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Lot 182
WIKING Mercedes 220, 1953, Rollachser, Karosserie hellblau, Chassis weiß, ohne Türgriff, glatter Grill ohne Umrandung, schmales Trittbrett, Scheinwerfer bemalt, Bodenprägung "WM im Kreis", GK 140/1D, durch Lichteinwirkung aufgehellt, sonst guter Erhalt. WIKING Mercedes 220, 1953, roll-up axle, body light blue, white chassis, without door handle, plain car grill without border, narrow running board, painted headlights, marking of manufacturer "WM in a circle", yellow cat. 140/1D, lightened by exposure to light, otherwise good condition.
Lot 166
WIKING 10-tlg Konvolut Straßenelemente, grün metallic, 1952-1955, bestehend aus 4 x Bogenlampen, 1 x Straßenlaternen, 2 x einarmigen Straßenschildern, bemalt, 2 x Haltestellen, je ohne Sockelprägung und Sockelfarbe vers. (lichtgrau, basaltgrau, anthrazit), 1 x Verkehrsinsel, GK 920/1B bis GK 989/1A, schöner Erhalt. WIKING 10-part convolute road elements, green metallic, 1952-1955, consisting of 4 x arc lamps, 1 x street lamp, 2 x one-armed street signs, painted, 2 x stops, each without marking of manufacturer, base colour different (light grey, basalt grey, anthracite), 1 x traffic refuge, yellow cat. 920/1B to 989/1A, nice condition.
Lot 92
WIKING Jeep, feste Achsen, Typ 2, 1952-53, Jeep Drahtachser, olivegrün, Fahrer, mischhellgraublau, beide Hände am Lenkrad, Hände bemalt, Sitze, wässrigblau, Bodenprägung Germany/WM, GK 10/4G, schöner Erhalt. WIKING Jeep, fixed axles, type 2, 1952-53, Jeep olive green, driver mixed light gray blue, both hands on the steering wheel, hands painted, seats watery blue, manufacturer's mark: Germany / WM, GK 10/4G, nice condition.
Lot 119
WIKING Mercedes 220, 1953, hellgelbgraue Karosserie, Chassis weiß, glatter Grill ohne Umrandung, Bodenprägung "WM im Kreis", GK 140/1C, schöner Erhalt. WIKING Mercedes 220, 1953, light yellow-gray body, white chassis, smooth grill without border, embossed "WM in a circle", yc. 140 / 1C, nice condition.
Lot 2
WIKING VW Käfer Vorserie, um 1972, misch-bunt (gelb-grün), glatte Stoßstangen, gerade Frontscheibe, getönte Verglasung, breite Kennzeichen-Leuchte, Bodenprägung "VW 1300 WIKING GERMANY", entspricht Käfer 1300, Gelber Katalog 30/10, L 4, 6 cm, sehr guter Erhalt! WIKING VW beetle pre-series, around 1972, mixed-colored (yellow-green), smooth bumpers, straight windshield, tinted glazing, wide license plate light, embossed "VW 1300 WIKING GERMANY" on the bottom, corresponds to Beetle 1300, yellow catalog "30/10, L 4, 6 cm, very good condition!
Lot 28
WIKING Unimog Werkstattwagen, 1965, Kabine und Pritsche silbergrau, Chassis ultramarin, mit Kran, Werkzeug und Reifenladung, Gelblicht auf Dach ohne Sockel, Bodenprägung "WM", GK 366/1 B, schöner Erhalt, L 6 cm. WIKING Unimog truck 1965, cabin and platform silver-gray, chassis ultramarine, with crane, tools and tire load, yellow light on roof without base, stamped "WM" on the bottom, yc. 366/1 B, nice preservation, L 6 cm.
Lot 49
WIKING Mercedes LPS 332 Chemikalien-Tanksattelzug, wohl 1964/65, Vorserie, Chassis hellbraunrot, Auflieger hellgraugrün, Kabine und Tank im Verlauf creme zu beigefarben, Aufkleber "Wiking" kreisförmig, Bodenprägung Kabine "WM Made in Germany", Auflieger, "Wiking 53 n", GK 534/1, schöner Erhalt. WIKING Mercedes LPS 332 chemical tank semitrailer, probably 1964/65, pre-series, chassis light brown-red, trailer light gray-green, cabin and tank in the course of cream to beige, sticker "Wiking" circular, floor embossing cabin "WM Made in Germany", trailer, "Wiking 53 n", yellow cat. 534/1, nice receipt.
Lot 26
Jacopo Vignali (Prato Vecchio 1592-1664 Florence)David with the Head of Goliath oil on canvas113.5 x 87.5cm (44 11/16 x 34 7/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Pennington Museum Treasures, Los Angeles, 1976Private Collection, CaliforniaExhibitedCalifornia State University, Northridge, California, Collection without walls: problems in connoisseurship, October - November 1976, curated by Dr Jean Luc Bordeaux (as by Cristofano Allori)This striking, freshly discovered depiction of David and Goliath has been independently proclaimed by the foremost authorities in their field to be a 'masterpiece' by Jacopo Vignali, one of Florence's leading artists of the early 17th century. We are grateful to Professor Francesca Baldassari for identifying this work on the basis of colour photographs as 'a masterpiece by Jacopo Vignali datable to around 1624 on the basis of other monogrammed and dated works by him of the period, such as the Drunkenness of Noah in the National Gallery in Prague' (see fig. 1). This is an opinion that was corroborated, furthermore, in a recently unearthed letter to the late owner, dated 3 July, 2003, from Professor Mina Gregori, that refers to this 'splendid painting with 'David with the head of Goliath'' of which 'I firmly think that the painter is Jacopo Vignali, one of the best Florentine painters of the XVII century.' With reference to the painting's prior attribution to Cristofano Allori, she writes that 'this painting is one of his [Vignali's] masterpieces.' Professor Gregori continues: 'You can recognise Vignali from the light, very different from Cristofano and more naturalistic, coming from different experiences: And the boy is his usual model.' Both the dramatic composition and outstanding quality of this work represents the height of Vignali's achievement as a representative of a school of painting that valued so highly the importance of disegno.The subject of David and Goliath has inspired some of the greatest works of art of all time, including Donatello's and Michelangelo's sculptures, which Vignali will have been familiar with in his native Florence. There the subject symbolised the courage and resilience of the small city state (and subsequent Grand Duchy) in the face of the larger rising nation states that surrounded it. Florence was all too aware of the threats that encompassed her and consequently David was a perfect symbol of the liberty and freedom of the Florentine people, capturing the unwavering courage, unexpected strength, and historic perseverance that they saw in themselves. Traditionally, David had been portrayed after his victory, triumphant over the slain Goliath. Florentine artists like Verrocchio, Ghiberti and Donatello all depicted their own version of David standing over Goliath's severed head; while Michelangelo and Donatello instead, chose to represent David before the battle. The account of the battle between David and Goliath is told in Book 1 Samuel. Saul and the Israelites were facing the Philistines near the Valley of Elah. Twice a day for 40 days, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, came out between the lines and challenged the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide the outcome in single combat. Only David, a young shepherd, accepted the challenge. Saul reluctantly agreed and offered his armour, which David declined since it was too large, taking only his sling and five stones from a brook. David and Goliath thus confronted each other, David hurling a stone from his sling with all his might which hit Goliath in the centre of his forehead: Goliath fell on his face to the ground, and David then cut off his head. By vanquishing sin David had made Israel safe; his unwavering faith in the face of war, and his subsequent rough path to kingship marked him as a hero; he was further admired for his Psalms, while his righteousness and repentance were extolled consistently throughout the Renaissance and Baroque period. When Saul tried to kill David, not once but several times, David never returned such an attempt, possessing virtues which Italian princes desired for themselves. As a king, David was quick to administer justice to those who deserved it and quick to welcome in outcasts, such as Jonathan's lame son. He defended his kingdom rigorously and victoriously. As a man, David was favoured by God, talented, handsome, and he rose to power at a young age. He was the pre-cursor of Christ, and a symbol of pious perfection. David's image was the perfect commission for a prince of the Church wanting a constant reminder of faithfulness and redemption, or for a secular prince, wanting a public and readily recognizable symbol of power and fidelity.Jacopo Vignali trained under Matteo Rosselli, entering his studio in Florence around 1605 at the age of only thirteen; in 1616 he joined the Accademia del Disegno becoming an academician in 1622. Although Rosselli was to have a lasting influence on his pupil's oeuvre, Vignali gradually evolved his own style distinguished by dramatic light effects, rich colour, painterly technique and a particularly poetic and emotional interpretation of his subjects. His most famous pupil was Carlo Dolci, who was profoundly affected by the intensity of his religious works. Thus Vignali has himself here put a new contemporary interpretation on this subject, employing his and his fellow early seventeenth century Florentine's celebration of rich and colourful fabrics in the use of contemporary costume in depicting a biblical scene, along with the innovative pictorial drama that Caravaggio had recently made popular throughout Italy, and subsequently Europe. Caravaggio had himself treated the subject three times, between circa 1605 and 1610 in masterpieces which are now respectively in the Prado, Vienna and the Villa Borghese. The masterful way in which Vignali handles the paint, the remarkably delicate modelling of the flesh tones and the theatrical elegance of his simple composition illustrate not only Vignali's particular style, but also the broader trends within Florentine painting at the time. Unpublished until now, this canvas is a rare and significant addition to the oeuvre of Jacopo Vignali, who has been regarded as the foremost painter of the Florentine Seicento.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 29
Attributed to Michael Sweerts (Brussels 1618-1664 Goa)The Baptism of Christ oil on canvas105.6 x 87.3cm (41 9/16 x 34 3/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceIvar Hellberg, Stockholm, before 1946, by whom offeredSale, Stockholms Stads Auktionsverk, Stockholm, 24 November 1998, lot 1419LiteratureR. Kultzen, dissertation, Hamburg, 1954, p. 93, no. 45R. Kultzen, Michael Sweerts, Doornspijk, 1996, p. 137, cat. no. R15, ill, p. 171 (as rejected work)Until 1998 The Baptism was in a Swedish private collection and was only known from an old black and white photograph. Since its subsequent conservation it has been accepted by Lindsey Shaw-Miller as 'an outstanding work from Sweerts maturity' and 'a rare survival from the series of Bathers', which can be dated to between 1656 and 1659, when the artist was working in Brussels after returning from Rome. She refers to 'Its moving atmosphere of submissive humility and suspended moment of focus'. As a religious subject it would be unique in Sweerts's oeuvre but the face of Christ is comparable to a number of Sweerts's portraits and the landscape, lit by an early morning light, is reminiscent of two of Sweerts's known compositions: his Bathing Scene of circa 1655 (on canvas, 110 x 164 cm, in the Musées des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg) and his Young Men Bathing (on canvas, 63.3 x 87 cm, in the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover). Lindsay Shaw-Miller suggests that this work may be connected with Sweerts leaving Brussels to join the Société des Missions Etrangères as an artist and lay brother, which must have been a dramatic change in his life. It was a commitment to a new calling as poignantly significant as Christ's baptism was and it could be that this portrayal of a moment of dramatic but also humbling change and acceptance had biographical significance for the artist at this crucial point in his life. She thus describes it as 'a very personal interpretation from a pivotal scene in Christ's Life by this deeply religious artist'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 10
GILLRAY (JAMES)The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, bound in 2 vol. (including the 'Suppressed Plates'), large woodcut vignette on title, engraved frontispiece portrait by Charles James after Gillray, 632 engraved plates (numbered 1-582, bis nos. 100, 207, 379, 379** and 379***, 2 plates numbered 86, without a plate 238 as issued; 45 supplementary plates), up to 4 images per page recto and verso, image 179 shaved touching upper margin, final 15 leaves of first volume with light dampstain in upper margin, front free endpaper loose, light dampstain upper corner of final few leaves of second volume, contemporary red half morocco, first volume worn, dampstain to upper cover, loss to marbling of lower cover, some loss to foot of spine, joints split, second volume rubbed, upper hinge cracked, folio (635 x 480mm.), Henry G. Bohn, [c.1847]Footnotes:Includes the volume of 'suppressed plates', sexually suggestive or scandalously offensive political images which the publisher chose to exclude from the main collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 102
CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands of Adjacent, 4 vol., second edition ('enlarged by the latest discoveries by Richard Gough'), engraved portrait, 57 mostly folding engraved maps by John Cary, 105 engraved plates, some light browning and spotting, contemporary maroon half morocco, gilt lettering on spines, some uneven fading to spines [Chubb CCLXXII], folio (432 x 270mm.), J. Nichols and Son, for John Stockdale, 1806Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Goff, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Lot 104
LONDON - PANORAMA[VISSCHER (CLAES JANSZ)] 'London', panoramic view of London from Whitehall to St. Katherine's Dock, from the South of the Thames, 4 sheets joined, split at one fold, left margin frayed with short tear touching image at upper corner, tear in blank margin of right margin, spotting and light dampstains, approx. 450 x 2205mm., [Anne Evans & Son, 1844]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 111
TEXASCORDOVA (JACOB DE) Map of the State of Texas. Compiled from the records of the General Land Office of the State by Robert Creuzbauer, Revised and Corrected by Charles W. Pressler, large hand-coloured lithographed map within decorative outer border, 'engraved by J. M. Atwood', showing counties, cities, towns, roads, rivers and Indian villages, inset map of western United States lower right, original fold lines, one upper corner with neat repaired tear, some light spotting and toning, and one or two old stain marks, but generally clean, pencil annotation in blank area, framed preserving publisher's roan covers into which the map folds [cf. Eberstadt, Texas 162:241; Rumsey no. 3366.001; Taliaferro 295 C], 930 x 865mm., New York, J.H. Colton etc., no. 772 William Street, 1856Footnotes:FINE EXAMPLE OF CORDOVA'S LARGE MAP OF TEXAS, being the first edition revised by Charles Pressler and published by Colton, and the first map to show a railway line in Texas, between Richmond and Houston. We have not traced any examples of this edition in auction records.'The most correct and authentic map of Texas ever compiled' (Sam Houston) and 'possibly the finest of the period' (Eberstadt), Jacob De Cordova's map was first published in 1849. De Cordova was an enthusiastic land promoter during the days of the Republic and early statehood. Following the Mexican war, he sought to profit from the flood of settlers expected to arrive in the newly created state, and he commissioned Robert Creuzbaur, an employee of the Texas General Land Office, to compile this map with a view to fuelling his land speculation.The first detailed map of Texas east of the 102nd meridian, it was republished several times before De Cordova sold the rights to Colton in 1855, and it was issued with Pressler's revisions, including the inset map, the following year. The map includes signatures of four Texas senators and representatives, including Sam Houston, who recommended the map to 'every person who desires correct geographical information of our state. To persons desiring to visit Texas, it will be invaluable.'For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 114
WORLDTEESDALE (HENRY) New Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, with the Tracks of the Most Celebrated & Recent Navigators, very large hand-coloured map engraved by John Dower, on 2 sheets (joined), laid on linen, black silk ribbon border, attached to a contemporary roller with ratchet mechanism and original release pull, the map terminating with contemporary wooden batten with metal ring pull, light soiling, a few small tears and repairs to blank margins, the map rolling into a contemporary semi-circular reeded mahogany and oak case (147 x 2130 x 133mm.), wooden title panel ('World') in black ink on gilt, total dimensions of map approximately 1280 x 1900mm., Henry Teesdale, 1839Footnotes:A FINE COPY OF TEESDALE'S MONUMENTAL WORLD MAP, rolling into a contemporary wooden case for fixing to the wall. Texas was declared a Republic in 1836, but not being recognised by Britain, it is still shown here as part of Mexico.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 124
ILLUMINATED MINIATURESt. Peter standing, holding the keys to heaven and a book, initial 'S' cut from an illuminated Antiphonal on vellum, the 'S' in white against blue and orange ground, the figure in blue, red, green, grey, white and black, fragments of 4-line red staves and black musical notations, tipped onto card, light surface abrasion, mounted, framed and glazed, cutting 128 x 114mm., [Italy, fourteenth century]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 13
IRELAND – COUNTESS MARKIEVICZAutograph letter signed ('your affectionate unknown cousin Constance de Markievicz') to her Australian cousin, Eva Cumming, pleased 'to find that I have a cousin who is sympathetic & feels the same intense love for our country that I do', talking of the Gore-Booth family and a remarkable family resemblance ('Another curious coincidence is that my sisters name is Eva... There is a curious likeness to my sister in your Photo... but you appear to be dark whereas she is very fair & much thinner...'), describing how she has been 'on the run since last December... The English have lately organised a terrible force to try & exterminate us. We call them the 'Black & Tans'... They have just looted & burnt down Balbriggan, a small town near Dublin – murdering two men in a most brutal manner. They forced their way in to a Dublin hotel two nights ago, & murdered a visitor in his bed. He was Mr Lynch a member of the County Council at Kilmallock, a Sinn Feiner of course...', but finding hope in the people of Ireland ('quite undaunted & determined to win out...'), concluding 'I wish you all knew what we are going through & I know that every just man & woman through the world would instantaneously hold up the English & insist on our being left to carry on our Republic & rule our people as they deserve to be ruled in an orderly & just manner... trading with other nations, & living amicably with all men...', 4 numbered leaves, written on recto only, some wear with small pin holes at folds on page 4, 4to (260 x 195mm.), Liberty Hall, Dublin, [probably written 25/26 September 1920]Footnotes:'THE SAME INTENSE LOVE FOR OUR COUNTRY': Constance Markievicz writes of her hopes for an independent Ireland to an Australian cousin with a shared sympathy for the Irish Republican cause.This long and heartfelt letter is written at what she calls a 'terrible time' for her and the Republicans, particularly due to the creation of the so-called 'Black and Tans' in 1920; as she explains 'They are ex officers & are dressed partially in khaki & partially in the Black of the Policeman' and were notorious for their brutality, sub-judice killings, arson and looting. Having been sentenced to death for her involvement in the Easter Rising of 1916 (she was second-in-command of a troop in the Irish Citizen Army), Markievicz was released in the general amnesty of June 1917, only being spared the firing squad by virtue of her sex. She spent the reminder of her life 'on the run' and in and out of prison. In fact she was in prison in 1918 when she became the first woman elected to the British parliament although, like all Sinn Fein MPs, she refused to take her seat.Our letter is undated, but Markievicz mentions she is writing two nights after the British attack on the town of Balbriggan on 23 September 1920 and the murder of John Lynch in the Royal Exchange Hotel the same night, Lynch supposedly being in Dublin to hand over £23,000 in subscriptions to Michael Collins. It can therefore be assumed that it was written around 25 or 26 September 1920. The heading indicates that it was written from Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising, a building of great significance to the Republicans and the meeting point for rebels before their march on the General Post Office in 1916 (Markievicz had also run a soup kitchen there with Maude Gonne during the 1913 lock out). It was badly damaged by naval shelling during the rising and several accounts suggest that Liberty Hall was completely demolished. However, the more recent view is that it was restored and reoccupied following the uprising, which would be confirmed by the fact that Markievicz appears to be sheltering there at this time.Markievicz's fame as Irish republican, suffragist and radical had clearly reached Australia and touched a chord with the large Irish community overseas. Both the events mentioned in the letter were widely reported in Australian newspapers in the last months of 1920 (see for example 'A Letter from the Old Land', Southern Cross, 3 December 1920). Despite the difficulties of her situation, Markievicz responds to her hitherto unknown relative's letter with great warmth and interest, particularly as the cousin appears to have expressed her support for the Irish republican movement. Eva Cumming's unsolicited letter and photograph has clearly piqued her curiosity to discover more about her Australian connections; 'I wish you could find out more about the first Gore Booth who went to Australia. Robert was a family name... have you any old papers? Certificates, letters or Pictures or books? It would be so interesting...' and remarks on the physical similarity between her correspondent and her sister and namesake Eva Gore-Booth, 'She has the same straight brows & rather high forehead... but you appear to be dark whereas she is very fair. & much thinner...'; the 'gazelle' of W.B. Yeats' poem 'The light of evening, Lissadell,/ Great windows open to the south,/ Two girls in silk kimonos both,/ Beautiful, one a gazelle' (In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markievicz, 1927).Eva Mary Cumming died in Sydney in 1985 and would have been nineteen years old at the time of this correspondence. The letter has remained with the family until now.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 132
SMITH (ADAM)Investigacion de la naturaleza y causas de la riqueza de las naciones, 4 vol., FIRST SPANISH EDITION, translated by Josef Alonso Ortiz, half-title in volume 1 (all called for), occasional spotting, small light dampstain in upper fore-corner of title and 8 preliminary leaves of volume 1, upper corner of pp.163-4 of volume 2 torn away (but present, ink page number and 2 words added in margin), contemporary vellum, lettered and numbered in ink on spines, some soiling and light spotting [Goldsmiths 15932; Kress B.2832], 4to (203 x 143mm.), Valladolid, Viuda e hijos de Santander, 1794Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN SPANISH OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS, translated by Josef Alonso Ortiz, who adds an appendix on the Spanish National Bank (established in Madrid in 1783) in volume 2. The French translation of Wealth of Nations had been placed on the Inquisition's Index of Prohibited Books, so when Ortiz presented his Spanish translation to the Inquisition in 1793, he did so with extreme care. Noting that his translation was from the English edition (which was not on the Index), Ortiz further argued that he had purged 'it of various impious proposals... and eliminating entirely an article... in which the author favors tolerance on points of religion, so that it stands cleansed of anything that could lead to error or relaxation in moral and religious matters.' He had to submit the manuscript twice before it was accepted for publication. It remained the only Spanish translation for 150 years. See R.S. Smith, 'The Wealth of Nations in Spain and Hispanic America, 1780-1830', Journal of Political Economy, 65(2), 1957, pp.104-125.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 134
TOLSTOY (LEO NIKOLAYEVICH)Anna Karenina, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, without final blanks, some foxing and light browning throughout, small damp and other stains, old owner's monogram stamp on titles, contemporary ribbed cloth, restored and rebacked in roan (with ticket of 'Bookbinder M. Artynov, Kiev, 7 Bibikov Boulevard'), rubbed, preserved in single slipcase [Kilgour 1196; Simmons, pp.340, 346-7], 8vo (205 x 135mm.), Moscow, T. Ris, 1878Footnotes:FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF TOLSTOY'S MASTERPIECE.Tolstoy's second great novel, beloved of Dostoevsky ('as art it is perfection') and Thomas Mann ('without equal in European literature'), was serialised over a period of five years in Ruskii Vestnik, beginning in 1873. However, a clash between its editor Mikhail Katkov and Tolstoy prevented publication of the final instalment, so this first edition in book form also marks the first appearance of the complete text.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 136
ZUALLART (JEAN)Il devotissimo viaggio di Gierusalemme... di nuovo ristampato, e corretto, second edition, with engraved folding plate of the Sancta Presepio at Bethlehem but lacking plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 49 engraved maps, plans and views (some full-page), final blank present, some light soiling and minor dampstaining (mostly at very top and bottom of page), old vellum with title inked on spine, some damage to corners and one or two light stains [Adams Z191; Blackmer 1873; cf. Mortimer Italian 557], 8vo (172 x 120), Rome, Domenico Basa, 1595Footnotes:Second edition of the Belgian Jean Zuallart's description of his six-month pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Palestine, by way of Zakynthos, Crete and Cyprus, illustrated with fine maps and other engravings by Natale Bonifacio after the author's drawings.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 142
CHAVIGNY (JEAN AIME DE)La Première face du Janus françois, contenant sommairement les troubles, guerres civiles & autres choses memorables advenuës en la France & ailleurs dés l'an de salut MDXXXIIII jusques à l'an MDLXXXIX, fin de la maison Valesienne. Extraite et colligée des Centuries et autres commentaires de M. Michel de Nostredame, FIRST EDITION, some dampstaining to first and last few gatherings, occasional browning, repaired tear towards foot of title, date on title-page and colophon erroneously amended in ink to 1624, contemporary brown morocco, covers with single gilt rule border and central gilt device of banded arrows, monogrammed 'MSD' on upper cover, edges worn, spine with a few small wormholes and chipped at foot [Benazra p.130; Chomarat 154], 4to, Lyon, heirs of Pierre Roussin, 1594Footnotes:First edition of the first attempt at a systematic interpretation of the prophecies of Nostradamus, printed with the French text of the Centuries and its Latin translation. Each of Nostradamus' 347 quatrains is accompanied by Chavigny's commentary, also printed in French and Latin, and the introductory matter includes an essay on the life of Nostradamus, which constitutes the first biography of the astrologer. The 'Première Face' is mainly devoted to the events that occurred between 1534 and 1589; a 'Second Face', which never saw the light of day, was to have dealt with future events.Provenance: Denis-Francois Secousse (historian, 1691-1754), armorial bookplate; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 72.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 143
NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., edited by Vincent Sève, woodcut portrait of Nostradamus on title, some soiling, duplicate of signature E from part 2 bound into part 1, dampstain to upper section of last 2 gatherings, old ownership stamp ('Proestat Amor Patriae') on title and facing leaf, later green vellum [Benazra p.156; Chomarat 166, variant foliation], [Troyes?], 1605; Les Propheties... dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées; [GRUGET (FRANCOIS)] Recueil des propheties et revelations, together 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device on title-pages, light browning and soiling, dampstaining to last part, B2-4 slightly frayed at bottom corner (no loss of text), old limp vellum, soiled, upper joint split [Benazra p.170; Chomarat 176], Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, [1611], 8vo; and 2 others, incomplete copies of the same 2 editions (4)Footnotes:The first Seve edition, possibly printed by Pierre du Ruau, together with Chevillot's edition of a few years later.Provenance: First two volumes, Daniel Ruzo, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 145
NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties.. dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées; GRUGET (FRANÇOIS) Recueil des propheties et revelations, together 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut printer's device on title-pages, first title with additional woodcut portrait of Nostradamus mounted on verso, some light browning and dampstaining, old ink notes in French on rear free endpaper, contemporary limp vellum, soiled, lower joint split [Benazra p.170; Chomarat 176], 8vo, Troyes, Pierre Chevillot, [1611]Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 37.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 148
NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties... Reveuës er corrigées sur la copie imprimee à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud en l'an 1568, some browning and soiling, title laid down, A2 repaired affecting typographic heading, D6-7 side-margins cropped affecting some letters cropped, a few other leaves trimmed affecting headings and signature marks etc., G3-4 in part 2 transposed, later mottled calf, gilt panelled spine with floral motifs [Benazra p.191, 'c.1630'; Chomarat 188, '1628'], 8vo, Troyes, Pierre du Ruau, [c.1628-30]; and another copy, lacking third part; Les Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut devices on titles, some light foxing and staining, a few small wormholes affecting first title and opening leaves (title soiled and laid down, A2 repaired), blank lower margin of last leaf restored, nineteenth century panelled calf gilt, red morocco spine label, spine rubbed and chipped at head [Benazra p.218; Chomarat 200], 12mo, Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, [c.1649-1650] (3)Footnotes:Provenance: First volume, M. de Salvandy, book label and Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Third volume, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 42.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 149
NOSTRADAMUSLes propheties, 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut device on title, some light browning, occasional minor dampstains, title with some holes in inner margin, repair in blank outer margin of 2F2, typed description in Spanish tipped to rear free endpaper, eighteenth century mottled calf, gilt panelled spine, rubbed [Benazra p.191, dating it to c.1630; Chomarat 188, dating it to 1628], 8vo, Troyes, Pierre du Ruau, [c.1628-30]Footnotes:Provenance: 'Soyrot', early ownership signature on title; Albrecht von Treskow, bookplate; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 39.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 151
NOSTRADAMUSLes propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Medecin du Roy Charles IX. et l'un des plus excellens Astronomes qui furent iamais, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut portrait of the author on title, some light soiling and browning, a few headlines shaved, typewritten description in Spanish tipped to rear endpaper, early nineteenth century calf gilt, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked [Benazra p.207-209; Caillet 8070, 'meilleure edition'; Chomarat 105], 8vo, Lyon, [no printer], 1568 [but Troyes, 1649]Footnotes:Counterfeit edition printed in 1649 in order to discredit Cardinal Mazarin, whose enemies introduced two spurious quatrains to Century 7, beginning 'Quand Innocent tiendra le lieu de Pierre, le Nizaram [i.e. Mazarin] Cicilien se verra en grands honneurs mais apres il cherra, dans le bourbier d'une civille guerre'.Provenance: Danile Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 24.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 154
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, woodcut printer's device on title, occasional light browning and staining, title with 2 cropped early ownership inscriptions and indistinct old library stamps, late eighteenth century calf gilt, spine with morocco lettering piece, upper joint cracked but cords intact [Benazra p.214; Chomarat 211], small 8vo, Leyden, Pieter Leffen, 1650Footnotes:Provenance: '...Heidelberg... 1659', cropped inscription at foot of title; 'Libros Antiguos/ Barcelona', booksellers label on rear paste-down; Daniel Ruzo, bookplate, his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 44.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[JAUBERT (ETIENNE, attributed to)]Eclaircissement des véritables quatrains de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, FIRST EDITION, fu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/b3d51327-00c4-4d4f-b414-ac8d00ce92ed/468x382.jpg)
Lot 156
[JAUBERT (ETIENNE, attributed to)]Eclaircissement des véritables quatrains de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, FIRST EDITION, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, errata leaf at end, occasional browning, stains to A1-4 and P2v, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine, corners worn, spine ends chipped and joints cracked, front free endpaper removed [Benazra p.231; Chomarat 225], 12mo, [Amsterdam?], 1656--JANT (JACQUES DE) Explication des prédictions tirées des centuries de Nostradamus, sur la presente guerre de France avec la Hollande, woodcut vignette of Nostradamus on title and of skeleton on p.27, waterstain to first c.20 pages, nineteenth century calf gilt, slightly rubbed [Chomerat 261; not in Benazra], 16mo, 'Sur l'Imprimé a Lyon chez Marcelin Gautherin,' 1672; Prédictions tirées des centuries de Nostradamus. Qui vray semblablement se peuvent appliquer au temps présent, et à la guerre entre la France et l'Angleterre, contre les Provinces Unies, 3 parts in 1 vol., one folding plate (only, of 3), light dampstaining, contemporary limp vellum [Benazra p.248; Chomarat 264], small 8vo, [Rouen], 1673; and another (4)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Second work, Comte Camille de Grassis and Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; Ruzo's sale, 23 April 2007, lot 86.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 158
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, contemporary mottled calf, spine neatly restored [Benazra p.245, no.80; not in Chomarat], Paris, Jean Promé, 1669; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, some light dampstaining, worming in and near gutter (heavier towards end and affecting text in places), contemporary sheep, worn, upper joint split [Benazra p.243; Chomarat 247], Paris, Jean Ribou, 1668; Les Propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles with large woodcut portrait, some repairs to margins of first title (shaving date and border of portrait) and first and last few leaves (3 or 4 with with text just affected), later vellum with title and imprint inink on upper cover [Benazra p. 236; Chomarat 230], Lyon, [Part 2: Jean Balam], 1665; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional engraved title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London (near detached), full-page engraved portrait of Nostradamus, repair to C1 affecting text, old ownership inscription in heavy ink on title, later mottled sheep, spine severely wormed and defective [Benazra p.241; Chomarat 246; Willems 1797, 'jolie édition dont les beaux exemplaires sont rares et fort recherchés'], Amsterdam, Jean Jansson & Weyerstraet, 1668; idem, 2 further copies of the same edition, one lacking the last 15 leaves ('Presages'), the other lacking engraved title and 2 preliminary leaves with portrait, 12mo (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 160
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, light browning, 2 or 3 small burn holes in a2, a few leaves with headline or ornaments shaved, slight worming in gutter margin at beginning and end, later vellum [Benazra p.261; Chomarat 296], small 8vo, Cologne, Jean Volcker, 1689--[MASSARD (JACQUES)] Harmonie de propheties anciennes avec les modernes, sur la duree de l'Antechriste, nineteenth century vellum, morocco spine label, slight adhesion mark form old label, 12mo, Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1687 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplates. Second work, Ruzo's sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 96.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 161
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, 2 parts in 1 vol., general title with small woodcut device, 2 part titles with large vignette of Nostradamus at work, a little light dampstaining, general title slightly soiled and frayed, tear without loss at foot of ã4, contemporary vellum, soiled [Benazra p.259; Chomarat 293], 12mo, Bordeaux, Pierre Abegou, 1689Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, 23 April 2007, lot 49.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 162
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, woodcut frontispiece showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London (missing small piece from blank upper margin), full-page portraits of Nostradamus and Henri IV of France, with blank H8, some worming in blank lower margins, gutter of last page ('Au lecteur') adhered to rear free endpaper slightly affecting text, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine with ends chipped [Benazra p.262; Chomarat 295], Rouen, Jean-B[aptiste] Besongne, 1689; Les Vrayes centuries et propheties.. avec la vie de l'autheur, some light browning, title with minor stains and old signature written across, contemporary sheep gilt, worn in places, spine ends defective [Benazra p.261; Chomarat 296], Cologne, Jean Volcker, 1689, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Povenance: First volume, Jean-Baptiste Le Boiteulx, bookplate. First and second volumes, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lots 50 and 51.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 163
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, additional woodcut title showing the execution of Charles I and the Fire of London, portraits including Nostradamus, Henry IV and Louis XIV (the first 2 full-page), repair to verso of title with loss of text (and following leaf to a lesser extent), some light soiling and dampstaining, contemporary sheep, gilt panelled spine, remnant of old label ('G') on upper cover [Benazra p.269; Chomarat 302], Rouen, Jean B[aptiste] Besongne, 1691; idem, another edition, illustrations as above but with variant portrait of Louis XIV, fly-leaf with old notes in French and Latin, modern half morocco, spine gilt, with adhesion mark from old label [Benazra p.291; Chomarat 321], Rouen, Jean B[aptiste] Besongne, 1710; idem, another edition, engraved portraits of Nostradamus (remargined), Cesar Nostradamus, Henri II, Henri IV and Louis XIV, plate of execution of Charles I, wanting directions to binder leaf at end, repair to title affecting ornament, slight browning, later catspaw calf, attractive gilt panelled spine, small adhesion mark from old label on covers [Benazra p. 265; Chomarat 303, calling for 2 additional preliminary leaves], Lyon, Antoine Besson, [c.1690], 12mo; and 4 others (7)Footnotes:Provenance: First volume, Abbé Hector Rigaux, curé of Argoeuvres (noted Nostradamus authority and collector), ownership inscription on fly-leaf; H. Forne, Paris, 1860, inscription on title and stamp on fly-leaf and at end. Second volume, Daniel Ruzo, bookplate. Third volume, H. Jarraut 1903, signature on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 166
NOSTRADAMUSLes Vrayes centuries et propheties, a little light foxing, contemporary vellum, slightly soiled, Rouen, Jean B[aptiste]-Besongne, 1710; idem, variant imprint, brown staining to first few leaves, some headlines cropped, nineteenth century sheep-backed boards, spine defective, upper cover near detached, Paris, Barthelemy Gyrin, 1710, the above with identical woodcut illustrations, including additional titles showing the execution of Charles I of England and the Fire of London, and full-page portraits of Nostradamus and Henri IV of France [Benazra p.291 & p.292; Chomarat 321 & 322]; Les Veritables propheties, without initial blank, inscription on half-title dated 1721 and ink markings throughout, some browning and soiling, contemporary sheep, spine defective with remnants of later label [Benazra p.300; Chomarat 332], Turin, Reycends & Guibert, 1720, 12mo (3)Footnotes:Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplates. First and second volumes, Ruzo's sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lots 56 and 57. Third volume, Carolus Franciscus Viliet, 1721, inscription and Latin 'distichon' in ink disparaging Nostradamus ('Inuidus falsidicus in Nostradamum veridicum. Disticon. Nostradamus cum falsadamus, nam fallere nostrum est; Et cum falsa damus, non nisi nostradamus'); Daniel Ruzo, his sale, 8 November 2008, lot 249.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[NOSTRADAMUS][HAITZE (PIERRE-JOSEPH DE)] La Vie de Nostradamus. Par Pierre Joseph, a little light dampstaining and browning,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/1b8a32cb-45e5-4c26-bbc2-ac8d00ce9cbf/468x382.jpg)
Lot 167
[NOSTRADAMUS][HAITZE (PIERRE-JOSEPH DE)] La Vie de Nostradamus. Par Pierre Joseph, a little light dampstaining and browning, modern calf, red morocco spine labels, slight adhesion mark from old label [Chomarat 327; this edition not in Benazra], Aix, chez la Veuve de Charles David et Joseph David, 1712--[LE ROUX (JEAN)] La Clef de Nostradamus. Isagoge ou introduction au veritable sens des Propheties... par un solitaire, varying degrees of browning, light dampstain to opening leaves, contemporary calf, gilt panelled spine with red morocco label, rubbed, head of spine chipped [Benazra, p.284; Chomarat 323], Paris, Pierre Giffart, 1710--GUYNAUD (BALTHASAR) La Concordance des prophéties de Nostradamus avec l'histoire, depuis Henri II jusqu'à Louis le Grand, la vie et l'apologie de cet auteur, ensemble quelques essais d'explication sur plusieurs de ses autres prédications, engraved portrait, without final blank, later calf, spine gilt, spine ends chipped, joints starting [Benazra p.29a; Chomarat 326], Paris, Jacques Morel, 1712--[CHAVIGNY (JEAN-AIME DE) attributed to] La Vie et le testament de Michel Nostradamus, some browning, nineteenth century morocco-backed boards, spine gilt , Paris, Gattey, 1789, 12mo; and another (5)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, Antoine Orsetti, old ink signature; Rappaport of Rome, bookseller's ticket. First, second and fourth works, Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; Swann, 8 November 2007, lots 260, 263 and 255.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 17
LEONARDO DA VINCIA Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding, a few light pencil annotations), 12pp. publisher's advertisements at end, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked to match with red morocco spine label, 8vo, J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. In these Leonardo outlined his influential theories regarding anatomical drawing, perspective, and other elements of artistic composition. Provenance: J. Hilton, early ownership inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 198
CABEO (NICCOLO)Philosophia magnetica in qua magnetis natura penitus explicatur, et omnium quae hoc lapide cernuntur causae propriae afferuntur, FIRST EDITION, FIRST (FERRARA) ISSUE, title within wide engraved architectural border, 4 engraved illustrations (one a world map repeated [Shirley, World 328]), numerous woodcut illustrations, ink spot at inner margin of title, light stain on dedicatory leaf, thin worm trail in blank margin of approximately 150pp., small dampstain in lower blank margin from p.277 to end, recased in early vellum, lettered in ink ('Filosofia magnetica', second word worn) on spine, preserved in modern morocco-backed solander case [Ferguson I, p.136; Riccardi I, 205; Wheeler Gift 97], folio (320 x 220mm.), Ferrara, Francesco Succio, 1629Footnotes:An important treatise on magnetism and the loadstone, containing the first printed account of electrical repulsion. Cabeo (1586-1660), professor of Moral Philosophy and Mathematics at Parma, also discusses William Gilbert's De Magnete.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 208
LEWIN (JOHN WILLIAM)A Natural History of the Lepidopterous Insects of New South Wales. Collected, Engraved, and Faithfully Painted after Nature, second edition, 19 hand-coloured lithographed plates, light spotting, off-setting onto text, original grey boards, publisher's printed label on upper cover ('Price £2: 2s'), rebacked and recornered in red morocco [Nissen ZBI 2487; Ferguson 874], 4to (265 x 203mm.), J.H. Bohte, 1822 [plates watermarked 'J. Waterman, 1825']Footnotes:Provenance: Heinrich Freiherr von Haerdtl, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 222
CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, second state with errata slip, half-title, frontispiece, 6 maps (2 folding), tissue guards, 32-page catalogue at end, some spotting, publisher's green cloth, light soiling [Woods A1(a)], 8vo, Longmans, 1898Footnotes:First edition of the author's first published book.Provenance: ?M.E. Woods, early ownership inscription on the half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 23
MUTEFERRIKA PRESSİZZÎ (SÜLEYMAN) Ta'rih-i-Izzi, tape repairs to title, lacking fols. 85-86, mark erased from blank area of fols. 1 and 288, light toning, heavier to fols. 59-60, modern blindstamped calf imitating Ottoman wallet-style binding, folio (304 x 195mm.), Istanbul, Vak'anüvis Ahmed Vasıf Efendi and Beylikçi Raşid Efendi, 1199 H [1784/5]Footnotes:Süleyman İzzî succeeded Mehmed Subhi as vakanüvis, or official court historian, and chronicled the years of his tenure, 1744 to 1752. This is the second production of this revival of the Müteferrika press.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [th](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/478fc58d-23a3-4aa2-8e29-ac8a00d3fc8c/02412466-df4a-4383-b0dd-ac8d00ced95b/468x382.jpg)
Lot 238
[FORSTER (E.M.)]STURGIS (HOWARD OVERING) Belchamber, FIRST EDITION, E.M. FORSTER'S COPY, inscribed 'E.M. Forster from me [the author?], at 107 Eaton Square, June 14 1904', light spotting publisher's cloth, 8vo, Archibald Constable, 1904Footnotes:'Could one claim Belchamber as some kind of cryptic gay novel, in the way that Forster's books, while dealing with matters of heterosexual love and marriage, are quirkily animated and destabilised by his own non-heterosexual viewpoint?' (Alan Hollinghurst, review of Belchamber, London Review of Books, 9 October 2008). In 1935 Forster acknowledged his debt to Sturgis' novel in an essay, later collected in Abinger Harvest, in which he described it as a 'Classic', whilst acknowledging it was 'unlikely ever to be read again'. It has been, NYRB republishing it in 2008 with an introduction by Edmund White.Provenance: E.M. Forster, gifted to his friend Eric Fletcher.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 244
GERSHWIN (GEORGE)Autograph musical quotation, signed and inscribed 'With Best wishes/ from your Composer/ George Gershwin', of two bars in E flat Major [the opening of 'Isn't it Wonderful', the chorus concluding the first act of his musical Primrose], on card, very light browning but overall in good and attractive condition, 60 x 92mm., [Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London, Autumn 1924]; together with a newspaper clipping and two postcards (small collection)Footnotes:'BEST WISHES FROM YOUR COMPOSER' - the young George Gershwin doffs his cap to one of his leading ladies, quoting his song 'Isn't it Wonderful', dating from the same year as Rhapsody in Blue and Lady, Be Good.With this card is a newspaper cutting, datable to 1929, reporting the secret romance and wedding of 'West End leading lady' Margery Hicklin to Leon Heron, artist son of an Australian financier (two of whose postcards are also included). In 1924 Miss Hicklin had starred as Joan in Gershwin's musical Primrose, opening at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, on 11 September 1924 and running for 255 performances. Our card must date before the end of the year, prior to Gershwin's return to America for the Broadway premier of Lady, Be Good on 1 December 1924. (Recordings of several numbers sung by Miss Hicklin as Joan are extant.)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 258
RACKHAM (ARTHUR)BROTHERS GRIMM. Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Stories, 12 tipped-in colour plates, jacket toned with light spotting and short tear to upper cover, Constable, [1917]--MOTTE-FOQUE (FRIEDRICH H.C. DE LA) Undine, 14 tipped-in colour plates, publisher's advertisement loosely inserted, Heineman, 1919--IRVING (WASHINGTON) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, second impression, 8 colour plates, G.C. Harrap, [September 1928]--MILTON (JOHN) Comus, 24 tipped-in colour plates, Heinemann, [1921]--SWIFT (JONATHAN) Gulliver's Travels, 12 colour plates, 8vo, J.M. Dent, 1909--Some British Ballads, 16 tipped-in colour plates, spine of dust-jacket detached with major losses, turn-in of lower cover detached, Constable, [1919], all illustrated by Arthur Rackham, publisher's cloth gilt (some pictorial or decorative), DUST-JACKETS, unless otherwise stated 4to (6)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 263
ROYALTY - EDWARD VIII'S CORONATIONOfficial Souvenir Programme for the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII, DUMMY PROOF COPY, 32 pages, printed with title and final leaf text (relating to King George Jubilee Trust), the remaining pages printed with ornamental borders, caption headings or author names, and identifying sitters for proposed photographs, otherwise blank, light dampstain throughout, publisher's wrappers, the decorative upper cover printed in black, red, blue and gold within a gold border, 4to, [Odhams Press for King George's Jubilee Trust, 1936]Footnotes:RARE DUMMY PROOF COPY OF THE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME OF EDWARD VIII'S CORONATION, which of course never came to pass due to Edward's abdication. Only one copy on World Cat.Provenance: Cranford Taylor, inscription inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 265
SHAW (GEORGE BERNARD)Autograph letter signed ('G. Bernard Shaw'), to F.V. Conolly, an English correspondent of the American Press Association, on the reverse of Conolly's typed request for his views on the suitability of black actors to perform serious theatre such as Shakespeare and Shaw rather than just comedy roles ('...How would a negress, for instance, depict 'Eliza Doolittle'...'), Shaw responding 'Negroes act very well, usually with much more delicacy and grace than white actors... The notion that there is anything funny in a man or woman being black is as childish as the notion that there is anything funny in being white... The only difficulty about performances of Shakespear by negroes is that his characters are white Europeans, except for Othello & the Prince of Morocco, neither of whom are negroes. But as English actors have never been prevented from playing Romeo & Juliet by the fact that they are not Italians... so a performance by a black company would be just as enjoyable as a performance by a white one if the acting were equally good...', concluding that '...the chances are that it would be better...', 1 page, foxing and light dust-staining, two filing holes not affecting text, 4to (254 x 203mm.), Parknasilla, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, 18 July 1919Footnotes:'NEGROES ACT VERY WELL, USUALLY WITH MUCH MORE DELICACY AND GRACE THAN WHITE ACTORS': SHAW ON 'COLOUR-BLIND' CASTING IN THE THEATRE. This fine defence of the dignity of black actors appears to have been written in connection with a discussion of 'Coloured Artistes on the Screen' in The Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly, published in 1919 and prompted by the success of the race movie industry and the Chicago-based slapstick 'Ebony Films', to which Shaw's correspondent refers (see Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame, 2005, Appendix I, p.223).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 266
SPARE (AUSTIN)A Book of Satyrs, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, this copy out-of-series, 12 full-page illustrations, and ornaments by Spare, publisher's parchment-backed printed boards, folio (445 x 330mm), Co-Operative Printing Society Limited, 1907; Two original pencil 'automatic drawings' by Spare, one captioned 'Satyros', the other ?'Honosis' with note on verso 'First expurgation - then the pleroma by Mnemic causation', light spotting on the second, each approximately 255 x 190mm., [undated] (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 268
WORLD WAR I - BAGHDAD AND MESOPOTAMIAArchive relating to the British transport corps ('Remount Depot', and 'Mule Column') centred at Baghdad, comprising Lieutenant Ralph Smith's diary for 1918; his manuscript account fund book for 'No. 3 Mule Column' (1917-1920); his letterbook (Mesopotamia, May 1919-June, 1920), with related telegrams, photographs, and ephemera; small group of official correspondence relating to Gunner Harry Dryburgh of the Remount Depot, Baghdad (mostly relating to travel permissions), c.1918-1919; three programmes for theatrical performances held at the M.T. Depot Theatre (1918-1919), and cinema programme for the Olympia Cinema, 31 May to 4 June 1919, the diary disbound, others original bindings, ephemera loose, the theatrical programmes printed on coloured paper, various sizes, [c.1917-1922]Footnotes:'NEVER SHALL I FORGET THE PAIN & TERROR IN THAT POOR LITTLE THING'S FACE. I had nothing to help it & they were miles from any habitation... without food and medicine' (13 May, near Qara Tappah) - an evocative diary kept by Lieutenant Smith, capturing both the horror and beauty of his daily life. It was written whilst serving he with the No. 3 Mule Column, a section of the Transport Corps stationed in Mesopotamia, to which he was assigned in June 1917. The diary includes mentions of Qara Tappah, Baguba, Abu Jisra, Hillah (March 3, visiting 'the house built by the German excavators who have done so much here...' and the Babylonian remains, which Gertrude Bell had visited in January), Abu Saida (31 March, 'I killed 1000 flies in my tent...'; April 5, 'Changed into my light underwear...'; April 17, '...Saw streams of Kurds & Arabs on the road... on the trek with camels'; April 23, '... held a court martial... of Hazzat Shah... for theft from a mail bag, found him guilty & sentenced him to 30 lashes...'), Table mountain (trip with his orderly, Mohammed Qasim, whose photograph is included), Kifri and environs of Baghdad (29 April, 'Tuz Khurmatli [Khurma] was taken today and nearly the whole of the Turkish force killed or taken prisoners'; 2 May, 'Passed the 2 lots of Turkish prisoners... one prisoner of the first lot died on the way... they are evidently hungry and tired...'). The majority of Smith's letter book correspondence relates to his ordering books on India from Mudie's Select Library, Higginbotham in Madras (from where he purchased his Lett's Diary) and elsewhere, or selling others (12 April 1920, placing an advert in the Baghdad Times, 'For Sale. Palmer's Arabic Grammar...'). Smith's record of the No.3 Mule Column Fund records Receipts ('Sale of a consignment of cigarettes for the column', 'Proceeds of the sale of parts of two Turkish carts...') and Expenditure ('Football, 2 bladders & one tube cement', 'Sweets for the the Peace celebrations'). The entertainment programmes include pantomimes ('Red Riding Hood', 'A Gipsy Romance' by the Advaxeliers at the Baghdad Depot Theatre), and an Olympia Cinema listing printed by the Dangor Press, Baghdad.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 270
WYNDHAM (JOHN)The Midwich Cuckoos, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'To Lawrence Bachmann/the full epic of that charmed village/gratefully from John Wyndham July 1960' on the title-page, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, spine light fading with short tear at foot, upper cover upper margin with 2 short tears, one resulting in small loss to 'M' of author's name), 8vo, New York, Ballantine Books, [1957]; sold with an autograph letter signed by Wyndham ('John Benyon Harris') to Lawrence Bachmann, thanking him for 'a thoroughly enjoyable party', praising the film adaption of the book, and enclosing this copy of the book, one page, headed paper, 16 July 1960 (2)Footnotes:Rare presentation copy, with accompanying letter, inscribed to the American film producer Lawrence Bachmann, who was British head of MGM when the studio made the classic film version, titled Village of the Damned, in 1960. In the letter Wyndham gives his 'thanks for the film itself - as I think I told you, I frankly did not think it could be done', and enclosing a copy of the book 'with some diffidence, feeling that you are probably sick of the sight of it by now...'. A remake, directed by John Carpenter, was released in 1995.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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