We found 164719 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 164719 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
164719 item(s)/page
A rare George I 18th century Silver Lidded Tankard, the domed top with scroll thumb piece, the tapering straight sides with central ring. Later decorated in the 19th century with repousse "C" and floral scrolls with a vacant cartouche. Hallmark London 1724, makers Mark " I .B"? in a heart shaped stamp, Height 19 cms, approx. 894g
Antique Persian Safavid circular silvered white metal Bowl decorated with an engraved Dragon and Lion in combat, Wolves and Storks in landscape enclosed within a lappet border, the base signed with Islamic script stamp, Diameter 15 cms. and a Safavid pendant decoration with Islamic script, (2) Provenance: The subject of dragons in combat with real or imaginary animals has a long history in Persian painting, originating with the Mongols in the thirteenth century. Inspiration for the decoration of this bowl is most likely to be found in the work of the seventeenth-century Safavid artist Mu'in Musavvir. CONDITION REPORT: Minor dents to top lappet border. Tarnish and minor surface scratches otherwise in good original order.
Douglas Stannus Gray (British, 1890-1959) The back garden at Southwick, Kathleen is standing by a deckchair. Virginia is dancing and Gray`s niece Rosalind is seated by the old acacia tree oil on panel, signed and dated `41 lower right 15½ x 19¼in. (39.5 x 49cm.) * Provenance: Bears St. Helier Galleries labels verso. Spink Neville Keating stamp and label verso for the Douglas Stannus Gray Exhibition 1989.
Thomas Sunderland (British, 1744-1828) View at Brescia in Northern Italy watercolour en grisaille and pencil 6½ x 10½in. (16.5 x 16.7cm.); together with a View of an Italian town beside a lake, pen and brown ink and watercolour en grisaille, signed `Louis Francia` lower right, old collection stamp verso, 9 x 13¼in. (23 x 33.5cm.), both unframed. (2)
A Deutsche Wehrmacht yellow armband, a Third Reich rubber stamp, an N.S.F.K. tie pin, a Wehrmacht tie pin, an H.J. badge, dated 1937, a 1934 rally badge, a silver swastika page marker, two post-war copies of car pennants and a Fert der Jugend 1933 poster, approx 41cm x 28cm, framed and glazed.
A Wemyss pottery beaker vase, early 20th Century, of waisted cylindrical shape painted with daffodils beneath the green rim, yellow painted script mark to base, height approx 16cm (two minor nicks to rim), together with a similar slightly larger vase, yellow painted script mark to base, height approx 16.5cm (restored), and a beaker, impressed factory mark to base with `Goode` retailer`s stamp, height approx 11.5cm (fine hairline to rim).
A Wemyss pottery preserve jar and cover, early 20th Century, painted with redcurrants between green dentil borders, impressed factory mark to base and puce printed `Goode` retailer`s stamp with Rogers de Rin applied paper label, height approx 12cm (minor restoration to cover), together with a similar preserve jar and cover painted with apples, impressed factory mark and green painted script mark `Wemyss` to base, height approx 12cm.
A Wemyss pottery biscuit barrel and cover, early 20th Century, of cylindrical shape painted with sweet peas between green dentil borders, the cover inscribed in pink `Biscuits`, impressed factory mark to base with green painted script mark, blue printed `Goode` retailer`s stamp and Rogers de Rin applied paper label, height approx 11cm (restored), together with a small Wemyss jardinière, probably painted by James Sharp, with thistles beneath a wavy rim, impressed factory mark to base with green painted script mark (restored).
A Wemyss pottery two handled soap dish with pierced liner, early 20th Century, painted with pink cabbage roses between green line rims, indistinct impressed factory mark to base with black printed `Goode` retailer`s stamp, diameter approx 18.5cm, together with a group of Wemyss painted with pink cabbage roses, comprising a large jug, a pair of waisted beaker vases, a circular dish and a plate (faults and restoration), together with a Wemyss style circular pot and cover and circular dish painted with cherries.
Emmanuel Villanis - `Saida`, a late 19th Century French brown patinated cast bronze head and shoulders portrait bust of a young girl, her shoulder with cast signature `E. Villanis`, the titled base with `Société des Bronzes de Paris` foundry stamp, raised on a rouge marble plinth, height approx 22cm.
(Militaria) - CANNON, Richard.- Historical records of the Fifth, or Princess Charlotte of Wales`s regiment of Dragoon Guards : containing an account of the formation of the Regiment in 1685; with its subsquent services to 1838.London, Longman, Orme, and Co., Paternoster row; W. Cloves and sons, 1839.In-8° : engraved title-[8]-vi-[2]-99-[1] pp.; 3 plates (small hole in the joint of the armorial dedication leaf).Contemporary emblazoned binding : full green straight morocco, gilt frames of fillets and volutes on the boards, arms of the English royal family on the upper board, crest and crown on the spine, gilt edges, gilt roll-stamp on the edges and the turn-ins (joints and spine slightly rubbed, corners slightly dulled).Presentation copy of this volume, part of a large collection dealing with the history of the British army, given to Léopold I of Belgium by the author. Our copy is enriched with a leaf figuring the coat of arms of Leopold, prince of Saxe Coburg, delicately painted in color and highlightened. Leopold was first married to Charlotte of Wales who died after giving birth to a stillborn son. By this marriage, Leopold was made colonel of the Dragoon Guards from 1816 to 1831. This is probably in memory of that time and because Leopold was almost made King of Great Britain that this work was given to him as a present.First edition of this volume illustrated with 3 colored lithographies by Madeley figuring the standard of the Dragoon Guards, the capture of the Bavarian standards in 1705 and the Regiment in the battle of Salamanca.# Colas 541; # Lipperheide 2268. Prestigious provenance : Leopold I of Belgium (1790-1865) (presentation copy with his arms painted); Philippe (1837-1905), count of Flanders, son of Leopold I, brother of Leopold II and father of Albert I (monogram engraved on the spine different from the n° 110 and 137 of this sale). Luxury emblazoned binding with the arms of the United Kingdom and below the device of the Dragoon Guards "Vestigia nulla retrorsum". Exemplaire de présent offert par l`auteur à Léopold Ier dont témoigne le feuillet de dédicace ms. aux armoiries finement peintes à la main et rehaussées à l`or. Offert en souvenir de la période durant laquelle le roi des Belges fut, par son mariage avec la princesse Charlotte de Galles, colonel de la cavalerie des Dragoon Guards (1816-1831). Reliure de luxe en maroquin vert à grains longs, aux armoiries de la couronne anglaise et au monogramme, ajouté plus tard, de Philippe de Flandres, fils de Léopold Ier. Édition originale illustrée de 3 lithographies en couleurs.
Saint BASILE.- Opera omnia [...].Basileae [Bâle], per Joan. Oporinum et haeredes Joannis Hervagii, 1565.In-f° (text n.c., numerous handwritten notes in Greek and Latin, underlinings, some marginal dampstains, wormholes at the end, some foxing, stamp and handwritten notes on title-page).Contemporary binding : full pigskin, decorated boards with blind fillets, roll-stamps and fleurons, ribbed spine, blue edges (soiled, slightly rubbed, dampstain on the upper board, some stains, wormholes in the back board, library stamp on the spine, edges and 1 corner dulled, 3 corners lacking, handwritten notes on the flyleaves).Second edition (1st ed. : 1540) of these complete works of the Cappadocian Church Father, Basil the Great (330-379) collected by the theologian reformer Wolfang Musculus. Printer`s mark on title-page.# Adams B-341; # not in Machiels nor in Soltész. Ensemble des oeuvres du Père de l`Église Basile, rassemblées par le théologien Wolfgang Musculus. Pleine peau de truie de l`ép. (défraîchi, lég. frotté).
LUCIEN de Samosate.- Gli dilettevoli. Dialogi, le vere narrationi, le facete epistole [...].(Vinegia [Venise], per Bernardin Bindon, 1543).In-8° : [1]-223-[1] lvs (some marginal brown staining at the beginning or at the end, light foxing, some mistakes in pagination, marginal tear at lf. 143 reinforced, marginal handwritten notes at the end, handwritten provenance and designs over the printer`s mark on the last lf.).Contemporary binding : full limp parchment with small flaps and ties, flat spine (lacks of parchment at the back, ties partly cut, 1 tie lacking, wormholes in the inside of the upper board).Very rare digest composed of 29 dialogues on historical and mythological items of which 16 by Lucianus of Samosata (125-180) including the two books of "A True Story" with the first narration of a voyage and a stay on the moon. The 13 other of more popular subjects are written by different amateurs. Translated in Italian by the writer, bookseller and publisher Nicolò Zoppino ("Nicolò di Aristotile de Rossi detto lo Zoppino"), illustrated with several nice woodcuts. The first edition of this digest was published in 1525. Typographical title within a woodcut frame with portraits of emperors and curious vignette figuring a bull with the monogram "MS" on the last leaf (printer`s mark ?). # STC Italian, p. 396; # Graesse IV-283; # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész. Provenance : Fiammetta Soave, antiquarian bookseller in Roma (stamp). Rara "digest" composta da 29 dialoghi (16 di Luciano di Samosata in cui i 2 libri della "Storia Vera" con la prima narrazione di un viaggio e soggiorno sulla luna), tradotti da Nicolò Zoppini e illustrato con molte belle incisione in legno. Piena pergamena molle dell`epoca (piccoli difetti). Rare florilège comprenant 29 dialogues (16 par Lucien parmi lesquels les 2 livres de l`"Histoire Véritable" avec la 1re narration d`un voyage et séjour sur la lune) traduits en italien par Nicolò Zopponi et illustré de plusieurs jolis bois in texto. Plein parchemin souple de l`ép. (pet. défauts).
REISCH, Gregor; FINE, Oronce.- Margarita philosophica, hoc est Habituum seu Disciplinum omnium [...] .Basileae, per Sebastianum Henricpetri, (1583).In-8° : [40]-1403-[3]-[2 bl.] pp. (folding worldmap and musical plate lacking, light foxing, marginal tear p. 973, some lack of paper in the margin of p. 1065).Contemporary binding : full calf, blind tooled decoration on the boards : 2 roll-stamps, the outter one with portraits of saints, the inner one with geometrical patterns, surrounding a central panel with the monogram IHS, ribbed spine, gilt edges (lower board, part of the upper board and spine restored, brass clasps renewed).Enlarged edition by Oronce Fine of the "Philosophical pearl" (first edited at the beginning of the 16th Century), a compendium of the trivium, the quadrivium and the natural and moral sciences, composed as a series of dialogues on grammar, logic, arithmetics, music, ethics... with elaborate chapters on astronomy and geometry. Reisch (Wurtemberg (?)-1523 Freiburg) was prior of Saint John the Baptist at Freiburg in Breisgau and confessor to Maximilian I. Fine (1494-1555), a French cartographer and astronomer, taught mathematics at the Collège de France. His preface to this edition is dated 1523. Illustrated with about 20 full-page woodcuts (the creation of Eve, the wheel of fortune, anatomy of the eye, studies in perspective, allegorical representations of the septem artes liberales...) and various in texto engravings concerning anatomy, astronomy, music... Large printer`s mark on the last page.# Adams R-338; # Sabin 69131; # Brunet IV-1201; # not in Machiels nor in Soltész. Provenance : Petrus de Zenis, 1697 (handwritten mention); unidentified stamp featuring a deer and "GBBNPDF".
(Religion, Bible) - Biblia cum concordantiis Veteris et Novi Testamenti [...].(Lugduni [Lyon], Jacobum Sacon. Expensis notabilis viri Antonii Koberger Nuremburgensis, 24 julii 1521).In-f° : [14]-cccxvii-[25] lvs (some lvs slightly browned, 2 small wormholes at 3 lvs in the beginning, small tear with loss at cvii, some lvs slightly renewed at the upper margin with small loss replaced by hand, some marginal handwritten notes at the end, otherwise fresh copy).19th Century binding by Belz-Niédrée : full brown morocco, boards decorated with blind fillets, roll-stamp and fleurons, ribbed spine with blind central fleuron, gilt edges, gilt roll-stamp on the turn ins (slighty hatched at the lower parts of the boards, back board scratched, dampstain at the back board and the front flyleaves, handwritten notes in Latin by a contemporary at the back flyleaf).One of the serie of Sacon-Koberger Bibles printed between 1512 and 1522 by Sacon from Lyon for Anton Koberger who published the famous Nuremberg Chronicle. The text of this Early Lyon edition, with some parts in red, is printed in two typographical columns with architectural decorations. Illustrated with 4 threequarter page woodcuts : the Genesis, the Heaven, the Nativity by Hans Springinklee (c. 1490/95-1540), a student of Albrecht Dürer, and the Solomon asleep. Decorated also with c. 130 large woodcuts in the text and numerous ornamental initials. Beautiful title in red typography within a Renaissance ornemental woodcut border, a central vignette figuring 2 young girls holding the coat of arms of Lyon and a large fleur-de-lis printed in red at the bottom. Tables of concordance of the Gospels printed in red typographical columns. The text is followed by the "Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum", a dictionary of Hebrew names often supplied with early printed Bibles. # Baudrier XII-357-358; # Darlow & Moule 6101; # Adams B-1001; # Soltész B-416; # STC French 53; # not in Machiels nor in Renier. Provenance : In librorum templo Ne*lis (ex-libris). Édition lyonnaise mise en page dans 2 colonnes typographiques, illustrée de 4 grands bois et de c. 130 grandes vignettes sur bois in texto. Qqs passages imprimés en rouge comme le décors des tables de concordance des Évangiles. Plein maroquin brun moderne de Belz-Niédrée (qqs ff. lég. brunis sinon int. frais, qqs griffes au plat inf.).
(Religion, Liturgie) - SNOYGOUDANUS, Raynerius.- Psalterium paraphrasibus illustratum, servataubique adverbum Hieronymi translatione. Magni Athanasii opusculum in Psalmos.Parisiis, apud Vivantium Gaulterot (in fine : excudebat P. Vidouaeus), 1540.In-8° : 468-[3] pp. (fore-edge margin trimmed, 1 little wormhole in the inner margin throughout the vol., several underlinings).Modern binding : half vellum, flat spine (title-page trimmed).Only copy known of this early Parisian edition (1st ed. : Antwerp, Hillen, 1535) of the very popular and often reprinted interpretation of the Psalms by Reyner Snoy of Gouda (c. 1477-1537), personal physician to Adolph of Burgundy, lord of Veere and acquaintance of Erasmus. Followed by Angelo Poliziano`s (1454-1494) Latin translation of Athanasius`s treatise on the Psalms. Title-page with ornamental woodcut frame.# Contemporaries of Erasmus III-261/262; # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltesz, STC French. Provenance : Carmelus Parisiensi (handwritten note); Collège Antoing (stamp).Joint (ens. 2 ouvr.) : van DRYFLAND, Barent [pseudonym van VIS, Herman].- Zifting van zeker Boek genaemt Ruyme Zedenleer van verscheyde aenzienlelyke Paters Jesuyten enz. Keule, van Egmond, 1689, 2 delen in 1 vol. in-12° eigentijdse volledeen band. Weerlegging van het anti-jesuitische pamflet van de jansenist Johan Christian van Erkel door de jezuiet Herman Vis (1641-1731). # De Backer-Sommervogel VIII-836. Interprétation populaire des psaumes par le médecin et théologien Renier Snoy, de Gouda, qui fréquentait le cercle intellectuel érasmien. Demi-vélin moderne (gouttière lég. rognée, pet. trou de vers marg.). Un pamphlet anti-jésuite joint.
(Religion) - Saint BRUNO.- Opera & vita post indicem serie literaria indicanda.[Paris], venunda[n]tur Jodoco Badio Ascensio, (sub pascha 1524 in typographia Ascensiana).In-f° : [8 title-page incl.]-dxx lvs (clear dampstain in the upper margin of the 1st two quires, library stamp and handwritten notes in the lower margin of title-page).17th Century binding : full calf, boards with blind tooled fillets, roll-stamp and acorns in the angles, gilt decorated ribbed spine with an acorn in the center of each rectangular design, red edges, blind roll-stamp on the turn ins (boards scratched, joints and turn ins partly repaired, edges dulled).First edition of the works attributed to Saint Bruno of Cologne (c. 1030-1101), founder of the Carthusian Order, followed by his hagiography by François Du Puy (1450-1521) and a poem by Benedetto Z. Ferreri. Illustrated with a red and black title and Badius Ascensius` large mark figuring a printing office within a woodcut ornamental border. Nice historiated initials and 6 neat woodcuts in the text depicting decisive moments of Bruno`s life like his journey to the Chartreuse Mountains. Those xylographies are partly based on the cycle of Urs Graf in the Basle edition of Bruno`s life. The fact that Badius rarely illustrated his works, contributes largely to the importance of this very fine postincunable edition. Complete and neat copy.# Renouard, Josse Badius, II-227; # Adams B-2936; # Soltész B-1001; # Machiels B-1003 (mentions erroneously 88 preliminary leaves); # STC French 84; # Oberrheinische Buchillustration II-53 n° 62; # not in Mortimer nor in Harvard French. Provenance : Norbertine abbey of Grimberghe (gilt arms on the spine; # de Jonghe d`Ardoye 413). Édition originale illustrée des oeuvres attribuées à Bruno le Chartreux, suivie de son hagiographie par Du Puy et d`un poème par Ferreri. Plein veau du 17e s. (bel exemplaire, qqs pet. défauts à la rel. mais int. frais).
(Religion) - SASBOUT, Adam.- In Esaiam prophetam commentaria [...].Lovanii, ex officina Antonii Maria Bergagne, 1558.In-4° : [7]-[1 bl.]-438-[10] pp. (last (bl. ?) lf. missing, dampstains, library stamp, annotations and ex-libris on title-page).Contemporary binding : full calf, boards decorated with 4 blind tooled roll-stamps containing vegetal ornaments or portraits of David, Mary, Paul, Isaiah..., ribbed spine (upper turn in damaged, joints and edges rubbed, catalogue extracts glued on a flyleaf, ties missing).Commentary on Isaiah (1st ed. : 1556) by the Dutch franciscan Adam Sasbout (1516-1553), professor in Leuven, edited after his early death by his pupil Cornelis Verburch. Decorated with an elaborate printer`s mark on the title-page and initials featuring swans, eagles, lions and other animals. Some citations in Hebrew characters.# Adams S-435; # not in Soltész, Machiels, STC Dutch. Provenance : J.H. Hofman, vicar (ex-libris); seminar of Culemborg (stamp).
(Hippologie) - BERENGER, Richard.- The History and Art of horsemanship.London, printed for T. Davies and T. Cadell, 1771.2 vol. in-4° : front.-vii-[1]-319-[4], front.-[4]-246-[2] pp.; 15 plates (very slightly browned).Contemporary binding : full blond calf, gilt decorated flat spines (lower joints partly split, corners dulled, some foxing on flyleaves).First edition of this history on all aspects of horsemanship (races, equipments, manners of riding, training...) by Berenger (1720-1782), gentleman of the horse to George III. Contains also a translation of Xenophon`s principles on the same subject and a dissertation on the ancient chariot and "its application to real service in war" by Thomas Pownall. Illustrated with 2 frontispices (the first figuring a centaur and the second in mezzotint by William Baillie showing a man trying to hold a horse), 15 plates on single leaf figuring horses having belonged to famous historical characters (Darius, Trajan, William the Conqueror...), equipements and technics of training, 1 head and 1 tail piece with a horse in a medallion.# Biogr. univ. III-699/700; # not in Mennessier de la Lance nor in Brunet. Provenance : from the equestrian library of Angelo Levi Pizzocaro (ex-libris); Il Polifilo, Milano (stamp). Édition originale de cet historique sur l`équitation. Illustrée de 2 front. dont 1 en mezzotinte et 15 pl. représentant des chevaux ayant appartenu à des hommes célèbres, des techniques de dressage et du matériel. Plein veau blond de l`ép. (qqs pet. défauts).
-
164719 item(s)/page