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Lot 286
Wine barrels.- Kepler (Johannes) Auszug Auss Der Vralten Messekunst Archimedis, Gothic letter, woodcut initials and diagrams (with an additional printed slip containing a reprint of the woodcut on K1r bound in), woodcut on F3v shaved at foot, occasional browning, bound in a vellum leaf a leaf from a fourteenth-century French canon law text, [Tomash & Williams K23; VD17 39:124695N], folio, Linz, Hans Blanck for the Author, 1616.⁂ A translation into German of Nova stereometria, Kepler's work on the gauging of wine barrels."Shortly after Kepler moved to Linz, there was a very good wine harvest, and to take advantage of it, he had a wine cellar installed in his home. He discovered that the volume of the wine barrels had been calculated simply by measuring their diagonal length and that no account had been taken of the variations in their shape. In attempting to recalculate the volumes, he developed a scheme in which he summed up the volumes of thin cross-sections of the barrels-an approach that foreshadowed the development of the calculus." - Tomash & Williams.
Lot 219
Pair of Continental white metal pepperettes, each of rococo urn form having repousse decoration of a shepherdess with dog and flock, stamped B.H.M., 11.5cm high, together with a Continental white metal wine strainer with Bacchante decoration, 12.5cm across handles, total 5.1toz approx (3) Condition: **General condition consistent with age
Lot 227
George III silver wine funnel, of two-part construction with armorial lion crest over reeded tapering funnel, London 1811, sponsor NH (possibly Naphtali Hart), 7cm diameter x 13.5cm high Condition: Very minor bruising to body, typical slight narrowing of spout. **General condition consistent with age
Lot 228
George III silver wine funnel, of two-part construction with beaded rim, London 1774, sponsor William Plummer, with commemorative inscription dated 1775, 8.1cm rim diameter x 11cm high, 2.9toz approx Condition: Light bruising to interior commensurate with age and use. External marks to upper section slightly rubbed, lower section has a partial sterling mark only, typical minor bruising to tip of spout. **General condition consistent with age
Lot 389
Mountaineering Interest - Smith, Albert - 'The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blanc', believed second edition circa 1861, comprising: game board of eight linen-backed folding sections, each with hand-coloured lithographic prints, A.N. Myers & Co, London W., from C. Adler Printing Establishment Hamburg, verso with pair of original wine Morocco covers and purple stamp of Emma S. Windsor, Kindergarten, Toy, and Crawling Rug Depot, 50 Harrington Road, South Kensington, S.W., together with painted bone spinning 'Teetotum' of octagonal form, five of six 'men' and original box with gilt Morocco title to the cloth-hinged cover plus approximately seventy associated German brass counters stamped Spiel Marke and 'Fortuna' or 'Kechen Pfennig', the game sheet 52.5cm x 40cm (open), the box 23cm x 15cm x 5cm high Condition: Game sheet appears slightly trimmed to lower edge, light foxing and staining particularly along joins, a few further dark marks as per image, scattered foxing verso but wine Morocco covers are sound, game sheet may have had an outer slip case (now lacking), rule book missing, one coloured counter missing, German brass counters believed to be associated, box in good original order with only a few light speckles, cloth hinge intact, extremely light scuffing to corners, but overall sound - **General condition consistent with age
Lot 99
Hunting Interest - Good late Victorian silver and enamel visiting card case, the cover finely modelled with an anthropomorphic Foxhound wearing hunting jacket and doffing his riding hat, holding a crop, wearing riding boots, inscribed in enamel beside Yours Sportingly Rallywood Cleveland, the silver-gilt interior with pierced mounts, inscribed to 'Myra July 16th 1889', hallmarked London 1889, sponsor George Wilkinson, the external reverse with diagonally-divided red and blue enamel decoration over wavy engine-turning, 9.5cm x 6.8cm, 6.3toz gross approx, in original wine Morocco fitted case of G.Wilkinson Barrett & Co Jewellers & Silversmiths 48 Piccadilly Next Door to Burlington House, the Morocco case 12.5cm wide. Rallywood Cleveland was the pseudonym of Lilian Frances Myra Swan (1870-1949), authoress of 'Some Incidents in the Life of a Foxhound; An Autobiography, published by Sampson Brothers of York 1889. She was born in 1869 and was raised at the family estate, Upsall Hall in Yorkshire. After school education, she wrote two sporting novels (one listed above) before turning to serious fiction - however, her career sadly never flourished and after struggling to publish her final novel she stopped writing in 1905. She died unmarried in her native Yorkshire in 1949. Condition: Enamel to hunting jacket is almost all missing as per image, general light scratching to surface commensurate with age and use, interior in excellent condition, minor scratches to enamel of reverse, light staining to silk lining to underside of cover - **General condition consistent with age
Lot 1388
A large collection of wine and spirit flagons including Brown of Sons, Wrexham, The Star Brewery, Eastbourne, Tennant Stourbridge, Welch of Rayner, Nottingham etc (10)Condition: Cracks to body of 4, chips to neck of 2, handles missing on 2, handle chipped on 1. Heights vary from approx 30-46cm
Lot 1504
A Rowland Ward set of drinking glasses, each hand etched depicting scenes of wild animals, comprising water jug, six wine glasses, amongst African thorn trees, two sherry glasses, four tumblers, plus a tankard (14)Condition: Chips to rim of one wine glass. Height of tumblers approx 9.5cm. Height of wine glasses approx 13.5cm
Lot 1523
A large collection of coloured glass including: Murano - clowns, paperweights, bottle stoppers, a pair of twist bulbous stem lamps together with Bohemian style green glass heightened with gilt and painted floral decoration to include vases, liquer glasses and tumbers, decanters, scent bottles, also Leonardo tumblers & Tall glasses, various Riedel wine carafes, various glasses etc (3 boxes + 2 lamps)
Lot 48
RALEIGH (WALTER)TASSO (TORQUATO) Rime et prose... Parte terza. Novamente poste in luce, WALTER RALEIGH'S COPY, signed ('W Ralegh') on the title-page above the woodcut printer's device and with his his motto ('Mediu[m] medijs') at foot, nineteenth century inscription on front free endpaper ('Questo Volume già fu del Cavaliere Gualtero Ralegh, il di cui nome sta scritto nel titolo dalla propria mano'), woodcut initials and tail-pieces, occasional light foxing and browning, later vellum, titled in ink on spine [this edition not in Adams], 12mo, Venice, [Vittorio Baldini], appresso Giulio Vasalini, 1584Footnotes:WALTER RALEIGH'S COPY OF TASSO - A NEWLY-DISCOVERED VOLUME FROM HIS LIBRARY. In a remarkable echo of the occasion twenty-three years ago when volume two of the Ferrara edition appeared for sale in our Phillips rooms, a third volume has come to light, making it a total of seven printed books now known to have survived from Raleigh's library. These include volumes one, two and three of Tasso's Rime et prose, which constitute the only works of literature in the library, the others being on military or historical subjects. The publication history of the Rime et prose is quite complex. The Parte prima and Parte seconda were first printed by Aldo Manuzio in 1581 and 1582 while Tasso was imprisoned in the asylum of St Anna, and without his cooperation. Further editions of these two volumes were printed by Vittorio Baldini in Ferrara (1582), and the publisher Giulio Vasalini also had them reprinted in 1583, before adding his own selection of verses and prose for the Parte terza published in Venice in 1583 (a copy of which exists with Tasso's autograph corrections). The present copy is Vasalini's reprint of the following year. Raleigh's copy of the Parte prima (Ferrara, ad instanza di Giulio Vassallini, appresso Vittorio Baldini, 1583) is at the Beinecke Library, Yale (1975 380). Like the present copy, it is inscribed with Raleigh's signature and motto (although the signature has been struck through) and, like this copy, it bears the ownership signature 'L. Berard' (it also has the bookplate of Charles Bruce, Earl of Elgin, 1712). The Parte seconda (Ferrara, G. Vassallini per Vittorio Baldini, 1583), similarly inscribed by Raleigh, was sold at Phillips on 13 November 1997 (lot 351, current whereabouts unknown). This also had an inscription in an Italian nineteenth century hand, but did not bear Berard's signature.Raleigh's library is known to have consisted of several hundred books, and he listed over 500 of these in the notebook held in the British Library which he kept while imprisoned in the Tower. The notebook, which was the basis for an article by Walter Oakeshott published in December 1968 ('Sir Walter Ralegh's Library', The Library, 5th Series, vol. 23, no. 4), does not mention any volumes of Tasso and indeed Oakeshott remarks on the absence of poetry. The few volumes of books and manuscripts known to have survived from the library are described on CELM, the online adaptation and extension of Peter Beale's Index of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, where the copies of the Parte prima and Parte seconda now take their place (as RaW 1037 and 1037.5) among the seven printed books.'Ralegh's copy of Tasso provides an evocative link between the doomed golden figure of Elizabeth's court - himself a poet of haunting originality and power - and probably the greatest poet of the later Italian Renaissance. The lives of both poets were marked by the most extrordinary swings of fortune. Both spent long years in prison after dazzling careers at court, both having been befriended by patronesses, Ralegh by the Queen, Tasso by the Duchesses Lucrezia and Leonora; and both afterwards enjoyed contemporary fame as poets while languishing in gaol. In fact this particular volume was published while Tasso was imprisoned by the Duke of Mantua in the hospital of St Anna; and it might well have been among the books Ralegh had with him when he in his turn was imprisoned by James I in the tower... Ralegh's ties with the culture of the Italian Renaissance are further exemplified by the volume's ownership inscription with its carefully-formed Italic script, a script which of course derives from Italian Humanist hands and which at the time had still not supplanted the native Secretary script in Britain: elsewhere Ralegh usually employed a mixed, predominantly Italic, hand; although like many of his contemporaries he could write fluent Secretary when occasion served' (Felix Pryor, Phillips sale catalogue, 1997).Provenance: Walter Raleigh, signature and motto on title-page; inscription on front free endpaper in an Italian nineteenth century hand attributing the volume to Raleigh; L. Berard, signature on title-page; Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889), noted book collector and wine merchant (whose extensive library included Raleigh manuscripts listed on CELM), armorial bookplate; his sale Sothebys, 22 November 1890; Paulin Martin, Abingdon (doctor and antiquary), bookplate; acquired by the present owner's grandfather.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 618
Beer labels, Trumans, London & Burton, a selection of 9 labels, various shapes and sizes, plus one stopper and one neck label, inc. Eagle Ale, Best Stout, Trubright Light Ale, Old Oak Ale, No 1 Burton Barley Wine etc, together with Trumans printed stationery envelope and a 4 page leaflet detailing the history of Trumans (gd/vg)
Lot 700
Ephemera, a collection of newspapers and magazines dating from 1892 to the 1960s to include copies relating to WW1 and WW2 together with a selection of magazines e.g. The Brewer & Wine Merchant (1921), Picture Post (1940) lot also includes an auction poster dated 1833 for a parcel of arable land in Warminster (gen gd)
Lot 227
1996 Gibson Custom ES-5 Switchmaster hollow body electric guitar, made in USA, ser. no. 9xxx6xx9; Finish: wine red, minor surface wear; Fretboard: rosewood; Frets: generally good, mild oxidisation to the edges and upper frets; Electrics: working; Hardware: loss to gold plating, more so to the pickup covers and tuning heads, mild oxidisation to some metal parts; Case: original hard case; Overall condition: good
Lot 36
1970s Avon Model 3404 electric guitar, made in Japan; Finish: wine red, many blemishes, scuffs and scratches; Fretboard: rosewood; Frets: indent wear, particularly to the first position; Electrics: working; Hardware: generally good, one control knob replaced, section of binding missing from the head; Overall condition: fair
Lot 66
2004 Gibson Les Paul Studio electric guitar, made in USA, ser. no. 0xxx4xx3; Finish: wine red; Fretboard: rosewood; Frets: good; Electrics: working, Sustainer neck pickup modification with altered internal electrics; Hardware: good; Case: original Gibson hard case, exterior worn; Overall condition: good
Lot 94
1994 Fender American Standard Stratocaster electric guitar, '40th Anniversary of the Stratocaster' badge and neck plate, made in USA, ser. no. N4xxxx79; Finish: midnight wine, light marks; Fretboard: maple; Frets: good; Electrics: working; Hardware: good; Case: original hard case; Overall condition: good
Lot 564
A miscellaneous selection of mostly Low Countries cut glass, various dates 19th & 20th centuries, comprising: a pale straw tint pedestal bonbonniere and cover; a pair without covers; an oval blue-tint dish; a pedestal jug; a pair of ship's decanters and a pair of large opaque-twist wine glasses of Whitefriars type This lot is to be sold without reserve
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