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Lot 24
Fisica/Physics. Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan. Elémens de physique théorique et expérimentale, pour servir de suite à la description & l'usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale... Seconde édition, revue & augmentée par m. Rouland ... Tome premier [- quatrieme]. Paris, Gueffier, 1787. Un'opera in quattro volumi in-8° (mm 196x120). I. [4], XXXII, 635, [1] pagine. 7 tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo. II. [4], 567 [i.e. 559; saltate nella numerazione le pagine 545-552], [1] pagine. 10 tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo. III. [4], 576 pagine. 4 tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo. IV. [4], 622 pagine. 4 tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo. Testatine silografiche. SI AGGIUNGE: Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan. Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale... Troisieme edition revue, corrigee & augmentee par M. Rouland... Tours, Letourmy, s.d. [1796]. Un'opera in due volumi in-8° (mm 195x120). I. [4], xvj, 388 pagine. XXIII tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo. II. [4], 470, [2] pagine. XXVIII tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo. SI AGGIUNGE: Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan - Rouland. Tableau historique des propriétés et des phénomènes de l'air, considéré dans ses différens états et sous ses divers rapports; par m. Rouland, professeur de physique expérimantale... Paris, Gueffier, 1784. In-8° (mm 196x120). XVI, 636 pagine. SI AGGIUNGE: Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan. Précis historique et expérimental des phénomènes électriques, depuis l'origine de cette découverte jusqu'a ce jour... Seconde édition, revue & augmentée. Paris, rue et hotel Serpente, 1785. In-8° (mm 196x120). XVI, [4], 624, [4]. 10 tavole calcografiche ripiegate fuori testo, alcune con numeri romani.Tutti i volumi presentano legatura omogenea coeva in pelle, cornici in oro ai piatti, titoli in oro su doppio tassello al dorso, contropiatti e sguardie in carta caillouté, tagli gialli. Leggere abrasioni. Segnatura del tempo, vergata su etichetta cartacea ai dorsi.Bel set, in legatura uniforme coeva, di alcune delle opere fondamentali del fisico francese Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de La Fond (1730 - 1810), successore di Jean-Antoine Nollet alla cattedra di fisica sperimentale del Collegio parigino Louis le Grand e poi professore di fisica e di chimica all'École Centrale. Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan. Elémens de physique théorique et expérimentale, pour servir de suite à la description & l'usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale... Seconde édition, revue & augmentée par m. Rouland ... Tome premier [- quatrieme]. Paris, Gueffier, 1787. One work in four volumes, 8° (196x120 mm). I. [4], XXXII, 635, [1] pages, 7 folding engraved plates. II. [4], 567 [i.e. 559; misnumbered pages 545-552], [1] pages, 10 folding engraved plates. III. [4], 576 pages, 4 folding engraved plates. IV. [4], 622 pages, 4 folding engraved plates. Woodcut head-pieces. ADDING: Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan. Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale... Troisieme edition revue, corrigee & augmentee par M. Rouland... Tours, Letourmy, s.d. [1796]One work in two volumes, 8° (195x120 mm). I. [4], xvj, 388 pages, XXIII engraved folded plates out of text. II. [4], 470, [2] pages, XXVIII engraved folded plates out of text.ADDING: Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan - Rouland. Tableau historique des propriétés et des phénomènes de l'air, considéré dans ses différens états et sous ses divers rapports; par m. Rouland, professeur de physique expérimantale...Paris, Gueffier, 1784. 8° (196x120 mm). XVI, 636 pages. ADDING: Sigaud de La Fond Joseph Aignan. Précis historique et expérimental des phénomènes électriques, depuis l'origine de cette découverte jusqu'a ce jour...Seconde édition, revue & augmentée. Paris, rue et hotel Serpente, 1785. 8° (196x120 mm). XVI, [4], 624, [4], 10 engraved folded plates out of text, some with roman numeral.Each volume is presented in contemporary leather, covers gilt framed, gilt title on double lettering-piece on the spine, pastedowns and flyleaves in caillouté paper, yellow edges. Slightly damaged. Early inked shelfmark on paper label on both the spines.Noteworthy set, in contemporary binding, of some of the fundamental works by the French physicist Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de La Fond (1730 - 1810), successor of Jean-Antoine Nollet to the chair of experimental physics of the Parisian College Louis le Grand and then professor of physics and chemistry at the Central École.
Lot 62
ƟBook of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [southern France (perhaps Limoges), immediately before 1439] 96 leaves (including one blank leaf, and plus original parchment pastedowns and single endleaf at front and back), complete (without Calendar, but perhaps always so), collation: i-ii6, iii4, iv8, v-vi6, vii2, viii-ix6, x4, xi8, xii4, xiii-xvii6, catchwords, single column of 18 lines in two sizes of a fine gothic bookhand, capitals touched in yellow wash and those in uppermost line with penwork decoration, versal initials and some line-fillers in burnished gold on red and blue grounds, 2-line initials in same with hairline floral sprays in margin terminating in red, blue or gold leaves, six large initials in same with full or three-quarter borders of coloured and gold rinceaux foliage, six large arch-topped miniatures, each framed within thin gold bars, with a separate set of these bars enclosing the text on the same page, with full borders of coloured and gold rinceaux foliage with some birds, 3 lines of text beneath miniature on fol. 79v erased (perhaps due to original scribal error: the text beginning perfectly at head of next leaf), some flaking from text on last few leaves, slight thumbing in places and outer upright border cropped to edge of decoration with very slight losses to edge of borders on miniature leaves, overall good and solid condition, 190 by 132mm.; seventeenth-century calf binding over wooden boards, gilt-tooled with Symbols of the Passion on each board within ornate foliate rollstamp, some small bumps and chips and with spine rebacked with sections of original leather laid on Provenance:1. Most probably written and illuminated for Maragde de Châteauneuf de Randon and Saint Ramsey or a member of her immediate family or circle, around 1439: an inscription in French in main hand on first endleaf notes her death on 29 September in that year: “Lan mil iiiic & xxxix & le iour de saint Michel xxix iour de septembre trespassa la noble demoiselle maragde de chastel no de rando, autremant apelee de saint remezi, Anima eius requiescat in pace, amen”. There are prayers here after the Penitential Psalms and Office of the Dead that ask for the reader to plead for mercy for the soul of “famula tua” (in female form) and these are accompanied by burnished gold initials ‘M’ (doubtless for Maragde). The book would appear either to have been written for her, but not yet finished at the time of her death and completed with this event in recent memory, or commissioned in her memory. Maragde de Châteauneuf de Randon and Saint Ramsey was a wealthy and influential member of the southern French nobility, whose family were vicomtes de Saint-Remeise and the barons d’Allenc. She was either the wife or daughter of Guillaume, seigneur de Saint Ramsey, near Limoges.2. Leblanc (Parisian auction house), Livres précieux, manuscrits et imprimés sur peau-vélin, du cabinet de M.**, 1811, lot 114, most probably from the vast stock of Paris bookseller Charles Chardin (1742-1826; eulogised by Dibdin, and portrayed by ‘Lewis’ in his Tour in France and Germany, II, pp. 400-04).3. In the English trade in the early twentieth century, with various pencil notes to pastedowns including the adamant “NOT FOR SALE” in capitals.4. Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), of Broxbourne House (and from which his library took its name); his vol. 1249, and with his small inkstamp at each end. A number of fine incunabula from his library were presented to the British Library, with fine bookbindings passing to the Bodleian and his collection of booktrade records to the Roxburghe Club. Sotheby’s sold the reminder of his printed books on 14-15 November 1977 and 8-9 May 1978.5. Re-emerging in Sotheby’s, 3 December 2002, lot 78, and thence by descent. Text:The volume comprises: the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (fol. 2r), Lauds (fol. 9r), Prime (fol. 16r), Terce (fol. 18v), Sext (fol. 20v), None (fol. 22v), Vespers (fol. 24v) and Compline (fol. 27v); the Penitential Psalms (fol. 40r) and Litany; the Office of the Dead (fol. 52r; including SS. Martial of Limoges and Radegund of Poitiers); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 74r) and of the Holy Ghost (fol. 77r); followed by a long series of prayers to Christ (fol. 79v), including one to be said at Mass which claims to grant 2000 years’ indulgence, as well as the prayers to the Virgin in French. Illumination:Southern French manuscript illumination is far rarer than that from the north, and this manuscript is deserving of further study. The palette is brilliantly vivid, and some faces are so well executed they suggest the presence more than one artist. There are numerous features, such as the exquisitely detailed pink architectural canopies and skies filled with gold scroll work, which seem to fit better in northern European art, and in 2002 the Sotheby’s cataloguer drew parallels to leaves with apparent Metz illumination now in the Cleveland Museum of Art (S.N. Fleigel, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, 1999, nos. 29-33) and proposed an itinerant artist. The miniatures are: 1. fol. 2r, The Annunciation with the Angel appearing to a kneeling Virgin, within a pink architectural gothic interior with bright gold and coloured tessellated windows, the border including a cockerel and a green bird; 2. fol. 40r, David kneeling in prayer, wearing scarlet robes in a stylised hilly landscape below a deep burgundy sky filled with gold scrolls; 3. fol. 52r, Judgement Day, with Christ seated in Judgement on a rainbow as skeletons rise from their graves below, all before a vivid red sky filled with gold scrolls, border with a peacock; 4. fol. 74r, The Descent from the Cross, with the Virgin cradling Christ’s body at the foot of the Cross, before Jerusalem and a cohort of Roman soldiers; 5. fol. 77r, Pentecost, the Virgin and apostles before a brilliantly illuminated tessellated background; 6. fol. 79v, God the Father holding a Crucifix between adoring angels, seated on a great throne before a grand architectural pink canopy. 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Lot 19
Bifolium from Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum historiale, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [France (Paris), c. 1400] Two conjoined leaves, with double column of 46 lines in a fine late gothic bookhand influenced by lettre bâtarde (written space: 250 by 155mm.; here with book 29: 40-42 and 52-55), capitals touched in yellow, one-line initials in red or blue with contrasting penwork, each major text break with red rubric and a 2-line initial as before, running titles and book numbers in red and blue at head of page (here: “L. XXIX” and “Flores Sancti Bernardi”), small natural flaws in parchment, tiny spots and stains, once folded horizontally across the middle, overall excellent condition with wide and clean margins, each leaf 366 by 264mm. A previously unrecorded missing bifolium from an opulently illuminated copy of the Speculum historiale, probably made for a member of the French royal family. Other parts of the parent codex are decorated with distinctive gold and blue half-fleur-de-lys devices in their borders (here hinted at by the split fleur-de-lys in red and blue used as a line-filler) identifying them as part of a small group of books most probably produced for Charles V, the Duc de Berry, other members of the French royal family and their immediate followers (see F. Avril in Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 125, 1967, pp. 433-37, and the Sermons manuscript sold in our rooms, 8 July 2015, lot 88; another emerging since then, the Hours of François de Blondel de Joigny, which has been acquired by an American institution). The distinctive decoration in known in the French royal inventories as “enluminé tout au long des colombes de fleur de lis d’or et d’assur” (Delisle, Cabinet des Manuscrits, III, p. 139). Later the codex was owned by the polymath, book dealer and notorious manuscript thief, Guglielmo Libri (his sale, Sotheby’s, 1 June 1864, lot 71), thence to Sir Thomas Phillipps collection (his MS. 24654; offered for sale in same rooms, 6 June 1899, lot 367, and then again 24 June 1935, lot 74), and to H. R. Creswick, Bodley’s Librarian and the librarian of Cambridge University Library (the substantial remnant of 176 leaves sold in same rooms, 20 June 1995, lot 87, to L. Schoenberg, his LJS 16, now in University of Pennsylvania [see Transformation of Knowledge, Early Manuscripts from the Collection of Laurence J. Schoenberg, 2006, pp. 137-8], with loose leaves at the end of that volume given away by Creswick to his friends, such as that to Sir Irvine Masson, sale in same rooms, 16 December 1957, part of lot 32, reappearing in same rooms, 17 June 1997, lot 1, to L. Schoenberg, his LJS 124, and now in University of Pennsylvania; A.N.L. Munby, same rooms, 5 April 1976, lot 658; and Professor A.Y. Campbell, now Liverpool University Library, MS. F.4.14). This leaf doubtless also gifted by him to an unknown associate. The text was conceived by the celebrated Dominican scholar, Vincent of Beauvais (d. 1264) as a vast text of thirty books, together encompassing a chronological history from the fall of man to the year 1244, and enclosing within its body excerpts from numerous classical and medieval authors. It was finished in an early form by 1245, but the author continued to revise it until 1253.
Lot 281
An Art Deco oak, ebonised and chromium display cabinet:, with an angular channelled cornice, fitted with plate glass shelves and with chromium spot lights above, enclosed by a pair of glazed panel doors, the base with raised ebonised bands on a chromium plinth, 140cm (4ft 7in) wide, 191cm (6ft 3 1/4in) high, 47cm (1ft 6 1/2in) deep.
Lot 182
Chinese hardwood cabinet, two carved panelled doors enclosing shelves, and two internal drawers, carved and shaped apron-piece, width 124cm, depth 55cm, height 190cm.CONDITION REPORTLot 182Left hand door panel cracked (near vertical 45in from bottom). Right hand door panel with two vertical cracks (25 and 40cm)both sides of cabinet are badly cracked, (RHS 115cm from bottom running up the 'fielded' edge) (LHS 40cm from top and through both front and back edge 'fielded' sections).Shelves modern softwood. Damage and repair to rebate securing carved apron piece.
Lot 355
An Indian hardwood and tiled corner cabinet in the Gothic Revival taste, attributed to Edward William Godwin, executed by the Bombay Art Manufacturing Company, the upper cupboard doors inset with Maw & Co tiles, above an open recess and further panelled cupboards, width 58cm, depth 43cm, height 180cm.Illustrated: Susan Weber Soros, The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin, Yale University Press, 1999, pg. 78Provenance: Christies South Kensington, Lot 217, Sale 9945, 12th June 2013
Lot 426
A Continental Art Deco dining room suite, stinkwood or teak veneer, oak frame and other exotic hardwoods, including: a large bow-fronted display cabinet, with shaped cornice, the central glazed panelled door above single drawer, flanked by panelled cupboards inset with possibly walnut panels, moulded outlines, shaped plinth, width 196cm, depth 57cm, height 181cm; a hexagonal dining table, width 92cm, height 72cm; and four dining chairs including two carvers, upholstered seat pads, armchair width 63cm (chairs as found). (6)
Lot 1217
20th century mahogany display cabinet with astragal glazed doors enclosing shelves, on bracket feet, a 20th century mahogany student's bureau and a 19th century corner wash stand with satinwood and banded inlaid decoration to the top, four central drawers flanked by open tiers, raised upon cabriole supports (3)
Lot 1206
20th century walnut bureau of three drawers to cabriole supports, a string seated stool, a wicker stool, a walnut coffee table in the regency manner with lyre end supports and shaped stretcher, a 19th century mahogany commode with brass handles, on turned supports and a 20th century filing cabinet (6)
Lot 69
Quantity of continental porcelain figures, predominantly Capodimonte and a Meissen cabinet cup on six feet, flower encrusted and hand-painted with insects and butterflies (19)Re: Enquiry - Vintage Fashion, Textiles & 20th Century Art and Design (6th November)Various conditions, several broken and restored heads, etc Re: Enquiry - Vintage Fashion, Textiles & 20th Century Art and Design (6th November)Various conditions, several broken and restored heads, etc
Lot 1224
Early 20th century walnut cocktail cabinet with twin doors above single drawer, on cabriole supports, a nest of three coffee tables, an oak three-tier tea trolley, a wrought iron and mesh fire screen, two reproduction wine tables, a further three-tier stand, circular discs arranged on a bamboo-effect column, on a triform base, a 20th century bedside table with brushing slide and single drawer to the under-tier and an oak two-tier rectangular side table on turned supports and elongated block feet (9)
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