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Lot 63
Four rare biscuit water droppers modelled as toads, Yongzheng period. Manufactured in Jingdezhen, China in 1725. Sothebys Amsterdam lot stickers, height 4cm, length 6.5cm, width 4.5cm. (4) These are from the 'Ca Mau' Shipwreck circa 1725 after a fire caused it to sink off the coast of Vietnam during it's voyage from Canton to Jakarta. The wreck was discovered by two Vietnamese fisherman in 1998..One of the rosettes is lost from the rim to one of the toads. Two of the rims have slight chips and one suffers from some discolouration.
Lot 221
Château Guiraud 1976 (1)Sauternes 1er Cru Classé(high shoulder; lightly worn label)Bonnezeaux 1963 (1)Château des Gaunliers, Domaine Fourlinnie-Boivin(u. 4cms. below base of nicked capsule; stained & nicked label)Anjou 1981 (1)Moulin Touchais(bin-soiled & faded label)Coteaux du Layon - Chaume, Les Aunis Cuvée Corentine 1989 (1)Château de la Roulerie(slightly stained, nicked & bin-soiled label; creased capsule)Coteaux du Layon 1989 (1)Château de Breuil(creased, stained & nicked label)Bonnezeaux, Vin Rare 2009 (1 half-litre)Château des FeslesVega-Sicilia Unico 1972 (1)Ribera del Duero(bin-soiled & creased label)Penfolds Grange 1982 (1)(high shoulder; stained label)Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz 1983 (1)(top shoulder; bin-soiled label)Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 2001 (1)South Australia9 bottles & 1 half-litreFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 2717
Rare antique sword in Renaissance style with bronze hilt, king's heads, Holy cross, tendrils, sun, fleur de lis, figures all around, engraved blade with vague text, floral decor, with residual gilding with an image of banners and cannons. Probably France 19 or older. Size: 97.5 cm. In good condition.
Lot 20
After Nicholas Hilliard, circa 1600Portrait of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, bust-length, in armour bears inscription and date 'George Clifford Earle/ of Cumberland 1588' (centre right)oil on canvas73.6 x 61.7cm (29 x 24 5/16in).Footnotes:The present portrait is a rare, early version of the portrait that is related to the composition of circa 1590 by Nicholas Hilliard, which is a full-length miniature (now in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; inv. no. MNT0193). An oil version, on panel, in the same bust-length format, is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford (inv. no. LP58; acquired some time between 1705 and 1759). The National Gallery in London have a 19th century copy of this same bust-length format (see: Sir R. Strong, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, London, 1969, vol. I, p. 57, ill, vol. II., pl. 103). An equestrian portrait of the sitter in similar costume by Thomas Cockson is also known (British Museum, inv. no. 1849,0135.3), which is inscribed: 'AN EXPLANATION OF THE SVRPRISE OF THE TOWNE OF PVERTO RICO BY THE EARLE OF CUMBERLAND IN ANo 1598 the 15th May', and which was engraved circa 1598-99. George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605) was a favourite at the court of Elizabeth I. He commanded a ship at the Armada in 1588 and fitted out ten privateering expeditions against Spain and Spanish America between 1586 and 1598, sailing personally with those of 1589, 1591, 1593, and 1598. He is depicted here in tournament fancy dress, probably as the Queen's champion, an office to which he succeeded in 1590. The armour he is wearing in the portrait still survives and is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 18
Assadour (Lebanon, born 1943)Untitled (Composition) oil on canvassigned and dated (lower right) and further signed and dated on the verso, executed in 2010120 x 120cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4in).Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a private collection, ParisChristie's, Modern & Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Auction, Dubai 26 0ctober 2011Acquired from the above by the present ownerAssadour was born in 1943 in Beirut and left his homeland in 1963 to study abroad. He obtained a scholarship to go study engraving and painting in Italy and subsequently in Paris. Assadour is well-known as a master of contemporary engraving and yet he has also produced a rich and prolific oeuvre of temperas on paper and oils on canvas. The latter are rare and sought-after as Assadour executed very few paintings on canvas. He participated in many exhibitions throughout Europe, Korea, Japan and Lebanon, and his work has been displayed in international art fairs as well as in retrospective shows in Museums in Germany and Italy. Assadour managed to develop his own artistic style by finding inspiration in two art movement, the Bauhaus' Constructivism and the Parisian Surrealism.''Assadour the secret, prince of encryption, with a tempered yet passionate nature, appears as the most meticulous master of images, which he interlocks, untangles, clots, separates again and finally fuses into one same substance. His layout is ingeniously inscrutable yet nothing has been randomly placed. Everything is so precise in this chaos which is very well thought out, that Assadour does not seem to destroy all the codes but rather substitutes them with his own.' - Gérard XurgueraThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 103
Fabricius (Johann Christian) Species insectorum..., 2 vol., first edition, vol.2 with Appendix and Index at end (pp.495-517, not called for by Hagen), woodcut title-vignettes, head- & tail-pieces, some contemporary ink manuscript annotations, a few ink stains, light browning, old ink stamp "G.Kerssenbrock" to foot of titles, contemporary half calf, spines gilt with floral motifs and red & blue roan labels, a little rubbed, spine of vol.1 slightly worn at head, [Hagen 220.7], 8vo, Hamburg & Kiel, C.E.Bohn, 1781.⁂ Rare with only a few copies sold at auction in over a century.
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Lot 104
Fabricius (Johann Christian) Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta, 4 vol. in 5 [&] Index alphabeticus [&] Supplementum, together 7 vol., first edition, mixed set, vol.4 larger and uncut with wide margins, vol.3 & 4 with contemporary ink manuscript annotations, M1 in vol.4 torn and crudely repaired, some foxing and light marginal water-staining, small ink stain to a few leaves of supplement, various ink signatures, vol.1-2 with bookplate of Reinhold Charpentier, vol.1-3 contemporary calf (vol.1-2 uniform with initials "B.C.R." to upper covers), spines gilt, vol.4 later half roan, spine gilt, uncut, Index original boards, spine worn and defective, Supplementum contemporary half calf, all rubbed, [Hagen 221.13, 17 & 19], 8vo, Copenhagen, 1792-96-98.⁂ Rare; we have been unable to trace a complete set at auction.
Lot 111
Hope (Rev. Frederick William) Descriptions of some new Insects, collected in Assam by William Griffith..., pp.435-447, 2 hand-coloured engraved plates, 1840; Descriptions of some Nondescript Insects from Assam..., pp.587-600, hand-coloured engraved plate, 1840; On some rare and beautiful Coleopterous Insects from Silhet, chiefly in the Collection of Frederick John Parry..., pp.103-112 & 131-136, 3 hand-coloured lithographed plates, 1842, all extracts from 'Transactions of the Linnaean Society' vol.XVIII & XIX bound in 1 vol., all plates after J.O.Westwood and heightened with gum arabic, some light offsetting, contemporary morocco-backed boards, spine titled in gilt, a little rubbed, [Hagen 380-381.30, 44 & 45] § Butler (A.G.) Revision of the Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the family Sphingidae, 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London' vol.IX part 10, 5 hand-coloured lithographed plates, with insect damage at fore-edge of plates affecting heading of final plate but not image, original printed blue wrappers, torn and defective, 1877 § Stübel (Alphons) Lepidopteren gesammelt auf einer reise durch Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brasilien, Argentinien und Bolivien...1868-1877, 9 hand-coloured lithographed plates, most loose and with insect damage at fore-edge not affecting images, original half cloth, worn, Berlin, 1890; and a small quantity of others on butterflies and insects around the world, some parts, 4to & 8vo; sold not subject to return (sm.qty)
Lot 165
Geology & Palaeontology.- Hawker (Rev. Peter) A Catalogue of Extraneous Fossils...Minerals, &c....at Woodchester Rectory, Glocestershire, only edition, half-title, errata slip, with tipped-in sheet from Gentleman's Magazine March 1806 containing report of a fossil skeleton "of an animal similar to a crocodile" found at Duddridge Glos., original wrappers, Stroud, F.Vigurs, 1817 § Scafe (John) King Coal's Levee, or Geological Etiquette...and the Council of Metals, second edition, light water-staining to inner margin of first few leaves, modern wrappers, uncut, 1819 § Smith (James) Researches in Newer Pliocene and Post-Tertiary Geology, first edition, 4 tinted lithographed plates, illustrations, 4pp. advertisements at end, occasional spotting, original cloth, spine faded, lower joint split, Glasgow, 1862, a little rubbed; and 8 others on geology including Kerney's manuscript journal entitled "Record of Excursions and Fieldwork" of 1950-51, v.s. (11)⁂ The first is rare with Library Hub recording only 3 copies (BL, University of Cambridge, and Natural History Museum).
Lot 31
Britain.- Donovan (Edward) The Natural History of British Birds, 5 vol. in 3, 124 engraved plates with fine hand-colouring, vol. 4-5 with half-titles, light spotting, mainly to text leaves, some off-setting, contemporary green morocco, spines sunned, [Nissen IVB 257], 8vo, for the author, and for F. & C. Rivington, 1794-99⁂ Donovan based much of his work on specimens from the London Museum and Institue of Natural History, which he founded in 1807. The first five volumes appeared in the 1790s, with a hiatus until 1809 when the sixth appeared spurred on by Donovan's acquisition of many new and rare species at the Lever Museum auction in the same year. The colouring of Donovan's plates has always been much admired.
Lot 94
Curtis (William) A Short History of the Brown-Tail Moth, the Caterpillars of which are at present uncommonly numerous and destructive in the Vicinity of the Metropolis, 13pp., first edition, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, title defective at upper corners not affecting text (neatly repaired), lacking pp.7-12 (supplied in facsimile) but with final leaf 'Explanation of the Plate' (lightly foxed), resewn in old wrappers, browned, [Hagen 152.3; Lisney 284], 4to, B.White [& others], 1782; sold not subject to return⁂ "This brief treatise, which is the first published monograph on an insect, gives a most interesting account of a plague of the larvae of the Brown-Tail Moth...which occurred in the vicinity of London and, although several similar plagues have been noted since, this is apparently the earliest published record of such a phenomenon occurring in this country. It is an exceedingly rare book." (Lisney).The plate illustrates the insect in its various stages of development.
Lot 385
Max Cramer and Carlo de Fornaro, Millionaires of America, New York, Medusa, 1902, small folio, cloth portfolio, original pictoral boards, woodblock caricatures of the wealthy, including J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Russell Sage, Alfred Gwynne Vandervilt, W.C. Whitney, James J. Hill, George J. Gould, John Jacob Astor, O.H.P Belmont, Charles H. Schwab, Tom L. Johnson, Senator William Andrew Clark, with ribbon ties, very rare
Lot 19
GLENFIDDICH 40 YEAR OLD RARE COLLECTION 2004 RELEASE SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT Without Glenfiddich, Scotland might not enjoy the same thriving whisky scene it has today. Founded in 1886 by William Grant, and still family owned, Glenfiddich was one of the first distilleries to seriously market single malt whisky as a credible alternative to blends. This decision was prompted by a dispute with their grain supplier in 1963, leading to a scaling back in production of their Grant’s blend. By the late 1960s Glenfiddich single malt was a firm hit with the Jet Set, who were picking it up in their droves from the newly emerging Duty-Free market.That early prescience clearly paid off, as (despite strong competition from fellow Speyside giants Glenlivet and Macallan) Glenfiddich is consistently the best-selling single malt in the world, shifting over 1 million cases every year.Bottled: 15/10/2004Bottle Number: 264 / 60044.9% ABV / 70cl
Lot 196
GLENLIVET 10 YEAR OLD PRIME MINISTER'S RESERVE 75CL SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT One of the very first distilleries in Scotland to be granted an official licence, after the passing of the licencing act in 1823, Glenlivet distillery has become synonymous with Speyside whisky. So much so, that at one point 28 other distilleries in the area adopted “Glenlivet” as a suffix to their own brand in order to piggyback on the reputation Glenlivet had built for itself. Although that practise has fallen by the wayside in recent years some independent bottlers still use it.The Glenlivet brand is now one of the most recognisable in the world, and despite the distillery undergoing an expansion and upgrade (beginning) in 2010, their iconic 12-Year-Old expression still had to be discontinued for a few years before production was able to catch up with demand.This rare expression from Glenlivet was produced for Margaret Thatcher during her time as PM.40% ABV / 75cl
Lot 22
GLENFIDDICH 1975 RARE COLLECTION CASK #20148 SPEYSIDE SINGLE MALT Without Glenfiddich, Scotland might not enjoy the same thriving whisky scene it has today. Founded in 1886 by William Grant, and still family owned, Glenfiddich was one of the first distilleries to seriously market single malt whisky as a credible alternative to blends. This decision was prompted by a dispute with their grain supplier in 1963, leading to a scaling back in production of their Grant’s blend. By the late 1960s Glenfiddich single malt was a firm hit with the Jet Set, who were picking it up in their droves from the newly emerging Duty-Free market.That early prescience clearly paid off, as (despite strong competition from fellow Speyside giants Glenlivet and Macallan) Glenfiddich is consistently the best-selling single malt in the world, shifting over 1 million cases every year.Presented to Iain Anderson in recognition of 36 years service.Distilled: 16/09/1975Matured in Hogshead #2014848.9% ABV / 70cl
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