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Gambling.- Rouse (William) The Doctrine of Chances, or the Theory of Gaming made easy to every Person...Lotteries, Cards, Horse Racing, Dice &c. with Tables on Chance, first edition, presentation copy from the author inscribed on front free endpaper, engraved vignette title (foxed), 3 tables on 2 folding sheets (one with splits to folds), H.S.Foxwell's copy with his manuscript note of acquisition, ex-library copy with blind stamps and label, contemporary diced calf, a little worn, rebacked, [Not in Kress or Goldsmiths'], for the Author, [1814] § Fatal Effects of Gambling (The) exemplified in the Murder of Wm.Weare, and the Trial and Fate of John Thurtell, the Murderer..., first edition in book form, engraved additional vignette title and 11 plates, some foxing, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rebacked, red morocco label, Thomas Kelly, 1824 § [?Duff (James, Earl of Fife)] Hints for a Reform, particularly in the Gambling Clubs, first edition, lacking half-title, small stain to final leaf, modern cloth-backed marbled boards, roan label to upper cover, [Not in Kress or Goldsmiths'], R.Baldwin, 1784, the first two rubbed, 8vo ⁂ The second item is perhaps the fullest of the many contemporary accounts of the murder of William Weare, an unscrupulous London gambler, who had been pulled from a horse-drawn gig and murdered in a quiet country lane in Hertfordshire. The arrest and trial of three men for Weare's murder became one of the most famous and sensationalized crimes of its time.Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and book-collector whose library of 30,000 books forms the nucleus of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature. Duplicates and later purchases, totalling a further 24,000 volumes, were sold after his death to Harvard, forming the focus of the Kress Library.

Mexico.- [Shippard (William Henry, Captain, army officer in the 29th Regiment, of 5 Caroline Street, Bedford Square, 1803-65)] [Notes on Mexico], autograph manuscript signed, c. 255pp., slightly browned, extract from The Times newspaper 1850 tipped-in, original half straight-grained morocco, rubbed, folio, 1835-40.⁂ Subjects include: "Architectural Antiquities of Central America Yucatan"; "Uxmal or Utzalane"; "Temple for the Fire Virgins"; "Alligators Turtles &c"; "Central America Tera Cruz to River Atrato S.A."; "Map of Guatamala returned from the Survey in the Archives of that country..."; "Nicaragua. Louis Napoleon"; "Earthquakes of New World"; "American Languages"; "Mosquito" etc.

India & elsewhere.- Skinner's Horse (1st Bengal Cavalry).- Chamberlain (Anna Eugenia, née Morgan, 1786-1867, wife of Sir Henry Chamberlain, first Bart., diplomat, 1773-1829) Photograph album, including: 2 photographs of Skinner's Horse; a Bourne and Shepherd print of the Supreme Indian Council, Simla; Prince and Princess of Wales, Napoleon III and other royalty, General Jean Baptiste Pelletier (1777-1862), "He fired off the last French gun, as the British swept down upon the retreating Middle Guard, at Waterloo... Henry Chamberlain"; friends and family, cartes de visite photographs, c. 140 photographs on 41pp. excluding blanks, most with manuscript captions, all laid down, original blind-stamped morocco, lettered "A.E.C." on upper cover, corners and edges slightly rubbed, photographs 205 x 178mm. & smaller, album 4to, [1860s].

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Edward Johnston (1872-1944) 'The Embers of the day are red' calligraphy manuscript poem, ink on vellum, monogrammed lower left, 14cm x 14cm and another by the same 'Requiem - Robert Louis Stevenson', calligraphy manuscript, ink on vellum, monogrammed lower left, 13.5cm x 13.5cm (2)Provenance: These pictures were originally exhibited in the 9th Arts and Crafts exhibition society in 1910 and are listed as items 34 and 35. Minimal scuffs and wear to the frames. Minimal wear and marks to the mounts. Minimal foxing in places.

OVIDIUS NASO (PUBLIUS)[Metamorphoses] Quindecim metamorphoseos libri diligentius recogniti cum familiaribus commentariis et indice alphabetico ab ascensio summa cura collecto [edited with commentary by J. Badius Ascensius], title printed in red and black with large printer's device, one full-page woodcut, final 2 leaves defective, title and woodcut strengthened with old paper at inner margin, damp-staining to opening leaves, extensive mostly marginal annotations in several early hands in both brown and red ink, a few manuscript manicules, some underlining in red ink, seventeenth century calf, rebacked, worn with some loss to spine [Adams O468], 4to (243 x 170mm.), [Lyon, Nicolas Wolf, and Jacques Hugutean, 1501]; and another volume containing 2 incomplete works by Ovid, both printed in Venice, dated 4 January 1516, one published by J. Tacuinus Tridino, January 1518 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First, John Ernest Hotsun (1877-1944), ownership inscription (1898) inside upper cover; Guy Phillips, 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

DURAND (GUILLAUME)Rationale divinorum, 264 leaves, 47 lines and headline, gothic letter, shaved touching lettering to some headlines, sprinkled worming throughout, water-stains to side margins straying onto text on some pages, ink annotations on title-page and some margins, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, worn (small area torn away to lower cover) and loss to headband, lacks clasps [USTC 688339], folio (260 x 200mm.), [Strasbourg, Georg Husner, 1501]; Rationale divinorum officiorum, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, several ink ownership inscriptions on the title, later ink marginal annotations, near contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with Crucifixion and Resurrection scenes surrounded by elaborated ornamental floral decoration on sides, spine painted white and titled in ink, brass clasps and catches, light wear [USTC 140577], 8vo, Lyon, heirs of Jacques Giunta, 1568 (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, 'Sum Joannis Murmayerz, Mors via aquam', inscription on title; Wolf Engelbert von Auersperg, (1610-1673), 'W. Eng. C. ab Aursp. [...] Cap. Supremi Carni[ol]ae Cat[alogo] Inscriptis A. 1655, inscription on title page; Fuerstlich Auerspergsche Fideicommisbibliothek zu Laybach (Auersperg family library, Ljubljana), bookplate; Second work, 'Ex libris Johannis Hochreitterj 1581 HH. Sub umbra alarum tuarum', manuscript inscription on title; Canonio Understorff, seventeenth century inscription on title page; inscription dated 1792 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

ANATOMYALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED) Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body; A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves, 2 works bound in 1 vol., first edition in English, one vignette title-page only (of 3), 49 engraved plates after Jan Wandelaar (of 51, lacks 2 from 'Nerves'), near contemporary calf-backed boards, worn with some loss to spine [Russell 6; cf. Garrison-Morton 399, first edition], large folio (680 x 500mm.), Printed by H. Woodfall, for John and Paul Knapton, 1749; The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles; A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves, 2 parts in 1 vol., lacks 'explanation' leaf (supplied at end in early manuscript facsimile) and advertisement at end, occasional light spotting, contemporary non-uniform half calf over marbled boards, worn with some losses to spine and corners [Russell 8], 4to, John and Paul Knapton, 1754 (2)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).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

ARMENIAGREGORY OF NAREK, SAINT. Girk Aghotits'Srboyn [Book of Lamentations], edited by Minas Amdetsi, text in Armenian, all pages within typographical border (that to title more elaborate), woodcut decorations in the margins, capital bird-shaped letters, large woodcut portrait of the author on p.10, large opening woodcut ornament on p.11, small old repairs touching inner border of title, horizontal tear to pp.11/12, old paper repairs to gutter margin of several leaves (mostly at beginning and end), final leaf with portion of upper page torn away with some loss to opening 3 lines recto and verso, some marginal ornaments shaved, occasional light old staining, contemporary calf over wooden boards, the sides decorated in blind to a geometrical design, old metal studs on lower cover, lacking metal clasps (and straps) on upper cover, rebacked in old leather [Voskanian 185], 4to (200 x 150mm.), [Constantinople/Istanbul, Paron Karapet, son of Astuadsatour, 1702]Footnotes:Only the second appearance in print, after the 1673 Marseille edition, of Grigor Narekatsi's 'Book of Lamentations'. The editor, Minas Amdetsi, notes on the colophon that text is based on a manuscript found in Jerusalem and compared with five others found at the Monasteries of Saghmosavank, Khor Virap and Sevan. An Armenian Christian mystic, Grigor/Gregory (c.945-1003) was Canonized in 2015.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

GRATIANUSDecretum with apparatus by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis and Johannes Teutonicus (Semeca), edited by Sebastian Brant, 530 leaves, double column, 67 lines plus headline, gothic type, red and black ink, woodcut of Gratianus in his study on verso of Bb6, early marginal manuscript notation, erased ink inscription on title, printing flaw on K2 with small tear, small wormholes, short tear on external margin of R1-S8 occasionally touching text, near contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with repair to edges, modern spine labels, hinges a litte cracked, light soiling [ISTC ig00391000; H*7918; BMC III, 792; Goff G-391], 4to (219 x 153mm.), Basel, Johann Froben and Johann Amerbach, 1 July 1500Footnotes:Provenance: Bibliothek Oberherrlingen, with date '1839' and initials 'E.M.' (of Eugen, Freiherr von Maucler) bookplate; MM Froth Libraires Lausanne, bookplate.Eugen von Maucler (1783-1859) amassed an important library at Oberherrlingen Castle, near Ulm (municipality of Blaustein near Ulm), including numerous incunables he acquired from the Frankfurt physician and bibliophile Georg Kloß (1787-1854).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

COOKERY & HOUSEHOLDManuscript receipt book written in several hands containing over 200 culinary and household recipes, including 'To make Portable Soup', 'To make Veal Olives', 'Dr Fothergills Pudding', 'Créme Velour' (dated 1779), 'To make macaroni', 'Roll Calves head', 'Pickle Samphire', 'To make brain cakes' ('Take your brains and slice them'), 'To make White Soup' ('...these rolls look like a hedgehog some french cooks gives this soup the name of hedge hog soup it will do very well if you omit the Rolls by the way...'), 'To make Picklates', 'Tansy Pudding', 'Pan Puddings', 'To stew Golden Pippins to look like Apricots', 'Mrs Wyatts Cakes', 'To make Diet Bread', 'To make a solid Whip', 'Sally Lunns' ('...this is the original recipe & they are a most excellent breakfast cake made at Bath...'), 'To make Hartshorn Flummery', 'Lady Betty Warburtons receipt of Cowslip Wine', 'Green paint for railing', 'A gum wash', 'For Japaning a Coach', 'To clear gold or silver Lace', 'For a bruise or a cut', 'Pills for a cough', 'To Imatate Mahogany', one receipt credited to Miss Denton, 177 numbered pages, five leaves and two half leaves excised, some blanks, dust-staining, marks and ink stains, some small tears and pin holes, original half calf, marbled boards, worn and marked with some loss, 4to (246 x 190mm.), [eighteenth century]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

NATALIBUS (PETRUS DE)Catalogus sanctorum: vitas, passiones & miracula commodissime annectens: ex voluminibus selectus, title printed in red and black within architectural woodcut border, large woodcut of the Crucifixion, double column text illustrated throughout with approximately 1600 woodcuts of saints, some within historiated initials, printer's device on verso of final leaf, some occasional light damp-staining (mostly marginal), a few small rust marks, title stained, various early and later ink inscriptions to title-page (recto and verso), below crucifixion woodcut and on colophon, pencil and ink notes on front free endpaper, eighteenth century French mottle calf, rebacked and recornered, gilt panelled spine spine with repeated floral tool and raised bands [Adams N50], 4to (253 x 170mm.), Lyon, N. Petit and H. Penet, 1534Footnotes:Provenance: Jean Roussel (possibly the priest at the Eglise Saint-Gervais, spiritual adviser to Pierre and Madame Acarie, 'Blessed Marie de l'Incarnation'), inscription on title-page ('Sum Joannis Roussel'), followed by a quote from Proverbs in Latin ('Give me neither poverty nor riches...'); Gabriel de Villars, presentation inscription dated 1599 on final page and signature on title-page; Monastery of Saint Vedast, or Vaast, Arras, inscription in upper margin of title-page; Claude-Robert Jardel (of Braine, 1712-1788, antiquary, bibliophile and manuscript collector), ownership inscriptions on title ('Ex libris Jardel' and 'Jard[el]/ 17[?]', in margin, cropped), verso of title ('Ex Biblioth. Claude Rob. Jardel') and beneath crucifixion woodcut ('Ex libris Claud. Rob. Jardel'); Sir Francis Palgrave (1788-1861, archivist and historian), inscribed on fly-leaf 'For my dear Inglis/ F.P./ 14 Jul.[?] 1843'; Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919, economist, son of Sir Francis Palgrave and brother of Francis Turner Palgrave, compiler of the Golden Treasury), bookplate; Edward Ingram Watkin (1888-1981, Catholic philosopher, pacifist and writer), lengthy notes on verso of front free endpaper, mostly in pencil, concerning the early and recent provenance (...'[in 1919] I purchased this book from Messrs. Baker... given to my daughter and son-in-law November 4 1964'); Richard and Magdalen Goffin (the son-in-law and daughter referred to above), 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 MANUSCRIPT LEAF - BOOK OF HOURSLamentation of Christ, from Book of Hours (15 Joys of the Virgin Mary), one leaf, on vellum, 4-lines of text in French beneath, illumination of the Lamentation of Christ (92 x 60mm.), inhabited initial and floral border with grotesques and floral motifs on recto, 17 lines of text surrounded by floral motifs on verso, a few abrasions (mostly to margins), window-mounted, framed and glazed, sheet to view, 170 x 110mm., [Rouen, c.1470-1480]Footnotes:This refined illumination depicts a Lamentation, a subject that became more and more popular in medieval art from the 11th century and which appears north of the Alps from the 14th century. Northern representations of the Lamentation, such as this one, are characterised by the centrality of the figure of Mary, who is often holding Christ across her lap. The other figures depicted here, as is typical, are two female figures (representing two of the Three Marys), St John and Nicodemus, who is holding a container with the embalming spices used to prepare the body of Christ for burial.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

OFFICINA BODONIFELICIANO (FELICE) Alphabetum Romanum, edited by Giovanni Mardersteig, German edition, number 146 of 160 copies, 25 letters of the alphabet hand-coloured by Ameglio Travella in the style of the original fifteenth century manuscript in the Vatican, 5 heliogravure plates, original prospectus loosely inserted, original morocco-backed cloth, transparent wrapper, slip-case, 8vo, Verona, 1960--TORNIELLO (FRANCESCO) L'Alfabeto, English edition, number 27 of 160 copies, illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, transparent wrapper, slip-case, 4to, Verona, 1970--BEMBO (PIETRO) De Aetna liber & Pietro Bembo dell' Etna, Italian edition, number 117 of 125 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, original morocco-backed boards, 8vo, Verona, 1969--GOGOL (NICOLAS) The Overcoat. From the Tales of Petersburg, number 115 of 160 copies signed by the artist, 6 full-page etchings by Pietro Annigoni, prospectus loosely inserted, slip-case, Verona, 1975--TERENCE. Andria. Commedia, nella traduzione di Niccolò Machiavelli, number 128 of 160 copies, woodcut illustrations by Fritz Kredel after Albrecht Durer, prospectus loosely inserted, transparent wrapper, slip-case,Verona, 1971--FREDERICK II, King of Prussia. Epitre au marquis d'Argens du 23 septembre 1757, limited to 225 copies, Montagnola di Lugano, 1924, the last 3 original vellum-backed cloth or boards--MARDERSTEIG (GIOVANNI) The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977, limited edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth, slip-case, Verona, Stamperia Valdonega, 1980, the last 4 folio; together with 2 other limited edition folios printed at the Stamperia Valdonega and 3 copies of catalogue of the Officina Bodoni exhiition held at the King's Library in 1978 (12)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

ARMENIAANANIA SANAHNETSI. Girk vor kotchi zhoghovadsou [Compilation of Stories], text in Armenian, title and text within typographical border throughout, 8 large woodcut illustrations by Grigor Marzvanetsi after Christoffel van Sichem, decorative ornaments at head of sections and marginal decorations in the style of Armenian manuscript, toning or light browning to a few pages, thin line of worming to inner margin of a few leaves, contemporary blind-stamped morocco over wooden boards, rebacked in calf, red edges [not in BL or Bodleian], 4to (200 x 150mm.), Constantinople/Istanbul, Mahtesi Astouadstour, 13 February 1747Footnotes:A compilation of Biblical stories (Adam and Eve, life of Christ, etc.) and Homilies by Armenian and other Church fathers, including Gregory of Narek, Gregory of Tatew, and others, written by the eleventh century Armenian theologian Anania Sanhnetsi, of the Monasteries at Haghpat and Sanahin. Provenance: 'Library of the Atonian Brotherhood transferred to Constantinople in 1871' [in Armenian], red stamp on title touching woodcut border, with 4-line ink note by Grigor the monk professing his support for the Holy Roman Church.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 V, POPEConstitutiones [with commentary by Johannes Andreae], 60 leaves (including opening and final blanks), 82 lines of commentary around text, gothic type, rubricated with capital initials, paragraph marks etc. supplied in alternate red and blue ink throughout, opening initial 'I' in gold on a ground of blue heightened, manuscript index in a contemporary hand on the opening blank, small traces of worming in vertical margins not affecting text, light damp-staining and softening to fore-margin of approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, upper and lower sides elaborately stamped with a variety of tools (including roses, gryphon, and vases of flowers) in panels, the upper cover with wording 'Sexti et' in upper margin, central boss and metal corner-pieces to fore-corners, remnants of metal clasps, sprinkled single wormholes, rebacked, worn, upper hinge strengthened with tape [ic00727000; HC 5435*; BMC II 429; Goff C727; GKW 7097], folio (340 x 240mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 15 March 1486Footnotes:Collection of decretals compiled during the 1305-14 pontificate of Clemens V, the last official papal addition to the Corpus juris canonici.Provenance: 'Ex bibl. II episc. S. Hippolytum', ink inscription and printed shelf mark label in red and black ink.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

MOUNTAINEERINGALMER (CHRISTIAN) A Facsimile of Christian Almer's Führerbuch 1856-1894, Reproduced under the Superintendence of C.D. Cunningham and Capt. W. De W. Abney, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 99 OF 200 COPIES, half-title, heliogravure photographic frontispiece portrait of Almer, 2 illustrations, limitation label printed in red pasted to front free endpaper, light stain at lower margin of the frontispiece, publisher's cloth, gilt morocco spine labels, g.e., rubbed with some abrasions to labels [Neate C157], 8vo, Sampson Low, 1896Footnotes:Christian Almer (1826-1898) was one of the great pioneering Alpine guides from the golden age of mountaineering, making the first ascent of the Eiger, and many other Alpine peaks. Privately printed, the Führerbuch reproduces in facsimile the manuscript recommendations of the climbers he accompanied, together with a lengthy introduction.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

PETRUS LOMBARDUSSententiarum libri IV, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials throughout, modern quarter vellum gilt, red edges [USTC 403431], 4to, Louvain, Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1546--MACHIAVELLI (NICOLO) Tutte le opere, 5 parts in 1 vol., late Testina edition, vignette woodcut portrait on each title, Discorsi misbound, opening 5 leaves frayed (with loss of a few letters to 3), last three leaves frayed (one repaired with substantial loss to text), damp-staining throughout, limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, spine loosening, soiled, 4to, [Geneva], 1550 [but c.1640]--GOLTZIUS (HUBERT) Vivae omnium fere Imperatorum imagines, 88 (of 133) chiaroscuro medallion woodcut portraits printed in sepia, 13 others with woodcut borders but no image, also lacking title and preliminary leaves up to A1, tears affecting image of 2 plates (LIX, LXV), offsetting, damp-staining mostly to margins, later tree calf, upper cover detached, worn [Adams G838], folio, Antwerp, in officina Aegidii Copenii Diesthemii, 1557--FLORUS (LUCIUS ANNAEUS) Rerum a Romanis gestarum libri IIII, woodcut printer's device on title, near contemporary manuscript inscriptions on first fly-leaf and on title, age-toning, later limp vellum, upper gnawed, worn [USTC 402303], 8vo, Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1593--PINDAR. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, translated by Jean Benoit, woodcut device on title, light age toning, later armorial gilt calf, sides with the arms of Louis XIV on a ground of fleur-de-lys and crowned L pattern, g.e., hinges loose, worn [USTC 6802750; Brunet IV 659], 4to, Saumur, Pierre Pié de Dieu, 1620--CICERO. Opera omnia title printed in red and black, additional engraved frontispiece (dated 1659), some damp-staining, ink stains affecting text on pp.479-482, later armorial calf gilt, the sides with the arms of Louis XIV on a ground of fleur-de-lys pattern on covers, g.e., worn, 4to, Geneva, Samuel Chouet, 1660; and 11 others (17)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Fort Augustus Benedictine Abbey (Inverness, Scotland), bookplate; Second work, Franz Ferdinand Pontz von Engelshofen (c. 1760s), 'V. Engelshofen 2579' stamp on first title; František Antonín Thun-Hohenstein (1847-1916), bookplate; Third work, De Gabriellij, manuscript inscription on title; Fifth work, 'Bouffay 1703', ink inscription 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

WORLD WAR I – DIARIES & LETTERSGroup of diaries and letters, comprising: i) Manuscript journal compiled by the father of Lieutenant Frank Leonard Stevens of Mexborough, serving with the Yorks and Lancs Regiment, entitled 'Diary by his Dad', comprising a narrative of his son's progress through the war, including Passchendaele, the German offensive of March 1918 and the 'Great Push' ('...all leave cancelled...'), with extracts from Leonard's letters home ('...It was Hell!... I pray hard for courage... I discovered a tank...lying in gory glory, like a decrepit toad... a monument to British skill & British tenacity... every second is pregnant with certain disquieting possibilities... shell, trench mortar, rifle, grenade, bomb, mine, Bosche, bullet, gas or mud...'), his Christian faith, and the war at home ('...the presence of a Zeppelin... the sound and the spectacle was certainly startling to civilians...'), interspersed with photographs, documents, illustrations (including two of his dug out in the trenches), menus, press cuttings etc., c.100 leaves, black cloth, 4to (230 x 172mm.), [1916 to 1918]ii) Collection relating to Private Albert Willis of 15th Sherwood Foresters serving on the Western Front in 1918 and his brother Corporal Frederick Willis of 1/6th Essex Regiment serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, comprising 15 letters from Alfred to his parents and brother, and two letters to him from his mother ('...Albert killed in action, France, Don't worry all well at home...'); with c.130 photographic portrait postcards, original family photographs, various Christmas and birthday cards and other documents; an original Red Cross linen bag with ties, printed with the red cross in red and 'With Best wishes from the British Red Cross', held in three custom-made albums, modern cloth, each 300 x 225mm., March to December 1918iii) Manuscript reminiscences of Captain Wilfred Oates Rushton of the 18th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, beginning 28 January 1916 on Salisbury Plain, going on to describe life on the front line ('...a Melton Mowbray pie... saved the situation...'), marching to the Somme ('...The road was strewn with dead horses in varying stages of decomposition... a long line of dead men, blank of face... killed the moment they had got out of the trench to attack...There was a particularly repulsive Boche lying dead within about 2 yards of the place we congregated for our food...'), and much other detail, 106 pages, written in a lined exercise book, black cloth, 4to (223 x 175mm.), [1916 onwards]Footnotes:All the young men represented here survived the war, and their writings and photographs reveal a sometimes harrowing picture of life as an ordinary soldier on the Western Front and the concerns of parents left behind. Journalist Frank Stevens married Winifred Bruce in Edinburgh on 9 April 1925. He was the third generation of his family to go into the profession, his father having been on the staff of the Mexborough and Swinton Times. The family of Albert Willis had been informed that he had been killed in action – '...It makes it far worse for us that he went under so near the finish...' his mother writes, but his brother later received news that he was in fact a Prisoner of War. Albert here describes his capture and return home - '...they had been mourning me as dead for about four weeks! They even said how I had been killed instantaneously...'. Wilfred Oates Rushton was the son of Oates Rushton (1849-1929) who had set up a successful grocery and drapery business in Wigan. After the war he became a partner in a Liverpool law firm. His great nephew was comedian and writer, Willie Rushton.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 BOOK OF HOURS, use of RomeManuscript Book of Hours on vellum in Latin, with calendar in French, 168 leaves (plus 2 flyleaves at the front and 1 final flyleaf), gothic textualis in brown ink on 14 lines (justification c.110 x 75mm.), 3 flyleaves with slightly later inscriptions, 13 LARGE ARCH-TOPPED MINIATURES (c.85 x 65mm.), each within full border decoration with leaves, fruit and flowers in colours and liquid gold and with 4-line illuminated inhabited initials below, numerous 2- and 1-line illuminated initials in red, blue, liquid gold and white, line fillers in red and blue, rubrics, occasional light rubbing or staining, EARLY BLIND-TOOLED CALF OVER WOODEN BOARDS BY LOUIS BLOC, covers each with 4 panels each containing eight animals in tendrils (comprising stags, deer, monkeys, hares, boars, dogs) , surrounded by the inscription in Roman capitals: 'Ludovicus Bloc / ob laudem / Christi librum hunc / recte ligavi' (Ludovicus Bloc, has, in praise of Christ, bound this book well), rebacked, but preserving much of original spine, corners worn, joints weak, lacking clasps, g.e., in a red morocco slipcase by Riviere, 180 x 120mm., [Flanders, probably Bruges, mid fifteenth century]Footnotes:AN ATTRACTIVE LOW COUNTRIES ILLLUMINATED BOOK OF HOURS IN AN ELABORATE EARLY BINDING.TEXT: f. 1 blank; ff. 2-7 Calendar; 8-11 Hours of the Cross; 12-15v Hours of the Holy Spirit; 15v-20v Gospel readings; 21 blank; 22-86 Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary (22-42v Matins; 43-54v Lauds; 55-59v Prime; 60-64 Terce; 64v-68v Sext; 69-73 Nones; 73v-81 Vespers; 81v-86 Compline); 86v blank; 87-100 Seven Penitential Psalms; 100v-108 Litany; 109-164v Office of the Dead; 165 Miserere Mei; 166 The Seven Joys of the Virgin; 168 Prayer in a later hand. ILLUMINATIONS: 12 initials (KL) in liquid gold, red and blue colour at the beginning of each month of the calendar; 13 large illuminations, f.8 The Crucifixion; 12 Pentecost; 22 The Annunciation; 43 The Visitation; 55 The Nativity; 60 The Shepherds; 64v The Adoration of the Magi; 69 The Presentation in the Temple; 73v The Massacre of the Innocents; 81v The Flight into Egypt; 87 Christ in Majesty before the Last Judgement, 109 A Funeral; 156 Souls carried to Heaven by Angels.The illuminations are in the characteristic style of Bruges of the mid fifteenth century. Several can be ascribed to a group of artists known as the 'Masters of the Gold Scrolls', as testified by many stylistic elements especially with regards to the backgrounds of the illuminations that are distinctive of this group of artists. For example, the golden scrolls over red backgrounds in the representation of the Nativity (f. 55) and in that of Christ in Majesty (f. 87) are strikingly similar to those found in other Books of Hours ascribed to the Masters of the Golden Scrolls, such as MS Laud Misc. 204 (f. 23v St Barbara) and MS Harley 2982 (f. 59v Christ in Majesty), today at the Bodleian Library and British Library respectively. In the representations of the Pentecost and Annunciation (ff. 12 and 21) we find instead chequered backgrounds of liquid gold and colours that are also typical of Flemish and French illuminations of this period (see for example MS Harley 2897, f. 340v St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, and MS Stowe 21, f. 57 Nativity). The binding is signed by Ludovicus Bloc, a prolific and well known Bruges binder documented in the city between c.1484-1529. There are other surviving manuscripts with very similar bindings, such as Beinecke MS 663 (Book of Hours, use of Tournai), Walters Ms. W.428 (Book of Hours) and Cambridge University Library MS Nn.4.1 (Benedictional of Robert de Clercq). Collation: A7 (of 8, A8 lacking ?cancelled, no loss of text), B8, C6, D-E8, F5 (of 6, F1 cancelled), G8, H4, I-N8, O6, P-R8, S6 (of 8, S4 and S6 cancelled), T-V8, W6 (of 8, W3 and W5 cancelled).Provenance: An early Brugean provenance is denoted by the signed blind-tooled binding by Louis Bloc (d.1519). The Hours belonged to Jehan de Cerf (d.24 September 1554, aged 69), who served as echevin of the Liberty of Bruges. He gifted the manuscript to his eldest daughter Mary (by his first wife Judove van Schoore) on January 11th 1525. Mary then married John Spronehoff and left the book to their son, Philip. The flyleaves contain several notes about the family of De Cerf, which had settled in French Flanders as early as the fourteenth century, and about that of Spronehoff; Hugh Selbourne M.D., his sale, Bonhams, 25 March 2015, lot 23.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

GREGORY IX, POPE[Decretales cum glossa. Comm: Bernardus Parmensis. Add: Hieronymus Clarius], 384 leaves (of 386, lacking a1 & BB8, the opening and final leaves), double-column, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red and black, 4 leaves of table bound at the beginning, fore-margins of table, opening fol.2-6, and final 11 leaves extended (just touching letters to a couple of pages), old burn-hole to L1-M3 resulting to loss in several lines of text (supplied in manuscript facsimile), note of purchase on first leaf in an early English hand 'emi p[ro] duob[us] s[oldis]', ink annotations in an early hand to several margins, a manuscript vellum leaf pasted inside the lower cover with recipes for the colic and the stone, and copies of documents (see footnote) written in several English hands, manuscript title in nineteenth century hand pasted to initial blank, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, sides with outer border composed of dog and boar stamp, central panel filled with diapers, containing small rosettes and a lozenge-shaped tool of a flower, rebacked in calf with red morocco gilt label, lacking clasps, corners worn [ISTC ig00470000; BMC II 436; Goff G470; HC 8030*], folio (345 x 235mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 March 1493Footnotes:The binding is decorated with four tools, comprising: rectangular, 6 x 10mm., hound pursuing boar; lozenge-shaped, 26 x 20mm., flower; lozenge-shaped, 20 x 15mm., rose between four fleurs-de-lys; round, 7mm., rosette. These are not traced, and together with the early provenance, suggest that the binding may be from an unrecorded workshop.Provenance: Vellum leaf pasted inside the lower cover with recipes for the colic and the stone, and copies of documents relating to the parish of Hanwell and to the monastery of St. Mary at Wroxton in the Diocese of Lincoln dated between 1491 and 1528, all written in early English hands; Sir John Cope, 6th baronet (1673-1749), of Hanwell Castle, bookplate; George Dunn (1865-1912) of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, bookplate and pencil notes including acquisition in December 1902 and price-code; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1917, lot 3212; Sotheby's, 28 May 1992, lot 24.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 PRESSSAVONAROLA (GIROLAMO) Epistola de contemptu mundi, LIMITED TO 156 COPIES, this one of 150 on paper, edited by Charles Fairfax Murray, printed in red and black in Chaucer type, wood-engraved illustration on title-page by W. H. Hooper after Charles Fairfax Murray, first leaf of text with full border and initial by William Morris, uncut in original holland-backed boards, grease mark and scuff to front cover [Peterson A31, Related Materials (k); Sparling 31], 8vo, 'Guglielmo Morris alla Stamperia Kelmscott', 30 November 1894Footnotes:One of only 156 copies privately printed at the Kelmscott Press, this being one of the 150 on paper. 'This little book was printed for C. Fairfax Murray, the owner of the manuscript, and was not for sale in the ordinary way. The colophon is in Italian, and the printer's mark is in red' (Sparling). None of the 156 copies appear to have been offered at auction since 2013.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

JUSTINIAN IInstitutiones Imperiales, gothic letter, printed in red and black throughout, 2 columns with gloss, woodcut device and woodblock border on title, 2 woodcuts (one double-page, slightly shaved at foot), dark stain to 5 leaves of preliminary matter (including one woodcut), occasional other light soiling or marginal stains, tear touching letters repaired to fol. 124, extensive sixteenth century marginalia in a neat hand throughout, eighteenth century polished calf, g.e., rebacked to match [Adams J618], 4to, Paris, Udalricus Gering & Bertholdus Rembolt, 5 December, 1505--CUJAS (JACQUES) Paratitla in libros IX Codicis Justiniani repetitae praelectionis, early blind- and gilt-stamped calf, fragment of early manuscript used as binder's waste at end, rebacked with some loss to spine, varnished, 8vo, Paris, Sebastian Nivelle, 1579--GRATIANUS. Decretum [-Sextus liber Decretalium], 2 vol., with the gloss of Joannes Andreae, printed in red and black, woodcut device on titles, corner of title repaired to first volume, old repair to margin of 4 leaves (with loss of signature on cc1) in second volume, non-uniform morocco antique, first volume edges speckled in red, small folio, Paris, [Hugo a Porta and Antonio Vincent], 1559--JUSTINIAN I. Volumen complectitur Novellas constitutiones Justiniani principis post repetitam Codicis prælectionem editas, 3 parts in 1 vol., printed in red and black, printer's device on title, occasional mostly marginal light damp-stains, heavier on pp.337-8 of first part, early calf, lacks covers, small folio, Paris, Hugo a Porta, 1557 (5)Footnotes:Provenance: First, Robert Wythe, early ownership inscription on title, seemingly in the same hand as the numerous marginal annotations. A possible candidate is Robert Wythe, of Droitwich, c.1523-86), a lawyer who represented Droitwich from its enfranchisement in 1554 to the end of the 1563 Parliament.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

PIUS VPontificale Romanum ad omnes Pontificias ceremonias, printer's device on title and at end, full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion, numerous small woodcuts throughout, printed in red and black, small repairs to title and to first and last 2 leaves, C8 upper corner defective with loss of text, contemporary calf blind-stamped with several concentric rolls, upper cover with initials 'F.M.E' and date '1573', rebacked, clasps missing, a little worn, folio (370 x 270mm.), Venice, Giunta, 1572--Missale ad sacrosancte Romane ecclesie usum cum variis additamentis, title within ornate woodcut border with printer's device, printed in red and black throughout, numerous woodcuts (one full-page) throughout, some manuscript inscriptions, lacking C3, C4 supplied in manuscript on vellum leaf with illuminated historiated initial with God the Father, upper and side margins trimmed, minor soiling and spotting, rebacked, hinges softened, new endpapers, worn [USTC 145429; Weale & Bohatta 1049], folio (310 x 220mm.), [Paris], Thielman Kerver and Wolfgang Hopyl, 1521--Breviarium Romanum, ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, printed in red and black, woodcuts and woodcut initials throughout (some full-page), first blank repaired at external margin and with extensive early manuscript inscriptions, modern calf, new endpapers [Bohatta 306], 4to, Venice, Giunta, 1574; and 2 others, sixteenth century theology (5)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Ochsenhausen Abbey, Baden-Würtenberg, Germany, stamp on title; Second work, 'Philippus Probus Possesor', inscription above printer's device on 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

TRAVEL JOURNALS – OPIUM WAR, SOUTH AFRICA AND EUROPEGroup of five manuscript travel journals, first half nineteenth century, comprising:i) Journal of a European tour, taking in the field of Waterloo ('...to see the monuments which are erected to different officers who fell, I saw the names of several poor fellows whom I knew by sight and a few whom I had been acquainted with... got out with a guide to the oak tree on the side of the road called Wellington's tree... purchased a piece of this tree from a boy who cut it off with a chisel...'), Paris, Geneva, Milan ('...the amphitheatre built by Buonaparte, a wonderful piece of work...') and Turin, 68pp, original vellum with cloth ties, 4to (202 x 150mm.), June to August 1818. ii) The 'Private Diary' of Foster Brooke of HMS Druid written during the Opium Wars, sailing from Plymouth Sound to Sydney, Australia ('...a wonderful place considering the short time it has been in existence – only 50 years...'), and on to China ('...three hundred Chinese soldiers had marched into Macao... some preparing at a small village called Cow-loon...'), reporting on the death of the commander Lord Henry John Spencer-Churchill ('...congestion of the brain... There is not his equal in the service... The ship is painted all black...'), and describing encounters with the Chinese, two pencil illustrations and one of Chinese fire junks in coloured crayon, 80pp, half calf, marbled boards, worn, 4to (228 x 180mm.), 24 August 1839 to 11 September 1840.iii) Journal of a Mediterranean tour to the Holy Land and Egypt, written by Richard Brooke on RYS Circassian, travelling via Spain, Malta, Corfu, Greece, Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus and Italy, illustrated with some 30 watercolours and pencil drawings, and 25 prints, mostly tipped in, bookplate of Richard Brooke, c.200 pages, half calf, marbled boards, worn, spine detached, 4to (235 x 187mm.), 11 October 1845 to 30 June 1846.iv) Journal describing the route from Rustenburg to Victoria Falls, March 1873, including annotated line maps, inscribed on front cover 'Given to me by the Hon Guy Dawnay, 1876' with press cutting stuck in reporting Dawnay's fatal mauling by a wounded buffalo in 1889, c.60 pages, original paper wrappers, 8vo (212 x 132mm.), March 1873.v) Journal of a shooting expedition in South Africa led by L.P. Dubois ('...the dogs went after it... & found them fighting with an enormous iguana...'), with list of game shot pinned onto front endpaper, c.60 leaves, dark blue calf, 8vo (177 x 112mm.), 26 October 1876 to 15 April 1878; together with a manuscript cookery book, 136 numbered pages, half calf marbled boards, worn, 8vo (184 x 115mm.), late nineteenth/early twentieth century (6)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

[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie [edited by J. Badius], 212 leaves, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red and black, double-column, manuscript note pasted to upper pastedown, manuscript notations in an early hand on title and occasionally throughout, manuscript notes in a later hand to final blank, opening 7 leaves loose, occasional light mostly marginal damp-stains, small tear to margin of ⟨⁊⟩6 repaired with tape not affecting text, later calf over wooden boards, retaining sixteenth century blindstamped side panels, worn, rebacked, lacks bosses and clasps [ESTC S103845; Beale T403], folio (360 x 260mm.), [Paris, Andre Brocard, 28 May 1501]Footnotes:The Canon law of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, as collected and abridged in 1433 by William Lyndewood (1375-1446), with his explanatory gloss, and here edited by Josse Badius. 'Though no English bookseller is mentioned in the imprint ... [this item is] clearly intended for sale in England' (ESTC).Although the collection was first printed in Oxford, between 1470 and 1480, this is the first complete edition of the work, including text, gloss, and supplement, published in Paris in 1501.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 - AUSTRALIAN VICTORIA CROSSFinely presented manuscript testimonial of gratitude given to Capt. William John Symons, V.C. 'from the Citizens of Brunswick... [for] fighting with your Australian Comrades throughout all those dark and terrible days and nights against tremendous odds on the Gallipoli Peninsula', made by Arnhall & Jackson of Melbourne, manuscript bi-folium, left side with an oval gelatin silver photo portrait of Symons surrounded by depictions of his Victoria Cross (recto and verso) and 'The Flags for Liberty' above the manuscript address of gratitude and printed text of the Official Despatch citing the action for which Symons was awarded the V.C., the facing page continuing the address (in black and purple ink) with printed text of John Sandes' poem 'Landing in the Dawn', and the signatures of the Mayor of Brunswick and eleven other councillors and officials, both sheets with hand-painted decorative borders featuring Golden Wattle, the Australian symbol of remembrance; also of flowers, foliage, the Union Jack and Australian flag, etc., the covers in full brown morocco elaborately decorated with brown, red, black, green, tan and white morocco inlays and gilt tooling, the upper cover with all over strap design centred on a central dedication panel ('To Capt. William J. Symons, V.C...') beneath Australian Blue and Red Ensign flags accompanied by a kangaroo and ostrich, lower cover with the 'Colours of the 60th Infantry, A.F.', red linen 'bookmark' gilt lettered 'Capt. W.J. Symons V.C. For Valour' with gilt tassels at end (detached) loosely inserted, folio (450 x 340mm.), Brunswick, 13 May 1916Footnotes:FINELY BOUND MANUSCRIPT TESTIMONIAL PRESENTED TO AUSTRALIAN VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENT CAPTAIN WILLIAM JOHN SYMONS BY THE CITIZENS OF BRUNSWICK. 'We are proud of you, and know that you have richly earned this high distinction by your cool self-possession, courage, resource and high resolve in your hand-to-hand encounter with the Turks, who are born fighters... We shall never forget the occasion which won for you the Victoria Cross, when you and your gallant little band of Australian Heroes were sent out on what appeared to be a forlorn hope...'.Captain W.J. Symons (1889-1948) was born at Eaglehawk (where there is a memorial to him). He later lived and worked at Brunswick, Melbourne prior to serving for eight years in the militia (5th and 60th battalions). At the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, landing with his battalion at Gallipoli on 25 April. 'About 5 a.m. on 9 August the Turks made a series of determined attacks on Jacob's Trench at Lone Pine where six Australian officers were killed or severely wounded. Learning that the position had been overrun, Lieutenant-Colonel Harold 'Pompey' Elliott ordered Symons to retake the trench. 'I don't expect to see you again', he said, 'but we must not lose that post' (A. Staunton, Australian Dictionary of Biography). Symons led the counter attack at Lone Pine, Gallipoli for which, together with six of his Australians comrades, he was awarded the Victoria Cross in recognition of his 'conspicuous gallantry'.Having received his V.C. from King George V at Buckingham Palace on 4 December Symons returned to Brunswick to a heroes' welcome. This magnificently presented testimonial was presented to him at a lavish 'welcome home' banquet hosted by Lieutenant Governor Sir John Madden held in May 1916. A copy of an original photograph (retained by the vendor) of the banquet is included in the lot. His medal group is displayed at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.Provenance: Captain W.J. Symons, V.C.; by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARMENIAAWETIKEAN (GABRIEL) and others. Nor bargirk haykazean lezoui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language], 2 vol., text in Armenian, half-titles, volume 2 lacks pp.1-2, 9-10,1055-1056, 1059, and most of 1063-1066 (all provided in manuscript facsimile), final leaf 1067 defective, approximately 20 leaves strengthened/repaired at margins, and half-title and title laid down, early half morocco, worn [Nersessian 504], Venice, St. Lazzaro, 1836-1837--TCHOBANIAN (ARCHAG) La Roserie d'Armenie, vol. 2 and 3 (of 3), LIMITED TO 505 AND 500 COPIES, illustrations (mostly photographic) in text, pencil ownership inscription of Frederic Feydit (1908-1993, Professor of Armenian Studies), modern half calf, one joint weakened, Paris, Leroux, 1923-1929, folio--SOTHEBY & CO. Twenty-three Important Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts, plates (some colour), publisher's boards, upper spine torn, Sotheby's, 14 March 1967--ADONTZ (NIOLAS) Histoire d'Aremenie, Paris, 1946--THOROSSIAN (H.) Histoire de la litterature Armenienne, Paris, [1951]; Histoire de l'Armenie et du peuple Armenian, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FREDERIC FEYDIT, Paris, 1957--PASDERMADJIAN (H.) Histoire de l'Armenie. Deuxieme edition revue, Paris, 1964, modern cloth, some with original wrappers bound in, 8vo and 4to; and 3 others, Armenian interest including a bound volume of approximately English 15 pamphlets and papers relating to 'The Armenian Question', c.1916-1943 (12)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

MISSAL, USE OF ROMEMissale ad sacrosanctum Romane ecclesie usum, printed in red and black, large device on title and final leaf, woodcut illustrations and large initials, lacks one leaf (fol. 161), 3 or 4 single wormholes to opening leaves, nineteenth century vellum gilt, metal clasps and straps, g.e., soiled [Bohatta & Weale 1105], Paris, Thielman Kerver, 1548--Breviarium secundum veram et integralem praeclaris Ecclesiae Parisiensis consuetudinem, vol. 2 only (of 2), printed in red and black, woodcut device on title, manuscript musical notation on blank endpaper, modern vellum [Bohatta 2523], Paris, widow of Tielman Kerver, 1544 [colophon dated 1545]--Breve totius theologicæ veritatis compendium, lacks 3 leaves (fol. 79 & 80, and final leaf, ?blank), contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, spine restored, lacks clasps and straps [not in Adams], Paris, V. Gaulterot, 1549--Pragmatica sanctio, title printed in red and black with large printer's device, lacks 7 leaves (fol. 106-112), title repaired with small abrasions, occasional damp-stains, worm trail to lower margin of opening leaves (just touching letters on a few), modern morocco, gilt lettered on spine, worn with small loss to head of spine, Paris, Jean Barbier for Jehan Petit, [December 1514], 8vo; and 3 others, incomplete sixteenth century (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

GILL (ERIC) AND JOSEPH CRIBBCribb family archive of original artwork (sculpture and watercolour), manuscripts, and prints by or relating to Joseph Cribb, Eric Gill and his daughters, collected by Joseph Cribb, comprising:CRIBB (JOSEPH) The Crucifixion, with 2 kneeling figures (?Mary and St. John/Joseph), a Dominican monk beside flowering lilies, and a Franciscan monk beside a leopard, STONEWARE RELIEF SCULPTURE PAINTED IN COLOURS, a 'hand and cross' symbol etched on the reverse, 100 x 185 x 24mm., undated CRIBB (JOSEPH) S. Gertrude, pen and watercolour of Gertrude seated reading St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, SIGNED WITH INITIALS AND DATED ('H.J.C. 1930') on image, mounted, framed and glazed, 1930GILL (ERIC) The King Enamoured of Anne, woodcut, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 320 x 195mm., SIGNED ('Eric G., 1//10') on the image, [1937]GILL (ERIC) The Woman of Samaria, woodcut, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 130 x 230mm., SIGNED ('Eric G., 6/10') on the image, [1931]GILL (ERIC) Madonna and Child, wood-engraving, mounted, framed and glazed, sheet to view 108 x 68mm., SIGNED with initials ('E.G.') and worn inscription beneath image, [1922]GILL (ERIC) Our Lady of Lourdes, woodcut, printed in black, red, green and yellow, laid down and window-mounted, image to view 315 x 240mm., [1920][GILL (ERIC), after] Madonna and Child, glass painted in black, with image (enlarged from print above) scratched out, framed in lead, image 225 x 165mm., [after 1922]GILL FAMILY. 'The Apple Barn Club Magazine. No. 3 September', MANUSCRIPT with written and watercolour contributions by Gill's daughters Elizabeth, Petra and Joanna, on paper, 30 pages (6 blank) of lined paper including 5 full-page pencil and watercolour drawings, other smaller ones and decorations, one index leaf, one watercolour of a lion by 'Lucanus' (Elizabeth), loose in portfolio wrappers with full-page watercolour and title on upper cover, and watercolour of a bull's head on lower cover (both in an unidentified adult hand), with outer wrappers of grey paper with pen and ink pictorial title label on upper cover, approx. 265 x 240mm., September 1915GILL FAMILY. 'Farm, Field and Fireside Monthly... November [-December] 1918', 2 issues, MANUSCRIPT, with written and watercolour contributions by Gill's daughters Elizabeth, Petra and Joanna, each 12 pages of lined paper, with ink poems illustrated in pen and watercolours, stitched brown paper wrappers with decorative manuscript title and index in ink and colours, approx. 250 x 190mm., November-December 1918together with a small unsigned woodcut print by Gill of the Madonna and Child with Gallows, and 2 framed reproduction portraits of David Pepler and David Jones by Gill (small quantity)Footnotes:Joseph Cribb (1892-1967), 'Gill's first apprentice [since 1906], was still an essential part of workshop life at Ditchling... The overflow of workshop into family relationships... is especially obvious in the story of the close, even intermarried, Gills and Cribbs... Cribb in a sense was an extension of Gill' (Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill, 1989).The material in this archive, whether by Cribb, Gill or his daughters, all belongs to the period when Gill settled at Hopkins Crank, a house a few miles outside the village of Ditchling, Sussex between 1913 and 1924, where both men converted to Catholicism, and established the Guild of SS Joseph and Dominic. The religious subject matter of Cribb's sculpture of the Crucifixion and portrait of St. Gertrude, and Gill's engraving of the Madonna and Child are representative both their interests and wide range of working methods.Like the Bronte Sisters, Gill's three daughters, at this time home educated in a 'regime of self-sufficiency' (MacCarthy), produced a series of hand-made magazines, a charming combination of small poems and illustrations (churches, houses, flowers and landscapes). The first volume of The Apple Barn Magazine (April-June 1915) is held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles. We have been unable to trace other examples of Farm, Field, and Fireside.The collection was loaned for exhibition to the Ditchling museum between July 2017 and July 2021.Provenance: Herbert Joseph Cribb (1892-1967); by descent to the present owner.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MEGANDER (KASPAR)In epistolam Pauli ad ephesios commentarius: unà cum Joannis rhellicani epistola monitoria. Nunc recens in lucem aeditus, some light soiling and damp-staining (towards end), contemporary limp vellum, spine with title in ink and sewn with leather cords (one defective on inside), a section cut from a medieval manuscript leaf in Latin bound in as rear free endpaper, crinkled and soiled [USTC 658735], Basel, Heinrich Petri, [1534]--CLAUDIANUS (CLAUDIUS) Quotquot nostra hac tempestate extant opuscula, ad seriem subsequentem, a little worming at foot of first few gatherings (affecting some letters/words), later tree calf, rebacked [Adams C2079; USTC 181267], Paris, Simon de Colines, [colophon: May] 1530, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Provenance: Second work, Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham (1873-1946, civil servant and administrator, Diwan of Pudukkottai state 1934-1944); Richard and Magdalen Goffin, 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

AMBROSIUS, SAINTOpera [edited by Johann Amerbach, with additions by Johannes de Lapide], vol. 1 (of 3), EDITIO PRINCEPS, 305 leaves, 52 lines plus headline, gothic type, full-page woodcut of St Ambrose in his study on title, capital initials, paragraph marks, etc. supplied in red ink throughout, small wormhole to right margin of title page, and to upper margin of first few leaves occasionally touching the text, neat paper repair to lower right margin of title, fifteenth century manuscript pastedowns, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, sides panelled with 4 borders of repeated rosette and decorative tools, rebacked in pigskin, worn with some of calf to upper cover, lacks bosses and clasps, faded manuscript title on spine [ISTC ia00551000; BMC III 753; Goff A551; HC 896*], folio (310 x 210mm.), [Basel, Johann Amerbach, 1492]Footnotes:Provenance: St. Michael's Abbey, Bamberg (former Benedictine monastery), inscribed on title 'Ad Biblioteca Montii S. Mich[ael] Arch[angelus] O.S.B. [Ordo Sancti Benedicti] Bamberga' and on fol.2 'Montii S. Mich[ael] Archang[elus] Bamb[erg] O.S.B. [Ordo Sancti Benedicti]'.The manuscript leaves used as pastedowns were taken from a manuscript copy of the Liber ordinarius Hirsaugiensis, a monastic breviary, most probably already present in the Library of the Abbey in Bamberg when this volume was bound. For a similar manuscript of the same text, written in a very similar hand see the late fourteenth-/early-fifteenth century Codex 290 (183), today in the Oberösterreichischen Landesbibliothek in Linz. St. Michael's Abbey followed the Hirsau Reforms, which explains the reason they held copies of this version of the Liber ordinarius. The pastedown leaves also bear small manuscript notations and an inscription in a near contemporary, but different hand, reading 'anno millesimo quingentesimo primo' [1501].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

COOKERY & MEDICINE - IRELANDManuscript notebook bearing the ownership inscriptions 'Mrs Dorcas West/ Mrs Dorcas Price/ her book 1688/ Mrs Dorcas Price/ her book of Resets this year 17[0]...' and 'Madam Dorcas West/ her Booke Anno Domini 1681' on the front inside board, containing some 300 culinary and medicinal receipts, written in several hands, including 'For the scabb in sheep', 'The Princes Royalls cordiall water', 'To make Aquamerabilis', 'A plaster for ye worme' ('...nothing better for ye Wormes than to annoynt ye Childs navel and ye pitt of his stomack...'), 'Dockor Burgess his recept against ye Plague', 'for sore niples', 'A salve to heal any sore new or old', 'An excellent receipt against melancholy', 'A Cordiall Watter of Sir Walter Ralighleighs' ('...take a gallon of strawberrys & putt thme in a quarte of Aquivitae...'), 'The Salve of ye Red hill in Armenia', 'For ye Cancer' ('...This has cur'd 3 women of ye Cancer in their breasts that ye Author knows of...'), the culinary receipts reversed, 'To make red rose cakes', 'To make a cake Mrs Brices way', 'To make the cream of creames', 'To make white metheglin', 'To make very good sasages', 'To make an extraordnery great cake', 'To make a Chicken Pye for the winter', 'To boyle Plovers', 'My Lady Orrary's receipt to Pickell Melons', some attributed ('Lady Norton', 'Old Mrs Rider', 'sister Anne Wooleseley'), c.115 pages, additional 90 blank, dust-staining, marks, stains and small tears, edges frayed, some pages loose, some pages roughly excised, old repairs, original ruled calf, worn with loss, calf detached from front board and spine, 4to (198 x 150mm.), [late seventeenth/early eighteenth century]Footnotes:'MADAM DORCAS WEST/ HER BOOKE ANNO DOMINI 1681': AN IRISH RECEIPT BOOK WITH DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE.The owner of this receipt book can be identified as Dorcas Price, née West (c.1660-1741), wife of Major-General Nicholas Price (1665-1734) of Hollymount, Co. Down, Ireland. She was the fourth daughter of Captain Roger West of The Rock, Co. Wicklow. Major-General Price enjoyed a distinguished career in Charles I's army and became MP for Downpatrick 1692-3 and then Down 1695-1714. Through his mother's first marriage he was half-brother to The Lady Elizabeth Cromwell, who married the Rt Hon Edward Southwell MP, Principal Secretary of State for Ireland. He leased the Hollymount Demesne from 1695. Dorcas' mother-in-law Catherine Hamilton was the widow of Vere Essex Cromwell, 4th Earl of Ardglass and has passed down a medicinal remedy from her doctor included in our notebook ('receipt given to Katherine Countess of Ardglass Jan:27 1686'). The Prices held considerable tracts of land in County Down and the names of contributors to this book attest to their illustrious connections.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

HALE (THOMAS)An Account of Several New Inventions and Improvements now Necessary for England, in a Discourse by way of Letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to Building of our English Shipping, Planting of Oaken Timber in the Forrests, Apportioning of Taxes, the Conservacy of all our Royal Rivers, in Particular that of the Thames, the Surveys of the Thames, etc. Herewith is also published at large. The Proceedings relating to the Mill'd-Lead-sheathing ... Also a Treatise of Naval Philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty, 2 parts in 1 vol., [with additions], FIRST EDITION, imprimatur leaf, 2 folding tables and 2 additional folding broadsides bound in (see footnote), extensive early manuscript naval notes in margins of C5, E12 and F1, small burn hole to title, some worming at foot of initial gatherings (c.10 leaves with text affected, single hole through sections of first part), contemporary sheep, covers with blind rule borders and roll tool border to one side, slightly rubbed, slight chips to corners of spine [ESTC R28685; Goldsmith 2873; Keynes 39; Kress S747], 12mo, James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1691Footnotes:HALE'S PASSIONATE PLEA FOR THE UNIVERSAL INTRODUCTION OF MILLED LEAD ON SHIP'S BOTTOMS, WITH TWO RARE BROADSIDES BOUND IN:'That bringing on Boards above, and Paying the Plank with Stuff under a Mill'd-Lead-Sheathing, is Damageable...', 2pp., setting with last full line of text on p.1 ending 'elsewhere.' and the text signed 'Tho. Hale' on p.2, early manuscript note in one margin [ESTC R218189], folio, 'This paper, with some others, and the Book about the Mill'd lead... may be had at Mr Nelme's... and... Mr Basset's', October 1697.'An advertisement, shewing that all former objections against the milld-lead sheathing have been answered by the Navy-board themselves. And what's lately objected, is answered herein', 4pp. [ESTC R226291], folio, 'The said Book may be had at these Book-sellers Shops... At the Milld-Lead Sign in Aurange Street.. where Mr. Charles Hale lives, who undertakes the said Sheathing... sells his Solder for 6d. a-pound', May 1696.As is more usual, this also has bound in the two-sheet folding table headed 'A Survey of the Buildings and Encroachments on the River of Thames', printed recto only [ESTC R222173], folio, Navy-Office, R. Haddock [etc.], 30 October [16]84.Provenance: James Hustler of Acklam in Cleveland, bookplate dated 1730 on verso of 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

ARMENIADzaynk'agh Sharakan [Selected Hymns... Arranged According to the Armenian Church], text in Armenian, title printed in red and back with woodcut ornament, p.7 printed in red and black with large initial and ornament at head in the style of an Armenian manuscript, text in double columns with typographical border, gathering numerals in Armenian, pagination in Arabic and Armenian, 17 wood-engraved illustrations (one full-page) adapted by Grigor Marzvanetsi from illustrations made by Christoffel van Sichem for a 1666 Amsterdam edition of the Bible, decorative ornaments in the margins, small stains throughout, marginal ornaments shaved/cropped, small hole to body of text on 4 or 5 leaves, margin (mostly lower) repaired with old paper to approximately 60 leaves sometimes touching typographical border and small loss to text to approximately 11, old tear to text (some repaired with old paper) to approximately 6 leaves, 3 leaves loose, contemporary morocco gilt over exposed wooden boards, worn, hinges cracked (front free endpapers loose), 4to (240 x 180mm.), Constantinople/Istanbul, Karapet son of Mahdesi Astoudsatur, 1743Footnotes:Provenance: 6-line note in Armenian mentioning a deceased baker named Vardan, and asking God's mercy on the year 1254 (i.e.1805) on verso of the title; list of births (1909 to 1952) on loose front free endpaper, ink numeral '1053' 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

HAUCHINUS (JOANNES) AND MATTHIAS HOVIUSPastorale, ad usum romanum accomodatum, engraved vignette on title, one full-page engraved illustration, early blind-stamped vellum, upper cover stamped in gilt 'Aelsmaria. Anno 1616', soiled, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1607-[CHASTEIGNER DE LA ROCHEPOSAY (HENRI-LOUIS)] Nomenclator sanctae romanae ecclesiae cardinalium qui ab anno Christi Millesimo quippiam commentati sunt, later limp vellum, Toulouse, apud Domicum de la Case, 1614--Processionale ritibus Romanae ecclesiae accomodatum, woodcut ornament on title, 7 pages of manuscript music bound at end, with index added on lower free endpaper, contemporary calf gilt, red edges, Antwerp, ex Architypographia Plantiniana, 1774--Pontificale Romanum Clementis VIII, title with engraved vignette, woodcut printer's device on final leaf, title with signature excised from 2 places filled, nineteenth century green morocco gilt, rebacked preserving original spine, Antwerp, ex officina Plantiniana, 1627--Pontificale romanum summorum pontificum... a Benedicto XIV. Pont Max., parts 3 and 4 only bound in 1, engraved vignette on titles, engraved illustrations in the text, red morocco gilt, g.e., Rome, Vincent Guerrin, 1818, folio--Missale romanum, woodcut vignette on title, 10 full-page woodcut illustration, light soiling, remnants of tabs at some fore-margins, early calf, IHS with Crucifix within heart shaped tooled in gilt on covers, rebacked to match, worn, 8vo, Paris, apud Societatem Typographicam Librorum Officii Ecclesiastici, 1603, all but the second mentioned printed in red and black, some spotting or light soiling; and 23 others, mostly theology of sixteenth and seventeenth century (29)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 cum pleno apparatu summariorum concordantiarum, gothic letter, title printed in red and black with device, lacks f.343, A3 and final leaf defective with some loss of text, other marginal repairs, tear mended to Z8, a few wormholes at end, some staining, early inscriptions on title, a few margins and final leaf, eighteenth century calf, covers detached, spine detached, small folio, Paris, P. Pigouchet for J. Parvus, 26 April 1507--BELLARMINE (ROBERT) Explanatio in Psalmos, woodcut device on title, damp-stains, opening few leaves creased, nineteenth century provenance note pasted to title, early gilt-stamped calf, old vellum manuscript leaves used as binder's waste, worn with loss to head band and short tear to spine, hinges starting, 4to, Paris, Juxta exemplar Lugduni excussum, 1625--Breviarium monasticum ad useum sacri ordinis Cluniacensis juxta, woodcut vignette on title, contemporary French red morocco gilt, sides with 3-line fillet border enclosing large Cardinal's arms and corner-pieces, g.e., slightly rubbed, 8vo, Paris, F. Muguet and G. Martin, 1686--THEOPHYLACTUS, Archbishop of Ochrida. In omnes D. Pauli epistolas enarrationes, woodcut on title, large woodcut initial on Al, dampstaining at beginning and end, eighteenth century half calf, worn [Adams T603], 8vo, Cologne, E. Ceruicornus, 1532; and 2 others (6)Footnotes:Provenance: Second title, Henry Leslie (1580-1661), Bishop of Down and Connor from 1635 to 1661, and his son Robert Leslie (died 1672), Bishop of Dromore, Raphoe and finally of Clogher, ownership inscriptions on second leaf; Fourth title, Brescia seminary library (book label), and Rendell Harris Library (Selly Oak College, label and stamp 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

BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia cum concordantiis veteris et novi testamenti et sacrorum canonum, title printed in red and black within a wide historiated border, text printed in red and black, woodcuts and woodcut initials throughout, fragment of early manuscript tipped onto front free endpaper, some ink annotations to margins and title, small tear to upper margin of title and following leaf repaired, upper right corner of final 5 leaves repaired just touching a couple of letters, single wormholes to opening few leaves, occasional toning, a few marginal stains, later calf retaining contemporary blind-stamped boards, clasps missing, worn [USTC 145497, not in Adams or Darlow & Moule], large 4to (260 x 190mm.), [Lyon], [Joh. Moylin alias de Cambray for Etienne Gueynard alias Pinet], [24 March 1522]Footnotes:Provenance: Early manuscript inscriptions on verso of last leaf; 'De St Loup [...] De [...] 1702' and 'De St Loup de Cvades 1700', manuscript inscriptions on upper paste-down and first leaf of Genesis.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

JUSTINIAN IInstitutiones... libri IIII, 2 vol., gothic letter, printed in red and black, large devices on title, large woodcut of Justinian with his spiritual and temporal princes (repeated in volume 2), genealogical tables, some defects including the loss of one leaf (2Ci) in volume 1 and significant loss to A3 in volume 2, final leaf of volume 2 repaired affecting letters, large fragments of two fifteenth century manuscript leaves (in Latin) used as binder's waste retained and mounted on stubs, contemporary French blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, rebacked, wanting clasps, folio (410 x 285mm.), Lyon, [Thomas Bertheau] for Hugo & haered. Aemonia a Porta, 1542--Digestum novum pandectarum iuris civilis, vol. 3 only, large woodcut device on title, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, stamped 'E.M.H.' with date '1566' on upper cover centred on a a portrait of Lucretia with sword, the lower a female allegorical figure of 'Justice', lacks clasps, folio (345 x 230mm.), Paris, Merlin and Deshoys, 1566--[GREGORY III] Corpus juris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum. title printed in red and black, old vellum chapter tabs at fore-margins, small stain at fore-edge of title, a few single wormholes at end, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, lacks metal corner-pieces, soiled, 4to, Basel, Emanuels Konig & Sons, 1670 (4)Footnotes:Provenance: First title, Birmingham Law Society, 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

HAITI - ST. DOMINGUE, 1778 - MANUSCRIPT MAP'St. Domingue. Plan d'une partie de la côte du sud de Dominigue, contenant les Baies de St. Louis et de Mesle, levé par M. [Jean-Baptiste] Moreau ingeniéur...', manuscript on paper, in black ink with grey and blue wash, St. Louis ground plan and villages in red, a few small old repairs and marginal tears, 930 x 1130mm., signed by De Boisfôret, 'l'Ingeniéur en chef de St. Louis et de toute la partie du sud, en Mai 1778'Footnotes:Manuscript map centred on St. Louis, St. Dominigue [now Haiti] made by a French surveyor-engineer in 1778, the year before the storming of the Bastille and three years before the revolutionary uprisings led by Touissant Louverture in 1791, which resulted in independence in 1804, and the abolishment of the slave trade. Several charts by De Boisforet are held at the National Maritime Museum, London.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, SLAVONICBiblia sirech knigi vetkhago i novago saveta, title (within woodcut architectural border), part headings and tables printed in red and black, wood-engraved initials and tail-pieces, engraved arms of Konstantin Ostrozhkii on verso of title, Federov's device above colophon, list of books following preface supplied in manuscript facsimile, title-page faded, some damp-staining, spotting and browning throughout, numerous paper or gauze repairs, mostly in first and last sections and mainly in margins but sometimes affecting text, a few leaves slightly smaller and/or re-margined, early calf over wooden boards, restored and rebacked preserving portion of original spine, one metal clasp with leather strap renewed (the other defective, lacking hasp) [Darlow & Moule 8370, variant 'B'; Cyrillic Books 35], folio (294 x 185mm.), [Ostrog, Ivan Federov, 12 August], 1581Footnotes:THE 'OSTROG BIBLE': THE FIRST COMPLETE PRINTED BIBLE IN OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC - AND A KEY ELEMENT OF UKRANIAN IDENTITY.A landmark in the history of Bible production, the Ostrog Bible is named after the Ruthenian Prince Konstantin Ostrogski, who set up a press in Ostroh in modern-day Ukraine with the renowned printer Ivan Fyodorov. Its publication was essentially a political move by Konstantin, 'an ardent supporter, promoter and protector of the Eastern Orthodox Church... To help him fight for his cause' (Anna Vlasova,'The Ostrog Bible', London Library Blog, 13 August 2012). The first printed Cyrillic Bible, it was lavishly decorated with specially-designed headpieces and initials, and copies were sent all over Eastern and Southern Europe, including to Pope Gregory XIII and Ivan the Terrible, who gave a copy to the English ambassador Jerome Horsey. As a text it became a foundational cornerstone of Orthodox Christianity, and was of special importance in Ukraine and Belarus where Catholic pressures were strong. Some 350 copies are thought to survive, and it was not reprinted until 1663.The present copy is Darlow & Moule's variant B, with the colophon in Greek and Slavonic dated 12 August 1581. It has 627 of the 628 leaves, with the list of books neatly supplied in early manuscript, but is otherwise substantially complete.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

A ledger from HM Cutter Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht used by Edward VII and George V) with manuscript entries from 1904 -1910 the ledger with cloth boards and leather spine with leather corners34cmx22cmwear to boards

ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966)MATTA. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ. Percé [Québec], 14 août 1944, 3 pages in-4 à l'encre. Manuscrit de premier jet avec de nombreuses ratures et corrections écrit à Percé au Canada, consacré au peintre surréaliste Matta.' La perle est gâtée à mes yeux par sa valeur marchande qui fait métier de plonger à sa recherche, aussi bien dans l'art, se montre au jour de plus en plus débile, se ronge vite d'une toux sèche, je songe à l'attitude d'un Valery devant la vie, si fine en même temps que si avare toute frottée d'un petit rire nihiliste' ...' L'œuvre de Matta prête jusqu'à un certain point rétrograde à l'activité dite «paranoïaque-critique» qui ne permet d'appréhender que des aspects anecdotiques tout de silhouette et qu'on a vu de reste avec Dali, dégénérer en obsession de devinettes. Matta porte bien autrement loin la désintégration des aspects extérieurs, c'est que pour qui sait voir, tous ces aspects sont ouverts, constamment prêts à fusionner que dans cette fusion seule se forge une clé qui est le seul passe-partout de la vie'...Publié dans l'édition de 1965 du Surréalisme et la peinture. Ce texte est publié en préface du catalogue de l'exposition Matta à la galerie Drouin en 1947. MATTA. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED. Percé [Québec], 14 August 1944, 3 pp., ink on paper, 4to. First draft manuscript with numerous erasures and corrections written in Percé, Canada, about the surrealist painter Matta.'La perle est gâtée à mes yeux par sa valeur marchande qui fait métier de plonger à sa recherche, aussi bien dans l'art, se montre au jour de plus en plus débile, se ronge vite d'une toux sèche, je songe à l'attitude d'un Valery devant la vie, si fine en même temps que si avare toute frottée d'un petit rire nihiliste'...'L'œuvre de Matta prête jusqu'à un certain point rétrograde à l'activité dite « paranoïaque-critique » qui ne permet d'appréhender que des aspects anecdotiques tout de silhouette et qu'on a vu de reste avec Dali, dégénérer en obsession de devinettes. Matta porte bien autrement loin la désintégration des aspects extérieurs, c'est que pour qui sait voir, tous ces aspects sont ouverts, constamment prêts à fusionner que dans cette fusion seule se forge une clé qui est le seul passe-partout de la vie'...Published in the 1965 edition of Surréalisme et la peinture. This text was published as a preface to the catalogue of the Matta exhibition at the Drouin Gallery in 1947.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (1888-1978)BIENNALE 1950. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE. 6 pages in-4 à l'encre avec ratures et corrections. Texte en italien très critique sur la Biennale de Venise en 1950. Chirico ridiculise l'exposition et son snobisme, il cite fréquemment le Douanier Rousseau dont il subit l'influence. Chirico termine son texte par « Basta » et raye sa signature autographe. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. 6pp., ink on paper, erasures and corrections, 4to.Very critical text in Italian on the Venice Biennale in 1950.Chirico ridicules the exhibition and its snobbery, he frequently quotes the Douanier Rousseau whose influence he was under. Chirico ends his text with 'Basta' and crosses out his autograph signature.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)9 APHORISMES. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE. 1 page in-4 à l'encre. '-Mon idéal m'empêche de voir les bonnes mœurs de la société-Le succès de l'insuccès est un succès-Ma peinture est une femme qui ne veut pas entendre parler de son mari pour faire l'Amour.-Maintenant avec cette façon de faire des tableaux, ce n'est que l'étiquette qui les rend importants'...9 APHORISMS, AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, 1pp., in ink, 4to.'-Mon idéal m'empêche de voir les bonnes mœurs de la société-Le succès de l'insuccès est un succès-Ma peinture est une femme qui ne veut pas entendre parler de son mari pour faire l'Amour.-Maintenant avec cette façon de faire des tableaux, ce n'est que l'étiquette qui les rend importants'...Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, FranceFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ANDRÉ BRETON (1896-1966)PROLÉGOMÈNES SUR MATTA. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ. 10 juillet 1947. 2 pages 1/2 à l'encre. Manuscrit de premier jet avec ratures et corrections consacré au peintre surréaliste chilien Matta....'C'est dans cette mesure que l'homme de Matta est comme aucun autre, celui d'aujourd'hui, bien qu'il ne soit pas impossible de lui découvrir une parenté d'allure ou de mœurs avec tels autres qui l'avaient précédé dans la vie glorieuse de l'autre guerre. Je pense aux « célibataires de Marcel Duchamp et à tels « bons hommes » de Jacques Vaché '......' Jamais œuvre plastique n'avait encore montré si clairement, et comme analytiquement, ces deux instincts aux prises. De ce fait elle ne laisse pas de présenter une certaine ambiguïté de lecture, avec ses personnages bottés de herses, cravatés d'arbalètes dont le visage (comme il fallait s'y attendre au sortir de ces temps « d'abris ») relève plutôt de la taupe que de l'homme et qui n'entretiennent pas moins un commerce lingual et génital dont la frénésie n'exclut pas l'extrême souci de précision'...Ce texte est publié en préface du catalogue de l'exposition Matta à la galerie Drouin en 1947.PROLÉGOMÈNES SUR MATTA. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED. 10 July 1947. 3pp., ink on paper.Manuscript draft with erasures and corrections, dedicated to the Chilean surrealist painter Matta....' C'est dans cette mesure que l'homme de Matta est comme aucun autre, celui d'aujourd'hui, bien qu'il ne soit pas impossible de lui découvrir une parenté d'allure ou de mœurs avec tels autres qui l'avaient précédé dans la vie glorieuse de l'autre guerre. Je pense aux « célibataires de Marcel Duchamp et à tels « bons hommes » de Jacques Vaché '......' Jamais œuvre plastique n'avait encore montré si clairement, et comme analytiquement, ces deux instincts aux prises. De ce fait elle ne laisse pas de présenter une certaine ambiguïté de lecture, avec ses personnages bottés de herses, cravatés d'arbalètes dont le visage (comme il fallait s'y attendre au sortir de ces temps « d'abris ») relève plutôt de la taupe que de l'homme et qui n'entretiennent pas moins un commerce lingual et génital dont la frénésie n'exclut pas l'extrême souci de précision'...This text was published as a preface to the catalogue of the Matta exhibition at the Drouin Gallery in 1947.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

RENÉ CHAR (1907-1988)MILLE PLANCHES DE SALUT [PICASSO]. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ, 1939-1969, 3 pages in-4 à l'encre. Magnifique texte de René Char consacré à Picasso. 'L'œuvre de Picasso consciemment ou involontairement prévoyante à se dresser pour l'esprit, bien avant qu'il existât cette terreur, une contre-terreur dont nous devons nous saisir et dont nous devons user au mieux des situations infernales au sein desquelles nous serons bientôt plongés. Face au pouvoir totalitaire, Picasso est le maître charpentier de mille planches de salut' ...'1969 trente ans ! Picasso a depuis lors quitté plusieurs planètes après les avoir épuisées et réchauffées à ras bord. C'est le désir contre le pouvoir, désir qui toujours prévaut et prévaudra chez ce meurtrier admirable car il porte conjoints la fureur et l'amour... '...'Appelez Dieu ? Rien. Rappelez les dieux: ils viendront. Les libertins ne se sont pas assoupis'. Ce texte manuscrit fut édité comme préface à l'ouvrage 'Dessins de Picasso 27-3-66 I 15 I 3/68', publié aux Éditions Cercle d'Art. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED, 1939-1969, 3pp., ink on paper, 4to.Beautiful text by René Char dedicated to Picasso.'L'œuvre de Picasso consciemment ou involontairement prévoyante à se dresser pour l'esprit, bien avant qu'il existât cette terreur, une contre-terreur dont nous devons nous saisir et dont nous devons user au mieux des situations infernales au sein desquelles nous serons bientôt plongés. Face au pouvoir totalitaire, Picasso est le maître charpentier de mille planches de salut'...'1969 trente ans ! Picasso a depuis lors quitté plusieurs planètes après les avoir épuisées et réchauffées à ras bord. C'est le désir contre le pouvoir, désir qui toujours prévaut et prévaudra chez ce meurtrier admirable car il porte conjoints la fureur et l'amour... '...'Appelez Dieu ? Rien. Rappelez les dieux : ils viendront. Les libertins ne se sont pas assoupis'.This manuscript was published as a preface to the book Dessins de Picasso 27-3-66 I 15 I 3/68, published by Cercle d'Art.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARTHUR RIMBAUD (1854-1891)EXTRAIT DE COMPTES À Armand SAVOURÉ. MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉ. Harar 26 février 1889, 1 page in-8. Extrait de compte autographe et signé par Arthur Rimbaud adressé à l'un de ses partenaires commerciaux Armand Savouré. 'J'ai reçu d'Ato Tesamma pour le compte de Mr Savouré trois cent trente thalaris (330)Ce reçu annule les deux précédents. Harar ce 26 févier 1889 pour Mr Savouré. Rimbaud.' La signature calligraphiée d'Arthur Rimbaud couvre toute la page.EXTRAIT DE COMPTES À Armand SAVOURÉ. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED. Harar, 26 February 1889, 1pp., 8vo.Autograph and signed account statement by Arthur Rimbaud addressed to one of his business partners Armand Savouré.'J'ai reçu d'Ato Tesamma pour le compte de Mr Savouré trois cent trente thalaris (330)Ce reçu annule les deux précédents. Harar ce 26 févier 1889 pour Mr Savouré. Rimbaud.' The autograph signature of Arthur Rimbaud covers the whole page.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, France.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CLOVIS TROUILLE (1889-1975)LETTRE AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉE au Directeur de Action. Paris, 11 novembre 1944, 1 page in-4 à l'encre sur papier vergé teinté. Clovis Trouille demande un droit de réponse au journal Action relatif à une lettre publiée faussement signée de son nom. ... 'J'ai eu la désagréable surprise ce matin même, d'y trouver la publication de cette lettre d'un imposteur, en réponse à votre critique du Salon de Libération, je me permets de vous préciser que 1/ je garde toute mon estime à Monsieur Anatole Jakowsky dont j'admire la parfaite lucidité en matière de critique d'art. 2/ Je profite de cette occasion pour déclarer que son actuelle exposition à la galerie Le Dragon de «Paris à travers la carte postale» m'a enchantée'. L'on joint le brouillon autographe signé de la même lettre de Clovis Trouille adressée à Anatole Jakowsky 1 page in-4 à l'encre avec une note au verso. Il est joint: TROUILLE Clovis. DÉLIRES II ALCHIMIE DU VERBE [D'ARTHUR RIMBAUD] MANUSCRIT AUTOGRAPHE. 1 page in-4 à l'encre.Clovis Trouille a recopié pour Jakowsky- en partie- l'Alchimie du verbe d'Arthur Rimbaud publié dans Une Saison en enfer. AUTOGRAPH LETTER to the Director of Action, SIGNED. Paris, 11 November 1944, 1 pp., ink on tinted laid paper, 4to.Clovis Trouille requests a right of reply to the newspaper Action concerning a letter published falsely signed with his name.... 'J'ai eu la désagréable surprise ce matin même, d'y trouver la publication de cette lettre d'un imposteur, en réponse à votre critique du Salon de Libération, je me permets de vous préciser que 1/ je garde toute mon estime à Monsieur Anatole Jakowsky dont j'admire la parfaite lucidité en matière de critique d'art. 2/ Je profite de cette occasion pour déclarer que son actuelle exposition à la galerie Le Dragon de «Paris à travers la carte postale» m'a enchantée'. Included is the autograph draft of the same letter from Clovis Trouille to Anatole Jakowsky, 1pp.in ink with a note on the back, 4to.Together with TROUILLE Clovis. DELUSIONS II ALCHEMY OF THE WORD [OF ARTHUR RIMBAUD] AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. 1pp., ink on paper, 4to.Clovis Trouille copied for Jakowsky one part of the Alchimie du verbe by Arthur Rimbaud which was published in Une Saison en enfer.Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection particulière, FranceFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Set of six silver pierced buttons by Liberty 1900, cased, and a silver compass.Condition:Buttons and case in lovely condition, even has original manuscript sales label.  Compass Birmingham 1903 - Scratches on glasses, working, from a watch guard.  

An interesting collection of Victorian and later photograph and scrap albums, manuscript volumes, Parliamentary Bills regarding the Post Office's levies on mail, etc 1801/05/15/28/37, newspapers including 1803 Commercial Chronicle, The News April 1816 and Cleaves weekly Police Gazette 1836 (two editions), to/w a parchment 1824 Mortgage document and an 1892 Counterpart Lease on 9 Hobart Place, Eaton Square, London

Military history: three early 19th century handwritten manuscript volumes, The Journals of Charles Adolphus Marie de Peyron, Captain, 3rd Regiment, Bengal Cavalry - Vol I June 1801 to July 1804; Vol II July 12th 1804 to May 3rd 1807; Vol III commenced at sea (East India Company ship Waltahmstow) May 4th 1807 ended September 4th 1807, the most daily entries covering the 2nd Maratha War, inscriptions inside front covers reads 'I received this journal of my maternal grandfather ... from Sir Edward Colebrook Bart, MP in 1871, signed F. Burroughs Esq. (Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick William Burroughs) Rousay, Orkney', full calf (worn) folios to/with a quantity of associated letters (3)Provenance - de Peyron family thence by descent

17th century manuscript on paper in 19th century binding titled, 'Royal Revenue- Sir Robert Cotton 1642', 45cm pages in total, some losses and patching to periphery, 31 x 20cm

Harry Potter. David Bradley (Argus Filch) Signed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Front Page of Manuscript. Only Front Page PresentAll autographed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

A large 17th 18th cent vellum manuscript framed

CIPRIANO PICCOLPASSO; 'The Three Books of the Potter's Art', a facsimile of the manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, translated and introduced by Ronald Lightbown and Alan Caiger-Smith, published in two volumes by Solar Press, London, 1980, hardcovers with case (2).Condition Report: Very good.

Rare James Tennant mahogany cabinet of minerals, rocks and fossils, trade label applied to the interior of the door printed "Arranged and Sold by J. Tennant, Mineralogist By Appointment to Her Majesty, 149 Strand London", the case with hinged door opening to twelve drawers, the numbered specimens going up to 402, H53cm W37cm D 28cm, with the manuscript Catalogue by James Tennant December 1853The Mineral shop at 149 Strand opened in 1804 by John Mawes until he died in 1829 after which it was taken over by his wife Sarah, she was then bought out by her apprentice, James Tennant who then ran the shop until his death in 1881. James Tennant was elected a fellow of the Geological Society in 1838 and was appointed to lecture in mineralogy on the recommendation of Michael Faraday. In 1840 he became mineralogist by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and supervised the cutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond for the crown jewels.

Jersey.- Receipt book, manuscript in French, 143pp. excluding blanks, in several hands, receipts signed with many Jersey surnames, including: Aubin, Payn, le Bailly, Gallichan, Dumaresq etc., browned, disbound, 8vo, 1725-1880.

NO RESERVE Pedigree.- Shippard (William Henry) Fac Simile of a Pedigree of the Royal and Imperial House of Courtenay... drawn... by D.A. Thuret... to King Louis XVI... 1687, hand-coloured and pen and ink pedigree with manuscript captions, signed by Shippard, on paper, small tear at head and tail, 1000 x 680mm., 1838.

NO RESERVE Dutch ship at the Isle of Wight.- Retained copy of a late 17th century report concerning a dispute over a Dutch ship grounded on the Isle of Wight, manuscript, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, in light brown ink, folds, browned, folio, [c. 1690s]; with a typed transcription.