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  • [Champion de Crespigny (Mary, Lady)] Letters of Advice from a Mother to a Son, first edition, original boards, 1803 & another, similar (2)
    Feb. 10, 2022

    [Champion de Crespigny (Mary, Lady)] Letters of Advice from a Mother to a Son, first edition, original boards, 1803 & another, similar (2)

    Est: £300 - £400

    Champion de Crespigny (Mary, Lady) Letters of Advice from a Mother to a Son, first edition, 24pp. publishers' catalogue at end, small stain to title, original boards, uncut, Yoxford circulating book club label to upper cover and manuscript list of borrowers on front pastedown, slight water-staining to lower outer corners, rebacked, 1803 § [Caraccioli (Louis-Antoine)] Advice from a Lady of Quality, to her Children; in the last stages of a lingering illness, translated by Samuel Glasse, fourth edition, contemporary ink signature of Catherine Salvin to front free endpaper, contemporary speckled calf, spine ruled in gilt with black roan label, slightly rubbed, a fine copy, Gloucester, R.Raikes, 1786, 8vo (2) ⁂ The first is a conduct book in the form of letters written over a twenty year period, with chapters on charity, economy, drinking, gambling, duelling, seduction, swearing, marriage etc. The second is more in the form of a novel and was first published in Paris in 1769; all editions are uncommon and ESTC lists only 4 UK copies of this one (Birmingham, BL, Cambridge, LSE) and 3 in America.

    Forum Auctions - UK
  • A RARE LARGE CELADON JADE 'CHAMPION' VASE AND COVER
    Nov. 28, 2006

    A RARE LARGE CELADON JADE 'CHAMPION' VASE AND COVER

    Est: $1,500,000 - $2,000,000

    QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Composed of a pair of tall cylinders joined by an eagle with outspread wings standing on the head of a crouching bear-like beast, the tail and hind of each creature emerging between the vases at the rear, each cylinder decorated in low relief with a broad band of bosses above another band of archaistic scrolls and a lower border of pendent cicada blades, fitted with a double cover surmounted by two dragons, their bifurcated tails interlocked, the semi-translucent stone of a celadon tone with areas of opaque inclusions 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm.) high, stand

    Christie's
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