AMENDMENT - First Day Covers and assorted  ephemera 1964 - 1980: approximately 88 in total including Apollo missions - signatures including Walt Cunningham, Don Eisele, Frank Borman, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, James Irwin - also Bernard Lovell; 1958 Antarctic Crossing and other expeditions - Peter Scott, Raymond Priestly, Vivien Fuchs, Leigh-Hunt, Hillary Blaiklock, Bonnington, Morris, Shipton, etc; actors including Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Tutin, Richard and Elizabeth (Taylor) Burton, Ralph Richardson, Flora Robson, Judy Dench, Alec Guinness, John Mills, Gracie Fields, Glenda Jackson, etc; also Christopher (Robin) Milne, Agatha Christie, Daphne Du Maurier, Gary Soke and Brian Trubshaw, etc (album) to/with an Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-17) luncheon menu card signed by Shackleton after their rescue from Elephant Island by the Chilean Navy in 1916, the menu printed in grey and red with the Union Jack and Chilean flag signed in pencil by Shackleton ("EHShackleton"), on card, minor staining, 165 x 115 mm., Viña del Mar, Chile, 30 September 1916

A 22ct yellow gold gypsy ring set with two diamonds and central yellow stone, possibly sapphire, diamond weight approx 0.50 carat each, size Q, approx 14.6g all in

Maps of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., 218 engraved maps (including 51 city plans and 6 celestial maps, 6 hand-coloured in outline, Geology of England fully hand-coloured), contemporary half calf and watered cloth, worn and disbound, folio

Edward Dayes (1763-1804) - 'Tewin Church, Hertfordshire', en grisaille watercolour, signed, 19 x 26 cm and Joseph Farington (1747-1821) - Landscape with stream, cottage and figure, pen ink and wash, 32 x 27.5 cm (2)

A 19th century Chinese semi-formal red satin dragon robe, Qing dynasty, finely embroidered in coloured and metallic threads with profile and front facing dragon roundels above the terrestrial diagram, waves and lishui stripe at the hem within a custom built perspex frame 178 cm w x 155 cm w o/a

David Hockney (b 1937) - 'The Blue Guitar - Etchings by David Hockney who was inspired by Wallace Stevens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso', colour etching, no 49/200, pencil signed to lower right margin, 42.5 x 34.5 cm

A pair of vintage brass framed two-tier lamp tables with glass shelves, 50 x 50 x 40 cm high

Seven polished hardstone bunches of grapes

An 18th century feather-banded chest on chest. the moulded cornice over three short and six long graduated drawers, the bottom drawer centred by an inlaid concave starburst design, raised on (later) shaped bracket feet

A pair of contemporary 'Eva' design armchairs by Neptune, with studded edge detail, 84 cm w x 95 cm x 100 cm h the seat 60 cm deep (2)