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Preisdatenbank abonnierenPresident George Bush snr hand signed autograph in black ink on 8 x 6 colour portrait photo of him and his wife, their autographs are also printed on bottom. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
An Early XX Century Portrait Miniature Painted on Ivory, of a girl in a white embroidered dress, the reverse inscribed "Painted by Mrs Eves, Chipdon Oct. 1915", 6cm long, in yellow metal mount and presented in a velvet lined leather carrying case; Two Others Similar, one of a boy wearing a white shirt and the other of a boy wearing a brown cardigan. (3)
An Early XX Century Portrait Miniature Painted on Ivory, and signed T.O.D. Williams, of a lady wearing a blue dress and pearl necklace, 8cm long, presented in a velvet lined wooden carrying case; Two Others Similar, one of a lady wearing a floral decorated black dress and fur coat and the other purporting to be Mary Heymann, aged 53, 1904. (3)
Ellsworth (Robert Hatfield), Chinese Furniture, Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch'ing Dynasties, nd [c1970/1], Collins, first edition, 4to., original cloth, slipcase; Robins (George), A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill, collected by Horace Walpole, nd. [c1842], portrait frontis and decorative title, binding well worn, front cover detached, lacking rear cover; Pain (William), The Builder's Companion, and Workman's General Assistant, nd., 82 pages (lacking page/plate 62), title, preface, and several leaves laid down/cropped), worn binding, board detached etc
Chess.- Greco (Gioachino) The royall game of chesse-play· Sometimes the recreation of the late King, with many of the nobility. Illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts. Being the study of Biochimo the famous Italian, translated by Francis Beale, first edition in English, engraved portrait frontispiece of Charles I by P. Stent, title with woodcut typographic border, woodcut illustration of a chess board, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, errata to verso of final f., a1&2 bound after title, lacking initial blank, portrait frayed at foot affecting caption, trimmed to within border and laid down, trimmed at head affecting headlines, a1 short tear to inner gutter affecting 2 or 3 letters, some staining, 19th century green mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, [LN 395; Whyld & Ravilious 1656:2; Wing G1810], small 8vo, Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower walk of the New Exchange, 1656.⁂ The first work on chess in English to note that the rook was sometimes depicted as a castle. This is a translation of Gioachino's Trattato del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. Greco was a native of Calabria, the same province of Naples that had produced the chess masters Giovanni Leonard and Michele di Mauro. A5r has a poem by Richard Lovelace.Provenance: William Forbes Morgan (engraved bookplate).
Chess.- Severino (Marco-Aurelio) La Filosofia Overo il Perche de gli Scacchi [and] Dell' Antica Pettia Overo che Palamede non è stato I'Inventor de gli Scacchi, 2 vol. in 1, first editions, engraved portrait frontispiece to both vol., first work with full-page engraved illustration, second work with marginal worming towards end, not affecting text, both works some spotting and staining and mostly light browning, contemporary half vellum, small split in spine, rubbed and scuffed, [LN 171 and 4147], small 4to, Naples, Antonio Bulifon, 1690.⁂ Severino was a skilled surgeon, holding the chair in surgery and anatomy at Naples University from 1615 until his death from plague in 1656. Provenance: André Muffang, sale of his library, Drouot, 6th June, 1991, lot 200). Muffang was French chess champion in 1931 and competed in the chess Olympiads in the 1920s and 1930s.
Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) Analyse du jeu des échecs; Nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée, engraved portrait frontispiece by Bartolozzi, list of subscribers, portrait foxed, some spotting and ink staining elsewhere, modern calf, [LN 449], 8vo, London [?but Paris], no printer, 1777.⁂ Provenance: J.E. Pattle, his sale, Phillips, 21st January, 1988, lot 129.
Chess.- Philidor (François-André Danican) Analysis of the game of chess; a new edition, greatly enlarged, engraved portrait frontispiece (not called for), half-title, the 3 ff. of 'Rules of the Game' have been bound in twice, some spotting and staining, ink inscription ' to half-title, modern half calf, [LNN 489; Whyld & Ravilious 1777:4], Printed for P. Elmsley, in the Strand, 1777; and the 1790 London edition [LNN 491; Whyld & Ravilious 1790:8], 8vo (2)⁂ Provenance: 'Lieutn. Thom, Royal Navy' (contemporary ink inscription to half title); Michael Macdonald Ross, his sale, Phillips, 26th March, 1987, lot 469.
Calligrapher.- Smith (Percy John Delf, 1882-1948, calligrapher, typographer and printmaker, Master of the Artworkers Guild, RDI, of Hampstead, 1882-1948) Portraits, letterings and sketches, including: portrait of "Vera Mrs Charles M Delf", lettering from his book, "A Handbook of Modern Alphabets", (1936); Minute Book Dorian Workshop and Studio, (1921-33); numerous drafts of lettering for pages of Books of Remembrance, Roll of Honour for Farebrother, Ellis & Co., portraits and life drawings in pencil, charcoal etc., examples of lettering, some proofs of designs, tracings, designs for Southern Railway Certificates, BBC publications, church memorial designs, Kitchener Memorial (heavily torn), Chelmsford Diocesan Chronicle, Lodge of Comily, printed ephemera, many on tracing paper or paper, a few on vellum, folds, some with tears, all loose, v.s., v.d. [1920/s - 40s] (lge qty).⁂ Percy John Delf Smith was a British etcher and letterer. He served as a gunner in the First World War. His etching "Death Marches" was part of a seven-part series, "The Dance of Death 1914-1918," that explored the spectre of Death following British soldiers. After the war, Smith was commissioned to create the lettering for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial at Vimy Ridge. During the 1920s and 30's he designed other memorials, including one for Kitchener, as well as lettering for commercial companies.
Milton (John) Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, fourth edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by R.White after Faithorne (laid down), 12 engraved plates by M.Burghers and P.P.Bouche after Medina, 6pp. list of subscribers at end, a little soiled and browned, a few ink stains, first plate trimmed close at fore-edge, M3 with tear to lower margin, near contemporary speckled calf, very slightly rubbed, neatly rebacked preserving old red morocco label, new endpapers, a good copy, [Pforzheimer 720; Wing M2147], folio, for Miles Flesher, for Richard Bently...and Jacob Tonson, 1688.⁂ The first folio and the first illustrated edition of Milton's great work; one of three variants published in the same year.
Manners (Catherine Rebecca) Poems, second edition, manuscript corrections in the author's hand to 2 poems, with 5 line note to one, engraved portrait frontispiece, John Bell, 1793 bound with Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern. A Poem, first edition, manuscript corrections in the author's hand to 4 pages, one with 4 line note, lacking half-title, J.Booth, 1799, together 2 works in 1 vol., autograph poem signed "Catherine Huntingtower, September 19, 1842" bound at rear, pencil inscription "Given to me by my highly esteemed & valued friend Lady Huntingtower formerly Lady Manners" to front free endpaper, 19th century morocco, gilt, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, g.e., 4to. ⁂ Catherine Manners, (1766-1852), married William Manners, later Lord Huntingtower in 1790. She published two works of poetry, the copies of which in this lot have manuscript corrections. For example in the poem "Lines addressed to a Mother in Ireland" she alters the word "tedious" to "lonely", explaining in the margin "I have, on reflection, altered tedious to lonely; or no hour, except in pain, or sickness or dull company, could ever have tedious to a mind so active & enlightened as that of my dear mother was". Bound in with this copy is a 2-verse manuscript poem "What to thee is golden hair?/What are features heavenly fair?/Teeth of pearl & breast of snow/Eyes that sparkle, cheeks that glow?" with the author's explanation of how she came to write it.
Clemens (Samuel Langhorne) "Mark Twain". Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first American edition, first state, illustrations by Edward W. Kemble, portrait frontispiece of the author's bust by sculptor Karl Gerhardt, small ink stain on fore-edge otherwise an excellent copy in original green pictorial cloth, gilt, small 4to, New York, Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885.⁂ A fine copy of the first American edition of this ground-breaking novel. Sold by subscription, Huckleberry Finn was finely bound and illustrated to appeal to buyers. As a result, the first edition is one of the most attractive and eye-catching of all American literary classics. Copies were issued in leather bindings (sheep or three-quarter morocco), in blue cloth for those who wanted it uniform with Tom Sawyer, and, as here, in green cloth. There is no priority between them: all were first available to the public on the same day in February 1885. A number of errors were discovered and then corrected during the printing of the first edition. Copies with the earliest, uncorrected states are always sought after by collectors. In this copy, the title-page is a cancel with the copyright notice dated 1884 (C, BAL second state, with the first state only noted in the publisher's prospectuses and advanced sheets), while the frontispiece is in the first state with the tablecloth visible and unsigned on the finished edge of the bust (A, BAL first state). Furthermore, the following issue points are respected: on p. 13, the illustration captioned "Him and another Man" is wrongly listed as being on p. 88 (A, BAL first state); p. 9 with the misprint "Decided" (A, BAL first state); p. 57, the eleventh line from the bottom reads "with the was" instead of "with the saw" (A, BAL first state); p. 143, missing 'l' in the illustration (A, BAL first state); p. 155, the final '5' in the pagination is missing (A, BAL first state), and on p. 161, the signature mark is absent (A, BAL first state). Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer "let fresh air into the minds of parents who had shut the door on their own childhood, and they will be classics the world over as long as there are boys" (Grolier 100 American Books).
Owen (Wilfred) Poems, first edition, portrait frontispiece, tissue-guard, usual browning to tissue-guard and title, browning to endpapers a head of half-title, front free endpaper clipped at head, original cloth, paper label to spine, spine browned, surface soiling to upper cover, sm.4to, 1920.
δ Beerbohm (Max) Mr. Sargent, pen and ink with grey wash over traces of pencil on laid paper, signed in the centre right and with the sitter's name inscribed in the lower left quadrant, sheet 315 x 195 mm. (12 3/8 x 7 3/4 in), minor spotting and surface dirt, under glass in gilt frame, [circa 1900]Provenance:Christie's, Modern British and Irish Pictures, Drawing and Sculpture, 12th November 1976, lot 18Literature:Hart Davis, R., Max Beerbohm, 1972, p. 126, no. 1362⁂ An illustration for the the Christmas Supplement of The World, 1900. John Singer Sargent, R.A. (1856-1925) the American portrait painter was one of Beerbohm's circle of friends (see E. Charteris, John Sargent, 1927, p. 169). A study of this caricature is held in the Tate collection (see no. 3199).δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Catlin (George, 1796-1872) Portrait of a seated lady wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, possibly Clara Bartlett Gregory Catlin, watercolour over traces of graphite on cream wove paper laid onto card, affixed at corners onto album leaf with ink attribution to Catlin by Shippard, 185 x 150 mm. (7 1/4 x 5 7/8 in), minor surface dirt and even browning, unframed, [probably circa 1830s]Provenance:Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1840s or slightly laterCaptain William Henry Shippard; bound into an album with ink attribution to Catlin in Shippard's hand;Then by descent to the present owners
Catlin (George, 1796-1872) La-wáh-he-coots-la-sháw-no, Brave Chief, a Skidi (Wolf) Pawnee, graphite on ivory laid paper with partial armorial watermark, inscribed 'By George Catlin' in the lower right corner, and further inscribed in pencil 'No. 110. Catalogue' in the lower edge, sheet 180 x 140 mm. (7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in), unframed, [circa 1852-1868]Provenance:Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1840s or slightly later;Captain William Henry Shippard;Then by descent to the present ownersLiterature:cf. Catlin, George, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of Catlin's Indian Gallery', 1840, no. 110⁂ A delicate drawing probably produced for a "Souvenir album". The portrait is after Catlin's painting of the Brave Chief now held in the Smithsonian Museum (see object no. 1985.66.110).Catlin produced eleven souvenir albums between 1852 and 1868, which he began following his financial problems and the sale of his collection in 1852. Most of these albums are now held in public collections in America and the UK (see: British Museum, London; the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California; the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York; and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, among others). The present drawing closely relates to the eight studies from the Duke of Portland Album Unique, which were sold through Christie's in 2001 (see 'Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from the Forbes Collection', New York, 29th November 2001, lot 114).
Binding.- Gander (Joseph) The Glory of Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Anne, in the Royal Navy...also a Treatise of Navigation and Commerce: with some Remarks on the Royal Hospital at Greenwich; and Improving the Woollen Manufactory, first edition, engraved plate depicting the fleet with a medallion portrait of Queen Anne by van der Gucht (foxed and shaved at lower edge), some spotting and soiling, mostly marginal, hand-coloured engraved bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary black morocco elaborately tooled in gilt with leafy stems & flowers, small birds, rosettes and wavy lines around a central lozenge with border of rules and tools within semicircles, spine gilt in compartments and five raised bands, g.e., a little rubbed, covers slightly splayed, corners slightly worn, spine ends a little chipped with splits to joints at head and foot, 4to, for the Author, 1703.
Cookery.- Johnson (Mary) Madam Johnson's Present: Or, the best Instructions for Young Women..., engraved portrait, title in red and black, broken with gatherings becoming loose, contemporary speckled sheep, rubbed, scuff to upper cover, joints cracked, [Maclean p.75; cf. Bitting p.247, Cagle p.564, Oxford p.83 & Vicaire p.465, other editions], 12mo, for M.Cooper...and C.Sympson, 1754.⁂ Scarce. Originally published in 1753 as The Young Woman's Companion, most of the bibliographies do not include this edition, listing only the 1759 second edition. ESTC lists only 4 copies of this edition, all in America; COPAC lists a copy at Leeds University but not in the British Library.
Binding.- Bunyan (John) The Pilgrims Progress, engraved portrait, title in red & black, foxed at beginning and end, signed and inscribed by the binder Maude Nathan to Frederick Martin Burton on front free endpaper and with A.L.s to Burton from Esther Nathan informing him of Maude's death tipped in, attractively bound in green morocco tooled in gilt, by Maude Nathan, spine gilt, signed "M.N.1908" on rear turn-in, g.e., spine slightly rubbed and faded, 8vo, William Pickering, 1849.⁂ Maude Nathan (d.1910) was taught by Sarah Prideaux and "is best known for her translation of Georges de Récy's Décoration du Cuir, published as The Decoration of Leather in 1905...but she seems to have bound for only a short time". Tidcombe, Women Bookbinders 1880-1920 p.157.
Mining.- Pettus (Sir John) Fodinae Regales. Or the History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and...Ireland, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece by W.Sherwin, 2 folding engraved plates with letterpress key on verso, 2 engraved illustrations of arms, corrigenda leaf at end (defective at upper edge and repaired), portrait a little frayed at upper & lower edge and reinforced, title with initials "S.P." in red ink at head, a little soiled and browned, B2 smaller, paper flaw tear to lower margin of Hh2, modern half calf, [Goldsmiths 1930; Kress 1270; Wing P1908], by H.L. and R.B. for Thomas Basset, 1670.⁂ The standard 17th century English work on mining by the deputy governor of the royal mines.
Torricelli (Evangelista) Lezioni Accademiche..., edited by Tommaso Bonaventuri, first edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait after Pietro Anichini, title with engraved device of the Accademia della Crusca, 3 woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, lacking imprimatur leaf (c10 but often bound at end), old ink manuscript note praising the author on rear free endpaper, some light spotting or soiling, a little staining to upper edge of a few leaves, later vellum, gilt-stamped morocco label, yapp edges, uncut, a little rubbed and soiled, [Norman II, 2088], 4to, Florence, Jacopo Guiducci, 1715.⁂ Twelve posthumously published lectures by Torricelli, Galileo's successor as Professor of mathematics at Florence, delivered to the Accademia della Crusca, the Studio Fiorentino, and the Academy of Drawing. The lectures relate mainly to physics, and include discussions on impact, wind and military architecture. Bonaventuri's preface contains a biography of Torricelli and a good overview of his work; it also reprints Torricelli's letters on the barometric experiment.
China.- Nieuhoff (Jan) An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China, translated by John Ogilby, second edition, additional engraved pictorial title by Hollar, title in red and black, folding engraved map, folding plan of Canton and 16 plates only (of 17, lacking ?portrait of Ogilby), numerous engraved illustrations in text, wide margins, lacking list of plates, title lightly soiled, folding map browned at fold, occasional offsetting to or from illustrations, a few small rust-spots (one causing tiny hole to illustration on 3D1, with early 19th century manuscript presentation note tipped to front pastedown, contemporary sheep, worn, [Cordier Sinica 2347; Wing N1153], folio, by the Author, 1673.
ƟKazuo Ishiguro, Complete set of Novels and Short Stories, first and limited editions, signed by the author [London, most Faber, 1981-2015]a group of 11 volumes comprising the novels and short stories: A Pale View of the Hills (1982), two copies of An Artist of the Floating World (1986), The Remains of the Day (1989), The Unconsoled (1995), When we were Orphans (2000), Never Let me Go (2005), Nocturnes (2009), all signed by the author on titles, original cloth, original dust-jackets, all in mint condition; together with Stories by New Writers (1981, author’s first publication, including three short stories by Ishiguro, signed by him on title, original cloth and dust-jacket), Early Japanese Stories (Belmont Press, 2000), and a signed and inscribed portrait postcard of Ishiguro dated 1998 (National Portrait Gallery postcard), 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
The Royal Wedding Official Souvenir Portrait 18ct Gold Limited Edition Portrait Plaque, commemorating the marriage of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, numbered "1569", complete with certificate, with later applied pendant loops, on a fancy link chain stamped "750", in original box.
Circle of John Riley (1646-1691) - portrait of a young boy, in a period costume, also a companion, portrait of a young girl wearing a cream dress with red attached cloak, oil on canvas, each within a painted cartouche, 30" x 24.75" **contained within 18th century carved giltwood frames, decorated with foliate scrolls and acorns
J** L**Reilly after the Hon. John Collier (19th/20th century) - portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) holding a human skull, inscribed on a label attached to the stretcher verso, oil on canvas 36" x 28" **The work is a copy of the original painting by John Collier, the sitter was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy and was known as Darwin's bulldog for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution; together with a smaller example by the same artist depicting Oliver Goldsmith (2)
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