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Click here to subscribeJOHN SPEED (1552-1629) The West Riding of Yorkshire, hand coloured engraved map with title cartouche, plan of York, figural scale and armorials, script to reverse, 16 1/2" x 21 1/2", Hogarth frame (Est. plus 21% premium inc. VAT)generally good, colours strong, good margins, some creasing to top right and lower left corners
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)SceÌ€ne bacchique au Minotaure, from La Suite Vollard, 1933 signed in penciletching, on Montval laid paper with Picasso watermark34.4 x 44.3cm (13 9/16 x 17 7/16in).This work is from the edition of 260, printed by Lacourière, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1939Footnotes:LiteratureGeorges Bloch, Catalogue de l'oeuvre Gravé et lithographié, Volume I, 1904-1967, Berne, 1968 (Bl.192).Geiser & Baer, Picasso Peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé, Volume II, 1932-1934, Berne, 1992 (B.351.III.B.d.).If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a Minotaur. Pablo Picasso, 1960 In this image, the Minotaur is associated with the figure of Bacchus,God of wine and ecstasy, taking part in a bacchanal, or drunken revelryinvolving singing, dancing, libations and, in some accounts, sexualintercourses of a rather lustful nature. The sensual and, at the sametime, perverse aspect of the scene is wonderfully expressed in theloose etched lines, the bold curved lines, grinning face of the God andcontorted bodies and facial expressions of the women.Bacchus also represented the juice, the lifeblood element in nature,and his presence here alongside the Minotaur, drinking wine, remindsus both of the unnatural and monstrous circumstances of theMinotaur's birth and ensuing sacrifice to the monster of young menand women by his guilt-stricken father Minos, as well as of the Mithraicfestivities in Antiquity when a bull was sacrificed and feasted upon withwine to grant immortality to the followers of the cult.The scene also offers a nod to the ambient hyper-interpretativesurrealism of the period, where sexual desires and nightmare orgrotesque visions were celebrated, not without a certain dose ofhumour in Picasso's circle, as mirroring visions from the depths of theartists' minds.Of course, the Minotaur was a figure celebrated by the Surrealists,who embraced the supernatural monster's 'power [to breach] theboundaries of the irrational' as expressed by Brassaï. They in factnamed their main journal after the creature: Le Minotaure magazinewas published between 1933 and 1939, at the same time as Picasso'sdevelopment of the theme in the Suite Vollard, and he naturallycontributed illustrations to the magazine.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Johannes Blaeu/Devonia vulgo Devon-Shire/Amsterdam, circa 1645/engraved map with contemporary hand colouring, decorative cartouche and mileage scale, slight spotting, 39.5cm x 50.5cm and /Cornubia sive Cornwallia/Amsterdam, circa 1650/engraved map with hand colouring, 39.5cm x 50.5cm (2)/Provenance: Sotheby's 7th April 1998, Lot 212 (part) CONDITION REPORT: The paper is very slightly discoloured, the colouring is good, the impression good.The glass to frame has been broken, the frame is
Johannes Blaeu/Monumethensis Comitatus Vernacule Monmouth Shire/Amsterdam, circa 1645/engraved map with hand colouring, large decorative cartouche and mileage scale, 38cm x 50cm and/Comitatus Dorcestria sive Dorsettia; vulgo Anglice Dorset Shire/circa 1660/engraved map with hand colouring, large ornate cartouche, 38.5cm x 50cm (2)Provenance: Sotheby's 7th April 1998, Lot 212 (part)
Whittman, William. Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert into Egypt, 1803. 22 engraved plates, including 16 hand coloured, one hand coloured plan, folding map and Turkish firman plate. 4to., cont. calf gilt (spine worn)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Clean internally, upper joint split, piece missing from lower spineThis appears complete, 24 plates including maps, plan and frontispiece.
Godwin's Emigrant's Guide to Van Diemen's Land…, 1823. 8vo., orig. boards, Folding frontispiece and map - Petre, Hon. Henry William. An Account of the Settlements of the New Zealand Company, Second Edition, 1841. 8vo., orig. cloth (2)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Text uncut, good condition
European travel. Boswell, James. An Account of Corsica, Third Edition, 1769. Portrait and map. - Forsyth, Joseph. Remarks on Antiquities, Arts and Letters During an Excursion in Italy, Second Edition, 1816 - Semple, Robert. Observations on a Journey Through Spain and Italy to Naples and thence to Smyrna and Constantinople, Second Edition, 2 vols., 1808 - Fischer, C.A. A Picture of Madrid, 1808. Orig. boards uncut - Planta, Edward. A New Picture of Paris, 12th Edition, 1820. 12mo. Folding maps and plates including hand coloured costumes. With 18 others, mostly 8vo., cont. calf or half calf (23)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Madden, R. R. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine, 2 vols., 1829. Orig. boards (spines defective). Colour frontispiece - Rich, C. J. Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the site of Ancient Nineveh, 2 vols., 1836. Cont. half black morocco. Folding maps and plates (map in vol 2 detached torn and slightly defective) Layard, A. H. Nineveh and Its Remains. Third Edition, 2 vols., 1849. Orig. cloth. Plates and plans. All 8vo.. With 2 others (8)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: The Rich has a map bound at the front of each volume however one of these (vol 2) has been torn out and is in two pieces which are with the lot. I can find 4 plates in vol 1 and 6 plates and another smaller folding map in vol 2.
Le Comte, Louis. Memoirs and Observations…Made in a late Journey Through the Empire of China, Third Edition, 1699. Portrait, folding map (torn at inner edge) and plates. 8vo., cont. panelled calf - Tweddell, Rev. Robert. Remains of John Tweddell, Second Edition, 1816. 4to., cont. half calf. Portrait and plates (2)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
The Atlas to Guthrie's System of Geography, c. 1785. Folio, cont. half calf (spine worn). Engraved plate of an armillary sphere and 24 double page or folding engraved maps, hand coloured in outline. Additional hand coloured folding map of Upper and Lower Canada, 1832 at end/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: maps clean
Prag in Neunzehnren Jahrhungerte, Paris, n.d. Oblong 4to., cont. green morocco gilt. Engraved title and 19 plates (margins spotted) - Guide du Voyageur en Pologne, Warsaw 1820. 8vo., orig. boards. Engraved folding map hand coloured in outline (tear at blank inner edge), folding city plan and plates (2)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Descamps, J.B. Voyage Pittoresque de la Flandre et du Brabant, Paris 1769. Engraved plates - Boswell, James. An Account of Corscia, Third Edition, 1769. Engraved portrait frontispiece and folding map - A Description of Holland, 1743 - Description des Beautes de Genes, Genes [Genoa] 1788. Folding engraved plan and plates - Ebel, J.G. Manuel du Voyageur en Suisse, Paris 1816. Engraved plans and maps. 8vo. or 12mo., cont. calf or half calf (5)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Cary's Actual Survey of the Country Fifteen Miles Round London, 1800, Hand coloured folding map on linen, board slipcase (lacks index) - Laurie & Whittle's New Survey of the Environs of London, 1802. Folding map, board slipcase (2)/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: Cary - 76.5cm x 88cm, slight browning to versoLaurie & Whittle - 56cm x 68cm, verso browned
Gardner, Jos. New Plan of the Cities of London & Westminster with the Borough of Southwark, 1833. Hand coloured folding map, mounted on linen, green morocco slipcase -Mogg, Edward. London in Miniature With the Surrounding Villages, n.d. Hand coloured folding map, mounted on linen, board slipcase; with another similar by the same, and 3 other maps of London (6)/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: Unlisted items: Mogg's New Plan of London, 1851.The Isle of Thanet by Henry Hogben, n.d. London. W.4. Smith & Son.G.F. Crunchley. 24 Miles Round London, 1838
Stanford, Edward. A collection of thirteen 19th c. folding maps, including China, with slipcase, N-W Frontier of India, South African Republic, Gold Coast, The Nile (2), Lower Niger, The British Possessions in West Africa, and 4 others, v.y. Mostly orig. cloth (13)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Map of the Countries Bordering on the Lower Niger and Benue River 1889. Revised 1890, 47cm x 56cm (slight spotting in top liner corner). The British Possessions in West Africa, 1899, coloured 53cm x 77cm. The Crisis in South Africa , Stanford's New Map of the Orange Free State...1899 68cm x 98cm, coloured in outline. Stanford's Map of British South Africa, 1895, 65cm x 74cm, coloured and another copy, 1899. Denmark, Sleswig Holstein, 1876, 67cm x 55cm, coloured. India, nd, hand coloured. Original board covers, 45cm x 37cm. Map of China Prepared for the China Inland Mission, 1898, coloured, 96cm x 114cm. Egyptian Sudan. The Nile from Metemma to Khartown, 1898, River coloured, 79.5cm x 53cm. A map of the Nile from the Equatorial Lake to the Mediterranean, 1896, coloured 69cm x 56cm. Map of the Gold Coast and Neighbouring Territories, 1895, 67.5cm x 102cm. Stanford's Map of the South Africa Republic (Transvaal) 1899, 77.5cm x 94cm, coloured. Stanford's Sketch Map of the North-Western Frontier of India, 1897, coloured, 81.5cm x 67cm. All in good condition
Seaton's Map of Palestine or the Holy Land with Part of Egypt, Josiah Neele, n.d. Engraved folding hand coloured map. Orig. cloth. With A Companion (to the same), 1836. 8vo., orig. boards. With 2 others (4)/Provenance: Spetchley Park/see illustration CONDITION REPORT: Untitled plate of Egyptian design, Paris, n.d.Buré, H. Carte Generale de L'Egypte et de L'Arabie Pétrée, April & May 1822, 2 maps in one slipcase. Plates 4 & 32 of Atlas Universal.
Italy. Cramer, I. A. Italie Antiquae et Nova, 2 folding engraved maps, hand coloured in outline, 1825. Bound together, orig. boards (joints split) - Eustace, Rev. J.C. Italy From the Original Map by G. A. Rizzi-Zannoni - Citta di Roma, Rome 1824 - Nuova Pianta di Roma Moderna, 1823. Both in slipcases. With 6 others (10)/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: Unlisted items: Rome and its Environs, James Wyld, 1849Pozznoli E Contorno, n.d.Citta di Milano 1808Napoli é Contormi, 1819Pianta della Citta di Napoli Contornédi Napoli; Plan des fouilles de Pompei 1820, 3 maps bound togetherNouveau Plan de Pompei, 1851. With loose map of the Paris Metro.
Wyld, James. Map of the Ottoman Empire…, 1853; Wyld's Map of the Baltic or East Sea, 1854. Hand coloured folding maps; Wyld's Map of the Theatre of War. Central France, 1870. Folding map, partly hand coloured. Orig. cloth. With 5 others including British Guiana Almanack and Directory, Demerara 1871. 8vo., wallet style black morocco gilt (8)/Provenance: Spetchley Park CONDITION REPORT: Bacon's Large Print Up-to date map of Transvaal, n.d.(torn)Bradshaw, Plans of the most Important Cities and Towns of Continental Europe, 28 plates.Hughes, William. Geography of the British Empire, New Edition, 1864.Baedeker's Die Rheinlande Coblenz, 1872
Irish Travel. Young, Arthur. A Tour in Ireland, Second Edition, 2 vols., 1780 - Trotter, John Bernard. Walks Through Ireland, 1819 - Hall, S.C. The North and Giant's Causeway, 1853. Text illustrations - Guide to Killarney and Glencariff, Dublin 1835. Map and plates - White, G.P. A Tour in Connemara, Dublin 1851. Folding map at end. All 8vo., cont. calf, half calf or orig. cloth. With 7 others (13)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
Pennant, Thomas. Some Account of London, Second Edition, 1791. 4to., cont. calf (joints cracked, head of spine chipped). Engraved frontispiece, title, folding map (spotted and offset) and plates - Malcolm J.P. Londonium Redivivum, 2 vols., 1803. 4to., cont. half calf (joints worn). Engraved titles and plates (some spotting) (3)/Provenance: Spetchley Park
A framed and mounted coloured engraving map of 'The North Riding of Yorkshire' by Herman Moll - Geographer & Cartographer (1654-1678). Please note that the frame is slightly split on the right hand side corners, and has a slight nibble in the middle at the top, other than this everything is fine.
Three hand-coloured map engravings: 'Surrey' (19th century), 'Surrey divided into the Hundreds' (1766) and 'Staffordshire' (1826), together with a pair of coloured etchings depicting lakes and a smaller early 19th century hand-coloured engraving 'Chapter House, Litchfield Cathedral' (all 6 framed and glazed)
HARDY, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. 8vo. 11 illustrated plates (including frontispiece). Original publisher's brown cloth blocked in black and gold (extremities slightly rubbed, some minor soiling). Provenance: J. L. Sheldon (signature, 1894); Henry Sotheran Ltd. (bookseller label to pastedown).FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, published January 1892. The illustrations, drawn for the serial publication of the novel in Graphic, were not included in the first English edition in book form. Purdy, p.76. [With:]HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Jude the Obscure. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.,1896. 8vo. Half-title; etched frontispiece, engraved map. Original publisher's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (some overall wear, a few leaves disbound). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, published as Volume VIII of The Wessex Novels. Purdy, pp. 86-91.For condition inquiries please contact Gretchen Hause at gretchenhause@hindmanauctions.com
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