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Lot 160
Rory Breslin (b.1963)Mask of the NoreBronze, 88.5cm high x 41.5 wide (35 x 16 ) Number 2 from an edition of 3 The Mask of the Nore is a larger than life-size rendition of Edward Smyth's River-God keystone depiction on the Western front of Dublin's Customs House. The mask bears a strong featured but reflective face surmounted by a seine net, a dragnet that was usually hung vertically in the water by the use of weights and buoyancy devices. Complete with ropes and floats, the head depicts salmon, trout and eels issuing from the net as an evocation of the abundance of such fish. The Nore was characterised by its net fisheries, particularly below its confluence with the Barrow. The river has a fairly steep gradient but the flow is checked by innumerable weirs, thus its slow flow is modelled in the beard reflecting the shallow glides that are the pre-dominant feature. Vigorously modelled, the face reveals an interesting fusion of baroque energy and classical control. The only Custom House head with its eyes lowered, it indicates a powerful and unpredictable force of nature. Designed by James Gandon, the Customs House was completed in 1791. Gandon engaged Smith to execute the various decorations in the frieze and in the interior of the building, and the fourteen heads symbolical of the principal Rivers of Ireland, on the keystones of the arches. Twelve small wax models of these Smyth exhibited in the Parliament House in 1802. They are described in the catalogue as twelve models in wax emblematically representing the commercial rivers of Ireland, decorated with the produce of the country through which they flow, designed and executed in Portland stone at the new Custom House.
Lot 312
Moore (Henry Spencer, sculptor, 1898-1986) 6 Autograph Letters signed, 4 Typed Letters signed & 14 Autograph Postcards signed, all signed "Henry" to Dr Henry Roland, together 13pp. & 14 sides, Hoglands, Perry Green, Much Hadham & Lucca, Italy, postmarked 30th December 1963 - 8th August 1985 & n.d., on a variety of topics, including: his work, "... I go to Henraux's [marble works at Querceta]- my stone company - most mornings to do some carving"... "Thank you for your nice letter... asking if there is another cast available of the little reclining figure. I'm sorry there is not another one - I had to take the one I gave you, away from a Canadian collector to whom I'd not exactly promised it - but who was hoping for it. But I'm glad you like it", general news and thanking him for birthday presents etc.; and 3 other pieces, comprising: a signed photo of one of Moore's sculptures, a signed Christmas card and an Autograph envelope, v.s., v.d. (27 pieces).
Lot 419
Egypt & The Holy Land.- [?Goodwin (Mary Mackenzie, youngest daughter of Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, 1816-96, of The Abbey, Carlisle, b. 1855) Extracts from Letters & Diary of a tour to Italy, Egypt and The Holy Land, autograph manuscript, 65pp. excluding blanks, 6 pen and ink sketches (5 of Egyptian figures), slightly browned, original limp morocco, gilt, slight wear to corners, spine with tears and rubbed, lacks head and tail of spine, 4to, 16th February - 17th March 1880. ⁂ A lively diary written by a young woman on a tour through France and Italy to Egypt and Palestine. Goodwin meets Mary Louisa Whately (1824-89), educationist and missionary, at her school in Cairo, visits a harem, the pyramids and the Sphinx, and after a violent sea crossing lands in Jaffa. In Palestine she visits Miss Mangared's medical mission and moves to Ramleh where the journal finishes, "The country was exquisite, the olives with their grey bloom shone like silver in the dew." A visit to a harem. "... we went with Mrs. Shakour (Miss Whately's adopted daughter) to a rather grand harem. We went into a kind of court with an arched stone roof, out of wh. opened the men's room - Then we went upstairs, dirty & narrow to a moderate sized room where we found Miss W's pupil & her mother, both very fat & dressed in red & black check. The room was simply furnished with divans round, & a sort of carved cupboard with a shelf at one end. They immediately brought cigarettes for us... . Then a sort of awful marmalade... then came immense bowls of sherbert... ." - Mary Goodwin.
Lot 538
Dodgson (Campbell) Contemporary English Woodcuts, number 435 of 550 copies, plates by John Nash, E.McKnight Kauffer, Robert Gibbings, Edward Wadsworth and others, light browning to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, a little soiled and rubbed at edges, 1922 § Guevara (Don Antonio de) The Praise and Happinesse of the Countrie-Life, translated by H.Vaughan, number 223 of 400 copies, wood-engraved vignettes by Reynolds Stone, light staining to front endpapers, original half red morocco, paper label on upper cover, dust-jacket, a little browned, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1938 § Hilton (John) & Joseph Thorp, editors. Change: The Beginning of a Chapter, 2 vol. [all published], illustrations by Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Lovat Fraser & others, some colour, some tipped in, original cloth-backed boards, light staining to boards, Decoy Press, 1919 § Georgics of Vergil (The), translated by R.D.Blackmore, one of 500 copies, signed and inscribed by the printer George W.Jones to Councillor Wiggin-Davies of Birmingham with accompanying T.L.s. concerning the sale of Jones's library and his regret that it would not be going to Birmingham for the benefit of printing students, woodcut plates by Edward Carrick (Teddy Craig, son of Edward Gordon Craig), original vellum-backed boards, slip-case, At the Sign of the Dolphin, 1931, all slightly rubbed; and 4 others, 4to & 8vo (9)
Lot 373
Cowper (William, poet and letter-writer, 1731-1800).- Hill (Joseph, attorney and solicitor, close friend of William Cowper, protégé of Ashley Cowper's, 1733-1811) 12 Autograph Letters signed to Joseph Hill (1 from M Lambe and 11 from Hill's aunt Mary Parsons), together 13pp. & address panels, n.p. & Blandford, 27th September 1769 - 7th April 1770, to Hill variously at Savile Row, Wargrave near Twyford, Berkshire, and Chancery Lane, with 5 mentions of the Cowper family, "I might direct a letter directed to Mr Cowper [Ashley Cowper], so ventured to send it by ye post Mr & Mrs Cowper & are wele & in town, my complements if you pleas, to that good famile", thanking him for paying her annuity, asking him to inspect a house she is thinking of buying as her present rented house is damp, thanking him for sending two gallons of rum "but pray dont send it in a stone bottell which are dear things", apologising to him for causing him so much trouble, the death of Lord Howe, "hope he has not Left all his Estat from His Mothers family", attending a ball, "Miss Hemming... in High spirits getting her things ready for ye Ball, which is to be at the Assemble roome when she is to Dance ye Lovere, wher she shines & dances it very well & also ye Corilerons [?Carillon]", bound with 4 receipts issued from Sheerness and signed by George Legge, first Baron Dartmouth (c. 1647-1691), naval officer, 1671, folds, browned, modern bookplate on front pastedown, bound for Sir Thomas Phillipps in blue Middle Hill boards, tear at tail of spine, sm. 4to & smaller, v.d. ⁂ Cowper's "Sephus". Ashley Cowper (d. 1788), uncle of William Cowper; Barrister-at-Law; Clerk of the Parliaments. Joseph Hill was the son of Francis Hill (d. 1741), attorney; nephew and secretary of Sir Joseph Jekyll, Master of the Rolls and his wife Theodosia Sedgwick (d. 1784). William Cowper met Joseph Hill when he was articled to Mr Chapman, a solicitor in Greville Street and thereafter Hill looked after much of the poet's finances. Provenance: Puttick & Simpson. Catalogue of the Second and Concluding Portions of the Extensive Collection of Autographs & Historical MSS. Formed by the Late Robert Cole... Monday, July 29th 1867. Pencil inscription on letters, "[Lot] 875 Putticks 1867". Part of lot sold to Holt 5 shillings; and on receipts, "[Lot] 660 Putticks 1867". Part of lot (unmentioned) headed Sir Evan Nepean, sold to Scott, 13 in the lot 9 shillings and 6d.
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Lot 97
Erasmus (Desiderius) Morias Enkomion [graece]. Stultitiæ Laus, commentary by G. Listrius, engraved additional title by Kaspar Merian after Holbein, engraved device on title, 3 full-page engraved portraits after Holbein (1 of Erasmus and 2 of Holbein), 1 full-page engraved transcription of Erasmus' memorial stone and 81 illustrations, of which 6 mounted and folding by Merian after Holbein, short repaired tear to F5, occasional spotting or light foxing, 20th century armorial brown morocco, gilt, rubbed, g.e., 8vo, Basel, Genathian, 1676.
Lot 549
Lee (Brian North) Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt, one of 30 specially-bound copies with 8 copper-engraved bookplates tipped in (colophon corrected from "seven" to "eight" in pencil, prospectus mentions 6), from an edition limited to 300, original morocco-backed paste-paper boards, uncut, slip-case, Wakefield, Fleece Press, 1988 § Barnard (Julian) The Song of the Reeds, letter A of 10 specially-bound copies signed by the artist, from an edition limited to only 15, wood-engraved illustrations by Anne Jope, Simon Lawrence's copy with his wood-engraved bookplate by Leo Wyatt, original half vellum over marbled boards, by Paul Collet, uncut, Henley, 1980 § Cooke (Eleanor) December, number 70 of 150 copies signed by the author and artist, wood-engraved illustrations by Peter Reddick, prospectus loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, Clun, Redlake Press, 2003 § Aquinas (Saint Thomas) Selections from His Works, limited edition signed by the artist, wood-engraved plates and headings by Reynolds Stone printed in grey, original blind-stamped cloth, slip-case, Chatham, for Limited Editions Club, 1969 § Hopkins (Gerard Manley) Pied Beauty, number X of 25 "unbound" copies with an additional suite of numbered and signed plates, from an edition limited to 100, wood-engravings by Simon King, bound in blue morocco-backed paste-paper boards, by the Gregynog Bindery, spine very slightly faded, additional plates loose in folder, [Cumbria], Simon King Press, 1994; and 8 others with wood-engravings, mostly Simon King press, v.s. (13) ⁂ Simon Lawrence, printer and proprietor of the Fleece Press.
Lot 918
A late 19th/early 20th century diamond and pearl hinge bangle, central single creamy white pearl, above a surrounding band of ten old cut diamonds, between graduating five stone diamond set shoulders, total estimated diamond weight approx 1.8ct, 18ct gold crown and hollow box bar body, indistinctly marked and stamped 18 to clasp ribbon, with safety chain, 60mm diameter, 9.4g gross
Lot 894
A Damas diamond and sapphire floral cluster ring, modern designed five section crest of two six stone vibrant blue sapphire and diamond centred flowers, upon a pave diamond encrusted ground, total estimated stone weights, Diamond 0.74ct, Sapphire 1.24, white gold shank, stamped 750, size O, 9.4g gross
Lot 1368A
A Regency mahogany and barber pole strung stick mercury, silvered scale with alcohol thermometer, sliding indicator, signed Whitehurst & Son/Derby, broken architecturally pedimented top, domed reservoir cover, the case with brass presentation plaque below scale inscribed Revd. J. Pattinson/Repton, 96.5cm high.John Whitehurst II (1761-1834) was apprenticed in Congleton to his father James and succeeded to the firm started in Derby by his famous uncle, John Whirtehurst FRS (1713-1788). His son John (1788-1855) was apprenticed to him 1802-1809 after which he joined his father in business, their products thereafter being signed Whitehurst & Son/Derby and numbered from a year or so later, suggesting this instrument was made c. 1809/1810.Revd. John Pattinson was vicar of Repton from 1804. Dr. J C Cox, writing in 1878 of an ancient stone under the tower of the church, 'It will scarcely be credited that a late incumbent (Rev. John Pattinson) had it taken away and cut and dressed to form a door-step for the parsonage dairy!'.
Lot 879
A graduating sapphire and diamond necklace, set with thirty eight oval blue sapphires ranging from approx 0.90ct and 2.7ct, each divided by a pair of round brilliant cut diamonds, total estimated stone weights sapphire 46ct, diamond 1.5ct, set within an 18ct white gold frame, compression clasp, safety clip, stamped 750 MC, 37cm long, 66g gross
Lot 1862
A large 19th century rectangular Derbyshire hewn grit stone trough, 145cm wide x 71cm high x 89cm deepPlease note, this trough is available to view by request. It is situated at the vendor's address in Matlock, therefore collection will need to be from there Condition Report: Good condition. Four filed indentations to upper rim and two old drilled water outlets approx 6inches from the base, now lead filled. The trough has until recently held water successfully. One small crack (does not go all the way through) to one corner
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