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Preisdatenbank abonnierenMagalotti, Lorenzo: Travels of Cosmo The Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Through England, During the Reign of King Charles the Second (1669). J. Mawman, 1821, 4to. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 39 sepia aquatint plates (one a folding panorama, short tear at fold without loss), Cont. half leather & later spine. Good copy.
TRAVEL, EXPLORATION, ETC: Quantity including: DOWNEY, E: Anchor-Watch yarns, in 2 vols. Tinsley, 1883, 1st. Edns. Original cloth, Little rubbed; Speke, JH: Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Blackwood, 1863, 1st. edn. Cont. half leather, rubbed and lacking the folding map at the end; Stanley: in darkest African. 2 vols. 1890. Original pictorial cloth; rubbed and lacking the frontis portrait in vol. 2; Baker: Rifle and the hound in Ceylon. 1892, new edn; Etc. PLUS: 4 Volumes of the Badminton Library: Hunting 1901, Fishing 1889, Cricket 1890 And Boating 1888. (qty,)
Michael FARADAY & Humphry Davy, etc: A large collection including: Faraday: Experimental researches in Electricity, 2 vols. R & JE Taylor, 1839-1844, 1st. edns. PP: V1- viii, 574, (ii)Adverts + 8 folding plates; V2- viii, 302 + 5 plates (2 folding). Original blindstamped cloth (not the same pattern); V1 spine almost detached & torn. (A third volume was published in 1855); TYNDALL, J: Faraday as a Discoverer. Presentation copy. Longmans, Green, & Co., 1868, 1st. edn. With a portrait frontis. Inscribed, Signed & dated, March 1868. Original blindstamped cloth; VG; Jones, Dr. Bence: The Life and Letters of Faraday, 2 vols. Longmans, Green and Co, 1870, 1st. edns. 3 plates & 6 illus. PP: 427, 24 (publishers adverts dated April, 1869); 499 (both half titles present). Rebound in plain cloth with gilt lettering to spines and new endpapers, VG; Paris, J A: The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, 2 vols. H Colburn & R Bentley, 1831, 1st. edns. With a frontis portrait and a folding plate. PP: xvi, 416; viii, 463. Later half leather; Davy, J: Memoirs of the Life of sir Humphry Davy, in 2 Vols. Longman, Rees.. 1836, 1st. edns. Later ¾ morocco and new endpapers. Ex-Libra, with the usual stamps; ETC. (qty.)
HERBAL BOOKS: 1- Newton, J: A complete Herbal. J. D. Dewick, 1805. PP: Portrait frontis, (iv)Title-page & Advert), ( (v)Alphabetical table, (i)blank, (vi)Index, (ii)blank, Plus Plates 2-176. No plate 1. Half leather, rubbed; three plates torn and professionally repaired, one with loss to corner; 2- Hill, J: Family Herbal. Bungay: C. Brightly, no date, c1810. With 54 hand coloured plates, 376pp. Cont. full calf and later spine & new endpapers; 3- Culpeper's complete herbal, and English physician wherein several hundred herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties ...To which is annexed, The British florist. Or Flower garden displayed. Burslem, J Tregortha, 1813. And 1812. With a portrait Plus 35 hand coloured plates. 4to. PP: 240 & 44, recent full morocco; two of the plates with writing in ink to verso; 4- Wills, G W: Manual of vegetable Materia Medica. 1881, 5th. Edn. Original cloth. Interleaved copy with manuscript writing, including to the verso of some of the plates. (4)
HERBAL, Two Sixteenth Century works in One volume: DORSTEN, THEODOR. Botanicon, continens herbarum, aliorumque simplicium, quorum usus in Medicinis est, descriptiones, & iconas ad vivum Effigiatas : ex praecipuis tam Grecis quàm Latinis Authoribus iam recens concinnatum. Additis etiam, quae Neotericorum observationes & experientiae vel comprobarunt denuo, uel nuper invenerunt. Aut. Theoderico Dor. stenio Medico. Francofurti, Christianus Egenolphus excudebat, 1540 [Frankfurt: C. Egenolff, [1540], preface \& colophon are dated 1540, first edition. Folio, PP: (10), 306 leaves. Title page with three woodcuts of plants, with over 300 woodcuts. A large engraved portrait of mini georgii marii, medicinae doctoris eximii, et ill elect ludovici palatini, with text in German, Latin & Greek, pasted to the verso of the title page. Two small wormholes to the inside margin the preliminaries up to page 18; otherwise Very Good+; BOUND WITH: DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius: Dioscorides, Pedanius: Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, De Medicinali Materia Libri Sex, Ioanne Ruellio Suessionensi interprete. Singulis cum stirpium, tum animantium . Accesserunt priori editioni, Valerii Cordi Simesusii annotationes doctissimae . Euricii Cordi Simesusii iudicium de Herbis & Simplicibus Medicinae . Remedia morborum, miro ordine complectitur...Frankfurt, Chr. Egenolphum, Mense Aprili, 1549. With numerous woodcuts. Folio, PP: (xxxii), 554. Contemporary full blindstamped vellum; rubbed and discoloured; lacking the hinges; small repair to title page; one small wormhole from page 128 to 390, and a few more scattered ones after that.
PARUTA, Paolo: HISTORIA VINETIANA DI PAOLO PARUTA CAVALIERE, ET PROCURATORE DI S. MARCO, in Two parts. Vinetia, Domenico Nicolini, 1605, 1st. edn. with a portrait to each of the two title pages. PP: 840, (xxxvi), 320, (xvi). Cont. full calf, rubbed and upper cover detached; The Armorial bookplate of 'Thomas Foley' to verso of the title page
Studio of Francois Clouet (French, c. 1510-1572) Portrait of a Man Black chalk with red chalk On laid paper with a lion holding a globus cruciger and shield coat of arms watermark. (This watermark is listed in the Briquet catalogue of watermarks as #878 dating between the years 1536-1562.) Indecipherable collector's mark, lower right; inscription in French verso attributing the work to the German school of the 16th century and Albrecht Durer. Sheet Size: 12.5 x 9 in. Overall Framed Size: 26 x 22 in. Framed behind glass.
A large Nicoya portrait head from Costa Rica, ca. 500 - 1000 AD. This Galo Polychrome type vessel is 6-1/2 in. high, 6-1/2 in. in diameter and depicts an individual with eye mask. He is adorned with ear spools and a headdress featuring crocodilians. Vivid paint, heavy mineral deposits. Cf. Stone "Pre-Columbian Man in Costa Rica", page 61. CR284
A-Rembrandt van Rijn; after (Dutch 1606-1669) Flight into Egypt, 1633Etching on laid paperSize 3.5 x 2 3/8 in.B-Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (German 1712-1774)Portrait EtchingC-Reinier Vinkeles (Dutch 1741-1816)The Daughter of Pharaoh Finding MosesD-Androcles and the LionBy a Renaissance master16th/17th century etching with pen and ink accentsOn laid paper with watermarkSize 10 x 7.5 in.E-Anthonie Waterloo (Dutch 1609-1690)The Departure of the Two FishermenEtching on laid paper with collector's stamp: Lugt 2933bSheet size 4 x 5 in.F- Johann Sadeler I (Flemish 1550 - 1600-8)Marten de Vos (Flemish 1532-1603)David and NathanEngraving on laid paper with watermarkSigned and inscribed in the plateSheet size 8 x 10 in.G- David Teniers; after (Flemish 1610-1690)"Le Goust"Etching on laid paperPrinted by Jacques Philippe Le Bas (French 1707-1783)Size 7.5 x 4.5 in.H- Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (Dutch 1589 -1662)Harvest LandscapeEtching on laid paperSigned lower rightSheet size 5 x 6.5 in.I-Jan de Leeuw (Dutch 1660-?)St. John's VisionEngraving on laid paper with watermarkSheet size-5.75 x 8 in.J-Gerard Bouttats (Flemish 1630-1668)Devotional WorkEtching on laid paperSheet size -7.75 x 5.5 in.
Brosche/Nadel: antike Brosche mit seltener Korallenkamee und Saatperlen, 19.Jahrhundert: Ca. 42 x 36mm, ca. 16,3g, 18K Gold, rückseitig Broschierung, hochwertige Handarbeit, schauseitig mit Kordelrand, sehr feine und große antike Korallenkamee, Portrait einer Dame, guter Zustand, Sammlerstück.
First Editions. Lewis, C.S. Beyond the Bright Blur; and Nye, Robert. Doubtfire and Lawrence, D.H. Apocalypse; and (same author) Nettles; and Sitwell, Osbert. Three -Quarter Length Portrait of Michael Arles, signed limited edition 290/520; and John Lennon. A Spaniard in the Works; and Williams, Tennessee. Sweet Bird of Youth; with 29 others.
Late 17th/Early 18th Century English School after Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) - Oil painting - Portrait of King Charles II wearing Garter robes, relined canvas 29.25ins x 24.5ins, in gilt moulded frame Note: A similar portrait is in the Science History Institute, PhiladelphiaCondition ReportThis work is relined. There is scattered retouching to the paint surface - some to the background, an area under his chin, hair to his forehead. There are a few very small areas of retouching to the face but the face generally appears to be in good condition as do his clothing. There is a very small area of scratching to the left of the lower part of his cravat.
18th Century English School in the Manner of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680) - Oil painting - Half length portrait of a young woman, oval canvas 30ins x 26ins, in gilt slip and gilt moulded frameCondition ReportThe English school portrait in the manner of Sir Peter Lely - some areas of paint loss to the background at right of face, and also sitter's right cheek. Also small area of loss to hairline to left and to clothing at left. Area of repainting at right abutting inner slip at approx. 4 o'clock (in line with lower part of shoulder), a few small scattered areas of retouching to paint. Some all over craquelure and some lifting to paint, particularly around damaged areas.
Late 19th/Early 20th Century British School - Oil painting - Portrait of young girl standing at a table, her cat looking on, indistinctly signed, canvas, 23.75ins x 17ins, in gilt moulded frameCondition ReportScattered areas of restoration, particularly to the back of her head/shoulders, the centre of her pinafore/dress and the lower hem. Some small areas of retouching to the lower right corner. Areas of craquelure, particularly above her head, but paint appears to be stable.
A Late Victorian Silver and Enamel Circular Sovereign Case and a Silvery Metal and Mesh Fob, the case probably by William Henry Sparrow, Birmingham 1895, the lid decorated with a full length portrait of Dr.W.G.Grace in cricket attire at the crease, 1.375ins diameter, gross weight 1oz, the fob 470mm, weight 1.9ozsCondition ReportCase - enamel - some scattered scratching, particularly to the edge at circa 7 to 9 o'clock. Catch works well and cover is tightly seated. Some typical very light scattered scratching to the back of the case. The silvery metal and mesh fob appears to be in good condition.
Sarah Biffin (1784-1850) - Miniature - Portrait of "Aunt Ames, Music Teacher", inscribed "Painted by Miss Biffin without hands. 1844", 9ins x 7ins, in early rosewood frame, with gilt slip and glazed Provenance: By family descent to the current vendor. The sitter, Aunt Ames, was probably a sister of Lady Codrington. Note: Sarah Biffin was born without arms, hands or feet, but despite this severe disability, taught herself to paint by holding a brush between her teeth. As a young girl she toured the country with a travelling showman who exhibited her as a freak and genius. At the age of around 30 years she was released from her contract to him, and, sponsored by the Earl of Morton, was able to become an independent painter of miniature portraits.
*** Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) - Gelatin silver print - HM Queen Elizabeth - Full length portrait of the Queen in a studio setting, the mount signed 'Elizabeth R 1949' in ink, and with pencil inscription "Beaton", 9.5ins x 6.75ins, framed and glazedCondition ReportThis work has not been inspected out of its frame. It appears to be in good condition with no obvious damage/loss/restoration. The royal signature and date is slightly brown but clear. There is a pencil inscription - "Beaton" to the right of the R.
Border Fine Arts Fox, Badger and Otter Models Including: 'Sitting Safe' (Fox), model No. A2027 by Ray Ayres, another the same, 'First Time Out' (Three Fox Cubs), model No. BFA206, 'Family Portrait' (Vixen and Cubs), model No. B0038 etc. (Qty on one shelf)Condition report: Various models without bases and some with small areas of mould in need of a clean. Family Forage is obviously damaged. Mostly the other models appear ok structurally but not every piece has been examined closely.
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