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Arts 5. Dom Gusman vole les Confitures chez le Cardinal, dont il est reconnu. Tome 2, 1. Adoration Des Mages. Tableau peint Chap. 6. par Eugene Deveria pour l'Eglise de St. Le Mesle inv. Dupin Sculp. A Paris chez Dupin rue St. Jacques A.P.D.R. [n.d., c.1730.] Leonard de Fougeres. Engraving, 320 x 375mm. 12½ x 14¾". Slightly soiled A. Deveria. Lith. de Lemercier. [n.d., c.1840.] and stained. £160 Lithograph, sheet 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Lightly Illustration of a scene from Dom Juan or The Feast foxed. £80 with the Statue (Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre), a The Adoration of the Magi is the name traditionally play by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage given to the representation in Christian art of the three name Molière (1622 - 1673). It is based on the kings laying gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh legendary fictional libertine Don Juan. before the infant Jesus, and worshiping Him. This Engraved and published in Paris by Pierre Dupin interpretation by Eugene Deveria (French, 1808 - (c.1690 - c.1751). 1865). From the Capper Album. Plate to 'Revue des Peintres' by his brother Achille Stock: 10988 Devéria (1800 - 1857). As well as a painter and lithographer, Deveria was a stained-glass designer. Numbered 'Pl 1.' upper right. Books & Ephemera Stock: 11084 6. Publicola's Postscript to the People of 2. Vauxhall Garden. England. ... If you suppose that Rowlandson & Pugin delt. et sculpt. J. Bluck, aquat. Buonaparte will not attempt Invasion, you London Pub. Octr. 1st. 1809, at R. Ackermann’s are deceived! Repository of Arts 101 Strand. London, July 18, 1803. Printed for J.Ginger, No. 169, Hand coloured aquatint, 280 x 230mm. 11 x 9". £260 Piccadilly; by D.N.Shury, Berwick Street, Soho. An illuminated band stand at Vauxhall Gardens, a Broadsheet, paper size 550 x 435mm, 21¾ x 17¾". pleasure garden and one of the leading venues for Mounted on album paper. £690 public entertainment in London from the mid 17th A pro-government broadsheet, published shortly after century to the mid 19th century. Revellers dance in the the demise of the 'Peace of Amiens'. It argues in favour foreground. of the continuation of income tax (introduced by Pitt in Plate to Volume III of Rudolph Ackermann's 1798) to maintain the army in the face of the 'Microcosm of London', 3 vols., 1808-10. Napoleonic threat. Numbered 'Plate 88.' upper right. It is the 'postscript' to "Publicola's addresses to the Abbey, Scenery: 212, 89. People of England, to the Soldiers, and to the Sailors", Stock: 10850 a 22-page pamphlet of the same year. Stock: 10044 3. Du bel Age oú les Jeux remplissent vos Desirs...[etc.] Wateau pinx. J. Moyreau sculp. AParis chez Surugue rue des Noyers et chez Gersain pont nôtre Dame. Avec privilege du Roi. [n.d., 1728.] Etching, 235 x 255mm. 9¼ x 10". £180 Young woman and three men gathered around a musical score and singing. Two columns of verse in French below. After Antoine Watteau ( 1684 - 1721), Plate 93 to 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy'. From the Capper Album. Stock: 10902 4. S.Carter's New Characters. London, Pub, by S.Marks & Sons, 72, Houndsditch. [n.d., c.1884.] Coloured wood engraving. Printed area 210 x 240mm, 8¼ x 9½". Margins creased and chipped. £140 7. [A compass rose.] Spectators in living room chairs around a sphere [Dutch, n.d., c.1620.] containing a cake(?) with ballet figures on top. Hand coloured engraved compass rose, sheet 100 x Stock: 10744 100mm. 4 x 4". Excised from an atlas and glued to card. £120 Finely engraved and decorated with floral and animal motifs, fine later colour. From a Dutch atlas. Stock: 10752 8. Rules, Regulations and List of A charming bookplate, the house of Ernst Klinger Members of the Carlton Club. (1900 - 1952) framed and reflected in a mirror, a spider London: Mitchell & Sons, 52, Parliament Street. 1873. on its web crawling across the foreground of the 8vo, original blue morocco gilt, club arms on cover. composition. pp. 96, interleaved, pages cut for index. Block strained; Klinger was a leading member of the 20th Century manuscript addenda throughout. £350 Munich School. Following his studies at the Münchner The Secretary's own copy for 1873 with all the Akademie during 1919-1924, Klinger became an additions and changes during the year witten in black adherent of ‘Die Neue Sachlichkeit’ (New Objectivity). ink. The Secretary at the time was Lt-Col Wm. Griffin This Expressionist movement, founded in Germany in Sutton. The gentlemen's club of the Tory party, the aftermath of World War I by George Grosz and founded 1832. As such the membership list is filled Otto Dix, combined a realistic style with a cynical and with politicians, including M.P.s Disraeli & Peel. From socially critical philosophical stance. the Lords are the Dukes of Wellington and Many of Klinger’s New Objectivity works, painted in Marlborough. One of the additions is Lord Randolph Paris and Mallorca during 1925-1927, were destroyed Churchill, father of Winston. Unique. during the Second World War. During 1927-1931 Stock: 10662 Klinger travelled regularly to Positano and Mallorca where he left a few works to survive the destruction of the War. In 1929, Klinger joined the Juryfreien, an 9. Six Sketches of Stoke-Say Castle organisation banned by the Nationalsozialisten in 1934. Salop [ink mss. front cover.] In 1939 he moved to New York and gradually Mr. Stockhouse Actor? [London: Printed by Day & progressed to Abstraction. His abstract works from the Haghe, c.1840.] 1940s and 1950s are lyrical in style and burst with Six rare lithographs stitched, complete, in blue paper colour. wrapper, oblong folio (280 x 380mm, 11 x 15"). Very By Luigi Kasimir (1881 - 1962), world renowned scarce. Wrapper tatty with tears. Some spotting and Austrian-born etcher and painter, born in 1881 in staining to plates, generally light, 5th and 6th most Pettau, a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. affected. £380 Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he Stokesay Castle, Stokesay in South Shropshire, is the studied under William Unger, who introduced him to oldest fortified manor house in England, dating to the the technique of the colored etching. Kasimir was 12th century. It is currently in the hands of English among the first to develop the technique of the colored Heritage. Views include different prospects of the etching. Prior to this, prints were usually handcoloured Castle, the Gate House, and an interior of the great with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard hall. All plates captioned and inscribed 'F.S.A.' and manner. Kasimir first did a sketch- usually in pastel. 'Printed by [except Pl.2] Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the He then transferred the design on as many as four to Queen.' six plates, printing one after the other and applying the Not in Abbey. colour on the plate, all done by hand. The finished Stock: 10716 etching is a true original. Ex: Collection of The Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd. Stock: 10852 11. Views Exhibiting the Exterior & Interior & Principal Monuments of the very Ancient and Remarkable Church of St Dunstan in the West, in the City of London To which is added an Historical Account of the Church by The Revd. J.F. Denham, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, Curate of St. Dunstan in the West and Sunday Evening Lecturer of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, &c. London: Published by F. Waller, 49, Fleet Street, & A. Northcroft, 97, Chancery Lane. Printed by Engelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co. [1832.] Book, folio (425 x 335mm, 16¾ x 13¼"), in original printed paper wrapper. Titlepage and five lithographic plates, some with hand colour, pp. 33, complete as 10. Ex Libris Ernst Klinger. issued. Some marginal foxing and soiling to plates; Luigi Kasimir [signed in pencil lower right.] [n.d., original tissue guards. Wrapper scuffed and stained. c.1940.] £390 Ex libris bookplate, coloured etching, 125 x 125mm. 5 The church of St Dunstan-in-the-West is in Fleet Street x 5". £550 in the City of London. The fine lithographs by William Gauci (1826 - 1854; fl.) after original drawings by Thomas Talbot Bury. Historical account by Joshua Frederick Denham. Rare with colour plates; Abbey refers to uncoloured illustrations. Abbet Scenery: 231. British Library: 000907471. Stock: 10914 12. Map of Iona. Ground plan of Abbey. Printed at the Iona Press, Iona. [n.d., c.1880]. 4to containing four bound pages, with two plans glued inside front and back covers. 240 x 180mm. 9½ x 7". Damage to back cover, small tears at edges. £190 Lithographs of the island of Iona, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, from where St. Columba converted pagans in Scotland and Northern England to Christianity. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and island became a major site of pilgrimage and many Ireland. Scottish kings have been buried there. The pamphlet Waterhouse Hawkins drawn and lith. [lithographs.] contains the following lithographs: a map of the island London: printed by J.L. Cox and Son, printers to the with descriptions of notable locations; McLeans Cross; Royal Asiatic Society, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's- Iona Cathedral and Choir; St Martins Cross; the Inn Fields. [book.] Printed by Graf and Soret. Nunnery with McLeans Cross; Port a Curriach; and a [lithographs only.] ground plan of the Abbey with a key. The Iona press Quarto, 6 pages, 295 x 235mm. 11½ x 9¼". With fold- was running towards the end of the nineteenth century out sheet of coloured lithographs.