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Lot 108
JEAN-DENIS MAILLART (1913-2004) “Le Bateau Ivre” (the drunken boat), Les Editions du Raisin, Clichy 1946: a set of 8 monochrome offset lithographs, with text, printed on pure rag paper, number 37 from an edition of 200, 27cm x 21cm (image), folio 42cm x 31cm, in original yellow slipcase; GONGORA, XX Sonnets, translated into French by Milner and accompanied by illustrations of ISHMAEL G. de la SERNA, Paris 1928, folio 39cm x 29cm (binding defective); FRANK AUERBACH, The Complete Etchings, 1954-1990, publ. Marlborough Graphics Ltd, London; and Three other 20th century French books on art. (6).
Lot 109
EDWARD WOLFE (1897-1982) “Song of Songs”, a boxed set of 12 coloured offset lithographs printed on aluminium-lined paper with matt varnish, each signed “Wolfe” & numbered 61/250 in pencil, mounted on Velin Arches 160gsm Blanc, each with text opposite, printed by John & Rosalind Randle at the Whittington Press, Andoversford, in green cloth case (image 35.5cm x 26.5cm, folio 46cm x 33cm).
Lot 110
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE, OBE (Scottish, 1897-1981) Lithographs by William Johnstone with Poems by Edwin Muir, 1981: a boxed set of 21 coloured lithographs, each signed in pencil, double-page with text, number 23 from an edition of 50, printed on Somerset Textured 300gsm by Ken Duffy at the Printmaker’s Workshop, Edinburgh, 32.5cm x 25.5cm, in original calf folio.
Lot 803
2 Folio Engravings of William Harvey M.D., folio engraving of William Harvey, titled at the bottom 'Bemmel pinx, In the collection of Dr. Mead, Impensis J & F Knapton London 1739, J Houbraken sculps. Amst 1739, and a similar with trimmed edges on card William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician known for his significant contributions to the fields of anatomy and physiology. Notably, he holds the distinction of being the earliest documented medical professional to comprehensively and meticulously elucidate the process of systemic circulation. Harvey's pioneering work expounded upon the dynamics of blood circulation, encompassing its circulation from the heart to the brain and throughout the entire body.
Lot 889
British Royal family / monarchy / early photographic interest: A collection of ephemera, photographs and medals from the life and career of Mr. Thomas Copperwheat, Master Gilder of Buckingham Palace during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901) to George V (1910 - 1936) Principally contained within a large tooled and gilt bordered vellum folio, the inside cover mounted with a watercolour painted frontispiece ‘Buckingham Palace, with late photographs of State Apartments’, interleaved with 12 candid late 19th photographs taken by Mr. Copperwheat during his tenure within the palace, all featuring room settings / interior scenes to include ‘Royal Chapel’, (prepared by W & D Downey, Ebury St, London) ‘The Queen’s Bedroom’, ‘Grand Stairs (upper and lower portions)’, ‘Blue Drawing Room’, ‘East Gallery’, ‘White Drawing Room’, ‘Ball and Concert Room’, ‘State Dining Room’, ‘Queen’s Luncheon Room’ ‘Royal Closet’(left and right), ‘Picture Gallery’, ‘Throne Room’, all with contemporaneous hand written titles (12) also containing a group of a eight applied samples of wall coverings / furniture upholstery textile samples, before the central page titled ‘Queen’s Letters’, accommodating two facsimile letters written by Queen Victoria in thanks to her ‘good and faithful servants’ for their conduct around her jubilee, alongside four photographic prints taken of fine jewellery, believed to be that from the collection of Queen Mary (1867 - 1953) alongside a fine timepiece (likely recently re-gilded). The folio also containing two evening programmes from Buckingham Palace, Friday Evening, 28th June 1889 and Monday Evening, June 20th 1898, labelled ‘Old Style Programme’ and ‘New Pattern Programme’, a typed week’s programme commencing 6th June 1904 for Buckingham Palace, two invitation cards ‘to view some of the wedding presents’ from the Marriage of H.R.H The Duke of York with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, on Tuesday, 24th April, 1923. Sold alongside three small additional photographic albums containing early photographs of fine objects and works of art, likely also from Royal collections, others detailing fine gilding, domestic settings, family portrait photography etc and a small book containing a gilt page marked ‘Happy Xmas and Best Wishes, from Dad’ and a further glazed famed gilded panel, also with further loose candid photographs of country house facades, a portrait of Mr. Copperwheat, etc. Together with a page from ‘The Borough News’ newspaper, Friday, JUNE 25TH, 1937, ‘Wandsworth Man’s Fatal Accident, Fell In His Garden’ detailing the passing of the pensioned gilder of the royal household, going on to note his 56 year tenure at Buckingham Palace, outlining the commencement of his career as apprentice in 1868, working at that time on the gilding of Blackfriars Bridge (using 3,275 books of gold) continuing to list the honours awarded to Mr Copperwheat. Alongside the ephemera and photographic material listed here, the collection includes a small glazed mahogany display case accommodating Mr. Copperwheat’s medals / honours to include: 1. Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee (1897)2. King Edward VII Coronation Medal (1902)3. King Carlos I of Portugal (1909) 4. King George V Coronation Medal (1911) 5. Royal Long Service Medal (Mr. Copperwheat having served 20 years under George V)The principal album also containing written dedications from Carlos I Portugal (1909) and a note from The Privy Purse Office of Buckingham Palace regarding the receipt of the 1911 Coronation medal. (Collection).(Group)
Lot 338
TEN ROLLS - ROYCE ENTHUSIAST'S CLUB YEAR BOOKS AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include a large vintage brown leather 'Gladstone' bag, a Wenger Swiss Gear A4 ring binder folio, a boxed Logik T.V mount, a Spiralux model 1010 scroll saw, five boxed M&S crystal 'Loire' dishes, together with ten Rolls-Royce Enthusiast's club Year Books 2010, 2011,2012,2013, 2014,2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020/21, etc. (s.d) (2 boxes + loose)
Lot 252
Samuel CurtisA monograph of the genus Camellia... the whole from original drawings by Clara Maria Pope. London: J. & A. Arch, 1819FIRST EDITION, folio (565 x 463mm.), engraved title-page, engraved dedication to the Duchess of Newcastle, 8pp. letterpress text, 5 hand-coloured aquatints heightened with gum arabic by Weddell after Clara Pope, engraved title for The beauties of Flora bound at front (slightly foxed), at the end a single page of description of tulips in English and French from the same work
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Lot 3134
Simpson William: The Seat of War in the East; Colnaghi & Co., 1855-56; First [-Second] Series, two volumes bound in one; hand-coloured lithographed title page for 2nd Series and dedication page for 1st Series; seventy-eight hand-coloured lithographed plates, tissue guards (some with printed keys); descriptive text for both first and second series; contemporary maroon half morocco gilt with gilt edges; folio (57 x 37cm.) DISBOUNDCondition Report: Completely disbound with damage to some edges. Damp staining to earlier plates and lesser damp staining/foxing to later plates. Staining to most of later plates not seriously effecting the imagesOne plate - The Monastery of St. George and Cape Fiolente - badly torn.Fore-edge of a number of plates with nibbling and creasing..
Lot 302A
Large Quantity of Folio Society Volumes, including: Dickens (Charles), Great Expectations, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, 5 volumes, uniform quarter leather bindings, slipcases; The Folio Shakespeare, 6 volumes; Shakespeare, [Works], 8 volumes; Joyce (James), Ulysses, 1998; David (Elizabeth), A Book of Mediterranean Food, 2007, fourth printing, slipcase; and others (approximately 200 volumes, 10 boxes).Mixed condition - many fine/very good, others with signs of wear. Many with wear to slipcases, including bumps and shelfwear. Some volumes with rubbed spines/backstrips. A few volumes with foxing/spotting to fore-edges.
Lot 306
The Franklin Library, eleven volumes from The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series, inlcuding Nabokov (Vladimir), Chekhov (Anton), and Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur), decorative leather bindings, gilt; together with a small quanity of other books including Heron Books and Folio Society. (2 shelves)
Lot 129
Steinbeck (John) Autograph Manuscript draft of "Preface" for The Short Novels of John Steinbeck, collected as "My Short Novels," 4 pp. only (lacking final leaf), lower left corner bumped to all leaves, toning at extremities, small folio, 1953.*** At the request of Viking in 1953, John Steinbeck yielded to the prospect of revisiting his short novels – The Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, The Moon is Down, Cannery Row, and The Pearl – to reissue them in a collected anthology.He begins this draft "I have never written a preface to one of my books before, believing that the work should stand on its own feet even if its ankles were slightly wobbly. When I was asked to comment on the five short novels of this volume, my first impulse was to refuse. And then, thinking over the things that have happened to these stories since they were written, I was taken with the idea that the things that happen to a book are very like those that happen to a man." The commissioned preface goes on to describe the personal nature of each work, the all-absorbing creative process, and the feeling of loss after finishing a book, only to be forgotten as a new work consumes him.The text of the present manuscript closely aligns with the published essay, but with some substantive deviations: the initial "five short novels" evolves into "six short novels," and most notably, Steinbeck’s more self-deprecating tone in this draft is later excised. For example, an entire and more effuse section which leads into his discussion of the works is cut from the final version: "... all of [my novels] have been experiments. That is why no two are remotely alike. And experiments are rarely accepted all at once. / My stories have been slow starters almost like shy young men who do not make friends quickly. Indeed most of my books have succeeded without trying in making quick and fierce enemies at first. It is pleasing to me that in time they do make lasting and loyal friends."Steinbeck first discusses The Red Pony, "written a long time ago when there was desolation in my family. The first death had occurred—and the family which every child believes immortal, was shattered." Facing challenges in publication, it finally found a home in the North American Review for a modest $90 (see lot 120), only to see the magazine going under shortly thereafter. Transitioning to Tortilla Flat, Steinbeck recounts its controversial reception in Monterey, where readers denounced the work, stating "no such disreputable people lived in that neighborhood" - a statement (though seemingly damning) that would unwittingly boost book sales. He also describes the precarious genesis Of Mice and Men: "I had nearly finished it when my setter pup ate it one night—literally made confetti of it. I had to start fresh. I don't know how close the first and second versions would prove to be."Steinbeck curiously deems his shorter works as “exercises for the longer ones”, and throughout World War II, he crafted The Moon is Down “as a kind of celebration of the durability of Democracy", musing on his portrayal of Germans as "men, not supermen". The final version goes on to discuss Cannery Row and The Pearl, which takes up half a printed page (and not present in this manuscript). In a letter to David Heyler dated August [1953], Steinbeck mentions writing a preface to the anthology as one of the projects he is currently working on (see note to lot 120 for details on Heyler).Overall a fantastic piece of Steinbeck’s work in manuscript form, and a unique example of his quintessential self-deprecatory tone.Provenance: The Mary Steinbeck Dekker Family Collection.
Lot 14
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) Methode et invention nouvelle de dresser les chevaux, first edition, first issue with date on title altered by hand to 1658, engraved additional title and 40 plates only (of 42, lacking nos. 14 & 20) by Peter de Jode and others after Abraham van Diepenbeeck, mounted on stubs throughout, browning, a few plates with repaired tears running into image, plate 30 with portion excised and restored ?from a later impression, repaired tears to text with some restoration to margins, bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell to front pastedown, red morocco gilt by J. Leighton, gilt monogrammes of Stirling-Maxwell to covers, extremities rubbed, g.e., [Brunet I, 1699; Nissen, ZBI 848], Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1657-58; and a complete set of the plates from a later edition, each laid flat and mounted in a matching uniform binding by Leighton, folio and large 4to (2)*** The rare first issue of this lavishly illustrated work on horsemanship. Cavendish was renowned for equestrian skills and his riding school in Antwerp attracted students from across Europe.
Lot 15
Horses.- Cavendish (William, Duke of Newcastle) A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol. in 1, first edition in English, half-title, additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates, 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in part 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, occasional light browning, bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell to front pastedown, 19th century half calf, arms and motto of Stirling-Maxwell to covers, extremities rubbed, [Nissen, ZBI 849], folio, J. Brindley, 1743.*** The second volume comprises "The Perfect Knowledge of Horses", the first appearance in English of Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des chevaux.
Lot 152
Rowlandson (Thomas) and Henry Wigstead. An Excursion to Brighthelmstone, title, 12 pp. letterpress text, 8 etchings and aquatints by Alken, all with full hand-colouring, on various papers some likely from different copies, all loose, each crudely detached from spine, some margins trimmed, otherwise marginal repairs, spotting, browning, and surface dirt throughout, half red morocco, spine gilt, scuffed and worn, oblong folio, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790.
Lot 16
Horses.- Eisenberg d' (Barone) Description du Manege Moderne dans sa perfection, first edition, engraved additional title and 59 plates by Picart after Eisenberg, list of subscribers, occasional light browning but a very good copy generally, light vertical crease to title and a few early leaves, bookplate of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell to front pastedown, 19th century half morocco with Sitrling-Maxwell monogramme in blind to upper cover, extremities rubbed, title and author in blind to lower edge, [Cohen-De Ricci 345], oblong folio, n.p., 1727.*** A clean copy of this description of horsemanship by King George II's stablemaster.
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