Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

121 431 Circle of Count Amedeo Preziosi MALTESE 1816–1882 An album containing 51 drawings, watercolours and prints; including 20 watercolours from the Circle of Amedeo Preziosi, illustrating various dignitaries within the court of the Sultan gilt-tooled leather bound 23 by 19,5 by 3 cm R  –   PROVENANCE Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet KCB CMG 430 Sir Herbert Baker BRITISH 1862–1946 Rust en Vrede signed H B & M, dated Feb 01 and inscribed ‘Muizenberg, House for Mr Rhodes’ pen and ink and watercolour on paper 25 by 43,5 cm R  –   The initials H B & M are those of Herbert Baker and Francis Edward Masey, who worked together in an architectural practice between 1896 and 1910. This envisioned dwelling Rust en Vrede was conceived for Cecil John Rhodes during his final years while he resided at his modest cottage in Muizenberg. Rhodes did not live to see the completion of Rust en Vrede but Sir Abe Bailey completed the project with Baker’s drawings, taking residence in 1905. 432 William Cornwallis Harris Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa (1840) London: Published for the Proprietor by W Pickering, printed by Hullmandel & Walton, folio, 30 aquatint plates, half red morocco, spine with emblematic tooling, repairs to title page, some creasing and foxing R  –   PROVENANCE Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 16 March 2015, lot 384. 430 431 432