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Early 17th century AD. A leather-bound volume composed of parchment leaves, containing psalms written in Ge'ez in black and red ink on ruled lines, some pages written in two columns of text; including eight full page polychrome figural paintings relating to the miracles of Virgin Mary, four at the front and four at the back; twenty gathers sewn onto wooden boards, blind tooled decoration to the front and back cover composed of a Christian cross within geometric borders. Cf. Budge, E.A.W., The miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and The life of Hannâ (Saint Anne), and The magical prayers of ?Ah?ta Mîkâêl, London, 1900. 1.95 kg, 26 x 18.5 x 8.5cm (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 3 1/2"). Ex central London gallery. Private collection of Professor Rougeot, Museum d'histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, until 2011. (Prof. Rougeot collected butterflies in Ethiopia for scientific purposes"). Accompanied by a copy of a detailed academic report on the piece. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.11133-184114. The manuscript paintings illustrate the miracles of the Virgin Mary. The first miniature represents the Last Supper, Jesus standing before a table accompanied by six Apostles, one of whom is kissing His hand; the second miniature represents the history of Abbas, Bishop of Rome, who having committed sin by embracing a woman before administering the Holy Mysteries, retired to the vestry and cut off his right hand, before prostrating himself in front of an icon of the Virgin, who forgave and healed him; the third miniature represents the Holy Virgin among the archangels Raguel, Michael and Gabriel; the fourth miniature represents the Roman deacon Anastasius praying to the Virgin Mary and the Divine Child; the fifth miniature shows Mary standing in prayer at the grave of Jesus Christ, who, risen from the dead, addresses and blesses His Mother, whilst the guards watching the Sepulchre sleep; the sixth miniature represents the Virgin Mary who appears to one of her servants, and in reply to his words 'Blessed art thou among women' says 'And blessed art thou also among men'; the seventh miniature again represents the Last Supper, or Jesus among the Apostles; the last miniature represents the Virgin Mary with one of Her servants, receiving blessings from a Saint. [No Reserve] [A video of this lot is available to view on Timeline Auctions Website.] Fine condition.
Captain William Cornwallis-HarrisWILD SPORTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICALondon: Henry G Bohn, 1852FIFTH EDITION, 8vo, xvi + 359pp, frontis + 24 plates, one fold out map, rebound in brown cloth with gilt and blind tooling, light wear, all edges gilt, light wear and soiling, corners bumped, fold line in center of spine, frontis backed with loss along gutter edge, foxing and tanning in prelims, light foxing on platesPROVENANCEJürgen Witt Collection
Thomas BainesEXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICASalisbury: The Pioneer Head, 1973 (Heritage Series Volume 6)COLLECTORS' EDITION #15 of 90 of 1000, FACSIMILE REPRINT of 1864 edition, 8vo, XII + xiv + 535pp, chromolithograph frontis + 8 B&W plates + 3 folding maps + 4 additional colour plates and frontis, quarter red morocco with green cloth and gilt and blind tooling, top edge gilt, slipcase, spine faded, light wear to slipcasePROVENANCEJürgen Witt Collection
Rémy Zaugg (Courgenay 1943 – 2005 Basel). „SCHAU,/ICH BIN/BLIND,/SCHAU., (jaune/blanc)“. 1997Lack auf Aluminium, Siebdruck. 69,5 × 77,5 × 3 cm (27 ⅜ × 30 ½ × 1 ⅛ in.). Rückseitig mit Filzstift in Schwarz betitelt, bezeichnet, signiert und datiert: jaune / blanc 401 No. 8 R. Zaugg 1997. Dort das Etikett der Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm.[3014]Provenienz: Sammlung Berliner SparkasseLiteratur und Abbildung: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor (Hg.): Die Kunstsammlung der Landesbank Berlin AG. Berlin, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2007, Abb. S. 116Zustandsbericht: In gutem Zustand. Die Farben frisch und leuchtend. Keine Bestoßungen oder Farbverluste. Unter UV-Licht sind wenige unterschiedlich reflektierende Stellen sichtbar. Sehr schöner harmonischer Gesamteindruck.Wir berechnen auf den Hammerpreis 25% Aufgeld und auf Hammerpreis und Aufgeld die zum Auktionszeitpunkt geltende Umsatzsteuer.
Rémy Zaugg (Courgenay 1943 – 2005 Basel). „SCHAU,/ICH BIN/BLIND,/SCHAU., (rose/jaune verdi)“. 1998Lack auf Aluminium, Siebdruck. 69,5 × 77,5 × 3 cm (27 ⅜ × 30 ½ × 1 ⅛ in.). Rückseitig mit Filzstift in Schwarz betitelt, bezeichnet, signiert und datiert: rose / jaune verdi 25.1 (205) No. 50 R. Zaugg 1998. Dort mit dem Etikett der Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm.[3014]Provenienz: Sammlung Berliner SparkasseLiteratur und Abbildung: Stiftung Brandenburger Tor (Hg.): Die Kunstsammlung der Landesbank Berlin AG. Berlin, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2007, Abb. S. 115Zustandsbericht: In gutem Zustand. Die Farben frisch und leuchtend. Keine Bestoßungen oder Farbverluste. Die linke Kante mit einer minimalen bräunlichen Bereibungsspur. Unter UV-Licht sind wenige unterschiedlich reflektierende Stellen sichtbar. Sehr schöner harmonischer Gesamteindruck.Wir berechnen auf den Hammerpreis 25% Aufgeld und auf Hammerpreis und Aufgeld die zum Auktionszeitpunkt geltende Umsatzsteuer.
A 19th Century Dutch walnut and satin wood marquetry inlaid console hall side occasional table having a serpentine chamfered edge top with satin marquetry inlaid decoration atop. Blind fronted drawer below with further inlaid decoration raised on two thick cabriole supports. Measures approx; 79cm x 76cm x 41cm.
Law.- Rastell (John, editor) Le liuer des assises & plees del corone, moues & dependauntz deuaunt les iustices, black letter, text in legal French, title within woodcut historiated border, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, occasional contemporary and later ink marginalia, water-stained, causing light spotting on the odd f., a few ff. with marginal worm trace, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped calf, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, rebacked, spine in compartments and with red leather label, some staining, a few small losses of leather, corners worn, rubbed, [STC 9601], small folio, Richard Tottell, 1580.⁂ A selection of law reports for 1-50 Edward III.Provenance: 'John Henley 1644' (ink inscription to foot of title).
NO RESERVE Board of Ordnance.- Savage (Richard, fourth Earl Rivers, army officer and politician, c. 1654-1712) Warrant appointing Cornelius Wade "to be One of the Labourers in Ordinary belonging to this Office", D.s. "Rivers" & "New'd Ousley", manuscript, blind stamped seal, left margin slightly cut, folds, browned, 269 x 226mm., 1st April 1792.⁂ During the War of the Spanish Succession, Earl Rivers served with Marlborough who thought much of his military ability.
Kempis (Thomas à, Saint) Opera, collation: [*4] a b8 c d6 e f8 g-m8.6. n o6 p8 q6 r-B8.6.6. C8, double column, 184ff., 53 lines plus headline, Gothic type, initials in red, rubricated, occasional early ink annotations, b2 corner defective affecting text on 8 lines, occasional soiling or marginal light staining, broken with some leaves becoming loose, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn, lacking backstrip, upper cover detached, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, folio (298 x 209mm.), Nuremberg, Caspar Hochfeder, 29 November, 1494.⁂ Important collected edition of Thomas a Kempis's works, including his De Imitatione Christi.Literature: BMC II, 302; Goff T-352; HC 9769; GW M46672; Bod-inc T-090; BSB-Ink T-195.
Westminster Abbey.- Neale (John Preston) and Edward Wedlake, The History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St Peter, Westminster, 2 vol., list of subscribers, 2 additional engraved pictorial titles, 60 engraved plates, two pages of manuscript notes bound-in at title vol. 1, some spotting, mainly to plate margins, several pages with blind-stamp library stamps, bookplate to front pastedowns, later morocco-backed cloth, spines toned, 1818 § Heck (J. G.) Iconographic encyclopaedia, vol. 2 only (of 4), plates, some light foxing, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, New York, 1851, 4to and oblong 4to (3)
Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue; with other poems, first edition, half-title, lacking B1 (pp.1/2, another half-title following Contents leaf), G1 (pp.81/82) and G7 & 8 (4pp. advertisements at end), later brown morocco ruled in blind with ornaments in gilt, spine gilt, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., joints and edges a little rubbed, 8vo, for C. & J.Ollier, 1819.⁂ Containing the first appearance in book form of one of Shelley's most famous poems, 'Ozymanidas', also 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.
Scotland.- Macaulay (Rev. Kenneth) The History of St. Kilda, first edition, folding engraved map frontispiece, advertisement leaf at end, lacking half-title, M1 with repaired tear/hole causing some loss of text, occasional foxing and soiling, later blind-stamped calf, 8vo, Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764.
Schaaf (Larry J.) H. Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature, 7 vol. including introductory volume by Schaff, anniversary facsimile edition, one of 250 copies, 24 photographic plates, original calf-backed decorative wrappers, some light spotting and minor cockling, housed in original blind-stamped cloth clamshell box, red calf label to spine, folio, 1989.⁂ Facsimile of the first commercially published book to be illustrated with photographs, produced 'in celebration of the 150th anniversary of photography'.
NO RESERVE Sennert (Daniel) Epitome naturalis scientiae, engraved pictorial title, woodcut initials, engraved diagram on p.315, contemporary English calf ruled in blind with small ornaments to corners, spine with rules and with 3 similar ornaments to head and foot in blind, old manuscript paper label, rubbed, lower cover stained and wormed at lower corner, lacking a front free endpaper, Amsterdam, J. Ravestein, 1651 § Buee (A.Q.) Parallel of Romé de l'Isle's and the Abbé Haüy's Theories of Crystallography, offprint from 'Philosophical Magazine' No.74 & 75, 23pp., stitched, uncut, [1804], 12mo & 8vo (2)⁂ The first is a textbook on natural philosophy (first published in probably 1618) and important in the history of chemistry. Chapter 4 relates to gemstones.
Dorset.- Pouncy (J.) Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, Parts 1 & 2 only (of 4), first edition, lithographed title and 39 tinted photolithographed views, one double-page, advertisement leaf with list of subscribers at end of each volume, title and tissue guards foxed, occasionally affecting plates, double-page plate foxed and frayed at lower edge, front free endpaper or vol.1 torn away, original blind-stamped cloth, rubbed, spines a little faded and ends worn, oblong folio, London and Dorchester, 1857.⁂ The first book illustrated by photolithography, where photographs were transferred onto lithographic stones which were then enhanced with figures, animals and other details by drawing. "Pouncy's important work was a transitional stage between drawing and unretouched photography in book illustration". McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, p.128."As far as we know Pouncy's rare book was not only the first but remained the only attempt in book form to reproduce photographic views from nature by photolithography" Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 546.
Switzerland.- Burnet (Gilbert) Some Letters. Containing, an Account of what seemed most remarkable in Switzerland, Italy, &c. written...to T[he] H[onourable] R[obert] B[oyle], first edition, variant with "cere-" at end of line 20 A3r, "linnen" in last line of C3r and "off his" at end of line 7 E2r, woodcut device on title, errata leaf at end, a few contemporary ink annotations and underlinings, nineteenth century bookplate of Hugh Cecil Earl of Lonsdale, contemporary calf ruled and tooled in blind with decorative roll to inner edge and acorn corner-pieces, rubbed, joints cracked, [Wing B5915], 8vo, Rotterdam, Abraham Acher, 1686.⁂ Written during the author's political exile in Europe and addressed to his friend Robert Boyle, who had previously given him financial support. Burnet delivered the oration at Boyle's funeral.
Astronomy.- Costard (George) The History of Astronomy, with its application to Geography, History, and Chronology..., first edition, half-title, engraved plate printed on both sides, errata leaf at end with corrections to text in ink, woodcut diagrams, cancel slips pasted over diagrams on pp.222 & 223, one or two small stains, 20th century ink inscription and pasted-in slip to front free endpaper, photograph of an observatory loosely inserted (stamp of Richard F.Riding of Southport to verso), original boards, uncut, rubbed and stained, printed by James Lister...sold by J.Newbery, 1767 § Beveridge (William) Institutionum Chronologicarum libri II, second edition, tear to N1 (no loss), contemporary sprinkled calf with blind-tooled inner border and corner-pieces, rubbed, rebacked, Samuel Rycroft, sold by Walter Kettilby, 1705, 4to (2)
Lawrence (T.E.) To His Biographer Robert Graves ... Liddell Hart, 2 vol., number 13 of 1000 copies signed by Graves and Hart, A.L.s signed by Graves and dated 1939 tipped-in, light spotting to ALs, frontispieces, scattered faint spotting, ex-library with bookplates and occasional blind-stamps, newspaper reviews pasted at end vol. 1, original cloth, dust-jackets, light spotting, English price inserted by hand to vol. 1, shelf mark and small blue labels to spine feet, slight chipping to corners and extremities, New York, 1938; Secret Despatches from Arabia, one of 1000 copies, portrait frontispiece, scattered spotting, most to edges, original morocco-backed boards, fractionally rubbed, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1939; and another similar, 8vo & 4to (4).⁂ The ALs was written to the Editor of 'John O' London's Weekly' about their reviews of contemporary poetry, and mainly concentrates on defending the American poet Laura Ridley. Although Ridley and Graves never married, they lived, worked and travelled together for more than 10 years.
The Rolling Stones - five original UK 1st pressings including a rare private pressing LP. To include 'No. 2' (Blind Man 1st issue) Vinyl is VG+ / EX. 'No Stone Unturned' (Vinyl is EX+ looks unplayed), 'The Rolling Stones' ('Mona' on label), 'Out Of Our Heads' and 'Bright Light - Big City' (private pressing).
A Louis-XV-style (20th century) carved walnut and glass-sided vitrine of tall slim proportions: central vertical scallop-shell motif flanked by foliate carving; single arched glazed door with further carved ornament in high rocaille style, three glass shelves within; the lower blind section of the door similarly decorated in relief with rocaille ornament; carved shaped apron; cabriole front legs carved at the knees with acanthus-style ornament and terminating in French-style scrolls. (76cm wide x 36cm deep x 197.5cm highest point)
Cooke Kelvey of London and Calcutta, a 19th-century twin fusee bracket clock, chiming the hours on a coil gong, the silvered one-piece circular dial bearing the trade name. In pagoda topped "Gothic" oak case with mock blind frett and carved armorial decoration. 32 cm wide x 48 cm high 18 cm deepFootnote: Cooke & Kelvey were actively retailing clocks mostly of French manufacture but re-badged to their brand between 1872-1900. The company is now purely a high-class jewellery/ watch retailer in IndiaCondition report: On visual inspection, the clock movement seems intact but the spring steel suspension of the pendulum has snappedThe case needs some cosmetic work to make good
A Napoleon III style ebonized pier display cabinet, the second half of the 19th century, with inlaid decoration, the single glazed door flanked by gilt metal rococo mounts. Fitted three adjustable internal shelves, the whole supported on a simple blind plinth base. 73 cm overall width x 35.5 cm overall depth x 117 cm overall height.Condition report: Glass okSome scuffs to the plinth some old scratches and blemishes to the finishSlight crack to the backboardNo evident signs of woodwormA working key is presentThe shelves are slightly cupped/
Illustrirtes Familienbuch: zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, hrsg. vom österr. Lloyd. 7 Bde. der Reihe. Triest (1851 ff.). 4°. Mit zahlr. Stahlst.-Taf. u. Holzst.-Illustr. Olwdbde. mit Blind- u. Goldpräg. (Etw. berieb. u. best.). Kirchner II, 11177. Diesch 2391. - Vorhanden: Bd. 1, 3, 9, 10, Neue Folge 1-3. - Tls. etw. fleckig, nicht eingehend kollat. - 2 Beilagen, zus. 9 Bde.
Cervantes Saavedra,M.de.: Leben und Thaten des scharfsinnigen Edlen Don Quixote von La Mancha. Übers. v. L. Tieck. 2 Bde. Bln. & New York 1868-72. Fol. Mit 377 Holzst. v. H. Pisan nach G. Dore, davon 120 auf getönten Taf. VIII, 359; VIII, 431 S. Blind- u. goldgepräg. Ohldrbde. mit Goldschn. (Starke Gebrauchsspuren). Leblanc 67. Goed. VII, 645, 222, 1-b. - Erste dt. Ausgabe mit Dores Illustrationen. - Braunfleckig, Bd. 1 Buchblock gebrochen.
Edward Tomlin, Royal Exchange, George III mahogany eight day longcase clock, circa 1770-80, the hood centred with a blind fretwork panel, over reeded columns flanking a brass arched 12'' dial with silvered chapter ring, matted centre with subsidiary seconds and date aperture, strike/silent to the arch, mask spandrels, five pillar eight day movement striking on a bell, the trunk with moulded arched door over a moulded panel base and stepped plinth, with two weights and pendulum, height 245cmPlease note our special conditions of sale regarding clocks and watches
Stage & Screen Icons - Marilyn Monroe Interest, Frank Worth photographic print, from How To Marry A Millionaire, estate blind stamp, No 32/270, with certificate ; Billy Wilders Some Like it Hot, The Funniest Film Ever Made; the complete book, Taschen 2002 with box; assorted Marilyn Monroe calendars, mostly sealed qty
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