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Preisdatenbank abonnierenMachiavelli (Niccolo). Princeps: ex Sylvestri Telii Fulginatis traductione diligenter denuo emendatus, 2 parts in 1, [Hanau: Guilielmum Antonium], 1595, woodcut vignette to titles, woodcut head and tailpieces, woodcut initials, small ink stamp of Marco Lazzari to title, some light browning, contemporary vellum, manuscript titles, yapp edges, some marks, 8voQTY: (1)NOTE:Adams M50.
* Illuminated leaf. An illuminated leaf from a Latin Bible, French, [possibly Paris?], late 13th century, manuscript in dark brown ink on single vellum leaf, 44 lines in double-column, text includes beginning of Ezra, with 6-line illuminated initial depicting Ezra writing, 2-line initial in blue with marginal pen and ink decoration in blue and red, head-line in red and blue, text rubricated, 152 x 101 mm, window mountedQTY: (1)
Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of our Antient and Learned English Poet, Geoffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions, 1. His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2. His life collected. 3. Arguments to every booke gathered. 4. Old and obscure words explained. 5. Authors by him cited, declared. 6. Difficulties opened. 7. Two bookes of his, never before printed, 1st Speight edition, London: Adam Islip, at the charges of Bonham Norton, 1598, engraved title (trimmed with losses and laid down), engraved portrait of the author by John Speed, 3 divisional titles within woodcut borders, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces, main text in black letter in double-column, lacking leaves aii-iv at front, lacking final leaf (of Annotations and colophon) and blank, folio 164 with small loss of text lower right (text completed in later manuscript recto and verso), a few other small marginal repairs, occasional small annotations, some occasional soiling, spotting and stains, endpapers renewed, contemporary calf, panelled covers with arabesque in gilt, rebacked and repaired, a little rubbed with some edge wear, folio, 31 x 21 cmQTY: (1)NOTE:Grolier 43 English; Pforzheimer 177 (different imprint); STC 5078. 'From the form of imprints it would seem that Bishop, Norton and Wight commissioned Islip to print this edition, and judging from the frequency with which copies with their imprints occur it is probable that Bishop took the largest share and Norton the next' (Pforzheimer).First edition of Thomas Speight's definitive edition of the complete works of Chaucer, and the first to contain an engraved portrait of the author, this copy the Islip and Norton issue. Speight, a somewhat obscure schoolmaster, was assisted in its production by the chronicler John Stow, Francis Thynne, Francis Beaumont (father of the dramatist of the same name), and Robert Glover.
Albumasar (787/886). De magnis coniunctionibus: annorum revolutionibus: ac eorum profectionibus: octo continens tractatus, [edited by Johannes Angelus, and translated by Johannes Hispalensis], Augsburg: Erhart Ratdolt, 31 March 1489, 41 (of 118) leave sonly, lackinf A1-8, C7-8, D1, D4/5, and D7, E1 and E3-8, F1-7, G1-8, H1-8, I1-2 and I16, M1-8, N1-8, O1-6, and P1-8, forty lines to a page, numerous woodcut illustrations, including some repeated motifs, woodcut intials, a few minor marks to margins, C4 & 5 with closed tear to fore margin, each strengthened with strip of plain paper, bound with two small portions only of similar early printed astrological works: Signature F1-8 only from Abraham Aben Ezra, De Nativitatibus, 1485, illustrated with numerous woodcut astrological illustrations, each leaf numbered in ink in a later hand 73/80, and the final three leaves only (O1-3) from Leupoldus, Compellatio de astrorum scientia, Augsburg: Erhart Ratdolt, 1489, final leaf with 18th century manuscript index in brown ink below the colophon and to verso, each part work with modern hand written title inserted, and with a similar handwritten contents page bound in at front, listing the three works, bookplate of the Hartland Library, Gloucestershire County Library to front pastedown, modern red full morocco gilt, togteher with a modern fasimilie printing of the Albumasar, bound in recent half green cloth, both small 4toQTY: (2)NOTE:GW 836; Goff A-360; Bod-inc A-153; Schreiber 3067; Houzeau & Lancaster 3819.A portion only of Albumasar's fanous work on the creation of the world, being a translation of his Kitab al-qiranat, or Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology.
Duranti (Giullelmus). Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, Rome: Ulrich Hahn and Simon Nicolai Chardella de Lucca, 23 June 1473, 280 (of 284) leaves, lacking title and final contents leaf (A1 & A4) and 2 further text leaves, double column, 56 lines in roman type, incipit printed in red, 8-line initial Q on a red, yellow, green and blue ground, enclosed within liquid gold, with penwork decorative foliation finished in red, blue and gold extending into inner margin, and a 15th-century circular laurel wreath painted in green at foot, enclosing pen and ink crest, manuscript initials in blue and red ink throughout, some occasional old damp-staining and soiling, a few leaves with small holes to inner margins, contents leaves with small rusted hole at head (not affecting text), 18th-century engravings of 'Canon Missae Pontificalis' and 'Conciliroum Omnium eneralium et prouincialium collectio regia' tipped-in to front blanks, late 17th-century full calf gilt, red morocco labels to spine, upper cover detached, worn and marked, folio (leaf size 37.5 x 26 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Goff D406; GW 9104.The exceedingly scarce 1473 edition. We can only trace one other copy appearing in auction records (Sotheby's, The Library of William O'Brien, 2017).Ulrich Hahn was a pioneering printer, having claim to numerous groundbreaking advancements. Along with Arnold Pannartz and Konrad Sweynheym, Hahn produced the first book printed with moveable type in Rome in 1467. Furthermore, 'It is believed that the first book printed in Italy with woodcuts in the text and with an ascertained date is the work of a German established at Rome, Ulrich Hahn, in 1467'. (Henri Bouchet, The Printed Book, 1887, p. 46) and Hahn's Missale secundum consuetudinem curie romane, printed in 1476, is believed to be the first time music was printed with movable type.
Game Books. A collection of Six Game Books, early to mid-20th-century, game books and shooting journals, compiled by Mr H. T. H. Foley of Hereford, compiled in manuscript, with press cuttings, receipts for the sale of wildfowl, letters, photographs and ephemera, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco, various colours, a little worn and rubbed, large 8vo, together with two wildfowl ledgers from the 1940s detailing shooting expeditions (including punt-gunning) mostly around Milford Haven, publisher's quarter cloth, boards worn and rubbed with manuscript annotations to the upper cover of one volume, slim upright 4to, together with a typed 'pre-publication' edition of 'Hunting Talk' by Major W. Fraser Tytler, circa 1918, publisher's cloth with gilt title to the spine, and another similar, slim 8vo, with 'The Field Botanist's Diary' 1922, a botanist's record book, with manuscript annotations of plants found (mainly in Devon) with the date and situation, slim oblong 8vo, plus Wheatley (Hewitt). The Rod and Line..., 1849, additional half-title, nine plates of flies and tackle (including frontispiece), all with contemporary hand-colouring, hinges cracked, publisher's cloth, worn and faded, small 8voQTY: (12)
Manuscript Prayer Book. A Collection of various Metricall versions of all the Psalms of David with full Analyticall & Explanatory contents before each Psalm. And a collection of Hymns & Spirituall Songs digested under proper Titles or Heads... As also A Collection of above 100 Tunes in parts to both Psalms and Hymns. With an Introduction to so much skill in Musick in the shortest & plainest method, as is necessary to understand and sing the said Tunes. All filled to give the best assistant to Church-Assemblies & Families, in this part of the Solemn worship of God, no date, circa 1830, 497 pp. of text and music written in ink, text in a small neat legible hand, text within volume divided into four sections (including Metricall Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs, Table to the Psalms & Hymns, and Tunes in parts), bound with 40 pp. blank leaves at rear of volume, damp-stain at head of some leaves, verso of front free endpaper with ownership name 'J. Bishop' written in pencil, marbled endpapers, contemporary straight-grain black calf, spine lettered in gilt 'Psalms and Hymns' and 'M.S.', spine cracked and with some wear, joints rubbed, boards rubbed, 8vo QTY: (1)
Golf Book of Hours. Golf Book, the original of which is housed in the British Library under shelf mark 'Add. Ms. 24098', facsimile limited edition, Barcelona: M. Moleiro, 2004, 41 fine facsimile illuminated miniatures after Simon Benning, limitation certificate tipped-in at rear, all edges gilt, original blue morocco gilt, contained in original morocco gilt solander box, small 4to, 20 x 14 cm, together with Golf Book, by Carlos Miranda Garcia-Tejedor, trade edition, edited by M. Moleiro, Barcelona, 2004, QTY: (2)NOTE:Limited edition 159/987. Very scarce, only one copy recorded at auction.Known as the 'Golf Book', the book was created by the famous miniature illuminator Simon Benning in his Bruges workshop around 1540. Under the September calendar leaf, the miniature depicts four people playing a game appearing to be golf, hence its popular name, the original manuscript kept in the British Library. A few of the other illustrations show people playing other games and pastimes
Carew (Richard, of Antonie). The Survey of Cornwall, 1st edition, London: printed by S[imon]. S[afford]. for John Jaggard, 1602, preliminary blank leaf present, errata leaf followed by two leaves of Table at rear, front flyleaf with several early inscriptions including that of J. Godfrey of Norton Court, dated November 29, 1711, noting that the "new binding" cost two shillings, armorial bookplate of Phillip Carteret Webb to front pastedown, and of William Arthur, sixth Duke of Portland to rear pastedown, occasional browning and some marginal damp-stains, early 18th-century panelled calf, rebacked preserving original gilt decorated spine with red morocco title label, joints cracked, small 4toQTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: John Godfrey of Norton Court, near Faversham, Kent (bookplate). The Royal Society hold a manuscript account by him of the total lunar eclipse of 1729.STC 4615.The first edition of Carew's pioneering county history, which is "above all a representation of Cornwall as its author saw it, in terms of the landscape and climate, and of the occupations of men and women whose lives these shaped. Such matters as the local tin mines, the fishing industry, and the games people played, including hurling, all come within the compass of his lively pen." (ODNB). The volume includes valuable descriptions of Cornish topography, industries, sports, and pastimes, with accounts of miracle plays, tin mining, the pilchard industry, and agriculture, written in characteristic and pleasantly entertaining Elizabethan prose.
* After Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). St Benedetto, looking towards Fusina, circa 1870, watercolour heightened with bodycolour on wove, some scattered spotting, mount aperture 46.5 x 68 cm (18 1/4 x 26 3/4 ins), framed and glazed (74 x 97 cm), printed George Rowney & Compy. label to backboardQTY: (1)NOTE:The original oil painting on canvas by Turner was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1843, measuring 62.5 × 92 cm. It was accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest in 1856 and transferred to the Tate Gallery in 1968 (Ref: N00534). Ruskin commented that the title was partly imaginary, with no church of San Benedetto being visible in reality. Several buildings to the right in the painting were also imaginary in their detail. An engraving of the original by Turner was by James Charles Armytage published 1859-61, captioned 'Approach to Venice'. An example of the print held at the Tate has a manuscript correction to the title 'St Benedetto, looking towards Fusina RA 1843'.
Bible [Latin]. Biblia. Hebraea, Chaldea, Graeca & Latina nomina...restituta, cum Latina interpretatione. Locorum descriptio e Cosmographis. Index practerea rerum & sententiarum...His accesserunt schemata Tabernaculi Mosaici, & Templi & Salomonis, quae praeunte Francisco Vatablo Hebraicarum literarum Regio professore doctissimo, summa arte & fide expressa sunt, Paris: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani [Robert Estienne], 1538-1540, 3 parts bound in 2 volumes, numerous 9-line woodcut criblé initials, ruled in red throughout, all capital letters highlighted in light yellow, extensive contemporary annotations throughout both volumes in Latin in brown ink, in many cases filling the very wide blank margins completely with lengthy manuscript notes, lacking *1, d6-7, e3, p1, 3, 5 and 8, Nn6-8, AA1, and aa1, including all title pages, 2-8 incorrectly transposed (Ecclesiastes), the first 30 leaves to the first volume with archival repairs to outer margins, with some loss of the extensive contemporary manuscript annotations, similar archival paper repairs at rear of the first volume, generally without any loss of manuscript annotations, second volume with similar archival repairs to outer margins at front and rear, not affecting text or manuscript annotations, all edges gilt,, modern dark blue full crushed morocco, lettered in gilt to spines: Biblia Latina Vulgata, Roberti Stephani, and Paris 1532 (the date erroneous), marbled endpapers, some light surface marks, large folio (textblock measures 485 x 350 mm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Darlow & Moule 6117. Signatures conform with this edition.Renouard, Annales Estienne, 35. A major scholarly edition of the Latin Bible published by the renowned Parisian printer Robert Éstienne, who produced several Bible editions between 1527 and 1540, this being the third Estienne folio edition.
Book of Common Prayer. The Booke of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England, London: Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1604, a8,B10, A8 B10, C8-n8, O10, P8, Q6, title printed in red and black with elaborate woodcut border, rubrication to a number of motifs to the outer edges of the design, large woodcut initials, bound with The Psalter or Psalmes of David, after the translation of the great Bible: Pointed as it shall be sung or said in Churches, London: Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1604, A-K8,title within elaborate woodcut border, black letter, large woodcut initials, bound with The Whole Booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrue and apt Notes to sing them with all. Set forth and allowed to be sung in all Churches, of all the people, together and after Morning and Evening prayer, as also before and after Sermons and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort laying apart all ungodly songs and ballades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice and corrupting of youth, London: printed [by John Windet] for the Company of Stationers, 1604, A4, B-T6, U8, title within elaborate architectural woodcut border, black letter, numerous woodcut initials, a few leaves between P6 and Q2 with some print offsetting, one contemporary leaf of manuscript prayers in brown ink (relined) bound into the Book of Common Prayer between B8 and A1, three similar manuscript leaves bound in at end of volume (A praier for the Morninge, etc.), the first of which is torn with some loss, and a further manuscript prayer added at foot of U4 recto, occasional light soiling, contemporary full calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt and blind, central octofoil gilt tool with strapwork and floral infill between blind initials F and M, later reback with endpapers renewed, rubbed and some surface wear, folio QTY: (1)NOTE:ESTC S2776: Griffiths, Book of Common Prayer, p. 83: 1604 (1); STC 16327 for the Book of Common Prayer (although the collation is A12 rather than A10 as here) and The Psalter or Psalmes of David; STC 2512a (for Whole Booke of Psalmes).
BOOK Of KELLS. Evangeliorum Quatter Codex Ceannensies. 3 Volume set. Published Berne 1950. Large folio. Limited edition (500) Plate volumes are in very fine contemporary vellum while the text volume is quarter vellum. Rare. Lacks Plate 7V, The Virgin And Child and Plate 32V, The Portrait of Christ. With some manuscript notes, cosmology etc. where plates are lacking and some hand written text within some of the monochrome plates.
The Book of Kells. The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the first and only complete facsimile, published by Authority of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin. Large folio, Luzern 1990, Number 781 of 1,480, fine white tawed leather over wooden boards. Contained in a specially created presentation box, the embossed surface with blind & gilt tooled Celtic decoration and silver and brass mounts. A rare opportunity to acquire a complete facsimile of one of the World's greatest Art Treasures. A special facsimile. Faksimile Verlag, Luzern, 1990.
Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History - by Eugene O'Curry M.R.I.A. Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (London, 1861).Professor Eugene O’Curry, (1794-1862), was one of the major figures in Irish manuscript studies and his work is still one of the basic resources for the subject. Half Calf, Marble Boards, 4 Raised Bands, Gilt lettering
Annála Rioghachta Éireann. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters from the Earliest Period to the Year 1616. Edited by John O'Donovan. Second edition. Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co. 1856. 7 volumes 4to. Later red/black calf with gilt titles. Although a number of manuscript copies were circulated, this monumental work remained unprinted for more than two centuries after its compilation by Fr. Michael O’Clery and his associates (1632-36). Eventually in 1846, Owen Connellan issued his translation into English of those Annals which cover the period after the Norman invasion. Connellan’s work was so severely criticised, that the Dublin bookseller George Smith, employed the renowned Irish scholar John O’Donovan to make a fuller and more accurate translation, with copious annotation. This he did with considerable assistance from Eugene O’Curry, the work first appearing in three volumes 1848-51. Its success was immediate, so O’Donovan was encouraged both to turn his attention to the period before the invasion, and to produce the Indexes to Places and People, which are so helpful to the researcher. As a result, copies of his [first] edition are sometimes found bound in five cumbersome volumes with the later period preceding the earlier years, and with seven title pages included in the final volume, to allow subscribers the option of rebinding their sets in correct chronological sequence. In this “second” edition, the text remained unaltered, but for the first time sets were offered for sale in seven more manageable volumes, and in their correct order.
A WW2 era Merchant Navy archive, relating to Captain Hahnemann Abbott (1878-1946). To include: a WW1 medal pair comprising of the British War Medal and Mercantile Marine Medal (both named to Hahnemann Abbott), plus a related uniform ribbon bar and printed paper issue envelopes for the medals. Plus, Continuous Certificate of Discharge, his Extra Master certificate, passport issued in 1918, a small quantity of correspondence & ephemera, some of it masonic, housed in a Chicheley Lodge wallet, a Torpedo Drill Book, 1912, his manuscript navigation workbook, his Abstract of Log with numerous manuscript entries, 1917-19, and a similar logbook from 1915 featuring loosely-inserted printed signalling instructions, "To be destroyed by fire on arrival in port, or if capture is imminent"; a period Union Jack flag, five tunic buttons, and a 1914 On War Service enamel badge, together with William & Arthur Abbott's manuscript cash book, 1881-1926. Notes; Hahnemann Abbott was born in Wigan in 1878. His WW1 medal entitlement is confirmed on the relevant roll, and he would appear to have been living in Titchmarsh, Kettering at the time of the award of the medals. A logbook include in the lot, entitled ‘Captain H Abbott’ to the cover, charts his travels on HMS Hector in 1915. Hector was requisitioned merchant vessel that was used as a Kite Balloon Ship in the Dardanelles campaign. The log for July 1915 mentions several times the vessel’s location as being ‘Kephalos Bay, Imbros’, which is west of Gallipoli. Condition: generally good to most pieces. The medals appear to be barely worn, and have just normal age related toning to the surface. The log books and other paper ephemera have normal age related wear and tear, but nothing overall that is detrimental. The HMS Hector log seems to have several days pages neatly cut out, for reasons unknown. The Union Jack is of thin screen printed cotton, a has a little fading along a fold line, but is free from holes or tears.
ALCASAR, L. de. Vestigatio arcani sensus in Apocalypsi opusculo de sacrus ponderibus ac mensuris. Antw., M. Nutius, 1619. (20), 960,82, (2 blank), (71) pp. W. engr. vign. on title-p., 24 full-p. engr. within coll. & 1 engr. ill. in the text by J. de Jauregui y Aguilar. Fol. Cont. blindstamped pig-skin over boards w. bevelled edges, spine w. raised bands, sides ruled & stamped. (Spine dried, w. ticket & worn vellum letterpiece, wormholes in upper side, pigskin of the lower side w. hole in the middle, clasps missing, annot. in pencil & ticket on upper paste down, stamp & manuscript entry on title-p., some yellowing, some wormholes throughout, pp. 799/801 repaired). NOTE: Third, richly illustrated edition of one of the main theological-philosophical works on the Apocalypse, the first was published posthumously in 1614, the second in 1618 (a further print in Lyon in 1616 is probably not verifiable, often mentioned prints from 1603 and 1604 are erroneous information). - Palau 6003.
VIDIUS, Vidus (=Guido GUIDI). Chirurgia è Græco in Latinum conversa. Paris, P. Gaultier, 1544. (36), 533, (1) pp. W. num. woodcut illustrations after Primaticcio and Jean Santorinos, ornamental metalcut initials. Roman and Greek types. Fol. 18th c. full vellum. (2 lvs. missing: q3 & q6 are replaced by duplicates of m3 & m6, else a very fine and extremely clean copy). NOTE: One of the most beautiful science books of the renaissance, this edition includes Latin translations of treatises on surgery by Hippocrates, Galen, Oribasius, and others, with commentaries by Galen and other ancient writers. Hippocrates' treatise on dislocations and Soranus' work on bandages are illustrated with woodcuts, many of them full-page, which illustrate the treatments discussed in the text. Both texts and illustrations derive from a tenth-century illustrated Greek manuscript compiled by the Byzantine physician Nicetas. Brought to Italy by Janus Lascaris in 1495, this codex (now Florence, Laur. Plut. LXXIV, 7) was used by the Florentine physician Guido Guidi for the preparation of this Latin translation. Guidi, a native of Florence and grandson of the painter Domenico del Ghirlandaio, was physician to King Francis I of France and the first professor of medicine at the Collge de France (1542-48). While in Paris he shared quarters with Benvenuto Cellini, who also accommodated the press that produced this edition. The woodcuts, probably by Franois Jollat, were based on drawings by Primaticcio and Jean Santorinos that were copied in turn from the tenth-century codex. - Roberts & Tomlinson, p. 234: "This work (…) stands alongside Vesalius' work on anatomy, and Fuch's on botany (…) all are humanist publications remarkable for the excellence of their woodcut illustrations (…)"; Choulant-Frank pp. 211-2; G-M 4406.1; Osler 155; Waller 1960; Wellcome 6596; Norman 954. - From the library of J. van der Hoeven and with his bookplate.
AUCTION SALE CATALOGUE -- POLL -- CATALOGUS van een magnifique en propere inboedel; Bestaande in verscheidene soorten pretieuse goude en zilvere kostbaarheden en rariteiten, als fraaye paarlen (…). Een heerlyk cabinet van zeer oude blaauwe en andere porcelynen, verlakt cristal en glaswerk, (…). Alle het welke verkogt zal worden, voor de Pastory te Abcoude, op Dingsdag den 18. October, en volgende dagen 1796. Alles nagelaten by wylen den predikant Rodolph van der Poll, en Alletta Catharina van Thiel. Amst., N.T. Gravius, (1796). 84 pp. Cont. h. goatskin. (Spine rubbed, no paper on front side, upper paste down detached). NOTE: Extremely rare auction sale catalogue of the collection of the furniture, artworks, household goods of clergyman Rodolphus van der Poll (1748-96) and his wife Alletta Catharina van Thiel (1757-96). Interleaved copy with prices and additional objects (also with prices) in manuscript, written by the notary W. van Gulpen. Net proceeds: fl. 10.520. - No copy in NCC!
REVE, G. De avonden. Een winterverhaal. Facsimile-uitgave v.h. manuscript en typoscript. Amst., De Bezige Bij, 2001. W. colophon (4 pp), introd. booklet (36 pp) by M. Eijgenraam, and num. loose reproductions of the manuscript, divided in sections. 4°. Loose as published in ocl. box, lettered in blind. (Spine of box sunned). Publication to commemorate the 50th edition of 'De avonden'. Printed in 250 numbered copies. Signed by the author. -- Id. De Jongste Voordracht. 2003. Portfolio with facsimile manuscript & DVD. Limited ed. -- Id. Slager Crolus koopt een oude viool. New York, Kunst Editions (for JBR Organisatie-Adviseurs), 1997. W. tipped-in photogr. of various conductors (Conlon, Solti, Haitink, Muti, etc.) by V. Mentzel. Loose in ocl. portfol. w. yellow ties. Printed in 7 cols. in a lim. & numb. ed. of 999 copies, signed by author & artist. -- (3).
REVE, G. 'Praten met Gerard Kornelis van het Reve'. N.d. (=1967). Or. typescript 'interview' w. the writer. 7 lvs, r°. only. 4°. (Filing holes in upper left corner). NOTE: Reve interviewing Reve, published under the name Rob Uyldert in 'Hitweek' 11, 1967, p. 8-9 (original copy of this issue added). Original typescript with at least 20 handwritten deletions, corrections and additions by the author. Not entirely similar to the published text. On v° of 2 lvs fragments of letters in the author's manuscript.
WERKMAN -- VESTDIJK, S. Allegretto innocente. (Gron.), In Agris Occupatis, 1944. 13, (3) pp. Owrps., w. stencil-printed front cover design in 7 colours by H.N. Werkman. (Loose in (a bit browned) cover, but in v.g. condition). (Volière-reeks 5). NOTE: Copy with dedication in manuscript by the author on the half-title: "Voor Ans [Koster] deze "onschuldige" verzen", signed and dated Doorn, 19 June 1944. One of 10 Roman numbered copies (of 110), signed by the author underneath the colophon. - Dekkers, Van der Spek, De Vries G-249; Cat. Hot Printing 44-g12; De Jong 860.
BLAEU - VAN DER HEM -- KROGT, P. v.d. & E. de GROOT. The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library. ('t Goy-Houten, 1996-2008). 6 vols. Prof. illustr. 4°. Ocl. -- Added: E. de GROOT. The World of a Seventeenth-Century Collector. The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem. ('t Goy-Houten, 2006). 4°. Ocl. w. dust-j. -- (7). NOTE: Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem, one of the largest and finest atlases ever assembled, now in Austria. The 46-volume atlas is an expanded version of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, published in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1663. The atlas is composed by the Amsterdam lawyer and collector Laurens van der Hem (1621-1678). He added other maps, views, and drawings of his own choice, including four volumes of manuscript maps of Africa and Asia made for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). - As new, partly shrink wrapped.
CRAMER -- BOREL, H., (vert.). Het karnen van den oceaan des tijds. Uit het Sanskriet-manuscript in het Engelsch vertaald door F.W. Bain. (Dl. III-V). Utr., W. de Haan, (1918-1920). 3 vols. of the series. Each vol. w. 6 tipped-in cold. plates & ills. by R. Cramer. Square-8°. Or. dec. cl., t.e.g. (Spine ends 1 vol. sl. worn). NOTE: Comprises: Het Land van de Lotus van de Zon; Hoe Waterlelie Zegevierde; Een Incarnatie van de Sneeuw. All three printed in 200 numb. copies, signed by the illustrator. - Burgers 163.
EUROPE -- "REGNI DANIÆ, Novissima et Accuratissima Tabula". (Amst.), N. Visscher, (c. 1700). Engr. map in cont. colouring w. 2 decorative cartouches and many ships at sea. 460 x 555 mm. (Margins trimmed). -- Added: "CARTE DU ROYAUME DE DANEMARC". Amst., Covens & Mortier, (c. 1730). Engr. map by G. de l'Isle in cont. colouring. 490 x 610 mm. (Lower right outer corner replaced in manuscript). -- "FIONIA". (Amst., Hondius, 1613-19). Cold. engr. map by Mercator of Funen. (Browned). V.d. Krogt I, 1530: 1A.1. -- And 2 o. general maps of Scandinavia. (5).
PETTINATO, G., ed. Materiali per il vocabolario neosumerico. Vols. 1-22. Rome, 1974-2003. 13 vols. Sm-4° & fol. Owrps. NOTE: La Collezione Schollmeyer. - Wirtschaftsurkunden des Musée d'art et d'histoire in Genf. - The John Frederick Lewis Collection. 2 vols. - La Collezione del Pontificio Istituto Biblico. Roma / La Collezione della Collegiata dei SS. Pietro e Orso. Aosta. - The Pinches Manuscript. - Testi economici di Lagas del Museo di Istanbul. 2 vols. - Textes économiques de Sellus-Dagan (…) / Testi economici dell'Iraq Mus.-Baghdad. - The E.A. Hoffman Collection. - Inscriptions et archives administratives cunéiformes. 1e partie. - Selected Ur III texts from the Harvard Semitic Mus. - Wirtschaftstexte der Ur III-Zeit aus dem Brit. Museum. - Die umma-Texte aus den archäol. Muzeen zu Istanbul. 2 vols. - Neo-Sumerian texts from American collections. - Testi economici neo-Sumerici del Brit. Mus. 3 vols. - Tablillas administrativas neosumerias de la Abadía de Montserrat (Barcelona). - Testi amministrativi della III dinastia di Ur dal Museo statale Ermitage San Pietroburgo, Russia. - Neusumerische Verwaltungstexte aus Umma aus der Sammlung der Ermitage zu St. Petersburg, Rusland.
BOOK OF KELLS, The. Luzern, Faks. Vlg., (1990). 345 cold. facs. lvs. Fol. Or. goatskin over wooden brds. In or. black leather clad box with silver plated ornaments and Celtic-style gilt embossing. -- With: A. v. EUW & P. FOX, (ed.). Book of Kells. Ms. 58 Trinity College Dublin. Kommentar. Pref. Umberto Eco. Luzern, Faks. Vlg., (1990). 407 pp. W. num. ill., partly cold. & loosely inserted acetate plate. Fol. Or. h. goatskin. In black cl. slipcase. -- (2). NOTE: The Book of Kells is thought to be the ingenious work of a number of unknown gifted artists living in the monastery of Iona around the year 800. It is first mentioned in an account of a theft in the church of Kells in 1007, which describes the book as "the great Gospel Book of Columcille, the holiest relic of the western world". Soon after that the manuscript was found buried at Kells. And it would remain there until, during the reign of Cromwell, it was brought to Dublin for reasons of safety. Around the year 1661 Henry Jones, bishop of Meath, donated it to the library of Trinity College in Dublin where it is kept to today. - Complete facsimile, presenting all the leaves of the original codex. Printed in 1480 (of 1560) numb. copies, this being nr. 555.
POMOLOGY -- GILBERT, Charles. "Album pomologique". N.d. (before 1880). Collection of 9 odd vols., comprising 2 vols. w. manuscript descriptions of apples (532 and 534 numb. pp), 2 vols. w. manuscript descriptions of pears (528 and 522 numb. pp), and 5 lge-4° vols. w. c. 980 original drawings in colour of pears made by the author, all cut out on outlines and laid down on light blue paper (77; 76; 76; 76; 76 lvs. respectively). (Binds. worn and/or slightly dam., but in fine interior condition). NOTE: Charles Gilbert (1820-1890) came from a well-known family. Destined for a merchant's career, he learned several languages. His older brother Joannes Carolus Petrus was an oilcloth manufacturer. An uncle was an alderman. After the death of his mother in 1843, Gilbert inherited the 'Bleyckhof' in Oelegem, a former bleachery and country residence, owned by the Antwerp Gilbert family for generations. The inheritance allowed him to distance himself from the business world and retire. In this way, the way was clear for Gilbert to fully surrender to his passion: horticulture and pomology. "Op de nationale tentoonstelling van 1880 ontving Gilbert een gouden medaille voor zijn 'Album Pomologique', originele kleurenafbeeldingen en beschrijvingen van ca. 500 peren- en 100 appelsoorten. Deze unieke gegevens werden spijtig genoeg nooit gepubliceerd." (see 'Gilbert' on https://www.bestor.be). - Present are only the plate volumes 1, 4, 5, 6 and 13 devoted to pears (numbering on spines), presenting together well over 980 drawings of pears and cross sections of pears (on a 1:1 scale?), numbered and with their names on printed tickets/or in manuscript, and the 4 text volumes written in a legible hand. From vol. 6 unfortunately some 13 drawings were removed. - On Gilbert's life, see Ed. Lucas in 'Pomologische Monatshefte', 188, p. 321.
PRINCIPAUTÉ D'ORANGE -- LIVRE CONTENANT les Edictz, Reiglemens & Ordonaces faittes par Son Excellence et sa Cour de Parlement en la Principauté d'Orange. Late 16th, early 17th c. ms. in French on paper by various (3 or 4?) hands. (138) lvs. Sm-fol. Cont. vellum. (Ties fail, a bit waterstained towards end, but in fine condition). NOTE: The Principality of Orange was, from 1163 to 1713, a feudal state in Provence (Fr) on the east bank of the river Rhone, north of the city of Avignon, and surrounded by the independent papal state of Comtat Venaissin. As an independent enclave within France, Orange became an attractive destination for Protestants and a Huguenot stronghold. William III of Orange, who ruled England as William III of England, was the last Prince of Orange to rule the principality. William the Silent, later stadtholder in various Dutch regions, became Prince of 'Oranghien' (Orange) in 1544 and founded the Orange-Nassau dynasty - but was only able to exercise real power over the principality since 1559. After his death, it fell to his sons Philip Willem, Maurits and Frederik Hendrik. - This manuscript contains legible copies of together 41 state and legal documents issued by the rulers of Orange (France) from March 1st 1571 up to January 1st 1619 concerning political matters, taxes, religion, etc. - Added: Transcript in pencil in separate binding, written by the consigner, with an index at the end.
EUSEBIUS CAESARIENSIS. Chronicon id est temporum breviarium incipit foeliciter. (Venice, E. Ratdolt, 1483). 179 lvs. 18th c. cf., spine w. raised bands, gold ruling & red label, sides ruled in gold, a.e.r. (Spine slightly cracked, joints skillfully repaired, annots. in an old hand in margins on n3 v°, n4 r°, r5 v°, parts paginated in manuscript on r°: e1-e8, k8-r8, s8-t1, water stain in upper margin around e1-e8, some smudges but generally clean & fresh). NOTE: This edition is notable for the crisp printing in red and black, with ruled lines for the columns. Translation by Hieronimus of Eusebius' lost Greek original, with additions by (a.o.) Matthias Palmerius Pisanus (up to the year 1481). Contains the third mention of Gutenbergs invention of print in print (see year 1457). Collation: §11, a2-8, b-v8, x9. Lacks the blanks: §12, a1 and x10. - ISTC ie0017000; Hain-C. 6717; Hoffmann II, 108; GW 9433; Goff E117.
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Abu al-Qasim al-'Abidin al-Khawansari Qajar Persia, dated 1277 AH/1860-61 ADArabic manuscript on paper, 221 leaves, 20 lines to the page written in naskhi in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, inner margins ruled in black and gold, verse-endings marked by gold and polychrome rosettes, sura headings written in riqa' script in red on a gold ground within cartouches, illuminated marginal devices, double-page illuminated frontispiece, preceded by a double page with prayers written within stylised gold-outlined cypress trees, f.3b and f.4a, succeeding opening illumination, with illuminated floral borders, floral lacquer binding 118 x 78 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 76-77, no. 15.The last leaf bears the seal impression of al-Raji ila Allah 'Ali Akbar, dated AH 1285/AD 1868-69.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an juz' (I) Ottoman Turkey, circa 1750-1850Arabic manuscript on cream polished paper, 18 leaves, 10 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, inner margins ruled in gold and black, verse-endings marked by gold roundels with orange and gold dots, double-page illuminated frontispiece, red stamped morocco with a central almond-shaped medallion, with flap 270 x 193 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, Fine Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 19th April 1983, lot 178.The Shakerine Collection.TextQur'an, sura I, al-Fatihah, verse 1-sura II, al-Baqarah, verse 141.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 144-147, no. 33.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Baki (Mahmud Abdulbaki, 1526-1600), Divan, with seven illustrations added later Ottoman Turkey, 17th CenturyOttoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 79 leaves, 10-11 lines to the page written in small nasta'liq script in black ink in one and two columns, inner margins ruled in black and gold, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, seven illustrations in gouache and gold added later, brown leather with stamped central medallions 177 x 110 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceWith The Connoisseur Antiquarian Books, Maps and Prints, Washington DC, circa 1950s-60s (letterheaded descriptive note enclosed).The Shakerine Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illustrated Hindu calendar-almanac (pancanga), in scroll form, in cylindrical painted wood case Western India, probably Gujarat, dated VS 1917/AD 1860-61Gujarati manuscript on blue watermarked paper (two 1860 watermarks), several sheets joined together to form the scroll, text written in nagari script in black ink, six illustrations in gouache depicting Hindu gods (including the Devi and Ganesh), mythical and other figures, various tables and circular diagrams, in cylindrical painted wood case; and together with a letter dated September 1975 from the British Library giving description and opinion 16.5 cm. x 3 m. 8 cm.; case 24.5 cm. long, 5 cm. diam.(3)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection: acquired in the 1860s or 1870s by either Major-General Henry Willoughby Trevelyan (1803-1876), great-great-grandfather of the current owners; or Sir Ernest John Trevelyan (1850-1924), great-grandfather of the current owners; and thence by descent.The scroll was examined and commented on by the British Library (Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books), according to a letter dated 18th September 1975, accompanying the lot.Sir Ernest John Trevelyan (1850-1924), great-grandfather of the current owners, was a lawyer and academic, who wrote several books and treatises on Hindu law under the British empire. He was a judge at the High Court in Calcutta, from 1885-1898, and then Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University from 1897-1898.Retiring early to England to be with his young family, he became Reader in Indian Law at Oxford University from 1900 to 1923, and Vice-Warden of All Souls (where there is a memorial plaque to him in the chapel).His father (great-great-grandfather of the current owners) was Major-General Henry Willoughby Trevelyan (1803-1876), an army officer who fought in the Anglo-Persian Wars, and later became Resident, or Political Agent in Bhuj, in Kutch, in present day Gujarat (and perhaps elsewhere).In the accompanying letter dated 18th September 1975, G. W. Shaw (Research Assistant, North Indian Languages) writes: 'At the very beginning there is mention of a king: Maharaja Ranachoda (?chora) ji during whose reign it was perhaps prepared. It then states in the usual manner that the sata (= satya), treta and dvapara yugas or ages of the world have passed and we find ourselves in the fourth and most degenerate, the kali-yuga, which began in 3102 BC. Of this age 4962 years have already elapsed i.e. the year is 1860 AD' [...] 'Details of the positions of the planets in the sky are given and the constellations through which they pass for each of the twelve Hindu months from Caitra to Phalguna. There is a name mentioned: Damodhara, son of Pandya Liladhara, but as this line has apparently been added as an afterthought (though probably by the same hand) it is not clear whether this is the person for whom the calendar was prepared, or the scribe, or whoever'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare manuscript report on the secret alliance between Tipu Sultan and the nawabs of the Carnatic, signed by the author N. B. Edmonstone (1765-1841) as Persian translator to the government of Bengal Fort William, Calcutta, dated 6th April 1800manuscript on watermarked paper, written in a neat secretarial hand, 42 bifolia tied through single hole with silk thread, paginated 1-81 (final leaf blank), folio, 325 x 215 mm.together with: a manuscript minute on the proposed changes to army regulations following the Vellore Mutiny, by John Cradock Howden, 1st Baron, 1759-1839, signed by Howden as commander-in-chief at Madras, dated Madras, 28th March 1807, written in a neat secretarial hand, 12 bifolia (21 pages) tied through single hole with silk thread, watermarked Turner & Sons, 1800, unpaginated folio, 325 x 210 mm.(2)Footnotes:Provenance [the first report] William P. Wreden Books & Manuscripts, Palo Alto, California (his invoice addressed to the below, dated 30th September 1964).Dr Frank Novak, from 1964.The Edmonstone document is a manuscript copy of the report to the government of Bengal on the cache of correspondence between Tipu Sultan and his ministers which was found at Seringapatam after the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798-9) and believed to reveal a secret alliance between Tipu Sultan and two successive nawabs of the Carnatic, Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah (1717-1795) and Umdat al-Umara (1748-1801), who were notionally allied with the British. The findings were used to compel Umdat al-Umara's successor Azim ud-Daula to sign the Carnatic Treaty, which ceded control to the British. The report was published as part of Governor-General Richard Wellesley's official account in Papers presented to the House of Commons from the East India Company, concerning the late Nabob of the Carnatic (London, 1802, volume 1, section A, enclosure c, pp. 4-18). Edmonstone was appointed chief secretary to the government of India in 1809.Among the most significant passages are these:Among the records of the late Tippoo Sultaun's Government discovered in the palace at Seringapatam, has been found a very voluminous correspondence between the Sultaun and his Vakeel Ghulam Ali Khan and Ali Rezza Khan, who accompanied the hostages delivered by Tippoo Sultaun at the termination of the war in 1792, to Madras. From this correspondence a numbers of papers have been selected, of which the tendency is, to fix a charge upon his late Highness the Nabob Maulah? Jah of a breach of the alliance subsisting between his Highness and the Honourable Company, to implicate the present Nabob.... ul Amrah, as a party therein, and to establish a similar charge against the latter after his accession to the M...d. From the contents of those papers the following facts may be collected. (pp. 1-2).That the objects of the proposed connexion were of a nature subversive of the Alliance between the Nabob and the Company, and directly hostile to the British Interests in India. (p. 52).pp. 79-81 It yet remains to be observed that, while Tippoo Sultaun (as we have now discovered) was endeavouring by Emissaries, by correspondence by every means in his power to conciliate the Alliance of every State in India, for purposes hostile to the British Nation in India, it is not probable, that he would respect any attempt to contract an Alliance with a Musulman Prince, who like the Nabob of the Carnatic, might have it in his power to be of the most essential service to his views in the event of hostilities between him and the Company, and it is not perhaps going too far to suppose that when (as appears by the printed translations of documents found at Seringapatam) Tippoo Sultaun proposed the landing of the French troops which he expected at Porto Novo...pp. 81-82 If to all the circumstances, inferences and arguments herein detailed, be added the perverse (not to say hostile) conduct of the Nabob ... ool Umra towards the British Government during the late war, the whole constitutes a body of powerful proof, that His Highness had connected himself for several years with Tippoo Sultaun, by ties of interest, and community of views, subversive of the fundamental principles of Alliance between him and the Company in the season of Peace, and absolutely hostile to the British Nation in that of war, and that, had the opportunity arrived, he would have openly supported the cause of Tippoo Sultaun, and the Musulman interests against that of the Company.The second reportCradock, Lord Howden, was appointed commander in chief of the Company's army in December 1803, during which time there was a mutiny at Vellore. The rules governing the army were undergoing changes and codification, and in this minute he argues that this will be detrimental to morale. However, he was recalled (as was the Governor-General, William Bentinck) as a result of the new rules, and the mutiny.Passages of note are as follows:'the dangerous consequences that would result from the extensive reduction now established of the influence of the Commander in Chief on military appointments'; these problems take place 'at the most fearful period, in which the world was ever placed' [i.e. war with France].'It will be acknowledged, I believe, by every Military Man, that Regimental Promotions in an army is the object of every officer's hopes and fears; that whatever acts upon that view, upon which his mind is ever fixed, will chiefly excite his emotions, his obedience, respect, and gratitude. Give this power, or withhold it, from the Officer Commanding in any army, and his exaltation or depression is the exact consequence.''It will be in vain to invite to 'Discipline', good order and efficiency, through the penalties of punishment alone, if unaccompanied on the other hand by the Allurements of Interest or Gratification'.'Is it left to a Civil person to determine who shall command at Dover Castle or Landguard Fort, or Speke Island, or the [...] of the Shannon, and that it is only when the enemy arrive at the gates that it is thought necessary to take the appointment with military consideration. The reverse of the existing arrangement is the case in England, Ireland and every military command [...] as no usage supports the present arrangement.''...it is such an overthrow of all the established discharge of function, so fixed by prescription, and so inalienable in imagination, that I see not the power, how a man of military feeling can remain, or accept the situation'.However, 'Government must be considered supreme in the disposition of the troops'.'If this be the case, if it is added to a thousandfold by an existing war with France, can reason approve that the distribution of the army should be taken out of the province of the Commander in Chief, and passed over altogether to the President of Fort St George, however accomplished his character may be as a statesman'.'The extreme convulsion in the military system, arrived at a period, both of general and domestic consideration, the least favourable for innovation, at a time, both of the world, and of India'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an juz' (V) Ottoman Turkey, mid-19th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, 34 leaves, 7 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, inner margins ruled in black and gold, verse-endings marked by gold roundels with orange and blue dots, f.1b with the juz' number written in gold and outlined in black, brown gilt leather with stamped floral central medallions, with flap 240 x 170 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.TextQur'an, sura IV, al-Nisa, verses 24-147.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 168-169, no. 39.F.1a bears a note in Arabic and Turkish stating that this juz' was copied in AH 1271/AD 1854-55.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Al-Jazuli, Dala'il al-Khayrat, with two stylised diagrams of the holy sites at Mecca and Medina, and numerous other attractively-decorated leaves, copied by al-Amir bin Muhammad Probably West Africa, the town of Bawdh, 19th Century (colophon dated simply 'Friday')Arabic manuscript on paper, 166 leaves, probably incomplete and misbound, nine lines to the page written in neat maghribi/sudani script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and with yellow dots, significant words written in red, catchwords, two brightly-coloured stylised diagrams of the holy sites at Mecca and Medina, several other full-page stylised illustrations, numerous other boldly-coloured marginal devices and headings, blue and yellow comma-shaped devices marking verse-endings, card covers, loose 140 x 95 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Arthur Probsthain, Great Russell Street, London.The scribe appears not to be fully conversant with Arabic. The town of Bawdh is unknown.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A large illuminated Mamluk Qur'an Egypt, 15th Century, with an apparently added colophon dated AH 876 AH/AD 1472Arabic manuscript on paper, 282 leaves, 12 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, verse-endings marked by groups of three red inverted commas, sura headings written in riqa' script in red, f.1a with a blue and gold shamsa, ff.1b and 2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.282a with the end of sura al-Nas and the colophon ruled in gold and interspersed by gold and polychrome rosettes, f.282b with a shamsa bearing an endowment note, leaves significantly trimmed throughout, modern red leather binding, with flap 355 x 310 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceWith G. Sarkovitch, Mount Street, London, 1984.The Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 200-205, no. 49.Accompanying the lot is a typewritten letter addressed to G. Sarkovitch, dated 25th May 1984, from H. J. Goodacre, Acting Head of the Arabic section in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books at the British Library, in which he gives his opinion of the manuscript following inspection. It is likely that this impressive manuscript of the Qur'an was copied during the reign of Sultan al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaytbay (reg. 1468-96). It was under Qaytbay's patronage that numerous Qur'ans were copied and endowed to foundations. For a recent example see a monumental Qur'an dated AH 894/AD 1489, sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 2nd May 2019, lot 11.The manuscript has an added colophon in a different and less accomplished hand, stating that it was copied by 'Abd al-Latif al-Sayfi Uzbak on Wednesday 13rd Shawwal 876/25th March 1472. In the roundel at the beginning of the text, which is cut from a different manuscript, is a dedication to Uzbak, who was appointed Commander-in-Chief twice, once in Muharram 873/July-August 1466, again in AH 902/AD 1496-97, and who died on 24 Ramadan 904/5th May 1499. (See L. A. Mayer, Islamic Metalworkers and their Works, Geneva 1959, pp. 244-6). The hand in this roundel is of high quality, which would not appear to match with that of the main text and the colophon.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by al-Hafiz Ahmad al-Hilmi Ottoman Turkey, Edirne, dated AH 1279/AD 1862-63Arabic manuscript on paper, 306 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in compact naskhi in black ink, inner margins ruled in black, blue and gold, verse-endings marked by gold roundels, sura headings written in riqa' script in white on a gold ground within illuminated panels, floral illuminated marginal devices, double-page illuminated frontispiece with undulating vine and vine leaves in gold in outer margins, illuminated finispiece, brown leather gilt, covers with sunburst motif, with flap 207 x 140 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 172-175, no. 41.The colophon reads: katabahu al-'abd al-dhalil sayyid ahmad al-hilmi min talamidh al-sayyid muhammad al-khulusi afandi, 'The abject servant [of God] Sayyid Ahmad al-Hilmi [Seyyid Ahmed Hilmi], from among the pupils Muhammad al-Khulusi Afandi [Seyyid Mehmed Hulusi Efendi] wrote it.' Though there are several calligraphers with the name Seyyid Ahmed Hilmi, though none of these are recorded as being the pupil of the famous teacher Seyyid Mehmed Hulusi Efendi (d. AH 1291/AD 1874).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, depicting Bahram Gur in combat with two lions in order to gain the throne Mughal, attributed to Mirza Ghulam, circa 1610gouache and gold on paper, 16 lines to the page above and below the painting written in nasta'liq in black ink in 4 columns on gold-sprinkled paper, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, verso with 25 lines to the page, laid down within later floral illuminated margins, the name 'Mirza Ghulam' discernible in the lower margin leaf 360 x 225 mm.Footnotes:This leaf derives from an early Mughal manuscript of the Shahnama illustrated by Mughal-trained artists, some of whom worked in a Persian style, such as Mirza Ghulam, Dawud, Dadar Kashmiri, Muhammad Pandat and Haidar Kashmiri. The artist of the painting here, Mirza Ghulam, was trained under Aqa Riza while both worked in the service of Prince Salim in Allahabad from 1599-1604 before transferring to the imperial atelier in Agra under the Emperor Jahangir from 1605-10. Extant paintings by Mirza Ghulam suggest that he was trained in the Persian tradition like his mentor (see A. Okada, Imperial Mughal Painters, Paris 1992, pp. 111-116, figs. 121-125).In this painting, the plain rocky hillside in the centre of the composition recalls Bukharan 16th Century painting (compare an illustration to Layla and Majnun in the Louvre, inv.no. MAO 713). However, the rounded faces of the figures look Safavid, and the architecture of the town at upper left is Mughal-inspired.Six illustrations from the manuscript from the Brunet Collection were sold at Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1971, lots 138-140 (lot 138 now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, acc.no. 2013.314) and 7 December 1971, lots 54-56. Most identify the name of the artist, sometimes accompanied by a number, in the margin.For another leaf from the same manuscript, illustrated by Mirza Ghulam, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 24th October 2024, lot 147.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: †† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Ibrahim al-Labib bin al-Hajj 'Umar al-Harbuti Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1277/AD 1860-61Arabic manuscript on paper, 299 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, verse-endings marked by white-centred gold roundels with blue and orange dots, sura headings written in riqa' script in white on a gold ground within illuminated panels, illuminated marginal devices, double-page illuminated frontispiece, f.298b with a finispiece folio with the colophon within a cartouche against a profusely illuminated ground, brown leather gilt with stamped lattice-work central panel, doublures of embossed dark blue paper, with flap 193 x 133 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 170-171, no. 40.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two illuminated calligrapher's diplomas (ijazeh) Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1269/AD 1852-53Arabic manuscript on paper laid down on card, each comprising an upper line in large black thuluth within stylised cloudbands, with two and three lines respectively beneath this written in neat naskhi, lower cartouches giving the details of the ijazeh, text bordered by floral illumination in colours and gold, inner and outer borders further decorated with further floral, foliate and vegetal motifs album pages 220 x 260 mm. and slightly smaller(2)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the Shahnama, depicting Gudarz and Tus planning the night attack Injuid Shiraz, mid-14th CenturyPersian manuscript on paper, 34 lines of text written in naskhi script in black ink in six columns, intercolumnar rules in larger naskhi script in red, illustration in gouache leaf 377 x 247 mm.Footnotes:The text relates to the Iranians' night attack on the Turanian army, and the painting probably depicts Gudarz and Tus preparing for the assault.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Abdullah bin Ali Naqi Ahmed Persia, dated Rabi' I 1239/November-December 1823Arabic manuscript on paper, 269 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, Persian interlinear translation in shikasteh in red, inner margins ruled in black and gold, verse-endings marked by gold and polychrome rosettes, sura headings written in riqa' script in red on a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, opening double-page illuminated frontispiece, later Qajar marginal texts (on the benefits of reciting each sura) in shikasteh within gold cartouches, main text followed by invocations and prayers in riqa', in floral lacquer binding 225 x 150 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, no. 8, pp. 54-55.The date in the colophon has been changed from 1239 to 1139.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Ibn Muhammad Hashim Mahmud al-Musawi Qajar Persia, dated AH 1277 AH/AD 1860-61Arabic manuscript on paper, 306 leaves, 19 lines to the page written in neat naskhi script in black ink, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, verse-endings marked by gold and polychrome rhomboids, sura headings in written in riqa' script in red on a gold ground within cartouches, marginal devices marking nisf, juz and sajdahs, f.1b and f.2a with a double-page spread of illumination consisting of a central lobed panel with naskhi against a blue and gold ground, f.2b and f.4a with a double page of illumination, f.3 with a prayer written in nasta'liq script within a tree-shaped cartouche, floral lacquer binding decorated with flowers 143 x 88 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 73-75, no. 14.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries, e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of works of particular origins. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) and Syrian origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid on or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Four illustrations from a Janamsakhi manuscript, a life of Guru Nanak Provincial Mughal, probably Murshidabad, late 18th Centurygouache on paper, green and red borders 175 x 117 mm.(4)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection: acquired at Hamilton's, Calcutta, in 1973, by a relative of the current owners.The Janamsakhis (literally, 'life stories') were first compiled in the 17th Century, in various different versions. They consist of collections of anecdotes or tales (sakhi), not always in any particular order, and also include quotations from the Adi Granth as well as other apocryphal sayings of the Guru.They naturally lent themselves to illustration (though images were also produced as paintings in themselves, divorced from any text). For example, an almost complete Janamsakhi manuscript produced in Kabul, Afghanistan, dated 1797, with 538 leaves and 71 stories, had 106 illustrations, of various sizes, and was described as the most richly-decorated example known. Fifteen of these stories dealt with Guru Nanak's life before he received divine inspiration; the remainder dealt with his missionary journeys, in which he travelled throughout India and elsewhere for twenty-four years, spreading his message. See Sam Fogg, Indian Paintings and Manuscripts, London 1999, p. 128, no. 83.It has not been possible to identify the exact stories portrayed in our four paintings, though it appears that Guru Nanak is depicted at both a relatively young age, with the full black beard and red hat with upturned brim in which he is seen in other paintings, as in the examples at auction given below; but also as a mendicant or fakir-like figure.See P. M. Taylor, S. Dhami (edd.), Sikh Art from the Kapany Collection, Palo Alto 2017, pp. 99-115, for a discussion of the Janamsakhi and the portrayal of Guru Nanak's life. For a variety of paintings portraying Guru Nanak and images from Janamsakhi manuscripts, see P. M. Taylor (ed.), Splendors of Punjab Heritage: Art from the Khanuja Family Collection, 2022, pp. 32-43, esp. p. 43. For a discussion of Janamsakhi texts in general, see C. Shackle, Catalogue of the Panjabi and Sindhi Manuscripts in the India Office Library, London 1977, pp. 19-23.See the sale in these rooms, Islamic and Indian Art, 2nd October 2012, lot 206, for a group of four similar Janamsakhi illustrations (also acquired from Hamilton's, in 1967). For other paintings from a Janamsakhi series in a similar style, see Christie's, Islamic and Indian Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 23rd April 2012, lot 319 and 320.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An illuminated Qur'an North India, Kashmir, late 18th/19th centuryArabic manuscript on paper, 395 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, interlinear Persian translation written in small nasta'liq script in red, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, verse-endings marked by gold roundels, double-page illuminated frontispiece, sura headings written in red within cloudbands on a gold ground, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, five further double pages with borders decorated with interlacing gold scrolls, light brown stamped binding 310 x 205 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Shakerine Collection.LiteratureN. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 102-105, no. 21.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
The Sikh polymath, inventor, soldier and statesman, Lehna Singh Majithia (d. 1854), riding past a walled city, possibly Lahore, besides a flowing river Lahore, probably from the workshop of Imam Bakhsh Lahori, circa 1830-40gouache and gold on paper, in a painted oval, cornerpieces with floral cartouches on a red ground with further floral and foliate motifs, floral inner borders 253 x 200 mm.Footnotes:Lehna Singh's father, Desa Singh, was a feudal chief who declared his fealty to Ranjit Singh in 1809. He served in the expedition to Kangra and helped drive out the Gurkhas from the hill states, for which service he was made governor of Kangra, and also governor of the city of Amritsar. In 1818 he distinguished himself in the Multan campaign. Lehna Singh was his eldest son and also served Ranjit Singh as a commander in several campaigns. After his father's death in 1832, Lehna Singh succeeded to the governorship of both Kangra and Amritsar, which gave him the prestigious position of looking after the administration of the Golden Temple, including laying marble slabs in the inner parkarma around the Harmandir, as well as gardens elsewhere in the city. He was a patron of artists, which probably developed during his governorship of Kangra. He had a keen interest in astronomy and mathematics (see a depiction of him using an astronomical instrument in a manuscript of 1833-39 in the British Library) and was a skilful mechanic and designer of ordnance, assisting General Court in making cannon after European models. He mastered several languages and is said to have translated Euclid into Punjabi. See S. Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London 1999, pp. 54, 90 and fig. 100 (the above-mentioned depiction).The painter Imam Bakhsh (active circa 1825–45) was employed by the Sikh nobility but also produced commissions for Claude Auguste Court and Jean Baptiste Ventura, French and Italian generals in Ranjit Singh's army - for example, producing paintings to illustrate Court's Mémoires in five volumes. In particular relation to our painting, in 1838 General Ventura commissioned the French artist Alfred de Dreux to paint a large oil painting based on a similar equestrian portrait of the Maharajah by Imam Bakhsh, to present to King Louis-Philippe of France (Musée du Louvre Inv. 4096). In 1841 Imam Bakhsh painted another comparable equestrian portrait (again in a painted oval with floral cornerpieces) of Maharajah Ranjit Singh for General Court (Musee Guimet BG 399756).For a general discussion of the artist's career and work, see J.-M. Lafont, B. Schmitz, 'The Painter Imam Bakhsh of Lahore', in B. Schmitz (ed.), After the Great Mughals: Painting in Delhi and the Regional Courts in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Bombay 2002, pp. 74-99.See the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, India in Art, 7th June 2022, lot 78, for a painting depicting Maharajah Ranjit Singh on horseback with attendants, Lahore, attributed to the workshop of Imam Bakhsh Lahori, circa 1830-40.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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