The Library of an English Bibliophile Part VII

8vo (214 X 137mm.), FIRST EDITION, original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET, minor spotting and browning, very slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities

out of africa. london: putnam, 1937

Photographs 

PETER BEARD b.1938 'LOLIONDO LION CHARGE, FOR THE END OF THE GAME / LAST WORD FROM PARADISE', 1964 Unique object, mural-sized, printed and assembled in the 1990s, mounted to card. Signed, titled, dated, annotated Peter Beard Box 47616 Nairobi Kenya and inscribed with a passage from Karen Blixen from Out of Africa by the photographer in white ink on the image, illustrated with paint, two annotated photographs, collage elements, blood spraying, hand prints and a Cerruti 1881 shirt stained with blood. Mounted and framed. Sheet 101.5 x 283 cm (40 x 111⅜in.); frame 102.5 x 284 x 15.6 cm (40½x 111¾x 6⅛in.)

peter beard | 'loliondo lion charge, for the end of the game / last word from paradise', 1964

A Vision of Luxury: The Collection of Michelle Smith Online

Hermès Graphite Vespa 18cm in Matte Niloticus Crocodile with Palladium Hardware, 2006 The bag features a leather cross body shoulder strap and a front facing chain link bar closure that opens to a smooth graphite leather interior. Niloticus crocodile is an exotic hide from farmed animals out of Africa from the Nile River. The Niloticus crocodile scales are larger than those of the alligator or Porosus (a saltwater crocodile). This enables greater symmetry on the sides of the bag and an evenness in the middle, adding to the bag's appeal. This is a very exclusive leather from Hermès which is rarely offered for sale to the public. CITES Notice This lot must either be shipped to its final destination within the United States or personally picked up in New York. A buyer taking this lot outside of the United States is responsible for ensuring that they do so in accordance with all applicable U.S. laws and regulations. It is a buyer’s responsibility to ensure they are legally importing the lot into the destination country in full compliance with the laws of the country of importation. Please familiarize yourself with the applicable U.S. laws and the laws of the country of importation before bidding on this lot. A failure to obtain any required export and/or import permits from the applicable authority (and any consequences from failing to transport this lot in accordance with applicable laws and regulations) is not a ground for cancellation of the sale of the lot. Should you choose to personally pick up the property from Sotheby’s, New York State sales taxes will be applied against the purchase of the lot. Sotheby’s Post Sale Services can be reached by telephone (+1 212 606 7444) or email (uspostsaleservices@sothebys.com). Size: 18

View 1 of Lot 444: Graphite Vespa 18cm in Matte Niloticus Crocodile with Palladium Hardware, 2006

graphite vespa 18cm in matte niloticus crocodile with palladium hardware, 2006

Hermès Black Onimaitou Bag in Shiny Niloticus Crocodile, 2004 This Hermès Onimaitou cross body bag is crafted of Shiny Niloticus Crocodile in black. The bag features a simple yet practical design with a thin leather cross body strap and a spacious interior in matching black smooth leather. Niloticus crocodile is an exotic hide from farmed animals out of Africa from the Nile River. The Niloticus crocodile scales are larger than those of the alligator or Porosus (a saltwater crocodile). This enables greater symmetry on the sides of the bag and an evenness in the middle, adding to the bag's appeal. This is a very exclusive leather from Hermès which is rarely offered for sale to the public. CITES Notice This lot must either be shipped to its final destination within the United States or personally picked up in New York. A buyer taking this lot outside of the United States is responsible for ensuring that they do so in accordance with all applicable U.S. laws and regulations. It is a buyer’s responsibility to ensure they are legally importing the lot into the destination country in full compliance with the laws of the country of importation. Please familiarize yourself with the applicable U.S. laws and the laws of the country of importation before bidding on this lot. A failure to obtain any required export and/or import permits from the applicable authority (and any consequences from failing to transport this lot in accordance with applicable laws and regulations) is not a ground for cancellation of the sale of the lot. Should you choose to personally pick up the property from Sotheby’s, New York State sales taxes will be applied against the purchase of the lot. Sotheby’s Post Sale Services can be reached by telephone (+1 212 606 7444) or email (uspostsaleservices@sothebys.com).

View 1 of Lot 445: Black Onimaitou Bag in Shiny Niloticus Crocodile, 2004

black onimaitou bag in shiny niloticus crocodile, 2004

Blixen, K. ("Dinesen, I.") Out of Africa. New York: Random House, 1938, first american edition, original cloth, dust-jacket; together with 2 others--Frazier, C. Cold Mountain. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997, first trade edition, signed by the author ("Charles Frazier | 10-8-97") on title-page, original black cloth-backed blue boards lettered in gilt on spine, illustrated endpapers, dust-jacket (with John Berendt review sticker laid down)--O'Brian, P. Master and Commander. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1969, first edition, double-page map, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, dust-jacket, slightly bumped at head and foot of spine, minor wear to upper cover--Thompson, H.S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York: Random House, 1971, first edition, illustrations by Ralph Steadman, original black cloth-backed boards with lettering in silver on spine and design in blind on upper cover, dust-jacket; all 8vo (6)

six volumes, including novels adapted into modern films, comprising:

Photographs

a unique object, oversized, inscribed in the negative by Karen Blixen, mounted, signed, titled, dated, annotated 'Hog Ranch, Box 47616 Nairobi,' and inscribed with quotations from Karen Blixen's Out of Africa by the photographer in red ink on the image, and with collage elements: blood and 4 photographs, including portraits of Karen Blixen, Brör Blixen and Karen Blixen's grave being visited by Kamante Gatura, captioned by the photographer in ink, framed, The Time Is Always Now, New York, gallery labels on the reverse, 1960, printed later (The End of the Game, pp. 50-51)

'giraffes on the taru desert, kenya'

signed, titled, dated, annotated 'for The End of the Game/Last Word from Paradise,' and inscribed with a quotation from Karen Blixen's Out of Africa by the photographer and with his partial handprint and a drawing by him in ink, on the image, framed, The Time Is Always Now, New York, gallery labels on the reverse, 1976, printed later

'lion pride on the southern serengeti near ndutu'

a unique object, signed, annotated 'Salaams & Regards' and 'Box 47616 Nairobi,' and inscribed with a quotation from Karen Blixen's Out of Africa in ink on the image, and with collage elements: blood, black and white paint, a handprint, a feather, and a Mickey Mouse cartoon, framed, 1965, printed in 1989 (Taschen, unpaginated)

amboseli elephants (tsavo before the die-off, tsavo north)

including Our Cabbies, Telling Granny, Mosaic Ornaments, Arrival of Trippers at Scarbro', Lord Rosslyn - Newmarket Winter Sales: The Biggest Buyer, Judges of Today, Starving, Head pieces, Gutter Merchants, As it might be - Half a Crown a day and Coffee and Soup, As it is - Sixteen pence a Day and Find Yourself,  Sunday Clothes, Mother, In Charge, Fresh Eggs, Daddy, Just Out - Beauties of South Africa, A pair of 'em!, The Doll, An Accident, Let Me Like a Soldier Fall, Monday Morning, Isn't he a beauty?, Try Sam Smith's Anti Fat, Monkeys, A Sharp Contrast, Little Monkeys, Ere's Luck!, Rags n Bones, Men of Muscle, Nevermind I was a child myself once, Men of War, No Hands Wanted Today and other subjects 

a folio of scenes from london life

Arts of the Islamic World & India

Arabic manuscript on paper, 18 leaves, plus 2 flyleaves, 13 lines to the page written in Maghribi script in black ink, key works picked out in gold, red, blue, green and maroon ink, in stamped and tooled brown leather binding with flap, brown leather doublures

Arabic manuscript on paper, 18 leaves, plus 2 flyleaves, 13 lines to the page written in Maghribi script in black ink, key works picked out in gold, red, blue, green and maroon ink, in stamped and tooled brown leather binding with flap, brown leather doublures leaf: 25.4 by 18cm.

View 1 of Lot 507: Suleyman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'd al-Baji al-Maliki (d.1081 AD), al-nasihat al-waladiyyah, (The Advice of Abu Walid Al-Baji to his Sons), a collection of wisdom, North Africa or Andalusia, 13th/14th century

suleyman ibn khalaf ibn sa'd al-baji al-maliki (d.1081 ad), al-nasihat al-waladiyyah, (the advice of abu walid al-baji to his sons), a collection of wisdom, north africa or andalusia, 13th/14th century

Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 2, D-J

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (245 x 175mm.), (vol.1) xx, 470pp.; (vol.2) xiv, 471-1018pp., 9 folding coloured maps, 48 coloured natural history plates, 505 illustrations in the text [463 photographic], including 95 full-page, original pictorial black cloth, coloured floral endpapers, top edges gilt, slipcase

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (245 x 175mm.), (vol.1) xx, 470pp.; (vol.2) xiv, 471-1018pp., 9 folding coloured maps, 48 coloured natural history plates, 505 illustrations in the text [463 photographic], including 95 full-page, original pictorial black cloth, coloured floral endpapers, top edges gilt, slipcase"In 1899, there came the tempting offer to go for two years as special commissioner to Uganda, to establish civilian administration there after seven years of disastrous and very expensive military rule... His performance, though eccentric, was highly successful. Eight months out of eighteen were spent on the march, as much in the cause of science as of good government. At Entebbe, as earlier at Zomba, government house was overrun with wildlife, from snakes to crested cranes, from monkeys to a baby elephant. Johnston had the vision of a fertile country of peasant farmers, capable of producing tax revenues necessary to support a light form of colonial overrule as soon as the completion of the Uganda Railway should give them the means of exporting their produce. He concluded an agreement with the ruling chiefs of Buganda which made them privileged allies of the British, thereby enabling him to halve the military expenditure incurred by his predecessors. At the end of his tour of duty, Johnston got a GCMG, and his book The Uganda Protectorate was published" (ODNB).

the uganda protectorate. an attempt to give some description of the... territories under british protection in east central africa, between the congo free state and the rift valley. london: hutchinson & co., 1902

Arts of The Islamic World

Arabic manuscript on paper, 277 leaves plus 1 flyleaf, 9 lines to the page, written in elegant maghribi script in black ink, the words 'Allah' and 'Muhammad' picked out in red, blue and gold, catchwords, margins ruled in blue, black and gold, polychrome illuminated headings throughout, including frontispiece and finispiece, decoration comprising floral and geometric motifs and white and gold text against red, yellow, blue and green grounds, including illuminations stretching into the margins, brown morocco binding with gilt-stamped geometric designs, with flap

an illuminated book of prayers, north africa, 18th century

dane, sir richard. sport in asia and africa. london, 1929--treatt, major c. court. out...

Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana Online

Four pages of sheet music. Mounted to black cloth and framed in a lucite shadowbox, (overall 17 1/4 x 41 3/4 x 2 in. 438 x 1,060 x 51mm). Previously folded, edges lifting from cloth where previously mounted, printed sheet music sunned, approximately 20 signatures in black marker still very strong. Not examined out of frame. [Accompanied by] framed Grammy Nomination certificate presented to Tom Trbovich, glass cracked on upper left corner. 

autographed soloist sheet music with grammy nomination certificate, 1985 

Modern and Contemporary African Art 

LEONCE RAPHAEL AGBODJELOU Beninese b.1965 UNTITLED, EGUNGUN SERIES, 2011/2012 Four chromogenic prints, each flush-mounted to aluminium. Each signed, titled, dated and numbered out of an edition of 10 + 2AP on gallery label affixed to frame verso. Each Framed. (4) 50 by 33cm., 19¾ by 13in. (image size); 56 by 39cm., 22 by 15¼in. (sheet size)

leonce raphael agbodjelou | untitled, egungun series, 2011/2012

Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana

Property from the Private Collection of Bailey Bishop

Property from the Private Collection of Bailey Bishop [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] GILBERT VALE. FANATICISM; ITS SOURCE AND INFLUENCE, ILLUSTRATED BY THE SIMPLE NARRATIVE OF ISABELLA, IN THE CASE OF MATTHIAS, MR. AND MRS. B. FOLGER, MR. PIERSON, MR. MILLS, CATHERINE, ISABELLA … A REPLY TO W. L. STONE. NEW YORK: BY THE AUTHOR, 1835 — WILLIAM STILL. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. A RECORD OF FACTS, AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES, LETTERS, ETC., NARRATING THE HARDSHIPS HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES AND DEATH STRUGGLES OF THE SLAVES IN THEIR EFFORTS FOR FREEDOM. PHILADELPHIA: PORTER & COATES, 1872 Vale: 2 parts (complete), the first sewn as issued and uncut, the second disbound (the largest 8 1/2 x 5 in.; 216 x 128 mm). Some browning, soiling, some light foxing. Still: large 8vo (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.; 235 x 158 mm). 24 steel-engraved plates. Publisher's green cloth binding, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, brown-coated endpapers; spine ends and extremities worn. The earliest biography of Sojourner Truth, famed black abolitionist, reformer and women's rights activist. "One of the earliest narratives of an American black slave woman" (Blockson). Gilbert Vale's work has only recently been recognized as an important early chapter in the life of Sojourner Truth, who was Isabella Baumfree before she changed her name. This precedes by fifteen years Sojourner Truth's autobiography, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave (Boston, 1850). Rare; complete in 2 parts. William Still, author of The Underground Rail Road, was an African American leader whose house was a stop on the Underground Railroad for "nineteen out of every twenty escaped slaves that passed through Philadelphia" (DAB). LITERATURE: Vale: Blockson, One Hundred and One Influential Books by and about People of African Descent, p. 28; Blockson, Afro-American Collection 8745; Sabin 98337. Still: Blockson, One Hundred and One 41; Porter, Negro in the United States 872; Work, p. 338 PROVENANCE: Still: E. W. Porter (bookplate annotated with price and inventory number and dated February 1873)

[african-american history]. still. the underground railroad and vale. fanaticism.

Modern & Contemporary African Art

LEONCE RAPHAEL AGBODJELOU Beninese b.1965 UNTITLED (EGUNGUN SERIES), 2011 each signed, titled, dated and numbered out of an edition of 10 + 2AP on gallery label affixed to frame on the reverse I: 3 of an edition of 10 +2AP II: 1 of an edition of 2AP Two chromogenic prints, each flush-mounted on board (2) each: 50 by 33cm., 19¾ by 13in. (image size); 56 by 39cm., 22 by 15¼in. (sheet size) To view Shipping Calculator, please click here

leonce raphael agbodjelou | untitled (egungun series), 2011

The Saul and Marsha Stanoff Collection

the flat panel of abstract form consisting of two symmetrically concave segments, linked by a diamond shaped segement with "W's" cut out at the horizontal points supporting, the female figure with a belt of glass beads slung around the hips and strands of blue and white beads wrapped around the neck, the whole decorated with intricately carved patterns of scarification; exceptionally fine, partially lustrous, varied brown patina.

a superb tabwa paddle, democratic republic of the congo

African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art

in codex style with the dramatic emergence of the God of Hunting coming out of the Bearded Dragon's (Och Chan) gaping jaws, the figure wearing distinctive straw hat, large deer ear with caban infix, and holding a conch shell horn, before him a low cache vessel with the hand, eyeball and bone ceremonial trio, the monster with silky beard trailing to the ground, tightly undulating repitilian body, a deer antler above his eye, and a Jester God head on the neck facing down with the tripartite jewels of the Maize god below, a huge deer ear with infix above, and foliated ahau symbol surmounting the upraised tail.

a maya painted cylinder vessel,late classic, ca. a.d. 550-950

The William W. Brill Collection of African Art

the two opposing female torsos each of similar form, with arms held out to the sides and small hands resting on the tri-lobed base, the bodies with pointed breasts and a furrow at the back beneath the large heads with notched mouths, pointed noses and far-set incised eyes framed by C-shaped ears and supporting the arching pillow with incised motfis on top and two lugs below; fine reddish brown patina with areas of dark pokerwork.

a fine southeast african double-figure neckrest

seated on a tall, openwork stool, the rounded hips leading to elongated torso tapered at the center and flaring to broad shoulders, the bent arms held out to the sides and holding a hollowed vessel, the attenuated neck supporting the head with jutting, softly rounded jaw, pursed lips and outlined, coffee-bean eyes framed by notched scarification and C-shaped ears and wearing an incised, cap-like coiffure; the body decorated with incised dentil-molded and diamond-shaped scarification. '493' in white pigment at the reverse; deep brown surface overall.

a fine tabwa/jiji seated female figure

standing on wedge-shaped feet, with rounded calves and buttocks leading to the stout torso with raised scarification at the center and pointed breasts, the arms held out to the sides with the hands turned back, the long ridged neck supporting a head with a gentle tilt and soft rounded features and serene expression decorated with raised scarification beneath the dentil-molded diadem and wearing an elaboratley upswept, plaited coiffure; '169A' in white pigment; deep brown patina overall.

a fine attie female figure

satimbe, of hollowed rectangular form, the pierced eyes framed by a trident of deep grooves with pointed ears to the sides and surmounted by a standing female figure with bent legs, a tall rectangular body, full breasts and square shoulders with arms held out to the sides, the elongated neck supporting the helmet-shaped head; '118' in pigment on the lower mask and base; fine aged and heavily encrusted surface decorated with black and white pigment.

a fine dogon face mask

karan wemba, the hollowed ovoid mask with a serrated medial ridge bisecting the circular eyes and leading to V-shaped horns, the whole surmounted by an attenuated female figure on a raised plaque with wedge-shaped feet, bent legs and salient breasts framed by arms held out to the sides, the flat, helmet-shaped head with a single-crested coiffure; '42' on the base and an old label with '42-63' at the reverse; aged surface overall with areas of white and red ochre pigment.

a fine mossi mask

the cylindrical body beneath the neck with elaborate, raised scarification, the head with exaggerated features including the mouth and nose protruding out from the spherical head with close-set eyes inset with metal tacks, a medial ridge and transverse diadem leading to the wooden horn inset at the crown; '22' in white pigment on the base; fine, varied and resinous deep brown patina.

a fine songe divination implement

the plaque-like body with cut-out shoulders framing the pointed breasts and carved amulet and decorated with rows of incised alternating squares at the front and a triangle at the back, the slender ridged neck supporting the diamond-shaped head with prominent nose and brows and an upswept tri-partite coiffure, all above a row of ten tines; fine and varied, slightly encrusted deep brown patina.

a fine asante comb

African &amp; Oceanic

with broad diagonal bands of the crocodile earth monster as if rising out of a tunnel in the earth, the massive crested head with long open snout, scrolled brows and powerful segmented reptilian body with tightly bent limbs, the rim molded with a narrow band of repeat stylized profile avian heads. 

maya blackware carved cylinder vessellate classic, ca. a.d. 550-950

Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints

Screenprint in colours, 1983, signed in pencil, numbered 101/150, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, published by Ronald Feldman Arts, Inc., New York, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet printed to the edges, in good condition (unexamined out of frame)

endangered species: african elephant (f. & s. ii. 293)

African Oceanic and PreColumbian Art

boldly painted on each side with a large alligator deity in animated stance, the right arm reaching over the head, tingunas of serpents swirling out with broad -mouth heads, the short neck painted with birds.

coclé polychrome jar,late coclé, ca. a.d. 1000-1200

a group of north african jewellery, circa 1900 or later, comprising: a pair of...

an east african drum, of hollowed cylindrical form and covered by a tympanum, with a...

of concave elliptical form with a central double row of scooped-out holes, with four tapered legs; dark brown patina.

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