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Preisdatenbank abonnieren‡ Indian Volunteer Trio awarded to Quartermaster Sergeant E.A. Smith, Calcutta Light Horse: Delhi Durbar 1911, Coronation 1902 in bronze, both unnamed as issued, Volunteer Long Service and Good Conduct, George V (Qr Mr Serjt E.A. Smith C. Lt. Horse), mounted for wearing, very fine or better, with related miniatures (6)
* Antigua Life Saving Medal, 1846, engraved Henry Corfield Boatswain, obv., a view of the hill fortress of Antigua, rev., die-struck legend PRESENTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ANTIGUA TO [HENRY CORFIELD BOATSWAIN] ONE OF FIVE FROM A BOATS CREW FROM THE SHIP LYDIA OF LIVERPOOL WHO BY THEIR INTREPID COURAGE & AT THE RISK OF THEIR OWN LIVES SUCCEEDED IN RESCUING FROM DEATH THREE NATIVE SEAMEN WHOSE BOAT HAD BEEN UPSET & SUNK IN A VIOLENT GALE OF WIND OFF THE HARBOUR OF ST JOHN 12TH SEPR 1846, 51mm, with unofficial suspension, a few light scuffs and bruises, good very fine and very rare .
* Russia, Order of St Vladimir, Fourth Class, a ‘bulbous’ badge in gold and enamels, with later swords, by ??, circa 1860-65 (probably an unidentified Moscow workmaster; cf Postnikova-Loseva et al, no 2773-2775), 43.5mm (including suspension ring) x 38.4mm, one sword hilt broken and with a light repair at bottom edge, very fine to good very fine and of high quality workmanship
‡ * China, Order of the Double Dragon, Type 2, First Class, Third Grade breast star, in silver-gilt, with silver, gilt and light blue enamelled centre, with central smooth coral, incorrect small smooth coral above and eight small pearls around the central border, 82mm, enamel chipped by upper coral, good very fine and rare
‡ * China, Order of the Double Dragon, Type 2, Second Class, Third Grade breast star, with uncertain hallmark on retaining pin and reverse of upper point, in silver, with silver, gilt and light blue enamelled centre, central engraved coral and small smooth coral above, 75.5mm, about extremely fine
‡ * China, Order of the Double Dragon, Type 2, Third Class, Second Grade neck badge, in silver, with silver and light blue enamelled centre, with central blue stone and small coral above, 80mm, in lacquer box of issue, with seal script characters on lid and with original neck riband, extremely fine
‡ * China, Order of the Double Dragon, Type 2, Third Class, Third Grade neck badge, in silver, with silver, gilt and light blue enamelled centre, with central blue stone but lacking the small coral above, 78mm, in lacquer box of issue (interior linings missing) with seal script characters on lid, also with original neck riband, good very fine
‡ * China, Order of the Double Dragon, Type 2, Fourth Class, neck badge, in silver, with silver, gilt and light blue enamelled centre, with central blue stone and small coral above, 60mm, in lacquer box of issue, with seal script characters on lid, also with neck riband, extremely fine and very rare
‡ Manchukuo, Imperial Visit to Japan Commemorative, 1935, commemorative medal, in oxidised silver, 41 x 30mm, in damaged case of issue, extremely fine; National Foundation 1933, in black lacquered bronze, with two silvered characters on obverse, 30.5mm, in lacquered case of issue, extremely fine; Japan, China Incident War Medal 1937, in light bronze, 30mm, in slightly damaged case of issue, extremely fine (3)
CAMPBELL, Colin (fl. 1715-1729). Vitruvius Britannicus or The British Architect. London: 1717-1731. Volumes I-III only, 2° (vols I-II 497 x 348mm; vol. III 462 x 295mm). Vols I-II with engraved titles in state C (vol. I with first numerals of 'II' erased, indicating 1717 issue), engraved dedication to vol. I, 159 etched and engraved architectural plates (plate 32 in vol. II appearing twice), 31 of which double-page (some folding), numbered 1-100 in each volume, all in 1717 states; vol. III with title printed in red and black, text in English and French, 73 etched and engraved plates numbered 3-100, 21 of which double-page. (Vol. I: occasional very light browning; Vol. II: occasional very minor marginal worming, a couple of double-page folding plates with edges lightly creased, very light crease to last double-page plate, light variable browning; vol. III: minor marginal worming, plates 31 and 32 with light spotting, double-page plate 91-92 torn along vertical fold without loss, dampstaining to endpapers extending through title, text leaves and into first couple of plates, also affecting last 7 plates.) Contemporary calf (worn, front covers detached). Provenance: Georg Steinmetz (20th-century ink stamp to pastedowns) -- Wasmuth Antiquariat (Berlin bookseller's ticket to vol. I). FIRST EDITIONS of vols I-II, 'arguably the most influential and original British architectural book ever published' (RIBA). This was partly owing to the conscious decision to exclude the pretty views to be found in prospect books such as Kip's Britannia Illustrata, and rely on the effectiveness of purely scientific representations. Although the text and plate list in vol. III calls for plate 101 and Harris also listing 101 plates, this was not issued in this 1731 edition (cf. RIBA 3547). Fowler 76 (vols. I-II); Harris 97 (vols I-II), 102 (vol. III); RIBA 3544 (vols I-II), 3546 (vol. III, 1725 edition). (3) View on Christie's.com
JONES, Inigo (1573-1652). The Designs of Inigo Jones consisting of Plans and Elevations for Public and Private Buildings. London: Benjamin White, 1770. 2 volumes in one, 2° (547 x 380mm). Engraved frontispiece, titles in English and French with vignette, 139 engraved plates, of which 6 double-page and folding and 25 double-page, all after Jones, engraved head- and tailpieces, description of plates in French and English. (Tiny paper flaw hole to plate 1*, light spotting, browning and soiling, heavier to plates in vol. II). Contemporary mottled calf, covers with thin gilt foliate border, gilt spine (extremities worn, upper cover detached). Second edition, with the addition of two new images and French text. RIBA 1625. View on Christie's.com
MAZOIS, Charles Franççois (1783-1826). Les ruines de Pompéi. Paris: Firmin Didot [vols. III-IV: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères], [1812]-1838. 4 volumes, broadsheet 2° (588 x 433mm). Half-titles. Engraved frontispiece to vol. I, title vignettes, and 200 engraved and/or etched plates, most after Mazois, 16 hand-coloured or partly hand-coloured, 9 double-page or folding, vol. IV with additional double-page lithographic map and plate XLII is a lithograph, engraved head- and tailpieces. (Variable spotting and browning, particularly heavy to last two tissue guards in vol. IV, light dust-soiling to edges.) Original publisher's mottled paper covered boards, spines with red morocco gilt lettering-pieces, uncut (extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps to vols I and II a little defective). 'THE FIRST PUBLICATION TO DISCUSS THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF [POMPEI] IN FULL NEOCLASSICAL DETAIL' (RIBA). Compiled after three years' research, it was the intended start of a series on Paestum, Herculaneum, and Pozzuoli. Discoveries are placed in four disinct groups: tombs, city walls and doorways; dwellings; colonnades; theatres and temples. Without the dedication leaf in vol. I, as the Royal Academy Library copy. Borroni 7475; Furcheim, Bibliografia di Pompei pp.58-59: 'On ne trouve que rarement des exemplaires de cet ouvrage très-estimé'; García y García, Nova bibliotheca pompeiana pp.797-798 no. 9073; E.G. Corti, The Destruction and Resurrection of Pompeii and Herculaneum (London: 1951), p.170; RIBA 2092. (4) View on Christie's.com
NASH, Joseph (1809-1878). Mansions of England in the Olden Time ... re-edited by J Corbett Anderson . London: Henry Sotheran, 1869-1872. Series 1-4 in 4 volumes, large 2° (572 x 460mm), each with its own descriptive letterpress, 2° in 4s (564 x 375mm), titles printed in red and black. Original plain wrappers, stapled (light soiling, spotting and marginal staining, spines beginning to split). 106 lithographic plates (most approx. 207 x 281mm) on 104 sheets, hand-coloured and most heightened with gum arabic, printed on card and mounted within gilt rule surround. (Two large tears to plate 53, one half way through the plate, no. 54 mount heavily stained and plate spotted, most plates clean and fine with occasional light spotting affecting mounts only, plates to vol. III more heavily spotted and soiled.) Contained in the original publisher's morocco-backed portfolios, lettered in gilt to upper covers (worn, dampstained, flaps sometimes defective and missing, lacking silk ties). Provenance: Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). Second edition of 'NASH'S MOST FAMOUS WORK' (RIBA) WITH FINE COLOURED PLATES. For this edition, the plates were 'carefully reduced and executed in lithography by Samuel Stanesbury ... [and] M. & N. Hanhart'. Abbey Scenery 402; RIBA 2237; Tooley 337 (all 1st editions). (4) View on Christie's.com
PALLADIO, Andrea (1508-1580). Les Bátimens et les Desseins de André Palladio recueillis et illustrés par Octave Bertotti Scamozzi. Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786. 4 volumes, 2° (460 x 320mm). Engraved portrait of Palladio, engraved vignettes to titles, 208 plates (on 210 sheets) of which 33 double-page by David Rossi, Gaetano Testolini and others. (Light crease on title of vol. IV, occasional browning, light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco over red straight-grained paper-covered boards (extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Bibliothèque de M. Tourton (label) -- Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). The second French edition. Bertotti Scamozzi (1719-1790), who produced and illustrated this edition, was a distinguished architect and the main representative of neoclassical art in Vicenza, Palladio's home town. 'Fece cosa nobile e grandiosa nel produrre queste grandi opera Palladiane, e nell'illustrarle' (Cicognara). The Architectural Library, AL2, P171; for the first edition of 1776-83, cf. Berlin Kat. 2722, Cicognara 598 and Fowler 231. (4) View on Christie's.com
QUARENGHI, Giacomo (1744-1817). Fabriche e disegni. Mantua: fratelli Negretti, 1843[-1844]. 2 volumes in one, 2° (462 x 325mm). Engraved and etched portrait and 125 plates. (Light spotting, heavier to last few plates of vol. II, portrait with tape repairs to verso, title lightly creased with tiny hole and old paper repairs to verso, lacking 2 preliminary leaves to vol. II including the title.) Contemporary quarter green roan over mottled paper-covered boards, vellum tips (extremities rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: Bruno Hessling (Berlin bookseller's ticket). 'GIACOMO QUARENGHI WAS PROBABLY THE MOST INFLUENTIAL OF THE ARCHITECTS AND INTERIOR DESIGNERS BROUGHT TO RUSSIA FROM ITALY BY CATHERINE THE GREAT' (RIBA III, p. 1589). The present lot is the second edition of vol. I, which was published by Quarenghi's son, Guilio, and contains 59 plates, of which 31 are from Édifices construits à Saint Petersbourg (St. Petersburg, 1810), most of them reworked with French and English scales in addition to the original Russian. The second vol. is the FIRST EDITION WITH 66 PLATES after Quarenghi senior's drawings. RIBA 2677. View on Christie's.com
ROBERTS, David (1796-1864). Picturesque Sketches in Spain Taken During the Years 1832 & 1833. London: Hodgson & Graves, 1837. 2° (553 x 360mm). 1p. advertisement at end. Tinted lithographic title, dedication and list of plates, and 25 plates on thick paper after David Roberts. (Light spotting and soiling, two plates with very small marginal ink spots.) Original green morocco-backed cloth boards, lettered to upper board (extremities rubbed, head- and tailcaps worn). Provenance: ?Gerstz 'Königliche Theater Maler ... zu Berlin' (early ink inscription to title and dedication) -- ?Friedrich Blundt (ink signature dated 1921) -- Hähn (ticket with inventory number in ms 2924) -- Wasmuth Antiquariat (Berlin bookseller's ticket). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Travel 152: 'Roberts's first published set of views'; Hardie p.247. View on Christie's.com
[SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich (1781-1841) and Peter Christian Wilhelm BEUTH (1781-1853), editors.] Vorbilder für Fabrikanten und Handwerker. Berlin: Königliche Technischen Deputation für Gewerbe, 1821-1836. 2 plate volumes, 2° (521 x 365mm), without the accompanying text volumes. 2 titles with Prussian royal eagle device, 6 part titles. Vol. I: 94 plates, comprising 84 engravings, 5 lithographs (no. 23 tinted), 4 aquatints (plates 17 and 18 two-colour printed, 31 and 32 printed in sepia), and one stipple-engraved plate printed in green. Vol. II: 54 plates, comprising 31 engravings (plates 14, 16, 17 and 23 with some aquatint shading, and plate 10 printed in sepia), and 23 chromolithographs. 4 plates and a pencil drawing loosely inserted at end of vol. II. (Some light spotting, plate I.3.3 heavily, plate I.1.2A trimmed into image.) Contemporary green morocco by Ackermann of Berlin, with his ticket, covers with gilt frames, upper covers with gilt-lettered presentation from the Ministry to Royal Goldsmith, George Hossauer, 1823-30, gilt spines, gilt edges (extremities rubbed and scuffed, lower joint to vol. I and upper joint to vol. II starting to split, front inner hinge of vol. I detached, spines slightly faded). Provenance: George Hossauer (1794-1874; Royal Goldsmith; binding). 'SCHINKEL IS THE MOST HIGHLY-REGARDED GERMAN ARCHITECT OF HIS GENERATION' (RIBA III, p.1771). He was advisor to the Königliche Technischen Deputation für Gewerbe under Beuth's directorship. The present work was circulated gratis to architects and builders within Prussia to promote knowledge and designs, in order to build a monument to Prussia's newly found wealth and sense of achievement. The present copy was given to Hossauer, the most important Berlin goldsmith of his generation, whose work was closely allied to the aims of Schinkel and Beuth. RIBA 4070, 4071; cf M. Snodin, Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1991), p.187. (2) View on Christie's.com
[ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834), publisher. The Upholsterer's Repository. London: 1808-1809.] Small 4° (241 x 185mm). 26 hand-coloured engraved plates of furniture, and interior designs and decorations. (Very light spotting and browning.) Contemporary boards, original printed green label with engraved decorative border to upper cover with price of 1/4s (recently rebacked and recornered with leather). Provenance: Spokes (20th-century ink signature). The plates are extracted from Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, and were evidently sold separately. No title-page seems to have been issued. The New York Public Library has a similar publication, but with only 15 plates. Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. View on Christie's.com
ART, GOUT, BEAUTÉ -- Les Succès d' Art, Goût, Bon ton. January-September 1921; Art, Goût, Beauté. Feuillets de l'élégance féminine. October 1921-December 1924. Paris: heirs of Albert Godde, Bedin, and Co., January 1921-December 1924. 48 parts in 4 vols, 4° (320 x 240mm). Numerous pochoir-coloured illustrations and tipped-in plates, some of these also pochoirs. (Occasional light wear, light browning and light soiling, one issue stamped 'specimen'.) Contemporary blue half roan and linen, lettered in gilt, original wrappers bound-in (wear at the spines, backstrip of one volume partly defective, occasional short tears and soiling to the wrappers). Provenance: 'A.L.' (gilt initials on vol. 1). A long run of early issues of this superb publication and essential reference for fashion of the 1920s; the English-language edition. With numerous designs by Poiret, Lanvin, Beer, Philippe et Gaston, Drecoll, Jenny, Doucet, Molyneux, Lelong, Patou, and others, in engravings after Colette, Baratin, Kita, Vitrotto, and others, many of these hand-coloured in pochoir. (4) View on Christie's.com
CAVALIERI, Giovanni Battista (1525-1597). Romanorum imperatorum effigies. Rome: Franciscus Coattinus, 1590. 8° (171 x 114mm). Engraved title within architectural border, crown at top hand-coloured, full-page engraved coat-of-arms of Cavalieri, 157 portraits on 152 leaves by Cavalieri, with the blanks *7-*8, hand-coloured printer's device on verso of final leaf. (Occasional light soiling, lower corner of I3 torn away with loss of one letter on verso.) Contemporary vellum (lacking ties, lightly soiled, rubbed). Provenance: partly erased old inscription at head of title -- Thomas Hodkin, Newcastle on Tyne (bookplate). Brunet I: 1697. View on Christie's.com
ACKERMANN, Rudolph (publisher). The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster; with the Charter-House, the Schools of St.Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the Free-School of Christ's Hospital. London: L. Harrison for R. Ackermann, 1816 [watermarked 1812-1821]. 4° (358 x 284mm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 48 hand-coloured plates, mostly aquatint views by Havell, Stadler, Bluck and others after Westall, Mackenzie, Pugin and others. (Some spotting, mostly in the first and last few leaves of text and the first plate, occasional offsetting from the plates.) Crimson morocco gilt by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, top edge gilt (light rubbing, joints slightly split). A well-margined copy, in a handsome red morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plate 6, 'Winchester College, from the Meadow', is dated January 1816; Plate 23, 'Westminster School Room', shows the masters wearing caps; Plate 26, 'Charter House from the Play Ground', with engraved title and scene of boys playing cricket. Abbey, Scenery, 438; Tooley 3. View on Christie's.com
BACON, Francis (1561-1629). The Tvvoo Bookes of ... the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, divine and humane. London: for Henrie Tomes, 1605. Small 4° (175 x 137mm). With the blank 3H2. (Lacking the 2 errata leaves not often found, torn lower corner of 3H1 repaired, title and last few leaves soiled and spotted, light browning and spotting throughout.) 19th-century half-calf (rubbed). Provenance: Paulus Wood (early signature on title) -- Tho. Whiston (early inscription on title) -- J. Clement ex dono Dne M[ary] Whiston (later inscription on title) -- a few early scribbles on title, verso of final leaf and rear blank. FIRST EDITION. 'A very few copies have appended two leaves of Errata ... such copies were probably of the latest sold' (Pforzheimer 36); Gibson 81; STC 1164. View on Christie's.com
BASKERVILLE PRESS -- The Book of Common Prayer. Cambridge: John Baskerville, 1762. Large 8° (240 x 151mm). (A few minor stains.) Contemporary red gold-tooled morocco, wide gilt filigree border enclosing the IHS symbol surrounded by an oval-shaped green morocco onlay and sunburst, spine in six compatments each filled with central rosette and smaller flower tools, gilt board and paper edges, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers (light scuff marks to covers, rubbed at extremities). Provenance: Edward Synge (bookplate) -- Ivor A.B. Ferguson (bookplate) -- [Maggs cat. 154, no. 966 (purchase note in pencil]. Third edition. Gaskell Baskerville 19. View on Christie's.com
BIBLE, in English. [London: Robert Barker, 1611.] 2° (378 x 250mm). New Testament with engraved title, ornamental initials. (Lacks 15 leaves: A1 (engraved title), A2-A3r (dedication), A4 (leaf from Translator to the Reader), C1 (first leaf of calendar), A3 & A6 (genealogies), D1 & D2 (map and aplphabetical table), Ss2, Ss5, 3Q1 & 3Q6 (Old Testament) and Aa5-6 (final 2 leaves of New Testament), the last circa 20 leaves frayed, with loss in last few leaves, lower corner of D6 of Old Testament torn away with loss of a few words, some mainly light soiling and light waterstaining, mainly marginal tears). Old calf boards, unsympathetically covered in later cloth (lacking calf spine). FIRST EDITION OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE, "HE" ISSUE, with "he went to the citie" in Ruth iii, 15. Herbert 309; STC 2216. Sold not subject to return. View on Christie's.com
BIBLE, in English. London: Robert Barker, 1615. [Bound with:] The Booke of Psalmes. London: for the Companie of Stationers, 1617. 2 works in one vol., 4° (216 x 156mm). Leaf before title bears the signature A within an ornament. General title and sectional title to New Testament with woodcuts, 4 woodcut maps and 26 illustrations, woodcut decorations. (Lacking the Apocrypha with the Old Testament ending on Qq7 with verso blank, clean tear to [A]3, but old paper repairs to verso affecting woodcut borders, occasional very light browning, spotting and staining.) Contemporary sheep, covers with narrow gilt borders, flat spine ruled in gilt, gilt edges (only one metal clasp remaining, extremities rubbed, spine faded with a few tiny wormholes). Provenance: Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent (1594-1651) (contemporary inscription detailing family history down to 1695, and thence by descent to:) -- Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey (bookplate). cf. Darlow & Moule 146; cf. Herbert 342. View on Christie's.com
BIBLE, in English. Oxford: at the Theater, sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1683. Engraved title and 107 engraved plates. Later re-issue of the 1675 edition with a re-engraved title-page. Herbert 784. [Bound second with:] The Book of Common Prayer. [Oxford:] sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Armes ... Cornhil, London, [1683]. Engraved title, portrait of Charles II and 5 plates. [And:] STERNHOLD, Thomas and John HOPKINS, translators. The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre. Oxford: printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Thomas Guy at the Oxford Arms ... Cornhil, London, 1685. 4° (234 x 182mm). Ruled in red throughout. (Occasional very light soiling, tiny spot and light marginal wear to portrait, plate 5 repaired to verso with old tape, short tear & marginal chip to fore-edge with very slight loss to BCP title.) Contemporary English red morocco, covers with a wide foliate border tooled in gilt, a central sun device with metal oval engraved with the arms of St. Aubyn, metal clasps and cornerpieces, two of which engraved with a branch in the form of a cross and a scallop connected by a tasseled rope, the others of a seven-headed hydra, and an erased lion's head of a coronet, the metalwork with the stamp 'E.H.', gilt spine, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, the upper cover lightly faded with some loss of gilt, a short scratch). Provenance: Elizabeth St. Aubyn (large contemporary dark-blue gilt label to front pastedown 'Elizabeth St. Aubyn, her book. The gift of her dear father.') SPLENDIDLY BOUND BIBLE, PROBABLY GIVEN AS A WEDDING PRESENT. The St Aubyn family home is St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, which was purchased by Colonel John St Aubyn (1610-1684) in 1659. His son, Sir John (1645-1687, created 1st Baronet St Aubyn in 1671) married Ann Jenkyn with whom he had several children. Elizabeth St Aubyn (c. 1666-1735) is described as the second daughter of this marriage, and appears to have married into the Northmore family of south Devon; she is buried at St. Thomas, Exeter. The lion's head is probably Northmore, while the knot would seem to refer to the marriage. View on Christie's.com
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Le Decameron, translated by Antoine de Macon. London [but Paris]: 1757-61. 5 vols, 8° (196 x 122 mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait and 110 plates including titles, 97 engraved culs-de-lampe, most after Gravelot. (Occasional minor spotting and light browning.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, red morocco labels, gilt edges, silk markers (minor rubbing). FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH of 'one of the most successful illustrated books of the eighteenth century' (Cohen-de Ricci). An excellent set with fine plates after Gravelot, Eisen, Cochin and Boucher. Issued simultaneously in Italian, this French translation is described by Cohen-de Ricci as 'more sought-after, and often more expensive'. Cohen-de Ricci 160-1; Ray 39-41. (5) View on Christie's.com
CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635). Les Images de tous les Saincts et Saintes de l'année suivant le martyrologe Romain. Paris: Israel Henriet, 1636. 2° (291 x 180mm). Engraved title, frontispiece, and 122 plates by Henriet after Callot. (The first few leaves strengthened in the inner margin, occasional light mostly marginal spotting, old repair in the margin of the last plate.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (hinges and joints split but holding, corners and extremities rubbed). Provenance: M. Gallien (notes in pencil on the front pastedown, and laid-in, dated 1896). FIRST EDITION, mixed issue: first issue of the plates of Saints with blank margins and signed only with Israel's name; second issue of the plates of feast days; second issue title and imprint with the correct reading 'Henriet'; first issue dedication with all the text on the recto; third issue frontispiece with the caption reading 'ny de mort'. A VERY GOOD COPY. Brunet I: 1484. View on Christie's.com
CLAUDE Gelée, called le Lorrain (1600-1682). Liber Veritatis; or a Collection of Prints after the Original Designs of Claude... executed by Richard Earlom. London: 1819. 3 volumes, 2° (420 x 290mm). 3 portraits, 300 mezzotint plates. (Light spotting, heavier to a few plates.) Contemporary red half morocco, gilt spines, g.e. (extremities rubbed, upper joints cracking, end papers to vol. 2 lacking). Provenance: John Henry Gurney. Reprint. Cf. Lowndes p.1398. (3) View on Christie's.com
DONNE, John (1573-1631). Biathanatos. A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise. London: John Dawson [1647]. 4° (191 x 140mm). Without initial blank. (First 3 leaves with repair to margin, light marginal browning.) Contemporary panelled calf (expertly rebacked preserving old spine, new spine label, rear free endpaper renewed with the original now bound at front). Provenance: early readers (annotations on title and front free endpaper) -- Everard Meynell (bookplate laid in). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the title undated, of the earliest of Donne's controversial writings, published posthumously. Donne had always been reluctant to publish and was content to let the work, which expressed his doubts about the absolute sinfulness of suicide, circulate in manuscript. Keynes 47; Wing D-1848. View on Christie's.com
EDDA -- Edda Islandorum an. Chr. M.CC.XV Islandice conscripta per Snorronem Sturlae. Copenhagen: H. Gode, 1665. [Bound with:] Philosophia antiquissima Norvego-Danica dicta Volupsa quae pars Edda Saemundi, Edda Snorronis non brevi antiqvioris. Copenhagen: H. Gode, 1665. [And:] Ethica odini pars Edda Saemundi vocata Haavamaal unà cum ejusdem appendice appelato Runa Capitule. Copenhagen: H. Gode, 1665. 3 works in one volume, 4° (193 x 150mm). (First title lightly soiled, a little light spotting throughout, a few leaves with faint waterstain in outer margin.) Contemporary mottled calf (head and tail of spine chipped, lightly rubbed and a few scuff marks on sides). FIRST EDITION of the great Icelandic sagas of Edda (Snorre-Edda), Volupsa and Havamal, containing tales from Nordic mythology. Volupsa is a powerful and moving poem describing the worlds creation, golden age and total destruction before starting new cycle. The Prose Edda includes rules of poetic diction and quotes extensively from the scaldic poems. It was originally referred to as simply the Edda, but was later called the Prose Edda to distinguish it from the Poetic Edda, a collection of anonymous poetry from earlier traditional sources compiled around the same time as the Prose Edda in 13th-century Iceland. View on Christie's.com
FÉNELON, François de Salignac de la Mothe (1651-1715). Les Aventures de Télémaque, fils d'Ulysse. Imprimé par ordre du Roi pour l'education de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Paris: Franç. Ambr. Didot l'aîné, 1783. 2 volumes, 4° (295 x 220mm). Titles with engraved arms of the Dauphin. (T1v and T2r of vol. I with offsetting from page marker, light creasing to corners.) Contemporary crimson morocco gilt by Gaudreau, signed on turn-ins, spines with raised bands, two compartments directly lettered, others with fleuron and small tools, triple fillets on sides, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, blue silk markers, gilt edges (spines a little sunfaded and lightly rubbed at extremities, one or two tiny holes). Provenance: A.L. McLaughlin (bookplate; sale Sotheby's Monaco, 7 October 1980, lot 1704). LIMITED TO 200 COPIES printed with the new types of Didot l'aîné on papier grand raisin vélin d'Annonay made by Matthieu Johannot, this copy in a signed binding by Gaudreau, 'relieur de la Reine'. The present 4to edition of Fenelon's Télémaque was first in the series of classsic French and Latin authors printed in this format for the education of the Dauphin. Brunet II: 1215; Quérard 92. (2) View on Christie's.com
[HOLBEIN, HANS (1497-1543) AND] HOLLAR, WENCESLAUS (1607-1677). MORTALIUM NOBILITAS. [ANTWERP:] 1651. 30 ENGRAVED PLATES WITH BIBLICAL MOTTOS IN LATIN AS CAPTIONS (C.75 X 55MM TO PLATE MARK) WITHIN ENGRAVED BORDERS (114 X 88MM TO PLATE MARK) BY HOLLAR AFTER HOLBEIN (THE PLATES) AND DIEPENBEEK (THE BORDERS), EACH TIPPED, ONE PER LEAF, IN A MODERN ALBUM (250 X 161MM). (WITHOUT THE TITLE, OCCASIONAL LIGHT SPOTTING.) MODERN QUARTER MOROCCO, FLAT SPINE TITLED IN GILT. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF HOLLAR'S VERSION OF HOLBEIN. The series is among the most enduring of all renditions of the medieval 'Dance of Death'. Holbein's designs reflect a newly-humanistic conception of death, depicting with realism its arrival into domestic and everyday settings. This celebrated and much reproduced series of copper-plates was made in the years of Hollar's exile in Antwerp (1645-1650). Pennington 233-262. View on Christie's.com
ANTONINUS FLORENTINUS (1389-1459). Confessionale: 'Defecerunt scrutantes scrtinio'. -Titulus de restitutionibus. Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen, 1474. Median 4° (234 x 169mm). Gothic type. Contemporary Italian illuminated initial and white-vine border on first leaf, blank shield in lower margin, initials and paragraph marks in red and blue, red capital strokes. (Decoration slightly rubbed, occasional small wormhole or marginal wormtrack, occasional light spotting or staining.) Contemporary Italian blindtooled calf over thin inner-bevelled boards, possibly Urbino [de Marinis 950, central tool of little stars], panelled with foliate tool border and stars at centre (rear cover with old repair, a little scuffed, some wear at spine, without clasps). Provenance: an unidentified cardinal (ink-stamps in lower margin) -- Cary W. Bok, March 1928 (inscription) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 9). St. Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, composed 3 different texts on confession which are differentiated by their incipits. The present text discusses the powers of the confessor, the seven deadly sins, the manner of interrogating people of different status, and absolution and imposition of penance. H *1177; GW 2104; BMC V, 225; Bod-inc A-326; BSB-Ink A-576; Goff A-798. View on Christie's.com
ALBUMASAR (787-886). De magnis coniunctionibus. Edited by Johannes Angelus, translated by Johannes Hispalensis. Augsburg: Erhart Ratdolt, 31 March 1489. Chancery 4° (205 x 152mm). Gothic type, 286 woodcuts, some repeated, ornamental initials. (Small hole in lower margin of final leaf). 19th-cenutry red morocco gilt by Trautz-Bauzonnet, 'YY' monogram within oval on front cover, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed, a few light scuff marks on front cover). Provenance: NICHOLAS YEMENIZ (1783-1871, bibliophile; binding, book-label, Catalogue de la Bibliothèque de M. N. Yemeniz, no. 968) -- engraved bookplate with motto 'Tout Passe Le Livre Reste' (on pastedown) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 4). THE YEMENIZ COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Albumasar was the leading astrologer of his day, and he presents here his thesis of creation based on the alignment of the seven planets. HC *611; GW 836; BMC II, 383; BSB-Ink A-226; Bod-inc A-153; Schreiber 3072; Houzeau & Lancaster 3819; Fairfax Murray German 26; Klebs 39.1; Goff A-360; . View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei. Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90. [Bound second with:] AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. De trinitate Dei. [Basel]: Johann Amerbach, 1489. Two works in one volume, super-chancery 2° (317 x 215mm). De civitate: Gothic types, full-page woodcut on A1v depicting St. Augustine and the two cities of God and Satan, 9-line initial space opening text, smaller initial spaces with guide-letters, publisher's device at end. De trinitate: Gothic types, some Greek. 2- to 6-line initial spaces with printed guide-letter. (Some dampstaining and soiling, mostly marginal, wormholes at front and back, an occasional light stain.) Contemporary Paris blind-tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards by Hemon Lefevre, St. Sebastian panel at centre [Gid/Laffitte 199] (worn, small wormholes). Provenance: occasional early annotations -- Guido Lucas, 2 December 1544 (inscription at front) -- early purchase note and other inscriptions -- Fratres de Chamberain coenobita -- Ainsault (late ?17th-century inscription) - Besnier (?18th-century inscription) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, nos. 13 and 15). A fresh copy in a contemporary panel-stamped binding by Hemon Lefevre, active at Paris c. 1493-1503. HC 2065 and 2037; GW 2889 and 2926; BMC V 437 and III 751; BSB-Ink A-862 and A-877; Bod-inc A-531; Sander 670; Essling 73; Goff A-1245 and A-1343. View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei. Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 February 1489. [Bound with:] AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius. De trinitate Dei. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1489. Two works in one volume, super-chancery 2° (305 x 205mm). De civitate: Gothic types. Opening major initials in blue, red and green decoration, minor initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. De trinitate: Gothic and Greek types. Rubricated. (De Civitate with title-page in facsimile (with large woodcut), some soiling and repairs to first and last leaves, an occasional light stain.) 20th-century tan morocco-backed vellum boards by G.P. Gray and Co, Cambridge, spine lettered (lightly soiled). Provenance: a few marginal annotations in an early hand -- Henry Bellingham (d. ?1650, inscription on a2r) -- Philip Worsley Wood, 1913 (bookplate)- - André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 12). THE MOST IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL WORK by St Augustine of Hippo, composed shortly after the sacking of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. HC 2064 and 2037; GW 2887 and 2926; BMC III 751; BSB-Ink A-861 and A-877; Bod-inc A-529; Goff A1243 and A1343. View on Christie's.com
AUGUSTINUS, Aurelius (St., 354-430). De civitate Dei. Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet. Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus], for Octavianus Scotus, 18 February 1489/90. Super-chancery 2° (309 x 213mm). Gothic types, full-page woodcut on A1v, publisher's device at end. (Light spotting, occasional worming.) 17th-century vellum over flexible pasteboard, blue edges, later manuscript title on spine (a little rubbed and stained). Provenance: Joannes Zurlus, April 1528 and Ch[ristophorus] Stephanus, 1537 (deleted inscription on A2r) -- newspaper cutting from Il Corriere del Mattino dated 1879 reporting book news (front pastedown) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 13). The full-page woodcut is the first known work attributable to the Master of Haintz-Narr, considered by Winkler to be the best woodcut artist in Basel before Dürer (F. Winkler, Dürer, 1951). HC 2065; GW 2889; BMC V 437; BSB-Ink A-862; Bod-inc A-531; Goff A-1245. View on Christie's.com
BANDELLUS DE CASTRONOVO, Vincentius (1435-1506). Libellus recollectorius auctoritatum de veritate conceptionis beatae virginis Mariae. Milan: Christophorus Valdarfer, 1475. Median 4° (221 x 161mm). Gothic types. Opening 12-line initial in azure, other spaces blank. (Occasional light marginal staining.) Early 20th-century brown calf. Provenance: a few early marginal annotations -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 17). FIRST EDITION. 'The author's name is not given in the book, which has also been ascribed to Jacobus de Susato (Soest), but it is shown to be Bandello's work by the réchauffé dedicated by him to the Duke of Ferrara under the title De singulari puritate et praerogatiua conceptionis Saluatoris nostri and first printed by Rugerius at Bologna in 1481' (BMC). The author, a professor of theology and, in 1501, general of the Dominican order, was one of the century's most violent opponents of the Immaculate Conception. His opposition was brought to an end by Sixtus IV's bull of 1483. H *2352; GW 3237; BMC VI, 726; BSB-Ink B-33; Bod-inc B-022; Goff B-48. View on Christie's.com
BAYSIO, Guido de (d. 1313). Rosarium decretorum. Edited by Petrus Albinianus Trecius, with additions by Paulus Pisanus. Venice: Reynaldus de Novimagio, 12 December 1480. Royal 2° (399 x 263mm). Gothic types, double column. Initials opening each 'causa' in interlocking red and blue, other initials in red or blue, printed and MS headlines, MS guide-letters. (Small wormholes in first 2 quires and last quires, without final blank, some printed headlines shaved, a little light spotting.) Late 16th/early 17th-century German blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, sides panelled with rolls, arms of the monastery of St. Michael's, Metten (possibly Abbot Johann Nablas, 1595-1628) on front cover, St. Michael and the dragon in medallion on rear cover, two fore-edge clasps, red edges (lightly rubbed, short tear at spine foot). Provenance: Metten, Bavaria, Benedictine abbey of St. Michael (17th-century inscription, binding) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer, 2003, no. 68). Fourth edition, the first edited by Trecius, who advertises the greater correctness of the edition in his preface. HC *2716; GW 3746; BMC V, 256; BSB-Ink B-247; Goff B-287. View on Christie's.com
BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375). Genealogiae deorum. -De montibus silvis, fontibus. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1494/95. Super-chancery 2° (290 x 190mm). Roman type. 13 full-page woodcut genealogical trees opening the first 13 books, woodcut initials, publisher's device at end. (Corners repaired with text loss of 8 lines on verso of leaf a1 and with loss of a few words from leaf a2 to a7, closed worm track in upper margin of first 10 leaves, a few small wormholes and light waterstaining, some marginal, some woodcuts shaved.) Late 18th-century calf (upper spine repaired retaining part of old spine, a few small wormholes, rubbed, corners bumped, front joint cracked). Provenance: contemporary marginal annotations, Biblioteca Corsinia Vetus (stamp on title verso). Fourth edition of the full text, and the first to contain the full-page woodcut diagrams illustrating the genealogy of the pagan gods. The woodcuts were next used in a 1497 reprint by Manfredus de Bonellis. HC *3321; GW 4478; BMC V, 444 (IB. 22904); BSB-Ink B-586; Klebs 190.3; Essling 799; Sander 1077; Goff B-753. View on Christie's.com
pseudo-BONAVENTURA (St., 1221-1274). Diaeta salutis. -Devota contemplatio, seu meditatio de nativitate domini. -De resurrectione a peccato ad gratiam. Venice: Johannes (Petrus) de Quarengiis, Bergomensis, 1 February 1497/98. Super-chancery 8° (146 x 100mm). Gothic types. Double column. One woodcut initial on a2r, a few initial spaces. With variant in colophon 'Jo/annis' as GW Anm. (Very occasional light spotting.) Modern panel-stamped burgundy morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Provenance: André Himpe (De Gulden Passer, 2003, no. 31). H *3531; GW 4730; BMC V, 513; Goff B-879. View on Christie's.com
pseudo-BONAVENTURA -- [Servasanctus de FAENZA (d. c. 1300)]. Sermones de tempore et de sanctis. Hagenau: [Heinrich Gran], 9 January 1496. Chancery 4° (213 x 147mm). Gothic types. Rubricated. (Some light marginal staining, a few wormholes and small tears.) Contemporary front cover of blindstamped calf over wooden board preserved in a modern binding with matching board and back cover tooled to a similar pattern, brass catches and clasps. Provenance: Judocus Heyme (Louvain, c. 1510-1580; gift inscription to:) -- Rooklooster, near Brussels, 1531 (inscription) -- Eugeen De Ridder (1893-1962, Antwerp; bookstamp) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 33). FROM THE FAMED LIBRARY OF ROOKLOOSTER. Not only was it renowned for its library and scriptorium but also as the home of its laybrother, the artist Hugo van der Goes, for whom it relaxed the austere rule of the Windesheimer congregation in support of his artwork. It is possible that part of the binding of this book may have been a product of the monastery. Judocus Heyme is known as an author at Rookloster. HC *3520; GW 4815; BMC III, 684; BSB-Ink S-364; Goff B-952. View on Christie's.com
CAESAR, Gaius Julius (100-44 B.C). Commentarii . Edited by Hieronymous Bononius (1454-1517). - RAIMUNDUS MARLIANUS (ca. 1420-1475). Index Commentariorum C. Julii Caesaris. Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 13 July 1490. Chancery 2° (289 x 194mm). Roman type. First text page with Arese armorial in lower margin and possibly later illuminated initial, one other later decorated initial, other spaces filled with later pen initial. (Without first blank, lower margin of a2 renewed, retaining coat-of-arms, some light spotting and browning.) Modern vellum, lettered on spine. Provenance: Arese family, Milan nobility (coat-of-arms); early marginal annotations -- Honoratus [--] (inscription dated 1621 pasted over on first leaf) -- André Himpe (De Gulden Passer 2003, no. 38. Third edition edited by Girolamo Bologni of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic and Civil Wars. De Bello Gallico is his first-hand account of the battle of the Romans against the Gauls; its final chapter describes events after the war and was written by Aulus Hirtius. The De Bello Civili covers the period 49 to 48 B.C., from Caesar's invasion of Italy to Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Pharsalus. It continues with an account on the Alexandrian, African and Hispanic wars, believed to have been written by Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Oppius. HC *4219; GW 5870; BMC V 477; BSB-Ink C-29; Bod-inc C-011; CIBN C-11; Goff C-23. View on Christie's.com
KORAN -- Alcorani textus universus [-- Refutatio Alcorani]. Padua: the Seminary Press, 1698. 2 vols, 4° (350 x 235mm). Printed in Arabic and Latin. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, red morocco label on the spines, mottled edges (some wear at spine ends, some soiling). Provenance: 'Bibliotheca Terzi' (shelf-labels) -- Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps, pocket and card on lower pastedowns). The Koran in Arabic and Latin, with Ludovico Marracci's translation and commentary. Marracci's was the second major translation into Latin, following that of Robert Ketenensis in 1143; both were the basis of numerous subsequent editions and translations into modern languages. (2) View on Christie's.com
LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695). Contes et nouvelles en vers. Amsterdam: 1764. 2 vols, 8° (181 x 113mm). 80 engraved plates after Eisen, sixty culs-de-lampe. (A few text leaves lightly browned.) Contemporary olive-green morocco gilt, sides with floral border, morocco labels, gilt edges (light minor rubbing to sides, and a few tiny wormholes to spines). Provenance: Fermor-Hesketh Library at Easton Neston (bookplate and case label in each volume). First pirated edition of this masterpiece of rococo book illustration. Printed just two years after the luxurious limited edition commissioned by the Fermiers Généraux, this edition presents the celebrated series of engravings after Eisen. Brunet III: 760; Cohen-de Ricci 571; Graesse IV: 75. (2) View on Christie's.com
LUYKEN, Jan. Icones Biblicae Veteris et N.Testamenti. Amsterdam: J. Covens & C. Mortier, [c.1729]. Oblong 2° (430 x 497mm). Engraved title, 11 engraved maps and plans, 61 double-page engraved plates (of 62, lacking plate 5). (All leaves with central vertical fold crease, very light spotting and browning.) Late 19th-century half vellum over marbled boards (extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION OF THE EARLIEST STATE ISSUED ON LARGE PAPER. Contains a world map depicting California as an island. Brunet III: 1245. View on Christie's.com
OVID (43 B.C.-?17 A.D.). Metamorphosis, translated by George Sandys (1578-1644). London: William Standsby, 1626. 2° (255 x 158mm). Engraved title and portrait. (First gathering, including title and portrait, crudely re-margined, light waterstaining at beginning and end, small wormtrack in upper gutter, lightly spotted or soiled.) Contemporary calf, gilt Harbourne armorial on sides (rubbed and a little scuffed, new endpapers). Provenance: [John] Harbourne, Tackley, Oxon (High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1632; binding) -- George Sandys (pencil inscription at end dated 1673) -- John Y. Sandys (inscription at front dated October 5th, 1844; bookplate) -- Peter Cary (inscription on endpaper, dated 1944). With the second English edition of Publius Papinus Statius' The Thebaid of Statius (2 vols, London: 1773). (3) View on Christie's.com
PLAYS -- A collection of 9 plays in one volume, all but one 17th-century. 4° (200 x 150mm). Comprising: [DEFOE, Daniel (1661?-1731)]. The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr. [London?]: [s.n.], 1701. (Marginal tear to a1, hole with text loss to a2, lower inner gutter of gathering C creased). Foxon D159. -- D'URFEY, Thomas (1653-1723). Gloriana. A Funeral Pindarique Poem. London: Samuel Briscoe, 1695. Kress, S.1805; Wing D2730. -- Diluvium Lachrymarum. A Review of the Fortunate and Unfortunate Adventurers. London: Randal Taylor, 1694. Wing D1492. -- SHIPPEN, William (1673-1743). Faction Display'd. A Poem. London: [s.n.], 1704. Foxon S430. -- HOBBES, Thomas (1588-1679). Ad Nobilissimum Dominum Gulielmum Comitem Devoniae. London: Gulielmo Crook, 1675. (lacking first leaf A1 and blank leaf C4, margins closely shaved affecting shoulder notes and occasionally headlines). Wing H2223. -- DENHAM, John, Sir, (1615-1669). Coopers Hill. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1655. (Lacking blank leaf D2, light waterstaining). Wing D996. BUCKINGHAM, John Sheffield, Duke of, (1648-1720 or 21). An Essay upon Poetry. London: Joseph Hindmarsh, 1682. (Staining and soiling to title page, two marginal tears without any text loss to A2, staining to C3 and C4). Wing B5339. -- DILKE, Mr. [Thomas] (d. ca. 1698). XXV Select Allusions, to Several Places of Horace, Martial, Anacreon, and Petron. Arbitr [Part I, all published]. London: Peter Buck, 1698. (Marginal tear to D4, browned). Wing D1480. -- The Regular Physician. London: Powell, 1715. Foxon R152. (Occasional minor spotting, browning and staining throughout, very occasional worm holes.) Contemporary brown calf (front cover and spine detached, worn, front endpaper almost detached, back endpaper trimmed in half). Provenance: Madame Roloffs, Guernsey (ink ownership inscription on endpaper) -- Robert Bradery (ink ownership inscription on first work). View on Christie's.com
PANTALEON, Heinrich (1522-1595). Militaris Ordinis Iohannitarum, Rhodiorum, aut Melitensium Equitum, rerum memorabilium... Historia nova. Basel: [Thomas Guarinus], 1581. 2° (330 x 200mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut illustrations throughout, including maps, views and portraits, some full-page. (Light browning, faint dampstain in the last few gatherings, a few short marginal tears, occasional spotting.) Near-contemporary vellum, spine lettered in manuscript (some soiling, one turn-in lifting). Provenance: Theological Institute of Connecticut (blindstamps). FIRST EDITION of Pantaleon's history of the Christian orders and their deeds against Turks, Arabs, and others in various theatres. The woodcuts include views of Jerusalem, Tyre, and Damascus, maps of the Holy Land, Cyprus, the Nile delta, Greece, and the Balkans, and plans of Constantinople and other cities. Not in Atabey. Adams P-178. View on Christie's.com
OSBORNE, Thomas. A Catalogue of the Libraries of that Learned Antiquarian Edmund Sawyer ... and of several other eminent gentlemen. [London: 1759]. 8°. (Occasional light waterstaining.) Contemporary floral boards (most paper worn from spine, lightly rubbed); archival card case. Edmund Sawyer (after 1687-1759) was a lawyer of the Inner Temple and in 1719 was admitted member of Lincoln's Inn. The catalogue includes large-paper copies, attractive bindings, literature, arts and science. ESTC T150851; no copy in the Grolier Club. OSBORNE, T. The first Volume of a Catalogue of the Libraries of the Rev. Mr. Dongworth ... Dr. Green ... Henry Anderson. Consisting of near one hundred thousand volumes. [London: 1762]. 8°. Contemporary floral boards (paper on spine mostly worn, lightly rubbed); archival card case. Provenance: 'At Bawdsey 9 Jan. 1762' (inscription opposite title). Contains amongst others prints, books on prints and manuscripts in all languages, arts and sciences. ESTC 216158; no copy in the Grolier Club. View on Christie's.com
[SONGBOOK] -- BREDERODE, Gerbrand Adriaensz (1585-1618). Boertigh, Amoreus, en Aendachtigh Groot Lied-boeck. Amsterdam: Cornelis Lodowijcksz: vander Plasse, 1622. 3 parts in one volume, oblong 8° (150 x 195mm). General title, additional engraved title, each part with separate title, engraved portrait of the author by Hessel Gerritsz, 20 engraved illustrations, including 3 full-page and 17 half-page, by Jan van de Velde and Michel le Blon, 2 full-page calligraphic woodcuts. (Closed long tear in M1, inner margin of general and engraved title strenghtened, occasional light spotting, very light offsetting from plates). 19th-century vellum (new endpapers). Provenance: G.S. Overdiep (bookplate). FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of the famous Groot Lied-boeck, a collection of poems, mostly love and wedding songs. The beautiful illustrations depict scenes of love and courtship. 10 of the engravings are by Jan van de Velde the younger (1587-1658) and 3 by Michel le Blon (1593-1641). View on Christie's.com
[SONGBOOK] -- Amsterdamsche Pegasus, waer in (uyt lust) be een nergadert zijn, deel Minnelijcke Liedekens.... Amsterdam: P.A. van Ravesteyn for Cornelis Willemsz Blaeu-Laken, 1627. Oblong 4° (154 x 191mm). Additional engraved title, 10 engraved illustrations by Jan van de Velde the younger, musical scores in the text (small hole in lower margin from C1 to end repaired, light waterstaining towards the end, lightly browned, margins lightly dust-soiled). Contemporary vellum (front inner hinge starting to crack, lacking ties, lightly soiled). Provenance: Jacob Rocher (contemporary inscription in Latin on front free endpaper, dated 24 July 1635) -- The Royal Society, London (2 stamps on verso of printed title and one on lower margin of final leaf of text). FIRST EDITION, of this collection of Dutch rural and pastoral songs. They are accompanied by 10 engravings by Jan van de Velde (1593-c.1641) who is well known for his landscapes drawn from nature. His naturalistic detail and simple composition influenced other artists, including Rembrandt. Brunet I, 248. View on Christie's.com
[SONGBOOK] -- CAMPHUYSEN, Dirk Raphaelsz (1586-1627). Stichelycke Rymen, om te lesen ofte singhen. Amsterdam: Jacob Colom, 1647. Oblong 4° (144 x 196mm). Folding engraved portrait of the author by S. Savey, 60 engraved illustrations, including one tipped-in between Q4 and R1, large historiated woodcut initials, musical scores. (Small part of inner margin of portrait torn away with slight loss of image, lower corner of C4 torn away, small hole in Oo4 affecting one or two letters over 3 lines, a few short marginal tears, light marginal finger-soiling, stronger soiling on Rr2v and Rr3r). Contemporary mottled calf, gilt border on sides and central gilt lozenge (skilfully rebacked with old spine relaid, upper corners repaired, rubbed). Provenance: G.S Overdiep (bookplate). FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of this celebrated Dutch songbook. Each illustration is accompanied by a four-line poem beneath. Parts one and two include musical scores for every poem. First published in 1624, this book went through several editions in the 17th century. Praz p.35 (calls for only 58 illustrations). View on Christie's.com
STOWE -- Stowe: A Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens of... Richard Grenville Temple, Earl Temple. London: for John Rivington and others, 1763. 4° (200 x 125mm). Engraved folding plan, and 19 engraved plates of plans and views by G. L. Smith after B. Seeley (short tear in the margin of the folding plan, faint dampstain in some plates, light wear in some margins). Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco spine label, spine gilt (front joint starting, spine head chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: John Campbell, third Earl of Bredalbane (bookplate) -- [Sotheran's (small stamp)]. View on Christie's.com
SURTEES, Robert Smith (1805-1864).] Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities ... second edition. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1843. 8° (212 x 134mm). Hand-coloured etched frontispiece, additional title, and 13 plates by Henry Alken. (Occasional light spotting.) Original green cloth gilt, gilt edges (extremities a little rubbed, covers with light marks). FIRST EDITION WITH ALKEN'S COLOURED PLATES. Described as the second edition but actually the third, following those of 1838 and 1839. Schwerdt II, p.236; Tooley 471. [JOHNSTONE, Charles (?1719-1800).] Chrysal: or, the Adventures of a Guinea. A new edition. London: J. Watson, 1821. 3 vols., 8° (210 x 128mm). Half-titles, 15 hand-coloured plates. (Text block slightly loose.) Contemporary green morocco gilt, gilt spines, gilt edges (extremities lightly rubbed). (4) View on Christie's.com
THALASSO, Adolphe. Déri Sé'adet ou Stamboul Porte du Bonheur. Paris: Piazza, 1908. 4° (228 x 178mm). Half-title, titles printed in colours and gold within an ornamental border, coloured plates, illustrations and decorations by Fausto Zonaro. Full crushed morocco by Affolter, covers panelled with a wide decorative border formed of olive, light purple and red onlays with gilt dots enclosing an inner gilt frame, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments and lettered in second, gilt and decorative turn-ins, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in, gilt edges, slipcase. Number 219 of 300 copies, this on papier vélin à la cuve. Atabey 1214; not in Blackmer. View on Christie's.com
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