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A 19th century double-sided Persian or North Indian Islamic manuscript, nasta’liq script in black ink on paper written horizontally and diagonally, borders in gold ink, floral decoration, H.36cm W.25.5cm

Helmut Eisendle(1939 Graz - 2003 Wien)Ungeheure Frauen. 1988. Skizzenbuch und Manuskript mit 27 Aquarellen auf chamoisfarbenem Papier. Blattmaße je 30 x 24 cm. Signiert, datiert und ortsbezeichnet. Das Manuskript 1 Bl. typographisch beschriftet u. gefaltet. - Insgesamt etw. atelierspurig, sonst wohlerhalten. Österreichischer Schriftsteller und Psychologe und Mitglied d. "Grazer Autorenversammlung" u. Grazer "Forum Stadtpark". Er zählte zu d. avandgardistischen Schriftstellerszene d. Gegenwartliteratur und lebte in den 1980er Jahren in West-Berlin. Einsendle nahm mehrmals am "Steirischen Herbst" teil, einem Festival für zeitgenösssische Kunst. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit entstand in Einsendles Zeit in West-Berlin. Sketchbook and manuscript with 27 watercolours on buff paper. Signed, dated and locally inscribed. Manuscript 1 sheet typographic inscribed a. folded. - Overall a little studio-tracky, all in all well preserved.

Charles Walter Berry Bound original typed manuscripts and one printed book from the library of their author, with each containing his bookplate: "Ghost Stories" manuscript dated 1925; "An Arthurian Reverie" a printed book dated 1939; "The Green-Eyed Monster" a play manuscript dated 1925; 7 manuscript volumes from a series of "Birthplaces of the Illustrious" dated 1933 - 1 vol "Wales", 3 vols "Scotland", 3 vols from "England" series.'

Ninety-two original photographs of the British Army in India during WW1 including march from Kathgodam to Military HQ at Raniket believed taken by one of the troops, various sizes, each with manuscript details verso

Garzòn, José A. The return of Francesch Vicent. The history of the birth and expansion of modern chess. Translated by Mauel Pérez Carballo. 4°. Valencia, Generalitat Valenciana und Fundació Jaume Il el Just, 2005. Mit Abbildungen und Diagrammen. XIII, 495 Seiten. 1 Bl. Orig. illustr. Pappband. (31) * Aus dem Inhalt: The history of modern chess in the light of what the manuscript treatises reveal – and conreal. The history of chess that was denied to us: Francesch Vicent’s second treatise … The proofs of the Spanish (Valencian) origin of modern chess. Francesch Vicent, the man. Zustand: Druck auf getöntem und farbigen Papier. Einband wenig berieben und bestoßen.

Grondijs, Harrie. Maréchal de Saxe’s favourite position by Chapais and others. Edited by Rieneke van Zutphen. Rijswijkse Uitgeverij Eigen Beheer (RUEB), 2010. 8°. Mit wenigen Textabb. und vielen Diagrammen. 207 Seiten, 1 gefaltetes Bl. Beilage liegt lose bei. Original geheftet mit Schutzumschlag. (59) * Nr. 22 von 30 Exemplaren, mit der Unterschrift des Autors. „This book is a gathering of articles and excerpts from books by Polerio, Montigny, Koch, Shastree, Mouret, Labourdonnais, Silberschmidt, Lange and other on the subject of the pike alley theme, carefully grouped around … of a chapter in the Chapais manuscript devoted to he most legendary general oft he 18th century…“ (Einleitung)

Monté, Peter J. The Classical Era of Modern Chess. Jefferson, McFarland, ca. 2014. 4°. Mit wenigen Textabb. und vielen Diagrammen. XXII, 594 Seiten. Originaler schwarzer Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Drucktitel auf Vorderdeckel und Rücken. (59) * Aus dem Inhalt: Lucena. Göttingen Manuscript. Damiano. Ruy López. Urbinate Manuscript. Printed works of the López – complex. Polerio’s Leon Manuscript. Horatio Gianutio. Alessandro Salvio. Pietro Carrera. Gioacchino Greco. The pawn’s leap. From the king’s leap to castling. Openings and games of the classical era of modern chess. Zustand: Einband mit geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

Monté, Peter J. The Classical Era of Modern Chess. Jefferson, McFarland, ca. 2014. 4°. Mit wenigen Textabb. und vielen Diagrammen. XXII, 594 Seiten. Originaler schwarzer Leinenband mit goldgeprägtem Drucktitel auf Vorderdeckel und Rücken. (44) * Aus dem Inhalt: Lucena. Göttingen Manuscript. Damiano. Ruy López. Urbinate Manuscript. Printed works of the López – complex. Polerio’s Leon Manuscript. Horatio Gianutio. Alessandro Salvio. Pietro Carrera. Gioacchino Greco. The pawn’s leap. From the king’s leap to castling. Openings and games of the classical era of modern chess. Zustand: Einband mit geringen Gebrauchsspuren.

Il dilettevole, e givdizioso givoco de scacchi. Manoscritto inedito del XVIII secolo. Unpublished manuscript of XVIIIth century. Italian and English edition by Alessandro Sanvito and Kenneth Whyld.. 2 Bände (Faksimile und Textband). Mailand, Sylvestre Bonnard, ca. 1998. 8°. Mit einigen Diagrammen. 144 Seiten bzw. Bll. Faksimiles, 1 Bl.; 292 Seiten, 2 Bll. Originale Pappbände. Im Pappschuber. (31) * Nr. 9 von 749 Exemplaren. Faksimile des Manuskriptes W789IM F35d der Cleveland Public Library. Zustand: Schuber wenig bestoßen.

Caesar (Gaius Julius) Les Commentaires..., engraved additional pictorial title, title vignette, folding map and double-page plate, some browning, contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, rebacked preserving old gilt spine, Paris, A.Courbe, 1650 § Arrianus (L. Flavius) Les Guerres d'Alexandre, translated by Nicolas Perrot, engraved title-vignette and folding map (detached), contemporary ink manuscript notes to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rubbed, some worming, spine ends worn, Paris, A.Courbe, 1651 § Suetonius Tranquillus (Gaius) Opera, 2 vol., titles in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title and plates, 2 folding, contemporary vellum, a little rubbed and soiled, upper covers slightly warped, Utrecht, F.Halma, 1690 § Sallustius Crispus (C.) [Opera], engraved pictorial title, nineteenth century red morocco with gilt fillet border, gilt gauffred edges, spine very slightly faded, a few minor marks, Leiden, Elzevier, 1634; and 2 others, similar, v.s. (8)

NO RESERVE Guernsey.- Carteret (Amice de, Jerseyman, Jurat of Jersey's Royal Court and later Bailiff and Lieut-Governor of Guernsey, 1559-1631) & others.- Ordonnances relating to tithes levied in Guernsey, manuscript in French, 1½pp. with conjugate blank, Guernsey, 1616; and 2 others 17th century documents including another relating to Guernsey, folio et infra (3).

Irish Prisoners in the Savoy Prison.- Guy (Henry, politician, bap. 1631, d. 1711) Letter signed to the Treasury asking for a warrant for payment "for Subsisting the Irish Prisoners in the Savoy", manuscript, 1p., right margin edges chipped slightly affecting text, folds, slightly browned, 223 x 190mm., 30th November 1691.

Dering (Heneage, Dean of Ripon and Latin poet, 1665-1750).- Ordination of Heneage Dering as deacon, D.s. "Jo Ebor", printed form with manuscript insertions, large blind stamp seal of the Archbishop of York, folds, slightly browned, 225 x 133mm., 9th February 1700.⁂ John Sharp (1645?-1714), Archbishop of York.

Building Blenheim Palace.- Boulter (William, Joint Comptroller of Works on Blenheim Palace, d. 1708).- Invoice for freight on cordage and grindstones, manuscript, 1p., 2 small tears in left margin, folds, browned, 200 x 159mm., November 1707.⁂ Queen Anne gifted the old royal park of Woodstock to the Duke of Marlborough in grateful thanks for his victories in Europe. The palace foundation stone was laid in 1705. The architect was Vanburgh, a playwright, and the cost of the project quickly spiralled out of control. Sarah, the duchess who disliked Vanburgh brought in William Boulter to try and control the project, and this receipt for £2: 05: 2 shows Boulter settling it.

Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury and historian, 1643-1715) Cut signature signed "Gi Sarum" as Bishop of Salisbury, manuscript, 79 x 117mm., 25th February 1709; and a ?copy letter from Burnet referring to the Earl of Monmouth's soldiers in Salisbury in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, both laid in on card, v.s., v.d.

Medicine.- Astruc (Jean) De fistula ani, manuscript copy of Latin text, title and 42 numbered pp., a few small stains, contemporary carta rustica wrappers, titled in ink on upper wrapper, lightly soiled, 8vo, Montpellier, 1718.⁂ Astruc was professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, and wrote the first major treatise on venereal diseases. Provenance: Dr. Girolamo Spina (ink stamps to inner front wrapper). *** the description of this lot has changed. *** 

Bottling Bath Water.- Receipt made out to Hon Mrs Harvey "for filling 4 doz & a half red bottles", manuscript, 1p., folds, browned, 157 x 200mm., 28th May 1748.

Library catalogue.- Nota de' libri, manuscript short title catalogue, single sheet, folded into 4, full sheet 284 x 196mm., filled on both sides, lightly browned, [Italy], [c.1750]; and 3 sections cut from 17th or 18th century sheets of Tarot cards, v.s. (4)

18 century Bootmaker's advertisement in the form of a banknote.- Bell Bank Bewdley. Promise to pay Mr Bell or Bearer on Demand the Sum of Three Pence, engraved advertisement with manuscript insertions, slightly creased and browned, edges chipped, 117 x 212mm., 6th October 1792.

Dogs.- Extrait histoire du chien analise botanique force d'amour anecdote, manuscript in French, 156pp., 1f. small piece of lower margin torn away, slightly browned, contemporary wrappers made from a printed republican document, soiled and worn, sm. 8vo, [c. 1800].

Shakespeare (William).- Original Portrait of Shakespeare by an Italian artist, in the possession of Mr. Rawdon Brown at Venice April 27 1851..., oval pencil drawing, on wove paper, ink manuscript title along left margin, manuscript watercolour text under portrait reading:"Scoti Lanza [shake spear] dramer ingli [English playwright] London 21 luglio [July] 1604", 360 x 293mm., 1851.⁂ Manuscript note: "Original Portrait of Shakespeare by an Italian artist, in the possession of Mr Rawdon Brown at Venice April 27 1851 height 29 ½ greatest width 22 ¼ inches this drawing has preserved the likeness & character of the picture admirably. The writing is a facsimile that on the back of the portrait apparently written by the painter." This copy portrait bears a strong resemblance to the Droushout portrait. The original oil painting is now owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a pencil copy similar to the above is in the National Archive showing that there were at least two pencil drawings taken.Rawdon Brown (1806-83), historian and antiquary.

Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph cheque signed "Charles Dickens" paid to "Mr Nash" for the sum of "Eight pounds, Nine shillings, and Tenpence"drawn on Messrs Coutts & Co, receipt stamp of National Provincial Bank, 1 page, printed with manuscript insertions and crossed, folds, 2 very small holes, paper border, 94 x 187mm., London, 8th October 1868.

NO RESERVE Medicine.- Isle of Wight.- The President and Governors of The Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest on the Separate Principle. Register of Documents sealed with the Common Seal, 2 vol., minutes in manuscript and typescript, several tipped or pasted in, original morocco and roan, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, c.1877-1930.⁂ Minutes for the Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest was in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.

Cambridge University.- Porson Prizewinner 1893.- Moule (Henry William, of Corpus Christi College, missionary in China, Vicar of Damerham, Wiltshire, 1871-1953) [Volume of Greek and Latin poetry translated from various writers], manuscript in Greek, Latin and English, in several hands, 120pp., a few poetry exercises loosely inserted, slightly browned, original cloth-backed wrappers, slightly soiled, edges creased, 4to, [Cambridge], Corpus Christi College, 1891; and a small quantity of others, including another manuscript notebook, ALs.s. from his brother Arthur Christopher Moule, correspondence on Elzevir's Greek New Testament of 1624, 3 booksellers catalogues, printed letter from Adam Sedgwick (Woodwardian Professor of Geology, 1785-1873) to HCG Moule on his reminiscences of Henry Kirke White etc., v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).⁂ Writers including: Richard Shilleto, Longfellow, A.C. Swinburn etc.

NO RESERVE Thielen (Benedict) Dinosaur Tracks, first edition, jacket and fore-edge spotted, 1937 § Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Mitsou, or the Education of Young Women, translated by Raymond Postgate, publisher's copy with typed and manuscript letters loosely inserted, 1957 § Warner (Rex) Greeks and Trojans, first edition, illustrations by Edward Bawden, 1951, original cloth, dust-jackets, light bumping and creasing to extremities; and c.50 others, literature, v.s. (c.55)

Flaxman (John), After. Album of 48 tracings after original drawings by Flaxman, with manuscript half-title page that reads 'A Selection/ from Flaxman's Designs/ from Hesiod', with further later title in the same hand that reads 'Designs omitted/ in the Iliad, Odyssey, & Aeschylus', pencil on tracing paper, each bearing a number and with inscription below, neatly presented on album leaves with Whatman watermarks and indistinct date but probably '1833', various sizes, some scattered spotting and minor handling creases, 19th century calf with marbled boards, spine gilt and inscribed 'Flaxman', corners bumped, spine splitting at head and foot, slightly worn, folio, [1833 or earlier]Provenance:David Twopeny, StockburyEdward Twopeny [inscription to front pastedown]

NO RESERVE Blake (William) Visions of the Daughters of Albion, one of 446 copies, 9 facsimile colour plates, some light scattered spotting, original morocco-backed boards, spine faded, original slip-case (lightly scuffed), Trianon Press, 1959 § Byron (Lord) Poems, one of 260 copies on hand-made paper, endpapers very lightly browned, original half-vellum, lightly discoloured and marked, t.e.g., others uncut, The Florence Press, 1923 § Gibbon (Monk) The Branch of Hawthorn Tree, presentation inscription from the author, with an additional later inscription and unpublished manuscript poem from the author to front free endpaper, bookplate to pastedwn, the Grayhound Press, 1927; and c.75 others, private press, pamphlets, and bibliography, including duplicates of James Fenton's Children in Exile by the Salamander Press, v.s. (c.80)

French agricultural architecture.- Petit (Armand, architect) Projet de Ferme, 5 original architectural designs, including a general plan of the farm, pen and ink over pencil with watercolour on Whatman wove paper, one sheet with watermark date '1838', each sheet signed by the architect, manuscript captions and accompanying text, title loose, some light foxing and browning, original cloth, extremities and joints worn, Seine-et-Oise, folio, 1849.

Games & Puzzles.- Grimm (Georg) Neuestes Spielbuch..., manuscript notes to rear free endpapers, some light foxing, contemporary boards, Leipzig, 1840 § Academie Universelle des Jeux contenant les Regles de tous les Jeux, 2 vol. in 1, half-title, contemporary calf, spine ends worn, joints split, Paris, Theodore le Gras, 1743 § [Soumille (B.L.)] Le Grand Trictrac..., half-title, woodcuts of backgammon boards, contemporary paste-paper boards, rebacked in calf, Paris, de Hansy, 1790 § Blismon de Douai. Les Mille et Un Amusemens de Société, 4 parts in 1, hand-coloured woodcut of maze as frontispiece, woodcut illustrations, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt, lacking label and defective at head, split to upper joint, Paris, [c.1850], rubbed; and 4 others, French, on games and puzzles, 8vo et infra (8)⁂ The first concerns card games.

***Please note, the description of this lot has changed.Evelyn (John) Sculptura; or, the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper, second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, plate and folding mezzotint plate by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera, light offsetting, marginal water-staining to folding plate, bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson with his manuscript note of acquisition "Quaritch Sep 30th 1885" and presentation label from his widow, later diced calf, gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, for J. Payne, 1755.*** Originally published in 1662 this was the first book in English to describe the process of mezzotint engraving and to include a mezzotint print, 'The Executioner' by Prince Rupert of the Rhine after Ribera. Mezzotint was invented by Ludwig von Siegen in the 1640s and the process was developed and brought to England by Prince Rupert, whom Evelyn credited with the invention. This edition includes 'The Little Executioner', a copy of Rupert's version; itself a reduced version of the head in Rupert's masterpiece, the much larger 'Great Executioner' of 1658.

China.- Tchang (Mathias) Synchronismes Chinois, title foxed, C.R.Boxer's copy with his signature to front free endpaper, contemporary half cloth, Shanghai, 1905 § Needham (Joseph) & others. Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China, original cloth, Cambridge, 1960; Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West, original cloth, dust-jacket, Cambridge, 1970 § Giles (Herbert A.) Chinese Poetry in English Verse, first edition, presentation copy from the author with initialled manuscript note tipped in, contemporary roan, spine worn, London & Shanghai, 1898, some plates or illustrations, the first and last rubbed; and c.40 others on China and Chinese literature, v.s. (c.45)

ERASMUS (DESIDERIUS)Moriae encomium nunc postremum ab ipso autore religiose recognitum, una cum aliis aliquot libellis, first three pages within woodcut borders (the first signed 'IF', i.e. Jakob Faber), woodcut initials, large woodcut printer's device on final verso, light dampstaining to lower margin of opening 30 leaves, slightly heavier dampstain to approximately 20 leaves at end, contemporary Flemish panel-stamped calf, the sides each with small panels of animals/birds and frieze of dogs and a porcupine surrounded by legends ('O[mn]ias si perdas/fama[m] savare memento/qua semel/amissa nul]la revisio erit'; 'De profundis/clamavi ad te domine/domine/exaudi vocem meam', rebacked using a seventeenth century manuscript on vellum, old paper spine label, pastedowns made of a fourteenth century manuscript of Comester's 'Historia scholastica', vellum waste visible at hinges, joints slightly weakened [Adams E396; USTC 676454], 8vo, Basle, [Froben], [July], 1522Footnotes:Early edition of Erasmus's Praise of Folly in a contemporary Flemish panel-stamped binding, using binder's waste of a fourteenth century manuscript on vellum pastedowns. This edition includes the commentary attributed to Gerhard Lister, Erasmus's supplementary Epistola apologetica ad Martinum Dorpium, Seneca's satire on the Emperor Claudius, and Synesius of Cyrene's praise of baldness. The binding is illustrated in Janet E. Scinto, 'The Panel Stamp in Early Modern Bindings', Library Quarterly, vol. 85, no. 1, University of Chicago, 2015.Provenance: Franciscan monastic inscription dated 1638 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

SMITH (PHILIP)MILTON (JOHN) Complete Poetry & Selected Prose... edited by E.H.Visiak, bound by Philip Smith in turquoise crushed morocco, front cover with a blind-tooled floral pattern emanating from a vase-shaped ivory leather onlay, the rear cover tooled in blind to the same design, gilt dots on covers and on blind-tooled and gilt lettered spine, binder's monogram stamp dated 1952 on rear turn-in, spine slightly darkened, cloth slipcase, Nonesuch Press, 1952--Pair of blank books titled 'Homes' and 'Homo sapiens' on spine, bound in black and brown half morocco respectively, the sides with gilt stars at edges and main panels showing a house in a whirlpool and a silhouette of a male figure seen from behind, morocco turn-ins with dots and stars, decorated endpapers, top and fore-edges with drawings of houses and figures, manuscript binder's notes tipped-in at end of first volume, housed in single box with pull-off lid and leather label stamped '698', small 4to (173 x 139mm.), [n.d.] (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SMITH (PHILIP)D'ARBELOFF (NATALIA) For a Song, LIMITED TO 15 COPIES, this being one of 4 copies in black and brown inks on Rives d'Arches, inscribed in pencil 'This is No. 2/ N. d'Arbeloff/ (Bound by Philip Smith'), 7 etchings in brown and black, the poems etched in white on grey background, bound by Philip Smith in brown goatskin (signed and dated 2002 at rear), sides with pressed relief design of onlaid maril and emulsified maril, open spine with triple red goatskin yokes, the title stamped in central darker red yoke, housed in purple felt pouch, small 4to (168 x 170mm.), NdA Press, 1980--[SMITH (PHILIP)] A Book of Visual and Verbal Contemplations, manuscript in ink, comprising marbled paper leaves inscribed with quotations in the binder's hand, original sculpted brown goatskin with continuous landscape in relief, brown felt pouch, 16mo (108 x 71mm.), [after 1988] (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Smith (Philip)A Book of Colour and Sayings, with a Credo. P.S., manuscript in black ink interspersed with brightly-coloured marbled paper leaves, Maker's Notes tipped-in at rear, bound in dark green morocco covered with onlays and maril showing figures in relief, exposed spine with triple green morocco yokes; Non-Duality, As It Is. As seen by 'Philip Smith', printed text interleaved with marbled papers, turquoise morocco with maril onlays showing figures in high relief, triple yoke open spine, 'written out in this form at Yatton Keynell, February 2007', each in chamois leather pouch; Time and Colour with a Credo, 1996; Time and Colour with 'Consciouseness'. A Credo of 1998, manuscripts in black ink interspersed with marbled paper leaves, Maker's Notes at rear, bound in black morocco with small onlaid fragments of metal, exposed multi-coloured spines with double yokes, preserved in purple and green felt pouches, square 32mo (c.80 x 90mm.) (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ELY (TIMOTHY C.)Missing Diagrams, ORIGINAL ARTIST'S MANUSCRIPT BOOK, 14 hand-made pink paper leaves, illustrated throughout in ink and mixed media with multi-coloured imaginary maps and charts, indecipherable hieroglyphics, 'cribriform' glyphs, diagrams, symbols and graphs, mathematical formulae, notations and other imagery, signed in pencil by the artist on the title-page, original two-tone pigskin decorated with diagrams and symbols, each cover with central sunken textured panel containing painted particles of soil from Philip Smith's garden and 3 large raised squares with onlaid symbolic shapes, hand-painted endpapers and fly-leaves, housed in linen tray with hand-painted illustration and illustrated cloth slipcase, large 4to (322 x 300mm.), 1989Footnotes:Timothy C. Ely (born 9 February 1949), American painter, graphic artist and master bookbinder, is renowned for creating and binding unique artist's books as multi-sensory objects. Often, as here, they are annotated with his own 'cribriform' glyphs.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

ELY (TIMOTHY C.)The Flight into Egypt. The Third Magnitude, ORIGINAL ARTIST'S MANUSCRIPT BOOK, 20 hand-made paper leaves, illustrated in watercolour and mixed media throughout with Egyptian scenes and images, imaginary maps and charts, indecipherable hieroglyphics, 'cribriform' glyphs, diagrams, symbols and graphs, mathematical formulae, notations and other imagery, signed dated in pencil by the artist on the title-page, original sheep-backed rough textured boards, decorated with onlaid pyramid, figure of Anubis, and other geometrical symbols and objects, fore-edges untrimmed, top and bottom edges marbled, orange painted endpapers, housed in original decorative cloth solander box with wood-effect internal panels, title label on spine, folio (428 x 309mm.), 2009Footnotes:'Probably my best ever work' (Timothy Ely), this volume specially made for Philip Smith.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

PLATH (SYLVIA)Uncollected Poems, 9 copies, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, THESE COPIES SPECIALLY INSCRIBED AND LETTERED BY TED HUGHES ('Ted Hughes, Feb. 1966. D [or other letter] of 13 copies) inside upper cover, facsimile of the manuscript of 'Half-Moon' (i.e. 'Thalidomide') printed on pink paper, publisher's stiff wrappers, dust-jacket printed with a drawing of 'Wuthering Heights' by Plath on the upper cover, a couple with a few light spots [cf. Tabor A6], 8vo, Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]--HUGHES (TED) Animal Poems, 4 copies, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, 2 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'Ted Hughes, 25th Sept. 1971' on the front free endpaper, ink smudge on one page of one of the signed copies, contents loose in original printed salmon-pink textured wrappers [Sagar/Tabor A13], small 4to, [Crediton, Richard Gilbertson, 1967]; and a copy of Plath's The Magic Mirror, Embers Handpress, 1989, THIS COPY SIGNED BY TED HUGHES (14)Footnotes:Nine copies from thirteen special 'lettered' copies (from 'D' to ''L') signed by Ted Hughes of Plath's Uncollected Poem. There is no mention of these copies in Stephen Tabor's Plath bibliography. According to the blurb these twelve poems in the collection 'represent an intermediate stage in Sylvia Plath's development as a poet... [a] connecting link between the poems to be found in the The Colossus... and those in her posthumous volume, Ariel'. Hughes's Animal Poems were published in a an edition of 100 copies, but the Sagar/Tabor bibliography suggests that some of the proposed edition were never printed.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

GARDENS - FRANCEFive original bird's-eye view designs for grand public gardens in the Swiss, German, English styles, for locations near Mantes, Seine et Oise (2), and in the region of Louviers, Eure (3), pen, ink and watercolour on paper, mounted on backing paper with manuscript captions, the images c.405 x 540mm., sheet size c.475 x 625mm., [France, late nineteenth century] (5)Footnotes:A series of late nineteenth or early twentieth century design proposals for parks, including two of a 'Jardin Anglais' in locations near Mantes-la-Jolie, Seine et Oise, and parks designed in the 'Genre allemand', 'Genre suisse' and 'anglais' styles for locations near Louviers, Eure. Decoratively presented, they illustrate pathways leading from a central house or park building to lakes, flowerbeds, stables and covered seating areas.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)General Election 1950. Woodford Parliamentary Division (Comprising Chigwell Urban District and the Borough of Wanstead & Woodford)... Election Address, 4-page pamphlet, printed portrait after a photograph by Vivienne, Churchill's facsimile signature at end dated 1 February 1950, creasing and rubbing, 248 x 187mm., Woodford, Frederick J. Mummery, Snaresbrook House, 1950--Ceremonial to be Observed at the Funeral of the Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill... 30th January 1965, small folio, 2 copies; The Order of Service for the Funeral... at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in the City of London, 8vo, stapled in matching original printed wrappers with wide purple blocked border, HMSO, 1965; State Funeral... The Earl Marshall Has it in Command from The Queen to Invite Mr John L. Hunt M.P. [name supplied in manuscript] to be Present at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul..., printed invitation to Churchill's funeral, 1 page, on foolscap mourning paper, slight creasing, [1965] (5)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

DRINKWATER (JOHN)HARDY (THOMAS) Photographic postcard of a plaster bust of Hardy depicted in profile, inscribed in ink on the image ('To John Drinkwater:/ Thomas Hardy'), postcard 122 x 85mm.; with the remaining papers from the collection of John Drinkwater, including the unfinished manuscript for English Poetry written in two manuscript notebooks both with ownership inscriptions ('The Property of John Drinkwater/North Hall/Mortimer Crescent...'), with chapters on 'The Nature and Function of Poetry', 'Poetry and Prose', 'Elizabethan Lyric', 'Poetry and Narrative' etc., with annotations and corrections by the author, written on verso only, 120 numbered leaves in two volumes, 4to (225 x 170mm.); two manuscript notebooks with ownership inscriptions ('The Property of John Drinkwater...'), the first volume entitled 'Being the Third Book of an Autobiography/ by/ John Drinkwater' (unfinished), written on verso only, 67 numbered leaves, folio (322 x 200mm.); drawings including sketch by Edwin Lutyens of two horses signed and inscribed to Ann Penelope Drinkwater, January [19]37, tipped into a menu inscribed 'Penny Darling/ At this dinner I got Sir Edwin Lutyens to/ draw a special little drawing for you. Daddy.' and miniature watercolour painting by Abigail Brown Tompkins; various typed notes and essays by Drinkwater; pamphlets and privately printed material, several with John Drinkwater's ownership inscription; collection of printed menus some annotated, including menu for 'Dinner of Welcome for the Indian Cricket Team', 27 April 1939 signed by various English captains and the All India cricket team such as C.B. Fry, Douglas Jardine, Syed Wazir Ali and others; quantity of theatre programmes, many for Drinkwater's own productions including Bird in Hand, A Man's House and his translation of Mussolini's Napoleon: The Hundred Days; other printed ephemera and personal papers including passports, driving licence etc., family indentures, press cuttings, and much else, early 20th century (quantity)Footnotes:'BEING THE THIRD BOOK OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY': the manuscript for the third volume of Drinkwater's autobiography intended to accompany the two volumes already published, Inheritance of 1931 and Discovery of 1932. Dated 'Begun Pepys House/ August 2nd 1933/ J.D.', it tantalisingly stops mid-sentence ('...I realised anew how good a poet Blunden is himself. Vita Sackville West...').The collection also includes Drinkwater's unfinished manuscript (dated '3.ix.35') for what was to be English Poetry: An Unfinished History, published posthumously by Methuen in 1938: 'When a Poet writes poetry he can scarcely fail to interest. And the author of this posthumous volume was not only a poet but no mean critic too. As a result, his approach to English Poetry is not a work of merely casual interest: it is illuminating. No one could fail to be enriched and delighted by its discriminating enthusiasms, its happy quotations, and the no less happy judgements, discoveries, definitions and phrases which it gives us... This premature ending is deeply regretted. But, fortunately for us, the first five chapters are devoted to general and personal observations, and are so full of references to the intervening and modern periods that we can genuinely claim to have here a fair impression of Drinkwater's view of the whole panorama of English Poetry' (routledge.com). Provenance: John Drinkwater (1882-1937); his daughter Penelope Ann and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARMS AND ARMOURMEYRICK (WILLIAM) An Illustrated Catalogue of Weapons and Detached Specimens of Armour, from the Collection of William Meyrick, Esq., FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, 120 ALBUMEN PRINTS (numbered 1-118, with 2 each for nos. 98 and 117, all numbered in ink on mount above image), accompanying printed leaf of text to plates 1-92 (with additions in ink to 9), the remainder with a leaf of descriptive text in manuscript, mounted one per page, cutting from Connoisseur Magazine relating pasted on front endpaper, contemporary red morocco gilt, original gilt lettering label on upper cover, g.e, rebacked preserving original spine (with modern gilt morocco lettering label), rubbed [not in Gernsheim], folio (360 x 265mm.), Joseph Clayton, 1861Footnotes:RARE CATALOGUE OF THE WILLIAM MEYRICK COLLECTION OF WEAPONS AND ARMOUR, ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS, WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. No copies traced as selling on Rare Book Hub, and only one copy listed on Worldcat. Presumably published in a limited number of copies, the author notes that he is 'indebted to a friend for having most kindly taken these photographs from specimens of weapons... I have obtained in the last fifteen or twenty years. In making this small collection, my object has been to procure such specimens only, as are really of good form, or of good workmanship...' (Introduction).Provenance: Leonard Brassey (1870-1958), 1st Baron Brassey of Apethorpe, armorial bookplate. Leonard's father Henry Arthur Brassey, M.P. purchased the Meyrick collection en bloc in about 1880, bequeathing it to his son on his death in 1891. Leonard subsequently consigned the collection for auction at Christie's, offered as Meyrick Arms and Armour being the Collection Formed about the Middle of the 19th Century by the late Dr. William Meyrick, February 21, 1922. Many of the items were purchased by Dr. Bashford Dean for the Metropolitan Museum, New York.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 II - PRISONER OF WAR DIARYAn archive of diaries, photographs, printed and manuscript ephemera, and medals relating to Naval Lieut.-Commander W.J.M. Ankers' five year internment in German prisoner of war camps, including four manuscript diaries (approximately 300pp., a few diagrams, contemporary limp fabric, small 4to), a photograph album (approximately 60 images), a small bundle of documents and letters (official and personal), and naval medals, [c.1940-1945] (collection)Footnotes:'INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED THAT YOUR HUSBAND... LIEUTENANT COMMANDER WILLIAM JOHN MUNRO ANKERS RNR IS A PRISONER OF WAR IN GERMANY CAMP IS OFLAG IX A': the telegram announcing the internment of Ankers, sent a week after confirmation that H.M.S. Vandyck, on which Ankers served, had been sunk. He was taken to Oflag IX at Spangenberg (30 May-11 March 1941), before transfer to Stalag 10.B (Marlag) Sandbostel (12 March 1941-15 Dec. 1942), and finally Marlag und Milag Nord (16 Dec. 1942-4 May 1945). Anker's entries are very full, with information on books read (Daphne du Maurier to Charles Darwin), food eaten ('blood sausage, potatoes'), fluctuating weight (May 1940 181lbs/13 stone, August 1943 151.5lbs/10 stone 80 pounds), films, plays and lectures seen ('Blithe Spirit. I thoroughly enjoyed it'; 'Talk on racing pigeons by Drummond'), etc. Several pages are stamped 'Stalag XB 27 gepruft', indicating the diaries had been read by the guards. The photographs include scenes aboard H.M.S. Vandyck (a British troop carrier sunk by Luftwaffe dive bombers off Andenes, near Harstad during the evacuation of the port, with the loss of seven men) and several of Sandborstal camp, including the groups of the ship's crew, the funeral of an airman, and a theatrical performance and barracks. Also included are the medals given to Ankers (1894-1970, born in Liverpool) for his service in both World Wars, and his discharge papers.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BLAKE (WILLIAM)Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience, 2 parts in 1 vol., WILLIAM MUIR'S PROOF COPY of the facsimile edition published for him by Quaritch, 54 lithographed plates each hand-coloured by Muir, several with trial tracings pasted in margins, Muir's manuscript notes, 2 autograph letters signed by Bernard Quaritch to Muir, Quaritch's 4-page 1888 prospectus for works by Blake and Muir, and other ephemera bound in, original front part wrappers with gilt titles in manuscript, and marked in pencil 'Mr Muir's Master Copy', bound into contemporary limp boards with blue paper spine and title label, preserved in cloth chemise and crushed blue half morocco slipcase with gilt panelled spine, 4to, 1885Footnotes:William Muir's 'master copy' of the hand-coloured facsimile of the Beckford copy, which was published in an edition of 100 by Quaritch, with associated material bound in.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

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSSWINBURNE (ALGERNON CHARLES) Lucretia Borgia: The Chronicle of Tebaldeo Tebaldei... Engravings by Reynolds Stone, NUMBER 14 OF 30 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with the additional facsimile of Swinburne's manuscript of the Treatise of Noble Morals, wood-engraved illustrations, original pigskin with gilt design on upper cover, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1942--QUENNELL (NANCY) A Lovers Progress. Seventeenth Century Lyrics, number 70 of 250 copies, title printed in gilt and black, initials in red throughout, original pigskin-backed yellow buckram, gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., folio, 1938--BROWNE (THOMAS) The Garden of Cyrus, limited to 115 copies, original holland-backed boards, slightly stained, 4to, 1923-- WHITFIELD (CHRISTOPHER) Together and Alone... with Engravings by John O'Connor, number 5 of 100 specially bound copies, signed by the author and artist, wood-engraved illustrations, original white morocco-backed boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, slight staining, 8vo, 1945--AESOP. The Fables... Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, number 201 of 350 copies, wood-engraved illustrations by Celia M. Fiennes, original buckram backed boards, 8vo, 1926, Golden Cockerel Press (5)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, MORRIS and BURNE-JONESMORRIS (WILLIAM) The Art and Craft of Printing: A Note...on his Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, limited to 210 copies, printed in red and black, illustrations, untrimmed in original holland-backed boards, slightly soiled, 8vo, New Rochelle, Elston Press, 1902--BURNE-JONES (EDWARD) The Beginning of the World. Twenty-Five Pictures..., edited by Georgina Burne-Jones, wood-engraved illustrations, publisher's green holland-backed boards, folio, Chiswick Press for Longmans, Green, 1902--MORRIS (MAY) William Morris. Artist Writer Socialist, 2 vol., portrait, fine and untrimmed in publisher's holland-backed boards, 8vo, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1936--MORRIS (WILLIAM) Under an Elm-Tree; or, Thoughts in the Country-Side, 16pp., unopened, stitched and unbound as issued, 16mo, Aberdeen, James Leatham, 1891; A Book of Verse, number 245 of 300 copies, facsimile of the illuminated manuscript, with separate pamphlet of 'Notes', original cloth gilt, housed in cloth solander box, 4to, Scholar Press, 1980--WALSDORF (JOHN J.) William Morris in Private Press and Limited Editions: A Descriptive Bibliography of Books by and about William Morris 1891-1981, illustrations, publisher's cloth-backed boards, slipcase, 8vo, Phoenix, Arizona, The Oryx Press, 1983; and 4 others (11)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

ARMS AND ARMOUR - BACHERAUAn album of photographs of arms and armour, and the lavish interiors of a showroom, relating to the great Parisian dealer Louis Bachereau, including samples of important pieces subsequently sold to Viscount Astor at Hever Castle, 2-page manuscript list of 34 items with prices headed 'Collection Bachereau' tipped-in at end, 88 mostly silver gelatin prints (285 x 385mm., and smaller), sheets working loose, early twentieth century half morocco, rebacked preserving original spine with later gilt morocco lettering label ('Bachereau Collection'), oblong folio (310 x 430mm.), [early twentieth century]Footnotes:A fine album of vintage photographs depicting important pieces of early arms and armour (and some other antiquities) sold by the great Parisian antiquary and dealer Louis Bachereau. These include items sold by him to Lord Astor, whose collection was dispersed by Sotheby's as 'The Hever Castle Collection', London, May 5, 1983. Pieces include the jewelled Nasrid helmet (now held by The Met, New York), and items from the Armoury of the Knights of St. John, Rhodes, many of which were sold by Bachereau to Dr. Bashford Dean at The Met.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEAR (EDWARD)Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 2 hand-coloured maps, 55 tinted lithographed plates, and illustrations in the text by Lear, tissue guards, albumen print photograph of Lear's grave loosely inserted, some spotting, early half morocco, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed, joints repaired [Abbey Travel 172], folio (370 x 260mm.), Thomas M'Lean, 1846; with a printed prospectus for Edward Lear's Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson. Dedicated to Lady Tennyson (1885), and a 2-page printed list of the 200 illustrations to be included in the work loosely inserted (4)Footnotes:Edward Lear lived in Rome from 1837 to 1848, apart from two visits to England during one of which he organised the publishing of Illustrated Excursions, based upon journeys he had made into the area around Rome and Naples. Lear notes in the preface 'I have executed the whole of the Lithographic drawings from my own sketches, and have endeavoured to preserve a close fidelity to the Originals'. 'Queen Victoria, one of the subscribers, was so impressed with the work that she invited Lear to give her a series of twelve drawing lessons' (ODNB). The first series is devoted to the Abruzzi provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, the second to the Papal States. Included with the lot is the rare prospectus for Lear's proposed Landscape Illustrations of Poems by Lord Tennyson and a printed list of the 200 illustrations for inclusion. The work was never published.Provenance: Richard William Church (1815-1890, Dean of St. Paul's), bookplate. Included with the lot is an autograph letter from Lear's biographer Vivian Noakes, mentioning that a member of the Church family was reported to own a manuscript journal of Lear's Greek tour.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

ARMS AND ARMOUR - RIGGSThree albums of photographs of armour and weapons formerly in the collection of William H. Riggs, 48 large gelatin silver prints (c.400 x 280mm., or smaller), mounted one per page (recto only, 8 with long description in manuscript) on stiff card, [early twentieth century]; together with an album of photographs of armour from the collections at Munich, Nuremburg, Milan, and Florence, 88 gelatin silver prints (some signed in the image by Alinari, most by anonymous photographers), mounted between 1 and 3 per page (recto and verso), a few pencil annotations in the margins, [early twentieth century], modern half morocco, gilt red lettering label ('Riggs Collection') on spines, folio (4)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

IRELAND - ARMY & MILITIAEstablishment book bearing the calligraphic title-page: 'Establishment of the kingdome of Ireland/ or a List containing all the Payments to be made for Civill & Military Affairs From the 25th day of March 1709 in the 8th Year of our Soveraigne/ Lady Queen Anne's Reign', listing officers and ministers attending the state, courts of the Queen's Bench and Chancery, officers of the customs, payments for regiments broken down into troops and companies, persons in charge of the ordnance for each province, governors of garrisons, pay of named officers in 'Brigadier Wolslys Regiment of Horse', 'Brigadier Echlins Drgoons', 'Earl of Droghedas Regimt of Foot', 'Brigadier Zachary Tiffins Regiment', etc., each section ending with a calligraphic signature page ('Signed/ Anne R'), additional illuminated calligraphic title page in black ink, gilt and red depicting trumpeting angels and lions holding the crown, pages ruled in red, with calligraphic flourishes incorporating foliage, beasts, birds and male and female heads throughout, 43 numbered leaves, one blank, some pages excised from front and back, dust-staining, Dutch gilt patterned endpapers, contemporary panelled calf gilt, g.e., rubbed, folio (385 x 260mm.), 1709; with a printed Dublin City Militia commission warrant, with manuscript insertions, appointing Isaac Wills a 2nd Lieutenant in John Woofington's company commanded by Colonel William Ormsby, signed at foot by Joshua Dawson ('J.Dawson') in his capacity as Secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland.and at head by 'Narcissus Armarh' as Lord Justice and others, tipped into front of volume, one page printed on a bifolium, two blindstamps, folio (330 x 210mm.), 14 April 1709Footnotes:This attractive volume includes a printed commission appointing one Isaac Wills to the Dublin City Militia, also known as the City Guards. Among the signatories to the document is Narcissus Armagh (aka Narcissus Marsh) who was appointed Primate of Armagh in 1703, and served as one of the Lords Justices, officers who acted as governors in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant (at this time Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton). Another signatory, Joshua Dawson, was a civil servant and politician, famous for using his inside knowledge to buy and develop land in Dublin and for building Dawson Street, considered at the time to be the finest street in the city. He was to become Chief Secretary for Ireland a year after this document was signed. Isaac Wills was a master carpenter and architect who worked in collaboration with surveyors general William Robinson and Thomas Burgh. The buildings include Robinson's Marsh's Library, and St Mary's church; and Burgh's anatomy house and library at Trinity College, St Werburgh's Church, Steevens's Hospital and St. Ann's in Dawson Street.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

PERCY (THOMAS)Autograph note signed with initials ('Th.P') on Alnham Castle in Northumberland ('...One of the old castles belonging to the Earls of Northumberland lying at the foot of the mountains was visited by me... I measured it with my cane which might be about 3 feet 6 or 8 inches... I think it is now corruptly called Yeldon...'), pasted down onto the inside front cover of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, vol. I, published by J. G. Fleischer, 1790, with identifying inscription beneath ('T.P. Bishop of Dromore') in another hand; accompanied by loose notes on 'The Old Ballad of Chevy-chase which is supposed to refer to the Battle of Piperdene', with the title 'Original Notes... by Sir Thomas Percy...' in a later hand, comprising fragments of printed text pasted onto a printed signature of pages 1-16 of the Reliques, with notes and annotations by Percy and others, c.200 x 135mm.; and a bifolium of further notes discussing how the Battle of Otterburn could not have been the inspiration for the ballad of Chevychase as is generally supposed, docketed in a later hand 'Memo on the Ballads copied from an unknown authority by Dr Thomas Percy' with another note in a different hand 'Query was the above written by Mr Murthwayte/ see acct. of the attainder of Tho. 7th Earl', 3 pages, creased at folds, 4to (224 x 185mm.), late eighteenth/nineteenth centuriesFootnotes:THOMAS PERCY ON THE ORGINS OF THE BALLAD OF CHEVY CHASE IN HIS RELIQUESWhilst researching a history of the Dukes of Northumberland in the 1760's, Percy came across a manuscript of ballads (the Percy Folio, British Library Additional MS. 27879), which became his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, first published in 1765, and generally considered a landmark in European literature. One of the ballads in the Reliques, the ballad of Chevy Chase, was believed to have originated from an older ballad, the Battle of Otterburn. The bifolium of notes accompanying our volume, purportedly written by Percy, reveal that Percy believed that the ballad of Chevy Chase could not possibly relate to the battle of Otterburn as was supposed: '...it can scarce be conceived that the poet could mistake the names of both the Kings, who then reigned in the 2 kingdoms... The Battle of Otterburn was a National Quarrell... & from the whole context of the Ballad it is evident that Chevychase was a private Quarrell between 2 noblemen living on the Borders of the 2 Kingdoms...' he writes. Whilst the hand bears some favourable comparisons to another letter by Percy (sold in these rooms 18 June 2014, lot 153), it is not conclusive, and an annotation beneath also raises some doubts. Other notes give another opinion, that Chevy Chase was 'supposed to be founded on the Battle of Pipperden', a resounding Scottish defeat of the English forces under the Earl of Northumberland. As chaplain and secretary to Lord Northumberland and tutor to his son, Percy had much opportunity to explore this history of the local area, as demonstrated by his note on Alnham Castle, and indeed wrote his own ballad poem on the Duke of Northumberlands' Warkworth Castle in 1771.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

WILLIAM OF ORANGE'The Life and Glorious Actions of William the Third, King of England &c. Wrote in 1726', manuscript in ink on laid paper, 66 pages (title, dedication to Carteret, pp.1-107), engraved portrait of William on front paste-down, upper fore-corner of title cut away and strengthened with fragment on an old list of expenses ('Sugar 0.0.4... Butter 0.2.3'), contemporary calf, rebacked in calf, 8vo, [?1726]Footnotes:A manuscript history of King William III, probably copied from the printed version of the same title published in Dublin in 1726. This, like our manuscript, has a dedication to Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1724 to 1730, which was not of course present in the version of the book which first appeared, under a different title, in 1702. The 1726 version is rare, ESTC (T219072) citing the National Library of Ireland copy only, perhaps offering a reason as to the necessity of transcribing a manuscript copy in the period of Protestant Ascendency in the early years of the Georgian period.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

BAYNE COLLECTION – LITERATURE, SCIENCE & THE ARTSCollection of over 100 autograph letters, postcards and cut signatures, assembled by author, journalist and editor Peter Bayne and his daughter Clotilda, including: writers such as Tennyson (correcting an assumption made by Bayne '...Lady Clare's first thoughts when she learns that she is not Lady Clare is for her lover... She is not calling her mother a beggar but herself...' with annotation by Bayne dated May 1890, and another note thanking him for '...your Days of Jezebel...'), Thomas Hardy (to Mrs Leslie Thomson thanking her for her letter, with autograph envelope), Matthew Arnold (two-page manuscript beginning 'From the poetry of Wordsworth we experience two prime effects...' titled in another hand 'Inscription', with printed proof, three letters and a note), William Bell Scott (manuscript poems 'The Falling Leaf', 'Left Alone' and 'Morning', signed, on a bifolium, with another letter on the sale of his house in Chelsea), Anthony Trollope (two, regarding the publication of Baynes' article on Cobden), George Bernard Shaw (typed letter, signed, praising Clotilda Marson's husband), John Masefield (postcard and proof sheets of several poems with letter from Constance Masefield), Edmund Gosse, Samuel Smiles, Austin Dobson, Elihu Burritt; various editors including Richard H. Hutton, editor of the Spectator (3), W.J. Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette, Sidney Lee (DNB), William Blackwood (Blackwood's Magazine); Michael Faraday (note 'with M Faradays Compliments'), Francis Darwin (son of Charles, refusing an invitation), psychiatrist George Henry Savage ('...I do not like the notion of secret remedies...'), physicians Hermann von Helmholtz and Sir Henry Thompson; artists Alma Tadema and Philip Burne-Jones (2), one regarding William Morris ('...when he was very vigorously working for the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings... he made a rule that he would never put a window into an ancient church...'); other figures including Sir Frederick Roberts (in the third person, on the pacification of India and justifying British rule ('...to transform rebels & dacoits into peaceable subjects of Her Majesty the Queen... It has been necessary to protect the villagers from their own people...'), Millicent Fawcett (2), Philippa Garrett Fawcett, Ray Strachey; various scholars, headmasters, bishops and clergy; with a small group of seven cut signatures, certificate granting Peter Bayne the Royal Victorian Order, Fourth Class, signed 'George R.I.' and 'Elizabeth R', May 1937, four French valentines (two cut paper, two printed on fabric), etc., usual dust staining and marks, many with remains of guard where previously attached to album leaf, 8vo and 4to, nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesFootnotes:The present collection was assembled by Peter Bayne (1830-1896), prolific Scottish journalist and author. Initially wishing to enter the church, respiratory problems made preaching impossible, so he turned to writing. He contributed to magazines such as the Edinburgh Magazine and succeeded Hugh Miller as editor of Witness and later the ill-fated Dial, which proved to be a massive financial failure. For a short time he edited the Weekly Review, the organ of the English Presbyterian Church, and for over twenty years was a regular writer for the Christian World. Through his collected essays he enjoyed some success in Scotland and America and, addition to this, he was the author of several works of English history under the pseudonym Ellis Brandt. His many essays in literary criticism put him in correspondence with the great literary figures of the day such as Browning, Carlyle and Ruskin, who were keen to correct his errors and praise his writing in equal measure, as the following lots demonstrate. After Bayne's death in 1896, the collection was inherited by his son Ronald (d.1922) whose widow, according to a note (a photocopy of which is included in this lot) passed it to his sister Clotilda Marson. When the letters were removed from the original album is not known but it has remained in the family until now.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROWNING (ROBERT)Autograph letter signed ('Robert Browning') to Peter Bayne ('Dear Sir'), expressing grateful thanks for his book on Elizabeth Barrett Browning and correcting a few errors of fact, that there '...was no 'father's parsonage': the father was the proprietor of considerable estates in Jamaica, and of 'Hope End' in Herefordshire – where the childhood in question was passed: he was simply a gentleman of no profession whatever...', that '...'The Sonnets' were only known to exist, and seen for the first time by the person to whom they were addressed, two or three years after the writer's marriage. The reticency came of some misunderstood remark which seemed to doubt the depth and sincerity of such feelings so exhibited in verse...' when '...the next morning the writer said 'Do you know, I once wrote some verses to you?' This was at the Bagni di Lucca, after the birth of her child, a few months before. The poems were only printed at my urgent entreaty...', going on to say '...'Aurora Leigh' was written amid interruptions from her child, at play or at work about the room: at a word from him, the book would be thrust under the chair-cushion. We were on our way to England when a box containing the whole m.s. - of which no duplicate had been made at that time - was lost at Marseilles: and only recovered after a week's search by a relative luckily staying there... all the author's concern during the journey being – to my great indignation – for certain 'embroidered collars' which were lost... without which – it was feared – the boy would cut a sorry figure in London...', ending by referring to Rhyme of the Duchess May and Bertha in the Lane ('...so complete was 'Love's self-abnegation' in the soul of the Lady you have been delighted to honor...') and assuring him of his gratitude, 3 pages on a bifolium, paper with 'Towood's Superfine' watermark, stationery blindstamped with crest, light dust staining on folds otherwise in clean, fresh condition, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), 19 Warwick Crescent, W., 10 March [18]81Footnotes:'AURORA LEIGH WAS WRITTEN AMID INTERRUPTIONS FROM HER CHILD, AT PLAY OR AT WORK ABOUT THE ROOM': Robert Browning on the origin of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnets, the difficulties of combining writing and motherhood and the near-loss of her manuscript.This revealing letter derives from the collection of the Scottish journalist and author Peter Bayne who wrote several volumes of criticism on the great writers of the day. In 1881 he published a work on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Two great Englishwomen: Mrs Browning & Charlotte Bronte, with an essay on poetry, illustrated from Wordsworth, Burns and Byron and, as was his wont, sent a copy to Robert Browning for his response.Browning is clearly delighted with the book but responds to correct some small matters of fact and to offer some personal memories of his late wife. He reveals how she kept the sonnets she had written during their courtship secret from him until 1849, a few months after the birth of their son Pen in March that year and 'two or three years after the writer's marriage'. After some marital disagreement, she revealed them to him the following day in order to clear up some 'misunderstood remark which seemed to doubt the depth and sincerity of such feelings so exhibited in verse'. Overwhelmed by their 'beauty and power', he writes, he was instrumental in bringing them to publication and they were published as Sonnets from the Portuguese in the two-volume Poems of 1850. Later in the letter he paints an evocative picture of family life and shows Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempting to continue her work but willingly putting it away to play with her much-loved child. Whilst he does not mention her by name, he depicts 'the writer', as he calls her, struggling to write her great novel-poem Aurora Leigh, itself partly an examination of the incompatibility of combining an artistic career with motherhood, with the distractions of a small child demanding (and it would seem getting) her attention: 'at a word from him, the book would be thrust under the chair-cushion'. What he also reveals is that the manuscript of Aurora Leigh was almost lost en route to London in July 1855, before it finally came to publication in the following November. To his 'great indignation', he writes fondly, she seemed unconcerned by the loss of the only copy of her manuscript and the furore surrounding its recovery, and was more worried that her beloved son should have the correct embroidered collars which were lost at the same time.This letter is apparently unpublished. A note discovered with the letter written by Bayne's daughter Clotilda, reveals that she sent it to the Times for publication although the date of this, and whether it was indeed published, has not been ascertained.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

RUSKIN (JOHN)Autograph manuscript leaf from Ruskin's work on Giorgione and Turner, The Two Boyhoods, vol.V, part 9, chapter 9, numbered 'L' and beginning 'the mother for the children – desolate by the breathless first born in the streets of the city...' and ending '...He was nine years old when Napoleon came down on Marengo. Look on the map of...', with many annotations and amendments, written on recto only, docketed on verso in another hand ('Ruskin's Ms'), 1 page, on blue lined paper with Britannia watermark, folded and creased with some dust staining, large 4to (272 x 195mm.), [undated]; with an incomplete autograph letter from Ruskin to Peter Bayne ('Dear Mr Bayne'), responding to an ongoing conversation about freedom and logic ('...Freedom is either of mind or body, that of the mind is infinitely the most precious of the two... You have puzzled yourself – not by looking at the subject from an opposite side – but by not looking at it from the top: – meditate on this...'), 4 pages on a bifolium, creased where folded for posting, slightly stained, remains of guard, 8vo (180 x 115mm.), [no place, no date]; and an autograph letter by Ruskin's father signed ('John James Ruskin') to Peter Bayne ('My dear Sir'), an angry letter complaining of the publication of a letter by his son in '...a penny paper called the Scotsman...', which has caused him great trouble ('...my Nerves got unstrung... they are lacerated by trifles & the incoherent & indecorous letter of my Son has given me a night of suffering & severe Bilious attack... he set up as a Teacher & moralist & the mischief one Letter light, flippant, indiscreet injudicious can do is incalculable...') and asking for the return of a letter published in Witness, 3 pages on a bifolium, with integral address panel, remains of red wax seal, creased where folded, some spotting, marks and dust staining, loss where seal opened not affecting text, remains of guard, 4to (240 x 200mm.), Schaffhausen, 31 July 1859Footnotes:The controversial letters to which John James Ruskin refers would appear to be those mentioned by John Ruskin in a letter to Robert Browning and his wife on 11 December 1859 in which he writes 'I wrote three letters to one of the Edinburgh papers whose editor I knew concerning European—especially English political conduct...Two of them were printed—after much delay. The third was declared by the able editor unprintable—'it would lose him a hundred subscribers next morning.'...The two that were printed bore some bold witness however, and I am glad to be able to refer to them—as fearless words—whether wise or unwise...'. They appeared in The Daily Scotsman on the 20 July under the heading 'Mr Ruskin and the Italian Question' and on 22 July headed 'Mr Ruskin on Foreign Politics' – they were apparently originally sent to The Witness whose editor was one Peter Bayne (see The Brownings' Correspondence, 27, 75-76). On the same day his father wrote to Bayne, Ruskin wrote, also from Schaffhausen, to Charles Eliot Norton on the 'dastardly conduct of England in this Italian War' (Ruskin Letters, p.311).A note included in the lot confirms that a group of forty to fifty letters from the Ruskins to Bayne ('...there was a long continued but often interrupted friendship...') were sold by Bayne's granddaughter Eleanor. This would appear to be the group sold by Christie's on 19 November 1958, lot 162, and now held in the John Rylands Library in Manchester (GB 133 Eng.Ms 1245). The letters from John James date from just before ours (January to March 1859), those from John Ruskin cover a wider period from March 1855 to March 1887. Our letters are apparently unpublished.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NEWTON (ISAAC)Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... Editio secunda auctior et emendatior, PRESENTATION COPY FROM NEWTON TO HIS CHAMBER-FELLOW JOHN WICKINS, inscribed in Wickins' hand 'Ex dono Authoris' on the front free endpaper, edited by Roger Cotes, folding engraved plate, numerous diagrams in text, contemporary calf, covers panelled with black central frame and foliate corner-pieces, rubbed, upper joint cracked and blackened reaching spine [Babson 12; Wallis 8], 4to, Cambridge, [Cornelius Crownfield at the University Press], 1713Footnotes:THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF NEWTON'S PRINCIPIA, PRESENTED TO HIS AMANUENSIS AND COLLABORATOR AT TRINITY.John Wickins was one of few significant friendships that Newton made at Trinity College, Cambridge. They shared chambers from 1665 until March 1683, when Wickins left to take up the living of Stoke Edith in Monmouthshire. According to Wickins' son Nicholas, 'My father's intimacy with [Newton] came by mere accident. My father's first chamber-fellow being very disagreeable to him, he retired one day into the walks, where he found Mr. Newton solitary and dejected. Upon entering into discourse, they found their cause of retirement the same, and thereupon agreed to shake off their present disorderly companions and chum together, which they did as soon as conveniently they could, and so continued as long as my father staid at college...' (Brewster, D. Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, Edinburgh, 1855, vol. 2, chapter XVI).Wickins functioned as Newton's amanuensis, copying up his notes, turning their rooms into a laboratory and acting as his unpaid assistant, a task which was often arduous and dangerous. They worked together on Newton's third telescope (the so-called 'Newton-Wickins' telescope) built 1671-72, the telescope he had by him when he was writing the four Lucasian lectures which appeared in the 1704 Opticks, and in 1729 as the Lectiones Opticae. It has long been thought that after Wickins' move from Cambridge in 1683-4, their friendship came to an end (though Wickins and his son carried on administering a charitable fund provided by Newton). However, the present volume, and the related adjacent lot, suggest a much closer relationship, where Newton continued to recognise the contributions of his chamber-fellow some forty years later.The following manuscripts form a comparison for the handwriting of Wickins: Cambridge Newton Ms Add. 3970, ff.460-6, and Newton Ms Add. 3970, ff.549-76; National Library of Israel Yahuda Ms. 23; Wickins' manuscript notebook sold in these rooms on 31 March 2021 (lot 73).Provenance: John Wickins (d.1719), inscription 'Ex dono Authoris' on front free endpaper; probably bequeathed to his son Nicholas Wickins (d.1733); Samuel Wickins (d.1766), ownership inscription on front pastedown; probably bequeathed to his nephew and heir-at-law Thomas Wickins (d.1800) of Stoke Edith; bequeathed to his son Thomas Wickins (1767-1842) of Bath, ownership inscription on flyleaf; probably bequeathed with the rest of his library to his friend John Williams (1794-1859), 2nd Baronet Williams of Bodelwyddan; thence to his daughter Margaret Maria Hay-Williams (1844-1930); thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[LANGLEY (BATTY)New Principles of Gardening: Or the Laying Out and Planting [of] Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths... After a More Grand and Rural Manner... With Experimental Directions for Raising the Several Kinds of Fruit Trees, Forest-trees, Ever-greens and Flowering-shrubs Which Gardens Are Adorn'd], FIRST EDITION, folding engraved frontispiece and 27 folding or double-page engraved plates (frontispiece laid down with some losses to image, several other short repairs), lacks title and pp.85/86 (both supplied in manuscript facsimile), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked retaining original gilt-tooled spine, slightly rubbed [Berlin Kat. 3414; Harris 462; Henrey 927], 4to (250 x 185mm.), [A. Bettesworth and J. Batley, 1728, but 1727]Footnotes:The New Principles is Batty Langley's 'most important contribution on the subject of gardening. It is the culmination of both his work at Twickenham Park for Thomas Vernon and his brief directions for 'arti-natural' design... [and as such] places him among the earliest exponents of the new style of irregular gardening' (Harris).Provenance: F.H. Cripps-Day (1864-1932), ownership inscription; Rothamsted Experimental Station, stamp inside upper cover.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

MANUSCRIPT COOKERY RECEIPTS: collection of approx 23 manuscript receipts, mid 19thc, each individually handwritten to notepaper with vertical folds, includes Indian Corn Cookery: Spatchcock Eels: Mr Garrell Recipe for Preserving Fish Skins: Directions for Joining Gutta Percha tubes, each dated from 1840s-1860s, generally in good condition. (Small bundle)

CHINESE BOOKS: a group of four unidentified Chinese printed books, late 19th-early 20thc, printed yellow paper bindings string tied to spines: together with some other manuscript and printed matter in Chinese script. (Small quantity)

MANUSCRIPT MEDICAL RECEIPTS: a collection of 9 manuscript receipts including recipes for cough mixture: Mr Smith's Mixture for Cholera, 1853 and others similar, mid-19thc, each handwritten to single leaf and with vertical folds: together with printed advertisement 'Sea Sickness Cured', H Court, Printer, London, circa 1850. (Small quantity)