A vinyl pressing of the 1978 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Jam&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Jam</a> single ‘The Modern World,’ <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">autographed</a> on the front cover by the group in blue ballpoint pen.<ul><li>The signatures were obtained at Bingley Exhibition Hall, Birmingham, England on the 21st March 1982.</li><li>The concert was part of the group’s Trans Global Unity Express tour.</li></ul> Accompanied by a letter from the original owner that reads: ‘I saw The Jam 30 times in concert from 1980 through to the end in 1982 - mainly in Birmingham, Leicester, London &amp; Brighton (| did go to Paris once). I was fortunate to meet them on numerous occasions. I was back stage at Birmingham Bingley Hall March 21st 1982 (where I got some album covers signed). I went to sound checks whenever I could - The Jam would usually make themselves' available for signing items for the fans’.

The Jam Signed The Modern World Single

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/collectible/entertainment-memorabilia?query=signed&amp;locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=record%20cover&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vinyl</a> pressing of the 1977 album, In The City, by English rock band The Jam.<ul><li>Autographed on the front cover in ballpoint pen by Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler.</li><li>The autographs were obtained at Sheffield University, Sheffield, England on either the 4th or the 5th May 1979.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Signed The Jam In The City Vinyl Record

A vinyl pressing of the 1977 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Jam&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Jam</a> single ‘The News Of The World’ <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">autographed</a> on the front cover by the group in blue ballpoint pen. <ul><li>The signatures were obtained at Bingley Exhibition Hall, Birmingham, England on the 21st March 1982. </li><li>The concert was part of the group’s Trans Global Unity Express tour.</li></ul>&nbsp;Accompanied by a letter from the original owner that reads: ‘I saw The Jam 30 times in concert from 1980 through to the end in 1982 - mainly in Birmingham, Leicester, London &amp; Brighton (| did go to Paris once). I was fortunate to meet them on numerous occasions. I was back stage at Birmingham Bingley Hall March 21st 1982 (where I got some album covers signed). I went to sound checks whenever I could - The Jam would usually make themselves' available for signing items for the fans’.

Signed The Jam The News Of The World Single

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Photographs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photograph</a> taken on the set of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film, Dr. No.<ul><li>Photographed by Herman Leonard (American, 1923-2010).</li><li>Oversized candid double-weight photograph.</li><li>With a perspex window on the back that displays the original information, along with measurements indicating the required printing size for the press.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> This oversized, candid double-weight photograph of the legendary Sean Connery was taken on the set of the first James Bond film,&nbsp;Dr. No. Captured by Herman Leonard, a highly sought-after jazz photographer known for his dramatically lit, smoky images, Leonard’s unique background makes this photograph particularly intriguing. The image of Connery relaxing with a cigarette between takes is nothing short of iconic and represents a truly unique find.

Photograph Of Sean Connery On the Set of James Bond: Dr. No

British <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> The Living Daylights <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a>, signed by members of the cast.<ul><li>Brian Bysouth (English, born 1936).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Signed by Glyn Baker, Caroline Bliss, John Bowe, Maryam D'abo, Femi Gardiner, John Glen, Virginia Hey, Jeroen Krabbe, Catherine Rabett, John Terry, Julie T. Wallace, Frederick Warder, Paul Weston and Thomas Wheatley.</li><li>Unfolded.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

British James Bond The Living Daylights Movie Poster | Signed by Members of the Cast

Sean Connery on the set of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film Diamonds Are Forever, signed and numbered by the photographer, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Terry%20O%27Neill&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terry O'Neill</a>.<ul><li>Terry O'Neill (English, 1938-2019).</li><li>Silver Gelatin Print.</li><li>Signed and numbered 7/50.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> An iconic and large-scale shot of Sean Connery as 007 on the set of the classic James Bond film,&nbsp;Diamonds Are Forever.

Sean Connery on the Set Of James Bond Photograph

A vintage poster of the film&nbsp;The Man With The Golden Gun,&nbsp;starring Roger Moore as <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a>.<ul><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, 1926).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Poster style B.</li><li>Unfolded and paper backed.</li></ul>

James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun Movie Poster

British movie poster for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film&nbsp;The Man with the Golden Gun starring Roger Moore.<ul><li>Robert E. McGinnis (American, b. 1926).</li><li>Eon Productions.</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Unframed and rolled.</li></ul>

James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun British Movie Poster

Complete American first editions of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ian Fleming</a>’s <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> series.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 14.</li><li>Ian Fleming (British).</li><li>Casino Royale; Live and Let Die; Moonraker; Diamonds Are Forever; From Russia With Love; Dr. No; Goldfinger; For Your Eyes Only; Thunderball; The Spy Who Loved Me; On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only Live Twice; The Man with the Golden Gun; Octopussy&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Living Daylights.</li><li>New York: The Macmillan Company, The Viking Press, and the New American Library, 1955-1966.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's hardbacks in illustrated dust-jackets.</li><li>The American edition of Octopussy was the first to be illustrated.</li></ul>

The James Bond Collection

A German advance mini banner for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> movie <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Man+with+the+Golden+Gun&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Man with the Golden Gun</a>.<ul><li>United Artists.</li><li>Paper backed.</li><li>Conservation framed with UV plexiglass.</li></ul>

German James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun Movie Mini Banner

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Man%20with%20the%20Golden%20Gun&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Man with the Golden Gun</a>.<ul><li>United Artists.</li><li>Christmas advance style poster.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

A banner advertising the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a> film The Man With The Golden Arm.<ul><li>Saul Bass (American, 1920-1996).</li><li>United Artists.</li><li>Unfolded and linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> U.S. banners were printed in tiny quantities compared to the standard poster. They were also on heavier paper stock . Owing to their size and fragility the majority were destroyed over time. This is one of only a couple of examples to have surfaced to-date.

James Bond The Man With The Golden Arm Movie Banner

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> deluxe limited edition of The Everywhere Chronicles.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Jamie Baldridge (American).</li><li>21st Editions, 2009.</li><li>Limited to 17 numbered copies of which this is #4</li><li>Signed and numbered by Jamie Baldridge, John Wood, and the publisher, Steven Albahari.</li><li>With 12 signed hand printed pigment ink prints.</li><li>Bound in brass with a wax patina, black leather backed spine, with 1 additional free standing print, housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell box, the separate portfolio contains 12 signed free standing prints, housed in a matching brown cloth clamshell box.</li></ul> In 2009, fine press photography book publisher 21st Editions released The Everywhere Chronicles. Limited to 50 copies. The first 17 numbered editions also contain a separate portfolio of 12 signed free-standing prints that appear in the book. This copy #4 was presented to Lance Speer, 21ST Editions Contributing Editor and Director of Marketing, upon completion of the project. A Letter of Provenance from Lance Speer is included. 21ST Editions was awarded the prestigious 2009 Lucie Award for Book Publisher of the Year for their publication of The Everywhere Chronicles. The worldwide photography community pays tribute to the year’s most outstanding photographic achievements at the annual Lucie Awards ceremony. The Lucies recognize men and women whose life’s work in photography merits the highest acclaim by their peers. As 2003 honoree Douglas Kirkland said, "The movie industry has its Oscars and the photography community has its Lucies." From the Publishers: "To say that Jamie Baldridge is an imaginative genius is to state what will be obvious to anyone who views The Everywhere Chronicles, though readers of the tale he wrote to accompany the photographs may decide he is an escapee from the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Using sumptuous colors and the most bizarre, sometimes zany, often mystical imagery, Baldridge reveals a world he has miraculously imagined. He then takes us on tour through the whimsical travelogue he has written to accompany his masterful photographs. His guidebook may be a little mad, but his photographs are no collection of elaborate jests and spoofs. They are the stuff of archetypes, and they transport us to mythic places of the mind, of memory, and of histories not yet written.” In a natural evolution, 21ST Editions (a unique publisher known throughout the world for its mastery of classic photographic processes such as platinum prints, hand-pulled photogravure and silver gelatin photographs) has utilized color pigment ink printing for the first time with The Everywhere Chronicles. This is due to the fact that we at 21ST Editions wish to stay true to the original and preferred medium of the artist, who works exclusively in pigment ink and who personally printed and signed each photograph himself. The result is their first color book, one that reflects our decade long commitment to creating the finest photography books in existence, incorporating the widest range of original processes available.

The Everywhere Chronicles

A <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> of The Life of Samuel Johnson by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James+Boswell&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Boswell</a>, with a tipped-in Boswell autograph.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>James Boswell (Scottish).</li><li>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.&nbsp;Comprehending An Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order, A Series of his Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; And various Original Pieces of his composition, never before published. The Whole exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for near half a Century, during which he flourishes. In Two Volumes. By James Boswell, Esq. … Volume The First. [Second.]</li><li>London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in The Poultry, MDCCXCI (1791).</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Volume 1: Engraved frontispiece portrait.</li><li>Volume 2: Engraved plates facing N2v&nbsp;(page 92) and 4F1v&nbsp;(page 588).</li><li>Second issue.</li><li>Contemporary original marbled paper boards with contemporary brown calf spine, original red morocco spine labels with gilt lettering, untrimmed pages, housed in a modern morocco-backed drop-back box.</li></ul> Untrimmed and in a beautiful and extremely well-preserved contemporary binding, this is a superb first edition of one of the most famous literary biographies ever published. It comes from the collection of the prominent American journalist and avid and distinguished bibliophile Barton Currie. This attractive copy includes the wonderful engraved portrait of Johnson made by J. Heath after the famous painting by Joshua Reynolds and two other beautifully engraved plates – a facsimile of Johnson’s handwriting and a “Round Robin” with facsimiles of signatures. Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson is considered by some as one of the greatest biographies ever written in the English language. Boswell’s personal acquaintance with Johnson began in 1763, and the author covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by means of additional research. The biography does indeed take many critical liberties with Johnson’s life, since Boswell makes some changes to Johnson’s quotations and even censors many comments. This is why some contemporary critics have stated that it cannot be considered a proper biography. However, the book is valued as both an important source of information on Johnson and his times, as well as an important work of English literature.

The Life of Samuel Johnson | First Edition

<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 <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry+James&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry James</a>'s early novel, The Portrait of a Lady.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Henry James (American-British).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Macmillan and Co,&nbsp;1881.</li><li>266; 253, [1]; 248 pages, followed by 24-page publisher's catalogue in Volume III, dated April 1881.</li><li>With all half titles.&nbsp;</li><li>Modern gilt-stamped half brown morocco with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut, marbled endpapers.</li></ul> The Portrait of a Lady is among the most important 19th-century novels to lay the groundwork for the stream-of-consciousness approach of the great 20th-century modernists like Virginia Woolf. James describes the struggles of his American ex-pat heroine in Europe with all the tenderness and nuance of psychological realism. Bound in striking period style by leading contemporary bookbinder Trevor Lloyd, MBE, one of just 750 copies of the first edition.

The Portrait of a Lady | First Edition

A British <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a> for the film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The%20Blue%20Lamp&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Blue Lamp</a>.<ul><li>James Boswell (British, 1906-1971).</li><li>Ealing Studios.</li><li>Paper backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

British The Blue Lamp Movie Poster

A <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 Double Helix, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> and inscribed to <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Francis+Crick&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Francis Crick</a> - Co-Discoverer of DNA.<ul><li>James D. Watson (American).</li><li>United Kingdom: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968.</li><li>Signed 'For Fran/ L / Jim Watson'/.</li><li>In the unclipped dust wrapper.</li></ul> James Watson and Francis Crick formed one of the most famous scientific partnerships of the twentieth century. Working together at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge in the early 1950s, they were united by a bold, intuitive style and a shared ambition to solve the structure of DNA. Their collaboration was energetic and highly complementary: Crick contributed deep theoretical insight and exuberant confidence, while Watson offered sharp observational instincts and strategic focus. Their partnership, though sometimes competitive and later complicated by controversies around credit—especially regarding Rosalind Franklin’s contributions—remained mutually respectful. They continued to admire each other’s intellect and maintained professional friendship long after their landmark discovery.

The Double Helix Inscribed First Edition

A <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> of The Double Helix, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> by both James Watson and Francis Crick.<ul><li>James D. Watson (American).</li><li>New York: Atheneum, 1968.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Signed by both James Watson and Francis Crick on the title page.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in the original blue cloth, with dust jacket, housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.</li></ul> A personal account of the discovery of the structure of DNA. First edition of the author’s ground breaking work regarding the discovery of DNA for which the author, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962.

The Double Helix

The Magnificent Cellars of Willy Michiels | A Passion for Collecting | Part III | Day 2

Château La Fleur Pétrus 1996 Pomerol u. 2bn, 3 labels very slightly marked, 6 slightly soiled Deep colour. Very, very opulent on the nose. Blackberry jam. Almost honied. So brambly it is not true. Quite "wild". Thick texture. A great '96 on the Right Bank (and in its own right). Serena Sutcliffe, MW 12 bts (cn) Provenance: Colossal parcels of Pichon Lalande and Domaine des Lambrays are at the heart of this magnificent collection, removed from the naturally cool series of cellars beneath a renaissance castle in Belgium. The collection also includes a mouth-watering array of 2nd and other Classed Growth claret and a multitude of Right Bank treasures, almost all offered in full cases, in bottle or magnum format. ﻿ LYING IN OCTAVIAN, WILTSHIRE Offered In Bond, available Duty Paid. Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT/GST and/or sales or use tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details. Please note the purchase price does not include applicable shipping, taxes or import charges which may be charged in addition to the purchase price. Standard price shipping is available for deliveries within the United Kingdom (excluding Ireland and Scotland). Prices are quoted per case of wine or spirits; please note that a single bottle of wine or spirit will be considered as a full case. Deliveries will be charged as follows: - to an address in London: £35 for the first 10 cases, plus £10 for any additional case, plus VAT and Sotheby’s Transit Care cover; - to a UK address outside of London (excluding Ireland and Scotland): £45 for the first 10 cases, plus £10 for any additional case, plus VAT and Sotheby’s Transit Care cover. Price on application quotes are available for all other UK addresses. Pricing for international shipping available from Sotheby's Wine and Spirits Department on request, please contact: winepostsaleservices.UK@sothebys.com. Sotheby’s cannot arrange or take responsibility for shipments to non-UK buyers, but will be pleased to introduce them to a forwarding agent. Where it is necessary to have a licence to import wines or spirits, procural of the licence shall be the sole responsibility of the buyer. Buyers from outside the UK should note that local sales taxes or use tax may become payable upon import of items following purchase. Buyers should obtain their own advice in this regards. Any duties and taxes payable on import to the country of destination are not included. The cost of any such permit or license required for export or import of the purchased lot is not included. UK purchasers wishing to export directly out of the UK will have to pay VAT on the Buyer’s Premium irrespective of the destination. If you are shipping to another EU member state, 20% VAT has been added to the Buyer’s Premium. Those amounts of VAT may be refunded provided Sotheby’s receive the appropriate export documents within 3 months of the sale.

View 1 of Lot 587: Château La Fleur Pétrus 1996  (12 BT)

château la fleur pétrus 1996 (12 bt)

Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

Oscar Wilde Two illustrated theatre programmes for the first production of The Importance of Being Earnest, at the St James’s Theatre on King Street. London: Mardon, Son & Hall, 1895. 4 pages, 4to (250 x 190 mm), from the beginning and end of the play's run, the latter omitting the author's name following his arrest: i) St James’s Theatre | […] Thursday, February 14th, 1895, | and every evening at 8.45. | The Importance of Being Earnest, | a Trivial Comedy for Serious People, | by Oscar Wilde. ii) St James’s Theatre | […] Produced Thursday, February 14th, 1895. |To-night at 9, | (Last Nights of) | The Importance of Being Earnest, | a Trivial Comedy for Serious People. OSCAR WILDE: HIS GREATEST PLAY AND PERSONAL CATASTROPHE. These two copies of the programme for the first production of The Importance of Being Earnest offer poignant evidence of Wilde’s rapid change of fortune in the early weeks of 1895. Wilde was at the height of his public success when Earnest opened at the St James’s Theatre. The opening came on the back of three West End successes in as many years, and The Ideal Husband was still in production at the nearby Haymarket Theatre when Earnest premiered on Valentine’s Day 1895. It was produced by actor-manager George Alexander, who had also produced Lady Windermere’s Fan, and was met with ecstatic reviews. However, the play’s opening also triggered Wilde’s downfall: the Marquess of Queensberry intended to attend the first night in order to throw a bunch of carrots at the author in protest at his relationship with his son. When he was prevented from coming to the play, Queensberry sent Wilde his card with a note accusing him of homosexuality. Events moved quickly in the weeks that followed, and by early April Wilde was committed to prison and awaiting trial. The public opprobrium that followed Wilde’s arrest drove his greatest play from the stage. George Alexander removed Wilde’s name from the programme on 6 April but the play closed one month later, after a run of just 86 days. The two programmes also show the replacement of Rose Leclercq, the first Lady Bracknell, with Emily Mary Kate Saker.

View 1 of Lot 111: Oscar Wilde | Two theatre programmes for the first production of The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

oscar wilde | two theatre programmes for the first production of the importance of being earnest, 1895

Prints Part II

Property from the Petersburg Press Archives

Property from the Petersburg Press Archives James Rosenquist 1934 - 2017 Paper Clip (Glenn 71) lithograph printed in colors on Arches Cover paper sheet: 34 ¼ by 69 in. 870 by 1751 mm. Executed in 1974, this impression is an archive proof aside from the numbered edition of 75 plus 20 artist's proofs, published by Petersburg Press.

paper clip (glenn 71)

Thomas Middleton A game at chesse. London, 1628 4to (164 x 116 mm). Collation: π2 B–K4: 38 leaves, roman type, 37 lines plus headline, cut close (with date of publication on title cropped), worming at inner margin (repaired in places) EXCEEDINGLY RARE COPY OF MIDDLETON'S JACOBEAN SATIRICAL DRAMA, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LEGENDARY NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN CHESS MASTER BARON VON DER LASA. Rare Book Hub lists only one auction record for this edition, offered in 1956. Middleton's play was perhaps the most notorious theatrical success of the day. It was a thinly veiled satire on contemporary political events in the dying days of the reign of James VI/I. Middleton, like so many other writers from Cessolis to Lewis Carroll and beyond, found chess to be a rich source for symbolism and used the game as an analogy for society. The play, which was performed by the King's Men (best-known, of course, for their association with Shakespeare), was suppressed after an unprecedented nine-day run. PROVENANCE: Baron von der Lasa (1818–1899), armorial bookplate and inventory number (No. 437), autograph bibliographical note tipped onto front free endpaper, and inkstamp to outer margin of title; Dr Robert Blass, Zurich, inkstamp to front free endpaper (beneath von der Lasa's bibliographical note), not in the 1992 Christie's sale of the Blass library LITERATURE: USTC 3011904 (5 copies); ESTC S110039; STC 17885

View 1 of Lot 50: Thomas Middleton | A Game at Chesse, 1628, von der Lasa-Blass copy

thomas middleton | a game at chesse, 1628, von der lasa-blass copy

Photographs Part II

Property from the Fisher Landau Center for Art

Property from the Fisher Landau Center for Art Yinka Shonibare, CBE b. 1962 Dorian Gray 11 gelatin silver prints and one Lambda print, each framed to the artist's specifications, James Cohan Gallery, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, labels on the reverse images: 29 ¼ by 35 ¾ in. (74.3 by 90.8 cm.) Executed in 2001, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.

dorian gray

Property from the Petersburg Press Archives James Rosenquist 1934 - 2017 Marilyn (see Glenn 70) signed in pencil, dated, titled and inscribed Progressive Proof VI lithograph printed in colors on BFK Rives wove paper sheet: 41 ½ by 29 ½ in. 1055 by 750 mm. Executed in 1974, this impression is a unique color separation proof before the numbered edition of 75 plus 20 artist's proofs, with the blindstamp of the printer, W. Law and M. Sanchez, published by Petersburg Press.

View 1 of Lot 341: Marilyn (see Glenn 70)

marilyn (see glenn 70)

Immortal Vintages | 200 Years of Bordeaux

Château Cos d'Estournel 1995 St. Estèphe, 2ème Cru Classé u. 12bn Very plummy, spicy nose. Heady and intoxicating on the palate, with the plummy, 'jammy' 40% Merlot coming through and yet lovely freshness. One of the most impressive Left Bank wines in this vintage. Serena Sutcliffe, MW WA 95 12 bts (wc) Please be advised that most U.S. states regulate the shipment of wine or spirits into their states. Sotheby’s Wine currently ships to California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Wyoming, and Hong Kong. For additional details and options, please refer to Guide for Buyers or contact Winepostsaleservices.ny@sothebys.com. ﻿Please note that for Wine and Spirits Lots, the Buyer’s Premium rate is 24% of the Hammer Price and the Overhead Premium rate is 1% of the Hammer Price. The Buyer’s Premium and Overhead Premium are subject to any applicable VAT/GST and/or sales or use tax. Please refer to the Conditions of Business for further details.

View 1 of Lot 105: Château Cos d'Estournel 1995 (12 BT)

château cos d'estournel 1995 (12 bt)

A <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 Birds of the West Indies, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a>.<ul><li>James Bond (American).</li><li>USA: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936.</li><li>Black boards with gilt title.</li></ul> Ian Fleming chose the name "James Bond" for his iconic spy character from a combination of sources. The name James Bond was inspired by an American ornithologist of the same name, whose book Birds of the West Indies, Fleming had on his bookshelf. The author thought the name sounded plain and unassuming, which he believed would provide a contrast to the exciting and glamorous life of his fictional spy. The last name "Bond" was reportedly chosen because it was short, strong, and typically associated with upper-class Englishmen. The combination created a memorable and somewhat ordinary name for a character who would become extraordinary in the world of espionage fiction.

Birds of the West Indies First Printing

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> copy of The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/james-bond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Bond</a>, with How 007 Got His Names, inscribed by Mary Wickham Bond.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 books.</li></ul> <ul><li>James Bond (American).</li><li>The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies.</li><li>New York: Macmillan, 1947.</li><li>257 pages.</li><li>Illustrated.</li><li>Signed by James Bond on the title page.</li><li>Bound in brown cloth, with map endpapers, in dust jacket.</li></ul> <ul><li>Mary Wickham Bond (American).</li><li>How 007 Got His Name.</li><li>London: Collins, 1966.</li><li>Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Mary Wickham Bond: ‘To Essie/from her long-lost/”Squidge’/alias/Mary Wickham Bond/July 26 1966/The Stafford/London'.</li></ul> Bond was an American ornithologist, specializing in birds of the Caribbean, and while living in Jamaica, met and befriended Ian Fleming, who was also an avid bird watcher. Fleming liked and decided James Bond was the name he had been searching for and used Bond’s name for the protagonist of his first novel Casino Royale and the subsequent secret service series featuring James Bond.

The Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies with How 007 Got His Name

Benjamin Franklin Chess made easy. New and comprehensive rules for playing the game of chess. Philadelphia: James Humphrey, 1802 32mo (137 x 81 mm), engraved frontispiece of a chessboard, publisher's advertisements (including an advertisement for Lyrical Ballads), contemporary calf boards, spine gilt with red morocco label, dampstaining throughout, tears to endleaves, joints detached THE EARLIEST RECORDED CHESS BOOK PRINTED IN AMERICA. "The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement... For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it." The American Founding Father and polymath Benjamin Franklin was a lifelong avid chess player, and indeed is believed to have been among the very first Americans to play the game. Chess Made Easy features his important essay "The Morals of Chess", first published in the Columbian Magazine in December 1786, in which Franklin outlines the history of the game and draws sustained comparisons between the art of chess and good conduct. According to Franklin, chess hones the player's faculties of foresight, circumspection, caution, and perseverance. The present first American edition of Chess Made Easy followed the 1797 London edition (for which see previous lot). For an autograph letter signed by Franklin, see lot 100.

View 1 of Lot 29: Benjamin Franklin | Chess Made Easy, Philadelphia, 1802, the earliest recorded chess book printed in America

benjamin franklin | chess made easy, philadelphia, 1802, the earliest recorded chess book printed in america

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=studio%20photograph&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">studio photograph</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=James%20Dean&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Dean</a> from the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie</a> Giant.<ul><li>Sid Avery (American, 1918-2002).</li><li>Silver gelatin studio photograph.</li><li>Conservation framed with UV plexiglass.</li></ul>

James Dean Studio Photograph from the Movie Giant

A first edition account of important travels through the Persian Gulf.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>James Raymond Wellsted (English).</li><li>Travels To The City Of The Caliphs, Along The Shores Of The Persian Gulf And The Mediterranean Including A Voyage To The Coast Of Arabia, And A Tour Of The Island Of Socotra.</li><li>London: Henry Colburn, 1840.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>485, 347 pages.</li><li>Two lithographed frontispieces, and folding map in volume I.</li><li>Bound in modern brown half sheep gilt, tan labels.</li></ul>&nbsp;Much of this work is based on the travels of Lieutenant Ormsby, conveyed to Wellsted verbally or through manuscripts. He traveled to Muscat, Gambrun, Bushire, Basra, Bagdad, Damascus and Tripoli, as well as in the eastern Mediterranean, before retracing his tracks to return to India. The voyage to Arabia and Socotra is Wellsted's own. Wellsted's short career was almost entirely devoted to surveying and exploration of the Red Sea, Arabia and Oman during a number of expeditions between 1830 and 1837. His death at the age of 37 was attributed to a failed suicide attempt made in the grip of fever while exploring Oman.

Travels to the City of the Caliphs

A finely bound edition of Boaden's Shakespeare inquiry.<ul><li>James Boaden (English).</li><li>An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints, Which, from the Decease of the Poet to Our Own Times, Have Been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare.</li><li>London: Printed for Robert Triphook [B. M'Millan, Printer, Bow-street, Covent-Garden], 1824.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>206 pages.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco with five Cosway-style watercolor miniatures under glass on the upper cover, by Riviere &amp; Son, in open-faced red cloth slipcase.</li></ul>

An Inquiry Into the Authenticity of Various Pictures and Prints...of Shakespeare

Second edition, first in French, of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Federalist+Papers&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Federalist Papers</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Alexander Hamilton (American).</li><li>James Madison (American).</li><li>John Jay (American).</li><li>Le Fédéraliste, ou Collection de quelques Écrits en faveur de la Constitution proposée aux États-Unis de l'Amérique, par la Convention convoquée en 1787.</li><li>Paris:&nbsp;Chez Buisson, Libraire, rue Hautefeuille,&nbsp;1792.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>[5],xxii-lii,[1]-366; [4],511 pages.</li><li>Half titles present.</li><li>Contemporary mottled calf, finely rebacked with gilt spines.</li></ul> The first French edition of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's celebrated collection of articles supporting the ratification of the United States Constitution. The other issue of this printing contains an introduction by the translator, M. Trudaine de la Sablière, in the first volume (not present here, hence the irregular pagination); the preliminary pages here contain the U.S. Constitution. It is the second edition overall, and the first edition to name the previously anonymous authors (giving their names as Hamilton, Madisson, and Gay). An important edition evocative of the significance of the American precedent to the French revolutionaries.

The Federalist Papers | Second Edition, First Edition in French 

Results for "the jam"