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Click here to subscribeDe Loges (Dr. Chretien) Essais Historiques sur le Mont St. Bernard, some light browning and foxing, library stamps, contemporary calf-backed boards, (Montpellier), 1789 ~ Zurcher (Frederic) and elie Margolle. Ascensions Celebres aux Plus Hautes Montagnes du Globe, plates, a little light spotting, modern cloth with original printed wrappers bound in, Paris, 1867 ~ Ceresole (Alfred) Zermatt et ses Environs, plates and maps, some folding, original pictorial cloth, Zurich, n.d. ~ Gallais (M. le) Chroniques du Mont Saint-Bernard, frontispiece, some light foxing, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, gilt, g.e., Tours, 1872; and c.38 others, Peaks, 8vo & 4to (c.42).
Set of four Derby bisque figures c.1770 representing the four quarters of the globe, Africa modeled with a lion and an elephants mask as a hat, Asia modeled with a camel, Europe modeled with the spoils of war, Americas modeled with a crocodile and an quiver of arrows, (some restoration and small losses) (4).
Kingsley, Charles & Warwick Globe (illustrator), The Water-Babies, London, MacMillan & Co., 1909, 4o, coloured frontispiece and 31 plates, original pictorial vellum gilt, dust-jacket, One of 260 Edition de Luxe copies. With 15 other works including Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'The Sensitive Plant' ( London, n.d.) illustrated by Charles Robinson, and Sitwell's 'German Baroque Art' (London, 1927) signed by the author.
A Mid 18th Century Oak Long Case Clock with thirty hour movement, the square brass dial with rococo spandrels, the silvered chapter ring with roman hour and large arabic minute numerals inscribed "William Bilbie Chewstoke", the matt centre with calender aperture engraved with rose and star motifs, the hood with blind fret friezes surmounted by three brass globe finials, the trunk having a long rectangular door inlaid with star motifs, the short trunk with half star, on tall bracket feet.
A Set of Eleven Wilkinson Toby Jugs of Allied War Leaders 1915-1919, designed by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925) and issued during and immediately after the First World War, comprising: Rt Hon. David Lloyd George (1915), holding a shell inscribed 'Shell Out'; Admiral Jellicoe (1915), holding a jug inscribed 'Hell Fire Jack'; Lord French (1915), clutching a foaming jug inscribed 'French Pour les Francais'; Field-Marshall Sir Douglas Haig (1917), seated on a Mark IV Tank; Admiral Beatty (1917), holding a shell inscribed 'Dread Nought'; President Woodrow Wilson (1918), wearing an Indian chief's headdress; Marshall Foch (1918), with foaming champagne bottle; General Botha (1918), with jug captioned 'Loyalty'; Earl Kitchener (1915), with jug inscribed 'Bitter for Kaiser'; Field Marshall Joffre (1918), with a 75mm shell cantingly inscribed 'Ce que j'offre'; King George V (1919), seated with a globe in his lap; all with facsimile Carruthers Gould signature and Soane & Smith backstamp, 24.2cm to 31cm.
SEALED SHAFT & GLOBE. 6.75 ins tall, small split size shaft & globe, mid olive green glass, circa 1670-1680, long tapering neck with remains of applied string rim, pontil scar to base, pictorial seal with three masted sailing ship with the letters 'AGE', above body crack to base & around seal. Despite the damage this is an ultra rare early bottle, with superb pictorial seal.
Gore (H., Teacher of the Mathematicks in Manchester) Some General Phaenomena of a great Solar Eclipse May 11th 1724. Shewing what Latitude & Longtidude from London ye Centre of Darkness will pass over, at certain times at London and what parts of the Globe answer thereto, engraved chart by Emanuel Bowen, 335 x 210mm., with 6 circular diagrams, two larger showing the eclipse at London at various times, the four smaller at Quebec, Boston, Jamestown and Bermuda, faint folds but a very good example with wide margins, 1724 ~ Browne (Robert) A Projection of the Passage of the Moon over the Sun ... as it will be seen at London in the Total Eclipse of ye Sun on ye 11th day of May 1724; A Description of the Passage of the Shadow of Total Darkness over the Earth ... , two-part engraved chart with diagrams and explanatory text, 345 x 370mm., minor defects in margins but a good example, 1724. (2).
A Georgian Oak Eight Day Longcase Clock. The 12 inch brass arched dial having a silvered chapter ring with subsidiary seconds ring and calendar aperture incorporated into the matted centre. The arched top centred by a convex silvered plaque inscribed Laurence Nutter Ramsey, and flanked by scrolling dolphin mounts with ornate spandrels to the corners and engraved bands of imbricated leaved to the borders. The pagoda hood surmounted by globe finials, with fluted integral columns flanking the hood door. The long dome topped trunk door edged in moulding. Standing 94 ins (239 cms) overall in height on a moulded base with bracket feet.
Turner (Richard) A View of the Earth: Being a short, but comprehensive System of Modern Geography, second edition, 6 engraved maps (including twin-hemisphere world map), plate of a globe, engraved illustrations in text including one of a Geographical Clock with volvelle intact, 3pp. advertisements at end, contemporary sprinkled calf, joints cracked, slightly rubbed and with stain to upper cover, [ESTC 010694], folio, for S.Crowder ... and S.Gamidge, 1766.
Ireland.- Berry (William) The Province of Leinster Surveyed by Sr.William Petty. Divided into its Counties and the Counties into their severall Barronies, Wherein are distinguished the Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Places that return Parliament Men, also the Roads and Bridges, engraved map in original outline hand-colouring, 440 x 560mm., light spotting, slight wear along old centre crease, a few repaired tears at edges, one extending just into engraved surface at top right, backed with fine tissue, William Berry at the Sign of the Globe, c.1689. *** Rare; the scale is 8 miles to 1 inch.
"The Empire Clock" - a brass framed desk timepiece by S.Smith & Son Ltd, London, in the form of a 7.5ins diameter papier-mache globe with printed gauze showing map of the world and the British Empire, supported in brass cradle with flanged rim engraved with hours and quarters, on turned and leaf capped centre column and circular base, containing French eight-day movement with lever platform escapement, 15.75ins high
Ch. Kapp, Nuremburg - a 19th century child's puzzle globe, 'La Terre', the surface applied with coloured paper gores on wood, the interior with scenes and maps of the continents, L'Afrique, L'Asia, L'Amerique, L'Europe and Oceanie, on an ebonised base; carved wood box with instructions and label 'Etudes Geographiques', 5.5in diam
[Gautron de Robien (C.-F.)] Nouvelles Ide'es sur la Formation des Fossiles, engraved plate, original yellow wrappers, uncut, worn, spine defective, Paris, 1751 ~ Millin (Aubin-Louis) Mineralogie Homerique ..., modern cloth-backed boards, Paris & Strasbourg, 1790 ~ Werner (A.G.) Nouvelle Theorie de la Formation des Filons, half-title, old boards, Paris, 1802 ~ Deluc (J.A.) Traite elementaire de Geologie, half-title, title water-stained, contemporary calf-backed boards, paris, 1810 ~ Breislak (S.) Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, ou institutions geologiques, 3 vol., contemporary morocco-backed boards, Milan, 1822, some spotting, rubbed; and c.35 others, geology, mineralogy, palaeontology etc., most French, 8vo & 4to (c.40).
Hedelin (Francois) Des Satyres, Brutes, Monstres et Demons, first edition, some browning and spotting, large bookplate of E. Massicot, 'Globe Trotter, Bibliomane', Paris, Nicholas Buon, 1627 ~ Sacy (Louis de) Traite de la Gloire, first edition, note on title, bookplate of Leon Duchesne de la Sicotiere, Paris, Pierre Huet, 1715 ~ Grotius (Hugo) Traite de la Verite de la Religion Chretienne, some spotting and marking, Paris, Ph. N. Lottin & P. G. Le Mercier, 1724 ~ Charte-Livry (Abbe de) Dialogues Critiques et Philosophiques, name obliterated from title, Amsterdam, Jean Fred. Bernard, 1730 ~ Boullainvilliers (Comte de) Essais sur la Noblesse de France, Amsterdam, 1732, eighteenth-century speckled calf, spines gilt, 8vo (5).
Rome de l'Isle (M. de) L'Action du Feu Central demontree nulle a la surface du globe, second edition, disbound, Stockholm, 1781 ~ [Le Semelier (M.)] Lettre ...sur la Chaleur du Globe, disbound, Amsterdam, 1780 ~ de laizer (Louis) Lettre a M. le Professeur Jurine ...sur le Puy Chopine, original wrappers, spine torn, Clermont, 1808 ~ Izarn (J.) Des Pierres tombees du ciel, ou Lithologie atmospherique, contemporary calf-backed boards,Paris, 1803, some spotting and browning, rubbed; and c.45 others, physical geography, weather, volcanoes, rivers etc., mostly French, 8vo & 4to (c.50).