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A GROUP OF CLASSICAL ENGRAVINGS AND PRINTS (7) TO INCLUDE: After Rubens 'The Head of Cyrus brought to Queen Tomyris' by Gaspard Duchange. Robert Bylth: 'Banditti Returning'. The burning of William Flower, 1555 (two prints). Nicholas Dufour 'Vue Sur La Meuse'. Matthaus Greuter 'Joseph fleeing from Potiphar's wife). Two small classical engravings, Bernard Picart.

Rare pair of bronze sculptures signed E. Blavier and representing Henry II Duc de Guise and the Duke of Bouillon Frederick of the Tower of Auvergne , both in arms, during the Battle of Marfee in 1641 ( against the troops of Richelieu), black marble pedestals, dated 1855 of mid-nineteenth century. Signed and dated. Very fine old patina. Emile-Victor Blavier is a French 19th Century sculptor who was born in 1821. Studied in Paris with A. Toussaint and Calmels. The Museum of Douai (France) keeps 9 works of him. Frederic Maurice of the Tower of Auvergne (1605 - 1652), Duke of Bouillon, Prince of Sedan, is a noble and a French soldier. His brother was the famous Turenne (1611-1675), Marshal of France. In 1621, he went to the Netherlands to learn the art of war under the orders of his uncles, Maurice de Nassau and Frederic-Henri of Orange-Nassau. On October 12, 1635, he took service in the French army as Field Marshal, commanding the cavalry of the Army of Flanders. He then took a large part in the civil wars, and delivered, with the Count of Soissons, the battle of Marfee against the troops of Richelieu (1641), he rallied to the king and commanded during the fighting in Italy. He is compromised in the conspiracy of Cinq-Mars (1642). He is arrested and imprisoned in Pierre-Encise, near Lyon. His wife threatens to deliver the principality and especially the fortress of Sedan to the Spaniards; the prince thus obtained more favorable conditions than expected after his double conspiracy against Richelieu and Louis XIII. When he was released in 1644, he went to Rome where the pope entrusted him with the command of his army. He was for a long time the soul of the Fronde. Henry II of Guise (1614-1664)is a French aristocrat, Archbishop of Rheims from 1629 to 1640, then Duke of Guise from 1640 to 1664, Prince de Joinville from 1640 to 1641 and Count of Eu from 1640 to 1657. He is the second son of Charles I, Duke of Guise, and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse. He conspired with Louis de Bourbon, Count of Soissons, against Richelieu and fought him during the battle of Marfee. For that he was condemned to death, but fled to Flanders. His property was then confiscated. Forgiven, he returned to France in 1643 and recovered the domain of Guise, while his mother received Joinville. He participated in the revolt of Masaniello in 1647. He then governs the "Republic of Naples", placed under French protectorate, but the Spaniards, considering themselves legitimate suzerains, counter-attack, destroy the republic and make prisoner Henry, who remains detained in Spain from 1648 to 1652. He tried a second campaign against Naples in 1654, but failed, partly because of an English fleet led by Robert Blake and present on the scene. He then moved to Paris and became Grand Chamberlain to Louis XIV. The battle of Marfeetook place on July 6, 1641, between the troops of Gaspard de Coligny, marshal of Chatillon, and those of Frederic-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, prince of Sedan. The principality of Sedan is in 1640 an independent Protestant principality whose prince, Frederic-Maurice of the Tower of Auvergne, welcomes the Protestants and factieux fleeing France and Richelieu. He also took part in the conspiracy of the Princes of Peace, with the Count of Soissons and Henry II of Guise, aimed at restoring the privileges of the feudal lords. Louis XIII sends an army to put an end to his actions, the prince of Sedan asks and gets help from the emperor, his personal friend. Despite the defeat, the royal army began the siege of Sedan, and Frederick Maurice of La Tour d'Auvergne negotiated his submission in a treaty (August 4) with the King of France, which gave him the command of the French Army. 'Italy. After a new conspiracy in 1642, the prince of Sedan this time had to negotiate his head against the principality, which was annexed to the kingdom on September 29, 1642.Height: 54cm;

A large late 19th century Joseph Gaspard Robert Porcelain candelabra. 28x51.5cm

A pair of late 19th Century French porcelain figure groups bearing faux Joseph Gaspard Robert marks, the tallest 15 cm high together with a small quantity of Limoges door furniture

A late 19th Century Continental porcelain framed oval wall mirror with applied cherubs and floral swag decoration to top, over a floral encrusted frame enclosing a plain plate, bears faux Joseph-Gaspard Robert monogram, blue underglazed, 25.5 cm wide x 32 cm high

A pair of 19th century porcelain figures of a continental lady and gentleman, blue underglaze R mark for Joseph-Gaspard Robert, each approx. 26cmH

A PAIR OF FRENCH PORCELAIN ALLEGORICAL FIGURES, having blue printed mark for Joseph-Gaspard Robert, the female figure holding a torch and a sheaf of wheat, standing beside a basket of fruit and in front of a dragon, the male figure holding a bunch of grapes, standing beside a ewer, each surmounting naturalistic bases moulded with foliate scrolls, height of tallest 15cm (2) (Condition Report: male figure has a repaired right arm, the female figure has some restoration to her arm and torch, with some small losses to leaves in her basket)

Faiyence de Marseille: 2 Schalen mit Kauffarteiszenen 18.Jh.quadratisch mit bewegtem gewölbtem Barockrand Rand in Schwefel und Mangan Streublümchen, im Zentrum Be- und Entladen von Kaufmannskoggen. Rückseitig jeweils Marke "R.X" Blindmarke Pfeil und "S" 20x20cm zustand 1-2 ohne Beschädigungen oder Rest. Wohl Manufaktur Gaspard Robert Marseille vor 1799.

A pair of late 19thC porcelain figures, modelled as a pan seller and a cobbler, printed mark for Joseph-Gaspard Robert, each 28cm high.

A late 19thC porcelain candelabrum, the candle arms modelled as tree branches with applied porcelain flowers, the central column modelled as a tree branch beside a gentleman holding a spoon and cooking pot, on a scroll base, gilt heightened, painted mark for Joseph-Gaspard Robert, 53cm high.

A late 19th Century Dresden porcelain oil lamp base, decorated with kittens chasing amongst wild strawberries, bearing faux Joseph Gaspard Robert monogram in underglaze blue, together with brass reservoir, now fitted for electricity and lace work covered shade, approx 60 cm high overall

Le Marchant (Denis). Memoirs of the Late Major-Gen. Le Marchant, for private circulation, London: Samuel Bentley, 1841, lithograph portrait frontispiece, 11 mounted lithograph plates on india paper, illustration, a few light spots, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, 8vo QTY: (1)NOTE:Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper verso: "The Right Hon. the Sidney Herbert M.P., from the author", and "only 100 copies printed". Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea (1810-1861) was Secretary at War under Robert Peel in 1845 and at the War Office during the Crimean War. He was a friend and confidant of Florence Nightingale.Scarce. The British Library copy entry states this is one of 90 copies printed, the inscription states 100 were printed. Denis Le Marchant's publication of the memoirs of his father Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, one of the finest of all cavalry commanders, his illustrious military career and great legacy.

A pair of German porcelain Rococo style mirrors in the Sitzendorf manner, set with cherubs and flowers, on scrolling frames, 46 cm long (one bears faux Joseph Gaspard Robert mark) CONDITION REPORTS Both have losses to the decoration throughout. The mirror with the female cherub - her wnigs have been restored and replaced. There is also a large area of restoration to the scrolling section on the right hand corner. The mirror with the male cherub - has been completed restored as well as other smaller bits of restoration on both. In need of a clean. Wear to the gilding, etc. See images including under UV for further detail.

Four 18th century faience plates, possibly by Veuve Perrin and Gaspard Robert Manufactory, Marseille, and a Mason's Cambrian Argil plate and two dishes, together with a Masons Ironstone China tureen and cover, decorated in the Chinese style with scenes of figures in gardens, 25cm high, a Masons porcelain dessert dish, with hand painted design of a grey wagtail, and a similar dessert plate with green woodpecker design (a/f)

A Pair of possible Joseph-Gaspard Robert porcelain garniture candelabras. Detailed with foliage and figures. [As Found]

Constantin (Robert). Lexicon Graecolatinum Rob. Constantini. Secunda hac editione, partim ipsius authoris, partim Francisci Porti & aliorum additionibus plurimum auctum, [Geneva], Heirs of Eustace Vignon & Johann Stoer, 1592, title printed in red and black, with printer's woodcut device, text printed in double-column, very slight water stain to extreme margins to final leaves (generally a clean copy), 18th century full diced calf gilt, joints cracked with upper cover detached, leather split (but mainly without loss) at head and foot of spine, thick folio, together with: Raleigh (Sir Walter). The History of the World, in Five Books..., Whereunto is added in this edition, The Life and Tryal of the Author, printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Benj. Tooke, etc., 1687, additional engraved title, with printed leaf The Mind of the Front trimmed and mounted to facing leaf, printed title in red and black, first leaf of preface with upper portion missing, 6 double-page engraved plates, including 4 maps (includes Arabia & India, The Middle East, Holy Land, and Sicily), some marks and minor defects, near-contemporary calf, worn, folio (with all faults), plus three further editions of the same work (1652, 1665 and 1677), each defective, but with some plates and maps remaining, worn in contemporary bindings, folio, plus other various antiquarian, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including La Vie de Gaspard de Coligny, Seigneur de Chastillon sur Loin, Gouverneur pour le Roi de l'Isle de France & de Picardie, Colonel General de l'Infanterie Francoise, & Amiral de France, Cologne, 1686, Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Fifteen Books. A New Translation, by Several Hands, adorn'd with cuts, 2 volumes, printed for A. Bettesworth and W. Taylor, E. Curll, and J. Browne, 1717 (first volume lacking upper cover), Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects, 6th edition, corrected, 1709, Tournefort, A Voyage into The Levant, volume 1 (of 3) only, 1741 (with numerous engraved maps and plates), Colonel Atwell Lake, Kars and Our Captivity in Russia, 1st edition, 1856 (bound in contemporary calf), John M'Gregor, British America, volume II only, 2nd edition, 1833 (with several folding maps of Quebec), R.C. Dallas, The History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone: including the Expedition to Cuba, volume II only, 1803, Clericus & Mangetus, Bibliotheca Anatomica, volume II only, Geneva, 1699, etc., all leather-bound, mostly 8vo, but including 11 folios (Qty: 6 shelves)NOTESSold as seen, not subject to return.

Ingegneria Idraulica/Hydraulic Machines Engineering. Prony Gaspard Clair Francois Marie Riche de. Nouvelle architecture hydraulique, contenant l'art d'élever l'eau au moyen de différentes machines, de construire dans ce fluide, de le diriger, et généralement de l'appliquer, de diverses manieres, aux besoins de la société... Premiere [-seconde] partie... Paris, Pierre e Firmin Didot, 1790-1796.Un'opera in 2 volumi in-4° (mm 314x234 mm). I. xij, 621, [3], 72 pagine. Le carte A2, G1, K1, P2, S2, Z3, Mm3, Nn4, Zzz1 sono cancellans. 15 tavole incise numerate e ripiegate, incise da Robert Bénard (qualche brunitura; qualche piccolo danno ai margini esterni bianchi). Numerose tabelle nel testo. II. Due parti in un volume. [1] (di 2, la carta congiunta bianca eliminata in tipografia), 203, [1], 38 pagine. Presente la carta bianca E4. In questo esemplare la seconda parte è legata a precedere la prima. 37 [i.e. 38] tavole incise ripiegate, numerate 16-52 (alcune firmate dall'incisore L. Geoffroy); sono inoltre presenti due tavole supplementari, la prima delle quali tratta da un fascicolo del Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique (qualche brunitura; margini esterni bianchi lievemente danneggiati, qualche strappetto senza alcuna perdita della superficie grafica). Numerose tabelle nel testo. A entrambi i frontespizi marca editoriale incisa su legno. Esemplari in barbe, completi di tutte le tavole. Cartonato coevo blu, dorsi lisci. Piatti in più punti abrasi, labbri dei piatti e angoli danneggiati. Cerniere fessurate, alcune mancanze al dorsi, in particolare a quello del secondo volume. Ai dorsi segnatura tardo ottocentesca su tassello in carta.Una delle più importanti opere dedicate all'idraulica e alle macchine idrauliche date alle stampe nel tardo Settecento. L'autore Gaspard Prony (1755-1839; vedi anche lotto 35) fu ingegnere di chiara fama, e insegnò presso la prestigiosa Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés, la più antica scuola di ingegneria del mondo. Di particolare interesse il secondo volume della Nouvelle architecture hydraulique, che offre la dettagliata descrizione di numerose 'machines à feu', ed è corredato di un ricco apparato illustrativo. One work in 2 volumes, 4° (314x234 mm). I. xij, 621, [3], 72 pages. Fols. A2, G1, K1, P2, S2, Z3, Mm3, Nn4, Zzz1 are cancels. 15 numbered folding plates, engraved by Robert Bénard (a few browned along folds, blank outer margins slightly frayed). Numerous tables in the text. II. Two parts in one volume. 1 of [2, the conjugate blank leaf cut away by the printer], 203, [1], 38 pages. Complete with fol. E4 blank. In this copy the second part is bound before the first one. 37 [i.e. 38] folding engraved plates, numbered 16-52 (some are signed by the engraver L. Geoffroy); plus 2 folding engraved plates numbered 1-2, the first one taken from the Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique (some browning, blank margins frayed, a few short tears not affecting the engraved surface). Numerous tables in the text. Woodcut publisher's device on both title-pages. Copy in very good condition, uncut and complete with all the plates. Light browning and spotting; minor marginal waterstains; some paper flaws. Contemporary blue boards, smooth spines. Covers rubbed, board edges and corners worn. Joints and extremities of spines cracked; upper portion of the spine of vol. 2 lacking. Late 19th-century shelfmark inked on paper label to the spines.One of the most influential works on hydraulics and hydraulic machines published in the late 18th century. The author Gaspard Prony (1755-1839; see lot 35) was a noted engineer, and taught at the celebrated Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés, the first formal engineering school in the world. Especially interesting is the second volume of the Nouvelle architecture hydraulique, which contains the detailed description of numerous 'machines à feu', supplemented with a rich illustrative apparatus.

ROBERTSON: (1763-1837) Etienne-Gaspard Robert. Belgian stage Magician, Physicist and a pioneer in developing phantasmagoria. Well remembered for his record on 18th July 1803 in Hamburg when he set an altitude record of over 8000 meters in a montgolfiere. He is also credited as the creator of the parachute. Rare A.L.S., `The physician E. G. Robertson pere´, one page, 4to, Paris, 30th July 1831, on the Tivoli, Pavillon Labouxiere, to Monsieur Monveau, in French. Robertson states `You have been so kind to make me expect few lines about my son at the Constitutionnel, I beg you to accord me this favour, here you have the article..´ With blank address leaf, in the hand of Robertson, to Monsieur Monveau, owner and editor of the Constitutionnel. Small staining, and minor age wear. Small area of paper loss to the address leaf as a result of the opening. G £800-1000The Tivoli, Pavillon Labouxiere, was the theatre that Robertson refurbished in 1826, between the Clichy and Blanche streets in Paris to perform his phantasmagoria shows. He used special lanterns on wheels which he called Phantascope, a forerunner of cinema. He scared the Parisians crowds with shadows in movement showing ghosts. Le Constitutionnel was a Parisian politics journal, created in 1815 during the Hundred-Days by Joseph Fouché 1759-1820, Duke of Otranto. Its first name was L´Indépendant.

James Bourne (1773-1854)CEDAR TREE AT LORD MIDDLETON'S ESTATE, PEPER-HAROWGrey washes36.5 x 25.5cm, unframed;Robert Price (1717-1761)A LANDSCAPE WITH A PONDPencil and grey washes18.5 x 28cm;Attributed to the Earl of WarwickA ROCKY LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURESPencil and brown washes33 x 28cm, unframed;and an aquatint of a A WOODED LANDSCAPE, by George Lewis after Gaspard Dughet

AMBASSADORS: Selection of signed pieces and album pages by various Ambassadors, Diplomats, Governor Generals etc., including Robert Howe, Morio Yukawa, Earl of Athlone, Noel Charles, Evelyn Baring, Edward Twining, Oliver Goonetilleke, Solomon Hochoy, Alfred Savage, Andre Francois Poncet (2), Gaspard Fauteux, Andrew Cohen, Franklin Gimson, Ambrose Dundas, Gideon Brand van Zyl, Kenneth Blackburne, James W. Robertson, Ernest Gruening, Georg Rosen, Gerald Hawkesworth, Hans von Herwath, Baron Emile de Cartier, Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Manlio Brosio, Vittorio Zoppi, Koichiro Asakai, Kemal Kavur, V. K. Wellington Koo, Anastas Hanania, Alvary Gascoigne, Gilbert Laithwaite, Walter S. Gifford, William J. Sebald, Winthrop Aldrich, Hafiz Wahba, Francis P. Matthews, Cheng Tien-His, Geoffrey Wallinger, Vladimir Velebit, Endelkachew Makonnen, Haruhiko Nishi, Pierson Dixon and many others. Each of the pages are annotated and numbered in ink in the hand of the collector and have tape stains to one edge, some of which slightly affect the signatures. FR to generally G, 142

Hues, Robert Tractatus de globis coelesti et terrestri. Frankfurt-am-Main: D. & D. Aubrios & C. Schleichium, 1627, 12mo, contemporary vellum, light browning, spine ends worn with slight loss; Pechlin, J.N. De purantium medicamentorum facultatibus exercitatio nova. Amsterdam: J. Wolters, 1702, 8vo, title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, contemporary calf, once rebacked, worn, cover detached; Arbuthnot, John Essai sur la nature, et le choix des alimens. Paris: G. Cavelier, 1741, part 1 only, 12mo, contemporary calf, some early marginalia, rubbed; Cheyne, George Regles sur la sante et sur les moyens de prolonger la vie. Brussels: J. Leonard, 1727, 12mo, title printed in red and black, contemporary red morocco-backed boards, spine gilt, slight spotting, extremities rubbed; Tissot, Samuel De la sante des gens de lettres. Lausanne: J.F. Bassompierre, 1769, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, neat repair to head of spine and corners; Rapou, T. Essai sur leatmidiatrique. Paris: Gabon, 1819, 8vo, 2 engraved plates, contemporary calf-backed boards, vellum corners; Monge, Gaspard Traite elementaire de statique. Paris: Courcier, 1810, 8vo, 5 folding engraved plates, recent calf-backed boards (7)