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Click here to subscribeVery Scarce Edition Heaney (Seamus) North, L. 1975, Faber, First Edn., orig. cloth in orig. d.w., slightly faded and marked. A very unusual copy in which the imprint details(opposite contents page) are printed in blind (no ink), visible only in a raking light, otherwise as previous item. Possibly a very early copy, printed before the rollers were fully inked? (1)
Signed Limited Edition Fishing: Pickard (F.W.) Trout and Salmon Fishing in Ireland, 8vo N. York (G.P. Putnam's & Sons) 1938. First Limited Edn. No. 66 of 150 Copies Signed by Author, hf. title, frontis, many illus., fold. map in pocket at end, unopened & uncut, orig. cloth backed boards, fac-simile, d.w. (1)
Heaney (Seamus) Death of a Naturalist, N.Y. 1966, O.U.P., First U.S. Edn., orig. cloth in orig. d.w., V.g., Signed and dated on t.p. 16th March 1971, with a copy of the UK First Edn., Third Impression, 1966, in a soiled and torn d.w., and two copies of the First Paperback Edn., L. 1969, one well used. (4) * His first major trade edition.
Heaney (Seamus) Selected Poems 1966-1987, N.Y. 1990, First U.S. Edn., No. 182 of 200 copies specially bound and Signed, slipcase, fine; with the same, uncorrected Proof, wrappers, v.g.; also the same, regular edition, cloth in d.w., N.Y. 1990; and the First Paperback U.S. Edn., 1991, Noonday, wrappers. (4)
Special Travel: Smith (E. Eaton) Flying Visits to the City of Mexico and the Pacific Coast, 4to Liverpool 1903. Special Lim. Edition No. 18 of 25 Copies, Signed Presentation Copy. Hf. title, illus. L.P., hf.mor. upr. cover loose; Naylor (Rob. Anderson) Across the Atlantic, 4to Lond. (Roxburghe Press) 1893. First Edn., hf. title, L.P., uncut, orig. cloth; Stubbs (Laura) Stevenson's Shrine The Record of Pilgrimage, 4to Lond. (The De la Mare Press) 1903. First Edn., frontis illus., fold. map, uncut, cloth backed illustrated cloth. (3)
Illustrated Limited Edition, Signed by Author Aesop: Detmold (Ed. J.) illus. The Fables of Aesop, lg. 4to Lond. (Hodder & Stoughton) 1909. First Limited Edition, No. 444 of 750 Copies, Signed by Artist. Hf. title, 25 tipped in coloured plates, uncut, orig. gilt decorated white buckram. Bookplate of Michael, Earl of Rosse V. good copy. (1) Provenance: Birr Castle Estate
Fishing: Gwynn (Stephen) Duffer's Luck A Fisherman's Adventures, 8vo Edin. & L. 1924. First Edn., hf. title, orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. Scarce.; Hodgson (W. Earl) How to Fish, A Treatise on Trout & Trout-Fishers, Lond. 1907, First Edn., Hf. title, cold. frontis & 7 plts. text illus., orig. decor. cloth, good; Sinclair (C.E.R.) Coarse Fishing in Ireland, Lond. 1947, First Edn., Illus., cloth & d.w.; O'Malley (C. Conor) With A Fishing Rod in Ireland, 8vo N. York 1975. First Edn., illus., d.w.; Markham (Gervase) The Pleasure of Princes or Good Men's Recreations, 4to Lond. (Cresset Press) 1927 Limited Edition No. 122 of 650 copies Only. orig. vellum backed boards; & 1 other Anglers Guide to Ireland, D. 1957. As a lot. Good. (6)
Fly-fishing in Connemara Fishing: Anon. [Smith (R. Bowden)] Fly-Fishing in Salt and Fresh Water, With Six Plates, Representing Artificial Flies, Etc., roy 8vo Lond. (J. Van Voorst) 1851. First & Only Edition. Hf. title, hand-cold. frontis & 6 other plts. (5 hd.-cold.) illustrated map of Lake Ina in text, various advert. leaves at end, a few leaves at start strengthened at gutter, orig. cloth. Extremely Scarce. V. good. (1) * With detailed accounts of fishing in Connemara.
FINE SILVER, MIXED COINS & COMMEMORATIVE CROWNS COLLECTABLES GROUP - lot includes a Westminster 2014 UK Year of the Horse silver mule coin, an agreed Royal Mint error being a mix up with the 2014 silver Britannia, the mule has the identical design for the Britannia on the obverse side, initialy described as a rare collectors coin which should not exist it sold out in days- set of 2, with certificates in a fitted presentation case, Canadian Mint 2017 Whispering Maple Leaves fifty dollars gold plated, fine silver coin, from a limited edition of 3500, with certificates, in a fitted presentation case, the first ever gold plated silver coin for the country, South Africa Mint 2017 1oz fine silver krugerrand, first ever silver proof Krugerrand ,with certificate No 05828 from a limited edition of 15,000 which sold out in days, in a fitted presentation case, George III half crown 1821, Victoria Jubilee crown 1890, George V Rocking Horse crown 1935, George IV gilded shilling 1826, 2 x 2018 Paddington Bear 50p pieces in original blister packs, 1 x Britain's First Decimal Coins wallet, contents intact, 2018 World War 1 Centenary five pounds coin and 12 x commemorative crowns, Charles and Diana, Churchill and others
Matchbox Models of Yesteryear pair of 2 x Y3 1912 Ford Model T Tanker (1) "Red Crown Gasoline" - rare issue 4 - rare Matchbox International 1986 copyright England base without "Limited Edition" cast - Mint apart from usual minor factory assembly marks in Good creased window box; (2) "BP" - Issue 4 with rare matt black filler caps - Excellent with some small paint chips in Fair to Good straw window box for Y12 Ford Model T Van. Rare model believed to be the first time Vectis has offered this particular model for sale. (2)
BINDING: Kipling, R: 26 Vols. of the Macmillan pocket edition, many first editions, 1918-28. Full soft leather; Thackeray, W M: 16 Vols, of the Oxford Illustrated Thackeray, ND, Full soft leather pocket edn; Meredith, G: 13 Vols, Constable, 1919, Full soft leather pocket edn; & Hardy, T: 10 Vols, of the Macmillan pocket edn, c1920s, cloth binding (65)
Scott, Peter: Wild Chorus. Country life, 1938, signed Limited first edition #78/1200. Large 4to. Original cloth; Pollard, Hugh: British and American Game Birds illustrated by Philip Rickmansworth 1945, Limited edition #20/125. 4to. Leather backed boards, little rubbed; British Sports and Sportsmen, Sportsmen Past and present, 2 Volumes. No date, Limited edition, # 299/1000; Plus: Commerce and Industry, no date, Limited edition, # 299/1000. All three volumes bound in the original full morocco gilt. Very good copies; Neville, Ralph: Old English Sporting Books. The Studio, 1924, Limited edn. #686/1500. 4to. Original cloth gilt; Covers faded and a little soiled. (6)
Day of the Concorde silver proof First Day Cover, stamped Heathrow Airport, 21st January 1976 together with another limited edition sterling silver proof in commemoration of The Apollo Soyuz Space Mission and a limited edition collector's paperweight nr 840 containing the Historic 4th July 1986 postage stamp 100th Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.
Five Corgi Classics The Aviation Archive Classic Jetliners and Classic Propliners 1:144 scale diecasts, 48504 DH Comet 4 BOAC, 48501 First Issue DH Comet 4B British European Airways, 48502 First Issue DH Comet 4 Dan-Air London, 47607 Vickers Viscount 802 British European Airways and 48601 Limited Edition Bristol 175 Britannia 102 Laker Airways all in original light brown boxes
(Venezia 1879 - Venezia 1933)Cm 28x37 | In 11.02x14.57Oil on panelA daughter of art, she was initiated at an early age into painting by her father, Guglielmo Ciardi, a protagonist with Favretto of the Venetian School of the Real and from 1894 holder of the chair of "Town and Sea Views" at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts. Together with his father and brother Beppe Ciardi they painted from life, as Guglielmo had learned at the Academy when, a pupil of Domenico Bresolin, he was brought by the master into the presence of nature. Emma Ciardi is a woman for the time in which she finds herself living, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, outside the box. She lives the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the midst of epochal revolutions that will transform the world, chooses to fit into the tradition of vedutismo that has its masters in Carlevarijs and Canaletto, and does so with a personal and unmistakable style. A constant presence at the Biennial (from 1903 to 1932, except for the 1926 edition), he travels, knows English and French, takes his Venetian parlar around the world, participates in all the most important national (Turin, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples) and International (Munich, Barcelona, Paris, Buenos Aires, Pittsburgh, San Francisco) art festivals, holds his solo exhibitions in London (1910, 1913, 1928), Paris (1914), New York (1924), Brussels (1925), Chicago (1924), the most accredited gallery owners offer her their spaces to show her works in Milan, London, Paris, New York, collectors from all over Europe and America buy her paintings, newspapers speak of her as "among the most interesting and most personal painters, painters and not women painters because Ciardi is such an artist that she needs no such distinction." Not many women can make a profession out of their talent, Emma does and with an entrepreneurial spirit unheard of for a woman of the early twentieth century she marries her work. A true star of the time. Even D'Annunzio passing through Venice goes to visit her in her atelier where, without getting lost in "ciacole," she works. Thinking that a painter should express himself with his brushes and colors and not with words, she repeats, "Co le ciacole non si fanno i quadri." A woman of few words and a lot of work (as Ugo Ojetti wrote about her in the Corriere della Sera in 1909), she obtained in the first three decades of the twentieth century public and critical recognition and awards in Milan, Berlin, London, Paris, Brussels, New York, and San Francisco. An extremely fecund painter, her paintings are scattered all over the world, she works for an international clientele that from Venice to London and from New York to Buenos Aires requests her paintings. While Picasso initiated with Cubism a veritable revolution in the field of art by subverting the traditional way of viewing a painting and creating an obvious shock in the public, Futurism launched incendiary proclamations subverting tradition, Emma Ciardi entered the great vein of Venetian vedutista painting. She studies and loves Guardi and, like Cataletto does with the camera ottica, photographs the motifs that strike her or paints en plein air, like the Impressionists in parks and gardens of aristocratic mansions and then processes the impression in the studio. She writes, "I have made two studies, but the painting I have not yet found. These are tints that I will need to compose the paintings that always have to be invented," an obvious statement of poetics and operative practice. He chooses to portray the landscape, makes portraits of cities with which he becomes acquainted Florence, London, Paris, Basel, Bruges. Venice and ancient gardens populated by ancient ladies and knights are the great protagonists of her repertoire. In the gardens that make her famous, she starts from life, observes and fixes the landscape before her eyes then, in the studio, brings into the compositions a crowd of characters dressed in eighteenth-century fashions arranging them on the scene studied from life. They are not characters, actors (her models are wooden mannequins two span high that Emma herself drapes in eighteenth-century robes and tricorns), but pure semblances of light, conjured up to act out the fable of life. For Emma, the real is the base, the springboard to the dream. Her figures, luminous as if they were emanations of places, stand out chromatically on the meadows like gems set in green. Her light and bright painting is dense with matter; one has to look closely at her paintings to appreciate the rich, color-filled thickness of her painterly touch. He often uses white; every inch of painting is a chromatic feast, a feast for the eyes. In the last period of his existence he found new inspiration in Refrontolo, in the Treviso countryside, where he bought a house and retired to the quiet of the countryside to paint. Here, dormant whispers and rustles, idylls, dances and madrigals, vezzi and graces (words that often return in the titles of her works) it is nature that speaks in her paintings with grandiose simplicity. If at the time Emma's painting appealed without disturbing, even today her skillful craft, her minute, fractured brushwork, teeming with hues, fast, that she is able to evoke with the slightest touch of the brush a gondola, a parasol, a Pierrot's guitar, with a touch that is always sure, without retouching "i quadri va in malora se i xe titignai," sparkling knows how to fascinate and seduce. In the tamed landscapes, in the combed skies, in the radiant and poignant Venices, together with Emma we seek the beauty for which the human being of all times yearns. She died in Venice on November 16, 1933. In the Information Sheet handwritten by Emma in 1932, kept at the Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts in Venice, she states that her works have been acquired and are held in public collections in Vienna, New York, Munich, Barcelona, Brussels, Washington, Oran and Buenos Aires.
Pablo Picasso (1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins) (F)'Spanish pitcher', weißes Steingut, polychrom staffiert, Maße 18 cm x 12 cm x 26 cm, unterseitig 'EDITION PICASSO 139/200 MADOURA' bezeichnet und nummeriert, 'MADOURA PLEIN FEU' und 'EDITION PICASSO' gestempelt, partiell minimal fleckig, unterseitig berieben, Literatur: Wvz. Ramié 244, mit farb. Abb.Pablo Picasso gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sein umfangreiches Oeuvre beinhaltet ebenso Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen wie Grafiken, Literatur und Keramik. Zu Lebzeiten hat er seine nahestehenden Künstlerkollegen sicherlich ebenso beeinflusst, wie sie ihn - zumal er mit einigen Kollegen im berühmten Pariser Bateau-Lavoir lebte und dessen Ateliers mit ihnen teilte. So hat er mit George Braque den Kubismus erarbeitet, sowie seine bekanntesten Werke Guernica und die Demoiselles d'Avignon geschaffen. Neben diesen weltbekannten Kunstwerken sind die rund 3000 Keramiken, die Picasso anfertigte, zwar kaum bekannt, doch nicht weniger bedeutend. Entstanden sind diese Keramiken gleichermaßen in einem ebenso kreativen und geradezu experimentellen Prozess, wie er zu seinen Skulpturen und Gemälden verfolgte. Die Keramiken Picassos sind nicht nur ein Nebenprodukt seiner künstlerischen Tätigkeit, sondern eine künstlerische Möglichkeit seiner Kreativität weitere Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten zu bieten. Angefertigt wurde ein enormes Gesamtwerk, mit dem er das bestehende Kunstsystem herausfordern und überwinden wollte. Denn durch die Mischung aus Gebrauchsgegenstand und Kunstwerk hat er einen Weg finden können die Kunst nicht etwa zu glorifizieren, sondern sie in das alltägliche Leben einfließen zu lassen. Picasso wollte seine Kunst einem breiten Publikum zugänglich machen. Seine Keramiken und vor allem die Serienauflagen ermöglichten ihm, dieses Ziel zu erreichen: durch die Form der Gebrauchskeramik. Während einer Töpferausstellung traf der Künstler Suzanne und Georges Ramie, die Eigentümer der Keramikwerkstatt Madoura. Picasso unternahm seine ersten Versuche mit Keramik. Er nutzte Ton, schuf Faune und Nymphen, dekorierte Platten und Teller mit seinen bevorzugten Motiven wie den Stierkampf, Frauen, Eulen, Ziegen, benutzte ungewöhnliche Unterlagen und entwickelte selbst eine weiße Tonmasse. Immer wieder ist in seinen Keramiken zu erkennen, wie eng verwurzelt Picasso mit der jahrtausendealten Geschichte der Keramik war. Von klassischen griechischen Vasen mit roten und schwarzen Figuren über die etruskischen Buccheri, den Tongefäßen der prähispanischen Kulturen bis zur volkstümlichen Keramik aus Spanien und Frankreich. Picasso kannte die zahlreichen im Louvre in Paris ausgestellten Keramikobjekte der antiken Mittelmeerkulturen, besaß viele Bücher zu antiker Kunst und bezog seine Inspirationen - sowohl hinsichtlich der Formen als auch der Themen eines Großteils seiner Keramiken - aus Gefäßen mit menschlichen oder tierischen Formen. Der Künstler schuf sogar fiktive "antike" Keramiken und bemalte archäologische Keramikfragmente. Als ganz wesentlich ist an dieser Stelle anzumerken, dass Picassos Keramiken sich nicht nur auf die Traditionen dieser Kunstform beziehen, sondern auch auf seinen eigenen Werdegang als Künstler. Durch verschiedene Keramiken wird deutlich, wie er seine gestalterischen Erfahrungen als Maler, Graveur und Bildhauer und die entsprechenden Motive seiner Gemälde, Lithografien und Zeichnungen auch in der Ausformung und Bemalung des Steinzeugs verwendet. Ebenso nutzt er seine neu gewonnenen Erfahrungen aus dieser Arbeit für Kunstwerke malerischer Form. Somit erneuerte er auch das eigens geschaffene Motiv der Taube, das er 1949 als Plakat für den Pariser Weltfriedenskongress entwarf, welches bis heute als weltweites Friedenssymbol gilt. Pablo Picasso (1881 Malaga - 1973 Mougins) (F)'Spanish pitcher', white stoneware, polychrome painted, dimensions 18 cm x 12 cm x 26 cm, on the reverse EDITION PICASSO 139/200 MADOURA inscribed and numbered, MADOURA PLEIN FEU and EDITION PICASSO stamped, partially minimally stained, rubbed on the reverse side, Literature: Cat. Rais. Ramié 244, with colour ill. Pablo Picasso is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His extensive oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphics, literature and ceramics. During his lifetime, he certainly influenced his close artist colleagues as much as they influenced him - especially since he lived with some colleagues in the famous Parisian Bateau-Lavoir and shared its studios with them. He thus worked on Cubism with George Braque, as well as creating his most famous works Guernica and the Demoiselles d'Avignon. In addition to these world-famous works of art, the 3000 or so ceramics that Picasso made are little known, but no less important. These ceramics were created in an equally creative and almost experimental process as he pursued for his sculptures and paintings. Picasso's ceramics are not just a by-product of his artistic activity, but an artistic opportunity to offer his creativity further possibilities of expression. An enormous body of work was produced with which he wanted to challenge and overcome the existing art system. For by mixing utilitarian objects and works of art, he was able to find a way not to glorify art, but to let it flow into everyday life. Picasso wanted to make his art accessible to a broad public. His ceramics and especially the serial editions enabled him to achieve this goal: through the form of utilitarian ceramics. During a pottery exhibition, the artist met Suzanne and Georges Ramie, the owners of the Madoura ceramics workshop. Picasso made his first experiments with ceramics. He used clay, created fauns and nymphs, decorated plates and platters with his favourite motifs such as the bullfight, women, owls, goats, used unusual supports and developed a white clay mass himself. Time and again, his ceramics reveal how closely Picasso was rooted in the millennia-old history of ceramics. From classical Greek vases with red and black figures to the Etruscan buccheri, the clay vessels of the pre-Hispanic cultures and the popular ceramics from Spain and France. Picasso was familiar with the numerous ceramic objects of the ancient Mediterranean cultures exhibited in the Louvre in Paris, owned many books on ancient art and drew his inspiration - both in terms of the forms and the themes of a large part of his ceramics - from vessels with human or animal forms. The artist even created fictitious "ancient" ceramics and painted archaeological ceramic fragments. It is essential to note at this point that Picasso's ceramics not only refer to the traditions of this art form, but also to his own development as an artist. Through various ceramics, it becomes clear how he uses his creative experiences as a painter, engraver and sculptor and the corresponding motifs of his paintings, lithographs and drawings in the shaping and painting of the stoneware. Likewise, he used his newly gained experience from this work for works of art in painterly form. Thus, he also renewed the specially created motif of the dove, which he designed as a poster for the Paris World Peace Congress in 1949 and which is still considered a worldwide symbol of peace today.
Boxed Robert Harrop ' The Beano Dandy Collection ' BDB01 Big Dennis ' Red Nose ' (Limited Edition 50) (This was released on 17/3/2001 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Dennis the Menace first appearing (17/3/1951) and to coincide with the 2001 ' Red Nose Day ', each piece is signed by Robert Harrop and dated by the year, this one dated 17/3/1977)
2010 Bentley Continental GT Series 51 Transmission: automaticMileage:49337The 2010 Bentley Continental GT Series 51 is a luxury grand tourer produced by the British automaker Bentley Motors. The Series 51 is a special edition model of the Continental GT, featuring unique design elements and upgraded features. Under the bonnet, the Series 51 is powered by a 6.0 litre twin-turbocharged W12 engine, producing 567bhp and 516 lb-ft of torque. The engine is paired with a six-speed automatic gearbox, with paddle shifters mounted on the steering wheel. The Series 51 edition of the Continental GT features a range of unique design elements, including bespoke paint and leather options, contrast stitching, and special 20 € alloy wheels. The interior is also upgraded, featuring hand-stitched leather seats, a premium sound system, and a 30GB hard drive for music storage. Other notable features of the 2010 Bentley Continental GT Series 51 include its advanced all-wheel drive system, adaptive air suspension, and a host of safety and convenience features such as front and rear parking sensors, a rearview camera, and heated front seats. As a luxury grand tourer, the 2010 Bentley Continental GT Series 51 offers a high level of comfort, performance, and style, making it a popular choice among discerning car enthusiasts.This is a fantastic opportunity to own a flagship thoroughbred performance car with everyday capabilities producing 600bhp and a top speed in excess of 200mph. This particular model is the Series 51 which is named after the year that the first official styling department was established in Crewe by the gifted John Blatchley. Every Series 51 car features a highly distinctive three tone interior selected from a range of premium quality materials for the dashboard and centre console. The exterior is presented in near flawless Onyx Black paintwork complemented by a luxury Beluga hide interior and it sits on 20 € 14 spoke diamond cut alloy wheels which are all in excellent order. The front heated massage seats are a lovely place to sit as our vendor can testify. The service book is accompanied by all the related invoices, all of which can be found in the impeccable history file. Whilst these Series 51 cars have a very expensive initial list price, the shrewd investor will recognise what excellent value for money they provide having only been released in a very limited number.
2003 Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG Transmission: automaticMileage:96600The fifth generation of the legendary SL series convertible sports cars was known as the R230. It featured a fully retractable hardtop that was marketed as the Vario Roof, a first for the SL class although it had been available on the smaller SLK model since 1997. The flagship models were built by AMG in the form of the SL55 and SL65, both highly tuned versions of the SL500 and SL600 respectively. The SL55 was powered by a mighty supercharged version of the 5.5 litre, V8 which produced 493bhp and achieved 0-62 in 4.7 seconds and on to a top speed of 155mph (governed). In theory, the SL55 could reach 190mph if the car was derestricted but, for many, the acceleration and top speed is impressive enough in its standard form!The Mercedes-Benz SL55 is no shrinking violet but the previous owner of this car was not satisfied and wanted to attract even more attention. A full wide bodykit was used to convert the SL55 AMG to a recreation of the later Brabus SL65 Black Edition with the help of a professional ADAIR kit. Subject to a light Category D insurance loss in 2013, ADAIR used this opportunity to facelift the headlights and expertly replace the panels with the wide body kit. The car today looks every part its £280,000 plus sibling, a real wolf in wolfs clothing and is described by our vendor as 'an absolute goliath of a car'. We are informed that the engine has been breathed on with the intention of achieving 600bhp, however until dyno tested this is still an unknown. The incredible sound from the exhaust is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end making this an exciting car to drive and own. We are informed only one genuine SL65 Brabus Black Edition car exists and is held in a collection owned by the Dubai Royal family. An AMG supercharged V8 with the roof down is a perfect motoring scenario and so desired by fans of the SL Mercedes-Benz. Offered with a MoT test certificate, this stunning SL will turn heads at every opportunity and will be sure to do the same when offered at auction. The vendor states this the most amazing vehicle he has ever driven, the power and sound make this vehicle truly a one-off beast.
1969 Mercedes-Benz 280 SL California Transmission: automaticMileage:65513The stylish Mercedes-Benz W113 was presented at the 1963 Geneva Motor Show and replaced both the expensive 300 SL and entry-level 190 SL with one medium-priced two-seat sports car. The SL was a huge success, with 48,912 sold in nine years, and is now considered a true masterpiece. The body combines the elegantly trim look of contemporary Mercedes saloons with a simple grille derived from the 300 SL. Béla Barényi conceived the patented concave hardtop, soon called the 'Pagoda.' Like the best designs, the W113 has proven to be timeless in its appeal.We are pleased to offer this superb low mileage, three owner from new example which is an original and rare 'California Coupé', with the single bench seat as designated by option '417' on its factory record.Originally purchased in July 1969 by its first owner, a Mr. Luigi Bresciani an Italian ice cream manufacturer who ordered the Mercedes as a retirement present to himself. Interestingly Mr. Besciani ordered the Pagoda in UK right hand drive specification but had it delivered to his Italian residence. Later in 1972 he returned to England to join his family bringing the Pagoda with him. The Pagoda remained his pride and joy until 1982 when at the age of 80 he found his health failing and with great reluctance arranged for the car to be sold. At this stage, the car had covered some 51,000 miles. The car was then sold to its second owner, who at this time carried out various maintenance work to insure the car was ready for further use. The Mercedes was enjoyed for a further 8,000 miles and was taken around the country as well as on the continent. More recently 868 VC was purchased by our vendor at Historics auction for a figure of £113,200, elated by his purchase there were no thoughts to sell until he received the news that his driving licence was to be rescinded therefore he is forced to sell after a relatively short tenure.Offered with over four decades of single ownership, this superb example has covered a mere 65,513 miles and has had just three owners from new having been purchased recently for over £113,000. Accompanying the Pagoda is a sizeable history file with many documents, sundry bills, service records, MoT test certificates, and even the March 1983, edition of Classic and Sports which the car featured in!Having been dry stored since 1982, this Mercedes was last MoT'd in the early 2000's and has been used sparingly since but recently recommissioned by our vendor and running as it should. Presented in very good, preserved condition the paintwork retains a deep shine and shows little sign of age as does the interior and chrome work. Having covered little mileage from new and with a superb three owner history, this example represents a fantastic opportunity to acquire an ever-desirable right hand drive 280 SL Pagoda. We expect this wonderful example to be keenly contested at auction.
Rolex. Beau et rare chronographe bracelet en platine (950) mouvement automatiqueRolex. A fine and rare platinum automatic chronograph bracelet watchModel: DaytonaReference: 116506Date: Purchased October 2nd 2017Movement: 44-jewel Cal.4130 automatic, adjusted to 5 positions and temperature, No.8384G810Dial: Sunburst ice blue, applied luminous filled polished bullet hour markers, black outer 1/5th second divisions, brown edged subsidiary dials at 3, 6 and 9 for seconds, 30 minute and 12 hour recording, polished and faceted pointed baton hands with luminous inserts, centre chronograph handCase: Brushed and polished tonneau form, screw down back, shouldered screw down crown flanked by twin screw down pushers, tachymetre to brown cerachrom bezel, No.X40102G0Strap/Bracelet: Fitted brushed and polished platinum Oyster linkBuckle/Clasp: Signed folding clasp, stamped 90SSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 40mm Weight: 273,67g Accompaniments: Rolex fitted box, outer card, Instructions manual, International Guarantee card dated 02/10/2017, Guarantee Manual Worldwide Service, Service Guarantee card dated 17/12/2019Footnotes:The first Rolex Cosmograph Daytona was introduced in 1963, which leads into this 50th anniversary of this highly sought-after chronograph. Both new and pre-loved. Although in 2013 Rolex did not came up with the limited or special anniversary edition that many people expected, they did introduce – for the first time – a platinum version of their Rolex Cosmograph Daytona and have it reference number 116506.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Reese Witherspoon signed Whiskey In A Tea Cup first edition hardback book. Published 2018. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.
David Cameron signed For The Record first edition limited signed edition hardback book. Published 2019. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.
Gwyneth Paltrow signed Eat, Rest, Heal The Clean Plate first edition hardback book. Published 2019. Good condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £10.
ISLE OF MAY One Man’s Island. Paintings and Sketches from the Isle of May. By Keith Broke. J M Dent and Sons Ltd, London and Melbourne, 1984. White cloth, title in gilt on spine; dw, new [Ref 042] One Man’s River. Paintings and Sketches from a Scottish River. By Keith Broke. Harper and Row, Publishers, New York, 1988; green cloth, title on spine; dw’ new [Ref 043] The Story of ay Island. Published by Largo Field Studies Society, Upper Largo. Fife. A5, Third Reprint, 1984. Typescript [ 044]. Another copy, A4 size, Typescript. First Published 1971 The Isle of May. A Scottish Nature Reserve. My W J Eggeling. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1960; green cloth,dw, which is price clipped, but otherwise in good condition [Ref 045] Item Two Second Edition, 1985, with additional material, Lothian Press, Kirkmichael, Perthshire; dw; new The Isle of May. Wemyss Environmenal Education Centre. No date, c 1979; A5 Typescript, card covers [ref 046]. General Guide to the Isle of May, Fife’s Own Island of Mystery and History, Sea Cliffs, Sea Birds and Seals. By James Allan. Published by Tervor Limited; illustrated card covers; Second Edition, July 2002, Revised and Enlarged; new [Ref 047].
Item One Rosyth Castle: A Notable Fifeshire Ruin’ By Alan Reid. Dunfermline: A Romanes, “Press” Office [First Edition); brown cloth, title in gilt on front cover and also on spine [This copy has embossed stamp of James Wilkie SSC Edinburgh on title page, who was the author of several fife histories in the 1920s and 1930s). A nice copy [Ref 071]Rosyth Castle and the Story of the Naval Base, By Alan Reid. Second Edition, Revised and Extended. A Romanes & Son, “Press” Office, Dunfermline; hard back, green cloth boards; title in gilt on front cover and spine; distilled a little at top and bottom of spine; stapled, rusting; apart from that a nice clean copy [Ref 071 x1]LOT 072 Item 1 The Story of Rosyth. Inverkeithing High School, July 1979. Soft cover, stapled; Signature of Ellen M Mees on front cover; Pp 167 Item [Ref 072 iten 1]Two Revised Edition, June 1982, soft covers; published by Inverkeithing High School; Pp 240 [Ref 72 itm 2]
INCHKEITH Selections from The Inchkeith Lyre, The Non-Official Organ of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Scots. Edited by “Spagoni” and by J C Srewart, M A (Oxon). Title in gilt on front cover, above which, in gilt, is Illustration of Island of Inchkeith. Printed by Andrew Murray, Hanover Street, Edinburgh [Ref 037]INVERKEITHING ] Inverkeithing, South Queensferry, Limekilns, Charlestown, The Ferry Hills. Their Antiquities and Recreation Resources. History of Dunfermline with Plan of Course. Edited by A S Cunningham. Dunfermline: W Clark & Son, “Journal” Office. Brown Cloth, title in gilt on front cover; name of Andrew Cunningham in gilt on front cover. [First Edition], 1899. A good copy As it has a chapter on Dunfermline Golf Club, with plan of the course, this book is particularly attractive to the golf collectors, and is priced accordingly Second Edition, 1903, with title of Inverkeithing, North Wueensferry, Rosyth and the Naval Base; Book plate of T M Tod [farmer and local author] on front paste-down; green cloth, title in gilt on front cover Another copy of 2nd Edition of 1903. Ex-Library, withdrawn from Dunfermline District Libraries, Central Library, Abbot Street, Dunfermline, with usual library stamps and markings, with lending page from Reserve Stock, last issued 3 Aug 2012; Library binding, with library number on spine [Ref 038 Three Copies]
James Bond and Related - Group of five Signed hardback books, includes, FLEMING (Ian). Dr No (unsigned) first edition, second impression, publishers black cloth with dancing girl silhouette on front board, silver title to spine, (lacking dust-jacket) published by Jonathan Cape, 1958; CONNERY (Sean). and Murray Grigor. Being A Scot, Signed by Sean Connery on title-page, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008; RYE (Graham). The James Bond Girls, Signed on half-title page by Honor Blackman who played the role of Pussy Galore in the film Goldfinger (1964) revised edition, published by Boxtree, 1999; MOORE (Roger). and Gareth Owen, My Word is My Bond, Signed on half-title page, published by Michael O Mara, 2008; Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinsel Town, Signed by Roger Moore on a white label tipped-in on front endpaper, second edition, published by Michael O Mara. (5)Condition Report: overall good conditions. Dr No - (unsigned) light marks to boards, spine ends and corners rubbed, light foxing to endpapers and edges.
James Bond From Russia With Love & The Man With the Golden Gun Ian Fleming first edition, first impression Hardback books, two vol., within dust-jackets, From Russia With Love within a later dust-jacket, The Man With the Golden Gun, second state binding without the Golden gun on front board, dust-jacket priced 18s. net, Published by Jonathan Cape, 1957-1965. (2)Condition Report: From Russia With Love - clean bright boards, light marks to lower board, ink inscription to front free endpaper, toning to and light marks to edges.The Man With the Golden Gun - clean bright boards, spine ends marginally bumped, dustjacket with two clean edge tears to lower spine, light marks to edges.
James Bond On Her Majestys Secret Service; You Only Live Twice: & The Man With The Golden Gun Ian Fleming first edition, first impression, Hardback books, three vol., Published by Jonathan Cape, 8vo. On Her Majestys Secret Service, publishers cloth with ski trail design to front board, within dust-jacket priced 16s. net, 1963; You Only Live Twice, publishers cloth with Japanese calligraphy design gilt to front, title and author silver on spine, 1964; The Man With The Golden Gun, publishers cloth, title and author gilt on spine, second state binding without golden gun to front board, typed ownership label to front patterned endpaper, 1965. (3) Condition Report: On Her Majestys Secret Service rubbing to slightly cocked original boards, spine ends and corners bumped, toning and marks to edges, dustjacket foxed and marked to rear cover with some loss to spine ends and corners; You Only Live Twice clean boards slightly cocked, spine ends and corners bumped, foxing and toning to edges affecting some leaf edges, toning and light marks internally; The Man With The Golden Gun marks to boards, spine end bumped, toning to top edge, light marks and some foxing to other edges, some occasional foxing otherwise internally clean and bright.
James Bond The Spy Who Love Me; & The Man With The Golden Gun Ian Fleming first edition, first impression, Hardback books, two vol., Published by Jonathan Cape, 8vo. The Spy Who Loved Me, within facsimile dust-jacket priced 15s. net, further within clear plastic sleeve, red endpapers, publishers brown cloth with dagger design in blind-stamp and silver, title and author sliver to spine, 1962; The Man With The Golden Gun, publishers cloth, title and author gilt on spine, second state binding without golden gun to front board, typed ownership label to front patterned endpaper, 1965. (2)Condition Report: The Spy Who Loved Me marks to boards, three small green ink marks to front board and lower spine, dust-jacket chipped to spine ends and inner flaps, front inner flap creased, toning and foxing to edges, toning and occasional foxing internally.The Man With The Golden Gun boards marked and slightly cocked, toning to edges, occasional light foxing internally.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Hardback first edition book signed to the inside by J K Rowling, published by Bloomsbury in 2000. The vendor was a teacher at a Latchmere school in Kingston. A parent who was a camera operator interviewed J K Rowling. He had the book signed for the vendor.
Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, ink gift inscription to half-title, endpapers lightly browned, light marks to covers, spine and upper edge sunned, 1928; Now We Are Six, first edition, light crayon scribblings to endpapers and first few pages, some partially erased, covers with light surface soiling and rubbing to extremities, 1927; When We Were Very Young, eleventh edition, small bump to upper edge, an excellent copy otherwise, 1925, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 8vo (3)
Ptolomaeus (Claudius) In hoc operae haec continentur Geographiae Cl. Ptolomaei..., without plates [text only], collation: A-C8, D-E6, F-O8, 2A-2B8, 2C4, lacking N1&2, title with large initial I and woodcut ?printer's device, woodcut initials, title with small hole (?abrasion; to blank section, but affecting woodcut initial to verso), A5 (silked repair) and O3 with closed tear affecting text but no loss, A8 paper repairs to blank inner margin, 1507, bound with Beneventanus (Marcus) Noua orbis descriptio..., collation: a,6b8, 1508, together 2 parts in 1, woodcut diagrams, some light marginal foxing, lower hinge broken, rear endpapers loose, later vellum, light wear to corners, folio (422 x 285mm.), Rome, for Bernardino Vitali and Evangelista Tosini. ⁂ Fourth Rome edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1508 an updated version of this work was issued by the press, with a new title, and containing both Johannes Ruysch's famous 'Universalior cogniti orbis tabula...' map (not present in this copy), and a description of the New World by monk Marcus Beneventanus, making it the first edition of a Ptolemy to include an account of the New World. The copy here offered combines these two editions, presenting the 1507 text, with Beneventanus' account. Literature: I. Edit 16 CNCE 59093. II. c.f. Edit 16 CNCE 73332
Fleming (Ian) Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The Magical Car, 3 vol., first edition, illustrations by John Burningham, internally clean, original pictorial boards, light rubbing to edges, otherwise fine, dust-jackets, light chipping and fraying to spine ends, light surface soiling, one or two short closed tears edges, vol.2 with tape repairs verso, still excellent and tight examples overall, 8vo, 1964-65.
Nietzsche (Friedrich) Thus Spake Zarathustra. A Book for All and None, translated by Alexander Tille, first English edition, 8pp. advertisements, ownership blindstamp, ink inscription and bookplate of John Farquhar Maclay, bookplate of H. G. Plimmer to front pastedown, original first issue cloth with Henry and Co. to base of spine, light toning to spine, extremities slightly rubbed, an excellent example, [PMM 370 (first edition], 8vo, 1896.⁂ Volume 8 only of a projected 11 volume 'Works of Nietzsche.' This was the second volume published of the series, but is the first English edition of the philosopher's most important work.
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