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Edwin Robert Beattie (British 1845-1917): 'The Virgins Inn Buck View', watercolour signed titled and dated 1895, 15cm x 22cm; English School (19th century): Horses Drinking, oil on board indistinctly signed 21cm x 22cm; Portrait of a Young Boy, oil on panel unsigned 12.5cm x 11cm in ornate gilt frame (3)Click here to view further images, condition reports, sale times & delivery costs for this lot.
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George Frederic Watts, OM, RA (British, 1817-1904)Hero oil on panel21 x 27cm (8 1/4 x 10 5/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceFine Art Society, London, June 1974, no. 5661.ExhibitedCompton, Watts Gallery, The Vision of G. F. Watts, OM, RA (1817-1904), 2 July - 31 October 2004, no. 24.LiteratureVeronica Franklin Gould (ed), The Vision of G.F.Watts OM RA (1817-1904), exhibition catalogue, Salisbury, 2004, p. 55, illustrated.Writing the catalogue to accompany the Watts exhibition of 2004, the compilers note that the present lot was most likely painted around 1883-4, using drawings made in the late 1860s. The model for Hero is Madeline Wyndham, who Watts also depicted in a full length portrait (Grosvenor Gallery, 1877. no. 22).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Jan van Beers (Belgian, 1852-1927)Portrait of a man seated by a window signed, inscribed and dated 'JAN VAN BEERS/SOUVENIR AFFECTUEUX A MA PETITE AMIE ANDREE WORTH/SURESNES 13 ET 14 JUILLET 1884' (lower centre)oil on panel30.5 x 35.5cm (12 x 14in).Footnotes:ProvenanceStefanie Maison, London.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (British, 1829-1904)Portrait of Conrad Herbert Flower and Violet Flower signed, dated and inscribed 'Conrad Herbert Flower Born 29 April. 1882/Violet Flower Born 12th July. 1880/P. Sandys. Dec.r 1885.' (upper right)pastel and pencil on paperFootnotes:ProvenanceLord and Lady Battersea, Cyril and Constance Flower, Overstrand, Norfolk.Sale of contents of The Pleasaunce, Overstrand, A.D. Mackintosh & Co., 4 February 1935, lot 2264.Anon. sale, Worthing, Sussex, n.d.Elizabeth White, Brighton.Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan, Brighton.Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1983, lot 77.Anon. sale, Phillips Son & Neale, London, 13 April 1987, lot 78.J. S. Maas & Co., Ltd., London.Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1989, lot 77.Anon. sale, Doyle, New York, 30 September 2015, lot 28.ExhibitedLondon, Sotheby's, Childhood (in aid of the Save the Children Fund), 2-27 January 1988, no. 245.LiteratureBetty Elzea, Frederick Sandys, 1829-1904: A Catalogue Raisonné , Woodbridge, 2001, p. 272, cat. no 4.47, illustrated p. 75, pl. 61.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844-1925)Portrait de Madame Jean Lhermitte, née Lucie Megret signed and dated 'L. Lhermitte/1909.' (lower right)pastel on paper laid down on canvas36.5 x 31.5cm (14 3/8 x 12 3/8in).Footnotes:Provenance:From the artist's family, thence by descent.Private collection, Paris.Anon, sale, Bonhams, London, 28 April 2009, lot 199.Literature:Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte. Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, p. 186, no. 134 (illustrated).The sitter of the present lot is the first wife of the artist's son.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Philip Alexius de László, PRBA, RP, NPS (British, 1869-1937)Baroness Conrad von Meyendorff, née Nadine Vladimirnova Louguinine half-length to the left, head turned in three-quarter profile to the right, wearing a black coat with fur collar and black feathered hat, hands raised to a large red corsage at her shoulder, a large ring on the smallest finger of her right handsigned, inscribed and dated 'P.A. de László / Paris 1914. January' (lower left) oil on canvas92 x 75.5cm (36 1/4 x 29 3/4in).Footnotes:ProvenanceAnon. sale, Castellana, Madrid, 26 February 2001, lot 142.Anon. sale, Castellana, Madrid, 31 May 2001, lot 148.Private Collection.ExhibitedLondon, Christie's, A Brush with Grandeur, loan exhibition, 6-22 January 2004, cat. no. 63.LiteratureSitters' Book I, f. 95: Nadine de Meyendorff / January 1914Owen Rutter, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, p. 282.Duff Hart-Davis, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, De László: His Life and Art, Yale, 2010, p. 136.De László regularly travelled to Paris to fulfill commissions and stayed with his friend and patron the Duc de Guiche at 42 avenue Henri Martin, near the Bois de Boulogne. He had use of a studio in the house and during his visit in early 1914 painted the present portrait and one of the sitter's husband Baron Conrad de Meyendorff (inventory number 111504), now untraced. The artist's autobiography notes that he was 'feted everywhere' and his sitters included important figures in Parisian society: Vice-President Jean Dupuy (4479), M. and Mme de Bruyn (110548 & 4822), the Comtesse de Pourtalès (4848) and the Vicomtesse de Fontenay (4468).De László painted a full length portrait of Baroness Meyendorff in 1908 (110711). Her husband was also painted in 1916 in London wearing Russian naval uniform (4842).Nadezhda 'Nadine' Vladimirovna Louguinine was born 18 February 1881, the daughter of Vladimir Feodorovitch Louguinine (1834-1911) and his wife Maria Petrovna Minier. Her father was a scientist in the field of thermodynamics and worked in Paris and St Petersburg. On 1 February 1903 she married Baron Conrad von Meyendorff (1880-1945), an officer in the Russian Navy. There were two sons of the marriage: George (born 1904) and Vladimir (born 1906), both of whom died in a tragic accident in 1924. The family lived at 10 Chesham Street, London from 1911, while Baron Meyendorff served as a diplomatic attaché in the Russian Embassy. Baroness Meyendorff and her husband were intrepid explorers. They spent their honeymoon on the Inca trails in Peru and Bolivia, where Nadine took some two hundred photographs and wrote a diary. These were published as L'Amazonie d'une baronne Russe, Des Andes à l'Atlantique en 1903. She and her husband collaborated on L'Empire du Soleil: Pérou et Bolivie, published in 1909.Nadine was also a courageous and expert mountain climber. The family had a home at Chiètre, Switzerland, and by the time she was eighteen she had completed climbs of the Alpes Vaudoises and the Dents du Midi. In 1925 she became the first woman to reach the peak of Cerro Tolosa (5730m) in the Aconcagua Mountains in Argentina. Nadine died in 1930, aged only forty-nine. Her husband survived her fifteen years and died in Madrid in 1945.We are grateful to Katherine Field for writing the catalogue entry for this lot, which will be included in the Philip de László catalogue raisonné, currently presented in progress online: www.delaszlocatalogueraisonne.comThe Hon. Mrs de Laszlo and a team of editors are compiling the catalogue raisonné of the artist's entire oeuvre. Katherine Field is Senior Editor. Please see www.delaszloarchivetrust.com or contact catalogue@delaszlo.com for more information or to offer any contribution.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, FIRST EDITION, 8 maps and plans (3 folding), 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, one folding map with edges slightly frayed and browned, publisher's pictorial cloth [Cohen A4.1.a; Woods A4], Longmans, Green and Co., 1900; My African Journey, FIRST EDITION, 3 maps and numerous plates (one soiled at edges), light spotting, publisher's pictorial red cloth, spine a little faded and stained, recased [Cohen A27.1; Woods A12], Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS, second state with p.71 corrected, one appendix and index at end, paper toned as usual, publisher's yellow wrappers with portrait on front wrapper (fore-edge chipped not affecting lettering), spine creased with some loss at foot, rear wrapper detached with loss to part of one advertisement [Cohen A31.2.b; Woods A16], Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]--NOBLE (WALTER) With a Bristol Fighter Squadron... with an Introduction by... Winston Churchill, FIRST EDITION, portrait and 2 plates, The John Crerar Library (Chicago) copy with bookplate, ink stamp on verso of plates, and perforated stamp on title, publisher's cloth, spine ends bumped, [Cohen B23.1; Woods B7], Andrew Melrose, 1920, 8vo (4)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
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN WRAPPERS, FIRST STATE, with page 71 misnumbered '1', one appendix and index at end, toned throughout (as usual), small hole in inner margin of first 3 leaves (not affecting text), slight chips to outer corners of first and last leaves, publisher's yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of Churchill on the upper cover, soiled, front wrapper detached and with loss affecting 2 or 3 letters at corners, spine and rear wrapper with some smaller chips [Cohen A31.2.a; Woods A16], 8vo, Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]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
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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)A Speech by The Prime Minister The Right Honourable Winston Churchill in the House of Commons August 20th, 1940, FIRST EDITION, 16pp., 2 copies, one on unwatermarked paper and in light blueish grey wrappers, the other copy on watermarked paper ('Basingwerk Parchment') and in buff wrappers, publisher's printed wrappers, some foxing [Cohen A131.1.a & variant of A131.1.c/d]; cf. Woods A60(a)], [Baynard Press], 1940; War Speeches 1940-1945, portrait, slightly browned throughout, publisher's printed wrappers, spine chipped with some loss [Cohen A224; Woods A113], Cassell & Co., 1946, 8vo (3)Footnotes:'NEVER IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN CONFLICT...': the Battle of Britain speech, copies of which were printed on different stocks of paper and issued in variant colour wrappers as a result of shortages.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
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HOUDINI (HARRY)Portrait photograph postcard signed, inscribed and dated ('Harry Houdini/ Bristol/ 2/14/13'), reproduced by Ernst Schmidt & Co., Lübeck, showing him half-length wearing a pin-striped suit and bow tie, in fine, fresh condition, 142 x 92mm., Bristol, 14 February [19]13Footnotes:'STILL ON THE ALERT FOR NEW IDEAS': Houdini appeared at the Empire and newly-opened Hippodrome in Bristol between Monday 10 February and Saturday 15 February 1913. Notably, it was the year he introduced his famous Chinese Water Torture Cell, first performed in the UK a month earlier in Cardiff, in which he escaped from being suspended upside down in a locked glass and steel cabinet filled with water. The trick was a huge success and he was to perform it for the rest of his career. The Western Daily Press of 11 February notes that he received an enthusiastic welcome from the audiences of Bristol, where he also approached the authorities with the idea of being manacled and thrown off the famous bridge and challenged a number of Bristol's finest able seamen to truss him up to a seven-foot plank. He remained, according to the paper, 'still on the alert for new ideas and offers £100 for a suggestion with possibilities of a new kind of torture by which he can devise means of escape' (Derek Tait, The Great Houdini: His British Tours, 2017).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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TENNANT (STEPHEN)The Bird's Fancy Dress Ball. Drawings, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, illustrations by Tennant throughout, publisher's wrappers, printed title label on upper cover, [Printed for the Dorian Leigh Galleries by the Pelican Press], [1921]--ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER) The Memorial. Portrait of a Family, FIRST EDITION, publisher's cloth (small ink spot, and light soiling to spine), dust-jacket designed by John Banting, Hogarth Press, 1932--DOSTOEVSKY (F.M.) The Grand Inquisitor... Translated by S.S. Koteliansky. With an Introduction by D.H. Lawrence, NUMBER 2 OF 350 COPIES, printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper, publisher's vellum, upper cover with abstract design of black and blue morocco onlays [Roberts B28], Elkin Matthews & Marrot, 1930--MALLARMÉ (STÉPHANE) Herodias, translated... by Clark Mills, NUMBER 7 OF 80 COPIES bound in cloth, from an overall edition of 200, PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM KURT SELIGMAN to Barbara Reis (July 1940) on the front free endpaper, tipped-in frontispiece by Kurt Seligman, publisher's cloth, Prairie City, Illinois, James A. Decker, [1940], 8vo; and an autobiography by Cyril Beaumont, with two letters signed by Beaumont loosely inserted (5)Footnotes:Includes a copy of the scarce first book by Stephen Tennant, published when he was only fifteen at the time of an exhibition of his eccentric drawings of anthropomorphic animals held at the Dorien Leigh Gallery, South Kensington in 1921.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
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THOMAS (DYLAN)Collected Poems 1934-1952, FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'from Dylan to Gilbert [Phelps]/London (the Feathers)/October 1952' on the front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's blue cloth (slight fading at lower margin of upper cover and spine ends), dust-jacket, uncut with 'price 12s.6d.' (some age toning, upper cover with small hole in blank area beneath text, small tears upper margin, extremities of spine with small losses), 8vo, J.M. Dent, 1952Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THOMAS FOR GILBERT PHELPS in the year of publication. Phelps (1915-1993) was a distinguished broadcaster at the BBC, including a period from 1950-1953 as the producer of the 'Third Programme'. Thomas's reading of his 'Author's Prologue' (the opening poem of The Collected Works) was aired on the programme on 26 October 1952. He had written to Phelps on 3 October arranging to visit London on the 16th to make the recording in the morning and 'to catch the night train back to Wales', and writing from Laugherne on the 8 October confirmed the arrangement suggesting to Phelps that they have lunch, '... I'll meet you in the Cock, Great Portland Street, at one?. The Cock's to avoid wicked friends in other pubs...'. It seems probable that the book was inscribed at this lunch, and the 'Feathers' of the inscription is either a reference to the 'Cock', or perhaps another pub such as the 'Prince of Wales Feathers' in nearby Warren Street.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
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[WAUGH (EVELYN)]SUDLEY (ARTHUR, LORD) William or More Loved than Loving... with Illustrations by Christopher Sykes, and a Preface by Evelyn Waugh, INSCRIBED BY EVELYN WAUGH 'For Jack & Frankie with love from Evelyn, April 1956' on the front free endpaper, light spotting to endpapers, publisher's cloth, pictorial yellow dust-jacket, preserved in a purpose-made cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1956Footnotes:Provenance: Jack and Frances Donaldson, presentation inscription from Evelyn Waugh. The Donaldsons moved to a house near Piers Court in 1947, thereafter remaining close friends of Waugh until his death in 1966. The following year Frances published Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of a Country Neighbour (1967).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
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YEATS (W.B.)The Poems, 2 vol., NUMBER 321 OF 375 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, portrait frontispieces, publisher's green buckram gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, large 8vo, Macmillan, 1949This 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
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LEGATI (LORENZO)Museo Caspiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua Patria dall'Illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi Patrizio di Bologna e Senatore, FIRST EDITION, half-title, title printed in red and black with large vignette, woodcut portrait of Ferdinand II on the dedication leaf, engraved portrait of Cospi by Adrian Haelvegh after Justus Susterman, folding engraved plate of the museum of curiosities by Mitelli, many woodcut illustrations in the text, approximately 30 leaves toned, occasional spotting, eighteenth century vellum [Cicognara 3403; Nissen ZBI 2421], folio (320 x 215mm.), Bologna, Giacomo Monti, 1677Footnotes:First edition of a full description of the museum of curiosities (or 'Wunderkammer') created by Ferdinando Cospi (1606-1686), which he donated to the Senate of Bologna in 1677. The five sections cover the range of the collection, from peculiar natural history specimens (many originally collected by Ulisse Aldrovandi) to books, antique statuary, military and scientific instruments. The fine panoramic plate depicts the interior of the museum, the walls lined with cabinets filled hundreds of objects, the upper walls covered with military weapons, above which hang large stuffed animals and sea creatures, the dwarf Sebastiano Biavati standing in the foreground.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
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BINDINGSBUFFON (GEORGES LOUIS MARIE LECLERC, Comte de) Natural History, General and Particular... New Edition... with Some Account of the Life of M. De Buffon by William Wood, engraved frontispiece portrait, numerous engraved plates throughout, occasional single spot, light browning but generally very clean, contemporary mottled calf gilt, flat spines tooled with green and black gilt morocco lettering labels, a few joints neatly refurbished, 8vo, T. Cadell, and W. Davies [and others], 1812Footnotes:AN ATTRACTIVE SET, with a distinguished provenance.Provenance: John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon (1751-1838), circular bookplate and ink name 'Eldon' on front free endpapers of each volume. Eldon served twice as Lord Chancellor, in this role being responsible for refusing the poet Shelley custody of his children. Shelley immortalised his nemesis in his poem 'The Masque of Anarchy', with the lines 'Next came Fraud, and he had on/Like Eldon, an ermined gown'.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
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BRAHE (TYCHO)Astronomiae instauratae mechanica, second (first trade) edition, title with large engraved portrait of the author standing beneath an arch containing the arms of the families of Brahe and Bille, 6 large engravings (5 full-page of astronomical instruments, one half-page of the observatory at Hven, Uraniborg), 19 full-page woodcuts (mostly of instruments), and several smaller woodcuts (including a map of the island of Hven), decorative woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, varying degrees of browning and oxidisation throughout, affecting some illustrations, lower outer corners of first sections curled with slight fraying, title with early ownership inscription crossed through and a few scrawled ?numbers at foot, later stiff wrappers with earlier vellum backstrip titled in ink, soiled, a few short tears and chips and chips to wrappers [Houzeau and Lancaster 2703; Norman 320; Sparrow Milestones 29], folio (320 x 201mm)., Nuremberg, Levinus Hulsius, 1602Footnotes:TYCHO BRAHE'S MOST IMPORTANT ASTRONOMICAL WORK, providing an illustrated description of his astronomical instruments and of the observatory on the island of Hven. The first edition had been printed in 1598 on Brahe's own press at Heinrich Rantzov's castle at Wandbeck, near Hamburg, the forty copies of which Brahe distributed privately. The illustrations of this published 1602 edition were printed from the same blocks and plates, which were sold by the author's heirs to Levinus Hulsius, with the addition of the portrait and the engraving of an armillary sphere on C6 verso, replacing a woodcut. The work also contains a short autobiography and a summary of the principal results of Brahe's observations, and an appendix in which the construction of the observatories is shown.In 1576, King Frederick II had heard of Brahe's plans to move to Basel to further his experiments, he offered Tycho permanent the island of Hven in the Danish Sound to use as he saw fit. There Brahe constructed the most advanced astronomical observatory of his time, which he christened Uraniborg (Heavenly castle)., but hen he realized that the Palladian style towers were not adequate because of the instruments' exposure to the elements and the movement of the building, he constructed a second underground observatory at nearby Stjerneborg, whose basement also housed an alchemical laboratory with 16 furnaces for conducting distillations and other chemical experiments. Unusually for the time, he also established a research centre, where almost 100 students and artisans worked from 1576 to 1597. The library housed Brahe's brass-encased globe, now preserved in Copenhagen: 'On this globe, over the years, Tycho marked the exact positions, referred to the year 1600, of the fixed stars that he observed... In the southwest room on the ground floor at Uraniborg... was Tycho's most famous instrument, the mural quadrant, with a radius of about six feet... Inside the quadrant's arc, for ornamental purposes, was painted a life-size portrait of Tycho seated at a table, with arm outstretched as though pointing to a cylinder...' (DSB).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
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ENGINEERING - THOMAS TELFORDTELFORD (THOMAS) The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer, 2 vol. (including Atlas), FIRST EDITION, edited by John Rickman, text volume with half-title, one engraved plate and vignettes in text, Atlas with engraved portrait and 82 maps and plates (numbered 1-83, 21 folding and/or double-page, no. 28 not called for in list), lower margin of portrait strengthened with archival tape, 3 plates with thin thread of worming, some spotting throughout, modern half morocco, 4to and folio (590 x 430mm.), Payne and Foss, 1838This 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
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GIBBON (EDMUND)The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION of volumes 1, 4, 5 & 6, 'new edition' of volumes 2 & 3, Preface in volume 1 dated 1 February 1776, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), the 4 first edition volumes with half-titles and errata (those for volumes 4-6 on verso of final leaf of General Index in volume 6), volumes 2 and 3 without half-titles and errata, Dd3 in volume 1 with small stain causing loss of one word on facing page, L1 loose and with corner creased/torn with some loss, volume 4 with title-page torn across (no loss), untrimmed in original blue-grey paper boards, volumes 4-6 with their paper backstrips (not intact, volumes 1-3 lacking backstrips), slight staining and a few tears/cracks, corners knocked, volume 1 with upper cover near detached and some gatherings working loose, preserved in green morocco-backed solander boxes, gilt lettered spines with raised bands [ESTC T78356 (volume 1), N36543 (volumes 2-3), T78365 (volumes 4-6); Grolier English 58; Printing and the Mind of Man 222; Rothschild 942], 4to (300 x 230mm.), W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776-1787-1788Footnotes:VERY RARE SET OF GIBBON'S MASTERPIECE UNTRIMMED IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. The survival of three of the original backstrips is even more unusual as most such sets have been rebacked at some point in time.As often the case, this set is a mixed edition, although it is very unusual in so far as volume one is a first edition, whereas it is common to find second editions of the first volume in combination with first editions of the others. Volumes 2 and 3 in the present set were reissued without the other volumes in 1787, and have their own separate entry on ESTC. The portrait frontispiece found in many sets is therefore not called for here as it was issued with the first edition of volume two, along with the 12 pages of contents. Provenance: Countess of Hopetoun, late eighteenth century bookplates.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
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JESUIT MISSIONSLettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères, par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus, 34 vol. bound in 32, engraved title vignettes, 36 mostly folding engraved plates and maps (of 38, without portrait of Antoine Verjus, and map of Paraguay, 2 hand-coloured, a few old repairs at folds, some loss to map of 'Nouvelles Phillipies' in volume 6, and plate of Chinese inscriptions in volume 10), occasional light foxing or browning, volume 1 with title shaved at lower margin touching imprint, and final leaf repaired with some loss of text, volume 5 with small loss to blank corners on 2 leaves, volume 15 title with small hole touching imprint, volumes 1-28 uniform contemporary calf, spines gilt in compartments with two lettering-pieces, red edges, volumes 29-34 (slightly taller) in similar mottled calf, some rubbing and abrasions, minor worm trails to a few sides and joints, a few spine ends chipped, but generally attractive [Sabin 40697, 'a set comprising the first edition of each volume is of uncommon rarity'; Sommervogel III, 1514, IV, 34-35, V, 536, VI, 353-354; cf. Hill 1024, second edition only], 8vo, Paris, Jean Cusson [and others], 1702-1776Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET OF 'THE MOST VALUABLE 18TH-CENTURY SOURCE ON JESUIT ACTIVITIES IN FRONTIER REGIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD' (Hill, Collection of Pacific Voyages).This monumental series, began under the editorship of Charles le Gobien, was intended to provide a history of Jesuit missions and news from China. Subsequently accounts of many Company of Jesuits missionary missives from all the regions of their activities were added, with information on science, medicine, natural history, technology and geography as well as theological matters. Following le Gobain the editorship passed to Jean-Baptiste du Halde, a great proponent of Jesuit science as a means to winning imperial favour in China, and thereafter under several other editors until the final volume was published in 1776.Provenance: 'Domus probationis Parisiensis Societatis Jesu ad usum novit', contemporary inscription on the title of volume 1, and and similar inscriptions to titles of volumes 2-28, placing these volumes formerly in the library of the Parisian Jesuit novitiate.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
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JUDAICAThe Form of Daily Prayers, According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews; As Read in the Synagogues, and Used in the Their Families. Carefully Translated from the Original Hebrew, engraved portrait frontispiece of Rabbi Solomon Herschell by Holl after Slater (with imprint of Messrs. Joseph, Barnett and Justins, 18 July 1808), titles and text in English and Hebrew, contemporary tree calf gilt, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, 8vo, Printed by E. Justins, and Sold at the Hebrew Printing Office, 34 Brick Lane, Spitalfields, [c.1808]Footnotes:Rare edition a prayerbook for the use of German and Polish Jews in England, with text in Hebrew and English. This copy has an engraved portrait of Solomon Hirschell, chief Rabbi of the Great Synagogue from 1802 until his death in 1842. Printed at the Hebrew Printing Office in East London's Brick Lane, the book was also sold by 'Hyam Barnet, Hebrew Bookseller', 'I. Joseph, Sam's Coffee House', and 'B. Abrahams', all located at Duke's Place, nearby the Great Synagogue.Provenance: James Whatman, armorial bookplate.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
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CRICKET'The Australian Cricket Team' of 1878, commemorative handkerchief printed with central group team portrait and 4 corner roundels (2 batsmen, 2 bowlers), all within elaborate decorative borders with title banner and arms, printed on white linen, one small hole, 625 x 625mm., 'Registered Sept. 1878'Footnotes:Printed handkerchief issued to commemorate the Australian Cricket team of 1878, which was making the inaugural first-class tour of Great Britain by a representative overseas side. The central image of the team, from a photograph taken in May 1878, is surrounded by portraits of Charles Bannerman and William Murdoch (in action with the bat), and John Blackham and Frederick Spofforth (with the ball).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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CRICKETASHLEY-COOPER (F.S.) W.G. Grace Cricketer. A Record of His Performances in First-Class Matches, FIRST EDITITON, photographic frontispiece portrait of Grace, illustrated advertisements, publisher's brown cloth gilt [Padwick 7571], small 4to (210 x 160mm.), John Wisden & Co., [1916]Footnotes:A FINE COPY IN THE VERY RARE PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, designed in the colour and style of Wisden's Almanacks of this period.Provenance: R.L. Arrowsmith, inscription inside upper cover.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
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CRICKETCricket. Shaw and Shrewsbury's Team in Australia 1884-5, FIRST EDITION, mounted woodburytype portrait of S & W's 'Anglo-Australian Team', tipped-in advertisement notice on pink paper of 'Shaw and Shrewsbury's specialities in cricket, lawn tennis and football goods', modern quarter morocco, publisher's decorative stiff wrappers bound in, slipcase [Padwick 4409], 8vo, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury,Footnotes:Shrewsbury's team played an astonishing total of 35 matches on that tour, winning 16, drawing 15 and losing 2. The Test series was decided by the final match: Shrewsbury made 105 not out and England won by an innings, taking the series 3-2.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
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Proud Heritage - A Portrait of Greatness Miniature Portrait Book dedicated to King George VI Published by John Dron Ltd, London. 50 Colour Portraits of Great Britons, from Alfred the Great, to David Lloyd George. Wire bound book measures approx. 2.75" x 3.00" x 0.75"Dark blue box is rather rubbed/worn at the corners. Name inked on inside cover of book. Book pages are a little bowed. Otherwise in overall good, clean condition.
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Railwayana - a large collection of various railway related books, magazines and ephemera, comprising Barry Scrapyard 'The Preservation Miracle' by Alan Warren; Barry The History of the Yard and its Locomotives by Peter Brabham; eight The Barry List booklets; Railway Ribaldry by W. Heath Robinson; British Railways Steam by L. A. Summers; Portrait of Dart Valley Railway; British Railways Western Region by Laurence Waters; The 10-30 Limited; Holiday Haunts in Brittany; Holiday Haunts Southern Ireland; British Railways In Peace and War; It can now be Revealed; large collection of various other booklets and Locomotives Illustrated magazines etc. (large quantity)
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