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CAVENDISH (WILLIAM, Duke of Newcastle)A General System of Horsemanship in All it's Branches, 2 vol. bound in 1, first edition in English, half-title, additional double-page engraved title in French (imprint Antwerp, Jacques van Meurs, 1658), 42 double-page engraved equestrian plates (plate 31 loose, perhaps inserted, small surface smudge on plate 11), 20 engraved anatomical, equipment and veterinary plates in part 2 (12 printed in bistre, 2 double-page), engraved vignettes and historiated initials, woodcut diagrams in the text, preface leaf (pages 3-4) misbound in vol. 2, some light browning, additional ink numeral on a few plates in second volume, nineteenth century calf, rubbed, some scuffs and ink stains to lower cover [Nissen ZBI 849; Podeschi 49], folio (460 x 280mm.), J. Brindley, 1743Footnotes:First edition in English of the Duke of Newcastle's important treatise on horsemanship. The second volume comprises 'The Perfect Knowledge of Horses', the first appearance in English of Gaspard de Saunier's Parfaite connoissance des chevaux.Provenance: D. Mahon, 1 Jan. 1826, ownership inscription on the half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN (CHARLES)On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, FIRST EDITION, with misprint 'speceies' on p.20, line 11, and with the whale-bear story in full on p.184, folding lithographed diagram by W. West, without half-title and publisher's catalogue at end [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], John Murray, 1859; Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle, 2 charts (folding), occasional foxing, some offsetting [Freeman 11], Henry Colburn, 1839; On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, one folding plate and 33 woodcuts in the text, faint spotting to title [Freeman 800], John Murray, 1862; The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST ISSUE, 43 illustrations, with errata, light foxing [Freeman 877], John Murray, 1868; The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vol., wood-engraved illustrations, damp-staining to lower margin of title and first few leaves of volume 1, light foxing [Freeman 938], John Murray, 1871; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 7 heliotype plates (3 folding), illustrations in the text, upper margin a little shaved, occasional light spotting [Freeman 1142], John Murray, 1872; The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom, light spotting to title, lacks errata slip [Freeman 1249], John Murray, 1876; The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species, illustrations and tables in the text, light spotting and toning mostly to title [Freeman 1277], John Murray, 1877; The Power of Movement in Plants, illustrations in the text, light toning [Freeman 1325], John Murray, 1880, FIRST EDITIONS, without half-titles and advertisements, uniformly bound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering and tooling within raised bands to spine, 8vo (11)Footnotes:A FINELY BOUND SET OF DARWIN FIRST EDITIONS, INCLUDING THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, 'THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE' (Dibner, Heralds of Science).This set of first editions was previously owned by Stephen George Holland, founder of cloth merchants Holland and Sherry and heir to Holland and Sons, the renowned cabinet-makers of Victorian England. Holland not only owned an extensive art collection - including numerous artworks by Turner, Gainsborough, Landseer and Constable – but was also an avid bibliophile and his bookplate is found on many books on the market today including works by Dickens, Shelley and Carroll. Provenance: Stephen George Holland (1817-1908), cloth merchant and art collector, bookplate; Quentin Keynes (1921-2003); acquired from him by the family of 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

TURING (ALAN)Programmers' Handbook for Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II [i.e. Mark I], FIRST EDITION, COMPLIMENTARY COPY, stamped 'with the compliments' [followed by] 'of A.M. Turing' [the latter in ink, not in Turing's hand], printed recto only throughout: [2 (title)], 97, [23], gelatin silver photograph of the 'Monitor Tube' mounted as issued beside text ('Information represented by monitor display'), blue ink corrections (corresponding to the errata notices in this lot) on 30 pages, 2 pencil inscriptions in a different hand, publisher's cloth-backed printed wrappers, compliment stamp/inscription on upper cover, several old scratch marks to upper cover (one touching letters), small folio (330 x 205mm.), [1951]; together with 9 mimeographed items relating to the Handbook and the Manchester University Computer Laboratory Conference at which the computer was first demonstrated, each stapled at upper left corner, comprising:'Programmers' Handbook for Manchester Electronic Computer. Errata.' 2pp., with ink corrections, 13 March 1951; Errata, 3pp., 28 March 1951; Errata, 2pp., 9 July 1951.'Manchester Electronic Computer Mark II'. Rough Tapes, 3pp., [6 July 1951].'Manchester University Computing Machine Laboratory. Programme Sheet I... Name of Routine, Input. Purpose. To Read from Tape', 3pp., a few small ink corrections, 1 July 1951.; 'Manchester University Computing.... Name of Routine. English. Purpose. To Print Any Fixed Material with Page Printing', 2pp., 1 July 1951; 'Manchester University Computing.... Name of Routine. Roughwrite. Purpose. To Write from Rough Tapes, 1pp., 1 July 1951; 'Manchester University Computing.... Name of Routine. Reciproot. Purpose. To Calculate Square Roots and Recriprocal Square Roots', 3pp., 9 July 1951.Mimeographed letter from Alan Turing, on 'Computing Machine Laboratory, University of Manchester' headed paper, addressed 'Dear Sir' stating they are willing to 'send copies of our library sub-routines to holders of handbooks', with attached slip to return to the secretary if they want to receive them, and also enclosing [three, attached] samples of 'our blank programme sheets and check sheets' stating where and at what price ('£5-6-6 per 1000 for programme sheets, and £4-15-0 per 1000 for check sheets', 5pp., [1951] (10)Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF 'THE WORLD'S FIRST COMPUTER PROGRAMMING MANUAL' (Jack Copeland/Jason Long, British Library Sound and Vision Blog, 2016), written by Alan Turing, who had been made Director of the Computing Machine Laboratory at Manchester University in 1949, 'presumably mostly in the half year gap between the dismantling of the Manchester Mark 1 and the delivery of the Ferranti Mark 1 in February 1951' (University of Manchester, Mark I Documents, online, 2005). Though headed as 'Handbook... Mark II', this work actually relates to the 'Mark I'. Written 'mainly for the benefit of those who will actually do programming for the Mark II machine', Turing notes in this introduction that 'Electronic computers are intended to carry out any definite rule of thumb process which could have been done by a human operator working in a disciplined but unintelligent manner. The electronic computer should however obtain its results very much more quickly...'.From 6-15 July 1951 Manchester University hosted an international conference, attended by some 170 delegates, celebrating the installation of the Ferranti Mark 1, at which time the Handbook was probably distributed.Provenance: Donald Bayley (1921-2020), electronic engineer and collaborator of Alan Turing on Delilah, a functioning portable speech-encryption system, during the Second World War; 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

HUNTER (WILLIAM)Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures, FIRST EDITION, 34 engraved plates, title laid down with repairs touching one letter, title and dedication soiled, spotting, marginal damp-staining throughout (just touching image on three plates), 8 additional engraved plates bound in, modern half calf gilt, rubbed, corners bumped [Choulant-Frank, pp.296-297; Garrison-Morton 6157; Gaskell 53; Heirs of Hippocrates 942; Norman 1125; Waller 5004], large folio (620 x 460mm.), Birmingham, John Baskerville, 1774Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF 'ONE OF THE FINEST ANATOMICAL ATLASES EVER TO BE PRODUCED' (Garrison-Morton), containing life-sized figures 'which not only are anatomically accurate but are themselves works of art. Hunter spent more than twenty-five years preparing this atlas, employed artists to prepare the engravings at enormous expense to himself, and entrusted the printing of the work to John Baskerville, the greatest English printer of the 18th century. This monumental work is, indeed, one of the great publications of world medical literature as well as a classic of book production' (Heirs of Hippocrates). Several of the additional plates are taken from James Hogben's Anatomical tables illustrative of his Treatise on midwifery intituled Obstetric studies, 1811.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)Bleak House, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, additional etched title and 39 plates by H.K. Browne ('Phiz'), with 'The Village Pastor' booklet in part 15 and most of advertisements and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver, plates with some oxidisation, mostly at edges, publisher's blue pictorial wrappers after 'Phiz', slight staining to cover of Part 1, a few edges slightly frayed or creased, tears to joints of first and last parts, preserved in light blue cloth solander box with gilt-lettered spine [Eckel pp.79-81; Gimbel A130; Hatton & Cleaver pp.275-304], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, March 1852-September 1853Footnotes:VERY GOOD UNRESTORED SET OF 'BLEAK HOUSE' IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS.In this set the majority of the advertisements are present, with exception of those for W. Mott and Norton's Camomile Pills (Part 1), Waterlow & Sons (Part 2), Partidge & Cozens (Part 15), and Grace Aguilar's Works (Part 16). The missing slips comprise: 'Notice of Removal' (Part 2), 'Crochet Cotton' (Parts 4-8, 10, 14), 'Household Words' (Parts 11, 12, 15, 18), 'Handley Cross' (Part 13), 'Largest Newspaper' (Part 17), 'Alison's History' (Part 18), and 'The Newcomes' (Parts 19/20).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

WAUGH (EVELYN)Love Among the Ruins. A Romance of the Near Future... With decorations by various eminent hands including the author's, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 5 OF 350 COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'For Bruce Walker, with the gratitude of the author Evelyn Waugh. To commemorate Her Gracious Majesty's coronation & the spacious days to come' on the limitation leaf, plates and decorations printed in red, contemporary half green morocco over boards decorated with coronation postage stamps, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., original morocco-lipped slipcase decorated with coronation stamps, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1953Footnotes:AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY BOUND IN A SEEMINGLY UNIQUE BINDING, quite probably designed by Waugh, decorated with 2 1/2 d. red Coronation stamps, reflecting Waugh's inscription 'To commemorate Her Gracious Majesty's Coronation & the spacious days to come'. Waugh celebrated Elizabeth's Coronation Day at his home, Piers Court, attending Mass followed by 'great upheaval providing fancy dresses and decorating the marc and cart' (Diaries, see Evelyn Waugh website, 1 June 2022).Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)Diamonds Are Forever, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's black diamond pattern cloth with small silver motif on upper cover, spine lettered in silver, slightly bumped at head of spine, small rust spot at foot of rear endpapers, in a PROOF DUST-JACKET, priced 12s. 6d., faint fox marks and light soiling to lower panel but generally fine [Gilbert A4a 1.1], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1956Footnotes:First edition of the book that brought fame to its dust-jacket designer Pat Marriott, in a fine proof jacket, from her estate. The present jacket differs only from the published version described by Gilbert in that the corners have not been clipped.Pat Marriott (Patricia Marriott, 1920-2002) is best known as the designer of the dust-jackets for the first editions of Diamonds Are Forever, Dr No and the 'playing card' edition of Casino Royale (see earlier sales in these rooms). Marriott had previously been known as an illustrator of children's books, and in 1954 married Fleming's literary advisor and a director at Cape, Michael Howard, who drew the author's attention to her work.'Marriott was already well known as a book illustrator, and... she had shown a clear awareness of how the illustration should complement the words... This is true of Diamonds Are Forever, where she draws a woman's partially obscured face, chin down, with a diamond hanging over her cleavage but without showing the cleavage itself, and yet in its simplicity, and remembering this is mid-fifties Britain, absolutely suggestive of what can be found in the pages within. Just look at the curl of hair lying on her shoulder, and the hint of a smile on her lips' (Graham Thomas, 'Pat Marriott - Bond illustrator', on Mid-Century Bond website, 2019).Provenance: Pat Marriott; by descent until purchased by 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

HUGHES (TED)Crow. From the Life and Songs of the Crow, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO HIS DAUGHTER, 'For Frieda, who has payed [sic.] for every word double treble quadruple quintuple without knowing where it was all going. Love from Dad, October 1970' above a drawing of a large snake on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket with cover design by Leonard Baskin, 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1970This 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 (THOMAS AND BATTY)Ancient Architecture Restored and Improved, by a Great Variety of Grand and Usefull Designs in the Entirley New Gothick Mode for the Ornamenting of Buildings and Gardens, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with the plea to subscribers 'to pay 7s-6 on receiving this first part...') on the first title, 2 engraved titles, 64 engraved plates (numbered 1-62, and A-B, signed by one or both of the Langleys and dated 1741 or 1742), letterpress dedications, list of subscribers, and 4pp. of text, modern red half morocco gilt [Berlin Katalog 2278; Harris 409], 4to, 1742Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE of the Langley's work, intended 'to restore the Rules of the Ancient Saxon Architecture, (vulgarly, but mistakenly called Gothic) which have been lost to the public for upwards of seven hundred years' (Dedication), which instigated the Gothic Revival movement. The plates include designs for temples, pavilions, windows, doorways and chimneypieces.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; 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

WALPOLE (HORACE)Autograph draft letter signed ('HorWalpole') to William Pitt, later Lord Chatham ('Sr'), a letter of approbation responding to his note (see below), congratulating him on '...the lustre you have thrown on this country...', thanking him '...for the security you have fixed to me of enjoying the happiness I do enjoy. You have placed England in a situation in which it never saw itself...', referring to his own work Royal and Noble Authors, and reassuring him he does not want anything from him ('...I am unambitious, I am disinterested – but I am vain. You have by your notice, uncanvassed, unexpected... flattered me in the most agreeable manner...'), addressed at head 'To Mr Pitt', several corrections and additions, 2 pages on a bifolium, dust-staining, ink blots and marks, creased at folds, 4to (229 x 186mm.), [n.p.], 19 November 1759; with accompanying autograph note in the third person from William Pitt to Horace Walpole, apologising for being out twice when he called and making arrangements to meet, integral address panel 'To/ the Honourable/ Mr Horatio Walpole/ W Pitt', one page on a bifolium, dust-staining, creased and with some small tears at folds, loss to lower right corner not affecting text, 4to (240 x 188mm.), St James's Square, 17 November 1759 (2)Footnotes:'I AM UNAMBITIOUS, I AM DISINTERESTED – BUT I AM VAIN': WALPOLE'S REVEALING LETTER TO WILLIAM PITT.Both letters are published in the Yale online edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence (pp.170-171), but the whereabouts of the originals, until now, has remained unknown. They were first printed in The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford, 1798, Vol.2, pp.374-376, edited by Mary Berry, the text taken from the originals in her possession. The letters bear the consecutive numbers in ink, 3 and 4, and pencilled page references to the Works where they were included in the chapter 'Letters to and from Ministers'. They formed part of the Walpole correspondence retained by Mary Berry and bequeathed to Lady Lewis in 1852.Provenance: Horace Walpole (1717-1797); Mary Berry (1763-1852); Lady Maria Theresa Lewis (née Villiers) (1803-1865); her son Sir Thomas Villiers Lister (1832-1902); thence by descent.Lady Lewis' collection was initially formed through the amalgamation of two significant collections of letters: royal and political correspondence from that of her mother the Hon. Theresa Villiers (1775-1856), and that of her close friend, the writer Mary Berry (1763–1852). Mary Berry's bequest included correspondence from Horace Walpole, most notably his correspondence with Thomas Chatterton and David Hume, hitherto thought lost, and three poems dedicated to her. To this inheritance Lady Lewis subsequently added her own correspondence and collection of autographs gathered through her wide circle of social, political and literary connections entertained at her home, Kent House, St James's. Not seen outside the family until now, the collection is a remarkable survival and tells the story of a family at the heart of English society. An intricate web of connections and alliances is revealed, bringing together the worlds of royalty and politics, the arts and literature. It is also a story of influential women both as collectors and as correspondents: Theresa Villiers as keeper of royal secrets, Mary Berry and her circle of intellectuals, and, importantly, Lady Lewis as collector and salonnière bringing them all together in one extraordinary collection.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

EINSTEIN (ALBERT)Relativity. The Special & The General Theory, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by Robert W. Lawson, frontispiece portrait, illustrations in the text, 8pp. of advertisements at end, light pencil markings in the margins, publisher's red cloth, lettered in blind on upper cover, in black on spine (slightly dulled), publisher's orange dust-jacket (later issue, '5/- net' on spine but advertising the 'eighth edition' of 1924 on front flap), 8vo, Methuen, [1920]Footnotes:The first English edition of Einstein's pioneering work expounding his 'theory of relativity'.Provenance: 'E.K.M. Court from ?C.H. 23.8.[19]20', ownership 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

WAUGH (EVELYN)Men at Arms, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'For F.B. Walker with gratitude for all his countless kindnesses from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's blue cloth, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1952Footnotes:The first volume of Waugh's 'Sword of Honour' trilogy, inscribed with an exceptionally warm note of gratitude to F.B. Walker, who had during the Second World War in which the action of the Men of Arms takes place, been the production manager at Chapman & Hall, supporting Waugh to publish several of his novels at a time of great crisis.Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)[The Harry Potter Gift Set] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, fourth printing, 1997; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, seventh printing, 1998, EACH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper, publisher's pictorial boards and dust-jackets, MINT COPIES, preserved in the original pictorial single slipcase, 8vo, Bloomsbury (2)Footnotes:MINT CONDITION SIGNED COPIES OF EARLY PRINTINGS OF THE FIRST TWO HARRY POTTER BOOKS.This 'Harry Potter Gift Set' (so titled such on the spine of the slipcase) was issued in 1998 prior to publication of The Prisoner of Azkaban and largely sold at signing sessions undertaken by Rowling that year. The present set is one of two bought by the vendor in late 1998 at the Deansgate, Manchester branch of Waterstones. The set was given by the vendor to his niece as a Christmas present that year. A letter from the vendor to this effect 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

PLATH (SYLVIA)Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, COPY NUMBER 1 OF 20 COPIES BOUND IN FULL VELLUM, from an overall edition of 400 copies, this copy with a manuscript poem by Ted Hughes on the front free endpaper, publisher's vellum, silk ties, original solander box [Tabor A9], 4to, The Rainbow Press, [1971]Footnotes:NUMBER 1 OF ONLY 20 COPIES BOUND IN VELLUM, THIS COPY WITH THE ADDITION OF A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN 3-STANZA POEM BY TED HUGHES, not found in the Collected Poems, added by Hughes to the front free endpaper. The poem begins 'Looking for the future's/Lovely features in a mirror/was an error...'. A selection of previously unpublished poems by Plath, chosen by Olwyn Hughes, this was the first book with the Rainbow Press imprint. The vellum bound copies were offered at £120, the standard copies at £21.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, ownership inscription on the half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, 5 parts in 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, large engraved vignette on titles, engraved pictorial dedication leaf, 301 (of 305) engraved plates by Claude-Augustin Duflos, Le Roy, Prévost, Saint-Non and others after Fragonard, Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Hubert Robert and Saint-Non, numerous large engraved head- and tail-pieces (24 of Roman vases printed in colours), one full-page illustration of Vesuvius, tissue guards, contemporary polished calf, gilt tooled spines with red and green gilt morocco lettering labels [Blackmer 1473; Brunet V, 55; Cicognara 2708; Cohen-de Ricci 928-930; Millard French 148; Ray French 34], folio (505 x 330mm.), Paris, 1781Footnotes:Provenance: Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), bookplate. Entering the Houses of Parliament in 1808, by 1810 he was an under-secretary at the Home Office, and in 1812 under-secretary for war and colonies, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1828; 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

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Chimes: A Goblin Story, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and additional title (first state) after Maclise, wood-engraved illustrations by Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, advertisement for tenth edition of A Christmas Carol at beginning, slight foxing to frontispiece and engraved title, publisher's red vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e., housed in green watered silk chemise and dark green morocco pull-off case with ornate gilt panelled spine [Smith II:5], 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1845 [1844]Footnotes:VERY FINE COPY of the first edition of Dickens' second Christmas Book, issued following the huge success of A Christmas Carol the year before.Provenance: Helen S. Armstrong and Dr A.C. Pfeifer, bookplates at front and rear respectively.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

WAUGH (EVELYN)Brideshead Revisited. The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, AUTHOR'S PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'For F.B. Walker whose pre-natal care made the book possible, with gratitude from Evelyn Waugh' on the front free endpaper, half-title, 'T.H. Saunders' watermark to title and dedication leaf, pencil numeral '353' on final page '304', contemporary morocco-backed cloth, lettered 'F.B. Walker' in gilt on upper cover, t.e.g., others untrimmed, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1945 [1944]Footnotes:IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION COPY OF A SPECIAL PRE-PUBLICATION EDITION OF BRIDESHEAD, INSCRIBED TO F.B. WALKER, THE MAN 'WHOSE PRE-NATAL CARE MADE THE BOOK POSSIBLE'.Printed in a run of fifty copies at his own expense in 1944, Waugh sent these pre-publication copies to his closest friends and associates to garner opinions, after which he revised the text prior to the first trade edition published in the following year. Copies were issued in printed green wrappers, but this copy has a special bespoke binding stamped with the recipient's name on the upper cover. 'During the war, and affable and efficient fellow, F.B. Walker, had taken over many jobs [at Chapman & Hall] including that of Production Manager of the General side... It was he who seen... Brideshead through the press...' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992).Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship...Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.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

HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBER III OF 10 COPIES RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, SIGNED, from an overall edition of 310, publisher's quarter morocco, Faber, [1998]; Tales from Ovid, 2 copies, SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBERS I AND 2 OF 10 COPIES RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, SIGNED, from an overall edition of 310, publisher's cloth-backed boards, Faber, [1998]; Earth-moon. Illustrated by the Author, LIMITED 226 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1975; Orts, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1978; Adam and the Sacred Nine, 4 copies, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1978, original blue calf, slipcases; Moortown Elegies, NUMBER 77 OF 175 COPIES, SIGNED, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., slipcase, 1978; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 140 COPIES SIGNED, publisher's limp calf, one in slipcase, 1973, Rainbow Press; A Solstice, ONE OF 350 COPIES, this copy 139, additionally inscribed 'Ted Hughes 9 August 78' on colophon, publisher's wrappers, Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1978; Animal Poems, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, SIGNED 'TED HUGHES 25TH SEPT 1971', loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, Crediton, Richard Gilbertson, 1971; Giant Dream of Elephants, 1982; Wolf-Watching, 1982; Mice Are Funny Creatures, 1983; Weasels at Work, 1983, EACH LIMITED TO 75 COPIES SIGNED, prospectus in each, publisher's wrappers, printed label on upper cover, Court Green, North Tawton; Moortown, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda and Des [Dawes] with lots of love from Dad, 10th Nov. 1979', errata slip with one line added in manuscript by Hughes loosely inserted, Faber, 1979; Flowers and Insects, FIRST EDITION, DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda with special love from Daddy, November 1986', 1986; Woolf Watching, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda and Clive [Anderson] with love Daddy, 9th October 1989, 1989; A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse... Selected by Ted Hughes, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda with love from Daddy, 7th November 1991. Number 115 [with a stanza marked in the text], publisher's wrappers, 1991; Shakespeare and the Goddess of Being, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda with love from Daddy, 1st April 1992' above a six line verse from the 'Brihadaranyaka Upanishad', 1992; Winter Pollen. Occasional Prose, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Frieda - Keep this book from bandicoots, wombats, jippers and the laugher of Jackasses - it's the secret of life of your Daddy who sends it with love for April 1st, 1994 [Frieda's birthday]', 1994, Faber, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to; and approximately 40 others, of which 8 inscribed by Ted to Frieda (3 his own works, 5 by other authors, 6 signed limited editions), and others by Hughes (c.65)Footnotes:'FOR FRIEDA - KEEP THIS BOOK FROM BANDICOOTS, WOMBATS, JIPPERS AND THE LAUGHTER OF JACKASSES - IT'S THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR DADDY WHO SENDS HIS LOVE' - A collection of copies personally inscribed by Hughes to his daughter, of Private Press publications (Morragu, Rainbow, etc.) and others by Hughes.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, inscribed to her, or with her ownership inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SYLVIA'S HUSBAND TED HUGHES TO THEIR DAUGHTER FRIEDA, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, 'For my wonderful Frieda.. How proud of you your mother would have been... Daddy, 2nd December 1997', publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket, [Tabor A5a], FINE COPY, 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1965Footnotes:'HOW PROUD OF YOU YOUR MOTHER WOULD HAVE BEEN' - A TOUCHING ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES WITH A WONDERFULLY WARM INSCRIPTION TO HIS AND SYLVIA PLATH'S DAUGHTER FRIEDA. This copy was inscribed less than a year before Hughes' death, 'For my wonderful Frieda/The happiest thing I wish I could have seen -/How proud of you you mother would have been. The happiest, easiest thing that I can do/Is tell you now how proud I am of you. Love Daddy, 2nd December 1997'.Ariel was edited by Ted Hughes, whose daughter Frieda felt that her father had 'honoured my mother's work and her memory by publishing Ariel... He, perhaps more than anyone, recognised and acknowledged her talent as extraordinary. Without Ariel, my mother's literary genius might have gone unremarked forever' (The Letters of Sylvia Plath, 2017, Preface). Towards the end of 1962 Plath had gathered together in a black ring binder most of the poems which would eventually be included in Ariel, a title Plath chose shortly before she died in February 1963. The book was dedicated to both Frieda and her brother Nicholas.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, gift inscription from her father, Ted Hughes.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Bloomsbury, 1997, reverse of title-page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, the author's name given as 'Joanne Rowling' and no space between 'Taylor' and '1997', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, lower cover with misspelling 'philospher's' and 'Wizardry, and Witchcraft' reversed, with the usual light browning at the page edges, fine in publisher's pictorial boards, spine very slightly faded and bumped at ends [Errington A1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST HARDBACK PRINTING OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL, GIVEN BY CHRISTOPHER LITTLE TO THE AUTHOR WHO HAD HELPED LAUNCH HIS CAREER AS A LITERARY AGENT - A TACIT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF A FRIENDSHIP WHICH ULTIMATELY LED TO LITTLE'S DISCOVERY OF J.K. ROWLING. Provenance: Presented by Christopher Little to the author Philip Nicholson (1940-2005), better known as A.J. Quinnell; sold on behalf of Nicholson's last wife, Elsebeth Egholm Nicholson, Danish journalist and author of crime fiction novels, including the Dicte stories on which the television series was based.After working all over the world for many years, the Yorkshire-born Christopher Little had come to London in 1974. Finding the employment world very challenging, he decided to open his own recruitment agency. According to a newspaper article in 2007, Little's 'switch to the literary world happened by accident in 1979. A schoolfriend and fellow Hong Kong trader, Philip Nicholson, had written a thriller and was seeking representation. Little agreed to take him on and the book, Man on Fire, was published under the pseudonym AJ Quinnell. It went on to sell 7.5 million copies worldwide and become a Hollywood film...' (David Smith, The Guardian, 15 July 2007).The Christopher Little Literary Agency gradually grew alongside the recruitment business, and had some twenty authors on its books in 1992 when the recruitment arm was sold. 'In his only press interview, in 2003, Little recalled: 'The literary agency was really a hobby which started through an accident. I was helping an old friend in his writing career. I had been running as a full-time business for about six years when Harry Potter arrived'' (David Smith, op cit).And so it was that in 1995 Little received in the post three chapters of a manuscript from an unknown author named Joanne Rowling, who had apparently chosen the agency at random because the name sounded like a character in a children's story. And the rest, as we know, is publishing history.Meanwhile Little and Nicholson remained firm friends until the latter's death in 2005, and Little would remain close friends with Elsebeth Egholm until his own death in 2021.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

WALKER (GEORGE)The Costume of Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, text in English and French, 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. & D. Havell after G. Walker, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, covers with wide roll-tool gilt border, with inner blind-stamped border and corner-pieces, g.e. [Abbey Life 432; Colas 3044; Tooley 498], folio (365 x 255mm.), Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.], 1814Footnotes:Attractive red morocco-bound first edition of Walker's Costumes. Walker's fine plates depicting Yorkshire types include 'The Collier', showing a man working at Middleton Colliery in south Leeds, with Murray and Blenkinsop's newly invented steam engine in the background, 'the first English plates to show a steam engine' (Tooley). Other subjects include a horse dealer, cranberry girl, whalebone scrapers, woman spinning, stonebreakers, the alum works, leech finders, jockeys at York races, Sheffield cutler, Wensley Dale knitters, Moor guide, and several of local militias.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; 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

CHINABARROW (JOHN) Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton, FIRST EDITION, 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 3 engraved plates (2 double-page), half calf, spine tooled in gilt with gilt morocco lettering label [Abbey Travel 531; Cordier 2388; Hill 64; Lowendahl 724; Lust 365; Tooley 84], 4to, T. Cadell, and W. Davies, 1804Footnotes:John Barrow was a member of Lord Macartney's embassy to China, and his works includes 'an account of that mission that contains some first-hand information not found in Staunton' (Lowendahl).Provenance: George Cornwall Legh (1804-1877, Member of Parliament for Chester from 1841 to 1873), bookplate; William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; 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

QU'RAN, in Arabic and LatinAlcorani Textus Universus; Refutatio Alcorani [edited and translated by Ludovico Marraccio], 2 vol., text in Arabic and Latin, woodcut ornaments and end-pieces, occasional spotting (heaviest to the first title), shelf label in red ink on titles, contemporary calf, worn, one cover detached [Brunet III, 1307, 'Edition très recherchée et dont les exempl. sont peu common'], folio (355 x 230mm.), Padua, Ex typographia Seminarii, 1698Footnotes:The third printing of the Qu'ran ['Koran'] in Arabic, edited by the Italian Orientalist Ludovido Marracci, with a parallel Latin translation helping to spread the text throughout the West. Includes extensive additional texts, including a lengthy biography of Muhummad, and Marracci's anti-Islamic commentaries and 'Refutations' on each verse from his Catholic anti-Islamic position.Provenance: Thomas Llewelyn (1720-1783, Welsh Baptist), armorial 'Gift' bookplate; Bristol Education Society label. For note on Llewelyn's library see B. Hines, The library of Thomas Llewelyn, Aberystwyth Bibliographical Group, website, 2020.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)The Colossus. Poems, FIRST EDITION, light spotting, ink correction to one word in the poem 'Sculptor', publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, dust-jacket (light spotting, mostly to spine and lower cover, slightly frayed at head of spine) [Tabor A2a], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1960Footnotes:Rare first edition of Plath's first major work.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, Sylvia's daughter, ownership inscription. Frieda was born in April, some seven months prior to the publication of Colossus.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

[BADIA Y LEBLICH (DOMINGO)] 'Ali Bey'Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, between the Years 1803 and 1807, 2 vol., first edition in English, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, 83 engraved plates and plans (of 86, with 12bis and 28bis, plate 72 on 2 sheets, lacks plates 12, 16 and 40, 7 folding), 4 folding engraved maps (one laid on linen, others short tears, mostly at folds), some toning and spotting, pp.281/2 corner torn away just touching 2 letters, pp.305/6 small hole touching letters, early non-uniform half calf, worn, 2 covers detached [Blackmer 62; Cobham-Jeffrey, p.1; Rohricht 1607], 4to, Longman, Hurst, 1816Footnotes:The author, 'Ali Bey', was a Spaniard who disguised himself as an Arab, thereby gaining access to many places throughout North Africa and Asia Minor (including the mosques at Omar and Mecca) not previously visited by Christians. Many of the plates relate to Cyprus.Provenance: Shirley C. Atchley, 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

LATROBE (CHRISTIAN IGNATIUS)Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope, FIRST EDITION, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates after sketches by the author himself and John Melville, Government Surveyor of the Cape, 4 lithographed plates, folding engraved map (hand-coloured in outline), advertisement at end, light spotting to text and off-setting onto title, contemporary calf gilt, neatly rebacked to match with red and brown gilt morocco spine labels [Abbey Travel 325; Mendelssohn I, p.866; Prideaux, p.240; Tooley 292], 4to, L.B. Seeley, 1818Footnotes:Latrobe was secretary to the Moravian Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel to the Heathen from 1787 until 1834, during which time he undertook a successful expedition in 1815–16 to the mission at the Cape of Good Hope, during which he travelled extensively throughout the country.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; 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

PARRY (WILLIAM EDWARD)Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, FIRST EDITION, 14 engraved or aquatint plates, 6 engraved maps (some folding), errata slip pasted to final leaf of text, contemporary calf gilt, covers with 3-line gilt fillet and Greek-style roll tool border enclosing inner panel, spine tooled and lettered in 5 compartments within raised bands, joints weakened [Sabin 58860], 4to, John Murray, 1821Footnotes:Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; 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

HUGHES (TED)Meet My Folks!, FIRST EDITION, THE DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, 'To Frieda, on her first birthday from Da, with love, April 1st, 1961' on the front free endpaper, illustrations by George Adamson, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket (spotting on lower cover) [Sagar/Tabor A4], small 4to, Faber and Faber, 1961Footnotes:PRE-PUBLICATION PRESENTATION COPY OF HUGHES' FIRST BOOK FOR CHILDREN, INSCRIBED TO THE DEDICATEE, Ted and Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda, on 1 April 1961, six days prior to the official publication date. For the copy inscribed on the same date to Sylvia Plath see Bonhams, 21 March, 2018, lot 341.Provenance: Frieda Hughes, gift inscription from her father Ted Hughes.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

ARISTOTLE'S MASTER-PIECEAristoteles Master-piece, or, The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof., Containing, 1. The Signes of Barrenness. 2. The Way of Getting a Boy or Girl. 3. Of the Likeness of Children to Parents....7. The Prejudice of unequal Matches. 8. The Discovery of Insufficiency... 11. How a Midwife ought to be Qualified... 14. The Fabrick of the Womb. 15. The Use and Action of the Genitals. 16. Signs of Conception, and whether of a Male or Female. 17... 18. Instructions for Women with Child... to which is added a Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation: and the Pictures of several Monsterous Births drawn to the Life, FIRST EDITION, woodcut frontispiece of 'a Maid all Hairy, and an Infant that was black by the Imagination of their Parents', with blank H12, 6 woodcuts of monstrous births (including repeat of frontispiece) at end, blank free endpapers, final gathering frayed with short tears at fore-edge with minor losses just touching image and 1 letter of I6, and catch-word of I4, contemporary sheep, rubbed with small loss at upper margin of lower cover [ESTC R504793; Wing A3697fA], 12mo, J. How, and are to be sold next door to the Anchor Tavern in Sweethings-rents in Cornhil, 1684Footnotes:SCARCE COMPLETE COPY OF 'THE DIRTY BOOK OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD'.'Aristotle's Masterpiece was the most popular book about women's bodies, sex, pregnancy, and childbirth in Britain and America from its first appearance in 1684 up to at least the 1870s. More than 250 editions are known, but all are very rare... It was sold furtively by country peddlers and in general stores and taverns; regular booksellers seldom advertised it, though they usually had it under the counter' (The Library Company of Philadelphia, 'Treasures', online catalogue). The work 'was still on sale, contents largely unaltered, in Soho sex shops in the 1930s' (Books and Babies, Cambridge Library, 2011) and James Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom peruses an edition of the book in Ulysses. The work was in fact assembled from Levinus Lemnius's The Secret Miracles of Nature (1564) and Jakob Rüff's midwifery manual De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554), and the attribution to Aristotle is of course totally spurious and probably a vain attempt to give the work some measure of respectability.This is the earliest publication date for the Master-piece, ESTC listing three variant settings of 1684, all printed by J. How, with no priority having been established. ESTC records only the incomplete British Library copy (which lacks final gathering I1-6) of our setting, which has line 11 of title ending 'both', line 18 of title ends 'Ge-', and the first line of the imprint ending 'sold', the first line of imprint ends 'sold', signature B5 is under the 'nt Bl' of 'effluent Blood' and on p.190 the fifth line from bottom begins with a capital 'Q'.Provenance: '?J. Riam... [scuffed] his book 1740 February the 21', light ink ownership inscription on the verso of the title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUGHES (TED)The Iron Man. A Story in Five Nights, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, INSCRIBED 'To Frieda love from Dad 31st Jan 1968' on the front free endpaper, illustrations by George Adamson, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (slight fading to spine, one small smudge on upper cover but good) [Sagar/Tabor A17a], 4to, Faber and Faber, 1968Footnotes:DEDICATEE'S COPY - INSCRIBED TO THE AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER FRIEDA FOUR WEEKS PRIOR TO THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, IN FINE CONDITION. The book, dedicated to Frieda, her brother Nicholas and half-sister Shura, was released on 26 February, and 'would prove to be Ted's bestselling and best-loved work. It firmly established his place as one of the world's leading children's authors...' (Jonathan Bate, Ted Hughes, 2015, p.261). Hughes took his writing for children very seriously. As early as 1957 he wrote to his brother Gerald on the subject, saying 'I would like to produce a classic volume... at present there are countless children's books, mostly bad... very few that you want to read 2x' (Letters, Faber, 2007, p.108). The book was later adapted into a 'rock opera' musical by Pete Townshend of The Who, and inspired an animated Warner Brothers film (1999). For the dedication copy inscribed for Nicholas see Bonhams, 21 March 2018, lot 375.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEWIS (C.S.)A group of 14 works, including SEVEN INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, a few with manuscript notes, etc., comprising:Out of the Silent Planet, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'With Kindest regards and happiest recollections of a pleasant meeting, C.S. Lewis, March 1th 1939', 2 single page typed copy letters from Lewis to Knight (18 and 27 November 1938) discussing this book ('... Another thing I learn is that my sales are likely to be small since 'S-F-Fans' are clearly ante-Christian and most Christians are not space fans!...'), Bodley Head, 1938Prelandra. Novel, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis with kind regards, May 3rd 1943', NOTECARD SIGNED ('C.S. Lewis') to Knight, from Magdalen College saying '... I'm knocked up with a long spell of examining and a 100 horse-power cold', returning a pamphlet, and sending 'Xmas' wishes, one page tipped-inside upper cover, Bodley Head, 1943Christian Behaviour, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis' on the front free endpaper, dust-jacket, Geoffrey Bles, [1943]The Pilgrim's Regress, third edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis Xmas 1943' on the half-title, a 2-page letter written to Knight from a Canon in Southport discussing this title and Lewis's writing ('... as with so many other modern writers on the quest for Truth Lewis seem to me to be over-burdened... [and] feels under an obligation to give serious consideration to every writer who 'makes a noise'...') loosely inserted, Geoffrey Bles, [1943]That Hideous Strength, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis with kind regards, Aug. 1945' on author's compliments slip pasted on front free endpaper Bodley Head, [1945]Miracles, first US edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S. Lewis Sept. 1947' on the front free endpaper, New York, Macmillan, 1947Mere Christianity, FIRST EDITION, POSTCARD SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ('C.S.L.', dated 18 Sept. 1952) to Knight telling him 'MC was 'for keep' and I only realised after I posted it that I'd forgotten to put your name in it' taped in on front free endpaper, Geoffrey Bles, 1952The Last Battle, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 'F.H.P. Knight from C.S.L. November 1956' by the recipient on front free endpaper, dust-jacket designed by Pauline Baynes (unclipped, spine soiled, toned), Bodley Head, 1956The Screwtape Letters, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, printed spine label, Geoffrey Bles, [March, 1943]publisher's cloth, slight rubbing, 8vo; and 5 others by C.S. Lewis (14)Footnotes:SEVEN INSCRIBED BOOKS AND TWO POSTCARDS FROM C.S. LEWIS TO AN EARLY READER, Lewis noting 'it is always very pleasant to find that one's book has been liked -- specially by a fellow Christian and a fellow Churchman'.Provenance: Francis H.P. Knight, Walsall, Lancs., inscriptions from the author, and/or ownership stamp or ink address. Knight corresponded with Lewis about his books, and according to the current owner 'used to come into the library where my grand-father, Francis Bowler, worked in Walsall', to whom they were left.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST EDITION, a few light spots to half-title, title and edges of book block, publisher's blue and white wrappers, a few very small spots but generally bright [Errington AA2(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF THE SECOND HARRY POTTER NOVEL. Errington notes that 'an unconfirmed print-run of 300 copies is generally accepted... Bloomsbury is unable to provide accurate figures and has merely suggested between 200 and 300 copies'.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

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Hobbit or There and Back Again, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, frontispiece and 9 plates or illustrations (all but one full-page), map endpapers (printed in red and black) by the author, a few corners turned, paper shelf mark and a few remants of label inside upper cover, ink numeral ('221') on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth, lettered and decorated in dark blue, top edge light green, worn at extremities of spine and corners, light spotting, upper hinge starting [Hammond A3(a)], 8vo, George Allen & Unwin, [1937]Footnotes:ONE OF ONLY 1500 COPIES OF THE VERY FIRST EDITION OF THE HOBBIT, published on the 21 September 1937. A second issue appeared in December (see following lot).Provenance: Casterton School, Kirby, stamp on half-title, bookplate on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UNCORRECTED PROOF OF THE FIRST EDITION, with 'J.A. Rowling' on the title-page and number sequence 10 to 1 on verso, foxing to half-title, occasional single spots elsewhere, publisher's plain white and yellow wrappers, some scattered light spotting [Errington AA1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:HARRY POTTER'S VERY FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. Of this proof 'an unconfirmed print-run of 200 copies is generally accepted' which 'is also the figure noted by Bloomsbury' (Errington). The author's name is misprinted 'J.A. Rowling' on the title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WAUGH (EVELYN)The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold. A Conversation Piece, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Bruce [Walker] with gratitude from Evelyn July 17th 1957' on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's red buckram, spine faded, large 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1957Footnotes:A presentation copy of one of the approximately fifty copies of the specially bound large paper edition. Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.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

FERRI (ALFONSO)De ligni sancti multiplici medicina et vini exhibitione, FIRST EDITION, title with large woodcut arms of Pope Paul III, lower margins trimmed occasionally shaving catchwords (M3v-M4v with catchword cropped), light damp-stain to A2, nineteenth[?] century limp boards [USTC 829334], 4to, Rome, Antonio Blado, 1537Footnotes:VERY RARE FIRST EDITION OF FERRI'S TREATISE ON THE TEATMENT OF SYPHILIS USING GUAIACUM WOOD, AND THE HEALING PROPERTIES OF WINE. Only copies of the second or later editions have been traced in post-War auction records.The Neapolitan doctor-surgeon Alfonso Ferri was called to Rome in 1535 to take care of Pope Paul III, the dedicatee of this work, and to teach at the university. In this popular treatise Ferri refers to the discovery of America as insulis aetate nostra repertis and discusses the exportation from Jamaica and Haiti of Guaiacum, the 'holy' wood which was imported from America during the early sixteenth-century and whose resin was supposedly a cure for venereal disease. The author also adds a fourth chapter on the healing properties of wine and its use together with the wood.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

KOHLMEISTER (BENJAMIN) AND GEORGE KMOCHJournal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh; Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in that Unknown Region, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR 'Henry Goulburn Esq. from the editor C.I.G. Latrobe' on the front free endpaper, folding engraved map, contemporary tree calf, spine tooled in gilt (short tear, upper joint slightly weakened) [Sabin 38225], 8vo, Printed by W. M'Dowall, for the Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel Among the Heathen, 1814Footnotes:Fine association copy of a rare journal of exploration in Labrador, the last copy traced on Rare Book Hub sold in 1939, with an inscription offering the name of the book's previously unrecorded editor, C. Latrobe. The authors were Moravian missionaries who, in 1811, set out in the company of fifteen Inuit to explore northwards of the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, making new discoveries. 'However, when the Moravians attempted to negotiate with the British government [see provenance below] for a mission at Ungava Bay they were told they would be infringing on the privileges granted to the Hudson's Bay Company' (Howgego).Provenance: Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), presentation inscription from the editor, and bookplate. At the time of publication Goulburn held the position of under-secretary for war and colonies, and was 'principally responsible for colonial administration.. [playing a] key role as a negotiator at Ghent in July 1814 charged with negotiating the final arrangement of frontiers, fisheries, and maritime rights at the cessation of the Anglo-American War of 1812–14' (ODNB); 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

[PLATH (SYLVIA)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], 8vo, Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED POEM. Alan Anderson, the owner of the Tragara Press, has stated that approximately 60 copies were printed. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23 July 1960 'The pamphlets are absolutely beautiful. Ted and I are delighted with them, and especially with the handsome way you make up your covered booklets' (The Letters, Vol.II, edited by Steinberg and Kukil, 2018).Provenance: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; their daughter Frieda Hughes, her signature on card loosely inserted.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

SOANE (JOHN)Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS FAULKNER, inscribed 'Received this book from Sir John Soane, July 14th 1834. Thos. Faulkner' on front free endpaper, half-title, 18 lithographed and engraved plates, with 6 additional plates (including hand-coloured frontispiece), 14 mounted back to back as issued, 2 wood-engraved illustrations on leaf of introduction, some spotting, contemporary boards, rebacked and sides papered in marbled paper (worn with a few losses to paper), 4to (320 x 245mm.), Printed by James Moyes [for Private Circulation], 1832Footnotes:A COPY GIVEN BY JOHN SOANE TO THOMAS FAULKNER, BOOKSELLER AND AUTHOR OF BOOKS ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF LONDON, of Soane's description of his celebrated house-cum-museum. First privately published in 1830, Soane had further copies printed by James Moyes in 1832, which were, as described on the John Soane's Museum Collection Online website, issued in a variety of slightly differing forms. This copy is one of the 'grangerized copies [which] have the misnumbered plate 14 corrected to 13 in manuscript, and may be regarded as a step towards the much larger 1835/36... these copies lack a frontispiece but have the hand-coloured aquatint of the Britton's Union bound to face the title-page'.Provenance: Thomas Faulkner (1777-1855).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)]The Bell Jar by Victoria Lucas, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, publisher's light grey wrappers, lettered '(Not for Sale) Uncorrected Proof Copy' and 'Publication Date: 14th January, 1963. Price: 18s.Od.' on the upper cover, foxing (heavier on spine), short tears to head and foot of upper joint, 8vo, Heinemann, 1962Footnotes:'AND HOW ARE YOU FEELING THIS MORNING, MISS LUCAS?' Uncorrected proof of Sylvia Plath's only novel, issued under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas.There are upwards of seventy textual variations between this uncorrected proof (1962), and the final published first edition released by Heinemann in 1963. 'These textual differences are the result of edits made either by Plath herself when she reviewed the proof or by the editors as they prepared the final typesetting. This shows that Plath read her proofs of The Bell Jar very carefully and extends our understanding of her involvement in the creative process beyond the composition of the work itself' (Peter K. Steinberg, Textual Variations in The Bell Jar Publications, online resource University of Indiana). For instance in this proof copy on two pages (pp.187/188) the name of the novel's heroine Esther Greenwood remains as 'Miss Lucas', the pseudonym under which Plath published the novel, and on p.53 'Plato' was altered to 'Socrates'. This copy has the eventual date of publication stamped on 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

PLATH (SYLVIA)A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960; The Colossus, FIRST EDITION, library copy with perforated stamp on title an without front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, stamped on upper cover and spine [Tabor A2], Heinemann, 1960; Three Women. A Monologue for Three Voices, second (first published) edition, NUMBER 165 OF 180 COPIES, frontispiece by Stanislaw Gliwa, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt [Tabor A3b.1], Turret Books, 1968; The Bell Jar, [Tabor A4a.3, Heinemann, [1966]; Ariel, FIRST EDITION, [Tabor A5a], Faber, [1965]; idem, first U.S. edition [Tabor A5b], Harper & Row, [1966]; Uncollected Poems, [LIMITED TO 150 COPIES], THIS COPY 'C OF 13 COPIES' SIGNED BY TED HUGHES inside upper cover, publisher's pictorial wrappers [Tabor A6, not mentioning this 'lettered' limited variant], Turret Books, 1965 [but 1966]; Wreath for a Bridal, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this copy 'B' of 5 unnumbered copies, publisher's wrappers [Tabor A7], Frensham, Farnham Press, 1970; Crystal Gazer and Other Poems, NUMBER 104 OF 400 COPIES, publisher's quarter cloth, slipcase [Tabor 9], Rainbow Press, 1971; Fiesta Melons, LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, this copy number '6' but not signed by TH [Tabor A10], Exeter, Rougemont Press, 1971; Crossing the Water, FIRST EDITION, Tabor A11a], Faber, 1971; idem, first U.S. edition [Tabor A11b], Harper & Row, 1971; Lyonnesse. Poems, ONE OF 90 COPIES BOUND IN FULL CALF, from an overall edition of 300, this copy number 15, publisher's calf gilt, slipcase [Tabor A13], Rainbow Press, 1971; Million Dollar Month, NUMBER 30 OF 150 COPIES, publisher's wrappers [Tabor A14], Frensham, Sceptre Press, [1971]; Winter Trees, FIRST EDITION, [Tabor A15], Faber, 1971; idem, first U.S. edition [Tabor A15b], Harper & Row, 1972; Child, NUMBER 6 OF 325 COPIES [Tabor A16], Exeter, The Rougemont Press, 1971; Pursuit, NUMBER 8 OF 100 COPIES, WITH ORIGINAL ETCHING SIGNED BY LEONARD BASKIN, 4 full-page illustrations by Baskin, full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g., slipcase [Tabor A17], Rainbow Press, 1973; Letters Home... Selected and Edited with Commentary by Aurelia Schober Plath, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE EDITOR, SYLVIA'S MOTHER TO FRIEDA HUGHES 'To Frieda - my first grandchild with every wish for all that is good and true in life. Love from your mother's mother Granny' on the half-title, jacket slightly creased [Tabor A18], New York, Harper & Row, 1975; The Bed Book. Illustrated by Quentin Blake, FIRST EDITION, AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM THE ILLUSTRATOR TO FRIEDA HUGHES (28 October 1999) loosely inserted [Tabor A19], Faber, 1963; Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, FIRST EDITION, short tears to front free endpaper [Tabor A22], Faber, 1977; idem, first U.S. edition [Tabor A22b], Harper & Row, [1978]; Two Poems, NUMBER 67 OF 75 'ESPECIAL' COPIES, from an overall edition of 300 [Tabor A22], Knotting, Martin Booth at Sceptre Press, 1980; Two Uncollected Poems, NUMBER 3 OF 450 COPIES, [Tabor A23], Anvil Press, 1980; A Day in June. An Uncollected Short Story, NUMBER 16 OF 160 COPIES, [Tabor A24], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1981, last 3 publisher's wrappers; A Dialogue Over a Ouija Board, NUMBER 138 OF 140 COPIES, illustration by Leonard Baskin, publisher's limp vellum, slipcase [Tabor A25], Rainbow Press, 1981; Collected Poems. Edited by Ted Hughes, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES TO FRIEDA HUGHES 'To Frieda and Des [Dawes, first husband] with love from Dad, 2nd October 81', with note from Frieda about corrections [Tabor A26], Faber, 1981; The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962... Edited by Karen V. Kukil, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR TO FRIEDA '... with all my heart and much help from your beautiful mother...', several annotations in the text by Frieda [Tabor A27], Faber, 1982; The Green Rock, NUMBER 9 OF 160 COPIES publisher's wrappers, slipcase [Tabor A28], Ely, Embers Handpress, 1982; The Magic Mirror, LIMITED TO 226 COPIES, this marked 'Copy III. Copy O. Ted Hughes' on the colophon, Rhiwagor, Embers Handpress, 1989, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, ALL SIGNED BY FRIEDA HUGHES, either in the book or in slip inserted, 8vo and 4to; and 4 others with contributions by Plath (34)Footnotes:A fine collection of Plath's major works, including her very first book (limited to 60 copies), a fine copy of Ariel, many private press limited editions, and copies inscribed by Sylvia's mother Aurelia and husband Ted HughesProvenance: Frieda Hughes, all with ownership inscription in the book, or inserted label.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

[HUGHES (TED)]The New Poetry. A Selection Selected and Introduced by A. Alvarez, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES TO HIS PARENTS, 'To Mom & Dad with love Ted May 24th 1962' on the half-title publisher's wrappers [Sagar/Tabor B11], Penguin Books, 1962--MOOREHEAD (ALAN) Cooper's Creek, TED HUGHES' COPY COPIOUSLY MARKED-UP in margins and with underlinings in blue and black pen, with a note from Frieda Hughes tipped-in ('Daddy commissioned to write the script & hated it. It fell through eventually'), pictorial wrappers (creased, a few short tears), Four Square, 1965--A full-page drawing by Hughes depicting a coiled snake, tethered ass, mountains, small bird and phantastical star-burst, pencil with a few purple ink additions, sheet 265 x 200mm., [undated]; Original carbons for three poems ('The Black Beast', 'Second Bedtime Story' and 'Magical Dangers'), the first 2 with address 'Ted Hughes, Court Green, North Tawton, Devon' in upper right corner, sheet sizes 255 x 205mm., 1960s (6)Footnotes:INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO HIS PARENTS - Al Alvarez was the influential poetry editor for The Observer, an enthusiastic early champion of Hughes, describing him as 'a poet of the first importance' in his review of Lupercal (1960), and including more of his poems (twenty-one) in his anthology than any other poet, thus establishing Hughes as one of the best known English poets of his generation. The three carbon copies of poems were evidently written at Court Green, North Tawton at the home Hughes shared with his wife, Sylvia Plath. With an eye to making money, rather than through literary ambition, at this time Hughes turned his hand to script writing, one of which was an adaption of Alan Moorehead's Cooper's Creek in conjunction with the anthropologist and film maker Robert Gardner, a project that failed chiefly, as Frieda Hughes notes, due to the fact her father 'hated it'.Provenance: Frieda Hughes.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, FIRST EDITION, second issue, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO ARTHUR MOSTYN OWEN, INSCRIBED 'From the author' in a clerical hand on the front free endpaper, and with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('CHARLES DARWIN'), further inscribed by Mostyn Owen on the front free endpaper ('A Mostyn Owen/ Woodhouse/ Salop', and 'This was sent me by Charles Darwin/ AMO/ 1873', in pencil), and on Mostyn Owen's address label ('a present from the author Charles Darwin/ in 1873', in ink on front paste-down, the date in pencil and inked over later), the letter 4 pages, on Down House headed notepaper, 8vo, dated 23 May 1873, preserved in its original envelope which is affixed to the rear paste-down, 7 heliotype plates by O. G. Rejlander (3 folding, all numbered in Arabic and with 'Heliotype' not cropped), numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 4pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated November 1872, short nick in upper margin of B1, some foxing to verso of plate 1 and adjacent page, occasional very minor spots elsewhere, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt, extremities rubbed, one small water spot to upper cover, short nicks to spine ends, joints wearing (slight split at foot of upper joint, hinge split internally), [Freeman 1142; Garrison-Morton 4975; Norman 600], 8vo (182 x 122mm.), John Murray, 1872 (2)Footnotes:'A MOST THRILLING TOKEN OF THE VERY MANY JOYFUL DAYS WHICH I OWE TO YOUR FAMILY' - DARWIN SENDS A PRESENTATION COPY TO ONE OF HIS OLD SHROPSHIRE FRIENDS.Arthur Mostyn Owen (1813–1896, of Woodhouse, Shropshire) and his family were great friends of the Darwin and Wedgwood families during Charles' youth, when he regularly visited the estate to shoot with Arthur and his brothers, and got to know the two sisters, Sarah and Fanny Mostyn Owen. On the evidence of letters from the period, Darwin seems to have been on romantic terms with both sisters, until he graduated and set off on the Beagle whilst the sisters got married, Sarah to Thomas Haliburton in 1831, and Fanny to the politician Robert Biddulph in 1832. In his later years Darwin sought to reconnect with the sisters and corresponded with Sarah Haliburton, who in 1872 was one of the recipients of a presentation copy of The Expression of the Emotions. This must have prompted Arthur to write to Darwin some seven months later, and he in turn was sent a copy.Written on Down House headed note paper and dated 23 May, Darwin's four-page letter here opens with him reminiscing about their shooting days at Woodhouse, lamenting the fact that he is too ill to travel let alone shoot, and expressing his continuing feelings of guilt over a shooting accident all those years ago ('I shall never forget that very unpleasant, indeed I may call it horrid day when a shot from my gun entered your eye'). After politely declining Arthur's offer of a portrait, writing that 'it must be a copy of Richmond's, which we possess (& a poor affair it is)', he turns to the other part of the suggested exchange: 'I would with pleasure send you my 'Descent of Man', but... my Origin of Species ought to be read first. I have, however, lately published a book on the 'Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals'... I will direct my publisher to send you a copy'.The letter, tucked into its envelope at the rear of the volume, is described by the Darwin Correspondence Project as not having been found. But it can now fill the gap between Arthur's two letters to Darwin of 21 May and 28 May 1872, published by the Project as 'nos. 8917 and 8926'. The first sees Mostyn Owen writing to Darwin for the first time in many years. Having come across a portrait painted by Fanny in their Woodhouse days, he suggests that 'if you like to have it I will send it to you--& in return you shall send me the book you have written (people say) to prove our relationship to the monkey tribe'. In Arthur's letter of 28 May, he thanks Darwin for the book, and suggests there is a queue in the family to read it. Regarding his eye, he answers that it did give him some trouble, but that in conjunction with rubbing the area with cayenne pepper, it did help to get him added leave of absence whilst serving in India.Following on from The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 'is an important member of the evolutionary set, and it was written, in part at least, as a confutation of the idea that the facial muscles of expression in man were a special endowment' (Freeman). The only book Darwin illustrated with photographs, it heralded the foundation 'of the study of ethology (animal behaviour) and conveyance of information (communication theory) and made a major contribution to psychology' (DSB).This copy is Freeman's second issue, with three preliminary leaves only, 'htat' in the first line on p.208, and the last signatures being 2B1 and 2C4. The numbering of the plates is in Arabic rather than Roman, but no priority seems to have been established.Provenance: Arthur Mostyn Owen, recipient of the letter and his ownership inscriptions in the book; and thence by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

SOANE (JOHN)Description of the House and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, the Residence of John Soane, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To the Right Hon:be Henry Goulburn, with the authors Compts., 24 April 1830', and 'Not Published J.S.' and '1-250' on the half-title, 17 lithographed and engraved plates and plans on 13 sheets (8 plates pasted back to back), some spotting, publisher's plain boards, with letterpress title and contents label (inked 'Not Published') on upper cover, large 4to (320 x 250mm.), Printed by James Moyes, 1830Footnotes:FINE ASSOCIATION COPY, ONE OF ONLY 250 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION, of Soane's description of his own home at Lincoln's Inn Fields.In May 1829 Soane had sent his designs for a proposed New State Paper Office to the Treasury which to his relief 'were approved, although not before he had been forced to make alterations at the request of Henry Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Goulburn 'disapproved of the rusticated quoins' and desired Soane to add pilasters to the elevations in imitation of the Banqueting House... Despite Soane's opposition, and the concomitant increasing of the estimate by £3,000, the design with Goulburn's additions was approved in December 1829' (Sir John Soane's Museum Collection Online).Provenance: Henry Goulburn (1784-1856), presentation inscription from the author, dated 24 April 1830; 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

WAUGH (EVELYN)The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, FIRST EDITION, ONE 29 COPIES 'FOR PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR', INSCRIBED 'For Bruce Walker with the kindest regards from Evelyn Waugh, 8th October 1959' on the front free endpaper, half-title, title printed in red and black, frontispiece portrait, publisher's brown buckram gilt lettered on spine, t.e.g., others untrimmed, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1959Footnotes:INSCRIBED COPY OF THE SPECIALLY BOUND EDITION OF ONLY TWENTY-NINE COPIES 'PRINTED FOR PRESENTATION BY THE AUTHOR'.Provenance: F.B. Walker (1910-1993), presentation inscription from the author. Walker was the Production Manager at Waugh's publisher Chapman and Hall during the war, effectively running the department despite not being on the board. 'It was he who had seen Put out More Flags, Work Suspended, and Brideshead through the press, and he and Waugh had a comfortable professional relationship... Walker was the only person left at Chapman & Hall for whom he felt the slightest sympathy' (Martin Stannard, Evelyn Waugh: No Abiding City 1939-1966, 1992). In September 1945, when Walker was overlooked for promotion to the Board in favour of John McDougall, Waugh resigned his directorship of the company in disgust. Subsequently he continued sending Walker warmly inscribed copies of his later books; by descent to the vendor.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LEWIS (C.S.)The Screwtape Letters, FIRST EDITION, third printing, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('C.S. LEWIS') pasted inside upper cover, early owner's notes about the book on the front free endpaper and final pastedown, and one or two line summary at head of each chapter in neat black ink, newspaper cuttings pasted to front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, printed spine label, spine near detached, 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [March 1942]Footnotes:'IT GIVES A KIND OF PLEASURE THAT MAY BE BAD FOR MY SOUL!' - C.S. Lewis writes on 26 September 1942 from Magdalen College, Oxford, in response to a letter sent to him from Mr. Danter (the early owner of this copy of Screwtape Letters), thanking him for his kindness, and suggesting he should visit the author 'if you find yourself with an hour to spare in Oxford'.Provenance: Edwin Hicks, and Harold Danter, 'London - June 1st 1942', inscribed inside upper cover. Evidently these owners were early enthusiasts, one noting on front free endpaper 'I have bought several copies of this book, and given them, or lent them to others. It is extremely interesting to note their re-action to it. Their opinion of it may be used as a test of people's honesty...', and also recording the lengthy opinions of two of those lent the book in September 1942.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)]A Winter Ship, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 60 COPIES, title within an ornamental border, stitched in original stiff card with marbled wrappers, title printed in black on label pasted on upper cover [Tabor A1], 8vo, Edinburgh, Tragara Press, 1960Footnotes:THE FIRST EDITION OF SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST SEPARATELY PRINTED POEM. Alan Anderson, the owner of the Tragara Press, has stated that approximately 60 copies were printed. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23 July 1960 'The pamphlets are absolutely beautiful. Ted and I are delighted with them, and especially with the handsome way you make up your covered booklets' (The Letters, Vol.II, edited by Steinberg and Kukil, 2018).Provenance: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; their daughter Frieda Hughes, her signature on card loosely inserted.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

POWNALL (THOMAS)A Topographical Description of Such Parts of North America as are Contained in the (Annexed) Map of the Middle British Colonies in North America, FIRST EDITION, large folding hand-coloured engraved map of the 'Middle British Colonies in North America. First Published by Mr. Lewis Evans, and since corrected and improved, as also extended, with the addition of New England, and bordering parts of Canada; from actual surveys ... by T. Pownall... March 25th 1776' on 2 sheets joined (510 x 845mm.), a few tears at blank gutter margin, light stain in lower margin of title-page, edges untrimmed with some corners rolled, contemporary blue wrappers, lacks spine, upper cover creased at edges with later paper label [ESTC T97733; Howes P543; Sabin 64835], folio (440 x 275mm.), J. Almon, 1776Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF POWNALL'S IMPORTANT MAP OF AMERICA, complete with the original descriptive text. The map makes revisions to Lewis Evans's map and analysis of 1755, providing new details including New England and bordering parts of Canada, and the addition of the route of Christopher Gist's 1750-1751 trek through Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio. As well as Gist's journey, those of explorations by Captain Harry Gordon (1766), Captain Anthony Von Schaik (1756), Captain Humphrey Hobbs (1756), and Lewis Evans (1743) are described in the text.Provenance: Sold on behalf of a descendant of Thomas Pownall.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

HUSSEY (ANNA MARIA)Illustrations of British Mycology, Containing Figures and Descriptions of the Funguses of Interest and Novelty Indigenous to Britain, by Mrs. T.J. Hussey, [First Series (of 2)], FIRST EDITION, 90 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Mrs Hussey and others, paper guards, a few spots on a few plates, early red half morocco gilt, red morocco gilt lettering label on upper cover, spine decoratively tooled within raised bands, g.e. [Nissen BBI 961], large 4to, Reeve, Brothers, 1847Footnotes:Anna Maria Hussey's text, accompanying the plates which were in several instances executed after her own drawings, combines 'scientific description with information from history, literature, and folklore, and also contain advice on cooking fungi together with personal observations and anecdotes, all written in a lively and amusing style... Reviewers praised the beauty, detail, and accuracy of Illustrations of British Mycology, though the work's cost, and quarto size, made it an impractical companion for field work' (ODNB). A second series was published in 1855, two years after Hussey's death.Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; 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

FIRST EDITION ULSTER AT THE CROSSROADS TERENCE O'NEILL 1969

GROTIUS, H. De veritate religionis Christianae. Ed. 2a, priore auctior, & emend. Leiden, Maire, 1629. 233, (7) pp. 12°. Cont. vellum. (Sl. browned). -- Id. Poemata. (New enl. ed.). Leyden, Hier. de Vogel, 1639. (6), 535, (5) pp. W. engr. front. 12°. Cont. cf. w. dec. gilt spine & sides, and red label. -- Id. Annales et historiæ de rebus Belgicis. Amst., Ex typ. J. Blaeu, 1658. (16), 567, (25) pp. W. printer's mark on ti. & full-p. engr. portr. of the author. Cont. cf. w. raised bands & dec. gilt back. (Joints partly split, extremities a bit worn/dam., sm stamp on ti., a bit browned/foxed). -- (3). NOTE: Ad 1: Second Maire edition of this popular work, the first one (1627) being the very first Latin edition, also in 12°, which was followed by a Paris edition in the same year. - Ter Meulen/Diermanse 1946; Breukelmans 265. Ad 2: Willems 1636 note ("Assez jolie (…)"); Ter Meulen Diermanse 2. Ad 3: Haitsma Mulier/v.d. Lem 192f; Ter Meulen/Diermanse 744.

HUYGENS, C. Momenta desultoria; poematum ll. XIV. Ed. 2a, multo priore auctior, procur. L. Hugenio. Cum præf. C. Barlæi. The Hague, A. Vlacq, 1655. (76), 423 pp. W. engr. front. (Without portr. as often). - Bound with: C. v. KINSCHOT. Poemata in libros IV. digesta, (…). The Hague, A. Leers, 1685. (20), 216 pp. W. engr. portr. - 2 in 1 vol. Sm-8°. Cont. vellum. (Spine dam., some annot. on v° last leaf of first work, faintly stained in places). NOTE: Ad 1: Second (last), much enlarged edition of Huygens' Latin poetry. - Willems 768; Bibl. Belg. H-108.

GRONINGEN -- SUETONIUS. (XII Caesares). Cur. P. Burmanno, qui & suas adnot. adjecit. Amst., Janssonius v. Waesbergen, 1736. 2 vols. (22), 808; (2), 420-, 202, (6), -421-492, (204) pp. W. engr. front. to the first vol., 2 ti.-engr., 34 engr. plates of coins, medals, etc. and many text-engr. 4°. Beautiful early 19th c. full cf. w. raised bands, dec. gilt backs, green labels, gilt coat of arms of Groningen on all sides, surrounded by gilt dec. borders, & red speckled edges. (W. libr. stamps on ti., libr. num. scratched out, else a fine and clean set). NOTE: Dibdin II, 442-43: "This is a very valuable edition; containing the text of Grævius, and many excellent notes of Burman, with the entire notes of the best preceeding editors, and a selection from the remaining". - Copy with handwritten prize to Petrus Smit de Klemp dated 1835. - Spoelder 586 (Gron. 4).

BIBLIA ITALIANA -- IL NUOVO TESTAMENTO di Iesu Christo Nostro Signore, nuovemente riveduto e ricoretto segundo la verità del testo Greco, e di molte & utili annot. illustr. (Geneva), Heirs of Eustace Vignon, 1596. (8), 856, (32) pp. W. woodcut printer's mark on ti. Cont. vellum. (First free endpaper lacks, some incidental wormholes (mostly in margin), a trifle foxed). NOTE: Revised and corrected Geneva edition of Brucioli's version made for the Protestant Italian refugees; the underlying Greek text was probably the one checked by Beza. - Darlow & Moule 5596; EDIT16 5965/66.

BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- BIBLIA, Dat is: De gantsche heylige Schrift, grondelijck ende trouwelijck verduydtschet: Met verclaringhe duytscher woorden, redenen ende spreucken, ende verscheyden Lectien, die in andere loflicke Oversettinghen ghevonden (…) zijn. Embden, (W. Gailliaert), 15(64)-65. 4 parts in 1 vol. (32), 240; 94, (2 (1 blank)); 84; 109 lvs. W. woodcut printer's device (repeated on other ti.-pp.). Fol. 17th c. blind tooled vellum bind., spine raised in compartments. (Margins trimmed, reinforcements in places (espec. to r° and v° first ti.-p. w. resultant loss of part of the word 'Biblia' and a larger rep. to v° last leaf), ink stain on first ti.-p., stained throughout, traces of use/thumbed, some marginal worm holes in places (occas. affecting text)). NOTE: Second edition of the 'Deux Aes' Bible, first published at Emden in 1561-62 by Gillis van der Erven, translated from Luther's German, but here replacing some of the 1562 edition Germanisms into proper Dutch. This - in fact pirated - edition with 'improvements' was - much to Van der Erven's discontent - published without his approval, so he felt compelled to publish his own improved edition in 1565. The editions are not always clearly distinguished. - Le Long p. 731-2; Darlow & Moule 3293 note; Typ. Batava 565.

BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- DEN BIBEL. Tgeheele Oude ende Nieuvve Testame[n]t met grooter naersticheyt naden Latijnsche[n] text gecorrigeert. (…) Met schoone[n] Figueren ghedruckt ende naerstelijck weder oversien. Item oock een schoone zeer profitelijcke Tafel (…) niet ghedruct geweest. (Antwerp, W. Vorsterman, 1542). 3 parts in 1 vol. (14), 196; 166; 102 lvs. W. letterpress ti. to O and NT within border consisting of 4 woodcut illustr. (the one for the NT slightly deviant), 1 fold. woodcut map of the Holy Land (270 x 390 mm), a calendar printed in red & black on 3 pp., c. 250 woodcuts of uneven size in text, partly by Jan Swart, num. decorated woodcut initials and ornaments, and printer's device of two-headed eagle on verso of final page. Fol. Later vellum, spine raised in compartments & gilt dec., black ti. label. (Inner margin of some lvs. reinforced, rep. in places, fold. map. rep. on v°, a bit stained/thumbed throughout, tear in leaf e6 (OT), small hole in inner margin leaf C6 (NT), occasional stains/small defects, but a very good copy). NOTE: Rare, complete copy of the 5th edition of the Vorsterman Bible (first 1528), richly illustrated with an abundancy of fine woodcuts, including the map of the Holy Land after Lucas Cranach. The text follows the Liesvelt Bible, was read by protestants and catholics alike and became a large success. One of the rarest 16th c. bibles. - Den Hollander 73; Belgica Typ. 464 &5201; Darlow & Moule 3285; Poortman I, pp. 92-94; Poortman & Augusteijn, Kaarten in bijbels, pp. 63-65.

BIBLIA NEERLANDICA -- GHEHEELEN BIBEL, Den, Inhoudende het Oude ende Nieuwe Testament, met grooter naersticheyt overghestelt ende ghecorrigeert nae dat Lovensche Latijnsch exemplaer. Loven (=Leuven/Louvain), A.M. Bergaigne, 1553. 2 parts in 1 vol. (6), (444); (98) lvs. W. letterpress ti. within a fine woodcut border, c. 30 decorative woodcut initials, c. 150 woodcuts in text, incl. some repeats, and incl. 1 double-p. and 2 full-p. woodcuts. Fol. Later cf. bind. w. brass clasps and catches. (Margins trimmed (w. some los of image to full-p. woodcuts), a bit browned/thumbed, rep. to v° last leaf, but in excellent condition). NOTE: Revised edition by J. van der Haghen of the authorised Dutch text of 1548 by Nicolaus van Winghe. Van Liesvelt published the first Dutch edition of the Bible in 1526 but his NT was based on the German version of Luther and the OT on the Latin Vulgate. In 1528 Vorsterman published a corrected edition, but the authorities were still not satisfied. Van Winghe was assigned to publish a new Bible, based upon J. Hentenius' edition of the Vulgate (1547). Van der Haghen's revised edition of this Bible was considered the standard Bible till the end of the century (over 17 editions were published). The woodcuts were printed from the blocks used for the 1548 edition (which came from Vorsterman's 1530 Bible), but some are new and are copies from Hans Holbein's 'Icones Historiarum Veteris Testamenti' (1547). The double-p. woodcut depicting the court of the Tabernacle, surrounded by the tents of the Twelve Tribes, the 2 full-p. woodcuts depict the Temple of Salomo and the 'House of Lebanon Forest'. - Belg. Typ. 466; Darlow & Moule 3287 note; Machiels B-440; Poortman I, p. 124-127, 207.

CALVIN, J. Harmonia, dat is, een tsamenstemminghe gemaect vvt de drie evangelisten, namelick, Mattheo, Marco ende Luca. Ouergheset vvtden Lat. by G. Gallinaceum. Hier by zijn geuoecht de handelingen der Apostelen van nieuws ouergesettet by I. Florianum. (Leiden, A. Verschout for:) Antw., J. Troyens, 1582. 2 in 1 vol. (14), 721, (1 blank); 349, (1) pp. W. woodcut printer's mark on ti. & sev. initials. Fol. Old cf. w. raised bands & richly dec. gilt back (Top of spine rep., new endpapers, last blank leaf lacks, underl./marginal stripes in red pencil, pencil annot. in upper margin, some marg. waterstains (at the end sl. moulded)). NOTE: First Dutch translation of the 'Harmony upon the three Evangelists' to which are added the Acts of the Apostles and Calvin's Commentary upon the Gospel of St. John (pp. 469-721 of the first part), the latter not announced on the title-page. This voluminous work was produced by the Leiden printer Andries Verschout, whose name is duly mentioned in the impressum at the end. Three different issues of this edition are known: One with the address of Verschout himself and two others with the Antwerp addresses of resp. Nicolaes Soolmans and Jasper Troyens. Except for these adresses, the issues are entirely identical and form part of one and the same edition. - Rare. Index Aurel. 130.194; Typ. Batava 929; Belg. Typ. 540.

(CALVIN, J.). Stoicheiôsis tès Christianôn piseôs (…). Rudimenta fidei Christianæ, sive Catechismus. huic adiunctus nunc est Catechismus alius magis compendiarius. (Geneva, H. Estienne), 1575. 397, (3 blank) pp. W. woodcut printer device on ti. 16°. Mod. cf. w. gilt lettered spine. (Margins cut, inner margin a bit wormholed at the end (sl. affecting text)). NOTE: Calvin's renowned catechism translated into Greek by Henri Estienne. The Greek and Latin texts are found on opposite pages. First printed in 1551 (Greek text only!). The 1563 edition was the first one to comprise Latin text as well. The present edition is noteworthy for containing for the first time the 'Catechismus alius' (pp. 268-313). - Index Aureliensis 130.137; Adams C-1045; Renouard I, 141 no. 2.

CALVIN, J. Vvtlegginghe op alle de sendbrieuen Pauli des Apostels: Ende oock op den Sendbrief tot den Hebreen. Met een schoon register. Embden, 1566. G. vander Erve & W. Gailliart, 1566. (6), 464 [= 462], (16) lvs. W. woodcut ti-vign. Fol. Mod. antique style blind tooled mottled cf. w. raised bands & gilt lettering. (Margins cut, more or less waterstained throughout). NOTE: The first edition of the first Dutch translation of Calvin's commentaries on the epistles of Paul and on the epistle to the Hebrews. Calvin began work on these commentaries in 1539, beginning with Romans (first issued in 1540). In 1551 all parts were completed and were published together with the epistle to the Hebrews: In omnes D. Pauli epistolas, atque etia in epistola ad Hebraeos commentaris luculentissima. Our first Dutch translation was edited by Johannes Dyrkinus (c. 1530-before 1592) and contains a new preface dedicated by Calvin to Simon Grynaeus and a dedication to Unico Manninga. Although Calvin was read early in the Netherlands and had become of importance, Dutch translations did not appear for some time. - Typ. Batava 935; Index Aurel. 130.098.