Sir Walter Westley Russell, RA, RWS, NEAC (British, 1867-1949)The seaside signed 'WRussell' (lower left)oil on canvas93 x 154.4cm (36 5/8 x 60 13/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.ExhibitedDunedin, New Zealand & South Seas International Exhibition, 1925-6, no. 25.Sir Walter Westley Russell was born at Forest Gate, Essex on 31 May 1867, third son of William Henry Russell, an artist and bookbinder, and his wife Charlotte Emily née Bradley (1838-1904). He studied at the Westminster School of Art under Frederick Brown (1851-1941) but left in about 1891 when he worked as an illustrator and etcher. He was a teacher and then Assistant Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1895–1927, but served in the Royal Engineers between 1916–1919 working on camouflage. A painter of portraits, landscapes and interiors, he began exhibiting at the New English Art Club in 1893 and became a member in 1895. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1898 and had a solo exhibition at Goupil Galleries in 1910. Russell was also a member of the International Society from 1906, the National Portrait Society 1910, and the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours from 1930. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in April 1920, and became a full Academician in February 1926 and was Keeper from 1927-1942. He lived in Chelsea but often worked in Yorkshire, Sussex and Norfolk.An interesting aside is that Russell also took part in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam where forty-nine artists from twelve countries submitted work. The Gold medal was awarded to Isaac Israëls with Laura Knight being awarded the silver medal for Boxing in Camp (The Light Heavy-weights). The present scene is very similar to On the Sands (undated, in the collection of Gallery Oldham) with numerous people relaxing on the beach on a summers day. In the present lot, groups of figures are engaged in conversation or languishing in the warm sun. The composition is punctuated with bold areas of colour which stand out against the pebbles on the beach and lead the viewer into the scene.The work was exhibited at The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin, New Zealand which ran from 17 November 1925 until 1 May 1926. It was the third such exhibition held in Dunedin, with earlier exhibitions in 1865 and 1889. The 1925 exhibition had over three million visitors.Russell was made a Companion of the Royal Victorian Order in 1931 and knighted on 10 July 1935. He died at 4 Pembroke Road, Kensington, London on 16 April 1949 and a memorial exhibition was held at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1950.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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![LONDON - EVELYN, THE GREAT FIRE AND POLLUTIONComposite volume, containing the following plans and works:[KITCHIN (THOMAS)] A](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0bd63aaa-74ab-480d-abc7-b12c00be1b45/2c6db093-f12c-4fa4-aa50-b12c00c12d0e/468x382.jpg)
LONDON - EVELYN, THE GREAT FIRE AND POLLUTIONComposite volume, containing the following plans and works:[KITCHIN (THOMAS)] A New and Correct plan of the Cities of London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark... to the Present Year 1781..., engraved folding map in 12 sections, extending from Islington to Newington Butts, and from Stepney to Hyde Park, with tables of buildings, parishes and churches in corners, heading slightly cropped, one or two tears at folds [Howgego 163 (4)], 448 x 725mm., R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1781HOLLAR (WENCESLAS) A True and Exact Prospect of the Famous Citty of London; Another Prospect of the Sayd Citty Taken... After the Sad Calamitie and Destruction by Fire, engraved folding panorama showing London before and after the fire, single tear affecting image but without loss, 230 x 723mm. 1666 [but John Overton, 1669-1707, state iii][EVELYN (JOHN) and CHRISTOPHER WREN] First Plate. Londinum redivivum. Presented by me to His Majesty, a Week after the Conflagration... J.E.; Another Projection; Second Plate. A Plan of London... described by J. Evelyn; A Plan of the City of London, after the great Fire... according to the design and proposal of Sir Christopher Wren, together 2 folding engraved plans on 4 sheets, Society of Antiquaries, 1748FITZ-STEPHEN (WILLIAM) Description of the City of London, newly translated from the Latin [by Samuel Pegge], translator's name and biographical note added in ink on title-page, B. White, 1772E[VELYN] (J[OHN]] Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated, editor's name ('Thomas White Esq. F.R.S.') supplied in ink on title, Re-printed for B. White, 1772together 7 items bound in 1 vol., including (at front) the section on London extracted from Lysons' 'Magna Britannia', occasional light soiling, several library stamps to Lysons extract, on reverse of one of the Evelyn plans and in the upper margin of the 'To the Reader' leaf in the last work, contemporary calf, rebacked, 4to, [eighteenth-century]Footnotes:A curious sammelband of works and plans relating to London, several by John Evelyn including the second edition of his work on pollution in the city and the Overton printing of Hollar's panorama.Provenance: Benjamin White, Lambeth (publisher and brother of Gilbert White), circular book label dated 1777; John White, Selborne, bookplate; George Soaper (of Guildford, who purchased Gilbert White's diaries and papers from the family in 1843), bookplate on fly-leaf; Free Public Library, Southampton, ink stamps.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![WILDE (OSCAR)The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], this copy unnum](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0bd63aaa-74ab-480d-abc7-b12c00be1b45/fe0b65c5-d1e4-477b-9448-b12c00c14067/468x382.jpg)
WILDE (OSCAR)The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], this copy unnumbered, half-title, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light soiling and fading [Mason 381], small 4to, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Panos Gratsos (1909-1990), bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CARTWRIGHT (JOSEPH)Selections of the Costume of Albania and Greece, with Explanatory Quotations from the Poems of Lord Byron and Gally Knight. Including a Highly Finished Portrait of Ali Pacha, FIRST EDITION, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell after Cartwright (dated February-June 1822, one watermarked 'J. Whatman 1821'), light off-setting onto blank versos, contemporary half morocco over boards, gilt morocco lettering label ('Greek Costumes') on upper cover, worn with some loss to spine and corners, label scuffed [Colas 544; Tooley 131; cf. Abbey, Travel 134, note; not in Atabey, Blackmer or Lipperheide], folio (460 x 310mm.), R. Havell, [1822]Footnotes:VERY RARE COMPLETE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING - only one other complete copy traced at auction in the past fifty years.Known primarily for his marine paintings Joseph Cartwright was Paymaster-General of the British forces in Corfu during 1816-1820, publishing his Views in the Ionian Islands in 1821 and this work on his return to Britain in 1822. Published during the campaign for Greek Independence, eight of the plates are accompanied by quotations from works by Byron, including Childe Harold, The Giaour, and Don Juan.Provenance: Charles Richard Fox, ink inscription 'Charles R. Fox 1822', with price '2£-10' on upper cover. Fox (1796–1873) was an army officer, member of the Society of Dilettanti and numismatist whose important collection of 11,500 Greek coins was purchased after his death by the Royal Museum in Berlin. His early interest in coin collecting was strengthened by his travels in Greece and Turkey in 1820 while aide-de-camp to Sir Frederick Adam at Corfu, at which time he would possibly have become acquainted with Joseph Cartwright.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![WILDE (OSCAR)Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], 16-page publisher's c](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0bd63aaa-74ab-480d-abc7-b12c00be1b45/7ef7c0b4-1e60-4956-8c26-b12c00c135db/468x382.jpg)
WILDE (OSCAR)Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], 16-page publisher's catalogue at end (September 1893), publisher's decorative cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light soiling (spine slightly darker) [Mason 357], small 4to, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Stevens, pencil ownership inscription dated November 1893 on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![WILDE (OSCAR)A House of Pomegranates, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], pictorial title, endpapers and other illustra](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0bd63aaa-74ab-480d-abc7-b12c00be1b45/17350b19-af78-4609-b196-b12c00c14884/468x382.jpg)
WILDE (OSCAR)A House of Pomegranates, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], pictorial title, endpapers and other illustrations by Charles Ricketts, 4 plates by Charles Shannon, pictorial endpapers, light spotting, modern cloth [Mason 347], James R. Osgood, 1891; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE, [500 copies], publisher's decorative cloth [Mason 346], New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1891; Epigrams & Aphorisms, NUMBER 31 OF 50 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPAN PAPER, publisher's boards, t.e.g., soiled and rubbed, small loss to foot of spine [Mason 641, ordinary copy only], Boston, John W. Luce, 1905; Poems... Together with his Lecture on the English Renaissance (Now first Published), NUMBER 104 OF 250 COPIES, modern cloth, Paris, [no publisher], 1903; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., NUMBER 60 OF 200 COPIES, small rust stains on half-title and final leaf, publisher's blue printed wrappers [Mason 611], Privately Printed, [c.1904]--For the Love of the King, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, on hand-made paper, publisher's white buckram gilt, t.e.g., spine soiled, Methuen, [1922]; Letters after Reading. I. Bernaval, NUMBER 4 OF 23 COPIES, signed by the publisher, 1921; Letters after Reading II. Naples and Paris, NUMBER 1 OF 23 COPIES, signed by the publisher, 1921, VYVYAN HOLLAND'S COPIES signed by him on front free endpapers, contemporary morocco-backed buckram gilt lettered on spine, publisher's wrappers bound in, New York, Paul R. Reynolds--HYDE (H. MONTGOMERY, editor) The Trials of Oscar Wilde, second printing, 16 plates, publisher's cloth, soiled, William Hodge, [1948], 8vo; and the chromolithograph of Oscar Wilde ('Oscar') from Vanity Fair, 1884 (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, FIRST STATE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'to my dear old friend Catriona with many thanks. J.K. Rowling' on the dedication leaf, [ONE OF 50 COPIES], sequence of numbers 10 through to 1 and author's name as 'Joanne Rowling' on the verso of the title-page, '? Dedication' printed on dedication leaf, publisher's purple and white wrappers (some fading and a few light abrasions) [Errington AA4(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1999]Footnotes:VERY RARE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED COPY OF THE FIRST STATE OF THE UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. The bibliography notes that only approximately 50 copies of this first state of the proof were printed. A second issue, in green and white wrappers, followed with slightly altered text in a print run of approximately 250 copies. We have been unable to trace any other signed and inscribed copies of this book. The warmth of this inscription reflects the fact that Rowling and the recipient had known each other from almost the beginning of the Harry Potter journey. Catriona was the children's book buyer for a famous book shop in Edinburgh, advocating the merits of Rowling's first book from the moment she read the uncorrected proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1997, and met Rowling on several occasions when she visited the shop, first to write in the café, later to sign books or attend events that Catriona helped to organise. Errington notes in the bibliography that these initial 50 copies were 'released to a very select readership, with the publisher expecting to issue the text in a later state to a greater number of readers'. That Catriona was one of these 'select' readers, and that Rowling signed it for her, suggests that her opinion was greatly valued. Provenance: Catriona, the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a famous large Edinburgh book shop. This copy was signed by Rowling at the shop, shortly after publication.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, approximately 30 small 'ticks' in margin in pencil or purple pencil, a few single spots to opening leaves, untrimmed in publisher's white linen-backed cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, light soiling and spotting [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MILNE (A.A.)The House at Pooh Corner, NUMBER 161 OF 350 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, on hand-made paper, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, untrimmed in publisher's quarter cloth, title label on upper cover, extremities lightly rubbed with a few light spots, dust-jacket (soiled, spine crudely repaired with losses), small 4to, Methuen, [1928]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LEWIS (WYNDHAM)Timon of Athens, FIRST EDITION, 16 plates (of which 10 monochrome and 6 in colour), a few light spots or marks, loose as issued in publisher's pictorial printed portfolio wrappers, original ties (one broken, light toning and a few spots to upper cover) [Morrow & Lafourcade A1], folio, Cube Press, [1913]Footnotes:Rare complete set of Wyndham Lewis's Vorticist designs. Originally commissioned by Max Goschen to illustrate an edition of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, the designs were rejected, whereupon Lewis had them published under the imprint of 'The Cube Press'. The original drawings were shown at the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries in 1912.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)An Ideal Husband, NUMBER 44 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on Dutch hand-made paper, off-setting to endpapers, publisher's decorative lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light soiling [Mason 386], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1899Footnotes:Provenance: ?Chas. J. Yonge, faded ownership inscription dated 1899 on the half-title; Sotheby's, 17 July 1997, lot 154.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection...Sixth Edition with Additions and Corrections (Eleventh Thousand), half title, embossed publisher's stamp on upper right corner of title, folding diagram, light marginal toning and occasional spotting, publisher's green cloth gilt, spine soiled with small losses at extremities [Freeman 391], 8vo, John Murray, 1872This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Typed letter signed ('Winston S. Churchill') as Prime Minister, to Mrs Martin ('Dear Mrs Martin'), gratefully accepting the gift of a bronze '...treasured by your late Husband, the famous jockey...' and sending a token of his goodwill [not included in the lot], on Downing Street headed paper, bears collection label '393' lower right, one page, light dust-staining, creased particularly at folds, filing hole top left, 4to (244 x 192mm.), 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, 15 October 1954Footnotes:CHURCHILL, THE RACEHORSE OWNER, RECEIVES A GIFT FROM THE WIDOW OF A FAMOUS JOCKEY.Although Churchill grew up with horses and indeed rode in amateur races, he only took up the sport of horseracing as an owner in 1949 when he purchased the French colt, Colonist II, trained by Walter Nightingall: '...In 1951, Clementine Churchill wrote to an old friend, remarking on her husband's peculiar new interest: 'Have you seen his horse Colonist II?....I do think this is a queer new facet in Winston's variegated life'...' (Katherine Thomson, 'Racing to Victory: Winston Churchill & The Lure of the Turf', Finest Hour 102, Spring 1999). Colonist II won or was placed in eighteen of twenty-four races including the Winston Churchill Stakes at Hurst Park in 1951 and the Jockey Club Cup at Newmarket in 1950, and was hugely popular with the general public. After success with Colonist II, Churchill set up his own stud at Chartwell, then at Newchapel in Surrey, enjoying success with some seventy winners including High Hat, son of the great Derby winner Hyperion, and Vienna. Churchill won the Irish 1000 Guineas in 1955 with Dark Issue, but was unable to be attend, explaining 'The General Election was my owner, and I was already entered among the runners'. A highly successful owner and breeder, Churchill only gave up his racing interests the year before he died.The 'famous jockey' in question may have been the American jockey John Henry 'Skeets' Martin (1875-1944), who had a highly successful career in the U.S. and the U.K. Provenance: Private European collection formed by the owner's father some 50 years ago.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in a secretarial hand 'Dr. Weddell/ Bagnères-de-Bigorre/ from the author' on the front free endpaper, half-title (verso with quotations by Whewell and Bacon only), folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound at end (Freeman's form 3, no priority), light marks and spots on preliminary leaves, occasional light single spots to text, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt (Freeman variant b, no priority), light brown endpapers, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, lower cover with a few minor marks and light small dampstain in upper gutter corner (showing as small v-shaped shadow to lower endpapers) [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859Footnotes:FINE COPY OF AN AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE' (Dibner), and 'a turning point... in the history of ideas in general' (DSB).Dr H.A. Weddell's name appeared on the manuscript list of persons to receive copies of the first edition of Origin of Species drawn up by Darwin sometime between August and October 1859. Weddell was a distinguished British-born botanist and physician who spent his entire career in France or in the service of France in South America. As early as 1856 Darwin had consulted Weddell's monograph on the Urticaceae 'when he was calculating the number of species and varieties in large and small genera' (Darwin Correspondence, Vol. 8, p.569). DCP cites a letter sent by Weddell to Darwin on 13 May 1863, in which he discusses searching for Ophrys (bee orchids) locally, fertilisation, and other botanical matters suggested by a reading of Darwin's On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, a copy of which he was sent in 1862.Weddell's death in 1877 opened up a place in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences. Darwin had twice applied unsuccessfully to be a corresponding member; on 5 August 1878, at last, the secretaries wrote to him inviting him to take up the position left by Weddell (DCP).Provenance: Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819-1877), presentation inscription from the author; Louis Devergne, neat ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Presumably this the Louis Devergne (1891-1941), who was archpriest at Loudon, some 40 miles from Poitiers where Weddell had died; private French owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FRENCH REVOLUTION - LOUIS XVIDocument signed and subscribed by the King ('Bon Louis'), and his secretary, ordering Joseph Duruey, Administrator of the Royal Treasure, 2 October 1788, to pay 166,000 livres for his hunting expenses during 'le quartier d'Octobre 1788', one page, printed with manuscript insertions, light dust-staining and creasing, some marks and a few small pin holes, some small tears at folds, lower portion folded for framing, four slits for closure ribbon, remains of old paper on reverse where previously mounted, 4to (307 x 236mm.), Paris, 24 November 1789Footnotes:LOUIS XVI ATTEMPTS TO CLAIM HUNTING EXPENSES DURING THE TURMOIL OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: In 1788, the spending of the Royal Household alone made up 13% of total state expenses. By 1789 the country's finances were in disarray and the impoverished people were in uproar over royal profligacy and the King's absolute power. This document is dated just a few weeks after an angry mob marched on the palace of Versailles and Louis XVI and his family were forced to flee on 5 October 1789. They were brought to the Tuileries in Paris where they resided until their attempted escape in June 1791.Provenance: Private European collection formed by the owner's father some 50 years ago.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MILNE (A.A.)The House at Pooh Corner, light off-setting from jacket flap to free endpapers, dust-jacket (loss to head of spine), [1928]; Now We Are Six, neat ownership inscription ('1927') on front free endpaper, spine ends faded, [1927], FIRST EDITIONS, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, the first mentioned in a dust-jacket, 8vo, Methuen; and 2 further first edition copies of The House at Pooh Corner (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MILNE (A.A.)The House at Pooh Corner, ONE OF 350 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, on hand-made paper, PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on behalf of the publisher 'This is a presentation copy for E.J.G. Webb, Esq.' [copy number crossed through], and with a loosely inserted letter in the same hand sending the book to Webb ('We think you will like to have this for your library', dated 13 October 1928, on Methuen notepaper), illustrations by E.H. Shepard, uncut in publisher's quarter cloth, printed label on upper cover, spine dulled, light soiling to sides, small 4to, Methuen, [1928]Footnotes:Provenance: E.J.G. Webb, presentation inscription on colophon.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BORGES (JORGE LUIS)El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO VICTORIA OCAMPO, inscribed on half-title 'Para Victoria Ocampo, amiga e colaboradora de esta iniciativa feliz, con todo mi agradecimiento y admiración. Jorge Luis Borges. San Isidro, 1942', a little light browning, one short nick to fore-edge of title, untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's light blue wrappers printed in white, a little light soiling and creasing towards edges, spine slightly faded but otherwise very good [Becco 29; Loewenstein 355; Vallely], 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sur, 1942 [colophon: 30 December 1941]Footnotes:'ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF MODERN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE': INSCRIBED BY BORGES TO HIS 'COLLABORATOR' VICTORIA OCAMPO, THE DEDICATEE OF THE TITLE STORY AND ONE OF THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN FEMINISTS.'This is Borges's crucial book, arguably the most important work of modern Latin American literature.... it is easy to forget how original, indeed revolutionary, were Borges's procedures, especially in Latin America, which international modernism had yet to penetrate... The light blue wrappers... seem an unmistakable reference to James Joyce's Shakespeare & Co.. Ulysses... of which Borges proclaimed himself the first hispanic explorer in his callow youth' (Charles Vallely, Jorge Luis Borges. A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts, Lame Duck Books, 2003).El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ('The Garden of Forking Paths') was Borges's first collection of short stories, most of which had previously been published by Victoria Ocampo in Sur. Although it was critically lauded, the book failed to win the literary prizes many expected, leading Ocampo to dedicate a large part of the July 1941 issue of Sur to a 'Reparation for Borges'. The eight stories in El jardín, augmented by nine new ones, were then published as 1944's Ficciones, the work that would herald the author's international breakthrough. One of new stories was 'Funes el memorioso', a manuscript of which is included in the present sale.A key figure in Borges's life as far back as 1925, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was an Argentinian writer, publisher, feminist and influential intellectual. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and is perhaps best known for having founded the most important Latin American literary magazine of the time, Sur, in the 1930s. During the same decade she also developed a close friendship with Virginia Woolf following her involvement in Borges's translations of A Room of One's Own and Orlando, but this ended after Ocampo attempted to persuade the camera-shy author to have her photograph taken. She also radically shifted her political views as the decade progressed. Having shown some initial admiration for Mussolini in Italy, she gave her support to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, edited an anti-Nazi magazine during World War II, was the only Argentinian to attend the Nuremberg Trials, and spent time in prison for expressing her anti-Peronist views in 1953.In her later life Ocampo became the first woman to be admitted to the Argentine Academy of Letters, and her many famous friends and guests included Stravinsky, Malraux, Tagore and Graham Greene, who dedicated The Honorary Consul to her. 'Elegant and aristocratic, Ocampo was one of the first Latin American feminists, and fought to uphold the rights of women authors; her 'Letter to Virginia' documents her beliefs' (E. Fishburn & P. Hughes, A Dictionary of Borges, Duckworth, 1990).Provenance: Victoria Ocampo, inscribed to her by Borges on half-title; private collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
MILNE (A.A.)Toad of Toad Hall. A Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book 'The Wind in the Willows', NUMBER 56 OF 200 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY MILNE AND KENNETH GRAHAME, uncut in publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed label on upper cover (with spare label tipped-in at end), dust-jacket (light spotting and toning, spine ends frayed), small 4to, Methuen, 1929This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED)Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body... Translated from the Body [-A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves], 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in English, large engraved vignette by G. Scotin after N. Blakey on title, 51 engraved plates after Jan Wandelaar and others, lacks title to second part, light dampstaining to title with short marginal tear, a few other light stains, light spotting and off-setting, nineteenth-century cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, worn [Russell 6; cf. Garrison-Morton 399, first edition], folio 645 x 510mm.), Printed by H. Woodfall, for John and Paul Knapton, 1749[-1750]Footnotes:First edition in English of one of 'the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases.. Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the specimen which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741' (Norman).Provenance: Bedford General Infirmary Medical Library, 2 stamps on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
HOBHOUSE (J.C.)A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 2 folding double-page maps (one with small tear), 17 hand-coloured aquatints (7 double-page), one plan, 2 plates of facsimile handwriting, 2 plates of sheet music, occasional offsetting and light spotting, calf gilt with ornate roll tooled borders, rebacked, some wear, corners bumped [Atabey 584; Blackmer 821], 4to, James Cawthorn, 1813Footnotes:Provenance: William Rendell Beer, manuscript inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEAutograph note of financial calculations, unsigned, in French, comprising 11 lines in pencil, examining Napoleon's financial situation and attempting to calculate his income ('...L.11,258 18 s ont été placés a Londres en 1817... Les intérêsts ont comptés pour 1817, 1818... 28.000 piastres au début qui vallait à 5 FF 8 cts...ont été (prises) achetés en Amerique au 6 pour %... plus de 3/5 plus avantageux que celui de Londres...'), with some additional calculations beneath, bearing collection label '269' lower left corner, one page, 'Magnay Pickering London 1815' watermark, light dust-staining, creased at folds and corners, roughly torn from a larger sheet on right hand side, 4to (245 x 200mm.), [St Helena, ?1818]Footnotes:'LES INTERETS ONT COMPTES POUR 1817, 1818 & 1819': NAPOLEON IN EXILE ON ST HELENA CALCULATES HIS INVESTMENTS.In this rare autograph note, Napoleon swiftly calculates his income whilst on St Helena. Written in his characteristic untidy hand, Napoleon notes that his investments in America out-perform those in London. In London he holds L.11,258 livre, 18 sous, placed in 1817, with a profit of L.630 15s, making a capital of 269.290 FF. The 28.000 piastres which at the beginning were worth 5FF 8cts were bought in America at 6% and performed '...plus de 3/5 plus avantageux que celui de Londres...'. This fund, he adds, is needed for 1817, 1818 and 1819. Napoleon would certainly be described now as an extremely 'high net worth individual'. He had added to an already substantial family inheritance through his marriage to Josephine de Beauharnais, his military and political successes and considerable property ownership, as well as benefiting from confiscated land and assets. As shown here, he was clearly financially astute and invested in banks and the stock market in London and America. Provenance: Private European collection formed by the owner's father some 50 years ago.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DICKENS (CHARLES)A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with title-page dated 1843 and printed in red and blue, the text uncorrected, 'Stave I' on p.[1] and light green endpapers, half-title, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 plates after John Leech, 4 wood-engravings by W.J. Linton after Leech in the text, 2pp. advertisements at the end, tissue guards, uneven fading to endpapers, publisher's cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, g.e., sunned, corners slightly rubbed [Eckel pp.110-115; Smith II:4; William B. Todd, in The Book Collector, Winter 1961, pp.449-454], 12mo (164 x 100mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1843Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS'S FIRST AND MOST ENDURING CHRISTMAS BOOK. A Christmas Carol was published on 19 December 1843, priced at 5s. Dickens initially requested green endpapers but discarded them due to the colour rubbing off. Demand for the book probably grew at such a pace that the stock of yellow endpapers was soon exhausted, necessitating the use of the discarded green endpapers. So although the green endpapers were produced first, the first copies issued had yellow endpapers.William B. Todd concluded that priority was impossible to determine due to the use of different stocks of text and plates, but that priority could be determined by the state of the binding. This is his first impression, first issue, first state, with a gap of 14-15mm. between the closest points of the blind-stamping and gold wreath on the upper cover, and the 'D' of 'Dickens' unbroken.Provenance: Unidentified monogram bookplate inside upper cover; S. Bothemley, ink ownership inscription in upper corner of half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![BIBLE, IN LATINNovum testamentum [edited by Desiderius Erasmus], woodcut device on title and on last leaf, woodcut historiat](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0bd63aaa-74ab-480d-abc7-b12c00be1b45/abdc6b2b-4b28-43c0-aedc-b12c00c1031e/468x382.jpg)
BIBLE, IN LATINNovum testamentum [edited by Desiderius Erasmus], woodcut device on title and on last leaf, woodcut historiated initials, light marginal damp-stain and occasional single wormhole, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with floral motif, roundels with small portraits of Philipp Melanchthon, initials CEH and date (1548) on central panel on upper cover, a few single wormholes, clasps 8vo, Basel, Brylinger, 1543Footnotes:Provenance: Christopher Hardegen, ownership inscription dated 1575; 'Ottini Augustinensis 1795', in ink, with 2 other names struck through, on title; two other ownership inscriptions (1890 and 1901) on front paste-down.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FARADAY (MICHAEL)Experimental Researches in Electricity (Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Series.)... from the Philsosophical Transactions - Part I. for 1846, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to '?E. Selby Esq. from the Author' on the title-page, passage on p.62 marked in margin in pencil, contemporary plain stiff wrappers, pencil note saying 'see page 62' on front wrapper, age-soiling, spine defective, vertical crease to cover and contents, 4to, Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor, 1846Footnotes:RARE OFFPRINT OF ARTICLES DEMONSTRATING 'THE FARADAY EFFECT', INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. The three articles, from Faraday's ground-breaking 'Experimental Researches in Electricity' series which helped to demonstrated the link between magnetism and light, here comprise: On the magnetization of light and the illumination of magnetic lines of force; On new magnetic actions, and on the magnetic condition of all matter; On new magnetic actions, and on the magnetic condition of all matter – continued.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)Salome. A Tragedy in One Act... With Sixteen Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, half-title, 16 plates (including titles) after Beardsley printed on Japanese vellum, light off-setting from plate to facing page, publisher's green pictorial green cloth with design by Beardsley on upper cover, t.e.g., mauve chemise and morocco-backed slipcase tooled in gilt on spine (slightly rubbed) [Mason 355], small 4to, John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1907 [but September 1906]Footnotes:Provenance: Frederick Spiegelberg; J.O. Edwards, bookplates; Sotheby's, 19 December 2000, lot 132.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
![NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY ON ST HELENA[MIRABEAU (HONORE GABRIELE RIQUETTI)] Histoire secrète de la Cour de Berlin, ou correspondance](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0bd63aaa-74ab-480d-abc7-b12c00be1b45/6e4aa3cb-f6c7-4079-8b72-b12c00c1096b/468x382.jpg)
NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY ON ST HELENA[MIRABEAU (HONORE GABRIELE RIQUETTI)] Histoire secrète de la Cour de Berlin, ou correspondance d'un voyageur françois, depuis le 5 juillet 1776 jusqu'au 19 janvier 1787. Ouvrage posthume, 2 vol., NAPOLEON BONAPARTE'S COPY, with his imperial eagle stamp on titles, ownership signature 'Teo. Leigh' and inscription reading 'This work belonged to Napoleon Buonaparte and was in his Library at St. Helena', half-titles, contemporary mottled calf gilt, hinges starting, spine faded, light wear, 8vo (195 x 125mm.), [1789]Footnotes:A BOOK FROM NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY AT LONGWOOD HOUSE ON ST HELENA.After the death of Napoleon the majority of his Longwood library was divided by the executors amongst Napoleon's heirs and friends. The remainder were removed from St Helena by order of the British Government and sold to Martin Bossange, an important French bookseller in London. His rare 1823 catalogue, published as A catalogue of the library of the late Emperor Napoleon, which were removed from the Island of St. Helena, by order of His Majesty's Government, and which were purchased by Martin Bossange, and Co. Foreign Booksellers, offered for sale 228 unpriced books. After almost half of the lots failed to find a buyer, Bossange quickly consigned them to Sotheby's, their sale taking place on Wednesday 23 July 1823. Provenance: Napoleon Bonaparte, St Helena Library, brown imperial eagle ink ownership stamp; Theo[dosia] Leigh Toft (c.1743-1808), signature on half-titles and bookplate; R.G. Leychester (1763-1835, MP for Shaftesbury) of Toft Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire, inscription dated 1850.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)The Importance of Being Earnest, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 92 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a few light marks at fore-edge of opening few leaves, off-setting onto front free endpapers, publisher's decorative lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, fore-edges of covers with old damp-stains neatly refurbished [Mason 382], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Johann & Dora Kruse, bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTDE PAPE (FERDINAND AND CHARLES) Recueil de pieuses prières, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM, 209 pages (numbered in lower margin), illuminated throughout including title, 33 full-page illuminations, and 264 pages of text, each within elaborate borders of different colours (gold, green, blue, lilac, red and white) filled with flowers, birds, insects and butterflies, the last 12 pages with gold floral corner-pieces left blank for additions, illuminated initials heightened in gold throughout, illumination on p.7 neatly restored, original brown morocco by De Samblanx-Weckesser, covers and spine with blind-stamped floral decoration, green and red inlaid monogram on upper cover, red morocco doublures with all-over pattern of gilt stars, crescent moon and roses, gilt dogtooth border, red watered silk endpapers, leather ties with decorative metal clasps, g.e., contained in original diced roan box with gilt monogram on upper cover (light wear), small 4to (150 x 330mm.); together with a note by Charles de Pape, SIGNED and DATED, 4-page vellum bifolium in brown ink (160 x 120mm.), Bruges, 1908 (2)Footnotes:AN EXQUISITE AND RARE EXAMPLE OF NEO-MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATION. Ferdinand De Pape (1801-1885) was a Belgian painter and foremost representative of the revival of medieval illumination who attained national and international success. Ferdinand described himself as a 'peintre en moijen âge'; and his known works suggest that he drew most of his inspiration from the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Brugean illumination. Ferdinand worked with his brother François (1814-1863) and later, from 1859, with his son Charles who eventually took over the workshop in 1882 when Ferdinand retired due to his failing eyesight. (see W. Dumond, 'The Bruges Illuminator Ferdinand de Pape', in The Revival of Medieval Illumination, 2007, pp.245-67).No other complete manuscripts have been traced at auction. The only other comparable example is held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, MS M.1115, Legende et déscription de la châsse de St. Ursule par Memling à l'hôpital Saint Jean à Bruges.The manuscript offered here was made for 'Monsieur and Madame Norbert Le Gallais-Metz' as is explained in the accompanying note in Pape's note. The manuscript, which celebrated the marriage between Norbert Le Gallais and Juliette Metz, was started as a collaboration between Ferdinand and Charles, and it was eventually finished by Charles in 1908. The 33 full-page fine illuminations depict scenes from the New Testament and various Saints, including St Norbert and St Juliet, who share the first names of the couple the manuscript was made for.ILLUMINATIONS: p.1 Le Gallais coat of arms; p.2 Salvator Mundi; p.4 Virgin Lactans crowned by angels; p.5 Angel musicians; p.6 Donor in prayer; p.7 Donor in prayer; p.8 Annunciation; p.15 St Peter; p.16 Visitation; p.21 St John the Evangelist; p.51 Annunciation to the Shepherds; p.29 St Catherine of Alexandria; p.30 Nativity; p.39 St Paul; p.40 Flight to Egypt; p.47 St Anthony; p.48 Presentation to the Temple; p.64 St Catherine of Alexandria; p.75 St Nicholas; p.76 St Barbara; p.81 St Luke; p.82 Agony in the Garden; p.107 St Mark; p.108 Altar with Host; p.125 St Matthew; p.126 Crucifixion; p.145 Bishop martyr; p.146 St Louis; p.158 Angel musician; p.176 St Francis receiving the stigmata; p.177 Coronation of the Virgin; p.197 St Norbert; p.198 St Juliet.TEXT: pp.9-38 Prières du Matin; pp.41-63 Messe de Mariage; pp.65-83 Exercice Pour la Confession; pp.83-107 Exercice Pour la Communion; pp.109-157 Prières durant la Saincte Messe; pp.160-176 Prières pendant la salut; pp.178-195 Prières du Soir; pp.194-209 Souvenirs de Famille LGM.The fine binding is by the Belgian master craftsman Charles de Samblancx [or Samblanx] (1855-1943), who began his binding career at age 11, as an apprentice to Coppens. He worked in partnership with the gilder Jacques Weckesser from 1889 to 1909. Samblancx worked in a variety of period styles, masterfully reproducing the bindings of previous centuries.Provenance: Norbert Le Gallais (1860-1934) and Juliette Metz; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
KELMSCOTT PRESSRUSKIN (JOHN) The Nature of Gothic: A Chapter of The Stones of Venice, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, first page of text within wide floral woodcut border, woodcut illustrations and initials, woodcut printer's device, original stiff vellum with yapp edges, gilt lettering on spine, light staining mostly at head of spine, original ties detached but loosely inserted [not in Peterson], small 4to (210 x 150mm.), Hammersmith, Kelmscott Press, 1892This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SUFFRAGE HANDKERCHIEFSatirical handkerchief titled 'Women's rights and what came of it '1981'', depicting women of the future fulfilling traditional male roles such as Politics, Science, Law, the Army, Navy and Police, a group of men doing the laundry ('Now we're busy') and a group of 'Frozen Out M.D.'s' complaining 'We've got no work to do-o-o', printed in black on fine cotton, registered number 364805, in fine condition, one or two small marks, 610 x 545mm. [1881]Footnotes:THE CONSEQUENCES OF ALLOWING WOMEN THE VOTE.This satirical handkerchief warns of what life would be like in 100 years if women were given equal rights, predicting the unconceivable possibility of women working in traditionally male roles, and showing a future where men are forced to (somewhat haplessly) undertake roles previously the preserve of women. The design '...contains all the tropes – the embodiment of light-hearted, but deeply-rooted prejudice – that are now so familiar to us through the comic postcards that were produced in response to the suffragette campaign in the years before the First World War...' (Elizabeth Crawford, Women and Her Sphere blog, September 2015). The design number was registered on 7 May 1881 by Carslaw & Henderson, fabric manufacturers, of 68 Gordon Street, Glasgow (Museum of London website).It is thought by the family that this suffrage handkerchief may have been given as a gift to the vendor's great grandmother Emma Laming Shepherd (1855-1930) possibly on her marriage to William Tombs (1858-1942) in August 1881. Three generations of the vendor's family were in service to the households of Richard Attlee (1795-1873) and his son Henry (1842-1908), and were held in high regard. Emma was the illegitimate child of Martha Laming, who held the position of maid with the Attlees and she, in her turn, was taken on as nursemaid to the Attlee children and is listed as part of the household in the 1881 census. On her marriage, it is believed that the Attlees gave her a house in Clapham Park, London so she could support herself by taking in lodgers. Her daughter Cecilia also worked for the family as lady's maid and was a childhood friend of the future Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.Provenance: Emma Laming Shepherd (1855-1930); thence by descent.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)The Poetical Works... With Memoir and Notes &c. by William Michael Rossetti, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with an autograph note 'Presented to Miss Lisa Wilson 'my Fior-di-lisa' of Christina's little poem with affectionate regard by W.M. Rossetti Jan. 1904' on paper headed '3 St. Edmund's Terrace...' pasted on front free endpaper, chemise made from embroidered fabric, Macmillan, 1904; For Remembrance. Daily Selections from the Poems of Christina Rossetti. Compiled by Frances Maclean. With a Preface by Lisa Wilson, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Lisa Wilson (who wrote the preface) 'Lisa from Frances. Dec. 5 1913' above 2-line poetry quotation, annotated by Wilson in margins with the names and dates of friends (i.e. 'Christina 1894' beside the poem for 29 December), Winchester, Warren & Son, and London, Simpkin & Co., [1913]; Sing-Song. A Nursery Rhyme Book... illustrations by Arthur Hughes, inscribed by Lisa Wilson 'Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran with her Godmother's love, Feb 24th 1903', Macmillan, 1893; Speaking Likenesses... with Pictures Thereof by Arthur Hughes, FIRST EDITION, Lisa Wilson's copy inscribed 'Lisa from Jessie, Christmas 1883' on front free endpaper, spine soiled, Macmillan, 1874--ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL) Ballads, PRESENTATION COPY FROM W.M. ROSSETTI, inscribed 'To Miss Lisa Wilson with best regards W.M. Rossetti, Novr. 1899', Ellis & Elvey, 1899--Of the Imitation of Christ... New Edition, PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHRISTINA TO WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI, inscribed in William's hand 'W.M. Rossetti from Christina 1890' inside upper cover, 3 CUT SIGNATURES OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, a 2-page note probably by Maria Rossetti and photograph of her loosely inserted, lacks front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rubbed, Oxford, J.H. Parker, 1845--WILSON (LISA) Verses, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Maude Corkran from Lisa Wilson with her love, Oct. 12. 1900', sprig of leaves loosely inserted (resulting in light off-setting to 2 pages), Bliss, Sands & Co., 1896--BELL (MACKENZIE) Christina Rossetti. A Biographical and Critical Study, FIRST EDITION, presentation copy with note 'To Miss Lisa Wilson with the good wishes of her friend Mackenzie Bell, Jan 1898' pasted onto the half-title, FLOWERS FROM THE WREATH PLACED ON CHRISTINA'S COFFIN loosely inserted within paper wallet folder inscribed by Lisa Wilson 'Flowers & leaves from the wreath which was laid on my beloved Christina's coffin, and buried with her - Jan 2 1892 - Highgate', a postcard from Mary Rossetti to Lisa Wilson (29 December 1930), a 4-page programme for a dedication service for the Memorial of Christina Rossetti held at Christ Church, Woburn Square on 1 November 1898, and a couple of other items loosely inserted, 2 small pencil annotations by Wilson, Hurst and Blackett, 1898--SANDARS (MARY F.) The Life of Christina Rossetti, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Miss Lisa Wilson with many thanks for her kind help from Mary F. Sanders, Oct. 10 1930' on the half-title, 3 autograph letters signed by the author to Wilson (12 pages, dated between August to September 1930, discussing the book) loosely inserted, APPROXIMATELY 25 PENCIL ANNOTATIONS AND CORRECTIONS BY LISA WILSON in the margins, Hutchinson, 1930, 8vo; and 13 others, biographies and reference works about Christina Rossetti, including the 4-volume Letters, works inscribed by Jan Marsh and Diane D'Amico, and 3 with the ownership inscription of Lisa Wilson (22)Footnotes:'SHE WOULD NOT HEAR OF FATE!': A group of books by, about and associated with Christina Rossetti belonging to Lisa Wilson, her closest friend in later years, and as her brother William Michael Rossetti notes in one of the volumes, 'the Fior-de-Lisa of Christina's little poem'. Two books are inscribed by William Michael, another has 3 cut signatures by Christina loosely inserted, whilst a third has dried flowers taken from the wreath laid upon her coffin. Christina Rossetti died on 29 December 1894 and Lisa was one of only a handful of guests accompanying the burial party on a snowy day at Highgate Cemetery on 2 January 1895, following a ceremony during which two hymns by Christina were sung. Also between the pages of this book can be found an order of service for Rossetti's memorial service on 1 November 1898. The editor of Rossetti's letters notes that in the last years of her life she was more aware of her growing fame and even joked to her brother William Michael that an annotated copy of Sing-Song would one day be 'priceless', warning him not to disperse her library without looking carefully for inscriptions (Antony H. Harrison, ed., The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Vol. 4: 1887-1894, 2004, xii). Lisa Wilson was consulted by Christina's early biographers, including Mackenzie Bell and Mary F. Sanders, in whose book Lisa has made some 25 revealing comments, such as 'Horrid', 'But she believe in the infinite mercy of God', 'I am sure she never thought this', and 'She would not hear of Fate!'. To Sanders' statement that Lisa was her 'most intimate friend to whom she poured out all her thoughts', Lisa responds tartly 'her thoughts were only poured out to her God'. As Lisa and Christina's correspondence was destroyed, these notes form a rare insight into their relationship. Provenance: Mary Louisa 'Lisa' Wilson (1850-1934, poet, artist and friend of Christina Rossetti); her god-daughter Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran (1903-1979); thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
WILDE (OSCAR)An Ideal Husband, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, toning to front endpapers, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light fading to spine, very short tear at foot of spine [Mason 385], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Panos Gratsos (1909-1990), bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
CAMDEN (WILLIAM)Britannia, Newly Translated into English: With Large Additions and Improvements... by Edmund Gibson, engraved portrait frontispiece, 50 engraved double-page or folding maps, 8 engraved plates of coins, several illustrations in the text, early ownership inscriptions on title and fly-leaves, light offsetting to title, loss to lower right corner and repairs to Bb1, small tears to margins of 2 maps, contemporary tan calf, rebacked, red morocco label to spine, corners worn [ESTC R12882; Chubb CXIII], folio (395 x 240mm.), A. Swalle, A. & J. Churchill, 1695This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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[MOLIERE (JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN DE)]Oeuvres de Monsieur Molier, Tome premier, vol. 1 (of 2), engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light spotting, contemporary speckled calf gilt, initials PC blind-stamped on each cover, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt panelled spine with raised bands, 8vo, Paris, Estienne Loyson, 1664Footnotes:THE UNRECORDED FIRST VOLUME OF LOYSON'S PRINTING OF MOLIERE WITH A CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH PROVENANCE. Three editions of the collected works by Moliere were published in Paris between 1663 and 1664 without the consent of the author - these are known today as 'éditions collectives factices'. Our edition was previously known only by volume 2 referred to by Guibert in his bibliography, who writes 'le Tome I à son nom n'a été jamais découvert' (Guibert II, p. 560). The works contained in this first volume are:Les Précieuses ridicules, Paris, Claude Barbin, 1660Sganarelle ou Le Cocu imaginaire, Paris, Estienne Loyson, 1665L'École des maris, Paris, Jean Guignard, 1663Les Fâcheux, Paris, Jean Guignard, 1663Provenance: Phillip Constable, early ownership inscription dated 1669 and initials blind-stamped on covers. Philip Constable can be identified as possibly either Philip Constable (b.1622), brother of Sir Marmaduke Constable, 2nd Bt. of Everingham; or Philip Constable (b.1651), son of Sir Marmaduke Constable. The family had ties with the continent, and with Louvain in particular (see A. Hamilton, The Chronicle of the English Augustinian canonesses regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica's in Louvain (now at St. Augustine's priory, Newton Abbot, Devon) 1548[-1644], pp.232-234.).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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WILDE (OSCAR)A Woman of No Importance, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], a few light spots to opening leaves, publisher's decorative lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, slight fading [Mason 364], 4to, John Lane, 1894This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'to Catriona long time since I have seen one of these!. J.K. Rowling' on the dedication leaf, with numbers 10 through to 1, and 'Joanne Rowling' on the verso of the title-page, small blue ink stain to upper margin of text block on pp.145-173, publisher's white printed wrappers with a yellow band around the middle, and lettered in black (short tear at lower upper joint, a couple of light indentations to upper cover, light handling marks) [Errington AA1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:VERY RARE SIGNED COPY OF THE VERY FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF HARRY POTTER, for which an 'unconfirmed print-run of 200 copies is generally accepted... This is also the figure noted by Bloomsbury' (Errington). We have been unable to trace any other signed and inscribed copies of this book.The elegant inscription reflects the fact that Rowling and the recipient had known each other from almost the beginning of the Harry Potter journey. Catriona was the children's book buyer for a famous book shop in Edinburgh, advocating the merits of Rowling's first book from the moment she read this copy of the uncorrected proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1997 when she was given it by the publisher's agent.She later met Rowling on several occasions when she visited the shop, first to write in the shop's café, later to sign books or attend events that Catriona helped organise. This copy was actually signed in 1999, at the same time Rowling signed Catriona's copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (see lot 127). The inscription captures the extraordinary changes in the author's literary journey, from the moment the proof of this, her first book, appeared in 1997 to her burgeoning success with publication in 1999 of Azkaban, from which moment 'Harry Potter' truly became the global phenomenon he has been ever since.Provenance: Catriona, the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a famous large Edinburgh book shop. This copy was personally inscribed by Rowling during a visit to the shop in 1999, at the same time that she signed a proof copy of The Prisoner of Azkaban (see lot 126).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
NELSON (HORATIO)Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Captains Gore, Sutton and Elliot on the ships Medusa, Amphion and Maidstone off Gibraltar, requesting they give '...my dear friend Col. Stewart, The Honble C. Stewart and Lady Georgiana... a run to Madeira...' for '...the reestablishment of her health which is very delicate...', bearing collector's label '402', one page on a bifolium, light dust-staining, some creasing, small pin holes where folds join, remains of guard, 4to (240 x 190mm.), Victory, 20 December 1803; with autograph free front signed ('Nelson & Bronte'), docketed '20 December 1803', bearing collector's label '405', one page, red wax seal with good impression, seal tear with loss not affecting text, dust-staining particularly where exposed, creased with small holes at folds, remains of cardboard guard, 4to (240 x 190mm.), [December 1803] (2)Footnotes:'IF YOU CAN POSSIBLY IN THE EXECUTION OF THE SERVICE ENTRUSTED TO YOU GIVE THEM A RUN TO MADEIRA': Nelson requests passage for his friend Colonel Stewart, travelling with his brother and sister.Colonel William Stewart (1774-1827), founder of the Rifle Brigade, was with Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and had been given the honour of carrying the dispatches reporting the victory to London, for which he received a promotion to full Colonel: 'the rising hope of our army' as Nelson described him (E.M. Lloyd/Roger T. Stearn, ODNB). They struck up a friendly correspondence, and eleven letters from Nelson were privately published, with Stewart's journal and correspondence with the Duke of Wellington, as Cumloden Papers in 1871. It is evident that Colonel Stewart's party did not make the requested voyage to Madeira, as a letter from Nelson to Stewart dated 16 February 1804 notes that '...you might be sure of all my attention to your brother's desires for your sister. I am very glad to hear she is much recovered and, having given up all thoughts of going to Madeira, will go to England in the summer months...' (Cumloden Papers, no.XII, p.235). Unfortunately, it appears that the health of Lady Georgiana Frances Stewart (1776-1804) did not improve, as she died that April in Malta, presumably on her way home. The other member of the party mentioned here was their brother, Charles James Stewart (1775-1837), later Bishop of Quebec. Our letter is not published in Nicolas Dispatches & Letters online.Provenance: Private European collection formed by the owner's father some 50 years ago.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
DOSTOEVSKY (FYODOR)Cabinet portrait photograph by Konstantin Shapiro, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DOSTOEVSKY IN RUSSIAN to Jacob Faddeevich Sakhar beneath the image, albumen print, good tonal range, small neatly repaired hole near the top edge, mount printed recto and verso, light spotting, mount corners rubbed, light spotting and soiling to verso, housed in light tan morocco chemise, 130 x 97mm. (photograph), 160 x 104mm. (with mount), 16 December 1880Footnotes:LAST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF DOSTOEVSKY, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. The photograph was inscribed in December 1880, in the last few weeks of Dostoevsky's life, who died in early 1881. The recipient and addressee is Yakov Faddeevich Sakhar, a law student at the University of St Petersburg who collected signed photographs of Russian cultural figures. On the 16th December 1880, Sakhar visited Dostoyevsky with a fellow student, E.S. Fedorov-Chzmichov, and both received a signed photograph (F. Dostoyevski, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, 1972-1990, pp.62-63 and 101-102). Fedorov-Chzmichov's photograph is now in the Dostoyevsky Museum, St. Petersburg (reproduced in Literary Heritage 86, Moscow, 1973, pp. 144-146).According to the 30-volume Academy of Sciences edition of Dostoevsky's works, as of 1990 only sixteen known extant inscribed photographs of Dostoevsky were known, only four of which were not in institutional collections, the present example being one of those. The photograph was taken by Konstantin Shapiro (1839-1900), lyric poet, celebrated photographer and a close friend of Dostoevsky himself. Shapiro was the personal photographer of many Russian royals, officials, writers and composers including Tolstoy, Chekhov and Tchaikovsky.Provenance: Christie's, 30 November 2006, lot 67; Private collection.Saleroom notices:The inscription reads: To Jacob Faddeevich Sakhar/In memory from/Fedor Michailovich Dostoevsky.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGEThe Complete Atlas of Modern, Classical and Celestial Maps, together with Plans of the Principal Cities of the World, 226 hand-coloured engraved maps (numbered 1-218, and bis numbers, including 49 city-plans and 6 star-charts), some double-page with 2 numbers per sheet, title, additional 'Sketch map of Dr. Livingstone's Discoveries' pasted inside upper cover, preliminaries and opening map loose, occasional light spotting (heaviest to plate 1), 2 with short tear to blank margin, contemporary half calf, titled in gilt on upper cover, g.e., worn, upper cover detached, folio (440 x 360mm.), Edward Stanford, 1873Footnotes:Maps include United States (16 sheets), China (2), World (3), and Australia (3), with city plans including New York, Philadelphia, London (double-page), Canton, Moscow and St. Petersburg.Provenance: William Lawson, early ownership inscription on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
FLEMING (IAN)Diamonds Are Forever, jacket slightly frayed at spine ends and corners, 1956; From Russia With Love, minor toning to endpapers, a few white specks on upper cover, jacket soiled, frayed at extremities, [1957]; Dr. No, cloth with silhouette on upper cover, a few light spots on lower cover of jacket, [1958]; Goldfinger, jacket very slightly frayed at spine ends, fore-edge margin of upper flap creased, [1959]; Thunderball, small tears at spine ends and corners of jacket, [1961]; The Spy Who Loved Me, [1962]; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, [1963], FIRST EDITIONS, publisher's cloth, dust-jackets (unclipped), 8vo, Jonathan Cape (7)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ISRAEL, PALESTINE, AND THE BRITISH MANDATEA collection of 16 scarce pamphlets relating to Israel, Palestine and the British Mandate in the 1920s-40s, comprising:Palestine during the War. Being a Record of the Preservation of the Jewish Settlements in Palestine, 47pp., Zionist Organisation, 1921The Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. Memorandum on the Development of the Jewish National Home, 1924-1925 Submitted to by the Zionist Organisation to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for the Information of the Permanent Mandates Commission, October 1925, dual text in English and French, a few small losses to margins of wrappers, [Zionist Organisation, 1925]Reports of the Experts Submitted to the Joint Palestine Survey Commission [on Agricultural Colonization; Labor; Public Health], 741pp., one folding map, 3 letterpress tables, photographic illustrations in the text, rebacked, Boston, Mass., Daniels Printing Co., 1 October 1928Palestine. Blue Book 1931, 401pp., rebacked, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1931Palestine. Blue Book 1932, 441pp., rebacked with loss to one corner of upper cover, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1932Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1934, 42pp., ex-libris of Yitzhak Gruenbaum in Hebrew, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1935Palestine. Department of Migration. Annual Report 1936, 97pp., errata slip, small loss to spine extremities, Jerusalem, Printing and Stationary Office, 1937LOURIE (ARTHUR) Britain and Palestine. An Examination of Present British Policy in the Light of the Mandate for Palestine, 19pp., stapled as issued with integral titled wrappers, in later boards, [New York, The American Zionist Emergency Council], c.1940Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne 20th April 1946, 80pp., H.M.S.O., 1946[ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE REPORT] Din-Ve-Heshbon: Shel Va'ad-Ha-Hakirah Ha-Angli-Amerikani bi-devar Beayoteshen shel Yahadat Eropah Ve-Shel Palestinah [Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine, Lausanne 20th April 1946], text in Hebrew, 67pp., small loss to extremities of spine, Jerusalem, Government Printing House, 1946Historical Memoranda. I. The Number and Density of the Population of Ancient Palestine. II. The Jewish Population in Palestine from the Fall of the Jewish State to the Beginning of Zionist Pioneering. III. The Waves of Jewish Migration into Palestine (640-1882), 104pp., 5 folding lithographed map sheets, rebacked, upper wrapper detached, Jerusalem, [General Council (Vaad Leumi) of the Jewish Community of Palestine], 1947The Political History of Palestine Under British Administration, Jerusalem [Memorandum by His Britannic Majesty's Government Presented in July 1957, to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine], 42pp., publisher's wrappers laid down on card, Jerusalem, 1947The Jewish Plan for Palestine. Memoranda and Statements Presented by The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 559pp., some toning, stamps of the Rotberg High School, spine worn at extremities with paper shelf label, Jerusalem, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1947The Jewish Case Before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine as Presented by the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Statements & Memoranda, 686pp., stamps of the Bet Shturman Library, spine repaired with old paper shelf label, Jerusalem, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1947BEN-GURION (DAVID) The Yishuv and the Zionist Struggle Now [Supplement to the Jewish Agency's Digest of Press and Events, No.166], 23pp., stapled as issued with integral titled wrappers, in later boards, Jerusalem, [Hashiloah Printing Press], April 1947 BEN-GURION (DAVID) A Jewish State Now [Supplement to the Jewish Agency's Digest of Press and Events, No.192-193], 16pp., stapled as issued with integral titled wrappers, in later boards, Jerusalem, [Hashiloah Printing Press], October 1947together 16 works, institutional stamps to some titles, pages and covers, publisher's wrappers, 8vo and small 4to (16)Footnotes:Provenance: Giavat Havivah Libary, stamps on some titles and covers of all but 2 of the titles.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROYALTY – EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSORCorrected typescript draft of a long article titled 'The Story of the Education of a Prince by Edward The Duke of Windsor', published as The Education of a Prince in LIFE magazine, December 1947, a working proof heavily amended and with additions and corrections by the Duke of Windsor throughout in red pen, other amendments in pencil by the editor, additional passages typed on separate sheets and tipped in, some pages duplicated, some crossed through with red pen, comprising some 157 ruled yellow carbon paper pages and 18 mimeographed pages, the story written in three parts (Part I 'A Royal Boyhood', from birth to the accession of his father to the throne, Part II 'I, Edward Prince of Wales', from the coronation of George V to the outbreak of war, and Part III 'A Prince at War', on his wartime service and the immediate aftermath), c.175 pages, sections numbered 'Windsor I', 'Windsor II', 'Windsor III' etc., filing hole top left of each page, general dust-staining, marks and discolouration, contemporary red morocco, gilt coronet on upper cover, gilt title on spine within raised bands, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, 4to (280 x 235mm.), [n.d. but c.1947]; in a custom-made solander boxFootnotes:'THE POSITION TO WHICH I WAS BORN': EDWARD, DUKE OF WINDSOR WRITES CANDIDLY ON HIS CHILDHOOD & EARLY YEARS FOR AN AMERICAN MAGAZINE.The present typescript had its origins two years earlier when '...Reading LIFE in 1945 in the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor was impressed by the understanding of Britain shown in a series about his old friend, Winston Churchill. The Duke had a mutual friend call up Charles J. V. Murphy, now a LIFE staff writer, a big, ducal-looking Bostonian who had written the article (with John Davenport). The friend's suggestion: the Duke of Windsor and Reporter Murphy ought to know each other because 'the Duke is thinking of doing some writing himself.' The result of the delayed meeting (Murphy first spent six months in the Pacific as a war correspondent) was a three-part story, written by the Duke and edited by Murphy, on 'The Education of a Prince.' It was published in LIFE in December 1947...' (Time website, 'The Press: Edward & Wallis', 22 May 1950). The sequel, A King's Story, another collaboration with Murphy, took up the story and was published in book form in 1951. As can be seen from our manuscript, Edward went through the proof with a keen eye, making extensive amendments, correcting facts and deleting certain passages. These deleted extracts, struck through firmly with red pen, show hitherto unseen material that was left out of the published version. A constant theme throughout is the overwhelming sense of duty and responsibility of his position and his frustration at the restrictions this brought, despite a life of privilege: '...the concept of duty was drilled into me and I never had the same sense that the days belonged to me alone... My father literally pounded good manners into us...'. The final words of the piece, written in exile after his abdication, are telling: '...I did not spare myself in striving to fulfil all that was expected of me in the position to which I was born...'.Part I begins with his birth and early childhood, with hazy memories of the elderly Queen Victoria ('...She wore shiny black shoes with elastic sides...') and gives an insight into an idyllic childhood at York Cottage on the Sandringham estate ('...an elegant, undoubtedly paternalistic, and self-contained existence...', the Christmas festivities '...Dickens in a Cartier setting...'). As he grows older, the realisation he is now in the public eye becomes more apparent ('...the most significant change has been the disappearance of privacy... I grew up before the age of photography. We were seldom recognised on the street, and when we were the salutation would be a friendly wave of the hand or, in the case of a courtier or a family friend, a polite lifting of the hat...'). Part II, entitled 'I Edward Prince of Wales' opens with his sorrow at the death of his grandfather Edward VII, a kindred spirit ('...the last Englishman to have an uninterruptedly good time...'), and the coronation of George V which he identifies as a turning point ('...I arrived at the end of my boyhood... Henceforth the demands of my inheritance would press upon me ever more fiercely...'). The final part, 'A Prince at War', covers the war years, with much on his frustration at not being allowed to fulfil his potential as a soldier ('...I was to discover that my trophy value exceeded my military usefulness...'). After the war he devoted himself to what he and his brothers described as 'Princing'. A tour of the country after the war opened his eyes to the poverty and discontent among the people after years of conflict. Despite that, in a letter to George V, he assures him, perhaps ironically in light of future events, that the monarchy is still strong: '...there seems to be a regular epidemic of revolutions and abdications throughout the enemy countries... of those that remain I have no hesitation in saying that ours is by far the most solid...'. Provenance: The Duke (1894-1972) and Duchess (1896-1986) of Windsor; presented by Maître Suzanne Blum, the Duchess of Windsor's French lawyer and executrix, to the present owner who had provided important assistance in the administration of the Duchess's estate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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WILDE (OSCAR)Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], 16-page publisher's catalogue at end (September 1893), front free endpaper loose, publisher's decorative cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, soiling, one light old tape mark on each cover, spine frayed at extremities touching gilt decoration, shelf label inside upper cover [Mason 357], small 4to, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893Footnotes:Provenance: E. Hubert Litchfield; The Brother Julian F.S.C. Collection, New York, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia sacra, engraved pictorial title by Abraham de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck, 4pp. dedication to Cardinal Albert of Austria, with the blanks NN8 and K6, 3 double-page engraved maps (including World twin-hemisphere, second issue with the verso blank and the word 'gentes' added below 'IEKTAN' in the bottom left-hand panel; 'Terrae Israel'; Canaan), 2 double-page engraved plates, 4 full-page engraved plates on 2 sheets, illustrations in the text, lacks 2 preliminary leaves (**2 and **6, ?a blank), the title and 2 images (a2, one small hole) scuffed to obscure female genitalia, map of Holy Land lightly stained with small abrasion to surface, some marginal damp stains (mostly light, occasionally touching few lines of text at lower section), eighteenth-century half calf over paste-boards, worn [Adams B1089; Darlow & Moule 6173 (note); Shirley World 125; Voet 690 and p. 367], folio (436 x 280mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1583Footnotes:'One of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin press' (Voet). A reprint of the Bible of Louvain (1547) Plantin first issued his edition in 1565, again in 1574, before this edition of 1583, for which 36 illustrations were specially cut to enhance those taken from earlier publications. The twin hemisphere world map was originally issued in the eighth volume of the Polyglot Bible (1572). This copy includes the dedication to Cardinal Albert of Austria, which is sometimes missing because Antwerp was at that time under a Calvinist administration (perhaps explaining the partial erasures to female body parts on the title-page).Provenance: J. De Surhon, early ownership inscription in upper margin of title; Julien Nysssens Hart (1859-1910, Belgian engineer); and by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BORGET (AUGUSTE)Sketches of China and the Chinese, additional pictorial lithograph title and 32 tinted lithograph views on 25 sheets by Eugene Ciceri after Borget, list of plates and 11 pages of descriptive letterpress, marginal light spotting, publisher's cloth, rebacked [Abbey Travel 540], folio (545 x 370mm.), Tilt and Bogue, [1842]Footnotes:IMPORTANT AND EARLY RECORD OF THE PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE OF CANTON, MACAO AND HONG KONG. This edition, with the text in English, was issued in the same year as the French version published by Goupil and Vibert, whose imprint appears on the plates. Five of the plates depict Hong Kong, which became a British Crown Colony in 1842, the others depicting scenes along the Pearl River, including Macao and Canton.Provenance: Gift inscription on first flyleaf dated 1843.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, 'VINEGAR BIBLE'The Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and the New, 2 vol., LARGE PAPER COPY, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of Oxford Churches, engraved frontispiece depicting Moses receiving the Law, engraved head and tail-pieces, ruled in red throughout, light browning mostly at edges and occasional foxing, contemporary dark green morocco covers with gilt border of semi-circular rolls and two panels of floral rolls, triangular and lozenge shaped floral tools at the corners, spine divided in eight compartments with raised bands, gilt floral tooling, g.e., a couple of abrasions and one scratch, spines faded and lacking title labels, spines and edges worn [ESTC T89281; Herbert 942A], folio (550 x 360mm.), Oxford, John Baskett, 1717Footnotes:LARGE PAPER COPY IN AN ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, 'printed in large type' (Herbert). Known as the 'Vinegar Bible', from the misprint in the headline above Luke XX ('The parable of the vinegar [for vineyard]'), its many misprints also earned it the nickname of 'A Baskett-ful of Errors' (after the publisher's name). Misprints aside, the book is characterised by sixty large and attractively-engraved head- and tailpieces featuring biblical scenes. Harry Carter writes of this edition that 'only Baskerville's Bible (Cambridge, 1763) is its equal among English Bibles for beauty of type, impression, and paper' (H. Carter, The History of the Oxford University Press, 1975, I).Provenance: William Talbot (1710-1782), 1st Earl Talbot, and later family (1777 to 1952) ownership inscriptions and Ingestre Hall bookplate.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Spinnenamulett, China / Hongshan, NeolithikumGrüne Jade mit hellen Einschlüssen, geschnitzt. 4,4 x 3,5 cm. Teil der Sammlung Renier-Bley, Luxembourg. Originalrechnung beiliegend. Kleiner, runder Korpus mit angedeuteten Körpersegmenten, zwei große runde Augen und ein kleines Maul. Rückseitig Lochbohrung zum Durchführen eines Fadens. Die Spinne gilt in China als Symbol des Glücks. Spider amulet, China / Hongshan, Neolithic period. Green jade with light inclusions, carved. 4.4 x 3.5 cm. Part of the Renier-Bley Collection, Luxembourg. Original invoice enclosed. Small, round body with indicated body segments, two large round eyes and a small mouth. Hole drilled on the back for a thread to pass through. The spider is considered a symbol of good luck in China.
Hesselmann, Julia (1976)"Licht I" (Regen). Fotografie, 2015. Mattabzug. 100 x 80 cm. Rückseitig mit Etikett der Künstlerin, hier betitelt und datiert. Aus der Ausstellung "Glück im Jetzt", Alte Wache Schloß & Park Pillnitz, Mai-Juni 2015. Light I (Rain). Photography, 2015. Backside with label from the artist with date and title. Has been shown in the exhibition "Fortune now", castle Pillnitz near Dresden, summer 2015.
Paire de candélabres en bronze argenté à cinq lumières de la seconde partie du XIXe siècleUn binet central et quatre branches sur un fût balustre feuillagé.H. 50 cmA pair of five-light silvered bronze candelabra from the second half of the 19th centuryA central spigot and branches on a tripod base with foliate decoration.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Gilbert Poillerat (1902-1988) et Max Ingrand (1908-1969)Paire d'appliques en verre peint à trois bras de lumière en fer forgé et doré Vers 1940La plaque murale en miroir découpé à décor doré peint de laquelle partent trois bras de lumière en volutes à forme de feuilles retenant des pampilles et surmontées de coupes à bordure à entrelacs; l'ensemble surmonté d'un fleuron.H. 77 cm - L. 45 cm - P. 25 cmA pair of painted glass sconces with three wrought-iron and gilded light armsCirca 1940The wall plate is made of cut-out mirrors with painted gilded decoration, from which three scrolled arms of light in the form of leaves hold pendants and are surmounted by bowls with interlaced borders; the whole is surmounted by a finial.Footnotes:BibliographieFrançoise Baudot, Gilbert Poillerat, maître ferronnier, Paris, Charles Moreau, 1998, p. 173 (ill.)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Paire de candélabres néogothiques à treize lumières en bronze et métal doré de la seconde partie du XIXe siècleIls présentent deux couronnes en dégradé à décor d'entrelacs et de croisillons, fût en colonne annelée et base tripode évidée.H. 180 cm - D. 70 cmA pair of thirteen-light Neo-Gothic bronze and gilt metal candelabra from the second half of the 19th centuryThe two crowns are decorated with interlacing knotwork and latticework. The shaft is a ringed column with a hollow tripod base.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
ROY ADZAK (WRIGHT ROYSTON) (1927-1988)Tête d'homme monté en lampe signé et numéroté 22/30 au revers plâtre, bois peint, clous, système électrique et ampoule signed and numbered 22/30 on the backplaster, painted wood, nails, electrical system and light bulb 41 x 23.6 x 18.1 cm (16 1/8 x 9 5/16 x 7 1/8 in.)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Paire de miroirs faisant appliques en bois sculpté et argenté, Italie du XVIIIe siècleDe forme mouvementée à décor sculpté de rinceaux, de panier fleuri et ramages, le bras de lumière également feuillagé.H. 77 cm - L. 55 cm - P. 18 cmA pair of carved and silvered wood sconce mirrors, 18th century ItalyCurved shaped with carved foliage, a flower basket and foliage, the arm of the light also with foliage.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Grand lustre en bronze doré à douze lumières d'époque Napoléon IIILe fût central en balustre retient trois groupes de branches à quatre lumières rehaussées de sphinges ailées en buste.H. 80 cm - D. 90 cmA large Napoleon III twelve-light gilt bronze chandelierThe central baluster shaft holds three groups of four-light branches enhanced by winged sphinxes busts.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Paire de candélabres à quatre lumières en bronze doré et ciselé de style Louis XV de la seconde partie du XIXe siècleUn binet central et trois bras mouvementés à décor de branchages.H. 50 cmA pair of Louis XV style four-light ormolu candelabra A central spigot and three curved arms decorated with branchesFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Important lustre de forme montgolfière à douze bras de lumière d'époque EmpireEn bronze doré et ciselé rehaussé de guirlandes de perles facettées; la couronne présente entre chaque bras une couronne de laurier, et de larges palmettes en partie supérieure. H. 135 cm - D. 110 cmAn Empire twelve-light montgolfière celling lightIn gilt and chased bronze embellished with garlands of faceted pearls; the crown features a laurel wreath between each arm and large palmettes at the top.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Paire d'appliques en bronze doré à trois bras de lumière de style Louis XVLes branches de forme mouvementée sont agrémentées d'un décor de feuillages et d'enroulements. (électrifiées)H. 44 cmA pair of Louis XV style ormolu three-light sconcesThe arms are decorated with foliage and scrolls. (electrified)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
• ROSE HILTON (BRITISH 1931-2019) Rose Hilton (lots 175-182) You have to give a lot to painting. It's not something you can just dash off. You have to take risks - risk ruining it. You have to know when to stop. Rose Hilton Introduction Rose Hilton (née Phipps), along with her seven siblings, was brought up by strict Plymouth Brethren parents in Kent. Studying at Beckenham Art School after the Second World War she had been expected to go on to train as a teacher, but secretly applied to the Royal College of Art and was awarded a scholarship, much to the consteration of her parents. In her RCA cohort was Peter Blake; on the year above was Frank Auerbach. The college's focus on figurative work suited Hilton and she graduated in 1957 with a first class degree and prizes in painting and life-drawing. Rose fell for Roger Hilton in 1959, introduced by Sandra Blow. She called him her 'Jesus of the art world'. They had a son - Bo - in 1961, married in 1965 and set up home together in three 19th century crofters cottages high on the cliff tops at Botallack, West Cornwall. There, John Wells, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost and Patrick Heron were in their circle of artist-friends. But Hilton decreed that there was only room for one artist in the household and forbid Rose to paint. Instead she focused on raising her family and supporting her husband. But following Hilton's death in 1975, Rose returned to painting and two years later had her first solo exhibition at the Newlyn Gallery. The house became a hive of activity, described as ‘chaotic’ by many, there were always people coming and going, and frequent parties. A conservatory was added which became her studio, providing the perfect light in which to work. The tranquility of the space suggested the luminous interiors of work by Bonnard, his use of light in his interiors greatly influencing Rose's style. As Ian Collins noted 'Rose had alsways loved the intimacy and accessibility of Bonnard's brilliantly lit domestic interiors... particularly the glowing and jewel-like effects that can be achieved through layers of underpainting, a technique she has always loved' (Collins, Rose Hilton, London, 2016). Although she used professional models, she preferred to ask friends and family to sit for her. Typically she focused on the shape of the person rather than their physical identity (lots 176-181). Much of her later figure work is more abstract, the figure not necessarily taking centre stage in the composition, but being one element of many.175ROSE HILTON (BRITISH 1931-2019)STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS IN A VASEsigned Rose / Hilton lower right oil on canvas board 50.5 x 40.5cm; 19 3/4 x 15 3/4in (unframed)
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