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Lot 103

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.

Lot 105

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).

Lot 113

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.

Lot 123

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.

Lot 148

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).

Lot 151

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).

Lot 154

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.

Lot 158

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).

Lot 193

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.

Lot 199

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).

Lot 218

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.

Lot 220

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.

Lot 235

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.

Lot 245

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.

Lot 247

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.

Lot 255

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.

Lot 257

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.

Lot 272

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.

Lot 275

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.

Lot 288

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.".

Lot 292

Qur`an, Manuscript on Paper, Arabic, ?Istanbul (Late 18th-Early 19th Century) Octavo, with gold embellishments and calligraphy, bound in blind-stamped goatskin, with flap; flap with old fabric reinforcement, splitting slightly, front board starting, 6 1/8 x 4 in.

Lot 293

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.

Lot 304

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.

Lot 306

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).

Lot 328

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.

Lot 330

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).

Lot 341

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).

Lot 349

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).

Lot 361

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.

Lot 874

A set of four silver plated candlesticks in the style of Elkington each with elaborate blind fret geometric panel decoration with lotus and anthemium motifs, tapering shouldered column, double knop and circular spreading foot - Height 26 cm - stamped with no. 2765 to sconce

Lot 549

A good quality Regency brass inlaid rosewood drop leaf sofa table with two blind drawers on twin splayed end supports terminating on brass lion caps and castors - 1m x 69cm and 1.59m with flaps up

Lot 2257

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''.

Lot 435

AFTER SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT A colour Print, "Interlude", two maidens seated on a couch, Fine Art Trade Guild Blind stamp, signed by the artist on the mount, 34cm x 57cm in silvered frame

Lot 189

After Aime Perrel, early 19th century framed crystoleums: 'Blind Man's Buff', a Spanish courting scene set in a square, and 'The Day of Rest', 22 by 27cm. (3)

Lot 1302

A George II wingback armchair, in the style of Thomas Chippendale, upholstered in red fabric, the blind carved square section legs terminating in wooden castors, 61 by 71 by 110cm high. Provenance: The Estate of David Powell MBE.

Lot 1364

Joy Kirton Smith: a limited edition print of a female nude, 'Solitude', No 33 of 600, blind stamp, signed in pencil to margin lower right.

Lot 1527

A pair of 19th century daguerreotypes of a gentleman and lady, in hinged leather cases lined with red blind embossed velvet, 6 by 8cm. Provenance: The Estate of David Powell MBE.

Lot 1125A

A 1920s walnut serpentine fronted sideboard, with gadrooned base on cabriole legs, blind fretwork and inset circular panels to the doors, 183 by 60 by 120 high.

Lot 1326

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.

Lot 391

A mahogany silver table in George III style, circa 1900, blind fret decorated frieze, profusely pierced square section legs and stretchers, 81cm high, 95cm wide, 58cm deep

Lot 396

A mahogany framed and upholstered armchair in Chippendale style, circa 1900, padded back, seat, pierced sided, blind fretwork carved legs, 92cm high, 65cm wide, 65cm deep

Lot 193

A George III mahogany blind fret carved serving table, circa 1790, rectangular top, moulded and blind fret carved frieze and square tapered legs and spade feet, 81cm high, the top 64.5cm x 182.5cm

Lot 301

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

Lot 33

George III mahogany bowfront hanging corner cupboard, having a moulded dentil cornice, fitted three shelves enclosed by a pair of blind panel doors, 60cm wide

Lot 146

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

Lot 1694

A 19th Century walnut davenport, hinged stationary compartment above a leather inset hinged writing surface, four drawers and four blind drawers, inlaid throughout.

Lot 1332

"Bram Stoker - The Lady of the Shroud, London, William Rider & Son, first edition, red cloth with blind stamped cover"

Lot 1267

After David Wilkie - two prints, The Blind Fiddler and The Rent Day, 54 x 37 cm approx (2)

Lot 328

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GILT IRON BASS RELIEFS OF NAPOLEON AND THE BLIND FIDDLER IN THE ORIGINAL GILT IRON CAVETTO FRAMES

Lot 1462

A mahogany kettle stand, with blind fretwork and slide, with an ivory knob and a coal purdonium

Lot 1002

An early 20th century mahogany sideboard having foliate and blind fret decoration to break front, over drawers and cupboards on cabriole legs with claw and ball feet

Lot 129

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.

Lot 1124

Lawrence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976) - 'Berwick-upon-Tweed', pencil signed print with blind stamp, framed, 53x42.5cm (illustrated)

Lot 259

Arts & crafts style bookcase display with leaded coloured glass doors to each side central blind cupboard with floral inlay top panel with floral marqutry width of bookcase, needing extensive restoration - 135cm wide 179cm high

Lot 6102

Empire chest of drawers, executed in mahogany and fruitwood circa 1830, the ogee molded blind drawer surmounting the five drawer graduated case flanked with turned pilasters and rising on a molded base, 47"h x 52"w x 23"d Starting Price $300

Lot 6479

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

Lot 814

A George III Style Mahogany Chest on Chest, with blind fret carved decoration, 57cm wide

Lot 821

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

Lot 1358

A Chippendale Style Mahogany Silver Table, of rectangular form with pierced gallery and blind fret frieze, blind fret slender square tapering supports and block feet united by curved stretchers

Lot 308

A 1920's Jacobean Revival oak chest of drawers. The squat bun feet supporting a wide bank of 2 short drawers over 2 graduating deep drawers. Drop handles to each. Above a stage gallery back with blind fret decoration

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