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Latin America, Mexico, ca. mid-19th century CE. A finely painted large framed retablo on heavy gauge tin depicting San Francisco de Paula, the Italian saint who founded the Order of Minims or Hermits of Saint Francis in 1436 and infamously preached sermons about charity and humility to his pious followers. San Francisco de Paula is credited with miraculous cures, resurrecting the deceased, protection against fires, comfort for the maimed, the blind, and otherwise disabled, and preventing plagues. In Mexican paintings like this example, San Francisco de Paula is depicted as a friar with the word Caritas or Caridad, oftentimes surrounded by flames, in his vecinity. He received his name following a visit with his parents to the shrine of Saint Francis of Assissi. At a young age of fifteen, San Francisco de Paula became a hermit and elected to reside in a cave near Reggio. The artist depicted Saint Francisco de Paula in his dark brown habit, with his head surrounded by a glowing white halo suggestive of his miraculous powers. His visage features naturalistic facial features - ruddy cheeks, virtually palpable soft skin, and heart-shaped lips - and boasts an emotive expression of compassion. He holds a rosary in his right hand and a shepherd's staff with a curved end is cradled in his left hand - poised to perform his next miracle. Size: retablo itself measures 14" L x 10" W (35.6 cm x 25.4 cm); framed, 16" x 12.25" (40.6 x 31.1 cm)Retablos, known as ‘laminas’ in Mexico, are small oil paintings, usually on heavy-gauge tin, depicting Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Holy Family, the Holy Trinity, and a canon of patron saints, created with an engaging blend of folk-art and Baroque-inspired style deeply rooted in Spanish history. This unique tradition was introduced to Mexico by the Spaniards upon their arrival in the New World and was ultimately embraced by the indigenous population. The literal translation of the word retablo is "behind the altar," and the creation of this art form was motivated by a desire to worship a holy person or divine coterie in one's household and possess imagery that would ensure health, fertility, good fortune, and a rich harvest. Provenance: Ex-Historia-Antiques, James Caswell, Santa Monica, CA. Condition: Intact with minor surface wear and paint losses as shown. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #111748
David Shepherd OBE (British, Born 1931) 'Cool waters' Signed David Shepherd and numbered 528 from a limited edition of 850 in pencil lower right, with blind stamp lower left, 37.5 x 58.5cm and another 'Masai' signed David Shepherd and numbered in pencil number 63 from a limited edition of 850 (2) one contained within a Solomon and Whitehead folder (2).
George III oak longcased clock signed Thomas Birchall, Nantwich, the square brass dial with a re-silvered chapter ring and field, subsidiary seconds and date aperture, on an eight day movement in a a blind fret hood with plain columns, on a quarter column trunk on set out plinth, height 220cm (pendulum, two weights, winding key). Condition report: All clocks and watches are sold without warranty. Comments regarding the going condition of clocks and watches relate to their state at the time of cataloguing and those comments may no-longer be correct at the time of sale or delivery. Buyers should assume that all lots will require servicing to be useable and reliable. Clocks and watches are not tested for accuracy, duration or water tightness. Dial has been re-plated or replaced; hole in hood; replaced feet, case renovated or reconstructed.
Dallas (George) Systems of Stiles As now Practicable within the Kingdom of Scotland ..., 1697, Edinburgh, folio, contemp. calf gilt and blind, with large tulip ornaments in blind to covers, spine richly ornamented (expert old repair to foot of spine, one or two short tears in the text); De Lolme (J.L.) The Constitution of England, 1788, portrait, calf (worn) (2)
Carleton (Thomas Compton) Philosophia Universa 1649, Antwerp, folio, printed half-title, fine engraved pictorial title-page (engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar after a design by Diepenbecke), 2 ff. ded'n, 1f Pref. (only, i.e. lacking 2 ff), 7 ff. index (i.e. lacking first leaf), pp. 621 (pp. 410/11 misnumbered), pp. 43(1) (n.n.) index; 2 ff. ''Axiomatum/Errata'', contemp. full vellum over wooden boards, covers with wide roll tooled borders in blind, clasps (one clasp gone, pages missing, e.g. 2 ff. between the Preface and contents)
Visconti (Giambattista) et alia Il Museo Pio Clementino …, 1782-1807, Roma, 7 vols large folio, each vol. with half-title, portrait frontis and engraved titled page, and 379 plates in all (incl. folding plan, ''bis'' plates etc); together with vol. 1 of Il Museo Chiarmonti, 1808, engr. frontis and title, 45 plates, uniformly bound with the above in full contemp.calf, gilt and blind (some light marginal spotting, several covers off, spines rubbed) (8)
A George III mahogany corner washstand of conventional from outlined throughout with boxwood stringing the top with quarter shelf above circular provisions the lower tier fitted short drawer flanked by a pair of blind drawers, shaped stretcher, splayed legs, 116cm high, 58cm wide (faults and restorations)
Helen Bradley 1900-1979 Artist Pencil Signed and Limited Edition Pair of Polychrome Colour Prints. Titled 'Ah Dear Emily' and 'And Just Look Said Mother'. Fine and Guild Blind Stamps to both prints. Signed in pencil to lower right margin of each print. Both mounted and framed behind glass. 12.25 by 10.25 inches.
Conrad (Joseph) - Suspense, a little foxing, original blind stamped cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, torn with loss to spine, 1925; The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes, original green cloth, gilt, bumped, 1919, first English editions ; and 10 others by the same, most first editions, 8vo (12)
Joyce (James) - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, first English edition, issue on English sheets , [one of 1000 copies], age-toning to terminal ff. and margins throughout, neat ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1944, original cloth lettered & blocked in blind, very slight lean and dulling to spine but overall a very good copy, [Slocum & Cahoon 13], 8vo, The Egoist Ltd. , [1918].
Potter (Beatrix) - The Tale of Mr. Tod, presentation blind-stamp to title, frontispiece detached, light scattered spotting to endpapers, spine a little worn at head, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1912; The Tale of Pigling Bland, light foxing to endpapers, light rubbing to extremities, an excellent copy, 1913, first editions, frontispeices and illustrations, original boards with pictorial onlays, spines a little darkened, 16mo (2)
Speckter (Otto) - Das Märchen vom gestiefelten Kater, in den Bearbeitungen von Straparola, Basile, Perrault und Ludwig Tieck, first edition , additional lithographed title with text in red within elaborate border of cats, 12 etched plates, pink tissue guards, some foxing as usual, light water-staining to lower margin of a few leaves, contemporart blind-stamped green cloth, glazed paper label on spine, a little rubbed and faded, shaken, 4to, Leipzig, F.A.Brockhaus, 1843. One of the finest German illustrated books of the 19th century , a collection of versions of the Puss in Boots story from Italian, French and German with magnificent plates by Otto Speckter.
Parr (Martin) - Flowers, limited edition, signed by the author , colour plates, original blind-stamped cloth, dust-soiled, Sweden , 1999 § Parr (Martin) The Phone Book 1998-2002, limited edition, numbered and signed by the author to Martine and Henri on rear end paper, colour plates, original pictorial wrappers, slightly rubbed , 2002; and 9 others, modern photography, v.s. (11)
Cookery.- - Galloway & Emma Firkins. Recipe books, 2 vol Galloway ( Mrs J.) & Emma Firkins. Recipe books, 2 vol., manuscripts, in a variety of hands, 67pp. excluding blanks, 1f. loose, slightly browned, 1 vol. original blind-stamped limp leather covers, other vol. original marbled limp covers, 8vo, 1831 & 1852 (2).
Nelson (John) - The History, Topography, and Antiquities of the Parish of St. Mary Islington, folding engraved map, 12 plates , extra-illustrated with a folding map and c.65 portraits and plates, 1 loose, some spotting and offsetting, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, t.e.g., 4to, 1811 § Lewis (Samuel) The History and Topography of the Parish of Saint Mary, Islington, additional engraved title, folding map, text-illustrations, some spotting, contemporary half calf, 4to , 1842 § Foster (B.) Ye History of ye Priory and Gate of St. John, engraved frontispiece and title, text-illustrations, library bookplate, stamp and number on title verso, modern cloth, blind-stamped, small 4to, Pickering , 1851 § Coull (Thomas) The History & Traditions of Islington, advertisments at beginning and end, original printed wrappers, vignette on front cover, name at head, worn and marked, spinemostly defective, 8vo , 1864 § Miller (Thomas) Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present, frontispiece, additional title, plates, text-illustrations, original cloth, blind-stamped and gilt, 8vo, n.d . § Norman (Philip) Cromwell House, Highgate, frontispiece, plates, library bookplate, stamps on verso of title and plates, half morocco, rubbed, original wrappers bound-in, 8vo, 1917 (6).
[Fitton (Elizabeth)] - Conversations on Botany, hand coloured plates, contemporary half calf, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831 § Huxley (T.H.) On Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature, original blind stamped green cloth, Robert Hardwicke, 1863, plus a quantity of natural history vol., v.s. (qty)
Commines (Philip de) - The Memoirs...Containing the History of Lewis XI, & Charles VIII, KIngs of France, engraved frontispiece, trimmed at foot, 4 pp. advertisments at end, some staining and spotting, contemporary mottled calf, runned, front hinge damaged, J. Starkey , 1674 § Strada (Famianus) Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre, translated by P. Du Ryer, 3 vol., mixed edition, titles in red and black with vignettes, engraved additional title, 4 portraits, 10 folding plates, name & name stamp on first vol. end-papers & title, bookplates, contemporrary speckled calf, spines gilt, not uniform, Antwerp, B. Foppens (vol I , Brussels, J t'Serstevens (vol. II & III), 1705, 1712 § Samson (P.) Histoire de Guillaume III, Roi d'Angleterre, 3 vol ., titles in red and black with vignettes, 2 folding maps, 1 folding plan, 1 folding plate, 15 portraits, contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, rubbed, heads of spines worn, The Hague, E. Foulque , 1703-04 § Julien (Stanislaus, translator ) Meng Tseu vel Mencius, part 1 only, of 4, some spotting, contemporary green straight-grain morocco, gilt and decorated in blind, spine little faded, g.e., Paris, 1824 , 8vo (8)
Ash (James) - The Art of Double-Counting on the Lathe, plates, original blind stamped cloth gilt, L. Booth, 1857, plus a second copy, Holtzapffel & Co., 1881 § Bazley (Thomas Sebastian) Notes on the Epicycloidal Cutting Frame of Messrs. Holtzapffel & Co., original cloth, slight rubbing, Trubner and Co., 1872, 8vo (3)
Patrick (Symon) - A Book for Beginners, or, a Help to Young Communicants, third edition, engraved additional title, lacks final f (? blank), margins of first and last few ff. frayed, some small marginal tears, names on recto of additional title and verso of last f., staining and marking, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked, [not in Wing], 12mo, for John Norton , 1681 § Janeway (James) A Token for Children, 2 parts in 1, little browning, contemporary blind-stamped calf, worn, joints cracked, T. Field, 1785 § T[ong] (W[illiam]) An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Matthew Henry, first edition , browned and marked, notes on 3 blank ff. at start, contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine defective at foot , 1716 § Pocket-book, empty but for c.50 pp. manuscript diary, with brief entries for 1851-58 in home-made note-book loosely inserted, eighteenth-century red morocco, richly gilt, silver clasp, later pencil inserted, rubbed, c.105 x 65 mm., n.d ., and another (5)
[Long (Thomas)] - Vox Cleri: or, the Sense of the Clergy, Concerning the Making of Alterations in the Established Liturgy, R. Taylor, 1690, bound with [Payne (William)] An Answer to Vox Cleri, Etc., Brabazon Aylmer, 1690, later half morocco, § Pittiloch (Robert) Oppression Under the Colour of the Law, or, My Lord Hercarse His New Praticks, Wigan Library book plate and blind stamp, contemporary boards, worn, Edinburgh, 1827, plus 3 other vol., 8vo (5)
Parrish (M.L.) - Victorian Lady Novelists George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, The Bronte Sisters, limited edition 79/150, foxed, errata notice tipped in. original blind stamped cloth gilt, Constable, 1933 § Dickens (Charles) The Battle of Life A Love Story, Illustrated, original cloth gilt, rubbed and dulled, Bradbury & Evans, 1946, plus a quantity of related vol., v.s. (qty)
Bindings.- Austen (Jane) - The Novels, 5 vol., brown half calf, gilt, 1926 § Moore (Thomas) Lalla Rookh, contemporary green straight-grain morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, by John Jones of Liverpool (with ticket), full green morocco doublures, a little rubbed but an attractive provincial bookbinding, 1818; and a quantity of others, mostly leather bound, including a set of 48 volumes of Scott, 8vo (85)
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