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Lot 404
Inuit Art, Ashoona Pitseolak (Cape Dorset, Canada 1904-1983), Woman & Dogs, limited edition print 29/50, signed and dated 1967 in pencil, 20 x 15cm. Pitseolak Ashoona, CM, artist (born between 1904 and 1908 on Nottingham Island (Tujajuak). Among the first generation of Inuit printmakers, Pitseolak Ashoona was born en route from Nunavik in arctic Québec to the south coast of Baffin Island (Qikagtaaluk). She is known for her lively prints and drawings, which show "the things we did long ago before there were many white men" and for her imaginative renderings of spirits and monsters.
Lot 701
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS AUTOGRAPHS 1947 Home programme v Charlton Athletic 15/3/47, slight marks on the front and slight fold and slightly worn at the bottom. It is hand signed in pencil on the team page by Stan Cullis, Williams, Forbes, Billy Wright, Mullen, Pye, Westcott, Ramsay, Hancocks and McLean all of Wolves. Fair
Lot 430
Lewis (C.S.) and E. M. W. Tillyard. The Personal Heresy. A Controversy, first edition, initialed presentation inscription from Lewis "R. W. Fletcher from C. S. L. March 20th 1940" to endpaper, small ink correction in Lewis' hand to margin of p. vi, occasional pencil notes or markings to margins, original cloth, slight discolouration to spine, light bumping to spine ends, 8vo, Oxford University Press, 1939.⁂ Rare signed, as with all titles by Lewis.
Lot 254
James (Henry), Jean Lorraine and others. - Lucien Daudet's childhood album amicorum, signed inscriptions from Henry James, Jean Lorraine (with 9-line poem), Juliette Adam, Paul Alexis, Gustave Toudouze and others, a few pencil or watercolour drawings, a few pages or signatures excised, some pages working loose, original morocco with initials "L. A. D." blind-stamped onto upper cover, rubbed, g.e., oblong folio, [late 19th century].⁂ A good volume of autographs and drawings with interesting Proust and Henry James associations. The author and painter Lucien Daudet (1878-1946) became a friend and companion of Proust's. The nature of their relationship was publicly challenged by Jean Lorraine leading Proust to challenge Lorriane to a duel (both survived). Henry James was hugely influenced by Alphonse Daudet, he modelled the outline of his Bostonians on Daudet's L'Évangéliste and Daudet's Numa Roumestan was the inspiration for his short story The Liar.
Lot 156
Doves Press.- Cobden-Sanderson (T.J.) Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press 1900-1916, one of 150 copies on paper, printed in red and black, tipped-in portrait frontispiece, George Parker Winship's copy with his signature and 2pp. A.L.s. from the author tipped to front free endpaper, pencil notes to rear free endpaper and Doves Press invoice made out to Winship tipped to rear pastedown, stain to fore-edge of front endpapers, original vellum-backed boards by the Doves Bindery, spine titled in gilt, uncut, a little rubbed, slight wear to corners, [Tidcombe DP40], 4to, Doves Press, 1916.⁂ The final book issued by the press, containing Cobden-Sanderson's farewell Salve aeternum aeternumque vale at beginning and his famous Consecratio at end: "To the bed of the River Thames, the River on whose banks I have printed all my printed Books, I, the Doves Press bequeath The Doves Press Fount of Type...". In his letter to Winship Cobden-Sanderson refers to the end of the Press, "...The Press has now vanished, but to keep up old [?]associations I retain the house for this enchanting old place in which my wife & I are now settled for what I presume will be the remainder of our lives...The Bindery...is still in existence, tho' reduced to one room, & I am ever engaged in finishing old commissions & binding unsold...copies of the Press. Ultimately it also will be closed, & then there will be 'release' indeed...T.J.Cobden-Sanderson".George Parker Winship (1871-1952), American author and librarian at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island and later the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library at Harvard.
Lot 486
Tibet.- Turner (Samuel) Ambassade au Thibet et au Bhoutan, 3 vol. (including Atlas), first French edition, translated by J. Castera, text vol. with half-titles, pencil annotations, contemporary tree sheep, spines gilt, Atlas with folding engraved map and 14 plates, 2 folding, some light water-staining and spotting, contemporary sheep-backed boards, extremities worn, 8vo and 4to, Paris, Chez F. Buisson, 1800.⁂ A nice set of this translation of Turner's An account of an embassy to the court of the Teshoo Lama, in Tibet, published in the same year in London.
Lot 128
Whittington Press.- Wong (Judy Ling) Harlequinade: Mezzotints & Text, number 18 of only 20 copies, signed by the author/artist, 8 mezzotint plates and a tail-piece, each printed in a different colour and numbered and signed in pencil, bound in red goatskin, by Paul Collet and David Sellars, upper cover inset with panel of viridian suede onlaid with dancing figure in black goatskin, lower cover with diamond made up of 4 smaller inlaid diamonds of black, citron, dark purple and green goatskin, viridian suede doublures, t.e.g., others uncut, together with the prospectus in original felt-lined black cloth drop-back box (very slight rubbing to corners), folio, Andoversford, 1979.⁂ A truly limited edition of a superb production in a suitably dramatic binding, each one to a unique design by the artist. One of the scarcest and most sought after books issued by the press, we have been unable to trace any copies having appeared at auction.
Lot 144
Whittington Press.- Llywelyn (Robin) Portmeirion, number XXII of 125 special copies with an additional suite of prints including one extra & a poster and signed by the author & artist, from an edition limited to 350, 7 double-page colour plates by Leslie Gerry, folding concertina style in original pictorial boards, 8 additional prints signed in pencil and loose in paper folder, together with large folded poster and prospectus in original decorative board drop-back box, oblong folio, Risbury, Whittington Press, 2008.⁂ A new departure for the press with the plates produced digitally, but with spectacularly vibrant results. The special copies were to be limited to 60 but a label affixed to the colophon states that "the edition now consists of 125 special and 225 regular copies".
Lot 169
Whittington Press.- O'Connor (John) The Wood-engravings...with a commentary by Jeannie O'Connor, 2 vol., number XXIX of 50 specially-bound copies with additional proofs and signed by the artist and editor, from an edition limited to 350, wood-engravings by John O'Connor, some printed in colours, text in original morocco-backed pictorial boards, uncut, additional engravings all signed or initialled in pencil and loose in original board folder, together in slip-case, folio, Andoversford, Whittington Press, 1989.
Lot 330
Dickens (Charles).- Lever (Charles) The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Charles Dickens' copy with his bookplate and book-label to pastedown, engraved plates, foxing, hinges weak, pencil ownership inscription of Joyce Carey to endpaper, original cloth, spine browned, splitting to joints, spine ends and corners bumped and frayed, rubbing to covers, preserved in custom drop-back box, 8vo, Chapman and Hall, [c.1854].⁂ Dickens' copy of a book by one of his chief literary rivals. In a letter of 20th November 1854, Dickens requested a set of Lever's works from Chapman and Hall. The present volume is included in the Catalogue of the Library of Charles Dickens, published 1935. Joyce Carey's signature adds an additional piece of literary heritage to the volume.
![Theatre.- Pine (Robert Edge, publisher) The Death Mask of David Garrick, mezzotint, scratch letter proof, with [?]collector's](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f52b1ebe-8bbb-4191-887a-add400eb5b0a/20d8b002-0ab6-4373-b190-add4010e23ee/468x382.jpg)
Lot 213
Theatre.- Pine (Robert Edge, publisher) The Death Mask of David Garrick, mezzotint, scratch letter proof, with [?]collector's initials in brown ink in lower right corner of lettered margin, a slightly rubbed impression on laid paper mounted on support, platemark 240 x 154 mm (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 in), sheet 304 x 250 mm (12 x 3/4 in), old folds visible, surface dirt, minor abrasion, pencil inscriptions to lower margin, marginal spotting, unframed, 1779.Literature:Chaloner Smith 68⁂ Scarce at auction. Only a small number of impressions have appeared on art market in the last two decades; most notably the Christopher Lennox-Boyd copy selling at Christie's in 2008 (see British Mezzotints and Printed Handkerchiefs, 3rd December 2008, lot 18)
Lot 409
δ Penguin books.- Cook (Beryl) Original artwork celebrating 50 years of Penguin books, gouache over pencil, heightened with white, signed B. Cook on the bottle neck, on thick cream wove paper, 253 x 265 mm (10 x 10 1/2 in), minor surface dirt, unframed, [c. 1985].⁂ Provenance: Phillips, London, Books Sold in Celebration of 50th Anniversary of Penguin Books, 24th October 1985;Where purchased by the present owner, and then by descent.δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 250
Royal Navy.- Malcolm (George John, Rear-Admiral, 1830-84) Log Book on HMS Cumberland and Letter Book, autograph manuscript & others, 36pp. excluding blanks, 5 pen and ink plans for a house, original roan, gilt lettering "GJM" on upper cover, rubbed, 1851-52; Work Book [Letter Book] on HMS Barracouta, autograph manuscript, c. 70pp. excluding blanks and pages of pencil calculations, numerous pencil sketches, original roan-backed marbled boards, lacks spine, 1861, reverse entries, 4to & folio (2). ⁂ Places visited include: Dominica and Montserrat, Bermuda, Port au Prince, Port Royal Jamaica etc.
Lot 471
Hooker (Joseph Dalton) Himalayan Journals; or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains &c., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 12 tinted lithographed or chromolithographed plates (1 folding), 2 folding partly hand-coloured maps at end of vol.1, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, errata slips, 32pp. catalogue at end of vol.1, foxing to chromolithographed plates but tinted plates clean, one or two pencil or crayon markings, shaken and becoming loose, with 6pp. A.L.s. from the author to Mr. Ellacombe dated December 19th 1887 concerning botanical matters loosely inserted in vol.1 and sheet of notes on Himalayan peaks and passes in another (?Ellacombe's) hand in vol.2, original pictorial cloth, gilt with blind-stamped border, rubbed and faded, spines browned, vol.2 worn and defective at head, [Abbey, Travel 503], 8vo, 1854.⁂ With an extensive ALs from Hooker on the subject of fossil botany, including the Ginkgo Tree, "With regard to Salisburia, I was the first to show its strong resemblance of the oval... fruit called Trigonocarpor to that of Salisburia... ." Rev. H.N.Ellacombe (1822-1916), plantsman and botanical author. He exchanged plants from his garden at Bitton, Glos. with Kew and other gardens, and Hooker dedicated vol.107 of the Botanical Magazine to him.
Lot 133
Whittington Press.- Phipps (Howard) Further Interiors, number L of 65 specially-bound copies with an additional suite of plates and signed by the artist, from an edition limited to 300, wood-engraved illustrations by Phipps, a few printed in colours, original silk bound with ribbon in Japanese style, additional engravings all signed in pencil by the artist and loosely inserted in original board folder, together in slip-case, 1992; Ebble Valley, number 79 of 300 copies signed by the artist, wood-engravings and colour linocuts, some folding and tipped in, original half cloth, uncut, slip-case, 2007, Risbury, Whittington Press; and 5 others illustrated by Phipps for the press, 4to (7)
Lot 248
Danube, Hungary & Serbia.- Gutch (John Wheeley Gough, Queen's Messenger, 1808-62).- Album of travels along the Danube, Hungary & Serbia, pen and ink and watercolours of landscapes, houses and peasant costumes, manuscript captions and notes in ink and pencil, 71pp., a few ff. excised at beginning and end, original calf-backed boards, rubbed, slightly rubbed, corners bumped, tear at head of spine, Mandar bookticket, 120 x 190mm., April-May 1845.⁂ Drawings include: "Beach on the Danube near Presburg"; "Tracking a boat on the Danube near Gunya... 22 horses some pulling our way some another a scene of noise & confusion"; "Buda or Ofan on the Danube"; "Hungarian Shepherd"; "A Slavonian Hungarian Peasant"; "The English Messengers house at Alexnitza [Aleksinac] formerly that of the Turkish Pacha"; "A Servian Tatar"; "Travelling in Servia 200 miles in 27 hours..."; "Sweti Stevân Monastery of St Stephen"; "Bulgarian Peasants at Alexnitza 10 May 1845"; "The Commandant's house at Alexnitza"; "Alexnitza - The Guard house & gate separating Servia & Turkey" etc.Provenance: Gutch, previously a surgeon, travelled to Serbia in the 1840s as a Queen's Messenger, a courier employed by the Foreign Office and still in existence to this day. One of the pictures depicts Gutch drawing the English Messengers House at Aleksinac with the aid of a camera lucida.
Lot 59
Gwasg Gregynog.- Morris (Jan) A Machynlleth Triad, number XXXVII of 50 specially-bound copies, from an edition limited to 400, tipped-in illustrations by Brenda Berman, original morocco-backed boards, uncut, cloth slip-case, 1993 § Parry (Robert Williams) Cerddi, number 1 of 200 copies, wood-engravings by Peter Reddick, each titled in pencil, Lord Kenyon's copy with his signature to front free endpaper, original green morocco-backed cloth, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, uncut, spine slightly faded, Newtown, 1980 § Swrdwal (Ieuan ap Hywel) The Hymn to the Virgin, edited by Raymond Garlick, number 66 of 100 copies, text in Welsh and English, tipped-in wood-engraved frontispiece by Colin Paynton, bound in blue morocco, original wrappers bound in, 1985 § Llyfer Ionas [Book of Jonah], number 164 of 250 copies, printed in blue and black, wood-engraved illustrations by Colin Paynton, original wrappers, uncut, 1988, Newtown, Gwasg Gregynog; and 12 others, Welsh, from the press, including the two boxes of pamphlets Places and Gregynog Poets, 8vo & small folio (16)
Lot 25
Fleece Press.- Society of Wood Engravers. The Great Storm of October 1987 and its aftermath: Five Wood Engravings..., number 173 of 250 copies, 5 wood engravings by Claire Dalby, Monica Poole, Peter Reddick, Peter Smith and George Tute, all titled, numbered and signed in pencil by the artists and tipped into large hinged card mounts, introductory sheet loosely inserted, together in cloth drop-back box, paper label on upper cover, printed at the Fleece Press, 1989; A Cross Section: The Society of Wood Engravers in 1988, one of 225 copies, wood-engraved illustrations, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, slip-case, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1988; and 23 others from the Society including some issues of Multiples, v.s. (25)
Lot 29
Fleece Press.- Lawrence (John) The Four Seasons: Four Wood Engravings made in 1982 to illustrate The Magic Apple Tree, by Susan Hill, one of 120 sets, each numbered, titled, signed & dated in pencil, c.315 x 220mm., loose as issued in original wrappers, 1997 § Hartley (Marie) The Yorkshire Dales [&] A further selection, together 2 vol., each one of 268 copies signed by the artist, Otley, printed at the Fleece Press, 1989-91 § Wilson (Enid) A Lakeland Diary, one of 325 copies, wood-engravings by Kathleen Lindsley and Edward Stamp, Wakefield, printed at the Whittington Press for the Fleece Press, 1985 § Reddick (Peter) Land, sea & sky, one of 160 copies, 2009, wood-engraved plates and illustrations, all but the first original cloth-backed patterned or marbled paper boards, the second with slip-cases, Fleece Press; and 4 others from the press with wood-engravings, 4to & 8vo (9)
Lot 110
Ravilious (Eric) Four Wood Engravings...made in 1933 for the Golden Hours Press' Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta, one of 120 sets, each 270 x 200mm., loose as issued in original wrappers, Fleece Press, 1998; Garden Memories: a Wood-Engraving, number 72 of 200 initialled in pencil by Anne Ullmann (the artist's daughter), sheet 300 x 210, loose with mount in original wrappers, [Church Hanborough], Previous Parrot Press, 1994, 4to (2)⁂ The second print was used as an illustration to Thomas Hennell's Poems published by OUP in 1936. Hennell replaced his missing friend Ravilious as a war artist in Iceland in 1942 but later disappeared himself during unrest in Jakarta in 1945. The woodblock came to light during a clear-out of the old Oxford College of Technology, Art and Commerce which had been given some equipment by the Oxford University Press.
Lot 232
Medieval manuscript.- Prayerbook, in Flemish and a small part in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, 159 ff., final f. blank, and 9 fly-leaves, complete, collation: i-ii6, iii8+2, iv8, v-vi8+1, vii-xi8, xii-xiii8+1, xiv-xv8, xvi8+1, xvii-xix8, xx4, most with catchwords, pencil foliation (used here) including medieval fly-leaves, 18 lines, ruled in red, written in dark brown ink in a handsome gothic liturgical hand, 7 full-page miniatures in full borders, 7 small miniatures of flowers in three-quarter borders, 7 large initials in full borders, 20 smaller initials in three-quarter or full borders, the borders in colours and burnished gold, with coloured fruit, flowers and leaves, with gold bezants on hairline stems, many one to 4-line initials in gold on pink, blue & white backgrounds, some with marginal decoration of coloured and gilt leaves on hairline stems, gold, blue, pink & white line-fillers, rubrics in red, little marking or rubbing, 17th-century speckled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, front cover scuffed, head of spine and lower corner of front cover worn, 4to (200 x 138 mm.), [Bruges], [second half of the 15th century].⁂ A very fine manuscript with copious decoration in the style of the Flemish master William Vrelant.Contents: Calendar, in Latin (f5-16), followed by a large collection of devotional works, including prayers to the Virgin and the Trinity; on the Wounds of Christ, the Passion, the Obsecro and O Intemerata, prayers to Saints George, Katherine, Barbara, and Jerome (the last in Latin), and many others, ending in an account of the suitable times for certain prayers to be used and their merits.Illumination: This fine manuscript combines the works of two skilled illuminators. It was written c. 1460 in Bruges and partly decorated then in the style connected with Willem Vrelant, with three of the full-page miniatures (f 93v, 107v & 133v) and many of the borders, with fruit, flowers &c on fine hairline stems, dating from this period. About 30 years later, four more full-page in borders containing brightly coloured flowers, fruit, and foliage on liquid gold grounds (f 17v, 25v, 41v & 50v) were inserted on added sheets and most of the small miniatures were repainted or added in previously blank spaces.The full-page miniatures depict: (f 17v) a lady kneeling before the Virgin and Child in a gothic interior, with angels above, the border includes a bird and an armoured figure fighting a snail, (f 25v) God the Father enthroned in the clouds, folding the body of Christ, with two angels, above a landscape, the border includes at the foot a woman admiring herself in a mirror, (f 41v) the Crucifixion with the Virgin, two other saints and three soldiers at foot, in a landscape with a city behind, the border includes two armoured figures jousting on snails, (f 50v) The Virgin and Child enthroned in the sky, with two angels, above a landscape including a river and a city, the border includes a bagpipe player, (f 93v) the Last Supper, at a round table in a gothic interior, John lying on Christ's lap, Judas holding a purse, the border includes birds, a snail and half-length figures of a man and a woman, (107v) the Virgin and other saints praying at the foot of the (empty) cross, a landscape behind, the border includes a bird and two half-length figures, (f 133v) the crucified Christ displaying his wounds to five kneeling figures in a gothic interior, the border including a rabbit, two grotesques and a half-length woman crowning a bird with a human face. The small miniatures and historiated initials include (f 23v, 55r & 69r) Virgin and Child, (f36r) the Scourging, (f59r & 76r) St George and the Dragon, (64r St Bernard, with crozier and book), (67r) St Katherine, (68r) St Barbara; (f 85r Blessed Sacrament), (f 100r-103r) seven small miniatures of different flowers, perhaps replacing the Wounds of Christ, (f103v) Coronation of the Virgin, (f126r) St Jerome and the lion, (f131r) St John the Evangelist, (f141r) St Christopher carrying the Child, (f144r) Christ before Pilate, (f146r) an angel, (f147r) St Adrian, (f147v) St Anthony, (f148v St Elizabeth, (f150r) Nativity of the Virgin. The borders contain, among much else, figures of birds, squirrels, lions, butterflies, a camel, human figures, including a naked woman with a mirror emerging from a snail shell, and several grotesques.Provenance: (1) The women depicted in prayer on f 133v & 17v are probably the patrons respectively responsible for the original commissioning of the manuscript in c 1460 and its augmentation c 1490. (2) Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of the Dutch family of Doedes, with motto 'Sublimia curo', perhaps the scholar Jacobus Izaak Doedes (1817-1897). (3) Later nineteenth-century bookplate 'au Cte Chandon de Briailles', 'MS 51' added in pencil, probably Raoul Chandon de Briailles (1850-1908), scholar, collector, and owner of the well-known Chandon champagne enterprise in Epernay, whose collection was sold by his descendants at Tajan, Paris, 17 December 2003. (4) Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 46, bought privately by the present owner.
Lot 98
Parrot Presses & Artists' Choice Editions.- Bishop (Hal) The Wood Engravings of Frank Martin: A Selection...and a Catalogue of all the Relief Prints, number XIV of XXXVI special copies (actually 42) with an additional suite of 4 hitherto unpublished wood-engravings, from an edition limited to 360 signed by the author and artist, original morocco-backed pictorial boards, additional wood-engravings all titled, numbered and signed in pencil, loose as issued with card folder, together in slip-case, 1998 § Martin (Frank) Newhaven Dieppe, number 196 of 320 copies signed by the author/artist, original pictorial boards, uncut, 1996: Shadowland: Pictures from a Silent Screen, number 71 of 280 copies signed by the author/artist, original pictorial boards, 2002, illustrations by Martin, some colour, Church Hanborough; and another by the same, 4to & folio (4)⁂ Despite the colophon of the first stating that there were 36 special copies with 8 additional engravings there were in fact 42 copies in half morocco with 4 engravings, and a further18 specially-bound copies in full morocco with 8 engravings.
Lot 479
Middle East.- Pakyne (Theodore) Voyage en Orient, manuscript account of a journey to Persia, 34pp., in French, some blank leaves ruled in pencil at end, sewn, lacking wrappers, 4to, 1839.⁂ Unpublished first hand account of a journey to Persia, unusual because it is written by the humble "vallet de chambre" to the wealthy aristocrat "Monsieur le Comte de Sercey." The latter's diplomatic mission to Persia is described in La Perse en 1840, which first appeared in La Revue Contemporaine in 1854, and was an attempt by the French government to re-establish relations with Persia. But this account by a mere servant is much more engaging, if rather idiosyncratic. He describes visits to Palermo, Messina and Mount Etna before they reach Milos; Constantinople is described in detail - "everywhere there are mosques and minarets" - before the hazardous crossing of the mountains from Trebizond to Bayazid - "the inhabitants are miserable and the women unwashed". In the capital of Azerbaijan, Tabriz, the expedition's artist M. Flandin, is attacked after he tries to gate-crash a wedding party, whereupon the guests are fined and administered fifty lashes. In March 1840 they arrive in Teheran where they are warmly welcomed with fanfares "despite the fact that Christians are regarded as dogs". A fascinating counterpoint to de Sercey's better known but more conventional account.
![European Travel Journal.- Mount (L[aura Sarah], daughter of William Mount, of Wasing Place, Berkshire, married Francis Barlow](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f52b1ebe-8bbb-4191-887a-add400eb5b0a/5515afdb-0b1a-414e-b74e-add4010df655/468x382.jpg)
Lot 244
European Travel Journal.- Mount (L[aura Sarah], daughter of William Mount, of Wasing Place, Berkshire, married Francis Barlow, Barrister, Master in Lunacy, 1799-1887, and later of 48 Montagu Square, London, 1802-67)] [Journal of travels in France, Germany, Switzerland & Italy], autograph manuscript, 135pp. excluding blanks (1p. in pencil at end), slightly browned, original half morocco, 3 leather tabs, edges rubbed, small chip at tail of spine, sm. 4to, 1820.⁂ Calais, St Omer, Lille, Tournay, Brussels, Waterloo ("there are still some Cannon to be seen, in the walls of... Hougemont... We passed a deep Sand Pit, by the Road Side, in which we saw some Human Skulls & Bones"), Liege, Spa, Cologne, The Rhine, Bonn, Donaueschingen, Zurich, Mount Albis, crossing The Rigi, ("walked to Righi Coulon a higher point, where the Inn is a wretched wooden House... our excellent courier Mayor was standing on an elevated point not far from the House, a sudden & vivid flash of lightning, followed by a tremendous crash of thunder, struck him dead on the spot. An English Gentleman & his niece (Genl. & Miss Gooch) where also standing out... the lady's Dress was singed"), Lucerne, Althorf [Altdorf], Lauterbrunnen ("with the assistance of Guides & long poles we walked on the Glacier to the entrance of a cave of great deep"), Reichenbach Falls, Thun, Freiburg, Basle, Vevey, Geneva, Bonneville, Chamonix, Mont Blanc ("... we engaged 3 mules & a chaise... also an excellent Guide Balmat, (the son of Pierre Balmat who accompanied Monsr. Saussure in his expedition to Mont Blanc)... the mules were sure footed... we gradually entered a very steep, and rugged path... . We then dismounted... we proceeded to ascend, a narrow path, with a steep precipice... after passing a small spring, the path became excessively steep & rocky, & frequently dangerous after some hours of great fatigue, we reached the summit & partook of some refreshments"), Argentiere, Geneva, Aix, Saint-Benoit, Mont Cenis, Rivoli, Turin, Genoa, Milan, Como, Simplon, Ossola, Kaltwasser Glacier, the Rhone Valley, Saint Maurice [Moritz], Saint-Gingolph, Geneva, St Laurent, Dijon, Fontainebleau, Paris ("We went to the Tapisserie de Goblins, a most wonderful manufacturing of tapestries"); Versailles, Bibliotheque du Roi, Opera Buffa ("House extremely small & acting bad. Signeur & Miss Naldi the principal performers; "Variete & Odeon the acting very indifferent particularly the latter, Brunet a good comic actor at the Variete"), Louvre, Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Theatre Francois ("the principal performer with Talma the hero of the French stage; his action is exceedingly fine, but his extreme vehemence & rant so much admired by foreigners is the striking feature of this as well as all other tragic actors"), Tuileries Chapel ("to see the Royal family at Mass"), St Denis, Chantilly and Amiens.
Lot 208
Hardwick Hall.- Cox the Elder (David) Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire at evening, pencil and watercolour, with touches of white heightening, signed 'David Cox' in the lower centre, 275 x 405 mm (10 3/4 x 16 in), under glass, small repair to upper left corner, affixed onto mount support, framed, [circa 1810]Provenance:The Fine Art Society, London (1958)Henry Bristow McCance, C.B.E.Sale. Sotheby's London, 20 July 1978, lot 206 (£935)Sale. Sotheby's London, 16 July 1981, lot 83 (£1,210)Sale. Christie's London, British Watercolours, 8 June 1999, lot 84 (£7,475)Gifted to the present owner from Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire (1920-2004)Exhibited:Belfast Museum & Art Gallery, Pictures from Ulster Homes, 1961, no. 177.London, The Fine Art Society, 1958.
Lot 125
Whittington Press.- Wong (Judy Ling) Long Summer: Etchings & Poems, number 5 of only 50 copies, signed by the author/artist, signed presentation copy from her inscribed "Dear Barry McKay, May this always bring to you the vibrance of an English summer..." on verso of half-title, 10 etched plates, each numbered, initialled and dated in pencil, original Japanese wood veneer, by Hunter & Foulis of Edinburgh, sewn with cord in Japanese style, uncut, wood veneer slip-case, 1977 § Ayling (Alan) & others. A Folding Screen: Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-tung, translated by Duncan Mackintosh, number 68 of 200 copies signed by the author and translator, illustrations by Fei Ch'eng Wu, with A.L.s. from the translator loosely inserted, original patterned cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slip-case, 1974, folio & 4to, Andoversford, Whittington Press (2)
![Mathematics.- Geometry.- Geometry theorical [sic] and practical, manuscript, 162pp., illustrations (some with grey wash) and](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/f52b1ebe-8bbb-4191-887a-add400eb5b0a/43a8eeba-4ca4-410a-a971-add4010df3a6/468x382.jpg)
Lot 242
Mathematics.- Geometry.- Geometry theorical [sic] and practical, manuscript, 162pp., illustrations (some with grey wash) and diagrams, occasional later red ink or pencil notes and calculations, a few ff. torn / torn out with loss of text, short tears, some staining, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, worn with loss of vellum, but holding firm, small 4to, [c.1771].⁂ An attractively produced work. Provenance: 'Henry Pannells book, 1771' (ink inscription to title).
Lot 476
William Lionel Wyllie (1851-1931) - Two drypoint etchings - 'The German Fleet Caged at Scapa Flow', and 'The Fifth Battle Squadron', both signed in pencil lower left, entitled in ink on original labels of Robert Dunthorne (Rembrandt Gallery) verso, 8.5cm x 33cm, in card mounts and black oak frames under glass, (2)Condition report: Both works display foxing, but this appears to be mainly on the reverse of the glass as opposed to the paper - all in original frames and sealed so they have not been removed. We wpould assume that the mojority of m,arkls are therefpore removable but this cannot be guaranteed. Minor scuffing to frames.
Lot 480
David Carpanini (b.1946) - Limited edition etching - 'Jersey Road II', 4/40, signed in pencil lower right, 11.5cm x 11cm, framed Condition report: General condition consistent with age. The inclusion of the artist’s full name (and dates of birth and/or death, if known) should be understood to convey that, in our opinion only, this work is probably by the artist, and probably of the period. Any qualifiers such as ‘Attributed to’, ‘Circle, Manner, School, or Follower of’ etc. convey some level of doubt on our part.
Lot 475
Pair of late 18th Century colour stipple engraved portraits both indistintly signed in pencil to the lower margin, in giltwood oval frames with ribbon tied cresting bearing labels for James Shoolbred & Co., indistinct handwritten notes verso, 20 x 16.5cmCondition report: Basically in very good order. Slight rippling under glass
Lot 504
Anna Costenoble (German, 1863-1930) - 'Tod und Leben Oder Erde und Hummel (Perception of Life and Death or Sky and Earth)', signed in pencil to the margin and in monogram lower right of the plate, titled to verso in inset and a later translation stating the etching was executed in the 1920's, 29.5cm x 40cm, framed and glazed Condition report: Some ripples to the paper are present. General condition consistent with age. The inclusion of the artist’s full name (and dates of birth and/or death, if known) should be understood to convey that, in our opinion only, this work is probably by the artist, and probably of the period. Any qualifiers such as ‘Attributed to’, ‘Circle, Manner, School, or Follower of’ etc. convey some level of doubt on our part.
Lot 509
Leslie Godwin (b.1929) - Oil study - 'Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey', signed in pencil lower left, 14.5cm x 17cm, framed Condition report: General condition consistent with age. The inclusion of the artist’s full name (and dates of birth and/or death, if known) should be understood to convey that, in our opinion only, this work is probably by the artist, and probably of the period. Any qualifiers such as ‘Attributed to’, ‘Circle, Manner, School, or Follower of’ etc. convey some level of doubt on our part.
Lot 477
Norman Ackroyd CBE RA (b.1938) - Two limited edition etchings - 'The Avenue, West Avebury', 32/90, 34cm x 51.5cm, dated 1981 & 'Nether Wallop', 15/20, 22cm x 11cm, dated 1980, both signed in pencil lower right, unframedCondition report: 'Nether Wallop' has been cut down, with some tape marks to the reverse. General condition consistent with age.
Lot 184
Late Victorian silver combination card case, aide memoir, and pencil, with engraved 'G de M' for Gerald de Maurier, sponsors mark of James Samuel Bell & Louis Willmott, London 1898, 10cm high, in original fitted caseSir Gerald de Maurier (1873 – 1934) was an English actor and manager. He was the son of the author George du Maurier. In 1902 he married the actress Muriel Beaumont with whom he had three daughters: writers Angela du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier, and painter Jeanne du Maurier. In 1904 he originated the dual role of George Darling and Captain Hook in J.M.Barrie’s Peter Pan, at the Duke of York's Theatre, London.Condition report: Some light surface scratches to the card case. Typed note glued to inside silk of the fitted case and light wear all over.
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