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Click here to subscribeMULBERRY; a light blue pebbled calf leather zip top card case with gold tone zip and oxblood calf skin leather interior with room for seven cards, and gold embossed 'Mulberry, England' to front, 11 x 9cm.Additional InformationThe purse is in excellent unused condition with no signs of wear externally or internally.
ERCOL; a nest of three graduated pebble tables, originally medium elm but now stripped, width largest example 60cm.Additional InformationThe tables have been stripped, they were originally dark elm, light surface wear, scratches, the undersides are still dark, the smaller example with a large impressed chip to the reverse.
WYLIE & LOCKHEAD OF GLASGOW; a circa 1900 oak Arts & Crafts bedside cabinet with open raised back, strap hinges and single panel door, inscribed to plaque on inside of door, height 90cm, width 46cm, depth 39.5cm.Additional InformationLight surface knocks throughout, traces of old woodworm through the moulding on the side but overall ok.
TED LAPIDUS PARIS; a pair of vintage 1970s ivory coloured oversized sunglasses with gold tone roped edging, and light amber lenses, signed Ted Lapidus, Paris, with original authentic case and a pair of Celine gold tone framed aviator style sunglasses, signed to edge, in original authentic case (2).Additional InformationThe Ted Lapidus sunglasses are in good vintage condition, there is some discolouration to the inside of the sunglasses edging where the gold tone rope edging has tarnished slightly but otherwise they're in very good vintage condition with few visible scratches to the front of the lenses and both arms are in good working condition, the Celine sunglasses are in good vintage condition with few marks to the front of the lenses are both arms are in good working condition, both sunglasses cases are in good condition.
YVES SAINT LAURENT; a pair of 1960s ivory coloured oversized sunglasses with YSL gold tone logo to both sides and variegated tinted lens, a pair of 1970s light tortoiseshell aviator style sunglasses with gold tone logo to sides, and a pair of 1980s thick dark tortoiseshell rimmed sunglasses with silver tone YSL logo to sides (3). Additional InformationThe 1960s sunglasses are in good vintage condition with very few signs of wear except two small scratches to the front of the right lens, the 1970s are in very good vintage condition with few signs of wear and the 1980s sunglasses are also in very good unused condition.
CIRCLE OF GEORGE CHINNERY (BRITISH, 1774-1852)Portrait miniature of the Rev. Duke Yonge of Antony, Cornwall, wearing a brown coatinscribed, printed and dated '1804' (on the backing card)watercolour heightened with white6.5 x 5.2cmin a gilt metal frameProvenancePrivate collection, UKCondition reportA little undulation/unevenness to work.Under UV light areas of the collar fluoresce showing a little retouching to this area.We do not have an image of the backing card showing sitter's details but we are told it has been looked at in the past and it has been previously catalogued as such.
MONOGRAMMIST HC (ACTIVE ANTWERP, 17TH CENTURY)Men and women in a tavern, drinking, playing cards and a man playing the bagpipessigned and inscribed with monogram 'HC. JN. F' (lower right)oil on panel50 x 85cmProvenancePrivate collection, UKCondition reportThe panel is sound but the surface is not entirely even; no cracks or bowing however. There is a small surface abrasion, lower right and a fleck of paint loss off the right hand border, some light surface dirt, otherwise the paint surface is generally sound. Held in a later plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
FOLLOWER OF WILLEM VAN DE VELDE II (DUTCH, 18TH CENTURY)A Dutch vessel taking on storesbears initials 'VV' (lower left)oil on panel20 x 25.5cmProvenancePrivate collection, UKCondition reportThe panel is sound, scattered flecks of dirt to the paint surface along with a couple of scattered surface abrasions. Ultraviolet reveals no sign of retouching under Ultraviolet light. Held in an ornate plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
AFTER GUIDO RENIBeatrice Cencioil on canvas62 x 51cmProvenancePrivate collection, UKCondition reportThe canvas has been relined. Surface abrasions around the sitter’s shoulder and a small fleck of paint loss next to the sitter’s eye and just off the lower border. Ultraviolet light reveals an uneven varnish but no obvious signs of retouching. Held in a later plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
FOLLOWER OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGHPortrait of a ladyoil on board37.5 x 28cmCondition reportCraquelure. Grey marks/possible retouching to side of her nose. Pale white vertical marks runnings down centre, approximately from chin to bottom of board. Small spot of paint loss to left of mouth. Small spots of paint loss and a scratch to upper right. Other small minor marks/spots in places.An opaque varnish prevents inspection under UV light.
HEYWOOD HARDY (BRITISH, 1842-1933)Red setter in a moorland landscapesigned 'Heywood Hardy' (lower left)oil on canvas91.5 x 71cmCondition reportThe canvas has been relined; other a few scattered specks of surface dirt in the sky and off the right border, the paint surface appears sound. Ultraviolet light reveals a few areas of retouching to the background above the setter’s back and around its tail, one small spot off the lower border. Held in a plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
WILLIAM HENRY MANDER (BRITISH, 1850-1922)The Head of the Berwyn, Dolgellysigned and dated 'W. H. Mander 95' (lower right)oil on canvas61 x 92cmProvenanceJames Duffield Fine Paintings, GuildfordPrivate collection, UKCondition reportThe canvas is lined. Faint stretcher marks visible to top and bottom.Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals flecks of retouching in places, including to trees on right and rocks to right and centre. UV also reveals old craquelure mostly across the centre and left.
RICHARD HENRY BROCK (BRITISH, 1871-1943)The Calf Shedsigned 'R. H. BROCK' (lower left)oil on canvas51 x 61cmProperty sold to benefit a charitable trustCondition reportOriginal canvas. Minor abrasions and surface dirt, lower left, otherwise the paint surface is sound. Ultraviolet light reveals spots of retouching in the lower left corner - otherwise an opaque varnish prevents further reading. Held in a later plaster gilt frame with some chips to the mouldings.
CHARLES BRANWHITE (BRITISH, 1817-1880)Two figures on a lane in a winter landscapesigned 'Charles Branwhite' (lower left)oil on canvas41 x 61cmOriginal canvas. The paint surface is dirty, with light traces of old craquelure, also a discoloured varnish. Ultraviolet light reveals no sign of retouching. Held in a plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
GEORGE WILLIAM MOTE (BRITISH, 1832-1909)A rough field in Surreysigned and dated ‘G.W. Mote 1887’ (lower right) and signed and titled (on artist’s label attached to the stretcher)oil on canvas61 x 92cmCondition reportLined. Pin holes visible upper and lower centre and upper right corner. A vertical line approximately 2cm long to centre in sky, possibly a hair stuck in varnish. Canvas a little uneven in places. Some small minor marks and spots.Inspection under UV light reveals some patches of retouching to upper right in the sky.
ADOLF HELLER (GERMAN, 1874-1914)Portrait of ladysigned and dated 'AD HELLER99' (upper right)oil on canvas171 x 66cmProvenance19th Century Continental Pictures, Christie's, London, 20th March 1992, lot 16Private collection, UKCondition reportCraquelure.Various patches of old repair/restoration. Patches can also be seen on reverse of canvas where this has been carried out.Inspection under UV light reveals various areas of retouching.
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURYHead and shoulder portrait of a young manoil on canvas36 x 31cmProvenancePrivate collection, UKCondition report:Craquelure visible throughout.Some surface dirt.Otherwise overall appearance is generally good.Inspection under UV light reveals some possible restoration to left side of face and to top left above head. Also top right above head and right side, to hair and around ear.
ELOISE HARRIET STANNARD (BRITISH, 1829-1915)Still Life with carnations in a glass a vase signed and dated 'E H Stannard 1879' (lower left)oil on canvas38 x 30.5cmCondition reportLined. Fine craquelure. Vertical light pale scratch or mark visible to centre near base of vase approximately 4cm long and another smaller diagonal mark to centre left below leaf. Neither of these are terribly obvious.Otherwise overall appearance generally good.Inspection under UV light reveals finely executed infilling, especially to lower half of picture.
NEIL CAWTHORNE (BRITISH, B. 1936)Summer Dayssigned 'Neil Cawthorne' (lower right) and titled (on the stretcher)oil on canvas41 x 56cmARRCondition reportOriginal canvas. There are a few light spots of surface dirt, otherwise the paint surface is sound. Ultraviolet light reveals no sign of retouching. Held in a composite frame in fair condition.
FRANCES MABEL HOLLAMS (BRITISH, 1877-1963)Lady Jane, a bay horse in a landscapesigned and dated 'F. M. Hollams '54' (lower right)oil on board40 x 50cmARRCondition reportThe board is sound. Minor scattered flecks of dirt to paint surface and some light bloom to horse’s legs - some of this appears to be on the underside of the glass which is dirty throughout. Some areas of ground visible in the lower right corner; no sign of retouching under ultra violet light. Under glass and held in a plain wooden frame in fair condition.
ANTOINE BOUVARD (FRENCH, 1870-1956)Gondolas on the canal, The Doge’s palace beyondsigned 'Bouvard' (lower right)oil on canvas37 x 55cmARRCondition reportthe canvas has been relined. Paint surface is generally clean and sound. Ultraviolet reveals light retouching to infilling in the tree, upper right. Held in a plaster gilt frame in fair condition.
A fine and rare example of a taxidermy Chillingham bull, on oak shield with ivory plaque inscribed 'Shot by Sir John Christopher Willoughby, Octr 6th 1878, at Chillingham Castle', 53 x 67 x 100cms.Note: The Wild Cattle of Chillingham are remarkable survivors of the ancient cattle which once roamed Britain’s forests.Sir John Christopher Willoughby, 5th Baronet DSO (20 February 1859 – 16 April 1918) was a British army officer, Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire, and landowner of properties in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. After education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, John Christopher Willoughby became in 1879 a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Oxford Light Infantry. He became a 2nd lieutenant in the 6th Dragoon Guards and entered the Royal Horse Guards in 1880. He served in the Egyptian campaign in 1882 (awarded medal with clasp, and bronze star), in the Nile expedition in 1884–1885 (mentioned in despatches), and with the British South Africa Company's Force in Matabeleland in 1893. In South Africa in the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1900, he was present with Cavalry Headquarter Staff during the siege of Ladysmith and at the relief of Mafeking was appointed major, under General Hunter, in charge of Transport of Flying Column (mentioned in despatches and awarded a medal). Willoughby served in World War I from 1914 to 1917 and was awarded DSO in 1917. He was ultimately major in command of the 1st Motor Battery of the Army Service Corps before his death aged 59 in April 1918. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
MILITARY. - H.W. GRAHAM. The Life of a Tunnelling Company, being an Intimate Story of the Life of the 185th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, in France, during the Great War, 1914-1918. Hexham: J. Catherall & Co., 1927. 8vo (207 x 134mm.) Numerous portrait illustrations. (Mild toning.) Original blue cloth, Royal Engineers insignia in gilt to upper cover (light rubbing to extremities). Note: scarce. - And a further three volumes relating to the Royal Engineers (including W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman's 'Tunnellers', 1936, 8vo and volume 5 of 'The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers', 1952, 8vo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
[PICKETT, William. Twenty-Four Plates divided into ninety-six specimens of cottages, wind-mills, turnpikes… intended to facilitate the improvement of the student, and to aid the practitioner, in landscape composition. London: T. Clay, 1812.] Oblong folio (293 x 465mm.) 24 plates with tissue-guards. (Some browning and light marginal spotting to all plates, browning to tissue-guards, lacking title and dedication leaf.) Contemporary red half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, later red morocco lettering piece to the upper cover (rubbing to extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GRUEBER, Herbert. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II. London: British Museum, 1911. 4 vols. [of 6, plate vols. only], folio (403 x 279mm.) 183 plates. (Toning, first 10 plates reproduced in facsimile.) Original blue cloth (unevenly browned, light rubbing) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
SMITH, John Thomas. Antiquities of London and it's Environs… Containing views of Houses, Monuments, Statues, and other curious remains of Antiquity. London: J. Sewell, 1791. 4to (297 x 230mm.) Engraved title, 96 engraved plates. (Light browning and marginal spotting, library ink stamps to all plate margins.) 19th century calf, spine with foliate gilt repeating, lettered in the second compartment, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (extremities rubbed with loss to lower cover, joints splitting). Provenance: Henry H. Gibbs (ink inscribed to initial blank); Worthing Public Library (ink stamp to title-page, bookplate and labels to front pastedown).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
ALMANACKS. The Court and City Register; or, a Gentleman's Complete Annual Calendar, for the Year 1784. London: J. Jollifee, [1783.] (Toning, light spotting to title-page.) [Bound with:] Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of Our Lord God 1784. London: the Company of Stationers, 1784. (Toning.) 12mo (138 x 73mm.) Near contemporary red morocco, foliate gilt to spine, bosses, g.e. (some scuffing, minor discolouring to lower cover, lacking clasps). - And a further sixteen almanacks from 1761 to 1876 (including 'The East India Kalendar, or Asiatic Register' for 1797', 12mo, and 'The American Kalendar; or, United States Register', 1797, 12mo, and 'The Royal Kalendar; or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America', 1797, 12mo) (17).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MINIATURE BOOK. - Oliver and Boyd (publisher). The Little Warbler. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, [circa 1830.] 3 vols. in 1, 18mo (64 x 39mm.) 3 engraved frontispieces, 3 additional titles. (Browning, some spotting.) Contemporary red morocco (light rubbing). - And a further three volumes (including 'The Elegant Miniature Pocket Book', 1806,12mo) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London: George Allen, 1894. First 'Peacock' edition, 8vo (180 x 116mm.) Numerous illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. (Spotting to preliminaries and some rear leaves, toning.) Original green pictorial cloth, g.e. (spine lean, light rubbing, minor mark to lower cover).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BELLICARD, Jerome Charles [and Charles COCHIN.] Observations Upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum, Discovered at the Foot of Mount Vesuvius. London: for D. Wilson, and T. Durham, 1753. First edition, 8vo (190 x 119mm.) 42 copper-engraved plates, 3pp. index., with two sections from the second edition bound-in with a separate title dated 1756. (Browning, minor soiling to margins of several plates, lacking blanks.) Contemporary calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (light rubbing). Provenance: J. Watson (name inscribed to the title-page).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
CÉLINE, Louis-Ferdinand. Journey to the End of the Night. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First English edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) (Minor spotting and browning to preliminaries, crease to rear blank.) Original black cloth (faint marks to lower cover, light rubbing). - And a further eight miscellaneous volumes, mostly literary (9).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
NATTES, John Claude. Scotia Depicta: or, the Antiquities, Castles, Public Buildings, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, and Picturesque Scenery of Scotland. London: H.R. Young, 1819. Large paper copy, folio (421 x 266mm.) 49 copper-engraved plates each with descriptive text leaf, engraved vignette to rear. (Light to moderate marginal spotting to most plates, seven plates to rear with marginal damp-staining, offsetting to text leaf.) Contemporary straight-grain morocco, gilt and blind-stamped rectangles to cover, elaborate gilt to spine, g.e. (upper cover nearly detached, heavily rubbed extremities).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
COOKERY. - Hannah GLASSE. The Complete Confectioner; or, Housekeeper's Guide: to a simple and speedy Method of understanding the whole Art of Confectionary… with considerable additions and corrections by Maria Wilson. London: for West and Hughes, 1800. 8vo (187 x 129mm.) (Light spotting to title, browning, blanks replaced.) 20th century brown mottled calf, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (endpapers replaced).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BINDINGS. Elegant Extracts: or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry… [and] Prose. London: J. Johnson, R. Baldwin et al., 1807-1809. 6 vols., 8vo (232 x 141mm.) Engraved titles. (Browning throughout, occasional spotting.) Contemporary marbled calf, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (light rubbing). Note: includes 'Elegant Epistles'. - And a further twenty-five volumes (including the first edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'Ernest Maltravers', 3 vols., 1837, 8vo, and 'The Works of Thomas Gray', 2 vols., 1807, 8vo) (31).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BINDINGS. - Donald A. MACKENZIE. Indian Myth and Legend. London: Gresham Publishing, [circa 1913.] 8vo (212 x 132mm.) 8 colour plates after Warwick Goble, numerous black and white photographic plates. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, blanks replaced.) 21st century brown half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, two black morocco lettering pieces to the spine. - And a further eleven bound volumes (including Fynes Moryson's 'An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell…', 4 vols., 1907-1908, 8vo, and Charles Squire's 'Celtic Myth and Legend: Poetry and Romance', [1913], 8vo, and four Adam and Charles Black county books) (12).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BINDING. - John KEATS. The Poetical Works and Other Writings… edited with notes and appendices by H. Buxton Forman. London: Reeves & Turner, 1889. 4 vols., third edition, 8vo (219 x 130mm.) Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard to volume 1, 8 plates, including a silhouette of Fanny Brawne, 2 folding facsimiles from Benjamin Robert Haydon's journal. (Mild toning, light browning to preliminaries.) Near contemporary maroon morocco bound by Henry Sotherans, elaborate gilt turn-ins, t.e.g. (sunning to spines and to lower cover of volume 1). Provenance: Marcus Henry Milner (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
COOKERY. - Ria SYSONBY. Lady Sysonby's Cook Book. London: Putnam, 1935. First edition, 8vo (187 x 120mm.) Colour plates after Oliver Messel. (Toning.) Original boards, dust-jacket (light rubbing to extremities, a scuff to spine panel, dust-jacket adhering to the covers). - And a further five related volumes (6).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
[ALLESTREE, Richard.] The Ladies Calling. Oxford: at the Theatre, 1720. Eleventh impression, 4to (193 x 114mm.) Engraved frontispiece, contents leaf to rear. (Light spotting, browning throughout, marginal insect damage from Hh2-Ll4.) Contemporary calf, later black morocco lettering piece to spine (rebacked, endpapers replaced). - And a related volume (Donald Walker's 'Exercises For Ladies, Calculated to Preserve and Improve Beauty', 1837, 8vo) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MALTHUS, T.R. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness. London: J. Johnson, 1806. 2 vols., third edition, 8vo (208 x 124mm.) Half-titles, index to rear of volume 1, 'Appendix' to rear of volume 2. (Occasional light spotting and browning, marginal insect damage to rear five leaves of volume 1, and to corner of half-title of volume 2, initial blanks loose.) Contemporary speckled calf (lacking lettering pieces, upper covers detached). Provenance: G.W. Andrews (gift inscribed from on the title-page); James Henry Crawford (bookplates to the front pastedowns and gift inscribed to on the title-pages). - And a further twenty-nine volumes relating to industry, economics, social welfare, topography and agriculture (including two works by William Marshall: 'The Rural Economy of the Midland Counties', 2 vols., 1790, 8vo, and 'The Rural Economy of the West of England', 2 vols., 1796, 8vo) (31).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
MANUSCRIPT. [A young woman's dairy written during a stay in British-ruled 'Ceylon' in the months before and after the start of the First World War. N.p.:] Ceylon, February- November 1914. 99pp., manuscript, (203 x 160mm.) Mostly legible hand-written leaves relating the life of a young woman living in various DWP bungalows, mostly relating to her social life. (Mild toning.) Original black wrappers (surface marks). Note: the unnamed writer describes a frenetic whirl of social activities, tennis, bridge, golf, with occasional references to the wild-life, Hindu temples, a wedding, a conversation with the Hindu 'boy' about reincarnation and the 120-year life span of all human beings. There is a partner- or husband- Denys, but he appears to be working all the time, inspecting DWP buildings. On her birthday, the emotion finally spills: 'I felt horrid all the day. Called on the Vaughans'. On August 5th, while playing tennis, they hear that England has declared war on Germany. Her last entry, on leaving Aden, and returning to England, becomes unexpectedly transcendent: 'the sea was oily calm, so much so that the reflection of the stars in the water was most noticeable…zodiacal light'.Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Friedrich] de la Motte FOUQUÉ. Undine. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to (253 x 182mm.) 15 tipped-in colour plates. (Toning, light spotting to preliminaries, inner hinge weakening.) Original blue cloth, pictorial gilt (sunned to spine). - And a further four volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham (including Washington Irving's 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', 1928, 4to, and 'The Sleeping Beauty', 1920, 4to) (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - William SHAKESPEARE. A Midsummer-Night's Dream. London: William Heinemann, 1908. 4to (247 x 175mm.) 40 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting to preliminaries, toning, blanks replaced.) Original tan cloth, pictorial gilt (rebacked with raised spines, endpapers replaced). - And a further three volumes illustrated by Arthur Rackham (including Jakob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl Grimm's 'Hansel and Grethel', 1920, 4to, and 'The Ingoldsby Legends', 1909, 4to) (4).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
GAINSBOROUGH, Thomas. - W.F. WELLS and J. LAPORTE (engravers). A Collection of Prints Illustrative of English Scenery, from the Drawings and Sketches of Thos. Gainsborough. London: John and Josiah Boydell, [n.d. but circa 1819]. Folio (425 x 290mm.) 60 soft-ground etched plates, many hand-coloured. (Occasional light soiling, spotting to front and rear blanks.) Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, densely infilled gilt borders, g.e. (extremities rubbed and scuffed, small section of spine panel chipped but retained).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
HASSELL, John. Tour of the Isle of Wight. London: John Jarvis, 1790. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (218 x 131mm.) 2 additional engraved titles, 30 tinted aquatint plates with tissue-guards, 11pp. list of subscribers. (Blanks replaced, mild toning, tear to one tissue-guard.) Near contemporary Spanish calf, green and black morocco lettering pieces to the spines (light rubbing). Provenance: E.W. Wynne Pendarves (bookplates to the front pastedowns) (2).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
ROSSETTI, Christina. - Florence HARRISON (illustrator). Poems. London: Blackie and Son., [1910.] 4to (258 x 195mm.) Introduction by Alice Meynell, 36 tipped-in colour plates on grey card, numerous black and white illustrations, captioned tissue-guards. (Light spotting to title, toning.) Original cream buckram, pre-Raphaelite pictorial gilt to upper cover, t.e.g. (joints splitting, wear to spine ends).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
JONES, Owen (illuminator). The Song of Songs, Which is Solomon's. [London:] Longman & Co., 1849. 4to (201 x 134mm.) 32 chromolithographed pages illuminated by Owen Jones. (Toning, spotting to endpapers.) Original decorative blind-stamped calf, g.e. (light rubbing).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
BIBLE, In English. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church. Oxford: by the University, 1705. 12mo (122 x 60mm.) Portrait frontispiece of Queen Anne, 47 engraved plates, with the Psalms of David. (Ten plates loose, toning, corner creases.) Early 18th century black morocco, elaborate gilt to spine, g.e. (light rubbing). Provenance: R. Harris (name inscribed on initial blank). - And a further four religious volumes (5).Buyer’s Premium 24.5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price. Lots purchased online via the-saleroom.com will attract an additional premium of 5% (including VAT @ 0%) of the hammer price.
Dervishes seated beneath a tree in a landscape, attributed to Mir Yusuf al-Husaini Persia, probably Isfahan, circa 1640-50drawing with some gouache on paper, nasta'liq attribution inscription at lower centre, laid down on an album page with gilt-decorated blue borders with medallions of light pink and buff paper, red outer border with ruled margins, verso a leaf from a manuscript of Persian poetry in nasta'liq script in four columns drawing 170 x 80 mm.; album page 328 x 212 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceSotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 3rd May 2001, lot 60.The inscription reads: 'Its painter, Mir Yusuf al-Husaini'. Karimzadeh Tabrizi records him as a student of Reza 'Abbasi, working in the style of his master and of Mu'in Musavvir, and attributes some of the paintings in the Forty Column Palace in Isfahan to him. His recorded work dates to between AH 1040/AD 1630-31 and AH 1068/AD 1657-58, and this and the use of the attribute 'Abbasi in one of his works, perhaps suggests that he was working at the court of Shah 'Abbas II. A work by him signed similarly to the present lot, depicting a youth in European dress holding a bottle, is in the British Museum (1948, 1211,0.15; illustrated in S. Canby, The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501-1722, London 1999, p. 139, fig. 129). See Karimzadeh Tabrizi, The Lives & Art of Old Painters of Iran, vol. 3, 1991, pp. 1111-14.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An Egyptian architectural ivory-inlaid cabinet by El Fakit Ismail Radwan Egypt, late 19th Century with presentation date AH 1342/AD 1923in the form of a gateway, the two hinged doors mounted with openwork brass with geometric designs, cartouches with engraved inscriptions in kufic to top and bottom, the walls with inlaid ivory tiles and decoration, the windows with mashribiyya screens and turned ivory columns, the entire front panel opening to reveal three glass shelves and an electric light fitted to the ceiling, a typed label listing details of provenance, maker and date to the floor 95 x 50 x 25 cm. Footnotes:ProvenanceColonel Ernest William Slaughter CBE.Sotheby's New York, 28 April, 1994, lot 183.Ernest William Slaughter was born in Reading in 1876 and trained as an engineer before joining the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force in 1918. Following the war he became an engineer in the service of the Egyptian government. This cabinet was presented to him as a gift from the staff of the Egyptian State Railways in 1923.Inscriptions: 'izz li-mawlana malik misr fu'ad al-awwal/ 'amal bursah misr al-salihiyyah (?), 'Glory to our lord, King of Egypt, Fu'ad I, the work of Bursah [of] Egypt al-Salihiyyah'.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 and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A large collection of 79 manuscript documents consisting of correspondence from the archive of the French legation to Persia during the reigns of Fath 'Ali Shah, Muhammad Shah and Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar Persia, circa 1810 to 1870consisting of 79 manuscript edicts, letters and notes in Persian, mostly in nasta'liq or cursive scripts, and some French, many with seal impressions, in modern lever-arch file the smallest 153 x 74 mm.; the largest 605 x 440 mm.; folder 32 x 29 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate UK collection, 1998-present.The subject matter of the documents range from mundane small notes such as arranging a meeting or enquiring about the receiver's health, to discussion of important political issues. The documents provide a glimpse of diplomatic etiquette in Persia during the first half of the 19th century and shed light on some of the incidents and events of the period. The senders include the Persian monarchs, crown princes, and many of the prominent Persian statesmen of the period. The recipients include all the French Minister Plenipotentiaries as well as minor diplomats of the period. This correspondence was kept in the French embassy in Constantinople until 1873, when Rene Davy de Chavigne de Balloy started his first tour of duty in Persia, and established an archive in Tehran.Items of particular interest, or peculiarity, and which give an idea of the range of subjects, include:(6) A letter from the Crown Prince Nasir al-Din Mirza to his father Muhammad Shah, reporting on problems on the estates in Azerbaijan belonging to the Shah's wife (the Crown Prince's mother), Malek Jahan Khanum, and stating that Ali Quli Mirza has arrived and dealt with the problems. He was the 47th son of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar and was factotum to Malek Jahan Khanum. He later became a minister of science and education, and accompanied the Shah on his trip to Europe in 1873. No date (but circa 1840-45), seal of the Crown Prince at upper right.(10) A letter from Asadullah, Wakil al-Mulk, the Persian Plenipotentiary to Russia, and later to Ottoman Turkey, to an official at the Ottoman Embassy, concerning a certain Mashhadi 'Ali Baba Dehbashi, who had taken bast in the Turkish Embassy, dated 25th Jumadi I 1274/11th January 1858.(22) A letter from Asadullah, Wakil al-Mulk, the Persian Plenipotentiary to Russia, to an Ottoman official, informing him of events in Persia, including the arrival of Aqa Sayyid Hashim at the Ottoman Embassy, and the hostility of the Persian Prime Minister towards the clergy - as well as requesting the purchase and delivery of knife and pen sharpeners, and seeds for flowers, dated 7th Rajab 1274/21st February 1858.(23) A letter from Asadullah, Wakil al-Mulk, the Persian Plenipotentiary to Russia, complaining about the lack of response to previous letters, dated 17th Jumadi II 1274/2nd February 1858.(52) A note from a certain Ibrahim to a foreign diplomat regarding his presence at an audience with Prince Muzaffar al-Din to express joy on the occasion of the birthday of Nasir al-Din Shah, dated 5th Safar 1287/7th May 1870.(65) A cursive note, apparently written by someone illiterate, regarding the matter of water reaching the addressee's garden, no date.(66) A letter from Sa'id Ansari, the Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Haydar Efendi, the Ottoman Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, expressing his pleasure at the way Mirza Ahmad Khan, the Minister Resident in Istanbul, and Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim Khan, the First Attache, have been looked after, dated 15th Jumadi II 1274/31st January 1858.(67) A letter from a certain Hashim (perhaps an Ottoman Turk, at the Ottoman Embassy), stationed in Kermanshah (where he has been for seven years), stating that he is now at the Embassy in Tehran, where Tawfiq Efendi (the Charge d'Affaires) has been very kind to him. He goes on to deny what Haji 'Aziz 'Arab and Hasan Aqa have said about him, and asks for forgiveness, dated 7th Rajab 1274/21st February 1858.(73) A rough draft of the firman of Nasr al-Din Shah Qajar, appointing Prince Muhammad Qasim Khan Amir Nizam as his Crown Prince, with Mirza Aqa Khan, the Prime Minister, as the Prince's guardian, dated 14th Rabi' I 1274/2nd November 1857.(76) A copy of an edict, perhaps of Fath 'Ali Shah, to M. Vidal, the French consul in Baghdad (1807-28), recommended by Mulla 'Abdul-Aziz, the Persian Charge d'Affaires there, undated but bearing the tughra of Fath 'Ali Shah.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Punjab School, late 20th Century A devotee in contemplation before the Golden Temple, Amritsaroil on board 45.5 x 61 cm.Footnotes:'To stand on the terrace outside the Shish Mahal, surrounded by the golden domes and kiosks, is to revel in the glory of this joyous tribute to the Gurus. If their vision, faith and sacrifices has inspired their disciples to feats of valour, then here was the grateful offering of the disciples to the source of their inspiration. As the golden silhouettes of these domes and kiosks emerge in the early morning light and glow throughout the day in the intensity of the Panjab sun, before changing colour in the fading light at dusk, they are an unforgettable sight for the thousands who come daily to worship at the Darbar Sahib. When they step into the waters of the holy pool, and see the Harmandir's shimmering reflection, Sikhs feel as if they have been touched by the sacred'. (Patwant Singh, 'The Golden Temple', in S. Stronge (ed.), The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms, London 1999, p. 57).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
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