Churchill, Sir Winston (1874-1965) The World Crisis 1911-1914. London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1923-1931. First editions, six volumes, illustrated, maps, blue publisher`s cloth with gilt lettered spines, titles stamped in blind on front covers, end caps slightly rubbed, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
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Classics, Continental Imprints, 17th and 18th Centuries, Six Volumes: Johannes van Meurs`s Glossarium Graeco-Barbarum, Leiden: Elzevir, 1614, large quarto, title printed in red and black, portrait of the author on verso of title, later parchment binding; Maggio`s Syntamaton Linguarum Orientalium Liber Primus [et Secundus], Rome, 1670, folio, half parchment and paper boards, blind library stamp to title, boards worn and abraded; Matthias Martini`s Lexicon Philologicum, Praecipue Etymologicum et Sacrum, Utrecht: Schouten, 1697, two folio volumes, contemporary blind-tooled Dutch parchment over stiff boards, title to volume one printed in red, with added engraved title; and Hesychii Lexicon, Leiden: Luchtmans, 1766, two folio volumes. (6).
Coptic Theotokia Manuscript, 14th Century. Manuscript on paper, 110 leaves, heavily restored throughout, and fragmentary, each leaf mounted in a larger frame, each leaf was trimmed from its original size some time in the past, and in modern times restored, and rebound in modern blind-tooled goatskin over papyrus paper boards, damage to leaves from stains, ink spills and ink deterioration throughout, original leaf size 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 for most leaves, the book itself is 9 3/4 x 6 in.
Dalail al-Khayyirat, Guide to Good Deeds, Prayers, Poetry. Manuscript on paper in Arabic, northern or western Africa, 19th century, with geometric designs in colors and stylized illuminations of Mecca and Medina, text in dark brown to black ink, within a double ruled red compartment, with special words in red, green, and yellow ink throughout, in a contemporary flap binding with older repairs, blind stamped, in a modern case; slight thumbing and water stains, even toning to text leaves, 4 x 4 1/2 in.
Early Printing, Mixed Lot, Seven Volumes: Priapeia, sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus, [17th century?], small format, contemporary binding, engraved title. Jacopo Sannazaro`s Opera Omnia, Lyons: Gryphius, 1587, [bound with] Silius Italicus`s De Bello Punico, Leiden: Candidus, 1598, in a contemporary sheepskin binding with a large fleur-de-lis tooled in blind on both covers and an early monastic woodcut bookplate pasted inside the front board, front cover detached, first title page damaged. Peter Scriverius`s Histoire des Contes d`Hollande, The Hague: Vlaq, 1664, contemporary parchment, Prince of Liechtenstein`s copy. Hugo Grotius`s Poemata Omnia, Leiden: Vogel, 1645, fourth edition, engraved title, clean contents, contemporary parchment. Almanach des Muses, Paris: Delalain, 1776, untrimmed, in the original pale green paper wrappers with date stamped into front cover, half-title. Dorat`s Fables Nouvelles, The Hague/Paris: Delalain, 1776, fourth edition, illustrated with a full-paged engraving before the first page of text and numerous vignettes, contemporary marbled sheepskin, gilt-tooled spine. Catullus, Tibullus, et Propertius, edited by Scaliger et al., Utrecht: Zyll, 1680, engraved title, contemporary stiff board parchment binding. (7).
English Theological Books, Three, 1653-1733. The Holy Bible [Old and New Testaments, and Psalms, 1669], London: Henry Hills and John Field, 1660, octavo, bound in full contemporary red morocco, tooled ornately in gold over spine and both boards, incorporating the classic English drawer pull tool, and others, a.e.g., marbled endleaves, expertly rebacked, text ruled in red throughout. [with] Victorinus Bythner`s (1605?-1670) Davidis Regis sive Analysis Critico-Practica Psalmorum, London: Flesher and Bee, 1653, quarto, title printed in red and black, text printed in Latin and Hebrew, contemporary boards, blind-tooled and rebacked, some stains and tears. [and] Thomas a Kempis`s The Christian`s Pattern: or a Treatise on the Imitation of Christ, London: Ilive for Knapton, et al., 1733, large octavo, translated by George Stanhope, engraved frontispiece of the crucifixion and full-page engraving of the last supper, water stain, contemporary boards, rebacked. (3).
Ethiopic Manuscript, Psalter, with Prayers to Mary. Manuscript on parchment in Ge`ez, in black and red throughout, East Africa, late 18th-early 19th century, bound in wooden boards covered with a blind-stamped geometric designs, a non-adhesive binding with the linked sewing structure, fragments of a mirror within the paste downs of the front broad, and a piece of color printed fabric in the back, housed in its original, two-part calfskin traveling case, with ties, worn by intact; spine on binding becoming detached, thumb marks, toning, and other signs of wear to text, 5 x 6 in.
Exotic Manuscript Lot: Persian, Afghani, Palm Leaf, and African Horn Book. Small octavo poetry manuscript on paper in Persian, 18th century, 18 leaves, in black ink with gold and other colored embellishments, bound in three-quarter red leather and marbled paper boards; paper repairs to text leaves throughout, worming, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.; manuscript prayer book, Afghanistan, 19th century, with strongly colored ink illumination, contemporary crude local binding with parchment-like goatskin dyed red (faded), with metallic embellishments and blind stamping, a provincial binding originally fabricated out of two separate pieces of leather; text is water stained with ink transfer throughout, 5 x 2 1/2 in.; palm leaf manuscript in Pali, Sri Lanka, 18th century, with lacquered painted boards, painted polychrome Buddhas inside both boards, sewing perished, some chipping to leaves, boards oxidized on the outside, 17 x 2 in.; African horn book in Arabic inscribed on a handled wooden board, perhaps reused from an existing piece of furniture, with an old nail, text is Bismillah, a school writing exercise, 16 x 8 in. (4).
Hill, John [Botanist] (1716-1775) The British Herbal. London: for Osborne, Shipton, et al., 1756. First edition, folio, untrimmed, with deckle edges throughout, in blue paper boards, leather spine, illustrated with a frontispiece, title and other engraved vignettes, and seventy-five full-paged botanical plates, ex libris Lorande Loss Woodruff (1879-1947) Yale professor of biology, with his blind stamps and rubber stamp on some pages, signature on ffep, and an offprint of a monograph on Hill by Woodruff, with five notes and letters in a pocket inside the back cover of the monograph marked "provenance"; binding rubbed, worn and stained, contents good, 19 1/8 x 12 in.
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Les Miserables. New York: Carleton, 1862. First American edition, first edition in English, in five volumes, in publisher`s purplish-brown textured cloth boards, tooled in blind on covers and spines, advertisements at the end of each volume, except for St. Denis; text printed in two columns throughout; with orange end leaves in all volumes; occasional spotting, some limited even toning to single leaves, one spine head with short tear, spines slightly sunned, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (5).
Kingston, Richard (b. 1635?) A True History of the Several Designs and Conspiracies against his Majesties Sacred Person and Government as they were continually Carry`d on from 1688 till 1697. London: for the author, sold by Abel Roper, 1698. Octavo, without the leaf before the title, ?blank, with no advertisements at the end of the text, in contemporary speckled calf, tooled in blind, later label, short crack at the top of the front board, later label and endleaves, 6 1/2 x 4 in.
Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680) Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae. Rome: Scheus, 1646. Folio, first edition, engraved title, separate title for the second part, illustrated with forty engraved plates extraneous to the collation, some folding, and four of which are engraved tables, page 513 contains a large typographical table, and was folded by the original binder to assure that it was not trimmed too closely; Jesuit geographical family tree repaired on the verso, ownership inscription of Stephan Spleiss (1623-1693) on ffep, with a few notes in the text; contents generally good, in contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over paper boards, ties lost, edges stained blue, 12 x 7 3/4 in.
Lilienthal, Otto (1848-1896) Der Vogelflug. Berlin: Gaertners, 1889. First edition, illustrated with colored frontispiece of birds flying, text illustrations, and eight folding tables in the back; in very good blind and gold-stamped publisher`s brown cloth, ex libris Greeley Stevenson Curtis (1871-1947) with his signature on ffep and notes in the text, with an off-print of an article by Lilienthal presented to Greeley, from the Journal for Airship Flight & Atmospheric Physics, February/March, 1895; and a German stamp featuring Lilienthal, 9 1/4 x 6 in. An early practitioner of gliding flight, Lilienthal pioneered a hang glider design that allowed him to make sustained flights lasting as long as five hours from jumping-off places around Berlin. A fellow enthusiast, Harvard graduate Greeley visited Lilienthal and glided with him in Germany. Lilienthal`s valuable experiments were cut short when he crashed while gliding and sustained a serious cervical break that ended his life prematurely at the age of forty-eight.
Marnix van St. Aldegonde, Philips van (1538-1598) The Bee Hive of the Romish Church. London: by Dawson to be sold by Simmons, 1636. Octavo, edited by John Stell (fl. 1580); translated by George Gilpin (1514?-1602); index signed by Abraham Fleming (1552?-1607); a reply to Gentian Hervet`s (1499-1584) Missyve oft Seyndbrief, sixth English edition, lacking a woodcut plate mentioned in the ESTC, title page torn with slight loss to the imprint, made up in pen facsimile, several paper repairs to verso of title, repeated signatures on endleaves and in blank margins throughout of Peter Pauer, 1666; spotting and toning in keeping with normal use; contemporary blind-ruled calf, with old fabric reinforcement of front board, both joints cracking. A student of Calvin and Beza, Marnix composed one of the most popular and influential anti-Catholic tracts of the Reformation. The Bee Hive was first published in English in 1579.
Mason, George C. (fl. circa 1870) Newport and Its Cottages. [Boston: Osgood & Co., 1875]. First edition, folio, 109 hinged leaves, text printed on the rectos only, illustrated with forty-five full-paged heliotype plates and other text illustrations, in the original blind tooled, and gold-lettered publisher`s morocco binding, with chamfered edges and inner gilt dentelles, a.e.g., taffeta-textured endleaves and paste downs, binding intact without repairs, surface abrasions, corners bumped, foxing to fly leaves, 14 x 10 3/4 in.
Miller, William (1782-1849) Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843. Boston: B.B. Mussey, 1840. 12mo, in original publisher`s blind-tooled textured cloth, some slight spotting to title page, 6 x 3 3/4 in. Miller`s preaching gave rise to the Adventist movement. He is the spiritual father of Seventh-Day Adventism and the Adventist Christians.
Miniature Qur`an, 18th Century. Persian manuscript on paper in Arabic, with richly illuminated carpet-style pages, each leaf with an illuminated border, includes the full Qur`an in a minute, fine calligraphic hand, hand-painted lacquered boards, leather spine, hand-painted doublures, housed in a blind-stamped calfskin carrying case, with leather toggle closures, 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.
Nigri, Stephanus (1475-c. 1540) [Heroica Philostrati & Dialogus Stephani Nigri: in qu[a]e quicquid apud Pausanium scitu dignum legitur, summa cum diligentia congestum est.] Milan: Minutiana, [1517]. Small folio, text printed in a clear Roman letter, with words and phrases in Greek; a-c6, A-D8, E6, F-Z8, AA-CC8, DD-EE6, FF10, lacking the final signature GG; the extensive ten-leaf errata apologizing for the poor Greek complete and present, comprising signature FF; contemporary marginal manuscript notes throughout; bound in full contemporary blind-rolled calf binding, with floral and bee motifs in the central compartment, flanked by an outer border of cherbus and acanthus, one cherub with a lute, holes from eight silk ties on both boards, ties lost, large contemporary parchment labels on front board, author and title on one and shelf mark on the other, ink title on fore edge, leather cracked along front joint, starting to crack at back, later end leaves, otherwise intact and unrepaired, very large margins throughout, printed on fine diaphanous paper throughout, minor water stain to fore edge, affecting only the blank margin, 11 x 7 1/2 in. The interlocutors in Nigri`s Dialogus include his former teacher, Demetrios Chalkokondyles (1423-1511); the work itself is dedicated to Jean Grolier.
Ottoman Turkish Manuscript, Nataya al-Fanum, The Twelve Sciences. Manuscript on paper in Arabic, 16th century, text in black and red ink, with diagrams, possibly in the hand of the author Nev`i, tutor to the princes of Sultan Muran III, with marginal and ownership notations, in contemporary blind stamped leather with repairs, some finger spotting and toning, generally clean, 8 1/4 x 5 in.
Potter, Eliza (fl. circa 1850) A Hairdresser`s Experience in High Life. Cincinnati: for the Author, 1859. First edition, octavo, in publisher`s red cloth, block in blind on the boards, in gilt on the spine, spot on title page, and other light spotting, spine slightly torn, corners bumped, boards with a few stains, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. In a classic upstairs/downstairs confessional, Potter describes the lives of her clients. She describes old New York (upper Fifth Avenue was woods), winters in New Orleans, and shares her abolitionist views. She also struggles with her conscience. "I made up my mind to settle down and be quiet--to see and not see, to hear and not hear--but I found it was impossible to do this and continue my occupation as a hair-dresser.".
Qur`an, North, Africa. Arabic manuscript on paper, ?16th century, incomplete, beginning with chapter two, verse seven, ending with chapter eighty-one, verse seven, 182 leaves, eighteen lines per page, in a small, clear maghribi script in brown ink on yellowish paper, vocalizations throughout in red, blue, and yellow, division in the text marked in other colors, undated, in contemporary morocco with a flap, blind-stamped; rebacked, with repairs to spine, repairs to text leaves, 6 1/2 x 8 in.
Rolle, Richard (1290?-1349) Speculum Spiritualium. [Paris: Hopyl, sumptibus Bretton (of London), 1510]. Large quarto/small folio, small woodcut of Christ crucified present on folio 208, along with the larger woodcut of the risen Christ with criblé background; lacking A1, A10, b2-7, and final A10; although the leaves lacking at the front and back were clearly lost after the book was bound, it seems likely that the inner leaves of signature b were lacking from day one; contemporary inscriptions of English owners at the front and back, free endleaves loose, along with manuscript waste guards, pastedowns have released from the inner boards, bound in full contemporary English blind-tooled calf over oak boards, lacking clasps, rebacked, old fabric repair to inside of front board, losses to leather on front board, 10 x 7 1/4 in.
Russia, 18th Century, Orthodox Church, Law, Three Volumes: Orthodox Liturgical Book in Church Slavonic, c. 1762, octavo, lacking title page, printed in red and black throughout, with woodcut headpieces, bound in a later leather blind tooled binding with a large cross on the front cover, and "Heilige Schrift" tooled on the spine, this binding likely taken from a German bible and applied to this book; later light blue end leaves, spine reflexed. Alexi of Russia (1629-1676) Ulozhenie po kotoromu sud i rosprava (title and all text in Russian language/Cyrillic alphabet), Saint Petersburg: Printer of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1759, quarto, third edition, engraved portrait of Alexi, three-quarter leather and decorated paper boards, worn, rubbed, spotting, some minor water stains. Catherine II`s (1762-1796) Blagochestivi, Saint Petersburg: Royal Typographers, 1785, quarto, two parts in one volume, with separate title page, pagination continuous, 260 pages, half leather, marbled paper boards, some tears, old signature cut from the blank margins of the first title, repaired, some pencil underlining. (3).
The Gorham Golf Book, illustrated by John Hassall (1868-1948) New York: Gorham Manufacturing, 1903. First edition, small format, 2 1/2 x 4 in., illustrated with sixteen tipped-in color plates, title printed in color, along with numerous printed color vignettes throughout the text, 148 pages, in original limp suede with blind-stamped golfer on the front cover, t.e.g., red ribbon bookmark; leather disintegrating, front cover detached, minor offsetting to endleaves at front and last leaf of text and illustration at the back.
The Pirates Own Book, or Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers. Portland: Sanborn & Carter, 1844. Octavo, illustrated with many wood engravings of pirate characters and adventures, in publisher`s brown blind-stamped cloth, with the title blocked on the spine in gold with the skull and cross bones, somewhat worn, one signature sprung, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. [with] Lewis H. Morgan`s League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee, or Iroquois, Rochester: Sage & Brother, 1851, first edition, illustrated with frontispiece, large folding map of the Iroquois nation (New York state), and numerous text illustrations, many full-paged, folding table, etc.; in worn publisher`s cloth, blocked in blind, with gilt-stamped spine, sewing supports attaching back board broken, de-cased, binding worn and rubbed, head cap torn, 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (2).
Turkish, Egyptian and Armenian Imprints, Early 19th Century, Five Volumes: Saadi (b. 1184) Gulistan, Istanbul, 1856, large octavo, lithographic reproduction of an earlier book, half morocco binding with decorated paper boards, ex libris D.S. Robertson, with his bookplate, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Ibn al-Muqaffa (d. 756) Kalila wa Dimna, Cairo: Bulaq, 1835, octavo, 109 pages, text in Arabic through, each page printed within a ruled border, in half leather binding, textured boards; text with marginal water staining, text crisply printed, strong original type impression, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. The Bulaq or El-Amiriya Press was established by Mohammed Ali (1769-1849) in 1820 as the first official governmental printing firm in Egypt. They produced their first book in 1822. Karaçelebizade Abdülaziz Efendi (1591-1658) Ravat-ul-ebrar, Cairo: Bulaq, 1832, thick folio, pages printed within ruled borders throughout, bound in contemporary traditional-style red leather binding, with flap, tooled and ruled in blind, slightly rubbed, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. Nerses IV, Patriarch of Armenia (d. 1173) Preces Sancti Nersetis Clajensis Armeniorum Patriarchae, Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1837, small octavo, text printed in twenty-four different languages, at the Mechitharist monastery on Armenian the island of Saint Lazzaro in Venice, with portrait frontispiece, engraved title, and engraved medallions on the first page of text. Qur`an, [Leipzig, 1834], large quarto, text printed in Arabic in black ink throughout, title pages and other ornaments printed in red and black, text on each page within red rules, in contemporary fancy blind tooled large panel boards, attributed to Dobson, deftly rebacked and recornered, a.e.g., ex libris Owen Whitehouse, professor of Hebrew and Old Testament historian at Chestnut College, Cambridge, England, with his notes; one corner of the binding chipped with slight loss, some foxing to text leaves, 10 x 7 3/4 in. (5).
Viardot, Louis (1841-1918) The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Co., [c. 1883]. Two large folio volumes, profusely illustrated throughout, bound in publisher`s uniform blind and gilt-stamped brown morocco, inner gilt dentelles, very good, a.e.g., 15 x 11 1/2 in. (2).
Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. Five imperial octavo volumes, illustrated throughout, some spotting, bound in uniform publisher`s gold- and blind-stamped cloth. Wilkes surveyed the Northwest coast of the United States by sea, over a four-year period, making inland forays at regular intervals.
A fine early wood, gesso and gilt Chinoiserie Table Cabinet Stand in the manner of James Moore, raised on triangular section legs decorated with blind fret-work in repeated Greek key pattern relieved by spreading foliage at the leg junctions and frieze centres, 27 7/8'' wide x 17'' deep and 26 1/2'' high approx. the cabinet sadly missing but present and usable as a correctly sized table top is what would appear to be the original rectangular cabinet top, 27 1/4'' x 16 1/8'' having gilt highlighted lacquered decoration with a black background and illustrating in brown/maroon a vase and a trough of flowers and an old tree stump with sprouting flowering branches with a nearby old cauldron complete with a stirring implement. An old paper label under is marked ''A623''.
An Edwardian mahogany lady's bureau, the fall flap opening to reveal recesses and blind fret drawers above a single blind fret drawer, raised on turned and square slanted legs united by a shaped undertier, bears label for Rowntree and Sons, House Furnishers, Scarborough, 85 by 58 by 113cm high.
A French Louis XV style gilt brass mounted boulle mantel clock retailed by W. Oppenheim, London and Paris, circa 1900, the eight-day striking movement with oval retailer’s stamp W. OPPENHEIM, LONDRES PARIS and numbered 500, 87 to backplate, the circular gilt rosette centred blue on white enamel Roman numeral cartouche dial with convex bevel glazed brass bezel, the arched foliate-scroll engraved brass and mottled red shell marquetry veneered case with basket of fruit cast finial to the concave sided surmount above foliate cast crest issuing husk trails to the angles, the apron inset with a Sevres style porcelain plaque decorated with two cherubs at work, the sides with blind brass grille sound frets, the base with scroll cast angle mounts and integral scroll feet with leafy apron between, 37cm (14.5in) high
Carel Weight (1908-1997)-Oil on board-The Country Of The Blind, signed, 41cm x 29cm A.R. Provenance-Purchased by the vendor’s father at Sotheby’s 16/9/1981. The lot includes a letter from Carel Weight dated 18 Oct 1981 to the vendor’s father stating that the picture was painted in 1966 and that it is one of his paintings that he has been trying to trace as the Royal Academy have decided to give him a retrospective exhibition. The painting was subsequently exhibited in said exhibition of January-February 1982 and also included in the lot is all paper work regarding the loan of the painting. Previous to the Sotheby’s purchase it was in the Zwemmer Gallery, London and exhibited at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth ** General condition consistent with age
Twenty-four LP's comprising free 'Fire and Water' Pink Island Label (1LPS 9120) with 'i' logo, 'Emerson, Lake & Palmer' Pink Island Label (ILPS 9132), Jethro Tull 'Benefit' Green Chrysalis Label (ILPS 9123), 'Blind Faith', 1st press, The rolling Stones 'Through the Past Darkly' (Big Hits vol.2) octagonal sleeve (stereo), The Rolling Stones 'Let It Bleed', Family 'A Song For Me', Fleetwood Mac 'Then Play On', Cream 'Wheels on Fire', 3 by Ten Years After comprising 'Cricklewood Green', 'Ssssh' and 'Watt', 'Woodstock' (3 LP), Melanie 'The Good Book', The Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour' EP 1st press, 'With The Beatles' 2nd press etc... Overall condition fair to good.
Renaissance Revival sideboard or desk, circa 1870, executed in quartersawn oak, the shaped top above a two door case having shield form medallions and flanked with carved pilasters, the single blind drawer centered with relief detail, and rising on a conforming base, 39"h x 84"w x 28"d Starting Price $500
A George III Mahogany Bureau Bookcase, late 18th century, the domed pediment surmounted by three urns, a cavetto cornice and blind fret frieze, above astragal glazed doors enclosing adjustable shelves, pigeon holes and small drawers, the fall enclosing an attractive fitted interior, two short and three long graduated drawers below, raised on bracket feet (with later embellishment), 102cm by 62cm by 260cm Cosmetically ok, with fairly uniform colour, but slightly light. The base section has been fitted with additional sections of mahogany (professionally done). Bureau with later moulding. The fall with a fine split running along the bottom edge. Interior leather replaced, but otherwise reasonable. Right foot with split/repair. Other feet with general strengthening work. Drawer fronts with small faults to the cockbeading consistent with age. Later embellishments - a marriage. 080313
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