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ISLAS DEL GUADALQUIVIR S.A.

Seville: Islas del Guadalquivir, 1926

An original share certificate for this Spanish company. Signed in ink by the administrator to the certificate, and stamped with the validation / tax stamp. Now lightly mounted on mounting board, and covered in protective cellophane. Certificate measures 14" x 16^1/2" Mount is 17^1/2" x 20^1/2"

CAUTY, James.

Totnes: James Cauty 2005

First Edition. Limited Edition Print onto 315 gsm archival paper. Edition of 65 stamped and numbered (this is 06/65). Part of the 'Stamps of Mass Destruction' campaign also released as stamps and prints. Stamped and hand numbered in ink to front. "Cautese National Postal Disservice" certificate inclused. Has the "C.N.P.D. Stamps of Mass Destruction Limited Edition". This is one of James Cauty's famous anti-occupation of Iraq protest prints. These stamps were the subject of a legal action in 2003 by Royal Mail alleging copyright infringement. Dimensions: 32.8 x 30.5 cm. Excellent condition. Currently protected in archival film. James (Jimmy) Cauty, was formerly a musician with the band 'The Orb', and was a member of 'KLF'. More recently, he has been an artist, creating works of dissent, and working alongside artists such as Banksy and Billy Childish. He has been involved in Steve Lowe's L-13 Light Industrial workshop. He created the gift shop at Banksy's 'Dismaland'. His work also toured as part of the ADP (Aftermath Dislocation Principle) Riot Tour.

WOODWARD, William Harrison.

London The Medici Society 1929

First Edition. Octavo. Original cream dust wrapper, with red decoration to the front cover. There was a limited presentation edition in 1910. This was the first trade edition. Printed at the Curwen Press. 256 pages. 215 x 140 mm (8œ x 5œ inches). Dust wrapper has a tiny amount of nicking to the head and tail of the spine. A couple of spots / marking to the cream, otherwise in very good condition. Dust wrapper is neatly clipped. Clean and tidy pale cloth. Internally very nice condition throughout.

PEAKE, Mervyn

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1946

First edition, in second impression dust jacket (as is often stated). Bound in red cloth, Wartime economy paper. 438 pp. 220 x 140 mm (8Ÿ x 5œ inches).

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Londres / Paris Wichnyther / Basset 1766 Gravure sur cuivre, magnifiquement colorée à la main. Conçu à l'origine pour être vu à travers un zograscope. Titre en anglais et en français. 23 x 41 cm (image) ; En bas à gauche se lit : publié conformément à la loi du Parlement 1766. Taille de la feuille : 340 x 515 mm (13œ x 20Œ pouces). En très bon état, avec un très petit manque au bord gauche et quelques salissures mineures. Blanc au verso. Un zograscope est un appareil optique pour agrandir des images plates, car la forme de l'objectif améliore le sens de la profondeur montrée dans l'image. Le précurseur des images 3D ! Celles-ci étaient très à la mode à la fin du XVIIIe siècle.

Copper engraving, beautifully hand coloured. Originally designed to be viewed through a zograscope. Title in both English and French. 23 x 41 cm (image); Bottom left reads: Published according to Act of Parliament 1766. Sheet size: 340 x 515 mm (13œ x 20Œ inches). In very good condition, with a very small loss to left edge, and some minor soiling. Blank to verso. A zograscope is an optical device for magnifying flat images, as the shape of the lens enhanced the sense of the depth shown in the picture. The precursor to 3D images! These were very fashionable in the late 18th century.

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Antipodes 1900

- Two albumen prints - mounted on the recto and verso of an oblong of grey card. One side showing The Gap and South Head at Watsons Bay in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia (circa 1903); and on the other side a view of the town of Hobart, Tasmania (from Lansdowne Crescent) taken by John Watt Beattie. - Two collodion paper prints showing the harbour of Lyttelton, New Zealand by an unknown photographer, and a landscape view across the Bealey near Christchurch, New Zealand taken by E. Wheeler & Son - these also mounted on the recto and verso of an oblong of grey card. - One unmounted collodion paper print is of the Waimangu Geyser, which is located near Rotorua, New Zealand. This says JM2070 on the front - and possibly refers to the James Ingram McDonald (the painter, photographer, filmmaker, museum director, cultural ambassador, film censor, and promoter of Maori arts and crafts) and may have been taken whilst he was employed by the New Zealand Government Tourist Department in the early 20th Century. The geyser was known to erupt on a cycle of around 36 hours and would reach heights of up to 450 metres. Written on the verso of the photograph it reads: "The column of steam is about 1200 feet high". This geyser stopped erupting in 1904.

HESKETH, Henry

London Robert Sollers 1682

The title of the tract is: "A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London at Bow Church, September the 2d 1682. Being the day of their Publick Humiliation for the late dreadful Fire. " The fire started on 2nd September 1666. After the event King Charles ordered that there should be a day of fasting and public humiliation on the anniversary each day. This sermon was given on the 16th anniversary. Recent faux leather binding with gilt title. very good condition. The sermon itself is in very good, clean condition, with just a touch of darkening. 28 pages. 200 x 150 mm (7Ÿ x 6 inches).

OHLMANN, Aloys

2003

Limited edition print # 33 of 50. Limited lithograph of a cellist by the German artist Aloys Ohlmann (1938 - 2013). The work is part of a 'Good luck for 2004' New Year message (in pencil) to a friend from the artist and his wife, Maria. Also inscribed in pencil on the reverse, with artist's stamp, framed under passe-partout and glass. Can be sold with or without frame. Postage costs will differ. 275 x 190 mm (10Ÿ x 7œ inches). Aloys Ohlmann studied at Werkkunstschule Saarbrücken; and was a co-founder of der Gruppe Sieben Künstlerforum Galerie in Zwinger.

HIATT, Charles

London: George Bell & Sons 1895

Original grey and black hardback boards. Gilt titles. A little marking to the top of the front board. A touch of bumping to the boards. Internally clean, with just a touch of darkening to the end papers. Frontis illustration by Toulouse Lautrec. Numerous illustrations both in text and full-page plates on glossy art paper. Xvi, 368 pp. 225 x 150 mm (8Ÿ x 6 inches).

UNTERKIRCHER Dr. F.

Bruxelles Bibliotheque Albert 1962 Bibliographie de 159 livres anciens de la Bibliothèque Nationale d'Autriche, avec des exemples photographiques. Couverture souple. Propre et bien rangé à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur, avec un très léger assombrissement des bords de la page. Un très bon exemplaire. XIV, 112 pp + 66 planches en noir et blanc. 255 par 185 mm

Bibliography of 159 early books in the Bibliotheque Nationale D'Autriche, with photographic examples. Softback. Clean and tidy inside and out, with very slight darkening to the page edges. A very good copy. XIV, 112 pp + 66 black and white plates. 255 by 185mm (10 by 7Πinches).

COOK, Thomas after HOGARTH, William

London G. G. & J. Robinson. 1800

A large engraving showing Charles Churchill as a bear, holding a wooden club and a tankard of beer. Hogarth's dog, Trump, urinates on a copy of Churchill's "Epistle to Hogarth" This is a large format engraving. The print is 38 x 28.5cm and the sheet is 49.5 x 36cm. ((19œ by 14Œ inches). Most copies we have seen for sale are 19cm x 26cm. Very good condition with no significant edgewear. A few small stains only to the edges. There is a small repaired enclosed tear to the top border. Print area is very good.