Henry Hetherington Emmerson (1831-1895), "The Cow Doctor", signed and dated 1871, titled on artist's label verso, oil on canvas, 150.5 x 120cm, 59.25 x 47.25in.Condition report: The painting is in good, restored condition. The painting has been re-lined. Under UV light there is evidence of cleaning and overpainting. There is some minor craquelure across the surface of the painting. The painting is ornately framed but not glazed. The frame has the odd minor knock and loss commensurate with age.
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Boxing George Carpentier 1921 vintage postcard with PRINTED AUTOGRAPH Light Heavyweight Champion and Boxing Hall of Famer, Issued By: A, Noyer Studios of Paris, France, Plus Carmen Basilio signed page. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
WW2 Capt John Foote VC signed rare 6 x 4 inch b/w photo, some light creasing, signed on back and front. Good Condition. All autographs are genuine hand signed and come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £4.99, EU from £6.99, Rest of World from £8.99.
A group of eight Victorian and early 20th Century novelty vesta cases including plated violin, combination cigar cutter and vesta in shoe form and a white metal horseshoe shaped combination vesta and light, maker's mark AF & Co; together with five brass versions cast as "Man in the Moon"; a Pirate' boot; clasped hand, violin and horseshoe ((8)
Whitefriars- A collection of 5 Whitefriars vases in Kingfisher blue comprising 'Coffin' vase height approx 13.5cm, cylindrical 'Bark' vase height approx 15.5cm, cylindrical 'Bark' vase height approx 16cm, 'Volcano' vase height approx 18.5cm, 'Traffic Light' vase height approx 12.5cm.#Condition: minor chips to rim of 'Traffic Light' vase
Whitefriars- A collection of Whitefriars vases in Tangerine comprising cylindrical 'Bark' vase height approx 14.5cm, 'Greek Key' vase height approx 11cm, 'Volcano' vase height approx 18cm, 'Traffic Light' vase height approx 12.5cm, 'Mobile Phone' vase height approx 16.5cm.Condition: Chip to inside of neck of 'Greek Key' vase. No obvious signs of damage to others
EMERSON (PETER HENRY) AND T.F. GOODALLLife and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads... With General and Descriptive Text, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, half-title, title printed in red and black, 34 PLATINUM PHOTOGRAPHS (of 40), each mounted on card as issued, and with facing printed title leaf, half-title soiled and loose, small dampstain in upper lefthand corner of the mount of plates 26-39 and lower fore-corner of mount of 36 to 39, light stain (120mm.) in margin of plate 35, light spotting to some mounts (with a few single spots to approximately 7), disbound [Parr and Badger I 70, 'The photographs are magnificent'], oblong folio (290 x 410mm.), Sampson, Low, [1886]Footnotes:THE FIRST AND RAREST OF EMERSON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS, described on publication by Amateur Photographer as 'an epoch-making book combining 'perfection of photography... perfection of reproductive processes, and... perfection of artistic feeling'. The platinum prints in Life and Landscape achieved a subtle and beautiful tone, but they were labour-intensive and costly, and in his subsequent works Emerson used the photo-mechanical processes of photogravure and half-tone printing. Emerson was the first English photographer to work out a theory of naturalistic photography, his attitude and philosophy having 'a profound effect on the growth of good photography - he was a mainstream man when his colleagues were stagnating in backwaters' (Bill Jay, Album, 1970).Provenance: Hugh Hamshaw-Thomas (1885-1962, paleobotanist, and curator of the Botany School Museum, Cambridge), gifted by a friend whilst at Downing College, Cambridge; 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
ARP (JEAN)Vers le blanc infini, ONE OF 100 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon, printed 'sur papier vélin', WITH AN ADDITIONAL SUITE OF PLATES 'de cuivres barrés', this copy CI, from an overall edition of 600, 8 etched plates by Arp, additional suite with pochoir, loose as issued in publisher's parchment-backed chemise, slipcase (light soiling), folio (380 x 280mm.), Lausanne and Paris, Larose des vents, 1960This 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
CHAGALL (MARC)Drawings for the Bible. Verve Nos. 37-38, 24 colour lithographed plates by Chagall, numerous illustrations, text by Gaston Bachelard, title-page dampstained, toning and a few light stains elsewhere, final 4 plates with small losses from adhesion, publisher's pictorial lithographed boards designed by Chagall, upper cover detached, folio (358 x 265mm.), A. Zwemmer, 1960This 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)The World Crisis, 6 vol., errata slips in volumes I, III and V, full green morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931; The Second World War, 6 vol., errata slip, 1948-1954; Savrola, Longmans, 1900, full red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (and Savrola by Bayntun Riviere), Churchill's signature blocked in gilt on upper covers, g.e., 1948-1954; A History of the English-speaking Peoples, 4 vol., red half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, t.e.g., 1956-1958; [War Speeches], 7 vol. bound in 3, first issue of 'Into Battle', green half morocco gilt, t.e.g., [1941-1946]; Step by Step 1936-1939, red half morocco gilt for Henry Sotheran, g.e., Thornton Butterworth, 1939; Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948, red half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, t.e.g., 1950; Marlborough. His Life and Times, 4 vol., occasional light spotting, maroon half morocco re-using original gilt-blocked cloth sides, gilt lettered on spines, t.e.g., [1933-1938]; Thoughts and Adventures, brown morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., Thornton Butterworth, 1932; idem, another copy, light spotting and toning, dark green morocco gilt, yellow morocco spine label, original wrappers bound in, Thornton Butterworth, 1932; My African Journey, orange morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., Hodder & Stoughton, 1908; Ian Hamilton's March, light spotting, dark red calf gilt, a few light abrasions, original cloth bound in at end, Longmans, 1900; London to Ladysmith, neat ownership stamp of 'Alassio English Library' on title, brown half morocco, Longmans, 1900; Arms and the Covenant. Speeches... Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR 'Inscribed by Randolph S. Churchill' on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, George G. Harrap, 1938; My Early Life. A Roving Commission, partly uncut, publisher's cloth, preserved in cloth chemise and slipcase (lettered on spine), Thornton Butterworth, 1930, FIRST EDITIONS, plates (mostly photographic) and maps, 8vo, unless otherwise mentioned Cassell (32)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
GARCIA LORCA (FEDERICO)Impresiones y Paisajes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, untrimmed and unopened in publisher's wrappers, the upper cover illustrated with a design by Ismael [Gonzàlez de la Serna] printed in green, foot of spine slightly chipped, 8vo, Granada, P.V. Traveset, [1918]Footnotes:A FINE UNOPENED COPY OF LORCA'S RARE FIRST BOOK, SOLD ON BEHALF OF A DESCENDANT OF THE POET.Impresiones y paisajes is a collection of lyrical prose pieces published in April 1918 at the expense of Lorca's father. They were written by the 20-year old aspiring writer during a series of four trips he made through Castile, Léon and Galicia in 1916 and 1917, accompanied by some fellow students and a professor from the university, Martín Domínguez Berrueta, who encouraged him to publish his account. 1917 proved to be a turning point in Lorca's life: he met Antonio Machado in Baeza, and on his return to Granada (despite dedicating the book to his former music teacher and befriending the composer Manuel de Falla), he abandoned his music studies and turned his hand to writing poetry.The first edition is extremely scarce. According to Carlos Morla Linch (in En España con Federico García Lorca, 1957), so few copies were sold that the disillusioned writer gathered together all those he could lay his hands on and set them on fire. Only three copies appear in auction records (all sold in the last few years, two of them in these rooms), and we have traced just five copies in institutions (two in the USA, two in Madrid and a presentation copy in Granada).A publisher's advertisement at the end of the book announces as 'en prensa' a work entitled Elogios y canciones, but this, and the other works listed as being in preparation, never saw the light of day.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
HARDY (THOMAS)The Works, 37 vol., 'Mellstock Edition', LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation leaf in volume 1, engraved frontispiece portrait of Hardy by William Strang, publisher's blue cloth gilt, spines elaborately decorated with acorns and leaf design, central embossed medallion on upper cover, very light rubbing at a few corners but generally a very bright set, 8vo, Macmillan, 1919-1920This 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
MAILLOL (ARISTIDE)LUCIEN DE SAMOSTE. Dialogues des Courtisanes, [LIMITED TO 275 COPIES], translated from the Greek by Charles Astruc, 35 lithographed illustrations of female nudes by Maillol (some full-page, tissue guards, occasional light spotting), additional pencil note on colophon, loose as issued in publisher's vellum, vellum-backed chemise and slipcase (the last 2 heavily spotted), [Paris, 1948]--VERGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS) Les Géorgiques, 3 vol. (2 text; one suite of plates), Latin text with French translation by L'Abbé Jacques Delille, illustrations in the text, 2 suites of 122 plates (sanguine, and black), a few light single spots, loose as issued in wrappers, slipcases, wrappers age toned, covers some soiling, a few ink spots on one slipcase, [Paris, Philippe Gonin, 1937-1943, but 1950], folio (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
SCHWITTERS (KURT)Anna Blume. Dichtingen, FIRST EDITION, light toning, publisher's wrappers designed by Schwitters, wrappers slightly creased at extremities, preserved in custom-made box case (with 'Dada' collage artwork by Pierre Mercier, dated 1990), Hanover, Paul Steegemann, [1919]--DUBUFFET (JEAN) Mémorial de la petite exposition de dessins de Jean Dubuffet... pour l'inauguration des sal nouvelle boutique: Le Diable pare la queue, 8pp. (including pictorial covers), lithographed throughout, with calligraphic script and illustrations by the artist, [1949], 8vo--DERMÉE (PAUL) Le volant d'Artimon. Poèmes, ONE OF 'A FEW' AUTHOR'S COPIES, numbered 'OO', printed in addition to the edition of 216 copies, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Hommage de l'auteur Paul Dermée' on the half-title, 2 woodcut plates by Louis Marcoussis, unopened in publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in colours and designed by Marcoussis, split at head of upper joint, preserved in chemise and slipcase, small 4to, Paris, J. Povoloszky & Cie., 1922 (3)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
WORLD WAR I - MESOPOTAMIACollection of letters, photographs and ephemera relating to the career of Major James Wickham Ley, D.S.O., of the 2nd, attached to the 7th, Battalion (The Prince of Wales's) North Staffordshire Regiment, comprising over 70 letters to his mother and other members of his family from various postings, Blomfontein and Johannesburg in the Boer War, Simla, Lucknow and the North West Frontier, Basra, Mesopotamia ('Mespots') and Baghdad in the First World War, c.300 pages, with envelopes, dust-staining and usual signs of wear, 4to and 8vo, South Africa, India, Mesopotamia and Persia, 13 October 1897 to 22 September 1918; with some 70 photographs of family and camp life, his commission signed 'Victoria RI', a Stanford's map of Lower Mesopotamia, other personal papers and newspaper cuttings, with documents relating to his death, etc. (quantity)Footnotes:'I JUST GOT A BULLET THROUGH THE LEFT SHOULDER & SHALL BE ALRIGHT AGAIN VERY SOON': correspondence from a career-soldier. Many of Major Ley's letters from India describe a seemingly never-ending round of parties and sporting events, whilst making light of impending skirmishes with the Afghans ('there may be a bust up...'), possibly to spare the feelings of his mostly female correspondents to whom he is most solicitous ('I think you're quite right that Surbiton is not a very healthy place for anybody'). Weeks later he is in 'Mespots' with Expeditionary Force D, tormented by insects and sandstorms and writes with evident frustration at the lack of activity ('we've been doing practically nothing here & it looks as if we shall go on doing it...') and relying on a trickle of news from the Western Front ('I see the French are using gases and burning liquid which seems rather a pity but suppose it has got to be done...'). He was finally selected to join the so-called 'Hush-Hush' army, Dunsterforce, which suffered a heavy defeat at Baku ('Didn't take my boots off for over ten days and had a pretty worrying time of it...') and was forced to evacuate (in his last letter he writes 'I have lost all my kit... I've been through so many stages... it would be difficult to know where to begin...'). At the battle he held a crucial position with a handful of men, enabling others to escape but enduring heavy losses of his own battalion. The responsibility for this was too much and, suffering from depression, James Ley took his own life on 22 October 1918.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
SCOTLANDLOGAN (JAMES) AND ROBERT RONALD MCIAN. Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Illustrated by Appropriate Figures, Displaying their Dress, Tartans, Arms, Armorial Insignia and Social Occupations, 2 vol. FIRST EDITION, chromolithographed armorial frontispieces, dedication leaf printed in gilt, list of subscribers, 72 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates after McIan (some heightened with gum-arabic), occasional light spotting, a few plates with imprint shaved or cropped, 'Gordon' plate cropped affecting fishing rod in image, contemporary green morocco, elaborately panelled in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, g.e., extremities rubbed, small dampstain to one lower cover [Abbey Life 426; Colas 1892; Lipperheide 1032], folio (368 x 250mm.), Ackermann and Co., 1845-1847Footnotes:An attractively bound copy of Logan and McIan's work, published on the centenary of the Jacobite rising and reflecting the growing Victorian interest in a romanticised vision of Scotland.Provenance: Parker Gallery, purchase receipt dated 6 December 1947 (£120); John Donalson Craig, bookplate; and thence 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
ALBUM – POLITICS AND ARTSAlbum containing a collection of over 140 autograph letters, the majority to Thomas Baring, eminent banker and politician, others to John Beresford, Irish politician, landowner, privy councillor and friend of William Pitt the Younger, and to the Lord Fitzgerald and others, including a group of autograph letters to Beresford from Portland, Temple (thanking him for his support, 1783), Dundas (presenting a case for Provost Colquhoun of Glasgow), Auckland (letter of support docketed by Beresford 'on my dismissal', 21 January 1795), Lord Fitzgibbon (on the repeal of the Convention Act 'the business goes on apparently smooth in the House of Commons but it is impossible that this should long continue... The only Acts which now affect Irish Papists are the Acts of Supremacy... the King cannot give his ascent to a repeal of any others without a direct breach of his Coronation Oath...', 1795), Rose (assuring him of Mr Pitt's support, May 1804), Castlereagh (commenting on a new cure for his sister 'she lives in a room with a cow'), John Bright, G.J. Beauregard (from the office of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Rail Road Company), Robert Peel, Disraeli (two letters with envelope making arrangements), Granville, Russell (regarding a loan to the Sultan of Morocco), Grey, Landsdowne, Derby, Cobden (8 page letter dated 1864 regarding trade with America during the civil war with respect to the Treaty of Paris and privateering), Joseph Paxton, Michel Chevalier, William Thackeray ('your opponent at Huntingdon'), Michael Faraday (thanking him for the card to the Crystal Palace, 1862); artists including Edward Lear (excusing himself from social occasions and sending a drawing of a castle instead [not included], 1866), Clarkson Stanfield, Maclise (regarding his design of the medal for the International Exhibition, 1862, including a sketch of Brittania), David Roberts, Landseer (three, one with sketch of a crowd holding umbrellas), Mulready, Astronomer Royal George Airey (enclosing a report), Stafford Northcote, George Goschen, and various European royalty; letters to the Lord FitzGerald of the India Board including two from Hume, an essay on Dwarkanauth Tagore and two copy letters docketed 'from Sir C.[laude] Wade' dated March and August 1843, describing his retreat from Jellalebad to Peshawar and the state of Kabul, the second describing an affray between his own sepoys and the 26th Light Infantry, and an 8-page report 'as to the state of things in Afghanistan', and others; interspersed with photographs and press cuttings including a copy of The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette from 1843, pasted onto 36 leaves, bookplate of Thomas Baring, red morocco gilt for P. & D. Colnaghi, arms of the Hibbert family on upper cover, upper joint cracking, rubbed, folio (550 x 405mm.), 1780s to 1860sFootnotes:This collection was formed by Thomas Baring (1799-1873), grandson of the founder of Barings Bank. As 'Head of the House' he oversaw considerable growth of the business, 'making it once more London's leading trade finance and merchanting house... There is 'only one man [in London] to look to and consult, and to guide action in important financial matters', reckoned an American railway manager in 1853. 'Ask about anything and the reply is 'What does Mr Thomas Baring say or think?'' (John Orbell, ODNB). The album itself bears the arms of the Hibbert family, most likely George Hibbert, merchant, politician, botanist and book collector, who was a close friend of Thomas's grandfather Francis Baring. The album has remained in the Baring family.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, AUTHORISED VERSIONThe Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament, and the New, general and NT titles within wide woodcut borders, lacks one preliminary leaf (b6, list of books) and 2 blanks, corner torn away with loss of text to 2 leaves (provided in manuscript facsimile), small loss to one side-note, tear to 7 leaves, light marginal dampstain to approximately 15 leaves, occasional spotting [ESTC S113708; Herbert 349], Robert Barker, 1616; The Genealogies... by J[ohn] S[peed], woodcut ornaments on title, double-page maps of Canaan, light dampstaining [ESTC S122913], [Felix Kingston, ?1628], bound with an incomplete 'Whole Book of Psalmes' (1618), 3 works bound in 1 vol., contemporary blindstamped calf, rebacked, folio (330 x 210mm.)Footnotes:The first small folio edition of King James's version, printed in Roman type.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
CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) 'Mark Twain'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, FIRST EDITION, preliminary advertisement leaf, final leaf with printer's device, occasional light soiling (mostly in upper margins), old splash mark on half-title, publisher's decorative red cloth, stamped in gilt and black, corners worn, some small ink stains on rear cover, spine rubbed and restored at ends, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1876Footnotes:THE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF 'TOM SAWYER'. The English edition appeared some six months before the American edition, with slight textual variations, in order to secure the British copyright.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
MILTON (JOHN)Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books; Paradise Regain'd, engraved frontispiece portrait, some toning and light spotting, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., spines dulled, 4to, Birmingham, John Baskerville, for J. and R. Tonson, 1759--THIERS (ADOLPHE) Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, 21 vol., half-titles, engraved plates, contemporary green half calf, spines elaborately tooled in gilt with red and maroon gilt morocco labels, Paris, Furne, Jouvet, 1874--TALLEMENT DES REAUX (GEDEON) Les historiettes, 7 vol., contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt with green morocco spine labels, Paris, J. Techener, 1854-1857, 8vo (30)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
RALEIGH (WALTER)TASSO (TORQUATO) Rime et prose... Parte terza. Novamente poste in luce, WALTER RALEIGH'S COPY, signed ('W Ralegh') on the title-page above the woodcut printer's device and with his his motto ('Mediu[m] medijs') at foot, nineteenth century inscription on front free endpaper ('Questo Volume già fu del Cavaliere Gualtero Ralegh, il di cui nome sta scritto nel titolo dalla propria mano'), woodcut initials and tail-pieces, occasional light foxing and browning, later vellum, titled in ink on spine [this edition not in Adams], 12mo, Venice, [Vittorio Baldini], appresso Giulio Vasalini, 1584Footnotes:WALTER RALEIGH'S COPY OF TASSO - A NEWLY-DISCOVERED VOLUME FROM HIS LIBRARY. In a remarkable echo of the occasion twenty-three years ago when volume two of the Ferrara edition appeared for sale in our Phillips rooms, a third volume has come to light, making it a total of seven printed books now known to have survived from Raleigh's library. These include volumes one, two and three of Tasso's Rime et prose, which constitute the only works of literature in the library, the others being on military or historical subjects. The publication history of the Rime et prose is quite complex. The Parte prima and Parte seconda were first printed by Aldo Manuzio in 1581 and 1582 while Tasso was imprisoned in the asylum of St Anna, and without his cooperation. Further editions of these two volumes were printed by Vittorio Baldini in Ferrara (1582), and the publisher Giulio Vasalini also had them reprinted in 1583, before adding his own selection of verses and prose for the Parte terza published in Venice in 1583 (a copy of which exists with Tasso's autograph corrections). The present copy is Vasalini's reprint of the following year. Raleigh's copy of the Parte prima (Ferrara, ad instanza di Giulio Vassallini, appresso Vittorio Baldini, 1583) is at the Beinecke Library, Yale (1975 380). Like the present copy, it is inscribed with Raleigh's signature and motto (although the signature has been struck through) and, like this copy, it bears the ownership signature 'L. Berard' (it also has the bookplate of Charles Bruce, Earl of Elgin, 1712). The Parte seconda (Ferrara, G. Vassallini per Vittorio Baldini, 1583), similarly inscribed by Raleigh, was sold at Phillips on 13 November 1997 (lot 351, current whereabouts unknown). This also had an inscription in an Italian nineteenth century hand, but did not bear Berard's signature.Raleigh's library is known to have consisted of several hundred books, and he listed over 500 of these in the notebook held in the British Library which he kept while imprisoned in the Tower. The notebook, which was the basis for an article by Walter Oakeshott published in December 1968 ('Sir Walter Ralegh's Library', The Library, 5th Series, vol. 23, no. 4), does not mention any volumes of Tasso and indeed Oakeshott remarks on the absence of poetry. The few volumes of books and manuscripts known to have survived from the library are described on CELM, the online adaptation and extension of Peter Beale's Index of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, where the copies of the Parte prima and Parte seconda now take their place (as RaW 1037 and 1037.5) among the seven printed books.'Ralegh's copy of Tasso provides an evocative link between the doomed golden figure of Elizabeth's court - himself a poet of haunting originality and power - and probably the greatest poet of the later Italian Renaissance. The lives of both poets were marked by the most extrordinary swings of fortune. Both spent long years in prison after dazzling careers at court, both having been befriended by patronesses, Ralegh by the Queen, Tasso by the Duchesses Lucrezia and Leonora; and both afterwards enjoyed contemporary fame as poets while languishing in gaol. In fact this particular volume was published while Tasso was imprisoned by the Duke of Mantua in the hospital of St Anna; and it might well have been among the books Ralegh had with him when he in his turn was imprisoned by James I in the tower... Ralegh's ties with the culture of the Italian Renaissance are further exemplified by the volume's ownership inscription with its carefully-formed Italic script, a script which of course derives from Italian Humanist hands and which at the time had still not supplanted the native Secretary script in Britain: elsewhere Ralegh usually employed a mixed, predominantly Italic, hand; although like many of his contemporaries he could write fluent Secretary when occasion served' (Felix Pryor, Phillips sale catalogue, 1997).Provenance: Walter Raleigh, signature and motto on title-page; inscription on front free endpaper in an Italian nineteenth century hand attributing the volume to Raleigh; L. Berard, signature on title-page; Frederick William Cosens (1819-1889), noted book collector and wine merchant (whose extensive library included Raleigh manuscripts listed on CELM), armorial bookplate; his sale Sothebys, 22 November 1890; Paulin Martin, Abingdon (doctor and antiquary), bookplate; acquired by the present owner's grandfather.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
BEEKEEPINGWILDMAN (THOMAS) A Treatise on the Management of Bees; Wherein is Contained the Natural History of Those Insects, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding engraved plates, modern half morocco, 4to, for the Author, and Sold by T. Cadell, 1768--WARDER (JOSEPH) The True Amazons: Or, the Monarchy of Bees... Sixth Edition. To Which is Added, a Letter... Concerning a Late Treatise Upon the Subject of Bees, engraved frontispiece, modern half calf, red morocco gilt spine label ('Bees'), John Pemberton, 1726--BONNER (JAMES) A New Plan for Speedily Increasing the Number of Bee-Hives in Scotland, FIRST EDITION, half-title, modern calf, Edinburgh, W. Creech, Bell & Bradfute, 1795--THORLEY (JOHN) Melisselogia [in Greek]. Or, The Female Monarchy. Being an Enquiry into the Nature, Order, and Government of Bees, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, 3 engraved plates (of 4, the fourth provided in facsimile on old paper), light dampstain to title, modern half morocco, for the Author, 1744--TAYLOR (HENRY) The Bee-keeper's Manual; or Practical Hints on the Management and Complete Preservation of the Honey-bee, second edition, frontispiece, illustrations, publisher's cloth, short tear to upper joint, R. Groombridge, 1839, 8vo (5)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, Boston Society of Natural History, blindstamp on title-page; Third item, James ?Spreall early owner's name on 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
WESLEY AND THE CITY OF YORKAlbum Amicorum kept by Richard Burdekin, bookseller and Wesleyan of York, containing some 200 autograph entries from eminent Wesleyan ministers, missionaries and authors, many collected on the occasion of district meetings and conferences, with much other material, including: John Wesley (printed Methodist ticket endorsed 'Nov 1755/ Ann Lepitre' depicting an angel carrying the text 'Now is the Accepted Time'), verses written by Arctic explorer and clergyman William Scoresby Jnr ('Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of Man cometh at an hour when athink not'), Elihu Burritt ('God is love: love to our human brethren is the earthward reflection of the heart filled with the light and life of the love of God...'), Robert Southey (autograph address panel and signature, 1834), Jabez Bunting and his son William, William Martin, self-styled Natural Philosopher and poet (several poems and a ticket to one of his lectures in 1850 illustrated with a pen and ink sketch of a lion), Titus Close, Theophilus Lessey, Robert Goodacre, Robert Spence, Gideon Ouseley, William Naylor, James Everett, Richard Stoner, George Marsden, Samuel Dunn, exortations on the evils of alcohol by popular preacher and early agent of temperance William Pollard, the painter Henry Purlee Parker and George Hudson ('the Railway King'); with several contributors from overseas such as Kahkewaquonaby ('Peter Jones') Missionary and chief of the Chippeway Indians of Upper Canada ('While I was lost in the woods, Jesus found me...'), William Fisk of Connecticut and Edward Fraser, freed slave and missionary from the West Indies; other items include a printed broadsheet 'A Negro Woman's Lamentation' sold by Joseph Phillips with manuscript verses entitled 'Negro Slavery' pleading 'the injured Negro's cause' written on the reverse by Phillips 'late of Antiqua', and two manuscript lists of subscribers and subscriptions received by the York Methodist Society as at 3 October 1775, raising money to build side galleries on the Peaseholme Green chapel (the first Wesleyan Chapel in York where Wesley himself preached in 1759) and list of works undertaken; with various printed ephemera of religious and local interest ('An Evangelical Dialogue', 'An Address from the first 'High' Sherriff of York to his 'Low' Sherriff', minutes of meetings, uplifting texts, tickets etc.), and newspaper cuttings, with loose index book, 459 numbered pages (including blanks), contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards, old leather dust-jacket, spine lettered in gilt detached, worn with losses, 280 x 225mm., index book with marbelled paper cover, 270 x 120mm., York, May 1825 to November 1882Footnotes:'I WAS THE GUEST OF MR BURDEKIN – FROM WHOM AND THE WHOLE FAMILY I HAVE RECEIVED MUCH KINDNESS'; a remarkable collection spanning nearly sixty years and bringing together luminaries of the Wesleyan movement. In addition to worthies of the church, Burdekin seems particularly interested in one Jonathan Martin, a former lapsed Wesleyan preacher and arsonist, who famously set the fire that destroyed large parts of York Minster in February 1829. Burdekin must have visited him in the York County Gaol as the album contains three pages of religious ramblings written directly into the book and dated 15 March 1829, shortly before his transfer to Bethlem Hospital where he died in 1838; '...may the Lord grant that these fue simpler remarks may have a Blessing to all that need them the Lord will not despise the Day of small things your sincere Friend and Brother in the Lord...'. Martin was also known prior to his arson attack for attaching strongly-worded notices denouncing the clergy on various ecclesiastical buildings and one of these, written at Lincoln in October 1827 is included in the collection - 'O clergyman', he writes, 'I right to warn you to repent... Father's right Hand luks down upon you with Dridful Gillisey and he like a clap of Thunder and as quick as lighting... and you go down & live into the Dridful pit of Hell to be turmenteed with the firey Tigers and Lions of Hell...'.Richard Burdekin was a highly respected bookseller and stationer in the city of York. He began his long career in bookselling as a travelling salesman and became famous for riding his favourite horse 30,000 miles in search of orders. He went into business with fellow Wesleyan Robert Spence under the name Spence and Burdekin and was to write Spence's biography in 1837. One of his two shops was destroyed by fire in 1855 but he continued to trade in Parliament Street until his death in 1860. In the words of his obituary published in The Bookseller, 'Mr Burdekin joined the Wesleyan Methodist Society early in life. He became a zealous local preacher and class-leader in that body... As he lived, so he died, a happy Christian, at a good old age'. The album was added to by family members after his death and has remained in the family.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. Concordantiæ in eadem... Interpretationes nominum Hebraicorum, title printed in red and black within a wide historiated border, Eusebian canons (4 leaves) also printed in red and black, numerous woodcut illustrations (including full-page cut of the Nativity at the opening of the New Testament), title with old paper repair at gutter margin and corners (very small loss to printed border of one), some light dampstains (mostly marginal, primarily to the preliminaries and index), nineteenth century gilt and blind-tooled calf, red morocco spine label, a few small scuffmarks [not in Adams or Darlow & Moulel], folio (350 x 235mm.), Lyon, Johannes Crespin, 1539Footnotes:Provenance: ?Migeul de Arma, early inscription on title; a few later names in ink in blank area of final leaf.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
GOYA Y LUCIENTES (FRANCISCO JOSÉ DE)[La tauromaquia] La taureaumachie. Recueil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées a l'eau-forte, third edition, engraved title printed in black and red with engraved portrait and vignettes by Loizelet, letterpress title printed in red and black, 40 ETCHED PLATES BY GOYA (numbered 1-33, and A-G) on laid paper watermarked 'Arches', without the second portrait of Goya, title lightly soiled, light spotting in margins of three plates, contemporary half morocco, gilt lettered 'Goya. La Tauromaquia' on upper cover, rebacked to match [Harris 204-243], oblong folio (312 x 468mm.), Paris, Loizelet, [1876]Footnotes:THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. 'In this remarkable series, Goya has immortalised the valour and skill of his [bull-fighting] contemporaries' (Harris). First published in 1816 in a series of 33 plates, and again in 1855, this third edition printed in Paris by Loizelet is the first to include seven 'rejected plates'. Harris notes that the 'edition appears to have been small'.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 BONAPARTERapport signed as approved by Napoleon ('approuvé N'), with printed heading 'Rapport A Sa Majestié l'Empereur et Roi', submitted to him and signed by his Minister of War 'Duc de Feltre', requesting 17,861 francs for laundry and shoes destroyed by fire in the city of Aurich on 18 July 1811, including a detailed list of what is required '1376 chemises... 1470 pairer del souliers... 100 kilo de Cuir...', 2 pages, light browning and small tears to edges, folio, St Cloud, 17 April 1812; with an autograph letter signed by Michel Ney ('Le maréchal Ney'), to Louis-Alexandre Berthier ('le Prince de Neuchatel, Ministre de la guerre'), four days prior to the battle of Guttstadt-Deppen, explaining why men of the 27th Line deserted three months ago due to the lack of satisfactory rations of bread, vegetables and more importantly tobacco, and asking for more supplies ('une gratification extraordinaire de tabac'), 3 pages, light browning and small tears, folio, Guttstadt, 1 June 1807; and other documents including a letter addressed to the commander of the batteries at Cuxhaven, in German, 1 page, folio, 28 December 1813; two copies of reports of the inspector of engineering pertaining to fortifications, the first dated 16 Germinal au XII [6 April 1804], the other regarding Toulon, 11 January 1808; with three printed circulars from the Bureau Militaire 1805-6, autograph sentiment signed 'G. Garibaldi' addressed to Captain Gossling, and other later documents (18)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS)Les métamorphoses,... avec des remarques, et des explications historiques par M. L'abbé Banier, 2 vol., text in Latin and French in parallel columns, titles printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Picart, half-title in volume 1 (not called for in volume 2), 130 large engraved illustrations after Lebrun, Maas, Picart, Romain and others, some light spotting and toning, contemporary calf gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving original spines with red morocco label [Cohen-De Ricci 768, 'Magnifique ouvrage'), folio (460 x 304mm.), Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1732Footnotes:Provenance: Gervase Beckett, 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
RUSSIA - ZVENIGORODSKOI COLLECTIONKONDAKOV (NIKODIM PAVLOVICH) Histoire et monuments des emaux byzantins [Collection de Mr. A. W. Zwenigorodskoi], FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 34 OF 200 COPIES printed in French, introduction by A. Zvenigorodskoi, chromolithographed dedication to Tsar Alexander III printed on an embossed silver foil ground, engraved portrait frontispiece on india-proof paper, additional chromolithographed pictorial title, title printed in red and black within a decorative chromolithographed border, 31 chromolithographed plates, chromolithographed divisional titles, decorative initials and ornaments throughout, limitation leaf printed in gilt and black, decorative endpapers, very light spotting to a few plates, original white morocco, sides and spine with elaborate embossed design blocked in gilt and black, edges printed in various colours, page edges gauffered and richly ornamented in gilt, silver gilt, red and green, original bookmark of multi-coloured and gilt threads attached by thread, very small scuffmark to extreme edge, contemporary cloth-backed silk-lined solander box, red morocco gilt lettering label on spine (some wear at extremities) [Fekula 6705, 'magnificent'; Vengerov, Old Russian Books, 77], folio (358 x 265mm.), Frankfurt, [A. Osterrieth], 1892Footnotes:A VERY FINE COPY OF A LAVISHLY PRESENTED CELEBRATION OF THE ZVENIGORODSKOI COLLECTION OF BYZANTINE ENAMELS, subsequently purchased by J.P. Morgan who donated them to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The catalogue is 'undoubtedly a masterpiece of the Russian printing industry. It has no equals either in terms of workmanship or in terms of the funds involved (it cost 120,000 roubles [approximately $200,000] in gold by the exchange rate for 1892' (Vengerov), the Dumbarton Oaks website noting that the 'Zwenigorodskoi collection is almost as famous for its catalog as it was for its ancient enamels'.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
ITALY - ANTIQUITIESBARTOLI (PIETRO SANTI) Le antiche lucerne sepolcrali figurate. Raccolte dalle cave sotteranee, e grotte di Roma... con l'osservationi di Gio. Pietro Bellori, 3 engraved parts titles, 116 engraved plates (plates 33-46 of part 2 bound at the end of part 1), caption in ink in margin of each plate, light spotting, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, rubbed [Berlin Cat. 889; Cicognara 3609], folio (322 x 205mm.), Rome, Gio. Francesco Buagni, 1691--VENUTI (RIDOLFO) Antiqua numismata maximi moduli aurea, argentea, aerea ex Museo Alexandri S.R.E. Card. Albani in Vaticanam Bibliothecam, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on titles, engraved plates, numerous large engraved vignette views, contemporary calf gilt, large gilt arms on sides, spine worn [Cicognara 3043], folio (404 x 263mm.), Rome, Calcographei Cameralis, 1739-1744--LA CHAUSSE (MICHEL ANGE) Le grand cabinet romain our recueil d'antiquitez romaines... que l'on trouvé à Rome, engraved allegorical frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, 43 engraved plates (most with 4 images), small dampstain just touching frontispiece image, modern calf-backed marbled boards, folio (355 x 240mm.), Amsterdam, Francois l'Honoré, & Zacharie Chastelain le fils, 1706 (4)Footnotes:Provenance: First and second works, L.F. Salzmann, bookplate (1899).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
MORDEN (ROBERT) AND HERMAN MOLLFifty Six New and Accurate Maps of Great Britain, Ireland and Wales, 57 engraved maps hand-coloured in outline (numbered in ink on verso), short tear to map of Ireland, 7 maps slightly shaved within platemark at one edge, small light dampstain in fore-margins towards the end, a few short tears to title, this and first leaf of text cropped at foot, eighteenth century boards, worn, rebacked [Chubb CXXVI], oblong 4to (185 x 310mm.), John Nicholson, John Sprint, Andrew Bell, and Ralph Smith, 1708This 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
ALDROVANDI (ULYSSE)Quadrupedum omniu[m] bisulcoru[m] historia, engraved allegorical title, lacks one leaf of index, some dampstaining (including opening 50 leaves and margins towards end), 1642 [colophon 1641]; De animalibus insectis, engraved allegorical title, occasional light stains or toning, 1638, numerous woodcut illustrations (some full-page, including giraffe, and rhinoceros), interleaved with tissue guards in approximately 10 places, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored at margins [Nissen BBI 76, 66], folio (360 x 240mm.), Bologna, Ferroni (2)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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