There are 16990 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe[Walpole, Sir Robert]. A Letter from a Member of Parliament to his Friends in the Country, concerning the Duties on Wine and Tobacco, 1733 8vo, red morocco-backed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; Some General Considerations concerning the Alteration and Improvement of Publick Revenues, 1733 8vo, half-title, marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt on upper cover; Food and Wine. Report from the committee on laws relating to the Manufacture, Sale and Assize of Bread, 1815 folio, contemporary limp leather; Reports relating to the entertainment of Her Majesty the Queen in the Guildhall of the City of London, 1838 folio, engraved illustrations, cloth-backed boards; 7 extracted Acts of Parliament relating to excise Duties on Coffee, 1808-14 4to, disbound; Act of Parliament for the better adjusting and more easy Recovery of the Wages of certain Servants, 4to, wrappers, 1747; and an extract 'De vino libellus' from Adrian Turnebi's Opera , folio, marbled boards (13)
An extensive Chinese porcelain part dinner service decorated with flowers and characters against a red ground, comprising; six graduated meat platters, dinner plates, side plates, dessert bowls, rice bowls, tea bowls and rice spoons, two serving spoon, six wine cups, six sauce bowls, five twin division bowls, teapot, pepperette and six small spoons.
Maple & Co, a Caucasian wool carpet, the wine red field enclosing a central medallion with pendant palmettes within shaped floral sprays and stepped spandrels, within stylised Herati guard stripes and border, bearing retailers label for Maple & Co., Oriental Carpets, London & Smyrna, 347 x 444cm
A pair of 19th Century Vienna porcelain two handled urn shaped vases and covers, both finely enamelled in colours with two oval vignettes of named classical scenes within tooled gilt borders, on wine and pink glazed ground boldly decorated with leaf scroll ornament, flambeau finials to lids and moulded handles, on square footrims, 10.25ins high (underglaze blue beehive pattern marks to bases, the vignettes named in red) £250-350
A large and comprehensive late 19th Century English table suite of drinking glasses to comprise 6 white wines, 6 red wines, 6 sherries and 6 liqueurs all with circular spread foot , baluster form stems and conical bowls together with 9 matched champagne bowls and 7 roemer style brandies, a large footed swollen ovoid water jug, two handled wine decanters with stoppers and a small spirit decanter. The suite all decorated with a hand enamelled initial letter “A” below coronet over the green tone ground. ILLUSTRATED
Tobacco and Wine. An Appeal to the Landholders concerning the Reasonableness and General Benefit of an Excise upon Tobacco and Wine 1733 8vo red morocco-backed cloth lettered in gilt; [Anonymous] A Dialogue between Sir Andrew Freeport and Timothy Squat on... the Duties of Wine and Tobacco 1733 8vo red morocco-backed cloth lettered in gilt; A Collection of all the Statutes now in Force relating to the Duties upon Salt 1760 12mo contemporary calf [not in Lowndes or Kress] neatly rebacked (3)
A Moorcroft red glazed vase, a small Moorcroft rectangular box and cover decorated with an anemone, a late 19th Century Continental porcelain vase decorated with a nest amidst flowers against a blue céleste ground, a pair of Devon Ware Fieldings vases with butterflies against silver birch trunks, another vase, a Cornish Ware blue banded jug, a faceted green glass scent bottle and stopper, a green and a cranberry wine glass.
A table service Venetian 20th century gilt ruby-red glass each bowl decorated with an elegant scene set upon a twisted knopped stem comprising: a footed bowl a jug a decanter and stopper twelve champagne flutes twelve red wine glasses and twelve white wine glasses (40) h. red wine glass 21cm W
A suite of glassware, 20th Century, with a band of hobnail decoration above arched facets and star cut bases, comprising eleven red wine glasses, six white wine glasses, nine small tumblers and three large tumblers, together with another part suite of glass, comprising six brandy glasses and seven beakers
An extensive Chinese porcelain part dinner service decorated with flowers and characters against a red ground, comprising; six graduated meat platters, dinner plates, side plates, dessert bowls, rice bowls, tea bowls and rice spoons, two serving spoon, six wine cups, six sauce bowls, five twin division bowls, teapot, pepperette and six small spoons.
A late 19th century Vienna mug painted by Schramm with Rinaldo u Armida looking at their reflection in a rock pool while Cupid looks on the wine red ground with gilt foliage bindenschild mark 10.5cm high Armida the enchantress had intended killing Rinaldo the knight of Jerusalem but ended up falling in love with him
Kirwan (A.V.). Host and Guest, A Book about Dinners, Wines and Desserts, pub. Bell & Daldy, 1864, inscribed "with the author's compliments" to half-title, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, together with Doran (Dr. John), Table Traits, with Something on Them, pub. Bentley, 1854, new endpapers, orig. cloth boards, rebacked, rubbed, edges worn, 8vo, plus Social Etiquette, the Art of Cookery and Hints on Carving, 4th Thousand, Houlston and Wright, 1860, title a little browned, upper hinge cracked, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. stained, 8vo, and Ricket (Edward), The Gentleman's Table Guide, and Table Companion to the Art of Dining and Drinking, with Table Habits and Curious Dishes of the Various Nations, with Practical Recipes for Wine Cups, American Drinks, Punches, Cordials , 3rd ed., Warne, 1873, frontis., title printed in red and black, illusts. to text, trade ads. at rear and to endpapers, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus three others, related (7)
MacCulloch (John). Remarks on the Art of Making Wine, with Suggestions for the Application of its Principles to the Improvement of Domestic Wines, 2nd ed., 1817, half-title, 19th c. half calf, extrems. rubbed, 12mo, together with Philips (John), Cider, Apoem in Two Books, with Notes Provincial, Historical, and Classical, by Charles Dunster, 1791, contemp. tree calf, red morocco label to spine, joints cracked, slim 8vo, with Clarke (Ebenezer), The Worship of Bacchus a Great Delusion, 2nd ed., 1877, wood eng. illusts., orig. cloth, slim 8vo (3)
*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book kept by Bridget Domvile, dated 1695, twenty-one leaves of medical receipts, including the distilling of treackle water, a water for the stone and gravell, to make wormwood water, a tobaco for rhume, for a sore breast, recipes for scurvy, for the obstruction of the lungs, a powder to prevent miscaring ('Take dragons blood 1 dram powder of red corall 1 dram ambergreene the weight of 2 barley cornes make this into a powder and in a littill claret wine '), for the dropsie, malencloly water, for the biteing of an adder, and sixteen further leaves of cookery receipts inverted at rear of the volume, including recipes for seede cake, sacke poset, sugar cakes, white marmalad of quince, jely of lupins, sasages without skinnes, a hagis pudinge, veale pye, sage wine good for the head, white meade, etc., old burn mark at upper margin throughout affecting some recipe titles and text, professional archival repairs throughout, contemp. limp vellum with owners name and date to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, folio An Accompanying research note indicates that the name Domvile is most closely associated with Loughlinstown and Loughlinstown House in Ireland at this time but that no Bridget had been found at the right date. The authoress acknowledges some of her sauces for the receipts, names including Lady Warwick, Lady Digby, Lady North, Dr. Bates, Mrs Mild, Lady Trevor and Lady Sidenham. (1)
A 19th Century French ebonised and red tortoise-shell boulle dwarf display cabinet, with gilt metal mounts and leaf mouldings, the front with panels of red tortoise-shell boulle of bold leaf scroll design, fitted one wine velour lined shelf enclosed by a single shaped glazed door, on shaped plinth, 33ins wide x 43.5ins high (some mounts and brass lifting in places)