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Click here to subscribeA pre-war drawing, a very early example of a Gotschke motor racing sketch for Mercedes cars, possibly for a poster. Gouache, 11.11/16in x 8.1/4in; 29.7mm x21mm. Tripoli Grand Prix, 1939. Hermann Lang in the baby Mercedes. Gouache and watercolour over pencil, 8.1/4in x 11.9/16in; 21mm x 29.4mm.
Macquoid (Percy & Edwards, Ralph). The Dictionary of English Furniture from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period, with a General Introduction by H. Avray Tipping, 3 vols., Country Life & Scribner's, 1924-27, num. illusts. from photos., some col., orig. green cloth gilt, some wear to spines and extrems., folio, together with Cescinsky (Herbert and Gribble, Ernest R.), Early English Furniture & Woodwork, 2. vols., Waverley Book Co. Ltd., 1922, col. frontis. to each, num. b & w illusts. from photos., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, 4to, plus Meteyard (Eliza), The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, from his Private Correspondence and Family Papers., With an Introductory Sketch of the Art of Pottery in England, 2. vols., 1865, port. frontis. to each, num. wood engs. to text, some spotting and minor marginal damp stains (mainly to prelims.), recent blue half morocco, gilt dec. spines, 8vo (7)
Babington (Charles Cardale). Flora of Cambridgeshire: Or a Catalogue of Plants Found in the County of Cambridge, with References to Former Catalogues, and the Localities of the Rarer Species, 1st ed., 1860, folding map, recent cloth, together with Lees (Frederic Arnold), The Flora of West Yorkshire, with a Sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in Connection Therewith, 1888, single ad. leaf at front, some minor scattered spotting, recent cloth, plus Bagnall (James E.), The Flora of Warwickshire, London & Birmingham, 1891, folding map contained in rear pocket, orig. cloth gilt (Limited edition 373/500, signed by the author), and Hayward (Ida M., and Druce, George Claridge), The Adventive Flora of Tweedside, pub. Arbroath, 1919, b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth gilt, and three other County Floras (Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire and Bournemouth), all 8vo (7)
[RACKHAM, Arthur]. INGOLDSBY, Thomas. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or Mirth & Marvels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. William Heinemann, London, 1920. Fifth Issue, with ORIGINAL PEN & INK SKETCH BY RACKHAM. 4to; 24 colour plates mounted on card; with an original pen and ink illustration on half title, entitled 'The Hero' and signed at foot by Arthur Rackham; in the original brown pictorial cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, with gilt stamped school crest to upper board and school price label on front pastedown, small bump to spine with minor wear to head, light rubbing to extremities. It is particularly appealing, and rare, to find an original pen and ink sketch (entitled 'The Hero') by Rackham on the half title.
Studio of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp) The Birth of the Rose: Venus pulling a thorn from her foot, attended by Putti oil on paper, in a tortoiseshell frame 23? x 17? in. (603 x 451 mm.) "Rubens' painting of this subject is in the Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles (D. Jaff?, Rubens, Catalogo Completo , Milan, 1989, no. 72). Jaff? notes that Richard Cosway, in his catalogue of his own collection published in 1791, describes a 'Venus taking a thorn out of her foot, with Cupids, whose various appropriate occupations are most happily conceived and expressed. This beautiful sketch was left by Mr Taverner, at his decease, to Athenian Stuart' (D.Jaff?, loc. cit .) which may perhaps be identified with the present work.
EDWARD FITZGERALD and WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, A signed anecdote and sketch, the framed pencil sketch of a lady and gentleman within a landscape with accompanying note from Fitzgerald stating: 'Drawn by W. M. Thackeray, as we were talking together in my lodging, Southampton Street, Holborn, in the winter or spring of 1854', signed Edward Fitzgerald, sketch unsigned, sketch 6 x 4.5 ins
Eric Gill, 1882-1940. working drawing for relief sculpture, signed with initials and dated 16.3.37, pencil, 24x18cm.; 9.5x7in. (2), The present work is a working drawing for a memorial relief sculpture to the Maharini of Bastar State, commissioned in 1936 by E.S. Hyde, administrator of Bastar. The sculpture was delivered in Jagdalpur, Bastar in 1939.. To be sold together with a sketch of a plinth by the same hand and letters from the sculptor to E.S.Hyde, variously dated between 1936-38.
Drummond (The Hon. W.H.). The Large Game and Natural History of South and South-East Africa, 1st ed, Edinburgh, 1875, chromo. frontis, tinted and b & w plts, illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, recased, together with Chapman (Abel), On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-Life, 1st ed, 1908, photogravure frontis, b & w illusts. from photos, sketch maps and illusts. to text, 16pp. pubs. ads. at rear, orig. cloth gilt, recased, plus Glave (E.J.), Six Years of Adventure in Congo-Land, with an Introduction by H.M. Stanley, 1st ed, 1893, port. frontis, wood engs, orig. pict. cloth, rubbed and a little marked, and Livingstone (David), Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, 1st ed, 2nd issue, 1857, uncol. folding wood eng. frontis, wood engs. to text, two folding maps contained in rear pocket, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and a little worn at extrems, with others related, all 8vo. (19)
Parr (Captain Henry Hallam). A Sketch of the Kafir and Zulu Wars. Guadana to Isandhlwana, 1st ed, 1880, folding map with hand-col. outlines, with 2 short handling tears, several full-page plans on letterpress, 2pp. with short tear in fore-margin, 32-pp. pub. cat. at rear, upper hinge split but firm, rough-trimmed, orig. green cloth, dec. in black and gilt, sl. rubbed at spine ends and joints, 8vo. (1)
China. Nicol (George, pub.), A Sketch of a Journey from Zhe-Hol in Tartary by land to Pekin and from Thence by Water to Hang-Tchoo-Foo in China, pub. April 12th 1796, uncoloured engraved map, approx. 670 x 490 mm, together with Arrowsmith (J.), China, pub. Feb. 14th, 1840, engraved map, hand coloured in outline, approx. 480 x 590 mm, and other maps of China and Southeast Asia. (7)
Jacobite Rebellion, 1745. [Murray (Lord George)]. A Particular Account of the Battle of Culloden. April 16, 1746, printed for T. Warner, 1749, 25 pages, lacks half-title, together with Ferguson (Capt. Andrew), A Genuine Account of all the Persons of Note in Scotland, who are now engaged in the Service of the Chevalier, London Reprinted, [c. 1745], 62 pages, and Seasonable Reflections, on the Dying-Words, and Deportment, of that Great, but Unhappy Man, Arthur, late Lord Balmerino. in a Letter to Mr. Ford, printed for John Noon, 1746, 24 + [2] pages, and Genuine Memoirs of John Murray, Esq.; Late Secretary to the Young Pretender, printed for J. Wilford, 1747, 64 pages, and A Sketch of the Life and Character of Mr. Ratcliffe, Containing the Part he acted in the Rebellion, in the Year 1715. His Sentence and Escape out of Newgate; His Adventures for these 30 Years past, printed by T. Gardner, 1746, 28 pages, lacks half-title, together with seven other pamphlets, being contemporary acounts of aspects of the Rebellion of 1745, all disbound, 8vo. (12)
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