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Click here to subscribeOttoman Turkish manuscript, Mecmu’a-yi kutub-i fetava, a collection principally of legal texts, compiled by al-Sayyid Muhammad Aziz from his own books, with short and long indices, the latter with his seal and inscription, dated Muharram 1[16]5 AH (December 1751), Turkey, Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 509ff, with 27ll of black nasta'liq script to the page, numerous marginal commentaries, folio 30.5 x 16.5cm.Provenance: Sothebys, 23 April 1997, Lot 572
An Ottoman Qur'an juz, written in gold, Ottoman Turkey, 16th century or later, Arabic manuscript on paper, 29ff., with 7 lines of gold naskh script outlined in black, with diacritics and vowel points in black, illuminated discs between verses, inner margins ruled in red and gold, sura heading in gold within illuminated panels, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, with colophon spuriously signed “Hamdullah known as Ibn al-Sheikh”, in repaired brown morocco binding with stamped central medallions decorated with floral motifs, with flap, folio 27.2 x 19cm.For Juz III and XX from the same set see Bonhams, 8 April 2014, Lots 7 and 10.
An Ottoman Qur’an, copied by ‘Ali ibn ‘Ali Safr Hakni, dated 5th Rabi’ 1222 AH/ 1807 AD, Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 312ff., with 12 lines of neat black naskh per page, gold roundel verse markers, corrections in red, headers in white naskh on a gold ground, with opening double page of gold and polychrome decorated headers and borders containing large white thuluth on a gold ground, in original brown morocco binding with cut out and tooled polychrome decorated central medallion and spandrels, folio 29.5 x 19.4cm. Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)
A Ottoman copy of the Divan e Hamse of the poet Nevizade Atai (1583-1635), Ottoman Turkey, 18th century, 237ff., Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, with 23ll. of black nasta'liq to the page arranged in two vertical columns outlined in gold rule, headers in red, five illuminated and polychrome decorated headers, the Hamse including his Heft Han, seven tales, the last of which tells of the adventures of two young men in Istanbul, of their eventual capture and enslavement by Europeans during a pilgrimage by sea to Egypt, and of the two European men who in turn fall in love with them, in dark red gilt decorated Ottoman leather binding (missing flap), folio 21.5 x 12.2cm. Provenance: Private French Collection
A Provincial Ottoman Dalail-Khayrat, a collection of prayers, including the 99 Names of Allah and the titles of the Prophet, Turkey, late 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 69ff., with 13 lines of elegant black naskh per page, polychrome and gold verse roundels, with two full page gold and polychrome, illustrations of the Ka'ba in Mecca and the Minbar at Medina, with gold and polychrome floral marginal decorations, headers in red naskh on gold, in dark red morocco binding with gilt tooled and painted decoration, folio 17.2 x 11.2cm.Provenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)Condition Report: Folios loose from binding, some folios stuck together close to the choir
An Ottoman copy of the Enam-i serif, signed by Muhammad Sharif and dated 16 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1287 AH/7 February 1871AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 130ff., with numerous illuminations including one of the Ka'ba, numerous diagrams, the text in black and red naskh script arranged in various ways, within gold borders, headings in white naskh, in gilt-decorated green morocco binding with flap, folios loose from binding, folio 24.6 x 17cm.
An Ottoman selection from the final juz' of the Qur'an, including al-Fil and Quraysh, Turkey, Arabic manuscript on speckled paper, 9ff., with 3ll. of black muhaqqa script to the page, with a spurious undated colophon in the name of al-Hajj Mehmed known as Seker-zade, old collection label to one folio, modern binding, folio 24 x 15cm. Provenance: With Italian export papers
An Ottoman qur'an signed by the calligrapher Hafiz ‘Ali al-Wasfi, student of al-Hajj Abu Bakr Rashid, dated 1282 AH (1865-66AD),Turkey, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 303ff with with 15ll. of neat black naskh per page within gold border, corrections in red, with gold roundel verse markers, headers in white naskh on a gold ground with floral decoration, opening bifolio with roundels containing text and polychrome and gold floral border, within original green morocco binding with flap and gold tooled lattice design, clean copy, folio 16.7 x 10.2cm.Provenance: Private London Collection
An Ottoman qur'an, copied by Sayyid Tahir, student of Dormish al-Najati, dated 1278 AH (1861-62AD), Turkey, Arabic manuscript on paper, 304 ff., with 15ll. of back naskh script per page within gold outer border, corrections in red, gold roundel verse markers, headers in white naskh on a gold ground, opening bifolio with 7ll of black naskh in cloud bands within gold and polychrome floral border, in restored original red morocco binding with flap and tooled and gilt decorated spandrels, folio 16.4 x 11cm.Provenance: Private London Collection
An Ottoman grammatical miscellany, Near East, dated (2) Sha’ban 1053AH (16 October 1643AD), Arabic manuscript on paper, with 15ll. of black naskh to the page, extensively annotated, including a commentary on verse composition, in a brown leather binding with tooled geometric decoration within hexagons, folio 21 x 15cm.Provenance: Private London Collection
An Ottoman copy of the Marifetname of Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumlu (d.1780), an encyclopedic work ranging from mysticism to the “new astronomy” of Copernicus, Turkey, dated 1170AH/1709AD, 385ff., with 37ll. of black naskh script per page, numerous gold and polychrome diagrams of the moon's orbit, double-page world map, numerous gold and polychrome decorated floral headers, all with contemporary colouring, with colophon signed ‘Umar Sarri, known as Baş-kareh, dated 1233 AH (1817/18AD), noting the work’s composition in 1170 AH (1756-57AD), in dark brown tooled morocco binding with flap, the flap with a tooled seal impression, folio 31 x 19.5cm.Provenance: Private UK Collection
Three biographical works, Ottoman Turkey, mid-18th century, including a work on the rulers and heads of state of the Ottoman empire by Tayyeb Effendi; an appendix to the first work; and a biography of the chiefs of religion; Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 208ff., with 21 lines of black naskh script per page outlined in gold and outer blue rule, headers in red naskh, with the owner's seal of Mustafa Aga Khan and date 1175AH/1761AH, the three biographical works each with illuminated polychrome and gold header introducing each work, in sift red morocco binding with gold and polychrome floral decoration, folio 21.3 x 12.5cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)
Kitab Sajjat al-Akbar, a genealogy of rulers, starting from Cain and Abel, including Alexander, the kings of Iran and the Ottoman sultans until Sultan Mahmud II, Turkey, 19th century, 19ff., printed Arabic manuscript on paper, with numerous diagrams of lineages and portraits of rulers, some in polychrome, later purple board covers, folio 27.3 x 20.6cmProvenance: The Private collection of Michel Abemayor (1912-1975)
Hasan ibn Mustafa, al-Hidaya fi sharh al-waladiyyah, a commentary by Nazik Zadah on a treatise called al-waladiyyah fi adab al-bahth wa-l-munazarah, on the art and etiquette of scholarly research and debate by Ahmad ibn Mustafa, called Tashkupri Zadah, copied by Mustafa ibn 'Ali ibn Dumayr, Ottoman Turkey, dated 1175AH/1761AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 91ff., with 21 ll. of bold black naskh within red ruled borders per page, important words and headings highlighted in red, modern brown leather binding, folio 20.5 x 14cm.Provenance: Bonhams 17 October 2001, Lot 117
A double-sided folio with illuminated borders, probably India, 17th century, with 12ll. of black nasta'liq Persian arranged in two columns, the text panels outlined in gold and polychrome and laid down between wide coloured margins with large scale illumination of flowers, animals, insects and birds, folio 28 x 18cm.Condition Report: Small tear to bottom right corner of calligraphic panel, edges of folio with light water staining and damage
Two folios from a copy of the Kitab-i Navras (the Book of Nine Rasas) by the Sultan of Bijapur Ibrahim Adil Shah (1579-1627), Sultanate India, circa 1600, with spurious attribution to the copy made for Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II by Khalilullah, Dakhni Urdu on marbled paper, each folio with 7ll of neat black naskh, larger thuluth text above and below, the paper with gold outlined flowers, folio 17.4 x 10cm. (2)
An Indian copy of the Dala’il al-Khayrat of Muhammad ibn Suleiman al-Jazuli, Provincial India, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper with Persian interlinear gloss, 107ff., with 8ll. of black naskh to the page, full page illustrations of Mecca and Medina, six double page illuminated text pages, in stamped brown leather binding, folio 20.5 x 13.3cm.
An Indian copy of the Dala’il al-Khayrat of Muhammad ibn Suleiman al-Jazuli, Kashmir, North India, 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper with interliner Persian gloss and extensive marginal commentaries, 220ff., with 7ll. of neat black naskh within cloudbands on a gold ground to the page, floral illuminations throughout, with full-page paintings of Mecca and Medina, chromolithographed sheet tipped-in at end., in lacquered floral binding, folio 23 x 14.6cm. Provenance: Private French Collection
Two double-sided leaves from a Sultanate Qur'an, India, circa 1500, Arabic manuscript on paper, 2 leaves, with 15 lines of Bihari script to the page, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, important words and phrases written in gold, the word Allah picked out in gold throughout, inner margins ruled in blue and red, large illuminated circular and pear-shaped devices in colours and gold in trimmed margins, sura headings in gold within illuminated panels, folio 15 x 11.1cm. (2)
A Qur'an, Provincial North India, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 542ff., with 11ll. of neat black naskh script to the page, gold roundel verse markers, corrections in red, headers in red and black naskh, gold and polychrome marginal decorations, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome decoration, contemporary binding stamped, folio 25.7 x 16cm. Provenance: Private French Collection
A compilation manuscript all in the same hand, Kashmir, India, 19th century, Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, comprising 3 texts, the Jangnamah, and two others, the last two signed by Mir Haidar ‘Ali and dated 1228 AH (1812/3 CE), written in fine black nasta'liq script, opening bifolio with polychrome and gold decoration within floral borders margins with diagonal text on a gold floral ground, brown morocco leather binding, folio 24.6 x 16.5cm.Provenance: Christie's 10 February 1991, Lot 231
A compilation of Qur'an verses, India, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 32ff., with 9ll. of gold and silver naskh on a painted blue ground, gold roundel verse markers, opening folio with illuminated header, lacquered papier mache binding with daffodils on a red ground in interior covers, folio 12 x 8cm.Provenance: Private French collection
A translation of an unidentified Arabic work by the eminent scholar and bibliophile Razi al-Din ibn Tawus (1193-1266), signed Muhammad Kazim and dated Rajab 1034 AH (April / May 1625), with the Persian seal impression and English ownership inscription of Edward Halley dated 1032AH/1623AD, 345ff., Persian manuscript on paper, 17ll. of black nasts'liq script per page with corrections in red, numerous owners stamps, defective at opening, in modern dark red tooled leather binding with flap, folio 24 x 10cm.
A marriage contract of Aqa Mirza Ali Akbar, North India, dated Ramadan 1302 AH (June/July 1885 CE), Arabic manuscript on paper, 6ff., with 9ll. of black naskh, with numerous blanks left for witnesses, two completed with inscriptions and seal impressions, polychrome floral decoration throughout, on original paper wrapper, folio 24 x 15cm. Provenance: Private French Collection
Juz 12 of a Chinese Qur'an, Surah Hūd (11), v.6 to surah Yūsuf (12), v.52, China, 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 57ff., each with 5ll. of bold black sini script, punctuation in black and red, gold verse markers outlined in black and red, sura headers in red, opening bifolio with gold illuminated panels around three lines of text, final bifolio with design of flowers in pink, green and gold, stamped brown leather binding with flap, folio 27.5 x 19.1cm.Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 1970s
Juz 21 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 57ff. with 5ll. of black sini script to the page within red rule, opening and closing bifolium with polychrome and gold decoration, within tooled brown leather binding, folio 25.4 x 19.5cm. Provenance: Private collection London formed in the 1960s-1980s
Juz 24 of a Chinese Qur'an, 60ff. Arabic manuscript on paper, with 5ll. of black Rayani script her page within double red rule, verso of opening folio with roundel containing gold Chinese style flowers on an indigo blue ground, opening bifolio with chrysanthemum flowers, pagodas and Chinese style decoration in red, gold, green and lavender surrounding three lines of text within a rectangular frame, colophon to final folio, in brown leather tooled binding with flap, folio 25 x 18.7cm.Provenance: Private London collection formed from the 1960-1980s
A Chinese Qur'an juz, with 5ll. of black Rayani script within double red rule, with gold rosette verse markers and gold surah headings, opening bifolio decorated in gold and polychrome Chinese style flowers with three lines of text surrounded by a rectangular frame, in brown tooled binding with flap, folio 27.5 x 20cm.
Juz 12 of a Qur'an, China, 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 56ff., with 5ll. of black Rayani script per page within red rule, with gold rosette verse markers, surah headers in gold, opening and closing bifolium with polychrome and gold floral decoration surrounding three lines of text, in brown leather tooled binding with flap, folio 27.6 x 20cm.Provenance: Private collection London formed in the 1960s-1980s
Juz 24 of a Qur'an, China, 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 57ff., with 5ll. of black Rayani script per page within red rule, with gold rosette verse markers, surah headers in gold, opening and closing bifolium with polychrome and gold floral decoration surrounding three lines of text, in brown leather tooled binding with flap, folio 27.6 x 19cm.Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1980s
Juz 19 of a fine Qur'an, China, 18th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 59ff., with 5ll. of black Rayani script per page within red rule, with gold rosette verse markers, surah headers in gold, opening and closing bifolium with polychrome and gold floral decoration surrounding three lines of text, in brown cloth binding with flap, folio 29.3 x 20.5cm.Provenance: Private London collection formed between the 1960s-1980s.
A rare example of an Ethiopian Qur’an, Harar, Ethiopia, 18th-century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 189ff., first volume from a two-volume set (1:1-18:109), 13ll. of brown sepia script with extensive marginal reading notes, opening bifolio with polychrome decoration, in original brown leather binding with cloth, folio 22.6 x 18.5cm. Provenance: Acquired from the UK Trade, 2008
A Safavid copy of the Baharistan of Jami, dated 21 Sha’ban 954AH (16 October 1547AD), Persia, 120ff., Persian manuscript on paper, 13ll. on black nastaliq script per page with important words and phrases in red, within gold and blue outer rule, numerous owner's stamps and inscriptions, the most common an octagonal seal dated 991 AH (1583/4 CE) in the name of Ahmed al-Sadiqi, opening folio with polychrome and gold header with fine floral scrolling design on a blue ground, dark red leather binding with tooled lattice design, folio 19.8 x 13.5cm.
A Qur’an section, Harar, Ethiopia, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 350ff. approx., with 15ll. of black Ifriqi script to the page, one of two volumes only, containing text from Surah 1:1-18:110, opening bifolio with polychrome decoration, in contemporary blind tooled brown leather binding missing flap, folio 23 x 16cm.
A compilation of prayers to the Prophet, undated and unsigned, likely copied in the Horn of Africa, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, approx 350ff., with 20ll. of black and red Ifriqi script to the page, with later waqf inscription dated 1351 AH (1931-32AD), contemporary brown leather binding with flap, folio 37 x 24cm.
A compilation of prayers to the Prophet, undated and unsigned, likely copied in the Horn of Africa, 19th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, approx 350ff., with 20ll. of black and red Ifriqi script to the page, with later waqf inscription dated 1351 AH (1931-32AD), contemporary brown leather binding with flap, folio 37 x 24cm.
Shaykh Muhammad al-Mu’ta bin al-Salih al-Sharqi: Dhakhira al-muhtaj fi sala ‘ala Sahib al-Liwa wa al-Taj, On the life of the Prophet Muhammad, Morocco, late 19th-early 20th century, 200ff., Arabic manuscript on paper, on the life of the Prophet, with approx. 21ll. of sepia Maghrebi text per page with some words and headers in polychrome, probably prepared for members of the Isawiyya order, whose founder, Muhammad ibn ‘Issa, closely associated with the Moroccan city of Meknes, is named in the opening roundel, using his epithet of al-Sheikh al-Kamil, in red morocco binding with gilt decoration, folio 33.1 x 21.5cm.
A folio from the Ardeshir album, Ladies bathing, Provincial Mughal, Lucknow, circa 1780, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the four young women arranged in pairs are seated on the rocky banks of a river drinking from porcelain and gold flasks, their lustrous long hair delicately painted and hands and necks adorned with pearls and gold jewellery, a single tree stands to the centre, the night sky behind, within a narrow border of dense gold flowers, the outer album page decorated with a large repeating gold trellis design of irises within lobed cartouches, verso with a Persian nasta'liq quatrain panel on marbled paper signed bottom left signed ‘Abd al-Rashid, within blue and pink gold flowered borders, outer border with large pattern of gold flowers within lobed cartouches, painting 20 x 14cm.; album folio 37.2 x 26.5cm.Provenance: Private London collection since the 1980sPublished: To be published in the forthcoming book; Isabelle Imbert, “Flower Paintings in Indian and Persian Muraqqa’s (16th-18th centuries),"
A painting of an nobleman reclining on a couchby moonlight, Oudh, North India, circa 1750, opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, the prince wearing a sheer gold embroidered jama over lavender brocade pyjamas, reclining on a silver and gilt bed with gem-set gold supports, under a white canopy, an attendant with a white feather fan beckons to a courtesan who blushes and turns her head away as she is presented to the man by her attendants, two carrying candles, a huqqa, glass perfume bottles and a spittoon are seen in the foreground, all on a white marble parapet with a red sandstone balustrade, a river and a moonlit landscape in the distance, the half moon and silver stars shining brightly above, border of flecked gold on a blue ground, folio 36.5 x 25.1cm. Provenance: Private collection, LondonThe reverse with a rectangular personal seal imprint with the date 1170AH/1757AHCondition Report: Top left corner of the painting with loss and damage to paint and surface
Thoyras (Rapin de) The History of England, 2 vol., second edition, translated by N. Tindal, engraved portrait frontispieces of the author and translator, one trimmed, one neatly laid down, vignette titles printed in red and black, one with loss to corners and laid down, 40 engraved plates, 4 folding maps, 1 with marginal tear not affecting image, 2 with tears neatly repaired, 9 tables (2 folding, 1 with neatly repaired tear), illustrations, engraved head- and tail-pieces, water-staining to edges, several leaves neatly strengthened at edges, occasional short marginal tears, one affecting text (final leaf, vol. 2), occasional spotting, contemporary calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, cracked upper joint (vol. 2), folio, for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1732-33.
Pseudo-Shakespeare.- "Shakespear (William)" The Tragedy of Locrine, the Eldest Son of King Brutus, 1734; The London Prodigal. A Comedy, 1734; The Puritan: or, the Widow of Watling-Street, 1734; A Yorkshire Tragedy,1735, woodcut frontispieces, woodcut head-pieces and initials, some browning, occasional spotting minor soiling, printed modern boards, for J. Tonson, small 8vo (4).⁂ The attribution of these works to Shakespeare is false, yet seemingly they began to appear in collections attributed to him as early as the third folio, second impression (1664). In the case of the first mentioned, other proposed authors include Wentworth Smith and Charles Tinley. These editions were also issued in the 8 vol. set of Shakespeare produced by J. Tonson in 1735.
Gilbert (John) Chronological Pictures of English History...from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to Queen Victoria, 40 tinted lithographed plates, 9 sheets of accompanying letterpress text, many plates and title page foxed, numerous repaired tears, original turquoise half calf, scratched, head and foot of spine peeling, broken upper joint, marbled edges and endpapers, folio, [1842-3].
Yorkshire.- Whitaker (Thomas Dunham) Loidis and Elmete; or, an attempt to illustrate ... and supposed to embrace the Lower Portions of Aredale and Wharfdale, engraved portrait frontispiece, 52 engraved plates, 2 colour, engraved initials, scattered spotting, occasional faint off-setting, one or two neat pencil marginal notes, bookplate, near contemporary half-calf, neat repair to spine foot, rubbed, Leeds & Wakefield, 1816; An History on the Original Parish of Whalley ..., 2 parts bound as 1, large folding double-page frontispiece, splits to foldlines, list of subscribers, 18 engraved plates, 1 folding, 1 trimmed, 1 folding plan, 1 trimmed and pasted to blank verso of 5K3, 6D1 with correction trimmed and pasted to foot verso, Y1 with short marginal tear not affecting text, scattered faint off-setting, endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked, slight bumping to corners, Blackburn,1801; The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, in the County of York, engraved portrait frontispiece, list of subscribers, engraved and aquatint plates, 1 folding, 2 hand-coloured, scattered spotting and off-setting, one or two short pencil marginal notes, bookplate, modern half-calf, 1805, first editions, pedigrees, most folding, 2 with short marginal tears not affecting image, illustrations, § Mortimer (J. R.) Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mound of East Yorkshire, chromolithograph frontispiece, plates and illustrations, folding colour plan, advertisements at end, scattered spotting, new endpapers, bookplate, original morocco-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, 1905, folio & 4to (4)
Europe.- Prout (Samuel) Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany and Drawn on Stone, lithographed title, dedication and 50 lithographed plates, foxing and dampstaining, mostly marginal, heavier to title and dedication, "List of Subscribers" leaves detached, bookplate, contemporary half morocco, scratched, lacking spine, folio, [1833].⁂ "Prout was a pioneer lithographer who employed the process as early as 1817, when most of his fellow artists were ignorant or contemptuous of it. His friend and disciple Ruskin specifically exempted Prout from his dismissal of lithography in The Elements of Drawing, noting that "all his published lithographic sketches are of the greatest value, wholly unrivalled in power of composition, and in love and feeling of architectural subjects" (p.339)...Unfortunately these lithographs are now assiduously sought after as single prints, and complete copies of the book [Flanders and Germany] have virtually disappeared." Gordon N. Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914. The plates also include five views of Prague
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.
NO RESERVE Clemente (Francesco) The Pondicherry Pastels: Pastels 1980, number 867 of 1000 copies signed by Clemente, colour plates tipped into handmade coloured leaves, original half-cloth over embossed copper boards, copper slightly rubbed and creased, folio, Anthony d'Offay, 1986; and another on Clemente, folio (2)
NO RESERVE Genesis Publications.- Cooper (Michael) Blinds & Shutters, compiled by Brian Roylance, number 2891 of 5000 copies signed by 10 contributors, some leaves printed on coloured paper, photographic illustrations by Cooper, some colour, original two-tone black morocco and yellow cloth, filmstrip bookmark, very slight soiling from ribbon, original black and yellow box with lid, with small window and sliding blind revealing photograph, folio, Guildford, Genesis Publications, 1990.⁂ The signatures of contributors vary; this copy is signed by Don Bachardy, Jo Bergman, William Burroughs, Adam Cooper, Terry Doran, Gerard Malanga, Earl McGrath, Colin Self, Dean Stockwell and Bill Wyman.
[Gibbs (James) A Book of Architecture containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments,] ?second edition, lacking title, dedication, and list of subscribers, 149 plates (of 150, lacking plate 130), some tears and repairs, some soiling, particularly at edges, modern half calf with black morocco spine labels, folio, ?1739. [Sold not subject to return].
NO RESERVE Restany (Pierre) Botero, New York, 1984 § Celant (Germano) Mimmo Rotella, Milan, 2007 § Rondinone (Ugo) "Heyday", one of 1300 copies, with biographical leaflet in pocket at end, Zurich, 1996; Zero Built a Nest in My Navel, 2006 § Pesce (Gaetano) Il Rumore del Tempo, leaves cut with outline of profile, bound in original doormat cut to form profile, no backstrip as issued, Milan, 2005 § Salvaterra (G.), Robert Rosenblum & Franco Fontana. Pulcherrimae Strade: Contemporary Art in Historical Places, text in Italian and English, original wrappers with plastic dust jacket, fastened with metal bolt, Milan, 2002, illustrations, some colour, all but the last original cloth or boards, the first with dust-jacket, the last with slip-case; and 3 others by Rondinone, folio & 4to (9)
NO RESERVE Ricci (Franco Maria).- Ormesson (Jean d') & others. Jean Schlumberger, one of 5000 copies, 1991 § Strong (Roy) Versace Theatre de l'Ermitage au Covent Garden, one of 5000 copies, 1992 § Chiara (P.) & Federico Roncoroni, editors. Tamara de Lempicka, one of 3000 copies signed by the publisher, 1977, tipped-in colour illustrations, original black cloth, gilt, with illustration mounted on upper cover, original black board drop-back box, Milan, Franco Maria Ricci; and 5 other FMR publications, small folio (8)
NO RESERVE Davis (Lynn) Illumination, New York, 2007 § Ehrlich (Richard) Namibia: The Forbidden Zone, Portland, OR, Nazraeli Press, 2007 § Outerbridge (Paul) New Color Photographs from Mexico and California 1948-1955, Portland, OR, Nazraeli Press, 2009 § Levitt (Helen) Mexico City, New York & London, 1977 § Frank (Robert) Peru, Washington D.C., 2008 § Riefenstahl (Leni) The People of Kau, 1997 § Magnin (André, editor) Seydou Keïta, Berlin & New York, 1997, photographic illustrations, a few colour, original cloth or boards, the last four with dust-jackets, the fourth also with slip-case; and 7 others, travel, folio & 4to (14)
NO RESERVE Graff (Stephane) Chemical Light: 20 Photograms, number 12 of only 20 copies signed by the photographer and with his blind-stamp, 20 photographic prints mounted on thick paper, original cloth, original cloth drop-back box, 2000; Corps Anonyme: Photographic Nudes, number 6 of only 20 copies signed by the photographer and with his blind-stamp, illustrations, original cloth, 2000; and another on Graff, folio & oblong 4to (3)
NO RESERVE Hido (Todd) Between the Two, number 26 of 60 special copies with original signed print, signed by Hido on half-title, colour photographic illustrations, original boards, original black & white print numbered and signed in pen on verso and loose in original board folder, together in original cloth drop-back box, Portland, OR, Nazraeli Press, 2006; and 4 others by Hido, folio & 4to (5)
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