A Victorian walnut centre table, with moulded serpentine top, on a four S scroll supported basket base, with blind and matted carving, profiling of leaves and diaper work, similar centre boss and quatrefoil platform with four scroll legs with brass and ceramic castors, 70cm H, 153cm W, 107cm D.
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An early 19thC mahogany longcase clock, with dentil moulded and blind fret applied reeded pillared hood, with ball and spike finials, dentil moulded frieze over a trunk with a shaped and moulded door, with silver presentation inscription, marked "present to G M Blackstone Esq., Stamford Amateur Operatic Society 1912", plain base with bracket feet, the painted 32cm square arched dial having mother with child and dog in front of a cottage painted to the arch, floral spandrels, Roman hour numerals, seconds ring and date crescent, eight day movement striking a bell, 223cm H.
A pair of woven linen type oatmeal ground curtains, interlined, with fixed triple pinch pleat headings, approx 230 cm drop x 126 cm wide at top, together with a box of Spencer Churchill fabric curtains and a further blind CONDITION REPORTS Woven linen type curtains - Good - linings have some markings.For further details please view in person.
Two pairs of chenille green and beige foliate curtains, lined, with pencil pleat headings, one pair approx 206 cm drop x 300 cm wide at bottom, the other pair approx 204 cm drop x 360 cm wide at bottom, together with four other various pairs of curtains and an Austrian blind CONDITION REPORTS Fair - some sun bleaching and linings marked.For further details please view in person.
A pair of cotton green and gold foliate decorated curtains, interlined, with fixed triple pinch pleat headings, approx 238 cm drop x 100 cm wide at top, together with a pair of cotton mix fawn ground curtains with multi-coloured foliate Classical decoration, interlined, with fixed tripled pinch pleat headings, approx 224 cm drop x 139 cm wide at top, together with a small box of china and a striped blind CONDITION REPORTS Green and gold curtains - Fair - some fading to the edges.For further details please view in person.Fawn and multi-coloured curtains - Fair - some fading to the eges. For further details please view in person.
NO RESERVE Spencer (Eleanor P., examined by) The Sobieski Hours: a Manuscript in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, tipped-in colour frontispiece, plates, 8 colour, original morocco-backed cloth, a little rubbed, 1977 § Inglis (Eric) The Hours of Mary of Burgundy, 2 vol., colour plates, original calf-backed boards (text vol.), original blind-stamped calf (facsimile vol.), housed in a calf-backed slipcase, a little rubbed, 1995; 4to & 8vo (3)
Ricardo (David) The Works, edited by J.R.McCulloch, first edition, one or two marginal defects where poorly opened, original cloth, worn and faded, covers detached, 1846 § Mill (John Stuart) The Subjection of Women, second edition, half-title with ink inscription at head, original blind-stamped ochre cloth, small gilt monogram to foot of spine, slightly rubbed, 1869 § Smiles (Samuel) Élet és Munka [Life and Labour], translated by Dáni Ede, first Hungarian edition, presentation copy from the translator with accompanying A.L.s. loosely inserted, original decorated cloth, spine a little rubbed and browned, Budapest, [c.1895] § James (William) Some Problems of Philosophy, first edition, title spotted, original cloth, mottled, 1911; and 3 others, economics and philosophy, including a first Finnish edition of The Subjection of Women, 8vo (7)
The Indian Rebellion, 1857.- Ball (Charles) The History of the Indian Mutiny..., 7 vol., 2 steel-engraved vignette titles and 80 plates, 2 double-page engraved maps, both with hand-colouring, double-page printed table, 3 printed titles, ex libris to front pastedowns, publisher's advertisement f. pasted in, foxing and soiling, a few repaired closed tears, contents separating, hinges pulling or strengthened, original red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, corners bumped, worn with loss at spine ends, a few short splits to joints, some repair, spines faded, 4to, [1858].
Birds.- Gould (John) The Birds of Australia, 8 vol. (with Supplement), 681 colour plates, 3 double-page, bookplates of Madelaine Jay, each vol. with small ink library accession numbers to front pastedown or free endpaper, original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a little marked, vol.1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 spines and board margins faded, some dark flecking to extreme edges of a few vol., a little shelf lean, a few boards slightly bowed, ?lacking slip-cases, folio, Melbourne, 1989-96.
NO RESERVE Brook (Richard) A New Family Herbal..., sixth edition, 24 hand-coloured engraved plates and 4 uncoloured engraved plates, browned, some spotting, bound in contemporary blind-stamped cloth, dulled, corners bumped, joints splitting, spine worn, by Webb,, Millington & Co., of Otley, sm. 8vo, London and Huddersfield, [?1847]; and 2 others, 8vo (3).
NO RESERVE Valerius Maximus (Gaius) Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri ix, woodcut ornaments, contemporary ink inscription at head of title, light marginal water-staining, contemporary calf with central blind-stamped medallion, rubbed, spine worn at head, Antwerp, J.Helvidius, 1592 § Commines (Philippe de) Les Memoires, engraved pictorial title, engraved bookplate of John Lord De la Warr, contemporary calf, spine worn, upper cover detached, Leiden, Elzevier, 1648; and 3 others, continental, 8vo et infra (5)
[CLASSIC LITERATURE] Tennyson, Alfred. Maud, and Other Poems, first edition, Moxon, London, 1855, original blind-stamped green cloth, eight-page publisher's list of books, small octavo; Sullivan, T.D. Poems, Sullivan / Haverty, Dublin / New York, no date, original green cloth gilt, octavo; Slow, Edward. A Series of Poems in the Wiltshire Dialect, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. / Blake, London / Salisbury, 1881, quarter art vellum, octavo; and two other works, (5).
[TOPOGRAPHY]. TAUNTON (SOMERSET) Savage, James. The History of Taunton, new edition, for Poole & Savage, Taunton, 1822, quarter cloth, engraved frontispiece and three folding engraved plate illustrations (one detached), octavo; and Some Account of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Taunton, by Vizetelly Brothers & Co., London, 1845, original blind-stamped crimson cloth gilt (rebacked), all edges gilt, frontispiece and a further ten plate illustrations, quarto, (2).
[TOPOGRAPHY]. LIVERPOOL (LANCASHIRE; MERSEYSIDE) Brooke, Richard. Liverpool as it was, During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century 1775 to 1800, Mawdesley & Son, Liverpool, 1853, original blind-stamped dark green cloth, frontispiece and a further five engraved plate illustrations (as called for), quarto; Boardman, James. Liverpool Table Talk a Hundred Years Ago, or A History of Gore's Directory, with Stonehouse, James. A History of the Streets of Liverpool, bound as one, Howell, Liverpool, 1882, original crimson cloth, folding map frontispiece, octavo; and a work of Cheshire interest, (3).
[TRAVEL] Simpson, William. A Private Journal kept during the Niger Expedition, from the commencement in May, 1841, until the recall of the expedition in June, 1842, first edition, Shaw / Hamilton, Adams & Co., Johnstone / Roberton, London / Edinburgh / Dublin, 1843, original blind-stamped brown cloth, octavo.
[MISCELLANEOUS] [Claudian]. Cl. Claudiani, Quae Exstant: ex emendatione Nicolai Heinsy Dan F., typis Ludovici Elzevirii, Amsterdam, 1650, 19th century full blind-ruled calf by Austin of Hertford, red edges, engraved title page, Latin text, engraved armorial bookplate for William Franks [of Carrig Park, Mallow], trigesimo-secundo.
16 Rock / Blues LP vinyl records including the Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold as Love gatefold on Track 612 003, Electric Ladyland gatefold 2 LP Track 613009, Backtrack 3, Strange Things with Curtis Knight, plus Jethro Tull - This Was gatefold Island ILPS 9085, Stand Up with pop up gatefold ILPS 9103, plus John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton reading the Beano, Decca LK 4804, A Hard Road SKL 4853, Looking Back, Blues from Laurel Canyon gatefold SKL 4972, Cream Disraeli Gears, Relics by Pink Floyd, Chicken Shack, Blind Faith and Fleetwood Macs first LP on Blue Horizon. (16) Please note the condition of these vinyl records is good to fair and they show scratches and signs of heavy use on the vinyl.
A George III gentleman's brass-mounted mahogany Campaign writing box, the hinged cover centred by a canted rectangular plaque inscribed: Jas. Burgefs (sic, James Burgess), gilt and tooled crimson morocco panelled compartment restrained by a gilt-metal scrolling lock, the base with a fold-out blind tooled blue velvet writing surface below a pen tray and compartments for writing instruments, each plateaux lifting to reveal marbled paper lined compartment fitted with three short drawers above a long pigeon hole, flush brass military handles to sides, the angles with brass incurved corners and supports, 18.5cm high, 49.5cm wide, c. 1810 Condition Report: Overall good condition. Velvet surface needs restoration. Some ink staining Minor crack to veneer and signs of use
A George III Welsh oak and mahogany longcase clock, 32cm arched painted dial inscribed John Fernal, Wrexham, Roman and subsidiary Arabic numerals, twin winding holes, subsidiary seconds dial, date aperture, painted with song birds and flowers, 8 day movement striking on a bell, the case with swan neck pediment and blind fretwork frieze, flanked by reeded columns and quarter-columns, ogee bracket feet, 224cm high, c.1785John Fernal is recorded as working in Wrexham in the 1780's. Condition Report: No obvious signs of woodworm, it has weights and pendulum, see attached images thankyou
A 17th century Flemish duodarn, oversailing top with a frieze of lunettes above a pair of leaf-capped baluster pillars and a pair of panelled doors flanking a blind central panel, each carved with foliate bosses within a dogtooth border, the similar base with two larger fielded and panelled doors enclosing a shelf, stile feet, 155cm high, 160cm wide, c1680
A George III mahogany longcase clock, with moulded swan neck and fluted pillared hood with ball and spike finial, with blind fret decoration, over an arched full length trunk door, inset with fluted quarter columns, moulded and shaped base, with bracket feet, the 32cm square arched dial having floral painted spandrels, an oval scene of a seated maiden with cornucopia castle turret and lion, having Arabic hour and minute numerals, seconds ring and date rings, marked Jas. Scott LEITH, eight day movement striking a bell, 228cm H.
A late Victorian Chinese Chippendale revival display cabinet on stand, with dentil moulded and fretwork broken arch pediment, over a blind fret frieze which replicates to the applied astragal doors to the upper part, and the frieze and drawers to the base with brass knob handles, on channelled square legs, with block feet, 175cm H, 74cm W, 36cm D.
ƟMichael Angelo Titmarsh, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, first edition [London, Chapman and Hall, 1846] complete, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, some illustrations in the text, 16pp. publisher's advertisements at the end, some scattered spotting, bookplate of Mr Hagger to upper pastedown, original blind-stamped gilt pictorial publisher's cloth, hinges cracked, spine split with some gatherings becoming loose, extremities a little rubbed, 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟThéophile Gautier, Constantinople of To-Day, first English edition [London, David Bogue, 1854] complete, sepia frontispiece and additional engraved title, plates, 24pp. publisher's catalogue at the back, “Sylvia Moore” ownership inscription to pastedown with “Arthur Probsthain” booksellers label, original blind stamped gilt pictorial publisher's cloth, upper hinge split, extremities a little faded, black pen mark to upper cover; together with Albert Smith, A Month At Constantinople (third edition, London, 1851) and M. Charles, Malo Les Capitales de L'Europe, Constantinople (Paris, n.d.) Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟJohn Oldmixon, Gleanings from Piccadilly to Pera, first edition [London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1854] complete, frontispiece and 3 chromolithograph plates, some very faint spotting, school prize presentation label pasted to upper pastedown, original blind-stamped gilt pictorial publisher's cloth, extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, overall very presentable copy, 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟSmall collection of works relating to Jerusalem & the Hebrew Language, in English [London, 1844-1883] 4 volumes, comprising: (i) W.H. Bartlett, Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem., c.1855, sepia-tint frontispiece and plates, original gilt pictorial green cloth, excellent condition; (ii) W.H. Bartlett, Jerusalem Revisited, large folding plan, plates throughout, original blind-stamped pictorial cloth, covers and spine faded; (iii) A New Elementary Grammar of the 'Hebrew' language ..., 1883, some scattered spotting, original cloth, a little damp-stained and faded, spine worn; (iv) Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Isralites, fifth edition, c. 1850, engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title, plates throughout, original decorated cloth, spine cracked and faded; all 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟCharles Marvin, The Russians at Merv and Herat, first edition [London, W. H. Allen & co, 1883] complete, frontispiece, plates throughout, many gatherings unopened, ex-library blind-stamped to front free endpaper, hinge and spine split, original gilt pictorial cloth, extremities rubbed and corners a little worn, 8vo Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟThe Gospel of Luke, in Arabic, lithographed on paper [Mequinez, Morocco, Gospel Missionary Union, 1902] complete, lithography in Arabic maghribi, pages numbered in western numerals, imprint and title in English on verso of final folio, contemporary red morocco with flap, ruled in blind, a few scuffs and lightly faded, small 8vo (195 by 135 mm.) An interesting translation of Luke's Gospel into the 'colloquial Arabic' of Morocco and lithographed in the traditional maghribi script of the region. Printed and probably commissioned by the Gospel Missionary Union, based in Kansas City, USA, to spread Christianity in North Africa. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟAbu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, work of Maliki Fiqh, possibly his commentary on Tirmidh's Hadith Collection 'Aridhat al-Ahwazi', in Arabic, decorated manuscript on parchment [Seville, Andalusia, dated 1 Ramadan al-Karim, 523 AH (1129 AD)] one section from a larger work, 5 leaves (10 pp. of text), plus 2 later flyleaves, single column, 17 leaves fine sepia maghribi, with some accents and diacritics in red, later stylised inscription to front free endpaper bearing the title, a few small chips to parchment with slight loss (particularly to outer edges), else an exceptionally clean and crisp condition, 260 by 190 mm.; late nineteenth-century tan morocco, elaborately blind-stamped with Islamic geometric motifs, very good condition This is an exceptionally important relic from a Muslim community in medieval Seville, securely naming the medieval town of its copying in the colophon The text is by Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (1076-1148), a native of Seville, who was known for his scholarly contributions to the Maliki school and for the spread of Ash'ari theology throughout Islamic Spain. He travelled around many Islamic countries during his lifetime and studied under important and influential figures in Muslim communities of Andalusia and North Africa including Al-Ghazali and Ibn Hazm. The text here is a single section from a larger body of work, on Maliki Fiqh, probably a commentary on one of the chapters from the Aridhat al-Ahwazi (a collection of Hadith compiled over a two-decade period and completed in the year 270 AH, 884 AD). The colophon clearly indicates al-Arabi as the author of the work and identifies the scribe as Al-Hafiz al-Ajil Yousif bun Abdullah al-Farid. It then continues to give a precise date of copying, firmly within the author's lifetime, and places the creation of the manuscript in “Ishbillieh ... al-Andalus” Seville in Andalusia. Very few comparable manuscripts from medieval Muslim Seville exist. The Bavarian State Library in Munich has a copy of a maghribi Qur'an copied in Seville and dated 624 AH (1226 AD) (BSB shelfmark: Cod.arab. 1), and an illuminated Qur'an section from Andalucia appeared at Sotheby's that was probably compiled in Valencia in the twelfth century (24 October 2018, Lot 5), and an “Early Work on Hadith”, was attributed to Andalusia or North Africa from the 13th or 14th century (Christie's 27 April 2017, lot 85). Indeed the location of such manuscripts to a named town in Medieval Spain is itself of great rarity. A bifolia from another work of Hadith appeared at auction last year that was apparently copied in Granada and dated 483 AH (dated 1090 AD, Chiswick auctions, 26 October 2018, lot 23). Beyond these two no other comparables have been found that identify a precise location in the colophon. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟAn Ottoman Anthology of Poetry, in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Farsi, decorated manuscript on paper [Ottoman Turkey, second half of seventeenth century] textually complete, but possibly lacking final free endpaper, 79 leaves, single or double column, varying numbers of lines of black, red and green cursive naskh, contemporary foliation in red, a few small stains, gutters a little damp-stained, endpapers darkened, oblong 8vo, 215 by 80 mm.; contemporary Ottoman-style leather covers, blind-stamped with central medallion, ruled in blind, extremities a little rubbed, overall excellent condition With a typed British Library deposit letter signed by Persian and Turkish curator M. I. Waley, dated 2 February 1989. This anthology contains an interesting mixture of religious and secular verse, including Sufi poetry, apparently copied in one hand throughout and probably used as a collection for personal use and reference. Although much of the poetry included is anonymous, the few attributions present include poetry by Nezami, Fazouli, Katibi and Hayati among others. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟMuhammad bin Abdan ibn al-Boudi al-Damashqi, Shahr Mukhtasar al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (A Commentary on the fourth chapter of Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Jerusalem, dated Safar 920 AH (1514 AD)] 21 leaves (plus 2 fly-leaves), single column, 33 lines black cursive naskh in a cursive and somewhat unrefined hand in keeping with a practical medical book, key words and phrases in red, contemporary overlining to important phrases also in red, some contemporary annotations to margins, outer edges trimmed affecting marginalia, upper edges of hinges repaired affecting text in places, a few small scuffs and smudges to text, overall very presentable condition, 258 by 165 mm.; nineteenth-century morocco-backed pasteboards, blind stamped with central cartouches, extremities a little rubbed An important relic of two of the greatest medieval medical institutions of the Near East: copied half a millennia ago in the Salahi hospital in the Holy City of Jerusalem, and containing a text most probably written by the chief physician of the Nuri al-din Bimaristan of Damascus Provenance: The colophon in this manuscript indicates that it was copied in the Bimaristan al-Salahi (Salahi Hospital) in Jerusalem in month of Safar, 920 AH (1514 AD), doubtless as a practical medical handbook for use by physicians there. The Salahi hospital was founded in the heart of the Old City by Western Crusaders, and in 583 AH/1186 AD was reportedly refounded by Saladin, and endowed as a teaching hospital. It remained in use as one of the foremost medical centres of the Near East until the eighteenth century, when it fell out of use and became a fruit market. One of its cavernous halls presently holds the souvenir bazaar. Any manuscript from its once vast library is of great importance, adding to our knowledge of that lost book collection, and shaping our understanding of what was taught and practised there. This manuscript is likely to have been copied there from an exemplar in that library, perhaps for a visiting medical student or physician. Text: The Arabic commentary here focusses on the fourth book of Avicenna’s vast medical treatise, that on the spread of contagious diseases, such as fevers and viruses, which manifest the entire body and often have no physical appearance. What is also notable in this manuscript is that the author, who is named in the heading as the chief physician and head practitioner in the “Hospital of Damascus” (almost certainly the famous Nur al-din Bimaristan) proves difficult to trace with certainty, and this may well be the only recorded copy of his work, and perhaps the only surviving record of his life. This hospital was of no less fame in the Near East to that of its counterpart in Jerusalem, and was founded in 1154 by the Zengid sultan, Nur al-Din, in the al-Hariqa quarter of the city to the west of the Umayyad Mosque. It remained in use as the primary medical centre of the region until the late fifteenth century, by which time it had founded five further hospitals in the city. Its building presently houses The Museum of Medicine and Science in the Arab World. For a manuscript of Avicenna’s work, and an important copy of its first printing, see lots 28 and 67 here. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
ƟAbu 'Ali al-Husayn ibn 'Abdallah Ibn Sina, known as ‘Avicenna’, Al Qanun fi al'Tibb (The Canon of Medicine), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Near East, probably Jordan, or perhaps Jerusalem, mid-nineteenth century] 5 parts in 3 volumes, complete, 1282 leaves in total (being 342 in vol. I, 584 in vol. II, 356 in vol. III ), single column, 27 lines black naskh with headings in black or red, a few diagrams in the text, a few later manuscript inscriptions or annotations to margins in blue, overall exceptionally clean and crisp condition, contemporary ink ownership stamps to titles, belonging to “Malik Al-Qas li-Bas[] Sonbol”, 295 by 195 mm.; contemporary red morocco bindings, ruled in blind and tooled with provincial Byzantine stamps, contemporary paper labels pasted to spines identifying the parts in each volume, slightly rubbed and a few light scuff marks, overall excellent condition A handsome manuscript set of Avicenna's Qanun fi al'Tibb bound in 3 volumes and containing the complete 5 medical parts of the text. The generous spacing and clear headings present in the volume suggest it was probably used as a reference tool, and the exceptionally clean condition indicates that it was most likely used in an academic environment instead of a medical practice by working physicians. The absence of a colophon makes this manuscript rather difficult to place, however the use of what is evidently Egyptian paper alongside Byzantine leather and tooling in the bindings, suggests that this was compiled in the eastern Mediterranean. The script is relatively informal and thus probably copied in a provincial area of Jordan or perhaps somewhere near Jerusalem, the latter a hub for medical studies and the natural sciences in the region. For an example of the first printed edition of this work, see lot 28. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
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