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Click here to subscribeArctic exploration.- The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home, volume XLI, illustrations, folding plate, torn with some loss, original cloth, worn, lacking spine, folio, 1910.⁂ Including an illustrated supplement on Ernest Shackleton and Robert Scott's first arctic expedition and the departure of the Terra Nova, June 4 1910.
China.- Clark (Robert Sterling) & Arthur de C. Sowerby. Through Shên-Kan: the Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9, edited by Major C.H.Chepmell, first edition, plates, some colour and mounted, folding colour map in pocket at end, original pictorial cloth, uncut, occasional light spotting, a little rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, 4to, 1912.
Europe.- Spenser (Edmund) Sketches of Germany and the Germans, 2 vol., first edition, hand-coloured frontispieces, folding engraved map, some foxing, bookplates, original cloth, spines faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1836 § Kampen (Professor Van) Holland and Belgium, engraved additional title and plates, tissue-guards, hinges weak, original cloth, some fraying to spine ends and corners, [c.1860] § Eyries (Gustave) Les Chateaux Historiques De La France, vol. 1 & 2 only (of 3), titles in red and black, 28 engraved plates, spotting, bookplates, contemporary half morocco, gilt, Paris, 1877; and 6 others, European travel, 8vo & 4to (11)
Iraq.- Webb (Frederick Charles) Up the Tigris to Bagdad, first edition, presentation copy from the author, wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette and 2 plates occasional spotting, final f. lightly browned, hinges splitting, original pictorial blind-stamped and gilt cloth, small paper label to upper left corner of upper cover, little rubbed at extremities, a good copy, 8vo, 1870.⁂ The presentation inscription reads 'Mrs William Price, with the author's love & admiration'.
South America.- Hadfield (William) Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Islands, first edition, lithograph portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, one hand-coloured, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, original cloth, splitting to upper joint, spine ends a little chipped, [Sabin 29486], 8vo, 1854.
Spain.- Overton (Henry & Hoole, J., publisher ) A Map of the Coast of Spain, from the Streights of Gibralter to the Gulf of Cartagena [on sheet with] A New Plan of the Garrison of Gibralter, with its Fortifications &c., first state, three maps and plans on one sheet, without the fourth inset map of Minorca but with 'The Bay and City of Gibralter in Spain' in the upper right corner, engraving on laid paper with watermark of fleur-de-lis, platemark, 405 x 470 mm. (15 7/8 x 18 1/2 in), sheet 470 x 590 mm. (18 1/2 x 23 1/4 in), central and vertical folds with small splits, faint handling creases with small nicks and tears to edges, a few small repairs, unframed, 1727.
World.- Wilkinson (Hugh) Sunny Lands and Seas, first edition folding map, plates, original pictorial cloth, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1883 § Nansen (Fridtjof) "Farthest North" Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship Fram 1893-96 ..., 2 vol., first English edition, half-titles, frontispieces, plates and illustrations, 4 folding colour maps, occasional spotting, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1897, 8vo (3)
Britain.- Cumming (Rev. Joseph Gordon) The Isle of Man,10 engraved plates, maps and geological plans, 8 folding, some coloured, original cloth, spine faded, some light mottling to covers, 1848 § Knox (A. E.) Ornithological Rambles in Sussex, 4 lithographed plates, some foxing, original pictorial cloth, gilt, spine faded, spine ends bumped, 1849 § St. John (Charles) A Tour in Sutherlandshire, 2 vol., plates, original pictorial cloth, spines faded, else fine, 1849, first editions, 8vo (4)
Suffolk.- Gage (John) The History and Antiquities of Suffolk. Thingoe Hundred, first edition, hand-coloured engraved map, 35 engraved plates, plans and portraits, a few mezzotint, light offsetting to title from map, occasional spotting, contemporary half green morocco, spine gilt, 1838 § Page (Augustus) A Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller, list of subscribers, a few pencil markings, contemporary half calf, label detached but loosely inserted, Ipswich and London, 1844, a little rubbed, 4to & 8vo (2)
Darwin (Charles) The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, second edition, revised, 3 folding maps, illustrations, publisher's advertisements at end, faint spotting to first and last few leaves, original cloth, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, 8vo, 1874.⁂ This edition was extensively revised to take into account the work of Professor James Dwight Dana on Corals, which was published after Darwin's first edition.
NO RESERVE Italian Art.- Walker (John) Bellini and Titian at Ferrara: A Study of Styles and Tastes, 1956 § Robertson (Giles) Giovanni Bellini, Oxford, 1968 § Panofsky (Erwin) Problems in Titian, mostly iconographic, 1969 § Salomon (Xavier F.) Veronese, 2014 § Lauts (Jan) Carpaccio Paintings and Drawings, 1962 § Hirst (Michael) Sebastiano del Piombo, Oxford, 1981 § Razzall (R.) & Lucy Whitaker. Canaletto & the Art of Venice, 2017 § Baldass (Ludwig) Giorgione, 1965, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards, all but the first with dust-jackets, the last a little frayed at edges; and c.15 others on Venetian painting, mostly Renaissance, 4to & 8vo (c.25)
Husbandry & Gardens.- Markham (Gervase) Cheape and good hvsbandry for the vvell-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases, second edition, first f. blank except for fleuron signature, final f. blank, some worming to upper corners, affecting some page numbers, [STC 17337; Poynter 22.2], Printed by T.S[nodham] for Roger Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere the Conduit in Fleetstreet, 1616 bound with Lawson (William) A New Orchard and Garden. Or The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north parts of England, 2 parts in 1 (The second part, 'The Countrie Housewife's Garden...together with the Husbandry of Bees', has a separate title-page dated 1617), first edition, partially printed in black letter, title with woodcut illustration of men working in an orchard, woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, C2 outer margin trimmed, affecting printed side-notes verso, [British Bee Books 20; Fussell I, p.31; Henrey 226; STC 15329; Walker Catalogue p.44], Printed at London by Bar: Alsop for Roger Jackson, 1618 and a defective copy of Markham's Countrey Contentments at start, and a defective copy of N.F.'s Husbandmans Fruitfull Orchard, 1609 at end, some staining and spotting, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, small 4to ⁂ The first mentioned includes hawking, horses, cattle and other livestock and poultry. The second mentioned includes a section on bees.
Inoculation .- Lysons (Daniel) An essay upon the effects of camphire and calomel in continual fevers. Illustrated by several cases. To which is added, an occasional observation upon the modern practice of inoculation, first edition, later wrappers, Printed by E. Reeve, 1771 § Royal Society.- A letter to Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. &c. &c. &c. : on his being elected the President of the Royal Society : with some observations on the management of the British Museum, by a Fellow of the Royal Society, second edition, little water-staining at head, some spotting, disbound, 1821; and 6 others, Science & Medicine, 8vo (8)
Lankester ([Phoebe]) A Plain and Easy Account of the British Ferns, hand-coloured frontispiece and plates, ownership signature to pastedown, frontispiece and other ffs working loose, broken, original pictorial boards, gilt, g.e., Robert Hardwicke, 1859 § Wood (Rev. J.G.) Common British Beatles, colour-printed plates, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, endpapers browned, original pictorial boards, gilt, spine faded, extremities rubbed, c.1880 § Grindon (Leo H.) The Manchester Flora, additional pictorial title, presentation inscription, wood-cut illustrations, original decorative boards, gilt, joints cracking, spine working loose, 1859; and 11 others, 19th century, natural history, some with coloured plates, 4to & 8vo (14)⁂ The first is rare, with Library Hub recording just 4 other copies.
Machines.- Lanz (Philippe Louis) and Agustin de Bethencourt y Molina. Analytical Essay on the Construction of Machines, first edition in English, 13 folding lithographed plates, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rebacked, preserving original gilt backstrip, corners repaired, rubbed, 4to, R. Ackermann, [c.1815].⁂ Translated from the French of Jean Nicholas Pierre Hachette this edition offers additional material for the English reader.
Topsell (Edward) The historie of foure-footed beastes. Describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall) countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mankinde, first edition, issue with woodcut of hyena on title, numerous woodcuts, some full-page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, with initial and final blanks, lacking A6, title with short tear at head with loss of first letter, short tear at foot with marginal loss, and creased, some tears with loss of text, most noticeably to B2, K1 (mostly side-note), K2 (outer margin cut away with loss of side-notes and part of woodcut verso), O4, Oo3, Pp4, and small areas of lower corners of sig. Xxx, water-stained, some spotting and creasing, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Nissen ZBI 4145; STC 24123; Wellcome 6323], folio, Printed by William Jaggard, 1607. sold not subject to return. ⁂ Topsell's translation of Gesner's Historiae animalium, dedicated to Richard Neile, Dean of Westminster, and with charming, indeed some times fantastical illustrations.
Field sports.- Jourdain (François-Xavier) Traité général des chasses a courre et a tir ; contenant des principes surs pour la propagation du gibier, et la destruction des animaux nuisibles..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 36 engraved plates, of which 1 folding, 6 ff. of engraved music, 2 errata ff., some spotting or light foxing, attractive contemporary half mottled calf, spine gilt and with large dark blue morocco, labels, little rubbed at extremities, [Thiébaud 522], 8vo, Paris, Audot, 1822.⁂ 'Un des livres de chasse les plus agréablement illustrés de cette époque.' (Thiébaud).
Golf.- Thomas (George C., Jr) Golf Architecture in America, Its Strategy and Construction, first edition, half-title, colour frontispiece, plates, 1 folding at end, a few colour, illustrations, near fine original pictorial cloth, [Murdoch 767 'One of the outstanding books on golf course architecture having the added attraction, as a book, of being handsomely produced'], a very good copy, Los Angeles, The Times-Mirror Press, 1927 § Wind (Herbert Warren) The Story of American Golf, Its Champions and Its Championships, first edition, numerous photographic illustrations, original pictorial cloth, gilt, original board slip-case mirroring design of cloth with printed paper labels, worn, but holding firm, [Murdoch 870 'one of the modern-day masterpieces of golf literature'], New York, 1948; and another, Golf, v.s. (3)
NO RESERVE Medieval Art & Architecture.- Evans (Joan) Art in Mediaeval France 987-1498, third impression, Oxford, 1969 § Frankl (Paul) Gothic Architecture, 1962 § Binski (Paul) Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and the Decorated Style 1290-1350, New Haven & London, 2014 § Bony (Jean) The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed 1250-1350, 1979 § Aylmer (G.E.) & Reginald Cant, editors. A History of York Minster, Oxford, 1977, illustrations, some colour, original cloth with dust-jackets, the first slightly rubbed, the second with publisher's slip-case, the last laminated; and c.20 others on medieval art and architecture, 4to & 8vo (c.25)
NO RESERVE Modern Art.- Waldman (Diane) Mark Rothko, 1978 § Robertson (Bryan) Jackson Pollock, second impression, 1968 § Bernstein (Roberta, editor) Jasper Johns, original wrappers, 2017 § Anfam (David, editor) Abstract Expressionism, original wrappers, 2016, illustrations, many colour, the first two original cloth with dust-jackets, the second with tear to upper edge; and 14 others on American art, mostly modern, mainly catalogues, 4to & 8vo (18)
NO RESERVE Romanticism.- Raine (Kathleen) Blake and Tradition, 2 vol., Bollingen Series XXXV.11, Princeton, NJ, 1968 § Bindman (David) Blake as an Artist, Oxford, 1977 § Roe (A.S.) Blake's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Princeton, NJ, 1953 § Grigson (G.) Samuel Palmer: The Visionary Years, 1947 § Tomory (P.) The Life and Art of Henry Fuseli, 1972 § Vaughan (W.) German Romanticism and English Art, hinges weak, New Haven & London, 1979 § Börsch-Supan (H.) Caspar David Friedrich, 1973 § Huyghe (R.) Delacroix, 1963 § Honour (Hugh) Romanticism, 1979, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first also with slip-case (slightly faded); and c.25 others on Romanticism, 4to & 8vo (c.35)
Architecture.- Plaw (John) Ferme ornée; or, rural improvements. A series of domestic and ornamental designs, suited to parks, plantations, rides, walks, rivers, farms, &., new edition, 38 sepia aquatint plates, advertisement f., 8pp. publisher's catalogue of architectural books at end, text stained, plates with marginal water-staining and occasional marginal foxing, some spotting, original boards, sympathetically rebacked, water-stained, [cf. Abbey, Life, 48, first edition], rare, 4to, Printed for J. Taylor, at The Architectural Library, 1813.
NO RESERVE British Art.- Butlin (Martin) & Evelyn Joll. The Paintings of J.M.W.Turner, 2 vol., revised edition, original wrappers, together in slip-case, New Haven & London, 1984 § Gage (John) Colour in Turner: Poetry and Truth, 1969; J.M.W.Turner 'A Wonderful Range of Mind', New Haven & London, 1987 § Finberg (A.J.) The Life of J.M.W.Turner R.A., second edition, Oxford, 1961 § Constable (John) [Correspondence & Discourse], edited by R.B.Beckett & others, 8 vol., 1962-75 § Thornes (John E.) John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science, original wrappers, Birmingham, 1999, illustrations, some colour, all but the first and last original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, some spines slightly faded; and c.20 others on Turner and Constable, 4to & 8vo (c.35)
NO RESERVE Architecture.- Scott (George Gilbert) Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, wood-engraved title-vignette, advertisement leaf and 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, light foxing at beginning and end, 1857 § Pugin (Augustus) & E.J.Willson. A Series of Ornamental Timber Gables..., lithographed additional vignette title and 30 plates by B.Ferrey, some foxing, 1831, first editions, original blind-stamped cloth, the first with light staining to upper cover, the second a little rubbed and gouges to lower cover, 8vo & 4to (2)⁂ The first proposes the use of the Gothic style for domestic houses in addition to churches and schools; the second includes illustrations of many Tudor buildings in Coventry now destroyed.
Architecture.- Vicenza.- Scamozzi (Ottavio Bertotti) Il forestiere istruito delle cose più rare di architettura, e di alcune pitture della città di Vicenza dialogo, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of dedicatee Mario capra, title vignette and 36 folding plates, armorial ink stamp to title, marginal worming, occasionally touching the odd letter or within platemark, occasional spotting, modern calf, gilt spine in compartments and with black leather label, [Fowler 43; Millard, Italian, 19], 4to, Vicenza, Giovambattista Vendramini Mosca, 1761.⁂ First edition of this architectural guide to Vicenza, and in particular the buildings of Palladio. Provenance: J.B. and Michael Bury (bookplates).
Binding.- Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, first edition, illustrations by E.H. Shepherd, original pictorial endpapers preserved, charming panelled pictorial vellum, by The Cottage Bindery, Bath, upper cover with central mounted painted panel depicting a game of Poohsticks, lower cover with central mounted painted panel with Christopher Robin, Pooh and owl in silhouette heading off into the distance, both panels within two sets of gilt filet borders with corner-pieces of Pooh eating honey, spine in compartments with a central standing Pooh, spine little darkened, t.e.g., preserved in a buckram slip-case with a panel from original pictorial cloth mounted on upper panel, 8vo (binding 196 x 132mm.), 1928.
Rackham (Arthur).- Poe (Edgar Allan) Tale's of Mystery & Imagination, pictorial endpapers, 12 coloured plates by Rackham, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, occasional light foxing, 1935 § Bonser (A.E.) The Land of Enchantment, colour plates by Rackham, bookplate to pastedown, endpapers browned, light finger soiling, extremities rubbed, 1907, first editions, original pictorial or blind stamped boards, spine ends bumped and creased, a little rubbed, the second spine split, 4to (2)
NO RESERVE British Art.- Harrison (Martin) & Bill Waters. Burne-Jones, 1973 § Wildman (S.) & John Christian. Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, New York, 1998 § Barringer (Tim) & others. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde, 2012 § Parry (Linda, editor) William Morris, 1996 § Doughty (Oswald) A Victorian Romantic: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, second edition, 1968 § Andrews (Keith) The Nazarenes: A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome, Oxford, 1964, illustrations, some colour, the first and last two original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the rest original wrappers; and c.15 others on the Pre-Raphaelites, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
Plague in Italy.- Mercuriale (Girolamo) De pestilentia Hieronymi Mercurialis Foroliuensis medici praeclarissimi lectiones habitae Patavii 1577 mense ianuarii in quibus de peste universum, praesertim vero de Veneta, & Patavina, singulari quadam eruditione tractatur, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and historiated and decorative initials, lacking index ff. P2-Q4, marginal repairs, P1 repaired with loss of several letters, some staining, washed, 20th century vellum-backed boards, [EDIT 16 CNCE 30706], small 4to, Venice, Paolo Meietti, 1577. sold not subject to return. ⁂ On the plague sweeping Italy in the late 1570s. In 1576 in Venice alone around 70,000 lives were lost. Rare in commerce.
Greek printing.- Estienne (Henri, editor) Epistolia, dialogi breves, oratiunculæ, pœmata, ex variis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus, 2 parts in 1, first edition, Greek and Roman type, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces, sig. ee misbound, but complete, water-stained, marginal repair to last 2 ff., occasional spotting, lightly browned, 19th century marbled boards, rubbed, [Adams E294; Renouard, Estienne, 145:4], 8vo, [Geneva], Henri Estienne, 1577.⁂ A rare copy of this anthology of Greek and Roman texts.
Homer. Homeri quae exstant omnia Ilias, Odyssea, Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, Poëmatia aliquot, cum Latina versione , 2 parts in 1, parallel text in Greek and Latin, first title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, final f. with colophon recto and woodcut printer's device verso, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, new front endpapers, ink inscription of Harold George Snell, 1887 to head of title, large engraved armorial bookplate of Martin Stapylton of Myton to verso of title, contemporary blind-stamped vellum over boards, covers with arabesque centre-pieces, spine in compartments and with red leather label, corners worn, soiled and rubbed, folio, Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, 1606.
Maritime.- Shipbuilding.- Bouguer (Pierre) Traité du Navire, de sa Construction, et de ses Mouvemens, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, engraved vignette head-pieces and 12 folding plates, errata and privilege ff. at end, lacking A2&3, some spotting, lightly browned throughout, heavier on the odd f., sheet of contemporary ink ms. calculations and notes loosely inserted, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, spine ends and joints repaired, little peeling of calf to foot of lower joint, [Polak 1050; Scott Coll. 256], 4to, Paris, Jombert, 1746.⁂ 'In 1735 he [Bouguer] accompanied Charles Marie de la Condamine on a scientific expedition to Peru, to determine the length of a meridian near the Equator... Traite de Navire is the first treatise on naval architecture, written on a scientific basis. Bouguer was among the first to investigate mathematical principles in relation to shipbuilding.' (Scott).
[Pfeffel (Christian Friedrich)] Abrégé chronologique de l'histoire et du droit public d'Allemagne, first edition, half-title, occasional spotting, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, spine in compartments and with red morocco label, Paris, Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1754 § [Romance (G.H. de, translator)] Memoires politiques et militaires, ou extrait de l'introduction à l'histoire de la guerre en Allemagne en 1756, some spotting, contemporary half calf, spine gilt and with green morocco label, corners worn, rubbed, Basel, J. Decker, 1798; and 5 others, Continental, v.s. (7)
Hugo (Victor) Notre-Dame de Paris, first issue with these illustrations, half-title, fine engraved additional pictorial title, 54 engraved or wood-engraved plates and wood-engraved illustrations after E. de Beaumont, L. Boulanger, Daubigny, T. Johannot, Meissonnier and others, occasional light foxing, some staining to last few ff., contemporary blind-stamped calf, inlaid title and imprint paper centre-pieces, spine in compartments, rubbed, gilt gauffered edges, [Carteret, III, 300; Clouzot, 145], 4to, Paris, Perrotin & Garnier, 1844.⁂ 'Remarquable publication...qui peut être recherchée à juste titre comme le prototype du grand texte illustré par les artistes de son temps' (Carteret). Better known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in English.
Grant to Canterbury Cathedral.- Grant by Alice widow of Thomas de Pynyntons of a free tenement in Little Chart to the Prior [Henry Eastry] and priory of Christ Church, Canterbury Cathedral in exchange for 30 shillings, witnesses: Luca de La Port, Adam de Brocumle, Henry Carbonel, Geoffrey de Pette, William de Rundene and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, 10 lines, red wax seal with good impression, folds, 85 x 208mm., 6 July 1303.⁂ A financial transaction by Henry Eastry (d. 1331), Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury for 46 years. During Eastry's tenure he bought land, built shops on the cathedral's lands in Canterbury and London, and did much to secure the future finances of the priory of Christ Church.Provenance: Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquarian and collector: ownership mark on verso.
Northumberland.- Grant by John Darcy of Knaith and Elizabeth his wife, to Thomas of Swynford and John Charteray, half of their manors of Wooler, Hethepole, Hedreslaw, Belford, Easington and Lowick, with the Forest of Chynyoe [?Kyloe] and the advowson of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalene of Wooler, witnesses: Ralph Neville of Raby, Sir Henry Le Scrope, Miles de Stapleton as Sheriff of Yorkshire [in the retinue of Sir John Darcy at Crecy], John de Langton as Mayor of York, William de Meryngton, John de Clotherham and Roger of Normanville and others, manuscript in Latin, on vellum, in brown ink, 20 lines, folds, browned and creased, 247 x 190mm., York, 1353/4. ⁂ An enfeoffment for uses by a soldier who fought at Crecy. John Darcy, second Lord Darcy (1317-56), 'le fitz'; eldest son of Sir John Darcy 'le cosyn' (d. 1347). "Under Edward III he commanded a company with Walter Mauny in the opening phase of the Hundred Years' War and was rewarded in 1341 by a grant to him and his heirs of £40 a year for his long service. On 15 July 1346, when with the king at La Hogue, he was granted a further £200 a year for life to maintain himself as a banneret and went on to fight at Crecy and Calais. In 1347 he received his father's land and the office of keeper of the Tower of London for life. Outside the military sphere in 1344 he was appointed the escheator of Holderness for life." - Oxford DNB. Henry Scrope, first Baron Scrope (1312?-92), soldier and administrator. Sir Miles Stapleton, of Bedale (1320?-1364), soldier; a founder member of the Order of the Garter. "He [Stapleton] was given letters of protection to go abroad with Sir John Darcy, the king's chamberlain, in 1345, which may suggest that he was educated in Darcy's household. He was certainly present at the siege of Calais in 1346, and given his later link with the Garter, he almost certainly fought at Crecy in 1346 too." - Oxford DNB.
NO RESERVE Dutch & North European Art.- Held (Julius S.) Rubens: Selected Drawings, 2 vol., 1959 § Downes (Kerry) Rubens, 1980 § Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Parts I, VIII (2 vol.), IX & XVI in 5, London & New York, 1968-72 § Jaffé (Michael) Van Dyck's Antwerp Sketchbook, 2 vol., 1966 § Brown (C.) Van Dyck, Oxford, 1982, illustrations, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first also with slip-case; and c.10 others on Rubens and Van Dyck, 4to & 8vo (c.20)
NO RESERVE Elgin (Thomas Bruce, seventh Earl, diplomat and army officer, 1766-1841) Autograph Letter signed to "My Dear Townshend", 4pp., Broomhall, 12th July 1788, "The business is respecting an Hospital at Dunfermline (called St. Leonards) where a few widows are supported", a recent court decision had disclaimed the right of the Marquis of Tweedale to nominate widows. It was the thought the right lay with the Crown and Elgin asks for it to be conferred on him, stressing that there was no pecuniary advantage to himself, folds, browned; and another manuscript, sm. 4to & folio (2).⁂ First mentioned probably John Thomas Townshend (1764-1831), MP.
NO RESERVE Dutch & North European Art.- Panofsky (Erwin) Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character, 2 vol., Cambridge, Mass., 1966 § Tolnay (Charles de) Hieronymus Bosch, second impression, 1975 § Oberthaler (E.) & others. Bruegel: The Master, 2018 § Panofsky (Erwin) The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, fourth edition, Princeton, NJ, 1967 § Friedländer (Max J.) & Jakob Rosenberg. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, revised edition, 1978 § Benesch (Otto) The Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe, revised edition, 1965 § Rowlands (John) Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Boston, 1985 § Andrews (Keith) Adam Elsheimer: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, 1977, illustrations, some colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, one or two slightly rubbed, the first a little frayed at edges; and c.20 others on early Netherlandish and German art, 4to & 8vo (c.30)
Cloth bound album Chinese containing three books of hand drawn watercolours produced by Peiyang Press, the first depicting Costumes of the five dynasties, from Tang to Ch'ing, the second book depicting trade and shop signs and the third depicting various trades and figures at work Provenance: By direct descent of Katherine Talati. Born in 1922 in Beijing Katherine received private painting lessons with Prince Pu Quan, (great grandson of the Emperor Daoguang) from 1945 until her departure to London in 1948. Her paintings are evidence of her fully accomplished technical skills in Chinese painting after having studied with Pu Quan and various teachers in Beijing prior to her departure
Cloth bound album Chinese containing two books of hand drawn watercolours produced by Peiyang Press, the first depicting costumes of the five dynasties, from Tang to Ch'ing and the second book depicting Trade and Shop signs Provenance: By direct descent of Katherine Talati. Born in 1922 in Beijing Katherine received private painting lessons with Prince Pu Quan, (great grandson of the Emperor Daoguang) from 1945 until her departure to London in 1948. Her paintings are evidence of her fully accomplished technical skills in Chinese painting after having studied with Pu Quan and various teachers in Beijing prior to her departure
Two astrakhan wool coats Chinese both with a blue lining, one with foliate patterns to the outside first 84cm high x 164cm across, second 72cm high x 118cm across, includes arm to arm on both Provenance: By direct descent of Katherine Talati. Born in 1922 in Beijing Katherine received private painting lessons with Prince Pu Quan,(great grandson of the Emperor Daoguang) from 1945 until her departure to London in 1948. Her paintings are evidence of her fully accomplished technical skills in Chinese painting after having studied with Pu Quan and various teachers in Beijing prior to her departure
Three lengths of silk/fabric Chinese the first in a form of a runner embroidered with bats and floral roundels153cm high x 44cm across overall approx the second a large piece of orange silk, probably skirt material, decorated with repeating symbols, 686cm across x 76cm overall approx the third decorated in a ground dark gold, probably skirt material with repeating symbols across it, 572cm across x 75cm overall approx Provenance: By direct descent of Katherine Talati. Born in 1922 in Beijing Katherine received private painting lessons with Prince Pu Quan,(great grandson of the Emperor Daoguang) from 1945 until her departure to London in 1948. Her paintings are evidence of her fully accomplished technical skills in Chinese painting after having studied with Pu Quan and various teachers in Beijing prior to her departure.
Two embroidered Peking knot sleeve bands Chinese, 19th/20th Century the first in ground blue, with panels of flowers 62cm x 20.5cm the other decorated with birds and frogs, 61.5cm x 22.5cm (2) Provenance: By direct descent of Katherine Talati. Born in 1922 in Beijing Katherine received private painting lessons with Prince Pu Quan,(great grandson of the Emperor Daoguang) from 1945 until her departure to London in 1948. Her paintings are evidence of her fully accomplished technical skills in Chinese painting after having studied with Pu Quan and various teachers in Beijing prior to her departure.
A large oak framed breakfront bookcase cabinet in the Arts and Crafts taste with six glazed and barred doors enclosing shelving over four glazed and barred and two fielded panelled doors on a plinth base, 382 cm wide x 268 cm high CONDITION REPORTS This piece is modern bespoke made for the vendor's home and has therefore not been adapted or cut. All finials are poresent though three are broken requiring re-attaching. The upper frieze has six various vertical splits - see images for detail. The shleves are in pine and fixed, there are no locks to the doors, central cupboards shelves are 27.5cm deep. First outer pair of cabinet doors shelves are 23cm deep, outside doors enclose shelves 27.5cm deep, lower central cupboard doors 31.5cm deep flanked by two fielded panel doors 27cm deep. Outer glazed cabinets 31cm deep. One piece of moulding top left of central cupboard doors missing, the piece splits in to three sections, the cornice, the centre glazed section and the base and plinths. Rear left side has two white paint marks - see image. Slight damage to the moulding top left back corner - see image. Otherwise the piece has wear and tear conducive with a certain amount of age and use prior to being removed from the house and barn stored until sale. Whilst the top cornice with the urn finials is presently fixed it could be removed at which point the height of the bookcase would be 242cm - see images for further detail
A modern burr walnut and cross-banded chest on chest, the upper section with two short over three long drawers over a brushing slide and three further long drawers on bracket feet, 155 cm high x 72 cm wide CONDITION REPORTS Whilst basically sound there are several areas of beading missing to the drawers, top right drawer lower section of beading lower left side, first long drawer beading top right side, second drawer down beading damaged top right and bottom left, third drawer down damage to beading left middle, base section repaired damage to beading middle right, whole section of beading missing on middle drawer left and top right. Bottom drawer whole section of beading missing lower right and damage middle left - see images for further detail. Depth 43cm at base and 44cm at top. In answer to the specific question yes this piece may be collected from the auction house post sale within the current Government guidlines on social distancing i.e at present it is uggested that buyers send two people to carry the piece from the saleroom to the car as we are unable to assist.
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