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A 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY WINDOW SEAT, having twin Oriental inspired upright bowed side handles, supported on a box top with blind fret carved frieze, the lid lifting to reveal storage area, having pierced Art Nouveau apron, supported on four turned im itation bamboo legs united by a similarly turned H-shaped stretcher, supported on brass "eye ball" castors, 61cm high overall, 1.05m wide
George III mahogany Chippendale influence chest on chest, the moulded Greek key cornice over the top chest with blind fret top and canted corners, moulded front and three short drawers over three graduated drawers, the base with three long graduated drawers raised on bracket feet, height 73.5" x width 44".
A 19th Century mahogany chest on chest with moulded pediment with Greek key moulding above two short over three long drawers to thr top and three long drawers to the base, the whole to bracket feet CONDITION REPORTS Damage to the blind fretwork to the left hand side - see images. Some small losses and damage to the moulding throughout. Some splits to the drawer fronts. Some damage to the drawer surrounds. Some signs of old repairs moulding to the top edge of the base and coming loose. Lower handles missing, some further splits especially to the sides. All over various general signs of wear and tear, some losses of roundels to the handles. Some decorative Greek key moulding missing to the pediment. Damage to the blind fretwork carving especially down to the left hand side. some brass roundels to the handles missing and the handles are replacements. some cracking and lifting to the veneer to the front. Some splits to the sides. Areas of small decorative moulding missing, especially around the drawer fronts. Some locks missing. All over various general signs of wear and tear throguhout
Ornamental Frieze Engraving After Francesco Piranesi, Italian (born circa 1758-1810). Edizione Ponte Vecchio. Publisher's Fleur de lis blind stamp or otherwise unsigned. Laid down on foam board, framed. Wear and or rubbing to frame, minor buckling from humidity. Measures approx. 27" x 35-1/4", frame s 32-1/2" x 38-1/2". Provenance: Collection from 2100 South Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, Florida. A luxury condominium in the Historic Sloan's Curve Area of Palm Beach. Shipping: Third party. (estimate $100-$150)
Ornamental Frieze Engraving After Francesco Piranesi, Italian (born circa 1758-1810). Edizione Ponte Vecchio. Publisher's Fleur de lis blind stamp or otherwise unsigned. Laid down on foam board, framed. Wear and or rubbing to frame, minor buckling from humidity. Measures approx. 27" x 35-1/4", frame s 32-1/2" x 38-1/2". Provenance: Collection from 2100 South Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, Florida. A luxury condominium in the Historic Sloan's Curve Area of Palm Beach. Shipping: Third party. (estimate $100-$150)
Ornamental Frieze Engraving After Francesco Piranesi, Italian (born circa 1758-1810). Edizione Ponte Vecchio. Publisher's Fleur de lis blind stamp or otherwise unsigned. Laid down on foam board, framed. Wear and or rubbing to frame, minor buckling from humidity. Measures approx. 27" x 35-1/4", frame s 32-1/2" x 38-1/2". Provenance: Collection from 2100 South Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, Florida. A luxury condominium in the Historic Sloan's Curve Area of Palm Beach. Shipping: Third party. (estimate $100-$150)
Ornamental Frieze Engraving After Francesco Piranesi, Italian (born circa 1758-1810). Edizione Ponte Vecchio. Publisher's Fleur de lis blind stamp or otherwise unsigned. Laid down on foam board, framed. Wear and or rubbing to frame, minor buckling from humidity. Measures approx. 27" x 35-1/4", frame s 32-1/2" x 38-1/2". Provenance: Collection from 2100 South Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, Florida. A luxury condominium in the Historic Sloan's Curve Area of Palm Beach. Shipping: Third party. (estimate $100-$150)
Drew (John M.L., editor) 'The Pride of Mankind': Puff verses for Warren's Blacking with contributions attributed to Charles Dickens, number 4 of 60 special copies on Khadi paper, from an edition limited to 300 and signed by the artist, printer and binder, wood-engravings by Bob Guy, original grey morocco, upper cover pictorial gilt, slip-case, Oswestry, Hedge Sparrow Press, 2005 § Duncan (Ronald) Tale of Tails. Ten Fables, number 75 of 200 copies signed by the author, artist and printer, printed in red and black, colour plates by John Bratby, list of subscribers at end, original blind-stamped morocco, St.Germans, Elephant Press, 1976 § Courtney (Cathy) The Looking Book: a pocket history of Circle Press 1967-96, limited edition, Double Crown Club menu for talk by Ron King loosely inserted, original embossed wrappers, initialled by Ron King on rear flap, [c.1996] § Parenthesis: The Newsletter [later Journal] of The Fine Press Book Association, No.3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 14, 16, 17 & 18, limited editions, No.16 one of 90 deluxe copies with a portfolio of samples of printers' and engravers' work, original cloth-backed boards and cloth folder, the rest original pictorial wrappers, some with contributions by Anthony Dowd, 1999-2010; and 3 others, press, 8vo & 4to (16)
Calvin (John) Sermons upon the Epistle of Sainct Paule to the Galathians, [translated by A. Golding], first edition, title within woodcut border, title soiled, 2I1 small tear in lower margin, 2R4 corner torn away not affecting text, browned, 17 century ink inscription of Thomas Edwards on title, 19th century bookplate of Hopper, Hermitage, Co. Durham on front pastedown, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, brass corner and centre plates, remains of brass clasps, re-backed in modern calf, [STC 4449], sm. 4to. by Lucas Haryson and G. Bishop, 1574. ⁂ Perhaps Thomas Edwards (c. 1599-1648), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist.
France.- Disderi (Andre Adolphe-Eugene, 1819-1889) An album of carte-de-visite portraits, 25 albumen prints mounted on card, all by Disderi with his printed credit on versos, good tones, loosely inserted in card leaves, contemporary green morocco, covers elaborately blind-stamped, two gilt metal clasps, a.e.g., small 4to, Paris, 1860s; with another album of Second Empire carte-de-visite portraits, 24 albumen prints mounted on card, with printed credits for Alexandre Ken (12), Augustin Le Jeune (5), Levitsky (3), Disderi (2) and Nadar (2), loosely inserted in card leaves, contemporary purple blind-stamped morocco, upper cover and backstrip faded, metal clasp, a.e.g., small 4to, Paris, 1860s, (2). ⁂ Disderi originated the carte-de-visite (visiting card) format of portrait photographs and patented it in 1854.
Bacon (Roger) Specula mathematica... , edited by Johannes Combach, [from part 4 of the "Opus Majus", 83pp.,], woodcut title vignette, initials and head-pieces, woodcut illustrations in text, small paper flaw in corner of title, A3 small ink marks, foxed and browned, new endpapers, ink ownership stamp and blind ex-library stamp at tail of title, 19th century boards, corners and spine rubbed, sm. 4to, Frankfurt am Main, Wolfgang Richter for Anton Humm, 1614.
Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, first edition, Gimbel's third state, title printed in red & blue, half-title and verso of title printed in blue, 'Stave One' to head of p.1, 4 hand-coloured etched plates by & after Leech and 4 plain woodcut vignettes by Linton after Leech, 2pp. advertisements, plates a little spotted and offset, yellow endpapers, ink gift inscription dated 22nd December 1843 to half-title, Dickens postage stamp to pastedown, original first issue cloth with unbroken 'D' within wreath and minimum 14mm gap between blind border and gilt cartouche, slight shelf-lean, spine a little faded, spine ends chipped, a few light splash marks to covers, still a bright and excellent example overall, g.e., [Smith II 4], 8vo, 1843.
Greene (W.T.) Parrots in Captivity, 3 vol., first edition, 81 wood-engraved plates printed in colours and finished by hand, tissue guards, 1 plate loose, slightly browned, some gatherings weak, original blind-stamped cloth with gilt pictorial upper covers, housed in a modern cloth slip-case, a fine copy, [Nissen IVB 393], large 8vo, 1884-87.
Dee (John).- Bacon (Roger) Epistolae . . . de secretis operibus artis et naturae, et de nullitate magiae. Opera Johannis Dee . . . ad sensum integrum restituta, first edition edited by John Dee, title, 62pp. only of 80, pp. 21-80 only (lacking preliminaries but starts at Chapter I), ink stamp symbol at tail of title, ink initials on verso of title, [Brunet 1:602; Caillet 621; Duveen 38; Ferguson 1:64, 1:202 (extremely rare); Graesse 1:271; Sarton 2:963], Hamburg, Froben, 1618 bound with Aquinas (Thomas) Secreta alchimiæ magnalia D. Thomae Aquinatis, de corporibus supercoelestibus, & quod in rebus inferioribus inveniantur, quoque modo extrahantur etc. third edition, lacks plate, pp. 60-71 ink line scored through pages not affecting legibility, [Ferguson, I, p. 27: Duveen, p. 102; notes only], Leiden, Thomas Basson, 1602 bound in reverse, browned, blind ex-library stamp at tail of title, later ink notes on fly-leaf, inner hinges strengthened, later boards, 20th century calf spine, gilt, 8vo; sold not subject to return. ⁂ First mentioned extremely rare; last copy the Garden copy sold in 1989. An important alchemical work originally printed at Paris by Oronce Fine in 1542; textually complete starting with Chapter 1 but lacks the dedication to the Brothers of the Rosy Cross. The ascription of the invention of gunpowder to Bacon was based upon a cipher contained in the Epistolae.
Bible, English. The Holy Bible, 2 parts in 1, double column, black letter, general title and NT woodcut titles within heart shaped borders, bound with incomplete copies of the Book of Common Prayer and Sternhold & Hopkins Psalms at beginning and end, some ff. at end and Psalms water-stained, browned, contemporary ink signatures of Isaac Goodman and with juvenile scribbling on various ff., contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, brass centre, corner and side ornaments, brass clasps, rebacked in modern calf, [Herbert 429; STC 2289.5], sm. 4to, Robert Barker and Iohn Bill, 1630.
Simler (Georg) Observationes de arte grammatica. De literis grecis ac diphthongis & quemadmodum ad nos ueniant..., collation: A-G4, H8, K-L4, M8, N-P4, Q8, R-T4, V8, X-Y4, Z8, &4, cum4, rum8; A-Ξ4, AA-BB4, ΓΓ8, ΕΕ6, text in Latin and Greek, initial spaces with guide-letters, errata leaf at end, to verso a woodcut printer's device and colophon framed by an early watercolour, lacking final blank, Tübingen, Thomas Anshelm, March, 1512 bound with Cicero (Marcus Tullius) Epistole Familiares, cum Ascensianis introductiunculis recognitis & auctis, & argumentis illustratis..., edited by Sebastian Munro and with an introduction by Badius Ascencius, collation: A-T4.8, Aa-Tt4.8, initial spaces with guide-letters, lacking Nn1-4, Strasbourg, Matthias Schürer, 1512, together 2 works in 1 vol., ink marginalia in both works in at least three sixteenth- and seventeenth- century hands, stained, some spotting, marginal repairs, a few short tears, lightly browned, new endpapers, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metals clasps (with new leather thongs), rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip in compartments, rather worn, but holding firm, thick 8vo ⁂ Two rare works. The Simler is the first edition of the first grammar of Greek printed in Germany. Simler had been director of the renowned school at Pforzheim, where he introduced the young Phillipp Melanchthon to the study of Greek. The present work is supplemented with two other grammatical writings, again presented to a German audience for the first time: Manutius' De Litteris Graecis ac diphthongis, and the popular Erotemata by the Byzantine philologist Chrysoloras. The Cicero is the first Strasbourg edition, with an introduction by the great scholar-printer Badius Ascencius. Provenance: 'Ego Georgius Sp[?] sum possessor hujus 1621' (ownership inscription to the verso of original front free endpaper); the Scolopian convent at Strážnice (South Moravian Region, Czech Republic; ownership inscription to title of the Simler 'Domus Strasneciensis Pauperum Matris Dei'). Literature: Neither in Adams; I. VD16 S-6497, VD16 M-683, VD16 M-766, VD16 S-6496; K. Steiff, Der erste Buchdruck in Tübingen, 1498-1534, Tübingen 1881, pp. 84-85; II. VD16 C-3030; Ritter no. 488; Chrisman no. A1.6.3; Muller, p. 182, no. 70.
Alken (Henry) The National Sports of Great Britain, 50 soft-ground etchings by and after Alken, very occasional spotting or soiling, original red blind-stamped cloth, a little rubbed, spine faded and repaired at head and foot, corners bumped, preserved in modern red calf-backed cloth drop-back box, gilt-stamped calf label on upper cover, Le Vivier Library copy, [Tooley 43], Royal 8vo, Thomas M'Lean, 1825. ⁂ Scarce in the original cloth.
Old Stile Press.- Dream Song of Olaf Åsteson (The), translated by Pauline Wehrle, number VI of 10 hand-coloured copies, from an edition limited to 140 copies signed by the artist, hand-coloured woodcut illustrations by Maryclare Foa, A.L.s. from the printer Nicolas McDowall to Anthony Dowd concerning the binding and accompanying photograph loosely inserted, bound in calf-backed thick pine boards edged in calf, by Habib Dingle, spine stamped in blind, uncut, very slight scuffing to lower edge, 4to, Llandogo, Old Stile Press, 1995. ⁂ The 10 hand-coloured sets were issued as loose sheets in a solander box; this copy was bound specially for Anthony Dowd in similar style to the ordinary black and white copies but with the addition of the calf edging to the boards. As McDowall comments in his letter, "the result is a great success and makes your copy not only unique but most enviable!".
Lot 327 Marchesinus (Johannes) Mammotrectus super Bibliam, collation: A10 B-C8 a-y8 1-68 710, double column, 259 ff. (of 260, lacking initial blank), 37 lines, plus headline, Gothic type, initials and paragraph-marks in red or blue, a few ff. with underlining and marginalia in red, early ink Italian ownership inscriptions to front pastedown and lower margin of first f., some water-staining and spotting, 16th century ?Venetian blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, vellum and metal clasps, blind-stamped strapwork design to upper cover, extensively restored with modern blind-stamped calf to style, 4to, Venice, Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn & Petrus de Bartua, 1478. ⁂ Marchesinus's great dictionary of words from the bible and other religious texts, including sections on pronunciation. Literature: BMC V, 194; Goff M-238; HC *10558; Bod-Inc: M-084; BSB-Ink M-156.
Andrews (James) Lessons in Flower Painting. A series of easy and progressive studies drawn and coloured after nature, title, address leaf dated 1836 and 24 numbered plates of which 12 engraved in outline and 12 hand-coloured, original cloth boards, gilt-lettered and blind-stamped, very slightly rubbed, oblong 4to, Charles Tilt, [c. 1836].
[Combe (William)] Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, first edition, 18 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light spotting and offsetting, original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt and a little faded, t.e.g., [Abbey, Travel 89; Tooley 415], 1821; The History of Johnny Quae Genus..., first edition, 24 hand-coloured aquatint plates, errata slip and 8pp. catalogue at end, text browned in parts, some offsetting from plates, book-label of Abel Berland, contemporary red crushed morocco, gilt, by Rivière & Son, spine gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, , [Abbey, Life 268; Tooley 413], 1822 § [Papworth (J.B.) & others.] Poetical Sketches of Scarborough, second edition, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates, contemporary russia, gilt, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, [Abbey, Scenery 297; Tooley 423], 1813, all plates by or after Thomas Rowlandson, slightly rubbed, R.Ackermann; and a third edition of the first tour of Dr. Syntax, 8vo (4)
Lee (Brian North) Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt, one of 30 specially-bound copies with 8 copper-engraved bookplates tipped in (colophon corrected from "seven" to "eight" in pencil, prospectus mentions 6), from an edition limited to 300, original morocco-backed paste-paper boards, uncut, slip-case, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1988 § Barnard (Julian) The Song of the Reeds, letter A of 10 specially-bound copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to only 15, wood-engraved illustrations by Anne Jope, Simon Lawrence's copy with his wood-engraved bookplate by Leo Wyatt, original half vellum over marbled boards, by Paul Collet, uncut, Henley, 1980 § Cooke (Eleanor) December, number 70 of 150 copies signed by the author and artist, wood-engraved illustrations by Peter Reddick, prospectus loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, Clun, Redlake Press, 2003 § Aquinas (Saint Thomas) Selections from His Works, limited edition signed by the artist, wood-engraved plates and headings by Reynolds Stone printed in grey, original blind-stamped cloth, slip-case, Chatham, for Limited Editions Club, 1969 § Hopkins (Gerard Manley) Pied Beauty, number X of 25 "unbound" copies with an additional suite of numbered and signed plates, from an edition limited to 100, wood-engravings by Simon King, bound in blue morocco-backed paste-paper boards, by the Gregynog Bindery, spine very slightly faded, additional plates loose in folder, [Cumbria], Simon King Press, 1994; and 8 others with wood-engravings, mostly Simon King press, v.s. (13) ⁂ Simon Lawrence, printer and proprietor of the Fleece Press.
Ireland (Samuel) [A set of Picturesque Views], comprising: Picturesque Views, with an Historical Account of the Inns of Court, in London and Westminster, half-title, 21 hand-coloured aquatint plates, errata leaf at end, one or two plates shaved at fore-edge, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, 1800; A Picturesque Tour through Holland, Brabant, and part of France, 2 vol., first edition, engraved vignette titles and 45 plates, contemporary tree calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old gilt spines with red and green roan labels, [1790]; Picturesque Views on the River Thames, 2 vol., half-titles, additional engraved pictorial titles, 2 maps and 52 plates, errata leaf at end of each vol. and advertisement leaf end vol.2, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rebacked with gilt spines, 1792; Picturesque Views on the River Medway, leaf of verse, additional pictorial engraved title, map and 28 plates, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked with gilt spine and green morocco labels, 1793; Picturesque Views on the Upper, or Warwickshire Avon, additional pictorial engraved title, map and 31 plates, errata leaf at end, short tear to upper margin of 2F4, contemporary blind-stamped red straight-grained morocco, spine gilt (slightly faded), upper joint repaired, 1795; Picturesque Views on the River Wye, lacking half-title but with errata slip, engraved map and 31 plates, contemporary red straight-grained morocco, gilt, spine gilt (slightly faded), 1797 § Harral (Thomas) & Samuel Ireland. Picturesque Views on the Severn, 2 vol. in 1, 52 lithographed plates, contemporary calf, gilt, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with green roan labels, corners repaired, 1824, together 7 works in 9 vol., first editions, most plates aquatints printed in sepia, wood-engraved illustrations, plates with marginal foxing or light browning, some offsetting, occasional spotting to text, a little rubbed, [second item Abbey, Travel 184, the rest Abbey, Scenery 207, 430, 428, 427, 544 & 429], 8vo (9)
Bacon (Roger) Perspectiva, edited by Johann Combach, first edition, numerous woodcut diagrams (9 full-page) and woodcut ornaments, title soiled, small hole in title, 2c1 small holes in margin repaired, foxed and browned, ink scribbling on front fly-leaf, contemporary ink note on lower fly-leaf, ink ownership stamp at tail of title and blind ex-library stamp on 2b4, later endpapers, 18th century vellum covered boards, extensively soiled and marked, [Becker 27; Hoover 73], sm. 4to, Frankfurt, Wolfgang Richter for Anton Humm, 1614. ⁂ Bacon's theories on optics and perspective; "followed Grosseteste in emphasizing the use of lenses, not only for burning, but also for magnification, to aid natural vision". - DSB.
A Victorian rosewood and marquetry Davenport, hinged top inlaid with flowers and inset with a leather writing surface, enclosing pigeon hole and burr maple drawers, the side with scribe's door above four graduated doors, blind to verso, turned handles, spirally-turned supports, bun feet, brass castors, 84cm high, 54cm wide, c. 1850
An Empire ormolu-mounted burr walnut rectangular desk stand, centred by a tripod wafer box, the cover boldly as bird of prey feeding her chicks, and two vasular quill holders, flanked by an urnular pounce pot and ink well, each cover pierced with foliate fretwork, surmounted by bud finials, dished pen recess, the front mounted in the classical taste with putto, arrows, laureate and ribbon-tied garlands, long drawer to the right, blind to left, skirted base, bun feet, 19cm high, 30cm wide, c. 1815
A Chippendale Revival mahogany musical shortcase hall clock, 18cm arched silvered dial inscribed Coxon, Nottingham, Chime/Silent and Slow/Fast dials to arch, triple-winding holes, eight-day movement striking on a gong, the case with swan neck pediment, brass ball-and-spire finial, carved throughout with blind tracery, shaped rectangular door to waist, ogee bracket feet, 183cm high, c. 1925
A Japanese black lacquer pillar table cabinet, slightly oversailing top above sliding covers recto and verso, blind sides, decorated in hiramakie with sinuous lines, each face pierced with foliate motifs and scrolls, swan neck carrying handle, bracket feet, 26cm high, 18cm wide, Meiji period
GEORGE III MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE 19TH CENTURY the dentil moulded cornice above a blind fret carved frieze, above a pair of astragal glazed doors opening to adjustable shelves; the base with a secretaire drawer opening to pigeon holes and drawers; the base with a pair of moulded cupboard doors enclosing shelves and a pair of short drawers, raised on shaped bracket feet 114cm wide, 233cm high, 59cm deep
EARLY GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHEST ON CHEST MID 18TH CENTURY the key moulded cornice above a blind fret carved frieze, above three short drawers and three long graduated drawers flanked by blind fret carved angles; the base with a brushing slide over three further long graduated drawers, on ogee bracket feet 113cm wide, 187cm high, 57cm deep
A LATE 19TH CENTURY JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT OF BLIND MAN'S BUFF, approximately 25cm x 36.5cm, together with a monochrome woodblock print of three Japanese labourers and a quantity of single and double page unframed Japanese woodblock prints, each page filled with figures in a variety of poses (two framed prints and two folders of prints)
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