Cookery.- Soyer (Alexis) Soyer's Culinary Campaign, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved additional pictorial title (misbound), 7 plates, and illustrations, advertisement f. at end, portrait spotted and offsetting onto to title, additional title little spotted, small repair to lower blank corner of advrtisment f., contemporary half morocco, spine gilt (with a number 7 at head of spine),[Bitting p.444; Cagle 1008], G. Routledge & Co.,1857; and a sixth edition of the Gastronomic Regenerator, 1849, 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ 'Soyer's account of conditions in the Crimea is second to none. Finding the soldiery too under-nourished to withstand disease, let alone battle, he set out to transform army supply, diet, cookery, kitchen equipment and hospital supplies with verve and genius, effecting what was to be a revolution in institutional catering. Florence Nightingale, never given to praise, wrote that without him her work would have been in vain.' (John LyleG. Routledge & Co., 1857.
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Civil War.- [Peirce (Sir Edmund)] The Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, and Commonalty of the County of Kent..., spine reinforced, n.p., 1642 § Kings Majesties (The) Message to the Inhabitants of the City of Winchester, concerning the late Battaile, for J.H., 1642 § [Ingoldsby (William)] Englands Oaths. Taken by all men of Quallity in the Church and Common-wealth of England...Published by G.J. for satisfaction of his Parishioners, n.p., 1642 § Kings Majesties (The) Instructions unto the Earle of Northampton...for putting the Commission of Array in execution, in the said County of Warwick, with final blank, for A.Norton, 1642 § Copy (A) of the Commission of Array granted...to the Marquesse of Hertford, for E.Husbands and I.Frank, 1642 § Declaration (A) of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the raising of all power..., for Thomas Banks and William Ley, [1642] § Declaration (A) made at Bodmin...by the High-Sheriffe..., lower outer margin nibbled at corner, hole to final leaf with loss of a few letters, Oxford, by Leonard Lichfield, 1643 § Codrington (Robert) The Life and Death , of the Illustrious Robert Earle of Essex, &c..., engraved portrait, with final blank, old ink inscription to outer margin of title and another leaf (the latter cropped), title soiled and stained, preserved in later marbled wrappers, by F.Leach, for L.Chapman, 1646 § Ballance (The) put into the Hand of Every Rationall English-Man, to Poize the State of this Kingdome..., n.p., 1646 § Eighteen New Court-Quaeries...towards the stopping our Breaches, and the making up of the Divisions amongst us, staining to last two leaves, n.p., 1659, some titles with ornamental border, a little soiled or browned, a few stains, most disbound, [Wing P1064; C2484; I188a; C2351; C2168a; E1425; D600; C4877; B541 & E263], small 4to (10)
Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 38 etchings only (of 39) by Phiz, occasional spotting, 1839; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, engraved additional title, frontispiece and 37 plates only (of 38), occasional spotting, 1844, first editions, bookplates, uniformly bound in contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed § Dumas (Alex.), Arnould, Fournier ..., Crimes Célèbres, 8 vol. in 4, plates, occasional spotting, ex-library with occasional blind-stamp, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, Paris, 1844-47 § Dobson (Austin) Eighteenth-Century Vignettes, number 221 of 250 copies signed by the author, portrait frontispiece and 6 plates, cracked hinges, ex-library with label to front pastedown and ink-stamp to title verso, original half vellum, paper label to upper cover, rubbed and worn, 1892; and 14 others, 8vo (22)
NO RESERVE Arnold (Matthew).- Stanley (Arthur Penrhyn) The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., 2 vol., twelfth edition, vol I. with presentation inscription from Matthew Arnold to front endpaper, engraved portrait frontispiece, some foxing, hinges pulling, original cloth, stamped in gilt, black, and blind, corners and spine ends bumped, slight shelf-lean, 8vo, 1881.⁂Matthew Arnold (1822-88) poet and critic.Inscription: " To dear Charlie | with much love and every | good wish for Dec.ber 3rd, 1881 - | from her most affectionate | Matthew Arnold. -"
Hockney (David).- Stangos (Nikos, editor) David Hockney: That's the Way I See It..., signed presentation inscription by Hockney to half-title, 1993 § Luckhardt (Ulrich) & Paul Melia, David Hockney: A Drawing Retrospective, 1995 § Howgate (Sarah) & others. David Hockney Portraits, signed by Hockney to half-title, National Portrait Gallery, 2006 § Gayford (Martin) A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney, 2011 § Sykes (Christopher Simon) Hockney: The Biography..., 2 vol. 2011-14 § Barringer (Tim) & others. 82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life, 2016, illustrations, most colour, second original limp wrappers, others original cloth with dust-jackets; and 5 others, Hockney, 4to & 8vo (13) ⁂Inscription to first: "for Nick | love | David x." Hockney has added rays of sunshine emanating from the word 'love'.
Theatre.- Boaden (James) The Life of Mrs. Jordan..., 2 vol., engraved portrait frontispiece, folding plate, extra-illustrated with 28 engraved plates depicting actors and playwrights of the era and scenes from contemporary plays (these all hand-coloured, with 3 after Robert Cruikshank, 1 after Lawrence, and with many engraved by William Ridley) and several ff. culled from published works with notes on contemporary theatre, most pieces mounted to ff. bound in, a little foxing and offsetting, contemporary crushed morocco, a little worn, joints splitting, 1831; Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons..., 2 vol., mezzotint portrait frontispiece, most ff. browned and with marginal damp-staining, hinges splitting, contemporary straight-grain morocco, g.e., a little worn, boards damp-stained, vol.II. upper board detached, 1827; and 5 others, one a copy of Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer, 8vo (9)⁂Portraits in first include Grimaldi, Mrs Crouch, Miss Lee, Mr Dowton, Mrs Billington, Mrs Mattocks, John O'Keeffe, Mrs Inchbald, and Her Serence Highness the Margravine of Anspach.Provenance: first: Edward Jolly and John Gayner (bookplates).Edward Solly (1819-1886) chemist and antiquary, son of the great art collector.
NO RESERVE Wilberforce (William).- Abolition of the Slave Trade.- Proposals for Publishing by Subscription, an Appropriate Medal, In Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1f. broadside, notes that the obverse will bear a portrait of Wilberforce by Rouw commissioned for the purpose, the medal to be made to a design by Robert Smirke, ink manuscript astronomical notes to reverse, central horizontal fold, some creasing, a little faint browning, 8vo, [1807].
UNATTRIBUTED; oil on board, portrait sketch of a young lady in green skirt, signed 'R' lower right, 47.5 x 28.5cm, framed.Additional InformationWithin the sketch there are areas of unfinished or unpainted board visible and a crease to the upper section running down to the lady's eyebrow; from a property in Manchester.
ROY FAIRCHILD-WOODARD; two limited edition coloured prints, 'Writing on Walls' and another similar both featuring female figures, both signed, the former numbered 133/385 and the latter 287/385, approx 85 x 65cm (former portrait and latter landscape), both framed and glazed (2) (D). Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
CSABA MARKUS (Hungarian, born 1953); a signed limited edition hand embellished serigraph, portrait of a young lady in elaborate dress, signed and dated, 185/385, 97 x 46cm including gold border, framed and glazed (D).Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
Attributed to Duncan Grant (British, 1885-1978)Place de la Concord Oil on boardInscribed verso, purchased c.1941 15 x 21cm *This Lot May Be Subject To Artist's Resale Rights.On reverse side is a unmarked portrait of an unknown woman. Possibly Vanessa Bell, mother to Grant's only child and sister to Virginia Woolf.
An Arts & Crafts wrought iron and Venetian glass ceiling lamp, circa 1890, the fancy wrought iron frame containing nineteen inset Murano glass roundels in colours of green, blue, red, amber, clear, and combinations, one painted with a portrait of a Venetian Doge, along with a box containing 131 loose Murano glass roundels of various sizes, colours and combinationsProvenance: by repute from the Estate of Antonio Michieli and thence by direct descent to the present vendor. Antonio Michieli b 1830 was the son of Guiseppe Michieli, a sculptor and owner of a bronze foundry in Venice, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Antonio travelled to London as a trade distributor and exhibitor for the foundry and settled there. He married Elizabeth Knowles in 1871 and was recorded as living in London in 1891
Ten Hasbro Star Wars action figures and figure sets, eight Episode 1 comprising Electronic Talking C-3PO, Jar Jar Binks, Watto, Qui-Gon Jinn, Battle Droid, Darth Maul, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Queen Amidala 1999 Portrait Edition, Action Collection Emperor Palpatine and Royal Guard and Luke Skywalker, all in original boxes.
UNATTRIBUTED; oil on canvas, military scene of soldiers on rocky outcrop and marauding soldiers below, 66 x 89cm, with earlier portrait verso, unframed, a Geographia Ltd linen map of Columbia, various other maps to include maps of the Mediterranean and the United States and two military triptych photographs documenting the funeral of Major Thomas Irvine, who served in the 91st Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders in South Africa 1899-1902 and was in the battles of Modder River, Magers Fontein and Paareberg, he was mentioned in dispatches and received the Queen's Medal and clasps fore the aforementioned battles, The Illustrated London News Special: Coronation of King Edward VII 1902 edition and Lord Byron; a tale, 'Lara' illustrated by C B Birch.
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