Conway (Martin). Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration, 1st edition, London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1902, 19 plates, folding map, 16 pp. advertisements, autograph letter signed from the author to 'My dear Allbutt', probably Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt (1836-1925), physician and mountaineer, original dark red cloth, pale mottling, 8vo, together with: ibid. With Ski and Sledge over Arctic Glaciers, 1st edition, London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1898, 12 plates, Conway's clipped pencilled signature laid in, original cloth, dust-soiled, 8vo, Forbes (James D.). Norway and its Glaciers, visited in 1851, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853, 10 chromolithographic plates including frontispiece, 2 maps (one folding), toning, a few spots and marks, frontispiece working loose, folding map with short split to one fold and retrievable paper-disruption to intersection of folds, original cloth, rebacked in morocco, large 8vo, Turner (Samuel). Siberia. A Record of Travel, Climbing, and Exploration, 1st edition, US issue, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905, publisher's slip ('Edition for America, Imported by A. Wessels Company') tipped to title-page, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, illustrations throughout, front inner hinge split but firm, top edge gilt, original red pictorial cloth gilt, spine faded, upper fore corner of front board bumped, 8vo, Stutfield (Hugh E. M., & J. Norman Collie). Climbs and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies, 1st edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1903, 52 plates including frontispiece, folding map, 40 pp. advertisements, original cloth, mark across front board, 8vo, Le Blond (Elizabeth Alice Frances). Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908, 64 plates, folding map, 4 pp. advertisements, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Stuck (Hudson). The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley), 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914, 34 plates, folding map, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, Oppenheim (Edwin Camillo). New Climbs in Norway, 1st edition, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898, frontispiece, illustrations in text, top edge gilt, original pictorial cloth, spine rolled, 8vo, and 4 others on Scandinavian and American mountaineering (not collated: Palmer, Mountaineering and Exploration in the Selkirks, 1st edition, 1914; Whymper, Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2nd edition, 1892, without supplement; Schmoe, Our Greatest Mountain: A Handbook for Mount Rainier National Park, 1925; Fulton, With Ski in Norway and Lapland, 1891), also a carton of approximately 25 other mountaineering titles, 19th and 20th centuryQty: (12 volumes and a carton)NOTESNeate C99 (Conway, Acocncagua), C108 (Conway, With Ski and Sledge), F34 (Forbes, 'a great classic'), T72 (Turner), S177 (Stutfield, 'one of the classics of the Canadian Rockies'), L24 (Le Blond, 'first ascents in the Lyngen peninsula'), S176 (Stuck), O12 (Oppenheim).
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Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America; from the First Original down to this Time; written in several Languages; and now Collected into one Volume ... The Third Edition, London: for Tho. Newborough, John Nicholson, and Benj. Tooke, 1703, 3 parts in 1 volume, 8 engraved plates (all folding), 7 engraved maps (all folding), 10 engraved maps in the text (all but one full-page), woodcut coastal profiles and other illustrations in text, text-leaves browned, large map ('A Description of the South Sea & Coasts of America') trimmed to loss of all land south of the Tropic of Capricorn and the decorative cartouche, front free endpaper working loose, contemporary panelled calf, front board near-detached, rear joint cracked at head and foot, tips bumped and worn, 8vo (19.2 x 11.5 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T145511 (six copies in UK libraries); Sabin 23485; cf. Borba de Moraes I pp. 254-6 and Hill (1974) pp. 99-100 for other editions. 'Exquemelin, or Esquemeling, published his De Americaensche Zee Roovers in Amsterdam in 1678 ... Perhaps he never imagined the fabulous success of his book, which became the prototype for all the literature of pirates and buccaneers ever printed in all languages, and for the Hollywood productions on the subject, to this day' (Borba de Moraes). The plates include portraits of pirates Sir Henry Morgan, Roche Brasiliano and François l'Ollonais, and the maps depict Panama and environs, the Gulf of Nicoya and the Golfo Dulce (both in Costa Rica), and 'The English Gulfe lying a little to the Northward of Magallanes Straights', in addition to the large map of Central and South America.
Hare (Augustus John Cuthbert, 1834-1903). English Travel Writer and Biographer. A lengthy autograph manuscript containing notes for Walks in Rome [first published 1871], written in brown ink in a neat and legible right-sloping small hand, a total of approximately 206 pp. plus some blanks of lined blue paper, interleaved with printed pages extracted from a complete copy of John Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy Part II: Rome and its Environs (4th edition, 1856), with approximately 50 of these leaves marked or annotated by Hare including the title-page bearing his signature 'Augustus J.C. Hare', additionally signed in light pencil to front fly-leaf 'Augustus Hare, Holmhurst, Hastings', 20th-century blue buckram with bookplate of Major J.R. Abbey to front pastedown and Abbey's code (J.A. 7000 / 10.12.1959' to rear endpaper, gilt-titled on spine, a little rubbed, 8vo (23 x 15 cm), together with a group of four autograph letters signed 'St. Leonards on Sea and Christchurch, 1886/1902, to various recipients, Hare mentioning in one how glad he is that his recipient is interested in '... my 'story' [probably his autobiography] which will never - I fear - reach another edition' [14 November 1900], and in another letter that '... The 'Stone of the Scauging' is preserved in a beautiful chapel called the "Orto del Paratiso" in S. Prassede (close to the S. Maria Maggiore) at Rome... The 'stone' - really a little pillar of blood-jasper - is said to have been given to Giovanni Collona... by the Saracens, when a vision of angels appeared to rescue him from captivity in their hands', the remaining two letters informing the recipients of Hare's whereabouts and general availability, a total of 7 pp., 8voQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: From the Library of Major John Rowland Abbey (1894-1969). Augustus Hare's Walks in Rome is one of the writer's most important publications and these are the preparatory notes for that work. In his extensive research Hare incorporated many quotes from numerous sources and this manuscript effectively represents Hare's holograph research for those quotes which are to be found in the published version. Individuals quoted by him include Mendelssohn, Stendhal, Shelley, Byron, Cardinal Wiseman, John Addington Symonds, Kuglar, Ampere and Mrs Jamieson.
![[India]. [Commemorative photograph album of the 22nd (Residency) Field Battery, Royal Artillery], Lucknow: I. P. Press, [1931](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/77bc0ec2-9b7d-4928-a674-acd400a80e4f/103c902a-fc4b-41f8-9b55-acd400ec9170/468x382.jpg)
[India]. [Commemorative photograph album of the 22nd (Residency) Field Battery, Royal Artillery], Lucknow: I. P. Press, [1931], 5 linen-hinged stiff card leaves, introductory text in gold to first leaf, leaves 2-5 with 23 gelatin silver print photographs mounted rectos and versos with captions printed in gold, laid-in tissue-guards, original two-tone cloth binding, oblong 4to, related group photographic portrait (mounted on card) laid in, together with: Brooke (Philip Acton). History of the 22nd (The Residency) Field Battery Royal Artillery, 1st edition, Allahabad: The Pioneer Press, 1931, [10] 47 pp., halftone photographic plate, 3 folding maps, original blue cloth, 8vo, and Callwell and Headlam, History of the Royal Artillery, 3 volumes, Woolwich, [1931]-1940 (not collated)Qty: (6)NOTESThis photograph album was issued to celebrate the awarding of the 22nd Field Battalion with the 'Residency' battle-honour in commemoration of their role in the India Mutiny. No other copy is traced. Library Hub traces one copy only of Brooke's work, at the British Library.
![Marco Polo. The Description of the World. [Edited by] A. C. Moule & Paul Pelliot, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: George](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/77bc0ec2-9b7d-4928-a674-acd400a80e4f/ec352c79-e5cd-4933-9b59-acda0100a653/468x382.jpg)
Marco Polo. The Description of the World. [Edited by] A. C. Moule & Paul Pelliot, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1938, frontispieces (one in colour), folding genealogical table, spotting to edges and endpapers, occasionally to text, ink-stamps (J. Dauvillier) to front free endpapers, original brown cloth, 4to, together with: Pelliot (Paul). Notes on Marco Polo, 3 volumes, 1st edition, Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1959-63-73, similar ink-stamps, original brown cloth, 4toQty: (5)NOTES'The most complete printed edition' of the writings of Marco Polo (Campbell, The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600, p.87 n.1). The first volume is a literal English translation of the F manuscript at the Bibliothèque nationale, incorporating readings from other extant manuscripts; the second volume is a critical edition of the original Latin text. Complete sets, with the three supplementary volumes, are scarce.
Meares (John). Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786. from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West Passage; and some Account of the Trade between the North West Coast of America and China; and the Latter Country and Great Britain, 1st edition, London: printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by J. Walter, 1790, viii [12] xcv 372 [108] pp., 4 engraved plates, 14 aquatint plates (many folding), 10 engraved maps (3 folding), plates and maps offset, variable spotting and browning to plates (stronger to folding plates), a few light spots to maps, 'A Chart of the Northern Pacific Ocean' with short split to one fold and repaired closed handling tear to inner fold, two similar handling tears (one repaired) to 'Chart of the N. W. Coast of America', title-page slightly soiled and with near-contemporary ownership inscription 'C. L. Spitta' (recorded as an officer in the East India Company Engineers, serving c.1830-40), signatures D3-E4 misbound but all present, repair to D1 fore margin affecting a few words verso, marginal repair to H2, top edge gilt, modern crushed morocco, ship vignette in blind to front board, 4to (28.8 x 22.8 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESAbbey Travel 594; Cordier Sinica 2103; ESTC T98966; Hill (1974) pp. 195-6; Howes M469; Sabin 47260. 'John Meares was sent out in 1786 from Calcutta, by a group of merchants, to enter into the fur trade of the northwest coast of America. Establishing himself at Nootka Sound and flying the British flag, he built the first vessel to be launched in northern waters, made important discoveries, and explored the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Discoveries by Meares were part of the basis for the claim of Great Britain to Oregon. Competition with the Spanish almost caused war between the two countries and this struggle became known as the Nootka Controversy. The Spanish seizure of his ships led to the convention by which the Spanish claims to any northern territory were finally disallowed [sic]. This important narrative gives a very full account of the Indian nations of Northwest America' (Hill).
Miles (Edmund). An Epitome, Historical and Statistical, descriptive of the Royal Naval Service of England, 1st edition, London: Ackermann and Co., 1841, half title, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, hand-coloured illustrations of flags, 14 pp. catalogue at end, some light spotting, bookplate, original cloth gilt, rebacked with most of original morocco spine relaid, some corner wear and small stains, 8vo, together with Charles N. Robinson's Old Naval Prints. Their Artists and Engravers, 1924Qty: (2)NOTESFirst work Abbey Life 339.
![Murphy (James Cavanah). The Arabian Antiquities of Spain, London: Cadell & Davies, 1815-[1816, but circa 1820], engraved](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/77bc0ec2-9b7d-4928-a674-acd400a80e4f/ae73306f-a9d9-420d-80a4-acd400ec9bdc/468x382.jpg)
Murphy (James Cavanah). The Arabian Antiquities of Spain, London: Cadell & Davies, 1815-[1816, but circa 1820], engraved title, engraved sectional title, 102 engraved plates, including one double-page by E. Turrell, S. Rawle, J. Warner, S. Porter, J. Rolfe, W. Woolnoth, H. Le Keux, J. Shury and others after Murphy, some light spotting, lower corner of title torn away, one front endpaper repaired, first two leaves of letterpress with vertical crease, bookplate of H.A.M. Van Son, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco by J. Wright, spine with raised bands and rich gilt decoration, joints and edges rubbed, folio, sheet size 65.5 x 48.5 cm (25.5 x 19 in)Qty: (1)NOTESCicognara 2536; Graesse IV, 631; Palau 186308, RIBA 2220. Lavish work on the Moorish architecture of Southern Spain. Cork-born Irish architect and antiquary James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814) travelled to Cadiz in 1802 and spent seven years studying the Moorish style, which was serialised in 1815-16 and followed by a one-volume edition with 98 plates of the buildings, ornaments, plans, fountains, views, gardens and Arabic inscriptions of the Alhambra complex and the Mosque at Cordoba. The publishers continued publishing the work until 1820, when their partnership was dissolved and publisher H.G. Bohn acquired the plates producing an additional four (starred) plates as in the present work. "Many interesting instances of gothicised distortions of the Alhambra can be found in The Arabian Antiquities of Spain... By distorting the proportions of the halls and courts, Murphy transforms the Alhambra into a 'sublime' building - to use Edmund Burke's term. In the Court of the Lions for example, the length of the patio is greatly extemded, giving the impression of a long and narrow space. This contrasts with the patio as it actually is, smaller, more compact, and somewhat square in its proportions. Furthermore, and what is peculiar to Murphy, the portico in the foreground is magnified in length and height thereby 'gothicising' its features... And it appears that Murphy deliberately distorted these proportions to make them more palatable to Gothic taste, as is made clear in the text accompanying this illustration, where we find the following: 'A beautiful portico, not unlike the portals of some Gothic churches projects into this court'." (The Burlington Magazine, volume CXXVIII, number 1001, August 1986).
Scoresby (William). An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820, half titles, folding engraved frontispieces, 22 engraved plates including 3 folding maps and charts (first map with short closed tear along fold), 2 plates numbered XII, 3 folding tables, bound without advertisement leaf, occasional light spotting, offsetting to titles, bookplate of Alexander Browne, Callaly Castle (in Northumberland), contemporary brown calf, spines with green labels and anthemion decorations in blind, joints cracking, 8voQty: (2)NOTESArctic Bibliography 15610; Lande 2036; Sabin 78167. Classic early work on Arctic exploration. "The first volume of this work relates to the progress of discovery in the Arctic regions, and the natural history of Spitzbergen and the Greenland sea, the second is devoted to the whale-fishery as conducted in the seas of Greenland and Davis's Strait. Mr. Scoresby, the commander of a Greenland whaler, has here displayed much judicious and active observation, combined with no ordinary share of acquired knowledge and scientific attainment, and prompted by an ardent and generous zeal for useful discovery." (Sabin).
Stanford (Edward, publisher). Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography, 4th edition: quarto edition, London, 1892, half-title (spotted), 48 colour maps, a few leaves at front edge-frayed, gutta percha failing with first few leaves detached, all edges gilt, contemporary maroon half morocco, rubbed and marked with some wear, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 4to, together with: Philip (George and Son, publisher), Philips' Select Atlas of Modern Geography ..., edited by William Hughes, London, 1859, 23 colour maps, and one colour diagram (complete as list), 2 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear, occasional soiling (mainly to margins) and edge-tears, hinges cracked, original cloth gilt, covers partially darkened with some marks, spine darkened, some wear to extremities and rear joint, slim 4to, plus two others: Atlas Geografico Ibero-Americano, and Espana Regional (map volume only), both defectiveQty: (4)
Byron (John). Voyage autour du monde, fait en 1764 et 1765, sur le vaisseau de guerre anglois le Dauphin; dans lequel on trouve une description exacte du détroit de Magellan, et des géans appellés Patagons, ainsi que de septe isles nouvellement découvertes dans la mer su Sud. Traduit de l'anglois par M. R***, 1st edition in French, Paris: Molini, 1767, [4] lxviii 335 pp., engraved frontispiece, variable spotting and browning, bookplate of Kenn Back, uncut in contemporary carta rustica, 12mo (18.6 x 11 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTHE POLAR AND SOUTH AMERICAN LIBRARY OF BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY METEOROLOGIST KENN BACK Acquisition: Cueva Libros, Buenos Aires, 2011. Borba de Moraes I pp. 120-1; Sabin 9734. Published the same year as the first edition, in English. 'The 68 preliminary pages are entirely dedicated to proving that the Patagonian giants indeed exist' (Borba de Moraes).
Walpole (Robert). Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and Other Countries of the East, edited from Manuscript Journals, 2nd edition, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818, xxii, 615 pp., engraved map frontispiece, title-page vignette, 6 engraved plates of which one double-page, 3 engraved plans, 4 etched plates forming a 'panoramic view of Athens', list of plates (on slip, tipped in as issued), maps and plans spotted and browned, marginal tear to H1-2, early catalogue description of another copy mounted to p. iii partly obscuring heading and with related annotation dated 1880 below, marginalia in the same hand to p. 150, stitching broken between quire 4G and penultimate quire 4H, loose in original boards, 4to (27.8 x 22 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: Robert Walpole of Waborne Hall, probably the author, with bookplate. Cf. Atabey 1310 and Blackmer 1762 for the first edition (1817).
Camden (William). Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English: with large additions and improvements, publish'd by Edmund Gibson, of Queens College in Oxford, London: printed by F. Collins for A. Swale and A. & J. Churchil, 1695, engraved portrait frontispiece with early ownership inscription of B. Blomfield to verso, 50 engraved maps (including 48 double-page and two folding), eight engraved plates of coins, few woodcut and engraved illustrations (including view of Stonehenge and the Rollright Stones, and one full-page), repaired short closed tear to fore-margin of B3, occasional minor marks and light dust-soiling to upper margins of few leaves, front endpaper with bookplates Alexander Mackennal and the Fildes family, cloth hinges to endpapers, contemporary blind panelled calf, morocco reback and corner repairs, board edges rubbed and some wear, folioQty: (1)NOTESFirst edition of Gibson's translation and the first to contain the fine maps by Robert Morden.
Of local interest - A collection of Reece Winstone Bristol As It Was to include Bristol In The 1940s, 1956-1959, 1914-1900, Bristol Blitzed, Bristol Tram and more. All signed by Reece Winstone. Together with a Graphic Bristol Story and a reprint of the first edition of the one inch Ordnance Survey of Bristol.
Stamps collection of signed and limited edition First Day Covers to include No 13 Royal Air Force signed by Wing Commander J B Parkinson RAF, the Night Blitz Battle of Britain cover signed by Flight Lieutenant R Miller RAF, Concorde cover signed by Senior First Officer D Whitton, Operation Deep Freeze cover signed by Vice Admiral E C Waller USN, North Devon Cricket Club cover signed by David Shepherd, set of 6 Mary Rose signed covers, Travelling Post Office cover posted aboard the Last Run South Eastern train, The First Flight from Britain to South Africa cover, Decimal Definitive cover delayed by Post Office strike 1971, other covers (8) to include 4 Bletchley Park (these cost £65 alone), 2 x Commemorative Coin covers
The History Of England, From The First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of William and Mary in 1688, by John Lingard, in 10 volumes (5 books) sixth edition, published by Charles Dolman, London 1855, The Great Battles of the British Navy by Lieutenant Charles R Low, published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd, With The King at Oxford, by the Reverend Alfred J Church, published London 1886, etc (10)
Westminster Mint issues - 8 x First Day Cover stamp issues limited edition 50p coin commemorative covers, 2 Paddington at Buckingham Palace 782/1000 and 220/1000, 2 x Paddington at Paddington Station 700/1000 and 140/1000, 1 x Sir Isaac Newton 22/495 and 3 x Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit 891/995 and 657/995 and 728/995 (8)
A COLLECTION OF ASSORTED POKEMON CARDS, to include complete master sets of XY Steam Siege, XY Flashfire and assorted cards from XY Fates Collide set, also includes assorted first edition Jungle set cards, Jungle error card Snorlax (11/64) (No Jungle symbol), assorted Black Star XY Promo cards including Charizard EX (XY121) etc, all cards in very good condition and are contained in plastic sleeves, includes foil, reverse holo and promo cards, (contained in four folders)
THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING, vol. XXVI, Rewards and Fairies, MacMillan & Co., London, hardback, Edition de Luxe, 1910, no dust cover, edition of 750, some foxing, pencil annotation to inside cover. Humorous Tales, Rudyard Kipling, (1865-1936), illustrated by Reginald Cleaver, hardcover, First Edition, 1931, MacMillan, London; THE SEVEN SEAS, Rudyard Kipling, Methuen and Co., London, 1896, hardcover, no dust cover, pencil marks to inside cover and dedication in pen (3)
Banksy (b.1973)"Trolleys"Signed and numbered 510/750, with the publisher's blindstamp, Pictures on Walls, London, screenprint in colours, 2007, 56cm by 76cmProvenance: Red House Gallery, Harrogate P.O.WThis work has been authenticated by Pest Control with a Certificate of Authentication to followBansky began his career as a street artist in Bristol in the 1990s working predominantly with stencils from the late 90s. His work became instantly recognisable in Bristol and London and steadily grew a huge following. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls and bridges around the world. Recently a Banksy painting depicting MPS as chimpanzees in parliament sold for £9.9 million pounds in a London auction held by Sotheby's."Trolleys" or "The Trolley Hunters" was originally released in 2006 as part of the Los Angeles edition for Banksy's "Barely Legal Show". The first edition of "Trolley Hunters" was unsigned and numbered out of 500. The UK release of "Trolleys" was at Pictures On Walls in 2007 in three different forms - an edition of 750 signed colour prints, 500 unsigned white prints and 150 signed white prints.Artist's Resale Rights/Droit de Suite may apply to this lot, please refer to our Terms of Business Has been float mounted and the paper has a deckled edge. There is some very light surface dirt and debris trapped under the glass to the mount. Not examined out of the frame.
GRAHAM WALLACE, AUTUMN GOLD (CLAN STEWART) print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 2/4 Mounted 40cm x 70cm overall, along with nine others, including Island Sanctuary, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 4/4, First Snow, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 2/4, Brothers In Arms, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 3/4, Impending Storm, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 1/4, Vantage Point, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 4/4, Tranquility, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 3/4, Brothers In Arms, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 1/4, First Snow, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 3/4 and Brothers In Arms, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 2/4 (10)
GRAEME WALLACE, IMPENDING STORM (CLAN CUNNINGHAM BY LOCH LOMOND) print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 3/4 Mounted 47cm x 87.5cm overall, along with nine others, including First Snow, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 3/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, First Snow 2, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 4/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, Impending Storm, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 1/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, Impending Storm 3, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 4/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, Tranquility, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 2/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, Tranquility 4, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 4/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, Impending Storm 2, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 2/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall, First Snow, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 1/4, mounted, 47cm x 87.5cm overall and Last Light, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 4/4, mounted, 47cm x 89cm overall (10)
GRAEME WALLACE, AUTUMN GOLD (CLAN GRAHAM BY LOCH LOMOND) print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 4/4 Mounted 40cm x 70cm overall, along with nine others by Graeme Wallace, including First Snow, print on paper, signed in pencil, limited edition 2/4, Tranquility, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 3/4, Last Night 2, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 1/4, Last Night 3, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 1/4, Vantage Point, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 4/4, Autumn Gold, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 3/4, Brothers In Arms, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 4/4, Vantage Point, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 2/4, Autumn Gold, print on paper, signed in pencil on the mount and numbered 1/4 (10)
A LARGE PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE ‘DOUBLE DRAGON’ PENDANT, HUANG, EARLY WESTERN HANChina, 2nd century BC. The elegantly curved huang with a stylized dragon head to either end. The mostly translucent stone of a sea-green tone with cloudy white and russet inclusions and shadings. Pierced for suspension.Provenance: The Collection of Irene and Wolfgang Zacke. The couple has been active in the art trade for well over half a century and were one of the first in Austria to offer Asian works of art for sale, starting in 1968. Since the late 1980s, they have been collecting ancient Chinese jades, building an extensive collection over the decades.Condition: Very good condition with old wear, signs of weathering, minuscule nibbling to edges, shallow surface scratches and other traces of use, minor erosion.Weight: 227.6 gDimensions: Length 33.5 cmThe surface is densely covered with small and slightly raised hexagons, a pattern called pu, or ‘cat tail’. During the Han dynasty, this motif was mostly used to decorate large funerary discs with carved masks. The squarish indentations carved on the border at the extremities of the ornaments evoke the stylized features of two dragon heads in profile: the chin, mouth, snout, and horns.Literature comparison: Three related huang carved with patterns of small, raised curls and hexagons were excavated from the princely tombs at Shizishan (Xuzhou, Jiangsu) between 1994 and 1995. Similar huang with jagged profiles but decorated with spirals and dated to the late Eastern Zhou period, are in the National Museum of History, Taiwan, and in the Samuel and Myrna Myers collection. Compare also with a very similar, yet significantly smaller pair in F. Salviati, 4000 Years of Chinese Archaic Jades, Edition Zacke, Vienna 2017, no. 285.Auction result comparison: Compare with a related jade huang, of significantly smaller size and dated to the Eastern Zhou dynasty, at Sotheby’s New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art on 18-19 March 2014, lot 151, bought-in at an estimate of USD 10,000-15,000.西漢早期大型青玉帶沁雙龍紋璜中國，公元前二世紀。弧形，典雅的黃褐色，兩端龍首，總體海綠色，半透明的玉石，帶有絮狀物和赤褐色的內含物。 穿孔。来源：Irene 與Wolfgang Zacke收藏。這對夫妻一直活躍於藝術品行業已有半個多世紀，自1968年起他們開始在奧地利經營亞洲藝術品，是最早的商人之一。自1980年代後期以來，他們一直在收集中國古玉，數十年來建立了一個大規模的收藏。 圖片：Irene Zacke 與 Prof. Filippo Salviati教授品相：狀況良好，有舊磨損，風化，細微的邊緣磕損，表面淺划痕和使用痕跡，輕微腐蝕。重量：227.6 克尺寸：長33.5 厘米拍賣結果比較：一件相近的東周玉璜，尺寸更小，見紐約蘇富比 Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art 拍場2014年3月18-19日lot 151, 估價 USD 10,000-15,000.
Africa.- Russell (Henry) The Ruin of the Soudan, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates with tissue guards, 3 folding maps (2 contained in rear pocket, minor defects and spotting at creases), occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1892 § Dubois (Felix) Timbuctoo The Mysterious, translated by Diana White, first English edition, illustrations, foxing to end papers and half-title, spotting, later cloth, 1897; and 6 others, Africa and Egypt, 8vo (8)
Beaumont (Joseph) Psyche: or Loves Mysteries in XX. Canto's: Displauing the Intercourse Betwixt Christ and the Soule, first edition, lacking initial blank, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, ink signature to title, small marginal loss neatly restored (C3), scattered faint spotting, faint abrasion mark to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, folio, [Wing B1625], by John Dawson for George Boddington, 1648.⁂ First edition of Beaumont's allegorical poem, written in eleven months following the author's expulsion as a Cambridge fellow for his royalist sympathies.
Savage (Henry) Balliofergus, or A commentary upon the foundation, founders and affaires, of Balliol Colledge..., presentation inscription from Martin Routh, president of Magdalen College, folding plate, near contemporary calf, a little rubbed, upper cover detached, [Wing S759], Oxford, by A. & L. Lichfield, 1668 § Breval (John Durant) The Art of Dress. A Poem., first edition, lacking half-title, dedication ff. and plate, for R. Burleigh, 1717 ; and 35 others, mostly 18th and 19th century, v.s. (37)⁂ The first mentioned with presentation inscription reading: "This copy of the Balliofergus was given to Charles A. Ogilvie, Fellow of Balliol College, by the Revd. Dr Routh, President of Magdalene College on the 21st Day of March 1827".
Middle East.- Laborde (Léon de) Journey through Arabia Petræa, to Mount Sinai and the Excavated City of Petra, first edition, lithograph frontispiece, 23 plates, 2 maps (1 folding), illustrations (several full page), occasional off-setting, spotting, previous owner's ink signature, near contemporary half-calf, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, 1836.
Le Grand (Antoine) Man without passion: or, the wise stoick, according to the sentiments of Seneca. Written originally in French, by that great and learned philosopher, first edition in English, advertisement f. at end, occasional modern pencil marginalia, worm trace within text in sigs. B-D, affecting part of a few letters, diminishing in size as work proceeds, some water-staining at head, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary sheep, rebacked, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Wing L958], 8vo, Printed for C. Harper, and J. Amery, and sold by them at the Flower de Luce, and at the Peacock, both against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, 1675.⁂ Le Grand (1629-1699) French Cartesian philosopher, who was a Franciscan missionary to England, spending many years in Oxfordshire.
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[Wright (James)] A Compendious View of the Late Tumults & Troubles in this Kingdom by way of Annals for Seven Years, first edition, ?additional folding engraved portrait, 3pp. advertisements at end, spotting to first and last few leaves, ex-library with discreet blindstamps, later half-calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo, [Wing W3692], by Edw. Jones for S. Lownds, 1685.
Middle East.- O'Connor (Frederick, Lt.-Col. Sir ) On the Frontier and Beyond, first edition, frontispiece, plates, map, ownership stamp to end paper, original cloth, dust-jacket soiled and frayed, 1931 § Maillart (Ella) Turkestan Solo, first English edition, translated by John Rodker, plates, maps, faded ownership signature to half-title, original cloth, spine soiled, 1934; and 11 others travel, most Middle East and Asia, 8vo (13)
Hopkins (Charles) Epistolary Poems; on Several Occasions: with several of the Choicest Stories of Ovid's Metamporphoses and Tibullus's Elegies, first & only edition, half-title, lightly browned, B3 lacking lower outer corner, small hole to head of D4 and small portion lacking from lower margin of F8 (none affecting text), contemporary ink inscription "Elisa Gregor her Book 1694" to front free endpaper and "read in 1694" to preceding endpaper, later bookplate of G.W.F. Gregor [of Trewarthenick House, Cornwall], contemporary speckled sheep, a little worn, split to upper joint, [Wing H2721], 8vo, by R.E[veringham] for Jacob Tonson, 1694.⁂ The first publication by Charles Hopkins, Anglo-Irish poet and playwright (1671?-1700), who was described by Dryden as "a poet who writes good verses without knowing how, or why; I mean he writes naturally well, without art or learning, or good sence". Elizabeth Gregor, née Moyle, wife of John '"the Giant" Gregor, a distinguished Cornish landowning family with mercantile roots in Truro, who acquired an extensive estate in and about Trewarthenick, Tregony, in 1640, and built the grand house there (remodelled in 1792 by Humphry Repton, and still formidably preserved) in 1686. Elisa was the sister of Walter Moyle of Bake, Charles Hopkins's close friend and recipient of the second poetical epistle in the book.
Hopkins (Charles) The History of Love. A Poem: in a Letter to a Lady, first edition, half-title, ink manuscript corrections (?by the author) to pp. 6 & 82, browned, one or two leaves with head-lines shaved, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old red morocco label, [Wing H2724], 8vo, by J.Dawks, for Jacob Tonson, 1695.⁂ The author's second book of poems, dedicated somewhat flirtingly to Isabella FitzRoy, Duchess of Grafton. The contents, admired by Dryden and later reprinted alongside Dryden, Congreve, and others in Ovid's Art of Love (1709), are largely more adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides.
Middle East.- Richardson (Robert) Travels along the Mediterranean, and Parts Adjacent ... extending as far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus ..., 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles, extra illustrated, 7 maps or plans (4 folding), 44 engraved or lithographed plates (25 folding or double-page, 1 hand-coloured), faint abrasion mark to titles and front pastedowns where ?library stamp removed, one leaf becoming detached (G1, vol.2), previous owner's ink signature, contemporary diced calf, gilt, slight rubbing to corners and joints, 8vo, 1822.
Religion.- Sewel (William) The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers, first English edition, 2pp. advertisements bound at end, one or two marginal annotations, occasional marginal soiling and worming, scattered spotting, ex-library with discreet blind-stamps, contemporary calf, rebacked, bumping to corners and extremities, folio, 1722.
Thomson (James) The Seasons, presentation copy from the author to his father, title in red and black, 4 engraved plates, errata slip pasted at end, some staining and spotting, ink signature 'Maria Matilda Nevin' to head of title, contemporary calf, covers detached, spine ends chipped, rubbed, [Foxon T423], 8vo, Printed [by Henry Woodfall] for A. Millar, 1744.⁂ The inscription reads: ' From the author to my father'. The 1744 edition was the first expanded version of the poem, which may explain the presentation of a late edition.
Swift (Jonathan).- King (William) The Dreamer, first & only edition, title with woodcut ornament, advertisement leaf at end, engraved bookplate of William Gordon, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, red morocco label, a little rubbed and scuffed, spine ends and corners worn, [Rothschild 1302; Teerink 1623], 8vo, for W.Owen, 1754.⁂ Fanciful and satirical prose essays by the Jacobite Principal of St Mary Hall, literary scholar, and "incendiary orator" William King (1685-1763), and best known for the first printing of Swift's long verse reply, 'An Answer', to a ten-line epigram on the lawyer "Paulus" by Robert Lindsay (pp. 81-89). King himself had been the author of the infamous satire The Toast (1732, dedicated to Swift, who described it as "very malicious and worth reading"), and he later served as Swift's editorial advisor, until his textual pusillanimity ended their relationship.
Massey (W.) The Origin and Progress of Letters. An Essay, in two parts ... the Second Part consists of a compendious Account of the most celebrated English Penmen, first edition, engraved frontispiece, folding plate at end, 5 folding tables, occasional spotting, signature 'M' misbound, ex-library with usual ink-stamps throughout, later half-morocco, rubbing to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1763.
NO RESERVE Smollett (Tobias) The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, 3 vol., second edition, very light foxing or browning to endpapers and first few ff., for W. Johnston and B. Collins, 1772; The Adventures of an Atom, 2 vol., bookplate to pastedown, Robinson and Roberts, 1769, contemporary calf, extremities a little rubbed, spines worn, joints weak; and another novel by Smollett, 8vo (7)
Persia.- Malcolm (Col. Sir John) The History of Persia..., 2 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles but with folding engraved map and 22 engraved plates, some pencil annotations, map lightly browned and torn at edges (repaired, one tear to inner margin with slight loss), light foxing, one plate with heavier foxing and slight fraying to outer margins (repaired), bookplate of John Raynor Arthur, modern half calf over old marbled boards, boards slightly rubbed, 4to, 1815.
Language.- Monboddo (James Burnet, Lord) Of the origin and progress of language, 6 vol., vol.1 and 3 second edition, the rest first editions, 2 errata ff., lacking engraved portrait, some foxing (including title of vol.1) and browning, contemporary tree calf, spines gilt, lacking 2 labels, some other chipped, worn, but holding firm, [Alston, III, 842], 8vo, Edinburgh, Printed for J. Balfour [and others], 1774-1792.⁂ An important contribution to the study of the origin of language. Monboddo tried to prove that language was not natural to man, but was a consequence of his social state. Alston notes that volumes 1 and 3 were reprinted in 1774 and 1786, when the publishers discovered that they had not printed a sufficient number, resulting in various combinations of mixed sets, as here.
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