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Preisdatenbank abonnierenA 19th Century Victorian English oil on canvas portrait painting study depicting a gentleman wearing a black coat, seated and holding a paper in his left hand. Unsigned. Set within a decorative gilt frame with shell and foliate detailing. Wear commensurate with age mostly to the frame. Measures approx; 119cm x 98cm.
Two 19th Century watercolour on ivory portrait painting miniatures both depicting children. Comprises an example of a young girl in blue dress with brown hair and another of a boy in black jacket and white shirt held within an ebonised square frame with brass oakleaf mounts. Measures approx; 13cm x 11cm (boy).
An 18th Century large size portrait miniature on ivory study painting depicting General Sir Charles Stewart (1753-1801). Depicts Stewart in full military dress jacket and white curled wig. The portrait set within a boulle work brass and tortoiseshell frame. Label to verso. Measures approx; 19cm x 17cm.
An unusual early 20th Century watercolour and oil portrait painting study on paper depicting a gentleman in Chinese robes and hat with silver Pheasant civil rank badge to the centre. The male figure appearing to be a Western gentleman holding an opium pipe with blue detailing to the robe. Some obvious ware to the painting and held within a later frame. Measures approx; 40cm x 28cm.
Bindings.- [Addison (Joseph), Sir R. Steele and others.] The Spectator, 8 vol., engraved vignette titles, tipped-in A.L.s from J. Walker gifting the books to his niece dated 1791, scattered faint spotting, contemporary morocco, gilt, g.e., initials 'MW' in gilt to upper covers, lightly sunned spines, slight rubbing to spine extremities, 1789 § Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece and 4 folding maps, one with short tear, morocco and gilt presentation label to vol. 1 front pastedown, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt, 1823; and others, 8vo (31)
La Fontaine (Jean de) Fables, 2 vol., number 46 of 50 sets on Whatman, in an edition of 100 sets, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece and 74 plates in 2 states by A. Delierre, engraved plate of dedication head-piece on chine, some offsetting, occasional spotting, contemporary half red crushed morocco, gilt, spines in compartments richly so, little marked and rubbed, t.e.g., [Vicaire IV, 909-910], a wide-margined set, 4to, Paris, A. Quantin, 1883.⁂ A handsome edition.
Fry (Elizabeth, penal reformer and philanthropist, 1780-1845).- Portrait of Elizabeth Fry, pencil drawing with red outline, slightly marked, laid down on card, drawing 150 x 99mm., n.d. [c. 1840] § Husband and wife in a drawing room in the West Indies, inscribed in ink on verso, edges slightly creased, 220 x 352mm., [19th century]; and 6 others, including 5 other drawings (including 4 more portraits), v.s., vd., all 19th century (8).
NO RESERVE Birds.- Ogilvie-Grant (W. R.) A Hand-Book to the Game-Birds, 2 vol., colour frontispieces, plates, ex-library with usual labels and stamps, near contemporary morocco-backed boards, rubbed, 1896-97 § Audubon (John James) The Original Water-Colour Paintings ... for The Birds of America, 2 vol., portrait frontispiece, colour plates, one or two folding, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, New York, 1966; and others trees and gardens, 8vo & folio (7)
Yorkshire.- Wildridge (T. Tindall) Old and New Hull: A series of Drawings of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, first edition, portrait frontispiece, list of subscribers, plates and illustrations, scattered spotting, contemporary half-morocco, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, Hull, 1884 § Rowlandson (Thomas) Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, second edition, 21 hand-coloured plate by J. Green and etched by Thomas Rowlandson, scattered spotting, later morocco by Bayntun, gilt, g.e., 1813; and others Yorkshire, v.s. (7)
NO RESERVE Heraldry.- Upton (Nicholas) Nicolai Vptoni De studio militari, libri quatuor. Iohan. de Bado Aureo, Tractatus de armis. Henrici Spelmanni Aspilogia..., 4 parts in 1 vol., engraved portrait of Spelman by G. Faithorne, 2 double-page plates, coats of arms and other illustrations, lacking blank T4, title to 2nd part repaired without loss, short split to fold of 1 plate, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, rebacked, covers detached, worn, [Wing U124], Roger Norton, 1654.; and 9 others, most defective Heraldry, including 2 by Sir George Mackenzie, v.s. (10) sold not subject to return.
NO RESERVE Occult.- Herbal.- Culpeper (Nicholas) Culpeper's English Physician; and complete Herbal. To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, 3 parts in 2, including appendix, engraved portrait frontispiece, 46 hand-coloured engraved botanical plates, 14 anatomical plates, most printed in bistre, lacking K1&2 in appendix, dedication f. repaired with loss of text, plate 20 repaired with a little loss, Lewis and Hamblin, 1807 bound with (as often) Sibly (Ebenezer) A Key to physic and the occult sciences, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, final f. with margins repaired and creased, some water-staining, For the Author, [c.1800], offsetting, occasional spotting or light staining, contemporary half calf, spines gilt and with red leather labels, spines ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, 4to sold not subject to return.
World.- Peary (Robert Edwin) Nearest the Pole, first English edition, frontispiece, plates, large folding colour map at end, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, expert repairs to spine ends and joints, a little rubbed, 1907 § Thomson (Sir C. Wyville Thomson) The Voyage of the 'Challenger.' The Atlantic ..., 2 vol., first edition, portrait and folding map frontispieces, 41 plates only (of 42), illustrations, scattered spotting, original decorative cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrips, rubbed, 1877; and 7 others, travel, 8vo & 4to (10)
NO RESERVE Hamilton (Anthony, Count) Mémoires de Comte de Grammont, half-title, previous owner's ink signature partially erased, engraved portrait frontispiece and 78 plates, faint off-setting, scattered faint spotting, contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt, g.e., a little rubbed, 4to, Chez Edwards, [1793].
Moreri (Louis) Le Grand Dictionaire Historique, ou Le Mêlange Curieux de L'Histoire Sacrée et Profane, 8 vol., half-title and additional engraved title to vol. 1 only, lacking engraved portrait, titles in red and black, scattered faint spotting, occasional marginal finger-soiling, ex-library with bookplates, one or two short marginal tears, folio, Amsterdam, Leyden, La Haye, Utrecht, 1740.
Irving (Sir Henry, actor, 1838-1905).- ?Cooke (H.W., illustrator) Caricature portrait of Irving, pen and ink illustration, on verso "Please return to Percy Burton" (Irving's sometime manager), mounted, 265 x 180mm., [18]99; and a quantity of others, including a photographic portrait of Irving and numerous sheets of instructions for lighting and to carpenters for the set of the play Erminie at the Comedy and Gaiety Theatres, 1885 & 1886, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).
Sale (George, translator) The Koran; commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, 2 vol., 4 engraved plates, 3 folding, 1 with tear to foldline, folding map, short tear, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked, a little rubbed, 1819 § Ashton (T. J.) A Treatise on Corns, Bunions, and Ingrowing of the Toe-Nail, 5 plates, scattered faint spotting, previous owners ink signature to half-title, original cloth, rubbed and worn, 1852 § Hunter (John) The Works, engraved portrait frontispiece, 61 engraved plates, 6 folding, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink inscription, bookplate, contemporary calf, gilt, upper cover detached, rubbed and worn, 1837; and others, 8vo & 4to (9)
Gout.- Ambrosio (Gabriele d') Nuove idee sulla Gotta; e nuovo metodo per radicalmente guarirla, third edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, index f. at end, paper mounted on verso of portrait to cover pen scribbles, a few marginal repairs, that on title just touching first letter, that at foot of p.12 obscuring part of footnote, some spotting and staining, contemporary vellum, little stained, 8vo, Naples, Gaetano Nobile, 1834.
NO RESERVE Mammals.- Cassell's Popular Natural History, 4 vol. in 3, 4 frontispieces of which 3 hand-coloured, 4 additional hand-coloured titles, 43 plates, of which 27 hand-coloured, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, contemporary half-morocco, slight bumping to corners and extremities, c.1890 § Jardine (Sir William) The Naturalist's Library, Dogs, 2 vol., portrait frontispieces, additional engraved titles, 70 engraved plates of which 64 hand-coloured, tissue-guards, ex-library with bookplate, original cloth, rubbed and worn, Edinburgh, 1839-40; and another similar, 8vo & small 8vo (7)
NO RESERVE Cruikshank (George).- Mayhew (Brothers) The Greatest Plague of Life, etched frontispiece, vignette title, 11 etchings, modern calf by Bayntun, gilt, David Bogue, [1847] § Cruikshank (George) Omnibus, portrait frontispiece and 21 plates, illustrations, previous owner's ink signature to title, scattered spotting, original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1842; and another illustrated by Cruikshank, 8vo & 12mo (3).
Shakespeare (William) [The Works], 2 vol., portrait frontispiece, foxed, ink inscription to front endpaper, title browned, pp.735-738 loose from gutter, attractive morocco-backed boards in arts and crafts style, a little sunned, 1863 § Hare (Augustus) The Story of My Life, 6 vol., first edition, plates and illustrations, half-titles, occasional foxing and spotting, mainly to endpapers but including to titles, original cloth, gilt arms to upper cover, lightly scuffed, 1896 § Hamilton (William) Poems on Several Occasions, engraved portrait frontispiece, ink inscriptions to title and endpapers, some finger soiling and light marginal browning, contemporary calf, lacking upper cover, lower detached, spine worn, 1760; and 4 others literature, v.s. (13)
NO RESERVE Liverpool printed Welsh Bunyan.- Bunyan (John) Taith y pererin : neu Ymdaith y gwir Gristion, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding hand-coloured plan and 7 plates (captioned in English and Welsh), offsetting, staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine with red morocco label, small chip and short split to head of spine, scratched and rubbed, Liverpool, Henry Fisher, 1820 § Working Class.- Le Play (Frédéric) L'Organisation du travail selon la coutume des ateliers et la loi du Décalogue, first edition, signed presentation copy from the author to Count Louis de Kergolay, later morocco-backed marbled boards, spine in compartments and titled in gilt, rubbed, Tours, Alfred Mame, 1870; and 2 others, 19th century English and French, 8vo (4)
NO RESERVE Sussex, Brede.- Recovery by Edmund Estcourt of one messuage and land in Brede, engraved portrait of George III with engraved initial "G", manuscript on vellum, ruled in red, remains of Great Seal in metal skippet, folds, soiled, 675 x 800mm., 1799; and c. 15 others, v.s., v.d. (c. 15).
Bindings.- Teignmouth (Lord) Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones, first edition, half-title, portrait frontispiece, one facsimile, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and extremities, 1804 § Hutchinson (Julius) Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 plates, 1 plan, 1 facsimile, folding pedigree at end, scattered faint spotting, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1808 § Harris (James) Hermes or a Philosophical Inquiry concerning Universal Grammar, engraved frontispiece, previous owner's ink signatures to front free endpaper and title, scattered spotting ,contemporary calf, expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip, neat repairs to corners, 1771 § Lamb (Charles) The Life Letters and Writings, 6 vol., Temple edition, frontispieces, vignette titles, plates, bookplates, contemporary calf, gilt, a little rubbed, lacking one or two spine labels, 1895; and others similar, 4to & 8vo (43)
NO RESERVE Commedia dell'Arte.- Cornelis Vermeulen (c. 1644-1708) Portrait of the actor Angelo Costantini in the role of Mezetin in the Commedia dell'Arte, after François de Troy, engraving and etching, on laid paper, a good impression of the lettered state, with six lines of French text by De La Fontaine, and etched date of 1694 partially removed, platemark 560 x 395 mm. (22 x 15 1/2 in), sheet 690 x 505 mm. (27 1/4 x 19 7/8 in), full margins, light even browning to the sheet, minor spotting and surface dirt, some small nicks and tears in margins, handling creases, bears [?]collector's initials 'P.B.' lower right [not in Lugt], [circa 1694].Literature:Hollstein 103 ⁂ Scarce. The original painting by François de Troy is held in the Museé Condé, Chantilly.
Pamphlets.- Lettsom (John Coakley) An Appeal addressed to the Calm Reflection of the Authors of the Critical Review, on 1. Abusive Language. 2. Ambiguity and Embarrassment. 3. Espionnage and Detraction. 4. The Jennerian Discovery ..., small hole to title, 1803, bound with, Pettigrew (T. J.) An Eulogy on John Coakley Lettsom, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 1816, and, Lettsom (William Nanson) Poema Numismate Annuo Dignatum, [1816], and, Catalogue of the Shakespearian & Miscellaneous Library of the Late Wm. Nansom Lettsom ... which will be sold at auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, prices inserted by hand, 1865, together 8 pamphlets bound as 1 vol., scattered spotting and staining, previous owner's ALs loosely inserted, pamphlets listed on front free endpaper, previous owner's ink inscription, later half-calf, upper cover detached, small loss to spine extremities, rubbed § Lettsom (John Coakley) Some Account of the Late John Fothergill, M.D., half-title, without plates, scattered spotting and staining, contemporary drab boards, rebacked with cloth, rubbed, 1783; 8vo (2).
Lawrence (T.E.) To His Biographer Robert Graves ... Liddell Hart, 2 vol., number 13 of 1000 copies signed by Graves and Hart, A.L.s signed by Graves and dated 1939 tipped-in, light spotting to ALs, frontispieces, scattered faint spotting, ex-library with bookplates and occasional blind-stamps, newspaper reviews pasted at end vol. 1, original cloth, dust-jackets, light spotting, English price inserted by hand to vol. 1, shelf mark and small blue labels to spine feet, slight chipping to corners and extremities, New York, 1938; Secret Despatches from Arabia, one of 1000 copies, portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, most to edges, original morocco-backed boards, fractionally rubbed, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1939; and another similar, 8vo & 4to (4).⁂ The ALs was written to the Editor of 'John O' London's Weekly' about their reviews of contemporary poetry, and mainly concentrates on defending the American poet Laura Ridley. Although Ridley and Graves never married, they lived, worked and travelled together for more than 10 years.
NO RESERVE Fracastorio (Girolamo) Poemata omnia, engraved portrait frontispiece and title vignette, woodcut tail-pieces, decorative initials and a printer's device to penultimate f., final advertisement f., some mostly marginal water-staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners repaired, covers rubbed, [Blake 154; Wellcome III, 51], 8vo, Padua, Joseph Comino, 1718.⁂ Italian physician and poet, who formulated a forerunner of the modern germ theory, stating that diseases could be caused by infection with transferable particles or 'spores'. He included Syphilis amongst these, and his poem 'Syphilidis sive morbo Gallico libri tres' is found in the present work. 'Les éditions dites Cominiennes sont très correctes, sur papier excellent et avec des caractères qui ... sont assez beaux' (Fumagalli 275).
Dietmar Lemcke (bn. 1930), by and after, 'Sea Wall in Brittany', signed and dated 1958 in pencil to margin, etching, 35cm x 40cm; Otto Eglau (1917-1988), by and after, 'Afrika', signed and titled in pencil to margin, etching, 20cm x 31cm; Ian McWhirter, by and after, 'Burn's Monument, Attoway', signed in pencil to margin, etching; Alexander H. Kirk, by and after, 'Santa Maria', signed and titled in pencil to margin, etching; E. H. Groom, by and after, 'Big Ben', signed and titled in pencil to margin, etching; After Rubens, reproduction print, 'Albertina Facsimile' blindstamp to margin; Jacobus Houbraken (1698-1780), by, after Holbein, 'A Portrait of Catherine Howard', etching, 40.5cm x 25cm; along with a small portfolio of prints, qty.
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