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Click here to subscribeIreland.- Bruce (J.M., editor, of Ballyscullion Park, Bellaghy, Ireland) The Rambler or The Racer edited by J.M. Bruce, [family magazine], manuscript and typescript, 239pp., some watercolours and pen and ink drawings, browned, some creasing, a few tears at edges, original cloth, gilt, slightly marked, spine partially stained, g.e., 4to, [c. 1914].
Calligraphy.- Tagliente (Giovanni Antonio, calligrapher, Venetian author, printer and publisher, c. 1460s - c. 1528).- Potter (Esther, writer on calligraphy) Archive of reproductions of designs and notes of Tagliente's works, illustrations, typed notes, manuscript notes etc., v.s., v.d., [1960s] (qty).⁂ Esther Potter, pupil of the scholar Graham Pollard (1903-1976).
Western Caribbean, Mosquito Coast.- [An account of the Miskito Kingdom (Mosquito Coast)], manuscript, 13pp., part only, incomplete at beginning and end, folds, browned, a few small tears to edges, folio, dated in text 1761.⁂ "6 July 1761 to Messes Hutchinson Moon & Co to satisfie a bill of exchange drawn by Henry Moon Esq Lieut: Governor of Jamaica for the service of the Mosquito shore - the inhabitants of that country are reckond independant of Spain & the kings does Homage to the Govr - the late king story of that Homage to the Duke of Portland, is that the Duke & Dutchess being to dine above stairs they pujt a full bottom perwig on him but having never gone up a pair of stairs he jumped up them as a cock does he talked plain bawdy to her so much that she did not know what to do... ."
[SOULT NICOLAS JEAN DE DIEU]: (1769-1851) Marshal of France, Duc de Dalmatie. An interesting and lengthy contemporary manuscript, nineteen pages, 4to, being the transcriptions of the Cadiz Regency gazette and the Madrid gazette, dated 23rd January and 11th February 1813. The provenance being Marshal Soult´s own personal files. The manuscript mostly reports on the Spanish campaign, London news and Russian campaign. A lengthy part reports on British spies captured in the Morbihan, north of France, and a very interesting chapter reports on the Russian campaign, stating in part `..The French have been dislodged from Kowno after having lost 21 canons and 6000 men were imprisoned.-Marshal Macdonald planned returning through Tilsit.. Prussian peasants are assassinating all French drivers wherever they find them...´ Together with an original printed gazette of Madrid, four pages, folio, dated 23rd January 1813. A hard attack against Napoleon Bonaparte describing him as `..this odious biped that Corsica produced in its rocks to persecute us..´ About VG, 2 £100-150
NICHOLAS I: (1796-1855) Emperor of Russia 1825-55. L.S., Nicolas, a good and bold signature example, three pages, folio, Saint Petersburg, 23rd March 1837, to His Majesty the King of Naples, in Cyrillic. The manuscript letter informs the King, 'Our Dear Brother and Friend.. after having accepted the petition received from our Privy Councillor, Chamberlain and Cavalier Count Adam Matushevits, who is residing now at the Court of Your Majesty as our Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister, we relieve him from his duty and Envoy..´. Countersigned at the foot by Karl Nesselrode. Accompanied by the original envelope wrapper bearing a large Imperial paper seal. Some extremely light, minor age wear, otherwise VG £1000-1500 Ferdinand II (1810-1859) King of the Two Sicilies 1830-59. Karl Nesselrode (1780-1862) Russian Count and Diplomat. Foreign Affairs Minister 1816-56. Nesselrode served under Tsars Alexander I, Nicholas I and Alexander II.
ROSTAND EDMOND: (1868-1918) French Poet. An attractive and unusual autograph manuscript, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d., in French. The manuscript is entitled `Dickens´, Rostand stating in part `He is a marvelous genius… he must be crowned.. He must be placed between Andersen and Tolstoy…. In his fantasies, it seems that Falstaff is aureoled with tenderness, like a plum pudding with a bluer flame. And in the midst of the warm intimacy of rooms where, thanks to him, the selfish kettle sings like a poet, he causes the wind which speaks of tragic misery to blow beneath the hard doors. He has spoken about the child's tears, and the eyes of death… Yes, between Andersen and Tolstoy. He is not Father Christmas, because in his sack he has something better than toys: the most beautiful stories, many dreams, and all goodness..´ Double cloth matted in green and red to an overall of 12.5 x 15. One vertical fold with text slightly light. G £250-350
ROBESPIERRE MAXIMILIEN DE: (1758-1794) French Lawyer & Politician, one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Executed by guillotine at the age of 36. Rare D.S., Robespierre, one page, 8vo, Paris, 4th Prairial, Republic 2 (30th May 1794), in French. The manuscript document is issued by the Committee of Public Safety and orders the Surveillance Committee of the municipality of Vaugirard 'to arrest in 24 hours citizen Boulanger who lives in this municipality and securely confiscate his papers' further requesting that the Surveillance Committee confirm within two days the execution of the order. Countersigned at the conclusion by Georges Couthon (1755-1794) French Politician, executed by guillotine alongside Robespierre. With a professional repair to the lower left edge, light age wear, and signs of former mounting to the verso. G £2500-3500 The Committee of Public Safety, created in April 1793 formed the de facto executive government in France during the Reign of Terror (1793-94), its role to protect the newly established Republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion. In July 1793 Robespierre was added to the Committee, however, the execution of Robespierre in July 1794 represented a reactionary period against the Committee of Public Safety, known as the Thermidorian Reaction. The Committee's influence subsequently diminished and it was disestablished in 1795.The Surveillance Committee supervised the local police committees in charge of investigating reports of treason, and was one of the agencies with authority to refer suspects to the Revolutionary Tribunal for trial and possible execution by guillotine.
[SOULT NICOLAS JEAN DE DIEU]: (1769-1851) Marshal of France, Duc de Dalmatie. An interesting and lengthy contemporary manuscript, fifteen pages, 4to, being the transcriptions of the Cadiz Regency gazette, dated 12th January 1813. The provenance being Marshal Soult´s own personal files. The manuscript mostly reports on the 29th and last bulletin of the Grande Armée, dated 2nd December 1812, containing Napoleon´s message to the French explaining the reasons of the defeat in the Russian campaign. The gazette title states `..Bonaparte makes the most deplorable description of his Grande Armée, the one he thought, with his crazy ambition, would conquer one day the Russian Empire.´ A legendary bulletin dictated by Napoleon to Caulaincourt, making the weather largely responsible of the defeat. The manuscript transcriptions also reports on Great Britain and Malta, and includes a speech published in Saint Petersburg. About VG £100-150
ROSSINI GIOACHINO: (1792-1868) Italian Composer. Rare A.M.Q.S., Gioachino Rossini, one page, oblong folio manuscript paper, Florence, 3rd June 1853. In bold dark fountain pen ink, Rossini has neatly penned a quotation for piano forte comprising ten bars of music across two staves, with small annotations, which he identifies as A[ndanti]no. Signed and dated by the composer immediately beneath the quotation. The document bears a watermark. Some light creasing and minor overall age wear, VG £3000-4000
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE: (1821-1880) French Novelist. Widely considered the leading exponent of the literary realism. Best-known for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857). An excellent and rare autograph manuscript by Flaubert, two pages, folio, n.p., n.d., entitled Loi Salique ("Salic Law"), in French. A lengthy handwritten text by Flaubert, related to the spirit of the Salic Law, commented by Montesquieu, about its Germanic origin, stating in part `Two texts about the Salic Law, both of them in Latin but the second being full of German words mixed with Latin.. It is a matter of defining which one is the most ancient text..´ further saying `The Salic Law is not a standard code of laws but a simple enumeration of judicial customs… the criminal law holds the main important place.. We can feel at every moment the passage from one society to another, since the tenth century the customs succeed them..´ A curious and interesting lengthy document y Flaubert. Folded. With right edge slightly trimmed, otherwise G £2000-3000 The Salic Law was the ancient Salian Frankish civil law code compiled by first Frankish King Clovis AD 500. The written text is in Latin. It remained the basis of Frankish law throughout the Medieval, and influenced future European legal systems.
EIFFEL GUSTAVE: (1832-1923) French Civil Engineer, designer of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty. A good A.L.S., `G. Eiffel´, one page, 8vo, Madrid, 10th November 1880, to an unidentified correspondent, in French. On his printed stationery with his name to the heading “G. Eiffel”, above the printed text “Metallic Constructions“. Gustave Eiffel explains that he could see in Vienna a manuscript written by his correspondent about the Pest train station, and states `I forgot during our last meeting to ask your authorization to get a copy… without taking the risk of losing the manuscript.´ Folded. With blank integral leaf. VG £600-900 Eiffel was awarded with the Order of François-Joseph for his work on the Pest train station in Budapest.
JOHN I, DUKE OF BOURBON: (1380-1434) John I supported the Orleans against the Bourgogne, defended Bourges, but was captured at the battle of Azincourt and died imprisoned in London in spite of promising to support Henry VI King of England. Rare manuscript letter, one page, oblong 8vo, parchment, Menestou-sur-Cher (close to Bourges), 7th June 1412, in old French. The manuscript letter, written on behalf of John I states in part `We, Jehan Duc de Bourbonnais…acknowledge having received a sum.. from Pierre Remer, General Treasurer of my very dear cousin the Duke of Orleans..´, further saying `..to cover the expenses had on missions, to pay the troops to accompany our dear cousin the Count of Vertus.. until the Saone river..´ Edges irregularly trimmed. G £1000-1500 An excellent historic document referring to the disputes between the Duke of Orleans, Charles “The Poet”, father of King Louis XII, and the Duke of Bourgogne, while King Charles VI was besieging Bourges where was the Duke of Berry, allied of the Armagnac. Richard of Bretagne (1395-1438) Count of Vertus. Richard Capet-Dreux-Montfort D´Etampes, Count of Etampes and of Mantes. He married Marguerite of Orleans. His notable ancestors include Henry II of England, William I of England and Charlemagne.
GARBÉ MARIE THÉODORE: (1769-1831) French General and Politician during Revolution and first Empire time. A very good, lengthy and important signed autograph manuscript, `Garbé´, six pages, folio, Bayonne, 14th July 1813, to Marshal Soult, in French. The lengthy and very interesting report refers to the troops return from Spain and to the military strategy to plan the defence of the city and fortifications of Bayonne `These are the advantages that the situation of the city of Bayonne presents for a good defence of it…and the inconvenients of such same situation, which we are going to study successively in detail.´. The text contains full and specific details of each of the city borders and explains how to reinforce the weak ones. VG £100-150
ALEXANDER I: (1777-1825) Emperor of Russia 1801-25. L.S., Alexandre, one page, 4to, Saint Petersburg, 15th June 1824, to Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Monfort, in French. The manuscript letter responds to his correspondent´s one dated 30th March, and the Tsar refers to his `unalterable and sincere feelings for Her Royal Highness´, further saying `Believe me Madame when I say that, on my side, I would experience a real pleasure if the circumstances lead us to an occasion of meeting you allowing me to repeat my words to you in person…´ Alexander I would die the year after and could not meet his correspondent a further time. The letter bears a J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1822 watermark. Folded. VG £1000-1500 Catharina of Wurttemberg (1783-1835) Queen consort of Westphalia 1807-13, and Princess of Monfort as second spouse of Jerome Bonaparte.
POPE ALEXANDER: (1688-1744) English Poet, known for his satirical verse and use of the heroic couplet. Pope is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after William Shakespeare. Fine, dark ink signature ('A. Pope') to the verso of a manuscript document signed ('J: Caryll') by John Caryll, one page, slim oblong 12mo, n.p., 2nd September 1717. Caryll's document is addressed to the goldsmith [Richard] Wright of Convent Garden and states, in full, 'Pray pay unto Mr. Alexander Pope or order the sum of thirty three shilings on acct of yr friend'. Signed by Pope to the verso as an acknowledgement of having received the funds. With a partial integral address leaf. Rare. Some light overall age toning and wear, otherwise VG £300-400 John Caryll (1667-1736) The Younger. Second Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford and friend of Alexander Pope. Richard Wright conducted the business of Wrights & Co. between 1708-29, the private bank having been established as the goldsmithing business of William Wright in 1699, based in Covent Garden, London. Pope published several works in the same year as signing the present document, including Eloisa to Abelard, Three Hours After Marriage and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. It was also the year in which his father, a linen merchant in London, died.
ELIZABETH I OF RUSSIA: (1709-1762) Empress of Russia 1741-62. L.S., Elizabeth, in Cyrillic, one page, folio, Saint Petersburg, 24th January 1737, in Cyrillic. The manuscript document is a Decree to the Patrimonial Chancery, instructing that attention to Piotr Novikov´s horses has to be maintained and that the same money he was receiving when he was working for the chancery as salary has to be paid in future. Further also instructing that the sum of 150 roubles has to be paid annually to the notary Bogdanov, as well as 800 kilos of flour and oat every four months, first the flour at the beginning of each period and after, at the end of each period, the money. Very small minor age wear, otherwise VG £1000-1500
REDOUTE PIERRE-JOSEPH: (1759-1840) Dutch Painter & Botanist, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at the Chateau de Malmaison, the former residence of Empress Josephine and Napoleon Bonaparte's last residence in France at the end of the Hundred Days in 1815. D.S., Redoute, one page, 4to, Paris, 1st March 1821, in French. The manuscript document is a receipt issued by the booksellers Treuttel & Wurtz in relation to the sales of Redoute's L'Ouvrage des Roses and proceeds to list the various editions sold, totalling 810 francs. The document further lists various deductions, resulting in a total of 448.62 francs owing to the artist. Signed at the foot of the document with a few additional words in his hand. Some extremely light, very minor age wear, VG £400-500
BOOK OF HOURS, MANUSCRIPT LEAF WITH MINIATURE OF KING DAVID, 15TH CENTURY. The upper side with an arch top painted miniature in colours of the king, a harp beside him, at prayer, gilt, blue, red & green initial & 3 lines of Latin text below (the opening of the seven penitential psalms of which David was traditionally considered the author), trailing foliate border in red, green & gilt, the reverse with 15 lines of text & small illuminated initials. 16cm x 12cm. Attr. Paris, c.1440.
TWO ILLUMINATIONS FROM A DISPERSED JAIN MANUSCRIPT, GUJARAT, WESTERN INDIA, CIRCA 1600 blue and red pigment with black and gold on paper, one depicting Adinatha, the first tirthankara, the other containing two scenes, a divine couple above and a mother with her baby in a bedchamber below, each with nine lines of devanagari script on the reverse, mounted 12 x 8.5cm approx. each The illuminations on Jain sutras from Western India form one of the earliest groups of Indian painting on paper. For a complete volume with 37 illustrations in the British Library, see inv. no. Or 13362. Descriptions in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports and all lots are sold as viewed. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in good condition. Prospective bidders are recommended to request a condition report prior to bidding, wherever possible satisfying themselves in person at the gallery as to the condition of a lot.
The Great War diaries and associated ephemera of Captain E.W.H. Cruickshank, Royal Army Medical Corps, comprising: eight volumes of manuscript (numbered 2-9) commencing 11th May 1916 with No XI Ambulance Train B.E.F., and progressing through attachments to various units until 1919, where we find him as Medical Officer to the 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps; together with typed transcripts of parts of his diaries, items of official correspondence, photographs and press cuttings; also a photograph album including studies of RAF personnel and Aircraft and of the Turkish Army, as well as tourist views of the Middle East. Part of the typed record recounts the experiences of a Doctor interned in Germany in the early part of the war, and subsequently released to return to England. The subject is not identified in the text but it appears that this is also part of Cruickshank's story. This archive offers a scarce and fascinating insight into the war as seen by a medical officer, and it includes narratives of front line activities, as well as duty in the rear echelons.
A set of ten caricatures of military and naval stereotypes, pen, ink and watercolour, each representing a letter of the alphabet and accompanied by a humorous verse in manuscript, being original artwork for the plates in 'Army and Navy Drolleries' by Captain (later Major) Seccomb', each in an oak frame under glass. [10]
A Folio from a Dispersed Illuminated Manuscript, Probably Bundelkhand, Central India, 16th century, depicting a ruler seated under a tree, conversing with two courtiers, accompanied by three attendants, eleven lines of devanagari script on the reverse, framed 12.5 x 27cm; 5 x 10 5/8in (image) Condition: Damaged edges with some losses, some flaking and rubbing, one or two holes
Ten Folios from a Dispersed Illuminated Manuscript, Central India, circa 18th century, ink and gouache with gold on paper, depicting scenes from the life of Krishna, each inscribed in devanagari with punctuation and significant words in red,16 x 12.5cm; 6 1/4 x 5in each (folio) Condition: Illuminations generally good, some damage with losses and staining to margins
19th Century Miniatures[The Gore Family] - ' Hon. Edward Gore,' painting on ivory, signed 'Mary Stewart,' together with a small miniature coloured print of his sister ' Cecilia Letitia Underwood ' ( Duchess of Inverness) in case, with manuscript note. (2)Both siblings were the children of Arthur Saunders Gore , 2nd Earl of Arran.
† Exorcist III (1990) Hand typed manuscript, the 112 fully hand typed written Script is dated as January 30, 1982, with the original tile of 'Legion'. Housed within it's original protective packing envelope with hand written pencil title detailing. This is the original manuscript, hand typed in full and featuring careful amendments either with the aid of white correction fluid or carefully over-pasted typed paper segments. Originally sourced from renowned Cinematographer Gerry Fisher who was a highly regarded working associate and friend of Exorcist author William Peter Blatty. As such, this is thought to be the original William Peter Blatty first master script for Legion/Exorcist III, which finally went in to production in 1989. Please note that VAT is payable on top of the hammer price at 20% in addition to standard buyers premium inc. VAT for this lot.
A Victorian Macabre Snap Dragon seed pod headed doll group 'The Old Lady who Lived in a Shoe':, comprising a figure of a woman and eleven children in lace bonnets standing in a black velvet shoe, with remains of manuscript label with verse, the seed pods giving the appearance of skeletal figures, under an associated glass dome with wooden base, 16cm high.
A late Victorian wooden Fortune Teller peg doll:, painted hair and face over wooden body dressed in oriental style costume, the shirt made of folded coloured paper sections with manuscript fortunes inside, raised on a circular wooden socle, together with an associated glass dome (dome a/f), doll height 22cm.
RICHARD- KARL KARLOVICH ZOMMER (1866-1939)A Street Market with Figures, near a ruined mosquesigned in cyrillic (lower right)oil on board13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in (34.3 x 41.8cm)The location depicted has traditionally been identified as SamarkandProvenance: Fountain Charles Bolton, Esq, by descent to his daughter Mollie Bolton,Worlingham. Surrey Thence to the present vendor The first known owner of this painting was Fountain Charles Bolton. He was manager for W.J. Bush & Co at their Moscow factory producing oils and essences for the British market At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Fountain sent his wife and four children out of Russia escaping by sledge across the ice to Sweden and then to England. Fountain Bolton remained in Moscow hoping to save the business but soon it became apparent that he had to flee.It was now impossible to take the same route as his wife and children. He and a friend managed to get a place on one of the last trains leaving Moscow and travelled east via Nizhny Novgorod into Siberia.Once in Siberia they had to change trains and make do with places in a goods truck with no windows.The circumstances in which Fountain Bolton is said to have acquired the painting by Zommer shortly thereafter,are outlined in a manuscript text written by his daughter Mollie Bolton in a biographical essay about her early life, titled 'The Early Years'.'Progress was very slow; sometimes they didn't move all day, often being stuck out in no-man's land in between stations.When stopping in village stations sometimes peasants came wanting to barter for any food travellers might have to spare. Father exchanged a loaf of bread for an oil painting of Samarkand (still in my possession) which he brought back home packed flat in the bottom of his suitcase'Fountain travelled on through Siberia and Mongolia to Vladivostock and thence Japan. From there he joined a Danish Red Cross ship (where he had to sign on as medical attendant in order to board) bound for Vancouver. He eventually returned via America to the UK. The painting by Zommer became a prized possession for Bolton and a memento of his extraordinary escape from the Bolsheviks.Richard Zommer, the artist, was a Russian of German origin, now remembered as something of an explorer artist. He studied at the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg from 1884. Between 1890 and 1900 he travelled widely in central Asia. In the early 1900's he moved to Georgia and worked in the Caucasus Mountains, providing an invaluable record of life in that remote territory at the time. Later he travelled extensively in Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia between 1912 and 1917. During some of that time he taught and exhibited paintings at Tbilisi. Another Zommer painting with a colourful history, akin to the Brightwells example, which was acquired by a British army officer stationed in Tbilisi in 1915/6 and brought back rolled in an army map box to England shortly thereafter, was sold at Woolley & Wallis Auctioneers,Salisbury, lot 472 (titled 'Figures by a Mosque'), March 15th 2017. Zommer's paintings of street scenes are often set in the mostly Muslim territories of old Russia.There the artist found rich material in the colourful bazaars, mosques and street processions in towns along the Silk Route. His better known pictures of Samarkand include a view of the Shir-dor Mosque, Samarkand (sold Sotheby's, London lot 39 May 31 2006) and A street Market near the ruins of the Bibi-Khanyan Mosque, Samarkand (sold Christies, London lot 349 November 26 2008).In 1939 the Stalin regime forced Zommer to leave Georgia and no record of him has been found after that time. He is believed to have been interned and later died in a Siberian prison camp as part of Stalin's purge of non ethnic Russians.
A Victorian composite photograph pocket frame embossed with Sir Henry Havelock, containing a photograph of an old woman, Mary Anne Packe (nee Heathcote) to/w a pair of painted wood cut out figures of Coldstream Guards, a leather-bound manuscript musical thesis/'exercise', written by Miss Annie Louisa Mixer for her music degree at Durham University, 1898, Head Music teacher at Godolphin and at Benenden (where she was also a founder) and an 1890 volume, Gaudeamus - Songs for Colleges and Schools
*Davies (Roland George, RNVR and Guernsey militia). A collection of six naval diaries of R.G. Davies, 1914-20, with brief manuscript entries in ink covering his World War I service on board HMS Bellerophon, Lion, City of London and President VI, original cloth or quarter cloth, some soiling and wear, small 8vo, together with Davis's original list of his services, noting mention in dispatches in North Russia 1919 and medals entitlement to include Victory (with oak leaf) and RNVR Long Service, a photograph of HMS Lion, plus various cuttings and copies including biographical information on Davis (a box file)
Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Women's Auxiliary Air Force Journal. Air Woman, 2nd Class Jean Horsfall, WRAAF, commencing 3 September 1939, a manuscript journal/ scrap album covering the WWII service of Jean Horsfall, a fascinating insight which includes a Royal Air Force certificate (23rd West Riding Co, W.A.A.F.) dated 7 December 1939, another for Huddersfield Barracks 21 March 1940 including cloth Leading Aircraftsmen cloth badge, photograhs of serving friends, Dinner and Dance Menu, 26 July 1940 (No.30 Maintenance Unit, RAF Sealand), Daily Routine Orders, another Menu dated 18 September 1942 signed by approx. 30 serving personnel, numerous poems and humorous antidotes, piece of a German parachute acquired in Poland plus a parachute cord 'dropped somewhere in England', several loose black and white photographs including Air Ministry issue photographs of the technical group stores, a group photographs titled W.A.A.F. Officers' School, Initial Course No.30 1941, goes on and on and final entry inscribed 'Here's to the Girl who's pure and chaste, The less she's pure the more she's chaste, The Toast of the R.A.F.' (qty)
*RAF Commission. A printed commission appointing James Norris Marchbank to be an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1 April 1918, St James's, 1 November, 1918, completed in manuscript, ink stamp of King George V upper left, countersigned by William Sefton Brancker and William Arthur Robinson lower right, stamped in red ink 'Temporary' upper right, some spotting and old waterstain to left margin, linenised paper, together with a second commission appointing Marchbank to the rank of Pilot Officer, 12 October 1940, printed facsimile signature of King George VI upper left, a little creasing and some soiling to verso, 30 x 40cm and slightly larger (2)
*WWI Combat in the Air Report. Report by Captain G.L. Lloyd of Squadron No. 40, flying an Albatross two seater on EA Patrol & OP. near Fromelles, August 1917, typed report on pre-printed form, giving an account of the sighting of a Nieuport enemy aircraft at 19,000 feet, 'E.A.'s observer was firing very heavily - with two guns - Nieuport pulled up without firing and E.A. then turned east. Nieuport next attacked on same level as E.A. from behind, opening fire at 50 yards range. E.A.'s observer was firing continuously and just after opening fire Nieuport was directly behind and slightly to the left of E.A. and saw half of E.A.'s tail plane break off...', with some further deletions and manuscript amendments, signed by Captain G. Lawrence Lloyd and Major L.A. Tilney, marginal punch holes and marginal splits, one page, folio (1)
Chute (John, architect and connoisseur of the arts and literature, friend of Horace Walpole & the Rev. James Austen (father of Jane Austen), of The Vyne, Sherborne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1701-76) Indenture agreement, "John Chute of the Vine" leases to Thomas ffiges "All those four several pieces or parcels of meadow or pasture ground called... Starry ffrith" [Romsey] for a year, D.s. "John Chute" & "John Aldridge Servt. to John Chute Esq.", manuscript on vellum, large remains of red wax seal, folds, slightly browned, 340 x 515mm., 9th October 1770.⁂ Signed in a shaky hand by the increasingly frail and near sighted John Chute. "Chute's activity as an architect was confined to a small number of projects only but in them he established a distinct contribution in two different directions: one was as a significant figure in the early Gothic revival, the other as a classical designer of marked independence. As a member of Walpole's 'committee of taste' he played a leading role in the creation of the latter's celebrated Gothic villa of Strawberry Hill. Walpole later described him as 'an able geometrician and an exquisite architect, and of the purest taste both in the Grecian and Gothic styles' (Walpole, Corr., 21.263), and as 'my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, the genius that presided over poor Strawberry!' (Walpole, Corr., 24.209). Chute... Like Walpole... was a vivid and witty correspondent and conversationalist and a discriminating connoisseur of literature and the arts." - Oxford DNB.
Astronomy.- Cook (Peter, astronomy student) Astronomy [Student's notebook of Astronomy problems], manuscript, 62pp. excluding blanks, 36 pen and ink scientific illustrations, some ink marks and smudges, browned, original wrappers, numerous ink calculations and doodles on wrappers, slightly browned, corners creased, sm. 4to, n.d. [c. 1820]. ⁂ "Astronomical Problems. 1st Given the obliquity of the ecliptic and the Sun's Declination, to find its right Ascension and Longitude." - Peter Cook.
NO RESERVE Scott (Sir George Gilbert, architect, 1811-78) Specification of Works required to be done in restoring, repairing &c Worksop Abbey Church George Gilbert Scott Archt. 20 Spring Gardens London, manuscript, 12pp., small pen and ink drawing by ?Gilbert Scott, folds, slightly browned, folio, [1874].
NO RESERVE Rider (Cardanus) Rider's British Merlin: Adorn'd with many delightful Varieties and Useful Verities, for the Year of our Lord God, 1726, ink inscription and small ink-stamp to title, interleaved with manuscript notes, bookplate, contemporary morocco, gilt, rubbed, ink number to upper cover, small loss to spine extremities, lacking original clasps,12mo, E. and R. Nutt, 1726.⁂ Manuscripts notes of a farmer, all dated 1726, mostly about livestock and grain.
Ireland.- Satires on Priestcraft, Bigotry, and Uncharitableness ..., title and final leaf soiled and stained, some browning, occasional spotting, contemporary paper wrappers, title in manuscript to upper cover, manuscript paper spine label, a little rubbed, chipping to corners and extremities, small areas of loss to lower cover, 8vo, Dublin, Printed, and sold by most of the Booksellers, 1774.⁂ Scarce, with only 5 copies on ESTC.
NO RESERVE Virgilius Maro (Publius) Bucolica, Georgica, et Æneis, 2 vol., 15 engraved plates, vol. 1 lacking final leaf (blank) as usual, ink signature to preliminary blank, bookplate, contemporary straight grain morocco, gilt, a little rubbed, 1800 § Facciolati (Jacobi) Logica tria complectens Rudimenta Institutiones Acroases, occasional spotting, previous owners ink signature to title, contemporary calf, rubbed, small loss to spine extremities, manuscript paper spine label, Venetiis, 1750 and another, similar, 8vo & 12mo (4)
NO RESERVE Music.- Geminiani (Francesco) An Entire New and Compleat Tutor for the Violin, engraved throughout with frontispiece, title, folding plate of fingerboard and 36pp. of music and text, a little soiled, contemporary marbled wrappers, old manuscript label "I.L.Roy Violin Book 10th October 1800" on upper cover, rather worn, spine frayed, oblong 8vo, by Jones & Holland, n.d.
NO RESERVE Napier (Alexander, editor) A Noble Boke Off Cookery...reprinted verbatim from a rare ms. in the Holkham collection, original decorative vellum, a few stains, 1882 § Gillies (H. Cameron) Regimen Sanitatis. The Rule of Health. A Gaelic Medical Manuscript of the Early sixteenth century, plates, original cloth, Glasgow, 1911 § Brillat-Savarin (Jean Anthelme) The Physiology of Taste, limited edition, colour vignettes, original calf-backed marbled boards, board slip-case, New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1949; and c.20 others, similar, v.s. (c.23)
Fabric samples. A large trade volume of fabric samples, English, 1858-1861, approximately 300 leaves, with varying numbers of woven (and a few printed) fabric samples tipped-in with adhesive to rectos and versos (a few blank leaves and some samples missing), mainly silks and satins, various colours and sizes, most samples with manuscript stock number above (a few with paper labels), some leaves with manuscript dates at head, toned leaves brittle (with some tears and loss), generally soiled and stained, original red half morocco, worn, with fraying to edges and upper joint split (just holding with crude fabric tape repair), gilt lettered date '1850' on spine and upper cover, large thick folio, together with an album of peg plans for fabric weaving, mid 20th century, 14 leaves (and a quantity of blank leaves), with a number of mounted manuscript grids to rectos and versos, mostly blocked in red, blue, or black, various sizes, each with annotations and numbers, leaves toned (with some soiling) and edge-frayed, original half cloth, rubbed and frayed, folio (2)
Holroyd (Lady Susan Harriet (1829-1894)). An album of 125 drawings and watercolours, 125 watercolours (some in sepia) and drawings (brown or black pen & ink, charcoal, or pencil), mounted on 70 album leaves (three drawings loosely inserted), including illustrations of characters and scenes from the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and Alfred Tennyson, seascapes and landscapes (Smyrna, Venice, Rhine, Constantinople, Algiers, Gibraltar, etc.), interior scenes, buildings (Cottages in the New Forest, Gateway at Hever Castle, Kent), portraits and genre studies, copies after Old Masters, some signed and dated variously 1845-47, neat manuscript text mounted beneath drawings or on facing versos, artist's signature dated December 1845 on second leaf, modern red half morocco, some soiling, folio (sheet size 34.5 x 26cm (13.5 x 10.25ins), together with a binder's receipt dated 1987 loosely inserted made out to Sir Christopher Chancellor of Ditcheat Accomplished artist Lady Susan Harriet Harcourt, n‚e Holroyd, was the daughter of Augustus Frederick Charles Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield and Harriet Lascelles. She married the naturalist and politician Edward William Vernon Harcourt, and the pair travelled extensively, during which excursions Lady Susan drew copiously. She provided the illustrations for her husband's book 'A Sketch of Madeira' published in 1851. An example of her work is held by the Royal Collection: a brown pen & ink drawing entitled 'Lady of the Lake', mounted in an album compiled by either Queen Victoria, or her mother, Victoria Duchess of Kent. (1)
*Infant's shirt. A late 18th century handmade shirt for a child, fine linen, with gathers at front, neck and sleeves trimmed with lace, rear with opening and fold-down collar, one corner with name and date in ink in contemporary manuscript 'Sparrow 6.82', a few faint fox spots, front with some stitch holes in middle of lower hem, together with five other linen infant's shirts similar, an early 19th century christening gown with elaborate whitework embroidery and broderie anglais to bodice, sleeves, and front of skirt, a few fox spots, some small holes and period darns, a Victorian white cotton child's dress with tucks, whitework embroidery, and lace insertions, some wear (particularly to front of bodice), and nine cream or white baby bonnets, with lace, embroidery, tucks, etc. (17)
Nevinson (Christopher Richard Wynne, 1889-1946). Column on the March, 1917, offset colour lithograph on thin wove, signed in pencil lower right, sheet size 285 x 220 mm (11.3 x 8.7 ins), as issued in Modern War Paintings by C.R.W. Nevinson, with an introductory essay by P. G. Konody, 1st edition, Grant Richards Ltd., 1917, monochrome plates, faint ink stamp to verso of frontispiece, plates and few leaves of text, label removed from front pastedown, untrimmed, original green cloth-backed boards with printed paper title labels to upper cover and spine, gilt library number at foot of spine, in original blue dust jacket, with some fading, long closed tear repaired to verso with adhesive tape, some wear to extremities of dust jacket and manuscript library number at foot of spine, 4to (1)
*Shawls. A very large shawl, possibly Norwich, circa 1860s, printed shawl of fine wool and silk, with all-over pattern of botehs and other motifs, predominantly in shades of maroon, purple, green, and blue (some discolouration to yellow at regular intervals where an agent has penetrated the fabric), hand-knotted silk tasselled edging at short ends, one or two small holes, dimensions not including edging 336 x 187cm (132 x 73.5ins), together with four other shawls, including a black, grey, and white-striped woollen shawl with tasselled edging, with manuscript label on paper headed 'Gargrave House, Skipton, Yorkshire', attributing the shawl to William Henderson of Alva and signed 'Jessie Blossom Coultard 1971', a printed shawl also with 'Gargrave House' manuscript note attached giving provenance, and a shawl with printed Paisley pattern, occasional minor wear and period darns (5)
*Infant's clothes. A collection of early garments for an infant, probably English, late 17th century, an apparently matching set of fine linen baby clothes, comprising: a long bib collar; a pair of slashed sleeves; two caps, one with smocked crown; a triangular forehead cloth with ties; a long head-piece; and a square piece (function unknown), all trimmed with Flemish lace, together with eight other items similarly trimmed: a long-sleeved shirt with front opening; a decorative ruffled shirt front; a pair of sleeves; three caps; a stayband; and a long head-piece, plus a stayband with differing lace trim, an untrimmed stayband, and a long and a short binder, occasional light age discolouration and broken stitching but generally all in good condition, plus two later cream damask sleeves, and two linen cloths with embroidered border of acorns and carnations respectively, one intialled 'AH', some fox spots, holes, and period darns, plus several slips of paper written in manuscript in an early hand with notes relating to the identification and date of the items See Children's Costume in England From the Fourteenth to the end of the Nineteenth Century, by Philip Cunnington & Anne Buck, Adam & Charles Black, 1965, p.67. Such early children's garments are rare, and particularly so in such a good state of preservation. A layette for a newborn in the 17th and early 18th century consisted of many pieces elaborately layered and pinned, and the practise of tightly swaddling a baby, often to a board, was believed to help keep the baby's limbs straight. (23)
*De Morgan (Evelyn, 1855-1919). The Angel of Death, 1885, gold coloured pastel and black chalk on dark grey-brown wove paper, depicting a young woman seated on a rocky stepped plinth, her eyes half-closed, and her arms placed on the left arm of an angel who stoops over her and carries a scythe, monogrammed 'EP' and dated 1885 in gold lower right, 44.5 x 36.5cm (17.5 x 14.5ins), mounted, framed and glazed, with remains of old manuscript label on backboard 'The Angel of Death, Not for sale, De Morgan, 1 The Vale, Kings Rd, Chelsea' Evelyn and William De Morgan lived at 1 The Vale in Chelsea for 22 years. At that time a number of artists resided in close proximity in and around the area of The Vale: the De Morgans rented their house to Walter Sickert and his Chelsea Life School when they were on their travels abroad; James Whistler lived at 2 The Vale, which was subsequently occupied by Charles Ricketts who began the Vale Press there; on the same side of the Vale, close to the King's Road, was a chapel which was for a time the studio of sculptor Thomas Stirling Lee; and others who were not far away include Augustus John, Cecil Hunt, John Da Costa and Charles Maresco Pearce. Evelyn De Morgan painted two oils titled 'The Angel of Death'. One was executed in 1880, and exhibited in 1881 at the Grosvenor Gallery, London, and it is now in the De Morgan Foundation ('Evelyn De Morgan, oil paintings', DMF, plate 8). The other, dated 1890, was destroyed in 1991 when a fire raged through Bourlet's art storage unit in London where some of the De Morgan Foundation's art collection was held (plate 37). This remarkable study was executed, therefore, in the interim period between these two works, whilst the artist was as yet unmarried. It is one of a small number of works by the artist executed in gold on dark wove paper. Apart from one such study in Leighton House Museum ('Victoria Dolorosa'), almost all other known studies in gold pastel are held by the De Morgan Foundation, and none, to our knowledge, has ever before appeared at auction. Only a small number of artists used this technique, Edward Burne-Jones being one of them. It is generally believed that such works were final detailed compositional studies. Given that the artist was so prolific and meticulous in producing studies for her full-scale oils, it is perhaps not surprising that this view has come into existence. However, the De Morgan Foundation acknowledges that 'These pieces can be considered works of art in their own right and it is apparent that Evelyn often sold them as such'. Given this, and the fact that our study post-dates the initial oil of the same subject it now seems quite certain that such a work was done either for the artist's own pleasure (as seems to be the case here), or as a gift for, or commission from, an admirer of the oil painting. It is interesting to note that in the original oil the female figure gazes upwards with unseeing eyes which are clearly open, whereas here the young woman's gaze is downwards with her eyes half-closed, as it is in the later oil painting of 1890. The De Morgans were very interested in spiritualism, and especially angels, as evidenced in much of the symbolism of Evelyn's work. In her initial oil painting, the gentleness of the angel's touch, and grateful embrace of the frail girl is underlined by the weeds symbolising a hard life, and the spring flowers indicating joy to come. Here, however, as is typical of Evelyn's studies in gold, the background detail is pared away, and the figures, in all their beauty, come into stark relief.(1)
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