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The Estate of Frank & Jill Jones — Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.

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Auction House:Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:367
Sale Title:The Estate of Frank & Jill JonesLots with images:367
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:343
Date:10-Dec-2018
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A Chinese lacquered drum stool together with a large earthenware jar, 19th century, the stool of open drum form, together with a stoneware jar, the stool 47 cm high, 44 cm diameter, the jar 35 cm high
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A Chinese export black and gilt-lacquered tripod occasional table, 19th century, the tilting octagonal top with concave-sided sections above the bird-cage platform and baluster stem on three outswept feet, the centre of the top finely decorated with a scene of figures in a garden surrounded by houses and a landscape beyond, floral and foliate decoration and borders throughout, 73 cm high, 65 cm diameter
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A George III mahogany and leather library arm chair, circa 1770, of typical 'Gainsborough' form, the square back and padded arm-rests with downswept supports above the generous seat, on square-section supports united by peripheral and cross stretchers, upholstered in green leather, 97 cm high, 72 cm wide, 79 cm deep. Provenance: Martin Allen Antiques, 30th August 2002
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A George III mahogany extending dining table, circa 1800, the half-round ends each with a plain frieze shaped to meet the tops of four chamfered square-section supports, on small brass castors, together with one leaf, 73 cm high, 178 cm long, 107 cm deep. Provenance: Connoisseur's Store, 27th April 1982. Other Notes: the ends serve well individually as side tables
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Two similar George III mahogany open arm chairs, late 18th century, each of typical form, one with a drop-in seat, one 97 cm high, 58 cm wide, 58 cm deep, the other slightly shorter
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A pair of mid Victorian rosewood side chairs, in the French manner, each with an open kidney-shaped back above a padded seat of serpentine outline, raised on turned and carved front supports. Together with a Victorian circular low foot-stool, 84 cm high, 49 cm wide, 53 cm deep
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A William and Mary oak gate-leg table, late 17th century, the oval top above a plain frieze with a drawer to one side, raised on reel-turned supports united by square stretchers, 68 cm high, 92 cm wide, 114 cm long (fully extended)
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A small collection of Chinese woven bamboo and wooden objects, comprising three containers, a small stool, a neck rest
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A large Chinese Dehua figure of Guanyin, 18th century, the figure standing with delicately modelled robed with a serene downcast expression on a fitted wooden base, 51 cm high (excluding stand)
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A Victorian walnut bed tray, with reading stand, rectangular, concave to the front, with a three-quarter gallery and a hinged reading stand to the centre, raised on turned hinged retract beneath the tray when not in use, together with a second antique reading stand, 9 cm high (reading stand and legs retracted), 62 cm wide, 46 cm deep
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Two antique oak boxes and a Georgian painted lead tobacco box, an English octagonal oak container with a brass swing handle, a Continental square box with cover carved with sea shells and pine cones, and a George III painted lead tobacco box of shaped square outline, retaining internal press, the largest 20 cm high (handle not raised)
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A group of three George III candle boxes and a cutlery tray, late 18th and early 19th century, the candle boxes all wall-hanging, two with sliding or hinged covers, one in fruitwood, two mahogany, together with a mahogany two-compartment cutlery tray of typical form, the tallest box 50 cm high. The tray, 14 cm high, 40 cm wide, 26 cm deep
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A group of mostly antique library and occasional furniture, a portable oak book-stand, an oak stool with split-cane seat, a bentwood chair with cane seat, library step, and a traditional-style mahogany low book-case with adjustable shelves, the book-case 92 cm high, 77 cm wide, 31 cm deep
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An antique oak and stained pine low bookcase, 19th century, the top with with a shaped crest above four shelves, on flattened bun feet, 121 cm high, 127 cm wide, 24 cm deep
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A George III mahogany chest of drawers, circa 1780, of rectangular outline, the top with moulded edge above two short and three long graduated and cock-beaded drawers, on shaped bracket feet, the brasses apparently original, the carcase and drawer fronts solid mahogany, the drawer linings oak, 110 cm high, 114 cm wide, 58 cm deep
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Two antique mahogany clothes airing rails, one apparently Georgian, with a rectangular frame with hinged extensions, raised on outswept feet, the other mid-Victorian, with rails extending from a central pedestal on a spreading foot, the larger, 113 cm high, 56 cm wide (not extended), 43 cm deep
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An antique French gilt metal mantel clock, late 19th century, in the Louis XV manner, the enamelled dial set within a case surmounted with a classical female bust and supported by volutes on a shaped platform base, with swags and other foliate decoration, 34 cm high, 24 cm wide, 14 cm deep
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A carriage clock, Thomas Russell & Son, late 19th century, of typical form, the enamelled dial within a gilt brass case glazed to the top and all sides, accompanied by the original leather case, the dial marked 'Thos Russell & Son 21262 Paris', the underside of the case stamped 21839, 14 cm high (handle not raised), 9 cm wide, 8 cm deep
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A group of seven assorted antique wooden small boxes, including a boxwood-strung mahogany box with velvet-lined interior, three Mauchline-ware boxes, and others, the largest 11 cm high, 15.5 cm wide, 10.5 cm deep
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A group of assorted small decorative items, mostly Oriental, including boxes, fan, small bronze sculptures, simulated ivory objects, and others. (one fan not included)
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A group of five Central Asian and Indian textiles, including small blankets, covers, and others, the largest 152 x 150 cm
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A Persian Qashqai rug, early 20th century, decorated with a central medallion within a red lozenge shaped field, the whole decorated with complex geometric and floral motifs, 190 cm x 135 cm
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A group of rugs, 19th/20th century, including a blue ground Pau Tu rug, a Persian flat weave and a baluch prayer rug, the largest 123 cm x 115 cm
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Three assorted decorative textiles, an embroidered Uzbek suzani wall hanging, an Uzbek ikat, a woven and printed cotton piece, and a European antique-style tapestry wall hanging, the largest 200 x 152 cm
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A Baluch rug, first half 20th century, of mushwani design with three main guls, 220 cm x 130 cm
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A Central Asian flatwoven rug, first half 20th century, with alternating triangle geometric motifs in horizontal registers, 298 cm x 148 cm
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An Anatolian Kilim, circa mid 20th century, with rams head guls against an ivory ground, 266 cm x 182 cm
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An Anatolian Kilim, early 20th century, with repeating geometric motifs within the central field, 290 cm x 202 cm
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A Persian tribal runner, circa 1900, with repeating boteh design against a red field, 270 cm x 111 cm
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A brass single bed, and an antique cast iron single bed, the brass bed 134 cm high, 102 cm wide, 203 cm long. The other 129 cm high
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William Wynne Ryland after Philips Wouwerman (c.1732-1783), a Hawking party 1765, etching, 32 x 46 cm (border)
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A group of five prints relating to Pioneering medicine and Science, 18th century, including portraits of Jenner, hunter, and Withering, an original Royal Jennerian Society diploma, and an illustration of a classical sculpture of Aesculapius
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Group of ten modern & contemporary Australian artworks, including paintings, drawings, and original prints variously by Peter Graham, Cici Cairns, Lisa Roberts, Cyril Ardern, and others, largest 111 x 60 cm
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Three contemporary photographs, together with another framed decorative work, largest 38 x 24.5 cm
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John Ogilby (1600-1676), three strip road maps: Oxford to Coventry, London to Oakeham, and York to Whitby and Scarborough, hand-coloured engravings, together with three smaller strip maps by other hands, largest 34.5 x 46 cm, largest, 34.5 x 46 cm, largest, 34.5 x 46 cm, largest, 34.5 x 46 cm, largest 34.5 x 46 cm
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Group of seven 18th century portraits, by Jacobus Houbraken (four) and other hands, mostly of men of science of medicine including Newton, Harvey, Sydenham, and hunter, each 36 x 23 cm (plate)
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Group of eight 18th & 19th century portraits, by various hands, of men of women of the arts and literature including Bach, the Mozart family, Beethoven, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Johnson, largest 31 x 34 cm
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Group of eight 18th & 19th century racehorse and greyhound prints, by various hands, of men of women of the arts and literature including Bach, the Mozart family, Beethoven, Joshua Reynolds, and Samuel Johnson, mainly engravings, mezzotints and a lithograph, largest 26 x 35 cm
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John Smith (1652-1743), three plates from the Loves of the Gods series, based on paintings traditionally ascribed to Titian 1708-1709, mezzotints, 42 x 28 cm
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Group of eight 18th & 19th century decorative prints, including a view of Christie's by Rowlandson, a depiction of one of the Trafalgar battles, and an original plate from Chippendale's 'Director', 34 x 22 cm
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A group of eight assorted early 19th century satirical and comical prints, by Rowlandson and others. Hand-coloured etchings and engravings, the largest 24 x 35 cm
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A group of five assorted antique Melbourne related works, a watercolour trompe l'oeil of a postcard with a bush scene, signed Jordan, together with three engraved Melbourne views, and another, the largest 33 x 23 cm
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Two antique Oriental works, a 19th century Chinese watercolour on silk landscape, and a colour wood-block print by Imao Keinen (1845-1924) of a jay resting on a fruiting oak branch, the print 33 x 23.5 cm, the watercolour 26 cm diameter
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Artist unknown (18th century), a set of nine late 18th century German botanical prints, hand-coloured engravings, each with a German and Latin description, with another print, 16 x 11 cm
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A Victorian cast iron umbrella stand and boot scraper, late 19th century, both painted in black, the umbrella stand 76 cm high
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A group of four contemporary corrugated iron garden sculptures, a giraffe and three duck figures, the giraffe 240 cm high
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A simulated stone garden bench seat, of typical classical style, 50 cm high, 127 cm wide, 42 cm deep
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A simulated stone garden bench seat, of typical classical style, 50 cm high, 127 cm wide, 42 cm deep
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A simulated stone garden bench seat, of typical classical style, 50 cm high, 127 cm wide, 42 cm deep
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A marble and cast iron garden table, formed of a rectangular marble top on an antique cast iron sewing machine stand, 72 cm high, 92 cm wide, 46 cm deep
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A Victorian Coalbrookdale 'Serpent and Grapes' pattern cast iron garden seat, each end cast with a dog's head terminal to the armrest above a support of an entwined serpent and fruiting grape vine, the ends now painted green, the design number 17597 and lozenge registration marks cast to the inside of each end, 79 cm high, 153 cm wide, 73 cm deep. Other Notes: this pattern is number 9 in the Coalbrookdale 1875 Castings catalogue, section 111, page 249. This particular seat appeared in a scene in the 1977…
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A pair of metal garden sculptures of cranes, the taller 94 cm high
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A pair of Victorian style cast iron and hardwood garden seats, one with arm-rests, the supports of each cast as sawn branches, both 83 cm high and 60 cm deep, the seat with arm-rest 100 cm wide, the other 155 cm wide
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A cast cement garden sculpture of a winged putto, on a plinth, the figure cast resting on an sphere, mounted on a separate classical-style plinth, 128 cm high overall
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An antique Korean iron-bound hardwood and pine box, 19th century, rectangular, the front half of the top hinged to open, with an iron latch and latch-plate and iron bound throughout, 38 cm high, 76 cm wide, 39 cm deep
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A vintage painted low open bookcase, of four shelves between slatted sides, in distressed green paint, 127 cm high, 85 cm wide, 28 cm deep
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A Colonial cedar cased bagatelle board, mid 19th century, the rectangular case with a hinged top opening lengthwise to reveal the playing field lined in black baize, resting on a separate stand extending telescopically at one end to support the open table, 93 cm high, 112 cm wide, 50 cm deep (table and stand together, not extended). Provenance: Parkside Antiques, Literature: illustrated in 19th century Australian furniture, by Lahy, Simpson & Simpson, pg 403, pl. 525
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A George III mahogany side chair, and a Georgian style open arm chair, the Georgian chair early 19th century. The slightly arched top-rail above a slatted back and a bow-front upholstered seat, on tapering square-section supports united by stretchers, 92 cm high, 54 cm wide, 51 cm deep
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A large quantity of books on English ceramics, including general and specialised works on a range of types and makers
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A group of folio works on English ceramics, including Nantgarw porcelain and the 'Green frog Service'
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A small group of books on English ceramics, comprising E. Meteyard, the life of Josiah Wedgwood, 1865 (2 vols), H. Owen, two centuries of ceramic Art in Bristol, 1873, and M.J. Guest, lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals, 1911 (2 vols)
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A group of reference books on antique silver and gold, (a part shelf), including London Goldsmiths1697-1837, and English goldsmiths and their marks
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A group of books on antique glass, ( half a shelf), mostly English, Irish and Scottish glass reference
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A quantity of catalogues on the Baur collection of Japanese works of Art, including prints, netsuke, ceramics, and sword fittings. Other Notes: this lot does not include the two duplicate volumes of the Baur Japanese prints catalogue shown in the Leonard Joel catalogue photograph of this lot
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A quantity of catalogues on the Baur collection of Chinese works of Art, including ceramics, jades, and snuff bottles
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A quantity of books Concerning Oriental ceramics, mostly Chinese, ceramics, including general and specialised works
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A quantity of books on European Literature, including general guides and a number by and Prout
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A quantity of books on international ceramics, mostly European and Near Eastern, including general and specialised works
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A quantity of books on Impressionist and modern Art, mostly thematic and monographs
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A quantity of books on history and Historiography, including classical to early modern European, with some historiography
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A large quantity of books on classical Greek Civilization, culture, and influence, including aspects of classical Greek civilisation, Art, archaeology, and influence
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The works of John Hunter, F.R.S, James F. Palmer, 1835, Vols I-IV (8vo) and accompanying volume of plates (4to), first edition, London, Longman, Rees, Orme [et al], 1835 (text vols) and 1837 (plates), contemporary binding, the text volumes in full leather, the plate volume in half-leather with marbled boards, the gilt-tooled spines uniform, the plate volume apparently complete with the 61 plates referred to (some of the folding plates worn and repaired). Vol. I with an anonymous contemporary inscription to…
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Anatomy of the Human Body, William Cheselden, 1784, 4to, twelth edition, London, J.F. & C. Rivington, J Dodsley, T. Cadell, R. Baldwin, T. Lowndes, 1784. Contemporary full leather (spine cracked), apparently complete with the engraved frontispiece and the advertised forty plates, former owners' inscriptions to the fly leaf
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A quantity of books on scientific and medical history, including leading figures and institutions
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The state of Europe, Gabriel Richardson, 1627, 4to, first edition, Oxford, Henry Cripps, 1627. Contemporary full leather, an early (1631) former owner's inscription to the title
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Annales of England, Francis Godwin, 1630, 4to, first English edition. (translated and enlarged from the 1616 Latin original), London, A. Islip and W. Stansby, 1630. Early gilt-lined full leather, with woodcut titles to the front and to the second and third books within the work and engraved portraits of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I, early former owners' inscriptions to the fly leaf and title
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Aedes Walpolianae, Horace Walpole, 1747, Aedes Walpolianae: or, a Description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk [...], 4to, first edition, London, privately printed, 1747. Full leather, the contemporary mottled calf boards rebacked, apparently complete with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, four engraved folding plates of floor-plans and elevations of Houghton, and an engraved frontispiece portrait of lady Walpole preceding the final part of the work,…
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La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri, 1928, La Divina Commedia, or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, translated by H.F. Cary and with 42 illustrations after drawings by Botticelli, London, Nonesuch press, 1928, numbered 430 of 1475 copies on van Gelder paper. In original gilt-lettered and tooled orange vellum.
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Johnson's Dictionary, together with two works by Boswell, Samuel Johnson, a Dictionary of the English language: 4to, two vols, sixth edition, London, J.F. Rivington, L. Davis, T. Payne & Son [et al], 1785. Half leather, the early boards rebacked, the first volume with engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson, together with a Folio Society edition of Boswell's life of Johnson, and volumes of Boswell's Journal. Other Notes: the sixth edition of Johnson's Dictionary, published the year after his death, was…
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Three volumes by Richard Wagner and Arthur Rackham [Illustrator], ring of the Niblung, 4to, vols I-II, 'The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie' and 'Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods', translated by Margaret armour, first eds, London, William Heinemann, 1910 and 1911, each in original gilt-tooled cloth, together with a further copy of vol. 2, in original dust-wrapper
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Two works by Jack Lindsay, the complete poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by Lindsay and illustrated with wood engravings by Lionel Ellis, London, Fanfrolico press, 1929, numbered 191 [of 325], in gilt-lettered full red-brown leather, together with death of a Spartan King and two other stories of the ancient world, London, Inca books, 1974, illustrated with drawings by Noel Counihan, hand-lettered Z (being one of the first twenty-five, lettered A-Z, of the edition of 1,000) and signed by both…
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A quantity of early leather bindings, including 18th and 19th century volumes, attractively leather-bound
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Old Colonial Architecture in New south Wales and Tasmania Hardy Wilson, 1924, Sydney, printed for the author, 1924, signed by the author and numbered 46 of 1,000 copies, in original gilt-lettered boards and generally very clean within, book-plate of Benjamin N. Fryer
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The complete catalogue of Chinese ceramics in the Topkapi Museum, Regina Krahl [et al], Chinese ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul - a complete catalogue, vols I-III, London, Sotheby's, 1986, the set numbered (in vol. I) 65 of 1,500, each volume in original cloth, dust-wrapper, and slip-case.
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The Leonard Gow collection of Chinese porcelain, R.L. Hobson, catalogue of the Leonard Gow collection of Chinese porcelain, London, printed for the author, 1931, signed by Leonard Gow and numbered 154 of 300 copies, in original gilt-lettered full red-brown leather and clam shell box.
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The Ludlow collection of Old English porcelain, Arthur Hayden [et al], Old English porcelain - the lady Ludlow collection, London, John Murray, 1932, hand-lettered G (one of eight lettered copies in addition to 100 autographed copies), in orginal gilt-lettered green half-leather.
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Later Chinese painting and calligraphy, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, later Chinese painting and calligraphy, 1800-1950, vols I-III, New York, Random house, 1986, each volume in original cloth, with their original clam shell case
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The Muslim Architecture of Egypt, K.A.C Creswell, Vols I-II, New York, Hacker art books, 1978 (reprint of the 1952 first edition), in original cloth
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Three volumes of master works of Islamic Art, Friedrich Sarre and Fredrik R. Martin [et al], Meisterwerke Muhammedanischer Kunst in Munchen 1910, vols I-III, London, Alexandria press, 1985 (facsimile reprint of the 1911 original), each volume in original cloth, with their original slip case
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A quantity of books on fine Eastern silks, including three lavish folio works: Patricia L. Baker [et al], silks for the Sultans - ottoman Imperial garments from Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Ertug and Kocabiyik, 1986, R.D. Jacobsen, Imperial silks - Ch'ing Dynasty textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (2 vols), Minneapolis, Mia, 2000, and K. Fitz Gibbon and A. Hale, Ikat silks of Central Asia - the Guido Goldman collection, London, Laurence King, 1997 - all in original cloth and slipcases
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A quantity of books on wine and spirits, mostly on wine, including general and specialised works on varieties, makers, regions, and appreciation, together with some on spirits
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A quantity of books on European history, mostly small-format academic studies on medieval and Renaissance Europe life, culture, and thought
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A quantity of books on ballet, including performance, design, memoir, and some old programmes
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A quantity of books on the English Language, the complete Oxford English Dictionary, including supplement volumes, together with a group on grammar and usage
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The golden Bough, James Frazer, complete, parts I-VIII and Aftermath, third edition, 1911 (1976 reprint), London, Macmillan
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A History of Greece, George Grote, complete, vols I-X, New edition, 1907, London, John Murrray
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A quantity of books on classical literature and culture, including Loeb Classics, together with a group of guides and dictionaries of classical literature and culture
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Nine volumes of the works of Walter Pater and one other, [Walter Pater], the works of Walter Pater, vols I-IX complete, 1901, London, Macmillan, contemporary gilt-lettered half leather. Vols I-VIII being from an edition of 775, while the uniform vol. IX ('Essays from the Guardian') was evidently a supplementary volume, together with a modern study on Pater
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The Cambridge Ancient History, parts I-X, variously second and third eds (mid-1990s reprints), Cambridge, Cambridge University press
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A quantity of books on opera, general works and monographs on opera composers and performance including the New Grove Dictionary of opera (4 vols) and a large number on Wagner and his work
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