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GREENWICH - [?Margaret MASKELYNE (1785-1858)].  A fine watercolour study of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, with a distant prospect of the Thames crowded with shipping, and London beyond,…

LOBB, John (1840-1921, editor).  Talks with the Dead. Luminous Rays from the Unseen World. Illustrated with Spirit Photographs ... New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. London: John Lobb, 1907. 8vo (185…

LOUDON, Jane Webb (1807-58).  The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals ... Second Edition. London: William S. Orr and Co., [n.d. but preface dated 1849]. 4to (288 x 232mm). Half title, 50 fine…

MACKAY, Robert William (1803-82).  The Progress of the Intellect, as Exemplified in the Religious Development of the Greeks and the Hebrews. London: John Chapman, 1850. 2 volumes, 8vo (214 x 135mm).…

MORLAND, Thomas Hornby (fl.1810).  The Genealogy of the English Race Horse; with the Natural History of his Progenitors, from the Earliest Times down to the Period when Foreign Blood was First…

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald with an Introduction by A. C. Benson ... Reproduced from a Manuscript Written and Illuminated by F. Sangorski & G. Sutcliffe.…

SETON-WATSON, Robert William (1879-1951).  Britain and the Dictators. A Survey of Post-War British Policy. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1938. 8vo (217 x 140mm). Half title. Original blue…

[SMITH, Horace (1779-1849) & James (1775-1839)].  Rejected Addresses: or, the New Theatrum Poetarum ... Fourth Edition. London: John Miller, 1812. 8vo (173 x 100mm). Half title (some staining at…

[VOLTAIRE, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778)].  Candide, ou l' Optimisme, Traduit de l' Allemand de Mr. le Docteur Ralph. [?Geneva: no publisher but [?]Gabriel Cramer], 1759. 12mo (139 x 80mm).…

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-66).  Remote People. London: Duckworth, 1931. 8vo (220 x 140mm). Half title, monochrome frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 6 plates. Original burgundy buckram, the spine lettered in…

The Haida carved many trade goods and souvenirs from argillite (carbonaceous shale) intended for sale to outsiders using mythical creatures, like those found in totem poles or mortuary posts, for…

Provenance: Acquired from Bonhams, London, 4th June 2008, lot 89. Previously owned by descendants of a Naval Attaché to the British Embassy in Singapore in the 1940s. C.A Llewelyn Roberts was the…

This ‘globe du mariage’ or ‘globe de mariee’ was a French tradition, established in the early 19th Century, to record the marriage day of newly weds and their life together. Each mirror, pressed…

Condition report: Various losses in areas, including the strings of beads and possibly a crucifix which hung like a pendant, as indicated by the shadows and marks. Also possibly lobed mounts filled…

Condition report: loss of colour in laquering, no key, door lock has been broken off (we have the lock). No major damage or faults. However, is a little tatty.  

Seat height for each is 46cm high, most chairs in the set suffer from small chips to the lacquer towards the supports and top rail, both carvers have very minor indentation marks to the fabric,…

Condition report: All four legs have been professionally tipped. Otherwise in good antique condtition, old marks and scratches, consistent with age, use and look. Also has old traces of worm. A nice…

Old marks and present consistent with age of the item, one chip to the bottom right side of the glazed top, a small section of moulding missing to the bottom left side of top, some moulding to the…

In a brown case with nickel chapter ring and hands, illuminated backdrop and rocking vessel, each mast with five sails with leading spinnaker sail33cm highVitascope introduced this clock to the…

The one-piece case engraved all over with foliage, pivotted handle, with four bevelled glass panels below and lift-up brass shuttered back panel, the white enamel dial with gilt 'Breguet' moon hands…

With a caddy top above 10 3/4in. square glazed door, the trunk with three panel bird amongst foliage marquetry panels, the sides each with plain walnut veneer panel in two pieces, above the base with…

The case with an arched hood and three brass finials, above glazed door, flanked by fluted columns, the trunk inset with an arched panel door, flanked by fluted canted angles, on panelled plinth base…

The drum-shaped case with engine-turned surround, enclosing an engine-turned gilt dial, ‘Breguet’ moon hands, the signed fusée movement with locking pendulum nut, raised on scrolls and a stepped…