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A still life watercolour of a Pear in a glazed frame, initialled MV lower right 20 cm x 16.5 cm

A mid Victorian ebony, calamander, abalone, mother of pearl, ivory, bone, rosewood, purpleheart, sycamore and fruitwood marquetry collector's cabinet1870-1875, possibly by Jackson and GrahamWith line-inlaid borders and stringing, the top surmounted by a baluster gallery to the rear, above a stylised foliate inlaid frieze comprised of alternating palmettes and lotus-leaves flanked by rosette tablet angles, over a twin double panelled door, the upper panel inlaid with a still life of assorted shells, moluscs, coral and seaweed, the lower door panel inlaid with stylised foliate and scrolled angles, enclosing a total of eleven satinwood veneered and mahogany lined drawers comprised of eight long drawers over three deep drawers, flanked by stylised foliate, palmette and honeysuckle inlaid angles, on a plinth base, the lock stamped: 'CHUBB PATENT, 128 QUEEN VICTORIA ST., ST. PAUL'S, LONDON, 800354', 96cm wide x 67cm deep x 148cm high, (37 1/2in wide x 26in deep x 58in high)Footnotes:The repeating inlay running across the frieze of the offered lot is redolent of some Greek revival or 'Neo-Grec' designs published in 1856 within 'The Grammar of Ornament' by Owen Jones (1809-1868). Worthy of particular comparison are several decorative patterns inspired by ancient Greek vase ornamentation which feature among Plates XVI and XVII, Greek No.'s 2 and 4. Owen Jones was among the most notable designers employed by the renowned cabinet making combination of Jackson and Graham so it seems probable that the present cabinet was indeed executed by this firm. Added to this, the use of ivory (amongst the various other exotic materials) inlaid into ebony, along with its distinctive stylised foliate embellishments, are certainly characteristics very much in keeping with those pieces produced by Jackson and Graham during the period 1865-1875. Jackson and Graham (fl. 1836-1885)Jackson and Graham were one of the most successful and prestigious firms of the early and mid-Victorian periods. Based in London, they were responsible for enhancing the reputation and improving the renown of English cabinet makers throughout the rest of the World. In 1836 the partnership of Peter Graham (1811-1877) and Thomas Charles Jackson (1807-1848) was founded at 37 Oxford Street, but by 1839 the venture had developed to incorporate 37 & 38 Oxford Street, as well as an additional location at 18 Newman Street.In 1845 the company was recorded in the Post Office Directory as cabinet makers, upholsterers, carvers, gilders and house agents. However, by as early as 1866 they had grown sufficiently quickly as to include locations at 29, 33, 34, 35, 37 and 38 Oxford Street, together with the ownership and running of addresses at Perry's Place, Freston Place and Newman's Yard. In the 1860s, as part of their operation, Jackson and Graham employed 250 workers. During the 1850s the firm set up a steam engine for the more rudimentary sawing requirements, however by the next decade they had established machine-carving as well. By 1875 their total number of employees had reached within the region of 600 to 1,000. The rapid rise of the business is summarised in a London Directory advertisement of 1866 in the following way: 'Jackson and Graham announce... that they have recently made great additions to their former extensive premises, which render their establishment the largest of its kind in this or any other country. The Spacious Show Rooms and Galleries are filled with an unrivalled stock, the prices of which are all marked in plain figures at the most moderate rates for ready money. The extensive Manufactory adjoining, with machinery worked by steam power, is fitted with all means and appliances to ensure superiority and economise cost. Each of the departments will be found as complete as if it formed a separate business...' Only one decade on from this, another detailed account of the company is provided in J.H. Pollen's publication of Bevan's 'British Manufacturing Industries' (London, 1876). It elucidates a business which was as almost entirely automated as any other at that time in Victorian Britain, utilising and manipulating steam in order to power their wide assortment of machinery. Yet, despite this fact, the substantial contribution of highly skilled human labour and craftsmanship was also simultaneously championed therein. And, probably in part due to their employment of specialist foreign inlayers or marquetry experts, the firm's output easily rivalled anything then being produced in Europe, as evidenced by the numerous awards they were honoured with over time. Jackson and Graham used every opportunity to display their 'wares' at the various International Exhibitions which took place throughout much of the second half of the 19th century. They did so in order to showcase the very best of what they could produce. Their notable participation at the first and most famous of these, the Great Exhibition of 1851, was described thus by the 'Art Journal': 'Messrs Jackson and Graham, the eminent upholsterers of London are large contributors to the Great Exhibition of many important articles of their manufacture'. At the 1851 Exhibition in London, they received a prize medal for their exhibits.For the 1855 Paris Exhibition the firm showed a large Eugene Prignot-designed cabinet to the public, which was thereafter acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for £2,000: W.81-981, where it is still housed today. Among the more significant furniture supplied for the 1862 International Exhibition in London were a pollard oak sideboard and a Louis XVI style ebony and ivory cabinet with an onyx top. Again, they were honoured with multiple awards in London, but also gained similar trophies five years hence at the Paris Exposition. In 1871 an ebony and inlaid cabinet, which followed a design by R.S. Lorimer, was displayed by Jackson and Graham at the International Exhibition. They were also involved at Vienna in 1873 and took part in London the next year. However, it appears that at the 1878 Paris Exposition, which was their ultimate event of this scale and scope, they obtained the Prix d'Honneur for the British section. Whilst for the star item, known as the 'Juno' cabinet, they in fact achieved the 'Grand Prix' before the Viceroy of India bought the piece for £2,000 (now in the Victoria and Albert, W.18: 1-6 1981). Their principal documented commissions include work provided for; the Ball Room at Buckingham Palace; the Palace of the Khedive in Cairo, Egypt; the City Carlton Club; and the Livadia, a yacht belonging to the Czar of Russia.It should be noted that a great deal of the success of this business was allied to the fact that they often employed the major designers of the day. Such prominent figures as Owen Jones, Thomas Jeckyll, Bruce Talbert and Christopher Dresser all worked at one time or another for Jackson and Graham. As on the offered lot, the particular emphasis in the designs of Owen Jones was largely upon ebony pieces inlaid with ivory and sometimes also metal. During the period 1862-c.1864, Alfred Morrison commissioned Jackson and Graham together with Jones to produce extensive work at Fonthill House in Tis... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: TP Y ФTP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A rare Dutch mother of pearl inlaid panel depicting a vase of garden flowers in the manner of Dirck Van Rijswijck (1596-1679)Probably 18th centuryThe classical twin handled pedestal urn containing an arrangement of blooms including roses, carnations, pansies and tulips on a black ground, the mother of pearl inlay with finely engraved detail, the plinth base of the vase appearing to rest on a rosewood ledge, the panel mounted in a later moulded rectangular gilt frame, the panel 26cm high x 21cm wide, the frame 34cm wide x 40cm high Footnotes:Although originally training as a goldsmith, Dirck Van Rijswijck developed his own characteristic style whilst working as a silversmith in Antwerp experimenting with the effects that could be created by the processes of engraving. This led him to perfect an idiosyncratic technique using engraved mother of pearl inlay to represent floral still life subjects using the natural variations of colour apparent in the shell to suggest the colours and surface textures of the various flowers. In terms of creative output, Rijswijck is recorded as producing a number of these mother of pearl inlaid panels depicting vases of flowers some also incorporating a chained monkey. The fine and detailed engraved decoration to the panel in the present lot demonstrates a similarly high degree of technical skill very reminiscent of Rijswijck's work.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[NUREMBERG TRIALS]: RIBBENTROP JOACHIM VON (1893-1946) German politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany 1938-45. A rare Autograph Manuscript Signed, Joachim von Ribbentrop (twice, once at the head of the first page and again, with an inscription, at the conclusion), thirteen pages (separate leaves), folio, n.p. (Nuremberg), n.d. (1945/46). Marked 'Personal' and written in bold pencil, in English, Ribbentrop's manuscript is of a biographical nature, and was prepared for Major Douglas M. Kelley, a United States Army psychiatrist serving at Nuremberg, and states, 'My family comes from a farm called "Ribbentrop"….in Detmold, where my family can be tracid (sic) back to the twelfth century being "Freibanum" (free-peasants) on their own land. In later centuries the family produced mostly judges, officials and later also soldiers. An ancestor of mine Barthold Ribbentrop signed the Westphalian peace for the Count of Lippe. My grandfather (father of my father) was still a…..Major in the Brunswick artillerie (sic). My grandmother was also a born Ribbentrop from Brunswick. The father of my mother was likewise….on his farm….in the province of Saxony. The mother of my mother was…..also from the country in Saxony. My father was Lt. Colonel in the Prussian Army Artillerie (sic). His two brothers also…..My father was a real type of a soldier, but also highly interested in intellectual and political matters. He was well based in all litteratuer (sic) history and a very independent sort of a personality. He also took an interest in the social tendencies of our century giving the working class a better living. His independence of thought (critic of political, military matters and of the former Kaiser) brought him into difficulties with his superior officers, so that he resigned from the army in 1909. We then lived in Switzerland for some years. In the worlds war my father fought with distinction and then lived as retired officer…..He was interested in the national-socialistic movement, but did not join it till 1933, because he was against the anti-Jewish policy of the party. He died on the 1 of January 1941 in his 82nd year. My feelings towards my father were such that I liked and admired him more than anybody in this world except my wife and children. There has never been a change in our relations since my childhood. I always had a very free exchange of views with him on all subjects and his death was felt by myself more than I can express. Of my mother I only have the recollection of my childhood. I was about 11 years when she died….of tuberculosis of the lungs after she had already lost a kidney, also of tuberculosis. The disease has been in her family, as her mother also died of this illness. My remembrance of her is of being a very sweet, delicate or rather suffering woman. Very good looking but very fragile. We loved her very much; when we saw her - as she was often absent….. - she was mostly in bed. I believe she was very fond of us 3 children, but did not want to infect us with T.B. and therefore saw us seldom. I have been sorry all my life not having known her more, because she was - the few times I remember - very good and sweet to us, She was, I believe, also very intelligent and very musical like my father. I used to love to sit beside her, when she played the piano, which she did, I believe, wonderfully. She made me love music so that I took up the violin and wanted to become a violinist, when I had finished school. My one brother, Lothar Ribbentrop, which I had, has been during his short life my good comrade. We were very fond of each other & helped us whenever we could. Once he saved my life in pulling me out of a river, as I could not swim, something which I never forgot him. I also could help him sometimes. We were together in Canada, where he caught a tuberculosis shortly before the war. He never recovered. He came over after the outbreak of the first worlds war, the army would not take him, he went to Switzerland and died of consumption at Lugano at the age of 26 in December 1918. We always had much the same ideas and thoughts. It may be a queer coincidence, but I must mention it: I was in Odessa (Russia) in December 1918, ill in bed, when one night in a dream I saw my brother quite clearly dying, lifting himself once more up in his pillows and then fall back dead. When after months I came home to Germany, my father told me of my brother's death and I could see from my diary that he had died really the same night I had seen him die in my dream. Our family life always has been very intimate. My brother was a rather quiet & earnest type of a man, very straightforward & very reliable. My only sister, Ingeborg….is a very nice little woman. Everybody likes her and we have also always been very fond of each other. It was on account of her, that my father at the time went to Switzerland, her lungs as little girl being affected by tubercular bacillus. However she recovered and has been healthy since. She was married about 1922/23 to a friend of mine, Albert Jenke, with whom she lived mostly in Turkey, he being in the building industry, Later on my brother in law was commercial attaché & councillor at the German Embassy at Constantinople. My sister is a woman, who I think takes life in a way, a woman should. She is always sweet & nice to everybody, has very many friends, has the heart in the right spot and I love her very much. The story of my own family: I was married to Annelies Henkell, daughter of the German champagne manufacturer Henkell and his wife,…..in Wiesbaden on the 5th July 1920. This year we should have celebrated our Silver Wedding. The story of the life of my wife and myself together is a rare one. It is too precious and too wonderful to be described in words, a marriage which has made life worth while living for me. I love my wife more than anything in this world, more than my own life and her love for me, she could not show better than she did during the last days of this war, when she wanted to come to me to Berlin from the south and end her life with mine. The Fuhrer forbade her coming. Our common life has been a life full of work, events, sad and gay ones, but above all a life full of happiness and harmony, as is seldom given to two human beings. I shall ever be grateful for this wonder. My wife has given us 5 children. The oldest Rudolf-Lothar was born on the 11th of May 1921 in Wiesbaden. He is a fine boy, educated in Berlin, joined the Westminster school in London for about a year, went then the usual way for Hitler Youth, working service into the army............This has caused a lack of memory to a certain extent, that some times certain happenings are completely wiped out of my memory…..the sleeplessness hasn't improved. I regularly take powders, but only sleep a few hours….Headaches, ear drumming, schwindelanfalle have somewhat intensified'. Signed and inscribed at the conclusion, 'To Major D. E. Kelley, with greatest thanks for all his kindness, Joachim von Ribbentrop'. A remarkable autobiographical manuscript written by Ribbentrop whilst imprisoned at Nuremberg. Some light age toning to some pages and with a few small, minor tears to a few margins, generally VGJoachim von Ribbentrop was arrested in June 1945 and subsequently convicted and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials for his role in starting World War II in Europe and enabling the Holocaust. On 16th October 1946 he became the first of the Nuremberg defendants to be executed by hanging.Provenance: Acquired by our vendor at a Charles Hamilton Galleries sale (Auction 145) on 15th April 1982 (lot number 108).OWING TO LIMITATIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION FOR THIS LOT CANNOT BE SHOWN - PLEASE CONTACT US DIRECTLY FOR THE FULL DESCRIPTION

[CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI]: (1519-1589) French and Italian noblewoman, Queen of France 1547-59 by her marriage to King Henry II. A good, historic A.L.S., Loise de bretaigne, by Louise de Bretagne (d.1602; Baroness of Castelnau and of Clermont-Lodeve, one of the ladies of honour who accompanied Elisabeth of Valois to Spain for the festivities following her marriage to King Philip II), three pages, folio, Toledo, Second Day of Lent [15th February?] 1561, to Catherine de’ Medici, in French. Louise de Bretagne sends news to the Queen on a variety of events including Elisabeth of Valois’s recovery from small-pox, the death of Francois II and Queen Mary’s return to Scotland, in part, ‘Madam, the health of the queen your daughter grows better and better since I wrote to you; because two days after I sent you the last despatch they made her take a little medicine to finish purging her, which has done her so much good that she has no ailment in the world since……It is now several days since she complained of anything; and the day before yesterday, which was Shrove Tuesday, she went to dine in the garden, by order of the doctors…..I fomented her with milk and saffron, and was obliged then and there to give her a clyster…..the doctors have bidden her to begin every meal with Prunes from Tours…..which makes me beg of you, Madam, to send us some of them by every courier. They have ordered her a bath today to make her menses come on, the date of passing we had noted, the ninth of this month…..Her face is quite free of crusts now, and we wash it every day with asses milk; and yesterday we began to anoint her nose with balm, where she has some pits. I hope the balm will make them disappear. The reason for these is that when she got the small-pox she had a cold and blew her nose so much that the pustules got broken. She is much freer of the migraine than she used to be, but I am in great need of marjoram seeds……the season for sowing them here has passed, and it is not possible to get any more. The King has not come to sleep with her yet, for which I am very glad for she is not quite well enough…..The Prince [Don Carlos] has his fever again rather badly, the cause being I think the great army which they say the Turks are preparing to bring this summer to Goletta [Tunis]……From the last couriers who came…..there is much comment here about the story that the funeral of the late King [Francis II] was conducted with one little candle, which is thought very strange. It is also said for about a fortnight, that Monsieur the Cardinal of Lorraine is going to Metz after Easter, and Queen Mary either to Joinville or to Scotland……Our Lenten services last five hours every morning, and they do not finish until between one and two, which makes fasting easier for us. The Queen your daughter is dispensed from it this Lent on account of her illness and eats meat. They make no difficulty about it. However, none of the Frenchwomen eat it except her and mademoiselle, who is very well. We are told here that she is soon to be married. They are very anxious to know the truth about it, for the King is resolved to make her a very handsome present…..You will be informed of everything. At present I know of nothing more except that all are very well at this court and very glad at the power you have, and greatly wish that it may last long…..’ With the address panel to the verso of the final page, ‘A La Raine, ma souveraine daime’. Loosely contained within a dark brown morocco presentation folder (slight wear and damage to the inside) with gilt decorations to the borders of the interior and exterior and with a gilt stamped title to the front Louise de Bretagne – Letter to Catherine de Medicis relative to the Queens of Spain & of Scotland 1561. Also included are a series of interesting typed research notes and a French transcript and English translation of the letter, apparently prepared for (or by) Frank Lester Pleadwell (1872-1957) American physician and autograph collector. A letter of fascinating content, including intimate details from within the Royal court. Neatly inlaid and with some minor slits and a small area of paper loss to the left edge as a result of the letter having originally been tied with ribbon. About VG A remarkable, intimate letter relating to Elisabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain, who was recovering from small-pox, the death of Francis II, and Queen Mary’s return to Scotland. Elisabeth, the daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici, was born at Fontainebleau in 1545. Henry VIII was her Godfather and she was at first destined to be the wife of Edward VI, who had previously, by Treaty, been engaged to marry Mary, Queen of Scots. Edward’s death, in 1553, put an end to this project, and a marriage was then arranged between her and Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain. Philip’s wife, Mary I, died in 1558, and in the year following he himself married Elisabeth, ignoring the engagement to his son, to whom Elisabeth appears to have been attached. The marriage was an unhappy one. The bride was not yet fifteen years of age and had been brought up with every care in a refined and luxurious Court. Philip, although only thirty-two years old, was morose and severe. The marriage took place (by proxy) in the Church of Notre Dame at Paris in June 1559, Philip being represented by Ferdinand de Toledo, Duke of Alba. Elisabeth first met her husband in the following year, on 2nd February 1560, at Guadalaxara, but the meeting was unfortunate. She died in October 1568, and the cause of her death was not without suspicion, especially as her former lover, Don Carlos, had died under very suspicious circumstances just a few months earlier.  Francis II, whose funeral is mentioned in the present letter, had died on 5th December 1560, and the occasion was perhaps the most important event in the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, when her power and prospects in France were shattered in one blow, and her life-long enemy Catherine de’ Medici again placed in a position of authority. Hence forward the struggles between Catherine and the Guises went more in her favour since she possessed absolute power over her young son, Charles IX, who succeeded to the throne, and usurped complete control of the Kingdom.  The forecast given in the present letter regarding Queen Mary’s future movements proved correct. Mary, who had lived in complete seclusion since her husband’s death, spent Easter at Rheims and then set out to Joinville to visit her grandmother, Antoinette de Bourbon, dowager Duchess of Guise. Thence she returned to Rheims and spent some weeks in seclusion in the Convent of St. Pierre with the Abbess, her aunt, Renee de Lorraine. Finally, she went to Paris where she stayed until July, when she set out for Scotland. At the time when the present letter was written, early in 1561, great endeavours were being made by Mary’s relatives to bring about a marriage between her and Don Carlos, a scheme very nearly concluded, in which case she would have become a step-daughter-in-law of Elisabeth, Queen of Spain, who was still supposed to be in love with her stepson herself. This scheme was strongly opposed by Catherine de’ Medici, who wanted Don Carlos to marry her younger daughter, Margaret, who is referred to in the present letter as ‘Madame your little daughter’ Louise de Bretagne was one of the maids-of-honour who accompanied Elisabeth to Spain. The ‘mademoiselle’ of the letter was another maid-of-honour, Anne de Bourbon Montpensier.

VICTORIA OF SAXE-COBURG-SAALFELD: (1786-1861) German Princess, Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, mother of Queen Victoria. A.L.S., Victoria, three pages, 8vo, Frogmore [House, Windsor], 14th February 1844, to Monsieur Le Comte Alphonse de Mensdorff-Pouilly, on black bordered mourning stationery, in German. The Duchess writes a poignant letter, thanking her correspondent for their loving symphony at her loss, and continuing 'I have so much to write and my eyes are badly affected. I am quite convinced that your angel-father and you yourself, my dear Alphonse, will be sincerely saddened by the unexpected death of the dearly beloved uncle. I am getting used only with difficulty to the dreadful certainty. I am deeply saddened. Today my heart is too heavy. God has decided that one must endure it without complaining. Yesterday I received the account of his funeral. With what heartache I saw it all before me and could still not comprehend it, as his body was carefully lowered into the cold vault. Victoria and A[lbert] are more composed and look again better. They grieve, however, in deep shock and, how awful dear Albert looked. It is his first great pain in his young life'.  With address panel to the final page in the Duchess's hand and bearing the remnants of a small black wax seal. Some light staining and minor age wear, and a few small tears and areas of paper loss to the edges, G Alphonse de Mensdorff-Pouilly (1810-1894) European nobleman, cousin to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. The Duchess refers to the death of Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784-1844), the last sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) and, from 1826, the first sovereign duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as Ernest I). Father of Albert, Prince Consort, the husband of Queen Victoria.

JOACHIM JOSEPH: (1831-1907) Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer. A.L.S., Joseph Joachim, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d. (annotated 1872 in another hand), to Mrs. Benzon, in German. Joachim politely declines an invitation, writing 'On Sunday, to celebrate the 200th (!) Monday Popular Concert, there is a dinner I can't miss. I had suggested another day but unfortunately Sunday is the only day that suits everyone involved and so I respond to your kind message as to whether I will come to your dinner with 'no', much as I would appreciate the opportunity to correct my lack of dependability and punctuality!', however further adding that he still hopes to be able to come 'since Chappell's dinner is at 6 o'clock; I can make my evening visit to you afterwards' and concluding by mentioning that he has been back to Edinburgh and is now going to Brighton. A couple of very minor, small traces of former mounting, VG The Monday Popular Concerts, which were begun in 1858 and held at St. James's Hall, London, were among the most influential 19th century musical events and attracted the finest British and international musicians, among these Joachim, who was an annual visitor to England from 1862 onwards. His appearance at the Monday 'Pops' and other concerts in London and the main provincial towns was a regular feature of British musical life. Provenance: From the Pencarrow Collection previously sold at Sotheby's, 8th December 1999 (lot 193) where acquired by Dr. Chonon Elkan Lewis (1931-2020) English physician, violinist and composer, appointed Honorary Physician to the musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra.

INNOCENT IX: (1519-1591) Pope of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States fin 1591. His papacy lasted only two months, one of the shortest ever. Born Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti. Extremely rare L.S., only three documents signed by him have ever been recorded in private hands, signed `G.A. Car.l S.ti-Quattro´, ("G.[iovanni] A.[ntonio] Car.[dina]l S.[an]ti-Quattro"), Cardinal of the Roman Basilica Santi-Quattre-Coronati,one page, folio, Rome, 24th September 1588, addressed to the Vice-Legate of Bolonia, in Italian. The future Pope Innocent IX tries to appoint the uncle of one of his subordinates, member of the powerful Inquisition, into the "Compagnia de Salaroli", stating in part `Intendo che alli mesi passati Messer Evangelista Salicini, zio di Mons.r Salicini che fatica (sic-lavora assidumente) nel S.t Officio, renuntiò il luogo del numero de gli honorevoli huomini della Compagnia de' Salaroli a Ms Hercole, suo figliolo, il quale hora è passato da questa vita  et desiderando esso Ms Evangelista rihaver in persona sua il detto luogo, che per cento et più anni è stato in diverse persone della sua Casa, ritrova in ciò difficoltà per molte prattiche fatte in servitio d'un fumante, ch'è - siccome mi vien detto - incapace del luogo per i Statuti della Compagnia..´ ("I mean that Messer Evangelista Salicini, uncle of Mons.r Salicini who works assiduously in the S.t Officio, takes the place and number of the honoured man of the Compagnia de 'Salaroli, Mr Hercole, his son, who has now passed away from this life and since he wishes Ms Evangelist to have in his own person the said place…") The letter bears to the verso a paper seal affixed, and alongside a draft manuscript in the hand of Anselmo Dandini which was going to be his response to Innocent IX. According to this draft letter, Dandini was pleasing Innocent IX request. Small overall age wear, otherwise G The present letter is addressed to the Vice-Legat of Bolonia, Anselmo Dandini (1546-1608) Jurist and former Apostolic Nuncio in France. Dandini was replacing Alessandro Damasceni Peretti (1571-1623) a nephew of Pope Sixtus V, and future Cardinal at the early age of 14. Well remembered for his impressive bust done by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Giulio Cesare Salicini (1541-1606) Jurist and member of the Inquisition. Bishop of Rimini from 1591. The Company Salaroli was founded in 1376 and was the original producer, and still is at today´s date, of the worldwide famous Mortadella of Bolonia.

MANSON CHARLES: (1934-2017) American Criminal who led the cult-based Manson Family, responsible for multiple deaths (including the murder of Sharon Tate) and the subject of Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. A.L.S., C Manson, four pages, 4to, n.p. (Vacaville, California), n.d. (August 1982), to Nuel Melton Emmons ('Dear Mel'). Manson writes, in part, 'I feel we are more than even - you may of gained a lot in our experences (sic) & I wish you will & luck on your way to what & where ever it takes you but good buddy I got to be off from what your doing. I thought that sooner or later we could meet in the truth - but I've gave up on that. The 50 - never got to Wes. The picture of the hut & the Japan guy with the army guy on his knees & the guy with the gun over him picture never got back as you said. So meaney (sic) things have came between us that I can't keep track - you pushed if off on the chick the last time we took pictures & you have cut me off of things & things have cut us off from each other - I got no bad for you & I don't want it to pile up to where eather (sic) one of us start shooting arows (sic) at each other - If you feel I got anything comeing (sic) from you give it your self. I don't need nothing & what ever I need or want I can git for my self. It would of been nice had we been able to git it right for the 2 of us but that's not working out. Not because of you or me & there is no blame to push, no negitive (sic) - its just not working - That's not my book & if your lieing (sic) about a chickenshit 50 or a hand full of pictures I can emagian (sic) what you got in that book - That's your book an how you see what ever is best for you……you still haven't got through the doors of my understandings of what I'm doing, what I'm doing is also controled (sic) by others….don't be mad at me or push off on me because I was nice & week & a chump & I won't be mad at you. I watched to show how much a fool you thought of yourself……I'll remember you as a friend…..I would like a picture of that Manson buggy that was in Life long ago. I don't want to visit anymore….' Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Manson and signed ('C Manson') by him in the return address. Some creasing, a few light stains and with file holes and small tears to some edges, caused by the pages having been torn from a notebook. About VG Nuel Melton Emmons (1927-2002) American photojournalist and biographer of Manson. Emmons first met Manson briefly when he was imprisoned for automobile theft in 1956, and again under similar circumstances in 1960. In 1979, he contacted Manson and began extensive interviews and his correspondence with Manson resulted in the book In His Own Words - The Shocking Confessions of the Most Dangerous Man Alive (1986).

                                   ‘Vollard is here, I will make a portrait of him’RENOIR PIERRE-AUGUSTE: (1841-1919) French Impressionist Artist. A fine and good association A.L.S., `Renoir´, two pages, written to the first and third page, small 8vo, Cagne, 8th January 1908, to Claude Monet, in French. Renoir writes to his long life friend Monet `Mon cher ami…´ ("My deaf friend…"), and first asks about his correspondent´s health `Tu me diras si tu as toujours mal à l´estomac, c´est une maladie qui rend triste, il faut vite guérir´ ("Tell me if you still have a stomach ache, it's a disease that makes you sad, you have to heal quickly") Renoir further refers to Vollard, their art collector supporter, stating `Vollard est ici, je le portraiterai´ ("Vollard is here, I will make a portrait of him") Further again Renoir thanks Monet and his daughters for the letters they often send him, and before concluding makes a sharp critic of a colleague´s exhibition, stating `Une pièce que je n´irai certainement pas voir c´est celle de Geoffroy à l´Odéon…´ ("A painting that I will certainly not go to see is the one of Geoffoy at the Odeon") To a post-scriptum Renoir referring to the new year 1908, states `Ce 8 me fait bien vieillir´ ("This 8 makes me feel older") VG Claude Monet (1840-1926) French Impressionist Painter.Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) French art Dealer. One of the most important dealers of his time in French contemporary art. He supported many painters such as Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, etc… Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924) French Painter and Illustrator, best known for his scenes with children.  

‘I therefore come to ask you….to put an end to a state of affairs which is for me a terrible torture, physical and moral,  and of which I am yet to understand the usefulness as well as the justice’ PROUDHON PIERRE-JOSEPH: (1809-1865) French philosopher, socialist and politician, the founder of mutualist philosophy and the first person to declare himself an anarchist. A.L.S., P.-J. Proudhon, two pages, 8vo, Citadel of Doullens, 4th May 1850, to 'Monsieur le Directeur', on the printed stationery of La Voix du Peuple, in French. The imprisoned Proudhon writes to plead with his captor, in full, 'D'apres un mot que m'a dit hier le major, et cela, autant que je puis presumer, de votre part, il dependrait de vous de faire cesser mon isolement. Si j'avais cru que cette affaire etait laissee a votre discretion, il y a longtemps, Monsieur le Directeur, qu'au lieu de solliciter le ministre, qui ne repond pas, je me serais adresse directement a vous. Je n'aurais pas cru plus indigne de moi, je vous jure, de frapper a la porte du subordonne qu'a celle du superieur. Je viens donc vous prier, Monsieur le Directeur, de mettre fin a un etat de choses qui est pour moi un terrible supplice, physique et moral, et dont je suis encore a comprendre l'utilite ainsi que la justice. Depuis quinze juurs que je suis sequestre, les agitations nerveuses, les transports au cerveau, auxquels je suis d'ailleurs sujet, se sont multiplies chez moi d'une maniere inquietante. D'autres infirmites m'arrivent encore, a la suite de ce regime debilitant, a tel point que s'il se prolongeait, je serais force de croire que l'administration n'en veut pas seulement a ma plume, mais a ma vie. Jusqu'ici je me suis efforce de tromper les heures par la lecture et le travail: mais la lecture et le travail, chez un homme sequestre, deviennent vite des causes de malaise et d'impossibilite de lecture et de travail: aujourd'hui je suis hors d'etat de m'occuper et de rien faire. Daignez donc, Monsieur le Directeur, porter remede a mon etat, me permettre de me promener et de voir mes amis. Songez aussi, je vous en supplie, que j'ai une malheureuse femme qui pleure pour moi quand je ne puis que souffrir et qu'elle serait heureuse d'apprendre que j'ai ete enfin rendu a la liberte....de la prison' (Translation: 'According to a word that the major said to me yesterday, and that, as far as I can presume, on your part, it would depend on you to put an end to my isolation. If I had believed that this matter was left to your discretion, a long time ago. Monsieur le Directeur, that instead of soliciting the Minister, who does not answer, I would have addressed myself directly to you. I would not have thought it more unworthy of me, I swear to you, to knock on the door of the subordinate than on that of the superior. I therefore come to ask you, Monsieur le Directeur, to put an end to a state of affairs which is for me a terrible torture, physical and moral, and of which I am yet to understand the usefulness as well as the justice. During the fifteen days that I have been sequestered, the nervous agitations, the transports of the brain, to which I am moreover subject, have multiplied in me in a disquieting manner. Other infirmities still happen to me, as a result of this debilitating regime, to such an extent that if it were prolonged, I would be forced to believe that the administration does not only want my pen, but my life. So far I have tried to deceive the hours by reading and working: but reading and working, in a sequestered man, quickly become causes of discomfort and of the impossibility of reading and working: today I am in no condition to occupy myself and do nothing. So deign, Monsieur le Directeur, to remedy my condition, allow me to walk around and see my friends. Consider also, I beg you, that I have an unhappy wife who cries for me when I can only suffer and that she would be happy to learn that I have finally been set free….from jail.'). With blank integral leaf. Some very light age wear and a few extremely small, minor tears to the lower edge, otherwise VG In June 1849 Proudhon had been arrested for insulting Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III), the first President of France (1848-52) and was imprisoned for three years. In December 1849, whilst in prison, he married 27 year old Euphrasie Piegard, with whom he had four daughters.  

                                                  ‘I almost owe him my life’ BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. Best known for his masterwork novel La Comédie Humaine, a multi-novel collection of novels written over twenty years. A very fine A.L.S., `de Balzac´, three pages, 8vo, slim paper, Berdychiv, Ukraine, 22nd October 1849, to Charles Sauvageot, in French. At the time of the present letter Balzac was residing at Wierzchownia, in Ukraine, staying at the home of Madame Hanska. Balzac has mandated his correspondent to get him a violin to be offered to Doctor Knothe who had treated him, and having just received the violin, states in part `…enfin à travers tant d´instruments de musique qui ont roulé entre la Gallicie et Vienne, celui-là s´est fait jour et n´a pas souffert, il est venu sain et sauf, et il l´a trouvé parfait, excellentissime, et il a mis l´amateur et collectionneur de violons en goût. Cet artiste est le médecin de la famille au sein de laquelle je vis loin des orages, et je lui dois à peu près la vie, attendu que j´avais une maladie de coeur au plus haut degré don't il m´a délivré; donc, comme je désire moi aussi lui faire un cadeau… si par hasard vous trouvez ou vous entendez parler de quelque chef d´oeuvre de lutherie, vous qui vous y connaissez si bien, pensez à moi, prévenez moi´ (Translation: “…finally, through so many musical instruments that have rolled between Gallicia and Vienna, this one has emerged and has not suffered, it has come safe and sound, and he has found it perfect, excellent, and it appealed to the violin lover and collector. This artist is the doctor of the family with which I live far from the storms, and I almost owe him my life, given that I had a heart disease in the highest degree from which he delivered me; so, as I also want to give him a gift... if by chance you find or hear about some masterpiece of luting making, you who know the matter so well, think of me, let me know”) Balzac says having been delivered from his heart disease, although his health never fully recovered and kept on deteriorating, passing away ten months later. Balzac further refers to his future return to Paris, saying in part `…comme il m´est défendu de monter plus de 20 marches, je me ferai porter par 2 commissionnaires en une façon de palanquin jusque dans votre musée et pour le voir et pour vous voir. J´ai toujours votre fouet cosaque sur ma commode, en sorte que je pensé à vous. Ce que vous m´avez dit de la difficulté de trouver de vrais Palissy, sains et entiers me nâvre. Palissy, Rabelais et Salomon de Caux sans statues, dans un paysqui en élève à Parmentier et à Monge, à Ducange et à Coquille est un fait qui m´irrite et me fait rougir de n´être pas assez riche pour réparer cette ingratitude. Dans tous les cas, le hasard est si grand surtout à Paris, où les voitures ne tuent que 5 ou 6 personnes par an…´ (Translation: “…as I am not allowed to climb more than 20 steps, I will have myself carried by 2 porters in the manner of a palanquin to your museum in order to see it and to see you. I still have your Cossack whip on my dresser, so I thought of you. What you told me about the difficulty of finding real Palissy, healthy and unbroken, saddens me. Palissy, Rabelais and Salomon de Caux without statues, in a country that raises them to Parmentier and Monge, Ducange and Coquille, is a fact that irritates me and makes me blush for not being rich enough to make amends to such ingratitude. In any case, chance is so great, especially in Paris, where cars only kill 5 or 6 people a year…”) Addressed in Balzac´s hand to the fourth page. G to VG Charles Sauvageot (1781-1860) French Violinist and important collector of medieval and Renaissance antiques which he donated to the Louvre. Sauvageot and Balzac shared their passion for Bernard Palissy, a XV century Huguenot potter, engineer and craftsman known for his so-called “rusticware” large oval decorated platters featuring small animals in relief, and who died in the Bastille.In February 1832 Balzac received an intriguing letter from Odessa with no return address and signed simply "L'Étrangère" ("The Foreigner") expressing sadness at the cynicism and atheism in La Peau de Chagrin and its negative portrayal of women. Balzac´s response was to place an advertisement in the Gazette de France, hoping that his anonymous critic would see it. Thus began a fifteen-year correspondence between Balzac and Ewelina Hanska a Polish woman married to a nobleman twenty years her senior. After the death of her husband in 1841, Balzac finally visited Ewelina Hanska in 1843 and won her heart. After a series of financial and health problems, including objections from Tsar Nicholas I, the couple married in 1850 in Saint Petersburg, only few months after the present letter was written. Five months later and three months after returning to Paris, Balzac died.  

DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English novelist. A very fine, extensive A.Q.S., Charles Dickens (an excellent example, with paraph), one page, 4to, n.p., 28th April 1858. Writing in his characteristic blue ink Dickens has neatly penned a twenty-three-line quotation from David Copperfield, in full – -“We had only one check to our pleasure, and that happened a little while before I took my leave, when Miss Mills chancing to makesome allusion to tomorrow morning, I unluckily let out that, beingobliged to exert myself now, I got up at five o’clock. WhetherDora had any idea that I was a Private Watchman, I am unableto say; but it made a great impression on her, and she neitherplayed nor sang any more.“It was still on her mind when I bade her adieu; and shesaid to me in her pretty coaxing way – as if I were a doll, I usedto think:“Now don’t get up at five o’clock, you naughty boy. It’s sononsensical!”“My love”, said I, “I have work to do”“But don’t do it!” returned Dora, “Why should you?”It was impossible to say to that sweet little surprised faceotherwise than lightly and playfully, that we must work to live.“Oh! How ridiculous!” cried Dora“How shall we live without Dora?” said I“How? Anyhow!” said Dora.She seemed to think she had quite settled the question,and gave me such a triumphant little kiss, direct from herinnocent heart, that I would hardly have put her out ofconceit with her answer, for a fortune” –  David Copperfield, by……’  Signed and dated by Dickens at the foot of the quotation. Autograph Quotations Signed by Dickens are extremely rare, and this is a particularly handsome and desirable example, both for the physical size of the paper and length of the quotation. A few light stains to the right edge, only very slightly touching the concluding letters of three words, all of which remain perfectly legible. About VG The present quotation is taken from towards the end of A Little Cold Water, the title of chapter 37 of David Copperfield, published in 1850. The passage illustrates, for the first time, how a shadow is temporarily cast over David’s love for Dora Spenlow, his future wife. Copperfield is deeply in love and does not quite comprehend what the reader sees: Dora, in her present childlike state, unable to cope with the responsibilities of a household, will prove little more than a hindrance to him. Maria Beadnell, Dickens’s first love whom he met in 1830 is thought to have been the model for the character Dora in David Copperfield. Dickens regarded David Copperfield, a largely autobiographical work, as his favourite amongst all the novels he wrote. The quotation was written and signed by Dickens at a significant time in his life, making his choice of passage an interesting one. A year earlier, in 1857, Dickens had fallen in love with the actress Ellen Ternan, and his passion for her was to last the rest of his life. Dickens was increasingly finding his wife, Catherine, to be an incompetent mother and housekeeper, causing him financial worries. In May 1858, after Catherine accidentally received a bracelet meant for Ellen Ternan, Dickens and his wife separated, and Catherine would never see her husband again.  After separating from his wife Dickens undertook a series of hugely popular and remunerative reading tours, and the present quotation was signed during the first such tour, which lasted from April 1858 to February 1859 and consisted of 129 appearances in 49 towns throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. The original manuscript of David Copperfield was bequeathed by Dickens to his friend the biographer and literary critic John Forster (1812-1876), who in turn bequeathed the manuscript (together with other books, pictures and important manuscripts) to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. American Book Prices Current record only three other examples of quotations from David Copperfield signed by Dickens as having appeared at auction in the last 25 years. 

JAMES HENRY: (1843-1916) American-born British author. A.L.S., Henry James, six pages, 8vo, Pall Mall, London, 13th November 1911, to Doctor [Joseph] Collins, on the blind embossed stationery of The Athenaeum. James announces 'Your most kind note from the ship does me a world of good, & your guarantee of my appearance of being so well contributes immensely to establish the reality - is in fact quite life-giving' and continues 'The great thing is that I have made so much my own way to it - giving me the sense that I can therefore myself work out what remains (for there still remains something) of the job. And I have a faint hope & faith that I shall see you here again…..I liked so your presence & our talk of the other evening, with things so many, into which I should have liked to go with you deeper. But that will come'. In a two page postscript, signed ('H.J.') by James with his initials, the author informs Collins 'I shall have to send this to the Joneses to pass on to you - it's an illustration of the way that so many American impressions & facts (local & national) fade away & dissolve (from the "European mind") that I have managed to forget all the numerals in both your addresses - so colourless are American addresses "anyway"! I have yours inscribed, but my little book is not at hand'. VG During an extended visit to the United States in 1910 & 1911, James had sought the advice of physician Joseph Collins for methods of losing weight and also the treatment of his 'evil times' (what would now probably be diagnosed as depression) following the death of his brother, William. 

SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE DE: (1900-1944) French Writer, Poet and pioneering Aviator. Saint-Exupery was a French aristocrat who became a laureate of several France's highest literary awards and is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (“Le Petit Prince”) (1943), and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Night Flight (1931) and Wind, Sand and Stars (1939). Rare and excellent Autograph Manuscript, two full lengthy pages with small writing, 4to, yellow paper, n.p., n.d. [1938], in French. The seventy-five lines manuscript being his annotations and draft for his novel Wind, Sand and Stars (“Terre des Hommes”). Saint-Exupery, in his usual very difficult and small writing, annotates these first thoughts draft which will be used in the seventh chapter of his famous collection of autobiographical essays which is Wind, Sand and Stars, evoking a series of events in his life, mainly from the time when he worked for the airmail service. The central element of this story being his accident with his navigator André Prévot in the Libyan Sahara in 1935, where the two aviators nearly died of thirst.The manuscript contains several corrections and its final publication will include some changes to the present unpublished text. Saint-Exupery numbers each page to the upper left corner as `I´ and `II´, stating in part `Tel est le desert. Un Coran, qui n´est qu´une règle de jeu, en change de sable en Empire. Au fond d´un Sahara qui serait vide, se joue une pièce secrète, qui remue les passions des hommes. La vraie vie du désert n´est pas faite d´exodes de tribus à la recherche d´une herbe à paître, mais du jeu qui s´y joue encore. Quelle différence de matière entre le sable soumis et l´autre! Et n´en est-il pas ainsi pour tous les hommes? En face de ce désert transfiguré qui me souviens des jeux de mon enfance…´ (“Such is the desert. A Koran, which is only a rule of the game, changes sand into an Empire. At the bottom of a Sahara that would be empty, a secret play is being played out, which stirs the passions of men. The real life of the desert is not made of exodus of tribes in search of grass to graze, but of the game that is still played there. What a difference in matter between the submitted sand and the other one! And is it not so for all men? In front of this transfigured desert which reminds me the games of my childhood…”) A manuscript of very interesting content. Creasing to the bottom right corner of the first page, with a small stain to the bottom edge of same page, otherwise G Terre des Hommes (“Wind, Sand and Stars”) was finally published in France in February 1939, and was awarded with the Grand Prix of the French Academy. The novel would be published in US few months later, in June 1939.

MANDELA NELSON: (1918-2013) South African anti-apartheid activist, the first President of South Africa 1994-99. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1993. T.L.S., N Mandela, one page, 4to, n.p., July 1997, to Marlene Jacobs. Mandela thanks his correspondent for her assistance in helping to host a Children's Party in Cape Town on 4th July 1997 in honour of his 79th Birthday, continuing to remark 'As you know, all children are very close to my heart but particularly those youngsters who are forced to face tremendous difficulties and tragedies in their young lives. The children who attended my party were especially vulnerable, facing severe life-threatening diseases, and by giving support to this Party you helped me give them a day they will never forget' and further adding 'The event was a wonderful success - which is still being commented on - and reflects the very high degree of commitment, professionalism and sheer hard work that you, as part of the organising team, put into the planning and execution of it'. A letter of good content. A light band of discoloration to the edges, evidently caused by previous framing, and with a small tear to the upper right edge, otherwise about VG  

Einstein signs his scientific equations, noting that they are ‘From the graveyard of buried hopes’ EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A very fine, rare Autograph Manuscript Signed, Albert Einstein, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. The working manuscript, penned in bold, dark fountain pen ink, features over ten lines of scientific equations and calculations in his hand, with just one line of German text. Signed by Einstein with his full signature at the foot of the page, adding a line of text in his hand, in German, immediately beneath, 'Aus dem Friedhofe begrabener Hoffnungen' (Translation: 'From the graveyard of buried hopes'). Together with Elsa Einstein (1876-1936) Cousin and the second wife of Albert Einstein, married from 1919-36. T.L.S., Elsa Einstein, one page, 8vo, Bayard Lane, Princeton, 20th October 1933, to a lady ('Chere madame'), most probably Juliette Adant, wife of Professor Arthur de Groodt, on the printed stationery of the Peacock Inn, in French. Einstein writes 'C'est avec beaucoup de plaisir que je vous retourne les petits feuilles signes. Mon mari vous remercie pour les aimables lignes que vous lui avez ecris' (Translation: 'It is with great pleasure that I return the small, signed sheets to you. My husband thanks you for the kind lines you wrote to him') and adds that they have only been in America for a few days, observing 'Princeton est une  petite Universite d'une grande charme en style anglais, une vraie copie d'Oxford. Nous sommes encore dans un hotel, mais en peu de temps nous demenageons dans une maison, qui est situee excessivement belle au milieu des grands jardins avec une vue splendide. Nous avons loues cette maison pour une demie annee. Nous voulons mener ici une vie surtout calme et tres loin de chaque publicite. Le professeur ne veut rien que faire son travail scientifique' (Translation: 'Princeton is a charming little university in the English style, a true copy of Oxford. We are still in a hotel, but in a short time we will move into a house, which is exceedingly beautifully located in the middle of large gardens and with a splendid view. We have rented this house for half a year. We want to lead a mostly calm life here and very far from publicity. The professor wants nothing but to do his scientific work'), further thanking her correspondent for all of their kindness, and also for offering to keep a trunk and small suitcase in their home until they return next year, 'Je vous remercie de tout mon coeur pour cette faveur. La malle contient des choses, qui sont de grande importance pour moi' (Translation: 'I thank you with all of my heart for this favour. The trunk contains things which are of great importance to me'). Whilst Einstein clearly created many such pages of scientific formulae during his career, they remain highly sought after by collectors, and signed examples are of exceptional rarity. Furthermore, the present example is greatly enhanced by both Einstein's handwritten observation (reflecting on the possibility of what he wished to have achieved with his calculations) and the fine accompanying letter of provenance from Elsa Einstein. Some very light, minor creasing to the page of calculations and a couple of very small, neat tears to the edges, one only very slightly affecting one small part of an equation. VG, 2Juliette De Groodt-Adant (1892-1964) Belgian writer, wife of the Flemish doctor Arthur de Groodt (1883-1952).  In March 1933 Albert and Elsa Einstein returned to Europe from America and learned that Hitler had seized power and that the Gestapo had raided their Berlin apartment, confiscating many possessions. Landing in Antwerp, Belgium, Albert Einstein immediately visited the German consulate and surrendered his passport, formally renouncing his German citizenship. At the invitation of Arthur de Groodt and his wife (who counted Rabindranath Tagore amongst their friends) Albert and Elsa Einstein stayed for a few days at Cantecroy Castle before Juliette De Groodt-Adant suggested that they hire two cottages in De Haan, the Villa Savoyarde for the Einsteins and the Maisonette for themselves. The Einstein's stayed in the West Flanders municipality for six months before departing for London in September 1933.  On 3rd October 1933, Einstein delivered a speech on the importance of academic freedom before a packed audience at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Four days later he returned to America with his wife and took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study, noted for having become a refuge for scientists fleeing Nazi Germany. Einstein's association with the Institute at Princeton University would last until his death in 1955.  

RICHARD ROBBINS (1927-2009) Large still life study of flowers, signed lower right: oil on canvas, 44”x40”; in printed wooden frame (49½” x 45 ½” overall).

ENGLISH SCHOOL (19 century) A pair of still life studies of flowers. Watercolour, 9¾”x7¼”, in matching glazed frames (15”x12½” overall).

CONTINENTAL SCHOOL, 19th century. A still life of a basket of grapes, strawberries & apples with pewter jug on a stone ledge. Oil on canvas: 22” x 30½”, in gilt rectangular frame (28­­½” x 38” overall).

URUSHIBARA woodcut print - Still Life, signed in pencil, 29 x 37cms, an INDISTINCTLY SIGNED watercolour - a rocky coastline, 23 x 33cms, and an assortment of other paintings and prints including commemorative Welsh steam engine print, framed woolwork, Lighthouse print displays, ETC

BARBARA PIERCE oil on board - Eryri (Snowdonia), signed, 49 x 75cms, JAN DAVIDSON oil on canvas - Still Life, in a gilt frame, 75 x 62cms, a competent painting of Llandudno from the Orme, signed Roxanne, 30 x 40cms

MIC Chambers (20th century) WAITING - STUDY OF A EWE AND LAMB Signed oil on board, unframed, 40 x 50cm, together with a signed unframed acrylic on canvas, STILL LIFE IN BRONZE, 60 x 60cm, (2).

Margaret Lisle (British, b.1942) STILL LIFE, VASE OF FLOWERS, WITH INSECTS AND BIRD'S NEST CONTAINING EGGS, (in the Dutch manner) Signed oil on panel, 35 x 24cm.

Early / mid 20th Century watercolour, still life of pansies in a green bowl, together with a watercolour, study of lilies, signed Winifred Taylor and two other similar watercolours

Watercolour study of a figure on a river embankment, a bridge and power station beyond, 13ins x 9.5ins approximately, oak framed, together with an early 20th Century oil on canvas, still life of foliage, 16ins x 11.75ins

Lady Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth Ramsay, RWS RWA NEAC, oil on board, still life fruit and porcelain on a table, signed with initials, 22.5ins x 24.5ins, in a moulded composition frame (provenance: Sotheby's, 2nd July 1991, Exhibited Lefevre Gallery ')All in good condition, no signs of overpainting or restoration, image is behind glass.

St. Ives School oil on board, still life with flowers and fish on a table near the coast, 19.5ins x 18ins

William Scott, signed Limited Edition screen print in colours, ' Still Life ' with frying pan and eggs, numbered 30 from an edition of 250 and dated '73, 26ins x 34.5ins, in a silvered frame, certificate of authenticity and provenance verso (some discolouration and evidence of tape used in the margins)

Consuelo Olmos, oil on board, study of a female figure wearing a headdress, signed, 21ins x 17ins approximately, gilt frame, together with an oil on canvas, still life of pomegranates on table top, signed Amdrade, 9.75ins x 13.25ins, framed

20th Century oil on canvas, still life vase of flowers, signed with initial B.E, dated '25, 23.5ins x 15.5ins, gilt framed

Ivor Hayes, watercolour, still life vase of flowers, signed and dated 1991, 13.5ins x 12ins, gilt framed

Oil on board, still life vase of flowers, signed with monogram and dated '48, inscribed verso Hampton, 11ins x 13ins, framed, and with Rowley gallery label, together with another unsigned (possibly by the same artist) figures in a parkland, 10ins x 13.5ins, gilt framed

A. Randall, 20th Century oil on canvas, still life vase of flowers, signed, 19ins x 15ins, giltl framedIn good condition, no damage or overpainting

Mid 20th Century oil on canvas, still life study of sweet peas in a glass vase, 16ins x 12ins, gilt framed

Late 19th / early 20th Century English school, oil on canvas, still life with daffodils, two handled bowl and a fan on a table top, inscribed verso ' Clare Hayman ' (exhibitor RA 1890 - 1920), 14ins x 33ins approximately, gilt framed

GILT FRAMED OIL ON CANVAS - STILL LIFE SIGNED OWEN DAVIES 15'' X 10'' APPROX

Pablo Picasso Memento mori Nature morte au Crâne. Farbige Aquatintaradierung und Carborundum. Signiert und numeriert. Um 1960. Auf Vélin d'Arches. Plattenformat 42,8 : 62,3 cm. Papiergröße ca. 56 : 76 cm. - 1 von 150 Exemplaren - Schönes Stilleben und Memento mori des Künstlers Gedruckt und herausgegeben vom Atelier Lacourière, Paris; unten links mit dem entsprechenden Trockenstempel. 1 von 150 numerierten Exemplaren. Die schöne Graphik geht auf ein Gemälde aus dem Jahr 1947 zurück (Zervos XV, 31). Colored aquatint etching and carborundum. Signed and numbered. Ca. 1960. On wove paper d'Arches. - 1 of 150 copies, beautiful still life and memento mori by the artist. - Only in the margins slightly stained. Good impression of the graphics, mounted in passepartout. Dieses Objekt wird regel- oder differenzbesteuert angeboten, Folgerechtsvergütung fällt an.

Group of three various gilt framed oil paintings, still life of roses and two seascapes

Two modern still life studies of vases of flowers, oil on board, gilt framed

Gillian Garfoot, oil on board, still life study, Red Poppies Norfolk

An oil on board still life study, together with two gilt framed prints

An oil on board still life study together with one other oil on canvas still life study

Gillian Garfoot, oil on board, still life study in gilt oval frame

A Jennings, oil on board, still life study of flowers contained in ornate frame

A large quantity of various pictures and prints to include botanical prints, watercolour still life study etc

Gillian Garfoot, three miniature still life studies contained in ornate gilt frames

Four framed miniature oil paintings, to include two depicting still life fruit and two of autumnal flora (signed Marianne).

A quantity of still life paintings, mainly with floral subjects. To include R.B Brookbank, K.A Rix and D.R etc.

An oil on canvas still life study of flowers contained in gilt frame

A coloured still life print; a modern print on canvas; coloured print "The Shambles, York" and another "Queen's College, Cambridge"

R Morley watercolour study "Cottage Near Eye"; a still life print of flowers and a watercolour study of sheep

Daniel H. Cozens, oil on canvas, Still life of lilac blossom in a vase, signed and dated 2006, 60 x 50cm

French School c.1900, pastel, Still life of roses and a glass jug, 78 x 53cm

Mixed lot of assorted pictures to include still life oil on board fruit and various others

15½" X 11½" FRAMED OIL ON BOARD - STILL LIFE BY BUBARNIK

PAIR OF 15½" X 11½" GILT FRAMED OILS ON BOARDS - STILL LIFE SCENES BY FURST

16" X 11½" GILT FRAMED OIL ON BOARD STILL LIFE, PINK IN LILAC WRITING BY CHARLOTTE SALAMON

21" X 28" GILT FRAMED OIL ON BOARD - STILL LIFE BY BUBARNIK

An oil of young girl and a still life