John Ruskin (1819-1900), a group of three signed letters, comprising:two letters addressed 'Mr dear Sir', one stating 'You are quite at liberty to make any use of my letter you like - provided always you state that it was a mere answer to a private note', and another addressed to Mr Dean, 15th Nov 71, expressing thanks for 'permission to cast three pieces of these tombs: defaced as they are, the pieces of foliage above the shields of the Elinor one will be among the loveliest models I can use in the Oxford schools',another letter, addressed to Miss Rhoda, discussing an interesting letter and 'how glad I was of your father's recovery', signed 'JR', anda further letter, addressed to Allen, outlining he 'shall send off by tonight's post to Jowett ten sheets of The Bible of Amiens', going on to request catalogues to allow reprinting, signed 'JR', in a later leather folio (5)
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John Ruskin (1819-1900), an autographed draft manuscript lecture entitled 'Unused Arundel', expressing his distaste for contemporary art and its market, leading to a request for the Arundel Society to hire copyists to recreate the Italian Old Masters rather than relying on printing, (...Do you think that, if a group of figures by Perugino, or Luini, as beautiful in many respects as the original - would not be a better decoration for your drawing room than an oil painting - such as you are likely now to get of them - of an old gentleman with his family late at a party - or a drowned child and a starving dog tied to a mast!...), 7 pages, within a red folio, dated 1878, andan autographed letter to Mrs Elizabeth Salt, revealing the subtlety of his own sensibilities while instructing her in the art of drawing, and proposing, since there is 'no wholesome elementary book on drawing', that she wait for the third volume of 'Modern Painters' which will tell her better what she wants to know than anything else she could get ('...It seems very egotistic, but it is the truth, & I cannot help saying it...'), with the original autograph envelope, postmarked 30 August 1855 (3)
A collection of American photography books, 20th century and later, a quantity of books on American photographers, visual artists and authors, to include:'5x7' by William Eggleston, published by Twin Palms Publishers in 2006,'Some Women' by Robert Mapplethorpe and Joan Didion, published by Secker & Warburg in 1989, anda photographic folio of twenty-four prints: 'The Little People of America 1971' by Les Krims, published in 1972, housed in a cardboard box (65)Condition ReportWith some wear to the covers throughout and some yellowing to the pages cpmmensurate with use. The Les Krims photographic folio with tears and creases to the box commensurate with use.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), signed manuscript notes on Carlyle's 'Frederick the Great', 14 pages (numbered 5-18), c.3700 words, folio, text on recto only, each leaf window mounted, bound in brown morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt lettered on upper cover, in a blue folding box, '...For my own part, I don't trouble myself much about these 'rights', never being able to make out any single one to begin with, except the right to keep everything and every place about you in as good order as you can - Prussia, Poland - & what else...'Much of the text here was used in the published essay regarding the early years of the Austrian and Prussian monarchies, from the year 900 to 1667. Ruskin's notes on Thomas Carlyle's 'History of Friedrich II' in preparation for his essay 'Notes on the Economies of the Kings of Prussia' and published in his collection of essays on war, 'The Crown of Wild Olive', 1866.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a pair of mahogany folio cabinets, 19th century, each moulded top with inlaid ivory labels, over a pair of panelled doors complete with brass stylised moth handles, enclosing two compartments with glazed oak frames, each with leather pull handle and ivory inventory label, 60.5cm wide 46.5cm deep 77cm high (2) Provenance: Designed for the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, Bembridge School, then Carisbrooke Castle. IMPORTANT NOTE This lot contains ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding. This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018.
A collection of photojournalism books, 20th century and later, a quantity of photography books, predominantly from the Middle East, including:a fold-out print 'Panorama Istanbul 1955' by M Sinan Genim, published by Masa Publishing in 2013,a folio of twenty-eight polychromatic prints 'Poor Politicians: 28 Destroyed Posters of Lebanese Politicians in the Streets of Beirut', published by Sunday Books in 2011, and'Life is Elsewhere' by Sohrab Hura, published by Ugly Dog Press in 2015 (qty.)
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a pair of mahogany folio cabinets, 19th century, each moulded top with inlaid ivory labels, over a pair of panelled doors complete with brass stylised moth handles, enclosing two compartments with glazed oak frames, each with leather pull handle and ivory inventory label, 60.5cm wide 46.5cm deep 77cm high (2) Provenance: Designed for the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, Bembridge School, then Carisbrooke Castle. IMPORTANT NOTE This lot contains ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding. This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018. Condition ReportWith scuffs, surface marks and old labels thoughout commensurate with age. Some examples with the leather pull handles damaged. One example with the right hand door knob missing.
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876-1953), a collection of lithographic prints depicting various scenes from the First World War, c.1917, each housed in a numbered folio, published by Authority of the War Office for 'Country Life', from an edition of fifty, signed (60)Condition ReportWith marks, creases, folds and yellowing throughout commensurate with use. The covers with tears, creases and marks. All the plates are signed in pencil. Each of the individual folders are in fairly good condition, however the cover folder is in poor condition and the spin is damaged All of the prints are in fairly good condition with exception of 8 of the prints in the first volume which have large marks to the edges were they look if they have been stuck to something or been window mounted
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a pair of mahogany folio cabinets, 19th century, each moulded top with inlaid ivory labels, over a pair of panelled doors complete with brass stylised moth handles, enclosing two compartments with glazed oak frames, each with leather pull handle and ivory inventory label, 60.5cm wide 46.5cm deep 77cm high (2) Provenance: Designed for the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, Bembridge School, then Carisbrooke Castle. IMPORTANT NOTE This lot contains ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding. This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a pair of mahogany folio cabinets, 19th century, each moulded top with inlaid ivory labels, over a pair of panelled doors complete with brass stylised moth handles, enclosing two compartments complete with carved guilloché gilt oak frames, each with leather pull handle and ivory inventory label, 84.5cm wide 64cm deep 99.5cm high (2) Provenance: Designed for the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, Bembridge School, then Carisbrooke Castle. IMPORTANT NOTE This lot contains ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding. This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a pair of mahogany folio cabinets, 19th century, each moulded top with inlaid ivory labels, over a pair of panelled doors complete with brass stylised moth handles, enclosing two compartments with glazed oak frames, each with leather pull handle and ivory inventory label, 60.5cm wide 46.5cm deep 77cm high (2) Provenance: Designed for the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford, Bembridge School, then Carisbrooke Castle. IMPORTANT NOTE This lot contains ivory material. Please be advised that several countries, including those in the EU and the USA, now prohibit the importation of ivory items unless under specific conditions. Accordingly, prospective buyers should familiarise themselves with the relevant customs regulations of their country and ensure they are able to import this item prior to bidding. This item has been registered as exempt from the UK Ivory Act 2018.
John Nichols - The Works of William Hogarth. From the Original Plates Restored by James Heath, Baldwin and Craddock, large folio, 65 x 51cm, marbled boards, circa 1830sTotal of 116 plates (pages of plates) the spine is detached and board ends very worn, the contents have some water stains to edges, mostly confined to the outer margins, and some time staining
A REGENCY MAHOGANY FOLIO STAND IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS, CIRCA 1815 110cm high, 69cm wide, 73cm deep Condition Report: Folio stand with the marks, knocks, scratches and abrasions commensurate with age and use. The expected minor old chips and splits. Two small sections of moulding lacking where the hinged support meet the folio holders - see images. In generally good usable condition overall. Please refer to additional images for visual reference to condition. Condition Report Disclaimer
Nash (Thomas) Collections for the History of Worcestershire, London: for John White, 1799, second edition, tall folio, two volumes, rebound retaining part of original boards with attractive modern gilt calf spine with title and volume labels, fold out map, portrait frontispiece, vignette titles, various text vignettes, 81 plates and multiple fold out genealogies, scattered later added pages relating to the locations described; together with Amphlett (John) An Index to Dr Nash’s Collections for a History of Worcestershire, Oxford: James Parker for the Worcestershire Historical Society, 1894-1895, Parts I and II, large folio, original boards with pasted paper titles to front board (4)A Gloucestershire book collector
Photography & Erotica to include Hedgecoe (John) Possessions, London: Mitchell Beazley, 1978, folio; Basch (Peter) Photographs Female Beauty, Whitestone Book 43, 1963; Whitestone Book 40, 1962; Whitestone Book 44, 1963; Fawcett Book 537, 1963, and other volumes on Erotica and photography (qty)
A 19th century ship's log for the Royal Navy Swiftsure-class battleship HMS 'Swiftsure', kept by William Williams, commencing in Malta on 1st January 1873 and terminating in Barcelona on 31st December 1873, manuscript remarks, calendar and notes on current location within drawn tables, inserted with a loose watercolour of a ship with her officers and crew on parade fly leaf inscribed Malta and Devonport, marbled endpapers, inscribed front board, thin folio.*Notes- HMS 'Swiftsure', leading ship of the Swiftsure class, was built in 1870 and was sister to the later HMS 'Triumph'. Initially commissioned at Devonport in 1871 for the Channel Fleet. Found to be almost unbeatable as a performer under sail, she later relieved HMS 'Defence' in the Dardanelles in 1872, and remained in the Mediterranean until 1878. Later in her career, after a modernizing refit - which included being fitted with torpedo capacity, in the annual manoeuvres of 1893, Swiftsure asked permission from the Admiral to spread sail, as her engines were inadequate to generate the power required to produce the speed ordered. This was the last occasion in which a British battleship spread sail while travelling in company with a fleet at sea.
° ° Nolhac, Pierre De - Marie Antoinette ... 2 vols. coloured frontispieces and num. plates; gilt half morocco, folio, Paris & London, (ca.1900); The Decameron of Boccaccio, plates & other illus. (by Louis Chalon); original gilt cloth, roy. 8vo. for the Navarre Society, (?1920); with some other illustrated books (14).
![° ° [BIBLE] The Holy Family Bible ... with concise explanatory notes ... by The Rev. Alexander Fortestcu. 3rd edition, 2 vols](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/457d03e7-2838-480e-a3b4-b2fb009ac755/3ca1dc37-4a8d-4a41-a805-b30200e42958/468x382.jpg)
° ° [BIBLE] The Holy Family Bible ... with concise explanatory notes ... by The Rev. Alexander Fortestcu. 3rd edition, 2 vols (in one). engraved plates, old mottled calf, panelled spine and red label, cover bosses and with clasps, 4to. Bristol: printed and sold by Hill and Blagden, 1778; sold with an SPCK. Wildflower volume (lacks title). approx. 190 hand coloured engraved illus. at head of d-col. text; old half leather and marbled boards, folio (ca.1865).
° ° Holmes, Richard R. - Queen Victoria. coloured frontis., num. portraits and other plates (with captioned guards), text illus.; publisher's gilt red half morocco and cloth with panelled spine, gilt top, folio. London & Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897; Lang, Andrew - Prince Charles Edward. coloured frontis., num. other portraits and plates, text illus.; contemp, gilt ruled red half morocco and marbled boards, panelled spine, gilt top, marbled e/ps., folio. Goupil & Co., 1900 (2)
Encyclopaedia Britannica - Eleventh Edition - half red morocco over red boards, gilt titles to backstrip, teg. (not complete) and 'Bacon's Atlas of London and Suburbs" folio, , Carroll , Lewis " Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" MacMillan & co. 1899, The People's Edition, ills by John Tenniel, pictorial boards, very worn, " Pictorial Britain" Werner Company, Chicago 1894, black and white photo ills. obl. folio, Burney, fanny " Evelina", ills by Hugh Thomson, MacMillan & Co. 1910, elaborate gilt pictorial front board and backstrip, back board detaching, Furneaux, W. " Life in Ponds and Streams" Longmans Green and co. 1911, col frontis, ills., Ruskin , John, " Works..." George Allen 1877, 8 vols, full blue calf but backstrips and corners all very worn and bruised with loss, and other antiquarian and later vols ( 3 boxes)
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