BS050208 Lot:224-254

224	FILM STARS ETC: Small collection of signed photographs, various sizes, including John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Julie Andrews. Signatures facsimile or secretarial. Also included with this lot is a card signed by James Callaghan as Prime Minister. Generally in sound condition. (Small quantity) Ł15-25.	Nil
225	FILM STARS: 2 folio albums signed and unsigned photos, mainly 1930s/40s including Cecil B de Mille (2) Ł60-Ł100.	Nil
226	GARRETT J.L.: Three interesting lectures lately delivered in their original form...by Rev. J L Garrett. Davidson Alnwick 1827 Broadsheet, single leaf, small 4to, advertising Rev Garrett's lectures (1) On solar, lunar and planetary influence (11), on light, heat, respiration combustion (111) on complex vision...Grand Pyrotechnical Display - a new piece of transparent machinery called chromadioptricum and much improved. Phantasmagoria - early magic lantern. Rare.(1) slight tear and creasing. Ł100-Ł150.	Nil
227	HOOPER, W EDEN: THE STAGE IN THE YEAR 1900. A SOUVENIR, BEING A Collection of Photogravure Plates portraying the Leading Players and Playwrights of the Stage during the Victorian Era. The work projected and compiled by W Eden Hooper, THE HISTORY OF THE STAGE DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA written by Joseph Knight. London: Spottiswoode & Co Ltd, 1901 No.56 of limited edition of 300 copies. 4to. Red morocco gilt, fine apart from missing gilt buckle clasp. Text: xiv, text of 95 biographies; vi, 184pp. 108 portraits on 94 photogravure plates, all by the Art Repro Co., mostly from photographs, with original tissues. A superb record of the leading players of the Victorian stage, comprising fine - and often little-known - portraits, and very useful contemporary biographies containing information which would be difficult to gather. A work of this size and magnificence could easily have been meretricious, but this is a handsome and information souvenir, covering the careers of the well-known actors such as Irving, Ellen Terry Tree, Martin Harvey, Charles Warner, as well as many Gilbert and/or Sullivan actors/singers, and music hall or pantomime stars such as Ada Reeve and Harry Nicholls. The authors include, for example, a fine portrait of W S Gilbert in older age, Anthony Hope, Cecil Raleigh, G R Sims. Ł150-Ł200.	Nil
228	HOTTENTOT VENUS - a rare handbill c1810: "just arrived from London...exhibited Thursday (March 11)...At Mr Cuming's Nag's Head Inn, opposite Town Hall Alwick...that most wonderful phenomenon of nature The Hottentot Venus, the only Hottentot ever exhibited in Europe..." Newcastle imprint (Marshall) Saarjite Baartman the Hottentot Venus was brought to Europe from Cape Town in 1810 by an English ship's surgeon who wishes to publicly exhibit the woman's steatopygia, her enlarged buttocks. She was exhibited naked in a cage and caused much outcry from slavery abolitionists. She toured the United Kingdom and then went to France where she died in 1815. Her body was returned to South Africa in 2002. Very rare - we have not traced another copy of the Alwick Handbill - 22 x 19 inches, small hole in margin at base, nat. (1) Ł800-Ł1000.	Nil
229	KOTZEBUE, August von. The noble lie; a drama, in one act; being a continuation of the play of Misanthropy and repentance, or the stranger; now acting with greatest applause, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Translated from the German of Kotzebue, by Maria Geisweiler. The second edition. London: printed for C Geisweiler; G G and J Robinson; J Richardson; and Carpenter & Co, 1799. 43, (1)p. 8vo. With the half title. Disbound (1) Ł20-40.	Nil
230	LENNON (John): Inscribed: "A Spaniard in the Works"...London, 1965. First edition. 8vo, original boards. With clipped magazine page signed by Lennon tipped onto FFE. This item comes with a loose note of provenance from the original vendor. Ł300-Ł500.	Nil
231	MUNNINGS (Sir Alfred): "The Diary of a Freeman", Munning dog - original covers 182pp signature of Munnings as "Black Knight" and 2 other ALs (1) Ł50-Ł80.	Nil
232	MUSIC COVERS: Victorian - 17 coloured. Sound condition (17) Ł60-Ł80.	Nil
233	NOËL GAY: Autographed ms music for "The Lambeth Walk" C1920 (10 x 8 inches) with letters concerning its origins. This ever popular song still resonates in the Savage Club after a house dinner to this day. Good (1) Ł60-Ł100.	Nil
234	A good selection of late 18th century early 19th century plays. 23 different titles. Sound condition (23) Ł100-Ł200.	Nil
235	PLAYBILLS: interesting ALs from W Bachsa regarding price of printing playbills - one guinea per 1000 - Brynston Street, London 1840 Ł20-Ł30.	Nil
236	PLAYS: A good collection of mainly disbound plays from 18th century and 19th century, 32 different titles (32) Ł100-Ł200.	Nil
237	PORTSMOUTH: Theatre Royal Playbill with pictorial heading 1865, 12 x 35 inches mounted, fine condition. Ł40-Ł60.	Nil
238	QUANTITY of programmes, some from Blackpool 20+ 1940s/50s (quantity) Ł20-Ł40.	Nil
239	QUANTITY of theatre programmes, mainly C19th (quantity) Ł20-Ł40.	Nil
240	QUANTITY of theatrical ephemera including original design drawings C20th (quantity) Ł40-Ł80.	Nil
241	RADIO: The Golden Age of Radio - a quantity of ALs and TLs tipped in. Denis Gifford's book of that title, various dates, letter loose (1) Ł150-Ł200.	Nil
242	SHEET MUSIC: 120+ C20th in a box. Sound condition (a quantity) Ł40-Ł50.	Nil
243	SHEET MUSIC: Small collection (7), including Fantastique by McKnight Koutter, generally sound (7) Ł60-Ł80.	Nil
244	THEATRE programmes mainly 1950s (Quantity) Ł20-Ł30.	Nil
246	ALBUM of sea voyage in "King Lear" 1862, 118 close written pages, 4to - describes seeing Charles Dickens at Gravesend, "I think him an ordinary fellow with a long beard..." (1) Ł150-Ł250.	Nil
247	ALBUM of watercolour drawings C1900, including Boer War related illustrated covers plus In Charming Peking with Chinese prints (2) Ł50-Ł60.	Nil
248	BIG GAME HUNTING: SUTHERLAND (James): "The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter"...London 1912. 2nd edition. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt: BALDWIN (William Charles): "African Hunting and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi"...London, Richard Bentley, 1894. Third edition. 8vo, original brown cloth gilt: SHEFFIELD (Frank, Lieut. Colonel): "How I killed the Tiger"...Published for the author, 1902. 8vo, original red publishers cloth. With two others, game hunting. (5) Ł100-Ł200.	Nil
249	BILL OF LADING: Rare bill 1748 printed with manuscript insertions for shipments from 'Smyrne' to 'Marseille' aboard corvette 'LL Columbe' (fine condition for 260 year old document) Ł30-Ł40.	Nil
250	BIRD (William Wilberforce): "State of the Cape of Good Hope in 1822"...London, John Murray, 1823. 8vo, contemporary green half calf-gilt, rubbed. With 2 folding maps. Contents foxed, a few minor repairs (1) Ł100-Ł150.	Nil
251	COWBOYS: President Roosevelt and The Hugo Cowboys, oblong folio photographic Colorado imprint (1) Ł20-Ł30.	Nil
252	EUROPEAN TOPOGRAPHY: (Anon); The Continental Tourist and Pictorial Companion; L; 8vo, half leather, rubbed, tight and clean. Lacks 1 plate, 60 present. Together with a poor copy of John Plaw's Ferme Ornee, 1796, sold w.a.f. (2) Ł20-Ł40.	Nil
253	FITZGERALD (Sybil): "In the Track of the Moors, Sketches in Spain and Northern Africa"...London, Dent, 1905. 4to, original decorated publishers cloth. With 63 colour plates. Together with Mortimer Mentes' "Japan", (A & C Black, 1904), and one other (3) Ł60-Ł100.	Nil
254	FRENCH WRITERS ETC: Miscellany of four autographed letters signed etc. including 4pp letter by Berenger, French poet and writer. One letter with edge tears, otherwise generally in sound condition. (4) Ł30-Ł50.	Nil

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