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Click here to subscribeHenry Platt (fl.1825-1865), "An Approaching Storm", initialled, titled on label verso, oil on panel, 53.5 x 42.5cm, 21 x 16.75in.Condition report: The painting is in good, restored condition. Under UV light there is evidence of cleaning and overpainting. There is craquelure across the surface of the painting. The painting is ornately framed but not glazed. The frame has the odd minor knock and loss commensurate with age.
Longcase clock by Thomas Birchall, Nantwich, 8-day movement, striking on single bell, brass arched dial with rolling moon, secondary minute dial and date aperture, cast metal spandrels, case with canopy, swan neck pediment with blind fretwork, trunk with quartered columns, long walnut cross-banded door, box base with single panel, height 210cm (83").Condition report: Re-furbished movement, rolling moon disconnected, dial requiring re-furbishment, painted spandrels, cracked glass to canopy, missing feet.
17th century oak jointed chest, three panel top above three panelled front, gouged carving to top rail, external lock, diamond carving to panels, replacement hinges, scratch mould decoration, width 100cm (39"), depth 50cm (20"), height 66cm (26").Condition report: Replacement hasp, replacement hinges.
Jimmy Carr comedian signed 10x8 relaxed full body shot colour photo, James Anthony Patrick Carr, born 15 September 1972 is an English stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship, He is known for his signature laugh, deadpan delivery, dark humour, and heckler interaction, Carr moved to a career in comedy in 2000, After becoming established as a stand-up comedian, Carr began to appear in a number of Channel 4 television shows, becoming the host of the panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats and also The Big Fat Quiz of the Year, a comedy panel show that airs each December to review the past year. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
A French Louis XV revival kingwood ormolu mounted vitrine display cabinet, the scrolling floral mounts above single glazed bombe shaped door, the interior with two glass shelves and lined in floral pale green damask, the lower exterior decorated with Vernis Martin style painted panel depicting 18th Century style figures in landscape, on splayed legs with ormolu mounts and terminals (1)
A Victorian mahogany chiffonier type sideboard, circa 1860, rectangular top above a single drawer with two panel doors below opening to three tier shelves, raised on a rectangular plinth base. 92cm H x 107cm W x 49cm DCondition: In generally good condition with no obvious breaks, just general scratches to top. Side trim coming loose on left side but easy to fix
POGANY (WILLY)The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Presented by Willy Pogany, NUMBER 1 OF 25 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, signed by the illustrator, 24 mounted colour plates, lithographic text within ornamental borders, decorative front and end leaves incorporating arabesque design, elaborately bound in full green crushed morocco gilt for Bumpus (signed on rear turn-in), each cover with gilt border of red roses, stems and leaves, the upper cover border enclosing a large central panel with an arabesque design incorporating 4 large bunches of red grapes, gilt panelled spine with raised bands and red rose and grape tools in compartments, red and green morocco doublures with 3 red roses at each corner, g.e., small folio (276 x 186mm.), Vincent J. Brooks, Day and Son, for George Harrap, 1909Footnotes:NUMBER 1 OF AN EDITION OF 25 COPIES, IN A FINE ARABESQUE BINDING. This was the first of two versions of the Rubáiyát that Pogany produced, and the one where he 'endeavour[ed] to remain true to the spirit of Persian art' (dedication to Julius Germanus on verso of title).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
INDIA - EAST INDIA COMPANY AND AURANGZEBDocument headed 'The Manner of His Excellency Sir William Norris... Publicque Entry at His Audience of the great Mogull at His Court before Panulla in the East Indies on the 28th day of Aprill 1701', written in ink on Indian speckled paper, listing the order of the procession at the ambassador's audience with the great Mughal Aurangzeb, at the head of which procession rode 'Mr Henry Crisloe Commander of His Excellenceys Artillery on horseback', followed by 'Twelve carts whereon were carried twelve brass cannon for presents... glassware and looking glasses for presents... two very fine Arabian horses Richly Capparrizoned... Four English Soldiers on horseback guarding the presents... The union flag... the red white and blew flags... English furniture... The musick in Rich Liveryes on Horseback... The Kings and my Lords Armes... Twelve Troopers every way armed and accoutred after the English manner... Mr Josiah Hale Master of the Horse Richly dress carrying a Sword of State pointed up... Edward Norris Esq in a Rich pallenkeen carrying His Majesties letter to the Emperour on each side Mr Wingate and Mr Shuttleworth in Rich laced coates on Horseback...', 1 page, address panel on reverse ('To my very loveing Friend Mr Daniell Turner'), dust staining to address panel, a few small holes at folds, folio (477 x 224mm.), Panulla, 28 April 1701; with accompanying autograph letter from Josiah Hale, Norris's interpreter and master of the horse, signed ('Jos. Hale'), to Daniell Turner ('Dear Sir'), enclosing this account of 'the Manner of His Excellencys Publique Entry at his Audience of the Mogull', 1 page, on Indian speckled paper, address panel on reverse ('To my very loveing Friend Mr Daniell Turner'), dust-staining and some separation and small holes at folds, folio (483 x 225mm.), 'Camp at the Court of the great Mogul... in the East Indies', 10 September 1701 (2)Footnotes:'WILLIAM NORRIS ESQ IN A RICH PALLENKEEN CARRYING HIS MAJESTIES LETTER TO THE EMPEROUR' In 1699, the newly-ennobled Sir William Norris, the King's commissioner, undertook a mission to obtain a trade deal with the mighty Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, hoping to win the protection and privileges of the Mughal authorities in favour of the new General Society or 'English' Company, in opposition to the old or 'London' East India Company. After a long and expensive preamble chasing the Emperor's Court with a huge entourage through the Indian countryside, Norris was finally granted an audience in Panalla on 28 April 1701. As our document attests, King William's letter was presented in an elaborate and opulent ceremony with gifts of cannon, glassware and English furniture to the sound of trumpets, drums and bagpipes. The Emperor accorded Sir William the rare privilege of riding into his private apartment but kept the company waiting and, when Norris left without permission, forced him to pay a fine. Indeed, it was another seven months before they were dismissed from the camp. Despite all this (at the cost it is said of some £80,000) the hoped-for deal failed to materialise. This failure has been blamed on the rivalry between officials of the two companies, the failure to guarantee protection from piracy demanded by Aurangzeb and, indeed, according the Annals of the East India Company, Norris's own inexperience in diplomacy and insistence on these European ceremonials 'in a court in which they were not understood' (John Bruce, Annals of the East India Company, Vol. III, 1810, p.473). The interpreter's lack of Persian may also have hampered Norris' efforts. Josiah Hale's predecessor was a Mr Thorowgood who 'as Norris remarked, 'with too close application to the Persian language has disordered his brains so far that he has made himself incapable of business, and unfit for conversation...'. He attempted to commit suicide by leaping into a tank, and was ultimately sent home in the De Grave, his place being taken by [the author of our letter] Mr Josiah Hale' (Harihar Das, The Norris Embassy to Aurangzib (1699-1702), 1959, p.172). As well as taking on the role of interpreter, Hale had a significant role in the procession 'richly dressed carrying a sword of state pointed upwards' and accompanied Norris with a small retinue of officials into the Hall of Private Audience. Typical of many young men seeking a fortune and career in India at this time, he finds the conditions far from ideal, writing in the covering letter to his friend 'I return for our Factory... it is a very unhealthy place for nearly two thirds of us are dead that came over first but I am now obliged once more to try my fortune there if it please God to spare my life...' and complains that he has had only one letter since arriving in India due to the ship Degrave being, in February, 'all lost together with all the private letters, soe that wee are all in the darke as to newes frome England'. Hale writes on a distinctive Indian speckled paper. An account of an official staying at the English Factory at Surat in 1689 describes 'long scrolls of paper ten feet in length and a foot wide that 'by its slickness and smoothness appears shining' for common use' (Sita Ramaseshan, The History of Paper in India up to 1948, 1987, p.112), which would account for the uneven edges of our documents where cut from a larger piece. Hale's list would appear to be a version of a list held in the Factory Records of the East India Company (Misc., Vol 20, India Office).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
JAMES II - SCOTLANDDocument signed ('James R') at head, to William, Duke of Queensberry ('our Treasurer Principall') and John, Earl of Kintore ('our Treasurer Deput of our ancient Kingdome of Scotland'), ordering the 'speedy & effectuall' payment of two thousand pounds to 'our right trusty & right welbeloved Cousin & Councellor' John Marquis of Athole as 'a new Mark of our Royall ffavour & Bounty', to be taken from the 'ffines already imposed or hereafter to be imposed by our Privy Councell...', counter-signed by John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl and John, Earl of Kintore; subscribed with a note to Hugh Wallard, Cash Keeper, instructing him to make the payment, signed by Queensberry and dated 16 February 1686, one page, integral blank with address panel, on paper with hanging horn watermark [possibly that of Wendelin Richel, Strasbourg], trace of red wax seal, seal tear with loss, dust-stained where originally folded for despatch and exposed, some dust-staining and creasing elsewhere but overall in attractive condition, folio (347 x 235mm.), 'Given at our Court at Whitehall', 22 January 1685/6Footnotes:'OUR RIGHT TRUSTY & RIGHT WELBELOVED COUSIN & COUNCELLOR': KING JAMES REWARDS THE MARQUESS OF ATHOLL FOR HIS LOYALTY AFTER THE ARGYLL REBELLION. In May 1685, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, with the support of a group of Scottish protestant exiles, landed at Islay with a force of 300 men, hoping to raise an army of thousands in the hope of overthrowing James II. They planned to occupy Royal forces in Scotland, thus enabling Monmouth to march on London from the West Country in a coordinated attack. However, they underestimated the hoped-for support from the Presbyterian lowlanders, and the disorganised rebels, beset by infighting, were soundly defeated by the King's forces commanded by John Murray, Marquess of Atholl. Argyll was arrested and executed without trial. Atholl was granted a considerable sum for his loyalty and rewarded with the newly-created Order of the Thistle in 1687. Even £2,000 was not enough to buy his loyalty for long – in the years to come he was alternate his allegiance vascilated between both James and William of Orange; 'In being false he was not a coldly calculating politician, but a panic-stricken ditherer' (David Stevenson, ODNB).The Treasury finances were looking particularly healthy at the time of this payment. Queensberry, as Treasurer, and Kintore, as Treasurer-Depute, were actively involved in enriching the King's coffers by a system of punitive fines and taxes. Queensberry was instructed to raise £40,000 annually with permission to retain any surplus for his own use. 'According to Gilbert Burnet, he 'was for every thing that would bring money into the treasury' (Bishop Burnet's History, 378). Husbands were to be fined when their wives failed to attend church, dissidents were to be prevented from travelling to the colonies until every fine possible had been extracted from them, new powers were to be exercised in reviewing the financial administration of burghs and other bodies, and generally no opportunity was to be missed in recovering the payments due to the crown' (J.D. Ford, ODNB). By the end of 1686 both Queensbury and Kintore had been removed from office pending an audit of the Treasury accounts. See illustration on preceding page.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WESLEY AND THE CITY OF YORKAlbum Amicorum kept by Richard Burdekin, bookseller and Wesleyan of York, containing some 200 autograph entries from eminent Wesleyan ministers, missionaries and authors, many collected on the occasion of district meetings and conferences, with much other material, including: John Wesley (printed Methodist ticket endorsed 'Nov 1755/ Ann Lepitre' depicting an angel carrying the text 'Now is the Accepted Time'), verses written by Arctic explorer and clergyman William Scoresby Jnr ('Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when athink not'), Elihu Burritt ('God is love: love to our human brethren is the earthward reflection of the heart filled with the light and life of the love of God...'), Robert Southey (autograph address panel and signature, 1834), Jabez Bunting and his son William, William Martin, self-styled Natural Philosopher and poet (several poems and a ticket to one of his lectures in 1850 illustrated with a pen and ink sketch of a lion), Titus Close, Theophilus Lessey, Robert Goodacre, Robert Spence, Gideon Ouseley, William Naylor, James Everett, Richard Stoner, George Marsden, Samuel Dunn, exortations on the evils of alcohol by popular preacher and early agent of temperance William Pollard, the painter Henry Purlee Parker and George Hudson ('the Railway King'); with several contributors from overseas such as Kahkewaquonaby ('Peter Jones') Missionary and chief of the Chippeway Indians of Upper Canada ('While I was lost in the woods, Jesus found me...'), William Fisk of Connecticut and Edward Fraser, freed slave and missionary from the West Indies; other items include a printed broadsheet 'A Negro Woman's Lamentation' sold by Joseph Phillips with manuscript verses entitled 'Negro Slavery' pleading 'the injured Negro's cause' written on the reverse by Phillips 'late of Antiqua', and two manuscript lists of subscribers and subscriptions received by the York Methodist Society as at 3 October 1775, raising money to build side galleries on the Peaseholme Green chapel (the first Wesleyan Chapel in York where Wesley himself preached in 1759) and list of works undertaken; with various printed ephemera of religious and local interest ('An Evangelical Dialogue', 'An Address from the first 'High' Sherriff of York to his 'Low' Sherriff', minutes of meetings, uplifting texts, tickets etc.), and newspaper cuttings, with loose index book, 459 numbered pages (including blanks), contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, old leather dust-jacket, spine lettered in gilt detached, worn with losses, 280 x 225mm., index book with marbelled paper cover, 270 x 120mm., York, May 1825 to November 1882Footnotes:'I WAS THE GUEST OF MR BURDEKIN – FROM WHOM AND THE WHOLE FAMILY I HAVE RECEIVED MUCH KINDNESS'; a remarkable collection spanning nearly sixty years and bringing together luminaries of the Wesleyan movement. In addition to worthies of the church, Burdekin seems particularly interested in one Jonathan Martin, a former lapsed Wesleyan preacher and arsonist, who famously set the fire that destroyed large parts of York Minster in February 1829. Burdekin must have visited him in the York County Gaol as the album contains three pages of religious ramblings written directly into the book and dated 15 March 1829, shortly before his transfer to Bethlem Hospital where he died in 1838; '...may the Lord grant that these fue simpler remarks may have a Blessing to all that need them the Lord will not despise the Day of small things your sincere Friend and Brother in the Lord...'. Martin was also known prior to his arson attack for attaching strongly-worded notices denouncing the clergy on various ecclesiastical buildings and one of these, written at Lincoln in October 1827 is included in the collection - 'O clergyman', he writes, 'I right to warn you to repent... Father's right Hand luks down upon you with Dridful Gillisey and he like a clap of Thunder and as quick as lighting... and you go down & live into the Dridful pit of Hell to be turmenteed with the firey Tigers and Lions of Hell...'.Richard Burdekin was a highly respected bookseller and stationer in the city of York. He began his long career in bookselling as a travelling salesman and became famous for riding his favourite horse 30,000 miles in search of orders. He went into business with fellow Wesleyan Robert Spence under the name Spence and Burdekin and was to write Spence's biography in 1837. One of his two shops was destroyed by fire in 1855 but he continued to trade in Parliament Street until his death in 1860. In the words of his obituary published in The Bookseller, 'Mr Burdekin joined the Wesleyan Methodist Society early in life. He became a zealous local preacher and class-leader in that body... As he lived, so he died, a happy Christian, at a good old age'. The album was added to by family members after his death and has remained in the family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BINDINGSMOORE (THOMAS) Irish Melodies. Illustrated by D. Maclise, engraved throughout (apart from title, preface and appendix), the illustrated text within decorative borders, additional title, frontispiece and first leaf hand-coloured, green crushed morocco 'Kelliegram' binding (with gilt stamp on rear turn-in), covers with double gilt rule borders and cornerpieces of shamrocks curling around Irish harps, five raised bands with gilt stamped title and gilt shamrocks in compartments, gilt tooled turn-ins, g.e., pubisher's decorative cloth upper cover and spine bound in at end, 4to, Longmans, Green, [c.1850]--ELIOT (GEORGE) Romola, 2 vol., limited to 1,000 copies, with wood-engraved plates on india paper, dark red crushed morocco by Riviere, upper covers with triple gilt rule borders and oak leaf tools at corners enclosing central panel with inlaid green leather corner and centrepieces, gilt panelled spines with raised bands and similar tools and onlays, morocco turn-ins with oak leaves at outer corners, t.e.g., Smith, Elder, 1880--The Book of Common Prayer; The Holy Bible, together 2 vol., red morocco gilt by Hayday, elaborately tooled in gilt with leather inlays, raised spine bands, all edges gilt and painted with religious banner design, housed in single roan box with 2 compartments, 12mo, Oxford University Press, 1840-1841 (5)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
VERLAINE (PAUL)Choix de poésies, COPY NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES 'sur papier du Japon', AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'à Félicien Champsaur son ami P. Verlaine' on the half-title, frontispiece portrait of Verlaine after Eugène Carrière, Paris, Charpentier, 1891; Invectives, Léon Vanier, 1896, 2 works bound in 1 vol., tipped-in at front of volume an AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED BY VERLAINE ('P.V.') to Champsaur ('Cher ami...', dated ''Vendredi 30') discussing sending proofs and correcting 'Fêtes galantes', one page with address panel, franked 30 January 1891, on the title to the sequence of 'Fêtes galantes' is pasted a manuscript cutting with Champsaur's name and a picture of Verlaine, later blue quarter morocco, gilt lettered on spine, t.e.g., publisher's yellow upper wrapper of first work, and both wrappers of second bound in; Confessions. Notes autobiographiques, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'à M. Alfred Capus, hommage d'auteur P. Verlaine' on the half-title, frontispiece portrait of Verlaine by Anquetin, later half morocco, publisher's printed wrappers bound in, 'Fin De Siècle', 1895, FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Choix de poèsies is inscribed by Verlaine to the novelist and journalist Félicien Champsaur (1858–1934); one collection within the volume, 'Fêtes galantes', was addressed 'à Félicien Champsaur', and is discussed in the autograph postcard tipped into the volume. Verlaine also addressed a poem, sonnet LIV, to Champsaur in Invectives. Alfred Capus (1858-1922), the recipient of Confessions was also a novelist and journalist.Provenance: Property of a European collector.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Figures and sheep outside a barn near water oil on panel 44 x 58.5cmCondition report: Oil on panel. The panel is formed from three boards in horizontal alignment. There is a split at the lower right corner and a loss to the panel along the upper edge. The paint layer is in a good condition overall. There is some wear and abrasion, notably in the sky and around the edges which have been retouched. The varnish is yellowed, matte and dull.
A Banquet with courtiers entertaining Henry IV of France (1553-1610) signed lower right "Bakalowicz" oil on panel 34 x 55cmFootnote: Born in Poland, Bakalowicz studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts from 1849 to 1854. In 1863, he left for France and permanently settled in Paris. He specialised in so-called 'historical genre' paintings, which took inspiration from sixteenth and seventeenth century French history, especially the court of Henry III and his successor, Henry IV. These pictures were carefully devised to offer a 'snapshot' of history and capture 'the spirit of the times' with focus on the realistic rendering of period costume and interior.Condition report: The frame has some minor losses. Oil on panel. The wood grain is running horizontally and has a slight warp. Overall the support and paint layers are in a good condition. The varnish is even and slightly yellowed. There are small losses to the frame.
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