Lot 56
Albums, sketches & photographs
Early 19th to early 20th century
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Cargill, James. Poems. 12 calligraphic poems, early 19th-century, red morocco gilt with blind stamped decorative panels front and back, 17 x 11cm, 62pp.;
Douglas, Anne Georgina. ‘Leamington, 1836’. Sketchbook 23 x 29.5cm, with pencil drawings of interiors, exteriors, domestic scenes (some titled with Leamington addresses including 36 Warwick Street, 56 Wellington Street, 2 Dale Street, Milverton Crescent), also a country house and grounds (Lady E. and A. Douglas, Letherington? House), a few pages loosely inserted, boards rubbed;
Armstrong, William. Manuscript journal 18.5 x 12cm, early 19th century, ‘Historical Memorandums and Remarkable Facts of Mr William Armstrong. Written in Warren[?] United States of America 31st August 1848’. Detailing time at sea during the Napoleonic wars;
Christmas card album. Illustrated purple cloth with seasonal illustrated gilt front cover with inset colour illustration, with 86 laid-down Victorian Christmas cards, some being ‘pop-ups’, pencil annotation to free endpaper, boards split, some dust-staining;
Group of 1850s/60s portrait photographs. Ambrotype by Edinburgh photographers Lawrie & Mitchell, 8 further ambrotypes, 1 daguerrotype, and 1 albumen print, all being faded and rubbed (11);
together with: a late 19th-century photograph album with informal figurative scenes, inscribed ‘This belongs to Arthur Nelson, for many years member of the Arts Club, Rutland Square’; postcard album with 102 early 20th-century black and white postcards of Scotland (mainly west coast) (7)
Footnote
Writing master - poems, several of which we have not found in other copie