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Click here to subscribeAQUAMARINE AND DIAMOND RING AND EARSTUDS1st: 1974, ring set with an oval-cut aquamarine and brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18 carat white gold, 2nd: Earrings set with a circular-cut aquamarine, 1st aquamarine approx. 12.75cts, London hallmark, ring size approx. M, earstuds 0.7cm (2)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
POMELLATO: GEM-SET 'ICONICA COLOUR' RINGSet with circular-cut vari-coloured gemstones, including sapphire, tourmaline, peridot, ruby, zircon, peridot garnet, spinel and tanzanite, signed Pomellato, numbered, ring size approx. M (leading edge)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
TWO EMERALD AND DIAMOND RINGS1st: 2001, Step-cut emerald and brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18 carat gold, 2nd: 1978, Oval and step-cut emeralds, brilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in 18 carat gold, London hallmarks, 1st ring size approx. O½, 2nd ring size approx. M½For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
GRAFF: PINK SAPPHIRE AND DIAMOND BUTTERFLY RINGPear-shaped and marquise-cut pink sapphires and brilliant-cut diamonds, diamonds approx. 0.85ct total, signed GRAFF, numbered, ring size approx. M½ Footnotes:Please note this lot has VAT at the prevailing rate on the Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A collection of hardback mountaineering books, titles including: To The Unknown Mountain, by Wilfrid Noyce; The Mountaineer’s Companion, by Michael Ward; Mountain of the Moon, by Patrick M. Synge; The Spring of Adventure, by Wilfrid Noyce; Escape on the Skis, by Brian Meredith; The Crystal Horizon, by Reinhold Messner; The Ski Ruins of Austria, by James Riddell; and others, one box.
A collection of hardback and other books relating to mountaineering, titles including: Davidson (L. M.), Things Seen in the Dolomites, 16mo., embossed cloth, with photographs, Seeley, Service, & Co., n.d.; Robson (E. I.), A Wayfarer in The Pyrenees, 12mo., cloth, illus. by J. R. E. Howard, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1929; Davies, (J. Sanger), Dolomite Strongholds, 12mo., gilt cloth, illus., George Bell and Sons, 1896; Wills (Alfred), Wanderings Among The High Alps, 12mo., embossed cloth, Richard Bentley, 1858; and others. (19)
A collection of climbing guides for Britain, including: Doe Crags and Climbs Round Coniston, by George S. Bower; Pillar Rock and Neighbouring Climbs, by H. M. Kelly; Climbs on the Scawfell Group, by C. F. Holland; Climbs on Great Gable and Climbing in Borrowdale, by H. S. Gross and A. R. Thomson; Ward, Lock & Co.’s Illustrated Guide Books, 6 vols; and others, one box.
A selection of books relating to Scotland, titles including: The Cuillin, by Gordon Stainforth; Scotland: The Wild Places, by Colin Prior; Tramping in SKye, by B. H. Humble; The Islands of Western Scotland, by W. H. Murray; Unto the Hills, by Brenda G. Macrow and Robert M. Adam; Skye, by Ann MacSween and John Cooper; and others, one box.
A collection of climbing guides, titles including: The English Lakes, by F. G. Brabant; Scottish Mountaineering Club Guide: Rock Climbs Glencoe and Ardgour, by W. H. Murray; Thorough Guide Series: North Wales, by M. J. B. Baddeley and C. S. Ward; Some Northumbrian Rock Climbs, by The Northumbrian Mountaineering Club; and others, one box.
A selection of books relating to Scotland, titles including: A Voyage to St. Kilda, by M. Martin; Colonsay, by Murdoch McNeill; Tramping in Skye, by B. H. Humble; Wayfaring Around Scotland, by B. H. Humble; The Highlands of Scotland, by Hugh Quigley; The Peaks, Lochs, and Coasts of the Western Highlands, by Arthur Gardner; and others, one box.
A collection of books relating to travel and exploration, titles including: Arabian Sands, by Wilfred Thesiger (1959), with dust jacket; How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa, by Henry M. Stanley; Arabia Deserta, by C. M. Doughty, 2 vols; Days of Fresh Air, by The Right Honourable L. S. Amery; On Horseback Through Asia Minor, by Captain Fred Burnaby; Swiss Letters, by Frances Ridley Havergal; and others, one box.
A collection of hardback books relating to mountaineering and travel, titles including: Le Blond (Aubrey) High Life and Towers of Silence, 12mo., embossed cloth, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886; Le Blond (Mrs Aubrey), Adventures on the Roof of the World, 16mo., cloth, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1903; Lunn (Arnold H. M.), Oxford Mountaineering Essays, 12mo., cloth, Edward Arnold, 1912; Whymper (Edward), Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 8vo., cloth (front cover detached), illus., John Murray, 1892; Schuster (Claud), Peaks and Pleasant Pastures, 8vo., cloth with gilt border, illus., Clarendon Press, 1911; and others. (16)
A collection of climbing guides for Snowdonia and Wales, titles including: West Col Coastal Climbing Guides: Anglesey-Gogarth, by Peter Crew; A Climber’s Guide to the Snowdon and the Beddgelert District, by Herbert R. C. Carr; Climbing in the Ogwen District, by J. M. Archer Thomson; The Climbs on LLiwedd, by J. M. Archer and A. W. Andrews; Gower and South East Wales: A Rock Climber’s Guide, by Mike Danford and Tony Penning; S. E. Wales, by the South Wales Mountaineering Club; and others, one box.
A selection of books relating to climbing in North America, titles including: Climbs and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies, by H. E. M. Stutfield and J. Norman Collie; Handbook of American Mountaineering, by Kenneth A. Henderson; A Walk in the Sky, by Nicholas Clinch; Alaska: The Sophisticated Wilderness, by Jon Gardey; and others, one box.
Newland (Rev. Henry).The Erne, its Legends and its Fly Fishing.Chapman and Hall, 1851, first edition, xvi, 395 pages, hand-coloured frontis and additional engraved title with hand-coloured 'Fairy Fly', folding map, four plates, previous owner's name to free endpaper, damp staining with mould residue to final leaves, later cloth;M[arkham] (G.[ervase]), Country Contentments. Or, The Husbandmans Recreations. Containing the Wholesome Experience .... As namely, Hunting, Hawking, Coursing with Grayhounds .....George Sawbridge, 1664, tenth edition, small quarto, [4], 92, [4] pages, ex Bibliotheca Tiliana with bookplate and stamps to title verso and final page, later boards. (2)
Vittorio Sella [1859-1943].Alpine Ranges, six large format silver print photographs of the Monte Rosa massif and others, comprising:358 - Monte Rosa - Lyskamm - Castore e Pollure - dalla cresta del Welsshorn (Agosto 1887).Manuscript description to lower margin, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ lower right, landscape;1790 [bis]- Monte Rosa dal Passo di M. Moro (Macugnaga)Printed description to lower margin, landscape;1796 - Monte Rosa dal declivio boscoso sopra Macugnaga, alla sera. Agosto 1895.Skillfully tinted, printed title on slip to lower margin, portrait;1572- Vincent Pyramide - Parrotspitz e ghiarriajo della Pisse dalla cima del Fallenhorn (Alagna) Settembre 1892. Matt finish, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ to lower right, manuscript title to lower margin, landscape;107- Mischabel - Alphubel - Allalinhorn - Rimpfischhorn- & Valle di Zermatt dalla vetta del Cervino 4482 (29 Luglis 1882) Matt finish, blind-stamped ‘Vittorio Sella, Biella’ to lower right, manuscript title to lower margin, landscape;150 - Dente del Gigante versante Occidentale (Monte Bianco).The Giant’s Tooth in the Mont Blanc massif, skillfully tinted, printed title on slip to lower margin, landscape.Silver prints on bromide double weight paper, sheet size 300mm x 397mm, unglazed glossy unless stated, believed to be printed later than the dates given. [provenance, the photographs were purchased in 1945 by the vendor’s father, a British Army Captain, while stationed in the town of Biella]. C Douglas Milner described Vittorio Bella as ‘the greatest of all photographers of [his] generation’ (A Century of Mountain Photography, Alpine Club Journal, Nov 1957). For a detailed description of his life and work, see Ronald Clark’s monograph ‘The Splendid Hills, The Life and Photographs of Vittorio Sella, 1859-1943’, Phoenix House, 1948. (6)Slight crease? to 1790bis, Small spot touched in on 358. Several spots touched in on 107 (preprinting). Some minor scuffs and small indentation (c.4mm) to 150). A little dust marking on reverse of some prints, edges a little curled, otherwise no obvious defects.
Modern First - Fantasy Fiction: various titles: NEAL ASHER: WAR FACTORY, London, Macmillan, 2016; NEAL ASHER: LINE WAR, London, Macmillan, 2008; MICHAEL J WARD: DESTINY QUEST, Leicester, Matador, 2011, signed by author to title page; JOHN RINGO: GUST FRONT, New York, Baen, 2001; JOHN RINGO: EMERALS SEA, New York, Baen, 2004; JOHN RINGO: THERE WILL BE DRAGONS, New York, Baen, 2003; WILL HILL: DEPARTMENT 19, London, Harper Collins, 2011, signed by author to title page; CORY DOCTOROW: FOR THE WIN, New York, Tom Doherty, 2010; MATTHEW JARPE: RADIO FREEFALL, New York, Tom Doherty, 2007; WALTER M MILLER JR: SAINT LEIBOWITZ AND THE WILD HORSE WOMAN, London, Orbit, 1997 (10)
A very rare tartan colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The round funnel bowl on a single-series stem comprising four alternating pairs of spiral threads in translucent blue, translucent red, translucent green, and opaque white, over a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceAlexander CollectionWith Asprey, 1986Private London CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.235, no.719ExhibitedAsprey, '100 British Glasses', 1985, catalogue pp.24-5, no.34It is very unusual to find a colour twist glass such as this with no central series in the stem.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare drop-knopped heavy baluster wine glass, circa 1720The thin tulip-shaped bowl with a solid base extending into a wide drop-knop containing a tear, above a short plain section, over a folded domed foot, 17.1cm highFootnotes:A virtually identical glass from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection is illustrated by Ward Lloyd, A Wine Lover's Glasses (2000), pp.33-4, pl.24(c) and was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 28. Two further similar glasses are illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), pp.72-3, nos.84 and 86.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine and rare Dutch stipple-engraved Royal armorial light baluster wine glass by 'Gyrinus', circa 1765The round funnel bowl decorated in extremely fine diamond-point and stipple-engraving with the arms of Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Prussia and Orange-Nassau, the centre with a crowned medallion containing the Prussian eagle holding a sword and sceptre, within an elaborate scrollwork frame issuing scrolling flowers, surmounted by a crown, the stem with a beaded dumbbell knop above a teared inverted baluster terminating in a basal knop, over a conical foot, 19cm highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate British CollectionWhilst he never signed any of his engravings, 'Gyrinus' is associated with designs on 24 extant goblets known as 'polder glasses', originally commissioned by members of the Water Board office 'De Hooge Maasdijk van Stad en Lande van Heusden' between 1762 and 1788, which were sold by Christie's as part of the Earl of Bradford Collection on 4 June 1985. These particular glasses are all partly, and a few wholly, line-engraved in very fine diamond-point. With a handful of exceptions, the engraved decoration is distinctive in the use of 'pseudo-stippling' in which the decoration is formed of a pattern of fine and dense lines which give the impression of stippling. The present lot appears to be unrecorded by F G A M Smit in his 1993 catalogue of Dutch Stipple-Engraved Glass. Smit records just twenty-eight glasses by this engraver, of which thirteen are armorial. This includes a light baluster engraved with the arms accollé of Prince Willem V and Princess Frederika Sophia Wilhelmina, see Smit (1993), p.183, no.Kd.1. As well as the style of the engraving, the form of this goblet is also characteristic of those preferred by 'Gyrinus'; all known examples have round funnel bowls on stems which are typically knopped. For another light baluster wine glass engraved with these arms, see Lot 80 in this sale.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two engraved facet stem wine glasses, circa 1780-90One with a round funnel bowl decorated with two figures in a chinoiserie landscape before buildings and palm trees, the other with an ovoid bowl decorated with an elaborate chinoiserie building flanked by trees, the facet-cut stems with central swelling knops, over conical feet, 15.2cm and 15.7cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceRon and Mary Thomas Collection, Bonhams, 4 June 2008, lots 213 and 214Private British CollectionFor a glass engraved with a very similar pagoda scene, see L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.316, no.1021.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl painted in opaque white with a grassy sward filled with fruit, including a bunch of grapes and a large pear, a small bird perched on round fruit to the right, on a double-series stem containing a twelve-ply spiral band around an undulating gauze column, over a conical foot, 15cm highFootnotes:A glass with related decoration is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.338, no.1103 and was sold by Christie's on 14 June 1983, lot 94. Another from the Darell Thompson-Schwab Collection was sold by Bonhams on 21 June 2022, lot 97. For a facet-stem glass with similar decoration in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.67-1942) see James Rush, The Ingenious Beilbys (1973), p.56, no.31.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two plain stem cordial glasses, circa 1740-50One with a small pan-top bowl on a tall stem with a high domed foot, 16cm high, the other with a round funnel bowl moulded with fine basal flutes, on a tall stem and conical foot, 16.6cm high (2)Footnotes:A very similar pan-top cordial glass from the James Hall Collection was sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 102. Another example from the John Towse Collection is illustrated L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.142, no.355.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine Dutch engraved armorial light baluster 'Admiralty' wine glass attributed to Jacob Sang, circa 1760 The round funnel bowl finely decorated with the crowned arms of the Admiraliteit van het Noorderkwartier (Admiralty of West Friesland), the shaped shield containing crossed anchors and the letters 'A N', flanked by martial trophies including flags, drums and neat piles of cannonballs, the stem with an angular knop above a beaded inverted baluster and basal knop, over a conical foot, 18.4cm high Footnotes: Provenance Dwight Lanmon Collection, Bonhams, 21 June 2022, lot 128 Private British Collection This fine glass has much in common with the small number of other recorded Admiraliteit glasses, some of which are attributed to the celebrated Dutch engraver Jacob Sang. Indeed, the style of the engraving is remarkably similar to that on a glass signed by Sang and dated 1759, formerly in the Guépin Collection sold by Christie's on 5 July 1989, lot 127, which bears the arms of Leiden. This features polished crossed keys also on a matt ground beneath a crown, all executed in the same manner as the armorial on the present glass. A similar glass bearing the initials 'A A' for the Admiralty at Amsterdam, also attributed to Sang, is illustrated by Pieter C Ritsema van Eck and Henrica M Zijlstra-Zweens, Glass in the Rijksmuseum, Vol.2 (2002), p.209, no.220. Another for this Admiralty bearing the arms of the Seven United Provinces is illustrated by Hubert Vreeken, Glas in Het Amsterdams Historisch Museum (1998), p.200, no.196. See also Lot 101 in this sale for an example with the initials 'P P P'. The present glass would appear to be the only recorded Admiraliteit glass bearing the initials 'A N'. Saleroom notices: Please note that this glass is inscribed '6+' or '+9' in diamond-point on the pontil scar. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good Beilby enamelled opaque twist wine glass, circa 1765The ogee bowl finely painted below the rim in opaque white with three diaper lattice panels within elaborate scrollwork borders, raised on a double-series stem with two pairs of three-ply spiral bands around a central gauze column, over a conical foot, 14.7cm highFootnotes:A goblet enamelled with virtually identical diaper panels is illustrated by L M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.344, no.1123 and was sold by Bonhams on 19 May 2010, lot 27. The decoration relates closely to the diaper panels on a on an armorial punchbowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no.C.43-1942) which is signed by Beilby and dated 1765. Compare also to the wine glass painted with related diaper panels illustrated by Bickerton (1986), p.346, no.1130, which was sold by Bonhams on 19 December 2009, lot 70 and the ale flute from the James Hall Collection sold by Bonhams on 17 December 2008, lot 132.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An exceptionally rare canary-yellow colour twist wine glass, circa 1765The waisted bucket bowl on a stem containing two pairs of opaque canary-yellow spiral threads encircled by a pair of heavy opaque white spiral tapes, over a conical foot, 15.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceWith Mallett, 1991Leuba CollectionLiteratureL M Bickerton, Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses (1986), p.240, no.737Christopher Sheppard and John Smith, Glass from the Restoration to the Regency (1990), p.71, no.104The canary-yellow thread is the rarest of all colour twist types. It is exceptionally rare to find an example with a bowl of this shape. An example with a plain bucket bowl from the A C Hubbard Jr Collection was sold by Bonhams on 30 November 2011, lot 197. See also the example from the Durrington Collection sold by Bonhams on 15 November 2023, lot 58.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
21 piece Art Deco Aynsley Butterfly part tea set comprising: set of six cups and saucers, six side plates, sandwich plate, cream jug and sucrier. Marked to the underside 765789 and others marked 767013 as supplied to H. M. The Queen. (B.P. 21% + VAT) One of the cups has a tiny nick to the top of the butterfly's wing, . and the sugar bowl has a vertical crack.
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