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Lot 2140
John Ridgewell (1937-2004) Still life with wild flowers on a ledge before a surreal background Signed, oil on board, together with a study of snowdrops in a blue and white jug on a ledge by the same artist, 65cm by 60cm and 29.5cm by 24.5cm respectively (2) Provenance: From the Artist's Estate See Illustration Born in Essex in 1937, John Ridgewell studied at Colchester School of Art between 1954-8 where he was taught the skill of wood engraving by John O'Conner, who was related to the surrealist painter Paul Nash. In 1958 John entered the Royal College of Art aged just 21, he was a student at the same time as David Hockney and R B Kitaj. On graduation he accepted a position to teach at Scarborough School of Art from 1961-6, leaving to focus solely on painting. His artistic style was strongly influenced by the work of Georges Braque in 1956, who John admired throughout his life. John's distinctive artistic style developed during his time in Scarborough where he was inspired by the dramatic landscape around him. It was during his time in Yorkshire that John began to represent and interpret landscape in the surrealist style, which became characteristic of his work. Throughout his life he exhibited in mixed shows at the New Art Centre, Piccadilly Art Gallery and Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. He had a loyal connection with the Austen Hayes Gallery, York. Austen Hayes believed in John's work and held a number of one man exhibitions in the gallery in the 1960's. He also exhibited at the Grape Lane Gallery and Minstral Galleries.
Lot 138
An early 20th Century brass pot in the manner of Louise Sue & Jacques Palyart for Christofle, brown patination, gilt edged, the lid surmounted with an acorn finial, marked "Christofle" under the lid and "J. Palyart" to the base, No'd. 2647399, together with an 18th Century bronze mortar with fleur de lys decoration, a copper kettle in the manner of Jan Eisenloeffel / F & R Fischer, together with various other copper and brass items to include coffee pot, electro-plated trays, egg cups, cutlery, etc
Lot 143
A Henry Wilkinson Royal Engineers dress sword, together with a Joseph Ridge & Co of Sheffield dress sword CONDITION REPORTS The scabbard of the dress sword is part missing, is cracking and flaking to the leather all over. appears to have had some repairs. The blade is initialled "R B F", has rusting to the blade and the hilt. Blade is blunt, the shagreen handle is dirty and has what appears to be remains of cleaning residue. Some of the metal wire is loose. General wear and tear conducive with age and use. See images for further details. the Joseph Ridge Co sword scabbard is cracked and flaking, there is some damage to the end and middle, possibly been repaired at the top. The sword blade is heavily rusted throughout and there is rusting to the hilt as well. The blade appears to be initialled but unable to see what it says due to the rust. The shagreen handle has what appears to be the remains of cleaning residue and some of the wires are loose. Both have general wear and tear conducive with age and use - see images for further details. The Wilkinson Sword blade in numbered 43135 and the motto below the Family Crest seems to be "Sine Macula" - see images for more details
Lot 72
A Lady's Victorian Burr Walnut Vanity Case, purple ruched velvet interior fitted with three cut glass scent bottles, two cotton wool jars, two rectangular dishes, two cut glass pots and a manicure set. Betjemann's & Sons Patent locks, with a secret jewellery drawer. Retailed by R. Wathew 78 Buchanan Street Glasgow, approx 31 x 30 x 20 cms
Lot 21
MOTTRAM (R H): 'The Lame Dog...', London, Chatto & Widus, 1933: First Edition: 8vo, a fine copy in dustjacket: 'The Apple Disdained', London, Elkin Mathews, 1928: no. 110 of 530 numbered stories inscribed by the author: 8vo, publisher's boards and dustjacket, near fine: TOGETHER WITH 16 others by or including contributions from Mottram, generally in very good condition and majority in dustjacket. (18)
Lot 18
Elis, Olympia, silver hemidrachm, c. 450-430 BC, eagle with open wings right, holding hare in its talons and tearing at it with its beak, rev., F – A, thunderbolt with wings above and volutes below, 2.97g, die axis 4.00, extremely fine and very rare, an exceptional example and lightly toned. This coin published: Jameson 2507. Other references: SNG Berry 825, same dies; SNG Copenhagen 362, same dies. Provenance: Capt. E.G. Spencer-Churchill Collection; Ars Classica XIV, Geneva, 2 July 1929, lot 277; R. Jameson Collection, Paris; M & M Numismatics I, New York, 7 December 1997, lot 102; BCD Collection; Leu Numismatics 90, 10 May 2004, lot 43; Manhattan Sale II, 4 January 2011, lot 54. Note: The catalogue of the BCD collection (2004) and its commentary is generally accepted as the “latest thinking” in regard to the complex nature of the coins of Olympia. The present coin which is remarkably well preserved (and was described as “one of the finest known hemidrachms of Olympia of the 5th century” in the BCD sale) shows die flaws (from rust on the dies) which are not present on a die duplicate (the previous lot in the BCD sale) – thus raising the notion that dies were sometimes retained from one Olympiad to the next, assuming the theory that “new” coins were indeed produced for each Olympic festival. With the Games attracting huge audiences from all parts of the Greek world it seems very likely that the authorities would have insisted on the use of locally made coins in all transactions to ensure that correct weights and measures were to be adhered to – and whatever exchange rate was decided upon would no doubt have benefitted state coffers.
Lot 23
Pontus, Trapezus, silver trihemiobol, 4th century BC, bearded male head left, rev., ΤΡΑ, table; Ι and reversed Γ below, 1.50g, die axis 9.00, toned, extremely fine and very rare. This coin published: Jameson 2545. Other references: Waddington p. 148, 3, pl. XV, 15, probably same dies; cf. SNG von Aulock 6783 (as diobol). Provenance: R. Jameson Collection, Paris; Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection gifted to Rockefeller University, New York in 1974; Gemini VII, New York, 9 January 2011, lot 437. Note: One of the earliest Greek settlements on the Black Sea, Trapezus (later Trebizond) was traditionally founded in 756 bc. It was, according to Xenophon, who visited in 400 bc, “a colony of the Sinopeans in the land of Colchis.” The table on the reverse is a punning allusion to the town’s name in Greek, and Barclay Head suggested that the name itself might possibly have been derived from the site’s geographical position: “forming a sort of land table.” Head also considered the autonomous coins of Trapezus to be of “extreme rarity” (NC, 1871, p. 167).
Lot 25
Mysia, Kyzikos, electrum hekte, c. 410 BC, naked Helios kneeling right, holding foreparts of two horses prancing left and right by their bridles; below, tunny fish, rev., quadripartite incuse square, 2.67g, extremely fine and extremely rare, almost certainly the finest known. This coin published: Jameson 2194; SNG von Aulock 7312; Kraay/Hirmer 715. Other references: von Fritze 148; BMC 106. Provenance: R. Jameson Collection, Paris; Hans von Aulock Collection; Bank Leu 38, 13 May 1986, lot 98; DNW, London, 22 June 2011, lot 1017. Note: The engravers of the Kyzicene coinage drew their ideas from numerous sources, both local and foreign. Here, the inter-connected mythological relationships of Helios to Apollo; and Apollo as father to the city-founder Kyzikos point to an indigenous origin. The symmetrically balanced composition of the sun-god Helios flanked by the horses’ foreparts must have been sculptural in inspiration and the observation that the composition is perfectly square (Head, NC, 1877, p. 170 [J.P. Six]) suggests that it has “been copied from a metope of a temple.” (Greenwell, p. 59). Although full staters bearing this composition exist in some numbers, the hektes are exceedingly rare; the only example noted by Greenwell was acquired by the British Museum in 1841 and is well-worn.
Lot 15
Island off Epirus, Corcyra, silver stater, c. 400 BC, cow standing left, suckling calf, rev., square frame containing double stellate pattern, 10.85g, extremely fine and dark toned, very rare. References: BMC 34ff var. Provenance: G. Bauer Collection, NFA-Gans sale 16, 19 April 1960, lot 289; Auctiones 13, Basel, 23 June 1983, lot 191; R. Maly Collection; LHS Numismatik 100, Zurich, 23 April 2007, lot 232; P. Guber Collection; Manhattan sale II, New York, 4 January 2011, lot 57. Note: This is a very rare transitional variety, seemingly otherwise unpublished, where the reverse type (identified as double doors in the Manhattan II sale) lacks the outer linear circle found on the earlier 5th century issues but also lacks the ethnic (ΚΟΡ) which starts to feature on the early 4th century staters of Corcyra, modern day Corfu.
Lot 20
Cycladic Islands, Melos, silver stater, c. 420-416 BC, apple with stem, rev., ΜΑΛ – ΙΟΝ, ram’s head facing right, 14.12g, die axis 7.00, some pitting and punch mark on obverse, very fine to extremely fine, extremely rare. This coin published: Jameson, R., La Trouvaille de Milo, Revue Numismatique 1909, p. 193, 21 and pl. 6, 21; Kraay, C.M., The Melos Hoard of 1907 Re-examined, NC 1964, 26 (a); Traité 1378. Other references: Jameson 1296, same dies; Kraay/Hirmer 531. Provenance: The Melos Hoard, 1907 (IGCH 27); S. Pozzi Collection, Paris; Naville I, Lucerne, 14 March 1921, lot 2039; H. de Nanteuil Collection, Paris; Bank Leu 15, Zurich, 4 May 1976, lot 254; Münzen und Medaillen 76, Basel, 19 September 1991, lot 740; Gerhard Hirsch 275, Munich, 22 September 2011, lot 3641. Note: From one of the best-known, well-published and important finds of the early 20th century: “one of those dramatic hoards which at a stroke has restored to us a large group of issues wholly unknown from any other source.” (Kraay, NC, 1964, p.1). Discovered on the island by two children in the autumn of 1907, R. Jameson published eight coins in 1908 and a year later accounted for and published seventy-nine coins. Approximately half the hoard went into the collections of Jameson himself and Pozzi. Apart from this find, few Melian coins have subsequently been discovered and, of the ram’s head type Kraay listed four examples, two of which are in London and Munich.
Lot 36
Caria, Knidos, silver tetradrachm, c. 350-320 BC, head of Aphrodite right wearing ampyx, triple-drop earring and pearl necklace, rev., ΚΝΙ, head of lion right with tongue protruding and outstretched paw beneath; above, magistrate’s name ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΗΣ, 14.85g, die axis 12.00, extremely fine and very rare. References: Ashton, R., The Late Classical/Early Hellenistic Drachms of Knidos, RN 1999, 12 (A-/P12); Triton X, 339, same dies. Provenance: Dr Patrick Tan Collection; Triton XIII, New York, 5 January 2010, lot 205; Gemini VII, New York, 9 January 2011, lot 521.
Lot 120
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, second edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, fist and last ff. blank, some light water-staining, 18th century ink ownership inscriptions, note on price paid for this copy and other notes by a John Harlocke, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, modern red leather label to spine, rubbed, [Gibson 15; STC 1149], Printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629; Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, with initial and final blanks, endpapers with 17th century ink notes, worm trace / small holes to outer margins, just touching encroaching on text on last few ff., occasional spotting or light soiling, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked in modern morocco, gilt, [Gibson 17; STC 1151], Printed by John Beale, 1639; and 3 other editions, of the Essays (1663; 1664 and 1668), small 4to et infra (5)
![R[oss] (A[lexander]) Arcana Microcosmi: or, The hid Secrets of Man's Body discovered...with A Refutation of Doctor Brown's Vu](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2c1ab993-ebb4-4bfb-8862-a76100dfaa2f/4b9dad5a-edd2-4d0a-f20e-7514cfe0433d/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
R[oss] (A[lexander]) Arcana Microcosmi: or, The hid Secrets of Man's Body discovered...with A Refutation of Doctor Brown's Vulgar Errors, the Lord Bacon's Natural History, and Doctor Harvy's Book De Generatione..., second edition, title in red and black with author's name supplied in contemporary manuscript, contemporary note at end, occasional spotting or browning, staining to upper margin of a few preliminary leaves, cropped with occasional loss to head-lines, L5 with paper flaw at outer edge causing slight loss to a few lines, Easton Neston Library copy with engraved bookplate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, Bart. and library shelf-label, eighteenth century tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed and slightly marked, upper joint split, [Gibson 561; Wing R1947], 8vo, Tho. Newcomb...John Clark, 1652. ⁂ Originally published in 1651 this enlarged second edition includes for the first time an Appendix containing attacks on Browne, Bacon and Harvey, the first published criticism of Harvey's work.
Lot 160
Dance of Death.- Holbein (Hans) The Dance of Death, 2 engraved portraits and 31 hand-coloured plates by W. Hollar, spotting, contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, a little rubbed, head of spine chipped, 1816 [Combe (William)] The Dance of Life, A Poem, additional vignette title and 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson, 8pp. advertisements bound at end, later calf, rebacked preserving original gilt spine, R. Ackermann, 1817; and another edition of The Dance of Death (illustrated by Deuchar), handsomely bound in blue straight-grain morocco, 8vo and 4to (3)
![Pindar. Carminum Poetarum Novem [and Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia], 2 parts in 1, collation: A-M8 N4; a-r8, text in Greek](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/2c1ab993-ebb4-4bfb-8862-a76100dfaa2f/52ada46f-753b-4ab9-bd54-4fed0ae56994/468x382.jpg)
Lot 30
Pindar. Carminum Poetarum Novem [and Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia], 2 parts in 1, collation: A-M8 N4; a-r8, text in Greek and Latin, titles with woodcut printer's devices, woodcut decorative initials, trimmed at head, affecting the odd headline, lightly browned, handsome 17th century tan morocco, richly tooled in gilt, with central olive wreaths, winged cherubs and foliage tools, neatly rebacked, preserving majority of original backstrip, gilt neatly supplied to missing head section of backstrip, g.e., housed in a modern cloth drop-back box, small 8vo, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1567. ⁂ An attractively bound volume with a distinguished provenance: Provenance: Bibliotheca Lamoniana; Henri Bonnasse; G. de Miribel; R. Zierer (bookplates).
Lot 4
Bible, Latin.- Biblia Latina cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guilelmi Britonis, 4 vol., mixed edition, double column, collation: I: 1a10 b12 c-h10 I k8 l-o10 p6 q8 r-z [et] aa-dd10 ee12 ff gg10 hh4 ii-oo10 pp qq6 rr-vv10 xx12 yy zz [et et]10 [con con]6; II: Da-Dz Ea-Es8 Et10 III: AA-GG10 HH12 II-MM10 NN12 OO8 PP-TT10 UU XX6 YY ZZ AAA-FFF10 GGG HHH8 III-MMM10 NNN8 IV: 2a-l10 m8 n-q10 r8 s6 t-y10 z12 aa10 bb8 cc-ff10 gg12 hh-oo10 pp8 qq rr6, I: 467 ff. (of 468, lacking initial blank), II: 338 ff. III: 348 ff. IV: 383 ff. (of 384, lacking initial blank), variable lines, Gothic type, woodcuts within text, a few full-page, initials in red or blue, a few larger initials in red and blue, a couple of initials in colours on a gilt ground, some water- or damp-staining, parts I, III and IV closely trimmed at head, affecting the odd headline,part iv lower corners of sigs a-d nibbled, loss of a few letters to first couple of ff., uniformly bound in 16th century blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers with central Jesuit device, metal clasps, folio (297 x 200mm. & 311 x 218mm. (1497 vol.)), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1486-1497-1487. ⁂ A rare assemblage of the four volumes of this monumental and handsomely printed work in contemporary bindings. Koberger had established the first press at Nuremberg in 1470 and as well as being celebrated for the printing of his illustrated bibles, is best remembered for his Nuremberg Chronicle of 1492. Literature: BMC II, 431 & 443; Goff B-614 & B619; HC 3167 & 3171; Bod-inc B320 & B324.
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