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Lot 196
Deutsche Grammophon original 1st German pressings. Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben Op.40 Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, 138025 ST33 SLPM, Dimitri Schostakowitsch Sinfonie Nr.5 op.47, Sinfonie-Orchester der Nationalen Philharmonie Warschau, Dirigent: Witold Rowicki, 138031 ST 33 SLPM. Hector Berlioz La Damnationo de Faust, 138 100 A ST33 SLPM All bear a red sticker stating Stereo Compatible.
Lot 76
Braun, Georg; Hogenberg, FranzLondinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis. First published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, c.1570. Hand-coloured. Latin text to verso.The earliest town plan of London, this map uses a view perhaps unique to maps, a flat-plane city strangely angled to show the major buildings, though with no regard to perspective. This was published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, itself the first collection of printed town maps. There are various states of the map identified. This is likely an intermediate state between the first state and the final state in 1574. The spelling of Westminster has changed to "West Muster" (from "West Mester") but it does not show the Royal Exchange or bear the words "Cum Privilegio" in the lower right corner. The map was produced for the Hanseatic League, and their headquarters in London (the Steelyard) is described in the lower right corner. It was hoped to attract Royal favour from Mary - hence the Royal Barge in the centre of the river - and emphasise the importance of the League - hence the ostenatious ignoring of the impressive halls of the Livery Companies. Intriguingly, the original map must have drawn on information acquired earlier than its publication date. Several details would have changed by the time of publication, such as the spire of St Paul's (destroyed in 1561); the cross in St Botolph's without Bishopgate churchyard (lost in 1559); and the identifying of York Place as "Suffolke Place" (re-named 1557). This map was most likely derived from a much larger plan commissioned by the League, but only three sheets survive from this version. This is thus a hugely significant source on early modern London and its development, presented here in an attractive hand-coloured state.
Lot 244A
The Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology c.45 reprint requests for articles (or thanks for sending same) to Drs William Bolton, Michael Reedy and Francis Crick at the MRC LMB, during the mid-60s (principally 1966), most pro forma postcards with appropriate stamps and postmarks, from various countries. An intriguing glimpse at the nature of scientific collaboration through its knowledge sharing network, against an implicit background of international paranoia at the height of the Cold War. Despite the secretive nature of their respective governments, information sharing (mostly from the West to the East) still took place, allowing the critical cross-pollination of ideas between scientists and labs in the same and related fields. This information sharing was often a source of concern for Western politicians, secret police and military leaders, given the hostile nature of foreign relations across the Curtain, but its continued existence was a point of pride to the scientific community at large. The existence of the war can be seen in small details, such as the requests from Germany. Two bear the marks of the Bundespost, three DDR stamps - and on one of these the printed request is translated in English, German, and Russian. There are other requests from Poland and Czechoslovakia. Amongst the more typical veterinary, microbiological and cancer researchers are Knud Max Moller of the Carlsbeg Labaratorium and Malcolm Schrader of the US Naval Applied Science Laboratory and even members of the Israeli Soreq Nuclear Research Establishment and the Space Sciences Laboratory. The cards help show the spread of ideas from the LMB outwards across the world, as well as showing the other scientists inspired by the Laboratory's work. They give an alternative angle on the history of science by demonstrating how information travelled before instantaneous communications and by showing how work in one field could influence researchers in another.
Lot 194
More (Thomas). Epigrammata clarissimi dissertissimique viri Thomae Mori Britanni ad emendatum exemplar ipsius autoris excusa, [edited by Beatus Rhenanus], Basel: Johann Froben, December 1520, 116pp., woodcut historiated title border by Hans Holbein the Younger, Roman and Greek types, historiated initials, printer's device at end, old and mostly light but occasionally heavy damp-staining, neat Elizabethan signature and motto inscription of Thomas Butt[e]s below device at end, 'Soyez sage et simple : id est : Be wyse and playne', armorial bookplate (browned) of George Becher Blomfield, now lifted and loose to reveal a second armorial bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple, bookplate browning offset to later blank front free endpapers, all edges stained red, 18th-century calf with original English early 16th century upper and lower panels inlaid, each with roll-tooled twin-head medallions and ornamental decorations [Oldham Trip. 13 & HM. 19 respectively], upper cover with blind-stamp monogram 'TB', heavily rubbed, leather loss to lowest spine compartment, 4to (209 x 154mm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: 1) Thomas Butts (ownership signature, holograph family motto and binding monogram stamp); 2) Arthur Dalrymple (bookplate); 3) George Becher Blomfield (bookplate). 1) Thomas Butts was the son of Sir William Butts the Elder (c. 1486-1545), physician to Henry VIII and the subject of Hans Holbein the Younger's well-known portrait (1543), held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Sir William had three children: Sir William Butts of Thornage (c. 1506-1583), Edmund Butts of Barrow and the middle brother, Thomas Butts of Great Riburgh, Norfolk. Thomas is notable for being one of Richard Hakluyt's primary sources for his account of the English merchant and navigator Richard Hore's early voyage in 1536 to the coast of what is now Newfoundland, where his passengers allegedly engaged in cannibalism in order to survive. Hakluyt interviewed Butts some fifty years after the voyage, by which time he was very elderly and the only survivor. Hakluyt, citing Thomas Butts, says there were two ships, the Trinity , 140 tons, Capt. Hore, on which Butts sailed, and the Minion (for the William ?). With the king’s goodwill they carried 30 gentlemen on 'a voyage of discoverie upon the Northwest parts of America'. Hore took his ships to Cape Breton and then coasted southern and eastern Newfoundland to Penguin (Funk) Island, where they killed great auk and bear. At the conclusion of the voyage we learn that: 'They arrived at St. Ives in Cornewall about the ende of October. From thence they departed unto a certain Castle belonging to Sir John Luttrell, where M. Thomas Butts and M. Rastall and other Gentlemen of the voyage were very friendly entertained; after that they came to the Earle of Bathe at Bathe, and thence to Bristoll, so to London. M. Butts was so changed in the voyage with hunger and miserie that Sir William his father and my Lady his mother knew him not to be their sonne, until they found a secret marke which was a wart upon one of his knees, as hee told me Richard Hakluyt of Oxford himselfe, to whom I rode 200 miles only to learn the whole truth of this voyage from his own mouth, as being the only man now alive that was in this discoverie', (Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations , Glasgow, 1904, vol. 8, p. 7). 2) Arthur Dalrymple, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and collector of Norfolk portraits, clerk of the peace for Norwich from 1856, and secretary of the Norwich Waterworks Company. 3) George Becher Blomfield (1801-1885) was a canon of Chester Cathedral, a position he held until his death in 1885. From 1834 until 1874 he was rector of Stevenage in Hertfordshire. During his lifetime, Blomfield published a number of sermons and was also a collector of early printed books and fine bindings, concentrating mainly on bibles, prayer or service books and some theological works. After the death of his widow, Elizabeth, in 1897, Mollington Hall and its library reverted to members of the Feilden family. Blomfield’s collection was sold at auction by Sotheby’s in 1906 on the instructions of Guy Feilden. The binding incorporates different heads-in-medallion panels on the upper and lower covers. Oldham identified three known examples of HM. 19, always used with TRIP. 13, located at U.L.C. Rel. C. 52. 1 (1525), Shrewsbury A. IX. 31 (1534) and York VI. P. 22 (1543). 'The panels HM. 18 and 19 have all the features that have been mentioned as indicating English work, and therefore all five panels, TRIP. 12 and 13, HM. 17, 18 and 19, seem certain to have been engraved in England and by the same die-cutter, quite probably at Oxford', (J.B. Oldham, Bind Panels of English Binders , (CUP, 1958), p. 49). Oldham also notes that the heads-in-medallion panels he describes rarely show any originality, 'except for TRIP. 12 and 13, which have two pairs of heads with a supper party scene between them', (ibid., p. 26). Adams M-1753; Gibson 57; VD-16 M-6296. First separate and definitive edition of More's Epigrams, establishing the authorial text and augmented with eleven new poems. It follows two editions printed by Froben in 1518 for whose errors he apologised to More, promising to reprint it more carefully. More himself revised the text, omitted two poems (one on political grounds) and added eleven new ones, including four personal poems.
Lot 142
Bergomo (Petri de) . Tabula Aurea... in Omnia opera Divi Thomae Aquiniatis eiusdem ordinis, Rome, Apud haeredes Antonii Bladii, & Joannem Osmarinum Lilotum socios, 1571 (colophon dated 1570), title with large woodcut device, and 3 early circular ownership stamps, 2 of which bear the initials CVPF, woodcut initials, text in double column, some occasional light browning and marginal waterstain to fore-edges at front of volume, final leaf with printer's woodcut device and colophon to verso, contemporary limp vellum, rubbed and some marks, one or two short tears to spine, folio, together with 4 other 16th century theological folios: Historiae Aloysii Lipomani Episcopi Veronensis, De vitis Sanctorum, Louvain, Martin Verhasselt, 1572, Pietro Canisio, Opus Catechistucum, sive De Summa Doctrinae Christianae, editio ultima, Paris, Thomas Brumennium, 1579, St. Anselm, Opera, Cologne, Apud Maternum Cholinum, 1573, and one other, all bound in contemporary calf (except St. Anselm bound in contemporary vellum), some wear with several covers detached, thick folio (Qty: 4)
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Lot 254
Bible [English]. The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, Newly translated out of the originall Tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and revised by his Majesties speciall Command, London: John Field, 1658, engraved general title (with Moses & Aaron, and view of London) and letterpress New Testament title (NT title cropped at head and with short closed tear), general toning and few marks, slight close trimming, manuscript ownership inscriptions to front & rear blanks for Susan Agas 1680, Catherine Boys 1752, Nicholas Ball, Christ College Cambridge and Constance Susannah Crawford 1897 etc., all edges gilt, upper hinge split, early 19th century straight grain morocco, elaborate gilt decoration, extremities rubbed, 24mo in 12s (leaf size 11.3 x 6.1cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESHerbert 663; Darlow & Moule 521. There are two distinct 24mo Bible of 1658, which both bear J. Field's imprint. It is possible that, while one of these is really Field's production, the other is a foreign or pirated edition. But it is not easy to determine which is the 'genuine', and which the 'spurious' Bible. This version lacks the words Appointed... on the general title.
Lot 297
* Colonna (Fabrizio, 1450-1520). Letter signed, 'Fabritio Colonna/Manu pp.', Naples, 16 May 1517, issued as Constable to an unnamed recipient, re-appropriating the stipend due to one Riparo after the conclusion of his one year's term as vicar, written in fine italic hand on laid paper, signed by or in the name of the secretary 'Tyber Phell', papered seal, wax cracked, some biopredation affecting the head line and the papered borders of the seal, small worm holes and short tracks in the body of text with little loss of sense, a little spotting, partly laid down to a modern mount, folio (28.5 x 21 cm), together with Cesarini (Alessandrol, died 1542, Cardinal) , Letter signed, Chiaravalle, 10 October, 1539, in Italian in an italic hand on laid paper, in translation 'I thank Your Grace most sincerely for the favour you have shown me, and for the permission you have granted for me to be away, for which I am in every respect most grateful. I think it pleasing to God to leave here for Rome in two or three days, and so should anything occur to you in which I can be of service, I beg Your Grace to bear in mind to call on me and to make use of me whenever you have the need, for this will give me the greatest satisfaction, and you will find that at all times my wish and desire is to serve you, and to your Grace's favour I humbly commend myself', each one page with endorsed integral blank addressed 'Al... Car. Dedi Carpi legato della Marca', a little spotting, tipped on to card mounts, folio (290 x 215 mm) (Qty: 3)NOTESFabrizio Colonna, the High Constable of Naples was a member of the powerful Colonna family. He is the main speaker in Machiavelli's The Art of War and is referenced throughout the book as an authority on both classical and current military structure, strategy and tactics. He was hailed by Arisoto as 'Gran Colonna del nome romano', Orlando Furioso , Canto XIV. The present signature is reproduced by Palermo, Isografia... , 1870, tav. VIII, 4, but incorrectly identified as that of the naturalist Fabio Colonna (together with what appears to be the naturalist's real signature). Ghinucci was Secretary to Pope Julius II. He was involved with Silvester Pirerias, in the papal reaction to Martin Luther after 1518, and was an active participant in both the Fifth Lateran Council and the Council of Trent. Cesarini, a lawyer attached to the Medici family, was created a Cardinal by Pope Leo X.
Lot 2004
A Pair of Diamond Cluster Earrings, a central old cut diamond with two rows of old cut diamonds around, in yellow crimped and claw settings, total estimated diamond weight 0.90 carat approximately, with post fittings see illustration. The earrings are in good condition - although only one butterfly is present. They bear no hallmark, nor stamp, but in our opinion they would test as gold. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; colour I/J/K, clarity I1/I2/I3. Gross weight 4.4 grams. CR made 17th July 2019.
Lot 2094
A Pair of Amethyst and Diamond Drop Earrings, two rose cut diamonds in white claw and rubbed over settings terminate a swirl at both ends, surmounted by a round brilliant cut amethyst in a yellow millegrain setting, drop length 4cm, with hook fittings see illustration . The earrings are in good condition. They bear no hallmark nor stamp. Gross weight 2.68 grams. CR made 18.07.19.
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