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Click here to subscribeAn early 20thC table top wind-up concert hall gramophone, with travelling arm, mahogany framed with a baize covered turntable and massive brass horn speaker which has a freestanding iron support, the nickel plated needle housing marked Mettrope specially made for E.M.G., with original box, 16" square, the horn 47" long.
A George III silver four piece tea and coffee set George McHattie,Edinburgh,1814 compressed circular with gadroon borders, pots with foliate buttons and shell capped reeded handles, basin and jug with leaf capped handles, initialled JASC for James Cockburn and with the Cockburn family crest. 22cm. ; 8Nin. height of coffee pot 2100gr.; James Cockburn (1819-83) was one of the founding Fathers of the Confederation of Canada and Speaker of the House of Commons between 1867-73.
Dinky, a group of unboxed military and commercial vehicles to include 34c loud speaker van, brown, similar red van, 36g taxi with driver, black roof, green body, 34b Royal Mail van, 25h stream lined fire engine, 30e breakdown truck, 151b covered wagon, 152b reconnaissance car, 161b anti-aircraft gun on trailer, 153 military jeep, 162a light dragon tractor, lacking tracks, 162b ammunition trailer (12)
Great Britain ? Parliament. A Coppy of the Journal?Book of the House of Commons for the Sessions of Parliament begun at Westminster the 21. day of October, 1678 .., in which is contained the First Discovery of the Popish Plot by the King to the two Houses of Parliament. As also the Accusation and Impeachment of the Earl of Danby .., 2 parts in one, 1680, contemp. ownership signature of Richard Onslow at head of title, unobtrusive oval blind?stamp to lower margin of title, contemp. calf, rubbed, 8vo Richard Onslow, first Baron Onslow (1654-717), Speaker of the House of Commons, eldest son of Sir Arthur Onslow of West Clandon, Surrey. DNB. (1)
Pazos (Vicente) Letters on the United Provinces of South America, addressed to the Hon. Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the U.States, translated by Platt H.Cosby, lacking map, [Sabin 59341], New York and London, 1819; Strictures on a Voyage to South America, as indited by the "Secretary to the [late] mission" to La Plata...the revolution in Buenos Ayres, Chili..., [Sabin 7182 & 92836], Baltimore, 1820, together 2 vol. in 1, presentation copy from the author to Sir Woodbine Parish with Parish's signature at head of title of the first work and long note in his hand on front free endpaper and his bookplate, foxed, extract from 'The Edinburgh Review' tipped in at beginning, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed, joints split, section at foot of spine detached, 8vo. Sir Woodbine Parish notes," this book has become so scarce that Don V.Pazos tells me he has himself tried in vain for years past to obtain a copy either in N.America or England for his own use. It is one of the best works, if not the best, upon the events of the Revolution of which it gives an account." He claims (presumably correctly) that Pazos was the author of the second work, on Brackenridge's Voyage... , Sabin mistakenly attributes it to Baptis Irvine.
A Jones & Son pottery pedestal dish of oval form printed in blue with 'The Death of Lord Nelson', the exterior with 'Charles I ordering the Speaker to Give up the Five Members' within a border alternating with flowers and trophies, from the British History Series, 29cm. long, printed cartouche mark, circa 1828, rim chip.
Davies (Sir John). Historical Tracts: by Sir John Davies, Attorney General, and Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland..., to which is Prefixed a New Life of the Author, from Authentic Documents, Pub. Dublin, 1787, ownership address label slip pasted to title, contemp. calf, rebacked, retaining orig. morocco title label, 8vo (1)
BURNET, GILBERT, Bp. History of His Own Time: With Notes by the Earls of Dartmouth and Hardwicke, Speaker Onslow, and Dean Swift. Second Edition Enlarged. 6 vols., Oxford, 1833. 8vo., cont. calf gilt, spines gilt with brown and blue labels. Bookplates of George Becher Blomfield. With four other volumes. (10)
A bound volume of manuscripts, of Poetical Verses and Ballads, [n.p.], ca. 18th century, tall 4o (205 x 220mm.), individual manuscripts pasted down onto separate sheet leaves, manuscripts in a variety of anonymous hands, modern half calf gilt, armorial bookplate of Baronis de Braye, manuscripts are as follows: 1) The Merchants a-la-mode - to the June of the Com's & Peers - Political Ballad ) The Parson of Walton le Dale - Ballad (Abbot of Canterbury) ) Pasquin to the Queens theatre at St Pauls during the Procession - Jan 20 1714 ) Upon death of the Rev Mr Modd Vice-master of Trinity College Cambridge 1722 ) On the Death of M ) On Occasional Conformity ) The honor of Self-consistency displayed to the Right Hon. William Bromley - Speaker of the House of Commons ) A letter from the Maypole in the Strand to the Maypole at Farnham..... - March 6 1715/6 ) In Carolum Martysom - Jan 30 1730 0) The Church in no Danger 1) The Welsh Elections are not yet made 2) Memorico Ecclesice Anglicance - Jan 10 1718 3) A copy of verses laid under the Queens toilet 4) The immortality of the Soul 5) The immortality of the Soul 6) Jerroe Tilius's Speech at Cambridge 7) The Golden age revers'd 8) A Ballad only French Kings Marriage 9) Royal Mercy to The Queen - 1708 0) In Laudem Musices Carmen Sapphicum 1) On a Certain Knights Appearing on a rare occasion 2) A Ballad on the Oxfordshire Election 3) Coffee House 4) The Triples Alliance 5) In Ecclesice Anglicance - 1705 6) The British Ambassadors Speech to the French King 7) The British Ambassadors Speech to the French King 8) A Pastoral any pleasures 9) An Epitaph upon the death of the noble and famous knight- December 1594
ENFIELD (WILLIAM) THE SPEAKER: OR, MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, SELECTED FROM THE BEST ENGLISH WRITERS,...WITH A VIEW TO FACILITATE THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH IN READING AND SPEAKING, 4 engraved plates, the last engraved by William Blake, contemporary tree calf, 1781 ~ Fuller (Thomas) Introductio ad Prudentiam; or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions tending to prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life, 2 parts in 1, third edition, contemporary calf, rather worn, 1731 ~ Spartan Manual (The), or Tablet of Morality, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt and worn at head and foot, 1785 ~ Blair (Hugh) Essays on Rhetoric..., engraved bookplate, contemporary tree calf, Tewkesbury, 1801 ~ Bland (Robert) Proverbs, chiefly taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, 2 vol. in 1, original cloth, recorned, rebacked and recased, new endpapers, 1814, rubbed, 8vo (5).
Walpole, Horatio, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton (1678-1757) Younger brother of Sir Robert Walpole. During the years covered by this correspondence, Walpole served as Minister at the Hague, Secretary to the Treasury, Surveyor and Auditor General of the Revenue in America, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. A collection of 72 letters including some enclosures to Horatio Wapole on political and diplomatic affairs, 1714-57. His correspondents send news from Europe and the American colonies, write about domestic affairs and intrigues at court, discuss Irish Woollen manufacture and smuggling, and request patronage. Included are letters from: Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House. George Clarke (1676-1760), Secretary of the Province of New York and later Acting Governor. A 6pp. folio signed letter about copper mines in the Province of New York and the granting of land patents in America; and a 7pp. folio signed letter relating to the Territory of Crown Point and the French building of a fort on disputed land before his Governorship began. John Blair, Acting Governor of Virginia, a letter from Williamsburgh 1734. Sir Thomas Robinson, ambassador at Vienna from 1730-1748. Several including a letter from Castle Howard on the Queen's death. William Barbutt. 9 letters (with enclosures) between 1736 and 1744 from the Hague, Copenhagen, Paris and London with foreign news and domestic intrigue. Louis Renard, bookseller and spy, 5 letters between 1736 and 1737, several in French. Rev. Henry Etough, Rector of Therfield nr Royston, Herts, and chaplain to Sir Robert Walpole. Together with a letter from Walpole to Etough. Sir John Gordon. Lord Carlisle on Lady Irwin's Pamphlet of 1734, from Castle Howard. George Sackville. On 'the running of wool from the western coast of Ireland', 1754. John Drummond (1676-1742), 6 letters from Holland about trade negotiations with the Emperor and the States General. Thomas Townshend, secretary to the Lord Lt of Ireland, about Irish Woollen manufacture, in 1739, writing with 'a Proposal to Prevent the Running of Wool from Ireland'. James Douglas, Earl of Morton. Letters (1756) on the state of affairs and defences in Edinburgh and on the conduct and fate of Admiral Byng. Bishop of Salisbury, 1743. A printed pamphlet 'Proceedings of the Court-Martial on Captain Watts' 1745
[Goldsmith (Oliver)] An History of England, in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son, 2 vol., 1790 ~ Ramsay (Allan) Poems, 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, vol.2 title repaired, 1761-51 ~ Smollett (Tobias) The Adventures of Roderick Random, 2 vol., engraved frontispieces, 1766 ~ Lewis (Edward) The Patriot King Displayed, some spotting, 1769 ~ Garth (Sir Samuel) The Dispensary. A Poem, engraved plates, 1768 ~ Enfield (William) The Speaker, 1780, all bound in contemporary calf or sheep, all with gilt spines, most with red morocco label, generally fine condition, 8vo and 12mo (9). (See Lot 94 for Illustration).
AUTOGRAPHS - a collection of 62 autographed photographs of various politicians, some with accompanying letters including a young looking Tony Blair, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, David Steel, Betty Boothroyd as Speaker, Michael Foot, Edwina Currie, Tim Devlin and others contained in a modern album c.1995.