Photographs, Autographs and Ephemera

PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing 288 small format photographs of Asia, circa 1933-1936, leaves 26.5cm x 33cm, the majority of photographs collated by James Reginald Dunn, captioned and taken during his tours with the Royal Engineers, including views of Singapore, Manila, Java, Hong Kong and China, together with another album containing 107 small format photographs of related interest, further press photographs and ephemera of related interest including Dunn's dog tags and service form.

TRAVEL. A collection of ephemera, the majority relating to travel and tourism including a folding 'Underground Railway Map' dated 1937, a 'Map of General Routes' dated 1932, an 'Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line Passenger List', postcards, guides and menus.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 31 black and white photographs of local markets, stallholders and customers prepared for a feature in the Hemel Hempstead Echo and Post circa 1979-1981, photographs 29cm x 21.5cm, together with 6 large format photographs of cattle and 6 large format photographs mounted on board of architecture.

BOTANY. A group of 7 watercolours by J.L. Macfarlane, including a depiction of orchids titled 'Cypripediums...', 31cm x 24.5cm. Note: Macfarlane was a highly regarded painter and of orchids. He illustrated Frederick Boyle's 'The Woodlands Orchids' published by Macmillan in 1901.

AUCTION CATALOGUES. An auction catalogue relating to Sheerness-On-Sea and the sale of '90 Houses, Shops and Cottages and 7 Blocks of Building Land in 1895' by Messrs. Cobb, together with a catalogue for the sale of 'The Worcestershire Estates of the Late Miss Phillips' in 1907 by Messrs. Walter Ludlow & Briscoe, together with mixed ephemera including an engraved proof print of Anthony van Dyke's 'The Shepard Paris', 1780.

THEATRE. A 4pp. programme for a performance of 'Nicholas Nickleby' at the Adelphi Theatre in London in 1875 and 2 further theatre programmes for productions based on novels by Charles Dickens, including 'Little Nell' at the Olympic Theatre in 1870 and 'Little Em'ly' at the Royal Park Theatre, together with mixed ephemera.

INDIA. 6 albumen-print photographs of India mounted double-sided, circa 1880-90, including 'The Residency, Lucknow', the 'Golden Temple, Benares' and also an 'Oil Mill, Madras', measuring 19cm x 26cm, together with machine-print photographs of Indian mausoleums and further mixed ephemera.

SUSSEX. A collection of magazines and books mostly related to Sussex, including 23 issues of Sussex County Magazine, 'Sussex Folk & Sussex Ways', 1892, 'Sussex' by Augustus J. Hare, 1896, and 'Printed Maps of Sussex 1575-1900' by D. Kingsley.

PHOTOGRAPHS. Two albums containing over 1400 mounted black and white photographs, mostly small format and some trimmed, showing the life and travels of Miss D.I. Hoddinott between the years 1920-3, leaves 25cm x 38.5cm, the photos depict scenes from Sussex, Ireland, Wales, Oxford, Cambridge, Paris and Germany, plus a few of Africa, very many of them showing her friends, family or pets. The photos are all annotated, sometimes extensively ('Eiffel Tower, 984 ft high (300m), the tallest structure in the world'), but overall these albums are the story of female friendships during this period, together with a few glass negatives.

TRAVEL. A scrap-book containing the story of a private yacht (the 'Brabantia), it's design, construction and travels, with hand-written captions and notes in Dutch, dated 1949-52, 68pp. 36cm x 27.5cm, included are the designs, postcards, travel ephemera, original watercolour vignettes, personal letters, and over 200 photographs, towards the end is a mounted telegram from Amsterdam explaining that a healthy baby girl has been born, and on the penultimate page is an advertisement for the sale of the boat.

DIARY. A manuscript diary dated 1983-1984, 64pp. 30cm x 21cm, including quotes, musings and entries, mostly regarding natural history, including many good amateur watercolours and drawings of birds, flowers and trees, contained within a ring binder.

MILITARY. An album containing 60 scraps of military interest and a collection of military cigarette and trade cards, including a set of 25 Players 'Army Life' and a set of 50 Players 'Regimental Uniforms'.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 43 various albumen-print photographs, the majority topographical views, but also including 3 of female nudes.

SKETCHBOOKS. A group of three sketchbooks containing watercolours and pencil drawings by Ida Perrin and her daughter Muriel Perrin, one album titled 'A months holiday in Florence' and dated 1924, with mounted small format photographs, 10 watercolours and 14 pencil sketches of Florence on 23 leaves, 18cm x 25cm, in an Arts and Crafts style binding, another album inscribed 'Notes in pencil & colour of Henry's & my tours abroad, 1927-1928, including 14 watercolours and many pencil sketches on 45 leaves, including 3 full-page watercolours of Venice, 20.5cmm x 12cm, the final album by Muriel Perrin and dated 1907, containing 99 leaves of pencil sketches, occasional ink drawings and watercolours, including costume designs, life drawings, portraits, animals and a few historic illustrations, 23cm x 17.5cm. Note: According to Horace C. White in 'Bushey's Painting Heritage, Booklet No 7', a copy of which is included in the Lot, Henry and Ida Perrin had a pottery at Bushey Heath and produced lustre ware for William de Morgan. Ida also illustrated 'British Flowering Plants' published in 1914. Muriel Perrin was a very competent sculptress, sadly she died at an early age in 1918.

CORNWALL. A note-book with 42pp. of hand-written leaves on the village of Camelford in Cornwall, written by minor poet Anne Gibbons, dated 1877, contains descriptive accounts of the family of Trewinnard who lived at the Manor House, the traditions and disputes among them, together with a further folder containing hand-written poems and prose pieces by Anne Gibbons and two contemporary photographs of the Manor House. Note: Anne Gibbons was resident in the Camelford Manor House at the time she wrote this history. In 1868 she had published translations of Schiller's poems.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A group of 6 album leaves, mounted recto and verso with albumen-print photographs, most relating to India and Sri Lanka, circa 1880-1895, leaves 23cm x 28cm, most captioned in ink, including 'Mt Lavinia Hotel nr Colombo', 'Bungalow at Viramgam' and 'Parbutti Hill at Poona', together with three further photographs of similar interest.

PHOTOGRAPHS. A group of 35 photographs of military and naval interest, late 19th and 20th century, including portraits of soldiers and views of boats.

DOCUMENTS. Two Victorian mortgage documents for property in Brighton dated 1863 and 1866, together with a collection of laminated documents, 18th and 19th century, including 2 Port of Ramsgate Certificates of Departure.

FOOTBALL. A collection of football programmes, mostly 1930s and relating to Crystal Palace, but also including a few Chelsea, Arsenal and other mostly London teams, together with a small group of other sport ephemera including 7 1930s News Chronicle Football Annuals, a Liverpool and Everton Fixtures 1937-8, and a Grimsby Town Fixture List.