Jacopo Vignali (Prato Vecchio 1592-1664 Florence)David with the Head of Goliath oil on canvas113.5 x 87.5cm (44 11/16 x 34 7/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Pennington Museum Treasures, Los Angeles, 1976Private Collection, CaliforniaExhibitedCalifornia State University, Northridge, California, Collection without walls: problems in connoisseurship, October - November 1976, curated by Dr Jean Luc Bordeaux (as by Cristofano Allori)This striking, freshly discovered depiction of David and Goliath has been independently proclaimed by the foremost authorities in their field to be a 'masterpiece' by Jacopo Vignali, one of Florence's leading artists of the early 17th century. We are grateful to Professor Francesca Baldassari for identifying this work on the basis of colour photographs as 'a masterpiece by Jacopo Vignali datable to around 1624 on the basis of other monogrammed and dated works by him of the period, such as the Drunkenness of Noah in the National Gallery in Prague' (see fig. 1). This is an opinion that was corroborated, furthermore, in a recently unearthed letter to the late owner, dated 3 July, 2003, from Professor Mina Gregori, that refers to this 'splendid painting with 'David with the head of Goliath'' of which 'I firmly think that the painter is Jacopo Vignali, one of the best Florentine painters of the XVII century.' With reference to the painting's prior attribution to Cristofano Allori, she writes that 'this painting is one of his [Vignali's] masterpieces.' Professor Gregori continues: 'You can recognise Vignali from the light, very different from Cristofano and more naturalistic, coming from different experiences: And the boy is his usual model.' Both the dramatic composition and outstanding quality of this work represents the height of Vignali's achievement as a representative of a school of painting that valued so highly the importance of disegno.The subject of David and Goliath has inspired some of the greatest works of art of all time, including Donatello's and Michelangelo's sculptures, which Vignali will have been familiar with in his native Florence. There the subject symbolised the courage and resilience of the small city state (and subsequent Grand Duchy) in the face of the larger rising nation states that surrounded it. Florence was all too aware of the threats that encompassed her and consequently David was a perfect symbol of the liberty and freedom of the Florentine people, capturing the unwavering courage, unexpected strength, and historic perseverance that they saw in themselves. Traditionally, David had been portrayed after his victory, triumphant over the slain Goliath. Florentine artists like Verrocchio, Ghiberti and Donatello all depicted their own version of David standing over Goliath's severed head; while Michelangelo and Donatello instead, chose to represent David before the battle. The account of the battle between David and Goliath is told in Book 1 Samuel. Saul and the Israelites were facing the Philistines near the Valley of Elah. Twice a day for 40 days, Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, came out between the lines and challenged the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide the outcome in single combat. Only David, a young shepherd, accepted the challenge. Saul reluctantly agreed and offered his armour, which David declined since it was too large, taking only his sling and five stones from a brook. David and Goliath thus confronted each other, David hurling a stone from his sling with all his might which hit Goliath in the centre of his forehead: Goliath fell on his face to the ground, and David then cut off his head. By vanquishing sin David had made Israel safe; his unwavering faith in the face of war, and his subsequent rough path to kingship marked him as a hero; he was further admired for his Psalms, while his righteousness and repentance were extolled consistently throughout the Renaissance and Baroque period. When Saul tried to kill David, not once but several times, David never returned such an attempt, possessing virtues which Italian princes desired for themselves. As a king, David was quick to administer justice to those who deserved it and quick to welcome in outcasts, such as Jonathan's lame son. He defended his kingdom rigorously and victoriously. As a man, David was favoured by God, talented, handsome, and he rose to power at a young age. He was the pre-cursor of Christ, and a symbol of pious perfection. David's image was the perfect commission for a prince of the Church wanting a constant reminder of faithfulness and redemption, or for a secular prince, wanting a public and readily recognizable symbol of power and fidelity.Jacopo Vignali trained under Matteo Rosselli, entering his studio in Florence around 1605 at the age of only thirteen; in 1616 he joined the Accademia del Disegno becoming an academician in 1622. Although Rosselli was to have a lasting influence on his pupil's oeuvre, Vignali gradually evolved his own style distinguished by dramatic light effects, rich colour, painterly technique and a particularly poetic and emotional interpretation of his subjects. His most famous pupil was Carlo Dolci, who was profoundly affected by the intensity of his religious works. Thus Vignali has himself here put a new contemporary interpretation on this subject, employing his and his fellow early seventeenth century Florentine's celebration of rich and colourful fabrics in the use of contemporary costume in depicting a biblical scene, along with the innovative pictorial drama that Caravaggio had recently made popular throughout Italy, and subsequently Europe. Caravaggio had himself treated the subject three times, between circa 1605 and 1610 in masterpieces which are now respectively in the Prado, Vienna and the Villa Borghese. The masterful way in which Vignali handles the paint, the remarkably delicate modelling of the flesh tones and the theatrical elegance of his simple composition illustrate not only Vignali's particular style, but also the broader trends within Florentine painting at the time. Unpublished until now, this canvas is a rare and significant addition to the oeuvre of Jacopo Vignali, who has been regarded as the foremost painter of the Florentine Seicento.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
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Attributed to Michael Sweerts (Brussels 1618-1664 Goa)The Baptism of Christ oil on canvas105.6 x 87.3cm (41 9/16 x 34 3/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceIvar Hellberg, Stockholm, before 1946, by whom offeredSale, Stockholms Stads Auktionsverk, Stockholm, 24 November 1998, lot 1419LiteratureR. Kultzen, dissertation, Hamburg, 1954, p. 93, no. 45R. Kultzen, Michael Sweerts, Doornspijk, 1996, p. 137, cat. no. R15, ill, p. 171 (as rejected work)Until 1998 The Baptism was in a Swedish private collection and was only known from an old black and white photograph. Since its subsequent conservation it has been accepted by Lindsey Shaw-Miller as 'an outstanding work from Sweerts maturity' and 'a rare survival from the series of Bathers', which can be dated to between 1656 and 1659, when the artist was working in Brussels after returning from Rome. She refers to 'Its moving atmosphere of submissive humility and suspended moment of focus'. As a religious subject it would be unique in Sweerts's oeuvre but the face of Christ is comparable to a number of Sweerts's portraits and the landscape, lit by an early morning light, is reminiscent of two of Sweerts's known compositions: his Bathing Scene of circa 1655 (on canvas, 110 x 164 cm, in the Musées des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg) and his Young Men Bathing (on canvas, 63.3 x 87 cm, in the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover). Lindsay Shaw-Miller suggests that this work may be connected with Sweerts leaving Brussels to join the Société des Missions Etrangères as an artist and lay brother, which must have been a dramatic change in his life. It was a commitment to a new calling as poignantly significant as Christ's baptism was and it could be that this portrayal of a moment of dramatic but also humbling change and acceptance had biographical significance for the artist at this crucial point in his life. She thus describes it as 'a very personal interpretation from a pivotal scene in Christ's Life by this deeply religious artist'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Pedro de Camprobin (Almagro 1605-1674 Seville)A still life of a basket of flowers, a vase, a plate of fruit and a Parrot (possibly a Lovebird) perched on a box signed 'P. de Camprobín f.' (lower right)oil on canvas63.2 x 100.5cm (24 7/8 x 39 9/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceEstate of Rodríguez y Jiménez, MadridPrivate Collection, MadridSale, Christie's, Madrid, 4 October 2006, lot 69 LiteratureI. Bergström, Maestros Españoles de Bodegones y Floreros del Siglo XVII, Madrid, 1970, ill. cat. no 31. Fully signed paintings by Camprobín are rare and this still life composition is unusual in his oeuvre. It is interesting to note that each individual element was used separately a number of times by Camprobín and he brings them together here to create a unique and eye catching still life. It is also evident from this painting how influential contemporary Spanish still life painters had been on him. The painting shows elements of Juan van der Hamen in the overall composition, Juan de Zurbarán in the little plate of apricots and Tomás Hiepes in the Basket of Flowers. Camprobin has, however, painted the picture in his own unique style, as is exemplified by a certain softness of brushstroke and delicate colouring, particularly in the treatment of the flowers. Similarities can be drawn between this still life and a pair of Flowers in Baskets in a Private Collection (see: P. Cherry, Arte y Nauraleza. El Bodegón Español en el Siglo de Oro, Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, Madrid 1999, ill. pl. XCII). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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MIRABILIS LIBER[Mirabilis liber qui prophetias revelationesque... demonstrat], 2 parts in 1 vol., black letter, decorative woodcut initials, first part double column, second part in French, wanting a1, small worm-trail in inner margins of gatherings e-g, some old ink notes on fly-leaf and marginalia on g8-h1, contemporary reversed pigskin, blind rule borders and small centrepiece on sides, chips to spine and one corner of upper cover [ISTC im00615300; Copinger 3573; Moreau III, 1273], Paris, [Jean II du Pré & Ambroise Girault, c.1527]Footnotes:Rare early edition, only one copy listed on ISTC and USTC. The first part includes the prophecies of Ben Echoli, Saint Brigitte of Sweden, Savonarola and others, and was thought to contain references predicting the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany; the second part in French became popular through its perceived allusions to the French revolution.Provenance: Lots 137-170 are the property of Mario Gregorio, a recognised authority on Nostradamus, the author of four books on the subject, and former Archivist of the International Nostradamus Research Group.Mario developed an interest in the prophecies of Nostradamus at an early age, and after arriving from his native Veneto in the 1990s, he began to get heavily involved in collecting, researching and comparing the many variant editions, piracies and spurious works. The result is the website of this self-styled 'crazy collector of old books about renaissance prophecies', an extraordinary resource with thousands of uploaded images not only of the books in his own collection, but also those of many others.Many of the books in the present sale were bought in 2007 at the New York sales of Daniel Ruzo de los Heros (1900-1991), noted Peruvian archaeologist, poet, cryptographer and prophet. Ruzo was perhaps the last of the great Nostradamus collectors, as Mario Gregorio would modestly admit, but Mario now feels the time is right to give younger collectors, researchers and institutions the opportunity to continue his work.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
NOSTRADAMUSProphetie merveilleuse commençant ceste presente année, & dure iusques en l'an de grand' mortalité, que l'on dira M.d.lxviij. An de bissexte, FIRST EDITION, woodcut title vignette of hands and compass measuring armillary sphere, modern cloth [Benazra p.79; Chomarat 76], small 8vo, Paris, Guillaume de Nyverd, [1566-1567]Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION, this being the only copy traced in auction records. One of the apocryphal works by the so-called 'Michel de Nostradamus le Jeune', it bears a facsimile signature at the end of the text, and dates from 1566 or 1567 depending on the accuracy of the reference to 'l'An passe 1565' on p.7. Subsequent editions were published as Prophétie ou révolution merveilleuse des quatre saisons de l'an.Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplate; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 21.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
TRITHEMIUS (JOHANNES)De septem secundeis, id est, intelligentiis, sive spiritibus orbes post Deum moventibus, reconditissimae scientiae & eruditionis libellu[m], woodcut printer's device on title, 7 woodcut illustrations, title soiled and frayed at edges, without final blank, modern pigskin [Caillet 10852], 8vo, Cologne, Johannes Birckmann, 1567Footnotes:Second edition of this rare work on mystical chronology and alchemy, first published in 1545. Trithemius, or Jean Tritheme, was born in Trittenheim in Germany in 1462. A renowned lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer and kabbalist, whose students included Agrippa and Paracelsus, he exerted considerable influence on the development of early modern occultism. The book is adorned with 7 attractive woodcut figures by Hans Sebald Beham, one of the most important 'Little Masters' of sixteenth century German engraving.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
NOSTRADAMUSLes Propheties.. dont il y en a trois cents qui n'ont encores iamais estés imprimées, 2 parts in 1 vol., woodcut devices on titles (first with top corner and letter S torn away), occasional browning and soiling, some headlines cropped, some worming towards end slightly affecting text, later calf, gilt spine with raised bands, slight worming to lower joint; idem, another edition, 2 parts in 1 vol., titles with the same woodcut devices (the first laid down with loss of word 'Les' and part of imprint), interleaved with blanks, trimmed affecting some headlines and occasionally text, contemporary calf, gilt spine, recased, slight worm damage to lower cover, both copies with blank leaf at end of first part but not final blank [Benazra p.148 & p.149; Chomarat 171 & 172], 16mo, Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, [c.1610] (2)Footnotes:A pair of rare Pierre Rigaud editions, based on those of Benoist Rigaud and dated by Benazra to 1610 and by Ruzo to around 1608 and 1611. The two editions are identical apart from the fleurons on the title-pages and the imprint changing from 'Par Pierre Rigaud' to 'Chez Pierre Rigaud'. Ours are the only copies traced in auction records. Provenance: Daniel Ruzo, bookplates; his sale, Swann, 23 April 2007, lot 35, and Swann, 8 November 2007, lot 240.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
PHOTOGRAPHIC FACSIMILESDaniel Ruzo collection of photographic facsimiles of Nostradamus and related early works, 48 works in 35 vol., each photograph mounted on paper, the majority bound in linen, a few in full calf or vellum, spines with morocco and later paper labels, 8vo and 4to, [mid twentieth century]Footnotes:Daniel Ruzo's remarkable compilation of photographic facsimiles, including early and rare editions of the prophecies, spurious editions, and works by Dorat and Crespin. Comprises: 4 French editions of Nostradamus:La Grand' pronostication nouvelle avec portenteuse prediction, pour l'an M.D.L.VII., Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1557; La Grand' pronostication nouvelle pour l'an mil cinq cens soixante, Lyon, Jean Brotot & Antoine Volant, [1559]; Almanach pour l'an 1565 avecques ses tresamples significations & présages d'un chacun moys, Lyon, Benoist Odo, [1564]; Almanach pour l'an M.D.LXVI. avec ses amples significations & explications, Lyon, Antoine Volant & Pierre Brotot, [1565].6 early Italian editions of Nostradamus:Pronostico e tacoyno Francese, Milan, Innocentio Cicognera, [1557?]; Pronostico et lunario..., Padua, Stamparia del Griffo, 1563; Li Presagi et pronostici di M. Michele Nostradamo, quale principiando l'anno M.D.LXV. diligentemente discorrendo... fino al 1570, [Genoa, 1564]; Il Vero pronostico calcolato dall'eccell.mo... Nostradamo Francese, Bologna, Alessandro Benatio, 1566; La Salutifera fatica del eccellente astrologo M. Filippo Nostradamus, [1572?], bound with: La Salutifera fatica dell'eccell. astrolago M. Filippo Nostradamus, 1573.Les Propheties... imprimées par les soins de Fr. Jean Vallier (only first 6 and last 13 leaves supplied in photographic facsimile), Lyon, Pierre Rigaud, 1566 [i.e. Avignon, Joseph-Charles Chastanier, early 1700s].Paraphrase de C. Galen, sus l'exortation de Menodote, aux estudes des bonnes artz, mesmement medicine: traduict de Latin en Francoys, par Michel Nostradamus Lyon, Antoine du Rosne, 1557.Jean Dorat, L'Androgyn né a Paris, le XXI. juillet, M.D.LXX, Lyon, Michel Jove, 1570.6 spurious editions:Almanach pour l'an 1563. Composé par M. Michel Nostradamus, Paris, Barbe Regnault, [1562]; Prognostication ou revolution, avec les Presages, pour l'an mil cinq cens soixante-cinq, Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, [1564]; Propheties ou revolution, merveilleuse, des quatre saisons de l'an, Lyon, Michel Jove, 1567; Predictions pour vingt ans, Rouen, Pierre Hubault, [1569?]; Presage pour treize ans... par M. de Nostradamus le Jeune, Paris, Nicolas du Mont, 1571; Recueil des Revelations et Propheties merveilleuses de Saincte Brigide, Sainct Cirile & plusieurs autres Saincts & religieux personnages... Par Nostra Damus le Jeune, [Venice?], Seigneur de Castavino, 1575.13 works by Antoine Crespin in 1 volume:Prognostication avec ses Presages, pour l'an M.D.LXXI; Paris, Robert Colombel, [1570?]; Epitre demonstrative, faicte a treshaulte, & trespuissante Princesse, Ma-dame Elisabeth d'Autriche... d'un signe admirable, d'une comette..., Paris, Nicolas du Mont, 1571; Epistre dediee au tres-hault et tres-chrestien, Charles IX. Roy de France... d'un signe admirable d'une comette aparue au Ciel, Paris, Martin le Jeune, [1571?]; Demonstration d'une comette... veuë au ciel, le 29. de Joing 1571; Lyon, Jean Marcorelle, 1571; Demonstracion de leclipce lamentable du souleil que dura le long du jour de la Seint Michel dernier passé 1571; Paris, Nicolas du Mont, 1571; Pronostication, et prediction des quatre temps, pour l'an bixestil, 1572, Lyon, Melchior Arnoullet, 1572; Propheties par l'astrologue du Roy de France; Lyon, François Arnoullet, 1572; Epistre a la Royne mere du Roy... contenant la declaration d'un signe admirable d'une comete, veuë en la cite' de Bourdeaux, Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1573; Epistre envoyee a M. Crespin Nostradamus... par les six philosophes d'Egipte, & l'Astrologue du grand Seigneur de Constantinople: sur un deluge d'eau particulier, qui doit advenir devant qui soit passé l'an mil cinq cents octante & trios, Vienne, Nicolas Martin, [1573?]; Epistre de profetie de paix, qui doit venire au Royaume de France sans dissimulation, qui regnera plus de trios cens ans, Lyon, Jean Patrasson, 1574; Au Roy. Epistre et aux autheurs de disputation sophistique de ce siecle sur la declaration du presage & effaicts de la comette qui a esté commence d'estre veuë dans l'Europe 10. de Novembre ... 1577, Lyon, Benoist Rigaud, 1578; Pronostiquations astronomiques pour cinq annees, Paris, Gilles de S. Gilles, n.d.; La Prophetie merveilleuse, contenant au vray les choses plus memorables qui sont à advenir, Paris, Pierre Ménier, n.d.5 Anti-Nostradamus publications:Antoine Couillard, Les Propheties du Seigneur du Pavillon les Lorriz, Paris, Jean Dallier, 1556--Jean de La Daguenière, Le Monstre d'Abus, Paris, Barbe Regnault, 1558--Hercules le François [pseud.], La Premiere invective du Seigneur Hercules le François, contre Monstradamus, Paris, Simon Calvarin, 1558--Laurent Videl, Declaration des abus ignorances et seditions de Michel Nostradamus, Avignon, Pierre Roux, 1558--William Fulke, Antiprognosticon contra inutiles astrologorum praedictiones Nostrodami [et al.], London, Henry Sutton, 1560.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
BARKER (THOMAS)Barker's Delight. or, the Art of Angling. Wherein are Discovered Many Rare Secrets... second edition, 2 leaves in the first gathering loosely inserted from another copy (one soiled), without the last 2 leaves of Moseley's 20-page catalogue at end, contemporary sheep, worn with some loss exposing top part of upper board, preserved in calf case [ESTC R209132, not calling for advertisements; Westwood & Satchell p.22; Wing B786], small 8vo, Humphrey Moseley, 1659Footnotes:Rare, being a reissue of Barker's The Art of Angling. ESTC does not call for publisher's advertisements at the end, but this copy has 8 leaves of these (a1-8), with 2 added in facsimile (b1-2). The latest title advertised is dated 1657.Provenance: Robert Franklin, early ownership inscription on front free endpaper; 'Tho: Burton ex dono Tho: Franklin 1727', inscription on title; 'Presented by J. Graham Dawson Esq.', purple stamp on front pastedown and free endpaper; John A. McKinley, bookplate; The Angling Library of John McKinley, Bloomsbury, 31 March 2005; Alan J. Jarvis, bookplate.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
ARISTOTLE'S MASTERPIECEAristotle's Compleat Master Piece. In Three Parts: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man... To Which is Added, a Treasure of Health; Or, the Family Physician... The Fifteenth Edition, frontispiece with full-page woodcut illustration recto and verso, folding woodcut plate ('The form of a child in the womb, disrob'd of its tunicles'), 7 woodcut illustrations in the text, loss to a few letters at lower margin of pp.59/60 and pp.125/126 (small burnhole), extremes of corners turned, contemporary sheep, worn at edges [ESTC N493145, Wellcome copy only], 8vo, Printed, and Sold by the Booksellers, 1723Footnotes:RARE EDITION, only the Welcome copy cited on ESTC, and this with a variant collation. In the Wellcome copy the second section ('Family Physician') has 10 unnumbered pages, whilst our copy has 14 numbered pages. First published in 1684 all early editions are very scarce, presumably due to the book's risque subject matter of women's bodies, sex, and pregnancy, which led it to be sold by 'country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it, though they usually had it under the counter' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The attribution to Aristotle is totally spurious and was probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability; but although it was effectively banned until the mid-twentieth century, the prohibition didn't keep it from circulating. Such enduring popularity was partly due to the practical advice on pregnancy and the care of infants, and partly to its rather sensationalised descriptions of the sexual act and forms of 'monstrosity', the subjects depicted in the woodcut illustrations.Provenance: 'Elisabeth Scott her book 1743', ownership inscription on verso of title.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
TURNER (MATTHEW)An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Æther, woodcut ornament depicting Britannia on title, title soiled with tear touching one letter of imprint, disbound [ESTC T135342, citing 4 copies only; Norman 2116; Wellcome 14628162], 8vo, [Liverpool], John Sadler, 1761Footnotes:A RARE PAMPHLET ON THE PROPERTIES AND HISTORY OF ETHER. Born in Liverpool, where this work was published, Turner was a chemist and surgeon who 'manufactured and dispensed sulfuric ether as a remedy for headache, vertigo, epilepsy, gout and rheumatism, palsy and digestive disorders; for most of these ailments, ether was to be taken orally, but for some, such as headache, Turner also recommended that it be 'snuff[ed] ... up the Nostrils.' With this recommendation of the inhalation of ether for killing pain, Turner has a place in the pre-history of anesthesia' (Norman).There are two variant issues of the second edition: this copy (and the Norman copy) belong to what is believed to be the earlier issue, without the place of publication on the title but with the Britannia ornament. There is also an undated issue with a London imprint giving the name of J. Wilkie as the printer, while the first edition seems to be a 2-page broadside published in 1760.Provenance: John Grant Booksellers of Edinburgh; purchased in the 1950s by the vendor's father, Dr. Wheeler, a consultant anaesthetist.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
COHEN (LEONARD)Let Us Compare Mythologies... Drawings by Freda Guttman, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, 5 plates by Guttman, publisher's black cloth, silver gilt lettering on spine, pink pictorial dust-jacket (uneven fading, spine split at joints with one horizontal tear), 8vo, Printed in Montreal, and Published for the McGill Poetry Series by Contact Press, Toronto, 1956Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF LEONARD COHEN'S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET. Approximately 400 copies were printed, under the editorship of Louis Dudek of McGill University, with the purpose 'to present to the university community and the public the work of young writers at McGill of out standing ability'.Provenance: Neville Linton, McGill Union, ownership inscription dated May 1956 on front free endpaper.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
DODGSON (CHARLES LUTWIDGE) 'Lewis Carroll'A Charade, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson from the Author. A memento of Dec. 19 1889', cyclostyled pamphlet, 4pp. (one blank), 2 illustrations in the text, loose as issued [Madan and Green 100, 'A singular and rare piece'], 8vo, [Privately printed], 1878; Christmas Greeting. [From a Fairy to a Child], first separate printing, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson, from Lewis Carroll. A memento of Xmas, 1889', one sheet [Madan and Green 162], 16mo, [Macmillan, 1884]--An Easter Greeting to Every Child Who Loves 'Alice.', PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Hilda Margaret Johnson, from Lewis Carroll. Eastertide, 1890', 3pp. [Madan and Green 90.7], 16mo., [?1885]; 'Imagination', AUTOGRAPH MIRROR-WRITING RIDDLE, 7 lines, comprising title and 3-line question and answer, written in mirror-writing, inscribed on reverse 'Hilda Margaret Johnson with the affectionate regards of Lewis Carroll, Ap. 16. 1890', in original miniature envelope addressed by Dodgson to 'Miss H.M. Johnson', 53 x 53mm., [16 April 1890], all inscribed in purple ink (4)Footnotes:'WHAT! DON'T YOU KNOW YOUR ALPHABET? - AN AUTOGRAPH RIDDLE IN MIRROR-WRITING, inscribed in purple ink by Dodgson, along with a group of ephemeral works, to a seventeen-year old schoolchild involved in a performance of Alice in Wonderland. The riddle, reading 'Imagination. Q. But what does 'followed by a bird' mean? A. What! Don't you know your Alphabet?', can be read when held up to a mirror, and is held in a miniature envelope. Charmingly illustrated Dodgson's Charade is described by Madan and Green as 'a singular and rare piece'.Hilda Margaret Johnson helped in a theatrical production of 'Alice in Wonderland' put on at the Edgbaston High School for Girls (Birmingham) on 19 December 1889, at which Dodgson was present. He noted in his diary for that day, 'I rashly offered to tell 'Bruno's Picnic' afterwards to the little children, thinking I should have an audience of 40 or 50, mostly children, instead of which I had to tell it from the stage to an audience of about 280, mostly older girls and grown-up people!... The evening began with some of 'Julius Caesar' in German. This and 'Alice' were really capitally acted, the White Queen being quite the best I have seen... I was introduced to Alice and a few more, and was quite sorry to hear afterwards that the other performers wanted to shake hands' .Provenance: Hilda Margaret Johnson (1873-1959), each item inscribed by Dodgson, retained in an old envelope addressed to Mrs Hilda M. Rendall (Hilda's married name), with a note in her hand 'Lewis Carroll sent me these in remembrance of E.H.S.S. Xmas performance of Alice in Wonderland. I was a producer'; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HARDY (THOMAS)Jude the Obscure, FIRST EDITION, first state, half-title, etched frontispiece by by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, map of Wessex, small loss at headband, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., [1896]; idem, another edition, identical to first edition except for substitution of 'Harpers' for 'Osgood...' at foot of spine, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896 [but Harper, 1897?]; idem, first American edition, plates by Hatherall, Harper & Brothers, 1896 [1895], publisher's green cloth gilt [Purdy, pp.86-91]; A Defence of Jude the Obscure... In Three Letters to Sir Edmund Gosse, C.B., NUMBER 28 OF 30 COPIES SIGNED BY T.J. WISE, publisher's wrappers [Purdy, p.26], Edinburgh, for Private Circulation Only by the Dunedin Press, 1928, 8vo (4)Footnotes:First and early variant editions of Jude the Obscure, together with T.J. Wise's very rare limited edition pamphlet publishing Hardy's letters concerning the book.Provenance: First three, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., bookplate; Fourth, Carroll Atwood Wilson, bookplate; Sotheby's, 7 November 2001, The Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr. Part II: Thomas Hardy, lots 483 and 485.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
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SCOTLAND - BANKING[LAW (JOHN, attributed to)] Two Overtures Humbly Offered to His Grace John Duke of Argyll, Her Majesties High Commissioner, and the Right Honourable the Estates of Parliament. The 1. For supplying the present scarcity of coyn, and improving trade. The 2. For clearing the debts due by the Government to the Army and Civil List, 8pp., drop-head title, one or two page numbers shaved, untrimmed and sewn in modern paper wrappers [ESTC T178153; Goldsmiths-Kress 04226], 4to (185 x 142mm.), [Edinburgh, 1705]Footnotes:Extremely rare pamphlet by John Law, six copies of which have been traced in institutions, and none in auction records. Law was an economist with a colourful life story. Having moved to London, he lost large sums by gambling and in 1694 fought a duel, killing his opponent and finding himself sentenced to death. When the sentence was commuted to a fine, he was imprisoned under appeal, and escaped to Holland. Returning to Scotland in 1705, Law urged the establishment of a Scottish national bank and the issue of banknotes backed by land, gold or silver. But the proposals in the present pamphlet, and in his major work of the same year, Money and Trade Considered, were ultimately rejected, and Law left to pursue his ambitions abroad. After establishing the French Banque Générale in 1716, he went on to be the architect of the ill-fated Mississippi Bubble scheme which caused a financial crisis in France and his complete fall from grace; although pardoned in England, he was to die a poor man in Venice a few years later, unaware that many of his ideas would still form a part of accepted monetary theory some three hundred years later.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
ROYALTY - EDWARD VIII'S CORONATIONOfficial Souvenir Programme for the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII, DUMMY PROOF COPY, 32 pages, printed with title and final leaf text (relating to King George Jubilee Trust), the remaining pages printed with ornamental borders, caption headings or author names, and identifying sitters for proposed photographs, otherwise blank, light dampstain throughout, publisher's wrappers, the decorative upper cover printed in black, red, blue and gold within a gold border, 4to, [Odhams Press for King George's Jubilee Trust, 1936]Footnotes:RARE DUMMY PROOF COPY OF THE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME OF EDWARD VIII'S CORONATION, which of course never came to pass due to Edward's abdication. Only one copy on World Cat.Provenance: Cranford Taylor, 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
WYNDHAM (JOHN)The Midwich Cuckoos, first American edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'To Lawrence Bachmann/the full epic of that charmed village/gratefully from John Wyndham July 1960' on the title-page, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (unclipped, spine light fading with short tear at foot, upper cover upper margin with 2 short tears, one resulting in small loss to 'M' of author's name), 8vo, New York, Ballantine Books, [1957]; sold with an autograph letter signed by Wyndham ('John Benyon Harris') to Lawrence Bachmann, thanking him for 'a thoroughly enjoyable party', praising the film adaption of the book, and enclosing this copy of the book, one page, headed paper, 16 July 1960 (2)Footnotes:Rare presentation copy, with accompanying letter, inscribed to the American film producer Lawrence Bachmann, who was British head of MGM when the studio made the classic film version, titled Village of the Damned, in 1960. In the letter Wyndham gives his 'thanks for the film itself - as I think I told you, I frankly did not think it could be done', and enclosing a copy of the book 'with some diffidence, feeling that you are probably sick of the sight of it by now...'. A remake, directed by John Carpenter, was released in 1995.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
MORE (THOMAS)A Frutefull Pleasaunt, & Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle, called Utopia... translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, second edition in English, undetermined state, black letter, ornamental initials, occasional light soiling and light dampstaining but mostly clean and fresh, lacks the final 5 unnumbered leaves with colophon, contemporary blind-panelled calf, restored with some cracks, wear to lower cover and loss to spine [ESTC S112887 or S103392; Pforzheimer 740], small 8vo (140 x 95mm.), [Richard Tottel for] Abraham Vele, dwellinge in Pauls churchyarde, at the signe of the Lambe, [1556]Footnotes:THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION OF MORE'S VISIONARY MASTERPIECE, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Utopia, described in Printing and the Mind of Man as a 'tract for the times', was written in Latin for the benefit of the literati and first published in Louvain in 1516. However, it wasn't until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England by Abraham Vele, in a translation by Ralph Robinson. This second edition followed five years later, in the year of Cranmer's execution, and was the one William Morris used for the Kelmscott Press printing. Although the present copy lacks the last five unnumbered leaves (containing dedications and a supplementary verse), it is extremely rare in a contemporary binding, the only other example listed in auction records being a copy bound in vellum which was sold at Bonhams New York on 22 September 2015 ($38,000).The contemporary binder's waste used in this copy provide a tantalising glimpse into the world of the London printing and binding trade. They comprise fragments of an early manuscript on vellum, along with two printed pages (used as front flyleaves and rear pastedown) which appear to be trial or rejected sheets from Girolamo Ruscelli's The Secretes of the Reverende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng Excellent Remedies against Divers Diseases, Woundes, and other Accidents (specifically leaves B3 & 4 in the 'First booke of Secretes'), printed 'by John Kingstone for Nicolas Inglande, dwellinge in Poules churchyarde, 1558'. One can only speculate how the sheets may have found their way from one St Paul's printer to the other's shop, or to the binder.Provenance: Private collection, UK.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
JEHANGIR (SORABJI)Princes and Chiefs of India. A Collection of Biographies and Portraits of the Indian Princes and Chiefs and Brief Historical Surveys of the Territories... Revised and Completed by F.S. Jehangir Taléyarkhan, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, with letterpress titles and descriptive text, 84 woodburytype portraits (of 85, without the Maharaja of Samthar, as issued?), all on original mounts with decorative typographical borders (images approximately 250 x 195mm.), 3 plates loose, one slit in blank margin, a few single wormholes to approximately 5 plates at end of volume 2, publisher's red morocco gilt, g.e., folio (370 x 265mm.), Waterlow & Sons, 1903Footnotes:RARE COMPLETE SET, ILLUSTRATED WITH STRIKING PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OF THE MAJOR INDIAN PRINCELY RULERS, in the original binding. The author 'visited all parts of India to collect and verify the necessary material, to enlist the co-operation of those concerned, and to arrange for the photographs which add so greatly both to the contemporary and historical value of the undertaking' (Preface). Each portrait, taken by an as yet unidentified photographer, is boldly composed and beautifully lit, with the sitters (full-length, seated or head and shoulders) dressed in their finery. This copy, like the only other full set traced at auction, was issued without the portrait of the Maharaja of Samthar. Provenance: Mysore 'Palace Library', stamp on title of volumes 1 and 3.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
MAWJEE (PURSHOTAM VISHRAM)The Imperial Durbar Album of the Indian Princes, Chiefs and Zamindars, 2 vol., FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, NUMBER 30 OF 300 COPIES, the number '30' stamped in purple ink with a facsimile signature of the author on the colophon leaf in volume 1, half-title in volume 2, 184 photogravure and collotype portrait plates (of 195, lacking 11 in volume 1, one loose), mounted one per page (recto only) on thick paper, most within a printed decorative border, tissue guards (some missing), publisher's blue cloth, gilt-stamped title and Royal coat of arms within wide decorative border on upper cover, blind-stamped decoration on lower cover, neatly rebacked in morocco gilt, folio (380 x 300mm.), Bombay [Mumbai], The Lakshmi Art Printing Works, 1911Footnotes:EXTREMELY RARE WORK PUBLISHED IN BOMBAY TO CELEBRATE THE IMPERIAL DURBAR OF 1911, with no copies recorded as selling at auction on Rare Book Hub or American Book Prices Current, only 2 copies on WorldCat. The colophon states that the work was limited to 300 copies, but it seems possible that the full print run was not issued. The Indian author, Mawjee Purshotam Mawujee, proudly notes in the preface that 'this work has been wholly executed and finished in this country, in the face of several unforeseen difficulties, and that, too, within a limited time'. Published in Bombay, the work was executed in the grand scale expected of such grandiose Durbar 'Princely Portrait' celebratory volumes, the portraits mounted on thick paper, and bound in a gilt-stamped binding, but it is noticeable that the work included, alongside the most major rulers, many minor rulers and regional zamindars not usually represented. The author acknowledges the assistance of 'political officers' who helped source the photographs and historical accounts of these, whilst other images are reproduced from famous photographic studios, including Herzog and Higgins, Bourne and Shepherd, F. Bremner, and Wiele & Klein.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
JEHAN BEGAM, H.H. THE NAWAB SULTAN, RULER OF BHOPALThe Story of a Pilgrimage to Hijaz, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'Sultan Jahan, 81-12-13' on title-page, 28 photographic plates, publisher's blue cloth gilt, spine faded, upper hinge weakened, 8vo, Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1909Footnotes:Rare detailed narrative of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina undertaken by Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal in 1903. The first part of the Sultan's narrative 'contains a brief geographical description of Arabia, to which is added a detailed account of the foundation of the holy Kaaba as well [as] the Prophet's mosque. The second book deals with events and incidents relating to my pilgrimage to Hijaz' (pp.11-12). On her return to Bhopal sacred relics were enshrined in the Asafi Masjid mosque, and a public holiday proclaimed on which all the mosques in the city were illuminated.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
A QUANTITY OF GIN: 1 x Broken Heart Gin, 40%, 70cl; 2 x Lighthouse Batch Distilled, 42%, 70cl; 1 x Ginnifers Golden Gin, 49%, 70cl; 1 x The West Winds 'The Sabre', 40%, 70cl; 1 x The West Winds 'The Cutlass' 50%, 70cl; 1 x The West Winds 'The Broadside' Navy Strength, 58%, 70cl; 2 x Four Pillars Rare Dry Gin, 41.8%, 70cl; 1 x Four Pillars 58.8 Navy Strength, 58.8%, 70cl; 1 x McHenry Navy Strength 57%, 70cl (11)
A QUANTITY OF GIN: 1 x Langton's of Skidday No. 1, 40%, 70cl; 1 x Steam Punk Extremely Rare, 40%, 70cl; 1 x Steam Punk Pirate, Rascal Strength, 45%, 50cl; 1 x Steam Punk Pirate, 45%, 70cl; 1 x Lakes Distillery The Lakes Gin, 43.7%, 70cl; 1 x Adnam's Copper House Small Batch, 40%, 70cl; 1 x Adnam's Copper House Dry Gin, 40%, 70cl; 1 x Adnam's Copper House First Rate, 48%, 70cl; 1 x Moorland Spirit Co. Hepple Gin, 45%, 70cl; 1 x Warner Edwards Harrington Dry Gin, 44%, 70cl; 1 x Warner Edwards Elderflower Infused Gin, 40%, 70cl (11)
A rare late 19th Century Hipkins Lever corkscrew, composed of a framed rack, central hinge to arm and a single concave lever, patented by William Edward Hipkins, on 6 August 1879, with patent number 3167, in England, it is marked 'G.F. HIPKINS & SON', on one side, and 'LEVER-RACK' on the other.
Larimar Solitaire Statement Ring, an oval cut, 12.75ct cabochon, of the beautifully mottled blue larimar, the rare stone found only in the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean; here in an unusually generous size, set above a halo of chevron textured green enamel, in platinum vermeil and silver; size P
Aliens Rare Stunning Cast & Crew Signed Poster. This is something stunning and very special, it is a must for any science fiction fan. It is a rare 20th Century Fox promo poster (36”x24”) for ‘Aliens’. Signed at a various marketing events in 2006 -2011 by Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Carrie Henn, James Horner (Composr), Gale Anne Hurd (Producer) and James Cameron (Director).
Richard Dreyfuss Signed Rare Mr Hollands Opus Quad Plus Composer. This item is very special indeed, and a extremely rare it is a must for any film or music fan. It is a first editioncinema quad poster for ‘Mr Hollands Opus’. It was signed at a London BAFTA event in 2000 by Richard Dreyfuss, it was later signed in 2001 by the late great composer Michael Kamen.
Richard Attenborough Rare Signed Quad Miracle On 34th Street Plus Director & Composer. This item is a very rare & special item, and a must for any movie fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for ‘Miracle on 34th Street’. It was signed at a private event in Ghent 2003 by Santa Claus himself Lord Richard Attenborough. It was later signed in LA by producer John Hughes and composer Bruce Broughton.
Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts Crimes Of Grindelwald Quad Fully Signed Inc J K RowlingThis item is a very rare & special item, and a must for any Harry Potter fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for ‘Fantastic Beasts Crimes Of Grindelwald’’. It was signed at the films UK Premiere and a number of marketing events by Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, James Newton Howard (Composer), David Yates (Director) and creator/writer J K Rowling.
Les Miserables Quad Signed By Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway & Rare Composer. This item is a very rare & special item, and a must for any movie or music fan. It is a first edition cinema quad poster for ‘Les Miserable’. It was signed at the films UK Premiere and an international BAFTA event by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and director Tom Hooper. At a private event the same year thecomposer Claude Michel Schonberg added his signature making this quite sought after.
Gene Hackman The French Connection Rare Poster Book Page Proof SignedThis item is very special indeed, it was a gift from the vendor's early career in the PR world…..it was signed for him and presented as a unique gift. He was involved in the marketing of a 70's classic cinema poster book published officially in 1998. Prior to thisoriginal proofs were done of various pages (each proof is 22.5 x 30cms in size) and were signed by some legendary people. The signatures were collected between 1997 when the proofs came out up to 2009 at various BAFTA events, press junkets, private fuctions and charity fund raisers.Each page proof (including this one) comes with an e-COA, Framed this would look STUNNING.
Peacock Quartz, Tanzanite and Garnet Statement Ring, a 13ct oval cut solitaire peacock quartz, flashing with purplish-blue to emerald green tones, held in place by claws created from the flower and leaf decoration set to the shoulders, which comprises flowers set with rare marquise cut tanzanites and red enamelled flowers centred with garnets; the whole set in 14ct gold vermeil, platinum vermeil and silver; an overall total of 14.5cts creating a noteably glamorous ring; size S
French 19th Century Rare and Early Terracotta Caricature Sculpture - Human Being with Monkey Features, Titled ' The Chastity of Joseph ' Taken From The Bible Story of Joseph and Potiphars Wife. Signed L. Desbords and Titled Le-Chaste Joseph. Height 5 Inches - 12.5 cms & Width 6 Inches - 15 cms. From a Gentleman's Private Collection.
Rotary Savannah Rare Two Tone Stainless Steel LCD - Analogue and Digital Chronograph Bracelet Watch. ETA 958 333 Movement, Features Dual Time, Chronograph, Gold Hands, White Textured Dial, Unusual In the Way It Functions, In That You Turn the Crown to Select Functions and Then Depress It To Activate Chronograph.
Shadowkite and Iolite Ring, a 6ct cushion cut cabochon of shadowkite, a South African mined stone comprising four different stones, mainly chrysocolla, which give a variety of shades of blue, from powder blue to dark turquoise; here this rare stone is framed with a mix of round cut, deep blue iolites and white topaz, which continue onto the shoulders; the whole set in platinum vermeil and silver; size R
Rockingham / Derby Rare and Early 19th Century Novelty - Comical Porcelainious Figure Group - Depicting a Drunken Couple Leaning on A Water Fountain In The Village Center. Titled In Gilt Work to Front ' Vy Sarah Your Drunk ' c.1820-1830. Wonderful Rich Colours and Condition for Age. Size 5.5 Inches - 13.75 cms High & 5 Inches - 12.5 cms Wide.
Collection of Royal Albert & Beswick Beatrix Potter Figures, comprising: Royal Albert: Mrs Rabbit & Bunnies, Tailor of Gloucester (some damage), and Jemima Puddleduck with Foxy Whiskered Gentleman. Beswick: Mr Benjamin Bunny, Lady Mouse, Fierce Bad Rabbit (feet out version, rare), Cecily Parsley (chipped ear), Benjamin Bunny, and Peter Rabbit. Nine figures in total, all vintage models.
* Third Reich. A collection of WWII German ephemera, comprising an archive belonging to Colonel C.M. Dodkins, CBE, DSO, an Intelligence Officer working for the British Army, the file is titled Danish members of SS Totenkopf and dated 8 February 1946, the report includes the interrogation of SS Sonder-Kommander, Danemark member Otto Schwerdt (1918-1975) who participated in the rescue of Mussolini, 60 typed A4 pages in a folder titled Waffen SS Danish Volunteers, together with another typed report titled Intermediate Interrogation Report, Prisoner O/Gruf Benno Martin dated 8 August 1945 and other related items plus a rare 1930s passport to a Jewish female, page 16 is stamped with a J red ink stamp and "'Entered Sept 1938 the "J" (Jew) as per Nazi Law for Jews also required to wear a yellow starQty: (4)
* Propeller. A rare FE8 four-blade propeller, the laminated mahogany propeller stamped F.E.8 FALCON AIRSCREW, GNG No 7928T, 100 GNOME, MONOSOUPAPE, D.M.D., with war department arrow, the brass sheathed blades all with D.M.D. London decal, 244cm acrossQty: (1)NOTESThe propeller was obtained by the current owner in the early 1970s from a chicken shed in Wales. It had previously been bought c.1918-20 to power a wind generator but was never used for that purpose. The owner had the propeller professionally restored by an ex DMD London workshop apprentice. The Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8. was a WWI British single-seat fighter it was powered by a Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine.
* Propeller. A rare WWI FE2b 4-blade mahogany pusher propeller c.1916, brass sheathed tips, various stamps including 160 HP BEARDMORE D2665 P2O20 C87IN73 A2325, approximately 267 x 267 cmQty: (1)NOTESA rare pusher propeller which was produced in very limited numbers mid 1916 to accommodate the Beardsmore engine. They were quickly superseded by a Rolls Royce upgrade.
* Doncaster 1909. A rare collection of early aviation ephemera relating to the Doncaster race meeting 1909 aviation meeting, comprising a complimentary press pass issued to the Hull Daily Mail, faintly inscribed with the recipient's name, a press badge designed by M. O'Connor, printed by Cosby Broom, London, a press photograph of Samuel Cody flying the Cody Biplane plus a Supplement to the Doncaster Gazette showing photographs of the eventQty: (4)
* WWI RFC. Toy Aeroplane Hangar By Lines Bros., circa 1916, a rare and large painted wooden toy model of an airfield hangar, having glazed tinplate windows and dual-fold double doors, bearing Lines Bros. printed tinplate mark frontis and with applied RFC cap-badge and stencilled squadron marking to rear panel, (one door detached & flag-pole later replacements), together with two period biplane & triplane model aeroplanes, 24 x 24 in (60 x 60 cm)Qty: (3)
Churchill (Winston Spencer). India: Speeches and an Introduction, 1st edition, Thornton Butterworth, 1931, original orange cloth with 'INDIA - CHURCHILL' blocked vertically down the spine, dust-soiled and spine slightly faded, 8voQty: (1)NOTESWoods A38. The rare hardbound copies of the first edition appear in two variants with the black lettering on the spines blocked horizontally or, as here, vertically. The very rare dust jacket (not present here) is identical for both these variants.
* Pflaz D.XII. A rare aircraft data plate, circa 1918, the tin aircraft date plate engraved with rigging guide detail, 16 x 12cmQty: (1)NOTESA rare piece once fixed to the fuselage of the Pflaz D.XVII c.1918. The Pflaz D.XII was a German fighter aircraft built by Pflaz Flugeugwerke. It was designed by Rudolph Gehringer and was supplied in significant numbers toward the end of WWI. It was a highly effective fighter aircraft but hugely overshadowed by the Fokker D.VII.
* Propeller. A fine WWI RNAS Fairy Hamble Baby two-blade propeller, the laminated mahogany propeller stamped AD 555 B R H, D2590, P2590, 100, 130 HP CLERGET, G85 N1, with brass sheathed tip, and the boss with 8 threaded bolts each with nut, a fine and rare piece measuring approximately 360cm longQty: (1)NOTESThe Fairey Hamble Baby was a British single-seat patrol floatplane designed and built by Fairey Aviation for the Royal Naval Air Service from 1916 onwards.
* Aviation Postcards. A superb private collection of aircraft postcards, housed in 17 albums and comprising of over 1300 cards along with a miscellaneous selection of approximately 300 photographs/cut-outs from around the world, as well as aircraft postcards there is also a good selection of airport scenes and includes many old and rare examplesQty: (1 box)
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