Full title: Rene Magritte (1898-1967, after): 'L'art de la conversation', lithograph in colours, ed. 209/275, dated 2011Description: Work: ca. 45,5 x 38 cm Paper: 51 x 44 cm Frame: 83,3 x 69 cm The lithograph based on the painting 'L'art de la conversation' by Rene Magritte and edited by Philippe Moreno, with the autorisation and under control of the ADAGP, representing 'La Succession Magritte' (see also the blind stamps in the left and right bottom corner).
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Full title: Banksy (1974, after): 'Charlie Brown smoking', multiple, ed. 57/150Description: Work: ca. 37 x 34 cm Paper: ca. 69,5 x 49,5 cm Frame: 73 x 53 cm The work with in both bottom corners a blind stamp, one of which the 'P.o.W. Printmaking' stamp (P.o.W. or Pictures on walls, the main publisher of Banksy prints).
Full title: Banksy (1974, after): 'Happy choppers', multiple, ed. 129/150Description: Work: ca. 54 x 38 cm Paper: ca. 69 x 49 cm Frame: 73 x 53 cm The work with in both bottom corners a blind stamp, one of which the 'P.o.W. Printmaking' stamp (P.o.W. or Pictures on walls, the main publisher of Banksy prints).
Full title: Marc Chagall (1887-1985, after): 'Les vendanges' and 'Les jeunes Gens de Methynmne', zincographies, ed. 265/333Description: Work: 23,5 x 17,5 cm Paper: 33 x 21,5 cm Frame: 52 x 41 cm Both prints, 'The wine harvest' and 'The Young Methymneans', are part of the series 'Daphnis et Chloe'. Both with the SPADEM blind stamp (Limited edition, edition of 333).
Full title: Banksy (1974, after): 'Radar rat' and 'Queen Ziggy', multiple, ed. 67/150 and 37/150Description: Work: ca. 47 x 37 cm Frame: 75 x 65 cm Work: ca. 38,5 x 30 cm Paper: ca. 70 x 50 cm Frame: 73 x 53 cm 'Radar rat'with in both bottom corners a blind stamp, one of which the 'P.o.W. Printmaking' stamp (P.o.W. or Pictures on walls, the main publisher of Banksy prints). 'Queen ziggy' with in the lower right corner the 'ART - Edition Impression Art Certified' stamp.
A FRENCH WALNUT WRITING TABLECIRCA 190075cm high, 130cm wide, 71cm deep Condition Report: Please note the online image shows the back of this piece and not the front, the back has all the escutcheon plates, the front only has one. either a new set needs to be sourced or some swapping out of the back ones to the front and the item placed against a wall. The drawers are also blind and can only really be removed with a key - no key is present at Dreweatts and one would need to be sourced by the purchaser. One lock is loose to one drawer, the others are fixed in placeThe leather inset has marks, scuffs, scratches and general signs of age and use in a domestic settingOverall with Marks, knocks, scratches, abrasions consistent with age and useOld splits and cracks, some chips and lossesOverall solid and stableOne rear leg cap is missingSome marks to interiors of the drawersPlease refer to additional images for visual reference to condition Condition Report Disclaimer
A fine late Georgian inlaid and crossbanded Longcase Clock, by Joshua Tomey, Dublin, the brass dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, and subsidiary dial for seconds under a divided pediment above a blind fret and dentil moulded frieze, a moulded trunk door on a moulded box base on bracket feet, 231cms x 35cms (91" x 14"). (1)
Military: Grose (Francis) Military Antiquities Respecting A History of the English Army, 2 vols. folio L. 1812. Second Edn., 3 engd. titles, & 136 engd. plts. (ex. 138), include. frontis etc., cont. full calf, gilt fillets & blind tooled borders, spines gilt in panels, mor. labels, worn. (2)
Co. Wicklow Guides: Wright (G.N.) A Guide of the County Wicklow, 12mo Lond, 1827. Engd. frontis 4 engraved plts. & lg. fold. map, cont. full calf, gilt & blind tooled borders, v. good.; Guide to the County Wicklow, 12mo Dublin 1834. New Edn., fold. map, & 5 engraved plts. cloth; and, Fraser (James) Guide to the County of Wicklow, 12mo Dublin 1842, fold. map, & illustrations thro.-out, orig. cloth. (3)
A Scottish George III mahogany eight day longcase clock, Mitchell & Son Gorbals, the engraved dial with twin subsidiary rings and pierced brass hands, in flat topped case, carved in blind and inlaid with paterae at later date, pendulum and weights, 208cm h Condition evident from image; Shrinkage cracks to sides and numerous losses, chips to the hood, Minor chips and scuffs to the case all consistent with age and use. Movement appears clean and complete buy cables are running off on both spools.
Miscellaneous antiquarian and later books, including two Victorian morocco volumes of sheet music, the bindings titled in gilt Songs, [collected by] L. C. Greenlees, two-volume set with 28 scores, contemporary green morocco, panelled in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, folio (34.5 x 26cm), Williamson (Paul) & Loftus (Debbie, illustrator), Six London Preludes, first edition, one of 175 copies, Cambridge & Stockholm, Festival O/Modernt, 2017, original wrappers, 8vo, an early 20th c album of prints of Classical antique statuary, 8vo, four L'Arbalète imprint prospectuses, including Sartre, The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, Fourth Series: Volume II, 1944-1949, later boards, split, 8vo, Eleusinian Press imprints, The History of the Times, 4 vols, approx. 43 Alan Sillitoe titles in various European and Asian languages, various imprints and dates, mostly ex-lib, P&O Sketches, etc
Early 20th Century Toy Magic Lanterns and Ikonograph 17.5mm Films, Ikonograph, New York 17.5mm films - No. 30 Conversation of Two Circus Clowns, No. 5 What the Blind Man Saw and No. 32 Disappearing Tramp, in maker's tins, contents appear correct, condition and length unchecked (3); Ernst Plank magic lantern, lacks illuminant, with maker's paper-covered wooden box (1), Ernst Plank chromolitho long slides, 240 x 80mm, including comic, topographical, steam train, personalities and military, some in maker's wooden box (33), lantern and kine projector parts and other slides (a lot)
A Thornton-Pickard Mahogany and Brass 5 x 4 Triple Imperial Extension Field Camera, serial no 6991, body G, some wear and ageing to brass, bellows G, with possibly altered Taylor, Taylor and Hobson 8½ x 6½'' W.A.V. lens, No 6071, single element to rear, aperture ring on front, element G-VG, light scratches, with Thornton-Pickard roller blind shutter, shutter working, G, with two DDS, in Adams and Co case, with two sets of tripod legs
A tortoiseshell, ebonised and 'Boulle work' box or casket,19th century, of serpentine outline, the hinged cover inlaid with brass to a red tortoiseshell ground centred by a blind cartouche within a wreath of husks and acanthus scrolls, opening to reveal a silk-lined void interior, the sides similarly inlaid with an applied gilt-metal escutcheon to the front, raised on foliate cast supports,38cm wide,31cm deep,16cm highCondition ReportAreas of brass inlay missing - some present with lot.LIfting to inlay in places.Tortoiseshell largely good but a few small areas missing.Interior lining with tears.Overall usuable but could benefit from some cosmetic attention.
A George III mahogany chest on chest,the top moulded cornice over a blind fret carved frieze, with an arrangement of three short oak lined drawers and three long drawers, enclosed with fluted pilasters, the base with a brushing slide and three long drawers, all raised on bracket feet,112cm wide55cm deep183cm highCondition ReportSome losses and repairs to the edges of the moulding to the drawer fronts. Some minor splitting to the frieze. Good even colour throughout. Locks possibly replace. All drawers function, with some splits and spacing to the drawers liners. Some losses to the veneer. Top section leans back slightly.
12 BOTTLES NEW ZEALAND WHITE WINELeefield Station Chardonnay 2019; Clayvin Chardonnay 2017; Gïesen Limited Edition Organic Chardonnay 2016 and Unchartered Chardonnay 2020; Saint Clair Pioneer Block Chardonnay 2021; Rohe Blind River 2 x Sauvignon Blanc 2021; Stonleight Rapaura Series Sauvignon Blanc 2020 and Chardonnay 2020; Lake Chalice Chardonnay 2021; The Ned Chardonnay 2020; Villa Maria Chardonnay 2021
12 BOTTLES NEW ZEALAND WHITE WINERapaura Springs 2 x Rohe Blind River Sauvignon Blanc 2021 and 2 x Rohe Dillons Point Sauvignon Blanc 2021; Marisco Vineyards 2 x The Ned Chardonnay 2020 and 2 x Hartley's Block Sauvignon Blanc 2021; Brancroft Estate 2 x Letter Series B Sauvignon Blanc 2020; Saint Clair Family Estate 2 x James Sinclair Sauvignon Blanc 2021
A box CONTAINING OVER SEVENTY LPs OF ROCK, BLUES AND PUNK MUSIC including Band of Gypsies by Hendrix Band (puppet sleeve VG/VG), Blind Faith (1st pressing Ex/VG), John Mayalls Bluesbreakers (Beano Sleeve EX/EX), Sabotage and Vol4 by Black Sabbath, various Status Quo, Scorpions, Hawkwind, Motorhead etc( all in G to VG condition)
Seven original 1960s classic rock albums:The Who 'My Generation' (original 1B/1B matrix Brunswick Records);2 original Jimmy Hendrix Experience UK mono pressings albums (Track Records Axis: 'Bold as Love' and 'Are You Experienced' ;2 Rolling Stones original UK pressings including The Rolling Stones 'No 2';Traffic 'Mr Fantasy' UK first pressing (pink eye-logo, mono);Blind Faith 'Blind Faith' original UK first pressing.
John Wainwright of Nottingham - late 18th century 8-day oak longcase c1795, with a caddy top, blind fret frieze beneath and four attached hood pillars and capitals, long trunk door with a break arch top on a short plinth with applied skirting and shaped base, painted dial with tumbling Arabic's for the hours and minutes, floral spandrels within a gesso border and bird of paradise to the dial centre, matching steel hands and date aperture, dial pinned directly to a rack striking movement, striking the hours on a bell. With weights and pendulum. Dimensions: Height: 200cm Length/Width: 43cm Depth/Diameter: 24cm
George III Chippendale design mahogany side table, rectangular top with gadroon moulded edge, the frieze carved with blind fretwork with interlaced stylised flower heads, raised on square chamfered supports carved with further blind fretwork Dimensions: Height: 72cm Length/Width: 113cm Depth/Diameter: 46cm
AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARDBLIND MAN'S BLUFF; THE SEE-SAWOil on canvas laid on board, oval73 x 49cm (28½ x 19¼ in.) (2)The original Blind man's bluff is held by the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio. The painting was intended to accompany The See-Saw (1750), currently held by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Both are painted in the style and spirit of Fragonard's master François Boucher. Condition Report: Both with significant surface dirt and discoloured varnish. Numerous scattered areas of paint loss and wear to the canvas, which is laid on board. Some areas of craquelure. UV reveals no signs of restoration. Condition Report Disclaimer
The Indian Rebellion, 1857.- Ball (Charles) The History of the Indian Mutiny, 7 vol., 2 steel-engraved vignette titles and 80 plates, 2 double-page engraved maps, both with hand-colouring, double-page printed table, 3 printed titles, tissue-guards (a few damaged), some light foxing and soiling, occasional cracking at gutter with the odd leaf working loose, vol. 3 upper hinge broken, vol. 5 lower hinge broken, a few others tender but holding, original red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, rubbed with some wear to spines, light soiling, 4to, [1858].
Greek printing.- Basilius Magnus (Saint, Archbishop of Caesarea) Hapanta ta tu theiu kai megalu kalumenu basileiu [graece], edited by Janus Cornarius, text in Greek, title and verso of final f. with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, small worm trace / hole to upper margin at beginning and end, some mostly marginal water-staining, more pronounced in last 2 quires, where just touching text, occasional spotting or mostly light foxing, ornately blind-stamped contemporary calf over wooden boards, sympathetically rebacked, red leather label to spine in compartments, head of spine little chipped, outer edges little worn, rubbed (especially raised bands), [Adams B331; VD 16 B 639], folio (323 x 213mm.), Basel, [Hieronymus Froben & Nikolaus Episcopius], 1551.⁂ A wide-margined copy of the handsomely printed editio princeps of the complete works. Basil is considered important for his influence on both early Christian theology and church administration. The editor, Cornarius, was an itinerant physician and correspondent of Erasmus.
Architecture.- Wren (Christopher) Parentalia: or, memoirs of the family of the Wrens...chiefly of Sir Christopher Wren, ... Compiled, by his son Christopher, first edition, title printed in red and black, list of subscribers, mezzotint portrait frontispiece of Sir Christopher Wren by John Faber, engraved dedication f., 3 portraits, and 7 plates, offsetting, some mostly marginal water-staining to preliminaries (just encroaching within platemark of portrait), some spotting or mostly light foxing or staining, lightly browned in places, blind-stamped and gilt panelled russia by C. Kalthoeber, London, rebacked, preserving original little chipped backstrip in compartments, rubbed, g.e., [Harris 949], folio, Printed for T. Osborn; and R. Dodsley, 1750.⁂ One of the earliest biographies of architect, astronomer and inventor Sir Christopher Wren, to whom the work is chiefly devoted. The work list his many inventions before 1660: 'devices for surveying, musical and acoustical instruments, developments in fishing, underwater construction and submarine navigation, and experiments in printmaking; he experimented with, but did not invent, the mezzotint technique, which Prince Rupert demonstrated to the Royal Society in 1661.' (DNB).Provenance: Walter Charles, Lord Northbourne (armorial bookplate to front pastedown).
Music.-Byrd (William) My Ladye Nevells Booke, edited by Hilda Andrews, number 11 of 60 copies, half-title, photographic frontispiece of a binding, plates, music, original cloth, spine gilt, dust-jacket, small nicks at spine ends, lightly browned, J. Curwen & Sons Ltd., 1926 § Nonesuch Press.- Milton (John) and Henry Lawes. The Mask of Comus, one of 950 copies, colour linoleum-cuts by M.R.H. Farrar, original blind-stamped parchment, spine gilt, little faded, The Nonesuch Press, 1937; and 4 others, Music, v.s. (6)
Language.- Erasmus (Desiderius) Lingua conscripta: cui libellum Plutarchi Chaeronei de immodica verecundia propter argumenti similitudinem adiunximus, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final f., woodcut historiated and decorative initials, water-stained, occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary calf, rebacked, spine in compartments and with red leather label, covers with small central blind-stamped fleuron, upper corners repaired, lower corners and upper outer edge worn, [VD16 E 3163], 8vo, Basel, [Hieronymus Froben & Nikolaus Episcopius], [August], 1547.⁂ One of several works in which Erasmus demonstrates his interest in the philosophy of language.
NO RESERVE Horology.- Tardy. La Pendule Française, 3 vol., mixed editions, illustrations, a few in colour, original wrappers and spines bound in, handsomely bound in later red morocco, upper covers with black morocco inlays, each with a different blind-tooled clock design, spines gilt, matching morocco-edged marbled chemises and slip-cases, chemises with spines sunned, slip-cases with a few joints splitting, decorative silk endpapers with butterfly design, folio, Paris, 1967-69-64.
NO RESERVE Clark (D. Kinnear) Railway Machinery: a treatise on the Mechanical Engineering of Railways, 2 vol., first edition, 70 double-page plates, most double-page, occasional tears, most with tape repairs verso, wood-engraved illustrations, vol. 1 with front free endpaper and title detached and loosely inserted, scattered faint spotting, previous owner's ink signature, previous owner's discreet blind-stamp at end, contemporary half-calf, cracked joints, vol. 2 with defective backstrip but holding firm, rubbed and worn, folio, 1855.⁂ Clark was an engineering consultant having worked on lines throughout Scotland and this work was considered the authoritative text of its day.
Epping Forest Commision Report.- Reduced Plan in Four Parts,... Northern Portion of Epping Forest; Reduced Plan in Three Parts ..., Southern Portion of Epping Forest, two folding maps, showing from Thornwood Common to Chingford Village, and Chingford Hatch to Stratford, lithographs with hand-colouring, first mentioned 1915 x 670 mm (75 1/4 x 26 1/2 in), and the latter 950 x 880 mm (37 1/2 x 34 3/4 in), both dissected and mounted on linen, some marginal nicks and tears, surface dirt and browning, folding into purple morocco covers, gilt and blind tooled, rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, oblong 4to, 1875.
Hobbes (Thomas).- Homer. Homer's Iliads in English. By Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. To which may be added Homer's Odysses Englished by the same author, first edition of Hobbes' translation, woodcut head-pieces, A4-6 catalogue of 'Books printed for William Crook at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar', H5 partially repaired short tear within text, repair overlaying very small part of a few letters, 2B2 small part torn from lower blank corner, closely trimmed at head, just touching the odd headline, some spotting, lightly browned, later endpapers, later calf, blind-stamped triangular centre-pieces with a heart at each point, outer gilt floral and foliage border, rebacked in 20th century calf in compartments with red leather label, corners repaired, rubbed and scuffed, [Macdonald & Hargreaves 79; Wing H2550], Printed by J[ames]. C[ottrell]. for William Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1676; and a defective work on Leviathan, 12mo & small 4to (2)⁂ The rare first edition of Hobbes' translation of the Iliad. His version of the Odyssey was published in 1675. His translations from Homer were completed at the end of his life, when censorship meant he no longer had other means of expressing his views in print. It is believed that his Homer continued with the arguments of Leviathan. For example, on the rightful place of kings, with Hobbes depicting Agamemnon as a more worthy king than in Homer.
NO RESERVE Neuroscience.- Le Lièvre (Guillaume) Ars memorativa, lacking d3-6, title with large woodcut printer's device depicting the shop of Badius, 3 large woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut criblé historiated and decorative initials, stained, modern binding using limp blind-stamped vellum from an old binding, some soiling and marking, [Durling 2762], 8vo, [Paris], Josse Badius, [1520]; sold not subject to return. ⁂ On memory, imagination, cognition and the senses. We can trace no other copy at auction.Provenance: 'Rondulphus Walkerns' (early ink signature to final verso).
NO RESERVE Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first edition, vol. 6 with cut signature of author laid down to front endpaper, some vol. with library blind-stamp to endpapers, vol. 1 and 3 upper hinge weak (spine cracked at p.iii), original cloth, dust-jackets, some light sunning, small nicks and tears, vol. 6 with larger chip at spine foot, rubbing to extremities, Boston, 1948-53; and 9 others by the same, 8vo (15)
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