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Lot 512
Carl Giles. A collection of twelve hand carved & painted wooden Giles character figures.The set of figures were awarded to 'Angela Elliott' for being one of six winners of the Giles Family Contest, accompanied with the figures are a Giles signed prize winners luncheon menu (dated 1971); a signed Giles Christmas Card; a black & white photograph of Angela Elliott with Carl Giles receiving the figures with an accompanying newspaper article & a letter from the woodcarvers, some cracking to Ma & the baby is missing a hand, height 39cm approx. & smaller. A very rare opportunity to own a highly desirable piece of Giles history. Consigned by the competition winner.
Lot 618
A RARE CASED 40 CALIBRE UNDER HAMMER PERCUSSION BOOT PISTOL BY AMERICAN GUN MAKER WILLIAM ASHTON, CONNETICUT. THE PISTOL HAS A VERY GOOD BORE WITH BRASS FRAME AND BAY SHAPED WALNUT GRIPS AND THE NAME ASHTON ON TOP FLAT OF BARREL. THESE GUNS WERE USED BY GOLD MINERS & GAMBLERS AND WERE CARRIED IN THE WIDE BOOTS THAT THEY WORE AND THE GUN COULD BE DRAWN WHILE KNEELING DOWN. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT WORKING EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE GUN AND IT IS CONTAINED IN ITS MAHOGANY CASE WITH ACCESSORIES.
Lot 29
Giornali scientifici/Scientific Journals. Brugnatelli Luigi Valentino. Biblioteca Fisica d'Europa. T. I [-XX ed ultimo della collezione]. Padova, Dalle Stampe del R.I. Monastero di S. Salvatore, 1788-1791. 20 volumi in-8° (mm 210x130). Frontespizio calcografico nei Tomi I-VI, vignetta incisa su rame al frontespizio dal Tomo VII al XII. Testatine silografiche. Complessive cinque tavole calcografiche, di cui una ripiegata. Duplicato dei fascicoli A e B del Tomo XV rilegati per errore nel tomo XVIII tra le pagine 48 e 49. Brossura editoriale omogenea in carta gialla stampata in nero. Diffusi segni di polvere, strappi sui bordi dei piatti e ai dorsi, con mende, gore e abrasioni.Set completo, in brossura editoriale uniforme, di questa pubblicazione periodica curata dal noto farmacista e scienziato Valentino Brugnatelli (1761-1818). La Biblioteca Fisica d'Europa giocò un ruolo di primo piano nella diffusione in Italia delle teorie e delle scoperte scientifiche più innovative. 20 volumes, 8° (210x130 mm). Engraved titles to volumes I-VI, engraved title-vignette to volumes VII-XII, 5 engraved plates (one folding), volume XVIII with the dedicatory letter to the printer G.B. Bodoni facing title and with duplicate first 2 quires of volume XV bound in by mistake. Uncut in original yellow printed wrappers, slightly worn, especially to spine ends, and soiled. First edition. Scarce complete set, in original publisher's wrappers, of the rare Biblioteca Fisica d'Europa, edited by the well-known Italian pharmacist and great science populariser Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli (1761-1818). The journal played an important role in the diffusion in Italy of new scientific theories and discoveries, offering striking evidence of the growing readership in the age of the Enlightenment.
Lot 12
Disegno industriale/Machinery. Leblanc César-Nicolas-Louis. Choix de modèles appliqués à l'enseignement de dessin des machines, avec un Texte descriptif... Nouvelle édition. Paris, Veuve Leblanc e Augustin Mathias, 1838-1839.Set composto di un volume di testo e 60 tavole incise Testo: 22 fascicoli di testo (mm 276x221; [4],176, [2] pagine), conservati sciolti in chemise editoriale originale stampata in nero, e recante l'anno 1839 quale data di stampa (strappetti ai margini e qualche piccola mancanza). Fascicoli in buono stato di conservazione, in barbe. Bruniture marginali, fioriture, qualche piccola macchia. Tavole: 60 tavole incise sciolte (mm 312x450; battuta mm 286x400), disegnate e incise dallo stesso Leblanc, e numerate 1-60; la tavola nr. 60 in coloritura originale. Margini bianchi bruniti e con tracce di polvere. Fioriture, occasionali macchie di inchiostro, piccoli strappi ai margini bianchi, più evidenti alle tavole nr. 58 e 60 ma mai lesivi della superficie grafica; margine interno della tavola nr. 59 rifilato in corrispondenza della linea di battuta, senza alcuna perdita. La seconda edizione di questo celeberrimo manuale per il disegno industriale, opera fondamentale nella storia dell'ingegneria che assicurò fama al suo autore, il disegnatore e incisore César-Nicolas-Louis Leblanc (1787-1835), docente presso il Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers di Parigi. Il set si compone di 60 grandi tavole incise disegnate e incise dallo stesso Leblanc, a cui si accompagna un volume di testo a fascicoli sciolti (Texte descriptif) a descrizione e spiegazione delle tavole. La prima edizione della Choix de modèles appliquès à l'enseignement du dessin des machines apparve nel 1830, riscuotendo un immediato e vasto successo. Numerosi i disegnatori industriali e ingegneri che si formarono presso l'atelier di Leblanc, e tra i suoi allievi spicca il nome di Eugène Armengaud (vedi lotto precedente).Set della Choix de modèles completi - come nel caso del lotto qui presentato - di tutte le sessanta tavole - sono estremamente rari sul mercato. L. André, César Nicolas Leblanc et le dessin des machines, "Les Cahiers d'histoire du CNAM", 1994, pp. 71-92. Set comprising of one volume of text and 60 engraved plates.Text: 22 quires of text (276x221 mm; [4],176, [2] pages), preserved unbound in original publisher's chemise printed in black, and bearing the publication date '1839'. quale data di stampa (minor tears and a few losses to the board edges). Quires in good condition, uncut. Marginal browning and foxing, some small stains.Plates: 60 engraved plates (312x450 mm; platemark 286x400 mm), drawn and engraved by Leblanc, and numbered 1-60; plate no. 60 in its original colouring. Blank margins browned and dusted. Foxing, sporadic ink stains, short tears to the blank margins, more prominent to plates nos. 58 and 60, not affecting the graphic surface. Right side of plate no. 59 cut along the platemark line, without any loss. The second edition of this famous and influential textbook for industrial drawing, a milestone in the history of engineering, published by the renowned engraver and designer César-Nicolas-Louis Leblanc (1787-1835), who lectured at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The set includes 60 large plates drawn and engraved by Leblanc himself, supplemented with a volume entitled (Texte descriptif), which describes and explains the illustrative apparatus. The first edition of the Choix de modèles appliquès à l'enseignement du dessin des machines had appeared in 1830, and its success was immediate and wide. In his atelier Leblanc trained numerous engineers, among them the name of Eugène Armengaud stands out (see previous lot).Set of the Choix de modèles complete - as here - with all the plates are exceedingly rare on the market. L. André, "César Nicolas Leblanc et le dessin des machines", Les Cahiers d'histoire du CNAM, 1994, pp. 71-92.
Lot 11
Disegno industriale/Machinery. Armengaud Eugène. Publication industrielle des machines, outils et appareils les plus perfectionnés et les plus récents employés dans les différentes branches de l'industrie française et étrangere... [Textes e Planches]. Paris, Armengaud aîné, 1842-1848. Set composto di 6 volumi di testo e sei albums di tavole.Testo: 6 volumi in-8° grande (mm 271x175). I. [4], 530 pagine. II. 31 di 35 fascicoli sciolti, mancano i fascicoli 15-18; [4], 214, [3], 273-492 pagine. III. 35 fascicoli sciolti; [4], 537, [5] pagine. IV. 34 di 35 fascicoli sciolti, manca il fascicolo 10, il fascicolo 13 è doppio (e qui non considerato nella paginazione) ; [4], LII, 1-136, 153-476 pagine. V. [4], 472 pagine. VI. [4], 512 pagine. Ogni volume corredato di numerose tabelle nel testo. In buono stato di conservazione, fascicoli chiusi. Usuale brunitura delle carte (più marcata nei volumi 2 e 3), tracce di polvere, fioriture marginali, qualche alone e segno d'uso. I volumi 1, 5 e 6 legati in brossura editoriale originale, stampata in nero. Conservata la brossura originale anche dei volumi 2, 3 e 4 a fascicoli sciolti. Evidenti aloni, bruniture e tracce di polvere alle brossure. Strappi, distacchi e mancanze ai piatti, angoli e dorsi dei primi tre volumi. Al dorso di ogni volume etichetta cartacea con segnatura tardo ottocentesca in inchiostro.Tavole: 240 tavole sciolte incise su acciaio (mm 311x480; battuta mm 389x393), divise in 6 albums comprendente ognuno 40 tavole; in apertura bifolio con frontespizio e indice delle tavole contenute. In buono stato di conservazione. Fioriture e tracce di polvere ai margini bianchi; marcata e uniforme brunitura alle tavole comprese negli albums 1 e 2. Ogni serie di tavole in brossura editoriale originale, evidenti danni, bruniture e mancanze. Una fondamentale testimonianza della vivace cultura ingegneristica che si sviluppò nella Francia dell'Ottocento: la rara prima serie della rivista Publication industrielle, edita tra il 1841 e il 1890 da Eugène Armengaud (1810-1891), una delle più interessanti e influenti iniziative didattiche nel campo del disegno industriale. Della rivista uscivano 10 fascicoli l'anno, a formare un volume poi corredato da un album o Atlas comprendente 40 tavole di grande formato. Il set qui offerto comprende i fascicoli pubblicati da Armengaud tra il 1842 e 1848. I volumi di testo contengono la descrizione di centinaia e centinaia di macchine e brevetti industriali, una scelta dei quali è poi illustrato negli albums di tavole, disegnate dallo Armengaud, e incise da diversi artisti su papier vélin.Armengaud fu allievo del noto disegnatore e incisore César-Nicolas-Louis Leblanc (vedi lotto successivo), nonché un affermato ingegnere attivo nel settore privato. Fu socio della fabbrica di macchinari fondata dal suocero, attività che non gli impedì di ricoprire la cattedra di disegno industriale presso il Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers di Paris. E. Kranakis, Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-century France and America, Cambridge, MA-London 1997, pp. 276-277. Set comprising 6 volumes of text and 6 albums of plates.Text: 6 volumes, large 8° (271x175 mm). I. [4], 530 pages. II. 31 of 35 loose quires, lacking quires signed 15-18; [4], 214, [3], 273-492 pages. III. [4], 537, [5] pages. IV. 34 of 35 loose quires, lacking quire signed 10 (a second example of quire 13 is inserted, which we have not not included in the pagination); [4], LII, 1-136, 153-476 pages. V. [4], 472 pages. VI. [4], 512 pages. In each volumes numerous tables in text. In good condition, unopened quires. Browning as expected (more prominent to vols. 2 and 3). Dusting and marginal foxing; a few spots and traces of use. The vols. 1, 5 and 6 bound in original publisher's wrappers, printed in black. The volumes 2, 3 and 4 are unbound, preserved the publisher's wrappers. Wrappers heavily spotted, browned and dusted. Tears and losses to covers, corners and spine of vols. 1, 2 and 3. Spines with paper label bearing late 19th-century inked shelfmark.Plates: 240 loose steel engraved plates plates (311x480 mm; platemark 389x393 mm), divided into 6 albums, each including 40 plates and opening with a bifolium with title-page and index of the plates. In good condition. Blank margins foxed and dusted; the plates included in albums 1 and 2 uniformly and heavily browned. Each series of plates in its original publisher's wrappers, printed in black; browning, wears and losses.A fundamental piece of evidence of engineering culture in 19th-century France: the rare first series of the journal Publication industrielle edited between 1841 and 1890 by Eugène Armengaud (1810-1891). One of the most interesting and influential didactic works on machine drawing. Armengaud published ten issues of text annually, supplemented with an album or Atlas including each 40 plates. The present set offers the issues appeared between 1842 and 1848, in their original publisher's wrappers. The volumes offer the detailed description of hundreds and hundreds of machines and patents, and each of them is supplemented with the album contaning forty plates drawn by Armengaud, and engraved by various artists on vélin paper.Armengaud was a disciple of the renowned designer and engraver César-Nicolas-Louis Leblanc (see next lot) and a leading French engineer from the private sector. He was partner in the machine-building firm founded by his father-in-law, and taught Machine Drawing at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. E. Kranakis, Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-century France and America, Cambridge, MA-London 1997, pp. 276-277.
Lot 30
Substantial fragment of a codex of Ugolinus Pisanus, Philogenia, in Latin, manuscript on paper with an apparently unrecorded example of a domestic cat among its watermarks [Italy, second quarter of fifteenth century] 25 leaves, formed from two complete quires of 8 leaves each, plus four further bifolia and a singleton, all with single column of 14 lines in a rounded Italian gothic bookhand showing influence of early humanist hands, many interlinear near-contemporary and later additions supplying alternative readings, capitals touched in red, rubrics and simple initials in red (two with red penwork), other marginalia by main hand in blocks in tiny script, some nota bene marks including pointing hands, numerous other scribbles and later marginal drawings of a long bearded man in olive-brown ink and three dice in black ink, some borders cut away, stains, spots and damage to edges of leaves, overall fair and legible condition, 210 by 145mm.; kept loose in later boards These leaves are most probably all that remain of a codex of this notably rare work, the first humanist comedy. It was written in the early 1430s by Ugolinus Pisanus (d. 1445/50), the jurist and humanist scholar of Parma. The author travelled widely as a teacher in Eastern Europe, Croatia, Hungary and Russia, and was crowned an imperial poet by Sigismund of Luxemburg. He was close to several leading humanists, including such grand names as Pier Candido Decembrio, Antonio Panormita and Francesco Filelfo. The text tells the story of a love affair in which a young wife, Filogenia, contrives to meet her young lover, Epifebo, without arousing the suspicions of her husband, the farmer Gobio, drawing in a raft of supporting characters such as the girl’s parents, the young lover’s friends, the farmer’s brother, as well as prostitutes, peasants, servants and foremost the Friar Prodigio, whose role is to scandalously give the girl absolution from her sins. It is recorded in only thirty-six manuscripts (see entry for author in Dizionario BWhat is most fascinating here is that a few of the last leaves have a motif in their watermark which is apparently unrecorded anywhere else: a domestic cat. Briquet lists possible cats under the group title “Chat, léopard, lion, tigre”, but they are all great growling things with muscular upper bodies which indicate that members of the great cat family are intended. The Zonghi survey includes no felines beyond seven seated spotty leopards (A.F. Gasparinetti, Zonghi’s Watermarks, 1953, nos. 1250-56). Here the feline is evidently small and soft in its proportions, and nonchalantly strolls across the page in the fashion of a domestic cat. Its model was perhaps an actual pet that lived in the buildings used by the paper manufacturers some five hundred years ago, and through some friendship struck up with the artisan who prepared the wire tool for the paper press, ended up being immortalised in the paperstock.
Lot 66
ƟVita di Filippo Strozzi, in Italian, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy (probably Florence), first decades of seventeenth century] 190 leaves (plus two paper endleaves at each end), apparently complete, single column of 17 lines in a loose and scrawling italic hand, major section breaks with titles in larger ornamental script, frontispiece with pen-drawn portrait of Filippo Strozzi as a bearded nobleman in armour, set in a cabouchon loosely wrapped in sumptuous cloth and above a pedestal with the title of the work, a few small spots, else in excellent condition, 125 by 93mm.; contemporary binding of parchment over pasteboards, title in pen on spine, front board with “N:16” in pen Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538) was an influential banker and trader of Florence, who came to rival the Medici, probably organised the assassination of one of its dukes and attempted to wrest control over Florence away from them by military might. He took control over his family’s company as a youth and steered it so successfully that in a single lifetime his fortunes threatened to eclipse that of the Medici, forging a commercial empire from Naples to the Atlantic. In the face of this commercial threat the Medici agreed to an alliance cemented by the marriage of Filippo to Clarice de’ Medici in 1508. He fostered the celebrated Catherine de’ Medici in his house in Rome, as well as Lorenzino de’ Medici. Tensions returned after the death of Clarice and the rise to power of Duke Alessandro de Medici, and Filippo most probably organised and encouraged Lorenzino’s assassination of his own cousin, Duke Alessandro. Filippo then tried to overthrow Medici rule of Florence using French troops, but failed and was imprisoned in 1537, where he died a year later (perhaps from murder or suicide: the prayer, Deo liberatori, included here as an appendix on fol. 181v-183r, sets Filippo up as a born again Cato, taking his own life to preserve the honour of his family). This life was written by Filippo’s brother Lorenzo, but circulated anonymously. The autograph survives in Florence in the Laurenziana, and it was not published until 1728 as an appendix to Varchi’s, Storia fiorentina (there in a form quite different to that here). It is rare in manuscript. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 38
ƟReadings for masses throughout the entire liturgical year according to the Eastern Calendar, with Kalophonic Greek musical notation, and notes on the use of this form of notation, decorated manuscript on paper [Byzantium, fifteenth or sixteenth century] 222 leaves (plus 2 thin paper endleaves at front and one at back), wanting a few single leaves throughout (stubs often revealing original position), single column of 10 lines of hairline thin Greek minuscule with accompanying musical notation in broad dark penstrokes, additional ‘great signs’ (megala semaia) and martyria in thin red penstrokes, rubrics in Greek in faded red, some sections crossed out by original user, capitals infilled with large red dots, some red initials with floral sprays in margin, significant openings with cascading red floral sprays in margin, major texts opening with ornamental penwork headbands touched in diluted ink wash, spots, stains, some small worm damage and discolouration to first leaf, else in good condition, 140 by 95mm.; early binding of plain pasteboards (perhaps remnant of a parchment covered binding, now much affected on outer surfaces from worm damage), exposed spine varnished at some point, solid in binding This volume contains the readings for the liturgy for the Eastern liturgical calendar in Greek, glossed throughout with their appropriate Kalophonic musical notation, with the additional ‘great signs’ (megala semaia) in thin red penstrokes. This form of musical notation was the norm in Byzantium from the mid-twelfth century until the beginning of the modern period. Unlike Western notation, Byzantine music does not employ a stave to show the relative position of the notes on a set grade, but places them in relative position to those that precede it, indicating whether the note is higher or lower than that before (like Western neumes). The fixed pitch is established by the insertion of special signs, the martyria, to indicate this (like the use of a Western clef). The first six leaves here contain some brief description of the various uses of such symbols. Such manuscripts are rare to the market. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 35
ƟIbn Shaddad, History of Aleppo (Izz' al-Din Ibn Shaddad, Al-A'lak al-Khafira fi Dikr Umara al-Sham wa al-Jazeera), in Arabic, produced for patron in France, decorated manuscript on paper [probably Aleppo or perhaps Constantinople, dated Rabi al-thani 1079 AH (September 1688 AD)] 196 leaves, plus 4 endpapers, complete, single column, 13 lines in black naskh, headings and important phrases in red, exceptionally clean copy, nineteenth-century ink inscriptions to endpapers in English, 215 by 155 mm.; contemporary morocco over pasteboards, stamped and ruled in blind with decorative medallions to centre of covers, but without flap, ruled in blind, early inscription “No 4” in black ink to upper cover, edges worn with loss to leather, revealing Arabic manuscript leaves compacted to reuse as pasteboards An exceptionally rare example of a text in Arabic, produced for a European (here probably from Lyon, France) on western paper; still in its contemporary ‘Western-style’ Arabic binding Provenance:1. Produced in the Near East in 1688 for a French patron, and then sent back to Europe: the text was copied and the codex bound in the Near East, but the Arabic penmanship is in an obviously simple style (probably to accommodate a reader who might not be fluent in the nuances of contemporary Arabic calligraphy), and the binding was produced without a flap, like Western and Greek bindings. Most crucially, the double watermark of a bunch of grapes and a fleur-de-lys set above a banderole with initials (here “D. D”) place this in a tight knit group of grape watermarks which centre on France (more specifically Paris, Lyon and regions of coastal southern France) in the second half of the sixteenth century and the seventeenth century, and is extremely close to Briquet 13206 (Lyons, 1630). Moreover, this copy is dedicated in its colophon to a king “Lawus al-ma'rouf bubin” (Louis the great/famous de Bourbon, ie. King Louis XIV ‘the Sun King’, who reigned from 1654 to 1715), who is “al-Roumi'” among the ‘Romans’ (most probably meaning non-Arabs and non-Greeks). There were Arabists in France from the 1530s onwards, and both Lyon and Paris were active in the teaching and printing of Arabic from the second half of the sixteenth century. The present volume was most probably commissioned for a member of the academic community in Lyon. Surviving examples of such commissions are exceedingly rare, and only one other is known to us: an Arabic translation of the works of Apollonius of Perga (lost in the original Greek), copied in the same simple script in Aleppo for the seventeenth-century Leiden scholar Jacobus Golius (Arabic Studies in the Netherlands, 2014, p. 42, with pl. on 44)2. By the nineteenth century the book was in England, receiving its English titles on both its first and last endleaves, as well as an apparent price in £s, shillings and pence on its back pastedown.3. Bengt Schönbäck of Sweden: his bookplate on back pastedown, and with brief pencil descriptions in that language on endleaf. Text:Ibn Shaddad (1217-1285) served the Ayyubid dynasty as an official in Aleppo, and is best known for this text, which contains a historical geography of Syria and Upper Mesopotamia. It was written while in exile in Egypt after the Mongol invasion of Syria in 1260. This volume names its contents as the Tarikh Ibn Shaddad fi Haleb, an alternative short title to that given above. Binding:The binding here is distinctively Near Eastern, and the boards are composed from seventeenth-century Arabic manuscript leaves. However, a 20mm. long section of the original leather of the outermost edge of the back board shows that this binding cannot have ever had a flap. This probably represents an attempt by an Arabic bookbinder to bind in the style of Western books, as part of this highly individual commission for a Western Arabist. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 29
Dante Alighieri, Commedia: Inferno X, 1-90, in Tuscan Italian, single leaf from a decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy (probably Tuscany), last quarter of fourteenth century or very early fifteenth century] Single leaf, with single column of 45 lines in brown ink an early semi-humanist hand of highest grade (written space: 177 by 78mm.), with some near-contemporary corrections changing spellings and entire readings of words in hairline thin black ink, capitals set in margin apart from main lines and touched in red, remnants of Canzo number ‘X’ in upper outer corner of text in red, one large initial ‘O’ (opening “Ora sen va per un secreto …”) in red enclosed within swirling blue penwork with long whip-like tendrils reaching into the margins in sweeping curves and vertical penstrokes encased within other curling tendrils (close to those in another fourteenth-century Dante manuscript: Perugia, Biblioteca Comunale, MS. 818; see also that now Cortona, Biblioteca Comunale e dell'Accademia Etrusca, MS. 88, also of fourteenth century), one 5-line fifteenth-century marginal addition on reverse on Farinata’s connections with the Ghibelline faction (glossing verses 87-89), recovered from reuse in a binding and hence with losses at corners and edges, some worm damage and discolouration, a few lines of text damaged but mostly legible, overall in fair and presentable condition, 275 by 205mm. A nearly emergent leaf from the most important literary work of the entire Middle Ages, with numerous orthographic and textual variants Provenance:This is most probably all the remains of a high grade manuscript written and decorated for a wealthy patron in the last quarter of fourteenth century, probably in Tuscany. The measured and elegant semi-humanist script puts the parent manuscript among the very finest products of fourteenth-century vernacular book production, and sets this quite apart from the more common ‘Cento’ group mass-copied in Florence in the same period. As such it represents a rare opportunity for study of a de luxe copy of the text produced outside the homogenous Cento group in a centre probably far from Florence. 2. Recently discovered in an Italian collection, and with an export license from that country. Previously unknown and unrecorded by scholarship. Text:Some works of medieval literature have made such an impact in the collective cultural heritage of the West that they have touched the lives of almost every generation of readers since their composition. Chaucer is in this category, as perhaps is Wolfram von Eschenbach, Rudolf von Emms, Christine de Pisan, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, and for northern Europe, we might add also add Snorri Sturluson. Paramount among this small and select gathering of names is that of Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321), the foremost poet of the Italian language, whose works all but founded the modern Italian. This leaf is from what is widely regarded to be the most important literary work of the entire Middle Ages, the grand and exquisitely beautiful Divine Comedy. It was completed by 1321 in the last months of the author’s life and found immediate fame. Echoes of his work are legion and found throughout European literature from the fourteenth century to today, from Boccaccio’s evident devotion in his Trattatello in laude di Dante, to T.S. Eliot’s statement “Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third”. Jorge Luis Borges declared it “the best book literature has achieved”. By happy chance, this leaf contains the celebrated opening of Canto X of the Inferno, in which the author enters the sixth circle of Hell, that inhabited by heretics, and talks with Farinata degli Uberti (who denied life after death, and was exhumed and tried posthumuously in 1283) and Cavalcante Cavalcanti (probably an atheist, whose son, Guido, was Dante’s closest friend and arguably his poetic master, and who married the daughter of Farinata) as they lie in their fiery tombs that sit unsealed until after the last judgment. Within the history of the appreciation of the work, this section is among those most widely studied and contemplated; the great philologist Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) devoted a famous chapter of his masterwork Mimesis (1946) to this episode. This leaf has numerous orthographic and textual variants (unmarked in the transcription above), and these are completely unstudied. Over 800 medieval manuscripts and fragments have now been recorded by the ‘Dante online’ project, but they have been obsessively sought after for several centuries by collectors and grand institutional libraries alike, and are of enormous rarity on the market. Only a handful of codices have emerged on the market in the last century, the last in Sotheby’s on 25 June 1985, lot 82. The same house sold a single leaf with erased text only readable under UV light from a palimpsest manuscript, on 17 December 1991, lot 6; and a damaged leaf with a miniature recovered from a binding, on 1 December 1998, lot 16. To this should be added another leaf from a binding that emerged recently in Forum Auctions, London, on 25 January 2017, lot 118 (realising £14,000 hammer).
Lot 1
The Evangelist John, with his attribute and pointing to a copy of his Gospel, with a single Latin word “Iohannis” in Insular capitals, on a silver cornerpiece from an Anglo-Saxon bookbinding [England, seventh to ninth century (most probably ninth century)] Silver cornerpiece, formed to fit around one outer corner of a bookbinding, with niello carving in surface showing John standing within a roundel pointing to an open book, with his attribute of an eagle peeping around his right shoulder, “IO/HA/NNIS” in Phase II Insular capitals over his left shoulder, three animal masks (probably two roaring bears and a snake with bulging eyes) at interior corners, the bears with pouncing to their muzzles, the open eyes of these animals serving as holes for the pins to hold the piece to the book board, 30mm. square A fine example of high-grade Anglo-Saxon metalwork, most probably from a key moment in English history: the Viking invasions and the repelling of those by King Alfred Provenance: 1. From the binding of a de luxe Anglo-Saxon codex, most probably a Gospel Book of the ninth century. An archaeo-metallurgical report by Dr. Brian Gilmour (employing energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence and photomicroscopy of micro-cracking to the surface) indicates that this item is of an early medieval date, with trace impurities of copper and lead probably due to the reuse of impure scrap silver in its production. It may have been originally gilded, having a surprisingly high 8.9% gold reading on its surface (against 0.64% from section analysis). This use of gold, as well as the close stylistic comparisons with other refined examples of Anglo-Saxon metalwork (see below) sets this among the finer products of ninth-century England. The ninth century saw many opportunities for the breaking down of earlier bindings into their component scrap parts, and also for the production of the parent book of this decoration. Viking attack swept across England in the first half of the ninth century, bringing all states there to their knees, with the exception of Wessex. Much metalwork must have been seized by the invaders, and many communities must have been left without essential Christian books. In the last decades of that century, Alfred brought this onslaught to a stop, and turned his attention to a necessary renaissance of Christian knowledge and book production, most famously sending a copy of Gregory’s Cura Pastoralis in English translation, to every bishopric in the country with “an aestel [perhaps pointer] worth 50 mancuses [the equivalent of a half a pound of gold].” The present piece may have been taken from a codex during the invasions and lost, or been part of a new codex copied to replace one lost during the invasions.2. From an English collection, and previously in the Don Lee antiquities collection before 1990. Text and art style:The Latin inscription here is in Phase II style Insular capitals, those stemming from the display script developed in a Hiberno-Saxon context c. 700, and used in England from the eighth century to somewhere in the ninth century. In manuscript art they are found most prominently in the Book of Cerne (Mercia, ninth century; Cambridge University Library, MS. Ll.I.10), and in metalwork in the inscription (again for John the Evangelist) on a gold niello plaque of almost the same dimensions and doubtless also from a book binding (now British Museum M&LA 1978, 1-1,1: reproduced in L. Webster and J. Backhouse, The Making of England, 1991, no. 66a, pp. 82-83). In these two cases as well as the present one the capitals are thin and angular with an ‘A’ whose second stroke extends above the apex of the letter and curves to the left. All that separates them are minor features (here the leaning cross bars of the ‘N’s are higher than those of the others and the lowermost stroke of the ‘S’ is diagonal rather than sitting on the horizontal line) or paleographical aspects set by the media the scribe was working in (the Book of Cerne has long curling penstrokes at the end of its descenders, while the metalwork examples are necessarily shorter and squatter). In style the figure of the evangelist on the present piece shows great affinity with the central figure of the Fuller Brooch (Making of England, no. 257, pp. 280-281), but without the animal-like downturned ears and pointed nose of that figure. In addition, the eagle that peeks around our figure with its down-turned mouth and diamond shaped eye finds close parallel on the gold niello plaque noted above. The wide staring eyes and dispassionate flat-line mouth in the present piece are a common feature of the depiction of forward facing portraits in early medieval art, which endured until the late tenth century in the Anglo-Saxon book arts (compare, among many others, the Christ in Majesty page in the Codex Amiatinus, made before 716, Monkwearmouth/Jarrow: Making of England, no. 88, p. 124; and the depiction of Cassiodorus in Durham Cathedral Library, MS. B.II.30, eighth century, Northumbria: ibid., no. 89, p. 125). At the time of this sale, the British Library will be hosting the largest and most important exhibition Anglo-Saxon codices, fragments and artefacts to happen to date, with the celebrated Codex Amiatinus returning to Britain for the first time in 1300 years. It is impossible to prove, but tempting to speculate, that this small ornament may once have been on the binding of one of the codices in that exhibition, or at least one as elegant and opulent as the finer examples there. Examples of Anglo-Saxon metalwork with any script on the open market are rare, and those of comparable quality breathtakingly so.
Lot 56
ƟGalen, Ars medicinalis in the translation of Johannitus (Hunayn ibn Ishaq) with commentary, here in Catalan translation, decorated manuscript on paper [Spain (Catalonia, probably Barcelona), c. 1475] 26 leaves (plus an original paper endleaf at each end, and including 2 blank leaves at end of main text), complete, collation: i-ii12, catchword, double column of 32 lines in an angular Iberian gothic bookhand, the uppermost lines with elongated ascenders, Johannitus’ commentary set in margins in main hand, openings of each section in angular capitals with some ascenders touched in red, paragraph marks and rubrics in bright red (some rubrics with calligraphic penstrokes), simple blue initials on frontispiece with black penwork, spaces left for remaining initials (with tiny guide letters), small spots in places, else excellent condition, 290 by 204mm.; contemporary limp parchment binding with flap and leather ties on flap and front board, stains and cockling, overall in good condition, in fitted red morocco slipcase The only known copy of this rare translation of Galen’s works in private hands, in outstanding condition and still in its original binding Provenance:1. Written for a medical practitioner in Catalonia c. 1475; with a mostly erased contemporary inscription on the front cover reading “Adam … A[…]tarius” probably in the same hand as that of the near-contemporary additions at the end of the volume.2. Joan Gili i Serra (1907-1998), Anglo-Catalan antiquarian bookdealer of Dolphin Bookshop off the Charing Cross Road, London, and later Oxford, as well as an important Catalan publisher and translator. Text:Johannitus, or more correctly Hunayn ibn Ishaq, was a Christian born near Baghdad in the opening years of the ninth century. He made full use of his medical studies in the intellectual capital of the Abbasid caliphate, and having mastered Syriac, Latin and Greek in addition to his native Arabic, he turned his hand to translation, producing Syriac and Arabic translations of crucial Greek medical texts. A collection of these texts, named the Articella, was perhaps translated into Latin by Constantinus Africanus in the eleventh century and certainly was in use in the famous Salerno medical school a century later. This produced the first major medical textbook in the West, the Isagoge Johanniti, which included the Galenic Tegni (in fact his Ars Medica). This spread outwards from northern Italy in the fourteenth century, and in the University of Montpellier it entered the collective knowledge of educated Catalan society. Montpellier was part of the territory of the crown of Aragon, and under the influence of the kings of Mallorca from 1276, and operated as a meeting point for educated Catalans and Italians. It became the second most important site for the study of medicine in the West in the Middle Ages, after Guilhem VIII established a medical scholarly milieu there by declaring in 1180 that anyone could teach the subject within the walls of the city, and teaching by physician-monks of the various religious communities there was augmented by Arabic and Jewish doctors. On 17 August 1220 the professors resident in the city founded a Univeratas Medicorum and immediately thereafter Cardinal Conrad von Urach, legate of Pope Honorius III (1148-1227), granted the school its charter. By 1240 the school was placed under the control of the bishop of Maguelonne, but teaching continued along the model of Arabic medical schools, and some sections of the learned Christian population there are recorded as being able to speak Arabic. With the collapse of the Salerno school in the mid-thirteenth century, Montpellier received an influx of teachers and rose to being the centre of medical learning in Europe. The Isagoge Johanniti was one of only sixteen prescribed medical works for all students in Montpellier. That culturally mixed and linguistically complex environment is the almost certain site of this translation of the work. It was made before 1399 (when first mention is made of it), and it was perhaps an attempt to produce a Catalan version for arriving students from Barcelona. It survives in three medieval manuscripts only, in addition to the present one: (i) Paris, BnF., ms. Espanol 508 (mid-fifteenth century); (ii) Vatican, BAV, ms. lat. 4797 (fragmentary, dated 1476); and (iii) Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, ms. 239 (late fifteenth century, and copied from the Vatican manuscript). To these should probably be added an independent translation of the work into Catalan that survives only in Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, ms. 881 (after 1459). No copy is recorded outside of institutional ownership.The manuscript here includes all of Galen’s seven sections of his text, on the elements of the body (here fol. 1r): blood, phlegm, choler, bile and so on; the various ages of man; the elements of the physical world (fol. 5v), and influences of the outside world on the human body, including air, seasons, stars, winds, exercise, idleness and bathing; and others which influence the human body from inside (fol. 6v), such as meat, drink and accidents; followed by a section on fevers (fol. 7v); and another on abscesses (fol. 8v); and finally the last section classifies the types of diseases (fol. 8v), starting with general ailments before moving outwards and then inwards to those that affect the limbs of the body and its organs. This is followed by a Galenic text on urine, here mentioning the original author “De conerxença de les urines segons Galien” (fol. 17v). The last leaf before the endleaf at the back includes a series of neatly copied medical recipes. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 23
Calendar leaf for December, from a Book of Hours, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Southern Netherlands (Bruges, for the British market), c. 1460] Single leaf, with two small square miniatures (each approximately 33mm. high), showing (i) the killing of a hog with a man cutting its throat and a woman catching the blood in a bowl, and (ii) the zodiac sign for Capricorn, each framed in gold, text in brown, red and blue lettre bâtarde, headed by a ‘KL’ initial in burnished gold on blue and dark pink grounds, the recto with a floral decorative bar on one side of the text, Arabic numerals for the days of the month added by a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century reader in blue ink, trimmed at outer edge removing outermost frame of miniatures, some darkening and a few paint chips, else good and presentable condition, 174 by 114mm. The parent manuscript of this leaf was sold in Christie’s, 24 November 1993, lot 16, with other leaves emerging in Sotheby’s, 2 December 1997, lot 23. It had suffrages for the rare Scottish saint, Ninian, as well as a bookplate showing it had been owned by a member of the Kennedy family, and thus would appear to have been produced for a Scottish patron. If so, then it is part of a small group of about fifteen Books of Hours recorded as in use there in the late Middle Ages (see D. McRoberts, Catalogue of Scottish Medieval Liturgical Books and Fragments, 1953).
Lot 54
ƟVegetius, De re militari (extract), and Pomponius Laetus, De magistratibus, De sacerdotiis and De legibus, in Latin, manuscript on paper [Italy (perhaps Liguria), dated 11 May 1488] 37 leaves (including 5 blanks at end, plus a paper endleaf at front and back), complete, collation: i14, ii12, iii11 (wanting 3 leaves from second half of quire, all blank cancels), with original foliation and quire signatures, single column of 23 lines in an untidy semi-humanist hand, spaces left for some initials, watermarks partly obscured in gutter (but formed of a crown surmounted by a cross and what appears to be the top of a shield), a few near-contemporary marginal notes, slightly trimmed at edges, small spots and stains, overall excellent condition on notably thin and fine paper, marbled edges, 185 by 130mm.; nineteenth-century Italian parchment over pasteboards, some marks and bumps, with one small tear to parchment on fore-edge of back board, spine with “Mod / De/ R MI” in gilt on brown leather label Provenance:Finished by the scribe Johannes Maria Pellizonus on 11 May 1488: long colophon at end of text, listing other events relevant to the date. His name is rare, and he was probably closely related to the Johannes Pellizonus who served as prior as St. Michael’s, Ventimiglia, at the extreme northern tip of north-west Italy in the opening decade of the fifteenth century. Text:The first text here masquerades under the title of Modestus, De Re Militari (fols. 1r-8r), but is in fact an extract of Vegetius’ celebrated fifth-century work on Roman warfare and military principles. To this has been appended a copy of the writings of the Roman humanist Pomponius Laetus (1425-1498) on Roman lawyers and legal practises (fols. 8v-30v). Laetus taught the same subjects in Rome until 1498, and so the present manuscript was copied within his lifetime. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 67
ƟFrano Gundulic, Relatione del Sig. Francesco Gondola, fatta alla Santità di N. S.re Papa Gregorio XIII circa alcuni particolari del Turco, an account of the Croatian Republic of Ragusa after the Fourth Venetian-Ottoman War and struggle for control of Cyprus in the 1570s, with four other political accounts, all in Italian, manuscript on paper [Italy (partly in Rome), c. 1600] 179 leaves (including endleaves), complete as originally produced (only some blank cancels wanting), single column of mostly 14 lines in a fine italic hand (apparently Italian), front endleaf torn and splashed with ink, first text with very slight ink-burn causing a few tiny holes, the last text with more serious ink burn causing shine through, that for marginalia causing small holes at edges of single leaf there, trimmed at edges with remnants of some original foliation remaining, overall fair and presentable condition, 262 by 200mm.; limp parchment binding with title in ink on spine, some spots and stains, detached from thong at lower part of front board and with small holes in back board Provenance: 1. Written and produced in the last decades of the sixteenth century, most probably for a participant in the Venetian-Ottoman struggle over the Republic of Ragusa (see below), who seems to have travelled widely across Italy and perhaps also southern Dalmatia. The first text has a colophon naming Rome as the site of its copying, noting that was completed in 1574.2. From the library of the Fiorenzi family of Osimo (eastern coast, facing Croatia): their armorial bookplate at front. Text:This compendium contains five political texts covering southern European events in the last three decades of the sixteenth century. The Republic of Ragusa, on which the first account focusses, was a maritime republic centred on Dubrovnik in modern Croatia. The present text is of great importance for the history of the region: “The clearest example of such diplomatic exaggerations is doubtlessly the rhetoric of Frano Gondola (Gunduli?), Ragusan ambassador in Rome during the war of Cyprus (1570-1573). In this turbulent period, Gondola constantly struggled with the Venetian diplomats who were trying to persuade their allies, Spain and the Papacy, to conquer the neutral Ragusa or, at least, to force it to join the Christian League against the Ottomans.” The actions of the Venetians were at best aggressive and at worst unforgiveable, and Gondola notes that when the Ragusans aided the local Christian rulers the Venetians informed the Ottomans, hoping that the Sultan “will throw in slavery these fifty or sixty thousand Christian souls” (L. Kun?evi?, The Ragusan Image of Venice and the Venetian Image of Ragusa in the Early Modern Period, 2012). The republic existed from the mid-fourteenth century until 1808, coming under Byzantine, Venetian, Ottoman and Napoleonic control in that period. The author was a member of one of its leading aristocratic families.To this has been added (i) an anonymous Discorso sopra la precedenza tra Spagna et Francia, a rare defence of Spain as an ally of Rome and Venice, traceable in only three other copies; (ii) a copy of Marco Querini, Ordini del Querini Provveditore dell'Armata alli sopraceniti comiti et altri officiali delle galere, an apparently otherwise unrecorded account of a Venetian military nobleman who commanded their forces during the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, with observations on Ragusian matters; (iii) the Coronatione del Gran Duca di Toscana fatta in Roma da Papa Pio V alli 5 di marzo l'anno 1570, a Venetian diatribe on the Coronation; and (iv) the Risposta et narratione di quanto è passato tra 'l Sr. P. di Parma et Sr. Marchese del Vasto, an account of the fire in the Palace of Mantua in 1592. Ɵ Indicates that the lot is subject to buyer’s premium of 25% exclusive of VAT (0% VAT).
Lot 192
Collection of Antique Period Bronze Medallions from the Late 19thC to Early 20thC plus 1794 Chichester half penny, 1. International Rubber Exhibition, London 1914 (rare) by the English Rubber Company for boots and shoes, obverse of medallion reads 'Rubber Association Growers. London', with original leather box 2. Edward VIII, Date 1937 12th May Coronation medal GEF 3. Original Crystal Palace medallion 1851 Great Exhibition by T Ottley HP 265 obverse bare head of Prince Albert, facing right, reverse view of Crystal Palace GEF condition. 4. 1794 Sussex Chichester copper - half penny/Token with bust of Elizabeth Ist, to edge - 'Payment at Dally's Chichester', G E F condition. please see photos.
Lot 485
Rare Simon & Halbig bisque headed black doll in red dress, jointed composition body, marked S.H.1029-8 and marked D.R.P to the back of the neck (lower half right leg detached, some wear to face and some damage to fingers), 47cm Re: Enquiry - Toys, Dolls, Models, Antiques & Interiors (4th and 5th December)Thanks for your enquiry as far as i can see there does not appear to be any chips or cracks, There is wear to the face and the hair is peeling on the back of the head. Attached are images of head and the mark.
Lot 2957
1949 Land Rover Series I 80. Chassis no. R8667508 (built in the first full year of production between February and July 1949). Acquired by the current owner's late husband in the 1960s. The Land Rover has been dry stored in a barn for a number of years - now requiring a total restoration. This Iconic Series I Land Rover represents a rare chance to acquire such an important early part of the Land Rover story
Lot 3600
Rare late 19th century German walnut cased symphonium music hall clock, the impressive architectural case with turned finials, split column and applied fret ornament, the upper part with enclosed twin train clock with silver chapter ring, enclosed by glazed door, the trunk below enclosing symphonium machine, stamped - 'Schutz Marke, Made in Germany', numbered 281181, with side lever isolating music box from clock, crank handle winder, together with approximately twenty-six discs, total height approximately 230cm CONDITION REPORT in working condition although mechanism may need attention. Currently clock is not connected to symphonium. Piece of moulding missing to base of right pillar flanking clock face. Tarnishing to silvered dial, some wear to bracket feet, overall case condition is very good. Some discs are warped, buckled and may not be playable
Lot 277
Rare Third Reich Multi-Colour German Army Meissen Presentation Plate to the 514th Infantry Regiment for the Campaigns of 1940 and 1941, the plate being 26cm diameter. Around top edge ‘INFANTRIE-REGiMENT’, centre showing in blue a large eagle over ‘514’ and a red clover leaf, the Regiment’s tactical sign, below. Meissen crossed swords trade mark on the reverse. Also to the reverse is a full presentation inscription, ‘Im Felde 1940/41 Winkler Oberst u. Rgts-Kdeure’. Issue number ‘117’ stamped into the plate. Remains in very good overall condition. Colonel Winkler was the regimental commander at the time of the presentation of these plates
Lot 345
Waffen-SS Winter Camouflaged M-40 Steel Combat Helmet, exceptionally rare M-40 pattern steel combat helmet with single SS runes decal and thick winter camouflage paint finish to the exterior of the shell. The SS rune decal is approximately 85% present. The helmet is complete with its original leather liner and leather chinstrap. The shell is stamped “Q66” and “10033”. To the rear interior skirt of the helmet is remains of a painted name and rank, this has been removed at some point. The current vendor purchased this helmet from a dealer in the USA, possibly indicating that this was a souvenir picked up by an American GI during the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes, Belgium.
Lot 368
Very Rare German Award Document Grouping for the Legion Condor Panzer Badge, the grouping consists of large formal citation for the “Panzertruppenabzeichen der Legion Condor in Silber” awarded to Unteroffizier Kurt Schneider 6.Panzer-Regiment 5, on 10 Mai (May) 1940. The other award citation in the group is that for the Spanish Cross with Swords in silver “Deutsche Spanien-Kreuz in Silber mit Schwertern”, which is dated 6 Juni (June) 1939. Accompanying the citations if a framed and glazed formal portrait photograph of Schneider in Panzer uniform wearing black Panzer beret and three small size snapshot photographs. Interesting and rare award citation set.
Lot 451
Rare Turkish P.1909 WW1 Cavalry Troopers Sword, German made, pipe-back, 84cms double-edged blade, sharpened for active service, and the similar pattern as the German p.1889 Cavalry Trooper’s. Steel hilt pierced with star & halfmoon, wood grip. In its steel scabbard. Very good condition example overall.
Lot 458
Rare British Experimental Cavalry Troopers Sword, c.1850, the hilt is the 1821 pattern Heavy Cavalry Troopers solid bowl type, with leather-covered wood grip. Long 88cms double-edged stabbing blade, stamped ‘Enfield’, and ‘Sold out of Service mark’, plus other stamps. No scabbard. Dark grey patina overall. Good condition.
![[Berkerry (George)] Siris, A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, 8vo D. (Mar](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c31b6c73-f51a-4a24-b9c4-a99700bb5c44/92cffcc3-7c26-4cbe-8034-a99d00b93260/468x382.jpg)
Lot 136
[Berkerry (George)] Siris, A Chain of Philosophical Reflexions and Inquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water, 8vo D. (Margt. Rhames) 1744. First Edn., 261 pp plus errata at end, sm. pce. torn from top corner of title, slightly affecting "S" in Siris, cont. calf, single blind line border, raised bands, mor. label. V. good Rare. (1)
Lot 140
From the Author's Ancestral HomeLeslie (John) Joannis Leslaei Scoti, Episcopi Rossen, Libri Duo: Quorum uno, Piae Afficti animi consolationes, diuinaque Remedia: Altero animi Tranquilli Munimentum & conseruatio, Continentur. Ad Serenissimam Principem D. Mariam Scotorum Reginam. SM. 8vo Paris (P. l'Huillier..) 1574. First Edn., with the rare errata leaf at end, a.e.g. cont. full mor. dble gilt fillet borders, tooled gilt spines. (1)* Inscribed by and with B.P.'s of Shane Leslie. The first part was written by the author while in the Tower of London. An extremely fine copy.
![Rare Irish Women's Suffrage Novel[Jacob (Rosamond)] Winthrop (F.), Callaghan, 8vo D. (Martin Lester) n.d. c. 1920. Sole Editi](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c31b6c73-f51a-4a24-b9c4-a99700bb5c44/6f5a2534-9617-4d9a-8ce4-a99d00b93f79/468x382.jpg)
Lot 149
Rare Irish Women's Suffrage Novel[Jacob (Rosamond)] Winthrop (F.), Callaghan, 8vo D. (Martin Lester) n.d. c. 1920. Sole Edition, hf. title, 248pp orig. crimson red boards, gilt lettered spine. V. good copy. (1)* Extremely Rare. This is the only Irish Women's Suffrage novel to come out of Ireland.
Lot 150
"Let the Nation Stand"1798: Society of United Irishmen of Dublin - Let the Nation Stand, 12mo Dublin 1794. Sole Edition Pages 153 / 154 torn with loss, text replaced in m/ss, 204pp uncut, orig. boards. Fine condition, in mor. backed box.* Suppressed. Rare in any condition, but excessively rare in the original condition. (1)
Lot 151
Rare Belfast Directory, 1865 - 1866Belfast: Wynne (R.W.) Business Directory of Belfast and the Principal Towns in the Province of Ulster, for 1865 - 66, 8vo Belfast 1865. First Edn, 400pp plus 14pp at start & 80pp of adverts at end, 2 leaves loose, orig. gilt decor. cloth, v. good. Extremely Scarce.. (1)
![Rare 18th Century Printing on Skating[Jones (Captain Robert)] A Treatise on Skating; founded on Certain Principles deduced fr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/c31b6c73-f51a-4a24-b9c4-a99700bb5c44/af041893-f45a-4029-a99d-a99d00b95129/468x382.jpg)
Lot 168
Rare 18th Century Printing on Skating[Jones (Captain Robert)] A Treatise on Skating; founded on Certain Principles deduced from many years experience, by which that Noble Exercise is now reduced to an Art.,... 8vo, L.(Printed for the Author, sold by C. Fourdinier) n.d. [1780], [First], 64pps, 4 engd. plts. (at rear), contemp. full calf, gilt fillet borders, decor. spine, mor. label, good copy. V. Scarce. (1)* Ex Libris Sir Richard Levigne, Knockdrin Castle, Co. Westmeath.
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