MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (4)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (4)
Durban Docks
signed and dated 'M. Metcalfe 50' (lower right) and titled (to mount)
watercolour
20.5 x 16cm
(unframed)
together with three other watercolour by the same hand; Harvesting Bananas, 36.5…
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
Zanzibar
signed 'M Metcalfe' (lower right) and titled (lower left)
watercolour
31 x 23cm
(unframed)

Exhibited
Natal Society of Artists

together with six other watercolour by the same hand; The Old…
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
Sitting for a portrait
black and white chalk
24 x 32cm
(unframed)
together with six pastels by the same hand; A tribal mask, 31 x 24cm; A village street, 23 x 32cm; The porch of a house, 38 x 28cm; A…
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (9)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (9)
The Little Fruit Shop, Zanzibar
signed and dated 'M. Metcalfe Feb 36' (lower right) and titled (lower left)
pastel
37 x 29cm
(unframed)
together with eight other pastels of African scenes by the same…
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £25
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
Study of a boy seated
watercolour and pencil
28 x 19cm
(unframed)
together with six other watercolour studies of people, the largest 23 x 28cm, (all unframed)
(7)
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ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £35
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
Study of an African soldier
pencil
34 x 21.5cm
(unframed)
together with six other studies of people in pencil, watercolour and pen and ink, the largest 46 x 25cm, (all unframed)
(7)
ARR
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (7)
Yoa Dancer and Singer, Minstrel
inscribed (lower left and right)
watercolour and pencil
28 x 18.5cm
(unframed)
together with five watercolours and one pencil study of African people, the largest 31 x…
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Hammer price: £20
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
***COMBINED INTO LINE 26*** MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (5)
MARGARET METCALFE (BRITISH, 1877-1972) (5)
Gypsy with a rabbit and bird
insribed 'gypsy' (lower right)
watercolour and pencil
27.5 x 15cm
(unframed)
together with four other watercolour and pencil studies of gypsies, the largest 30.5 x 21cm, …
ProvenanceThe artist, thence by descent to her grandson;Private collection, UKFootnoteMargaret was brought up in Horsted Keynes, East Sussex. She studied art at the Slade under Professor Tonks…
Estimate: £50 - £100
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
5 August 2024 , 17:00 BST
The Abu Album, 1895-96. Mhow, India: Herzog & Higgins, [1895-96], oblong 4to, 43 mounted photographs, with 2 additional photographs at the end including one of 2 schoolgirls' cricket teams, morocco. PRESENTATION COPY. RARE. With a related map. (2)
The Abu Album, 1895-96. Mhow, India: Herzog & Higgins, [1895-96], oblong…
The Abu Album, 1895-96. [Title on upper cover.] Mhow, Central India [now Dr. Ambedkar Nagar]: Herzog and Higgins, [1895-96]. Large oblong 4to (358 x 485mm), average size of photographs 280 x 210mm.…
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £700 - £1,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French, 1816-1923, including Ruskin, Whistler, Lucien Pissarro and others. (12)
ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French…
ARTISTS - A collection of 12 letters by artists, mainly British and French, 1816-1923, including John Ruskin, James McNeill Whistler, Lucien Pissarro and others, including John Ruskin, two letters,…
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, inscribed, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", boards. A MANUSCRIPT COMPILED IN 1722 BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. RARE.
AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on…
AYRES, Ralph ("Radolphus") (fl.early-mid-18th-century).  A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, most written on the rectos only, inscribed on the verso of the…
Hammer price: £5,500
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BAWDEN, Edward (1903-89, illustrator). Life in an English Village, London, "The King Penguin Books" [No. 51], 1949, 8vo, 16 full-page coloured lithographed illustrations by Bawden, original decorated paper boards. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST.
BAWDEN, Edward (1903-89, illustrator). Life in an English Village, London,…
BAWDEN Edward (1903-89, illustrator).  Life in An English Village. Sixteen Lithographs by Edward Bawden with an Introductory Essay by Noel Carrington. London: "The King Penguin Books" [No. 51], 1949.…
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £70 - £100
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BINDING - A fine illuminated manuscript in German on two vellum leaves, with wide painted decorative borders, folio (420 x 310mm), VERY FINELY BOUND in contemporary highly elaborate panelled armorial morocco with garnets. Please see the full description.
BINDING - A fine illuminated manuscript in German on two vellum leaves,…
BINDING - A fine illuminated manuscript in German on two vellum leaves, written on the rectos only, both leaves with wide painted decorative armorial, allegorical and foliate borders, one…
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £500 - £800
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty ... Including an Account of the Mutiny, London, 1792, 4to, 7 plates and charts (lacks portrait of Bligh), contemporary paper-backed boards. FIRST EDITION.
BLIGH, William (1754-1817). A Voyage to the South Sea ... in his Majesty's…
BLIGH, William (1754-1817).  A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in his Majesty's Ship The Bounty,…
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £500 - £800
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to, illustrations by R. Crumb, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 346 OF 376 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Krumhansl 79b.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Bring Me Your Love, Santa Barbara, 1983, 4to,…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Bring Me Your Love. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. 4to (267 x 190mm). Title printed in pink and turquoise, illustration on title and 3 full-page illustrations…
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts, Bensenville, Illinois, Mimeo Press, 1965, 8vo, mimeographed text, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF "NO MORE THAN" 500 COPIES. RARE.
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94). Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live…
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94).  Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts. Bensenville, Illinois: Mimeo Press [and Douglas Blazek], 1965. 8vo (216 x 143mm). Mimeographed text on yellow,…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £350 - £450
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
BUTTERFLIES, Indian - An album of original watercolours of Indian butterflies and moths mounted on paper, the images 130 x 95mm., inset into 38 thick card mounts, one on each side (some staining), 1868 and later, collected by Julius Barras.
BUTTERFLIES, Indian - An album of original watercolours of Indian…
BUTTERFLIES, Indian - An album of original watercolours of Indian butterflies and moths mounted on paper with watercolour backgrounds of flora, the images 130 x 95mm., each inset into 38 thick card…
Hammer price: £4,500
Estimate: £300 - £500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1875-1964) - A collection of c.30 books mostly about Churchill, most FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed by their authors to the late Lady Jane Williams of Elvel. Please see the more detailed listing below. (c.30)
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1875-1964) - A collection of c.30 books mostly…
CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer (1875-1964) - A collection of c.30 books about Winston Churchill, most FIRST EDITIONS, PRESENTATION COPIES, inscribed by their authors to the late Lady Jane Williams of…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £300 - £500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930). The Case for Spirit Photography, London, [1922], 8vo, 16 photographed plates, original wrappers (lacks backstrip, frayed with some loss). FIRST EDITION. RARE. With 2 books of related interest. (3)
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930). The Case for Spirit Photography, London, …
CONAN DOYLE, Arthur (1859-1930), and others.  The Case for Spirit Photography ... [From upper wrapper:]  With Corroborative Evidence by Experienced Researchers and Photographers. London: Hutchinson &…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £300
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)]. A typed letter in Swedish, signed ("Karen Blixen"), on blue paper, to "Mrs Shou", two-pages, dated 2 September 1938, thanking her very warmly for her letter about her African farm and "Out of Africa".
"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)]. A typed letter in Swedish…
"DINESEN, Isak" [i.e. Karen BLIXEN (1885-1962)].  A typed letter in Swedish, signed ("Karen Blixen"), on blue paper, to "Mrs Shou", two-pages, dated 2 September 1938, thanking her very warmly for her…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £300 - £500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
DONIZETTI, Gaetano (1797-1848). Autograph letter, signed ("Donizetti"), to Giovanni Ricordi, [Rome], 1 August 1833. In Italian. Three-and-a-half-pages, 242 x 189mm, including two brief musical quotations.
DONIZETTI, Gaetano (1797-1848). Autograph letter, signed ("Donizetti"), to…
DONIZETTI, Gaetano (1797-1848).  Autograph letter, signed ("Donizetti"), to Giovanni Ricordi, [Rome], 1 August 1833. In Italian. Three-and-a-half-pages, 242 x 189mm, including two brief musical…
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
[DOWER, John (1825-1901). A New General Atlas, London, c.1840], 4to, 52 engraved maps (lacks title), contemporary roan (worn). Inscribed, "... from Dr Alexander Watson, R. N. One of the few things saved from H. M. S. 'Cormorant' when she sank ... 1859."
[DOWER, John (1825-1901). A New General Atlas, London, c.1840], 4to, 52…
[DOWER, John (1825-1901).  A New General Atlas of the World. London: Orr & Company, c.1840]. 4to (295 x 240mm). 51 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, with an additional chart [not called for on…
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £100 - £150
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Casino Royale, London, 1953, 8vo, original black cloth (without the dust-jacket, but supplied in modern facsimile). FIRST EDITION. With 2 other books by Fleming, both in facsimile dust-jackets. (3)
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Casino Royale, London, 1953, 8vo, original black…
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Casino Royale. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. 8vo (190 x 125mm). Half title (quite heavy spotting to the front and rear endpapers and half title, some mainly marginal spotting…
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £400 - £600
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Goldfinger, New York, 1959, 8vo, half title (a few pages with light stains and spots), original black cloth with skull design stamped in blind with gold coins as eyes, dust-jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Gilbert A7b.
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64). Goldfinger, New York, 1959, 8vo, half title (a few…
FLEMING, Ian (1908-64).  Goldfinger. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. 8vo (188 x 120mm). Half title (a few pages with light stains and spots). Original black cloth with skull design stamped in…
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £150 - £250
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST
17 July 2024 , 17:00 BST

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