Antiquarian Book Auction Preview
Rachel Littlewood previews the forthcoming antiquarian book auction, which includes
the Rosemary E Coleridge Middleton Collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The 56
lot collection includes furniture, works of art, silver, ceramics, manuscripts,
books and paintings. The sale promises to be exciting with just under 600 lots in
total.
Salvo For Russia (BK19/106) by Nancy Cunard and John Banting (Editors) is being
offered in the rare book auction with a pre-sale estimate of £3,000-£4,000.
The Antiquarian Book Auction to be held on 14th March 2018 offers a huge variety
of lots.
The auction starts with the Rosemary E Coleridge Middleton Collection of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge and family memorabilia. There are 56 lots in total, including furniture,
works of art, silver, ceramics, manuscripts, books and painting. Highlights include
an early 19th Century continental creamware wine cooler (BK19/4a) reputedly gifted
to Samuel Taylor Coleridge by a member of the Wedgwood Family, a set of six late
18th Century/early 19th Century Spode coffee cups and seven saucers (referred to
as a tea service by Derwent Coleridge) (BK19/6) used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Sarah Fricker, an early 19th Century gold and hair plait brooch initialled STC
(BK19/29) and the early 19th Century mahogany and inlaid secretaire chest (BK19/53)
of Derwent Coleridge (Son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
Second in the line up of the auction is a collection belonging to a Gentleman
from Dorset of miniatures and small portraits, totalling approximately 50 lots.
Highlights include an English School miniature portrait of a Naval Officer (BK19/58),
which carries a pre-sale estimate of £150-£200 and a miniature portrait of
a young man by Maude E Pilkington (fl 1888-1914), estimated at £100-£150.
There are approximately 500 lots of books, manuscripts and prints on offer including
Nancy Cunard and John Banting (editors) Salvo for Russia, a limited edition of new
poems, etchings and engravings produced in aid of the Comforts Fund for Women and
Children of Soviet Russia (BK19/106) with an estimate of £3,000-£4,000, JC Loudon's
The Architectural Magazine and Journal of Improvement oin Architecture, Building
and Furnishing (BK19/122) a 5 volumes set, 1834–38, which carries an estimate
of £300-£500.
Within the children's and illustrated books is Harry Clarke’s (illustrator) Fairy
Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (BK19/142) with 24 plates, a limited edition of
125 copies, signed by the artist (1919) estimated at £450-£650 and Taki Kwatei's
Japanese Paintings Flowers and Birds (BK19/143) a copy of twelve coloured woodblock
prints, Tokyo 1887, with an estimate of £600-£800.
Topical at the moment with the recent release of the highly acclaimed film starring
Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill Darkest Hour are two lots signed by Churchill.
One of the lots is the scarce and much sought after second book to be published
by Churchill The River War (1899) (BK19/328), 2 volumes with an estimate
of £3,000-£4,000 and then four volumes of The World Crisis by Winston Churchill
(BK19/329) dated 1923–27 are expected to fetch £2,500-£3,500.
In the science and natural history section of the sale is an illustrated book by
TS Cooper titled Thirty Four Subjects of Cattle (BK19/445), with 32 lithograph
plates with a pre-sale estimate of £250-£300 and Sir William Jardines The Naturalists
Library (BK19/458) in 14 volumes carries an estimate of £300-£500.
As always in the manuscripts section of the sale there are some extremely interesting
lots being offered, including Siege of Paris (BK19/528) – a manuscript
letter sent by balloon during the Siege of Paris with an estimate of £100-£200 and
a suffragette archive (BK19/528a), including a four page In Memoriam for
Emily Wilding Davison
(1913), seven suffragette broadsides and leaflets, including two on forcible feeling
and one of twelve pages about police brutality and various others, which is estimated
at £250-£500.
In the maps and prints, there is a fascinating Admiralty chart – Australia – South
Coast Port Phillip Surveyed by Lieutenants TM Symonds and HR Henry and Mr F Shortland
of HMS Rattlesnake Captain W Hobson (BK19/533) estimated at £300-£500 and James
Wyld's New General Atlas of Modern Geography (BK19/582), with 56 hand coloured
map carries a pre-sale estimate of £800-£1,000, whilst Guiseppe Vasi's Raccolta
Delle Piu Belle Vedute Antiche, E Moderne Di Roma (BK19/579) in two volumes
is expected to fetch between £1,500-£2,000.
The sale includes just under 600 lots in total.
Entries are currently being invited for the next Antiquarian book sale to be held
in September 2018.
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Antiquarian Book Auctions
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