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Lot 641
`Life of the World - Air France` a set of sixteen advertising posters designed by Roger Bezombes (1913-1994), 1981, comprising; `Sun` advertising board, `Where The Blue Begins`, `Gastronomy`, `Orients`, `Islands`, `Refinements`, `Place de Concorde`, `Gather Life`s Roses`, `Joy Festival of Life`, `Exoticism`, `The New World`, `Freedom`, `Mediterranean`, `Vacation`, `This Marvellous Earth`, and `Sound Barrier`, printed by Imprimerie, Mourlot, Paris signed in the print, 100 x 60cm. Roger Bezombes was a French painter, sculptor and designer whose works shows the influence of Henri Matisse. He produced tapestry designs for Aubusson, posters (winning the Grand Prix de L`Affiche Francaise in 1984), and costumes and sets for ballets produced at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Lot 579
A 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT MINIATURE, watercolour on an oval ivory panel, a young man in period clothing, within a gilt slip and ebonised frame with oak leaf and acorn form hanging mount, 8cm(h) x 6cm(w); sold along with a 19th century portrait miniature print, of oval form depicting a military gentleman, the reverse with hand written inscription ‘General Gillespie died in the arms of Major McMahon at the battle of Sobian India’, in a near matching frame 9cm(h) x 8cm(w); and an early 20th century portrait miniature print of a young woman in opulent dress, within a sectioned ivorine frame. 5cm.
Lot 163
‡ Dress Miniatures: Military Cross, George V, in silvered 18 carat gold, 26mm, with gold retaining pin suspension, in Wilson and Gill fitted case, good very fine; Distinguished Service Order, Elizabeth II, in silver-gilt and enamels, 19.5mm; miniature Victoria Cross mounted on riband bar, 9mm; silvered ‘dog tag’, Great War Period (2nd Lt J. E. Weatherly Royal Berks Regt Wes.); 17th Hussar badge, 19th century, in white bone, with crowned garter bearing the inscription PENINSULA WATERLOO XVII HUSSARS, 39 x 30mm; silver locket, 18th or 19th century, with print of Charles I, 19 x 17mm generally very fine (6)
Lot 167
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). A sheet of glass used by Churchill as a paint palette, approximately 32 samples of oils still present, framed and laid over a card mount with two photographs by J. Luscher of Nyon, of Churchill using the palette whilst painting at an easel in the open air, one with Clementine and their daughter Mary looking on, and labelled 'Vacances de Rt Hon. Mr Winston Churchill Août - Septembre 1947 à Choisi', frame 465 x 635mm. [With] another large print of the second photograph, laid down and signed on the mount,'J. Luscher Nyon', 250 x 311mm. Churchill is shown with two canvases depicting the 'Island of Choisi', his painting which was subsequently featured in a Christmas card printed by The Soho Gallery. (2) View on Christie's.com
Lot 208
ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. 8°. (Margins very lightly browned). Publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers (worn). Provenance: bookplate on inner pastedown. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY J.K. ROWLING ON HALF-TITLE AND WITH A NOTE BY HER ON PAGE 53. The owner of the book asked J.K. Rowling to sign this copy and also questioned her why '1 wand' was mentioned twice in the list of other equipment for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (page 53). J.K. Rowling wrote in the margin: 'this was taken out in the next print of the book (a mistake). Keep this copy, it might be valuable on day! JKR'. View on Christie's.com
Lot 264
EGGLESTON, William. William Eggleston's Guide. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. 4° (230 x 225mm). 48 colour photographs. Original black textured leatherette, colour print mounted on the front cover. Eggleston's signature in black marker on the title-page. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY EGGLESTON. A fine copy of 'one of the seminal photobooks... the Guide heralded the birth of colour photography, or more accurately, it marked the moment when it was perceived as artistically respectable;' it 'has irrevocably changed the way in which we look at the world in photographs (The Photobook). 101 Books, pp.234-35 ('A MILESTONE'); Auer & Auer 598; The Open Book, pp.308-9; The Photobook, vol. I, p.265. View on Christie's.com
Lot 357
BOGDANOVICH, E.V. Sinop. 18 Noiabria 1853 goda. St. Petersburg: by V. Kirshbaum, 1878. 8° (218 x 140mm). 6 plates, one of these an albumen print and the others colour and tinted lithographs. (Some spotting.) 19th-century Russian quarter roan, title mounted on the upper side perhaps part of the original wrapper (spine chipped and faded, later label on the spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: E.V. Bogdanovich (presentation inscription to:) -- Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kovalevskii (1842-1882) -- Z.G. Kovalevskii (inscription) -- 'L.H.S.' (stamped cipher). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to General Grigorii Aleksandrovich Kovalevskii, Commander of the Life-Guards Dragoons regiment, and a very highly regarded soldier who distinguished himself in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Published to commemorate the 25 years since Russia's decisive victory against the Ottoman Empire in the naval battle at Sinop, the battle which led to Great Britain's joining the Crimean War against Russian in 1854. View on Christie's.com
Lot 374
NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1899-1977). Poems and Problems. New York and Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1970. 8° (210 x 145mm). Original black cloth, upper side blocked in blind, spine blocked in gilt, top edge red, original dust-jacket. Provenance: Vladimir Nabokov (presentation inscription to:) -- Vera Nabokov -- by descent to the consignor. FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY. PRESENTED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS WIFE WITH TWO FINE BUTTERFLY DRAWINGS, each of the colourful insects with taxonomic labels playing on qualities Nabokov found in his wife. The book is further inscribed, in Russian, 'to darling Vera from V', and dated 'Montreux March 15 1971'; Nabokov notes on the copyright page that, though copyrighted 1970, this first bound copy reached him on the day he inscribed it to Vera, to whom the book is dedicated in print. Nabokov has also made a correction to the solution of one of the chess problems. The poems in this edition are in Russian with facing translation in English. View on Christie's.com
Lot 474
Rover Scout E Farrer, Thatched cottage, pencil sketch, signed with initials, dated 35, inscribed verso - "Presented to Captain Arnold S. Wills, by the 9th Northampton Boy Scouts with an expression of appreciation for his kindness in taking a very practical interest in the welfare of the group", a print after Munnings, a photographic print and after Morland, "Juvenile Navigators", (4).
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