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δ Jean-Pierre Fizet (b.1942) Jane Birkin, 1974Gelatin silver print, printed later, signed in black ink with photographer's blind-stamp recto, signed and editioned 6/12 in black ink on photographer's label affixed verso, 69.2 x 71cm (27 1/4 x 28in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
δ Sebastiao Salgado (b.1944) Figure Eight, Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986Gelatin silver print, printed 1990s, with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, signed, titled and dated in pencil verso, 44 x 29.4cm (17 3/8 x 11 7/8in) δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
δ Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) Paris Canal, 1950.Gelatin silver print, printed later, signed in black ink with 'HULTON/ARCHIVE' copyright blind stamp in the margin, editioned 2/50, 37 x 36.5cm (14 1/2 x 14 1/4in)Provenance: Getty Images Gallery, Londonδ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Evelyn Tripp, NYC, 1951Gelatin silver print, printed later, with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, signed, titled, dated and annotated in pencil with portfolio edition stamp verso, 44.6 x 35cm (17 1/2 x 13 3/4in)Provenance: Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris This print comes from one of a set of three portfolios printed to commemorate Horst's 90th Birthday.
δ Colin Jones (b.1936) The Black House, 1973-76Gelatin silver print, with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, signed, titled and dated with photographer's copyright stamps verso, 33 x 49cm (13 x 19 1/4in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
A 19th century French walnut and black/grey veined marble commode chest of drawers. Raised on bracket feet supports with central bank of blind fronted drawers with stunning brass drop ring handles. Atop a large flared black and grey veined marble top. Measures 92cms high x 129cms wide x 54cms depth
A 19th century Regency mahogany twin pedestal sideboard. Raised on twin pedestals with plinth bases and flared arches to the locker doors housing shelves within. Above a large flared sideboard top with blind fronted drawers, the central drawer with embellished details. Finished with a carved and arched gallery back. Measures 126cms high x 199cms wide x 61cms depth
An 18th century oak housekeepers livery cupboard. The beautiful oak with crossbanded mahogany details. Raised on bracket feet with a series of short and deep drawers having brass swan neck handles. Above a further cabinet with cupboard doors and blind panels under flared cornice atop. Dismantles into 2 pieces for ease of movement. Measures 128cms by 138cms by 50cms.
Architecture.- Scamozzi (Vincenzo) L'Idea della Architettura Universale, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved titles, illustrations, woodcut head and tail-pieces, bookplate, blind-stamp to title and label to title verso, lacking Registro leaf, contemporary calf, gilt, morocco spine label, a little rubbed, housed in a protective slipcase,[Fowler 292, Cicognara 651, Millard Italian 123], folio, Venice, Giorgio Valentino, 1615.⁂ This was called the "bulkiest architectural treatise written in Italy" (Wittkower) and next to the Quattro Libri of his teacher Palladio, it was the most influential architectural work of the early seventeenth century. Provenance: Bookplate of Nicholas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721), first Marquis de Magny, archaeologist, and royal administrator in the reign of Louis XIV. His library was in part dispersed before his death, several copies acquired by the Earls of Macclesfield. With Foucault's large engraved ex-libris to the front pastedown, and the Earls of Macclesfield's blind-stamp and South Library Macclesfield bookplate to title and title verso. Sold as part of the Macclesfield Library, Sotheby's, October 25, 2005.
Great Plague of London and medical and cookery recipes.- Syford (Mary, b. 1635, married 27th June 1659, fl. 1635-65) Medical and cookery recipes, manuscript in several hands, 166pp. (including pastedowns), inscribed "Mary Syford her Booke" on front pastedown, reverse entries (later inscription dated 1750), browned, a few ff. slightly soiled and stained, contemporary calf, blind-stamped double borders, corners and edges slightly worn, upper joint split, remains of paper label on spine, 150 x 96mm., 1665 & [17th century].⁂ "what peopl dyed of ye plague in ye several weekes in ye year of ye Lord: 1665... august y 27 6102."An outstanding recipe book with two recipes against the plague and a page devoted to the amount of deaths by plague in the year 1665, probably taken from the published Bills of Mortality, used by Captain Graunt and Sir William Petty in their statistical work. Recipes include: "For the thooth ache"; "The felon plaistir or for any green wound"; "Mr. Scarlets receit for ye: green sickness"; "an eye water my Grandfather Gooddiers receit"; "A Plauge water"; "a plaister to caus a woman to go out her turn with child... B. Fox"; "my Lady Kiligrues medecin for a sore brest"; "Docter burgesses receit against the plague"; "Mr Loss of dorchester his receipt to make chinah broth good for a consumption"; "The Irish aquavitae"; "To preserve cheries"; "To preserve red roses"; "To make iely of pippins" etc.
Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, first edition, first issue, second state with "Stave I" heading, title page printed in red and blue dated 1843 and green endpapers, half-title in blue, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by & after Leech and 4 plain woodcut vignettes by Linton after Leech, some occasional light foxing, contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, original first issue brown fine-ribbed cloth, with unbroken 'D' within wreath and minimum 14mm gap between blind border and gilt cartouche, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, slight shelf-lean, spine and borders of covers slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, some light marking, still excellent overall, g.e., [Smith II 4] 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1843.⁂ A sharp, bright copy of Dickens' classic Christmas tale.
Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, first edition, second issue with "Stave One" heading, title page dated 1844 printed in red and green, yellow endpapers and uncorrected text, autograph envelope signed by the author author to Henry Austin, Gwydyr House loosely inserted, half-title printed in blue, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by & after Leech and 4 plain woodcut vignettes by Linton after Leech, light finger-soling, faint ink inscription to half-title, original first issue brown fine-ribbed cloth, with unbroken 'D' within wreath and minimum 14mm gap between blind border and gilt cartouche, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, browned, spine ends and corners bumped, light fraying to joints, rubbed, recased with repair to spine ends, g.e., [Smith II 4 see p.26 5n.] 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1844 [but 1843].⁂ A rare trial or intermediate issue, Smith mentions only two other copies of which he had seen only one and hypothesises that this is likely a first state of the second issue.
Horatius Flaccus (Quintus) Opa. cum quatuor comme[n]tariis, collation: aa6 a-z A-N8, title in red and black and woodcut printer's device within woodcut architectural border, woodcut criblé initials, contemporary and 17th century ink notes to pastedowns, occasional contemporary ink marginalia, r6-8 torn at head with loss and supplied in contemporary ink ms., sig. A misbound, H4&5 loose, some staining or spotting, contemporary blind-stamped calf, spine ends reapird, sorners worn, rubbed, folio (332 x 224mm.), Paris, Badius Ascensius, [1519].⁂ Literature: Adams H865.
Macrobius (Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius) Macrobius Aurelius integer nitidus suoque decori ab Ioanne Rivio superioribus annis & nunc cura Ascensianorum multo diligentius restitutus, edited by Joannes Rivius, collation: A-M8 N10, title and woodcut printer's device within woodcut architectural border, woodcuts within text, including a world map on f.XXII, and a map of the five climatic zones on f. XX, woodcut criblè initials, final f. blank, occasional early ink marginalia, signature to head of title, [Paris], Badius Ascensius, [November, 1519] bound with Apuleius. Apuleius cum commento Beroaldi: & figuris nouiter additis, commentary by Philippus Beroaldus, woodcuts within text, woodcut decorative initials, [Venice], [Joannis Tacuinis de Tridino], [June, 1516], together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or staining, contemporary blind-stamped calf, upper cover detached, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, folio (317 x 215mm.). ⁂ Macrobius' commentary on Cicero's Somnium and Saturnaliorum, with a woodcut world map. Includes many incidental remarks on geography, astronomy, physics and mathematics.Provenance: 'Charles Chabroud, Avocat' (engraved bookplate). Literature: I: Adams M74; Sabin 43657. II: Adams A1375; EDIT 16 CNCE 2226.
Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Rhetoricorum..., collation: *8, **8, a-k8, l4, m-z8, A-G8, H10; [16], 245, [1] ff., complete with blank leaf **8, Aldine device on title and at end, blank spaces for capitals with printed guide letters, title lightly soiled, bowned and spotted in places, heavier to the blank lower margin of fols. q7-q8, short tear to blank margin of title and fol. *6, a few small wormholes to final leaves, not affecting text, contemporary blind-tooled brown morocco over pasteboards, possibly recased, covers witin fillets and roll in geometrical pattern, central floral branches and fleuron, spine with three raised bands, partly restored, extremities worn, pastedowns and endpapers renewed, edges blue, colouring slightly faded to fore-edge, 4to (212 x 123mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius's heirs and Andrea Torresano, October 1521.⁂ Another copy of the second Aldine edition of Cicero's rhetorical works, a substantial reprint of the first edition issued by Aldus Manutius in March 1514, and edited by Andrea Navagero. Literature: Renouard 93.13; Ahmanson-Murphy 207.
Barberino (Andrea da) Documenti d'Amore, first edition, engraved pictorial title by C. Bloemart after A. Camassei, 1 engraved portrait and 14 plates, woodcut ornamental initials and tailpieces, occasional faint off-setting, blind-stamp and later discreet ink-stamp to free endpapers, later vellum, red morocco gilt spine label, small ink number to spine head, [Gamba 97, Landwehr 136, Cicognara 1985], 4to, Rome, Vitale Mascardi, 1640.⁂ The plates are engraved by Bloemart, G. F. Greuter and Fabia della Cornia, and are after A. and L. Magalotti, C. Massimi, F. Zuccaro and Nicolas Poussin. Barberino later enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a lawyer and privileged citizen. Provenance: Unidentified blind-stamp ex-libris to front free endpaper, an hourglass with initial R. P. and motto Dammi Tempo.
Gaelic Ireland.- Colgan (John) Acta Sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae,... Tomus Primus, first edition, vol.1 only (of 2), double column, half-title, title with small woodcut ornament, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary blind-tooled armorial calf, spine gilt and in compartments, lacking clasps, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, with loss at ends, covers scratched, folio, Louvain, Everard de Witt, 1645.⁂ An important source on Gaelic Ireland, and something of a legendary rarity in the field of Irish book collecting. We can only trace three records for both volumes at auction between 1947 and 2016, and only one record for this volume alone. Colgan was a Franciscan friar, hagiographer and historian.
Middle Eastern ms.- Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad bin Isma'il bin Ibrahim al-Bukhari al-Jaufi (died A.H. 256/ A.D. 870) Al-Jami' al-Sahih, [vol.XX only], Arabic manuscript on paper, 76 leaves, approximately 14 lines written in maghribi script, significant words, sentences and headings picked out in red or blue ink throughout, margins ruled in red and blue, catchwords written in lower margins, illuminated headpiece incorporating the title Tafsir al-Qur'an at beginning, some ink side-notes with folded leaf extensions, contemporary brown morocco, stamped in blind, small split to flap, 4to, 217 x 154mm., North Africa (probably Morocco), 18th century.⁂ A compilation of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad.
Woolley (Hannah) The Gentlewomans Companion; or, a Guide to the Female Sex, first edition, without the engraved portrait by W.Faithorne but with blank S4 and 8pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink inscriptions to title, upper outer corner of A3 & 4 and G5 & 6 torn away with loss of a few letters, title and B8 with small portion torn away at fore-edge not affecting text (title repaired), title lightly soiled, small stains to a few leaves particularly D1 & 2, modern calf with border in blind, morocco label, [Oxford p.36; Wing W3276a; Not in Bitting, Cagle or Vicaire], 8vo, by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman, 1673.⁂ Rare first edition of this collection of recipes, cosmetics, remedies, and advice to women on education, governesses, servants and social conduct. The portrait by Faithorne which is found in some copies is now believed to depict not Woolley but Sarah Gilly. It is probable that Woolley died in the early 1670s, before this work was published as it was unauthorized.ESTC lists only 5 copies, all in America; COPAC likewise lists no UK copy but according to WorldCat there are 6 copies in the UK. We have been unable to find an auction record for this edition.
Traven (B.) The Death-Ship, first English edition, scattered spotting, ownership blind-stamps and light browning to endpapers, original cloth, spine slightly dulled, dust-jacket, light browning to spine and top edge of panels, short closed tear to foot of spine, slight creasing to spine ends, some light spotting and surface soiling, an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1934.⁂ Traven's breakthrough novel a scathing critique of bureaucracy and the loss of workers' rights, adapted into a 1959 film of the same name.
Hermes Black Kelly Retourne 35 Smooth Calf Leather Bag. Gold tone hardware. Leather interior with zipper pocket. Optional strap and clochette included. Labeled appropriately. Blind stamp Z in circle (1996). Very good condition with only slight signs of wear. Measures 13-1/2" L x 10" H x 5-1/4" D. Original box and dustbags included. Shipping $115.00 (estimate $5500-$6500)
An unusual early 20th century pastel after Thorolf Holmboe (Norwegian - 1866 - 1935) showing a coastal scene with wildfowl, inscribed verso, Reine 1905 - Lofoten Island - Norway, 70 cm x 57 cm in simple wooden frame, together with a pair of late 18th century engraving after Northcote, Blind Girl and Country Girl, a gilt framed mirror, etc
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