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Two gilt framed coloured prints "Blind Mans Buff", "The Stanley Children" and two others Condition reports are not available for our Interiors Sales.

Vinyl records:- Cream LP's 'Disraeli Gears' 593 003 & 'Wheels Of Fire' 2612-001. 'Blind Faith' LP 583 059, Derek & The Dominoes LP 'Layla' 2625 005 and Ginger Baker's 'Airforce' LP 2662 001.

A 16th or 17th century Venetian cypress wood boarded chest or cassone, with traditional decoration in blind fret work and pen work, at each end brass and iron carrying handles, the interior plain, width 163cm, depth 60cm, height 55cm. (See illustration)

An Edwardian mahogany display cabinet, with thirteen pane lattice glaze doors beneath a blind fret frieze.

A cabinet for Cuban cigars, the arched top with blind fret scrolling and blind fret inscription "Hoyo De Monterrey De Jose Gener Habana" this above a pair of blind panel doors opening onto shelves and low drawer with inset brass handle, width 59.5cm, height 85cm.

Music Memorabilia, Beatles, Paul McCartney, a framed and glazed limited edition b/w photograph, (37/49), taken from an original negative showing McCartney in street scene with camera and smoking cigarette, with Popper blind embossed stamp, frame size 58cm x 70cm, (ex)

Pair of 19th century overpainted portrait photographs of European magnates in Indo-Chinese dress, possibly Indonesian. Blind stamp for 'Clarkington Photographer, Sponsalia, 246 Regent Street'. Each 25cm x 20cm in gilt frames. (2).

A 19th century blanket chest as a chest of two short over three long graduated blind drawers, 89.5cm wide

Theology - le Courayer (The Rev. Father Peter Francis), A Defence of the Validity of the Englifh (sic) Ordinations [...], first English edition, Tranflated (sic) [...] by Dan. Williams, Presbyter of the Church of England, W. and J. Innys (sic), J. Osborne, and C. Rivington, London 1725, contemporary Restoration calf, blind tooled, Pictorial bookplate to pastedown: Franciscan Central Library, Canterbury, small 8vo; Anon, [Hornyold (Bishop John Joseph)], The Real Principles of Catholicks (sic): or, A Catechism for the Adult, Explaining the Principal Points of the Doctrine Ceremonies of the Catholick (sic) Church, Thomas Meighan, London 1749, contemporary calf (disbound), small 8vo; Provincial Imprint, Anon, [Orton (Job)], A Summary of Doctrinal and Practical Religion [...], sixth edition, J. Eddowes [...], Shrewsbury 1776, contemporary calf, 18mo; Parsons (Robert), A Christian Directory [...], J. Marmaduke, London 1769, contemporary calf boards, later spine, 8vo; Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, fourth edition, J. Buckland [...], London 1785, portrait frontispiece of the author by Thomas Trotter (1750 - 1803) after Thomas Frye (c. 1710 - 1762), contemporary speckled calf binding, gilt lettered red morocco title label, 4to; Local Association, Fleetwood's Life of Jesus Christ, C. Cooke [...], London [n.d., c. 1800], engraved frontispiece, further engraved full-page plates, fold-out plan of Jerusalem, contemporary reverse calf, ink MS ownership inscription: Ashton Jerroms Book, Mickleover, [Derby], Oct 1803, 4to; Barclay (Robert), An Apology for the True Chriftian (sic) Divinity: Being an Explanation and Vindication of the Principles and Doctrines of the People called Quakers, eighth edition, J. Phillips, London 1780, contemporary speckled calf, gilt lettered red morocco title label to spine, 8vo; Harmer (Rev. Thomas), Observations on Various Passages of Scripture [...], fifth edition, five-volume set, With Many Important Additions and Corrections, Lackington and Co., London 1816, contemporary speckled calf, gilt lettered title label to spine within raised bands, 8vo; Jones (The Rev. Jeremiah), A New and Full Method of Settling the Canonical Authority of the New Testament, volumes II & III only, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1798, contemporary polished calf gilt, 8vo; Scottish Imprint, Gerard's Institutes, second edition, Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh 1808, contemporary calf, 8vo; Irish Imprint, O'Leary (The Rev. Arthur), Miscellaneous Tracts, second edition, John Chambers, Dublin 1781, contemporary calf, 8vo; bindings; etc

Theology - Conybeare (The Rev. W.J.) and Howson (The Rev. J.S.), The Life and Epistles OF St. Paul, two-volume set, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, London 1859, illustrated throughout with full-page plates and maps, contemporary buckram boards as issued, titled paper labels to spine, 4to; Quarles (Francis), Emblems, Divine and Moral, Printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham, Sold by R. Jennings, London 1818, line engravings throughout, contemporary half-leather and buckram, 18mo; Newman ([The Blessed Cardinal] John Henry, B.D.), Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief, Preached Before the University of Oxford, second edition, Francis & John Rivington, London 1844, contemporary calf, the boards with gilt double-fillet enclosing a blind tooled anthemion tendrils, later title label to spine, marbled endpapers, 8vo; The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany: Containing Various Pieces of Permanent Interest, 1862, The Religious Tract Society, London, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 12mo; Gore (Charles), The Religion of the Church, as Presented in the Church of England: A Manual of Membership, A.R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London 1916, Swedish Art Deco binding of red half-morocco and printed two-tone boards, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, 16mo; The Psalter: A Revised Edition of the Scottish Metrical Version [...], Set to Suitable Music [...], Prepared and Published by Authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Blackie & Son, Dublin and Belfast, 1880, contemporary straight-grain green morocco, gilt and blind tooled to each cover and spine, owner's monogram gilt lettered to foot of upper cover, 12mo; Kempis (Thomas à), On the Imitation of Christ [...], Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London 1889, contemporary straight-grain black morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, 12mo; Sturm [Christoph Christian], Reflections of the Works of God; and of His Providence Throughout All Nature, Translated by The Rev. Dr. Balford, two-volume set, G. and W.B. Whittaker, London 1823, contemporary half-calf and marbled boards, 16mo; Spangenberg (The Rev. August Gottlieb), The Life of Nicholas Lewis Count Zinzendorf, Bishop and Ordinary of the Church of the United (or Moravian) Brethren [...], Samuel Holdsworth, London 1838, contemporary half-morocco and marbled boards, 12mo; The Book of Common Prayer [...], 1851, contemporary purple morocco, 8vo; another, similar, later; Cardinal Manning; various bindings and sizes; etc

Continental - [Marchantius (Jacobus)], Hortus Pastorum Sacræ Doctrinæ Floribus Polymitus [...], Joannis Molin [...], Jacobi Canier [...], Florii Martin, Lugduni [Lyon] 1668, title-page with woodblock vignette: De forti dulcedo, Judges 14:14, the lion and bees of Samson's enigma, contemporary full speckled calf, the spine with gilt tooled compartments within raised bands, crown folio; Arndt (Johann), Paradiesgärtlein aller christlichen Tugenden, Amsterdam 1666, engraved title-piece, vignette to title-page, contemporary calf (worn), thick 32mo; Carpzov (Johann Gottlob), Critica Sacra Veteris Testamenti [...], Jo. Christiani Martini, Lipsiæ [Leipzig] 1729, contemporary calf boards (upper detached), thick 8vo; Bottens (F. Fulgentium), Œconomia Sacra: Sapientiæ Increatæ Sive, Dei cum Hominibus commercium, Mediante Scriptura Sacra [...], volume II only, Michaelis Masii, Gandavi [Ghent] 1691, engraved title-page by Michael Heylbroeck (1635 - 1733), rubbed calf spine only, 16mo; Bocquillot (Lazare-André), Traité Historique de la Liturgie Sacrée ou de la Messe, Anisson, Paris 1701, contemporary panelled vellum over boards, each cover centred by a blind tooled foliate cartouche, 19th century black morocco gilt lettered labels to spine, bookplate to pastedown with ink MS accession numbers: Bath Public Reference Library, The Gift of M. Oppenheim, Esq., M.R.C.S., 1919, 12mo; Witsius (Hermann), Exercitationes Sacræ In Symbolum Quod Apostolorum Dicitur, Johannem Gyselaar, Franequeræ [Franeker] 1681, panelled vellum over boards, small 8vo; Lettres de Pline le Jeune, Claude Barbin, Paris 1699, contemporary calf gilt, 12mo; le Placette (Jean), Traité de l'Autorité des Sens, G. Gallet, Amsterdam 1700, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, ink MS ownership inscription: Edwd. Tottenham 1832 Edinburgh, library plate to front cover: Bath Guildhall Library: Tottenham Collection, no. 637, 16mo; Oeuvres de Valentin Jamerai Duval, Précédées des Mémoires sur Savie, volume I only, J.G. Treuttel, St. Petersberg and Strasbourg, 1784, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1755 - 1830), contemporary calf (disbound), 8vo; etc

Philology and Lexicography - Bailey (N[athan]), An Univerfal (sic) Etymological Englifh (sic) Dictionary: Comprehending The Derivations of the Generality of Words in the Englifh (sic) Tongue [...], A Brief and clear Explication of all difficult Words [...], A Large Collection and Explication of Words and Phrafes (sic) [...], second edition, with large Additions, Printed for E. Bell [...], London 1724, pp: [xvi], [951], full contemporary calf blind tooled in the Restoration taste, the spine with gilt lettered black morocco title label between raised bands, 8vo

The Illustrated London News: July to Dec 1851, contemporary green buckram centred by a gilt vignette of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, foliate blind stamped corners, medium folio; another run, July to Dec 1858, conforming binding, allegorical vignette of Britannia meeting a deputation from China, medium folio; further loose editions of periodicals, 19th century to second-quarter 20th century, various advertising plates and adverts throughout; The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, Volume II, July to September 1900 and Volume V, January to March 1901, each bound in faux 'morocco' maroon buckram with gilt pictorial design as issued, medium folios, (2), [qty]

Theology - Baxter (Richard), The Saints Everlafting (sic) Rest, four parts contemporaneously bound as one: first part, lacking title-page; second part, F. Tyton, 1676; third part, W.R., 1677; fourth part, F. Tyton and R. Boutler, 1677, contemporary diced calf, raised bands to spine, traces of ink MS title to spine, 8vo; The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Teftament (sic) and the New, Newly tranflated (sic) out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Tranflations (sic) diligently Compared and Revifed (sic), With Marginal notes, fhewing (sic) Scripture to be the beft (sic) Interpreter of Scripture, [London], engraved architectural title-page dated 1682 with no further printing details, address To the Reader by John Canne, bound with A Small Cambridge Concordance to the Holy Bible [...] To which is Annexed Supplement [...], Printed to be bound up with Bible, Printed by John Hayes, Cambridge 1695, late 18th century black straight-grain morocco gilt (lacking upper cover), lettered spine, marbled endpapers, recto with late 18th/early 19th century ink MS annotations in mainly Greek but some English, ownership inscription: S.P. Hodgkins 1808, 16mo; Spencerus [Spencer] (Gulielmus [William]), Origenes Kata Kelsou, en tomois 8 ; tou autou: Origenis Contra Celsum, Libri Octo, ejusdem Philocalia, Joan. Field, Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] 1658, contemporary panelled calf upper board only (detached), square 8vo; Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, fourth revised and enlarged edition, J.M. for John Williams [...], London 1676, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by Frederick Hendrik Van Hove (1628 - 1698) after Willem Sonmans (fl. 1670 - 1708), contemporary speckled calf with losses and repairs, small folio; [Newman (Samuel)], A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures: With the Various Readings both of Text and Margin, In A more Exact Method than hath hitherto been Extant, third edition, John Hayes, Printer to the Univerfity (sic): For Hannah Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill in London, Cambridge 1682, contemporary speckled calf, gilt tooled spine, blind lettering, 4to [5]

Fables of Æsop, And other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections, by Sir Roger L'Eftrange Kt (sic, L'Estrange), seventh corrected edition, Printed for D. Brown [...], London 1724, pp: [ii], [10], 1-29 [33, complete but erroneous pagination], [8], [ii], 550, advert [ii], engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, blind lettered spine within raised bands, small 8vo

Topography - The Kentish Tourist, or Excursions in the County of Kent [...], Illustrated with Forty-Eight Engravings Including a Map of the County, An Edition, with Very Superior Plates, Re-Published by the New Proprietor, J. Dowding, London [n.d., 1822], early 20th century seaweed buckram, 8vo; Stanfield's Coast Scenery, A Series of Views in the British Channel, from Original Drawings Taken Expressly for the Work, Smith, Elder and Co., London 1836, illustrated throughout with full-page line-engraved plates, contemporary buckram boards (loose/detached), 8vo; Brent (John), Canterbury in the Olden Time, second enlarged edition, With Numerous Illustrations, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London 1879, contemporary purple cloth, 8vo; Blackheath Local Guide and Lees, Lewisham & Charlton District Advertiser Illustrated, Vol. LXVII. No. 1566, April 1955 - Vol. LXVIII. No. 1626, November 1957, various adverts and notices throughout, contemporaneous brown half-morocco and marbled boards, blind lettered to upper and lower covers, raised bands to spine, slim 8vo; McCracken (R.F.), The Earnest Playgoer: Main Line, Branch Lines, and Sidetracks, 1879 - 1933, Printed and Published by The Blackheath Press, London 1933, All proceeds of sale will be devoted to the Blackheath and Charlton Hospital, similar contemporaneous half-morocco binding to the latter and retaining the original orange pictorial paper covers within, gilt lettered title label to spine, 8vo; Jesse (J. Heneage), London and its Celebrities, A Second Series of Literary and Historical Memorials of London, two-volume set, Richard Bentley, London 1850, contemporary blue cloth as issued, 8vo, [7]

Ornithology - Morris (Beverley R.), British Game Birds and Wildfowl, Illustrated with Sixty Coloured Plates, first edition, Groombridge and Sons, London 1855, pp: iv, 252, full-page hand-coloured etched and lithographed plates of birds, contemporary purple crushed morocco covers tooled in gilt and blind (disbound, lacking spine), yellow endpapers, all edges gilt, royal quarto

A carved oak side cabinet with three graduated blind drawers, facade to a cupboard door over an ornate carved apron, turned legs on square H stretcher, 35" x 17 6/8" x 15"

A 'Love is Blind' pendant, stamped '750', depicting a blindfolded female in profile to a frame with heart motifs, 3.8 cm diameter, 8.4 g gross

Late Regency rosewood sofa table, the top with two drop leaves over three drawers with turned wooden knobs opposing similar blind drawers, splat supports with a turned low stretcher, sabre legs with carved paw feet and concealed castors, width 116cm, depth 68cm, height 72cm

Late Georgian mahogany chest on later stand, having a dentil and blind fretwork cornice over two short and three long drawers with pierced brass plate handles, on a base with short cabriole forelegs, width 110cm, depth 58cm, height 135cm

Late Victorian walnut jardiniere the rectangular galleried top with later painted zinc liner, above a blind fret frieze and raised on square, slightly splayed legs, joined by a platform stretcher and with corner brackets in Chinese Chippendale style, bearing paper label for J. Jones & Son, Oswestry 1886, 62cm wide, 42cm deep, 80cm high

Bronze finish Group "Blind Man's Bluff", 24"h x 12"w

Herbert Ponting, Polar Exploration, four silver gelatin photo, 16" x 12", taken from Ponting's original negatives, Ponting photographing from side of Terra Nova, Ponies, Dog & Gramophone (great image), Robert Falcon Scott, each with two Popper blind stamps.

Ɵ Qur'an in 30 Juz', copied by Ahmed Amer Zeyd al-Shafei, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Saudi Arabia (probably Hejaz), dated 1294 AH (1877 AD)] 30 volumes, each with c.16-18 leaves, catch-words, single column, 11 lines bold black naskh, verse markings and surah headings in red, first two leaves of first Juz' with gilt decorations above and below the first two surah, some stains and smudges, a few chips or closed tears, 230 by 165mm.; contemporary red morocco with flaps, covers ruled in blind with three decorative medallions of arabesque designs to covers, also in blind, covers a little scuffed, some spines a little worn, paper labels on upper covers of some volumes (remains of labels on others) The Shafei name is a prominent one in the Hijaz area of Saudi Arabia, possibly with connections to the historical Al-Shafei Mosque in Jeddah. Each of the volumes has a dedication to “Shaykh Ahmad Muhammadal-Banhawi” and “Shaikh Muhammad Jazi”, who were presumably rulers in the wider Saudi peninsula that comissioned this work for the use of their local communities. The division of the Qur'an into 30 equal parts was often done to facilitate the reader to recite the entire work within one calendar month. This was particularly efficient practice within the context of a communal mosque, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, because it facilitated individuals reading separate juz' simultaneously. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

ƟIbn Shaddad, History of Aleppo (Izz' al-Din Ibn Shaddad, Al-A'lak al-Khafira fi Dikr Umara al-Sham wa al-Jazeera), in Arabic, produced for patron in France, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Aleppo or perhaps Constantinople, dated Rabi al-thani 1079 AH (September 1688 AD)] 196 leaves, plus 4 endpapers, complete, single column, 13 lines in black naskh, headings and important phrases in red, exceptionally clean copy, nineteenth-century ink inscriptions to endpapers in English, 215 by 155 mm.; contemporary morocco over pasteboards, stamped and ruled in blind with decorative medallions to centre of covers, but without flap, ruled in blind, early inscription “No 4” in black ink to upper cover, edges worn with loss to leather, revealing Arabic manuscript leaves compacted to reuse as pasteboards An exceptionally rare example of a text in Arabic, produced for a European (here probably from Lyon, France) on western paper; still in its contemporary ‘Western-style’ Arabic binding Provenance:1. Produced in the Near East in 1688 for a French patron, and then sent back to Europe: the text was copied and the codex bound in the Near East, but the Arabic penmanship is in an obviously simple style (probably to accommodate a reader who might not be fluent in the nuances of contemporary Arabic calligraphy), and the binding was produced without a flap, like Western and Greek bindings. Most crucially, the double watermark of a bunch of grapes and a fleur-de-lys set above a banderole with initials (here “D. D”) place this in a tight knit group of grape watermarks which centre on France (more specifically Paris, Lyon and regions of coastal southern France) in the second half of the sixteenth century and the seventeenth century, and is extremely close to Briquet 13206 (Lyons, 1630). Moreover, this copy is dedicated in its colophon to a king “Lawus al-ma'rouf bubin” (Louis the great/famous de Bourbon, ie. King Louis XIV ‘the Sun King’, who reigned from 1654 to 1715), who is “al-Roumi'” among the ‘Romans’ (most probably meaning non-Arabs and non-Greeks). There were Arabists in France from the 1530s onwards, and both Lyon and Paris were active in the teaching and printing of Arabic from the second half of the sixteenth century. The present volume was most probably commissioned for a member of the academic community in Lyon. Surviving examples of such commissions are exceedingly rare, and only one other is known to us: an Arabic translation of the works of Apollonius of Perga (lost in the original Greek), copied in the same simple script in Aleppo for the seventeenth-century Leiden scholar Jacobus Golius (Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, 2014, p. 42, with pl. on 44)2. By the nineteenth century the book was in England, receiving its English titles on both its first and last endleaves, as well as an apparent price in £s, shillings and pence on its back pastedown.3. Bengt Schönbäck of Sweden: his bookplate on back pastedown, and with brief pencil descriptions in that language on endleaf. Text:Ibn Shaddad (1217-1285) served the Ayyubid dynasty as an official in Aleppo, and is best known for this text, which contains a historical geography of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia. It was written while in exile in Egypt after the Mongol invasion of Syria in 1260. This volume names its contents as the Tarikh Ibn Shaddad fi Haleb, an alternative short title to that given above. Binding:The binding here is distinctively Near Eastern, and the boards are composed from seventeenth-century Arabic manuscript leaves. However, a 20mm. long section of the original leather of the outermost edge of the back board shows that this binding cannot have ever had a flap. This probably represents an attempt by an Arabic bookbinder to bind in the style of Western books, as part of this highly individual commission for a Western Arabist. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

ƟThe Horwer Missal, written by Johannes Horwer for the Church of Schwerzenbach, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Switzerland (Zurich), dated 1485] 153 leaves (plus 3 modern paper endleaves at each end), complete, collation: i9 (last probably a singleton), ii-x8, xi6, xii-xix8, xx6 (last 2 leaves of original quire cancelled blanks), some catchwords and contemporary foliation in red ink at head of each recto, double column of 27 lines in an excellent and angular Germanic bookhand, capitals touched in red (some with ornamental cadels reaching into upper and lower margins), red rubrics , small initials in alternate red and blue (some with ornamental cadels reaching into margin), larger initials in ornate red brushstrokes (some with tightly twisting penwork in contrasting colours, and those in lowermost lines with long whip-like penstrokes filling the bas-de-page, a few with human faces and that on fol. 98r with a red dragon’s muzzle), major sections opening with burnished gold initials with pink and khaki-green penwork (some with coloured foliage sprouting into border, and that facing Canon miniature with a dragon’s head at foot and human face at top, opening of text with two sided borders of scrolling coloured foliage with golden fruit, good dry-point sketch of a bird in flight in bas-de-page of fol. 99r, good pen and ink drawing in bas-de-page of fol. 98r of a red-billed stork raising its foot to stamp on a stylised frog, one full-page Crucifixion miniature before the Canon of the Mass, the figures before a burgundy sky set with liquid gold stars and all within a realistic pale green frame, some contemporary or near-contemporary marginal additions, marks on edges of some leaves from leather page markers once glued there, leaves at each end of volume with old water damage leading to cockling, some offset and shine-through in places and a few leaves with damage to their top edges, overall in good and presentable condition, 345 by 245mm.; nineteenth-century brown leather over pasteboards, gilt-tooled with floral and simple fillet frames around a blind-tooled floral cabouchon, “Missale” and “Cod. Membr. /Anni 1484” gilt on spine, in brown felt-lined fitted case This impressively large and weighty codex is one of the tiny proportion of medieval manuscripts for which we know almost all of the circumstances of its creation: its scribe, commissioner and which community it was made for, as well as the date of its completion Provenance:1. Written and illuminated by Johannes Horwer in 1485 for Andreas ‘Molitor’ (Müller), rector of the church in Schwerzenbach (a few miles east of Zurich, and incorporated within the city from 1402): Horwer’s signature discretely in white within the cross bar of the initial ‘S’ on fol. 140r (now mostly erased) and more openly in gold in a banderole in the lower margin of the frontispiece on fol. 2v (another banderole in the outer margin with the date in gold). Molitor is named in the inscription on fol. 89r: “Ego Andreas Molitoris de Keiserstuel rector huius ecclesie in Schwerzenbach pro remedio anime et benefactorum retuli hunc librum 1485” followed by his coat of arms (per fess sable a lion or passant and or a demi waterwheel sable). He is recorded as leutpriester (substitute priest) in Schwerzenbach in 1470, 1489 and 1493.2. From a nineteenth-century episcopal library: two repeated inkstamps on recto of first leaf with galero and six tassels per side, above initials perhaps to be read “ R A”. Text:The volume comprises: an Ordo specialis boni, a list of special feast days (fol. 1r), here functioning as an index to the codex; the Temporal (fol. 2v); the Ordo Missae (fol. 84v); the Canon (fol. 89r); the Sanctoral (fol. 94r), with readings for SS. Felix and Regula, martyred by decapitation near Zurich, and with text here that singles out and lauds Zurich: “O thuregum Rome regum regale palacium” (‘O Zurich royal palace of the kings of Rome’), and again in the text on Charlemagne on fol. 99r: “urbs Thuregum famosa”; the Common of the Saints (fol. 130v); the Missae votive (fol. 137r); and the Collecte speciales (fol. 153r). The Scribe-Artist:We are fortunate that Johannes Horwer’s work is known from more than one extant codex. He signed another Missal produced for the Knights Hospitallers dated 1469 with his name in a similar banderole in purple ink highlighted with gold (the summer part now surviving in s’-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh, MS. 15: A.S. Korteweg, Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts and Incunabula at Huis Bergh Castle in s’-Heerenberg, 2013, no. 98), and in that he specifically names himself “scriptor”. However, the decoration and miniature of that codex are so close to the present example as to suggest he was also the illuminator. A third volume, a Gradual, was to be found in St. Petersberg in the early part of the twentieth century, and is recorded in a publication of 1925 by O. Dobiasch-Roschdestwenskaja as written by “Johannem Horwer von Lichtensteig burger Zürich” (in ‘Die Satire am Rande der mitteralterlichen Hss.’, Analecta Medii Aevi, I, 1925). Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

ƟAli bin Muhammad al-Husain al-Bazdawi, Al-Juzu' al-Thani min 'Usul al'Imam al-Bazdawi “Usul al-Bazdawi”, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Near East (possibly Syria), dated 534 AH (1140 AD)] 56 leaves, uncollatable, text fragmentary (early foliation indicating misbound leaves and gaps in text), single column, 17 lines black cursive naskh, margins a little darkened, many edges and outer margins repaired (rarely affecting text), a few scattered smudges or stains, 188 by 148mm.; modern burgundy morocco, covers ruled with central medallions in blind, extremities a little scuffed A remarkably early copy of the Usul al-Bazdawi, copied only 52 years after the death of al-Bazdawi himself (d. 482 AH). The text explores the fundamentals, origins and sources of Islamic fiqh. Though many commentaries of this authoritative text survive in print, few examples are recorded in manuscript form, and no other copies have appeared at auction in the past decade. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

ƟAhmad bin Ali ibn Zanbal al-Rammal, Kitab al-Thahab al'Abrir fi Ilm al-Raml al-Athar ('Book on the Science of Sand', a treatise on geomancy), in Arabic, decorated manuscript on paper [Near East (possibly Syria), dated Safar 1191 AH (1777 AD)] 48 leaves, complete, catch-words, single column, 19-21 lines black cursive naskh per page, key words and headings in red, 6 full-page tables and charts in the text, a few contemporary ink inscriptions to margins, 3 additional folios (one pasted to the lower pastedown and two loosely inserted), a few ink smudges, some outer margins darkened or soiled, top edge of first leaf repaired (not affecting text), 225 by 165mm.; early nineteenth-century morocco over pasteboards, outer edges ruled in gilt, covers with later blind-stamped decorative medallions, a little scuffed This treatise deals with the art of divination by interpreting lines and textures in sand. The text is 'Ilm al-Ramal' (science of the sand) in Arabic, and is the work of Ibn Zunbul nicknamed 'al-Rammal' (the geomancer) for his work in this area. This composition focuses on the patterns and formations of the sand and translates them into codes, often connecting them with divinations and astronomical events, while his other work Kitab al-maqalat fi hall al-Muskilat, is considered more of a practical manual for geomancy. Ibn Zunbul's precise dates are unknown, but he was certainly alive in the mid-sixteenth century: Sultan Suleyman I (1520-1566 AD) is cited in one of his writings, and one of the author's sons is known to have passed in away in 1553. He was a reputable astronomer and an army general in the Mamluk court, being cited by Brocklemann as a “civil servant of the war division” (Brockelmann II, 43, 298). Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

ƟKhawaja Shams ud'Din Muhammad Hafez'e Shirazi 'Hafiz', Ghazaliyaat, in Farsi, illuminated manuscript on paper [Safavid Persia (possibly Tabriz), c. 1650] 200 leaves, complete, catch-words throughout, 12 lines black nasta'liq, single and double column, gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece opening the text, opening two leaves with interlinear colouring in gold decorated with colourful floral sprays, decorative banners and fillers throughout, with floral vines heightened in turquoise, orange, red and blue, catch-words throughout, leaves in multi-coloured ruling, final leaf laid-down, some inscriptions to front free endpaper and few nineteenth-century marginal annotations, eighteenth-century ownership stamp and annotation “Soleyman” to front free endpaper, some light water-staining along lower edges, a few ink stains or smudges, overall clean and attractive condition, 224 by 140mm.; contemporary blind stamped and tooled calf over pasteboards, covers with block-stamped central panels (with horizontal divide in leather along centres) surrounded by smaller border panels, all in gilt, inner covers with central stamped medallions and corner pieces in blue and green, decorated with orange and gold filigree, possibly missing original flap, outer edges repaired, lightly rubbed and scuffed A charming and delicately illuminated volume of the Ghazals of Hafiz, a strict poetic form comparable to the English sonnet. The binding present is notably fine and distinctively close to Haldane's example 82 (Islamic Bookbindings, 1982, p. 79) with the horizontal divide across the centre of the covers. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).  

* Laurence Stephen Lowry [1887-1976]- The Family,:- coloured print signed in ink and Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp in the margin sight size 29 x 22cm.

* Laurence Stephen Lowry [1887-1976]- The Reference Library,:- coloured print signed in pencil and Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp in the margin sight size 27 x 36cm.

* Laurence Stephen Lowry [1887-1976]- Three Men and a Cat,:- coloured print signed in ink and Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp in the margin sight size 27.5 x 17.5cm.

Chinese hardwood stand, circular top with a marble inset, in a carved leaf and berry border, beaded edge, blind carved frieze, carved and fretted apron, cabriole legs, paw feet joined by arched stretchers, the top diameter 39cm, height 87cm.

Chinese hardwood stand, octagonal top with marble inset, beaded edge, blind carved and fretted frieze, carved and fretted apron, cabriole legs, with carved birds head terminals, scrolled feet, the legs joined by stretchers, height 48cm.

Joined oak settle, 18th Century, blind fretwork panels, over four arched field panels, hinged box seat, front fascia with four fielded panels, length 188cm.

Late 19th century mahogany two-door wardrobe with blind carved surround and panelled doors with applied mouldings, on plinth base, 149cm wide 

Lady's dark stained oak writing desk, the superstructure with fret carved gallery and cluster column supports, the fall with blind fret carved border over a similarly carved drawer with brass drop handles, two open shelves, 77cm wide 

After William Russell Flint, The Danza Montana, signed limited edition photo-lithographic print, with Fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp, image 48cm x 63cm, together with another - both framed

[Berkerry (George)] Siris, A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, 8vo D. (Margt. Rhames) 1744. First Edn., 261 pp plus errata at end, sm. pce. torn from top corner of title, slightly affecting "S" in Siris, cont. calf, single blind line border, raised bands, mor. label. V. good Rare. (1)

Varenius (Bernhard) Geographia Generalis, In qua Affectiones Generales Telluris Explicantur,... Ab Isaac Newton Math. Prof. Lucasiano apud Cantabrigienses. 8vo Cambridge 1681. Second Edn., red & bl. title with wd. cut device, 5 fold. plts., errata on last leaf, lacks loose blank ends, orig. blind panel calf, raised bands, top of spine dam. (1)

[Stephens (Wm.)] Bishop Hacket's Memoirs of the Life of Archbishop Williams, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Abridg'd. With the most Remarkable Occurrences and Transactions in Church and State. 8vo L. (for Sam. Briscoe) 1715. First Edn., [4], [16], 220pp., cont. blind panel calf, v. good copy. (1)

With Attractive Coloured PlatesO'Neill (Henry) The Fine Arts and Civilization of Ancient Ireland, folio L. 1863. First Edn., cold. frontis & 6 cold. plts. (some fold.), plus bl. & white illus. thro-out, orig. cloth blind & gilt Celtic decoration. V. good. (1)

The Lindisfarne GospelsKendrick (T.D.), Brown (T.J.) & Bruce-Mitford (R.L.S.) Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Lindisfarnesis Murei Britannici Codex Cottonicaus Nero D. IV [Lindisfarne Gospels], 2 vols., folio, Ltd. Edn. 609 (647) Copies, (In Aedibus Urs Gref) 1956 / 1960, Volume 1 full blind decor. vellum, lettered spine, commentary vol. vellum backed boards, clean set. (2)

Patterson (Wm.) Observations on the Climate of Ireland, and Researches.. with Thoughts on Some Branches of Rural Economy, ... 8vo D 1804. First Edn., errata leaf at end, full cont. calf with blind arms of The Earl of Leitrim on both covers. V. good. (1)

Burke (Edmund) The Works of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 16 vols. 8vo L. 1826. New Edn., cont. full purple mor. dble gilt fillet and blind tooled borders, gilt spines (faded) mor. labels.(16)

Bolton (Sir R.) A Justice of Peace for Ireland, ed. by M. Travers. Lg. 4to D. 1750, Approb. leaf at front; also Bullingbrooke (Ed.) An Abridgement of the Public Statutes of Ireland, 2 vols. in one, lg. 4to D. (Boutler Grierson) 1768, cont. uniform full calf, blind tooled decor. border. (2)

Through Joyce's Eyes[Joyce (James)] An original pair of pince-nez Glasses, gilt fittings and chain, in a velvet lined morocco case from a Dublin optician, stamped on underside 'Yeates & Co. Opticians / Dublin.' By tradition Joyce's own glasses, used when writing Ulysses; familiar from many photographs, including his passport, in good condition. A wonderful memento.From the Collection of Thomas Pugh. Joyce had trouble with his eyes from early adulthood; Pugh also had problems with his eyesight, and became blind in later years. Perhaps this was a spare pair, or one Joyce no longer used; presumably it was given to Pugh on one of his visits to Joyce in Paris.A wonderful association item, given to a close friend and fellow sufferer, with an impeccable provenance. (1)Provenance: From the collection of Joyce's friend Thomas Pugh. (1)

Important 19th Century Ethiopic folding Picture Bible[Ethiopic] A rare folding hand painted religious Coptic Bible depicting attractive hand painted scenes from the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with script, 12 illustrations, of folding format, in blind decorated hand made leather binding. Unusual in this format. Unique. (1)

Fleming (Ian) Goldfinger, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1959, First Edn., black cloth with blind stamped skull and gold coins as eyes in gilt on front cover, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket design by Richard Chopping with similar design with red rose, titled in black, dust jacket clipped (not priced clipped). Clean Copy. (1)

Fleming (Ian) Thunderball, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1961, First Edn., black cloth with blind stamped skeleton hand and wrist on front cover, gilt lettered spine, jacket designed by Richard Chopping with skeleton hand and wrist clasp knife and playing cards, title in black d.j. clipped (not priced), clean copy. (1)

Signed by Ian FlemingFleming (Ian) The Spy Who Loved Me, 8vo L. (Jonathan Cape) 1962, First Edn., black cloth with blind stamped Wilkinson dagger, with silver blade on front cover, title in silver on spine, d.j. designed by Richard Chopping with dagger, carnation, titled in black, d.j. price clipped. Clean Copy. (1)

The Property of Thomas Barnard, Bishop of LimerickCo. Limerick: Greek New Testament Hé Kainé = Novum Testamentum. Cantabrigiae [Cambridge] apud Tho, Buck 1632. Engraved illustrated title page. Printer's device (a buck drinking at a fountain). Bound in calf with blind tooling (worn). Text in Greek. This volume contains the gospels of SS Matthew and Mark only (pp 1 - 136).Extensive notes in several hands. Belonged to Thomas Barnard, Bishop of Limerick (1726 - 1805). M/ss notes on front end paper, dated 20 Sept. 1841, by J. Quarry, whose father John had bought the volume in 1806, presumably on the sale of the bishop's library.Bishop Barnard was a member of the Literary Club, and was a friend of Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, Bishop Percy, and other literary figures of his day. (1)

Binding: Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland - Catalogue of Stock, Horses, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Dairy Produce, Flax, & Implements, Exhibited at the National Cattle and Horse Show of the Society at Cork,... Wed. Thurs. & Friday, 2nd, 3rd & 4th August, 1876. 8vo D. 1876. Sole Edn., a.e.g., cont. full crimson mor., with fine gilt & blind tooled borders & Royal cipher on front cover in gilt. V. good. (1)

Plantin Press: Biblia Sacra, Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V. Pont. Max. Jussu Recognita atque edita. Antwerp (Ex. Officina Plantiniana.. B. & J. Moretos..) 1618. Fine engd. title, wd. cut initials, text in 2 columns, with 85pp errata at end, & wd. cut printers device, cont. full calf, lg. blind tooled border, raised bands. V. good. (1)

With Fine Quality Hand-Coloured PlatesHolbein (Hans) The Dance of Death; 8vo L. 1816. Illustrated by 33 mostly hand-coloured plts. engraved by W. Hollar. Descriptions in English and French, a.e.g., with lg. blind & gilt tooled borders, spine gilt in panels. V. good. (1)

Engraved Plates: Heath's Gallery of British Engravings, 2 vols. (ex. 4) sm. folio L. 1836-1838, & Heath's Gallery of the Graces, 3 vols. in all, numerous engd. plts. a.e.g., uniform full green mor. gilt fillet & blind tooled borders. (3)

Album: A very large atlas folio Album of full page engraved, and wd. cut & litho views, some hd. cold., mostly Continental, & 5 v. large Photographs, Continental scenes, one signed in pen Ch. Winte? 1856? in full blind tooled calf. As an album, w.a.f. (1)

O'Donovan (John)ed. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by The Four Masters, 3 vols. lg. thick 4to D. 1848. First Edn., Printed for Eugene Curry, and Chas. Gavan Duffy, orig. cloth with blind Celtic decoration. V. good. (3)

Andrew Watson Turnbull (1874-1957) three etchings, 'Lough Belshade, Donegal', signed and titled in pencil to margin, blind stamped, 17 cm x 24.5 cm; 'Deeside', signed and titled in pencil to margin, blind stamped, 21 cm x 30.3 cm; 'Canongate Clock, Edinburgh', signed in pencil to margin, 27.5 cm x 17.5 cm, all framed and glazed. Together with Wallace R. Hester (1866-c.1923) etching, 'City of London School', signed and titled in pencil to margin, artists proof no. 119, 25.7 cm x 17.4 cm, framed and glazed (4)