325 x 490 mm, laid down on backing card, together with Collingwood Smith (William, 1815-1887). Near Edgcombe, Devon, watercolour on heavy paper, signed lower right, sheet size 274 x 468 mm, and Dixey (Frederick Charles, active 1877-1920). Lynmouth Beach & Jetty, watercolour, signed lower right, some scattered spotting, sheet size 340 x 475 mm, laid down on backing card, and other 19th century watercolour and pencil views in North Devon, including examples by Philip Mitchell R. I., A View of the Bay at Appledore by W. Hoyer, Interior at Ashley Combe, home of the Earl of Lovelace, attributed to his daughter Annabella King, several watercolour views of Ashley Combe initialed J. C. L., including Lynton near Brendon, North Devon, (unsigned), group of 17 large-scale pencil views of Devon and Somerset by E. B. Fry and Lucy Fry, circa 182545, Broomﬁeld Church, Somerset, and Lynmouth, North Devon from the Lyndale Hotel, Ruins of the Central Tower and St. Marys and St. Edgar's Chapel, Glastonbury, View on the Avon near Clifton, Scene amongst the Cheddar Cliffs Somerset, Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, Entrance to Cheddar Cliffs, Noth East View of Tintern Abbey, Woody Bay near Lynmouth), each 280 x 450 mm, each initialed E. B. F., and dated 1825 and 1845 respectively, etc., mostly large format and some smaller scale (approx. 50)

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£300 - £500

116* Campion (George Bryant). Landscape with a Hilltop Mansion, watercolour, signed to lower left margin, sheet size 150 x 225 mm, laid down on backing card, together with Stockdale (Reverend W. L., 19th century). Tavistock, Barnstaple Church, Old Alms House, Barnstaple, & Tavistock Gateway, Devon, together four sepia watercolours, each titled to verso or lower margin, sheet size 22 x 30 cm, plus other 19th century watercolour and pencil views mostly of North Devon, including a group of sepia watercolours of Clovelly, Bideford Bay, Hartland Point, Watermouth, Ilfracombe, Castle Rock, Lynton, Rocks on the Seashore near Lynton, Watermouth Cave, all with initials J. C. L., and dated 1866 or similar, Lynn Bridge by Paul Sandby Munn (1773-1845), monochrome watercolour, etc., mostly similar sizes

£300 - £400

(approx. 75)

Lot 115

£200 - £300

117* Wyndham (Jane, early 19th century). A View of Peppercombe, near Bideford, Devon, 1820, pencil on paper, 185 x 260 mm, laid down on backing paper with contemporary ink inscription to lower margin giving the title and 'From Nature by Jane Wyndham, 1820', together with Farington (Joseph, 1747-1821). East view of Lynton & Lynmouth, pencil on wove paper, laid down on backing paper, titled in pencil to lower margin, and with colour notes to lower margin, squared for transfer, sheet size 220 x 370 mm, plus other various watercolour and monochrome wash view in North Devon, including Abraham Hulk (1843-1919), Near Barnstaple, North Devon, watercolour, laid down on backing card, a watercolour and bodycolour view of the High Falls at Watersmeet in Combe Park, 1865, pencil and wash view of Pilton House, Bridgepool below Watersmeet House, Furzepool, Castle Rock from Lee Abbey, Lynmouth Hill, New Inn from foot of Lynmouth Hill, Lynmouth by Paul Sandby Munn, etc., mosty mounted on backing paper, similar sizes (approx. 70)

119* Müller (William James, 1812-1845). View on the North Devon Coast, watercolour and body colour on wove paper, signed lower left, sheet size 267 x 361 mm, laid down on card, with glue residue from old mount to outer edges, together with other 19th century views of North Devon, mostly unsigned, including a set of six watercolour views in and around Lynmouth, each with period mount, and ﬁve with manuscript title to lower edge of the mount, Lynmouth, North Devon (3), Wildersmouth, Ilfracombe, and Clovelly Court, North Devon, each approximatley 16 x 24 cm, a smaller sepia watercolour view titled to backing paper On the East Lyn looking towards Lynton & Lynmouth, North Devon, a pencil study of Lynmouth Harbour, dated August 31st 1852, a collection of watercolour sketches from the 1890s including The Retreat, Bideford, At Ilfracombe, Near Mouths Mill, Clovelly, mostly captioned and dated, etc (approx. 80)

£200 - £400

120* Goodwin (Albert, 1845-1932). Lynmouth, Devon, 1881, watercolour, signed and dated lower left, 44 x 63 cm, mounted, together with [Roget, J. L.] "Lynton from Lynmouth, North Devon", 1846, watercolour, 20 x 27 cm mount aperture, mounted (artist and title from pencil note to verso), plus Lynmouth, July 1876, watercolour, titled and dated bottom right, central fold, 17.5 x 50 cm, mounted, and St. Brides Bay from Caerfai, August 1875, watercolour, titled and dated bottom left, central fold, 17.5 x 50 cm, mounted, together with two other nineteenth century coastal watercolour scenes

118* Swete (Reverend John, of Ashburton, 1752-1821). Dunster Castle, 1796, watercolour, inscribed with title and date in pencil to upper margin, 17 x 25 cm, together with Copley Fielding (Anthony Vandyke, 1787-1855). River Landscape, Lynmouth, North Devon, 1838, watercolour on paper, signed lower left, a few marks and minute losses to extreme outer corners, inscribed by the artist with title, name and date in brown ink to verso, sheet size 26.5 x 36.5 cm, plus other 19th century watercolour and pencil views of North Devon including M. Pearson, Moreton House, Bideford, November 1863, 22 x 28.5 cm, On the Lynn, North Devon, 1887, & Near Countessbury Bridge, North Devon, dated 1887, by John Fulleylove, 25 x 35 cm, 9 pencil and white bodycolour landscape views by William Spreat, each signed, some with captions, and two dated 1847, each mounted on card (approx. 70)

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£300 - £400

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£300 - £400

£200 - £400

Lot 122 121* Swete (Reverend John, of Ashburton, 1752-1821). Views of Devon and Somerset, including Shalldon, near Teignmouth, Millslade Mill, about three miles from Lynton, In the garden of a cottage at Lynmouth, Valley of Rocks, Lynton, Lynmouth, Dulverton Bridge, Dunster, Fleet House near Plymouth, Ruins of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Dawlish, Budshead Mill, Ilfracombe, Oxton, Lynmouth Church, etc., circa 1796-1810, a collection of 21 watercolours, mostly on wove paper, some inscribed in pencil by the artist to upper margin, others with title in bown ink to lower margin of backing paper, various sizes (largest 18.5 x 27 cm), fourteen in good-quality 20th century wash-ruled card mounts, remainder unmounted (21)

£1,000 - £1,500

122* Daniell (William, 1769-1837). View of Ilfracombe, from Hilsborough, Lynmouth, on the coast of North Devon, Hartland pier, North Devon, Clovelly, on the Coast of North Devon, near Combemartin on the coast of North Devon, Ilfracombe on the coast of North Devon, 1814, together six ﬁne coloured aquatint views from A Voyage round Greta britain undertaken in the summer of the year 1813, sheet size 260 x 360 mm, together with other printed views in Devon, including J. Powell, after C. F. Powell (Queen Anne's Walk and the Quay, Barnstaple, and Pilton from Mill End), W. Spreat (Lynton. Valley of the East Lyn, & The Foreland, Ilfracome, The Capstone Hill Parade, Illfracombe, Entrance to the Harbour, Ilfracombe from the Lantern Hill), W. Gauci (Ilfracombe from the North side of Hillsborough, Lynmouth from near the pier), George Rowe (The Treadwater in the Valley of the East Lyn, North Devon, The North Walk to the Valley of Rocks, Lynton, Minehead Pier, Somerset, Woody Bay near Lynton, Lynmouth, near Devon, Lynton and Lynmouth, some smaller engraved vignette views of Devon published by Rock & Co., 1859, etc., mostly lithographs and engravings, all loose, various sizes (largest sheet size 29 x 38 cm) (approx. 320)

123* Rowe (George, 1796-1864). Views. The Beauties of the North of Devon, illustrative of Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Lynton, Lynmouth, Clovelly, & c., Exeter: George Rowe, circa 1830s, 19 lithographic views mostly by George Rowe, all india proofs, sheet size 23 x 29 cm, bound in contemporary cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed and some soiling, oblong 4to (24 x 30.5 cm), together with a large collection of engraved and lithographed views of Devon scenery, William Willis, Views of Lynton, and Lynmouth, Ilfracombe, J. Bamﬁeld: circa 1840, 6 engraved vignette views, bound in original printed wrappers, some marks and stains to left margin, Views of Ilfracombe, published by Rock Brothers & Payne, 1850, and Views of Watchet [so titled to upper cover], 1854, 12 engraved vignette views, some minor marks and light water staining, bound in original printed wrappers and original cloth repsectively, small obling 8vo, Miss Sweeting, Dunster Castle, Alfoxton Park, Mendip Hills, Stoke de Couscy, The Old Manor House and Church & View from the High Grounds, Halswell (from Sketches of Scenery in the West of Somersetshire by a Lady), W. Spreat (Lynmouth from the Quay, Ilfracombe, Woodesmouth & The Capstone Hill, Ilfracombe from Hillsborough, Ilfracombe the Lady's Bathing Cove, Lynton, Entrance to the Valley of Rocks from the North Walks, Valley of the East Lyn, Water's Meet, & Valley of the East Lyn, The Threadstream, and Ilfracombe from the Lantern Hill), R. Sharland, A View of the Interior of the Temporary Pavilion erected in the Square, Barnstaple by Friends of Reform, 1837, George Rowe, Woody Bay, near Lynton, North Devon, W. Gauci, T. Bonner, etc., mostly lithographs and engravings, various sizes

£300 - £400

(approx. 300)

£200 - £300

124* Townsend (George, 1813–1894). Views of Devon, including Lynton, Lynmouth, Valley of Rocks, Ilfracombe, Bideford, Clovelly, Appledore, Instow, Barnstaple, Wildersmouth, and Westward Ho!, a collection of 20 engraved vignette views on wove paper, sheet size 16.5 x 24.5 cm, together with: Rowe (George, 1796-1864). Beauties of North Devon, Drawn and Published by Geo. Rowe, Exeter: G. Rowe, c.1830, 16 lithographic views, some spotting, original printed wrappers, 4to, plus other 19th-century engravings, etchings and lithographic views of Devon (approx. 300)

126* Lane (E.). Views in the Neighbourhood of Lynmouth, Sketched from Nature and Drawn on Stone by E. Lane, London: Printed by G. Hullmandel, Published by the Artist, 27 Francis Street, Bedford Square, & Sold by Wildman, Barnstaple, circa 1840, 12 lithograph views on India paper including The Castle Rock from the Path leading to the Valley of Rocks, On the West Lyn looking down the Stream, Fall of the West Lyn, View of the Coast beyond the Valley of Rocks, Rocks in the Bed of the West Lyn, and On the East Lyn (some are duplicates), some plates spotted, three dampstained and few frayed to margins, loosely contained in three printed wrappers, oblong folio (38 x 56 cm), plus other Devonshire 19th-century prints comprising mostly lithographs prints including Ilfracombe by W. Gauci, Glenthorne, Countesbury Manor, by William Simpson after W. H. Merle and Bideford, Devonshire from Chugleigh Fort by W. Spreat after John Tunstall Haverﬁeld, etc.

£200 - £300

(approx. 30)

125* Aglio (Agostino, 1777–1857). View of Halswell House, [Somerset] seat of C. K. Kemeys Tynte Esq. M.P., circa 1830, lithograph on wove by A. Aglio, printed by Rowney & Forster, with even toning, 32.5 x 50 cm, together with: Newman & Co. (Publishers). Viewbook containing 18 views of Eastbourne and environs, London: Newman & Co., circa 1830, 18 vignette engraved plates, original yellow wrappers, oblong 8vo, together with lithographs by Day & Haghe after E. Vivian of 'Waters' Meet Lynmouth', and 'Ilfracombe, from Lantern Hill', plus a large assortment of prints of Devon & Somerset views, including Valley of Rocks, Lynton, Lynmouth, Dunster, Ilfracombe, Clovelly, and Clevedon, etc., mostly 19th-century engravings (approx. 300)

127 Thrupp (Frederick). Sketches About Ilfracombe, 1st edition, London: published by the artist, 1859, 13 lithograph views on 11 sheets, a few tinted, a few marginal water stains, original stitched wrappers, a couple of small marginal tears and stains, oblong folio, 28 x 37 cm, together with Sketches of Scenery in the West of Somersetshire, by a Lady [i.e. Miss Sweeting], circa 1850, 12 hand-coloured lithographic views by R. Pocock, Bristol after Sweeting, some spotting and water stains, rear endpaper torn with loss, original limp cloth upper cover only (detached with wear to spine), oblong folio (27. 5 x 38 cm), plus North-Devon, circa 1850, 8 tinted lithographs after E. Vivian, printed by Day & Hague, some light spotting, original limp cloth upper cover only, some fading, oblong folio (32.5 x 45 cm), with two others: Scenery in the North of Devon, by J. Banﬁeld, Ilfracombe, circa 1837,with 26 lithographic views only (of 32?), a few on India paper, and Devonshire 1847 (so titled to upper cover), an attractive album of lithographic views of Devon with calligraphic manuscript notes, a hand-coloured manuscript map and watercolour view at front, oblong 4to

£200 - £300

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£300 - £500

£300 - £400

VINTAGE POSTCARDS

128* Advertising Postcards. A group of 20 vintage colour advertising postcards, pre-1920, including poster adverts, etc., advertising English and French products, a few postally used, VG+ (20)

£200 - £300

Lot 130 129* Art Nouveau Postcards. A group of 53 vintage postcards, c. 1902-20, including postcards from artwork by and signed in the images by Raphael Kirchner, A. T. Steinlen, H. Meunier, S. Hauby, A. Basch, and others, some postally used, all VG+, contained in sleeves in a modern plastic ring binder (53)

£400 - £600

130* Barribal Postcards. A group of 56 colour postcards from artwork by William Barribal, pre-1920, a few postally used, VG+ (56)

£200 - £300

131* Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire Postcards. A group of 50 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo postcards, some postally used, VG+ (50)

£250 - £350

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132* Bournemouth. A group of approximately 400 postcards of Bournemouth, mostly early 20th century, mostly black and white and colour photographic views, including views of the pier and town gardens, plus views of Verwood, Swanage, River Stour, Iford Bridge, etc., and a group of approx. 50 non-Bournemouth postcards, many postally used, mostly VG (approx. 450)

£200 - £300

135* Cheshire Postcards. A group of 83 vintage postcards, pre1920, including 17 of Bramhall, mostly real photo postcards, a few postally used, VG+ (83)

£300 - £500

133* Bournemouth. A group of approximately 450 postcards of Bournemouth, mostly early 20th century, mostly black and white and colour photographic views, including various buildings including the Pavilion and Winter Gardens, various Bournemouth events including scenes of fetes, parades, carnivals, royal visits, street scenes, aviation meetings, a Bournemouth snow storm, tram disaster, plus views of Westbourne, Charminster, Winton, Wimborne, etc., many postally used, mostly VG (approx. 450)

£200 - £300

134* Bournemouth. A group of approximately 450 postcards of Bournemouth, mostly early 20th century, mostly black and white and colour photographic views, including views of Sandbanks, Branksome, Alum Chine, Durley Chine, Boscombe, Southbourne, Canford Cliffs, etc., many postally used, mostly VG (approx. 450)

136* Children Postcards. A group of 56 vintage artistic postcards of children, pre-1920, mostly from colour artwork, artists include Ida Outhwaite (10), Millicent Sowerby (4), Barham (7), Pauli Ebner (8), Ethel Parkinson (set of 6), Hansi (3), a few postally used, VG+

£200 - £300

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£150 - £200

139* Disasters Postcards. A group of 48 vintage artistic postcards of disasters, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, including ﬂood, ﬁre, railways disasters, etc., a few postally used, VG+ (48)

£150 - £200

137* Cornwall Postcards. A group of 53 vintage postcards, pre1920, including numerous real photo postcards, some postally used, VG+ (53)

£150 - £200

140* Edwardian Humour Posctards. A collection of 159 colour postcards form humorous artwork, pre-1920, artists include Studdy (25), Donald McGill (8), Tom Browne (6), Lawson Wood (12), Ludovici (13), Cynicus (17), L. Thackeray (12), Dudley Hardy (4), plus assorted subjects, some postally used, VG+ (159)

£200 - £300

138* Devon & Somerset Postcards. A group of 48 vintage postcards, mostly pre-1920, including many real photo postcards of Devon (31) and Somerset (17), a few postallly used, VG+ (48)

£200 - £300

141* Embossed Postcards. A group of 68 vintage embossed postcards, pre-1920, including numerous topographical postcards from Raphael Tuck, plus national currency and ﬂag postcards, some postally used, VG+ (68)

Lot 139

£200 - £300

142* Embroidered Silk Postcards. A group of 32 embroidered silk military postcards, pre-1920, mostly regimental postcards, some postally used, VG+ (32)

£400 - £600

Lot 142

144* France Postcards. A group of 60 vintage postcards of France and French subjects, pre-1920, including topography interest, humour, people and scenes, some real photo postcards, several postally used, VG+

143* Essex and Cambridgeshire Postcards. A group of 63 vintage postcards, pre-1920, including many real photo postcards, some postallly used, VG+ (63)

£250 - £350

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£120 - £150

Lot 147

145* Glamour Postcards. An collection of 90 postcards, mostly c. 1920s, mostly glamour and related, including 54 real photo postcards of female nudes, studios include A.N., P.C., etc., plus some others similar photomechanically reproduced from photographs, and a few miscellaneous subjects, mostly postally unused, corner mounted in an old cloth postcard album, 4to (1)

£300 - £400

Lot 148

146* Gloucestershire Postcards. A group of 40 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo postcards, a few postally used, VG+ (40)

£250 - £350

147* Hampshire Postcards. A group of 46 vintage postcards, pre1920, mostly real photo postcards, some postally used, VG+ 148* Industry Postcards. A group of 54 postcards of industry and related subjects, mostly pre-1920, including photographic and some real photo postcards of factory scenes, plus coal mining, agriculture and cider making, etc., some postally used, VG+

149* Isle of Man. An album containing 88 shipping postcards of Isle of Man interest, early 20th century to 1960s, mostly photographic including some colour, some postally used, corner mounted, some ballpont pen annotations to mounts, 6 topographical cartes de visite window-mounted towards rear, a related menu and various news cuttings loosely inserted, late 19thcentury morocco with gilt clasps, rubbed, 4to

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£200 - £300

£100 - £150

150* Italian postcards. An album of 102 mostly Italian postcards, c. 1900-1930s, including numerous advertising and exposition postcards, artists including Codognato, Busi, Martinati, Guillermaz, Todeschini, Boari, Ortelli, Majani, Golia, Venna, Petroni, Gros, Carpanetto, Hohenstein, Ortona, Chini, Pellegrini, Paggiaro, Morbiducci, Dal Pozzo, Marussig, Bianchi, Borgoni, Lupa, Cisari, Metlicovitz, Barchi, Cappiello, Guerrini, Carolis, Sezanne, Cambelloti, Terzi, Tito, Pisani, Enzo, Dudovich, Scuppa, Zimmelin, Didone, Vannucci, Pomi, Alessandrini, Codognato, Dalbono, Tafuri, Chiostri, Simonetti, Mazzoni and Mazza, some postally used, mostly VG+, loosely contained in sleeves in an old postcard album (102)

£300 - £500

152* Leicestershire & Lincolnshire Postcards. A group of 74 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards of Leicestershire (53) and Lincolnshire (21), some postally used, VG+

151* Lancashire Postcards. A group of 61 vintage postcards, pre1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+ (61)

£200 - £300

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£200 - £300

155* Military & Patriotic Postcards. A group of 69 postcards of military and patriotic subjects, mostly pre-1920, mostly colour postcards from artwork, including political cartoons, plus some photographic and real photo cards, some postally used, VG+ (69)

£180 - £220

153* Mandel (Julien, 1893-1961). A group of 30 real photo postcards of female nudes, from the Alfred Noyer Studio, c. 1910, plain backs, all with Mandel’s name, ‘A.N.’ and model number in the negative, three featuring Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse), with nos. 204 and 206 (2) (30)

£100 - £150

156* Northamptonshire Postcards. A group of 37 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+ (37)

154* Mante (Louis-Amédée, 1826-1919). A group of 10 real photo postcards of female nudes, c. 1910, 7 with divided backs, three plain, and all postally unused, all with ‘A.M. Patent’ logo stamp and number in white to lower margins, VG+ (10)

£150 - £200

157* Post Ofﬁce Postcards. A group of 41 vintage postcards featuring English post ofﬁces, pre-1920, mostly photographic including some colour and some real photo postcards, some postally used, VG+

£100 - £150

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£150 - £200

Lot 160

158* Postcards. A collection of approximately 500 postcards, early 20th century and later, mostly photographic and colour postcards, plus some from artwork, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, actors, children, humour, greetings cards, art, portraits, etc., some postally used, mostly VG, themed and sleeved in 12 modern plastic albums, together with ﬁve 20th-century albums containing assorted postcards and snapshots, mostly pasted in or window-mounted, plus approx. 30 late 19th-century stereoviews and a hand-held stereoscope (a carton)

£200 - £300

161* Rural Postcards. A group of 50 vintage postcards of English farming and rural scenes, pre-1920, mostly photographic including colour and real photo postcards, some postally used, VG+ (50)

£120 - £150

159* Postcards. A collection of approximately 600 topographical postcards, early 20th century and later, mostly photographic and colour postcards relating to England, Scotland, Ireland, China, India, the Americas, North Africa, Egypt, Russia, etc., some postally used, mostly VG, themed and sleeved in 9 modern plastic albums (approx. 600)

£300 - £400

160* Railway Station Postcards. A group of 45 postcards featuring English railway stations, pre-1920, mostly colour and black and white photographic postcards, plus some from artwork, including 7 of Gloucestershire stations, some postally used, VG+ (45)

£250 - £350

162* Social History Postcards. A group of 70 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and photographic postcards showing English and Welsh people and village scenes and events, some postally used, VG+ (70)

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£300 - £400

163*St Kilda Postal History. A very good group of 63 St Kilda postcards, c. 1902-1939, mostly photographic postcards including a few colour, all divided backs, comprising 36 with messages and cancels dated 1902 (2), 1903 (3), 1904 (4), 1905 (3), 1906 (3), 1907 (2), 1908 (2), 1909 (3), 1910 (3), 1911, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1930 (2), 1930 (2), 1937, 1939, and 27 without cancels and mostly without messages or addresses, cards include D.R.M., J.R. Russell, McCallum Orme, Cherry Kearton, Raphael Tuck, one card used at St Kilda, 20 September 1908, to Dundee, with signed message from Neil Ferguson (post master on St Kilda), ‘I am sending the St Kilda mail boat by this post which I hope you will receive safely. You need to wet it before filling it with wind [a sheep’s bladder]. Will write you soon. Awfully busy at present. Your loving friend’, together with an envelope addressed to Edinburgh bearing a 1 1/2d George V issue with St Kilda date stamp 12 August 1931, and Grimsay/Lochmaddy circular date stamp dated 31 August 1931, [sent by on of the ‘St KildaMailboats’ by sea, being folded and placed in a hollow float and left to its own devices], on the reverse is the seal of the McCallum Orme Co. Ltd Steamers together with the manuscript inscription ‘Finder Please Post’, a very rare survival sent by one of the visitors to the island who returned one year after evacuation, plus an air mail envelope to Konstanz, Germany, stamped at St Kilda, 27 August 1930, a business card with St Kilda cancel (the same date as the envelope) to verso, a 50th anniversary of the evacuation FDC, 1980, a group of 12 small old photographs of St Kilda, 4 glass lantern slides, and a related St Kilda pamphlet, 1874, all housed in a modern ring binder A St Kilda mailboat was a crudely made, boat-shaped block of wood with hollowed out interior, stamped ‘St Kilda Mailboat Letters’. The containers were attached to floats made from sheep’s bladders. These types of mailboats were used by the inhabitants of the island of St Kilda to send messages to the Scottish mainland until the population was evacuated in 1930. The mail usually reached the mainland within a day or two but on occasions drifted as far as Iceland and Denmark. £4,000 - £6,000

164* Staffordshire & Shropshire Postcards. A group of 40 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+ (40)

167* Warwickshire Postcards. A group of 63 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+

£200 - £300

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165* Suffolk Postcards. A group of 43 vintage postcards, pre1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+ (43)

£200 - £300

168* Worcestershire Postcards. A group of 53 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+

£200 - £300

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£200 - £300

166* Surrey Postcards. A group of 53 vintage postcards, pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+

169* Yorkshire Postcards. A group of 96 vintage postcards, mostly pre-1920, mostly real photo and other photographic postcards, some postally used, VG+

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£200 - £300

£400 - £500

POSTERS

170* Billiards. Premiata Fabbrica di Bigliardi. Stecche e Marcatoie…, Flli. Della Chiesa fu Francesco, Milano, c. 1900, colour lithographic poster on light buff paper, 64 x 43 cm, near ﬁne, framed and glazed (1)

£200 - £300

171* Cannes Festival Posters. A group of 11 Cannes Festival colour posters, 2002, 2005, 2006-2009 & 2012-2016, photographic artwork by various photographers including David Lynch, Otto L. Bettman, Wing Shya, David Seymour, etc., all rolled, the first three encapsulated in laminated covers, all approx. 80 x 60 cm, near fine Includes posters featuring Marilyn Monroe blowing out a candle (2012), a Lynchian blonde figure (2008), Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2006), Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini’s 8½ (2014), Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward from A New Kind of Love (2013), Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (2016), Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (2009), and others. (11) £300 - £500

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173* Lévy-Dhurmer (Lucien, 1865-1953). Journée Nationale Des Tuberculeux, 1917, colour lithographic poster, 82 x 114 cm, together with a group of 5 other similar French WWI propaganda colour lithographic posters with artwork by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen (Journée Serbe), Jean Droit (Debout dans la tranchée que l’aurore éclaire), Marcel Falter (4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale) and Jules Abel Faivre (Journée Nationale des Tuberculeux - Anciens Militaires: Sauvons-les), Charles Fouqueray (La Journée Serbe, 25 Juin 1916, Anniversaire de la Bataille de Kossovo), some occasional closed marginal tears, all approx. 110 x 85 cm or slightly smaller, VG (6)

£300 - £500

172* French WWI Propaganda Posters. A group of 8 mostly French WWI propaganda posters, c. 1915-20, colour lithographic posters, featuring artwork by Jean Droit (Debout dans la tranchée que l’aurore éclaire), Jules Abel Faivre (Pour la France versez votre or. L’or combat pour la victoire and On les aura ! 2ème Emprunt de la Défense Nationale), René Lelong (3e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale), Guillaume Seignac (Emprunt National 6% — Souscrivez à la Banque Privée), C. H. Foerster (Journée Nationale des Orphelins), Marcel Falter (Pour le suprême Effort) and Francisque Poulbot (Journée du Poilu), a few in black and white, some marginal tears with occasional loss, approx. 110 x 85 cm and similar large sizes, plus two unrelated modern posters, VG/G (10)

£300 - £400

174* Mohr (Paul, 1890-1959). “J’ai Deux Amours! … mon AutoThermos et mon Perco-Thermos”, 1946, vintage colour lithographic poster featuring Josephine Baker, a little marginal toning, 150 x 100 cm, near ﬁne Josephine Baker premiered what would become her signature song, ‘J’ai deux amours, mon pays et Paris’, at the Casino de Paris in 1930. In the imagery of this poster, from artwork by Paul Mohr, Baker’s two great loves, (the United States and Paris), have been replaced by a Thermos coffee percolator and pressure cooker. (1) £500 - £800

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Lot 176

175* Puits de Padirac. A pair of French travel posters, Chemins de Fer d’Orléans, c. 1900, colour lithographic posters, the ﬁrst from artwork by Lucien Rudaux, the second similar with artwork by F. Hugo d’Alési, both with closed tears, the second with horizontal crease line and marginal chipping with some loss to upper blank areas, both laid on paper and old linen backing, approx. 104 x 75 cm, VG/G Both images feature the impressive Padirac Chasm, a cave located near Gramat, in the Lot department, Occitanie region, France. (2) £400 - £600

176* Queen. Vintage colour poster of Queen, being the band’s firstever promotional poster, 1973, some overall toning, original folds, a little soiling including marks to left margin and lower right margin and corner, corner pinholes, 75.5 x 50.5 cm, framed and glazed Queen’s first-ever promotional poster, based on a Douglas Puddifoot photograph, taken at Freddie Mercury’s flat in Holland Road, on 17 March 1973. The band staged the photo session themselves, using many props from the famed Biba shop in Kensington. (1) £300 - £400

177* Stukidsa (Jacek). Ofﬁcial poster for the 5th International Print Biennale in Krakow, Poland, June to August 1974, offset lithographic poster in red, black, grey and white, artist’s signature in the image lower left, original folds, 117 x 80 cm, ﬁne, framed and glazed (1)

£200 - £300

Lot 177

BEATLES MEMORABILIA: A PRIVATE COLLECTION 178* Paul McCartney’s Front Door Key. An original Yale 1A front door key from Paul McCartney’s childhood home, 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool, pre-1964, a brass key, stamped ‘Made in England’ on one side and ‘IA’ on the other, length 5 cm, with handwritten card tag attached and tied with string through the key’s eye hole, bearing a signed message in the hand of the house’s subsequent owner, ‘To Kathy, the key from 20 Forthlin Rd, Allerton, L[iver]pool 18. Paul McCartney’s home until June 1963. From Ashley T. Jones, Present Occupant’, together with a 3-page autograph letter signed from Ashley Jones to Kathy [Duffy], 20 Forthlin Road, no date, early October 1965, a friendly, covering letter for the key, apologising for the delay, but saying that he has been very busy, and as they get so much Paul McCartney/Beatles fan mail he only answers the letters that appeal to him most, this being one such, continuing, ‘I am enclosing a key from the house for you. To all the people I have written to since I came to live at this address you are only the second to be given a key, (the first was also an American girl). We were only given two keys when we moved into this house so you have one of the originals. It could have been Paul’s. I am also sending you a snap of the house. It was taken last winter and the garden looks very bare. It is a three bedroomed house (the top right hand side window was Paul’s bedroom) and I live here with my wife and three children. Ashley who is thirteen attends the same school as Paul McCartney and George Harrison went to, which is the Liverpool Institute High School. Keith who is eleven attends St Margaret’s Church of England High School and Sheila who is nine attends Matthew Arnold Primary School. She sleeps in Paul’s bedroom, and is Beatle crazy. Well Kathy this is all I have to say except I hope you are pleased with what I have sent you, cheerio and don’t do anything your parents wouldn’t be proud of’, signed ‘Ashley Jones’, in ballpoint pen and written on rectos of three ruled leaves, 8vo, with the black and white photograph of 20 Forthlin Road mentioned in the letter, 12 x 9 cm, inscribed and signed to verso by Ashley Jones, all with the original envelope used for the above enclosures, addressed to Miss Kathy Duffy in New York, postmarked Liverpool, 4 October 1965 Provenance: One of two original front door keys to 20 Forthlin Road, given by the McCartney family to the new occupiers, Ashley and Sheila Jones, when they moved out in 1964. The key, which Mr. Jones suggests might have been Paul’s key, was sent with the accompanying items to Kathy Duffy [now Salt] in New York on 4 October 1965. Kathy, a love-sick 13-year-old Paul McCartney fan, had written to the ‘Occupant’ at 20 Forthlin Road a few months before getting the unexpected reply, more in hope than expectation of receiving a reply, let alone a small souvenir of her hero. Having treasured these items (and the other three Beatles lots offered here) for sixty years, Kathy has decided that the time is now right to pass these precious items on to ensure their future care. The house at 20 Forthlin Road was constructed in 1949, and from 1955 until 1964 was the family home of the young Paul McCartney (born 1942). The house was owned by the Local Authority and was rented to Paul’s parents Mary and Jim McCartney with whom Paul and his younger brother Michael lived. Sadly, only a year after moving in to the house Paul’s mother died. Both parents actively encouraged Paul musically and he first played the trumpet but, following his mother’s death, his father gave him a guitar. It was in this house that McCartney learned to play trumpet, piano, guitar and drums. By 1957 McCartney had joined The Quarrymen and begun composing with his new-found collaborator John Lennon. 20 Forthlin Road was one of the main places the group would practise, and where McCartney and Lennon tried out their new songs. In 1958, McCartney invited George Harrison to join them. For a while the drummer Pete Best became part of the group, until he was replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962, whereupon the Beatles realised their classic ‘Fab Four’ incarnation. Many early Beatles songs and formative tracks were written and developed by Lennon and McCartney in the house. Paul McCartney moved out of 20 Forthlin Road in late 1963 when he relocated to London to live with Jane Asher’s family at 57 Wimpole Street. While Paul established his primary residence in London as Beatlemania peaked, his father Jim and brother Mike continued living at the Liverpool council house until they finally moved out together in 1964. It was then that Ashley and Sheila Jones moved in with their family. The Joneses then served as unofficial ambassadors for the iconic home, tolerating frequent Beatles visitors over the years. In around 1978 they modernised the house and the original doors and window fittings, etc., were scrapped. When the Jones family moved out in 1995, the house was acquired by the National Trust, both because of its connection to Paul McCartney, but also as an example of post-war social housing. The house was redecorated and furnished in the late-1950s style, to represent the period in which Paul lived at the house. Ironically, the innumerable photographs taken by Beatles and McCartney fans standing in front of this ‘doorway to the Merseybeat’ is a replica of the original door that was sold in these rooms, (10 April 2013, lot 413, £5,060). Paul McCartney famously returned to his childhood home on 9 June 2018, during a special Carpool Karaoke segment with host James Corden. It marked the first time McCartney had stepped back inside the house in 54 years. McCartney guided Corden through the National Trust property, pointing out the bathroom with the best acoustics where he used to practise, and sharing stories of sitting in the living room with John Lennon, writing early Beatles hits like “She Loves You” and “I Saw Her Standing There”. (5) £2,000 - £3,000

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Lot 178

179* Beatles Autographs. A fine set of Beatles autographs, obtained in person by Frank Duffy, aboard the band’s National Airlines flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, to Miami, Florida, 13 February 1964, individually signed and inscribed on four square pieces of plain off-white paper in blue ball-point pen, ‘Paul McCartney (Beatles)’, ‘John Lennon. To Kathy with love xxx’, ‘To Kathy love from George Harrison’, and ‘To Cathy [sic], love from the Beatles, Ringo Starr xx’, each sheet 10 x 15 cm, together with the autograph of Murray Kaufman, [the self-styled ‘Fifth Beatle’], obtained on the same flight, ’To Kathy, Yours truly, Murray the K’, in blue ball-point pen on a sheet of ruled notebook paper, 17 x 19.5 cm, plus two related vintage gelatin silver print press photos, the first showing the Beatles mounting the steps of a National DC-8 (Flight 11), with Frank Duffy visible centrally behind Ringo Starr and John Lennon, some old marginal tape marks, 25 x 20 cm, the second showing John Lennon and George Harrison with Frank Duffy and Murray the K at the terminal pre-departure, 20 x 25 cm; and an original printed leaf from the National Airlines internal newsletter, (February 1964), featuring a one-page article titled ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah’, describing the frenzied Beatlemania and press entourage scenes of the flight from departure to arrival, the article illustrated with pictures from five photographs, including one image of Frank Duffy and John Lennon with the caption, ‘Our security investigator Frank Duffy, John Lennon’s bodyguard, prepares to charge through the throngs’, some old closed tears and tape marks to margins, 28 x 21.5 cm Provenance: Obtained by Frank Duffy, in person, on behalf of his Beatles and Paul McCartney-obsessed daughter, his nearly 12-year-old daughter Kathy, the vendor today. As described by Kathy Duffy [now Salt], her dad was a retired New York Port Authority Police Detective from Brooklyn. Following retirement, he was hired by National Airlines to be their security investigator, and on that auspicious day, 13 February 1964, was assigned to serve as bodyguard and general security to John and Cynthia Lennon, as well as oversee the Beatles’ trip aboard their National Airlines flight from New York to Miami. They were heading there to perform live on the Ed Sullivan TV show at the Deauville Hotel in Miami. On board were a dozen correspondents from Life, Time, Saturday Evening Post, British newspapers and other media. The then extremely popular WINS disc jockey, Murray the K, the self-proclaimed ‘Fifth Beatle’, was also on the flight. According to family legend, Murray the K had a ‘coach fare’ ticket, while the Beatles were travelling in First Class. Frank Duffy took a dislike to Murray’s manner and firmly denied the celebrity DJ access to First Class to sit with the Beatles and conduct his in-air interview. To Murray’s chagrin and humiliation, Frank insisted Murray stand on the Coach side of the curtain separating Coach and First Class, while the Beatles, laughing and teasing Murray for being cheap, stood on the other side of the curtain as they were being interviewed. Nonetheless, Murray managed to tape an entire radio show en route. It was after that debacle that Frank settled himself in amongst “those kids” and, of course, asked for their autographs for his young love-sick fan of a daughter. When Paul asked, “Well then, where is she?”, Frank replied, “she’s at school, of course… she can’t miss a day of school for you boys”. They laughed and shook his hand, with even Murray the K reluctantly providing his autograph. A fine set of Beatles autographs with impeccable provenance. (8)

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£3,000 - £5,000

AUTOGRAPHS

180* Beatles. An original concert ticket stub for the Beatles, Shea Stadium, Sunday 15 August 1965, printed in dark blue on light blue card with a photo-illustration of the Beatles in suits to the upper side, issued for Upper Box ($5.65), Sec. 27, Box 803B, Seat 5, rain check information printed to verso, inscribed ‘2nd Beatle concert’ in blue ballpoint pen at head, 38 x 87 mm, ﬁne Provenance: Kathy Salt, née Duffy. (1)

£150 - £200

182* Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), Queen of the United Kingdom 1901-1910, consort of King Edward VII. Signed Photograph, ‘Alexandra, 1901’, albumen print cabinet card by W. & D. Downey, three-quarter length wearing imperial crown and mourning veil, signed and dated in ink to lower mount above gilt-embossed studio details, old marginal adhesion remains from previous framing, not affecting signature, printed studio details and an old inscription to verso, 25 x 17 cm (1)

181* Beatles. An original concert ticket stub for the Beatles, Shea Stadium, Tuesday 23 August 1966, printed in dark blue on light blue card with a photo-illustration of the Beatles in suits to the upper side, issued for Mezz. Box ($5.75), Sec. 16, Box 588A, Seat 8, plain back, 38 x 88 mm, fine, together with other Beatles ephemera, comprising two related small printed items for Shea Stadium; plus a concert ticket stub for the Beatles at Forest Hills Music Festival, Saturday 29 August 1964, printed in black on white card, issued for Portal 9, Row A, Seat 19, uneven lower edge, inscribed ‘1st Beatle concert’ in blue ballpoint pen to blank verso, 40 x 38 mm; two ticket stubs for a showing of the film Hard Day’s Night in New York [1964]; a Help! film ticket stub from a New York showing [Monday 23 August 1965], with two related pieces of Help! film ephemera from the same occasion: ‘The Beatles / Help!’ printed on yellow card with photo-illustration of the band, torn off right edge, 9 x 11.5 cm, and ‘I needed Help! So I got my Beatles movie ticket! Did you?’, printed on circular card in black and red with photo-illustration of the Beatles’ heads in the centre, string tie, 9 cm diameter, both inscribed with details to versos; an unused printed order form for the Beatles Autographed Picture Book from Raydell Publishing, New York, [1966]; and a piece of one of the sheets used by the Beatles at the Hotel Madison, Boston, Mass., 20 x 25 mm, pinned to the original printed certificate of authenticity, produced to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society, 10.5 x 22 cm, with the accompanying envelope, addressed to Kathy Duffy and postmarked 23 November 1965 Provenance: Kathy Salt, née Duffy. (12)

£100 - £150

183* Baden-Powell (Olave, 1889-1977), ﬁrst Chief Guide for Britain and wife of Sir Robert Baden-Powell. A group of 7 Typed Letters Signed, ‘Olave Baden-Powell’ (one ‘Olave’), Hampton Court Palace, Surrey 1945-47, to Nancy, mentioning the Girl Guides in a few letters, ‘I shall do my best for the Guides, you may be sure, and they will I hope be helped by my coming to see them all’, and various events relating to them, including a trip to Paris and expressing general thanks for a visit, a total of 14 pages, 8vo, together with a black & white press photograph showing Olave Baden-Powell visiting a Guide Camp, surrounded by a group of excited Girl Guides, 15.5 x 20.5 cm

£300 - £500

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£150 - £200

185* Barrie (James Matthew, 1860-1937), British playwright and novelist. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘J. M. Barrie’, 3 Adelphi Terrace House, Strand, W.C., 17 December 1910, to the publishers Hodder & Stoughton, regarding their publication of the Peter Pan Portfolio, ‘I am indeed delighted with the copy of the Peter Pan Portfolio. It is most beautifully done and I thank you most heartily. Kindly convey my best thanks also to Mr [Arthur] Rackham and the engravers’, a little dust soiling to outer pages, 1 page with blank integral leaf, 8vo Following the success of the stage production of Peter & Wendy, Hodder asked Arthur Rackham to select his favourite twelve of the ﬁfty images published in the 1906 edition of Peter Pan to produce a collector’s portfolio of plates. These plates were re-engraved to be the size of the original watercolours, the result arguably being Rackham’s grandest production. (1) £300 - £500

184* Bader (Douglas, 1910-1982), RAF ﬂying ace during the Second World War. Signed Christmas Card, ‘Douglas Bader’, c. 1950s, signed in blue ballpoint pen beneath the printed message, a paper sheet folded into off-white card covers with stitched red silk tie and embossed Shell motif to upper board, a little rubbed and dustsoiled, 95 x 130 mm Sir Douglas Bader worked for the Shell Company after leaving the Royal Air Force in 1933, eventually becoming the managing director of Shell Aircraft Ltd, before retiring in 1969. (1) £100 - £150

186 Boxing Autographs. A group of 6 signed boxing biographies, 1976/2008, comprising copies of Muhammad Ali, The Greatest, My Own Story, 1st UK edition, London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1976, a good clear signed presentation inscription by Ali in blue ballpoint pen to front free endpaper, ‘To Bill, from Muhammad Ali, 3-11-76’; plus signed ﬁrst edition copies of George Foreman, God in My Corner (2007), Joe Frazier, Smokin’ Joe (1996), Larry Holmes, Against the Odds (2nd impression, 1998), Ken Norton, Going the Distance (2000), and Angelo Dundee, My View from the Corner (2008?), all original cloth in dust jackets, 8vo, all ﬁne (6)

Lot 185

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£150 - £200

188* British Prime Ministers. A collection of approximately 18 autographs and autograph letters signed, 1758 and later, including a letter signed by Spencer Perceval as Attorney General, addressed to the King, being his adjudication on the petition of John, Lord Borringdon to inclose part of a common highway or road leading from the village of Plymstock to the towns of Plympton and Plymouth, 28 July 1803, an autograph letter signed by William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 26 July 1758, a manuscript document on the collection of customs in Scotland followed by a warrant from the treasury commissioners, signed by the Duke of Newcastle as Prime Minister, 1 October 1759, two autograph letters signed by Lord William Grenville, 25 March 1811 and 22 September 1813, an autograph letter signed by Lord Salisbury, an autograph letter signed by Archibald Primrose Rosebery, 26 March 1904, a letter signed by John Russell, 31 May 1864, an autograph letter signed by Henry Addington Sidmouth, 12 November 1835, an autograph letter signed by Frederick J. Robinson Goderich as Prime Minister, marked Private, 25 December 1879, and the signatures of Robert Walpole, Robert Peel, Henry Pelham, George Canning, and Lord Palmerston

187* British Prime Ministers. A collection of approximately 17 autographs and autograph letters signed, 18th-19th century, including an autograph letter signed by Lord William Grenville referring to his time at Oxford, 29 December 1824, an autograph letter signed by George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and the signatures of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Walpole, Robert Peel, Gladstone, John Russell, Rosebery, George Canning, Henry Pelham (marginal loss minimally affecting the signature), the Earl of Liverpool, Palmerston, and the Duke of Portland (approx. 17)

(approx. 18)

£200 - £300

189* British Prime Ministers. A collection of approximately 34 autographs, typewritten and autograph letters signed, 20th century, including a typewritten letter signed by Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, with holograph salutation, on Prime Minister 10 Downing Street letterhead paper, addressed to Sir Malcolm Fraser and marked Private and Confidential, enclosing a copy of a resolution passed at the Conservative Party Conference, in view of which the Prime Minister has decided to ‘set up a committee to look into the finances of the Party’, asking Fraser to be one of its five members, retaining copy of Fraser’s acceptance, copy of the resolution, and the original envelope, 8 December 1937, a typewritten letter signed by Anthony Eden, the 1st Earl of Avon, with holograph salutation, 2 October 1974, a signature of Stanley Baldwin mounted to a Prime Minister 10 Downing Street letterhead paper dated 18 May 1928, a typewritten letter on Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, M. P. letterhead paper signed by Margaret Thatcher, with holograph salutation, 22 February 1977, a typewritten letter signed by Clement Attlee, 19 March 1943, two photographs signed by Tony Blair, a first day cover commemorating the Commonwealth Games of Edinburgh 1986 signed by Boris Johnson, and others similar bearing the signatures of Lloyd George, Harold Wilson, John Major, Alec Douglas-Home, Harold Macmillan, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, James Ramsay MacDonald, Andrew Bonar Law, and Herbert Henry Asquith

£150 - £200

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£200 - £300

190* Caruso (Enrico, 1873-1921), Italian operatic tenor. A characteristic self-caricature signed, ‘Enrico Caruso, Dublin, 1909’, boldly drawn and signed in thick black fountain pen ink on a contemporary pale buff album leaf, with an autograph sentiment signed of Belgian-born operatic soprano Alice Verlet (1873-1934) to verso, dated 7 October 1909, sheet size 12 x 19.5 cm Caruso performed a highly anticipated concert in Dublin, Ireland on 20 August 1909. The concert took place at Dublin’s Theatre Royal, and was part of Caruso’s extensive tour of Great Britain and Ireland that year. (1) £200 - £300

191* Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Autograph Signature, ‘Winston S. Churchill, 1940’, in blue ink, signed below embossed blue logo on a plain sheet of Admiralty, Whitehall stationery, purple ink stamp ‘Mar. 1940’ to lower right corner, 1 page, 8vo, tipped in at corners into an autograph book that includes 17 further autographs of British politicians and civil servants, with 13 similarly signed stationery bearing autographs of Sir Kingsley Wood, Col. Reginald Dornan Smith, Ernest Brown, Samuel Hoare, General Edmund Ironside, Leslie Burgin (notecard), William S. Morrison, David Lloyd George (notecard), Admiral Ernle Chatﬁeld, John Anderson, Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, John Gilmour, Lord Stanhope, and 4 cut signatures of Anthony Eden, Viscount Halifax, John Colville and Walter Elliott, plus a letter declining the autograph request on behalf of Lord Gort, most with purple ink date receipt stamps to lower corners (13 March to 2 April 1940), all tipped in or pasted in to rectos of album leaves with a few other related compliments slips and secretarial cover notes pasted to facing versos, autograph of the owner Michael Cornwallis to front free endpaper, pencil index at rear, contemporary cloth-backed patterned boards, a little rubbed and soiled, 8vo (20 x 16 cm)

Lot 190

Provenance: Michael Cornwallis sought and obtained these autographs while a student at Warre House, Eton College, Windsor. From the family, by direct descent. The Churchill autograph was signed while he was serving as First Lord of the Admiralty and just two months before he succeeded Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940. (1) £500 - £800

192* Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). Signed Photograph [by Walter Stoneman, taken on 1 April 1941], 1943, vintage gelatin silver print, three-quarter-length full face portrait of Prime Minister Churchill in formal attire, 18.5 x 14 cm, laid on original buff mount, signed and dated on the lower mount in brown ink, ‘Winston S. Churchill / 1943’, contemporary wooden frame, glazed, 27 x 21 cm overall Working for J. Russell & Sons, Walter Stoneman took numerous photographs of royalty, aristocracy, members of high society, and other prominent individuals from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. Signed copies of this photograph are more uncommon than signed ones of an iconic close-up head and shoulders portrait taken by Stoneman on the same day. (1) £2,000 - £3,000

Lot 191

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Lot 192

194* Composer Autographs. A good collection of 43 Autograph and 2 Typed Letters Signed, by various composers from the 19th and 20th century, including letters by: Camille Saint Saens; Ruggiero Leoncavallo (mentioning both his operas, Pagliaci and Chatterton); John Ireland (about Sarnia); Eric Coates (TLS); George Auric, (about his work Marlborough s’en va-t-en guerre!); Tikon Khrennikov (TLS); Rutland Boughton (2), one mentioning Snow White; Virgil Thomson (2, signed with initials), about his two Suites and Filling Station; Ned Rorem (3), mentioning his American songs; Sir Frederick Bridge (8, including 2 unsigned), plus 2 further letters by Bridge’s wife (one signed); Sir John Stainer (2), including one about the Scotch Hymnary; Jean Roger-Ducasse; Priaulx Rainier (2, including one unsigned), plus a 2-page list of works between 1980 and 1984; Graham Peel (13), including one 8 pages long with a long list of his works, and another with two autograph music quotations; Patrick Hadley; together with two incomplete letters signed by Henry Rowley Bishop and Henry Russell (45)

£500 - £700

193* [Napoleon Bonaparte]. Colonna-Walewski (Alexandre, 18101868), Polish and French politician and diplomat. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘A Walewski’, ‘Londres, 26 Juin’, no year [after 1852], to an illegible recipient, in French, untranslated, but mentioning the newspaper The Glasgow Citizen, ‘Le Glasgow Citizen qui est je suppose un journal de Glasgow’, and mentioning Napoleon III, the ﬁnal page written in a hasty hand, with a ﬁne signature at its close, 2 pages, 8vo Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski and Emperor Napoleon III were close cousins and trusted political allies during the French Second Empire. Walewski was the illegitimate son of Napoleon I and Polish countess Maria Walewska, making him the half-cousin (often referred to as cousin) of LouisNapoléon Bonaparte (Napoleon III), who was the nephew of Napoleon I. (1) £100 - £150

195* Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870), English novelist. Final page of an Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Charles Dickens’, no place or date, c. 1843, to [Andrew] Provan, , beginning mid-sentence, ‘to see your school one night. Will it be open next Monday or Tuesday evening: and at what hour would it be best to come? If it is not open on either of these evenings, will you tell me on what nights next week, it will be open?’, brown ink on off-white laid paper, a little soiling, pin holes to blank upper margin, fold lines, 1 page, 8vo In 1841 Andrew Provan started the Field Lane Ragged School, a London charity for poor children. Dickens visited the school in 1843, where he witnessed the harsh conditions of the children ﬁrsthand. Dickens later wrote about his experiences at the school in his journal Household Words: ‘A Sleep to Startle Us’, 13 March 1852, pp. 577-80. This part letter is published in the Charles Dickens Letters Project online. (1) £300 - £500

Lot 194

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196* Edward VII (1841-1910), King of the United Kingdom 1901-1910. Autograph Postcard Signed, ‘Albert, Prince of Wales’, no date, c. 1900, a vignette chromolithographic view of the Royal Exchange to front, the message area inscribed and signed in black ink, ‘Sweet girl! A happy Christmas and a good new year’, the letter ‘s’ at the end of the ﬁnal word struck through, the reverse address side without stamp or cancel, inscribed by the Prince of Wales in the same pen, ‘Miss Elsa Almlöf, Filipstad, Sweden’, 11.5 x 9 cm The identity of Elsa Almlöf, the ‘sweet girl’ recipient of this Christmas and New Year greeting is unclear. There is one Swedish actress with such a name from a major Swedish theatrical family, who lived most of her life (18851961) in Stockholm. There is no known connection between her and the Prince of Wales, though there may have been others in her extended family with the same name. King Edward VII is estimated to have had 55 extramarital liaisons throughout his life, including many from the theatrical world. This card at the very least suggests a previously unknown ﬂirtation. (1) £150 - £200

198* Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Queen of the United Kingdom, 19522022. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Elizabeth’, as Princess, Clarence House, St. James’s, 18 November 1949, to Peter Stewart, in black ink on Clarence House letterhead, referring to a card with Roy Browning’s address on it, noting that she has put his London address on it, but can always change it if he prefers to have his home address, concluding, ‘Thank you very very much for being such and invaluable help in the Christmas search. I can now go off to Malta with a clear conscience!’, 2 pp., 8vo, with accompanying envelope, hand-addressed and initialed ‘E’ by the Princess Peter Stewart was the Secretary of The Carlton Club, and for many years a conﬁdante of the royal family. He was a friend of King George VI and was held in high esteem by Queen Mary, Princess Elizabeth (and later as Queen Elizabeth II), and Prince Philip, being a frequent visitor to Clarence House. Over the years, he became indispensable when helping them choose and discreetly acquire presents for each other, as this letter suggests. (2) £1,000 - £1,500

197* Elgar (Edward, 1857-1934), English composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, ‘Edward Elgar’, Hereford, March 1905, being the opening two bars of The Dream of Gerontius, written in blue ink on a hand-drawn stave in the alto clef and identified by Elgar with the word ‘Gerontius’ written beneath the musical quotation, which has also been headed ‘Mistico’ in his hand, boldly signed beneath with place and date, 1 page, 4to (16.5 x 12.5 cm) The Dream of Gerontius stands as one of the most significant choral works to have come from the pen of any English composer. After its less than successful first performance in Birmingham under the baton of Hans Richter in 1900, Gerontius quickly established itself as one of the most popular of all English oratorios. (1) £400 - £600

200* Flint (William Russell, 1880-1969). A group of 7 Autograph Letters Signed, ‘W. Russell Flint’ (final two signed ‘Willie’ and ‘Will’), all Peel Cottage, Campden, 1927, 1947 & 1968-1969, the earliest dated 14 July 1927, to Mr. Kidd, an important letter, relating to an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Flint’s request that the recipient lend him his two paintings ‘The String Makers’ [Aragonese String Makers, sometimes referenced as ‘The StringMakers, Aragon’], and ‘Eulogia Martinez of Orio’, Flint further mentions Sir William Orpen and John Singer Sargent, both of whom had been previously honoured with an exhibition at the same Gallery, 1 page, 4to; the second dated 1 May 1947, to an unidentified recipient, informing him about which tempura Flint uses and why, ‘… The tempura I use is Rowney’s in tubes, excellent but irritating stuff despised by tempura purists. I prefer heavy soft size watercolour paper or boards to work on, not canvas. Medium is water. Brownies sets hard a stone and is permanent…’, 1 page, 4to; the last five dated from 3 January 1968 to 23 August 1969, to Peggy and Griff and Monica, thanking them for various flowers and their general kindness to himself and his wife Helen, mentioning his general health and, in one, informing them of a bequest that he wishes to give them, to the sum of £300 [about £7,000 in today’s money], a total of 6 pages, 4to, together with: Three signed Russell Flint books: Breakfast in Perigord, 1968, (signed limited edition, 117/475 copies), Models of Propriety, 1951, (signed limited edition, 117/475 copies), and Pictures from the Artist’s Studio Works, 1962, signed, all VG+, the first in original slipcase, folio/small folio (10)

£250 - £350

199* Entertainment Autographs. A pair of small autograph albums, c. 1950s, including some entertainment autographs, Peter Sellers, Tommy Cooper, Bob Hope, Terry Scott, Bud Flanagan, Frankie Laine, Norman Wisdom, Anne Ziegler, Jack Warner, Vic Oliver, Max Miller, Gracie Fields, Howard Keel, Petula Clark, Max Wall, Joan Sims, plus many unidentiﬁed, largely one to a page, both albums slightly broken with some contents loose, plus another small personal autograph album, and a quantity of other ephemera: a signed photograph of Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan, a signed small photograph of HRH The Princess Mary (1897-1965), a real photo postcard of Maurice Chevalier, signed by him in blue ink to verso, 1934, a later commercial print of Karsh’s ‘Roaring Lion’ portrait of Churchill, a press photo of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in a launch at Henley, and two albums of snapshots, loose menus, etc., c. 1950s, including some Jamaica interest (a carton)

£150 - £200

201* Gance (Abel 1889-1981), French film director, whose films include J’accuse and Napoléon. Autograph Manuscript (unsigned), no place or date, [but after 1938], written in French in ball-point pen on two leaves and being two separate ‘dialogues’, the first excerpt is in the form of a dialogue between two characters, and appears to be about the famous French bailiff, Cadet Rousselle; the second, has several ‘off stage’ voices including those of SaintJust and Robespierre, a total of 2 pages, folio Gance has been described as ‘a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage’ and is remembered for three major silent films: J’accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927). It is uncertain what these texts relate to, but they appear to be scripts for a film, stage or radio play. (2) £200 - £300

Lot 200

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202* George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760-1820. Document Signed, ’George R’, Saint James’s, 20 August 1803, a pre-printed commission on vellum with paper seal and duty stamp, completed in manuscript, appointing George Robison to be ensign in the 24th Warwickshire Regiment of Foot, boldly signed by the king upper left and countersigned by the then Home Secretary Charles Philip Yorke (1764–1834), this signature light but legible, some light soiling and fold lines, 23 x 33 cm, framed and glazed (1)

£200 - £300

204* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 30 November 1813, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of two separate and secret articles to the supplementary convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russias, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 7 pages and 5 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio

203* George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1760-1820. Document Signed, ‘George R’, as King, 16 July 1781, being a pre-printed vellum warrant completed in manuscript appointing James Carruthers to be Cornet of the First Regiment of Horse commanded by Major General George Warde, signed by the king at head and countersigned by Wills Hill, 1st Earl of Hillsborough (Secretary of State for the Southern Department) at foot, papered seal, stamp duty, some soiling and original creases, signature lightly faded, oblong folio, framed and glazed, document size 24.5 x 35 cm, frame size 29.8 x 40 cm (1)

This warrant reproduces in full the French text of two separate secret articles appended to the Supplementary Convention of London of 30 September 1813, by which Great Britain agreed to issue and deliver promissory notes to cover Russian military expenses incurred in the war against Napoleonic France. (1) £200 - £300

£200 - £300

205* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 18201830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 1 September 1814, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of three secret articles to the convention between His Majesty and His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange Nassau, and of a secret convention and secret article thereunto annexed, between His Majesty and the King of Sweden, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 17 pages and 3 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio This warrant reproduces in full the English and French texts of three secret articles to the Anglo-Dutch Treaty signed in London on 13 August 1814. By these articles, Great Britain agreed to assist in uniting the former Dutch Republic with the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium) in order to create a strong buffer state against France. In exchange, the Netherlands formally ceded to Great Britain the Cape of Good Hope, the settlements of Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice (which would form British Guiana from 1831), and the district of Bernagore in India. The warrant also reproduces in full the English and French texts of the three articles of the secret convention signed on the same day with Sweden, by which Charles XIII ceded the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to Great Britain in exchange for compensation of 24 million livres. (1) £250 - £350

206* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 1 September 1814, being a warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the ratification of a convention between His Majesty and His Royal Highness the prince of Orange-Nassau, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 16 pages and 2 final blank leaves, docketed, all edges gilt, folio This warrant presents in full the English and French texts of the nine articles of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty signed in London on 13 August 1814, by which the colonies possessed by the Netherlands before the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803 were restored. In addition, Great Britain ceded the island of Bangka (off the coast of Sumatra) to the Netherlands, in exchange for the settlement of Cochin and its dependencies on the Malabar Coast. Furthermore, the two powers agreed to ‘co-operate in the most effectual manner … so as to bring about the total abolition of the trade in slaves on the coast of Africa’. (1) £250 - £350

208* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 11 August 1814, being a warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the ratification of a supplementary convention to the treaty of defensive alliance between His Majesty and the Emperor of Austria, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 10 pages and final blank leaf, docketed, all edges gilt, folio

207* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 10 July 1815, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of a treaty of accession on the part of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Baden to the treaty concluded at Vienna on the 25th of March 1815, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 9 pages and 3 blank pages, docketed, minor soiling to last page, all edges gilt, folio

The Supplementary Convention signed in London on 29 June 1814 between Great Britain and Austria formed part of a series of agreements augmenting the Treaty of Chaumont following Napoleon’s abdication. In its four articles (written in French), Great Britain and Austria agreed to maintain a force of ‘sixty thousand infantrymen, and ﬁfteen thousand cavalrymen, with a train of artillery, and munitions proportioned to the number of troops, equal to that which His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, and His Majesty the King of Prussia, bind themselves to maintain on their part’, in order to secure the post-war order. (1) £200 - £300

This warrant presents the full English text of the Treaty of Accession, signed at Vienna on 13 May 1815, by which the Grand Duke of Baden acceded to the Treaty of Vienna. (1) £200 - £300

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209* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 12 June 1815, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of a convention between His Majesty, the King of the Netherlands, and the Emperor of all the Russias, and of a secret article thereunto annexed, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 15 pages and 5 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio

212* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 14 February 1815, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of three secret articles to the treaty between His Majesty and the prince regent of Portugal, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 7 pages and 5 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio This warrant reproduces in full the English and Portuguese texts of three secret articles to the treaty signed between Great Britain and Portugal on 22 January 1815 at Vienna. Under these terms, Portugal agreed to restore French Guiana to France and to consider abolishing the Inquisition in its dominions. (1) £200 - £300

This warrant reproduces in full the English and French texts of the Convention between Great Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands, signed on 19 May 1815 in London, together with a secret article. The convention formalised a ﬁnancial arrangement under which Britain and the Netherlands took over a portion of Russia’s debt, 25 million Dutch ﬂorins each, in compensation for costs incurred by Russia in liberating Belgium and supporting the creation of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. (1) £200 - £300

213* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 17 May 1815, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of an additional convention to the treaty concluded at Vienna on the 25 of March last, between His Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russias, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 9 pages and 3 blank pages, docketed (with faded printed stamp), all edges gilt, folio

210* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 12 June 1815, being a warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the ratification of a treaty of accession on the part of the King of the Low Countries, to a treaty concluded at Vienna on the 25th of March 1815 between His Britannic Majesty, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of all the Russias, and the King of Prussia, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) at foot, papered seal (lacking one flap), stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 14 pages and 3 blank leaves, docketed, soiling to first page and minor loss to top right corner of first two leaves, all edges gilt, folio

This warrant presents the full text in English and French of the additional convention to the Treaty of Vienna, signed by Great Britain and Russia on 30 April 1815. Great Britain agreed to pay a total subsidy of £5 million to Russia, Austria, and Prussia to ﬁnance the immediate mobilisation of their armies following Napoleon Bonaparte’s unexpected return from exile on the island of Elba. (1) £200 - £400

The warrant presents the full English and French text of the Treaty of Accession, signed at Vienna on 28 April 1815, by which the King of the Low Countries acceded to the Treaty of Vienna. (1) £200 - £300

214* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 27 February 1815, being a warrant for affixing the Great Seal to the ratification of two instruments of accession and of acceptance signed at Vienna on the Twenty Sixth of January last, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the King of Bavaria and His Majesty, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 22 pages and final blank leaf, docketed, all edges gilt, folio

211* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 14 February 1815, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of a treaty between His Majesty and the prince regent of Portugal, and of an additional article thereunto belonging, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 13 pages and 7 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio

This warrant reports the full text in French of the 16 articles of the Act of Accession of the King of Bavaria to a secret defensive alliance with Austria and France, signed on 3 February 1815 at Vienna. It also includes the Act of Acceptance of the same by Great Britain. (1) £200 - £300

This warrant reproduces in full the English and Portuguese texts of the treaty signed between Great Britain and Portugal on 22 January 1815 in Vienna. The convention prohibited Portuguese subjects from trading in slaves north of the Equator on the African coast. The additional article allowed Portuguese settlers to move with their slaves to the north of the Equator ‘provided they be furnished with proper Passports and Certiﬁcates’. (1) £250 - £350

215* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 27 September 1814, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of three additional articles to the treaty of friendship and alliance between His Majesty and the King of Spain, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head (slightly smudged) and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 8 pages and 4 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio This warrant reports in full the English and Spanish texts of three additional articles to the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, signed in Madrid on 5 July 1814. The two powers resumed mutual trade under the conditions existing before 1796, while the King of Spain promised ‘to prohibit His subjects from engaging in the slave trade, for the purpose of supplying any islands or possessions excepting those appertaining to Spain’. Finally, Great Britain agreed to ‘take the most effectual measures for preventing His subjects from furnishing arms, ammunition, or any other warlike article to the disaffected in America’. (1) £250 - £350

216* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 3 August 1814, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of a separate article to the treaty of friendship and alliance between His Majesty and the King of Spain, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head (slightly smudged) and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 6 pages and 3 blank leaves, docketed, some creasing and soiling to upper right corners, all edges gilt, folio This warrant reports in full the English and Spanish texts of a separate article to the Treaty of Friendship and Alliance, signed in Madrid on 5 July 1814. In the context of the restoration of peace between Great Britain and Spain in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, Ferdinand VII agreed in this separate article ‘not to enter into any treaty or engagement with France, of the nature of that known under the denomination of the Family Compact’. (1) £200 - £300

218* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 8 August 1815, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of a treaty of subsidy between His Majesty and the king of Denmark, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (Foreign Secretary) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 7 pages and 5 blank pages, docketed, folio

217* George IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1820-1830. Document Signed, ‘George PR’, as Prince Regent, 30 November 1813, being a warrant for afﬁxing the Great Seal to the ratiﬁcation of a supplementary convention between His Majesty and the King of Prussia, addressed to John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, signed by the prince regent at head and countersigned by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) at foot, papered seal, stitched on spine with blue silk ribbon, 17 pages and 7 blank pages, docketed, all edges gilt, folio

The warrant contains the full English and French texts of the Treaty of Subsidy concluded between Great Britain and Denmark at Paris on 14 July 1815. Under its terms, Great Britain agreed to provide ﬁnancial subsidies in return for Denmark deploying 15,000 troops following Napoleon’s return to power. (1) £200 - £300

This warrant presents the full text in French of the 9 articles of the Supplementary Convention to the Treaty of Reichenbach, signed in London on 30 September 1813 by Great Britain and Prussia. The Convention was a supplementary ﬁnancial agreement designed to sustain the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon, under which Great Britain agreed to provide ﬁnancial support to Russia and Prussia by issuing bills of credit for a total of £2.5 million (one-third to Prussia and two-thirds to Russia). The warrant includes a two-page formula for a letter of credit. (1) £200 - £300

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221* Gosse (Edmund, 1849-1928), English poet, author and critic. Autograph Poem Signed, ‘E. W. Gosse’, no place, no date, c. 1870, a few marks and pin holes not affecting the text, old folds, 1 page, oblong 8vo

219* Glière (Reinhold, 1856-1950), Russian composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, ‘R. Glière’, Moscow, 1939, written in black ink on an album leaf, being 5 bars from his most famous work, The Red Poppy: the exotic main theme from the 2nd movement Scene & Dance from his suite by the same name (Op. 70), Glière has also written ‘Andante’, and dated it ‘Moscow / 31/iii/1939’ and identiﬁed the source as ‘Ballet ‘Red Poppy’’, punch holes to blank left margin, 10 x 14.5 cm

The poem, entitled ‘The Angel of the Annunciation’, was written in 1870, when Gosse was 21. It was published in Madrigals, Songs and Sonnets that same year. It is likely, given the handwriting, that Gosse wrote this fair copy of the poem around this time. Autograph poems by Gosse are uncommon. (1) £200 - £300

The Red Poppy is a ballet in three acts and eight tableaux with an apotheosis, from a libretto by Mikhail Kuriko. It was created by Glière in 1927 as the ﬁrst Soviet ballet with a modern revolutionary theme, and is the work for which he is best known. (1) £200 - £300

222* Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1854-1920). Portrait Signed, ‘Marie / Soﬁa - Euxinograde / 1907’, circular photographic sepia photogravure on india paper, showing the head and shoulders of the Grand Duchess with feathered hat, signed in the blank area below the image in a large hand in brown ink, the ink having bled but remaining clear and legible, sheet size 145 x 100 mm, laid on contemporary card, marginal toning, 24 x 21 cm overall

220* Golberg (Mecislas, 1869-1907), Polish writer, poet and playwright. Two Autograph Letters Signed, ‘Miceslas Golberg’, Paris and Nice, 28 April and 14 August, no year, to an unidentiﬁed friend, in French, one on the elaborate notepaper of the ‘Theatre Municipal Nice’, untranslated, but mentioning the recipient’s poem about Louis XI, some lectures he is giving and expressing the hope that they might meet ‘Je Regrette beaucoup votre absence…’, a total of 6 pages, 8vo

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia was the eldest daughter of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and his ﬁrst wife, Princess Augusta Reuss of Köstritz. A prominent hostess in Romanov society following her marriage in 1874 to the Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, she was known by many as the ‘grandest of the grand duchesses’.

After a failed career in medicine and an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Golberg became a political activist and writer. His outspoken political views meant he was expelled from France on two occasions, once ending up in London for nine months. His friends included André Gide, Henri Matisse and Auguste Rodin. Autograph Letters by Miceslas Golberg are rare. (2) £200 - £300

The inscription is presumably in in remembrance of a journey made from Soﬁa to Euxinograd, a Bulgarian royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast. (1) £500 - £800

223* Historical Autographs. A good group of 18 signatures of British political and related ﬁgures from the late 17th and early 18th century, comprising autographs of: John Lowther, (1st Viscount Lonsdale, 1655-1700), Edward Devereux, (12th Viscount Hereford, 1743-1781), Robert Harley, (1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, 1661–1724), John Colepeper, (1st Baron Culpeper, c. 1600-1660), Charles Whitworth, (1st Baron Whitworth, 1675-1725), Sidney Godolphin (1st Earl of Godolphin, 1645-1712), Francis North, (1st Earl of Guilford, 1704-1790), John Pulteney (c. 1668–1726), Charles James Fox (1749-1806), George (Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, c. 1684-1739), Charles Philip Yorke (1764–1834), William Montagu (5th Duke of Manchester, 1771–1843), George Selwyn (1719-1791), (English Member of Parliament who was later described as a ‘necrophiliac, gay transvestite who sat mute loved and undisturbed in the House of Commons for 44 years’), Lieutenant-General George Carpenter (1st Baron Carpenter, 1657-1731), Spencer Cowper (1670-1728), Charles Stuart (1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay, 1779-1845), John Charles Villiers (3rd Earl of Clarendon, 1757-1838), and a rare signature of Dutch military engineer Sir Bernard de Gomme (1620-1685) (18)

£200 - £300

224* Historical Autographs. A large group of approximately 230 signatures of historical figures from the fields of literature, music, politics and the arts, mostly 19th and 20th century, but a few earlier, mostly cut signatures, plus some document and letter fragments, including autographs of: Thomas Carlyle (4 lines in his hand, signed), Richard Brindley Sheridan, Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears (together on a Red House slip), Hester Lynch Piozzi, Igor Stravinsky, William Bentinck, Charlotte Mansfield, Louisa Spencer Churchill, Lord Moran, Oliver Byrne (rare), William Penney, Admiral Mark Kerr, Henry de la Poer Beresford, William Henry Russell, Freddie Mills, Hannah More (autograph quotation signed), Sir Francis Chichester, Philip Noel Baker, David Gill, Sir Bernard Lovell, Jonas Cohn, Myra Hess, George Fisher (Arctic scientist), Augustus Pitt-Rivers, William Hopkins, (mathematician), Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Arthur Bliss, John Barbirolli, Eugene Goossens, Michael Nyman, Louise Dulken, Paul Hindemith, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Dame Clara Butt, Constantin Nabokoff (author and Russian diplomat, uncommon), John Erskine, Landon Ronald, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, Field Marshall Sir Hugh Rose, John Elphinstone (13th Lord), Sir John Lubbock, Captain John George Boss, Stefan Askenase, Eileen Joyce, Sir Henry J. Wood (partial letter signed), Edward German, Elizabeth Poston, Nathaniel Curzon 2nd Baron Scarsdale, Elizabeth Berkeley, George Byng 1st Viscount Torrington, Lady Mary Augusta Onslow, The Dutch Quartet, Martin Harvey, Lewis Casson, Henry George Herbert (3rd Earl of Carnarvon), Charles Matthews (actor), Mark Hambourg (AMQS), Solomon Cutner, Albert Edward (King Edward VII), Charles W. A. Scott (aviator), Emily Tennyson (on behalf of her husband), Sigismond Thalberg, William IV (autograph free front signed as Duke of Clarence), Edward Kater (photographer) (rare), Frederick H. Cowen, Arthur James Plunkett (7th earl of Fingall), plus approximately 150 others (approx. 230)

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£400 - £600

227* Literary Autographs. A collection of 32 Autograph Letters Signed, Autograph Poems and Signatures, 19th & 20th century, the 17 Autograph Letters Signed comprising those by: William Plomer (5), Clifford Bax (3), E. V. Lucas (3), Laurence Housman (4), Lascelles Abercrombie (2, including one mentioning Rupert Brooke); together with 2 Autograph Poems, ‘In an Easter Country Churchyard 1897’, and ‘Stanzas for Music 1896’, signed ‘Herbert Sleigh’; Edna Lyall, a poem by Robert Lowell, written out in her hand and signed by her; Robert Graves, printed poem ‘Advice from a Mother’, signed; and 11 literary signatures including Charles Kingsley (plus address), John Galsworthy (plus dedication), Wilfrid Meynell, Catherine Marsh, R. Ellis Roberts, Eugene Scribe, Vernon Warren, Joseph Hatton, Edith Ellis (plus dedication)

225* Ibsen (Henrik, 1828-1906), Norwegian playwright and poet. Visiting Card with Autograph Note, no date, c. 1890s, three lines in Norwegian, written in black ink in a neat hand on one of his visiting cards (‘Dr. Henrik Ibsen’ printed centrally, with the address ‘Victoria Terrasse 7 B’ printed lower right), the message sending greetings through his friend, Aksel Arstal, ‘who wishes to acquaint himself with you’, a little dust soiling, 65 x 110 mm Victoria Terrasse 7 B is the address in Oslo, where Ibsen lived from October 1891 until the autumn of 1895. While living here Ibsen wrote two of his major late-career dramas: The Master Builder (1892) and Little Eyolf (1894). Aksel Arstal (1855-1940) was a Norwegian geographer, educator, and editor, known for his work on school geography and the encyclopaedia Oslo byleksikon. (1) £500 - £800

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226* Korngold (Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957), Austrian composer and ‘Wunderkind’. Photograph Signed, ‘Erich Wolfgang Korngold’, 1916, a vintage postcard head and shoulders photograph, signed at foot, with an autograph musical quotation signed to verso, being the opening chord from his opera Violanta, one bar in treble clef, initialled ‘E.W.K.’, and dated ‘Wien, April 1916’, 14 x 8.5 cm

£250 - £350

228* Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France, 1643-1715. Document Signed, ‘Louis’, Versailles, 8 June 1704, being a manuscript royal authorisation appointing Captain Moissonne as Captain of the Royal Regiment of Infantry after the dismissal of Captain Roquecave, addressed to Jacques-René de Brisay, Marquis de Denonville, boldly signed by the king at foot, and countersigned by Michel Chamillart (Secretary of State for War) to lower right corner, docketed, vertical disinfected mail slits, original creases, some minor marginal fraying and minimal marginal loss (not affecting text), folio

Korngold’s opera Violanta was written in 1914 when the composer was only 17. It was in fact his second opera, being preceded by The Ring of Polykrates. It received its ﬁrst performance under the baton of Bruno Walter in Munich on 28 March 1916. It received its ﬁrst performance in Vienna, a more important operatic venue, in April 1916, when this postcard was signed and inscribed. (1) £250 - £350

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£300 - £400

229* Marconi (Guglielmo, 1874-1937), Italian inventor & electrical engineer, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1909. Signed Photograph, ‘G. Marconi, Rome, 1937’, vintage gelatin silver print, half-length seated, in part proﬁle, wearing a suit, signed and inscribed in blue ink in blank lower margin, ‘To John Martin, With many pleasant remembrances’, dated 24/4/37, photographer’s small credit stamp to blank verso, ‘G. Bruner & O., Trento’, 15 x 10 cm, together with a typed postcard signed, ‘G. Marconi, S.Y. “Elettra”, Venice, 1 October 1934, to Mr. Martin, thanking him for his kind wishes, and continuing, ‘My indisposition is now practically over, and I am glad to say the Press Reports on the matter have been grossly exaggerated’, slightly dust soiled, creasing to lower margin, not affecting signature or text, on Reale Accademia d’Italia stationery, 11 x 13.5 cm, with matching soiled and frayed envelope (stamp removed), plus a Marconi business card as President of the Reale Accademia d’Italia, inscribed by him in black ink in the lower blank area, ‘With many thanks for your kind wishes’, with accompanying typed envelope addressed to John Martin, “Albert Vaults”, Holyhead, Anglesey, torn and stamp removed, postmark dated 30 April 1936

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Provenance: from the family of John Martin, by descent. Martin was landlord of the Albert Vaults pub in Holyhead, and according to family legend Martin and Edison struck up a friendship there while Marconi was doing some of his early communication testing. Holyhead was the site of one of the ﬁrst fully operational Marconi wireless stations, constructed in 1901, and closing in 1903.

231* Montgomery (Bernard Law, 1887-1976), 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British army ofﬁcer. Ink Autograph, ‘B. L. Montgomery / General / 19/4/44’, in a small autograph album on an off-white page, other autographs include V.C. Winners Captain P[hilip] J[ohn] “Pip” Gardner, R.T.C. & Brigadier [?]Henry Foote, dated 30 July 1945, pencil signed self-caricature by C. A. Steenson, 6 May 1944, the cast of Garrison Gaieties No. 1, Bovington, 30 September 1944 (and loose printed programme), plus a small number of others including some actors, James Mason (1909-1984), Roger Livesey & Ursula Jeans, Elizabeth Sellars, Diana Churchill, Barry Barnes, contemporary padded calf, rubbed, broken on spine with some leaves loose, oblong 8vo, together with another possibly related small album containing 5 corner-mounted real photo postcards, all seemingly showing scenes at RAF Hednesford, Staffordshire, including one of a group of RAF personnel, numerous signatures (presumably the RAF personnel) on inside front cover, contemporary card covers with gilt-embossed RAF insignia to upper cover, oblong 8vo

The photograph was signed just three months before Marconi died from a heart attack. The context of the notecard message is that in 1934, while staying in Venice, Marconi developed a severe, unstable pattern of angina pectoris and was prescribed prolonged medical rest. The S.Y. Elettra was a steam yacht purchased in 1919 by Marconi, which he used as a ﬂoating mobile laboratory for wireless telegraphy and radio experiments, serving as his primary workspace and ﬂoating research lab until 1937. (5) £400 - £600

230* Marx (Chico, 1887-1961). Signed Photograph, ‘Chico Marx’, glossy gelatin silver print on thin card, negative number ‘LM-S-67’, boldly signed in blue fountain pen ink to wide lower margin, short closed tear to centre of left margin and light vertical crease to right margin, lower left and upper right corners a little bruised, verso blank, 18 x 12.5 cm (1)

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General Bernard Montgomery was in England on the date he signed this album, and actively engaged in high-level planning and morale-boosting tours for the upcoming D-Day invasion as commander of the 21st Army Group. (2) £100 - £150

£100 - £150

233* Operatic Autographs. A ﬁne series of 38 signed photographs of notable opera singers of the 20th century, all undedicated and mostly in costume, including: Ann Soﬁe von Otter (3), Eva Turner, Anna Tomowa Sintow (2), Bryn Terfel (2), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anja Silja, Leonie Rysanek, Anneliese Rothenberger, Andreas Scholl, Guiseppe Sabbatini (2), Andrea Rost (2), Gerda Scheyrer, Elena Suliotis, Regina Resnik, plus 20 others including the conductor Simon Rattle, together with: 13 Autograph Letters Signed by: Giovanni Orazio Cartagenova (LS), Birgit Nilsson, Luisa Tetrazzini, Sherrill Milnes, Renata Scotto, Decima Moore, Steuart Wilson, Eva Turner (ALS and TLS), Felicity Lott (ALS and APcS), Jesse Norman, Richard Lewis, plus 4 Autograph Quotations Signed by: Bidu Sayao, Renato Scotto, Regina Resnik and Sherrill Milnes (‘There is a physical sensation in singing high notes that’s second only to sex’) (56)

232* Moore (George Augustus, 1852-1933), Irish novelist, poet and playwright. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘George Moore, 121 Ebury Street, [London], Friday, [1918], to Maud Allen’s prosecution counsel, concerning the actress’s libel trial, ‘Dear Sir, I hope Miss Allens council will bring out in his speech for the prosecution that the principle enumerated by Pemberton Billing, on the subject might be applied to every family in England for there is no one family which has not had or has some relative at one time or another in a lunatic asylum. And how effective a few words on this subject would be, asking the jury if it is to be assumed that anyone is guilty of unnatural practices because his or her brother has committed them and that the crime of one member should be visited on the whole family. What safety would there be for the community’, some age toning and light dust soiling, a little corner creasing, 1 page, 4to Maud Allan (1873-1956) was a Canadian dancer, chieﬂy noted for her sensational interpretative dance The Vision of Salome (inspired by Oscar Wilde’s play Salome), in which she garnered great attention by performing topless. This 1918 performance prompted the right-wing MP Noel Pemberton Billing (1881-1948) to publish an article called ‘The Cult of the Clitoris’ in his own journal Vigilante. The article accused Allan of being a lesbian associate of German wartime conspirators and that German agents were using her sexual orientation as grounds to blackmail her into spying on the British government. Allan unsuccessfully sued Billing for libel, the trial also resurrecting public disapproval of Oscar Wilde, whose own failed libel suit had led to his arrest, conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency two decades earlier. This letter, written by Wilde’s lifelong friend and rival, was presumably sent in support to Maud Allan’s lawyers. (1) £150 - £200

£400 - £600

234* Pasuka (Berto, c. 1919-1963), Jamaican dancer. Signed photograph (probably by Angus McBean), ‘Berto Pauka’, a vintage black & white photographic postcard, head and shoulders in proﬁle, signed ‘Sincerely yrs Berto Pasuka’ in blue ink to lower part of image, marks to corners where previously mounted, 13.5 x 9 cm Before leaving Jamaica, Berto Pasuka, (originally Wilbert Passerley), performed in local shows for tourists, experimenting with Caribbean music. He moved to Britain in 1939, studying at the Astaﬁeva Dance School where many of the city’s classical dancers trained. He caught the attention of photographer Angus McBean who took many images of him, many of which are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Signed material by Pasuka, in any form, is rare. (1) £150 - £200

235* Pavlichenko (Lyudmila, 1916-1974), Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II. Ink Signature in Cyrillic script, 9 November 1942, signed in blue ink with date ‘9/XI 42’ on an offwhite page in a small autograph album, the rest of the album containing approximately 40 other signatures collected c. 1939-45, mostly family and friends of the album’s young compiler, Rosemary, but including some ﬁgures from entertainment and broadcasting, Julie Andrews (and her parents Ted & Barbara), Albert Semprini (AMQS), Jimmy Kaye, Anne Ziegler, Ethel Revnell & Gracie West, Harry Hemsley, and a few others, some leaves detached, contemporary padded morocco, rubbed, small oblong 8vo

236* Perkins (John, ‘Jack Punch’, died 1812), Royal Navy officer and the first Black officer in the British navy. Manuscript Receipt Signed, ‘Jn Perkins’, H.M. Ship Tartar, at Sea, 20 June 1802, a receipt made out in a clerical hand to Captain Mends, in brown ink on laid and watermarked paper, ‘Received from Captain Mends 37 Dobloons & 5 Dollars of Commodore Darley’s Money. Received D[itt]o from Captain Mends 8 Dobloons and 50 Dollars, which is 775 Dollars. Cash Lent by me 121 [dollars]’, with a further 3-line listing of livestock and costs, including bulloks, a cow and a calf, totalling 896 dollars, the final line noting ‘1 Cow and Calf left by Captain Mends’, signed lower right, 1 page (lower half blank), folio (30 x 18 cm)

A rare autograph. Pavlichenko is the deadliest female sniper, and one of the deadliest snipers in history, with 309 conﬁrmed kills. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odessa and the siege of Sevastopol, during the early stages of the ﬁghting on the Eastern Front. When she was injured in battle by a mortar shell, she was evacuated to Moscow. After she recovered, she trained other Red Army snipers and was a public spokeswoman for the Red Army. After the war ended in 1945, she was reassigned as a senior researcher for the Soviet Navy. She died of a stroke at the age of 58.

A very rare autograph, with only one other located, at the National Archives, Kew, London. Captain John Perkins, nicknamed Jack Punch, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The first Black officer in the British navy, he rose from obscurity to enjoy a successful naval career in which he captured at least 315 enemy ships. Later in his career, Perkins acted as a spy for the Royal Navy and undertook missions to Cuba and Saint-Domingue. At the start of the Haitian Revolution, he was captured in Cap-Français and sentenced to death for supplying the rebel slaves with weapons, but British pressure forced French colonial authorities to release him.

The signature dates from the middle of Pavlichenko’s international goodwill and propaganda tour, rallying support for the Allied war effort. By early November 1942, she had ﬁnished her cross-country tour of the United States with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and was visiting the United Kingdom to meet with factory workers, local ofﬁcials, and military leadership. (1) £400 - £600

After his rescue, he was promoted to commander in 1797 and then to captain in 1800. Perkins went on to cause an international incident with Denmark when he ﬁred on two Danish warships during peacetime. Toward the end of his career, in 1801, Perkins participated in the capture of the islands of Sint Eustatius and Saba from the French, capturing their French garrisons, forty-seven cannon and 338 barrels of gunpowder. After several further cruises, Perkins was transferred in 1802 to the 32-gun frigate HMS Tartar. He resigned from the British navy in 1804 and settled down in Jamaica where he died in 1812. Captain Sir Robert Mends (1767-1823) was a British Royal Navy ofﬁcer, who lost an arm in the American War of Independence. In May 1800 he was made a post captain and served in a number of ships, including HMS Abergavenny, HMS Thunderer, HMS Quebec and HMS Nereide, before the Peace of Amiens, being paid off in September 1802. (1) £1,000 - £1,500

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238* Prime Minister Autographs. A collection of 7 items signed by Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, 18th & 19th century, comprising: North (Frederick, Lord 2nd Earl of Guilford, 17321792). Signature, ‘North’, cut from a document and countersigned by Viscount Beauchamp [Francis (Conway) Ingram-SeymourConway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford, 1743-1822], as Lord of the Treasury, and George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow (1731-1814); Grey (Charles, 2nd Earl Grey, 1764-1845). Signed fragment, ‘Grey’, with a few words in his hand , and neat annotation in another hand); Sidmouth (Henry Addington, Viscount, 1738-1809). Signature, ‘Henry Addington’, on a piece cut from a document, countersigned by Lord George Thynne [2nd Baron Carteret] (1770-1838) as a Lord of the Treasury, and Nathaniel Bond (1754-1823) as MP for Corfe Castle; Pitt (William, the younger, 1759-1806). Signature, ‘W Pitt’, cut from a document and countersigned by Richard Hopkins (17281799), as Lord of the Treasury, and John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney of St Leonards (1764-1831), laid down, marks; Liverpool (Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord, 1770-1828). Signature, ‘Liverpool’, on a free front, also addressed in his hand (Christmas Day, 1833); Wellesley (Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington, 1769-1852). Signature, ‘Wellington’’, on a free front, which has also been addressed to The Dean of York and dated by him (1st September 1828); Temple (Henry John, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 1784-1865). Signature, ‘Palmerston’, on a clipped piece of paper

237* Philip (Prince, 1921-2021), Duke of Edinburgh and Consort to Queen Elizabeth II. Typed Letter Signed, ‘Philip’, Buckingham Palace letterhead, 11 July 1947, to Peter Stewart at the Carlton Club, salutation, subscription and signature in blue fountain pen ink, in response to Stewart’s letter of the day before (copy included), in response to the ofﬁcial announcement that Elizabeth and Philip were getting married, Prince Philip saying that, ‘… If you are delighted that the hanging about is now over, I am sure you can imagine what I feel about it’, hoping Stewart is enjoying his daily dips, before continuing, ‘Everything is alright with the ring. It was waiting for me at K[ensington] P[alace]. I do hope we will meet again some time for a drink’, 1 page, 4to, together with Stewart’s fair copy of his own autograph letter signed, sent to Prince Philip the day before, Carlton Club, 10 July 1947, delighting at the wellkept news, ‘”Sucks to the Sunday Pictorial”, and “Down with the Daily Worker”’, saying how delighted he is that the waiting is over and how Philip deserves to be happy, ‘… and I have a strong sense you will be. From my observation at the dance last night, I would say you are very lucky indeed – and I mean that’, concluding that, ‘Dickie and Edwina [Mountbatten] must be delighted, but none more so than [me], 2 pp., 4to Peter Stewart was the Secretary of The Carlton Club, and for many years a conﬁdante of the royal family. He was a friend of King George VI and was held in high esteem by Queen Mary, Princess Elizabeth (and later as Queen Elizabeth II), and Prince Philip, being a frequent visitor to Clarence House. Over the years, he became indispensable when helping them choose and discreetly acquire presents for each other, as this letter suggests.

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Prince Philip proposed to Princess Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle in the summer of 1946, but her father, King George VI, requested that the betrothal remain private for several reasons. For one, Elizabeth was only 20 when Philip proposed, and King George VI insisted that no public announcement be made until after she turned 21 in April 1947. Secondly, the King wanted his daughter to accompany the family on a major, longplanned tour of South Africa in early 1947 before committing to marriage. He wanted her to experience a final major royal duty as an unmarried princess. The ring Philip refers to is the wedding ring which Stewart had helped him with. Philip proposed with this 3-carat diamond ring made from diamonds taken from a tiara belonging to his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg. Although rumours occasionally leaked to the press - prompting Buckingham Palace to issue official denials in late 1946 - the secret was successfully guarded until the official statement on 9 July 1947. This well-guarded secret shocked the press, as can be seen in Stewart’s delight, and that the ‘irritating and tiresome waiting is now over’. (2) £300 - £500

£200 - £300

239* Religious Autographs. A large collection of approximately 100 letters, documents and signatures by various luminaries of the Church, 18th/20th century, including: John Keble, a good Autograph Letter Signed, suggesting that doctrines should be what are criticised, not the men who express them; Edward Pusey (2 ALsS), the first relating to a sermon and the second relating to the propagation of material to the recipient’s neighbours; Donald Coggan, 3-page Autograph Manuscript Signed with initials, which appears to be a detailed review of the then, latest volume of The Harry S. Truman Memoirs; Thomas Secker (1693-1768), Archbishop of Canterbury, Signed Fragment, ‘Tho. Cant.’, (uncommon); a handwritten document signed by 10 clerics, relating to a recent publication, A Volume of Essays and Reviews, and their collective objection to its contents, signatories include William Weldon Champney, Thomas Dale (Canon of St Paul’s), William Josiah Irons, Alexander McCaul, Charles Marshall, Lewis Barrett White + 4 others; together with: Collections of letters by: Samuel Wilberforce (Oxford), 4 ALsS and 2 Signatures; Hugh Richard Levine Sheppard (Canterbury), 1 ALS and 2 TLsS; John Victor Macmillan (Dover), 3 ALsS and 1 TLS; William Thompson (York), 2 ALsS; Charles Thomas Longley (York), 2 ALsS; William Inge (St Paul’s), APCS to James Marchant, who has initialled a reply, plus a list of people including T. S. Eliot, signed by Inge; Arthur Penryn Stanley (Westminster), 2 ALsS; plus Autograph Letters Signed by: Dr Samuel Parr; Daniel Wilson (Calcutta), DS; John William Cunningham (Harrow); Frederick Temple (Canterbury); Robert Scott; Frederick W. Farrar (Canterbury); Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Durham); Henry Wilberforce; Robert Machray (St Rupert’s Land); John Mitchinson (Barbados); Walter Hook (Winchester); Cyril Arlington (Durham); Randall Davidson (Canterbury); William Temple (Canterbury); Geoffrey Fisher (Canterbury); Archibald Campbell Tait (Canterbury); Samuel Bickerstaff (Canterbury); Henry Longeville Mausel; Connop Thirlwall (St David’s); Henry Philpotts (Exeter); John Perowne (Worcester); Ernest Roland Wilberforce (Chichester); Edward Woods (Lichfield); Charles Palmerston Anderson (Canada); Douglas Crick (Chester) and Henry Lascelles Jenner (Dover); and Signatures by: Charles Lyttelton (1714-1768) (Carlisle); Edmund Law (1703-1787) (Carlisle); Edmund Smallville (1720-1799) (St David’s), 2 signatures; Philip Yonge (1709-1783) (Norwich); Andrew Mitchell Thompson; Charles Frederick Mackenzie; Robert Louth (London); Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (York); Edward Smallwell (Oxford); Henry Bathurst (Norwich); Samuel Wilberforce (Oxford); James Henry Monk (Gloucester); George Garrett (cleric and inventor); William Robertson Nicoll; Austin Castell (signed ‘Augustine Castle’), (uncommon 17thcentury signature); Henry Philpotts (Exeter); Arthur Niasley (Westminster); Thomas John Capel; Samuel Butler (Lichfield); John Singleton Copley; William Dealtry; Thomas Turton (Ely); Colin Ogilvie Buchanan; William Marsh; Hugh Stowell; Henry Longeville Mausel; Henry Raikes; Shule Barrington, and further signatures by Bishops and Archbishops of Canterbury, Worcester, Exeter, London, Llandaff, Ripon, Bangor, Bristol, Lichfield, Rupert’s Land, St David’s and Peterborough (approx. 100)

£300 - £500

240* Richter (Hans, 1843-1916), Austro-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, ‘Hans Richter’, Leeds, 20 October 1896, being the opening two bars of Richard Wagner’s Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, written, signed and dated in black ink in a neat hand on a small piece of white card, 60 x 95 mm, pasted onto an album leaf of a small autograph book containing approximately 30 further autographs, mostly composers, conductors, sopranos and other artists, collected in Dresden, c. 1895-98, including Ernst Schuch & Clementine von Schuch-Proska, Therese Malten, Franceschina Prevosti, Eduard Rappoldi (AMQS), J.M. Heinrich Hofmann, Friedrich Haase, E[mma] Albani-Gye, Ben Davies, Edward Lloyd, Margaret Macintyre, Erika Wedekind, Ferruccio Busoni, Irene von Chavanne, Paul Wiecke, Henry Irving, Rejane, Eugen d’Albert, Emil Sauer, Hermann Panne, Teresa Carreño, and others, some on small card pasted in, but mostly signed straight into the album one to a page, and many with inscriptions, numerous blank leaves, all edges gilt, contemporary calf with gilt ownership monogram ‘C.F.H.’ to upper cover, spine rubbed and torn, 8vo

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£200 - £300

241* Roberts (Frederick Sleigh, 1832-1914), Lord Roberts of Kandahar. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Roberts’, The Royal Hospital, Dublin, 16 March 1898, to Sir William Ewart, saying that ‘it will give me great pleasure to inspect the Belfast Battalion of the Boy’s Brigade’, and wishing to propose a date of 30 April, dust soiled, fold lines, 2 pages with blank integral leaf, 8vo, together with a heavily torn but largely complete letter from Á[ngel] G. de Lascurain, Malaga, 16 November 1875, to Sir William Ewart in Belfast, in Spanish, saying that Ewart had asked him for the signature of General Santa Anna, who he saw a few days ago, and says that Santa Anna said he was going to write, 1 page, 4to, together with two cut signatures of A[ntonio] L[opez] de S[an]ta Anna’, [Mexican soldier and politician (1794–1876) best remembered for leading the defeat of Texan defenders at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836], each from the foot of a letter in brown ink on light blue paper, each approx. 7 x 11 cm, together with a short autograph thank you letter signed in French from the soprano Blanche Marchesi (1863-1949), and 16 other cut signatures of King Edward VII as Prince of Wales, ‘Albert Edward’, ‘Krishnaraja Wadiya’ IV of Mysore, Arthur James Balfour (Prime Minister 1902-05), Lord Salisbury, Lord Cairns, Archbishop Trench of Dublin, Joseph Chamberlain, Viscount Beresford, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Duke of Abercorn, etc. (approx. 20)

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£150 - £200

242* Sade (Marquis de, Donatien Alphonse François, 1740-1814), French writer, libertine and political activist. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Sade’, ‘Thursday morning’, no place or date, inscribed and signed in brown ink on blue laid paper, to Monsieur Pavis de la Mauri, lawyer in court, in French, concerning the receipt of documents and an upcoming court appearance, stating ‘Ne venant de recevoir les papiers-ci qu´à línstant monsieur, il má été impossible de vous lénvoyer plus tôt , mais je me presse attendre que cést pour comparaitre demain. Je vous prie de faire dans ceci tout ce que vous suggere votre sagesse. Il me semble que nous avons décidé ensemble quíl ne fallait pas consentir à la délivrance...; Si cést toujours votre intention comme cést la mienne, prenez pour ce refus les meilleurs et les plus sages motifs. Au reste, à ce procédé il me parait que les choses sont loin dén être au point où vous désirez les amener, instruisez-moi de tout cela...’ (Translation: ‘Having only just received these papers, sir, it was impossible for me to send them to you sooner, but I hasten to wait until I appear in court tomorrow. I beg you to do in this matter whatever your wisdom dictates. It seems to me that we agreed together that we should not consent to the release...; If this is still your intention as it is mine, consider the best and wisest reasons for this refusal. Furthermore, it seems to me that things are far from reaching the point you wish to bring them to; inform me of all this...’), one pinhead hole affecting one letter, creases not affecting signature, with address panel in the hand of the Marquis de Sade, ‘A Monsieur Pavis de la Mauri, avoué pres des tribunaux, rue des Boucheries, Saint Germain, passage de la Treille, a Paris’, 1 page with integral address leaf, 8vo (19 x 15 cm), accompanied by the original envelope (2)

£600 - £800

243* Sporting Autographs. A small album containing approximately 160 signatures collected in London, c. 1937-50, numerous sporting autographs, including players from Australia 1948 & New Zealand 1949 cricket touring teams, members of Chelsea, Charlton Athletic, England and Wales football teams, boxers Harry Mallin (full-page inscription) and Tommy Farr (small photo), speedway stars, London Olympics 1948 swimmers, divers and water polo, Ottawa All Stars ice hockey, tennis players William Tilden, Les[ter] Stoefen, Don Budge, Dick Harris, Jack Kramer, plus assorted others, including Ernest Bevin, Bertram Mills, Sabu, June Clyde, etc., many of the team players cut and pasted together from programmes etc., some in pencil with some now slightly faded, contemporary limp leather, oblong 32mo (65 x 100 mm) (1)

244* Strauss (Richard, 1864-1949), German composer. Autograph Postcard Signed, ‘Dr Richard Strauss’, Garmisch, 4 September 1931, to E. Bodenheimer, informing the recipient of various performances and conducting engagements and mentioning his opera Die Frau ohne Schatten, some writing typically indecipherable, minor creasing and uniform light toning (except margins) from previous framing, 10 x 15 cm, together with an unsigned vintage photograph of Strauss, 16.5 12 cm

£100 - £150

Die Frau ohne Schatten was ﬁrst performed in 1919 and is Strauss’s longest opera. It is most likely that the performance referenced by Strauss, relates to either the subsequent stagings at The Vienna State Opera at the end of 1931 or The Salzburg Festival performance in August of the following year, both of which were conducted by Clemens Krauss. (2) £300 - £500

245* Symonds (John Addington, 1840-1893), British poet, author, literary critic and gay rights activist. Autograph Poem Signed, ‘J.A.S.’, [Davos, 19 November 1892], being Symonds’ final poem ‘L’Envoi à ces Passions’, beginning: ‘Hence all ye vernal loves, light forms of joy, Shapes of dim gods trampling the liquid air…’, irregularly trimmed in one corner, fold, one annotation, printer’s marks, 1 page, 4to, with part of an autograph letter to verso, [to Charles Kains Jackson], unsigned, relating news of Angelo [Fusato] his gondolier, his time in the Alps and being snowed in, offering his poem ‘Midnight at Baiae’ for publication in The Artist and praising [John Gambril] Nicholson, pencil line and printer’s glue, but with no loss of legibility, sheet size 17.5 x 16.5 cm, together with: Brown (Horatio Forbes 1854-1926), Scottish Historian and author on Venice. An important Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Horatio F. Brown’, Venice, 24 May 1893, to ‘Charles Kains Jackson’, about John Addington Symonds, providing information about a book, which was sent to Symonds by Jackson, suggesting he collect it from Symonds’ mezzanino in Davos and review it for The Artist, further mentioning Symonds’ literary affairs and Henry Scott Tuke, ‘… I am very busy; there is a large correspondence in connection with Symonds’ literary affairs; a vast mass of papers to go through… please give my love to Tuke; tell him I will write soon…’, 3 pp., 8vo, plus Kains Jackson (Charles, 1857-1933), English lawyer, editor of The Artist. Autograph Manuscript Signed, ‘Charles Kains-Jackson’, [1893], being Kains Jackson’s obituary tribute to John Addington Symonds, paper-clip mark to first page, general marks and one page neatly trimmed, 11 pp. on rectos of grid-ruled paper, 4to, with a typewritten transcript of Kains Jackson’s obituary tribute, annotated and signed (with initials) on the first page by Leonard Green, [Kains Jackson’s literary executor], paper-clip marks to first page, 15 pages, folio (5)

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£400 - £600

246* Tuke (Mabel Kate, 1871-1962), British suffragette. Typed Letter Signed, ‘Mabel Tuke’, 2 July 1908, as Honorary Secretary of the National Women’s Social and Political Union, on their letterhead stationery, a brief note, ‘I enclose a copy of the Resolution [no longer present] carried at the Women’s Convention, held on Tuesday last, in the Caxton Hall, Westminster’, a little marginal creasing, 1 page, 4to, together with a second ink signature, ‘Mabel Tuke / Hon Sec.’, cut from the end of a typed letter with an identiﬁcation note in another hand in large blank area beneath, dating the WSPU letter as 12 November 1907, a little spotting, 11 x 13.5 cm The meeting referred to in the Caxton Hall, Westminster, took place on Tuesday, 30 June 1908. The meeting was led by Emmeline Pankhurst who issued a typed memorandum: ‘This Meeting calls upon the Government to extend the Parliamentary Franchise to those women who possess the qualiﬁcations which now entitle men to vote, and the meeting further demands that this reform be effected by means of a separate and distinct measure to be immediately carried into law.’ (2) £100 - £150

247* Vandersmissen (Gustave, 1854-1925), Belgian lawyer and MP, infamous for the murder of his wife, the singer Alice Renaud. A rare group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed, 4 June to 1 September 1886, addressed to Georges and ‘Cher Docteur’, an at times harrowing plea about his daughter Madeleine, in the ﬁrst letter, addressed to ‘My dear Georges’, (written just two days after being found guilty of the murder of Madeleine’s mother), ‘I no longer know how to cry tears… I have suffered so much… I was devastated Wednesday evening. I could think only of Madeleine and my heart broke’, and in the ﬁnal letter, addressed to ‘Cher Docteur’, he writes, ‘Write to me immediately about what is wrong with my little Madeleine. I shake with anguish. This child’s life is a source of all my happiness’, a total of 5 pages, 8vo

Lot 246

The circumstances surrounding the murder of the singer Alice Renaud by Vandersmissen are intriguing. The couple married in 1879 and in 1881 their daughter Madeleine was born. Alice began having an affair with Edgard Dupleix de Cadignan, while simultaneously continuing a clandestine correspondence with her previous lover, the painter and illustrator, Félicien Rops, who was 22 years her senior. Various cries of perjury, a damning newspaper article, and divorce proceedings added to Vandersmissen’s instability and just after midnight on 9 April 1886, after reading an incendiary short article in Le Nation, he visited his wife in her new lodgings, and there shot her, setting her nightgown on fire. He shot her a further four times but, amazingly, Alice ran outside into the arms of a policeman who extinguished the flames. She told the policeman that she had been shot by a stranger, but Vandersmissen admitted to shooting her and she died from her injuries 13 days later. His trial took place 31 May to 2 June 1886, and just two days later he wrote the first of the present letters. Vandersmissen was sentenced to 15 years in prison, which was reduced to ten, and then serving only two years. Unusually, the case, which became known as ‘The Vandersmissen Affair’, was covered widely in the international press. (4) £200 - £300

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248* Victoria Cross Winners. A collection of approximately 45 autographs and autograph letters signed, mostly relating to the First World War, with a few relating to the Second Boer War, 1907 and later, including an autograph letter signed by Sir George White VC, recounting his experience when accepting university honours, 6 May 1907, an autograph letter signed by Aylmer Spice Cameron VC, 31 July 1907, an autograph letter signed by Walter Norris Congrieve VC, an autograph letter signed by John Reginald Noble Graham VC, responding to an autograph request, 15 December 1917, a postcard signed by Sir George S. White VC, an autograph letter signed by Charles Smith Rutherford VC, describing his war exploits, 5 December 1977, an autograph letter signed by Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward, 9 November 1956, an autograph letter on blue paper signed by Edward Cooper VC, responding to an autograph request, 24 October 1977, an autograph letter signed by Dudley Graham Johnson VC, responding to an autograph request, 12 May 1970 (some losses to margins not affecting text, relaid), an autograph note on pink paper signed by David Ross Lauder VC, a ﬁrst day cover commemorating the ﬁrst award of the Victoria Cross to an Airman 2nd Lt. W. B. Rhodes-Moorhouse signed by Norman Cyril Jackson VC in blue ink, and the signatures of Fenton John Aylmer VC, Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies VC, Edmond Costello VC, Colonel John Watson VC, Sir Garrett O’Moore Creagh VC, George William Chafer VC, Herbert James VC, Michael O’Leary VC, James Smith VC, Edward Cooper VC, Thomas Whitham VC, Richard George Masters VC, John Hogan VC, William Boyton Butler VC, Milton Fowler Gregg VC, Edgar Kinghorn Myles VC, Arthur Hutt VC, Frederick Luke VC, John Chipman Kerr VC, George Randolph Pearkes VC, Tom Dresser VC, Christopher Augustus Cox VC, Manley Angel James VC, William Ewart Boulter VC, Graham Thomson Lyall VC (dated 15 March 1919), and others, some in pencil (approx. 45)

249* Victoria Cross Winners. A collection of approximately 60 autographs and autograph letters signed, mostly relating to WWII and later conflicts, 1940s and later, including a signature in black ink of Subedar Major Ganju Lama VC (dated 12 June 1944 in a different hand), mounted to black card, an autograph card signed by John Alexander Cruickshank VC, dated 26 August 1944, a menu for the Fifth Reunion Dinner of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association, Cafe Royal, 14 July 1966, signed by more than 20 recipients of the Victoria Cross, including H. M. Ervine Andrews, Spencer Bent, Robert Cain, John Foote, Rambahadur Limbu, Victor Turner, Harry Errington, Odette Hallowes, Daphne Pearson, Stanley Sewell, Dorothy Thomas, and Cyril Tutton, a photographic portrait signed by Gerard Ross Norton, a photographic portrait signed in blue ink by Rod Learoyd VC, a signature in black ink of Edward Thomas Chapman VC, mounted to black card, an autograph letter signed by Robert St. Vincent Shedbrooke VC, dated 15 August 1952, an autograph card signed by Group Captain Leonard Henry Trent, VC, DFC, a photograph signed in blue ink by William Reid VC ‘Bill Reid V. C.’, a first day cover commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Royal British Legion with a mounted signature in blue ink by Keith Payne, VC, two first day covers commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Institution of the Victoria Cross signed in black ink by Eric Wilson VC, a first day cover commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Institution of the Victoria Cross signed in black ink by Edward Kenna VC, an autograph note signed by Lieutenant Colonel Harry John Laurent VC, an autograph card signed in blue ink by Leonard Cheshire VC, an autograph note on thin paper signed in blue ink by Gaje Ghale, dated 8 October 1986, a card signed in black ink by Johnson Beharry VC, a typewritten letter on The Leonard Cheshire Foundation International letterhead paper signed in blue ink by Leonard Cheshire VC, dated 22 July 1980, an autograph letter signed by William Speakman VC ‘Bill Speakman VC’, dated 15 November 1973, an autograph letter signed by James Power Carne, 25 October 1971, a card signed by John Keefer Mahoney VC, a signature of John Daniel Hinton VC, a first day cover celebrating the 50 years of flying training of the n. 4 Flying Training School of the RAF, signed by Group Captain Leonard Henry Trent, VC, DFC, a signature in black ink of Roderick Learoyd VC, and others similar signed by John Patrick Kenneally VC, John Daniel Hinton VC and E. A. Howell, and John George Smyth VC

£200 - £300

(approx. 60)

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£200 - £300

250* Victorian Autographs. A ﬁne selection of 76 Autograph Letters Signed, written by Victorian luminaries from the ﬁelds of science, exploration, music, literature, medicine and the visual arts, including: Henry Morton Stanley, Richard Doyle (illustrated Autograph Letter Signed), Dorothy Tennant, Matthew Arnold, William Jerdan, Marie Corelli, Elizabeth Rigby, Athelstan Riley, 7th Earl of Cardigan (James Thomas Brudenell, Commander at the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’), Charles Stanhope, Edmond Haraucourt, Josiah French (also signed by Henry Lewis Hobart, Dean of Windsor), Sir John Bowring (slight loss affecting part of surname), Sir George Grove, 2nd Duke of Wellington, Henry McKenzie (Scottish author) (2), Susan E. Ferrier (2), Samuel Warren, Horatio Forbes Brown, Hector Gavin, Samuel Wilberforce, Fanny Kemble, Robert Keely, Gathorne Hardy (Viscount Cranbrook) (partial Autograph Letter Signed), Lord Edward Cavendish (9th Duke of Devonshire), John Fiennes Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (17th Baron of Saye & Sele) (4), Emily Cathcart (3-page partial Autograph Letter Signed), Charles Burke, Friar P. Chrysostomus Verwyst, Charles Francis Fuller (sculptor), Dr William Robertson, John Wilson, Anthony Hope Hawkins, Fanny Davis, Matilda Anne Mackarness (children’s novelist) (4), Dr Hugh Blair, William Banks (artist), Johannes Josephus Pavlovich Lucich (author), Andalusia Molesworth, Michael Angelo Hayes (artist), etc., various lengths and sizes (76)

£300 - £400

251* Walton (William, 1902-1983), English composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, ‘William Walton’, no place or date, c. 1970s, being two bars written on two staves from the opening of ‘Popular Song’ from Façade, written in ink on a neatly trimmed sheet of manuscript paper, Walton has further written ‘Façade’ and two instrumental indication, ‘Flute’ and ‘Cl. Bb’, 7 x 21.5 cm The ‘entertainment’, in which Edith Sitwell’s poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment, composed by Walton, was first given privately in the Sitwell family’s London home on 24 January 1922. The first public performance was given at the Aeolian Hall in London on 12 June 1923. On both occasions Sitwell recited the verse and Walton conducted the ensemble. It was Façade that launched the then 20-year-old composer on a trajectory to greatness: the Viola Concerto (1929), Belshazzar’s Feast (1931), First Symphony (1934) and the Violin Concerto (1938/39) confirming that status. (1) £200 - £300

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, ARTEFACTS & EPHEMERA

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252 Abolition Broadside. At a Public Meeting Held at Ipswich, December 13th, 1825, the Following Statement Respecting Slaves in the British Colonies, was Communicated by Thomas Clarkson, printed by Dicey & Smithson, Northampton, [1825], printed broadside with drop-head title and text in two columns, a little overall spotting, 1 page, 4to (22.5 x 17.5 cm) Following the successful outlawing of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807, Clarkson shifted his focus towards the complete elimination of slavery itself within the British colonies. In 1823, he helped establish the Anti-Slavery Society. By 1825, he was touring the UK to engender public outcry, petition Parliament, and organise regional anti-slavery committees. No other copies of this broadside have been located. (1)

£300 - £500

253* Blight (Frederick M.S., 1875-1963). Three manuscript books compiled by Fred Blight, 1928-1948, comprising three books: A ‘Commonplace Book’, containing ‘odd and ends’ which have interested F.M.S. Blight, 48 leaves; Brigandage by Blight, literary & artist plunder, ﬁlched from various sources, 130 leaves; and Loot from various sources, including The Strand Magazine, Picture Post, The Listener and Sunday Times, 1948, 79 leaves, each book in same immaculate hand, in black ink, containing various original and copied prose, stories, illustrations after artist’s including Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, etc., press cuttings and stamps from 1948 Olympics, each in original cloth binding, largest small 4to, and 4 page letter to ‘Bob’ from the author telling him about a man he met in Miss Dawson’s shop called Archer who owned a bookshop in London and had some original Beardsley’s for sale ‘Archer thought all my drawings with Miss Dawson ‘’quite wonderful’’’...’and had he not known that these were your work, he should have thought them originals’ (3)

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254* Bookmarks. A large collection of approximately 1500 bookmarks, mostly 20th century, the majority card or paper stock, but including some leather and silk, the majoirty ﬁled in sleeves in modern ring binders, themes including bookshops, publishers, motoring, travel, advertising, libraries, insurance, Christmas and other greetings-related, war safety, savings, etc., plus some loose and in packets, and a related book (2 cartons)

£100 - £150

£100 - £200

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255* Boswell (James, 1740-1795), Scottish diarist and lawyer, friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell’s porcelain custard cup (pot de crème), probably Chinese export, c. 1780, slightly bellied vessel with entwined double handle attached to the body with foliated anteﬁxes, decorated in polychrome enamels, featuring the coat of arms of James Boswell with famille rose motto ‘Vraye Foy’ surmounting a hooded falcon and crest with ﬂoral border, the crest with an elaborate gilt monogram ‘JB’, tiny crack to upper rim and hairline crack to lower end of one handle, with matching lid, 8 cm high James Boswell’s dates are 1740-1795, but he had a son of the same name whose dates are 1778-1822. Dating the custard cup to c. 1780 it appears more likely that this belonged to James Boswell, the diarist, rather than his son. (1) £300 - £500

256* Buchanan (Robert Dunlop, 1822-1901). A manuscript têtebêche diary and cash book by a Glasgow commission merchant, 1849-1851, including material relating to Glasgow merchant and family networks; assurance, banking and accounting; Liverpool Custom House and cargo work; named vessels, steamers and maritime activity; Portsmouth, Spithead and naval dockyard visits; Australian colonial prospects, including South Australia and Port Phillip; international commercial enquiries including Smyrna, Pernambuco, New York and Baltic trade; Malvern hydropathic treatment; Queen Victoria’s Glasgow visit; a reference to the Duke of Wellington; Victorian culture, etc., etc., written in brown ink on ruled light blue paper, a total of 182 pp. journal and 58 pp. cashbook entries (inverted at rear) with blanks in between, contemporary calf with brass clasp (lacking key), gilt stamped ‘C.’ and ‘J.’ (‘Cashbook’ and ‘Journal’?) to covers, heavily rubbed, 8vo (20 x 13 cm) Robert Buchanan came from a Glasgow family and by the time of the 1851 census was recorded as a commission merchant, living at Blythswood Square. He later lived in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and then moved again to Australia, where he served as the founding London Manager of the Queensland National Bank, and was also a prominent early pastoralist at ‘Burnbank’, Victoria. Though not signed anywhere Buchanan’s authorship is conﬁrmed by what is known about him and this attribution matching with the diary and cashbook entries. Print-outs of more detailed researches concerning the contents of the diary are provided with the lot. (1) £300 - £400

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258 Burchard (Johann, circa 1450-1506), chronicler and papal Master of Ceremonies. Diario di Papa Alessandro VI di Roma, et altri Luoghi Istorico, scritti da Giovanni Brucardi Mro di Ceremonie, dal 1492 al 1505 (Diary of Pope Alexander VI of Rome, and other historical places, written by Giovanni Brucardi, master of ceremonies), 4 volumes, early 18th-century, approximately 870 numbered manuscript leaves in Latin, chronologically ordered, written to rectos and versos in a legible hand in black ink, each volume with an engraved title and a manuscript table of contents in Italian, several watermarks, including letters A B in a circle (similar to Heawood 2862-2863, on engraved titles), some light spotting and occasional minor toning, British School at Rome library stamp to titles, engraved bookplate of Cavaliere Conte Vincenzo Ranuzzi with manuscript number in black ink to front flyleaves, later ownership inscription to front flyleaves (‘Phillipps Ms 12575’ and ‘Phillipps Ms 12576’), front inner hinge of one volume partly split, untrimmed, contemporary red-tinted vellum, stitched as issued, with manuscript title to spines, two with old library paper labels with manuscript numbers ‘414’ and ‘416’ to upper boards, and later library small printed labels to foot of spines, spines faded, some soiling, one volume lightly scuffed, 4to (33 x 23.5 cm) Provenance: Cavaliere Conte Vincenzo Ranuzzi (1658-1726), Count of Bagni della Porretta. Then, Thomas Phillipps Manuscript Collection, 12575 and 12576. Finally, the Library of the British School, Rome. Early 18th-century manuscript copy of the celebrated Liber Notarum by Alsatian-born priest and chronicler Johann Burchard (known in Italian as Giovanni Brucardi). Burchard spent his entire career at the papal courts of Sixtus IV, Innocent VIII, Alexander VI, Pius III, and Julius II, serving as papal Master of Ceremonies, a position from which he was able to observe most of the important events of the period. The four volumes cover, respectively, Alexander VI’s pontificate from 1492 to 1496, 1497 to 1500, and 1495 to 1503, and the period from 1503 to 1505; the last volume also covers the brief pontificate of Pius III and the first two years of Julius II’s pontificate. These four volumes were part of the Phillipps collection of manuscripts. According to a loosely inserted manuscript note, three additional manuscript volumes of the diaries existed. £300 - £500 (4)

257* Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. Employé’s [sic] Ticket, Champs-de-Mars, Paris, 1905, printed employee’s ticket on grey-green card with rounded corners, numbered ‘173’ in brown ink and with ink name stamp of F.B. Hutchinson at foot, verso with recipient’s name in brown ink, ‘James Bass’ [an employee of the show], minor soiling and marks, 53 x 104 mm, together with two printed items, an Official-Route 5, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, Season 1906 leaflet, giving travel itinerary and mileages, 13.5 x 10 cm, and a printed Naval Signal, completed in pencil, 16 December 1918, bearing a message from Sgt. Cody [posthumous and seemingly unrelated], ‘Will you please supply 3 double rations for men on duty at River Station…’, some creasing and soiling, recipient’s name indistinct, 13.5 x 20 cm, the two items pasted together on card and loosely contained in a glazed wooden frame Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World was the travelling show founded by William ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody (1846-1917) in 1883, the show finishing due to bankruptcy in 1913. (3) £150 - £200

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260* Collette (Charles, 1842-1924). A collection of 47 drawings, 1868-1907, comprising 47 pen and ink drawings (11 with watercolour), showing various comical illustrations, all with titles, 11 with lines from ‘extract from a letter from Mary to a friend’ to lower margin (loosely contained in an envelope), 36 on paper laid onto leaves of an album along with a Theatre Royal programme advertising the return of Mr. Charles Collette for a limited number of nights on the 26th December 1883, a note written by Charles Collette stating that ‘These drawings appeared originally in 186869 in a now defunct weekly periodical ‘Judy’ and were drawn by Charles Collette...London’, an unsigned letter, dated August 8th 1899, an illustrated envelope addressed to Miss Collette signed by C. Collette Feb 13 1885, plus 15 watercolour illustrations by different artist’s, contemporary album, extremities rubbed, spine worn, 4to (an album)

£150 - £200

259* Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965). The head of Winston Churchill, c. 1960s, patinated spelter bust, unsigned, screw-mounted onto a two-tier hardwood base, bust 21 cm tall (1)

£300 - £500

261 Continental Philosophy. A collection of 4 manuscript notebooks, mostly on French philosophy, compiled by an unidentified writer, early 19th-century, approximately 560 manuscript leaves, written in French in a small but legible hand in black ink (a few sections written in a second hand), text structured as a numbered list, one volume with a table of contents and a dedication (‘A Melle Lydie’) to first leaf, approximately 20 pages of Alphabetic index at the rear of one volume, a few ink-stains and spotting, untrimmed, original paper wrappers, worn, with some loss to backstrips, boards frayed with some mostly closed tears, small 8vo (sheet size 16 x 10 cm) An early nineteenth-century collection of philosophical studies, comments, analyses, quotations, and aphorisms, written in French and Latin, mainly drawn from early modern and classical philosophers such as Michel de Montaigne, Claude Adrien Helvétius, Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Jean de La Bruyère, Voltaire, François de Mézeray, Abbé Raynal, Henri de Boullainvilliers, Plato, and Julius Caesar. One volume also contains a 16-leaf Tableau de la Suisse, with descriptions of the finances, administrative structure, and military history of the Swiss cantons. (4) £200 - £300

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262* County Donegal Railway Tickets. A well-ordered collection of approximately 700 mostly unissued CDRJC Edmondson railway tickets, 20th century, stations represented include Donegal, Ballyshannon, Stranorlar, Letterkenny, Raphoe, Convoy, Castlefinn, Killybegs, Inver, Dunkineely, Glenmaquin, Ballindrait, Clady, Cornagillagh, Laghey, Bruckless, Ardara Road, Killygordon and many others, plus larger destinations including Belfast, Dublin and Derry, ticket types include ordinary passenger tickets, child tickets, bicycle tickets, dog tickets, bus exchange tickets, platform tickets, etc., with first class, second class and third class examples, largely in fine condition, alphabetically arranged by station of origin in plastic sleeves in two modern ring binders The majority of these County Donegal Railway (CDR or CDRJC) tickets are unissued and would therefore suggest that they be surviving booking office stock saved when the network closed in 1960. (approx. 700) £700 - £1,000

263* Digby (John, 1580-1654), ﬁrst Earl of Bristol, diplomatist and statesman. ‘Reasons why the L[or]ds should not give waye to proceeding done by way of Indictm[en]t Ag[ains]t the E[arl] of Bristole, till the cause bee examined in the House of Peers and found to be, a consequence ﬁtt for such manner of proceedings’, 11 May 1626, manuscript in a secretary hand on laid paper, ending with ‘The Kings Speech in the Upp[e]r House of Par[liament], 11 May 1626, 3 pp., docketed: ‘Reasons why the Ea: of Bristoll should not bee proceeded against by the House of Comens’, browned and stained without loss of legibility, some marginal fraying with very slight loss, folio An account of the political machinations by King Charles I to secure the conviction of the Earl of Bristol, for offending him when he visited Spain in 1623. Digby as ambassador was in Madrid in a doomed attempt to persuade Philip IV to restore the Rhineland Palatinate. In the midst of these discussions Charles, Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Buckingham made a clandestine visit to Spain in order to secure the hand of the Infanta, Philip’s sister, and took over the negotiations for the restoration of the Palatinate. Digby offended Charles by accepting a rumour that he planned to convert to Catholicism in order to marry the Infanta. This document shows the stages by which Charles was to persecute Digby when he became king the following year, and Digby’s gentle but persistent resistance to his attacks from 1624 to 1626, with his insistence of a trial in parliament. (1) £150 - £200

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265* Duke of Wellington and his Officers. A collection of approximately 120 manuscript documents and autograph letters signed by Wellington’s officers and others, 1800 and later, including an autograph letter signed by Lord William Cavendish Bentinck addressed to J. D. Adams, referring to the Convention of Cintra, dated September 1808, two autograph letters signed by Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Arbuthnot dated 26 January and 14 February 1814, relating to payments and to horse riding, an autograph letter signed by William Carr Beresford, dated 22 July 1814, relating to events of the Peninsular War, a manuscript document signed by Lieutenant-Colonel John Cameron in Ghent, dated 23 May 1814, relating to a payment to Thomas Maxton of the 92nd Regiment, an autograph letter signed by Joseph Barr Crispin, dated 4 January 1811, addressed to Charles Stuart, British Ambassador in Portugal, relating to sending despatches to Cadiz, an autograph letter signed by Henry Walton Ellis to Charles Stuart, British Ambassador to Portugal, concerning the Portuguese servant Manuel da Cunha who had been arrested for the purpose of being sent to the army as a soldier, dated 2 July 1811, an official mail sent by Captain Muller relating to events of the Peninsular War, dated 27 June 1810, reporting that ‘Ciudad Rodrigo continues to hold out very bravely’, a pre-printed document completed in manuscript and countersigned by General Sir Henry Somerset in Cape Town, dated 28 December 1825, registering the sale of a slave named Daniel, a 31 years-old shoemaker from South Africa, and many others (approx. 120)

£600 - £800

264 Druggist’s Ledger. A large manuscript druggist’s accounts ledger, 1895-1900, unpaginated alphabetical thumb index at front, completed with hundreds of names of clients with brief addresses, mostly Bristol and the West Country, followed by approx. 1490 completed ruled pages with manuscript names of clients at head, and dates of purchase, quantities, listing a wide variety of pharmaceutical and other goods with prices, ‘paid’ and date details supplied in red ink, contemporary calf with ‘Ledger 5’ on spine label, somewhat worn, thick, narrow folio (39 x 16 cm) (1)

£100 - £150

266* Durrell (Gerald, 1925-1995). An original autograph cartoon (unsigned), with autograph caption, black felt tip on white paper, 21 x 29.5 cm, together with a group of 5 other signed cartoons, drawings and prints by Edgar Spenceley (1899-1974), a signed large cartoon in pencil, sheet size 40 x 26 cm; Matthew B. Hewerdine (1868-1909), Self-portrait in pencil on card, signed with initials, also signed in full below along with 15 other signatories (mostly unidentiﬁed), sheet size 36 x 24 cm; John Byam Shaw (1872-1919), ‘When Venus Blushed’, monochrome print, signed in pencil, 29 x 37 cm; Miles Birket-Foster (1825-1899), a print, showing a bucolic scene (no. 56), signed ‘Birket-Foster’, sheet size 27 x 22 cm; Alan Walter May (1853-1911), a small watercolour on an album leaf, signed in full and with initials, and also signed by the artist Alfred East, sheet size 9.5 x 15.5 cm (6)

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£150 - £200

268 Execution Broadside. John Bell, aged 14, Executed at Rochester, July 29, 1831, for the Wilful Murder of Richard Taylor, aged 13, printed by Spencer, St. Sidwell’s, Exeter, [1831], printed broadside on wove paper, with woodcut hanging scene at head, the main text headed, ‘The love of money is the root of all evil’, and continuing with details of the murder, John Bell’s accusing comments to his mother that she was to blame for neglecting to teach him the fear of God, and continuing in a moralising tone to warn parents from similar consequences, the text concluding, ‘Only think, dear Parents, what may be the dreadful consequences of your neglect. Look at the picture of poor John Bell and say from your heart – “Oh! Lord, give me grace to bring up my children in the fear of God!”’, singe ‘J. Ford’, lower right, 1 page, 4to (25 x 19 cm)

267* Edward VII (1841-1910), King of the United Kingdom, 1901-1910. The Boyhood of a Great King 1851-1858, by A[lexander] M[eyrick[ Broadley. Extra-Illustrated by the Addition of Many Contemporary Caricatures, Portraits and Views. Collected in the Years 1911, 1912 & 1913, by Alfred Brewis, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Volume I, c. 1913, photogravures and half-tone plates, handsomely extra-illustrated with over 100 additional illustrations, including caricatures (mostly John ‘HB’ Doyle), a few hand coloured, Vanity Fair Spy cartoons, plus views and portraits relating to the early years of King Edward VII and his ancestors, also a 2-page autograph letter signed from Prince Albert’s ofﬁcial biographer, Theodore Martin (1816-1909), plus two autograph letters signed from Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), 1824 and no date, 4 pp. & 3 pp., 8vo, plus another letter from Kensington Palace dated 1815, regarding Thomas Joseph Pettigrew and the Royal Humane Society, top edges gilt, remainder uncut, contemporary blue crushed half morocco gilt by Cedric Chivers of Bath, gilt-decorated spine with armorial inlay, spine and joints rubbed, folio (48 x 32 cm)

Provenance: Rev. James Ford (1797-1877), English cleric, author, and translator of Dante, canon of Exeter Cathedral, 1849-77. John Amy Bird Bell, a 14-year-old boy, was convicted of murder and publicly executed by hanging on 1 August 1831, outside Maidstone Prison in Kent, England. On 4 March 1831, John Bell and his 11-year-old brother, James, ambushed 13-year-old Richard Faulkner Taylor in Bridge Woods near Chatham and Rochester. John slashed Taylor’s throat with a knife to steal nine shillings (45 pence), a weekly parish poor relief allowance Taylor had collected for his disabled father. Taylor’s body was hidden in a ditch and was not discovered for more than two months. The murder weapon was eventually traced back to the Bell brothers. At the trial on 29 July, John’s younger brother James served as the principal witness for the prosecution. The jury found John guilty of willful murder almost immediately. Despite the jury’s plea for mercy due to his extreme youth and lack of education, the law at the time required swift capital punishment. John Bell was executed on a newly erected ‘New Drop’ scaffold in front of a crowd of over 5,000 onlookers. Following the execution, his body was delivered to surgeons in Rochester for dissection and anatomisation.

Alfred Brewis was a ship owner and avid book collector in Newcastle-uponTyne. Identiﬁed by Brewis on his bespoke title as Volume I, this volume contains the first four chapters of the original book, (published London & New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906), ending on p. 110. The original 1906 volume was 399 pp., and approximately 29 cm tall. This far larger extra-illustrated copy was grangerised by Brewis from number 8 of 125 copies on handmade paper. (1) £200 - £300

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John Bell remains noted in British legal history as the youngest person to be executed in the United Kingdom during the 19th century. No other copies of this broadside have been located. (1)

£300 - £500

271* Hampshire. A group of 35 vellum deeds, 19th century, all comprising two or more sheets, relating to property and land in Alverstoke, Blendworth, Buckland, Croxton, Eastney, Fratton, Gosport and Portsea (includes properties in Albion St, Amelia Row, Campbell Road, Cherry Garden Field, Diamond St, Godding Alley, Green Row, Lumps and Spring St), with signatures, seals, decorative initial words and a number incorporating location plans Includes a Declaration of Trust (1813) in respect of monies left in a will for the beneﬁt of the ministers and poor of Havant and Chichester, sale of lands (1821) by assignees of bankrupt bankers Godwin and Company, division of over 40 houses (1863) held as tenants in common between the surviving co-tenant and the widow and children of the other co-tenant, variation of the terms of the will of a deceased (1878) to provide a more equal distribution of the assets between his children, the mortgage of a slate factory, machinery and dwelling house and the sale of a capital messuage and lands known as ‘Blendworth Lodge’ by the trustees of the will of Sir William Knighton deceased to the trustees of the marriage settlement of Horatio Morant and Katherine Locke. (35) £200 - £300

269* Fleet Street Prison. A rare Day Rule Certificate, 13 May 1735, a pre-printed document on laid paper, from the Court of Common Pleas, with printed coat of arms to upper margin and decorative embellishment to left margin, completed in brown ink, granting William Genew, a debtor in Fleet Prison, a day pass ‘to go abroad to transact his affairs’, numbered ‘362’, boldly signed by court official ‘Townesend’ lower right, countersinged ‘Cotton’ lower left, some dust soiling and light creasing, 95 x 190 mm, old mounting remains to left margin verso William Genew (also spelled Vangenew) was a notable English esquire, landowner, and public official who held prominent local administrative positions in Surrey and Middlesex. Among his financial investments he was a listed shareholder in the Covent Garden Theatre during the 1733-1738 period. Fleet Prison was London’s most notorious prison for debtors and individuals embroiled in bankruptcy, equity, or contempt-of-court disputes. In 18thcentury England, it was common for even wealthy elite landowners and lawyers to be briefly detained there if they became trapped in protracted, bitter estate battles, high-stakes family litigation, or sudden liquidity crises. Because Genew was an influential esquire, he was granted a ‘day release’. This was a privilege heavily associated with Fleet Prison (known as ‘the Liberty of the Fleet’ or ‘Rules of the Fleet’), where affluent inmates could pay the prison warden a fee to be allowed outside the prison walls during the day to conduct business, legal affairs, or visit family, provided they returned at night. (1) £150 - £200

272* Hardman (Frederick 1914-1991), Conservative trade unionist, board member of Telford Development Corporation. An archive of personal papers, mostly c. 1970s/1980s, including a typed letter signed from Margaret Thatcher, 10 Downing Street letterhead, ‘Margaret’, 21 December 1981, a Christmas card signed from Denis and Margaret, in her hand, plus numerous letters on House of Commons stationery, from MPs including TLsS from Cecil Parkinson (3), Edward Heath, Norman Fowler, Chris Patten, William Whitelaw, and ALsS from Michael Howard and Geoffrey Howe; plus two folders of letters congratulating Sir Fred on his knighthood in 1982, and a folder of condolence letters sent to his wife Ennis when he died, a total of 300+ items, mainly letters, but including invitations and tickets to dinners and ofﬁcial functions, photographs and newspaper cuttings

270* Gloucestershire. A group of 30 vellum deeds, 18th century, relating to property and land in Alvington, Awre, Barton Regis, St Paul (Bristol), St Philip and St Jacob (Bristol), Dowdeswell, Dymock, St Mary le Crypt (Gloucester), St Mary de Lode (Gloucester), Mangotsﬁeld, Newent, Ruardean, Syde and Wootton, with seals and signatures Includes the lease for a year of land St Mary de Lode (1706) with signature of the Earl of Winchelsea, assignment (1736) of a mortgage term of 500 years on the Royal Oak Wootton, lease for a year (1767) of the Manor of Syde with extensive lands and the advowson of the parish church and the sale (1776) of a 1/8th interest in a messuage known as ‘Waterdines’, Newent. (30) £200 - £300

Fred Hardman served in the RAF from 1936 to 1946, rising to the rank of acting squadron leader. Much of his working life was spent as a senior executive for Rentokil. He began his political life as an election agent for Cannock, 1947-52. He stood unsuccessfully for parliament in four general elections - at Wolverhampton NE in 1955, at East Flint in 1959, 1964 and 1966. He was awarded an MBE for political and public service in 1972. He was chairman of the Conservative Trade Unionists 1977-80, and chaired the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool in 1981. A letter from the PM congratulating him ‘most warmly on the marvellous way in which you took the chair at our conference’ is included with the lot. He was knighted the following year. From 1980 he served on the board of Telford Development Corporation. He lived at Ironbridge, Shropshire, with his wife Ennis. (a carton) £150 - £200

273 Merleau-Ponty (Maurice, 1908-1961), French phenomenological philosopher. Humanisme et Terreur. Essai sur le Problème Communiste, Paris: Gallimard, [1947], paper somewhat toned and brittle, front free endpaper detached and chipped, title chipped with loss to blank outer margin, partly uncut and unopened, author’s signed presentation inscription in blue ink to half-title, ‘à Sonia [Brownell, later Orwell], en souvenir de ses trois voyages à Paris, pour en finir avec nos conversations politiques, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’ (‘to Sonia, in memory of her three trips to Paris, to put an end to our political conversations’), original printed wrappers, some dust soiling, spine slightly browned, partly split along joints, 8vo, together with: Merleau-Ponty (Maurice, 1908-1961), Autograph Postcard Signed, ‘M’, Belle Île, Samedi 4 Septembre, [1948?], to Sonia, in blue ink, written across the full-length of the message/address side of a black and white picture postcard showing sardine fishermen on the quayside at Quiberon, Merleau-Ponty reflecting on where he is, the common love of wine between fishermen and intellectuals, how life is good and that he is now living on Rue Jacob in Paris, asking her to visit and ending, ‘Veux tu croire que je serais à toi?, the two items housed together in a red cloth drop-over book box with gilt-titled spine, 8vo The postcard message translates as: ‘Dear Sonia, this isn’t a particularly beautiful place. It is simply a place where the air and the sea instil a certain composure and tranquility. I realize this way of life might seem rather alien—or even unappealing—to you. Yet, consider this: fishermen everywhere share something with intellectuals—an immense love of wine. Consequently, the island’s rhythm is geared toward wine; after a good day’s work on the boats, they settle in for the local coffee. In any case, everything is going well. I am back in Paris, on Rue Jacob. I am happy to be working again with a fresh mind, trying to balance the demands of work with a bit of the light heartedness I found here. Come visit. Can you believe I’ll be yours? M.’ Sonia Orwell [née Brownell] had a turbulent and deeply impactful love affair with the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the late 1940s. MerleauPonty broke off the relationship in late 1948, leaving Sonia devastated and heartbroken. Following the end of the affair, Sonia accepted a marriage proposal from the fatally ill George Orwell in 1949, partly hoping to care for him, though he passed away shortly afterwards, in January 1950. Maurice Merleau-Ponty lived at 20 Rue Jacob, Paris, from 1948 until his death in 1961, so this postcard must have been written in the autumn of 1948 when Merleau-Ponty clearly still believed that the relationship still had a future. (2) £500 - £800

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274* Middle East. Illustrated manuscript travel journal by Reverend John Stoughton, February-May 1865, 159 leaves numbered in pencil and chronologically ordered, many manuscript, written in a legible hand in black ink mostly to rectos, with numerous manuscript letters (on blue and white paper) in the same hand mounted to leaves, with 19 albumen prints mounted to card, including five large views of the Sphinx, Kom ala Osman, the tomb of Sultan Barkouk, the Citadelle of Cairo, and the interior of the mosque of Sultan Barkouk, signed in the negative W. Hammerschmidt (four of which with printed caption in French to card), a street view and a view of the Golden Gate signed in the negative Robertson & Beato, one view of the Wailing Place signed in the negative Robertson, and four albumen prints of paintings and sculptures, a few captioned in the negative, the smallest 14 x 11 cm, the largest 31.7 x 23.5 cm, three folding maps of the Holy Land, the Negeb, and Palestine mounted to leaves, a few documents tipped onto leaves, including an agreement written in Arabic between John Stoughton and the dragoman of the British Consulate in Cairo, sealed in Arabic by the dragoman and certified and stamped by the British Consulate in Cairo, dated 25 February 1865, a pre-printed passport for John Stoughton, completed in manuscript and dated 2 February 1865, inserted between two leaves, and a manuscript letter of recommendation signed by Foreign Secretary and former Prime Minister John Russell, dated February 2, 1865 and addressed to the British Consul in Egypt and Syria, for John Stoughton, Reverend Henry Allon, Reverend D. Spence, Reverend John Bright, and Stanley Welch, numerous wood-engravings, small engraved maps, one lithographic plate, and journal articles from contemporary periodicals such as the London Illustrated News, mounted to leaves (smallest approx. 7.5 x 14 cm, largest 38 x 26.5 cm), a few initial blanks and some blanks interleaved, a few leaves detached, minor marginal fading to a couple of albumen prints, minimal superficial marks to one or two albumen prints, minimal marginal worm damage to a couple of leaves (not affecting text), marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Michael Stoughton to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary quarter black morocco over brown boards, with ‘Tour in the East’ in gilt lettering to spine, extremities rubbed, some wear to spine ends, folio (44 x 28 cm) An interesting manuscript travel journal written and compiled by Reverend John Stoughton (1807-1897), the English Nonconformist minister and historian, who served as minister at Windsor from 1833 and at Kensington from 1843. In 1856, he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union. The journal records his travels in Egypt and the Holy Land in 1865, undertaken with fellow ministers including Henry Allon (1818-1892) and Donald Spence (1836-1917). The party reached Cairo via Malta in February, before travelling across the Sinai Desert and visiting Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Damascus. They then continued northwards via Beirut, eventually reaching Constantinople, from where they returned home. See also lot 285. (1)

£400 - £600

275* Documents, Scrap Books & Ephemera. An assorted collection of ephemera, mostly 19th & 20th century, including manuscript accounts and scrap books, some deeds and documents, autographs, etc. (3 cartons)

£300 - £500

278* Roger Casement Papers. Autograph Letter Signed, Foreign Office, [London], 25 January 1922, from Edward[?] Thomas, a civil servant, to [Thomas Benjamin] Ford, a Foreign Office Secretary, written at the behest of Mr. Robartes [Francis Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden, then First Secretary at the Foreign Office], stating that a paper is most urgently needed, the paper requested being Sir Roger Casement’s letter thanking for his knighthood in 1911, which was unlocated at the date of this letter, with a pencil reply note added at head of the letter indicating that the letter was answered the following day, written on embossed Foreign Office stationery, 2 pp., 8vo The letter reads: ‘Dear Mr. Ford, I am very sorry to have to write about work but Mr. Robartes told me to! A paper is very urgently needed – Sir Roger Casement’s letter thanking for his Knighthood in 1911. Miss Fulcher is away and Miss Smith and I have looked everywhere possible. Can you possibly throw any light on it. I wonder if you would let me know by return of post. In great haste, Yours sincerely Edward[?] V. Thomas’.

276* Nelson’s Navy. A multi-signed warrant, ‘Hood’, ‘A. Gardner’, ‘J. Smyth’ and ‘Charles Small Pybus’, Admiralty, 16 January 1793, being a printed document on vellum, appointing Lieutenant George Luke to be Second Lieutenant of His Majesty’s Ship La Nymphe, signed by Vice-Admiral Lord Hood, Captain Alan Gardner, (?)John Smith and Charles Small Pybus lower right, and (?) ‘Ph[ilip] Stephens’ lower left, papered Admiralty seal and duty stamp to left margin, slightly rubbed and dust soiled, 1 page, 28 x 32 cm, framed and glazed

In the autumn of 1921, the Irish Revolutionary and politician Michael Collins tried to ﬁnalise a treaty that would rescue Ireland from British rule. During this period, Collins forged important relationships with Winston Churchill and Lord Birkenhead, who was leading the prosecution case against Roger Casement for treason. As a result of Collins’s friendship with Lord Birkenhead, he was allowed to examine Roger Casement’s ‘Black Diaries’ in London on 6 February 1922.

HMS La Nymphe was a 32-gun ﬁfth-rate French frigate captured by the Royal Navy in 1780 that served with distinction during the French Revolutionary Wars.

The ‘Black Diaries’ are diaries purported to have been written by the Irish revolutionary Roger Casement, and contained accounts of homosexual liaisons with young men, mostly prostitutes. Casement was charged with treason following the Easter Rising. During his trial the prosecution (Lord Birkenhead) suggested to the defence barrister that they should jointly produce the diaries in evidence, as this would most likely cause the court to ﬁnd Casement ‘guilty but insane’, and save his life. Sullivan refused, and Casement was found guilty and condemned to death.

George Luke was on board La Nymphe, serving under Captain Edward Pellew (later Viscount Exmouth), when they captured the French frigate La Cléopâtre off Start Point on 18 June 1793. This marked the ﬁrst single-ship action capture of the French Revolutionary War. Luke himself appears to have been wounded whilst leading a division of the boarders. He was promoted to the rank of commander in 1791, and died in 1824. (1) £200 - £300

The British government then began to circulate copies of diary pages to block any appeals or requests for clemency, particularly from the US, that showed his ‘sexual degeneracy’. The effect of their circulation was to dissuade some would-be supporters from joining an appeal for clemency, and Casement was hanged on 3 August 1916.

277* Norfolk. A group of 30 vellum deeds, 18th and early 19th century, relating to property and land in Blownorton, Cromer als Shipden, East Harling, Felmingham, Garboldisham, Gimingham, Haddiscoe, Palling next the Sea, Salhouse Shipdham, Sidestrand, South Lopham, Upwell and Westﬁeld, with signatures and seals, the majority with decorative initial words, and ten consisting of more than one sheet

With regard to the diaries, Collins refused to discuss the issues with anyone except Tom Casement. According to Brian Inglis, Michael Collins had seen the diaries at the time of the negotiations which led up to the treaty of 1921. He had become convinced that they were genuine – a verdict which discouraged the First Free State Government, and it successors, from making formal representations.

Includes the feofment of a messuage known as ‘Bruskoos’ and lands, Haddiscoe held for the charitable beneﬁt of the parishioners of Haddiscoe with extensive details of the lands, the sale by the trustees of a will the widow and 13 children of the deceased being party to the agreement and other documents refer to a messuage ‘Wolwards’, Felmingham, a messuage ‘Jolley’, Garboldisham, a capital messuage Blownorton and the sale of a bankrupts land. (30) £200 - £300

Collins was shown two diaries in 1922 but he left no written comment about the experience. The widely believed claim is based on hearsay comments made many years later by Eamon Duggan who saw the diaries with Collins. In 1922, shortly after seeing the diaries, Collins told Gogarty and friends that he knew Birkenhead’s purpose in showing him the diaries was to persuade him of their authenticity. There is no evidence to show that Collins was duped by seeing them or that he authenticated them. Whether Michael Collins betrayed Casement’s notorious ‘Black Diaries’ to the British remains a contentious issue, this letter adding further intrigue to the story. A draft letter from Roger Casement to the Home Secretary, accepting the invitation to receive his knighthood, dated 3 July 1911, is held in the Roger Casement Papers at the National Library of Ireland: MS 13,080/6ii/3. (1) £200 - £300

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279* Scrap Albums. A group of 5 Victorian scrap albums, 1820s1870s, including a total of approximately 38 watercolours, including one heightened in gold and a few mounted, 6 mounted mezzotints, a couple of pen and ink drawings, approximately 24 pencil drawings, more than 40 mounted wood-engravings, stippleengravings, and lithographies (including one coloured), a couple of albumen prints, a few pressed botanical specimens including ferns and an edelweiss, and two loosely inserted watercolours on dried leaves depicting oriental ﬁgures, calligraphic inscription in red and black ink ‘Mary Tait Henderson from her Father, 21st March 1879’ to front ﬂyleaf of one album, one with a bookplate of T. Bailey, Nottingham to front pastedown, one with all-edges gilt, two in contemporary gilt-decorated morocco, the others in contemporary half morocco and calf over marbled boards, one lacking rear board with crudely repaired upper joint, mostly rubbed with some wear to extremities, 4to and 8vo (smallest 23.7 x 18.5 cm, largest 29 x 23.5 cm) (5)

£300 - £500

281 Slavery. Mr Dugdale and Negro Slavery. To the Electors of the Northern Division of the County of Warwick, Coleshill, December 14, 1832, a printed broadside with drop-title, correcting the misrepresentation of the views of William Stratford Dugdale, and clarifying his position, ‘I am a most decided enemy to the system of slavery, and would immediately support any measure for the emancipation of slaves, calculated to secure their happiness, and to ﬁt them by education and moral improvement for the full enjoyment of freedom’, with the printed name of the central committee chairman William Dilke and printed date at foot, a nearcontemporary copy letter concerning accounts of John Robinson of Birmingham written to verso and showing see-through to recto, a little dust-soiling, vertical crease, 4to (22.5 x 18.5 cm)

280* Slavery Receipt. Autograph manuscript slavery receipt, St. Augustine, [Spanish Florida], 2 September 1759, brown ink on laid paper, ’received from Mr Jeremiah Warren the Sum of Forty-one Pounds Sterling for a new Negroe Man in full of all Demands &c.’, signed by Richard Savery with signature of witness Wm. Johnson lower left, some even toning and dust soiling, two spots to left margin, verso blank, original fold lines, 90 x 185 mm A very rare pre-Revolutionary War colonial era slave receipt, made out just 4 years before Spain ofﬁcially ceded Florida to Great Britain in 1763. The use of the prestigious British pounds sterling for the transaction, rather than lesser value colonial pounds (or Spanish dollars), is uncommon, and the large sum of £41 then would equate to over £6,000 now. (1) £500 - £800

William Stratford Dugdale (1800-1871) was a British Tory (and later Conservative Party) politician. He entered the unreformed House of Commons at the 1830 general election as an MP for the borough of Shaftesbury in Dorset. At the 1832-33 election he was returned as a member of North Warwickshire, holding that seat until he retired at the 1847 election. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force in 1834, abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire. (1) £100 - £150

Lot 283 Dr Arthur Basil Noel Johnson (1861-1950) was a British musician and organist who spent 28 years (1886-1914) as the music master at Rugby School before serving as the Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College from 1914 to 1926. These diaries were written between 1929 and 1936, while Johnson was travelling as a representative of the Associated Board of the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, visiting music schools across the Empire to examine candidates in their annual practical examinations and to award prizes and certiﬁcates.

282* Somerset. A group of 30 vellum deeds, 18th century, relating to property and lands in Blagdon, Bridgwater, Combe St Nicholas, Glastonbury, Hillfarrance, Kingsbury Episcopi, Liddeard Episcopi, North Petherton, South Brewham, Trent, Wookey and Yeovil, with signatures, seals and decorative initial words Includes a number of documents relating to the White Hart, St Johns, Glastonbury, the sale and feofment of turbury lands, the sale (1703) of 2 acres of meadow Bridgwater for ‘four and thirty pounds and one broad piece of old gold’, the release of her title to her late husband’s lands by a widow in favour of her son, an arbitration award following a dispute between the executors and children of the deceased and the conveyance (on 6 sheets of vellum) of extensive properties and land in Blagdon. (30) £200 - £300

The diaries record cruises and travels in Canada (particularly Montreal, Napanee, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Jasper), Gibraltar, Alger, Marseille, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Pompei, Rome, South Africa (including Cape Town, Simonstown, De Aar, Upington, the Kalahari desert, Ventersburg, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg), Tenerife, northern Italy, the Dalmatian coast, Greece and its islands, Palma de Mallorca, and Ceylon (including Colombo, Kandy, Badulla, Batticaloa). The numerous original photographs chieﬂy depict fellow passengers on the cruises, as well as views of the countries visited and the indigenous peoples encountered. (6) £300 - £500

283* Travel Diaries. A collection of 6 typewritten and manuscript travel diaries by Dr Arthur Basil Noel Johnson, 3 May 1929-28 January 1936, approximately 760 pages chronologically ordered, mostly typewritten, one volume handwritten, all but one diary with handwritten index at front, with approximately 480 original gelatin silver prints, the smallest 8.5 x 5.5 cm and the largest 14.5 x 21 cm, plus numerous commercial photographs, real photograph postcards, and coloured postcards, six original watercolours (mostly by the author, including one by a Maltese local, all around 14 x 23 cm), and a few related travel ephemera, including newspaper cuttings and maps, all mounted to leaves, one diary signed by the author to front endpaper (‘Basil Johnson Wells’), a couple of leaves detached, a few photographs or postcards loose, small closed tears to one or two leaves, contemporary cloth in various hues, one in contemporary red leather, four with title label to upper boards, two crudely rebacked, a few soiled and lightly faded, one with some wear to joints, 4to (24 x 17 cm)

284* Trump Tower Penthouse. A strip of mirror ceiling coffer made for Donald Trump’s penthouse project in New York, 1987, brilliant cut with a leaf pattern cut into a strip of bevelled mirror, the angel gilding of 24 carat, clipped corners, strip size 77 x 15 cm, laid on a velvet baize and displayed in a deep-moulded gilt frame, 89 x 25 cm overall The commission for the mirror ceiling coffers in the penthouse project in Trump Towers, New York, was undertaken by a glass studio in California. This part of the commission totalled 800 linear feet of 15-cm wide mirror ceiling coffers. The project involved cutting over 12,000 leaves into the strips of bevelled mirror over an 8-month period, with a team of polishers working on the cutting and preparation for gilding. The gold is 24 carat and was deposited out of solution. Now known as angel gilding, the recipe was from a book by Bruno Schweig, A Guide to the Manufacture of Mirrors and Reﬂecting Surfaces, (Pelham Books, 1973). This is just one of three pieces that were surplus to requirement. (1) £300 - £500

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285* United States of America & Canada. Illustrated manuscript travel journal by Reverend John Stoughton, August-October 1873, 170 leaves numbered in pencil and chronologically ordered, many manuscript, written in a legible hand in black ink to rectos, with 10 albumen prints, mostly mounted to leaves and to cards, including a few original prints depicting Sleepy Hollow, the Niagara Falls and some views of Plymouth, Massachusetts (smallest 8.7 x 5.5 cm, largest 37.5 x 26 cm), a folding map of the Niagara Falls by J. H. Fairbank inserted between two leaves, a few chromolithographic views on the Niagara Falls published by Nelson & Son, numerous wood-engravings, maps, plans, and journal articles mostly from contemporary American periodicals and newspapers such as the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, The Philadelphia Press, and Harper’s Weekly, mounted to leaves (smallest 8 x 7.5 cm, largest 36.7 x 24.7 cm), with a few pamphlets and brochures (including the Ofﬁcial programme for the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance) collected by the author during his travels, mounted or inserted, a few minimal spots, a few albumen prints partly faded, minor marginal worm-holes to a couple of leaves (not affecting text), marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Michael Stoughton to front pastedown, top edge gilt, contemporary black half morocco over marbled boards, with ‘American Tour’ in gilt lettering to spine, upper board detached, rubbed at extremities, outer corners showing, minor wear to head of spine, folio (44.5 x 27.7 cm), together with an illuminated Address on vellum presented to Reverend Stoughton on the occasion of his retirement from the Pastorate of Kensington Chapel in 1875, with a few manuscript letters addressed to Stoughton and newspaper cuttings and articles, some mounted other loosely inserted, square folio (35.5 x 31 cm)

286* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). AngloIrish Field Marshal, British prime minister 1828-30, 1834. A collection of approximately 130 pamphlets, broadsides, prints, newspapers, and other printed ephemera relating to the Duke of Wellington, 1801 and later, a collection of approximately 130 pamphlets and other printed ephemera relating to the Duke of Wellington, the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, including a The Sun newspaper article dated 24 February 1801 with military intelligence from the Madras Gazette of 1800 regarding the Honourable Colonel Wellesley, an original issue of The Courrier dated 16 September 1807 reporting the success of Admiral Gamier and Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Wellesley at the battle of Copenhagen, a Parliamentary Act dated 21 March 1810 granting Viscount Wellington and his next two succeeding heirs an annuity of £2000 in consideration of his services, a printed leaf describing the Grand Mortar erected in St James’s Park in August 1817, presented to the Prince Regent by the Spanish Cortes to commemorate the raising of the siege of Cádiz in 1812 as a result of Wellington’s defeat of the French at Salamanca, a list of officers killed and wounded during the Campaign and Battle of Orthes (1427 February 1814), prepared by the Department of War and dated 20 March 1814, two Spooner’s Transformations lithographs related to Wellington (n.6-7), the London Gazette of 3 July 1815 with Wellington’s report of the officers killed in the Battle of Waterloo, a decree issued in Cologne and written in German inviting Prussian or Nassau troops who took part in the Battle of Waterloo to apply for gratuities awarded in the name of the Duke of Wellington, dated 29 January 1822, a broadside dated 15 November 1852 inviting the population of Exeter to participate to the funeral of Wellington, and numerous other leaflets relating to the funerals, plus a few musical scores and numerous lithographies and other prints, some in contemporary hand-colouring

Fascinating journal recording the travels in the United States and Canada of the Reverend John Stoughton (1807–1897), the English Nonconformist minister and historian, who served as minister at Windsor from 1833 and at Kensington from 1843. Travelling to New York to attend the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance (2–12 October 1873), Stoughton visited a remarkable number of places, including New York, Sleepy Hollow, Catskill, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Plymouth (Massachusetts), Germantown, Philadelphia, and Washington.

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The journal includes perceptive comments on historically signiﬁcant events that occurred either during Stoughton’s time in North America or shortly before his visit. He was in New York only a few days after the Panic of 1873, a severe international economic depression that began with the collapse of Jay Cooke & Company on 18 September 1873. He also witnessed the reconstruction of Boston less than a year after the Great Fire of 1872, which caused an estimated $73.5 million in damage. Stoughton paid particular attention to the impact of immigration on New York, recording that ‘as many as 30,000 [immigrants] from Great Britain & Ireland had arrived during the quarter ending in Sept.’ He concluded that ‘the enormous masses of emigrant life is showing equal difﬁculty which the Americans have to contend with, and stand much in the way of that civil and moral culture, which a homogeneous nation under the guidance of the best Americans would be likely to promote’. See also lot 274. (2)

£400 - £600

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287* Wellington (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 1769-1852). Anglo-Irish Field Marshal, British prime minister 1828-30, 1834. A collection of approximately 60 autograph letters signed, including five by Wellington and others by his Generals, 1780s and later, a collection of approximately 60 autograph letters signed and other manuscript ephemera, including an autograph letter signed by the Duke of Wellington at Cádiz, dated 1 January 1813, addressed to the Commander in Chief and enclosing a letter from Major General Cooke concerning Captain Langton’s application for promotion, a portion of an autograph letter signed by Wellington, dated 9 December 1812, transmitting the memorials of Lt. Latham of the Buffs, and Lt. Haddock of the 79th Regiment and the resignation of Lieutenant Hayden of the 20th regiment, an autograph letter signed by Arthur Wellesley and addressed to Captain Freese, relating to platform carts and to movement of troops to Bangalore, India, dated 23 November 1801, some closed tears where old folds cross, an autograph letter signed by Arthur Wellesley and addressed to Captain Freese, dated 10 January 1802, relating to the transfer of certain unspecified articles for the 77th Regiment from the Fort of St. George to Trichinopoly, India, with the author reporting ‘we get on well, but the weather is intolerably cold and I have not been very well for these two days past’, some closed tears where old folds cross, an early 19th-century pre-printed visiting card completed of the Duke of Wellington returning ‘thanks for the honor of Colonel Wilkes obliging enquiries’, a manuscript document dated 12 March 1815, indicating the location and strength of the Army located in London under the command of Lieutenant-General Henry William Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, a pre-printed warrant completed in manuscript and signed by Major General Sir James Lyon, to pay Brigadier Major William Schaumann the sum of fourteen pounds fourteen shillings and six pence, dated 26 February 1814, an autograph letter signed by George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie in Bordeuax, dated 25 March 1814, informing the duke of Buccleuch in Edinburgh of the latest military report and expressing his astonishment at the idleness of the British Navy, commenting there was ‘no appearance of our flag yet in the Gironde’, an autograph letter signed by Sir James MacDonnell, Lieutenant Colonel in the Coldstream Guards, dated 19 November 1814 and addressed to army agent Alexander Bruce, an autograph cheque signed by Anne Wellesley, Countess of Mornington and mother of Wellington, dated 1787, and other mostly manuscript ephemera relating to Wellington, the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo (approx. 60)

£600 - £800

288* WWII Evacuation Correspondence. A collection of approximately 100 items, 1939-40, mostly London and North Eastern Railway printed reports, memoranda and correspondence, relating to the evacuation of children from Newcastle and Gateshead to Askrigg area of Leyburn, North Yorkshire, including LNER special Train Arrangements with train timings, numbers of children planned from each school, and continuing correspondence relating to the placing of children, supply of rations, etc., some with pen or pencil additions, some duplicated copies, mostly disbound folio sheets, but including three stapled reports (approx. 100)

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Old Master & Modern Prints 11 NOVEMBER 2026

Otto Greiner (1869-1916). Gäa, 1912, etching on wove paper, signed and inscribed in pencil at bottom ‘O Gr. Roma 25.31.1912’, platemark size 41.5 x 35.5 cm, sheet size 55.5 x 40 cm Vogel 93 B XIX.

Estimate: £700-£1,000

For further information, please contact Oriol Ambrogio Gali: oriol@dominicwinter.co.uk