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Lot 12
An extensive landscape depicting the town of Tanjore with its temples and a European-style house, a prince and his attendants approaching Company School, South India, circa 1820-30watercolour on paper, three separate sheets joined together, laid down on modern card 200 x 665 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceFrom an album formerly in the collection of Lord Bath, Longleat (embossed stamp on two paintings in lot 11).Private UK collection.The tower depicted to the left is the Brihadisvara or Rajarajesvara temple (circa AD 1000), a Tanjore landmark with its pyramidal tower topped with a domed capstone, known to the British as the 'Great Pagoda' - 'the finest specimen of the pyramidal temple in India' (Lord Valentia). Beside it sits a colossal statue of Nandi. Both monuments were illustrated by the Daniells in their aquatints in Oriental Scenery (1798).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 69
TWO SATYR TRAGOPAN PHEASANTS Company School, Calcutta, circa 1820watercolour and body colour on English paper watermarked J Whatman, embossed stamp BW lower centre 525 x 755 mm.; 445 x 660 mm.(sight)Footnotes:ProvenanceBenjamin Wolff (1790-1866), a Danish lawyer.Wolff trained as a lawyer in Copenhagen before leaving for Calcutta in 1817 to make his fortune, returning home in 1830. He was an accomplished draughtsman and also collected paintings and aquatints of Indian architecture, people, flora and fauna. His embossed stamp, with a crown motif, is on the lower part of the sheet of paper.This painting - which appears to show two male Satyr Tragopans - in fact depicts one bird before, and during, an idiosyncratic mating performance. Two male tragopans would not in reality tolerate such close proximity to each other.The bird's name (Latin, tragopan satyra) comes from the two blue 'horns' on the head, resembling those of the legendary satyr - half-man, half goat - of classical mythology. All five species of tragopan have these 'horns'. In this painting the horns are shown lying passively beneath the crest and look rather like blue feathers. They are not feathers, however, but long fingers of skin connected to the blue skin that can be seen on the face and throat.The bird on the right is shown in a relaxed posture, his throat skin hanging limp and shrivelled when compared with his orange plumage. The bird on the left has begun his display (with the horns not yet erect). Concealed behind a rock or log the bird will begin to inflate his throat skin, tail spread and wings rhythmically beating, while emitting clicking noises. The throat skin quickly spreads into a remarkable shield, revealing a dark blue centre and vivid pink-patterned sides. Meanwhile the horns spring erect on either side of the jet black crown. The male bird then springs up suddenly from his hiding place, raises himself to his full height and with wings dropped reveals himself to the female.Such displays are infrequently observed by humans, since they inhabit dense bamboo thickets, oak and rhododendron forests in the Himalayan mountains of northern India, Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan.For two other depictions of this bird, both from the Impey Album, see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 12th October 2005, lot 41 (attributed to Shaykh Zayn al-Din), and Christie's, Arts of India, 10th June 2015, lot 61 (by Ram Das).For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 140
A philatelist's meticulously collected George VI Commonwealth stamp collection across eight albums, MNH and used. To include: Ascension Island 1938 definitive (perfs and shades SG38-47b), Bahamas 1947 (16), Nyasaland 1938 - 44 (21 inc 10/- with gum), Sarawak 1934-41 definitive set of 21 (50cts with gum), SG135-149a? Seychelles 1938 - 49, Seychelles 1952 (15), Sierra Leone 1938 - 44 (16), c1940s Bantam South Africa strips, India (overprints Nabha State and Patiala), Jamaica 1938 - 52, Malaya Islands 1937 - 41 (18), Mauritius and Montserrat 1938 - 49, North Borneo 1939 (12cents with gum), Canada 10cents (gum), 1938 to 1950 Cayman Islands sets, 1937 Ceylon, Cyprus 1938 - 51 definitive (20), Fiji 1938 -55, Hong Kong 1938, Aden Seiyun and Shihr, 1937 Aden (Dhows), GVI Victory 1946, GVI 1937 Coronation, Silver Wedding 1923 - 1948, 1949 Universal Postal Union, BWI Universal, etc.
Lot 145
A very good collection of Royal Mail Tallents House FDCs inc: London 2010 Festival of stamps, George V Accession, Post & Go stamps, Smilers 2006, The Beatles, Abolition of the Slave Trade, The Machin Definitive, Harry Potter, James Bond, Benham issues, Olympics etc. Together with matching and other presentation pack stamps (approx £650, quantity of 1st class stamps, definitive stamps £1.50 to £5, The Castles Definitives 1955), Royal Mail Prestige stamp books (27) and RM miniature sheets (34), The Queen's Coronation commemorative postal order, PHQ cards, etc.
Lot 146
Royal Mail Victorian Stamp Ingot Collection, boxed set with ingots for Penny Black, Halfpenny Red, Penny Lilac, embossed shilling, Jubilee shilling and £5 orange. Together with an album of seventeen Edward VII, George V, George VI and QEII stamp ingots dating 2001 to 2005 inc Festival of Britain, Pillar to Post, Seahorse Ten Shillings, £2 commemorative coin covers, etc.
Lot 274
BRITISH & WORLD STAMPS COLLECTION with a small quantity of First Day Covers contained in eight part filled albums and loose, mostly presented as mint stamps with some unbroken quantities, a further quantity of unsorted, two empty Stanley Gibbons cover albums still boxed and other stamp collector's associated books and equipment
Lot 93
JAMES PRIDDY prints (2) - entitled 'Morning, Caernarfon Castle', with blind stamp, signed in pencil, 28 x 32cms, and 'Evening, Menai Bridge', 27 x 32cms, a similar era print, 'Fairy Glen, Betws y Coed' After WELLS, also, print - coastline flight After WINSTON MEGORAN, GWYNETH THOMAS print, ETC (see several images)
Lot 424A
A large collection of World Stamps and stamp albums. Including Channel Island stamps, various British 20th century First Day Covers, Finnish, a The Strand Album containing World stamps including American, New Zealand, Nigera, Keyna, an album containing phone cards, a photo of George Bernard Shaw and others
Lot 193
British Empire/Commonwealth: Boxed collection consisting SG New Age stamp album (G-S) additional leaves, 3 stockbooks, sleeve and SG Cat.2003. QV-QEII, mostly the latter. Mainly used defin., commem., postage due & official. Numerous part sets/sets to higher, if not highest values - £1, 10 Rupees etc. Australia (including Papua New Guinea & Antarctic Territories), Cyprus, Gibraltar, India, Malta, Malaya and others such as the Caribbean 'Saint' islands
Lot 203
GB & World: Large box of mainly defin., commem., mint & used, mostly KGVI on. Two albums, loose and cuts in plastic boxes, various packets/envelopes, a tin and on cover. In addition 2 SG World catalogues 1961 and 1981. Empty 'WIndsor' album and spare pages, stamp literature and accessories, including 'Hawid' mounts. GB decimal presentation packs & booklets seen. Total FV c£40
Lot 204
GB/British Empire: QV-KGVI collection in green 'Simplex' stamp album and small red tin. Mint & used, mostly defin. and commem. with sets/part sets to 5/-. Much pre-1900 material including 1d reds, countries of Caribbean plus Australia, Canada (with QV New Brunswick/Newfoundland), Hong Kong, Malaya, NZ, Nigeria & Seychelles plus nations/protectorates of British Africa. KGV 'Seahorses' re-engraved to 10/- seen
Lot 208
GB World: Old stamp album box full of some 70+ covers and PCs mostly from 1930s-1950s including censor, red cross, Army PO, Himalaya Everest expedition (2) and countries such as China, India, Japan, USA & European Nations as well. In addition packets of mint & used defin./commem. QEII Malta set to £1 (SG 266-282 cat £130) plus titles of countries & stamp index
Lot 212
GB: Philatelic Silver (925) Ingot Collection of iconic and top value postage stamps of QV-KGVI period plus numismatic-philatelic cover sets 'Pillar to Post' (six covers), 'Cathedrals' (six covers) & 'Castles' (4 covers). In addition Isambard Brunel £2 Silver Proof Set and HM Queen's 80th Birthday Proof Crown, both 2006, with small book on Kings and Queens of England. 35 stamp ingots of differing weight
Lot 213
GB: Collection of 167 Limited Edition Numismatic-Philatelic Covers, 1993-2021 inc. 9 Royal £5 proof coins and many commem. medals Mail/Royal Mint purposed albums. Numerous 50p, £1, £2 and £5 proof coins and many commem. medals. Highlights include 925 silver ingot, £5 UNC 2002, £5 note QE 500000052 matching to cover no. Two silver stamps and iconic Kew Gardens proof cupro-nickel 50p. All linked to commem. stamp issues on purposed coversCondition ReportPlease see additional images
Lot 216
GB: QEII Mint Defin., Commem. & 'Post-and-Go' stamps 2015-2021 in 5 albums plus 4 albums of clean, purposed FDC including numerous mini-sheets, booklets, se-tenant stamps and plenty of 1st and 2nd class and high values. Decimal FV c£1,050. In addition 2018 and 2021 edition of SG 'Collect British Stamps' plus bag of presentation pack, mini-sheets & stamp literature
Lot 223
GB & World: QV-QE11 (to 1979) collection mint & used in 2 albums inc. LE, higher values to £1 in KGVI-KGV 'Seahorses', officials, commem. & postage due to £5 (mint). In addition, box of GB & world stamps in stamp case, packets & loose. Used Chinese Imperial Coiling Dragons, higher value Malaya to $5 and Railway Postal stamps seen. Good interest and GB Decimal FV £30+
Lot 229
Purposed 220 page green SG 'King George VI' stamp album, original January 1956 edition, over 95% complete with used issues of reign, a very few mint in lieu. Defin., commem., officials, air, postage due, postal fiscals & insurance. All Omnibus complete, inc. Silver Wedding. Numerous highest values in complete sets e.g. 1937 Aden issue, many FDI, with 10R (SG 12) cat £650. Wide variety inc. Australia BCOF Japan overprint to 5/- SG cat £275 and POs overseas such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Somalia and BA/BMA Tripolitania. Other complete sets inc. Falkland Islands, K.U.T., Nyasaland, Malay States (some not all), islands such as Seychelles and the 'Saints'. Scarcer stamps seen in this comprehensive collection, such as 10R Gandhi SG 308 cat £140, Indore 2R SG42 cat £300 & most higher value NZ 'Arms' issues of period. Unchecked for varieties, 1000s. Should be seen to be fully appreciated Condition ReportPlease see additional images
Lot 234
Purposed, 220 page, interleaved red SG 'King George VI' stamp album, 1964 edition, c98% complete. Defin.,commem., officials, air, postage due, fiscals for postal use & insurance. All omnibus complete, inc. Silver Wedding. Numerous highest values in complete sets, e.g. 1937 Aden SG 1-12 (cat £1,200), 1938 Falklands SG146-163 (cat £475), Hong Kong SG140-162 (cat £1,100), Kuwait SG16-19 (cat £1,800), 1939 New Guinea air SG212-225 (cat £1,100) and 1939 North Borneo SG 303-317 (cat £1,400). Scarcer stamps seen in this exceptional collection inc.1948 10R Gandhi SG308 (cat £400), 1935-1942 Western Samoa overprint £5 indigo blue SG194 (cat £225), 1945 Sarawak $5 & $10 BMA overprint SG 144 & 145 (cat £200 & £225 respectively) & Malaya Trengganu $ SG44 (cat £650) and many others cat £100+ each. Unchecked for varieties; 1000s. Needs to be seen to be appreciatedCondition ReportPlease see additional images
Lot 235
GB: Boxed collection of 4 albums & carton of mainly defin. & commem. with air postal history & ephemera. In detail album of HM Queen 60th Birthday Limited Edition gold stamps (12), Silver Jubilee 1977, plus album of commem. covers, booklets, mini-sheets etc. and SG GB purposed album mint & used decimal commem. FV £160. Carton of air covers from 1930s on inc. Lindbergh flights, various interesting half stamp covers, strike mail & presentational items from Japan, Italy & elsewhere. QV Australian State PC and KGV Jubilee Air Mail cover from NZ seenCondition ReportPlease see additional image
Lot 241
GB & British Commonwealth: Small suitcase of covers, PCs, pres. packs with 'XLCR' stamp finder and SG 'Collect British Stamps' with empty Special Agent album. Mostly QEII pre-decimal & decimal mint/used defin., commem., postage due & regional; some earlier back to QV. 1957 Scout Jubilee Jamboree 'Cinderella' mini-sheet with explanatory cover plus. Canadian & Indian covers seen. Decimal FV c£10. In addition, a quantity of tea cards and a ship in a bottle
Lot 251
GB & World: Collection in 2 large boxes of GB purposed QEII decimal FDC 1974-2014, c350. In addition Royal Mail Album, wooden container & loose in packets/envelopes of all world; mostly used defin. & commem.. Books 'Stamp Collecting for All', 'British Postage Stamps' & National Postal Museum's 'The Story of the Penny Black' seen. GB decimal FV c£40 noted
Lot 85
Bean W.J. "Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles", John Murray 1929, three volumes, photographic plates, illustrations throughout, green pictorial cloth, gilt titles to the backstrip, Robinson, W. "The English Flower Garden and Homegrounds of Hardy Trees and Flowers Only", John Murray 1926, plates, illustrations, blue blind stamp pictorial cloth, gilt titles, Finn, Frank and Robinson E. Kay "Birds of Our Country..." Hutchinson & Co. photographic illustrations throughout, 2 volumes, green blind stamped pictorial cloth with gilt titles, and Hammerton, Sir John (Ed) "Outline of Nature" Waverley, 3 volumes, pictorial cloth with gilt rules and two other volumes (1 box)
Lot 100
"Historia de America ... por Mr. Belloc translated by Joan Cortada Barcelona 1844"Library stamp on both sides of the title page, half title, plates offsetting from the plates throughout the books, and foxing, rebacked with new end papers, contemporary marble boards but new backstrips and paste downs, the boards are very worn on the edges (2)
Lot 14
Triggs, H Inigo and Tanner, Henry"Some Architectural Works of Inigo Jones ...", published by Batsford 1901, numerous plates, photographic illustrations, drawings, frontis with tissue guard, light inscription in pencil dated 1903 on half-title, elephant folio with black cloth, gilt titles and decorations, all a bit bumped and rubbed but text and plates clean, possibly rebacked Stratton, Arthur"The Engish Interior, a Review of the Decoration of English Homes and Tudor Times to the 19th Century", Batsford (1920), numerous photographic plates, illustrations throughout the text, blue cloth with a buckram backstrip, gilt titles, backstrip chipped and splitting at the top"The Smaller House ... being selected examples of the latest practise in modern English domestic architecture", The Architectural Press 1924, architectural business stamp on tp, numerous photographic illustrations, diagrams, plans, etc, brown cloth all rather bumped and worn"Sir Christopher Wren, Bicentenary Memorial Volume published under the auspices of the Royal Institute of British Architects", Hodder & Stoughton 1923, colour frontis with tissue guard, numerous plates with architectural drawings, plans, etc, pictorial ep showing a letter from Sir Christopher Wren, blue cloth, gilt armorial crest to front board and gilt titles"Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723" with contributions by Paul Waterhouse, Reginald Blomfield, etc, The Architectural Press 1923, photographic illustrations, small folio, gilt titles to front boardHarris, Eileen "The Genius of Robert Adam, his Interiors", published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by The Yale University Press 2001, numerous colour and other illustrations throughtout the text, pictural ep, tan coloured cloth, djClifford Smith, H "Buckingham Palace ...", Country Life Limited 1931, photographic illustrations and others throughout text, blue cloth, gilt titles, dj, bookshop label stuck on ffep not price clippedWatkin, David"Sir John Soane ...", Cambridge University Press 1996, black cloth, gilt title on pastedown to backstrip, dj Harris, John and Snodin, Michael (ed)"Sir William Chambers Architect George III", Yale University Press in association with a Courthold Institute of Art 1996, illustrated throughout, pictorial ep, dark green cloth and dj, in slip caseColvin, Howard"A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840", 3rd edition, Yale University Press 1995, maroon cloth, dj (10)
Lot 147
Folio Society and other miscellaneous volumes to include Austen John (ills) "The Adventures of Harlequin" Selwyn & Blount 1923 frontis , ills, decorated endpapers, boards with pastedown title on front board, corners bumped, bookseller stamp from Simla on ffep and inked name and date 1925, Behan Brendan " Brendan Behan's Island - an Irish Sketchbook " with drawings by Paul Hogarth, Hutchinson 1962, green mottled cloth, d-j not price clipped, Nonesuch Press 1963 " Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass" yellow cloth with orange and gilt decs to front board and silver titles to back strip, Hassall Joan (ills) " Portrait of a Villlage" Francis Brett Young, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937, black cloth...... ( 2 boxes
Lot 162A
"Mathews's Complete Bristol Directory corrected to February 1810, containing alphabetical list ... manufacturers tradesmen ... of the City of Bristols and its Environs, lists of the mail and stage coaches, Hackney coaches, with fares for time or distance; wagons, coasting and other trading vessels to and from Bristol ...", 13th edition, Bristol, printed, published and sold by Edward Mathews, 1 and 6 sewed or 2 shillings in boards, bound in with a facsimile handwritten "Mathews's Bristol Complete Directory with a corrected supplement to February 1811 ...", half contemporary leather, contemporary marbled boards, stamp for HJ Rogers Binder, Colston Street, Bristol, a bkpl has been torn from inside the front board, all edged stained red "Incipit Evan - Gelium Secundum Matthaeum" [1551], tp missing, not complete, contemporary vellum binding separating and with worm holes, small blindstamped crest decoration can be seen on both front and back board and rules (2)
Lot 1131
Snaffles, two hand coloured lithographs, ' Jock ' and ' Good Hunting Old Sportsman ', 11ins x 8ins, with blind stamp marks to the mounts, housed in ebonised framesBoth have stained/foxed cream backing or borders and both are undulating under glass, possibly have been kept in damp conditions in the past
Lot 182
LAS CASAS, D. Frei Bartholomé de, O.P.- ISTORIA | ò Breuissima Relatione | DELLA DISTRVTTIONE | dell'Indie Occidentali | [...] | Conforme al suo vero Originale Spagnuolo già stampato in Siuiglia. | Tradotta in Italiano dall'Eccell. Sig. Giacomo Castellani,| già sotto nome di Francesco Bersabita...- In Venetia: Presso Marco Ginammi, 1643.- [8], 149, [2] p.; 21 cm.- E. ], Italian translation of the best-known work by Las Casas, a terrible libel against the processes of the “encomiendas” of the Indians, by the Spanish colonists and which came to provoke the publication of the New Laws of the Indies, protecting the indigenous people. Numerous references to Cuba, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Venezuela, etc. Las Casas (1474/84-1566), an indefatigable fighter against the oppression of American Indians, considered a precursor of abolitionism, in addition to having been bishop of Chiapas (Guatemala), he was a protege of Cardinal Cisneros who appointed him Universal Attorney and Protector of the Indians and obtained from Charles V several legislative measures for their protection. Bilingual text, printed in two columns, in Italian and Castilian. The last two pages are a list of works printed by Marco Ginammi. On the back of the title page: stamp from the library of a school belonging to the Society of Jesus and large(!) ex-libris by Diogo de Mello pasted on an unidentified stamp. Handwritten ownership on title page, slightly handled. Copy slightly cropped, with slight browning. Bound in flexible parchment, not original (repurposed), with new endpapers. Palau, 46955 (for the first Italian edition of 1626). Hail, 3286.
Lot 186
JESUS, Frei Rafael de, O.S.B.- CASTRIOTO | LVSITANO | PARTE I. | ENTREPRESA, E RESTAVRAÇAÕ | de Pernambuco; & das Capitanias Confinantes. VARIOS, E BELLICOS SVCCESSOS CASTRIOTO | ENTRE PORTUGUEZES, E BELGAS. | ACONTECIDOS PELLO DISCURSO DE VINTE E QUATRO ANNOS, E |, tirados de noticias, relações, & memorias certas.- Lisboa: Na Impressaõ de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1679.- [18], 701, [47] p.: 1 portada grav.; 27 cm.- E. Original edition of a work based on the manuscript of «Historia da Guerra de Pernambuco e feitos memoraveis do Mestre de Campo João Fernandes Vieira», by Diogo Lopes Santiago, which was only published in 1875-1880. In fact, it is a compliment by Vieira, nicknamed Castrioto in allusion to the hero and Albanian king George Castrioto, a very popular figure in Portugal at the time. The author (1640-1693), a Benedictine monk, born in Guimarães, was the chief chronicler of the Kingdom, responsible for writing the seventh part of the «Monarquia Lusitana». The volume retains, at the beginning, the copperplate print title, with the portrait of the biographer, a little cropped and handled. Copy slightly cropped, with oval stamp (initials J.F.J.B.) on the type title page; occasional minor worm holes and light stains, especially on the margins. Restorations on the last four sheets of the Index. Binding from the 20th century, with leather spine. Inocêncio, VII, p. 48. Samodães, 1632. Borba de Moraes, p. 427 (rare). Auvermann, 1062.
Lot 207
STRICKLAND, William.- Reports on canals, railways, roads, and other subjects, made to “The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement”. / By William Strickland, architect and engineer, while engaged in the service of the society.- Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826.- VI, 51, [1 br.] p.: il.; 26x44 cm.- E., William Strickland (1788-1854), American architect and engineer, born in New Jersey, was sent to England in 1825 to study the latest technologies linked to the development of freight transport by road, rail and river. The album consists of a title page, one with the list of subscribers and another with the preface (VI p.); the next 46 pages are part of the “reports”; the last five, the “references to the plates”. The prints follow, numbered from 1 to 72, in a somewhat confusing way, namely: 13 double prints (2 per sheet); 1 triple (69 + 70 + 72); 2 folding ones (42 + 50); 2 double sheet (39 + 46); stamp 15 on two successive sheets. The total number of prints (figures) is therefore 73, printed on 57 sheets. Complete copy, with some conservation problems: slight cropping, browning and some fungal stains on the upper margin of the first leaves; tear without lack of support, on the first sheet of text (p. 1/2). Full shagreen recent binding, signed Victor Santos, with gold engraving on the upper cover and top edge gilt. Protective case.
Lot 204
OVALLE, Pe.Alonso de, S.J.- HISTORIA | RELACION | Del Reyno de CHILE, | Y de las missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el | la Compañia de IESVS. | [...] | ALONSO DE OVALLE | De la Compañia de IESVS Natural de Santia- | go de Chile, y Procurador à ROMA.- En Roma: por Francisco Cauallo, 1646.- [8], 455, [1], 10, 12, 6 p.: il.; 25 cm.- E., Original edition of an important description of Chile, illustrated with 14 copperplate prints, nine portraits of knights (governors), 12 portraits of the first generals who commanded the Spanish troops in Chile and 18 xilographic engravings, on the final nine sheets, representing Jesuit schools, churches, ports and Chilean islands. Main work by the Jesuit Alonso de Ovalle (1603-1651), historian and chronicler, born in Santiago de Chile, son of powerful Spanish landowners. The copy lacks the folding map of the province. The work printed in the same year in the Italian version, was only reprinted in 1888 (Santiago), with a circulation of 600 copies. The specimen has some imperfections, the most important of which are: excessive cropping, slight browning and handling; monogrammed stamp with a count's coronet, on the title page; the paper of the copperplate prints is of poor quality and some have small worm holes, most of them marginal. With the exception of the map, it is however complete, corresponding even to the collation indicated to us by Palau. Provenance: Library of Bernardino Ribeiro de Carvalho (lot nº 543 of auction nº 50 of Pedro de Azevedo), with its oval label (ex-libris) on the back cover. Binding from the 19th century, with morocco spine. Sommervogel, IV, 39/40. Palau, 207397.
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