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Click here to subscribeFolio Society - Ruskin (John) The Stones of Venice, 2001 in slip-case, Into the Dark Continent The Travels of Henry Morton Stanley, 2002 in slip-case, Mayhew(Henry) London Characters and Crooks, 1996 in slip-case, Debo(Angie) A History of the Indians of the United States, 2003 in slip-case, and others in slip-cases (13 in total)
Ksenia (Xenia) Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (6 April 1875 – 20 April 1960)PERSONAL ILLUSTRATED ALBUMS OF JEWELLERY AND BIBELOTS FROM 24TH JUNE 1880 TO 1905, AND OF JEWELLERY FROM 12 JANUARY 1894 TO 25 MARCH 1912, IN TWO VOLUMES the first, smaller, volume from 1880-1905.4to (22cm. x 17.5cm.), on 91 ruled leaves of text with drawings in watercolour and bodycolour, some heightened, of which the first 20 leaves are written on rectos and versos (i.e. 39 pages of entries, the first page with list of the twelve months with their birthstones), containing 74 entries (no.4 omitted and crossed through) with Russian text on versos and French translation on rectos, with no. 75 in Russian only; the following 43 leaves written on versos only containing entries 76 to 265 (no.147 and 241 with brief annotation on recto, no.194 with annotation on pinned slip of paper), with 4 additional drawings dated 1892 between nos.177 and 178; the final 27 leaves on rectos and versos containing entries 269 to 499 with briefer descriptions, the front free endpaper inscribed 'S.A.I. la Grande Duchesse Xenie Alexandrovna' with her signature in Cyrillic 'Ksenia' below, the back endpaper with pencil inscription '305 eggs', in original half roan and cloth boards, the upper cover stamped in gilt with crowned cypher 'KA', rather worn, stitching weak, spine partly loose and lacking central section, marbled endpapers with Russian printed label 'I. Baliasov's Shop, Nevskii prospekt'.the second, larger, volume from 1894 to 1912.Folio (34.5cm x 21.5cm.), on 99 ruled leaves of text with drawings in watercolour and bodycolour, some heightened, of which the first 18 leaves are written on rectos and versos (no.17 on verso only), followed by 26 leaves on rectos only, 8 on versos, and a further 47 on rectos only, with 426 numbered entries, of which all but no.62-64, 219, 221 and 422-426 are illustrated), 11 illustrations on card pasted on leaves, 9 with annotations on stitched slips of paper, followed by blank leaves, in original diced maroon leather, the upper cover stamped in gilt with crowned cypher 'KA', marbled endpapers.Footnotes:ProvenanceGrand Duchess Ksenia AlexandrovnaThence by descent, EnglandBonhams London, The Russian Sale, 30 November 2011, lot 155 Private European collectionNous remercions l'experte Svetlana Chestnyh et le Dr Karen Kettering pour leur aide dans la recherche et le catalogage de ce lot.We are grateful to Art Expert Svetlana Chestnyh and Dr Karen Kettering for their assistance in researching and cataloguing this lot.The Jewel Albums of Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna In April 1919, Grand Duchess Ksenia, sister of the last tsar, was among the surviving Romanovs to escape from Russia on board the British battleship, HMS Marlborough. According to her mother, the dowager empress, Grand Duchess Ksenia had stood with her dog, Toby, weeping openly as the family gathered around a makeshift quay, ready to depart from Yalta. They were preparing to board the Marlborough and leave their homeland for ever. The Grand Duchess had with her two precious jewel albums which she kept until her death in 1960 when they passed to her family. The two lavishly illustrated documents constitute a highly sentimental record of jewellery received between 1880 and 1912. Presented together, the 925 entries provide a fascinating insight into the private wealth of the Romanovs, their personal taste and family relationships. The albums illustrate the manner in which important occasions were marked and offer a crucial link to proving attribution and provenance for so many pieces later gifted, sold on by the Grand Duchess or seized by the Soviet authorities.The smaller of the two leather-bound albums contains entries ranging from 1880 to 1905, mostly comprising smaller jewels and pendant Easter eggs. The second, larger album contains entries beginning with the Grand Duchess's engagement in January 1894 and continues until March 25, 1911, her thirty-sixth birthday, by which time her marriage was becoming noticeably strained, relations between various member of the Imperial family were deteriorating, and the vast Russian Empire entered into its difficult, final years. Grand Duchess Ksenia (1875-1960) was born in St. Petersburg at the Anichkov Palace when her grandfather, Tsar Alexander II, ruled the Russian Empire. Her father became Alexander III when she was six years old and, together with her mother Empress Maria Feodorovna (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and five siblings, she was raised at Gatchina Palace, well away from the political fermentation of St. Petersburg. There she received a private education alongside her brother, the future Nicholas II, which included the study of foreign languages as well as drawing, a skill in which she was accomplished and surpassed her brother. As well as travelling between Imperial residences, Ksenia's upbringing included regular visits abroad to the Danish home of her maternal grandfather (and Godfather), King Christian IX, whose name regularly appears in her entries.Ksenia's privileged background limited her social contact mainly to royal relations and the aristocratic children of court officials. By the time she was eleven, Ksenia was smitten with her first cousin once removed, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich ('Sandro') of Russia. Given their ages, it took another several years for the relationship to mature and for Ksenia's parents to finally approve their 1894 wedding. A daughter Princess Irina was born in 1895, then Prince Andrei in 1897, Prince Feodor in 1898, Prince Nikita in 1900, Prince Dmitri in 1901, Prince Rostislav in 1902 and Prince Vasili in 1907.Of immense interest to historians, only a small number of select pages of the albums had been published in specialist books, and the albums remained largely private until they were offered at auction by Bonhams New Bond Street in 2011 (Bonham's London, The Russian Sale, 30 November 2011, lot 155). The published pages, however, offer but a glimpse of the albums' full historic and artistic significance and show watercolour sketches not by the Grand Duchess herself, but by artists of the firm of Bolin and Nichols-Ewing, original drawings presented by jewellers for the extraordinary parures in diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and pearls to be prepared for the Grand Duchess in anticipation of her marriage.The albums themselves have prompted much debate among scholars who have sought to determine the overarching purpose of the tomes. It is notable that pieces the Grand Duchess purchased for herself are not itemised and while the pages are filled with her careful and exact notations, the texts do not emphasize the value of the stones or the name of the fashionable jeweller who had made or sold the piece. Rather, each carefully rendered drawing is usually accompanied by the briefest – and most heartfelt – of statements: 'From Mama,' 'From Papa,' or 'From Sandro' (her husband, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich). The art historian, Dr Karen L. Kettering, who has studied the albums since their sale in 2011, has noted that they are not inventories of the jewellery of the Grand Duchess because she herself was able to view a third volume (in private hands) which can be classified as an inventory.
MORTON SAMUEL G. Crania Americana or A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North & South America. Eng. frontis, hand col. eng. map, 71 plates of skulls & a phrenological Chart. (The title calls for 78 plates but the internal "explanation of the plates" lists only the 72 that are here present). Folio. Qtr. cloth, internal browning & spotting. Philadelphia & London, 1839.
Ardizzone (Edward).- Thackeray (William Makepeace) The Newcomes, 2 vol., limited edition signed by the artist, slipcase (rear panel deached), New York, Limited Editions Club, 1954 § Yorke (Malcolm) To War With Paper and Brush, limited edition, slipcase, Fleece Press, 2007 § Reeves (James) Arcadian Ballads, number 193 of 200 copies signed by author and artist, light foxing to spine and covers, slipcase, Whittington Press, 1977, illustrations by Ardizzone, original boards; and 4 others, Ardizzone, 4to & folio (8)
Faulks (Sebastian) Birdsong, first edition, signed by the author on title, light marginal toning, original boards, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, dust-jacket, slight sunning to spine, light creasing to spine tips and corners, else fine, 1993; and the Folio Society edition of the same, 8vo (2)
Hughes (Ted) Moortown Elegies, number 142 of 175 copies signed by the author, title in red and black, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, numbered prospectus loosely inserted, original pictorial limp vellum, gilt, a little yellowed, t.e.g., others uncut, slipcase, [Sagar & Tabor A57a.1], folio, Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press for Rainbow Press, 1978.
Hughes (Ted) Rain-Charm for the Duchy, number 157 of 280 copies signed by the author, original cloth-backed boards, 1992; The Unicorn, number 157 of 280 copies signed by the author, original wrappers, 1993, together in original slipcase; and a signed presentation copy of Selected Poems, with Autograph Note signed from the author discussing his duties as poet laureate, folio & 8vo (3)⁂ The Unicorn was included as a supplement to Rain-Charm for the Duchy. In the note Hughes discusses his role: "Wordsworth established the main condition of taking the job on: there are no duties whatsoever."
NO RESERVE Lewis (Wyndham, editor) The Enemy, no. 1 only (of 3), illustrations by Lewis, original wrappers, spotting and a little browned, fraying to extremities, January, 1927 § Cunard (Nancy), Carel Kapek, Liam O'Flaherty and others. The New Coterie, nos. 1-6 (all published), plates by Nina Hamnet, Eric Kennington, Stanley Spencer and others, original pictorial wrappers, light toning to spines, 1925-27; and 10 others, periodicals, folio & 4to (17)
⁂ Please note, proceeds of this sale will go to the Action for Refugees charity ⁂Martin (George R. R.) [Game of Thrones Series], 9 vol. including map vol., first printings, illustrations by Jonathan Burton, original pictorial cloth, slipcases, 8vo, Folio Society, 2019-22.⁂ A superb set of this handsome production. Winner of a British Book Design award.
Bradbury (Ray) Fahrenheit 451, limited edition signed by author and illustrator, 4 colour plates by Joseph Mugnaini, monthly newsletter from Limited Editions Club loosely inserted, original aluminium-covered boards, some light rubbing to joints, slipcase (wear to head of spine, light rubbing to extremities), folio, New York, Limited Editions Club, 1982.
Conrad (Joseph) The Rover, bookplate to pastedown, dust-jacket, portions of loss to spine ends and corners, some nicks and tears to extremities, upper joint repaired with tape verso, 1923; Tales of Unrest, front free endpapers and prelims reinforced with tape at gutter, some margins repaired with tape, 12pp. adverts at rear, rebacked preserving original spine, lightly rubbed, 1898; A Set of Six, first colonial issue, 41pp. advertisements (lacking 2pp.), 1908; Typhoon, endpapers browned, fore-edge spotted, 1903; Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, ink ownership name to front free endpaper, some spotting to first and last few pages, 1904, first editions, original cloth, extremities creased and frayed, corners bumped, joints a little rubbed; and 8 others by Conrad, 8vo & folio (14)
The River Dart, a Series of Etchings by W. Brown & E.W. Charlton, folio, brown gilt cloth boards, Pub. J.S. Virtue & Co, with lifting monochrome plates - foxing - sold with Modern Masters of Etchings by W. Russell Flint, Pub. 1931, with remains of dust cover - also Just Dogs and Just Pups by K.F. Barker
Scotstoun: a half bound folio of 1823 architect's plans and coloured diagrams for the alterations made to the property by Hamilton - sold with a quantity of loose monochrome photographs with annotation and stamps verso, all showing early 20th Century images of the railway that was built on the site of the original house
'Paarenrassen naar Otto Eerelman' ('Horse Breeds by Otto Eerelman') - E.A.L Quadekker. A modern folio version of the 1898 book comprising 42 chromolithograph plates of horse breeds after the works of Eerelman (Dutch, 1839-1926) and subscriber's list. Each plate within a two-leaf letter-press sleeve with Quadekker's breed description. Publisher's portfolio decorated in gilt and with white horse's head (62.5 x 47 cm).(Folio cover end flaps torn A/F. Leaves and plates in good order).
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