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Click here to subscribeA Victorian Figured Walnut and Inlaid Work and Games Table, the shaped rectangular swivel top enclosing boards for chess, backgammon and cribbage, over a fitted frieze drawer and work bag below, raised on turned end pillars joined by a turned stretcher and on carved cabriole legs with castors, 74cm by 64cm by 41cm
Recipe Book, manuscript in three hands, 96 recipes and a bill of fare on 47pp., excluding blanks, ink ownership inscriptions: "Eleanor Poole her Book 1733" & "Joh. Cobb 1735", original vellum, bowed, lightly soiled, small 4to, 1733-[c. 1760] ***The majority of the recipes date from the 1730s and include: "To pickell oysters"; "To rost a pike"; "To make Scochs Collops"; "To Make Rasprey Cream"; "To make pease Soop"; "A florenden of oranges and apples" ; "To make chess cake"; "To Make Marmalet of Oranges"; "An Oxford Pudding"; "For the Scurvy"; "To make Elder Wine"; "Mahogany to Colour" etc. The bill of fare is titled: "An Anigmatical Bill of Fare" and includes: "Mellancholly Soop... The Divine part of a Man boiled... The first Temptation in a small Blast of Wind" etc.
A Regency mahogany sofa table with a pair of 'D'-shaped flaps to each end, with sliding centre section revealing a chess board and backgammon board, fitted two short and false drawers to the frieze, decorated with inlaid brass stringing, raised on a central column with quatreform base and splay scrolling legs terminating in castors (the top badly sun faded and water damaged), 24.5 in. x 44in. x 28.5 in. high.
[Penn (Richard)] Maxims and Hints for an Angler, and Miseries of Fishing ... to Which are Added Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player, first edition, [iv], 59pp., 12 mounted lithographed plates on India paper, contemporary half calf by Bayntun, gilt, t.e.g., rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.168], 8vo, John Murray, 1833.
Penn (Richard) Maxims and Hints for an Angler; and Miseries of Fishing. To Which are Added Maxims and Hints for a Chess Player, iv, 79pp., [1p.], second edition, 16 engraved plates, 1p. advertisements, light foxing, mainly to plates, bookplates of Henry Andrews Ingraham, original cloth, gilt, spine a little faded and with head and foot slightly rubbed, [Westwood & Satchell p.168], 8vo, John Murray, 1839.
An Unusual Caneware and White Stoneware Part Chess Set, the caneware examples comprising a knight as an English cavalryman on horseback of the Peninsular War period, and three pawns as standing infantrymen, the white pieces comprising two bishops and queen in royal robes, probably second quarter of 19th century, {the tallest 7cm} (several with slight chips).
A Very Rare Chinese Armorial Ivory Chess Set, first half of 19th Century, pawns and pieces all standing on a pierced ball sphere over a wave-carved flat base: the oriental set stained red with pagoda castles, the white set carved as European King and Queen, each hexagonal castle inlaid with a mother-of-pearl tablet incised with an armorial shield, {7cm to 14cm} {crest a dagger upright; shield argent, anchor with snake, below a fess with central mullet between two crescents dexter in small canto, a hand/gauntlet} (repairs).
A VICTORIAN WALNUT GAMES.WORK TABLE of oblong form, the moulded edged top with inlaid chess board flanked on either side by scrolling foliate marquetry, scroll edge frieze, (basket missing), twin wrythen turned legs on trestle supports joined by a pole stretcher, scrolled feet and castors, stamped Johnson & Jeaves, New Bond St, London, 24" wide.