A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">concert poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=New%20Order&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Order</a> performance at SO 36, Berlin on the 27th May 1981. <ul><li>Features a black and white image with the words ‘New Order were Joy Division’ in the upper left corner and concert details along the bottom edge.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

German New Order Concert Poster

A concert poster for the performance of New Order at Hal 4, Utopia, Rotterdam.&nbsp;<ul><li>The concert took place on the 13th&nbsp;December 1980.&nbsp;</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Dutch New Order Concert Poster

Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States of America

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States of America Letter signed, to Rev. R.B. Meyer, written during the Paris Peace Conference, reluctantly declining to participate in Meyer’s planned commemorative film for the tercentenary of the voyage of the Mayflower, 1 page, 4to (270 x 210 mm), headed stationery of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris, 28 January 1919, fragile at folds “…I cannot in conscience turn away from my duties to do anything that is not absolutely necessary in connection with them or for the furtherance of the great object for which I came over…” Frederick Meyer (1847–1929) was a prominent British evangelical Baptist minister, who also travelled extensively in America. Wilson had arrived in France in December 1918, hoping that the war could be ended with a principled peace based on his famed Fourteen Points, and that this would usher in a new world order based on self-determination and agreed international rules under a new League of Nations. PROVENANCE: Sale, Phillips, London, 10 November 1991, lot 341

View 1 of Lot 114: Woodrow Wilson | Typed letter signed, to Rev. F.B. Meyer, written from the Paris Peace Conference, January 1919

woodrow wilson | typed letter signed, to rev. f.b. meyer, written from the paris peace conference, january 1919

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a>, first printing of The <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Encyclopaedia%20Britannica&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Encyclopaedia Britannica</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Edited by William Smellie (Scottish).</li><li>Engravings by Andrew Bell.</li><li>Printed by Colin Macfarquhar.</li><li>Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, a Dictionary of Arts and Sciences compiled upon a New Plan. In which the Different Sciences and Arts are digested into Distinct Treatises or Systems; and the Various Technical Terms, etc. are explained as they occur in the order of the Alphabet.</li><li>Edinburgh: Printed for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1771.</li><li>Quarto in half-sheets.</li><li>Half-title to each volume, 159 engraved plates (of 160, lacking plate 112 in 'Midwifery' section').</li><li>viii, 586, [10], 587-697; [4] 1009, [3]; [4], 280, 283-678, 879-953, [1]pp.</li><li>Contemporary calf-backed glazed blue paper boards,&nbsp;</li></ul> The first edition of 'the most famous of all encyclopaedias in the English language' (PMM). A landmark Enlightenment text, the Britannica was the brainchild of the Edinburgh-based bookseller and printer, Colin Macfarquhar, and the engraver Andrew Bell. At the time, the city was arguably the intellectual center of Britain, host to many of the nation's leading thinkers from David Hume to Adam Smith, and the gathering place of discussion clubs like The Select Society and The Poker Club where members met to debate advances in the arts and sciences. Macfarquhar and Bell conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751 to 1766), which was widely viewed as heretical, but the key initiative that set the Britannica apart from other earlier encyclopaedias was its layout. Related topics were to be grouped together into longer essays, then organized alphabetically. Previously technical terms had been listed generally in alphabetical order, an approach that the Britannica derided as 'dismembering the sciences' (Preface). The 28-year-old press-corrector William Smellie was employed to provide the text. The result was originally issued in 100 parts (called 'numbers' and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on December 6, 1768 in Edinburgh, priced 6d or 8d on finer paper, with the last issued in 1771. With two of the three midwifery plates depicting childbirth in clinical detail that so shocked King George III that he commanded that the pages be ripped from every copy. These plates are consequently rarely found (see Kogan, The Great EB: The Story Of The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1958, p.13). The other plates include human anatomy, animals and other natural history subjects, scientific instruments and industrial apparatus, geometrical propositions, and miscellaneous subjects ranging from types of cannon to specimens of shorthand; there are also several plates of music score and a small number of maps. Sets in any state of completeness are rare.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Charles Darwin Letter signed, with autograph postscript, to St George Mivart, defending the theory of Natural Selection ("...I by no means give up the immense power of natural selection; not can I see any probability in the existence of an inherent tendency to an advance in organisation...") in response to Mivart's detailed criticisms of Darwin's work in his new book On the Genesis of Species, the postscript relieving Mivart of the duty of thanking Darwin for sending him a copy of The Descent of Man ("...As you will think my new book all rubbish, you will find it pleasanter not to go through the form of thanking me for it — so pray do not write & I will attribute your silence to your wish not to say directly to me anything disagreeable."), 8 pages, 8vo, headed stationery of Down, Beckhenham, 23 January 1871 [with:] St George Mivart, retained autograph draft reply, accepting some of Darwin's corrections, noting that he may have "represented you as more attached to the predominant action of nat. select. than is really the case", and expressing his fundamental religious objection to Darwinian theory ("...Unhappily the acceptance of your views means with many the abandonment of belief in God & in the immortality of the Soul..."), 4 pages, 8vo [24 January 1871] "...If I had ever thought that I, or any one, could explain the steps through which hundreds of structures have been acquired thro' natural selection, your facts and many others would form a crushing defeat; but I have never thought that this could be done except in a few cases, & then only with some degree of probability, in which a fair number of gradational steps still exist..." AN IMPORTANT LETTER IN WHICH DARWIN DEFENDS NATURAL SELECTION AGAINST ONE OF HIS MOST ACUTE AND PERSISTANT CRITICS. St George Mivart (1827–1900) was a noted natural scientist who had enjoyed the support of both Owen and Huxley in the 1860s, but he was also a prominent figure in Britain's Roman Catholic community. On the Genesis of Species (1871) expanded on a series of articles entitled "Difficulties of the theory of natural selection" that had been published in 1869. In this letter Darwin identifies a number of points at which Mivart has misunderstood or misquoted him and asserts his continued belief in the explanatory power of natural selection. Mivart did not reject evolution entirely, but argued that any role played by the mechanism of natural selection was secondary to evolution guided by an innate force that tended towards greater order. Darwin takes some comfort from this, claiming that Mivart's acceptance of the "general principle of Evolution [...] is infinitely more important for the progress of science than the admission of natural selection." Mivart takes this comment as evidence of Darwin's weakening belief in natural selection. LITERATURE: DCP-LETT-7453 (text from Darwin's retained draft) and DCP-LETT-7454 PROVENANCE: Sale in these rooms, 21–22 July 1988, lot 417

View 1 of Lot 94: Charles Darwin | Letter signed, to St George Mivart, defending the theory of natural selection, 23 January 1871

charles darwin | letter signed, to st george mivart, defending the theory of natural selection, 23 january 1871

Charles Darwin Autograph letter signed, to "Dear Sir" [Henry Yates Thompson], thanking him for sending information on the behaviour of lapwings to attract earthworms (“…I have learnt that worms certainly sometimes emerge when the surface of the ground is beaten…”), 1 page, 8vo (203 x 127mm), integral blank, headed stationery of Down, Beckenham, Kent, 23 January 1882, remains of former mount to blank On 21 January 1882 Darwin had received a letter from Henry Yates Thompson (the noted collector of illuminated manuscripts), enclosing a letter by “Mr Moorhouse of Manchester” which described how “he had frequently seen lapwings beat the ground with their tails in order as he believed to get worms to rise to the surface of the ground” [DCP-LETT-13635]. Thompson evidently thought that this observation would be of interest to Darwin, whose final book on worms had been published the previous year. This unpublished letter is Darwin’s typically courteous reply. PROVENANCE: Sale in our New York rooms, 24 September 1986, lot 21 (part lot)

View 1 of Lot 97: Charles Darwin | Autograph letter signed, to Henry Yates Thompson, on lapwings, 1882

charles darwin | autograph letter signed, to henry yates thompson, on lapwings, 1882

Classic Design, Including Property from the Collection of David H. Murdock

comprising a pair of large platters for the French market decorated in the center with the arms of Albert de Luynes, ordered for Charles-Philippe d’Albert (1695-1758), Duc de Luynes and de Chevreuse, and a platter decorated with the arms of Cazalet

comprising a pair of large platters for the French market decorated in the center with the arms of Albert de Luynes, ordered for Charles-Philippe d’Albert (1695-1758), Duc de Luynes and de Chevreuse, and a platter decorated with the arms of Cazalet length of largest 15 in.; 38.1 cm

View 1 of Lot 32: Three Chinese Export Armorial Platters, Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng and Qianlong Period, circa 1725 and  1750 | 清雍正及乾隆 約1725及1750年 粉彩紋章圖大盤三件

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