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Click here to subscribeSteve Thompson (XX) Collection of 5 limited edition motor cycle & motor racing prints including one formula one Damon Hill print world champion 1996. Motor cycle titles include Mick Doohan, Max Biaggi, Oliver Godfrey Mountain Origins and Steve Hislop Norton's Farewell. All pencil signed and numbered by the artist. All mounted but unframed, approx overall sizes 20 x 16 inches. Cellophane wrapped.
Collection of 3 lithographic prints Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) plate signed 'Toros' En Vallauris 1955 published in 1957, Henri Matisse ( 1869-1954) petit interieur a la table marbre ronde, palmier et personnage, published by Draeger Freres, Paris, 1948, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) modernist figural lithographic print published in New York printed in West Germany 1977. All mounted but unframed, approx overall sizes 20 x 16 inches one approx 18 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches. Cellophane wrapped.
A STONE RUBBING HANGING SCROLL DEPICTING BAMBOO, LATE QING China, late Qing dynasty (1644-1912), 19th century. Depicting leafy stalks of bamboo with two seals and an inscription. With bamboo roller ends fitting to the depiction of the scroll. Condition: Good overall condition some wear and creases to mounting. The image with some losses and a repaired tear in the back. Provenance: Austrian private collection. Dimensions: Size total 175 x 60.5, Size stone rubbing print only 107.5 x 40.5 cm.
A CHINESE COLOR WOODBLOCK PRINT FROM THE TEN BAMBOO STUDIO, 18TH CENTURY China, 18th century. Original color woodblock print, matted and framed. This original color woodblock print originates from The Treatise on Calligraphy and Painting of the Ten Bamboo Studio, a famous Chinese painting manual, and shows a rock. Condition: Good condition, creases and browning mostly around the edges; centerfold. Provenance: Austrian private collection. Dimensions: Image size approx. 23.5 x 27 cm, Size incl. frame 38.1 x 41.8 cm
A CHINESE ORIGINAL PRINT OF A BIRD ON A ROCK, 19TH CENTURY China, 20th century. Original color print, matted and framed. This original Chinese color print from the 20th century shows a bird perched on a rock surrounded by bamboo. With seal of the artist. Condition: Good condition; browning and minor stains within the image; centerfold. Provenance: Austrian private collection. Dimensions: Image size approx. 23.5 x 28 cm, Size incl. frame 34.5 x 41.3 cm
Kipling (Rudyard). Quartette, The Christmas Annual of the Civil & Military Gazette, by four Anglo-Indian writers, [i.e. John Lockwood, Alice, Rudyard & Alice Macdonald Kipling], 1st edition, Lahore: The "Civil and Military Gazette" Press, 1885, title printed in red and black, closed tear repair to outer margin without loss, a little dust soiled, pencil markings to Contents leaf, two closed tears without loss to pp. 37/38, marginal repair with no text loss to pp. 41/42, two words ('Ilbert Bill') circled in ink on p. 53, small closed tear repairs to outer margins of final two leaves not touching text, top edge gilt, original printed wrappers and advert leaves discarded, engraved armorial bookplate of M.C.D. Borden, contemporary crushed brown half morocco over marbled boards, gilt-titled spine with five raised bands, rubbed, 8voQty: (1)NOTESLivingston 5; Martindell 4. One of Kipling's earliest publications, comprising 8 poems and 8 prose pieces by the Kipling family, including the first appearance of 'The Phantom Rickshaw'. Matthew Chaloner Durfee Borden (1842-1912) was a textile leader from Fall River, Massachusetts who in 1880 reorganised the failed American Print Works into the American Printing Company.
* Coster (Howard, 1885-1959). Portrait of the Politican David Lloyd George (1863-1945, Prime Minister, 1916-1922), [1934], gelatin silver print, head and shoulders portrait looking slightly up, image 15 x 10 cm, housed in Coster's original card mount with studio label to the reverse and signed on the mount immediately beneath the image by both photographer (in pencil) and sitter (in black ink), 'Howard Coster, London', and 'D. Lloyd George', a few minor spots and marks to mount, not affecting signatures, overall 28 x 20.5 cmQty: (1)
* Dickens (Charles, 1812-1870). Novelist. Autograph Signature (‘Charles Dickens’) in brown ink, no date, with attached red wax seal, neatly trimmed from the foot of a letter, 35 x 110 mm, mounted beneath a reproduction of an albumen print photograph showing Dickens seated at his desk, framed and glazed, overall 31.5 x 26.5 cm, together with Dumas (Alexandre, 1802-1870, père). French novelist. A brief autograph aphorism unsigned, no date, ‘Sois du hazard, sois de la providence’ ['Either by luck, or by providence'], in brown ink on Dumas’ characteristic blue paper, 10 x 80 mm, mounted beneath a reproduction photograph of a bust of Dumas above the street named after him in Paris, framed and glazed, overall 32.5 x 28.0 cmQty: (2)
* Grainger (Percy, 1882-1961). Australian composer and pianist. Photograph signed, 'Percy Grainger, Aug[ust] 1923', sepia bromide silver print, half-length in part profile, signed and inscribed for Frederick H. Martens in blue ink to a lighter part of the image, beneath 2 bars of an autograph musical quotation from Hillsong I, small circular blindstamp of the photographer [Alfred] Krauth, Frankfurt, to lower right corner, some silvering visible to lower and right margins (when viewed at an angle), 21.5 x 15.5 cm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESThe first version of Grainger’s Hill Song Number 1 was composed between 1901 and 1902. After much rewriting and revising, it was eventually published by Universal Edition in 1924. Grainger said of this work, ‘…I think it is one of the very richest in herzblut [heart's blood] of all my works'. Frederick Herman Martens (1874-1932) was an American music journalist and writer.
* Lowry (Laurence Stephen, 1887-1976). British Painter. Signed reproduction print, 'L.S. Lowry', no date, a black and white reproduction of Lowry's pencil drawing 'The Terrace', Peel Park, Salford', 1927, in the collection of City Art Gallery, Salford, image 14 x 19.5 cm, clearly signed by the artist in pencil to wide blank lower margin, printed details to verso and an address inscribed in pencil in an unidentified hand beneathQty: (1)
* Miro (Joan, 1893-1983). Spanish Artist. Signed photograph, 'Miro', June 1967, gelatin silver print photograph by Adelmann, head and shoulders shot in profile of a smiling Miro, signed and inscribed vertically downwards in lighter area of left margin in black marker pen, 'pour Barry a malven, amicalement, Miro! VI/67', some scattered trivial creases and surface marks, 19.5 x 25.5 cm, photographer's sticker to versoQty: (1)
* Stravinsky (Igor, 1882-1971). Russian-born Composer, Pianist and Conductor. Signed portrait, 'I Stravinsky, Rio, le 11.VI.36', vintage gelatin silver print photograph, head and shoulders portrait in part profile with shadow [by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1934], inscribed and signed in blue ink to lighter upper right-hand area of photograph for [indecipherable first two names] Baruro, image 8.5 x 13.5 cm, original mount, framed and glazedQty: (1)
Milne (A. A.). The Rescue of Piglet, a New Story for Children, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, c.1925, the story of Piglet extracted from the Evening News as press-cuttings, mounted in a blank exercise book in story-form, 2nd title signed in ink by both author and illustrator, cuttings toned and offset, front free endpaper with contemporary ink manuscript subtitle "A Rescue of a Rescue", limp covers wrapped in contemporary patterned paper, extremities lightly rubbed with a little wear, spine toned, small 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: from the library of P. T. R. Gillette, sold at auction by Sothebys, February 10th 1959. A unique item, compiled by hand and signed by both A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard. The press cuttings here are probably the first appearance in print of the story of Piglet and the flood, published in Winnie the Pooh in 1926.
Milne (A. A., and Shepard, Ernest H.). A collection of six prints, by Ernest H. Shepard, 1928, depicting incidents in the lives of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh, extracted from Home Chat magazines and mounted into a blank scrapbook, front pastedown with paper flap enclosing a mounted illustration of Pooh and Piglet (reading 'Now we are Six'), the paper flap signed by both author and illustrator, 2nd print slightly ink speckled (mainly to lower margin), rear endpapers with 2 futher mounted illustrations, of Christopher Robin reading (stained with surface loss), and of A. A. Milne, limp covers wrapped in contemporary patterned paper, extremities rubbed with a little wear, spine somewhat toned, front cover with 2cm closed tear at fore-edge, slim 4toQty: (1)NOTESProvenance: from the library of P. T. R. Gillette, sold at auction by Sothebys, February 10th 1959. A unique item, compiled by hand and signed by both A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard. The six prints are taken from issues of the Home Chat magazine published in a series around October 1928. The prints are: Christopher Robin has a Little Something at Eleven; What Christopher Robin does in the Mornings; Christopher Robin gives Extract of Malt all round; Christopher Robin's Green Braces; Christopher Robin at the Enchanted Place; Christopher Robin organises an "Expotition". Ernest H. Shepard produced these prints exclusively for the magazine and they apparently never appeared in any of the 'Pooh' books.
Fleming (Ian). The Man With the Golden Gun, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Jonathan Cape, 1965, small contemporary previous owner inscription to front endpaper & manuscript '18/-' to front pastedown, original black cloth, upper cover with gun blocked in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, contained in contemporary morocco slipcase (spine a little faded), 8voQty: (1)NOTESGilbert A 13 (1.1). A fine copy in the first state binding, with the 'golden gun' blocked in gilt to the front cover. Some 940 copies were produced, according to Gilbert, many of which were sent in advance to Commonwealth countries in order to meet the official publication day. It soon became clear there was a prohibitive cost to producing this design in gilt to the front cover, so the remaining print run of around 81,000 were produced in plain boards.
Thatcher (Margaret). The Conservative Party. The First 150 Years, by Sheila Moore, 1st edition, Country Life Books, 1980, foreword by Margaret Thatcher, colour and monochrome illustrations, original cloth, dust jacket, light toning to flaps, 4to, signed by Margaret Thatcher and with a presentation inscription by the author 'To Becky' both to front endpaper, together with a photographic print of a schoolgirl Margaret Thatcher, signed, a paperback edition of Statecraft, 2003, signed to title and two unsigned first editions of The Downing Street Years, 1993 and The Path to Power, 1995Qty: (6)
J. GROSSMITH & SON; an original advertising paper sign advertising 'Shem-El-Nessim The Scent of Arabia', 32.5 x 23cm, a Duckworth's advertising card sign and a collection of six coloured posters after Erte (3).Additional InformationThe Arabian Scent poster looks to be paper or a thin piece of card which has been laid on to a board in a frame, folding to the edges of the Erte print and Duckworth sign - see additional images for further information.
SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT (1880-1969); a signed black and white print of a seated female, image 15 x 9.5cm and a signed black and white etching 'The Last Match' by Pascoe Holman, image 17.5 x 12.25cm, both framed and glazed (2).Additional InformationAreas of foxing and staining to the Russell Flint print, the Pascoe Holman example has some staining to the mount, light scuffs to the frames.
ROBERT TAYLOR; a limited edition coloured print, 'Early Morning Arrival', signed by the artist and Bomber Command Air Crew including Jack Friday, Bill Reid, Ant de Breyne, Pat Brophy, etc, no.1239/1250 and with Military Gallery of Great Britain Ltd certificate of authenticity, 43.5 x 67cm, framed and glazed.Additional InformationLight general wear.
RED ARROWS INTEREST; a red flying suit with embroidered RAF emblem, Union Jack and named 'Antony Parkinson RAF Aerobatics Team The Red Arrows' to front and badge to arm, also a related coloured print signed by the pilots of Red One - Red Ten, J Eng O, S Eng O and the Manager, the latter framed and glazed (2).
Chinese School Wood block print, depicting Osmanthus blossoms, inscribed "Osmanthus blossoms like moonlight shining on the branches. The fragrance indicates that autumn has arrived", signed Cheng Yizu & Yi Xian, 23cm x 30cm, with two other woodblock prints, one depicting lilies, with inscriptions to the page detailing how to paint flowers, 23.5cm x 27.5cm and the other depicting a rocky outcrop with plants, with a red seal to the middle right, 23cm x 27cm across (3) Provenance: From the Collection of the late Hans Calmann, and by descent
Collection of Six Chinese Pictures & Embroideries. Comprises: Large framed and glazed embroidery of a flower and butterflies, measures 19" x 15"; Picture of a Chinese girl fully signed, size 15" x 10"; pair of silk embroideries of peacocks fully signed and framed, size 16" x 11"; small embroidery of a bird sitting on a branch size 12" x 10"; and a print on silk from Shanghai, framed, size 8" x 10".
Portrait miniature of a young lady, in white, signed with a monogram lower right, inscribed to the reverse 'R. S. Jeffcock', watercolour on ivory, 6.3 x 4.9cm; with another Portrait miniature of a lady in black, possibly an overpainted print, 4 x 3.2cm; and Miss Minnie E. Clarke (fl. 1892-1901), Portrait miniature of a young man in uniform, watercolour on ivory, with backing paper printed 'Miss Minnie Clarke', 6.1 x 4.8cm (3)
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