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Lot 588
An early 18th century fruitwood longcase clock, the 10inch square brass dial signed 'Thos Steward, Barnett', and engraved 'B, D*M' below the chapter ring, single hand 30hour movement, female scroll mask spandrels, outside countwheel striking, square section pillars and dial feet, case possibly associated 201cm (78in) one hood pilaster later, high skirting to plinth. Untested.
Lot 3193
Bibliography.- Thompson (Rodney M.), catalogue of the manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library, 1989; Hirst (Clive), catalogue of The Wren Library of Lincoln Cathedral, books printed before 1801, 1982; Glen (John) and Walsh (David), catalogue of The Francis Trigge Chained Library St Wulframs Church Grantham, 1988; Birch (Walter De Gray), catalogue of The Royal Charters and other document City of Lincoln, 1906; Corns (A.R.), Biblotheca Lincolniensis, a catalogue of the books, pamphlets, etc, relating to The City and County of Lincoln..., Lincoln 1904; Bridgman (C.G.O)., ed.),,Historical Manuscript Commission, supplementary report on the manuscripts of the late Montego Berty 12th Earl of Lindsay, preserved at Uffington House, Stamford, AD 1660-1702, 1942; Birch (Walter De Gray), City of Lincoln, catalogue of The Royal Charters and other documents and list of books belonging to the corporation of Lincoln..., Lincoln, 1911; Kynaston (W.H.), catalogue of foreign books in The Chapter Library of Lincoln Cathedral, 1972; and another, similar, various bindings, folio and 4to . (9)
Lot 142
- 1 of just 1,137 RHD (DC72) examples made, Getrag 'dog leg' gearbox, LSD - Recently MOT'd following prolonged storage and rated as 'a wonderful driver's car' - Would benefit from further recommissioning, Alpina badging / alloys The distinctive-looking M535i was introduced at the 1984 Paris Salon and based on BMW's mechanically identical E28-series 535i, but set apart by its M-Technic aero package. This comprised: deep front air dam; side valance; rear diffuser and spoiler; wheel arch extensions; and body-coloured bumpers. Inside there was an M-badged steering wheel and M-badged sports seats, just to remind you that you were driving something a little special. Some examples were also equipped with such desirable additions as the M-Technic chassis package (firmer Bilstein dampers, shorter springs and stiffer anti-roll bars); close-ratio Getrag gearbox with dog-leg change; and limited slip differential. Power came from the proven M30 3430cc straight-six in 218bhp/224lbft tune. When fully equipped, an M535i provided much of the fun of an M5 for a fraction of the price. 'B293 YYT' is such an example that sports Diamond Black bodywork, Grey cloth upholstery and Alpina wheels/badges. 1 of just 1,137 RHD (DC72) cars made, it was recently granted an MOT following long term dry storage, but the vendor recommends further recommissioning before further hard use. He currently grades the bodywork, engine and transmission as 'good', the paintwork as 'average-good' and the interior trim as 'poor'.
Lot 49
- 4.6-litre V8 with 2-speed B&M quick shift/line lock semi-automatic transmission - Lever arch file crammed with drawings, plans, specifications and receipts - Offered with current V5C document and MOT exempt And now for something completely different, that's guaranteed to render anybody's granny completely speechless - in short, a 4.6-litre V8-engine Austin A35! Lovingly built in Belgium to its current drag racing specification by a friend of the vendor but, as yet, never used in anger, the 'Gasser' is painted in a striking shade of Purple and the interior finished in a pleasing mix of body colour, chequer-plate and Black leather. The impressive mechanical specification includes the following: the aforementioned Ford Mustang engine coupled to a two-speed B&M quick shift/line lock semi-automatic transmission; Ford 9.25 locker differential with cut down axle, built by the renowned Andy Robinson; Ford Transit vented disc brake system up front and Ford drum units at the rear and full roll cage. The vendor regards the Austin's bodywork, paintwork, interior trim, V8 engine and transmission as all being in 'excellent' condition. Though he's trailered it to shows and events he feels it is time for somebody to enjoy the car to its full potential, so is now offering 'Little Rascal II' complete with a lever arch file crammed with drawings, plans, specifications and receipts from the build of this one-off classic, that inevitably ran into thousands of pounds.
Lot 111
Bible, - with prologues and Interpretations of Hebrew Names with prologues and Interpretations of Hebrew Names, decorated manuscript in Latin on parchment [England (probably Oxford), mid-thirteenth century] 437 leaves (plus 2 modern endleaves at each end), wanting a few single leaves (including a leaf from Job, which ends imperfectly in 41:21, and two from the Psalms which start imperfectly in 8:6 and are wanting Psalm 49:8-57:5, a leaf or two after Deuteronomy, with 12:15-18:22, and the same from I Kings, with 5:1-7:15, and a single leaf with the end of St Paul s epistle to the Hebrews and the opening of the Acts of the Apostles ), bound too tightly to collate, double column, 50 lines in a tiny early gothic bookhand, capitals touched in red, one-line initials in red or blue, running titles alternate in same, larger initials in same with penwork tracery, over 70 large initials in variegated blue and red (the colours separated by sweeping strokes or crenelated lines, and the 2 opening initials full-page in height with small clover shapes and dots picked out in blank parchment within their coloured panels), with offshoots of mirrored coloured leaf-shapes or elaborate penwork tracery in contrasting colours filling the borders, some terminating in small animal heads, the interpretations of Hebrew Names in 3 columns of 50 lines, numerous additions of thirteenth to sixteenth century in pen or drypoint in apparently English hands, tiny contemporary repair to a leaf at the end of Zachariah now with patch fallen away removing a small square 3 lines deep, and another leaf in the Minor Prophets with small patch covering the edge of a few lines of text, some spots and discolouration to endleaves and areas of ink loss to leaves in centre of volume due to poor ink (notably in Ezekiel), slightly trimmed at edges with small losses to edges of penwork and running titles, but overall in good and solid condition with wide and clean margins, 175 x 120mm., bound in nineteenth-century English morocco, profusely gilt in frames of arabesque designs (both inside and outside of boards), watered silk doublures, edges gilt and gauffered Provenance: (1) Most probably written and decorated for an Oxford student in the mid-thirteenth century, who seems to have added for his own reference the near-contemporary 5 page concordance of the Gospels at the end of the volume, listing subjects and chapter numbers in a series of long tables. Thereafter passing to a number of later English owners, with sixteenth-century and post-medieval names Wollocu[m]b in the upper border of a leaf from Colossians, John Templer, Thomas Pyme and William Cuttler amongst others below the beginning of Daniel (partially erased), and John By[ ] at the foot of the opening of Micah. (2) Samuel Whyle: his seventeenth- or eighteenth-century ex libris at foot of the Prologue to Genesis and the opening of Genesis. (3) Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), newspaper owner and grand bibliophile, whose personal collections were either sold by Sotheby s in the early 1920s or given to the British Library in two batches (one on his death and another on the death of his wife in 1941, with other gifts going to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the Bibliothéque Nationale de France. (4) The present volume was a gift to his descendant, Allan Heywood Bright (1862-1941), Liberal politician: an inscription and inserted letter from Yates Thompson recording his gift of the book at New Year 1894, as one sometimes sees more beautiful examples of these Bibles, but they are very rare, & every collection of M.S.S. should have one of these ; by descent to Christies, 16 July 2014, lot 1. Text: The evolution of the thirteenth-century Bible marked the initial jump from the medieval production of books to the earliest form of cottage industry, with scribes working on copying quires at the same time as each other, all under the direction of a single libraire (see Shailor, The Medieval Book , 1988, p. 98 and Sotheby s, The History of Western Script: 60 Important Leaves from the Schoyen Collection , 10 July 2012, lot 60, and references there). They were produced in vast numbers primarily to supply the growing university market, and their survival beyond the lives of their original owners appears to have substantially inhibited the copying of the text for the next century or so. They are most probably the form in which the majority of medieval people knew the Bible. However, in the last century they have become fewer and fewer to the market, with examples now regularly making record prices. This is an English manuscript of the text, which was not copied from the more common Parisian exemplar. It has Tobias, Judith and Esther in an invented order, is substantially different in its use of the prologues, and includes a version of the Interpretations of Hebrew Names in the uncommon version beginning Aad testificans … . It has elements that suggest it was a highly individual commission (English Bibles often omit the Psalms, but here strangely, the text is abbreviated after Psalm 77:31 to only what will fit on a single line from each Psalm). The Acts of the Apostles appears, unconventionally, after St Paul s Letter to the Hebrews. An early corrector has worked through the text renumbering chapters which have been erroneously numbered, with larger numbers in red ink and has been adapted by its earliest owner (with the concordance added at the end [see above], and 5 conventional editorial symbols and notes on their uses added to the endleaf at the front: Obelus est virgule iacens, apponitur in verbis vel sentenciis, superflue iteratis , Obelus desuper punctatus; limniscus; antigraphus; and asteriscus ). A marginal note in a near-contemporary hand at the opening of John, inserts part of Bede s commentary on the Catholic Epistles.
Lot 118
The Astronomical Compendium of San Cristoforo, - Turin, including Regiomontanus, Calendarium Turin, including Regiomontanus, Calendarium , as well as other related texts, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper and parchment [northern Italy (probably Turin), last decades of the fifteenth century (perhaps c. 1474)] 61 leaves (including 3 endleaves at front and 2 at back, plus last 4 leaves of text blank), complete, collation: i6, ii6, iii6, iv10 (first leaf a parchment insert, that pasted to a singleton which forms last leaf of bifolium), v3 (last leaf a parchment singleton), vi10, vii14, catchwords present, single column, c. 35 lines in a small but fine and legible hand which shows the influence of humanist script, rubrics in red, astronomical symbols in faded purple, 2-line initials in simple blue or red and blue with contrasting penwork, spaces left for other initials, 10 pages of diagrams illustrating the phase of lunar and solar eclipses for the years 1475-1530 (3 pages left in trick), 2 parchment leaves with 4 full-page diagrams, one a volvelle (middle ring wanting), others an Instrumentum horar[i]um inequalium with a list of planetary bodies, a Quadrans horologii horizontalis and a Quadratum horarium generale with designations for latitude and longitude, 2 pages of calculatory diagrams with text in red and purple ink and 2 further volvelle diagrams on either side of a paper leaf, a series of near-contemporary calculation numbers added down side of one diagram, some small stains and smudges, splits to edges of a few endleaves, small amount of wormholes, overall good condition, 206 by 147mm., in contemporary light coloured leather over pasteboards, circular marks scored into boards showing places of lost metal bosses, some scuffs, worm and losses at corners, spine skilfully rebacked Provenance: (1) Most probably written and illustrated for Brother Antonius de lanteo (doubtless a member of the medieval Turin de Lanceo family), an inmate of the Augustinian monastery of San Cristoforo, Turin: his inscription at head of recto of first leaf of Calendar S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo . The Calendar of Regiomontanus work has been adapted during copying to include Augustinian saints and exclude the German and Bohemian ones usually found there. (2) Joseff Greg[o]ri[o] da Bologna: his seventeenth-century inscription on back cover. (3) Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Italian polymath and grand bibliophile, who held offices as professor of Mathematical Physics at Pisa and of Calculus at the Sorbonne, and then Chief Inspector of French Libraries from 1841. This last role eventually brought him notoriety as a book thief, and he fled to England. Before and after this he had acted as a legitimate dealer in books and manuscripts, and doubtless he acquired the present volume in Italy. It was lot 92 in his sale at Sotheby s, 28 March 1859. (4) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), the greatest book collector to have ever lived, who assembled a vast collection numbering several tens of thousands of items, accumulating in a single lifetime more manuscripts than Oxford and Cambridge together; his MS. 16242 (his pencil Ph number and pen Phillipps Ms 16242 inside front board; his sale at Sotheby s, 5 June 1899 ( Bibliotheca Phillippica XI), lot 75 (sale catalogue cutting glued to front endleaf). (5) Samuel Verplank Hoffman (1866-1942), who studied astronomy and taught it at John Hopkins University before taking over his family s business empire, and was a member of the New York Historical Society from 1901 until his death, serving as its president from 1903 (they have a portrait of him from 1907) and a member of the Grolier Club: his armorial bookplate inside front board. It was probably sold soon after his death, on July 28, 1944 (pencil date inside front board). The Smithsonian acquired his collection of astrolabes in 1959. Text: This is an important witness to the study of astronomy in Turin in the fifteenth century, which is contemporary or near-contemporary with the life of the celebrated astronomer Regiomontanus. It is among a tiny handful of early copies of his crucial Calendarium (here fols.1v-32v, and giving information on lunar and solar eclipses for 1475-1530, as well as the length of days and signs of the zodiac and planets), and is the earliest known Italian manuscript of the text. It is now the only recorded copy left in private hands. Regiomontanus virtuoso career straddled the transition from manuscript to early print, and thus his works are of the greatest rarity in handwritten copies. He was born Johannes Müller in 1436 in the Franconian market town of Königsberg (the name Regiomontanus was first coined by Philipp Melanchthon in 1534). His first known accomplishment, as a 13-year-old student in Leipzig, was the production of a set of planetary tables vastly more accurate and impressive than Gutenberg s own Astronomical Calendar of 1448 . He became a pupil of Georg von Peuerbach (1423-61) in Vienna, and continued that scholar s work in astronomy, mathematics and instrument making. On Peuerbach s insistence, Regiomontanus followed his mentor into the service of the humanist papal legate and book collector Basilios Bessarion and spent much of the 1460s splitting his time between Bessarion s household there and the courts of Archbishop Janos Vitez and King Matthius Corvinus in Hungary. It was in these years that he honed his notion that what astrology lacked was precision, and began his prolific writing career, moving in 1471 to Nuremberg, an imperial cultural centre, and founding his own printing press, the first dedicated to astronomy and mathematics. He died soon after, while on a trip to Rome in 1475-76. It is most probably his foundation of a printing press that ensured so few of his works were transmitted in manuscript, as his work moved in many cases seamlessly from his own rough copy to incunable. The only two manuscript copies to come to the market in living memory are this one and that sold by Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig, and thence to the Getty, later sold to the late Laurence Schoenberg, and now in Princeton University ( Transformations of Knowledge , 2006, LJS. 300, p. 74, deposited in Princeton since 2011). The Schoenberg manuscript has been dated variously from c .1470 to c .1500, and was most probably in the library of Lambach Abbey, Austria. Both it and the present copy are prestigious de luxe copies, rather than hastily copied scholar s working copies. Neither can be definitively dated to either before or after the emergence of the printed edition of 1474, and both agree closely with that witness (the present manuscript differs only in the alterations to the Calendar and in the placement of the diagram of the Quadrans Horologii horizontalis and the Quadratum horarium generale later in the sequence). Both might be copies of Regiomontanus lost exemplar (which as it was produced for direct printing is likely to have been near-identical in layout to the incunable). That may have been circulated among associates and fellow astronomers immediately before the printing, and Antonio de Lanteo was plausibly a friend of the author perhaps met during his long travels in northern Italy. Or they could be copies made for monastic libraries soon after 1474, but then we must believe that these libraries could afford to source a copy of the incunable and produce de luxe copies of it, but apparently could not afford to purchase a printed copy. The study on the relationship of these early manuscript witnesses to the printed text has yet to be written, but it is clear that no such study can afford to ignore the present manuscript. The other short texts at the end here are no less interesting or intriguing, and include a large number not apparently recorded elsewhere.
Lot 23
Large cutting - from an extremely early copy of Gratian’s Decretum from an extremely early copy of Gratian s Decretum , in Latin on parchment [northern France or Low Countries, last decades of the twelfth century (probably c. 1170-80] Large cutting from a leaf, with remains of 2 columns and 28 lines in a skilled early gothic bookhand with only a few biting curves (containing on its front parts of C. XII Non licet aliena rapere exemplo Israelitarum spoliantium Egyptios to C. I. Penitencia non agitur, si res aliena non restituitur ), red rubrics, paragraph marks in alternate red, green or blue, small initials in same with baubles suspended within their compartments and with fluted wavy ascenders and tails (cf. the initials in Avranches, Bib. Mun. 107, Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, after 1154: I Normanni, 1994, p.71; and perhaps also Pierpont Morgan Library M 962, north-eastern France, c. 1150: Kahn, Romanesque Manuscripts, 1996, pls.260-1), one marginal chapter number in red capitals preserved in tag at side of main cutting ( Q VI for Quaestio VI), recovered from a binding with small specks of paper adhered to front, and discolouration and scuffing in places to reverse, small holes from stitching and apparently from clasp attachment, overall in good and legible condition This is one of the earliest witnesses to the Ecclesiastical law section of Gratian s Decretum to survive. The text was composed in an initial version after 1139 followed by a second recension in the 1150s, in the centre for legal studies which had grown up around Bologna from the eleventh century onwards. Little more than his name, Gratian, can be known with any certainty about the author, but he is the only lawyer that Dante identified as in Paradise. His text was composed as an attempt to resolve discordant parts of the law, and after its incorporation into the Corpus Juris Canonici it came to form the bedrock for all medieval ecclesiastical law, remaining the established text until the early twentieth century. By 1143 the text appears to have been used in legal disputes in Venice, and in c . 1180 Robert of Torigny, the abbot of Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, commented on Gratian and his work in his chronicle. This fragment is physical testament to this rapid widespread dispersal, as it was copied in northern Europe, as far as one can travel overland from Bologna, within a few decades of the composition of the text. It may well be a relic of the copy used in Mont-Saint-Michel, or a sister codex to that.
Lot 3
Leaf from an illuminated monastic Missal, - in Latin, on parchment [southern Germany in Latin, on parchment [southern Germany (Regensburg), third quarter of the tenth century] Single leaf, 28 lines in two sizes of a fine early Romanesque hand with a sloping d with a notably short ascender, a short t producing a flat ct-ligature and a tall capital U with a higher first stroke which curves back to the left, the smaller script with neumes, initials and rubrics in terracotta red, one initial V (opening Veni sponsa Christi … the Magnificat antiphon at Second Vespers from the Common of Virgins) in bars of crystalline gold edged in red and blue with foliage sprouts emerging from their sides, the rest of that line in monumental capitals, some lines of music extending into margin and the last words of one line with neumes inserted between lines with an angular red line to mark it, top edge of leaf torn but without affect to text, 5 v-shaped nicks in inner vertical edge marking original sewing stations, some marks at head of verso from previous mounting, some other small spots and folds, but overall in excellent condition, 282 by 217mm. From the paleographer s point of view this is an exceptionally handsome leaf. The nib of the pen was cut thinly and the scribe s work is refined and precise. The line of capitals is elegant, employing both an uncial M of an early form whose outermost ascenders curve in to produce a letter which resembles two graceful arches, as well as other letters with a more contemporary fishtail to the base of their descenders which trails off in a hairline stroke on the lefthand fork. The parchment is thin and of much better quality than many contemporary codices. The parent codex must have been of great textual beauty. While the hand initially appears eleventh century, it is in fact earlier, and the bulk of the codex (some 8 leaves only) is Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, Frag. 63, catalogued by Hartmut Hoffmann as in a Regensburg hand of the last third of the tenth century ( Buchkunst und Königtum , 1986, p.283). Another leaf appeared in Quaritch, cat.1315 ( Bookhands of the Middle Ages VII, 2004), no. 57, and reappeared in Sotheby s, 6 July 2006, lot 3 (illustrated full page), and a small number of other leaves have recently appeared on the market.
Lot 169
Australian States : Western Australia 1859-1912 Collection on printed leaves with mint & used ranges with better, we note 1859 imperf 6d grey black (u) SG19 – scarce stamp with faults; 1861 imperf 6d sage green with close/touching margins light used, a good range of imperforated swan issues m + u with notable fresh mint to 1/-, 1902 to 02-Jun and 5/- both mint, later swans m&u with elusive. A useful lot, in generally good condition. Original & unpicked. Approx. 60 Cat approx. £1,150 excluding SG19 Reserve: £150
Lot 172
Australian States: Tasmania 1853-1912 Collection on printed leaves with a decent offering, chiefly used ranges inc dups & shades, odd mint, commences with 1853 mperf 4d red orange with large margins (SG7, Cat £425) imperf chalons to 6d vals; dup perforated chalons to 1/-, 1870 small side face m & u to 5/- purple (pen cancel), 1892 to 02-Jun (u), 1896-99 nice range of views m or u (cds), early Dues. (Approx 80). Original unpicked Reserve: £160
Lot 364
Samoa 1877-1975 Fine mint collection on printed leaves, well filled early ranges with few gaps from Turn of Century issues, commences with 1877 Express issues inc SG7 1/- yellow (m), later reprints, 1886-1900 issues to 02-Jun with odd fu dup, 1899 Provisional Govt, odd 1914 GRI o’printed, Ed7/KG5 complete sequences with numerous sets & better, defins to 1/-, 1920 Victory, 1921 long set, 1926 Admirals with 3/- vfu, post War run through with attractive thematic sets, 1914-24 Postal Fiscals 2/-, 2/6, 5/- mint. 100’s. Clean, original lot. Reserve: £140
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