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The Sea Fish of Trinidad by Harry Vincent Port of Spain, 1910, first edition together with Sunset Playgrounds by F G Aflalo, published by Witherby, 1909

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, first UK edition 1952

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens First Edition, second issue and Master Humphreys Clock 1840, Three volumes bound as one

Vanishing Dublin by Flora H Mitchell, first edition 1966

Cocoa by D H Urquhart first edition 1955 with letter stating it was give to a Cadbury Director C F Gillett prior to its publication release date

Seen in the Hadhramaut by Freya Stark, first edition 1938

GB: tin of 40+ purposed first day covers from 1990s plus limited edition Mercury Concorde cover 2003 plus small amount of decimal mint, foreign banknotes (5) and Swedish booklet

Vinyl – 13 Minimal Synth / Electronic singles and 2 flexi discs to include: VHF – First Impressions / In Stereo (UK 1981 Distill Records), Fad Gadget (Mute 009), Faction – Faction (UK 1981 Inevitable Records), Nitzer Ebb, The The, The B.B.s – Horror Movies (UK 1983), Splintered – Pigmeat (Remix) (Limited Edition numbered UK 1990), Skin Crime – Electroshock Treatment (US 1995 Limited to 200 copies numbered (136), two separate silksreened black cardboard sheets, includes two inserts, Self Abuse Records). Victims Of Pleasure (UK 1982), The Fixx (Red Vinyl), The Androids (UK 1979), The Residents (US 1984), Vitamin Z and Flexi Discs from: John Foxx and Nitzer Ebb. Condition VG to VG+ overall

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. The Naked Lunch. [Paris] Olympia Press, 1959, First Edition (Price stamped over on reverse). Softback, Green cover, without sleeve, green border on title page. No. 76 The Traveller’s Companion Series. Reverse ‘Francs : 1,500’ price has been crossed out and replaced with a ‘20’ stamp. Reverse also reads ‘NOT TO BE SOLD IN THE U.S.A. OR U.K.

Nicholas Watts (British, b. 1947), ‘Williams - Honda Supremacy’ limited edition print by Nicholas Watts, ‘Nigel Mansel and Nelson Piquet on their way to finish first and second at The British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch. July 13th 1986’. Signed and numbered in pencil, edition 441/850. 63cm x 41cm.

‘The First Folio of Shakespeare’, The Norton Facsimile, Hinman. 1996 Second Edition, in slip case.

LARKIN, PHILLIP. The Whitsun Weddings, poems by Philip Larkin. [London] Faber and Faber, 1964. First Edition (Second Impression). Hardback, with original dust jacket. Some toning to jacket, but otherwise very good (pencil marks top left of back inside cover).

Tjipke Visser (1876-1955), Diver (Duikend meisje), ca. 1936, H 61,5 cm (incl. base), The stylised female figure perched on a diving board, both arms raised in a curve and the body leaning forward, mounted on a grey stone base, with engraved ripples on the wavy top, and with eight engraved fish to the sides, the first of an edition of three, marked with the artist's monogram and ‘1-3’ on the top of the bronze plinth, and marked a second time with the artist's monogram to the front of the stone base.This patinated bronze figure of a female diver radiates a sense of both stillness and anticipation. Its sculptor, Tjipke Visser (1876-1955) was a Dutch artist originating from Friesland. After his education and early career in Amsterdam, Visser moved to the North-Holland village of Bergen in 1907, where he would become one of the first members of the Bergen School (‘Bergense School’) movement. Once back in Amsterdam, Visser became drawn to the theme of Dutch socialism, and created various monuments for key figures of the SDAP party. His smaller, more intimate sculptures of animals and human figures in wood and bronze would become his most recognizable works.

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, a limited edition ceramic poppy by Paul Cummins made for the art installation at the Tower of London between 5th August and 11th November 2014 to commemorate the Centenary of the start of the First World War, boxed with booklet

Black, white, yellow and brown coloration.Napoleon (1769 - 1821) stood only 5 feet 2 inches tall, but he was a military genius who amassed an empire that covered most of western and central Europe. Josephine (1763 - 1814) married him in 1796, after her first husband, the Vicomte de Beauharnais, was killed during the French Revolution. This jug was issued in 1986 in a limited edition of 9,500 pieces.Series: Star-Crossed Lovers (Two-faced jug.) Royal Doulton backstamp. Artist: Michael AbberleyIssued: 1986Dimensions: 7"HEdition Number: 1090Edition Size: 9500Manufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

Style One. Black, yellow and red coloration.This jug was issued in a limited edition of 2,500 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the English Civil War in 1642. It is unusual in the sense that it is the first three-handled character jug ever produced by Doulton. On Charles's left Oliver Cromwell forms the handle, on his right, Queen Henrietta. The third handle, at the King's back and not seen in the photograph, is a plume. Artist: William K. HarperIssued: 1992Dimensions: 7"HManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Good.

Style Ten. Red, white, blue and yellow coloration.The Santa Claus jug was introduced in 1981 and was the first to undergo annual design changes. Featuring different well-known Christmas themes, the handle has changed several times since 1981. This jug was commissioned by Pascoe and Company in a special edition of 1,500 pieces.Royal Doulton and Pascoe backstamp. Artist: David B. BiggsIssued: 1998Dimensions: 7"HManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related Wear.

Brown suit, black cap, white shirt, grey tie.December 17th, 2003 was the centenary of the first powered air flight by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Issued 2003 in a limited edition of 1,000 each. Royal Doulton backstamp. Artist: David B. BiggsIssued: 2003Dimensions: 7"HManufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993)First Horse signed and editioned '/6 Frink' (on the back-left hoof)bronze with a brown patina56.3 cm. (22 1/8 in.) highConceived in 1990, this cast is number 1 from the edition of 6Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Artist, from whom acquired byEric and Wanda Newby, 1991, thence by family descent to the present ownerPrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedDorchester, Dorset County Museum, Elisabeth Frink: Man and the Animal World, 28 June-23 August 1997, cat.no.85 (another cast)LiteratureEdward Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, Art Books International, London, 1994, p.190, cat.no.SC57 (ill.b&w, another cast)Annette Downing, Elisabeth Frink: Sculptures, Graphic Works, Textiles, Salisbury Festival and Wiltshire County Council, Salisbury, 1997, pp.42, 71, cat.no.SC57 (coll.ill., another cast)Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2013, p.186, cat.no.FCR388 (col.ill., another cast)The horse is widely regarded as being Frink's most successful and commercial motif. Emerging during the late 1960s and conceived as both singular entities and with riders, they are largely the result of her time spent in the Camargue region of France, celebrated for its herds of semi-wild horses and rugged landscape. Frink's father had been a keen horseman during her childhood in rural Suffolk and the country life resonated with her, acting as a welcome distraction from the London art scene at the time.Upon returning to England in 1973 Frink continued to explore and develop the horse theme within her work over the following decades. As with the other animals she chose to sculpt and by her own admission, they are more concerned with representing her emotional response to, and spiritual identification with, the subject in question than with literal physical form. In view of this particularly subjective approach, Frink denied being an animal sculptor in the true sense of the notion, stating her principal interest to lie 'in the spirit of the animal' (Edward Lucie-Smith & Elisabeth Frink, Frink: A Portrait, London, Bloomsbury, 1994, p.123).At Woolland, there was always a small group of thoroughbreds in the stable yard, Frink's husband was an enthusiastic racing man who had hopes of winning an important event with a horse he had bred. These thoroughbreds were part of Frink's domestic surroundings, but they were not, except in a very general fashion, models for her work. The type of horse which attracted her aesthetically was the beast in its most primitive form. The horses of Camargue, whose resemblance to those in the cave paintings at Lascaux has often been remarked upon, made an indelible imprint on her imagination: she liked their stocky bodies, short necks and large heavy heads. Edward Lucie-Smith notes that it is a Camargue horse which is likely to have supplied the model for First Horse (Elisabeth Frink Sculpture since 1984 and Drawing, London, 1994, p.40).The former owner of the present work, Eric Newby, was an English travel writer famed for works such as A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, A Small Place in Italy and Round Ireland in Low Gear. He also made travel films for the BBC and was awarded a CBE in 1994. Eric and Wanda formed a close friendship with Frink and the present work is accompanied by a letter from the artist to them dated 26 June 1991, confirming this cast is number 1 from the edition of 6.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993)Soldier's Head II signed and numbered 'Frink 3/6' (on the back of the neck)bronze with a dark brown patina37.5 cm. (14 3/4 in.) highConceived in 1965Footnotes:ProvenanceAcquired by the family of the present owner, circa 1980, thence by descentPrivate Collection, U.K.ExhibitedLondon, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink, 1965 (another cast)London, Battersea Park, Sculpture in Battersea Park, May-September 1966 (another cast)London, Waddington Galleries I, II, III, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Prints and drawings from Chaucer, 11 October-4 November 1972 (another cast)London, Royal Academy, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, 8 February-25 March 1985, cat.no.33 (another cast)London, Beaux Arts, Frink: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1998 (another cast)LiteratureBryan Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Books, Salisbury, 1984, p.162-3, cat.no.118 (ill.b&w, another cast)Sarah Kent (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1985, p.13, cat.no.33 (another cast)Catalogue of the Ingram Collection, The Lightbox, 2009, p.40 (col.ill., another cast)Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries in association with the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts, London, 2013, p.95, cat.no.FCR142 (col.ill., another cast)Frink comments; 'In the mid sixties I made a series of soldier's heads which were rather brutal. They had pigtails. I like the idea of the head being terminated in some kind of ribbon at the back. The pigtail in my sculptures was rather like a cardinal's ribbon. I was married to a man, Edward Pool, whose head was rather like this – no pigtail, but bearded, a fine head – and I incorporated his beard into the shape of a head so each sculpture, indirectly based on this man, had a rather massive jaw.' (Elisabeth Frink quoted in Jill Wilder (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture; Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale, London, 1984, p.37). Edward (or Ted) Pool was Frink's second husband whose severe war wounds acted as a constant reminder of the violence of her times. Anti-militant, Frink engaged her sculpture to combat ideas of celebrating war and violence. The soldier is not presented as a functioning military machine but a disfigured, stupefied and helpless being. Conceived in her most active year, Soldier's Head II is an early example of Frink's use of the form of the head as a 'vehicle for emotion' and would receive early praise with Edward Mullins declaring; 'These blunt representations of the hireling thug are in my view her most interesting yet' (Edward Mullins, 'Grown-Up Prodigies', The Sunday Telegraph, 5 December, 1965, p.12).Themes first explored in the Soldier's Head works were then developed in the equally combative and iconic Goggle Heads and then resolved in the restful Tribute Heads a decade later.Another cast from this edition resides in the Ingram Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Richard Mille. A fine and rare Limited Edition 18K white gold automatic calendar wristwatchModel: Monsoon Cup, No.12/30Reference: RM005 AF WGDate: Circa 2010Movement: 32-jewel automatic, No.2506Dial: Black skeletonised, white Arabic numeral hour markers, white outer 1/5th second divisions with raised luminous dot 5 minute markers, date aperture at 7, Monsoon Cup logo below 12, polished skeletonised hands with luminous tips, red tipped centre secondsCase: Brushed tonneau form, exhibition back secured by 4 screws, 8 screws to bezel, No.1707Strap/Bracelet: Blue Richard Mille rubberBuckle/Clasp: Signed titanium double folding claspSigned: Case, dial & movementSize: 38mm Accompaniments: Richard Mille case, service invoice dated 2019, service booklet Footnotes:The RM005 is one of the earliest models from the brand and its first with an automatic movement. The baseplate of the watch is made from titanium, which is a huge challenge to design and produce.The Monsoon cup was a yacht race held annually in Malaysia between 2005 and 2015. Richard Mille was the official timekeeper for the event and released several limited edition watches to celebrate the collaboration.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

"Svenska Faglar" - Schwedische VögelFörlaget Svenska Faglar. Stockholm. 1929. 38,5 x 30 cm. Nummerierte Auflage, Nr. 199. Erster Band von drei. Mit Steinzeichnungen von M., W. und F. von Wright und Texte von Einar Lönnberg, im Ledereinband. 295 Textseiten, teils mit fotografischen Abbildungen und 74 ganzseitige Farblithografien Einige wenige Abbildungen fehlen, dadurch wenige Textseiten locker. Provenienz : Besitzername: Ryttmästare Richard Bäckström. "Svenska Faglar" - Swedish BirdsFörlaget Svenska Faglar. Stockholm. 1929. 38.5 x 30 cm. Numbered edition, no. 199. First volume of three. With stone drawings by M., W. and F. von Wright and texts by Einar Lönnberg, in leather binding. 295 pages of text, some with photographic illustrations and 74 full-page color lithographs A few illustrations missing, thus a few pages of text loose. Provenance : Owner name: Ryttmästare Richard Bäckström. *This is an automatically generated translation from German by deepl.com and only to be seen as an aid - not a legally binding declaration of lot properties. Please note that we can only guarantee for the correctness of description and condition as provided by the German description.

[ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS)][A Picturesque Representation of the Naval, Military and Miscellaneous Costumes of Great Britain], FIRST EDITION, text in English and French, half-title, letterpress dedication to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, 33 hand-coloured aquatint plates, lacks title-page, contemporary half morocco gilt lettered on spine, worn, covers detached with some loss to spine [Abbey Scenery, 12; Colas 172; Tooley 71], folio (468 x 315mm.), [W. Miller, 1807, watermarked 'J. Whatman 1805']Footnotes:'A very fine and rare book that has not been sufficiently appreciated, according to Hardie one of the most charming books on costume' (Tooley).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

QUARLES (FRANCIS)Divine fancies, sixth edition, engraved frontispiece with portrait of the author, first two leaves loose, extensive loss to H1 affecting text, ink inscriptions on G8, spotting, modern quarter calf, worn [ESTC R3889], 8vo, John Williams, 1671; Francis Quarles' Emblems and Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, illustrated frontispiece, 92 plates, advertisements at end, right and lower margins shaved (occasionally touching text), tear and loss to 7 leaves, spotting, age toning, contemporary calf, wear especially to corners and head and foot of spine [ESTC N31926], 8vo, J. Cooke, 1766--[HARVEY (CHRISTOPHER)] The School of the Heart, engraved frontispiece, 46 (of 47) plates, some tears, wormhole in inner gutter occasionally touching text, light spotting, vellum binding, worn [ESTC R227979], 8vo, Lodowick Lloyd, 1676; and 5 others (10)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, Eliza Owen, inscription on title; second item, Ann Starling, inscription on title; third item, Elizabeth Wolinsthom 1716, inscription on last 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

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, AUTHORISED VERSION[The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testment, and the New], New Testament title (dated 1613) within wide woodcut pictorial borders, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, bound with incomplete 'Genealogies', lacks general title and 11 (of 18) preliminary leaves before Genesis, shaved at upper margin often touching headline, some margins torn and repaired (occasionally with loss to text), occasional spotting, eighteenth century mottled calf gilt, worn [ESTC S122066; Herbert 322], folio (375 x 260mm.), [Robert Barker, 1613]Footnotes:With the reading 'She went into the citie' in Ruth 3:15. Herbert notes that 'From about the middle of the seventeenth century until the appearance of the Revised Bible of 1881-5, the King James' version reigned without rival'. This edition is described by Herbert as 'the true 1613 folio edition of King James's Bible; easily distinguishable from the other large folio editions by its smaller type'.Provenance: William Westway, seventeenth century ink inscription on verso of final leaf of the Apocrypha; Raddon family, eighteenth century ink inscriptions on verso of final leaf of the Apocrypha; Quick family, nineteenth century ink inscriptions on verso of the New Testament title and on the first blank.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

GIBBONS (STELLA)Cold Comfort Farm, FIRST EDITION, a few light spots (mostly to edges of text block), publisher's blue cloth (rubbed, some soiling to spine), dust-jacket (unclipped with price 'Seven and sixpence net', spine professionally restored with loss of some letters of publisher's name at foot, light spotting), 8vo, Longman, 1932Footnotes:Provenance: Katherine Vesey, ownership inscription dated 'Christmas 1932' 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

HAMILTON (IAN)A significant series of 88 autograph and typed letters signed ('Ian') to the poet John Fuller (mostly 'My dear John'), the earliest (10 June 1959) enclosing the first issue of Tomorrow ('I would be most interested to hear what you think of it...'), the last in late 2001 ('... As to the illness, it is the big C, I'm afraid... I made the mistake of going to the docs for some quite other thing'), but the vast majority from Sixties relating to their joint work on The Review (detailing strong views on contemporary poets and poetry, progress in finding contributions, finances and practicalities), his reviewing duties (for T.L.S., The Guardian, etc.), and organising a literary programme for the Chichester Festival, as well as private matters relating to his marriage to Gisela Dietzel, money problems, etc., together approximately 130 pages, including airmail letters with integral address, letter cards headed 'The Review', etc. from various addresses (including T.L.S. office), various sizes, June 1959-late 2001, but the majority 1960s; together with complete runs of Tomorrow, The Review, and The New Review, a first edition in dust-jacket of Hamilton's The Visit. Poems (1970), various pieces of ephemera (small archive)Footnotes:'HAVE A POEM FROM LARKIN - PRETTY FEEBLE REALLY BUT PRINTABLE - I'LL SEND TO YOU A COPY '(15 Nov. 1962).A rich series of letters from the poet, literary critic and magazine editor Ian Hamilton (1938-1963) written to the poet John Fuller who was his main collaborator on the influential poetry magazine The Review, edited by Hamilton, 1962-1972. The majority were written during the early sixties, when Fuller was teaching in Buffalo, USA and then Manchester, but heavily involved in all aspects of the magazine [see provenance].Shortly after the first issue had appeared (April/May 1962) Hamilton writes 'Is it worth going on with The Review, you ask... we thought that there was a need for a good, selective, hard-hitting poetry magazine, and we might be able to provide one. Of course, all the cards are stacked against us... We are not, I agree, a close-knit group or anything like one - we don't agree about a lot of things, perhaps very basic things (for example, I loathe leisured 'witty' knowing poetry, I loathe that which is assured because it has so little to be in doubt about... I could go on and list my prejudices... [but] what I am personally convinced is that... you, Francis, Falk and Fried are talented, perceptive, rigorous, and for all your possible differences you make up a group that will generate ideas... [we must not] be utterly demoralised by every trifling set back... And it is more important still not to settle for any old second best... I intend to go on with the thing and hope you will be able to, also', capturing the tone of his, at times, messianic belief in the importance of poetry, and his notoriously forthright opinions, which are expressed throughout the letters. For example, '[Peter] Redgrove I am increasingly less sure about - he seems inventive enough, but that's the point - its all invention: no discrimination, he's overawed by his own fecundity: (in every sense)', 'Edwin Morgan delivered on Macdiarmid and it is'nt too bad at all', and (12 March 1963) 'You heard about Sylvia Plath's death, I guess. App. Hughes had just moved out. Awful. Lucie-Smith wrote to say 'touche - one laughs while one winces and to say how much he hated Roy's poems'.Elsewhere Hamilton expresses his disdain for the influential critic Edward Lucie-Smith ('I keep getting letters from the scrawny, little cock suggesting we meet when he's next in Oxford and all - we must keep cool.'. The issue (October 1963 issue No. 9) devoted to Plath (including 9 recent poems, 2 of which did not subsequently appear in Ariel) was a success, Hamilton writing 'Orders for Plath are pouring in - the Guardian review helped a lot i think - all the main London bookshops have sold out & re-ordered'. Of fellow critic (and supporter of the magazine) Al Avarez's review of a Roy Cambpell volume he states it 'was a disgrace... all his remarks could have been applicable to any dull Movement poet, there was no indication of any sort that he had opened the book, I mean - not one hint, even'. Writing in October 1965, having reviewed Roy Fuller's latest poems for London Magazine he confesses to John that 'I really don't agree very basically with all kinds of technical premises and have said so... one is left more or less assenting that if this and that is true about poetry now, then there really is perhaps no way of writing the stuff. I hope that you and Roy won't hate the review', and feels free to write 'I have'nt made a change to your poem yet, John - it's at the printer. I don't feel comfortable at the responsibility you've so flatteringly handed me... I am irritated whenever (especially in a rhyming poem) I find line-break cutting in on the natural shape of movement of a statement... I am made suddenly aware of how artificial the form is, how pre-judged etc... the struggle is always between experience and form, of course...'. Commenting on a group of poems sent to him by Fuller, Hamilton chooses 'Manzu' and 'Letchworth Park' as 'the best... both seem to have a more movement which I like, there is a voice in them and the images are nicely fractional and alive. I only have one tiny quibble which I know you'll reject and that is the first line of the fourth stanza of Letchworth. Can't the 'on' go the beginning of the next line and the hell with metre...'. Fuller evidently took on board the suggestion as when the poem appeared in issue No.8 of The Review Hamilton's suggestion had been followed.Amongst the letters are many proof copies of Hamilton's own poems, sent for Fuller for comment, for example (2 Oct. 1962) 'Been re-reading Prufrock - could, do you think - Prufrock be a poet, an urban 20C synthesiser and the woman his audience... the last line could be simply an exercise in escapist poetics... The only thing I've brought to completion is the enclosed (not title yet) which I offer for your comments, and to print if you wish. Feel no qualms about rejecting, John, really'. The poem, in greatly altered form was printed as 'Windfall' in Pretending not to sleep. Poems by Ian Hamilton issued as Pamphlet Series No. 3. of The Review (1964). Asking for Fuller's thoughts he sends on a copy of the poem ('effort') 'Wild Oats' offered to The Review by Philip Larkin and quotes Larkin's accompanying message ('I wonder if the enclosed snatch of pseud-autobiography would be of any interest to you? Three guineas, first British rights only'. The poem appeared in issue No.5. The letters convey Hamilton's immersion in all aspects of the magazine, for example writing (undated 1962) 'Baddish news and, I'm afraid, more requests. [Michael] Fried has suddenly welched on his marker [no longer providing an essay on the New American Poetry]... [instead he] has been amassing new and more lucrative assignments. Which leaves me strictly embedded in the shit', (15 Nov. 1962) 'The Eliot no. appeared in all its glory (it really does look rather good) on Friday... On Monday an irateish letter from W.E. 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, half-title (verso with quotations by Whewell and Bacon only), folding lithographed diagram by W. West, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated June 1859 bound at end (Freeman's form 3, no priority), first few leaves very lightly foxed, light vertical crease to half-title and title, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt (Freeman's variant a, no priority), Edmonds & Remnants ticket on rear pastedown, cloth lifting slightly on upper cover, corners and spine ends lightly bumped but generally fresh and tight [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE' and 'a turning point... in the history of ideas in general' (Dibner Heralds of Science 199, and DSB).Provenance: Ownership inscription of ?W. S. Harrison on front free endpaper; private Swedish collection.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)The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with page 297 of volume 1 beginning 'transmitted', volume 2 with errata on verso of title and tipped-in 'Postscript' leaf, and advertisement leaves in both volumes dated 'January 1871', half-titles, wood-engraved illustrations, a couple of pencil notes/responses to the text and passages marked in margins by an early reader in volume 1, publisher's green cloth gilt, worn, old printed label of 'George Bubb. (Successor to J. Andrews), Bookseller and Librarian...' on upper cover of volume 1 (with signs of removal of similar from volume 2), hinges of volume 1 cracked with stitching split resulting in text block being detached and some gatherings coming loose, upper hinge of volume 2 starting, worn, hinges split, small tear to foot of one joint [Garrison-Morton 170; Freeman 937; Norman 599], 8vo, John Murray, 1871Footnotes:FIRST EDITION - THE PITT-RIVERS COPY. 'This is really two works. The first demolished the theory that the universe was created for Man, while in the second Darwin presented a mass of evidence in support of his earlier hypothesis regarding sexual selection' (Garrison & Morton 170). 2,500 copies of the first issue were published on February 24 1871, and sold at £1.4s. The second issue was published the following month.Provenance: Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900), ownership inscription ('A. Lane Fox') on front free endpaper of volume 1, and half-title of volume 2, armorial bookplate ('Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers') in both volumes. For Pitt-Rivers, the influential anthropologist and archaeologist who gave his collections to Oxford University where they form the core of the Pitt Rivers Museum, the 'publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859 marked a major turning point' in his approach to his ethnographic collections which he now used 'to illustrate his theory of the evolution of culture, which he developed by analogy to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism... [an approach which resulted in Pitt-Rivers achieving] more than anyone in his generation to promote the establishment of a sound chronology for British archaeology' (ODNB).According to the present owner the book was then in the possession of Lionel Charles Lane Fox, Augustus' fourth son, and his first wife Nesta Mary, nee Blackett, who gifted this set (and other books) to her nephew, the current owner's grandfather. This copy has a few passages marked in margins, and three notes by an early reader, including 'Of course according to Mr. Darwin & Co. Christianity has had nothing to do with the advance of morality?'.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

MURCHISON (RODERICK IMPEY) The Silurian System, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, COMPLETE WITH ENGRAVED HAND-COLOURED MAP, 3 engraved maps, 14 lithographed plates (2 folding, 3 hand-coloured), 9 folding hand-coloured geological sections by Murchison, 31 engraved plates of fossils, one large hand-coloured engraved geological map on 3 sheets (laid down on linen, institutional blind-stamp to margins), light spotting and some damp-staining, occasional marginal pencil annotations, contemporary half morocco, rebacked preserving the original spine, rubbed, the geological map sheets housed separately in an slightly later half morocco solander box, 4to, John Murray, 1839 (2) Footnotes: FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL WORK ON FOSSIL CLASSIFICATION, COMPLETE WITH THE RARE LARGE GEOLOGICAL MAP, often missing. Murchinson established the Silurian system following research he carried out in 1831 along the border between England and Wales. He grouped for the first time a remarkable series of formations, which were very different from those of the other rocks of England. Provenance: Wigan Public Library, stamp on map and box. 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

PRATCHETT (TERRY)The Colour of Magic, FIRST EDITION, small blank label pasted to centre of title-page, small splash stain in lower blank margin of p.8, occasional light marks, publisher's green cloth, dust-jacket with publisher's overlay to front flap (spine slightly faded with neat small restoration at ends and folds), 8vo, Gerrard's Cross, Colin Smythe, 1983Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST 'DISCWORLD' NOVEL. The first printing is said to have comprised 500 copies, but 400 of these were seemingly issued to libraries making fine copies difficult to come by. The printed overlay found on the inner front flap of most copies was pasted over the original blurb as a result of inaccuracies spotted when the jacket was returned from the American printers.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

[ALCIATI (ANDREA)]Diverse imprese accommodate a diverse moralità...Tratte da gli Emblemi dell'Alciato, title and all woodcuts within ornate woodcut architectural border, 180 woodcuts (including 11 of trees, the last one with extensive loss, repaired), title shaved at right margin, marginal notation, light toning, modern quarter calf, loss to spine, upper cover nearly detached, worn [USTC 808444; Landwehr, Romanic 52], 8vo, Lyon, Guillaume Rouille, 1551--VERDIZOTTI (GIOVANNI MARIO) Cento Favole Bellissime, 100 full-page woodcut illustrations, washed, neat repairs to worming touching text to title-page and throughout, trimmed, modern quarter cloth, 8vo, Venice, Francesco Ginammi, 1661--CONTI (NATALE) Mythologiae sive explicationis fabularum libri decem, 2 parts in 1 vol., half-title, one folding plate, 106 woodcut illustrations, separate title for second work ('Mythologia' by Marcantonio Tritonio), repair to half-title, losses affecting the text (Ii4-8, Kk6-8), light toning and occasional soiling, modern tan calf gilt [USTC 4012343], 4to, Padua, Paolo Frambotto, 1637--CARTARI (VINCENZO) Imagines Deorum, additional engraved title, letterpress title in red and black, 88 full-page engraved plates by Paul Hachenberg, browning and foxing, modern half vellum, 4to, Mainz, Ludovicus Bourgeat, 1687--CARTARI (VINCENZO) Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi, title with printer's device, 85 (of 87) engraved plates by Bolognino Altieri, repair to title, lacking final leaves (3K4-3M4), browning and damp-staining, occasional soiling, paper over wooden boards, both covers nearly detached, very worn [EDIT16 CNCE9763], 4to, Venice, Marc'Antonio Zaltieri, 1592; and one other 16th century edition of Cartari (6)Footnotes:Provenance: First item, Northamptonshire Libraries, stamp.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

KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD)The Economic Consequences of the Peace, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO VANESSA BELL, inscribed 'To Vanessa Bell from the author in memory of Charleston where he wrote the book' on front paste-down, half-title, publisher's blue cloth, worn, 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1919Footnotes:'VANESSA BELL FROM THE AUTHOR IN MEMORY OF CHARLESTON WHERE HE WROTE THE BOOK' - A HIGHLY EVOCATIVE BLOOMSBURY PRESENTATION COPY. Having acted over a six month period as an adviser to the government on financial matters at the Paris Peace Conference, Keynes resigned from his Treasury post on 19 May 1919, dismayed at the early drafts for the The Treaty of Paris. On his return to England 'Economic Consequences was written at high speed and with passionate conviction and often in extravagant terms. Begun on 23 June 1919, it was written in just over three months... much of it was written in August and September at Charleston, Vanessa Bell's farmhouse on the Sussex downs... Although normally a late riser who got to the Treasury a little before noon, he spent his mornings at Charleston writing from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and averaged 1000 words a day fit for the printer' (ODNB). An instant best-seller, the book established Keynes's position as probably the most influential economist of the twentieth century.Keynes had his own bedroom at Charleston from 1916 when the artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant first moved there, establishing it as the country hub of the Bloomsbury set. A friend of Lytton Strachey and Leonard Woolf from his Cambridge days, Keynes was an integral part of the group, becoming Grant's lover before the war, a regular at literary and intellectual meetings held at 46 Gordon Square (the lease of which he took over from Clive Bell in 1917), and a very close friend of Bell. Provenance: Vanessa Bell; by descent to the previous owner; private UK collection.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

[GOMBERVILLE (MARIN LE ROY)]La doctrine des moeurs tirée de la philosophie des Stoïques, 2 parts in one vol.,FIRST EDITION,, letterpress title with large engraved vignette, engraved additional titles for both parts, 102 (of 103) large engravings and author portrait, engraved head- and tail-pieces all by Pierre Daret, lacks one leaf (Ss2), contemporary occasional manuscript inscriptions, first engraved title frayed and repaired on lower margin, light damp-staining, lower margins slightly frayed, late seventeenth century calf gilt, repair to bottom half of spine, worn [Brunet II 1656], Paris, Louis Sevestre, 1646--[GOMBERVILLE (MARIN LE ROY)], translated by Thomas Gibbs Moral Virtue Delineated, in One Hundred and Three Short Lectures, 2 parts in one vol., second edition, letterpress title with large engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece, with engraved cancel titles to both parts 'The Doctrine of Morality', engraved portrait of the author, 103 large engraved illustrations all by Pierre Daret, engraved, woodcut initials, text in French and English in parallel columns, some toning and spotting throughout, small occasional marginal tears, modern quarter calf gilt [ESTC T124307], printed for J. Darby and others, 1726, folio; and 2 others (4)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)Live and Let Die, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, ink inscription to front pastedown, publisher's black cloth gilt, head and foot of spine lightly bumped, second state dust-jacket with credit to Kenneth Clark (with price 10d 6s on both flaps, light age-toning and soiling to rear panel, edges and corners slightly frayed), [Gilbert A2a (1.2), 'first issue, second state'], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954This 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

HEANEY (SEAMUS), MICHAEL LONGLEY AND DEREK MAHONHEANEY (SEAMUS) Munro ['Not checked with broadcast copy and not to be published without reference to Head of School Broadcasting (Radio)...'], TYPESCRIPT FOR BBC RADIO PLAY, 12 sheets recto only, stapled upper left, folio, Transmission: Wednesday 14th January 1970; Door into the Dark, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, publisher's orange printed wrappers ('... Not for Sale... Publication date not yet settled'), Faber and Faber, [1969]; A Lough Neagh Sequence, limited to 1000 copies, Didsbury, Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969; Stations, Ulsterman Publications, [1975]; Robert Lowell. A Memorial Address and an Elegy, compliments slip from Charles Monteith loosely inserted, light sunning to spine, Privately Printed by Faber and Faber, [1978]--LONGLEY (MICHAEL) Ten Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST PUBLISHED COLLECTION, stapled as issued, Belfast, Festival Publications, Queen's University Of Belfast, 1965; No Continuing City, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY NOT FOR SALE, publisher's orange printed wrappers, 2 small splash stains on lower cover, Macmillan, [1969]; idem, PROOF SHEETS, 18 sheets printed recto only, stamped 'Due Back at Macmillan [in ink] 6 January 1968' and 'Due Back at Printers [in ink] 10 January 1958', sheet size 645 x 180mm., [1968]--MAHON (DEREK) Night-Crossing, Poetry Society Bulletin, and advertisement loosely inserted, O.U.P., 1968; Ecclesiastes, publisher's address corrected in ink in three places, Manchester, Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, [1970]; Beyond Howth Head, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO ROY FULLER inscribed 'For Roy Fuller with all good wishes Derek M.' on the half-title, [Dublin], The Dolmen Press, 1970, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED FIRST EDITIONS, publishers' wrappers, 8vo (11)Footnotes:Provenance: Roy Fuller (1912-1991), gift inscription from the Derek Mahon in one volume; John Fuller, poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.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)Moonraker, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Gilbert's State B with 'shoot' corrected on p.10, foxing to margins of first and last few leaves, ink ownership signature of D.E. Morgan, publisher's black cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket priced 10s. 6d. (soiling and foxing, especially to spine and at edges, slight chips to spine ends and at corners) [Gilbert A3a (1.2-1.3)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1955This 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

POUND (EZRA)Personae, THE POET'S OWN COPY, inscribed 'Ezra Pound his book' on front paste-down, and with the poem 'Marvoil' on p.51 marked up in pencil for reading aloud, 1909; Exultations, 2-PAGE POEM 'SESTINA: ALTAFORE' MARKED UP IN INK AND PENCIL BY THE AUTHOR, 1909, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUES, publisher's boards, titled in gilt on upper covers and spines, extremities of spines slightly rubbed [Gallup A3(a); Gallup A4(a)], 8vo, Elkin Matthews (2)Footnotes:EZRA POUND'S OWN COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUES OF HIS THIRD AND FOURTH BOOKS OF POETRY, EACH WITH ONE POEM MARKED UP FOR READING ALOUD. In Exultations Pound has extensively marked up the poem 'Sestina: Altafore' for reading aloud, underlining words or syllables for emphasis, a couple of words with spellings corrected, and with notes in margin 'read', 'fast', etc.Of the 1000 sets of sheets printed for each work, approximately only 500 were issued, the remainder later being used for the 1913 issue when both works were bound together.Provenance: Roy Fuller (1912-1991, poet), with handwritten note 'Exultations. Personae. Ezra's own copies (bought by me at Foyles for 6d. each, found among a mass of Nelson's 7d novels etc.)' on an envelope addressed to Fuller at Blackheath, stamped 24 May 1973, and a one-page note in pencil loosely inserted; John Fuller, poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.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

WALCOTT (DEREK A.)25 Poems, second edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'TO ROY FULLER, COMPLIMENTS OF DERECK WALCOTT. GRATEFULLY' on the half-title, publisher's green cloth, printed spine label and additional printed label ('25 Poems. Walcott') loosely inserted, original white printed dust-jacket (spine soiled), 8vo, Bridgetown, Barbados, Advocate Company, 1949Footnotes:IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNING DEREK WALCOTT'S VERY SCARCE FIRST BOOK OF POEMS, INSCRIBED BY HIM TO FELLOW POET ROY FULLER.'My first book of poems was published privately in 1949,' Walcott recalls, smiling. 'That was my mother. The book was 25 Poems. It cost 200 dollars.' (interview with James Campbell, The Guardian, 4 Oct. 2008). First published in January 1949, the second edition appeared April. Both are extremely rare, especially in the dust-jacket, with no copies traced on ABPC.Roy Fuller was an important early champion of Walcott, helping him reach an international audience by reviewing his works in two episodes of the BBC's Caribbean Voices, which 'may have helped determine Walcott's subsequent direction. For instance, in his review of 25 Poems, broadcast on 22 May 1949, Fuller was as enthusiastic as any West Indian about the new 'find' [Walcott], but he was critically and analytically so... he assessed Walcott on equal terms, so to speak, without any condescension...' (Edward Baugh, Derek Walcott, 2006). Sold with the lot is an uncorrected proof copy of Derek Walcott's The Gulf and Other Poems (1969, with one-page of pencil notes by Roy Fuller loosely inserted), and Volume 3, No. 10 of BIM (1949), which includes a poem by Walcott ('A Way to Live'), and advert for the second edition of 25 Poems, and an article about him and the book written by Harold Simmons.Provenance: Roy Fuller (1912-1991), gift inscription from the author; John Fuller, poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.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

[WILDE (OSCAR)]The Ballad of Reading Gaol By C.E.E., FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, untrimmed in publisher's white linen-backed cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, age soiling [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: Arnold Mayhew (1873-1939), inscription dated September 1898 on front free endpaper. Arnold, son of Anthony Mayhew (friend of Francis Kilvert and Charles Dodgson, and longstanding Chaplain at Wadham College) was appointed Master at Epsom College in 1898, the year he purchased this copy of Reading Gaol; by descent to his great nephew; donated to Oxfam, by who it is being sold.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)Casino Royale, fourth printing, a little foxing at top of first and last few leaves and to fore-edge, publisher's black cloth with red heart and spine lettering, in a PROOF DUST-JACKET, slight knock to top edge of front panel [Gilbert A1a (4)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1957Footnotes:The first 'playing card' edition in a proof dust-jacket originating from the estate of its designer Pat Marriott.Pat Marriott (Patricia Marriott, 1920-2002) is best known as the designer of the dust-jackets of the first editions of Diamonds Are Forever, Dr. No and the present edition of Casino Royale. Marriott was at the time known as an illustrator of children's books, and in 1954 had married Fleming's literary advisor and a director at Cape, Michael Howard, who drew the author's attention to her work. Following the success of her design for Diamonds Are Forever in 1956, she was asked to design a new version for the fourth printing of Casino Royale, which she did 'creating a design using a playing card motif' (Graham Thomas, 'Pat Marriott - Bond illustrator', on Mid-Century Bond website, 2019).The proof dust-jacket corresponds to Gilbert's description of the finished version in all but one aspect, the paper being slightly glossy as opposed to 'finished by Samuel Jones in spirit varnish (laminate)', with some green ink showing through to the reverse.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

OXFORD MALTON (THOMAS) Views of Oxford, engraved title, mezzotint portrait of Thomas Malton by W. Barney after W. Stuart, 24 aquatint plates, 6 etched plates, half morocco over cloth by T. Aitken, upper cover tilt lettered 'Views in Oxford' [cf. Abbey Scenery 272], folio (402 x 300mm.), White & Co., and Oxford, R. Smith, 4 June 1810 Footnotes: RARE. First published in 4 parts in 1802 this expanded edition includes a title-page, portrait of the author, and 6 additional etched plates in outline. Provenance: Sir Charles Locock, 1st Baronet (1799-1875), inscribed 'Sir Charles Locock, Bart. with Capt. Malton's kindest regards, Nov. 1860' on front free endpaper. A noted obstetric physician, who in 1840 'was appointed first physician accoucheur to Queen Victoria, and attended at the births of all her children' (ODNB); Sir Manson M. Beeton; Sir Richard Farrant, bookplates. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

PLATH (SYLVIA)Ariel, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, publisher's printed paper wrappers ('Not for Sale. Nor for review or serialization without the publisher's permission. Publication date not yet settled'), [1965]; Ariel, FIRST EDITION, ROY FULLER'S COPY, with his signature on front free endpaper, with one pencil amendment on p.23, and 12-lines of pencil notes ('11 [Moring Song] Examples of compression. Fundamentally 10 2 6 metre... 20 [Tulips] 7-line stanzas...') by Fuller, and printed 'Poetry Book Society Bulletin No. 44' (with review of 'Ariel') loosely inserted, publisher's red cloth, dust-jacket (spine soiled), [1965]; The Colossus, FIRST EDITION, ROY FULLER'S COPY with signature inside upper cover, Heinemann, [1960]; Crossing the Water, FIRST EDITION, 1971, all but the first publisher's cloth, dust-jackets , 8vo; and 3 others with contributions by Sylvia Plath, including 'Gemini 2. Summer 1957' (7)Footnotes:Provenance: Roy Fuller (1912-1991), poet, with his ownership inscription in two of the works. Fuller wrote a review of The Colossus for The London Magazine, March 1961; John Fuller, poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.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)Goldfinger, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's gilt-stamped cloth (second state with small area of detail on the skull no longer present), dust-jacket (price-clipped, small losses to rear flap, but overall bright) [Gilbert A7a(1.2)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1959This 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

ORWELL (GEORGE)Homage to Catalonia, FIRST EDITION, publisher's green cloth, pictorial dust-jacket (price clipped retaining most of dotted diagonal rule), spine toned with small repairs at extremities and faint split at lower joint, small repairs to horizontal margin of upper cover with small tear closed at lower edge, strengthened with old thin paper strips on verso [Fenwick A6], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1938Footnotes:'Homage to Catalonia was published at the end of April 1938. Orwell was hoping for a good sale... In the event Warburg printed 1500 copies but only sold 800. The remainder were not sold until after Orwell's death' (Gordon Bowker, George Orwell, 2003).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.)Correspondence from J.K. Rowling to the parents of her ex-boyfriend, and a presentation copy to him, comprising: i) Autograph letter signed ('Jo') to Brenda and Ken ('Dear Brenda & Ken'),writing shortly after the publication of book four, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ('...madness...'), and now bracing herself '...for the announcement of the boy who is playing Harry in the film...', expecting the Daily Mail to turn up at her door '...to find out whether I hate him or not...' but says she is delighted with him, 2 pages, creased at folds, 297 x 210mm., Edinburgh, [no date but 2000]; ii) Autograph letter signed ('Jo') to Brenda ('Dear Brenda'), a fond letter thanking her for her kind words about the books and hoping that Mike (her ex-boyfriend and Brenda's son) will read his copy of the first one ('...I'm thinking of pretending there's a character based on him in the next one, just to fool him into ploughing through it...'), ending with news of her daughter Jessica and recommending Harry Potter et l'Ecole des Sorciers to her family in France, 2 pages, creased at folds, 297 x 210mm., Edinburgh, 14 December 1998; iii) Pictorial greetings card depicting a row of owls, signed ('Jo') to Brenda ('Dear Brenda'), on her return from a US tour and telling her she is about to move house ('...Daily Mail journalists keep turning up at this one and I'd like a bit more privacy!...'), delighted that Mike has finally read the books ('...He seems to think he deserves a dedication for this – or possibly some sort of medal...'), 2 pages, 178 x 210mm. closed, Edinburgh, 11 September [19]99;iv) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first paperback edition, first printing, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page 'To Micky, who learned to read late in life and should be encouraged. Love Jo', with the number sequence 10 to 1 on the reverse of title page, slight toning to margins, publisher's pictorial wrappers, spine and adjacent strip of front cover slightly faded, corner tips knocked, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998] (4)Footnotes:'THE BOY WHO IS PLAYING HARRY IN THE FILM... I'M DELIGHTED WITH HIM': J.K. ROWLING WRITES TO THE PARENTS OF HER EX-BOYFRIEND, WHO WITNESSED THE GENESIS OF HARRY POTTER, and jokingly inscribes a copy of the Chamber of Secrets for him.Jo Rowling met Michael, the son of the recipients of our letters, whilst they were students at Exeter University in the mid-1980's. After university he travelled the world on a gap year and returned to study in Manchester, where the couple resumed their relationship. Rowling was at the time living in London, working for Amnesty International, and regularly took the long train journey from London to Manchester to visit him whilst they were looking for a flat together. It was on one of these delayed journeys that, famously, the inspiration for Harry Potter came to her: '...It was after a weekend's flat-hunting, when I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, that the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening... I moved up to Manchester, taking the swelling manuscript with me...' (J.K. Rowling, biography, online). Indeed, Brenda recalls how Rowling was constantly scribbling down ideas for the books and leaving pieces of paper everywhere when she went to stay. However, at the end of December 1990 Rowling's mother died and she describes the following year as one 'of misery'.By November 1991 she and Mike had split up and she had moved to Portugal. As our letters attest, she kept in touch with Mike and his parents throughout her troubled first marriage and the birth of her daughter Jessica up until her second marriage in 2001. Throughout the letters, the last written during the frenzy that accompanied the making of the first film, there is a glimpse of her new life as a celebrity author, with mention of trips to Cannes, book tours and frustrations with the press, particularly the Daily Mail (notably newspaper of choice for the odious Dursley family). She writes with evident fondness to Brenda and Ken, who witnessed the genesis of the Harry Potter books, and gently teases Mike for finally getting round to reading them ('...He seems to think he deserves a dedication for this – or possibly some sort of medal...'). It was after a row with Mike that Rowling invented the sport of Quidditch whilst staying in a Manchester hotel: '...It [sport] infuriates men... which is quite satisfying given my state of mind when I invented it...' she later wrote.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

COLLODI (CARLO)The Story of a Puppet, Or, The Adventures of Pinocchio, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by M.A. Murray, half-title and title printed in red and black, frontispiece and illustrations by C. Mazzanti, publisher's decorative blue cloth, edges of text block patterned to same design as covers, spine soiled and spine ends rubbed [Osborne II, p.1007], 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892Footnotes:Provenance: Margaret Esher, early ink inscription on front free patterned 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

FORESTRY - WOOD SAMPLESTHIL (ANDRE) Sections transversales de 120 espèces de bois indigènes et exotiques, FIRST EDITION, text (with folding table) in publisher's green printed wrappers, 6 stiff plates exhibiting 120 window-mounted actual wood specimens (20 per sheet, one with small loss), loose as issued in publisher's green cloth book box, metal clasps and catches, the wooden sides split but complete, folio (320 x 240mm.) , Grêz-sur-Loing, J. Tempère, and Paris, Lucien Laveur, 1904Footnotes:SCARCE AND ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED STUDY OF RARE WOODS, illustrated with 120 examples of wood types, both native and exotic species from Japan, India, Australia, Reunion, Guinea and Central America. Thil was a French forestry engineer who, having studied at the Imperial School of Forestry at Nancy, subsequently worked for the Régiment forestier de Paris.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, third printing, WITH ROWLING'S SIGNATURE on a loosely inserted Bloomsbury label, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:An exceptionally fine copy of the third printing of The Philosopher's Stone, the first to be issued in a dust-jacket, with a Bloomsbury adhesive label signed by Rowling 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

FLEMING (IAN)Live and Let Die, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, IN FIRST STATE JACKET, some spotting to opening and final leaves and edges of text block, publisher's black cloth gilt, first state dust-jacket without designer credit (price-clipped, light spotting, horizontal 'V-shaped' tear to lower wrapper without loss [Gilbert A2a (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954This 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, light spotting (mostly to endpapers and edges of text block), publisher's black cloth stamped in silver-gilt, dust-jacket (frayed at extremities with small loss to head of spine not touching letters, spotting to lower cover) [Gilbert A4a(1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1956This 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)Goldfinger, dust-jacket with some scoring and abrasion to front panel, some soiling and wear at edges, 1959; Thunderball, 1961; The Spy who Loved Me, 1962; On Her Majesty's Secret Service, spine of dust-jacket damp-stained, 1963; You Only Live Twice, 1964; The Man with the Golden Gun, dust-jacket slightly spotted, corners and spine ends strengthened with tape on reverse, 1965; Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1966, FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, publisher's black cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo, Jonathan Cape; together with a 1963 edition of Casino Royale, and first editions of The James Bond Dossier by Kinglsey Amis and Seafire by John Gardner (10)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

PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)Geographicae enarrationis libri octo [edited by Michael Villanovanus Servetus], text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), 49 double-page maps and one single-page map, woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut historiated initials, decorative page headings, borders, and tail-pieces, divisional title to index, title-page with neat repair to upper right corner, early ownership inscriptions to title (one legible, others obliterated), occasional manuscript notations throughout, binder's waste used as pastedowns and endpapers, damp staining mostly to upper margin, last 3 leaves with lower corners torn, near contemporary limp vellum, one tie lacking, worn [Phillips 364; Sabin 66483], folio (405 x 290mm.), Lyon, Melchior and Gasper Trechsel, 1535Footnotes:The first printing of the edition edited by Michael Villanovanus, known as Servetus (1511-1553), with the Latin translation by the German humanist Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530). The maps (27 of the ancient world; 22 of the modern world) are printed from woodblocks first used in Lorenz Fries's 1522 edition printed by Grüninger (the final map is captioned with this date with Fries's initials), then again in Grüninger's Strasbourg edition of 1525. The double-page maps of the ancient and modern world comprise: 10 of Europe, 4 of Africa, 12 of Asia, World map, New World, 2 further World maps and 19 others (including Britain and further maps of Africa, Asia and Europe, one with a single-page map of Lotharingia on verso). The maps featuring the Americas are number 28 ('Tabula terre nova') with an account of the voyages and discoveries of Columbus on the verso, number 34 ('Norbegia et Gottia') showing Greenland as a peninsula of Europe, number 49 ('Tabula nova orbis'), and number 50 ('Tabula totius orbis'), the celebrated map of the world by Lorenz Fries, the first Ptolomeian map to use the name 'America', on a portion of the South American Continent.Provenance: Joy de Droyont(?), ink inscription on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROWNING (ROBERT) - KENSINGTONLOFTIE (W.J.) Kensington. Picturesque & Historical, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 33 OF 50 PROOF COPIES, INSCRIBED BY THE POET ROBERT BROWNING 'Dorothea Thorpe - to remind her in after-days of the place where not only her dear relatives had their abode but her affectionate friend Robert Browning. Aug. 1. [18]89' on the front free endpaper, limitation numbering ('Proof No. 30. One of Fifty. Field Tuer') in ink on verso of the half-title, 5 maps, upwards of 300 illustrations and plates (some printed in colour) by William Luker Jun., publisher's brown morocco gilt, g.e., FORE-EDGE PAINTING BY WILLIAM LUKER JUN. depicting two scenes (girl and sheep in gardens; street scene), each signed with initials, rubbed, 4to, Field and Tuer, 1888Footnotes:'TO REMIND HER IN AFTER-DAYS OF... HER AFFECTIONATE FRIEND ROBERT BROWNING. AUG. 1 [18]89' - One of fifty proof copies, for which Robert Browning is listed as a subscriber. His elegiac, and prophetic, gift inscription was written four months prior to his death which occurred at his home, 29 De Vere Gardens, Kensington. The recipient was Dorothea Thorpe (1876-1942), whose portrait by Kensington resident John Everett Millais was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1882.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

ANANIA (GIOVANNI LORENZO D')La universal fabrica del mondo, 4 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, woodcut title, 4 folding engraved maps (neatly laid down), a2 restored, tear to B3 of first part and to A4 of fourth part, early ownership inscription on title inked over, spotting and age-toning, early limp vellum, manuscript title on spine, worn, hinges starting [EDIT16 CNCE 15952; USTC 825399; Burden 43; not in Adams, BL or Sabin], 4to, Naples, Giuseppe Cacchi dell'Aquila, 1573Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION OF A TREATISE ON COSMOGRAPHY WITH FOLDING MAPS OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND AMERICA.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

PLESHCHEYEV (SERGEI IVANOVICH) Tagebuch einer Reise des Russische-kanserlichen Lieutenants von der flotte herren Sergiei Pleschtschjeew von der Insel Paros nach Syrien und Palastina, nebst einer kurzen Geschichte Ali-Beys, one folding engraved map of Haifa Bay, red morocco with gilt arms to upper and lower cover, spine tooled in 5 compartments and green morocco lettering label in 1 within raised bands, g.e., joints neatly repaired, 8vo, Riga, Johann Friedrich Hartznoch, 1774 Footnotes: RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PROVENANCE. Pleshcheyev (1752–1802) served at the court of the Grand Duke Paul, son of Catherine the Great who would later be crowned Paul I, and was involved in the Russian efforts to survey the Mediterranean and, in 1772, spent two months surveying along the coast of Palestine. His diary first appeared in Russian in 1772, with this German edition in 1774. Provenance: Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Maria, her super libris coats of arms on sides; Pavlovsk Palace library, label in side upper cover. The Pavlovsk palace was constructed about twenty miles from St. Petersburg on the orders of Catherine the Great in 1777, to serve as summer residence for her son Paul and his wife, the Grand Duchess Maria. The label appears to date from the turn of the twentieth century when the palace was still held by the Romanovs during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. 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)Casino Royale, FIRST EDITION, third impression, owner's presentation inscription to front free endpaper, both free endpapers with some toning and faint tape adhesion marks, label of Foy's Book Dept. on front paste-down, DUST-JACKET (third state, slight vertical crease to front panel, light foxing to rear panel, reverses of flaps toned, price clipped from front flap but intact at rear), [Gilbert A1a (3)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION - IN ITS VERY GOOD ORIGINAL AND UNRESTORED DUST-JACKET. Encouraged by the success of Live and Let Die, Fleming wrote to Cape asking them to print another thousand copies of Casino Royale, resulting in this third impression, the smallest of the three runs and the last to feature the famous red heart jacket before Pat Marriott's playing card design replaced it for all later printings.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

BERMUDANarrative of the Voyage of H.M. Floating Dock 'Bermuda,' from England to Bermuda. Written in the Form of a Diary, by One of Those On Board, FIRST EDITION, 4 tinted lithographed plates, one folding lithographed map, errata slip tipped to verso of one map, some toning and off-setting (from plates to text), publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, worn, rebacked, 8vo, John B. Day, [c.1870]Footnotes:A scarce eye-witness account of the great engineering feat of 'the most important post on the North American and West Indian Station, being for our ships a half-way place of call between our colonies in that quarter of the globe' (Chapter 1).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

VIGERIUS (MARCUS)Decachordum Christianum. Controversia de Excellentia Instrumentorum Dominicae Passionis, title within a four-part woodcut decorative border signed by Urs Graf, 9 larger woodcut illustrations by Hans Schäufelein (all signed but the first) and one other woodcut by a different artist, each illustration surrounded by a woodcut border printed from four blocks by an anonymous artist, early ownership ink inscription on title-page and upper pastedown, upper margin shaved at time affecting the text, some light age-toning and occasional offsetting, contemporary limp vellum, light wear [Muther 912; USTC 675049; VD16 1183], folio (292 x 203 mm.), [Hagenau, Thomas Anshelm and Johann Albrecht for Johann Koberger at Nuremberg, 1517]Footnotes:First edition published outside Italy. The woodcuts by Hans Schäufelein, pupil of Albrecht Dürer, are among his best works. The work is also remarkable for its typography by Thomas Anshelm.Provenance: Robin Satinsky, 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

LESLIE (JOHN)De origine moribus, et rebus gestis Scotorum, 2 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, title with woodcut head-piece and vignette, divisional title with the engraved arms of Mary Queen of Scots on verso, folding engraved map of Scotland, 11 full-page engraved genealogies of the kings of Scotland (incorporating portrait vignettes), woodcut initials and head-pieces, double-ruled borders throughout, light spotting, 2 small worm holes to first few leaves, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, light wear [Adams L541; EDIT16 CNCE 33941], 4to (215 x 170mm), Rome, In aedibus populi Romani, 1578Footnotes:First edition of an important history and description of Scotland by the Catholic John Leslie (1527-1596), Bishop of Ross, and adviser of Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. Although originally composed in Scots during Leslie's imprisonment in 1568-1570, a Scottish version was not published until 1830.Provenance: P. Matthei Paseniy, early ownership ink inscription on 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