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Lot 335
'THE LIFE OF RICHARD NASH, ESQ; LATE MASTER OF CEREMONIES AT BATH', 2ND EDN., PUB. J. NEWBERY, LONDON 1772, FULL CALF BINDING; 'SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS', M. SEYMOUR SMITH (ED.), HEINEMANN, LONDON 1966, FULL RED MORROCO BINDING, GILT TOOLED, STAMPED 'HATCHARDS LTD. 187 PICADILLY'; COWPER. WILLIAM, 'POEMS', CONTAINING HIS POSTHUMOUS POETRY, AND A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, BY JOHN JOHNSON, IN THREE VOLUMES, HALF LEATHER BINDINGS, J. RIVINGTON AND OTHERS, LONDON 1815, SIX OTHER LEATHER BOUND BOOKS AND ANOTHER BOOK (A LOT)
Lot 199
A group of 20th century pictures and prints, including a signed print by Pietro Annigoni, a colour etching of St Mawes by Glynn Thomas, etchings of Mt John Dummelow and Catherine Cookson by Christopher Robinson, a charcoal portrait sketch signed J. Courtney, an etching by Jane Dowling and others, a pencil drawing of David Lloyd George, all unframed (Folio). CAB
Lot 1076
James Gillray (1756-1815), The Theatrical Bubble; Contemplations upon a Coronet; The State Waggoner and John Bull; The Cabinetical - Balance; The Pic-Nic Orchestra; Scientific Researches! - New discoveries in Pneumaticks!; La Derniere Resource; Sketch of the interior of St Stephens; Making Decent, a group of nine etchings with hand colouring, all unframed, various sizes.(9)
Lot 54
A good collection of rare original Bristol and Bristol Aeroplane Company related items. Comprising; a unique pre-WWII 1938 Bristol Blenheim autographed sketch / drawing - likely from a staff gathering or party. The sketch featuring a Blenheim aircraft to centre and signed by all the crew and staff responsible. Autographs of note include; Sir Archibald Russell (chief designer of many aircraft, including Concorde), H. W. Dunn (chief Draughtsman) and a host of others - many local interest. A rare item. Along with a ' Bristol At Home Day ' Brabazon I brochure featuring a Terence Cuneo print to the centre (great condition), and a publicity photograph of the Bristol Brabazon I. Fascinating and rare collection.
Lot 607
A collection of original WWI First World War era British Army maps. Various forms, including a folded linen backed Trench map of St Julian France 1917, a paper ' Map Of Italian Front,' ' Sketch Of Map No.2 To Illustrate The Action Of The Royal Munster Fusiliers,' 'Eastern Front Map 2', etc. Interesting collection.
Lot 62
Australia.- Hunter (John) An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island...With an Abridged Account of the New Discoveries in the South Seas, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, 5 maps (2 folding) and 10 plates, occasional foxing, contemporary half russia, gilt, corners a little bumped, a little rubbed, [Hill 857; Ferguson 152], 4to, John Stockdale, 1793.⁂ John Hunter served under Arthur Phillip in the first convict fleet and succeeded him as the second Governor of the colony from 1795 to 1799. The plate of a New South Wales family was engraved by William Blake after a sketch by Governor King..
Lot 1177
Extremely rare and early Synchronome Co. Shortt free pendulum astronomical regulator slave clock previously owned by Admiral Fountaine, the clock, No 24, is of the type used with the free pendulum system, comprising the regulator slave clock, in original 54" high mahogany case,*Formerly supplied to and owned by Admiral Fountaine, and sold with three copies of Electrical Timekeeping annotated by Frank Hope-Jones The astronomical slave clock with invar pendulum and steel bob has a 10" engraved silvered dial signed Synchronome Patent No.187814, with outer minutes ring and inset seconds and twelve hours dials, the original rectangular mahogany case has bevelled glazed trunk door, moulded cornice and leaf carved spandrels around the dial, the NRA plate is stamped 24 Within the case is the complete movement, together with the appropriate panel for connection to the free pendulum, slave and slave dial; the separate accompanying 10" regulator-style dial in 15" round moulded mahogany case is signed Synchronome, London, and also with outer minutes ring enclosing seconds and hours dialsProvenance: The clock offered for sale was first acquired via Sotheby's in April 1972, the lot having been listed as "A Synchronome seconds indicating half minute impulse electric master clock, complete with electrically powered slave dial indicating seconds, hours and minutes, the movement with hit and miss synchroniser indicating that the clock was once a slave to a free pendulum, the invar pendulum, with iron bob, in mahogany wall case, 4'6" high".Sotheby's have reconfirmed to the current vendor that the items were from the estate of Admiral Fountaine (Admiral Fountaine's master clock and vacuum cylinder were sold at the April 1972 sale to a buyer acting on behalf of the Rockford Time Museum, USA, until being sold on closure of the Museum at a Sotheby's sale in the early 2000s)-These complex precision electromechanical pendulum clocks by William Hamilton Shortt in collaboration with Frank Hope Jones were the most accurate pendulum clocks ever produced and became the highest standard for timekeeping between the 1920’s and 1940’s; after which mechanical clocks were superseded by quartz time standards.Admiral C.A. Fountaine R.N. was supplied by the Synchronome Company with several of these astronomical clocks after attending a lecture by Frank Hope-Jones at the Royal Society of Arts. The clocks were installed in the basement of his home, Narford Hall, Norfolk, England and their rates carefully recorded. Admiral Fountaine’s observations were so precise that he identified and recorded a small six-monthly digression and insisted that it was due to nutation (a periodic variation in the precession of the equinoxes caused by the moon’s gravitational pull). This was subsequently confirmed and in 1927 Greenwich announced that they would in future apply the nutation figures as a corrective for their clocks. The clocks were then used worldwide in astronomical observatories, naval observatories, in scientific research, and a primary standard for national time dissemination services. The Shortt Synchronome was the first clock to be a more accurate time keeper than the earth itself; it was used in 1926 by Admiral Fountaine to detect tiny seasonal changes in the earth’s rotation rate. Shortt clocks achieved an accuracy of around 1 second per year, although a recent measurement indicated that they were even more accurate. About 100 were produced between 1922 and 1956.*Admiral Fountaine’s observations with his use of astronomical regulators were so precise that Greenwich Observatory accepted in in 1927 that the clocks were more accurate than the earth’s timekeeping; This was acknowledged also by Hope Jones in the accompanying books. The historical significance of the Clock was also recognised by George Daniels who tried to buy it, ‘for use in my workshop and to be available for examination by students’. There are two letters accompanying the lot from George Daniels that refer and another from Sotheby’s that relates to the Synchronome slave clock which is being sold as lot 1178. There are images of all these letters attached to the lot in the online catalogues. Three historical copies of Electrical Timekeeping by Frank Hope Jones are included with the items offered for sale:A first edition copy of Electrical Timekeeping, including an original sketch cartoon by Hope-Jones sent in Dec 1935 with his hand written message “My latest free pendulum with best wishes for a Happy Christmas from your faithful slave who gives the impulse & synchronises himself with your kindly thoughts”, signed Hope Jones. The copy is also marked up and annotated throughout in his hand and with additional texts etc eg for additional chapter prepared for his publication of a second edition of the book.A second edition copy of Electrical Timekeeping, inscribed by the author to his friend Major Cowan, and also including his Christmas Card of 1939/40 recording that he had been bombed out and a Christmas 1943 note acknowledging that his free pendulum had been superseded by the Quartz Clock but that he had “not relinquished the task until the time keeping possibilities of the pendulum were exhausted.”A second edition copy of Electrical Timekeeping, given to his friend Mr Fry (mentioned in the book) and inscribed “To A R Fry…The champion amateur from the amateur champion, the Author” and signed by Hope Jones.NOTE: THE FOLLOWING LOT 1178, A SYNCHRONOME SLAVE DIAL, WAS USED BY ADMIRAL FOUNTAINE IN CONJUCTION WITH THIS REGULATOR SLAVE CLOCK. A LETTER TO THIS EFFECT FROM SOTHEBY’S IS ALSO SOLD WITH THIS LOT.
Lot 1
Jack Simcock (1929-2012), "The Farm", signed and dated '57, titled on verso, oil on board, 47 x 66.5cm, 18.5 x 26.5in, together with a preparatory pencil sketch attached on verso, which is again signed and dated '57. Artists’ Resale Right (“droit de suite”) may apply to this lot.Condition report: The painting is in very good, original condition with no obvious faults to report. The painting is framed but not glazed. The pencil sketch on verso is unframed and has one or two spots of browning in the margins but not on the central image.
Lot 577
ALFRED SWINFIELD THAW ALIAS 'SHERRIFFS'; a 1930s sketch book with Art Deco figural drawings throughout.Additional InformationThere are approx 24 drawings all done to a similar standard, one is loose. Album itself it pretty worn and tired. Some spotting and discolouration. Some slight creases to the paper.
Lot 668
FRANKLIN BROOK VOSS (1880-1953); charcoal sketch, 'Yorkshire Terrier', signed, 21 x 33.25cm, unframed. (D)Additional InformationThe whole image is brown stained. There are two small watermarks, one outside the lined margin and one within the image. There are circular stains to each corner where it has been stuck down in the past. This also spurs a tear top left hand corner but this tear does not encroach within the outlines. Light surface wear.Provenance: from a private individual.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
Lot 837
WINIFRED ELIZABETH HARDMAN (1890-1972); still life study, signed, inscribed on label verso, 40.5 x 51cm, a further unframed oil by the same artist, a sketch by the same artist, an oil signed Cohen, an indistinctly signed watercolour, and a further oil (6). (D)Additional InformationThis lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
Lot 14
Millais, John Everett Sketch and a collection of 62 proofs of woodcuts from drawings by Millais produced during the period of of book illustration known as The 'Sixties', 1856-62, in red morocco portfolio, from Lord Carlingford's Library with his bookplate; tipped in is a note from Lady Millais presenting the collection to Frances, Countess of Waldegrave, 18 May, 1874; with superimposed the bookplate of A[rthur] K[ay] by Kate Cameron, with an original pen and ink sketch by Millais, initialled, for one of the woodcuts (of a lady by a window at night), 14 x 10cm., binding rebacked, corners rubbedCondition report: a few plates slightly spotted; the sketch mounted and glued at head of leaf only to lower board.
Lot 1
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) The Rhinoceros 1515. Woodcut on paper with a Single-Headed Eagle watermark (Meder 224), a good impression of the sixth state (of eight). Printed by Hendrick Hondius, The Hague, circa 1620. The Dutch text trimmed, as is common; with an inscription in French on the reverse Image size: 8 3/8 x 11 3/4 in. (21.3 x 29.8cm) Sheet size: 8 7/16 x 11 7/8 in. (21.4 x 30.2cm) [Bartsch 136; Meder/Hollstein 273] PROVENANCE: Private Collection, New Jersey. NOTE: The Rhinoceros is one of Albrecht Dürer's rarest prints. This woodcut, executed in eight states, is a visual record of an Indian rhinoceros brought to Emanuel I, King of Portugal in 1513 and known to Dürer from a sketch by the painter Valentin Ferdinand. In 1515, Emanuel I sent the rhinoceros to Pope Leo X as a gift, though the animal died in a shipwreck. While Dürer never saw the rhinoceros, he refers to it in an inscription in the edition of the print with letterpress text as being "fast, impetuous and cunning." Dürer's Rhinoceros is a highly stylized animal: its heavy skin appears like armor plating, complete with rivets and a breastplate; it has an enlarged horn, a gorget, and a smaller spiral horn on its back. Until the late 18th century, Dürer's depiction of a rhinoceros was widely regarded as being an accurate one.
Lot 46
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)Landscape Study; with Preparatory Sketch versoStamped with conjoined initials 'PB' bottom center right, pencil on paperSheet size: 4 7/8 x 6 7/16 in. (12.4 x 16.4cm)PROVENANCE:The Artist.By descent in the Bonnard-Terrasse family.Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York.Acquired directly from the above.Private Collection, New York, New York.
Lot 534
FOUR WATERCOLOUR PAINTINGS to include Marie Low, still life of carnations in a wicker basket, signed and dated 1895, framed, Continental landscape with horse and cart, signed Mahner, framed, Continental market scene with artist monogram, framed, watercolour sketch of wild flower, unsigned and a print of children at the beach, largest size approximately 28cm x 43cm (5)
Lot 266
Manner of Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961) watercolour study entitled ' Standing Woman With Hands at Shoulder ' Pencil and watercolour sketch portrait being signed in pencil to the lower corner. Framed and glazed with notation label and gallery sticker verso. Measures 19cms x 39cms / frame 37cms x 58cs
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