Comprising a quantity of small beads, in mixed shapes, colours and materials, including seven tumble-polished turquoise; each pierced for stringing. 115 grams total, 2-20 mm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Long chain of ellipsoid link with central ring and two stringers, hooked end for adjustment; thick ring to the other end with short chain extension. 139 grams total, 1.16 m

From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Bailey, G., Detector Finds 5, Witham, 2002, p.44-45, fig.1-4.

Mixed group including a silver condiment spoon, pewter syringe, folding knife, furniture plaque with lion mask and other items, all mounted and labelled in a glazed wooden display case; many of these objects are published in the Detector Finds book series. 3.95 kg total, 53.5 x 35 x 6 cm including case

From the collection of the famous author, writer and speaker, Gordon Bailey, Essex, UK; formed since 1968.

Général Mennessier de la Lance - Paris, 1921, card covers, 64 pp. 151 grams, 25.3 x 16 cm

Property of an Essex gentleman.

Pierre de Nolhac - text and illustrations - Paris, 1900, 2 vols. in original cloth-covered slip case, 189pp.; handmade paper, coloured frontispiece, numerous tissue- guarded tinted plates, limited edition of 100 copies (present unnumbered marked as 'offert'); text pages uncut. 3.44 kg, 34.5 x 26.3 cm

Property of an Essex gentleman.

Anonymous; attributed to Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu - Amsterdam, 1781, hardback with full-calf binding, marbled endpapers and edging, 430pp; two maps (detached). 403 grams, 17 x 10.2 cm

Property of an Essex gentleman.

The work 'On the Spirit of Laws' is an extended essay on political theory and comparative law, originally published anonymously due to its radical content. It gained great influence outside France through translation into many other languages. In 1751 the Roman Catholic Church added it to its Index Librorum Prohibitorum (List of Banned Books). Montesquieu spent about ten years researching and writing the text which deals with a range of topics including law, society and the more general study of humanity (anthropology). He maintained that political institutions needed to reflect the social and geographical aspects of the originating community in order to succeed. The work calls for a constitutional system of government with separation of the various powers, preservation of legality and of civil liberties, and the abolition of institutional slavery. The first edition proved highly controversial and had to be amended (whence the 'Nouvelle Edition' here) including removing certain pages which contained incautious statements on the institution of monarchy, on Cardinal Richelieu, and on the government of other countries. The maps are detached from the book; both are dated 1764, by Robert de Vaugondy. The larger is a map of the world with parts of North and South America, Africa and Australia left blank. The smaller encompasses Europe and 'European Russia' with Ukraine marked as 'Little Tartary'.

Gio. Battista Contoli - Rome, 1697, card covers, 19 pp. 90 grams, 22 x 16 cm

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Contoli has been called 'one of the most brilliant voices in medical humanism'. This paper deals with the supposed effects of gluten in the generation of (kidney-, gall-) stones and gout.

Alfred Ehrhardt & Paul Schurek - Hamburg, 1949, hardback, 44 plates. 257 grams, 24.6 x 18.5 cm

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Photographic studies of foals; handwritten poem in the last pages.

T. Gilbert Pearson (ed.) - New York, 1917 (1936 reprint), hardback with cloth covers, 289 pp, 102 plates. 2.76 kg, 28.5 x 20.5 cm

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Alfred le Petit - Paris, 1921, card covers, 30 loose printed cartoons in slip case depicting current (1871) political figures as flowers and vegetables, each with a short humorous verse beneath. 400 grams, 29 x 23.8 cm

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Général Rapp - Paris, 1823, marbled boards in quarter-calf binding, gilt fore edge, 439 pp; spine chipped. 494 grams, 21 x 13.2 cm

Property of an Essex gentleman.

First-hand account of the career of Général Jean Rapp, Napoleon's leading staff officer, written and published two years after the Emperor's death in 1821 with the series title 'Memoirs of contemporaries to support the history of the Republic and the Empire'. Rapp saved the life of the Emperor on more than one occasion, and was present at the battles of Austerlitz (1805), Jena (1806) and Borodino (1812), where he sustained several wounds. In his birthplace of Colmar a statue in his honour stands on the Champ de Mars.

Thomas Nuttall - Vol.II Game and Water Birds - Boston, 1896, hardback with cloth covers, 431 pp. 993 grams, 21.5 x 15 cm

Property of an Essex gentleman.