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Click here to subscribeJ L B Smith Johannesburg: CNA, 1949 4to, xvi + 550 pp, 103 plates, original green boards with Brodart covered dust jacket, dust jacket with insect damage and some paper loss with small tears along edges, very light wear on boards, foxing on ep and textblock edges, 6cm tear in one page, includes letter from JLB Smith, Frikkie Botha bookplateThe library of the late J S F (Frikkie) Botha
Various A REPLY TO BISHOP COLENSO’S “REMARKS ON THE PROPER TREATMENT OF CASES OF POLYGAMY, AS FOUND ALREADY EXISTING IN CONVERTS FROM HEATHENISM” by [Rev L Grout] Pietermaritzburg: May & Davis, 1855 8vo, 56 pp, index on inside of back warp, original green wrappers, both wraps loose, some paperloss on edge and corners, tanning towards edges of wraps, red pencil cross on front and title page AN ANSWER TO DR COLENSO’S “LETTER” ON POLYGAMY by [Rev L Grout] Pietermaritzburg: May & Davis, 1856 8vo, 103 pp, index on back wrap, original blue wrappers, textblock suffers from cockling, front wrap loose, paperloss on edges and corners of wraps, two damp stains and some soiling on wraps, red cross on front, inscription on title page MOSES RIGHT, BISHOP COLENSO WRONG. POPULAR LECTURES IN REPLY TO THE FIRST AND SECOND PARTS OF “BISHOP COLENSO ON THE PENTATEUCH” by Rev John Cumming London: John F Shaw, MDCCCLXIII [1863] 18mo, [v] + 380 pp, three quarter bound, prelims in facsimile, boards worn, corners bumped, some loss of paper and leather, hinge repaired, tape reattaching first few pages visible, minimal foxing, some section evenly tanned, one section with light damp mark in top margin TRIAL OF THE BISHOP OF NATAL FOR ERRONEOUS TEACHING. BEFORE THE METROPOLITAN BISHOP OF CAPE TOWN....ETC. CAPE TOWN by Rev J W Colenso Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Cape Argus, 1863 18mo, [i] + 405 + [i] errata pp, half calf and marbled boards, light tanning and foxing in prelims, first few pages and quarter textblock, name of previous owner on title page, two bookplates (4)PROVENANCEThe library of the late J S F (Frikkie) Botha
T Sheffield Grahamstown: T and C Sheffield, 1884 FIRST BOOK EDITION, 12mo, x + 272 + lxxix pp, frontis + 22 plates two of which are double page plates, original brown cloth, boards with minimal wear, corners bumped, hinge repaired at front and back eps, light tanning in fore edge margin of prelims, spine opening in three places, most pages lightly tanned, pencil ticks and underlining in list of settlers, newspaper pasted to back ep and A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE 1820 SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENT by J M Berning (comp) 1820 Settlers National Monument Foundation, 1970 THIRD REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, iii + 16 pp, foxing on front and back cover (2) PROVENANCEThe library of the late J S F (Frikkie) Botha
J A Hesse & R T J Lombard (comp) Pretoria: HSRC & Stellenbosch: Genealogical Institute of South Africa 4to, English and Afrikaans, Vol 1-4 : hardback with dust jackets, spines of dust jacket faded with light wear to head and foot, bottom fore edge corners dust soiled; Vol 5-17: paperback, light wear to bottom of textblocks; Vol 5, 11, 12 & 13: spine creases; most volumes with light pencil notations on some pages (17)PROVENANCEThe library of the late J S F (Frikkie) Botha
Jacques Nicolas Bellin The Hague: Pierre du Hondt, [1747] Copperplate, light soiling along plate mark, pencilled number in corner, J V Schley at bottom left from Dutch edition of Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Voyages" [Historische beschryving der reizen] 19,8 by 14,1cm (leaf: 25,4 by 19cm)
Frederick Justin Bertuch [[Weimar: Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1813-16] Copperplate, light tanning over plate rectangle, bottom edge untrimmed, some foxing spots, tear in bottom margin with 1cm past neat line, Verm. Gegenstaende CCXXIX at top left, Melanges CCXXIX at top right; verso: three small double sided tape sections remaining on edges from Bertuch's Bilderbuch für Kinder, Vol. 9 15,2 (16,2 with title) by 20cm
Sebastian Münster [Basel, Heinrich Petri, (1544) 1550 or 1552] Woodblock, Latin, light foxing in top margin of page, tanning in top, bottom and right page margins; soiled fold line in bottom left corner of page, pencilled number in corner, Liber VI p.1113 at top of leaf; verso: two stains in margin, text and illustration of animals from Latin edition of Münster's Cosmographia 12,5 by 15,9cm (leaf: 31,2 by 20,2cm)
Sebastian Münster [Basel: Sebastian Henri Petri, (1544) 1567] Woodblock, light foxing in top margin of page, pencilled number in corner, MCCCXXVI [p1426] in upper left corner; verso: German text, illustration of a man being roasted over fire from German edition of Münster's Cosmographia 12,7 by 15,9cm (leaf: 31,9 by 20,2cm)
Giovanni Botero[Venice: G. Botero, (1591) c1599] Copperplate, two leaves combined with paperstrip along fold as issued, light grey toning within platemark area, pencilled number in corner, Descrittione dell' Africa at top left; Libro Secondo 96 at top right; verso: Italian text from G. Botero’s Relationi Universali 17,7 by 24,5cm (leaf: 24 by 33cm)
Giovanni Magini & Girolamo (Hieronymus) Porro[Florence: Francesco Tosi, (1592) 1595]Woodblock, two leaf map, tanning and light soiling in bottom margin, pencilled number in corner, 6 pages in total, 140 at top left, 141 at top right; verso: Italian text titled 'Del Mondo E Sue Parti'from Rosaccio's "Il mondo e sue parti cioe Europa, Affrica, Asia, et America"12,5 by 17,7cm (two leaves: 20,5 by 16cm)
Barent Langenes[Padua: Giovanni Battista Conzatti, (1596) 1713]Copperplate, map portion of leaf only, light tanning within plate mark, upper left corner outside plate mark repaired, dark small foxing spot below title, foxing spot in right margin, fading of small text, pencilled number in corner; verso: three columns of Latin text, remains of tape in top margin with two lines of text obscuredfrom Raphael Savonarola's Univerus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum12,6 by 17,4cm (leaf: 15,3 by 20,7cm)
Mathew Quad & Johann Bussemacher[Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, (1600) 1608] Copperplate, hand coloured, one vertical fold as issued, age toned, three 0,5cm tears in outer left margin, small professional repair in bottom margin, pencilled number in corner, bottom left corner above scale: Johan Bussemecher excudit in Ubiorum Coloniae; verso: top of left page: titled 'Africa', pg '2'; two pages of text in Latin with light ink underlining, two pencilled notations in bottom margin from Quad’s ‘Fasciculus Geographicus’ 21 by 29,6cm (leaf: 25,6 by 33,6cm)
Pierre Du Val[Paris, (1663) early or first state] Copperplate, hand colour in outline, age toned except for light stripe along fold line, map in display frame and top attached in two places to backing with tape, margins lighter toned under window mount, pencilled number in corner; verso: darker aged toned within neat line rectangle, paint show through, pencilled notes from Du Val's Le monde ou La géographie universelle 10,2 by 12,5cm (leaf: 16,2 by 18,4cm) Early state indicated by the absence of Table Bay and Agulhas Bank.as Bank.
Alain Mannesson Mallet [Franckfurt am Mayn: J A Jung, (1683) 1719] Copperplate, light tanning on outermost sheet edge, pencilled number in corner, Figura I at top of page; verso: soiling along left edge, pencilled number in corner from "Beschreibung des ganzen Welt Kreises", Vol. 3, the German edition of Alain Manesson Mallet's "Description de l'univers" 14,1 by 10,6cm (leaf: 19,9 by 15,3cm)
ROBBEN ISLAND OR PENGUIN ISLAND Ink and watercolour on laid paper with backing, paper watermarked with Strasburg Bend and Lily (shield with two diagonal bands surmounted by fleur-de-lis) above letters “LVG” and counter marked with “IV”, map edges unevenly trimmed, three vertical fold lines, modern repairs to fold lines, light soiling to edges Recto and verso with ‘No 7’ in contemporary ink, map oriented with north to the right, neat line on left side, scale in English miles, rhumb lines, compass rose with fleur-de-lis indicating north, hydrographic detail includes soundings and shipping hazards; small sketches of The Governor’s House and The Watchman’s House with flags approximately 53 (60 with margin) by 46 cm WEESSELS ISLAND OR CUNNY ISLAND [DASSEN ISLAND] Ink and watercolour on laid paper with backing, map edges unevenly trimmed, three vertical and one horizontal fold lines, pin pricks in rhumb line crossings, some damp marks with foxing on one edge, few spots of soiling Recto and verso with ‘No 6’ in contemporary ink, map oriented with north to the right, neat line on left side with rhumb lines continuing into margin, bar scale without units, fleur-de-lis indicating north, hydrographic detail includes soundings, shipping hazards and safe anchorage, two land based features identified, one with a watercolour profile approximately 53 by 64cm (2) Refer to Lot 205 for additional background on the manuscript maps.
Comprising: a Queens South Africa single bar Natal - 2451 Tpr J Woolley Natal Police, a 1914-15 Star - Pte J D Wolley 5th MR, British War and Bilingual Victory Medal to Sgt J D Woolley 1st SAH. Single bar to Natal is scarce. The 5th Mounted Rifles (Imperial Light Horse) served in German South West Africa and the 1st South African Horse served in German East Africa. Note surname spelling difference on WW1 Star.
Willem Hermanus Coetzer(South African 1900 - 1983)GATHERING CLOUDSsigned and dated 62pastel on paper behind museum glass37 by 44,5cm PROVENANCEStephan Welz & Co., Cape Town, October 2017, Lot 309 A billowing cumulonimbus cloud in the late afternoon sunshine such as the one glowingly depicted in Gathering Clouds (lot 445) was a particularly significant subject for WH Coetzer. It was a sight similar to one he counted in his autobiography as a ‘formative event’, declaring his life-long love ‘for rolling masses of sunlit cumulus clouds’. Gathering Clouds was completed when WH Coetzer was in his early sixties. In it the dynamic shapes of the soaring cloud are intricately described. The artist uses the setting sun’s strongly directional illumination to build volume and depth. He has arranged the blushed and creamy hues of the warmly sunlit areas of the cloud between bulky dove-grey forms to the foreground and rear and employed darker shadows throughout to create multi-dimensional layers. The subdued and diffused light which bathes the rest of the landscape magnifies the dramatic effect of the sunlight. Coetzer has compressed the fields, the farmstead and the distant mountains beyond into the lowest quarter of the picture plane to convey the scale of the cloud within the composition; it is being viewed from afar and yet still it towers beyond the uppermost boundary of the frame. The winding track adds to the perception of depth as it leads the viewer into the landscape and quickly fades towards the distant horizon. The bright reflections of the sunlit cloud in the track’s flooded ruts accentuate the foreground and serve to balance the composition as a whole, both from top to bottom and from left to right. The pools of water in the foreground also provide an element of narrative to the scene: this is not an ominous storm advancing towards the viewer. Instead the cloud has passed over, the sun has reappeared and the viewer is invited to admire nature’s splendour and the artist’s skill in rendering it. Source WH Coetzer: 80, The Autobiography of WH Coetzer, CUM Boeke, Roodepoort, 1980, p 6
Saint Basil the Great standing with his right hand raised, his left holding a jewel encrusted bible, dressed in a blue robe with richly embroidered alizarin cloak, Saint Irene standing to his right holding a golden cross against a gilded ground surmounted by Christus Pantokrator seated upon clouds, all contained within a scrolling cartouche, age wear, gilt loss 31cm by 26cm Religious icons are sacred images venerated by Orthodox believers as representations of the splendour of the divine, and are also believed to offer a direct conduit between the worshipper and saint or holy person depicted. Deriving from the art of the Byzantine Empire, with influences from the Ancient Egyptian and Greek traditions, the painting of Russian icons remained true to these old traditions, without the influence the Renaissance had on Western counterparts. Whilst a certain freedom exists when representing biographical saints, allowing for truly unique images, when it comes to details such as the clothes, or even the form of a beard, Russian icons are subject to the canon of the Byzantium. Full of symbolism, nothing is without meaning - even the colours used have particular significance. Gold signifies the radiance of Heaven, and white the resurrection of Christ. Red represents divine life whilst blue the human, with figures of Christ or Mary often depicted wearing both to signify the divine in earthly form. The only colour never used is grey, as it signifies the mixing of good and evil. It is also common to include Greek calligraphic text to name the saint or event depicted. The Byzantine practice of using a metal cover, or oklad, to protect religious icons was adapted in Russia to indicate the light and beauty of God’s world, and so these covers are often of silvered or gilt metal, sometimes even decorated with precious and semi-precious stones. Icons are believed to have an inherent sanctity which imparts the experience of divine beauty and holiness. russianicon.com/
A ROYAL CROWN DERBY 1128 IMARI PATTERN TWIN HANDLED VASE, circa 1890, approximate height 23cm, light wear to the gilt decoration, together with a Royal Crown Derby 1128 Imari pattern plate, approximate diameter 26cm, wear to the backstamp but glaze is not scratched through, a Royal Crown Derby 383 Imari pattern plate, approximate diameter 23cm and a Royal Crown Acorn handled shallow dish, 4913 Imari palette, approximate diameter 24.5cm (4)
A VICTORIAN GLASS LUSTRE, wavy rim surrounding candleholder, facet cut baluster pedestal with petal shaped foot, two droppers need re-attaching, some with chips, approximate height 30cm, together with two cut glass light shades formed of facet cut droppers and a large cut glass bowl, mounted in an EPNS frame, approximate height 24cm x diameter 28cm
A COLLECTION OF ROYAL WORCESTER COFFEE CANS AND SAUCERS, MINIATURE ITEMS, ETC, including a three piece teaset decorated with cherubs chasing butterflies, sugar bowl lid only bears Worcester marks and comes with two letters from Henry Sandon suggesting they are blanks decorated by a talented amateur artist, teapot cracked, together with a Copeland china jug, Coalport cabinet cup and saucer and a Coalport vase (14) (condition: some damage noted to pink and gilt cup, Imari cup, teapot, Copeland jug, Coalport vase) Condition Report No cracks, chips or repairs seen. The giding in the centre has some light scratching. The handle has a small patch of a hard brown substance under the larger of the two loops
FIVE SMALL ROYAL WORCESTER PLATES AND TWO SCENT BOTTLES PAINTED WITH BIRDS, the larger scent bottle and plates signed W. Powell, both scents decorated with goldfinches, the plates with Wren, Robin, 'Missel Thrush', Nightingale and Bluetit, various printed and painted marks, plates diameter approximately 12cm, scent bottles approximate heights 10cm and 8.5cm (7) Condition report Robin plate has some crazing in the glaze. The 'Missel' Thrush plate has a plain gilt edge unlike the others and it also has wear. The scent bottle with stopper is in good condition although the cork has been glued into the stopper. The flattened flask scent bottle has no stopper but is in good condition. Both scent bottles bear Worcester marks. The flattened flask has light wear to the gilding where it rests on a surface. The other scent bottle has some light wear to the gilt stopper
A SET OF SIX EARLY 19TH CENTURY SPODE TEA CUPS AND SEVEN MATCHING SAUCERS, decorated in the Imari palette with an arched roof building in a garden, pieces marked 'SPODE' in iron red, together with an early 19th Century Spode tea cup, pattern No.868 and three early 19th Century porcelain dessert plates, Imari vase of flowers decoration, approximate diameter 21cm (17) Condition Report - Six saucers are in good condition and one has a small firing fault on the underside of the rim, there is also some light scratching and wear to the gilding. Four cups are in good condition other than light wear to the gilding, one has a pale blue patch in the glaze to the interior and one cup has a hairline crack, not very visible even under UV light. The other cup that does'nt belong to the set also sounds as though there may be a hairline but we couln't find one even under UV light. All cups have very light wear to gilding especially to the handles. the three plates are unmarked, all seem to be in good condition and have a small amount of wear to the gilding.
A COLLECTION OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY MEISSEN, DRESDEN AND OTHER CONTINENTAL PORCELAIN, including a Meissen cup and saucer, a Meissen plate, the centre painted with figures standing in a harbour, three blue and white plates, a KPM square tea plate, etc (condition: some damage) (12) Condition Report Wear to gilding. Some light loss of enamel to centre of plate. Stained verso. Chips under glaze to footrim.
TWO PAIRS OF 18TH CENTURY STYLE LACQUERED BRASS TWO BRANCH WALL LIGHTS with scrolling acanthus leaf decoration, 29cm wide x approximately 40cm high together with a pair of art deco style wall lights, 26cm wide x 36cm high and a set of four wall lights with conical shades and further part light fittings Condition: some minor marks to the 18th century style light fittings and with only four faux cardboard candle mounts; art deco style wall lights in reasonable condition; the set of four conical wall lights with green painted metal mounts is missing the nuts to attach the light fitting to the leaf section; further light fitting parts as found
A COLLECTION OF THIRTEEN RUBY GLASS WINE GLASSES each approximately 13cm high together with a pair of alabaster light fittings, a glass light fitting, an Oriental porcelain planter, a Victorian writing box and an oil lamp converted for electric use Condition: the glasses seemingly in reasonable condition; the two alabaster light fittings with repairs and damages; the glass light fitting seemingly in reasonable condition; the table lamp in reasonable condition considering age; the planter in reasonable condition; marks, dents and scratches overall and poor condition for the writing box
AN ORIENTAL HARDWOOD HEXAGONAL FLOOR STANDING DISPLAY CABINET with glazed sides, the panel base with single cupboard door, 58cm wide x 183cm high Condition: the modern cabinet with minor marks, dents and scratches due to use, of late 20th or early 21st century manufacture, the top section enclosing light fittings for display but in need of rewiring
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