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THE HEATH HOUSE STAFFORDSHIRE Fine Art and Furniture Sale To be sold at Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham

Tuesday 12 April 2022 at 10am

MELLORS & KIRK FINE ART AUCTIONEERS



MELLORS & KIRK FINE ART AUCTIONEERS

On the instructions of Messrs B and J Philips

The Heath House, Staffordshire Fine Art and Furniture Sale

Tuesday 12 April 2022 Online 10am – lots 1-431 Viewing at Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham Monday 11 April 9am - 5pm

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STORAGE All lots will be stored free of charge at the buyer’s risk for two weeks, after which charges begin to accrue.

JEWELLERY It is common practice for coloured stones including jade to be treated to enhance their appearance. This includes jade that has been bleached (usually in acid), polymer/resin filled or dyed, or a combination of any of these treatments. Prospective buyers should presume that all coloured stones sold by Mellors & Kirk have been treated unless stated to the contrary in the catalogue description. Some jewellery lots are accompanied by gemmological certificates which give an opinion on some or all of the gem stones included in that particular lot. These certificates may have been obtained by Mellors & Kirk or supplied by the Vendor. It is important to note that the content of these certificates is not guaranteed by Mellors & Kirk and we cannot be held responsible for any disagreement over the content of the certificates after the sale or for a retrospective change of opinion by the providers of any certificates. Not all images are lifesize, weights and measures in the catalogue are approximate only. Any dispute as to the authenticity of a lot including signatures, age, condition and as to the treatment of gem stones including pearls, synthetic diamonds and HTHP enhanced diamonds, must be brought to the attention of Mellors & Kirk within ten days of the sale date.



PHILIPS PEDIGREE Francis Phylippe m. Margaret (1552)

John Phelipe m. Margeria (1591)

Anthony Phelipe m. Margerie (1641)

Anthony Philipps m. Elizabeth Rawlins (1648)

Richard Philips m. Christobel Whitall (1628 - 1686) (1630 - 1668)

Nathaniel Philips m. Elizabeth Stubbs (1659 - 1737) (1666 - 1705)

John Philips m. Susanna Burton (1695 - 1777) (1701 - 1767)

Nathaniel Philips m. Elizabeth Hibbert. (1726 - 1808)

(1724 - 1797)

John Philips m. Catherine Turner (1724 - 1813)

(1721 - 1818)

John Philips m. Margaret Robinson (1759 - 1834) (1760 - 1824)

John Burton Philips m. Joanna Freeman Cure (1785 - 1847) (1795 - 1858)

John Capel Philips m. Hon Esther Flower (1831 - 1907) (1833 - 1881)

Burton H. Philips m. Lucy Marton (1858 - 1927) (1860 - 1941)

Anthony Philips m. Margaret Elletson (1912 - 1983) (1909 - 2002)

John Philips m. E. Flavia Pelham Burn (1936 - 2011) (1938 - 2011)

Benjamin Philips (1967)

Justin Philips (1969)


THE PHILIPS FAMILY AND THE HEATH HOUSE The Heath House, near Checkley, is an imposing yet stately Grade II* listed mansion in the verdant lower reaches of the Staffordshire Moorlands. It is an excellent example of Victorian Tudor-Gothic or ‘Elizabethan’ domestic architecture. John Burton Philips (1785-1847) for whom it was built in the mid 1830’s, commissioned the Lichfield architect, Thomas Johnson (1794-1865), son in law of the civil engineer, architect and builder James Trubshaw (1777-1853). Thomas Johnson almost certainly also designed the interiors and notable light oak furniture, several examples of which are in the present sale. The Philips family had been settled in the Tean Valley since the 16th century. Judicious marriages and the acquisition of land led succeeding generations to develop business interests in the Midlands and Lancashire, mainly concerned with textiles. These included mills for spinning and weaving, the manufacture of products ranging from hats to linen smallwear and the wholesale and export trades. The estate was bought by Nathaniel Philips in the late 17th century. He made his home in the old Heath House on the site of the present building. The firm, J N Philips & Co, was established in 1747 at Tean and survived until 1970. The family were avowed supporters of the socio-political and economic benefits of liberalism and free trade, views that characterised what became known as the Manchester School and championed by John Bright and Richard Cobden. John Burton Philips married Joanna Cure (1795-1858) in 1826. They embarked on collecting fine furniture, pictures, sculpture and works of art, largely acquired on a series of leisurely tours of France and Italy, seemingly for their as yet unbuilt new home. Yet more was sourced in London from leading dealers, such as the English ‘marchand-mercier’ Edward Holmes Baldock, from exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Suffolk Street and at sales such as those of the Duke of York and Benjamin West. From the Earl of Blessington’s sale came the superb Lawrence portrait of John Philip Kemble in the role of Cato, a picture which was the most striking feature of the dining room. It was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 2009. The provenance of many of the Philips’ purchases is known from the survival of two small pocket books of Joanna Philips, which she kept for the purpose. Most of the books from the Heath House library bear either her or his book label. The furniture supplied by Gillows’ of Lancaster and London must surely have included the magnificent imperial dining table (lot 43) in this sale. Gillows Estimate Sketch Books include two designs (2013 and 2015) commissioned by J B Philips. One of these is the earliest recorded example of a Gillows davenport (see S E Stuart – Gillows, Vol II, p.31). The Heath House was sold last year and remains a private residence. Nigel Kirk, March 2022

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AN OAK DOUBLE GATELEG TABLE, 19TH C

A GEORGE IV BOBBIN TURNED AND EBONISED OPEN ARMCHAIR with padded arms, brass castors, seat height 30cm, with two cushions

with substantial spiral turned legs, stretchers and gates, 72cm h; 150 x 169cm £300 - £500

£300 - £500

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A VICTORIAN CHESTERFIELD SOFA with serpentine front, on bulbous walnut feet, brass castors, seat height 33cm; approximately 86cm deep, 222cm l

A PAIR OF REGENCY BRASS MOUNTED MAHOGANY HALL CHAIRS the panel back applied with a brass ring beneath swept tablet, having solid seat on tapering turned forelegs with reeded knop, seat height 45cm

£400 - £600

£500 - £700

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY FLOWER STAND, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS

A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD PILLAR-END LIBRARY TABLE ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS the finely figured oblong top with bead-and-reel frieze and fitted two mahogany lined shallow drawers with quadrant beads, on turned and reeded pillars with lobed knop and turned feet, recessed castors, 72.5cm h; 73.5 x 137.5cm

the rectangular top with flared sides and well, plain frieze with bead-and-reel moulding, on baluster pillar, the lower section of triple cluster column form, tripod with pad feet, 78cm h; 38 x 50cm Flower stands or tables of this form, c1820-30, are safely attributed to Gillows because of their similarity to several flower stands featured in the firm’s Estimate Sketch Book during this period. The pair with beaded serpentine tops are illustrated Stuart (Susan E) - Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, 2008, vol II, plate 644

A closely related Gillows table is illustrated Stuart (S E) - Gillows of Lancaster and London 2008, vol I, plt 316 £1,000 - £1,500

£700 - £900

7 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE on square tapered legs and spade feet, 73cm h; 73 x 225cm £500 - £700

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8 A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT LIBRARY BOOKCASE in three sections with brass galleries and a number (1[9], 21, 23) and rosettes, the adjustable shelves flanked by pilasters headed by oval paterae, on skirted plinth concealing turned feet, 189cm h; 40 x 350cm £2,000 - £3,000

9 A SET OF EIGHTEEN EARLY VICTORIAN ELIZABETHAN OAK DINING CHAIRS, PROBABLY TO THE DESIGN OF THOMAS JOHNSON OF LICHFIELD, 1836-40 the padded back and stuffed over seats both covered in nailed red leather, on moulded or chamfered tapering legs with H stretcher, seat height 44cm Commissioned for The Heath House by John Burton Philips £5,000 - £8,000 (a set of 18)

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10 AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK SIDEBOARD TABLE, DESIGNED BY THOMAS JOHNSON OF LICHFIELD AND SUPPLIED IN 1842, the moulded rectangular top surmounted by scrolling back, the frieze applied with crisply carved foliated ornament, on eight massive concave octagonal columnar legs headed by a fleur de lys, 173cm h; 84 x 290cm Commissioned for The Heath House by John Burton Philips £3,000 - £5,000

11 AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK SERVING TABLE, PROBABLY TO THE DESIGN OF THOMAS JOHNSON OF LICHFIELD, 1836-40 retaining the original granite slab, on rectangular frame and incurved end supports united by a turned stretcher with strapwork roundel at either end, on chamfered base and compressed octagonal feet, 83cm h; 59 x 122cm Commissioned for The Heath House by John Burton Philips £1,000 - £1,500

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 12 A WILLIAM IV MAHOGANY BREAKFAST TABLE the figured round tip up top on stepped octagonal pillar, platform in matched veneers and carved paw feet with volutes, recessed castors, 74cm h, 121cm diam £500 - £1,000

13 A SET OF EIGHT NORTHERN EUROPEAN FRUITWOOD DINING CHAIRS, LATE 19TH C in Louis XIV c style, the set including four elbow chairs with overscrolled arms, on baluster-and-block legs united by stretchers, seat height 47cm £800 - £1,200

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AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK PEDESTAL SIDEBOARD of inverted breakfront form with stepped, ovolo moulded top, low arched apron and pedestal cupboards with corbels, 98cm h; 49.5 x 193cm

AN EARLY VICTORIAN OAK BUFFET, PROBABLY TO THE DESIGN OF THOMAS JOHNSON OF LICHFIELD, 1836-40 of two tiers, the low upstand carved with strapwork and centred by a cabochon, on coupled balusters and tapering turned legs, 107cm h; 59 x 174cm

£300 - £500

Commissioned for The Heath House by John Burton Philips £300 - £500

16 A RARE VICTORIAN WALNUT SELF-RECORDING ANEROID BAROMETER, L CASELLA LONDON, C1880 the timepiece with chain fusee movement with shouldered plates driving the barograph drum, that instrument on a substantial brass bed with columns and bubble level, the architectural case with glazed fall front flanked by pilasters, on stepped plinth with hinged flap in the top and two panelled doors to the back, pendulum and clock and case keys, and an early Victorian Elizabethan oak wall bracket, probably to the design of Thomas Johnson of Lichfield, 1836-40, the shelf and apron carved with leaves and strapwork, the volute supports with pendants, overall height 78cm; shelf 28 x 97cm (2) (Bracket) Commissioned for The Heath House by John Burton Philips For several similar instruments by contemporary British makers, see Collins (P R) - Barographs, 2002, chapter 1, in which the terms ‘self recording barometer’ and ‘barograph’ are discussed £1,500 - £2,000

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A VICTORIAN SERPENTINE WALNUT WORK TABLE the lid in figured veneers and lifting to reveal a sycamore fitted interior, on spool and leaf carved standards united by a stretcher, hipped legs and brass castors, 75cm h; 45 x 61cm

A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD WORK TABLE, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS the drop leaf top with two drawers, one divided into compartments, on reeded tapering turned legs and brass castors, key, 74cm h; 48 x 93cm

£200 - £300

£400 - £600

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND HAREWOOD PEMBROKE TABLE the oval top centred by a patera and stylised foliage, a drawer to one end, on square tapered legs headed by ovals, 68cm h; 70 x 93cm

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS having oak lined drawers, the oval brass handles original, on bracket feet, 105cm h; 52 x 108cm £200 - £300

£250 - £350

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21 A VICTORIAN SERPENTINE COUCH on turned walnut legs, brass castors, seat height 76cm h, approximately 186cm l £300 - £500

22 A SET OF THREE BLUE PAINTED ELBOW CHAIRS AND AN EARLIER OAK TRIPOD TABLE PAINTED TO MATCH in George III style, table 73cm h; 76cm diam £300 - £500

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A GEORGE III PADOUK CHEST OF DRAWERS having oak lined drawers, brushing slide and brass drop handles, on ogee feet, 84.5cm h, 52 x 96cm

A PAIR OF MAHOGANY HALF ROUND TEA TABLES, C1900 with bead moulding, on partly fluted tapering turned legs and bulb feet, 72.5cm h; 41 x 91.5cm £200 - £400

£400 - £600

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 25 A MAHOGANY BOOKCASE, EARLY 19TH C with stepped cornice and figured frieze, fitted with adjustable shelves enclosed by a pair of eight pane doors with lozenge pattern glazing bars, on a mahogany cupboard with flame figured door panels, bracket feet, 232cm h; 55 x 126cm £300 - £500

26 A GEORGE II OAK MULE CHEST the upper part with five raised and fielded panels to the front, the lower part having five scratch moulded drawers, the sides panelled, on stiles, 129cm h; 57x 143cm £400 - £600

27 A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERVING TABLE on moulded square legs with draught turned brackets, 93cm h; 68 x 183cm £500 - £700

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A GEORGE III PADOUK BUREAU, LATE 18TH C with brass handles and escutcheons, bracket feet, 103cm h; 49 x 96cm

A GEORGE III OAK MULE CHEST the four-plank lid with cavetto bead above lozenge inlaid quarter sawn panels to the front and two drawers, shaped apron, the sides panelled, 91cm h; 55 x 104cm

£200 - £300

£200 - £300

30 AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT SECRETAIRE-BOOKCASE with dentil cornice and fitted with adjustable shelves enclosed by two pairs of thirteen pane doors, the lower part with satinwood fitted secretaire and further drawers flanked by figured panel doors, pierced brass handles, on bracket feet, 214cm h; 51 x 232cm £800 - £1,200

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31 A CHARLES II OAK LIVERY CUPBOARD the ogee cornice above panelled doors and projecting base, enclosed by a central door, on channelled stiles, 165cm h; 63 x 140cm £400 - £600

32 A VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION PIER MIRROR the arched carvetto frame surmounted by a medallion flanked by two seated children holding festoons and a Victorian giltwood and composition console table, of inverted breakfront form, formerly with marble slab, overall height 260cm; table 34 x 84cm (2) £500 - £700

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33 AN EARLY VICTORIAN ELIZABETHAN OAK GAMES TABLE the oblong top with brass end-galleries, the reversible centre section revealing leather lined interior for backgammon, the underside inlaid for chess or draughts with squares of ebony and maple, on coupled trestles with carved rosettes and strapwork united by a high, low-arched stretcher, 75cm h; 53 x 86cm £500 - £700

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34 AN UNUSUAL FRENCH ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND VERNIS MARTIN CABINET IN THE FORM OF A SEDAN CHAIR, LATE 19TH C with leather covered, domed ‘roof’, the door and sides painted with two children with a birdcage, or landscapes and putti, the original crimson velvet lined interior with plate glass shelves, key, 173cm h; 62 x 73cm Provenance: Supplied by Mawer & Stephenson, Fulham Road, London to Burton Henry Philips for the Drawing Room of The Heath House, in 1907 £2,000 - £3,000

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35 A VICTORIAN CHESTERFIELD SOFA on turned mahogany feet, pottery castors, seat height 41cm, 88cm deep, 200cm l £250 - £350

36 AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY AND INLAID DRESSING TABLE with shield shaped mirror, 184cm h; 55 x 153cm £200 - £300

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37 TWO GEORGE III 18 INCH TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL GLOBES BY W & T M BARDIN, 1800 AND 1807 each sphere covered with twelve gores, the terrestrial globe inscribed To the Rt Honourable SIR JOSEPH BANKS BT, KB, President of the Royal Society This New British Terrestrial Globe containing all the latest discoveries and Communications from the most correct and authentic Observations and Surveys to the year 1799 by Captn Cook and more recent Navigator, Engraved from an accurate drawing by Mr Arrowsmith, Geographer/Additions to 1807, is respectfully Dedicated by his most obedient hble servants W & T M Bardin, labelled Sold by W & S Jones Holborn London, the celestial globe inscribed To the Rev Nevil Maskelyne DD, FRS, Astronomer Royal This new British Celestial Globe containing the positions of nearly 6000 stars, stars, clusters, nebulae, planetary nebulae etc correctly computed & laid down [to the] year 1800 from the latest observations and discoveries by Dr Maskelyne, Dr Herschel, the Rev Mr Wollaston, etc, is respectfully dedicated by his most obedient hble servants W & T M Bardin, also with printed label Sold by W & S Jones Holborn, London, with brass meridian circle, the horizontal circle with divisions for the months and signs of the zodiac, each on mahogany stand with turned pillar and three downswept legs with spade feet and brass castors, the terrestrial globe with stretchers and compass, 104cm high £7,000 - £10,000

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38 A VICTORIAN COLLAPSIBLE MAHOGANY WHIP RACK, LATE 19TH C 67cm h; 21 x 43cm £100 - £150

40 AN EARLY VICTORIAN ELIZABETHAN OAK WRITING TABLE the leather inlet oblong top with pierced brass galleries to the ends and fitted with two drawers centered by strapwork flanked by pendants, on coupled uprights and scroll feet, 75cm h; 65 x 126cm £800 - £1,200

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A VICTORIAN OAK SUTHERLAND TABLE 73cm h; 83 x 130cm

A SET OF SIX GEORGE III OAK DINING CHAIRS AND A SET OF FOUR SIMILAR MAHOGANY CHAIRS matching blue fabric covered slip seats, seat height 44 and 45cm

£100 - £150

£200 - £300

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43 A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY ‘IMPERIAL’ DINING TABLE BY GILLOWS with telescopic action, on ten reeded tapering legs with brass castors, with seven boards, 73cm h; 180 x 484cm Gillows’ Imperial table is a refinement of the firm’s Patent dining table of 1804. It was aesthetically more pleasing and also economical in that the fine Spanish timber of which it was constructed had only rounded corners instead of the more familiar D-shaped ends. Another example of c1825 that is stamped GILLOWS. LANCASTER is illustrated Stuart (Susan E) - Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730-1840, plate 242. It too has ten legs and seven finely figured leaves or ‘boards’, characteristic deep frieze of similar figure and the exact form of telescopic action as the present table £5,000 - £10,000

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A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE OR STAND the moulded top on vase knopped pillar and down curved legs, 61cm h, 38cm diam

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY TRIPOD TABLE with baluster pillar and later oblong top, 67cm h; 45 x 70cm £100 - £200

£80 - £120

45 AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY WASHSTAND fitted with two drawers, on tapering turned legs, brass castors, 79cm h; 52 x96cm

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£100 - £150

A POLYCHROME AND GOLD PAINTED WOOD THREE LEAF CHINOISERIE SCREEN, EARLY 20TH C painted with exotic birds in branches, 167cm h x 150cm l £200 - £300

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48 A VICTORIAN CHESTERFIELD SOFA on mahogany feet with castors, seat height 37cm (excluding cushions), 74 x 198cm £250 - £350

50 AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY BUREAU-CABINET crossbanded in rosewood and line inlaid, fitted with adjustable shelves, the flap in curl veneers, oval brass handles, 199cm h; 52 x 99cm Provenance: Purchased by Lucy Philips from Hetherington’s of Lancaster for £15-10s-0d in October 1907 £200 - £300

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A VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION OVERMANTLE MIRROR the arched frame with carved and moulded ovolo surround and ribbon edge crested by interlaced C scrolls and foliage, the base flanked by volutes, 220cm h, 183cm l

A GEORGE III BOW FRONTED MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS the drawers oak lined, on splayed feet, 85cm h; 49 x 105cm

£800 - £1,200

£100 - £150

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A GEORGE III OAK AND CROSSBANDED LOWBOY on cabriole legs, 70cm h; 49.5 x 79cm

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE fitted with a drawer, on square tapered legs, brass castors, 74cm h; 74 x 85.5cm

£80 - £120

£100 - £150

53 AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY AND LINE INLAID NEST OF TABLES 61cm h; 29 x 41cm (3) £80 - £120

56 A SERPENTINE MAHOGANY STAND, C1900 in George III style, fitted with a drawer to the blind fret carved sides, on square tapered legs with stretchers, 66cm h; 34 x 35cm and an oval mahogany urn stand (2) £80 - £120

54 A VICTORIAN COUCH on turned walnut legs, the brass castors with beaded collar, seat height 36cm, approximately 173cm l £100 - £200

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57 A JOINED OAK CHEST, FIRST HALF 18TH C with nulled frieze and four-panel front, the stiles with shaped brackets, 67cm h; 54 x 143cm £150 - £200

59 A GEORGE III NEO CLASSICAL GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION MIRROR the egg-and-dart frame with rectangular tablets of paterae and rinceaux to the upper corners, 82 x 109cm, painted dark brown at later date £100 - £200

58 A VICTORIAN ‘ANGLO-JAPANESE’ EBONISED TWO TIER OCCASIONAL TABLE, THE DESIGN IN THE MANNER OF E W GODWIN, C1870 the bow ended top on turned legs with stretchers, 64cm h; 48 x 71cm, old handwritten label “Heath House” £100 - £200

60 A GEORGE IV FOUR-POSTER BEDSTEAD, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS of oak with stepped moulded mahogany cornice and spirally reeded tapering mahogany footposts with crispy carved overlapping leaves, the base inlaid with satinwood diamond, turned feet, 245cm h; 166 x 204cm £1,000 - £1,500

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61 A GEORGE IV FOUR-POSTER BEDSTEAD, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS of oak, the deal cornice with later round mahogany moulding to front and sides, the fine turned and reeded footposts on square foot, 277cm h; 184 x 214cm £2,000 - £3,000

62 A WILLIAM IV FOUR POSTER BEDSTEAD of deal, the cornice with associated moulded mahogany surround, the spirally reeded mahogany footposts headed by stiff leaves, 259cm h (excluding later castors); 197 x 218cm £800 - £1,200

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A VICTORIAN STAINED PINE ‘WATERFALL’ BOOKCASE 126cm h; 24 x 108cm

AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY BUTLER’S PLATE AND CUTLERY STAND in George III style, with detachable lidded box, on turned legs with brass castors, 68cm h; 32 x 53cm

£100 - £150

£80 - £120

65 TWO VICTORIAN NURSING CHAIRS on turned walnut forelegs with brass or pottery castors, seat height 23cm £150 - £200

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66 A GEORGE IV MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE the top line inlaid and fitted with a drawer, on reeded tapering turned legs and brass castors, 72cm h; 91 x 96cm £100 - £200

68 A VICTORIAN BOBBIN TURNED SATIN BIRCH SIDE CHAIR the stuffed over seat in the original floral chintz, seat height 45cm £100 - £200

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE with rectangular leaves and fitted with a drawer, the brass loop handle original, on moulded square tapering legs, 71cm h; 81 x 97cm

A PAIR OF TEAK BEDSIDE TABLES, 1970S with drawer and undertier, 61cm h; 31 x 38cm £80 - £120

£100 - £200

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY POT CUPBOARD with drawer and arch moulding to the door, 74cm h; 33 x 39cm

AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY BUREAU crossbanded in satinwood, the back with shell patera, 96cm h; 42 x 76cm

£80 - £120

£50 - £100

72 A TURKISH RUG, MODERN 360 x 691cm £150 - £250

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MISCELLANEOUS TRUNKS AND BOXES, VICTORIAN AND EARLY 20TH C to include a pine blanket box, black painted fabric covered cabin trunk, scholar’s desk on stiles, butler’s tray, brass bound oak jardiniere, deal box containing 78rpm records and miscellanea, butler’s tray 63cm l

A WILLIAM IV COUCH the four bulbous oak feet carved with diamonds and cabochons, recessed castors, frame height 33cm h; 84 x 215cm £300 - £500

£100 - £200

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75 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN COUCHES OR BANQUETTES seat height 35cm; 67 x 174cm £100 - £200

77 AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS on bracket feet, 121cm h; 53 x 109cm £150 - £200

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY BOOKCASE the upper part fitted with adjustable shelves enclosed by glazed doors, the lower part with drawers having carved shell handles above panelled doors, 243cm h; 52 x 122cm

A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD BOOK CARRIER with finely turned spindle division and scrolling ends surmounted by bronze acanthus and spiral carrying handles, the rectangular base with beaded edge and a drawer, 24cm h; 30 x 41cm

£200 - £300

£100 - £200

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A VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION MIRROR, MID 19TH C with breakfront cornice and floral tablet to the frieze, the rectangular reeded ebonised slip flanked by leaf clasped pilasters, 78 x 58cm

AN EARLY VICTORIAN GILTWOOD AND COMPOSITION MIRROR, C1840 with leaf clasped pilasters framing the rectangular plate, reeded ebonised slip, 67.5 x 52cm £100 - £150

£80 - £120

81 A GEORGE II FRETTED FRAME WALNUT MIRROR with gilt slip, 88 x 49cm and a similar mirror, of later date, crested by a Ho Ho bird (2) £80 - £120

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82 AUGUSTO CHATELAINE, 19TH CENTURY AFTER BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO THE VIRGIN AND CHILD oil on canvas, 163 x 110.5cm The artist, Augusto Chatelaine of 226 Via di Ripetta, was one of several listed in John Murray’s Handbook of Rome and it’s Environs, 1864. Chatelaine was the son of the painter Antonio Chatelaine (1794-1859) also of Rome £1,500 - £2,000

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83 JOHN OPIE RA (1761-1807) THE WOODMAN oil on canvas, 182 x 119cm Purchased by John Burton Philips Philips in 1834 Literature: Harland (A), John Opie and his Circle, London 1911, p357 Cornforth (J), Heath House Tean Staffordshire, article in 'Country Life', 10 June 1963, p64 £5,000 - £10,000

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84 F MILANO, 19TH C AFTER CARLO CIGNANI THE MADONNA OF THE ROSARY oil on canvas, 42.5 x 32cm, J.B.P. on the reverse, in the original 19th century Florentine carved and gilded frame Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook c1845: “The original by Carlo Cignani in the Gallerie Degli in Uffizi at Florence Copied by Milani & bought at Florence in 1842”. Originally hanging in the Drawing Room, the picture was moved in 1941 to Mrs Burton Phillips’ Boudoir £500 - £700

85 ROELOF DE VRIES (1631-1681) WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS AT A TURNSTILE signed (R. Vries), oil on panel, 63.5 x 48.5cm £1,000 - £1,500

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 86 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1850 PORTRAIT OF JOANNA PHILIPS seated three quarter length in a black dress with short fringed sleeves and rose corsage, a cross around her neck, before red drapery, indistinctly signed J G...d and dated 1850, oil on canvas, 29.5 x 23.5cm Joanna Freeman Cure (1795-1858) married John Burton Philips in 1826 £200 - £300

87 F MILANO, 19TH C AFTER RAPHAEL MADONNA DELLA SEDIA oil on canvas, 72cm diam, contemporary Florentine frame Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “La Madonna della Seggiola a copy by Milani [see also lot 84] from the celebrated picture by Raphael in the Pitti Palace at Florence. The frame is also in facsimile & was bought at Florence in 1842” £1,200 - £1,800

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88 ENGLISH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH C PORTRAIT OF ANN PHILIPS half length in a white dress holding a book, a blue wrap over her left arm, oil on canvas, 75 x 61cm Ann Philips (1798-1858) £500 - £800

89 CAMPANILE, 19TH C AFTER MICHELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO THE CARDSHARPS oil on canvas, 63.5 x 76.5cm Provenance: Recorded in Julia Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The Gamblers, a copy by Campinelli & bought at Rome in 1843. The original is in the [Colonna-] Scirra Palace at Rome & is by Michel Angelo Caravaggio”. The artist, Campanile of 46 Via Sistina is one of those listed in Murray’s Handbook of Rome and it’s Environs, 1869 £800 - £1,200

90 ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY ROBERT MORLAND (1716-1797) A LADY’S MAID SOAPING LINEN oil on canvas, 44.5 x 34cm A version of the picture in Tate Britain £2,000 - £3,000 42

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FOLLOWER OF AERT VAN DER NEER COASTAL SCENE BY MOONLIGHT oil on panel, 34 x 43cm

ENGLISH SCHOOL, EARLY 19TH C PORTRAIT OF JOHN PHILIPS OF OLD HEATH HOUSE half length in a black coat and white stock, seated in a red chair, oil on canvas, 74.5 x 62cm

£400 - £600

John Philips (1759-1834) son of Nathaniel Philips (1732-1809) and his second wife £500 - £700

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MICHAEL KEELING (1750-1820) PORTRAIT OF MARGARET MRS PHILIPS half length in a dark dress and white fichu, seated in a red chair, signed and dated M Keeling / Pinx 1818, oil on canvas, 74.5 x 62cm

G H LE FLEMING (EXHIBITED 1905-1926) PORTRAIT OF GEORGE MARTON feigned oval, signed (in red), oil on canvas, 75 x 62cm

Margaret Philips, née Robertson (1756-1824) £500 - £700

Colonel George Heneage Blucher Marton MP, JP, DL (1839-1905) of Capernwray Hall, Lancashire. He was MP for Lancaster 1885-6 and High Sheriff of the County, 1877 £200 - £300

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95 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH C PORTRAIT OF NATHANIEL PHILIPS bust length in a black coat before red drapery, oil on canvas, 75 x 57cm Nathaniel Philips (1732-1809) £150 - £200

97 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH C PORTRAIT OF THE RT. HON. SIR ROBERT DALLAS three quarter length, in judicial robes in an interior, oil on canvas, 75 x 62cm The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Dallas (1756-1824) Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. His daughter, Lucy Sarah Dallas married George Marton in 1833. Lucy Marton's sister was the Countess Blucher £300 - £500

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WILLIAM MACLEAN (EARLY 20TH C) PORTRAIT OF LUCY PHILIPS seated half length in a lace trimmed white dress with light blue wrap, signed with initials and dated upper left, in red, 1907, oil on canvas, 90 x 70cm

ENGLISH SCHOOL PORTRAIT OF MARGARET, MRS PHILIPS seated half length in a coral blouse and blue skirt wearing a pearl necklace, her spaniel on her lap, indistinctly signed with initials, oil on canvas, 100 x 69cm

Lucy Madeline Philips, née Marton (1874-1941) married Burton Henry Philips (1858-1927) in 1904

Margaret Philips, née Elletson (1909-2002) £150 - £200

£400 - £600

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 99 SIR OSWALD HORNBY JOSEPH BIRLEY RA, ROI (1880-1952) PORTRAIT OF LUCY PHILIPS standing three quarter length in a white gown with blue bow and red lined black wrap, wearing a long necklace of blue beads, signed and dated 1911 (in red), oil on canvas, 131 x 81cm Lucy Madeline Philips, née Marton (1874-1941) married Burton Henry Philips (1858-1927) in 1904 £2,000 - £3,000

100 JAN WIJNANTS (C1635-1684) AN EXTENSIVE PASTORAL LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELLERS AND THEIR ANIMALS signed and dated J Wijnants Anno 1665, oil on copper, 62 x 84.5cm, unframed £3,000 - £5,000

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101 WILLIAM MACLEAN (FL. EARLY 20TH C) PORTRAIT OF JOHN BURTON PHILIPS seated three quarter length in a light brown suit with gold watch chain, signed and dated 1908, oil on canvas, 90 x 69.5cm Burton Henry Philips (1858-1927) married Lucy Madeline Marton (1874-1941) in 1904 £600 - £800

102 THOMAS EYRE MACKLIN RBA (1867-1943) PORTRAIT OF THE HON. FRANCES PHILIPS three quarter length standing at a chair in a black dress with lace collar and cuffs with a pink bow, a lace kerchief in her left hand, signed, oil on canvas, 115 x 79.5cm The Hon. Frances Esther Philips, née Flower (1837-1881) married John Capel Philips (1831-1907) in 1857 £1,000 - £1,500

103 CAMPANILE, 19TH CENTURY AFTER TITIAN A GIRL (THE ARTIST’S DAUGHTER, LAVINIA) HOLDING A BOWL OF FRUIT AND FLOWERS oil on canvas, 20 x 18 in Provenance: Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “Titian’s daughter... the original was in the Houghton Collection & is now at St Petersburgh -copied by Campinelli & bought in Rome 1843”. Originally hanging in the Drawing Room. The picture was moved in 1941 to Mrs Burton Philips’ Boudoir. The artist, Campanile of 46 Via Sistina is one of those listed in Murray’s Handbook of Rome and it’s Environs, 1869 Literature: J. Cornforth, Heath House, Tean, Staffordshire, article in 'Country Life', 10 January 1963, p.62 £800 - £1,200

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104 BENJAMIN WEST PRA (1738-1820) BELISARIUS AND THE BOY signed, dated ‘B. West / 1805’ and inscribed DATE. OBOLUM BELISARIO lower right and upper left respectively, oil on canvas, 69.5 x 44cm Provenance: Offered by Raphael L West and Benjamin West Junior to the American Government in 1826 (No58); Raphael L West and Benjamin West Junior by whom sold George Robins (auctioneer), London 22-25 May 1829, lot 54 to Sir Oswald Moseley 2nd Bt (17851871) for £26.5.00; John Burton Philips Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845, hanging in the Library: “opposite the windows - Believed by West, bought at Mr West’s sale in 1829” Exhibited: Possibly London, Royal Academy, 1805, No 145 (“Belisarius and the Boy, Vide Marmontel”) Possibly London, British Institution 1806, No 46 as ‘Belisarius and the Boy, begging alms’ Possibly London, West’s Gallery 1821, No 84 and 1822-28 No 8 Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, American Artists in Europe 1800-1900, 14 November 1976 - 2 January 1977, No 71 Literature: Moses (H) - The Gallery of Pictures painted by Benjamin West Esquire Historical Painter to His Majesty & President of the Royal Academy, engraved in outline by Henry Moses, London 1811, plate III H Von Erffa and A Staley - The Paintings of Benjamin West, Newhaven and London 1986, p.185, No 44 (illustrated) Engraved: Drawn by Henry Corbould and engraved by Henry Moses, published 1 May 1811 £10,000 - £15,000

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105 SIR PETER FRANCIS BOURGEOIS RA (1753-1811) A WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH DROVER AND CATTLE AT A TROUGH oil on canvas, 100 x 126cm £2,000 - £4,000

106 FREDERICK RICHARD LEE RA (1798-1879) AFTER DAVID TENIERS THE YOUNGER A CASTLE AND IT’S PROPRIETORS oil on canvas, 110 x 163cm £2,000 - £4,000

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107 CHARLES LANDSEER RA (1799-1879) HENRIETTA MARIA AND THE PRINCE OF WALES ASSISTING AT THE TOILETTE OF MLLE. DE MONTPENSIER oil on canvas, 76 x 63cm Provenance: Commissioned from the artist by John Burton Philips for the Library of The Heath House. Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “Henrietta Maria of England & The Prince of Wales (afterwards Charles 2d) assisting in the toilette of Mlle de Montpensier - painted by C Landseer a commission picture & exhibited in the Royal Academy 1848” Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1848, No 191 Literature: J. Cornforth - 'Heath House Tean Staffordshire' article in 'Country Life', 10 January 1963, p.62, plt 2 £5,000 - £8,000

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108 MICHELANGELO GRIGOLETTI (1801-1870) THE DOGE FRANCESCO FOSCARI CONDEMNING HIS SON TO BANISHMENT signed and dated 1842, oil on canvas, 180 x 254cm, in the original frame and the lithograph by Michele Fanoli after Grigoletti (2) Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “At the bottom of the Drawing Room is a picture painted by commission at Venice in 1842 by Michel Angelo Grigoletti. The subject is the Doges Foscari condemning his son to banishment”. The picture was removed to the Staircase Hall in November 1907. Engraved: Melchiorre Toller £5,000 - £7,000

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109 CHARLES WEST COPE RA (1811-1890) THE PAGE - “LET YOUR HASTE COMMEND YOUR DUTY”: THE ARTIST’S SON WITH A DOG BELONGING TO MR J H ROBINSON signed and dated ‘C. W. Cope 1853’, oil on panel, 76 x 63cm Provenance: Commissioned from the artist by John Burton Philips for the Library of The Heath House. Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The Page painted by C Cope RA, a commission picture & exhibited in the Royal Academy 1853. The page is a portrait of Cope’s son. The dog is a portrait of a dog belonging to W J H Robinson” ‘Let your haste commend your duty’ Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1853, No 479 £2,500 - £4,000

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111 AFTER AUDREY PHILIPS PORTRAIT OF GWEN SALT three quarter length in a cream dress with crinoline and bow, wearing her light brown hair in ringlets, watercolour and bodycolour, 28 x 20cm

Provenance: Christies, 3 December 2003, lot 356

According to a note in the family’s possession, Gwen Salt, who was aged 11 at the time of the portrait, was “the mother of Dorothy Bassett of Caverswall. Frank Salt was her father and they ran the Post Office in Hollington. Mr Salt kept Tean Mills going after the First World War. He made a crystal radio set with Anthony Philips. The present portrait is a copy of the original given to Mrs Margaret Philips by Dorothy Bassett”

£200 - £300

£80 - £120

110 SUE MACCARTNEY-SNAPE (1957 - ) THE OFFICE SMOKER signed with initials and inscribed, watercolour, 51.5 x 30.5cm

112 ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH C AN EXTENSIVE WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE AND A DISTANT COUNTRY HOUSE; VIEW ACROSS A VALE FROM A WINDING ROAD ON A HILLSIDE; A MEANDERING STREAM; MAN IN A BOAT IN THE FENS four, three dated 1862 or circa, watercolour, 26 x 51cm and smaller (4) £100 - £150

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112A ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH C A FISHERMAN ON A RIVERBANK signed with initial A and dated 1881, watercolour, 17 x 54cm and six various other landscapes, including two on the coast, unframed £100 - £150

114 ELLEN LAETITIA PHILIPS (1829-1913) LANDSCAPES AND CONTINENTAL SCENERY including views taken at Venice, Como, the Eiger and other alpine scenery, Christchurch Priory Dorset, Deal, Rhuddlan Castle, Sandgate, Sandwich, Oxford and other British views by the same hand or attributed to her son Edward Philips or sister Mary Ann Hibbert, one hundred, mostly dated (1844-1872) and inscribed verso, watercolour, several recto and verso, various sizes to circa 26 x 36cm, unframed (100) £700 - £900

113 ELLEN JOSEPHINE PHILIPS, NÉE LANGTON (1836-1919) LANDSCAPES including a view from the Sitting Room window Porlock Weir, Salcombe River from Portlemouth Rectory, views of Dartmouth Harbour and the Castle, Anstey’s Cove, Ilsham Vale Torquay, Sidmouth, Lyme Regis, Ilfracombe, Bideford, the New Forest, Stonehenge and Hoar Cross, twenty-four, dated 1864, 1868, 1870 or 1873 and inscribed on drawing or mount, mounted one or two to an album leaf, watercolour, circa 14 x 22cm (two smaller), unframed (24) Ellen Josephine Philips, née Langton, married Herbert Philips (1834-1905) in 1862 £400 - £600

115 FRANCES ELIZABETH PHILIPS, NÉE HIBBERT (1830-1869) NOCTURNES two, watercolour, 15 x 20cm and smaller and other 19th c English School watercolours by various hands, including Ellen Laetitia Philips (1829-1913), various subjects, several inscribed, four en grisaille, unframed (18) £150 - £200

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116 GEORGE RICHMOND RA (1809-1896) DOUBLE PORTRAIT OF THE PHILIPS CHILDREN small full lengths with their dogs in a landscape, signed and dated G Richmond Delin 1837, watercolour, 46 x 57.5cm Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1837, No 604 Literature: Lister (R) - George Richmond: A Critical Biography, London 1981, p.168, No 64 The sitters are John Capel Philips (1831-1907) and his sister Margaret Christabel Philips (1827-1907) £3,000 - £5,000

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117 GEORGE HUNT (1797-AFTER 1841) AFTER JAMES POLLARD THE CAMBRIDGE TELEGRAPH aquatint in contemporary colour, published by John Moore 182536, mounted to image, 38 x 51.5cm £100 - £150

119 FRANCIS HAWARD ARA (1759-1797) AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MRS SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF THE TRAGIC MUSE stipple engraving with etching, 1787, mounted to within platemark, 59 x 42.5cm £80 - £120

118 JOHN HENRY ROBINSON RA (1796-1871) AFTER WILLIAM MULREADY THE WOLF AND THE LAMB mixed method engraving, published by W B Cooke 1828, 57 x 44.5cm, bird’s eye maple frame and two other early 19th c prints, one after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the other after Sir Thomas Lawrence (3) £100 - £150

120 FRANCESCO BARTOLOZZI (1728-1815) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE MISS ELIZABETH FARREN COUNTESS OF DERBY stipple engraving in sepia before title, 1792, 55 x 35cm and two other prints after portraits - Lord Ashburton by Bartolozzi after Sir Joshua Reynolds and The Right Honourable Lady Dover by Samuel Cousins after Sir Thomas Lawrence (3) £100 - £150

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121 SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE MASTER LAMBTON THE RED BOY; MISS PEELE two, mezzotints, the first published by Colnaghi Son & Co, 1827, 46 x 35cm and three other contemporary portrait engravings (5) £400 - £600

122 CHARLES LOUIS LINGEE (1748-1819) AFTER JEAN BAPTISTE ISABEY BONAPARTE stipple engraving, 1801, mounted to image, 64.5 x 44cm and a mezzotint of Nelson, early 19th c, mounted to image, 59.5 x 41cm, in matching 19th c reeded ebonised and parcel gilt frames with rosette corner pieces (2) £300 - £500

123 THOMAS FAIRLAND (1804-1852) AFTER WILLIAM JOSEPH SHAYER TAKING THE FENCE; OVER THE DITCH a pair, lithographs in contemporary colour, mounted almost to image, 38 x 52cm, verre eglomise mounts, gilt cavetto frames (2) £100 - £150

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126 BILLIE WATERS (1896-1979) THE LITTLE FAWN reproduction, printed in colour, signed by the artist in pencil, FATG blindstamp, 37 x 41.5cm and miscellaneous other prints and drawings, etc £40 - £60

124 JOHN WILLIAM COOK (FL. 1819-1852) AND HENRY R COOK (FL. EARLY 19TH C) AFTER ALEXANDER SAUERWEID THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO a pair, engravings mounted to image, 1819, 49.5 x 75.5cm, in contemporary early 19th c ebonised and gilt frames, each with sliding key (2) £500 - £800

125 JOHN BURNET (1784-1868) AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE THE READING OF A WILL; THE LETTER OF INTRODUCTION two, engravings, 1825 and 1823 respectively, 54 x 68cm and 51 x 39cm (2) £150 - £200

127 WILLIAM WOOLLETT (1735-1785) AFTER GEORGE STUBBS SHOOTING a set of four, engravings, published by Thomas Bradford, 1769-1771, 43.5 x 54.5cm (4) £500 - £700

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SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA mixed method engraving, 1837, 60 x 81cm, bird’s eye maple frame with, on the backboard, the trade label of [Dennis] Capps Carver Gilder Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer No 46 Foley Street Portland Place [w.1820-45]

SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER SIR EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER RETURN FROM HAWKING mixed method engraving, 1840, 65.5 x 95cm, bird’s eye maple frame £200 - £300

£100 - £200

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JOHN HENRY ROBINSON RA (1796-1871) AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE NAPOLEON AND POPE PIUS VII AT FONTAINBLEAU IN 1813 mixed method engraving before title, c1848, laid down on the original mount, 71 x 57.5cm, bird’s eye maple frame

SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE THE COUNTESS GOWER AND THE LADY ELIZABETH LEVESON GOWER mixed method engraving, 1832, 82 x 56cm, maple frame

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

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132 ADRIAN ALLINSON (1890-1959) HARBOUR SCENE pencil, blindstamped by the artist’s executors, 32 x 41.5cm £100 - £150

134 ABRAHAM RAINBACH (1766-1843) AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE THE RENT DAY; DISTRAINING FOR RENT a pair, engravings, 1817 and 1828, 52 x 67cm (2) £100 - £150

135 133 GEORGE RICHMOND RA (1809-1896) PORTRAIT OF A LADY OF THE PHILIPS FAMILY head and shoulders, signed and dated Geo Richmond delit 1862, black, white and red chalk on coloured paper, 60 x 46.5cm £200 - £300

SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER SIR EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER LADY EVELYN LEVESON GOWER & THE MARQUIS OF STAFFORD mixed method engraving, 1841, 68 x 54cm, bird’s eye maple frame with, on the backboard, the printed trade label of [Dennis] Capps Carver Gilder Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer No 46 Foley Street Portland Place [w.1820-45] £100 - £200

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136 SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER SIR EDWIN HENRY LANDSEER BOLTON ABBEY IN THE OLDEN TIME mixed method engraving [c1837], 67 x 81cm, bird’s eye maple frame with, on the reverse, the partly obscured printed trade label of [Dennis] Capps Carver Gilder Glass and Picture Frame Manufacturer Portland Place [w. 1820-45] £100 - £200

137 VARIOUS ARTISTS AND ENGRAVERS, 18TH C AND LATER PORTRAITS, OLD MASTER AND DECORATIVE PRINTS the subjects to include eminent British men (Lord Brougham, Samuel Greg, Viscount Melbourne, Thomas Drummond and Henry Grattan), various sizes to approximately 92 x 65cm, sold in portfolio (approximately 42) £250 - £350

138 JOHN BURNET (1784-1868) AFTER SIR DAVID WILKIE THE RABBIT ON THE WALL engraving, 1821, 47 x 34.5cm, another engraving of Stern and the Grisette after Newton and a set of four coloured engravings of cottages after George Morland, etc £50 - £70

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INDIAN SCHOOL A PRINCE IN A HOWDAH ON AN ELEPHANT WITH TWO COMPANIONS gouache and calligraphy on paper, 170 x 90mm

JULIAN TREVELLYN RA (1910-1988) ELEPHANTS etching with aquatint on wove, signed by the artist in pencil, inscribed with the title and Artist’s Proof, 51 x 37cm

£80 - £120

£150 - £200

140 INDIAN SCHOOL, 20TH C HUNTER ON HORSEBACK; LEAPING HORSE; CEREMONIAL ELEPHANT three, gouache on cloth, 13 x 19cm and circa £80 - £120

142 INDIAN SCHOOL, 20TH C CEREMONIAL ELEPHANT gouache on cloth, 47.5 x 56.5cm £80 - £120

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144 HERBERT PHILIPS (1834-1905) LANDSCAPES TAKEN IN GREECE AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE including Corfu, The Gun Battery Palika, Nauplia, Olympia, Plain of Marathon, Athens, Acrocorinth, peasants and rail passengers, Aixles-Thermes, the Canigou, near Prades, the Puy de Dome and St Necttaire, thirty, all signed, dated 1884, 1893 or 1894 and inscribed, watercolour, several monochrome or pen and ink, circa 12 x 16.5cm or 8 x 17cm, unframed (30) The artist was the husband of Ellen Josephine Philips née Langton (1836-1919)

143 SAMUEL COUSINS RA (1801-1887) AFTER ALFRED EDWARD CHALON PORTRAIT OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN CORONATION ROBES mixed method engraving, 1838, 88 x 60cm, bird’s eye maple frame

£250 - £350

£200 - £300

145 MARGARET CHRISTABEL PHILIPS (1827-1907) AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOURS AND PENCIL DRAWINGS including views of The Heath House and grounds Staffordshire, 1844, Guy’s Cliffe Warwick, Dovedale, Norbury Church Derbyshire, Croxden Abbey, the Yorkshire Coast, near Torquay, Scotland, Chamonix, Interlaken, Geneva and St Remy and elsewhere, mounted one or two to a leaf, recto only (28.5 x 41cm), inscribed on the pastedown M C Philips Sketches - 1843 &c, contemporary quarter calf over cloth covered boards, scuffed and bumped £300 - £500

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146 A VICTORIAN ALBUM OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BY AND ASSEMBLED BY ELLEN LAETITIA PHILIPS, 1852-1863 principally British and Continental landscapes, including the Lake District, landscape in the Roman Campagna captioned “Early experiment in Lithography from a drawing by an artist in Rome 1818” and several similarly captioned prints, a pair of watercolours of Bolton Abbey by Anne Langton, The Rookery Eccles and Tandle Hill from earlier pictures remembered by the artist, a series of Cupids and other drawings and watercolours also by Anne Langton, Borrowdale, Derwentwater and other watercolours by W Langton and members of the family, Lancashire and north west England, view from the ramparts Canada and several other similar drawings of the city and Niagara Falls 1854, a couple at Grasmere seen from behind 1861, an early mounted ambrotype photograph of Grasmere Church, Sherringham, Northrepps and the vicinity 1862, Torquay, the south of France, Germany and Italy, several spotted and dust stained, mounted one or more to a leaf (29 x 23cm), contemporary cloth backed boards, lacks spine

148 AN UNUSUAL VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK OF BIBLICAL QUOTATIONS illustrated by prints and scraps, ferns, grasses, lock of hair and wax seal impression, neatly arranged and mounted on leaves, recto and verso, 29 x 23cm, approximately half of the leaves at end blank, contemporary blue cloth lettered gilt SCRAP BOOK and another larger, contemporary Victorian album (2) £100 - £200

£200 - £300

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147 EDWARDS (LIONEL) MY HUNTING SKETCH BOOK two volumes, colour plates, oatmeal cloth with title label, 4to, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, 1928 and 1930 (2) £80 - £120

BY AND AFTER NATHANIEL GEORGE PHILIPS (1795-1831) An album of etchings, engravings and lithographs, principally architectural subjects, various states, several inscribed, somewhat spotted or with offsetting, hinged or loosely laid down to leaves, recto only (33 x 26cm), with inscription on the endpaper N G Philips’ etchings...Most of these private plates and never published..., contemporary cloth worn, lacks spine, boards detached, Borough of Lancaster Politics 1836-61 - an album of press cuttings and related autograph letter signed by George Marton 1841 and five various 19th c scrapbooks (7) Rare. Nathaniel George Philips of Liverpool studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he became acquainted with several Scottish artists. During a three years’ artistic sojourn in Italy he was elected to the Academy of St Luke on the death of Henry Fuseli, RA (1741-1825) £200 - £300

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150 A VICTORIAN ALBUM OF PRINTS ASSEMBLED BY BURTON HENRY PHILIPS of late 18th-mid 19th c engravings and lithographs, genre painting, portraits, caricatures and landscapes, mostly uncoloured and neatly mounted 1-4 to a page, recto only, and several Italian drawings, one gouache, including a view of a church near Florence by Signor Gherardi, Octr 1842 and the Bay of Naples (36 x 25cm), later quarter calf over green boards, spine lettered SCRAP-BOOK, engraved bookplate Burton Henry Philips (1858-1927) was the son of John Capel Philips (1831-1907) and his wife Frances S Flower (1834-1881) £200 - £300

151 A REGENCY SCRAPBOOK OF CARICATURES AND OTHER DECORATIVE PRINTS, LATE 18TH - EARLY 19TH C filled with various engravings, etchings and lithographs, the caricatures by G Cruickshank, G Humphrey and others in fresh contemporary colour, etchings by George Cuitt, a series of portraits of actors, including Liston and Kean, L L Boilly heads, distinguished women (Elizabeth Fry, Madam de Stael, Peg Woofington and many others), British topography, ruins and romantic scenery, miniature prints, dwarves and curiosities, royalty, Napoleon, The Pig Pye Man, foreign personalities, British authors, artists, peers and politicians, scientists, admirals, series of picturesque views of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, Bristol, foreign costumes, Calves’ heads and brains all in phrenological picture, several watercolours, etc, neatly mounted one or many more to a leaf, recto and verso (25 x 35cm), later label on pastedown inscribed For W Morton Philips [signed] E.L.P. Ap. 21 [19]08, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, boards detached £1,000 - £1,500 64

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A MID-VICTORIAN SCRAP BOOK OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS ASSEMBLED BY WILLIAM MORTON PHILIPS including botanical subjects cut from 18th c Chinese wallpaper, a lithograph of Mr Sarony’s Photographic Establishment Scarborough and vignettes of costume and fashion, an advertisement for mourning flowers and droops, Victorian chromo Valentine cards, hunting scenes, historic houses, churches and monuments, birds and animals, children, paper puzzle, Peace Commemoration firework display Green Park and many other subjects, each leaf filled, recto and verso (35 x 25cm), signed W Morton Philips 1857, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn

A MID VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK the various engravings and lithographs after contemporary and earlier genre and other paintings, neatly mounted 1-5 to a leaf, recto only, a watercolour of the head of Abd-el-Kader [Emir Abdlkader (18081883)] by E Seymour...1849, 36 x 26cm, inscribed on pastedown From Mrs Porter, contemporary half calf over malachite patterned boards with gilt label £150 - £250

Provenance: William Morton Philips (18521940) of Heybridge, Staffordshire. The son of John William Philips (1827-1914) and his wife Adelaide Louisa Manningham-Fuller (1833-1860). He married in 1882, Caroline Anne Kate Stockford (1856-1955)

154 UNKNOWN ARTIST OF THE PHILIPS FAMILY, 19TH C AN ALBUM OF WATERCOLOURS OF THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE AND VIEWS TAKEN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND ON THE CONTINENT including France and Switzerland, the Italian Lakes, Venice, Torquay and others, uncaptioned, one signed with initials VP, loosely laid down, mostly mounted on corners only, on leaves, recto only (27 x 38cm) and several unmounted watercolours by the same hand, loosely inserted, 50, contemporary calf gilt, spine worn, by S B Fuller 61 Pall Mall, a.e.g. £400 - £600

£200 - £300

155 TRAVEL. FELIX BONFILS (1831-1885) AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS UNKNOWN A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM views of Beirut, Damascus, Egypt, Naples, Marseille and Gran Canaria, mainly whole plate albumen prints and further somewhat later colour prints, mounted on linen hinged leaves, recto and verso, 72, contemporary half calf worn, a.e.g. £100 - £200

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156 MAULL & POLYBLANK (1854-1865) AND HERBERT FRY’S NATIONAL GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 29 subjects, albumen prints on the original mounts, with the subjects facsimile signature or else written in, loosely laid down on leaves, inscribed on the ffe Edward S Woodhouse, contemporary half calf lettered gilt ALBUM FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, worn

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TRAVEL. ENRICO VAN LINT (1808-1884) AND CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS UNKNOWN, C1870-80 A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM including views of Marseille, Mentone, Bordighera, Cannes, Pisa, Florence, Verona, Como, Bellagio and elsewhere, works of art and Whitby Abbey, approximately 148, whole plate and smaller albumen prints mounted on leaves, recto and verso, contemporary half calf with gilt monogram, worn, a.e.g.

A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF VIEWS OF OXFORD COLLECTED BY WILLIAM MORTON PHILIPS, 1871 118, half plate and smaller albumen prints mounted one or more on linen hinged leaves, recto (mainly) and verso, contemporary half calf lettered in gilt OXFORD 1871 W M PHILIPS, slightly worn, a.e.g.

£150 - £250

£150 - £200

William Morton Philips (1852-1940) of Heybridge, Staffordshire. The son of John William Philips (1827-1914) and his wife Adelaide Louisa Manningham-Fuller (18331860). He married in 1882, Caroline Anne Kate Stockford (1856-1955) £150 - £200

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157 TRAVEL. A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM including views of Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, Warwick Castle, Eton College Chapel, Windsor Castle, Capernwray, The Devil’s Bridge, cathedrals, Cromer, France, Ruwanwella Fort and other views of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 61, whole plate and smaller albumen prints mounted on leaves, sporadic spotting, several leaves excised, contemporary half calf worn

TRAVEL. JAMES VALENTINE (1815-1879) AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM including views of the monuments of London, York, Canterbury and Continental cities, approximately 74, mainly whole plate albumen prints mounted mostly singly on linen hinged leaves, recto and verso, printed label of William Morton Philips of Heybridge on pastedown, contemporary half calf, worn and slightly torn, a.e.g. £100 - £150

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163 161 TRAVEL. ALFREDO NOACK (1833-1895) AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF THE TOWNS AND MONUMENTS OF ITALY including Genoa, Florence, Siena, Ravenna, Padua, Venice, Milan, Verona and works of art, 42, whole plate albumen prints mounted on linen hinged leaves, contemporary half calf worn, boards detached, lacks spine

AN EDWARDIAN POSTCARD ALBUM the subjects mostly Northern European towns and cities and other subjects, mainly undivided back and Gruss aus, several postally used, approximately 80, dated on ffe July 1905 and April 1907, in Army and Navy Co-Op Society Ltd green cloth album £100 - £150

£80 - £120

164 TRAVEL. FRANCIS BEDFORD (1815-1894) contemporary British and Continental photographers and photographers unknown - Two Victorian photograph albums, of monuments and views including Beaumaris and North Wales, Switzerland and Italy, 49, whole plate and smaller albumen prints mounted on linen hinged leaves, some spotting and stains, contemporary half calf, scuffed and worn, lacking spine £80 - £120

162 18TH C NEWSPAPERS. MANCHESTER GAZETTE numbers 113-219 together bound, quarter tan calf, spine lettered gilt MANCHESTER GAZETTE 1798-1799, JANUARY 6 1798DECEMBER 28 1799, w.a.f. £100 - £150

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170 A PAIR OF ITALIAN MARMO GIALLO SIENA MODELS OF THE TEMPLES OF CASTOR AND POLLUX AND THE TEMPLE OF VESPASIAN, ROME, C1840 on marmo nero belgio base, 43 and 44cm h Provenance: Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The ... ruins of the Forum in Giallo Antico, all bought in Rome in 1843”. Bought at the same time as the model of the Column of Phocas, lot 179. £2,000 - £3,000

171 AN ITALIAN MARMO GIALLO SIENA MODEL OF THE TOMB OF SCIPIO, ROME, C1840 the cover detachable revealing three oval or hemispherical wells, on slate plinth, 24.5cm l Provenance: Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The tomb of Scipio, the original in the Vatican... bought at Rome in 1843” £800 - £1,200

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172 AN ITALIAN MARMO BROCATELLO MODEL OF A SARCOPHAGUS, DERIVED FROM THE PANTHEONIC ‘TOMB OF AGRIPPA’, ROME, C1840 on marmo nero belgio supports and marmo giallo siena base, 35cm l Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The sarcophagus of Agrippa the original in the Vatican... bought at Rome in 1843” £500 - £700

174 AN ITALIAN MARMO GIALLO SIENA TAZZA, ROME, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF BENEDETTO BOSCHETTI, C1840 on marmo verde antico pedestal and slate plinth, 31.5cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “A giallo antico vase... bought in Rome in 1843” £200 - £300

173 A VICTORIAN DERBYSHIRE SLATE (ASHFORD BLACK MARBLE) AND PIETRE DURE TAZZA, C1840 inlaid in coloured hardstones with a brightly plumaged bird perched on a fruiting pear branch, 23cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “[date] 1844... a black marble ditto [“flower vase”] with an inlaid Mosaic bird in the botton - Matlock” £400 - £600

175 A VICTORIAN CORNISH SERPENTINE MODEL OF A FONT the octagonal bowl on four turned pillars around a central shaft, stepped foot, 13cm h £200 - £300

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176 A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ETCHED DERBYSHIRE SLATE (ASHFORD BLACK MARBLE) MODELS OF CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE, C1840 the stepped square base inscribed MODEL OF AN OBELISK CALLED “CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE” STANDING AT ALEXANDRIA, 39.5cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “1844... 2 Egyptian needles - Matlock” £400 - £600

177 AN ITALIAN STATUARY MARBLE SCULPTURE OF THE VENUS ITALICA AFTER ANTONIO CANOVA, ROME, C1840 71cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845 (under statues and bronzes in the Hall): “Venus de Medicis - do. [bought in Rome 1843]” £1,500 - £2,000

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178 AN ITALIAN MARMO ROSSO ANTICO MODEL OF A SARCOPHAGUS, DERIVED FROM THE PANTHEONIC ‘TOMB OF AGRIPPA’, ROME, C1840 on a marmo verde antico base, 25cm l Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845 “...a marble baignoir... bought at Rome in 1843” £800 - £1,200

179 AN ITALIAN MARMO GIALLO SIENA MODEL OF THE COLUMN OF PHOCAS, ROME, C1840 with miniature bronze statuette of the Emperor, the base inscribed COLONNA FOCA, on marmo nero belgio plinth, 44.5cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The 3 ruins of the forum in giallo antico, all bought in Rome in 1843”. Bought at the same time as the pair of temple models (lot 170) The Emperor Phocas (d.610AD) reigned in Constantinople for 8 years. He converted the Parthenon into a Christian temple. His is one of the monuments in the Roman Forum £500 - £800

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180 AN ITALIAN STATUARY MARBLE SCULPTURE OF THE BORGHESE GLADIATOR, FIRST HALF 19TH C, AFTER THE ANTIQUE 54cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “A gladiator in marble bought at Bath by Mr Hutchinson” £500 - £800

181 A PAIR OF BRONZE SCULPTURES OF THE MARLY HORSES, C1840 AFTER GUILLAUME COUSTOU even golden brown patina, 60cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845 (under statues and bronzes in the Hall): “2 bronzes - Paris - called The Marly Horses - Louis 14th had the group copied at Rome on the Monte Cabillo - these copies were first at Marly & subsequently after the destruction of the gardens there, they were moved to the Champs-Elysees” £1,500 - £2,000 74

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183 AN ITALIAN BRONZE SCULPTURE OF THE DYING GAUL AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ROME, FIRST HALF 19TH C even light brown patina, marble base, 22cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “The Dying Gladiator in bronze, the original at the Capitol[oline Museum]... bought at Rome in 1843” £500 - £700

182 AN ITALIAN BRONZE SCULPTURE OF THE CROUCHING VENUS AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF BENEDETTO BOSCHETTI, ROME, C1840 light golden brown patina rubbed and dirty, on marble giallo siena base, 34.5cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845 (under ornaments in Library as arranged July 1844) “Venus Aux Bains Rome” £600 - £800

184 AN ITALIAN BRONZE SCULPTURE OF A LION ATTACKING A HORSE, ROME, C1840, AFTER THE ANTIQUE on oval marble base, 23cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “A bronze group of The Horse & Lion, the original at the Capital[oline Museum] & bought at Rome in 1843” £300 - £500

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185 WORKSHOP OF JEAN-JOSEPH FOUCOU ARIADNE statuary marble, 90cm h, signed J J FOUCOU S.P. 1793 and inscribed ARIANNE Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: "A marble statue of Ariadne bought at Bath by Mr Hutchinson" £1,500 - £2,000

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186 AN EARLY VICTORIAN BRONZE MOUNTED OAK AND EBONY INKSTAND, ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS of sarcophagus shape with drawer, a substantial brass loop handle to either side, the glass well to the centre of the top with oak cover, on plinth base, 38cm l, underside of the drawer inscribed in pencil H P Wilcock

TWO SIMILAR VICTORIAN BRASS MOUNTED WALNUT STATIONERY BOXES the front and coffered lid with three bands of pierced strapwork and swing handle, 22.5cm l £150 - £200

£200 - £300

190 AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY WORKBOX the lid inset with a sepia print of The Heath House, silk lined, 25cm l

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£50 - £70

A VICTORIAN BOULLE GLOVE BOX AND A CONTEMPORARY BOULLE STATIONERY BOX, MID 19TH C with coffered lid and typically decorated with pierced brass strapwork on a ground of red stained horn, 25 and 22.5cm l £200 - £300

188 A VICTORIAN GILT BRASS MOUNTED EBONY JEWEL CASKET the pierced and engraved mounts and studs to the exterior partly replicated on the watered silk lined interior, the leafy scrolling cartouche to the lid centred by the initials EFP, the underside of the base retaining the original green leather, key, 23cm l £120 - £180

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191 A VICTORIAN ‘KING GOTHIC’ PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAY painted with flowers and a bird within gilt tracery, 56 x 71cm and another, oval (2) £100 - £150

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194 A FRENCH NERO BELGIO AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, LATE 19TH C in architectural case with pilasters, having enamel dial, Breguet hands and gong striking movement, backplate stamped R & C PARIS & LONDON, No 2201, pendulum, key, 31.5cm h £100 - £150

192 A GEORGE V SILVER AND TURQUOISE GUILLOCHE ENAMEL FITTED CREAM LEATHERETTE DRESSING CASE-WITHIN-CASE 50cm l, fittings by W Comyns & Sons Ltd, London 1948 and 1949, key, canvas cover £100 - £200

195 A FRENCH GILTMETAL MOUNTED SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN INKSTAND AND A PAIR OF CONTEMPORARY ASSOCIATED TWO HANDLED INKWELLS c1880, painted with putti and flowers, 32cm l £150 - £250

193 FRENCH SCHOOL, MID 18TH C YOUNG WOMAN AT THE ALTAR OF LOVE signed Couniol inv, gouache, oval, 77 x 96mm Similar subjects in enamel signed by the artist decorate a Louis XV gold tabatiere, maker’s mark indistinct, Paris 1765-66 (Musee du Louvre OA 7963) £150 - £250

196 A 2” BLACK PAINTED REFRACTING TELESCOPE WITH STITCHED TAN LEATHER COVERED SLEEVE, EARLY 20TH C maroon velvet lined leather case and a gilt brass pocket barometer, M Pillischer, London, the back engraved R.P.B. SEPT 1922 (2) £80 - £120

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197 A GEORGE III BRONZE GARDEN SUNDIAL, 18TH C with plain gnomon, 25.5cm diam £100 - £200

198 A PAIR OF ITALIAN ALABASTER VASES, C1840 carved with stiff leaves beneath moulded border, on waisted socle and stepped square foot, 43cm h Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845 (under ornaments in the Library as arranged July 1844): “Brown alabaster vase; brown alabaster vase” £400 - £600

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199 AN ALABASTER HANGING LAMP BOWL, EARLY 20TH C with everted rim, 50cm diam, with three chains £80 - £120

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203 THREE BOXED DINKY TOYS comprising 14C Coventry Climax Forklift Truck, 561 Blaw Knox Bulldozer and 562 Dumper Truck and Motor Cart 27G in yellow retailer’s three-vehicle box (4) £50 - £100

200 TWO GERMAN BISQUE AND GLAZED PORCELAIN DOLL’S HOUSE DOLLS, LATE 19TH C of man and woman with cloth padded body, bisque forearms and glazed porcelain lower legs, the gentleman dressed in old / contemporary tailcoat and trousers £100 - £150

201 A COLLECTION OF WILLIAM BRITAIN’S HOLLOW CAST AND PAINTED LEAD ALLOY FARM ANIMALS, MODELS, ACCESSORIES, 1930S-50S and several Crescent Toys £200 - £300

204 A MECCANO NO 6 SET wood box, 57cm l £80 - £120

202 TEN WILLIAM BRITAIN’S CRESCENT TOYS Charbens and other model farm waggons, trailers, a log cart, pig sty and other models, boxed £100 - £150

205 A COLLECTION OF MODEL FARM AND OTHER BUILDINGS C1930-50’S painted wood, two with thatched roof and a Tiger Toys building, various sizes £40 - £60

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206 A COLLECTION OF WILLIAM BRITAIN’S MODEL ZOO SERIES HOLLOW CAST AND PAINTED ANIMALS AND ACCESSORIES in two orange or yellow card boxes with pictorial label and end label (No. 3z or 24z) and a contemporary painted wood model zoo £150 - £250

208 AN EARLY VICTORIAN ROSEWOOD INKSTAND with sloping sides and curved ends centred by a bronze carrying handle in the form of entwined serpents, fitted with a drawer, on turned feet, 26.5 x 37cm £100 - £150

207 A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND LINE INLAID BAROMETER V Zanetti Manchester, with engraved and silvered register and mercury thermometer, the case with figured veneers and swan neck pediment, 101.5cm h

209 MILITARIA. SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS EPAULETTES, COLLAR, CUFF AND WAIST FLAP the buttons with L between stags antlers, collar with elephant and F CABERFEIDH badges (5) £100 - £150

£100 - £150

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210 MISCELLANEOUS TABLE LAMPS AND A PAIR OF BRASS WALL LIGHTS £50 - £70

213 THIRTEEN EARLY VICTORIAN BURNISHED STEEL FIRE IRONS various patterns £100 - £150

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212 A LARGE COLLECTION OF LP AND OTHER RECORDS £50 - £70

TWO EARLY VICTORIAN BRASS, STEEL AND WIRE MESH FENDERS 99 and 108cm l £50 - £80

215 AN EARLY VICTORIAN BRASS AND TRELLIS PIERCED STEEL FENDER of D shape and two other contemporary fenders of brass, steel and wire mesh, 80, 83 and 95cm l (3) £80 - £120

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A SET OF THREE EARLY VICTORIAN BURNISHED STEEL FIRE IRONS the baluster handle with faceted pommel

A SET OF THREE EARLY VICTORIAN BURNISHED STEEL FIRE IRONS with reeded globular pommel

£80 - £120

£80 - £120

220 A GEORGE III TRIANGULAR STEEL TRIVET 33cm h £50 - £100

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MISCELLANEOUS STEEL AND BRASS FIRE IRONS two pairs or wooden hearth bellows and two Edwardian sheet brass covered wood kerbs

MISCELLANEOUS VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN CANES including gold and silver mounted malacca and other examples and various sticks and umbrellas

£40 - £60

£100 - £150

218 A VICTORIAN BRASS BELL SHAPED DOOR STOP lead-weighted, 43cm h £40 - £60

222 A VICTORIAN BRASS POSTAL BALANCE ON OAK BASE, S MORDAN & CO, LONDON 31cm l, brass weights, a Victorian diced leather covered stationery box, a pair of leather bookends, a copper kettle, reproduction walnut mantel clock, etc £50 - £70 Additional information and condition reports at mellorsandkirk.com

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225 A PAIR OF MEISSEN CAMPANA SHAPED VASES, C1840 painted with panels of 18th c courtship or flowers in moulded gilt rococo frame, the foot with similar reserves of a musical trophy or flowers, on a gilt patterned vivid pink ground, 46cm h, underglaze blue crossed swords Recorded in Joanna Philips’ notebook, c1845: “2 Dresden pink vases bought at Paris in 1842” £2,500 - £3,500

226 A PAIR OF CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE CELADON GROUND VASES, MID 19TH C enamelled with colourful birds and butterflies amidst flowering plants, 47cm h £600 - £800 84

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227 THE PHILIPS SERVICE. A MINTON SEVRES STYLE ARMORIAL DINNER SERVICE, C1849 enamelled and gilt to the centre with Philips’ crest and motto SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS in lightly moulded blue double lined border and shaped gilt rim, comprising twenty three plates 25cm diam, ten soup plates, thirteen dessert plates and four dishes in two sizes, impressed mark and / or date, sepia printed crown and garter or purple oval mark of the retailer DANIELL LONDON, pattern 7120, with 129 New Bond St address (50) £300 - £500

229 A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE DRAGON HANDLED BONE CHINA BOTTLE SHAPED VASES AND COVERS, C1850 painted to either side with colourful groups of flowers, including roses, morning glory and passion flowers reserved on a vivid blue ground, 42cm h, mock Chinese square mark £200 - £300

230 228 A PAIR OF FRENCH PORCELAIN EWERS IN THE FORM OF A TRILOBED OINOCHOE, MID 19TH C painted with flowers and festoons framed by blue and gilt ribbon bows, gilt dentil rim, the scrolling handle with lion mask and paw terminal and a pair of near contemporary English porcelain three footed cavetto stands, 30cm overall (4)

A FRENCH GILT LACQUERED BRASS MOUNTED PORCELAIN DISH, C1860 the Sevres style dish painted by G Levy, signed, with three playful putti on clouds, in gilt cavetto and bleu celeste border with three floral reserves, the Louis XVI style mounts with bifurcated leafy scrolling handles and feet linked by festoons, 46cm over handles, spurious printed Sevres marks £200 - £300

£200 - £300

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ADRIAN ALLINSON ROI (1890-1959) TURKEY BOOKENDS steel blue glazed stoneware with silver lustre, 20cm h, incised Allinson fec or Allinson Made in England (2)

A MEISSEN FIGURAL DOUBLE SHELL SWEETMEAT STAND, MID 19TH C set with the seated figure of a woman holding a bird, 16.5cm h, underglaze blue crossed swords with wheel cut cancel

£150 - £250

£100 - £150

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A FRENCH GILT LACQUERED BRASS MOUNTED PORCELAIN OIL LAMP, C1880 of baluster shape, painted with spiralling blossom on a pale yellow ground, 43cm h excluding later electric fitment

A MINTON BONE CHINA DESSERT SERVICE, 1850 AND 1892 printed and painted in green monochrome with ivy in lightly moulded green enamel rim, comprising thirteen plates, five stands and a comport, impressed or printed marks, pattern number 6969 (19) £100 - £150

£100 - £150

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235 A PAIR OF SPODE BONE CHINA SPILL VASES, C1820 painted in sepia monochrome with cottages in landscapes, rims gilt, 11.5cm h, painted mark and pattern number 382 and a contemporary Paris Empire gilt cabinet cup and saucer, gilt B S Paria (4) £100 - £150

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A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE JAR, KANGXI PERIOD painted with prunus on a cracked ice ground, 24cm h

A MINTON BONE CHINA VASE AND COVER, C1920 the campana bowl painted with purple roses, striped gilt domed cover and trumpet foot, 15cm h, printed mark

£100 - £150

£80 - £120

237 AN AYNSLEY DESSERT SERVICE, C1920 printed and painted with full blown cabbage roses on a primrose ground, in lightly moulded cobalt and gilt border, comprising ten 21cm plates and two pairs of dishes, printed mark, pattern number 4269/8 (14) £150 - £200

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239 A PARIS EMPIRE CABINET CUP AND A SAUCER, EARLY 19TH C painted and gilt with trailing flowers or roses on a magenta ground with pearls or a band of gilt palmettes, saucer 14cm diam £80 - £120

242 A CHINESE CANTON FAMILLE ROSE BOWL, MID 19TH C painted to the centre with a smiling man holding a scroll, the cavetto with phoenix or other birds and flowering trees beneath everted rim, 37cm diam £50 - £70

240 A PAIR OF STAFFORDSHIRE GILT FLOW BLUE EARTHENWARE ‘CHINESE’ VASES, C1870 moulded to either side in shallow relief with prunus, 29cm h, printed mock oriental mark £50 - £70

243 A PAIR OF PRIMROSE GLASS LUSTRES, C1860 with two gilt bands of pearls, 34cm h

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£50 - £100

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GLASS SWEETMEAT STANDS, C1860 the bowl engraved with stars, on faceted baluster stem and domed foot, 15cm h £50 - £70

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A BOHEMIAN RUBY FLASHED AND WHEEL ENGRAVED GLASS TANKARD, C1850 with a named view of the Theatre, Munchen framed by trailing vines, 16cm h

A ROYAL CROWN DERBY AVES PATTERN TEA SERVICE,20TH C (46) £40 - £60

£50 - £70

245 A STAFFORDSHIRE GREEN GLAZED AND LEAF MOULDED EARTHENWARE DESSERT SERVICE, C1870 comprising seven 23cm plates and a pair of two handled dishes, a similar dish and pair of stands (12) £50 - £70

248 246 A PAIR OF MAJOLICA CRAB NOVELTY CRAB-MEAT BOXES AND COVERS, 20TH C 19.5cm l

A WEDGWOOD QUEENSWARE CHAMBER JUG AND BOWL, LATE 19TH C with oak leaf and acorn borders, the jug of helmet shape, bowl 40.5cm diam

£50 - £70

£40 - £60

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250 A MINTONS TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE, LATE 19TH C painted with trailing roses entwined by a looped turquoise ribbon, gilt dentil rim, the service including a pair of shaped square plates, 26cm over handles, impressed and/or printed mark, pattern A5905 (34) £100 - £150

251 A FRENCH PORCELAIN INKSTAND, C1870 painted with swags in bleu celeste and gilt border, 20cm l, a Booths earthenware ‘shagreen’ inkstand, a Royal Worcester tusk ice jug, a Bishop & Stonier cream glazed earthenware candlestick and an Art glass vase (5) £40 - £60

253 AN ENGLISH GLASS SALVER, MID 18TH C with pedestal stem, on domed and folded foot, 18cm h, 36.5cm diam

252 A SUITE OF CUT GLASS WINE, PORT AND SHERRY GLASSES, FIRST HALF 20TH C miscellaneous Edwardian and other early 20th c drinking glass and a 19th c funnel

£80 - £120

£50 - £100

254 A GLASS DRESSING TABLE SET, C1920 wheel engraved with scattered flowers, scarlet painted stopper or knop, largest bottle 17.5cm h £50 - £100 90

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255 AN ENGLISH GLASS SUGARLOAF DECANTER, C1770 OR C1830 engraved with bucrania and patera between cutting and OXO borders, 24cm h and six various decanters, one silver mounted (7) £80 - £120

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A PAIR OF SHIELD SHAPED CUT GLASS SWEETMEAT VASES AND COVERS, LATE 19TH C in Regency style, 24cm h

A PAIR OF FRENCH OR BOHEMIAN RUBY FLASHED GILT AND ETCHED GLASS VASES, C1850 31.5cm h

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

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261 HENRI AUGUSTE. A LOUIS XVI SILVER SOUP TUREEN AND STAND, 1789 the hemispherical bowl chased with a band of palmettes, having beaded borders and handles, on egg-and-dart foot, the gadrooned oval stand with scallop shells and acanthus leaves at intervals, on four bowled lion monopodia, engraved with armorials, 25cm h, 43.5cm l, foot engraved Auguste Fils Orfevre du Roi A Paris 1789, scratch weights 133ozs 18dwts (tureen, presumably including cover) and 92ozs 18dwts (stand), 158ozs £3,000 - £4,000

262 A SET OF FOUR WILLIAM IV SILVER ENTRÉE DISHES AND COVERS the entwined serpent handle issuing from curling acanthus leaves, gadrooned rim, engraved to both sides with armorials, the bases with matching crests, consecutively numbered 1-4, 31cm l, fully marked, by Samuel Hennell, London 1831, 217ozs 5dwts and three Sheffield Plate bases en suite (11) £3,000 - £5,000

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263 A GEORGE V SILVER TEA TRAY with bead-and-reel rim, engraved presented to Mrs and Mrs A B C Philips by Agents Tenants and Friends on the occasion of their Silver Wedding 24th April 1960, 60cm over handles, by Fenton Brothers Ltd, Sheffield 1913, 96ozs £1,000 - £1,400

264 PAUL STORR. A GEORGE IV SILVER COFFEE POT lobed baluster, the domed lid with rose knop, crested, 22cm h, maker’s mark, London 1826, 28ozs 18dwts £500 - £700

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265 A GEORGE III SILVER SOUP LADLE Onslow pattern with shell bowl, by William and Robert Peaston, London 1763 and miscellaneous other silver articles, George III and later, to include two helmet shaped cream jugs, two sweetmeat dishes, flatware and a mustard pot, 35ozs 18dwts weighable £300 - £500

266 A GEORGE III SILVER SNUFF BOX of plain curved oblong shape with integral joint, the sides engraved J Simpson Old Swan London Bridge, 50mm l, by Matthew Linwood, Birmingham 1802, 1oz 14dwts £100 - £150

267 A PAIR OF GEORGE III SILVER SAUCE LADLES Old English pattern, crested, by Thomas Wallis, London 1806 and another pair, Fiddle pattern, crested, by Jonathan Haynes, London 1831, 8ozs (4) £80 - £120

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268 A GEORGE III SILVER WINE FUNNEL with beaded rims, later chased, 11.5cm h, maker I C, a pellet between, London 1786, 2ozs 10dwts £80 - £120

271 A GEORGE III SILVER CREAM JUG with acanthus handle and chased with flowers, on four paw feet, 80mm h, by John Edward Terrey, London 1819, 6ozs 4dwts £70 - £90

269 A SET OF THREE EDWARDIAN DIE STAMPED SILVER HEART SHAPED SWEETMEAT DISHES on ball feet, 10cm l, by Matthew J Jessop, two London 1903, the third Birmingham 1901, 2ozs 17dwts £50 - £70

272 WRITING ACCESSORIES. AN EDWARD VII SILVER PEN RACK AND NIB BRUSH 76mm l, by Charles Penny Brown, Birmingham 1904 £50 - £100

273 MISCELLANEOUS PLATED ARTICLES to include flatware of various patterns, etc £50 - £70

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270 A VICTORIAN SILVER CREAM JUG with acanthus handle and gadrooned rim, on ball feet, 10cm h, by E Barnard & Sons, London 1898, 7ozs 9dwts

A PART SET OF GEORGE IV SILVER HAFTED DESSERT KNIVES AND FORKS Queen’s pattern, marks rubbed, a silver mounted glass decanter, a silver child?s spoon, cased, a pair of plated asparagus tongs, an Edwardian lace fan with mother of pearl guards and sticks, etc £50 - £70

£70 - £90

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277 275 A PAIR OF EDWARDIAN SILVER MOUNTED CUT GLASS GUM POTS AND COVERS 10cm h, maker’s mark rubbed, Birmingham 1903

AN EDWARDIAN SILVER LETTER KNIFE 18cm l, by A Barratt & Sons, London 1904 and an Edwardian silver sealing wax holder with lidded vesta compartment, by another, London 1903, 4ozs (2) £60 - £100

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£50 - £70

A GEORGE V SILVER CIGARETTE CASE engine turned, 12.5cm, by Frederick Field Ltd, Birmingham 1932, 6ozs 7dwts £60 - £80

279 A SHEFFIELD PLATE DISH COVER, C1830 engraved with armorials, 48.5cm l £80 - £120

276 A FRENCH GILTMETAL MOUNTED GLASS DESK SET, C1900 comprising standing seal with engraved ‘L’ matrix, letter knife and pen, suede lined green leather covered case, pen 16.5mm The initial is that of Lucy Philips (1874-1941) £50 - £80

280 A SHEFFIELD PLATE TEA TRAY, EARLY 19TH C the gadrooned rim and leafy scrolling handles with shells and anthemia at intervals, crested, 68.5cm over handles £100 - £150

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BINDINGS MEMOIRS OF HENRY THE GREAT AND THE COURT OF FRANCE DURING HIS REIGN in two volumes, half title, plates and engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Harding, Triphook & Lepard and others, French history, contemporary bindings (28)

BINDINGS LANE (EDWARD WILLIAM) translator - The Thousand and One Nights Commonly called in England The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, three volumes, engraved titles and illustrations in the text, later crushed half morocco gilt, t.e.g., early ownership signature to endpaper, 8vo, London: Charles Knight & Co, 1839 and many other, mainly 18th and 19th c calf bound books (approximately 91)

£100 - £150

£200 - £300

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286 VOLTAIRE [AROUET (FRANCOIS-MARIE)] OEUVRES COMPLETES DE M DE VOLTAIRE one hundred volumes, contemporary half green calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo, Basel: Thourneisen 1791 and 1792 (100)

BINDINGS OUVRES DE BEAUMARCHAIS four volumes, engraved frontispiece, contemporary patterned calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red and gilt labels, engraved bookplate, small 8vo, Paris: Menard et Desenne, 1828, and two other similar sets, Corneille and Moliere (15) £80 - £120

£300 - £500

287 JOHNSON (SAMUEL) THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS WITH PREFIXES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL 67 volumes [only], half titles, portrait frontispieces, contemporary calf rubbed, spines and red and green labels worn, small 8vo, London: printed by J Nicholls 1779-81 (67)

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£50 - £100

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JACSON (FRANCES) ISABELLA: A NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF “RHODA” three volumes, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Colburn & Co, 1823 (3)

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291 LAMARTINE (ALPHONSE DE) SOUVENIRS IMPRESSIONS PERSEES ET PAYSAGES PENDANT D’UN VOYAGE EN ORIENT (1832-1833) two volumes, folding maps, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two black labels, worn, joints split, 8vo, London: Churton 1835, Gustav de Beaumont - L’Ireland Sociale Politque et Religieuse, third edition, two volumes, contemporary patterned calf, Brussels 1839 and Alpes et Danube ou Voyage en Suisse, Styrie, Hongrie et Transylvanie per le Baron d’Haussez, two volumes, contemporary patterned calf, Brussels 1837 (6) £200 - £300

294 [SCOTT (WALTER) SIR] TALES OF MY LANDLORD third series, four volumes, half titles, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, early ownership signature on paste down, Edinburgh: Constable & Co, 1819 - Fourth and Last Series, four volumes, half titles, contemporary calf, 1832 and [Gerald Griffin] The Collegians, second edition, three volumes, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, lacking spines, 1829 (11) £80 - £120

292 [JUNOT (LAURE)] MEMOIRS DE MME. LA DUCHESSE D’ABRANTES eighteen volumes in nine, half titles, contemporary calf, spine with two red labels, vol I-II binding detached, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Brussels: Hauman & Co, 1831-1835 (9) £50 - £100

295 TROLLOPE [(FM)] MRS DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS second edition, two volumes, lithographic plates, half titles, contemporary calf ruled in blind, spine gilt with two black labels, engraved book plate, 8vo, London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co, 1832, Widow Barnaby, three volumes, contemporary calf, 1839 and Belgium and Western in 1833, half titles, contemporary half calf, 1834 (7)

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BAUDRY, PUBLISHER LIBRERIA EUROPEA, PARIS various authors, nineteen volumes, engraved title, half title, contemporary patterned calf ruled in blind, spine gilt with black label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Paris 1840 (19) £80 - £120 100

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298 296 [LOCKHART (JOHN GIBSON)] PETER’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK third edition, three volumes, engraved titles and frontispiece, half titles, contemporary diced calf with gilt chain border, conforming spine with two red labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Blackwood, 1819 and [Horace Smith] - Brambletye House, three volumes, contemporary calf, 1826 (6)

[WARD (ROBERT PLUMMER)] TREMAINE second edition, three volumes, two copies, engraved frontispiece, offsetting, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two red labels or lacking spine, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Colburn, 1825 and De Vere or The Man of Independence by the author of Tremaine, four volumes, contemporary calf, 1827 (10) £80 - £120

£100 - £150

299 ALLISON (ARCHIBALD) HISTORY OF EUROPE FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS [1781-1815] ten volumes, half titles, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two black labels and date at foot, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1833-1842 and [Claude Francois Zavier, Abbe] Millot - Elements of General History Ancient and Modern, new edition revised, six volumes, contemporary green calf, Edinburgh 1823 (16) £100 - £150

297 [COOPER (J FENNIMORE)] THE SPY: A TALE OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND second edition, three volumes, half titles, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, 8vo, London: Whittaker 1823 and S H Burney - Tales of Fancy, second edition, three volumes, ownership signature to paste down, contemporary half calf, London 1820 (6) £80 - £120

300 MILITARY HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT (OXFORDSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY) FROM THE YEAR 1755 TO THE YEAR 1858... edited by W S Moorsom, engraved maps, frontispiece and plates, original scarlet cloth gilt, 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1860, The Times History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902, six volumes, 1902-09 and The Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington, eight volumes, 1844-47 (15) £80 - £120

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301 BOOKS Miscellaneous general shelf stock, 19th c and later (five shelves) £80 - £120

BOOKS Miscellaneous general shelf stock, 19th c and later (four and a half shelves) £50 - £100

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BOOKS Miscellaneous general shelf stock, 19th c and later (five shelves)

BOOKS Miscellaneous general shelf stock, to include Victorian biography, the Bradenham Edition of the Novels of Benjamin Disraeli and other literature, biography and history (five shelves)

£80 - £120

£80 - £120

305 THE ANNUAL REGISTER OR A VIEW OF THE HISTORY POLITICS AND LITERATURE ninety volumes, a complete run from 1758-1846 and two vol index 1758-92 and 1758-1819, contemporary calf, spines gilt with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: J Dodsley [latterly F & J Rivington], 1791-1847 (92) £500 - £700

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306 THEATRE BOADEN (JAMES) MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN PHILIP CAMPBELL ESQUIRE INCLUDING A HISTORY OF THE STAGE FROM THE TIME OF GARRICK TO THE PRESENT PERIOD two volumes, portrait frontispiece, contemporary navy calf gilt, spine gilt with red labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1825, J Watkins Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of the Right Honourable R H Sheridan, second edition, two volumes, 1817, John Adolphus Memoirs of John Bannister Comedian, two volumes, 1839, Mrs Mathews - Memoirs of Charles Mathews Comedian, four volumes with plates, 1838 and 1839 and The Select London Stage: The Collection of the Most Refined Parodies, Comedies..., bound volume, contemporary cloth (11) £100 - £150

PERIODICAL PUNCH OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI an extensive run of 95 volumes, contemporary scarlet cloth gilt, t.e.g., 1841-1926 (95) £200 - £300

309 BEWICK (T) A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS The Figures engraved on Wood by T Bewick, two volumes, wood engraved illustrations and title vignette, contemporary calf, tooled in blind, re-backed, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Newcastle: Walker, 1821, uniform with - A General History of Quadrupeds...Eighth Edition, 1824 (3) £200 - £300

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307 GROSE (FRANCIS) THE ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES new edition, eight volumes, engraved title, frontispiece and plates, contemporary calf ruled gilt, tooled in blind, spine gilt, engraved bookplate, 4to, London: Hooper & Wigstead, uniform with Grose’s Antiquities of Scotland, two volumes, 1797 (10)

WHITE (GILBERT) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE BY THE LATE REV. GILBERT WHITE AM...to which are added the naturalist’s calendar...new edition, two volumes, engraved frontispiece, hand coloured in vol I, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: C & J Rivington 1825 (2) £120 - £180

£300 - £500

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 311 TITMARSH (M A) [ W M THACKERAY] THE KICKLEBURYS ON THE RHINE [AND] MRS PERKINS’ BALL hand coloured title frontispiece and plates, contemporary green half calf, spine gilt with red labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1850, uniform with Doctor Birch [and] The Rose & The Ring, plates uncoloured and - The Irish Sketch-Book, second edition, 2 volumes, 1845 (4) £50 - £70

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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK’S OMNIBUS steel and wood engraved illustrations, including portrait, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with green label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842 and two other contemporary Cruikshank-illustrated books Frank Fairleigh and Lewis Arundel (1850 and 1852) (3)

DICKENS (CHARLES) THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP: A TALE...COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME engraved illustrations, advertisement leaf after dedication, publisher’s stamped maroon cloth, spine gilt, sunned, ownership inscription to ffe, 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1841

DICKENS (CHARLES) DOMBEY & SON engraved title, frontispiece and plates, half title, errata leaf at end, contemporary half calf ruled and tooled in blind, spine gilt with black label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1848

DICKENS (CHARLES) BARNABY RUDGE two volumes, half titles, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Paris: A & W Galignani & Co, 1842 (2) £80 - £120

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

£80 - £120

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DICKENS (CHARLES) THE PICKWICK PAPERS engraved title, frontispiece and plates, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with black label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1837

DICKENS (CHARLES) DAVID COPPERFIELD engraved title, frontispiece and plates, half title, contemporary calf ruled gilt, slightly separating, spine gilt with label, sunned, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850

DICKENS (CHARLES) THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY portrait frontispiece, engraved illustrations, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with black label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1839

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

DICKENS (CHARLES) THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT engraved title, frontispiece and illustrations, half title, contemporary half calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with green label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Chapman & Hall, 1844

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

320 PERIODICAL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER: A MONTHLY REVIEW an extensive run in 56 volumes, uniform light blue cloth, spine gilt, London: Spottiswoode & Co Ltd, 1911-1919 (56) £80 - £120 (part)

321 BINDINGS D’AUBIGNE (J-H MERLE) HISTOIRE DE LA REFORMATION DU SEIZIEME SIECLE second / fourth editions, four volumes, half titles, contemporary patterned calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Brussels: Meline, 1839-1847 and four other contemporary leather bound French histories and memoirs (34) £200 - £300 Additional information and condition reports at mellorsandkirk.com

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322 HUME (DAVID) ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS new edition, contemporary calf ruled gilt, worn, spine with red label, ownership signature to paste down, London: A Millar, 1758 £80 - £120

325 LE BAS (P) FRANCE DICTIONNAIRE ENCYCLOPEDIQUE twelve volumes, half titles, contemporary patterned calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red and green labels by Clarke and Bedford, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Paris: Didot 1840-1845 (12) £150 - £200

326 323 MILL (JAMES) ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY third edition, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Baldwin, Craddock & Joy, 1826

STRUTT (JACOB GEORGE) SYLVA BRITANNICA OR PORTRAITS OF FOREST TREES DISTINGUISHED FOR THEIR ANTIQUITY MAGNITUDE OR BEAUTY large paper copy, etched title and plates on india, later half calf ruled gilt, spine lettered gilt, by Hatchards Piccadilly, t.e.g., London: for the author, 1830 £200 - £300

£50 - £100

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DULAURE (J-A) HISTOIRE PHYSIQUE CIVILE ET MORALE DE PARIS...ATLAS sixth edition, five folding plans, half title, contemporary patterned calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red and green labels, oblong 4to, Paris: Furne et Co, 1858

WALTON (IZAAK) AND CHARLES COTTON THE COMPLETE ANGLER... ‘second’ edition, engraved portrait, plates and vignettes, contemporary straight grained green morocco gilt with fishing flies and fish, a.e.g., engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Major, 1824, uniform with The Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richard Hooker, Mr George Herbert and Dr Robert Sanderson, 1825 (2)

£150 - £200

£200 - £300

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330 328 HOLLAND (HENRY) TRAVELS IN THE IONIAN ISLES ALBANIA THESSALY MACEDONIA...DURING THE YEARS 1812 AND 1813 map and plates, contemporary half calf, spine lettered gilt, engraved bookplate, 4to, London: Longmann, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1815 and Edward Daniel Clarke - Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, third edition, Part the First [only] Prussia Tartary and Turkey, plates and folding maps, contemporary half calf uniform with the first, 1813 (2)

PRESCOTT (WILLIAM H) HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO three volumes, portrait frontispiece, half titles, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Bentley, 1843 [A Slidell Mackenzie] - A Year in Spain by a Young American, two volumes, half calf, 1831, Maria Callcott - A Short History of Spain, two volumes, half calf, 1828, Leandro Fernandez de Moratin - Obras Dramaticas y Liricas, three volumes, blue calf, Paris 1825, Miguel de Cervantes - El Ingenioso Hidalgo D. Quijote de la Mancha, four volumes, calf, Madrid 1819 (14) £100 - £200

£150 - £250

331 329 HOLCROFT (THOMAS) TRAVELS FROM HAMBURG THROUGH WESTPHALIA HOLLAND AND THE NETHERLANDS TO PARIS two volumes, folding plates, contemporary mottled calf ruled gilt, spine with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 4to, London: Richard Phillips, 1804 (2)

MINIATURE LIBRARY EDITIONS OF CLASSICAL AND LATER AUTHORS including sets of Homer, Cottin and L’Sage and several others, half calf or morocco, engraved bookplate, Paris, late 18th and 19th c (21) £100 - £150

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332 BINDINGS EARLY 19TH C EDITIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE including Sir W Scott and Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, calf, various (approximately 57) £120 - £160 (part)

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 333 FRENCH LITERATURE HAMILTON (ANTOINE) MEMOIRS DU COMTE DE GRAMMONT new edition, two volumes, engraved portraits, half titles, contemporary calf gilt, 8vo, London: Carpenter, 1811, Oeuves de Montesquieu, five volumes, new edition, 1788 and Oeuvres completes de Mme La Baronne de Stael, seventeen volumes, contemporary straight grained morocco, spines dry and worn, Paris, 1820 (24) £100 - £150

334 WATSON (ROBERT) THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP THE SECOND KING OF SPAIN seventh edition, contemporary tree calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red and blue labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Cadel & Davies, 1812, uniform with - The History of the Reign of Philip the Third King of Spain, third edition, two volumes, 1808 (5) £80 - £120

336 LOWE (E J) FERNS: BRITISH AND EXOTIC eight volumes, colour plates, quarter brown calf by Hatchards, spines unevenly sunned, t.e.g., London: Groombridge & Sons, 1856-1860 (7) £150 - £200

335 PHOTOGRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATED. GREY (THOMAS) POEMS AND LETTERS BY THOMAS GREY mounted albumen prints, half title, contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt with red label, a.e.g., Eton College presentation (to Burton Henry Philips) 1876, 4to, London: Chiswick Press, 1874 £100 - £150

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337 ARIOSTO (LODOVICO) ORLANDO FURIOSO five volumes, engraved portraits, straight grained dark green morocco tooled in blind and ruled in gilt, spine lettered gilt, a.e.g., engraved bookplate, 8vo, Milan, 1812, uniform with - La Gerusalamme e l’Aminta di Torquato Tasso, two volumes, Paris, 1823 (7) £80 - £120

339 HOMER ILIAD AND ODYSSEY TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE new edition, five volumes, uniform contemporary diced navy calf, gilt chain border, spine gilt and dated at foot 1817, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Rivington [et al], 1817 (5) £100 - £150

340 WORKS OF THE LATE DOCTOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN... TOGETHER WITH ESSAYS, HUMOROUS, MORAL AND LITERARY CHIEFLY IN THE MANNER OF THE SPECTATOR second edition, two volumes, engraved title, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Robinson, 1793 (2) £100 - £150

338 STEWART (HENRY) THE PLANTERS GUIDE OR A PRACTICAL ESSAY ON THE BEST METHOD OF GIVING IMMEDIATE EFFECT TO WOOD BY THE REMOVAL OF LARGE TREES AND UNDERWOOD engraved plates, the first double page, half title, contemporary half calf, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1828, William Forsyth - A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-Trees, second edition, half title, 1803, William Cobett - The Woodlands, London 1825, [Joseph Wimpey] - Rural Improvements or Essays on the Most Rational Methods of Improving Estates, second edition, 1775, James Main - A Treatise on the Breeding, Rearing and Fattening of Poultry, third edition, 1839 and Charles Johnson - The Ferns of Great Britain Illustrated by John E Sowerby, hand coloured plates, 1855 (6)

341 BURKE (JOHN) A GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE COMMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND four volumes, portrait frontispieces, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine with green and black labels, 8vo, London: Colburn, 1833, Burke’s Landed Gentry, 1912, 1914, 1952 and 1965 editions and one other (9) £100 - £200

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THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON THIRD EDITION WITH OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS AND ...DOCUMENTS IN HIS MAJESTY’S STATE PAPER OFFICE NOW FIRST PUBLISHED engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf, ruled gilt, spine with two green labels, engraved bookplate, London: C & J Rivington et al, 1826, Henry Hallam - Introduction to the Literature of Europe, four volumes, diced calf, 1837-1839, - The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II, third edition, three volumes, 1832, - View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages, sixth edition, three volumes, 1834 and The Works of Lawrence Sterne with a life of the Author, four volumes, diced calf, 1819 (20)

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RICHARD PHILLIPS, PUBLISHER PUBLIC CHARACTERS OF 1798-9 new edition, enlarged and corrected to 25th March 1799 and Public Characters of 1799-1800 and 1805, three volumes, engraved plates, two folding, contemporary tree calf, spine green and gilt with two red labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: 1799 and 1805 (3) £80 - £120

345 W SUTTABY, PUBLISHER WORKS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS OR THE ‘MINIATURE LIBRARY’ SERIES fourteen volumes, engraved title and frontispiece printed together, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with black label, small 8vo, London 1809 (14) £100 - £150

346 343 LANGHORNE (JOHN AND WILLIAM) AND THE REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM PLUTARCH’S LIVES TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH fourth edition, six volumes, portrait frontispiece, calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: C & J Rivington [et al], 1826 (6)

THE BRITISH THEATRE OF A COLLECTION OF PLAYS WHICH ARE ACTED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL... new edition, twenty volumes, frontispieces and plates, contemporary half calf, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1824 (20) £100 - £150

£80 - £120

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347 POETRY A FRENCH ‘CABINET’ LIBRARY OF ITALIAN POETRY thirty volumes, including the works of Dante, Tasso and Ariosto, portrait frontispieces, contemporary half blue calf spines gilt, engraved bookplate, 12mo, Paris: Baudry, c1824-44 (30) £100 - £150

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THE SPEECHES OF THE HON. THOMAS ERSKINE...WHEN AT THE BAR ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS AND AGAINST CONSTRUCTIVE TREASONS three volumes, contemporary diced calf, spine replaced, 8vo, London: Ridgway, 1810 (3)

FABLES OF AESOP WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND EMBELLISHED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE PLATES two volumes, engraved titles and plates, contemporary mottled calf, worn, spine gilt with red and black labels, ownership signature to paste down, 8vo, London: T Bensley for J Stockdale [1793], uniform with - Fables by John Gay with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates [the engravers including William Blake], two volumes, engraved titles and plates, 1793, no advert at end of vol 2; both shaved (4)

MOULE (THOMAS) WINKLES’S ARCHITECTURAL AND PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES OF ENGLAND AND WALES two volumes, engraved title and plates, contemporary calf tooled in blind and ruled gilt, spine gilt with two red labels, engraved bookplate, 4to, London: Effingham Wilson, 1836 and 1838, uniform with French Cathedrals, London 1837 (3)

LEAR (EDWARD) JOURNAL OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER IN CORSICA illustrated, half title, later crushed brown morocco ruled gilt by Hatchards, 4to, London: Bush, 1870, uniform with Birket Foster’s Pictures of English Landscape, engraved by the brothers Dalziel with pictures and words by Tom Taylor, 1863 (2)

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352 LINGARD (JOHN) - A HISTORY OF ENGLAND fourth edition, thirteen volumes, engraved titles and portrait, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two labels by Clarke & Bedford, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Baldwin & Craddock, 1837-1839 and Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England, twelve volumes, later crushed green half morocco, by Hatchards, spines unevenly sunned, a.e.g., 1841-1848 (25) £80 - £120

354 THE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS...TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE SCOTTISH PEASANTRY four volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece, half titles, contemporary calf tooled in blind, spine gilt, bookseller’s ticket, Liverpool: J M’Creery for Cadell & Davies 1800, uniform with Reliques of Robert Burns...,second edition, 1813, worn (5) £100 - £150

353 LANGLEY (JOHN) [I E THOMAS] THE WORKS OF THE FAMOUS ANTIQUARY POIDORE VIRGIL COMPENDIOUSLY ENGLISH’T... etched portrait, woodcut letters and ornaments, ownership signatures to fse (W Ford Manchester and J L Philips 1805) later diced calf, spine gilt with green label, worn and dry, shaved, 8vo, London: Simon Miller [probably 1659 or 1663], Sampson Erdeswick and Thomas Harwood - A Survey of Staffordshire Containing the Antiquities of that County..., contemporary half calf, Westminster: Nichols & Son, 1820, [Anna Eliza] Mrs Bray - Life of Thomas Stothard RA, later crushed half morocco by Hatchards, London 1851, Charles James Fox - A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second, with errata slip, contemporary calf, London 1808, James Northcote - The Life of Titian, two volumes, contemporary calf, London 1830 and six others (12) £120 - £160

355 SHACKLETON (E H) THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC: BEING THE STORY OF THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1907-1909 two volumes, illustrated, plate facing p.62 of vol 1 ragged, half titles, corners of vol 1 slightly bumped, navy and silver cloth gilt, t.e.g., 4to, London: Heinemann, 1909 (2) £100 - £150

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LAVERTER (JOHN CASPAR) ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY FOR THE PROMOTION OF KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF MANKIND...TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY THOMAS HOLCROFT second edition, plates, contemporary navy morocco gilt, worn, head of spine of vol 1 chipped, lower part of spine of vol 2 detached, engraved bookplate 8vo, London: C Whittingham, 1804 (4)

YOUNG (ARTHUR) A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE two volumes, half titles, engraved dedicatory leaf, contemporary tree calf gilt, spines with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 4to, London: J Dodsley, 1770 (2) £100 - £150

£150 - £200

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357 THE SPECTATOR... IN SIX VOLUMES WITH PREFIXES HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS new edition, engraved titles, half titles, engraved bookplate, contemporary straight grained purple morocco gilt, t.e.g., 8vo, 1822, uniform with - The Tattler, four volumes, 1822 and The Guardian, two volumes (12)

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH second edition, two volumes, engraved portraits, half titles, contemporary diced calf, spine gilt, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Moxon, 1836 and other contemporary, similarly bound books, comprising memoirs of Sir William Knighton, two volumes 1838, R Vaughan - Memorials of the Stuart Dynasty, two volumes, 1831, The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, five volumes, re-backed, 1814 and Memoirs of John Evelyn Esq. FRS, new edition, five volumes, calf, spines dry and defective in places, 1827 (16) £120 - £180

£120 - £180

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360 THE LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE EARL OF ORFORD six volumes, half titles, plates, contemporary calf, gilt spines with red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Bentley 1840 and Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole...Now First Collected in four volumes, contemporary calf, London: Rodwell and Martin, 1820 (10)

DIARY AND LETTERS OF MADAM D’ARBLAY...EDITED BY HER NIECE seven volumes, engraved portrait, folding facsimile letter, half titles, contemporary half calf, spines with two black labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Colburn, 1842-1846 and Letters of Anna Seward, six volumes, contemporary half morocco, Edinburgh 1811 (13) £100 - £150

£100 - £150

363 ESSAIS DE MICHEL SEIGNEUR DE MONTAIGNE four volumes, contemporary calf gilt, spine with two green labels, 8vo, Paris: Didot, AN 10 [1802] and fourteen other contemporary French leather bound books, subjects comprising Marie Antoinette, Mirabeau, Brantome, Marmontel and Louis XVI (18)

361 STAPLETON (AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE) THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE CANNING three volumes, contemporary calf, spine with two green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831 and other contemporary, similarly bound books, comprising Sir James Stephen - Lectures on the History of France, second edition, two volumes, 1852, William Coxe - Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon...1700 to 1788, second edition, five volumes, 1815 and The Works of John Moore MD, vols 2-7 [only of 7], Edinburgh 1820 (16)

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

364 BUTLER (ARTHUR G) BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS six volumes, colour and mono plates after F W Frohawk, scarlet cloth gilt, t.e.g., 4to, London: Brumby & Clarke Ltd (6) £80 - £120 114

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365 FRENCH LITERATURE BIBLIOTHEQUE PORTRATIVE DES ECRIVANS FRANCOIS OU CHOIX DES MEILLEURS MORCEAUX EXTRAITS DE LEURS OUVRAGES EN PROSE PAR MM MOYSANT ET DE LEVIZAC second edition, six volumes, contemporary tree calf, gilt spines with red and black labels, engraved bookplate, London: Dulau & Co, 1803 and other late 18th and early 19th century leather bound books, London or Paris, several with engraved bookplate, 4to and 8vo (16) £100 - £150

367 BINDINGS. RADCLIFFE (F. P. DELME) THE NOBLE SCIENCE: A FEW GENERAL IDEAS ON FOXHUNTING FOR THE USE OF THE RISING GENERATION OF SPORTSMEN AND MORE ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE HERTFORDSHIRE HUNT CLUB engraved title, plates, last leaf of prefix re-mounted, later scarlet half morocco gilt with raised bands by Hatchards, ownership signature, 8vo, London: Ackermann 1839, uniform with a Memoir of the Rev John Russell and his Out-of-Door Life, ownership signature (Burton H Philips from R G P 1 October 1879), 1878 and R S Surtees - Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour, Handley Cross or Mr Jorrocks’ Hunt and Mr Romford’s Hounds, hand coloured illustrations, engraved book plate, 1854 and circa (5) £100 - £150

366 THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER PRINTED FROM THE TEXT AND WITH THE NOTES OF THE LATE GEORGE COLMAN three volumes, engraved portraits, contemporary half calf over publisher’s boards, 8vo, London: Stockdale, 1811, The Works of Lord Byron complete in one volume, contemporary calf, engraved bookplate, London: Murray, 1837 and The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, complete in one volume, contemporary calf, Paris: Galignani & Co, nd (5) £120 - £180

368 EDGEWORTH (MARIA) TALES AND NOVELS eighteen volumes, engraved title and frontispiece, contemporary moave roan ruled gilt, spine gilt with two green labels and date at foot, engraved bookplate, 12mo, London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1832-33 and Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth Esquire Begun by Himself and Concluded by his Daughter Maria Edgeworth, two volumes, contemporary calf, engraved bookplate, London: Hunter 1820 (20) £200 - £300

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369 VALERY [(ANTOINE CLAUDE)] VOYAGES HISTORIQUES LITTERAIRES AT ARTISTIQUES EN ITALIE...PAR M VALERY second edition, three volumes, half titles, contemporary patterned calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two red and green labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Paris: Andre, 1838 (3) £100 - £200

371 LISTER (T H) LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF EDWARD FIRST EARL OF CLARENDON three volumes, engraved frontispiece, half titles, contemporary diced morocco ruled gilt, spine gilt with two labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Longman, Orme, Brown and Green, 1838 and other, contemporary English leather bound histories, comprising Tyler - Memoirs of Henry V, 1838, Nugent - Some Memorials of John Hampden, 1832, Lucy Aikin - Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, fourth edition, re-backed, 1819, Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, second edition, rebacked, 1822, Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First, 1833 and John Aikin - Annals of the Reign of King George The Third, second edition, 1820 (15) £250 - £350

372 370 HEBER (REGINALD) BISHOP OF CALCUTTA: NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UPPER PROVINCES OF INDIA FROM CALCUTTA TO BOMBAY 1824-1825 WITH NOTES UPON CEYLON... two volumes, folding map, hand coloured in outline, frontispieces, plates and engravings in the text, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine with two green tickets, 4to, London: Murray, 1828 (2)

KNOX (J) PUBLISHER A NEW COLLECTION OF VOYAGES Discoveries and Travels containing whatever is Worthy of Notice in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, seven volumes, folding maps, engraved plates, early 19th c half calf by Norris & Son, Uttoxeter, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London 1767 (7) £300 - £500

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 373 WADDINGTON (GEORGE) A VISIT TO GREECE IN 1823 AND 1824 first edition, folding map and plan, contemporary calf, spine with red label, 8vo, London: Murray, 1825, Samuel Laing - A Tour in Sweden in 1838, contemporary calf, London 1839, Thomas Raffles Letters During a Tour Through Some Parts of France Savoy Switzerland Germany and the Netherlands in the Summer of 1817, second edition, contemporary half calf, Liverpool 1819 and A de Stael-Holstein Lettres sur d’Angleterre, contemporary patterned calf, Paris 1825 (4) £120 - £180

374 THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS 1797-1814 eighteen volumes, a complete run, 19th c half calf, spine gilt, 8vo, London: James Ridgway, c1798-1815 (18) £120 - £180

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JOHNSON (SAMUEL) THE RAMBLER tenth edition, four volumes, portrait frontispiece, half calf, rebacked, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: W Strahan [et al], 1784, uniform with - The Guardian and The Spectator (14)

LOUDON [JANE] MRS BRITISH WILD FLOWERS second edition, hand coloured plates, half title, contemporary tooled green calf gilt, ownership signature, a.e.g., 4to, London: W S Orr, nd [c1850]

£80 - £120

£120 - £180

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379 377 MORGAN ( LADY [SYDNEY]) ITALY two volumes, half titles, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt, engraved bookplate, 4to, London: Colborn & Co, 1821 and other contemporary calf bound books, Italy (13) £100 - £150

[KINGLAKE (ALEXANDER WILLIAM)] EOTHEN or Traces of Travel Brought Home From The East, hand coloured folding frontispiece (torn) and plate (lightly browned), half title, contemporary calf with diced boards, ruled gilt, spine gilt with black label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: J Ollivier 1844, Henry Sass - A Journey to Rome and Naples Performed in 1817..., contemporary half calf, ownership signature, 1818, Joseph Forsyth Remarks on Antiquities Arts and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in the Years 1802 and 1803, second edition, contemporary half calf, 1816 and Captain [James] Cook - A New Authentic Collection of Captain Cook’s Voyages Around the World Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty for Making New Discoveries, etc...Written by Several Principal Officers and Other Gentleman, half calf, ownership signature, Sheffield 1786 (4) £250 - £350

378 BAILLIE (JOANNA) DRAMAS three volumes, half titles, contemporary grey calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with red labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1836 and other contemporary calf bound books, Lady Wortley Montagu and Mary Howitt (13) £80 - £120

380 PRUSSIA OEUVRES POSTHUMES DU FREDERICK II ROI DE PRUSSE fifteen volumes, portrait frontispiece, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt with two red labels, dry and powdery, joints beginning to split, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Berlin and London: Robinson, 1789 (15) £150 - £200

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381 WITHERING (WILLIAM) AN ARRANGEMENT OF BRITISH PLANTS ACCORDING TO THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS OF THE LINNAEAN SYSTEM sixth edition, four volumes, engraved plates (uncoloured), one folding, another detached, several offsetting and slightly shaved, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Cadell & Davies, 1818

THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON LL.D. new edition, twelve volumes, portrait frontispiece, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with blue and green labels, worn, bookseller’s ticket, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Nichols & Son [et al], 1816 and The Works of William Cowper Esquire...with a Life of the Author by the Editor Robert Southey..., fifteen volumes, engraved title and portrait frontispiece, contemporary purple calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with two black labels, worn and dry, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1836 and 1837 (27) £200 - £300

£150 - £200

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CHAMBAUD (LOUIS) NOUVEAU DICTIONNAIRE FRANCOIS-ANGLOIS AND ANGLOISFRANCOIS new edition, two volumes in one, half title, list of books and advert at end, contemporary calf ruled gilt, spine gilt with date MDCCCV at foot, 4to, London: Strahan & Preston for Cadell & Davies, 1805, Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott - A Greek-English Lexicon based on the German Work of Francis Passow, second edition, two volumes in one, ownership inscriptions facing title, contemporary calf, bookseller’s ticket, Oxford 1845 and Michael Bryan - A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers..., two volumes, portrait frontispiece, half titles, contemporary calf, engraved book plate, London: Carpenter & Son, 1816 (4)

[ANONYMOUS] SKETCHES OF INDIA OR OBSERVATIONS DESCRIPTIVE OF THE SCENERY ETC IN BENGAL WRITTEN IN THE YEARS 1811 12, 13, 14 Together With Notes on the Cape of Good-Hope and St Helena Written at those Places in Feb, March and April 1815, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, 8vo, London: Black, Parbury & Allen, 1816, [J Moyle Sherer] - Sketches of India Written by an Officer for Fire-Side Travellers at-Home, second edition, contemporary diced calf, London 1824 and Captain Thomas Skinner of the 31st Regiment - Excursions in India including a Walk Over the Himalaya Mountains to the Source of the Jumna and the Ganges, two volumes, engraved frontispieces, contemporary calf, engraved bookplate, London: Colburn and Bentley, 1832 (4)

£200 - £300

£200 - £300

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385 SOUTHEY (ROBERT) POEMS second edition, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with green label, worn, 8vo, Bristol: N Biggs for Joseph Cottell, 1797, William Cowper - Poems, new edition, two volumes, contemporary calf tooled and blind with an urn, spine replaced, ownership signature, London 1798, James Northcote - Fables Original and Selected by the late James Northcote RA, two volumes, third edition and second series, wood engravings, purple calf gilt, London 1833 and Thomas Campbell - Poetical Works, later half morocco by Hatchards, London 1846 (6)

DICTIONNAIRE DE L’ACADEMIE FRANCOISE... fifth edition, two volumes, contemporary patterned diced calf, spine gilt with brown and green labels, engraved bookplate, 4to, Paris: Garnery, 1822, another edition, contemporary half calf over publisher’s boards, Paris: J J Mitz & Co, l’An VII [1798], Dictionnaire des Dictionnaires, two volumes, contemporary calf, Brussels: 1837, [A] Boyer - Dictionnaire Royal Francois et Anglois..., two volumes in one, contemporary calf, worn, top of spine detached, The Hague, 1702, Francois d’Alberti de Villeneuve -Nouveau Dictionnaire Francois-Italien, fourth edition, two volumes, contemporary calf, Marseille: Mossy Freres, 1796 and another volume (10) £200 - £300

£100 - £150

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CUMBERLAND (RICHARD) THE OBSERVER BEING A COLLECTION OF MORAL LITERARY AND FAMILIAR ESSAYS fifth edition, six volumes, contemporary calf, spine gilt with red and black labels, worn, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: C Dilley, 1798 and Anna Laetitia Barbauld - Selections from the Spectator Tattler Guardian and Freeholder with a Preliminary Essay, three volumes, 19th c half calf, London 1804 (9)

COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE FOURTEEN BOUND VOLUMES an incomplete run, uniform navy cloth, spine lettered gilt, worn, 1907-1913 (14) £150 - £200

£50 - £80

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HILL (JOHN HARWOOD) THE HISTORY OF MARKET HARBOROUGH WITH THAT PORTION OF THE HUNDRED OF THE GARTREE LEICESTERSHIRE lithographed title and plates, ownership signature, contemporary calf tooled in blind with fleur de lis trellis, spine conforming with red label by George Quinton, Norwich, worn, engraved book plate, 4to, Leicester: For Subscribers, 1875

THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOSEPH WHARTON AND OTHERS new edition, nine volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece, diced calf with gilt chain border, diced and gilt spine, unevenly sunned, date at foot, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Priestley, 1822, Poems and Plays by William Hayley Esquire, six volumes, contemporary calf, engraved bookplate, London 1785 and Arthur Penrhyn Stanley The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, third edition, two volumes, contemporary diced calf, London 1844 (17)

£80 - £120

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BRIDGEWATER TREATISES I-VIII comprising Chalmers (fourth edition), Kidd (third edition), Whewell (fifth edition), Bell (fourth edition), Roget (second edition), Buckland, Kirby and Prout, twelve volumes, half titles, contemporary diced navy morocco ruled gilt, spine gilt with two brown labels and date at foot, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Glasgow and London: Collins, and Pickering, 1835 and 1836 (12)

SEVIGNE [(MARIE DE RABUTIN-CHANTAL) MARQUISE DE] LETTRES DE MADAME DE SEVIGNE A SA FILLE ET SES AMIS new edition, thirteen volumes, half titles, contemporary crushed dark brown morocco ruled gilt, spine black and gilt with date at foot, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Paris: Bossange et Masson, 1818 (13) £150 - £200

£200 - £300

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DE SISMONDI (J.C.L. SIMONDE) HISTOIRE DES REPUBLIQUES ITALIENNES DU MOYEN AGE second Paris edition, sixteen volumes, half titles, contemporary calf, spine gilt with black label, worn and dry, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Paris: Treuttel & Wurtz, 1816-1818 (16)

BELSHAM (WILLIAM) HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN FROM THE REVOLUTION 1688 TO THE CONCLUSION OF THE TREATY OF AMIENS 1802 twelve volumes, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt with red and black labels, worn, 8vo, London: Phillips, 1805-1806 (12)

£100 - £150

£100 - £150

395 RAPIN DE THOYRAS [(PAUL)] THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND WRITTEN IN FRENCH...TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES BY N TINDAL... fourth edition, twenty one volumes, portraits and folding maps, plans, plates and tables, early ownership signature (Benjamin L Winter 1779), slightly shaved, early 19th c half calf, spines gilt with two black labels, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: By Assignment from Mr Knapton for T Osborne [et al], 1757-1759 (21) £200 - £300

396 DE SAUSSURE (HORACE BENEDICT) VOYAGES DANS LES ALPES PRECEDES D’UN ESSAI SUR L’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES ENVIRONS eight volumes, folding plates and tables (vol VIII lacking pp443-447), early 19th c half black morocco, spine gilt with two red labels, engraved book plate, 8vo, Neuchatel: Fauche 1780-1796, w.a.f. (8) £800 - £1200

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397 LYELL (CHARLES) PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY fifth edition, four volumes, engraved frontispiece, folding plates and maps, several hand coloured, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red label, engraved bookplate, 8vo, London: Murray, 1837 and Jeremiah Joyce - Dialogues in Chemistry Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People, two volumes, engraved plates, contemporary calf, London 1807 (6) £100 - £150

398 NORTH AMERICA. RUSH (RICHARD) A RESIDENCE AT THE COURT OF LONDON contemporary calf re-backed, 8vo, London: Richard Bentley, 1833, C F Hoffman - Wild Scenes in the Forest and Prairie, two volumes, 1839 and others, including Basil Hall - Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828, three volumes, 1829 and [F. Wright] Views of Society and Manners in America in a Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England during the years 1818, 1819 and 1820 by an English woman, 1821 (15)

399 RUSSELL (W H) THE WAR FROM THE LANDING AT GALLIPOLI TO THE DEATH OF LORD RAGLAN two volumes, half title to vol II, later half crushed maroon morocco ruled gilt, spine gilt with date 1855 at foot, by Hatchards, t.e.g., 8vo, London: Routledge & Co, 1855, James Moore - A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain Commanded by his Excellency Lieut. - General Sir John Moore..., fourth edition, folding maps, contemporary diced calf, London 1809 [Joseph Moyle Sherer] - Recollections of the Peninsula, second edition, contemporary half calf, London 1824, John Scott - Paris Revisited in 1815 by Way of Brussels including a Walk over the Field of Battle at Waterloo, contemporary calf, engraved bookplate, London 1816 and Sir W F P Napier - History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, new edition, six volumes, ownership inscription of ffe (Burton Henry Philips, Eton College 1876), calf, spine sunned a.e.g., London 1876 (11) £120 - £150

£120 - £180

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400 REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. THIERS (M A) HISTOIRE DE LA REVOLUTION six volumes, half titles, contemporary patterned calf ruled gilt, spine gilt, engraved bookplate, 8vo, Brussels: Meline 1834 [Paul Gayant] Tableau des Guerres de la Revolution de 1792 a 1813, folding maps, half title, quarter scarlet morocco gilt over marbled boards, Paris 1838, Madam De Stael - Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution, three volumes, contemporary half calf, London 1818, Ten Years’ Exile or Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of Baroness De Stael-Holstein Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 and Now First Published..., contemporary half calf, London 1821, [Baptiste] Capefigue - Les Cent Jours, two volumes, contemporary patterned calf, Paris 1841, Eugene Labaume - A Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russian Embellished with Plans of the Battles of the Moskwa and the Malo-Jaroslavitz, second edition, two folding plans with list of books published by Samuel Leigh at end, contemporary calf, London 1815, Memoirs of Emanuel Augustus Dieudonne Count de las Casas..., half title, 19th c half calf, London 1818 (15) £200 - £300

402 401 MARSHALL (JOHN) THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN FORCES DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES four volumes, engraved portrait, folding map and plates, contemporary diced calf ruled gilt, spine gilt by Mackey, Manchester, portrait and first few leaves of vol I browned, 8vo, London: Phillips, 1804 and 1805 and Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson late President of the United States, four volumes, engraved portrait frontispiece, facsimile letters at end of vol I, contemporary calf, engraved bookplate, London: Colburn and Bentley, 1829 (8)

[MCPHERSON (JAMES)] POESIE DI OSSIAN ANTICO POETA CELTICO two volumes, contemporary diced calf, gilt chain border, conforming spine gilt, worn, engraved book plate, Pisa: Capurro 1817, The Works of Alexander Pope Esquire in ten volumes complete...Printed verbatim from the 8vo edition of Mr Warburton, ten volumes, engraved frontispiece and plates, 19th c half navy calf, sine gilt with red label, London 1754, Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation of the Most Popular Fables, Legends and Allegories...by a lady, three volumes, contemporary half calf, London 1830 and Thomas Moore - Letters and Journals of Lord Byron with Notices of his Life, half title, contemporary calf, Paris 1830 (16) £100 - £150

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BOOKS Miscellaneous general shelf stock, six shelves £60 - £100

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BOOKS Miscellaneous general shelf stock, 19th c and later, six shelves £80 - £120

COUNTRY HOUSE LIBRARY MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY AT THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE, 1908 neatly written on ruled leaves, recto only, alphabetically by author from the Duchesse D’Abrantes to Sir A Wylie, printed tp in red and black, dated 1908, half calf gilt, 4to, cover detached, manuscript catalogue of The Heath House library compiled by Madeline Philips, Spring 1961, two 19th c ledgers of expenses in the maintenance, stables and Heath House estate, expenses under various heads, including ‘Jewel Account’, subscriptions, wages and donations, several leaves excised, half year summary at end, contemporary half reversed calf, c1909-13, manuscript Heath House Estate Schedule of Property in the Parish of Checkley, account stamp marked 1938, Checkley Parish Magazine, bound volume 1903-1907, History of the Meynell Hounds and Country 1780-1901, two volumes, 1901 and Walter Meakin - The 5th North Staffords and the North Midland Territorials (The 46th and 59th Divisions) 1914-1919, 1920 (9) £250 - £350

405 BINDINGS. FROUDE (JAMES ANTHONY) HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE FALL OF WOLSEY TO THE DEFEAT OF THE SPANISH ARMADA 12 volumes, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with black label, 8vo, London: Longman, Green & Co, nd [1858] and others, including Rollin’s Ancient History, Fielding and Shakespeare (78) £250 - £350

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 407 A GEORGE III OVAL MAHOGANY TEA TRAY the undulating gallery of laminated construction, 78cm l £60 - £100

408 A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY POT CUPBOARD on turned legs, 82cm h; 38 x 38cm and a firescreen with embroidered banner £50 - £70

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A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY CHEST OF DRAWERS the sides of pine, 97cm h; 46 x 100cm

A VICTORIAN WALNUT PIANO STOOL 47cm h

£40 - £60

£50 - £70

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415

AN OAK BLANKET CHEST BY HEAL’S, MID 20TH C 91cm l, maker’s ivorine trade label

FOUR VARIOUS OCCASIONAL TABLES, LATE VICTORIAN AND LATER various sizes and miscellaneous furniture, to include a Victorian walnut footstool

£40 - £60

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£40 - £60

A PADDED AND PRINTED COTTON COVERED VICTORIAN BOARDED WOOD OTTOMAN on later castors, 50cm h; 60 x 120cm

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£40 - £60

SEVEN VICTORIAN OAK, MAHOGANY AND SATIN BIRCH DRESSING MIRRORS various sizes

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£50 - £100

A VICTORIAN OAK DRESSING MIRROR 68cm h

417 AN EARLY VICTORIAN MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE on ring turned legs, 70cm h; 49 x 87cm and miscellaneous furniture

£40 - £60

£40 - £60

418 A VICTORIAN STAINED AND INLAID WALNUT MUSIC CABINET AND ANOTHER originally with a superstructure, 82 and 54cm h £50 - £70

419 A VICTORIAN EBONISED PICTURE FRAME WITH GILT SLIP sight 83 x 60cm £40 - £60

420 413 AN EDWARDIAN MAHOGANY BOOK TROUGH crossbanded in satinwood and line inlaid, 35.5cm l £40 - £60

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A NORTHERN EUROPEAN CARVED OAK CHAIR, 19TH C with pierced back and solid seat, a Victorian mahogany cartouche back hall chair, an Arts and Crafts oak chair with rush seat and six various other chairs, including a pair, George IV and later (8) £80 - £120

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THE HEATH HOUSE, STAFFORDSHIRE 422 A PAIR OF TURNED AND SILVERED WOOD TABLE LAMPS, 20TH C 36cm h, a part set of silver capped glass jars and bottles from a dressing set, a crocodile hide leather combination wallet-purse, a pair of Barr & Stroud CF41 military binoculars, an 18th c style Japanned wood stationery rack, a quantity of 1930’s Beswick, Sylvac and Spode matt green or other glazed animals, an amber glass flower vase, etc £80 - £120

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421 A SET OF THREE GEORGE IV MAHOGANY DINING CHAIRS on sabre legs, caned seat, seat height 44cm

A VICTORIAN IVORY SATIN PAGE BOYS OUTFIT comprising breeches, coat, waistcoat, hose and kid gloves, early 20th c, various 19th c silk christening gowns, nine wool or velevt English public school caps, principally Eton College, 1920’s, miscellaneous antique lace, etc £80 - £120

£60 - £100

424 A RUG 310 x 245cm £40 - £60

425 A RUG 290 x 200cm £40 - £60

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426 A RUG 360 x 270cm £40 - £60

427 A RUG 420 x 310cm £30 - £50

428 A RUG 400 x 300cm £30 - £50

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430

THREE RUGS 185 x 130cm and smaller

A RUG 274 x 372cm

£80 - £120

£30 - £50

431 AN OAK REFECTORY TABLE the multi plank top above turned pillars, worn stretcher, sledge bases, 74cm h; 97 x 175cm £100 - £150

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MELLORS & KIRK CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS Introduction and notice to Buyers The conditions set out below and all other terms, conditions and notices set out in Mellors & Kirk’s Catalogues, announced by the particular auctioneer conducting the sale or posted in the saleroom by way of notice (together “the Conditions”) form the terms on which Mellors & Kirk contracts, as auctioneer, with any actual or prospective Buyer or Vendor. The Conditions apply to all aspects of the relationship between Mellors & Kirk and any actual or prospective Buyer or Vendor regarding the sale, purchase or holding by Mellors & Kirk of goods and any appraisal, inspection or valuation of such goods that Mellors & Kirk is required by any actual or prospective Buyer or Vendor to undertake, therefore please read them carefully. Any prospective Buyer should pay particular attention to the Conditions before bidding. All prospective Buyers, by making a bid for any goods advertised in Catalogues, acknowledge that their attention has been drawn to the Conditions and that they are bound by them. As auctioneer, Mellors & Kirk generally acts in every respect relating to any goods deposited with them for sale and the sale thereof as agent of the Vendor and any concluded contract for sale of any such goods will be made between the Vendor and the Buyer. Any goods delivered to the premises of Mellors & Kirk shall be deemed to be consigned for sale. In delivering to or requesting Mellors & Kirk to arrange for the collection of any item for delivery to Mellors & Kirk’s premises, all Vendors acknowledge that their attention has been drawn to the Conditions and that they are bound by them. As auctioneer, Mellors & Kirk disclaims any responsibility or liability for any default by either the Vendor or the Buyer in connection with fulfilling any of their respective obligations under any contract for sale of goods auctioned by Mellors & Kirk concluded between the Vendor and the Buyer and/or any of the Conditions. Mellors & Kirk is dependent upon the Vendor for much of the relevant factual material pertaining to goods offered for sale. Mellors & Kirk cannot and does not undertake full due diligence on every good offered for sale and/or sold. All prospective Buyers therefore have a responsibility to carry out their own inspection and investigations to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the goods that they are interested in buying. Mellors & Kirk specifically draws the attention of all prospective Buyers to Conditions 4, 5 and 6, which require all prospective Buyers to investigate any goods prior to bidding for such goods and specifically limit the extent

to which Mellors & Kirk and the Vendor may be liable in respect of any goods (the exclusions and limitations of liability by Mellors & Kirk being consistent with its role as auctioneer of large quantities of goods of an extremely varied nature). Mellors & Kirk specifically draws the attention of prospective Vendors to Condition 16, which contains important information as to introduction fees paid by Mellors & Kirk to referrers. Interpretation of Conditions 1. Definitions (a) In the Conditions, the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires: • ‘Buyer’ means, in respect of any lot, the person who makes the highest bid accepted by the auctioneer, including such person’s principal when bidding as agent; • ’Buyer’s Premium’ means commission on the Hammer Price realised for the lot in question payable to Mellors & Kirk by the Buyer at a flat rate of 28.8% plus VAT of such Hammer Price; • ‘Online Bidding Fees’ mean the additional charges levied of 4.9% plus Vat via the-saleroom.com; 1.5% plus Vat via mellorsandkirk.com or 3% plus vat via Easylive or a £3 non refundable fee • ‘Catalogue’ includes any advertisement, brochure, estimate, list or other publication of Mellors & Kirk; • ‘Expenses’ means, in relation to the sale or aborted sale of any lot, Mellors & Kirk’s charges and expenses, including (but not limited to) legal expenses, charges and expenses for insurance, Catalogue and other reproductions and illustrations, special advertising and promotion, reproduction rights’ fees and resale royalties, fees for consultancy services and expertisation, taxes, levies, costs of testing, searches or enquiries relating to any lot, carriage, travelling and subsistence costs and postage and packing costs; • ‘Hammer Price’ means the price at which a lot is knocked down by the auctioneer to the Buyer, excluding the Buyer’s Premium, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon; • ‘Mellors & Kirk’ means Mellors & Kirk Limited, incorporated and registered in England with company number 2324756 and whose registered office is at 29 Arboretum Street, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire NG1 4JA; • ‘Sale Proceeds’ means the total net amount due to the Vendor by

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Mellors & Kirk and is calculated as being the Hammer Price, less the Vendor’s Commission insurance, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon; • ‘Vendor’ means the person(s) (including their agent (other than Mellors & Kirk), executors or personal representatives) offering goods for sale at any Mellors & Kirk auction and by whom Mellors & Kirk is authorised to sell such goods. If the Vendor constitutes multiple persons, each shall assume, jointly and severally, all obligations, liabilities, representations, warranties and indemnities of the Vendor as set forth in the Conditions; and • ‘Vendor’s Commission’ means the commission on the Hammer Price realised for the lot in question payable to Mellors & Kirk by the Vendor at a flat rate of 15% plus VAT of such Hammer Price. (b) In these Conditions, words denoting a singular number only shall include the plural and vice versa and references to the masculine gender shall include the feminine and neuter genders and vice versa. (c) The headings and sub-headings in the Conditions do not form part of the Conditions themselves but are for convenience only and do not affect their construction. (d) Reference to any statute or statutory provision in the Conditions includes a reference to the statute or statutory provision as from time to time amended, extended or re-enacted. Conditions of Business principally of application to Buyers 2. Mellors & Kirk’s capacity Mellors & Kirk sells as agent for the Vendor, except from time to time where it has a direct or indirect financial interest in a particular lot (in which case it will act in the capacity of principal). Where Mellors & Kirk sells as agent, any sale will result in a contract made directly between the Vendor and the Buyer 3. Guarantee in respect of deliberate forgeries (a) If Mellors & Kirk sells a lot that subsequently proves to be a deliberate forgery, Mellors & Kirk shall (subject to Conditions 3(b), 3(c) and 3(d)) rescind the sale and refund to the Buyer the total amount paid by the Buyer in connection with the lot in pounds sterling, or where this is not reasonably possible, in Euros, which shall be the Buyer’s sole remedy against Mellors & Kirk and the Vendor, in place of any other remedy that may be available, and neither Mellors & Kirk nor the Vendor shall be liable for any special, indirect or consequential losses or damages (including, without limitation, for loss of profits or interest). For the purposes of this Condition 3, a

‘deliberate forgery’ means a lot that in Mellors & Kirk’s reasonable opinion is an imitation created to deceive as to age, authorship, culture, date, origin, period or source, where the correct description of such matters is not reflected by the corresponding description in the Catalogue, and which at the date of sale had a value materially less than it would have had if the lot had accorded with the corresponding description in the Catalogue. No lot shall be considered to be a ‘deliberate forgery’ for the purposes of this Condition 3 by reason only of any damage, modification and/or restoration work of any kind (including repainting or over-painting). (b) Subject to Condition 3(d), the guarantee given in Condition 3(a) shall only be available to the Buyer in respect of any lot on condition that, no later than 5 years after the date of sale of that lot, the Buyer must: (i) within 14 days of receiving any information that causes the Buyer to question the authenticity or attribution of the lot, notify Mellors & Kirk in writing of the Buyer’s view that the lot is a deliberate forgery, specifying the lot number, the date of the auction at which the lot was purchased by the Buyer and the grounds upon which the Buyer has formed such view (which shall be accompanied by any evidence upon which the Buyer relies); and (ii) within 7 days after delivery of such notice, return the lot to Mellors & Kirk in the same condition as prevailed at the date of its sale to the Buyer and be able to transfer good title in the lot to Mellors & Kirk free from any liens, charges, encumbrances or other third party claims arising after such date of sale. (c) Prior to rescinding any sale under Condition 3(a), Mellors & Kirk shall have the right to request the Buyer to obtain at the Buyer’s cost the reports of 2 independent and recognised experts in the field, mutually acceptable to both Mellors & Kirk and the Buyer, setting out the reasons why the lot in question is considered to be a deliberate forgery and Mellors & Kirk agrees that it will give due and proper consideration to such expert reports. Mellors & Kirk shall not however be bound by any such expert report and reserves the right, in its absolute discretion and at its own expense, to seek the additional independent advice and views of any other expert or authority in making its final determination as to whether the lot in question is a deliberate forgery. If Mellors & Kirk agrees with the Buyer that the lot in question is a deliberate forgery, then Mellors & Kirk shall refund to the Buyer the costs incurred by the Buyer in obtaining 2 independent expert reports, provided that: (i) such costs were approved in writing by Mellors & Kirk prior to the reports being obtained; and (ii) the Buyer

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not such statement forms part of the description of any such lot. Whether any such statement is made orally or in the Catalogue, it is an expression of opinion given honestly after careful consideration and research and in accordance with the standard of care reasonably expected of an auction house of Mellors & Kirk’s standing. It is not, and all prospective Buyers acknowledge that any such statement shall not be taken as being, in any way exhaustive or a statement or representation of fact. All prospective Buyers also acknowledge that the particular auctioneer conducting the sale of any lot may, at such sale and at his discretion, modify any description or statement in the Catalogues regarding that lot. Any such modifications, whether given orally or in writing, are expressions of opinion of the particular auctioneer alone and are not, and all prospective Buyers acknowledge that they are not to be taken as being, in any way exhaustive or statements or representations of fact. No absentee bidder or bidder by telephone, facsimile or other electronic means for any lot that he has purchased may reject that lot on the basis that he was not aware of and/or did not hear any such modification(s) having been made and/or being made by the particular auctioneer conducting the sale of that lot. (c) All prospective Buyers acknowledge that, where the following terms are used in the Catalogue, they shall bear only the meaning given to them in this Condition 4(c) and, in any event, any such use of any such terms shall be a non-exhaustive expression of opinion only: (i) where the artist’s full name is used (or the artist’s initials, if his full name is unrecorded), the work is in our opinion by the artist; (ii) where the expression “attributed to” is used, the work is in our opinion possibly by the artist; (iii) where the term “After” is used, the work is in our opinion a copy of a work by the artist not necessarily of the same date; (iv) where the term “signed/dated/inscribed” is used, the work in our opinion has been signed, dated or inscribed by the artist; and (iii) where the expression “bears signature/date/inscription”, the work in our opinion has not been signed, dated or inscribed by the artist. (d) Lots sold are extremely varied in terms of age, condition and type and may be purchased for a variety of purposes. Unless otherwise specifically agreed in writing, no promise is made or warranty given that any lot is or will be fit for any particular purpose. (e) With regard to any lot in which the Buyer is interested in bidding and prior to making any such bid, the Buyer undertakes: (i) to inspect and satisfy himself prior to its sale as to the condition and description of the lot; (ii) to rely on his own judgment

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as to whether the lot accords with its description; (iii) particularly in the case of any lot of significant value, to seek any independent expert advice reasonably required (in view of the Buyer’s particular expertise and the value of the lot) to satisfy himself as to the age, attribution, authenticity, authorship, condition, date, origin and/or provenance of the lot; and (iv) not to rely on any illustration of the lot in Catalogues. To assist prospective Buyers, Mellors & Kirk may refer in the Catalogue to serious and obvious faults and imperfections in lots for sale. However, as outlined in Mellors & Kirk’s condition report sent to all prospective bidders for any lot upon their request prior to sale, any such reference(s) that Mellors & Kirk provides is not and does not purport to be in any way exhaustive or a statement or representation of fact and all Buyers will be deemed to have knowledge of all matters that they could reasonably have been expected to find out given their particular expertise and their exercise of reasonable due diligence. 5. Mellors & Kirk’s liability to Buyers (a) Except for the guarantee given by Mellors & Kirk in Condition 3: (i) Mellors & Kirk gives no guarantees or warranties to the Buyer and any implied conditions or warranties, whether imposed by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or otherwise, are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law; (ii) in particular, any representation or statement made by or on behalf of Mellors & Kirk, whether orally by any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or sub-contractors or printed in any Catalogue or any advertisement, brochure, commentary, list, report or valuation, concerning any aspect or quality of any lot, including age, attribution, authenticity, authorship, condition, date, origin, price, provenance or value, is a nonexhaustive expression of opinion only, may be revised prior to the lot being offered for sale (including whilst the lot is in public view) and is not to be taken as being or implying any warranty or representation of fact by Mellors & Kirk; and (iii) neither Mellors & Kirk nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or subcontractors shall be in any way liable for any errors or omissions in any such representations or statements, save for any representations made fraudulently. (b) Without prejudice to Conditions 3 and 5(a), and save insofar as it relates to any liability for death or personal injury resulting from Mellors & Kirk’s negligence (for which Mellors & Kirk in no way seeks to exclude or limit its liability), Mellors & Kirk’s liability for any claim brought against Mellors & Kirk by any Buyer in respect of any lot shall be limited to the aggregate of the Hammer Price for that lot and the Buyer’s Premium actually paid by that Buyer to Mellors & Kirk in respect of that lot.

6. Vendors’ liability to Buyers No warranty is given by the Vendor of any lot to any prospective Buyer of that lot and all implied conditions or warranties, whether imposed by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or otherwise (except those implied under Section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979), are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. 7. At the sale (a) Mellors & Kirk has the right, at its absolute discretion, to refuse: (i) to allow any person to participate in any of its auctions; (ii) admission to its premises to any person; and (iii) any bid, without giving any reason. (b) All prospective Buyers, in order to bid at any Mellors & Kirk auction and obtain a bidding number, must complete, sign and submit to Mellors & Kirk a registration form with their name and permanent address and provide identification to verify such details to Mellors & Kirk before bidding on any lot. Mellors & Kirk may also require the production of bank details from which payment will be made and other financial references. It is Mellors & Kirk’s policy to request that any new Buyers or Vendors preferring to make a cash payment to provide: (i) proof of identity (by providing some form of government issued identification containing a photograph or photographic counterpart, such as a passport, identity card or driver’s licence); and (ii) confirmation of their permanent address. It is against Mellors & Kirk’s general policy to accept single or multiple related payments in the form of cash or cash equivalents in excess of £5,000. Mellors & Kirk reserves the right to seek identification of the source of funds received. (c) When making a bid for any lot, a prospective Buyer is doing so as principal and therefore will be held personally and solely liable for that bid, unless Mellors & Kirk has previously agreed with the prospective Buyer in writing that the prospective Buyer is doing so on behalf of an identified third party who is acceptable to Mellors & Kirk. In circumstances where Mellors & Kirk has so agreed, both the prospective Buyer and the third party will be jointly and severally liable for all obligations arising from the bid and the third party shall, by the prospective Buyer’s bidding as his agent, be bound by the Conditions in the same way as if the third party were bidding personally. (d) In respect of any lots, the Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk to accept, and Mellors & Kirk will use reasonable endeavours to carry out, bids from prospective Buyers who are not present at the relevant auction in person, by an agent or by telephone, facsimile or other electronic means, which are delivered (whether or not in writing) to Mellors & Kirk

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MELLORS & KIRK CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS sufficiently in advance of their sale and which Mellors & Kirk considers, in its absolute discretion, to be sufficiently clear and complete. If Mellors & Kirk receives absentee bids on a particular lot for identical amounts, Mellors & Kirk will use reasonable endeavours to sell the lot to the absentee bidder whose bid was received and accepted first, however in practice it is often impracticable for Mellors & Kirk to know which bid was received and accepted first and therefore there is no guarantee that the lot will be sold to the absentee bidder whose bid was received or accepted first by Mellors & Kirk or, in fact, either of such absentee bidders. Mellors & Kirk’s execution of absentee bids is a free service undertaken subject to its other commitments at the time of sale and, provided that Mellors & Kirk has exercised reasonable care in the handling of such bids, the volume of lots is such that Mellors & Kirk cannot accept liability in any individual circumstance for failing to execute any absentee bid or for errors and omissions in connection with absentee bidding arising from circumstances beyond our reasonable control. Prospective Buyers should therefore attend the relevant auction personally or send an agent to such auction if they wish to be certain of bidding for particular lots. (e) If any prospective Buyers make and agree prior written arrangements with Mellors & Kirk for bidding for any lot(s) by telephone, facsimile or other electronic means sufficiently in advance of their sale, the Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk to accept such bids from and Mellors & Kirk will use reasonable endeavours to contact such prospective Buyers to enable them to participate in such bidding, however Mellors & Kirk does not accept liability for any failing to do so or for errors and omissions in connection with any bidding by telephone, facsimile or other electronic means due to events beyond Mellors & Kirk’s reasonable control. (f) At some auctions, there may be a video or digital screen in operation for the convenience of both Vendors and Buyers. Errors may occur in its operation, the quality of the image reproduced on the screen and/or the correspondence of the screen image to the original. Mellors & Kirk do not accept liability for any such errors due to events beyond Mellors & Kirk’s reasonable control. (g) The representative of Mellors & Kirk conducting the auction (‘the auctioneer’) has the right at his absolute discretion to refuse any bid and to advance and regulate the bidding for any lot in such a manner as he may decide, without giving any reason or previous notice, dividing, adding to or withdrawing any lots, combining any two or more lots and, in the case of error or dispute

(whether during or after the sale), determining the successful bidder, continuing the bidding, cancelling the sale, reoffering and reselling the lot in dispute or taking such other action as he reasonably thinks fit in the circumstances. If any dispute arises after the sale of any lot, the sales records maintained by the auctioneer will be conclusive in the absence of any objective or substantiated evidence to the contrary. Any postauction sale of any lot offered at auction shall incorporate the Conditions as if sold in the auction. (h) Subject to the auctioneer’s reasonable discretion, the person making the highest bid for any lot that is accepted by the auctioneer will be the Buyer of that lot. The striking of the auctioneer’s hammer marks his acceptance of the highest bid and the conclusion of a contract for the sale of the lot on and subject to these conditions between the Vendor and the Buyer. Risk and responsibility for each lot (including any frame, casing, mounting or glass forming part thereof) passes to the Buyer at the fall of the hammer and the Buyer shall be solely responsible for insuring the lot from the time that risk in it passes to the Buyer under this Condition 7(h). 8. After the sale (a) In respect of any lot purchased, the Buyer will be liable to pay Mellors & Kirk the Hammer Price, the Buyer’s Premium, the Online Bidding Fee, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon. The Buyer acknowledges that Mellors & Kirk will also receive the Vendor’s Commission in respect of the sale of any lot to the Buyer and payment of the Buyer’s Premium in respect of that lot in no way affects or prejudices Mellors & Kirk’s entitlement to receive the Vendor’s Commission in respect of its sale and vice versa. (b) If the Artists Resale Rights Regulations 2006 apply to any lot, the Buyer also agrees to pay to Mellors & Kirk an amount equal to the applicable resale royalty provided for in such Regulations and Mellors & Kirk undertake to the Buyer to pay such amount to the artist’s collection agent. Any lot affected will be identified as such next to the lot number.

at the same auction in pounds sterling and good cleared funds. All cheques shall be made payable to “Mellors & Kirk Limited” and, unless the Buyer has made and agreed alternative prior arrangements in writing with Mellors & Kirk, must be accompanied by (in Mellors & Kirk’s absolute discretion) a satisfactory recommendation of creditworthiness from an approved mutual acquaintance of Mellors & Kirk or such other source as Mellors & Kirk may require, otherwise the payment by cheque will not be deemed to have been made until such time as the cheque clears. Mellors & Kirk reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to request special clearance of any cheque presented to it by the Buyer, who shall be informed immediately, by Mellors & Kirk, of any such request. Mellors & Kirk will not be required to release any lot to the Buyer until such time as property in the lot has passed to the Buyer under this Condition 8(d), and appropriate identification has been provided, and any earlier release of the lot will not in any way affect the passing of property in the lot or the Buyer’s unconditional obligation to make payment to Mellors & Kirk of the full amount due in respect of the lot. (e) Subject to Mellors & Kirk exercising its entitlement not to release any lot to the Buyer pursuant to Condition 8(d), any lot purchased must be collected from the place of the auction at the Buyer’s sole risk (which passes to the Buyer in accordance with Condition 7(h)) and expense by 4.30pm on the second working day after its sale unless the Buyer has made and agreed alternative prior arrangements in writing with Mellors & Kirk. (f) The packing and handling of any lot is entirely at the Buyer’s sole risk and expense and Mellors & Kirk shall not, in any circumstances, be responsible for any acts or omissions of the packers or shippers.

(c) Immediately after the fall of hammer, the Buyer must pay the full amount due to Mellors & Kirk (comprising the Hammer Price, the Buyer’s Premium, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon) in respect of the lot in question regardless of any export, import or other licence or permit requirements for such lot.

(g) The export of any lot from the United Kingdom or import into any other country may be subject to one or more export, import, firearm, endangered species or other licence(s) or permit(s) being granted in respect of that lot and it is the Buyer’s sole responsibility to obtain all such licences and/or permits as are necessary. The denial of or any delay in obtaining any such licence or permit shall not justify the cancellation or rescission of the sale contract for the lot by the Buyer or any delay by the Buyer in making full payment for the lot in accordance with Condition 8(c).

(d) Without prejudice to Condition 8(c), the property in any lot purchased shall not pass to the Buyer until the Buyer has made payment to Mellors & Kirk of the full amount due in respect of that lot and all other lots (if any) sold to that Buyer

(h) If the Buyer fails to pay Mellors & Kirk the full amount due on any or all lots sold to that Buyer at the same auction in pounds sterling and good cleared funds within 7 days of the auction, Mellors & Kirk shall, in its absolute discretion and without

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prejudice to any other rights that Mellors & Kirk and the Vendor may have, be entitled to exercise any one or more of the following rights or remedies: (i) charge interest at a rate equal to 4 per cent above Lloyds TSB Bank plc base rate on the full amount due on any or all such lots from the date of the auction to the date full payment of such amount is made to Mellors & Kirk in pounds sterling and good cleared funds; (ii) store any or all such lots at its premises or elsewhere at the Buyer’s sole risk and expense; (iii) cancel the sale of any or all lots sold to the Buyer in that or any other Mellors & Kirk auction(s); (iv) hold the defaulting Buyer liable for breach of contract and commence legal proceedings for the recovery of the full amount due on any or all such lots, together with interest, legal fees and all other costs of such proceedings on an full indemnity basis; (v) resell any or all such lots by auction or private sale, on such terms as Mellors & Kirk thinks fit, and the defaulting Buyer shall be liable to fully indemnify Mellors & Kirk for any shortfall arising from such resale together with all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by Mellors & Kirk in connection with such resale; (vi) in respect of any or all such lots, pay the Seller an amount up to the Sale Proceeds for such lot(s) and, if any such payment is made, the Buyer acknowledges that Mellors & Kirk shall have all the rights of the Vendor, however arising, to pursue the Buyer for the amount paid; (vii) set off any amounts owed to the Buyer by Mellors & Kirk against any amounts owed to Mellors & Kirk by the Buyer in respect of all or any such lots; (viii) reject, at any future Mellors & Kirk auction, any bids made by or on behalf of the Buyer or to obtain a deposit from the Buyer before accepting any such bids; (ix) exercise all the rights and remedies of a person holding security over any property in Mellors & Kirk’s possession owned by the Buyer, whether by way of lien, pledge, security interest or in any other way, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Buyer being deemed to have granted such security to Mellors & Kirk and Mellors & Kirk being entitled to retain such property as collateral security for the Buyer’s obligations to Mellors & Kirk; or (x) take such other action as Mellors & Kirk deem necessary or appropriate. (i) Where any purchased lot is not collected by or on behalf of the Buyer in accordance with Condition 8(e), whether or not payment of the full amount due to Mellors & Kirk in respect of that lot has been made in pounds sterling and good cleared funds, Mellors & Kirk shall store such lot at its premises or elsewhere at the Buyer’s sole risk and expense and shall only release such lot after payment in full has been made of

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MELLORS & KIRK CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS removal, handling, storage and any other costs reasonably incurred by Mellors & Kirk in connection with the storage of such lot together with payment of all other amounts due to Mellors & Kirk from the Buyer. Conditions of Business principally of application to Vendors 9. Vendor’s warranties (a) The Vendor warrants to Mellors & Kirk and the Buyer that: (i) he is the true owner of the lot offered for sale or is properly authorised to sell that lot by the true owner; (ii) he is able to and shall transfer a good and marketable title to the lot free from any third party rights or claims; (iii) he is able to and shall transfer possession of the lot to the Buyer; (iv) he has provided Mellors & Kirk with all information concerning the provenance of the lot and has notified Mellors & Kirk in writing of any concerns expressed by third parties in relation to the age, attribution, authenticity, authorship, condition, date, origin, ownership or provenance of the lot or its export or import; (v) the particulars of the lot entered on the Mellors & Kirk sale instruction/goods receipt form are true and complete; (vi) he is unaware of any matter or allegation that would render any description given by Mellors & Kirk in relation to the lot inaccurate or misleading; (vii) where the lot has been moved to the European Community from a country that is not a member state of the European Community, the lot has been lawfully imported in to the European Community, the lot has been lawfully and permanently exported as required by the laws of any country in which it has been located, required declarations upon the export and import of the lot have been properly made and all duties and taxes on the export and import of the lot have been fully paid; (viii) he has or will pay all duties and taxes on the Sale Proceeds in respect of the lot and he has notified Mellors & Kirk in writing of any duties and/or taxes that are payable by Mellors & Kirk on his behalf in any country other than the country of sale; (ix) there are no restrictions, copyright or otherwise, relating to the lot (other than those imposed by law) and no restrictions on Mellors & Kirk’s rights to reproduce photographs or other images of the property other than those (if any) of which he has advised Mellors & Kirk in writing at the time of delivering the lot to Mellors & Kirk; and (x) the lot, if it amounts to electrical or mechanical goods or parts thereof, is in safe operating condition if reasonably used for the purpose it was designed and it is in working order and free from any defect not obvious on external inspection that could prove dangerous to human life or health other than in those respects (if any) of which he has advised Mellors & Kirk in writing at the time of delivering the lot to Mellors & Kirk.

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(b) Notwithstanding any warranty given by the Vendor in this Condition 9(a): (i) Mellors & Kirk reserves the right to effect the testing of any electrical or mechanical goods or parts thereof, to make a charge payable by the Vendor for any such testing and to refuse to offer for sale any such goods or parts that is found not conform to all then applicable safety standards; and (ii) notwithstanding any such testing, all electronically operated lots sold at any Mellors & Kirk auction are deemed to be antiques and/or collectable items and therefore inherently dangerous. (c) If Mellors & Kirk or the Buyer considers any of the warranties given in Condition 9(a) to be breached in any way, Mellors & Kirk and/or the Buyer may take legal action against the Vendor. The Vendor undertakes to fully indemnify Mellors & Kirk, its directors, officers, employees, agents and sub-contractors and the Buyer against any loss or damage they incur or suffer in consequence of any breach of any of the warranties given in Condition 9(a) or any other terms of the Conditions on the part of the Vendor. 10. Mellors & Kirk’s liability to Vendors (a) Any representation or statement made by or on behalf of Mellors & Kirk, whether orally by any of their directors, officers, employees, agents or sub-contractors or printed in any Catalogue, advertisement brochure, commentary, list, report or valuation, concerning any aspect or quality of any lot, including age, attribution, authenticity, authorship, condition, date, origin, price, provenance or value is an expression of nonexhaustive opinion only, may be revised prior to the lot being offered for sale (including whilst the lot is on public view) and is not to be taken as being or implying any warranty or representation of fact by Mellors & Kirk. Neither Mellors & Kirk nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or sub-contractors shall be in any way liable for any errors or omissions in any such representations or statements, save for any representations made fraudulently. (b) Without prejudice to Condition 11(f), and save insofar as it relates to any liability for death or personal injury resulting from Mellors & Kirk’s negligence (liability for which Mellors & Kirk in no way seeks to exclude or limit), Mellors & Kirk’s liability for any claim brought against Mellors & Kirk by any Vendor in respect of any lot shall be limited to the Sale Proceeds for that lot. 11. Prior to the sale (a) All Vendors agree that Mellors & Kirk shall have absolute discretion as to: (i) the way in which goods may be combined or divided into lots for sale; (ii) the way in which

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lots are included in the sale; (iii) the way in which any lot is described or illustrated in the Catalogue or any condition report; (iv) the date and place of any Mellors & Kirk auction; and (v) the manner in which any sale is carried out. Mellors & Kirk reserve the right to consult with and rely on any outside experts, consultants or restorers of its choice in relation to any lot and to carry out such other enquiries or tests in relation to the lot either before or after their sale as Mellors & Kirk may deem appropriate. However, this is a matter for Mellors & Kirk’s discretion and Mellors & Kirk shall be under no duty or obligation to carry out any such consultation, enquiries or tests in respect of any lot. (b) Any estimate given by Mellors & Kirk of the selling price of any lot, whether any such estimate is made orally, in the Catalogue or otherwise: (i) is an expression of nonexhaustive opinion and intended only as a guide; (ii) should not be in any way relied upon as a statement that the estimated selling price is the price at which the lot will sell or its value for any other purpose; and (iii) may be revised from time to time in Mellors & Kirk’s absolute discretion. As any estimate can be subject to revision, it is advisable to consult Mellors & Kirk as to the estimated selling price of any lot nearer the time of the sale. (c) If any Vendor chooses to withdraw any lot from sale after the later of: (i) the Vendor’s written agreement with Mellors & Kirk to sell the lot; and (ii) 12 weeks before the date of the auction of the lot, the Vendor will be liable to pay Mellors & Kirk a withdrawal fee calculated in accordance with Condition 11(e). If the Vendor withdraws the lot before that time, no withdrawal fee shall be payable by the Vendor to Mellors & Kirk. (d) Mellors & Kirk may withdraw any lot from sale without any liability if: (i) Mellors & Kirk reasonably believe that there is any doubt as to its attribution or authenticity; (ii) it is established or alleged that any of the warranties given by the Vendor in Condition 9 are inaccurate in any way; (iii) the Vendor materially breaches any of the Conditions; (iv) the lots contains any endangered species for which a sales exemption under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species is required and such a sales exemption has not been granted by the day preceding the first day of the viewing of the sale; (v) Mellors & Kirk consider the lot to be of insufficient sale value; (vi) the lot suffers from loss or damage so that it is not in the state in which it was when Mellors & Kirk agreed to sell it; or (vii) the Mellors & Kirk auction at which it was proposed to be put on sale is postponed for any reason. If Mellors & Kirk become aware of any actual or alleged competing title claim or lien over any lot consigned

for sale to Mellors & Kirk by any Vendor, Mellors & Kirk shall not release the lot to the Vendor until the title claim or lien has been resolved to Mellors & Kirk’s reasonable satisfaction. (e) If any lot is withdrawn from sale by Mellors & Kirk for any reason other than any actual or alleged inaccuracy in any of the warranties given by the Vendor in Condition 9 or any material breach by the Vendor of any of the Conditions, the Vendor shall not be charged a withdrawal fee and, as long as there is no competing title claim or lien over the lot, the lot shall be returned to the Vendor at the Vendor’s expense. If, however, any lot is withdrawn from sale by Mellors & Kirk because of any actual or alleged inaccuracy in any of the warranties given by the Vendor in Condition 9 or any material breach by the Vendor of any of the Conditions or any lot is withdrawn by the Vendor after the applicable time set out in Condition 11(c), Mellors & Kirk is entitled to a fee of 15% of: (i) the reserve for the withdrawn lot; or (ii) if unreserved, Mellors & Kirk’s low presale estimate for the withdrawn lot at the time of its withdrawal, together with any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon. Mellors & Kirk shall not be obliged to withdraw any lot or to return it to the Vendor unless the Vendor has made full payment to Mellors & Kirk of the applicable withdrawal fee, Expenses and VAT in pounds sterling and good cleared funds. (f) Unless otherwise agreed in writing, Mellors & Kirk will, at the Vendor’s expense and on the terms set out in this Condition 11(f), bear the risk in and insure any lot consigned to it for the sole purpose of its sale (and not for any other purpose or reason) until such time as risk passes to the Buyer on sale of the lot or, if the lot remains unsold, upon its disposal in accordance with Condition 13(e). Mellors & Kirk shall charge the Vendor, and the Vendor agrees to pay, a sum in respect of such insurance at a premium of: (i) 1.25% of the Hammer Price if the lot is sold (in which case the Vendor acknowledges that Mellors & Kirk will deduct such a sum from the Hammer Price of the lot as an Expense); (ii) the reserve for the lot if the lot is unsold; (iii) the low presale estimate of the lot at the time of its delivery if the lot is unreserved or not offered for sale for any reason; or (iv) a reasonable estimate of the auction value of the lot at the date of its delivery if there is no low presale estimate for the lot. Lots will be insured whilst in the possession of Mellors & Kirk against the risks of fire, theft following forcible entry and water damage but not against accidental breakage, loss or damage however caused unless by the wilful misconduct or negligence of Mellors & Kirk. Should any loss

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MELLORS & KIRK CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS or damage occur to any lot whilst risk in it is borne by Mellors & Kirk and for which Mellors & Kirk is liable, Mellors & Kirk shall not be liable to pay the Vendor any more than the applicable premium set out in this Condition 11(f), less any Vendor’s Commission, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon. Mellors & Kirk shall not be responsible or liable for the damage, loss, theft or destruction of any lot not so insured upon the vendors instructions, nor will Mellors & Kirk be responsible or liable for any loss or damage caused by: (i) any third party whom Mellors & Kirk have instructed to deal with the lot with the Vendor’s consent; (ii) changes in humidity or temperature; (iii) normal wear and tear, gradual deterioration or inherent defect; or (iv) errors in processing. Owing to the age of the majority of lots and the fragility of antique or other frames and casings, Mellors & Kirk will not insure against, and shall not be responsible or liable for, any loss or damage caused to any frame, casing, mounting or glass forming part of any lot. (g) If the Vendor does not wish Mellors & Kirk to bear the risk of loss or damages cover in any lot delivered to Mellors & Kirk, the Vendor must agree this with Mellors & Kirk in writing at that time. In the event that the Vendor agrees this with Mellors & Kirk in respect of any lot, the Vendor will maintain insurance cover for the lot until risk in the lot passes to the Buyer on its sale. In such circumstances, the Vendor will: (i) promptly (and in any event no later than 7 days after delivery of the lot in question to Mellors & Kirk) provide Mellors & Kirk with a copy of the certificate of insurance for the lot; (ii) promptly (and in any event no later than 7 days after delivery of the lot in question to Mellors & Kirk) procure a waiver of subrogation by his insurer in a form satisfactory to Mellors & Kirk of all rights and claims that the insurer may have against Mellors & Kirk in connection with loss or damage in respect of the lot and provide Mellors & Kirk with a copy of such wavier; (iii) indemnify Mellors & Kirk against any claim for loss, damage or costs in respect of the lot however arising; (iv) immediately notify his insurers of the terms of such indemnity and shall himself note the interest of Mellors & Kirk as bailee in respect of the relevant insurance policy; (v) reimburse Mellors & Kirk on demand for any payments, costs or Expenses, including legal fees, that Mellors & Kirk incur as a result of any claim for loss, damage or costs in respect of the lot; and (vi) waive all rights and claims that he may have against Mellors & Kirk in connection with such loss or damage, other than in circumstances where the loss or damage was caused by the wilful misconduct or negligence of Mellors & Kirk.

12. At the sale (a) All lots are offered for sale without reserve unless specific written instructions to the contrary are received and agreed to by Mellors & Kirk prior to the day of the sale. Any agreed reserve shall be: (i) the confidential minimum Hammer Price below which the lot will not be sold; (ii) no higher than Mellors & Kirk’s low presale estimate for the lot at the time of the relevant auction; and (iii) subject to 10% discretion. Where any lot is offered for sale subject to an agreed reserve, the auctioneer may open the bidding on the lot below its reserve by placing a bid on behalf of the Vendor and may continue to bid on behalf of the Vendor up to the amount of one bid below the reserve either by placing consecutive bids or by placing bids in response to other bidders, although the auctioneer will not indicate during the auction that he is making such bids on behalf of the Vendor. The auctioneer alone is authorised to bid on behalf of the Vendor for any lot offered subject to an agreed reserve or at the auctioneer’s discretion. Mellors & Kirk shall in no circumstances be liable if bids are not received for any lot at the level of its agreed reserve but shall be entitled, in its absolute discretion, to sell the lot below the reserve and pay the Vendor the Sale Proceeds that he would have received if the lot had sold at the reserve. (b) The Vendor will not in person or through the agency of any other person except the auctioneer bid for his own property. If the Vendor should bid for his own property on his own behalf or instruct or permit any other person except the auctioneer to bid for his own property on his behalf, Mellors & Kirk may treat the Vendor as the successful bidder and, in such circumstances, the Vendor will: (i) not be entitled to the benefit of Condition 3 or any applicable reserve; and (ii) pay Mellors & Kirk a sum representing the total of the Vendor’s Commission, the Buyer’s Premium, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon and Mellors & Kirk shall be entitled to exercise a lien over the lot until full payment of that sum has been made to Mellors & Kirk in pounds sterling and good cleared funds. 13. After the sale (a) Following the sale of any lot, the Vendor will be liable to pay Mellors & Kirk the Vendor’s Commission, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T thereon. The Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk to deduct all such Vendor’s Commission, Expenses paid by the Vendor and V.A.T. from the Hammer Price and acknowledges the right of Mellors & Kirk to charge the Buyer and retain the Buyer’s Premium. (b) Unless Mellors & Kirk have been notified by the Buyer of his

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intention to rescind the sale of any lot on the basis that the lot is a deliberate forgery, Mellors & Kirk will remit the Sale Proceeds to the Vendor, after deducting the Vendor’s Commission, insurance charges and any other applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon, 21 days after the sale of the lot, provided that Mellors & Kirk has been paid the Hammer Price, the Buyer’s Premium, any applicable Expenses and any applicable V.A.T. thereon in full by the Buyer in pounds sterling and good cleared funds. The Vendor should note that the Sale Proceeds payable to him are derived from the actual proceeds of sale received by Mellors & Kirk from the Buyer in respect of the lot in question and, as such, Mellors & Kirk are not under any obligation to remit the Sale Proceeds to the Vendor until such payment is received in full from the Buyer (although Mellors & Kirk reserves the right to do so). In the event that such payment is not received in full from the Buyer within 21 days of the sale of the lot in question, Mellors & Kirk will remit the Sale Proceeds to the Vendor 5 working days after such payment has been received in full from the Buyer. If such payment has not been received in full from the Buyer 30 days following the sale of the lot in question, Mellors & Kirk will endeavour to consult with the Vendor on the appropriate course of action to take to recover the amount due, notwithstanding that the Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk to take such steps on the Seller’s behalf as Mellors & Kirk thinks necessary to attempt to recover monies due from the Buyer, including (without limitation) the right to charge the Buyer interest for late payment under Condition 8(h). The Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk to retain such interest for Mellors & Kirk’s own account together with any interest that may be accrued on the deposit of any proceeds of sale in the client bank account of Mellors & Kirk at Lloyds Bank, Old Market Square, Nottingham (c) It shall not be incumbent upon Mellors & Kirk to pursue any Buyer in the matter of any amount(s) due, nor shall Mellors & Kirk be under any obligation to enforce payment by any Buyer or to undertake legal proceedings to recover such payment. The Vendor shall inform Mellors & Kirk of any action that the Vendor chooses to take against the Buyer to enforce payment of the amount due to the Vendor, notwithstanding that Mellors & Kirk has absolute discretion to take and enforce any of the rights or remedies set out in Condition 8(h), including (without limitation) the right to cancel the sale and return the lot in question to the Vendor. If the Buyer fails to pay the full amount due on any lot in pounds sterling and good cleared funds but Mellors & Kirk agree to remit

to the Vendor an amount equal to the Sale Proceeds for that lot, ownership of the lot shall pass to Mellors & Kirk and, in such circumstances, Mellors & Kirk will have the benefit of all representations, warranties and indemnities given by the Vendor in respect of the lot in the Conditions. (d) Where Mellors & Kirk considers that any lot is a deliberate forgery (and, in so doing, it shall be entitled to dispense with any of the requirements of Condition 3 in its absolute discretion), Mellors & Kirk is authorised to rescind the sale and refund to the Buyer any amount paid to Mellors & Kirk in respect of the lot in question and shall notify the Vendor of any such rescission. Within 7 days of the Vendor’s receipt of any such notification, the Vendor will: (i) return to Mellors & Kirk any Sale Proceeds already paid by Mellors & Kirk to the Vendor; and (ii) reimburse Mellors & Kirk for any Expenses incurred in connection with the rescinded sale. On receipt of all such sums, Mellors & Kirk shall return the lot in question to the Vendor. Mellors & Kirk shall be entitled to the Sale Proceeds of the lot in question if Mellors & Kirk cannot return that lot to the Vendor for any reason beyond Mellors & Kirk’s reasonable control. (e) In the event of: (i) any reserved lot of a catalogue auction remaining unsold at the conclusion of the relevant auction and unless otherwise agreed in writing with Mellors & Kirk, the Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk exclusively, until such time as the lot is removed by or on behalf of the vendor, to re-offer the lot without reserve in a subsequent general auction or auctions or to invite offers to sell the lot privately for a price that will result in a payment to the Vendor of not less than the Sale Proceeds to which the Vendor would have been entitled had the lot been sold at auction for a price equal to the reserve; (ii) any unreserved lot in a catalogue auction remaining unsold at the conclusion of the relevant auction and unless there is a written agreement to the contrary with Mellors & Kirk, the Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk exclusively to re-offer the lot in a subsequent auction or auctions or to invite offers and sell the lot privately at its absolute discretion and, in the event that any such lot is re-offered at a subsequent auction, the Vendor agrees that the lot will be sold without reserve. If any reserved or unreserved lot of a catalogue auction does then not sell at a general auction, then the Vendor authorises Mellors & Kirk, unless there is a written agreement to the contrary, to dispose of the lot as it sees fit at the full expense of the Vendor. If any reserved lot in a general auction remains unsold at the conclusion of the relevant auction the Vendor authorises

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