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Click here to subscribeLabradorite Pear Cut Solitaire Ring, an elongated pear cut 24ct cabochon of labradorite, the natural, moody stone with the inner coloured glow phenomenon, similar to that seen in moonstone, that appears and moves depending on the direction of the light; in this high carat piece, set in silver, the glow is predominantly metallic blue; size S
[COOK (JAMES)][A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery, in the Years 1776, 1778, 1779, and 1780], Atlas volume only, 61 engraved plates, 2 engraved maps (one folding with short tear, one double-page), dampstain to lower portion (affecting some plates), light browning and spotting throughout, modern quarter morocco, gilt morocco lettering label on spine and on upper cover [Hill 361; Lada-Mocarski 37; Sabin 16250], folio (550 x 410mm.), [G. Nichol and T. Cadell, 1784]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
LODWICK (R.W., BOMBAY CIVIL SERVICE)Humorous Sketches in the World We Live In, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone the friend & patron of his father this copy is presented as a mark of respect by R.W. Lodwick, Bombay, April 25th 1856' on the front free endpaper, 40 lithographed plates (each with several caricatures by the author), occasional light spotting, contemporary red half morocco gilt over cloth, pictorial label (captioned 'Humours Sketches') on upper cover, 4to, Bombay, Drawn by the Author, and Lithographed at the Education Society's Press, 1856Footnotes:AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY of a series of caricatures in which the author desires 'to expose the absurdities of Indian life in a good-humoured manner... [and] trusts that no one will take offence'. Whilst his British audience may not have taken offence, the local population depicted would undoubtedly have done so.Provenance: Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lieutenant-Governor of Bombay from 1819-1827, gifted by the author.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
ANSON (GEORGE)A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, edited by Richard Walter, with p.319 misnumbered 219, 42 engraved plates, maps and plans (most folding), list of subscribers, 'Directions to the bookbinder' at end, one map with tear repaired, one shaved just touching image, occasional toning and light off-setting, contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-tooled spine with red gilt morocco spine [Hill 1817; Sabin 1626], 4to (285 x 225mm.), John and Paul Knapton, for the Author, 1748Footnotes:'A MASTERPIECE OF DESCRIPTIVE TRAVEL. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century' (Hill). The first official account of Anson's circumnavigation, edited from Anson's 'papers and materials' by Richard Walter, the Expedition's chaplain. 'The book was both a stirring story of adventures at sea and an exhortation to further Pacific enterprise' (Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans. The Triumphs and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage, 1999). This copy is considerably larger than the standard quarto first edition (see following lot).Provenance: Earl of Breadalbane, bookplate. This is most probably the third Earl, John Campbell (1696-1782); Stowe Library, 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
LOWTH (GEORGE T.)The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Mr. Wyld with the author's best compliments' on the blank recto of the frontispiece in volume 1, 6 lithographed plates, 22 leaves of advertisements, yellow endpapers, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt (with 'Leighton Son & Hodge' binder's label inside '), light soiling [Blackmer 1035; Weber I, 515], 8vo, Hurst and Blackett, 1855Footnotes:An account of a journey made by Lowth and his wife between 1850 and 1851. Volume 1 is devoted to Egypt, whilst volume 2 describes Sinai, Palestine, Petra and Syria. The 'Mr. Wyld' to whom this copy was presented by the author is presumably the artist or lithographer whose name appears beneath the plates. Surprisingly rare, with only one copy recorded on Rare Book Hub in the past fifteen years.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
ANSON (GEORGE)A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, bound in 2 vol. (text and plates), fifth edition, edited by Richard Walter, folding engraved World map frontispiece, 42 engraved plates and maps (mostly folding, occasional offsetting and light stains, plate 33 shaved within platemark of upper margin), contemporary calf, 2-line gilt fillet border on sides, rebacked with period style gilt-tooled spine, slightly rubbed [Hill 1820], 4to (text 255 x 202mm.; atlas 272 x 225mm.), for the Author, by John and Paul Knapton, 1749Footnotes:An unusual copy with the plates bound separately, probably for the library at Milton Hall, the largest private house in Cambridgeshire.Provenance: Earl Fitzwilliam, probably the 3rd Earl, bookplate; Milton Hall, Peterborough, the seat of the Fitzwilliam family, booklabel; Ida and F.W. Hosken, Africana book collectors, 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
CRESSWELL (KEPPEL A.)The Mosques of Egypt... Being a Series of Views in Colour and Monochrome of the Principal Mosques of Egypt with a Brief Note on Each Monument Describing its History and Architectural Features Accompanied by Detailed Plans and Maps, 2 vol., half-titles, chromolithographed frontispieces and title borders, 243 plates (mostly photographic, some coloured), 2 large colour-printed maps and index in pocket at the end of volume one (as issued), 2-page introduction loose (as usual), occasional light spotting, publisher's green morocco, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover, folio (434 x 324mm.),, Giza, The Survey of Egypt, 1949This 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
[YOUNG (JOHN)]An Affecting Narrative of the Unfortunate Voyage and Catastrophe of his Majesty's Ship Wager, one of Commodore Anson's Squadron in the South Sea Expedition, FIRST EDITION, light toning to title, modern half calf [Borba de Moraes p.948; Hill 1926; Sabin 1634], 8vo, John Norwood, 1751Footnotes:'A thrilling narrative of one of the most remarkable voyages ever undertaken (Hill). This rare account is attributed to John Young, the cooper on the H.M.S. Wager, and one of few survivors who eventually returned to via Lisbon, like Bulkeley and Cummins.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
FRANKLIN AND NORTH-WEST PASSAGECOLLINSON (RICHARD) Journal of H.M.S. Enterprise, on the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin's Ships by Behring Strait. 1850-55, FIRST EDITION, edited by T.R. Collinson, colour lithographed frontispiece, 6 folding maps, photogravure portrait, light spotting, early blue calf gilt, the sides with 3-line fillet border enclosing an image of two entwined flags ('Enterprise for Franklin'), t.e.g., rebacked preserving original spine with red gilt morocco lettering labels, Sampson, Low, 1889--M'CLURE (RICHARD) The Discovery of the North-West Passage by H.M.S. 'Investigator'... 1850, 1851, 1853, 1854, second edition, edited by Captain Sherard Osborn, half-title, engraved frontispiece, 4 lithographed plates, map supplied in facsimile), publisher's cloth, joints repaired, new endpapers, Longman, Brown, 1857, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Account of the Franklin Search expedition undertaken in 1849, led by Sir Richard Collinson in the H.M.S. Enterprise. 'Of the many who had searched for Franklin, Collinson came closest to the place where the expedition had ended. Collinson's addition to geographical knowledge on this Arctic trip was very considerable, and would have been tantamount to the discovery of the north-west passage, had this not been already actually achieved by the men of the Investigator' (ODNB), the second ship on the expedition, captained by Robert Maclure.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
MAWSON (DOUGLAS)The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, 2 vol., 20 colour plates, numerous photographic plates (mostly by Frank Hurley, some folding or double-page), maps and plans, 3 colour maps in pocket at end of volume 2, occasional light foxing, publisher's pictorial blue cloth, upper covers blocked in silver, a little rubbed, light dampstaining [Rosove 217.A1.a; Spence 774; Taurus 100], large 8vo, Heinemann, 1915--MURDOCK (W.G. BURN) From Edinburgh to the Antarctic, ... the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93, 2 maps (one colour, one folding), illustrations, contemporary black half morocco gilt, lettered 'Ducie' (Earl of Ducie) at foot of spine, [Rosove 234; Spence 825; Taurus 12], Longman's, Green, 1894--BORCHGREVINK (CARSTEN E.) First on the Antarctic Continent. Being an Account of the British Antarctic Expedition 1898-1900, photogravure portrait, 3 folding tinted maps (one with short tear at edge), numerous illustrations (many full-page), publisher's catalogue at end, light dampstain at foot of first few leaves, publisher's silver and gilt pictorial cloth, rubbed and slightly stained, George Newnes, 1901, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo; and 3 others (7)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
MURRAY (JAMES) AND GEORGE MARSTONAntarctic Days. Sketches of the Homely Side of Polar Life by Two of Shackleton's Men... Introduced by Sir Ernest Shackleton, NUMBER 3 OF 280 DE LUXE COPIES, SIGNED BY MURRAY, MARSTON AND SHACKLETON on the half-title, 4 mounted colour plates after watercolours by C. Day (with captioned tissue guards), 33 full-page plates (some photographic), illustrations, occasional light spotting, publisher's cloth, plate mounted on upper cover (as issued), t.e.g., slightly rubbed [Spence 830; Taurus 61], 4to, Andrew Melrose, 1913Footnotes:LIMITED DE LUXE EDITION of an important account of the Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. 'For the first time an unofficial, and therefore more human document, is presented to the public ... I would advise anyone who wants to get to the kernel of the life of a Polar explorer to read the book' (Shackleton, Introduction).Provenance: Ethel Edith Mannin (1900-1984), travel writer and author, inscribed 'Christmas 1922. To my father with love from Ethel' on the front free endpaper; by descent to the current owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SCOTT (ROBERT FALCON)The Voyage of the 'Discovery', 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the publisher Reginald Smith (31 October 1905, headed 'I have given Captain Scott your note'), photogravure frontispieces, numerous maps and plates including 12 in colour after Edward Wilson, folding map in pocket at the end of each volume, publisher's slip tipped into volume 1, occasional light soiling, publisher's blue cloth with gilt medallions on sides, gilt lettered spines, t.e.g., [Conrad, p.121; Rosove 286; Spence 1051; Taurus 41], 8vo, Smith Elder & Co., 1905Footnotes:First edition of Scott's narrative, with a loosely inserted letter written in the month of publication by the book's publisher Reginald Smith to the political journalist and Polar devotee Henry William Lucy: 'Dear Mr. Lucy/ I am very glad to see that you like the Antarctic book so much. You have said, in 'Punch' and in 'Vanity Fair', in print and much more forcibly, what I have been telling Captain Scott for the last twelve months while he was writing his book. Now he is inclined to believe me!/ Yours faithfully/ Reginald Smith'. Henry Lucy had reviewed Scott's book in Punch six days earlier, ending 'Written in the simple literary form in which brave men naturally narrate their doings, no more glowing narrative of adventure is to be met with in the English language'. Lucy was also a friend of Shackleton and a major fund-raiser for his Polar ventures, in recognition of which the explorer named a mountain after him in Antarctica.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
DORN (FRANK)A Map and History of Peiping. With Explanatory Booklet, FIRST EDITION, large folding colour lithographed map of Peking (865 x 755mm.), light overall toning, several short tears at folds, with 22pp. of text, the map loose as issued in pocket inside lower cover publisher's printed cloth-backed paper wrappers, original printed slipcase (torn with small loss at edges) [Pegg, Cartographic Traditions in East Asian Maps, pp.54-55], small 4to, Tientsin-Peiping, Peiyang Press, 1936Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF A HIGHLY DECORATIVE MAP OF BEIJING, depicting the principal sites and occupations of the inhabitants of the city, within a pictographic border showing Chinese history, the whole enlivened with amusing vignettes of the everyday life and sights of the city.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
Lillihan carpet, north west Persia, circa 1930s-40s, 11ft. 8in. X 8ft. 3in. 3.56m. X 2.51m. Very slight wear in places. Light red field with dark blue centre medallion with red and ivory inner flowerheads; all over floral sprays; dark blue floral main border; pale yellow and light red floral guards.
Erivan boteh rug, Armenia, central Caucasus, early 20th century, 5ft. 9in. X 4ft. 5in. 1.75m. X 1.35m. Slight even wear; slight loss to ends. Terracotta field with columns of small angular boteh motifs in dark blue, ivory, terracotta; mid-gold and light blue; mid-blue leaf and calyx main border; mid-gold floral ribbon guards. Lustrous wool and rich palette.
Two Anatolian rugs, the first: Konya kelim, central Anatolia, circa 1940s-50s, 4ft. 11in. X 3ft. 9in. 1.50m. X 1.14m. Central blue and terracotta panel of medallions within wide ivory medallion main border; the second, Kars Kazak small rug, 3ft. 1in. X 3ft. 7in. 0.94m. X 1.09m. Ivory octagon with inner medallion on a light chestnut field within ivory and pale blue borders. (2)
Tabriz silk rug, north west Persia, circa 1950s, 5ft. 8in. X 3ft. 5in. 1.73m. X 1.04m. Small tears to flatweave ends. Olive green field with dark blue and light blue centre medallion and spandrels; all over scrolling flowers and foliage; mid-blue medallion and boteh main border; piled details to the flatweave ends.
Hereke silk and metal thread prayer rug, south west Anatolia, second half 20th century, 3ft. X 2ft. 0.91m. X 0.61m. Light surface marks to top end; slight colour run evident verso. Fabric tape with hanging rings to top end verso. The ivory mihrab with a jardiniere at the base, the field filled with flowering tree of life; inner border of flowers and cartouches with inscriptions; main border of flowers with long cartouches of inscriptions at the top end and sides; with signature cartouche in the top right outer corner. Gold coloured metal thread details to the jardiniere at the base and to the flowerhead in the prayer arch.
Superb Senneh rug, north west Persia, late 19th century, 6ft. 6in. X 4ft. 2in. 1.98m. X 1.27m. Overall even wear; slight loss to lower end. Dark blue/black field with light red diamond shape centre medallion; all over herati design; light red flower and boteh main border; pale blue boteh guards. Pale blue details. Extremely finely woven; soft handle.
Saruk rug, north west Persia, circa 1930s-40s, 6ft. 8in. X 4ft. 8in. 2.03m. X 1.42m. Slight loss to ends. Light red field with dark brown and ivory centre medallion with all over flowers and foliage; dark brown spandrels with pale blue boteh motifs; dark brown floral main border and ivory floral guards.
Saraband long rug, north west Persia, circa 1920s-30s, 7ft. 10in. X 3ft. 4in. 2.39m. X 1.02m. Overall even wear with corrosion in places; small repairs; slight loss to ends. Light red field with all over small floral boteh; narrow ivory floral and boteh main border; red floral outer border and narrow dark blue guards. Soft palette and soft handle.
Saruk Feraghan rug, north west Persia, circa 1930s, 6ft. 7in. X 4ft. 4in. 2.01m. X 1.32m. Slight wear with some corrosion; small repairs; slight loss to ends. Light red field with dark blue centre lobed medallion and dark blue spandrels; all over delicate flowering tendrils; indigo floral main border; ivory floral guards.
Tabriz rug, (reduced in width) north west Persia, circa 1930s, 6ft. 2in. X 4ft. 1.88m. X 1.22m. Lacking outer guards on both long sides. Overall even wear; selvedges re-bound; foundation fragile. Ivory cartouche shaped field with dark blue centre medallion and spandrels; all over flowers and foliage; light red floral main border. Close clipped velvety wool.
Kashan rug with inscription, west Persia, mid-20th century, 7ft. 2in. X 4ft. 9in. 2.18m. X 1.45m. Leatherette strips to each long side verso. Soft red cartouche-shape field with ivory and dark blue centre medallion and matching spandrels; dark blue main border and light blue guards. All over scrolling flowers and foliage. Ivory inscription cartouches each end in the outer pale blue guard. Harmonious, relatively soft palette with velvety wool. Robust handle.
Karabakh 'cane' design kelleh, south west Caucasus, late 19th century, 17ft. X 6ft. 3in. 5.18m. X 1.91m. Overall wear and corrosion with old repairs in places; slight losses and 'bites' to ends. The field composed of typical floral canes in a soft palette including a light pink; dark blue boteh main border.
Mashad carpet, signed, Khorasan, north east Persia, circa 1950s, 10ft. 2in. X 6ft. 9in. 3.10m. X 2.05m. Dark blue field with light red and camel centre medallion; light red spandrels; all over flowers and foliage; pink main border of floral cartouches with inscription cartouche at the top end; ivory and red floral guards with another inscription cartouche in the outer guard at the top end. Robust handle.
Attractive Karabakh kelleh, (reduced) south west Caucasus, early 19th century, 19ft. 6in. x 6ft. 9in. 5.95m. X 2.05m. Overall wear with corrosion in places; small repairs and holes; slight loss to ends. Reduced in length by horizontal cut at the lower end inner guard. Dark blue field with central medallion and pale yellow spandrels; all over mina-khani design; light red palmette main border and ivory floral guards. Soft handle.
North Indian rug, Agra or Amritzar, circa 1930s-40s, 6ft. 10in. X 4ft. 1in. 2.08m. X 1.25m. The field composed of vertical bands in red, ochre, and pale blue, the latter woven with animals in light red, within a pale green main border of stars within octagons. Red and ochre guards of bracket and flowerhead design.
Heriz carpet, north west Persia, circa 1940s-50s, 11ft. 9in. X 8ft. 4in. 3.58m. X 2.54m. Light rose field with large dark blue lobed medallion with ivory and light rose flowerhead centre; ivory spandrels; all over angular flowers and foliage; dark blue mille-fleurs main border and yellow floral guards. Robust handle.
Esfahan pictorial hunting rug, central Persia, circa 1920s-30s, 6ft. 11in. X 4ft. 5in. 2.11m. X 1.35m. Overall wear; losses to ends. Ivory field with huntsmen on horses aiming at elephant, giraffe, zebra, warthog, deer, fox and other predators; butterflies, pheasants, flowers and landscape vignettes; light red main border and pale blue guards of deer and other animals.
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