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Click here to subscribeA collection of ethnic carved wooden figures, to include an Indonesian maiden wearing elaborate headdress inscribed to base "Fiwa Bali Indonesia", a carved African tribal figure, an early 20th Century carved bust of a young man wearing Balian headdress, a carved wood bookend in the form of a bird eating sweetcorn, a wooden figure of an Oriental monk wearing gilt decorated robes, and a carved wood figural bowl
* Sopwith Aviation. A Sopwith Aviation Archive photograph album relating to the Sopwith Wallaby biplane, 1919-20, photographic map frontis. showing the proposed route from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Brooklands, London, six photos of the Wallaby on the ground, twenty technical photos, mostly approx. 24 x 29cm and similar, mounted one to a page with printed captions in the negative, plus a further thirty-four smaller format images showing flight tests, figures and three of wreckage, mostly numbered and captioned in the negative, approx. 8 x 13cm and similar, some mounts chipped and damaged, not affecting photos, tissue guards det., and some def., ownership signature of S. C. Goodenough [Contracts Manager], to front pastedown, contemp. half morocco over cloth boards, with manuscript paper label marked Book 6 now det. from upper cover, worn, oblong folio. The Wallaby registered G-EAKS was designed to compete in an Australian Government prize for an England to Australia flight. It departed Hounslow on 21 October 1919 and on 17 April 1920 it crashed on the Island of Bali, from where it was shipped to Australia and rebuilt as an 8-seater transport. (1)
Zoete & Spies. Dance and Drama in Bali 1938 § Bowers (F.) The Dance in India New York 1953 § Iyer (K. Bharatha) Kathakali: the Sacred Dance-Drama of Malabar 1955 § Ambrose (Kay) Classical Dances and Costumes of India 1957 § Strangways (A. H. Fox) The Music of Hindostan reprint Oxford 1967 illustrations original cloth or boards dust-jackets a little rubbed and frayed; and c.20 others Indian and Southeast Asian dance etc. v.s.(c.25)
covarrubias (M.) Island of Bali, 1937 fldg. map, cold. and b/w illus., cl.; Wilson (J.) Aorangi, The Story of Mount Cook, 1968, dw.; Mayes (L.J.) The History of Chairmaking in High Wycombe, 1960, dw.; Bliss (W.) Rapid Rivers, 1935, cl.; with A Quantity of Volumes on various subjects including mountaineering (qty.)
A good post-war M.B.E., Second World War minesweeping operations D.S.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Commander J. A. B. Harrisson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Members 2nd type breast badge; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1944, hallmarks for London 1942; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, clasp, France and Germany; War Medal 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, 2 clasps, S.E. Asia 1945-46, Minesweeping 1945-51 (Ty./A./Lt. Cdr. (SP) J. A. B. Harrisson, D.S.C., R.N.V.R.), this last with official correction to last four letters of surname, cleaned and lacquered, very fine and better (6) £1600-1800 M.B.E. London Gazette 1 January 1951. D.S.C. London Gazette 9 May 1944: For enterprise and skill in minesweeping in H.M. Ships Bressay, Exmouth, Sycamore, Bouvet III and Light Craft. John Anthony Bernard Harrisson was born at Holbeach, Lincolnshire in February 1909 and was commissioned as a Temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in July 1940, when he joined the paddle minesweeper H.M.S. Queen of Kent, which operated out of the Firth of Forth. In December of the same year, having briefly attended the Hartlepool base Paragon, he was given command of the minesweeper trawler Ben Torc and, between November 1942 and June 1943, he served in a similar capacity in the Sukha, a whaler minesweeper. But it was for his subsequent command of the M.M.S. 272, in the period June 1943 to April 1945, and more specifically in "Operation SN. 123" - hazardous minesweeping operations in the Orkneys and Shetlands - that he was awarded his D.S.C., which distinction he received at an investiture in October 1944. Of his wartime career in minesweeping, his son wrote: I know one of his trawlers was sunk under him and he spent many hours in the North Sea before being picked up suffering from hyperthermia; he also had a very lucky escape when he paid a visit to the heads during the night - he returned to find a piece of red hot shrapnel in the centre of his blazing pillow ... I do know that he dismantled one of the very first acoustic mines that they had swept, but did not recognize - rather than detonate it in the usual manner, a net was cast over it and it was towed to shallow water and then very carefully manhandled on to the beach. In August 1945, after a brief spell at the training establishment King Alfred, and by now an Acting Temporary Lieutenant-Commander, Harrisson took command of the landing ship (tanks) L.S.T. 3020, in which vessel he served out in the Far East until August 1946 and was present at the Japanese surrender of Bali - his son was under the impression that he may have received a Dutch award on the same occasion, but no such distinction appears in Seedies. And his final seagoing appointment was in the "Danlayer" Lingay, following which he served out in Germany as a representative on the Control Commission, a period that also witnessed him returning to minesweeping duties, this time in command of ex-German Navy personnel and ships. Having then been demobbed, Harrisson lent good service to the Sea Cadet Corps, and was awarded his M.B.E. while stationed at the Akbar Nautical Training College, Heswell, Cheshire, which distinction he received at an investiture held in February 1951. In August 1954, however, he was appointed a Flight Lieutenant in the Education Branch of the Royal Air Force, in which capacity he served until relinquishing his commission in August 1963. A keen poet all his life, Harrisson died in Norwich, Norfolk in 1983; sold with a copy of his co-authored Minesweeping Nonsense Verses (a.k.a. PAD), published in November 1944, and his Catullus, The Dedication to Cornelius and the Poems about Lesbia, published in 1980, this signed by author; together with an e-mail from his son outlining his late fathers naval career, including a copy of a photograph of recipient in later life.
Chinese blanc de chine female statuette of Quan Yin with carved circular base, 47cm high Note-Quan Yin is one of the most universally beloved of deities in the Buddhist tradition. Also known as Kuan Yin, QuanAm (Vietnam), Kannon (Japan), and Kanin (Bali), She is the embodiment of compassionate loving kindness.
Indonesia - Java. D'Apres de Mannevillette (Jean Baptiste), Carte de L'Isle de Java, avec les Isles de Banca, de Billiton, et une partie de celles de Sumatra et de Borneo, [1775],. uncoloured engraved chart of Java and parts of Sumatra, Bali and Borneo, soundings marked, plate dimensions 505 x 683 mm (1)
Waley (Arthur) An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 50 de luxe copies on hand-made paper and signed by the author original pigskin t.e.g. others uncut rubbed 1923 § Waley (Arthur editor) The Year Book of Oriental Art and Culture 1924-1925 2 vol. plates loose in folder 1925 § de Zoete (B.) and Walter Spies. Dance and Drama in Bali with a preface by Arthur Waley 1938 plates and illustrations all but the first original cloth; and an ordinary copy of the first and 2 pamphlets on art 4to & 8vo (7)
Dickens, Charles, [The Works], London, Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd, [n.d.], large 12mo (180mm x 120mm.), sixteen volumes, half titles, frontispiece, plates, original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt With a number of other works including Sven Gillsater s We Ended in Bali (240mm x 140mm.), W. D. Christie s The Poetical Works of John Drydale (London, 1874), and The Sputh American Handbook 1958/59 (London & New York, 1958)
COVARRUBIAS (MIGUEL) Island of Bali, 1st ed, folding map frontis, plates (5 col.) plus photographic plates at rear, illustr, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, New York, 1937--BALFOUR (FREDERIC HENRY) Leaves From My Chinese Scrapbook, 1st ed, orig. cl, Trubner, 1887--and 10 others travel (12) LOCATION H
---. Chapman (F.Spencer) Lhasa: The Holy City, FIRST EDITION, introduction by Charles Bell, coloured frontispiece, plates, original cloth, soiled, spine ends rubbed, 1938 ~ de Zoete (Beryl) and Walter Spies. Dance and Drama in Bali, FIRST EDITION, plates, original cloth, head and tail a little faded, dust-jacket, rubbed, tears to upper and lower edge and extremities, 1938 ~ Story (Alfred Thomas) The Building of the Empire, 2 vol., plates, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, extremities frayed, 1898 ~ Sitwell (Sacheverell) The Cyder Feats, original cloth, tanned at spine and edges, 1927; and a large quantity of others, Miscellaneous, v.s. (qty).