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Lot 16
NO RESERVE Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) The Belomor Channel, 1933Gelatin silver ferrotyped print, titled, dated and annotated in pencil in unknown hand with photographer's copyright stamp verso, 12 x 9cm (4 7/8 x 3 1/2in)Provenance: Estate of Alexander Rodchenko's Literature: Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich and Alexander Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko: Photography 1924-1954, 1995, ill. 331
Lot 17
NO RESERVE Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) Agava, Botanical Garden, 1929Ferrotyped gelatin silver print, titled, dated and annotated in pencil in unknown hand with photographer's copyright stamp verso, 22.3 x 16cm (8 7/8 x 6 1/4in)Provenance: Estate of Alexander RodchenkoLiterature: Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich, and Alexander Lavrentiev, Alexander Rodchenko: Photography 1924-1954, 1995, ill.203
Lot 27
NO RESERVE Ivan Shagin (1904-1982) Nazi Aeroplane Shot Down on Sverdlov Square, 1941; Going to the Football Game, 1930Two gelatin silver prints, each titled and dated in Cyrillic in pencil verso, one with photographer's stamp verso, 22.3 x 28.3cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/8in); 19.2 x 29.5cm (7 5/8 x 11 1/2in)
Lot 29
NO RESERVE Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) Communal Kitchen (Petr Park), 1931; and three othersA group of four ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, printed later, one with photographer's Cyrillic stamp verso, three authenticated, titled, dated and annotated in pencil in English or Cyrillic by unknown hand verso, sizes varying from 6 x 6 cm (2 3/8 x 2 3/8in) to 20 x 29.5cm (7 7/8 x 11 5/8in)Titles include Woman with a Baby Carriage, 1928; Vkhutemas Yard, 1928 and Park of Culture and Rest, Moscow, (Gorky Park), 1932.
Lot 30
NO RESERVE Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) Transportation Cargo, 1932; and three othersA group of four ferrotyped gelatin silver prints, printed later, one with photographer's Cyrillic stamp, each authenticated titled, dated and annotated in Cyrillic and English verso, sizes varying from 18 x 12cm (7 1/8 x 4 7/8in) to 21 x 29cm (8 1/4 x 11 1/2in)Titles include Funeral, 1930; Monument to Liberty, 1929 and Monument to Dostoyevsky, 1932.
Lot 45
NO RESERVE Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896-1979) Gary Cooper; Greta Garbo, 1930sTwo gelatin silver prints, printed under the supervision of the Kobal Fine Art Collection, each with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, with Kobal Fine Art Collection label affixed on frame verso, each approximately 35 x 28cm (13 3/4 x 11in)
Lot 63
δ Willy Ronis (1910-2009) Manif pour la Défense du Ciné, 1948Gelatin silver print, titled, dated and annotated by the photographer with photographer's stamp and others verso, 19.2 x 24cm (7 1/2 x 9 3/8in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 68
δ Don McCullin (b.1935) Vietnam, 1968Gelatin silver print, various annotations in unknown hand with ''Camera Press'' copyright stamp and typed press caption label mentioning the photographer attached verso, 30.2 x 20.2cm (11 7/8 x 8in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 70
δ Don McCullin (b.1935) Vietnam, 1968Gelatin silver print, various annotations in unknown hand with ''Camera Press'' copyright stamp and typed press caption label copyrighting the photographer attached verso, 30.2 x 21cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/4in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 79
NO RESERVE δ Colin Jones (b.1936) The Black House, London, 1973-1976Gelatin silver print, with photographer's blind stamp in the margin, signed, titled and dated with photographer's copyright stamp verso, 33 x 49cm (13 x 19 1/4in)δ This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Lot 109
Heylyn (Peter). Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and the Isles thereof..., Revised, Corrected, and Inlarged by the Author himself immediately before his Death, London: Philip Chetwind, 1670, additional engraved title (with stain to lower margin and ink stamp to verso, with light show-through), letterpress title printed in red and black, four folding engraved maps only (of 5, includes map of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with California shown as an Island), lacking double-hemisphere map, each map with ink stamps to verso and ink stamp to upper margin of B1, occasional browning and spotting, endpapers renewed, front pastedown with bookplate and partially removed library label, contemporary calf, rebacked and corners repaired, library gilt stamp and classification number at foot of spine, folio Wing H1693. (1)
Lot 7
Camers (Joannes). Commentaria in C. Iulii Solini Polyhistora, et Lucii Flori De Romanorum rebus gestis, libros, ac Tabulam Cebetis ... praeterea Pomponii Melae De orbis situ libri tres, cum commentariis Ioachimi Vadiani, Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1557, woodcut initials, toning, occasional light spotting, ink-stamps of the Cabinet du marquis de Montpeyroux and related inscriptions to title page and colophon leaf, related inscription and effaced label to front pastedown, title page with additional ink-stamp 'Museum Rem. Faesch, Basil' verso, bound using leaf from a late 13th/early 14th-century vellum manuscript copy of Jacobus da Viragine's Legenda Aurea, decorated with puzzle initials in red and blue bodycolour, slightly rubbed and soiled overall, later manuscript spine-title and manuscript shelf-mark label, loss to spine-ends, some wear on raised bands, faint ink-stamp to foot of front cover, pastedowns lifting to reveal flesh-side, folio (31.5 x 19.5 cm) Adams S1395, VD16 S6970. The late 13th or early 14th century vellum manuscript leaf used to bind this copy contains sections from chapters 70, 72 and 82 of Jacobus da Viragine's Legenda Aurea (The Golden Legend), respectively 'De letania maiori et minori', 'De Adscensione Domini', and 'De sanctis Vito et Modesto'. (1)
Lot 72
*Henry VIII (1491-1547, King of England). A near-contemporary copy of 'The last wyll and testament of Kynge Harry the eyghte 30 December 1546', undated, circa 1570, written in brown ink in a neat secretary hand, large decorative initial, small grotesque to inner margin of top line of folio 4r, laid paper with watermark of 'PM' within a crowned shield, small heraldic sketch of a unicorn's head to final blank with colour markings, plus three more sketchy horses or dog heads, some spotting and dust-soiling, final blank verso more heavily soiled and damp-stained and with small tear, minor fraying to edges close to but not affecting text, disbound without covers, evidence of leather remains to spine, 8 leaves including final blank, slim folio (300 x 205mm) The will was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in April 1547. A comparison of this text with the registered copy (TNA PROB 11/31/247) shows many differences, omissions and incorrect transcriptions of words and the use of dialect forms (such as sarve for serve). This copy of the will is said to have formed part of Phillipps MS 13761 which notes that the volume included, inter alia, 'Testaments of H. 8 & H. 6' part of a collection of papers from the archive of Sir Henry St George (1581-1644), who served as Garter King of Arms in the last year of his life. Although such a provenance is borne out by the heraldic endorsements, and by the fact that hundreds of St George manuscripts were on the market in the 1730s and in 1846 (ODNB), the hand of this manuscript makes it hard to attribute its authorship to Sir Henry, and the same objection stands against his father Sir Richard St George (1554-1635), whose association with the College of Arms dates only from 1602 (ODNB). An old bookseller's typed description accompanying the lot states that the volume of manuscripts was acquired by Thomas Phillipps in 1852 from the manuscripts of Sir Henry St George, and listed among the St George manuscripts in 1697 in Bernard's Catalogi Lib. MSS. Angl. pars altera, no. 4217. The paper is watermarked PM within a crowned shield, several versions of which are included in C.M. Briquet, Les filigranes (Amsterdam, 1968) as 9637-9644, datable between 1545 and 1601. The closest match is 9641, datable 1567-1570, a period consistent with the hand. Such a date is supported by the presence of the grotesque beside the name of Princess Mary on the first line of folio 4, an adornment unlikely to have been made before November 1558. In a lengthy and pious introduction, the king accepts that 'every creature, the more high he is in estate, honour and authority in this world, the more he is bound to love, serve God and thank God and the more diligently to endeavour to [do] good and charitable works'.'Repenting also our old and detestable life', he invokes God and the Virgin Mary to 'pray for us and with us while we live here in this world and in time of passing out of it'. He desires burial 'in the choir of our college of Windsor, midway between the [stalls - blank in MS] and the high altar' in a tomb which is 'well one ward [recte toward] and almost made in which we will allow [recte will also] that the bones and body of our true [and] loving wife Queen Jane be put also'. 'The tombs and altars of king Harry the 6 and also of king Edward the fourth our great uncle and grandfather be made more princely'. Re-establishment of the Poor Knights of Windsor each to wear 'a long gown of white cloth with a garter upon the breast embroidered with a shield and a cross of St George with the garter and a mantle of red cloth'. Daughters 'shall not marry nor take any person to her husband without the assent and consent of the privy councillors and others appointed by us to our dearest son Prince Edward'.'seeing the fatherly love which we bear to our son Prince Edward and to this our realm we declare his [recte him] according to justice and equity and conscience to be our lawful heir and do and bequest unto him the succession of our realm of England and Ireland with our title of France and all other dominions both on this side [the seas] and beyond, charging him and commanding him on pain of our curse, seeing he hath so loving a father of us and that all our chief labour and study in this world [is] to establish him in the imperial crown of this realm after our days, in such sort as may be pleasing to God and to the wealth of this realm, and to his honour and quiet, that he be ordered and ruled, both in his marriage and also in ordering of the affairs of the realm, as well outward as inward, and also all his own privy affairs and in giving offices of charge by the advice and counsel of our right and entirely beloved counsellors'. 'Item we bequest to our daughter Mary and Elizabeth marriage[s], they being married to potentate by the advice of our foresaid counsellors, if we bestow not them in our own life time, ten thousand pounds in money, plate, jewels and household stuff for each of them or a larger sum at the discretions of our said executors'. This is the discussion of the will from the entry in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP, 2004) by Eric Ives: 'It was in the context of this final factional battle that Henry revised his last will and testament on 30 December 1546. It was authenticated by the dry stamp, a form of signature by proxy which Henry had introduced in 1545 to save himself trouble. This system was in theory open to abuse, but the will is undoubtedly genuine. Arguments that it was stamped only after the king became incapacitated, or even after he was dead, do not stand up to analysis. The king confirmed Edward as heir and after Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, though the girls were to lose their places in the succession if they married without the written permission of a majority of privy councillors. Next in line he put the Grey and Clifford families, descendants of Mary, his younger sister. The granddaughter of Henry's elder sister, Margaret-Mary, queen of Scots-was not mentioned, though presumably she qualified in the final remainder to the next rightful heirs. To govern the country during his son's minority, Henry nominated sixteen executors who were to function as Edward's privy council, and since sixteen might be too few for day-to-day business, he named a further twelve to be counsellors to the sixteen as and when required. Henry's will provoked discussion in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth and also in modern times. Some historians have argued that because traditionalist and anti-traditionalist councillors were roughly equal in numbers, Henry's intention was to rule from the grave and preserve his individual religious policy.' (1)
Lot 8
Henry VII Year Books. [Anni Regis Henrici Septimi. Quibus accesserunt annus primus et secundus de noua et valde bona collatione. Ac etiam, annus decimus, undecimus, decimus tertius, decimus sextus, et vigesimus, nunquam ante hac ‘diti. Anno Domini 1555, Richard Tottell, 1555], [i.e. 1563?], law reports from 1-16, 20 and 21 Henry VII, separate paginations with continuous register, black letter, woodcut initials, lacks title-page, occasional contemporary and later ink marginalia and underscoring, peppered wormholes (mostly at front and rear), a few mostly marginal closed tears, some light old damp-staining, 23 lines of manuscript verse quotations [from William Bullein's Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence] in brown ink in an unidentified contemporary hand to first front free endpaper recto (watermark of hand with a flower on laid paper), contemporary blind-stamped calf over boards, with central lattice panel of diamonds within a rolled border of repeated motifs of female heads within roundels and floral decoration, ownership monogram blind stamp of 'F.B.' to centre of both covers, remains of one brass clasp only, some rubbing and wear with scattered worm holes, neatly rebacked with remains of spine relaid, folio (280 x 190mm) Provenance: An unidentified 16th century English collector, here quoting from William Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever. Beale R408; STC 9223.5. The Year Books are the earliest law reports of England, forming a continuous series from 1268 to 1535, and covering the reigns of King Edward I to Henry VIII. Richard Tottel produced the majority of sixteenth-century printed Year Books, a great many being published between the years 1556 and 1572. William Bullein (c. 1515-1576), physician, published his last and most popular work, A Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence, in 1564. 'This work saw him move away from the overwhelmingly medical concerns of his previous writing, and extend his use of dialogue beyond the didactic to a more lively style in which he mixed medicine, morality, and entertainment. Like the authors of many plague tracts, Bullein takes the epidemic as his starting point for a broad criticism of the sins of society, attacking engrossing and enclosure in the countryside and the sudden charity of the afflicted, and parodying hypocritical and atheistic physicians and apothecaries, and the desperation of usurious merchants when faced by death.' (Oxford DNB). The manuscript verses begin: 'How the cardinal came of nought / and his prelacie sold and bought / And where such prelate be, springe of love degree, / And spirituall dignitee / farewell begninitee, / farewell simplicitee, farewell humanitee, farewell good charitee'. The final two lines are: 'but or thei enter if they have lerned nought / afterward is vertue the least of theyr thought'. The quotations are taken from one long speech by the character Crispinus who recounting his visit to Parnassus, repeats some verses he heard spoken by a number of famous poets from the previous two hundred years. The four poets 'quoted' here are John Skelton (an attack on Cardinal Wolsey), Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and Bartley. The small variations in wording between the early editions suggests that this, if not copied from a manuscript, was transcribed from the first edition of 1564, rather than the later editions of 1573 or 1578: See Mark W. Bullen & A.H. Bullen (editors), A Dialogue against the Fever Pestilence by William Bullein, from the Edition of 1578, Collated with the Earlier Editions of 1564 and 1573, Trbner, 1888, pages 16-18. All editions are rare and only three copies of the first edition are located: two imperfect copies at the British Library and the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and a possibly unique complete copy at the Huntington Library, California. That copy, used by the editors of the (fourth) 1888 edition had been part of the Britwell/Heber Collection, acquired by Huntington from the Britwell Court library sale in 1919. (1)
Lot 416
A late 19th century satinwood armchair in the manner of Sheraton, with painted neo-classical urn, floral and ribbon swag decoration, to a pierced splat back and swept arms, on turned column legs, possibly by Wright & Mansfield, bearing stamp to seat rail OM 3881 95 x 60cm (37 x 23in) Good sound condition with stamp to the front seat rail
Lot 102
Wilson, Robert F.; Battersby, B.K. The British Colour Council Dictionary of Colours for Interior Decoration. British Colour Council, 1949. 8vo (3 vols). Two swatch volumes in red leather-bound screw-fastening binders, accompanying text volume in full red leather, all with silver titles and Colour Council device on upper boards, spines of swatch volumes lettered in silver; 21 fold-out sheets of colour swatches across Vols 1 and 2, with black card viewing strip loosely inserted in pocket at front of both; Vol 3 pp. xxi, blank, 28 of explanatory text and colour histories. 10 pile samples damaged or missing over both volumes, otherwise complete; ex-library copy with small class stickers to spines of swatch volumes, small marginal stamps to versos of first colour swatch sheets in both and library bookplates tipped in at front, Vol. 3 with library bookplate on upper pastedown and stamp to verso of title page. Limited edition, no. 4603 of 7500. A scarce colour sample, hard to find in good condition because of its usual use as a working tool. The Council was a working standards organisation, active from the 1930s to the 50s, which codified colour definitions - they were the people who determined ''Battleship Grey'' (CC 322). Their codes were the standard for organisations such as the British Army, RIBA and the Post Office. Although largely supplanted by British Standards codes they remain standards for such things as academic dress and horticulture - for which the Council produced a book in 1938. This collection was produced after it was realised that their first work (Dictionary of Colour Standards) had a bias towards textiles. This was produced to suit a wider range of applications. There are 35 colours for which no pile sample is included because ''it was not considered advisable to dye that particular colour on pile fabric owing to the possibility of fading or discolouring in a comparatively short space of time.'' (3 p. xiii). Scuffing and edgewear to boards and case, some missing or damaged pile samples, but a very good set of a work notoriously difficult to find in decent condition.
Lot 3593
Royal Interest - Charles and Diana, Prince and Princess of Wales, 1992 Christmas signed card, autographed in MS black ink, enclosing a b/w portrait photograph of Princes William and Henry of Wales, registered envelope with Buckingham Palace SW1A 1AA franked mark and crowned EIIR stamp in purple
Lot 142
Edwardian old cut diamond ring, central stone estimated weight 0.90 carats, estimated colour I/J and clarity I, with two old cut diamonds set either side, mounted in yellow metal stamp 18 ct, size H. Gross weight 3.1 gramscentral stone loose in settingEstimated total diamond weight 1.40 carats
Lot 2238
Pair Compton Potters Art Guild Celtic terracotta jardinieres with stands, designed by Mary Seton Watts, cast in low relief with scroll motif, impressed circular wheel stamp mark, Reg. No 409999 58cm. diam. Literature: Veronica Franklin Gould Archibald Knox and Mary Seton Watts, Modern Celtic Art Garden Pottery, page 29 for a contemporary photograph illustrating this design, circa 1899 (One with repair and significant loss to one side)
Lot 505
Edwardian silver chatelaine with crowned figure, birds and floral detail, by Reynolds & Westwood, with Georgian vinaigrette, hallmarked Birmingham 1814 by Mathew Linwood, two compartment stamp box, hallmarked Birmingham 1905 by Gourdel vales & Co and white metal purse testing as silver. Silver gross weight 123.9 grams
Lot 525
Collection of silver items, graduated curb link bracelet set with nine coins, with three marcasite brooches, silver swan salts by J B Chatterley & Sons Ltd, hallmarked Birmingham 1970, Three pence link bracelet with coins from 1897 to 1935, silver stamp envelope, hallmarked Birmingham 1904, by Adie & Lovekin Ltd, Edwardian silver match box holder and Grouse foot brooch . Gross weight 140 grams
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