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Click here to subscribeField sports.- Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph) The Fowler in Ireland, half-title, frontispiece, illustrations, original cloth, spine gilt, rubbed, 1882 § Lacy (Capt.) The Modern Shooter Containing Practical Instructions and directions For Every Description of Inland and Coast shooting, engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title and illustrations, occasional spotting, 20th century half red calf, rubbed, 1852; and a small quantity of others, Field Sports and similar, including a short run of the Coursing Calendar, v.s. (Sm.Qty.)
Autograph album a finely bound small blue album with gilt name embossed to front. Over 80 entertainment, political and dignitary autographs on pages or small pieces fixed on to pages. Includes J B Priestley, Leslie Henson, Baron Cliffe, Sir John Simon, John Lavery, C R W Nevinson, William Le Queux, John Drinkwater, John Hassall, Ralph Lynn, Elizabeth Craig, Bobby Howe, Robert Donat, Marie Tempest, Eleanor Smith, Lillian Braithwaite, Sir Henry Hall with music score, Maurice Chevalier, Humbert Wolf, Norman Riley Raine, Cicely Courtneidge, Fay Compton, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Cobb X Shinn, Sir Kingsley Wood, Louis Golding, Lord Horder, Samuel Hoare, George Lansbury, Avril Symes Thompson, Ralph de Rohan Sir George Lawson. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
THE MACALLAN PRIVATE EYE MINIATURE bottled to commemorate 35 years of Private Eye, cask number 1580, bonded 1961 5cl/ 40% Note: Bottled to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the satirical UK magazine Private Eye in 1996. The label is based on a stencil produced by the famous cartoonist Ralph Steadman. One of the casks selected for this bottling by whisky maker Frank Newlands, was single cask #1580 distilled in 1961. Tasting notes: Malty and barley notes combine with dry oak wood. Hints of smoke and old books, whiffs of toffee and brown sugar. Oily, creamy, mellow, smooth oak wood, dark chocolate, espresso, dark fruits and a little nutty.
Late 18th century pearlware obelisk in the manner of Ralph Wood, the marbled column on square plinth base decorated with classical figures, some repairs, 40cm high.Condition report:Repaired column, chips to corners, small loss to leaves of applied figure. Very faint traces of gilding. As images.
*@Todd (Arthur Ralph Middleton, 1891-1966). Portrait of a lady, oil on wood panel, half-length portrait of a dark-haired lady seated, with left elbow resting on a ledge and cheek cradled by her left hand, 51 x 36cm (20 x 14ins), with label on verso 'From the Innes family archive. An original work by: Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd 1891 - 1966, from the sale at Barbara Kirk Auctions, Penzance, 21/10/2014', framed Mr. John Innes was the artist's great nephew; he presented an archive of ephemera, drawings, prints and photographs relating to Todd to the Royal Academy in 2004. (1)
A Staffordshire Ralph Wood pearlware group 'The Vicar and Moses', circa 1780, modelled as a sleeping vicar above a preaching clerk in a two tier pulpit, 24cm (9.5in) high; another similar with the title impressed to the pulpit (from the Evelyn Bowen collection); two others of a later date (4)
THEATRE: A good selection of vintage signed postcard photographs by various Edwardian stage actors including Lewis Waller (in costume as Robin Hood), Seymour Hicks, Eugene Stratton, Harry Lauder, Matheson Lang, Gus Elen, Gerald Lawrence, Farren Soutar, Fred Barnes, Robert Evett, Malcolm Scott, Walter Hampden (with a quotation in his hand), Clarence Blakiston, Harry Fragson, Lupino Lane (an early example signed 'Nipper Lupino Lane' and showing him in costume from The Babes in the Wood), William MacKintosh (in costume as Fagin), Maurice Farkoa, James Carew, Leslie Stiles, Mark Sheridan, Dan Rolyat, Harrison Brockbank, Gerald du Maurier, Ralph Roberts, George Fawcett, George Lashwood, Cyril Keightley, Wee Georgie Wood, Philip Tonge (early example), Harry Tate etc. Generally VG, 53
A Ralph Wood Toby jug c.1790, the foam of his ale spilling over the side of the rounded jug that rests on one knee, his long-stemmed clay pipe resting between his feet, wearing a brown coat over a blue waistcoat and breeches, raised on a chamfered green base, a small amount of restoration to his hat brim, 24.7cm.
Hardyng (John). [The Chronicle of Ihon Hardying in metre ... from the first begynnyng of Englande, unto Edwarde ye fourth ... with a continuacion of the storie in prose to this our tyme, now first emprinted, gathered out of diverse autors of substanciall credit, yt either in Latin orels in our mother toungue], 1st edition, [Richard Grafton, January 1543], 2 parts in 1 volume, text in black letter, woodcut cribl‚ initials, lacking **1-5 (including title page), a7-e4, g1-5, 2A1 (divisional title page) and 2S8-2V8, **1 (title page) and 2S8-2T1 supplied in 18th-century manuscript, occasional soiling and damp-staining, headlines and foliation often shaved, quires D-E with early marginalia and probably supplied from another copy, 2K7 lower outer corner restored, marginal repair to 2P3, bibliographical annotations and tipped catalogue descriptions to front front free endpaper and manuscript title page, 17th-century reversed calf, rebacked and recorned, gilt arms of Ralph Sheldon (1623-84) to sides, 8vo (18.6 x 11.8 cm) Provenance: binding with gilt arms of Ralph Sheldon (1623-1684), antiquary, collector and royalist, who 'created a fine library at Weston [his Warwickshire seat], catalogued by Anthony Wood' (ODNB); Sheldon's family were one of the wealthiest in the region but were restricted socially owing to their Catholicism. ESTC S103772; STC 12766.7; Hanham, 'The Two Editions of Grafton's Chronicle of John Harding', Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand III (1979) pp. 17-23 for the priority of this edition, First edition, with vertical chain-lines throughout, and leaf 2O4 beginning 'whiche' with lines 10-11 erroneously stating that Henry VII made 'Edwarde his eldest sonne duke of Buckingham'. In the second edition (STC 12767) the Continuation was revised, omitting most of the account of Henry VIII (quire 2V), which is also absent from some copies of the first issue. STC notes that the Harvard copy 'lacks Tt-Vv8 (last leaf of Hen. VII and all of Hen. VIII), and it is just possible that its text was originally abbreviated in a fashion similar to 12767', and that the Peterborough Cathedral copy 'also ends Ss8, completed by a few lines in MS'. (1)
Jacques Staunton pattern box wood and ebony chess set with weighted bases, Rooks stamped with crown, in mahogany box, the lid with label 'The London Advertiser Chess Problem Solution Journey, First Prize won by "Knox" with a clean score October 1896' with a Post Card congratulating Rev Geo. Knight (Knox) on his fine score inn the Competition, a letter dated May 1947 from Ralph B Knight to Mr Butler asking £3.00 for the chess set, a letter from Mr R Dolland to Mr D Butler thanking him for the information regarding Knox, and a Newspaper article, with 'The Philosophy of Chess' by William Cluley, a Chess Printing kit and small chess set Condition Report Some age related minor damages with all knights lacking finish, slight crack to black king, queen, rook, one pawn, one pawn & bishop with loss. Two black knights have loss of lacquer finish & one white knight is repaired at base. Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
A fine set of eight George III carved mahogany dining chairs in the manner of Robert Manwaring:, the backs with trellis work centred with quatrefoils in blind fret geometric surrounds, serpentine top rails with incised lattice and reeded pagoda crestings and cabochon rocaille ornament, the upholstered stuff over seats with blind fret seat rails and square chamfered legs, headed with pierced fret spandrels.*Provenance Kingsnympton Park, Devon.* Notes The present chairs closely relate to a design by Robert Manwaring illustrated in 'The Cabinet and Chair-Makers Real Friend and Companion,' 1765, pl. 13 and can also be compared with a design for a similar lattice-back chair illustrated by Thomas Chippendale in 'The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director', 1754, pl. XXII.* Notes Manwaring described himself as a cabinet-maker trading from the Haymarket, although no marked or documented furniture by him has yet come to light. Instead, he is best remembered for a series of publications in the 1760's of Rococo, Chinese and Gothic designs, from which the present chair is derived.'The Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion' gives advice on types of wood, painted finishes and even loose cushions, and indeed, Manwaring states that he has executed some of the designs for chairs, although these are not known to exist.Related examples include a set of chairs recorded in the Goldschmitt collection, illustrated in Ralph Edwards and Percy Macquoid 'The Dictionary of English Furniture' rev. ed., 3 vols, 1954, vol I, p. 286, fig. 192; a single chair illustrated in Francis Spar (ed.) 'Le Style Anglais' 1750 - 1850, 1959, p. 96, and an armchair now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Francis Lenygon 'Furniture in England from 1660 - 1760', 1914, p. 64, fig 92.* Notes A similar set of fourteen chairs was sold from the collection of Captain C W D Worthington, Kingston Russell House, Dorset, Christies, 24th September 1984.
Cook (Frederick A.). My Attainment of the Pole, being the Record of the Expedition that first reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909, 1st edition, New York: Polar Publishing Co., 1911, 32 photographic plates including frontispiece, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and marked, 4to, together with: Nourse (J. E.), Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall, 1st edition, Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1879, photogravure and heliotype plates, folding colour maps, numerous wood-engravings in the text, linen-backed folding colour map in end-pocket, light tonign to text-block, frontispiece offset, Olivet College library plate, manuscript shelf-mark to title page, front inner hinge repaired, original red pictorial cloth gilt, manuscript shelf-mark to spine, fraying to spine ends, slightly rubbed, sunned and marked overall, 4to; Peary (Robert E.), The North Pole, with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, 1st UK edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1910, 4 photogravure plates including frontispiece, numerous half-tone plates, endpapers spotted, ink-stamp of C. W. M. Swithinbank to front free endpaper, original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, extremities slightly rubbed and bumped but a bright copy, 4to; Tarr (Ralph Stockman, & Lawrence Martin), Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat Bay, Prince William Sound and Lower Cooper River Regions, 1st edition, Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1914, photographic frontispiece, text illustrations, 9 folding maps in end-pocket, light spotting to prelims, ownership ink-stamp to front free endpaper, original red cloth lettered in gilt, corners bumped, pale mottling to rear cover, 4to; Hayes (J. Gordon), Antarctica, a Treatise on the Southern Continent, 1st edition, 16 plates, 14 charts of which 4 folding in end-pocket, browning to endpapers, top edge gilt, original blue cloth, sunned and rubbed, 4to; Abruzzi (Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the), On the "Polar Star" in the Arctic Sea, translated by William Le Queux, 2 volumes, 1st edition in English, Hutchinson & Co., 1903, 16 photogravure plates, 2 folding panoramas, 6 colour maps of which 2 folding in end-pocket, light spotting and thumbing to plates, inner hinges cracked, original blue-green pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, small chip to foot of volume 2 spine, 4to; Peters (William J.), The Ziegler Polar Expedition 1903-1905. Scientific Results ... edited by John A. Fleming, 1st edition, Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1906, 2 colour maps, 13 tables and charts, 19 coloured lithographic plates of the aurora borealis, 3 further plates, lacking the 3 folding maps in the end pocket, original green cloth, rubbed and mottled, 4to Arctic Bibliography 3389 (Cook), 6486 (Nourse), 13230 (Peary), 17452 (Tarr), 10423 (Abruzzi), N/A. (7)
A 19th Century Staffordshire Parson in the Pulpit or the Vicar and Moses, after the original by Ralph Wood, height 25cm together with a Staffordshire George Whitfield type Nightwatchman jug, the seated figure holding a lantern, sat in a red chair on a painted marble base, height 24cm, S/D. (2)
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Small selection of signed clipped pieces, album page (1), signed postcard photographs (2) etc., by various British composers and conductors etc., comprising Ralph Vaughan Williams (pencil signature), Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, William Walton, Peter Maxwell Davies, John Eliot Gardiner and Henry Wood (A.L.S. explaining that his correspondent will have to wait until May ‘to play me your new work’ and hoping that she will understand the delay ‘when I direct about 150 concerts per season’, 15th October 1922). Generally VG to EX, 7
Seigel (Jules Paul, editor). Thomas Carlyle: The Critical Heritage, 1st edition, 1971, original cloth in slightly soiled and frayed dust jacket, together with Norton (Charles Eliot, editor), The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 2 volumes, 1883, portrait frontispiece to each volume, second frontispiece spotted and slightly soiled and detached, some old dampstaining to lower margins of second volume, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, china ink classification numbers at foot of spines, rubbed and soiled, plus Blum (Hans), De Deutsche Revolution 1848-49, Florence & Leipzig, 1898, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, tipped-in facsimiles, contemporary half morocco, heavily rubbed and some wear, frayed on joints, all 8vo, plus other mostly cloth-bound history and literature, etc. (6 shelves)
60s ARTISTS - EPs. Top collection of 38 x EPs. Artists/titles include Bob Dylan - S/T (EP 6051), Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely, Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser, Georgie Fame - Knock On Wood (EP 6363), P. J. Proby (REM 404), The Searchers, Brenda Lee (OE 9482), The Ventures, Manfred Mann (7EG 8908), Jacques Tati, Hendry Mancini, Adam Faith, Emile Ford, Keely Smith, The Bachelors, Ann Stephens, Ralph Reader, Shirley Abicair, Alan Price and Noel Harrison. Condition of the records are generally very clean Ex to Ex+ with the sleeves typically VG+.
A Staffordshire pearlware figure, circa 1820,'Charity', wearing black cloak, sheltering two children and holding a baby, unmarked, 18cm high,A Staffordshire pearlware group, 'Peter Restoring the Lame Man', early 19th century, attributed to the "Box Title Group" pot bank, titled, 18cm high(repairs and losses), A Staffordshire pearlware Tithe Pig group, circa 1760,probably made by Ralph Wood, unmarked, 17cm high(some damages)
Books - Art & Antiques - auction and gallery catalogues: Sotheby's:~ The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield Removed From Shirburn Castle, Part Eleven: English Books and Manuscripts, 13 March 2008, blue cloth, h/b; Sotheby & Co:~ Bibliotheca Philippica, New Series: Medieval Manuscripts, Part III, Catalogue of Forty-Two Manuscripts of the 7th to the 17th century, 28 November 1967, printed green boards, h/b; Christie's:~ The Badminton Cabinet, 5 July 1990, blue cloth, h/b, d/j; Richard Green:~ Annual Exhibition of British Landscape Paintings: 1980, floppy covers; Agnew's:~ British Art, 1900 - 1998, September - November 1998, floppy covers; Mackintosh (Sir Harold, Bt), Early English Figure Pottery: A Collection of Ralph Wood and Contemporary Pottery, With an Introduction by Lt.-Col. G.W. Horsfield, O.B.E., J.P., Chapman & Hall Ltd., London 1938, maroon cloth, h/b; Le Porcellane di Meissen, Maggio, Roma 1969; Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (Lord Ronald), Drawings of Gainsborough, George Newnes Limited, London [n.d.], printed boards as issued; Ball (Wilfred), Wet Watercolour; Art Deco: Designs and Costumes, (2); Glyndebourne programmes, 1977, 1978 and 2002, (3); qty
An unusual fine English turned and carved painted mid 18th century wooden doll, with face turned slightly to the right, dark inset glass eyes, unusually carved ears, the light lined eyebrows emphasised by a row of dots above, which also border the eye sockets, delicate profile and slight cleavage, the arms of stuffed cotton and painted wood, her light brown hair wig decorated with artificial flowers and net, wearing original eau de Nil blue silk sack back open robe “à la Française“ with matching petticoat and stomacher, the silk woven with a spot motif, the petticoat with horizontal pleated frilled bands, the open robe trimmed with padded rouleaux robings, the sleeves with triple ruffle cuffs, the stomacher and cuffs trimmed with silk blonde, a matching gathered choker, white linen corset with blue ribbon trim, a linen pocket, cotton shift, a short petticoat of woven diamond design, a short petticoat of linen with stitching simulating quilting and two further long petticoats of ribbed cotton, 1760s - 11½in. (29cm.) height of torso, possible original height - 18in. (45.5cm.) (missing legs and eight fingers, rub to nose, slight wear and silk perishing at hips); a child’s matching eau de Nil silk covered party mask with scalloped gathered top and an original note left by Mrs Frederica Capel-Cure née Cheney dated February 18th 1867, in which she leaves these dolls to her nephew Family history dictates that this group of dolls and textiles, lots 309 to 315, belonged to Isabella Byne, who was born in 1745 and died in 1797, aged 52. She married Ralph Carr in 1758, aged just 13. From research, it appears that Isabella had five children, including three girls: Isabella Carr, born in 1760, Annabella Carr, born in 1763 and Harriet Carr, born in 1771. Therefore it is most probable that the three dolls, dating from around 1760 and the 1780s, were purchased either for these girls or purchased and kept by Isabella as mementos of the girls. They have always passed down the female line, staying in the same family for the last 250 years: Isabelle Carr, née Byne. Harriet Cheney, née Carr – wife of General Cheney of Langley, Derbyshire and Badger, Shropshire. Frederica Capel-Cure, née Cheney - wife of George Capel-Cure. They have remained in the Capel-Cure family home, Blake Hall at Ongar in Essex, since the late 19th Century. Special Auction Services would like to thank Olivia Bristol and Patricia Frost for their kind assistance in cataloguing this collection.
A fine small English turned and carved painted 18th century wooden doll in full formal evening dress, with inset dark glass eyes, stitched brows and eye lashes, the arms of stuffed cotton and painted wood, the white painted legs jointed at the hip, with high-piled elaborately arranged wool wig with a striped silk gauze cap decorated with pearls, artificial flowers and silk ribbons, her cream silk brocade open robe with train woven with coloured flower sprays, cuffs matching her cap, the open robe and petticoat trimmed with rouched silk gauze, a brocade silk reticule hangs from her waist, a chatelaine containing an enamelled watch set at 3.30, a glass bell and watch key, two row pearl choker, her skirts supported by two wired hoops, short shift, linen petticoat, knitted silk stockings and brocade shoes - 13in. (33cm.) high (slight wear to face, fingers missing on left hand)Family history dictates that this group of dolls and textiles, lots 309 to 315, belonged to Isabella Byne, who was born in 1745 and died in 1797, aged 52. She married Ralph Carr in 1758, aged just 13. From research, it appears that Isabella had five children, including three girls: Isabella Carr, born in 1760, Annabella Carr, born in 1763 and Harriet Carr, born in 1771. Therefore it is most probable that the three dolls, dating from around 1760 and the 1780s, were purchased either for these girls or purchased and kept by Isabella as mementos of the girls. They have always passed down the female line, staying in the same family for the last 250 years: Isabelle Carr, née Byne. Harriet Cheney, née Carr – wife of General Cheney of Langley, Derbyshire and Badger, Shropshire. Frederica Capel-Cure, née Cheney - wife of George Capel-Cure. They have remained in the Capel-Cure family home, Blake Hall at Ongar in Essex, since the late 19th Century. Special Auction Services would like to thank Olivia Bristol and Patricia Frost for their kind assistance in cataloguing this collection.
A large English turned and carved painted 18th century wooden doll, with inset dark glass eyes, painted and stitched brows and eye lashes, bright pink cheeks, the arms of stuffed cotton and painted wood with elongated fingers, the white painted legs jointed at thigh and knee with carved calves, with high-piled dark brown stuffed wool wig elaborately arranged in curls falling to the shoulders, wearing original yellow striped silk open robe with train edged with puckered silk net and green silk petticoat trimmed with later cream silk bobbled braid and fine ruched net, the bodice over boned blue corset, striped silk muslin shawl, elaborate sash and cap trimmed with feathers, bows, gauze and fringing, a corsage of artificial flowers, ribbon at neck, a cotton shift, stiffened short petticoat, scalloped cut linen petticoat, knitted cotton stocking and flat heeled leather shoe - 24in. (61cm.) high (missing one lower leg, replaced chip to forehead, rubbed nose and lips, some varnish missing from forehead, missing tips of two fingers and some silk perishing)Family history dictates that this group of dolls and textiles, lots 309 to 315, belonged to Isabella Byne, who was born in 1745 and died in 1797, aged 52. She married Ralph Carr in 1758, aged just 13. From research, it appears that Isabella had five children, including three girls: Isabella Carr, born in 1760, Annabella Carr, born in 1763 and Harriet Carr, born in 1771. Therefore it is most probable that the three dolls, dating from around 1760 and the 1780s, were purchased either for these girls or purchased and kept by Isabella as mementos of the girls. They have always passed down the female line, staying in the same family for the last 250 years: Isabelle Carr, née Byne. Harriet Cheney, née Carr – wife of General Cheney of Langley, Derbyshire and Badger, Shropshire. Frederica Capel-Cure, née Cheney - wife of George Capel-Cure. They have remained in the Capel-Cure family home, Blake Hall at Ongar in Essex, since the late 19th Century. Special Auction Services would like to thank Olivia Bristol and Patricia Frost for their kind assistance in cataloguing this collection.