Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts - L09772

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Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts

10 June 2009 • London

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Sale Number: L09772

70. A collection of large watercolours and drawings of towns, villages and countryside, mainly nineteenth century /early twentieth century by a variety of artists including H. Heilman, Karlinsky, H. Klee, A Muller, L. Munsch, Petrovils, O. von Ruppert, Schestauber, H. Skocek, Verner, H. Winter and Zdirchinec, approximately fifty; together with a group of approximately twenty prints of the same areas but also including views of Vienna and Berlin, various sizes (approx 70 items)

Estimate: 2,000 – 4,000 GBP

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71. A large collection of nineteenth-century prints including Napoleon – Hope still lingers, and The Last Salute after Otto Rex; Der Spaziergang after Ramberg; Toddy and the Cheshire Cheese after Dendy Sander; La Pompadour by Salame; Views of Rome and Venice, and a great many more including portraits of General Grant, Zermann (the Conjurer), Thorvaldsen, Longfellow, Scott, Jacob Grimm, etc., various sizes (approx 100)

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

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72. A large collection of sixteenth- to nineteenth-century prints of costumes including Nürnberger Trachlen – sixty four hand tinted engravings, four to a mount; Roman Costumes by Andrea Orazii, 1724 – eighteen engravings, two to a mount; twenty-four Dutch costumes engravings after Picart, two to a mount; six anonymous Cries, Dutch early eighteenth-century; Ladies- La Prude, La Mysterieuse, L'Agaceante, La Dissimulée, La Nonchalante, La Rusée by J.J. Haid, Augsberg, mezzotints, Swiss costumes, an anonymous set of eleven aquatints, circa 1810; twelve costume lithographs by Devaria, good impressions; and over a hundred and fifty more, many mounted together, various sizes (approximately 300 in all)

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

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73. A collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etchings and drypoints mainly by German and Austrian artists but with a small group of British works by Affleck, Bentley, Brangwyn, Sheppard Dale (five views in Cambridge), Gaskell, Walcot and Walker, approximately one hundred items in all; together with a slightly smaller collection of German and Austrian Secessionist, Symbolist and other turn of the century prints, lithographs, etchings etc. including works by Ferdinand Andri, Fritz Berger, A. Brömsee, Oser Graf, Ella Iranyi, Cornelia Paczka, Ernest Peche, Robert Philippi, Hans Trudel, and Woernle after Segatini, approximately thirty, various sizes (approximately 140)

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

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74. A group of nineteenth-century prints of composers, performers and performances including J.S. Bach (3), Beethoven (2), Bruckner, Bussoni, Cherubini, Handel (3), Hellmesberger, Joachim, Lanner, Milanollo (4), Mozart (3), Muller, Paganini, Rameau, Schubert (2), Richard Strauss, Talberg, Verdi, Wagner (3), C.M. von Weber, Clara Weick and others; together with six prints of performances, etc. including Eine Matinée bei Liszt after Hofelich, and Nocturne with Chopin playing by L. Balestrieri, and Beethoven after Rudolf Eichstaedt; as well as twenty prints of ballet dancers and opera singers including Jenny Lind, Madame Ristori, Sontag and Taglioni, various sizes (60)

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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75. A collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, including two large lithographs after F. Gauerman, three aquatints of Smolensko after Sartorius, Pavilion rode by Chieney after Chalon, and Highflier after Gilpin, three rare prints of Catching Colts, Brood Mares and their Foals, and Riding, Sadling, Breaking and Training by Carrington Bowles; three military watercolours by R. Leemann; a Cavalry Halt by M. Sedeli; together with drawings and watercolours of Flowers, Trees etc, including two oil studies of Spring and Summer Plants by A.D. Lucas (1876 and 1881 respectively), various sizes (approx 60 items)

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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76. An interesting group of chalk drawings, probably Viennese circa 1800, of facial characteristics including those of different native types including Polynesians, Turks, Indians, Orientals and Eurasians, twenty four; as well as multiple studies of eyes, ears, noses and mouths, five; twelve similar studies of animals, on six sheets; five sheets from Figure Humaine after Laurent lithographed by Godefroy Engelmann; and seven academic drawings relating to the Viennese Academy and its first master Jakob Schmuzer, all mounted on similar heavy blue cardboard, various sizes (53)

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

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77. A large collection of topographical watercolours, drawings etc, mainly nineteenth-century, the majority signed or inscribed and often dated, including early nineteenth-century views of Sicily attributed to Alexius Geyer; The Turkish Graveyard at Scutari, 1852, by Edouard Hildebrandt; the Garden at the Hacienda de San José; and at La Quinta de Montserat by Josef Hoffman, The Cathedral at Barcelona by G.F. Papperitz, 1857; Elevation and Plan of the Chateau de Gien, six further elevations of historic French buildings; View in Egypt and on the Nile by Josef Hoffman; and a View of The Bay of Nauplia by the same, etc., various sizes (approximately 90 sheets)

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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78. A large group of watercolours and drawings including: The Elements by Ernst Pessler (1899); The Young Shepherd; and The Shepherdess by W. Muhlmiester (1874); Going to Market by Franz Zeilner (1863); two drawings (?) on vellum by F. Slaeger (c.1900); The Bridal party, a study by Jacob Genster (1899), Ten Figure Studies by G. Haikl (circa 1890), five charming studies of scarecrows by S.H. Novop, a group of twelve drawings including one of The Emperor Franz Joseph with Children by W. Gause; and approximately eighty others; together with a late nineteenth-century Austrian or German set of 14 large designs for The Stations of the Cross; an interesting watercolour on vellum of crossed antlers; two memorial designs by Ludwig Stirmer; and a group of late nineteenth-century designs for stained glass, some stamped; Tyroler Glassmaleri/Wein Magdalenestr. 29, various sizes (approx 140 items)

Estimate: 2,000 – 4,000 GBP

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79. Including a montage of the principal members of the House of Liechtenstein, 1910; a collection of over sixty portraits of Officers in the Austrian Army, and over two hundred further prints of courtiers, politicians, doctors, scientists, academics, civil servants, etc., various sizes (in excess of 250 items)

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

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80. A small collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth- century etchings and engravings, approximately one hundred prints in all; together with approximately fifty English and French eighteenth-century prints, together with a few excellent portrait prints, various sizes (in excess of 150 items)

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

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81. A folio of portrait drawings and figure studies, sixty-four, mainly black chalk, a large number dated to around 1911; together with a group of large academic studies and a smaller folio of watercolours and drawings, forty-four drawings all by the same hand, a collection, various sizes

Estimate: 1,000 – 2,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

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