Highlights of the sale include a 1562 edition of Claudius Ptolemy’s seminal Geographia, which represented the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire, with an estimate of £3,000 - £4,000. A 1964 first edition of Chairman Mao’s Quotations, known worldwide as the ‘Little Red Book’, which still in its printed wrappers was intended for high-ranking officers only, comes for sale with an estimate of £3,000 - £4,000.
The costume design archive of Sally Jacobs (1932 – 2020), a British stage designer whose career was innovative, wide-ranging, and influential takes centre stage of the sale. The artworks in the present collection offer an insight into the costume design process behind landmark productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Opera, working with directors such as Peter Brook. In Jacobs’ signature style, they colourfully depict an array of British acting royalty. Comparable works are held by institutions including the Harvard Theatre Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum. Lot 161, it has an estimate of £16,000 - £18,000.
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Lot 1 - Cartesius. Cum sua naturali Philosophia à Mechanicis eversus. Amsterdam, 1659
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 5 - Lunelli (Italo) Pagine della Nostra Fede, signed and inscribed by Mussolini
Estimated at £250 - £350
Lot 8 - [Mirabeau (Victor Riquetti, marquis de)] Theorie de l’import, second ed. 1760
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 13 - Geneva or ‘Breeches Bible’. with ‘The Whole Booke of Psalmes, 1591,92 & 86
Sold for £1,125
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 15 - British School.- The Valley of the Tomb [Napoleon’s first tomb, on St. Helena]
Sold for £525
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 22 - Hakewill (James) The History of Windsor and its Neighbourhood
Sold for £62
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 25 - Thornton (Colonel Thomas) A Sporting Tour through Various Parts of France in the year 1802
Sold for £150
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 34 - Geographia Cl. Ptolemaei Alexandrini. Venice, 1562
Sold for £4,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 48 - South America.- D'anville (Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon)
Sold for £325
Includes Buyer's Premium