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Iona-printed.- Gaelic.- Muir (William) and John McCormick, publishers. The Blessing of the Ship, text in English and Gaelic, lithographed title, letterpress preface f., 15 hand-coloured lithographed ff. with illustrations by J.C. Nicol, corners of title dust-soiled, original lithographed pictorial wrappers, repeating design of title, torn and repaired with tape, with loss to blank areas, small 4to, Iona, 1887.⁂ Rare. 'A form of prayer formerly used by many of the sailors of Iona and the Isles'.

Drinking.- Rippingille (Edward Villiers) Progress of Intemperance...with Poetical Illustrations, by J. Dix, 6 hand-coloured engraved plates after Rippingille, plate 2 small piece torn from lower blank margin, water-staining to lower right-hand corners, lightly soiled, original printed wrappers, lacking backstrip, some water-staining and soiling, oblong 4to, London & Bristol, Houlston and Stoneman, [c.1840].⁂ Rare work on drinking and its negative effects on life, including hangovers, poverty and participation in crime to feed the habit.

Architecture.- Langley (Batty and Thomas) The Builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrances, first edition, 99 engraved plates, lacking engraved frontispiece, plate 69 trimmed at outer edge just within border, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, gilt, spine in compartments, upper cover detaching, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 16mo, printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Amen-Corner, 1741.⁂ Rare first edition of this title.

T[AYLOR] (SILVANUS)Common-good: or, the Improvement of Commons, Forrests, and Chases, by Inclosure. Wherein the Advantage of the Poor, the Common Plenty of All, and the Increase and Preservation of Timber... Are Considered, FIRST EDITION, title within one-line rule border, light dampstain to final 2 leaves, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [ESTC R203768; Goldsmiths 1248; Kress 860], small 4to (182 x 134mm.), Francis Tyton, 1652Footnotes:RARE, only this copy traced at auction in the past fifty years. A plea to reduce the impact of rapid deforestation in England, in which Taylor argues for a programme of planting on the 30,000 acres of Dean, Windsor and the New Forests. The author 'acknowledged that as it stood it was actually cheaper to get timber from New England than transport it 10-15 miles in England, but suggested this supply would soon be logged out' (P. Warde, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500-1900, 2018).Provenance: Donald McDonald, author of Agricultural writers from Sir Walter of Henley to Arthur Young, 1200-1800 (1908), bookplate; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on endpapers.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

YOUNG (Miss S.A.)Studies of Trees, With and Without Foliage, FIRST EDITION, drop-head title above list of subscribers, 12 lithographed plates of trees printed by Hullmandel after S.A. Young, 11 of which proofs on India Paper, plate 12 hand-coloured not on India, publisher's printed wrappers with title and publisher's details on upper cover, some soiling, neatly re-backed with new spine to match, preserved in purpose-made morocco-backed solander box by J. & S. Brockman, folio (555 x 400mm.), Edinburgh, Abraham Thomson, [and others], 1834Footnotes:Rare series of views of magnificent trees. 'The Sketches contained in this Work were drawn from Nature during a short residence near Clifton, chiefly to beguile the tediousness of a lingering indisposition'. Most of the trees were in the park of Kings Weston, a John Vanburgh designed house near Bristol, with others at nearby Shirehampton. Little is known of the artist, but the list of subscribers (and lead publisher) suggest she was probably from Scotland, but with connections to the Channel Islands, with many members of the de Saumerez, Dobree and other Guernsey families listed. Other subscribers are local to Bristol, but also included is Darwin Galton, the brother of Francis Galton, and grandson of Erasmus Darwin.Copies with proofs on India paper cost £2.2s, while 'common' copies were priced at £1.6s.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ZOPPINO (NICCOLO, publisher)Operetta nova de cose stupende in agricultura vere, 8pp., large woodcut illustration of two men prunning a tree on title-page, fore-edge shaved touching one letter of title and border of vignette, nineteenth century boards, rebacked in morocco, rubbed [EDIT 16; CNCE 66505; not in Adams], 8vo (138 x 95mm.), [Venice, Niccolò Zoppino, c.1520]Footnotes:Very rare handbook on agriculture, with EDIT 16 only recording one copy. Advice is given on a most varied number of topics ranging from keeping roses fresh to fertilising fruit plants with goat's milk, and methods of ripening figs.Provenance: J. Charles Barnel, bookplate; Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp with acquisition date (1921) inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SMITH (PHILIP)PHILLIPS (TOM, translator and illustrator) The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Inferno. A Verse Translation by Tom Phillips with Images & Commentary, bound in 3 vol., NUMBER 3 OF THE 'SPECIAL COPIES FOR FINE BINDING HC 1-17', SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ON THE COLOPHON, from an overall edition of 185 copies, 140 plates comprising etchings, lithographs, screenprints and mixed media, each initialled by the artist, binder's notes tipped-in at rear of each volume, bound by Philip Smith in full black, black and red, and 2 shades of red goatskin respectively, the covers and spines with overall designs of impasto modelling in various colours using emulsified maril layers and leather onlays with the application of acrylic paint, coloured rough-trimmed edges and press stud leather clasps to match the binding, the three volumes joining to make a large book wall when mounted vertically, the front covers forming an image of a tall grotesque male figure with inset figures and scenes, the rear covers forming a last judgement vertical tryptich, housed in a three-part UV perspex case, folio (each volume 425 x 325mm., overall dimensions when assembled in perspex case 1345 x 380mm.), Talfourd Press, 1983; together with a large wooden cabinet base, with compartments for storing the volumes and/or the packaging (the back of the cabinet door with printed instructions for storage and assembly), and a stained oak trellised tower made by Adrian Jones to Philip Smith's design for an alternative method of displayFootnotes:'A RARE SYNTHESIS OF TWO WORKING, LIVING GENIUSES': PHILIP SMITH'S SPECTACULAR TRIPTYCH DESIGN ON ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST'S BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Philip Smith first developed the concept of the 'book wall' in the late 1960s, with images on each volume flowing on to the covers of the adjacent books, but at the same time forming integral individual images. His versions of Lord of the Rings are the best known examples: in 1973, he and Tolkien were invited at the Craftsman's Art Exhibition to present a set to the Duke of Edinburgh, and in 2003 a monumental wall of 21 volumes was sold at auction for £130,000. The design for the Dante tower structure was drawn up in 1984, but work on the first volume was only begun properly in 1991. Three years later it was completed and exhibited at the British Library. The remaining two volumes were designed in 1999 and completed a year later. The work can be displayed in three separate volumes, or erected vertically to form a contiguous tower using an elaborate three-part perspex case (all parts and instructions supplied).'It is to my mind a rare synthesis of two working, living geniuses giving visual form to a remarkable poem... This extraordinary work is unique in vision and skill... I believe their like will never be equalled' (Timothy C. Ely, in 'Designer Bookbinders newsletter', no. 185, Spring 2019). For his illustration and for providing a new translation of the Inferno, Phillips received the Frances Williams Memorial Prize in 1983, the LA Times writing 'there is no doubt that Tom Phillips has captured Dante for our time'. Exhibited: British Library 1994; Designer Bookbinding 2000-2001.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FABRI (ALESSANDRO)Diversarum nationum ornatus [-Diversarum nationum habitus], vol. 1 and 2 (of 3) bound in 1 vol., engraved decorative title-page to each volume, 8pp. letterpress dedication to Battista Dotto (cropped touching first line of text on each page), 193 engraved plates only, including 189 of costumes (misbound, some unnumbered or numbered erratically), without the engraved dedication to Dotto or any overlays, most with additional ink numeral either in blank border or over original printed numeral, one with crude pencil drawing of a man in the margin, one with small ink annotation, approximately 14 with some light dampstains or toning, one cropped at outer margin not touching image, occasional spot or mark, full page of eighteenth century ink notes written in Spanish on the blank verso of first title and 2 non-costume plates, nineteenth century calf, gilt morocco spine labels, lacks upper cover, lower cover near detached with tape repairs [USTC 828580; Brunet II, 1151; Cicognara 1643, 'rara e copiosa collezione'; Colas I, 1021; Lipperheide Aa39; Vinet 2094, 'recueil fort intéressant, mais très difficile à trouver'], 8vo, [Padua, 1593], sold not subject to returnFootnotes:RARE AND CHARMING SIXTEENTH CENTURY COSTUME BOOK PRESENTED BY EDWARD BURNE-JONES, with only one other copy traced on Rare Book Hub. The majority of the plates depict single figures in costumes from Europe (Moscow, England, Finland, Greece, etc), Turkey, Arabia and the Americas (4, including inhabitants of Virginia), with a series of Venetian carnival costumes, a series of officials of the Holy Roman Empire, a few portraits of Paduans, and 4 views (bull fight, gondola, bird shoot on a lake, and the procession of the Doge). The engravings are based on those in Pietro Bertelli's more common Diversarum nationum habitus (Padua, 1589-96). The plate count called for these parts is variable in the standard bibliographies.Provenance: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), presented by him to Sir Edward Aurelian Ridsdale (1864-1923), with inscription 'Ridsdale, Rottingdean 1896. From Sir E. Burne-Jones - my friend and neighbour'. Ridsdale, from 1906-1910 Liberal Member of Parliament for Brighton, lived at Rottingdean, Sussex where from 1880 until his death Burne-Jones also lived for part of the year. In 1893 he painted a portrait of Ridsdale; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)The People's Rights, FIRST EDITION, FIRST DAILY NEWS ISSUE, with page 71 misnumbered '1', one appendix and index at end, toned throughout (as usual), upper fore-corner of first and last few leaves turned (some with loss), short marginal tears with some loss to blank lower margin of final leaf, publisher's yellow wrappers with photographic portrait of Churchill on the front, spine worn with some slight losses, lacks rear wrapper, piece of old envelope partially obscuring text on inner front wrapper [Cohen A31.4.a; Woods A16], 8vo, Hodder & Stoughton, London and Manchester, The Daily News, [1910]Footnotes:THE RARE 'DAILY NEWS ISSUE', with the revised Manchester imprint on the front wrapper, one of several published by Hodder and Stoughton in conjunction with regional newspapers. The Daily News was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, the newspaper's first editor before he handed the reigns over to John Forster. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing Morning Chronicle, and in 1901, Quaker chocolate manufacturer George Cadbury bought the newspaper in order to campaign for old age pensions and against sweatshop labour. From 1906, it also became prominent in its support for women's suffrage.Provenance: National League of Young Liberals, stamped in ink across front wrapper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Shall We Commit Suicide?, first separate edition, second issue, 12pp., title within double rule border and with small device in centre, stapled as issued in self-wrappers, with a loosely inserted compliments slip printed on blue paper, FINE COPY [Cohen A74.2; Woods A33], 205 x 90mm., Reprinted from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine of September 24, 1924 [1924]Footnotes:'The following article on what may be expected in the event of a new war comes with authority from an Englishman who for may years has been actively identified with the war machinery of the British Empire' (Introduction). This ominously prophetic article first appeared in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine before being published in the U.S. as this stand-alone pamphlet. In it Churchill envisages a future world at risk from chemical and bacteriological warfare, and warns of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction ('Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings nay, to blast a township at a stroke?').The compliments slip included here is presumably a rare survival. It is signed in print by Raymond B. Fosdick of the Rockefeller Foundation ('Your opinion on this leaflet would be appreciated.... If you would like some extra copies for distribution among your friends, I should be glad to supply them').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Liberals' Part in Rebuilding Britain. Mr. Churchill Speaks at the N.L.C., 4pp., drop-head title, 2 photographic illustrations, marked 'A3.' in ink top right, a couple of passages/ words emphasized or underlined in blue crayon or black ink, slight creasing at edges, pin-holes in upper margins, preserved in crushed brown morocco-backed case with folding flaps and gilt lettered spine [Cohen A184/1; Woods A96(a)], Liberal Publication Department, [1943]; [Yalta Conference] Mr. Churchill's Speech in the House of Commons 27th February 1945 and Crimean Conference Debate.. (Reproduced from the Times), Swedish (English language) printing, 32pp. including blanks, stapled in self-wrappers [Cohen A199.3], Stockholm, I. Haeggström, 1945; [CHURCHILL (WINSTON) and FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT]. The Atlantic Charter. The Full Text of the Joint Declaration.., New Zealand edition, 16pp. including blanks, stapled in publisher's wrappers, title printed in red and black, slight soiling [Cohen A151.2], Christchurch [etc.], Whitcombe & Tombs, [1941], 8vo (3)Footnotes:Three scarce pamphlets, including the particularly rare one containing Churchill's speech of 22 July 1943 at the National Liberal Club, given at the unveiling of a recently restored portrait which had been damaged by a German bomb. Cohen did not locate a copy, and no others have been traced by us, or by the late Mark Weber, through whose hands this copy has passed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON) AND FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTAtlantic Charter [August 12th 1941], NUMBER 3 OF 100 COPIES, printed on Simili Japon paper in grey and blue with initial flourish and rubrications, sewn with silk thread in publisher's wrappers [not in Cohen or Woods], 16mo, [Utrecht], The Busy Bee, [1944]Footnotes:A very good copy of this rare and finely printed edition, not seen by Cohen or Woods, and only one copy appearing in auction records (1989).'The Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration of the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, first published August 12th 1941, has been printed in secret in the office of the Busy Bee, somewhere in occupied Holland, this being the third volume of the series Documents Humains. The edition has been limited to 100 copies on Simili Japon paper. 3 [in ink]' (colophon).The Busy Bee, or De Bezige Bij, began life during the Second World War and quickly became a remarkably successful clandestine publishing house, issuing broadsides and helping to raise funds to aid Jewish children to escape from the Nazis. The Atlantic Charter was its first official publication, and despite the circumstances, the printing would have been worthy of any fine private press.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PULP FICTION - CRIMEGLINTO (DARCY), Pseud. of HAROLD ERNEST KELLY. Snow Vogue, FIRST EDITION, loss at head of dust-jacket spine affecting the word 'Snow', Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., [1941]; Road Floozie, 1950; '... One More Nice White Body', rodent damage to lower part of spine (similar to dust-jacket), jacket price-clipped, 1952; 'You Took Me... Keep Me', library labels, and perforated stamp on 2 pages, small tears to jacket with label on spine, 1941 [but 1952]; Curtains for Carrie, 1953, publisher's cloth, pictorial dust-jackets, 8vo, all but the first mentioned Robin Hood Press; and 3 others by Darcy Glinto, dust-jacketed hardbacks (8)Footnotes:The rare first edition hardback with dust-jacket of Glinto's classic of drug peddling, glossed as 'Opium! Cocaine!! Dope!!!. Fiendish Drug-Orgies Shock America' on a later paperback edition.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARMS AND ARMOURMEYRICK (WILLIAM) An Illustrated Catalogue of Weapons and Detached Specimens of Armour, from the Collection of William Meyrick, Esq., FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 120 ALBUMEN PRINTS (numbered 1-118, with 2 each for nos. 98 and 117, all numbered in ink on mount above image), accompanying printed leaf of text to plates 1-92 (with additions in ink to 9), the remainder with a leaf of descriptive text in manuscript, mounted one per page, cutting from Connoisseur Magazine relating pasted on front endpaper, contemporary red morocco gilt, original gilt lettering label on upper cover, g.e, rebacked preserving original spine (with modern gilt morocco lettering label), rubbed [not in Gernsheim], folio (360 x 265mm.), Joseph Clayton, 1861Footnotes:RARE CATALOGUE OF THE WILLIAM MEYRICK COLLECTION OF WEAPONS AND ARMOUR, ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS, WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. No copies traced as selling on Rare Book Hub, and only one copy listed on Worldcat. Presumably published in a limited number of copies, the author notes that he is 'indebted to a friend for having most kindly taken these photographs from specimens of weapons... I have obtained in the last fifteen or twenty years. In making this small collection, my object has been to procure such specimens only, as are really of good form, or of good workmanship...' (Introduction).Provenance: Leonard Brassey (1870-1958), 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, armorial bookplate. Leonard's father Henry Arthur Brassey, M.P. purchased the Meyrick collection en bloc in about 1880, bequeathing it to his son on his death in 1891. Leonard subsequently consigned the collection for auction at Christie's, offered as Meyrick Arms and Armour being the Collection Formed about the Middle of the 19th Century by the late Dr. William Meyrick, February 21, 1922. Many of the items were purchased by Dr. Bashford Dean for the Metropolitan Museum, New York.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WOOLF (VIRGINIA)Roger Fry, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, WITH PENCIL CORRECTIONS in an unidentified hand on approximately 24 pages including the title-page, plain brown wrappers, lettered in ink on the spine, frayed at extremities, 8vo, The Hogarth Press, 1940Footnotes:Rare proof copy of the last book Virginia Woolf saw into print before her death. The pencil corrections mostly relate to punctuation, spelling misprints (such as the addition of the accent to 'Cézanne', the artist Fry championed and introduced to England in his celebrated Post-Impressionist exhibition of 1910), but also the important introduction of the words 'A Biography' on the title-page.Provenance: Julian Fry (Roger Fry's son), and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSCOPPARD (A.E.) Clorinda Walks in Heaven, NUMBER 19 OF 20 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, from an edition limited to 690, INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper 'For J.R.T. Morris/ With best wishes/ A.E. Coppard', and with a quatrain by Thomas Hardy in Coppard's hand below, untrimmed in original linen-backed boards with paper spine label, some browning to spine ends, 1922; Adam & Eve & Pinch Me, FIRST EDITION, one of 340 copies in orange boards from an edition limited to 550, first gathering slightly loose, stain to upper cover, spine faded, slipcase, 1921, 8vo, Waltham St. Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press (2)Footnotes:The rare first and fourth books produced by the fledgling Golden Cockerel Press, and the first two books of stories published by Coppard.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREGYNOG PRESS - BINDINGVAUGHAN (HENRY) Poems, number 166 of 500 copies, initials in red, wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, specially bound in crushed blue morocco by Carl Hanson at the National Library of Wales (signed in gilt at rear), sides with ornamental gilt borders, gilt panelled spine with similar tools and raised bands, blue morocco turn-ins, t.e.g., others uncut, 8vo, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1924Footnotes:BOUND BY THE FIRST HEAD OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES BINDERY. Carl August Hanson (1872-1961) was born in Oslo and came to London in 1898 to seek work as a bookbinder. He found a post at Zaehnsdorf in Shaftsbury Avenue, and three years later he moved to Riviere and Sons in Regent Street, where he stayed for 10 years. The move to the recently opened National Library of Wales came in 1911, when they urgently needed an experienced craftsman to repair and rebind many of the rare manuscripts and books in the collections donated by Sir John Williams.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ISLAMThe Rise of Islam and the Caliphate. The Pan-Islamic Movement, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'Confidential' printed in upper right corner of title and front wrapper, very light old dampstain at top edges, publisher's grey printed wrappers, numeral '1' stamped in top corner of front wrapper above header and 'Confidential', 8vo, Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, January 1919Footnotes:RARE. Marked 'Confidential', this handbook was prepared for the use of delegates of the Allied Nations who gathered at the Paris Peace Conference of January 1919. It outlines the historical scope of Islam and the Caliphate, contextualising it with current events, the final chapter entitled 'Pan-Islamism and the Young Turks'. The handbook was reprinted the following year with the wording 'confidential' removed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEAR (EDWARD)Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 2 hand-coloured maps, 55 tinted lithographed plates, and illustrations in the text by Lear, tissue guards, albumen print photograph of Lear's grave loosely inserted, some spotting, early half morocco, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, joints repaired [Abbey Travel 172], folio (370 x 260mm.), Thomas M'Lean, 1846; with a printed prospectus for Edward Lear's Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson. Dedicated to Lady Tennyson (1885), and a 2-page printed list of the 200 illustrations to be included in the work loosely inserted (4)Footnotes:Edward Lear lived in Rome from 1837 to 1848, apart from two visits to England during one of which he organised the publishing of Illustrated Excursions, based upon journeys he had made into the area around Rome and Naples. Lear notes in the preface 'I have executed the whole of the Lithographic drawings from my own sketches, and have endeavoured to preserve a close fidelity to the Originals'. 'Queen Victoria, one of the subscribers, was so impressed with the work that she invited Lear to give her a series of twelve drawing lessons' (ODNB). The first series is devoted to the Abruzzi provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, the second to the Papal States. Included with the lot is the rare prospectus for Lear's proposed Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson and a printed list of the 200 illustrations for inclusion. The work was never published.Provenance: Richard William Church (1815-1890, Dean of St. Paul's), bookplate. Included with the lot is an autograph letter from Lear's biographer Vivian Noakes, mentioning that a member of the Church family was reported to own a manuscript journal of Lear's Greek tour.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIAPersian Gulf, large colour-printed map of 'Persian Gulf and Adjacent Countries... Additions Feby. 1919' loosely inserted as issued in pocket at end, June, 1919; Persia, June 1919; Arabia, large colour-printed 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf & Arabia' loosely inserted as issued in pocket at end, April 1919, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, all with 'Confidential' printed upper right of title and front wrapper, publisher's grey printed wrappers, each with the numeral '1' upper right of front wrapper (in blue ink for Persian volumes, stamped for Arabia), some toning, light old dampstain to spine and lower part of front wrapper of first mentioned, 8vo, Handbooks Prepared Under the Direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office, 1919 (3)Footnotes:RARE. Marked 'confidential', these handbooks were prepared by the British Foreign Office, for the use by the delegates of Allied Nations who gathered at the Paris Peace conference of 1919-1920, which lead to the formation of the League of Nations. They provide details of the 'geography, physical and political' and 'political history' of the regions. Persian Gulf includes 'the Persian Gulf proper together with the Gulf of Oman and the adjacent coastal regions', with a history of these states to 1914.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARMS AND ARMOUR - NAPOLEON IIIPENGUILLY L'HARIDON (OCTAVE) Catalogue des collections du cabinet d'armes des sa Majesté l'Empereur, contemporary cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered on spine, joints rubbed, small 4to (270 x 180mm.), Paris, Librairie Centrale, 1865--Chateau Impérial de Pierrefonds. Album du cabinet d'armes de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon III pour faire suite au catalogue dressé par M.A. Penguilly l'Haridon. Photographies par A[uguste]. Chevallier, half-title, 61 ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS (comprising 6 views of the castle exterior and interior, one ground plan and 54 views of the arms as arranged within the castle), mounted one per sheet on stiff paper, each of the plates of arms with accompanying with sheet of letterpress description, a few sheets working loose, contemporary green morocco over marbled boards, t.e.g., rubbed, 4to (270 x 192mm.), Paris, J. Claye, 1867, FIRST EDITIONS (2)Footnotes:RARE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE CABINET D'ARMES OF NAPOLEON III. The collection was housed in the grand 'Salle de Preuses' at Chateau Pierrefonds, a twelfth century castle reconstructed by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc at the Emperor's orders. Napoleon's collection was founded on his purchase of arms from the collection of the Prince Alexis Soltykoff (1806-1859), the great Russian collector whose Oriental arms were purchased by Tsar Alexander II. The photographs of the arms were taken by A. Chevallier.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[BARLOW (WILLIAM)]The Navigator's Supply. Conteining many things of Principall Importance Belonging to Navigation, with the Description and Use of Diverse Instruments Framed Chiefly for that Purpose; but Serving also for Sundry other of Cosmography in Generall: the Particular Instruments are Specified on the next Page, FIRST EDITION, early issue with a blank space left for the vignette below title and without the 7 plates, woodcut initials and ornaments, page numbers added in an early ink hand, some dampstaining mainly to the first few leaves, a few others soiled, first line of title supplied in old printed facsimile, several scattered leaves with single or small wormholes towards foot of page, clean tear to H2 without loss, late eighteenth century russia, gilt rule and blind-roll border on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, small paper label at foot of spine with Scott reference number '47', extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint a little weak [ESTC S100864], 4to (190 x 123mm.), G. Bishop, R. Newbery, and R. Barker, 1597Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF BARLOW'S IMPORTANT WORK ON NAVIGATION. According to the 1974 Scott Library catalogue (see below), the present copy is an early issue before the addition of the title vignette and the folding plates. It is the only such copy we have traced in auction records, although ESTC and other some institutional listings make no mention of the plates.To William Barlow (died 1625, correspondent of William Gilbert) is owed the discovery of the difference between iron and steel for magnetic purposes, improvements in the hanging of compasses at sea, and finding the proper way of touching magnetic needles. His first book, The Navigator's Supply gives descriptions of several new navigational instruments and compasses. 'William Barlow uses the 'nonnius' devised by Pedro Nunez more than fifty years previously and gives a graphical method for drawing a Mercator network... He describes a number of new navigating and surveying instruments and summarizes his own contribution to the study of magnetism' (Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners, pp.334-5).Provenance: John Scott (Scottish engineer and shipbuilder, 1830-1903); Scott Library Collection, presented by his son to the Institution of Naval Architects in 1930, printed donation label; 'A Selection from the Scott Library', Christies, 4 December 1974, lot 36.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE- FRANCIS FRYThe First New Testament Printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526) Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale. Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry F.S.A, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FRY TO 'Mary Hill with F. Fry's kind regards, Cotham, 1 Mo. 24 1863' on the presentation page before the title, additionally inscribed 'Mary A. Curtis from Francis Fry' on front free endpaper, and signed by Fry ('Francis Fry, Cotham, Bristol, 3 Mo. 1862' at the end of the introduction (p.18), collates [2], 28, [8] with illustrations and facsimile leaves (one printed in colours), some interleaved with tissue guards, occasional light spotting, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered 'Introduction to Fry's Tyndale's Testament' on upper cover, dampstaining to upper part of each cover, spine rubbed [cf. Herbert 1936], 8vo (188 x 125mm.), Bristol, Printed for the Editor, 1862Footnotes:Rare presentation copy of the introduction by Francis Fry to his facsimile reprinting of the Tyndale New Testament, with specimen examples of the work including Tyndale's Address to the Reader, and the Epistle of Titus.Provenance: Mary Hill, presentation inscription from Francis Fry, 1863; M.F. Bowser (and also 'M.F. Allen'), Matlock, later inscription inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WILLIAM OF ORANGE'The Life and Glorious Actions of William the Third, King of England &c. Wrote in 1726', manuscript in ink on laid paper, 66 pages (title, dedication to Carteret, pp.1-107), engraved portrait of William on front paste-down, upper fore-corner of title cut away and strengthened with fragment on an old list of expenses ('Sugar 0.0.4... Butter 0.2.3'), contemporary calf, rebacked in calf, 8vo, [?1726]Footnotes:A manuscript history of King William III, probably copied from the printed version of the same title published in Dublin in 1726. This, like our manuscript, has a dedication to Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1724 to 1730, which was not of course present in the version of the book which first appeared, under a different title, in 1702. The 1726 version is rare, ESTC (T219072) citing the National Library of Ireland copy only, perhaps offering a reason as to the necessity of transcribing a manuscript copy in the period of Protestant Ascendency in the early years of the Georgian period.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN, FARADAY & KELVINMAGUIRE (THOMAS HERBERT) Lithographed portraits with facsimile signatures of Charles Darwin, half-length, seated facing left, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, writing in a notebook, and Michael Faraday, standing, one hand on hip, each signed and dated in the octagonal image by the artist ('T.H. Maguire 1849 [-1849, -1851]'), and each with a facsimile signature of the sitter in the margin below, Kelvin and Faraday portraits with foxing mainly in the margins; together with a lithographed self-portrait by Maguire, octagonal format half-length profile, signed in the image, inscribed on reverse 'T.H. Maguire by himself', undated, all mounted on card, framed and glazed, 385 x 306mm., [Ipswich, 1849-1951]Footnotes:MAGUIRE'S SCARCE PORTRAIT OF DARWIN - FROM THE ARTIST'S STUDIO.Thomas Herbert Maguire (1821–1895, artist and lithographer) produced these three scarce scientific portraits as part of a series titled Portraits of the Honorary Members of the Ipswich Museum. The 60 portraits were privately commissioned by George Ransome, FLS, to celebrate the foundation of the Ipswich Museum, and executed between 1847 and 1852, some from life and others from photographs as the Museum obtained fresh scientific sponsors. Copies of the lithographs were given to subscribing members of the Museum, and a bound portfolio of the series was presented to Prince Albert. Maguire was later appointed lithographer ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, and for a time had a studio in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, where he executed many lithographic portraits of members of the Royal Family.The series was published in 1852 by M. & N. Hanhart with their imprint added below the facsimile signatures. This imprint is found on the vast majority of the portraits present in the National Portrait Gallery, Wellcome Collection and British Museum, including those of our three sitters. The present examples are without imprints and have remained in the family, presumably being the artist's own copies or just possibly proofs.The portrait of Darwin at the age of 40, at a time when he was struggling to come to terms with his father's death and the onset of his daughter Annie's scarlet fever, is one of the very few known portraits of him as a younger man, following Richmond's 1840 wedding portrait and a daguerreotype of 1842 taken with his son William. There are examples of the Maguire portrait in the British Museum and Wellcome Collection, but it is missing from the the National Portrait Gallery series. We have traced only one other print, again with the Hanhart imprint, sold at auction in 2019.The artist's striking self-portrait, not issued with the Ipswich series, seems exceptionally rare and has not been traced anywhere.Provenance: Thomas Henry Maguire; and thence by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LOBACHEVSKY (NICKOLAI IVANOVICH)Ponizhenie stepeni v dvuchlenom uravnenii kogda pokasatel bes edinitsy delitisia na 8, in Ucheniyia Zapiski, izdavaemyia Imperatorskim Kazanskim Universitetom, FIRST EDITION, printed on laid paper, partially uncut in publisher's blue printed wrappers, one blank corner of lower cover torn away, spine worn with some losses, preserved in purpose-made solander box [Engel 5; Kagan 5], 8vo, Kazan, University Printer, 1834Footnotes:Very rare first edition of the first appearance of an important paper on a method of approximating the roots of algebraic equations by the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856), published in the first issue of the periodical of 'Scientific Memoirs' founded by him. His work on the Non-Euclidean geometry and mathematics 'for the most part paralleled that of other European mathematicians. It is, for example, worth noting that in his algebra Lobachevsky suggested a method for separating roots of equation by their repeated squaring, a method coincident with that suggested by Dandelin in 1826 and by Gräffe in 1837' (DSB). Lobachevsky also wrote the preface to this first issue of the periodical, outlining his aims and purpose for publishing it.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LOMONOSOV (MIKHAIL VASILIEVICH)[Opera academica], a sammelband of 9 works, comprising: Panegyricus Elisabetae Augustae Russiarum Imperatrici, title cut to size and mounted on binder's blank, lacks portrait, [St. Petersburg, c.1751]; Oratio de utilitate chemiae in publico conventu, first Latin edition translated from the Russian by Gregorio Kositzki, St. Petersburg, Typis Academiae Scientiarum, [1752]; Oratio de meteoris vi electrica ortis, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding engraved plates, lacks 6 leaves (pp.47-58) and p.59 pasted to blank obscuring text, [St. Petersburg, 1753]; Panégirique de Pierre Le Grand prononcé dans la Séance publique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, le 25 Avril 1755, first edition in French, St. Petersburg, [1755]; Oratio de origine lucis sistens novam theoriam colorum, in conventu Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae, first edition in Latin, translated by Gregorio Kositzki [OCLC 64032077, with 40pp., a variant calls for 59pp.], St. Petersburg, [1756]; Oratio de generatione metallorum a terrae motu, habita in solemni conventu quo Academia Scientiarum Imperialis, FIRST EDITION, St. Petersburg, [1757]; Meditationes de via navis in mari certius determinanda praelectae in publico conventu Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae Die VIII. Mai, A.C. 1759, collates [2], 1-54, [57]-63, [1], without leaf G4 (?blank), 3 folding engraved plates (shaved close, ith loss of a numeral on one plate), [St. Petersburg, 1759]; Meditationes de solido et fluido solemnisbus sacris Augustissimi nominis serenissimae potentissimae magnae dominae ... Imperatricis Elisabetae Petri Magnai Filiae Autocratoris omnium Rossarium... Die VI. Sept. MDCCLX, FIRST EDITION, one folding engraved plate, St. Petersburg, [1760]; Erscheinung der Venus vor der Sonne beobachtet bey der Kayserlichen Academie der Wissenschaften in St. Petersburg den 26. May 1761, first edition in German, one folding engraved plate, [St. Petersburg, 1761], contemporary tree calf, red gilt morocco lettering spine label ('Lomonosow/Opera/Academica'), spine worn and dried with loss of gilt, small loss to headband, 4toFootnotes:SAMMELBAND OF NINE WORKS, ALL RARE, BY MIKHAIL LOMONSOV (1711-1765), 'the first great Russian scientist... [who] united in himself knowledge not only of every basic area of the science of his time but history, languages, poetry, literary prose, and art... Pushkin called him Russia's first university' (DSB). The works gathered in this volume appear to have been curated to reflect his range of interests, with treatises on chemistry, metallurgy, electricity, optics and astronomy, as well as panegyrics on Peter the Great, and Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, who had encouraged Lomonosov to establish Moscow University. OCLC records another copy of this sammelband volume held at Cornell University, lettered 'Opera academica' on the spine, and with the note 'one of twelve copies prepared for the author'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

COPLAND (WILLIAM, PUBLISHER)Here begynneth the Boke of the Arte or Crafte of Graffynge and Plantyng of Trees, 16pp., black letter, large woodcut vignette of two woodsmen hewing trees on the title, some soiling and marginal restorations throughout, early ink annotations (mostly marginal, 5 lines underlined), twentieth century morocco, gilt lettered on spine [ESTC 91551, citing this copy only], small 4to (190 x 140mm.), Imprinted at London in Lothbery over against S. Margarets church by me Wyllyam Copland, [?1565]Footnotes:VERY RARE, ESTC citing only this copy, not listed on Worldcat, and no other copies traced as appearing at auction. The treatise is devoted to the production and preservation of trees, and in particular the art of grafting. At the end are two short chapters concerning the four seasons and four elements, and 'the fourme and measure to mete land by'. It was published by William Copland, who because of 'his connection with Robert Copland, and Robert's with Caxton's heir, Wynkyn de Worde... represents the fourth in a direct line of succession from England's first printer' (ODNB).Provenance: Annotations in an early hand, including a note 'To trye the quince' beside a passage 'To have fruite without cores'; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside upper cover, with note of acquistion (1936). Purchased for £52.10.0 from Maggs Bros, their catalogue description pasted onto the front free paper, noting 'This little piece is of excessive rarity. One copy is recorded in Pollard's 'Hand-lists of English Printers' [1913] as in a Private Library, and there is a reference in a note in [Thomas] Dibdin's 'Typographical Antiquities'...'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[ESTIENNE (CHARLES)]Maison Rustique, or the Countrey Farme... Translated into English by Richard Surfleet... Now Newly Reviewed, Corrected, and Augmented, with Divers Large Additions... and the Husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, Reconciled and Made to Agree with Ours Here in England. By Gervase Markham, third (first Markham) edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations in the text (some full-page), without initial and final blanks, very occasional foxing and soiling, first half of volume affected by worm trail which gradually reduces to a single hole, Yy3 with long tear slightly affecting text, this and Yy2 repaired in margin, twentieth century calf antique [ESTC S121357; Bitting p.146-147; Fussell p.13; Goldsmiths' 451; Hunt 202; Kress 353; Simon BG, 610 (note); Westwood & Satchell p.88], small folio, Adam Islip, for John Bill, 1616Footnotes:Markham's comprehensive revision of the text, with sections on bread-making, wine, cider, vegetables, herbs, animal husbandry, fish farming, hunting, falconry etc.Provenance: Hilda Leyel and Lawrence Strangman, bookplates (the former's bookplate hidden below the pasted down endpaper). Lawrence Strangman was recently in the news following the discovery of a rare butterfly found preserved in the pages of a book he donated to Trinity Hall.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[FITZHERBERT (JOHN)]Surveyinge, black letter, title within woodcut architectural border, lacks colophon (H8), annotation in a contemporary hand in one margin, some dampstaining (mostly marginal, quite heavy to final few leaves), nineteenth century calf gilt, lettered in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed [ESTC S122123; Fussell I, p.7-8], 8vo (145 x 98mm.), [Thomas Berthelet], 1539Footnotes:Rare early edition of Fitzherbert's treatise on surveying, first published in 1523, addressed to 'lordes and possessioners of lande' and their overseers with advice on laws relating to country estates.Provenance: Francis Henry Cripps-Day (1864-1945), antiquary and lawyer, with extensive ink notes relating to this and other editions on front endpaper; Lawes Agricultural Trust, acquisition date 1932 inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[LEYBOURN (WILLIAM)]Planometria: or the Whole Art of Surveying of Land: Shewing the Composition, and Use of All the Most Necessary Instruments thereunto Belonging... by Oliver Wallinby, FIRST EDITION, first leaf bears signature mark 'A' within ornamental border on recto and illustration on verso, woodcut illustrations and diagrams (with large diagram cut to size and laid down on C1 as instructed), mathematical calculations in an early hand to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rubbed, small loss to head of spine [ESTC R42121], 8vo, Printed for Nathanael Brooks, 1650Footnotes:Rare first edition of Leybourn's influential treatise on surveying, published under the pseudonym Oliver Wallinby (an anagram of his name), which was enlarged and printed as The Compleat Surveyor three years later.Provenance: Ch. Hevingham, ?eighteenth century inscription on title-page; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NEWBERY (E, publisher): 'The Royal Genealogical Pastime of the Sovereigns of England...from Egbert to George 3rd...': published by E Newbery & John Wallis, No. 16 Ludgate Street, London: original late 18th century wooden-backed jigsaw puzzle, (missing two piece), contained in original wooden box with printed label to lid. Rare: we have been able to trace this title in folding chart format, though not as a jigsaw as found here. (1)

HMS ESKIMO, COMMON PRAYER: 'The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church...': Cambridge, circa 1940: large 8vo, contemporary black roan, gilt lettered 'HMS Eskimo 1942' to upper cover, aeg, black morocco label to front pastedown gilt lettered 'From the Clergy of Gateshead...', modern label of provenance and photograph of ship pasted in adjacent, the former relating ...when HMS Eskimo came home for a refit in early 1942 she was presented with this prayer book by the people of Gateshead. This book took part in the Malta convoys - Operation Torch - Force H and Russian convoys PQ13-QP9'. A rare survival. (1)

FRANCIS FRY: BIBLE IN ENGLISH: 'The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments.. newly translated out of the original tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised...', Edinburgh, printed by Andrew Anderson, 1676: small 8vo, contemporary black morocco gilt, aeg, rubbed, old facsimile title page, front pastedown with manuscript label by bibliographer Francis Fry, stating...'this is a very rare edition by Anderson. The title is a very exact facsimile from my copy. This copy belonged to the late celebrated James Lenox New York, the pencil writing on the flyleafs by him...'. (1)

ACHILLES: PROBST (Johann Balthasar, engraver, 1673-1750): 'Sive Feras Telis, Hostes Seu Sternere Ferro, Invictus Pugnis Pugnus Achillis Erat. So Wol Behertzte Feind, Als Wilde Thier Zu Fallen, Dursst Der Achilles Sich Stets Unbesiegt Darstellen...': Augsburg, 1721: a suite of 13 fine metal engraved plates by Probst, plus engraved title, mounted into an English devotional book of the period to recto of alternate leaves, some contemporary manuscript notes on the work below the initial page, contemporary sombre binding of blind tooled black morocco, green ornamental endpapers gilt, 8vo.  A rare series of engravings depicting the life of Achilles...the manuscript note comments...'the breadth of light & shadow are preserved in a masterly manner' (1) 

A RARE RENE LALIQUE 'GRENOUILLE' CAR MASCOT No. 1146; engraved signature, 'R. Lalique France' with 'Lalique' faintly moulded under the back right leg 6.2 cm high Note: This charming and naturalistically modelled mascot was first issued in 1928 and is the smallest car mascot ever made by Lalique. This example has a good finish with a deep grey tinge and is in excellent condition.

A RARE GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK RIFLE octagonal barrel, stag horn or bone profusely inlaid and engraved with mythological figures, grotesques , the butt with  sliding patch box cover and old internal label ?J.E Lamble No 32? 61 cm barrel

Ôban. Series: Hinagata wakana no hatsu moyô. Title: Chôjiya uchi Kosôshi (? or Otowaji?), Haruno, Nishiki. Signed: Yamato gakô Koryûsai ga. Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi. Probably 1781. Extremely rare.Good impression, colours still good, rubbed and soiled, very thin and missing areas, backedThis print has not been published before. It was introduced to Allen Hockley (author of The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-century Japan), who noted several interesting points: The signature ‘Yamato gakô Koryûsai ga’ is not very common. Koryûsai used it on a few other prints from the Hinagata series, notably among the last few designs he made. The use of this signature suggests that this print must be the last, or among the last ones, that Koryûsai made for the Hinagata series in 1781. In 1782 Kiyonaga took over and continued as the designer of this very popular series. The name of the courtesan could not be identified. It seems to read Kosôshi, but a courtesan by that name could not be found registered with the Chôjiya. The names of the kamuro, Haruno and Nishiki, appear in relation to the courtesan Otowaji of the Chôjiya. However, her name is definitely not written above this design. Otowaji, Haruno and Nishiki are illustrated by Koryûsai in another print of the Hinagata series. The composition of the groups is very similar, but it cannot be ascertained that the courtesan in both prints is the same.ProvenienzPrivatsammlung, Sachsen-Anhalt

Ôban triptych. Title: Mino-kuni Akasaka no shuku, Kumasaka youchi no zu. Young Yoshitsune fending off Kumasaka’s nightly attack of Akasaka Inn. Signed: Yoshitora ga. Block carver: Koizumi Kanegorô. Publisher: Kiya Sôjirô. Censor/date: aratame, 1/1860. Rare.Good impression, very good colours, few traces of usage, all in all good condition

Ôban triptych. Title: Aki Miyajima Benzaiten shintai o arawashi Kiyomori ga isei o kujiku. Benzaiten appears to Taira Kiyomori and his men at Miyajima, prompting the founding of Itsukushima Shrine. Signed: Yoshitora ga. Publisher: left blank. The triptych was originally published by Enshûya Hikobei. Censor/date: aratame, 6/1861. Rare.Good impression and colours, margins slightly creased, minimal traces of usage

Chinese Warring States period (c. 475 BC - 221 BC); a rare bronze dagger blade and handle of dark patination and with verdigris, the tapering blade with subtle median ridge, the ricasso with various apertures and the tang with circular countersunk aperture, the upper section finely decorated in scrolling circles in relief within a pointed key-fret border, the vertical raised sections possibly depicting a phoenix or fen or similar style bird with long, scrolling tail feathers and decorated in relief both sides, for a similar lot see Bonhams San Francisco, 3rd December 2020, Lot 5124, presented within a custom-built box (23.5cm to tip of blade x 14.25cm across hilt). The Warring States period was an era of Chinese history characterised by extensive and ongoing conflict between a multitude of statelets and kingdoms which ultimately culminated in the Qin states victory and the first unification of China into a single empire.

A fine and large 19th century figured walnut and brass-strung/inlaid double-size writing slope; the top hinged section with central rectangular brass plaque engraved 'To B-A-C from M-C' within decorative scrolls and opening to reveal interior gilt-tooled leather writing surface, the lid with interior cleated board enclosing compartment space and with further plaque reading 'From J+K to A+K+C on his 21 birthday March 28-87', the main body panel lifting to reveal further compartment space and a spring-loaded full-width bar opening to reveal three 'secret' drawers, two inkwells with silver-plated lids, angular stamp compartment, removable concave quill/pen compartment and one further lidded compartment with circular engraved mother of pearl handle, some brass stringing away (55cm wide x 26.5cm deep x 17.5cm high). It is rare to find a presentation writing slope of this size and it is possible that it was specially commissioned.

A rare and unusual large-scale Rolls-Royce 'Spirit of Ecstasy' mascot after the original by Charles Sykes; very heavily cast bronze with well patinated nickel-silver plate, the base with impressed Charles Sykes signature. Originally cast for display in Rolls-Royce agents' showrooms. (Approx. 48cm high and 34cm from face to tip of wing)

A rare set of late 1970s Concorde tableware; the Malcolm Keen designed bone china by Royal Doulton and the cutlery by Arthur Price. The china comprises 10.7cm bowl, 12.5cm and 17cm plates, 12.5cm x 17.3cm dish, cup and saucer, salt and pepper (4cm high, the pepper for repair); each piece decorated with repeating stylised droop-nose Concordes within a blue band, and their undersides marked ‘British airways’ and with individual UCCH numbers. The 5-piece cutlery set, three glasses and swizzle-sticks with early Concorde motif of a crown within the letter C. Complete with blue square napkin and holder, and June 1980 letter from British Airways detailing its donation to the Concorde Supporters Club.

A rare and collectable 'Slidaway' pocket vanity case; black-leather case with early Concorde motif (1979-1983), slimline retractable clothes brush, nail scissors and nail file 

A rare 'Concorde in a bottle’; in the form of a decanter and with turned wood base (the stopper glued) (22cm high including stand)

388 official Concorde postcards (357 and 31) and five others to include a rare Mach 2 example

Edouard Liévre, 1828 – 1886MUSEALE, HÖCHST SELTENE PFLANZENJARDINIÈRE IM AUSSERGEWÖHNLICHEN CHINOISERIE-STILHöhe: 30,5 cm. Breite: 54 cm. Tiefe: 34 cm. Paris, um 1878.Große Jardinière mit orientalischem Dekor, ausgeführt von dem Bronzekünstler Georges Émile Henri Servant (1828-um 1890). Bronze, vergoldet, polychromes Cloisonné-Email und Onyx. Aufbau in Form eines Rechteckkastens, die Wandungen in grün schimmerndem Speckstein über mehrfach profilierter Rahmung mit kräftigen, an den Ecken hochziehenden Kanteneinfassungen, die zum Teil durchbrochen gearbeitet sind, dekoriert mit Wolkenbankmotiven und mit Fußabschlüssen in Form von Fischköpfen. Sämtliche Montierungen in Bronze, feuervergoldet. An den Schmalseiten applizierte eckabgerundete Reliefplatten mit Drachenmotiven. Besonders detailreich die großen querrechteckigen Auflegeplatten mit Zellschmelzemaildekor nach chinesischen Motiven. Jeweils dunkelblaugrundige Rahmung mit Dreipassmotiven, die Mittelkartusche hellbeigegrundig, darauf ein türkises Mittelfeld mit rotem Zentralmotiv. Insgesamt reicher Blüten- und Blattdekor, ebenfalls im chinesischen Stil, Inneneinsatz in Kupfer.Anmerkung: Servant wurde im Jahre 1874 zum Ritter der Ehrenlegion ernannt. Auf der Weltausstellung 1878 stellte Servant, der damals Berichterstatter und Mitglied der Jury der Bronzekunstklasse war, Vasen und Kleinmöbel aus Bronze aus, die wiederum allgemeine Bewunderung hervorriefen. Kurz vor der Weltausstellung 1889 zog er sich endgültig zurück. Literatur: Vgl. Ausstellungskatalog, L‘Art en France sous le Second Empire, Paris, Grand Palais 11. Mai - 13. August 1979. Vgl. Jonathan Meyer, Great Exhibitions – London – New York – Paris – Philadelphia, 1851-1900, ACC Art Books 2006. (12618188) (11)Edouard Liévre,1828 – 1886VERY RARE JARDINIÈRE OF MUSEUM-QUALITY IN EXCEPTIONAL CHINOISERIE STYLEHeight: 30.5 cm.Width: 54 cm.Depth: 34 cm.Paris, ca. 1878.Literature:Compare ehibition catalogue, L’Art en France sous le Second Empire, Paris, Grand Palais, May 11-August 13 1979, Paris 1979.Compare J. Meyer, Great Exhibitions – London – New York – Paris – Philadelphia, 1851-1900, ACC Art Books, 2006.

Seltenes Meiji-Zierkästchen15,5 x 15 x 11 cm. Bodenseitig in einer Kartusche signiert. Japan, Meiji-Periode, 1868 - 1912.Bronze, patiniert und tauschiert, in Eisen, Kupfer und Silber. Vier geschweifte Füße mit kastenförmigem Korpus mit geschweiften Kartuschen. Kurzseite mit Tür, dahinter vierschübige Inneneinrichtung in Holz. Deckelseitiger Bügelgriff. Allseitig mit Vogel-Ast-Dekor in kunstvoller Ausfertigung. Minimal besch. (1271626) (13)Rare decorative Meiji box15.5 x 15 x 11 cm.Signed in cartouche on underside. Japan, Meiji period, 1868 - 1912.

Seltene klassizistische Konsole93 x 150 x 41,5 cm. England, zweite Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert.In rot gesprenkeltem französischem Brocatelle-Marmor gefertigtes Steinmöbel mit zwei geschweiften Seitenwangen, mit Perlstabrelief und plastisch gearbeiteten Widderköpfen mit feinen Zügen. Schmale Deckplatte mit doppelt getrepptem Profil und reliefiertem Mäanderband mit eingestellten Kreisornamenten. (12718210) (13)Rare Neoclassical console 93 x 150 x 41.5 cm.England, 2nd half of the 18th century.

Paar bedeutende Deckelvasen in gelbem Siena-MarmorHöhe: 41 cm. Breite: 21 cm. Tiefe: 15 cm. Frankreich, zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert.Über einem quadratischen Fußsockel erhebt sich ein eingezogener Rundfuß, der den im unteren Teil godronierten Vasenkörper trägt; der obere Teil der Vase rundum glatt, hier seitlich vollplastisch herausgearbeitete Widderköpfe, deren Hörner dem Oberrand aufliegen. Die gewölbten Scheindeckel mit Wulstprofil. Kleiner Abschlussknauf. Der seltene gelbe Marmor wurde bereits in der Epoche Ludwigs XIV hoch geschätzt, fand daher auch für Möbeleinlagen etc. Verwendung. Die Gestaltung nach Modellzeichnung des 18. Jahrhunderts, veröffentlicht in einem Modellkatalog, erwähnt in der Collection de Louis Marie Augustin d’Aumont de Rochebaron, 1782, redigiert von Philippe-François Julliot fils und Alexandre-Joseph Paillet. A.R.Anmerkung:Eine vergleichbare Vase in gelbem Sienna-Marmor befindet sich im Louvre in Paris, Inv. Nr. 5183. (1271816) (11)A pair of important lidded vases in yellow Siena marble Height: 41 cm. Width: 21 cm. Depth: 15 cm.France, second half of the 19th century.The rare yellow marble was already highly appreciated during the time of Louis XIV and was therefore also used for inlays in furniture and furnishings. The design is after an 18th century model drawing published in a catalogue and mentioned in the Collection de Louis Marie Augustin d’Aumont de Rochebaron, 1782, and edited by Philippe-François Julliot fils and Alexandre Joseph Paillet.Note:A similar vase in yellow Sienna marble is held at the Louvre, Paris, Inv. no. 5183.

Half shelf of early collectable cine equipment to include 9.5mm projector with film, Yashica 8mm movie camera & rare 35mm newsreel films including some early footage of The Prince of Wales in America. Bell & Howell 8mm cine camera and old radio/projector valves/lamps etc

Late Victorian 3D steroscopic viewer complete with original Victorian, American, German & English picture slides including some rare WWI battle scenes

Dave Legeno beautifully rare, mounted piece featuring a photo display of Legeno during his career, a signed card and a name title. Professionally double mounted and well presented. Legeno was well known for his parts in the Harry Potter films, Rise of the Foot Soldier and Spooks. Approx size 16x12". Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)Nu assis à la chemise de tulle (Duthuit 465) Lithograph, 1925, on chine laid paper, signed and inscribed 'essai' in pencil, a rare proof aside from the edition of 50 (Duthuit records only one trial proof of this subject), the full sheet with deckle edges at top and below, in good condition, framedImage 368 x 270mm. (14 1/2 x 10 5/8in.); Sheet 561 x 376mm. (21 3/4 x 14 3/4in.)Footnotes:Without voluptuous pleasure, nothing existsHenri MatisseNowadays we associate Matisse with vibrancy and sensuality. No other works exemplifies these qualities better than his 'Odalisques' from the 1920s. Matisse fled Paris after the First World War and move to sunny Nice where he started depicting exotic-looking women in opulently decorated, interior settings. He met a young ballerina and musician called Henriette Darricarère who was to become her favourite model from 1920 to 1927 and the sitter for his famous Odalisque paintings for this decade. It is said that Matisse ''liked her natural dignity, the graceful way her head sat on her neck and, above all, the fact that her body caught the light like a sculpture''. In this beautiful lithograph, Henriette is elegantly sitting on a Persian carpet with her naked, curved silhouette resting against a striped wall. The erotic charge of this nude and portrait transcends pure lust, depicting a passion that is not just between two people but between Matisse and the very act of painting and drawing. Matisse keeps the same texture, lavish detail and patterned decorations in these lithographs of Odalisques than in his paintings of the same subject. Click for an instant shipping quoteThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)Le Chapeau Épinglé, 1ère Planche (Delteil; Stella 6) Drypoint, 1894-95, on laid paper, with watermark MBM, an extremely rare proof before steel-facing, printed with rich burr and subtle plate tone, the full sheet with a deckle edge at right, in good condition; together with a copy of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, L'Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié, Catalogue raisonné by Loys Delteil (2) Plate 116 x 82mm. (4 1/2 x 3 1/2in.); Sheet 353 x 225mm. (13 7/8 x 8 7/8in.)Footnotes:Le Chapeau Épinglé (The Pinned Hat) was a favourite subject for Renoir and he produced several versions in different media including pastel, oil, etching and lithography, one of which is offered in lot 8. The models were Berthe Morisot's daughter, Julie Manet and her cousin Jeanne Gobillard. Renoir had made a study of the girls whilst on holiday with Morisot's family which formed the basis for this image.This is an extremely rare drypoint of the subject, with rich burr and square corners to the plate, indicating an impression before steel-facing. Neither Delteil nor Stella were aware of any impressions before steel-facing. Stella refers to this image as an etching, presumably as he had only seen impressions printed after the plate was steel-faced for inclusion in various publications, such as Manet and the French Impressionists and Die Impressionisten by Théodore Duret. Prior to this impression appearing at auction, only impressions taken after the plate was steel-faced have come to the market. L'Institut d'histoire de l'art and La Bibliotèque nationale de France in Paris have an impression listed as a drypoint, though the drypoint is not as strong in comparison with this example.It is a wonderful example of the artist's command of the technique, creating the sfumato lines to give a soft, delicate quality to the subject. The composition showing the simple act of fixing a hat is crafted to draw the viewer in. There is a sense of mystery in the fact that Julie's face is obscured from view, focussing our attention on this small act, which highlights the friendship between the two girls and the expertise of the artist.Click for an instant shipping quoteFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Edgar Degas (1834-1917)Les Marlous Monotype, circa 1880, on wove paper, very rare, one of only two impressions printed, with the studio ink stamp ATELIER ED. DEGAS verso, with wide margins, in good conditionPlate 123 x 175mm. (4 3/4 x 6 3/4in.); Sheet 208 x 279mm. (8 1/8 x 11in.)Footnotes:ProvenanceThe artist's studio.Part of the fifth posthumous Atelier Degas sale, Galerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 22 and 23rd of November 1918 (lot 266).Gutekunst & Klipstein, 1954 (price £90), where acquired.Fritz Gross Collection, London.Bonhams, Prints & Multiples, London, 18 December 2018, lot 35.Private Collection. Acquired from the above sale.Click for an instant shipping quoteFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine and rare 17th century gentleman's embroidered linen night capEnglish, circa 1620the cream ground intricately worked in various decorative stitches and French knots with an elaborate design of chain interlocking scrolls, flowers, fruit, vegetables, birds and insects in coloured silks and couched silver and gold metallic threads, including 'Tudor' roses, thistles, carnations, articulated split pea pods revealing tiny peas, strawberries, songbirds and caterpillars and butterflies, 20cms high x 26cms wide (folded)Footnotes:ProvenanceAcquired by a lady collector from the Cambridge antiques trade sometime in the late 1950's or early 1960's. Thence by descent.In the opening year of 17th century it became fashionable for wealthy European men to wear elaborate informal indoor caps. One type that was particularly popular was the so-called night cap, although despite its name it was actually worn during the day.The caps performed two functions: firstly as fashionable indoor wear and secondly, but just importantly, as an effective insulation against the cold of unheated corridors and lesser domestic chambers. The reason this was so important was that men commonly worn wigs in public and to prevent irritation they shaved their heads so that the cap acted as a protective accessory. Some literature of the day on the subject of night caps even recommended stitching herbs into the cap to prevent illness.Usually dome-shaped with high crowns and tightly fitting brims in the early 17th century, they became looser as the century progressed until they were superseded by turbans and smoking caps in early 18th century.As needlework was an important part of the education and activities of a young lady in the 17th century, caps of this type became vehicles for showing off the virtuosity and craftsmanship of their makers.A night cap conforming to the fashion of the early 17th century and comparable to current lot is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dating to the first quarter of the 17th century, the cap has a tall crown made up of four quarters and is decorated with gold thread lace. Although made from silk, it is lined with linen and is embroidered in silk and metal threads with stylised plants, 'Tudor' roses and thistles as well as birds, butterflies and caterpillars.For a comparable gentleman's night cap sold at auction, see Christies, London, 3 December 2009, lot 4 and for a related lady's cap, see Bonhams, Knowle, 30th November 2009.Although using naturalistic motifs comparable to the caps mentioned above, the present lot has the addition of particularly charming articulated pea pods worked so that these pods can be pushed back to reveal tiny peas.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare late 17th century Jamaican colonial engraved tortoiseshell wig comb case containing two combsinscribed and dated 'Sarah Henly, Jamaica 1670' and possibly by Paul Bennett of Port Royalthe case of rectangular form, one side with a central panel depicting an indigenous tropical flower beneath the wording Sarah Henly within an undulating indigenous floral border, the reverse with a similar panel with wording 'JAMAICA 1670,' within a similar border, the case with one original silver clasp holding one double sided fine comb and one single sided coarse comb, each engraved with various indigenous flower heads and scrolling foliate motifs, 19.5cms high x 12.5cms wide x 0.6cms deepFootnotes:ProvenanceAcquired by a lady collector from the Cambridge antiques trade sometime in the late 1950's or early 1960's. Thence by descent.This wig comb case and combs closely relate to a small group of objects which are some of the earliest known surviving works of art reflecting European culture from Jamaica. After England's conquest of Jamaica from the Spanish colonists in 1655, Port Royal developed into a large city and the thriving commercial centre of Jamaica. However, this all came to an end when a massive earthquake devastated the city in 1692 and two thirds of the city was swept under the sea.The Institute of Jamaica has eleven of these combs, one large box with combs and one powder box. The first comb was purchased in London by members of the West India Committee in 1923. It was described by H.M.Cundall in The West India Committee Circular, (1923) as 'probably one of the earliest art objects in the British West Indies displaying European influence'. It was thought to have belonged to the Buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan who was lieutenant governor of Jamaica between 1674-1682. In 1676 Sir Henry wanted to send a present to Sir William Coventry and chose, 'two large turtle-shell combs in a case the same'.The flowers and foliage on the present lot represent some of the products of the Jamaican economy of that time. The two sizes of comb are usual, the narrow toothed comb is thought to have been for extracting lice and the wide tooth comb for wigs.Of the works in the Jamaican Institute's collection it is thought that they are from the hands of two craftsmen working between circa 1671-84 and 1688-1692 respectively. The current lot can be linked to the first group. Interestingly it bears the name Sarah Henly and is apparently dated 1670 - a year earlier than the previously recorded dated examples. Other known pieces in other collections again by this first maker include the Sir Cuthbert Grundy comb case, dated 1672, a round powder box lid and comb case in a private U.S collection dated 1677 and the 'Lady Smith' casket, which is considered to be the craftsman's masterpiece.Philip Hart in his article Tortoiseshell Comb Cases, for the Jamaica Journal, (November 1983) reveals that relatively recent research brought to light a possible candidate for a maker. Among the list of craftsmen and tradesmen in Port Royal before 1692 there appears the name Paul Bennett, the only recorded comb maker. It is therefore possible that Bennett was the maker of this first group and possibly his son, apprentice or assistant was the maker of the second group which this forms part.Another example possibly by Bennett is in the V & A collection (524 to B-1877). See also Sotheby's New York, Important English Furniture, 16th October 2009, lot 82 (realised $20,000 hammer) for another case and pair of combs dated 1688 which is engraved with the Jamaican coat of arms.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (British, 1812-1852): A rare silvered and gilt plated brass and copper three light candelabrumby John Hardman & Co., Birmingham, in the Gothic Revival style, circa 1840the twin spiral scrolling arms flanking a matching central stem supporting bulbous gadrooned drip pans with scalloped plain galleries centred by plain cylindrical candle nozzles, all issuing from a central decorative roundel with applied engraved shields bearing the assumed and unrecorded coat of arms for the Hardman family, on corresponding knopped gadrooned support and swept swirling gadrooned cusped circular base, 80cm high, 55cm wide, 24cm deep approximatelyFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Hardman Snr., made for John Hardman Jnr. (1812-1867), thence by descent.Neil Phillips, John Hardman Studio, Lightwoods House, Birmingham.With the Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London W1S 2JT - purchased by the present vendor, 21st February 2013 (INV 33052).LiteratureThe Journal of Design and Manufactures, II, 1849, p. 52.P. Atterbury & C. Wainwright (eds), Pugin - A Gothic Passion, Exhibition Catalogue, Victoria & Albert Museum 1994, pub. Yale University Press, p. 237, pl. 44. ExhibitedExhibition of Industrial Arts and Manufacturers, Birmingham, 3rd September to 15th December 1849.Arguably one of the most talented and prolific designers of the 19th century, A.W.N. Pugin was an architect, draughtsftsman and designer, antiquary and collector, and artist and critic. Today he is recognised as the trailblazing pioneer of the revival of the Gothic style in Great Britain with a modus operandi derived less from a mere aesthetic but more from exacting religious and moral principles. As the architect of numerous high-profile public and domestic ecclesiastical and secular building commissions in England, Ireland, and Australia, he was also responsible for their interiors and furnishings, collaborating with several individually chosen manufacturers on the design and production of furniture, ceramics, books, textiles, wallpapers, and as with the present lot, metalware. However, his defining commission for the interiors of the Palace of Westminster was ironically instigated via a competition for the commission made by the architect Sir Charles Barry who turned to Pugin for his assistance with the drawings for the proposal. Initially the young Pugin was paid £400 by Barry for assisting with preliminary drawings but as the construction of the Palace progressed, Barry began to rely more heavily on him for the design and execution of the interior furnishings and fittings which ranged from the wall panelling and colour schemes down to the metalwork including the lighting and the door furniture. Pugin's earliest ventures into designing for the medium of metalwork were in the mid 1820's when he met the goldsmith John Gawler Bridge of Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. However, as the company were known for their revivalist historical styles including Rococo and 'Romanticised Gothic', their output was never particularly authentic and consequently few, if any, of Pugin's designs were probably ever realised, despite the existence of archival evidence of sketches showing his involvement with the company. John Hardman & Co. and John Hardman JuniorIn 1835, Pugin's conversion to Catholicism finally provided him with an opportunity to design and produce more purist metalwork pieces whilst undertaking a commission for the seminary of St Mary's College, Oscott. It was at the seminary that Pugin most likely met John Hardman Junior who was a member of a prominent Roman Catholic metalwork manufacturing family, John Hardman & Co. in Birmingham. Hardman Junior and Pugin became close friends sharing a commitment to the revival of their religion and practice. Their subsequent collaboration was responsible for bringing to fruition the majority of Pugin's important designs for precious and base metalwork pieces.Although the pair concentrated on recreating archaeological metalware designs of cathedral and church furnishings, few resources existed documenting domestic metalware forms in the Medieval period. As Pugin had previously dismissed the random application of perceived period detail applied superficially as 'patterns of Brumagen gothic' he was not inclined to 'imagined' Medieval objects to fill a gap in the market. However, he and Hardman inventively produced vessels and lighting of a type that would naturally satisfy this gap. Although it is estimated that as much as 95% of the church and other metalwork supplied by John Hardman & Co were in base metals, most of it being in brass in conjunction with copper, nickel or 'German silver ,' the quality of the gilding and silvering was so good it was often apparently extremely difficult for the firms' patrons to establish if the piece was made in a precious metal, in a base one or constructed in both materials. As a result of increased orders, including those from Charles Barry for the Palace of Westminster (all in base metal) which continued throughout the 1840s, Hardman Junior, although a partner in his father's metalworking company subsequently set up his own firm to provide 'Ecclesiastical Ornaments' from 1838. Continued important commissions and the preparation for the Birmingham Exhibition in 1849 and 1851 Great Exhibition also kept the business at full capacity during this period.In 1849 John Hardman & Co. worked alongside Crace and Co. and Herbert Minton, all of whom collaborated with Pugin at the Birmingham Exhibition of Manufacturers which was held in September of that year where the present lot was shown. An engraved plate with the inscription '(Altar Plate manufactured by Hardman & Co.; Silk Hanging by Crace and Son, London)' shows the candelabrum as the centrepiece of the display and was illustrated in the 'The Journal of Design and Manufacturers, II, 1849, p. 52. Although apparently conceived as an altar candelabrum, its Hardman Family provenance combined with the inclusion of an engraved decorative device assumed to be the unrecorded coat of arms for the Hardmans, demonstrate that its use was almost certainly exclusively secular. The arms were most likely designed by Pugin, who had previously created similar undocumented devices more for aesthetic purposes than from any recognised principles governed by the College of Arms. Indeed this imagined heraldry can perhaps be viewed as a token of Pugin's gratitude and goodwill towards his patron John Hardman junior. A comparable secular candelabrum in gilt brass and cut crystal glass designed by Pugin for the House of Lords circa 1850 also by John Hardman & Co Birmingham was subsequently exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition. However the 1849 Birmingham exhibition itself was a precursor of the 1851 Great Exhibition organised by Henry Cole and Prince Albert, both of whom had praised the work of Pugin and his manufacturers at the exhibition, causing Pugin to comment 'Our exposition at Birmingham was very creditable, has attracted a deal of attention, and done much good'. However the 1851 London Exhibition, known as the ''Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations,'' held in Joseph Paxton's prefabricated 'Crystal Palace' was problematic for Pugin who was commissioned to design a Medieval Court due to his differences with the designer of such a modern glass and iron structure. Nevertheless, he worked har... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TPTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. 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