ALBRECHT DÜRER Ill-Assorted Couple. Engraving, before 1496. 150x138 mm; 6x5 1/2 inches. A superb, dark and evenly-printed Meder I b-c impression, with all the details distinct, including the delicately engraved mountain contours on the horizon, and with little to no sign of wear. Trimmed on the plate mark. Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 93; Meder 77.- 10,000
Beswick Tan Dachshund 361 Pair Siamese Kittens 1496 grey Kitten seated 1436 and Royal Doulton white Kitten seated (4)
BONAVENTURA, Saint (1221-1274).Perlustratio in quatuor libros Sententiarum. Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1491. 2 volumes, small folio (305 x 214; 304 x 197 mm). Parts I-II: 227 signed leaves of 258, part III: 201 signed leaves of 203, 63-64 lines of commentary surrounding varying numbers of text lines, Gothic type in two sizes, rubricated and with red capital strokes, three-line initial spaces with guide-letter, many with red or blue painted initials. Modern cream-colored boards, vol. 3 half calf. Hain *3540. With three other incunable fragments, comprising: ALEXANDER Anglicus, Destructorium vitiorum, Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1496, 40 leaves (Hain *652); Johannes Aretinus TORTELLIUS, Commentariorum Grammaticorum de Orthographia, Vicenza: Stephan Koblinger, 1479, 107 leaves (Hain *15566); and Guillermus PARALDUS, Summa de virtutibus et vitiis, Basel: Wenssler, 1475, 168 leaves (Hain *12383). Sold not subject to return. (5)
RUSSIA -- A. G. HOUBIGANT.Moeurs et Costumes des Russes. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1817. Folio (430 x 290 mm). 50 hand-colored aquatint plates. Several plates stamped in ink with the initials A.G.H. Lacks the half title, but with the ad leaf present. Contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind. Condition: minor soiling; rebacked, heavily worn with most gilt rubbed off. Provenance: C. A. à Court (bookplate). Colas 1496.
BERNERS, DAME JULIANO: "A TREATYSE OF FYSSHYNGE WITH AN ANGLE" New York, Gillis Press, 1903. Bound in full gilt vellum with ribbon ties. Includes a wrinkled dust jacket and a damaged slipcase. 1 of 160 copies. Facsimile of the 1496 edition of Wynkyn de Worde.
TIFFANY STUDIOS Table lamp with geometric shade of rectangular green glass on fluted floral three-socket base with bronze patina. A few short breaks to glass. NOTE: This lamp was recently removed from a local attic and has been in the same family since originally purchased. Both shade and base stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK, the shade marked 1496, and the base marked 368. 25 1/2" x 20"
Italian Bronze Inkwell Possibly the workshop of Severo Calzetta da Ravenna, (Italian, active by 1496, died before 1543, first half of the 16th century or later Of triangular form, the lid with the standing figure, possibly Aphrodite, possibly once holding a mirror, the base with anthemion frieze and gadrooned border, raised on scrolling lion paw feet. Height 8 inches (20.5 cm). Cf. an inkwell in the form of Atlas holding a globe with a very similar frieze in the Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 1975.1.1399 C
5 vols. Wyeth. N. C. illustrator: The Pike County Ballads. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1912). 1st ed. Sm. 4to. orig. tan cloth. color pictorial cover label; light to moderate wear. Full page color illus. . b/w text illus. . pictorial endpapers. * Huneker. James. The Steinway Collection. . . American Artists. . . (New York). 1919. #1496/5000. Folio. orig. vellum backed bds. gilt; light edge wear. occasionally scuffed. With 12 tipped in color plates (2 by N. C. Wyeth). Internally clean. The Pictorial Life of Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: Bill Collins. 1923. 4to. orig. bds. pictorial cover label; occasionally scuffed. Color frontis. other illus. * Arthurs. Stanley. The American Historical Scene. Phila: Uni. of Penn. Press. 1935. 4to. orig. two-tone cloth; light wear. Color plates. other illus. by N. C. Wyeth. et al. * The 1936 Carlton House ed. of the preceding. 4to. orig. cloth; slightly dusty. front hinge stressed.
SPRYNG, RICHARD. Vellum document in Latin granting power of attorney to Spryng as Prior of Worspring Priory, written in secretary hand in brown ink. One leaf with oval red wax seal attached, approximately 132x325 mm sight size. not examined out of frame. Worspring Priory, Somerset, 8 August 1496
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Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins.
Woodcut, 1496-98. 390x283 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/4 inches, small margins. A good Meder II a impression, with the 16 birds but before the loss on Hercule's nose. Snake watermark (Meder 100, which he dates to around 1580). Ex-collection Karl Scheffler (Lugt 1644, verso). A very good impression with strong contrasts. Bartsch 127; Meder 238.
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The Prodigal Son.
Engraving, circa 1496. 246x191 mm; 9 3/4x7 1/2 inches. A brilliant, dark and richly-inked Meder d impression with strong contrasts and with all the delicate lines printing clearly. Small high crown with the letter A watermark (Meder 26, which he dates to circa 1530-35). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 28; Meder 28.
Group of Children's Tableware Items and Five Royal Doulton Female Figurines, England, including six pieces of Royal Doulton "Bunnykins," two Wedgwood "Peter Rabbit" dishes, figurines include Marguerite HN 1928, Valerie HN 2107, Sweet Anne HN 1496, Diana HN 1986, and Melanie HN 2271.
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The Prodigal Son.
Engraving, circa 1496. 236x190 mm; 9 3/8x7 1/2 inches. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder f impression, with all the fine wiping scratches printing clearly. Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark, several repaired tears, small loss in the blank space upper right corner, backed with laid paper. Bartsch 28; Meder 28.
HIPPOCRATES (pseudo-).De insania Democriti philosophi facetum epistolium . Translated by Rinucius Aretinus. - Theodoricus ULSENIUS (ca. 1486-1508). Carmina [Augsburg: Johann Froschauer, after 24 July 1503]. Chancery 4to (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 190 x 140 mm). Collation: a6 b4. 10 leaves. 30 lines. Types 4:130G (title), 3:92G (text). 19th-century pastepaper boards. Condition : Small tape repair to spine. Provenance : removed from a Sammelband in which it was the third item (no. 3 written on title-page); Munich, Royal Library (armorial bookplate, inkstamps, duplicate withdrawal stamps); Haskell F. Norman, bookplate (sale, Christie's, New York, 18 March 1998, lot 114). first edition of the apocryphal letter of Hippocrates to one Damagetus, relating the story that the people of Abdera having summoned Hippocrates to treat Democritus, the philosopher convinced the physician of his sanity. The tale was probably composed in the first century A.D. The Latin translation by Rinuccio Aretino, who had studied Greek in Crete and later taught it to Lorenzo Valla, among others, is accompanied in Froschauer's edition by three Latin poems by Dietrich Uelsen, attested as a physician in various German cities at the end of the fifteenth century. A friend of Conrad Celtis and of Hartmann Schedel, he published several poems on medical subjects. The last poem included here is the revised conclusion of his poem on syphilis ( In epidemicam scabiem vaticinium ), first printed (as an illustrated broadside) at Nuremberg in August 1496. Froschauer reprinted the broadside with a new ending later that year; the revised conclusion concerns a possible cure for the disease. Goff (+ Supp.) H-276; HC *8676; BMC, II, 399; CIBN tome II, fasc. I, p. 24; Klebs 522.1; Stillwell Science , 412; Norman Library 1075.
BOLLANUS, Dominicus (d.1496).Quaestio de conceptione Virginis Mariae. Venice: the R-printer [Adolf Rusch], n.d. but between August 1473, and not after 1475. 4to in three gatherings, respectively of 10, 10 and 2 (200 x 145 mm). 22 (of 30) signed leaves, 40 lines, double column, Gothic type, two-line initial spaces with guide-letter. First gathering tipped in with bookseller's waste from contemporary ms. on vellum. Near-contemporary flexible vellum with ms. title to spine. Condition: mild discoloration to some leaves, edges lightly browned and dampstained, hole to gutter of a10 and minor tear to gutter of b1, neither affecting text, damage from glued bookseller's waste to a10 and b1. Provenance: Ex Libris Leonis S. Olschki (Florentine collector and bookseller, with his bookplate).a commentary on the mystery of the immaculate conception, from the 19th-century library of famed Florentine publisher Leo S. Olschki. A rare work, no copy in ABPC in the last 30 years. Goff B-835; BMC I 63; GW 4616; H 3436*.
LEWIS, M[atthew] G[regory] (1775-1818).Tales of Wonder. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1801. 2 volumes bound in 1 (continuous pagination and signatures), large 8vo (255 x 165 mm). Contemporary green straight grained morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e. Condition: some soiling and rubbing. Provenance: inscription 'from the author' on title-page; unidentified engraved coat-of-arms pasted to foot of title-page. first edition, presentation copy, inscribed "From the Author" on title-page including the first appearance of five ballads by Scott: The Fire-King; Glenfinlas; The Eve of Saint John; Frederick and Alice and The Wild Huntsman. Tinker 1496.
JORDANUS, Nemorarius.In hoc opere contenta Arithmetica decem libris demonstrata. Musica libris demo[n]strata quatuor. Epitome in Libros arithmeticos diui Seuerini Boetij. Rithmimachie ludus qui et pugna numeroru[m] appellatur. Paris: H. Estienne, [7 Sept. 1514]. Folio (11 x 8 inches; 280 x 200 mm.). Printed in Gothic type. Title set within woodcut border, full-page woodcut on i8r and small woodcut illustrations and marginal diagrams throughout. Metalcut and woodcut initials. Disbound, and contained in a modern cloth box. Condition : Occasional light spotting. Provenance : occasional near-contemporary marginalia and "Iordani Arithmetica" added in ink to title, Estienne's name deleted, inked out on title-page and colophon.the first estienne edition of this important work on mathematics . This edition of the Jordanus Arithmetica is a fine example of early sixteenth century printing, complete with numerous mathematical diagrams. It is also a significant touchstone in Western mathematics, comprising Jordanus's work on the theory of numbers in ten books (edited by Le Fevre), as well as Le Fevre's own treatise on music, his epitome of Boethius's arithmetic, and an anonymous tract about the arithmetical game of “Rithmimachia”. Printed some eighteen years after the editio princeps Higman and Hopyl Paris edition, the Estienne edition of the Jordanus Arithmetica does not differ significantly from its predecessor, and in fact was probably printed from the same settings used in the 1496 edition. A scarce work of which ABPC records only 2 copies in the last 30 years, the Honeyman copy in 1979 and then the Macclesfield in 2006. Renouard Estienne p.16, no.4; Adams J324.
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The Adoration of the Lamb.
Woodcut, 1496-98. 390x280 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/8 inches, wide margins. A very good impression from the 1511 Latin text edition with strong contrasts. Bartsch 67; Meder 176.
Lot of (4) plush animals. Black "Burri" cat with arched back. 1496/10. Cream "Lamby" 1527/12. White "Flori" (1518/11) and black and white "Snucki" (1520/11) sheep. All have brass incised button in ear and paper chest tags.(3) Have cloth tags, (3) have hang tags.
ALBRECHT DÜRER Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins. Woodcut, 1496-98. 390x283 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/4 inches, small margins. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder III a-b impression with strong contrasts. Small crown watermark. Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 127; Meder 238.- 2,500
ALBRECHT DÜRER The Cook and His Wife. Engraving, circa 1496-97. 110x78 mm; 4 3/8x3 1/8 inches. A very good, well-inked Meder d impression with strong contrasts (Meder dates three impressions to around 1550). Partial crowned coat-of-arms with the letter P watermark (Meder 314, which he dates from around 1510 to 1570). Ex-collection the artist Peter Lely (Lugt 2092, center right recto). Trimmed on the plate mark. Lely (1618-1680) was the principal court painter to Charles II of England and one of the famed portrait artists of his day. His vast collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints was sold after he died in 1688 and 1694 for a then staggering total of around £26,000 (several million dollars today). Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 84; Meder 85.- 5,000
DUTCH SCHOOL: TWO DRAWINGS-SHIPS NEAR PORT Charcoal on paper, 7 1/8 x 11 5/8 in. or 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 in. (images, sight). Provenance: Ex Coll. John MacGowan (Lugt 1496); Seiferheld & Co., New York; present owner.
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The Beast with the Horns like a Lamb.
Woodcut, circa 1496-98. 393x280 mm; 15 1/2x11 1/8 inches. A superb, dark and evenly-printed impression from the 1498 Latin text edition with strong contrasts and no signs of wear. From the Apocalypse. Trimmed on the borderline, with portions of the borderline preserved on all 4 sides. Bartsch 74; Meder 175.
SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Secunda etas Mundi. Double-page wood-engraved world map from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 405x585 mm sheet size; discreet repair along fold on verso; matted; framed. Nuremberg, 1496
Slightly reduced version of the map which first appeared in 1493. Shirley 19.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), The Prodigal Son, engraving, 1496, on laid paper, watermark Bishop's Crest (M. 39, circa 1540-50), a good, strong Meder f impressio, P., S. 246 x 190 mm. IllustratedLiterature:Bartsch, Meder, Hollstein 28; Schoch, Mende & Scherbaum 9
ALBRECHT DÜRER The Monstrous Pig of Landseer. Engraving, circa 1496. 120x126 mm; 4 3/4x4 7/8 inches. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder a impression, with strong contrasts, warm plate tone and the fine wiping scratches distinct. Bull's head watermark (Meder 62). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. Bartsch 95; Meder 82.- 6,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER Samson Fighting with the Lion. Woodcut, circa 1496-97. 383x274 mm; 15 1/8x10 3/4 inches, narrow margins. A very good, dark and evenly-printed Meder d-e impression, with the breaks in the border line but very little wear in the image itself, with strong contrasts. Bartsch 2; Meder 107.- 3,000
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Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins.
Woodcut, circa 1496-98. 390x286 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/4 inches. A very good, dark and evenly-printed Meder II a impression, with strong contrasts and showing very little to no wear. Augsburg shield watermark (Meder 177, which he dates from the late 1500s). Ex-collection Heinrich Füssli (Lugt 1008, verso). Trimmed on the outside of the border line, tear at the central horizontal fold reinforced on the verso. Bartsch 127; Meder 238.
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The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seal.
Woodcut, 1496-98. 390x280 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/8 inches, narrow to thread margins. A very good, well-inked impression from the 1511 Latin text edition with strong contrasts, showing very few signs of wear and with the middle printing strongly and clearly. Ex-collection the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with their duplicate ink stamp (Lugt 1868, verso). Bartsch 67; Meder 176.
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The Apocalyptic Woman.
Woodcut, circa 1496-98. 391x280 mm; 15 3/8x11 inches, narrow to thread margins. A very good, dark and evenly-printed impression from the 1498 Latin text edition, with strong contrasts. Several reinforced worm holes on the tail and left hind leg of the dragon. Bartsch 71; Meder 173.
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
Christ at Emmaus: The Smaller Plate.
Etching and drypoint, 1634. 103x73 mm; 4x2 7/8 inches, thread margins. Usticke's first state (of 2). Ex-collection John MacGowan (Lugt 1496, verso); and Robert Dighton (Lugt 727, lower right recto). A superb, dark and richly-inked impression of this scarce print. Bartsch 88; Biörklund 34-K; Hollstein (White and Boon) 88.
APOLLONIUS RHODIUS.Argonautica. Venice: Aldus and Andrea Torresanus, 1521. 8vo. (156 x 91 mm). All blank leaves present. Greek type. Aldine device on title and final verso. Initial spaces with guide letters. Condition : Small discreet repairs on fol. H7. 19th-century olive morocco, gilt edges. Provenance : anonymous Athenian collector, sale Christie's, London, 29 November 1999, lot 29. Renouard, p. 90.5 “Cette édition est belle est tres rare"; Ahmanson-Murphy 174; Hoffmann I, 206; Adams A1312. FIRST ALDINE EDITION of one of the greatest epic poems of the Alexandrian era. Hoffmann noted that although the editor Francesco Asolano (Torresano) claimed in the preface to have collated numerous ancient manuscripts, he must have based his edition on the editio princeps of 1496.
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Samson Fighting with the Lion.
Woodcut, circa 1496-97. 378x276 mm; 15x11 inches, small margins. A very good, dark and evenly-printed Meder d-e impression with strong contrasts. Bartsch 2; Meder 107.
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The Prodigal Son.
Engraving, circa 1496. 246x191 mm; 9 3/4x7 1/2 inches. A brilliant, dark and richly-inked Meder a-b impression. Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. Bartsch 28; Meder 28.
ALBRECHT DÜRER Two woodcuts. Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins, 1496-98. 390x283 mm; 15 3/8x11 1/4 inches, small margins. A good Meder III impression * The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand, 1497. 385x280 mm; 15 1/4x11 1/8 inches, small margins. Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 127 and 117; Meder 238 and 218.- 2,500
Collection of Various Pottery To Include Lorna Bailey Cat Beswick Large White Two Handled Urn 1496-1 Masond Blue & White Ginger Jars Tony Wood Teapot and Chicken Jug Coalport Willow Pattern Ashtray Grindleys Cup Royal Worcester Tray Denby Bowl Davenport Sevres Teapot Victorian Plate Etc (20)
CRISTOFANO DI MICHELE MARTINI, IL ROBETTA
Adoration of the Magi.
Engraving, circa 1496-1500. 303x280 mm; 12x11 1/8 inches, thread margins. Fleur-de-lys in a circle watermark.
According to Levenson, this print is based on Filippino Lippi's painting of the same subject which dates from 1496 and is now in the Uffizi, Florence. Robetta also adopted passages from other contemporaneous prints. The hat above his signature, for instance, is copied from Schongauer's Adoration of the Magi (Lehrs 6), as are the heads of the ox and ass to the viewer's right of the Virgin and Child. Meanwhile, the landscape derives from prints by Dürer and the sky is based on his Virgin and Child with the Monkey (Bartsch 42) and Sea Monster (Bartsch 71). The original copper plate for the current lot is now in the British Museum and many extant impressions were printed during the 19th-century; earlier printings such as the current work are extremely scarce. Hind 10; Levenson, et als., Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1973, p. 296, no. 118.
HIERONYMUS [Saint Jerome] (c.347–420).Epistolae Sancti Hieronymi. Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 12 July 1496. Folio in 4's, 6's and 8's (320 x 230 mm). 6 ff. non num., 392 ff. C&p. First 2 leaves blank, 62 lines, Gothic and Italic type. 18th-century calf backstrip over marbled paper boards, marginal notations and text to first two leaves. Condition: some dampstaining, marginal repairs to final eight leaves; mildly rubbed and bumped. Goff H-175; BMC V 419; HC 8563*.
An Edwardian silver scenic menu holder 'GIVE ME A BITE' by Horton & Allday Birmingham 1901 cast with a nun Dame Juliana fishing with a folding strut verso 10.4cm (4 1/8in) wide 42g (1.35 oz)The earliest English essay on recreational fishing was published in 1496 shortly after the invention of the printing press. The authorship of this was attributed to Dame Juliana Berners the prioress of the Benedictine Sopwell Nunnery. The essay was titled Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle and was published in the second Boke of Saint Albans a treatise on hawking hunting and heraldry. These were major interests of the nobility and the publisher Wynkyn de Worde was concerned that the book should be kept from those who were not gentlemen since their immoderation in angling might 'utterly destroye it'. During the 16th century the work was much read and was reprinted many times. The Treatyse includes detailed information on fishing waters the construction of rods and lines and the use of natural baits and artificial flies. It also includes modern concerns about conservation and angler etiquette.
Baïf, Lazare de (1496-1547) and Erasmus Desiderius (1466-1536) Commentarius de Vestium. [Germany: No Printer, 1530]. Octavo, disbound, with an extensive note in Latin in an English hand dated 17 August 1540 below the errata (last page) and on the verso of the same leaf, title page dusty and toned, a few contemporary notes and underscores, 6 x 3 3/4 in. This rare work is about ancient Roman clothing, and includes an index. Estimate $400-600 A-E8, F4. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Condition requests can be obtained via email (lot inquiry button) or by telephone to the appropriate gallery location (Boston/617.350.5400 or Marlborough/508.970.3000). Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner Inc. shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
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The Small Courier.
Engraving, 1496. 110x80 mm; 4 3/8x2 3/4 inches, thread margins. A superb, dark Meder b impression of this scarce print with the 2 long vertical scratches above the horses neck. Ex-collection Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (Lugt 2612, verso). Bartsch 80; Meder 79.
ALBRECHT DÃœRER (german 1471-1528) "THE BABYLONIAN WHORE" from 'the apocalypse' Circa 1496-97. Woodcut. Sight size: 15 1/2 x 11 in. [Bartsch 73]. provenance: Private Collection, New Jersey. ,000-1,500 Matted, framed; with bottom margin (approximately 1 1/4 in), narrow margins at left and right and approximately 1/16 in. margin at top edge. -With text verso, as issued -Sheet: 16 3/4 in. x 11 15/16 in. (at widest). -With three tape pieces top edge verso affixed to mat -With two tape pieces outer left edge verso not affixed to mat. -With some visible (generally small) repairs in parts of margins, including a 1 in. repaired tear in lower margin. Margins at left/right with some tiny tears, breaks/losses to sheet. -Brown (rust?) marks at center left edge, in part of image/margin, and along parts of this same edge on verso. -Various pencil notations (from print seller?) along bottom edge recto/verso.
ALBRECHT DÜRER The Promenade. Engraving, circa 1496-97. 195x123 mm; 7 5/8x4 5/8 inches, narrow margins. A very good, dark and richly-inked Meder c-d impression, with the details on the woman's neck and headdress still distinct and with strong contrasts. Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 94; Meder 83.- 12,000
RICHARD EARLOM (ENGLISH, 1600-1660), TWO FRAMED MEZZOTINTS, AFTER DRAWINGS BY CLAUDE DE LORRAINE (FRENCH, 1496 - 1550), PRINTS FROM...Richard Earlom (English, 1600-1660), two framed mezzotints, after drawings by Claude de Lorraine (French, 1496 - 1550), prints from two different editions after drawings, both depict pastoral landscapes with cows grazing and figures in the distance, one hand-colored, one with text in lower margin "From the Original Drawing in the Collection of the Duke of Devonshire" and "No. 166", both framed and matted behind glass with wear consistent with age and use, neither examined out of frame, largest ss: 8 1/2" h. x 10 1/2" w.
1496 - 19th C. English Sheffield Candlesticks
Pair of 19th Century English Sheffield candlesticks, with etched glass shades, candlesticks 24" h overall. Property from various fine estates.
STELLA CLERICORUM. Large white-on-black title woodcut of holy monogram surrounded by vignettes of the animals symbolizing the Evangelists. [10] leaves. Gothic type. 4to, 204x142 mm, modern 1/4 vellum; some early underscoring and marginalia, adhesive discoloration on pastedowns. [Zwolle: Peter van Os, between 27 March 1493 and 1 December 1496]
Popular handbook for priests that first appeared circa 1475-78 and went through over 50 editions in the 15th century alone, most of which survive in only a small number of copies. Campbell 1616; Copinger 5652; GW M43949; Polain (Belgium) 3617. ISTC is00775500 locates copies at Brussels, Cologne (imperfect), and Copenhagen.
ALBRECHT DÜRER The Prodigal Son. Engraving, circa 1496. 246x191 mm; 9 3/4x7 1/2 inches, wide margins. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder h impression with strong contrasts. Large city gate watermark (Meder 260, which he dates from around 1575). Bartsch 28; Meder 28.- 9,000
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) woodcut The Beast with two Horns like a Lamb from The Apocalypse (B. 74; M. Holl. 175; S.M.S. 123) circa 1496/97 latin text verso 15.5 x 11in. unframed. Estimate ?200-300 This print has been cropped to the margins and suffered a fair loss to paper on the right hand side original text can be seen verso and also very obviously for paper patches applied to reinforce the work otherwise paper is in very good clean condition a few minor dirt marks scattered here and there. Precise nature of this print is not known. Please note we are not experts in Durer prints and do profess to be so. No sign of any watermark to the paper. Please refer to www.gorringes.co.uk where additional photographs are available. Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Gorringes Conditions of Sale.Sold for ?800
MISSAL, use of Constance.[Missale Constantiense]. (Incipit): Hugo de Landenberg dei et apostolice sedis gratia episcopus Constan[tiensis] ... Angsburg: Erhard ARatdolt, 1506. Folio (11 1/2 x 8 inches; 292 x 203 mm). Collation: (?10 ?4 a-p8 q6 [r-s]8 A-I8; A-D8, E10 [F]4. (?1 and [G]4 blank). 264 leaves (of 274, lacking ?1blank, quire [s] and [F]4 blank). Double column, gothic types printed in red and black throughout. Full-page woodcut frontispiece showing Saints Conrad and Pelagius flanking the Virgin with child, the arms of Hugo von Hohenlandenberg crowned by a bishop's mitre and staff at her feet, under an archway dated 1501, signed with the monogram of Jörg Breu (Nagler 1606), the frontispiece colored by an early hand, printer's device printed in red and black, numerous large historiated initials printed in red and black, large woodcut gothic initial opening text, smaller pearled lombards, printed musical notation on four-line staves. Contemporary printed correction slip pasted down on folio VIII (two-line rubric heading.) Impression of bearer type in lower margin of third leaf. Later sixteenth-century blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, original copper-gilt paper index tabs, two brass fore-edge clasps. Condition : Lacking 8 text leaves as above, including Canon leaf with historiated initial, last few leaves very worn and repaired, bottom section of ff. E6-8 [XXXVIII - XL in the second pagination sequence] torn away, paper replaced, and text renewed in early manuscript, leaves A1 andH8 loose. Provenance : Bock, chaplain to Hugo who sponsored the edition, contemporary autograph inscription at foot of the Bishop's letter (?3r); commissioning the edition ( Reverendissimi domini domini hugonis episcopi constantinensis capellanus Jeorius Bock proprium manus scriptura subscriptus ); later (17th-century) manuscript liturgy for women's churching and purification following childbirth on front free endleaf; a few contemporary marginalia (some cropped); Fürstenbergische Bibliothek Donaueschingen, inkstamps. the first of the constance missals printed by ratdolt. The edition was commissioned by Hugo von Hohenlandenberg (ca. 1457-1532), princely bishop (Fürstbischof) of Constance from 1496. His commissioning letter, which opens the text, "is dated 8 May 1504, which would be 15 days after the date on Ratdolt's colophon. Perhaps the dates were meant to correspond (cf. "viij men[sis] May" vs. "viij kal[endas] May"), or perhaps Hugo's letter was too far post-dated. At any rate, this would appear to be the first edition of Ratdolt's missal for Hugo of Constance" (Census of Renaissance Liturgical Imprints [Relics]). All five Ratdolt editions of the Missal are rare, because of small pressruns as well as heavy use. Of the present edition Relics lists 14 copies, the present copy included; to these VD-16 (which lists only two copies) adds one; of these 15 copies at least four are imperfect: Relics notes the defects of two, not mentioning those of this copy; the Bibliothèque Mazarine copy also lacks at least one leaf (the collation given in their online catalogue is incorrect) Only one copy of any of the Ratdolt editions is listed in OCLC (1505, U. Michigan). The binding of this copy may date from the 1570's (cf. Adolf Schmidt, Bucheinbände aus dem XIV-XIX Jahrhundert , 1921; plate 42). An inserted blank leaf following unsigned quire [r] in this copy bears a two tower watermark, Piccard 102367, Pfullendorf, 1575. This is one of at least two recorded copies with the manuscript inscription of Bock, chaplain to Bishop Hugo of Constance, at the foot of the first page containing the Bishop's letter: a different copy (also imperfect but with the Canon of the mass printed on vellum) bearing an apparently identical inscription (not transcribed), was offered in 1968 by Maggs (catalogue 913/146). VD16 ZV 11021; Weale-Bohatta 308; Proctor 10642.
801. A Pair of Italian Pheasants, ca. mid-20th Century
Male and female hand painted ceramic pheasants in stride. Bottoms marked Italy and 1496/625. each approx. 8"T x 11-1/4"L.
100/300 Sold: $155.25