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Click here to subscribeWinifred Pickard (British 1908-1996): 'Magnolia,' limited edition colour print signed titled and numbered 41/75 in pencil; Julie Barham (British Contemporary): Dandelions and Thistles, watercolour and ink signed and dated '89; Neil Lewty (British Contemporary): Still Life of Plant Pots, charcoal signed max 56cm x 40cm (3)
Omega- a gentleman's Seamaster Cosmic automatic steel wristwatch, circa late 1960's round champagne dial, applied baton markers, outer seconds track, date aperture at 3, pencil hands with lume tops, dial approx 29mm, case approx 33mm, case back 166022-tool 105 to a later non branded leather strap (missing buckle) Further details: good- working at time of report, slight foxing to dial, some scratches to case
Niebuhr (Carsten) Travels through Arabia..., translated by Robert Heron, 2 vol., second edition, half-titles, folding engraved map, 8 engraved plates, lightly offset, old ink and pencil inscriptions to front endpapers, contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints cracked, Perth, R.Morison junior, 1799 § Palmer (E.H.) The Desert of the Exodus, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, 5 folding maps, some colour, 16 lithographed plates, one hand-coloured, some tinted, tissue guards, wood-engraved illustrations, some light spotting to plates, contemporary calf, gilt, prize binding, spines gilt with red & black roan labels, slightly rubbed, Cambridge, 1871, 12mo & 8vo (4)
Semple (Robert) Walks and Sketches at the Cape of Good Hope..., second edition, with faint note in pencil to foot of title and transcription in ink to facing leaf, rather foxed and stained, bookplate of Charles Aken Fairbridge, contemporary half black calf, by R.Scott of Cape Town with his ticket, spine ruled in gilt with green morocco label, 1805 § Chase (John Centlivres) The Cape of Good Hope and the Eastern Province of Algoa Bay, first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece, plate and illustrations, folding lithographed map with 4 vignettes (torn affecting 2 vignettes and repaired), modern half green calf, spine gilt with morocco label, 1843; South Africa, v.s. (2)
Thackeray (William Makepeace).- [Kennedy (Robert Blair)] Squibs and other Papers, in Prose and Rhyme...By the Honorary Secretary of the Madras Opium Club, first (?only) edition, signed presentation copy from the author to W.M.Thackeray inscribed on slip pasted to front free endpaper and Thackeray's embossed stamp to head of title, mounted photographic portrait frontispiece with caption in pencil beneath, original pictorial blue cloth, gilt, a little rubbed, preserved in later cloth folder and blue morocco slip-case with pull-off top, spine gilt, 8vo, Madras, Pharoah and Co., 1862-63.⁂ Rare. Library Hub records only 4 printed copies (BL, University of Liverpool, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford).The inscription reads, "To the Author of 'Vanity Fair' this humble volume is respectfully proffered by the Author. R.Kennedy - Engrs. Dr. Public Works Madras".
Wells (Prof. William) The Heroine of the White Nile: or, What a Woman Did and Dared...Miss Alexandrine Tinne, ?first edition, wood-engraved frontispiece and plate, ornaments, 4pp. advertisements at end, contemporary pencil signature of J.Ernest Tinne to head of title, occasional spotting, modern half red morocco, spine gilt, New York, Carlton & Lanahan, [1871] § Solymos (B., B.E.Falkonberg) Desert Life, first edition, lithographed map, later half brown morocco, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, 1880 § Bowles (Charles & Susan) A Nile Voyage, Red Cross Library Series, printed on crepe paper, Japanese-style colour illustrations, rather browned, original pictorial wrappers stitched with cord, browned and worn, torn and frayed, [c.1900], 8vo & small 4to (3)⁂ The first item concerns Alexandrine Tinné, an intrepid Dutch explorer and early photographer. While exploring the White Nile region various members of her party died, including her mother. She was later murdered in Libya in 1869/70 during her attempt to become the first woman to cross the Sahara. John Ernest Tinne, whose copy this was, was her half-brother from Liverpool who had visited her in Cairo in 1865 to try and persuade her to return home with him. She refused and he left with the bodies of her mother and a maid, and her ethnographical collection (now in the Liverpool World Museum). Rare, only one copy listed by Library Hub (British Library).
Werner (Carl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894), Follower of. View of the ruins at Thebes, Karnak, watercolour over pencil heightened with white, on buff wove paper without watermark, 380 x 540 mm (15 x 21 1/4 in), inscribed in pencil verso 'Part of the ruins of Thebes', under glass, framed, [early 19th century].
India.- Woman artist.- Goodfellow (H.B.) Album comprising 55 drawings and watercolours compiled from a tour of India, manuscript note to title page that reads 'Paintings done in India/ by Terry's Great Grand-/Mother - about 1855-1865/ Mrs. H.B. Goodfellows', with 54 drawings and watercolours, all but two neatly tipped onto album leaves, a few decorated with dried floral moss border, many with details, dates and locations inscribed in pencil and pen and ink on leaves or versos, some initialled 'H.J.G.', each album leaf approx. 550 x 370 mm (21 3/4 x 14 1/2 in), the drawings and watercolours vary in size between 165 x 250 mm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in) and 370 x 535 mm (14 1/2 x 21 in), scattered surface dirt, spotting and browning, a few nicks and handling creases, contemporary blue half calf, blue cloth boards, some loss to the head of spine, extremities rubbed, large folio, [circa 1853-1865]⁂ Impressive collection of numerous large landscapes and studies by an amateur artist who spent over a decade residing in India during the middle of the 19th century. Locations include Bijapur [or Vijayapura], Jeypore, Elephanta, Poorundhur, Surat, Sydney Point and the mountains nearby at Panchgani, Maharashtra. One of the images is inscribed 'Our house'.
Botany.- Curtis (William) Flora Londinensis; or, Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as grow wild in the Environs of London, 2 vol., first edition, vol. 1 title with engraved vignette, 432 hand-coloured plates, dedication with small hole expertly repaired, list of subscribers, indexes with neat pencil insertions, scattered faint spotting, vol. 1 with occasional faint marginal water-staining, faint off-setting, new endpapers, strengthened hinges, contemporary speckled calf, recased with expert repairs to joints, a little restoration to corners, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, [Henrey 595], folio, printed for and sold by the author, 1777.
[Le Cellyer (Claude)] Le Nouveau Armorial Universel; contenant les Armes et Blazons des Maisons Nobles & Illustres de France..., engraved hand-coloured frontispiece, full-page engraved plate in text, large folding hand-coloured table (tear) and 201 engraved plates, all hand-coloured, many with ink and pencil annotations and additions, text lacks signatures B and C ?preliminary ff., engraved bookplate on fly-leaf, title, frontispiece and text all mounted on stubs, slightly browned throughout, some soiling, contemporary patterned calf, rubbed and worn, joints splitting, gilt spine worn, 4to, Paris, Pierre Bessin, 1662; sold not subject to return.
Statius (Publius Papinius, 1st century AD) Achilleide, manuscript on paper, i + 34 leaves, unfoliated, complete in three quires, collation: 1-212, 310, blanks: fols. 32v, 33, and 34, text block: 169x100 mm., single column, 19 lines, first above top line, ruled in red ink, text written in brown ink in littera umanistica, numerous interlinear glosses and abundant marginal glosses and/or scholia written in light brown ink in hybrida currens script, first capital letter of each capitulum set out, those on fols. 21v, 22v, 26v showing neat ink drawings of human faces, water-stain at the gutter, some stains, a few wormholes to blank lower margin, some pen trials on front flyleaf and last blank leaves, pencil bibliographical notes to front flyleaf, contemporary brown leather over wooden boards, lower cover with lily-shaped metal clasp with a lamb holding the Christian banner, strap missing, author's name and title ('statius achil.') inked on lower cover, both covers stained, some rubbing and worming, spine damaged at extremities, 281 x 200 mm., [Northern Italy, late fourteen century].⁂ A generally well-preserved manuscript in an unrestored and attractive binding.Text:An important and unrecorded fourteenth-century manuscript of the Achilleide, written by Statius in 95-96 C.E., and left unfinished. The Achilleid enjoyed a wide success in late antiquity and commentaries on it were composed in the Carolingian period and early Middle Ages. The manuscript presents as explicit the spurious verse "aura silet puppis currens ad littora venit", which is found in Statius' manuscript tradition starting from the 11th century. On the recto of the last leaf the anonymous scribe has copied the text of the Epitaphium Achillis (see Riese, Anthologia Latina, I, 2, no. 630), which is attested in two other manuscripts dating from the late fourteenth century, respectively in the Biblioteca Riccardiana in Florence (ms 1223.C) and in the Biblioteca Universitaria in Genoa (ms E.II.8). A further point of interest of the present codex lies in its copious marginalia, glosses and scholia, which offer numerous variant readings. The provenance of this manuscript has an interesting Genoese connection: between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century the manuscript passed through the hands of members of the first families of the Genoa Republic: the D'oria (or Doria), Spinola and Grimaldi families. Among these owners the name of Giovanni Battista Grimaldi is especially noteworthy. In his palace in Genoa he assembled a beautiful library, which included Latin classical texts as well as contemporary vernacular works, and his humanist preceptor Claudio Tolomei (ca. 1492-1556) had an important role in forming the collection. He paid great attention to the bindings of his volumes, and employed the best and most sought after binders such as Niccolò Franzese and Marcantonio Guillery. Grimaldi was a friend of Niccolò Spinola, whose ownership inscription is also to be found in this manuscript: it is therefore possible to hypothesise an exchange of books between these two distinguished Genoese patricians. Provenance:Andreolo D'Oria (fifteenth-century ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf 'Nobili Domino Andriolo de Auria'; Niccolò Spinola (sixteenth-century ownership inscription on recto of front flyleaf 'Nicolaus Spinula me possidet'; Giovanni Battista Grimaldi (1524-1612; ownership inscription on verso of fol. 33 'Gio: Batt[ist]a Grimaldo'; Alessandro [Grimaldi ?] (ownership inscription on verso of fol. 34 'Alexandro', maybe the son of Giovanni Battista Grimaldi).Literature:P. M. Clogan, "A Preliminary List of Manuscripts of Statius' Achilleid"; Idem, The Medieval Achilleid of Statius edited with Introduction, Variant Readings, and Glosses, Leiden 1968; H. Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, Washington, D.C. 2000; A. Hobson, Apollo and Pegasus. An Enquiry into the Formation and Dispersal of a Renaissance Library, Amsterdam 1975.
Rohan (Henri, Duc de) A Treatise of the Interest of the Princes and States of Christendome, translated by Henry Hunt, 2 parts in 1, second edition in English, with 2 initial blank leaves but for signature marks, rules & ornaments, woodcut initials, typographic ornaments, with final imprimatur/errata leaf and blank (but for ruled borders), paper flaw hole to A2 affecting signature, trimmed close to borders, large engraved bookplate of Marquess of Tweeddale, a very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, spine with red morocco label, old library paper label to foot (chipped), slightly rubbed at edges, [Wing R1868], Ric. Hodgkinsonne, 1641 § [?Estienne (Henri)] Discours Merveilleux de la Vie, Actions & Deportemens de la Reyne Catherine de Medicis..., pencil notes to endpapers, nineteenth century dark green morocco, by E.Niédrée (successor to Thouvenin) dated 1846, g.e., inner gilt dentelles, slight rubbing to upper joint, [Willems 1305], suivant la Copie imprimée a la Haye, [Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1663, 12mo (2)⁂ The first work is a short political survey of Europe during the latter part of the Thirty Years War, first published in Paris in 1638 and in English in 1640, also in Paris. The second is a satirical pamphlet concerning the policies of Catherine de Medici.
[Sacy (Louis-Silvestre de)] A Discourse of Friendship, translated by Daniel Bret, first edition of this translation, Contents and errata at end, browned, old pencil notes to front free endpapers, handsome contemporary panelled black morocco, gilt, spine gilt with tan label, g.e., rubbed, spine faded, [Heltzel1252], for the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1707; An Essay upon Friendship, only edition, 3pp. advertisements at end, old ink inscription to head of title and foot of final leaf of text, water-staining to lower edge at beginning and end (mostly marginal), contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rubbed, spine repaired, [Not in Heltzel], for John Wyat, 1704, 8vo (2)⁂ Two translations of Sacy's celebrated Traité de l'Amitié of 1703, the first item being the first edition of the second translation, the second being the only edition of the abridged first translation.
[Tessin (Carl Gustaf, Count)] Letters from an Old Man to a Young Prince, with the Answers, translated by John Berkenhout, 2 vol., first edition in English, an excellent clean copy in contemporary speckled calf, gilt, a little rubbed, vol.1 spine worn at foot, [Heltzel 1347], R.Griffiths, 1756; another edition, 3 vol., second English edition, 4pp. advertisements at end of vol.3, ink signatures to front endpapers, John Sparrow's copy with his book-label, attractive contemporary vellum, spines gilt with black roan labels, slightly soiled, R.Griffiths, 1759 § Haller (Albrecht von, Baron) Letters...to his Daughter, on the Truths of the Christian Religion. Translated from the German, first edition in English, half-title, a few pencil annotations, contemporary speckled calf, red roan label, rubbed, slight worn patch to upper cover, J.Murray..., 1780, 8vo et infra (5)⁂ The first two are translations of Tessin's Gammal Mans Bref til en Uung Prints published in Sweden the previous year, a series of charming letters by a Swedish nobleman to the heir apparent Gustavus III when he was aged between six and ten years old. One of the subjects covered concerns the choice of books for a library.
Latimer (Hugh) The seconde sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, whych he preached before the Kynges maiestie, w[ith]in his graces palayce at Westminster [the]. xv. day of Marche. M.ccccc.xlix., first edition, black letter, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut decorative initials, a few instances of later ink marginalia, 20th century pencil manicules, lacking final 2 blank ff., closely trimmed at head, occasionally touching a headline, water-stained, some soiling and finger-marking, lightly browned, modern calf, spine in compartments and with leather label, [Pforzheimer 582; STC 15274.7], 8vo, [By Ihon Day, dwellynge at Aldersgate, and Wylliam Seres, dwellyng in Peter Colledge. These bokes are to be sold at the new shop by the lytle Conduyte in Chepesyde], [1549].⁂ This edition has printed side-notes throughout.
Daniell (Thomas, 1749-1840) and William Daniell (1769-1837). Mausoleum of Sultan Purveiz, near Allahabad, pencil worked up with watercolour, on laid paper with watermark of a Strasbourg lily, countermarked 'IV', and with the artist's characteristic ruled black ink border, sheet 413 x 630 mm (16 1/4 x 24 3/4 in), under glass, some signs of careful restoration to old handling creases and abrasion, faint exposure lines visible at extreme edge, framed, [circa 1790]Engraved:T. and W. Daniell, aquatint engraving, for Oriental Scenery, 1805, vol. 1, no. 22Literature:cf. Archer, Mildred, Early Views of India, The Picturesque Journeys of Thomas and William daniell 1786-1794, 1980, no. 68⁂ 'The remains of Sultan Purveiz, the son of the Emperor Jehangire, were here deposited about the year 1626. The simplicity of the general design of this Mausoleum, with its judicious and well-executed decorations, rank it among the the most correct examples of Indian architecture' [The Journal of William Daniell, c. 7, November 1789]An excellent example of a "field drawing" produced by Thomas Daniell and his nephew William while on their journey through India. The distinctive pencil under-drawing would have been produced on the spot, and then once back in England the two artists would have worked up the drawing in watercolour and brush and ink. For a comparative example showing the same handling of pencil cross-hatching and jagged delineation of foliage, see the watercolour 'Main Entrance of the Jami Mosque, Jaunpur' held in the Yale Centre for British Art (acc. no. B1977.14.6140, - with images here: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:9224].An aquatint based on the drawing was published as Plate 22 in the first volume of Oriental Scenery in 1798. The aquatint was published with the imprint that it was 'Drawn and Engraved by Thos. Daniell', however the nature of the under-drawing suggests his nephew William was closely involved; as with many of their finished watercolours, it is difficult to distinguish their individual contributions.
Music.- Wood (Thomas, composer, of Parsonage Hall, Bures St Mary, Essex, 1892-1950) Suffolk Punch, autograph manuscript score signed, 120pp., a few autograph manuscript notes in ink and pencil, original cloth, gilt spine, folio, 3rd April 1930.⁂ The concert overture Suffolk Punch appeared in 1930.
Daniell (William, 1769-1837) Rocky landscape, near Tunbridge Wells, black chalk, watercolour, signed with initial 'D' in brown ink and location inscribed in pencil along lower margin, on laid paper with partial watermark of Strasbourg lily, sheet 270 x 365 mm (10 5/8 x 14 1/4 in), some minor surface dirt and browning, traditional attribution in pencil to verso of mount, unframed, [circa 1820]⁂ As well as his tour of India, William Daniell undertook a tour of Great Britain with Richard Ayton, where Daniell produced topographical studies that were reproduced as aquatints for the publication 'A Picturesque Voyage round Great Britain' (1814-25). The present study bears a pencil inscription like that found on the watercolour of Deal Castle, held in the Royal Academy of Arts collection (see object no. 03/3896), which was reproduced in aquatint for the Picturesque Voyage.
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Poems on various subjects, first edition, errata and advertisement leaves at end, lacking half-title, pencil note to p.105, C8 narrow section excised from outer margin, some spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, gilt, spine with red morocco label, upper joint split, but holding, corners worn, rubbed, preserved in a modern brown morocco-backed marbled board drop-back box, gilt spine in compartments, 8vo, Printed for C.G. and J. Robinsons; and J.Cottle, bookseller, Bristol, 1796.⁂ First edition of the poet's first book of poems, which also contains the first published verses of Coleridge's lifelong friend Charles Lamb.
Potter (Beatrix) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, first or second printing, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, ink inscription dated 1911 to front pastedown, original brown boards, spine a little rubbed, 1911; The Tale of Pigling Bland, first or second printing, colour frontispiece and 14 illustrations, very occasional soiling, light foxing to endpapers, original grey-green boards, spine rubbed with small chip to foot, 1913; The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse, first edition without "Ltd" to imprint, colour frontispiece and 26 illustrations, some soiling and child's scribbles to a few leaves, original grey boards, spine slightly rubbed, small mark to upper cover, [1918], half-titles, all with pencil notes at beginning identifying first printings or locations of illustrations, some soiling, boards very slightly rubbed, [Linder p.429 & 430; Quinby 20, 22 & 25], 16mo (3)
Cruikshank (George).- Jerrold (Blanchard) The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, 2 vol., plates and illustrations, extra-illustrated with over 120 engravings by Cruikshank, c.30 hand-coloured, many mounted or tipped into blank leaves with dates or captions in pencil, some bound in, some light spotting, bookplate of C.H.Hammersley and book-label of James Stevens Cox, later red straight-grain morocco, gilt, by J.Larkins, spines gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, 8vo, 1882.⁂ Including hand-coloured chapbook frontispiece 'Picture of London' of 1812 (Cohn 554), portrait of Robert Cruikshank of 1820, unused etching for a box ticket for Her Majesty's Theatre of 1846, and 2 other unused etchings of 1857.
Rowlandson (Thomas) The Squire, character portrait of a country gentleman with cravat and yellow waistcoat, wearing a wig and holding a churchwarden pipe, pen and inks, watercolour, traces of pencil, affixed on blue-coloured mount support, sheet 130 x 112 mm (5 1/8 x 4 1/4 in), under glass, minor surface dirt and browning, framed, [circa 1810].
Gregory (John Walter) The Great Rift Valley: being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo, first edition, half-title, chromolithographed frontispiece, 20 plates, illustrations, 2 folding colour maps, advertisement leaf at end, a few pencil markings, modern half green morocco, uncut, 1896 § Pringle (M.A.) Towards the Mountains of the Moon: a Journey in East Africa, first edition, half title, folding sheet with 3 maps, one with route in red, linen-backed, some foxing, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, gilt library stamp to upper cover and spine, rubbed, Edinburgh & London, 1884, 8vo (2)
Hamilton (Capt. Alexander) A New Account of the East-Indies...from the Year 1688, to 1723, 2 vol., second edition, dedication with engraved coat-of-arms, 8 folding engraved maps and 11 plates, one folding, vol.1 with the 2 final blanks, vol.2 with title and 3 preliminary leaves pp.iii-vii & [viii] and text beginning on p.3 A2 but seemingly complete, a few pencil marginalia, browned, 2 maps with tears to folds, A7 in vol.2 with portion cut from margin, contemporary sheep, rubbed, rebacked with red and green morocco labels, some corners repaired, 8vo, A.Bettesworth and C.Hitch, 1739.⁂ Rare and comprehensive account over many years of travel from South Africa to Japan, first published in Edinburgh in 1727, and including descriptions of Ethiopia, the Arabian peninsula, India, and South East Asia. ESTC records only 3 copies of this second edition (BL & Cambridge in the UK; Library of Congress in America).
Anonymous (19th century) Village temple, possibly Indonesia, with farmer and cart being drawn by a pair of cattle, watercolour over pencil, on wove paper affixed on mount support, 260 x 390 mm (10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in), minor browning and handling creases, unframed, (19th century) § Caton Woodville Jnr. (Richard, 1856-1927) Two original illustrations with characters from an imagined voyage, one with two characters in front of an rocky outcrop in the shape of a gorilla, monochrome watercolours heightened with white, both signed, each mounted on board support, minor surface dirt, rough edges, unframed, [c. 1900] (3)
Hodges (William, 1744-1797), Manner of. Aurangzeb's mosque at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, seen from the River Ganges, watercolour over pencil, on thick buff wove paper, inscription verso identifying location, 580 x 680 mm (22 3/4 x 26 3/4 in), some spotting, browning and minor surface dirt, framed, [early 19th century]
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