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Click here to subscribeMachines.- Lanz (Philippe Louis) and Agustin de Bethencourt y Molina. Analytical Essay on the Construction of Machines, first edition in English, 13 folding lithographed plates, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, corners repaired, rubbed, 4to, R. Ackermann, [c.1815].⁂ Translated from the French of Jean Nicholas Pierre Hachette this edition offers additional material for the English reader.
Topsell (Edward) The historie of foure-footed beastes. Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, first edition, issue with woodcut of hyena on title, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, with initial and final blanks, lacking A6, title with short tear at head with loss of first letter, short tear at foot with marginal loss, and creased, some tears with loss of text, most noticeably to B2, K1 (mostly side-note), K2 (outer margin cut away with loss of side-notes and part of woodcut verso), O4, Oo3, Pp4, and small areas of lower corners of sig. Xxx, water-stained, some spotting and creasing, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Nissen ZBI 4145; STC 24123; Wellcome 6323], folio, Printed by William Jaggard, 1607. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Topsell's translation of Gesner's Historiae animalium, dedicated to Richard Neile, Dean of Westminster, and with charming, indeed some times fantastical illustrations.
Field sports.- Jourdain (François-Xavier) Traité général des chasses a courre et a tir ; contenant des principes surs pour la propagation du gibier, et la destruction des animaux nuisibles..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 36 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, 6 ff. of engraved music, 2 errata ff., some spotting or light foxing, attractive contemporary half mottled calf, spine gilt and with large dark blue morocco, labels, little rubbed at extremities, [Thiébaud 522], 8vo, Paris, Audot, 1822.⁂ 'Un des livres de chasse les plus agréablement illustrés de cette époque.' (Thiébaud).
Golf.- Thomas (George C., Jr) Golf Architecture in America, Its Strategy and Construction, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, 1 folding at end, a few colour, illustrations, near fine original pictorial cloth, [Murdoch 767 'One of the outstanding books on golf course architecture having the added attraction, as a book, of being handsomely produced'], a very good copy, Los Angeles, The Times-Mirror Press, 1927 § Wind (Herbert Warren) The Story of American Golf, Its Champions and Its Championships, first edition, numerous photographic illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, original board slip-case mirroring design of cloth with printed paper labels, worn, but holding firm, [Murdoch 870 'one of the modern-day masterpieces of golf literature'], New York, 1948; and another, Golf, v.s. (3)
Architecture.- Plaw (John) Ferme ornée; or, rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &., new edition, 38 sepia aquatint plates, advertisement f., 8pp. publisher's catalogue of architectural books at end, text stained, plates with marginal water-staining and occasional marginal foxing, some spotting, original boards, sympathetically rebacked, water-stained, [cf. Abbey, Life, 48, first edition], rare, 4to, Printed for J. Taylor, at The Architectural Library, 1813.
NO RESERVE British Art.- Butlin (Martin) & Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W.Turner, 2 vol., revised edition, original wrappers, together in slip-case, New Haven & London, 1984 § Gage (John) Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, 1969; J.M.W.Turner 'A Wonderful Range of Mind', New Haven & London, 1987 § Finberg (A.J.) The Life of J.M.W.Turner R.A., second edition, Oxford, 1961 § Constable (John) [Correspondence & Discourse], edited by R.B.Beckett & others, 8 vol., 1962-75 § Thornes (John E.) John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science, original wrappers, Birmingham, 1999, illustrations, some colour, all but the first and last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, some spines slightly faded; and c.20 others on Turner and Constable, 4to & 8vo (c.35)
Architecture.- Vicenza.- Scamozzi (Ottavio Bertotti) Il forestiere istruito delle cose più rare di architettura, e di alcune pitture della città di Vicenza dialogo, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of dedicatee Mario capra, title vignette and 36 folding plates, armorial ink stamp to title, marginal worming, occasionally touching the odd letter or within platemark, occasional spotting, modern calf, gilt spine in compartments and with black leather label, [Fowler 43; Millard, Italian, 19], 4to, Vicenza, Giovambattista Vendramini Mosca, 1761.⁂ First edition of this architectural guide to Vicenza, and in particular the buildings of Palladio. Provenance: J.B. and Michael Bury (bookplates).
Binding.- Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by E.H. Shepherd, original pictorial endpapers preserved, charming panelled pictorial vellum, by The Cottage Bindery, Bath, upper cover with central mounted painted panel depicting a game of Poohsticks, lower cover with central mounted painted panel with Christopher Robin, Pooh and owl in silhouette heading off into the distance, both panels within two sets of gilt filet borders with corner-pieces of Pooh eating honey, spine in compartments with a central standing Pooh, spine little darkened, t.e.g., preserved in a buckram slip-case with a panel from original pictorial cloth mounted on upper panel, 8vo (binding 196 x 132mm.), 1928.
NO RESERVE British Art.- Harrison (Martin) & Bill Waters. Burne-Jones, 1973 § Wildman (S.) & John Christian. Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, New York, 1998 § Barringer (Tim) & others. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, 2012 § Parry (Linda, editor) William Morris, 1996 § Doughty (Oswald) A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, second edition, 1968 § Andrews (Keith) The Nazarenes: A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome, Oxford, 1964, illustrations, some colour, the first and last two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the rest original wrappers; and c.15 others on the Pre-Raphaelites, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
Plague in Italy.- Mercuriale (Girolamo) De pestilentia Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliuensis medici praeclarissimi lectiones habitae Patavii 1577 mense ianuarii in quibus de peste universum, praesertim vero de Veneta, & Patavina, singulari quadam eruditione tractatur, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and historiated and decorative initials, lacking index ff. P2-Q4, marginal repairs, P1 repaired with loss of several letters, some staining, washed, 20th century vellum-backed boards, [EDIT 16 CNCE 30706], small 4to, Venice, Paolo Meietti, 1577. sold not subject to return. ⁂ On the plague sweeping Italy in the late 1570s. In 1576 in Venice alone around 70,000 lives were lost. Rare in commerce.
Greek printing.- Estienne (Henri, editor) Epistolia, dialogi breves, oratiunculæ, pœmata, ex variis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus, 2 parts in 1, first edition, Greek and Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces, sig. ee misbound, but complete, water-stained, marginal repair to last 2 ff., occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century marbled boards, rubbed, [Adams E294; Renouard, Estienne, 145:4], 8vo, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1577.⁂ A rare copy of this anthology of Greek and Roman texts.
Maritime.- Shipbuilding.- Bouguer (Pierre) Traité du Navire, de sa Construction, et de ses Mouvemens, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, engraved vignette head-pieces and 12 folding plates, errata and privilege ff. at end, lacking A2&3, some spotting, lightly browned throughout, heavier on the odd f., sheet of contemporary ink ms. calculations and notes loosely inserted, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends and joints repaired, little peeling of calf to foot of lower joint, [Polak 1050; Scott Coll. 256], 4to, Paris, Jombert, 1746.⁂ 'In 1735 he [Bouguer] accompanied Charles Marie de la Condamine on a scientific expedition to Peru, to determine the length of a meridian near the Equator... Traite de Navire is the first treatise on naval architecture, written on a scientific basis. Bouguer was among the first to investigate mathematical principles in relation to shipbuilding.' (Scott).
[Pfeffel (Christian Friedrich)] Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire et du droit public d'Allemagne, first edition, half-title, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, Paris, Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1754 § [Romance (G.H. de, translator)] Memoires politiques et militaires, ou extrait de l'introduction à l'histoire de la guerre en Allemagne en 1756, some spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with green morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, Basel, J. Decker, 1798; and 5 others, Continental, v.s. (7)
NO RESERVE Dutch & North European Art.- Panofsky (Erwin) Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 2 vol., Cambridge, Mass., 1966 § Tolnay (Charles de) Hieronymus Bosch, second impression, 1975 § Oberthaler (E.) & others. Bruegel: The Master, 2018 § Panofsky (Erwin) The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, fourth edition, Princeton, NJ, 1967 § Friedländer (Max J.) & Jakob Rosenberg. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, revised edition, 1978 § Benesch (Otto) The Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe, revised edition, 1965 § Rowlands (John) Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Boston, 1985 § Andrews (Keith) Adam Elsheimer: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, 1977, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, one or two slightly rubbed, the first a little frayed at edges; and c.20 others on early Netherlandish and German art, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
1991 Land Rover Range Rover CSKRegistration no. H254JNFChassis no. SALLHABM3GA462052Odometer Reading: 110,000MoT Expiry: TBC *Rarely seen*Very good bodywork and paint*Mechanically very good The limited-edition CSK revived Range Rover's two-door bodyshell in limited edition form, selling out almost immediately as serious enthusiasts clamoured to be one of a very select group. Today, while not exactly granted mythical status, the CSK remains one of the most highly-desirable first-generation derivatives, being keenly snapped up when offered. Here is a fine example with very good bodywork and panel fit, and the black paint remains very smart, as does the trim. Worth noting is that the CSK decals to the tailgate and front wings are n place. Equally pleasing is the interior, which has mellowed lightly over the years. Seats are very good and the door cards equally smart, as is the dashboard. Sitting correctly and riding on very good original-specification alloy wheels here is a great opportunity for anyone wishing to expand – or indeed start – a Range Rover collection.Please click the link to view the walkaround video of this lot: click hereFootnotes:Please note mileage is 172,360 miles, not as catalogued.Vendor Score Total: 78/100Bidders should note that the automated 100-point Seller's Assessment is provided by each Seller at the point of consignment using the guidelines below, and is not provided, assessed or verified by Bonhams MPH. Accordingly Customers (Bidders) are on notice that each vehicle is offered 'as is / as seen' subject to the Conditions of Sale for the auction, and Customers (Bidders) are strongly recommended to view the Lot(s) being offered, before bidding, in order to satisfy themselves as to their condition; Bonhams MPH will not entertain disputes over Sellers' Assessments. Key for sellers' assessments:1/5 POOR. A project vehicle | Requires urgent attention | Damaged | Parts missing2/5 AVERAGE. Useable condition | Requires some attention | Light damage3/5 GOOD. Drive away | Presents well | Good history file | Drives well4/5 VERY GOOD. Well restored | Running and driving with no noticeable faults | Sound throughout5/5 EXCELLENT. Concours condition | Beautifully presented | Driving very wellEXTERIOR TOTAL: 20/25Body Work: 4Chrome/Plastics/Trim: 4Glass: 4Paint: 4Wheels/Tyres: 4INTERIOR TOTAL: 15/20Dashboard/Door cards/Carpets: 3Headlining: 4Seats: 4Trim: 4ENGINE TOTAL: 16/20Mechanical components: 4Running: 4Starting: 4Under Bonnet: 4RUNNING GEAR TOTAL: 16/20Axles: 4Brakes: 4Gearbox/Clutch: 4Suspension: 4ELECTRICAL TOTAL: 8/10Ancillary components: 4Main components: 4Car History File: 3/5This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: PP This lot is owned by a private individual. The right of return enjoyed by EU customers is not applicable.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWO CRAGGANMORE A pair of Cragganmore expressions. First a Cragganmore Distillers Edition Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in 1990 and bottled in 2003. 70cl. 40% abv. Cask finished in a Port cask. Level mid-neck. In original carton (top flap missing). Bottle in excellent condition. Together with a bottle of Cragganmore 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky. 70cl. 40% abv. Level mid-neck. With original carton (creased and marked). Bottle in excellent condition. 2 bottles.
Arthur Ransome, Edgar Allan Poe A Critical Study, Stephen Swift & Co Ltd. 1912, First Edition Second Issue, Demy 8vo; blank before half-title; photogravure portrait frontispiece, after a daguerreotype, with tissue guard; ; dark navy blue coarse buckram, lettered gilt on spine; fore- and lower- edges uncut
Danielle Lloyd 12x8 signed colour photo. Danielle O'Neill is an English glamour model and television personality. A former Miss England and Miss Great Britain, she first rose to prominence when she was stripped of her Miss Great Britain title after posing nude in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine. Her title was reinstated in 2010. Good Condition. All autographed items 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 £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
Yiannis Moralis (Greek, 1916-2009)Composition signed in Greek and dated '1960' (lower left)acrylic on hardboard100 x 366 cm.Footnotes:ExhibitedAthens, Benaki Museum, Yannis Moralis, Architectural Compositions, February 10 - April 30, 2011 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pp. 52-53).LiteratureZygos magazine, no. 80, July 1962, p. 25, no. 61 (illustrated).Architectoniki magazine, no. 42, November-December 1963, p. 8 (mentioned), p. 11, no.16 (illustrated).Architectoniki magazine, no. 46, July-August 1964, p. 44 (illustrated).The Greek Painters, vol. II, 20th Century, Melissa editions, Athens 1975, p. 383 (mentioned).Yannis Moralis, Functional Art, Polyplano editions, Athens 1976, p. 29 (illustrated).Sima magazine, no. 22, no. 5, March 1979, p. 40 (illustrated).Yannis Moralis, Commercial Bank of Greece Group of Companies edition, Athens 1988, no. 782, p. 476 (mentioned), p. 496 (illustrated).C. Christou, Moralis, Adam editions, Athens 1993, p. 254 (mentioned).Yannis Moralis, Epta Imeres, Kathimerini weekly magazine, April 10, 1994, p. 5 (mentioned).Y. Bolis, Yannis Moralis, K. Adam editions, Athens 2005, p. 168 (mentioned).Y. Bolis, Yannis Moralis, Contemporary Greek Painters, Ta Nea editions, Athens 2007, p. 139 (mentioned).Y. Moralis, Traces, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art - Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Andros 2008, p. 218 (mentioned).A Tribute to Yannis Moralis, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens 2011, pp. 209, 245 (mentioned).Gr Design magazine, September 2018, p. 12 (mentioned).A monumental Moralis, Composition 1, 2 is one of the most beautiful and imposing paintings by the artist ever to appear on the auction market. Epic in scale and magnificent in its simple grandeur, this striking work echoes the timeless values of ancient Greek art.Disciplined line and pure form, reminiscent of architectural fragments from an ancient Greek temple or a neoclassical Athenian mansion, set up a perfectly balanced geometric edifice from which engaging floral motifs emerge playfully against luminous patches of blue colour indicative of clear skies. The well thought out compositional scheme, the shallow depth, suggestive of sculptural relief, and the overall serene rhythm, dictated by the classical sense for human scale, compose an evocative world of poetic images that revives the archetypal universe of an Ionian frieze.Pointing out Moralis's ideological kinship with his classical models, M. Lambraki-Plaka, Director of the Athens National Gallery, notes: 'Verticals, horizontals, diagonals and curves compose a harmonious whole full of intensity, hidden under apparent tranquillity.'3 As Nobel laureate O. Elytis once said of Moralis, 'by using a limited vocabulary of form, Moralis has succeeded—in a manner unprecedented in Greek art—to transform the language of the natural world into a purely optical phenomenon. Memories and encounters are repeatedly distilled until they blend into forms of great simplicity and precision.'4 Elaborating on the relationship of painting and architecture in Moralis' work from the 1960s, art critic A. Xydis notes: 'For a long time I have believed that the qualities of Moralis's art were particularly appropriate to the full expression of a work of architecture. His strength in and love of composition, his sensitive and balanced colour harmonies, the diligence of his technique, and the clarity and monumentality in the organization of planes and volumes, make up a combination of qualities much sought after by architects. They are even related to those that belong to a good architect, whose artistic temperament must at every moment be subjected to the control of reason.'5 1 Composition adorned the Xenia hotel in Florina, designed in 1960 by architect G. Nikoletopoulos in the vein of the legendary modernist Aris Konstantinidis. As noted by art critic A. Xydis, 'since 1959, Moralis produced a series of epoch-making works that paved the way to a wider use of artists by architects, who realised that they had only to gain from such a collaboration. In his first such works [as is the case with the Florina Xenia], Moralis did not depart far from the easel painting techniques he had been using at the time, the more so as these works were intended for interior spaces. He worked either in situ or in his studio.' A. Xydis, 'Auspicious Collaboration of Art and Architecture, the Work of Yannis Moralis 1959-1963' [in Greek], Architectoniki journal, no. 42, November-December 1963, p. 8.2 As noted by the artist himself, Composition was painted in the studio of artist Natalia Mela. See Yannis Moralis, Architectural Compositions [in Greek], exhibition catalogue, Benaki Museum, Athens 2011, p. 53.3 M. Lambraki-Plaka, 'Classic and Human-centred' [in Greek], Kathimerini daily, Epta Imeres, 10.4.1994, p. 114 O. Elytis, preface to the Moralis exhibition catalogue, Iolas-Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens 1972.5 Xydis, p. 8.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HEARN, Lafcadio: The Japanese Letter. edited by E. Bisland. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910, first edition, Limited to 200 copies, And containing an original leaf of Hearn's manuscript mounted & inserted, which reads: “Mijika-yoya! Baku no yume Ku Hima mo Nashi! And below it, in English ' Alas! how short is our night! There will not be even time enough for the Baku to eat our dreams!' Old Japanese love-song . Original cloth and paper label (with an extra label at rear pastedown); Plus the auction receipt, 2006. Front endpaper inscribed by the Publishers? 'To W J Coolidge? From H&M Co.' Covers little rubbed; Plus 5 other books by or about Lafcadio Hearn. (6)
UK Beach Resorts: Three Fans Advertising The Pleasures of Bournemouth and Brighton, the first issued by The Fan Museum, Fans ltd, number 2 of a limited edition of 60, a paper fan printed with the White Cliffs of Dover, a typical depiction of a beach with sandcastles, and bathers wearing striped suits. Central to the leaf, a sailing ship "ROA Bournemouth", with "RA2 and a globe at the bottom of the leaf. The verso is plain, the monture of plain black wood. Guard length 10.5 inches or 26.5cm: a brisé fan, the wood sticks transfer printed with an image of The Hotel Metropole, Brighton, with the beach in the foreground. A few painted flowers appear in the reserves. The verso is plain. Guard length 7.25 inches or 18.5cm; the third fan is a modern creation for a FCI AGM held in Brighton in May 1992. Created by the current Fan Circle International President Lorraine Taylor-Kent, the fan is made as a cockade, contained in a rock-shaped tube, both the cockade and the tube pink, and bearing a printed image of the Brighton Pavilion (3) CONDITION REPORT: . The first fan is as new. The other two are good.
Villani (Giovanni). Croniche ... nelle quali si tratta dell' origine di Firenze, 1st edition, Venice: Bartholomeo Zanetti, 1537, large printer's putto device on title-page (apparently after Titian), title-page toned, with remnants of early ink ownership annotations, and with fore edge softened with minor damage, occasional spotting or marks (mostly to margins), some margins with early ink manuscript annotations (trimmed at fore-edge), intermittent dampstaining (mostly to gutter or margins), lacking final leaf (blank except for repeated putto device), stitching showing in places, 18th century vellum, dust-soiled with some wear to extremities, rubbed spine with loss at foot, spine label deficient, small folio in 8s (Qty: 1)NOTESFirst edition of this famous chronicle by the foremost historical writer of the Middle Ages, giving an accurate description of the history and development of Florence, of its trade, industry, social classes, religious customs, relation to its neighbours, and its ceaseless and passionate domestic conflicts. This edition contains the first 10 books, the final two not appearing until the second edition of 1554.
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