*Sarah Kent (b.1947)'DADRA TAL'Acrylic on canvas152.5 x 183cm'Dadra Tal' is a rythmic pattern in Indian music which has six beats - this painting has six colours.Exhibited: 'Survey '67 Abstract Painters' Camden Arts Centre, London 1967 no.39.Sarah Kent studied painting at the Slade School of Art and worked as an artist until 1977. She then became Exhibitions Director at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) for two years and also started writing for 'Time Out'. At the ICA she staged exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Allen Jones and Christo. She progressed to art editor of 'Time Out', for which she wrote reviews.She is now a well known figure in the arts in London, and has appeared on radio and TV shows. She also works in a freelance capacity as an editor and critic, and has provided essays, catalogues and books for the Saatchi Gallery and White Cube Gallery. She is the editor of 'Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s'.She was an early ad
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Raymond Yap (British, 20th Century) Cityscape signed lower right "Raymond Yap '95" pencil and watercolour 50 x 33cm (20 x 13in) Other Notes: Raymond Yap studied at the Royal Academy Schools in 2001, and obtained a BA Honours degree at Wimbledon School of Art in 1998. In 2001 he won a major award travel scholarship to USA, and was invited as a visiting tutor to Wimbledon School of Art. He has been involved in educational projects at Tate Modern and has exhbited solo in The Agency Contemporary in London, Jendela (Visual Arts Space) Esplanade, Valentine Willie Fine Art and Sengking Arts Space in Yogjakarta. Condition appears fine.
§ Ian Stephenson (British, 1934-2000) Phoenix signed and dated lower right "Ian Stephenson 1980" and inscribed with title and numbered 472/540 upper right screenprint and collage 57 x 72½cm (22 x 28in) Provenance: Arthur Anderson Art Collection, 1981, accession number 5546 (old label verso) Other Notes: During the eighties Ian Stephenson made two prints - up to this point he had only made originals. However the invitation from the Contemporary Art Society to produce an edition of prints to support the purchase of art for the nation inspired him to make a series of prints, one of which was the present 'Pheonix'. Stephenson created a method of making an edition of 540 with each print being unique. He created rectangles of collage, covered in spots of paint which were to be placed slightly differently on each print, creating a unifying but unique design on each one. In a clear perspex frame
Shakespeare (William). The Bijou Shakespeare. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Illustrated. With Biographical Introduction and an Essay on Shakespeare and Bacon by Sir Henry Irving, 6 vols., William Collins, c. 1900, half-tone illustrations, all edges gilt, attractively bound in contemporary green calf-backed boards, spines with Art Nouveau floral decoration, contained in original green cloth box (box label with previous owner inscription and loss at lower corner, some tears and splits to box), 12mo (6)
London Bulletin, edited by E.L.T. Mesens, nos. 18-20, June 1940, 2 colour woodcuts by S.W. Hayter and John Banting, colour and monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, a little rubbed and some fraying to spine, with a little loss, small 4to, together with London Gallery. Catalogue of the Exhibition The Cubist Spirit in its Time, 18 March-3 May 1947, organised by E.L.T. Mesens, London Gallery Ltd., 1947, monochrome plates, original printed light blue wrappers, a few marks and some light handling marks, slim small 4to, plus Dalvit (Oskar, 1911-1975). 10 Tafeln nach Originalen des Kunstlers, Berne, Marbach-Verlag, 1950, printed introductory text, and 10 plates (including a colour woodcut, signed, dated and numbered 43/1000 in pencil), all loosely contained in original portfolio wrappers, bookplate of J.D.H. Catleugh to front pastedown, dated 19 October 1950, some minor marks, small slim 4to, and other modern art catalogues and similar publications, including Stedelijk Museum. Acht Argentijnse Abstracten, [1953], Vitalita nell'Arte, Centro Internazionale delle arti e del Costume, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, August-October 1959, Fourteen Americans, edited by Dorothy C. Miller, with statements by the artists and others, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1946, Wolfgang Paalen, Form and Sense (Problems of Contemporary Art, No. 1), New York, Wittenborn and Company, 1945, Henry Focillon, The Life of Forms in Art, 2nd English edition, enlarged, New York, 1948, Atelier 17. Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by members of the Atelier 17 Group, Laurel Gallery, New York, March 14 to April 1st, 1949, etc. (12)
H.(N.). The Pleasant Art of Money-Catching, Newly and Fully Discover'd. Being the Second and Last Part of that very Useful Book, Intituled the Compleat Tradesman, Comprehending the Following Pleasant and Necessary Heads... , Composed by N.H., Printed for J. Dunton, 168[4], title foremargin shaved with loss of double rule and a few letters at line endings, leaf F10 torn with loss, some spotting and marginal fraying, contemporary sheep, some wear, 12mo Signatures: A-F12. Wing H100. (1)
Fry (Maxwell). Fine Building, 1st edition, 1944, Art in the Machine Age, 1st edition, 1969, numerous black and white illustrations, original cloth in dust jackets, 'Fine Building' worn and torn with some loss to spine and front and rear covers, 8vo, together with Davie (W. Galsworthy), Old Cottages & Farm-Houses in Surrey, 1st edition, Batsford, 1908, numerous black and white illustrations, frontispiece detached, bookplate to front pastedown, some spotting, original gilt-decorated green cloth, boards slightly marked, spine slightly faded, 4to, plus Bonnett (Denise, [editor]), Contemporary Cabinet Design And Construction, 1st edition, Batsford, 1956, bookplate to front pastedown, original red cloth in dust jacket, covers slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus other modern architecture and art reference, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (6 shelves)
*Leicestershire Manuscript Survey. A manuscript survey entitled 'An Exact and Perfect Survey of the Lordship of Bringhurst in the County of Leicester, being taken and admeasured by the Purch of 16. 1/2. foot, according to the Statute. De Terris mensurandis, by Vincent Wing Supervisor, Octob: 1658', ink on paper, 11 leaves (half-title, title, text, final 2 leaves blank), half-title torn with loss and laid down, large tear to title affecting blank areas and border only, several text leaves torn across without loss and leaves strengthened on foremargins, stitched and rolled in a contemporary vellum sheet with original ties intact, contemporary manuscript surveying notes to vellum inner surface, 4to (text leaves 20 x 15cm unrolled) Vincent Wing (1619-1668), English astrologer, astronomer and land surveyor. Born in North Luffenham, Rutland, he was a highly accomplished mathematician and by the age of 20 he was already a professional land surveyor, almanac-maker and astrologer. He is now chiefly remembered as an astronomer and was notable as a champion of the new astronomical systems of Copernicus and Tycho Brahe. However, it was mostly through his work as a land surveyor that he made his living and, in 1664, he published 'The Art of Surveying'. This manuscript survey gives a rare insight into his practices and presentation of his work. It refers to an open plan field system with the strips of land held by various tenants; a mixture of freehold and copyhold, as the land in Bringhurst was not enclosed until 1804. Tenant names include Sir John Norwich (freehold land) and Richard Green (freehold and copyhold land). Although a few of his maps are known to have survived, no other of his land surveys have been located. (1)
Smith (George, of Kendal, Westmorland). The Nature of Fermentation Explain'd; with the Method of Opening the Body of any Grain or Vegetable Subject, so as to obtain from it a Spirituous Liquor: Exemplified by the Process of preparing Rum, as 'tis manag'd in the West-Indies..., To which is added, a Collection of several Compound Cordial Waters, with the Art of preparing some Articial Wines, not hitherto publish'd. By way of Appendix to the Compleat Body of Distilling, 1st edition, London: Bernard Lintot, 1729, bound with The Practical Distiller, Or, a Brief Treatise of Practical Distillation. In which the Doctrine of Fermentation is Methodically Explain'd... With the Description of a New Engine-Still..., To which is added, by way of Appendix, a Treatise of making Artificial Wines from several Fruits of the British Production..., 1st edition, London: B. Lintot, 1734, engraved frontispiece, few ink marks and dust-soiling mostly to title, bound with at front Smith (George, of Kendal, Westmorland), A Compleat Body of Distilling, Explaining the Mysteries of that Science..., Containing an Exact and accurate Method of making all the Compound Cordial-Waters now in use, with a particular Account of their several Virtues..., 2 parts in one, 2nd edition, London: Henry Lintot, 1731, engraved frontispiece and publisher's book list at front (both leaves frayed & torn at head), dampstaining and some toning & occasional marks throughout volume, contemporary sheep, boards detached and worn, 8vo Cagle 999 (first title) & Cagle 998 (third title, for 1st edition of 1725). (1)
Bernadette Woolhead (Ireland, Contemporary) You Can Turn a Sow's Ear into a Silk Purse. A decorated model of a pig, in a display case. In early 2015, the Jack & Jill Foundation auctioned 100 unique pieces of art in the form of painted and decorated life-size fibreglass Pigs designed by leading artists, designers and celebrities such as, Fink, Margaret Egan, Orla de Bri, Bernadette Woolhead, Nicky Hooper, Niall O'Loughlin, Eoin O'Connor, Alison Hurst & Eddie Hobbs, Margaret Egan and Nick Munier.
TAPISSERIES ET ETOFFES COPTES, Paris, Henri Ernst circa 1920, 48 mntd plts complete, loose leaves as issued, orig portfo, ribbon ties, prtd paper label + DORAN H ROSS: WRAPPED IN PRIDE, GHANAIAN KENTE AND AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY, UCLA FMCH circa 1998, orig cl gt d/w + A B RUGH: REVEAL AND CONCEAL DRESS IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT, 1986 1st edn, orig cl d/w + V LAMB AND J HOLMES: NIGERIAN WEAVING, 1980, orig cl gt d/w + MAROC - COSTUMES, BRODERIES, BROCARTS, circa 1974, orig cl d/w + ROY SIEBER: AFRICAN TEXTILES AND DECORATIVE ARTS, NY Museum of Modern Art, circa 1972, orig pict wraps + two others similar (8)
A BOTTLE OF CAELESTIS WINE AND STUDENT ARTWORK FROM POLAND 1 bottle of rare Cælestis - Château Fonroque Saint-Emilion Grand Cru Classé biodynamic wine (vintage 2011) with the label by the great contemporary Scottish painter Peter Doig and dedicated by the renowned French producer and oenologist Alain Moueix; together with an original painting by Anna Zdebska, POLAND -"Reminiscence" (40 cm x 40 cm). Painted with acrylic paint on canvas by this hobby artist who graduated from the art school Rosetta Art Centre, London, UK. The painting (which is unframed) will be shipped to the buyer directly from the artist in Poland. Upon full payment being received the buyer's contact details will be made available to the artist in order that suitable arrangements can be made. The cost of shipping the painting to the buyer at a European address is included in the purchase price. The wine is held at McTear's in Glasgow and may be shipped to the buyer at the buyer's expense.
Arata Isozaki, an ebonised ash truncated ovoid dining table, circa 1973, made by ICF, Italy, the cushioned teardrop top with starburst veneer on a slatted cage base, the three corner sections with vertical uprights, 72cm high, 155cm diameter Note: Japanese architect Arata Isozaki is well known for his public buildings in Japan, America and Europe including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He won the RIBA Gold Medal in 1986. See: Fiell, C. 2012, Design of the 20th Century, Taschen; and Miller, J. 2012, Mid-Century Modern: living with mid-century modern design, p.211 for articles and information on Isozaki's furniture designs
* GWEN HARDIE, FACE 09.17.05 oil on canvas 64cm x 58.5cm (25 x 23 inches) Framed. Provenance: The artist. Private London collection. Note: Hardie is the youngest artist ever to be awarded a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland (1990).Gwen Hardie is represented in many private and public art collections in Britain, Europe and America including two major works in The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has shown with The Lennon Weinberg Gallery, Dinter Fine Art and has been awarded Residencies at Yaddo in 2004, 2005 and 2006 in a Bogliasco Fellowship at The Liguria Study Center in Italy. She lived in London between 1990 and 2000 and had 6 solo shows with galleries such as Annely Juda Fine Art, Beaux Arts and Fischer fine Art. In 1997 her painting was awarded a prize at the John Moores biennial, Liverpool and was included in the New British Painting'' which toured America in 1986. Hardie left her native Scotland in 1984 when she was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to study with Georg Baselitz in Berlin. A documentary was broadcast on Scottish Television about her in Berlin in 1987. At Edinburgh College of art she was awarded the Richard Ford Award to study the paintings of Velasquez at the Prado Museum and received a first class honours degree in 1983. '' Three of Gwen Hardie's paintings are currently included in ''REALITY; Modern and Contemporary British Painting'' at The Walker Art Gallery (until 29th November 2015) alongside the work of Walter Sickert, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, L S Lowry, Jenny Saville, Ken Currie, George Shaw, David Hockney, Alison Watt, Paula Rego and other important 20th century and contemporary artists.
•Emma McClure (born 1962) - 'Sleeping Dog II', signed with artist's initials, also inscribed with artist's name and the title of the work, possibly in the artist's own hand, oil on board, 9" x 10" *Provenance: with Cornwall Contemporary Art, 1 Parade Street, Penzance, TR18 4BU, painted in 2010
Ashley Luff (20th/21st Century Contemporary) - Royal Prince Edward VII in three guises, with three Young Ladies nearby, signed and dated, '79, (1979), oil on canvas, 28" x 32" **The artist graduated from Hornsey College of Art and Southampton University in 1961 and became a lecturer in Fine Art at High Wycombe until 1977, but continued to lecture at other education colleges, he then became co-director of Cromwell Fine Art in Fleet Street, where he exhibited until 1992. His paintings are in the collections of Kerry Packer, Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews and Terry Venables as well as many other celebrities
Surtees (R.S.) John Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities., book plates on front page, contemporary chromolithograph illustrations, 1838; Lyte (Maxwell), History of Eton College 1440/1910, frontispiece, vignettes throughout, 1911; Streatfield (Frank N.), Recollections of Old'un, photographic plates, tissue guards, 1913, publisher's cloth, 4to; and eight others; art reference and country life, (11).
Robert Lallemant , an Art Deco earthenware model of a stylised fish Robert Lallemant (1902-1954), an Art Deco earthenware model of a stylised fish, overall mid blue glazed, painted and printed marks, including a paper label for Waring Modern Art and a price of 47/6, 24.5cm high, 27.5cm long See du Pasquier (Jacqueline) Robert Lallemant (1902-1954): ceramiste et decorateur d'une generation incertaine, Paris 2014, p. 31 for a contemporary illustration of 1928.
SUE ATKINSON (b. 1949) Framed, signed, Naive Contemporary watercolour and gouache on paper, showing a jester performing on circus stage to watching audience. Atkinson is a member of the Leeds Fine Art Club as well as having exhibited widely at the R.A., N.E.A.C., R.W.S. and R.S.M.A., 50.5cm x 40cm. Provenance: Purchased directly from the artist. (ARR).
Oceania, Papua New Guinea, East Sepik, early 20th century CE. A tall and impressive anthropomorphic figure that stands on muscular legs with knees slightly turned outwards and short arms with hands placed upon hips at either side of his belly above his prominent penis. The elongated, oval face is elaborately adorned with cream, red, and black pigments intended to represent tattoos or face paint. Look closely at his eyes and you will see a white paisley-like motif surrounding each cowrie shell that resolves into a second eye above. In addition, the face is skillfully carved with a long straight nose and pronounced symmetrical nostrils as well as a double-ringed nose ornament above a smile. The rest of his body is painted in red hues with black ring patterns adorning his elbows and knees. Carved bead-like forms adorn his wrists and ankles. Perched atop his hair or cap is a long-beaked bird facing skyward with cowrie shell eyes, the wings and beak carved in deep relief with feathers delineated with white spots on the body and chevrons on the wings, long tailfeathers in red and white. Together, bird and man make for a wondrous ensemble! Size: 42-1/2"H (108 cm). From 1946 to 1953 James Byrnes was the first curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science and Art, which is now known as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art or LACMA. In the thirties, Byrnes had studied art in New York at the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League, and the American Artists School, where he met many artists prior to WWII. Byrnes, who served in the Navy during WWII, heard from an officer that a job was opening at the County Museum, so he left his home state of New York and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career. Provenance: Ex-private James Byrnes collection from 1946 – 1953 Condition: Beak and bird head reattached. Wood shows its age nicely with a few stable cracks and minimal losses as shown. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #109951
* GWEN HARDIE, FACE 09.17.05 oil on canvas 64cm x 58.5cm (25 x 23 inches) Framed. Provenance: The artist. Private London collection. Note: Hardie is the youngest artist ever to be awarded a solo show at The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland (1990).Gwen Hardie is represented in many private and public art collections in Britain, Europe and America including two major works in The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art. Since moving to New York in 2000, she has shown with The Lennon Weinberg Gallery, Dinter Fine Art and has been awarded Residencies at Yaddo in 2004, 2005 and 2006 in a Bogliasco Fellowship at The Liguria Study Center in Italy. She lived in London between 1990 and 2000 and had 6 solo shows with galleries such as Annely Juda Fine Art, Beaux Arts and Fischer fine Art. In 1997 her painting was awarded a prize at the John Moores biennial, Liverpool and was included in the New British Painting'' which toured America in 1986. Hardie left her native Scotland in 1984 when she was awarded a DAAD Scholarship to study with Georg Baselitz in Berlin. A documentary was broadcast on Scottish Television about her in Berlin in 1987. At Edinburgh College of art she was awarded the Richard Ford Award to study the paintings of Velasquez at the Prado Museum and received a first class honours degree in 1983. '' Three of Gwen Hardie's paintings are currently included in ''REALITY; Modern and Contemporary British Painting'' at The Walker Art Gallery (until 29th November 2015) alongside the work of Walter Sickert, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, L S Lowry, Jenny Saville, Ken Currie, George Shaw, David Hockney, Alison Watt, Paula Rego and other important 20th century and contemporary artists.
* CHRISTOPHER A WALLACE (b 1962), THE GARRON oil on board, signed and dated '91 100cm x 100cm Framed Artist info label verso: Christopher A. Wallace (Contemporary): Born 1962. Educated in Canda, now living in Scotland. Studied at Dundee College of Commerce and then Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Paints in realist style with interest in the tactile quality of the subject. Influence by, among others, Andrew Wyeth and Alex Colville. Exhibited Roseangle Gallery, Dundee (1988); Compass Gallery, Glasgow (1988); Riverside Gallery, Stonehaven (1989); National Trust, Hill of Tarvit (1989) and Athol Gallery, Dunkeld (1999).
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[Walker, Obadiah]. Of Education. Especially of Young Gentlemen. In Two Parts, fifth impression, Oxford: Printed at the Theater for Amos Curteyne, 1687, half-title discarded, engraved vignette to title, worm hole throughout, browning to margins of initial leaves & some fraying, modern quarter calf gilt, 12mo, together with [De Britaine, William], Humane Prudence, or, The Art by which a Man may Raise Himself and Fortune to Grandeur, 6th edition, corrected & enlarged, 1693, small hole to title (gutter margin repaired to verso), dust-soiling and spotting, upper hinge repaired & rear free-endpaper replaced, 18th century half calf, rebacked, board edges worn, 12mo, with Gassendi (Pierre), Institutio logica, et Philosophiae Epicuri Syntagma, London: Roger Daniel, 1660, contemporary calf, 12mo, with Felton (Henry), A Dissertation on Reading the Classics, and Forming a Just Style..., 3rd edition, 1723, light dampstaining throughout, old cancelled library bookplate, contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, 12mo, plus fourteen other 18th century education & self improvement related (18)
[Williams, Zachariah]. The Mariners Compass compleated: or, The Complement of the Art of Navigation Discover'd and Propos'd. Being a dissertation concerning the magnetical variations of the mariner's compass ... as also directions for the use of an universal instrument, invented for ready knowing the variations of the mariner's compass, at all times and places, by Z.W. printed for the author, 1740, bound with The Mariners Compass Compleated: Part the second. Or, The Expert Seaman's Best Guide. Containing ample specimens of the general table of the magnetical variations (or deviations), of the Magnetick Needle at Places, Ports and Harbours, whose true Latitude and Longitude from the Meridian of London, are certainly known, printed by J. Oliver, 1745, xvi + 47 pp. advert leaf, title leaf, dedication leaf, 47 pp. with advert to verso of final leaf, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed (generally in very good condition), 12mo
Glasse (Hannah). The Compleat Confectioner. Or, the Whole Art of Confectionary made Plain and Essay..., 1772, title torn to margins and lined to verso, some browning and dampstaining, modern quarter calf, 8vo, together with Kitchiner (William), The Cook's Oracle; containing Receipts for Plain Cookery..., new edition, 1829, contemporary half calf, lower joint split at foot, rubbed, 12mo, with Brillat-Savarin (Jean), A Handbook of Gastronomy, new and complete Translation, 1884, etched portrait frontispiece and vignette illustrations on india paper by A. Lalauze, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, endpapers replaced, modern quarter vellum preserving original vellum spine and cloth to upper board, scuffed and slightly marked, large 8vo (limited edition 280/300), and Dalgairns (Mrs.), The Practice of Cookery, Adapted to the Business of Every Day Life, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, 1829, ink stain & marks to title, last two leaves torn away, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo, plus seven other 19th/early 20th century cookery related (11)
Floyer (John). The Physician's Pulse-Watch; Or, an Essay to Explain the old Art of Feeling the Pulse, and to Improve it by the Help of a Pulse-Watch... , 2 volumes, 1st editions, 1707-1710, some spotting and scattered soiling, contemporary non-matching calf, neatly rebacked to match with gilt rules and red leather labels, some edge and corner wear, 8vo (volume 2 slightly taller) 'Before watches had hands to record the seconds, Floyer invented a pulse-watch which divided the minute. He was the first to count the pulse with the aid of a watch and to make regular observations on the pulse-rate' (Garrison Morton 2670). Volume 2 (with a variant title-page) is rarely found with volume 1. Ex libris Denis Gibbs, co-editor with Philip K. Wilson of "Advice to a Young Physician" and other essays by Sir John Floyer MD (1649-1734) of Lichfield in Staffordshire, published William Sessions, York, 2007. (2)
Purmann (Matthaeus Gottfried). Chirurgia Curiosa: Or, the Newest and Most Curious Observations and Operations in the Whole Art of Chirurgery. Regularly Methodized, Explained and Rendred Intelligible and Easie to Every Practioner: Whether Relating to Manual Operations, or the Choice and Application of Proper Remedies... To Which is Added Natural Morborum Medicatrix: Or, Nature Cures Diseases, 1st edition in English, 1706, 5 folding copper-engraved plates, errata leaf, imprimatur leaf supplied in facsimile, Wellcome Library withdrawn inkstamp to title verso with some see through, some heavy spotting and browning throughout, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed and a little edge wear, folio Ex libris Denis Gibbs. (1)
Baker (Humphrey). [The Well-Spring of Sciences: Teaching the perfect Work and Practice of Arithmetick, both in Numbers and Fractions..., now againe perused, augmented, and amended..., London: Printed by M. F. for Christopher Meredith, 1646], lacking title (provided in facsimile from another edition), contemporary annotations, margins frayed and first leaf of text repaired to lower outer corner, dust-soiling and few marks, modern calf, gilt decorated spine, 8vo, together with Byron (George Gordon), The Works of Lord Byron; in Verse and Prose. Including His Letters, Journals, etc. with a Sketch of His Life, Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, 1851, engraved frontispiece, additional title and few plates, occasional light spotting, recent front endpaper, all edges gilt, original publisher's gilt blocked morocco, rebacked preserving original spine, large 8vo, with Saunders (& Otley, Publishers), The Language of Flowers with Illustrative Poetry, 9th edition 1843, hand-coloured additional title & lithograph plates, all edges gilt, modern green half morocco gilt, 12mo, with Mosheim (John Lawrence), An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, 6 vols., new edition, 1810, contemporary diced calf gilt, some spines worn, 8vo, plus other miscellaneous antiquarian & later books including The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, 6 vols., 4th edition, Ediburgh, 1811, contemporary calf, worn and boards detached, 8vo, and incomplete & defective copy of Cyclopaedia: or, an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences..., by E. Chambers, 2 vols., 4th edition, 1741, plus 20th century publications of art reference and illustrated books etc. including The Chippendale Period in English Furniture by K. Warren Clouston, 1897 (2 cartons)
Chignell (Robert). The Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole, R.A., volumes 1-3 (bound in 1), 1898, numerous black and white illustrations including portrait frontispiece with tissue guards, bookplate to front pastedown, front and rear gutters cracked, some light toning, contemporary decorated green cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, together with Courtney (W.L.), The Life & Work of Hubert Herkomer, Art Journal Office, 1892, numerous black and white illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard, advertisements to rear, some minor spotting, contemporary gilt-decorated blue cloth, spine slightly marked and rubbed, large 8vo, and other late 19th and 20th-century art reference and related, mostly hardback publications, many original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (4 cartons)
Alford (M.). Needlework As Art, 1886, numerous monochrome plates and illustrations, contemporary inscription to front endpaper, guttering cracked, some spotting, original gilt decorated red cloth, boards marked, spine faded and rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, together with Opp‚ (Adolf Paul), Sandro Botticelli, The Arundel Library of Great Masters, deluxe edition, 56/100, signed to limitation page, circa 1912, 25 colour illustrations, some light spotting, original gilt decorated vellum, large 4to, and Sparrow (Walter Shaw), A Book of Sporting Painters, 1st edition, 1931, 136 colour and monochrome illustrations, including frontispiece, some light spotting, original gilt decorated green cloth, spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, 4to, plus other late 19th/early 20th century art history and miscellaneous reference, mostly hardback publications, some original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/4to (3 shelves + a carton)
Bynum (W.F. & Porter, Roy). Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, volumes 1 & 2, 1st editions, 1993, some light spotting to text blocks, original boards, 8vo, together with Treves (Frederick), A Manual of Operative Surgery, volumes 1 & 2, 1892, numerous black and white diagrams, ex-library stamps to verso of title-page, some light spotting, original red cloth, boards and spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, 8vo, plus Russell (J. Rutherford), The History and Heroes of The Art of Medicine, 1861, numerous black and white portraits including frontispiece, repair to front endpaper, slight spotting, modern rebinding retaining contemporary red cloth boards, boards rubbed and slightly faded, 8vo, with other late 19th and early 20th-century medical history and reference, mostly hardback publications, some original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo (6 shelves)
Elegant Extracts: or useful and entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical & other Schools in the Art of Speaking, in Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life, 2nd edition, 1784, contemporary inscription to front pastedown, front endpaper partially detached, some light spotting, contemporary calf, boards part-detached, rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with Stanfield (Clarkson, [illustrator]), Poor Jack, by Captain Marryat, 1840, numerous black and white engravings including frontispiece, contemporary inscription to title-page, some minor spotting, endpapers reinforced with white tape, later re-binding retaining contemporary calf boards and spine, 4to, plus Greenaway (Kate, [illustrator]), The Queen of Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte, 1886, Little Ann and Other Poems, by Jane and Ann Taylor, 1882, numerous colour illustrations, both original illustrated boards, boards and spines rubbed and slightly marked, 8vo, plus other 19th and early 20th-century antiquarian and illustrated literature including Anna Sewell, Beatrix Potter, E.H. Burnett, Mary Tourtel, many gilt-decorated cloth, some leather bindings, condition is generally good/very good, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
Chapbooks. A collection of 19 chapbooks published by Thomas Richardson, Derby, all undated, circa 1830s, each with folding woodcut frontispiece, all but one hand-coloured, mostly with some offsetting to title-pages, occasional offsetting, each 24 pp., all 13 chapbooks in first volume with original printed wrappers retained, all 6 chapbooks in second volume lacking wrappers, bound in 2 non-matching bindings with bookplate of James McBryde, St. Helens, to each pastedown, the first with 13 chapbooks bound in contemporary half morocco, rubbed and small loss to head of spine, the second volume contemporary quarter roan, covers detached and backstrip defective, both 12mo The collection contains: Greenacre, or the Edgeware-Road Murder, by C.J. Williams; The New Universal Dream-Book, by Mother Shipton, uncoloured frontispiece; Cook, The Murderer, or the Leicester Tragedy, by C.J. Williams; The Comical Budget, by Godfrey Gimcrackiana; The London Apprentice, or, The Melancholy History of George Barnwell; The Art of Making Fireworks; The Whole Art of Legerdemain, by the Most Celebrated Professors; The Milliner's Girl, or Authentic and Interesting Adventures of Fanny Bilson; The Swimmer's and Skater's Guide; The Surprising Adventures, Singular Travels, Miraculous Escapes, and Wonderful Voyages and Campaigns, of the Renowned Baron Munchausen; The King of the Beggars, or, The History of Bamfylde Moore Carew; The New Domestic Cookery, or the Housewife's Sure Guide, by a Lady; The Life, Voyages, and Sea Battles, of that Celebrated Seaman Commodore Paul Jones. Second volume: The Life of David Hoggart, The Murderer; Greenacre, or the Edgeware-Road Murder, by C.J. Williams; The Life and Exploits of Jack Sheppard; The London Apprentice, or the Melancholy History of George Barnwell; The Life, Voyages, and Sea Battles of that Celebrated Seaman, Commodore Paul Jones; The King of the Beggars, or, The History of Bamfylde Moore Carew. (2)
*Greenaway (Kate, 1846-1901). A collection of four original drawings, 1883 & 1884, together four small pencil and watercolour drawings, framed in two pairs, the first of a young girl in a muslin dress tripping along holding a posy aloft, 74 x 49mm (3 x 2ins), mounted above a drawing of a small girl in a fur-trimmed coat and bonnet with muff, titled by the artist in pencil 'One a Penny Buns', 62 x 76mm (2.5 x 3ins), the third showing a young girl in a muslin dress with red sash and necklace sitting on a rock, 61 x 68mm (2.5 x 2.75ins), mounted above a drawing of a small girl in a white gown and mob cap surrounded by pink roses and lying on a cloud, titled by the artist in pencil 'The cloud baby gone to sleep', 15mm closed tear to upper margin (not encroaching on image), 74 x 92mm (3 x 3.5ins), each initialled in pencil and dated 1883 or 1884, each slightly toned, matching gold mounts and frames, glazed A collection of four finely drawn watercolours by one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. Kate Greenaway studied art at the Islington School, Heatherley's and at the Slade under Legros, and began to exhibit at the RA in 1877. In the same year she began to work for Edmund Evans, the printer and publisher, who recognised her talent for capturing a world of child-like innocence and Regency charm. She admired the work of Stothard and was a contemporary of Randolph Caldecott, whom she became friendly with, and Walter Crane. Ruskin liked her work, but although he was often lavish with his praise, his criticism could be harsh. Ruskin encouraged Kate to do nature studies in watercolour, as well as larger-scale watercolours, but her attempts to follow his advice were less than successful, and her forte remained her meticulous small-scale watercolours of whimsical children playing in an idyllic countryside, with their delicate colouring and enchanting evocation of the rural life of earlier times. (2)
Moholy-Nagy (Sibyl). Experiment in Totality, 1st edition, New York, 1950, introduction by Walter Gropius, colour and black and white illustrations, contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and creases, small repair at foot of spine verso, 8vo, togther with Johnson (Philip), Machine Art, Museum of Modern Art, 1934, illustrations, some light spotting, original cloth, d.j., spine slightly toned with small chips at ends, small 4to, with two others: Ir. J.B. Van Loghem's Bouwen, Bauen, Batir, Building, 1932 and S. Giedion's A Decade of New Architecture, 1951 (4)
Paalen (Wolfgang). Form and Sense (Problems of Contemporary Art, No. 1), New York, Wittenborn and Company, 1945, monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, slightly rubbed to extremities and spine lightly browned, with bookplate of J.D.H. Catleugh (designed by Scottie Wilson) to verso of front endpaper, and signature of Jon Catleugh, dated 17 September 1946 to following leaf, slim 4to, together with Focillon (Henri), The Life of Forms in Art, 2nd English edition, enlarged, New York, Wittenborn, Schultz, 1948, monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, very slightly rubbed and spine somewhat browned, with bookplate of J.D.H. Catleugh (designed by Scottie Wilson) to inside front cover, plus Atelier 17. Fourteenth Exhibition of Prints by members of the Atelier 17 Group, Laurel Gallery, New York, March 14 to April 1st, 1949, colour and monochrome illustrations, original printed wrappers, stapled as issued, very slightly rubbed and spine a little browned, 4to Together with a group of geometric designs in pencil on tracing paper by Jon Catleugh for a Christmas card, loosely inserted to the first volume. (3)
HORNBY DUBLO BOXED PASSENGER TRAIN SET EDP 12 WITH 'DUCHESS OF MONTROSE' 4-6-2 LOCOMOTIVE AND TENDER No. 46232 in BR green and black livery, two maroon and cream passenger coaches, lengths of curved and straight 3 rail track and instruction booklet, good, pictorial box with torn edges to lid, TOGETHER WITH A GOOD SELECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ACCESSORIES, including NINE GOODS WAGONS including Esso and Shell tanker wagons, cable wagon and two Liverpool Cables reels, 'WESTBURY' ART DECO STATION AND MATCHING SIGNALS OFFICE ETC.... BOXED BUFFER STOPS, MASTER MODELS DOUBLE SEATS AND STATION STAFF, in total 18 die cast figures with some in seated pose, porter and wagons, EXTRA TRACK, LEVEL CROSSING, TWO TUNNELS AND POWER CONTROL UNIT
*Italy, Enrico Bruni (died 1509), secretary to Pope Alexander VI and Archbishop of Taranto from 1498, bronze medal attributed to Donato Bramante, bust right, rev., nostrvm est volenti servit (“our wish is to serve”), an hour glass, 46mm (Hill 663 = Arm. III, 174, A), pierced, a very fine contemporary cast, extremely rare Ex Bibliothèque d’un Érudit Bibliophile – Pierre Jammes collection, Sotheby Paris, 12-13 October 2010, lot 245 part. This piece belongs to a group of Roman medals formerly given to Caradosso Foppa but re-attributed by Luke Syson in Currency of Fame (1994, see pp 113-115 for his arguments) to the great Italian architect Donato Bramante. The pieces concerned are the three varieties of medals of Julius II (two of which are considered to be foundation medals of St. Peter’s), the present type of medal of Enrico Bruni and, above all, the medal of Bramante himself, now proposed as a self-portrait – and all relate in some way to Bramante’s work on St. Peter’s. Stylistically they stand apart from Caradosso’s Milanese medals of the Sforzas. In 1507 Enrico Bruni laid the foundation stones for three of the four piers that support the columns bearing the weight of the dome of St. Peter’s. Hill records the only specimen known to him, which was acquired for the British Museum (through the National Art Collections Fund) from the R.C. Fisher sale at Sotheby on 10th May 1921, lot 9 and it is this same piece that is cited by Armand – hence the 1921 catalogue describing it as “appears to be unique”; it sold for 60. In addition to that and the present medal, another was sold by Münzen und Medaillen, Auction 90, 14 June 2000, lot 412. All three examples are pierced and have identical diameters of 46mm.
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