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Click here to subscribeMoore, HenryHenry Moore. Shelter-sketch-book. London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1967. Unbound folio, number 14 of180 copies signed by the artist with 80 colour facsimile collotypes and one original lithograph by the artist (also numbered 14/180), in red cloth gilt box and protective card case, some slight soiling to red box, prints cleanProvenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire
Froude, James AnthonyHistory of England from the fall of Wolsey to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870. 8vo, 12 volumes, contemporary tree calf gilt, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, spines a little rubbed and chipped, some very occasional slight spotting; [Idem] Short studies on great subjects. London, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909. 8vo, 4 volumes, contemporary red calf with gilt embossed school stamp and gilt spines, school prize bookplate attached to paste-down marbled endpaper, some slight foxing, spines slightly faded, some rubbing and bumping to spines and covers; [Idem] Caesar: a sketch. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1879. 8vo, portrait, folding map, contemporary half calf, some foxing (17)
Nicholas, Sir Nicholas HarrisA history of the Royal Navy. London: Richard Bentley, 1847. 8vo, 2 volumes, engraved frontispieces, A1 lacking in both volumes, contemporary calf, gilt tooled spines; Collingwood,G. L. Newnham A selection from the public and private correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood. London: James Ridgway, 1829. 8vo, engraved portrait, 1 folding plate, contemporary calf, bookplate of Lord Gretton, upper cover and lower half of spine lacking, some spotting, A1 lacking; Barrow, Sir John The life of George Lord Anson... London: John Murray, 1839. 8vo, 2 volumes, engraved portraits, 2 facsimile letters, contemporary calf, spines chipped; Chapman, Charles All about ships and the way to make models of them... London: George Berridge, [n.d.] 8vo, original green cloth gilt, contents written in ink over free-endpaper and half-title; Piddington, Henry, Lord The sailor`s horn-book for the law of storms... London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1848. 8vo, 5 folding maps, folding table, 2 compasses in pockets at front and back of the book, purple cloth gilt, spine and covers faded; [Anonymous] Naval sketch-book... London: H. Colburn, B. Whittaker... 1826. 8vo, 2 volumes, original blue boards, a little spotting; Shipp, John Memoirs of the extraordinary military career of John Shipp. London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1830. Second edition, 3 volumes, engraved portrait, original boards with labels to spines, bookplates of Lord Gretton, joints split, covers dust-soiled, occasional foxing (12)Provenance: Property of the Trustees of Lord Gretton
Pugin, A.W.NThree autograph letters, 20x25 cm, sent by Pugin to Lord Fielding in 1851 discussing ecclesiastical architecture and including an ink sketch of a Church nave, signed by Pugin, franked blue paper with seals and some dust-soiling to addresses, minor tears to folds and a few light stains (3)
Exploration - TibetChapman, F. Spencer Living dangerously. London: Chatto & Windus, 1953. First edition, second impression, 8vo, signed by the author on the title page, portrait, 22 plates on 7 leaves, dust-jacket, original blue cloth, spine faded, dust-jacket a little soiled and torn; Kingdon Ward, Captain F. The mystery rivers of Tibet. London: Seeley Service & Co., 1923. 8vo, frontispiece, 14 pages of plates, folding map, dust-jacket, original orange cloth with Tibetan mask motif, dust-jacket a little dust soiled, torn in places and repaired with Selotape; Younghusband, Sir Francis The epic of Mount Everest. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926. 8vo, frontispiece, 15 plates, original brown cloth, previous owner`s inscription on first free-endpaper, spine a little rubbed and bumped at ends; Chapman, Spencer Lhasa, the Holy city. London: Chatto & Windus, 1940. 8vo, signed by the author, 27 pages of plates (3 in colour), original cream cloth, gift inscription to paste-down endpaper, spine and binding a little soiled and faded; Bell, Sir Charles Portrait of the Dalai Lama. London: Collins, 1946. 8vo, 50 pages of plates, dust-jacket, original red cloth gilt, dust jacket a little chipped and faded; Patterson, George N. Tibetan Journey. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition, 8vo, dust-jacket, original pink cloth gilt, dust-jacket a little chipped and darkened, covers damp-stained; Li, Tieh-Tseng Tibet: today and yesterday. New York: Bookman Associates, 1960. 8vo, dust-jacket, original yellow cloth, dust-jacket a little chipped and soiled; Garwood, Edmund J. Sketch map of the glaciers of Kangchenjunga. Royal Geographical Society, ca. 1925. Folding map backed onto linen in blue cloth boards, signature of `G.B. Gourlay, 10 Clive Row, Calcutta` to paste-down endpaper, 53x50 cm, covers rubbed and soiled, a few small repairs to map, map a little darkened; And 10 others (18)Provenance: Bartholomew Family, Mapmakers and Geographers, Edinburgh
Trollope, AnthonySouth Africa. London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. 8vo, 2 volumes, modern quarter calf, pp.29/30 in volume 1 torn with loss of a few words, title in volume 2 repaired with loss of a letter, corner of pp.275/276 in volume 2 torn with loss of page number, titles slightly darkened, a few creases to pages; Reade, Winwood The African sketch-book. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, 2 frontispieces, plus additional frontispiece and title bound into volume 2, 11 (of 12) maps, 8 plates, original green cloth gilt, bindings rubbed and soiled, occasional foxing and damp-staining, slight tears to some maps; Moore, J.E.S. To the mountains of the moon. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1901. 8vo, coloured frontispiece and 3 maps (2 folding), original green cloth, rubbed and bumped, hinges weak, small gouge to spine, occasional spotting, marginal closed tear to final map; Burton, Sir Richard Selected papers on anthropology, travel and exploration. London: A. M. Philpot Ltd., 1924. 8vo, contemporary red cloth, spine a little faded, occasional spotting; Cunningham, J.F. Uganda and its peoples. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1905. 8vo, modern green half calf; and 4 others (11)
Reginald Brill, British 1902-1974- "Sketch for Cockfield Barn"; pencil on squared paper, 27.5x38cm: together with four further by the same artist, `Sketch for a Nightmare`, watercolour on squared paper, 58x40cm, `Working drawing for bull ring`, pencil sketch on squared paper, 53x39cm, `Sketch for dress circle`, pencil on squared paper laid on board, 32x23cm and `Sketch for Morris Dancers`, pen and ink on square paper, 29x26cm, (5), (unframed), (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
Reginald Brill, British 1902-1974- "Sketch for the Mayors Procession Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey"; pen and ink en graiselle squared, 22.5x30cm: together with two further by the same artist entitled `The Church of San Ruffino`, watercolour, 23.5x27.5cm and `Sketch for Piacenza`, pen and ink, 22.5x33.5cm, (3), (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
KNIGHT LAURA: (1877-1970) English Painter, famous for her works of London's theatre, ballet and circus. An original blue pen and ink sketch by Knight, showing a circus clown standing in a full length pose, drawn and signed on a 12mo card and dated March 1952 in her hand. Together with a colour 6 x 4 postcard reproduction of Knight's painting Elsie on Hassan, signed by Knight in blue fountain pen ink to the white border, 'Thank you very much for your kind letter and good wishes, yours gratefully, Laura Knight'. Addressed in Knight's hand to the verso. Some very light, extremely minor uniform discoloration to the sketch and a central horizontal crease to the postcard, G to VG, 2
HIRST DAMIEN: (1965- ) English Artist. Book signed (twice), being the folio exhibition catalogue for Damien Hirst: The Agony and the Ecstasy Selected Works from 1989 - 2004 at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, October 2004 - January 2005, containing many colour illustrations, essays and interviews etc., signed by Hirst in bold black ink to the colour front cover above an original black ink drawing in his hand of a butterfly, and again signed by Hirst in bold black ink to the plain aqua green back cover beneath an original black ink sketch in his hand of a skull and cross bones and a shark floating in a tank. Dated 2nd May 2006 in his hand. VG
[TRINDER TOMMY], (1909-1989) English Stage, Screen and Radio Comedian. A large red leather bound album belonging to Tommy Trinder and containing around 300 signatures by a wide variety of famous people including William Randolph Hearst, James Agate, Beverley Nichols, Compton Mackenzie, Hannen Swaffer, Naomi Jacob, Billy Cotton, Glynis Johns, Manning Sherwin, Bob Hope ('To Tommy Trinder, Please don't be so funny - My Best, Bob Hope', 1943), Chico Marx ('To Tommy, you have at least one of the Marxes, Best of everything, Chico'), Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, June Clyde, Jerry Colonna, Mary Brian, Larry Alder, Glenn Miller ('To Tommy, I loved it, Sincerely, Glenn Miller'), Joe Davis ('Yours till the balls stop rolling, Joe Davis') Max Wall, Richard Murdoch, Wilfred Pickles, Freddie Mills, Ted Kid Lewis, Dave Crowley, Eric Boon, Robert Newton, Claude Hulbert, Henry Cotton, Richard Tauber, Constance Cummings, Aneurin Bevan, A. V. Alexander, Tom Driberg, Jack Payne, Adelaide Hall, Elizabeth Allan, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jack Train, Albert Sandler, Sid Field, Arthur Askey, Will Fyffe, Jack Petersen (adding a caricature of Trinder), Frank Swift, Oliver Leese, Bernard Freyberg VC, Arthur Coningham, Princess Marina, Will Hay, Vic Oliver, Jerry Desmonde, Leslie Henson, Beatrice Lillie, Jack Buchanan, Robertson Hare, Tom Webster (excellent original pen and ink drawing of a screaming baby, entitled Tommy Trinder in the days of his youth and with caption If it's laughter you're after you'd better ask me Dad), Alec and Eric Bedser, Sidney Barnes, George Duckworth, Godfrey Evans, Teddy Knox, Charles Naughton, Jimmy Nervo, Jimmy Gold, Norman Evans, Gracie Fields, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Dolores Gray, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson, Ted Ray, Randolph Turpin, Dudley Nourse, Eric Rowan, Jack McGlew and other South African cricketers 1951, Jim Swanton, John Snagge, Jack Solomons ('To My Pal Tommy, if I were to write all the nice things about you, I would need the book & not this page, always your pal, Jack Solomons'), Peter Ustinov, Danny Kaye, George Robey, Laurence Olivier & Vivien Leigh (good examples of their signatures together on their own page), Roy Ullyett (good original pen and ink sketch of Trinder attempting to save footballs going in the back of a goal, signed and with caption 'Thank Heaven you're on stage Tommy - You might have played in goal for Fulham.'), Tom Whittaker, Bernard joy, Georgie Jessell, Richard Attenborough, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Johnnie Ray, Ruby Murray, Max Bygraves, Sabrina Jose Iturbi, Billy Eckstine, Howard Keel, Larry Gains, and many others. The majority of pages are multiple signed (although none are back to back) and most signatories have added a warm, friendly, admiring and, in many cases, humorous inscriptions to Trinder. The album dates from 1942-58 and many of the signatures were obtained following Trinder's performances at the London Palladium and other venues. To the cover, in gilt letters, appears the comedian's most famous catchphrase, You Lucky People! A wonderful collection of signatures and a great souvenir of one of Britain's best loved comedians. Some slight age wear, otherwise VG Quick-witted and fast-talking Trinder was one of Britain's most popular stand up comedians from the 1930s - 1960s and during World War II his shows brought welcome relief during the dark days of War. Trinder also appeared in films and on television, in 1955 becoming the first compere for the new programme Sunday Night at the London Palladium. The comedian was a lifelong fan and devoted supporter of Fulham Football Club and served as Chairman of the club in the 1960's. He was awarded the CBE in 1975. The album serves as a reminder of the great affection and respect Trinder afforded from his colleagues and admirers.
PARK NICK: (1958- ) English Animated Filmmaker, Academy Award winner. An original blue ink sketch of Wallace and Gromit, drawn and signed by Park on a white index card. Inscribed at the head of the card, 'To David, Best wishes, Wallace & Gromit and Nick'. Two very slight, neat minor tears to the base of the card, only very slightly affecting a small area of the drawing, otherwise VG
Chippendale (Thomas). The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director..., Supplement, A Gallery of Chippendale Furniture and a Sketch of Chippendale’s Life and Works by Walter Rendell Storey, New York: Towse Publishing Co., 1938, b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in slightly worn d.j., folio, together with Sheraton (Thomas), Thomas Sheraton’s Complete Furniture Works, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book, The Cabinet Dictionary, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer, and General Artist’s Encyclopaedia, Supplement, A Gallery of Sheraton Furniture and A Sketch of Sheraton’s Life and Works by Walter Rendell Storey, [New York: Towse Pub. Co., 1946], b & w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in slightly worn d.j., folio (2)
Edwards (Lionel). My Hunting Sketch Book, 2 vols., pub. Eyre and Spottis woode, 1928-30, num. mounted col. plts., light occ. spotting vol. 2 with newspaper clippings tipped-in to verso of frontis., orig. linen with paper label mounted to upper cover of each, 4to, together with Pollard (Hugh B. C.), Wildfowl & Waders. Nature & Sport in the Coastlands, Depicted by the Late Frank Southgate, R.B.A., pub. Country Life, 1928, num. mounted col. plts., b&w illusts., orig. qtr. vellum, 4to, plus Wilson (H. W.), With the Flag to Pretoria, a History of the Boer War of 1899-1900 & After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, 4 vols., 1900-02, b&w illusts. throughout, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco gilt, folio, plus thirteen other Natural History, Australian and Indian related (a carton)
Brackenbury (Henry). The Campaign in the Crimea. An Historical Sketch, 1st & 2nd Series, 2 vols., 1855-56, 81 tinted lithographed plates after William Simpson (including additional lithograhed titles), scattered light spotting, a.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, rebacked with original spines relaid, edges rubbed, 8vo -2
Signal Book. Signal Book for the Ships of War, late 18th c., [2], vii, 60pp., contemporary manuscript notes & annotations to title and throughout volume, numerous detailed watercolour illustrations of flags to tables and thumb index, blind library stamp & manuscript classification number to title with library ink stamp to verso, with a double page table bound-in at front of volume detailing private signals for knowing each other by day and private signals for His Majesty’s ships by night, with contemporary manuscript infill and annotations, bound with A Short Sketch of the use and Importance of Naval Signals, late 18th c., 8pp., slight dust-soiling to final leaf, orig. wrappers present with closed-tear to rear wrapper, marbled endpapers, cloth strengthening strip to hinges, library bookplates to upper pastedown, contemp. calf with red morocco title label to upper board, old reback with paper label at foot of spine, wear to extrems., folio. Includes signals by private ships by day and night; fog signals, signals with sails and guns; signals denoting the squadrons, divisions and signals to be made by ships ordered to observe the motions of the enemy by night. (1)
Skene (James Henry). With Lord Stratford in the Crimean War, 1st ed., 1883, ex-lib. copy with a few unobtrusive ink stamps, orig. cloth gilt, recased, together with Adye (Lieutenant-Colonel John), A Review of the Crimean War, to the Winter of 1854-5, 1st ed., 1860, folding battleplans, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, minor wear to head and foot of spine, plus Klapka (General George), The War in the East. From the Year 1853 Til July 1855. An Historico-Critical Sketch of the Campaigns on the Danube, in Asia, and in the Crimea, with a Glance at the Probable Contingencies of the next Campaign, trans. Lieutenant Colonel A. Mednyanszky, 1st ed., 1856, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, sl. frayed at head and foot of spine, and five others related (8)
Taylor (George Cavendish). Journal of Adventures with the British Army, from the Commencement of the War to the Taking of Sebastopol, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1856, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some minor wear to extremities (upper cover of vol. 1 stained), together with Woods (N.A.), The Past Campaign: A Sketch of the War in the East, from the Departure of Lord Raglan to the Capture of Sevastopol, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1855, half-titles present, publisher’s ads at rear of vol. 2, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, ‘Western Club’ paper label to upper cover of both vols., plus Hume (John R.), Reminiscences of the Crimean Campaign with the 55th Regiment, 1st ed., 1894, port. frontis., signed to upper margin, b & w illusts. and ports., some folding, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, and two others related, all 8vo (7)
Michell (James). Parochial History of Saint Neots, in Cornwall, and an Historical Sketch of the Life and Miracles of Saint Neot..., pub. Bodmin, 1833, manuscript inscription to title, slight marginal dampstaining to initial leaves, contemp. half morocco, 8vo in 16s, together with Birmingham, An Historical and Descriptive Sketch of Birmingham..., pub. Birmingham, 1830, numerous eng. plts., endpapers renewed, orig. cloth, rebacked, 8vo, with Sexby (Lieut-Col. J.J.), The Municipal Parks, Gardens, and Open Spaces of London, 1898, b & w frontis. and illusts., t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. pictorial cloth, 8vo, plus other topography including a Channel Islands portion of Kelly’s Directory for 1911 with three folding maps (16)
John Piper (British, 1903-1992) Hafod signed, titled in pencil verso, watercolour and ink and with pencil sketch drawing of the Hafod estate to the reverse inscribed in pencil `Hafod looking east across the valley at the house` 15 1/2" x 19 3/4". Provenance: with Ernest, Brown and Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries; Ernest Hilton Fine Art Dealers, Cambridge Exhibited: Ernest, Brown and Phillips Ltd., The Leicester Galleries, Artists of Fame and Promise: Part II, August 1949. This picture Hafod is characteristic of a series of paintings Piper composed at the outset of the Second World War in 1939 and the early 1940`s, with its rusty colours and barren, but romantic visualisation of the Welsh landscape. In August 1939, John and Myfanwy Piper travelled on holiday to Wales, eventually reaching the house and estate of Hafod in Cardiganshire. The estate had previously attracted the artists John Warwick Smith and John Sell Cotman, presumably because of its reputation as one of the finest examples of the European picturesque landscape. Piper considered it `a dream` and wrote: `The crumbling green mountains are Hafod`s natural scenery. Up here there is a bare region that stretches for miles to the east and south. It is a landscape to be seen in summer evening light, with its grey stone patches, its deep brown gashes of peat in the bog and occasional peat stacks, and its dark blue lakes. The Hafod valley…has been decorated artificially, but so exquisitely that its beauty is as great in decay as it was in youth`. Rather than creating a pastoral landscape in the grand manner as was common for landscape painters, Piper depicts in Hafod a modernist romantic vision of Britain, far distant from the imminent preparations for war being made in England, but as Piper writes where `Tragedy, on the whole, has triumphed…the woods up the valley are dishevelled…but the beauty of the whole place in decay is overpowering`. (both quoted from John Piper, Decrepit Glory: a Tour of Hafod, The Architectural Review, LXXXVII, June 1940, pp.208-210) This picture was possibly also included in Piper`s first solo exhibition of the war at The Leicester Galleries as Hafod across the valley (no.1).
A pastel drawing, Tree of Life design in polychrome, 14x9.5in., a felt-tip sketch of George Harrison, 12x9in., and an hand-written but incomplete essay Footnote These works were retrieved by the current vendor during the mid-1960`s from `Kenwood`, St. Georges Hill, Weybridge, a property known to have been newly-vacated by John Lennon at the time. The vendor had been contracted to quote for re-furbishment and to clear all waste. The auctioneers can offer no guarantee as to the authorship of some, or any, of these works.
Flora H. Mitchell (1890-1973)VANISHING DUBLIN - DRAFT COPY (c.1965)variously inscribed and annotated; contains sketch of a Georgian doorway [53 Parnell Sq. / 52 ? Row]; also with typescript and manuscript entries for her text laid in11.25 by 8.25in., 28.575 by 20.955cm.Sketch shows Christchurch on reverse and is also inscribed "from Henshaw`s Roof, Nicholas St. on reverse". Rare and interesting item showing the artist`s raw vision for her limited edition 1966 publication. Contained in navy blue boards.
A framed, rare and potentially historically important painting, an early Watercolour of a coastal scene with a boat under sail, an oval work having an artistic gold-coloured surround not unlike a view through a port-hole with above, the initials ''A.H.'' and below, the date ''1919'' in turn with a complex surround of leaf swags. Attributed to Adolf Hitler and quite probably by him, the signature to the lower right bearing a strong resemblance to his. 5 1/2'' x 7 3/4'' approx. Like the previous lot, the painting shows something of the artistic talent, which enabled Hitler to earn a precarious living in Austria and Germany as a painter before fast-approaching events lead him in other directions. The picture shows a contrasting style compared to the previous lot, much thought appearing to have gone into the surround of a relatively un-complicated marine sketch. Provenance: From the son of a private collector who was, apparently, in Germany at the end of the Second World War and whose father was given this with other paintings by a personal female friend of Hitler. The family have, but have currently mis-laid a letter stating: ''These pictures were brought many years ago by my father with a complete provenance which stated that the pictures were obtained when one of the army war crimes officers was interviewing a lady friend of Hitler, the person that he was interviewing gave them to him maybe so that the officer took a more kindly tone in the way he was asking her questions as to what the connection was between her and Hitler''.
A Victorian sketch book with numerous drawings, watercolours and pencil sketches, along with written extracts including several from John Franklin (1786-1847) the Arctic Explorer.Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN (1786-1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy, and the icebound ships were abandoned.
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