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Lot 701
Quantity of Star Wars related role playing game, books and magazines x 32 includes West End Games The Dark Stryder Campaign, Heroes & rogues, Otherspace, Scoundrel's Luck, Return of the Jedi Galaxy Guide 5, Alien Races Galaxy Guide 4, Campaign Pack, Panini Return of the Jedi sticker album (unused - no stickers), FKS The Empire Strikes Back sticker album (partially complete), Star Force, Starlog, Media Spotlight, Lucasfilm Fan Club, Star Wars Insider, Star Wars Galaxy, Look in, Star Wars Technical Journal, and others, all generally Fair Plus to Good. unchecked for completeness. Also includes Star Wars replica Imperial Officer hat, Good. (32)
Lot 240
Quantity of Character Doctor Who figures, creatures and other related items including Reaper with glow effect, Empress of the Racnoss, Electronic Control Tardis, The Fires of Pompeii set and x two Journal of Impossible Things. All within Good to Excellent sealed packaging, Excellent condition. (qty)
Lot 802
008 Extracts from the Kirk-Session Records of Dunfermline (from AD 1640 to 1689 inclusive); od A Glimpse of the Ecclesiastical History of Dunfermline (for a period of Fifty years). Edited by E Henderson. Edinburgh” Printed by Fullarton & McNab; Sold by J Miller & Son, W Clark and D Campbell, Dunfermline; T G Stevenson, South Frederick Street, Edinburgh, 1865) Brown limp cloth; original title on front cover; spine worn; signatutre of John Swan, Leslie, on fep [009] For A Web Begun. The Story of Dunfermline; By W T Barr [Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh: Tweeddale Court; London: 96 Great Russell Street, W C ; 1947. Green cloth; dw; this book was being remaindered in the 1980s, hence the good condition of the book today [010 ]Burgh Life in Dunfermline in the Olden Time. A Lecture By the Rev William Ross, Aberdour, Delivered in the Music Hall, Dunfermline, 8 Feb 1864, at the Request of the Literary Society of that Town [Edinburgh: Edmonton and Douglas, 1864]; speckled boards, black tape around spine; gilt title around spine (Probably all not original); Bookplate of Carnegie Public Library, Dunfermline, Reference Department [011] Dunfermline Sketches & Notes. By Robert Somerville [Dunfermline: Herbert T Macpherson, 1917]Illustrated Cream Boards; This copy has a bookplate of a Visit to Dunfermline of the American and Canadian Delegation of the Dry Goods Merchants, Thursday, 2nd June 1921 [012] Reminiscences of Dunfermline and Neighbourhood, Illustrative of Dunfermline Life Sixty Years Ago. By Alexander Stewart. With Chronological Appendix, 1064-1880. Edinburgh: Scott & Ferguson, and J Menzies & Co; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co 1886; Illustrated Blue Cloth Boards; title in gilt on front cover and spine; Presentation copy “To Mrs Alexander Elder, from her sincere friend, The Author, Nov 1886;” Bookplate of William Saunders, HYS BOOKE on front pastedown; Signature of William Saunders, Edinburgh, 25 Aug 1923, on title page [013] Royal Dunfermline: A Historical Guide to the City and its Antiquities; With an Account of the Carnegie Benefactions. A Richly Illustrated Souvenir Handbook. By Alan Reid and William Kirk. Dunfermline: A Romanes & Son, “Press” Office; 1906; Green Cloth, hardback [1st Edition] [ 013 A.] Ditto, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1907. Blue Cloth Presentation Copy, “To A W Bell, Esq., with the Publishers. Comp; iments” [013B.] Another copy of the 2nd Edition, dark blue cloth, with the following inserted at beginning of volume: Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds (A.U.). 81st A.M.C., Dunfermline, 21st - 24th May May 1907. With the Compliments of the Fifeshire District [013C]. Third Edition, Revised and Extended, Dec 1908; dark blue cloth [013 D]. New and Enlarged Edition [4th Edition], Oct 1922; Light Blue Cloth LOT 013E. 5th Edition, March 1934; light blue cloth, dw (torn); presentation copy, “To Margaret, with best wishes from B & J Fraser, July 1936” [014] Dunfermline Remembered Between The Wars. By Albert F Lindon. Self Published, 1980s. Printed by Dunfermline Press (A Romanes & Son Ltd), Pitreavie Business Park, Dunfermline; Illustrated Card Covers; stapled [015] Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline. By The Rev Peter Chalmers; William Blackwood snd Sons, Edinburgh and London; 2 vols, 1844 and 1859; Rebound in red cloth boards, with red leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; new eps; Genealogy at end of Vol 2 [016] Another copy of above, but Vol 1 only of 1844; thick heavy bespeckled boards, leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; slight damp staining to beginning of volume, but not affecting frontispiece print or title page [ 017] The Story an Ancient Craft in An Ancient Town; Card Covers, Pp 16; about weaving in Dunfermline; No Date, c 1920s. Printed by J McOwan, Printer, 10 High Street, Dunfermline [018] Poems and Songs. By the late Thomas Morrison, Merchant, Dunfermline. Privately Printed. Dunfermline: William Clark & Son, Journal Office , 1902; brown boards; design in gilt on front cover; leather around spine; title in gilt on spine; signature of F Hudson [ie Felix Hudson, clock and watchmaker in Dunfermline], Aug 1984. The Poems and Songs in this volume were contributed by Thomas Morrison (d 1879), merchant, Dunfermline, and appear to have been printed by the latter’s nephew, Thomas Morrison, Braddock, Pennsylvania [019] A Sketcher’s Notes to Illustrate A View of the Ruins of Dunfermline Abbey; Containing Some Incidents in the Life of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. Vol II [London: Printed at The Operative Jewish Converts’Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green; folio; blue cloth boards; gilt around front and rear covers; inscription of Mrs M Balfour from the Author, on fep; Volume I was published in 1855, with sketches of the Old Church of Dun, and had nothing to do with Dunfermline [020]Scottish Reprints. City Development. A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline, Trust, with An Introduction by Peter Green. Originally published in 1904 and written by Patrick Geddes, this Reprint is a Complete and Unabridged photolithographic facsimile of the first Edition, published by Irish University Press, Shannon, Ireland, 1973; Copyright Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, 1973, for original text and Illustrations; and the Irish University Press for Introduction [021]. Selections from the Writings of William Stewart (Gavroche). Hardback Boards; Published by Robert Gibson & Sons (Glasgow) Limited; Printed by The Blackfriars Press Limited, Leicester, 1948 Stewart was born in Dunfermline on 8 July 1856, and died in Glasgow on 27 Aug 1947 aged 91. For over 25 years he was Secretary and Organiser of the Independent Labour Party in Scotland. He also published The Worker, a monthly Socialist Journal for Fife and Clackmannan from Bruce Street, Dunfermline, in 1898-1900 This copy has the signature of Douglas Young, 1948 on front paste-down
Lot 816
LOT 017 A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of The Counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan, with Anecdotes, Narratives, and Graphic Sketches, Moral, Political, Commercial, and Agricultural; By M Barbieri, Surgeon, formerly Chemist to the late Earl of Elgin. Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart, 64 South Bridge, The Trade Supplied by Macniven & Camerson, 23 Blair Street, 1857. Rebound in New Boards, black leather around spine; new title in gilt on spine; new end papers; internally clean and bright, with speckled edges to end of papers. The book had originally appeared in parts, before being published in book form LOT 018 The Golden Days of Youth. A Fife Village in the Past. By John Hutton Browne. Edinburgh: Robert W Hunter, George IV Bridge, 1893. Red Cloth, title in gilt on front cover; covers marked; signed by the Author on fep. The book is about Kennoway, but nowhere is Kennoway mentioned in the text, but the place names within Kennoway parish are. Similarly, the names are often referred by their pnom-de-plumes, such as Theta for William Thomson, postmaster in Kennoway, and Poute of “Leven Saat Pans” for Alexander Burgess, dancing master in Kennoway ,We have also included the books on Kennoway by A M Findlay - Kennoway: Its History and Legends (1946), printed and published by J & G Innes Ltd, Cupar, St Andrews, and Leven; blue cloth, small 8vo; 2nd Edition, small oblong, Illustrated front cover, Dec 1952; J & G Innes Ltd, Publishers, Cupar, St Andrews, and Leven”Mrs Findlay’s History of Kennoway was published six years ago at 5/-, and went quickly out of print. It has now been revised and brought up-to-date, and is now on sale at 2/6d” (St Andrews Citizen, 20 Dec 1952) LOT 019 A Memoir of the late Ebenezer Henderson (Freeman of the City of Dunfermline), Astronomer & Antiquarian, By His Niece. With Reprints of “The Royal Tombs at Dunfermline” and “The Old Letter.” Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 17 Princes Street, Dunfermline: Printed at the Journal Printing Works. Red Boards; title in gilt on front cover and also on spine; covers marked, spine sunned; card, “With Mr Andrew Carnegie’s Compliments,” gummed onto fep [A] Cupar: The Years of Controversy; Its Newspaper Press, 1822-1872. (2009) By Andrew J Campbell. Illustrated Card Covers, illustrated. Read about” Forgers and Embezzlers; an amazing escape from justice; a near pistol duel; a serial adulterer; court actions for libel and assault and proprietorship; the Judas Editor; rival editors who secretly exchanged editorial chairs; one of the greatest editors of the Scotsman newspaper; founder of the Edinburgh Evening News; reports into the Highland Clearances and Destitution (1847) and the Edinburgh Poor (1850)’ one of the founders of the University of Cape Town; Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand; Australian merchants; founder of a High School in Bombay; and noted Professors, local poets and authors, one of the most important economic works to be published in the 19th century; and last but not least the Printer’s Devil paring the corns of the aged pressman, Auld Chasey [B] Bouffonnerie Musicale. The Story of H B Farnie, author, journalist, golfer, librettist, adapter, and song writer By Keith Drummond Sharp (2010). Illustrated card covers Henry Brougham Farnie (1836-1889) was a teacher, writer, and journalist in mid-Victorian Fife, until his scandalous private life caused him to flee to London. He was a serial adulterer. He deserted his first wife in Cupar, who obtained a divorce in the Court of Session in 1863. In London he continued his scandalous life, until his 2nd wife had him arrested on a charge of bigamy (later changed to nullity of marriage) after she contracted a venereal disease from him. In London, while still continuing as a journalist, he began writing for the theatre, and made the adaptation of French opera bouffe his chosen field. Almost single-handedly he made the genre popular, and popular enough to compete strongly with Gilbert and Sullivan’s new English operetta. He had more big hits on the London stage than any of his contemporaries, and his best shows were constantly revived in the Edwardian period and between the wars. He was a significant figure in the theatre of his day {C] Fisher Life; or The Memorials of Cellardyke and the Fife Coast. Illustrated Card Covers, (2004). Written by George Gourlay and originally published in Fife Herald Office by John Innes, and by George Gourlay, bookseller in Anstruther in 1879, this 2nd Edition was published in 2004, with a foreword by Harry D Watson.[D] The Berwicks of Kettle . Compiled by Andrew Campbell (2007). Illustrated Card Covers. The book is written around the mason and builder business founded at Kettlebridge by Thomas Berwick and his brother, Matthew Berwick in 1842, and continued by the sons and grandson of Thomas Berwick under the title of Matthew Berwick & Son until 1968.The brother of Thomas & Matthew, Robert Berwick, was a farmer in Kettle parish, and his sons and grandsons were also farmers in Fife [D] Fife Wills. 1824 -1892, Registered with the Sheriff Court of Fife at Cupar. Published by Fife Family History Society, in 4 parts, in their Publications Club Series in 1997-1998. Part 1, Abercrombie - Dibbs; Part 2, Dick - Knowles; Part 3, Knox - Ritchie; Part 4, Robb - Zeigler [E] The Press of J & G Innes, 1869-1982.
Lot 1105
Stained Glass Books and Periodicals, including: The Journal of Stained Glass, 2010, volume 34; Knowles (John A.), Essays in the History of the York School of Glass-Painting, SPCK, 1936; Sprakes (Brian), The Medieval Stained Glass of South Yorkshire, Oxford University Press, 2003; Journal of Master Glass-Painters etc. (qty: 1 shelf) [Hugh Murray Collection]
Lot 8
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI (1901-1966)Intérieur chez Tériade lithographic pencil on transfer paper41.9 x 31.9cm (16 1/2 x 12 9/16in).Executed circa 1961Footnotes:The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Giacometti.ProvenanceTériade Collection, Paris and Greece (probably acquired directly from the artist).Private collection, Greece (a gift from the above).LiteratureFondation Giacometti, Giacometti's Artworks, Alberto Giacometti Database (AGD), online catalogue, no. AGD 4547 (illustrated).The following three drawings stand as a testament to the lifelong friendship between Alberto Giacometti and Tériade, the nomme de plume for Stratis Eleftheriades. A major figure in the history of Modern art, Tériade's reputation as a groundbreaking critic, aesthete and philosopher led him to sustain close friendships with the foremost artists and writers of the twentieth century. Tériade was a key supporter of Giacometti's work, publishing reviews and articles in his popular journal Verve as well as editing Giacometti's book Paris sans fin in 1969 after the latter's passing. Like Giacometti, Tériade was initially involved with the Surrealists in Paris but then sought to distance himself from the movement. Giacometti completed a series of painted and drawn portraits of Tériade between the 1920s and the 1960s, as well as numerous sketches of Tériade's home and studio. These interior scenes conjure a tender sense of intimacy and mutual support between the two friends.Tériade was born in 1897 on the Isle of Lesbos. He initially moved to Paris to study law, but found his true passion for art criticism under the wing of Christian Zervos, the editor of the famous journal Cahiers d'art. The present Greek private collection enjoyed a close and enduring relationship with Tériade on the Isle of Lesbos. Tériade gifted to the family a series of beautiful drawings and prints by Giacometti as well as other artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Marc Chagall (see lot 1).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 234
NO RESERVE Medical and scientific journals.- Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 17 vol., plates, contemporary half and full calf, some covers detached, Paris, 1718-89 § Comtes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Sceances de l'Academie des Sciences, 21 vol., light browning, contemporary half morocco, some spines and covers detached or lacking, Paris, 1845-58, library stamps; and 11 others, Journal Universel et Hebdomadaire de Medecine et de Chirurgie, 4to & 8vo; sold as a collection of periodicals and not subject to return (c.50)⁂ Including papers by Lavoisier, Marquis de Condorcet, Pingré and Maupertuis.
Lot 239
NO RESERVE Medical and scientific journals.- A collection of c. 130 vol. of medical and scientific journals, comprising BMJ (c.45 vol.), Nature (10 vol.), The Lancet (c.30 vol.), Journal of Experimental Medicine (7 vol.), Journal of Physiology (c.25 vol.), Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics (10 vol.), original or library cloth, some hinges cracked or broken, rubbed, 4to, 1920s-50s; sold as a collection of periodicals and not subject to return.⁂ The issues of Nature include an important DNA paper by Maurice Wilkins, W. E. Seeds, A. R. Stokes and H. R. Wilson, "Helical Structure of Crystalline Deoxypentose Nucleic Acid" (vol. 172, pp.759-762).
Lot 236
NO RESERVE Medical and scientific journals.- Hutchinson (John) Thomas Barlow, John Snow, Rickman Godlee and others. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, c.130 vol., many duplicates, plates and illustrations, contemporary and later cloth and calf, many covers and spines detached or lacking rubbed and worn, 8vo, c.1809-1905; sold as a periodical and not subject to return. ⁂ A good though broken run of this important forerunner of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Including numerous important papers including: Hutchinson's "On the Capacity of the Lungs, and on the Respiratory Functions, with a view of establishing a precise and easy method of detecting disease by the spirometer" (vol. 29, pp.127-252); Barlow's On cases described as "acute rickets" (vol. 66, pp. 159-220); Snow's Letter relative to the administration of chloroform in Mr. P. Hewitt's case (vol. 34, p.51); A. Hughes Bennett "Case of Cerebral Tumour... The Surgical Treatment by Rickman J. Godlee" (vol. 68, pp.243-275).
Lot 235
NO RESERVE Medical and scientific journals.- Jenner (Edward).- A collection of c.200 vol. of medical and scientific journals, including The Medical and Physical Journal, c.10 vol., c.1801-07 § Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, c.65 vol., c.1808-46 § Mineralogical Magazine, 18 vol., 1887-1919 § Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, 7 vol., 1813-48; and others, many small small runs or odd vol., library stamps, contemporary and later calf and cloth, some covers and spines detached and lacking, rubbed and worn, 8vo; sold as a collection of periodicals and not subject to return.⁂ The Medical and Physical Journal contains much on Edward Jenner's research and development of vaccines. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester include several important papers by John Dalton on meteorology.
Lot 72
NO RESERVE South America & England.- [Blackburn (John, resident engineer to the Colne Valley Water Works, Bushey, Herts., 1846-1916)] The Law and Commercial Daily Remembrancer..., manuscript diary, 257pp. excluding blanks, many short entries, some in shorthand, original straight-grained morocco-backed cloth, spine detached, 8vo, 1884; and 7 other diaries including a short diary by Augusta Keppel and a European Travel Journal, v.s., v.d. (8).⁂ First mentioned: (1). Argentina. "May 5, 1884 B[uenos] A[ires] H. At night - calling on Dr. Chavarna at his private house & long conversation on various matters - including the extension of the water supply to Belgrano & Almazro (near Flores) &c. (2). Braxil. "May 13, 1884 Arrived at Rio... Met by Mr C. Hargreaves & Dr. Engenier of the Rio Grande Bar Works on the part of Dr. Bicalho Chief Engineer of the Water Works."A work-related diary in which Blackburn travels to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) and Argentina (Buenos Aires), in order to advise on water supplies to these cities.
Lot 219
Newman (Edward) & others, editors. The Entomologist [later incorporating The Journal of the Society for British Entomology], vol.1-98 in 52, plates and illustrations, some colour, those in vol.1 engraved and lightly foxed, vol.1 contemporary half calf, rubbed, spine ends worn, the rest uniform half crimson morocco, joints a little rubbed, some corners repaired, 1840-42-64-1965; the same, vol.99 part 1- vol.100 part 2 and a few issues of vol.106, original printed red wrappers, 1966-67-88; The Entomological Magazine, vol.1-5 [all published], 18 engraved plates, 4 hand-coloured, one folding, with an additional engraved view bound in vol.5, some foxing, a few leaves reinforced at edges, ex-library copy with stamps to titles, later half morocco, t.e.g., rubbed, corners worn, some vol. rebacked, 1833-38 § Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, vol.1 Part I only, 8 hand-coloured engraved plates, some spotting, contemporary half calf, 1807 § [Stainton (Henry Tibbats)] The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, 10 vol., original blind-stamped cloth, spines faded and a little worn at ends, 1856-61; and 3 others, 8vo (c.95)⁂ A collection of entomological periodicals including an excellent run of the important Entomologist. This includes the rare volume 1 which was published 20 odd years before vol.2 was issued, an interval explained by the editor as being filled by the appearance of Stainton's Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer (also present here). As he notes in the preface to vol.2 "Whoever wants Volume I will, I fear, want in vain; it reposes in peace on the shelves of the British Museum, the Universities and the learned societies, but has long disappeared from the bookseller's counter".Also included are the five volumes of The Entomological Magazine, the precursor to The Entomologist, edited by Newman and Francis Walker, with contributions by John Curtis, Edward Doubleday, J.O. Westwood and others.
![Photosynthesis.- Calvin (Melvin) [A group of c.15 papers by Calvin], 12 vol., mostly journal issues, one offprint with signed](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/a073cdd8-fef5-425d-89a9-b0980107938b/22c7e4fe-9865-4b9d-8a5b-b09900d478cf/468x382.jpg)
Lot 246
Photosynthesis.- Calvin (Melvin) [A group of c.15 papers by Calvin], 12 vol., mostly journal issues, one offprint with signed presentation inscription from Calvin to upper cover, ink library stamps, 9 vol. in contemporary cloth-backed boards with original wrappers bound in, 3 vol. in original wrappers, 4to, 1950-89.⁂ An excellent group of papers by the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, covering much of his work tracking the route carbon travels through plants during photosynthesis (for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry). Papers here include "The path of carbon in photosynthesis. XXII. The identification of carboxy-ketopentitol diphosphates as products of photosynthesis." A complete list is available upon request.
Lot 237
NO RESERVE Medical and scientific journals.- Anesthesiology.- Dublin Quaterly Journal (The) of Medical Science, c.130 vol., plates, scattered foxing, contemporary and later calf and cloth, c.1835-1922 § The Monthly Journal of Medical Science, c.10 vol., plates, contemporary and later cloth, c.1845-54 § The London Medical Gazette, c.50 vol. contemporary half calf and cloth, c.1828-49, library stamps and bookplates, some covers and spines detached or lacking, worn, 8vo; sold as a collection of periodicals and not subject to return (c.180)⁂ Broken runs with a number of important papers and reports on anesthesiology, including: John Denham "A report upon the use of chloroform in cases of fifty-six cases of labour occurring in the Dublin Lying-in Hospital", Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, vol. 8, pp. 107-142; "Animal Magnetism Superseded: Discovery of a New Hypnopoetic", London Medical Gazette, vol. 3, pp 1085-1086 (the first report in England of the discovery of ether anesthesia by William Morton); James Young Simpson, "'Report on the Early History and Progress of Anaesthetic Midwifery", The Monthly Journal of Medical Science, vol. 9, pp. 209-251; Idem, "On Some Alleged Consequences from the Inhalation of Chloroform by Dr. Cumming", The Monthly Journal of Medical Science, vol. 9, pp. 767-770.
Lot 247
Physics.- Reines (Dr. Frederick) and Dr. Clyde L. Cowan. "The Neutrino", in Nature, A Weekly Journal of Science, vol. 178, pp.446-448, some scattered spotting, illustrations, ink library stamps, neat library label to front pastedown, later cloth-backed boards, large 8vo, 1956.⁂ The first publication of Reines' and Cowans' experiments that confirmed the discovery of the neutrino, for which Reines was jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Lot 65
Wales, England, Belgium & Holland.- Roberts Family (originally Lords of the Manor of Abergavenny and later living in London & England) Commonplace Book & A Short account of a trip which I took into Belgium & part of Holland in the Summer of 1846, manuscript, 252pp. excluding blanks (travel journal 61pp.), reverse entries, in several hands, in black and light blue ink, 6pp. in shorthand, several pen and ink illustrations, browned, some slight foxing, some ff. excised, original reverse calf, lettered direct "Commonplace Book 1835/Accounts" on covers, sm. 4to, 1836-91.⁂ An interesting manuscript, compiled by a member of the Roberts family, originally owners of the Manor of Abergavenny in Monmouth, but later moving to England. Many of the family notes are by William Roberts (1767-1807), barrister and writer, recording notes by his grandfather, another William Roberts added to his own and probably transcribed by another. Other notes include recipes, politics and excerpts from various works, including on archery. Later notes in another hand mention Burstead Lodge in Billericay.Radagunda Roberts (c. 1728-88), translator and sermon writer; friend of Hannah More; translator of Francoise de Graffigny's novel, The Peruvian Letters... With an Additional Original Volume, 1774, and author of verse tales set in the middle ages, Albert, Edward and Laura, and The Hermit of Priestland: Three Legendary Tales, 1783. Entries in the manuscript include, "1788 Jany 13 My dear sister R Roberts died one happy year at home!!", and "Extract from the will of Rhadagunda Roberts 'My next request is to be buried with my father and my mother. I give and bequeath to my dear niece Margaret Roberts [a close friend of Hannah More] my mourning ring with my dear Mother's name in it wrought with her own hair, which being the same name with my nieces, I hope she will keep it as a remembrance of my Mother and me.'" According to the Oxford DNB, Roberts always signed her pieces as "RR" or "R Roberts", and it has only recently been proved by research by the University of Kent that Roberts' Christian name was Radagunda. Recipes and extracts include: "India Rubber Glue"; "How to make your own yeast"; "Poetical receipt for a Salad"; "Cancer Valuable recipe"; "Head ache to arrest"; "Latin metrical Translation by Arthur Roberts [(1801-86)] Vicar of Woodrising"; "Death of Sir Thos Picton at Waterloo"; "Archery - Excerpta from Hansards 'Book of Archery'"; "Pedigree of Roberts"; "Logarithms" etc.
Lot 229
Geology.- Quarterly Journal (The) of the Geological Society of London, vols.1-6, numerous folding charts and maps, some hand-coloured, plain lithographed plates of geological specimens and fossils, all but vol.2 ex-library copies, heavier markings to vol.1, others with occasional stamps or accession bookplates, vol.1 & 3 modern library boards, vol.2, 4-6 original decorative cloth, faded, spine ends and extremities worn, 8vo, 1845-50.⁂ A complete run of the first 6 volumes of this important and pioneering geological publication, some in original cloth. The set contains numerous first publications of papers by Charles Darwin, William Buckland, Charles Lyell, Charles Babbage, Adam Sedgwick, Richard Owen, and others. Darwin's contributions are An Account of the Fine Dust which Often Falls on Vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, On the Geology of the Falkland Islands (both 1846), On the Transportal of Erratic Boulders from a Lower to a Higher Level (1848), and On British Fossil Lepadidae (1850). It was in the context of the Geological Society's frequent meetings and publications during the period covered by these volumes, that Charles Darwin was able to solve the problem of organic origins with the theory of evolution.
Lot 187
DICKENS, CHARLES. Selection of various Charles Dickens books to include; ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ by Charles Dickens, Chapman and Hall, London, 1870. ‘Our Mutual Friend’ by Charles Dickens, Chapman and Hall, London, 1865, Volumes I & II. ‘The Old Curiosity Shop / The Uncommercial Traveller’ by Charles Dickens, The Queensway Press, London. ‘The Adventures of Oliver Twist and A Tale of Two Cities’, Chapman and Hall, London, 1890. ‘All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal’ conducted by Charles Dickens Volume 1 April 30 1859 to October 22 1859, Wellington Street North, London, 1859. ‘Sketches by Boz’ Charles Dickens memorial edition, Chapman and Hall, London. (7)
Lot 81
An exceptionally rare James I pewter and enamel 'rosewater bowl', English or Scottish, but probably London, circa 1605 Having a plain rim and deep booge, centred by a raised circular moulding into which is set a brass boss, enamelled in blue, red and white with the Royal Arms of James I of England and James VI of Scotland, with the cypher ‘I’ ‘R’ and the Garter, possible touchmark to rear of rim, diameter 32cm Provenance: Former A. J. C. Wall Collection, circa 1935 and thence by decent until sold Christie’s 8 July 1998, Lot 904 Exhibited: Formerly on loan to Aston Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, following Mr Wall’s death in 1955 Literature: See The Connoisseur, June 1935, pp.329-333, for an article by Capt. A Sutherland-Graeme, entitled ‘Pewter Rose-Water Dishes’ A comparable rosewater bowl, again with enamel boss of the arms of James I, sold Christie’s, The Little Collection', 1 May 2007, Lot 63 (£16,800). The maker was incorrectly attributed to John Rebate, Edinburgh, instead of James Riddoch, (PS8155) The authenticity of some enamelled boss dishes has been questioned. Doubts over originality have principally applied to ’stepped’ booge examples, but concerns have rarely been conclusive. See Journal of the Pewter Society, Autumn 2014, Vol. 40. As to be expected, the enamelled bosses were made as independent medallions and soldered on to dishes. It is therefore relatively easy to conjecture whether this was done at the time of the dishes manufacture or at a later date. See following Lot A JAMES I PEWTER AND ENAMEL ROSEWATER BOWL BY JOHN REBATE OF EDINBURGH, CIRCA 1600 With an enamel boss of the arms of James I of England and James VI of Scotland, A JAMES I PEWTER AND ENAMEL ROSEWATER BOWL BY JOHN REBATE OF EDINBURGH, CIRCA 1600 With an enamel boss of the arms of James I of England and James VI of Scotland, A JAMES I PEWTER AND ENAMEL ROSEWATER BOWL BY JOHN REBATE OF EDINBURGH, CIRCA 1600 With an enamel boss of the arms of James I of England and James VI of Scotland,
Lot 118
A good James I pewter flagon, circa 1610-20 The tapering drum with single narrow fillet below collar and matching twin-fillet to base, ovolo-moulded foot, the bun lid with flattened-ball knop, erect thumbpiece with rare cast gadrooned top and floral reserves to rear, handle terminal again with gadrooned decoration, apparently unmarked, height 33.2cm See Journal of the Pewter Society 'Survey of James I Flagons’, Spring 1997, p.144, for a James I flagon again with decorated thumbpiece and handle terminal
Lot 204
A rare Charles I ‘recusant’ chalice, English, circa 1640 Having a small bowl, on an inverted baluster knop stem, and a wide gently domed foot, with narrow flared footrim, apparently typically unmarked, 4 fl.oz., 13.2cm Provenance: The Jane Russell Collection Literature: See J. Webb, “English Recusant Base-Metal Chalices’, Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute no. 143, (1986). See also H.H. Cotterell, ‘Pewter Down the Ages’, fig. 72 & De Navarro, ‘Causeries on English Pewter’, p. 150 A very similar chalice sold Christie’s “The Little Collection’, 1 May 2007, Lot 20, (£2800) and originally from Littlecote House, Wiltshire
Lot 124
A rare early 17th century small pewter porringer, possibly for a child, English, circa 1635-50 Having a steep straight-sided bowl with lip, a flat base with small boss, and an open three-lobed ear, centred by a pierced-heart, flanked by the crowned initials 'T' and 'W', and with a broad under wedge, maker's touch of '? W' to underside, (PS18455) 4 fl.oz., height 2.6cm, bowl diameter 9.1cm Provenance: With Richard Mundey. Former Kenneth Bradshaw Collection. Sold Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 13 September 1997, Lot 381. Former David Little Collection. Sold Christie's, London, 1 May 2007, Lot 16. Christie’s dated the porringer to circa 1600, however, there appears no evidence to support such early dating. See Journal of the Pewter Society, Autumn 2015, p. 13 & Spring 2016, p. 14, (P109)
Lot 202
An exceptionally rare Charles I/Commonwealth pewter ‘recusant’ chalice and accompanying paten, probably Lancashire, circa 1640-50 Having a plain bowl, on an inverted-baluster knop, with paired incised lines at the widest point, on a flat circular base, again with paired incised lines near edge, very narrow footrim, 7.5 fl.oz., height 15cm; and a plain paten, which appears the same size as the chalice base before it was formed, diameter 10cm, (2) Provenance: Jane Russell Collection. Illustrated: Journal of the Pewter Society, Autumn 2015, p.42. Literature: See J. Webb, “English Recusant Base-Metal Chalices’ Journal of the Royal Archaeological Institute no. 143, 1986. See also H.H. Cotterell, ‘Old Pewter, its Makers and Marks’, p.97, fig a A similar shaped chalice in St, Peter’s Church, Rauceby, Lincolnshire unusually has a markers’ mark, the touch of Charles Flood, London, (fl.1632-1655), (fl.3421). See Journal of the Pewter Society, Autumn 2015, p.41-42. Fore another similar chalice, again by Flood, see the Victoria & Albert Museum London Collection, acc. no. M.70-1945. The simple paten is exceptionally rare. The appendix of the aforementioned J. Webb publication, p. 360-6, records six, with five having a Lancashire Provenance. One is recorded in a private collection, Lancashire, still in the original recusant house; another at Stonyhurst College, formerly Samlesbury Hall; one in the Lancashire Record Office, Preston, from Great Eccleston; one from the house of the Swarbrick family, Garstang; and the fifth Lydiate Hall. The sixth is recorded at St. Edwards College, Surrey.
Lot 116
A William III/Queen Anne pewter porringer, possibly Wigan/Bewdley, circa 1700 Having a bellied bowl, bossed base, triangular bracket under geometric crescent ear, maker’s mark of 'RB' (PS10819) to rear of ear, possibly Robert Bancks (fl.1670-1702), (PS416), overall length 18cm Literature: This porringer is ‘P105' in the Journal of the Pewter Society comprehensive study 'English Porringers post 1650: Part 1’, Autumn 2015
Lot 82
An exceptionally rare Charles I pewter and enamel 'rosewater bowl', or alms bowl, English or Scottish, but probably London, circa 1640 Having a plain rim and deep booge, centred by a raised circular moulding into which is set a brass boss, enamelled in black, blue, red and white with the Royal Arms of Charles I of England, with the cypher ‘C’ ‘R’ and the Garter, unidentified touchmark to rear of rim, diameter 32cm Provenance: Former A. J. C .Wall Collection, circa 1935 and thence by decent until sold Christie’s 8 July 1998, Lot 905 Exhibited: Formerly on loan to Aston Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery following Mr Wall’s death in 1955 Literature: See Journal of the pewter Society, Autumn 1982, Vol. 3, No. 4; spring 2008, Vol. 28, pp. 25-28; Spring 2015, p. 18-19. For three further examples, all from the reign of Charles I, see the Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London, acc. nos. M. 32-1923; M.31-1945 & M.32-1945. A dish similar to M.32-1945 was exhibited at Clifford’s Inn, London, 1908 and described as a being from a set of six supplied to Charles I whilst at York during the English Civil War. The authenticity of some enamelled boss dishes has been questioned. Doubts over originality have principally applied to ’stepped’ booge examples, but concerns have rarely been conclusive. See Journal of the Pewter Society, Autumn 2014, Vol. 40. As to be expected the enamelled bosses were made as independent medallions and soldered on to dishes. It is therefore relatively easy to conjecture whether this was done at the time of the dishes manufacture or at a later date. See previous Lot
Lot 310
Herbert Percy Horne (1864-1916)Snipe and Berried Foliageseven painted ceiling panels on canvas for the Drawing Room at Pownall Hall, Cheshire, one snipe panel and six berried foliage panels,unsigned62.5 x 62.5cm (each panel), (7) ProvenancePownall Hall in Wilmslow, CheshireVictorian Paintings, Drawing and Watercolours, Sotheby's lot 161, 12th November 1992Private collection. LiteratureT Raffles Davison A Modern Country Home (a Review of Pownall Hall), the Art Journal, 1891, pages 329, 325, Drawing Room illustrated page 333.Nikolaus Pevsner and Edward Hubbard The Buildings of England, Cheshire, pages 385-386.Stuart Evans & Jean Liddiard Arts and Crafts Pioneers - The Hobby Horse Men and their Century Guild, page 114 and 115 for larger figural panels from the Drawing room, painted by Selwyn Image, illustrated. On page 120 figure 5.34 is a photograph, circa 1890, showing the squared ceiling. Catalogue notesPownall Hall in Wilmslow, Cheshire was built circa 1830-1835. In 1866 a plan of refurbishment was begun by the brewer Henry Boddington and his associate, William Ball. For the interior decoration of the house they called upon members of the progressive Century Guild: Herbert Horne, Arthur Haygate Mackmurdo and Selwyn Image. The ceiling was divided into square panels decorated with hare, snipe and fruit enclosed within scrolls of citron leaves. After 1884 Horne became editor of the Century Guild's magazine, The Hobby Horse, which influenced William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement.
Lot 381
SCOTTISH INTEREST Miles, Hamish Fair Perthshire John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1930, 1st edition Maughan, William Charles Rosneath Past and Present Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1893 Helps, Arthur (ed.) Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861 Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1868 Gordon, Seton In the Highlands Cassell and Company, London 1931, 1st edition Magnusson, Magnus The Clacken and the Slate: the Story of the Edinburgh Academy 1824-1974 Collins, London, 1974, 1st edition (5) Condition Report:Available upon request
Lot 114
* Cotman (John Sell, 1782-1842). Study of a Clump of Trees, 19th century, graphite on wove paper, paper with collector's stamps for William Bateson and Dr Theodore Bestermann, sheet size 25.5 x 27.5 cm (10 x 10 3/4 ins), mounted (38.5 x 41.5 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Provenance: Lugt. 2604a and 5539.William Bateson (1861-1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity. He was interested in the art of the Far East and since 1922, a Trustee of the British Museum. In 1929, this widow donated in his memory, Chinese and Korean works of art and Chinese paintings. She added 26 drawings to this donation, mostly by French masters.Theodore Besterman (1904-1976) was a Polish-born British psychical researcher, bibliographer, biographer, and translator. In 1945 he became the first editor of the Journal of Documentation. From the 1950s he devoted himself to studies of the works of Voltaire. The formation of his collection of books and watercolours was made possible thanks to his investments in the stock market. From the 1960s he collected watercolours by English artists, including Cotman, and eventually parted with his collection during two sales organised by Christie’s in 1981.
Lot 255
A quantity of decoratively leather and cloth bound books, 18th century and later, to include:The Biographical Magazine. containing Portraits & Characters of Eminent and Ingenious Persons, of every Age & Nation., London: Harrison & Co., 1794; The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings, Vols. 1, 2, 6, and 7; London: Vernor, Hood, & Sharpe, 1807-11; The Works of Lord Byron including his suppressed poems., later rebound, Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1827; The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, London: James S. Virtue, 1862;Illustrated London News, 1863-4, a large format bound copy; Owen Meredith, Lucile, with illustrations, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882; Frederick Bradbury, History of Old Sheffield Plate, London: Macmillan and Co., 1912; Carl Marquand Sauer, Italian Conversational Grammar, thirteenth edition, Heidelburg: Julius Groos, 1913; British Sports and Sportsmen, Sportsmen of the Past, 2 Vols., limited edition no. 504/1000, London: Sports & Sportsmen Limited; and various others (18)
Lot 1289
Music and dance, 1817-1843i. John Sale (1758-1827), secretary of the Catch Club; letter to Terrail, unanimously elected a member of the club; 30 Arundel Street, to 28 January 1817The Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Catch Club was established in 1761, and met at the Thatched House Tavern in St James’s Street. John Sale served as secretary between 1812 and 1827. A history of the Club, still in existence, by Viscount Gladstone, Guy Boas and Harald Christopherson, was published in 1996. For John Sale, singer and conductor, see ODNB. For a reminiscence of Terrail, a counter-tenor, see The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular4 (1852) 208.ii. Catherine [Kitty] Stephens (1794-1882), singer and actress; letter to Mr Moore, requesting one of his men to bring ‘one pair of the very thin silk stockings’; Friday, c1820With a cut-down engraving [by Cooke, from a painting in the possession of Thomas Walsh], of Miss Stephens [in the role of Diana Vernon in Rob Roy MacGregor; published by Simpkin and Marshall, stationers, 1820]Daughter of a London carver and gilder, her opera career lasted from 1812 until 1838, when she married the octogenarian Earl of Essex. Following his death the following year she continued to live at 9 Belgrave Square until her own death in 1882. A testament to her reputation was her reception at court by Queen Victoria, who recorded in her journal that Lord Essex had been ‘excessively pleased’ by her ‘having called up Lady Essex … at the Ball and having spoken to her’.The addressee is perhaps Joseph Moore (1766-1851), entrepreneur and promoter of musical and choral festivals at Birmingham, Malvern and York (ODNB).iii. Cipriani Hambley Potter (1792–1871), composer and pianist, 30 York Buildings; letter to W[illiam] Watts, esquire, 45 Cirencester Place, Fitzroy Square; has Watts succeeded with the directors respecting the two additional rehearsal tickets? 20 May 1828Potter was one of the leading composers and pianists of the 1820s and 1830s. At the end of 1817 he left England to study composition abroad. His first destination was Vienna, where he met Beethoven, who commented favourably on him in a letter of 5 March 1818. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music, the establishment of which was proposed at a meeting at the Thatched House Tavern in 1822; he became principal of the College in 1832.William Watts, a violinist, was secretary of the Philharmonic Society between 1815 and 1847.iv. Maria (signs Marietta) Malibran (1808-1836), mezzo-soprano; letter. La tua buona amica, to Monsieur le Chevalier Ferdinando Paër; undated, 1830sRequests something for La sorella di Minette, who deserves reward being charged with a familyMalibran was born in Paris as María Felicitas García Sitches into a famous Spanish musical family. Her mother was Joaquina Sitches, an actress and operatic singer. Her father Manuel García was a celebrated tenor much admired by Rossini, having created the role of Count Almaviva in his The Barber of Seville. At the age of eight she appeared on stage at Naples with her father in Ferdinando Paër’s Agnese. She made her début at the Paris Opéra in 1828. Triumphs followed in London (Covent Garden début 1833), Naples, Rome, Bologna, Venice, Lucca, and Milan (La Scala début 1834). In 1836 married the Belgian violinist Charles de Bériot with whom she had lived since 1830. Malibran moved to England in 1834 and began to perform in London and the continent. In April 1836 she fell from horse in London, while pregnant, her injuries leading to her death in September, when she collapsed after singing a duet at a Manchester festival.Ferdinando Paer (1771-1839) was an Italian composer known for his operas. In 1812, he became conductor of the Opéra-Italien in Paris. He retained this post after theRestoration while accepting those of chamber composer to the king and conductor of the private orchestra of the Duke of Orléans. In 1823, he retired from the Opéra-Italien and was succeeded by Rossini.v. Marie Taglioni (1804-1884), ballet dancer; letter to Monsieur Dupouchet; requests a box and some tickets for this evening; Monday, c1840With a lithograph of a portrait of Taglioni by François Séraphin Delpech (1778-1825); [Paris, 1832]Born in Sweden, Taglioni was one of the most celebrated dancers of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London and at the Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique of the Paris Opera Ballet. She is credited with (though not confirmed as) being the first ballerina to truly dance en pointe. It was in Russia after her last performance in the country (1842) and at the height of the ‘cult of the ballerina’, that a pair of her pointe shoes were sold for two hundred roubles, reportedly to be cooked, served with a sauce and eaten by a group of balletomanes.vi. Joseph Alfred Novello (1810-1896), music publisher; letter to Joshua French, Gentleman of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, Windsor; 69 Dean Street Place, 3 May 1843Thanks to his note they put off their visit to Windsor, as well on account of the rain; encloses a letter of Rossini [not present] ‘whose letters are scarce as he generally write [sic] by his secretary’; many thanks for the facsimilesThe letter was written as Novello embarked on a project to publish cheap music for the mass singing-class movement, enthusiastically supported by those concerned with working-class morality in an age of political and industrial radicalism. In 1842 he published Joseph Mainzer's sight-singing manual Singing for the Million and the weekly Mainzer's Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular.
Lot 1284
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965), poet, critic and publisher, Criterion, 24 Russell Square, London WC1; letter to Peter Winckworth ‘Dear Winckworth’, 30 Buckingham Gate. London SW1, 21 October 1937 Unable to lunch next week as he will be in Edinburgh the whole week; very glad to lunch later; ‘the only day in every week on which I am never free is Wednesday’; ‘I shall be interested to know if you really have some good Wensleydale at Windham’s; if so, I must speak severely to our steward, who has not provided any Wensleydale at all yet this year’.In 1922 Eliot jumped at an offer from Lady Rothermere, wife of Esmond Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, to edit a high-profile literary journal. The first number of The Criterion appeared in October 1922. Like The Waste Land, which The Criterion first published, it took the whole of European culture in its sights. The Criterion's editorial voice placed Eliot at the centre of first the London and then the continental literary scene. The editorial life on Russell Square was also conducted over friendly dinners that served the function of a college or a club, and Eliot seemed to thrive on such occasions.At about the same time Eliot reached out for religious support, and turned to the Church of England. Few followers were prepared for Eliot's baptism into the Church of England on 29 June 1927 at Finstock in Oxfordshire, and so, within five years of his avant-garde success, Eliot provoked a second storm. The furore grew in November 1927 when Eliot took British citizenship and again in 1928 when he collected a group of politically conservative essays under the title For Lancelot Andrewes and prefaced them with a declaration that he considered himself ‘classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion’. (ODNB)Eliot had been introduced to Winckworth in April 1932 by (Archibald) Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965), author and vice-chairman of the National Peace Council, who was ‘anxious [for Eliot] to meet a young friend of mine … [who] has an unusually good mind and writes very fair verse. I am sure you would like him’. Ingram, an Anglo-Catholic lay theologian, socialist, and prolific writer, attempted in several works to integrate his sexuality with his religious beliefs. See David Hilliard, ‘UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality’; Victorian Studies 25 (2) (1982) 181-210. Winckworth was one of the originators of the Seven Years’ Association, established at the 1933 Anglo-Catholic Congress to form ‘a youth auxiliary to the Church Union’. In July 1934 he sent Eliot a ‘short essay’ on the Association, which he hoped he might arrange to review in the St Stephen’s parish magazine. He hoped too that Eliot might take the chair at their meeting in Kensington on 16 October, which he duly did. In December 1934, Eliot described Winckworth to William Kemp Lowther Clarke, a Church of England clergyman, as ‘a very good man indeed, and I have great hopes of him’.The present letter is a reply to Winckworth’s invitation to Eliot to participate in a Junior Church Congress on the theme of the Christian Revolution, to be held at the Dorland Hall in Regent Street 28-20 April 1938. His letter declining the invitation expressed a need to conserve his energy, and that ‘Dorland Hall is rather too public a place to suit my book’. His reluctance to appear was doubtless influenced by an incident at the Dorland Hall in November 1935, when he had been accosted by his estranged wife Vivien in one of her ‘often histrionic attempts to embarrass him into a reconciliation’ (https://tseliot.com ; ODNB).John Peter Winckworth was born on 2 November 1908, youngest of the three children of Lewis Herbert Winckworth (1864-1940), solicitor, and Ruthella Theodora, elder daughter of the Revd Herbert Clementi-Smith of Holland Park Avenue, Kensington, chaplain to the Mercers’ Company. In September 1922 he entered Grants House at Westminster School (also attended by his father and three uncles) and left in July 1927.Admitted as a solicitor in October 1932, he practised in London, in 1947 with Messrs Trollope and Winckworth of 21 Old Queen Street, Westminster. Winckworth was one of the originators of the Seven Years’ Association, established at the 1933 Anglo-Catholic Congress to form ‘a youth auxiliary to the Church Union’. In 1948 he became Registrar of the Diocese of Oxford, and subsequently served as a Church Commissioner, Master of the Worshipful Company of Mercers 1961-2, a governor of St Paul’s School and Secretary of the Church Union.He joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in August 1940, and was transferred to the Training Progress Section of the Air Ministry in 1941.Winckworth was author of Does Religion Cause War? (1934); Sensible Christians (1935); The Way of War: Verses (1939); A Simple Approach to Canon Law (1951); The Seal of the Confessional and the Law of Evidence (1952); A Verification of the Faculty Jurisdiction (1953); and A History of the Gresham Lectures (1966).He died at Eastbourne on 28 April 1986, and a requiem mass was held at St Matthew’s Church Westminster on 23 June.His portrait, by Richard Aylmer Frost (1905-1995), a Westminster contemporary, 1924, is among the collections of the school (GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-002/29): https://collections.westminster.org.uk/index.php/gb-2014-ws-03-pic-002-29The Windham Club, established (as the Windham House Club) in 1828 as a ‘place of meeting for a Society of Gentlemen all connected with each other by a common bond of literary or personal acquaintance’, migrated to No. 13 St James’s Square in 1836. In 1945 it amalgamated with the Marlborough and Orleans Clubs, to form the Marlborough-Windham Club. (Survey of London 28 and 29, St James Westminster, pp136-139.)
Lot 442
1974 Benelli 500 QuattroRegistration no. OIG 6250Frame no. BA*1572*Engine no. BA*001681*Revitalised after its takeover in 1971 by Argentine industrialist Alejandro de Tomaso, Benelli launched a range of new six- and four-cylinder sports bikes. First of these Honda-inspired machines was the 500 Quattro of 1974, which despite its Oriental-looking power unit was thoroughly Italian in all other respects, boasting a rigid cradle frame, powerful Grimeca drum brakes and alloy wheel rims. The front drum had been replaced by Brembo discs and the model name changed to '504 Sport' by the time Bike magazine got its hands on one in 1979. 'Riding the Sport is a trip,' enthused Britain's No. 1 motorcycling journal. 'In common with most of its Italian compadres, the Benelli delivers handling that is parsecs ahead of the dominant Japanese motorcycles.' The fact that importers Agrati Sales sold so few in the UK was entirely down to the price: at £1,636 the Benelli was a massive 33% more expensive than Kawasaki's Z500!First registered in the UK in 2014, this Benelli 500 Quattro displays a total of 6,734 kilometres on the odometer, although it is not known whether this is from new. The Benelli has been owned by the current vendor since importation, and has been used sparingly while in his care; it has been dry stored since purchase and was last run earlier this year. Benefiting from a new battery, the machine comes with a V5C document. Offered with keyFootnotes:All lots are sold 'as is/where is' and Bidders must satisfy themselves as to the provenance, condition, age, completeness and originality prior to bidding.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 615
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer, art promoter, and gallery owner who played a significant role in the development and promotion of modern art and photography in the United States. Here are some key points about Alfred Stieglitz and his contributions:1. **Pioneering Photographer**: Stieglitz is often considered one of the pioneers of modern photography. He experimented with different photographic techniques and was known for his groundbreaking work in both pictorialist and straight photography movements.2. **Camera Work**: Stieglitz was the founder and editor of "Camera Work," a photographic journal published from 1903 to 1917. The journal played a crucial role in promoting photography as an art form and introduced the work of many notable photographers to a wider audience.3. **Photo-Secession**: Stieglitz was a key figure in the Photo-Secession movement, a group of photographers who sought to establish photography as a legitimate art form. He exhibited alongside photographers like Edward Steichen and Clarence White and championed their work.4. **Gallery 291**: Stieglitz operated Gallery 291 in New York City, where he exhibited not only photography but also modern art, including works by European artists like Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, and Georgia O'Keeffe. The gallery played a vital role in introducing American audiences to modern European art.5. **Introducing Georgia O'Keeffe**: Stieglitz's relationship with the American modernist artist Georgia O'Keeffe is well-known. He exhibited her work at Gallery 291, and their personal and professional partnership later developed into a romantic one. O'Keeffe's iconic paintings of flowers, landscapes, and New York skyscrapers are partly a result of her association with Stieglitz.6. **Equivalents**: In the later part of his career, Stieglitz created a series of abstract photographs known as "Equivalents." These images, often depicting clouds, sought to convey emotions and abstract concepts through photography, prefiguring the abstract photography movement.7. **Advocacy for Modern Art**: Stieglitz was a vocal advocate for modern art in the United States. He used his publications and gallery to champion the work of emerging American artists and helped establish the American modern art scene.8. **Legacy**: Alfred Stieglitz's influence on photography and modern art in the United States is profound. His work and advocacy contributed significantly to the recognition of photography as a legitimate art form, and his support for American artists helped shape the course of modern American art.9. **Death**: Alfred Stieglitz passed away on July 13, 1946, in New York City, leaving behind a rich legacy in the fields of photography and art promotion.Alfred Stieglitz's contributions to the art world extended beyond his own work as a photographer. He played a pivotal role in shaping the course of modern art in the United States, making him a central figure in the development of American photography and art in the 20th century.Measures 11 x 14 matted.
Lot 159
Irma Stern (South African, 1894-1966)The Yellow Hat signed and dated 'Irma Stern/ 193?' (lower left); bears inscription 'Man in Yellow Hat (1938)' (verso), further inscribed 'Wolpe Gallery' (verso)oil on canvas 65 x 66cm (25 9/16 x 26in).(framed)Footnotes:ProvenanceWolpe Gallery, Cape Town;Sotheby's/ Stephen Welz & Co sale, Johannesburg, 31st October 1988, Lot 221;A private collection. ExhibitedMacFayden Hall, University of Pretoria, (April 1933), no. 24. Lezard's Gallery, Johannesburg, (May 1933), no. 20. Newland's House, Cape Town (19-26 February 1934), no. 24.LiteratureStephan Welz, Art at Auction in South Africa: Twenty Years of Sotheby's/Stephan Welz & Co., 1969-1989, (Johannesburg: A.D. Donker, 1989), p.122Irma Stern's handwriting, given her expressive hand, prevents the date of 'The Yellow Hat' from being clearly legible. The last digit of the date she has inscribed beneath her signature in the lower left corner of the painting is unclear.More clear is an inscription, not in Stern's hand, on the stretcher that includes reference to the Wolpe Gallery and was probably made in the 1960s when Joe Wolpe befriended the artist. The inscription reads 'The Man in the Yellow Hat (1938)'. It is this inscription that seems to have persuaded previous cataloguers to date the work '1938' when it was first brought to market in 1988. In fact, the origin of the painting can be traced with certainty to the beginning of this decade, to 1931 when Stern spent a few months on Madeira on her way to Europe. A drawing that is unmistakably a portrait study for the painting is preserved in the Irma Stern Museum and is clearly dated 1931 (Irma Stern Trust #741). As Stern left Madeira on the Kenilworth Castle in November 1931 the painting is likely to have been at least started before then. She had an exhibition of some of her Madeira work at Foyle's Gallery, London, in January 1932, but it is not known what works were shown because there is no exhibition list preserved in her Scrapbooks at the National Library of South Africa in Cape Town. Nor did the work feature on the list of her first exhibition following her return to Cape Town, at Ashbey's Gallery in November. But it is listed in both her exhibition at MacFadyen Hall, University of Pretoria, in April 1933 (as #24 at 40 guineas), and that at Lezard's Gallery, Johannesburg, in May (#20). And 'The Yellow Hat' was shown at Newlands House, Cape Town, between 19 and 26 February 1934, as #24 again at 40 guineas. Although Stern left the island before the end of 1931, some of her Madeira paintings, for example 'The Fisherman' and 'The Two Harlots', are clearly dated 1932. The last digit of the date on 'The Yellow Hat' may best be explained by imagining Stern completing the work with signature and date while still on the island but revising both the work and the date in 1932 or 1933 after she had returned to South Africa. Stern wrote (in her inimitable style) on 11 October 1931 from Madeira to Roza van Gelderen, her friend in Cape Town, that she was staying in Santa Cruz, on the east coast of the island in 'a delight full fisher village': 'You cannot imagine how interessing [sic] this all is for me. But how I ever can go away from here and feel happy again I do not know – it is so full of beauty and colour and life.'There are indications at other times during her stay that she was not always so happy and even that she might have had some kind of breakdown, but Karel Schoeman is undoubtedly correct in suggesting that Stern used her visit to Madeira to find a new direction in her art, particularly for the role of colour. According to an interview she gave in June 1931, a few months before her stay in Madeira, Stern found the colour scheme of her 'Native Studies', that had been her principal subject up to this time, limited to the browns of African bodies enlivened only by touches of orange, red and green; and that she felt the need to expand her palette, interestingly through the medium of Still Life painting that allowed the distribution of colour accents across the picture surface. And, in 1933, looking back on the time leading up to her visit to Madeira, she stated:'But now a growing absorption in colour theory even to the exclusion of the subject-matter, overtook me to such a degree that for two or three years all my work consisted in studying and building up a new palette. The year 1931 brought me for a few months to Madeira where I was able to harvest the benefits of my recent studies.' The reaction to Madeira expressed in her letter to van Gelderen confirms that she found beauty and colour there. Significantly, she also found 'life' in human figures who were rather less passive than the mode she had devised for her African subjects.'The Yellow Hat' is one of several fisher subjects that Stern exhibited in South Africa in 1933 and 1934. While perhaps not as overtly dramatic as other subjects she recorded in Madeira – such as 'The Hunchback', 'The Blind Boy', 'The Two Harlots', etc. – ocean fishing was seen generally at that time as a heroic occupation representing the idea of human struggle with nature. To capture the implicit drama of these fishermen's lives, Stern returned to her Expressionist roots in her vigorous brushstrokes, loosely defined planes, broken contours, and compressed spaces. All these devices were achieved through a newly energised application of colour. The mood of many of Stern's Madeira paintings is sombre, not to say tragic. But in 'The Yellow Hat' she uses the bright yellow of the large Sou'Wester to introduce a heightened, even fauvist palette as another way to express the exceptional nature of the mariner's heroism. As D.L. wrote in response to the Lezard Gallery exhibition in 'Miss Irma Stern's Exhibition. A Brilliant Modernist', in The Star, May 11 1933, ''Yellow Hat', and several more are not only harmonious in colour, but express the character of their subjects in a way quite impossible by more conventional methods'.We are grateful to Professor Michael Godby for his completion of the above footnote.BibliographyJeanne van Eeden, 'Irma Stern's First Exhibition in Pretoria, 1933', South African Journal of Art History, 13, (1988), pp.89-104.Marion Arnold, Irma Stern, A Feast for the Eye, (Cape Town: Fernwood Press, 1995), passim, for the Madeira works.Karel Schoeman, Irma Stern, The Early Years, 1894-1933, (Cape Town: The South African Library), pp. 99-100.'Irma Stern and her Work', South African Life and the Woman's Forum, (December 7 1933)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 128
Prof. Uche Okeke (Nigerian, 1933-2016)Onwa, Face of the Moon, 1983 signed 'UO/:3' (lower right)gouache on paper 45 x 30cm (17 11/16 x 11 13/16in).(framed)Footnotes:ExhibitedGoethe Institute Lagos, Uche Okeke, 60th Birthday Anniversary, Retrospective Exhibition, (1993). 32.LiteratureFrank Aig-Imoukhuede, Uche Okeke, 60th Birthday Anniversary, Retrospective Exhibition, Goethe Institute Lagos, (1993), p. 33. (illustrated)Though possessing human-like qualities, the features of the present figurative subject are so curved that they become distorted. The linear fluidity of Uli contributes to the richness of the present work. While holding an aesthetic purpose within the work, the Uli depiction is also used in the artist's response to the ideology of this folklore synthesising with artistic expression deriving from the Negritude ideology. The philosophical understanding of Natural Synthesis was enriched particularly by the Igbo indigenous art traditions, namely with Uli motifs. This concept of Natural Synthesis came to fruition during Okeke's time studying at the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology from 1957-1961, during which he and his fellow students formed the Zaria Art Society. This society aimed to maintain the value of local tradition within modern art and not diminish it under colonial intervention. Furthermore, while championing their heritage, it was also key to the ideological concept of the society that they embrace the expressive direction of contemporary art, therefore fusing the old with the new to create culturally informed work. They were establishing traditional art as repackaged and accepting of change.The importance of Uche Okeke lies in his recognition of the possibilities of Uli as a design resource for enriching modern art and, together with Nigeria's other innovators, of providing us with real '20th Century African Art' different from the travesties now and again foisted on a gullible world as the 'true form of 20th century creativity in Africa,' (Frank Aig-Imoukhuede in the Foreword of the exhibition catalogue: Uche Okeke, 60th Birthday Anniversary, Retrospective Exhibition, Goethe Institute Lagos, 1993). BibliographyOnwuakpa, S. I. & Chukueggu C.C., 'Natural Synthesis and Contemporary Nigerian Visual Arts: An Exposition of Uche Okeke's Works', African Research Review: An International Multi-disciplinary Journal, Ethiopia, Vol. 10(4), Serial No. 43, September 2016For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 217
Automotor Journal. Six various volumes, Automotor & Horseless Vehicle Journal Vol 6, October 1899 to Sep 1900, in publishers binding. Vol 8, No 104 to 129, 1903 bound with covers, new binding. Vol 11, No 261 to 286 1906, with photocopied editions, new binding. Vol 12, No 339 to 363, 1907, some photocopies, new binding. Vol 12, No 313 to 338, 1907, with a photocopy issue, half binding. Vol 13 from No 365 to 390, 1908, publishers binding. With indices, all good working copies. Please check completeness. AF. (6)
Lot 119
The Light Car, 1913 to 1917. A very good collection of very rare magazines by Iliffe & Sons, competitors to the more common Temple Press Lightcar magazine. A well-illustrated weekly journal comprising three small quarto hardbound volumes in modern black cloth with gilt lettering to the spines, holding the issues from Volume III, January 6, 1915 to Volume VII, January 3, 1917; together with a further two hardbound volumes in period dark brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spines, holding the issues from Volume VII, January 3, 1917 to Volume VIII, December 26, 1917. All the issues are bound with their covers, the latter two volumes including title pages and indices bound in at the front of the volumes. There is some page browning through age, otherwise all the issues appear to be in generally very good, clean and sound condition. The lot also includes a collection of loose issues from 1913 and 1914, all with their covers but in variable condition, comprising: Volume I, Nos. 4 to 30; plus Nos. 32 to 36; and Vol. II, Nos. 38 to 41; plus Nos. 43, 52, 56, and 60. (Qty)
Lot 185
1905 VI Coupe Internationale (Gordon Bennett). Three small albums comprising 32 postcards by Bouge and others, 20 cards by N.D. and 18 rare Colour Cards of the Course by 'Le Journal'. Scenes of the route, drivers, promotional cards. Some cards have manuscript recto and cancellation stamps, some duplicates. Condition is good. Circa 110 cards. (3)
Lot 2
F.C. NANTES, EUROPEAN CUP 2ND ROUND JERSEY NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1966 vs. Celtic F.C., stitched number 8 verso, long sleevedNote: Originally believed to be the shirt of Bernard Blanchet, the programme for this fixture lists him in the no. 11 position, whilst Vladica Kovačević is listed as no. 8. Swapped with Bertie Auld; The Bertie Auld Collection.Presented here is another jersey from the legendary 1967 European Cup run. It is believed to have been worn by either Bernard Blanchet or Vladica Kovačević of Nantes.Both men were capped internationals, Blanchet receiving 17 for France between 1966 and 1972, Kovačević 13 for Yugoslavia between 1960 and 1965. Their club careers differed, the Frenchman making 356 league appearances for Nantes over eleven seasons. Kovačević would play just one season for the club, signing from Partizan Belgrade in 1966, just after having lost the European Cup final to Real Madrid.Nantes were fated for a short run in the 1966/67 competition.First round victories vs. Iceland’s Reykjavík didn’t belie a slump in domestic form, the team going four games without a win in the lead up to the 1st leg vs. Celtic.This match was played in France, the home side perhaps thinking their form had returned when, in the 17th minute, Francis Magny capitalised on a Tommy Gemmell mistake to give them an early lead.Celtic did settle however, Joe McBride pushing forward to score the equaliser just seven minutes later. Now it was time to put Nantes to the sword. Goals from Bobby Lennox and Stevie Chalmers in the second half secured a 3-1 victory. Praise for Stein from the French press was resounding, the influential journal L’Equipe dubbing Jimmy Johnstone ‘the flying flea’, whilst McBride was as classy as the film star ‘Marlon Brando’.Though demoralised, Nantes persevered in the return leg at Parkhead. A goal from Johnstone in the 13th minute didn’t stop their attempts, with a 36th minute equaliser from Gérard Géorgin perhaps giving them hope. Another second half masterclass awaited though, Celtic matching the first scoreline to secure a 6-2 aggregate victory.These masterful displays by the eventual Lisbon Lions impressed the French side so much that one player, Jacques Simon, would tip Celtic to win the tournament.
Lot 132
FOX (George) A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences and Labour of Love, in the Work of the Ministry of that Ancient, Eminent and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, 3rd edition 1765, folio, George Fox, first leaves slightly foxed, recent half calf; TAYLOR (Jeremy) Ductor Dubitantium or the Rule of Conscience, 4th edition 1696, folio, engraved title and portrait frontis, recased panel calf with good reback, renewed endpapers; A Dissuasive from Popery, 4th edition, London 1668, small 4to, 2 vols. in one, library stamp to title dated 1830, recent half calf (3)
Lot 1691
Midy, T.: Botanique Illustre de la Jeunesse. Nouvelle Edition. Paris, a. Gho u. A. Lahure 1881. Mit 8 chromolith. Tafeln. Gepr. Olwd. mit goldgepr. Rücken (berieb., fl.) - Tafeln tlws. mit Bleistift mit Raster überzeichnet. ╔Dabei: Enderes, A.v.╗ Frühlingsblumen. Mit einer Einleitung von Prof. Dr. M. Willkomm. Lpz. u. Prag, Freytag u. Tempsky 1883. Mit 40 C hromolith. Tafeln. Hlbldr. d. Zt. mit Rückenverg. ╔Sterne,C.╗ (d.i. E. Krause). Sommerblumen. Eine Schilderung der heimischen Blumenwelt. Lpz. u. Prag, Tempsky u. Freytag 1884. Mit 77 farb. Abb. Hlbldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückent. (berieb.). ╔Sterne, C.╗ (d.i. E. Kraus). Herbst- und Winterblumen. Lpz. u. Prag, Tempsky u. Freytag 1886. Mit 71 farb. Abb. Olwd. mit goldgepr. Titel u. Deckelill. (le. best.). ╔Hochstetter, C.F.╗ Populäre Botanik. 2. Teil. Stuttgart, Löslund u. Sohn 1831. Mit zahlr. farb. Tafeln. Läd. Hlbldr. d. Zt. mit Rsch. - Tlws. stark fl. ╔Ulitzsch, C.A. (Hrsg.)╗ Botanische Schattenrisse. Erstes u. zweites Heft. Lpz. u. Torgau, Rabenhorst u. Ulitzsch 1796-97. Mit 79 Tafeln. OU (läd., ausgebessert, Rücken erneuert, fl.). - Gebräunt, fl. Wurmfraß. ╔Loddiges u. Son (hrsg.)╗ The Botanical Cabinet. London, Cornhill, Rodwell u. Martin 1821. Bd. 6 (v. 20). Mit 99 (v. 100) gest. handkol. Tafeln. Hlbldr. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückent. u. Rückenverg. (berieb.). ╔The Florist`s Journal╗ for the year 1845. London, A. Adlard. Mit zahlr. handkol. Tafeln. Gepr. Lwd. mit Deckelv.ígn. u. goldgepr. Rückent. (berieb., fl.). - Gering stockfl. ╔ Loddiges,C.╗ The botanical cabinet. Part 90. London 1824. mit 5 kolor. Kupfertaf. 12 Bl. Text. OU. (Tls. randrissig, gebräunt, Kap. mit Fehlstelle). - Tls. lose u. stockfleckig. ╔Sammlung von 132 Tafeln╗ mit handkol Pflanzendarst. Hlbldr. d. Zt. (berieb.) - Tafeln tlws. le. fl.
Lot 2194
(Cölln,G.F.W.v.).: Vertraute Briefe über die innern Verhältnisse am Preußischen Hofe seit dem Tode Friedrichs II. Mit Anmerkungen u. Zusätzen. 6 Bde. Amsterdam u. Köln, Peter Hammer (d.i.: Lpz., Gräff) 1807-09. Mit 3 (davon 2 teilkolor.) gefalt. Kupferstichkarten u. 3 gefalt. Tabellen. Pbde. d. Zt. (Gebrauchsspuren). ADB IV, 411 f. Hayn/G. VI, 279: "Interessantes Journal, welches durch die freimüthige Beurtheilung der groben Mißstände im preußischen Heere u. Staate seiner Zeit grosses Aufsehen erregte". Holzmann/B. I, 8014. Weller I, 207. Erste Ausgabe. - Wegen des reichen Quellenmaterials noch immer wertvoller und interessanter Versuch, die Ursachen vom Niedergang des Friedericianischen Preußens offenzulegen. Die Schonungslosigkeit, mit welcher Georg Friedrich Willibald Ferdinand von Cölln (1766-1820) die Zustände in Staatsverwaltung, Militärwesen sowie Adel kritisiert, die Kriegsführung 1806-07 anklagt, erregte nach Erscheinen lebhaftes Aufsehen und führte zu mehreren Neuauflagen. - Tls. mit eingeb. Nebentitel Beytrag zur Geschichte des Krieges in Preußen, Schlesien und Pohlen in den Jahren 1806 und 1807. Die in Bd. 3 genannten Kupfer befanden sich laut Hayn/G. "auf den rothen Orig.-Umschlägen", liegen hier daher nicht vor. Ohne gefalt. Anz.-Bl. - Exlibris.
Lot 893
Fleuron, The.: A journal of typography, edited by Oliver Simon. Bde. 1-6 (von 7) in 6 Bdn. London 1923-28. 4°. Mit zahlr. tls. farb. Abb., taf. u. Beilagen. Versch. Orig.-Einbde. Bis auf den 1930 ersch. Bd. 7 kompl. Reihe dieser wichtigen Typographie-Zeitschrift mit zahlr. Beispielen zur Buchillustration, Satzanordnung u. Druck sowie über Buntpapiere etc.
Lot 250
Full title: A rare Chinese bronze cylindrical tripod censer with Arabic inscription, Zhengde mark and of the periodDescription:H.: 8 cm - Dia.: 10 cm Weight: 1084 grams Bronze censers decorated with Arabic inscriptions came to influence the making of a distinctive group of heavily potted blue-and-white porcelains, all bearing Zhengde imperial marks on the bases and the body decorated with Arabic or Persian inscriptions. Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Porcelain in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 188, notes that it is possible that these wares 'were used by literate Muslim eunuchs at court or by the emperor, who was fascinated by foreign scripts.' For examples of blue-and-white wares with Arabic or Persian inscription in the British Museum see ibid., pls. 8:3-8:11, including an incense burner (8:11) with six roundels each bearing an Arabic phrase. Two ceramic censers of this shape, also with Arabic inscriptions in panels are illustrated in Kaikodo Journal, XXIV. Material Witness, New York, 2008, p. 166, where it is explained that the form derives from Han period prototypes known as zun or lian which were used for containing wine. Provenance:- A Belgian private collection.- Acquired at TEFAF Maastricht from Galerie Lamy, Brussels, in 2014, accompanied by their certificate of authenticity. (as visible on the Alain Truong blog - link)- A Dutch private collection, before 2010. Ref.:- Sotheby's, New York, March 15, 2017, lot 561, for a similar example with a continuous text band. (sold USD 112.500) (direct link available on rm-auctions.com)- Sotheby's, Hong Kong, April 3, 2012, lot 143, for a very closely related example. (sold HKD 800.000) (direct link available on rm-auctions.com)Condition:The absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is in perfect condition.Condition reports are provided on request. They will be made available, together with additional images, on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Condition reports are given as a service, we can not be held liable for errors in such a report. The full list of condition reports for this sale is available on the following URL: https://www.rm-auctions.com/en/condition-report/75Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Lot 390
AN IRON-RED ENAMELED SGRAFFIATO PORCELAIN 'DRAGON' SNUFF BOTTLE, 1820-1900China. Of rounded rectangular form, its cylindrical neck incised with a key-fret band, slightly convex lip, glazed interior, painted around the side walls in iron-red with a five-clawed dragon diving through incised waves, all above a border of further wave patterns surrounding a gently tapered oval foot ring, the recessed base decorated with a dragon head among stylized clouds.Provenance: Galerie Allain, Paris, February 1944 (according to an ancient family ledger inspected by Cabinet Portier, Paris, France, during their appraisal of the complete de Strycker estate; this ledger remains in the possession of the de Strycker family and may not be copied). Collection of Robert and Isabelle de Strycker, acquired from the above and thence by decent in the same family. Robert de Strycker (1903-1968) was a French engineer who specialized in metallurgy. He was a Stanford graduate, a professor at the University of Leuven, a director of the Institute of Metallurgy at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, and one of the most influential members of the faculty of applied sciences. After World War II, he made large contributions to France's post-war recovery. Robert and his wife Isabelle (1915-2010) first encountered Chinese art at the British Museum during a stay in London in the 1930s. Enamored with the style and beauty, they both decided to study and collect Chinese works of art. In 1938 they eventually began to build their collection, buying from Belgian, Parisian, and English dealers. They kept close contact with the famous English collector Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977) and noted Czech collector and expert Fritz Low-Beer (1906-1976). In 1964, the couple lent 174 objects from their collection to the Belgian city of Leuven's museum for an exhibition titled Oude kunst in Leuvens Privebezit ('Old Art in Private Collections in Leuven'), and in 1967 they lent around thirty Japanese objects to the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels for their exhibition Kunst van Japan im belgischen Privatverzameingen ('Japanese Art in Belgian Private Collections').Condition: Very good condition with minor old wear and some firing irregularities. The stopper with a minor nick.Stopper: Jadeite Weight: 52.7 g Dimensions: Height including stopper 73 mm. Diameter neck 17 mm and mouth 7 mm. The body of the dragon on the present bottle is painted in a fashion that is partially interrupted and covered by incised wave patterns, creating a dynamic effect in presenting a mighty dragon charging through turbulent seas.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related snuff bottle from the Collection of Brooks and Dorothy Cofield, illustrated on the cover of The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society Journal, August 2015. Compare a related snuff bottle in the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession number C.446&STOPP-1926. Compare a related snuff bottle illustrated by Hugh Moss, Chinese Snuff Bottles From the Collection of the Rt. Hon. The Marquess of Exeter, K.C.M.G., 1974, p. 37, fig. C.31.Auction result comparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's New York, 14 March 2016, lot 6004Price: USD 2,125 or approx. EUR 2,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing Description: An enameled and incised porcelain 'dragon' snuff bottle, 1820-1900Expert remark: Note the size (6.4 cm). 1820-1900年軋道礬紅彩龍紋鼻煙壺中國，扁平壺，直頸，溜肩，橢圓圈足。瓶內外施釉，外壁粉彩繪製五爪雲龍，一面龍頭碩大，瞠目回望，從暗紋所刻雲中探出，鬃發後揚，氣勢磅礴；另一面可見龍尾，兩側有龍爪在雲中顯現。 來源：巴黎Allain藝廊，1944年2月 (根據法國巴黎 Cabinet Portier 在對整個 de Strycker 莊園進行評估時檢查過的一份家族帳本所記載；該帳本仍由 de Strycker 家族所有，不得複製)。品相：狀況極好，有輕微磨損和一些燒製不規則。壺蓋帶有小刻痕。 壺蓋: 翡翠 重量：52.7 克 尺寸：含蓋高 73 毫米，頸部直徑17 毫米與壺口直徑7 毫米。由于平台拍品叙述的长度限制，我们移除了中文叙述，完整中文叙述请至www.zacke.at查看
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