watercolour on paper, signed, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 37cm x 54cm, overall size 48cm x 65cm Exhibition label verso: Earl Haig - New Paintings 10 July - 7 August 1993, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh Comment: a spectacular and large example with prestigious documented exhibition provenance. Note: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.
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Pair: Sub-Inspector D. D. Roper-Marshall, Bristol Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Sub-Inspr. Douglas D. Roper-Marshall) with a photographic image of recipient, good very fine One: attributed to Nancy Roper-Marshall, ARP Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, very fine Pair: S. Burt, Penrith Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sydney Burt) generally very fine or better Pair: F. Bomford, East Retford Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Frank Bomford) generally good very fine Pair: C. A. Compton, Evesham Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Claude A. Compton) generally very fine or better Pair: F. Miller, Special Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Fred Miller) generally good very fine Pair: Lieutenant P. G. Mountford, 5/7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (T.A.) and Bournemouth Constabulary Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, 1 clasp, Long Service, 1944 (Philip G. Mountford) generally very fine or better One: attributed to William Smith Batesman, Kilmarnock Burgh Police Defence Medal, unnamed as issued, with several photographic images of recipient and family, generally good very fine (14) £140-£180 --- Douglas Duff Roper-Marshal was born in Hanwell, Middlesex in October 1899, and was employed as a Manager of a Goldsmiths in Hatton Garden, 1916-1917. He enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in November 1917, and served at home. Roper-Marshal was declared bankrupt in 1937, with his business in London folding, and he married Nancy at Bristol in September 1939. In later life he was a Publican at The Old Inn, St. Breward, Cornwall, and he died at his pub in January 1871. Sydney Burt was born in St. Michael’s Mount, Cornwall. He was a Boatman in Penrith, and also served in the Special Constabulary there. Burt served with the Royal Naval Reserve (entitled to 1914-15 Star trio), and was discharged ‘medically unfit’, 14 April 1915. He died in Marazion, Cornwall in February 1963. Frank Bomford was born in Retford, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, 14 September 1914 (entitled to BWM and VM), and was discharged having suffered a gunshot wound to the leg (20 April 1917) from the 2/8th Battalion, 27 August 1917 (entitled to Silver War Badge). He served with the East Retford Special Constabulary, and died in East Retford in 1979. Claude Ashley George Compton was born in Rushmore, Wiltshire. He was a Baker, served during the Great War with the 8th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (wounded in October 1917, entitled to BWM, VM and Silver War Badge), and subsequently served with the Evesham Special Constabulary. Compton died in Birdham, Chichester in September 1963. Philip G. Mountford was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, and was educated at Bournemouth School - where he was a Sergeant in the O.T.C. Mountford was commissioned in to the 5/7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (T.A.) in May 1924, and served with the Bournemouth Special Constabulary. He died in Poole in 1975. All sold with respective memory sticks of research.
Police L.S. & G.C., (2) G.VI.R. (Sergt. David J. Price.); E.II.R., 1st issue (Const. William Chalmers.); Fire Brigade L.S. & G.C., E.II.R. (Fireman Alfred T. C. Bonney); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, (3) G.V.R., 1st issue, 2 clasps, The Great War 1914-18, Long Service 1929 (Dist. Offr. Gordon P. G. Hills); G.VI.R., 1st issue (Marshall Princ); E.II.R., 2nd issue (Frederick G. Smith) generally good very fine (6) £60-£80 --- Importation Duty This lot is subject to importation duty of 5% on the hammer price unless exported outside the UK ---
* GEORGE ALEXANDER EUGENE DOUGLAS HAIG, THE EARL HAIG OBE RSA (SCOTTISH 1918 - 2009), DRONNE NEAR LA BARIE watercolour on paper, signed, titled label versomounted, framed and under glass image size 37cm x 54cm, overall size 48cm x 65cm Exhibition label verso: Earl Haig - New Paintings 10 July - 7 August 1993, The Scottish Gallery, EdinburghComment: a spectacular and large example with prestigious documented exhibition provenance.Note: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.
William 'Bill' Marshall (1923-2007) Large bowlwith brushed glazewith impressed potter's seal mark to the base12.5cm high x 23cm wide. Provenance:The late Oliver Watson (1949-2023), British Studio Pottery expert at the V & A, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and curator of Islamic Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the School of Oriental Studies, London.Oliver Watson curated the pottery component of the 1985 Tate Britain exhibition St. Ives 1936–64 and contributed an essay on ceramics to the 1989 catalogue of the first major exhibition outside Britain to celebrate the work of St. Ives artists and potters, when St Ives potters toured Japan. In 1990 he published his groundbreaking book, British Studio Ceramics: a catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, which was reprinted in 1993 as Studio Pottery: Twentieth-Century British Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection. Overall good condition with minimal signs of wear or use.
William 'Bill' Marshall (1923-2007) at Leach Pottery Tall pitcher or jugiron glazeimpressed potter's and pottery seal marks near the footrim35cm high. Minimal glaze and firing faults as expected. Chip to spout circa 4mm. Section to internal rim which appears different from the rest, this about 4cm in length, 2cm deep. Looks like a bit of patching up. New photos added.
A PAIR OF FRENCH OFFICER’S PISTOLS BY BOUTET, VERSAILLES, PARIS MARKS FOR 1798-1809, ‡ THE ESCUTCHEONS INSCRIBED "PRESENTED BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON TO CAPTAIN MARSHALL RL MS ON BOARD H.M.S. BELLEROPHON, 6TH AUGUST 1815"with browned octagonal swamped sighted polygroove rifled barrels, inscribed ‘Manufre. Impele a Versailles’ and numbered ‘189’, struck with gold-lined barrelsmith’s marks of Jean Nicolas Leclerc, further gold-lined marks (Neue Støckel 95, 97, 3741), ‘Boutet’ and a band of gold foliage at the breech (the gold with losses), case-hardened breeches incorporating the back-sights, flat bevelled locks signed ‘Boutet a Versailles’ fitted with ‘French’ cocks and semi-rainproof pans, figured walnut full stocks, chequered butts (small cracks and repairs), blued steel mounts of shaped outline comprising two-piece ‘batwing’ side-plates, trigger-guards with symmetrical finials, and moulded ramrod-pipes, the butts each fitted with finely cast and chased silver medusa-mask pommels struck with Paris silver marks and a further mark, in a lozenge NB a pistol between, silver escutcheons with presentation inscriptions, each with associated copper-alloy-tipped wooden ramrod with iron worm, perhaps the original, and some early colour throughout, 21.5 cm (2) The inscription reads: ‘Presented by the Emperor Napoleon to Captain Marshall Rl Ms on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, 6th August 1815’ George Marshall, Captain of Marines, is listed among the Officers borne on the Books of H.M.S. Bellerophon in July 1815. Six weeks after his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon faced an uncertain future. After his abdication, he was unwelcome in France, with his capture sought by Prussian and Austrian forces. On 10 July 1815, HMS Bellerophon was guarding the French port of Rochefort when a French vessel bearing a flag of truce approached. On board were General Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary and the Comte de Las (Count of) Cases, with the first announcement of Napoleon’s consideration to surrender to the British. At 07:00 on 14th July a vessel approached the Bellerophon. The Comte de Las Cases was again on board, this time accompanied by General L’Allarand. They had a letter from Napoleon, wishing to discuss the terms of General Bonaparte’s surrender. After leaving Bellerophon, Comte de Las Cases returned at 19:00 the same day with a letter from Napoleon’s General, Count Bertrand revealing that Napoleon was currently on Isle D’Aix and fully prepared to surrender. Napoleon’s arrival on the Bellerophon is recorded in the log for the ship dated 15 July 1815. While in custody Napoleon and his entourage were treated like guests, with the former emperor given access to the Great cabin of the ship. Napoleon wanted to travel to North America, where he hoped to gain asylum; upon refusal of this by the British, he hoped to be allowed to live out his life in England which was also refused. He was held aboard the moored Bellerophon at Plymouth and not allowed to set foot on British soil, much to his annoyance. Over the following weeks, the British government considered the fate of the ship’s famous prisoner. Eventually a decision was made to designate Napoleon and his entourage as ‘Prisoners of War’, with the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic chosen as their place of exile. Before leaving the Bellerophon, Napoleon had not been granted his desired audience with the Prince Regent. He revealed to Captain Maitland that part of his wish to meet the Prince was in the hope that he could recommend Maitland for promotion to Rear Admiral, as an appreciation of the hospitality that the Captain had shown him (Maitland would eventually rise to the position of Rear Admiral by the time of his death in 1839). Napoleon told Maitland that he considered him ‘a man of honour’. Captain Maitland published a detailed accounts of his time spent with Napoleon: ‘About ten A.M. the barge was manned, and a captain's guard turned out. When Buonaparte came on deck, he looked at the marines, who were generally fine-looking young men, with much satisfaction; went through their ranks, inspected their arms, and admired their appearance, saying to Bertrand, "How much might be done with a hundred thousand such soldiers as these." He asked which had been longest in the corps; went up and spoke to him. His questions were put in French, which I interpreted, as well as the man's answers. He enquired how many years he had served; on being told upwards of ten, he turned to me and said, "Is it not customary in your service, to give a man who has been in it so long some mark of distinction?" He was informed that the person in question had been a sergeant, but was reduced to the ranks for some misconduct. He then put the guard through part of their exercise, whilst I interpreted to the Captain of Marines, who did not understand French, the manœuvres he wished to have performed. He made some remarks upon the difference of the charge with the bayonet between our troops and the French; and found fault with our method of fixing the bayonet to the musquet, as being more easy to twist off, if seized by an enemy when in the act of charging.’ Extract from: Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland, K.C.B, The Surrender of Napoleon being the narrative of the surrender of Buonaparte, and of his residence on board H.M.S. Bellerophon, with a detail of the principal events that occurred in that ship between the 24th of May and the 8th of August 1815 by, a new edition edited, with a memoir of the author, by William Kirk Dickson, 1904. ‘Towards evening Lord Keith came on board of us, and had a long personal interview with Napoleon in the cabin, which we may judge was not of the pleasantest nature. From some intemperate threat of Savary, I believe, who had declared that he would not allow his master to leave the Bellerophon alive, to go into such wretched captivity, it was judged proper to deprive the refugees of their arms. A good many swords, and several brace of pistols, marked with a large silver N. at the butt end, were brought down to the gun-room, where they remained for some hours. Three of the swords belonged to Napoleon, and two of them were pointed out to us as those he wore at Marengo and Austerlitz. I never in my life felt such a strong inclination to lay my hands on what was not my own. A sword I durst not think of, but could I have got a brace of pistols, or even one solitary pistol, belonging to Napoleon, I would have thought myself the happiest man alive; but it would not do, detection was certain, and with bitter vexation I saw them carried out of the gun-room. ‘ [Extracts from Memoirs of an Aristocrat, and Reminiscences of the Emperor Napoleon, by a Midshipman of the Bellerophon [George Home]. London, Whittaker & Co., and Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh, 1838.
Sandford (Francis) The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II... and His Royal Consort Queen Mary, first edition, imprimatur f. signed Norfolke & Marshall, title in red and black with engraved coat-of-arms, engraved head-pieces, initials, text illustrations and 30 engraved plates by William Sherwin and others, all but one double-page and mounted on stubs, the first foxed at edges, occasional light off-setting or foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt with central arms to covers within ruled border, rebacked, rubbed, g.e., [Wing S652], folio, by Thomas Newcomb, 1687.*** Magnificent record of James II's lavish coronation which set the model for subsequent coronations.Provenance: from the Bridgeman family, Baronets of Great Lever [engraved arms stuck down to title verso; arms to covers]. This book presumably belonged to Sir John Bridgeman, 2nd Baronet (1631-1710) whose father Sir Orlando, 1st Baronet (1606-74) had been a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War and was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal from 1667-72.
Emblemata.- Wither (George) A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne..., 4 parts in 1, engraved additional pictorial title by William Marshall, engraved portrait of author, engraved circular emblems after Crispijn van de Passe the elder, with final leaf of two woodcut dials but lacking volvelles, lacking initial 'Preposition to this frontispiece' leaf, initial 7ff. (including titles) with small paper repair to gutter foot, 3 ff. trimmed and paper repairs to edges but not affecting engravings (A3, B3 & 2L1), 2M1 small marginal defect at foot affecting ruled border, final woodcut leaf with 2 paper repairs to verso (lower woodcut small portion supplied in manuscript facsimile), occasional water-stains or other instances of soiling, endpapers defective or renewed, contemporary calf, repairs to lower joint and spine ends, upper cracked but firm, [STC 25900], folio, A[ugustine] M[atthewes] for Robert Allot, 1635.
James Boswell; George Birkbeck Hill (ed.): 'Boswell's Life Of Johnson. Including Boswell's Journal Of A Tour To The Hebrides And Johnson's Diary Of A Journey Into North Wales.', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887, 6 volumes, 14 illustrations complete, including portrait plates, folding plates etc, uniform contemporary full crushed tan morocco gilt by Henry Sotheran & Co, London, spines gilt in compartments, all edges gilt, Westminster School gilt coats of arms to front covers. Formerly the copy of Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953), British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant, with Westminster School prize presentation inscription to him on first blank of volume I. "St. Peter's College, Westminster. Election 1889 - The Marshall Memorial Prize awarded to E.H. Marsh", signed by the Scottish scholar and then headmaster, William Gunion Rutherford (1853-1907), with an unrelated autograph letter to Marsh dated 1904 loosely inserted (6)
AUTOGRAPHS A portrait photograph of Field Marshall Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, signed lower right, housed in a glazed leather frame measuring approx. 21.5cm x 14.5cm externally; a signed portrait photograph of British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, in gilt frame; and a further signed portrait photograph of Admiral Sir William Lowther Grant, with a related letter from the Ministry of Defence (3) Condition Report:Available upon request
The Second World War Bomber Command D.F.C. group of five to Flying Officer Robert William Marshal, R.A.F.: Distinguished Flying Cross, George VI, officially dated 1945 to the reverse of the lower arm, in Royal Mint case of issue with transmission slip; 1939-45 Star; Air Crew Europe Star with France and Germany bar; Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45; the last four mounted for wearing on a screw-back bar, all very fine or better, [5]; together with the recipient's R.A.F. service and release book and a small quantity of other ephemera. 36mm diameter of round medals D.F.C. London Gazette 06/11/1945The recipient was born in Liverpool in 1923. He enlisted in the R.A.F. in March 1942 and was commissioned in July 1944. At the time of his D.F.C. recommendation on the 23rd of May 1945 he had completed 41 operational sorties over Germany and occupied France. The recommendation cites his operations "against many heavily defended targets as Flight Engineer and second pilot." and continues "His technical knowledge is outstanding, his practical ability to effect repairs and his keen operational spirit has contributed largely to his crew's record..." it further credits "his cheerful willingness to fly on any operation with any crew".After the War Robert Marshall became a police detective, and he was the lead investigator in the case of Rolling Stones founder-member Bryan Jones, who was found dead in his swimming pool on the 3rd July 1969. The death was deemed accidental, but for much of the remainder of his life, Marshall was importuned by music fans wishing to interview him in the pursuit of conspiracy theories. Some correspondence on this subject is included with the lot.
Coronation of Queen Victoria: Gold Staff Officer’s baton, painted wood, emblazoned with the arms of the Duke of Norfolk within a garter, superimposed on crossed batons and beneath a ducal coronet, the finial bearing the royal arms, a crown and V R, the terminal with the arms of the office holder, length 61cm, together with a modern mahogany stand for vertical display. £300-£500 --- Borne by Thomas William Fletcher (1808 - 1893) in the capacity of Gold Staff Officer of the Earl Marshall the Duke of Norfolk, 28 June 1838. A number of staff officers are appointed at coronations by the Duke of Norfolk, hereditary Earl Marshall, whose duty it is to supervise the seating of guests in the abbey. Condition Report Some minor rubbing to the painted surface, not affecting the armorials.
THE GEORGE CROSS: A COLLECTION OF RECIPIENTS AUTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CORRESPONDENCE. An extensive collection of autographs, photographs and letters relating to George Cross recipients. To include: Lt. Col Bertram Stuart Trevelyan Archer, Thomas Atkinson, Herbert Babington, John Baker, John Bamford, William Frederick Baxter, Dr Charles Baldwin, James Wallace Beaton, E.W. Bonar, John Bridge, Anthony John Cobham, John Maynard Cholmoneley Easton, Walter Charles Cleall, Harry Ferrington, Harry Errington, Kenneth Farrow, Christopher Finney, Harwood Flintoff, Anthony Gledhill, Eyon Hawkins, Alexander Hodge, Odettte Sanson, Vivian Holloway, Derek Kinnie, Alfred Lungley, Richard Bywater, Philip Stevens, Philip May, Richard Valentine Moore, Nandlal Thapa, Margaret Purves, James Sidney Purves, Geoffrey Riley, Reginald Rimmer, Air Marshal John Samuel Rowlands, Air Marshall Laurence Sinclair, Henry Stevens, Stephen George Styles, William Taylor and Carl Walker. All in an album with extensive notes and descriptions. *CR A well presented collection.
* Warwickshire & Yorkshire. A manuscript Release and quitclaim for land at Ilmington, near Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, circa 1300, manuscript on vellum, from Isabella Geffrey of Ilmington to Robert de Val, relinquishing her right in a messuage and 1½ acres of land and a farthingdeal (ferendell) of meadow, namely: the messuage which Alice Hebbe long held in the vill and fields of Ilmington, one acre at Holdeforde, half an acre in the four acres (intefouracres), and the farthingdeal of meadow lies at Severode, witnesses: Henry Benet of Foxcote [in Ilmington], Gilbert Benet of Foxcote, Richard Geffrey of Ilmington, Gilbert Marescall of Ilmington, Gilbert Dyonis of Ilmington, with round white wax seal for Isabella Geffrey, the charge and legend indistinct, folded, overall size 9 .5 x 21 cm (not including seal), together with A stock deed for the manor of Bramcote in Warwickshire, circa 1280, by Willliam de Grendon, lord of Bramcote (Bromcote) [in Bulkington, Warwickshire], to William del Hul of Bramcote and his wife Margery, for his homage and service, and to their heirs in tail, reversion to William de Grendon, witnesses: John de Hurleie of Polesworth, William Gilot of Polesworth, William du Fon of Warton, William le Blund of Warton, William le Warner of Warton, Richard son of Jordan of Povele, William de Dodenhale, the messuage and half-virgate which William del Hul’s father Ralph del Hul formerly held, with rights of common in the places where the people of the vill of Bramcote have common, manuscript on vellum, folded, with dark green wax seal, showing a flower: S’ WILLELMI DE GRENDONE, overall size 20.5 x 24 cm (not including seal), plus Yorkshire. Exemplification of common recovery, 4 July 1520, for Hugh Clerke, Robert Hennege and Christopher Richardson, clerk (by their attorney Thomas Waldram) v John St Paul (Sayntpoll), esquire (by his attorney John Irby) the manor of Byram (Byrom) and 8 messuages, 240 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 30 acres of wood, 100 acres of marsh 12 shillings’ rent, the rent of a pair of horseshoes and of a pair of gilt spurs and a pound of pepper in Byram and Pool [in Brotherton, West Riding of] Yorkshire, vouchee: Thomas Fyssh, Before Sir Robert Brudenell and his fellows, justices of the bench, Trinity term 1520 rotulet 141, with fragment of the seal for sealing judicial writs out of the bench, tested by [William] Conyngesby [third prothonotary of the common bench], folded, overall size 24 x 44 cm (not including seal) QTY: (3)NOTE:Ilmington is 2 1/2 miles north west of Shipston on Stour and 6 miles south of Stratford upon Avon. Foxcote was a hamlet 1 1/4 miles distant. It is possible to place the date of this document to the early part of the 14th century from research into the persons mentioned: Robert de Val was Lord of the Manor of nearby Compton Scorpion in 1316; an estate was conveyed by Geoffrey le Marshall to his son Gilbert in 1294. The Lordship of the Manor had been in the hands of the Harecourt family, but was granted by the King to Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester, whose descendant Peter de Montford held it at this time. The ancient measure of a virgate of land consists of about 30 acres. The messuage had 1 1/2 acres of meadowland attached whilst the seven virgates (210 acres) would be arable land in the open fields, a sizeable holding.
* Peninsular War. A manuscript account of the Storming of the Ciudad Rodrigo, [by Lieutenant William Mackie, 88th Connaught Rangers], paper watermarked 1837, addressed to ‘Sir’ [Lt.-Col. Charles James Napier, 1782-1853], addressing the incorrect recollection of the surrender of the Storming of the Ciudad Rodrigo, on the 19 January 1812, by Colonel John Gurwood [1788-1845], which omitted Lieutenant Mackie’s key role in being the first to accept a sword from the French army in signal of their surrender: ‘Immediately on entering I was hailed by a French Officer, asking for an English General to who they might surrender. Pointing to my epaulets … a sword presented to me in token of surrender, which I accordingly received.’; ‘My chagrin and disappointment may be easily imagined, when Lord Wellington’s dispatches reached the army from England to find my name altogether omitted.’; ‘I do declare on the word of a man of honour, that, I was the first individual, who effected the descent from the main breach into the streets of the town. That I preceded the advance into the body of the place, that I was the first who entered the Citadel, and that the Enemy there assembled had surrendered to myself and party before Lieut Gurwood came up.’; ‘I need not say that this danger is only the more imminent from his statement appearing in a work which, as being published under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington as well as of the Horse Guards, has at least the appearance of coming in the guise of an official authority,’ 17 pages, 8vo, together with:Address to Britannia, on the anniversary of the Battle of Buçaco 27th Sept 1816, a handwritten book of mainly poetry and some prose, by William Mackie, a total of 129 pages, signed to verso of front free endpaper, half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed with some corner wear, 4to, plusLife of Field-Marshall His Grace The Duke of Wellington, by W. H. Maxwell, 3 volumes, 4th edition, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1845, including 3 volumes in defective bindings, 8vo, and Britannia Ingrata: A Tribute to the Peninsular Army, with an introduction and notes by Major William Mackie, London: T. & W. Boone, 1837, lithograph frontispiece, presentation inscription to half-title ‘To Agnes Jane Mackie, From her affectionate father John Mackie, 1st January 1862, Edinburgh’, upper hinge broken with text block detached from spine, all edges gilt, 4toQTY: (6)NOTE:Provenance: The vendor was given these items by the great grandson of Major William Mackie in 1979. This the first time they have been offered for sale. During the Peninsular War, the 88th ‘Devils Own’ Connaught Rangers established a reputation as one of the most fearsome battalions in Wellington’s army. The 88th was at the forefront of the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, which took place on 19 January 1812, when Lieutenant William Mackie, who volunteered to lead the 'forlorn hope', led the assault of the 3rd Division against the main breach, losing 63 officers and men. Mackie’s letter challenging Colonel Gurwood’s view of what happened seems to have had some effect on at least one subsequent publication. In The Duke of Wellington by W. H. Maxwell, volume 2, p. 439, it states that: ‘Mackie… reached the citadel; and his gallantry was rewarded by receiving there the submission of General Barrie and such of the garrison as it contained’. Maxwell also goes on to reference the letter: ‘Major Mackie addressed to Lieut.-Colonel Napier a modest but accurate statement of the part he had acted in storming Rodrigo, leaving the world - as I do - the task of deciding to whom, by right of conquest, the sword of General Barrie should have belonged’. Mackie's account has also influenced many modern historians including: Richard Holmes, Tim Saunders, William Grattan, etc.
A SILVER PRESENTATION CIGARETTE BOX, A GIFT TO 'VISCOUNT TRENCHARD ON THE OCCASION OF HIS MARRIAGE, WITH SIGNATURES TO INCLUDE WINSTON CHURCHILL. A rectangular silver cigarette box with ten engraved signatures to the lid, presumably a gift on the occasion of his marriage on the 17th 1920. Signatures to include Winston Churchill (at the time Secretary of State for War), Henry Wilson (Field Marshall and one of the most prominent Staff Officers of the First World War), Peel (William Robert Wellesley Peel), C.H. Harrington (Boer War and First World War General), and others. Hallmarked for London 1919. 18 x 9 x 5.5 cm. *CR Marking to surfaces, base very slightly out of shape - clearly an item that 'Boom' used regularly. An historic artifact from the man so often referred to as the 'Father of the R.A.F.'.
Napier (Major-General Sir W F P) History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, London: Thomas and William Boone, 1853, six volumes, 8vo, full calf gilt with red title and green volumes labels, with red morocco gilt bookplate for W.A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey, booksellers blind stamp to front endpaper, multiple plates; together with Wilson (John M) A Memoir of Field-Marshall The Duke of Wellington, London: A. Fullarton and Co., n.d., two volumes, half calf gilt with marbled boards, each with engraved frontispiece and title vignette as well as further plates (8)
† WILLIAM MARSHALL (1923-2007); a faceted stoneware teapot (missing its cane handle) covered in tenmoku breaking to kaki glaze, height 14.5cm, and a matching sugar bowl, impressed WM mark, diameter 12cm (2). Condition Report: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration.
WILLIAM IV (King of Great Britain, 1830-7): official letter to Margery, Duchess Dowager of Atholl dated 13th July 1831, requesting her attendance at the forthcoming coronation, boldly signed by the monarch at head, signature of Earl Marshall Norfolk lower right, official blindstamp affixed lower centre, approx 32 x 20cm, old folds, affixed to later leaf of paper. (1)
1680 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, etc. Printed by John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills. Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, 1680. Contemp. or near contemp. full calf binding, worn, with loss to extremities, leather lifting around the spine, raised bands & spine rubbed, as are boards. Edges gilt. Bookplate of the Right Honourable WIlliam Lord Craven, Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall to verso of engraved half title. Internally, bar strain to front hinge exposed at half title page and visible at The Kalendar, exceptionally clean with bright pages and no significant foxing or discolouration. Including at the rear of the book A Form of Prayer, to be used yearly upon the Fifth Day of November for the Happy deliverance of the King from the most Traiterous and Bloody intended Massacre by Gunpowder, an interesting memento of Guy Fawkes & the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Folio.
Addy (William). Stenographia or the Art of Short-Writing compleated in a far more compendious method than any yet extant, London: John Laurence at the Angel in the Poultry over against the Counter where are sold the Short-hand Bibles, 1695,engraved throughout, portrait frontispiece and title, some soiling and damp-staining, last leaf pasted to lower cover, original paper wrappers, rubbed and worn, 12mo, together with:Groom (T., publisher). Henry's Sermon to The Servant when he was only Eight Years of Age, Birmingham: T. Groom, circa 1830, original printed yellow wrappers,16mo,[Cameron, Lucy Lyttelton]. The Three Flower-Pots..., 3rd edition, Wellington, Salop: F. Houlston & Son, 1821, woodcut frontispiece to verso of upper cover, illustrations to text, original pink printed wrappers, spotted, bound with Sherwood (Mary Martha). The Busy Bee..., 5th edition, Wellington, Salop: F. Houlston & Son, 1821, woodcut frontispiece to verso of upper wrapper (loose), illustrations to text, 16mo,Smith (T. & S. Gamidge, publishers). The Childs Instructor: or An Easy Introduction to the English Language. To which is added The Entertaining Histories of Miss Polly Friendly and Master Truelove with a Story of Wat: Willfull, Wolverhampton: T. Smith & S. Gamidge, [1780 in contemporary manuscript to imprint], 16 pp., heavily ink-stained, disbound, 16mo,[Strickland, Agnes]. Rosetta's Birth-Day; Written for the Entertainment and Instruction of Little Girls: With Plates, descriptive of the Subject, London: William Darton 1822, folding engraved frontispiece, 2 engraved illustrations, some offsetting and light spotting to text leaves, original printed wrappers, some very minor dust-soiling, 12mo, together with 5 other 19th-century chapbooks and spelling books printed by F. Houlston & Son, J. Marshall, S. Crowder, Simpkun, Mashall & Co, all 8vo or smallerQTY: (9)
oil on board, titled label verso mounted, framed and under glass image size 14cm x 18cm, overall size 28cm x 31cm Exhibition label verso: May 1973, Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh Note: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.
Diving and Diving History Munson, Richard (1991), Cousteau - The Captain and His World, Robert Hale, London; Henderson, Ian T. et al. (1984) The Winchester Diver: The saving of a great cathedral. Crawley near Winchester: Henderson & Stirk; The Divers (1990). Canterbury: Whitstable Museum; Diving Apparatus - and other submarime appliances - Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd. - Catalogue D-5 (1958). Chessington: Siebe Gorman & Co. Ltd; Fell, W.R. Capt (1960) The Sea Surrenders. 1st edn. London: Cassell and Company; Masters, David (1938) Divers in Deep Seas - more romances of salvage. 1st edn. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode; Pugh, Marshall (1956) Commander Crabb. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd; Tailliez. Phillipe; Cousteau, J. (1957) The Complete Manual of Free Diving. 1st edn. New York: G.P. Putnams & Sons; Bussby, Fredertick (1974) William Walker - The diver who Saved Winchester Cathedral. Winchester: Friends of Winchester Cathedral; Bond, G.F. and Siiteri, H.A. (1993) Papa Topside: the Sealab chronicles of Capt. George F. Bond, USN. 1st edn. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press; Scott, David (1932) Seventy Fathoms Deep - with the divers of the salvage ship Artiglio. London: Faber & Faber Ltd; Kemp, Paul (1999) Underwater Warriors, Brockhampton Press; Masters; David (1924) The Wonders of Salvage - with 48 illustrations from photographs. 1st edn. London: John Land - Bodley Head; Beer, Frank (1982) ‘Day’s Diving Disaster in Plymouth Sound - 1774’. Frank Beer; Turner, Malcolm (1988) Shipwrecks & Salvage In South Africa - 1505 to the present, ex-libris Richard Larn label, C. Struik, Cape Town; Romanovsky. V. (1965) Conquest of the Deep. London: Studio Vista; Zanelli, Leo (1970) Diving around Britain. London: Prenbourne Publishing Ltd; Warren, C; Benson, J. (1955) Above us the Waves - the story of midget submarines and human torpedoes, together with tip-ins. 14th edn. London: Transworld Publishers; Roland, A. (1978) Underwater warfare in the age of sail. 1st edn. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Kemp, P. (1997) Underwater warriors. London: Arms and Armour; Borgeson, Lil; Speirs, Jack (1964) Skin Diver Handbook. Fawcett Publications; Together with further books and pamphlets.
Maritime Interest The Lore of Ships, AB Nordbok, 1975; Multiple Authors, The Tall Ship in Art, Blandford Book, 1999; Trotter, Wilfrid Pym, The Royal Navy in Old Photographs, 1975; Mordal, J. (1973) Twenty-five centuries of sea warfare. 2nd edn. London: Abbey Library; World Naval Base - the Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent. 3rd edn (1989). Chatham: Jarrold Publishing Ltd; Schofield, B.B. & Martyn, L.F. (1968) The Rescue Ships. 1st edn. London: William Blackwood & Sons; Hobbs, Edward (1925) Sailing Ships at a Glance - a pictorial record of the evolution of the sailing ship from the earliest times until today. 1st edn. London: The Architectural Press; Chandler, George (1960) Liverpool Shipping - a short history. London: Phoenix House; Anderson, John (1934) Coastwise Sail - a record of the schooners surviving in the British Coasting Trade, and of those lost in Recent Years. London: Percival, Marshall & Co. Ltd; Spratt, Philip (1951) Transatlantic Paddle Steamers. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd; Eames, A. (1981) Ships and seamen of Anglesey 1558-1918: studies in maritime and local history. 1st edn. London: National Maritime Museum; Sawyer, L.A. and Mitchell, W.H. (1973) The Liberty ships: the history of the ‘emergency’ type cargo ships constructed in the United States during World War II. Revised ed. Newton Abbott: David and Charles; O’Brien, F.T. (1973) Early Solent steamers: a history of local steam navigation. 1st edn. Newton Abbot: David and Charles; Oceans O (no date); March, E.J. (1970a) Inshore craft of Great Britain in the days of sail and oar. 1st edn. Newton Abbot, Camden, Me: David & Charles; International Marine Pub. Co; Together with further books on the subject, some containing Richard Larn ex-libris label.
Suckling (Sir John) Fragmenta Aurea: A Collection of all the Incomparable Peices, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall (lightly spotted), cropped shaving a few head-lines, some staining, bookplate of Sir Stafford H.Northcote, Bart, bookseller's ticket of A.Holden of Exeter, later panelled calf, spine gilt, for Humphrey Moseley, 1658 § Pitcairn (Archibald) & others. Selecta Poemata, 1727 bound with Poems in English and Latin on the Archers, and Royal-Company of Archers, 1726 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, browned, modern calf-backed cloth, Edinburgh § Cicero (Marcus Tullius) The Letters, edited by William Melmoth, 5 vol., bookplate of Boyd Alexander of South Barr, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red roan labels, Edinburgh, 1808 § Byron (G.G.N., Lord) English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, reprint of the third authorised edition, half-title, 3pp. advertisements, original boards, spine worn, 1810 [but later, watermarked 1819] § [Erskine (Thomas)] Armata: a Fragment, ?first edition, 4pp. advertisments at end, original boards, uncut, broken and loose, 1817; and a quantity of others, literature, 8vo et infra; sold not subject to return (c.100)*** The last is a political romance and utopian novel concerning an imaginary voyage to a parallel earth, by the lawyer and politician Thomas Erskine. It is the first work of science fiction by a Scottish author.
Price (Uvedale) A Letter to H.Repton, Esq., first edition, occasional foxing, for J.Robson, 1795 bound with [Marshall (William)] A Review of the Landscape, presentation copy from the author, half-title, very lightly browned, 1795, together 2 works in 1 vol., contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints split, lacking label, [BAL 2620 & 2060] § Mason (W.) The English Garden: a Poem. In Four Books, A New Edition, corrected, contemporary ink inscription "Jane Murray Bath Aug. 28th 1784" to title, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked with gilt floral spine & red morocco label, York, A.Ward, 1783 § [Akenside (Mark)] The Pleasures of the Imagination. A Poem, first edition, lacking half-title, title in red & black with engraved vignette (slightly soiled), advertisement leaf at end, book-label and inscription of architect Roderick Gradidge, later vellum-backed boards, a little faded and a few stains, R.Dodsley, 1744, 8vo & 4to (3) *** The first two items arose from the controversy engendered by the publication in 1794 of Richard Payne Knight’s poem The Landscape and Uvedale Price’s An Essay on the Picturesque. The first item, written by Price in reply to a pamphlet by Humphrey Repton, emphasises Price’s view that landscape gardening should be founded on the same principles as landscape painting, while the second by William Marshall defends Capability Brown against accusations, particularly by Price, that the clumps and belts so favoured by Brown and his followers were planted in too formal a manner.
° ° Marshall, William - The Rural Economy of Yorkshire ... 2 vols. 2 folded maps; contemp. tree calf. 1788; Holland, Henry - General View of the Agriculture of Cheshire ... a coloured folded map and 7 other plates (2 folded and 2 hand coloured), engraved text illus; old binder's cloth (rebacked). 1808; [Humberston, P.S.] Agriculture in Cheshire. Five letters on farming agreements ... By a Tenant Farmer. original printed wrappers. Birkenhead and Chester, 1855; Farm Reports - East Riding of Yorkshire, the Wolds. Farming at Wauldby, the Estate of Robert Raikes, Esq., occupied by the Messrs. Watson ... bound with: Farming at Ridgemont, the Estate of Sir T.A. Clifford Constable ... in the occupation of Mr. William Stickney ... rebound paper boards with printed label. (?1833); Farm Reports - East Riding of Yorkshire. Farming at Scoreby, on the Estate of the Ottiwell Wood, Esq. ... rebound paper boards with printed label. (?1833) (6)
° ° Marshall, William - The Rural Economy of Norfolk...2nd edition, 2 vols. folded map; contemp. half calf and marbled boards. 1795; Bacon, Richard Noverre - The Report on the Agriculture of Norfolk....portrait frontis., folded map, 6 folded plans, 3 other plates and text engravings (some full page); original gilt lettered cloth. 1844 (2)
° ° Marshall, William - The Rural Economy of Glocestershire....together with the Dairy Management of North Wiltshire, and ....Orchards and Fruit Liquor, in Herefordshire....2nd edition, 2 vols. folded map; contemp. half calf and marbled boards. 1796; Marshall, William - The Rural Economy of the West of England: including Devonshire; and parts of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, and Cornwall....1st edition, 2 vols. folded map; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, marbled e/ps. 1796 (4)
Wirtschaft und Staatswissenschaften - - William Stanley Jevons. Investigations in Currency and Finance. Edited with an Introduction by H. S. Foxwell. Illustr. by 20 diagrams. London, Macmillan, 1884. XLIV, 428 Seiten. Orig.-Leinwand mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel (etwas berieben und etwas fleckig). Erste Ausgabe. - Enaudi 3064 - Posthume Sammlung von Aufsätzen, die sich hauptsächlich mit der Anwendung von Statistiken auf Fragen des Geldes, der Preise und der Schwankungen befassen. Die Aufsätze "zeigen, dass (Jevons) ein Pionier in der grafischen Darstellung von Wirtschafts- und Finanzstatistiken war, indem er die in seinen meteorologischen Studien verwendeten Methoden für die Darstellung des wirtschaftlichen "Wetters" anpasste. Wie Marshall und Pareto war Jevons einer der wenigen führenden neoklassischen Vertreter der deduktiven Grenzanalyse des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, der auch wertvolle Beiträge zur statistischen und deskriptiven Ökonomie leistete, in einem "Versuch ..., exakte Untersuchungen und exakte numerische Berechnungen an die Stelle von Vermutungen und haltlosen Argumenten zu setzen". - Vereinzelt leicht gebräunt, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. Posthumous collection of essays dealing mainly with the application of statistics to questions of money, prices and fluctuations. The essays "show that (Jevons) was a pioneer in the graphical representation of economic and financial statistics, adapting the methods used in his meteorological studies to the representation of economic 'weather'. Like Marshall and Pareto, Jevons was one of the few leading neoclassical proponents of deductive frontier analysis of the late nineteenth century, who also made valuable contributions to statistical and descriptive economics in an 'attempt ... to substitute exact investigation and exact numerical calculations for conjecture and baseless argument'. - Slightly browned in places, a good copy overall.
* GEORGE ALEXANDER EUGENE DOUGLAS HAIG, THE EARL HAIG OBE RSA (SCOTTISH 1918 - 2009), THE EILDONS II oil on board, titled label versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 14cm x 18cm, overall size 28cm x 31cm Exhibition label verso: May 1973, Aitken Dott & Son, EdinburghNote: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.
* GEORGE ALEXANDER EUGENE DOUGLAS HAIG, THE EARL HAIG OBE RSA (SCOTTISH 1918 - 2009), NEAR SAN GOTTARDO watercolour on paper, signed and dated 2003, titled labels versomounted, framed and under glassimage size 26.5cm x 36.5cm, overall size 50cm x 59cmExhibited and sold: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh ''Haig At Ninety'' 9th April - 3rd May 2008 cat no 47 and sold April 2008 (on label verso)Note: Earl Haig (son of the Field Marshall) started painting as a prisoner of war. The paintings and drawings he made in Colditz Castle were exhibited at The Scottish Gallery in 1945 in an exhibition attended by HM The Queen. He went on to train under Victor Pasmore and Lawrence Gowing at Camberwell School of Art, London when fellow Scot William Johnstone was Principal. He had a distinguished exhibiting career primarily with The Scottish Gallery which spanned over six decades, concluding with his remarkable 90th birthday show in 2008. However, the same prestigious Edinburgh Gallery staged a Memorial show for Haig in 2011 and a major centenary show in 2018. In 2020 another solo show was staged (November - December 2020) by The Scottish Gallery focussing on examples from the Scottish Borders and Italy, where he spent an increasing amount of time from the mid-1970s. Earl Haig's work was shown widely elsewhere in Britain and on the continent, latterly including Clarges Gallery and Gallery 10, London. His work held in the collections of HM The Queen and other members of the Royal family, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and further public and notable corporate collections. Earl Haig was a member of the Scottish Arts Council and of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland and a Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland. As a landscape painter he was fond of simple, almost naïve images infused with a rich palette. Lived in Bemersyde, Melrose, Scotland.
Quantity of 10x framed Vanity Fair supplement chromolithographs to include: 1st Baron Armstrong "The Ogre."' by Spy chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 4 March 1908, Earl of Plymouth “Good works” Dec 31st 1913 Photolithograph print by Spy, “Victor” Lord Lytton by Spy, John Eldon Bankes KC “Good form” 1906 Photolithograph vanity fair print by Spy, Colonel Calley C.B. 1906 ‘1st Lifeguards’, Field Marshall Earl Roberts K.G.V.C - Print from 'The World', Hon.Rupert Guinness - 'Rupert' by spy, “North London” – Mr.E.S.Fordham by Spy, H.L.C by Ash, and The Rt. Hon William Ewart Gladstone MP Prime Minister “The peoples Williams” 1st July 1879 chromolithograph.
CRICKET & FOOTBALL AUTOGRAPHS 1938 - 1941 A lined book with many autographs, most of which are laid on paper including West Indies Cricket 1939 X 14 including Stollmeyer, Headley, Weekes and Constantine, Middlesex CCC 1939 X 12 including Bill Edrich, Les and Denis Compton, West Ham United 1939 X 24 including Bicknell, Medhurst, Walker, Fenton, Macaulay, Small, Goulden, Bell, Corbett, Forde, Banner, Woodgate and Wood, Aston Villa 1939 X 6 including Edwards, Allen, Massie, Callaghan and Iverson, Preston North End 1939 X 7 including Bill Shankly signed as William, Gallimore, Milne, White, Mutch and McIntosh, Manchester United 1939 X 9 including Wrigglesworth, Pearson, Whalley, McKay, Warner and Rowley, Manchester City X 27 including Brooks, Westwood, Pritchard, Clark, Barr, Walsh, Marshall, Freeman, Fagan and Jones, Sheffield United 1939 X 8 including Carr, Smith, Pickering, Johnson and Hagan, Derby County 1939 X 10 including Stockill, Crooks, McCullock, Bailey, Boulton, Howe, Ward and Duncan, Everton 1939 X 1 Tommy Lawton, Arsenal 1939 X 9 including Kirchen, Hapgood, Male, Bryn Jones, Lewis, Les Compton, Cartwright, Wilson and Drury, Wolves 1939 X 9 including Morris, Scott, Westcote and Cullis, Stoke City 1939 X 6 including Bingham and Steele, Middlesbrough 1939 X 17 including Fenton, Butler, Martin, Shepherdson, Smith, Cumming, Forrest and Mannion and Beattie of Preston North End, Stanley Matthews of Stoke City and Les Jones of Arsenal. All autographs are on one side of the book. None are back-to-back. Generally good
Books, Literature – Archer (Thomas FRHS), Charles Dickens, A Gossip about his Life, Works and Characters, 2 Vols. of 6, Supplied to Subscribers only, Cassell, London, n. d. (1890), folio, printed card covers with engraving of Gad’s Hill Place, worn, cloth spine, Vol. I, 16pp, 3 photogravure plates with tissue guards, after Frederick Bernard, other illus., Vol. 2, 17-32pp three plates and other illus.; Andrews (William, FRHS) Old Time Punishments, Hull, William Andrews and London, Simpkin Marshall, 1890, no. 54 of a limited edition of 100, large 8vo, 251pp, frontis with tissue guard, numerous other engravings and vignettes, inscr. MS to flyleaf ‘Richard Hazard/Bought from/St. Paul’s Institute 1896’, dark blue endpapers, bound green cloth, gilt lines and titles, also to spine, ca-overs faded and worn, bumped edges (3)
Cookery, a collection of works, mainly 19th century in varying condition, including: HENDERSON (W A) The Housekeeper's Instructor, 5th edition, no date, calf, repaired; The Complete Confectioner, 2nd edition 1790, 12mo, binding detached; SOYER (A) The Modern Housewife or Menagere, 18th thousand, 1850, 8vo, cloth; others by Raffald, Farley etc. All in varying used condition, some incomplete, damaged and/or modern rebound. Sold not subject to returnJohn Murrell 1630;There does not appear to be a title page for the book named 'The First Book of Cookery' and there is no missing pages up until the end of the second book of cookery. Then begins 2 introductory pages for 'A new book of Carving and Sewing' followed by it's title page, however this book is omitted.The first page of the book is missing its edge and the second page has a tear to the top corner. 5-7 are missing their bottom corners. Pages marked 41, 71 and 113 have been folded in the top corners.There are several marks throughout the book, a page which has been written on, two pages with burn pages and two pages with what appears to be worm holes. The book has also been rebound with a later likely 19th century binding. Please see photos for further detail. Sold as seen.London Art of Cookery John Farley 11th Edition 1807 printed by F. Bryer Blackfriars, rebound with staining throughoutThe Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by A Lady 1778, printed for W. Strahan et al rebound, significant surface dirt to front pageThe Experienced English Housekeeper 1776 by Elizabeth Raffald 5th Edition printed by R. Baldwin, rebound.The Housekeeper's Instructor or Universal Cook, by W A Henderson, 5th Edition printed by W. and J. Stratford London ND black leather binding "" 5th edition with tree calf binding, re backed and re cased.Beeton's book of Household Management Vol 1, S O Beeton, Bouvary Street, London, Edited by Mrs Isabella Beeton, (split from seam)The Handbook of Dining or Corpulency and Leaness Scientifically Considered by Brillat-Savarin translated by F L Simpson, 3rd Edition, Printed by Spottiswoode and Co 1865, cloth boundMrs Beeton 's Cookery Book New and Revised edtion Ward, Lock and Co Ltd London and Melbourne, cloth bound (poor condition)The Modern Housewife or Menagere by Alexis Soyer, published Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Pall Mall, 1850 green cloth bound A la Mode Cookery by Mrs de Salis, published by Longmans Green and Co 1902, red cloth boundA new System of Domestic Cookery by A Lady published by J. Murray 1806 marbled boards with cloth spine (Maria E Rindle)The Handbook of Dining by Leonard Francis Simpson, published by Longmans and Roberts 1859 Gild stamped boards with textured coverThe Compleat Housewife or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion by E. Smith 14th Edition, 1750 printed for R. Ware et all Marbled and leather spine, rebound.Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald 4th Edition, published by R.Baldwin 1775 marbled and leather bindingMrs Beeton Family Cookery New Edition, Ward Lock navy cloth boundHandbook of Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin, translated by A. Lalauze, London J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884, cloth boundA New system of Domestic Cookery by A Lady printed by William Clowes, 1831 marbled boards with green leatherThe Modern Cook (missing title page) Francatelli 1853 marbled boards and leather spine (broken)The First Book of Cookery 1630 John Murrel ND Missing title page, leather bound (rebound - see above)The Complete Confectioner (both boards loose but present) by A Person 1740 (possibly Frederick Nutt) leather boundSoft back notebook - Early 20th century, dated 1917, hand written recipies and also cuttings, some pages loose (poor condition)Slim marbled notebook - inscribed pen and ink to the inside Ann S Hakiston (?) 1853 the blue pages glued with cuttings and hand written recipiesNotebook - inscribed to the front "Receipts for cooking and Medicines" dated to the interior 1831 and variously inscribed. Contains hand written recipies and remediesLargest Notebook - with loose recipies in various hands, also letters, loose printed recipies, aso inscribed on the pages Not dated. Marbled boards and leather spine and corners.
Registration No: AUA 170 Chassis No: D10727 MOT: August 2025Re-bodied on the request of the then owner and aspiring trials driver Maurice Zwick when three years oldCampaigned before WW2 as the Zwick Rapier on the Land's End, Exeter and Edinburgh Trails etcRaced at Goodwood, Silverstone, and Great Auclum after WW2 by John Marshall, Margaret 'Peggy' Harman, and AC GriffithsSupplied with a history file with numerous period photographs of the Rapier in competitionIntroduced at the 1933 Olympia Motor Show, the Lagonda Rapier was intended to capitalise on the growing market for small capacity sports cars. Although based around a conventional ladder-frame chassis complete with all-round semi-elliptic leaf-sprung suspension and four-wheel Girling 13-inch drum brakes, the newcomer boasted a highly advanced engine. The work of consultant Thomas 'Tim' Ashcroft the 1104cc four-cylinder unit utilised twin overhead camshafts to produce a quoted 50bhp @ 5,400rpm. Praised by the contemporary motoring press for its performance, refinement and agility, the model was supplied in bare chassis guise only and bodied via the likes of E.D. Abbott, John Charles, Maltby and E.J. Newns. Prohibitively expensive to manufacture, the Rapier was dropped when the Staines firm went into administration during 1935. Convinced that the reborn Lagonda (LG Motors Ltd) had made a mistake, Tim Ashcroft, William Oates and Nevil Brockelbank secured the rights to the small capacity sports car shortly thereafter. Operating as Rapier Cars Ltd of Hammersmith they contributed a further 46 cars to the total production tally of 470 before closing their doors in 1938.Beginning life as an Abbott-bodied Tourer, chassis D10727 was road registered as ‘AUA 170' on the 10th August 1934. Purchased by aspiring trials driver Maurice Zwick in 1936 (who would go on to contest five Monte Carlo rallies), the Lagonda soon proved a competitive mount. Buoyed by podiums on the Land's End, Exeter, and Edinburgh Trials during 1937, Zwick had the Rapier re-bodied (from the bulkhead back) and supercharged. With little to show for his endeavours in 1938, he side-lined ‘AUA 170' storing it at Thompson & Taylor's Brooklands premises during WWII. Purchased by Weybridge garage owner John Marshall, the Lagonda was converted into a circuit racer - complete with a lightweight body and strengthened engine internals - in time to enter the 1st BARC Goodwood Race Meeting in 1948. Campaigned by subsequent keeper Mrs Margaret `Peggy' Harman in 1949-1950 at Silverstone and Great Auclum etc, she entrusted its maintenance to Maurice Leo.Initially used by the next owner Joe Branson, as a daily commuter, he went on to win the Lagonda Club's prestigious Arthur Fox Trophy aboard `AUA 170' in 1958. Somewhat tired by the time Charles Hoskins of Market Rasen acquired it, restoration work began in the 1980s and had yet to be completed when the gentleman who completed the restoration acquired the Rapier in 2004. Purchased by the previous keeper in 2016 from H&H, the Rapier required recommissioning at this stage and was provided with over £5,000 worth of expenditure that comprised new rear axle seals, front brake overhaul, new exhaust system, and a service. Purchased by the vendor most recently, the Rapier was again not running, with the vendor recommissioning the car, and since ‘AUA 170’ has thankfully been in regular use. Running and driving excellently for the photography session, the Rapier will be driven to the sale. Supplied with a history file with in-depth history details of ‘D10727’, instruction book, previous MOTs, a current MOT until August 2025 with no advisories, numerous period competition photographs, and the V5C. For more information, please contact: Paul Cheetham paul.cheetham@handh.co.uk 07538 667452
Britton (John). Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities..., London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830, title, dedication and introduction, numerous engravings, each with tissue guard, wood-engraved vignettes to text throughout, some spotting, old newspaper cuttings pasted to front and rear endpapers, bookplate of Augustus W. J. Clifford to the front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco with elaborate gilt decorated spine and wide gilt roll border to the boards, gilt dentelles, slight wear to extremities, 4to, together with Whittington (C. publisher). Kenilworth Illustrated; or, a History of the Castle, Priory, and Church of Kenilworth with a Description of their Present State, bound with appendix, Chiswick: 1821, engraved portrait frontispiece of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, half-title and dedication, numerous uncoloured engravings, some worming throughout, bookplate of Middleton Park to the front pastedown and additional bookplates of Gerard Matthew Bayliss and Alfred Woodward to the front and verso of the front endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary straight-grained morocco with gilt decorated spine and elaborate gilt panelled and decorated boards, some wear to extremities, 4to, with Trotter (William Edward). Select Illustrated Topography of Thirty Miles round London..., London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co [and] Ackermann and Co., circa 1840, additional decorative half-title, numerous uncoloured engravings, some spotting throughout, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, contemporary half morocco with gilt decorated spine, rubbed and worn, 8vo, plus Fearnside (William Gray & Harrel Thomas, editors). Holmes's Great Metropolis: or, Views and History of London in the Nineteenth century..., circa 1850, additional decorative half-title, numerous engraved plates, hinges and joints cracked, presentation bookplate to the front pastedown, contemporary red blind stamped gilt cloth, bumped and worn, 8vo, and Poole (Benjamin). Coventry: Its History and Antiquities..., Illustrated by Fred. Taunton, London: John Russell Smith & Coventry: William Frederic Taunton, 1870, additional half-title, numerous illustrations throughout (including some folding), folding and linen backed map bound at rear, later endpapers, modern half calf gilt, 4to, with Goding (John). Norman's History of Cheltenham, Queens Edition, London: Longman, Green & Roberts and Cheltenham: Norman "Examiner" Office, 1863, numerous engraved plates and vignettes to text, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with gilt decorated boards and spine, 8vo, plus Roscoe (Thomas). Summer Tour to the Isle of Wight; including Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester, The South Western Railway &c. London: J. & F. Harwood, 1843, decorative title, numerous engraved plates, folding engraved map bound at rear, map with closed handling tear, contemporary presentation inscription to the front endpaper, bookplate of Emma Grierson Yorstoun to the front pastedown, all edges gilt, contemporary green morocco with gilt decorated boards and spine, worn and bumped at extremities, 8vo, with another copy similar, and two other topographical volume similarQTY: (10)
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