Auction Preview: Ornithology, Zoology & Voyages at Chiswick Auctions, London, Feb 27
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What: Ornithology, Zoology & VoyagesWhere: Chiswick Auctions, 1 Colville Road, London, United KingdomWhen: 27 February, 11.00 AM GMTTop lots of the sale:- Steve Winterburn, Cheetah - Queen of the Plains, number 2 of 5, lifesize, sitting, bronze, 1100 mm (Auction Preview: Ornithology, Zoology & Voyages at Chiswick Auctions, London, Feb 27
What: Ornithology, Zoology & VoyagesWhere: Chiswick Auctions, 1 Colville Road, London, United KingdomWhen: 27 February, 11.00 AM GMTTop lots of the sale:- Steve Winterburn, Cheetah - Queen of the Plains, number 2 of 5, lifesize, sitting, bronze, 1100 mm (high) x 450 mm (wide) x 900 mm (base), n.d. [c.2010]. Estimate: £ 24,000 - £ 26,000 ($30,937 – 33,515)- D'apres De Mannevillette (Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Denis) Le Neptune Oriental, dedie au Roi [with] Supplement, second edition, half-title, one index leaf, 69 engraved maps and charts or coastal views, 32 double-page and folding, mainly by Alexander Dalrymple, featuring inset plans and relief, rhumb lines, soundings, hazards, shoals, and anchorages, very light marginal toning, occasional dust soiling and spotting, red half morocco gilt over original red glazed paper boards, spine gilt in compartments with floral motifs, slightly rubbed, [Phillips, ‘Atlases’, 3166; Howgego, ‘Encyclopediae of Exploration to 1800’], large folio (570x470mm), Demonville & Malassis, Paris & Brest, [1775 – 1781]. Estimate: £ 10,000 - £ 15,000 ($12,890 – 19,335)- Peter, Sir ARR Scott: ‘Barnacle Geese Against a Stormy Sky’, original oil on canvas, signed & dated in red lower left, gilt framed, image 908 x 2430 mm, 1939. Estimate: £ 6,000 - £ 8,000 ($7,734 – 10,312)- [Richard Mount & Thomas Page] The English Pilot. Describing the Sea-Coasts, Capes, Head-Lands... Rivers and Ports in the Whole Northern Navigation, woodcut Royal arms on title, 31 engraved maps (mostly of the coast of Scandinavia and the Baltic, 26 double-page, 5 folding), decorated with strapwork cartouches and mile scales, coats of arms, compass roses and rhumb lines, sailing ships, several woodcut text illustrations depicting coastal profiles, double column, slight browning, dust soiling and occasional thumbing, occasional spotting, minor tearing, some creasing and small repairs at folds or corners to verso of some maps, small hole to E2, a few pages trimmed with no loss to text, annotation by Robert Taylor dated 1757 to front pastedown, and others on sailing directions to the Holy Island, and accountancy, contemporary English paneled calf, bling tooled corner pieces, a little scuffed, [NMM 3 424; Phillips, Atlases 2843 and 2844], folio (478 x 305mm.), W. & J. Mount, T. Page, 1756. Estimate: £ 4,000 - £ 6,000 ($5,156 – 7,734)- G. E., Capt Shelley: A Monograph of the Nectariniidae, or Family of Sun-birds. First Edition, 121 hand-colored lithograph plates by J. G. Keulemans, heightened with gum arabic, clean, foxing to text, contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt, t.e.g., extremities slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers, [Fine Bird Books p.108; Nissen IVB 873; Wood p.566], 4to, by the Author, 1876-80. Estimate: £ 4,000 - £ 6,000 ($5,156 – 7,734)- Steve Winterburn: Elephants - The Orphans, number 1 of 8, three young elephants running, bronze, grey patina, on marble base, 800mm (long) x 120mm (wide) x 150mm (high), n.d. Estimate: £ 3,500 - £ 4,500 ($4,512 – 5,801)- Sebastian Munster: [America] Table of new islands. Which are named Westerners, and Indians ..., first map ever to name both the Pacific Ocean and the Straits of Magellan. Estimate: £ 3,000 - £ 4,000 ($3,867 – 5,156)For details, visit: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/Founder: Louise Blouin Read more