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Lot 36
NO RESERVE Japanese Art.- Hillier (Jack) Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection, 3 vol., 1976; The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration, 1980 § Lane (Richard) Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Fribourg, 1978 § Meech-Pekarik (J.) The World of the Meiji Print: Impressions of a New Civilization, second printing, New York & Tokyo, 1987, illustrations, many colour, original cloth or boards with dust-jackets, the first together in slip-case; and c.20 others on Japanese prints, some in Japanese, 4to & 8vo (c.25)
Lot 62
Castiglione (Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664) Temporalis Aeternitas, or Four Wise Men, etching, the second state with Rossi's address, on laid paper with fleur-de-lis with three mounds within a circle, sheet 304 x 200 mm. (12 x 7 7/8 in), trimmed just within the platemark, printers' crease in the upper left corner, unframed, 1645; together with Salvator Castiglione's The resurrection of Lazarus, the only known print by the artist, and possibly after a design by his brother, Giovanni Benedetto, etching on laid paper with fleur-de-lis and three mounds within two concentric circles, platemark 112 x 215 mm. (4 1/4 x 8 1/2 in), sheet 270 x 395 mm. (10 3/4 x 15 1/2 in), unframed, 1645 (2).
![[Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll". Xie Kitchin, standing in nightdress and crown, albumen print photograph, mount](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/301ad9da-51ab-4cd1-ae03-aaa30115c199/be5896b3-3df0-46a3-a347-aad400bfb3f8/468x382.jpg)
Lot 108
Print & book sale catalogue.- Bermann (Jean-Sigismond) Catalogue detaillé de la Précieuse Collection d'Estampes, Recueils, Cabinets, galeries et Livres sur les Arts, de feu Mr. Jean-Pierre Cerroni, contemporary marbled boards, corners worn, rubbed, Vienna, 1827; and a bound vol. of 9 18th century portraits of Austrian royalty and nobility, 8vo (2)
Lot 48
Indian Art.- Fergusson (James) and James Burgess. The Cave Temples of India, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, folding map, 99 plates including one mounted albumen print, a few tinted, 2 folding, with a duplicate of plate XVIII, very occasional spotting, map creased, Breezewood book-label, contemporary half morocco, t.e.g., spine gilt, rubbed, 1880; History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations, light foxing at beginning and end, modern half morocco, t.e.g., 1876, 4to & 8vo (2)⁂ James Fergusson (1808-86), originally an indigo planter in India later became an architectural historian and respected authority on Indian architecture and its cave temples in particular. The first work was co-produced with the archaeologist James Burgess who from 1886-89 was Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India.
Lot 3
Great Britain. Sedgfield (William Russell). The Thames Illustrated by Photographs. First Series, Richmond to Cliefden [Second Series, Cookham to Whitchurch ... Third Series, Whitchurch to Oxford], 3 volumes, 1st edition, A. Marion, Son, & Co., 1866-8, 44 mounted albumen print photographs, as plates and in the text, some oval-shaped or round-headed, occasional fading along print edges, spotting to volume 1 affecting text and a few prints, 'View from Richmond Hill' slightly oxidised, volume 2 endpapers spotted, intermittent tide-mark to fore margins and a few other marks, volume 3 plates and text-leaves variably softened and spotted along edges from water access, the plates browned on reverse side to prints, a few prints partially lifting at corners, all edges gilt, original green sand-grain cloth over bevelled boards, front boards lettered in gilt, volume 2 cloth marked and mottled, volume 3 housed in custom suede-lined slipcase, 4to (Qty: 3)NOTESProvenance: Morrall family (engraved armorial bookplate with motto 'Norma tuta veritas'); 'S. S. Elliott, Ridley Hall, Cambridge' (ownership inscription). Gernsheim 331, 388, 389; Hannavy, Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography , p. 1261. Four sets traced in UK libraries (Oxford, Senate House, and two copies at the British Library); the V&A holds an incomplete copy of the first volume, and Chetham's has a copy of the second volume only. OCLC adds five sets world-wide. One other set traced at auction, in 2003.
Lot 184
* Ashley (April, born 1935), A group of 17 gelatin silver print press photographs of April Ashley, circa 1969-70, all with agency stamps and printed captions to versos, a little corner creasing, 25.5 x 20cm or the reverse and one slightly smaller (Qty: 17)NOTESApril Ashley, a former merchant seaman, is one of the earliest people known to have had gender reassignment surgery. She was appointed MBE in 2012 for services to transgender equality.
Lot 14
* Jeuffrain (Paul, 1808-1896). A French Norman Church, 1850s, salt print from a paper negative, (21 x 27cm) together with five further early to mid 1850s salt prints by various mostly unidentified British and Italian photographers, including an Italian monument, probably by Carlo Ponti (33 x 26cm), York Minster (19.5 x 25cm), a portrait of Count Tasca and his two sons (24 x 18cm), an English thatched cottage (13 x 16.5cm), and a rural view of a church scene across a meadow (16 x 19.5cm), all but the first on paper mounts (Qty: 6)
Lot 167
* Philippines. Close-up head portrait of a smoking Filipino, by Pierre Verger, circa 1940, gelatin silver print, small crease to upper left corner, photographer's name stamp to verso, 2 x 23.5 cm, together with a group of 8 earlier photographs of Philippines interest, 4 albumen prints and 4 gelatin silver prints, including 2 river views, villagers and a street scene, the largest 22 x 28.5 cm, but mostly 11.5 x 16.5 cm (Qty: 9)
Lot 56
* Hong Kong. A group of 9 hand-coloured albumen print views of Hong Kong, c. 1880s, all captioned in the negative to lower margins, scenes include Hong Kong Harbour, the Peak, Hong Kong public garden and racecourse, some spotting, together with two hand-coloured albumen prints showing before and after of a beheading scene of pirates in Kowloon, 1890s, all 20 x 26cm and similar (Qty: 11)
Lot 51
* China. Full-length portrait of a seated Chinese Mandarin, c. 1890s, albumen print on contemporary mount, closed tear to lower right corner, 19.5 x 13.5 cm, together with two small mounted albumen prints of Chinese children, circa 1870s, 6 x 9 cm and the reverse, numbered French ink captions to mounts (Qty: 3)
Lot 256
* Munkacsi (Martin, 1896-1963). A group of five contact prints on two sheets, circa 1930s, printed circa 1960, gelatin silver prints on Kodak paper, the group of four showing a man and a woman with a bicycle drinking milk, a nude woman running along a pool edge and two of a woman with a rifle, the single contact print showing the same woman running along the pool edge, images 8.5 x 11.5 cm, sheet size 24.5 x 20 cm (Qty: 2)NOTESA photograph of the same nude and setting from 1935 is shown in F.G. Gundlach (editor) Martin Munkacsi, ICP/Steidl, 2006, page 268.
Lot 91
* Maritime. A group of 12 shipping photographs, 1860s/1870s, mounted albumen prints, including two photographs of HMS Royal Oak (one loose), 21 x 26 cm and slightly smaller, two photographs of masted ships in the harbour at Marseilles including one oval print, 12.5 x 16 cm, plus eight photographs of ships in Weymouth, 11 x 19 cm and similar (Qty: 12)
Lot 45
* China. Saunders (William, 1832-1892). A group of three photographs of Shanghai boat scenes, c. 1860s, all oval albumen print vignettes of native ferry boats, a houseboat and a sampan, all with figures, contemporary card mounts, the first with printed descriptive caption to lower mount, the others with ink captions, photograph sheet sizes 20 x 26 cm or the reverse (Qty: 3)
![India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e81e3ae-22b0-49bc-93b7-aacd0108d8fe/e30007ac-5809-4f8d-8875-aace0112b122/468x382.jpg)
Lot 29
India. [Photographic biographies of Indian rulers], c.1880, 2 parts in 1 volume, approximate pagination [6] 7-96 pp., 3-40 73-6 41-72 [77]-144 147-246 251-4, lithographic Urdu text without hand-coloured oval cartouches, 74 albumen print portrait photographs (9 x 5 cm) mounted to card leaves with Urdu captions (either in manuscript or on mounted lithographic slips), mounts on stubs throughout, 1 similar portrait (uncaptioned but evidently from the same series) laid in, both parts lacking the title-page and apparently the first leaf of text, one card mount (Moinuddin Mohammed Farrukhsiyar) with caption but lacking photograph, part 1 text-leaves and mounts brittle and browned, fore margins chipped and extensively consolidated with tissue-paper, similar repairs to a few leaves extending into text, a few card mounts detached or detaching from stubs (Babur, Humayun, Jahangir/Akbar, the latter both mounted either side of the same sheet), part 2 with water-damage to pp. 133-44 and 3 intervening plates, stabilised with tissue-paper, the repair just touching one corner of 2 photographs (Nawabs of Juagadh and Balasinor), the third (Maharaja of Travancore) repaired with loss, 1 other photograph (Nawab of Palanpur) with extensive loss and attempted repair, card mounts in part 2 otherwise only with variable and generally minor water-staining to fore margins (lower outer corners sometimes discreetly consolidated with tissue), contemporary red morocco binding with broad roll-tool borders gilt, rebacked with red fabric, folio (29.5 x 19 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the collection of photo-historian Brij Sharma. An apparently near-complete copy of an extremely rare Indian publication. We trace a fragment containing six photographic portraits and their associated biographies only, catalogued as being part of a larger work titled Muraqqa' Jahan Numa ('World-Mirror Album') by Munshi Bulaqi Das, printed at Delhi's Mayur Press circa 1880. The first part contains 25 albumen prints from miniatures of Mughal rulers and their antecedents, from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar. The second part concerns the rulers of the Princely States and associated potentates including the sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar. It contains 50 albumen prints (including the loose, uncaptioned image), of which 39 are from life, and consequently provides original likenesses of numerous princes not otherwise well-represented in the photographic record. The quality of the paper and the adverse climate of the Subcontinent appear to have assured the work's rarity in any condition. A full list list of the figures depicted is available on request.
Lot 230
* Wright (Orville & Wilbur). An historic lunch given to the brothers Messrs Orville and Wilbur Wright and Miss Katherine Wright, at the Carlton Hotel, May 3rd, 1909, by Mr Frank Hedges Butler, one of the founders of the Aero Club, vintage bromide gelatin silver print, 23 x 28.5 cm, contemporary card window-mount with printed caption beneath and printed biographical key of the 20 people present to verso (Qty: 1)
Lot 129
* East Africa. Portrait of a young male Masai by Hass-Halver Kassel, 1930s, vintage gelatin silver print, ink stamp and manuscript details to verso, 22.5 x 17 cm, together with a photograph of a group of tribal dancers in East Africa, 1950s, gelatin silver print, United Press International wet stamp to verso, 24.5 x 19.5 cm (Qty: 2)
Lot 151
* China. A group of three small panoramas of Shanghai, circa 1930, gelatin silver prints, all showing shipping, each 11.5 x 26 cm and similar, plus a panoramic gelatin silver print photograph of USS searunner at Shanghai, 1946, 10.5 x 27 cm, plus two further gelatin silver print panoramas of Hong Kong harbour and a sea and sky study taken on a boat, similar sizes (Qty: 6)
Lot 99
* Gutekunst (Frederick, 1831-1917). Daft's Cricketing Team which Visited America in 1879, carbon print, photographer's name in the negative lower left, photographic surface crackled, a few minor scratches and creases, 24 x 40cm, matted with printed caption above and player key below (Qty: 1)NOTESRichard Daft (1835-1900) was an English cricketer and one of the best batsman of his day. In 1879 he led a strong side to North America, the squad including seven Nottinghamshire and five Yorkshire leading professional cricketers.
Lot 130
Coronation of Haile Selassie I. Emperor of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa , 2 November 1930, a personal photographically-illustrated scrap album of the occasion compiled by Major E.O. Springfield, a member of the delegation sent to accompany the Duke of Gloucester at the coronation, containing a total of 32 gelatin silver print photographs, 35 leaves of news cuttings and related, a manuscript pass, menu, seat ticket and seating plan, three ambassadorial letters, an invitation card to the ceremony and one for the dinner, plus an 11-page typescript account of the occasion as recalled by Springfield, Springfield's ownership signature and address, 'The Palace, Khartoum, Sudan' to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards with lithographically-printed title to upper cover, some rubbing and soiling, slight edge and joint wear and a little loss of cloth to top and bottom of lower joint, folio (38 x 31cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESProvenance: From the great-nephew of E.O. Springfield. The first photograph in the album shows the Duke of Gloucester and the rest of the British delegation standing on the steps of the British Legation in Addis Ababa. Captain Springfield was comptroller to the Governor General of Sudan and is seen second from the left in the second row from the back. Standing next to him on his left in a top hat is the young explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who had been given a personal invitation to the coronation by Haile Selassie. This photograph measures 19 x 24cm, the majority of other photographs being postcard-size and similar of western and African officials in respective ceremonial dress. However there are further larger images including one of African chiefs demonstrating a machine gun.
Lot 97
Fenton (Roger, 1819-1869). Photographic Art Treasures; or, Nature and Art Illustrated by Art and Nature, Part I, published by the Patent Photo-Galvano-Graphic Company, November 1856, containing four photo-galvanographs, each with printed title and letterpress credits on india paper, each image approximately 21.5 x 18cm, sheet size 56 x 38cm, loosely contained as issued in original printed wrappers with pictorial vignette to upper cover, minor dust-soiling and small neat repair at foot of spine, large slim folio (Qty: 1)NOTESPart I contains images of York Minster, Cedars, Monmouthshire, Raglan Castle (The Porch) and Raglan Castle (The Watergate). A second part was issued with four further photo-galvanographs, of which two more were by Roger Fenton. Roger Fenton was named partner and photographer of the company, the patent inventor being Paul Pretsch. These are considered the first serious commercial attempts to print directly from a photo-sensitised plate using the photo-chemical process. Rare. No copies have been traced on Library Hub Discover, but a copy of Part I is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room).
Lot 55
China & Japan. A large scrap album containing photographs and prints including China and Japan interest, late 19th and early 20th century, a total of 24 photographs, 15 pencil drawings, sketches and watercolours, and 50 prints and items of printed ephemera, the largest photograph (22 x 29 cm) being a toned gelatin silver print, circa 1910, showing a Peking merchant seated in his business reception area with banners and drapes, flowers and chairs, plus five further gelatin silver print cabinet cards and a larger group portrait, studio names on mounts being Sze-Uen-Ming, Shanghai (2), Ho Kom Tong, Hong Kong (2), and Tse Chin Loh, two detached and one showing an unidentified building, 12 hand-tinted Japanese albumen prints, late 19th century, 20.5 x 26.5 cm, the remaining seven photographs including a Ceylon palm tree scene and a young woman by Skeen, circa 1880s, the whole collection mounted to rectos and versos of 30 stiff card leaves, contemporary half morocco, soiling and wear, large folio (53 x 38 cm) (Qty: 1)
Lot 96
* Cameron (Julia Margaret, 1815-1879). The Dream, 1869, albumen print on original card mount, signed and dated ink inscription on mount below image, 'From Life Registered Photography Copyright Julia Margaret Cameron April 1869', pencil inscription 'The Dream' beneath and printed lithographic quotation and signature of the artist G.F. Watts 'quite divine' at centre foot of mount, old light water stain affecting lower left-hand corner of image and mount, two of Cameron's finger smudges in the negative within image lower right, image size 30.2 x 24cm, mount trimmed close to print at all but bottom margins, framed and glazed (Qty: 1)NOTESJulian Cox & Colin Ford, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs , 2003, no. 258, p. 208; Marta Weiss, Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs to Electrify you with Delight and Startle the World , 2015, p. 143. The sitter in this portrait was Mary Hillier and the subject is a reference to Milton's poem 'On his Deceased Wife' which tells of a fleeting vision of his beloved wife returning to life in a dream. As often with Cameron's photographs her smudged fingerprints in the negative do not seem to have bothered her and for modern eyes represent an inadvertent signature. A good deep brown print.
Lot 38
Thomson (John). Views on the North River, 1st edition, Hongkong: Noronha & Sons, Printers, 1870, printed title and two leaves of Introduction, printed to rectos only, 14 mounted albumen prints, each with printed red rule border and caption beneath, accompanying leaf of descriptive letterpress to each plate, some fading to images and one spotted, mounts with old damp staining to inner and outer margins, ownership name inscriptions of G. Dods, 1875, and W.K. Dods and C.M. Normand to front free endpaper, stitching now largely broken and contents generally loose in original cloth-backed printed boards with decorative design to upper and lower covers, rubbed and soiled, a little paper surface loss, oblong folio (32.5 x 43 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESThe photographs are captioned and measure as follows: 1) Road to the Village of Wong Tong, 173 x 232mm; 2) The Ts'ing Yune Pagoda, 154 x 232mm; 3) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 179 x 237mm; 4) The Fi-Lai-Sz Monastery, 152 x 236mm; 5) In the Ts'ing Yune Pass, 159 x 236mm; 6) View from the 'Lien Chow Kwong' Villages, 140 x 238mm; 7) An Up-Country Bridge, 178 x 232mm; 8) The Mang-Tsz Pass, 158 x 237mm; 9) Rapids, 161 x 232mm; 10) Looking North from the Pau-Lo-Hang Temple, 168 x 240mm; 11) Kwan Yin Cave, 160 x 219mm; 12) Fishing Boats, 158 x 228mm; 13) View from the Kwan Yin Cave, 143 x 226mm; 14) An Up-Country Farm, 138 x 238mm. Provenance: George Dods (1836-1909) MD LRCS Ed. 1859, was born and died in Edinburgh. He worked as Acting Colonial Surgeon in Hong Kong. He wrote at least one medical paper, ‘Tropical Malaria and Its Sequelae’, published in Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh , 1888, 7: 186-198. His only son, William Kane Dods, was born in Hong Kong Kong in 1866, shortly after his marriage to Margaret Crabbe. William Kane Dods (1866-1948) worked as an agent for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and served as treasurer and honorary secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and on the Committee of the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta. The co-owner of the book was Charles M. Normand (?1834-1912), a direct contemporary of Dods senior, who also served in the Far East as an assistant surgeon. By family descent. See also following lots 39-43. A very good copy of this notorious rarity, here in the original printed covers and with family provenance dating back to within five years of publication. It was the first of Thomson’s photographically illustrated books on China, and describes a trip two hundred miles up the North, though the photographs focus on only a few places, for which Thomson gives Chinese characters and English spellings. Like his earlier work, Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh … to Hong Kong in 1869 , the first photographically-illustrated book published in China, it was published in Hong Kong by the Portuguese printers Noronha and Sons (The Government Printers). ’Mr. Thomson has just published a volume of admirable photographs of scenes on the North River, entered about 40 miles above Canton through the Fatshan creek. The views, which are beautifully executed, are accompanied by a short description of the places which they respectively represent, and will thus form a most pleasing illustration of a part of China little known to the generality of Europeans. In the details of foliage and other foreground these photographs will compare favourably with the best works at home, though they fail somewhat in a distant effects by being too dark in tone, a circumstance to which Mr. Thomson alludes in the introduction, where he states that, with a few exceptions, his efforts to obtain bright photographs of distant objects were baffled by a continuance of bad weather, casting a veil of mist over the distance. Bearing this in mind, the results must be considered wonderfully successful, and the views will be no less acceptable as an interesting memento for residents in China to take home with them, or as a pleasing gift to send to their friends’, Hong Kong Daily Press, 31 October 1870. ‘Views on the North River would have been expensive to produce and the print run was probably small. It is the rarest of Thomson’s books on China. There is a copy in the National Library of Scotland, another in Hong Kong University Library; a third is in the Wason Collection at Cornell University ( NUC , vol. 592, p. 256). In 1980 one was recorded in the collection of Mr and Mrs Lewis Lehr, New York (Lucien Goldschmidt and Weston J. Naef, The Truthful Lens, 1980, p. 167, fig. 157 and pp. 224-5)’, Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879, Quaritch, 2010, p. 227. ‘ Views on the North River … can be seen as the first attempt to present Thomson’s experience of China as a visual document. The book form is being used to recreate the experience of seeing his images in a sequence predetermined by the photographer, and to that extent he was able to retain control over the order and arrangement in which his own photographs were presented ... Yet despite the success of Views on the North River as a photographically illustrated book, its circulation among the western, English-speaking communities of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports was somewhat limited, and its impact in Britain, if it had any at all, has left no trace in the contemporary reviewing journals’, Richard Ovenden, John Thomson 1837-1921 (Photographer) , National Library of Scotland, 1997, pp. 178-9.
Lot 226
Military. A photograph album compiled by a soldier with the Field Artillery, 1914-17, 125 gelatin silver print photographs pasted to rectos and versos of 17 stiff card leaves with brief ink captions, including A/114 training, 1914-15, scenes at Kalinova (Salonica Campaign) in 1916, including digging of an 8" dud, various camp scenes, soldiers and (named) horses, including 4 photographs of the removal of a bit of shell from a horse's side, other photographs of artillery, officers and soldiers, horses in training, sports and on board ship to Alexandria, some scenes of the Suez Canal, and small panoramic photographs of a review by the Duke of Connaught at Cologne with Marshal Foch in attendance, photographs 12 x 14 cm and smaller, blank album leaves at rear, contemporary half roan, spine torn with some loss at foot, 4to (Qty: 1)
Lot 2
Great Britain. Dupe (William Henry, 1824-1901, butler at Thenford, Northamptonshire). A photograph album of approximately 260 photographs, c.1850s-1860s and some later, including approximately 200 albumen prints by or attributed to W.H. Dupe, including three unusual large albumen print photogenic drawings of ferns on separate sheets (27.5 x 24 cm, 25 x 21 cm and 23 x 22cm), the sheets larger than the album and loosely inserted with 16 similar loose smaller albumen print photogenic drawings of ferns (9 x 6 cm and smaller including two cut-outs), all c.1860s, the remaining album contents including many of places and people (gentry and household members of older age) in Thenford and Wallop, Northamptonshire, and Evercreech, Somerset, and surrounding areas, ink or pencil captions include 'Evercreech Sunday School in Olden Times 1825', 'All the Old People of Thenford', 'Ann Butler Aged 79', 'Happy Moments', and 'The Clown', plus a number of commercial European views including Venice and Pompeii, plus several pencil and pen sketches by the photographer of churches, studies of artefacts within churches, a tree, and an Ancient Greek soldier with a winged horse, various manuscript and printed items, some relating to Mr & Mrs Severne, owners of the Thenford estate, the photographs and other items largely mounted as multiples to rectos and versos of a total of 116 leaves, many leaves detached and some with excisions from earlier removals, ownership signature of W.H. Dupe to front pastedown, inner hinges broken, contemporary skiver, rubbed and slightly soiled, 4to (33 x 28 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESAn extraordinary archive of early photographs taken by a domestic servant and amateur photographer. The little-known William Henry Dupe (1824-1901) was born in Evercreech, Somerset. He married Eleanor Bowen in Fulham, London, in 1856, and their two children were born in Thenford, South Northamptonshire in 1857 and 1860. It would have been highly unusual for an uneducated person without good financial means to have taken up photography in the 1850s. But somehow Dupe did come by a camera and sufficient technical expertise to take, develop and print photographs while working as a servant from the mid-1850s onwards. During the 1860s he worked as a butler for the Severne family at Thenford, and while doing so took photographs of the village and surroundings and their inhabitants, paying as much attention to recording images of his fellow workers and the elderly as the gentry. It appears that he left service at Thenford to become a full-time photographer, even winning prizes in Switzerland and, according to one cutting in the album, New South Wales. He died in Brackley, Northamptonshire, in 1901, just five months after his wife passed away. The album is assembled as a utilitarian scrap album with his own unacknowledged photographs mixed in with commercial photos, standard studio portraits, various sketches, manuscript items and news cuttings. Most of the photographs by and attributed to Dupe, including the three large and beautiful ‘photogenic drawings’ of ferns, would appear to date from the 1860s, though photographs of Evercreech in Somerset suggest that he already had the camera and was taking photographs in the mid-1850s, so before he arrived at Thenford. Dupe is mentioned, and some of his photographs reproduced, in Michael and Anne Heseltine, Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden, Head of Zeus, 2016. A copy of the book is included with the lot.
Lot 193
* Dali (Salvador, 1904-1989). Portrait of Dali's head, by John Bryson, September 1974, gelatin silver print, printed 1980s , 33 x 24cm, mat mount (Qty: 1)NOTESJohn Bryson (1923 - 2005) was an American photojournalist who worked for Elle for Life and other magazines, best known for his ability to capture images of celebrities and world leaders at their homes or at work.
Lot 93
Naval Album. A photograph album compiled by Francis Edmond Groube and descendants, c. 1867-1910, beginning with a series of 16 albumen prints, mostly of naval interest, circa 1867-87, including Officers of HMS Prince Consort, 1867, figurehead of HMS Ariadne, 1872, Commander and Lieutenants of HMS Ariadne, two photographs of cadets of HMS Ariadne, 1872, Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Southsea, 1866, Officers on board HMS Albatross, 1881, Bermuda floating deck of the 'Urgent', Hong Kong Cricket Club members, 1882, 5 photographs of HMS Calypso, 1887, etc., 15 x 21 cm and similar sizes, followed by 3albumen prints of Jamaica, soldiers' barracks, Newcastle, and two views of (?)Andover Falls, Jamaica, 18 x 23 cm and smaller, plus 40 albumen prints of people and scenes in Japan, mounted two to a page, 13.5 x 10 cm, an oval albumen print of a West Indian young girl, 5 albumen prints of New Zealand interest, relating to Mr. Bidwell's house near Wellington, 6 further group photographs including 3 of naval interest, plus a variety of UK albumen print and collotype views, a small group of later family photographs at rear, mounted to album leaf rectos throughout, mostly singly and in pairs, with untidy pencil inscriptions to mounts, ink ownership signature of F.E. Groube to front free endpaper, all edges gilt, contemporary morocco gilt, rubbed, 4to (26.5 x 21.5 cm) (Qty: 1)NOTESFrancis Edmond Groube (1853-1932) was nominated as a naval cadet in 1866. He was placed on the retired list with the rank of Commander in 1897.
Lot 190
* Hughes (Ted, 1930-1998). A head and shoulders portrait by Mark Gerson, (born 1921), circa 1970s, vintage gelatin silver print, 23.5 x 19.5 cm, together with three further gelatin silver print portraits by Gerson, the poet W.H. Auden and his godson Philip Spender, 1972, 20 x 22 cm, the playwright Arnold Wesker at his desk, circa 1990, 24.5 x 20 cm, and the playwright John Osborne outside The Royal Court Theatre showing 'Look Back in Anger', 1957, later printing, 20 x 18 cm, all in mat mounts with Mark Gerson's pencil signature and 'London' to lower mounts, the first two items framed and glazed (Qty: 4)
Lot 80
* New Zealand. A pair of group portrait photographs of miners posing near mine entrances, 1890s, albumen prints, 10.5 x 14.5 cm, together with a larger albumen print photograph of gold mines, circa 1880s, inscribed 'Thames Gold Fields N.3' to verso, 15.5 x 20.5 cm, plus a group of 24 albumen prints pasted as pairs on to rectos of 12 stiff card album leaves, circa 1890s, showing scenes of the Puketui and Kauaeranga Valleys, the Coromandel Peninsular, showing bush huts, power station, mine tunnels, etc., 11 x 15 cm and similar, plus copies of two printed works, Report of the Department of Mines on the Goldfields of New Zealand for the Year 1899-1900, by John Hayes, Wellington, 1900, folding plans, original printed wrappers, soiled and frayed with loss, folio; the New Zealand Mines Record, Vol. 1, No. 2, Wellington, 16 September 1897, stapled as issued, original printed wrappers, frayed and detached, slim 4to (Qty: 29)NOTESThe Thames Gold Field is located on the southern shores of the Hauraki Gulf, the bonanza years following the first major discovery of gold there in 1867.
Lot 18
Italy. An album of 56 mounted albumen print views of Rome, c. 1870, including temples, buildings, ruins and sculptures, mostly 18 x 25.5cm and similar sizes, the majority mounted singly to rectos of 48 stiff card leaves, brief pencil captions in English to lower mounts, original gilt-decorated vellum with small ink stamp of the photographer at foot of spine, 'H. Andersen Roma' in original limp red morocco dust jacket, rubbed with some edge wear and small split to lower panel, 4to, together with another album of 63 mounted albumen print views of Italy, circa 1870s, including views, buildings and interiors in Venice, Verona, Siena, Milan, etc., 19.5 x 25cm, some with printed captions in the negative to lower margins, mounted on rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with neat English ink captions beneath, some spotting, contemporary half morocco gilt, rubbed, cracked on joints, some edge wear, folio (Qty: 2)NOTESH. Andersen may be Hermann Andersen who joined the firm of Stillfried & Andersen, operating in Yokohama, Japan between 1876 and 1885.
Lot 215
* Modern Photography. A group of gelatin silver print photographs, mostly circa 1970s, including a portrait of Marilyn Monroe (press print, 21 x 16cm, mat mount), a press print photograph of Jean Lorcat by Andre Kertesz, circa 1995 (23 x 16cm), a press print of Joan Crawford dress fitting by Eve Arnold, circa 1996 (19 x 13cm), a vintage print by David Attie, two vintage prints by Tom Drahos and two vintage prints by Jurij Rupin (Qty: 8)
![* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and the Fairies [and] Iris and the Gnome, July & September 1917, printed by Harold Snelling,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/6e81e3ae-22b0-49bc-93b7-aacd0108d8fe/efb8a0ee-da0a-4df7-a208-aace011332ce/468x382.jpg)
Lot 241
* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and the Fairies [and] Iris and the Gnome, July & September 1917, printed by Harold Snelling, circa 1920, a pair of vintage sepia gelatin silver print photographs, 15 x 20cm and 20 x 15cm respectively, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title and copyright stamp to lower margins, first photograph a little scratched at bottom right-hand corner and mount corners slightly bruised, second photograph with small diagonal crease to upper left corner and tear with small loss to bottom left corner of image and accompanying loss of mount corner, other mount corners bruised (Qty: 2)NOTESA pair of the larger format photographs from this infamous photography hoax of the summer of 1917 when perpetrated by Elsie Wright and her younger cousin Frances Griffiths in Cottingley, near Bradford, Yorkshire. Unable to confess their hoax due to the embarrassment caused by the publicity and support of celebrities including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the two girls were persuaded to take more photographs in the summer of 1920. Three more photographs were produced and the ensuing photographic prints available to the public were lettered A to E.
Lot 168
* Thailand. Vajiravudh (King of Siam, 1880-1925). Photograph signed, 'Maha Vajiravudh', 1901, circular gelatin silver print photograph of the Crown Prince in military uniform, head and shoulders, full face, heavy spotting, 93mm diameter, signed and dated in brown ink to lower mount, a little spotting and soiling, inscribed to verso in an unidentified hand, 'The King of Siam, given to the Dean of Gloucester', overall 13.5 x 13.5cm (Qty: 1)NOTESVajiravudh was the sixth monarch of Siam under the Chakri dynasty, ruling from 1910 until his death. He was also known as King Rama VI, with reigning title Phra Mongkut Klao Chao Yu Hua.
Lot 88
* Maritime. A group of 5 mounted photographs of ships in the Far East, c. 1870s/1880s, albumen prints, including an oval print of HMS Ironduke, 14.5 x 21 cm, L'Atalante, 16 x 21 cm, Centurion, 20.5 x 27 cm, a ship without masts, 25.5 x 36 cm, and an unidentified dockside, 19.5 x 24 cm (Qty: 5)
Lot 103
Civil Engineering. 'A Collection of Views of Bridges & Viaducts in Wrought & Cast Iron, Timber & Steel, in Different Countries. Collected and Arranged by Herbert W. Anderson, Engineer, London, 12 West Hill, Sydenham, January 1881 [and later]', 40 linen-hinged stiff card leaves, title-page and index-page in watercolour, approximately 150 albumen print photographs mounted rectos and versos, prints of various dimensions (the smallest 5 x 9.5 cm; many full-page i.e. approx. 25 x 18 cm; a few double-page i.e. 25 x 35 cm), framed in red, detailed manuscript captions to mounts, manuscript numbering to mounts and occasionally in prints, a few pen-and-ink diagrams to margins (some with watercolour), 2 further albumen prints mounted on thick card and an original watercolour laid in, a little light spotting, chiefly to mounts, contemporary black half morocco album, lettered 'Bridges' on front cover, slightly rubbed, 4to (29 x 23.5 cm), (Qty: 1)NOTESMeticulously compiled visual record of bridges and aqueducts in the United Kingdom (including London), Europe, America and Australia. Notable examples include the Iron Cove Bridge and Hawkesworth Railway Bridge, both in New South Wales, Chestnut Street Bridge in Philadelphia, the Northern Pacific Railway bridge over the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, and an elevated railway in New York City.
Lot 11
Scotland. An album containing 30 window-mounted albumen print views of Scotland, c. 1870s, arched top with printed details to lower mounts, versos blank, images 10.5 x 8 cm, two further unrelated photographs pasted to front pastedown and 'dedication' verso, contemporary morocco with gilt clasp, rubbed, some edge wear, upper joint cracked and a little loss at head and foot of spine, 4to (Qty: 1)
Lot 65
* Singapore. An early view of Singapore with St. Andrew's Cathedral in the background, attributed to August Sachtler, c. 1875, albumen print on contemporary mount with ink caption at foot, spot in the upper sky from a flaw in the negative, (so always present), 21.5 x 27.5 cm (Qty: 1)NOTESOne of the first and rarest views of the Harbour Master's office, the Town Hall, Government offices and the Court of Justice.
Lot 110
Great Britain. Album of platinum prints, circa 1905-14, 24 platinum print photographs and 6 gelatin silver prints (all between 22 x 29 and 26 x 34 cm, except for 2 of the silver prints, 12.5 x 29 cm) , mounted rectos and versos to linen-hinged stiff card leaves, and including university or public school group portraits, formal dining scenes (one captioned in the mount 'Chernocke House Dinner, Winchester), rowing scenes, interiors, a view of Christ Church Oxford, and several military group portraits, some of the latter captioned and dated in the negative ('Abbrooke Camp, 1908', 'Ashwick Camp 1909', and '1st Devon Yeomanry Camp, Lower Down, Bovey Tracey, 1914'), occasional pencil captions to mounts, a few prints spotted, one mount loose and slightly torn, contemporary dark red half roan binding, rubbed and marked, rear joint cracked, oblong folio (30.7 x 37 cm) (Qty: 2)
Lot 252
* Munkacsi (Martin, 1896-1963). A group of four contact prints on one sheet, circa 1930s, printed circa 1960, gelatin silver print on Kodak paper, showing ballet dancers jumping and two on tiptoes and one of a horse being lassoed, images 8.5 x 11.5 cm, sheet size 24.5 x 20 cm, numeric pencil code to verso (Qty: 1)NOTES'Ten dancers floating, a particularly successful photo of a leap', circa 1932, is reproduced in F.G. Gundlach (editor) Martin Munkacsi, ICP/Steidl, 2006, page 125.
Lot 198
* Rolling Stones. A group of nine publicity stills of band members, circa 1964, later gelatin silver print photographs, one a group photograph of all five members on ascending stairs at Preston, 30 July 1964, the others of individual band members Brian Jones (3), Mick Jagger (2), Keith Richards (2) and Phil Wyman, all with Mirrorpics copyright wetstamps to versos, 24 x 19cm or the reverse (Qty: 9)
Lot 236
* Cottingley Fairies. Alice and the Fairies, photograph of Frances 'Alice' Griffiths, taken by her cousin Elsie Wright, July 1917, printed by Harold Snelling, circa 1920, vintage sepia gelatin silver print photograph, 15 x 20cm, mounted on original brown card with embossed brown title and copyright stamp to lower margin, mount corners a little bumped (Qty: 1)NOTESLarge version of the first and most well-known photograph of this infamous photographic hoax.
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