AntiquarianAuctions.com Auction #67 Running June 7-14 Highlights
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Lot 1
Jenkins (James) The Martial Achievements of Great Britain and Her Allies;
Published: Js. Jenkins, London, (1814-1815) Estimate: $6,000/7,000
Originally published in thirteen parts, back wrappers carry Conditions of the Work stating that the artist is Heath (William), each number to contain four plates, price 21s. per number: the letterpress to be compiled from official documents only, publication monthly until complete from Dec. 1. 1814. One hundred sets on large paper at 42.s. a part: and finally, List of Subscribers to given on completion. - Abbey (J.R.) Life in England, In Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, number 365
Lot 2
[Skotnes (Cecil) Artist] & [Gray (Stephen) Poetry]
Man's Gold (Limited Edition Art Portfolio)
Published: Johannesburg, August 1975 to January 1979
Estimate: $3,500/4,500
This art portfolio is copy number 43 of an edition limited to 75 numbered copies. There were also 15 lettered artists’ proofs.
Some copies were issued loose so that the art works could be framed. This copy is bound by master craftsman Peter Carsten’s, as issued, in full Oasis goatskin leather with a darker brown coloured central strip on the upper side with a Skotnes blind stamped design. There are 28 original woodcuts, each one signed in pencil by Cecil Skotnes and numbered 43/75. Each woodcut was printed from the original blocks in 2 to 5 colours on Zerkall Buetten paper.
Lot 3
Heylyn (Peter). Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World. And all the principal Kingdoms, Provinces, and Seas, and Isles thereof Published: Henry Seile, London, 1657 Estimate: $8,000/9,000
As an ecclesiastic Heylyn was a disputatious monarchist who served for a while as King's chaplain, as a geographer he was an English patriot, and it through these spectacles he describes 'the Whole World'. As he tells the reader: 'In the pursuance of this Work.. so have I not forgotten that I am an English-man, and which is somewhat more, a Church-man. As an English-man I have been mindful upon all occasions to commit to memory the noble actions of my Countrey; exploited both by Sea and Land, im[n] most parts of the World, and represented on the same Theaters on which they were acted.'
Lot 8
Miro (Joan) L'oiseau Solaire - De Luxe Limitied Edition Signed By Miro Published: Maeght Edteur, Paris, 1967
Estimate: $2,000/2,500
This is Issue 164-165 of this highly collected art periodical produced by the Maeght Art Gallery - Derriere Le Miroir, featuring 20th. Century artists and illustrated with many original graphics. The double issue on offer features the work of Joan Miro and is No. 114 of the De Luxe limited edition of 150 copies signed by Miro. Unlike the trade issue, it is printed on fine handmade Velin de Rives art paper. Issued as a loose leaved portfolio in an originally Miro lithographed cover, protected in a custom chemise and matching slipcase. With 5 original Miro colour lithographs (one triple page foldout), 5 additional Miro colour lithographs (two double page) and 22 reproductions in black and white.
Lot 215
[Fitzgerald (Edward) Translator] Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Limited edition, war time printing, Cairo). Published: Mobile Maps Printing Co., Maadi, Egypt, 1943 Estimate: $600/700
This is an edition of 25 copies of which this is no 18.
Loosely inserted is a handwritten note signed by Amslie Beckett which describes the production of this volume as follows:
This Rubaiyat was printed in the camp of the Mobile Maps Printing and Printing Co of the UDF (Union Defence Force) at Maadi Egypt in 1943 as a means to overcome boredom.
I designed the book and did the illustrations, which were made from lino taken off the Officers Mess bar counter. The engraving tool was made from one of the stays of a broken umbrella obtained at a nearby convent. Some of the illustrations are in seven or eight colours.
Lot 282
Speke (John Hanning) My Second Expedition to Eastern Intertropical Africa (Pre-publication pamphlet)
Published: Saul Solomon & Co., Cape Town, 1860
Estimate: $2,000/2,500
This pamphlet is a slightly edited version of pages 155 -199 of Speke's What Led to the Discovery of The Source of The Nile (1864). At the start of his third expedition (the second journey to the Lakes 1860 - 3,) Speke travelled to Cape Town on the same ship as Sir George Grey, Governor of Cape Colony. Upon arrival Sir George obtained a donation of £300 from the Cape Parliament towards the cost of Speke's expedition together with the services of ten Hottentot volunteers.
Lot 309
Fleming (Ian). Live and Let Die. Published: Jonathan Cape, London, 1954 Estimate: $1,500/2,000
First edition, first printing of the scarce second James Bond novel. The gilt decorations are moderately oxidised and dulled, as is common for this title, in this instance more noticeably on the spine lettering than on the medallion on the front board. Apart from this, a truly about fine copy. The boards are square and unmarked with no bumping of the corners or edges. Internally it is very clean and possibly unread with no markings or foxing. There is one tiny spot on the fore edge. In a supplied dustwrapper from a later edition which has reviews of the book on the rear flap and adverts for Moonraker and Diamonds are Forever on the rear panel. The dustwrapper is at least very good, complete and not price clipped (10s.6d.). The colours are bright with some light edge wear, most marked at the top of the spine.
Lot 331
Naval Intelligence Division Chine Proper. Geographical Handbook Series. Restricted Handbooks
Published: H. M. Stationary Office, London, 1944-45
Estimate: $400/600
Probably one of the best-researched set of books on China during the turbulent period, covering all aspects of the vast country under occupation, with revolutionary movements thriving, civil war and uncertainty of the future. China Proper seems to be among the rarest Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbooks of the Second World War.
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Image: Lot 3, Chorographie and Historie of the Whole World
