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Click here to subscribe20th century school - Still life with flowers, pastel watercolour and mixed media, indistinctly signed George Kinasta? dated 1945, with Knightsbridge, London framers label verso, 61 x 46cm, framed, together with a watercolour of flowers outside the Bear Inn, signed with initials and dated 1997, 30 x 40cm, framed
Boxall, James My Diary in India and Afghanistan 1874 to 1881. 8vo, half leather over boards, lettered in gilt on upper board; pp. 91 hand-written recto only, pp. 92-120 interleaved with programmes for the Amateur Dramatic Club of the Rifle Brigade and two drawings (one of Boxall in costume and one of ''The Great Little Flynn in clown costume) and one photograph, faded, also of Flynn. Also loosely inserted 22 oblong A5 pages of MSS being an unfinished diary of his return to service during the Egyptian campaign of 1882, ending with his arrival at Kassassin, some three weeks after the infamous battle. Pte. James Boxall was sent to join the 4th Batt. Rifle Brigade in Umballa, East India, after a draft of Oct. 1874, and served with them until 1881. According to Spinks sale of his medals (24th Apr. 2014) he was awarded the India General Service 1854-95 medal with one clasp, Jowaki and Egypt 1882-89 with one clasp, Tel-el-Kebir. He appears to have suffered more from the depredations of the campaign than the enemy, describing an attack of ague, their pursuit by cholera, the agonies of marching, and occasional corruption. He is much more engaged when describing his involvement with the Amateur Dramatic Club, for which he designed costumes, sang comic songs, and trod the boards in female roles (his wife appears to have acted as well according to the programmes). This different angle on campaigning gives a fresh look at life for the army abroad, with its focus on leisure and entertainment, rather than battles and combat. Alas, he does not appear to have starred in the time covered by his Egyptian journal, having only recently arrived in country when the reminiscence ends. A fascinatingly ephemeral piece of military history.Binding worn, with upper hinge cracked, but board still attached and text block generally tight, pages cockled and stained, with some mould to ffep and prelims, but still legible,
Gregory XIII Corpus Juris Canonici and Gregory IX, Decretales. Coloniae Munatianae : sumptibus fratrum Detournes, 1779. Folio (2 vols). Full calf, spines gilt in compartments. The Decretals of Gregory IX are the critical source of medieval Canon Law. In 1230, Pope Gregory IX ordered his chaplain and confessor, St. Raymond of Penyafort, to form a new collection - probably to reinforce the power of the Papacy, then at its zenith. Unlike most bodies of law, or collections of laws, all decisions were deemed canon law (whether or not authentic); all were simultaneously promulgated, and thus are equally obligatory (even when contradictions arise) and have equal primacy; and it is exclusive, abrogating all previous collections later than Gratian's Decretum. It was the single most important revision of canon law, still forming the basis for the modern corpus. This edition was published in the early years of Pius VI's Papacy. The power of canon law will have been of particular interest to Pius given his early reformist stance, opposition to corruption, and the challenges to him from protests seeking to limit temporal Papal authority. Pius would end his life in France. After his opposition to the French Revolution, French troops occupied Rome, declared a Roman Republic and demanded Pius renounce his temporal authority. On his refusal he was taken prisoner and eventually transported to Valence, where he died.
[Osborne, Francis] Advice to a Son; Or, Directions For your better Conduct Through the various and most important Encounters of this Life. Oxford: Printed by Hen. Hall Printer to the University for Thomas Robinson, 1656. 16mo, full contemporary leather; head- and tailpieces, floriated initials. Published anonymously in this first edition, Advice became controversial for seeming aetheism, anti-monarchism and opposition to marriage. In 1658 the vice-chancellor of Oxford, John Conant, ordered the Oxford booksellers to sell no more copies of the work. As might be expected this move only increased the book's popularity amongst the students. Boards rubbed and scuffed with loss, hinges cracked but boards still attached, but a very good copy of a scarce book.
Huygens, Christian The Celestial Worlds Discover'd: or Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets. Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1722. 8vo, full leather, speckled edges; five folding plates. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. The fascination with what lies beyond the boundaries of our world have driven philosophy, religion and science across the centuries. Huygens, a famous instrument maker, astronomer, and writer of popular science, was no exception. Starting from the Copernican system (which removed Earth from its privileged position) he speculated that if our planet was not exceptional in the skies, then it would be unreasonable to think life was exceptional to our planet. Amongst other ideas in his highly popular book, he speculated that the moons of other planets were like ours and stated that the Moon could have no atmosphere of its own. The work has been placed in the company of Wilkins, Godwin, and Cyrano de Bergerac in its fantastical enquiries, but also within the company of Utopian writing. Despite this the book has a grounding in scientific principles (at least of the time), arguing that water was essential for life, and water on other planets must vary according to their temperatures. Being a part of the religious climate of his time he still positioned arguments in theological terms, pointing out that extraterrestrial life is not denied by the Bible and wondering why God would create all other planets just to lbe admired from Earth. The work is a fascinating piece of speculative natural philosophy which combines near-whimsical thinking with a strict underlying desire for scientific rationalism, yet from an era when theological concerns were seen as near-inextricable from scientific ones.Leather of binding in poor condition but binding still tight, slight occasional spotting to lower margins, edges of plates dirty but otherwise clean internally. A very good copy.
A pair of Japanese Imari late Edo period chargers / plates of hexagonal form having ocher red and gilt border with white and famille verte panels depicting scenes of still life and birds. The large central panels depicting coiled dragons with continuing patterns from the border. Japanese Ken Kanji mark to base. Measures 33cms diam
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