Vivien: The Vivien Leigh Collection

8vo, FIRST UK EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO VIVIEN LEIGH ("for dearest Vivien | with much love | Truman") on the dedication leaf, original green cloth, lettered in silver on spine, top edge yellow, dust-jacket, dust-jacket with small tears at extremities

in cold blood. a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences. london: hamish hamilton, 1966

The Library of an English Bibliophile Part VII

8vo (210 x 136mm.), first trade edition, original brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, DUST-JACKET (early state with "1/66" on the upper flap and with "Publishers of The American College Dictionary | and The Modern Library" on lower flap), minor mark to upper cover, extremities of very slightly soiled dust-jacket slightly frayed

in cold blood. new york: random house, 1965

The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part II

8vo (213 x 138mm.), first edition, inscribed by the author to Jim and Minnie Fosburgh ("For my dearest Min and Jim | from someone who loves them | namely | Truman | December, 1965"), publisher's maroon cloth, dust-jacket, collector's red cloth chemise in red morocco-backed slipcase, small tear to upper edge of dust-jacket with spine slightly rubbed at head

Fine Books and Manuscripts

Capote, Truman In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965 8vo. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt; spine faded, corners a little bumped. Dust jacket, 1/66 code to front flap, "Publishers of the American College Dictionary and the Modern Library" to rear flap; toned, cracked at joints with some tears, loss to head of spine, encroaching on title. First trade edition, of this powerful true crime classic, a presentation copy inscribed by the author to "Mary Lee and Doug." In Cold Blood was a result of Capote's extensive research into the Clutter family murders that took place in 1959. Having read about the murders in The New York Times, Capote and his friend and fellow author Harper Lee travelled to Kansas to investigate them. In Cold Blood became a pioneering example of New Journalism, evoking a true story and the real-life characters in it as events were unfolding. It was originally published in The New Yorker in four parts, and finally published in book form in January 1966. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) and his second wife Mary Lee are the dedicatees of this copy. Fairbanks Jr. was a prolific actor and producer in Hollywood and the UK as well as a decorated war veteran. PROVENANCE: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Lee Epling (presentation inscription)

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capote, truman | presentation copy of the non-fiction classic of american literature

Fine Books and Manuscripts including Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection

Property of Claudia Durst Johnson LEE, HARPER A fine group of letters to Claudia Durst Johnson and other manuscript material Together, 21 autograph letters, 5 typed letters, and 3 inscribed Christmas cards, all signed ("Nelle"), comprising 47 pp., various sizes, New York, Monroeville Alabama. and other places, 18 November 1992–17 May 2009; 24 autograph and typed envelopes — with: photocopy of Johnson's 12-page chronology of Lee's life and career, with numerous autograph annotations by Lee, and signed by Lee and Johnson — also with: the Arts & Books section of the Daily Telegraph, London, 12 April 1997, featuring a lengthy article on Lee by Michael Shelden, extensively annotated in red ink by Lee; vertical and horizontal folds. Harper Lee's revealing autobiographical notes and letters to Claudia Durst Johnson, "the one friend who can be depended upon to understand what it means to be Harper Goddamn Lee." Harper Lee's friendship with literary scholar Claudia Johnson began in 1992 when Johnson was starting to work on a study of the author. The two women quickly established a rapport and Lee not only wrote frank personal letters to Johnson, but also provided biographical details to facilitate Johnson's critical studies. In 1994, Johnson published To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries and in 2018, Reading Harper Lee: Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman. Of great interest is a copy of the newspaper article "The Writer Vanishes" by Michael Shelden, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1997 and annotated by Lee in vivid red ink. Where Shelden brings up rumors about Lee's sexuality, Lee writes in the margin, "I am not, never was, & never will be a lesbian." She denies that she plays golf every day, noting that she hasn't raised a club in fifteen years. Her most telling annotations concern Truman Capote and the authorship of In Cold Blood. Where Johnson is quoted in the article saying that some of Lee's notes went directly into the book, Lee appends a long note, which reads in part, "This is not quite right. Joint authorship was never intended. Our friendship didn't turn sour because of that, but because for the last 12 or 15 years of his life, T. seemed hell-bent on trying to destroy everyone who had ever loved him …. I suppose drugs & booze made him obviously psychopathic, but the seeds were always there, even in early childhood. So T. turned out not to be Dill, after all." Sometime in the early 1990s, Johnson sent Lee a 12-page "Chronology of Nelle Harper Lee's Life and Times." Next to this designation, Lee has written "or Truman Capote's?? Aside from Kansas we actually saw little of each other in our adult lives, and almost nothing of each other in the last 15 years or T.'s life. Our interests were quite different!" She goes on to deny the stories that the two, as children, wrote stories on an old typewriter in a tree house. She corrects what she considers to be "flights of fancy" by Capote biographer Gerald Clarke. According to Lee, the setting of Other Voices, Other Rooms is not based on Monroeville, but on a town in Louisiana. She also comments on the the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird and on stage versions of the novel. Harper Lee's letters to Claudia Johnson are also a rich source of information on Lee's attitudes toward a number of things, with special emphasis on her ambivalent relationship with Monoreville, Alabama, and its inhabitants. She refers to her hometown as "the hated place". In a letter of 2 July 2002, she writes, "If it were not for [her sister] Alice, I'd never go there again, Aside from a few friends, I hate the people. The Snopses are in full throttle there. It's amazing what 3 generations of growing prosperity and declining education can produce: Snopses from the courthouse to the White House." Lee felt more at home with "the peace and quiet of Manhattan" than in Monroeville. On 20 February 1997, she wrote to Johnson from the New York Society Library "which still has card-index files. If they go to computers, guess I'll have to quit. The NY Public (where I was educated) now is baffling, annoying, and wretched. How do you find something that's not on a computer?" In 2001, Johnson was asked to give a talk about Mockingbird in Chicago. Lee gave her blessing and wrote, "Thank God it's not some little shit from U. of Va., N. C. or somewhere else 'Southern' making his superiority over his audiences the main feature of his address. Golly, how I despise young academics." In December 2006, Dean Robert F. Olin wrote to Lee inviting her to attend an "Arty Party" at the University of Alabama to meet Mrs. Louise Schwartz of the Truman Capote Trust. The Trust was giving $76,000 for scholarships in creative writing at the school. In a paragraph annotated by Lee with two large exclamation marks, Dean Olin wrote, "Mrs. Schwartz was pleased to consider that the Truman Capote Literary Trust's presence at The University of Alabama symbolically reunites Mr. Capote with you and honors the friendship and careers of two Alabamians who changed the literary landscape of this nation." Lee forwarded the letter to Johnson, telling her to "keep this one for your H. L. archive!" She goes on to write, "Can you believe the nerve of these people? I don't know why, at this late date, they want to make Truman respectable. I guess it's because they've been living off him since his death in 1984. Guess money will buy anything — the easiest purchase is a university dean." In one of the last letters in the collection, written from an Alabama nursing home, Lee comments on Barack Obama: "The newspaper news is all I get & I'm frankly tired of reading of Barack the Boy Genius. He is nice but is too nice of a nice thing." The Harper Lee/Claudia Johnson archive is an invaluable source of biographical information.

lee, harper | a fine group of letters to claudia durst johnson and other manuscript material

English Literature, History, Children&#39;s Books & Illustrations

the first letter by Kipling responding to Curtin's reports in The Times about the treatment of British prisoners during the First World War, urging him to use his first-hand knowledge to inform the public about the "actualities of war", condemning the "reticence...on the part of our own authorities...which has done so much harm to the temper of our people" ("...we have been pap-fed...from the first and any attempt to describe in cold blood what was done in cold blood to English prisoners has been blocked..."), and asking about the existence of prisoners of whose capture no official notification has been made ("...I ask because I have a personal stake in this matter..."); his second letter explaining that there have been reports of imprisoned officers who are neither in hiding nor suffering from amnesia but who have never communicated with their families ("...These cases are difficult to account for..."); 4 pages, 8vo, headed "Private", on printed stationery of Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, 16 and 31 October 1916, rustmarks from paperclips

the first letter by Kipling responding to Curtin's reports in The Times about the treatment of British prisoners during the First World War, urging him to use his first-hand knowledge to inform the public about the "actualities of war", condemning the "reticence...on the part of our own authorities...which has done so much harm to the temper of our people" ("...we have been pap-fed...from the first and any attempt to describe in cold blood what was done in cold blood to English prisoners has been blocked..."), and asking about the existence of prisoners of whose capture no official notification has been made ("...I ask because I have a personal stake in this matter..."); his second letter explaining that there have been reports of imprisoned officers who are neither in hiding nor suffering from amnesia but who have never communicated with their families ("...These cases are difficult to account for..."); 4 pages, 8vo, headed "Private", on printed stationery of Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, 16 and 31 October 1916, rustmarks from paperclips the letters by Doyle commenting on Curtin's book The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany at War and on revelations about the extraction of glycerine from dead soldiers ("...it is the crowning horror and exceeds anything ever heard of in the world's history..."), encouraging him to "keep in touch with psychical Research" ("...It is the greatest thing in the world now. Avoid the vulgar seance...I am very distrustful of the paid medium..."), regretting its lack of support in America and complaining of "the frantic & ignorant outcry of houdini..."; 8 pages, chiefly 8vo, all on headed stationery, one autograph envelope, Windlesham, Sussex, 15 Buckingham Palace Mansions and Grosvenor Hotel, London, undated [c.1917-24], a few rustmarks from paperclips [together with:] 5 letters to Curtin by Upton Sinclair, Arthur W. Page, James W. Gerard and George Creel, 29 October 1916 to 20 September 1918; a further letter by Walter H. Page as the wartime US ambassador in London, to Lord Northcliffe, about apologising to Curtin "for improper treatment "; and a small group of printed material inscribed by Lord Northcliffe to Curtin, "who dragged the truth out of Germany"

collection of letters addressed to the american journalist d. thomas curtin during the first world war, including two autograph letters by kipling about prisoners of war, and six autograph letters by doyle:

Chinese Contemporary Ink

signed, titled, dated Spring of 2012, with three seals of the artist, and  inscribed

signed, titled, dated Spring of 2012, with three seals of the artist, and  inscribed  Once in a gorge in the Kunlun mountains, in the early autumn when the snow-melt had long since dwindled reducing the raging torrent of early summer to no more than a series of ribbons of water running through the boulder-strewn river-bed, I stumbled across the entrance to a cave.  Caves and other enclosed spaces have always had mystical meaning.  Like the Daoist stepping through the mouth of his gourd into an infinite realm of wonder; like the old fisherman climbing through the Peach Blossom Spring to discover Arcadia, the cave resonates with other-worldliness.  Even travellers to the West on the long and dangerous road between the sands and towering peaks carved their images of Buddhist deities into caves at Dunhuang before they left our lands so that the gods might look kindly on their endeavour.  The cave I found was no less magical.  I was living alone for a long period of time, enjoying the solitude of the high gorge in the summer months and returning to lower ground and the warm desert oases for the winter.  I searched for strange stones, as was my habit, but what I found in the cave was beyond anything I had ever discovered, and quite beyond transportation.  Chamber after chamber of the riddled mountain was carved by aeons of fast flowing water carrying with it its little drilling pebbles to sculpt entire walls into a myriad strange stones.   Who knows how deeply the ancient waters had drilled perforations beyond the limits of my tiny lamp?   I returned day after day, with brush and inkstone, drawing the images I saw in the flickering light.  Here were sages and demons; strange creatures half human half beast; here were birds and animals no human eye had ever seen, and a thousand other wonders.  I could not put down my brush, barely eating or sleeping for days on end, week after week.  As winter beckoned I had a hundred or more sketches on scraps of paper I had brought with me from the Capital and on other paper I had made myself from local bark.   Rolled in bundles upon my back, I set out for the nearest town with its supplies and mounting shops so I could transfer my sketches onto fine paper and have them mounted as albums and scrolls.  Returning the following summer, I found that some large boulders had been dislodged by the spring torrent, blocking the gorge further downstream and raising the water level by several times my own height.  The entrance to my magical cave was lost beneath the water.  Only then did I understand my urgency and madness in trying to record it all the previous summer. I immediately set about making a large box from a single tree trunk to hold all the paintings, then sealed it, and left it in my high-gorge home, for it was time to move on.  One day I shall return, perhaps they will still be there safely; perhaps my cave will, again, be accessible, but in the meantime I recall with clarity every image as if standing in front of it still, and paint again the wonder of the walls. One frieze was particularly intriguing.  I began to sketch it before realizing what it was I was painting.  Leaving out the background darkness, as my brush urgently danced, a procession of stone sages emerged as if on their way to a symposium of Stone Fools.  Perhaps it is again time to host one. Inscribed by the Master of the Water Pine and Stone Retreat at the Garden at the Edge of the Universe in the Spring of 2012, in an unusually cold Hong Kong, as if sympathizing with the loss of my cave in the high cold mountains, as I recall the delights of days and nights spent with Stone Fools whether of flesh and blood or otherwise. 

a procession of stone sages

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concerning the grant to Conrad of £500 from the Royal Bounty Fund, explaining his hopes for the money ("...I start from the principle that the first and main intention has been to procure for me the ease of mind necessary for tranquil and steady writing, in which - and in which alone - is to be found a radical and complete remedy for my difficulties..."), outlining his debts in detail, dwelling on his difficult financial situation and explaining that his debts would have had to be "repaid with 'copy' written for dear life ... the mere thought of that escaped burden turns me chilly with apprehension even now...", but responding with evident hurt pride to the suggestion that a solicitor be appointed to settle his debts on his behalf, and finally expressing his thanks to Newbolt for his assistance ("...gratitude too is fated to remain unexpressed. It is a feeling which to keep its warmth must perforce remain ... locked in one's breast. Searching for adequate expressions is a too cold blooded proceeding to be possible for a writer whose daily task is just this deliberate turning over of the awful formless heap of words...!"), also mentioning his temptation to accept a commission to write an article on Nelson and asking for advice ("...My ignorance of the Admiral's career is appalling..."), also an autograph enclosure listing creditors and instructions relating to the settlement of debts, altogether 37 pages, various sizes, 9 Princes Gate, Bayswater, London, Pent Farm, near Hythe, Kent, and Montpellier, 23 May 1905 to 10 April 1906, occasional nicks

concerning the grant to Conrad of £500 from the Royal Bounty Fund, explaining his hopes for the money ("...I start from the principle that the first and main intention has been to procure for me the ease of mind necessary for tranquil and steady writing, in which - and in which alone - is to be found a radical and complete remedy for my difficulties..."), outlining his debts in detail, dwelling on his difficult financial situation and explaining that his debts would have had to be "repaid with 'copy' written for dear life ... the mere thought of that escaped burden turns me chilly with apprehension even now...", but responding with evident hurt pride to the suggestion that a solicitor be appointed to settle his debts on his behalf, and finally expressing his thanks to Newbolt for his assistance ("...gratitude too is fated to remain unexpressed. It is a feeling which to keep its warmth must perforce remain ... locked in one's breast. Searching for adequate expressions is a too cold blooded proceeding to be possible for a writer whose daily task is just this deliberate turning over of the awful formless heap of words...!"), also mentioning his temptation to accept a commission to write an article on Nelson and asking for advice ("...My ignorance of the Admiral's career is appalling..."), also an autograph enclosure listing creditors and instructions relating to the settlement of debts, altogether 37 pages, various sizes, 9 Princes Gate, Bayswater, London, Pent Farm, near Hythe, Kent, and Montpellier, 23 May 1905 to 10 April 1906, occasional nicks together with a bundle of related letters and documents, comprising: a series of 23 autograph letters and one autograph card signed by William Rothenstein to Newbolt, expressing his concern about Conrad, his pressing needs, and discussing ways of providing him with financial assistance, obtaining Edmund Gosse's support ("...I am most touched by Gosse's prompt & considerate action in seeing [Prime Minister] Balfour..." [31 June 1904]), and Conrad's behaviour ("...I wish he would not be so humble about his books ... as though apart from this windfall no coins have ever fallen into his lap..."), 4 of the letters with subscriptions by Newbolt, 34 pages, various sizes, 26 Church Row, Hampstead, London, 9 June 1904 to 5 April 1906; one letter by Alice Rothenstein, to Newbolt, 4 pages, "Friday" [June 1905]; 7 autograph letters signed by Edmund Gosse, to Newbolt, on his work on Conrad's behalf including his approach to Balfour ("...The Chief is manifestly affected by the romance of Conrad's life..."), 15 pages, 26 June 1904 to 6 April 1905; 2 draft letters by Newbolt to Conrad, 2 pages, 1905; a letter from the Prime Minister's office confirming the grant to Conrad, 1 page, 10 Downing St, 4 May 1905; a bank account book in the names of Newbolt and Rothenstein, recording the payment in instalments of the grant of £500 to Conrad, with 22 signed cheques loosely inserted, 11 signed by Conrad on the verso, and two books of cheque stubs, May-December 1905; four other items including a letter by John Conrad to Ugo Mursia, 1974, occasional nicks and tears

series of 10 autograph letters signed, to henry newbolt

Different Paths: Explorations in Ink

signed MASTER OF THE WATER, PINE AND STONE RETREAT, inscribed and dated spring 2015 and with eight seals of the artist

signed MASTER OF THE WATER, PINE AND STONE RETREAT, inscribed and dated spring 2015 and with eight seals of the artist Inscriptions: Title Slip: Second Journey on the Dangerous Road to Shu With one seal of the artist, ‘The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat’ Title Panel: Second Journey on the Dangerous Road to Shu Inscribed by the Master of the Water Pine and Stone Retreat at the Garden at the Edge of the Universe, Hong Kong, in the Spring, 2015. With two seals of the artist, ‘The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat,’ and Shiwei Painting: Setting out once more, I climb the Dangerous Road to Shu into a gathering snowstorm, recalling the Drunken Poet Immortal and chanting his poem to keep the cold at bay. Inscribed by the Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat at the Garden at the Edge of the Universe in the Spring of 2015. With three seals of the artist, ‘The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat,’ ‘The retired scholar who believes that all doctrines are equal,’ ‘The old man who carries the staff’ Colophon: Aiya! Dangerous and steep!  The Road to Shu is hard, harder than climbing the sky!  Cancong and Yufu in the far, murky past founded this land; for forty-eight thousand years after them hearth smoke of men did not stretch through the passes into Qin.  Over Mount Taibai directly west there is a way for birds whereby they can cut straight across Mount Emei’s peak. There once was a landslide, an avalanche, and warriors died in their prime, and only after that time did ladders to sky and plankways on stone link it through, one to the other. Above there is the high ensign where the team of six dragons bends the sun, and below is the stream that winds around with dashing waves surging back crashing. Even in flight the brown crane cannot pass, apes and monkeys want to cross and sadly strain, dragging themselves along. At Qingni it loops and twists, each hundred steps with nine sharp turns that curve around ridges and peaks. Touch Orion, pass by Gemini, look up and gasp, with your hands stroke your breast, sit and sigh in pain. Oh westbound traveller when you will return? – for I am dismayed by paths so craggy, insurmountable. You will hear and see only sorrowing birds that wail on leafless trees, forest cockerels, winding their way through the woods, followed by their hens. You will also hear the nightjar crying to the moon and casting a gloom in deserted hills. The Road to Shu is hard, harder than climbing the sky, causing wrinkles to form in youthful features of any who hear this song. Peak joined to peak, the uppermost but a foot short of Heaven, barren pines hang upside down, clinging to sheer cliff face. Torrents burst over bluffs in cascades in bellowing duels, boulders roll smashing down slopes; thunder in thousands of canyons. Since here there is such peril you who have come so far on this way, why have you come at all? Sword Tower looms high, juts into sky, one man could block the pass and thousands could not break through. And the one who holds it may prove no friend, may change into wolf or jackal. At dawn we dodge fierce tigers, at dusk we dodge long snakes. They sharpen fangs to suck our blood and kill men like scything down hemp. Men may speak of the joys of the City of Brocade, but best to turn home as soon as you can. The Road to Shu is hard, harder than climbing the sky, I sway gazing off towards the west and give a mighty sigh. Nearly four years ago I painted a handscroll of the Hard Road to Shu that still pleasantly surprises, so now I paint another, for I enjoy pleasant surprises With two seals of the artist, ‘The days are long when one’s at leisure’, and Shiwei  

second journey on the dangerous road to shu

Explore the World of Fine Wine | The Institute of Masters of Wine Benefit Auction

A COLLECTION OF 7 BOTTLES AND 1 HALF BOTTLE OF GERMAN RIESLINGS

A COLLECTION OF 7 BOTTLES AND 1 HALF BOTTLE OF GERMAN RIESLINGS WINE: 1 bottle of Schloss Johannisberg, Riesling Rosalack Spätlese, Rheingau 1964 Excellent level and appearance, cn 1 bottle of Clemens Busch, Marienburg Raffes VDP. Grosse Lage, Moselle 2016, cn 1 bottle of Georg Breuer, Berg Schlossberg, Rüdesheim Riesling, Rheingau 2009 Label badly soiled, worn and mostly illegible, cn 1 bottle of Dönnhoff, Oberhäuser Brücke Monopol Riesling Grosses Gewächs, Nahe, 2018 Label slightly damp soiled, cn 1 half bottle of Heymann-Löwenstein, Uhlen Laubach Trockenbeerenauslese, Moselle 2019 (cn) 1 bottle of Dr. H. Thanisch, Erben Müller-Burggraef, Berncasteler Doctor Riesling Spätlese, Moselle 2016 (cn) 1 bottle of Nik Weis - St. Urbans-Hof, Riesling Bockstein Z GG, Moselle 2018 (cn) 1 bottle of Hans Wirsching, Riesling Sister Act, Franconia 2018 (cn) LYING IN OCTAVIAN, WILTSHIRE Offered In Bond, available Duty Paid MORE ABOUT THIS LOT: 8 rare Rieslings from various FAIR'N GREEN wineries in Germany Schloss Johannisberg, Riesling Rosalack Spätlese, Rheingau 1964 Schloss Johannisberg Riesling Spätlese Rosalack 1964 is a unique wine made from the best grapes of the Schloss Johannisberg winery in Rheingau, Germany. Today, it is a fully rounded 50-hectare single vineyard, which surrounds the mighty castle in a semicircle and descends in terraces towards the south to the Rhine. The wines often delight connoisseurs even after many decades. In the underground treasure chamber of Schloss Johannisberg, the ‘bibliotheca subterranea’, one can trace the development of Schloss Johannisberg's own quality criteria back to 1748. Around 12,000 bottles from all the great vintages since 1748 currently rest in this 900-year-old vaulted cellar. The 1964 vintage was a leap year. It was one of the best vintages of the 1960s, producing very fine wines. Harvest of 440 half-barrels – 264,000 litres! Largest harvest to date. New barrels had to be purchased during the harvest. The bouquet is intense with aromas of apricot jam, mirabelle plum compote, mandarin compote, orange fillets and chamomile blossoms. Analysis: The average must weight of the 1964 vintage was 78.6 ° Oechsle and 8.3 g/l acidity. Clemens Busch, Marienburg Raffes VDP. Grosse Lage, Moselle 2016 The ‘Raffes’ plot is a special selection within the historic Falkenlay vineyard. Protected from cold east winds and grown on deep grey slate, the grapes always reach exceptional ripeness. This ‘prime cut’ of Marienburg produces concentrated, healthy grapes that are both fruity and delicately mineral. The 2016 Pündericher Marienburg Riesling "Raffes" has a deep, fresh and spicy-mineral bouquet with olive leaf and crushed mocha bean aromas. Full-bodied, round and super concentrated, this is a massive yet still elegant Riesling. The 2016 Riesling Marienburg Große Lage "Raffes" presents itself with opulence of sweet peach, blossom honey, quince, candied lemon and salted caramel. Radiant and intense golden yellow. Georg Breuer, Berg Schlossberg, Rüdesheim Riesling, Rheingau 2009 The Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg is a Rheingau legend and one of the prime locations in Germany. Here immense power and finesse come together. Salty and juicy at the same time. A lot of mineral spiciness. Delicate scent of stone fruits and orange skin. A Riesling with elegant style and fine tannins. Very long lasting and with a monumental depth. made from the Estate’s finest casks from this vineyard. It offers a stunningly floral nose made of pear, white peach, pina colada, almond, spices, and aniseed herbs. The wine is superbly playful and filigreed on the palate, and leaves an intense and persistent feel of fruits and herbs in the long and multilayered finish. This offers impressive power but without any undue weight. Dönnhoff, Oberhäuser Brücke Monopol Riesling Grosses Gewächs, Nahe, 2018 The Oberhäuser Brücke is a renowned monopole vineyard owned exclusively by the Dönnhoff family. This wind-protected valley location owes its name to the historic Luitpold Bridge, which stands directly opposite the small 1.1-hectare plot. Thanks to its close proximity to the temperature-regulating river, the Oberhäuser Brücke is blessed with a special microclimate that allows for early flowering with a long growing season and late harvesting. In good years, exceptionally rich Riesling grapes with an incomparable mineral structure ripen here. The special soil formation with primary rock in the subsoil – grey slate overlaid with a top layer of loess loam – not only gives this exceptional GG its crystalline elegance, but also ensures sufficient water supply to the vines, especially in dry vintages. This is a very contrastive sweet wine with sliced melon, white peaches and honey. Dried fruit. Full-bodied yet compact and tight, giving it an agile tension. Fresh and energetic acidity. Salted caramel aftertaste. Heymann-Löwenstein, Uhlen Laubach Trockenbeerenauslese, Moselle 2019 Deep and very concentrated, dried plant to herbal, also slightly yellow-spicy aroma of preserved, candied and dried stone fruit with mineral and floral notes. Highly concentrated, creamy, sweet, absolutely pure fruit, very fine acidity, dried plant to herbal and also floral nuances, distinct minerality, dense, deep and persistent on the palate, complex and beguiling, a hint of dark berries in the background, very long, dense, again creamy and juicy finish. Magnificent. Dr. H. Thanisch, Erben Müller-Burggraef, Berncasteler Doctor Riesling Spätlese, Moselle 2016 The legendary Berncasteler Doctor vineyard is located behind the village of Bernkastel and is one of the most famous vineyards in Germany. This 100% steep site with a South-South West orientation consists of medium deep, stony loamy weathered argillaceous schist. Planted with up to 100-year-old vines, full-bodied, spicy wines are grown here. The South-South-West orientation of the vineyard guarantees optimal sunshine throughout most of the day. The grapes have been handpicked and carefully selected in the various areas of the vineyard. They were only slightly squeezed and then left for 14 hours to macerate before being gently pressed. The wine has been fermented without any addition of cultured yeast or enzymes for a period of four till five months. After the fermentation was completed, it was left to mature for several more months on the lees in order to gain more stability and complexity. Wine Description Still quite closed, this wine already shows today its complexity. Aromas of Kumquat, elderberries, blood orange and stone fruit, brioche and truffles as well a delicate herbal note. Slightly smoky with the for the Doctor typical, very expressive minerality. Food Affinities Fabulous with fish and seafood. Great with poultry and any kind of spicy dishes. Nik Weis - St. Urbans-Hof, Riesling Bockstein Z GG, Moselle 2018 The strictly limited 2018 Grand Cru ‘Bockstein Z’ comes from the Zickelgarten, arguably the best parcel in the Ockfener Bockstein vineyard. Nik Weis succeeds in bringing the character of the vineyard and the unique terroir into the few bottles of Bockstein Z with particular intensity through parcel-specific vinification. The Rieslings from the Bockstein Grand Cru are characterised by their fine spice and smoky, mineral character and are perhaps the most polished and distinctive of the Nik Weis winery. The Bockstein Z GG already shows power and wonderfully exotic aromas on the nose, accompanied by smoky, floral notes. On the palate, pure exoticism, juicy lime and pineapple are accompanied by elderberry and apple aromas. Wonderfully piquant acidity with multifaceted minerality and delicate herbal aromas. A Riesling monument with seemingly endless ageing potential. Hans Wirsching, Riesling Sister Act, Franconia 2018 Ripe aromas of peach, melon and brioche on the nose, complemented by a hint of clove. On the palate, further aromas of lemon and vineyard peach, balanced by lively acidity in a medium body. Long, intense finish. 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View 1 of Lot 31: A Collection of 7 bottles and 1 half bottle of German Rieslings 

a collection of 7 bottles and 1 half bottle of german rieslings

Important Chinese Art

the fierce deity seated on a donkey draped with flayed human skin, wearing a tiger-skin loincloth and further flayed skin around the bare shoulders, the ferocious face cold-painted, with a third eye between the eyebrows, the flaming hair surmounted by a five-skull turquoise-inlaid crown, with a garland of severed heads and a billowing celestial scarf over the shoulders, a ball of thread and a tally stick hanging from the donkey's trappings, raising a sandalwood staff in the proper right hand and the left holding a skull cup of blood, all supported on an oval base of turbulent waves and bones surrounded by craggy peaked rocks, the base sealed with a base plate incised with a double vajra

an inlaid gilt-bronze figure of palden lhamotibeto-chinese, 18th century |

Books &amp; Manuscripts

2 letters dealing with Union Naval Matters during the Civil War:

2 letters dealing with Union Naval Matters during the Civil War: James R. Wheeler, as acting master of the U.S.S. Kearsarge. Autograph letter signed three times, 4 pages (10 x 7 1/2 in.; 253 x 190 mm), Dover, 26 July 1864, to John S. Tyler; folds strengthened, separation at central fold, tiny marginal losses, fourth page lightly browned. The sinking of the C.S.S. Alabama, a first-hand account by Acting Master Wheeler:  "Seeing by the papers from home, so many false statements respecting our fight with the 'Alabama,' I now take the liberty of writing you a true and succinct account of all that took place ... On Sunday the 12th June ... we then saw the 'Alabama' for the first time, and made up our minds not to lose sight of her again if possible ... the next morning [we] received [this] and read to the officers as follows: 'C.S.S. 'Alabama,' Cherbourg 14 June 1864 ... my intention is to fight the 'Kearsarge' as soon as I can make the necessary arrangements ... I beg she will not depart before I am ready to go out ... R. Semmes. Captain' ... You will dear sir, see by this challenge that he felt quite confident of whipping the 'Kearsarge,' but was most woefully deceived ... I give you a copy from our Log Book ... 'At 10.20 discovered the 'Alabama' steaming out from the port ... accompanied by a French iron clad steamer ... steamer showing the white English Ensign, and a yacht flag ... cleared the ship for action; steamed ahead, standing off shore at 10.50 ... altered our course and approached the "Alabama."  At 10.57 the "Alabama" commenced the action ... we returned her fire and came fairly into action which we continued until ... [we observed] signs of distress in the Enemy together with a cessation of her fire; our fire was withheld, at 12.10 a boat with an officer from the "Alabama" came alongside, and surrendered his vessel, with the information that she was rapidly sinking, and a request for assistance ... in saving the lives of the officers and crew of the surrendered vessel, at 12.24 the "Alabama" went down in 40 fathoms of water, leaving most of her crew struggling with the water, seventy persons were rescued by boats ... one pilot boat came along side us, but ... returned to the port ... without reporting the number of our prisoners she had picked up ... at 5. paroled and sent on shore 63 prisoners ... [approximately 12 soldiers were] sent to the Hospital ... having been wounded in the engagement ... "... The whole proceedings of the [British] yacht 'Deerhound,' were very mysterious, she was first reported to me ... at seven minutes past ten, steaming out of the western Channel, and after steaming out so that she could make out the 'Kearsarge' she then ran in again, and met the 'Alabama,' the latter was not then in sight.  We did not see until 13 minutes after, whether she spoke of the 'Alabama' or not, I do not know, but I feel certain that from what some of the prisoners said after they came onboard that she was nothing but a tender to the 'Alabama,' and if it is true that 'Semmes' on his arrival onboard the 'Deerhound' begged for Gods sake not to take him to the 'Kearsarge' she (having him secured) steamed away immediately leaving about 70 of the men, struggling in the water, and for us to pick up.  'Tis not true that our boats were tardy in picking them up, as we were saving them, before Captain Winslow hailed the Deerhound and asked for Captain to assist us in saving the drowning men.  And why we let her go is no more than I can tell ... most of the officers reported to Captain W, that she had picked up the  officers of the 'Alabama,' and that she was running away with them, but Capt. W. thought they would come back, altho' I do not believe one other officer onboard thought so, however they are all gone, and it is no use to talk about it, but had I commanded the 'Kearsarge,' not one should have got away, I would have blown the 'Deerhound' ... out of the water ... "... The papers speak of the very bad firing of the 'Alabama,' but I can assure you it was not so bad ... During the action we made seven complete circles, ranging from 1000 yards down to 450 ... Too much credit cannot be given to our crew for coolness and courage, men were never cooler, or handled their guns better, they appeared as collected as if firing at target practice ... we are now waiting for our orders for home, and hope they will soon arrive ..." 2. Gideon Welles, as Secretary of the Navy. Autograph letter signed, 4 pages (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 127 mm), Washington, D.C., 4 June 1864, to Admiral John A. Dahlgren; with original envelope addresed and signed by Welles ("G. Welles"), remnants of former tipping. During the throes of Cold Harbor, Secretary of the Navy Welles writes Admiral Dahlgren:  "Thus far Grant has proved himself more than a match for Lee, but there is to be still further test between them before the fall of Richmond is decided.  I have faith that we shall get the peace, but the rebels are likely to make a last desperate stand..."  A remarkable letter in which Welles encourages Admiral Dahlgren to hold firm.  "... Just at this time we are much pressed in the North Atlantic and Mexican Gulf ... The advance of Grant upon Richmond must stimulate the Rebels to desperate effects with their Iron clads, torpedoes, &c, &c. in James River ... [news] comes more from [Admiral David] Farragut that Buchanan has got over the bar at Mobile with a familiar bend and accompaniments  [are] threatening to beach the Buchanan.  I have little doubt that both Ad[miral]s Farragut and Lee will have much to try their ponces and energies about these days, and I particularly regret that the former has not a couple of iron clads in this emergency.  In the meantime you must exercise patience.  There has been much, in many ways, to try you since you have had commenced the S. Atlanta squadron, and the withdrawal of the military force to such great extent together with that of the Ironsides will put to further test your position.  The contractors still lag in giving us the vessels we ought to have had months ago.  Most of them claim to have exerted themselves to meet their engagements, and they endeavor to offset their delinquency ... Whether the rebels will make any demonstration by running or attempting to run the blockade or otherwise within your limits is somewhat uncertain.  The Florida was at Bermuda on the 14th ... but we have not heard of her since.  And it is three months since we have had any tidings of the Alabama.  There has been a vast amount of hard fighting since you left, and very many thousands now pound out their blood in the cause.  Thus far Grant has proved himself more than a match for Lee, but there is to be still further test between them before the fall of Richmond is decided.  I have faith that we shall get the peace, but the rebels are likely to make a last desperate stand before yielding it.  I hope your health continues good.  We are having pleasant weather and I expect you also ..."

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