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Lot 29
Seven Victoria Cross winners signed A4 sized Award of the Victoria Cross cover, with silk copy of the medal fixed to cover. Flown by the RAF and signed by Grp Capt Leonard Cheshire VC DSO DFC, Flt Lt John Cruickshank VC, W/O Norman Jackson VC, Wg Cdr R Learoyd VC, Air Cdre F West VC MC Great War, Grp Capt Leonard Trent VC DFC, Wg Cdr William Reid VC. Pictures and biographies on the signers inside the cover. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 30
Rare Dambuster Flt Sgt Bill Townsend CGM DFM signed A4 sized Award of the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal cover, with silk copy of the medal fixed to cover. Flown by the RAF and also signed by Flt Sgt Allen GCM, W/O J Bettany CGM, F/O G Dove CGM DFM, F/O D Jones CGM, Flt Sgt J Wheeler CGM, W/O J Norris CGM. Pictures and biographies on the signers inside the cover. Good Condition. All signed pieces come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.99.
Lot 8856
Great Britain - KGV : (SG (357s)) 1912 1d scarlet, marginal horizontal strip of 4, each ovptd. SPECIMEN Type 23, and with 1922 ADVERTISEMENT TRIALS on reverse of each ('P.O. Savings Bank, P.O. Savings Bank, Install the Telephone, Install the Telephone'), light gum crease along top, o/wise fine and fresh u.m. See SG Spec. QV p. 120. Cat. £1800 as hinged. VERY SCARCE MULTIPLE. (image available) [US1]
Lot 134
Ɵ An important humanist geographical compendium with Vibius Sequester, De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, gentibus, quorum apud poëtas mentio fit, and 'Lucius Fenestella', Opusculum fragmentum, with extracts from Guido of Pisa, Geographica and the Antonine Itinerary as well as other texts, in Latin, manuscript on paper[Italy (probably Lucca), second half of the fifteenth century (c. 1477)]70 leaves, collation: i8 (including front pastedown, and 5 blank leaves at front of volume), ii-vii8, viii10 (including 8 blank leaves at end), ix4 (including back pastedown, this quire all blank leaves), catchwords, foliated in modern pencil from beginning of main texts (and followed here), complete, single column of 34 lines in a good semi-humanist hand, pale red rubrics, initials of lists in red and brown, spaces left for larger initials, watermarks of an ecclesiastic's hat and a dragon (see below), the front endleaves with entries in main hand of the opening 7 lines of Vibius Sequester's text facing 13 entries from the text on rivers (apparently the scribe began with these leaves then set them aside and started again, reusing them as endleaves), some spots and stains and discoloured areas at edges of leaves in places, small tears to edges of a few leaves, else excellent condition, 215 by 145mm.; contemporary yellow reversed calf over pasteboards, tooled with triple fillet, some holes and stains, remains of two thongs at vertical edge Provenance:Compiled and copied by a humanist scholar interested in geography, probably in Lucca around the year 1477. The first watermark here, that of an ecclesiastic's hat, has a wide usage throughout Italy in the second half of the fifteenth century and the opening of the sixteenth century. However, the second watermark of a roaring dragon with a bulging eye and straight tail is much rarer, and that here is identical to Briquet 2651, recorded in Lucca in 1477. Text:The principal text here is the De fluminibus, fontibus, lacubus, nemoribus, gentibus, quorum apud poëtas mentio fit of the fourth or fifth century AD. writer Vibius Sequester (here fols. 31r-36v). It is composed of some seven lengthy lists of geographical placenames (flumina, rivers; fontes, springs; lacus, lakes; nemora, forests; paludes, marshes; montes, mountains; and gentes, peoples) gleaned from Classical Roman poets, notably Vergil, Ovid and Lucan, as well as further geographic references taken from exegetical works on those verses. A number of these names do not occur in the known versions of the poets' works, and may indicate that Sequester had access to now-lost texts. It is recorded first in Vatican, Lat. 4929, a nearly square parchment codex of the middle of the ninth century, perhaps from Fleury and then in a house near Orléans in the later Middle Ages, that contains the earliest copies of several late Roman works (see C.W. Barlow in Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 15, 1938, pp. 87-124). The inclusion of eleventh-century additions made to that manuscript as part of the main text here demonstrates that the Vatican manuscript stands behind the present one. It was popular among humanists and approximately 50 manuscripts of the fifteenth century are known. That said, it is of extreme rarity on the market, with only a handful of copies appearing since records began, with the last at Sotheby's, 26 January 1959, lot 92 (again an Italian fifteenth-century copy on paper), which reappeared last in Christie's, 28 June 1961, lot 206.The text that precedes this appears on first inspection to also be a Classical work, but is in fact the work of a humanist scholar who disseminated his work under the name of a Roman writer recorded by Pliny the Elder. The rubric here identifies it as a small work by "Fenestrelle", meaning Lucius Fenestrella (d. 19 or 36 AD.; fol. 1r-30r). It is in fact the work of a mysterious humanist author named Andrea Domenico Fiocchi (d. 1452, also 'Andreas Florentinum'), who here is noted as the author of the 4-line dedication of the work in this form to the mid-fifteenth-century Florentine cardinal, "Franciscus tituli S. Clementis". Fiocchi served as canon of San Lorenzo in Florence and was an associate of Pope Eugenius IV. The text opens "Ocioso pridem mihi ac monumenta ...", and is also recorded by O. Kristeller (Iter Italicum I, 1963, pp. 80, 91, 140 and 186), in four manuscripts in the Laurenziana in Florence (Rinuccini 19; Laur. Ashburnham MS. 897 [828]; Magliabechiano XXVIII 51; and 138 [M1 11]) all of the fifteenth century and with the same preface as here).To this the main hand has added the Notitia Galliarum, a short text from c. 400 that lists all seventeen provinces of Roman Gaul, with their 115 civitates, seven castra and one porta (here fols. 36-39r; see J. Harries in The Journal of Roman Studies, 68, 1978, pp. 26-43). This includes at its head a short geographical glossary named De Verbis Gallicis or as here De Urbibus Gallicis (see A.H. Blom in Études celtiques, 37, 2011, pp. 159-81). The section of Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, listing islands and mountains follows (fols. 39r-43v), and after this come extracts on Italy from the Geographica of Guido of Pisa (d. 1169; here fols. 44r-46v), itself an updated version of the eighth-century encyclopaedia of the so-called Anonymous of Ravenna. Only a handful of manuscripts of this text survive, with a twelfth-century copy once in the library of the grand Florentine humanist Coluccio Salutati (now British Library, Egerton MS. 818), Brussels, Bibliothèque royale mss. 3897-3919 of the same century, Florence, Riccardiana MS. 881 of the thirteenth century, and fifteenth-century copies in Rome, Biblioteca Vittorio Emanuele, Sessorianus 286 and Vatican, Lat. 11,564. One of those must stand behind this witness. No manuscript, or part of one, seems ever to have come to the market before.An extract from the Antonine Itinerary completes the geographical compendium (fols. 46v-47r), again focussed on Rome (including a section on its libraries). The only non-geographical texts here are a list and discussion of Greek verse metres on fols. 47v-50v., and the addition of 17 lines from Cicero, Rhetorica, Orator 1, addressing Brutus, opening "Utrum difficilius aut maius ...", to the back endleaf.To view a video of this item, click here.
Lot 721
274 colour slides by Celebrity Photo Agency C/O 1998 at Int?l Achiev Arts Gala Miramar Sheraton 4/5/98 featuring Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, Lou Ferigno, Marty Stuart, Sam Moore, Petula Clark, Ann Rutherford, Dobbie Brothers, Bobby Brown, Chaka Kann, Dionne Warwick, Stephanie Powers, Gloria Gaynor, Andrea Thompson, Tippi Hedren and Danny Wise plus 20 Sam Moore colour slides AAA Party La Convention Centre 4/2/98 (274)
Lot 12
Royal Air Force Log Book Grouping of Flight Lieutenant E C Cox Number 15 and 29 Squadrons RAF, Served from 1939-1945, the first log book in the group is his Observers and Air Gunners log which commences with training in December 1939, he first started flying operationally as a wireless operator Air Gunner with No15 Squadron in July 1940 in Blenheim’s, he flew with various pilots including S/L Singer DSO DFC, P/O Lane-Samson DFC and S/L Webster DSO DFC, to name a few. Most of the operations at this time were bombing of the German held Belgium and French ports and invasion barges etc. On the 9th September 1940, he notes as attack on enemy shipping in Oostende, it tells of an engagement with a ME110 and how his aircraft was damaged, loose in this page are two Air Ministry images of the damage to his aircraft from this engagement, written in pencil at a later date by Cox is the comment “May have damaged the blighter!”. In November 1940 he moved to Wellington bombers and began training with them, still serving as part of 15 Squadron. In early 1941 he was involved in the bombing operations targeting the German war machine factories, oil instillations and harbours, with many of the operations noted in detail and congratulation notes from command mounted into the pages. In March 1941 he joined No21 O.T.U. In June 1941 he was involved in a bombing raid on the French capital, Paris, ephemera is added to the page for this operation. The first log book ends on 14th March 1942 when he is posted for training as a pilot. The second log book begins in May 1942 when training to become a pilot. He trains on various aircraft throughout 1942 and 1943, including Oxford’s, Blenheim’s and Beaufighter’s. In October 1943 he is transferred to 29 Squadron, flying Mosquito aircraft. Towards the end of 1943 and early 1944, he was piloting various operations and he notes down a number of engagements with the enemy, including 24th February 1944, “PATROL – DURRINGTON G.C.I 1 HE.177 DESTROYED – OUR BIG NIGHT – A FLT GET 7 AND 2 PROBABLES” a entry is made over the page to state, “E/A LATER IDENTIFIED AS HE.177 FROM II KG 100 AT CHATEAUDON”, just a couple of nights later he notes, “PATROL – 2 CHASES – 1 NEAR THING HUN SHOT DOWN JUST IN FRONT OF ME!”. The second log book ends on 24th April 1944. In June 1944 he is tasked with various operations over the French beach heads, after the Normandy invasions. On 19th September 1944, he enters into his log book “PATROL TO COVER AIRBORNE LANDINGS IN HOLLAND – ARNHEM ABLAZE!”. By the end of 1944 he was posted to No 60 O.T.U and then later in 1945 No 13 O.T.U. The second to last entry in the log is on 22.10.45 “ATTACHED FROM HQ 12 GROUP TO RAF MOLESWORTH FOR NAV DUTIES” with the very last entry being written in pencil dated 10th October 1988 on a Piper Warrior taking off from Headcorn, obviously this was a private flight he took and made a note of it in his original wartime log. Accompanying the log books is a tin of cloth insignia, including his pilots wings, medal ribbon bars and rank insignia etc.
Lot 17
Historic Trophy given to T. O. M. (Tommy) Sopwith by the Aero Club of New York, engraved "Bomb Dropping Contest Won by T.O.M.Sopwith at Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome" This handsome trophy manufactured by the famous firm of Reed and Barton of Massachusetts (producer of the Oscar statuettes) is believed to be of silver gilt and measures some 22cms x 19cms and carries their name on its base together with the number 394 and "gilt". The Nassau aerodrome in the United States closed in 1912 and Tommy Sopwith won the award there in the previous year in July 1911, whilst flying his new Howard Wright Biplane and which he wrote off shortly afterwards. The iconic Tommy Sopwith was both an accomplished pilot and founder of the Sopwith Aviation Company at Brooklands in June 1912 at the age of 24, which went on to design and manufacture the Sopwith Camel, among others, a truly classic aircraft of WWI. Tommy Sopwith lived to be 101 and was involved in both Aviation, Motor Cycling and Motoring. This unique item represents a tangible link with one of our greatest aviation pioneers.
Lot 7
‡ Short quotations from Isocrates, Ad Demonicum, 9, and Menander, Sententia, in Attic Greek, in Greek cursive and capitals, manuscript on large polished wooden tablet doubtless produced as part of a scribal teaching exercise[Egypt, late fourth or early fifth century] Rectangular wooden tablet, used lengthways, with single column of 5 long lines plus a single word on a sixth line in a clear and sloping Greek cursive on one side and a further 2 lines in large Greek capitals on the reverse, one hole at head of board in middle (perhaps for suspension), wood with slight scuffing in places and one small loss of a section at its foot (without affect to text), 140 by 138 by 10mm.; in blue cloth covered folding case A remarkably rare ephemeral witness to the practical teaching of novice scribes in Graeco-Roman Egypt, on wood, a material of such value in Egypt that few survive Provenance:1. Prof. Dr. Pieter Johannes Sijpestein (1934-1996) of Baarn, near Amsterdam; his collection known as the Moen collection (his wife's maiden name), and almost certainly acquired by him in the European and American trade in the 1960s to early 1980s. Much of his collection passing after his death to the University of Austin, Texas, as well as Syracuse University, New York. This his inventory no. 78, and published in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik in 1983 (see below).2. Bonhams, 29 April 1991, lot 77, to Sam Fogg.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1359, acquired June 1991. Text and script:This is a 'wooden leaf tablet' employed in Antiquity as a writing master's template for scribal teaching in an important and wealthy scriptorium. Cribiore comprehensively discusses their use from pharaonic Egypt onwards (pp. 65-72), and the value of the raw material - as Egypt produced little wood. Here we have the refined master-scribe's hand copying out the quotation from Isocrates (436-338 BC.; here "... and he exposed his spirit to dangers. Nor did he display an ill-timed craving for wealth, but he enjoyed the good things present like one who was going to die, yet cared for his property as if he was immortal"), the father of rhetorical Greek and founder of the Athenian academy in the Lyceum, on one side in cursive, for students to copy onto papyrus. The pierced hole at the top of the board allowed it to be strung together with other such templates, and handed around the class for copying time and time again. To this, a student has added on its reverse the extract from the Greek dramatist Menander (c. 342/41-c. 290 BC.) in slightly clumsy capitals with a few erasures, finishing this with his initials. The format of such teaching aids has remained relatively unchanged in the region from the Ancient World until the last century (see the 'cricket bat' shaped writing tablet produced in Morocco in the early twentieth century, offered as lot 46 in our 31 March Islamic sale this year [auction moved to 12 June]). As noted by Sijpestein and Agosti (the latter in Pintaudi, p. 38) the combination of Isocrates and Menander here is also found in a poem of Dioscorus of Aphrodito (d. sixth century) and their use together in teaching may well have been ingrained in Ptolemaic Egypt and the Byzantine world. Sijpestein in 1983 dated this piece to the seventh century, and that date was followed by Cribiore in her survey, but it has been recently and convincingly redated to "la fine del IV o addirittura l'inizio del V seculo" by G. Agosti (in Pintaudi, no. 11). This accords well with other surviving examples which appear to cluster in those centuries (see Cribiore, nos. 83, 146 and 317, with slightly earlier examples in 292, 296 and 333). Published:P.J. Sijpestein, 'Isokrates, Ad Demonicum 9 und Ein Monostichon Menandri auf Einer Holztafel', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 52 (1983), pp. 291-92.R. Cribiore, Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt, 1996, no. 229.R. Pintaudi, Papyri Graecae Schøyen, 2005, no. 11, pp. 37-40.C. Pernigotti, Menandri Sententiae, 2008, p. 48 and no. 895.P. Pruneti and M. Menchelli, Corpus dei papyri filosofici, 1.2.2, 2008, pp. 922-24.L. Maurice, The Teacher in Ancient Rome: The Magister and His World, 2013, p. 102.C. Pernigotti, Corpus dei papiri filosofici, 2.2, 2015, pp. 244-46. The present artefact is Mertens-Pack 2736.2, and is published online as TM 61405 and LDAB 2549.
Lot 71
Rental roll for Hackness in North Yorkshire for the years 1622-1639, in Early Modern English, manuscript on parchment[Northern England (Hackness), mid-seventeenth century] Single large rental roll on 3 membranes of parchment, listing the rents received from properties in and around Hackness, with columns marked up with amounts of money and years (marked with 'o' to show account settled), and noting a James Shore acting as owner or a steward for the owner, written in a late English secretarial hand, some damage to edges in places and fading in parts, else good condition, dated 29 September 1639 and with the opening line "The turffgraft is to be payd yearly upon Michell day", 2060 by 240mm. Provenance:1. Written at Hackness in the years 1622-1639, and thereafter becoming separated from the main archive of the manor at a later date (see below).2. Sotheby's 17 December 1991, part of lot 41, alongside the items in the previous two lots, evidently from a lawyer's archive.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1563/3, acquired in Sotheby's. Text:The Manor of Hackness, in the parish of Scarborough, was recorded by Bede as early as the eighth century as the site of a double monastery, and the church there still has fragments of a cross of that date or a century later inscribed with a prayer to St. Æthelburh. In the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period it was a wealthy rural estate, and was the home of Lady Margaret Hoby, whose diary of 1599-1605 is the earliest known such work written by a woman. Early records are scarce for the region, but North Yorkshire Records Office do hold rentals for the estate for the periods 1605-22 (ZF/4/1/1 mic 1432) and 1650-51 (ZF/4/1/2 mic 1432), and the present manuscript is most probably from the same original archive.Please note: This item is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules. As such it cannot be taken out of England and Wales without the consent of the Master of the Rolls, and future owners must inform the secretary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of their acquisition.
Lot 272
Vallery C O Geard: "Meissonier", limited edition 4/100, 1898 on Japanese vellum and extra plates for Japanese vellum edition Condition of book:In okay condition. Pages and plates appear to be all there. some minor damages to the corners, minor foxing and discoloration throughout.size in cm 33 1/2 x 26 x 3 1/2
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