We found 297893 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 297893 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
297893 item(s)/page
Lot 418
R Warwick (British, 20th Century), Clare College Bridge, Cambridge, watercolour, 17 x 24cm; Deception, oil on board, 24 x 36cm; and Circle of Deception, oil on board, 42 x 56cm. Warwick was well known for his idyllic water colours of Cambridge university scenes in the 1950s and was an established artist with a track record of credible work. Sadly he became ill with a tumour of the brain in the early 1960s and his work changed dramatically from painting every day scenes of a sleepy university town to garish depictions of a Dali-esque nature as the disease progressed. The present paintings will be of interest to collectors of unusual art, or those with an interest in the effect of disease on how the human mind changes, manifest through distinctive art (3)
Lot 437
A Victorian 18ct gold enamel, seed pearl and diamond set memorial ring, the navette shape set with rough diamond in gypsy setting surrounded by half seed pearls on an enamel gallery and engraved and enamel shoulders, inner shank engraved 'R W Webber died Feb 18th 1874 aged 42', ring size Q, 3.6g
Lot 1361
A Regency gold swivel mourning ring, with black enamel plaque reading 'Sacred To A Beloved Father', the reverse with glazed locket compartment containing plaited hair within a surround of seed pearls, with foliate engraved decoration to the shoulders in gold, mourning inscription to the interior dated 1817, size R
Lot 50
'Ruiz Binder'.- Giambullari (Pier Francesco) Historia dell'Europa... nella quale ordinatamente si trattano le cose successe in questa parte del mondo dall'anno Dccc fino al 913 Di nostra Salute... , first edition, collation: *4, **4, ⁂4, ⁂*4, A-Z4, Aa-Ss4, Tt2, title with woodcut printer's device to title and portrait verso, woodcut historiated initials, title lightly soiled and with small repair, affecting a few letters of portrait frame verso, Venice, Francesco Senese, 1566 bound with Guicciardini (Lodovico) Commentarii... Delle cose più memorabili seguite in Europa: specialmente in questi paesi bassi, dalla pace di Cambrai, del mDxxix, insino a tutto l'anno m.D.lx. Libri tre..., second edition, collation: a8, b4, A-K8, title with woodcut printer's device and historiated initials, Venice, Domenico Farri, 1566, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional light staining, contemporary Roman morocco by the 'Ruiz Binder', central arms of Ruiz (a lion rampant, stamped in gold, holding a fleur-de-lis stamped in silver, within a cartouche flanked by the initials 'I R'), all within a rich border of gilt and tooled fillets, and gilt floral roll, spine ends and corners repaired, gilt gauffered edges, little rubbed, small 4to (book block 208 x 142mm; binding 213 x 157mm.)⁂ Bound by the 'Ruiz Binder' and bringing together two important histories of Europe by Florentine scholars. The works were finely bound around 1570 for Jeronímo Ruiz, member of a distinguished Valencia family living in Rome and associated with the Curia. His uncle Felipe (1512-1582) was secretary of the Papal Dataria. Hobson records 24 volumes bearing Ruiz's arms, all bound by the same Roman binder known as the 'Ruiz Binder', in light of his principal client. "Jeronimo had a taste for history and owned works by Lucius Florus, Dio Cassius, Sallust, Thucydides and Polybius, as well as Bembo's history of Venice, Olaus Magnus's of Scandinavia, Giambullari's of Europe, and both Cieza de Leon's and Zarate's of Peru [...] But he was no scholar. All the books are in Italian except a copy of Francesco Maurolico's Martyrologium, Venice 1568" (Hobson-Culot, Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings, p. 49). For the bindings made for Jeronímo Ruiz, the Roman craftsman used the same tools already employed by Maestro Luigi, one of three binders active in Rome and working for Giovanni Battista Grimaldi between 1536 and 1565. Hobson suggests that the 'Ruiz Binder' may be his successor. The Ruiz arms are stamped within the usual cartouche employed by this Roman binder. The present binding is one of 24 recorded in Hobson's census. The volume later entered the rich library of cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, sold in Rome in 1711. Provenance: Jeronímo Ruiz (sixteenth century armorial binding); from the library of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (1651-1737; stamp 'Ex. Bibl. Ios. Ren. Card. Imperialis' on the first title-page; see Bibliothecae Josephi Renati Imperialis Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, Romae 1711, in the Appendix, p. 554); 'De Pigis' (ownership inscription on the first title-page); Count Orazio Samminiatelli (twentieth century, Perignano, near Pisa; see A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, no. 19). Literature: I: EDIT 16 CNCE 20914 II: Adams G-1534; EDIT 16 CNCE 22315. Binding: Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus, Amsterdam 1975, no. 19; Hobson-Culot, Italian and French 16th-Century Bookbindings, no. 17.
Lot 233
S.E. Asia.- Malay.- Werndly (George Henrik) Maleische spraakkunst, uit de eigen schriften der Maleieres opgemaakt; met eene voorreden, behelzende eene inleiding tot dit werk, en een dubbeld aanhangsel van twee boekzalen van boeken, in deze tale zo van Europeers, als van Maleiers geschreven, title with woodcut device, woodcut tail-pieces, ink stamp to title and a few other ff., some light browning, early 20th century straight-grain morocco-backed marbled boards, rubbed, 8vo, Amsterdam, R. & G. Wetstein for the [Dutch] East Indies Company, 1736.⁂ Rare first edition of this Malay grammar printed for the Dutch East India Company. It includes 'the first bibliography of Malay books by Europeans and indigenious authors' (Landwehr VOC 759).
Lot 11
Morgan (Mary, daughter of Joseph Gibbs, organist of St. Mary's Tower, Ipswich, 1698-1788, married Rev. Caesar Morgan, Prebendary of Ely Cathedral and Rector of Stretham, 1749-1808) Autograph Letter signed to "Sir" to her publisher's, ?"R Edwards", 2pp. with conjugate blank, folio, Ely, 4th January 1795, referring to the production of her work, A Tour to Milford Haven in the Year 1791, "You cannot but suppose that I was greatly surprized at your account of my prints for on them I had set my heart", and her account of her visit to Mrs Montagu at Sandleford in Berkshire, "I would not for the value of the book have the letters erased that describe Sandleford... . When I wrote those I had not any intention of publishing them, & therefore they can have no reference to the prints, & I might as well destroy my whole book for it chiefly consists of descriptive accounts of the countries I passed through. The account of Sandleford stands exactly as it was first written, & so do many more of the letters particularly those to Mrs. Montagu... I cannot think of having more copies printed than 500", conjugate blank laid down on card, folds, slightly browned.⁂ Publisher derived from Morgan's request in this to her publisher asking for a copy of A Tour through the South of England, Wales and part of Ireland, made during the summer of 179, by Edward Daniel Clarke (1769-1822), printed at the Minerva Press, for R. Edwards, MDCCXCIII [1793].
Lot 137
Dallington (Sir Robert) Aphorismes ciuill and militarie: amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie, out of the first quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine, 2 parts in 1, first edition, titles with woodcut printer's device, first title first word is xylographic and with engraved portrait of dedicatee Prince Charles verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blanks, title trimmed and window mounted with portrait verso visible, 2L-2N2 thin worm trace to side-notes column, occasionally just touching part of the odd letter of text, occasional staining to lower margins, contemporary limp vellum, ms. ink title to spine, lacking ties, a little staining, [STC 6197], folio, [R. Field] for Edward Blount, 1613.⁂ In 1609 Dallington presented Prince Henry with a manuscript Aphorismes civill and militarie, comprising pieces selected from the Italian historian Guicciardini. Following the prince's death in 1612 Dallington reworked these, which were published in 1613 with a new dedication to Prince Charles, later King Charles I. Provenance: 'William ?' (two contemporary ink signatures to B1).
Lot 140
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, with initial but not final blank, 2ff. Table bound after dedication, with contemporary ink inscription to title and later ones to front endpaper, browned, engraved bookplate of Rt.Hon. Henry Hobhouse, old calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine and preserving red morocco label, portions of old manuscripts on vellum used as binder's waste, [Gibson 15; Pforzheimer 31; STC 1149], small 4to, printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629.⁂ The second edition with all fifty-eight essays but the first edition also to include 'Of the Colours of Good and Evill'.
Lot 210
Church architecture.- Gloucestershire.- Clarke (Joseph, British Gothic revival architect, 1819-1888) Nine drawings of St Michael & All Angels Church, Bishop's Cleeve, showing various facades and architectural details, both of the interior and exterior, presented in an album with manuscript title page that reads 'Bishop's Cleeve Church, Gloucestershire/ Sketches by J. Clarke. Archt. for Mr Britton [John Britton, see provenance]', with an additional watercolour by R. Kitton of a church monument within the same church, and another of Wheatsheaf Inn, Tewkesbury, inscribed 'J.R. Thompson from a study by J. Britton', watercolours over graphite, various inscriptions, sizes from 40 x 105 mm. (1 1/2 x 4 1/4 x in) to 235 x 130 mm. (9 1/4 x 5 1/8 in), on wove papers without watermarks, one sheet inscribed '1831' verso, neatly tipped onto album leaves, plain boards, spine split, very rubbed and worn, folio, [circa 1830s].Provenance:John Britton (1771-1857), English antiquary, topographer, author and editor, and the sole author of the Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (9 vols, 1805-1814) and Cathedral Antiquities of England (14 vols, 1814-1835).
Lot 144
NORTON B. & BILL J. The Holy Bible containing The Old Testament & The New. Black letter. 2 eng. titles. 1620 & 1621; preceded by The Booke of Common Prayer (lacking title & early leaves with burns & loss) & The Genealogies Recorded in the Sacred Scriptures by J. S., eng. tables, n.d.; following The Bible is bound in Two Right Profitable & Fruitful Concordances ... Collected by R. F. H., 1622. Old calf or sheep, 8½" x 6½", worn, rubbed & splitting. (Not collated, sold as seen).
Lot 93
STEVENSON R. L. Works. 17 various works & eds., incl. 2nd ed. of Weir of Hermiston. Very attractive uniform half maroon morocco, gilt backs & marbled brds. Chatto & Windus & Cassell, c.mid 1890's.Condition report:Treasure Island - Illustrated edition Sixty-Ninth Thousand, 1896.Jekyll & Hyde – Twenty-first edition, 1895.
Lot 773
WORLD WAR I FAMILY GROUP AND PAIR, 1914-15 STAR, BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL 2311 PTE H W FIETH 1/LOND R [LIEUT H W FIETH ON PAIR], BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL 2 LIEUT R B FIETH, COUNTY OF LONDON TERRITORIAL FORCE ASSOCIATION CERTIFICATE FOR SERVICES RENDERED NAMED TO LIEUTENANT R B FIETH AND VICTORY MEDAL SS 3403 G F WELLS AB RN
Loading...-
297893 item(s)/page