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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

MOUNTAINEERINGALMER (CHRISTIAN) A Facsimile of Christian Almer's Führerbuch 1856-1894, Reproduced under the Superintendence of C.D. Cunningham and Capt. W. De W. Abney, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 200 COPIES], this copy without the limitation notice, half-title, heliogravure photographic frontispiece portrait of Almer, 2 illustrations, publisher's green cloth, gilt morocco spine labels (some abrasions), g.e. [Neate C157], 8vo, Sampson Low, 1896Footnotes:Christian Almer (1826-1898) was one of the great pioneering Alpine guides from the golden age of mountaineering, making the first ascent of the Eiger, and many other Alpine peaks. Privately printed, the Führerbuch reproduces in facsimile the manuscript recommendations of the climbers he accompanied, together with a lengthy introduction. On publication the book caused great controversy amongst Alpine circles, the reviewer in the Alpine Journal (Vol. 18, 1897) stating that 'in our opinion 'Fuhrerbuch' ought not to be published, and we trust that this volume may remain an unique specimen in its class'. According to Neate of the 200 copies 'only 68 copies were published after which the plates were destroyed'.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

ZATTA (ANTONIO) AND GUILLAUME THOMAS FRANCOIS RAYNALStoria dell' America Settentrionale del Signor Abate Raynal, continuata fino al presente, con Carte Geografiche rappresentanti il Teatro della Guerra Civile tra la Gran Bretagna, e le Colonie Unite, Part 1 only (of 2), FIRST EDITION, engraved printer's device on title, 15 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps, engraved head- and tail-pieces, contemporary decorative paper boards with original printed label on spine, light wear [Phillips Atlases 650; Sabin 68109], folio (430 x 310mm.), Venice, Antonio Zatta, 1778Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF ZATTA'S MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, including 12 maps based on Mitchell's Map of North America, intended to be joined to form one large wall-map, and 3 further maps comprising Canada, Newfoundland and Cape Breton, and Hudson's Bay. This copy does not include the second volume of text. 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

COLQUHOUN (ITHELL)Archive of 'magical writings', manuscripts, typescripts, original illustrations and printed material, comprising: i) Manuscript and typescript essays and lecture notes, including typed essays on Qabalah with manuscript amendments ('The Crown and the Kingdom' in four parts '...The ten circles, centres or concentrations of force are the Sephioth or Divine Emanation...'), Druidry and Gnosticism, 'Fire and the Pyramid of Flame' ('...the progeny of Electricity... the essence of our divine ancestors, the celestial hierarchies...'), typescript of her one-act play 'The Pilgrimage', essay on Aleister Crowley ('Heaven & Earth: The Dying Kick of the Dying-God'), on ritual ('Ceremony Connected with the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram... The altar is arranged as for the Neophyte Grade of the G.D... Rose and Dagger in E., Incense, lamp and Fire-Wand in S., Cup in W.... if the pentacle is not ready, a gold coin may be substituted...'), on interior stars ('De Astris Interioribus'), a long descriptive essay on 'The Isiac Tablet of Bembo', also 'The Taro as Colour', 'Zodiacal Rulership of the Taro Court Cards' and descriptions of 17 of the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot ('The Fool', 'The High Priestess', 'The Hanged Man', etc.), and much else; illustrated with some 23 original diagrams in biro, some coloured in gouache, including 'The Cube' (5), the Tree of Life (10), 'Tatwass Through the Day' (collection of loose coloured-paper shapes), 'Taro Trumps in the Cube of Space' (4), c.244 pages, typed or written in blue or black biro on lined paper, many annotations and amendments, illustrations and diagrams in biro and gouache, mostly 4to, [undated]; ii) File of incoming correspondence, some published as appendices (Dorothy Empson, Maxwell Armfield (3), Robert Temple (3), Colin Murray of the Golden Section Order), typed article by Mrs Armer on 'Worship of the Old Deity', printed matter concerning Colquhoun's Masonic affiliations, and 4 pages of unpublished notes and diagrams, 80 pages, various sizes, etc. [1970's]; iii) Colquhoun's research material pertaining to W.B. Yeats, Maude Gonne and Ireland, including notes taken at the Yeats International Summer School at Sligo, her 'Irish' address book (including those of Jack Yeats and Mrs W.B. Yeats), various photographs, maps, guidebooks, timetables etc., c.47 pages of notes, c.1966-1968; with first edition copies of Ithell Colquhoun's Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn, London and New York, 1975, one inscribed by the author to Kitty (2), The Crying of the Wind, Ireland, 1955, and The Living Stones, Cornwall, 1957, [second half twentieth century] (collection)Footnotes:'THE OPENING OF THE SEALS IS FOLLOWED BY THE SOUNDING OF SEVEN TRUMPETS & THE POURING OF SEVEN VIALS': MAGICAL WRITINGS AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE IMPORTANT BRITISH SURREALIST PAINTER, OCCULTIST & AUTHOR.Until recently the surrealist works of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) have been somewhat overshadowed by better-known contemporaries such as Leonora Carrington and Eileen Agar, but interest in her art and writing is now firmly in the ascendant. Indeed, the scholar Amy Hale has noted that Colquhoun '...is becoming recognized as one of the most interesting and prolific esoteric thinkers and artists of the twentieth century...' (Amy Hale, 'The Magical Life of Ithell Colquhoun' in Nevill Drury, Pathways in Modern Western Magic, 2012) and argues that through Colquhoun's work '...we can see an interplay of themes and movements which characterizes the trajectory of certain British subcultures ranging from Surrealism to the Earth Mysteries movement and also gives us a rare insight into the thoughts and processes of a working magician...'.The magical material in this archive, save for four pages of notes and diagrams, was gathered together and published as The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun in 2007 by Steve Nichols, a copy of which is included in the lot. It serves as a complement to Colquhoun's 1974 work, Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and the Golden Dawn, her only published book on magical theory. The four essays entitled 'The Crown and the Kingdom' were also published by Steve Nichols as a separate volume in 2006. Much of it was delivered as lectures, notably to Countess Tamara Bourkhoun's Golden Dawn-inspired Order of the Pyramid and Sphinx in the 1960's, of which she was a prominent member, or articles in such publications as Prediction. She was an initiate of several different orders representing Hermetic and Pagan traditions including the OrdoTempli Orientis, the Masonic Order, the Fellowship of Isis and the French Gnostic Church. Colquhoun discovered surrealism through the work of Dali and Magritte whilst studying at the Slade under Henry Tonks, and joined the English Surrealist Group in 1939, exhibiting with Roland Penrose at the Mayor Gallery the same year. Her involvement with the British Surrealist movement, however, was to be brief as she was soon expelled from the group for refusing to abandon the occult research which had become central to her work. She was interested in the occult from an early age, particularly the principles of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, introduced through her cousin Edward Garstin, and she infused her art with elements of occult colour theory and sacred geometry, both of which she returned to in her later writings as evidenced here (see Amy Hale, The Magic Surrealism of Ithell Colquhoun, Art UK online, June 2020).The present collection represents many of her wide-ranging interests, drawing together her magical and artistic careers. In her short article of 1977, 'The Taro as Colour', a modern typed copy of which is included in the archive, she talks of her magical theory of colour and the surrealistic painting technique of automatism: '...It renders the essence of each card by the non-figurative means of pure colour, applied automatically in the manner of the psychomorphological movement in surrealism...' she explains. Also evident is her admiration for Celtic lore (one letter is from a Deaconess of the Ancient Celtic Church) and in particular W.B. Yeats, a Golden Dawn Adept who also used automatism in his work ('...Through his hermetic studies under MacGregor Mathews, Yeats was deeply embued with Qabalistic thought...'). Ithell's influential article about Aleister Crowley which appeared originally in the London Broadsheet, no.4, April 1955, is also present, typed and amended by the author: '...Ithells' attitude to Aleister Crowley was ambivalent. He chased her around a house once, but she managed to escape his advances...' (Nichols, p.3). Amongst the wealth of material here is a detailed description of a ritual, 'The Outline of Preliminary Ceremony Connected with the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram', running to some five handwritten pages with red and black inks used to clarify which are spoken words and which are actions. As might be expected, there are also several striking illustrations, including a series of colourful painted diagrams depicting various configurations of The Cube. Provenance: Steve Nichols, editor of The Magical Writings of Ithell Colquhoun, 2007.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[LYNDWOOD (WILLIAM)]Provinciale seu constitutiones Anglie [edited by J. Badius], 212 leaves, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red and black, double-column, manuscript note pasted to upper pastedown, manuscript notations in an early hand on title and occasionally throughout, manuscript notes in a later hand to final blank (laid down), fore-margin of one leaf (Fol. 56) neatly torn away with loss of a few letters and side-notes, opening 7 leaves loose, occasional light mostly marginal damp-stains, small tear to margin of ⟨⁊⟩6 repaired with tape not affecting text, later calf over wooden boards, retaining sixteenth century blind-stamped side panels, worn, rebacked, lacks bosses and clasps [ESTC S103845; Beale T403], folio (360 x 260mm.), [Paris, Andre Brocard, 28 May 1501]Footnotes:The Canon law of the ecclesiastical province of Canterbury, as collected and abridged in 1433 by William Lyndewood (1375-1446), with his explanatory gloss, and here edited by Josse Badius. 'Though no English bookseller is mentioned in the imprint ... [this item is] clearly intended for sale in England' (ESTC).Although the collection was first printed in Oxford, between 1470 and 1480, this is the first complete edition of the work, including text, gloss, and supplement, published in Paris in 1501.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)For Your Eyes Only, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, publisher's black cloth with white eye device on upper cover, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket priced 15s. [Gilbert A8a (1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1960This 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

ANGLINGALDHAM (W.H.) A Quaint Treatise on 'Flees and the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making', FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR SIGNED 'yours faithfully W.H. Aldam' beneath the image pasted to leaf facing list of contents, half-title, 2 chromolithographed plates after James Poole, 25 actual specimens of hooked flies, and samples of fly-tying materials within 22 sunken mounts, samples attached with coloured serrated paper seals, light spotting, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving original spine [Westwood & Satchell, p.3], 4to, John B. Day, 1876Footnotes:Provenance: Mary Benwell, presentation inscription from the author ('Mary Benwell with W.H.A's kind regards') in red ink, and further inscription 'Dr. Roberts with Mrs Benwell's kindest regards' in black ink 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

FLEMING (IAN)Live and Let Die, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, occasional light spotting (heavier to edges of text block), publisher's black cloth gilt, second state dust-jacket with credit to Kenneth Clark (with price 10d 6s on both flaps, age toning, lower corner darker with some small stains, fold corners worn), [Gilbert A2a (1.2), 'first issue, second state'], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1954Footnotes:Provenance: M.R.B. Helm, of Plumstead, address stamp inside upper cover beneath name in green ink.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)Thrilling Cities, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, with Jonathan Cape printed slip loosely inserted, publisher's buckram-backed grey boards, a little light toning at ends of buckram, FIRST STATE DUST-JACKET with laminate covering entire width of rear flap, slight foxing to front flap, more prevalent on reverse [Gilbert A16a (1.1), note on p.479], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, 1963Footnotes:A VERY GOOD COPY WITH THE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE CAPE ADVANCE REVIEW SLIP. 'Copies were sent out to the editors of various publications including Books and Bookmen, The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and The Listener' (Gilbert).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

DOBBS (ARTHUR)An Account of the Countries Adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-West Part of America, FIRST EDITION, one folding engraved map of North America (off-setting), occasional spotting, contemporary calf gilt, spines tooled in gilt within raised bands, joints neatly refurbished [Howes D373; Lande 1144; Sabin 20404], 4to (290 x 220mm.), J. Robinson, 1744Footnotes:Dobbs (1685-1765) had first begun his campaign to find the Northwest Passage in 1731, and helped finance an expedition under the command of Christopher Middleton, a captain of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Account includes Dobbs' first attack in print on Middleton, who he believed was undermining efforts to find the Passage in order to protect monopoly of the Company. The description on Hudson's Bay is based on the account of the French Canadian Joseph La France. The map shows the coastline of America from California in the west, to Greenland in the north and down to New York in the southeast.Provenance: Library of Ragley Hall, seat of the Marquesses of Hertford, 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

SAINT-NON (JEAN CLAUDE RICHARD DE)Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, FIRST EDITION, 5 vol., with SIGNED CONTRACT FOR PUBLICATION, half-titles, vignette title engravings, complete with all the 305 full page 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, engraved head- and tail-pieces, uncut, contemporary manuscript corrections to two text leaves, corner stained to approximately 20 leaves in volume 2, occasional age-toning and/or spotting, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, with custom made modern slipcases, shelfwear to covers, tear at head of spine of volumes 2 and 3, lower joint cracked volume 4 part 2 [Blackmer 1473; Brunet V 55-56; Cohen-de Ricci 928-930; Millard French 148; Ray French 34], folio (516 x 340mm.), Paris, 1781-1786; together with MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED ('Laborde,' 'L'abbé d' Saint-Non,' and 'La Bretesche'), being the original contract for publication between Laborde and Saint-Non, tipped in to volume 1, 8 pp., stitched, Paris, August 5, 1777, with an added codicil dated 31 March 31 1778, signed below by Laborde, Saint-Non and La Bretesche, docketed on verso 'Convention entre L'abbé de Saint Non et B'in de la Borde en Rich'd de la Bretesche pour la publication Voyage Pittoresque a Naples et en Sicile', (330 x 215mm.) (6)Footnotes:A FINE LARGE, COMPLETE AND UNCUT COPY OF SAINT-NON'S CLASSIC WORK, WITH THE ORIGINAL SIGNED CONTRACT FOR ITS PUBLICATION. One of the most celebrated illustrated books of the eighteenth century, Saint-Non's Voyage Pittoresque was published between 1781-1785, with the Livraisons containing the plates beginning as early as 1778. This fine copy, including the rarely found 'phallus' plate in volume 2, is accompanied by the original contract between Saint-Non and his brother [Louis Richard de] La Bretesche, and Jean-Benjamin Laborde, the publisher who originally conceived of the project. In the contract, dated 5 August 1777, Saint-Non and his brother agree to invest 30,000 livres against the 30,000 livres already spent by Laborde. But in the codicil added the following year, Laborde admits he has only spent 10,000 livres and the terms are amended accordingly. The production, even under the amended terms, would ruin the wealthy Saint-Non. A fascinating look at the origins of 'one of the monuments of 18th-century book production' (Blackmer 1473).Provenance: Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, London, 1988; 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

POPE (ARTHUR UPHAM) AND PHYLLIS ACKERMANNA Survey of Persian Art, 6 vol., FIRST EDITION, 1482 plates (195 coloured), mostly photographic, publisher's blue buckram, spines faded, folio (380 x 270mm.), Oxford University Press, 1938-1939This 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

CASTIGLIONE (BALDESSARE)Il libro del cortegiano, second (first 8vo) edition, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on title and verso of final leaf, light old stain to some leaves, early ink marginal note in 2 side-margins, small hole touching woodcut device on title and a couple of letters on leaf Aii, later vellum, retaining original final blank free endpaper with early ownership inscriptions, and binder's waste including 5-lines of an early 15th century illuminated manuscript [Adams C925; Olschki 17581], 8vo, Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta, October 1528Footnotes:The scarce second edition of Castiglione's celebrated courtly manual. Giunta's octavo edition was printed in the same year as the Aldus folio edition, and is rare at auction. The work was written from the author's personal experience at the court of Urbino, and his description of the ideal courtier helped it become one of the most influential literary works of the High Renaissance.Provenance: Andrea Balestra, ink ownership inscription on binder's waste at front; Several verses, including 'O sfortunata Ricolina/non saro mai piu contenta', in an early Italian hand on final 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

LEWIS (C.S.)Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece, front map endpaper and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, publisher's dark blue cloth (slightly faded at spine extremities), dust-jacket (chipped to head of spine and corners, a few other short marginal tears, spine age-soiled, a few abrasions, ownership inscription dated 1953 inside upper flap), 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [1951]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

GRAMAN (JENIA)Archive of illustrations, typescripts, artwork and other papers from artist, translator and dancer Jenia Graman (1909-2003), comprising: i) Album containing 23 original illustrations for her unpublished children's story A Changed Child, signed ('Jenia'), including the cover design, 'Lady Gwendolynne shows her Preparations', 'Hide and seek at a Children's party', 'The Court Poet recites his Verses', 'Princess Yolanda in a Furious Rage', 'Jock the Poacher is terrified in the Churchyard' and 'Dr Campanellus, Nurse Marta and Sophia fly to a Warm Country', ink and coloured pencil on tracing paper, mounted, 255 x 167mm.; together with her typescript of 'A Changed Child: An old Story retold and illustrated by Jenia Graman', beginning '...'No my good woman', said the butler...' and ending '...And with that, the balloon rose and disappeared into the night...', with amendments in biro, together with several [some incomplete] copies and synopses for publishers, c.175 pages, 298 x 210mm.; ii) Album of 36 charming illustrations for Christmas and other greetings cards, most signed ('Jenia'), depicting angels, folk scenes, nativities and animals, mounted, gouache and watercolour on coloured papers, 245 x 184mm. and smaller; with c.20 calligraphic trials for 'Jenia Script', pencil and ink on lined tracing paper, with 3 draft calligraphic pieces, 500 x 380mm., [1970's]; and large quantity of portraits and landscape scenes, including plants and architecture in Capri (c.39), Yugoslavia (19), Greece (c.14), Tunisia (c.18), Bulgaria and Uzbekistan (6), Odessa (6) and Hong Kong (4), pen, watercolour and pastel, on watercolour, coloured and tracing papers, 275 x 385mm. and smaller;iii) Papers relating to her translation of Lipakha of Kamtshatka including 7 striking original illustrations in gouache and collage, 220 x 250mm.; group of line drawings and designs for Russian and other Folk Costumes; and other miscellaneous material including photocopies of two articles entitled 'They died young', legal and personal papers, photographs and cabinet cards of family members (including two signed cabinet cards of the German pianist Télémaque Lambrino, a friend of her mother) and an album of photographs of her 'dancing years', with a small quantity of printed material;iv) Twenty copies of Kurban Said's Ali and Nino, in various languages including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Turkish, including: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY signed by the author ('To Brian/ now that he likes the book/ from/ Jenia'), Random House, 1971 – FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY ('With Almath's/ good wishes/ – and thanks/ for my tiny part/ in helping with/ 'sticky' English/ idioms')Footnotes:'AND WITH THAT THE BALLOON ROSE & DISAPPEARED INTO THE NIGHT'. The present archive represents the wide-ranging career of Russian-born Jenia Graman, perhaps best known for her translation of Kurban Said's romance set in Azerbaijan, Ali and Nino, first published in English in 1970, several copies of which are included in the lot. She had worked as a dancer in musicals in Nazi Germany and emigrated to Britain in the 1950's, becoming naturalised in 1960. She worked as a successful commercial artist – her style reflecting both Russian folk tradition and modern design. Much of the material here relates to her reimagining of one of her favourite books from childhood: '...I read the story of 'A Changed Child' when I was a child, in a book belonging to a friend's grandmother... it had such an impression on me, that I remembered it all these years... I think the phantastic story... could well be a success...'. The book, however, and its whimsical illustrations remained unpublished.Provenance: Jenia Graman (1909-2003); acquired by the present owner from the estate of her executors.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN)[Sea Monsters] Meerwunder und Seltzame Their, hand-coloured double-page woodcut by Hans Rudolph Manuel Deutsch, with text and woodcut map on the reverse, some soiling (mostly affecting margins), neatly restored at central fold and edges, one tear repaired, sheet 300 x 375mm., [1578]Footnotes:Woodcut first published in 1550 in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographiae Universalis, showing North Atlantic sea and land monsters, with deer, foxes, bears, snakes and a leopard at the top, and a wide variety of sea-going creatures devouring boats, swimmers, land animals, and one another, each labelled after Olaus Magnus's Carta Marina of 1539. This example, from the 1578 German edition, is headed with a reference to the Midnight Lands (Scandinavia), captioned 'Morwunder und selczame Thier, wie sie in den Mitnachtigen Länder finden'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ORWELL (GEORGE)Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with 'May, 1945' on copyright page), publisher's green cloth, lettered in white on spine (spine ends and lower edge of covers faded), dust-jacket printed in grey and green with white text, with 'Searchlight Books—each 2s net' and train engine printed in red on inside of jacket (spine worn with small loss at ends extending slightly onto covers, not touching letters, thin brown stain on upper cover neat upper margin) [Fenwick A10a; Connolly 93], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945This 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 Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece and illustrations by Pauline Baynes, publisher's pale green cloth (some fading to spine), pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped, chipped at extremities of spine and outer corner and minor loss to upper left of upper panel), 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [1950]Footnotes:Provenance: Lucia Anne Cawthron, 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

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, tipped-in 'Postscript' leaf, and advertisement leaves in both volumes dated January 1871, half-titles, wood-engraved illustrations, partially unopened, foxing mostly to first and last free endpapers, publisher's green cloth gilt, hinges cracking in volume 1, rubbed with some wearing of gilt to spine of volume 1 [Garrison-Morton 170; Freeman 937; Norman 599], 8vo, John Murray, 1871Footnotes:Provenance: Maxwell of Gribton, bookplate and pencil inscription on title of volume 1; John Eriksson, bookplate; 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

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN)Vorzeichnungen, 50 engraved illustrations of human faces and forms on 25 leaves, modern purple calf with diagonal pattern decorations in blind, with modern folding case, oblong 8vo (200 x 275mm.), Augsburg, Academischen Kunsthandlung, n.d.; Figures de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, engraved title page and 34 (of 35) engraved plates by Jean Pacot, lacking plate 3 with a blank bound in its place, minor toning, contemporary gilt-ruled calf, rebacked [Cohen-de Ricci 396; Sander 688], oblong 8vo (205 x 141mm.), Paris, G Audran, [c.1720]; Quelqu[es] [f]igures[,] chevaux[,] paysages presen[tés] A Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne par [...] le Clerc, 35 engraved plates (of 60), including engraved title page, damp-staining to upper margins of several plates, a few stubs of removed plates visible in gutters, light soiling to title, modern gilt, solander box [Cohen-de Ricci 612], oblong 12mo (135 x 200mm.), Paris, G. Audran, [c.1700]; Vita et miracula sanctissimi patris Benedicti, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and 32 plates by Bernardino Passeri after Le Clerc, no letterpress text, large repaired tear through most of plate 10, marginal tear with old repair to plate 20, chips and tears to corners of plates 13, 28 and 32, contemporary calf, rebacked, worn, with old repairs, hinges cracked, numerous ink inscriptions on endpapers [Brunet IV 418; Cicognara 2138; Mortimer 362], 4to (340 x 245mm.), [c.1700]; Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux, additional engraved title, engraved royal arms on title-page, numerous engraved illustrations in text, early ownership inscription on lower margin of engraved title, browning, occasional spotting and minor soiling, modern calf gilt, in marbled paper slipcase [Goldsmith 237], 4to (287 x 210mm.), Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1676; and 11 others by Le Clerc, Du Fresnoy, Fleury and Callot (16)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

BELIZE AND MEXICOTratado de limites entre los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos y Honduras Britanica. Edicion Oficial, FIRST EDITION, vignette on title, one folding map of 'British Honduras' printed in colours, contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettered on spine, dulled, small 4to, Mexico, 'La Europea' de J. Aguilar Vera, 1897Footnotes:Scarce work detailing the establishment of the fixed Belize-Mexico border.Provenance: Dr. Eduard Seller, Berlin, small blue stamp on title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DARWIN (CHARLES)The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, 43 illustrations, with errata, advertisement leaves (dated 'April 1867' in volume 1, 'February 1868' in volume 2), light toning and foxing (mostly to front free endpapers), publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, hinges starting, extremities and corners bumped [Freeman 877], 8vo, John Murray, 1868Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889), Scottish engineer, astronomer, and manufacturer of wire ropes, bookplate. Darwin by his own account 'made an enormous saving of labour by using for the last half year Newall's patent wire rope' when raising water from his well ('The subject of deep wells', Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no.30, 25 July 1857, p.518); John Eriksson, bookplate; 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

HEANEY (SEAMUS)Eleven Poems, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, stapled as issued in wrappers, 8vo, Belfast, Festival Publications Queen's University, [1965]Footnotes:SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF HEANEY'S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK OF POEMS. This first issue is printed on laid paper, and has the sun device with nine 'points' printed on the upper cover in purple.Provenance: 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

BERMUDA[WHITTINGTON (FERDINAND)] Bermuda. A Colony, a Fortress, and a Prison; or, Eighteen Months in the Somers' Islands. By a Field Officer, FIRST EDITION, engraved hand-coloured map of Bermuda, 8 tinted lithographed plates after daguerreotypes 'executed, for the author, by Mr. Whitmore of the United States', tissue guards, 24-page advertisements (dated November 1856) at end, off-setting onto title, a few small damp stains (including on corners of 3 plates), publisher's brown cloth, spine refurbished with gilt lettering worn [Sabin 4097], 8vo, Longman, Brown, Green [etc.], 1857Footnotes:'Bermuda possesses a three-fold claim to attention of Britons, - as a colony, a fortress, and a prison... as the receptacle of our worst convicts' (Preface).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

MAXWELL (JAMES CLERK)Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 20 lithographed plates, without the errata leaf in volume one and 8-leaf publisher's advertisements sometimes bound at the end of volume 2, contemporary red red prize calf gilt, worn, upper cover of volume 1 detached [Grolier/Horblit 72; Wheeler Gift Cat. 1872; Norman 1466], 8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press Series, 1873Footnotes:Maxwell's most important work, in which he advanced the theory that light and electricity are the same 'in their ultimate nature' [Grolier/Horblit], a hypothesis that laid the groundwork for Einstein's theory of relativity.Provenance: J.S. Stollard, Wakefield, ownership inscription on titles.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

ORDONEZ DE CEVALLOS (PEDRO)Viage del Mundo, FIRST EDITION, woodcut coat-of-arms on title, full-page woodcut portrait of the author, final leaf supplied in manuscript facsimile, soiling to title, occasional light damp-stains (mostly marginal to table at end), later half calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label [Palau 03651; Sabin 57524, 'Rare'; Streit I:345], small 4to, Madrid, Luis Sanchez, 1614Footnotes:Scare first edition of this account by Ordonez de Cevallos' (c.1557-1635) of his circumnavigation of the world from 1589 to 1593, the first to commence from the Americas, when he travelled throughout the Spanish colonies there. He devotes two chapters to one of the earliest accounts of Bermuda before it was settled by the Somers Islands Company in 1612. Provenance: ?Eighteenth century ownership inscription to verso of the front free endpaper; Antonio Canovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian, statesman, and prime minister, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1975, lot 277.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

WOOD TURNINGBERGERON (LOUIS-ELOY) [i.e. LOUIS-GEORGES-ISAAC SALIVET] Manuel du tourneur, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, errata in volume 1, 72 folding engraved plates (of which 8 hand-coloured illustrating wood samples), without 4pp. of advertisements, contemporary boards, red morocco gilt spine labels, one joint repaired, 4to, Paris, Bergeron, 1792-1796Footnotes:First edition of 'an encyclopaedic record of the development of the lathe at the time' (Abell, Bibliography of the Art of Turning, 1956), the plates depicting wood samples (8 hand-coloured plates), machinery, tools and examples of finished works.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

DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN)The Hound of the Baskervilles, FIRST EDITION, first issue with 'you' for 'your' on p. 13, half-title, frontispiece and 14 plates (of 15, a few re-inserted) after Sidney Paget, endpapers slightly stained with red off-set from binding, an autograph letter by Doyle's secretary (signed as if by Doyle) bound in, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, joints and spine ends frayed [Green and Gibson A26a], 8vo, George Newnes, 1902Footnotes:Tipped inside the upper cover is a secretarial letter signed from Doyle to Mr. A. Robson in Galashiels, stating that he has no plans to visit 'Galashiels again before June. From the voting I don't think there will be a general election for two years', on Hindhead, Haslemere headed paper, in the original envelope, dated 18 January 1902. Conan Doyle was to stand, unsuccessfully, as the Liberal Unionist candidate for the parliamentary seat of Hawick Burgh (including the town of Galashiels) in 1906.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

BLAEU (JOAN) AND MARTINUS MARTINI Novus Atlas Sinensis. Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, engraved hand-coloured allegorical title, 17 double-page hand-coloured engraved maps (16 of China, one of Japan), worming to right margin of title and first map touching text, foxing and some browning throughout, contemporary panelled vellum, gilt-stamped rectangular frames and floral borders encasing a central lozenge-shaped floral ornament, yapp edges, silk ties (some loss), minor repairs, rubbed [Shirley T.BLA1n], folio (540 x 360mm.), Amsterdam, Joannes Blaeu, [1655] Footnotes: FIRST DUTCH EDITION OF THE FIRST EUROPEAN ATLAS OF CHINA. This is the first atlas to include descriptions and geographical coordinates of the fifteen provinces of the Chinese Empire, with the location of the capitals and the precise delineation of the borders. The maps are noteworthy also due to the decorative cartouches featuring vignettes depicting regional dress, activities and animals. The Atlas was based on the travels of Father Martino Martini (1614–1661), a Jesuit missionary in China who made use of 'Chinese materials from a much earlier date, originally an atlas compiled by Chu-Ssu-pên in about 1312' [Shirley p. 241]. The text is Martini's own account of his travels in the Chinese provinces, which took place over a period of roughly ten years. 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

MOUNTAINEERINGLORRIA (AUGUST) AND E.A. MARTEL. Les Grandes Alpes. Le Massif de la Bernina, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 50 heliogravure plates reproducing photographs by Vittorio Sella and others, printed tissue guards, photographic illustrations in the text, light damp-stains to opening and final few plates, some spotting and foxing throughout (mostly marginal but touching some plates), final 7 leaves partly adhered together upper right, final 3 leaves detached, publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover, g.e. [Perret 2689 ('un magnifique album de photographies')], oblong 4to (312 x 420mm.), Zurich, Orell Füssli, 1894Footnotes:Provenance: F.C. Bainbridge-Bell, member of the Alpine Club, gift inscription to a Mr. ?Leake, 5 March 1924 on 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

DU MAURIER (DAPHNE)Rebecca, FIRST EDITION, light toning, publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, light damp stains to sides, Book Society bookplate inside upper cover, yellow dust-jacket (priced '8/6 net', some soiling and spotting, restored at fold corners and spine ends with ink facsimile to two letters of the publisher's name), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1938This 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, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on reverse of title-page and misspelling 'Philospher's' on lower cover, half-title, thin sprinkling of worming to lower fore-corner throughout, just touching letters on a few pages, those to opening 3 and final 4 leaves neatly filled, publisher's pictorial boards, extensive neat restoration to spine, joints and board edges, endpapers possibly replaced, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING - ONE OF ONLY 500 HARDBACK COPIES OF THE NOVEL THAT INTRODUCED HARRY POTTER TO THE WORLD.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

Woolf, Virginia 'Orlando' A biography, first edition, Hogarth Press 1928, frontispiece and 7 plates, orange cloth, no d/w, foxed and bumped plus 'Three Guineas', first edition, Hogarth Press 1938 plus 'The Years', first edition, Hogarth Press 1937. The latter two rebound in gilt tooled green calf (3)

Roberts, David. Scottish Artist 1796-1864 'The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia from drawings made on the spot' by David Roberts R.A. with historical descriptions by the Rev.d George Croly L.L.D., lithographed by Louis Haghe. First edition, F & G Moon 20 Threadneedle St London 1842-1849, 6 vols, half black calf by J Wright, probably contemporary, large Fo. (630 x 450mm), 249 plates as per lists of subjects, some coloured including 6 pictorial titles, 2 maps and a portrait of the author by Charles Baugniet (1814-1886), gilt titled and edges, some spotting and fading, bindings mislabelled and scuffed, general wear consistent with age (6)With presentation bookplate for the Architectural League of New York – C. H. SENFF. April 1897 and subsquently from the Library of the late Peter Frederick Heppell Mason OBE.

Oxford - Ackermann, Rudolph, Publisher 'A History of The University of Oxford', First Edition, London 1814, 2 vols. 4to. with dedication to William Wyndham Grenville, Lord Grenville Chancellor of the University, with engraved portrait frontispiece and 81 hand coloured plates as per 'arrangement', after Pugin et al, half blue calf with gilt edges and marbled end papers, b/ps for W.R. Courtenay Shaw and Michael Cary, binding bumped and minor splits, fair condition

Dickens, Charles 'Pickwick Papers', first edition, Chapman & Hall 1837 plus 'Little Dorrit', Bradbury & Evans 1857 plus 'David Copperfield', first edition, Bradbury & Evans 1850 plus 3 further. All for restoration (6)

Wanostrocht, Nicholas 'Felix on the Bat', being a scientific intro to the use of the cricket bat, together with 'The History and use of the Catapulta' also 'The Laws of Cricket' as revised by The Marylebone Club 1845. First edition. Bailey Bros. Cornhill 1845, 6pp, publishers ads, 10 lithographed plates including 7 coloured historiated first initials and in text vignettes. 4to. original gilt tooled green cloth, binding loose and bumped, some foxing throughout

Joyce, James 'Finnegan's Wake', First edition, Faber and Faber London 1939. Red cloth d/w, edges bumped and some staining. d/w. taped down

Shaw, George Bernard 'Widowers Houses', first edition, Henry & Co London 1893. Original green cloth, untrimmed paper. Shaw's first play.

Nesbit, Edith 'The Magic City', First edition. Macmillan London 1910 plus 'New Treasure Seekers', first edition, T.Fisher Unwin London 1904. Both red cloth plus Burnett, Mrs F.H. 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', Warne London 1888 plus Kipling, Rudyard 'Plain Tales from the Hills', Thacker Spink Calcutta 1888, original cloth plus 'The Second Jungle Book', Macmillan 1895 plus four children's titles. All in used condition (9)

Montgomery, Field-Marshall, The Viscount of Alamein 'Monty' (1887-1976), The Memoirs', first edition, Collins London 1958, with m/s dedication to 'Virginia and Ashley....', November 1958, red cloth with d/w (tears) plus 4 signed Christmas cards and assorted press cuttings (1+)

Twain, Mark'A Tramp Abroad', first edition, Chatto and Windus London 1880, red cloth faded plus Orwell, George 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Secker and Warburg 1951, 'Down and Out in London and Paris', 1951, 'Animal Farm', 1950 plus Somerset Maugham x 2, with d/ws (6)

Wellsted, Lieutenant J.R. Royal Navy 'Travels in Arabia', 2 vols. Oman and Nakab El Hajar and Sinai; 'Survey of the Gulf of Akabah; Coasts of Arabia and Nubia', John Murray London, first edition, London 1838, with 5 maps (3 folding) and 7 plates, original blind stamped olive green cloth by Remnant and Edmonds, 8vo. (220 x 140mm), yellow end papers, Much used throughout, stains, bumps etc, binding loose (2)

Sigourney, Mrs L. H. Poetry for Seamen Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1845. 8vo, side-stitched in original buff card wrappers, viii 63 pp., spine partly perished, covers cockled and marked, spotting to contents, date added by hand to title-pageNote: Note: First and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed 'Dr Demetrius Stamatiadis, from his friend, the author, Hartford, Sept 27th 1845' on the front cover; a total of 1,000 copies were printed, and apparently bought up by a local benefactor for free distribution to sailors (Haight, Mrs. Sigourney: The Sweet Singer of Hartford, 1930, p. 177). Sigourney was 'one of the first American women to succeed at a literary career' (Ency. Brit.). One other copy traced at auction (New York, 2006), restitched and lacking the half-title.

Griffiths, Captain Anselm John Impressment Fully Considered, with a view to its Gradual Abolition London: J.W. Norie, 1826. First edition, 8vo, contemporary half calf

Darwin, Charles Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle under the Command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N. from 1832 to 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1839. 8vo, [5] viii-xiv 629 pp., original vertical-ribbed purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, half-title, 2 engraved folding maps ('The Southern Portion of South America' and 'Keeling Islands'), wood-engraved illustrations in text, publisher's 16 pp. catalogue dated August 1839 bound in at rear, additional slip tipped to final page of catalogue advertising further titles by Darwin. Cloth unevenly sunned, nicks to spine ends, very small tear to middle compartment and small ink-mark to foot, a few bumps to extremities, front inner hinge cracked, spotting to early leaves, first map slightly offset, second map spotted and with closed handling tear extending into frame only. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery [Freeman 11 binding variant b]Note: Note: First edition, first separate issue and the second overall, of Darwin's first published book. It originally appeared as the third volume of The Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle early the same year; the present issue uses the same sheets but has a cancel title-page and the volume-title (pp. [v-vi]) is discarded. Copies are also found in blue cloth; occasionally the two maps are loose in an end-pocket rather than inserted into the text.Provenance: 'Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley Owen, the gift of his father, Nov 15th 1839' (inscription to front free endpaper); Christie's, Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 14th November 2007, lot 90.

Wesley, Charles Hymns and Sacred Poems Bristol: E. Farley, 1755. Second edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored, 332 [11], 336 [11] pp., title-pages lightly browned along edges and with indeterminate early ink inscriptions, small ink-stain to fore margins of early leaves in volume 1 (including title-page), ink-stamps (B. B. Bennett, Trinity College, Cambridge) to front free endpapers [ESTC T31329]Note: Note: The first edition appeared in 1749. Charles Wesley had the work published in order to prove his financial viability to the family of Sarah Gwynne, whom he married in the April of that year.

Ornithology and natural history Collection of works Maxwell, Sir Herbert. Memories of the Months. First [-Seventh] Series. London: Edward Arnold, 1900-22. First editions (except volume 1: third edition), 7 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth, numerous plates (mainly photogravures), volumes 1-6 each with a tipped-in autograph letter signed from Maxwell to J. Logan Mack (Edinburgh solicitor and author of The Border Land: From the Solway Firth to the North Sea, 1926), volume 7 inscribed by Maxwell, Mack's bookplate to each volume, volume 3 half-title repaired, bindings slightly rubbed and marked;Scott, Sir Peter. Wild Chorus. London: Country Life, 1938. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 1,250 copies signed by the author, 4to, original blue cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 24 mounted colour plates, numerous halftone plates;Seebohm, Henry. Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. Edited (after the Author's Death) by R. Bowdler Sharpe. Sheffield: Pawson and Brailsford, 1896. 8vo, original red cloth, 60 chromolithographic plates, binding slightly marked, plates spotted, rear inner hinge cracked;Armour, G. Denholm. Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters by Peter Beckford. London: Hodder and Stoughton, c.1910. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 350 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original brown pigskin gilt, 25 tipped-in colour plates, spine sunned and rubbed and with loss to head;and 5 others similar

Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel The History of the most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha Formerly made English by Thomas Shelton; now revis'd, corrected, and partly new translated from the Original. By Captain John Stevens ... In Two Volumes [And:] A Continuation of the Comical History of the most Ingenious Knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha. By the Licentiate Alonzo Fernandez de Avellaneda. Being a Third Volume; never before printed in English ... Translated by Captain John Stevens. London: for R. Chiswell [and others], [A Continuation:] for Jeffrey Wale; and John Senex, 1700 & 1705. 2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (18.2 x 11.2cm), c.1800 calf, rebacked with original spines laid down, edges sprinkled blue, History with 34 engraved plates including frontispieces, Continuation with 13 engraved plates (no count provided by ESTC), moderately browned, closely trimmed along top edges, a few headlines and page-numbers shaved [ESTC R29188 & T89686]Note: Note: First edition of this rare English translation of Don Quixote, and the first edition in English of the spurious continuation by the pseudonymous Alonson Fernandez de Avellaneda. John Stevens (c.1662-1726) was a London-born translator, antiquary and Jacobite army officer of probable Spanish origin. ESTC traces nine copies world-wide for The History; no other first edition set (with or without the continuation) is traced in auction records.

Rackham, Arthur Collection of works The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. London: William Heinemann, 1918. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 765 copies signed by the artist, 4to, recent cream quarter vellum in imitation of the original binding, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 9 tipped-in colour plates, toning to text-leaves, a few spots, limitation leaf (with half-title recto) slightly browned and with show-through from signature, faint tide-mark to top edge of a few leaves;The Ring of the Niblung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. [Volume 1:] The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. [Volume 2:] Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. London: William Heinemann, 1910-11. 2 volumes, first trade issues, (Rhinegold and Valkyrie a second impression), 4to, original tan pictorial, cloth gilt, 34 and 30 colour plates, Rhinegold with spotting to outer leaves, Siegfried cloth sunned, gift inscription to initial blank;The Sleeping Beauty. Told by C. S. Evans. London: William Heinemann, c.1920. 4to, original pictorial boards, dust jacket (spine sunned, repriced), tipped in colour plate;Irish Fairy Tales. By James Stephens. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1920. First trade edition, 4to, original green cloth gilt, 16 colour plates;English Fairy Tales. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1918. First trade edition, 4to, original red cloth, 16 colour plates, spine faded and rolled, front inner hinge cracked;The Ingoldsby Legends. London: William Heinemann, 1909. 4to original blue cloth gilt, 24 colour plates;Grimm's Fairy Tales. London: William Heinemann Ltd, c.1909. 4to, original red cloth gilt, 40 colour plates, variable spotting to text;and 12 other books illustrated by Rackham, including The Wind in the Willows, Gulliver's Travels, Tales from Shakespeare, English Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, together with 3 mounted Rackham prints and 2 Rackham calendars (one with slip for January torn away)

Carson, Rachel L. Under the Sea-Wind A Naturalist's Picture of Ocean Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. First edition, first printing, 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, 8 plates by Howard Frech, dust jacket, spine very slightly faded, dust jacket with a few shallow nicks and chips to extremities, mottling to rear panel and along extremities in places, spotting to versoNote: Note: The author's first book, rare in commerce. The lot sold with copies of The Edge of the Sea (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955) and Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962), both first editions, first printings, original cloth bindings, with the dust jackets (The Silent Spring price-clipped).