antiques & fine art sale

A box of books on art and antiques, to include Bethan Huws, Watercolours, Wood Engravings & Drawings of Iain McNab by Albert Garrett, Portraits by Kyffin Williams, Boris Pasternak His Life & Art by Guy de Mallac, The World of Art Movement in Russia, A History of British Wood Engraving by Albert Garrett, Dictionary of Furniture by John Gloags, Pictorial Art in South Africa, etc.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A box of various, to include Life on The Russian Country Estate, A Writers Ireland, Aircraft Hydraulics, King Penguin books, the Haunters of The Silences by Charles Roberts (1907), Digby by David Walker, the Long Horns by J. Frank Dobie, etc.

Estimated: £30 - £50

A box of books, to include Sportascrapiana (1867), The Angler Naturalist A Popular History of British Freshwater Fish (circa 1863), Ancient Mysteries Described (1823), Locks & Safes by Charles Tomlinson, The Story of The Heavens by Sir Robert S. Ball (circa 1886).

Sold for £10

A collection of 19th century publications of The Works of Robert Burns (9).

Sold for £10

Five books and documents on British Foreign Policy, from 1919-1939, volumes 24, 23, 16, 6 and 13.

Estimated: £30 - £50

Four 19th century bibles, and a 19th century copy of Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress.

Sold for £15

Three illustrated books by Kit Williams, Forest of Lilacs illustrated by Nicole Clavellux, Voyage Beyond Three Seas by Afanasy Nikitin, Celtic Legends and Russian Fairy Tales.

Estimated: £40 - £60

A box of world topography and climbing books, to include Seven Years in Tibet, The Epic of Mount Everest, No Tigers in The Hindu Kush, Desert Marsh & Mountain The World of A Nomad, etc.

Sold for £20

A six volume set of the Life of The Right Honourable W.E. Gladstone, red boards with gilt illustrations, published by Castle Petter Galpin & co., written by George Barnett Smith, and a 1959 edition of Burke's Peerage.

Sold for £25

Eight military history books, 5 volumes of The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans & Regiments by John S. Keltie, A Soldiers Experience or A Voice From The Ranks by T. Gowing being a personal narrative of The Crimean Campain, A Boy in The Peninsula War The Autobiography of Robert Blakeney by Julian Sturgis, published by John Murray (1899) and The Gurkhali Manual, published by G.W.P. Money (Captain The Third Gurkha Rifles 1942) (see illustration).

Sold for £60

Seven illustrated classic novels, The Old Curiosity Shop and The Pickwick Papers, both illustrated by Frank Reynolds, The Honourable Mr Tawnish and The Broad Highway by Jeffrey Farnol, both illustrated C.E. Brock, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius by William Adligton, illustrated by Philip Hagreen (1924), The Gateway to Chaucer, illustrated by Ann Anderson, The Canterbury Tales, illustrated by Russell Flint (1928).

Sold for £15

A box of ornithological books, to include 2 copies of Birds of Britain by J. Lewis Bonhote (1907), British Birds in Their Haunts by Rev. C.A. Johns (1876), Collins New Naturalist book on Sea Birds, The Birds of Lancashire by Clifford Oakes (1953), Here & there With Birds by E.W. Hendy, Birds Ashore and Aforeshore by Patrick Chalmers, etc. (15).

Sold for £10

Sixteen world and Scottish topography books, mostly late 19th and early 20th century, to include Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnson, The Chateau of Touraine by Lansdale, From John O'Groats to Lands End by R.N. and J.N. (Ronert A John Naylor), A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy by Lawrence Sterne, My Scottish Sketchbook by Lionel Edwards, etc.

Sold for £32

Seventeen books on British topography, to include Memories of The Old College of Glasgow by David Murray, Lancashire painted by A Woods, Bulmer's History & Directory of Furness & Cartmell, Belfast in Its Regional Setting (1952), Picturesque England, etc.

Sold for £28

Twenty antiquarian books, to include Landscape by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1885), Peter Schlemihl with plates by George Cruikshank (1878), Guide to Science (1858), English Journey by J.B. Priestley (1937), My Brother Jonathan by Francis Brett Young (1935), Cruikshanks Comic Almanac 1835-1943, etc.

Sold for £65

Approximately 150 19th century prints.

Sold for £100

Six illustrated and humorous books, Mickey Magee's Menagerie, illustrated by Harry Neilson (1904), Three Naughty Children by Orlo Williams, illustrated by J.R. Monsell (1922), Phil May's Graphic Pictures, The Frank Lockwood Sketchbook (1898), Mr Punch's Prehistoric Peeps by E.T. Reed (circa 1904), My Sketchbook by George Cruikshank (1834).

Sold for £60

Eight children's illustrated books and annuals, to include The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter de la Mare, Iain The Happy Puppy written and illustrated by Katherine Cameron, The Months by Leigh Hunt (1936), etc.

Estimated: £40 - £60

Eight volumes of a late 18th century edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Estimated: £50 - £80

Nine illustrated gardening books, late 19th and early 20th century, to include Alpine Flowers & Gardens by G. Flemwell (1910), Our Gardens by S. Reynolds Hole (1899), the Garden that I Love by Alfred Austin (1904), Royal Palaces & Gardens by Mima-Nixon (1916), etc.

Sold for £25

A collection of classic literature and illustrated books, to include Plain or Ringlets and Ask Mama illustrated by John Leech, Charles Kinglsey His Letters & Memories of His Life, 2 volumes, Eastern Epic by Compton McKenize, The Idle Thoughts by Jerome K Jerome, Tauchnitz Edition of A Sentimental Journey by Lawrence Sterne, uncorrected proof copy John Master's The Road Past Mandalay, uncorrected proof copy of Daughter of France by V Sackville West.

Sold for £65

LEE. JAMES, An Introduction to Botany, containing an explanation of the theory of that science from The Works of Linnaeus (1799), The Silent Traveller A Chinese Artist in Lakeland by Chiang Yee, Ward Lock's The English Lake District, Murray's Handbook of The Lakes, Westmorland & Cumberland (1889), The English Lakes in the Neighbourhood of Ambleside, Workington Yearbook (1908), and Middleton's Commercial Directory for Maryport 1894.

Sold for £45

A box of 33 Observer books, to include Rocks & Minerals, Firearms, Fly Fishing, Castles, Victoriana, etc.

Sold for £70

A collection of 23 Lake District books, to include Priors Ascents & Passes in The Lake District (1865) complete with pullout map, the History & Antiquities of Allerdale Ward Above Derwent by Samuel Jefferson, illustrated with numerous plates and engravings (1842), Tales & Legends of The Lake District by Armistead, Walking in The Lakes by Symonds, etc.

Sold for £60

A box of 23 Scottish topography and history books and maps, to include Archaeological Light on The Early Christianisation of Scotland, 2 volumes, Scotland Picturesque & Traditional by George Eyre-Todd, The Cathedral of Iona (1866), etc.

Sold for £20

Some Records of The Annual Grasmere Sports compiled by Hugh W. Machell, published by Thurnams of Carlisle (1911).

Sold for £32

WAINWRIGHT. ALFRED, Wainwright in Lakeland, signed First Edition copy, printed by Westmorland Gazette (1983).

Sold for £50

A collection of Lake District and mountaineering books, to include The Making of A Mountaineer by G.I. Finch, Cumberland & Westmorland Papers & Pedigrees by William Jackson, 2 volumes (1892), Kelly's Directory of Westmorland (1925), Historic Farmhouses In & Around Westmorland, the Household Account Book of Sarah Fell edited by Norman Penney, Cartmel People & Priory by Sam Taylor, etc.

Sold for £20

A rare copy of the First Edition Beano Annual published before the appearance of Dennis The Menace, the 1940 Beano book was issued around the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, it came a year after the weekly comic was first brought out by Dundee based D.C. Thompson in July 1938. The annual was published in relatively small numbers and it is extremely difficult to find a better copy than this one (see illustration).

Sold for £3500

HERBERT. THOMAS, Some Years Travels into Divers Part of Asia & Afrique, describing especially the two famous Empires, The Persian and the Great Mogull, weaved with the history of these later times. As also, many rich and spacious kingdoms in the Oriental India and other parts of Asia, and adjacent Ilas, published by Jacob Blome, London, 1638, second edition revised and enlarged by the author. Sir Thomas Herbert made an extensive tour in Persia, Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, Surat and the Eastern Shores of North America including a dissertation to prove that America was discovered 300 years before Columbus by the Welsh man Madoc Ap Owen (see illustration).

Sold for £200

BURNET. THOMAS, The Theory of the Earth, containing an account of the original of The Earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, til the consummation of the all things. The two first books concerning deluge and concerning paradise. Printed by R Norton for Walter Kettilby at The Bishops Head in St. Paul's churchyard, London 1684 (see illustration).

Sold for £280

Sandy's Travels, Containing an History of The Original and Present State of The Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice and commerce, etc., published by Rod Clavell, London 1670.

Sold for £160

Essais de Michel de Montaigne, published in 1796, 4 volume set, printed in Paris.

Sold for £28

MILTON. JOHN, Paradise Lost, poem in 12 books, printed for Jacob Thomson, London 1725.

Sold for £100

A Discourse of Drinking Healths, wherein the great evil of this prevailing custom is shown; and the obligation which lieth upon all good Christians to suppress and discountenance it to the utmost of their power, by Peter Lord Bishop of Cork, published in Dublin 1716.

Sold for £80

The Adventures of Pomponius a Roman Knight or The History of our Times, published London 1726.

Sold for £28

A box of mixed antiquarian books, to include Edward Gibbons History of the Decline & Fall of The Roman Empire (1807), The Rise of The Dutch Republic A History by John Motley (1864), Evelina or The History of Young Ladies Entrance to The World (1784), etc.

Sold for £55

BACON. FRANCIS, (Sir) The Essays or Councils, Civil & Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, with a table of the colours of good and evil and a discourse of the wisdom of the ancients, published London 1696.

Sold for £110

A box of mixed antiquarian books mostly with loose bindings, to include the Anatomy of Melancholy (1676), The Fairy Queen written by Edmund Spenser, published London 1758, The Theatre of Gods Judgements 4th edition 1648, etc.

Sold for £180

West Guide to The Lakes, second edition (1821), by Jonathan Otley, A Guide to The Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire (1796), A Guide to The Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire (1821), and The Rural Walks of Cowper by James Storer.

Sold for £70

The complete set of eight miniature volumes of The Illustrated Pocket Shakespeare, by J. Talfourd Blair, published by David Brice & Son, Glasgow, and the complete set of The Life & Exploits of Don Quixote translated by Charles Jarvis (1821).

Sold for £65

GOWER, RONALD (Lord), John Earl of Rochester, published 1875, Saessai Sur Le Caractere et Les Moeurs des Francois Compares a Sur Ceux des Anglois, published London 1776, The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of The Bakers, printed London 1845.

Estimated: £60 - £80

RANSOME. ARTHUR, Great Northern, Missee Lee, Pigeon Post, and a signed copy of We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (see illustration).

Sold for £20

BLUNT. CHARLES F, The Beauty of The Heavens, a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe, published in London by David Bogue 1845.

Sold for £75

GOLDSMITH. OLIVER, A History of The Earth & Animated Nature with appendix by Captain Thomas Brown, published in Glasgow by Archibald Fullarton (1833), 4 volumes (see illustration).

Sold for £85

DICKENS. CHARLES, The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Chapman & Hall, London 1839, with illustrations by Phiz.

Estimated: £80 - £120

A handwritten notebook containing the recipes for cures, medicines, powders, etc. originally from Brown's Chemist in Cockermouth which later became Litt's Chemist, dates to late 19th and early 20th century, contents include lists of ingredients for hair lotions, children's medicines, silver cleaner, physio rubs for horses, etc.

Sold for £75

The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester (963-984), reproduced in facsimile from the manuscript in the library of The Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth by Sir George F. Warner, privately printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club (1910) (see illustration).

Sold for £380

The Antiquities of The Cathedral Church Saint Mary, Carlisle, drawn on the spot by Robert Carlile (1792), full calf boards, 46 watercolour or drawn plates, most full colour, and three manuscript title pages, the primary title page and two internal titles, frontis exterior view of cathedral, and later, an interior view following the title page for "The Legend of St. Anthony North Aile". Fourteen watercolours, following "South Aile", 22 watercolours. Ten additional plates of which one is a full colour watercolour of the interior of the cathedral, 8 half partial colouring, one is of calligraphic lettering (see illustration).

Estimated: £2000 - £4000

Milton Drinkwater, watercolour, river scene with Highland cattle. 30 cm x 45 cm, framed, signed.

Estimated: £20 - £30

19th century Scottish School, oil on canvas, "Neidpath Castle". 22 cm x 29 cm, framed.

Sold for £100

Henry Magenis (19th century), watercolour, "Chirk Castle, Overlooking River Dee, Near LLangollen, North Wales". 21 cm x 36 cm, framed, signed and dated 1885.

Sold for £20

William Henry Mander, pair of oils on canvas, figure in landscape and cattle in landscape. Each 20 cm x 29 cm, framed, one signed.

Sold for £260

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), Lake District scene, watercolour. 29.5 cm x 48 cm, signed (see illustration).

Sold for £380

E. Butt, "Duchess & foal by Burgundy", oil on canvas. 29 cm x 39 cm, signed.

Sold for £70

A watercolour of a clipper, with other small vessels, signed to right hand corner "Woolston & Barratt, Newcastle". 47 cm x 66 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £190

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), "Thirlmere" and "A Cloudy Day in October, Rydal Water", both signed, watercolours, a pair. 18 cm x 25 cm (see illustration).

Estimated: £600 - £800

Albert Rosser, watercolour, cottage in Lakeland landscape, signed, watercolour. 25 cm x 34 cm.

Sold for £100

John Atkinson, farmyard scene, signed, watercolour. 23 cm x 30 cm, signed.

Estimated: £100 - £150

John Atkinson, figures on lane, watercolour, signed. 26 cm x 37 cm.

Estimated: £100 - £150

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), Lakeland scenes with silver birch, watercolours. a pair, signed. 24.5 cm x 17 cm.

Sold for £450

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), "Summer, Grasmere", watercolour, signed and dated 1924. 17 cm x 24 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £400

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), "View of Coniston", watercolour, signed. 20 cm x 26 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £780

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), lake and mountain scene with silver birch to right, watercolour, signed. 24 cm x 39 cm.

Sold for £380

Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929), "Loch Karron", watercolour, signed. 50 cm x 32 cm.

Estimated: £300 - £400

Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863-1929), Lakeland scene with path and small yacht, watercolour, signed. 23 cm x 33 cm.

Estimated: £400 - £600

An oil on canvas, still life of flowers in basket, signed. 39 cm x 49 cm.

Sold for £100

Josefina de Vasconcellos (1904-2005), watercolour, "A Flash of Memory". 29 cm x 39 cm, framed, signed with monogram. ARR

Sold for £70

Philip McLeod Coupe, three pencil drawings and watercolour portrait of Josefina de Vasconcellos. Largest 37 cm x 28 cm, all framed and signed.

Sold for £65

A pastel, "Cocker Brows", 20 cm x 28 cm, a watercolour by Sally Rigby, 1986, another by Grace Harrow and a watercolour of an Italian Piazza.

Sold for £65

Jenny Cowern, pair of framed watercolours, "Copper Beech, Matrix A" and "Copper Beech, Matrix B". Each 89 cm x 79 cm, framed, signed and labelled verso.

Sold for £110

Meryll Evans, oil on canvas, "Lodore Falls, Keswick". 44 cm x 59 cm, framed, signed with initials.

Sold for £28

After Nicolas Louis Francois Gosse (French 1787-1878), "Congress of Erfurt", colour print on canvas, mounted within an ornate gilt moulded frame, image 90 cm x 121 cm.

Sold for £300

A small pair of 19th century portraits, oils on canvas. Each 20 cm x 18 cm.

Sold for £240

William Darling MacKay, "Winter Feeding", signed with initials and with label verso from The Fine Art Society dated 1985, 19th century, oil on canvas. 16 cm x 24 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £240

E.S. England, hounds and terriers, a pair, signed, 19th century, oil on canvas. 25 cm x 33 cm.

Sold for £350

A late 19th century oil on canvas, three quarter length portrait of a young girl. 35 cm x 24 cm, framed.

Sold for £65

R. Meadows, coastal scene, watercolour. 24.5 cm x 44.5 cm.

Estimated: £30 - £50

A large oil painting on canvas, full length portrait of a soldier in standing pose by column with tents beyond. 200 cm x 100 cm, framed.

Sold for £170

Antonelli, oil on canvas, snow scene with avenue of trees. 58 cm x 97 cm, framed, signed.

Sold for £70

William Manners, carting scene, signed and dated 1910. watercolour. 20 cm x 30 cm.

Sold for £140

William Manners (1860-1930), "The End of The Day", figure on horseback with shepherd and dog driving sheep through a wooded country lane, signed and dated 1910, oil on canvas. 35.5 cm x 46 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £520

U. Osgania, two small Venetian watercolours, "Rialto Bridge" and "Salute Church", signed, watercolours, a pair. 12 cm x 7 cm.

Estimated: £20 - £30

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), lake and mountain scene, signed and dated 1926, watercolour. 25 cm x 35 cm.

Sold for £220

Edward Horace Thompson (1879-1949), "A Promising Morning Over Derwentwater", signed and dated 1922, watercolour. 28.5 cm x 44 cm.

Sold for £110

Sir William Russell Flint, "Burgundian Granary", Limited Edition print 298/850. Image size 49 cm x 67 cm.

Sold for £30

Sir William Russell Flint, "Spanish Castle", Limited Edition print 188/850. Image size 49 cm x 67 cm.

Sold for £50

Sir William Russell Flint, "La Belle Poseuse", Limited Edition print 514/850. Image size 50 cm x 68 cm.

Sold for £40

Sir William Russell Flint, "Gossip St. Jeannet", Limited Edition print 311/850. Image size 48 cm x 66 cm.

Sold for £40

Sir William Russell Flint, "Sewing", Limited Edition print 448/850. Image size 49 cm x 68 cm.

Sold for £35

Len Roope, "Vale of Lorton", signed and dated 1980, watercolour. 25 cm x 35 cm. ARR

Sold for £160

Len Roope, "Old Cockermouth" signed, watercolour. 20 cm x 28 cm. ARR

Sold for £110

Len Roope, "River Cocker at Lorton", signed, watercolour. 20 cm x 27 cm. ARR

Sold for £140

Len Roope, "Lincoln Morning", signed and dated 1979, watercolour. 17 cm x 25.5 cm. ARR

Sold for £100

Marion Roope, cottage in landscape, oil on board. 30 cm x 39 cm.

Sold for £50

Marion Roope, "River Bend Near Cockermouth", signed, oil on board. 19.5 cm x 27 cm.

Estimated: £20 - £40

Harry Frier (British 1849-1921), "Taunton, The Town Mill from the North Bank of the River Tone", signed and dated 1891, watercolour, 36 cm x 54 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £350

Pat Cleary, shepherd with flock in Lakeland landscape with farmhouse and attached barn, signed, oil on board. 65 cm x 100 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £580

Dorothy Turton RMS, "Henrietta Maria (circa 1609-69)" and a Gainsborough style beauty, each monogrammed and mounted in ebonised frames and embossed metal mount and suspension ring, a further portrait miniature of a child initialled DAG, and a portrait miniature of a young lady in profile, inscribed verso Harriet Stockdale, daughter of the late Reverend J Stockdale... this likeness was taken in 1822. 6.5 cm x 5 cm.

Sold for £160

Portrait miniature lithograph of Miss Charles Kemble, within a gilt border and gilt frame, image 8 cm x 6.5 cm.

Sold for £20