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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.
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