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A COLLECTION OF BOOKS & PAMPHLETS RELATING TO LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL including Friends of Llandaff Cathedral Annual Reports (various dates circa 1930s) and various historical reviews and hardback references to the cathedral etc Provenance: W Clarke historic Cardiff Stonemasons who worked on the rebuilding of Llandaff Cathedral in the nineteenth century
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS RELATING TO WELSH TOPOGRAPHY including old Cardiff guide-books, Archaeological Association pamphlets, ‘Castles and Strongholds of Pembrokeshire’, pamphlets relating to epitaphs etc Provenance: W Clarke historic Cardiff Stonemasons who worked on the rebuilding of Llandaff Cathedral in the nineteenth century
DYLAN THOMAS / JOHN PIPER limited edition (211 / 268) Gregynog Press volume - ‘Deaths and Entrances’ with colour litho reproductions by John Piper, dated 1984, textured cloth backed with gilt lettering to spine, original slipcase and Gregynog card packaging Condition Report: immaculate, vendor has preserved the volume in the packaging since purchase, to be viewed and handled by intending bidders only ...
R S THOMAS limited edition (24 / 200) University of Wales Press at Gregynog - ‘Laboratories of the Spirit’, dated 1976, in quarter brown goatskin, gold rule, with beige cloth boards, titles in gold to spine, original grease-proof paper, outer veined cardboard box and original 1976 postmarked cardboard delivery box Condition Report: immaculate, vendor has preserved the volume in the packaging since ...
DR KATE ROBERTS / SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA limited edition (37 / 265) Gregynog Press volume - ‘Two Old Men and Other Stories’ illustrated with twenty-six linocuts by Sir Kyffin Williams, dated 1981 to mark the 90th birthday of the author, In quarter black goatskin, blind rule, with grey buckram boards, titled with gold to spine Condition Report: very fine copy, preserved by owner in original grease-proof ...
JOHN LLOYD JONES / ROBERT ASHWIN MAYNARD / HORACE WALTER BRAY limited edition (323 / 400) Gregynog Press volume - ‘Caneuon Ceiriog Detholiad’, dated 1925, with thirty wood engravings by Bray and Maynard, grey paste marble cover and cloth spine, title to paper applied to spine Condition Report: some grubby marks to cloth and small tears to edges but fine copy considering age, to be viewed and handled ...
WILLIAM WILLIAMS ‘PANTYCELYN’ / RHIAIN M DAVIES limited edition (212 / 250) Gregynog Press volume - ‘Emynau Williams Pantycelyn’ illustrated by Rhiain M Davies, dated 1991, in green quarter cloth, covers with repeat silhouettes of Williams Pantycelyn riding horseback, title in gold to spine Condition Report: immaculate copy preserved in cardboard and original 1991 postage bag, to be viewed and handled ...
SAUNDERS LEWIS limited edition (34/ 450) Gregynog Press volume - ‘Cerddi Saunders Lewis’, dated 1986, in quarter grey cloth and light blue boards, title in gold to spine and with gold oval head portrait cameo of Saunders Lewis in profile to the cover Condition Report: small light marks to front and back cover, with 1986 postmarked envelope-bag, to be viewed and handled by intending bidders only
T H PARRY-WILLIAMS rare special limited edition (of 300) Gomer Press volume - ‘Detholiad o Gerddi’, dated 1972, in quarter black leather and cork-effect boards, title in gold to spine Condition Report: immaculate copy in grease-proof paper, slipcase and 1972 postmarked envelope-bag, to be viewed and handled by intending bidders only
ANN GRIFFITHS / RHIAIN M DAVIES limited edition (142 / 250) Gregynog Press volume - ‘Rhyfeddaf Fyth’, with landscape prints by Davies, dated 1988, in quarter green cloth, with boards decorated with handwriting of Ann Griffiths, gold title to spine Condition Report: immaculate copy, preserved in envelope-bag, to be viewed and handled by intending bidders only
DAVID ESSLEMONT / DAVID VICKERS two Gregynog Press booklets ‘An ABC Tour of Wales’ 1994, and limited edition (303/500) ‘An ABC Tour About France’, Condition Report: immaculate, vendor has preserved the two volumes in the packaging since purchase, to be viewed and handled by intending bidders only
T H PARRY-WILLIAMS & DAVID ESSLEMONT / GLYN JONES / IOAN BOWEN REES / JOSEF HERMAN four Gregynog Press pamphlets and Contemporary Art Society for Wales
SIR KYFFIN WILLIAMS RA ‘Cutting Images’ Gregynog Press 2002 copy number 118, signed by the artist, fine condition, in boxed cover and complete with original cardboard box
R EUSTACE TICKELL ‘The Vale of Nantgwilt - A Submerged Valley’ 1894, J S Virtue & Co, with plates
T H PARRY-WILLIAMS soft cover limited edition (17/270) copy ‘Deg Soned’, Gwasg Gregynog, 1987
SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE / GIRALDUS DE BARRI in two 1806 volumes ‘Giraldus Cambrensis - The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales’ A.D. MCLXXXVIII, covered in gilded and tooled brown leather with ribbed and gilded spines, marbled interior, translated and edited by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, printed by William Miller, Albemarle Street
ARMAND-LOUIS-BON MAUDET DE PENHOUET rebound 1797 volume of ‘Letters Describing A Tour Through Part of South Wales’ ‘With Views, Designed and Etched by the Author’ together with BENJAMIN HEATH MALKIN Second Edition of ‘The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales’, dated 1807, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme
COLLECTION OF WELSH TOPOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS includes ‘Wyndham Tour in Wales’, ‘Welsh Minstrels’ ‘Remarks Upon North Wales’, ‘Evans Tour Through South Wales’, ‘Wanderings in North Wales’ (Roscoe), ‘North Wales’ (Bingley in two volumes) ETC
GERHARD MERCATOR tinted and coloured antiquarian map - titled to cartouche ‘West Morlandia...’, circa 1607, 37 x 43cms
HUMPHREY LLWYD coloured and tinted map - Wales entitled ‘Cambriae Typus’, circa 1636-1642, 37.5 x 49cms (glazed to rear)
CHRISTOPHER SAXTON coloured and tinted antiquarian map - ‘Glamorgan’ with cartouche, decorative scale compass and ship, glazed verso, 29 x 35cms
THOMAS KITCHEN coloured and tinted antiquarian map - a modern map of South Wales drawn from the latest surveys, circa 1760, 20 x 26cms
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Paddington Station, London advertising poster for Fishguard Bay Hotel ‘A quiet comfortable hotel of 40 bedrooms’, printed by Haycock Press, London, circa 1947, 100 x 63cms
RICHARD BURTON EXCLUSIVE AGENCY CONTRACT printed on four sides of letter size paper, a single year contract commencing 9th July 1958, between American Federation of Television & Radio Artists and MCA Artists Ltd the agent representing Burton, signed by Richard Burton in ink with agent Mort Viner’s signature, dated 17th June 1958, New York (unframed)
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE AUTOGRAPH in black ink, framed presentation with separate printed black and white photograph of the statesman addressing a large crowd of men in a tree-lined open space, together with a printed black and white portrait photograph, 60 x 40cms (including frame)
RICHARD BURTON AUTOGRAPH signed in ink on blue paper and framed together with a separate printed black and white publicity photograph for Under Milk Wood, 51 x 45cms (including frame)
STANLEY BAKER & MICHAEL CAINE AUTOGRAPHS signed in blue ink on cream paper and on a Rorkes Drift commemorative postal service first day cover (stamp for 1970), framed together with a reprint cinema poster for Zulu and reprint still colour photo of the two actors in the film, 55 x 63cms (including frame)
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Each of these ...
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: please see ...
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Please see ...
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Please see ...
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Please see ...
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Please see ...
BETWEEN 5GMS & 5.1GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Please see ...
BETWEEN 4.1 & 4.2GMS OF PURE WELSH GOLD FROM THE ST. DAVID'S MINE refined to nine carat gold, with copy of fingerprint sheet. This lot has been extracted from a larger single lot of 39gms which was offered as Lot 3 in our Welsh Sale auction on 6th July 2019. In order to give the gold wider appeal as gifts (perhaps for wedding bands) we have divided the 39gms into eight lots Provenance: Please see ...
RARE WELSH LONGCASE CLOCK BY BENJAMIN RATCLIFF, WELSHPOOL eight-day movement, oak encased with unusual brass solar dial bearing Roman numerals and maker’s name, elegant narrow crossbanded trunk, carved frieze to hood, 213cms high Provenance: Owned by William Ewart Gladstone at Hawarden Castle, old label to interior
AN INTERESTING 19TH CENTURY WELSH OAK CARVED COFFER CHEST on bracket feet with two base drawers and carved with three front panels of Prince of Wales feathers with leek and Welsh dragon holding a flag, flanking a centre panel of lunette carving, monogram and inscribed ‘Casgwr na charo’r wlad a’i maggo’, the lid with Swansea crest with castle and motto, 121cms wide x 44cms deep x 68cms high
GOOD CREAM GROUND WELSH WOOLLEN BLANKET with traditional multi-coloured geometric decoration and fringe, 234 x 216cms
GOOD KHAKI GROUND WELSH WOOLLEN BLANKET with traditional black, white and grey geometric decoration and fringe, label for Cambria Mills, Llandysul, 234 x 216cms
ANTIQUE WELSH PAISLEY SHAWL in unusual colours, used by generations of the vendor’s family for weddings, 334 x 152cms
TRADITIONAL VICTORIAN MOLESKIN LADIES WELSH HAT of typical tapered chimney form with wide brim, woven ribbon with arranged bow with clip, 23cms high
FINELY PRESERVED RED & GREEN WELSH WOOL WALL PANEL featuring a large centre panel with dragons and leeks and a depiction of Coleg Prifysgol Cymru - ‘Cymru Fydd’ and of Castell Caernarfon - ‘Cymru Fu’, the large central panel surrounded by emblematic daffodils, 220 x 200cms (7 foot 3 x 6 foot 6) Provenance: Estate of Criccieth- based family, personal friends of Sir Kyffin Williams
LARGE WELSH PAISLEY SHAWL 328 x 170cms Provenance: Cwmbran family
TRADITIONAL WELSH WOOLLEN BLANKET in red, black, white, green and pink geometric repeats, 168 x 206cms
GOOD WELSH WOOLLEN BLANKET in pink, purple and black traditional geometric pattern, fringed, 222 x 98cms
TWO VICTORIAN WELSH PAISLEY SHAWLS & A WHITE NURSING SHAWL with the same family provenance dating back to the nineteenth century, first Paisley shawl with later multi-coloured fringe, 160 x 160cms, the second with original fringe, 176 x 176cms, the cream shawl with long fringe 200 x 180cms Provenance: the vendor can trace the three shawls back to the ‘mid-1800s’ as they belonged to her great-great-grandmother ...
TWO EWENNY POTTERY SPITTOONS FOR BRAINS BREWERY both of circular form and slip inscribed ‘RED DRAGON / BRAINS’, one with ochre glaze, one inscribed to the base ‘Clay Pits Pottery Ewenny’, the other unmarked to base, 21.75cms diam (at base), 6.5cms high Condition Report: chips to rims of both Provenance: consigned directly by S A Brain & Co Ltd, discovered in a store room at the City Centre site during ...
LLANELLY COCKEREL PLATE typically decorated with sponged leaves to the border, 24.5cms diam