A SET OF EIGHT HEPPLEWHITE STYLE MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS
With shield backs to include pair of carvers (8)
Condition Report: One chair with broke back, will need professional restoration. Upholstery tatty, frames will need a light polish.
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 August 2021
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3 August 2021
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A PAIR OF JAPANESE IMARI BOTTLE VASES
Edo period, early 18th century
Each painted with flower panels against a white ground inhabited with swimming fish, 23.5cm and 22.5cm high (2)
One vase with break halfway up neck, chips and haircracks to rim. Also a firing crack across bas, some crazing and light staining to the glaze in places. Some wear to gilding.The rim on the other…
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £150 - £250
3 August 2021
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3 August 2021
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A GOOD CHINESE FAMILLE-ROSE HEXAGONAL GARDEN SEAT
Late 19th century
With cash form apertures and raised studs to the body, painted with pheasants and other birds amongst flowering shrubs and rocks, 48cm high
Three very fine glaze/haircracks to one of the panels painted with birds, the longest approx 20cm length. Some minor chips along the edges. Minor wear overall
Hammer price:
£1,500
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
3 August 2021
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3 August 2021
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A JAPANESE IVORY PAGE TURNER
Meiji period
Carved in low relief with an elephant and tiger, signed, 36.5cm length
Some small chips and nicks around the edges
Estimate: £0 - £0
3 August 2021
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3 August 2021
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A CHINESE WOOL CARPET SECTION
Ningxia province, late 19th/early 20th century
The blue wool rectangular section with two long-tailed birds observing a moon behind clouds in a garden, mounted on a wooden frame stretcher, 142cm by…
The carpet has been reduced and re-edged. Some small areas of repair. Would benefit from a clean. It should be possible to remove the carpet safley fro the frame.
Hammer price:
£220
Estimate: £500 - £800
3 August 2021
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3 August 2021
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BARTHOLOMEUS ANGLICUS (c. 1203-72) & Stephen BATMAN or BATEMAN (1542-84,…
BARTHOLOMEUS ANGLICUS (c. 1203-72) and Stephen BATMAN or BATEMAN (1542-84, co-translator and editor). Batman upon
Bartholome, his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, Newly corrected, enlarged and
amended:…
Hammer price:
£600
Estimate: £500 - £800
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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BASKERVILLE PRESS - Joseph ADDISON (1672-1719). The Works.
BASKERVILLE PRESS - Joseph ADDISON (1672-1719). The Works.
Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1761. 4 volumes,
4to (295 x 233mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the…
Hammer price:
£260
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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[BUTLER, Samuel (1613-80)]. Hudibras, Cambridge, 1744, 2 vols.,…
[BUTLER, Samuel (1613-80)]. Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LLD. Adorn’d with a new Set…
Estimate: £70 - £100
15 July 2021
, 14:00 BST
15 July 2021
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BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). Manfred. A Dramatic Poem, London, 1817,…
BYRON,
Lord (1788-1824). Manfred. A Dramatic
Poem. London: John Murray, 1817. Half title, 2-line printed quote from
Hamlet on title, 80-pages with imprint of T. Davison on p.80. Wise I, p.123.
…
Estimate: £70 - £100
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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Calligraphic Manuscript - “Simplicity. An essay by Coventry Patmore…
Calligraphic Manuscript - “Simplicity.
An essay by Coventry Patmore written out by Irene Wellington. 1951.” [No
place]. Small 4to (185 x 135mm). Fine calligraphic manuscript on 8-pages in red,
black…
Hammer price:
£280
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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COOK, James (1728-79), John HAWKESWORTH (1715-73), and others. An Account…
COOK,
James (1728-79), John HAWKESWORTH (1715-73, editor), and others. An Account of the Voyages undertaken by
the Order of his Present Majesty for making Discoveries in the Southern
Hemisphere ...…
Hammer price:
£1,800
Estimate: £400 - £600
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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CRADDOCK, Harry (1876-1963). The Savoy Cocktail Book.
CRADDOCK, Harry (1876-1963). The Savoy Cocktail Book. Being in the main
a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs,
Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other…
Hammer price:
£500
Estimate: £200 - £300
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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DANTE ALIGHIERI (c. 1265-1321). La Comedia.
DANTE ALIGHIERI (c. 1265-1321). La Comedia, with the commentary of Christophoro Landino. Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 23 March 1484. Folio mostly in 8s (331 x 230mm). 270 leaves, Roman type, 64-lines…
Hammer price:
£9,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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GILLIES, John (1747-1836, translator & editor). Aristotle's Ethics and…
GILLIES,
John (1747-1836, translator and editor).
Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, Comprising his Practical Philosophy,
Translated from the Greek. London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell …
and…
Hammer price:
£100
Estimate: £200 - £300
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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GUILLIM, John (1550-1621). A Display of Heraldrie.
GUILLIM, John (1550-1621). A Display of
Heraldrie: Manifesting A more easie accesse to the knowledge thereof than hath
beene hitherto published by any, through the benefit of Method … The third…
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £100 - £150
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (1804-71). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography. …
JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (1804-71). The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography … A New Edition. Edinburgh: W. & A. K. Johnston, 1877. Folio (493 x 330mm). Coloured double-page frontispiece with overlay, 48…
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £100 - £150
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) & Jessie M. KING (1875-1949. illustrator). L’…
KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936) and Jessie M. KING (1875-1949, illustrator). L’ Habitation Forcée, translated by
Louis Fabulet and Robert d’ Humières. Paris: Editions René Kieffer, 1921. 4to
(230 x…
Hammer price:
£380
Estimate: £200 - £300
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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MARITIME - The Searchlight. H.M.S. "Lion."
MARITIME - The
Searchlight. H.M.S. "Lion." ... For Private Circulation only. [No place: no
publisher], October 1st, 1915 - April 1st, 1916. 3 issues bound in one, 4to
(300 x 203mm). Wood-engraved…
Hammer price:
£1,400
Estimate: £400 - £600
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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MORRIS, Francis Orpen (1810-93). A History of British Butterflies. [etc.]
MORRIS, Francis Orpen (1810-93). A History of British Butterflies. Eighth Edition, newly revised, corrected and enlarged. London: John C. Nimmo, 1895. Large 8vo (250 x 172mm). Title printed in red…
Hammer price:
£280
Estimate: £100 - £150
15 July 2021
, 14:00 BST
15 July 2021
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MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). Sartre. Romantic Rationalist. [etc.]
MURDOCH, Iris (1919-99). Sartre. Romantic
Rationalist. Cambridge: Bowes and Bowes, 1953. 8vo (179 x 110mm). Half
title. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with price of
7’6…
Hammer price:
£400
Estimate: £500 - £800
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius or "Pliny the Elder" (23-79 AD). The Historie of…
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius or "Pliny the Elder" (23-79 AD). The Historie of the
World: Commonly called, The Natural Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated
into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of…
Hammer price:
£450
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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RUSDEN, Moses (dates unknown). A Further Discovery of Bees.
RUSDEN, Moses (dates unknown). A Further Discovery of Bees. Treating of the Nature, Government, Generation and Preservation of the Bee. With the Experiments and Improvements arising from the keeping…
Hammer price:
£260
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 July 2021
, 11:01 BST
15 July 2021
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SAINT AUGUSTINE or AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354-430). Opuscula, Paris, 1521,…
SAINT AUGUSTINE or AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO (354-430). Opuscula divi Augustini longe prestantissima cum duplici indicio rursus Parisiis compressa. Paris: [from the colophon to the first part:] “impe[n]sis…
Estimate: £200 - £300
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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[SPEED, John (1551-1629)]. The Historie of Great Britaine.
[SPEED, John (1551-1629). The Historie of Great Britaine. London: George Humble, portrait dated 1629]. Folio (329 x 210mm). Engraved portrait of the author, dedication, printed in double column,…
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £100 - £150
15 July 2021
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15 July 2021
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