Thursday 5th September 2019 | 09:30 Gentleman's Library Auction 2019 Lot 31 Description Estimate William Barns Wollen, R.I. (1857-1936) Guns to the front, R.H.A. £100.00 - £150.00 Peninsular War, signed in pencil watercolour, 65cm x 44cm Lot 32 Description Estimate George VI pottery teapot, with brown glazed exterior, stamped to base £40.00 - £60.00 "G.VI.R Double & Son Ltd. 1942" Lot 33 Description Estimate Victorian silver cross form pencil by Mordan, with registration and £40.00 - £60.00 Mordan stamps to the body, central sliding section and hanging loop, 4.5cm Lot 34 Description Estimate 19th Century James Dixon & Sons copper and brass powder flask, in the £100.00 - £150.00 form of a gun stock with ornate scrolling and chequered decoration, stamped to one side No. 94923, kite mark to the top, brass nozzle end, 20.5cm long Lot 35 Description Estimate Political Free Trade interest, a post card with an image of a poor family £20.00 - £30.00 and the slogan "Free Trade" the rear of the card "Electors! Read This. In this so called "Free Trade" country, we allow foreigners to take the bread out of our mouths of our work people by Unfair Foreign Competition, Vote for Harry Foster this Friday" Sir Harry Seymour Foster (29 April 1855 – 20 June 1938)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for three non-consecutive periods between 1892 and 1929. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Suffolk, and in the Commission of Lieutenancy for the City of London, where he was appointed a Sheriff of London for 1891. He was Consul- General of Persia from 1892 to 1923 Lot 36 Description Estimate Plate and leather mounted glass hip flask by James Dixon and Sons, two £20.00 - £40.00 plated and brown alligator skin mounted glass inkwell by Barraclough & Sons Leeds, all with detachable to cups to the bases (3) Lot 37 Description Estimate George III Duties on Soap Seal, the oak handle with a seal end and the £80.00 - £120.00 inscription 'EXCISE SOAP No 88 GR III' Lot 38 Description Estimate An intriguing collection of medals, from the family of medallist William £400.00 - £600.00 Joseph Taylor, to include Farming medals, Photographic Society, Industry of the Works of all Nations Exhibition, C. Roach Smith, Loco-Machine exhibition, Monarchs medal, William Joseph Taylor medal, Crystal Palace, etc, together with two wax examples, a medal leather clad circular travel case, a paper advert, calling cards, and letters. 26 medals. William Joseph Taylor was born in Birmingham in 1802. By the 1840s Taylor was established as a medallist and dealer. During his career he produced a considerable number of coins and tokens, he was also appointed to the Great Exhibition of 1851 Lot 39 Description Estimate Pair of Lloyds Coffee House brass candlesticks, circa 1760, the sticks £500.00 - £700.00 heavily cast in brass with pushers and each corner stamped Lloyds, 21cm high. Footnote: Opened by Edward Lloyd (c. 1648–15 February 1713) on Tower Street in 1686.The establishment was a popular place for sailors, merchants and ship owners, and Lloyd's catered to them by providing reliable shipping news, the shipping industry community frequented the place to discuss maritime insurance, shipbroking and foreign trade, the dealings that took place led to the establishment of the insurance market Lloyd's of London Lloyd's Register, the Coffee house moved to the Royal Exchange in 1774 Lot 40 Description Estimate Pair of Victorian steel and green glass spectacles, the green glass lenses £40.00 - £60.00 with hinged side lenses Lot 41 Description Estimate Barrister's seal and prick £60.00 - £90.00 Lot 42 Description Estimate Rare pair of 19th Century gilt metal shoemakers shop signs, in the form of £150.00 - £250.00 gilt boots with loops for hanging, 24.5cm long, (2) Lot 64 Description Estimate Fine Binding, The Complete Poetical works of John Milton, Oxford £60.00 - £90.00 University Press, London 1921, the binding by Matthews & Bond, with gilt tooled leather binding with marble green marble boards Lot 66 Description Estimate An entire and complete political and personal of the Boroughs of Great £70.00 - £90.00 Britain; to which is prefixed an original sketch of constitutional rights, Vol I, II and III, leather bound, 1792, leather bound, (3) Lot 68 Description Estimate Guthrie (William). A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial £80.00 - £120.00 Grammar; and Present State of the several Kingdoms of the World..., 4th edition 1774, improved and enlarged; The Astronomical part by James Ferguson, folding double hemisphere world map frontispiece and interior folding maps, leather bound Lot 71 Description Estimate Paterson, Lieutenant Colonel - A New and Accurate Description of all the £30.00 - £50.00 Direct and Principal Roads in England and Wales, and part of the Roads of Scotland - 1811, London Lot 91 Description Estimate James Stark and J W Robberds, `Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk £200.00 - £300.00 comprising the Yare, the Waveney and the Bure from Pictures Painted by James Stark with Historical and Geological Descriptions by J W Robberds Jun.`, Moon, Boys and Graves, London, 1834, leather and gilt bindings Lot 157 Description Estimate J. Stockdale A Map of Surrey 1798, 52cm x 43cm £20.00 - £30.00 Lot 158 Description Estimate Christopher Greenwood (1786-1855) and John Greenwood (fl. 1821-1840) £40.00 - £60.00 Map of the County of Essex, from an actual Survey made in the year 1824, by C & J Greenwood, 13, Regent St. Pall Mall, London, corrected to the and published Jany 1st Present period 1831, with an image of Audley End House to the bottom right, 72cm x 63cm, framed and glazed Lot 159 Description Estimate Robert Morden, Map of Worcestershire, hand coloured, 45cm x 38cm £40.00 - £60.00 Lot 160 Description Estimate Dr Butlers Junior Antient Atlas, Published London 1853, together with The £50.00 - £70.00 Pocket Adding Machine, The Britannia box of slate pencils and The Half Inch map of England for Cyclist, Tourists, etc, (4) Lot 161 Description Estimate Bacon's large scale plan of London, together with five other maps of £30.00 - £50.00 London (6) Lot 162 Description Estimate Edward Stanford The Constellations, circa 1830, five hand coloured prints, £40.00 - £60.00 30cm x 31cm Lot 163 Description Estimate A New Map of the County of Suffolk, divided into hundreds, published £40.00 - £60.00 London and printed for C. Smith, No.172 Strand, January 6th 1804, 2nd Edition corrected to 1808, 50cm x 44cm, framed and glazed Lot 164 Description Estimate Collection of maps depicting India (qty) £20.00 - £40.00 Lot 165 Description Estimate Two 19th Century French maps, Dept Du Calvados and Dept De L'eure, £40.00 - £60.00 both framed and glazed, (2) Lot 166 Description Estimate Plan of Langborn Ward and Candlewick Ward London 1755, with £30.00 - £50.00 depictions of parish churches to the border, 54cm x 40cm Lot 167 Description Estimate Plan of Ipswich by Edward White, laid down on a linen backing, 78cm x £40.00 - £60.00 67cm Lot 168 Description Estimate Exceedingly large map of Suffolk, Map of the County of Suffolk from actual £400.00 - £600.00 survey by A. Bryant in the years 1824 and 1825, the Ecclesiastical Divisions to the top left, in two sections on cloth, total size 196cm x 154cm, housed within a leather clad book type case Lot 170 Description Estimate J. Stockdale A Map of Essex 1797, 54cm x 44cm £20.00 - £30.00 Lot 171 Description Estimate Robert De Vangondy, Normandie, Bretagne, Maine Anjou, Touraine, Et £40.00 - £60.00 Saumuros, 33cm x 27cm Lot 172 Description Estimate Collection of eight maps depicting north and south America (8) £20.00 - £30.00 Lot 173 Description Estimate Leather bound folio containing Suffolk and some East Anglian Maps £50.00 - £70.00 Lot 175 Description Estimate J. Stockdale A Map of Kent 1797, 53cm x 44cm £20.00 - £30.00 Lot 176 Description Estimate J. Stockdale A Map of Hartfordshire 1798, 52.5cm x 44cm £20.00 - £30.00 Lot 43 Description Estimate Novelty mahogany cigarette case and vesta in the form of a car, with two £50.00 - £70.00 tambour lidded compartments, 20cm wide Lot 169 Description Estimate Read (Lieutenant R.P.) Saint Helena, pictorial map of Napoleon`s place of £150.00 - £200.00 exile., title and dedication upper right 'This Geographical Plan of the Islands & Forts of Saint Helena is dedicated by permission to Field Marshal his R Highness the Duke of Kent and Strathearn', Napoleon`s facsimile signatures lower right with ships and spouting whales, the island with depictions of the topography, trees, roads and numerous buildings, formed from 16 panels mounted on a linen backing, 59.5cm x 45cm Lot 174 Description Estimate Collection of prints and maps, to include a Cary map of Surry, Baynards £50.00 - £70.00 Castle Ward and Broad Street Ward by Ladbrook and Bridgen, map of Middlesex, bookplates, Inside the Red Bull Playhouse, A View of London Spa, Royal Palace and Guildhall, (qty) Lot 177 Description Estimate John Speed , A new and accurat Map of the World. Drawne according to ye £3,000.00 - truest Descriptions, latest Discoveries & best Observations yt have beene £5,000.00 made by English or Strangers, 1651, California as an island, celestial hemispheres, figural allegorical representations of Water, Earth, Air and Fire and diagrams of solar and lunar eclipses, hand coloured, 53cm x 41cm Lot 290 Description Estimate African tribal walking stick, the finial carved as a figure holding a club, £20.00 - £30.00 shield and spears, the foot carved as a boot, 100cm, silver mounted bamboo walking cane, 89.5cm (2) Lot 334 Description Estimate Bronze age Greek spear head, 7th-6th Century B.C., 15.5cm £20.00 - £30.00 Lot 335 Description Estimate Medieval bronze ring brooch, 13th - 14th Century A.D.