AntiquarianAuctions.com Auction #61 Highlights, August 24-31
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Lot 1
Wharton (Edith) The Book of the Homeless
Published: Scribners, New York, 1916 Estimate: $2,500/3,500
Unbound in sheets, contributors include: Henry James, Joseph Conrad and ?douard Manet.
The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer) edited by Edith Wharton. Original Articles in Verse and Prose Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings & Drawings. The book is sold for the Benefit of the America Hostels for Refugees (with the Foyer Franco-Belge) and of the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee. [Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt]
Unique unbound, uncut and unopened copy of the limited edition: "Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies deluxe, of larger format [all signed by Updike]. Numbers 1-50 on French hand-made paper ... Numbers 51-175 on Van Gelder paper." This copy on Van Gelder paper is numbered 65.
Lot 2
Cruikshank (George) Illustrator: The Life of Napolean
Published: T. Tegg and J.Dick, London and edinburgh, 1915 Estimate: $1,750/2,000
A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, embellished with Thirty Engravings by George Cruikshank.
260 pages, 30 hand coloured aquatint plates (including the hand coloured title page), original grey paper boards without a title label on the spine - the backstrip has been expertly restored, edges uncut, some slight off-setting of the plates but otherwise the text and plates are crisp and free of foxing, contained in mauve cloth solander case titled in gilt on the spine, a very good copy.
Lot 5
Coronelli (Vincenzo) L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le piu moderne, relationi colle scoperte dell'origine e corso del Nilo
Published: Domenico Padouani, Venice, 1691 Estimate: $4,750/6,000
This is the first state of the beautiful map of Africa that was the first to show the origin of the Blue Nile. It was produced by Vincenzo Coronelli, a famous Italian cartographer.
This is a landmark map in the history of the mapping of Africa, and, in particular, of the Nile River which long had been depicted, according to the tradition of Ptolemy, to arise from lakes about the Mountains of the Moon. This beautiful map is in A+ condition; presented on two separate sheet and uncoloured - as issued. The halves readily can be joined so that there is no gap between them.
Lot 62
Butler (Arthur G.) Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, Complete in Two Volumes Published: Brumby & Clarke, Hull, 1904-1908 Estimate: $350/500
107 chromolithograph plates of birds and 8 of bird eggs with tissue-guards. A very attractive set of an informative text and classification. Hard to find complete sets as they were dis-bound for their decorative plates.
Lot 150
Netto (Dr. Friedrich) Bubenstreiche in Lustigen Versen und Ulkingen Bildern
Published: [circa 1900]
Estimate: $1,500/2,000
Dr Friedrich Netto lived from 1868 -1926. The Children's Division of the Staatsbibliotek zu Berlin records 5 other books by him published between 1900 and 1915, but not this one. A biography written by Inge Laude: ?rzte als Schriftsteller - Ernst Philipp Lange and Friedrich Netto was published in Munich in 1970. No further details of his writing or his life have been traced. No copies of this title were retrieved in any international database.
Bubenstreiche is a children's book, which, translated into English means childish pranks. The text and images are satirical and the cameos portray the events of the Anglo Boer War in a rather derogatory light.
Lot 158
War on Want Jigsaw Puzzle, Nelson Mandela and the ANC flag Published: London, no date [circa 1980's]
Estimate: $400/500
War on Want works to challenge the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice through partnership with social movements in the global South and by running hard-hitting campaigns in the UK in support of radical change. War on Want's slogan is "poverty is political" and its stated focus is on the root causes of poverty rather than its effects; it raises public awareness of the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice, and empowers people to take action for change.
Lot 181
In March 1947 the first issue of Piscator, the Society's journal appeared. A. C. Harrison was its editor and, in a tribute to AC in December 1977 when the 100th edition of Piscator was published, the then CPS President, the late Dr. Frank Bradlow, wrote: "There can be few people who have met "AC" whose lives have not been enriched; his direct courteous manner, his dry sense of humour, his encyclopaedic knowledge of nature and fishing, and his human and humane wisdom are but a few of the qualities which make those who know him realise they have been in the company of a very unusual individual; one of those rare human beings whose personality makes an indelible impression on one's memory".
Lot 235
Bhavnagar (India) Album of Captioned Architectural and Other Nineteenth Century Photographs Published: Faber & Faber, London, 1956
Estimate: $600/800
Buildings and Civil Engineering Works Designed and Built by Richard Proctor-Sims between 1875 and 1900, and the state visit to Bhavnagar by the Prince of Wales
Most of the photographs are of buildings - planned, under construction and completed - and civil engineering works, but include a sequence on the reception for the Prince of Wales and of Bhavnagar's horse-breeding activities, the organisation of which was one of the RPS interests referred to in the obituary below.. There is still a memorial to RPS in Bhavnagar town centre and tours have been arranged to inspect his architectural, building and civil engineering works, which have all been well maintained.
Cape Piscatorial Society, Piscator
Published: Cape Town, 1947 -1979 Estimate: $600/700
Lot 235
Myanmar (Burma) School, Red and Gold lacquered manuscript, Kammavaca. Published: Burma, c. 1900
Estimate: $800/1,200
A fine highly decorative early-20th-century Burmese Kammavaca (possibly eve late-19th century?). Considered to be one of the most sacred of Burmese religious texts, the Kammavaca was typically commissioned by lay-people, when their son entered a Buddhist monastery, as a work of merit.
In the 17th century, folios began to be made of pieces of cloth coated with lacquer and painted with cinnabar, and the square letters were written in thick, black lacquer. On rare occasions, folios were of ivory. Designs in gilt, which had been reserved for the ends of folios, end papers, and wooden coverboards, now began to appear between the lines of text. By the end of the 19th century, the lines of script on the folio increased to six or seven and sheets of brass or copper were introduced as folios.
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