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Los 363
John Linnell (British, 1792-1882) Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Fowke, wearing a black fur lined wrap, oil on canvas, titled top right corner and dated 1833, signed John Linnel and dated 1833, two small areas of damage to canvas, 91.5cm x 70cm, framed.Provenance: from Lowesby Hall, Leicestershire, where if hung until the house was sold by the Fowkes Family in 1919; this picture remained in the ownership of the Fowkes family, the vendor is a direct family descendent.
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An early 19thC pearlware silver lustre Jug, commemorating Sir Francis Burnett MP, with printed portrait panel reading 'S. F. Burdett' 'The Champion of Liberty' with printed verse to the reverse 'Ye Britons true...', H 15.5cm. Provenance; The property of a Collector, amassed over the last 50 years.
Los 275
Frederick Frith (1819-1871), Silhouette portrait of a Gentleman in Top Hat, cut-out silhouette portrait heightened in white and bronze, signed “Frith” and dated 1843, 25.5cm x 20cm, framed, together with another silhouette signed “Frith” of a Gentleman holding a Top Hat, dated 1850, 26cm x 18cm, framed (2) Provenance: Moore Allen & Innocent 8th July 2016 Lots 91 and 93. Ex. Ron J Mills Collection. Ron Mills was a chocolatier in Bath; over several years he assembled and carefully curated an impressive collection of portrait miniatures and silhouettes - his life's passion.
Los 276
William Thicke (British, fl. 1787-1814), Portrait Miniature of a young Gentleman wearing a blue coat, watercolour on ivory, oval, 7.5cm x 6cm, in gold oval frame (tests as 9ct) with plaited hair verso set with a monogram ‘EFM’. Exemption Submission reference: WB6HX4CT. Provenance: Dreweatts 16th January 2019 lot 426. Ex. Ron J Mills Collection. Ron Mills was a chocolatier in Bath; over several years he assembled and carefully curated an impressive collection of portrait miniatures and silhouettes - his life's passion.
Los 364
Late 18thC/early 19thC English School, Portrait of two young Sisters, full length, the younger sister with a dog at her feet, oil on canvas, old repainting to right hand side, canvas needs cleaning, 122cm x101.5cm, framed.Provenance: from Lowesby Hall, Leicestershire, where if hung until the house was sold by the Fowkes Family in 1919; since the mid-17thC the house had been home to the Wollaston Family, passing to the Fowkes Family by marriage in 1772. This picture is possibly a portrait of two sisters, Sarah and Anne Wollaston who inherited the family estate. This picture remained in the ownership of the Fowkes family, the vendor is a direct family descendent.
Los 277
A pair of early 20thC Portrait Miniatures of young girls, watercolour on ivory, indistinctly signed Maude Lange?, one split, in ornate gilt-bronze frames, together with a large over-painted photograph if the same girls in an ornate giltwood frame, overall dimensions 68cm x 59cm, and two decorative portrait miniature framed prints (5). DEFRA Ivory Act submission ref: TJW2CXGJ and S7ZFVU2A.
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'Steve McQueen - Le Mans', an original artwork on canvas,modern, acrylic on canvas, iconic portrait depiction of McQueen from the 1971 Le Mans film, 130 x 85cm. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ◊◊◊◊ £60 + VAT uplift and storage at £12 + VAT per lot per dayFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 53
Alfredo De La Maria (Uruguayan 1945-), 'Enzo Ferrari',an original artwork, signed lower right and dated '1989', oil on artists' board, portrait of the legendary founder of the Ferrari marque in his later years with his iconic sunglasses, 67 x 49cm, framed. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 55
Alfredo De La Maria (Uruguayan 1945-), 'Phil Hill'signed lower left and dated '12 1989', oil on canvas, portrait of the American 1961 World Championship winning Formula 1 driver in race overalls and helmet, 108 x 79cm, in gilt and wooden frame, measuring 127 x 98cm overall. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR ◊AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.◊ £30 + VAT uplift and storage at £6 + VAT per lot per day.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Los 1010
Collection of prints (13) by Tony Belobrajdic, including, TWO ACES. Bf-109 F2 and Polikarpov I-16 type 29, August, 1941(4). RED13, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6. November 1943.(3) NIGHT OWL. Heinkel He 219A-7. May 1945 (2) OVER RUSSIA, Junkers ju 88D-1 1941/42.(4). Landscape print size 40cm x 35cm, Portrait 33cm x 44cm
Los 46
The Smallest English Dictionary in the World, Bryce's (1890), metal case, lacking magnifying glass, 3.5 x 3 x 1cm. 384 pages, engraved portrait of Johnson as frontispiece, bound in publisher's red leather, with "Bryce's English Dictionary" on front cover and (vertically) "Pears" on the rear cover. Bryce published six of these miniatures in the 1890s, all contained in a metal box or boxes.
Los 127
Ivo Hauptmann, Stehender Akt Aquarell & Michel Courteaux, Portrait einer jungen Frau, Ölgemälde von 1938, beide gerahmtIvo Hauptmann, 1886 Erkner-Berlin - 1973 Hamburg, deutscher Maler, Stehender weiblicher Akt, aquarellierte Bleistiftzeichnung, 31 x 20 cm, sign., hinter Glas gerahmt & Michel Courteaux, *1918, französischer Maler, Brustbild einer jungen Frau, Öl/Lw., 41 x 32,5 cm, sign. u. dat., verso bez., im silberfarbenen modernistische Rahmen.Ivo Hauptmann, war ältester Sohn von Gerhart Hauptmann, Mitbegründer der Künstlergruppen Freie Secession (Berlin 1914) und Hamburgische Sezession (1919), Mitbegründer der Künstlergruppen Freie Secession (Berlin 1914)[1] und Hamburgische Sezession (1919). Michel Courteaux, Studium an der l'École nationale supérieure des Arts Déco u. Beaux-arts in Paris, wo er bis 1957 arbeitete. Er war fünf Jahre lang Professor in Casablanca, ließ sich 1962 in Aix nieder und lehrte dort an der École Supérieure d'Art bis 1990, zahlr. Ausstellungen.
Los 467
Sammlung Altmeisterportaits und -genreszenen, 6 Blatt 17.-18. Jh., o. RahmenAltmeistersammlung, verschiedene Techniken: Lucas Kilian, 1579 - 1637, Bildnis des Albrecht Dürers, 1608, Kupferstich, 34 x 20 cm; Jacob Louys, *1595, Philipp der Gute, Herzog von Burgund, "Philippus Dictus Bonus Dux Burgundia...", Radierung, 41,2 x 28 cm; Philibert Louis de Bucourt, "Les Bouquets ou la Fête de la Grand maman" & "Le Compliment ou la Matinée du jour de l'An", Stich, 40 x 31 cm, Blatt 45 x 34 cm; Ernst Morace nach Joshua Reynolds, Portrait der Angelica Kauffmann, Radierung, 37,5 x 30 cm, Blatt 51 x 37,5 cm, mit kleinen Löchern und leicht fleckig; Joseph Sebastian Klauber nach Netscher, Portrait de Gaspard Netscher, Kupferstich, Blatt 24,5 x 21,5 cm, unten beschnitten, teils im Passepartout gerahmt
Los 470
Tanna Kasimir-Hoernes u. Anne Philiberte Coulet, St. Florian mit Brucknerorgel, Le rendez-vous à la colonne u. Depart pur le marché, Aquatintaradierung u. zwei Kupferstiche, gerahmtTanna Kasimir-Hoernes, 1887 Graz - 1972 Wien, österreichische Künstlerin, Blick auf die Brucknerorgel und den Innenraum des Augustiner-Chorherrenstifts St. Florian, unten mit einem Portrait des Orgelspielenden Anton Bruckner, Aquatintaradierung, 47 x 30 cm, Blatt ca. 57 x 40 cm, sign.; Anne Philiberte Coulet, 1736 - 1800 Paris, französische Graveurin, Le rendez-vous à la colonne, romantische Genreszene in ländlichem Ambiente nach Nicolaes Berchem, Kupferstich, ca. 43,5 x 32,5 cm & Depart pur le marché, ländliche Szene mit Figurenstaffage und Pferdekarren nach Jan van Goyen, Kupferstich, ca. 43,5 x 34 cm, alle drei gerahmt
Los 781
Vier Broschen mit Kamee, Mikromosaik, Granat und Miniatur, 1 x Gold ab 19. Jh.Große Brosche/Anhänger, 8kt Gelbgold, besetzt mit einer Muschel-Kamee, Büste einer Frau n.r., H 48 mm; runde Brosche mit Blumen in Mikromosaik, Metall; Brosche, vergoldet, besetzt mit Granaten; runde Brosche, vergoldet, mit Miniatur-Portrait einer Rokoko-Dame, Feinmalerei
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COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67). The Works, London, 1708-10, 3 vols., 8vo, 33 engraved plates, contemporary calf. Mixed editions. With 14 other works in 32 volumes. (35)COWLEY, Abraham (1618-67). The Works ... Consisting of those Which were formerly Printed; And those which He design'd for the Press; Publish'd out of the Author's Original Copies. With the Cutter of Coleman-Street ... [Vols. I-II] The Eleventh Edition [Vol. III] The Eighth Edition. London: Printed for T. Tonson; and Sold by D. Browne (and others), [Vols. I-II] 1710 [Vol. III] 1708. 3 volumes, 8vo (194 x 120mm). Engraved portrait of the author and 32 plates, including one folding (some light staining and browning, a few darker spots). Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked preserving old lettering pieces). Provenance: The Rt. Hon. Robert d' Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse (armorial bookplate). With 14 other works in 32 volumes, namely Agabito Pei's Vita e Miracoli dei Glorioso S. Antonio da Padoa (Florence, 1633, 8vo, engraved title and portrait, one full-page woodcut, contemporary decorated vellum, spine gilt, stained and worn), Histoire Veritable de la Duchesse de Chatillon (Cologne, chez Pierre Marteau, 1699, 12mo, contemporary red morocco, inscribed "Jack, from Goonie [i.e. Lady Gwendeline Churchill], 31st May 1910 on the occasion of John George's 1st birthday"), John Norris's The Theory and Regulation of Love. A Moral Essay. With Some Motives to the Study and Practice of regular Love, by way of Consideration. To which are added, Letters Philosophical and Moral between the Author and Dr. Henry More ... The Seventh Edition (London, 1723, 8vo, contemporary calf), Henry Fielding's The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews ... The Fifth Edition (London, 1751, 2 vols., 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf), John Vanbrugh's Plays ... In Two Volumes (London, 1759, 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), [Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon's] Le Sopha, Conte Moral. Nouvelle Édition ("A Pekin", chez l'Imprimeur de l'Empereur," [?but Paris], 1762, 2 parts in one vol., small 8vo, 19th-century red calf), Henry Fielding's Amelia (London, 1775, 3 vols., 8vo, later calf preserving old spines), Thomas Warton's Poems. A New Edition, with Additions (London, 1777, large 8vo, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), [Mercier de Saint-Léger Barthélemy's] Quinque illustrium poetarum ... Lusus in venerem partim ex codicibus manuscriptis nunc primùm editi (Paris, "Prostat ad pistrinum in vico suavi", 1791, contemporary calf), William Shakespeare's The Plays ... Accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens (London, 1805, 10 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates by Henry Fuseli, contemporary calf elaborately decorated in gilt, rebacked, heavily rubbed and scuffed, old armorial bookplates of Anthony Eden), [James Beresford's] The Miseries of Human Life ([London, c.1806, 2 vols., [including, bound in at the end of the second vol., Peregrine Bingham's The Poems of Memory, A Poem, in Two Books (London, 1811)], 2 folding engraved frontispieces, one hand-coloured, contemporary calf, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden, with later pencil inscriptions in an unidentified hand regarding provenance at the beginning of the first vol. ("These 2 vols. shd. not have AE's bookplate in them - they belonged to Harold Baker who left them to me ...."_)), Oliver Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World: or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher Residing in London, to his Friends in the East (London, 1809, 2 vols., 8vo, engraved plates, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked, armorial bookplate of William Fawcett), John Selden's The Table Talk ... A New edition, corrected (Chiswick, 1818, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, contemporary turquoise calf gilt, highlighted in pencil throughout with some sparse annotation by Anthony Eden) and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha (London, 1818, 4 volumes, large 8vo, engraved plates by Robert Smirke, contemporary calf, upper board of vol. one detached, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden). The lot sold not subject to return. (35)
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SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter, London, 1951, 8vo, half tone illustrations, original buckram. FIRST ENGLISH ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.SCHMIDT, Paul-Otto (1899-1970). Hitler's Interpreter ... Edited by R. H. C. Steed. London: William Heinemann, 1951. 8vo (213 x 135mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of the author, 10 full-page half tone illustrations. Original red buckram, spine lettered and ruled in gilt (gilt faded, corners lightly rubbed, some very light staining, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST ENGLISH AND ABRIDGED EDITION, A HIGHLY IMPORTANT COPY, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, the front free endpaper is inscribed by Eden in pencil: "Sent to me by Schmidt. A.E." (although the author has not signed or inscribed the copy); on p.24 (commenting on the printed passage 'At noon [?on March 26, 1935] there were refreshments at the British Embassy at which Hitler made an appearance; this was the first time that he had been seen at a foreign embassy'), Eden writes: "No - two years earlier where he met me"; on p.86 (referring to Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Germany from 1937-39): "& yet he was pathetically pro-German"; on p.57 (commenting on the printed passage 'Lloyd George took this opportunity of expressing himself very definitely, if in quite general terms, about the German peace efforts, "which," he said, "have unfortunately been frustrated by the staff talks"'): "he was against them"; on p.88 (the context unclear): "Strange. The [?]Govt. thought they had had a success"; on p.107 (commenting on the printed line 'It was at this moment that the decision in favour of peace was made'): "Hitler had won"; on p.131 (commenting on the printed passage 'Throughout the summer [of 1939] tension in Europe increased daily. Preparations for war were put in hand more or less openly in every country; menaces, warnings, and challenges filled the ether and the columns of the Press'): "Yet [Sir John] Simon persuaded the Cabinet to lay down no [?]destroyers. What did that cost in lives?"; on p.150 (commenting on the printed passage 'In this critical discussion [Sir Nevile Henderson] would have been able to express himself with more clarity and ease in English'): "Foolish"; on p.235 (commenting on the printed line referring to 'the Pact concluded by Soviet Russia with Yugoslavia just before the outbreak of war with that country and Germany'): "It always puzzled me why Stalin did this. I asked him and he replied that they felt sympathy with Yugo & that they knew by then that they would be attacked anyway. The coup d' etat we organised in Belgrade may therefore have helped the German Russian breech"; and on p.237 (commenting on Pearl Harbour and Germany's declaration of war on the United States): "It was a turning point of the war because it made possible a U.S. western strategy." The rear endpapers are filled with Eden's pencil notes referring to various pages in the book, and, occasionally, with his commentary on them [see illustration]; for example: "Page 64. Proof once again of what I told Neville: that Mussolini had already done a deal with Hitler - March 1937 - I put it later. P.211. Date of Hitler's decision to attack Russia ... Page 237. Astonishing that Germans did not know in advance of Pearl Harbour ... Page 265. Morgenthau Plan at Quebec, which I [?]opposed on my arrival before [Cordell] Hull came & to W's [Winston's] exasperation." Schmidt opens his book with the printed sentence: "The first time I interpreted for Hitler was on March 25, 1935, when Sir John Simon and Mr Anthony Eden came to Berlin for talks on the European crisis caused by German re-armament." On pp.18-19, he goes on to give a more detailed printed account of the first meeting of Simon (then British Foreign Minister) and Eden (then Lord Privy Seal) with Hitler in the Reich's Chancellery: "Simon, with his large brown eyes, looked at Hitler with by no means unsympathetic interest as he listened to him. His face naturally expressed a certain paternal benevolence ... On the other hand, I occasionally noticed a rather more sceptical expression flit over the face of Eden, who understood enough German to be able to follow Hitler more or less. Some of Eden's questions and observations showed he had considerable doubts about Hitler and what he was saying. 'There are actually no indications,' he once observed, 'that the Russians have any aggressive plans against Germany.' And in a slightly sarcastic tone he asked: 'On what are your fears actually based?' 'I have rather more experience in these matters than is general in England,' Hitler parried, and added heatedly, throwing out his chin: 'I began my political career just when the Bolshevists were launching their first attack in Germany.' Then he went off again into a monologue on Bolshevists individually and in general which, with translation, lasted until lunch." The editor R. H. C. Steed's printed preface to the book provides an assessment of its author's character and motivations: "... Schmidt saw ... that between hommes de bonne volonté, men of good will, regardless of nationality, even the greatest difficulties could be overcome. Twenty years of unique experience of diplomacy in its most intimate top-level aspect confirmed this opinion, and added to it the conviction that 'the real enemies of mankind are the fanatics, in whatever camp they may be'. Schmidt is at pains to make it clear that he places the Nazis in that category - especially Hitler and Ribbentrop. He is damning and often contemptuous in his judgments of the men for whom he worked so loyally and for so long - and has been criticised on that account. He claims that he was never a Nazi sympathiser, that he merely did his job as a civil servant and expert technician, that he made no secret of his independent outlook and that this was duly noticed against him in his dossier. This account of himself seems to be borne out by the impression he made, among others, on Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin until the outbreak of war. He certainly showed considerable courage of a negative kind in that, despite his very special position, he resisted pressure to join the Nazi Party until 1943 ... I think Schmidt might fairly be described as an enlightened, cosmopolitanised German nationalist, and find it a little hard on him that we have to hand him down to posterity as 'Hitler's Interpreter' and not, perhaps more aptly, as 'Stresemann's Interpreter' - a title to which he has at least an equal claim."
![[SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751-1800), Carl LINNAEUS (1707-78)], and others. An Universal System of Natural History, London, [?1794-1](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9f62f50f-e3e9-488b-bedd-b02f00c8e0e3/70b74a85-9258-44a5-853e-b03000b5820d/468x382.jpg)
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[SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751-1800), Carl LINNAEUS (1707-78)], and others. An Universal System of Natural History, London, [?1794-1808], 14 volumes, 8vo, 401 engraved plates only, 112 hand-coloured, 85 folding, half calf gilt. Sold not subject to return. (14)[SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751-1800, editor), Carl LINNAEUS (1707-78)], and others. [Volumes I - VII titled:] An Universal System of Natural History, including the Natural History of Man; The Orang-Outang; and Whole Tribe of Simia; all the known Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, and Amphibious Animals ... Forming a Magnificent View of the Three Kingdoms of Nature Divided into Distinct Parts, the Characters Separately Described, and Systematically Arranged [Volumes VIII - XIV titled:] A Genuine and Universal System of Natural History; Comprising Three Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, Arranged under their Respective Classes, Orders, Genera, and Species. By the late Sir Charles Linnæus ... Improv'd, Corrected, and Enlarged by J. Frid. Gmelin [etc., etc.]. London: Printed for the Proprietor, and Sold by Champante and Whitrow [with variants to the imprints in other vols.], [?1794-1808]. 14 volumes, 8vo (207 x 130mm). 401 engraved plates only ([?]of 424), of which 112 hand-coloured and 85 folding (vol. one lacking the engraved general title and two "zodiac" plates at the front called for in the list, also lacking the portrait of Linnæus in vol. VII, some variable light spotting, staining and browning, one plate detached, a few plates cropped, a few small holes, one plate torn with loss at corner, a few leaves torn without loss, Qq2 (text leaf) in vol. II with printing flaw). Very attractively bound in later half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped "Linnæus [sic] Natural History" (upper hinges of spine of last vol. broken, some ink spotting to a few spines, most pronounced to that of vol. VIII, lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); some pencil annotation to a few leaves. The decision to colour some plates and not others seems to have been made quite arbitrarily throughout the set: for instance, vols. I and II have no coloured plates, whereas all the plates are coloured in vols. VIII and XIV. Most of the folding plates are coloured. In general, the proportion of coloured and folding plates increases in the later volumes. Individual volumes or short runs of the work occasionally appear at auction or in the trade; the full set of 14 volumes - as here - is rare, and, so far as we can see, unheard of with a full complement of plates. Since many of the volumes are lacking their list of plates, and we have been unable to locate a detailed collation for the work, it is, with regret, sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. (14)
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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, London, 1812, 2 vols., folio, portrait, plan, 82 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary morocco (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. With another book. (3)ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834, publisher) & William COMBE (1742-1823). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, its Antiquities and Monuments. London: Printed for R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 volumes, folio (345 x 285mm). Half titles, engraved portrait of William Vincent, Dean of Westminster, engraved plan, 82 aquatint plates by J. Bluck, T. Sutherland and others after F. Mackenzie, A. Pugin and others, all hand-coloured except one (portrait spotted and creased, title in vol. one browned, some light spotting, staining and browning to 'Introduction', plate 28 detached, with the margins trimmed, not affecting image, some light manly marginal spotting and staining but plates generally clean, plates offset onto text). Contemporary half brown morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers (extremities heavily rubbed and scuffed, spines faded). Provenance: From the Collection of the late Seymour Stein (1942-2023); Ferdinand M. [?]McVeagh (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Abbey Scenery 213, 214; not in Brunet; Hardie English Coloured Books pp.103-4 (calling for 80 aquatint plates only); Lowndes 2880; Tooley 2; Upcott II, 859-68. With a fragment of Rudolph Ackermann's The History of St Paul's School (London, 1816, folio, 2 hand-coloured aquatint plates (only), modern marbled boards). (3)
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QUEEN ELIZABETH, The Queen Mother (1900-2002). A portrait photograph of The Queen Mother with Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, signed "Elizabeth 1927". With other Royal material. Please see the full description. (qty)QUEEN ELIZABETH, the Queen Mother (1900-2002) & QUEEN ELIZABETH II (1926-2022). A photograph of The Queen Mother, seated, with her daughter Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, standing beside her, signed at the foot by the Queen Mother "Elizabeth 1927", the image size 190 x 137mm., framed. With 5 other Royal portrait photographs comprising one of Albert, Duke of York (future George VI) in military uniform, signed "Albert 1919"; another of Queen Mary (1867-1953) and Elizabeth, signed and inscribed, "Mary, Elizabeth, [?]1927"; another of Queen Mary, signed "Mary R. 1948", and also signed in pencil by the photographer Hay Wrightson; another undated oval portrait of Queen Mary signed "Mary R.", undated, in an elaborate frame with the label of Biggs & Sons on the verso; a further portrait of Queen Mary, unsigned and undated; together with an engraved invitation to the Coronation of King George III and Queen Charlotte in 1761, framed and glazed, with an old autograph caption below; an album of late 19th-century photographs, consisting chiefly of portraits and a variety of European architectural views in no particular order (Longleat, Tours, Malta, Rouen, Cologne, Gloucester, Nuremberg, Arundel, Oxford, etc., etc.); another album of 20th-century photographs, both formal and informal, including the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, of Albert, Duke of York (future George VI) on various official duties, mostly overseas, several in New Zealand; of Queen Mary, Earl Haig, including his funeral; of the Queen mother, George V and many others; and an album of Royal "Post Cards". (qty)
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COATS, William Allan (1853-1926) - Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Glasgow, 1904, large 4to, 138 photogravure plates, FINELY BOUND in contemporary turquoise crushed morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION."COATS, William Allan (1853-1926, collector) - Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures of the French, Dutch, British and Other Schools belonging to W. A. Coats. Glasgow: Wm. B. Paterson, 1904. Large 4to (380 x 285mm). Oval portrait on the title, printed in red and black, 138 photogravure plates on india paper, mounted. FINELY BOUND in contemporary turquoise crushed morocco gilt by Maclehose, Glasgow, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities rubbed, some scuffing and scratching, upper inner hinges weak). Provenance: Sir Alexander Kay Muir, Bart. (armorial bookplate); from the Collection of Mr & Mrs Walter Goetz; pencil annotation to front free endpaper and including many prices added to the French School pictures section of the catalogue and to the margins of a few plates. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES "PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION."
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CUNARD, Nancy (1896-1965) - Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-94). A Child's Garden of Verses, London, 1902, 8vo, illustrations, original buckram. INSCRIBED, "From Nancy Cunard, to Antony[sic] Eden, Xmas 1906."CUNARD, Nancy (1896-1965) - Robert Louis STEVENSON (1850-94). A Child's Garden of Verses. London: John Lane, 1902. 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title, frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrations, borders and initials by Charles Robinson. Original plum pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some very faint rubbing to corners, without a dust-jacket [?as issued]). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). The front free endpaper INSCRIBED, "From Nancy Cunard to Antony[sic] Eden, Xmas 1906." Nancy Cunard would have been ten and Anthony Eden nine when she gave this copy to him as a Christmas gift. Cunard was a prolific writer, heiress, political activist, Afrophile and sometime anarchist who devoted much of her life to fighting fascism and racism. Among her many acolytes were Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Man Ray and William Carlos Williams, placing her at the centre of the European avant garde. She was, however, born into a life of wealth and privilege, her father being Sir Bache Cunard, heir to the Cunard shipping line and a baronet, and it was probably through these connections that she met Anthony Eden at such a tender age. RARE as an example of a juvenile gift between two people who would go on to distinguish themselves as adults, albeit in very different fields.
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FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories, London, 1911, square 8vo, original decorated cloth and endpapers designed by Roger Fry. With 14 other works in 15 vols. (16)FORSTER, E. M. (1879-1970). The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories. London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1911. Square 8vo (184 x 135mm). Half title, printer's woodcut ornament, 3-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (some faint browning at gutters). Original grey decorated cloth gilt and grey pictorial endpapers designed by Roger Fry (corners lightly rubbed). The book was issued without a dust-jacket. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the author's first collection of short stories. Other copies are recorded with 4-pages of advertisements at the front, rather than with 3-pages at the end, as here. Bleiler Supernatural Fiction p.75; Kirkpatrick A5a. With 14 other works in 15 volumes, namely Charles J. Darling's Scintillae Juris ... With Frontispiece and Colophon by Frank Lockwood ... Fourth Edition (Enlarged) (London, 1889, 8vo, original parchment wrappers printed in red and black, NUMBER 72 OF 75 "LARGE PAPER" COPIES), George Meredith's Jump to Glory Jane ... Edited and Arranged by Harry Quilter (London, 1892, 8vo, plates and illustrations by Lawrence Housman, one plate detached, original pictorial paper boards by Housman, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES), Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Poems ... With Illustrations from his own Pictures and Designs. Edited with an Introduction and notes by W. M. Rossetti (London, Ellis & Elvey, 1904, 2 vols., 4to, plates by Rossetti, original parchment-backed buckram boards gilt), Edgar Saltus's Vanity Square. A Story of Fifth Avenue Life (Philadelphia, 1906, 8vo, original yellow pictorial cloth, FIRST EDITION, inscribed, "Anthony from Mummie, Feb. 1923", old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), Aldous Huxley's The Defeat of Youth & Other Poems (Oxford, Blackwell, 1918, 8vo, original green decorated wrappers, FIRST EDITION of the author's third book), Ronald Firbank's Santal (London, Grant Richards Ltd., 1921, original mauve wrappers with blue crescent, FIRST EDITION), Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole (Paris, chez Camille Bloch, 1921, 8vo, etched plates by J.-E. Laboureur, original wrappers with printed label on upper wrapper, NUMBER 321 OF 575 COPIES), Francis Bacon's Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion & Disswasion (London, 1924, "The Haslewood Books", 8vo, initials and ornaments, original parchment boards, dust-jacket, NUMBER 253 OF 975 COPIES, book label of Clarissa Churchill printed in red, not found anywhere else in this collection [illustrated]), John Clare's Madrigals & Chronicles Being newly found Poems ... Edited with a Preface and Commentary by Edmund Blunden (London, The Beaumont Press, 1924, 8vo, illustrations by Randolphe Schwabe, original buckram-backed decorated paper boards, NUMBER 377 OF 398 COPIES, old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden), D. H. Lawrence's Glad Ghosts (London, 1926, 8vo, original wrappers, "second impression"), Dylan Thomas's Twenty-Five Poems (London, 1936, 8vo, original boards, without the jacket, reprint, SIGNED "Clarissa Churchill, 1938"), Guillaume Apollinaire's Choix de Poésies. Introduction by C. M. Bowra (London, Horizon, 1945, 8vo, frontispiece portrait of Apollinaire by Picasso, original cloth), Jacques Prévert's Histoires. 30 Poèmes de Jacques Prévert. 30 Poèmes d' André Verdet. 31 Dessins de Mayo (Paris, 1946, 8vo, illustrations, original pictorial wrappers, ONE OF 450 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "pour Clarissa Churchill, Jacques Prévert" with a small drawing of a flower around the 'o' of "Histoire") and Guillaume Apollinaire's Ombre de Mon Amour (Geneva, 1947, 8vo, plates by Juan Gris, original pictorial wrappers, inscribed [to Anthony Eden], "With my love, C[larissa], Paris, May, 1964"). (16)
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VICTORIA, Queen (1819-1901). A document, SIGNED "Victoria R.", appointing William Turner Thiselton-Dyer as a Fellow of the University of London, with a portrait of Queen Victoria, in common mount, framed and glazed, 360 x 445mm., 1887.VICTORIA, Queen (1819-1901). A document on 2-pages, SIGNED at the head by Queen Victoria ("Victoria R."), appointing William Turner Thiselton-Dyer as a Fellow of the University of London, with a portrait of Queen Victoria, in common mount, framed and glazed, 360 x 445mm., 1887. William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843-1928) was an eminent British botanist, author and the third director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. He was a Fellow of the University of London from 1887 to 1890.
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HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Opera omnia, London, 1766, 4to, engraved portrait, plate, contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). "The best collected edition of his works is that published by the College of Physicians, edited by Dr Lawrence, in 1766" (see DNB).HARVEY, William (1578-1657). Opera omnia: a Collegio Medicorum Londinensi edita, edited by Thomas Lawrence and Mark Akenside. [From the colophon:] London: "Excudebat Guilielmus Bowyer," 1766. 4to (285 x 230mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by John Hall after Cornelius Johnson [signed "Jonson" in the engraving], engraved plate, text in Latin throughout, "Emendanda" [i.e. errata] leaf at the end (some mainly light marginal spotting and staining, some heavier staining and spotting to a few leaves, a few signatures starting). Contemporary calf gilt (rebacked with [?]later tan morocco lettering-piece, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, inner hinges reinforced some time ago). Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); "Bruce" (old signature at head of title); one-page typed letter to Professor Jonathan Brostoff, relating to the work, dated 18 April 2007, and signed "Geoff Davenport", loosely-inserted (see illustration). The first work in this collection, in which Harvey outlines for the first time the idea of the circulation of blood, is "Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus" which is described by Garrison & Morton as "[t]he most important book in the history of medicine." (See PMM 127.) "The best collected edition of his works is that published by the College of Physicians, edited by Dr Lawrence, in 1766" (see DNB). Heirs of Hippocrates 444; Keynes 47: "Harvey's chief works in Latin have only twice been printed in a collected form, first by van Kerckherm at Leyden in 1737, and secondly by Bowyer for the Royal College of Physicians in 1766. The latter is an imposing volume with a fine engraved portrait"; Waller 4128; Wellcome III, 220.
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WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903). Eden versus Whistler, Paris, 1899, large 8vo, original boards. FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, with the old armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden. With another book by Whistler, and a related album. (3)WHISTLER, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903). Eden versus Whistler. The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict. Paris: Louis-Henry May, 1899. Large 8vo (203 x 160mm). Wood-engraved decorations by Whistler. Original mustard-yellow cloth-backed decorated boards gilt, uncut (edges rubbed, corners bumped). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. In 1892, Sir William Morton Eden, 7th Baronet (1849-1915), commissioned Whistler to paint a portrait of his wife, Lady Eden. This resulted in an extended dispute over the price and a court case which Eden eventually won, although it led to Whistler destroying the painting and publishing the present work in revenge. Anthony Eden was William Eden's third son. With the same author's The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (London, reprinted 1909, original cloth-backed boards gilt), and an album containing contemporary newspaper clippings announcing Sir William Eden's death in 1915, many of which give a full account of the affair with Whistler. (3)
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MORICE, Charles (1861-1919). Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1919, 4to, plates, later red cloth, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED by Anthony Eden. With 3 other related books. (4)MORICE, Charles (1861-1919). Paul Gauguin. Paris: H. Floury, 1919. 4to (265 x 200mm). Half title, heliogravure portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé by Gauguin at p.82, plates, some mounted. Later red cloth, spine with white suede lettering-piece, original upper pictorial wrapper bound in at the end, new endpapers. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ANTHONY EDEN on the front free endpaper, "This book was bought by me about 1920 (bound 1920). About this first date my brother and I attempted to club together to buy, I think, 'Nevermore', but we could not raise the money, £2000. A. April, 1963." Gaugin's painting 'Nevermore' is illustrated on p.198 of the book and here. With 3 other books of related interest, namely Ludwig Goldscheider's El Greco (London, 1949, 4to, plates, some coloured and mounted, original cloth, second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Clarissa Churchill with kindest regards, London, 29 June, 1951, Ludwig Goldscheider"), Bernard Berenson's The Italian Painters of the Renaissance (London, 1952, 4to, plates and illustrations, some coloured and mounted, original hessian boards, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "For Clarissa and Anthony from Cl. C [possibly Clementine Churchill], Christmas 1952") and André Grabar's La Peinture Byzantine (Geneva, 1953, 4to, mounted coloured plates and illustrations, original green cloth, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "Anthony Eden, for the London Conference, from Clarissa, Paris, October 1954"). (4)
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The Lord of Hardivyle. An Historical Legend, [London], 1800, 12mo (lacks all before title and all after final text leaf), boards (rubbed). FIRST EDITION. RARE. With 8 other works in 11 vols. The lot sold not subject to return. (12)The Lord of Hardivyle. An Historical Legend of the Fourteenth Century. [London:] "Printed for W. Trespass, No. 31, St. Martin's Le-Grand. J. Rider, Printer, Little-Britain," 1800. 12mo (190 x 110mm). (Lacks all before title and all after the final text leaf [i.e. possibly lacking a half title at the front or blanks], corner torn away from title without loss of letters, some staining.) Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, uncut (rebacked some time ago, rubbed, bumped). Provenance: old bookplate removed from front pastedown; illegible old signature and initials on title; illegible old signature or pen trial at margin of F6; some old pencil annotation. FIRST EDITION. The author is unknown. RARE. With 8 other works in 11 vols., namely Matthew Smith's Memoirs of Secret Service (London, for A. Baldwin, 1699, 8vo, lacks all before title, unbound), Hugh Gaston's A Scripture Account of the Faith and Practice of Christians (Dublin, 1763, 8vo, contemporary calf), Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield's Letters Written ... to his Son ... The fifth edition (London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1774, 4 vols., 8vo, engraved portrait, contemporary calf, joints split, rubbed), John Lightfoot's Flora Scotica: or, a Systematic Arrangement, in the Linnæn Method, of the Native Plants of Scotland and the Hebrides (London, 1777, vol. one (only, of 2), 8vo, engraved botanical and ornithological plates [re. the ornithological plates: "The first part of the book is a sketch of Caledonian Zoology, compos'd by Mr. Pennant" (from the Preface)], boards, lacks spine), John Scott's Paris Revisited, in 1815, by Way of Brussels: including a Walk over the Field of Battle at Waterloo (London, 1816, 8vo, contemporary half calf, upper cover detached), The Trials of James, Duncan, and Robert M'Gregor, Three Sons of the Celebrated Rob Roy (Edinburgh, J. Hay and Co., 1818, 8vo, contemporary half calf, heavily rubbed), John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expository of the English Language (London, 1823, large 8vo, original boards, printed spine label) and Barbara Hofland's The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East, and his Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petræa, etc., etc. (London, John Harris, 1826, 8vo, 6 engraved plates, each with 2 subjects, one text leaf torn and repaired with severe loss, calf-backed printed paper boards, worn). The lot sold not subject to return. (12)
![SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, [E. & J. Wright, 1807], folio, engraved p](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/9f62f50f-e3e9-488b-bedd-b02f00c8e0e3/04232263-4101-4ace-9399-b03000b668d8/468x382.jpg)
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SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, [E. & J. Wright, 1807], folio, engraved portrait, contemporary boards (worn). The first facsimile edition of Shakespeare's first folio. With 3 other related works in 12 vols. (13)SHAKESPEARE, William (1564-1616). Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Originall Copies. London: "Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount, 1623" [but London: E. & J. Wright, 1807]. Folio (385 x 240mm). Engraved portrait on the title, printed in double column (title browned and stained with repairs to corners, some lighter mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary green calf-backed boards (rubbed, edges worn). Provenance: "This reprint of the 1st folio has been checked and collated throughout. [?]J. Scott" (pencil inscription and signature to front free endpaper); a few pencil annotations to the text. The first facsimile edition of Shakespeare's first folio. With 3 other related works in 12 vols., namely The History of Sir John Oldcastle, the Good Lord Cobham. By Mr William Shakespear (London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1734, 12mo, engraved frontispiece, later boards), The Works of Shakespear. In Which the Beauties observed by Pope, Warburton, and Dodd, are pointed out (Edinburgh, Printed by A. Donaldson, 1771, 8 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, some covers detached, other joints split, rubbed) and Shakspeare's Dramatic Works ... A New Edition (Dublin, 1791, 3 vols., 8vo, edited by Samuel Ayscough, 2 engraved portraits, contemporary calf gilt, worn, one cover detached, another lacking and replaced with a modern board). The lot sold not subject to return. (13)
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HULL, Cordell (1871-1955). The Memoirs, New York, 1948, 2 vols., large 8vo, original non-uniform buckram. Mixed editions. IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed, "To Hon. Anthony Eden, with admiration and sincerest friendship, Cordell Hull." (2)HULL, Cordell (1871-1955). The Memoirs. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1948. 2 volumes, large 8vo (209 x 140mm). Half titles, half tone portrait frontispiece (some leaves creased at corners). Original non-uniform buckram, the first vol. in plum buckram, the second in black buckram (without the dust-jackets). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted); an illegible note in Eden's hand to the final free endpaper of vol. one; some highlighting to the text; a sheet of paper indistinctly inscribed by Eden in pencil loosely-inserted in vol. one. Vol. one a FIRST EDITION, "first printing"; vol. II a "second printing". IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper of vol. one inscribed, "To Hon. Anthony Eden, with admiration and sincerest friendship, Cordell Hull." Cordell Hull was the longest serving United States Secretary of State, holding the position from 1933 to 1944, including working in the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1945 principally for his key role in establishing the United Nations. (2)
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BYRON, Lord (1788-1824). The Poetical Works ... A New Edition, London, 1855-56, 6 volumes, large 8vo, attractively bound in full contemporary calf gilt. (6)BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord (1788-1824). The Poetical Works ... A New Edition. London: John Murray, 1855-56. 6 volumes, large 8vo (211 x 140mm). Half titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Byron in vol. one (occasional light spotting and staining). Attractively bound in full contemporary calf gilt, the spines elaborately decorated in gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed, some scuffing to covers). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). (6)
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DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred (1870-1945). Poems, Paris, 1896, 8vo, portrait of the author, early 20th-century tan half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf. FIRST EDITION. With the same author's Autobiography (London, 1929). (2)DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred (1870-1945). Poems [Poèmes]. Paris: Published by the Mercure de France, 1896. 8vo (182 x 118mm). Heliographed portrait of the author by Dujardin after Walter Spindler inserted as a frontispiece before the French title, titles in English and French, the original poems in English, the parallel prose versions in French (lightly browned at margins). Early 20th-century half tan morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, top edges gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, original wrappers in English and French bound in. Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted); T. H. Baker (pencil signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, published during the author's self-imposed exile in France after the trial and conviction of Oscar Wilde in 1895. Wilde is known to have owned a copy during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol. In his Autobiography (1929, p.130) - a copy of which is included in the lot (see below) - the author writes of his Poems (1896): "I do not myself possess a single copy of the book. Of those I had I gave away many, and the rest have disappeared. [Footnote: Since I wrote this my friend, Mr. A. J. A. Symons, has kindly presented me with a copy.] The book has been out of print for at least twenty years. One thousand copies were printed." With the same author's Autobiography (London, Martin Secker, 1929, large square 8vo, portrait frontispiece, original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, without a dust-jacket [?as issued], FIRST EDITION). (2)
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HARRISON, George (1943-2001) - Concert for George, Guildford, Genesis Publications Limited, 2004, 4to, coloured and monochrome photographs, various inserts [see below], original goatskin gilt, box. NUMBER 24 OF 350 DELUXE COPIES SIGNED BY OLIVIA HARRISON.HARRISON, George (1943-2001) - Concert for George. The Royal Albert Hall, London, November 29th 2002. Edited by Olivia Harrison & Brian Roylance. Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2004. 4to (320 x 230mm). Full-page photographed portrait of George Harrison, coloured and monochrome photographed illustrations, a facsimile ticket to the concert mounted on the verso of the second limitation leaf, [?]original 4-page programme for the concert loosely-inserted in a pocket at the end, an envelope containing 2 sheets each with 4 coloured photographs of performers and numbered 24/350 and indistinctly signed, an original "facsimile of the poster signed [i.e. in facsimile] by the participating musicians". Original half terracotta padded goatskin gilt, the upper cover lettered in gilt and decorated with a circular blue floral motif, gilt edges, in original box (some rubbing with slight loss to gilt letters of "George" on the lid of the original box). FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION, limited to a total of 2,500 copies, THIS NUMBER 24 OF 350 "DELUXE" COPIES SIGNED BY OLIVIA HARRISON, wife of George Harrison from 1978 until his death.
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STIMSON, Henry Lewis (1867-1950). The Far Eastern Crisis, New York, 1936, large 8vo, half tone frontispiece portrait and plates, original buckram. Second edition. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to Anthony Eden.STIMSON, Henry Lewis (1867-1950). The Far Eastern Crisis. Recollections and Observations. New York: Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Large 8vo (238 x 160mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece, titled printed in orange and black, plates. Original dark green buckram, spine lettered in gilt (gilt faded, without the dust-jacket). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (modern armorial bookplate loosely-inserted). Second edition. IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "My dear Mr Eden, This is a poor return for the charming and most helpful address that I listened to last evening, but at least it is the effort of one who labored hard when in office, for the Anglo-American understanding which are you doing now so much to promote. With best wishes for a Merry Xmas, Cordially yours, Henry L. Stimson, Dec. 16, 1938. The Right Honorable Anthony Eden M.C", with a bookmark loosely inserted inscribed, "pp.87-109 cover the incident which we discussed last evening. H.L.S[imson]." The part of the book referred to in the bookmark's inscription is headed "China Appeals to the League Assembly for Judgment." The author, in a long and distinguished career in American politics, served as Secretary of War from 1911 to 1913 under President Taft, Secretary of State from 1929 to 1933 under President Hoover and Secretary of War from 1940 to 1945 under both Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, overseeing military events during World War II.
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VAN ALPHEN, Hieronymous (1746-1803). Kleine Gedichten voor Kinderen, Utrecht, 1787 [?but later], small 8vo, engraved portrait of the author, title with vignette, 66 plates, contemporary calf. With a miniature Almanac (Utrecht, 1836). (2)VAN ALPHEN, Hieronymous (1746-1803). Kleine Gedichten voor Kinderen. Utrecht: Bij de Wed. J. van Terveen en Zoon, 1787 [?but later]. Small 8vo (124 x 72mm). Half title, engraved portrait of the author, title with engraved allegorical vignette, signed by the publisher at the foot of the last page of the preface, 66 engraved plates (some mainly marginal spotting or staining, a few text leaves cropped or shaved, one signature detached). Contemporary calf gilt, spine with red morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, marbled endpapers ([?]skilfully rebacked, extremities rubbed). Provenance: publisher's/bookseller's label on front pastedown. Hesselink & Kerssemakers The Children's World of Learning 407; Huiskamp A130. With Miniatuur-Almanak, voor het Schrikkeljaar (Utrecht, 1836, 49 x 35mm., title with woodcut ornament, 2 woodcut plates, contemporary green morocco gilt). (2)
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EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Silva, London, 1776, 4to, 40 plates (lacks portrait), calf (rebacked). EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by A. Hunter to his son. With another edition in 2 vols. (3)EVELYN, John (1620-1706) & Alexander HUNTER (1729-1809, editor). Silva: Or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions ... Together with An Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves ... With Notes by A. Hunter. York: Printed by A. Ward for J. Dodsley (and others), 1776. 4to (297 x 235mm). 40 engraved plates, including one folding, folding letterpress table at the end (lacking portrait, some light browning and offsetting of plates onto text, occasional light spotting and staining, final leaf of index torn without loss). Contemporary calf (rebacked, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: some early informed ink annotation to folding letterpress table. EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "To Master George Hunter from his affectionate Father, A: Hunter." cf. Brunet II, 233; Henrey 137; Keynes 98; Nissen BBI 615. With another edition of the same work in 2 vols. (1812), with portrait and plates, bound in contemporary diced calf. (3)
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ELLIS, Henry (1788-1855). Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China, London, 1817, 4to, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved maps only (lacks folding map), calf (worn). FIRST EDITION. With another related book (incomplete). (2)ELLIS, Henry (1788-1855). Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China; Comprising a Correct Narrative of the Public Transactions of the Embassy. Of the Voyage to and from China, and of the Journey from the Mouth of the Pei-Ho to the Return to Canton. Interspersed with Observations upon the Face of the Country, the Polity, Moral Character, and Manners of the Chinese Nation. London: Printed by John Murray, 1817. 4to (264 x 210mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Lord Amherst, 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark after Charles Abbot, 2 engraved maps only (of 3, lacking the large folding map), errata leaf at the end (frontispiece spotted, the maps browned and spotted, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining but the aquatint plates generally very clean). 19th-century calf gilt decorated in blind (worn, covers detached along with the frontispiece, title and errata leaf). FIRST EDITION. In the "Directions for Placing the Drawings" the entry for the folding map, lacking from this copy, has been deleted with a series of small printed typographical ornaments [illustrated], as if amended by the printer. This map is often lacking: was it, perhaps, removed from later printings? and, if so, why? Abbey Travel 536; Cordier Sinica III, 2393; not in Hardie; Hill I, 94; Prideaux pp.250-1; Tooley 208. With Edward Daniel Clarke's Travels to Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa ... Part the Second. Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Section the Second [only] (London, 1814, 4to, engraved plates and maps, some folding, contemporary calf with [volume] "3" stamped in gilt on the spine, worn, upper cover detached). The lot sold not subject to return. (2)
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BRYANT, Arthur (1899-1985). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943, London, 1957, 8vo, original black buckram. FIRST EDITION, ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. With another book by Bryant. (2)BRYANT, Arthur Wynne Morgan (1899-1985). The Turn of the Tide 1939-1943. A Study based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke. London: Collins, April 1957. 8vo (208 x 132mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke, maps, 2 full-page. Original black buckram, spine lettered in gilt (some faint white staining, without the dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, third impression. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED MAINLY IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT. For example, on p.48 (commenting on the printed passage 'Not until the anxious summer of 1938 ... had the possibility of sending two of its five divisions to the Continent in the event of a German war been considered'), Eden writes: "I raised [the] matter several times while still in Govt."; on p.53 (commenting on the printed passage 'Those at home were thinking in terms, not of the swift mechanised and air warfare of the mid-twentieth century, but of the huge troglodyte armies and continuous trench-lines of twenty years before): "Were they? I was clamouring [?in] cabinet for armour"; on p.78 (commenting on Giffard Le Quesne Martel, Commander of the 50th Northumbria Division): "Very much a Winston man. Winston was always pushing him"; on p.83 (commenting on the printed passage 'Despite repeated requests for it Britain's only armoured division was still at home awaiting its long-promised equipment'): "I used to ask about it at Cabinet after Cabinet. Minutes may show this. Winston would remember; he recalled the matter to me"; on p.169 (commenting on the 'Inter-Allied plan to hold Brittany'): "De Gaulle advocated this plan. I had never understood [sic] it was approved. [Maxime] Weygand & [Alphonse Joseph] Georges were there"; on p.192 (on the formation of 'The Home Guard'): "In fact W. [Winston] had nothing whatever to do with raising of Home Guard. The plans had been made before I reached [the] W.O. I decided to make the broadcast myself & did so. W. did not [illegible word] with this matter at all until later & then [illegible word] about the name"; on p.308 (on Admiral Dudley Pound): "Splendid old boy. W. went wrong when he did not heed him - e.g. [illegible word]"; and with heavy annotation to rear endpapers, some possibly in preparation for a speech ("Tell the story of the mistaken message for invasion of Britain ...") ; and with an autograph note loosely-inserted, with one partly indecipherable note written (unusually) in ink: "Resignation speech care about Spain & not affording [?]cover to double crossing." [sic]. With the same author's Triumph in the West 1943-1946. Based on the Diaries and Autobiographical Notes of Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke (London, 1950, original red buckram, FIRST EDITION, without any annotation or highlighting, but with a loosely-inserted note with Eden's pencil annotation). (2)
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SPEARS, E. L. (1886-1974). Prelude to Victory, London, 1940, 8vo, plates and maps, original buckram. FIRST EDITION, second impression. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT.SPEARS, Edward Louis, 1st Baronet (1886-1974). Prelude to Victory ... With an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. London: Jonathan Cape, January 1940. Large 8vo (222 x 146mm). Half title, half tone portrait frontispiece of the author, 30 half tone plates, 5 folding maps, other maps in the text. Original mauve buckram, spine lettered in gilt, uncut (spine a little faded, light stain to upper cover and spine, some very light scratching to lower cover, without a dust-jacket). FIRST EDITION, second impression, of this account of the last two years of the First World War. ANNOTATED AND HIGHLIGHTED IN PENCIL BY ANTHONY EDEN THROUGHOUT, often in scathing terms of the British wartime leadership in general and of General Hubert Gough in particular. For example, on p.40 (commenting on the printed passage 'Another point in General Nivelle's favour was that Mr Lloyd George liked the shape of his head. He was a great believer in his own powers as a phrenologist'), Eden writes: "He liked Nivelle's but not Neville's 'pin-head'"; on p.73 (commenting on the printed passage 'The personnel of the G.Q.C. changed more often than ours, for their large body of staff officers enabled them to enforce a rule that brooked no exception, whereby each staff officer before being promoted to a higher grade must serve six months with the fighting troops'): "A very good rule. We should have had it"; on p.604 (commenting on the passage 'General Gough ... allowed himself to stake far too heavily upon what the tanks might accomplish'): "Gough was always doing this. His men had to pay"; on p.605: "Haig was always backing Gough - that was why 1917 was such a mess ..."; on p.610 (commenting on the passage 'The 4th Division lost over 3000 officers and men'): "Yet Gough was not sacked!"; and on the same page: "It was not the fault of the tanks but of Cavalry Generals, who, like Spears, had never spent 24 hours in a trench." Woods A Bibliography of the Works of Winston Churchill B33.
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