Location: Saleroom 1 Date: 23rd January 2020 Starts: 2:00 pm
Online deadline: 23rd January 2020, 1:30 pm Contact: Robert Henshilwood
An early Victorian scrap book containing 63 very fine scissor work silhouettes attributed to Auguste Edouart (1789-1861), each approx 13 x 6cm and mounted three to one leaf, all group profiles of animals/people as well as landscape and architectural scenes, including horseriding, ostriches, lion and gazelle, greyhound chasing deer, musicians, tailor at work, man falling from velocipede pursued by a policman, storks by river, vulture attacking snake, hunting, horses and carriages, towns, windmills, bridges, farming...
Sale Price: £1,300.00
A Mughal style painting, oil and body colour on linen, 8.5''x11.5'', framed and glazed
Sale Price: £20.00
A Victorian scrap album, approximately forty pages of scraps including British soldier fighting Zulus and other military; Windsor Castle, Tower of London, Houses of Parliament; Greetings; Children; Animals etc, plus a Victorian carte de visite album containing 30+ Cdvs and a cabinet card, mainly Kent photographers, small oblong album, contemporary decorative cloth and morocco gilt and silvered all edges gilt, brass clasp (2)
Sale Price: £340.00
Four Victorian leather bound Cartes de Visite photograph albums, 100+ CdV's and Cabinet cards in total (4)
Sale Price: £100.00
A late 19th Century Cartes de Visite album containing approximately 125 Cdvs and approximately ten cabinet card photographs of semi aristocracy, including the Countess of Lonsdale etc, 19th Century embossed calf gilt (worn) monogrammed ''H.W.G.L 1876'' to top board, all edges gilt
Sale Price: £170.00
A Victorian Cartes de Visite photograph album containing 152 CdV's of notable and eminent persons circa 1860's-1870's, including Charles Dickens; John Ruskin; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Alfred Lord Tennyson; Anthony Trollope; Thomas Carlyle; Henry Irving; Wilkie Collins; Ralph Waldo Emerson; William Thackeray; Nathaniel Hawthorne; George Cruikshank; Charles Darwin; Giuseppe Verdi; Richard Wagner; Henry Morton Stanley; Birket Foster; Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; Napoleon III; Kaiser William I; Shah of Persia, Naser al-din-Shah Quajar; 3rd Marquis of Salisbury;...
Sale Price: £1,700.00
[RUSKIN'S LAST AUTOGRAPH?]. 'The Portrait birthday-book of famous names', Seeley & Co, circa 1880. A 19th Century autograph album containing signatures of over 80 notable Victorian personages in the fields of Literature, the Arts etc, compiled by W. Craibe Angus of Glasgow who apparently distributed the pages of the book to various eminent people inviting them to write against the date of their birth. Entries include John Ruskin, Linley Sambourne (with caricature self-portrait & illustrated...
Sale Price: £400.00
A quantity of Folio Society titles, mainly 19th Century fiction, including Jane Austen (7 volumes); Bronte Sisters (7 volumes); Mrs Gaskell (5 volumes); George Eliot (7 volumes) etc., (30)
Sale Price: £150.00
Eric Gill: 'Four Gospels', 2007, published by Folio Society, Facsimile of the Golden Cockerel Press first edition, bound in full goat skin, original solander box
'Holkham Bible', 2007, published by Folio Society, Facsimile of the Medieval Holkham Bible, original half goatskin gilt, together with accompanying volume in original cloth gilt, all housed in original cloth solander box, goatskin gilt label
Sale Price: £130.00
E.H. Shackleton and others: 'South Polar Times', Folio Society, RGS et al, 2012, facsimile limited edition (40/1000), numbered, 12 volumes, housed in original solander box
Sale Price: £360.00
Goeffrey Chaucer: 'The Works of', 2008, published by Folio Society, Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer, large folio, original cloth gilt, slipcase (slightly worn)
A large quantity of Folio Society titles, mainly 20th Century fiction including Daphne Du Maurier (4 volumes); Oscar Wilde (3 volumes); Agatha Christie (3 volumes); Joseph Conrad (3 volumes); Dorothy Sayers (5 volumes), plus Dylan Thomas, W.B. Yeats etc etc (36)
Anthony Trollope: 'Works?', Folio Society, 48 volume complete set, plus one duplicate volume (49)
Eric Gill (illustrated): 'The Four Gospels...', The Folio Society, 2007 facsimile reprint of the original 1931 Golden Cockerel Press edition, limited edition numbered (1,930/2,750), folio, original full black goatskin leather with pictorial gilt design, all edges gilt, housed together with the essays volume (folio, original quarter black cloth), sample page, publisher's prospectus and other relevant material in original solander box
Sale Price: £160.00
A quantity of Folio Society titles on World War Two, Holocaust etc., including Primo Levi: 'If this is a Man - The Truce'; Ernst Junger: 'Storm of Steel'; Richard Evans: 'The Third Reich?', 3 volumes; Masterman: 'The Double Cross System' etc (16)
Sale Price: £70.00
