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Lot 126
PLEASE NOTE: This vehicle is powered by a straight-six engine and not a V8 as initially catalogued. PLEASE NOTE: This vehicle was imported from North Carolina and not Oregon as stated in the catalogue. - LHD Custom Cab Ranger, LSD and Rangoon Red interior with bucket seats - 240ci (3.9 litre) straight-six, 3-speed automatic, highly original - Original invoice, spec sheet and operator's manual, MOT'd till March 2016 Ford's ubiquitous F-Series pickup trucks are as entwined with American culture as a Big Mac and fries. Now in their thirteenth generation, they have been in constant production for sixty-seven years. 1965 was the first time the Ranger name was applied to a pickup. Previously a base moniker for the Edsel, it was now used to denote a high-level styling package for the F-100 range. Supplied new in Florida, this great-looking left-hand drive, custom cab Ranger features eye-catching Red bodywork and Rangoon Red bucket seats (optional equipment shared with that year's Mustang). Understood to be completely original, the F-100 featured in the Ford-licensed 2005 Classic Ford Pick-Up Calendar as February (a copy of which is included in the sale). The truck is powered by a 3.9-litre (240ci) straight-six engine allied to three-speed Cruise-O-Matic transmission and a limited slip differential. The vendor currently grades the bodywork, interior trim and engine as 'very good' and the paintwork and transmission as 'good', and is now offering the Ranger complete with original sales invoice ($2714.69); original specification sheet; operators' manual, and all the old MOT certificates since the vehicle was imported from Oregon in 2008, plus one valid to March 24th 2016. PLEASE NOTE: This lot is powered by a straight-six engine and not a V8 as initially catalogued.
Lot 118
The Astronomical Compendium of San Cristoforo, - Turin, including Regiomontanus, Calendarium Turin, including Regiomontanus, Calendarium , as well as other related texts, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper and parchment [northern Italy (probably Turin), last decades of the fifteenth century (perhaps c. 1474)] 61 leaves (including 3 endleaves at front and 2 at back, plus last 4 leaves of text blank), complete, collation: i6, ii6, iii6, iv10 (first leaf a parchment insert, that pasted to a singleton which forms last leaf of bifolium), v3 (last leaf a parchment singleton), vi10, vii14, catchwords present, single column, c. 35 lines in a small but fine and legible hand which shows the influence of humanist script, rubrics in red, astronomical symbols in faded purple, 2-line initials in simple blue or red and blue with contrasting penwork, spaces left for other initials, 10 pages of diagrams illustrating the phase of lunar and solar eclipses for the years 1475-1530 (3 pages left in trick), 2 parchment leaves with 4 full-page diagrams, one a volvelle (middle ring wanting), others an Instrumentum horar[i]um inequalium with a list of planetary bodies, a Quadrans horologii horizontalis and a Quadratum horarium generale with designations for latitude and longitude, 2 pages of calculatory diagrams with text in red and purple ink and 2 further volvelle diagrams on either side of a paper leaf, a series of near-contemporary calculation numbers added down side of one diagram, some small stains and smudges, splits to edges of a few endleaves, small amount of wormholes, overall good condition, 206 by 147mm., in contemporary light coloured leather over pasteboards, circular marks scored into boards showing places of lost metal bosses, some scuffs, worm and losses at corners, spine skilfully rebacked Provenance: (1) Most probably written and illustrated for Brother Antonius de lanteo (doubtless a member of the medieval Turin de Lanceo family), an inmate of the Augustinian monastery of San Cristoforo, Turin: his inscription at head of recto of first leaf of Calendar S[an]c[t]i Cristofori Taurini Ad usu[m] fr[atr]is Anto[ni]i de lanteo . The Calendar of Regiomontanus work has been adapted during copying to include Augustinian saints and exclude the German and Bohemian ones usually found there. (2) Joseff Greg[o]ri[o] da Bologna: his seventeenth-century inscription on back cover. (3) Guglielmo Libri (1803-69), Italian polymath and grand bibliophile, who held offices as professor of Mathematical Physics at Pisa and of Calculus at the Sorbonne, and then Chief Inspector of French Libraries from 1841. This last role eventually brought him notoriety as a book thief, and he fled to England. Before and after this he had acted as a legitimate dealer in books and manuscripts, and doubtless he acquired the present volume in Italy. It was lot 92 in his sale at Sotheby s, 28 March 1859. (4) Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), the greatest book collector to have ever lived, who assembled a vast collection numbering several tens of thousands of items, accumulating in a single lifetime more manuscripts than Oxford and Cambridge together; his MS. 16242 (his pencil Ph number and pen Phillipps Ms 16242 inside front board; his sale at Sotheby s, 5 June 1899 ( Bibliotheca Phillippica XI), lot 75 (sale catalogue cutting glued to front endleaf). (5) Samuel Verplank Hoffman (1866-1942), who studied astronomy and taught it at John Hopkins University before taking over his family s business empire, and was a member of the New York Historical Society from 1901 until his death, serving as its president from 1903 (they have a portrait of him from 1907) and a member of the Grolier Club: his armorial bookplate inside front board. It was probably sold soon after his death, on July 28, 1944 (pencil date inside front board). The Smithsonian acquired his collection of astrolabes in 1959. Text: This is an important witness to the study of astronomy in Turin in the fifteenth century, which is contemporary or near-contemporary with the life of the celebrated astronomer Regiomontanus. It is among a tiny handful of early copies of his crucial Calendarium (here fols.1v-32v, and giving information on lunar and solar eclipses for 1475-1530, as well as the length of days and signs of the zodiac and planets), and is the earliest known Italian manuscript of the text. It is now the only recorded copy left in private hands. Regiomontanus virtuoso career straddled the transition from manuscript to early print, and thus his works are of the greatest rarity in handwritten copies. He was born Johannes Müller in 1436 in the Franconian market town of Königsberg (the name Regiomontanus was first coined by Philipp Melanchthon in 1534). His first known accomplishment, as a 13-year-old student in Leipzig, was the production of a set of planetary tables vastly more accurate and impressive than Gutenberg s own Astronomical Calendar of 1448 . He became a pupil of Georg von Peuerbach (1423-61) in Vienna, and continued that scholar s work in astronomy, mathematics and instrument making. On Peuerbach s insistence, Regiomontanus followed his mentor into the service of the humanist papal legate and book collector Basilios Bessarion and spent much of the 1460s splitting his time between Bessarion s household there and the courts of Archbishop Janos Vitez and King Matthius Corvinus in Hungary. It was in these years that he honed his notion that what astrology lacked was precision, and began his prolific writing career, moving in 1471 to Nuremberg, an imperial cultural centre, and founding his own printing press, the first dedicated to astronomy and mathematics. He died soon after, while on a trip to Rome in 1475-76. It is most probably his foundation of a printing press that ensured so few of his works were transmitted in manuscript, as his work moved in many cases seamlessly from his own rough copy to incunable. The only two manuscript copies to come to the market in living memory are this one and that sold by Kraus to Irene and Peter Ludwig, and thence to the Getty, later sold to the late Laurence Schoenberg, and now in Princeton University ( Transformations of Knowledge , 2006, LJS. 300, p. 74, deposited in Princeton since 2011). The Schoenberg manuscript has been dated variously from c .1470 to c .1500, and was most probably in the library of Lambach Abbey, Austria. Both it and the present copy are prestigious de luxe copies, rather than hastily copied scholar s working copies. Neither can be definitively dated to either before or after the emergence of the printed edition of 1474, and both agree closely with that witness (the present manuscript differs only in the alterations to the Calendar and in the placement of the diagram of the Quadrans Horologii horizontalis and the Quadratum horarium generale later in the sequence). Both might be copies of Regiomontanus lost exemplar (which as it was produced for direct printing is likely to have been near-identical in layout to the incunable). That may have been circulated among associates and fellow astronomers immediately before the printing, and Antonio de Lanteo was plausibly a friend of the author perhaps met during his long travels in northern Italy. Or they could be copies made for monastic libraries soon after 1474, but then we must believe that these libraries could afford to source a copy of the incunable and produce de luxe copies of it, but apparently could not afford to purchase a printed copy. The study on the relationship of these early manuscript witnesses to the printed text has yet to be written, but it is clear that no such study can afford to ignore the present manuscript. The other short texts at the end here are no less interesting or intriguing, and include a large number not apparently recorded elsewhere.
Lot 124
Book of Hours, - in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern... in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on parchment [northern France (most probably Paris), c. 1470] 137 leaves (plus 2 endleaves at front and 1 at back), bound too tightly to collate, wanting leaves after fols.24, 74, 88, 94 and 129 (once with miniatures, the remnants visible in offset), single column, 14 lines in a fine late gothic bookhand, capitals touched in yellow, red rubrics, one- and 2-line initials in liquid gold on blue and pink grounds heightened with white penwork, eleven border panels of single line foliage with gold and coloured leaves and fruit (fols.18r, 22r, 34v, 44v, 49v, 53v, 57v, 61v, 69v, 122v, 127r), fifteenth-century paper devotional sheet with the heart pierced by the Cross between the inscription: Ihs est amor meus pasted to recto of second front endleaf (upper lefthand corner torn away), some small smudges and slight cockling to a few leaves, else excellent and clean condition, 142 by 102mm., modern tooled calf over pasteboards in medieval style by R. Petit, Missel gilt tooled on spine, gilt edge This diminutive Book of Hours comprises: a Calendar (fol.1r); Gospel Readings (fol.13r); Obsecro te (fol.18r); O intemerata with the title Orison devote a la vierge me (fol.22r); the Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (fol.25r), Lauds (fol.34v), Prime (fol.44v), Terce (fol.49v), Sext (fol.53v), Nones (fol.57v), Vespers (fol.61v) and Compline (fol.69v); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol.75), with a Litany (fol.85r) and prayers; the Hours of the Cross (fol.89r); the Hours of the Dead (fol.95r), followed by prayers, including the xv ioyes nostre dame (fol.122v) and the vii requestes nostre seigneur (fol.127r), both in French. The volume ends with further prayers of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth century.
Lot 70
St. Agnes holding her attribute the lamb, - in an initial on a page from a devotional manuscript book in an initial on a page from a devotional manuscript book, in Latin on parchment [southern Germany (perhaps Augsburg, mid-fifteenth century] Single leaf with a large initial O (opening O gemma pudicicie virginitatis … ) in burnished gold enclosing the saint with a simple white face and rosy cheeks, the saint in a brown robe with a bright red cloak, and holding a lamb (the agnus dei, following the closeness of her name to the title of this religious symbol), all on pale green grounds and within a realistic interlaced soft pink frame, red rubrics, capital touched in red, 15 lines in a fine late gothic German hand, small scuffs to gold, else in excellent condition, c. 110 by c. 75mm., in arch-topped nineteenth-century frame with brown velvet mount as a religious icon (this 183 by 135mm.), old collection sticker and label in Swedish on reverse The illumination here is in the style named Nonnenarbeiten (see J. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists, The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent , 1997), and associated with predominantly female monastic decoration of their own devotional books. Appropriately, the saints are often, as here, women. The style while simple has great rustic charm, and has recently seen a boom in collecting interest with single leaves sold in Christie s, 6 June 2007, lot 17, for £2280, and Sotheby s, 5 July 2005, lot 25 for £1560, and entire volumes in Sotheby s, 3 July 2013, lot 44, for £15,000.
Lot 1293
Bassett-Lowke O Gauge - an electric BL9003 Maunsell 'N' class 2-6-0 Mogul locomotive and tender, Southern green livery, No 1864, boxed ; four books comprising The Bassett Lowke Story, Roland Fuller, Bassett Lowke Railways A Commemorative Edition No 1121/5000; Basset Lowke Railways; The Trains on Avenue De Rumine, Count Giansante Coluzzi (5)
Lot 56
‡ Frank O. Salisbury (1874-1962) Adelaide, Countess Brownlow; Edith Player; Study of two children Three, two signed and one with stamped signature verso, Countess Brownlow painted 1954, Edith player dated 1911 Two, one watercolour with chalk, one chalk and one watercolour over pencil, all on brown paper, unframed Each 50.5 x 42cm and similar (3) Provenance: By direct descent from the artist
Lot 57
‡ Frank O. Salisbury (1874-1962) A young lady in blue; Portrait of Mrs. Buchannan; Col Hutton Piers Lagle Three, all signed and titled, one indistinctly, Mrs. Buchannan painted 1908 All chalk on brown/grey paper, unframed 62 x 48cm and smaller (3) Provenance: By direct descent from the artist
Lot 1071
A fine 0 Gauge 3-rail Glasgow & South-Western Railway ‘Baltic’ Tank Locomotive: an impressive 4-6-4T, probably by Bond’s o’ Euston Road, certainly with Bond’s Motor, partially-restored to an excellent standard in lined-out G&SWR green and black livery as no 941, including superb lining of wheels, tanks and bunker, as restoration VG-E
Lot 1204
A Gauge I Baltimore and Ohio ‘Grasshopper’ live steam Locomotive and Coaches by Lutz Hielscher: with gas-fired vertical boiler, twin oscillating cylinders with geared drive, lubricator pot and finely-etched details, together with two etched brass B&O carriages, all unboxed, VG-E, engine has had minimal use (3)
Lot 279
Bachmann 00 Gauge Diesel Locomotives: comprising Class 37’s 37431 ‘Bullidae’ in Intercity colours, 37692 ‘The Lass O’ Ballochmyle’ (GMD models special Edition in RfD ‘Coal’ livery), and Model Rail special Edition no 258/500 Class 25 25322 ‘Tamworth Castle’ in BR blue (Bachmann 32-378, 32-381Y and 32-402Z respectively), all E, boxes E (3)
Lot 292
Bachmann 00 Gauge modern bogie Freight Stock: comprising four 90-tonne JGA hopper wagons in RMC orange livery ref 37-326B, together with six Intermodal Container wagons with 45ft ‘P&O’ containers, ref 37-311, plus two ‘Seaco’ 37-302 and two ‘MSC’ 37-312 in twin-pack sleeves, all E, boxes E (14)
Lot 295
Bachmann 00 Gauge ‘The Coaler’ Freight set and additional rolling Stock: comprising GWR 0-6-0 Pannier Tank locomotive 3705 and three wagons in original set box (set lacks track and controller), together with 9 Bachmann wagons and 5 more by Dapol, including SR CCT van, various P O Coal wagons including 3 limited Editions, all in original boxes, VG, boxes F-G (14 + set)
Lot 993
A collection of etched brass locomotive and stock plates for various scales by Beeson: including pairs of nameplates for ‘City of Stoke-on-Trent’ and ‘Royal Scot’ (LMS/BR), ‘Rainhill’ (Industrial), ‘City of Chester’ (GCR), ‘Cuckoo’ and ‘Sir Gilbert Claughton’ (LNWR), various number plates including GWR 6009 (2), 5548 (4), LNWR 1384 (3) and many others, mostly in O scale but with some larger and smaller, including miniature works plates of Manning Wardle, Brush, GWR and many more, LMS and BR smokebox plates, some possibly Beeson’s ‘rejects’ but quite highly-detailed and exquisite by anybody else’s standards, VG-E (100+)
Lot 994
A collection of etched brass plate sets for O scale by Beeson: most in original Beeson packets, including LNWR No 66 ‘Experiment’, No 503 ‘Dreadnought’, No 618 ‘Princess Alexandra’, No 2061 ‘Harpy’, No 3020 ‘Cornwall’ and ‘Prince of Wales’ (nameplates only), together with South Western Railway No 702, a T9 Class, including the diamond-shaped makers’ plates, all VG (6 packets + 4 loose plates)
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