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Lot 319
A SILVERGILT MOUNTED WOODEN CHALLENGE SHIELD with an enamelled coat of arms in the centre, inscribed "Harper Adams Agricultural College Poulty Laying Trials 1925-26 Championship Light Breed Section (White Leghorns), Awarded to Mr Frank Snowden", maker's mark "V&S", Birmingham 1926, easel back; 13" (33 cms) high
![A Barr Flight & Barr [Worcester] two-handled vase: of ogee form with flared rim and dolphin handles, painted with a traveller](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d0a10959-a422-4dd1-8da8-a7980108cbf2/750a38f8-c9da-4c04-d03f-568f2bf2770d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 762
A Barr Flight & Barr [Worcester] two-handled vase: of ogee form with flared rim and dolphin handles, painted with a traveller holding a staff in the foreground of an extensive lake landscape reserved on a light and dark grey faux marble ground, script marks in red with reference to Royal patronage, circa 1805-10, 27 cm high.* Provenance The O'Donoghue Collection.
![* Bessie Ellen Davidson [1879-1965]- Marseilles, 1939:- indistinctly signed bottom right further signed, inscribed and dated](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/d0a10959-a422-4dd1-8da8-a7980108cbf2/dd6795ef-bbff-4cc5-817c-e34d7d10904c/468x382.jpg)
Lot 459
* Bessie Ellen Davidson [1879-1965]- Marseilles, 1939:- indistinctly signed bottom right further signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse oil on board 18 x 23cm. * Biography. Bessie Ellen Davidson was born in 1879, in Adelaide, Australia, to a family of Scottish and English origin. She was the second child of David Davidson, who was in the mining industry, and Ellen Johnson Davidson. Her great-grandfather, William Gowan was a sculptor, and her grandmother Frances Gowan was a painter. She was educated at the Advanced School for Girls, studied art with the painter Rose McPherson (better known as Margaret Preston) and began exhibiting with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1901. In 1904, after her mother's death, she went to Europe to study art with Preston. They spent the first few months in Munich, where Davidson studied briefly at the Künstlerinner Verein, before moving to Paris. There she studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where she met and began a lifelong friendship with Philippe Besnard's future wife, Germaine Desgranges. A year after her arrival in France, she was exhibiting at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français and the year after that at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1922 she would become the first Australian woman elected a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also a founding member of the Salon des Tuileries at which she would exhibit almost every year between 1923 and 1951. Returning to Australia in 1907, Davidson rented a studio with Preston and continued painting and exhibiting. In 1910 she returned to Paris and set-up a workshop in Monparnasse in the same street as Raymond Legueult and the Dutch painter Conrad Kickert. She made many other friends in Parisian art circles, including the painter Anders Osterlind. Davidson travelled to Australia in 1914 and was there when World War I began. She returned to France immediately, where she joined the French Red Cross and served in various military hospitals. During the war, she met the woman who would become her companion for the next two decades, Marguerite Leroy (d.1938), whose nickname was Dauphine. The postwar period to 1920 saw Davidson producing quiet, intimate, loosely impressionistic paintings - mostly interiors, still lives, and portraits - in muted tones. Her style evolved in a more vigorous direction in the 1920s and 1930s, with vibrant, dramatic colours laid on with a palette knife. She travelled around Europe, Russia, and Morocco making outdoor sketches that she used as the basis for later studio works. Her landscapes are notable for their quality of light and sense of atmosphere. In 1930 Davidson was a founding vice-president of La Société Femmes Artistes Modernes. She was also a founding member of the Société Nationale Indépendentes and a member of the Salon d'Automne. In 1931 she was the first Australian woman appointed to the French Legion of Honor. She exhibited widely with such artists as Mary Cassatt, Tamara de Lempicka, Camille Claudel, and Suzanne Valadon. Although still a citizen of the British Commonwealth, Davidson decided to stay in France during World War II. She lived with friends in Grenoble and some sources say that she was a member of the French Resistance. Her paintings from this period are strong, bright, and lively. In 1945, she returned to her old studio in Paris, occasionally spending time at a farm she bought near Rouen. In the postwar period she painted mostly outdoors on small wood panels. She died at Montparnasse in France in 1965 and was buried in Saint-Saëns.
Lot 184
Aristophanes. Facetissimi Comoedie novem, edited by Jean Chéradame, 9 parts in 1, titles in Greek and Latin, text in Greek, titles within handsome woodcut historiated borders by Geoffrey Tory, woodcut historiated initials and printer's devices (the latter to 4 final ff.), 3 parts with early ink inter-linear notes, occasional spotting, particularly to final part, light marginal water-staining at head, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps, 19th century paper label to foot of spine, some soiling and staining, [Adams A1707; Mortimer, French, 38], small 4to, Paris, Pierre Vidoue for Gilles de Gourmont, 1528. ⁂ A very good copy of the handsomely printed first edition of Aristophanes to be printed in Paris. The editor Jean Chéradame was professor of Greek at the Collège du Roi. Each of the nine plays has a striking woodcut title by Geoffrey Tory, each incorporating the Adoration of the Magi, Gourmont's name and arms. There are separate dedicatees to each play, including Pierre Danes (first professor of Greek at the Collège Royal), Jean Ruel (botanist and physician and author of De Natura Stirpium, 1536), John Clerk (Bishop of Bath and Wells, chaplain of Cardinal Wolsey) and Thomas Winter (Wolsey's son). Provenance: 'Joh Jacobi...Linden...' (17th century ink inscription at head of title); Joseph von Lassberg (18th century ink inscription to front free endpaper); The Donaueschingen copy (shelf mark to foot of spine and head of inner pastedown).
Lot 125
London.- Froggett (John) Froggett's Survey of the Country Thirty Miles round London, 1831, from Reigate to Hertford, and Maidenhead to Rochester in the east, engraved map, 1130 x 1370 mm. (44 1/2 x 54 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt, with light spotting and browning, with green silk border, folding with green marbled endpapers, without slipcase, [Howgego 333 (1)], 1831.
![Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Poems and other verses, first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-title, frontispiece, plates and illust](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/1a0b9d55-c83c-4409-fea5-2d5170437288/468x382.jpg)
Lot 407
Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Poems and other verses, first edition, [one of 500 copies], half-title, frontispiece, plates and illustrations by the author, light foxing, mostly marginal, bookplate of Tristan Buesst, original dark green ribbed cloth with central gilt monogram on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, spine a little darkened, [Purdy p.96], London and New York, Harper Brothers, 1898; Satires of Circumstance, 1914; Moments of Vision, 1917; Human Shows Far Phantasies, 1925; Winter Words, 1928, the last four all first editions, half-titles, all but the last with advertisements at end, the last with imprint leaf, the third and last with light spotting, uniform original light green cloth, gilt, uncut, some unopened, some spines a little faded, [Purdy p.160, 193, 234 & 252], Macmillan and Co. Ltd., all 8vo (5)
Lot 376
Death of Charlotte Brontë.- Jameson [Anna, writer and art historian, 1794-1860) Autograph Letter signed to Mrs. Gaskell, 4pp., 8vo, Ealing, Easter Sunday [31st March 1855], commenting on the death of Charlotte Brontë, "How shocked you will have been by the death of Charlotte Brontë - I started - & felt as if a light had been extinguished", and thanking her for sending North & South, "I have not yet had time to study the alterations", folds, remains of album stub. ⁂ Elizabeth Gaskell met Charlotte Brontë for the first time in 1850; her celebrated Life appeared in 1857.
![Russia.- [Alexander (William)] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians, 64 hand-coloured aquatin](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/5419ce48-25cd-40cb-a611-19a13d75d785/468x382.jpg)
Lot 111
Russia.- [Alexander (William)] Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Russians, 64 hand-coloured aquatint plates, light spotting and soiling, mostly to text, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, spine gilt, g.e., rubbed, especially joints, [Colas 2358; Tooley 377; Not in Abbey], 8vo, John Murray, 1814. ⁂ The plates are based on those in Miller's Costume of the Russian Empire of 1803 but in a smaller format.
Lot 11
Horsley (John) Britannia Romana: or the Roman Antiquities of Britain, first edition, half-title, engraved pictorial headpiece to dedication, 21 maps (5 double-page) and 83 plates (?of 84), light marginal soiling, 3G2 torn without loss, bookplates of Jeffery Ekins and Sir Lambton Loraine, contemporary diced russia, gilt, rubbed, corners a little worn, rebacked preserving old gilt spine (browned), folio, John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1732.
![[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre: an Autobiography, 3 vol., third edition, half-titles, vol.1 with 2pp. adverti](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/8aece1c1-b799-40b2-ffe0-be6d047881b9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 354
[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Jane Eyre: an Autobiography, 3 vol., third edition, half-titles, vol.1 with 2pp. advertisements to front and 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated May 1848 at rear, vol.3 with 8pp. Opinions of the Press at rear, some light toning and occasional light finger-marking to margins, original variant green cloth, recased, later spine labels, spines discoloured, rubbed and marked, [Smith 2 pp.29-30], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1848. ⁂ A rare variant, possibly trial binding, unrecorded by Smith, we can trace no other copy in a like binding.
Lot 301
Austen (Jane) Pride and Prejudice, with a Preface by George Saintsbury, frontispiece, title, illustrations, head- & tail-pieces, initials and decorations all by Hugh Thomson, occasional light spotting, mostly at beginning and end, original pictorial dark green cloth, gilt, with peacock design on upper cover, spine gilt with peacock feathers, g.e., very slightly rubbed at edges but a very good bright copy, [Gilson E78], 8vo, George Allen, 1894. ⁂ With the magnificent peacock design binding. The first extensively illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice; previous editions had only contained a frontispiece and a couple of plates. It includes a total of 160 line drawings by Hugh Thomson, the only work by him to feature head- & tail-pieces and decorations.
Lot 326
Brontë (Rev. Patrick) A Sermon Preached in the Church of Haworth, On Sunday, the 12th Day of September, 1824, in Reference to an Earthquake, And extraordinary Eruption of Mud and Water, that had taken place ten days before in the Moors of that Chapelry, later half calf, gilt, spine faded, some light rubbing or scuffing, 8vo, Bradford, T.Inkersley, 1824. ⁂ Rare, COPAC lists only 2 copies and we can trace only 3 copies at auction in the last 50 years. On the 2nd September, 1824, the bog at Crow Hill burst, causing flooding and a landslide. Patrick Brontë had watched a coming storm with some apprehension from the parsonage, knowing that his children were out playing on the common. Eventually his worry overcame him and he ventured out to find them scared and huddled in the porch of a house. It was once there that he saw the destruction and danger caused by the eruption: a two metre-high wall of mud and water had poured down the valley, thankfully warning had been given ahead and there was no loss of life. To an evangelical like Patrick Brontë, the Crow Hill Bog Burst stood as a warning for mankind to repent before the coming end of the world.
Lot 216
Du Choul (Guillaume) Discorso Sopra La Castrametatione et Disciplina Militare de Romani, 2 parts in 1, collation: Aa-Kk8; A-T8, numerous woodcuts within text, many in first part full-page, folding woodcut and letter-press plan, marginal worm trace to outer margin of ff. at end of part 1, occasionally just touching a printed side-note, some light browning, occasional spotting, later limp vellum, lacking ties, 4to (237 x 165mm.), Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1569. ⁂ The second part is Discorso della Religione Antica de Romani. A handsome production discussing the military and religious practices of the Romans. The woodcuts are attributed to Pierre Eskrich by Baudrier. Literature: Not in Adams; Baudrier IX, 323-324; cf. Mortimer, French, 181.
Lot 156
China.- Ricci (Matteo) and Nicolas Trigault. De Christiana expedidone apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu. Ex P. Matthaei Riccii eiusdem Societatis Commentariis, Libri V... auctore Nicolai Trigautio, second Latin edition, engraved title incorporating map of China, folding plate, some light marginal water-staining, closely trimmed at head, 3A2 with portion of loss to margin, not affecting text, 19th century ink ownership inscription to pastedown, contemporary vellum, lettering to spine, wear to foot of spine, light spotting and browning, [Cordier, Sinica, 2095], 4to, Lyon, Jean Jullieron for Horace Cardon, 1616. ⁂ The second Latin edition of the most important Western description of the Orient since Marco Polo's 13th century account. "The appearance of Trigault's book in 1615 took Europe by surprise. It reopened the door to China, which was first opened by Marco Polo, three centuries before, and then closed behind him by an incredulous public, who received the greater part of his fabulous narrative as the beguiling tales of a capricious traveller... [It] probably had more effect on the literary and scientific, the philosophical and religious, phases of life in Europe than any other historical volume of the seventeenth century... It opened a new world..." China in the sixteenth century: the journals of Matthew Ricci, 1583-1610, translated and edited by Louis J. Gallagher, New York, 1653, pp. xvii-xix. See also Bernard Quaritch Ltd., The Society of Jesus, 1548-1773, no. 184.
Lot 33
Tasso (Torquato) La Jérusalem Délivrée, en vers francois par L.P.M.F.Baour-Lormian, 2 vol., half-titles, 40 engraved plates after Cochin, tissue guards, some light foxing, original boards, uncut, rebacked in calf preserving old roan labels, corners worn, 4to, Paris, P.Didot l'Ainé, 1796.Please note: lower corner of front board of vol.2 is detached
![[Abbott (Edwin A.)], "A Square". Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, first edition, half-title, illustrations by the auth](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/936b6958-8b2d-4d19-b0f0-b8fd0e20535d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 51
[Abbott (Edwin A.)], "A Square". Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, first edition, half-title, illustrations by the author, some light foxing at beginning and end, bookplate, original card wrappers, uncut, pictorial dust-jacket, soiled and browned, spine frayed and chipped at head, small 4to, 1884.
Lot 381
Shepeard (Rev. H.) A Vindication of the Clergy Daughter's School and of the Rev. W. Carus Wilson, from the Remarks in "The Life of Charlotte Brontë", light browning to text, original printed wrappers, spotted, light wear to spine, erasure mark to head of upper panel, preserved in custom folding chemise, 8vo, Kirkby Lonsdale, Robert Morphet, 1857. ⁂ Rare in commerce.
Lot 56
Gooden (Stephen).- Aesop. Fables, translated by Sir Roger l'Estrange, number 491 of 525 copies signed by the artist, copper-engraved title and plates by Stephen Gooden, also decorative initials, light offsetting as usual, original pictorial vellum, gilt, by Leighton-Straker, with fox in gilt on upper cover and bunches of grapes in corners, t.e.g., others uncut, light spotting to covers, board slip-case (rubbed and soiled), small 4to, 1936.
Lot 438
Kelmscott Press.- Meinhold (William) Sidonia the Sorceress, translated by Francesca Speranza, Lady Wilde, one of 300 copies on Flower paper, printed in red and black in Golden type, wood-engraved border and initials designed by William Morris, light browning to one or two leaves, variant binding of original holland-backed boards, paper label on spine, uncut, rubbed and lightly soiled, spine browned and label split and slightly chipped, edges of boards, corners and spine ends a little worn, [Peterson A19], large 4to, Kelmscott Press, 1893. ⁂ Most copies were bound in original limp vellum with silk ties but Peterson notes that "Cockerell instructed Leighton to bind thirty copies in 'half holland uniform with the Golden Legend' and these were later donated to British and American libraries". There is no evidence for this copy being ex-library.
![[Brontë (Charlotte)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, second American edition, 1p. advertisements, occasio](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/bf8878b1-dbe0-48a1-c4e4-5795029036ee/468x382.jpg)
Lot 356
[Brontë (Charlotte)] Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, second American edition, 1p. advertisements, occasional light foxing, ownership inscriptions to endpaper and bookplates to pastedown, original cloth, spine a little discoloured, spine ends and corners bumped, small chip to upper joint, a little rubbed, still an excellent copy overall, preserved in custom drop-back box, [Smith 2 p.48], 8vo, Boston, Wilkins, Carter & Co., 1848. ⁂ The first American edition to be published in cloth, scarce. Provenance: Henry Frederick Phinney (bookplate); Silas Kinne (library label and pencil inscription); Elsee L.K. DOubleday (ink inscription).
![Colour-Printing.- [Caraccioli (Louis Antoine de)] Le Livre de Quatre Couleurs, only edition, printed in yellow, blue, brown a](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/9bf4cedd-3077-427a-94ef-5847554f4e14/468x382.jpg)
Lot 16
Colour-Printing.- [Caraccioli (Louis Antoine de)] Le Livre de Quatre Couleurs, only edition, printed in yellow, blue, brown and red, half-title, title with engraved vignette in black, some light spotting or soiling, small stain to a couple of leaves, H2 defective at lower margin not affecting text, old wrappers, title in manuscript on upper, cover, uncut, rubbed, spine broken and slightly defective, 8vo, [Paris, Duchesne], [1757].
![[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Shirley. A Tale, 3 vol., first edition, vol.1 with 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated Oct](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/4c1ee20a-92a1-4a94-f2d0-8cc26221bbfc/468x382.jpg)
Lot 368
[Brontë (Charlotte)], "Currer Bell". Shirley. A Tale, 3 vol., first edition, vol.1 with 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated October 1849, vol.3 with 3pp. Opinions of the Press at rear, vol.1 with ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookplates to pastedowns, original cloth, a little shaken with some minor shelf-lean, spines slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped and worn, some splitting to joints, light rubbing and marking, preserved in custom half morocco boxes with hinged lids, spines gilt, [Smith 5 pp.112-117], 8vo, Smith, Elder and Co., 1849. ⁂ Charlotte had begun writing Shirley in the spring of 1848, still buoyed by the success of Jane Eyre. Writing though would not come as easily to her as it did previously and progress was ultimately stalled by the crushing tragedy of loosing her three siblings in less than a year. Charlotte persevered however and the novel was published in October 1846. Provenance: Oliver Brett, Viscount Esher (armorial bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; sold his sale, Sotheby's New York, 30 April 1990, lot 2655)
![[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", first American edition, light foxing, Cavendish Ci](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/dee7acb7-0eba-4924-bdfc-a79000f74b48/42024a5d-163d-452f-df6a-12800e7b6c80/468x382.jpg)
Lot 336
[Brontë (Emily)] Wuthering Heights. A Novel. By the author of "Jane Eyre", first American edition, light foxing, Cavendish Circulating Library label to front free endpaper, original cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corners a little bumped with small chip to head of spine, some light rubbing but a sharp and excellent copy overall, [Smith 3 pp.74-75], New York, Harper & Brothers, 1848. ⁂ The first American edition and second overall, published only five months after the true first edition, rare in the original cloth and in such good condition. The misattribution on the title (an issue that would plague the sisters until Charlotte revealed their true identities in her preface to the second edition of Wuthering Heights) was partly the result of a deliberate attempt by Thomas Newby to confuse the authorship in order to extract more money from the American publishers.
Lot 462
Eliot (T.S.) The Waste Land and Other Poems, first edition, signed by the author on title with printed name crossed through, occasional spotting, paperclip rust mark to head of half-title and front free endpaper, endpapers a little browned, original boards, a little bumped and spotted, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners a little chipped, some light staining to panels, [Gallup A35x], 1940; and a reprint of the same edition, 8vo (2) ⁂ Rare signed.
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