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John Feehan, Farming in Ireland, history, heritage and environment, Folio, pps 605. Loosely enclosed the attractive prepublication brochure. Definitive work now becoming scarce especially in mint condition. (1)

Jack B. Yeats: Cat the Dawson Gallery, 1966; Sligo 1971, JBY and his Family; Hilary Pyle, JBY in the Nat gallery of Ireland, oblong folio. (3)

Ida Grehan, Waterford, A Collector’s Art, folio, New York, 1981, 256 pps; protected dj. Unusual and Scarce.

John Ruskin. The King of the Golden River. 1892. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. Fine original half calf; and Rychard Doyle. Manners and Customs of Ye Englysne. Illustrated by Richard Doyle. 1849. Oblong folio. (2)

Brian P. Kennedy. Irish Painting. 1993. Folio. D.j. Illustrated.

Irish Roots. Quarterly Periodical, illustrated. Complete run of fifty two issues from Spring 1992 (the first issue) to Winter 2004. Edited by Tony McCarthy. Cork: Belgrave Publications, 1992/2004. Folio. Fine. Pictorial wrappers. Articles on: Jobs in Genealogy; That Elusive Irish Ancestor; Hitler - His Irish Connections; Lawrence of Westmeath (and Arabia); Trace Your Roots - Eight Part Guide; Things that happen to Christian Names; Parish Registers as a Source, etc.

Augustus John, British Painters Series, Beaverbrook 1962; Folio, protected dj; lovely copy of now rare vol. (1)

Nine P. G. Woodehouse Books (6 1st Editions) and A Memoir of Jane Austin (Folio)

A FOLIO OF ASSORTED ANTIQUE PICTURES AND PRINTS OF FIGURES, MAINLY WOMEN.

A FOLIO OF 6 WATERCOLOURS, INCLUDING VIEWS OF HAMPTON COURT PALACE, RYDAL WATER ETC

A folio containing "Photographic Lunar Atlas", based on photos from American observatories, edit G P Kuiper

Plot, Robert. The Natural History of Staffordshire, first edition, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1686. Small folio, title page with engraved vignette, complete with 39 plates (27 of which are folding), including the large folding map and accompanying 'Armes Omitted' plate, plus engraved headpieces and capitals within text. Contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked. Armorial bookplate for Robert Denison Esq. on front pastedown; owner inscription on opening blank, 'Joseph Brooksbank's Book, Anno 1720'. Four pages of subscribers at rear. Contents generally very good with faint creasing in places, some very light toning from age, very pale dampstaining in a couple of places; the plates are generally very well-preserved and bright, a couple of plates have archival tape to nicks and tears in margins, a few plates have light discolouration at fold-lines; the large folding map has two tears at right-hand side. Binding tight and solid, sympathetically recornered/rebacked, lower calf board with score-marks

Foxe, John. Actes and Monuments [Book of Martyrs], in two volumes, London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1610. Folio, reverse calf, illustrated with numerous woodcuts, pictorial title page to Vol.I only partially complete, t.p of Vol.II trimmed and mounted, incomplete (evidently lacking several pages of text), thin label mounted on front pastedown, 'The Property of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Cromer', contents generally good and bright with occasional marks and pale dampstaining in places, bindings heavily worn, sold as found with all faults (2)

Foxe, John. Acts and Monuments [Book of Martyrs], two volumes [of three], London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1684. Folio, half-calf with paper-covered boards, illustrated with numerous woodcuts, contents generally good with toning and pale dampstaining in places, some cockling, bindings heavily worn, lacking boards to one volume and detached on the other, incomplete, sold as found with all faults (2)

Taylor, Jeremy; William Cave. Antiquitates Christianae: Or, The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus, seventh edition, London: Royston, 1684. Folio, calf, engraved frontispiece and pictorial title, illustrated with numerous engravings, separate titles for each section, contents generally sound with pale dampstaining to margins and scribbles in places, binding heavily worn with crude repairs and becoming loose, sold as found with all faults

Corelli, Arcangelo. Opera Prima, XII Sonatas of three parts for two Violins and a Bass, with A Through Bass for ye Organ Harpsichord or Arch Lute, London: Walsh, [c.1740], nos. 364, 365, 366, 367, the four parts bound as one (four separate title pages). Small folio, half-calf with marbled boards, engraved frontispiece portrait. Contents very good, clean, bright; manuscript numbering to opening leaves; binding worn. Together with Handel's Celebrated Overtures, London: Preston, [c.1811], small folio, half-calf; Six Duets for Two Violins, composed & dedicated to Wilson Braddyll Esq. by Ignace Pleyel, London: Clementi, [c.1805], small folio, half-calf, as found with boards detached; Anna, A Favourite Scotch Air, by Jan Ladislav Dussek, London: W. Mitchell, n.d., unbound; two bound volumes of miscellaneous sheet music, c.1840, including Rossini and Mozart, quarto, half-calf, as found with boards detached (6)

Folio Society. Leather-bound collection, comprising: Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, illustrated by Salvador Dali, London: Folio Society, 2007, printed in Paris by Les Heures Claires, bound in quarter-leather by Hunter & Foulis; Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, illustrated by William Blake, London: Folio Society, 1998, bound in quarter Nigerian goatskin leather by The Bath Press; Faust, by Goethe, illustrated by Eugene Delacroix, London: Folio Society, 2005, bound in quarter-leather by Hunter & Foulis; Selected Poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, engravings by Miriam Macgregor, London: Folio Society, 2003, bound in quarter-leather by The Bath Press; Collected Poems, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, engravings by Simon Brett, London: Folio Society, 2008, bound in quarter-leather by Lachenmaier; The Apocrypha, introduced by David Daniell, London: Folio Society, 2006, bound in quarter-leather by Cambridge University Press; Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius, engravings by Simon Brett, London: Folio Society, 2002, bound in quarter-goatskin by The Bath Press; Lives of the Later Caesars, translated by David Magie, engravings by Sue Scullard, London: Folio Society, 2005, bound in quarter-leather by Lachenmaier; Legends of King Arthur, illustrated by Roman Pisarev, London: Folio Society, 2000, bound in quarter-leather by The Bath Press; British Myths and Legends, illustrated by John Vernon Lord, London: Folio Society, 1998, bound in quarter-leather by The Bath Press. All very well-preserved, clean, bright; a couple of the slipcases have some light scuffs and bumps; slipcase for Meditations has some discolouration (10)

Two mounted and captioned black & white photographs depicting HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip during their Royal Visit to Fiji in 1963, the photographs measuring 17cm by 24cm; a large album of photographs recording locations and scenery in Hong Kong for the 1986 Royal Visit, oblong folio; a packet of 25 colour photographs recording the Queen's visits to Canada, produced by the National Film Board for the Silver Jubilee, 1977 (4)Provenance: Vendor's father and mother-in-law worked for the Royal Household. Vendor's father was Secretary to the Private Secretary to the Queen; vendor's mother-in-law was Press Secretary

Folio Society. Collection in slipcases, including some sets, predominantly 20th-century fiction, crime fiction, comedy, to include Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherlock Holmes collection, and others (78)

Folio Society. Collection in slipcases, some sets, predominantly history, biography, philosophy, including Marcel Proust (set), Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (set), Churchill's History of English-Speaking Peoples (sealed set), and others similar. To include two leather-bound volumes: On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius, engraving by Simon Brett, London: Folio Society, 2003, bound in quarter-leather by The Bath Press, and Republic, by Plato, engraving by Simon Brett, London: Folio Society, 2003, bound in quarter-leather by The Bath Press (50)

Folio Society. Collection in slipcases, predominantly classics, fiction, short stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales, to include Rudyard Kipling set of short stories (55)

Bartholomew, J. G. The Royal Atlas of England and Wales, London, [c.1899]. Folio, publisher's embossed gilt cloth, frontispiece and 69 colour maps as called for

Jonson, Ben. A Croppe of Kisses: Selected Lyrics of Ben Jonson, Chosen, with an Appreciation, by John Wallis, London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1937. Limited edition numbered 9 of 50 specially bound copies (from a complete edition of 250). Small folio, full red crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, lettered in gilt on spine, cockerel device in gold on upper board, top edge gilt (remainder untrimmed), title printed in red, green and yellow, opening capitals in red, green, blue. Contents very good, clean, bright; neat offsetting to endpapers; binding tight and square, well-preserved, a couple of incredibly faint scuffs/marks and light wear to one of the raised bands; housed in cloth slipcase (the slipcase with light wear to corners). Loosely inserted invoice from Henry Sotheran Ltd, the book bearing bookseller ticket for the same on front pastedown

Flint, Sir William Russell. In Pursuit: An Autobiography, London: The Medici Society, 1970. Limited edition, signed by Francis Russell Flint and numbered 828 of 850 copies quarter bound in leather (from a complete edition of 1050, of which 1000 were printed for sale). Folio, quarter red crushed morocco lettered in gilt, cloth boards, top edge gilt. Contents very good, clean, bright; binding tight and square, well-preserved with just a couple of faint scuffs and tiny bumps to edges of lower board, housed in blue cloth slipcase

Caxton, William. Single leaf from Disticha de moribus [attributed to Dionysius Cato], in English, c.1484, printed on both sides. Well-preserved, clean, bright. 27.5cm by 20cm. Accompanying explanatory note [by Gladwyn M. R. Turbutt], c.1900, 'A leaf from the book called Caton...Printed by Caxton in his no.2 & no.4 types.' Together with a single folio leaf from a volume of sermons, with clipped catalogue entry stating 'printed by J. Zainer of Ulm (type 4), circa 1470', double column, rubricated, folded twice with pale spotting (2)Provenance: By descent. The two leaves were originally loosely-inserted in the Biblia Latina in this sale. Gladwyn M. R. Turbutt discovered the original Bodleian copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare (The Turbutt Shakespeare)

Apuleius. The Golden Ass, translated by William Adlington, 1566, London: Chiswick Press, 1904. Limited edition numbered 137 of 200 for sale. Small folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, uncut & untrimmed pages, bearing armorial bookplate for Godfrey Stafford Bostock, protective tissue-guard after frontispiece. Contents good, clean, bright, some light handling marks and pale spots in places; binding good, tight, square

Solmentes Press. Esslemont, David (Illus.). To Autumn, by John Keats, Decorah: Solmentes, 2008. Edition C, signed by Esslemont on colophon. Folio, quarter-cloth, paste-paper covered boards, manuscript title in black ink on upper board and again at spine. Very well-preserved, clean, bright

Ludolphus de Saxonia. Vita Jesu Christi, [Lyon: Stephano Gueynard, Venundatur Lugdu, 1516]. Small folio, beginning at Prologus (ai), no title or preliminaries but text complete and conforming to collation on final leaf, sympathetically rebound in full calf with raised bands and morocco title label lettered in gilt, illustrated throughout with small woodcuts and capitals. Contents generally clean and bright with worm running through centre of text, some very faint staining in places, later endpapers inscribed with explanatory note. The Vita Christi (Life of Christ) is the principal work of Ludolph of SaxonyProvenance: Formerly in the collection of Edward Croft-Murray (1907-1980), British antiquarian and Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum

Clarendon, Edward, Earl of. State Papers, in three volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1767-73-86. Folio, full contemporary calf with raised bands, morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, loosely inserted invoice from Titles Old & Rare Books, Oxford. Contents good, clean, bright, occasional pale spots and light handling marks; bindings tight and square with rubbing to boards, wear/loss to corners and headcaps, splitting to joints but intact (3)

Clarendon, Edward, Earl of. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, in three volumes, Oxford: Printed at the Theater, 1707. Folio, full polished calf, sympathetically rebacked with the original gilt-decorated spines laid down, morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece portrait and vignette title to each volume, armorial bookplate for Isaac le Heup of Gunthorp, Norfolk on verso of title, 20th-century owner label on opening blank. Contents generally good and bright with occasional marks, several paper repairs, prominent red wine staining to much of Vol.II; bindings tight and square, sympathetically restored (3)

Burnet, [Gilbert]. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time, first edition, in two volumes, London: Thomas Ward, Downing & Woodfall, 1724-34, unique with more than 200 18th- and 19th-century engraved portraits bound in, editor's manuscript note on verso of title to second volume. Folio, half-calf with marbled boards and morocco title labels lettered in gilt. Contents generally good and bright; bindings tight and square with some rubbing and light wear, slight splitting to joints (2)

Miscellaneous History. Collection of books, including: Henry VIII, by A. F. Pollard, London: Goupil & Co., 1902, colour frontispiece portrait, limited edition numbered 934 of 1150, worn half crushed morocco; Journey into South Wales, by George Lipscomb, London: Longman & Rees, 1802, later half-calf; An Essay on the Memory of the Late Queen, by Gilbert Burnet, London: Richard Chiswell, 1696, engraved frontis., full calf, upper board detached; Journals of the House of Lords, Vol.XII, 1666, and Vol.XIV, 1685, folio, recent blue cloth; China Under the Empress Dowager, by Bland & Backhouse, London: Heinemann, 1910, publisher's cloth; The China Clippers, by Basil Lubbock, Glasgow: Brown, 1946, gilt cloth; No.1, No.6, No.7 and No.8 of The British Gazette, 1926. In one carton

Design Interest. Collection of 33 books, comprising: Old Cottages...in the Cotswold District, by Galsworthy & Dawber, London: Batsford, 1905, small quarto, publisher's gilt cloth; Knight's Pictorial Gallery of Arts, Vol.I, Useful Arts, London: The London Printing & Publishing Company, no date, folio, half-crushed morocco; A Handbook of Ornament, by Franz Sales Meyer, London: Batsford, 1893, plus another edition dated 1910, octavo, green cloth; Decorative Writing and Arrangement of Lettering, by Erdmann & Braun, second edition, London: Pitman, no date. octavo; English Interiors in Smaller Houses, by M. Jourdain, new issue, London: Batsford, 1933, quarto; Some XVIIIth Century Designs for Interior Decoration, by Arthur Stratton, London: Tiranti, 1923, folio, publisher's cloth; English Interior Woodwork, by Henry Tanner, London: Batsford, 1902, folio, publisher's cloth; Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, by F. A. Paley, London: John Van Voorst, 1844, octavo, cloth, contents loose; Nature and Ornament, by Lewis F. Day, second edition, London: Batsford, 1929, octavo; The Anatomy of Pattern, by Lewis F. Day, London: Batsford, 1898, octavo; The Application of Ornament, by Lewis F. Day, London: Batsford, 1896, octavo; The Bases of Design, by Walter Crane, London: Bell & Sons, reprinted 1909, octavo; Decorative Design, by Frank G. Jackson, London: Chapman & Hall, 1894, octavo; The Principles of Ornament, by James Ward, fourth edition, London: Chapman & Hall, 1899, octavo; L'Ornato Vademecum, by Augusto Garneri, Firenze: Garneri, no date, octavo; The Styles of Ornament, by Alexander Speltz, London: Batsford, 1910, tall octavo; Old New England Doorways, by Albert G. Robinson, New York: Scribner's Sons, 1919, tall octavo; Gardens for Small Country Houses, by Gertrude Jekyll, & Lawrence Weaver, second edition, London: Country Life, 1913, quarto; French Interiors, by Thomas Arthur Strange, London: The Author, no date, quarto; English Furniture, by Thomas Arthur Strange, enlarged edition, London: The Author, no date, quarto; Plastering, Plain & Decorative, by William Millar, London: Batsford, 1897, quarto; Roodscreens and Roodlofts, by Bond & Camm, in two volumes, London: Pitman, 1909, quarto; Masters of Architecture, five volumes, London: Ernest Benn, 1924, tall octavo; four volumes of the Wren Society (IV, VIII, IX, X), Oxford: University Press, quarto. Condition generally good but varied, offered as a single collection and sold with all faults (33)

Vulliamy, Lewis (Illus.); R. Phene Spiers. Examples of Classic Ornament from Greece & Rome, A Series of Twenty Plates with Descriptive Notes, London: B. T. Batsford, 1907. Folio, publisher's quarter-cloth with paper boards, complete with 20 engraved plates. The plates are very good, clean, bright; title and text pages with some pale spotting; endpapers with light foxing; binding tight and square, slight bumping to corners/spine, some light wear to paper on lower board. Very scarce. Together with English Renaissance Woodwork 1660-1730, by Thomas J. Beveridge, London: Batsford, 1921, folio, quarter-cloth, good, clean, bright, some discolouration and light wear to paper boards, and Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones, by H. Inigo Triggs & Henry Tanner Junior, London: Batsford, 1901, folio, gilt cloth, contents loose with all faults (3)

Architectural Interest. A Chart of The Arts in England from 1660 to 1800, London: Lenygon & Co. Ltd., folio, card covers, chart complete, covers discoloured/worn; L'Architecture et la Decoration Francaises, Premiere Serie, Paris: Librairie Centrale d'Art et d'Architecture, n.d., folio, half crushed morocco lettered in gilt, illustrated with 80 plates, good, clean, bright, some wear to binding; Intime Club, Croquis d'Architecture, Paris: Ducher & Co., 1870s, loose plates in three folio folders; an album of miscellaneous plates from The Builders' Journal and Architectural Record, Building News, The Builder, and similar, 1902-09, in oblong folio buckram lettered 'Details' in gilt, with all faults (6)

Architectural Interest. Collection of 19th- & 20th-century books, various subjects, to include The Italian Orders of Architecture, by Charles Gourlay, London: Edward Arnold, 1917, small folio, cloth; An Architect's Note-Book in Spain, by M. Digby Wyatt, London: Autotype Fine Art Company, 1872, small quarto, gilt cloth, contents loose; The Mansions of England in the Olden Time, by Joseph Nash, London: The Studio, 1906, quarto, gilt cloth; A History of Renaissance Architecture in England 1500-1800, by Reginald Blomfield, in two volumes, London: George Bell and Sons, 1897, quarto, quarter-cloth lettered in gilt, armorial bookplate for Charles Horace Stenning on front pastedown, and others, condition varied, as found with all faults, in two cartons (2)

Thomson, John. [A New General Atlas, c.1817]. Featuring 64 sheets of hand-coloured, copper-engraved maps: Hydrographical Chart of the World; Eastern Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere; Northern Hemisphere; Southern Hemisphere; Northern Hemisphere Projected on the Plane of the Horizon of London; British Channel; Europe; Europe After the Peace of Paris and Congress of Vienna (double-page); Europe After the Congress of Vienna (double-page); Scotland; England; British Isles; Ireland; France; Provences of France; Spain & Portugal; Germany South of the Mayne; Germany North of the Mayne; Italy; Prussian Dominions; Poland; Denmark; Scandinavia; European Russia; Attica; Turkish Dominions in Europe; Asia; Russian Empire; Turkey in Asia; Arabia; Persia; Hindoostan; China; Corea and Japan; East India Isles; New Holland and Asiatic Isles; Africa; North Africa; South Africa; Atlantic Islands; America; North America; Canada and Novia Scotia; The Course of the River St Laurence; United States of America; Spanish North America; West India Islands; Jamaica; West Indies; West India Islands (across four sheets); South America; Caraccas and Guiana; Spanish North America Southern Part; Venetian States; Chart of the Northern Passage Between Asia & America; Austrian Dominions; Peru, Chili and La Plata; Tartary; Swisserland; Netherlands; Holland. Oblong elephant folio, the sheets measuring approx. 54cm by 72cm, bound in half-calf with cloth boards, 'Atlas' lettered in gilt on upper board. Most maps are very well-preserved and bright, creamy paper, some sheets bearing Whatman watermark; Poland has a tear at lower margin; Arabia has a slight tear at lower margin; Africa has a small paper repair; West India Islands (Dominica) has pale spotting; Spanish North America has a tear at lower-right; Peru has a tear to lower margin; Swisserland has slight wear at lower edge; the first five maps have light creasing; occasional discolouration, offsetting and marks in places; pale dampstaining to the corners of some maps; lacking title page, sold as a collection of maps with all faults

Dufour, A. H. Atlas, Paris: Gaume & Co., 1877. Complete with all 24 hand-coloured, steel-engraved, double-page maps. Folio, quarter crushed morocco lettered in gilt, marbled boards, marbled endpapers. The maps are generally well-preserved, clean, bright, some pale spotting in places; binding tight and square with light wear and bumping to extremities

Illustrated, Religious and Topographical. Collection of books, comprising: Fridolin, by F. Schiller, illustrated with eight engravings by Henry Moses, London: Septimus Prowett, 1824, rebound in quarter morocco; a quarto volume with spine lettered in gilt, 'Cooke's Views in Italy', featuring 24 mounted engraved plates, no descriptive text or titles; Expositions of the Cartoons of Raphael, by Richard Henry Smith, illustrated by photographs printed by Negretti and Zambra, London: James Nisbet, 1861, octavo, gilt cloth; Sainte Bible, Atlas, featuring 37 engraved plates and maps, no descriptive text or title, oblong folio; Jamaica, The New Riviera, by James Johnston, London: Cassell, 1903, oblong folio; The Land of the Pharaohs, Illustrated by Pen and Pencil, by Rev. Samuel Manning, London: Religious Tract Society, n.d., small folio, gilt cloth; Sinai and Jerusalem, by Rev. F. W. Holland, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., quarto, gilt cloth; a quarto volume with spine lettered in gilt, 'Topography of London', [Select Views of London and its Environs, c.1805], lacking plates and title, boards detached, sold as found with all faults (8)

A Tray of Cameras and related Items, including a Halina 35, a Werra, shutter working, G, an Aretta IA, a Fujiflim Fotonex MRC APS camera, in case, with three APS films, a Canon FD 70-210mm f/4 lens, G, other elenses, a Minolta IIIF light meter, powers up, appers to function as should, a Folio book type tin and other photographic items

A folio of paintings by A.E Twinning together with a folio of prints and maps

Two boxes of Folio Society books

NO LIVE BIDS FOR THIS LOT - A CAUTION IS REQUIRED Double-Portrait of Shah Jahan (r.1628-1658) and ‘Alamgir (r.1658-1707)Folio from the Late Shah Jahan AlbumAttributable to Anup Chattar, c. 1659Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the margins with three military figures surrounded by gold floral sprays, on bold scrolling golden floral design.La feuille : 36,7 x 24,2 cm ; la scène 20,7 x 14,1 cm Provenance :- Collection particulière française depuis 1973- Maître J. Chalvet de Recy, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, le 26 Octobre 1973, n°8. Tel qu'indiqué au catalogue de l'époque : - Nazar Aga- Collection Demotte en 1910- Album de Behram Mirza au XIXe siècle  L'album : Parmi les pages du Late Shah Jahan Album, les plus prestigieuses sont celles qui représentent les empereurs moghols, a fortiori celles qui représentent un double portrait, comme la nôtre. Cet album, compilé à la fin du règne de Shah Jahan, est considéré comme le dernier grand album impérial. En 1739, après le sac de Delhi, Nader Shah a vraisemblablement rapporté l’album en Perse. La plupart des pages de l’album sont restées intactes, mais certains folios ont été placés dans des marges différentes, et intégrés dans d’autres collections. À la fin du XIXe siècle, l’un des frères de Naser al-Din Shah a apporté l’album en Russie et l’a vendu à un marchand arménien. Ce dernier l’emmena en France vers 1909 où le marchand Georges Demotte, un antiquaire, le lui acheta. Demotte a démembré l’album, dédoublant le verso du recto pour les vendre séparément, et obtenir plus de profit. Si une centaine de pages ont survécu, seulement dix-neuf sont restées complètes. Parmi elles, dix-sept représentent une figure impériale, et deux double-portrait seulement étaient connus jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Ces portraits impériaux se distinguent par leurs marges extérieures ornées de deux anges dans la partie supérieure, de trois nobles dans la partie latérale, et d’animaux dans la partie inférieure.La peinture : Cette représentation somptueuse d’un ‘Alamgir nimbé tenant un ornement de turban, face à son père, Shah Jahan, alors emprisonné, qui élève un simple brin de fleurs, vient nourrir une propagande dynastique destinée à conférer une légitimité au nouveau dirigeant. Le face à face entre le vieil empereur et son successeur tend à manifester une passation volontaire du pouvoir, alors que la réalité est tout autre. Des guerres intestines éclatent en 1657. Aurangzeb tue ses frères et sœurs – y compris l’héritier présumé et favori Dara Shikoh –, dépose son père et l’enferme dans le fort d’Agra où il mourra en 1666. Ce double portrait ne peut donc avoir été réalisé qu’après l’intronisation du prince qui prend le nom de ‘Alamguir, le 31 juillet 1658. Le halo de Shah Jahan est ostensiblement plus grand, avec un croissant de lune élancé placé à l’intérieur d’un épais anneau solaire doré, tandis que le nimbe d’Alamgir a un bord intérieur plus fin, mais son rayonnement est plus étendu. Shah Jahan est représenté en majesté, richement paré, vieillissant avec sa barbe presque blanche et sa moustache grisonnante. Il porte un jama (veste) confectionné avec un brocard à décor de pivoines, légèrement translucide, qui permet de distinguer le pajama (pantalon) doré et des souliers brochés d’or – ces deux éléments en tout point semblables à ceux qu’il porte dans le portrait par Hashim, c. 1650, (Cleveland Museum of Art, n°2013.328). Il porte une somptueuse et exubérante parure composée de perles, d’émeraudes et rubis. Une patka (ceinture) dorée brillante et une écharpe translucide bordée d'or drapée sur l'épaule de la figure, un katar (poignard) et un talwar (epée) en or, incrustés de pierres précieuses. A côté, les vêtement d’Alamgir sont plus sobres. Vêtu d’un jama orange opaque broché de fleurs dorées, et paré de magnifiques bijoux, ses accessoires sont aussi somptueux que ceux de son père. L’artiste porte une attention méticuleuse à la forme sphérique des perles.L'artiste : C'est cependant le traitement des visages et des mains des deux personnages qui permettrait d’attribuer la peinture à Anup Chattar, selon John Seyller. La carrière de ce talentueux peintre impérial est assez bien documentée. Actif de 1630 à 1680, Anup Chattar entre au service du prince Dara Shikoh (1615-59), un mécène royal exceptionnellement actif, auquel il est attaché. Il est également connu grâce à une série de portraits de nobles qui lui sont attribués, dont les dates de décès se sont concentrées principalement dans les années 1650. Par chance, Anup Chattar a également laissé plusieurs portraits de Shah Jahan et d’Alamgir qui en font des comparaisons instructives. Le portrait le plus pertinent est un petit portrait en buste du vieil empereur (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 21.1676), qui présente un traitement très similaire de la structure du visage, le rendu de l'œil et de la main, et la disposition des éléments constitutifs du turban. Anup Chattar a également produit un portrait d’Alamgir, daté de la première année de son règne (1658-59) (Christie’s, Londres, 23 avril 2012, lot 302). Vient ensuite un deuxième portrait d’Alamgir attribué à Anup Chattar (Bodleian Library, Ouseley Add. 173, f. 26). Ce dernier en particulier présente un traitement identique de tous les aspects du visage et des mains, rendant plus que probable une attribution de ces deux peintures au même artiste. Cette peinture est donc un ajout très important au corpus de folios connus du Late Shah Jahan Album, et au petit groupe de portraits d’Alamguir lors de son avènement, ainsi qu’au corpus d’œuvre de l'artiste Anup Chattar.We thank you Dr. John Seyller for his contribution to this notice. Oeuvres en rapport pour le Late Shah Jahan Album : Shah Jahan tenant une spinel, attribué à Hashim, c. 1650, Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.328 ; Akbar et Shah Jahan, c. 1645, Guimet, Inv. MA3543 - Babur et Humayun, c. 1650, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S1986.401Bibliographie : E. Wright, « Muraqqa’, Imperial Mughal albums”, 2008. J. Seyller, “ Workshop and Patron in Mughal India: The Freer Ramayana and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of ‘Abd al-Rahim”, Washington, D.C. and Zurich, 1999Oeuvres en rapport pour Anup Chattar : - Portrait de Shah Jahan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 21.1676. Portrait d‘Alamgir date 1658-59, Christie’s, Londres, 23 Avril 2012, lot 302 - Portrait d‘Alamgir attribué à Anup Chattar Singh, Bodleian Library, Ouseley Add. 173, f. 26

BRETHES J. J.Contribution à l'histoire du Maroc par les recherches numismatiques. Monnaies inédites ou très rares de notre collection. Casablanca, Imprimerie des annales marocaines, 1939.Petit in-folio de 3 ff. n. ch. , 274 (1) pp. Demi-toile brune à coins moderne, couv. conservée. 43 planches hors-texte figurant 2030 monnaies et médailles. Édition originale du plus important ouvrage sur la numismatique marocaine, inégalé jusqu'à ce jour. Les commentaires et attributions sont parfois étranges mais le contenu est tout à fait remarquable. L'extrême rareté de certaines monnaies qui ne figurent dans aucune autre publication en fait un ouvrage recherché et indispensable pour celui qui s'intéresse à la numismatique du Maroc. Bon exemplaire enrichi d'un E.A.S. de l'auteur à M. J. R. Benazeral et une coupure de presse de l'époque sur l'ouvrage en page de garde.

Music Volume, includes J.L. Dussek’s Trois Sonates pour le Piano Forte on le Clavecin…, engraved pictorial title, Longman & Broderip; Muzio Clementi’s Two Sonatas and Two Capriccios for the Piano Forte …, engraved title, together with 4 others of the period; contemp. half leather and marbled boards, folio (?ca.1800); sold with 3 antiquarian volumes, including a Cicero (1760) & Browne’s Relgio Medici / 4th edition, 1656 – lacking pp.174-190)

The Daily Telegraph Victory Atlas of The World …, many double page colour-printed maps; publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth, folio (?1920)

Rosenwater, Irving – A Portfolio of Cricket Prints: a nineteenth century miscellany, 8 coloured plates and some other illus., coloured pictorial wrappers, folio 1962

Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford – Antiquarian, Architectural and Landscape Illustrations of the History of Java,engraved folded map and 92 plates (incl. 10 hand-coloured aquatints of costume); later 19th century gilt-ruled and lettered cloth, folio, Henry G. Bohn

Defoe, Daniel - A Tour Thro' London About the Year 1725 ..., reprinted from the text of the original edition (1724-1726),edited and annotated by Sir Mayson M. Beeton and E. Beresford Chancellor ... numerous plates and folded plans; publisher's period-style mottled calf, gilt-ruled and decorated and with panelled spine, folio, Batsford 1929

Wilde, Oscar, The Works Of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays and Poems, Essays and Letters, cased Folio Society set, 3 vols, together with Mardrus & Mathers, The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night, cased Folio Society set, 4 vols

Conrad, Joseph, The Novels and Stories, 17 individually cased Folio Society volumes, complete set, London, 2003 etc

Wilmot, John, The Earl of Rochester, Perfect and Imperfect Enjoyments: Poems, quarter bound in leather with marbled boards, in a presentation box, Folio Society limited edition (edition number listed as ‘B.B’)  together with three Folio Press fine editions, Milton, John, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity and Other Poems, Dekker, Thomas, The Wonderful Year, 1603, and Walton, Izaak, The Life of Dr. John Donne (4)

Folio Society. Miscellany, majority with slipcases. Non-Fiction and Fiction. A couple of slipcases damaged. (25)

Folio Society. Three volume box set - Alexandre Dumas Trilogy: The Three Musketeers / Twenty Years After / The Man In The Iron Mask. (2010). Illustrated by Roman Pisarev. Still in the shrink-wrap. Plus 1 other. (4)

Folio Society. Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World. 1991. Publisher's cloth, in slipcase. A 'Fine' copy.

Folio Society. A selection. Includes; Catch 22 (2005); The Name of the Rose (2004); At the Back of the North Wind (2008); etc. (13)

Folio Society. Fairy Books. Four from the series, comprising; Blue (2008); Red (2008); Pink (2008); & Yellow (2008). Each in slipcase. Nice clean copies. (4)

Folio Society. Two cartons. Fiction and Non-Fiction. (38)

Mexican People 12 Litho Set Folio Pencil Signed Taller de Grafica Popular Mexico City. Published by Associated American Artists. This is a partial set and only comes with eight lithos. Size: 16 x 18 1/4 in. Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.

The Audubon Folio by George Dock Jr. 1964. Complete folio of (30) offset prints after original Audubon works, 1964, presented with explanatory pamphlet and in original folio cover. Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.