AN EXTREMELY RARE MYOCHIN-SCHOOL IRON SOMEN Japan, mid-Edo period (1615-1868) Forged in sections with a removable nose plate and expressively designed with deeply embossed furrowed eyebrows and deep wrinkles on the cheeks terminating in stylized “ear-shaped” flourishes at the corners of the mouth, the interior lacquered red. With an associated metal stand. HEIGHT incl. stand 35 cm, mask HEIGHT 26 cm WEIGHT (incl. stand) 1,208 g, WEIGHT (somen only) 668 g Condition: Very good condition with only little rust and normal surface wear, fine patina. Provenance: Czech private collection. Auction comparison: Compare with a related somen, with an attached yodarekake, sold by Bonhams, Fine Japanese and Korean Art including Property from the Collection of Drs Edmund and Julie Lewis, 22 July 2020, New York, lot 1111 (sold for 17,575 USD).
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NOGAWA: A RARE BRONZE ‘DRAGON’ BOWL By the Nogawa Company, with company mark. Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) The bowl of compressed globular form, applied on the exterior with a large, sinuously coiled dragon and with an openwork base in the form of crashing waves. Nogawa Company mark to base. DIAMETER 25 cm, HEIGHT 13.4 cm Condition: Excellent condition with minor traces of wear, few small nicks here and there. Provenance: German private collection.
A RARE AND UNUSUAL LACQUERED WOOD EXPORT CIGAR DISPENSER Japan, late 19th century Of octagonal shape, carved from several separate pieces attached together in the form of a pagoda on four feet with a turned revolving finial and four revolving doors lacquered in red and gold takamaki-e with Tekkai Sennin exhaling his anima, Shaen reading a book under a firefly lamp, Chinnan Sennin floating over waves on a large sedge hat, and Urashima Taro on the back of a turtle, all on a black ground. The backs of the doors with brass and wood fittings for three cigars and decorated with gold takamaki-e of butterflies and flowers on a nashiji ground. The rest of the body and pedestal decorated with floral sprays, blossoming branches, and birds, with one drawer, probably for matches, with nashiji on the interior. Gilt metal fittings to the drawer as well as the corners and edges. Cigar dispensers such as this one were popular in Europe during the 19th century but as cigar smoking was much rarer in Japan during this time, it is very likely that this piece was made for export. HEIGHT 38.5 cm Condition: Very good condition with minor wear to the lacquer and metal mountings, expected surface wear, one metal fitting missing. Provenance: German private collection.
A LARGE AND COMPLETE GILT-LACQUERED WOOD STATUE OF KANNON BOSATSU Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) The Goddess of Mercy seated in padmasana on a double lotus base supported by a hexagonal throne, a cloudy kohai (nimbus) towering above her with a miniature Amida (the characteristic attribute of Kannon, which is usually found on her crown) at the top. The right hand is raised in the semui-in (abhaya mudra, gesture of reassurance) and the other hand holds a lotus bud. Her expression radiates with compassion and wisdom. A particularly impressive detail is the gilt-metal tiara with its hanging ornaments which are almost always lost and therefore very rare. HEIGHT 81 cm (total), HEIGHT 34 cm (the figure) Condition: Wear, abrasions to the gilt, traces of weathering, losses, structural cracks, overall good condition commensurate with age. Provenance: Czech private collection.
A RARE METAL AND IVORY ‘DOUBLE-BOX’ Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) The heavy metal box of patinated copper on the outside and of silver on the inside. The lid is inlaid with two ivory plaques, one of hexagonal and the other of circular shape, depicting a temple scene with a temple servant wearing geta and shielding himself from the rain with an umbrella on one side and the other with a temple lantern beneath the full moon. LENGTH 11.2 cm WEIGHT 398.6 g Condition: Excellent condition, the metal with some surface wear. Provenance: British collection.
Of Royal Interest: A rare Henry VII pewter dish, circa 1500The plain rim struck with a crowned ostrich-feather, the well with raised boss, a maker's mark in the form of a bell struck to rear centre (PS10611), possibly the mark of William Husthwaite, 10¼in diameterFootnotes:Provenance:This plate is one of a hoard of around twenty excavated in 1899 near Guy's Hospital, London. Presently eighteen of these plates are recorded, with only six remaining in private hands, with the balance in various British Museums. Literature:See Journal of The Pewter Society Autumn 2007. Vo. 27, pp. 7-16. This plate is listed as G17, p. 9.See also Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries (1899-1901), Vol. XV111, pp. 114-5, where it is suggested the crowned feather mark could be a royal badge. And, H.J.L.J. Masse, Pewter Plate (1910), p. 173, where it is specifically suggests the 'housemark' belonged to Prince Arthur (1486-1502), eldest son of Henry VII and brother of Henry VIII. It does appear plausible that a group of plates unearthed at the end of the 19th century may have been part of a larger Royal garnish for use at Kennington Palace, the main residence of the Duchy of Cornwall (Arthur was made Duke of Cornwall at birth) and where Catherine of Aragon stayed the night before her wedding to Arthur in 1501, as Kennington Palace was approximately a mile and a half from Guy's hospital.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare and documented boarded oak box, probably Northern German, circa 1600The lid carved to its centre with a gentleman wearing a wig, a doublet and cape, encircled by a laurel-carved wreath, against a scroll-edged cartouche, the front board with a pair of half-length portraits of a man and his wife, with high collars, both within a strapwork, scroll-edged frame, a bunch of pendant fruits beneath the shield-shaped iron lockplate, the ends carved with further bunches of fruit between foliated scrolls, articulated iron bale handle to lid, 42cm wide x 31cm deep x 17.5cm high, (16 1/2in wide x 12in deep x 6 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance: William Smedley-Aston Collection, The Yew Trees, Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. The Hella Bunch Collection.The William Stokes Collection.Illustrated:H. Cescinsky & E. R. Gribble, Early English Furniture & Woodwork (1922) Vol. II, p. 40, Fig. 44, and in the text p. 31, where it is described as 'a fine ruffle or lace-box' and dated to the mid-16th century. The metalwork, in particular the iron lockplate nailed to an uncarved piece of the front board of the same shape and incorporated into the board's design, as well as the handle mounted to the lid, suggest that this box is from Continental Europe.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare late 17th century cast brass socket chamberstick, with porringer-type handle, English, circa 1700, with (indistinct) maker's mark and triad of ownership initialsThe pan with flared rim and single handle, pierced with a trefoil and centred by a shield bearing the initials 'WMT' around an indistinct circular maker's mark, the socket with central rib, on a short stem, 10cm pan diameter x 16cm wide x 5.5cm highFootnotes:Literature:Compare a similar example, C. Bangs, The Lear Collection (1995), No. 182 and p. 184, sold Christie's, 15 December 1998, Lot 139 also marked with various sets of initials but, apparently, no maker's mark.Two chambersticks with porringer-type handles are recorded bearing the mark 'CA' within a lozenge, but the very worn mark to this example is circular, and there is very faint evidence that the circle is bordered with small 'pellets'. It was possibly made by the maker whose mark was a 'cross with pellets' in a circle, who stamped other late 17th century brass wares like skimmers, ladles and slices. R. & V. Butler, A Study Collection of Marked Domestic Brass and Other Base Metalware, c. 1600-c. 1900 (2001), p. 101, illustrates a chamberstick with more typical flat handle struck with a version of this mark.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare and possibly unique Charles II pewter wrigglework slip-top spoon, circa 1660The flattened-hexagonal handle with stamped ownership initials 'I E' to the end, the oval-shaped bowl decorated with a charming naïve geometric design and the stamped maker's mark of 'I D'(?), 15.8cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Peter Hornsby's Private Collection.David Little Collection. Sold Christie's, King Street, London, May 2007, Lot 139. The sale catalogue notes 'this is the only known wrigglework pewter spoon'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Henry VII pewter diamond point spoon, circa 1500With slender flattened-hexagonal stem and fig-shaped bowl, apparently unmarked, 16cm longFootnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Peter Hornsby, Witney, Oxfordshire. Reputedly excavated in London.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare and fine joined oak coffer, circa 1520With an impressive single-panelled lid, the front with four linenfold carved panels, the broad stiles (reminiscent of a clamp chest) and the muntin rail occuli and lancet tracery-carved, the interior lidded till with a 'secret' false base compartment, twin-panelled sides, the panelled back with dust-chamfers, 55.5cm wide x 44cm deep x 36.5cm high, (21 1/2in wide x 17in deep x 14in high)Footnotes:Red-painted inventory number 19.1960.2 to one side top rail.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Henry VIII broad rim plate, circa 1540The particularly broad rim struck with the touchmark of Thomas Curtis, London (fl.1520-1559), (PS60), with very gentle booge and shallow boss, fillet to the outer edge of the rear rim, 21.7cm, 8¼in diameterFootnotes:Provenance:Part of the cargo recovered from a shipwreck just off Punta Cana, the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic, circa 2011. With associated labels to rear.Similar wares have also been uncovered from the Mary Rose shipwreck, Portsmouth.Although Thomas Curtis is the most likely maker of this rare plate there are two other possible pewterers, namely Thomas Chamberlayn (fl.1500-40), (PS1605) and Thomas Clarke (fl.1543-1550).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A good and rare iron chimney crane, with two movements, dated 1800Decorated with a pair of hounds chasing a fox, and with the initials 'RB' and the date '1800', scrolls, twist-work and a leaf, 108cm wide x 95cm highFootnotes:See another similar (albeit neither dated nor decorated with a fox and hounds) in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum (12-1894).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare George III ash, oak, elm and fruitwood-inlaid tripod occasional table, Welsh, circa 1780The near-circular tilt-top inlaid with arrow-heads to the four cardinal points, hearts to the ordinal directions and a large broken-stellar motif formed of lozenges to the centre, on an elm baluster-turned pillar and three downswept legs with shaped pad terminals, 64cm wide x 61.5cm deep x 64cm high, (25in wide x 24in deep x 25in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Key Antiques, Danny Robinson, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, September 1997.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare 16th century walnut and parcel-gilt cassone, Italian, circa 1570Of sarcophagus form, the front modelled in high relief, worked in figural narrative and centred by winged cherubs supporting a vacant cartouche, the sides carved with sea-horses, with bold figural carved front corners, on paw feet, an interior lidded till and vacant drawer apertures to each end, on paw-carved splayed feet, 186cm wide x 66cm deep x 71.5cm high, (73in wide x 25 1/2in deep x 28in high)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Charles I joined oak box-top livery cupboard, Yorkshire, circa 1640The hinged boarded top enclosing a deep well, the interlaced fleur-de-lys carved top rail centred by a three-bar lock, the central panelled door below with matching carved slender upper panel, and flanked by two plain panels, double-panelled sides, on extended stile supports, 121.5cm wide x 35cm deep x 103cm high, (47 1/2in wide x 13 1/2in deep x 40 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:According to two paper labels to the rear of the cupboard it was formerly in the collection of Sir Frederick Acclom Milbank (1820-1898), Bart., M.P., Barningham Park, Barningham, Richmond, Yorkshire. Barningham Park is now in County Durham.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An extraordinarily rare Elizabeth I joined walnut open armchair, Herefordshire/Welsh Borders, circa 1590Of bold design and deeply carved, having a tall half-round carved cresting with tight-scrolls to the top edge, atop a panel designed with a geometric filled and flanked arch, a null-carved lower back rail, the uprights carved with stylized male and female figures, and with full-length carved-scroll 'wings', the angular and scroll-ended open arms on baluster and reel-turned front supports, boarded seat, and null-carved seat rails, on columnar-turned front legs, joined by pyramidal-boss carved stretchers, 68cm wide x 56cm deep x 115.5cm high, (26 1/2in wide x 22in deep x 45in high)Footnotes:A related chair, dated 1624, from a private collection in the Vale of Neath, West Glamorgan, sold Bonhams, New Bond Street, 'The Olive Collection', 31 January 2019, Lot 136 (£14,300). A further example, also with a scroll-edged arched cresting is in The Burrell Collection, Glasgow, (item no. 14.70) and illustrated Tobias Jellinek, Early British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 84, pl. 76. Michael Dann The English Smile (2005) pp. 123-127, item 21, illustrates a further chair with similar cresting and null-carved rails, dated to 1550-60 and described as English.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Charles I oak joint stool, circa 1630Having a relatively rare square-edged top, bicuspid-shaped and run-moulded rails, on inverted-baluster over ball-turned legs, joined all round by plain stretchers, 51cm wide x 28.5cm deep x 54.5cm high, (20in wide x 11in deep x 21in high)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A George I walnut-veneered toilet mirror, circa 1725Having a rare two-tier serpentine shaped base, fitted with four drawers, the mirror-plate within a flattened ogee-arched frame, on swivel-action screws connected to final topped uprights, bun feet, 38cm wide x 19cm deep x 63cm high, (14 1/2in wide x 7in deep x 24 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Lucy Johnson, Belgravia, London, February 1988.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare and documented pair of Charles II joined oak forms or benches, circa 1674Each having a single-board top with square-rounded edge and applied under-edge moulding, the plain rails with applied lower edge moulding, on eight elegant baluster-turned legs, joined by capped stretchers all round, on turned feet, 315.5cm wide x 27.5cm deep x 56cm high, (124in wide x 10 1/2in deep x 22in high) (2)Footnotes:Provenance:The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, usually known as the Stationers' Company, London. Formed in 1403 and received a royal charter in 1557.An identical bench, but slightly shorter with six-legs, in the Stationers' Company Collection bears a brass label reading 'This bench was one of those supplied in 1674 by Mr. Coffen for use with the refectory tables, also still in the hall'. The Stationers' Company has occupied halls on three sites in the course of its History. In 1606 it moved to its present location when it purchased Abergavenny House from the widow of the Earl of Pembroke, and in 1611 it acquired the freehold. It was burnt down in the Great Fire of London of 1666 and replaced by the present hall on the same site between 1670 and 1673. The beautiful wooden screen on the south side is the work of Henry Ford – who charged the company £732 for woodwork (excluding the panelling) who may also have made the tables and benches still in use. The wainscoting was finished two years later by Stephen Colledge, known as the Protestant joiner on account of an anti-royalist pamphlet for which he was hanged at Oxford in 1681. 'Mr Coffen' has not been identified. The benches are shown furnishing Stationers' Hall in a lithograph by Thomas Robert Way (1861-1913) printed in Philip Norman's The Ancient Halls of the City Guilds (1901). One of the tables is illustrated in F. Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time (1893).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare mid-16th century oak boarded bench or form, English, circa 1550Having a single-piece top with reeded-edge, ornate scroll-profiled shallow aprons, on shaped end-supports with cut-away base, 186cm wide x 28cm deep x 52cm high, (73in wide x 11in deep x 20in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Reputedly from an alms house, Taunton, Somerset.Literature:Illustrated Tobias Jellinek, British Chairs and Seats 1500 to 1700 (2009), p. 192, pl. 231. The author notes this fine bench 'has a rich dark colour and deep patina, which is unusual for early boarded benches, and indeed very early furniture in general'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Plantagenet/Tudor pewter dish, circa 1400-1500Having a distinctive triangular fillet to the edge of the narrow rim, a gentle booge and boss, with the latter decorated with a naïve lattice, and with at least five pentagrams scratched to the rear, apparently unmarked, diameter 20cm, height 3cm.Footnotes:Literature:See The Journal of the Pewter Society, 'Pewter in the British Museum', Ron Homer, Autumn 1988, Vol.6, No.4 and A. North, 'Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum' (1999), p.60, fig.22, for English bowls with a triangular fillet to the edge of the rim dated to between 1400 and 1500.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare 16th century walnut centre table, ItalianHaving an impressive thick top formed from two boards, above a pair of mitre-moulded frieze drawers, solid vase-profiled end-supports, joined by a square-baluster shaped mid-stretcher, on shaped sledge supports, 133.2cm wide x 81cm deep x 74cm high, (52in wide x 31 1/2in deep x 29in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Former Carlo de Carlo Collection, Palazzo Magnani Feroni, Florence, Italy. Sold 18th October 2000.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare late 15th/early 16th century carved oak mount, East Anglia, English, circa 1500Modelled with curling hair and wearing flowing robes cinched at the waist, and holding a banner terminating in a scroll at either end, 16.5cm wide x 6cm deep x 34.5cm high, (6in wide x 2in deep x 13 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Dr David Spencer Collection. Sold Holloways, Banbury, Oxfordshire. 18th November 1986.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare late 15th/early 16th century carved oak mount, East Anglia, English, circa 1500Modelled with curling hair and wearing flowing robes cinched at the waist, and holding a banner terminating in a scroll at either end, 15cm wide x 6cm deep x 36cm high, (5 1/2in wide x 2in deep x 14in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Dr David Spencer Collection. Sold Holloways, Banbury, Oxfordshire. 18th November 1986.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Charles II pewter candlestick, circa 1675Having a broad circular detachable sconce, a baluster-knop stem, and low circular drip tray, on an octagonal-shaped trumpet base, maker's mark of 'S B', (PS1365) to underside, 22cm high x 15.8cm wideFootnotes:The maker's initials 'S B' may refer to Samuel Booth, York (fl.1671-1679), (PS809).A virtually identical pair of candlesticks, without the sconce, by the same maker, are in The Worshipful Company of Pewterers collection and illustrated, A Short History of The Worshipful Company of Pewterers of London and a Catalogue of Pewterware in its Possession (1968), p. 71, nos. 402 & 403.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Medieval pewter spice plate, probably EnglishThe relatively broad rim with flared lip, steep booge and shallow 'boss', fine concentric line decoration, 5in diameterFootnotes:Reputed to have been excavated in the West Country and found alongside Norman coins.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare, fine and large Charles I leaded bronze mortar, dated 1638, made for Margaret Baldocke, Grocer, by John Palmar [or Palmer] of Canterbury, Kent (fl. 1621 in Gloucestershire, fl. c. 1636 - 1656 in Canterbury)An inscription beneath the rim reading, 'IOHN PALMAR MADE MEE FOR MARGRET BALDOCKE 1638', the words and the date spaced by vacant lozenge stops, the remainder of this band cast with highly stylised flowers and a portcullis, the waist with a broad cast band of alternating roses and flowers amidst foliage centred by a portcullis, with two cord mouldings above the waist, and four below, 32cm rim diameter x 23.5cm high (12 5/8in rim diameter x 9 1/4in high)Footnotes:Provenance: In 1887, noted by J. C. L. Stahlschmidt, author of The Church Bells of Kent, that this mortar was then in a grocer's shop in Canterbury, and thought to be a bell, 'its crown staple having been chipped or filed of'.Ex-Arthur G. Hemming Collection.Sold Christie's, 12th November 2003, The Collection of Robert Spalding, Lot 467.Sold Bonhams, these rooms, 21 January 2015, Lot 65, The Collection of Roger Rosewell FSA, Yelford Manor, Oxfordshire. Illustrated:- A. G. Hemming, 'Dated English Bell-Metal Mortars', Connoisseur (March, 1929), 165, No. VIII.- P. Hornsby, Collecting Antique Copper & Brass (1989), p. 14, Figure 5.- M. Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars & their Makers (2010), p. 49, Figure 58, where it is noted that only one other mortar by this maker is known at present.Margaret Baldocke married at least three times. She was born Margaret Bruxbie [or Bruxby, Brookesby, Brouxby] c. 1612, the daughter of John Bruxbie, tailor, of All Saint's, Canterbury. In 1632, she married William Turner (born c. 1608), grocer, at Chilham, Kent. William Turner dying very shortly after their wedding, Margaret Turner née Bruxbie then married again. The marriage licence for this second marriage in 1633 reads as follows:'Baldock, Robert of All Saints', Canterbury, grocer, widower and Margaret Turner, of the same place, widow of William Turner late of St. Andrew's, Canterbury, deceased, at All Saint's'.Robert Baldocke had been apprenticed in 1628 to Walter Southwell, a surgeon, apothecary and Mayor of Canterbury in 1634. A daughter called Mirian was born to them in January 1636. Robert Baldocke died in 1638, and was buried in June, the year that this mortar was made. It is likely that Margaret, his widow, took over their business, as many early modern women are known to have done, and commissioned this mortar for her use.Now 26 and having been widowed twice, Margaret married again. The marriage licence for her third marriage in September 1639 reads:'Edward Pullen, the Younger, of Chadwell in Essex, mercer, bachelor, 21 and upwards, son of Edward Pullen the Elder of the same place, innholder who consents, as is testified by John Bruxbie of Boughton Blean, tailor, and Margaret Baldock of Boughton Blean, widow of Robert Baldocke, late of Canterbury deceased.'In 1642, Edward Pullen stood as bondsman for a wedding - Margaret's father's wedding, as it happens - and is described in the records as a grocer of Canterbury, so apparently established himself in business alongside his third wife.What happens thereafter to Margaret Pullen alias Baldocke, alias Turner, née Bruxbie, is as yet undiscovered. Several Pullen children are born in Boughton Blean - where Margaret may have inherited property from her second husband - and her third husband was still alive in 1642. No record of her death, or of a fourth marriage, has been found.Mortars cast with a woman's full name, and only with a woman's full name, are rare. Conventionally, a woman's name appears alongside and following her husband's. Michael Finlay's 'Checklist of English Dated Mortars 1308- 1979' (Finlay, Decorated Mortars, pp. 169 - 198) includes over four-hundred dated mortars known to the author in 2010. Only three of them - including Margaret Baldocke's mortar - are inscribed with a woman's name alone.John Palmar probably started his career in Gloucester but was established in Canterbury by 1638. Whilst a posnet by him is recorded, as well as a number of skillets, only one other mortar made by him is at present known, and it was made in 1621 during his time in Gloucester. This mortar, made for Margaret Baldocke, is the only surviving mortar cast by him at Canterbury. See, ibid., pp. 49 - 50.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare and small oak-framed and upholstered sofa, English, circa 1725-35The cartouche-shaped back having a wide channel-moulded and scroll-shaped frame, decorated with carved flowerheads and centred by a bold 'scallop-shell' cresting, with drop-in padded back, and hipped and downswept scroll-ended open arms, stuff-over seat, on ball and faceted tapering front legs, joined by a wavy-profile and chamfered X-form stretcher centred by a finial, upholstered in olive-green silk velvet, repairs, 124cm wide x 54cm deep x 134cm high, (48 1/2in wide x 21in deep x 52 1/2in high)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Elizabeth I tapestry long cushion cover, circa 1580Woven in coloured wools and silks, depicting the Return of the Prodigal Son, the figures within lush gardens surrounded by fountains, flowers and fruit trees beneath decorative arches, the spandrels with cherubs, warp fringe, framed and glazed, 39cm x 67cmFootnotes:For comparable examples see Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, accession no. T.1-1953, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession nos. 54.7.6 and 54.7.7. Literature:For a comprehensive discussion of the challenges around attempting to attribute English tapestry to individual workshops see Hilary L. Turner, Tapestries once at Chastleton House and their influence on the image of the tapestries called Sheldon: a re-assessment, Antiquaries Journal, 2008, Vol. 88 pp. 313-343. See also Hilary L. Turner, Tapestry sections depicting the Prodigal Son: how safe is an attribution to Mr Sheldon's tapestry venture at Barcheston?, Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series, XXXVII, 2008, pp.183-196.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Elizabeth I joined oak low centre table, circa 1600The boarded top having a square and linear incised edge, on addorsed baluster-turned legs centred by a prominent ring-turning, joined all round by narrow edge-moulded stretchers, with tall lower leg blocks, 72cm wide x 41.5cm deep x 60cm high, (28in wide x 16in deep x 23 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from William H. Stokes, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, April 1997.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Charles I joined oak box-stool, circa 1640Having a one-piece ovolo-moulded hinged top, and carved leafy-filled lunettes unusually to all sides, on inverted-baluster turned legs, joined by plain stretchers all round, 48.7cm wide x 36.7cm deep x 47.5cm high, (19in wide x 14in deep x 18 1/2in high)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A particularly small, rare and documented Charles II joined oak 'press cupboard', English, circa 1660With rare full-name inventory mark.Having a boarded top with applied moulded edge, a dentil-moulded, corbel and boss embellished frieze, on baluster-turned end-columns, enclosing a pair of mitre-moulded cupboard doors, centred by an arcaded panel, atop a pair of matching doors, enclosing two short over two long drawers, further pyramidal and oval boss appliques throughout, on extended stile supports, the name 'G:TAYLOR' branded on a side-rail, 113cm wide x 52.5cm deep x 118.5cm high, (44in wide x 20 1/2in deep x 46 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:With Neptune Antiques, Ipswich, Suffolk.Illustrated:Victor Chinnery, Oak Furniture, The British Tradition (2016), p. 396, fig. 4:48 and a photograph of the full-name inventory mark, p. 42, fig. 2:14.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Charles II pewter candlestick, circa 1680With ribbed pillar stem, octagonal flange, drip-tray and trumpet base, the base also cast with a floral border, apparently unmarked, 7⅝in, 19.4cm highFootnotes:Provenance:The Price Glover Collection, New York.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Charles II oak joint stool, circa 1670Having an ovolo-moulded top, lower edge-moulded rails, and rare fully ball-turned legs, joined all round by plain stretchers, turned feet, 46cm wide x 28cm deep x 57cm high, (18in wide x 11in deep x 22in high)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Charles I joined oak and boarded spindle-filled mural livery cupboard, Devon, circa 1640Having a frieze with applied corbels and split turned mouldings, a pair of doors fitted with four-spindles above a narrow panel, all within meandering stylized leaf-carved rails, and flanked by columnar-turned pilasters, a small cupboard below accessed by a central door with pyramidal boss, flanked by fixed panels and turned split mouldings, 90cm wide x 24cm deep x 77cm high, (35in wide x 9in deep x 30in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Key Antiques, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, May 2003.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Charles I boarded oak and elm glass case, circa 1640Having a diagonal dentil-moulded cornice, and a bold tulip and scrolling-leaf carved double-arcaded frieze, above two open shelves, with applied floral-carved front rails and sides, 88.5cm wide x 18cm deep x 68cm high, (34 1/2in wide x 7in deep x 26 1/2in high)Footnotes:Provenance:Purchased from Avon Antiques Ltd., Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, August 1997. Noted on the receipt from 'Glamorgan'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare George II oak and inlaid chest of drawers, dated 1731The impressive single-piece top inlaid with the date '1731', with individual numbers within a line-inlaid roundel positioned to each corner, and centred by the initials 'E G' in a larger roundel, having two short and three long graduated drawers, all with line inlay, the sides also with arched linear decoration, on bracket feet, 95cm wide x 56cm deep x 92.5cm high, (37in wide x 22in deep x 36in high)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A ROYAL WHITE STAG SHOULDER MOUNTEARLY 21ST CENTURYA very rare example of a 13 point White Stag. White stags were the Heraldic Symbol of King Richard II referred to as the Unicorn of the deer world. This beast died in a battle during the rut at Aynhoe 2019130cm high, 90cm wide Condition Report: Stag in good order overall. Some minor losses to fur in places. Some possible 'touching in' to nose/mouse area. Condition Report Disclaimer
λ GEORGES CSATÓ (HUNGARIAN 1910-1983)UNTITLED (NO. 67)Oil and acrylic on canvas, in six partsThree signed, each with atelier stamps and variously inscribedEach 120 x 60cm (47 x 23½ in.)Overall 120 x 360cm (47 x 142 in.) (6)Provenance:Direct from the artist's estate Georges Csató was born in Budapest in 1910. After completing classical art studies in Vienna, in the 1930s he headed to Berlin to continue his training and was fortunate to have met and studied with a number of the most influential artists of the day, including Alexander Archipenko, Käthe Kollwitz, Karl Hofer, Paul Klee and Lionel Feininger.The artist later wrote of this time 'I was a realist painter to begin with because in Berlin in 1932 abstract art was very, very rare, though I received some lessons in abstract composition from Klee. And then the war came and disrupted everything.'With the rise of Nazism, Csató escaped Germany to Prague where he studied under Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Thiele. But the onset of war, saw him captured by the Russians and put into a labour camp. Whilst there he painted portraits of his captors. A particularly compelling diary entry of the period tells of an extraordinary encounter: 'A commanding officer told me that I had to paint the most important portrait that I had ever done in my life. They blindfolded me and put me in an army car. We drove at high speed for about an hour until we arrived at a little peasant house where I was searched. They took me into a room where an old man was sitting behind a huge table. It was Stalin! While I was sketching him he never spoke a single word, he just sat there chain smoking. The only movement he made was to push a bottle of Vodka and a packet of cigarettes across the table to me.'After the war, Csató retuned to Budapest but Hungary fell under Stalinist rule with abstract painting strictly prohibited and he fled to Paris as a refugee where he remained for the rest of his life.Csató's bold expressive style was well received in Paris and Jean Cocteau organised his first exhibition at Librairie Paul Morihien in 1948. He became a popular figure in the Parisian avant-garde scene and went on to participate in a number of the radical salons such as the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles and the Salon des Comparaisons. He exhibited widely in Paris and by the 1970's he had also achieved international acclaim, exhibiting successfully in London, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Bonn, and Canada. Notable exhibitions include Galerie Silvagni, Paris, 1951; Hanover Gallery, London 1953; Gallerie de Berri, Paris 1954; Galerie Furstenberg, Paris 1956; Galerie Mariac, Paris 1959; Gallerie di Meo, Paris 1959; Santes Landweer, Amsterdam 1967; Walton Gallery, London 1970; Chastenet Gallery, London 1979; Salon D'Automme, Paris 1979; Arcadia Gallery, Paris 1981 & 1982; Gallerie L'Obsidienne, Paris 1986.The artist's work is now represented in several major public collections including Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale, Marseille; Museum of Modern Art, Bogota, Columbia; Mendel Art Gallery, Canada.During his lifetime Csato painted many well known figures from life including Bela Bartok, Karen Blixen, Winston Churchill, Colette, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Charles de Gaulle, David Ben-Gurion, Ernest Hemingway, J F Kennedy, Pablo Picasso, Bertrand Russell, Albert Schweitzer as well as Joseph Stalin.Condition Report: Three of the canvases are slightly uneven on the stretchers. They all appear to be in good original condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Roberts (James). The Sportsman's Pocket Companion: Being a Striking Likeness or Portraiture of the most Eminent Race Horses and Stallions that ever were in this Kingdom. Represented in Variety of Attitudes. To which is added, their Genuine Complete, but Concise Pedigrees and Performances [...], 1st edition, [London]: published and sold by Henry Roberts [...] and most of the book selllers in Great Britain and Ireland, c.1760, engraved throughout, 42 leaves including title-page, list of contents and 40 plates each containing a depiction of a named racehorse at head, descriptive text and vignette tailpiece, contemporary manuscript foliation to plates, toning, a little finger-soiling, ink annotation to foot of title-page, staining to plates 17-19, a couple of plates partially hand-coloured, a few other spots and marks, bookplate (phoenix rising from coronet), spot-marbled endpapers, contemporary mottled calf, a little wear to head of spine and to tips, head of front joint cracking, 8voQty: (1)NOTESESTC N23610; Huth p. 38. Very rare: ESTC traces one copy only, at the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware. There was another issue, with the imprint 'for R. & R. Baldwin', likewise represented by a single institutional copy on ESTC (Transylvania University, Kentucky). The title as provided by Huth, shortened to The Sportsman's Companion, appears to belong to the 1820 reprint by James Barker.
* Darell (Sir Harry Francis Colville). [China, India, Cape of Good Hope and Vicinity. A Series of Thirteen Treble-Tinted Views from Sketches by Lieut.-Col. Sir Harry Darell, Bart., 7th Dragoon Guards], 1st edition, [London: Day & Son, 1852], 13 tinted lithographs on wove paper with additional hand-colouring (including white body-colour), each separately mounted, framed and glazed, framer's pencil annotations to margins (concealed by mounts), pin-holes to corners of images, 'Gateway of Aurungzebe's Daughter's Tomb, at Aurungabad' with damp-stain to lower margin, 'Interior Soupah, Deccan' with repair to lower margin, glass on one print ('Temple and Ruined Fort of Soupah, Deccan') cracked, sheet sizes 55.6 x 36 cm, mount apertures 42.2 x 28.2 cm and reverseQty: (13)NOTESMendelssohn I pp. 414-15; not in Abbey. These thirteen prints were issued bound and with two text-leaves including a title-page and perhaps a list of plates, but no other text. The work is rare: three copies traced in libraries world-wide (one at the British Library and two at the V&A); one other copy has appeared at auction in the last 50 years. ‘Sir Harry Darell served with the 18th Royal Irish on the China Expedition, as aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Burrell, and was present at the first taking of Chusan (medal). He served also with the 7th Dragoon Guards against the insurgent Boers in South Africa in 1845; also during the whole of the Kaffir war of 1846-7, and commanded the squadron of his regiment at the Gwanga, on the 8th June, 1846, and received two severe wounds in the charge an attack, and his charger wounded in five places’ (The New Army List, No. XLI, 1849, p. 27 n. 3). The prints comprise: 1. Taking of the Island of Chusan by the British, July 5th, 1840. 2. Small Indian Temple. 3. Gateway of Aurungzebe's Daughter's Tomb, at Aurungabad. 4. Parell, the Government House, Bombay. 5. The Caves of Elephanta. Exterior. 6. Interior of the Caves of Elephanta. 7. Hindo Temple, Ellora. 8. Temple and Ruined Fort of Soupah, Deccan. 9. Interior Soupah, Deccan. 10. Charge on the Gwanga, Cape of Good Hope, on the 8th June, 1848. 11. Interview between Col. Hare, Lieut. Governor, and the Caffir Chiefs, at Block Drift. 12. The Troops Crossing the Great Fish River in Pursuit of Cafirs and Cattle, Cape of Good Hope 13. Run with the 7th Dragoon Fox Hounds in Caffir Land, Cape of Good Hope. Although 'The Troops Crossing the Great Fish River' has the imprint of Ackermann in addition to that of Day & Son it is original to the work.
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* Poland. Braun (Georg & Hogenberg Franz). Cracovia Metropolis Regni Poloniae, Cologne, [1617 or later], hand coloured large engraved city panorama on two conjoined sheets, old folds, slight creasing, 360 x 1050 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESA rare prospect of Krakow, less common than most of the other plans in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' because it only appeared in the sixth and last volume and its size and the fact that it was folded predicated against it surviving in good condition. It shows the city from the west, with the neighbouring towns of Kazimierz & Kleparz. Their names are given on banners in the sky alongside their armorials. It is possible that the scene in the foreground represents the entry of the Polish king accompanied by knights and ecclesiastical dignitaries. The banderole celebrating Cracow as the royal residence would seem to confirm this, however, Georg Braun was ill-informed, for Cracow had been replaced as the capital by Warsaw under Sigismund III between 1596 and 1611 (Taschen).
* Poland. D'Avignon (Francais Ferdinand), Plan des Environs de Kalisz levé sous les ordres du Capitaine en Second de l'Etat, Major Bergenstrole, Paris, circa 1835, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, sectionalised and laid on linen, title repeated in Cyrillic, slight staining and dust soiling, 800 x 855 mm, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESRare. We have located only one other copy held in the library at ULB Saschen Anhalt.
* Poland. Gastaldi (G.), Il Disegno de Geografia Moderna del Regno di Polonia, e Parte del Ducado di Moscovia, con parte della Scandia, e parte de Suevia, con molte Regioni, in quelli. Et la Provincia de Ustinga e quella di Severa in sino al Mare Maggiore, Venice, 1562, large uncoloured map on two conjoined sheets, right-hand vertical border skillfully re-margined, overall size 750 x 525 mm, mounted, framed and glazedQty: (1)NOTESThe first edition (the 2nd published in 1568) of a rare and early map of Poland, including Ukraine, the Crimea and the Baltic. It is regarded as the earliest Lafreri map to illustrate the Kingdom of Poland.
Horsburgh (James). India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, Brazil and the Interjacent Ports, compiled chiefly from Original Journals at the East India House, and from Observations and Remarks made during Twenty-One Years Experience navigating in those Seas, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, London: for the author, 1817, bound with: Supplement to the India Sailing Directory; or a Description of New Discoveries and Dangers, with Corresponding Remarks and Additional Instructions for the Oriental Navigation, 1st edition, London: for the author, 1818, signatures pi4 B-3L4 (3L4=blank) chi1, pi4 b-d4 B-3Y4 chi8, pi2 B-M4 N3, pp. [8] 446 [2] ii, [8] xxvi 551 [1], [4] 50, 'Introduction' (xxvi pp.) bound in volume 2, moderately browned throughout, marginal damp-staining (extending into text in Supplement), rust-staining to title-page, title-page also with contemporary ink inscription 'Ship William & Henry, 1826' (i.e. Prince William Henry, merchant East Indiaman), contemporary pencil annotations to initial blank and to p. 211 (the latter containing directions for Mocha in Yemen, the annotations demonstrating first-hand familiarity with the route, e.g. 'The existence of this bank is doubtful'), modern bookplate (Edward W. Allen) to front free endpaper verso, contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style in calf, retaining original russia cornerpieces (bumped and worn), 4to (26.9 x 20.8 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESCf. Sabin 33047 for the fifth and 'eighth' (actually the sixth) editions (erroneously identifying the third edition of 1826 as the first). Unprecedented in its scope and content, Horsburgh's pilot was first published in 1809-11, as Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies. All editions are rare. We trace four institutional copies only with both volumes in second edition: King's College London, Leiden, the Defensie Bibliotheken (Breda) and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; copies at Tübingen and the Staatsbibliothek Berlin cited by WorldCat appear to belong to the third edition of 1826-7; a few other copies appear to contain volume one in third edition (1826) bound with a second edition of volume two. The Supplement is present in the KCL and Leiden copies, catalogued as containing 52 and 48 pages respectively; Berkeley and University of California NRLF each hold a separate copy of the Supplement, both with 50 pages, as in our copy; a copy at Yale lacks all after page 32. Bound in at the rear of volume one in our copy, and apparently not accounted for by library collations, is a single-leaf appendix (chi1) titled 'Discoveries in the Gulf of Persia' and mentioning ?Abu Dhabi ('Boothabeen'), Dubai, Sir Bani Yas and other areas in the modern United Arab Emirates. The Supplement contains a near full-page notice on Bahrain (p. 26), as well as covering the south coast of China, the Yellow Sea, Formosa, and elsewhere.
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* Harding (J. W.). Four (of six) plates from 'Sketches in North Wales', Fishermen, Brickmakers, Cottagers [and] Washerwomen, 1810, four mixed-method engraved plates with contemporary hand colouring, titles in later manuscript on mounts, each approximately 280 x 250 mm, mountedQty: (4)NOTESRare. Not in Abbey. Only three institutional copies listed on Copac. No auction records for over fifty years.
* Harris (John). The First Steeple Chase on Record, plates 1 - 4, Ipswich, the Watering-place behind the Barracks, The Large Field near Biles's Corner, The Last Field near Nacton Heath [and] Nacton Church and Village, R. Ackermann, March 1st 1839, set of four aquatints after Henry Alken with bright contemporary hand colouring, each approximately, 335 x 405 mm, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, Vicars Brothers Ltd, Old Bond Street, Gallery label to versoQty: (4)NOTESA rare example of the first issue of this famous set, with the R. Ackermann publisher's imprint.
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[Russia]. Le faux Pierre III. Ou la vie et les avantures du rebelle Jemeljan Pugatschew. D'après l'original russe de Mr. F. S. G. W. D. B., 1st edition, London [i.e. the Netherlands?]: C. H. Seyffert, 1775, pp. xvi 296, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, quire K misbound (in order K3-4, 1-2, 7-8, 5-6), edges dyed red, contemporary marbled calf backing marbled boards, richly gilt spine, loss to headcap, cracking to joint-ends, tips worn, 8vo (19.9 x 12 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T68966 (six UK copies). Rare pseudepigraphic novel purporting to be the biography of Cossack rebel Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev (c.1742-1775) who claimed the Russian throne as Peter III, the late husband of Catherine the Great.
Culpeper (Nicholas). The English Physitian: or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation. Being a Compleat Method of Physick, whereby a man may preserve his Body in Health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodes, 1st edition, London: Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1652, title with some soiling and marks, with slight loss to upper right corner, and paper repair to lower margin, laid down, A-Z2, Aa-Zz2, Aaa-Bbb2, lacking engraved portrait frontispiece of Culpeper by Thomas Cross, occasional marks and light soiling, and some minor marginal water stains, L1 with a small paper repair to lower blank inner margin, a few early ink annotations, early (probably 18th century) ownership signature of Winifrid Warham to head of title, early 19th century engraved bookplate of Sir William Grace, Bart to front pastedown, early 19th century half-calf calf, somewhat worn to cover, spine and edges, with upper cover detached, folio (sheet size 270 x 180 mm, 10.6 x 7 ins)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC R24897 (5 copies in the UK, 7 in the US); Wing C7501; Henrey 53; Norman 541. The rare first edition of Culpeper's famous Herbal, which has been almost continuously in print since its first appearance. The early female owner of this copy 'Winifrid Warham' may be the Winifred Warham of St. Andrew's Holborn, who is listed in Charles Cosin, The Names of the Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, and others who refus'd to take the Oaths to his late Majesty King George, 2nd edition, 1746 (page 18), and who is therein described as having an estate at Crostcombe (probably present-day Corscombe), in Dorset, in possession of Francis Allen.
Tryon (Thomas). The Good House-Wife Made a Doctor, or, health's choice and sure friend being a plain way of nature's own prescribing, to prevent and cure most diseases incident to men, women and children, by diet and kitchin physick only. With some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry, The Second Edition. To which is added some observations on the tedious methods of unskilful chyrurgions; with cheap and easie rememdies, printed for H.N. and T.S. And are to be sold at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry, and at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-Lane, Shoreditch, 16[9]2, title-page close-trimmed to lower edge (without loss of imprint), generally browned (some leaves more heavily than others), and occasional soiling, D1 with paper fault to fore-margin just clipping catchword, K3 with lower outer corner torn away, resulting in loss of text at the end of last 4 lines, lacking front free endpaper, hinges sometime strengthened, later sheep, rebacked, corners showing, 12moQty: (1)NOTESCagle 1028; MacLean pp.142/3; Oxford, p.43 (in a note); see Wing T3181. With date misprinted 1690 on title-page, as in other copies. Rare. Tryon's writings, a medley of mystical philosophy and dietetics seem curiously relevant today, advocating as they do, amongst other things, vegetarianism, temperance, meditation, conservation of the natural world and cleanness of living. Born in the bucolic village of Bibury, Gloucestershire, Tyron had no formal education, but was a spinner and a shepherd in his youth, teaching himself to read and write. At the age of 18 he left Bibury without telling his parents and travelled on foot to London with £3 savings, where he became a hatter. Although Tyron eventually became a successful businessman and trading merchant he managed not to compromise his mystical beliefs. He had a horror of war, advocated animal rights, and was shocked by the cruelty of slavery which he saw at first hand when he travelled to Barbados. In the last two decades of his life he published 27 works on a wide range of subjects, including education, nutrition, abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, and treatment of slaves. Benjamin Franklin was greatly influenced by his The Way to Health, Long Life and Happiness, and his dietary ideas were largely plagiarised by Joseph Ritson in his Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, published in 1802. Playwright Aphra Behn, and Percy Bysshe Shelley were also advocates of Tyron's writings.
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[M. W.].The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chyrurgery, Preserving, Candying, and Cookery; as they were presented unto the Queen by the most Experienced Persons of our times, many whereof were honoured with her own Practise, when she pleased to descend to these more private Recreations, 4th edition, corrected, with many additions, London: Nathaniel Brooks, 1658, engraved portrait frontispiece of Henrietta Maria by W. Faithorne, second and third parts with separate title-pages ('A Queens Delight: or, the Art of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying' and 'The Compleat Cook', third part with separate pagination, 14pp. publisher's advertisements at end, upper half of leaf E4 in first part excised, lacks leaves O4 & O9 in second part, sewing partly broken and few leaves loose, margins frayed particularly at front and rear, light dust-soiling and toning, contemporary sheep, leather lifting on boards, spine cracked and torn at head, rubbed and worn, 12moQty: (1)NOTESCagle 838 (The Queens Closet Opened, & A Queens Delight') and Cagle 835 (The Compleat Cook); Wing M98 & M90. The book has been attributed to Walter Montague, the personal secretary of Henrietta Maria wife of Charles I. The Queens Closet Opened offered readers a rare glimpse into the domestic secrets of royalty, specifically the unpopular French widow of the executed King. The title would have resonated with contemporary readers as a reference to the scandalous publication of the King and Queen's private letters in 1645 titled The King's Cabinet Opened.
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Belnos (Mrs S[ophia] C[harlotte]). The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins. Illustrated in a Series of Original Drawings from Nature, demonstrating their Attitudes and Different Signs and Figures performed by them during the Ceremonies of their Morning Devotions, and likewise their Poojas. Together with a Descriptive Text annexed to each Plate, and the Prayers from the Sanscrit, translated into English, 1st edition, [London: Day & Son], 1851, hand-coloured lithographic vignette title-page, 24 hand-coloured lithographic plates, preface leaf and 21 leaves of descriptive text, title-page heavily spotted and with damp-stain to top margin (damp-stain continuing onto preface leaf), plate 1 soiled, trimmed and mounted, plates 13, 14 and 21 spotted, plate 21 heavily spotted, torn, reassembled and backed on linen, variable spotting and finger-soiling to other plates (light to moderate and largely restricted to margins), marginal repairs to versos of title-page, preface, text-leaves of plates 1, 2 and 22, modern half cloth, large folio (60.8 x 43.2 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESProvenance: 1) From the library of the Schlagintweit brothers, 19th-century German explorers of India and Central Asia (blind stamp 'Ex bibliotheca Schlagintweit' to foot of title-page) 2) Konrad, prince of Bavaria (1883-1963; bookplate to front pastedown, ink-stamp to rear free endpaper). Abbey Travel 477; Lipperheide (1965) Ld 37; not in Colas or Tooley. Rare. 'Relatively little is known about Mrs. Belnos. Her husband, Jean-Jacques Belnos, was a French miniaturist and lithographer, who had travelled to India in 1807, and established a practice in Calcutta as a painter of miniatures and portraits of the British, a business which his widow seems to have continued following his death' (De Silva, Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c.1785-1845, pp. 106-7). Abbey speculates that Mrs Belnos was Indian, but she was in fact almost certainly the daughter of William Moore, assistant surgeon in the Bengal army. This seems to be her second and last published work, following Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal, which appeared in 1832.
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Cave (Henry W.). A Series of Forty Aionograph Ceylon Views, 1st edition, Colombo: H. W. Cave & Co., [1893], 40 'aionograph' plates from photographs, interleaved throughout, printed title and list contents mounted to front pastedown, first plate spotted, occasional light spotting and a few marks elsewhere, contemporary ownership inscription 'John C. O'Donnell', Grand Hotel, Newara [sic] Eliya, Ceylon, March 25/95' to initial blank, related bookplate ('O'Donnell' with motto 'In hoc signo vinces') to front free endpapers, front inner hinge neatly reinforced, rear inner hinge starting, gilt edges, original black calf gilt over bevelled boards, craquelure to spine, consolidation to head and foot, 4to (35.2 x 27 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESRare prospectus for Cave's Picturesque Ceylon series, which was issued between 1893 and 1895 in three parts: Colombo and the Kelani Valley; Kandy and Peradeniya; Nuwara Eliya and Adam's Peak. These were subsequently re-issued in one volume in 1903 with a fourth part titled 'The Ruined Cities of Ceylon'. No other copy of this iteration traced.
Bowles (Thomas, publisher). Geographia sacra illustrata. Or Sacred Geography Illustrated. Containing, a View of many things belonging to ye Jews and their Worship mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, with a particular explication of ye same, according to Arias Montanus, Villalpandas, L'Amy, and other Antient and Modern Authors, never before Collected into a single volume, the whole intended for the better understanding ye Sacred Writings, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: printed for and sold by Tho. Bowles, next ye Chapter House in St. Pauls Churchyard, and by J. Bowles over against Stocks Market, [1728], engraved throughout, comprising title-page and 13 plates, all but the title-page and 2 plates double-page, watermark a fleur-de-lys surmounting a shield, countermark 'I V', light spotting to margins, damp-staining to a few plates, mainly restricted to margins, first double-page split at foot of central fold, disbound retaining original marbled endpapers, calf backstrip (friable) and half calf rear board, folio (44 x 31.4 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESESTC T504169. Very rare: one copy on ESTC (Asher Library, Chicago); a re-issue by John Bowles's son Carrington Bowles (c.1764-79) is also rare, with ESTC citing the British Library copy only. The work contains a double-page map of the Holy Land and another double-page plate containing four vignettes maps.
Singh (Sir Jagatjit, Maharaja of Kapurthala). My Travels in China, Japan and Java, 1903, 1st edition, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 51 halftone photographic plates, folding map, a few pale spots to endpapers and edges, original light blue cloth gilt, a few small marks to front cover, 8voQty: (1)NOTESCordier Sinica 3182. Rare: three copies traced in libraries (British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the University of Montreal).
JOSEPH W. ESHERICK - 'THE ORIGINS OF THE BOXER UPRISING', published by University of California Press 1987 hardback first edition with dust jacket, A. S. WORMALL - 'DREAMS, VISIONS AND ESSAYS', published by The Society of Communion, first edition May 1927. A rare book on spiritualism cataloguing a series of incidents and experiences of the author, HJALMAR SCHACHT - 'THE MAGIC OF MONEY', translated from the German by Paul Erskine, published by Oldbourne Book Co. Ltd. 1967, rare hardback book in a dust jacket (3)¦Condition Report:Spine of dust jacket faded, some wear on edges¦Book very good, Blackwell's sticker on back endpaper¦
Pieter Schenk (1660-1711), dt. Stecher und Kartograf aus Wuppertal, später tätig in Amsterdam. Seltenes schabkunstblatt ''Odoratus balsamicus'' mit Sinnspruch am unteren Rand, 25 x 19 cm, hinter Glas u. Pp. ger. 35 x 29 cmPieter Schenk (1660-1711), German engraver and cartographer from Wuppertal, later active in Amsterdam. Rare mezzotint sheet ''Odoratus balsamicus'' with aphorism in the lower margin, 25 x 19 cm, framed behind glass and passepartout 35 x 29 cm
Franz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796), zwei seltene Guckkastenblätter der kanadischen Stadt Quebec: die obere Stadt, sowie der Hauptplatz. Altkol. Kupferstiche in Augsburg um 1780, mit zweisprachigem Schriftrand. Wasserschaden, fleckig und knittrig, ca. 30 x 40 cm, hinter Glas u. Pp. (ungeöffnet) ger. 48 x 58 cmFranz Xaver Habermann (1721-1796), two rare peep-scope sheets of the Canadian city of Quebec: the upper town, and the main square. Altkol. Engravings in Augsburg circa 1780, with bilingual lettered border. Water damage, stained and creased, ca. 30 x 40 cm, framed behind glass u. Passepartout (unopened) 48 x 58 cm
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