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If any car deserves the title of 'Legend', it is the Audi Quattro. The Geneva Motor Show in 1980 was the arena for the launch of Audi's sensational Quattro. It was the first four-wheel drive production car (with the exception of the small production run of the Jensen FF) and with it, Audi dominated the World Rally Championship. The drivers in the very first Quattro team were Hannu Mikkola and Michèle Mouton. Their debut in the 1981 Monte Carlo Rally caused an absolute sensation. In one of those moments that made motorsport history, on a snow-covered surface ten kilometres into the very first special stage, Mikkola overtook a Lancia Stratos that had started one minute before him. Michèle Mouton was the first woman to win a major rally in a Quattro in 1981. It is arguably the most significant car of the post-war era. The initial plan was to build just 400 for the motorsport industry, but due to strong demand the Quattro went into full production and the first left hand drive versions were available in the UK in the spring of 1981, but the right hand drive followed in the Autumn of 1982. The four-wheel drive transmission’s ability to provide traction in all conditions meant that the car re-wrote the rule book in terms of road holding and acceleration.This example has been in the care of our vendor since 1991 and has covered just over 72,000 miles from new, which is low for one of these non turbo cars, they’re so often seen on double, or even triple that, such is their useability and reliability. The car is presented in very smart and original condition, having never been modified and it has clearly always been a cherished car. The history file is comprehensive, with 23 service stamps in the book and an array of invoices, including four extra services, most recently in June 2024 and others showing the various works carried out over the years. These are exceedingly rare cars today and this presents an opportunity to purchase an example which has clearly lived a rather cosseted life, at a fraction of the cost of a comparable turbocharged example. Consigned by Fraser Smith IN CURRENT OWNERSHIP FOR 33 YEARSHIGHLY ORIGINAL EXAMPLECOMPREHENSIVE HISTORY FILE WITH 27 SERVICES

Mercedes-Benz introduced the 'E-Class' to the market in 1985 with the cabriolet version available from 1991. The W124 series was designed to last many miles with awards presented and received for high mileage versions. Much of the 124's engineering and many of its features were advanced automotive technology, incorporating innovations that have been adopted throughout the industry. It had one of the lowest drag coefficients of any vehicle at the time due to its aerodynamic body which included plastic moulding for the undercarriage to streamline airflow beneath the car reducing fuel consumption and wind noise. It had a single windscreen wiper that had an eccentric mechanism at its base extending the wiper's reach to the top corners of the windscreen. The coupés and convertibles had optional rear headrests that would fold down remotely to improve rearward visibility when required.This rare low mileage Mercedes E220 automatic cabriolet, is finished in Almandine Red metallic with Mushroom leather trim and walnut facia. The car was first registered on 3rd August 1994 by Dingle Mercedes of Llandudno at a sale price of £38,500 to the first keeper who owned the car for 22 years until 2016 when he sold the car at 46,000 miles. On 19th October 2018 the car was sold to a Mr Holder at 48,000 miles who owned the car until March 2022 at a mileage of 56,500 miles when it was sold to its last owner who only sold it because of a lifestyle change by moving to Spain permanently in April 2024. Up until then, having spent many months searching for such a car as this, with its comprehensive history and outstanding condition, he had intended to keep the car for ever, being a member of the official Mercedes-Benz Owners Club. During this car’s life it has had 19 services, the last of which was carried out at 60,374 miles on 20th October 2023 and on the 23rd March 2022 it had the head gasket replaced along with the head being skimmed at 56,245 miles at a cost of £2,814.54. The specification and extras included metallic paint, diamond cut alloy wheels, leather trim, tinted electric windows all-round, electric mohair hood in black, classic radio, front arm rest, head lamp wash wipe, outside temperature gauge, wind deflector, and heated seats. The car comes with its original two sets of keys, full original Mercedes-Benz service pack with original fully stamped service book with 19 stamps and factory build sheet, also with the car are files with every service invoice and MoTs from new, along with lots of literature relating to Mercedes-Benz E220 cabriolets. This rare low mileage example is a true collector’s car and can only increase in value over the coming years as all Mercedes-Benz convertibles have done as history shows. Also, there are very few proper adult four seat convertibles being manufactured these days. Consigned by James Good. SUPERB SERVICE HISTORYONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES AVAILABLE OF THIS TREND SETTING MODEL

The BMW M635CSi was the brainchild of BMW’s Motorsport department and arrived to the market in 1984. Karmann manufactured the early 6 Series BMWs from launch in 1976 before BMW took production in-house. The engine was a development of the M1 supercar's 3453cc, 24 valve, six-cylinder unit producing 286bhp, the increased power necessitating chassis improvements which included altered weight distribution, revised suspension, larger brakes and a limited slip differential. There was also a close ratio five-speed gearbox and a more luxurious interior, while outwardly this ultimate 6 Series model was readily distinguishable by virtue of its 'M Technic' body kit. Performance was impressive with the M635CSi capable of reaching 0-62mph in around six seconds on its way to a top speed in excess of 155mph.This very nice example is presented in dark metallic silver (gun metal) with black leather interior. Its black leather seats are electrically operated and have the ‘M’ colour insignia on them. It comes with a very concise service history with many stamps in the service book and numerous invoices for work carried out on the car over the years and it also comes with a new MoT test certificate. This iconic sports car from BMW comes with electric windows, factory fitted radio and a good history file. Its powerful 3.5 litre engine is mated to a five-speed manual gearbox, providing plenty of acceleration and top end speed which is still comparative to many modern days sports cars of today. A great investment and/or addition to any collection. Consigned by James Good LOVELY EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE DESIRABLE MODEL IN GUN METAL GREYVERY GOOD SERVICE HISTORY WITH MANY STAMPS IN THE SERVICE BOOKCOMES WITH NEW MOT

When Mercedes-Benz replaced the popular 220 series in 1965, the S Class range was born. Much of the mechanical specification remained as before, but a new, sleeker bodyshell with lower roof and waistlines and a larger glass area was much more modern in design than the dated, finned wing appearance of its predecessor; supplementing the saloons there were, as always, both coupé and cabriolet derivatives. Power was provided by a choice of three overhead camshaft, six-cylinder engines; for the 250S, the 2,496cc motor produced 130bhp via twin carburettors with the 250SE benefitting from Bosch fuel injection and an increase in output to 150bhp, while in the 300SE capacity was raised to 2,996cc and power to 200bhp. Transmission was invariably an automatic four-speed unit. All provided respectable performance with the 250SE, for example, capable of 118mph and 0-60mph in around 11 seconds. As with all Mercedes-Benz models build quality was to a very high standard and the W108 ranged proved immensely popular until superseded in early 1970s.Originally registered on 3rd January 1967 this genuine right hand drive cabriolet is one of only 26 examples manufactured by Mercedes-Benz, thus making it very rare. In left hand drive guise 928 examples were built. Finished in Papyrus White with black leather trim, a black hood (which is new) and grey carpets. The first owner was a Mr Roy Reemer, a photographer based in Fleet Street he kept the car for two years. In 1969 Mrs. Lois Winifred Le Roux of 9, Royal Crescent, Bath, purchased the car from Normans (Mayfair) Ltd the official Mercedes concessionaires in London. The sale price in 1969 was £3,950 the bill of sale and green logbook are both in the history file. Mrs. Le Roux kept the car for 52 years until she passed away in February 2021, the car was passed to her daughter Mrs. Ariane Davies-Gilbert of the same address in Bath. While in the hands of Mrs. Le Roux the car underwent substantial renovation work with invoices exceeding £25,000 in the history folder. The work included a full repaint, two new doors, new boot lid, new oil pump, gearbox overhaul, new brake calipers, fuel lines and radiator. The work was undertaken by marque specialist John Tallis (Bath) Ltd and Mercedes dealer H.D. Day & Son Ltd.Whilst in the hands of Mrs. Davies-Gilbert the car underwent further work, carried out by Jworx Classic Specialist in Gloucester. This included a full service, new stainless-steel exhaust, new water pump, new suspension links and a new battery. This work totalled just over £7,000 with invoices in the file. In late 2021 the car was purchased by the current registered keeper, a fastidious and knowledgeable classic car enthusiast. He has invested further time and funds to ensure this Mercedes-Benz 250SE Cabriolet presents in the best possible condition. Work carried out during his stewardship includes extensive re-chroming, new front and rear discs and brake pads, replacement heater box and matrix, new rear shock absorbers and a full overhaul of the fuel injection pump by F. C. Penticost. Supplied with a V5C registration document, two keys, jack together with a wheelbrace and a comprehensive history file including a fuel rationing book from 1973. This 250SE Cabriolet is a truly delightful example and would grace any collection. Consigned by Stewart Banks. ONE OF ONLY 26 GENUINE RIGHT HAND DRIVE EXAMPLESHAS A FABULOUS AND INTERESTING HISTORY FOLDERONLY THREE PREVIOUS KEEPERSPRESENTS IN DELIGHTFUL CONDITION

The Mercedes-Benz R129 models were produced from 1989 through to 2001 and were sold under the "SL-Class' model names. The R129 was based on the shortened floor pan of the Mercedes-Benz W124 saloon and featured many innovative details seen for the time. For example, electronically controlled shock absorbers (optional) and a hidden, automatically extending roll-over bar. The level of standard equipment was high, with electrically operated windows, mirrors, seats and convertible hood.Built to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Stirling Moss' win in the 1955 Mille Miglia road race, the R129 Mille Miglia was available as either a 320SL or 500SL. It could only be ordered in Brilliant Silver Metallic, equipped with Evo II six-spoke polished alloys and a red and black leather interior, complemented by carbon-fibre trim. The lower wing grilles were also given a unique 'chequered flag' treatment that, upon close inspection, is a clever collection of chrome squares.Finished in Brilliant Silver with contrasting Black and Red leather interior, the Mille Miglia Special Edition 320SL on offer here presents beautifully and boasts climate control, cruise control, hard top, full electric power roof, heated and electric seats. A rare 1 of 40 limited edition cars, this example scored an impressive 90 out of 100 in an assured inspection by the very well regarded SL shop in February of this year. First registered on the 22nd August 1995 by Mr. Burgin, who according to the supplied original purchase receipt paid £64,850 for the car. Boasting an impressive service history file accompanying it, the service book shows 12 stamps at time of writing, the first seven of which were by Mercedes-Benz Coverdale.Supplied with a V5C registration document, a fresh MoT and service by known Mercedes Benz specialist, previous MoT test certificates, original books in their original wallet, invoices, purchase receipt and factory hardtop. Reported to be run and drive very well and benefitting from a fresh service and MoT, this rare and desirable special edition 320SL is ready to be enjoyed by a new owner. Consigned by Will Penrose. 90/100 IN SL SHOP ASSURED INSPECTION REPORTCOMPREHENSIVE SERVICE HISTORYRARE 1 0F 40 LIMITED EDITION EXAMPLES

Launched in late 1985, the 560SL convertible/coupé was the latest in Mercedes-Benz's long and much loved line of luxury sports cars that could trace its lineage back to the 230SL of 1963. In the 560SL's case its Type 107 bodyshell had debuted on the 350SL (introduced in 1970) and this timeless style would continue in production for another five years. The 560SL was powered by a 5.5-litre, overhead-camshaft V8 engine producing 227bhp, an output good enough for a top speed of 220km/h with 100km/h reachable in around eight seconds. There were improvements to the running gear in the form of anti-dive/anti-squat rear suspension, a limited-slip differential and revised steering geometry. Other noteworthy features incorporated as standard in this class-leading automobile included leather upholstery, anti-lock braking, anti-theft alarm system, stereo radio/cassette, leather trimmed steering wheel/shift lever, and an improved climate control system.Built in 1986 and first registered in March of the same year to its first owner in Japan, the Arctic White with Blue cloth interior example on offer here is rare. Not only in its V8 engine specification, but also in that it has only covered a mere 101,902Km, translating into only 63,319 miles. Presenting very well and having just benefitted from some recommissioning work along with a MoT test, it has been professionally stored in a dry, dehumidified unit for the past 10 years ever since it was imported into the UK. A European specification car, the car boasts the more attractive “Euro” bumpers, body etc. Boasting almost every optional extra except for heated seats and orthopaedic back rests, this meant that the 560SL is endowed with ABS, limited slip differential, driver’s side airbag, climate control, a foot operated parking brake, cruise control and much more.Supplied with a current MoT test certificate valid until September 2025, original books in their original wallet, original service book and copy of its Mercedes-Benz certificate of conformity. Whilst at the time only the American’s, Japanese and Australians were blessed with the 560SL, nowadays us Europeans also get to enjoy these fantastic pinnacles of the 107 range. Consigned by Will Penrose.*Interested parties should note that it has come to our attention that the soft-top for Lot 141 Mercedes-Benz 560SL has a couple of tears in it, one on each side above the doors. LOW MILEAGEEUROPEAN SPECIFICATION EXAMPLESUPPLIED WITH A HARD TOP

The Borgward Isabella Coupé stands as a captivating emblem of mid-century automotive design, exuding an elegant charm that has stood the test of time. Manufactured by the German automaker Borgward, the Isabella Coupé made its debut in an era marked by the pursuit of innovation and style. Boasting a distinctive two-door body, the coupé encapsulates the essence of European automotive aesthetics in the late 1950s. The car's exterior is a harmonious blend of curves and angles, with a graceful roofline that flows seamlessly into the rear wings. The chrome accents adorning the front grille and bumpers add a touch of sophistication, while the sleek, aerodynamic profile reflects the influence of the emerging space-age design trends of the time. Under the bonnet, the Isabella Coupé housed a robust four-cylinder engine, delivering a balance of performance and efficiency. The car's driving experience was characterized by a smooth suspension, making it a comfortable cruiser on both city streets and open roads. Inside the cabin, the attention to detail is evident in the carefully crafted dashboard and stylish instrumentation. The seats are designed for comfort, and the overall interior exudes a sense of refinement that complements the car's exterior aesthetics.This 1960 two-door coupé presents in two-tone paintwork with a saddle coloured interior. This rare example benefits from a Webasto sunroof and is offered to auction with both an operation and workshop manual and a lubrication service book. This rare example will require some attention to be fully enjoyed. With body styling reminiscent of a Karmann Ghia and an interior that features great ergonomics and retro-style instrumentation, it is easy to see why this Borgward represents a bygone era when automotive design was marked by a fusion of style and engineering prowess. Today, this classic beauty remains a sought-after collector's item, embodying the timeless allure of 1950s automotive craftsmanship. Consigned by Dominic Lake. WEBASTO SUNROOFRARE MODEL

The history of Aston Martin’s V8 saloon is well documented but what is less known perhaps is the final series, or Oscar India (October Introduction), especially when specified with the extremely rare (and in this instance original) dogleg ZF manual gearbox which sets itself in a league of its own with, according to the AMHT, 26 being built and only 15 of which were right hand drive. It should thus be noted that this is a genuine factory manual example and not mistaken for a later conversion.Still on the original 1983 registration and with matching numbers as confirmed by the enclosed Heritage Certificate, the factory options at the time were a manual gearbox, two rear fog lamps, Cibie headlights in the front grille and, interestingly, a rear silencer delete.Also enclosed is a large history file going back to delivery in the early eighties including the original stamped service book, owner’s manual, warranty card, old MoT’s and numerous invoices. The registration document shows only three owners and is probably the lowest produced configuration of the Oscar India with only twelve right hand drive examples complete with a manual gearbox ever made.Originally purchased through ​​​Victor Wilson Ltd. in Edinburgh by Robertson Baxter Ltd, (Distillers) in the original and present colour scheme of Raven Black with a contrasting burgundy leather interior. There then follows a comprehensive service history as well as a number of period upgrades including a complete engine rebuild to 5.7 Vantage capacity and X-Pack specification with new liners, pistons, valves, high-profile cams and larger carburettors and inlet manifold. Additionally, the correct ZF five-speed gearbox has been rebuilt with a short-shift added and new clutch. A full-flow, oil-cooler with thermostat has also been fitted as well as a Harvey Bailey handling kit offering a much-improved handling and roadholding driving experience with lower & stiffer suspension, rebuilt dampers, stiffer front anti-roll bars as well as the additional of a rear anti-roll bar. Also included is the original black leather owner’s manual (with pencilled notes), the original Aston Martin warranty and service voucher booklet as well as receipts for all work in current ownership which includes numerous works such as a gearbox rebuild by noted specialist Rikki Cann, an upgraded Powerlite high-torque starter motor, restored leather interior, re-lacquer of all interior woodwork and fresh carpets and door cards and finally, the engine rebuilt to Vantage X-Pack specification by Aston Martin specialists Oselli to the tune of £45,000 bringing works in recent years to over £67,600 since it was purchased by the current owner. This really does represent one of the most special and thoroughbred Aston Martins currently on offer. Consigned by Edward Bridger-StilleService history06/09/1983​ (0 miles) ​​Robertson Baxter Ltd, Distillers 27/10/1983 (​807 miles) Victor Wilson Ltd, Edinburgh 12/03/1984 (4,834 miles)​ ​Victor Wilson Limited, Edinburgh 21/08/1984 (​9,275 miles)​ ​Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, Newport Pagnell (New Power Steering unit fitted) 09/04/1985 (​13,983 miles)​ ​Doug Niven Cars, Berwickshire 22/08/1985 (​19,054 miles)​ ​Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd, Newport Pagnell 15/09/1986 (​26,832 miles)​​ Stratton Motor Company, Norfolk 26/06/1987 (29,718 miles)​​ Stratton Motor Company, Norfolk 03/03/1988​ (35,307 miles) Stratton Motor Company, Norfolk 07/10/1988 (​40,580 miles)​ Stratton Motor Company, Norfolk 21/02/1989​ (​42,429 miles) Romans, Surrey 05/11/2015 (48,515 miles) ​​CCCR (oil and filter change plus extensive works) 27/02/2020 ​(49,862 miles)​ ​Oselli (Engine rebuild to Vantage X pack specification including new a/c system & new brake servos.Work undertaken during current ownership01/05/2015​ New bonnet gas struts fitted 03/07/2015​ Harvey Bailey handling kit front & rear anti-roll bars, all lowered springs. 28/08/2015​ Gearbox removed Cotswold Classic Cars) 28/08/2015​ Gearbox rebuilt (Rikki Cann) 30/09/2015​ Patch box section above exhaust (not visible without removing exhaust and shields) Replace oil coolers and hoses, fit oil temp regulator, dismantle and grease prop, machine flywheel, replace clutch, refit gearbox, fit front anti-roll bars 23/10/2015 ​Recondition dampers, fit new suspension kit and rear anti-roll bars 05/11/2015​ Convert to full flow oil system, replace oil/oil filter 07/12/2015​ Jacking points, plugs fitted as per standard spec 18/08/2016 ​Electrical work (lighting) 12/09/2016​ Hazard warning switch & boot interior lamp 10/03/2017 ​New number plate lens 17/03/2017​ Supply of clutch fluid tank 18/04/2017 Petrol tank removed plus new sender. Fit new clutch slave cylinder plus gearbox removed 23/08/2017​ Gearbox rebuild (BPA Eng Ltd plus fiting of R.S. Williams short shift 06/09/2017​ Upgraded Powerlite high-torque starter motor 14/09/2017​ Starter motor fitted. New reverse switch supplied and fitted. Gearbox refit 06/10/2017​ New Clutch master cylinder 31/01/2018​ Restore leather interior 14/03/2018 ​New Battery 22/05/2008​ Remove all woodwork and send for re-lacquer 16/11/2018​ CCCR re-carpet boot 07/12/2018 ​CCCR re-carpet and replace door cards 12/04/2019​ Electrical works to hazard switch and windows 27/02/2020​ Engine rebuild to Vantage X-Pack specification including new a/c system & brake servos (Oselli) COMPLETE ENGINE REBUILD TO 5.7 VANTAGE X-PACK SPECIFICATIONGEARBOX REBUILT WITH ADDED SHORT-SHIFTHANDLING KIT, LOWER/STIFFER SUSPENSION & REBUILT DAMPERS

HARRY TITTENSOR FOR ROYAL DOULTON; ‘Guy Fawkes’, extremely rare figure, HN445, 1st version, model 226, 10 1/2in, (21-38), rare green cloak, 'Royal Doulton' backstamp and 'Guy Fawkes', 'H. Tittensor. sc', 'Potted by Doulton & Co' and 'HN445' in black script writing, height 26cm, rare showing Harry Tittensor as sculptor/designer, not as book states as C.J. Noke sc.Footnote: Estimate available upon request.Condition Report: For accuracy purposes, there are very minor glaze faults above the left shoe, light crazing to the glaze, otherwise excellent condition.

LESLIE HARRADINE FOR ROYAL DOULTON; a rare figure 'Rosamund' (with dog), rare version, introduced 1929, withdrawn by 1938, impressed date 4.5.30 (second year production), height 19cm. footnote this is an adaption of Irish Colleen with the addition of dog, please see page 215 of the Royal Doulton Figures book by Eyles, Dennis and Irvine for a Rosamund without dog. Condition Report: Restoration to the very top of hatband plooms, oxidisation to the blue of the dress, there is an over glaze fine chip to the edge of her cloak which appears to of happened in manufacturing, other good condition.

Martin (John) Paradise Lost: By John Milton, first edition, five parts only (of 12), Imperial Quarto issue containing the larger set of mezzotint plates, with only 10 of the 24 plates (2 to each part) as issued, platemarks each c. 355 x 255 mm (14 x 10 in), sheets c. 385 x 276 mm (15 1/4 x 10 7/8 in), tissue-guards, some damp-staining and spotting, surface dirt and browning, original roan-backed grey-blue wrappers, some general soiling and browning to covers, dampspines splitting, owner's ink inscriptions to inside front free endpapers of some, untrimmed and partially unopened, folio, Septimus Prowett, 1825-26; together with The Paradise Lost of Milton, with Illustrations by John Martin, 24 mezzotint plates, original morocco, gilt, 4to, Henry Washbourne, 1849 (6) *** Rare in the original parts. The engravings were greeted with outstanding critical acclaim, prompting the release of 4 further editions by the end of 1827. The critic for The Literary Gazette proclaimed: "we know no artist, whose genius so perfectly fitted him being the illustrator of the mighty Milton; and in what we have seen of his conceptions he has more than realised the highest of our hopes. There is a wildness, a grandeur, and a mystery about his designs which are indescribably fine:- the painter is also a poet." [The Literary Gazette, April 2nd 1825]. Provenance: Robert H. & Donna L. Jackson (book-label to inside of drop-back box). Literature: Campbell & Wees, 1992, nos. 26-49.

Martialis (Marcus Valerius) Martialis, collation: A-Z8 &8, italic type, initial spaces with guide-letters, &7 colophon recto otherwise blank, lacking final blank, some spotting, lightly browned, 20th century brown straight-grain morocco, spine in compartments and with gilt title and date, little rubbed and marked, g.e., 8vo (157 x 95mm.), [Venice], [Aldus Manutius], [December, 1501].  *** First Aldine edition, and one of Aldus' first pocket editions of the classics. Provenance: Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919), English lawyer and Liberal Party politician (oval gilt armorial book label to front pastedown); 'Rare. Coll & Perf. Acheson, 1824' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Philip C. Duschnes Rare Books (gilt book label to rear pastedown). Literature: Adams M689; Ahmanson-Murphy 47; Renouard 30:7; EDIT 16 CNCE 36108.

Harold Cohen, British 1928-2016,The rare set of the Homecoming series, prints to illustrate the play by Harold Pinter, 1968;9 lithographs in colour plus a signed book, each signed and dated, printed by the Curwen press, each sheet approx.: 50 x 40 cm, two 50 x 77 cm, the book published by Karnac, is signed by both Pinter and Cohen, dated 1968 and numbered 2/20, (prints are framed) (ARR) (10 including book)

Euan Uglow (British, 1932-2000)Duckoil on panel 74.2 x 49.3 cm. (29 1/8 x 19 3/8 in.)Painted in 1965Footnotes:ProvenanceClare BarkerWith Browse & Darby, London, 1983Lady Cecilia DugdaleExhibitedLondon, Browse & Darby, Euan Uglow: Ideas 1952-1991, 4 April-5 May 1991, cat.no.9Bath, Holborne Museum of Art, Euan Uglow: A Personal Choice by Craigie Aitchison, 14 October 2006-28 January 2007Chichester, Pallant House, The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, 11 May-20 October 2024, unnumbered LiteratureKeith Patrick, 'The Basic Idea and Beyond', Art Line International Art News, 1989, vol. 4, no.8, pp.34-40Euan Uglow, Browse & Darby, London, 1998 (ill.)Catherine Lampert, Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, p.86, cat.no.197 (col.ill.)Exh.cat The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House, 2024, fig.142, p.148 (col.ill)Renowned for his still life and figurative work, it is rare to see a 'nature morte' subject by Uglow. However, on the rare occasions when he did portray death (be that deceased bluetits, a sheep skull or a tongue), he treated each as a beautiful object, no different from fruit, flowers or a vase, deserving attention to their form and local colours. In her monograph, Catherine Lampert comments that 'It is hardly a surprise that most of these items are prized by gourmets and that Uglow had a reputation for good cooking and enjoying his food (this picture hung in the house he shared with Clare Barker at Langton Road, Camberwell) (Catherine Lampert, Euan Uglow, The Complete Paintings, Yale University Press, new Haven and London, 2007, p.86).Uglow studied at the Camberwell School of Art from 1948, under former Euston Road School teachers William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore, Lawrence Gowing, John Minton and Kenneth Martin, but as a close protégé of Coldstream followed him to the Slade School of Art in 1951. Considered by David Sylvester to be 'a true descendant' of Chardin (who had painted hanging ducks some two hundred years prior) in regard to his still lives, Uglow was also indebted to Cézanne and the Cubists in his approach to space and plane but maintained a traditional painting technique which relied heavily on painstakingly precise chalk markings and measurements to which the vertical and horizontal markings on his work bear witness.Painted in 1965 and on a large scale, Duck encapsulates this intense scrutiny Uglow fixed upon his subjects as he sought to meticulously capture the structure and essence of an object in painterly form. Here, the duck is suspended by string and bound at the gently inclined feet. There is a tenderness in the portrayal with no overt evidence of the creature's demise and the head resting peacefully on the table below. Set against a plain background, the sensation is theatrical with the duck (and its shadow) centre stage and rendered with Uglow's trademark precision. As with so much of his work, he has left visible the structural, geometric lines of symmetry used to create the perfectly proportioned and centred composition. Yet in the midst of this carefully constructed image, he appears to succumb to the sensual power of colour, luxuriating in the depiction of the duck's pink skin and green and blue plumage.Speaking of his choice to study Gestalt psychology as a supplementary subject during his Slade degree and recalling the genesis of the present work, Uglow thought of the oblique relationship between literature and art:'It doesn't mean you're influenced by the book, but it's nice to know somebody else had that same kind of reaction..... One weekend I tried to paint a dead duck. I suppose I had been painting this duck for five or six days and not seeing anybody. At the same time I was reading [Hermann Hesse's] Steppenwolf. I think it was the Sunday afternoon, I came downstairs and went into the street. Do you remember in Steppenwolf, he was walking along the street and looked into a bar where people were having a tremendously lively time? So I came down from my dead duck and everyone was coming from the Battersea Park Easter Parade and one felt a kind of parallel. And that's like the Gestalt. There was no influence, but one felt a kind of parallel.' (ibid, pp.86-87).With distinguished provenance having been owned both by the Artist's wife and Lady Dugdale, the present work is a tour de force of Uglow's nature morte painting and the finest example to have been offered at auction.We are grateful to Catherine Lampert for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECEAristotle's Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof., Containing, 1. The Signes of Barrenness. 2. The Way of Getting a Boy or Girl. 3. Of the Likeness of Children to Parents....7. The Prejudice of unequal Matches. 8. The Discovery of Insufficiency... 11. How a Midwife ought to be Qualified... 14. The Fabrick of the Womb. 15. The Use and Action of the Genitals. 16. Signs of Conception, and whether of a Male or Female. 17... 18. Instructions for Women with Child... to which is added a Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation: and the Pictures of several Monstrous Births, 6 woodcuts of monstrous births at end, lacking woodcut frontispiece (A1, repeat of illustration at end), corners frayed, fore-margins trimmed affecting text in some gatherings, some foxing and browning, contemporary sheep, worn, leather detached from upper board, loss to foot of spine and corners [ESTC R225441; USTC 3129514], 12mo, Printed for W.B. and are to be sold by most Booksellers in London and Westminster, 1695Footnotes:BETWEEN THE SHEETS - THE BOOK THAT TITILATED THREE CENTURIES. RARE EDITION WITH ONLY ONE OTHER COPY TRACED.Aristotle's Master-piece was 'the most popular book about women's bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s. More than 250 editions are known, but all are very rare...' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The work 'was still on sale, contents largely unaltered, in Soho sex shops in the 1930s' (Books and Babies, Cambridge Library, 2011) and James Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom peruses an edition of the book in Ulysses. The attribution to Aristotle is of course totally spurious and probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability. It was assembled from Levinus Lemnius's The Secret Miracles of Nature (1564) and Jakob Rüff's midwifery manual De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554). This 1695 copy bears the early ownership inscriptions of Winifred and Francis Witham. That a woman should own a copy is perhaps, in some ways, not surprising as it provides instructions on midwifery, advice on how to conceive, how to determine whether a woman is expecting a boy or a girl, how to tell false labour from actual labour, etc.; whilst in other ways very surprising as it also provides detailed recommendations and descriptions of intercourse, including racy poems, which earned the book its reputation as a scandalous sex manual. It also asserts the importance of female pleasure in order to conceive, thus justifying its openly erotic discussion of sex and the presence of woodcuts depicting naked women (cf. Mary Fissell, 'When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle's Masterpiece.' The Public Domain Review, August 18, 2015). No other copies of this 1695 edition have been traced at auction, and only one copy is recorded in institutional libraries (California University Library, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Shelf mark: *RG93.A71m 1695).Provenance: 'Winifrid/ Witham, her booke/ Anno Dom./ 1699', 'Francis Witham/ of South Normanton/ his booke/ God give him grace of alhis/ to looke/ Anno Dom./ 1699', contemporary early ownership inscriptions.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MALTON (THOMAS)A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated with the Most Interesting Views, Accurately Delineated, and Executed in Aquatinta, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, engraved calligraphic titles, engraved dedication to the Prince of Wales with hand-coloured aquatint vignette, letterpress list of subscribers, and 100 FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES, some with light foxing visible only in margins, others with margins trimmed (3 with loss of imprint, a few with imprint shaved, a number in volume 2 without plate numbers), full burgundy straight-grain panelled morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, sides with elaborate roll-tool borders and a carnation in each corner, inner panel with gilt rule border incorporating further carnations and spiral tooling, gilt panelled spine in 6 compartments separated by gilt tooled bands, gilt lettered in one compartment, the others decorated with carnations and pointille within borders of floral tendrils and drawer handle tools, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., slight rubbing to joints (upper one just beginning to crack at head), 404 x 295mm. [Abbey Scenery 204; B. Adams, London illustrated 1604-1851 (1983), no. 72, p.170-5], folio (405 x 300mm.), T. Bensley for T. Malton, 1792-[1801]Footnotes:ONE OF THE FIRST AND FINEST SERIES OF LONDON VIEWS - RARE HAND-COLOURED COPY IN A HANDSOME BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING.Thomas Malton (1748-1804) exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, and was principally known for his views of the capital's streets, squares and buildings. He also designed scenery for Covent Garden Theatre and ran a drawing school whose students included Turner and Girtin. The 100 meticulously observed views in the Picturesque Tour Through London were all composed, engraved and aquatinted by Malton, a remarkable endeavour at a time when the aquatint process was still in its infancy in England. The work represents the first large collection of aquatints of London, or anywhere else in the country, and includes views of Chelsea Hospital, Hyde Park, Grosvenor Square, Westminster Abbey, The Horse Guards, Charing Cross, St. Martin's in the Fields, The Adelphi, Covent Garden, Somerset House, St. Paul's, Mansion House, The Bank of England, Royal Exchange and Greenwich Hospital.'The Picturesque Tour is remarkable, if not unique, in that the 100 large plates of which it is composed were all engraved and aquatinted by the artist in person' (Bernard Adam). 'Like Horwood's Plan – and unlike works like Modern London or the Microcosm – Malton's book was pitched as a solo endeavour, a vision of the city produced by a man keen to establish his cultural credentials and capable of fine artistry, accurate perception, technological innovation and skilful composition... London looms in Malton in ways that most other contemporary illustrations fail to capture. The metropolis is not a threatening city in his works, but it is one that reaches up in great spires and vaulting arches, a place of proud ingenuity and soaring, untroubled magnificence' (Matthew Sangster, www.romanticlondon.org/maltons-picturesque-tour-intro/).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BRUNHOFF (JEAN DE)Le voyage de Babar, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, WITH FULL-PAGE PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A HAT SHOP opposite the title-page, and inscribed on title 'A monsieur et madame Gregory/en souvenir de Montana et de leur excellent traduction/hommage respectueux de l'auteur/Jean de Brunhoff', the original pen and ink illustration (image approx. 190 x 250mm.) depicting Babar in an overcoat talking to a shopkeeper holding up a hat, with 4-line caption below in distinctive cursive script ('Babar - Je voudrais un chapeau pour Mr. Gregory./Le vendeur - Voilà un modèle que je vous recommande./Babar - Très joli! Vous l'enverrez aujourd'hui/de ma part à Mr. Gregory au Chalet La Fenière.-', colour illustrations throughout, pictorial endpapers, contents shaken, occasional light foxing or toning, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, worn and soiled with some abrasions, tears to spine with minor losses, folio, Paris, Editions du Jardin des Modes, [1932]Footnotes:RARE ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWING OF BABAR IN A PRESENTATION COPY OF LE VOYAGE DE BABAR, the second in the series of Babar books. The illustration depicts Babar smartly dressed in overcoat, kerchief and hat in the interior of a milliner's, buying a hat from the shop assistant and requesting it be sent to 'Mr. Gregory au chalet La Fenière'. The book was gifted by Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937) to the recipients as a souvenir of their meeting at Montana, Switzerland. From an early age de Brunhoff suffered from tuberculosis, and spent much of his time (and eventually dying aged thirty-seven) receiving treatment at a sanatorium in Crans-Montana. In Le voyage de Brunhoff depicts a resort based on the town (with 'Hotel Suisse') where Babar, Celeste and the Old Lady go for 'le bon air des montagnes et faire un peu de ski'.Provenance: Monsieur and Madame Gregory, gift inscription from the author; later inscription ('To my darlingest Winkie, with all my love, Bernard, 1971') beneath a tipped-in bookplate on the verso of the title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WALCOTT (DEREK)25 Poems, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on the half-title to 'The Editor, Poetry Quarterly, compliments of Derek Walcott', publisher's wrappers, light soiling and wear, 8vo, Bridgetown, Barbados, Advocate Company, [April] 1949Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY OF NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING DEREK WALCOTT'S VERY SCARCE FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, inscribed to the editor of Poetry Quarterly, the poet Charles Wrey Gardiner (1901-1981), editor of the influential poetry magazine from 1940 to 1953.'My first book of poems was published privately in 1949,' Walcott recalls, smiling. 'That was my mother. The book was 25 Poems. It cost 200 dollars' (interview with James Campbell, The Guardian, 4 October 2008). First published in January 1949, this second edition appeared in April of the same year. This printing was issued in both cloth and, as here, in wrappers. All the issues are exceedingly rare.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND – CONVICT SETTLEMENT & HUTT VALLEY CAMPAIGNManuscript journal of Cecil Rice Arney (1806-1852), wife of Major Charles Augustus Arney (1808-1879) of the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot ('The Black Cuffs'), a daily account describing in detail her voyage to Australia on board the convict ship Graton, to Van Diemen's Land, thence to Sydney, the convict settlement at Norfolk Island and on to Wellington, New Zealand; during the voyage noting the ships position, weather and wind speeds, commenting on the conditions on board ('...I had no idea that the dirt, irregularity and bad management could have prevailed to such a degree...'), and much annoyed by '...the screams of two boys (convicts) who were undergoing corporal punishment...'; landing at Van Diemen's Land ('...the shops are as good as could be expected in a new colony... the climate delightful...'), Christmas Day in Sydney ('...roast beef & plum pudding notwithstanding the heat...'), anniversary celebrations ('...a Regatta – for which this harbour is little suited... a grand entertainment was given to 300 of the elite of Sydney...'), trips to Windsor ('...No signs of Royalty...') and Botany Bay ('...remarkably white sand and fine mirtles [sic] to the waters edges... Cooks Well... where that celebrated man watered his fleet...'), commenting on extremes of weather ('...the long continued drought followed by frost has now destroyed almost every blade of grass... rain fell like a waterspout...'), hunting for kangaroos ('...much the taste of a hare but less dry...'), staying at an inn '...kept by a very notorious convict woman who had made a large fortune...'; deployment to the convict colony at Norfolk Island, juxtaposing the beautiful land ('...fertile almost beyond imagination... a second Eden...') with its inhabitants who '...instead of being... reformed here, become tenfold more reckless of all laws... transportation in all its horrors... What will not unprincipled men do, when they feel they have nothing to lose... their treatment increases their ferocity... after all the outcry of the slave trade, to allow any English subject to be placed in such a position is a crying evil...', noting her husband's dispute with the chaplin Thomas Naylor, several escape attempts, murder ('...the body of a convict employed as constable found murdered and frightfully mangled...'), fire at the barracks, sickness, news of disturbances with 'natives' in New Zealand ('...eating the body of poor Cap. Grant... they put on the uniform again and send it back...'); the regiment called to New Zealand, the voyage and arrival at Wellington in February 1846 ('...what could have induced the selection of such a spot for an infant colony!...'), much on skirmishes in the Hutt Valley ('...the Mowries continue plundering the settlers... to draw the settlers into an attack...'), report of the 'horrid' murder of a settler [Andrew Gillespie] and his son ('...distressingly mutilated by tomahawks in their beds...'), the 16 May attack on the camp in the Hutt Valley ('...The day has been marked by bloodshed!!!...six soldiers killed and four wounded... this species of attack most cowardly...'), ensuing rumour and panic in the town, flooding ('... no end of disasters in this benighted land...'), Māori ambushes ('...coming out from time to time to plunder or murder with impunity...'), arrest of the Māori chief Te Rauparaha at Pororua ('...I do not hear that there was a shot fired on either side...'), the flight of Te Rangihaeata, the birth of her daughter Augusta, court martial and punishment of the Māori rebels, ending with their departure in January 1847 ('...I have had some very rough work on your shore, still I can not leave you without regret...'), and much else, c.220 pages, numbered up to p.181, in ink and pencil, outer leaves with addresses, notes and doodles, dust-staining, discolouration, smudges, marks, small tears, tea stain covering first 18 leaves ('This day Nov 18 1843 breakfasted in bed and the first cup of tea brought to me was by a violent lurch of the vessel immediately thrown over this book and stained it as you see'), small part of lower first leaf and a few leaves at end excised, a few pages loose, marbled ends, blind-stamped maroon calf, worn with some loss to upper spine, 8vo (198 x 128mm.), At Sea, Sydney, Norfolk Island, Wellington, 9 July 1843 to 30 April 1849Footnotes:'HERE IS TO BE SEEN TRANSPORTATION IN ALL ITS HORRORS': A RARE ACCOUNT OF THE EXPERIENCES OF A COLONIAL ARMY WIFE IN AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND.Between 1843 and 1845 nineteen convict ships departed from England and Ireland for Australia, upon which soldiers of the 58th regiment carried out guard duty. Our journal gives a rare glimpse into the life of one of the officers' wives, Cecil Arney. It is a lively, intelligent account of an intrepid journey, her religious faith very much to the fore and a source of great solace through her homesickness and the depravations of life in the rough and inhospitable places she finds herself ('...170 convicts were brought on board with shakles on – the thought that I was about to make so long a voyage with such a number of poor wretched creatures is not agreeable tho 'who maketh us to differ' may humble us and excite strong feelings of pity...'). She writes of her boredom in Sydney but not without humour ('...Nothing of late has occurred worth transcribing even in this stupid journal, day after day the same routine goes on, eating, drinking, sleeping, driving out in the bush, and occasional visit to my school – and from some neighbours... we called on the bride Mrs W – sort of scarecrow dressed up in lots of finery, who made a wretched attempt to appear interesting by affecting a lisp...'). In contrast she describes her fear and vulnerability at the isolated penal colony of Norfolk Island, reputedly one of the harshest in the British Empire ('...at the mercy of 1600 convicts, whose whole study is how they shall best destroy [us] and keep the island to themselves...') and is exasperated by the mismanagement of the authorities and Major Arney's dispute with the chaplin (discussed at length by historian Tim Causer, JACANZS, vol 3, pp.71-110 online). In February 1846, the 58th is called upon to support the settlers in New Zealand's Hutt Valley '...said to have been purchased by settlers, but now disputed and retaken possession of by the natives...'. She is critical of the Governor and touches on the increasing influence of the New Zealand Company. Towards the end of her account, on Christmas Day 1846, she writes '...for the last ten years of my life I think I have not spent Christmas day twice in the same place, latterly at very distant posts...'. A postscript sums up her travels until October 1848, which finds her back in Sydney in ill health. The Arneys evidently returned to England after that time, for she died in Marylebone, London, in 1852.Cecil Rice Arney (1806-1852) was the daughter of Hon. Rev. Edward Rice and Charlotte Lascelles of Sutton on the Forest, Yorkshire. She married Charles Augustus Arney (1808-1879) of Gloucester on 4 January 1837 (their 10 year anniversary is noted in her journal). A typed transcript of the journal is included in the lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ESQUEMELIN (ALEXANDRE OLIVIER)De Americaensche Zee-Roovers. Behelsende een pertinente en waerachtige Beschrijving van alle de voornaemste Roveryen, en onmenschelijcke wreedheden, die de Engelse en Franse Rovers, tegens de Spanjaerden in America, gepleeght hebben, FIRST EDITION, black letter, additional engraved title-page, section titles 'Piratica America', 12 engraved plates (4 double-page), light toning to text leaves and light occasional offsetting from plates, first gathering washed, nineteenth century cerise morocco by Riviere with gilt decoration on covers and spine, marbled endpapers and elaborate gilt dentelles, g.e., light wear mostly to extremities of spine, 3 small scratches on upper cover, custom-made red morocco gilt felt-lined clamshell box [USTC 1814458; Howgego E39; Sabin 23468], 8vo (196 x 150mm.), t'Amsterdam, Jan ten Hoorn, boekverkoper, 1678Footnotes:'PIRATICA AMERICA' - EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. We have traced no complete copy at auction in the last 130 years. Written by Alexandre Olivier Esquemelin (c.1645-1707, also spelled Exquemelin, Esquemeling, Exquemeling, or Oexmelin) the Americaensche Zee-Roovers is a swashbuckling account of pirate exploits in the Caribbean. Known in English as the Buccaneers of America, the book has twelve engravings that bring the fearsome pirate captains to life, and unflinching descriptions of the violence and plunder that both horrified and fascinated readers.Among the colourful characters populating Esquemelin's eye-witness account, none looms larger than the infamous privateer Henry Morgan (1635-1688). As Morgan's confidant and barber-surgeon, Esquemelin had a front-row seat to some of the most audacious raids in pirate history, including the sack of Maracaibo in 1669 and the daring assault on Panama in 1671 (both depicted in the plates). Esquemelin paints a complex portrait of Morgan – as a brilliant tactician and fearless leader, but also a man capable of great cruelty. Following the publication of the English translation in 1684, which accused Morgan of torture and the use of nuns and monks as a human shield, Morgan took steps to discredit the book and successfully brought a libel suit against the book's English publishers William Crooke and Thomas Malthus.'Perhaps no book in any other language was ever the parent of so many imitations' (cf. Sabin) and it became the cornerstone of pirate literature for centuries to come, Esquemelin's vivid prose and intimate knowledge of buccaneer life captivating readers across Europe. First published in this edition in 1678, it was then translated into German (1679), Spanish (1681), English (1684) and French (1686). The German translation is a faithful translation of the original Dutch while the Spanish translation adds new material quite freely and without acknowledgment, and frequently mistranslates the Dutch. The English translation appears to be a translation of the Spanish edition, including most of its deviations from the Dutch original. Finally, the French translation of 1686 is substantially a new work with many additions, including new pirate biographies (Daniel Montbars and Alexandre Bras-de-Fer) and the complete rearrangement of some sections.First editions such as this are of 'extreme rarity' (Sabin) and we have traced no other complete copies at auction since 1894 (Bangs, 25 April 1894, lot 301), with an earlier record in 1884 (Leavitt & Co., 3 March 1884, 909a). Only six copies have been traced in institutions (cf. USTC 1814458). Plates and maps comprise: Bartholomeus de Portugees (Bartholomew the Portuguese), p.40; Rock, de Brasiliaen Genaemt (Rock Brasiliano), p.42; François Lolonois, p.46; The Cruelty of Lolonois, p.60; Johan Morgan (Henry Morgan), p.74; Morgan Attacks Puerto del Principe, Cuba, p.82; Morgan Attacking the Forts at Chagre, Panama, p.88; Afbeeldingh van de Stadt en t'Landtschap van Marcaibo (A Map of the City and Country of Maracaibo), double-page map, p.94; Captain Morgan Torturing Prisoners After the Battle of Maracaibo, p.98; Morgan Destroys the Spanish Fleet at Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, double-page view, p.102; Afbeeldingh van de Stadt en t'Landtschap van Panama (A Map of the City and Country of Panama), double-page map, p.130; Reskontre van de Spanijaerden tegens de Roovers voor de Stadt Panama, Nevens het Verbranden en Ruijneren van de selve Stadt (The Battle Between the Spaniards and the Pirates for the City of Panama, and the Burning and Ruining of the Same City), double-page view, p.134.Provenance: Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919, MP for Morley), bookplate. Gaskell was an English lawyer and Liberal Party politician and also a serious book collector. Other books in his collection included a first edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in its original boards (later in the library of Jerome Kern) and a first issue of Robinson Crusoe.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

The Pelé Book: Signed Carnival Ultra Limited Edition Presentation Book. A "big book" detailing the life of the God of football, Pele - This is a ultra-luxury and highly limited edition of his 2006 official autobiography. Autographed on the inside title page, It comprises of 720 lavishly-printed pages detailing every aspect of Pelé's life. With more than 1700 images, some of which have never been published, including a collection of rarely seen prints by Andy Warhol. Each piece is truly a work of art; hand-bound, covered in Italian silk, and embroidered with calfskin leather lettering. Numbered 0015 of 2500, However the Carnival edition was only limited to 150 copies. Published by Gloria Books. clamshell case measures 51x40x11cm. Also included is a rare signed photograph of the 1970 Brazilian World Cup Team "Beautiful Team" - Hand signed by all surviving 10 members and their manager, comes with a hardback booklet describing the hunt for their signatures and player information. Photograph size 41x51cm. This was purchased direct from Gloria Books in 2007 and comes with an official letter.

A Sampson Hancock King Street Derby porcelain Masonic ballot box, domed icehouse cover within moulded base decorated with masonic tools and symbols, including compass, trowel, sword, ropes, book, spade, etc, S & H Paget Derby marks in purple, 21cm diameterThis rare piece of Derby and Masonic History was sent to the factory when doubt was cast upon its pedigree many year ago, the factory confirmed its authenticity and scarcity as these were only made for a very short time, the owners Mr & Mrs Stevens were entertained at the factory with the box, where images and details were taken, the factory at that time had only ever seen one other example, a Newspaper cutting detailing this is present with this box

A fine and rare late 17th Century needle book, the covers in coloured silks within a metallic thread ground and borders, one cover depicting a bird by a tree in open landscape, the other a house below a bird in flight, a deer by a tree in the foreground. The interior in pink silk (some mothing), and incorporating a wallet form compartment, and a set of three graduated red felt semi-circular flannels edged in gilt thread, 8.4 x 6cms.                                      From a Connoisseur's Collection

Pouncy (John). Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, Parts 1-4 in 2, [all published], 1st edition, London and Dorchester, [1857], lithographed title, 78 tinted photolithographed views including one double-page, lacks text leaf for Corfe Castle at end of volume 1 and one missing plate supplied in crude facsimile, some heavy spotting and old dampstaining affecting plates throughout, some marginal splits to text leaves and lower blank outer corner of first leaf of Introduction torn with loss, modern buckram with original gilt-titled cloth covers relaid, oblong folioQTY: (2)NOTE:The first book illustrated by photolithography, where photographs were transferred onto lithographic stones which were then enhanced with figures, animals and other details by drawing. A further two parts were proposed but never issued. 'As far as we know Pouncy's rare book was not only the first but remained the only attempt in book form to reproduce photographic views from nature by photolithography', Gernsheim, History of Photography, p. 546. 'Pouncy's important work was a transitional stage between drawing and unretouched photography in book illustration', McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, p. 128.

"Instructions on Needle-work and Knitting As Derived from the Practice Of The Central School of The National Society For Promoting The Education of The Poor In The Principles of The Established Church in the Sanctuary, Westminster", second edition, published by Roake And Varty, etc 1838, the inside cover bears glued in sheet with handwritten letter dated "Septr. 2nd 1848 Jane Haslewood a Mistress on probation respectfully presents a specimen of her needlework and knitting and requests the favour of being promoted to the rank of candidate for a situation" followed by approval by the Matron and a member of the committee of the National Society, the book contains ten samples of needlework including a miniature alphabet and number sampler, a blue printed cotton pinafore; a linen shift-sleeve, miniature stocking and baby bonnet, front cover is loose from spine, staining to interior and tear to upper spine (1 bag) Exceedingly rare: Copac lists only three copies of the second edition (V & A, University College London and the National Trust).

Andy Warhol - Three prints on board - from "25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy" Circa 1953 Signed with in the plate. Pink Sam, Green Cat, Green Striped Cat (Sam) In the 1950's Andy Warhol shared an apartment with his mother and 25 cats all named Sam with one exception. In 1954 inspired by his mother's 25 cats, Andy Warhol created a children's book containing 19 lithographs, accompanied by his mother, Julia's calligraphy, and hand coloured. The book itself is extremely rare but the iconic images testify to Warhol's love of bold ,block colour. 34cm x 28cm. P

Seltener dreiflammiger gotischer Leuchter (Dreikönigsleuchter), Nürnberg, 2. Hälfte 15. Jhdt. Messing mit schöner Alterspatina. Zweiteilig gefertigter Leuchter aus gegossenem, abgedrehtem und poliertem Messing. Runder Standfuß mit erhabenem Rand. Der leicht konische Schaft mit Scheibennodus. Der verbördelte Aufsatz mit zentraler Aufnahme für eine Öllampe, umlaufend drei kurze Arme, die achtkantigen Tüllen mit leicht verstärkten Lippen. Standfuß am unteren Rand teils bestoßen, ein kleiner Ausbruch. Höhe 21,5 cm.Extrem seltene dreiflammige Ausführung dieses ikonischen Nürnberger Leuchtertypus, dessen häufigere zweiflammige Version bereits 1458 im Hausbuch der mendelschen Zwölfbrüderstiftung abgebildet wird (Amb. 317.2° Folio 79 verso, Mendel I).Ein fast identischer Leuchter befindet sich in der Sammlung des Germanischen Nationalmuseums in Nürnberg (Inv. Nr. HG1092), abgebildet bei Mende, Die mittelalterlichen Bronzen im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 2013, Nr. 91.Ein ebenfalls dreiflammiges Nürnberger Exemplar erzielte im Jahr 2008 bei Van Ham in Köln ein Ergebnis von 33.540 Euro. A rare Gothic three-armed brass candelabra, Nuremberg, 2nd half of the 15th century A rare Gothic three-armed brass candelabra, Nuremberg, 2nd half of the 15th century Brass with a beautiful age patina. The candelabra made in two pieces in cast, twisted and polished brass. Circular stand with a raised edge. The slightly conical shaft with a disc node. The turned attachment with a central recess for an oil lamp, three short arms arranged around it, the octagonal spouts with slightly reinforced rims. The base partially knocked on the lower edge, one small chip. Height 21.5 cm. Extremely rare, three-armed construction of this iconic Nuremberg candelabra type, the more frequently found two-armed version of which was illustrated in the house book of the Mendelian Twelve Brothers Foundation in 1458 (Amb. 317.2° Folio 79 verso, Mendel I). An almost identical candelabra can be found in the collection of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (inv. no. HG1092), illustrated in Mende, Die mittelalterlichen Bronzen im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg 2013, no. 91. Another three-armed Nuremberg candelabra sold for 33,540 euros at Van Ham in Cologne in 2008. Condition: II -

1991 Toyota Corolla 1295cc, manual, 5 door estate, reg. no. J867 UPU, finished in white with a navy blue velour interior. This rare modern classic was supplied new by Toyota main dealers Coronation Garage of Kirby Cross, Frinton-on-Sea. The first owner was a business based in Frinton, with the car being acquired by the late owner a few years later. It has clearly been cherished, and we believe been garaged for much of its life. We were informed the late owner spent in the region of £3,000 on bodywork shortly before he passed away, such was his love for the car. The service book contains only stamps from Coronation Toyota, these cease in 2007 when there was no more space in the book for further entries! There is a sticker under the bonnet detailed a cambelt change in 2021 - further clues to its charmed existence. Approximately 75,000 miles, MOT until 30th October 2025. Sadly any paperwork and receipts have been lost, and the car is supplied only with its handbook and service book pack, the current MOT and a single key. V5 to be applied for by the purchaser. A lovely example that deserves a new owner who will love it as much as the last! (Subject to 12% buyers' premium inclusive of VAT).

1952 Mercedes - Benz 220 Type A Cabriolet, reg. no. FCF 902D, chassis no. 187012/08808/52, engine no. 180T- 45890.Only three owners from new and owned since 1960. This desirable left-hand drive Mercedes-Benz was originally purchased by the late owner who was a British Army officer in the Intelligence Corps serving in Germany. He purchased the car on the 28th of September 1960 from Autohaus Mauss, Düsseldorf for 3500 DM. The car is attractively finished in white with green leather upholstery and black hood. During his military career the car travelled with him, and was exported to Cyprus in 1962. During this time the car and driver were caught in a riot, where it suffered a damaged windscreen after a projectile was thrown at it. The chip and crack are still there to this day. When it was time for him to leave Cyprus in March 1964, as he had grown extremely attached to the car he embarked upon a mammoth road trip with his wife from Cyprus through Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland and Belgium arriving back in England in the car one month later. It is supplied with an extensive collection of rare documents, including the original German 1952 logbook dated the 13 December 1952 listing two former owners, the 1960 bill of sale and related documents, 1958 service book, military petrol ration card, Republic of Cyprus registration document and import documentation registration BR 470 dated 1962, official 1964 road trip permit listing all the countries visited, entry to Beirut pass, English import documentation for 1966, old style British logbook and current V5 documents, service documents, old photographs of the car on its travels and an official workshop manual. It is understood it was taken off the road in in the 1970s and has been stored ever since with the engine periodically turned over to make sure it stays free as it is today. It represents a wonderful opportunity to buy a totally original very sound restoration project with very solid bodywork (the doors still shut like safe doors) and a fabulous history. The ultimate barn find now awaiting its next adventure. It is supplied with some spares and related automobilia. (Subject to 12% buyers' premium inclusive of VAT).

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) - Keith Hamshere Collection: Pair of Previously Unseen Behind-the-Scenes Photographs - A pair of previously unseen behind-the-scenes photographs from the production of Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. This lot comes from the personal collection of renowned stills photographer Keith Hamshere.These two images, printed for the very first time by the photographer, depict the filming of the scene in HAL's processor core. One features Kubrick in a thoughtful pose, standing inside HAL. The other depicts Keir Dullea as Dr. Dave Bowman in his spacesuit, apparently floating over the same set. Hamshere believes that neither picture had ever been seen publicly in the 56 years since the production, making this an incredibly rare opportunity to own a unique piece of sci-fi history. The photograph of Kubrick can now be seen in Hamshere's book of his career - "Life Through an Aperture: The Films and Photography of Keith Hamshere" - published in October 2024.Each photograph is printed on Epson Premium Luster paper, and is signed by Hamshere, with "Photograph: Keith Hamshere" printed in the bottom right corner. Dimensions (each): 48.5 cm x 33 cm (19" x 13")Sold without copyright; see copyright notice in the Buyer's Guide.Additional provenance:This lot comes from the personal collection of renowned stills photographer Keith Hamshere. He has worked on some of the biggest movies of all time, including the Bond franchise, the Star Wars prequels, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.Estimate: £4,000 - 8,000 M Bidding for this lot will end on Thursday, November 14th. The auction will begin at 3:00 PM GMT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Friday, November 15th, Saturday, November 16th or Sunday, November 17th.

AMY WINEHOUSE - Amy Winehouse-Autographed Full Name on Paper - A torn-out autograph book page signed in black ink by five-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. This autograph was obtained outside the BBC in London in 2004 when Winehouse was promoting her debut album "Frank" and is believed to be one of three examples. This is a rare occasion where Winehouse autographed her full name, as she typically only signed her first name. The lot is accompanied by a Roger Epperson Authentication Ltd. certificate of authenticity and comes with a print copy of a photograph showing Winehouse signing the page. Dimensions: 10.5 cm x 14.5 cm (4.25" x 5.75")The autographs in this lot have been professionally authenticated by expert Garry King; see notice in the Buyer's Guide.Estimate: £2,000 - 4,000 M Bidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 15th. The auction will begin at 3:00 PM GMT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 14th, Saturday, November 16th or Sunday, November 17th.

JOHN LENNON - John Lennon's First Ever Vox Amp - Fawn JMI Vox AC15 Twin - A 1962 Fawn JMI Vox AC15 Twin amplifier used and owned by John Lennon during his time in The Beatles. Lennon purchased this amp in 1962 and it was the first-ever Vox amp he used as part of The Fab Four. It is arguably one of the most significant Beatles and Lennon artefacts to come to market. It was the catalyst in forming the early tone and sound of one of The Beatles, considered one of the most influential bands of all time. The amp was used in many early live performances as well as the recording of The Beatles first album Please, Please Me recorded at Abbey Road studios. The history of this item was recently covered in a comprehensive article by Guitar World.When Brian Epstein became The Beatles' manager, he decided to completely overhaul their public image, including upgrading the equipment they used to perform. Lennon and Epstein visited Hessy's Music in Liverpool and hire-purchased a Fawn Vox AC15 Twin amp in July 1962 for £123, making four payments over the next few months. A scan of the original hire-purchase agreement can be seen on page 572 of the book Vox Amplifiers: The JMI Years by Jim Elyea. On the agreement, the amp's serial number was incorrectly noted as "1583" when, at that time, the serial numbers would have been in the 4000 range, so it was actually "4583". George Harrison also acquired a Vox Fawn AC30 Twin amp around the same time. Lennon can be seen using the amplifier extensively during the early days of The Beatles' rise to fame, including the only known film footage of them performing at the world famous Cavern Club, Liverpool on August 22 1962, four days after their newly appointed drummer, Ringo Starr had joined the band. This was the birth of what we now know as the legendary Fab Four. As well as many early live performances, the amp can be seen at the Abbey Road studios during the recording of the album Please Please Me in which Lennon's distinct Vox guitar tone can be heard on such tracks as "Love Me Do", "Please, Please Me", "How Do You Do It?" and P.S. I Love You". Photographs taken by Bill Connell and Les Chadwick on 22 August 1962 document The Beatles rehearsing at the Cavern Club and show the Vox amp being used by Lennon. As Starr officially joined the group four days earlier on 18 August, these may be some of the first images to feature him as part of the band. The amp can also be seen in photos taken during the Please Please Me recording sessions at Abbey Road Studios in Studio 2 which took place in September 1962. In these images, Lennon's Vox AC15 is equipped with chrome stand, as opposed to George Harrison's Vox AC30, which has no stand. As the band's popularity grew and their touring schedule increased, in early 1963 Brian Epstein secured an endorsement deal with Vox for their exclusive use of the brand and in return Vox would supply the band with amplifiers. Recent research shows the original Beatles Fawn amplifiers can be seen being used as late as November 1963 and possibly beyond and were used in conjunction with the new Black amplifiers due to the band's extensive schedules. Notable later performances where these amps can be seen in 1963 include January 31st at Birkenhead, March 7th at Harrogate and November 1963 in Ireland.The amp comprises a pine cabinet with a fawn Rexine exterior. A previous owner of the amp, unaware of its link to Lennon and The Beatles, decided to paint its exterior matt black. This coat of paint has been meticulously removed to expose the amplifiers original Fawn covering, this along with period correct brown diamond-patterned grille-cloth and Goodman Alnico Speakers has restored the amplifier to its original 1962 Lennon, Beatles format. The top side features three leather handles and various controls, including six black pointer knobs and a voltage selector switch. A Vox Amplifier plaque on the back displays the model number "AC15" and the serial number "4358", as mentioned in Vox Amplifiers: The JMI Years. It is powered by an attached UK plug and cable and comes with a single-button Vox foot switch. The lot also includes a contemporary wheeled flight case and a metal tubular stand. The amp's exterior exhibits signs of age, including general scuffing. Some of the Rexine has peeled away, revealing the pine underneath, and there are small holes in the grille-cloth cover. However, the lot remains in remarkable overall condition, considering its age and history. This is an exceptionally rare opportunity to own a key piece of vintage equipment that established the sound of the Beatles. This lot is accompanied by a printed still.Dimensions (amp): 26.5 cm x 69.5 cm x 51 cm (10.5" x 27.25" x 20"); (displayed on stand): 35 cm x 91 cm x 94 cm (13.75" x 35.75" x 37")Special shipping required: see special shipping notice in the Buyer's Guide.Contains electronics; see electronics notice in the Buyer's Guide.Estimate: £100,000 - 200,000 M Bidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 15th. The auction will begin at 3:00 PM GMT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 14th, Saturday, November 16th or Sunday, November 17th.

OASIS - Noel Gallagher's Custom Silver Sparkle Gibson Les Paul Florentine Guitar - A one-of-a-kind Silver Sparkle Gibson Les Paul Florentine used and owned by Noel Gallagher during his time in Oasis. This guitar, described by Gallagher in a 1997 interview as "the best guitar in the world," was made specifically for him by Gibson's custom shop in 1997 and was used extensively during 1997 and 1998 for recordings and live performances. The Florentine was used prominently during the recording of Oasis' third album Be Here Now, released in August 1997. The record became the biggest-selling album of that year, and the fastest-selling album in the UK in 1997. Gallagher subsequently used the guitar on the record-breaking Be Here Now world tour. The Florentine is one of his primary guitars from the Oasis era and is believed to be the most-extensively used and documented Noel Gallagher guitar outside of the artist's personal collection; hundreds of photos exist of Gallagher with this guitar.Other notable use of the Florentine includes a rare solo set for the Tibetan Freedom Concert in New York; a concert at the Oakland Coliseum on 18 June 1997; The David Letterman Show; Saturday Night Live; and the BBC documentary Oasis: Right Here, Right Now. It was also used to record the track "Temper Temper" by Goldie. A 1997 article on Oasis in Spin magazine featured Gallagher singing the guitar's praises directly:"That's the best guitar in the world," says Noel Gallagher. "It's not one of the best guitars, it's the best guitar." The guitar Noel speaks of is his own-a Les Paul Florentine Diamond Sparkle. It sits in its open case like a diamond in a jewel box, and Noel stares down at it lovingly. It's covered in bright silver glitter. The guitar costs $3,590, but you can't buy one. It's custom made. "The thing about that guitar is it's got that extra..You know what I mean? When you've got everything turned all the way up, this one gives you more. It goes to '11'."This guitar, serial number "7 9007", was part of a batch of instruments that Gallagher sold circa 2001 through the New Kings Road Vintage Guitar Emporium. The Les Paul Florentine comprises an ebony fingerboard, a distinctive silver glitter finish on the body, and nickel-plated hardware. Gibson's hallmark five-piece diamond-like pearlescent inlay adorns the black headstock (unique to custom models). It also features two volume knobs, two tone knobs, and a selector switch. A "U" Underworld sticker is adhered under the tailpiece, as placed by Gallagher circa June 1997; Underworld was a company that produced Oasis merchandise in the 1990s.The guitar comes in its original protective case, featuring a white "Oasis" stencil and remnants of a "Metalheadz" sticker on the exterior. Metalheadz was a UK drum and bass record label founded by Goldie and Kemistry & Storm, so the sticker was likely added during the recording of "Temper Temper".The guitar remains in very good condition, with light horizontal cracking to the body's varnish layer and some light wear to the nickel-plated components. There are some residue marks on the "U" sticker where a "Metalheadz" sticker was once placed over the top (sticker was retained and is present in the guitar case.)In 2022, iconic Microdot photographer and designer Brian Cannon, who worked design for the original album, photographed the guitar with a red Matchless amp to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Be Here Now. The guitar was a treasured possession in the previous owner's collection for many years and its history was documented in issue 455 of Guitarist magazine. A printout of information from Gibson on the guitar's history is included, which states "This guitar was indeed given by ER London to Oasis back then."The lot is also accompanied by a handwritten note of provenance from Gallagher's guitar technician Jason Rhodes, a letter of provenance from New Kings Road Vintage Guitar Emporium, and an array of material featuring the guitar, including a custom-made booklet showcasing the guitar, magazines, newspapers, framed photographs, additional loose photographs and slides, and a framed Right Here, Right Now poster. Dimensions (guitar): 99 cm x 33 cm x 7 cm (39" x 13" x 2 3/4"); (largest framed image): 89 cm x 64.5 cm x 1.5 cm (35" x 25 1/2" x 1/2")Contains electronics; see electronics notice in the Buyer's Guide.Contains organic materials, see notice in the Buyer's GuideAdditional Provenance: The guitar appears on the cover of Issue 455 of Guitarist magazine. This issue contains an eight-page spread detailing the history of the piece. A copy of the magazine is also included.Noel described his Silver Sparkle Florentine as "the best guitar in the world" in the October 1997 issue of Spin magazine.Gibson customer service have also identified this guitar in their database and confirmed that "The guitar appears to be original, the serial number refers in our database also to a Les Paul Florentine in silver sparkle, with nickel hardware and F-holes, made by the Custom Shop in 1997. This guitar was indeed given by ER London to Oasis back then". A printout of this information is also included.Additional Information:The additional material included in the lot is: a custom-made book containing images of the guitar, compiled by the previous owner; an image of Gallagher holding the guitar with the previous owner; four large loose photographs; 23 smaller loose photographs; two 35 mm film slides labelled "Oasis Exeter"; photographic evidence of Jason Rhodes writing his note of provenance; and a Total Guitar CD.Also accompanying the lot is a large collection of literature: Be Here Now Live Tour '97 programme; an issue of Spin magazine published in October 1997; an issue of Select magazine published in August 1997; a copy of Oasis: A Year in the Life by Susan Wilson; a copy of The Oasis Chronicles by David Ritcher; four issues of Chartbusters Oasis poster magazines; Issue 8 of Oasis Uncensored magazine; an issue of Oasis Live magazine; an Oasis special magazine; an Oasis 1998 calendar magazine; two copies of Melody Maker; and a copy of NME.Estimate: £200,000 - 400,000 † ΔBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 15th. 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OASIS - Noel Gallagher's Owned and Autographed First Ever Oasis Guitar - Cream Hohner JT60 Played During Early Performances - A cream Hohner JT60 guitar used and owned by Noel Gallagher during his time with iconic British band Oasis. This guitar was originally obtained from Gallagher's personal collection, and was played during his early live performances with the band, making it his first Oasis guitar. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to own such an important piece of the band's history.Photographs of Gallagher playing a Hohner JT60 guitar can be found in the book Brothers: From Childhood to Oasis - The Real Story by Paul Gallagher, published by Virgin Books (a copy is included in the lot). They depict him on stage at the Middleton Hippodrome in 1992, and at Manchester's 'In The City' festival at The Venue in the same year. The guitar comprises a maple neck and a maple body, which is finished in ivory and features a tortoiseshell-style pickguard. The instrument has three pickups, a volume control knob, two tone-control knobs, and a three-way pickup switch. The serial number "C104188" is located on a metal plate on the body's rear, and Gallagher has autographed the back of the headstock in black marker pen. His original strings are still on the guitar. The lot also includes an Epiphone Riviera hard case, which features the famous Oasis stencil in multiple colours, and a sticker on which "Hohner JT-8 White NG 1st" is handwritten in blue marker pen. The case also includes several packs of spare strings. The guitar exhibits a minor crack at the bottom left corner of the body's face, and the hooks of the case's two bottom latches are missing. Dimensions (guitar): 104 cm x 35 cm x 6 cm (41" x 13.75" x 2.25"); (case): 113 cm x 46 cm x 14 cm (44.5" x 18" x 5.5")Contains electronics; see electronics notice in the Buyer's Guide.Contains organic materials, see notice in the Buyer's GuideEstimate: £25,000 - 50,000 † ΔBidding for this lot will end on Friday, November 15th. The auction will begin at 3:00 PM GMT and lots are sold sequentially via live auctioneer; tune in to the live streaming broadcast on auction day to follow the pace. Note other lots in the auction may close on Thursday, November 14th, Saturday, November 16th or Sunday, November 17th.

A rare and unusual silver vesta case in the form of a book with enamelled plaque. London. By AWB. Approx. 38 grams. Est. £200 - £300.

The Book of Durrow. Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Durmachensis.Published Lausanne, Switzerland. 1960o. 2 volumes. Large folio. Limited edition (650) Volume 1 - plate volume illustrated in colour & vol 2 text. Fine Binding]. Rare

BOOK Of KELLS. Evangeliorum Quatter Codex Ceannensies. 3 Volume set. Published Berne 1950. Large folio. Limited edition (500) Plate volumes are in very fine contemporary vellum while the text volume is quarter vellum. Rare. Lacks Plate 7V, The Virgin And Child and Plate 32V, The Portrait of Christ. With some manuscript notes, cosmology etc. where plates are lacking and some hand written text within some of the monochrome plates.

The Book of Kells. The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the first and only complete facsimile, published by Authority of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin. Large folio, Luzern 1990, Number 781 of 1,480, fine white tawed leather over wooden boards. Contained in a specially created presentation box, the embossed surface with blind & gilt tooled Celtic decoration and silver and brass mounts. A rare opportunity to acquire a complete facsimile of one of the World's greatest Art Treasures. A special facsimile. Faksimile Verlag, Luzern, 1990.

[Rare Tipperary book on Clonmel Hibernian School Society]. Report of the Speeches delivered at a Meeting held in the County Court House in Clonmel for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary branch of the London Hibernian School Society. 1824. Later wrappers

A remarkable, emotive, and rare WW1 nurses’ album, compiled by Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse, Maude Alice Lineham (1883-1967). The album was carried by Maude during her time serving as a nurse at Spondon House Hospital, Derby, Derby Royal Infirmary, and the Leicester Royal Infirmary. Published records confirm that she served as a Red Cross Volunteer from November 1st 1914, through to October 1st 1917. During her time on the hospital wards, caring for wounded servicemen, it’s assumed that Maude would have passed around her book, allowing the injured men to write poems, give accounts of their service, and also profusely illustrate on the pages. Many regiments from the British Army are represented, with one Scottish solider, John J. Ferguson from the Seaforth Highlanders giving a written first hand eight page account of the famous Christmas truce, writing on Christmas Eve that ‘We started singing carols, they applauded us, they sang and we replied’. He later added that ‘We gave them three cheers (British ones) when they sang ‘God save the King’ in English. John Ferguson goes one to talk about the general mood, and famous football match played on Christmas Day, adding ‘It was like living in a different world - here we were Christmas Day in the trenches, and able to walk about with our ‘heads up, some of our men even left the trench to play football - a party from B company went over and were photographed with the Germans’. Another page, written by Sgt Richard Jones of the 1/5th Kings Liverpool Regiment has a small piece of coarse white fabric stitched to the page, and states that it is ‘A piece of a German white flag. The flag was taken from a prisoner who surrendered with 120 more, at Festubert on May 17’ 15 to the British (this would have been from the Battle of Festubert, fought between May 15th and May 25th, in the Artois region of France). Some of poems within the album clearly are odes to Maude, praising her ability as a nurse as the men were rehabilitated. The illustrations are in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolours, with the subject matter ranging from caricatures to landscapes and still life. Some of the illustrations are of high quality, clearly made by some talented artists. One charcoal head and shoulders portrait of a young lady is believed to be Maude, sketched by one of the soldiers under her care, and signed to the bottom left. A number of the illustrations and entries date to the pre-WW1 era, with these likely having been made during Maude’s teaching career. Notes: Maude Alice Lineham was born in Derby in 1883, the daughter of John Wood Lineham and Hannah Hobson. The first page of the book is written in Maude own hand, stating her name as Maude Alison Lineham, with a date of Jan 1903, and the address if Mount Pleasant, 260 Burton Road, Derby. The 1911 census clearly records her middle name as ‘Alice’ and it’s unknown as to why she records it as Alison. By the time of the 1911 census, Maude was 28 years old and still living with her parents and two siblings at the Mount Pleasant address. Her occupation in 1911 was recorded as ‘School Teacher, Private’. By November 1914 she’d volunteered as a nurse within the Voluntary Aid Detachment, under the umbrella of the Red Cross. It’s believed that Maude never married, and she passed away in Bromley, London in 1967.

WW2 German Military Interest: A Leather Bound Book Liberated from Adolf Hitler's Personal Library. This 1837 copy of 'Die Wunder Des Himmels' by Joseph Johann Von Littrow has a rare gold coloured Ex Libris book plate for Adolf Hitler with NSDAP eagle to the centre. Included is an original typed letter on 'Diana Edition International Press Service' paper dated 5th May 1946 stating that the owner has received two books liberated from Hitler's former apartment and that they should dispose of the books after use. This lot is presented in a custom wooden case.

ICELAND -- ANDERSON, J. Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis. Verrykt met platen en een nieuwe naauwkeurige landkaart der ontdekkingen, (…) Uit het hoogduitsch vertaalt. Door J.D.J. - Bound with: N. HORREBOW. De tegenwoordige staat of omstandige beschryving van het groot eyland Ysland, bevattende zowel eene bestipte bepaling van de ligging en grote van dat eiland (…) strekkende ook inzonderheid tot meerder opheldering, verbeetering en uitbreiding van de Beschryving van Ysland door wylen den Heer Johan Anderson. - Amst., S. v. Esveldt, 1750-1754.2 works in 1 vol. (16), 286, (6); (10), 158 pp. W. titles printed in red & black, engr. front., 5 (2 fold.) plates and fold. map. 4°. Cont. vellum. NOTE: The rare first edition of 2 works on Iceland, Greenland and whaling. Johann Anderson (1674-1743) was a German lawyer, mayor of Hamburg as well as natural and linguist. He was the son of the Hamburg merchant and whaling ship owner Ammon Anderson. Anderson's work was posthumously published in 1746 as "Nachrichten von Island, Grönland und der Strasse Davis". Anderson, who had never been in Iceland or Greenland, wrote this work to contribute both to the scientific and the economic advancement of Hamburg. It deals with the living conditions in Iceland and Greenland and gives detailed descriptions of Iceland and Greenland/Davis Strait, with sections on whaling and a Danish-Dutch-Greenlandic dictionary as appendix. The book was translated into several languages. Niels Horrebow (1712-1760) was a Danish author and scientist. In 1749 he went to Iceland and stayed there for three years. He worked for the Academy of Sciences and did mathematical and physical observations. He also explored the local conditions for the institute. Horrebow's work was originally published in 1752 as "Tilforladelige Efterretninger om Island". It provides corrections to Anderson's work and gives detailed descriptions of Iceland, its geography, people and natural history. - Very fine copy. Tiele 39; Sabin 1407; Lauridsen II, 48; Cat. NHSM p. 301 (German ed. only).

STERNBERG, F., hrsg. Knasterkopfs Annehmlichkeiten und Freuden. Ein nothwendiges und hochst nützliches Taschenbuch für jeden Tabaksraucher, dem seine Gesundheit lieb ist und der eine angenehme Unterhaltung wuenscht. Ronneburg, F. Weber, 1834. XVI, 163 pp. W. 8 handcold. lithographic prints. 12°. Later hcf. (Bookplate & autograph entry J. Verhoeven on paste down & first free endpaper, some yellowing in the text but an otherwise clean, well-preserved copy of this curious, charming work). NOTE: Arents IV, 1376: 'A "pocket book" containing all kinds of information for smokers'. - Rare.

ABC BOOKS -- (SWILDENS, J.H.). A-B boek, Vaderlandsch, voor de Nederlandsche Jeugd. Amst., W. Holtrop, 1781. (30), (4), 58, (2) pp., incl. engr. ti., 1 full-p. engr. w. different alphabets, 27 fine half-p. engr. (2 for the letter G) in the text & 4 full-p. engr. by L. Brasser, H. Numan, (a.o). Clothbacked brds. (Spine a bit dam., ti-p. laid down (small corner missing), inner margin strengthened in places, a bit thumbed). -- NIEUW ABÉ boekje voor lieve kinderen. (2e dr.). Leyden, D. Noothoven van Goor, (c. 1869). (24) pp. W. handcold. ills. Entirely strengthened with linen, as published. Or. ill. linen wrps. (Wrps. a bit browned/soiled). -- A IS EEN AAPJE. Amst., J. Vlieger, (1907). W. ill. by P. v. Geldorp. 4°. Or. lithogr. wrps. (Spine a bit dam). -- And 4 o. (7). NOTE: Ad 1: First edition. - Buijnsters 38; Cf. De hele Bibelebontse Berg, p. 200-203; Klkl 4; A is een Aapje p. 60-6. Ad 2: Rare early rag book. - A is een aapje p. 89.

SCHENKMAN, J. Sint Nikolaas en zijn knecht. Amst., J. Vlieger, (c. 1880). W. 8 chromolithogr. plates. 8°-obl. Obrds. w. mounted chromolithogr. plate on frontcover. (Spine a bit dam., book block shaken). -- Added: W.P. RAZOUX. Een aardige prentenboek met leerzame vertellingen, naar het beroemde Hoogduitsche kinderwerk: Der Struwwelpeter. 1898. 4°. Or. clothbacked brds. -- And 1 o. (3). NOTE: Ad 1: The Children's World of Learning 3776: "Rare later edition by Vlieger of one of the first really happy and exciting children's picture books, depicting all festivities around the feast of Saint Nicholas (...)." - Caljé-Van Gulik 472.

A very rare Chinese painted pottery ding, Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 8), the body with two square-cut handles, raised circular band around the top of the cover allows it to be taken off, turned upside down and used as a bowl, on three feet of human form, each brightly painted, 22cm diameter, 18cm high This unusual pottery tripod vessel, or "ding", was made during the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 8). It is made from a grey pottery, relatively highly-fired, both body and cover having a distinct ring when tapped. There are traces on the surface still remaining of its original "cold painted" pattern.In very good condition with some surface wear and the inevitable loss of pigment - there is no repair or restoration. Although we believe the cover to be the original for the body, it appears to have shrunk a little during firing and does not quite sit perfectly on the body. For reference: similar examples, although none with human-shaped feet, are illustrated and described in the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society (SEACS) book "Spirit of Han"..PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

A rare Chinese Neolithic Siwa Culture burnished black pottery jar (c.1350 BC), applied with high handles, a saddle-shaped mouth and a wide body that tapers down to a small circular flat base, 22cm high This attractively-shaped pottery vessel was made over 3,000 years ago by peoples of the Siwa Culture (c.1350 BC) from present day Gansu or Qinghai province. It is quite "heavily-potted" and fairly highly-fired. Pottery jars from the Siwa culture are rarer than those of the preceding Qijia and Majiayao cultures and most known examples are made from an orange coloured pottery. Black pottery jars are rarer still ! The surface is finely burnished making this jar a real pleasure to handle as well as to look. For reference: a similar example is shown in the China Institute book "Dawn of the Yellow Earth" (ISBN 0-9654270-3-X).PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

A fine large Chinese Neolithic Banpo pottery amphora, c.4800-4300 BC), with Oxford TL Test, with a tall cup-shaped mouth and pointed base, decorated with repeated parallel cord impressions that are at a slight angle, applied loop handles, 41cm high This ancient pottery vessel was made over 6,000 years ago during the Banpo phase (of the Yangshao culture in present-day Shaanxi province. This form is probably the most well-known of Banpo pottery. Condition truly is exceptional. There is a small chip to the inner mouth edge and what appears to be a stabilised crack to part of the neck. Further repair should not, of course, be ruled out. Banpo amphorae are particularly rare and desirable and do not often appear on the market for sale. This vessel has been tested by Oxford Authentications, the ONLY testers of ancient pottery accepted by ALL major dealers, auction rooms and museums worldwide, confirming the date of manufacture. We show the Thermoluminescence Analysis Report that will accompany the vessel. A similar, although much smaller example at a mere 9 inches, is shown in the China Institute book "Dawn of the Yellow Earth" (ISBN 0-9654270-3-X).PLEASE NOTE:- Prospective buyers are strongly advised to examine personally any goods in which they are interested BEFORE the auction takes place. Whilst every care is taken in the accuracy of condition reports, Gorringes provide no other guarantee to the buyer other than in relation to forgeries. Many items are of an age or nature which precludes their being in perfect condition and some descriptions in the catalogue or given by way of condition report make reference to damage and/or restoration. We provide this information for guidance only and will not be held responsible for oversights concerning defects or restoration, nor does a reference to a particular defect imply the absence of any others. Prospective purchasers must accept these reports as genuine efforts by Gorringes or must take other steps to verify condition of lots. If you are unable to open the image file attached to this report, please let us know as soon as possible and we will re-send your images on a separate e-mail. 

Max Arthur Macauliffe, The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, in six volumes Oxford, 1909six volumes, approximately 350-450 pp. per volume, 22 monochrome lithographed plates across all six volumes, nine photographs of religious buildings and people, anonymous inscriptions dated Calcutta, between 10th September and 1st November 1927, blue cloth 220 x 145 mm.(6)Footnotes:ProvenanceInscriptions dated Calcutta, September-November 1927.Formerly in the Library of Bonebrake Theological Seminary, Trotwood, Ohio (embossed and ink stamps), its name between 1909 and 1954.The six volumes of The Sikh Religion are an impressive achievement, as a feat of writing, of comprehensiveness, and of sheer ability to gather material, both historical and textual. It has remained in print since its publication in 1909 and is the most cited text on the Sikh religion in English.A summary of the contents is as follows:Vol. I, pp. 383, Guru Nanak, his life and writings.Vol. II, pp. 351, the lives and hymns of the second, third and fourth Gurus.Vol. III, pp. 444, the life of Guru Arjan, the fifth Guru, and his hymns, photograph of his shrine.Vol. IV, pp. 421, the lives of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth Gurus, and the hymns of the ninth, Guru Teg Bahadur, photograph of the Akal Bunga, and the Baba Atal tower, Amritsar. Vol. V, pp. 351, the life of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru, his compositions, his stance against idolatry, his epistle to the Emperor Aurangzeb, discussion of the musical measures of his hymns, photographs of the shrine at Fatagarh, Muktsar, the temple at Nander, and an Akali.Vol. VI, pp. 453, various religious texts, including the Bhagats of the Granth Sahib, the life and hymns of Jaidev, and of Namdev, Kabir, and Rav Das, photograph of Namdev's shrine at Ghuman, and of two Sikh holy men, index.The Preface opens: 'I bring from the East what is practically an unknown religion'. While, crucially, presenting the newness and distinctness of Guru Nanak and the Sikh religion, Macauliffe also made connections and drew analogies between it and Western religion and philosophy. In a lecture given in Paris, he stated that he was 'not without hope that when enlightened nations become acquainted with the merits of the Sikh religion, they will not willingly let it perish in the great abyss in which so many creeds have been engulfed'. His translation of the Guru Granth Sahib was the first to be accepted by the Sikh community. He had begun to publish parts of his work as he went along as early as 1897, and in 1900 his partial translation of Sikh scripture was published as Holy Writings of Sikhs, in which he had been assisted by Pratap Singh Giani, a Sikh scholar. He also acknowledges in his preface his debt to the Rajah of Nabha, Sir Rajinder Singh, the late Maharajah of Patiala, Rajah Ranbir Singh, the Rajah of Jind, and Sardar Ranjit Singh of Chichrauli. The Rajah of Nabha, in particular, for instance, 'has at considerable expense caused the thirty-one Indian rags, or musical measures, to which the hymns of the Gurus were composed, to be written out in European musical notation by a professional musician whom he employed for the purpose' (preface, p. xxvi). But it was to be sixteen years from his resignation from the Civil Service until the final publication of his magnum opus.For a good account of Macauliffe's work and career, see Harbans Lal, 'The Western Gateway to Sikhism: the life and works of Max Arthur Macauliffe', in K. Brown, Sikh Art and Literature, London 1999, pp. 129-142.Max Arthur Macauliffe (1841-1913)Macauliffe was born in Limerick, Ireland, and was educated at Queen's College, Galway. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1862 and was posted to the Punjab in 1864, becoming a deputy commissioner at Ferozpur in 1882 and a divisional judge in the same district in 1884. Born a Protestant, he converted to the Sikh religion (while not adopting its external signifiers) and resigned his position in the ICS in 1893. At the time he was derided by his employers for having 'turned a Sikh'. He lived at Amritsar and soon became deeply interested in the Sikh religion. Between 1875 and 1881 he published four articles on Sikhism in the Calcutta Review and had begun to learn the languages of the Guru Granth Sahib.The India Office had commissioned a German missionary and scholar, Dr Ernest Trumpp, who had learned Arabic, Sanskrit, Hindi and Sindhi, to translate the Granth into English, but the partial translation (Trumpp had given up after seven years in despair), which appeared in 1877, was unacceptable, indeed offensive, to many Sikhs. Macauliffe undertook a new translation with the encouragement of Sikh scholars and other figures in the community. He received finanical assistance from Rajah Bikram Singh of Faridkot, as well as Rajah Hira Singh of Nabha, Maharajah Rajinder Singh of Patiala, Rajah Ranbir Singh of Jind, amongst others. Though he saw his labours as serving the political interests of the Sikhs, he by no means saw them as anti-imperial. He saw the Sikhs as potential allies for the British, in a pamphlet with the significant title A lecture on the Sikh religion and its advantages to the state.He employed gianis (professional interpreters of the Sikh scriptures) to help him. In an unprecedented decision, Macauliffe asked that the completed work be scrutinised by a committee of Sikh scriptural scholars, who suggested various emendations and gave it their seal of approval, both linguistic and theological. As well as translating the Granth, he decided to include biographies of the ten gurus of Sikhism and of the Bhagats, the Sant poets whose works also appear in the Granth. When he completed his work, he moved to England, accompanied by his great friend and adviser, Bhai Kahn Singh, the celebrated Sikh scholar, who helped him correct the proofs of his book. In 1909 the Clarendon Press, Oxford, published Macauliffe's The Sikh Religion. Macauliffe, who was unmarried, died in West Kensington, London, on 15 March 1913. His personal assistant remarked in his memoirs that on his death bed, MacAuliffe could be heard reciting the Sikh morning prayer, Japji Sahib, ten minutes before he died. The Sikh Educational Conference passed a vote of condolence and the Sikhs of Rawalpindi set up a Macauliffe Memorial Society to raise funds to establish a library in his memory, but the amount collected was insufficient. Among those who subscribed, and sent a letter of support, was the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, Sir Michael O'Dwyer. The money was eventually given to Khalsa College, Amritsar, to fund an annual Macauliffe Memorial Medal for the best student in Sikh theology and history. The medal is still awarded on an occasional basis. (Partially adapated from the Dictionary of Irish Biography).For a fine and rare copy of Macauliffe's text, presented by the author to the Duke of Connaught in the year of publication, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 21st May 2024, lot 195.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Unregistered and unused Ducati Desmosedici RR. A rare opportunity. Described by Ducati as 'The Worlds first MotoGP Replica' when launched in 200890° V4 Desmodromic 1,000cc engine producing 200bhp, 171kg and limited to only 1,500 examples worldwideBased on the Ducati Team GP6 and capable of 185mphThis unused and unregistered 'Team' version is #1,474 of the 1,500 builtStored in a dehumidified cocoon by our vendor for the last eight yearsComplete with all the service and hand books, sales brochure, unused race exhaust, book, toolkit, battery charger, bike cover and front and rear paddock standsThe unused MotoGP stickers are still in their envelopeUnused for eight years so would require recommissioning before starting/useHighly collectible and one of only a handful of new/old stock examples available worldwideNot UK-registeredSpecification Make: DUCATI Model: DESMOSEDICI RR Year: 2008 Registration Number: NOT UK-REGISTERED Engine Number: ZDM990FW4-001603Click here for more details and images

Just one previous owner, 28,873 miles from new and finished in the rare colour of Ford Aubergine. The Escort RS Cosworth was an 'homologation special' and its sole role was to incorporate parts that Ford planned to use in their rally cars to ensure success in International Rallying. Because it was smaller, lighter and more nimble than any of the Sierras, the combination of Cosworth power, four-wheel drive transmission and an effective aerodynamic package made it a Rally Giant in all conditions. Success duly followed between 1993 and 1998 in the World Rally Championship for manufacturers, but the road cars were very rare - with just 2,500 'homologation special' versions made, becoming known as 'big turbo cars', all capable of 150mph and easily identified by the aptly named 'Whale Tail' rear spoiler.On offer here is a UK-supplied, right-hand drive Escort RS Cosworth with only one former keeper and 28,873 miles from new at the time of cataloguing. First registered on 31st August 1995, the car is finished in the rare colour of Ford Aubergine with a Recaro trimmed Polaris Hex Upholstery along with deep pile carpets and carpeted door bins.Being a 'Lux', the car is equipped with opening rear quarter windows, electrically operated and heated door mirrors, ‘Quickclear’ heated windscreen, heated washer jets, 3-spoke leather-covered steering wheel, central double locking, tailgate release, lights on warning, rear centre armrest, rear head restraints, electric sunroof, electric windows, with the factory fitted Ford radio cassette alongside the factory upgrade 2040 CD player. It sits on original Ronal soft-spoke 8x16 genuine Ford alloy wheels in excellent condition shod with Toyo Proxie 225/45ZR16 tyres all round.The car was supplied new by Ford RS dealers, Bristol Street Motors in Cheltenham and is complete with its dealer book pack containing the service history as follows:1,870miles - 18-10-19959,511 miles - 15-05-199619,854 miles - 01-03-199724,593 miles - 26-09-2008 including cambelt kit28,824 miles - 14-06-2022The car is accompanied by three keys, including the 'Red' master key, and the aforementioned service history.This is a low ownership, low-mileage example finished in a rare colour and is therefore an opportunity not to be missed.NB; This vehicle will be issued with a fresh MOT prior to the sale.Specification Make: FORD Model: ESCORT RS COSWORTH Year: 1995 Chassis Number: WF0BXXGKABSE95948 Registration Number: N896 PEG Transmission: Manual Engine Number: SE95948 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 28873 Miles Make: RHDClick here for more details and images

On the verge of modern classic status, this rare sporting Coupé is well optioned for the sporting commuter and engineered for the enthusiast. Offered without reserve. Launched within a rather niche mid-range sporting coupe market in 2005, the E86 BMW Z4 Coupé may have had the pedigree to see off the Japanese competition and offered more practicality and crucially, sharper styling than its closest rival, the Audi TT, still remained a rare car on British roads. The two-door design incorporated a useful hatchback into the boot and added torsional rigidity, benefiting both handling and ride. The double-bubble roof also gave more headroom than a Z4 Roadster with the roof up, making the Coupé the car of choice for keen and/or tall drivers. A 3-litre petrol engine came with the option of a 5 or 6-speed manual gearbox, a 5-speed automatic or 6-speed SMG-II automated manual.The Z4 Coupe’s rear-wheel drive chassis was suspended by Macpherson struts on the front and multi-link suspension on the rear, which meant the Z4's handling was exceptional, something weight-saving measures such as aluminium bonnet and suspension components contribute to. The Z4M aside, the Coupé's 3-litre, straight-six, 265bhp, 232lb/ft engine produced enough thrust to see it pass 62mph in 5.6 seconds on its way to a top speed of 155mph.Priced at the upper end of the Noughties sporting coupé market, most buyers opted for the M model or the roadster version, usually in conversative colours, which leads us nicely to this rare 6-speed manual 3.0Si Sport Coupé, finished in Phoenix Yellow, with a two-tone Sport interior, 3-spoke M-Sport steering wheel and very well optioned from new.Offered without Reserve, it is the ideal modern classic for a spirited daily commute with automatic headlights, rain sensing wipers, heated memory seats and air conditioning or for joy filled B-road weekend motoring thanks to the gearbox’s sport button.Presented to auction with an advisory free MOT certificate valid until 29th September 2025, two keys, the stamped service book and an odometer reading of 95,088 at the time of cataloguing. Serviced by Lancaster BMW of Milton Keynes less than 10,000 miles ago, this car has a certain look about it, sitting four-square, as it does on 10-spoke twin-blade alloy wheels, with the rather funky paintwork for its era setting it apart.Specification Make: BMW Model: Z4 COUPÉ E86 Year: 2008 Chassis Number: WBADU52010LF68904 Registration Number: YA57 ARO Transmission: Manual Engine Number: 74153857 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 95088 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Black LeatherClick here for more details and images

An exceptional example offered from long term ownership, with matching hardtop and just 12,529 miles from new. Penned by Henrik Fisker, the BMW Z8 was initially a concept styling exercise to evoke and pay homage to the stunning BMW 507 produced in the late 1950s. Due to the sensation it caused at the 1997 Tokyo Auto Show, BMW decided to go into production and production ran from 1999 to 2003 for a total run of 5,703 cars with approximately half going to the USA, the rest to continental Europe and fewer than 150 cars supplied to the UK.An engineering indulgence by BMW, it featured an aluminium space frame body and the famous 5-litre DOHC 32-valve V8 engine produced 400bhp, situated behind the line of the front axle, giving the Z8 virtually perfect 50/50 weight distribution and enabling it to out-perform its contemporary benchmark rivals in all departments. The contemporaneous Ferrari 360 Modena was left inadequate in terms of performance, handling and braking. Road tests by period magazines frequently better the quoted 0-60mph times supplied by BMW and many achieved figures of c.four seconds. Most remarkable was its pure driving pleasure and its effortless 'Grand Tourer' capabilities. BMW's mantra of 'The Ultimate Driving Machine' was certainly appropriate when it came to the Z8.Having been a mainstay of the Bond series for four decades, Desmond Llewelyn retired as 'Q' in the 1999 film The World is Not Enough where, in his poignant final scene, he issued Piers Brosnan’s James Bond with a BMW Z8. Whilst entering the James Bond Car Hall of Fame, helped somewhat with filling the order books, it's universally agreed that it is the Z8’s capability as a modern supercar that was responsible for its success. Delivered only in left-hand drive, fewer than 150 cars were supplied new to the UK.The Rydale/Rybrook name has been associated as a family business with strong BMW connections from 1972 until 2024 and over the years, the company has continually expanded through various Midlands-based franchise dealerships, including Oldbury, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Evesham, Wolverhampton and Warwick. This year, the company was sold and is now owned by the Sytner Group under the chairmanship of American petrolhead, Roger Penske. This BMW Z8 was acquired in 2005 by the dealership group as a significant and interesting milestone in the development of BMW. Its unique design and features as an early convertible BMW high-performance sports car, including the combination of the incredible engine from the M5, coupled to a 6-speed manual gearbox, made this rare and exciting car an icon of the marque. Its looks evolved from the BMW 503/507 Series of the 1950s which, when finished in the classic colour combination of Titanium Silver with red leather upholstery, evoke a period style that set the trend for many future BMW sports cars to follow. It has been used for showroom display and occasional exhibitions and parades, enjoying a cosseted indoor life with annual maintenance and MOTs carried out and a minimal annual mileage covered. The total indicated mileage at time of cataloguing of 12,529 today can be warranted by the MOT and service history. It's a UK-supplied car from new, has been enjoyed by just two owners and comes complete with a factory hardtop and original book pack.A rare and very exciting opportunity today and we encourage close inspection at our sale at the 2024 NEC Classic Motor Show.Specification Make: BMW Model: Z8 Year: 2000 Chassis Number: WBAEJ110X0AF77815 Registration Number: X343 OSO Transmission: Manual Engine Number: 60562320 Drive Side: Left-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 12529 Miles Make: Only LHD Interior Colour: Black/Red Nappa LeatherClick here for more details and images

 **The vendor has offered to organise collection from the NEC and organise an MOT for the buyer at his expense post sale.** A UK-delivered example, comprehensively restored to a high standard and excitingly offered without Reserve. On offer here is a rare and desirable, UK-supplied, right-hand drive, three-door Land Cruiser VX Turbo that was first registered on 1st August 1992. Finished in Red Mica (code Toyota 3H4), this example has been subject to a comprehensive restoration to a very high standard that was recently finished in August 2024. The car enjoyed a full glass-out, trim-out respray along with the running gear being powder-coated and one glance at the engine bay will illustrate the quality of the work.It's powered by a four-cylinder 2.4-litre turbo diesel engine (2-LT) mated to a 5-speed manual transmission with high and low ratio four-wheel drive. The mileage at the time of cataloguing was 143,085 and the car is accompanied by its dealer book pack including the stamped service book along with old tax discs, V5 and MOTs.Excitingly offered without Reserve, this particular example really does need to be seen in the metal given the amount of recent investment and we welcome your inspection at the NEC.NB; This vehicle will be issued with a fresh MOT prior to the sale.SpecificationMake: TOYOTAModel: LAND CRUISERYear: 1992Chassis Number: JT1V0LJ7009058848Registration Number: K255 LTRTransmission: ManualEngine Number: 2L3035995 Drive Side: Right-hand DriveClick here for more details and images

Well specified manual gearbox car in a stylish colour combination with just over 31,000 miles. At the Geneva Show in March 1999, as a replacement for their much-admired F355, Ferrari introduced the 360 Modena to critical acclaim and not unsurprisingly, within weeks there was a two year waiting list. The 355 was a tough act to follow, but the 360 was rather special - its all-aluminium construction (a first for Ferrari) was revolutionary, resulting in a much lighter car along with increased rigidity (40% lighter than the 355's steel platform but also nearly 30% stiffer), whilst also improving the under-body aerodynamics using knowledge gained from Ferrari's F1 programme. All this combined with the flowing Pininfarina lines, computer-controlled suspension, a staggering 400bhp, 0-60 in 4.4 seconds and 186mph - immediately made its predecessor, the excellent 355, feel rather dated.The Modena also saw a new word introduced into Ferrari reviews - 'reliability'. The engineering had been more thoroughly thought through and this was (and still is) reflected in lower servicing costs than for earlier mid-engined examples of the 'Prancing Horse'. Higher levels of quality too meant that the 360 became one of the first truly modern Ferraris that could realistically be used every day. That didn't detract from the excitement factor however, with strong performance, a searing engine note and a very capable chassis.Supplied by Maranello Concessionaires Ltd, this right-hand drive 360 Modena is fitted with the desirable manual gearbox and looks particularly special in Argento Nürburgring with a rare Bordeaux and black leather interior. It's still fitted with the OE equipment Becker Ferrari radio with the original instruction leaflet. Well specified from new with factory Wing Shields, a 'Challenge' rear grille and full electric seats, it was later treated to a Nouvalari sports silencer which just takes the exhaust note under load to a different level.The indicated mileage of 31,484 is supported by a full service record detailing a major service conducted just over 1,000 miles ago which included cam belts, air-conditioning belt and water pump. The service book contains 14 service stamps at the correct mileages, with either main dealers or specialists and the MOT is valid until August 2025. The car is supplied with all its original manuals, a full Ferrari toolkit, interior dust cover, Ferrari soft briefcase, Ferrari documents case with torch, four keys and two fobs including the original red item. Being finished in a colour combination away from the obligatory makes this lovely Ferrari in 6-speed manual form a very interesting proposition, as earlier Modena examples are now catching the eye and beginning to come of age.Specification Make: FERRARI Model: 360 MODENA Year: 2001 Chassis Number: ZFFYR51C000122444 Registration Number: X866 MGJ Transmission: Manual Engine Number: 59966 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 31484 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Black/Bordeaux LeatherClick here for more details and images

An extraordinarily low-mileage and high specification example of one of Crewe’s rarest long wheelbase, turbocharged limousines. Introduced as a limited edition model of the Silver Spur III for the 1995 model year, the Rolls-Royce Flying Spur was the first Rolls to be fitted with a turbocharged engine and naturally, the chosen powerplant was Bentley's well established 6.75-litre turbocharged V8, as found in their much admired Turbo R. Performance was more than adequate, especially considering the Spur's substantial 2,387kg, with the Bentley's 385bhp whistling its cossetted occupants up to 60mph in around seven seconds and onwards to a less than respectable 150mph. The Turbo R’s settings for its adaptive damping and self-levelling suspension were also borrowed for the new car meaning the Flying Spur was as enjoyable to drive as it was to be driven in.The Silver Spur III's exemplary standards of equipment and finish were not just maintained in the new model but enhanced, the most noticeable change being the adoption of separate rear seats and the reinstatement of folding picnic tables. Often hailed as the last of the 'old school' Rolls-Royce that started with the Silver Shadow of 1965 and aimed at the owner-driver, but with rear passenger refinement unparalleled when compared with contemporary rivals.Interest was strong and it quickly became clear that there was enough demand for more than the 50 cars Rolls-Royce initially intended to build. By the time production concluded, 134 Flying Spurs had left the factory with, we understand, only 43 in right-hand drive.This beautiful example appears to have been the 23rd built with assembly commencing on October 5th 1994. Ordered in the fabulous deep and velvety hue of Wildberry with Sandstone hides piped in Wildberry, very few boxes were left unticked on the order sheet with the car benefitting from matching lambswool rugs, silk privacy curtains, figured Walnut veneers, twin cocktail cabinets, a Sony VCR system with headrest mounted screens, electric sunroof, rear blind and the automatically retractable Spirit of Ecstasy atop that exquisite chromed grille. A further addition was the Mulliner Park Ward Hooper limousine rear window, a rare and expensive option.When complete, the car was delivered to HR Owen in London on 25th January 1995 prior to being shipped to a wealthy industrialist in, what was then, the British province of Hong Kong. It remained there, in the care of, we believe, a single owner until 2022 when it was brought home and extensively recommissioned before becoming the property of its first UK custodian.To date, the car has covered a mere 19,537 miles and is supplied with its original book pack, bespoke toolkit and its current MOT valid until 28th July 2025. As can be seen from our images, it remains in simply exceptional condition, a credit to its keepers. If you have reached a point in your life where you feel that you deserve a bit of a reward without being too extravagant, then this gloriously presented and rather rare Flying Spur may well be the answer.Specification Make: ROLLS-ROYCE Model: FLYING SPUR Year: TBA Chassis Number: SCAZG03C3SCH55292 Registration Number: M122 LYU Transmission: TBA Engine Number: 81754L410M/TKR Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 19537 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Sandstone LeatherClick here for more details and images

Just 40,600 miles backed up by an extensive history file. A stunning example of one of Crewe’s biggest hits. From the time it was introduced in 1966 until its final year in 1980, the Silver Shadow was the mainstay of the Rolls-Royce brand. Offering a stylish and more practical alternative to the Silver Cloud it replaced, with unibody construction, hydraulically actuated four-wheel disc brakes and four-wheel independent suspension, it was infinitely more modern and directly appealed to the new class of owner-driver.One of the few features carried over from the earlier car was the overhead-valve V8 engine, which displaced 6,230cc until 1970 when it was increased to 6,750cc. The engine's power output was generally considered to be around 200bhp but, 'like a gentleman', Rolls-Royce never told - a myth that added a certain cachet to Shadow ownership, only spoilt when it became a requirement of certain European registration authorities for outputs to be declared and there it was, 189bhp. Although never considered a fast car, with the help of a General Motors 3-speed automatic transmission, the Silver Shadow was very smooth, quiet and capable of rapid and comfortable cruising.This stunning example was supplied new to the Collier family in London in 1975 by Jack Barclay specified in Caribbean Blue with a Light Blue interior. It was chauffeur-driven from day one under the Collier family and it stayed that way until 1992, when it was acquired by the Maxwell family of Hampstead who kept the car for 17 years until 2009. The car has been garaged and maintained regardless of cost throughout its life, evident in its bright chrome and the paintwork's deep and even shine in a colourway that's uplifting even on a dull day. The extraordinary mileage of 40,600 is supported by extensive paperwork, including every MOT back to 1980. Factory air-conditioning is a wonderful touch, as is the presence of the original toolkit. A large history file is present which contains the ownership timeline, the current MOT and the original book pack which includes the instructions for the original Blaupunkt stereo. An extraordinary example.The Silver Shadow is rightly coming of age as an eminently drivable car with stylish good looks and great road presence. Over the years, it's moved from being an 'old Rolls-Royce' to a seriously cool classic, becoming attractive to a much younger demographic. To find a Shadow with just over 40,000 miles and low ownership is rare and we encourage your inspection of this pretty Caribbean Blue example at our NEC sale. Specification Make: ROLLS-ROYCE Model: SHADOW Year: 1975 Chassis Number: SRH20991 Registration Number: JYT 592N Transmission: Automatic Engine Number: 20991 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 40600 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Light Blue leatherClick here for more details and images

Rare UK-supplied WRX-STi Type UK. Collector's quality modern classic with just one owner from new. The 2002 Impreza WRX STi Prodrive-style Type-UK was a second generation, four-door saloon, built for the UK-market between October 2001 and February 2002. Available in WRC Blue Mica or Midnight Black they were powered by the traditional 1,994cc, DOHC flat-four generating 265bhp fed to the road through full-time four-wheel drive with viscous limited-slip centre differential (VCD-F4WD).Differences to the regular WRX include special gold-coloured spoked alloy wheels, colour-keyed sill spoilers and an interior featuring blue suede-effect seats with STi logos and red stitching for the steering wheel, gear knob and handbrake lever. Inside - and sure to please enthusiasts - is a switch to spray the intercooler with water. Another device allows the driver to pre-set a warning buzzer and light to guard against over-revving the engine. On opening the bonnet, the engine compartment greets owners with a dramatic mixture of colours and detailing. The intake manifold, for example, is painted in red and the enlarged aluminium intercooler emblazoned with STi lettering. In addition, the STi Prodrive style features a massive high-riding boot spoiler, newly designed sill spoilers and a deeper, squarer front bumper all designed to resemble the WRC rally car. Interior enhancements over the standard STi include dark blue-coloured instruments with red needles.This smart Midnight Black example was first registered on 17th July 2002 and has been enjoyed by one lady owner since then. It was fitted with a Prodrive performance pack in 2003 by the SubaruWelch Group at a cost of £2,000 with the invoice on file. The current indicated mileage is 44,743, corroborated by the service book containing eight stamps, the last @ 43,859 miles on 5th July 2023 and every MOT from new. It's also accompanied by its current and two previous V5Cs, the service pack and user manuals, both keys and two fobs.In production for only a few months and with a specification designed to suit UK-buyers, it's not surprising that the Type-UK has consistently remained in demand. This superb example looks like it's been cossetted within an inch of its life by its one owner and seems very sensibly guided.Specification Make: SUBARU Model: IMPREZA STI PRODRIVE Year: 2002 Chassis Number: JF1GDBKH32G018728 Registration Number: AK02 WCF Transmission: Manual Engine Number: 521453 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 44743 Miles Make: RHDClick here for more details and images

A stunning and incredibly rare 'Rouse Sport' Sierra Sapphire Cosworth R-304 with just 2,882 miles and two recorded keepers from new. Iconic Auctioneers are widely recognised for bringing the very best examples of all things Performance Ford to the market and this superb example epitomises that standard completely. The Ford Sierra Cosworth needs no introduction. The RS500 has long been seen to be the epitome of the range, but occasionally a car emerges that is so rare that maybe, just maybe, there may be a new challenger for the crown.Ford launched the Sierra Sapphire Cosworth in 1988 to such acclaim, a four-door equivalent of the renowned three-door with just a little more ability to satisfy the family when needed, but still delivering almost supercar performance. Given the undoubted success of all things Ford with an RS badge, the decision was made to produce a limited run of just 200 in conjunction with Andy Rouse, four-time Touring Car Champion, which would feature a number of slight design tweaks on the already successful formula. It was originally planned to build 100 of each in two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive format and they would be offered at a premium of around £4,500 over the standard Cosworth model. Upgrades included a bespoke body kit/aero pack with a body-coloured 'C' pillar, a smaller Garrett T25 Turbo and remapped ECU providing a further 40bhp, plus slightly larger tyres and an upgraded interior including model-specific Rouse seats and door cards with optional mahogany accents.In truth, the timing of the launch, the additional cost for the upgrades and the already successful standard car meant that Ford were never destined to make the full 200 cars planned. Dealers understood that the majority of buyers wanted the four-wheel drive cars and consequently it appears that the total numbers of Rouse Sport Sapphires may have only been around 100, with the majority, 78, being the 304-R.With just 2,882 warranted miles, the car we present here is almost certainly the lowest mileage and most original example of the model in existence and stored sympathetically with its original wheels and tyres removed, it still retains that indefinable 'new car smell'. This astonishing car is accompanied by correspondence from Andy Rouse to all buyers explaining how every car was hand-built by his team, personally checked and road-tested by him and asking buyers 'to respect their name and use it in a responsible manner'. It's supplied with the complete owners book pack, three MOT Certificates, various other marketing leaflets and paperwork relating to various car shows etc.The car is currently being fully recommissioned prior to the sale by the respected Tremona Garage and will be refreshed and running well at our NEC Sale. #23, with less than 3,000 miles covered during its 34 years existence, is sure to be in demand amongst collectors of rare, low-mileage, high performance Classic Fords and the premium of £4,500 over the standard Sapphire Cosworth paid back in 1990 may well have proved a sensible investment.Specification Make: FORD Model: SIERRA SAPPHIRE COSWORTH ROUSE SPORT 304-R Year: 1990 Chassis Number: WF0FXXGBBFLM68299 Registration Number: H304 HPD Transmission: Manual Engine Number: LM68299 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 2881 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Black LeatherClick here for more details and images

UK-supplied, rare and collectible two-keeper 260Z with just 29,600 miles and sensibly estimated. As emission controls increasingly diluted the 240Z's performance, Nissan sought to restore some of that lost power by stroking the engine out to 2,565cc from 2,393cc, boosting output to 162bhp. It retained the classic good looks of its smaller engined predecessor and the model's appeal was broadened with the addition of automatic transmission and a 2+2 model based on a longer wheelbase platform with a higher roofline to increase cabin space.This exceptional example is finished in the rarely seen Wine Red Metallic (611) with a black cloth interior. It was supplied new by C. Ward Garages Ltd, the Datsun main dealer in Stevenage, on 24th August 1978 to its first of only two keepers, a Mr Donald Stewart of Palace Place Mansions, Kensington and pleasingly, the original Bill of Sale for £6,263 less a trade-in allowance for a Triumph TR7 remains in the car's history file. The file also contains the V5C, eight old MOT Certificates, an invoice for the first service by C. Ward with a matching stamp in the book, the original service book with four stamps, the last at 24,191 miles in October 1992, a copy of the original enquiry for a 260Z responded to by Datsun of Baker Street dated July 1978 and an original sales brochure with this car believed to be on the front coverThe second custodian acquired this special 'Z' car in 2015 and commenced a sympathetic recommissioning, returning the car to top form. The file contains numerous receipts for parts etc. including a bespoke stainless steel exhaust built by him to finish it off.This 260Z represents a rare opportunity to own one of these iconic Japanese sports cars in a rare colour with just 29,600 miles from new. Sensibly estimated, we encourage your inspection at the NEC Sale.Specification Make: DATSUN Model: 260Z Year: 1978 Chassis Number: RS30021255 Registration Number: BRO 372T Transmission: Manual Engine Number: L26-201494 Drive Side: Right-hand Drive Odometer Reading: 29600 Miles Make: RHD Interior Colour: Black cloth interiorClick here for more details and images