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HAP Grieshaber(1909 Rot a. d. Rot - 1981 Eningen unter Achalm)Set aus 3 Graphiken, inkl. 1 Andruckbogen. Je Farbholzschnitt auf Papier. Blattmaße von bis 42 x 30 cm bis 65,5 x 50 cm. Je signiert, 2 Bll. nummeriert. 1 Bl. im Stock datiert. 2 Bll. mit Blindstempel der Galerie Schmücking. - Guter Zustand. Mit: - Paar (Junges Paar neben Baum) - Uf dem anger II - Alb 15.2.1969. Set of 3 prints, incl. 1 proof sheet. Each colour woodcut on paper. Each signed, 2 sheets numbered. 1 sheet dated in the stock. 2 sheets with blind stamp of the Galerie Schmücking. - Good condition. - With works as listed above.

A small faux terracotta egg shaped planter with repeating blind lattice detail, with terracotta finish, 30cm diameter x 37cm high

Geoffrey W Birks (1929-1993) - Four limited edition prints, three of which are signed, comprising 'Hot Potato' numbered 173/375, 'A Gill And A Half' numbered 124/375, 'The Clowns' numbered 344/375 and 'Tha Snobby Kids Did It!' numbered 5/375, all mounted and framed under glass and with blind stamp, largest approximately 31 cm x 29 cm. [4] Lot descriptions reflect the cataloguer's opinion only and do not constitute a guarantee. If in doubt, intending bidders should either attend public viewing or request a written condition report. All sales are final.

Geoffrey W Birks (1929-1993) - Four limited edition prints, two of which are signed, comprising 'Nosey ar' kid' numbered 157/375, 'Reet good natter' numbered 322/375, 'As thi' seen our Tom?' numbered 24/375 and 'King o' the castle' numbered 32/375, all mounted and framed under glass and with blind stamp, largest approximately 38 cm x 28 cm image size. [4] Lot descriptions reflect the cataloguer's opinion only and do not constitute a guarantee. If in doubt, intending bidders should either attend public viewing or request a written condition report. All sales are final.

A 19thc mahogany wall corner cabinet, with dentil cornice and blind carved frieze, the glazed astragal panelled door enclosing a shelved interior (111cm x 67cm)

JOHN SHAW, A GEORGE IV SILVER VINAIGRETTE, the hinged cover with acanthus leaves about a blind cartouche, gilded interior with hinged grille, the base of the box engraved with a leaf panel, Birmingham c.1828, 2.5cm x 2cm, 9g

WILLIAM KERSILL, AN EARLY GEORGE III SILVER CREAM JUG, the body floral embossed, with c-scroll handle, raised on three trefid pad feet supports, London 1761, 68.5gCondition report: possible re-soldering to handle top & bottom, dents to neck & body on blind panel, may have had monogram removed, dents, repairs around the legs.

Two prints after Sir William Russell Flint each depicting ladies in an interior scene, both signed in pencil and with blind stamp and mounted and framed under glass, largest 49 cm x 64 cm. [2]Lot descriptions reflect the cataloguer's opinion only and do not constitute a guarantee. If in doubt, intending bidders should either attend public viewing or request a written condition report. All sales are final.

A limited edition print after Sir William Russell Flint depicting an interior with five ladies, numbered 501/850 and with blind stamp, mounted and framed under glass approximately 29 cm x 59 cm and one other by the artist, signed in pencil. [2]Lot descriptions reflect the cataloguer's opinion only and do not constitute a guarantee. If in doubt, intending bidders should either attend public viewing or request a written condition report. All sales are final.

A 19th Century Mahogany Low Chest, the moulded top above a blind fretwork frieze and four drawers with brass handles and escutcheons raised upon chamfered legs, 109 cms wide, 53 cms deep, 81 cms high

A late 19th Century English School pen and ink style print with blind stamp "Carriage to Litchfield", gilt frame, 17.5cm x 28cm. The Great Quad at Rossall School, Fleetwood Limited edition etching. 104/200 Pencil signed. 21cm x 31cm. (2)

A MAHOGANY DROP FLAP DINING TABLE ON BLIND FRET CARVED SQUARE SECTIONED LEGS

A 19th C. MAHOGANY STOOL, THE GREEN VELVET SEAT ON BLIND FRET CARVED LEGS

A good late Victorian mahogany double wardrobe, labelled 'Druce & Co..., London', with blind fret decoration, 203.5cm high x 123.5cm wide.

Louis Legrand, 'Carmen', blind stamped and numbered 57/70, etching, pl.20.5 x 16cm.  Provenance: William Weston Gallery, 7 Royal Arcade, Albermarle Street, London.

George III mahogany chest on chest, the dentil and blind fret carved pediment above two short and three long drawers flanked by reeded canted pilasters, the base with brushing slide above three long drawers, raised on bracket feet, 112cm wide, 188.5cm high, 55cm deep

A scarce c1940s wooden framed glass advertising panel from a Bristol tram. The panels featuring paper-laid-on-glass advertisements for Bristol Workshops For The Blind and Gardiner & Sons at Beacon House. Shaped form, single sided. Rare survivors. Measures approx; 118cm long x 24cm tall. 

A retro vintage 20th Century Danish two part wall modular hanging / mounted wall unit / cupboard shelving system. Both with rosewood veneer and shaped metal handles with one having smokey glass fronted doors and the other with blind fronted doors. Veneered panel atop with all supported / wall mounted by brackets to the back of each. Condition; age related marks, overall good. Largest measures approx; 67cm x 75cm x 30cm.  

Abraham Le Blond (1819-1894) Six oval prints, titled and with blind stamps (6)

A 20th century yew wood and mahogany bureau bookcase of slender proportions, with an openwork swan neck pediment, blind fret carved frieze and astragal glazed, 77cm by 48cm by 224cm

A reproduction mahogany glass topped coffee table with blind fret carving, raised on panel supports, 105cm by 105cm by 42cm

A mahogany blind fret carved cabinet, 100cm by 45cm by 75cm

Banksy (British 1974-), 'Visit Historic Palestine', 2018, offset lithograph in colours on paper, bearing the 'Walled Off Hotel' blind-stamp and rubber-stamped in pink ink verso; sheet: 70 x 50cm ARR

Martin Whatson (Norwegian 1984-), 'Eternal Reflection (Purple)', 2020, screenprint in colours with gloss varnish on wove paper, numbered from an edition of 100 in pencil, published by Graffiti Prints, bearing the Artist's blind stamp; sheet: 25 x 25cm ARR

Martin Whatson (Norwegian 1984-), 'Son Of Man (Lilac)', 2017, screenprint in colours on wove paper, numbered from an edition of 100 in pencil, bearing Martin Whatson blind stamp; sheet: 30.5 x 30.5cm ARR

Banksy (British 1974-), 'Soup Can', 2005, screenprint in colours on wove paper, numbered from an edition of 250 in pencil, published by Pictures On Walls, bearing the publishers blind stamp; sheet: 50 x 35cm (Framed) ARR

NO RESERVE Essex.- Wood (J. T.) Views of Southend, second edition,12 engraved views, hinge broken but still holding firm, some folds and foxing, endpapers browned, ink ownership inscription to pastedown, original blind stamped cloth, worn, oblong 8vo, [c.1870].

Chess.- Murray (H.J.R.) A History of Chess, first edition, plates and illustrations, original cloth with Lewis knight chess piece in blind on upper cover, 8vo, Oxford, 1913. ⁂ An excellent copy of this comprehensive history of the game.

Duelling.- Law.- Voet (Paul) De duellis, licitis & illicitis, liber singularis, first edition, title with woodcut ornament and contemporary ink ownership inscription, (cross)4 and final f. blank, some staining to lower margins, occasional spotting, lightly browned, blind-stamp of Bernard Popland, 12mo, contemporary vellum, Utrecht, Gisbert van Zyll, 1646.⁂ Rare first edition of this little treatise on duelling by the Dutch jurist and philopsopher.

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.

Hervey (James) Eleven letters from the late Rev. Mr. Hervey, to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley; containing an answer to that gentleman's remarks on Theron and Aspasio, first edition, last few ff. browned, occasional spotting, contemporary calf, gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, head of spine and corners little worn, rubbed, Printed by Charles Rivington, for John Rivington, 1765 § Tucker (Josiah) Six Sermons on Important Subjects, disbound, Bristol, S. Farley, 1772 § Priestley (Joseph) The doctrines of heathen philosophy, compared with those of revelation, first edition, half-title, library ink and blind stamps, occasional spotting, antique style boards, Northumberland, PA, 1804; and 12 others, Religion, v.s. (15)

Cruikshank (George) Fashion. Dedicated to all the Town, second edition, 5 hand-coloured etchings by the author only (of 6), some staining, original wrappers, uncut, rubbed and soiled, spine split, 1818; The Greeks..., twelfth edition, 5 hand-coloured plates, some spotting, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, uncut, original wrappers bound in, 1817; Modern Belles. Dedicated to all the Beaux, fifth edition, 6 hand-coloured plates, most with tear and/or slight loss to lower inner margin (repaired), modern cloth, uncut, spine faded, 1824; The Universal Songster, 3 vol., engraved frontispieces and additional pictorial title by George and Robert Cruikshank, early editions, illustrations, frontispiece in vol.1 loose and frayed at edges, original blind-stamped cloth, spines faded and worn, one joint split, n.d.-1834; and 4 others illustrated by or about the Cruikshanks, 8vo (10)

Boswell (James) The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 4 vol., eighth edition, engraved portrait after Reynolds, 2 folding engraved plates, plates lightly foxed, occasional soiling, 1816; The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, sixth edition, engraved portrait after Reynolds and engraved vignette to title, 1813, together 5 vol., portraits offset onto titles, uniformly bound in attractive contemporary calf decorated in gilt and blind, spines gilt in compartments, some slight marking to boards but a lovely set, 8vo

Woman novelist.- [Craik (Dinah Maria)] John Halifax, Gentleman, 3 vol., first edition, with author's signature on a slip (dated October, 1878) loosely inserted, 3pp advertisements and 24pp. publisher's catalogue at end of vol.1, vol.2 1p. advertisements, vol.3 advertisement f. at end, some staining, mostly in vol.1, all vol. occasional spotting, vol.1 hinges splitting, original brown gilt and blind-stamped cloth, slightly cocked, repairs to some spine ends, a few corners little worn, little rubbed, [Sadleir 1812], 8vo, Hurst and Blackett, 1856.

Chaucer (Geoffrey) The Poems...Modernized, edited by Robert Hengist Horne, first edition, original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, Whittaker & Co., 1841 § Skipsey (Joseph) Carols from the Coal-Fields..., first edition, errata slip, original cloth, paper label (chipped), splits to joints, 1886 § Locker (Frederick) London Lyrics, presentation copy from the author to Sir John Simeon inscribed in pencil on half-title, bookplate of Stephen Louis Simeon, upper hinge weak, original cloth, cockled, Basil Montagu Pickering, 1862 § Trollope (Anthony) An Autobiography, 2 vol. in 1, mounted portrait, light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt, Edinburgh & London, 1883 § Lamb (Charles) The Life and Works, 12 vol., Edition de Luxe, one of 675 copies, foxing, original blue cloth, gilt, uncut, spines rubbed and faded, 1899-1900, all rubbed; and c.50 others, mostly nineteenth century literature, 8vo & 4to (c.55)⁂ The first contains contributions by Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others.

Yeats (William Butler) The Tower, first edition, original pictorial cloth, gilt, designed by Thomas Sturge Moore, pictorial dust-jacket, rubbed, upper cover with short tear, spine defective and detached, 1928; The Winding Stair and other poems, first edition, original blind-stamped cloth designed by Sturge Moore, spine gilt, uncut, traces of paint to upper cover, 1933; and 15 others, modern Irish literature, 8vo & 4to (17)

Science.- Peregrinus de Maricourt (Petrus) The Epistle of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foncaucourt, Soldier concerning the Magnet, translated by Silvanus P.Thompson, one of 240 copies, printed in black letter and rubricated throughout, diagrams, old wrappers, uncut, frayed at edges, spine worn, Chiswick Press, 1902 § Chevreul (Michel Eugène) The Laws of Contrast of Colour: and their application to the Arts..., translated by John Spanton, first edition of this translation, colour frontispiece, 3 plates, one with overlay, advertisement leaf at end, light foxing, original pinkish brown cloth with border in blind, spine faded and slightly frayed at head, G.Routledge & Son, 1857 § Halliwell (J.O., editor) Historical Society of Science. A Collection of Letters illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second, original cloth-backed boards with paper label to upper cover, rubbed and stained, 1841; and another on science, small 4to & 8vo (4)⁂ The first item is the first complete edition in English of Pierre de Maricourt's letter of 1269, the first separate treatise on magnetism and an influence on William Gilbert. The second item is the first book in English on the subject of colour to use colour-printing.

Mediterranean.- Lear (Edward) Journals of a Landscape Painter in Albania, first edition, map and 20 tinted lithographed plates, very occasional spotting, bookplate removed from front pastedown, original blind-stamped blue cloth, spine gilt, small stain to lower cover, spine slightly rubbed and faded, a good copy, [Abbey, Travel 45], 1851.

China.- Fortune (Robert) Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, second edition, tinted lithographed frontispiece and 2 plates, wood-engraved additional pictorial title & tail-piece, map, ex-library copy with cancellation stamp to head of title, modern bookplate, modern morocco, 1847 § Gordon-Cumming (C.F.) The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China by the use of which Illiterate Chinese both Blind and Sighted can very quickly be taught to read and write fluently, first edition, plates, tables, printed slips and 12th Annual Report tipped in, original yellow cloth, 1898 § Proudfoot (W.J.) "Barrow's Travels in China". An Investigation..., light foxing, original cloth, 1861 § [Crowe (Eyre Evans)] A History of China to the Present Time..., first edition, advertisements at end, ink inscription to title, browned, lacking rear free endpaper, original cloth, upper cover stained, 1854, all rubbed; and 4 others on China, 8vo (8)⁂ Library Hub lists only 5 copies of the last.

SMITH (PHILIP)OUSPENSKY (P.D.) A New Model of the Universe, Principles of the Psychological Method in its Application to Problems of Science, Religion, and Art, bound by Philip Smith in red-brown crushed morocco, covers with large inlaid gilt and black symmetrical crustacean design, spine with gilt lettering and blind wavy lines, 1948; In Search of the Miraculous, bound in tan morocco with the same design on covers, spine lettered in blind with gilt and blind sun motifs, turn-ins blind-tooled, 1950, both g.e., rear turn ins with binder's blindstamped monogram dated 1952 and 1952-3, housed in red and black cloth slipcases respectively, 8vo, Routledge & Kegan Paul (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)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)Partially used exercise book for binding notes, c.150 leaves, some page headings, index and a bibliography supplied by the binder in ink but otherwise blank, bound by Philip Smith as a student binding exercise, full black goatskin with gilt and blind geometrical design centred with a star of David within a Greek motto, 1953; together with another similar format exercise book, c.150 leaves, blank apart from 7 leaves with 2 essays in the binder's hand (lectures by J. G. Bennett entitled 'Who is Man?' and 'Man's Task & His Reward'), bound by Philip Smith in olive green morocco, upper cover with blind-tooled figure of a stylised angel and Alpha & Omega symbols, lower cover with a design of smaller angels in a row, spine faded, 1954, both tall slim folio (335 x 145mm.) (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

JOYCE (JAMES)Ulysses, ninth printing, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO H.G. WELLS, INSCRIBED 'To H.G. Wells respectully James Joyce, 5 November 1928 Paris' on the front free endpaper, bound in full black goatskin BY SALLY LOU SMITH (gilt-stamped 'SLS' at rear and on spine of case), the covers and spine tooled in blind with black, brown, grey, ochre and yellow onlays to an abstract design of 'Dublin at night', inside covers tooled in gilt with abstract design, yellow and grey Japanese endpapers, g.e., preserved in felt-lined quarter black morocco solander box by Sally Lou Smith, 4to, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1927Footnotes:ULYSSES INSCRIBED BY JAMES JOYCE TO H.G. WELLS - IN A SALLY LOU SMITH DESIGNER BINDING.A fine association copy linking two of the great twentieth century writers. H.G. Wells was an important early advocate of Joyce, writing a highly favourable review of his first book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and describing it as 'a book to buy and read and lock up, but it is not a book to miss. Its claim to be literature is as good as the claim of the last book of Gulliver's Travels... No single book has ever shown how different they [English and Irish sensibilities] are, as completely as this most memorable novel' (The New Republic, 10 March 1917). This copy was inscribed for Wells on 5 November 1928. Later that month, on 23 November, Wells wrote to Joyce that 'I have enormous respect for your genius dating from your earliest books and I feel now a great personal liking for you but you and I are set upon absolutely different courses... [but] You have turned your back on common men — on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence, and you have elaborated. What is the result? Vast riddles. Your last two works have been more amusing and exciting to write than they will ever be to read... Who the hell is this Joyce who demands so many waking hours of the few thousand I have still to live', signing off with obvious warmth that 'I can't follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong'. In 1928 sections of what was to become Finnegan's Wake were published under the title Work in Progress, and it has been assumed that Wells' letter to Joyce was written in response to a request for his public support of this work. The surfacing of the present inscribed copy suggests that Wells's comments were perhaps also incorporating his thoughts on Ulysses.The fine designer binding was made in 1981 by Sally Lou Smith (1925-2007), who, commenting on her inspiration for the design, stated that 'The idea gradually formed that my view of the book ['Ulysses'] was the city: Dublin: Dublin at night'.Provenance: H.G. Wells; purchased by the vendor at the auction of the remaining contents of North End House, Rottingdean, East Sussex. The Property of Lady Jones C.B.E. (Miss Enid Bagnold), Christie's, 16 October 1980.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

MACNEICE (LOUIS)Blind Fireworks, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, THE DEDICATION COPY, inscribed to 'Giovanna Marie Thérèse Babette Miriam Ezra' below the printed dedication to her, signed by the author at end of the Foreword, first issue binding of cream canvas boards, Victor Gollancz, 1929--THOMAS (DYLAN) New Poems, first printing in book form, publisher's boards, dust-jacket, Norfolk, Conn., New Directions, The Poets of the Year, 1943--LAWRENCE (D.H) Pansies, limited to 500 copies, portrait, original wrappers, Privately Printed, 1929--HERBERT (A.P) Poor Poems and Rotten Rhymes, original printed wrappers, solander box with bookplate of Mary Priscilla Smith, Winchester, P. & G. Wells, Booksellers to Winchester College, 1910, 8vo; and approximately 17 others (quantity)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

ASHENDENE PRESSMORE (THOMAS) A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, and of the Newe Yle called Utopia ... translated into Englyshe by Raphe Robynson.. Anno MDLI, ONE OF 20 COPIES ON VELLUM, from an overall edition of 120, printed 'in Subiaco type by St John Hornby, with the help of Meysey Turton and G. Faulkner', the chapter headings and printed marginalia in red, shoulder notes in black, the initial capitals (six-line down to two-line) in red designed by Eric Gill, original brown morocco over wooden boards by W.H. Smith bindery (signed on rear turn-in), spine compartments lettered and dated in gilt, with repeated foliate decoration in blind and gilt extending from bands onto sides, slight waterstain to upper cover, soft brown cloth slipcase, small folio, Chelsea, Ashendene Press, 1906Footnotes:LIMITED TO 20 COPIES ON VELLUM: 'This is a splendid Utopia, with red side-notes, initials and chapter titles, a contrast with the Kelmscott version. On a page of this size the Ashendene Subiaco is very readable and so well within the capabilities of the Press as to prepare the way for larger endeavours' (Colin Franklin, Ashendene Press p.237). Sydney Cockerell and Emery Walker received complimentary copies, the first considering it as the best book Hornby had done, whilst Franklin considered the paper copies 'a poor relation, imperfectly inked. It is of course a noble book in either form, on vellum the red especially memorable'.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

BINDING - DELRUEYOUNG (PERCY M.) Elgar O.M. A Study of a Musician, plates, bound in olive green crushed morocco by Paul Delrue (inscription dated 1973 on fly-leaf), covers with all-over design of small inlaid red flying birds and 'Elgar' in large onlaid letters of stained leather, russet morocco paste-downs with quotations from Elgar in blind, g.e., housed in green cloth solander box, spine lettered in gilt on leather label, 8vo, Book Club Edition, 1973--Bestiary, being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 with all the original miniatures reproduced in facsimile, translated and introduced by Richard Barber, colour illustrations, red morocco by D. Gatley, with an inlaid design of a rhinoceros spanning both covers, gilt lettering on the upper cover, the 'B' on a blue morocco onlay, t.e.g., blue cloth solander box, small folio, Folio Society, 1992--LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Mint, olive green morocco with design of inlaid small panels in khaki, white and brown leather, those on low cover in dark brown and joining to form a single larger panel, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase, 4to, Jonathan Cape, 1955 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • AR• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHELONIIDAE PRESSBLOCK (LAURIE, compiler) An Odd Bestiary; or, a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals.... Arranged as an Abecedary. Designed and Illustrated by Alan James Robinson, NUMBER XLV of 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, with an additional suite of the 52 illustrations by Alan James Robinson, each signed in pencil, the alphabet series of 26 with a calligraphic letter in red ink added by Betse Curtis (these also signed by her in pencil), from an edition limited to 300 copies, 26 wood-engravings and 26 smaller initial linecuts, original red morocco by David Bourbeau at Thistle Bindery, upper cover with blind-ruled panel enclosing a turtle vignette lettered 'ABC', the additional suite loose in red morocco-backed linen chemise and housed with text in matching solander box, folio (343 x 250mm.), Easthampton, Cheloniidae Press, 1982This 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 PRESS - CLIFFORD WEBBBANNET (IVOR) The Amazons. A Novel... Engravings by Clifford Webb, NUMBER 68 OF 80 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the author and illustrator, wood-engraved title vignette and full-page illustrations by Clifford Webb, untrimmed in original brown crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt blocked illustration on covers, spine with raised bands, slipcase, folio, 1948--The First Crusade.... Translated... by Somerset de Chair, NUMBER 75 OF 100 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by the translator, wood-engraved title vignette and full-page illustrations by Webb, original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt blocked illustration on covers, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, 1945---SOMERSET (DE CHAIR) The Story of a Lifetime, number 39 of 100 copies signed by the author, wood-engraved title vignette and full-page illustrations by Webb, untrimmed in original white sheepskin by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt design on upper cover, slight soiling, slipcase, folio, 1954--WELLS (H.G.) The Country of the Blind 1939, number 175 of 280 copies, wood-engraved title vignette and illustrations (some full-page) by Webb, original orange vellum-backed brown cloth by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 4to, [1949], Golden Cockerel Press (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

GREGYNOG PRESSMILTON (JOHN) Comus. A Mask, NUMBER 18 OF 25 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE DAVIES SISTERS TO LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE on the front free endpaper ('To Professor Lascelles Abercrombie to remind him of the Second Festival of Music & Poetry at Gregynog. June 15-18. 1934. From Gwendoline P. Davies/ Margaret S. Davies'), from an edition limited to 250, printed on japanese vellum, wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and 6 illustrations of characters by Blair Hughes-Stanton (all but one full-page), original dun-coloured morocco after a design by Hughes-Stanton, bound by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery (signed with the three names on front and rear turn-ins), covers with wide side panels consisting of multiple gilt and blind rules, one containing blind lettered title panel, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands, matching morocco turn-ins, t.e.g., housed in sympathetically designed brown morocco-backed solander box by Delrue (signed on inside), decorated with blind rules, spine with 2 bands and titled in blind, small folio, Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1931; together with a solander box containing a selection of 1930s Gregynog Festival Programmes and Orders of Service (including those for 1933 and 1934) (2)Footnotes:FINE SPECIALLY BOUND COPY, INSCRIBED BY 'THE LADIES OF GREGYNOG' IN MEMORY OF THE FESTIVAL 0F 1934. Founded by the Davies sisters in 1933, the Gregynog Festival is Wales' oldest classical music festival. In its second year, with Lascelles Abercrombie as guest, excerpts from The Apostles, The Dream of Gerontius and Nimrod were performed to mark the death of Elgar the previous February, whilst the programme for the event noted that 'contributions in aid of the unemployed will be accepted at the door'. The Press was to go on to publish Abercrombie's Lyrics and Unfinished Poems in 1940, a copy of the prospectus for which is included in the lot.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

VARIOUS PRESSESHASSALL (W.O.) The Holkham Bible Picture Book, NUMBER 83 OF 100 SIGNED AND SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, plates, untrimmed in original red morocco by W.H. Smith, covers with blind blocked illustrations, gilt lettered spine with raised bands, t.e.g., slipcase, folio, Dropmore Press, 1954--North West Regional Savings Committee. Illuminated address in appreciation of Sir William Cocker as Chairman, 2pp. on card, bound in green morocco gilt folder, watered silk paste-downs, 4to, March 1969--FLINT (WILLIAM RUSSELL) In Pursuit, NUMBER 7 OF 150 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, signed by Francis Russell Flint, illustrations (some colour), original blue leather gilt, slipcase, folio, Medici Society, 1971--HERRICK (ROBERT) One Hundred and Eleven Poems. Selected, Arranged and Illustrated by Sir Wiliam Russell Flint, NUMBER 2 OF 105 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES with a set of 8 additional plates in separate sleeve, signed by the artist on the colophon, original sheepskin gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine darkened, slipcase, small folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1955--WHITMAN (WALT) There Was a Child Went Forth. Wood Engravings by Gillian Tyler, number 73 of 100 numbered copies on Nideggen, signed by the artist, original parchment-backed marbled boards, slipcase, large 4to, Northampton, Gehenna Press, 1968--ANACREON. Five Odes... by Thomas Moore.. Etchings by Nicholas Parry, number 8 of 75 copies signed by the artist, original linen-backed boards, square 4to, Market Drayton, Tern Press, 1985; and 6 others (12)Footnotes:Provenance: First two works, Sir William Wiggins Cocker, bookplate (see lot 286 for a note concerning Cocker). Fourth work, Micheline & Mervyn Parkhouse, leather 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

ALBUMS - LITERATURE, ABOLITION, METHODISM & SCIENCETwo nineteenth century albums, the first containing collection of c.70 autograph letters, envelopes and cut signatures, some loose, including: autograph subscription signed ('Faithfully yours/ Charles Dickens') addressed to Mr J Grime 'With Mr Dickens' compliments', dated 'Thirteenth February 1843', autograph note from Walter Scott ('WS') to his friend and editor James Ballantyne ('...the two sheets have got safe here through bad road. I have not got my books quite right yet...'), Methodist theologian and abolitionist Adam Clarke to surgeon James Grime (seven, dated 1819 to 1829) mentioning his plan to inoculate a child ('...can you get me a little varialous matter of a good kind from a healthy subject?...') and his views on slavery ('...It is to the summary scandal of our Nation. Their Liberty is not ours – it belongs to God and themselves...'), botanist Agnes Ibbetson (to Mr Parkes 'Manufacturing Chymist' describing at length her experiments to reduce '...very small quantities of the Liquid of Vegetables into their component parts...' and asking for his help), physician Robert Hooper, Charles Vandeleur Creagh, governor of North Borneo (to W.J. Chadwick asking for a price list for his lantern microscope), photographer Henry E. Roscoe (also to Chadwick accepting the presidency of the Manchester Photographic Society), Charles Kemble, judge Thomas Talfourd, cut signatures of Frances Trollope, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas Raffles, M. J. O'Connell, various bishops, clergy, nobility, politicians etc., c.34 leaves, original calf gilt, worn, boards detached, spine missing, folio (282 x 230mm.); the second an autograph album bearing the ownership inscription of Elizabeth Grime, including three-page exhortation by abolitionist George Thompson, dated 29 July 1834, entitled 'The Black/ at Church/ in America!' ('Lord! Is thy throne acceptable to me? Me of the Ethiopi skin? May I draw near Thy sacred shrine and humbly bow the knee while thy white worshippers are kneeling here. May I approach celestial purity, And not offend the with my sable face?... or must the Ethiope change his skin?... Haste happy day the time I long to see when ev'ry son of Adam shall be FREE!!'), with uplifting quotations and messages from John Lambert (after the Manchester Wesleyan Conference July 1849) and others with links to the Methodist church, cut signature of James Hogg (the 'Ettrick Shepherd'), c.50 leaves, original blind stamped calf, marbelled ends, worn, boards detached, spine missing, 4to (231 x 185mm.), nineteenth century (2)Footnotes:These albums were compiled by members of the Grime family of Salford, including surgeon James Grime (d.1834), and his son John, who died in 1859 after a career as a Liverpool merchant stationed in Valparaiso and Lima. Originally from Bolton, James Grime set up practice in Salford in 1817. Included in the album is an engraved certificate of attendance (January 1809), signed by Dr John Abernethy (founder of the medical school at St Bartholomew's Hospital and creator of the Abernethy biscuit), with an additional note in his hand stating that 'Mr Grime hath also attended... one course of lectures on the Theory & Practice of Surgery, & hath dissected under my Inspection...'. Provenance: Grime family 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

[BARLOW (WILLIAM)]The Navigator's Supply. Conteining many things of Principall Importance Belonging to Navigation, with the Description and Use of Diverse Instruments Framed Chiefly for that Purpose; but Serving also for Sundry other of Cosmography in Generall: the Particular Instruments are Specified on the next Page, FIRST EDITION, early issue with a blank space left for the vignette below title and without the 7 plates, woodcut initials and ornaments, page numbers added in an early ink hand, some dampstaining mainly to the first few leaves, a few others soiled, first line of title supplied in old printed facsimile, several scattered leaves with single or small wormholes towards foot of page, clean tear to H2 without loss, late eighteenth century russia, gilt rule and blind-roll border on sides, spine gilt with raised bands, small paper label at foot of spine with Scott reference number '47', extremities slightly rubbed, upper joint a little weak [ESTC S100864], 4to (190 x 123mm.), G. Bishop, R. Newbery, and R. Barker, 1597Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF BARLOW'S IMPORTANT WORK ON NAVIGATION. According to the 1974 Scott Library catalogue (see below), the present copy is an early issue before the addition of the title vignette and the folding plates. It is the only such copy we have traced in auction records, although ESTC and other some institutional listings make no mention of the plates.To William Barlow (died 1625, correspondent of William Gilbert) is owed the discovery of the difference between iron and steel for magnetic purposes, improvements in the hanging of compasses at sea, and finding the proper way of touching magnetic needles. His first book, The Navigator's Supply gives descriptions of several new navigational instruments and compasses. 'William Barlow uses the 'nonnius' devised by Pedro Nunez more than fifty years previously and gives a graphical method for drawing a Mercator network... He describes a number of new navigating and surveying instruments and summarizes his own contribution to the study of magnetism' (Taylor, Mathematical Practitioners, pp.334-5).Provenance: John Scott (Scottish engineer and shipbuilder, 1830-1903); Scott Library Collection, presented by his son to the Institution of Naval Architects in 1930, printed donation label; 'A Selection from the Scott Library', Christies, 4 December 1974, lot 36.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- FRANCIS FRYThe First New Testament Printed in the English Language (1525 or 1526) Translated from the Greek by William Tyndale. Reproduced in Facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry F.S.A, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY FRY TO 'Mary Hill with F. Fry's kind regards, Cotham, 1 Mo. 24 1863' on the presentation page before the title, additionally inscribed 'Mary A. Curtis from Francis Fry' on front free endpaper, and signed by Fry ('Francis Fry, Cotham, Bristol, 3 Mo. 1862' at the end of the introduction (p.18), collates [2], 28, [8] with illustrations and facsimile leaves (one printed in colours), some interleaved with tissue guards, occasional light spotting, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered 'Introduction to Fry's Tyndale's Testament' on upper cover, dampstaining to upper part of each cover, spine rubbed [cf. Herbert 1936], 8vo (188 x 125mm.), Bristol, Printed for the Editor, 1862Footnotes:Rare presentation copy of the introduction by Francis Fry to his facsimile reprinting of the Tyndale New Testament, with specimen examples of the work including Tyndale's Address to the Reader, and the Epistle of Titus.Provenance: Mary Hill, presentation inscription from Francis Fry, 1863; M.F. Bowser (and also 'M.F. Allen'), Matlock, later inscription 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

SHORT (RICHARD)Peri psychroposias [in Greek], of Drinking Water, against our Novelists that Prescribed it in England... Whereunto is added Peri thermoposias [in Greek], of Warm Drink, contemporary blind-ruled sheep, rebacked, covers worn [ESTC R33813; Krivatsy 11072; Norman 1943] 8vo (145 x 192 mm.), John Crooke, 1656Footnotes:The Norman copy of this scarce work on the benefits of drinking cold as opposed to hot water, wine and beer.Provenance: A.E Waring of Lurwood, 1766, inscription, on title and occasional marginalia; 'A.L.S', bookplate; H.F. Norman, book label; Sotheby's, Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine, 15 June 1998, lot 664.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

DICKENS (Charles): Works, Library Edition pub. Chapman & Hall (circa 1880?), illustrations by H K Browne, 21 vols, publishers blind stamped red cloth gilt, unevenly sunned and some fraying to spine ends, 8vo. (21)

ANACREON: 'Anacreon Terus Poeta Lyricus..' Cambridge, 1705: edited by Joshua Barnes: folding engraved portrait, contemporary blind ruled calf, rubbed, 12mo: together with Comtesse d'Aulnoy's 'Historie d'Hypolite, Comte de Duglas..': Brussels, 1699: 2 parts in 1, contemporary calf boards rebacked, 12mo, and one other. (3)

CLIFFORD (Sir Thomas): 'A Topographical and Historical Description of the Parish of Tixall in the County of Stafford...', Paris, printed by M Nouzou, 1817: 4to, contemporary blind ruled half morocco gilt, teg, rubbed: together with WOOLNOTH (Thomas): 'The Study of the Human Face...illustrated by 20-6 full-page steel engravings..', London, William Tweedie, 1865: large 8vo, pub. blind stamped green cloth gilt, a little rubbed. (2)

LUTHER (Martin): 'Der Ander Teil Der Bucher D.Mart.Luther. Darin Alle Streitschrifften/Sampt Etlichen Sendbrieven an Fursten und Stedte etc...': Wittenberg, Simon Gronenberg, 1588: folio, contemporary blind tooled vellum with metallic closures, title page printed in red and black, half-page woodcut world map at p459, general browning and dustsoiling, scattered wormholes: together with another foilo work vellum bound.  First item: second volume only of the Wittenberg collected edition of Luther's works, containing his pamphlets and sermons relating to Islam and resistance to the Ottoman Empire. (2)

ACHILLES: PROBST (Johann Balthasar, engraver, 1673-1750): 'Sive Feras Telis, Hostes Seu Sternere Ferro, Invictus Pugnis Pugnus Achillis Erat. So Wol Behertzte Feind, Als Wilde Thier Zu Fallen, Dursst Der Achilles Sich Stets Unbesiegt Darstellen...': Augsburg, 1721: a suite of 13 fine metal engraved plates by Probst, plus engraved title, mounted into an English devotional book of the period to recto of alternate leaves, some contemporary manuscript notes on the work below the initial page, contemporary sombre binding of blind tooled black morocco, green ornamental endpapers gilt, 8vo.  A rare series of engravings depicting the life of Achilles...the manuscript note comments...'the breadth of light & shadow are preserved in a masterly manner' (1) 

Sechs Kieferlatten mit dem Gedicht "Alleine unter dem Mond trinken" des Tang-Dichters Li Bai (701-762). Aufschrift, datiert: 1987, sign.: Gu Gan und Siegel: Gu Gan. (6)"Einsamer Trunk unter dem MondUnter Blüten meine Kanne Wein -Allein schenk ich mir ein, kein Freund in der Nähe.Das Glas erhoben, lad' den Mond ich ein,Mein Schatten auch ist da, - wir sind zu dritt.Gewiss versteht der Mond nicht viel vom Trinken,Und was ich tue, tut der Schatten blind,Doch sollen sie mir heut Kumpane seinUnd ausgelassen unterm Frühlingswind.Ich singe und der Mond schwankt hin und her,Ich tanze und mein Schatten hüpft noch mehr.Wir sind uns Freunde, da wir nüchtern sind,Ein jeder geht für sich, wenn erst der Rausch beginnt.Nichts bleibt dem Herzen ewiglich verbunden,Als was im hohen Sternenlicht gefunden."Jeweils 240 x 9,55 cmProvenienzPrivatsammlung Dr. Ilse Lommel (1923-2017), Nordrhein-Westfalen, seither in Familienbesitz