Catullus (Gaius Valerius).- Guarini (Alessandro) Alexandri Guarini Ferrariensis In. C.V. Catullum Veronensem Per baptistam Patrem Emendatum Expositiones cum Indice, collation: A10 B-P8 Q-R4, italic type, commentary surrounding text double column, title within woodcut ornamental border, initial spaces with guide-letters, Q4, 18th century red deer, gilt spine in compartments and with black morocco label, rubbed and scuffed, small 4to (199 x 129mm.), [Venice], [Giorgio de Rusconi], [11 May, 1521].⁂ A rare copy of the first edition of one of the most important printings of Catullus, with a superb provenance. Guarinus based his edition on the manuscript his father had worked on, along with the work of various Catullan scholars. His knowledge of variant readings and interpretations is reflected in his discussions of textual problems, to which he sometimes contributes his own solutions. Provenance: Bernard von Mallinckrodt (1591-1664), bibliophile and originator of the term 'incunabula' in his 1639 work De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (ink ownership inscription to title, dated Vienna 1631); Hopetoun (engraved armorial bookplate); Walter Ashburner (1834-1936), bibliophile and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, (ink stamp to title). Literature: Adams C1141 (erroneously ending collation at Q4)
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Americas.- Central America.- Squier (E.G.) Travels in Central America, particularly in Nicaragua, 2 vol., 30 lithographed or wood-engraved plates on 29 sheets, one folding, several tinted lithographs, 4 maps, 2 folding, wood-engraved illustrations, some offsetting, original blind-stamped cloth, spines pictorial gilt, a little rubbed, spines very slightly faded, corners bumped, [Abbey, Travel 674], 1853 § Young (Thomas) Narrative of a Residence on the Mosquito Shore..., 3 lithographed plates, heavily foxed, ex-library copy with stamp to verso of title and label, later cloth, 1842 § Pim (B.) and Berthold Seemann. Dottings on the Roadside, in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito, 2 maps, one folding, 6 tinted lithographed plates, light foxing to frontispiece and title, later roan, gilt, worn, covers detached, 1869, first editions; and 2 others on Mexico, 8vo (6)
China.- Staunton (Sir George) An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, Atlas vol. only, 44 engraved maps and plates, some folding or double-page, foxing and soiling, mostly to margins, small ink stamp to verso of first and last plates, bookplate of John Stafford Reid Byers, later green half morocco, rubbed and repaired, rebacked, folio, [1797].⁂ Without the two accompanying text volumes, this atlas illustrates the official account of Lord Macartney's voyage and embassy to the Qianlong emperor in 1792-94, the failure of which led to the establishment of the British trading post at Hong Kong. The fine plates by Alexander include birds, views of palaces, temples, barges and a military post, and there is also a detailed map of Macao.
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Economics.- French Revolution.- Apperçu de la Balance du Commerce de la France Année 1789 [...], engraving, heightened with red wash and gold, neatly presented in tables with red and yellow wash with gold ruled borders, on laid paper with large armorial watermark and countermark of D. & C. Blauw, sheet 610 x 930 mm. (24 x 36 3/4 in), central vertical fold, some tears into text, one or two with restoration, other minor nicks and tears to extremities, some small losses, rough edges, unframed, 1789.Provenance:Her Majesty's State Paper Office [bears ink stamp, centre left];Private collection, London. ⁂ Fiscal overview of France in 1789, alongside surveys of the population, finances and military forces of the principal powers of Europe.
Polar.- Arctic.- Lyon (Capt. George Francis) The Private Journal...during the Recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 7 engraved plates and folding map, lacking half-title, some light offsetting, contemporary calf, spine gilt, boards rather worn, 1824; A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay... in His Majesty's Ship Griper, 7 engraved plates and folding map, 8pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some foxing and offsetting, old boards, uncut, rebacked in calf, boards spotted, 1825 § Fisher (Alexander) A Journal of a Voyage of Discovery to the Arctic Regions, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper..., no half-title (as usual), 2 engraved maps, one folding, wood-engraved illustrations, light offsetting from maps, old ink ownership stamp at head of title, contemporary half calf, rubbed, rebacked, 1821, first editions, [Sabin 42853, 42851 & 24453], 8vo (3)
Shiels (George) Original typescript of unpublished novel A Yankee in the Irish Border Wars, 1 vol. in 10 parts, 195pp., some creasing and soiling, ink ownership stamp of George Shiels to upper cover, [early 20th century]; and the original typescript for Shiels' one act play Trooper's Lane, both preserved in custom folding chemise, 4to (2)⁂ George Shiels (1886-1949), wrote for the Abbey Theatre from around 1921 until 1948. Trooper's Lane was rejected by the Abbey Theatre in 1924 and appears to have remained subsequently unpublished.
Australasia.- Australia.- Giles (Ernest) Australia Twice Traversed..., 2 vol., first edition, 6 folding colour maps, 21 plates, with slip printed in red regarding the sale of secondhand copies of the book tipped in before text of vol.1, illustrations, occasional spotting, Ivo C.Hammet's copy with his ink stamp at head of half-titles, other small stamps of Alec P.Matheson, vol.1 hinges weak or repaired, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, spines faded, [Ferguson 9914; Wantrup 202a, "arguably the most handsomely produced of late nineteenth-century Australian books"], 8vo, 1889.⁂ Ivo Hammet (1895-1975), botanist and a pioneer of Australian native plant growing.
Catullus, Tibullus & Propertius. Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii, et Cornelii Galli Opera, edited by Horatio Tuscanella, 2 parts in 1, collation: a8 A-X8, a-l8, title with woodcut printer's device, large partially hand-coloured woodcut printer's device to final verso, woodcut decorative initials, X7 blank, some early numbering in red ink and underlining in green ink, lacking blank X8, ink stamp to title, occasional spotting or staining, lightly browned, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over boards, upper cover with central portrait of Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (one of the founders of Helmstedt University), and with his arms to lower cover, initials 'I S R' to head of upper cover, joints split, but holding, spine ends and corners worn, rubbed, 8vo (156 x 100mm.), Basel, [Ex officina Henricpetrina], [March, 1569].⁂ First edition edited and indexed by Tuscanella, who also provided a concordance. Literature: Adams C1152; VD 16 C-1743.
Botany.- Fern specimens.- Craig (Eric, compilor and retailer) New Zealand Ferns, 80 specimens on 40ff., each with letterpress label listing the Linnean binomial, ink stamp "New Zealand Ferns mounted by Eric Craig, Princes St., Auckland" to first and final ff., a few specimens loose or becoming so, a few with minor loss but most in excellent condition, first f. loose and a little chipped at margins, advertisement for Eric Craig loosely inserted, original decoratively carved wooden boards, lacking spine, upper cover detached, folio, Auckland, [c.1880].⁂ A good example of a professionally-produced fern album from the emporium of one of New Zealand's best known fern collectors and retailers. Eric Craig was a dealer in tribal artefacts, curios and natural history specimens.
Doni (Anton Francesco) I Marmi, 4 parts in 1, collation: A- X4; Aa-Pp4; a4, B-X4; AA-MM4, first part-title with large woodcut globe device of the globe from Doni's I Mondi, other part-titles with different device, each part with final woodcut device within full-page scrollwork borders, full-page woodcut portraits, A1 & A2 slightly foxed and bearing small blind-stamp, 1552 bound with [Bidpai]. La Moral Filosophia..., edited by Doni , collation: A-V4, woodcut frontispiece device within full-page scrollwork borders, title with large woodcut globe device, 1552, together 2 works in 1, numerous woodcut illustrations, decorations and initials, bookplate of Nicolas-Joseph Foucault, old inscription on front fly-leaf, late 17th century speckled calf, spine gilt with partly ablated volume reference to one compartment, small tear to head of spine, small 4to, Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1552⁂ The first edition of Doni's characteristically unconventional series of imaginary dialogues between numerous figures, historical and fictional, conversing and arguing on the marble steps of Florence's Duomo over a wide range of subjects, including contemporary economics, printing, literature and history. The second work present, Bidpai's fables, is significant not least as it was Doni's selection that was used as the primary source for Sir Thomas North's 1568 English translation, preceding by several years the first English editions of Aesop and the Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus Provenance: Bookplate of the noted French bibliophile Nicholas-Joseph Foucault (1643-1721); the Macclesfield copy, Sotheby's October 2008, lot 4440.Literature: Adams D824 & B1997; Mortimer Harvard Italian 165 & 65; EDIT 16 CNCE 17692
A SELECTION OF ITEMS to include a pair of child's Victorian clogs, a lacquer work spectacle case, two mulberry wood snuff boxes, a boxed set of miniature ivory mounted dominoes, a lacquered work note pad with mother of pearl inlay, a carved mahogany Coat of Arms, A small silver tray decorated with Punch with a dog, a silver and gas stamp roller, and an early tapestry pouch ( 9 )
§ Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (British, 1887-1976) Huddersfield signed lower right in pencil "L S Lowry" and with FATG blind stamp offset lithograph 48 x 58cm (19 x 23in) Provenance: Bought from Beaconsfield Art Gallery, Buckinghamshire, 1975 Has slightly slipped in the frame. Some discoloration and offset stains in the margins from the mount.
§ Laurence Stephen Lowry, RA (British, 1887-1976) The Family signed lower right in pen "L S Lowry" and with FATG blind stamp offset lithograph 29 x 22.50cm (11 x 9in) Glass scratched lower right corner and by the top edge. The image itself is good and clear. Very slight discolouration or offset staining visible especially along the bottom edge of the mount.
Baccarat, a moulded, cut and etched glass twenty-four light chandelier, late 20th century, in early 19th century taste, with two tiers of twelve twist moulded branches issuing from a metal circlet, each with flared and etched shade above an electrical fitment within an urn socket, above drip pans hung with faceted glass pendants, the hobnail and twist moulded stem with urn section beneath a flared ceiling fitment, with further twist moulded stems rising beneath, each with pendant bellflower; the hobnail cut dished underside with Baccarat factory stamp, with further faceted pendants around a bellflower terminal, approximately 112cm high, 110cm wide
A Mid-20th Century Belleek figurine depicting a resting dog bearing the back stamp for period 1946-55 together with mid-20th Century Belleek figurine depicting an elf on a toadstool bearing the back stamp for period 1946-55, two mid-20th century Belleek clover jars, one for jam and the other honey, a small bowl, all bearing factory marks for 1946-55, a mid-20th century Belleek table bell and a Donegal porcelain vase with two mid-20th century Belleek porcelain swans bearing back stamp for period 1946-55.
Frank Shipsides - Signed limited edition print - Away To Sea, No.61/850, 35.5cm x 50cm, Edward Wesson - Signed limited edition print - Reflections, St Mary Redcliffe, limited to 850 copies, signed in pencil and with Fine Art trade Guild blind stamp, 31.5cm x 48.5cm and Kenneth Tadd - signed limited edition print - Clifton College, No.263/750, signed and numbered in pencil, 29cm x 55.5cm, all unframed Condition:
Three Sasanian hardstone stamp seal rings, circa 4th -6th century A.D. One of chalcedony, the oval seal engraved with an eagle, the shank with a repeat lozenge design; a carnelian example engraved with a head in profile; and another in chalcedony, engraved with a recumbent zebu Provenance: Purchased Bonhams, 16 May 2002, lot 325 (part lot)
Chinese Provincial stoneware dish with stamp decorated Curvetto unfired underglazed blue, unglazed stacking ring to the well, with unglazed foot rim, probably 19th Century. 26cm diameter.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)Inv. no. 32. CONDITION REPORT: Heavily crazed and very grubby, chips to the rim, discolouration.
A Beswick Hare, seated, 1025, cracked, gloss Condition report Report by NG There is a crack running from the right hand side back of the hare's neck down the back off to the left and then back to the centre of the hare about 2½ cm above the hare's tail. Possible restoration to hare's back left leg. Moulded marks and with oval BESWICK ENGLAND stamp to belly.
A Louis XVI style mahogany, parquetry and ormolu mounted bureau à cylindre, Paris, late 19th century/early 20th century, after a model by Jean-Henri Riesener, possibly by François Linke (model 100), the top applied with a three quarter gallery above a fall with a ribbon-tied oval marquetry musical trophy medallion, the interior with an arrangement of sixteen pigeonholes and an automatically activated writing panel, the frieze centred by a concealed drawer with an ormolu tablet of putti amongst clouds flanked by flower-filled basket mounts and scrolled handles to the lateral drawers with lock plate possibly stamped to the reverse CT LINKE/SERRURERIE/PARIS and numbered 100, the sides and back with further plaques emblematic of the arts, on tapered square legs ending in acanthus cast feet, bearing the stamp of Edwards & Roberts to the central door, 110cm high, 108cm wide, 62cm deep This secrétaire à cylindre in the Louis XVI style, is a version of another bureau featuring mother-of-pearl trellis marquetry, made by Riesener for Marie-Antoinette's boudoir at Fontainebleau in 1786. The trophy and putti tablet on the present lot were possibly based on the ormolu medallion accompanying a tablet of festive putti, on Marie-Antoinette's secrétaire à abattant, also by Riesener, in the Prince Demidoff Collection, sold San Donato, 22 March 1870, lot 282. An identical bureau à cylinder by François Linke sold Christie s London, 29 September 2005, lot 183 (aggregate price £16,800) and further very similar example by Alfred Beurdeley sold Christie s New York, 14 - 15 April 2011, lot 135 (aggregate price $38,500).
A German giltwood gilt side chair by Johann Valentin Raab , early 19th century, the anthemion decorated cresting above a padded back and bowed drop-in seat, on carved lion monopodia front legs, bearing the stamp I.V. Raab and a paper label fragment This chair is by the Frankfurt-based chair-maker Johann Valentin Raab (1777-1839). His principal commissions include furniture supplied for the Schloss in Würzburg between 1807 and 1809. A closely related armchair in the Frankfurter Historisches Museum, is illustrated in H. Kreisel/G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1973, vol. III, p. 81 and p. 98, fig. 499. Provenance: Purchased Christie's London, 13th November 2003, lot 81
An Viennese cold painted bronze model of a Moorish carpet salesman, early 20th century, by Bergman, portrayed standing and holding his carpet out to view, the underside stamped AUSTRIA and with a 'B' within an urn maker's stamp, 21cm high, (probably redecorated overall) Provenance: Purchased Bonhams, Sale 10140, lot 80
A mixed lot of silver items, comprising: an Austrian silver and niello work vesta case, by M and S, rectangular form, foliate decoration, plus an Edwardian Britannia standard vesta by Saunders and Shepherd, London 1902, a vesta box, two further vesta cases and a German double stamp box of rectangular form, engine-turned decoration, approx. weight 6.5oz. (6)
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