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A Mid - Late XIX Century German Long Stem Pipe, the porcelain bowl detailed with a three masted sailing ship with early steam conversion, flying the German tricolour (damages), 30cms long. £30-50
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A Gieves Ltd. Leather Telescope, one draw, No. 8384, engraved "V.V. St. L. Tivy R.N.", 53cms long. £40-80
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An Impressive Mid XX Century Wooden Pond Yacht, lead keel, single mast, sail probably a later replacement, 225cms high, 130cms long, on stand. £150-250
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RICHARD OLIVER (Fl. 1910-1930)
"The Pilot Comes Aboard", watercolour, inscribed on a gallery label verso,
29 x 19cms. £20-40
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A Taxidermy Specimen of a Buzzard (Buteo buteo), with outspread wings, on a naturalistic tree stump base, with Oriole(?) beside, overall height 73cms. £50-100
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A Mammoth Molar, believed to have been dug up in London mid XX Century. £50-70
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Cased Taxidermy Study of a Full Crown and Juvenile Cuckoo (Cuculus canopus) Being Fed by a Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis), set amongst naturalistic ground, the case 38cms high, 63cms wide (with broken glass and taped repairs). £50-100
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Cased Taxidermy Study of British Water Birds, comprising a pair of Green Sandpipers (Tringa ochropus), a Water Rail (Rallus aquaticus) and a Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), in a naturalistic setting, the case 33cms high, 43cms wide (in need of repair). £40-60
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Cased Taxidermy Specimen of an Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisea), the most travelled of any animal on the planet, the case 37cms high, 59cms wide, a little tatty and lacking glass. £30-50
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Wall Mounted Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Jay (Garrulus glandrius), a very fine specimen by J. Mountney & Son, 42 Royal Arcade, Cardiff, set in naturalistic surroundings, frame 45 x 35cms. £30-50
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Greater Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopus major), nicely mounted on a branch amongst grasses, the case 34cms high, 28cms wide. £30-50
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Cased Taxidermy Specimen of a Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), set amongst naturalistic surroundings, the case 28cms high, 42cms wide (in need of repair). £30-50
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A Late XIX / Ealry XX Century Taxidermy Study of a Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), and a Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) with Prey (Greenfinch - Carduelis chloris), set amongst naturalistic surroundings, the case 45cms high, 44cms wide, with staining to rear panel. £40-80
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A Late XIX / Ealry XX Century Taxidermy Study of a Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) and a Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra), on a naturalistic setting in a glass dome, 33cms high. £25-50
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A Late XIX / Early XX Century Taxidermy Specimen of a Green Winged Teal (Anas crecca), set amongst naturalistic foliage, in case 34 x 46cms. £40-60
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An Interesting Collection of Sixty-One Mid XX Century Physiology Slides, human and animal including human kidney, cerebrum, cat lungs, spleen, pig liver, fish retina, frog cartilage, rabbit uterus and spinal cord, lymph glands and others, housed in holders within pine box. £50-100
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An Interesting Mid XX Century Collection of Twenty-Seven Natural History Microscope Slides, plants and animals, including a full water scorpion, butterfly tongue, rose ovaries, raspberry, rhubarb, fern spores, lily bud, eye of a beetle and proboscis of fly, house in holders within a thick board box. £20-40
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1940 'Dandy Monster Comic' Annual No. 2, Korky on trapeze to cover, published by D.C. Thomson, spine detached, wear and splitting to edges, fading to page edges, no other written marks to pages; 'Donald Duck Express to Funland' Annual, from a similar period. (2) £250-400
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1940 The Beano Book No. 1, published by D.C. Thomson, Fun Fair to cover, spine detached but present, rubbing to edges of covers, fading to page edges, name box filled in but no other marks to pages. £1000-2000
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Hunter [Joseph] : Hallamshire, The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield in the County of York, engravings by E.Blore, G. Hollins etc, title page missing, rebound in brown leather. £40-60
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Mary Tourtel "Little Bear and The Fairy Child", Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., reprinted from the Daily Express, undated, inscribed and dated 1922, first edition; R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1, pub. Frederick Warne & Co. (2) £100-150
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Jones [Owen] : The Grammar of Ornament, pub. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910, folio, 112 colour plates with tissue guards, gilt tooled maroon cloth. £150-200
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Scot [Reginald] : The Discovery of Witchcraft, proving the common opinions of Witches contracting with Devils, Spirits or Familiars...., printed for R.C. and to be sold by Giles Calvert dwelling at the Black Spread Eagle at the West End of Pauls, 1651, ex-libris, vellum boards. £100-150
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A New Work of Animals, principally designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay and Phaedrus, with 56 etchings by Samuel Howitt, pub. Edward Orme, London, 1811, half calf marbled boards; Kingston [W.H.G.] : The Western World, the nature and natural history of North and South America, pub. T. Nelson & Sons, London 1874 first edition; Four Others, natural history related. (6) £40-60
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Hunter [Joseph] : Hallamshire, The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield, pub. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor and Jones, 1819, first edition, folio, brown cloth binding; The History, Guide and Description of the Borough of Sheffield, by William White and printed for him by the Wicker Library, 1833; Sheffield and It's Neighbourhood Illustrated, pub. A.W. Bennett, London, first edition, with 16 original albumen photographs and 10 vignettes. (3) £60-100
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Addy [Sidney Ordall] : The Hall of Waltheof, or the early condition and settlement of Hallamshire, pub. William Townsend & Son, Sheffield, 1893, with illustrations by William Keeling, Austin Winterbottom and James Moore; Four Further Sheffield Related Books. (5) £30-40
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Culpeper [Nicholas M.D.] : The Complete Herbal, London, Thomas Kelly, 1847; Fernie [W.T. M.D.] : Herbal Simples, third edition, Bristol, John Wright & Sons Ltd. (2) £30-50
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Wharncliffe, Wortley and the Valley of the Don, photographically illustrated by Theophilus Smith, pub. A.W. Bennett, London, 1864, first edition, with 16 albumen photographs, gilt tooled leather embossed binding. £40-80
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Mr and Mrs S.C. Hall : Ireland and It's Scenery, Character and Co., Vols 1-3, pub. Hall Virtue & Co, London, undated, circa 1850, marbled board and leather bindings; Sharpe [Montagu] : Antiquities of Middlesex, pub. G. Bell & Sons Ltd., 1919; Vectis Scenery : The Isle of Wight, pub. George Brannon, Isle of Wight, 1830, marbled board and leather binding. (3) £70-100
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The Salisbury Guide, giving an account of the antiquities of Old Sarum, printed and sold by J. Easton, 1796, 18th edition, leather binding. £50-80
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Bates [H.E.] : Through the Woods, 73 engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, pub. Victor Gollancz, London 1936, red cloth, dustwrapper; Bates [H.E.] : Down the River, 83 engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, pub. Victor Gollancz, London 1937, blue cloth, dustwrapper; Bates [H.E.] : Moment in Time, pub. Michael Joseph, 1964, blue cloth. (3) £20-30
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Shepherd [Thomas. H] : London and It's Environs in the Nineteenth Century, pub. Jones & Co., London 1829, rebound in marbled board and leather. £30-40
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Noble [Mark] : Memoirs of the Protectoral House of Cromwell, Vol 1-2, pub. for G.G.J and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1787, marbled board and leather bindings; Cruickshank [George] Illus. : The Political House that Jack Built, pub. William Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819, tooled gilt cloth binding. (3) £60-80
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Dickens [Charles] : The Battle of Life, a Love Story, pub. Bradbury & Evan, Whitefriars, 1846, first edition, red cloth binding; Martin Chuzzlewit, pub. Chapman & Hall, undated, marble board and leather binding; Bleak House, pub. Chapman & Hall, 1853, first edition. (3) £60-80
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Foxe [John] : The Book of Martyrs, pub. Cassell and Company, London, undated, marbled board and leather binding; A Further Edition, pub. Adam and Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, undated, embossed leather binding. (2) £30-40
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Burton [Robert] : The War in England, Scotland and Ireland, pub. for A Bettersworth and C. Hitch at the Red Lyon in Paternoster Row and J. Hodge at the Looking Glass on London Bridge, 1737, leather binding. £20-30
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The Christian's Family Bible, Old and New Testaments, with The Apocrypha at Large, illustrated and annotations by Rev. John Bates, pub. Holden & Dowson, Halifax, 1804, leather binding; La Sainte Bible, pub. A Hambourg and Leipzig, 1727; D.N Jesu Christi Testamentum Novum, illus. Franciscus Junius, 1592, rebound; Two Further Bibles, a Prayer Book and Wild Flowers of the Holy Land. (7) £70-100
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Maynard [Henry. N] : Handbook to the Crumlin Viaduct Monmouthshire, published by Henry. N. Maynard, 1962, red cloth. £30-40
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Gardner [John] : The History of Monmouthshire, illustrated and ornament by John Gardner, published by N. Baldwin 1796, brown calf; Coxe's Tour in Monmouthshire, Vols I and II; The Lordshire, Castle and Town of Chepstow Otherwise Striguil; A Monmouthshire Directory. (5) £100-150
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AFTER JOHN CARY
A New Map of Derbyshire, Divided into Hundreds..., hand coloured engraved map, dissecting into fifteen sections and mounted on linen, pub. J. Cary, No. 86 St James's St., London, 1831, associated cloth covered case. £60-100
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Cary [John] : Cary's New Itinerary or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads..., third edition with improvements (lacking map to rear), London, 1806, calf; A Further Copy, seventh edition, with folding linen-backed map, London 1817 (rebacked calf). (2) £80-120
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Cary [John] : Cary's British Traveller, with folding engraved map, pub. London 1803, contemporary marbled boards with rebacked spine. £40-70
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After J & W Emslie, Official Railway Map of the Yorkshire District, dissecting into forty-two sections and mounted on linen, pub. Railway Clearing House, London 1909, gilt morocco covers; Coltman [Nathaniel] : Whittle and Laurie's New Map of all the Coach Roads ...., hand-coloured engraved map, dissecting into twenty-four sections, mounted on linen, New Edition, pub. London 1818, original slipcase. (2) £70-100
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Hunter [Rev. Joseph] : The Hallamshire Glossary, large paper edition, pub. William Pickering, London 1829, rebound half gilt morocco with marbled boards.
Footnote: A Handwritten note to the flyleaf states that only twelve copies of this edition were printed. £50-80
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Wharncliffe, Wortley and the Valley of the Don, photographically illustrated by Theophilus Smith, pub. A.W. Bennett, London, 1864, first edition, with 16 albumen photographs, gilt tooled embossed binding. £40-60
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Francis White & Co. : History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, 1857, with map, half calf and marbled boards. £50-80
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Sheffield Year Book, with which is incorporated the Sheffield & Rotherham Red Book, 1937, pub. Sir W.C. Leng & Co. (Sheffield Telegraph) Ltd.; Sheffield Past and Present, being a biography of the Town during eight hundred years, Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D., 1873; Sheffield as a Tourist Centre, 1924; The Manuscripts of Sir William Fitsherbert Bart, 1893; British Association Handbook and Guide, Sheffield 1910; The Genealogists Guide to Pedigrees, 1879 and others related. £40-60
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Industrial Sheffield and Rotherham, pub. Bemrose & Sons Ltd., 1919, incorporating a colour section, blue cloth. £30-50
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