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Lot 236
An Azzedine Alaïa 'Houpette' knitted chenille dress, Spring-Summer, 1994, labelled and size M, figure hugging and calf length in contrasting black and white wools, bust approx 86-92cm, 34-36in CONDITION REPORT: good condition, slight soiling at underarm edges and soil spot to right shoulder area (minor), would benefit from dry cleaning
Lot 280
A Comme des Garçons navy and white checked wool ensemble, Autumn-Winter, 1986-87, labelled and size M, the double breasted jacket with asymmetric basque, padded shoulder, the matching skirt cut short at the back and long at the front with asymmetric polonaise panel which can be buttoned at the rear; together with a knitted black under-dress which peeps out at the back hem, bust 86-92cm, 34-36in (3)For a similar model in grey see KTA lot 299 14.6.2016 and also 'Breaking the Mode' by LACMA p57. CONDITION REPORT: Good condition, looks unworn
Lot 284
A Comme des Garçons red and white flocked cotton ensemble, 'Blooming Flowers' collection, Autumn-Winter, 1996, labelled and size M, comprising long shift dress, with overall flocked daisy print, opening at bodice side, contrasting devoré sash-like panel; with padded Dufy-esque flocked and padded coat with giant safety pin to fasten and hood (2)The coat is photographed in 'Rei Kawakubo', Taschen p116. CONDITION REPORT: Good condition, slight soiling along inside edge of coat collar. Dress looks unworn
Lot 298
A Yohji Yamamoto de-constructed knitted cotton dress, Spring-Summer, 1993, labelled and size M, the stocking stitch panels intersected by intentionally laddered bands forming 'Y's' front and back, frayed hem and cuff adornments This design in black was modelled by Linda Evangelista, photographed by Satoshi Saekusa, for Italian Vogue, in 1993. See link: http://www.vogue.it/news/encyclo/stilisti/y/yohji-yamamoto
Lot 1507
1957 Chang Jiang CJ750M1M combination 750 cc. Registration number 715 UXV. Frame number LPPBBAMOX5FX60009. Engine number CD2P78FMV-1B050399. The CJ750 motorcycle is based on the original 1956 Soviet IMZ M-72 which itself was derived from the earlier German 1938 BMW R71. Nearly all of them have sidecars. They are often erroneously referred to as BMW "replicas" when in fact, they are derivatives of the IMZ M-72. By the mid-1950s, the Soviets considered the M72 to be obsolete and they sold China all of the tooling to produce their own M72's. According to some sources, it entered production in November 1957 at the state-owned Ganjiang machinery factory. They were originally produced for the Chinese military and are powered by an air-cooled, four-stroke, opposed flat-twin side valve engine displacing 746cc, with a shaft drive. The M1M uses a 12V electrical system, electric starter and is equipped with a reverse gear. This particular example is registered with the DVLA as being produced on the 1st January 1957 although this date cannot be confirmed, it was first registered in the UK in 2006 and believed to have been in storage for most of its life prior to this. Owned by our vendor since 2013 who is selling due to lack of space and another project, it will make a fantastic "oily rag" project for the next owner. It has some wonderful details like the vice on the rear mudguard, the brass rat on the tank, the shell casing on the sidecar and the Chinese brass vase horns. It comes with the V5C and an old MOT from 2011.
Lot 2015
MARSHALL M. FREDERICKS (AMERICAN, 1908-1998), BRONZE SCULPTURE, H 10 1/2", W 13", D 5", "SPIRIT OF DETROIT"Was the original sketch model for the "Spirit of Detroit", presented to Frederick C. Matthaei, Sr., October 13, 1960 (see photo details); signed. Estate of Frederick C. and Malora Matthaei.- For High Resolution Photos visit Dumouchelles website.
Lot 59
FARADAY MICHAEL: (1791-1867) English Chemist & Physicist. A.L.S., M Faraday, one page, 8vo, Royal Institution, 3rd March 1853, to Dr. S. Muspratt. Faraday states that he cannot comply with his correspondent's note, explaining 'upon principle I never aid in the slightest degree to any such proposition as that which you make which has relation to myself' and adding 'I really know so little of matters concerning my own face that I could not tell you of my own knowledge whether there is any likeness of myself or not….' With blank integral leaf. VG James Sheridan Muspratt (1821-1871) Irish Research Chemist whose most influential publication was Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical and Analytical as applied and relating to the Arts and Manufactures (2 vols., 1857-60). Faraday was one of the most influential scientists in history. It was by his research on the magnetic field around a conductor carrying a direct current that Faraday established the basis for the concept of the electromagnetic field in physics. As a chemist, Faraday discovered benzene and popularised terminology such as 'anode', 'cathode', 'electrode' and 'ion'. Albert Einstein kept a picture of Faraday on his study wall, alongside pictures of Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell, and physicist Ernest Rutherford said of Faraday that he was 'one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time'.
Lot 112
LENIN VLADIMIR: (1870-1924) Russian Communist Revolutionary. Head of the government of the Russian Republic 1917-18, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 1918-24, and of the Soviet Union 1922-24. TROTSKY LEON: (1879-1940) Russian Marxist Revolutionary and Theorist, the founding leader of the Red Army.A very fine pair of vintage dark fountain pen ink signatures by both Vladimir Lenin ('Lénine, president du Conseil des Commissaires du Peuple') and Leon Trotsky ('Léon Trotsky, Commissaire aux affaires étrangères') individually on a feint ruled 8vo page removed from a notebook, n.p., n.d. (November 1917). To the upper right corner of the page appears an original contemporary pencil and coloured crayon vignette, drawn by an unidentified individual and signed ('J. M. Bros....'; the conclusion of the signature a little smudged and hence illegible), the image depicting several individuals standing in a row as they face execution by the guillotine which appears before them, with a large crowd of onlookers in the foreground and a rising sun in the background, featuring the caption, in French, 'Ce que nous souhaitons aux soussignés' (translation 'What we wish for the undersigned'). To the verso of the page appear ten individual fountain pen ink signatures by various French fighter pilots of World War I, each of them members of the Escadrille BR 209 squadron, including Léon Ribière (1893-1918) and others, a few with additional sentiments and one dated 23rd January 1917. An exceptionally rare pair of signatures by two of the most significant figures in Russian history. Neatly inlaid, VGThe present signatures of Lenin and Trotsky were obtained shortly after the historic October Revolution, a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd and followed, and capitalised, on the February Revolution of the same year, which overthrew the Tsarist autocracy. The October Revolution resulted in the power being shifted to the local Soviets in Petrograd, whom heavily supported the Bolshevik Party. After the Congress of Soviets, now the governing body, had its second session, it elected members of the Bolsheviks to key positions which immediately initiated the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state. On 8th November 1917 the Congress elected a Council of People's Commissars, with Lenin as leader and Trotsky as Commissar of Foreign Affairs, the positions they have added to the present signatures.Provenance: The present signatures were removed from a notebook previously owned by Robert de Flers (1872-1927) French Playwright & Journalist who, as the head of a French military mission, travelled to the Eastern front taking him to Romania, Moscow and Petrograd, at which time he obtained the signatures of Lenin and Trotsky. A first hand account of Flers' travels was written by Emmanuel Chaumé (1890-1934) and published by Firmin-Didot of Paris in 1929 under the title La Belle Aventure de Robert de Flers - Russie-Romanie (Fevrier-Mars 1918). The album was subsequently passed to his nephew, the French Diplomat and Pilot of World War I, Viscount Amédée de Flers, and later acquired by the present vendor.Lenin, founder of the Russian Communist Party, engineered and led the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and was the architect of the Soviet state, later taking over as the first leader of the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Regarded as the greatest revolutionary leader and thinker since Karl Marx, Lenin is also widely considered as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the 20th century.Trotsky joined the Bolsheviks shortly before the 1917 October Revolution and eventually became a leader within the Communist Party alongside Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and others and was one of the seven members of the first Politburo. During the early days of the Soviet Union Trotsky served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918-23). After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, Trotsky was removed from power, expelled from the Communist Party and finally exiled from the Soviet Union. As the head of the Fourth International, Trotsky continued to oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union from exile. On Stalin's orders, he was assassinated in Mexico in August 1940. Trotsky's ideas formed the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought that opposes the theories of Stalinism.
Lot 80
STANLEY HENRY M.: (1841-1904) British Explorer & Journalist.A.L.S., Henry M Stanley, four pages, 8vo, Balinakill, Kintyre, Scotland, 9th July 1885, to Miss Felicie Hegemans. Stanley informs his correspondent that with regret 'it has not been my good fortune to be able to pay a visit to the kindly, sympathetic & warm hearted people of Cadogan Gardens', explaining that 'various circumstances and a singular unbroken run of engagements mainly have prevented me from paying my respects to yourself & the sister graces who did me the honor to escort me round Hampton.' Stanley continues 'In respect to your invitation - re Mons Hegemans I fear that I shall never have the courage to pay a visit to a stranger, simply because I am on a visit to Anvers ... Even in London it is a difficult matter to get me out of my chambers…' and concludes 'However Mons. Moscheles is such a friend of your father & has spoken so warmly of him I should look more to him to bring us together rather than to myself ... Should I be in Anvers it would be better for Mons Hegemans to call on me at my hotel when it would be most likely it would not require much persuasion to induce me to accompany him to his House especially as the charming Miss Felicie would be there.' Some light overall age toning and a small tear at the base of the central vertical fold, only very slightly affecting a couple of words of text, but not the signature, about VGThe present letter was written from Balinakill in Kintyre, the home of Sir William Mackinnon (1823-1893) Scottish Shipping Magnate. Mackinnon had plans to lease from the Sultan of Zanzibar a vast area of East Africa from the coast to the Congo, which the British Government refused to sanction. He also played the major part in financing Stanley's Emin Pasha expedition.Felix Stone Moscheles (1833-1917) English Painter, Peace Activist and Advocate of Esperanto. Moscheles lived at Cadogan Gardens and had recently painted Stanley's portrait.Stanley was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley reportedly asked, 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?' Stanley is also known for his search for the source of the Nile, his work in and development of the Congo Basin region in association with King Leopold II of the Belgians, and commanding the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1899.
Lot 44
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK: (1768-1821) Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover 1820-21. Wife of King George IV. A.L.S., Caroline, Princess de Galles, as Princess of Wales, in the third person (although also signed in a conventional manner at the conclusion), three pages, 4to, n.p. (Pesaro), 21st August 1818, to Professor Tamassini, in French. The Princess expresses her pleasure at the news that her correspondent's wife has safely given birth to a baby girl, and adds that she is looking forward to congratulating him personally on his next visit, further conveying the good wishes of 'Monsieur le Baron' (her lover, Bartolomeo Pergami), and continuing to explain that she will be especially pleased to see him again later in the year as she hopes that Cardinal Albani will be in Pesaro at that time, further noting that Marquis Antaldo's letters to their mutual friend Dr. Rosari appear to be censored by the police ('…comme la police est si inquiet a son suject….'). VG Provenance: The present letter originates from a collection formed in 1903 by A. M. Broadley, author of Chats on Autographs (1910). In his book Broadley observes 'The letters of the Princess of Wales…the Queen Caroline of 1820-21, are not very valuable, but they are curious. They are now quite as valuable as those of her worthless husband and his successor….' The marriage of the future King George IV to Caroline of Brunswick was a disaster from the outset, not least as Prince George was already secretly married to Maria Fitzherbert. In 1814, offended at her exclusion from the celebrations to mark the fall of Napoleon, Caroline moved to Italy where she employed Bartolomeo Pergami (mentioned in the present letter) as a servant. Pergami soon became Caroline's closest companion and lover. Gossip about her affairs and lifestyle was widespread and Hanoverian spies watched her in the hope of collecting evidence of her adultery which George required as the grounds for the divorce he desperately sought, but never obtained. When her husband finally acceded to the throne in 1820, Caroline was famously shut out of her own coronation.
Lot 71
HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French Poet and Novelist. Vintage signed sepia cabinet photograph, the oval image depicting Hugo in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by M. Lopez of Paris. Signed by Hugo in bold black fountain pen ink with his name alone to the lower photographer's mount. Matted in dark brown and framed and glazed in a decorative frame to an overall size of 10 x 12. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG The French Poet, Novelist and Dramatist of the Romantic Movement, Hugo is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France his literary fame comes first from his poetry, however outside of France his best-known works are the novels Les Miserables (1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (1831; known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Hugo also earned respect as a campaigner for social causes, such as the abolition of capital punishment. (See also lot 55)
Lot 90
BILLOT JEAN-BAPTISTE: (1828-1907) French General and Politician. Minister of War 1882-83. A rare 4to printed brochure bearing the ownership signature of General Billot, being an edition of Le Bordereau - Etude des Depositions de M. Bertillon et du Capitaine Valerio, au Conseil de Guerre de Rennes, par un Ancien Eleve de L'Ecole Polytechnique, published in association with the Dreyfus Affair by Hardy and Bernard of Paris, 1904. The interesting publication, in French, is an essay concerning the Bordereau which Dreyfus had been accused of writing (the Bordereau document, which included secret military information and which was sent to the German Embassy in Paris had constituted the start of the Dreyfus affair). The brochure includes images of Dreyfus' handwriting, drawings for graphology analysis and more, based on testimonies in the Dreyfus trial, and particularly the testimonial of Alphonse Bertillon. Signed ('Gal. Billot') by Billot in fountain pen ink with his name alone to the upper right corner of the front cover. Bound in green printed paper wrappers with red and black text. The paper wrappers a little loose in places and with a neat tear at the base of the spine. G Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) French Police Officer and Biometrics Researcher who was a witness for the prosecution in the Dreyfus affair in 1894 and again in 1899. He testified as a handwriting expert and claimed that Alfred Dreyfus had written the incriminating document (the 'bordereau'). However, he was not a handwriting expert, and his convoluted and flawed evidence was a significant contributing factor to one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice - the condemnation of the innocent Dreyfus to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Using a complex system of measurements, he attempted to prove that Dreyfus had disguised his handwriting by imitating his own handwriting as if someone else was doing so, so that if anyone thought the bordereau was in Dreyfus's hand, he would be able to say that someone else had forged his writing. Both courts martial evidently accepted this, and Dreyfus was convicted. The verdict of the second court martial caused a huge scandal, and it was eventually overturned. Bertillon pretended that his graphological system was based on mathematical probability calculus. A later expertise undertaken in 1904 by three renowned mathematicians, Henri Poincare, Jean Gaston Darboux and Paul Emile Appell, concluded that Bertillon's system was deprived of any scientific value and that he had failed both to apply the method and to present his data properly. With this key evidence against Dreyfus debunked, he was finally acquitted in 1906. General Billot was a dark, key figure in the Dreyfus affair, being implicated by Emile Zola of conspiracy to frame Alfred Dreyfus for espionage. In Zola´s open letter 'J´accuse' he accused General Billot of having held in his hands absolute proof of Dreyfus's innocence and covering it up. The Drefus affair captivated and divided France.
Lot 144
GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) Indian Political and Spiritual Leader during the Indian Independence Movement. Book signed, a hardback edition of Gandhiji - His Life and Work, published by Keshav Bhikaji Dhawale, Bombay, November 1945 (Popular Impression Unabridged). The book, which was originally published in October 1944 in recognition of Gandhi's 75th Birthday, is boldly signed by Gandhi in dark fountain pen ink with both his English ('M. K. Gandhi') and Hindustani forms of signature to the attractively illustrated half title page. English text and with numerous illustrations (some of them colour plates) and bound in printed boards and with a cloth spine. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine somewhat loose and with some slight overall age wear, otherwise about VG Provenance: The present book is accompanied by a typed statement signed by a previous owner stating that the book was acquired by and signed for his late aunt, Ruth Coe Manchester. Manchester had sailed to India on 18th December 1919 to take up a position as a teacher at the Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow (now a part of the University of Lucknow). Manchester, a great admirer of Gandhi, remained teaching in India until the late 1940s when she returned to her native America. She died in 1982 and the book, regarded as one of Manchester's prize possessions, passed down the family. In 1987 John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Canadian-American Economist & Dipolmat, United States Ambassador to India 1961-63, was invited to sign the book. His bold black ink signature ('John Kenneth Galbraith, 1987 - Ambassador to India, 1961-1963') appears to the blank recto of the illustrated frontispiece. Also included with the lot is a copy of an article relating to Ruth Coe Manchester and her time in India. Unofficially labelled the Father of the Nation, Gandhi was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Lot 27
ROUGET DE LISLE CLAUDE JOSEPH: (1760-1836) French Army Officer of the French Revolutionary Wars who wrote the words and music of the French National Anthem La Marseillaise. A.L.S., J. Rouget de Lisle, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. ('le Samedi matin'), to a gentleman [M. Pleyel], in French. Rouget de Lisle intriguingly writes 'In exchange for the most indiscreet demand that I made of you yesterday allow me to give you a piece of useless advice…you spoke the other day of your liaisons with Mr. Garnery. If you have, or will be, in the position of entering into some interesting relationships with him, be on your guard. We see that the position is nothing less that certain… he is himself being watched…' A few minor tears to the left edge, only very slightly affecting a few words of text, but not the signature. Strengthened to the verso, otherwise VG Ignace Pleyel (1757-1831) Austrian-born French Composer. Pleyel had been friends with Rouget de Lisle having worked together on Pleyel's Hymne à la liberté (1791), to which Rouget de Lisle had written the libretto. With the onset of the Reign of Terror in 1793 and 1794, life in France became dangerous for many. Pleyel was brought before the Committee of Public Safety a total of seven times due to the following: his foreign status, his recent purchase of a château, and his ties with the Strasbourg Cathedral. He was subsequently labeled a Royalist collaborator. The outcome of the Committee's attentions could easily have been imprisonment or even execution. With prudent opportunism, Pleyel preserved his future by writing compositions in honor of the new republic. La Marseillaise is widely regarded as one of the best and most instantly recognisable National Anthems ever composed. Written in 1792 by Rouget De Lisle in Strasbourg following France's declaration of war against Austria, the revolutionary song was originally entitled Chant de guerre pour l'Armee du Rhin ('War Song for the Rhine Army'). An anthem to freedom and a patriotic call to mobilise all citizens and an exhortation to fight against tyranny and foreign invasion, the French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795. The anthem acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by volunteers from Marseille marching on the capital. The first example of the 'European march' anthemic style, La Marseillaise's evocative melody and lyrics have led to its widespread use as a song of revolution and its incorporation into many pieces of classical and popular music.
Lot 118
GORKY MAXIM: (1868-1936) Russian Writer and political socialist Activist. A good L.S., M. Gorky, in Cyrillic, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Axel Gallen in Helsinki, in French. Gorki writes a letter of introduction, `I am introducing you to Mr. and Mrs. Ugo Ojetti - our Italian friends who are travelling to Russia and Finland. I am convinced that as soon as you meet them they will become your friends, because they are charming, good people, with refined and sought minds. I would like that you introduce them to all the best of your beautiful and dear country, and I am sure in advance that you will do so with your usual kindness and grace. ´ With blank integral leaf. The text of the letter is the hand of Maria Andreyeva (1868-1953) Russian Actress, the mistress and eventual common law wife of Gorky. Some very slight, minor smudging to the signature, VG Ugo Ojetti (1871-1946) Italian Art Critic and Journalist, founder of the art magazine Il Dedalo with his wife Fernanda. Ojetti and his wife were friends with Gorky, who lived in exile in Capri from 1906-13 and again in Sorrento from 1921-28. Gorky was a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. Nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, some of his most famous works were The Lower Depths (1902), Children of the Sun (1905) and The Mother (1906). He was associated with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both of whom he would later mention in his memoirs. Gorky was active with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement and publicly opposed the Tsarist regime, for a time closely associating himself with Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. For much of his life he was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union, returning in 1932 after accepting Joseph Stalin's personal invitation.
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