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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,940
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
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A wooden tribal mask with stylised facial features, headdress of three crocodiles, two female figures carved to either side of the cheeks, bone inlay to forehead and cheeks, texturing to head and facial hair, open mouth with protruding tongue. 8.3 kg, 1.06 m highFine condition.
Acquired Cape Town, South Africa, 2002.
Property of a Manchester, UK, collector.
Acquired Cape Town, South Africa, 2002.
Property of a Manchester, UK, collector.
A wooden nude female ancestor figure with stylised anatomical detailing. 1.4 kg, 67 cm high
From Nigeria.
From an old Exeter, UK, ethnographical collection.
Family ancestor figures and figurines are placed either in family shrines or in larger village shrines. Prayers and sacrifices were offered to them to maintain the relationship with the spirits of the ancestors and to gain their good will for success. During annual festivities, these figures are taken out and paraded through the village.
From Nigeria.
From an old Exeter, UK, ethnographical collection.
Family ancestor figures and figurines are placed either in family shrines or in larger village shrines. Prayers and sacrifices were offered to them to maintain the relationship with the spirits of the ancestors and to gain their good will for success. During annual festivities, these figures are taken out and paraded through the village.
A large carved wooden female figure, seated, bearing a pot on her head, wearing a dress, holding two iron implements and decorated with inset cowrie shells and small beads. 5.9 kg, 60.5 cm high
From an old Exeter, UK, ethnographical collection.
From an old Exeter, UK, ethnographical collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £702
An amethyst head or mask carved in the half-round with semi-naturalistic facial features, in the Olmec style; four holes drilled to edges; shallow recess to reverse. 1.1 kg, 13 cm high
Estate sale of a head of archaeology at Tulane University, U.S.A., pre 1990s.
Ex Tooveys, West Sussex, UK, 2019.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1977.187.33, for similar.
Estate sale of a head of archaeology at Tulane University, U.S.A., pre 1990s.
Ex Tooveys, West Sussex, UK, 2019.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1977.187.33, for similar.
![Books - Various - Mixed Titles [10]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/196989-s.jpg "Books - Various - Mixed Titles [10]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Group comprising: The Oxford Library of Classic English Short Stories, 1900-1975, London, 1990, 2 volumes in slipcase; Freud, Sigmund, On Dreams, London, 1952, new translation; Russell, Bertrand, Authority and the Individual, Reith Lectures, 1949; Moore, T. Inglis, Selected Poems of Henry Kendall, 1975, reprint; Gardiner, Samuel Rawson, The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution, Epochs of Modern History, London, 1878; Macartney, Frederick T., The Collected Verse of A B Paterson, Sydney, 1961, 28th printing; Hudson, W. H., Green Mansions, Collins, 1957, later edition; Adams, David, The Letters of Rachel Henning, Sydney, 1942, illustrated (2 copies) and Mr Middleton's Garden Book, Daily Express, nd, illustrated (spine torn away); mostly hardback. 4.8 kg total, 15.5 x 11 - 27 x 22 cmGenerally good or better condition; last with loose binding and defective spine.
The property of Mr and Mrs PR of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
The property of Mr and Mrs PR of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.
Y Bibl Cyssegr-Lan Sef Yr Hen Destament A'r Newydd Welsh-language bible of Old and New Testaments, printed by M. and R. Baskett in London; leather-bound boards, original binding; owner's name 'Mary Deiuss' inked to inside front cover, with pen-trials and other marks; front page with owner's name 'Mary Davies' over year '1836' and several iterations of the name; various annotations and attempts to copy the printed script in handwriting on the title page of Genesis; usage wear to the covers and fore edge, blackening and crumbling; binding damaged and loose, some losses to corners; printed text in two columns with footnotes; detached leaf from book of Esau (Esay) in front; 1.53 kg, 22.5 x 14 cmFair condition; heavily used.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Welsh-language bible of Old and New Testaments with heavy leather-bound boards. gold block titling to the spine 'BIBL SANTAIDD' (Holy Bible); handwritten notes of births to inside front cover beginning 'Richard Griffiths dies June (2) 1891 and was interred in Cockett Chruch [corrected to 'Church']; title page missing apart from an upper corner; fold-out map of the eastern Mediterranean area in the time of the Apostles; pen-trials and notes to the end pages. 3.28 kg, 27 x 22.5 cmOriginal binding scored and rubbed; foxing to some pages
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Welsh language bible with heavy boards, original leather binding with stamped and tooled ornament to both covers; inside front cover with pasted note listing births of children to David and Margaret Davies from 1856 1869 with subscript 'Mary Davies Corffenaf 23 1875' (i.e. 23rd July); numerous pencilled notations and calculations; separate first leaf with multiple signatures by David Davies'; loose leaf dated 1838 with prayers; church service paper for Eglwys Moriah, New York for 1919; private letter dated 9th January 1920 requesting the price of a bible; numerous other loose leaves with calculations and private correspondence. 3.15 kg, 26 x 21.5 cmCovers worn, scuffed and rubbed; usage wear to the covers and foredge; text largely complete, many manuscript additions, pressed flowers etc.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Thomas H. Shepherd, Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century: being a Series of Views of the new and most interesting objects in the British Metropolis and its vicinity: from original drawings by Mr. Thos. H. Shepherd with historical, topographical & critical illustrations by James Elmes, M.R.S.A. quarter calf binding with gold-blocked title and embellishments to the spine, marbled boards; owner's signature 'J. Miller' to reverse of frontispiece; iv pp. + 172 pp, 108 unnumbered plates with interleaved protective papers, engravings of 19th century London, many with attribution or dedication. 1.68 kg, 28 x 23 cmGenerally fine condition; minor foxing.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Ex libris David M. Miller; property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Stow, J., A Survey of London: Containing the Originall, Antiquitie, Encrease, Moderne estate and Description of that Citie, London, 1618; full calf (crudely repaired to spine) with blind panel tooling to front cover; text set in blackletter and Roman type with prefatory dedication and catalogue of sources ("A catalogue of svch avthors of Reuerend Antiquitie as doe auouch the matters contained in this Booke: Not Alphabetically set downe, but according as they stand inserted") by Anthony Munday ("A.M. sendeth his hearty and humble dutie"); iv pp. + 974 pp. + 2 pp.; pencilled dealers' notations to inside front cover; last page absent, a listing of City companies at the Mayor's feast ending at '52 Tylers, the VVardens, and one person, one messe'. 828 grams, 18.2 x 14.5 cmFair condition; text block split, needs re-backing. Scarce.
Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
![Books - Merton [Thoms] - The Old Story Books of England](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/198570-s.jpg "Books - Merton [Thoms] - The Old Story Books of England")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Ambrose Merton, i.e. William John Thoms, The Old Story Books of England. Illustrated with twelve pictures by eminent artists. Collected and re-edited by Amb [rose] Mer[ton] comprising The famous history of Guy Earl of Warwick; The gallant history of Bevis of Southampton; History of Tom Hickathrift the Conqueror; The famous story of Friar Bacon; A true tale of Robin Hood; A merry tale of the king and the cobbler; The sweet and pleasant tale of patient Grissel; The romantic story of the princess Rosetta; The mad pranks of Robin Goodfellow; The rarest ballad that ever was seen of the blind beggar's daughter of Bethnal Green; The doleful story of the babes in the wood; The lady Isabella's tragedy; A mournful ditty of the death of fair Rosamund; to which is added Queen Eleanor's confession; Gammer Gurton's Garland, calf binding with tooled pattern to covers and spine with gold-blocked title; marbled endpapers and bookplate of Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote; manuscript presentation texts to first page 'Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote / 11th Nov.ber 1844 / From M.W.' and 'Martin Shirley Heathcote / March 1921 / from Grace Heathcote'; twelve colour plates illustrating the stories. 572 grams, 17 x 13 cmGood condition; binding slightly worn.
Ex libris Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote and David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Ex libris Evelyn Dawsonne Heathcote and David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Oliva, Giovanni, In Marmor Isiacum, Romae Nuper Effossum, Exercitationes ad Reverendiss. P. Magistrum F. Antoninum Cloche Totius Dominicanæ Familiæ Generalem, Rome, 1719; first edition, original vellum with spine label and 19th century shelf label '770'; xvi pp + 112 pp; Latin text with Greek and Hebrew quotations; fold-out engraving showing four faces of the Roman altar with scale in palmi Romani; title page with text set in both red and black. 208 grams, 18.8 x 13.2 cmGood condition; minor stains.
Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Giovanni Oliva was an antiquarian and bibliographer who wrote extensively about Greek and Roman archaeology as understood in the early 18th century. In this book he describes a newly discovered monument found during the excavations near the Library of Minerva in Rome, which Oliva tried to show was originally a votive altar for the cult of Isis, popular in Rome in the 2nd century A.D.
Ex libris David M. Miller.
Property of a Hertfordshire lady, by inheritance.
Giovanni Oliva was an antiquarian and bibliographer who wrote extensively about Greek and Roman archaeology as understood in the early 18th century. In this book he describes a newly discovered monument found during the excavations near the Library of Minerva in Rome, which Oliva tried to show was originally a votive altar for the cult of Isis, popular in Rome in the 2nd century A.D.
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