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Lot 477
AN ALBUM OF 19TH CENTURY WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS BY JOHN TOMES, predominantly landscapes, mounted on pages, some inscribed in pencil with titles (together with folder of correspondence), average size 21cm x 30cm, half calf bound with gilt tooled leathe r title "Sketches by John Tomes, Weston Sands" (85 painting in book)
Lot 47
A Great War gallantry medal group, comprising Military Medal to 295011 C S MJR W Mair, 12 R Sc Fus, 1914-15 Star (920 Sjt W Mair, Ayr Yeo), British War and Victory Medals (as W O Cl I), and Territorial Force Efficiency Medal (Cpl), in handsome period bronzed strut frame together with enamelled 31st Division badge, the frame having Ayrshire Yeomanry enamelled badge set onto its crest, accompanying the group is a mounted certificate from Major General Campbell, Commander 31st Division, recording Mairs gallant conduct on 12th to 13th August 1918 [The division captured Vieux-Berquin on 13 August 1918], a photograph of Mair and fellow soldiers "taken in 1917 Dec", and another of Mair and two other soldiers of the Ayrshire Yeomanry mounted upon camels at Gizeh, Cairo, and an Ayrshire Yeomanry North African embroidery. Also part of the group is a twenty six page autograph manuscript memoir of Mair's experiences at Gallipoli, dated September 1915 which starts "It was always my intentions to keep a diary but some how or another I never got a start made, till I was left the Gallipoli Peninsula through sickness it was when I returned to the regiment that it came home to me that I would like to take note of some of the special doings and dates connected with the regiment the most that I have wrote is about the C-Squadron and my own personal experience as one can’t be with every detachment of the regiment it is now months past I am sorry to say I may make a few mistakes as regards dates as it is all from memory."
Lot 869
After Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840) from drawings by R. Seaton View of Aberdeen together with View of Old Aberdeen including King's College and the Cathedral, engraved by Frederick Christian Lewis (1779-1856), published by J. Ewen, March 1808, aquatints, uniformly framed and mounted under glass, 48 x 63 cm (2)
Lot 884
Ashley R. Boon (b.1959) Two watercolour studies of Northern Shoveler ducks, comprising an untitled depiction of two drakes and a hen gazing into the rippling surface of a reeded pond, together with one further preparatory study for the aforementioned work, depicting a drake in various stances, with Holland & Holland retail label, entitled Shoveler - Study Sheet, both pencil signed, uniformly framed and mounted under glass, 25 x 30 cm and 25 x 37 cm respectively
Lot 290
Richard Deacon CBE - British artist / sculptor ( Born 1949 ) - An original 1990's aluminium sculpture designed by the artist as a limited edition run for the opening of a homebase and Tate Gallery Liverpool collaboration. The sculpture being polished to one side and other side being rough, to the edge of the piece the item has foundry marks ' R D '. The sculpture being bought from the Tate Gallery Liverpool by the vendor.
Lot 104
Boccaccio (Giovanni). Genealogiae Deorum, additions by Dominicus Silvester and Raphael Zovenzonius, first edition, collation: [1-1210 1312 14-1810 196 20-2210 23-258 26-2910 3012+2], 295 leaves (of 296, lacking final blank but with fol. 25/8 blank present), text in single column, 41 lines, indices in double column, type: 1:110R, blank spaces for capitals, with guide letters, a few marginalia in two different hands, one datable to 16th century (somewhat trimmed), running number of books probably in the same hand, light foxing, sporadic finger marks, first leaf slightly dust-soiled, repair to lower blank margin, gutter of fol. 30/12 repaired, 16th-century limp vellum with yapp edges, smooth spine, early title inked on spine and front cover, earlier title inked at lower edge, endpapers renewed, folio (298 x 207 mm), Venice, Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.⁂ The first edition of Boccaccio's extraordinary sourcebook on classical mythology and the first scholarly work to quote passages from Homer. The Genealogiae Deorum gentilium is a remarkable encyclopaedic study of pagan mythology, featuring a total of 723 entries. The work was commissioned by Hugo IV, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem, who died in 1359, well before it was completed. This immense treatise is divided into fifteen books further subdivided into chapters, each of which shows the genealogy of various gods and goddesses, with the last two containing Boccaccio's apologia of his work, some interesting biographical information, and a defence of poetry. The Genealogy of the Pagan Gods does not merely list names but reveals Boccaccio's incredible breadth of reading and his ardent scholarly commitment. All entries are supplemented with detailed allegorical, historical, and scientific analyses, and more than 175 Latin and Greek authors are cited as sources. The Genealogy became the first influential work in modern European scholarship to include quotations, translations, and variegated analyses of passages from Greek literature, and it is the first scholarly work to make a significant use of Homer. For at least two centuries the work continued to be of great importance to writers and scholars, and the nine editions printed in the 15th century, including a French translation which appeared in 1498, are a testament to the magnitude and longevity of its popularity.After decades of preparation and study of ancient mythology, Boccaccio produced a manuscript (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana Plut. lii.9), the so-called Vulgate text of the Genealogy, which contains a series of designs of genealogical trees illustrating the text of the first thirteen chapters and constituting the first elaborated series of genealogical charts. The Venetian edition of 1472 reproduces the Vulgate text on the basis of an unidentified manuscript. The series of genealogical charts (possibly present in the manuscript which served as copy-text) are not reproduced, although Vindelinus left blank spaces for them which vary in size from two thirds to an entire page.There are at least two issues of this edition, distinguished by various misspellings in the title printed on fol. [2]/1r. The present copy belongs to the issue with the title containing the words 'gentilium' and 'prohȩminm'.Provenance: the Milanese historian Giuseppe Girolamo Semenzi (1645-1706; ownership inscription, 'D. Joseph Hieronymus Sementius Reg. Cong. Somaschae').Literature: HC 3315*; GW 4475; BMC v, 162; IGI 1796; Goff B-749; M. Pade, "The Fragments of Theodontius in Boccaccio's Genealogie Deorum gentilium Libri", Eadem et al. (eds.), Avignon & Naples. Italy in France - France in Italy in the Fourteenth Century, Rome 1997, pp. 149-166; G. Boccaccio, Genealogiae Deorum Gentilium, ed. V. Zaccaria, Milano 1998, esp. pp. 1587-1606; P. R. Schwertsik, Die Erschaffung des heidnischen Götterhimmels durch Boccaccio. Die Quellen der Genealogia Deorum Gentilium in Neapel, Paderborn 2014.
Lot 105
Thomas Aquinas. De Veritate, edited by Ioannes Franciscus Venetus, second edition, collation: [14 210 38 410 58 610 7-88 9-1010 118 1210 138 1410 158 1610 17-198 20-2110 2210 2310 248 2510 268 2710 288 2910 308 3110 328 3310 348 3510 368 3710 38-398], [344] leaves, text in double column, 42 lines, type: 106 (108)R., upper and lower blank margins of first and last leaves water-stained, old repairs to gutter and outer blank margin of last leaf, foxing in places, a few tiny worm-holes to blank outer margin of last leaves, without any loss, copiously annotated in an early hand, 19th-century hazel morocco over pasteboards, covers richly gilt-tooled with concentric border of fillets and floral rolls, central space filled with ondulated friezes, Massimo family lion crest stamped in gilt at outer corners, spine with four raised bands, compartments with Massimo crest surrounded by large foliate friezes, title and imprint lettered in gilt 'S. Thomae Aquin. Quaestiones' and 'Romae XX. Ian. MCCCCLXXVI. Arnold. Pannartz in Domo Clari Civ. Petri de Max.', early shelfmark on 19th-century paper label, title inked on edges in an early hand, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, corners and board edges slightly rubbed, folio (334 x 230 mm), Rome, Arnoldus Pannartz, 20 January 1476. ⁂ A handsome wide-margined copy, in a richly gilt-tooled armorial binding executed for the distinguished Roman Massimo or Massimi family, of the second edition of the Quaestiones de veritate, which first appeared in Cologne in 1475. The volume was issued by the German printer Arnoldus Pannartz, who, in partnership with Conradus Sweynheym, had introduced printing to Italy in 1465 with their first press at the Benedictine monastery of St. Scholastica at Subiaco, and then also to Rome in 1468.The De veritate was composed by the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas in about 1257 during his first period of teaching at the University of Paris, where he had received his bachelor's degree only a year earlier, in 1256. The work is cast in the form of quaestio disputata - academic debates around a proposed thesis, divided into arguments or questions - and deals with the central concepts of truth, opinion, and faith.The copy described here is also of the greatest importance and distinction because of its provenance, having once belonged, as evinced by the lion's crest stamped on its fine binding, to the Massimo family, whose name is closely related to the history of printing in Rome. In 1467, after having printed some books in Subiaco, Sweynheym and Pannartz moved to Rome where they established their new press in the house of noblemen 'Franciscus and Petrus de Maximis', near Piazza Navona. Here they published a total of 51 editions. Their partnership broke up in 1473 because of Sweynheym's death, but Pannartz continued printing in the Massimo palace on his own until 28th March 1476. He produced 12 editions, all issued - as the colophon of the De veritate states - 'in domo clari Petri De Maximi'. This edition of Thomas Aquinas is one of thelast books produced by Pannartz. It is thus entirely possible that the copy presented here, finely rebound in the 19th century, was given as a gift by the German printer to his wealthy Roman patron.Provenance: from the library of the Massimo Princes, Rome.Literature: H 1420*; GW M46347; BMC iv, 62; IGI 9561; Goff T-180; P. Farenga, "Le vie della stampa: da Subiaco a Roma", Subiaco, la culla della stampa. Atti dei Convegni Abbazia di Santa Scolastica, 2006-2007, Roma 2010, pp. 39-51; Ceccarius [G. Ceccarelli], I Massimo, Roma 1954.
Lot 162
Australia Pardon.- George III (King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, and King of Hanover, 1738-1820) Pardon of John Raynand and John Bercham, convicted of of highway robbery and sentenced to death at the Norfolk Assizes, the sentence commuted to "their being transported for & during the Term of their natural lives to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales... or... Islands adjacent", granting them a pardon "on Condition of serving as Soldiers in the East India Company Service", D.s. "George R" and "Grenville", manuscript, 2pp., paper seal remounted, incomplete at end and with conjugate leaf removed, folds, browned, slightly faded, repaired, folio, 3rd February 1791.
Lot 22
South Africa.- Meillon (Henry Clifford de, active 1823-1856), attributed to. An album of 26 watercolours of South African figures, including tradesmen, farmers, smartly dressed locals, and two of Europeans, with dedication page featuring calligraphic ink inscription that reads 'With Jane's kind love to Marianne, June 7th 1829', watercolours on decorative embossed papers, neatly mounted onto album leaves, each approx. 115 x 77 mm. (4 1/2 x 3 in), minor surface dirt, crushed dark green morocco, gilt, inscribed on front fly leaf 'bound by R. Salter, Bath, 1948', 8vo, [1820s]Provenance:'Drawings bought c. 1829 from J.D. Gregory's Bazaar, Cape Town' [inscribed on front fly leaf]⁂ Charming watercolours of the pre-Victorian inhabitants of South Africa, probably Cape Town. The drawings bear a pencil attribution to Henry Clifford de Meillon at the front of the album, but alongside this there is an inscription that they may be by the female artist who produced the dedication page, 'Jane'. The drawings do bear some similarities to the watercolours of local figures produced by de Meillon, many of which are held in the Brenthurst Africana library, Cape Town.
Lot 68
Poor.- Parker (William) presentation copy from the author, A Plea for the Poor and Industrious...The Necessity of a National Provision for the Poor in Ireland..., presentation copy from the author, ex-Detroit Library copy, with ink and perforated stamp to foot of C1, spotted, original boards, rebacked, ink number stamp to head of upper boards, rubbed, [Black 3150; Not in Goldsmiths' or Kress], 8vo, Cork, John Bolster, 1819.⁂ Rare. Outlining the arguments of the Rev. R. Woodward for a poor law in Ireland, along with some comments on the state of the poor in Cork. The copy is presented by the author to Wrixon Becher, M.P..
Lot 74
Trees.- Boutcher (William) A treatise on forest-trees: containing, not only the best methods of their culture hitherto practised, but a variety of new and useful discoveries, the result of many repeated Experiments, first Dublin edition, advertisement f. at start, 1 engraved plate, advertisement and contents f. misbound before title, occasional spotting, bookplate of Earl of Annnesley, contemporary polished calf, head of spine chipped, upper joint starting, but holding firm, corners worn, rubbed, [Henrey 477], Dublin, printed for William Wilson, No. 6, and John Exshaw, No. 86, Dame-Street, 1776 § Speechly (William) A treatise on the culture of the vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to Render it abundantly fruitful, half-title, 5 engraved plates (1 large folding), 2 explanation of plates ff. (these misbound), folding plate with tear, small hole and light ink stain, some spotting or light staining, contemporary tree calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, joints splitting, but holding firm, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, [Henrey 1377], Dublin, printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore, A. Grueber, W. Jones, and R. White, 1791; and 5 others, mostly trees, 8vo et infra (7)
Lot 546
Police truncheons to include a Victorian polychrome and gilded wooden truncheon, with the Royal Crown cypher above 'Constable' within a red cartouche, the ribbed turned handle stamped 'Parker Holborn 233' at the heel, 17.5" long; also a smaller Victorian polychrome painted example with the royal crown cypher over 'V R', 12.5" long and a further plain example (3)
Lot 146
AN OPAL AND DIAMOND 18ct GOLD RING. THE OVAL CABOCHON OPAL EXHIBITING BLUE, RED AND GREEN FIRE, IN A FOUR CLAW SETTING SURROUNDED BY EIGHTEEN BRILLIANT CUT DIAMONDS IN A BEAD AND CLAW SETTING, FINISHED WITH KINIFE EDGE FLUTED SHOULDERS IN A PLAIN POLISHED SHANK. CALCULATED OPAL WEIGHT 1.45cts, TOTAL DIAMOND WEIGHT 0.36cts .FINGER SIZE R 1/2, GROSS WEIGHT 4.61grms.
Lot 173
Tourmaline Multicolour Marquise Shape Ring, 12 round cut tourmalines in rubellite red, olive green, golden yellow, pink and teal blue in a Middle Eastern style 14ct gold vermeil and silver setting with a milgrain finish to the borders and the split shoulders; a total of 1.25cts of tourmaline, a Birthstone for October; size R
Lot 348
Kunzite Quartz and White Zircon Ring, a 9.5ct oval cut, deep pink, kunzite quartz solitaire, bezel set in platinum vermeil and silver, offset to one end of a natural white zircon oval frame, above an openwork gallery, the zircons totalling a further .75ct, bringing the total gem weight to 10.25cts; size R
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