Agriculture.- Young (Arthur) The Farmer's Tour through the East of England..., 4 vol., first edition, lacking half-title in vol.1 but with final advertisement leaf in vol.4, 29 engraved plates on 28 sheets, some folding, tables, one folding, some light spotting or offsetting, modern bookplate of R.C.Fiske, modern half calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels, W.Strahan, 1771; A Letter to Lord Clive, on the Great Benefits which may result to the Publick from patriotically expending a small part of a large private fortune: particularly in promoting the interests of Agriculture, by a forming an Experimental Farm, first edition, folding engraved plan, modern cloth, [Goldsmiths' 10293-1; Perkins 1992], W.Nicoll, 1767; The Example of France, a Warning to Britain, first edition, half-title, with advertisement leaf and Appendix at end, with small circular engraved armorial bookplate of J.Maynard to verso of title and his ink initials to recto, modern cloth, [Einaudi 6087; Goldsmiths' 15890; Kress B.2633, lacking the half-title], W.Richardson, 1793, 8vo (6)⁂ The second is one of the scarcest of Young's publications. Lord Clive returned from India to England a rich man. He estimated that his personal fortune stood at just over £400,000. Whether or not Arthur Young's public letter to Clive influenced him or not, he decided to go on another spending spree adding several hundred estates in Shropshire and Monmouthshire to his already enormous land holdings including those in Ireland and Shropshire - 13,500 acres in all - in addition to a house in Berkeley Square, London. Arthur Young clearly saw him as the ideal partner for agricultural experiment.
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Suffrage Movement.- Fawcett (Dame Millicent, leader of the constitutional women's suffrage movement and author, 1847-1929) Autograph Letter signed to Miss Gibson, 4pp., 8vo, 2 Gower Street, [London], 21st July 1912, on the plight of the Women's Suffrage Movement before the First World War, "We suffragists have had a time of great trial just lately seeing our good cause sullied & driven back by the criminal folly of a few fanatics. It is no good reasoning with them. They are not open to reason. I know that although you are not exactly one of us, you will sympathize with us", good naturedly accusing her making a promise and forgetting it, and sending her "a little collection" including photographs, a postcard of the portrait of Fawcett with her husband painted by Ford Madox Brown etc., folds, some foxing.⁂ Fawcett's view of the suffragette movement.
NO RESERVE Aeronautics.- Barrès (Fernand) & others. Les Transformateurs d'Énergie: Générateurs, Accumulateurs, Moteurs avec les plus récentes applications à la Navigation Aérienne, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, vol.1 with photographic illustrations, vol.2 with 22 chromolithographed plates with multiple flaps on 13 thick card leaves, some light spotting, original pictorial cloth, vol.1 rubbed and stained, Paris, 1910 § Cei (L.) & G.Castagneris. L'Aeroplano e il Dirigibile, first edition, 2 colour plates of a Wrights' biplane and Zeppelin airship, each with several flaps (airship lacking one flap), a few ink stamps of Douglas Whetton collection, original printed wrappers, foxed, slightly frayed at edges, rebacked, Turin, 1910 § Glaisher (J.) & others. Voyages Aériens, first edition, additional pictorial title, plates and illustrations, some chromolithographed, occasional spotting, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, g.e., rubbed, Paris, 1870; and 7 others on aeronautics, v.s. (11)⁂ The first work shows the complex workings of a number of machines including a locomotive, steam turbine, internal combustion engine, motorcycle, automobile, airship, biplanes, generator, wireless etc.
NO RESERVE Psychiatry.- Pinel (Philippe) Traité Médico-Philosophique sur l'Aliénation Mentale, ou la Manie, first edition, half-title, 2 engraved plates, folding letterpress table, preliminary leaf a7 mounted on stub, contemporary ink signature to half-title, title with Leroy-Berger's slip pasted over original Paris imprint, occasional soiling, a few leaves nibbled at fore-edge, book-label of Charles William Robins, contemporary mottled sheep, rubbed, rebacked, corners repaired, 8vo, Boulogne, Leroy-Berger, An IX [1801].⁂ Important psychiatric work, by the founder of the French school of psychiatry who was one of the first to treat those with mental illness humanely.
Economics.- Observations, &c. upon the Act for Taxing Income..., first edition, half-title with woodcut Royal arms, modern marbled boards, original blue upper wrapper with woodcut Royal arms and contemporary ink inscription of John Piper bound in, [Goldsmiths' 17629; Kress B.3944], Burney & Gold, 1799 § Nodin (John) The British Duties of Customs, Excise, &c...., first edition, 3 folding tables, engraved bookplate of Robert Burnett, contemporary tree sheep, rubbed, gouge to upper cover, rebacked, red roan label, [Goldsmiths' 15313; Not in Kress], J.Johnson, 1792 § Huie (James) An Abridgement of all the Statutes now in force, relative to the Revenue of Excise in Great Britain, second edition, lightly browned, Skipness bookplate, contemporary calf, red roan label, rubbed, [cf.Goldsmiths' 18889, first edition of 1797], Edinburgh, for the Author, 1804; and 9 others on taxes, 8vo et infra (12)⁂ Income tax was introduced by William Pitt in his budget of 1798 in preparation for the cost of the Napoleonic wars.
NO RESERVE Laennec (René Théophile Hyacinthe) Traité de l'Auscultation Médiate et des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, 4 double-page engraved plates, vol.2 with final blank, plates with numbers shaved and light offsetting, occasional foxing and slight browning to text, light water-staining at beginning and end, mostly marginal but affecting lower outer corner of plates, old ink stamp to titles, contemporary ink signature of Dr.H.Goudet to front free endpapers, original half green cloth, very slightly rubbed, [cf.PMM 280, first edition of 1819], 8vo, Paris, 1826.⁂ A classic of medical history, containing the first description of Laennec's ground-breaking invention of the stethoscope. This was the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Roentgen's discovery of X-rays. Laennec used his new tool to study the sounds made by the movements of the heart and lungs, and from this work stems our modern knowledge of diseases of the chest. This second edition, the last edited by Laennec himself, is considerably altered and enlarged from the first edition of 1819 with each disease described in detail, making it "the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written" (Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 412).
NO RESERVE Metallurgy.- Réaumur (René Antoine Ferchault de) L'Art de Convertir le Feu Forgé en Acier, et l'Art d'Adoucir le Fer Fondu, first edition, 17 folding engraved plates of furnaces and smelting apparatus, title light browned and with small ink ownership monogram to foot, Mm2 with tear and crease to upper margin, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spine gilt, neat repairs to upper joint, spine ends and corners, [Bibliotheca Mechanica 273/4], 4to, Paris, Michel Brunet, 1722.⁂ The first book to deal exclusively and in depth with iron and steel, Réaumur's most original contribution to industrial technology.
![NO RESERVE 19th century inventories.- B. Rudge.- [Gibbons Family, of Sedgley, Dorset] Memo[randu]m Goods left at C[orbyn] Hal](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ac8d9bb7-ed3b-4360-a893-b00000b88fc1/fc370827-6fb1-4d94-8554-b00000bbbb75/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE 19th century inventories.- B. Rudge.- [Gibbons Family, of Sedgley, Dorset] Memo[randu]m Goods left at C[orbyn] Hall..., manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, small piece of margin torn away, folds, slightly creased, 287 x 177mm., March 1806; and another manuscript inventory, of Thomas Harward Gardiner of Bath, 1811, v.s., v.d. (2).⁂ First mentioned, one entry with a Dickensian ring: "there is a Seat let to B Rudge... on the left hand."
NO RESERVE Scandinavia.- Mallet (Paul Henri) Northern Antiquities: or, a Description of the ... Ancient Danes, and other Northern Nations, 2 vol., first English edition, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, bookplates, contemporary calf, upper cover of vol. 1 becoming detached, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 1770 § Ellesmere (Francis Egerton, 1st Earl) Guide to Northern Archæology by the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, first English edition, illustrations, bookplate, scattered spotting, contemporary calf, gilt arms of the Earls of Ellesmere to centre, lightly rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1848, 8vo (3).⁂ This first mentioned includes the first reference to the Vikings travelling to the New World.
Coal.- Taylor (T. John) Observations, addressed to the Coal Owners of Northumberland and Durham, on the Coal Trade of those counties, only edition, one or two contemporary ink marginalia, modern wrappers, [Goldsmiths' 34634; Kress C.6980], Newcastle, Wm.Heaton, 1846 § Dunn (Matthias) A Review of a Pamphlet entitled "Observations addressed to the Coal Owners of Northumberland and Durham..., first edition, signature of John Bell Simpson to front pastedown, old marbled boards, rebacked and recornered in russet morocco, [Goldsmiths' 34618], Newcastle-upon-Tyne, M.Ross, 1846 § Frauds and Abuses of the Coal-Dealers Detected and Exposed (The): In a Letter to an Alderman of London, third edition, lacking half-title, woodcut ornaments, one or two ink corrections in contemporary manuscript, foxed, modern cloth, [Goldsmiths 8287; Kress 485], M.Cooper, 1747; and 2 others on coal, 8vo & folio (5)⁂ The first two provide an interesting commentary on the state of the coal trade in the Northumberland and Durham coal fields. The second is by Matthias Dunn (c. 1788-1869), the mining engineer and from 1850 one of the first government mines inspectors under the Inspection of Mines Act. Both are rare with Library Hub listing only 3 printed copies of the first (LSE, Newcastle University and Goldsmith's/Senate House libraries) and only the Goldsmith's/Senate House copy of the second.The third is a useful portrait of London coal merchants in the mid 18th century, first published in 1743-44 with a second edition in 1745; all editions are scarce.
Trials.- Gurney (Joseph) The Trial (at large) of James Hill...for Feloniously, Wilfully, and Maliciously, setting Fire to the Rope-House in His Majesty's Dock-Yard at Portsmouth... , with manuscript erratum on p.36, old newspaper cuttings at end, contemporary half green roan, G.Kearsly...& Martha Gurney, 1777 § Trial of Elizabeth Duchess Dowager of Kingston for Bigamy (The)..., initial licence leaf, library cloth-backed boards, Charles Bathurst, 1776 § Tryal and Condemnation of Arundel Coke alias Cooke Esq; and of John Woodburne Labourer, for Felony, in Slitting the Nose of Edward Crispe Gent., initial licence leaf, with 2 further leaves concerning the case bound at end, browned, library cloth, John Darby...& Daniel Midwinter, 1722, first editions, all ex-library copies with label to pastedowns, the second with perforated stamp to title, rubbed; and 3 others, folio (6)⁂ The second item was a celebrated society trial. The self-styled Duchess of Kingston was a coarse and flighty woman who lived a life of scandal, dissipation and social decadence. She was married secretly in 1744 to the Hon. Augustus John Hervey, but they were soon separated and had no further contact. Twenty years later she married the Duke of Kingston while still married to Hervey. The Duke died after only a few months leaving his wife the whole of the estate on the condition that she remained a widow. Hervey, meanwhile, wished to remarry, and was anxious to prove his first marriage in order to file for divorce. She was tried by her peers for bigamy and found guilty; she fled to the continent and resumed her scandalous lifestyle in Paris, Rome and St. Petersburg, where she set up a brandy distillery.The third concerns a horrendous case of murder in Bury St. Edmunds (Suffolk) on New Year's Day 1721. The two prisoners were convicted and duly hanged.
Trials.- Concanen (George) A Report of the Trial at Bar, Rowe v. Brenton...as to the Rights to Minerals in the Assessional Lands of the Duchy of Cornwall, first edition, presentation copy from the author to Mr.Wells inscribed at head of title, a few ink annotations, folding hand-coloured lithographed map, 1830 bound with Short Statement (A) of the Case of the Late Sir William Clayton, Bart. and his lessees holding an estate at Kennington, under the Constitution of the Duchy of Cornwall, 8pp., drop-head title, [Library Hub British Library copy only], [1834], together 2 works in 1 vol., some foxing and browning, bookplate of John Davies Enys, contemporary half calf, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red roan label, 1830 § Trial (The) of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, William Wakefield, and Frances Wakefield...for a Conspiracy, and for the Abduction of Miss Ellen Turner, first edition, half-title, with Appendix at end, some soiling and chipping to edges, modern cloth, [Ferguson 1159], 1827; and 9 others, trials, 8vo (11)⁂ The first was a landmark trial in the long and contentious history of the legal (and constitutional) status of the Duchy of Cornwall, mineral rights of private landowners, the power of the Stannary courts, and, by extension, the whole matter of Cornwall's peculiar semi-separate status within the United Kingdom. The Rowe-Brenton case itself was brought to "try the right to copper ore raised from the East Crinnis mines" at Tewington in Cornwall. The second is an account of one of the most celebrated English criminal trials of the 19th century which resulted in the young Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), later an acclaimed colonial statesman, being sent to prison for three years. In 1816 he had made a runaway match with an heiress and ward in chancery, Eliza Susan Pattle, the orphan daughter of a Canton merchant. He afterwards returned to Turin as secretary to the under-secretary of the legation, and after his wife's death on 5 July 1820 he became connected with the Paris legation. In 1826, urged on by the persuasions of his friends in Paris, he made a foolhardy attempt to improve his prospects by a second marriage. On 7 March by a false message he beguiled from school Ellen Turner, the daughter of William Turner of Shrigley, a wealthy Cheshire manufacturer, inducing her, by representing that her father's fortune depended on her compliance, to go through a ceremony of marriage at Gretna Green. He took the lady with him to Calais, but forbore to consummate the marriage; at Calais he was overtaken by his bride's enraged relatives, who induced her to leave him. Wakefield returned to England to share the fate of his accomplice, his brother William, who had already been arrested. They were both sentenced to three years' imprisonment. The question of the legality of the marriage was involved in so much doubt that it was cancelled by special Act of Parliament.
![NO RESERVE Birds.- [Pennant (Thomas)] Genera of Birds, second [first illustrated] edition, engraved vignette title and 15 pla](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ac8d9bb7-ed3b-4360-a893-b00000b88fc1/5410d338-eb4e-41fa-8206-b00000b9531b/468x382.jpg)
NO RESERVE Birds.- [Pennant (Thomas)] Genera of Birds, second [first illustrated] edition, engraved vignette title and 15 plates of 16 images, some spotting and offsetting, [Nissen IVB 712], B. White, 1781; Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, par le Comte de Buffon, and les Planches Enluminées, Systematically Disposed, additional engraved vignette title, with advertisement leaf at end (often missing), B. White, 1786, together 2 works in 1, contemporary diced russia, spine gilt, a little worn, joints split, 4to ⁂ Often found bound together, the second is Pennant's index to Buffon's Ornithology and bears an amusing introduction comparing Buffon to a brightly-coloured diving duck.
NO RESERVE Edwards (Osman) Japanese Plays and Playfellows, first English edition, signed and inscribed in Japanese by author, frontispiece and plates, tissue-guards, advertisements at end, bookplate, original decorative cloth, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1901.
Oceania.- Monckton (Captain C. A. W.) Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate, portrait frontispiece, plates, folding map at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signature, original cloth, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, 1921; Last Days in New Guinea, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates, one loose, folding map, tear at gutter, old repair to verso, advertisements at end, scattered spotting, previous owner's ink signatures, original cloth, sunned spine, bumping to corners and extremities, 1922; and others, including 10 vol. from the Hakluyt Society, 8vo (15)
Ireland.- Dialogue (A) between a Banker and a Merchant of the City of Dublin, 8pp., only edition, ex-Birmingham Assay Office library copy with small ink stamp to verso of title, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, [Black 155; Goldsmiths' 8939; Kress 5340; several copies in ESTC but mostly in Ireland], Dublin, 1754 § Sheffield (John, Lord) Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and Present State of Ireland, lacking half-title, with 4 tables, 3 folding, title lacking tip of lower outer corner, engraved bookplate of the Earl of Roden, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spine gilt with red roan label, rubbed, Dublin, R.Moncrieffe, L.White, & P.Byrne, 1785 § Orde (Thomas) The Commercial Regulations with Ireland..., first edition, half-title, final two leaves soiled and frayed at edges, [Black 1371; Goldsmiths' 12942], J.Debrett, 1785 bound with [Rose (George)] The Proposed System of Trade with Ireland Explained, first edition, lacking half-title, small stain to title, [Black 1412; Goldsmiths 12954], John Nichols, 1785, bound with 4 other economic tracts mostly relating to Ireland, together 6 works in 1 vol., some light browning, old half calf, scuffed, spine faded, the last two both R.D.Collison Black's copies with his ink inscription; and 2 others on economics relating to Ireland, 8vo (5)
Asia.- Fellows (Sir Charles) Coins of Ancient Lycia, first edition, half-title, folding colour map frontispiece, 21 plates, 1 map, ex-library with usual labels, contemporary cloth, remnants of library paper label to upper cover, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, some neat repairs to spine, 1855; Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, folding map frontispiece, 5 folding plates, 1 folding map, illustrations, advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature, cracked hinges, original cloth, gilt, lightly sunned spine, slight bumping 6to corners and extremities, 1852; 4to & 8vo (2).
Cotton & Linen.- Guest (Richard) A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture: with a disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the invention of its ingenious machinery, first edition, 3 lithographed plates of spinners and 9 engraved plates of machinery, one slightly shaved, title browned, modern morocco-backed cloth, [Goldsmiths' 23794; Kress C.1068], Manchester, 1823; The British Cotton Manufactures, and a Reply to an Article on the Spinning Machinery contained in a recent number of the Edinburgh Review, first edition, book-label of Thomas W.Fox and presentation label to the Textile Institute, original boards, uncut, rubbed, joints split, [Goldsmiths' 25498; Kress C.2080], Manchester, 1828 § Radcliffe (William) Exportation of Cotton Yarns..., first edition, modern roan-backed cloth, [Goldsmiths 20256. Kress B.5890], Stockport, 1811; Origin of the New System of Manufacture, commonly called "Power-Loom Weaving"..., first edition, lightly browned, errata cut and mounted on rear endpaper, modern sheep-backed boards, [Goldsmiths' 25500; Kress C.2159], Stockport, 1828, the first two ex-library copies with stamps; and 4 others on cotton etc., 4to & 8vo (8)
Roberts (Lewes) The Merchants Map of Commerce..., fourth edition, title in red and black, a little browned, engraved bookplate of John Somers, Lord Somers, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed and scuffed, rebacked, red morocco label, upper corners repaired, [Goldsmiths' 3671; Kress 2261; Sabin 71909; Wing R1601], folio, for Thomas Horne, 1700.⁂ "This appears to have been the earliest systematic work on trade and commerce published in the English language... The description of 'America and the Provinces thereof' contains much fuller accounts of New England, New Netherland, and other places than that in the first edition." (Sabin).
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Numismatics.- [Snelling (Thomas)] A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England, 17 engraved plates of coins, 1762; A View of the Gold Coin and Coinage of England, 7 engraved plates of coins, occasional early ink correction or marginalia, 1763; A View of the Copper Coin and Coinage of England, 6 engraved plates of coins, 1766, together 3 works in 1 vol., all but last first edition, engraved illustrations, light offsetting, some foxing, upper hinge tender, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed, spine with some chipping to label and ends, joints split but holding, folio, for T. Snelling.
NO RESERVE Mathematics.- Rabuel (Claude) Commentaires sur la Geometrie de M.Descartes, first edition, 23 folding engraved plates, approbation leaf at end, tear to 4A3 repaired without loss, verso of 4B4 with loss to a few lines of text where paper previously folded and not printed, otherwise a good clean copy, later roan-backed boards, rubbed, spine repaired at head, Lyons, Marcellin Duplain, 1730 § Deparcieux (Antoine) Nouveaux Traités de Trigonometrie Rectiligne et Spherique, first edition, 17 folding engraved plates, tables, light browning to text, some staining to plates, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine & red morocco label, Paris, Hippolyte-Louis & Jacques Guerin, 1741 § Carnot (L.-N.-M.) Oeuvres Mathématiques, engraved portrait, folding engraved plate, title foxed, contemporary sheep-backed boards, spine gilt, Basle, J.Decker, 1797, all rubbed; and vol.2 only of Blondel's Problemes d'Architecture/Frenicle's Ouvrages de Mathematique of 1731 including the latter's treatise on magic squares, 4to & 8vo (4)
East India Company.- Minutes of Evidence taken before the...House of Lords...Charter of the East-India Company..., 1813; Minutes of Evidence taken before the...House of Commons...to consider of the Affairs of the East-India Company, 1813; Minutes of Evidence taken before the...House of Commons...on the Affairs of the East-India Company, 1813, together 3 works in 2 vol., folding tables, some water- & damp-staining, engraved bookplate of Joseph Dart, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of titles and labels removed, contemporary half calf, rubbed, gouge to upper cover of vol.2 § Trial (The) of Joseph Fowke, Francis Fowke, Maha Rajah Nundocomar, and Roy Rada Churn, for a Conspiracy against Warren Hastings, Esq...., first edition, with final errata and advertisement leaves, a few stains, contemporary ink signature and bookplate of John Yorke, contemporary calf, rubbed, joints split, corners and spine ends worn, [Not in Goldsmiths'], T.Cadell, 1776; and 7 others relating to the East India Company, 4to & 8vo (10)⁂ The East India Company Charter Act of 1813 ended the East India Company's monopoly of trade with India.
![[Penton (Stephen)] New Instructions to the Guardian..., first edition, issue with "Ruin" in line 6 of title and "Church-yard"](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ac8d9bb7-ed3b-4360-a893-b00000b88fc1/0f2cb4a0-770f-4196-b764-b00000b92103/468x382.jpg)
[Penton (Stephen)] New Instructions to the Guardian..., first edition, issue with "Ruin" in line 6 of title and "Church-yard" in imprint, with initial imprimatur/advertisement leaf, light water-staining towards end, contemporary sheep, a little worn, upper joint split, spine ends chipped, [Wing P1440], 12mo, for Walter Kettilby, 1694.⁂ In 1688 Penton had published The Guardian's Instructor, or the gentleman's romance written for the diversion and service of the gentry, which deals with the bringing up of children at home, and with training at Oxford University. His New Instructions... of 1694 continues the same theme, while emphasising also the educational routes into the learned professions. One of two editions of this date: gatherings A and a are largely printed from the same setting of type in both editions, gatherings B-G are reset throughout. No preference is given by Wing.
![Chelmsford printing.- [Jennings (Henry Constantine)] Summary and Free Reflections, in which the great outline only, and princ](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/ac8d9bb7-ed3b-4360-a893-b00000b88fc1/ed18ad93-c2c8-434d-b66d-b00000bc2c25/468x382.jpg)
Chelmsford printing.- [Jennings (Henry Constantine)] Summary and Free Reflections, in which the great outline only, and principal features, of the following subjects are impartially traced, and candidly examined, Chelmsford, Clachar, Frost & Gray, for the author, 1783 [but ?1788]; A Physical Enquiry into the Powers and Properties of Spirit..., 1787; A Postscript to the Physical Enquiry..., 1787; A Free Enquiry into the Enormous Increase of Attornies..., 1785, together bound in 1 vol., the second and third misbound between parts X & XI of the first work, a few markings in pencil or blue crayon, ex-library copy with a few old ink stamps, modern half calf over marbled boards preserving old roan label on spine, 8vo, all Chelmsford, Clachar; sold not subject to return⁂ A complex collection of individual pieces by he collector Henry Constantine Jennings (1731-1819), who is known to history for his often ill-judged art collecting, his bankruptcies and his many personal idiosyncracies. (His one success seems to have been the acquisition of the ancient masterpiece of an over-life-sized crouching dog from the art dealer Bartolomeo Cavaceppi which realised £1000 at a Christies sale in 1778/9). The essays include recommendations for bathing and swimming and that children should "draw off both shoes and stockings" and "dabble in puddles". "I would even recommend that they should every day, for at least an hour or two, play about bare-foot in wet or dry". The Free Enquiry into the enormous increase of Attornies is remarkably objective in view of Jennings's recent stretch in Chelmsford prison as a consequence of his financial embarrassments. The collation is complicated (see ESTC for further details). According to ESTC 12 parts were originally issued together under the first title with the date 1783 stamped at foot of the title. Despite the presence of this stamped title this appears to be the reissue of the collection, probably in 1788, which includes a newer version of Part X 'An endeavour to prove that reason is alone sufficient to the firm establishment of religion...' which has a title dated 1785. Part X itself should be in 3 parts containing an Appendix and a later 4pp. section 'A form of daily prayer for the professors of rational theism' dated 1788, but these last 4pp. are not present here. Parts XI & XII are paginated 142-178 and otherwise all works appear to be complete.
NO RESERVE Glisson (Francis), George Bate & Ahasuero Regemorter. De rachtitide, sive morbo puerili, qui vulgo The Rickets dicitur..., second edition, with blank A1 bound at end of preliminaries, imprimatur leaf following title, woodcut diagrams, paper flaw tears to G7 affecting a couple of letters and marginal hole to M1, very light water-stain to head of first few leaves, modern vellum, black morocco label, [Wing G856], 12mo, Tho. Roycroft for Laurence Sadler, 1660.⁂ The first substantial account of infantile rickets, first published in 1650, and one of the earliest collaborative works of medical research. Glisson also identified infantile scurvy as being a separate condition. Rare in commerce.
NO RESERVE Chesterfield (Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of) Letters Written...to his Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq., 2 vol., first edition, first issue with "quia uroit" in line 16 p.55 of vol.1, engraved portrait frontispiece, half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol.2, foxing, particularly to vol.2, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spines, for J.Dodsley, 1774; and 2 others, Chesterfield, 4to & 12mo (4)
NO RESERVE Spain & Portugal.- Beawes (Wyndham) A Civil, Commercial, Political and Literary History of Spain and Portugal, 2 vol. in 1, first edition, bookplate, occasional light spotting or minor soiling, contemporary tree calf, upper joint broken (stitching holding at foot), small chip to spine, extremities a little worn, folio, for R. Faulder, 1793.
Economics.- Mill (John Stuart) Principles of Political Economy, 2 vol., third edition, contemporary russet calf with gilt arms to covers, a little rubbed, particularly at edges, spines slightly faded, 1852 § Mill (James) Elements of Political Economy, second edition, 5pp. advertisements at end, R.D.Collison Black's copy with his bookplate, contemporary half calf, rubbed, [Goldsmiths' 24051; Kress C.1295], 1824 § Spence (William) Tracts on Political Economy, first collected edition, half-title, original cloth, uncut, spine repaired, [Einaudi 5419; Goldsmiths' 23451; Kress C.891], 1822 § Vansittart (Nicholas) An Inquiry into the State of the Finances of Great Britain, first edition, half-title, 7 folding tables, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, [Goldsmiths' 16773; Kress B.3090], 1796 § Tooke (Thomas) Thoughts and Details on the High and Low Prices of the Thirty Years, from 1793 to 1822, second edition, large folding table, ex-Birmingham Assay Office library with small ink stamps, library half morocco, [Goldsmiths' 24119; Kress C.1355], 1824 § Huskisson (William) The Speeches..., 3 vol., first collected edition, vol.1 lacking half-title but with engraved portrait, facsimile letter, the Earl of Portsmouth's copy with his ink inscription to front free endpaper, contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt with red & green roan labels, a little marked, 1831; and 18 others on political economy, 8vo (27)⁂ The first is a handsome copy of this important edition, revised by Mill and heavily influenced by his wife Harriet.
Military.- Willyams (Rev. Cooper) An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, first edition, list of subscribers, 2 aquatint vignettes in text, with engraved plan of Fort Bourbon but lacking engraved map, without the 6 aquatint plates issued separately but bound in with the large paper folio copies, bookplates of 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment, one for the Officers Mess dated 1905 in ink manuscript, contemporary ink ownership inscription to dedication leaf, some light soiling and marginal staining, later calf, arms of the Regiment in gilt to upper cover, paper label to spine, rubbed and soiled, spine chipped, [Sabin 104563; cf.Abbey, Travel 677, large paper], T. Bensley, 1796; and others, Military, v.s. (c.34)
Ireland.- Woodward (Richard) An Argument in Support of the Right of the Poor in the Kingdom of Ireland, to a National Provision..., second edition, title soiled, modern calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tips, [Black 832; Goldsmiths' 10936; Kress 6915], Dublin, S.Powell, 1772 § Doyle (Rev. James) Letter to Thomas Spring-Rice, Esq. M.P. &c. &c. on the Establishment of a Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, first edition, lacking half-title, modern marbled boards, [Black 4169; Bradshaw 2924; Goldsmiths' 26874; Kress C.2786], Dublin, 1831 § Thornton (William Thomas) A Plea for Peasant Proprietors; with the outlines of a plan for their establishment in Ireland, first edition, presentation copy from the author inscribed on front free endpaper, half-title, R.D.Collison Black's copy with his signature, original cloth, rubbed, spine and paper label worn, [Goldsmiths' 35573; Kress C.7604], 1848, 8vo (3)⁂ Woodward was one of the principal founders of the House of Industry in Dublin, in 1773, in connection with which, in 1775, he wrote An address to the publick on the expediency of a regular Plan for the Maintenance and government of the Poor. This is described in DNB as "a pamphlet remarkable for being one of the earliest as well as ablest pleas for the introduction of a compulsory provision for the poor in Ireland on the English model". However, it is clear that in the present pamphlet, first published some seven years earlier, in 1768, Woodward had already laid out arguments for the pressing need of a national provision for the poor in Ireland.
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Ireland.- [Swift (Jonathan)] The Hibernian Patriot: being a collection of the Drapiers Letters to the People of Ireland, concerning Mr. Woods Brass Half Pence, second collected edition (first London edition), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, contemporary ink inscription "E.Kynaston 1729" to front pastedown and other later signatures to head of title, slight worming to outer margin of a few leaves, short tear to upper edge of Q5 & 8 affecting a couple of lines but no loss, very light foxing at beginning and end, contemporary calf, gilt, rubbed, joints split, spine ends and corners worn, [Goldsmiths' 6798; Kress 3901; Rothschild 2095; Teerink-Scouten 22], 8vo, Printed at Dublin. London: reprinted and sold by A. Moor, 1730. ⁂ Known as the "Drapier's Letters" and first published individually in 1724 and collectively in 1725 as Fraud detected; or, the Hibernian Patriot, these pamphlets were written by Swift after William Wood was granted the patent to mint copper coinage for Ireland which was believed by Swift to be of inferior quality. Through the letters he gained public support, resulting in a nationwide boycott and the withdrawal of the patent. Harding the printer was arrested but Swift's opposition to British control earned him acclaim throughout Ireland.
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Somervile (William) The Chace. A Poem, first edition, [one of 750 copies], engraved frontispiece by Scotin after Gravelot, errata leaf at end, armorial bookplate of Christopher Barber Collinson of Beltoft, contemporary half mottled calf, a little rubbed, rebacked by Bernard Middleton preserving old gilt spine (signed and dated by Middleton Sept. '06 in pencil at foot of rear endpaper), [Foxon S562; Hayward 158; Rothschild 1932; Schwerdt II p.166], for G.Hawkins, and sold by T.Cooper, 1735; The Chase, a Poem: to which is added Hobbinol or the Rural Games, first edition using Baskerville type, light browning, Mexborough bookplate, handsome later green morocco with elaborate gilt-tooled borders, spine gilt in compartments and five raised bands, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., others uncut, [Gaskell, Baskerville Add 3; Rothschild 1936], Birmingham, by Robert Martin, 1767, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ Somervile's poem, widely reprinted, is considered by many to be the most vivid depiction of both hunting and animal life of the period. The second item was the first book to be issued by Robert Martin after taking out the lease on the Baskerville Press.
NO RESERVE Meteorology.- Saussure (Horace-Bénédict de) Essais sur l'Hygrométrie, first edition, half-title, charming engraved head-piece of putti, 2 engraved plates, one folding, contemporary half sheep, spine gilt, rubbed, [Meckly 167], 4to, Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche Pere et Fils, 1783.⁂ Saussure is probably best remembered as one of the first to climb Mont Blanc but he also carried out important research in geology, meteorology and botany. This work on measuring the humidity of the air using human hair established him as the founder of hygrometry.
NO RESERVE Plastic Surgery.- Tagliacozzi (Gaspare) De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem libri duo, fourth edition, uncut in the publishers' unbound sheets, 6 folding lithographed plates, title with short tear to outer margin repaired, plates lightly foxed and damp-stained, folded but unbound and uncut, loose in modern cloth drop-back box, 8vo, Berlin, G.Reimer, 1831.⁂ The first work devoted entirely to plastic surgery, originally published in 1597, but the first separate edition since the Frankfurt edition of 1598. Rare to find in the publishers' unbound sheets.
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Ireland.- [Doyle (James Warren)], "J.K.L.". Letters on the State of Education in Ireland; and on Bible Societies..., 1824; Letters on the State of Ireland..., 1825, together 2 works in 1 vol., first editions, bookplates of St. Edmund's College and the Maguire Library, contemporary half calf, spine gilt, [Bradshaw 2915 & 2917; Goldsmiths' 24397 2nd item], Dublin, Richard Coyne § Colquhoun (J.C.) The System of National Education in Ireland..., first edition, 4pp. advertisements at end, contemporary ink signature of E.Wilmot to head of title, original blind-stamped cloth, Cheltenham, 1838 § Martineau (Harriet) Endowed Schools in Ireland, first edition in book form, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original cloth, unopened, rebacked, 1859, some light browning, the first two with the book-label of John Lawson, rubbed, 8vo (3)
NO RESERVE Chemistry.- Fourcroy (Antoine Francois, Comte de) Philosophie Chimque, ou vérités fondamentales de la Chimie Moderne, second edition, with the author's validatory signature to verso of title, contemporary and modern ink inscriptions to front free endpaper, engraved bookplate of René Choppin, contemporary sprinkled sheep, spine gilt, head of spine repaired, [Ferguson I, 287; Duveen 225], Paris, An III [1795]; another edition, pirated first edition, contemporary ink inscription to title (cropped at head), light marginal water-staining, contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt, upper joint split, [Ferguson I, 287], Paris, 1792; another edition, third edition, half-title, some spotting, contemporary half sheep, corners and spine ends a little worn, Paris, 1806; and another third edition of the same, 8vo (4)⁂ Various editions of this popular work, a summary of antiphlogistic chemistry first published in 1792.
Lightfoot (Rev. John) The Works ..., vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition, title in red and black, 1 folding map, 1 folding plan, occasional faint marginal damp-staining, tiny marginal worming, scattered faint spotting, one or two marginal pencil notes, later calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, [Wing L2051], folio, by W.R. for Robert Scot ..., 1684.
Chesters Estate, Northumberland. Brochure for the sale of "extensive & valuable portions of the Chesters Estate ... 20,000 acres ... for sale in 112 lots". First section. Maps in pocket. Folio. Orig. prntd. card wrappers. 1929; also sale particulars for Whitefield, Ireby & Uldale, 1929 & property at Westlinton, Cumberland, 1903. (3).
A 19th century silver engine turned snuffbox, the lid interior engraved 'Lord Rennell The Rodd Presteigne' Apparently unmarked. 2½' long. 1oz 9dwts. James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell 1858-1941 was a British diplomat, poet and politician. He served as British ambassador to Italy during the First World War
TWO FUCHI-GASHIRA (MATCHING HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th and 19th centuryThe first shibuichi migakiji, chiselled and inlaid in gold, shakudo, and copper with instruments and garments for bugaku dance including a daidaiko (big drum), a nomaku (outdoor curtain), a torikabuto (dancer's cap) and a tsuzumi (hand drum), signed Ichinomiya Nagatsune (1722-1787) with a kao; the second copper, chiselled and inlaid in gold, shakudo, silver, and shibuichi depicting a suggestive tengu (long-nosed mountain goblin) mask and box, with signature Yasuchika. (4).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FOUR FUCHI-GASHIRA (MATCHING HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryThe first three shibuichi; the first deeply undercut and chiselled in relief with gold details depicting waves and spray, signed Omori Teruhide with a kao; the second chiselled and inlaid in shakudo, gold, and silver with a lacquer fubako (letter case) attached to a branch of flowering prunus blossom; the third chiselled and inlaid in shakudo, gold, and copper with branches of chrysanthemum, signed Tsunenao with a kao; with a fitted wood storage box inscribed on the reverse of the lid with an attestation dated 1967 and signed Zaiya (a name used by Torigoe Kazutaro); the fourth gilt copper overlaid with chiselled openwork shakudo, modelled to represent castle buildings and pine trees, the plate shakudo; with a fitted wood storage box. (10).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FOUR FUCHI-GASHIRA (MATCHING HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe first shakudo nanako chiselled and inlaid in shibuichi and gold depicting birds of prey in pine trees, signed Yanagawa Naotoki (Haynes 6798) with a kao; with a fitted wood storage box inscribed on the reverse of the lid with an attestation dated 1967 and signed Zaiya (a name used by Torigoe Kazutaro); the second shakudo nanako chiselled and inlaid in gold depicting winged dragons and clouds, signed Yoshioka Buzen (Haynes 8448); with a fitted wood storage box; the third shibuichi ishimeji chiselled and inlaid in gold, silver, and shakudo depicting geese and swallows in flight, signed Masanaga; with a fitted wood storage box; the fourth shakudo nanako chiselled and inlaid in gold depicting auspicious cranes and pines. (11).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FOUR FUCHI-GASHIRA (MATCHING HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe first gold nanako, chiselled in relief depicting Nakakuni on horseback playing his flute and Kogo no Tsubone playing the koto, an episode from the thirteenth-century Heike monogatari (Tales of the Taira Clan); with a fitted wood storage box; the second shibuichi migakiji chiselled and inlaid in gold, copper, and shakudo depicting courtiers holding fighting cockerels, signed Tsunenao with a kao; with a fitted wood storage box inscribed with an attestation by Kuwabara Yojiro (Soa) dated October 1918; the third iron, chiselled and inlaid in in gold, copper, and shakudo with a samurai and a servant carrying a matoi (banner), the fourth shibuichi migakiji chiselled and inlaid in gold, silver, and copper depicting Chinese heroes of the Three Kingdoms period, signed Nara Naomasa tsukuru. (10).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FOUR FUCHI-GASHIRA (MATCHING HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryThe first three shakudo nanako, the first chiselled and inlaid in gold with a basho (banana-leaf) plant; with a fitted wood storage box; the second chiselled and inlaid in copper, silver, and gold with swallows and flowering cherry trees, signed Ishiguro Masatoshi (Haynes 04649) with a kao; the third chiselled and inlaid in high relief of gold, silver, and shakudo with wind-blown peonies, signed Sekijoken gyonen rokujuissai Motozane (Sekijoken Motozane, aged 61) with a kao; the fourth shakudo ishimeji, chiselled and inlaid in gold, copper, and shell with two dragonflies, signed Kita utsusu; the last two each with a fitted wood storage box inscribed on the reverse of the lid with an attestation dated 1967 and signed Zaiya (a name used by Torigoe Kazutaro). (12).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FOUR FUCHI-GASHIRA (MATCHING HILT COLLARS AND POMMELS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryAll shakudo nanako; the first chiselled and inlaid in gold, silver, and copper depicting swallows and suisen (narcissi), signed Ishiguro Masamori (Haynes 4225) with kao; with a fitted wood storage box inscribed on the reverse of the lid with an attestation dated 1967 and signed Zaiya (a name used by Torigoe Kazutaro); the second inlaid with eight suigyu (water buffaloes) in gold, silver, shakudo, and shibuichi; the third applied with five shishi (Chinese mythical lions) in gold; with a fitted wood storage box; the fourth applied with fish and weed in gold, shakudo, silver, shibuichi, and copper, signed Iwamoto Ryokan; with a fitted wood storage box. (11).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SEVEN KODOGU (SWORD FITTINGS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryThe first a fuchi-gashira (hilt collar and pommel), shakudo nanako inlaid in relief of gold, silver, copper, and shibuichi with a male and female pheasant and grasses, converted into a small box, signed Yoshitaka with a kao (Ishiguro Yoshitaka, circa 1850, Haynes 12141); the second a kozuka (knife handle), copper, chiselled and inlaid in gold and silver with a pilgrim who has just stuck senjafuda (votive stickers) to a torii (shrine entrance), writing the kozuka's signature with a brush, with signature Shozui; the third a tsuba (hand guard), iron, in the form of a Buddhist temple bell, chiselled and inlaid in relief of gold, silver, copper, and shibuichi with two Noh actors, the reverse with a Hannya demon mask and rake, signed Fujiwara Katsunori (circa 1875, Haynes 02858), 9.6cm (3 13/16in) high; the fourth a tsuba, circular, shakudo nanako applied with a gilt rim, both sides chiselled in relief with a net, inlaid in relief of gold, silver, and copper with the fisherman protagonist of the Noh drama Hagoromo (The Feather Robe) wearing the magic garment he has found on Miho no Matsubara beach and looking up two chidori ('wave birds' or plovers), the reverse with clouds and three more birds, with signature Tsu Jinpo, 7.3cm (2 7/8in) high; the fifth a tsuba, aorigata (tapering shape), copper nanako, inlaid in relief gold, silver, shakudo, and copper with gokoku (the 'five grains'), signed Goto Mitsuyoshi with an elaborate kao (Goto Shinjo, 1780-1843, Haynes 08644), 6.1cm (2 3/8in) high; the sixth a tsuba, oval, sentoku with a stippled surface, inlaid in relief of gold, silver, and shakudo with a potted fukujuso (Adonis amurensis, literally 'plant of fortune and longevity') set out on New Year's Day, a shimenawa (sacred rope), and the rising sun, signed Mitsuyoshi with a kao, 6.3cm (2½in) high; the seventh a tsuba, rounded rectangular, shibuichi, chiselled and inlaid with wild chrysanthemums, susuki (plume grass), the crescent moon, and clouds, signed Shuzuiken Kiyoaki (circa 1875, Haynes 03227), 6.5cm (2 9/16in) high. (9).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
THREE LACQUER INRO AND A KUSHI (COMB)Edo period (1615-1868) to Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryThe first decorated in gold, black, and red takamaki-e and kirikane highlights on a kinji ground, with tanchozuru (red-crested cranes) among pine saplings and clouds, signed Sessensai, 9.3cm (3 11/16in) high; the second decorated in gold takamaki-e and kirikane highlights on a black ground, depicting a coastal scene with large pine trees and chidori (plovers or dotterels) flying overhead, signed Kajikawa with a round seal Kajikawa, 8.6cm (3 3/8in) high; the third decorated in gold and silver takamaki-e and shell inlay on a black ground, with budding and blooming hydrangeas, signed Korin zu, Kyokusen utsusu (Drawing by Korin, copied by Kyokusen), 9.2cm (3 5/8in) high; the comb probably keyaki (Zelkova serrata) of Kamakura-bori type, inlaid in shell and stained bone with a branch of blooming peony with a dragonfly hovering nearby, unsigned, 8.6cm (3 3/8in) long. (4).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FOUR NETSUKEEdo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThree wood, the first a plum blossom with each petal incised with a different brocade pattern, the stigma inlaid in gilt metal, signed on the reverse on each petal Masakazu horu, Masatoshi to, Shorei[..] Shoji, Masatada okosu, Masatomo kore o tsukuru, 3.9cm (1½in); the second a mask of Hotei, details in red and black pigment, signed Deme Uman, Tenka ichi, 4.6cm (1 13/16in) high; the third a squirrel resting upon a large leafy gourd with a long winding stem, the eyes inlaid, unsigned, 4.1cm (1 5/8in) high; the fourth stag-antler, of a recumbent shishi (Chinese mythical lion) resting on a little platform, unsigned, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high. (4).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A SATSUMA-WARE SQUARE BALUSTER VASE AND A DOUBLE-GOURD VASEThe first by Chikusai, the second by Hododa, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryDecorated in enamels and gilt; the first with slightly sloping body, the lobed central band decorated with a continuous scene of elaborately dressed geisha with their young attendants walking along a lake, all on a cobalt-blue ground, different sections decorated with floral and diaper motifs, signed Chikusai, 30cm (11 13/16in) high; the second with variously shaped cartouches enclosing scenes of rakan, women and children, and courtiers, all on overlapping brocade patterns, signed Satsuma Hododa beneath a gilt maru ni juji mon (crest of a cross within a circle), emblem of the Shimazu clan, 11.8cm (4 5/8in) high. (2).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MYOCHIN SCHOOLAn Iron Kusshin Jizai (Fully Articulated) Okimono (Table Ornament) Model of a Pheasant Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryRealistically rendered, life-size, constructed of extremely smoothly moving parts, the head can be turned 180 degrees, while the neck, tail and wings can be shortened or stretched out at will as implied by the term kusshin ('bending and stretching'), the eyes inlaid in gilt, signed beneath the tail Kozan with a kao on an added signature plaque. 20cm x 75cm (7 7/8in x 29½in).Footnotes:Provenance: A European private collection.Of all the categories of Edo-period artefacts eagerly collected outside Japan for the last century and a half, articulated animals and birds have left the least trace of documentary evidence concerning their origin and development. Even the Japanese word for them, jizai or jizai okimono, appears to be a post-Edo term. However despite the obscurity of their origins, these displays of Oriental dexterity perfectly matched a trend in Western taste in the last quarter of the nineteeth century. They were first highlighted in Le Japon Artistique of 1881 which reproduces in three different positions, and describes in detail, an articulated frog. Surprisingly, it seems that jizai okimono were not brought fully to the attention of Japanese audiences until October 1983, when several examples were displayed in the special exhibition Japanese Metalwork held at Tokyo National Museum.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SIX DEMONSTRATION VASES SHOWING STAGES OF THE CLOISONNÉ-ENAMELLING PROCESSMeiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th centuryComprising a set of six miniature baluster vases: the first, the sojizukuri (copper core) with drawing, the second with the colour added, fired and showing the shokusen (wires) placement and gluing of the sculpted wires on the body, the third, after firing to fuse the wires, the fourth with the pasted enamels, the fifth showing multiple stage of adding more coloured-enamels and firing, the sixth, the polished, high gloss finished product applied with the silver mounts; with six wood stands and a wood storage box. Each vase: 6.2cm (2 7/16in) high.Footnotes:A similar group of six miniature vases showing the basic processes of cloisonné manufacture is in the Victoria and Albert Museum www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/j/japanese-cloisonne-manufacture/For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ANONYMOUS, KANO SCHOOLThe '100 Horses' Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryTwo makimono (hand scrolls), ink, colours, gold paint, and gold leaf on paper decorated on the reverse with flecks of gold foil, the hyoshi (beginning of the outer wrapper) silk brocade, the mikaeshi (reverse of the hyoshi) gold paper; the first scroll depicting 57 horses, 52 with an affixed paper label giving the horse's name in kanji (Chinese characters) and both the hiragana and the katakana Japanese syllabaries; the second depicting 41 horses similarly labelled; the labels mostly consisting of a single—often very rarely used—kanji including the element uma (horse) and drawing the viewer's attention to prominent features of the patterns and colours of each animal's coat; the horses all with different markings depicted with lively brushstrokes against a constantly changing background of a stream and other features, with plants including on the first scroll cherry blossom, pines, tanpopo (dandelions), sumire (violets), bamboo, botan (peonies), tachiaoi (hollyhocks), nadeshiko (pinks), and willow; and on the second bamboo, kikyo (Chinese bellflower), kiku (chrysanthemum), susuki (pampas grass), nogiku (daisies), hagi (bush clover), and maples; with a wood storage box inscribed Hyakuba no zu nijiku (Two scrolls with pictures of the '100' horses). The first, overall: 900cm x 33.5cm (354in x 13¼in); image: 828cm x 31cm (326in x 12¼in); the second, overall, 891cm x 33.5cm (351in x 13¼in); image: 820cm x 31cm (323in. x 12¼in). (3).Footnotes:Similar Example:Baji Bunka Zaidan (Japanese Equine Foundation), Edo Kano-ha to uma: Uma no Hakubutsukan shuki tokubetsuten (Special Autumn Exhibition at the Equine Museum of Japan: Horses Painted by the Edo Kano School), exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, 2022, cat. no.23, a makimono of 48 different horses bearing the signature and seal of Kano Yasunobu (1613-1685). According to the catalogue entry another example by Kano Naonobu (1607-1650) is known from a later copy to have dated from 1647, with an introduction by the leading Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan and a colophon by his associate Hayashi Gaho; other copies, and copies of copies, are extant. The present lot differs from these other examples not only in the large number of horses depicted but also in the richness and variety of the backgrounds as well as the detailed and lively depiction of the animals.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
OTAGAKI RENGETSU (1791-1875) AND OISHI JUNKYO (1888-1968)Waka Poems One Meiji era (1868-1912) and one Showa era (1926-1989)Two kakejiku (hanging scrolls), each ink and slight colours on paper, the first depicting two butterflies on the top right corner fluttering around a waka poem by Rengetsu, signed Rengetsu with a plain wood storage box and card slip case, overall: 130cm x 55cm (51 1/8in x 21 5/8in); image: 30.3cm x 42.9cm (11 7/8in x 16 7/8in); the second depicting two maple leaves beside a waka poem, signed Junkyo ga with a wood tomobako storage box, titled on the outside the lid Koyo (Autumn leaves) and inscribed on the inside Matsuda Masao sensei no tame, Junkyo ga, (Painted for Mr Matsuda Masao by Junkyo), overall: 124cm x 49cm; the image: 34cmx 44.5cm (13 5/8in x 17½in). (5).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
IKEDA GETTAN (1881-1923) AND AFTER SUZUKI KIITSUBoth Meiji era (1868-1912), the first by Ikeda Gettan: 1904The first a kakejiku (hanging scroll), glazed and in a Japanese lacquered wood frame with simulated gilt-metal corner pieces, ink and colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a samurai on horseback brandishing a sword in his right hand and riding through a winter landscape, signed and dated Kinoe-tatsu tango sekku oju Gettan gashi hitsu (Brushed by Gettan to special order for the Boys' Festival in 1904) and sealed Gettan and Ikeda no in; a further seal at lower right; the second possibly a section from a makimono (horizontal scroll), ink and colours on silk, framed and glazed, depicting a mounted samurai in full armour with a bow and fur-covered scabbard, and wearing a Tartar-style hat, the horse with red trappings, riding past a cherry tree in full blossom, with signature Shukurinsai Kiitsu hitsu and a seal. The first, image: 99.5cm x 41.6cm (39 1/8in x 16 3/8in); overall: 125.5cm x 57.5cm (49¼in x 22 5/8in); the second, image: 22cm x 35cm (8 5/8in x 13¾in); overall: 48.7cm x 54.7cm (19 1/8in x 21½in) (2).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A GROUP OF REFERENCE BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS MOSTLY ON JAPANESE ARTComprising: Noma Seiroku, Japanese Sculpture, trans. M. G. Mori, Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways, 1939; Burawoy, Robert, Le petit Hara: dictionnaire des artistes japonais de montures de sabre, Association Franco-Japonaise, 1991; van Tilborgh, Louis, van Gogh en Japan, Amsterdam, van Gogh Museum, 2006; Soame Jenyns, Roger, Loan Exhibition of Japanese Porcelain, exhibition catalogue, London, The Oriental Ceramic Society, 1956; Ryerson, Egerton, The Netsuke of Japan: Legens, History, Folklore and Customs, Cranbury, NJ, A. S. Barnes and Company, 1971 (first printed 1958); Piggott, Juliet, Japanese Mythology, London, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1969; Forrer, Matthi, Hokusai, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1991; Jahss, Melvin and Betty, Inro and Other Miniature Forms of Japanese Lacquer Art, Rutland, Vt., Charles E. Tuttle, 1971; Yoshida Mitsukuni and Nakahara Kenji, eds., Nakahara Tessen Kyo Shippo Monyo Shu (Nakahara Tessen's Collection of Designs for Kyoto Enamels), Kyoto, Tankosha, 1981; Earle, Joe, Splendors of Imperial Japan: Arts of the Meiji Period from the Khalili Collection, London, Khalili Family Trust, 2002; Bourne, Jonathan Lacquer: An International History and Collector's Guide, London, Bracken Books and Phoebe Phillips Editions, 1984. (11).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWELVE TSUBA (HAND GUARDS)Edo period (1615-1868), 17th to 19th centuryThe first eleven iron; the first iron with an applied ropework shibuichi rim, with a daikon motif pierced and filled with silver for the root and gold for the leaves; the second oval with two hitsuana, pierced and chiselled with the 'thousand monkeys' design, the seppadai (area around the central opening) with a stylized wave pattern; the third almost circular with two hitsuana, applied with a tree branch in gilt copper; the fourth oval with an applied gilt rim and two hitsuana, pierced and chiselled with chrysanthemum blossoms and leaves; the fifth mokko (four-lobed) with two hitsuana, pierced and inlaid in brass with six floral motifs in Yoshiro zogan style; the sixth elongated oval with one hitsuana, chiselled with a seascape (gilt details), with signature Yamashiro no junin Kaneie; the seventh circular with one hitsuana, chiselled and with worn gilt details depicting waves; the eighth mokko, with two hitsuana, saw-cut with sayagata (key-fret) motifs; the ninth rounded rectangular with one hitsuana, chiselled and with gold details depicting attributes of Kanzan, Jittoku, Daikoku, and others, signed Shoami; the tenth almost circular with two hitsuana, chiselled and inlaid with gold depicting autumn plants and a butterfly; the eleventh circular with one hitsuana, chiselled and inlaid with gilt copper depicting a vine and part of a nomaku (outdoor curtain); the twelfth shibuichi, aori-mokko (with four lobes enclosing four inome [heart shapes]), chiselled and with gilt details depicting dragons and clouds. The smallest: 6.4cm (2½in) high; the largest: 7.8cm (3 1/16in) high. (12).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SIX TSUBA (HAND GUARDS)Edo period (1615-1868), 18th to 19th centuryThe first four brass or sentoku; the first almost circular with one hitsuana plugged with shakudo, pierced and chiselled in relief and with details in gold, copper, and shakudo depicting Chinese scholars playing a game of go in a riverside grove; the second oval with one hitsuana, modelled as a seated figure holding the drawstring of a giant money pouch with gilt and copper details; the third oval with one hitsuana, modelled as two Chinese figures, one of them Sho Katsuryo or Gomo with distinctive headgear and a fan made from feathers; the fourth rounded rectangular with one hitsuana and a gilt rim, chiselled and inlaid in gold, silver, and shakudo with chidori (plovers) and waves; the fifth silver, octagonal with two hitsuana, chiselled with waves, clouds, and a sacred jewel; the sixth silver, octagonal with one hitsuana, inlaid in gold and copper with sparrows and a rice plant. The smallest: 5.6cm (2 3/16in) high; the largest: 7.3cm (2 7/8in) high. (6).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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