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Lot 291
Four boxes of books to include D. R. BLAINE "The Encyclopedia of Rural Sports", published London by Longmans, Green & Co, 1875, together with a late 19th Century handwritten ledger, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY "The Four Georges - The English Humorists", published London 1879, together with various other titles including "Art and Antiques"
Lot 227
Dionysius Carthusianus. Insigne Commentariorum opus, in Psalmos omnes Davidicos..., collation: *4, A-Z6, a-z6, aa-ee6, ff4, AA-HH6, woodcut printer's device to title, woodcut initials, some marginal staining and a few wormholes, 18th century calf, rebacked, rubbed, folio (310 x 195 mm.), Cologne, Peter Quentell, March 1531. ⁂ First edition of the earliest work by Dionysius (1402-1471), the phenomenally productive Flemish theologian, Carthusian monk, ecstatic, and associate of Nicolas of Cusa, for whom he composed treatises refuting Muslim belief, superstition, and magical practices. His exegetical writings begin with the present commentary (1434) and go on to treat the entire New and Old Testaments, while his philosophical writings reflect the Christian Platonism of his namesake 'the Areopagite', and the mysticism of John and Hugh of St. Victor, and Saint Bonaventure. He also edited Boethius, Peter Lombard, and ps-Dionysius, simplified the text of Cassian, codified 'rules of Christian living' for churchmen and laymen alike, and agitated for military action against the Turks after the fall of Constantinople. 'He has been called the last of the Schoolmen', observes the Catholic Encyclopaedia', and 'he is so, in the sense that he is the last important Scholastic writer, and that his works may be considered to form a vast encyclopedia of the scholastic teaching of the Middle Ages: this their primary characteristic and chief merit'. The modern edition of Dionysius' Opera Omnia (ed. M. Leone, 1896-1935) runs to forty-four quarto volumes. The first edition of In Psalmos omnes Davidicos, the first stepping-stone toward that 'vast encyclopedia', is - despite its bulk - uncommon: COPAC lists only a 'Cathedral Libraries' copy, and other editions of 1534, 1539, 1547, 1558, to which may be added those of 1542 and 1548 (WorldCat). Literature: Adams D557 (three copies); VD 16 1922 (nine copies in Germany; apparently there are none in American institutions.)
Lot 233
STAR WARS - STAR TREK - ephemera in relation to two of the most established tv/film franchises in modern history including magazines, handbills, promo stills, photos, an encyclopedia for Star Wars, a poster for Star Trek - The Final Frontier 1989 and a hardback edition of Star Trek Memories by William Shatner.
Lot 297
A small collection of Arms and Armour related books, comprising The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923 by Munson, British Military Firearms 1650-1850 by Blackmore, Forsyth & Co.. Patent Gunmakers by Neal and Back, The British Duelling Pistol by Atkinson, Pistols by Sala, Early American Gunsmiths 1650-1850 by Kauffman, British Pistols and Guns 1640-1840 by Glendenning, Shooting by Stonehenge, Guns and Rifles by Wilkinson, Guns and Small Arms by Rosa and May, Guns & Gunsmiths by North and Hogg, Lock Stock & Barrel, Westley Richards Modern Gun, Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms by Hogg, Guns and How They Work by Hogg, World's Guns, Gun Digest, Rifle Exercises Made Easy, Gun Collecting, two copies of the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, Westley Richards Gun & Rifle Maker and a selection of Shooting Times etc.
Lot 115
Two boxes of miscellaneous hard back books, to include: twelve volumes of The British Encyclopedia Illustrated; The Tale of The Land of Green Ginger, written and illustrated by Noel Langley; Newcastle Upon Tyne Its Growth and Achievement, by S. Middlebrook. M.A.; Going Fishing, by Negley Farson.
Lot 504
A collection of ten hard cover pocket sized novels by ANTHONY HOPE. These books include; The Prisoner Of Zenda, Simon Dale, Quisante, Tristram Of Blent, Rupert Of Hentzan and many more famous titles. Published by Harrap 1925. Along with a collection of all ten volumes of 'The British Encyclopedia' plus a complete two volume set of 'The British Dictionary'. All in hard cover and published by Odhams Press Limited 1933.
Lot 266
Dale William Nichols (American, 1904-1995) , "Country Church", 1947, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, exhibition label en verso, 30 in. x 40 in., framed; accompanied by copies of the Sotheby Parke Bernet catalogue page and invoice . Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Nov. 1970, sale 4048, The American Heritage Auction of Americana, Nov. 17-19, 1977, lot 587; The Zigler Art Museum, Jennings, LA. Note: Born on his father's grain farm in David City, Nebraska, Dale Nichols found inspiration throughout his career from his experiences as a child in rural America. Although he studied briefly at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, his academic experiences held little influence on his unique style. Working during the height of the American Scene movement, Nichols decried modernism and forged a personal aesthetic based on regionalist themes and what he called "applied psychology." He saw his paintings as filled with symbolism, which would connect to the deepest truths of human existence and beautifully reflect American country life. Characterized by Nichol's geometric compositional elements, the important painting offered here is a particularly compelling example of the artist's skill with light, with a shaft of moonlight slanting downward to emphasize the doorway and steeple of the rural church. The color palette and sweeping landscape imbue the painting with a sense of isolation, spirituality and anticipation of perhaps the arrival and pleasure of a Sunday morning. Nichol's art was exhibited at the New York World's Fair in 1939, further confirming his status as one of the great Midwest painters, and he exhibited in over eighty regional and national shows during his lifetime. In 1943, Nichols succeeded Grant Wood to become the Art Editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, a position he would hold until 1948. The 1947 canvas offered here was created during his tenure as Art Editor and at the height of Nichol's career. Ref.: Adams, Henry. "Go Behind the Red Barn and Rediscover Dale Nichols." Smithsonian Magazine. Jan. 26, 2012. www.smithsonianmag.com. Accessed Jan. 3, 2017. Sheppard, Sara. "Dale William Nichols: American Rural Regionalist Painter." Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery. www.sullivangoss.com. Accessed Jan. 3, 2017.
Lot 250
Clyde Connell (American/Louisiana, 1901-1998) , "Bound People Series, No. 10", 1987, mixed media, paper and linen on wood, signed, initialed "C.C.", titled, dated and inscribed en verso, 74 1/4 in. x 14 in. x 3 1/2 in . Provenance: Private Collection, Shreveport, LA. Note: The work offered here is a powerful sculpture from the “Bound People” series by Clyde Connell and a reference to her feminist leanings. She is quoted as saying: “The women in Shreveport took the lead in art. When I was going to New York… the women didn’t seem to be as free-thinking and didn’t care about the art as the men did. They were too bound up in what they were doing. It was nobody’s fault but theirs. The bounds were not steel, you could rip them off.” Ref.: Kemp, John R. “Clyde Connell.” KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Sept. 12, 2012. http://www.knowla.org/entry/1233/. Accessed Mar. 22, 2016.
Lot 1013
Elsie Marie Bates-Freund (American/Arkansas, 1912-2001) , "Mother Duck with Her Ducklings" and "Mother Cat with Her Kitten", 2 watercolors and ink on paper, each pencil-signed lower left, sights 13 1/2 in. x 16 in. and 9 1/2 in. x 13 1/2 in., both matted and framed. (2 pcs.) . Provenance: Private Collection, Shreveport, LA. Note: Elsie Marie Bates-Freund was a prolific artist working in media as varied as ceramics, jewelry, textile design, weaving, watercolor and drawing. She is most remembered for her work in jewelry and ceramics, where she created a new style consisting of fusing glass, silver and ceramics called “Elsaramics”. Born in 1912 in Mincy, Missouri she later went to the Kansas City Art Institute, working throughout the 1930s in a gift shop as she created her artwork. She married the muralist painter Louis Freund in 1939, and the two taught at various universities. Her teaching positions included textile design at Hendrix College, design classes at Stetson University, and art programs at Eureka Springs Summer School of the Ozarks. Bates-Freund's works are in the collections of over a dozen American and European museums. In the lot offered here, saturated watercolors are applied to the paper in lush brushstrokes producing a compositional harmony of two feline figures. Ref: “Elsie Mari Bates Freund.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. www.encylopediaofarkansas.net. Accessed Jan. 4, 2017.
Lot 249
Clyde Connell (American/Louisiana, 1901-1998) , "Saucer Trip", 1984, ink and watercolor on paper, pencil-signed and dated lower right, pencil-signed, titled, dated, inscribed and localized "Lake Bistineau" en verso, 29 3/4 in. x 22 1/2 in., framed . Provenance: Private Collection, Shreveport, LA. Note: Clyde Connell was born in 1901, the daughter of a plantation owner in Northern Louisiana. In the 1950’s, through her church she became active in civil rights causes throughout the South. From 1954 to 1962, she served as the southern representative to the progressive National Council of the Churches of Christ in New York. It was these bi-annual council meetings in New York that would put her in contact with the most current artistic movements. She would absorb these influences and take them home with her to her studio and house in Lake Bistineau. Connell’s upbringing surrounded by African-American culture would impact her greatly on both a moral and creative level. In fact, her social consciousness and regard for “cast-aside rootless social groups” would prove to be a driving factor in her life. As Charlotte Moser explains in her book on Clyde Connell, “[i]n the 1960s, childhood influences from Afro-American culture re-emerged as major components for her art, first as subject matter in and expressionistic version of social realism and then for its affinities to primitive art.” In the lot offered here, Connell has drawn a series of figures arranged in clusters. Each section has a backdrop of symbols and hieroglyphics, reminiscent of Connell’s Swamp Songs Series, with an inherent tension resulting from the negative space surrounding the clusters. Ref.: Kemp, John R. “Clyde Connell.” KnowLA Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Sept. 12, 2012. http://www.knowla.org/entry/1233/. Accessed Mar. 22, 2016. Delehanty, Randolph. Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1996, p. 223. Moser, Charlotte. Clyde Connell. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988. pp. 12, 68.
Lot 424
A selection of books on oriental porcelain, comprising; Soame Jenyns - 'Later Chinese Porcelain,' Sir Harry Garner - 'Chinese & Japanese Cloisonne Enamels,' Sir Harry Garner - 'Oriental Blue & White, Elinor Gordon - Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain,' Joan Van Patten - 'The Collector's Encyclopedia of Noritake.' Generally in good condition.
Lot 8
Battiscombe (C.F.). The Relics of Saint Cuthbert, OUP, 1956, 58 plates including colour frontispiece, plus numerous monochrome illustrations, some minor spotting, original gilt decorated blue cloth, boards and spine slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 4to, together with Berardino (Angelo Di, editor), Encyclopedia of the Early Church, volumes 1 & 2, UK edition, 1992, uniform original red cloth, spines slightly rubbed to head and foot, large 8vo, and other late 19th century and modern ecclesiastical history, reference and related, including publications by Oxford, S.P.C.K., Cambridge, A&C Black, mostly original cloth, some in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (6 shelves)
Lot 286
L. McKAY - 'THE PRACTICAL SHIPBUILDER', 1974 Facsimile of 1839 publication, together with Rupert T. Gould - 'Marine Chronometer' 1976 reprint, Sir Westcott Abell - 'The Shipwright's Trade' 1981, A. J. Holland - 'Ships of British Oak', 1971, Claude S. Gill (Ed.) - 'The Old Wooden Walls', 1930, Captain H. Paasch - 'Illustrated Marine Encyclopedia 1890', 1977 and H. F. Chase - 'The Boatswain's Manual' 1968 (7)
Lot 822
HAMMOND, PAT, THE STORY OF ROVEX vols 1, 2, 3, 1950-1965, 1965-1971 and 1972-1996 respectively (New Cavendish, 1993, 1998, 2005 respectively), cloth boards with dust covers; together with The Encyclopedia of Model Railways (ed. Terry Allen) and Great Railways of the World (Julian Holland) (5)
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