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Sale of artwork to benefit the International Rescue Committee to help support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine

Sale of artwork to benefit the International Rescue Committee to help support families affected by the crisis in Ukraine Richard Deacon (with Matthew Perry) b. 1949 Under the Weather #4 wood 359 by 81 by 81 cm. 141⅜ by 31⅞ by 31⅞ in. Executed in 2018.

under the weather #4

Contemporary Art | London 

Richard Deacon b. 1949 Art for Other People No. 46 glass and silicone 53 by 58 by 53 cm. 20⅞ by 22⅞ by 20⅞ in. Executed in 1998.

View 1 of Lot 15: Art for Other People No. 46

art for other people no. 46

Contemporary Day Auction

Thomas Schütte and Richard Deacon b. 1954 and b. 1949 Them and Us (VII) aluminium, felt and animal hair aluminium sculpture: 46 by 25 by 15 cm. 18⅛ by 9⅞ by 5⅞ in. overall: 46 by 70 by 70 cm. 18⅛ by 27½ by 27½ in. Executed in 1995.

them and us (vii)

Books, Manuscripts & Music

Book of Common Prayer The Forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng Bishoppes, Priestes, and Deacons. London: Richard Grafton, August 1552 2 parts in 1, folio (260 x 184mm.), black letter, device and colophon on verso of C5, the second part (“The Forme and maner”) with woodcut title, eighteenth-century calf, the first part (BCP) lacking all to A1, supplied in early pen and ink, A1 and A2 "An Acte for the Uniformitie of common prayer" with margins cut down (? from another copy); a5-b6, 20pp, "The Table and Kalender" present (partly printed in red and black, ?from another edition); lacking R6 (supplied in MS) and possibly 6 other leaves, Cc5 cut down and mounted, lacks final leaf, A2 & B2 corner torn slightly affecting text, A5 & B1 tear slightly affecting text, a few other small tears, browned and stained, slight worming mostly in margins, binding rebacked and rubbed, sold not subject to return PROVENANCE: "Mr. Fothergill's Booke", red ink inscription on fly-leaf; numerous annotations some with comparisons with the 1549 edition of the second part (annotation to The Preface of the second part, "The ordinal printed by Grafton, March 1549 was collated wth this"), mostly in an early 18th century hand, probably the antiquarian Thomas Rawlinson (1681–1725), whose ownership inscription appears at end; John Lindsay "Presbyter of ye Church of England", three bookplates; Ernest Richard Orlando Bridgeman, Rector of Blymhill, bookplate LITERATURE: STC 16286.3 (?)

View 1 of Lot 10: Book of Common Prayer | The Forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng Bishoppes, Priestes, and Deacons. London: Richard Grafton, August 1552

book of common prayer | the forme and maner of makyng, and consecratyng bishoppes, priestes, and deacons. london: richard grafton, august 1552

Made in Britain / Online

Relief print in black and purple, 2013, signed with initials in pencil, dated, numbered 14/15, on wove paper

1 + 1 = 10 black/purple

Contemporary Curated

plant

Contemporary Art Day Auction

art for other people # 10

Made in Britain

Two relief prints in colours, 2013, both initialed in pencil, dated, numbered 15/15, on wove paper

1 + 1 = 10 red /dark red; and 1 + 1 = 10 black /purple

Global Contemporary, Rijksakademie

a curious carrot, a curious potato, a curious apple, another curious carrot, another curious potato

richard deacon

20th Century British Art

table g

L12023

untitled (porcelain)

L12025

second mutual (cash & carry)

Contemporary Curated - March 2014

them and us (vi)

before my very eyes

Contemporary Art

Highlights from the Mendham Collection: The Property of the Law Society of England and Wales

Church of England. Aduertisements partely for due order in the publique administration of common prayers, and vsing the holy Sacraments: and partely for the apparell of all persons ecclesiasticall. London: Thomas Dawson, 1584, woodcut initials and tailpieces, with note "Confirmed by K. James... 1603" in a seventeenth-century hand

Church of England. Aduertisements partely for due order in the publique administration of common prayers, and vsing the holy Sacraments: and partely for the apparell of all persons ecclesiasticall. London: Thomas Dawson, 1584, woodcut initials and tailpieces, with note "Confirmed by K. James... 1603" in a seventeenth-century hand 2 works in one volume, 4to (178 x 130mm.), early annotations, manuscript notes attributed to William Herbert facing first title-page, vellum-backed boards, some wear to extremities

the forme and maner of makyng and consecratyng of archebishoppes bishoppes, priestes and deacons. [london: richard grafton, 1549, i.e.1550], title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut printer's device on last leaf, woodcut historiated initals, title-page browned, slightly damp-stained

May 2013 Contemporary Day

not yet beautiful

L13021

them & us (x)

them & us

The set of three etchings, 1987, initialed in pencil, dated and numbered 4/25 (total edition includes 2 artist's proofs), on Zerkall Buetten paper, published by Margaret Roeder Editions, New York, with full margins, in good condition, framed (3 prints)

untitled

Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History Including the Library of Colin and Joan Deacon

Folio (345 x 230mm.), engraved architectural title, woodcut illustrations, dedication, woodcut initials, COLOURED THROUGHOUT BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, FINELY BOUND IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH MOROCCO GILT BY LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY’S BINDER (see Henry Davis Gift, no. 70), central arabesque gilt composed of smaller stamps of birds, urns and spirals within an elaborate gilt panel of similar motifs including birds on vines, later crowned monogram of the 3rd Duke of Buccleuch (1746–1812), the whole within double dog-tooth borders gilt, spine gilt in seven compartments with similar bird motifs, lettered “Gerhards Herb:” in the first, edges gilt and gauffered, 4G6 and 4I2 with marginal paper flaws, binding rubbed, spine slightly faded

the herball or generall historie of plantes. london: adam islip, joice norton, and richard whitakers, 1633

5 parts in one volume, 4to (214 x 170mm.), each part with separate title-pages in English and Latin, printed recto/verso on one leaf or on 2 leaves, 49 engraved plates (numbered 1-50, no.26 and 27 on one page), contemporary calf, very browned, offset, one title loose and frayed, binding worn, rebacked

the history of succulent plants... the second edition corrected. london: j. hodges, 1739

FIRST EDITION, 4 volumes only (of 6) bound in 2, 8vo (245 x 150mm.), additional hand-coloured engraved pictorial title, 200 hand-coloured engraved plates by Andrews, occasional heightening in gum-arabic, contemporary half morocco, edges uncut, bindings rubbed

the heathery; or a monograph of the genus erica. london: richard taylor, 1804–1807

FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, 4to (289 x 222mm.), 42 engraved plates, maps and plans, all but one double-page and/or folding, directions to the binder leaf at end, contemporary calf, spine gilt, occasional offsetting, binding slightly rubbed, expertly rebacked retaining original spine

a voyage round the world... compiled from papers and other materials... by richard walter. london: printed for the author, by john and paul knapton, 1748

4to (270 x 212mm.), dedication leaf, 14 plates (one double-page mounted on guards), errata at end, original brown cloth gilt, bevelled boards, scattered spotting and staining, extremities very slightly rubbed

norfolk island: outline of its history from 1788 to 1884. sydney: thomas richards, 1885

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 12mo (186 x 112mm.), half-title in volume 1 only, 3 engraved plates, lithographed map, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges, minor spotting and offsetting, small marginal tear to B4 in volume 2, bindings slightly rubbed

narrative of a journey to the shores of the arctic ocean. london: richard bentley, 1836

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 2 volumes, 12mo (191 x 114mm.), engraved frontispieces, 3 engraved charts, 2 folding, contemporary panelled red calf, elaborately decorated in gilt and blind, frontispieces spotted, charts offset, spines faded

a new voyage round the world, in the years 1823[-]26. london: henry colburn and richard bentley, 1830

FIRST EDITION, 3 volumes, 8vo (215 x 137mm.), half-title in volume 3 (not called for in other volumes), folding engraved map, 14 plates (8 tinted lithographs, 5 chromolithographs, one wood-engraving), 3 plans (2 folding and engraved), errata leaf in volume 1, original decorated blue cloth, terracotta endpapers with printed adverts, without 24pp. advertisement at end of volume 1, some spotting, a few leaves becoming detached, bindings slightly rubbed

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