Exhibition pamphlets.- A Collection of 20 Pamphlets, including: 16 panorama exhibition guides, of which 12 with original folding panorama key, 1 with folding plate; and 4 others various exhibitions, travel, and entertainment, 2 of which with a folding plate or map, together 20 in 1, most folding keys or plates creased and browned at folds, and a few with tears or spots, nineteenth century half calf, a little scuffed, 8vo, 1814-1826.*** A broad-ranging collection of pamphlets, recording the popular phenomenon of 'panoramas' in Georgian society. Seeking to provide a truly immersive experience, these vast paintings gave a 'panoramic' view (term first printed 1813), most commonly of foreign climbs - this collection including Athens, Bern, Berlin, Corfu, Edinburgh, Jerusalem, Mexico City, Paris, Pompeii, Spitzbergen and Venice - and also, often during the Napoleonic wars, detailed battle scenes - as here with Algiers and Vittoria. Most of these are exhibited at the Panorama in Leicester Square or the Strand, curated by artists Henry Aston Barker and J. Burford. Other pamphlets cover a painting by Benjamin West, an exhibition of the Imperial State Carriage of Burma, the discovery of an Egyptian tomb, and the phenomenon of the 'living skeleton'.
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Chandler (Raymond) Farewell, My Lovely, first edition, light spotting to endpapers, original cloth, dust-jacket, split running down lower joint from head with closed tear across spine, 4½ in. tear along lower flap joint continuing slightly into panel, few nicks to edges and spine tail, 8vo, [Bruccoli A2], New York, 1940.
![Chatterton (Thomas).- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters, first edition, errata](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bdf27cdf-4b22-4e00-b3ad-b12c00e4aecd/f23cde4e-af72-43bd-b662-b12c00f6311a/468x382.jpg)
Chatterton (Thomas).- [Croft (Sir Herbert)] Love and Madness. A Story too True. In a Series of Letters, first edition, errata to verso of title, ink ownership inscription to head of title, very occasional light spotting, some leaves slightly trimmed, slightly rubbed, G. Kearsly, 1780 § Chatterton (Thomas) Poems, Supposed to Have Been Written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and Others, in the Fifteenth Century, fifth edition, edited by Lancelot Sharpe, additional engraved vignette title, engraved facsimile plate to face p.197, B. Flower, 1794, later half calf, 8vo (2) *** The scarce first edition of Croft's novel based on the murder of Martha Reay, an opera singer and mistress of Lord Sandwich, who was shot by a jealous lover James Hackman at Covent Garden in 1779. Much of the work concerns literary forgeries particularly those of Thomas Chatterton in his adoption of the Thomas Rowley persona. Croft had fraudulently obtained letters relating to Chatterton from the poet's sister and was subsequently exposed by Robert Southey.Complimented by a contemporary edition of Chatterton's Rowley Poems, containing the first printing of Coleridge's Monody on the Death of Chatterton, only the poet's second appearance in print.
Waugh (Evelyn) Brideshead Revisited, first edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, spine gilt, very minor fading and rubbing to spine tips, two very small nicks to lower edge of upper cover, otherwise fine, dust-jacket, spine browned, horizontal tear across spine head and slightly down lower joint, not affecting title, tape marks on upper head joints, rubbing along joints, chips to extremities with thin strips of fading, upper edge nicked with some light fraying, housed in custom-made morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo, 1945. *** A true rarity - a signed first trade edition of Waugh's most enduring novel. In 1944, six months before the official publication, Waugh issued a pre-publication edition of the novel in a run of 50 copies. These were printed and specially-bound specifically to distribute amongst friends for Christmas - and to solicit any revisions. Several changes were made as a result of his friends' comments, including suggested alterations by Fr. Martin D’Arcy, Cyril Connolly, and Nancy Mitford. A letter from Graham Greene – Waugh’s friend and recipient of one of the 50 copies – had indicated that Waugh may have only inscribed 19 of the 50 copies (Jeffrey Young Collection, Sotheby's London, 14 December 1992, lot 182). It is because of the specially issued limited edition that so few copies of the first trade edition exist which are signed.
![Austen (Jane) [The Novels], 5 vol. in 4, 'Standard Novels' series, comprising: Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey [&] Persu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bdf27cdf-4b22-4e00-b3ad-b12c00e4aecd/93ea9468-c041-4846-a327-b12c00f1c473/468x382.jpg)
Austen (Jane) [The Novels], 5 vol. in 4, 'Standard Novels' series, comprising: Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey [&] Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice, first Bentley editions, engraved frontispieces and vignette titles, lacking half-titles, a little foxing as usual with light offsetting, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines gilt with red morocco labels (one lacking), rubbed, [Gilson D1, D3, D4, D5], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1833.
Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in the original monthly parts, 20 parts in 19, early issues, engraved portrait of Dickens by Finden after Maclise and 39 etched plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), "latter" for "letter" on p.160 of part 5 (first state), those plates in first two parts without imprints, plate 29 with the uncommon short title, loosely inserted in part 4 is an original coloured pencil drawing by Browne, heightened in crayon, of the illustration "Newman Noggs Leaves the Ladies in the Empty House", lacking the inserted advertisements in part 1, the Mechi catalogue and most of the "Advertiser" in part 2, the scarce Amesbury advertisement in part 3, the Medical Casket in part 16, and the Valentine Vox advertisements in part 19/20, 4 of 5 specimen seals removed from rare "Hill's Wafers" advertisement in part 19/20, all other advertisements present, some browning to plates as usual, a few leaves loose, original blue-green printed wrappers, one spine neatly rebacked, some others slightly worn, preserved in two modern custom chemises and handsome crimson morocco slip-cases with pull-off tops, ends slightly bumped, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1838-9. *** Dickens' third novel as it originally appeared in serial form. ""Dickens was under pressure all through 1838 with the [...] double monthly tasks [...] of Oliver [Twist] and Nickleby." His biographer John Forster said later that he never knew him work so much after dinner or such late hours. There was extra urgency because he had promised to complete Oliver for publication in book form [...] months before the series publication was to end" (Tomalin). Provenance: Anderson Galleries, Sale of the Library of Mr Edwin W. Coggeshall of New York, 25th April 1916, lot 99.
China.- The Shop Signs of Peking, one of 100 unnumbered copies, preface by H.K. Fung, 101 fine hand-coloured illustrations on 18 leaves, text in English and Chinese, loosely inserted article on 'Shanghai Pawnshops' from the Peking Chronicle 12th January 1933, and another titled 'The First parliament of Bombay Bay in High Debate' reprinted from Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Dublin 1786, in an edition of 100 copies, 1987, original cloth-backed patterned paper boards with silk corners and paper label on upper cover, fastened with cord in oriental style, extremities a little rubbed, a few small patches of discolouration to upper cover, oblong folio, Beijing, Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931. *** These finely coloured illustrations depict the diverse range of signs used in Beijing to represent different types of shops, including pawn shops, apothecaries, bakers, goldsmiths and public baths, among others. Fung notes that, 'eventually', with increasing levels of literacy, 'they will become nothing but relics of the ancient Chinese Customs'.
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Lamb (Charles [and Mary]) Tales From Shakespear Designed for the Use of Young Persons, 2 vol., first edition, first issue with printer's imprint to the foot of vol. 1 p. 236, and the address "Hanway Street" in vol. 2 advertisements, engraved frontispieces and 18 plates after William Mulready, 3pp. advertisements at end of vol. 2, light occasional spotting, some light browning, contemporary half calf, double morocco spine labels, rubbed, joints worn, preserved in modern custom chemises and modern half calf drop-back box, 12mo, Thomas Hodgkins, at The Juvenile Library, 1807. *** The rare first issue of what was the first attempt to make Shakespeare accessible to a young audience, commissioned by William Godwin's children's publishing house. Mary Lamb (1764-1847), whose name was omitted from the earliest editions, contributed the majority of the stories, while Charles worked on the six tragedies. The plates were designed by William Mulready, and are often said to have been engraved by William Blake. Provenance: "Charlotte Allen" (ink signatures to titles, dated 1809).
Bond (Michael) A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, first printing, illustrations by Peggy Fortnum, endpapers lightly browned, original cloth, very small patch of fading to spine ends where jacket is chipped, otherwise fine cloth, dust-jacket, light strips of fading across extremities, 2" portion of loss to lower panel affecting text, few nicks, chips, and tears along edges and joints, light marking to lower panel, 8vo, 1958. *** The first of Michael Bond's Paddington books in which he created his much beloved marmalade-adoring eponymous bear. Increasingly rare in the jacket, particularly not price-clipped.
Sales (George) The Koran, Commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed, first edition, title in red and black, three engraved genealogical tables, folding engraved map of Arabia, and folding engraved plate with plan of Mecca, contemporary calf, rebacked, covers a little scuffed, 4to, C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734.*** First edition of the second and most authoritative English version of the Koran; Sale's translation was the first directly from Arabic to English, and is credited with introducing the West to the Koran. Provenance: Francis Enys of Truro, Cornwall [early engraved bookplate].
Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, half-title, 4 advertisement leaves at end, beautiful copy in red morocco, gilt, by Riviere, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., others uncut, 12mo, Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820.*** A fine copy of what is "now recognised as among the most important works of English poetry ever published" (ODNB). This is the third and final volume of poetry published in Keats's lifetime. By the time the volume appeared in early July of 1820, Keats was already gravely ill with the consumption that had killed his mother and brother and from which he died in Rome in February 1821. This collection, as well as the poems mentioned in the title, also includes the celebrated sequence of Odes ("To a Nightingale", "On a Grecian Urn", "To Psyche", and "On Melancholy").Provenance: Thomas Gaisford (bookplate).
Marine life.- Rumpf (Georg Eberhard) Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum, engraved portrait of the author and elaborate additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, 3 engraved head-pieces and one tail-piece, 60 engraved plates, some very small scattered ink stains to portrait, mostly marginal, additional title with very short closed tear to lower margin, plate 60 with small stain just within platemark, some light browning, plates with occasional light marginal spotting or minor soiling, but overall good, some foxing to text, modern calf-backed boards, spine label little chipped, extremities lightly rubbed, [Nissen ZBI 3520], folio, Leiden, Peter van der Aa, 1711. *** A first edition in Latin of Rumpf's landmark work on marine life in the Moluccan Archipelago of Indonesia, first published in Dutch in 1705. The plates include shells, sea urchins, crabs and lobsters etc.
Southey (Robert, poet and reviewer, 1774-1843) Autograph Letter signed to General William Peachy, 1p. with conjugate blank, 8vo, 24th November [?c. 1810], "... with your leave I shall report that the Ark may be laid up out of the way of these storms, upon your friendly island. This I have delayed doing for several days, hoping that I might have an opportunity of speaking to you first, - but this the weather has prevented. I had two letters of Lord Thurlow's concerning Cooper in my possession for a few hours last week. You shall see copies of them - they are very much to his credit. Lord Kenyon, to whose father they were written, sent them to me", folds; and 2 others, comprising a Southey autograph address panel (unrelated to first mentioned) to Peachy, folds; and a Biblical autograph note signed by Southey, "Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it; are the issues of life", Proverbs IV, 23; and an engraved portrait of Southey, foxed, v.s., v.d. (4).
Heliodorus (Emesenus, Bishop of Tricca) Historiae Aethiopicæ libri decem, nunquam antea in lucem editi, collation: a-z A-G4 H6, title in Greek and Latin, dedication in Latin, text in Greek, title and verso of otherwise blank final f. with woodcut printer's device, woodcut historiated initials, neat 18th century ink bibliographical notes to front free endpaper, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, later vellum, little ink staining to upper cover, small 4to (190 x 149mm.), Basel, Johannes Herwagen, 1534. *** Editio princeps of the earliest Greek romance. The Aethiopica was first brought to light during the Renaissance in a manuscript from the library of Matthias Corvinus, which was found at the sack of Buda in 1526. The French dramatist Racine listed it amongst his favourite books, and when his copy was taken away from him at the Jansenist retreat of Port-Royal he was rumoured to have said that he did not care as he had already memorised it.Literature: Adams H174; VD 16 H 1673.
America.- Josselyn (John) New Englands Rarities Discovered: in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country, second edition, initial and final blank leaves present, folding woodcut plate and woodcut illustrations, small repair to title without loss of text, occasional light browning, modern blind-stamped calf, [Wing J1094; Sabin 36674 for first edition, this edition not cited], 8vo, Printed for C. Widdowes, 1675.*** An excellent copy of a rare work which first appeared in 1672. This second 'Addition' as it is called on the title-page, is only located by USTC at Yale's Beinecke Library and the John Carter Brown Library and seemingly has no auction appearance for over 100 years.Josselyn's work is "the earliest work on the natural history and Indian remedies of New England" (Vail), much of it forming a description of herbal remedies among the Indians. The work also includes a brief chronological history of New England from Columbus's arrival in America, the founding of colonies in Virginia (1606), Massachusets (1628), Connecticut (1636), New-Haven (1638, also the year of a "terrible Earth quake throughout the Country") and such events as "The whole Bible Printed in the Indian Language finished" (1664). Additionally, the 'Description of an Indian Squa' with an accompanying poem, praising black beauty above white, occurs on pp. 99-102.
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Catholic Church. Missale Basiliense, collation: [*6] a–f10 g12 [16] h–k10 A–F10 G H8, 189 ff. (of 190, lacking [*1] (first f. of Calendar), [11] blank, 31 lines, printed in red and black, Gothic type, initials in red or blue (some with marginal flourish), initial-strokes in red, early (often extensive) ink marginalia in black and red, including a full-page to verso of blank f., some mostly marginal damp-staining, causing the need for repairs to some ff. (generally without loss of text, save for h7, where just touching the final letter of some lines, and head of final gathering (H), where some letters neatly supplied in ink), C1 lower corner torn, affecting ink marginalia, [13&4] chip to outer margin, h1 small piece torn from upper blank corner, the odd short marginal tear, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, later blind-stamped panelled calf over wooden boards, spine in compartments and with manuscript paper title label at head, covers with small floral centre- and corner-pieces and foliage decoration, remains of metal clasps, upper joint starting, but holding firm, corners worn, some staining, little worming, rubbed and marked, folio (308 x 210mm.), [Basel], [Michael Wenssler, and/or Bernhard Richel, and/or Peter Kollicker with Johann Meister (Koch)], [c.1482-1483]. *** Rare, this being the only copy we can trace at auction. ISTC records 12 copies (and a fragment), of which five are imperfect. On the ascription to Wenssler and the date see Allan Stevenson, The problem of the Missale Speciale (London, 1967).Provenance: ‘Ch. ?Himais, 21 März 1951’ (ink inscription to outer margin of first f. of Calendar).Literature: Goff M-649; GW 24267; BSB-Ink M-420; Weale-Bohatta 156; ISTC im00649000.
![Typography.- Simon (Oliver) and Stanley Morison, editors. The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography, 7 vol. [a complete set], vol.](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bdf27cdf-4b22-4e00-b3ad-b12c00e4aecd/6f3a25b7-1feb-476c-921d-b12c00f8807e/468x382.jpg)
Typography.- Simon (Oliver) and Stanley Morison, editors. The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography, 7 vol. [a complete set], vol.2-6 deluxe limited editions on hand-made paper (110-160 copies) and containing additional material, specimens, plates and illustrations, some folding, some printed in colours, a few tipped in, vol.1 with ink inscription "T.Balston Apr. 1923", traces of bookplate to front pastedown of vol.7, vol.1 original cloth-backed boards, the rest original cloth, vol.2-6 uncut, vol.7 with dust-jacket (a little rubbed & soiled, small tears to edges), a good set, 4to, London, Cambridge & New York, 1923-30.*** One of the most important typographical periodicals of the 20th century. Oliver Simon edited the first four volumes, Stanley Morison the last three. The deluxe edition of vol.6 contains a wood-engraving by Eric Ravilious and 2 copper engravings by David Jones, one signed by him in pencil.Thomas Balston (1883-1967), publisher and writer on English book production and illustration, particularly papermaking due to his family connections with 18th century papermakers.
America.- Early travel guide.- Boyle (Robert) General Heads for the Natural History of a Country, Great or Small; Drawn out for the Use of Travellers and Navigators, first edition, final advertisement leaf, contemporary panelled calf, flower tool at corners, expertly rebacked preserving original backstrip, little rubbed, a very good copy, [Wing B3980; Sabin 7139; Fulton 195], 12mo, John Taylor...and S. Holford, 1692. *** "There are many amusing tales which Boyle and his editor had apparently received from navigators. Pages 102-6, for example, are headed 'Enquiries for Virginia and Bermudas' in which he asks for a 'particular Account of the [well known] Spider in the Bermudas, said to be Large and Beautiful for its Colours [&c.]'. He also desires further information concerning the 'Gigantick Natives of Cheasapeak' and the particulars of that sea water 'where ships do soonest rot as in the Streights of California the Sea looks red, with innumerable Worms that are in it'." (Fulton)Provenance: Hon. Robert Shirley (engraved armorial bookplate).
Byroniana.- Lake (J.W.) A Poetical Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron, first edition, ex-library with small embossed stamp to half-title and ink reference to foot of title verso, scattered spotting, disbound and loose, Paris, Amyot, 1824 § [Phillips (Willard) and Norton (Andrews)] A Review of the Character and Writings of Lord Byron, first edition in book form, half-title, portrait frontispiece (lightly offset), advertisement f. at end, gutter cracked at points, some light toning and spotting at beginning and end, original drab boards, remains of paper spine label, wear to corners and spine, spine with central vertical split, old glue repair to upper joint, lower joint split but cover holding, [Wise II, p.92], 1826; and others relating to Byron, including printed broadside poem "A Tribute to the Memory of Lord Byron" dedicated to W.F. Webb of Newstead Abbey, 8vo (10) *** The second mentioned first published in the North American Review of October 1825 (v.21, pp. 300-359).
Campion (Edmund).- Particular declaration or testimony (A), of the undutifull and traiterous affection borne against her Maiestie by Edmond Campion Jesuite, and other condemned Priestes..., first edition, with initial blank leaf and colophon leaf D4, large woodcut of Royal Arms on verso of title, woodcut initials, printed mostly in black letter, initial blank with later ink note to verso, small ink letter to title fore-margin, trimmed close at head, touching one or two headlines and shaving headline to D1, modern cloth, g.e., [Pfrozheimer 125; STC 4536], 8vo (183 x 112mm.), Christopher Barker, 1582. *** "The official statement of her Majesty's government regarding the condemnation of Campion and the other catholics then in the tower" (Pforzheimer). The Jesuit mission to reconvert England to Catholicism had been authorised by Pope Pius V in the wake of his excommunication of Elizabeth in 1570. Provenance: Downside Abbey Library (bookplate; ink-stamps to initial blank and title verso).
Byron (Lord George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, poet, 1788-1824) Autograph address panel signed to Dr Samuel Butler, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, remains of red wax seal, on reverse a draft letter from Dr Butler in the hand of his daughter Harriet, tear along one side where opened, folds, slightly browned, 250 x 165mm., February 1814; and 4 others, comprising: another autograph address panel from Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies and 2 engraved portraits of Byron, v.s., v.d. (5).*** First mentioned relating to a correspondence between Byron and Dr Butler, referring to Butler's translation of Lucien Bonaparte's, Charlemagne. Second mentioned to Byron's university friend Scrope Berdmore Davies; Byron later dedicated his poem "Parisina" to Davies, and described him once as "One of the cleverest men I ever knew in conversation".
Falkner (J. Meade) Moonfleet, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed "Thos. Hardy from the Author 1898" on title, 2pp. advertisements and 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated November 1898 at rear, pencil markings to pp. 1, 114 and 119, bookseller's label of Mawson, Swan and Morgan of Newcastle to front pastedown, the odd spot, light browning to endpapers, occasional slight cracking to gutter, original cloth, very slight fading to spine, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, light rubbing, [Wolff 2120], 8vo, Edward Arnold, 1898.*** A superb association copy of this classic adventure novel, Hardy was a good friend and correspondent of Falkner and the two Dorset authors read and admired each other's works. Other works by Falkner are known to have been in Hardy's library at Max Gate. The inscription here is likely in the hand of the author's sister who was known to have inscribed works on her brother's behalf. Though the markings are difficult to determine as being in Hardy's hand, the passages highlighted on pp.114 and 119 are reminiscent of Hardy's own descriptive writing style.
*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***America.- Wafer (Lionel) A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America, first edition, folding engraved map and 3 folding plates, advertisement leaf at end, contemporary blind-stamped calf, spine gilt, upper joint slightly cracked, [Wing W193; Sabin 100940], 8vo, Printed for James Knapton, 1699.*** A lovely copy. Bookplate of Hans Sloane probably that of Hans Sloane (1739-1827), the great-nephew of BM founder Sir Hans Sloane. Interesting work on the inhabitants and geography of central America.
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Brewing.- [Child (Samuel)], “A Gentleman, lately retired from the Brewing Business”. Every man his own brewer; or, a compendium of the English brewery, first edition, half-title, 2 advertisement ff. at end, A6 cancelled, B11 cancel with drop-head title 'The Philosophy of brewing; or, a compendium of the English brewery', obliterated ink ownership inscription to head of A3 (some ink offsetting on to verso of title), occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, front endpapers water-stained, contemporary sheep, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends chipped, joints splitting, but holding firm, corners worn, some staining, rubbed, [Cagle 599 (uncancelled state of ff. A6 & B11) & 600 (cancelled state); Maclean p.26], a good copy, large 12mo, Printed for the Author: and sold by J. Almon, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly; and Mess. Robinson and Roberts, in Pater-noster Row, 1768. *** Rare at auction.
Pollard (Percival) Lingo Dan, first edition, 1p. advertisements, slight crack to upper hinge, bookplate of Arthur K. Brewer to front pastedown, original red cloth lettered in gilt, slight darkening to spine, a few patches of mottling but an excellent example overall, [Hubin p.650], 8vo, Washington, The Neale Publishing Company, 1903.*** An excellent example of the famous crime rarity, a Queen's Quorum title (no. 32). The novel's title character is the all-American anti-hero: a murderer, thief, con-man and patriot. This copy includes a note from the crime bibliographer Allen Hubin discussing the rarity of the present title and the possibility of using the present copy as the basis for a modern reprint.
Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, first edition, abrasion marks from removal of stamps to endpapers, half-title and several other pp., remains of label to head of title, light abrasion to fore-edge, light foxing to half-title and rear endpapers, first state boards with golden gun on upper cover, spine ends and corners rubbed and a little bumped, chip to foot of lower joint, dust-jacket, minor chipping to spine ends and corners, light rubbing to head and foot, vertical crease to upper panel, still an excellent example overall, 8vo, 1965. *** The very scarce issue with the gold gun on upper cover, considered by Jonathan Cape inadequate and subsequently reissued in plain boards.
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Bible, English. [The bible in Englishe], 5 parts in one, [Great Bible version], double column, black letter, woodcuts in the text, decorative initials, lacks c.54 of 600ff. (all 8 preliminary leaves including title; part 1 A1-2, A7-8, B1, B5, B8, H7, I1 & K8; part 2 M3, M6, M8, N1, N3-6, O2-7, P1, P8, Q1-2, Q7-8, R1 & R8; NT [fleuron]A1 (title), [fleuron]C1-2 (a sliver remaining), [fleuron]I8, all after [fleuron]O8 (final 10ff.)), interleaved where leaves lacking, several ff. defective with serious text loss (see part 1 A3-6, G5 & I2; part 2 M3-4; part 4 3L1; NT [fleuron]I7), sometimes supplied in later ink manuscript, other portions of text loss and repairs, some woodcuts unfortunately cut away but many remaining, extensive marginal repairs to part 1 & NT towards end, a few instances of underlining, browned, some spotting and staining, modern morocco, preserved in custom drop-back box by Temple Bookbinders, [Herbert 117; STC 2096], folio (331 x 215mm.), [Richarde Harrison], [1562]; sold not subject to return. *** The first folio edition published after Elizabeth I's accession. Harrison was fined for printing without licence. Provenance: Thomas Osborne of Codrington his Booke Anno Dom 1694 (ownership inscription to foot of T1 & several other ff.); "A Gift Received through Rev. Professor J.H. Thayer. 2 May 1868" (pencil inscription to front free endpaper).
Carter (Charles) The Complete Practical Cook, first edition, title in red and black, 60 engraved plates, a few folding, slight worming to front endpapers and margin of folding frontispiece, occasional soiling and light water-staining, contemporary panelled calf, extremities worn, some surface abrasion to lower cover, [Bitting p.77; Maclean p.23; Oxford pp.61-62], 4to, Printed for W. Meadows, C. Rivington and R. Hett, 1730.*** "This is a large quarto with fine engravings of the courses at table" (Oxford).
Eyre & Matcham families (of Newhouse, near Redlynch, Wiltshire).- Collection of papers and ephemera, including: land deed relating to Matharn [?Mathern, Monmouthshire], 20th September 1569; 5 17th century indentures (3 relating to Robert Eyre); 4 17th century legal papers of Sir Samuel Eyre, 1679 & 1693; Robert Shafto (the subject of the popular song “Bonny Bobby Shafto”, MP for Downton, Wiltshire, c. 1732-97) Election expenses account, 1784; draft of a petition to William IV by George Matcham asking for permission to inherit the title of Duke of Bronte after the death of his uncle William Nelson, first Earl Nelson (1757-1835); notes, extracts from letters and journals relating to Nelson; c. 40 letters to Harriet Eyre (c. 1792-1873), mainly from Mary Thomas of Kington, on health, domestic matters, a mutual friend Mrs Plumptre; several printed bonds, Benjamin Shaw receipt, engraved with manuscript insertions, 1783; William King & Joseph King, Mercers to His Majesty… All Kinds of Silks for Furniture, large engraved receipt with manuscript insertions; 4 £1 notes drawn on provincial banks (Bath, Salisbury & Shaftesbury, Frome & Andover), 1809 & 1825, and others, v.s., 16th – 19th centuries (qty).
Lake District.- Fielding (Theodore Henry) & J. Walton. A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, first edition, half-title, aquatint title-vignette and 48 plates, all hand-coloured, some tissue-guards loose, occasional light foxing and spotting slightly affecting the edges of one or two plates, contemporary red half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, a few surface tears to marbled boards, slightly rubbed, R. Ackermann, 1821 § Garnet (J., publisher) Views of the English Lakes, engraved title and 30 plates, some very light water-staining to upper edge, modern half calf, gilt, morocco spine label, Windermere [c.1860s], 4to and oblong 8vo (2) *** To summarize Ackermann's introduction, this work unites the "most striking features of the various kinds of scenery of the lakes, executed by able artists in a style worthy of the subject" with "a description of all that is interesting and remarkable in the nature and appearance of the country... combining a judicious selection from the labours of former writers... with much new and original information."
Greene (Graham) The Power and the Glory, first edition, usual light browning to half-title, light marginal toning, small bookseller's sticker on pastedown corner, original cloth, second impression jacket with "Second large printing" to front flap, light creasing and fraying to spine ends and extremities, spine a little toned, very faint surface soiling to lower panel, but an excellent example overall, [Wobbe A16a], 8vo, 1940.*** Hailed by John Updike as "Graham Greene's masterpiece", the work was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the hundred best English-language novels since 1923. Many of the copies were seemingly lost in the bombing of Heinemann's publishing house during the war.
Pollution.- Evelyn (John) Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer and Smoak of London dissipated, first edition, first issue (with 'Published by His Majesties Command' on title), lacking final blank (as often), later pencil marginalia, title with neat repair to outer margin, some water-staining and a little soiling, a1&2 (To the Reader) small worm trace in text, affecting part or whole of a few letters, but with no loss of sense of text, b2 very small hole to outer margin, closely trimmed at head, just touching headline on D1r&v, some marginal water-staining, occasional spotting, lightly browned, bound between blank ff. in 19th century half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt, head of spine and corners little worn, rubbed, [Keynes 23; Wing E3488], small 4to, Printed by W. Godbid for Gabriel Bedel, and Thomas Collins, and are to be sold at their Shop at the Middle Temple Gate neer Temple-Bar, 1661. *** The first English book on pollution, with suggestions on how to improve the poor air quality of London, including the planting trees and relocating of industries such as brewing, dyeing and lime-burning.Provenance: Henry Davies (late 19th / early 20th century bookplate to front pastedown).
Brockman (Stuart, binder).- Morgan (Derek Llwyd, editor) Kyffin: A Celebration, one of 50 copies for the Designer Bookbinders, from a total edition of 360 copies, foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, 20 linocuts in blue and black and linocut endpapers by Kyffin Williams, bound by Stuart Brockman (with his label) in 2007 in thick boards covered in translucent vellum over a watercolour painting and tooled with chimney smoke in palladium punctuated with gilt diamond-shaped tooling, remarkable deep blue and silver patterned endpapers, original linocut endpapers bound in, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, housed in perspex box for viewing within Brockman’s original black velvet-lined clamshell black cloth box with black morocco, gilt lettered spine label, small folio (binding 266 x 176mm.), Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog, 2007.*** An astonishing binding paying tribute to Kyffin Williams’s art with a bold image of a Welsh village in the mountains stretching across both boards and the spine in splendid colours. British Fellow of the Designer Bookbinders, Stuart Brockman has brought the technique of translucent vellum over painted boards, first developed by Chivers of Bath, into the 21st century with great skill and artistry.
Cicero against agrarian reform.- Loredano (Bernardino) In M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes de lege agraria contra P. Servilium Rullum tribunum pl. commentarius, first edition, collation: A-Z4 AA-OO4 PP2, title with woodcut printer's device, initial spaces with guide-letters, 3pp. errata at end, occasional spotting or light staining, lightly browned, later endpapers, contemporary limp vellum, spine in compartments, lacking ties, a few small stains, small 4to (203 x 145mm.), Venice, Paulus Manutius, June, 1558. *** Rare copy at auction of this commentary on Cicero’s orations against land reform in favour of the poor, spoken against the tribune of the plebs P. Servilius Rullus. Cicero equated the agrarian movement to robbery, and believed that it had disrupted the 'concordia' of the Roman republic, and given rise to factions. Provenance: Baron Landau (engraved bookplate to front pastedown). Literature: Ahmanson-Murphy 535; Renouard 174:8; EDIT 16 CNCE 28035.
Bees.- Butler (Charles) The Feminin' Monarchi', or the Histori of Bee's, third edition, verso of title with half-page woodcut illustration of the hive with a crowned queen at head (perhaps in honour of the dedicatee Queen Henrietta Maria) and with verses in Latin and English beneath, woodcut diagrams, musical notation for a bee's madrigal, head-pieces and historiated or decorative initials, printed side-notes, early ink pen trials to title and occasionally elsewhere (mostly in margins), R4 short tear to outer margin, just touching a printed side-note without loss, Z2&3 small hole in outer margin, occasional spotting or staining (including some ink), lightly browned, lacking endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary sheep, spine ends little worn, corners worn, rubbed, scuffed and scratched, but solid, [British Bee Books 18; Walker p.12; Madan II, 780; STC 4194], small 4to, Oxford, Printed by William Turner, for de Author, 1634. *** 'This is the greatest early British bee book and contains the best account of skep beekeeping which is available today.' (British Bee Books). First published in 1609, this is the first edition written in the phonetic spelling devised by the author.
Hieroglyphics.- Champollion (Jean Francois) Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, 2 parts in 1, first edition, half-title, 48 lithograph plates, some folding, some foxing, specially bound for Pope Leo XII in contemporary red straight-grain morocco, the covers with his gilt arms in centre within elaborate gilt border and fillet, spine richly gilt with dark green morocco label, blue glazed endpapers, uncut and partly unopened, spine ends very slightly rubbed, preserved in modern velvet-lined morocco slip-case, 8vo, Paris, Strasburg & London, Chez Treuttel et Wurtz, 1824.*** A stunning copy of Champollion's landmark work on the deciphering of hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, establishing him as the father of scientific Egyptology.In this remarkable work the author describes, step by step, with numerous examples and details, the method he followed to discover and document the three aspects of hieroglyphics: the phonogram images, the figurative representations, and the symbolic representations.Pope Leo XII was an active supporter of Champollion's endeavors to decipher hieroglyphs. Champollion (1790-1832) was an extraordinary philologist, who, by the age of sixteen, besides Greek and Latin, had mastered six ancient Middle Eastern languages, among these Coptic, the knowledge of which, unlike that of Egyptian, had never been lost. Champollion recognised the connection between the Coptic and the Egyptian language, and was able to identify many of the Egyptian words on the Rosetta Stone, as he could read them with their Coptic equivalents. He was the first to believe that both Demotic and hieroglyphs represented symbols, and not sounds as earlier presumed. After that he quickly realised that each single hieroglyph could represent a sign, and he began compiling a hieroglyphic alphabet.
Salinger (J.D.) The Catcher in the Rye, first edition, ownership name and light foxing marks to endpapers, original cloth, spine gilt, lightly dulled, extremities lightly bumped, first printing dust-jacket with correct positioning of 'R' on front flap and photographer credited on lower panel, some creases, a few nicks and chips to edges, small patches of staining to lower edge, spine faded, flap margins tender after expert lifting, lower flap with portion of loss to upper corner, still overall a bright example, 8vo, Boston, 1951. *** An excellent copy of Salinger's seminal novel, rare in an unrestored jacket.
Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John, editor) The Pastorals of Virgil, with a course of English Reading, adapted for Schools..., 2 vol., third edition (first Blake edition), numerous wood-engraved and engraved plates including 17 wood-engravings and 6 engravings by William Blake and 4 other designs by Blake engraved by others, folding lithographed maps, some very light spotting and offsetting (mostly to vol.1) but a good copy internally, contemporary sheep (not quite uniform), a little rubbed and scuffed, rebacked, spines ruled in gilt with blue morocco labels, corners repaired, preserved in modern sheep-backed marbled board drop-back box, spine ruled and titled in gilt, slightly rubbed, [Bentley 504], 8vo, J.M'Gowan for F.C.& J.Rivington [& others], 1821.*** Blake's wonderful and typically unconventional wood-engravings for the first Eclogue were the first and only he produced. Thornton rejected Blake's initial relief etchings and requested wood-engravings. He was obviously a little worried but was persuaded by John Linnell and others to include them, judging by his comment at the foot of the frontispiece, "they display less of art than genius, and are much admired by some eminent painters".These wood-engravings were hugely influential on contemporary artists, particularly Samuel Palmer, George Richmond, and Edward Calvert, and later artists such as Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. Samuel Palmer wrote, after seeing them for the first time, "They are visions of little dells, and nooks and corners of Paradise; models of the exquisitest pitch of intense poetry...There is in all such a mystic and dreamy glimmer as penetrates and kindles the immortal soul...".
Verlaine (Paul) Romances sans Paroles, first edition, first issue with "Paris chez tous les libraires" on upper cover, [one of 300 copies], half-title, handsome black morocco mosaic binding, by Huser, covers with semé of small flowers inlaid in cream, fawn, green & deep pink morocco and tooled in blind, spine titled in gilt and with compartments of onlaid cream & deep pink morocco, cream calf doublures, black silk flyleaves, original pale grey printed wrappers bound in, g.e., signed "Huser" at foot of front doublure, small stain to front endpapers where label removed, black morocco-backed marbled chemise with morocco yapp edges, board slip-case (very slightly rubbed), 8vo (c.190 x 120mm.), Sens, 1874.
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*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***[Langland (William)] The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., printed in black letter, woodcut initials, lacking final blank, title soiled and little rubbed at head causing a few very small holes (no text loss), first 8 leaves with upper and lower corners torn away with diminishing loss, F1 small paper-flaw hole with loss to few letters, I3 with 2 corrections in ink, light soiling, some light damp-staining to head, the odd stain elsewhere, final few ff. little browned, 18th century marbled calf, spine gilt and with red and green morocco labels (chipped), upper cover detached, some wear to spine ends and corners, little rubbed, lower joint starting, [STC 19907a; cf. Pforzheimer 798, variant], 4to (190 x 130mm.), Roberte Crowley, 1550. *** Considered one of the greatest works of Middle English literature, Langland's allegory takes the form of a series of dream-visions, providing insight into the medieval conception of the true religious life. This copy is one of two variants of the second edition, the first edition having been published by Crowley in the same year. All three use the so-called "B-text" (one of three different versions of Piers Plowman to survive), a considerably extended version dating from around 1377–79. The two variants are distinguishable by the spelling of "time" (as here) or "tyme" in the title, the former also with the signatures of the preliminary leaves and foliation regularised. "The editions published by Crowley...are of interest and importance equal to that of the manuscripts which have survived" (Pforzheimer).Provenance: Robert S. Pirie (bookplate to front free endpaper); remains of engraved armorial bookplate to pastedown, owner unclear.
Orwell (George) Nineteen Eighty-Four, first edition, ink ownership name from date of publication on front free endpaper, very faint spotting to endpapers and fore-edge, original cloth, spine faded, red dust-jacket by Michael Kennard, chips and creases to extremities, spine ends a little frayed, spine faded, [Fenwick A12a], 8vo, 1949.
Chess.- Damiano de Odemeira. Libro da imparare giochare a scachi, collation: A-H8 64 numbered ff., roman letter, text in Italian and Spanish, large woodcut of two chess players on title and numerous woodcut diagrams in text, fore-margin of title trimmed close with loss of a hyphen and just shaving border of woodcut, 18th century French pale brown calf, spine gilt, edges gilt, slightly rubbed, head and foot of spine slightly chipped, joints partly cracked but firm, 8vo (140 x 91mm.), Rome, [c.1524].*** Extremely rare early edition of the first book to deal with the complete game and the first to give directions for playing without seeing the board.First printed in 1512, this is the second of several undated editions (1520–1540) described in detail by Dr A.van der Linde, Geschichte des Schachspiels, Berlin 1874, vol. I pp. 337–47. The woodcut on the title is the one used in Antonio Blado’s 1524 edition.Little is known about the author, a Portuguese apothecary, but his compilation is the first Italian work on modern chess and includes variations of Petrov’s defence, the gambit now called after him, the Giuoco Piano, and the Queen’s Gambit Accepted. Of particular interest are some of his pieces of advice: don’t play aimlessly, don’t play too fast; when you have a good move look for a better one; and use the ‘king’s leap’ (i.e. castling) for protection. Damiano is also the first to state that the board should be placed so that the lower right square is white. The section headed ‘Artede giocare alla mente’, beginning on H5 of this edition, is an explanation of how to play blindfold.Provenance: ‘De Truchis’(?) (16th century ownership inscription at foot of title and on final leaf); ‘Di Giulio . . .’, (obliterated seventeenth-century inscription on final leaf); Rev. George Innes (1759–1842, Master of Warwick School for half a century from 1792, with his bookplate); J. W. Rimington-Wilson (ownership inscription on back of front free endpaper and with his notes on recto and verso of front flyleaf). Sale, Sotheby's, 28 February 1928, lot 314, to Quaritch; Bernard Quaritch Catalogue 428 (1929), no. 387 (‘a good copy, the text is not cut into in any way’).Literature: Sander no. 2295 (citing this copy, classifying it as the fifth edition, and dating it after 1524); Van der Linde I p. 341; Palau records two or three editions (nos. 68221 and note, and 68223) but without sufficient detail to distinguish between them; A. Chicco, ‘Le edizioni italiane del Libro di Damiano’, L’Esopo 22 (June 1984), pp. 46–58. Library Hub records copies of undated editions which may or may not be the present edition (Bodleian and British Library). OCLC records six copies only: Braunschweig, Cleveland, Library of Congress, Princeton, UCLA, and State Library of Victoria.
ENGLISH SCHOOL, LATE 19TH CENTURY (2)Portrait miniature of a young girl, thought to be Hilda Mary Dowson (née Greg) (1883-1956) with inscribed label (attached to the back of frame) on ivory (ref. WY1APGJS) 7.5cm in a gilt-metal frame and with a case together with a portrait miniature of a woman, thought to be Margaret Lilian Greg (1881-1945), on ivory (ref. RCC2592B), 9.3cm, in a gilt-metal frame and with a case (2) Provenance Private collection, UKFootnoteHilda Mary Dowson (née Greg) was born on 23 February 1883 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, to parents Walter and Susan Elizabeth (née Gaskell). She was baptised on 3 April 1883 at Styal Presbyterian Chapel in the parish of Wilmslow. Her father was a solicitor and in 1891 the family was living at Lee Hall, Mottram St Andrews, Cheshire, together with five servants. Lee Hall was a large house with twenty-five rooms. She had three siblings: Margaret Lilian, born in 1881, Elizabeth Gaskell born 11 December 1883 and Robert Lionel born 1893.There is no trace of Hilda in the 1901 census. She married Gerard Septimus Dowson, a cousin, when she was twenty-two on 29 June 1905 at the parish church of Prestbury, Cheshire. Gerard was an estate agent born in Nottingham. Hilda and Gerard moved to The Manor House in Radcliffe on Trent in 1905, which they rented until 1921. The 1911 census records Hilda and Gerard living at Lee Hall with her widowed mother and her three unmarried children. Hilda’s sister Elizabeth is described as an art student; her brother Robert is also a student. The household now had nine servants including two nurses. It is not known how long Hilda and Gerard stayed at Lee Hall but newspaper reports reveal they were active in Nottingham in 1910 and 1913. In 1922 the Dowsons moved temporarily from The Manor House to The Chestnuts next door, before purchasing The Grange located on Main Road, Radcliffe on Trent, in 1924.Women’s Suffrage MovementThe women’s suffrage campaign began in the 1860s and ended in 1928 when women gained full enfranchisement. The campaign started in Nottingham in 1871 when a Nottingham committee of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage was founded. Its president was Richard Armstrong and secretary was Elizabeth Sunter. Anderson Brownsword chaired the first meeting, held in Nottingham. In 1872 the branch became associated with the new Central Committee of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, the first national group to campaign for votes for women. In the 1880s and 1890s demand for votes for women was mainly sought via constitutional means. Alice Dowson (Hilda’s mother-in-law) had been one of the speakers at the ‘grand demonstration of women’ held in Nottingham in November 1881. She became secretary of the branch in February 1894. Helena Brownsword had married William Enfield Dowson, oldest son of Alice and brother of Gerard, in July 1884. She took over Alice’s role as secretary in 1896 when her mother-in-law’s health deteriorated. Helena eventually took the role of President with Hilda taking her place as secretary.Hilda became involved with the Women’s Suffrage movement in Nottingham after she married Gerard Dowson in 1905. His mother Alice, sister Alice Maud, known as Maud, and sister-in-law Helena, known as Nellie, had been involved in the movement from very early on. At the same time Hilda’s mother, Susan Greg, and her sisters were active in the suffrage movement in Macclesfield. The Dowson and Greg families were closely connected. Alice Dowson, Gerard’s mother, was also Hilda’s aunt and sister of her father Walter.The early 1900s saw the Nottingham Society become an active constituent of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society (NUWSS). In April 1908 two large suffrage meetings took place in Nottingham, Hilda being one of the organisers. Christabel Pankhurst spoke at one of the meetings. That same year Hilda travelled to London along with members of the Dowson family and supporters to a national Votes for Women demonstration held on June 13th. The event attracted crowds of 10,000 people, mainly women; the demonstrators marched through central London to the Albert Hall. It was deemed a success but unfortunately the Government of the day chose to ignore it. On December 4th 1908 the Derby branch of the NUWSS held its inaugural meeting. Hilda was one of the speakers and said that the vote “would provide a symbol of liberty and citizenship, a safeguard of one’s rights and privileges, and a powerful instrument to be used as occasion demanded.”On 5 July 1909 the NUWSS organised a meeting in Nottingham Market Square with Mrs Henry Fawcett, Miss Eleanor Rathbone and Mr Edward Carpenter as speakers. The police had not attended the meeting although they had been requested and the speakers were unable to make themselves heard; the crowd was unruly and anti-suffrage feelings were made plain. In January 1910 there was a General Election and Hilda and her sisters-in-law went to the polling station at Lovers Lane schoolroom in Newark, hoping to get voters to sign petitions for their cause.They had to stand outside and suffered abuse from the male voters. The Nottingham Evening Post reported on February 23rd that 8000 signatures in total had been collected by women outside Nottinghamshire’s polling stations, which were then presented to constituency members Lord Henry Bentinck and Mr. J.E. Ellis at the society’s office in Bridlesmith Gate. The Dowsons had managed to collect 2,232 signatures from the Rushcliffe district and Hilda’s husband, Gerard Dowson, was among those in the party receiving the petition. Both Lord Bentinck and Mr Ellis were in favour of women’s suffrage; Mr Ellis promised to present the petitions to parliament.The Nottingham Evening Post also reported that the NUWSS held its annual meeting on May 31st 1910 at the Mikado café in Nottingham. Hilda and Helena Dowson were appointed joint secretaries. It was noted that there were now 200 branches of the NUWSS across the country and new branches had opened locally in Southwell, Newark and Hucknall. In July 1910 Hilda and other family members attended a demonstration in London to support the second reading of the suffrage bill (First Conciliation Bill).A fete and sale of work was held in the gardens of the homes of Mr and Mrs William Dowson and Mrs Watson in The Park, Nottingham on 23 June 1910. It included a performance of ‘Lady Geraldine’s Speech’, a suffrage play arranged by Hilda. A suffrage shop was opened in Nottingham on Bridlesmith Gate selling campaign literature where Hilda was often to be found along with the rest of the family. By this time, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), which advocated militant action to gain votes for women, had attracted considerable support in Nottingham; the NUWSS distanced itself from the WSPU. Nevertheless, Hilda, now secretary of the Nottingham NUWSS, continued to be active in the suffrage movement. In 1911 she took part in a tour of Northamptonshire villages where she spoke at meetings on the suffrage question. In 1912 she organised two successful meetings in Bottesford and Bingham in which the suffragist newspaper ‘The Common Cause’ was sold. Her mother, Susan Greg, participated in a 1911 NUWSS demonstration in London of over 40,000 women. Her sister Margaret Greg was one of 50,000 women who joined a suffragist pilgrimage in 1913. They walked to London from all corners of the country where they were addressed at Hyde Park by Millicent Fawcett, leader of the NUWSS.. The aim of the pilgrimage was to show the country widespread support for ‘votes for women’ and that thousands were prepared to campaign legally and peacefully. Margaret wrote to Hilda while travelling and described the journey.In July 1913 the Nottingham...
HERBERT DICKSEE (BRITISH, 1862-1942) (3)Snarling Tiger signed 'Herbert Dicksee' (lower left margin) etching 7.5 x 7.5cm together with Snarling Tiger (on silk); and Head of a Tiger, a miniature etching inscribed 'Queen Mary's Doll's House' (lower right margin), by the same hand (3, all unframed) Provenance Herbert Dicksee; Thence by descent to his grand-daughter Pamela ServiceThe two etchings of the Snarling Tigers are the same plate size, each 7.5 x 7.5cm. The first sheet size is 11.3 x 11.6cm. The second sheet (silk) size is 13.8 x 10cm.The other tiger plate size is 15 x 10cm, the image of this tiger alone (within the plate) is 3.1 x 2.7cm. It's sheet size is 25 x 16cm.
FREDERICK ARTHUR BRIDGMAN (AMERICAN, 1847-1928)Sanctuary in the Sahara signed and dated ‘F. A Bridgman 1879’ (lower left) oil on canvas 56 x 87cm Provenance The artist Arthur Croft (1828-1902); Thence by family descent to the current owner Exhibited London, Royal Academy, Annual, 1880, no. 232 Literature For a related work see; Frederick A. Bridgman, Winters in Algeria (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890), drawing, Mosque of Lichana, repro. p. 248. The present work will be on view at Cromwell Place SW7 on 12th and 13th March 2024FootnoteSanctuary in the Sahara is a product of Fredrick A. Bridgman’ssecond visit to Algeria. Having painted Algiers and its neighboringvillages in 1872-73 during his first trip to North Africa, during his 1879stay, he decided to investigate the smaller towns and villages south of themetropolis, which remained less westernized, despite French control of theregion. After Biskra, he made a three-day excursion towards the Sahara Desert,visiting several south-eastern villages, accompanied by a French militaryescort, native guide, interpreter, and other artists.Their initial adventure was to the oasis village of Lichana. Bridgman remarkedin his published account, Winters in Algeria (1890, p. 245)that it “presented a different aspect from anything we have seen.” The partyselected as their first sightseeing stop the local mosque, one of the oldest inAlgeria. Bridgman was so taken by its sad beauty that he devoted a pageto describing its features.Heavy roundarches of whitewashed clay stood upon rude columns that looked as if they hadbeen fashioned by throwing the material together from a distance rather than byany careful trowelling. Several pillars of limestone, with rude capitals,probably Roman, were worn quite smooth from being constantly leaned against. ... More than half the mosque was not used, and the impalpable dust lay severalinches thick round the base of the columns farthest removed from the . . .pulpit. . .. On the white walls were various square patterns and scroll-work,painted in vivid colors to take the place of tiles. The little windowswere of fascinating design, each one different, and here and there wereenlivened with bits of stained glass between the open-work—a remnant of betterdays that the mosque and village had seen before the French occupation. (pp.246-47)Throughouthis description of the mosque, shadowy covered passageways, and dwellings,Bridgman remarked on the dilapidated state of the village and surrounding highwalls, not as a criticism, but as a comment on the inhabitants’ poverty. So impressed was he by the mosque that he devoted a half-pageillustration, Mosque of Lichana, to it in his travel book. Thedrawing, which includes far less figures, has a similar setting and no doubtserved as the study for the painting, Sanctuary in the Sahara. Bridgmanadded bits of color throughout the monochromatic shadowy interior, placing oneof the painted decorative lintels on the center column for emphasis.The painting was first exhibited in London at the 1880 annual exhibition of theRoyal Academy. It was probably bought then or soon afterwards by theEnglish artist Arthur Croft (1828-1902) as it never again appeared in any ofBridgman’s many contributions to annuals, nor in his solo exhibitions. The twounidentified exhibition stickers on the canvas indicate the painting was latershown again, probably in regional displays. Croft was known primarily as awatercolorist of landscapes and topographical views; he married an Americanwoman and spent some time in New York, depicting New England scenery. Croft mayhave met Bridgman in 1880 or 1881 when Bridgman was back in his home country tohold a large solo display of his paintings. However, it is more likelythat the two artists met in London as both were married to American expatriatesliving there. Croft may have even visited Algeria with Bridgman, as theAmerican was accompanied by four other artists, who remained unnamed in hiswritings. The few located Croft Algerian scenes are dated 1880 and 1881. Sanctuaryin the Sahara remained in Croft’s family for generations.We are grateful to Dr Ilene Fort for preparing this note and for her assistance with the cataloguing ofthis work. Condition ReportOriginal canvas. There is a small one-inch tear to the central pillar; scattered surface staining to the left side of the work; areas of paint separation to the doorway, lower left, to the figures, lower centre and to the foreground. Otherwise original condition and held in the original frame.Nothing fluorescing under UV light.
Hornby (China) R3074 (limited edition) 4-6-0 GWR green King Class No.6002 "King William IV" complete with certificate 832 of 1200 produced along with souvenier first day cover issue of Hornby Great British Railways Stamps, as produced for the Royal Mail Company. Condition is assumed Mint (model is still factory tissue wrapped) in Excellent box.
Large collection of Various Motoring books -To include The schlumpf Obsession, TT pioneers, Spitfire, Harrier, Richard Shuttleworth, Lots annual car auction results 1991/92, The Romance of Renault, Lucas the First 100 years volumes 1 & 2, Frazer Nash by David Thirlby, The First Motor car in Madeira, The Big Healeys, Automobilia, A Boxed RAC 1897-1997 Book and others (37). Please note this lot has the standard Ewbank's standard buyers premium payable on top of the hammer price and not the reduced rate for cars and motorbikes.
Buzz Quadzilla 50cc Quad bike.New battery fitted. Starts and runs well. A great first quad bike for a young person.To satisfy your knowledge of the vehicles condition please come down to our viewing days as follows before the auction day on the 28th of March.Saturday 16th March: 10am - 2pm, Monday 18th of March: 9am - 5pm, Tuesday 19th of March: 9am-7pm. Wednesday 20th of March: 9am-5pm, Thursday 21st of March: 9am-5pm, Friday 22nd of March: 9am-5pm, Monday 25th of March: 9am - 5pm, Tuesday 26th of March: 9am-5pm, Wednesday 27th of March: 9am-5pm, Morning of the Auction on Thursday 28th of March.Please note that buyers premium is 10% plus VAT (total 12% inc VAT) on this lot and cars and motorbikes, subject to a minimum of £150 plus VAT.
A Collection of 5 Geo Ham Large Racing Lithographs - To include, Signed by Lee Leston and two others showing Bagatti in first position with other cars in the rear, Racing car in the country, Tank Chenard & Walker racing with other cars at speed, Gordini monoposto with flags, Cunningham & Jaguar C at Le Mans, all rolled 70x100cm (5) (1 Tube). Please note this lot has the standard Ewbank's standard buyers premium payable on top of the hammer price and not the reduced rate for cars and motorbikes.
Collection of bound magazines - Autosport magazines in 4 red binders (years 1958 through to 1960), Motor Racing magazines and book circa 1950 (2 binders), Safety First magazines 1959 to 1962 (3 binders). Please note this lot has the standard Ewbank's standard buyers premium payable on top of the hammer price and not the reduced rate for cars and motorbikes.
Thirteen American car books - To include Encylcopedia of American Cars 1930-1980, Model T Ford (several), Ford Catalogue 1903-1990, Oldsmobile The First Seventy Five Years and others. Please note this lot has the standard Ewbank's standard buyers premium payable on top of the hammer price and not the reduced rate for cars and motorbikes.
Motor Racing: Six related first edition hardback books, five of which are Signed, includes - VILLENEUVE (Jacques) and Gerald Donaldson. My First Season in Formula 1, Signed by Jacques Villeneuve on printed bookplate to title-page, photo. illustrated throughout, a race-by-race account of Villeneuves confrontations with other drivers during the 1996 F1 season and gives an insight into his private life, both on Grand Prix weekends around the world and at his Monaco home. In his first season in Formula 1, Jacques Villeneuve won his first Grand Prix in only his fourth race at the 1996 European GP, dust-jacket unclipped, publishers blue cloth, lettered in silver on spine, published Collins Willow, 1996. HENRY (Alan). Twenty-Five Years of Williams F1: The Authorised Photographic Biography, Signed on a printed bookplate by Frank Williams, and Patrick Head, foreward by Frank Williams, illustrated throughout with exclusive photographs of the team and their successes, selected from the Williams archive and published for the first time within a book, dust-jacket unclipped, publishers navy-blue boards, lettered in white on spine, published Orion, 2003. Former driver and founder of the Williams team, British businessman, Frank Williams established Williams Grand Prix Engineering in 1977 and recruited a young, talented engineer, Patrick Head to lead the teams technical department; KIRBY (Gordon). Mario Andretti: A Driving Passion, first US. edition, Signed by Mario Andretti and Gordon Kirby on printed bookplate, foreward by Dan Gurney, photo. illustrated throughout with the work of top racing photographers and memorabilia from Andrettis own scrapbooks, a definitive portrait of the Italian born former racing driver, and one of the most successful drivers in the history of motorsports, dust-jacket unclipped, publishers grey cloth, lettered in black on upper cover and spine, published Phoenix, AZ: David Bull Publishing Inc., 2001; EDWARDS (Robert). Stirling Moss: The Authorised Autobiography, first edition, photo. illustrated throughout, dust-jacket unclipped, publishers green boards, lettered in gilt on spine, and extensive work covering all aspects of the former British Formula One racing drivers career and beyond, published Cassell & Co., 2001. together with, BRUNDLE (Martin). Working the Wheel, Signed on title-page, dust-jacket unclipped, published, Ebury Press, 2004; and Mansell (Nigel). My Autobiography, Signed on front free, dust-jacket unclipped, published Collins Willow, 1995; 4to, 8vo. (6) Please note this lot has the standard Ewbank's standard buyers premium payable on top of the hammer price and not the reduced rate for cars and motorbikes. Condition Report: near fine conditions with strong signatures
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