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Lot 1
MINTONS PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE PORCELAIN PEDESTAL BOWL AND COVER, the twin handled bowl with central blue ground panel finely painted and hand-tooled in white slip with a scene of Diana and Cupid in a woodland setting, the purple and white ground body gilded with foliate swags and scrolling motifs, raised on a spreading circular stem and square foot, printed globe mark to base, 18.5cm high Provenance: The William Mowat-Thomson Collection
Lot 191
Richard Todd signed Robin Hood 10x8 black and white photo. Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd OBE 11 June 1919 - 3 December 2009 was an Irish British actor known for his leading man roles of the 1950s. He received a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Male, and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance as Corporal Lachlan MacLachlan in the 1949 film The Hasty Heart. His other notable roles include Jonathan Cooper in Stage Fright 1950 , Wing Commander Guy Gibson in The Dam Busters 1955 , Sir Walter Raleigh in The Virgin Queen 1955 , and Major John Howard in The Longest Day 1962. He was previously a Captain in the British Army during World War II, fighting in the D Day landings as a member of the 7th Light Infantry Parachute Battalion. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 12
Julie Walters signed 10x8 black and white photo. Dame Julia Mary Walters DBE born 22 February 1950 , known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress, comedian, and author. She is the recipient of four British Academy Television Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two International Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Fellowship, and a Golden Globe. Walters has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, once for Best Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 190
Renée Zellweger signed 10x8 colour photo. Renée Kathleen Zellweger born April 25, 1969, is an American actress and singer. She has received multiple accolades throughout her career, including two Academy Awards from four nominations, four Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. She was one of the world's highest paid actresses by 2007, and was named the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year in 2009. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 136
Hayley Mills signed 10x8 black and white photo. Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills born 18 April 1946 is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film Tiger Bay 1959 , the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna 1960 and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap 1961. Her performance in Whistle Down the Wind a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99
Lot 197
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin - a scarce original c1930s silver plate oval dish, believed to be from LZ 127. Maker's marks to bottom for S. Siffring, WMF. The bowl in engraved with an Imperial Nazi eagle atop a swastika, with the Zeppelin Globe motif and marked ' DRZ '. Above this is engraved ' LZ 127 '. The plate measures approx; 33cm diameter.
Lot 26
A charm bracelet, the fancy link bracelet suspending eleven charms including a globe, spinner fob, camel and gondola, bracelet stamped 750, length 18cm, gross weight 32.4g. Condition report: Overall condition good to fairWith safety chain4 charms stamped 7502 charms with foreign marks3 charms unmarked1 charm with hallmarks for 9ct gold1 charm stamped 14k
Lot 165
A Charles-Francois Delamarche table armillary sphere, French, circa 1835,the armillary sphere with horizon ring with engraved paper ring printed with months, days, signs of the zodiac, and directions. Horizon ring with four supports, each support printed on both sides with latitude and longitude of major world cities, the meridian ring printed with the degrees of elevation of the poles, mounted within meridian ring are five armillary rings, one each for the Equator, Arctic, Antarctic, and Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, the five rings surrounded by a band printed on both sides with the names of the zodiac as well as the months, mounted in the centre is a terrestrial globe, above which are suspended movable sun and moon discs on brass strips, hour ring above North pole, circumferences of rings painted red, on turned ebonised wood stand, 18in (46cm) high Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.'The first person to direct the production of globes in France at the general public, and to succeed in this, was Charles François Delamarche (1740-1817) ... For use in armillary spheres, a special small terrestrial globe was made, measuring about 2 inches (5.5 cm) ... the meridian of the globe and the rings of the spheres were made, like the horizons, in wood or stiff board. The degrees are printed on paper and stuck on. A characteristic of Delamarche is that the narrow outer side of these rings is painted red' (Dekker Globes from the Western World p 63).Charles François' globemaking business soon dominated the French globe making industry. His son Félix took over the business in 1817, continuing the high quality work of his father.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 168
A Dudley Adams 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, English, circa 1795,the cartouche printed A New GLOBE of the Earth by Dudley Adams, the terrestrial globe with twelve hand coloured and engraved gores, outside the cartouche printed J. Mynde Sc., with pin holes at the poles and showing Cook's track going out in 1776 and King's return in 1780, the American coastline north of California is drawn with Alaska and Behring, in fish-skin covered case with celestial globe applied to inner surfaces, two hooks and eyes, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Literature:John R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III, London, 2000.From a family of renowned instrument-makers, Dudley Adams (1762-1830) was the son of George Adams Sr. (1750-1795), and younger brother of George Adams Jr. (1750-1795). He worked at Charing Cross for 16 years before relocating to the family business on Fleet Street from 1796. Along with globes, Dudley Adams also made compasses, table globes, and patented spectacles.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 172
A 2 ¾-INCH TERRESTRIAL POCKET GLOBE AFTER HERMAN MOLL, English, circa 1775,the rectangular cartouche inscribed A Correct Globe With The New Discoveries, Australia and New Zealand are drawn to Cook's discoveries, the fish-skin case lined with celestial paper gores, inscribed Correct Globe with ye New Constelations of Dr Halley & ...' the case with two swivel securing hooks, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Herman Moll (fl.1678-d.1732) was a cartographer and map maker of German decent who settled in England in about 1670. A pocket globe by Moll and dated 1719 is in the National Maritime Museum collection Greenwich. It is suggested that the gores were republished in about 1775 with alterations to Australia and New Zealand coastline and showing James Cook's voyage of 1760 and California shown as a peninsular rather than as an island.Literature: For a very similar pocket globe see: Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999, p.529.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 183
A rare Johann Baptist Homann 2 ½-inch pocket globe and armillary sphere in case, Nuremberg, circa 1715,the globe with two cartouches printed GLOBUS TERRESTRIS juxta observationes Parisienses Regia Academia Scientiarum constructus; and Opera Ioh. Bapt. HOMANNI Geographi Noriberg, the terrestrial globe applied with twelve engraved hand-coloured paper gores and two polar calottes, California shown as an Island, no coast shown to West-North Canada, the Australian East Coast not delineated, New Zealand and Diemens land only partially shown, contained in original tooled leather case with hand-coloured engraved interior, with celestial gores laid to ecliptic; two cartouches to the case interior read Opera IO. B. HOMANNI S.C.M. Geographi Norinbergae and GLOBUS COELESTIS juxta Observationes Parisienses exhibitus, the terrestrial globe splitting along the equator to open to printed card armillary sphere, the case with single catch and eye, 2 3/4in (7cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:Sotheby's, London, 31 March 1979.The Stephen Edell Collection.After a brief period of Jesuit monasticism, Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) converted to Protestantism and moved to Nuremburg in the late 1680s to pursue a career in maps. By 1702 Homann had founded his own publishing business focussing on maps. He had access to the terrestrial and celestial gores published by the renowned astronomer Georg Christoph Eimmart (1638-1705), and may have had access to Eimmart's original copper plates.Literature:Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.Elly Dekker & Peter Van der Krogt, Globes from the Western World, London, 1993.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 177
A Nathaniel Hill 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1760,the cartouche signed A NEW Terrestrial GLOBE by Nath Hill 1754, twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, showing New Holland, Dimens Land and New Zealand part-delineated, North-West America labelled Unknown Parts, in original fish-skin case, each interior hemisphere with map of the heavens, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Nathaniel Hill (fl.1746-1768) was apprenticed to the globe maker Richard Cushee. In 1751 he became a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company and took over the business of John Coggs at the sign of the Globe and Sun in Chancery Lane.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 166
A John and William Cary 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, English, early 19th century,the cartouche printed NEW CELESTIAL GLOBE, printed just outside the cartouche by J & W Cary Strand, with two pivots at the poles, in fish-skin covered case with inner surface applied with coloured map The WORLD as known in Caesar's Time agreeable to D'Auville, the other hemisphere with print A TABLE of Latitudes and Longitudes of Places not given on this GLOBE, 3 1/4in (8.3cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.John Cary (1755-1835) founded the family firm, which went on to become one of the most prolific map-makers of the 19th century. John collaborated with his brother William (1758-1798), before his sons entered the firm in the 1820s. After John Cary Jr. died in 1852 the firm's name was updated to 'William Cary'.Literature:Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 167
A John and William Cary 3-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1800,the cartouche printed CARY'S Pocket Globe agreeable to the latest DISCOVERIES London Pubd. by J & W Cary Strand Apr 1 1791, the sphere with twelve hand coloured and printed gores, Cook, details include Cook's tract 1775 and Owyhee where Cook was killed 1779, in fish-skin covered case with inner hemispheres applied with a print A TABLE of Longitudes & Latitudes of Places not given on this GLOBE and the other hemisphere with coloured print The WORLD as known in Caesar's Time agreeable to D'Anville, 3 1/4in (8.2cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.John Cary (1755-1835) established the family firm in the late 18th century, initially making his globes as a collaborative enterprise with his brother William Cary (1759-1825). The earliest known advertisement for Cary globes was in the 1 January 1791 edition of Traveller's Companion, in sizes ranging from pocket globes to 21in diameter mounted globes. Additional size options were produced by Cary in subsequent years, indicating that the globe-trade was in a healthy and growing state in the early 19th century.Literature:Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 179
A Rare Richard Cushee 'Mr Neale's Patent' 12-inch celestial globe, English, circa 1730,signed A New Celestial GLOBE By R Cushee 1730, the brass frame mounted with geared lunar apparatus devised and made by John Neale, brass meridian engraved with four quadrant degree scales, horizontal ring engraved with calendar and points of the compass, with operating wheel and gearing at the base, raised on turned brass column and domes base, together with a framed plate illustrating the celestial and terrestrial globe from a plate in The New Dictionary of Art and Science, 23in (59cm) high; framed plate 20in x 14in (51cm x 35.5cm) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:Christie's, London, 1967.The Stephen Edell Collection.Neale's globe accessory was a geared version of a manual device presented to the Royal Society in 1747 by James Ferguson to show the apparent geocentric movements of the Moon. In it 'a simple wheel train at the top of the globe coupled the globe's rotation to that of a quadrantal moon-arm and thereby caused the moon to move relative to the globe and a stationary sun' (King & Millburn 196-7). Exactly when Neale devised it is uncertain as his only patent, obtained in 1744 was for a form of coaxial orrery. It was perhaps by association with this patent that Neale's globes were referred to as 'patent globes'The earliest description of Neale's device is in Edward Moore, A Supplement to all former treatises on the use of the globes, render'd necesssary from the late improvements exhibited to the public on mr.Neale's patent globes. In two parts ..., London 1751. printed: and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster-Row; B. Cole, mathematical instrument maker, in Fleet Street, and by the patentee, at his House in Leadenhall-Street. It was described again in a long advertisement in Daniel Fenning; New & easy guide to the use of the Globes, London 1754 wherein a ten page description he states that 3in and 12in models were made respectively for six and twelve guineas.The 'patent globes' were also illustrated in A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprehending All the Branches of Useful Knowledge ... Illustrated with Above Three Hundred Copper-Plates, Curiously Engraved by Mr. Jefferys ... by a Society of Gentlemen, London: 1754-1755.Only the lunar apparatus was made by Neale, the globes being supplied by Richard Cushee, a close neighbour of Neale's in Fleet Street. A pair of the 3in model with globes by Cushee fitted with Neale's device (the terrestrial dated 1731), are held in the Science Museum, London (See Calvert N° 5).John Neale (c. 1724-post 1783), was a watchmaker freed in the Skinners' Company in 1718 having been apprenticed to Jonathan Houillière. He lived in Leadenhall Street, and had a shop at the 'King's Arms and Dial', St Dunstan's, Fleet Street. He bound eleven apprentices between 1742 and 1758 and for a period employed James Watt. Neale made other instruments incorporating geared mechanisms (a waywiser is known), and also gave private lecture courses on the globes and electricity either in the homes of the clients or in his own dining room. He declared bankruptcy twice, in 1750 and 1758, but was a Common Councillor for the Ward of Aldersgate Within from 1768-83.Literature:H. R. Calvert, Science Museum illustrated booklet: Astronomy: globes, orreries & other models, 1967.Gloria Clifton, Directory of British scientific instrument makers 1550-1851, 1995.Henry C. King & John R. Millburn, Geared to the stars, the evolution of planetariums, orreries, and astronomical clocks, 1978.E. G. R. Taylor, The Mathematical practitioners of Hanovarian England, 1714-1840.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 184
A very rare Joseph Moxon 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, English, circa 1675,the terrestrial cartouche printed Made by J Moxon; the celestial cartouche printed Londini Sumptibus J Moxon, the sphere with twelve printed gores displaying traces of colouring, California shown as an island, tracks of Sir Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish, combination of Latin and English names, in fish-skin case with celestial gores to the interior, with traces of colouring, single hook and eye, 2 3/4in (7cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:Ex-Lot 34, Christie's, South Kensington, 18 July 1985.The Stephen Edell Collection.Joseph Moxon (1627-1691) was the second person to make printed globes in England and it is suggested that he was the first to produce and sell small 'pocket' globes. Moxon learnt the printing trade in the Netherlands and followed in his father's footsteps after his return to England in the 1650's, when he started to produce scientific papers, maps and a variety of globes ranging in sizes up to 26 inches in diameter. The pocket globes proved to be very popular as a convenient and portable way to discuss latest discoveries with colleagues in the emerging coffee houses in the City. They were priced at 15 shillings, a sum much less expensive than the larger table and library globes. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) bought a pair of the larger Moxon globes for himself, and also acquired another pair for the Admiralty during his time as Chief Secretary.Literature:Derek Long, 'At the Sign of the Atlas' The Life and Work of Joseph Moxon. A Restoration Polymath, Donington, 2013, pp. 47-48, figs. 6.5 & 6.6.Sylvia Sumira, The Art and History of Globes, London, 2014.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 181
A John Senex 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1730,the cartouche printed A New and Correct Globe of the Earth by I. Senex F.R.S, the sphere applied with twelve hand-coloured gores, California is printed as an island, Australia is titled New Holland, the prime meridian goes through London and the Antipodes of London is marked directly opposite in the southern hemisphere, in fish-skin covered case with the two inner hemispheres each applied with hand-coloured half gores of the heavens, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:Christie's, London, 1967.The Stephen Edell Collection.John Senex (1678-1740) dominated the London globe trade in the first four decades of the 18th century. He initially worked with a number of other makers and in 1710 he moved to his own premises in Fleet Street, where he continued to trade under his own name. Senex produced globes from 2 3/4 in up to 27 in diameter and in 1728 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His cartouche bears the initials F.R.S after this date.Literature:Sylvia Sumira, The Art and History of Globes, London, 2014.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 174
A Richard/Leonard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1750,signed in a cartouche, A New GLOBE of the Earth by L Cushee (the initial L in manuscript presumably over the printed R), the sphere applied with hand coloured and printed gores, pivot holes at both poles, North America is labelled Unknown Parts and California is shown as a peninsular, the fish-skin case with inner hemispheres applied with hand coloured goes of the celestial sphere, 2 3/4in (7cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Leonard Compere Cushee is recorded at Opposite Temple Gate, Fleet Street, London in 1761 as a map engraver. It is likely that he was the brother or cousin of Richard Cushee (fl. 1730-1750), and his globes were sold from the workshop previously operated by Thomas Wright who collaborated with Richard Cushee on globe and orrery designs. Unusually for pocket globes made in the mid-18th century, the Cushee family used celestial gores which showed the constellations as seen from the Earth rather than from outside.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 182
A Charles Price 9-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1720,the cartouche printed Carlo Price Londini Fecit, on associated stand with facsimile printed horizon ring scale, the sphere with twelve printed gores and two polar calottes all hand coloured, brass meridian ring mounted with hour circle, California is shown as an island and the Chinese Great Wall is indicated, on stand with four turned mahogany legs with stretcher, 13in (34cm) high Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Charles Price (fl.1697-1733) was an accomplished globe-maker, appearing to prefer prestigious collaborations to working alone. Between 1697 and 1715, he made globes together with Jeremiah Seller (the son of John Seller Senior, whom Price was apprenticed to in 1693), John Senex, George Willdey, and Benjamin Scott.Information on Price's later life and career are rare, and unfortunate in nature. Suffering financial hardship, Price spent Christmas of 1731 in the Fleet Prison and died two years later.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 163
A Fine and Rare Thomas Blunt Combined Planetarium, Lunarium, and Tellurium, English, early 19th century,the drum signed T. Blunt. London, the 9-inch cylindrical brass drum containing hand-cranked gearing for operating the planetarium, tellurium, and lunarium, the top-plate engraved with zodiac degree and calendar scales centred by stylised floral and palmette motifs, the circumference cut with teeth, the mechanism operated by winding handle to the side of the drum.When set up as a tellurium, complete with brass sphere representing the sun, and a John Newton 2 1/2-inch terrestrial globe mounted within a silver meridian.When set up as a lunarium, with similar construction to the tellurium with models representing the Earth and the moon, a thin rod protruding from the Earth tracks the orbit ring of the moon, the models above a silver-plated meridian and disc displaying the signs of the zodiac and the 29 1/2-day lunar cycle, marked PERIGEE.When set up as a planetarium, with models representing Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. The Earth, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus each with brass subsidiary arms representing the moon or moons of each planet.The whole raised on a turned brass column with folding tripod base, in 21in (53.5cm) high fitted mahogany case with brass holding handles to either side, 19 1/2in (49.5cm) high as tellurium Footnotes:Provenance:The Rachel Lambert Mellon CollectionEx-Lot 1070, Sotheby's, New York, 21 November 2014.The present orrery is a fine example combining three mechanical models for the motions of the Earth around the sun (tellurium), the moon around the Earth (lunarium), and of the solar system (planetarium). It is rare for an orrery to incorporate all three models, with many contemporaries producing only a tellurium and planetarium.Thomas Blunt (d. 1823) founded the prominent family business Blunt & Son (also operating as Blunt T. & T.) on Cornhill, London in 1801, with his sons and apprentices Thomas, Edward, and William. Though a member of the Guild of Spectaclemakers from 1771, Blunt was known for producing an extensive variety of scientific, medical and optical instruments over the course of his career. In addition to orreries, Blunt and his business were known for their globes, microscopes, thermometers, and barometers, among other instruments.Prior to establishing his own firm, Blunt was apprenticed in 1760 to the renowned instrument maker Edward Nairne, and was later appointed as instrument maker to King George III. Blunt's skill under Nairne's mentorship was eventually established formally as the two formed the partnership of Nairne & Blunt by 1791. The partnership of Thomas Blunt with his son Thomas is thought to have coincided with the retirement of Edward Nairne from the profession.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: Y ФY Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory. The United States Government has banned the import of ivory into the USA.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 162
A Kelvin & Hughes Ltd 7 1/4-inch Star globe, English, mid 20th century,the sphere with cartouche printed STAR GLOBE KELVIN & HIGHES LTD., outside the cartouche Printed by George Philip & Son Ltd, mounted in brass meridian within brass horizonal ring engraved with four quadrants and compass points, on square brass mounted mahogany case with lid and two securing catches, the case 10 1/2in (26.5cm) wide For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 178
A John Senex 12-inch terrestrial table globe, English, circa 1740,the cartouche printed A New and Correct GLOBE of the EARTH together with a view of the general and coasting trade winds, monsoons etc. Laid down according to the newest discoveries and from the most exact observations by John Senex, F.R.S. Sold by him at the Globe against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street, 1738, mounted in brass meridian within horizon ring applied with printed calendar, zodiac and compass point scales, on four turned mahogany columns with stretcher, 18in (46cm) high Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.A leading figure of the London globe trade during the first half of the 18th century, John Senex (1678-1740) first worked with Charles Price and a number of other makers before he moved to his own premises in Fleet street by 1710.Senex produced globes in a range of sizes, from 2 3/4in pocket globes to examples measuring 9in, 12in, 17in, and 27in diameter. The inclusion of the initials F.R.S on the cartouche of the present globe indicates that it was made after 1728, the year Senex was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.The Senex copper plates for the globes (except for the pocket globes) saw continued use for decades after his death. In 1757 the plates were purchased by James Ferguson, and these designs featured on globes made in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by Benjamin Martin and later by Dudley Adams.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 173
A James Ferguson 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1756,the cartouche printed A New GLOBE of the Earth by James Ferguson, the terrestrial globe with twelve hand coloured engraved gores, the name of the engraver J Mynde Sc. printed just below the cartouche, California is drawn as a peninsular, the Chinese Wall is shown, Tasmania is titled Van Dimens Land , Anson's outward and return tracks, in fish-skin covered case with print of the heavens applied to the inner hemispheres, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.James Ferguson (1710-1776) was an instrument maker who acquired the stock of globes from the late John Senex in 1755. this included all the original Senex engraved copper plates for the printed gores apart for the smallest 2/3/4in diameter pocket globe. It is for this reason that he designed his own example in 1756 however the enterprise did not last long as the globe business transferred to Benjamin Martin in 1757.Literature:Elly Decker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 176
A George Adams 2 ½-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1770,the cartouche printed A Terrestrial GLOBE G: Adams No.60, Fleet Street, London, the paper-mâché sphere applied with twelve printed gores, hand coloured with California as a peninsula, Australia- named New Holland- drawn according to Dutch discoveries with a hypothetical eastern coastline, New Zealand with only a small section of coastline, in fish-skin covered case, the celestial inner hemispheres with printed and hand coloured engraving of the heavens, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Literature:John R. Millburn, Adams of Fleet Street, Instrument Makers to King George III, London, 2000.George Adams (1709-1772) was one of the most celebrated instrument makers of his day, becoming mathematical instrument-maker to the Office of Ordnance in 1748, and in 1760 he was appointed to the court of King George III. The Cook expedition to the South Seas used instruments supplied by Adams.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 175
A Benjamin Martin/John Senex 12-inch celestial table globe, English, third quarter of the 18th century,the cartouche printed A New Celestial GLOBE Wheron the STARS are Carefully laid down from the Correct Observations of Mr.Hevelins, Dr.Halley &c, By JNO. SENEX F.R.S., Now made & sold with very considerable Improvements BY B.MARTIN, Fleet Street, The sphere with twelve applied gores displaying traces of hand colouring, the axis through the celestial poles, the constellations depicted as instruments and mythological beasts and figures, the globe mounted in brass meridian within horizon ring on associated stand, 17 1/2in (44.5cm) high Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Benjamin Martin (1704-1782) made globes as successor to John Senex (1678-1740), having acquired the Senex globes and accompanying designs from James Ferguson in 1757. From his Fleet Street workshop 'The Globe and Visual Glasses', Martin regularly updated and re-issued the Senex celestial globes at a more accessible price than many of his contemporaries. One competitor - George Adams - sought to discredit Martin' globes as outdated and missing the latest observations. Martin published a powerful response in his 1766 Appendix to the Description and Use of Globes, and the sales of Martin's globes were unaffected by the dispute.Literature:Elly Dekker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 180
A Richard Cushee 2 ¾-inch pocket globe, published 1731 English, circa 1731,the cartouche printed A New Globe of the Earth. R Cushee 1731, the papier-mache sphere applied with twelve copper engraved gores and two polar calottes, California is drawn as an island and Australia is represented according to the Dutch discoveries, the black fish-skin case has a celestial globe on the two inner hemispheres applied with twelve sets of hand coloured half gores, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:Christie's, London, 1967.The Stephen Edell Collection.Richard Cushee was a globe maker and surveyor who worked at the sign of the Globe and Sun, between St Dunstan's Church and Chancery Lane in Fleet Street, London. In 1731, together with Thomas Wright, he published a book by Joseph Harris: The description and use of the globes, and the orrery. The pocket globes made by Cushee were used by Wright in the construction of his orreries.Literature:Elly Decker, Globes at Greenwich, London, 1999.Sylvia Sumira, The Art and History of Globes, London, 2014.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 171
A Nicolas Lane 2 ¾-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1780,the cartouche printed A New Globe of the EARTH by N.Lane, printed outside the cartouche 1776 Prockter fc, the sphere with twelve printed gores, hand coloured and detailing Anson's and Captain Cook's tracks, Tasmania is labelled Dimens Land and attached to mainland Australia and California is represented as a peninsula, in fish-skin covered case with inner hemisphere applied with two sets of twelve half gores printed with the celestial globe, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.Nicolas Lane was recorded as living in Southwark by 1783, but otherwise there is scant information on this maker beyond his pocket globes. The present 2 ¾-inch example would have derived from copper plates of the celestial counterpart of earlier Cushee pocket globes. In contrast, the tradition of the larger, 3-inch Lane globes is not yet known.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 170
A John Newton 2 ½-inch pocket globe in case, English, circa 1790,the cartouche printed A NEW Terrestrial GLOBE by J Newton 1783, the sphere applied with hand coloured gores showing the trade winds and monsoons indicated by arrows, the Dampier Strait is labelled, Australia and New Zealand are drawn according to Cook's discoveries, and the tracks of Anson's voyage and Cook are shown, in fish-skin covered case with map if the heavens applied to inner two hemispheres, 3in (7.5cm) diameter Footnotes:Provenance:The Stephen Edell Collection.John Newton (1759-1844) founded his family firm in the 1780s, which flourished into the 19th century with support from various family members. The workshop primarily made globes before expanding to include mechanical planetaria. Newton globes were advertised in an unusually broad range of sizes - a total of ten different variations from 1 inch to 25 inches in diameter.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 110
SUN YAT-SENAutograph letter signed ('Very truly yours/ 'Y.S. Sun') to 'My dear Dr. & Mrs Cantlie', announcing that he is on his way to London as soon as he has 'settled up business', requesting them to 'Please keep my movement strictly secret for it is very important to our cause', and asking that his post be kept and given to him in person, 1 page on a bifolium, on watermarked White Star Line headed notepaper with red flag emblem, 'On board R.M.S. 'Adriatic''[printed], 8 November 1911Footnotes:'PLEASE KEEP MY MOVEMENT STRICTLY SECRET': THE 'FATHER OF THE NATION' AND THE 1911 REVOLUTION, SHORTLY BEFORE HIS TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO CHINA.Autograph letters from Sun Yat-sen rarely appear at auction - only four (three in English, one in Chinese) are listed in records for the last twenty years. One of the greatest leaders of modern China and the 'Father of the Nation', Sun (12 November 1866–12 March 1925) holds a unique position in the Chinese-speaking world as the only twentieth century leader who is revered by those in both the People's Republic of China, for his instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty in 1911, and in the Republic of China (Taiwan).After a series of failed uprisings in the years leading up to the date of our letter, the exiled Sun was in the United Sates seeking further support when news reached him of the success of Huang Xing's second military uprising at Wuchang, on 10 October 1911. Within weeks he set sail for London, as the present letter attests, where he sought to arrange British financing for the new Chinese republic. After an unsuccessful month in London, Sun left for China, arriving on 21 December, and was immediately named 'Provisional' President of the newly founded Republic of China, before resigning and relinquishing the title to Yuan Shikai shortly after. Born in Guangdong province, Sun had qualified as a medical doctor in 1892 in Hong Kong, and it was here that he met Dr (later Sir) James Cantlie (1851-1926), an Aberdeen trained physician who became a pioneer of first aid (when it was largely unknown) and in tropical diseases. Cantlie went to practice in Hong Kong in 1887, and one of his earliest achievements was to help establish a medical training college for native students, the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, which later became the University of Hong Kong. One of his first students was the future president of China, who, after graduating, remained in contact with Cantlie and his wife Mabel, periodically appealing to the British government and public for support for democratic China through their good offices (see Cantlie's papers which were later donated to the Wellcome Institute by his descendants).The connection between Sun and the Cantlies became more widely known following Sun's kidnapping in London in 1896, which was the subject of Sun's own account in Kidnapped in London: Being the Story of My Capture by, Detention at, and Release From, the Chinese Legation, published a year after the events. When Sun had arrived in London in October 1896, Cantlie helped him find lodgings in Gray's Inn Place (the site is marked with a wartime plaque). However, his route to the Cantlies' house happened to take Sun past the Chinese Legation building at 49 Portland Place (now the Chinese Embassy), and one Sunday he was approached by some Chinese men who, ostensibly stopping for a chat, hustled him into the Legation, where he was locked in a windowless upstairs room. Sun eventually managed to get a servant to smuggle out a message to the Cantlies but his release was far from immediate. Cantlie's protestations to the Legation, the local police, Scotland Yard, lawyers and the Foreign Office were initially not believed or fruitless, but eventually he managed to secure an article in The Globe which helped persuade the Foreign Office and the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, to insist upon Sun's release, 12 days after his capture. Cantlie's own account of the kidnapping was published, on the day of Sun's release, in The Globe, where he stated that Sun was at one stage considering suicide, that he managed to throw further messages out of his window, and that Cantlie had employed a private detective to watch the legation. More recently, J.Y. Wong in The Origins of a Heroic Image: Sun Yat Sen in London, 1896–1987 (Hong Kong, 1986), has written that Sun entered the building voluntarily, and that the plan was to execute him and return his body to Beijing for ritual beheading. He also mentions that Cantlie was refused a writ of habeas corpus because of the Legation's diplomatic immunity. Sun spent some time recovering with the Cantlies, who became his frequent correspondents and remained his closest friends and allies outside China for the rest of his life. James Cantlie's book about Sun and the situation in China, Sun Yat Sen and the Awakening of China, co-authored with C. Sheridan Jones, was published in 1912.Provenance: Sir James and Mabel Cantlie; and thence by decent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 47
SEUTTER (GEORG MATTHAUS)Atlas novus sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia, regna et provincias exhibentes..., engraved allegorical title-page by M.G. Grophius after J.C. Weiserman, 50 double-page engraved maps coloured in a contemporary hand, some decorated with allegorical scenes, some general finger-soiling and light staining (mainly towards lower edges/corners, as a result of page-turning, slightly affecting some maps), a few small old paper repairs in margins, contemporary wallet-style limp calf, lettered in blind ('Atlas. Novus. A.L. Mapp.') on upper cover, one leather strap intact, the other loosely inserted, spine and foot of flap restored [Phillips II, 593], folio (550 x 315mm.), Augsburg, Matthaus Seutter, [c.1740]Footnotes:A nice example of Seutter's world atlas in the original wallet-style binding. The maps include the twin-hemisphere World and 'Planispharium coeleste' maps, three of the Americas (including 'Novus orbis sive America meridionalis et septentrionalis'), Asia, and Africa. Seutter was apprenticed to J. B. Homann in 1687 in Nuremberg, then worked as an engraver for the publisher J. Wolff in Augsburg, before setting up his own map and globe business in the same city. Copies of the atlas were issued with very varying numbers of maps.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 40
DE WIT (FREDERICK)Atlas, engraved title-page depicting Atlas on top of the World and 103 double-page engraved maps COLOURED BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, most with decorative cartouches, ships and monsters in sea areas, letterpress index on verso of title listing 100 maps, light browning and foxing to some maps, a few old stains and creases, several maps slit at foot of central fold, a few tears and repairs, mostly short and in lower margins, original vellum with blindstamped central globe device surrounded by arabesque tooling, stained and worn at extremities [cf. Koeman Wit 9], folio (540 x 335mm.), Amsterdam, Frederick de Wit, [c.1688]Footnotes:A VERY GOOD COPY OF DE WIT'S ATLAS WITH BRIGHT CONTEMPORARY COLOURING.The fine and attractive double hemisphere world map, Nova orbis tabula, in Lucem edita, was first published in 1670 as a companion to De Wit's maritime map of 1668. Described by Shirley as 'one of the most attractive of its time', the map contains finely engraved and coloured allegorical vignettes depicting the four seasons, the elements and signs of the zodiac. Ours map corresponds to Shirley 451, state 2, with cherubs placed in the cusps and a border added.The map of the Americas, Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio, dating to around 1675 and replacing De Wit's earlier one of 1660, is notable for its inclusion of the five Great Lakes, which appear for the first time on a Dutch map. Burden has identified 9 states of the map, ours being placed somewhere between the second and fourth, with longitudinal numbers to the 10s, the Canaries re-engraved, no ships, and without the later additions in the Pacific.The number of maps and compilation of the atlas corresponds to Koeman Wit 9, but with the addition of a map of Prussia. In addition to the World map, there are: 4 maps of the Continents, 5 of Asia (2 Middle East and Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, Palestine) and 91 European area maps including Germany (20), Italy (10, Sicily with inset town views), Low Countries (18), Spain/Portugal (7), Greece, the Pelopennese (fine folding map with inset town views), Crete, Malta, Cyprus etc.Provenance: Franz Maximilian Hartmann von Klarstein (1662-1725), ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper and at head of engraved title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 160
A collection of Victorian and later cut decanters and other glassto include a mallet shaped decanter with mitre cut decoration c.1830, a Victorian celery vase engraved with a Greek key band, a pair of shaft and globe decanters with facet cut stoppers, a Regency style diamond cut triple ring neck decanter, a water jug with hollow blown handle two ships decanters fitted with Coalport 'Sherry' and 'Port' ceramic bottle tickets, etc., (qty)first height 28.5 cmCondition: Good condition. Three plated bottle tickets rubbed. Some bloom to one shaft and globe decanter
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