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Lot 493
A small collection of silver, including seven napkin rings, two pairs, a Georgian tea caddy spoon, a small covered silver trophy from The National Butter Challenge Cup, on stand, a silver cigarette case, a silver filled cigarette box, a silver pocket watch, a stamp holder, a glass pepper pot and a souvenir teaspoon
Lot 432
WEMYSS; a large pink rose decorated slop bucket and cover with rattan handle, impressed marks to base and also retail stamp for T Goode & Co, height 28.5cm.Additional InformationStarting with the cover there is a crack running around the rim which a thin section has be re-glued, also a further chip approx 4 x 1cm to the underside of the cover. The main body itself has several cracks spurning from the rim approx 18cm, 14cm, 8cm and 10cm. A few small chips around the rim and general surface fritting around the rim. There is also a hairline crack running through the base of the pail.
Lot 1832
Burslem Commercial Bank (Joseph John George Alcock), "on demand here orat Messrs vere, Saple Banbury Muspratt Bankers of London" unissued £5, no serial number, black and white, value at lower left, centre and top right, Industry allegory at left, revenue stamp on reverse in black and red, light toning.
Lot 3272
Japan, Takatori aardewerken theekom, chawan, de diepe kom bedekt met een mosterdkleurig glazuur, de onderzijde gestempeld diam. 12 cm [1] Japan, Takatori earthenware teabowl, chawan, the deep bowl covered with a mustard-coloured glaze, stamp to the base (condition: apparently in good overall condition)
Lot 40
Pierre SOULAGES Ink 1961 Print on thick paper after Painting Ink 1961 Signed in the plate Published by the SOULAGES Museum in Rodez, France On thick paper 60 x 40 cm Museum stamp on the back Excellent condition Height : 60 cm / Width : 40 cm The shipping costs will be 15 € incl. VAT for Belgium and France / 22 € incl. VAT Europe EEC / 45 € incl. VAT for European countries outside outside the EEC / 60 € incl. VAT for Japan and the United States (this fixes rates apply only to works that can be shipped in tubes and without insurance). For other countries, and for paintings and other works of art, a reasonable shipping charge will be added to your invoice. The shipment of grouped lots is possible, depending on the case, by sale, with an extra of 3 €incl. VAT per object.
Lot 38
Pierre SOULAGES Painting August 27, 1958 Print on thick paper after Painting August 27, 1958 Signed in the plate Published by the SOULAGES Museum in Rodez, France On thick paper 60 x 40 cm Museum stamp on the back Excellent condition Height : 60 cm / Width : 40 cm The shipping costs will be 15 € incl. VAT for Belgium and France / 22 € incl. VAT Europe EEC / 45 € incl. VAT for European countries outside outside the EEC / 60 € incl. VAT for Japan and the United States (this fixes rates apply only to works that can be shipped in tubes and without insurance). For other countries, and for paintings and other works of art, a reasonable shipping charge will be added to your invoice. The shipment of grouped lots is possible, depending on the case, by sale, with an extra of 3 €incl. VAT per object.
Lot 36
Pierre SOULAGES Painting June 3, 1967 Print on thick paper after Painting April 1951 Signed in the plate Published by the SOULAGES Museum in Rodez, France On thick paper 60 x 40 cm Museum stamp on the back Excellent condition Height : 60 cm / Width : 40 cm The shipping costs will be 15 € incl. VAT for Belgium and France / 22 € incl. VAT Europe EEC / 45 € incl. VAT for European countries outside outside the EEC / 60 € incl. VAT for Japan and the United States (this fixes rates apply only to works that can be shipped in tubes and without insurance). For other countries, and for paintings and other works of art, a reasonable shipping charge will be added to your invoice. The shipment of grouped lots is possible, depending on the case, by sale, with an extra of 3 €incl. VAT per object.
Lot 51
Photograph by José Nicolas, "Pierre SOULAGES at the Toulouse slaughterhouses in 2000, exhibition 'Soulages, 82 paintings, N°2'". Posterior color print, signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/8 to author's ink and stamp on verso. Picture: 24.5 x 37cm; sheet: 30 x 40 cm. Height : 40 cm / Width : 30 cm The shipping costs will be 15 € incl. VAT for Belgium and France / 22 € incl. VAT Europe EEC / 45 € incl. VAT for European countries outside outside the EEC / 60 € incl. VAT for Japan and the United States (this fixes rates apply only to works that can be shipped in tubes and without insurance). For other countries, and for paintings and other works of art, a reasonable shipping charge will be added to your invoice. The shipment of grouped lots is possible, depending on the case, by sale, with an extra of 3 €incl. VAT per object.
Lot 39
Pierre SOULAGES Ink 1995 Print on thick paper after Painting Ink 1995 Published by the SOULAGES Museum in Rodez, France On thick paper 60 x 40 cm Museum stamp on the back Excellent condition Height : 60 cm / Width : 40 cm The shipping costs will be 15 € incl. VAT for Belgium and France / 22 € incl. VAT Europe EEC / 45 € incl. VAT for European countries outside outside the EEC / 60 € incl. VAT for Japan and the United States (this fixes rates apply only to works that can be shipped in tubes and without insurance). For other countries, and for paintings and other works of art, a reasonable shipping charge will be added to your invoice. The shipment of grouped lots is possible, depending on the case, by sale, with an extra of 3 €incl. VAT per object.
Lot 47
Pierre-Soulages Antagonisms, 1960 Lithographic poster on paper Signed in the plate Not numbered Mourlot stamp on the back After the painting by Pierre Soulage from 1947 Dimensions: + Sheet dimensions: 88 x 54.5 cm / 34.6 x 21.4 in. + Image size: 74.3 x 47.5 cm / 29.2 x 18.7 in. NOTES Published on the occasion of Soulages' exhibitions at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs / Palais du Louvre in 1960, Paris. CONDITION Soft handling pleats at top edges. Dimensions: - Height: 88cm - Width: 54.5cm The shipping costs will be 15 € incl. VAT for Belgium and France / 22 € incl. VAT Europe EEC / 45 € incl. VAT for European countries outside outside the EEC / 60 € incl. VAT for Japan and the United States (this fixes rates apply only to works that can be shipped in tubes and without insurance). For other countries, and for paintings and other works of art, a reasonable shipping charge will be added to your invoice. The shipment of grouped lots is possible, depending on the case, by sale, with an extra of 3 €incl. VAT per object.
Lot 41
A Very Rare 16-Bore D.B. Flintlock Sporting Gun By Purdey, Princes Street, Leicester Square, London, No. 221, Circa 1820Reconverted from percussion, with rebrowned twist sighted barrels signed in full along the rib, replacement recessed patent breeches each with rectangular gold-lined stamp between gold lines, platinum-lined touch-hole, and engraved with a starburst between, foliate scroll engraved tang decorated with a shell on the sighting groove, border engraved flat locks each serial numbered on the flat behind the pan shield, signed 'PURDEY' between foliate scrolls, and engraved 'PATENT' within foliage on the tail, external safety-catches each engaging with the back of the foliate engraved pierced cock and activated by the border engraved grip-safety engraved 'PATENT' centred on a starburst between foliage, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate retaining traces of engraved decoration on the heel tang, and trigger-guard with symmetrical foliate scrolls involving a serpent on the bow, foliate engraved pineapple-shaped rear ramrod-pipe finial, and brass-mounted ramrod (some old wear, rust patination and re-engraving), barrelsmith's marks of Charles Lancaster 79.7 cm. barrels Footnotes:LiteratureDallas, p. 190 Previously unrecordedFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 101
BURNS (ROBERT)Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, second (first Edinburgh) edition, with 'skinking' at p.263, and 'Boxburgh' rather than 'Roxburgh' in the list of subscribers AUTOGRAPH ADDRESS PANEL IN THE HAND OF ROBERT BURNS, TO GEORGE THOMSON tipped onto stub between title and dedication leaf, half-title, engraved portrait by I. Beugo after A. Nasmyth, calf gilt by Riviere (with stamp on front free endpaper), g.e., rebacked retaining original spine elaborately tooled in 6 compartments (4 with thistle motif; 2 with morocco lettering labels), slightly rubbed at extremities [Egers 2; Rothschild 556], 8vo, Edinburgh, for the Author, by W. Creech, 1787Footnotes:Includes a manuscript address leaf written by Burns to 'Mr. George Thomson, Trustees Office, Edin.' and 'Robin Adair' vertically on fold. It is annotated ('ans.d'), and with numeral 'No. 20' (struck through in ink) in a different hand. On the flaps are stamped 'Au[gust] 14' in red ink, and 'Dumfries' in black. George Thomson (1757–1851) was a friend of Burns, Clerk to the Board of Trustees for Encouragement of Art and Manufacture in Scotland, and edited A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, the first volume (1793) of which included twenty-five poems by Burns himself. Burns and Thompson were regular correspondents. It is probable that our envelope would have enclosed a version of one the poems that Burns set to the tune of 'Robin Adair' and sent to Thompson for comment. In August 1793 he sent two - 'Had I a Cave', and ' Phyllis the Fair', both of which met with the recipient's approval. For another address panel addressed by Burns to Thompson see the Burns Scotland website. Provenance: William F. Gable (1856-1921, American collector), bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 13
COOK (JAMES)GIANETTI (MICHELANGIOLO) Elogy of Captain James Cook Composed and Publickly Recited before the Royal Academy of Florence... Translated into English by a Member of the Royal Academy of Florence, parallel text in English and Italian, each leaf within double-line border, both titles with engraved vignette of the Royal Society Cook Medal, original stiff marbled wrappers, some losses to spine [Beddie 1957; Forbes 99; Holmes 51; Kroepelien 486; Sabin 27267], 4to (265 x 205mm.), Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, Printer to His Royal Highness, 1785Footnotes:First edition of a scarce florid eulogy, with dual text in English and Italian, of 'that intrepid Englishman James Cook..., a single drop of whose blood, was worth more than all the blood of the Barbarians...'. Kippis, Cook's first biographer, had not seen a copy, but notes that 'greater honour is paid to [Cook's] name abroad than at home. A remarkable proof of it occurs, in the eulogy of our navigator, by Michael Angelo Gianetti, which was read at the Royal Florentine Academy, on the ninth of June, 1785, and published at Florence, in the same year'.Provenance: Borgo San Lorenzo, Capuchin Convent, oval stamp on English title, and inside upper cover; private UK collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 169
BUNTING (HEINRICH)Itinerarum Sacrae Scripture oder Reise Buch uber die ganze Heil, 3 parts in 1 vol., general title printed in red and black, titles for each section, 10 engraved plates (some folding), lacking portrait, half calf, gilt label to spine, rubbed, folio (303 x 201mm.) Magdeburg, John Daniel Mullern, 1718--GOUJON (JACQUES R.P.) Histoire et voyage de la Terre-sainte, 19 folding engraved plates, library stamp on title-page, some loss of text to final 4 leaves, spotting throughout, contemporary calf, worn, some loss to spine, 4to, Lyon, Pierre Compagnon & Robert Taillandier, 1671--ARVIEUX (LAURENT D') Voyage dans la Palestine, engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved device, 7 engraved plates (4 folding), contemporary calf, rubbed, 12mo, Amsterdam, Steenhouwer & Uytwerf, 1718 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 187
TASSO (TORQUATO)Gerusalemme liberata, 2 engraved titles, 20 engraved plates, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, small tear touching image to one title, some dampstaining and off-setting throughout, calf, rebacked, rubbed [USTC 4024470], folio (300 x 210 mm.), Genoa, Giuseppe Pavoni, 1617--FRITACH (ADAM) L' Architecture militaire ou la fortification nouvelle, engraved title, 35 engraved double-page plates, early ownership inscription on upper margin of title, bookplate of Mark Dineley on upper pastedown, later vellum, light wear, folio (310 x 200mm.), Leiden, Elzevier, 1635--MONTECUCCOLI (RAIMONDO) Commentarii Bellici, engraved frontispiece, 2 folding engraved plates, numerous illustrations in the text, early ownership inscription on title, library stamp on verso of title and last page, repair to last leaf, later calf gilt, spine bumped, folio (310 x 210mm.), Vienna, Ignatius Voigt, 1718; and 4 others (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 189
BEMBO (PIETRO)Della historia vinitiana, first Italian edition, woodcut device on title and on verso of colophon, historiated initials, faded early ownership inscription on title, title soiled, light dampstaining throughout, opening pages reinforced at hinges, later half vellum [Adams B599], 4to, Venice, Gualtiero Scotto, 1552--PACIFICO (PIETRO ANTONIO) Cronica Veneta. Overo succinto racconto di tutte le cose piu cospicue & antiche della citta di Venezia, double-page additional pictorial title with map of Venice, 3 folding engraved plates, some tears with loss to text on 2 leaves (K9, Y4); BRACCOLANI (FRANCESCO) Breve notitia della fondatione dell'isola di San Nicolo detto de' Mendicoli, 2 works bound in 1 vol., early ownership inscription on both titles, uncut, spotting and water-staining throughout, 8vo, Venice, Domenico Lovisa, 1709; Repertorio generale delle Ville, e comuni di tutte le provincie della Terra ferma suddita della Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, FIRST EDITION, grey paper boards, minor wear to spine, large 8vo, Venice, Figluoli del Qu. Z. Antonio Pinelli, 1769--(BARDI) GIROLAMO Delle cose notabili della citta di Venetia. Libri II, 2 parts in 1 vol., faded stamp to first title, ink scribbling to verso of last leaf, damp-staining throughout, contemporary vellum, worn, 8vo, Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1601--PRUDENTIUS (AURELIUS) Opera, 1625; LUCANUS (A.) De bello Claudius et Pompeii, 1627; CLAUDIANUS. [Opera], 1627, 3 works bound in 1 vol., engraved titles, toning, contemporary vellum, 24mo, Amsterdam, William Jansson--BOTERO (GIOVANNI) Relatione della Republica Venetiana, 2 parts in 1 vol.,woodcut device on titles, early ownership inscriptions to first flyleaf and title page of first work, damp-staining, grey wrappers, worn, 8vo, Venice, Giorgio Varisco, 1608--CONTARINI (GASPARO) La Republica, e i magistrati di Vinegia, small hole and small repair affecting text to title and following 2 leaves, damp-staining and some marginal repairs, contemporary vellum, worn, 12mo, Venice, Baldo Sabini, 1551; and another copy of the first mentioned item (8)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 201
CASTELLANI (VINCENZO)Vincentii Castellani Forosemproniensis De Bello Melitensi Historia, woodcut printer's device on title, historiated initials, minor damp-staining, contemporary limp vellum, worn, ties missing [EDIT16 CNCE 9971], 8vo, Pisa, Hieronymum Concordiam, 1566Footnotes:Rare account of the siege of Malta in 1565.Provenance: Library stamp of Biblioteca Capilupiana (Mantova) on first fly-leaf and verso of title-page; rubbed ex-libris 'Avv. ?Nic [...] Monza' on first fly-leaf.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 203
GENTIL (PIERRE DE VENDOME)Trattato del successo della potentissima armata del gran Turcho Ottoman Solimano. Venuta sopra l'isola di Malta l'anno MDLXV, title-page with vignette, woodcut coat of arms of the Knights of Malta on verso of title-page and one woodcut in closing, historiated initials, tail-piece, uncut, partially erased stamp on title-page neatly repaired with archival tape touching a few leaves, damp-staining and occasional spotting, bound in two leaves of vellum from a ?15th century liturgical manuscript, worn and soiled, wormholes to covers, 8vo, Rome, Antonio Blado Stampator Camerale, [1565]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 217
FEBURE (MICHELE)Teatro della Turchia, title with engraved arms of Pope Innocent X, damp-staining and spotting, p.253 faded with some loss to text, early ink inscription and library stamp of Casa di Sant'Antonio Chieri on title, modern half cloth [Atabey 421], 4to Milan, heirs of Antonio Malatesta, 1681--PIAZZA (VINCENZO) Bona Espugnata, additional engraved title (repair to verso), engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 12 full-page engraved plates by Mauro Oddi, repair to upper margin of pp.159-194 occasionally affecting the text, eighteenth century vellum, 8vo, Parma, Corte, 1694-- LOREDANO (GIANFRANCESCO) Historie de' re' Lusignani,lacking frontispiece, damp-staining, early ownership inscriptions on first fly-leaves and title-page, vellum, ink title and blue label on spine, worn, 12mo, Venice, Guerigli, 1651--GHISSELIN (AUGER DE BOUSBECQUES) [Opera] omnia quae extant, engraved title, armorial bookplate of Amadei Svajer, calf gilt, g.e., 12mo, Leiden, Elzevir, 1633; Turcici Imperii Status, second edition, engraved title, calf gilt, corners bumped, 12mo, Leiden, Elzevir, 1634--(HABESCI) ELIAS Etat actual de l' Empire Ottoman, 2 vol., first French edition, half-titles, some spotting and damp-staining, lower margins of some pages torn, calf gilt, 8vo, Paris, Lavillette, 1792-- POUJADE (EUGENE) Chretiens et Turcs, scenes et souvenirs de la vie politique, militaire et religieuse en Orient, damp-stained, half morocco gilt, rubbed, [Atabey 980], 8vo, Paris, Didier, 1859 (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 259
BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 232 OF 300 COPIES, half-title, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, a few light single spots to half-title and a couple of plates, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with 'W.H.S.' stamp inside lower cover), preserved in early velvetine-lined solander box, t.e.g., 4to (325 x 260mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905Footnotes:Very good copy of Burne-Jones' Flower Book, the designs for which he worked on from 1882 until his death in 1898. 'The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work' (Georgiana Burne-Jones, from the Preface).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 288
FORSTER (E.M) – GEORGE PLATT LYNESGroup of three portrait photographs of E.M. Forster, shown standing full-length or seated on a wooden bench, formally dressed in a pin-stripe suit and tie, two dated on reverse by Forster ('1947' and '1947 with Bob' [the last two words deleted]), another with inscription in black ink ('Taken on the first trip/ much love/ Lincoln [Kirstein] & Fidelma [Cadmus]/ 1971. January'), gelatin silver prints, photographer's '145 East 52 Street New York' stamp on reverse, 230 x 190mm., [1949]Footnotes:'LIKE AN ACTOR WAITING IN THE WINGS': PORTRAITS OF FORSTER BY THE RENOWNED NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHER GEORGE PLATT LYNES. Forster (and indeed Lincoln Kirstein) has erroneously dated these photographs to his first trip to New York and Washington from April to July 1947. However, other photographs from the same sitting depict him with Bob Buckingham, who accompanied him on a brief trip to New York in May 1949, and was not with him on the earlier occasion. They were taken on the afternoon of 1 June 1949 in the austere setting of George Platt Lynes' studio and have been seen an important moment in the recording of gay relationships (see Wendy Moffat, 'Queer Patrimony: George Platt Lynes's Portraits of E.M. Forster', The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol.82, no.3/4, April 2008, pp.123-140). 'In these dramatic beautifully lit photographs' she writes, 'Lynes manages to make both his subjects their most glamorous selves, and their essential selves... Though notoriously shy, Forster was made comfortable both by Lynes' self-effacing working method, and by Lynes' bona fides as a lover and close friend of several of Forster's closest American friends... Lynes' physical beauty and his extraordinary charm disarmed many of his photographic subjects... His studio embodied a stylized artificiality... famous for his theatrical lighting arrangements and innovative fashion photography' (Moffat, p.129-134). In our photograph, Forster stands at the edge of the composition, the only photograph from the session in which Forster looks directly at the camera. Moffat believes that it was taken surreptitiously, and that Forster did not see a print of it – something which may be borne out by the fact it was presented to Furbank after Forster's death by the impresario and philanthropist Lincoln Kirstein and is not annotated by Forster: '...alone, resolute... It captures his owlishness and his vulnerability... The Lynes portrait of Forster – shown to the fewest people – goes the furthest in capturing Forster's queerness' (Moffat, p.136). Towards the end of his life, Lynes sold it with a batch of his most explicit homoerotic nudes to the sexologist Alfred Kinsey for research purposes. The present trio of photographs derive from the collection of Forster's biographer, P.N. Furbank, the standing photograph published in Wendy Moffat, E.M. Forster: A New Life, London, 2010. Provenance: P.N. ('Nick') Furbank (1920-2014); his friend and executor Dr W.R. Owens, the present owner (see adjacent lots).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 289
FOWLES (JOHN)The Collector, author's signature on slip loosely inserted, dust-jacket with slight soiling and creasing at edges, 1963; The Aristos. A Self-portrait in Ideas, Boston, Little, Brown, 1964; idem, first UK edition, 1965; The Magus, some rust marks to free endpapers, ink marks and annotation to dust-jacket inner flaps, 1966; The French Lieutenant's Woman, dust-jacket rubbed and creased at edges, 1969; My Recollections of Kafka, offprint from Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature and Ideas, [vol.] III / [no.] 4, ONE OF 25 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at the end, 11pp., stapled as issued in illustrated wrappers, University of Manitoba Press, [1970]; Poems, New York, Ecco Press, 1973; The Ebony Tower, SIGNED (1980), 1974; DURFORT (CLAIRE DE) Ourika. Translated into English with an Introduction and Epilogue by John Fowles, ONE OF 500 COPIES, SIGNED BY FOWLES at the end of the text, original blue morocco-backed boards, Auston, Texas, W. Thomas Taylor, 1977; Mantissa, NUMBER 490 OF 510 SIGNED COPIES, publisher's red cloth, acetate dust-jacket (torn), slipcase with mounted illustration, tall 8vo, Boston, Little, Brown, 1982; idem, first UK edition, 1982; The Falklands and a Death Foretold, offprint from The Georgia Review, vol. XXXVI, No. 4, Winter 1982, 7pp., stapled as issued, title wrapper with 'John Fowles Lyme Regis' blind-stamp, 1982; A Maggot, NUMBER 476 OF 500 SIGNED AND SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, publisher's cloth-backed boards, 1985; Behind the Magus, COPY 'Q', ONE OF 26 WITH AN AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION FROM THE TEXT AND SPECIALLY BOUND, from an overall edition of 232 copies signed by the author, original Nigerian goatskin, Colophon Press, 1994; Wormholes. Essays and Occasional Writings, NUMBER 56 OF 100 SIGNED COPIES, publisher's light blue cloth with matching slipcase, Colophon Press, 1998, FIRST EDTIONS, unless otherwise stated publisher's cloth with dust-jackets, Jonathan Cape, 8vo; and 18 others, later books, collaborative works, a proof copy etc., several signed (33)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 301
HSIAO CHIN5 acqueforti 3 litografie, NUMBER VIII OF 10 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL GOUACHE, from an overall edition of 90 copies, INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST TO HARRY KARNAC in 1966, the gouache signed and dated in ink, the aquatints and lithographs numbered, signed and dated in pencil, all with the artist's stamp, text and illustrations loose as issued in cloth-backed portfolio with wooden frame and Chinese-style fastener, large folio, Milano, Giorgio Upiglio, Edizioni d'arte Grafica Uno, 1964Footnotes:One of only ten copies embellished with an original gouache by the artist. A further forty of the remaining eighty copies came with an ink drawing.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 369
WORLD WAR I - ARMISTICEArmistice telegram announcing the end of hostilities, sent to 20th Battalion Machine-Gun Corps, G.B. 914, carbon copy telegram, printed with message script in blue, received by L/C Gould, Army stamp upper right, old folds (one torn, a small blank piece torn away at upper margin), 205 x 130mm., 11 November 1918Footnotes:'HOSTILITIES WILL CEASE 1100 HOURS TO-DAY NOVEMBER 11... 2OTH DIVISION 0730' - Armistice telegram received at Mauberge on the Western Front.Provenance: 'Nat Hope', the theatrical nom-de-plume of a Lance Corporal serving in 20th Battalion Machine-gun Corps stationed in Melbourne, Australia. Included with the lot is a newspaper cutting from the Star Melbourne (10 November 1934) in which Nat Hope, now a member of Frank Neil's vaudeville company performing at the Tivoli theatre, described how he had come into possession of the telegram. He was on duty as a telegraphist at Mauberge, near Mons on the morning of 11 November when the order arrived, 'and made the usual manuscript carbon copy demanded by regulations. In the ordinary way, this would have been destroyed at the end of the day... [but I] took the risk of being 'crimed'... and slipped the copy into my paybook'.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 55
GESSNER (SALOMON)La Mort d'Abel: poeme en cinq chants, first French edition, frontispiece and 5 plates stipple-engraved in colour by Colibert, Casenave & Clement after Nicolas-André Monsiau, minor spotting and browning, contemporary red morocco gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, green morocco label, g.e., light wear, housed in modern custom clamshell box [Brunet II 1568; Cohen-de Ricci, 436], large 4to (334 x 250mm.) Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793-- QUERELLES (CHEVALIER DE) Hero et Leandre, poeme nouveau en trois chants, FIRST EDITION, aquatint frontispiece in black and 8 aquatint prints in colour by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, bookseller's stamp on free front endpaper and half-title, occasional foxing, contemporary quarter morocco over red glazed boards, stamped in silver, g.e., modern folding case, boards warped, corners bumped [Cohen-de Ricci, 833], 4to (300 x 230mm.) Paris, Pierre Didot L'aine, 1801-- FÉNELON (FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates after Stothard and Burney, early ownership inscription opposite title, Satinsky collection bookplate, minor spotting and soiling, contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, g.e., rebacked retaining original spine, hinges starting, corners bumped, worn, modern solander box [Brunet II 1568], 4to (265 x 212 mm.), C. and G. Kearsley, 1795 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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Lot 56
GHEYN (JACOB DE)Die Drillkunst. Das ist Kriegsübliche Waffenhandlung der Musqueten und Pique[n], text in German and French, engraved pictorial title, 38 engraved plates (each depicting 2 figures, numbered 1-44 and 1-32), one diagram in the text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, occasional light damp-staining, several leaves strengthened at inner margin, a few pencil annotations, modern half morocco, worn [Lipperheide 2061], small oblong 4to, Nuremburg, Paul Fürst, 1664Footnotes:Provenance: H. Sterzel, bookplate, and ownership stamp on blank verso of title, dedication and final leaf; Henk Visser, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 75
SERGENT-MARCEAU (ANTOINE FRANCOIS)Portraits des grandes hommes, femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France. Gravés et imprimés en couleurs, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and dedication, 192 portraits and engravings printed in colour, most after Sergent-Marceau and engraved by him, Moret, Roger, Ride, et al (one plate bound out of order), extra-illustrated with approximately 35 additional prints, many with manuscript captions, occasional spotting, olive-green morocco gilt by Riviere for Bumpus, g.e., sunned spine, in a custom slipcase, 4to (326 x 250mm.), Paris, Blin, [1786-1792]Footnotes:A REMARKABLE WORK OF COLOUR PRINTING, comprising 96 oval portraits of important French personages each with a corresponding scene illustrating the subject's life. Interestingly, the scene attached to Louis XVI commemorates the independence of the United States, depicting a Native American flanked by portraits of the Franklin, Washington and the French king. With quasi-royal French provenance, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, being the grandson of Louis Philippe I and the Orléanist claimant to the throne following the 1848 revolution.Provenance: Philippe d'Orléans (1838-1894), Comte de Paris, ink stamp on title; Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart. (1851-1925), bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 86
HERBARIUM - INCUNABULAHerbarius latinus (with German synonyms), 172 leaves (of 174, without final 2 leaves), 31-33 lines, gothic type, 3-line initial spaces with printed guide letters, 150 woodcut botanical illustrations WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING and plant names given in Latin and German, missing leaves loosely supplied in facsimile, title soiled, damp-staining throughout, a few single worm holes to first and final few leaves, small piece of blank lower margin to fol.77 torn away, first and final leaf with old paper strengthening at inner margin, small loss to fore-corner of final leaf, fol.81-88 misbound before fol.65, small early ink drawings of faces on fol.7 & 9, modern morocco-backed cloth [ISTC ih00064000; BMC II 616; Goff H64; GW 12270; HC(Add) 8445*; Nissen 2300], small 4to (210 x 150mm.), Passau, [Johann Petri, 14]85Footnotes:INCUNABLE HERBAL WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING. The first dated edition from the press of Johann Petri, and the first of three Petri editions of his influential Herbarius, illustrated with reverse copies of the woodcuts of Schoeffer's first edition.Provenance: '... habuit f Adamus Tobim(?) dono gratuito... de vergeon sacrista... Ambroniaii 1618'; 'Voyez Brunet la lettre H page 159 du supplement 1848', ink inscriptions on title-page; faint institutional stamp erased from title and blank area of second leaf.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 356
A PAIR OF BOMBAY SCHOOL OF ART VASES, INDIA, CIRCA 1880, slip painted earthenware, of bulbous 'huqqa' form, with gently flared, ridged neck, the sides decorated with repeated stylised floral medallions, the base with embossed stamp in nastaliq script and painted letters in devanagari reading 'Babu', 33.5cm each Provenance: Collection of the late Peter Millett (1925-2016)
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