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![Tasso Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata... Tomo primo [-secondo]. Firenze: presso Leonardo Ciardetti, 1823. Two volumes, 4°](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/16be294d-199d-4637-bf0a-a863011e9cc4/75799643-43d0-40ac-ec90-3ac19d2428a2/468x382.jpg)
Lot 108
Tasso Torquato. La Gerusalemme liberata... Tomo primo [-secondo]. Firenze: presso Leonardo Ciardetti, 1823. Two volumes, 4° (232x145 mm). I: XXXVIII, 331, [1] pages. II: [4], 383, [1] pages. In the first volume frontispiece with medallion portrait of Tasso, engraved by Antonio Verico. Each canto opens with a plate hors texte engraved by Carlo Lasinio, after Carlo Falcini. Uncut copy. Foxing throughout, slighty offsetting of the plates. Contemporary half-vellum, marbled covers. Smooth spine, compartments underlined by gilt friezes and decorated with small floral tools. Title and volume numbering on double morocco lettering piece. A few minor abrasions to the covers; small loss to the upper headcup of the first volume. Small stamp 'Biblioteca privata Dott. Attilio Ciardini' on the half-title and title-page of both volumes. Some pencilled marginal notes. Illustrated edition of the masterpiece by Tasso (1544-1595), issued by the Florentine publisher Ciardetti in the editorial series dedicated to the 'illustrious Italians'. The poem is introduced, in the first volume, by Tasso's Life. The engravings were executed by the well-known engrever from Treviso Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838), who habitually collaborated with Ciardetti. Due volumi in-4° (mm 232x145). I: Pagine XXXVIII, 331, [1]. II: Pagine [4], 383, [1]. Nel primo volume antiporta con ritratto in medaglione di Tasso, inciso da Antonio Verico. Ognuno dei venti Canti è introdotto da tavola fuori testo incisa da Carlo Lasinio, su disegno di Carlo Falcini. Esemplare in barbe. Diffuse fioriture, leggero offset delle tavole. Legatura coeva in mezza pergamena con angoli; piatti ricoperti con carta marmorizzata. Dorso liscio, scomparti sottolineati da ghirlande in oro, e decorati con piccolo ferri floreali. Titolo e numero del volume su doppio tassello in marocchino. Qualche leggerissima abrasione ai piatti; piccola mancanza al dorso del primo volume, in corrispondenza della cuffia di testo. Alla carta di occhietto e al frontespizio di entrambi i volumi piccolo timbro 'Biblioteca privata Dott. Attilio Ciardini'. Qualche annotazione marginale a lapis. Edizione illustrata del capolavoro di Tasso (1544-1595), proposta dall'editore fiorentino Ciardetti all'interno - come si legge nel preliminare Avvertimento - di una collana dedicata agli "illustri Italiani", e che nel 1823 aveva già visto la pubblicazione di Dante, Boccaccio, Alfieri e Monti. Il poema è preceduto, al primo volume, dalla Vita del poeta. Le tavole furono realizzate dal noto incisore trevigiano Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838), tra i più assidui collaboratori di Ciardetti.
Lot 17
Bianchini Lodovico. Della scienza del ben vivere sociale e della economia degli stati parte storica e di preliminari dottrine. Palermo: Dalla stamperia di Francesco Lao, 1845.Two works in one volume. 4° (260x160 mm). XVI, 508; XII, 404 pages. Light foxing, stains and soiled on the title page of the first work. Contemporary half morocco, blue percaline on the covers, gilt title on lettering piece on the spine, edges speckled blue. Covers abrased. Gilt monogram on the spine 'L.T.' I works: First and rare edition of this historical part of the great work of the economist Lodovico bianchini, which will be completed, indipendently, by the homonym edition of the 1855, bound togheter in this copy. The writing lists and examines the authors of Political Economy from ancient times to his days and the author proposes the 'genovesiano' approach to the political theory, aims to combine the happy life and public happiness; as Genovesi like Serra, Galiani and Verri, is praised in a controversy optic with English and French liberalism schools. Unfortunately for the author the economy had grown, but not in the direction desired by him: the political economy of those who made profession of liberalism and praised the market automatism - as the criticated Smith, Ricardo and Say - little or nothing had in common with the civil economy of those who had cultivated - as Genovesi - a normative science in the name of an enlightened dirigisme. Einaudi, 482; Kress Italian, 1129. II works: Second edition.LEGATO CON: Id. Principî della scienza del ben vivere sociale e della economia pubblica e degli stati...Seconda edizione. Napoli: dalla Stamperia reale, 1855. Due opere in un volume in-4° (mm 260x160). Pagine XVI, 508; XII, 404. Lievi arrossature, aloni e tracce di polvere all'occhietto e al frontespizio della prima opera. Legatura coeva in mezzo marocchino, percallina blu ai piatti, titoli in oro su tassello al dorso, tagli spruzzati in azzurro. Abrasioni agli angoli e ai bordi dei piatti. Al dorso monogramma in oro 'L.T.'. I opera: Prima e rara edizione della parte storica della grande opera dell'economista Lodovico Bianchini, che verrà completata, in maniera autonoma, dall'omonima edizione del 1855, legata di seguito in questo esemplare. Il trattato elenca ed esamina gli autori di economia politica dall'antichità ai suoi giorni e in esso l'Autore ripropone l'approccio genovesiano alla teorizzazione politica, volta a coniugare la vita felice e la felicità pubblica; proprio Genovesi con Serra, Galiani e Verri, viene lodato in ottica polemica con le scuole liberiste inglesi e francesi. Purtroppo per l'Autore però l'economia era sì cresciuta, ma non nella direzione da lui auspicata: l'economia politica di chi faceva professione di liberismo ed esaltava gli automatismi di mercato - propria dei criticati Smith, Ricardo e Say - poco o niente aveva infatti in comune con l'economia civile di coloro che avevano coltivato - era segnatamente il caso di Genovesi - una scienza normativa all'insegna di un dirigismo illuminato. Einaudi, 482; Kress Italian, 1129. II opera: Seconda edizione dello stesso testo.
Lot 90
Palazzeschi Aldo. Bestie del 900. Con tavole incise in nero e a colori di Mino Maccari. Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, 1951. First edition of this collection of 12 stories, some of them unknown, five already appeared in Omnibus and L'Europeo between 1938 and 1949, and one on L'aria di Parigi (Roma, Editrice Cultura Moderna, 1945). The collection was at first announced, in 1942, with the title Il Quinti giorno. Scene di bestie, and then in 1949 with the title Zoo. Novelle di bestie. The illustrative system is made by the artist Mino Maccari (1898-1989), who was painter, engraver, drawer, and also writer, journalist and editor.In-4° (mm 260x190). Pagine 164, [8] con 16 incisioni in nero nel testo e 30 linoleografie a colori fuori testo, tutte di Mino Maccari. Copia freschissima. Mezza tela editoriale e sovraccoperta illustrate a colori da Maccari. Mancanze alla parte inferiore del dorso e del piatto posteriore della sovraccoperta. Dedica all'occhiello al Conte Girolamo Marcello del Majno datata 2 Dicembre 1967. Prima edizione di questa raccolta di dodici racconti, di cui sei inediti, cinque già apparsi su Omnibus e L'Europeo tra il 1938 e il 1949, e uno su L'aria di Parigi (Roma, Editrice Cultura Moderna, 1945). La raccolta fu inizialmente annunciata, nel 1942, con il titolo Il Quinto giorno. Scene di bestie, e nuovamente nel 1949 con il titolo Zoo. Novelle di bestie. L'apparato illustrativo si deve all'eclettico artista Mino Maccari (1898-1989), che affiancò l'attività di pittore, incisore e disegnatore satirico, a quella di scrittore, giornalista e anche editore.
Lot 99
Religion. Lot of 5 works of religious subject.The lot contains:Manzini Giovanni Battista. Opere... Vita di S. Eustachio martire. Et il cretideo... In Venetia: appresso Nicolò Pezzana, 1663. Two parts (of 3). 12° (130x70 mm). 141, [1] (of 3, wanting the last blank lead); 299, [1] pages. Tools on title page, woodcut initials and head-pieces. Some light waterstains and foxing. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, ink titles on the spine. Spots and stains on the covers.Only the second and third part, inverted in the binding, of these works by the literary man from Bologna who with them started the new literary genre of the spiritual novel. It is the first of the four collection of works by Manzini appeared while the Author was still alive, demonstrating their success and spread among contemporaries.Paucci Domenico Maria. Esercizj spirituali proposti alli ecclesiastici cosi secolari come regolari, tanto per commodo de' missionari in tempo, che li dovranno proporre... Seconda edizione. In Napoli 1746 ed in Messina: nella stamperia di Francesco Gaipa, 1751. 8° (150x95 mm). 32, 540 pages. Woodcut initials. Losses on the margins of some leaves of quire S with loss of text, some waterstains, foxing and stains on the leaves. On title page and on te recto of the first flyleaf ownership inscription 'Pompilii Rulli', other erased notes on the recto and verso of the title page. BOUND WITH: Trattato ascetico, ovvero Camino spirituale per le persone, che risolutamente vogliono servire Dio, e salvarsi. In Messina: nella stamperia di Francesco Gaipa, 1751. 32 pages. Woodcut tool on title page, woodcut initial. Tear on fol. A2, waterstains. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, ink titles on the spine. Spots and stains on the covers. On the front and past flyleaf red lapis ownership inscription.Drexel Jeremias. Gymnasium patientiæ. Coloniæ Agr.: apud Cornelium ab Egmond, 1632. 16° (110x57 mm). [14], 376, [2] pages. Copper engraved title page, engraved full-page illustrations in the text, woodcut initials. Light browning on few leaves. Contemporary leather, gilt titles on double littering piece on the spine, spine within 4 raised bands, decorated paper on the pastedowns and flyleaves, red sprinkled edges. Abrased the covers damages on the hings and losses on the head-cups. Various ownership stamps, on the front flyleaf, on the recto and on the verso of the title page, ex libris St. John's College - Fordham N.Y. on the front pastedown.Drexel Jeremias. Recta intentio omnium humanarum actionum amussis. Col. Agrippinæ: apud Corn. ab Egmond., 1631. 24° (110x57 mm). [14], 399, [3] pages. Copper engraved title page and full-page illustrations in the text. Contemporary leather, gilt titles on double littering piece on the spine, spine with 4 raised bands, decorated paper on the pastedowns and flyleaves, red sprinkled edges. Abrased the corners of the covers, damages on the hings, losses on the spine, losses on the head-cups. Ownership stamps on the front flyleaf ('House Library St. Andrews on udson New York') and on the verso of the title page ('A.B. - P.S.'), ex libris St. John's College - Fordham N.Y. on the front pastedown.I fioretti di San Francesco con commento di Luigi Asioli e prontuario biografico e geografico di Enrico Vampa. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1926. XXVII, [1], 428, [4] pages. Editorial percalline with metal medal on the front cover depicting S.Francesco. Ex libris Biblioteca Palazzi on the front pastedown.
Lot 795
An H.& R. Daniel 'Earl of Shrewsbury' armorial plate: of silver shape with gadrooned rim, the centre finely painted with the Shrewsbury crest of a lion beneath an earl's coronet, the rim with a basket of flowers, a floral bouquet and a 'fancy' bird in a landscape on a green ground decorated with tooled gilt scrollwork and floral sprays, elaborate puce backstamp, circa 1827, 26.5 cm diameter [firing cracks].*Notes In 1826 Henry Daniel secured the first of several orders for services for the Earls of Shrewsbury. The fifteenth Earl was refurbishing Alton Towers in Staffordshire and this particular service was completed early in 1827. The Earl died in that same year with the title passed to his nephew John, the sixteenth Earl who continued placing orders with Henry and Richard Daniel.
Lot 722
A salt glazed stoneware spirit flask in the form of Sir Robert Peel: modelled standing with his arm around a stand of corn and holding a scroll captioned 'Bread for the Millions', the circular base embossed 'Sir R. Peel', circa 1846, 24.5 cm high, [chips to base].*Notes - This flask celebrates the bravery of Robert Peel in repealing the Corn Laws during his second term as prime minister, an act that supported the poor by removing rights from the land owning aristocracy who were his principal voters.
![Victoria [1819-1901]-Hagar and Ishmael in The Desert,:-signed and dated Victoria May 13th 1834inscribed with title and furthe](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45dee96e-bb73-4a04-a3e3-a8480104525b/bf0814a1-b4af-446f-a9b0-19a05679dcdb/468x382.jpg)
Lot 594
Victoria [1819-1901]-Hagar and Ishmael in The Desert,:-signed and dated Victoria May 13th 1834inscribed with title and further inscribed top right 'Ladies' Fancy Bazaar, Willis's Room, May 1834pencil drawing21 x 18cm.* Notes The Willis's Rooms were used for charitable fund raising purposes. It could be surmised that this drawing was given to Lady Jersey, who was an overseer of these rooms, for sale for charity. It was priced at 10 guineas - see typed note on reverse
Lot 1075
John Adam, Paisley, a mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, with the thirteen-inch painted break-arch dial having typical Scottish decoration depicting the four seasons to each corner and with a lion and a seated lady to the centre, with a further image painted to the arch depicting a courting couple in a garden being spied upon, with black Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and date dials, decorative steel hands and signed with the maker's name Jno. Adam, Paisley, the flat-top mahogany case having decorative herring-bone stringing to the edges, with further stringing to the trunk door and base, and standing on bracket feet, height 220cm.* Biography John Adam is recorded as working at 11, Smith-Hills, Paisley, Renfrewshire from circa 1820 until at least 1838. He married Catherine McNeilledge with whom he had various children including Eliza who died on the 20th February 1904 and Catherine who died on the 9th of June 1905.* Notes Ref: Donald Whyte, Clockmakers and Watchmakers of Scotland, Pub: Mayfield Books 2005.
![Louis William Wain [1860-1939]-Mrs Tabby's Academy:-signed bottom rightwatercolour, pen and ink on paper35.5 x 50cm.* Biograp](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/45dee96e-bb73-4a04-a3e3-a8480104525b/cddfac2e-002a-40cd-964f-48de3d7016d1/468x382.jpg)
Lot 561
Louis William Wain [1860-1939]-Mrs Tabby's Academy:-signed bottom rightwatercolour, pen and ink on paper35.5 x 50cm.* Biography Born in Clerkenwell in London on 5th August 1860 to an English father and French mother, Wain was one of six children and the only boy. He did not attend school until he was ten and often played truant. In his late teens, Wain attended the West London School of Art and eventually became a teacher at the school.Louis Wain decided to strike out on his own and became a freelance artist. His speciality was drawing animals and rural subjects in which he became extremely successful and worked for journals such as Illustrated London News and Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. In 1883 Wain married Emily Richardson, his sisters' governess. Richardson was ten years older than Louis and this caused quite a scandal. She suffered from breast cancer and during this illness she was comforted by their pet cat Peter, who Louis would sketch. Emily died three years later and it is this sad episode that was to define the rest of the illustrator's career. He continued sketching cats and his first drawing of anthropomorphised cats was published in an Illustrated London News Christmas issue in 1886. His cats would parody humans while he satirised fashion and popular trends of the day. In his early years, the cats generally remained on all fours and were much more naturalistic in their poses; it was only later in his career that he produced cats walking upright with wide eyes and broad smiles, also wearing clothing. Despite his phenomenal output in both postcards, sketches and book illustrations, his mental state was frail and in 1924 he was committed to a pauper ward of Springfield Mental Hospital suffering from schizophrenia. He remained in several different institutions, although he carried on sketching cats for pleasure right up until his death in 1939. * Provenance. With The Parkin Gallery, 1988, where sold for £1750
Lot 1031
Delepine-Canchy, an engraved Gorge carriage clock: the eight-day duration movement having a silvered platform lever escapement stamped to the underside with the maker's name Soldano, and with the top stamped J.S. within a cartouche and No.696, striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with push button repeat, the backplate stamped with the trademark for Pons, being that of the maker of the blanc roulant Delepine-Canchy of Saint-Nicolas-d'Aliermont, who succeeded Pons in the 1840s, the white enamel dial having an engine turned gilded mask, black Roman hour numerals and blued steel hands, the Gorge case engraved with floral decoration, with replaced handle, height 15.5cm (handle up) 13.5cm (handle down).
Lot 167
Sonia Handford (1925-2010): 'Fruits for Africa', oil on canvas, signed lower right, H 92 x W 92 cm. Provenance: The artist's daughter. Note: Born to Russian Jewish parents who settled in England in the early 1900s, Sonia Handford was educated at Clapham County Girls’ Grammar School, and later at Wimbledon School of Art (1942-1945) under Lionel Ellis (1903-1988) where she received the ‘Painting with Merit’ award. She travelled widely during her life, beginning with France, Spain, Italy and Greece and later to Egypt, Russia, and the U.S.A. and exhibited at Wandsworth Town Hall (1963), Moriarty’s Wine Bar, West Hampstead (1989) and Shaftesbury Arts Centre (2004). She also had an extensive teaching career at Sydenham School for Girls, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Balls Park College of Education, St. Albans School for Boys and Hampstead Comprehensive. Major influences on her work include: Picasso, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Cezanne and Van Gogh.
Lot 51
* ALLY THOMPSON (1955 - 2016), UNTITLED oil on canvas 152cm x 91cm Framed. Note: Lots 51 - 117 are the contents of the studio of Ally Thompson. ALLY (Alasdair Neil Renwick) Thompson, was a Scottish painter of the New Glasgow Boys generation alongside Peter Howson, Ken Currie, Adrian Wisniewski and the late Steven Campbell. Born in Glasgow, he studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1980, gaining a B.A. First Class Honours in Fine Art, and a diploma in postgraduate studies with high commendation and a travelling scholarship. In 1989, a solo exhibition of his work at the Barbizon Gallery (Glasgow) was visited by the international art promoter Norbert Binotti, who then brought Thompson to international prominence with a one-man show in New York and major exhibitions in Paris. Ally lived and worked periodically in Provence in the 1990s. He subsequently steadily consolidated his international reputation with exhibitions in Britain, Europe and North America, appearing in galleries such as Flowers East in London and Gallery Albert 1er in Paris. A close friend of Peter Howson, with whom he was a fellow student at the Glasgow School of Art, both men and their work were almost equally unknown when they shared one of their first exhibitions, a two-man show at the Art School itself in 1984. Ally Thompson was naturally shy in new company rather than a bold and forthright salesman of his own work. He painted in several distinctly different styles, from surrealist to abstract to expressionist landscape and much in between, making him hard to categorise and package for promoters and critics. Visiting his studio in the early 1980s Alec Mather, a successful Lanarkshire businessman, was one of the first of several almost surrogate father figures in Thompson's life. He offered to pay Ally twice what he was asking for one his paintings on condition that the young artist gave up his day job as a school teacher. Thompson never looked back creatively. Alec Mather remained a friend, patron and supporter for the rest of the artist's life. Outside of Scotland, through the friendship and support of Norbert Binotti and (after his untimely death) Norbert's brother Claude, Thompson found an invigorating new audience for his work in New York, Paris and the South of France. For all his non-materialist philosophy, Thompson was not above a bit of name-dropping on occasion, and like any Glaswegian boy Ally was suitably astonished to sometimes find himself in the company (and painting collections of) the likes of Bob Geldof, Petula Clark, Richard Jobson, Picasso's son Claude and even France's President Mitterand.
![[Autograph] John Reed OBE (1916-2010) Illustrated characters from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Ruddigore or, The Witch's Curse' on](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/4e1d7f35-3ae2-4816-80cd-a86500fe32f8/26af149a-f610-4a47-d637-9824d2f79fc5/468x382.jpg)
Lot 286
[Autograph] John Reed OBE (1916-2010) Illustrated characters from Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Ruddigore or, The Witch's Curse' on the opening night of the 22nd January 1887, offset lithograph, limited edition number 54/60, signed in ink by John Reed to the margin, framed and mounted under glass, 28 x 28 cm, together with two further signed photographs, a D'Oyly Carte Centenary booklet and associated newspapers John Reed joined the D'Oyly Carte Theatre Company in 1951 as chorister and understudy to Peter Pratt who had recently been promoted to principal comedian following the retirement of Martyn Green. When Pratt became ill and retired suddenly in 1959, Reed ascended as principal comedian, a role he flourished in. Reed was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1977 for his contribution to the industry.
Lot 1045
A 19th Century Eton College Students 'Pop' Black Silk Top Hat, with wax seals impressed with POP pressed to the inside, in hat tin The hat would have belonged to a member of ''Pop'', the Eton society akin to Prefects, who would decorate their top hats and inside of tails with wax seals remains of some wax seals to the top of the hat, and silk worn. Size 15cm by 18.5cm
Lot 2163
FOLLOWER OF EDWARD MASCALL (c.1627-c.1675) PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN Quarter length, wearing a leather jerkin with embroidered sleeves , oil on canvas 57 x 46.5cm. ++ Lined; retouching *The sitter has been identified as Colonel Francis Hacker who was captain of the guard at the execution of King Charles I. Hacker was himself executed in 1660 when Charles II was restored to the throne.
Lot 2166
SIMON DUBOIS (1632-1708) PORTRAIT OF JOHN SOMERS, BARON SOMERS (1651-1716) Quarter length, wearing a dark green coat (or banyan) with striped sleeves and a lace jabot, within a painted oval, oil on canvas 75.5 x 63cm. Provenance: Lawrences, April 27th, 1987, lot 157; and also October 14th, 2011, lot 2844. * Somers was a lawyer and a Whig politician who served as an MP from 1689-1693, was a Keeper of the Great Seal, a Privy Counsellor and was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1697. He became President of the Royal Society in 1698, a year after his ennoblement and was a keen collector of prints and drawings. He died unmarried and without issue. The title descended through the grandson of Somers' sister, Mary. The portrait was traditionally ascribed to Sir Godfrey Kneller and identified (incorrectly) as Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond (1672-1723). Kneller did paint Somers, c.1715-16, as part of his Kit-Cat series (National Portrait Gallery).
Lot 2185
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, PRA (1769-1830) PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, BELIEVED TO BE PHILIP JOHN MILES, MP (1773-1845) Bust length, wearing a dark coat, white neckcloth and winged stock, oil on canvas 74.5 x 62cm. * Miles was a notable Bristol figure, a very wealthy businessman and parliamentarian who was apparently Bristol's first recorded millionaire and a partner in the Miles Bank (that later merged with Nat West). Miles owned Leigh Court and Kings Weston estates on both banks of the River Avon in Bristol and also the Manor or Walton in Gordano, Clevedon as well as many more lands in the Bristol area. Lawrence himself was born in Bristol in 1769: the family lived in Redcross Street until Thomas Lawrence Senior took over the running of a coffee house and inn on Broad Street. This portrait may be dated to c.1815-1820. The sitter would appear perhaps to be in his forties. The only other known image of Miles is believed to be a small unascribed mezzotint portrait, published in 1822. Miles was a great friend of Richard Hart Davis (1766-1842), another Bristol born merchant and banker, who was also painted by Lawrence in 1815. Philip John Miles was also a friend of Richard Hart Davis and in 1813 he purchased his famous Old Masters art collection which became the nucleus of the celebrated Leigh Court Collection, dispersed in 1899. Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter until sold with other family portraits at auction in 2014, where purchased by the present owner. ++ Old lining; a little scattered retouching
Lot 2210
SIR FRANK BERNARD DICKSEE, PRA (1853-1928) PORTRAIT OF VIOLET MARY FRANCES STUART, LADY PAGE WOOD Signed and dated 1916, oil on canvas 100 x 84cm. * The sitter, born Violet Stuart Johnson (1875-1956), was the daughter of a prison governor, Henry Stuart Johnson. Violet married Sir John Page Wood, 5th Baronet, in 1906 but was widowed in 1912. Toll suggests that it is likely that the commission for this regal portrait arose through Margaret, Lady Brooke, The Ranee of Sarawak, who was Violet's aunt by marriage. Exhibited: London, The Royal Academy, 1916, no.428 (as `Lady Wood`) Literature: Simon Toll, Frank Dicksee 1853-1928: His Art and Life (Woodbridge, 2017) Provenance: By descent in the family to Sir Anthony Page Wood, Bt.; Private Collection ++ Unlined; good condition; a little scattered retouching
Lot 2446
PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE AND GILT BRASS CHERUB CANDELABRA, mid 19th century, the cherubs standing on one foot and holding two sconces aloft, on white marble drum bases with laurel wreath trims and square feet, height 36cm (2) Provenance: inherited by the vendor from their grandmother, who was Ruth, Lady Fermoy, at one stage Lady in Waiting to the Queen Mother
Lot 1260
AN 18CT. GOLD OPEN FACED KEYLESS MINUTE REPEATING POCKET WATCH BY PATEK PHILIPPE the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals and subsidiary dial, the high-grade movement numbered 111846, case numbered 232623, the outer case engraved with coat of arms, the inner cuvette engraved with movement number, 54mm. dia. The watch has original fitted wooden box with spare glass and Certificate of Origin dated 1904. With accompanying 9ct. gold curb link albert chain, 41cm. long, 41 grams. Coat of Arms: Samuelson with a label of difference for the eldest son impaling Goodden. They refer to Sir Henry Bernhard Samuelson, 2nd Baronet (1845-1937) and were used in this format prior to the death of his father in 1905, when he would have dropped the label of difference and would then have used Baronet's 'hand' instead. Sir Henry Bernhard Samuelson was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1868 and 1885. In 1874 he married Emily Maria Goodden, daughter of John Goodden of Compton House, Dorset and the sister of the great grandfather of the present owner.
Lot 1614
LOREDANO ROSIN - GLASS BUST OF HORSE, MURANO a wonderful large glass sculpture of a Horse's head, mounted on an oval block of glass. The glass cut and polished. Signed, Loredano Rosin. 15ins (38cms) high *Rosin was a Murano glass maker who collaborated with many famous artists such as Picasso and Chagall. He exhibited widely in Europe, Japan, and North America. This bust probably dates to the 1960's. *This bust was previously sold by Lawrences in April 2015, Lot 1310, for £1500.
Lot 1675
MINTON MAJOLICA JARDINIERE - EDOUARD RISCHGITZ a Minton majolica jardiniere, the central band painted with animals in a landscape. The feet with shell motifs. Marked, Minton, 1110, and date code for 1875. The central panel signed, Edouard Rischgitz. 10ins (25cms) diameter, 8 1/4ins (21cms) high *Edouard Rischgitz (1828-1909) was a Swiss painter who produced a variety of items for the Minton factory.
Lot 695
An early to mid-20th century German sword modelled as a Katzbalger, with double ribbed wooden grip, domed pommel and scrolling guard, the tapering blade inscribed 'Josef Bleeker Vertviel Historischer Koss?me, Munster, I.W.', the blade also stamped for Alexander Koppel of Solingen, length of blade 49cm..Josef Bernhard Maria Bleeker (1881-1868) was a German sculptor who trained as a stonemason in Munster and Munich. He obtained the order to create a bust of Adolf Hitler for a propaganda exhibition and in the end created twenty-five busts, the connection with the Nazi regime lost him his teaching post at The Munich Academy in 1945 before being rehabilitated in 1951 and becoming a member of The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and an honorary member of The Munich Academy. CONDITION REPORT: PLEASE NOTE: we are unable to post this lot using our own in-house packing and postal service. Please arrange your own packing/courier service. General surface wear to the wooden grip including two thin slither sections missing where the pommel meets the top of the grip. Tarnishing to the metal mounts and several significant chips to both sides of the blade with surface wear and pitting throughout.
Lot 124
10 British Quad film posters including The Who in The Kids are Alright, Cannibal / Psychic Killer, Alien (James Cameron), Escape to Athena, The Rescuers, The China Syndrome, Butch & Sundance Early Days, Kentucky Fried Movie, Return to Witch Mountain, Beyond Poseidon Adventure (10) Condition - folded posters with foxing on some to rear & front.
Lot 137
A collection of British 10 x 8 inch lobby cards including sets for Sea Of Love, Backdraft, Law of the Streets x6, Hotel Sahara x4, Freebie and the Bean, What's up Doc, Watch out Were Mad, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Chamber x6, Jaws 3D x6, Let the Good Times Roll x3, Cotton Club x7, Blow Out, Osterman Weekend x7, Beverley Hills Cop, Coming to America, Tootsie, Last Remake of Beau Geste, The Deserter, The Emerald Forest, Gullivers Travels, The Verdict, Wall St, Amadeus, The Final Conflict, 48 Hrs, Living Dangerously, Death Wish II, The Evil that Men Do, The Organization, The Man who would be King, Private Function, Bachelor Party, Passage to India, Staying Alive, Champions, Man with the Deadly Lens, The Woman in Red, King Solomon's Mines, Against all odds, Witness, Sophie's Choice, Silkwood, Spider-man Dragons Challenge.
Lot 189
Ten browsers with mainly rolled & some folded film posters including Pearl Harbor UK Quad, Mother Lode one sheets x9, Lost Souls Quad, Bless the Children Quad, other Quads inc. The Man who Wasn't There, The Man in the Iron Mask, Loves Labours Lost, King & I, Christmas Carol, Rising Sun, Chicken Run, Cecil B Demented, The Others, Atlantis, Dungeons & Dragons, Life is Beautiful, Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, X-men, Hannibal, Green Mile, Shaft RR, Shanghai Noon, Plunkett & MacLaine, Snatch, Virus, The Watcher, Catch me if you Can, Goldmember, Mystery Men, True Crimes, Talented Mr Ripley, Mission Impossible, Independence Day, 101 Dalmatians, James and the Giant Peach, Gremlins 2, Miami Vice, House on the Haunted Hill etc, includes duplicates.
Lot 228
30 British Quad film posters including Unforgiven, Dick Tracy, Candy Man, Alien 3, Spaced Invaders, Wayne's World, Carlitos Way, Shes out of Control, Tina, Last Action Hero, Wired, Bad Influence, Iron Weed, Rambo 3, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hook, Tin Men, Hearts of Fire, The Hand that Rocks, the Cradle, Lethal Weapon 3, National Lampoons Loaded Weapon, Santa Claus, 3 Ninja Kids, Splitting Heirs, Sommersby, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, etc, all folded 30 x 40 inch in various conditions, mostly very good. (30)
Lot 235
Group lot of over 30 British Quad film posters including Joysticks, Asterix in Britain, Near Dark, Grease (Style B), Who Dares Wins, Fort Apache the Bronx, House 2, Mosquito Coast, Innerspace, La Bamba, Eat the Rich, Mac & Me, My Stepmother is an Alien, Fern Gully, Erik the Viking (teaser), City of Joy, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Skin Deep, Suspect, Steak Out, Big foot and the Henderson's, Cant buy me Love, Outrageous Fortune. Various conditions 30 x 40 inch. (30+)
Lot 281
Two boxes of 7" vinyl singles including U2 - Pride, Sunday Bloody Sunday, With or without you, Where the Streets have no Name, All I want is You, Angel of Harlem, One, Wild Horses, Desire, Even Better, The Alarm, Paula Abdul, Adamski, Tina Turner, Take That, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Texas, Time Lords (Dr Who), The Tubes, Tremeloes, etc. Various conditions.
Lot 68
David Bowie in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" folded British Quad film poster with art by Vic Fair and directed by Nicolas Roeg plus "The Hunger" folded UK Quad, "Absolute Beginners" Rolled condition UK Quad. Please note condition of The Man Who Fell To Earth - 11 inch tear above words David Bowie vertical to top plus 5 inch tear on top vertical fold line, pinholes & border tears trimmed 28.5 x 39 inch, other two Quads are 30 x 40 inch. (3)
Lot 86
Collection of one-sheet film posters including "The Frightened City" (1962) starring Sean Connery, Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" (1972), Torn Curtain (1966), Of Human Bondage with Kim Novak, The Boulting Brothers Rotten to the Core & The Silent Enemy UK one sheet, Once you Kiss a Stranger, A Matter of Who, Five Easy Pieces, The Swap, Platoon, New York New York etc. Various conditions folded approx. 27 x 41 inch (15)
Lot 88
Collection of one sheet film posters including "Shaft" (1971) starring Richard Roundtree with music by Isaac Hayes, plus David Lynch's "Wild at Heart", Rambo in "First Blood Part II", National Lampoons Animal House RR, all folded plus Jaws 3 rolled UK 1 sheet, Exterminator 2 rolled US one sheet, Superman II teaser folded o/s, The Man Who Had Power Over Women, What's New Pussycat? Don't Make Waves Make Love, Class of Nuke em High 2, plus Any Wednesday US 30 x 40 inch and a reproduction poster for Get Carter, all in various conditions.
Lot 971
Illustration Interest Original Watercolour By Patience Arnold 1901-1992 'Nursery Rhymes' Patience Arnold was born in Royston Yorkshire but spent her childhood in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Arnold studied at the Harris School of Art, Preston and became a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Art. In 1967 Patience set up a studio in the Lake District and continued to produce unique and whimsical illustrations for books, greetings cards and private commissions which brought her national recognition. Our client's mother was a long term friend of Arnold's and many of the works presented here were commissioned privately and have remained in our clients private collection. The works have never been offered for sale commercially until now. Presented here is an original watercolour depicting several characters from traditional nursery rhymes and fairy tales to include Rapunzel, the Old Lady who lived in a shoe, Jack and Jill and others. In the distance a castle sits atop a hill. Signed to bottom left 'Patience Arnold 1985' Excellent condition, framed and mounted under glass. 19.5 x 12.5 inches
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Lot 180
[§] ALAN DAVIE C.B.E., H.R.S.A. (SCOTTISH 1920-2014) INSIGNIA FOR THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE Signed and inscribed with title and dated 2007 verso, oil on canvas 76cm x 96cm (30in x 37.75in) Note: Alan Davie was born in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1920. His father was a schoolmaster and amateur painter and Alan studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. Jazz had always played an important part in his life and having served with the army in WWII, in 1947 Davie worked as a full time jazz saxophonist and at the same time started to make jewellery, write poetry and design textiles. The following year, now married, he began to travel, visiting Venice, where he was intrigued by the work of Pollock and De Kooning, in the Guggenheim collection. Inspired to start painting again, Davie painted several pictures on rolls of cheap paper in his hotel room. Two were immediately bought by Peggy Guggenheim, who also introduced him to London gallery Gimpel Fils. American abstract expressionism, married with an interest in African art and the influence of Picasso and Klee, formed the roots of Davie's work throughout the 1950s. From the mid fifties an interest in Zen Buddhism and oriental mysticism added further nuances, along with further exposure to the Americans at the time of his first show in New York in 1956. Largely ignored at this time in his homeland, Davie began to sell overseas and finally elevated from poverty, bought a house in Cornwall where he mingled with a number of St Ives artists. From the 1960s Davie maintained that his work, despite its appearance, was not abstract but consisted of emotive common symbols, which spoke directly to the viewer. His role, he insisted was that of a 'shaman', acting as a link between the viewer and the intractable. Taking his cue from the Surrealists, his method was an essentially spontaneous, almost automatic, attempt to unlock the unconscious. Davie's work contains numerous overlapping references to magic, religion and primitive art, in particularly that of the Navajo, Carib, Australian Aborigine, ancient Egyptian, Celt and Pict. This very late painting, Insignias for the Little White Horse, is typical of his mature work. Against a monochrome blue ground, itself suggestive of the spiritual, animals and objects float suspended. Among these, the white horse of the title, the bird and the snake, all resonate with ancient significance in tribal art. While it is tempting to interpret the central motif as an open mouth, as ever with Davie, the moment that one attempts to decipher his hieroglyphs, multiple other meanings become evident. In his later years Davie received many plaudits. His CBE in 1972 was followed by retrospectives in London and New York in 1993, Chicago in 1994 and Edinburgh in 2000 and a major show at Tate Britain in April 2014, the month of his death.
Lot 1103
Autographs - The Beatles, b/w band postcard, the verso signed in blue biro by its members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison, the front with their facsimile signatures, 9cm x 14cm Provenance: Signed and presented by the band to Betty Roberts, accompanying note from the hand of Betty Roberts inscribed, 'Going out with friends from Cheshire who knew [the] North Wales Theatre Critic of [the] Wales Daily Express. [We w]ent to Flanagans, Baker Street for supper. He asked us to go to Abbey Road Recording Studios. We met John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. My friends and I were all given a Post Card (sic) of the Boys which they all signed as a keepsake [...] Betty Roberts'.
Lot 1468
A William IV mahogany longcase clock, the 36cm arched painted dial inscribed *** H***, Burslem, Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, rolling moon phase to arch, twin-winding holes, the spandrels emblematic of the Four Continents, eight-day movement striking on a bell, the case with swan neck pediment, turned columns, shaped rectangular door to waist, outlined throughout with boxwood and ebony stringing, 235cm high, c. 1835The maker is almost certainly John Spencer Hill, who was born 1798 in Coventry, where he was apprenticed 1812-1819 moving to Burslem on his marriage. He was later of Queen Street, Wolstanton, and died in 1854. Condition Report: Central finial to hood missing, gut lines loose; dial faded.
Lot 29
1980's Bang and Olufsen Beosystem 6500 including Beocord 6500, Beogram CD 6500, Beogram 6500 turntable, step program Beomaster 6500, master control panel, Beolab Penta tower speakers, various cables, some manuals etc. Condition Report. It has the European 2 pin plugs on it so we cannot plug it in. This belonged to the actress Rita Tushingham who put it in to secure climate maintained store when she moved. It has to be sold as untested but there should be no reason why it shouldn't work
Lot 89
PHILIP SUTTON ARA (BRITISH B.1928), 'Artist Wearing a Tea Cosy', a self portrait, oil on canvas, titled, signed and dated 1986 verso, also verso is a white Philip Sutton label, a gold address label, the frame also stamped with artist's name and address, the frame painted by the vendor's Uncle who was a framer in London, canvas approximately 29.5cm x 36.5cm (Artists Resale Rights May Apply To This Lot)
Lot 1570
Collection of eight James Bond Ian Fleming hardback books including; Thunderball first edition published by Jonathan Cape 1961 condition good (name sticker in front cover) The Man with the Golden Gun first edition published by Jonathan Cape 1965 condition good (no dust cover) From Russia with Love first edition published by Jonathan Cape 1957 condition fair but dust cover poor (name written in front cover) The Man with the Golden Gun second impression published by Jonathan Cape May 1965 (no dust cover) Gold Finger published by Jonathan Cape fifth impression 1963 condition good (name sticker in front cover) The Spy who Loved Me published by Jonathan Cape sixth impression March 1964 (condition good) Casino Royale published by Jonathan Cape reprint 1963 condition good (name sticker in front cover) On Her Majestys Secret Service fifth impression condition good (dust cover present)
Lot 757
A Japanese carved ivory netsuke, of a seated oni holding a large face mask and a bowl in his lap, 2.3cm. (Taisho period 1912-1926) Provenance: Part of a Leicester private family collection by descent and historically known to our auctioneer. The collector, who died pre-WWII, actively accumulated works of art in the 1920s/30s. All enquires to Colin Young.
Lot 145
RARE BOND PUBLICATIONS AND BROCHURES - Lot to include official Warner Never Say Never Again advanced synopsis, Never Say Never Again Japanese and German brochures, Diamonds are Forever UK souvenir brochure, a 1960s 'James Bond in Focus', BFI tribute brochures, German Cinema magazine Sonderheft nr 2, German lobby card sheet, Back as Bond - Films in Focus from Fall 1983, My Name is Bond from 1983, Corgi James Bond 007 Thunderball magazine, 1977 Glidrose 'The Spy Who Loved Me' publication and a Sackville 'Thunderball' magazine.
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