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Click here to subscribeFORTUNINO MATANIA (1881-1963) THE DISAGREEMENT Signed, book illustration, oil on canvas board, unframed Image 28 x 19cm.; with a folio of assorted watercolours and drawings by the same hand, to include figure studies, a salacious nude, dogs and landscapes etc, many on an historical/costume theme (a lot) ++ Oil with slight bloom; drawings in mixed condition, some a little foxed etc
A rare Tunbridge Ware satinwood book stand, the folding end with tesserae mosaic flower scrolls, one side with butterfly, for similar see Margaret Gill Tunbridge Ware page 28 and the other side with rare view of a Victorian couple admiring Toad Rock, Tunbridge Wells, on rectangular stepped feet, some damage to ground veneers, 45cm wide, 27.5cm deep
Bernard Buffet Jean Giono, Recherche de la Puret, Henri Creuzevault, Paris, 1953 (Rheims 241-264) the set of 21 drypoints, on Rives, title, text, justification and the drypoints, of which ten hors-text and one on the cover, copy number 101/140, with margins or printed close to the sheet edges, generally in very good condition, loose (as issued) in paper wrappers printed with one drypoint on front, within paper-covered boards and slipcase with title in black on the spine, the slipcase generally in very good condition (book)S. 395 x 272mm. (overall)
Henry Moore Shelter Sketch Book, English Edition A, Marlborough Fine Art, London, and Rembrandt Verlag, Berlin, 1966-67 lithograph in colours, on japon nacre, with title, justification, text in English and 80 collotype facsimiles, signed in pencil, numbered 120/180, with full margins, in very good condition, loose in a wine-red canvas portfolio and a grey card box, a little surface abrasion and splitting to the corners of the box (portfolio)L. 185 x 200mm., S. 370 x 305mm. (overall)
Henry Moore Sketchbook 1928 - The West Wind Relief, The Raymond Spencer Company Limited, Much Hadham, 1982 (C. 571 - 573) facsimile sketchbook, with catalogue, Edition C, signed on the front pastedown, numbered 123/250, in a linen covered solander box, in very good condition(book)S. 255 x 200mm.
David Hockney In an old book, from Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy (Scottish Arts Council 6) etching, 1966, on Crisbrook, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 40/75 (there were also fifteen artist's proofs), published by Editions Alecto, London, with full margins, light- and mount-staining, a stain in the upper left margin on the plate mark but not extending into the image, remains of old tape to the left and right sheet edges on the reverse, other minor blemishes, framed P. 470 x 335mm., S. 560 x 400mm.
Jaspar Johns (b.1930) Wallace Stevens, Some Poems, The Arion Press, San Francisco, 1985 (Field 234) etching and aquatint, on laid paper, with title, text and justification, signed in pencil, inscribed 'S' on the justification, from the edition of 26 numbered alphabetically (there was also a numbered edition of 300), with full margins, in very good condition, bound in pale grey covers, in a blue box with the title printed in silver on the spine S. 335 x 250mm. (overall); and Susan Sontag, Dancers on a Plane: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jaspar Johns, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1989, the book, signed in black ink by Cage, Cunningham and Johns on the frontispiece, number 108/200(books) (2)
A contempory set of castings for a World War One railway gun, 3 1/2in gauge. The model is of a British world war one railway gun '12in Howitzer Mark 5 on mounting railway truck Mark 3 manufactured by the Elswick Ordinance Company in 1916. The parts consist mainly of aluminium castings with turned steel barrel and bogie wheel set (two missing). The truck casting is approximately 75cm long and is thought to have been made to enable construction, demonstration or instruction purposes. This lot is sold together with a book by John Batchelor/Ian Hogg 'Rail Gun' published in 1973.
A small collection of nine, unusual, late Victorian/modern book marks, with assorted terminals, comprising: One with a chased ring, London 1907, one with a 'man in the moon' face, London 1894, one with Osborne House, Birmingham 1895, an enamelled example, Birmingham 1921, a papal example, Sheffield 1895, a cockerel finial, London 1919, a Scottish 'baby', Glasgow 1930, a coat of arms exapmle, Birmingham 1890 and a coral handled example, Birmingham 1898. (9)
HONOR APPLETON. A group of three illustrations, including the book cover design for 'Poor little rich girl' by Eleanor Gates, a garden scene and one entitled 'She caught the girl by her long hair and flung herself upon her broomstick', three, two signed, one dated 1912, watercolour and bodycolour, all unframed. (3)
ANON. A GAZETTEER OF THE WORLD, OR DICTIONARY OF GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE... A. Fullarton & Co, London 1856. 7 volumes. Large 8vo. Half morocco bindings with pictorial gilt to spine compartments. Illustrated with wood engravings plus 120 steel engraved plates and maps. TALBOT, Frederick A. RAILWAY WONDERS OF THE WORLD. Waverley Book Company, London 1913. Subscribers edition. 4 volumes. 4to. Blue cloth, gilt. Some light marking, contents shaken. 24 colour plates, 12 folding plates plus many photographic illustrations. Sold with 18 further volumes of world geography and travel. (29)
LAWRENCE, T.E. ORIENTAL ASSEMBLY. Williams and Norgate Ltd, London 1939. First edition. 8vo. Fine copy in dustwrapper. LAWRENCE, T.E. and WOOLLEY C. Leonard. PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND 1914. THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN (ARCHEOLOGICAL REPORT). Palestine Exploration Fund [1915]. 4to. Cloth backed printed grey paper boards. Light browning to endpapers, otherwise a clean bright copy. 2 maps, 37 plates. Lawrence's first work in book form covers a record of his and Woolley's explorations in the desert regions south of Beersheba and the Dead Sea. Plus 8 other titles, Lawrence related and a quantity of ephemera including T.E. Lawrence Society Newsletters and Journals etc. (qty)
TRACHTENBERG, Jacob (ed.) DIE GREUELPROPAGANDA IST EINE L†GENPROPAGANDA SAGEN DIE DEUTSCHEN JUDEN SELBST. Berlin 1933. 4to. Linen backed printed paper boards, lightly rubbed, splash mark on lower board. Text in German, Dutch and Swedish. The book contains a series of criticisms which denounce the sentiment of foreign countries who oppose German nationalism as being counterproductive to the position of German Jews themselves.
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