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REDOUTÉ (PIERRE JOSEPH)Les roses.... avec le texte par C.A. Thorry, 40 parts bound in 4 vol., half-title, general title, 159 stipple-engraved plates after Redouté, partially printed in colour and finished by hand, 4-page prospectus bound in after title, small 'MHS' stamp on blank area of plates, some toning and spotting (mostly to text), tissue guards, contemporary maroon calf gilt, black morocco spine labels, g.e., rubbed, volume 1 rebacked preserving spine and with new endpapers, one joint of volume 4 repaired [Dunthorne 233; Great Flower Books, p.71; Nissen BBI 1599], 8vo, [C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1824-1826]Footnotes:First octavo edition of Redoute's Roses.Provenance: Massachusetts Historical Society (purchased 1871), bookplates; Sotheby's, 11 December 2008, lot 230.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

BATES (H.E.)The Two Sisters, [1926]; Day's End and Other Stories, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, dust-jacket, [1928]; Seven Tales and Alexander, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'F.C. Robinson with best wishes H.E. Bates, 1936', dust-jacket, Scholaratis, 1929; Charlotte's Row, NUMBER 9 OF 107 SPECIAL COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, publisher's morocco-backed boards, t.e.g., [1931]; A Threshing Day, NUMBER 31 OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, W. and G. Foyle, 1931; The Black Boxer, NUMBER 64 OF 100 COPIES, Pharos, 1932; idem, trade edition, jacket split at upper joint, some loss to spine), Pharos, 1932; The Poacher, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'John Williams, who once travelled a long way in a bus!', dust-jacket, [1935], FIRST EDITIONS, all but the fourth publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 31 others by Bates, of which 24 in dust-jackets (39)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

PETRUS LOMBARDUSSententiarum libri IV, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials throughout, modern quarter vellum gilt, red edges [USTC 403431], 4to, Louvain, Bartholomaeus Gravius, 1546--MACHIAVELLI (NICOLO) Tutte le opere, 5 parts in 1 vol., late Testina edition, vignette woodcut portrait on each title, Discorsi misbound, opening 5 leaves frayed (with loss of a few letters to 3), last three leaves frayed (one repaired with substantial loss to text), damp-staining throughout, limp vellum with manuscript title on spine, spine loosening, soiled, 4to, [Geneva], 1550 [but c.1640]--GOLTZIUS (HUBERT) Vivae omnium fere Imperatorum imagines, 88 (of 133) chiaroscuro medallion woodcut portraits printed in sepia, 13 others with woodcut borders but no image, also lacking title and preliminary leaves up to A1, tears affecting image of 2 plates (LIX, LXV), offsetting, damp-staining mostly to margins, later tree calf, upper cover detached, worn [Adams G838], folio, Antwerp, in officina Aegidii Copenii Diesthemii, 1557--FLORUS (LUCIUS ANNAEUS) Rerum a Romanis gestarum libri IIII, woodcut printer's device on title, near contemporary manuscript inscriptions on first fly-leaf and on title, age-toning, later limp vellum, upper gnawed, worn [USTC 402303], 8vo, Antwerp, Jan Moretus, 1593--PINDAR. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, translated by Jean Benoit, woodcut device on title, light age toning, later armorial gilt calf, sides with the arms of Louis XIV on a ground of fleur-de-lys and crowned L pattern, g.e., hinges loose, worn [USTC 6802750; Brunet IV 659], 4to, Saumur, Pierre Pié de Dieu, 1620--CICERO. Opera omnia title printed in red and black, additional engraved frontispiece (dated 1659), some damp-staining, ink stains affecting text on pp.479-482, later armorial calf gilt, the sides with the arms of Louis XIV on a ground of fleur-de-lys pattern on covers, g.e., worn, 4to, Geneva, Samuel Chouet, 1660; and 11 others (17)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, Fort Augustus Benedictine Abbey (Inverness, Scotland), bookplate; Second work, Franz Ferdinand Pontz von Engelshofen (c. 1760s), 'V. Engelshofen 2579' stamp on first title; František Antonín Thun-Hohenstein (1847-1916), bookplate; Third work, De Gabriellij, manuscript inscription on title; Fifth work, 'Bouffay 1703', 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

YEATS (W.B.)The Tower, FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 copies, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, light spotting to edges, uncut in publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt designed by by Thomas Sturge Moore, pictorial dust-jacket (spine soiled with small tear at the head) [Wade 158], 8vo, Macmillan & Co., 1928This 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 (uneven fading), pictorial dust-jacket (unclipped, small losses to spine ends touching 'N' of 'Lion' and corners, folds neatly repaired, loss of small piece at top edge of front of jacket, 'V' shaped section of rear neatly replaced), 8vo, Geoffrey Bles, [1950]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 Sphinx, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, printed in green, red and black, 10 large illustrations and other decorations by Charles Ricketts, a few pages with some spotting, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt after a design by Ricketts, light spotting, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Mason 361], 4to (220 x 173mm.), Elkin Matthews and John Lane, and Copeland and Day, 1894Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore, 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

NASH (PAUL)Shell-Mex House, FIRST EDITION, 9 photographic illustrations, several plans printed in red and black, publisher's boards, upper cover with colour lithograph after a design by Paul Nash, light soiling and spotting, 8vo, [Printed at the Curwen Press], 1933Footnotes:SCARCE. The lithographed cover of this small-format guide to the newly opened Shell-Mex building, printed by the Curwen Press, is taken from a coloured crayon drawing by Nash, who 'illustrates the dramatic perspective of the building, built on the site of the old Hotel Cecil. His 'flint-clouds' echo many of his 1930s paintings' (Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith, Paul Nash. John Nash. Design, 2006).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

ROCHESTER (JOHN WILMOT, Earl of)Poems, (&c.) on Several Occasions: with Valentinian; a Tragedy, title within 2-line border, old ink ownership name struck through on title, occasional light damp stains and browning, late nineteenth century half maroon morocco, rubbed [ESTC R35149], Jacob Tonson, 1696--BURNET (GILBERT) Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Rochester Who Died the 26th of July, 1680, FIRST EDITION, issue with errata on leaf A8v, engraved frontispiece portrait of Rochester by J. White, title within 2-line border, a few marginal ink or pencil markings in two hands (one early, one later), contemporary calf, worn, small wormhole to spine [ESTC R15099], Richard Chiswell, 1680, 8vo (2)Footnotes:Provenance: First work, J. Cresswell, Bewick-style bookplate. Second work, Thomas Fairfax, early inscription ('E. Libris Tho: Fairfax') on title; Lionell Copley, armorial bookplate inside upper cover; both Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902-1973, writer and bibliophile), bookplate in first work; Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (1933-2019, writer), ownership inscription dated 1980 in both works; by descent to the present owner.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

KEYNES (JOHN MAYNARD)The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, FIRST EDITION, publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (age-soiled, frayed at horizontal margins) [PMM 423], 8vo, Macmillan, 1936Footnotes:ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMIC WORKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, described as 'the chief of his [Keynes'] major theoretical works... a new and radical analysis of economic instability' (ODNB).Provenance: R.F. Scott, ink inscription dated 1936 on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence from 10 to 1 on verso of title, publisher's pictorial wrappers (with misspelling 'Philospher' on lower wrapper), slightly rubbed at extremities of covers, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:The first paperback edition of the first Harry Potter title, issued on the same day as the first hardback edition.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

RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[FORBES (JAMES)] Salictum Woburnense: or, a Catalogue of Willows Indigenous and Foreign in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To the Tavistock Library From the Duke of Bedford' on the front free endpaper, folding lithographed frontispiece, 140 hand-coloured engraved plates after R.C. Stratford, remnant of printed limitation slip pasted to the front free endpaper, occasional light spotting and toning, contemporary straight-grained green morocco gilt, g.e., slightly scuffed [Brunet II 1336; Nissen BBI 642], 4to, 1829Footnotes:Provenance: Tavistock Subscription Library, with bookplate, to whom this copy was donated by John Russell in 1829. The library was founded in 1799, and in 1810 Russell had paid a guinea for membership for himself and his wife. Russell's father was Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, and in 1831 he funded the building of new premises at Court Gate for the library.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

MOTORINGMONTAUT (ERNEST) 10 ans courses. Les Marques Victorieuses 1897-1907, FIRST EDITION, 31 colour printed plates with additional pochoir colour, printed guards, publisher's green wrappers with colour pochoir illustration on upper cover, original spine cords, contemporary card slipcase, oblong 4to (215 x 350mm.), Paris, Montaut-Mabileau et Cie, 1907This 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

[MARRA (JOHN)]Journal of the Resolution's Voyage in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. On Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, by Which the Non-Existence of an Undiscovered Continent, between the Equator and the 50th Degree of Southern Latitude, is Demonstratively Proved. Also a Journal of the Adventure's Voyage, in the Years 1772, 1773, and 1774, FIRST EDITION, one folding engraved map, 5 engraved plates, early calf-backed vellum, gilt red morocco spine label, spine worn, sides soiled [Hill 1087; BCJC 1775; Kroepelien 809; O'Reilly-Reitman 379; Sabin 16247], 8vo, F. Newberry, 1775Footnotes:The first account of Cook's second voyage, published surreptitiously eighteen months prior to the official account. Marra, who had served on the first voyage, was a gunner's mate on the Resolution and made an unsuccessful attempt to desert at Tahiti. The Journal 'records many incidents omitted by Cook, and gives the reasons which caused Sir Joseph Banks and his twelve assistants to withdraw from the expedition at the last moment' (Hill).Provenance: C. Legh, ink ownership inscription inside upper cover, beside mark 'M-3-12'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By 'Boz', 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'by Boz' on the title-pages and the 'Fireside' plate, 24 etched plates (including frontispieces) after George Cruikshank, one plate trimmed and 2 with small stains in margins, 'Fireside' and one other plate with repairs at foot, bound without half-titles, list of plates and advertisements, recent green crushed half morocco for Sotheran, gilt panelled spines, t.e.g., preserved in cloth slipcase [Eckel 59; Gimbel A27; Smith I, 4; Sadleir 696], 12mo, Richard Bentley, 1838This 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

VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE)Candide, ou l'optimisme, 299, [1]pp. (A-M12, N6), woodcut fleuron on title with shell, woodcut ornaments throughout (some signed 'N.C.'), quires F and G printed in larger type, pages 17, 133 and 277 misnumbered 15, 233 and 177 respectively, contemporary calf, red edges, rebacked preserving most of the original gilt tooled spine and red morocco lettering label ('Can/dide') [Morize 59d. Wade 10; cf. PMM 204], 8vo, [Paris, or perhaps Lyon], 1759Footnotes:Scarce edition from the first year of publication, printed in Paris, or, as has been suggested by several bibliographers, Lyon.Provenance: Francis Maxwell, early ownership 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

FLEMING (IAN)From Russia, With Love, FIRST EDITION, light spotting and old pencil notes to front free endpaper, publisher's black cloth with gun and rose design in gilt and red on upper cover, slightly rubbed at extremity of spine, dust-jacket (spine slightly darkened, frayed at spine extremities and corners, some spotting/toning to lower cover) [Gilbert A5a(1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1957]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

PALESTINE - BRITISH MANDATE AND IMMIGRATIONSIMPSON (JOHN HOPE) Palestine. Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development. 1930, 2 vol. (including 'Appendix Containing Maps'), FIRST EDITION, one folding letterpress chart in the Report, 5 folding maps (of which 4 printed in colours, map 3 never issued), a few small holes at folds of the 2 large maps, loose as issued in Appendix, publisher's blue printed wrappers [Khalidi & Khadduri 1658; cf. Bryars & Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps, 2014], 8vo, H.M.S.O., 1930Footnotes:Complete with all the maps, the 'blue book' report commissioned by the British Government in response to growing civil unrest in Palestine during 1929. It was 'the first detailed attempt to assess Palestine's population capacity, and its estimate of the total cultivable land was almost 40 per cent lower than previous estimates. It claimed that under existing conditions there was 'no margin of land available for agricultural settlement by new immigrants'... [and] advocated limiting the area of Jewish settlement and ending the eviction of Arabs' (ODNB).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 Goblet of Fire, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf, light toning as usual, publisher's pictorial boards, lower spine with slight crease, dust-jacket (spine slightly faded, extremities slightly frayed), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [2000]; sold with a 'Golden Ticket' to a book signing event, 2 original photographs of the event (one of Rowling seated) and the bookshop's A4 poster announcing it (small collection)Footnotes:SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ELEVEN DAYS AFTER PUBLICATION AT A 'GOLDEN TICKET' EVENT. The signing took place at Hammicks Bookshop (now Waterstones), St. Albans between 5pm to 6pm on 19 July 2000. The current owner was working at the shop, and had this copy signed. It is accompanied by a 'golden ticket' (with details of event, and 'Admit One'), an A4 poster advertising the event, and 2 original photographs of the venue, one showing Rowling seated at a desk, the other of staff on the shop floor awaiting her arrival.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

POLIDORI (JOHN WILLIAM)The Vampyre, a Tale, FIRST EDITION, SECOND SHERWOOD ISSUE, with the half-title and title omitting Byron's name, the original setting of the preliminary leaves (24 lines per page), and p.36 omitting the 'a' in 'almost' in the final line, as issued without advertisements, untrimmed in publisher's drab wrappers, name/title erased from upper cover, edges fraying, spine worn with some loss, lower wrapper near detached, old bookseller's printed slip on front paste-down [Viets, 'The London Editions of Polidori's The Vampyre', in PBSA, vol. 63 (1969), p. 102ff.], 8vo, Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1819Footnotes:THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE ISSUE OF THE FIRST VAMPIRE BOOK IN ENGLISH LITERATURE - IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. The forerunner of the modern gothic genre, The Vampyre was written by the physician John Polidori, Byron's personal physician in Geneva and one of the participants in the famous story-telling competition at Villa Diodati in 1816, which also gave birth to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Polidori's story was first published in Henry Colburn's New Monthly Magazine with the subtitle 'A Tale by Lord Byron', and then in book form shortly after. But Byron was swift to contest the attribution and Polidori sought an injunction against Colburn. As a result the first state was quickly suppressed and no copies are known to exist today. Colburn's second state (Viets I, of which only four or five copies survive) amended the title-page to read 'A Tale related by Lord Byron to Dr. Polidori', but Colburn then sold the sheets to Sherwood, whose very rare first issue (Viets II) re-introduced the attribution to Byron on the half-title and title-page.The present second issue (Viets III) has the half-title and title reset to remove Byron's name, and is in practice the earliest one obtainable. It is also notable for retaining the original state of the prefatory 'Extract of a Letter from Geneva' with the slur on Mary Godwin and Jane Clermont (implying a ménage à trois with Byron), and a specific reference to Frankenstein having been written by Mary Godwin. The slur was redacted in the third issue, with gathering 'A' reset to 23 lines rather than 24.Provenance: Rut & Carl Kjellberg, circular 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

BRAZILRODRIGUEZ (EUGENIO) Atlante della guida generale per la navigazione delle coste settentrionali ed orientali dell'America del Sud dal Rio della Plata al Para, Atlas vol. only (without 2 text volumes), FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, lithographed title, list of plates, 28 lithographed charts and maps (22 folding), 7 lithographed views (one folding), early cloth, rubbed [Borba de Moraes 743; Phillips 3953], folio (455 x 320mm.), Naples, [Dalla Reale Tipografia Militare], 1857Footnotes:Scarce detailed maritime atlas of Brazil and the Atlantic coast of South 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

WELLS (H.G.)Ann Veronica. A Modern Love Story, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To A.B. Walkl[e]y from H.G. Wells/ and don't believe what Fisher Unwin says about it on the cover' on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, gilt-stamped with centrepiece vignette with banner motto 'vita sine literis mors est' on upper cover, rubbed [Wells 39], 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin, 1909Footnotes:INSCRIBED BY H.G. WELLS TO THE LITERARY CRITIC ARTHUR BINGHAM WALKLEY, wittily commenting on the motto 'vita sine literis mors est' ('Life without books is death') used by the publisher to decorate the upper cover. Ann Veronica 'whose heroine was a feminist, was the first of a series of novels aimed at the taboos surrounding sexual desire in Edwardian England' (ODNB).Provenance: A.B. Walkley (1855–1926), presentation inscription from the author.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

ANONYMOUSThe Point of Honour. A Novel, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, THE ONLY KNOWN COPY, half-titles within upper and lower border of typographical ornaments, 8-page publisher's catalogue at end, occasional light soiling and spotting, circulating library-style contemporary half calf, covers rubbed with one small hole in leather on upper cover, and slight loss to paper on lower cover, 12mo (163 x 100mm.), Printed by W. Adlard for Francis & John Noble, 1768Footnotes:'ALL HANDSOME WOMEN ARE WITCHES; AND YOU ARE WONDROUS HANDSOME': A REDISCOVERED NOVEL OF 1768, UNTIL NOW THOUGHT ONLY TO SURVIVE IN ITS LATER FRENCH TRANSLATION.No copies are recorded by ESTC, WorldCat, Library Hub Discover or Rare Books Hub. One of only two twentieth century references to the existence of the original novel we have traced is a 2015 Samuel Gedge catalogue which has stated that since 'The point of honour. A novel. (London, 1768) is not recorded in ESTC it may be that this scarce French translation is all that survives' - which did seem to be the case until now. However, Library Hub Discover lists 4 copies of the 1770 French translation (Le point d'honneur. Nouvelle angloise, 3 vol., Paris, 1770), one of which is held by Leeds University who attribute the translation (we assume) to 'Félix' (Barbier)', and state that 'Martin, Mylne & Frautschi confirm that it is a translation from the English The point of honour; the latter is not recorded in the ESTC' (see Bibliographie du genre romanesque français 1751-1800, by Angus Martin, Vivienne G. Mylne, Richard Frautsch, Mansell, 1977, p.150).Antonia Forster's Index to Book Reviews in England 1749-1774 (Southern Illinois University Press, 1990) records four contemporary references to the original novel, one of which is a short synopsis in The Critical Review, vol. 26, 1768, p.376: 'This novel is of the see-saw kind... A gentleman falls in love with a lady, who is forced to marry another man... yet this gentleman falls in love again.. the former dearee becomes a widow.. [but] falls into consumption and dies, and leaves her fortune to our hero...that happiness is the result, is as sure as that three and two make five'. An internet search brings up only the above mentioned 1768 references and the Gedge catalogue.Provenance: Johann Siegried von Buch, Stolpe an der Oder (Brandenburg), bookplate, and ink stamp on front free endpaper; 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

ROBERTS (DAVID)Picturesque Sketches in Spain, Taken During the Years 1832 & 1833, FIRST EDITION, 26 tinted lithographed plates (including pictorial title), lithographed dedication, 4-page prospectus bound in, without advertisement leaf at end, contemporary morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettered on spine and upper cover, a few slight abrasions [Abbey Travel 152], folio (545 x 375mm.), Hodgson & Graves, 1837Footnotes:David Roberts' first published set of views, for which he was paid £350. Abbey quotes John Ruskin as saying that Roberts was 'like a kind of grey mirror; he gave the greatness and richness of things, and such height and space... as one saw to be true... the minute knowledge and acute sensation throw us back into ourselves; haunting us to the examination of points and enjoyments of moments... the splendour of the aisles of Seville or the strength of the towers of Granada...'.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

BRAZILBURMEISTER (HERMANN) Landschaftliche Bilder Brasiliens und Portraits einiger Urvolker, Atlas vol. only, FIRST EDITION, 11 tinted lithographed plates after Burmeister, occasional light spotting, text supplied in facsimile, modern half morocco, oblong folio (300 x 420mm.), [Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1853]--KIDDER (D.P.) AND J.C. FLETCHER. Brazil and the Brazilians, Philadelphia, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding, detached), and 18 plates (2 hand-coloured), Childs & Peterson, 1857--AGASSIZ (E. AND LOUIS) Voyage au Bresil, translated by Felix Vogeli, 5 plates and maps (one folding), Paris, L. Hachette, 1869--BIARD (FRANCOIS) Deux annees au Bresil, numerous woodcut illustrations by E. Riou after Biard, Paris, L. Hachette, 1862, contemporary morocco or quarter morocco, g.e., rubbed, 8vo (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

NESBIT (EDITH)The Railway Children, FIRST EDITION, half-title, frontispiece, pictorial title and 19 plates by C.E. Brock, 10-pp. advertisements at end, early ink ownership inscription ('Xmas 1906') on front paste-down, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, t.e.g., spine ends rubbed, 8vo, Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co., [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

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), lacking front free endpaper, ownership signatures on half-title (prelims loose), first 50pp. a little spotted, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt (Freeman's variant a; no priority), Edmonds & Remnants ticket on rear pastedown, 15mm. splits to joints at head, neat loss to upper 3mm. of spine, patch of discoloration on spine, ink smudge to lower cover [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859Footnotes:Provenance: 'S.M.C.'[?], initials in purple ink; 'L.A. Forscey, Ramsgate' (Lancelot Albert Forscey, scientist); John Rizzo Naudi, ownership signatures on half-title; pencil annotations on reverse of rear 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

ORWELL (GEORGE)Burmese Days, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ('George Orwell') on the reverse of the half-title, title printed in green and black, publisher's orange cloth printed in black, light soiling, spine faded [Fenwick A.2a], 8vo, New York, Harper & Bros., 1934Footnotes:RARE SIGNED COPY OF ORWELL'S SECOND PUBLISHED BOOK, HIS FIRST NOVEL. Having been rejected by Gollancz, Heinemann and Cape, Burmese Days was published on 25 October 1934 by Harper's in New York in an edition of 2,000 copies. 'In his literary notebooks, Orwell described this as 'the true first edition', as opposed to the first British edition [published by Gollancz in June 1935] which he considered 'a garbled version and should NOT be followed'...' (Fenwick, George Orwell. A Bibliography, 1998, p.21).Provenance: Estate of Ian Angus (1926-2022). Angus co-edited, with Sonia Orwell Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, and assisted Peter Davison in editing the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell. He was also instrumental in establishing the Orwell Archive at the University of London.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

[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, 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 blindstamped 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

FORESTRY[HAMILTON (THOMAS, EARL OF HADDINGTON)] A Treatise on the Manner of Raising Forest Trees &c... to Which are Added, Two Memoirs; the One on Preserving and Repairing Forests; The Other on the Culture of Forests... both Translated from the French of M. De Buffon, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, without final blank, light browning, pencil name and date added to title, contemporary calf, rebacked, Edinburgh, G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1761--[HAYES (SAMUEL)] A Practical Treatise on Planting, and Management of Woods and Coppices, FIRST EDITION, engraved pictorial title-page, 4 engraved plates (one folding), engraved illustrations in the text, upper cover detached [Henrey 774], Dublin, William Sleater, 1794--AGRICOLA, Pseud. of JAMES ANDERSON. Miscellaneous Observations on Planting and Training Timber-trees; Particularly Calculated for the Climate of Scotland, half-title [Henrey 409], Edinburgh, Charles Elliot, and Thomas Cadell, 1777--BOUTCHER (WILLIAM, Nurseryman, at Comely-Garden, Edinburgh) A Treatise on Forest-Trees, third edition, one engraved plate [Henrey 479], Dublin, William Wilson, 1784--MANWOOD (JOHN) Manwood's Treatise of the Forest Laws... Fourth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged. By William Nelson, rebacked in calf gilt with red morocco spine label, corners worn [Goldsmiths 5346], B. Lintott [and others], 1717, contemporary calf--STEUART (HENRY) The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of Large Trees and Underwood, second edition 'Greatly improved and enlarged', engraved frontispiece after William Turner, advertisement note before half-title, contemporary boards, back cracked with contents in sections, lacks spine, Edinburgh, John Murray, 1828, 8vo--CORREA DE SERRA (JOSEPH) On a Submarine Forest, on the East Coast of England... From the Philosophical Transactions, SEPARATELY PRINTED EDITION, stitched, without wrappers, [London, 1799], 8vo and small 4to (7)Footnotes:Provenance: Lawes Agricultural Trust, stamp on inner covers.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

ARMENIAYOVHANNES (HANNA) Girk' patmoutean srboy ew madsi kaghakis astoudsoy Erousaghemis ew srbots tnorikanakan tegheats Tearn meroy Yisousi Kristosi [A History of the Holy and Great City of Jerusalem], fifth edition, text in Armenian, title within woodcut architectural border, woodcut illustration of the Holy Sepulchre on p.8, decorative woodcut ornament on p.9, pictorial large capitals, old damp-staining to margins of opening 3 leaves, contemporary calf over wooden boards, spine ends worn, rubbed [not in BL or Bodleian], 4to (200 x 145mm.), Constantinople/Istanbul, Yovhannes and Poghos, 1782Footnotes:A pilgrim guidebook to Jerusalem by Hanna Yovhannes (c.1693-1733), a priest to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It includes a history of the Holy City, and information on improvements made to the Armenian Quarter (where the author was born) during the early part of the eighteenth century. First published in 1727 this is the fifth edition.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

ISHERWOOD (CHRISTOPHER)Sally Bowles, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page (crossing through his name), publisher's light blue cloth, a light soiling and rubbing at edges but generally good, 8vo, Hogarth Press, 1937Footnotes:Signed copy of the book which was inspired by Isherwood's experiences in the Weimar Republic and his intimate friendship with the nineteen-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. In 1939 Isherwood incorporated the novella into the longer novel Goodbye to Berlin, the inspiration for the film Cabaret with Liza Minnelli memorably playing the role of Sally Bowles.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

MALTON (THOMAS)A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and Westminster, Illustrated with the Most Interesting Views, Accurately Delineated and Executed in Aquatint, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved title-pages, engraved dedication to the Prince of Wales, letterpress list of subscribers, 100 aquatint plates, spotting and some foxing (quite extensive in volume 1, light dampstain in corner of some plates, including nos. 88-100 in volume 2, a few shaved with loss to imprint), finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt, sides elaborately tooled with roll-tool outer border, inner panels and decorative corner pieces, spine in 7 compartments within raised bands, joints and spine ends rubbed, g.e. [Abbey Scenery 204], folio (420 x 300mm.), Thomas Malton, 1792[-1801]Footnotes:Finely bound copy of Malton's rare series of London views, with the plates uncoloured.Provenance: Nigel Ronald, 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

RUSSELL (JOHN, 6th Duke of Bedford)[SINCLAIR (GEORGE)] Hortus Ericaeus Woburnensis: or, a Catalogue of Heaths, in the Collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 50 COPIES], engraved title with vignette, 2 mounted lithographed views of the Heath-house, 2 double-page aquatint plans of the House, 4 hand-coloured window mounted botanical plates, 2 hand-coloured charts with gradations of colour by George Hayter, engraved tail-piece, very light spotting and occasional soiling, mostly to the text, contemporary green straight-grained morocco gilt, worn, g.e. [Brunet II 1336, Nissen BBI 1849], 4to, 1825Footnotes:The first and most elusive of the Woburn catalogues, one of probably fewer than 50 copies printed, all for private distribution.Provenance: Tavistock Subscription Library, to whom this copy was donated by John Russell in 1825, with bookplate. The library was founded in 1799, and in 1810 Russell paid a guinea for membership for himself and his wife. Russell's father was Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, and in 1831 he funded the building of new premises at Court Gate for the library.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

SINCLAIR (GEORGE)Satan's Invisible World Discovered: A Choice Collection of Modern Relations, Proving Evidently, Against the Atheists of This Present Age, That There Are Devils, Spirits Witches, and Apparitions, from Authentic Records, and Attestations of Undoubted Veracity, second edition, p.204 misnumbered 294 as usual, contents leaves misbound at end, loss to lower outer corner of opening 50 leaves (affecting letters on dedication and on pp.4-28), lower margin cropped with loss of a few letters to p.171 and minor loss to one leaf of the contents, light damp-stains, short tear to last leaf, corners rounded, modern quarter morocco, rubbed [ESTC T47082], 12mo, Edinburgh, Alex McCaslan, 1769Footnotes:In this work, first published in 1685, George Sinclair, a Scottish Presbyterian professor of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, aimed to refute atheism and to prove the existence of Satan, witchcraft, and ghostly apparitions, by reporting a collection of supposedly true stories, including that of the Devil of Glenluce.Provenance: Veronica Murphy, 2 April 1958, inscription on first flyleaf.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

ARMENIACHAMCHIAN (MIKAYEL) Patmoutiwan Hayots [History of Armenia], 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, text in Armenian, titles within typographical woodcut border, text within 2-line filet border, one engraved plate depicting Hayk in victory against Nebrovt'ay, engraved folding map of the Provinces of Armenia printed in Armenian in volume 3, woodcut ornaments and decorations, wide margins (lower and fore-margin untrimmed), modern quarter morocco, gilt lettered on spine, 4to (270 x 180mm.), Venice, Patros Vaghvazeants, 1785-1786Footnotes:An attractive copy of the classic history of Armenia written by the Armenian monk and historian Mikayel Chamchian (1738-1823).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

[BRATHWAIT (RICHARD)]The Trimmer: Or, The Life and Death of Moderation. Wherein is Contained an Account of Her Country, Parentage, Birth, Kindred, Education, Marriage, Children, Death, and Resurrection... Presented to Publick View by One of Her Sons, title within single rule border, with final blank I8, contemporary sheep over boards, rebacked preserving most of original spine [ESTC R170762], 8vo, Dorman Newman, 1684Footnotes:RARE, ESTC listing 2 copies only (British Library and Yale only) of this edition, which is a re-issue with same pagination but cancel title as the first edition of 1669, for which ESTC records only one copy (Cambridge University). The History of Moderation purports to be a discourse written by Hesychius Pamphilus 'in the native language of Feliciniana, a language peculiar to that Island', relating to the life of 'Moderation' in which are introduced characters such as 'Blandula, a fair spoken woman', 'Donna Olympia, a Roman Lady, who lately managed all Affairs for the Pope', 'Donna Spatulosa, a lascivious Lady', 'Philautos, one that loves himself', and 'Porne, a Harlot'.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)Dr. No, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, light spotting and old pencil note to endpapers, bookseller's label on front paste-down, publisher's cloth with 'silhouette' design (second state), dust-jacket (frayed at extremities, abrasions and slight loss to fold of lower flap, toned) [Gilbert A6a(1.3)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1958]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

ACKERMANN (RUDOLPH)A History of the University of Cambridge, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, engraved portrait, 95 hand-coloured aquatint or engraved plates after Pugin, Westall, Mackenzie, Unwins and Pyne, without the 16 portraits of Founders (as usual with early issues), off-setting from plates to facing text leaves, red morocco gilt by Gray of Cambridge [Abbey Scenery 80; Tooley 4], large 4to (365 x 290mm.), R. Ackermann, 1815This 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

BRAZILKOSTER (HENRY) Travels in Brazil, FIRST EDITION, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 2 engraved maps, some spotting and off-setting, lacks advertisement leaf at end, contemporary calf gilt, rebacked preserving original spine [Abbey Travel 704; Borba de Moraes I, p.437], 4to, Longman, Hurst, 1816This 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

BULLER (WALTER LAWRY)A History of the Birds of New Zealand, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], lithographed frontispiece and 35 hand-coloured lithographed plates by J.G. Keulemans, frontispiece creased at one corner and strengthened with old paper at inner margin, publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt, g.e., rubbed with neat repairs at spine ends [Anker 86; Fine Bird Books, p.64; Nissen IVB 163; Zimmer, p.144], 4to, John Van Voorst, 1873This 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

WHITE (GILBERT)The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, FIRST EDITION, 7 engraved plates (2 folding), 2 additional titles with engraved vignette, errata leaf at end, contemporary calf, rebacked in calf gilt retaining original gilt-tooled red morocco spine label [Hunt 707; Rothschild 2550], 4to, B. White, 1789This 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

DAHL (ROALD)The BFG... Pictures by Quentin Blake, first American edition, NUMBER 162 OF 300 COPIES signed by the author and illustrator, publisher's red cloth, gilt design on upper cover, gilt blocked and lettered spine, fine in light blue cloth slipcase, 8vo, New York, Farrer, Strauss, Giroux, 1982This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

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, 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 [Fenwick A10a; Connolly 93], FINE COPY, 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945Footnotes:Provenance: Estate of Ian Angus (1926-2022). Angus co-edited, with Sonia Orwell Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell, 1968, and assisted Peter Davison in editing the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell. He was also instrumental in establishing the Orwell Archive at the University of London. His pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, with the number sequence 10 to 1 on the reverse of the title-page, light spotting to page edges, publisher's pictorial boards (corners and spine ends bumped), pictorial dust-jacket (top and bottom edges frayed, corners of upper cover chipped with some losses) [Errington A2(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:Provenance: Given to the present owner by his mother, inscribed 'To Christian lots of love Mum x. Aug. '98' 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

HOPKINS (GERARD MANLEY)Poems... Now First Published. Edited with Notes by Robert Bridges, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 750 COPIES], half-title, 2 photogravure portraits by Emery Walker, 2 double-page facsimiles of Hopkins' manuscripts, publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed title label on spine (a few abrasions), rubbed, spine soiled, 8vo, Humphrey Milford, [1918]Footnotes:The first edition of the first published book of Hopkins' poems, many appearing in print for the first time. It was edited with an introductory text, and seen through the press by Robert Bridges. This copy comes from a house associated with the Strachey family.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)[Christmas Books] A Christmas Carol, tenth edition, 4 hand-coloured plates and wood-engraved illustrations after John Leech, advertisement leaf at end, Chapman & Hall, 1844; The Chimes: A Goblin Story, ninth edition, engraved frontispiece and additional title after Maclise, wood-engraved illustrations by Doyle, Leech and Stanfield, Chapman & Hall, 1845; The Cricket on the Hearth, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional title and illustrations by Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise and Landseer, first state of Oliver Twist advertisement at end, Bradbury & Evans, 1846 [1845]; The Battle of Life, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title (in fourth state) and illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and John Leech, Bradbury & Evans, 1846; The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, FIRST EDITION, advertisement leaf at the beginning, wood-engraved frontispiece, additional vignette title and illustrations by Leech, Stanfield, Tenniel and Stone, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, half-titles in the first four (as called for), uniformly bound in later half calf, gilt panelled spines with green and russet leather labels, g.e., spines slightly faded [Smith II:5, 6, 8, 9], small 8vo; Dombey and Son, 1848; Bleak House, 1853, first editions in book form, additional etched titles and plates, those in the second heavily oxidised around edges, modern half pigskin, 8vo, Bradbury & Evans (7)For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ALBIN (ELEAZAR)A Natural History of English Insects. Illustrated with a Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life: And (for those who desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author, FIRST EDITION, 100 hand-coloured engraved plates after drawings by the author, each with accompanying text leaf by W. Derham, list of subscribers, plates 3 and 4 trimmed just touching text and laid down, toning and light spotting throughout, some offsetting, occasional pencil annotations, some pages creased, near contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards, upper cover near detached, worn [ESTC T85973; Nissen ZBI 58; Freeman 45; Lisney 119], 4to, for the Author, 1720Footnotes:'Each plate is dedicated to a subscriber or well-known personality, undoubtedly those who acted as patrons or took an interest in Albin's drawings of insects' (Lisney).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

CHESSPHILIDOR (FRANCOIS DANICAN) L'Analyse des echecs: Contenant une nouvelle methode pour apprendre en peu de tems a se perfectioner dans ce noble jeu, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with list of subscribers, woodcut ornament on the title, contemporary calf gilt, spine tooled in 6 compartments with raised bands, one with red morocco lettering label, rubbed, joints slightly weakened [ESTC T130705], 8vo, London, no publisher, 1749Footnotes:Provenance: Sir Lawrence Dundas of Kerse, first baronet (1712–1781), library 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

LE CARRÉ (JOHN)The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, FIRST EDITION, publisher's light blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, spine ends slightly rubbed, dust-jacket (price-clipped, a few light spots on lower cover), 8vo, Victor Gollancz, 1963This 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

HARDY (THOMAS)Human Shows Far Phantasies. Songs and Trifles, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To Constance Dugdale from Thomas Hardy. New Year's Day 1926' on the front free endpaper, half-title, publisher's green cloth gilt, dust-jacket priced '7/6 Net' (edges frayed with small loss just touching letters at head of spine), 8vo, Macmillan and Co., 1925Footnotes:Presentation copy inscribed by Hardy to Constance Dugdale (1884-1959), the younger sister of his second wife, Florence Dugdale.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 Works, 14 vol., FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER, uncut in publisher's white buckram, t.e.g., spines soiled, preserved in uniform green half morocco box boxes, gilt lettered on spines with small gilt ornament on upper covers, some uneven fading to spines, large 8vo, Methuen, 1908Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore.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

CHESSSALVIO (ALESSANDRO) Il Puttino, altramente detto il cavaliero errante, FIRST EDITION, second impression; Trattato dell' Inventione et Arte Liberale del Gioco di Scacchi, second edition, 2 works in 1 vol., woodcut device on titles, historiated initials, some foxing and light toning, contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine, some soiling, 4to, Naples, Giovanni Domenico Montanaro, 1634Footnotes:Alessandro Salvio (1575-1640) was an Italian lawyer and acclaimed chess-player. He started a chess academy in his native Naples and was one of the most successful players of his time, excelling also in blindfold chess.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.3.3., FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, half-title, untrimmed in publisher's cream and mustard cloth, gilt title on spine, light age soiling, preserved in morocco-backed solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore.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 Picture of Dorian Gray, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title and title designed by Charles Ricketts, with Preface and with misprint 'nd' for 'and' on page 208, red morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sucliffe, g.e., some fading to spine [Mason 328], 8vo, Ward, Lock & Co., 1891Footnotes:Provenance: Robert Sebag-Montefiore, 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

GLAREAN (HEINRICH)Dodekachordon, FIRST EDITION, illustrated throughout with type-set music, woodcut thematical diagrams and tables, a full-page woodcut of a 24-string zither, historiated and decorative initials, 5-page errata at end with printer's device on verso of final leaf, first and final sections with some light browning and damp-staining and occasional stains (D6-7 with small hole causing loss of 2-3 letters), a1-2 with faint remains of old ownership inscription, these and last 3 leaves remounted at gutter, small hole in V2 with loss of one letter and note, X4 and Y6 cropped with loss of signature mark and catchword, occasional early annotations in black ink (and a couple of amendments, crossings through and some smudges), early calf, sides with gilt rule borders, repaired and rebacked preserving much of original spine [Adams G765; Hirsch, i 226; RISM, Ecrits p.366; USTC 659884], folio (302 x 203mm.), Basle, H. Petri, 1547Footnotes:ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TEXT BOOKS OF THE MUSICAL RENAISSANCE, with over 120 compositions by Josquin des Pres, Obrecht, Ockeghem, Mouton and many others. The Dodekachordon is the work of Heinrich Glarean (1488–1563), the poet and musical theorist described by his friend Erasmus as 'the champion of Swiss humanism'. In it, the author set out his revolutionary system of twelve modes, four of which were newly identified, including the major (Ionian) and minor (Aeolian) modes. These he incorporated into the traditional scheme, and he trumpeted his innovation by listing them on the title-page. The book is divided into three parts, beginning with a study of Boethius, going on to trace the use of the musical modes in plainsong and monophony, and concluding with an extended study of polyphony. It was instrumental in spreading the concept of the emotional appeal of composers such as Josquin, and influenced theorists from Merulo to Morley and Zacconi. Glarean's explanation of the musical modes is still largely accepted today.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

HALE (THOMAS)An Account of Several New Inventions and Improvements now Necessary for England, in a Discourse by way of Letter to the Earl of Marlborough, relating to Building of our English Shipping, Planting of Oaken Timber in the Forrests, Apportioning of Taxes, the Conservacy of all our Royal Rivers, in Particular that of the Thames, the Surveys of the Thames, etc. Herewith is also published at large. The Proceedings relating to the Mill'd-Lead-sheathing ... Also a Treatise of Naval Philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty, 2 parts in 1 vol., [with additions], FIRST EDITION, imprimatur leaf, 2 folding tables and 2 additional folding broadsides bound in (see footnote), extensive early manuscript naval notes in margins of C5, E12 and F1, small burn hole to title, some worming at foot of initial gatherings (c.10 leaves with text affected, single hole through sections of first part), contemporary sheep, covers with blind rule borders and roll tool border to one side, slightly rubbed, slight chips to corners of spine [ESTC R28685; Goldsmith 2873; Keynes 39; Kress S747], 12mo, James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1691Footnotes:HALE'S PASSIONATE PLEA FOR THE UNIVERSAL INTRODUCTION OF MILLED LEAD ON SHIP'S BOTTOMS, WITH TWO RARE BROADSIDES BOUND IN:'That bringing on Boards above, and Paying the Plank with Stuff under a Mill'd-Lead-Sheathing, is Damageable...', 2pp., setting with last full line of text on p.1 ending 'elsewhere.' and the text signed 'Tho. Hale' on p.2, early manuscript note in one margin [ESTC R218189], folio, 'This paper, with some others, and the Book about the Mill'd lead... may be had at Mr Nelme's... and... Mr Basset's', October 1697.'An advertisement, shewing that all former objections against the milld-lead sheathing have been answered by the Navy-board themselves. And what's lately objected, is answered herein', 4pp. [ESTC R226291], folio, 'The said Book may be had at these Book-sellers Shops... At the Milld-Lead Sign in Aurange Street.. where Mr. Charles Hale lives, who undertakes the said Sheathing... sells his Solder for 6d. a-pound', May 1696.As is more usual, this also has bound in the two-sheet folding table headed 'A Survey of the Buildings and Encroachments on the River of Thames', printed recto only [ESTC R222173], folio, Navy-Office, R. Haddock [etc.], 30 October [16]84.Provenance: James Hustler of Acklam in Cleveland, bookplate dated 1730 on verso of 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

BECKETT (WILLIAM)A Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity of Touching for the Cure of King's Evil... in Two Letters: the one to Dr. Steigertahl, Physician to his Majesty, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society; the other to Sir Hans Sloane..., 3 parts in 1 vol., woodcut initial and head- and tail-pieces, some soiling (mainly to title and last leaf), later half calf, spine lettered in gilt, slight staining, spine rubbed, upper joint cracking [ESTC T94500; Wellcome I 127], 8vo, J. Peele, 1722Footnotes:First and only edition of this scarce work on scrofula, which was known as the 'King's Evil' because English monarchs were supposed to be able to cure it by touching the affected person and presenting them with a coin. William Beckett was a renowned surgeon as well as a founding member of the Society of Antiquaries.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

HARTLEY (L.P.)Night Fears and other Stories, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, half-title, minor foxing throughout, light off-setting of jacket flaps onto front free endpapers, untrimmed in publisher's green buckram gilt (light edgewear), pictorial dust-jacket priced 7/6 (spine soiled with some loss to head and foot), 8vo, G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1924]Footnotes:FORREST REID'S COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, consisting of ghost and other short stories, some of which had appeared in the undergraduate magazine Oxford Outlook, of which Hartley had been the editor.Provenance: Forrest Reid (1875-1944, Irish novelist), signed 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

WORLD WAR II - SECOND ARMYAn Account of the Operations of Second Army in Europe 1944-1945... Compiled by Headquarters Second Army, 3 vol. (including map case), FIRST EDITION, ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 48 COPIES MARKED 'SECRET', this copy unnumbered, foreword by Lieut.-General Sir Miles C. Dempsey, 18 photographic plates (some folding), numerous colour maps (many folding, including 18 in the separate case), illustrations and diagrams, printed Second Army 'Thank You and Well Done' card from Lt. General Dempsey (printed in red and blue ) loosely inserted, publisher's red morocco, upper covers titled in gilt with blue and white emblem of the Second Army, and gilt stamped 'Major K. Winckles, MBE', gilt lettering on spines, rubbed, some abrasion to emblem on covers of volume 2 and map case, Compiled by Headquarters Second Army, [August 1945]--The Administrative History of Operations of 21 Army Group on the Continent of Europe 6 June 1944-8 May 1945, PRINTED ONLY FOR RESTRICTED ADDRESSES who 'are personally responsible for its security', colour-printed emblem of 21 Army Group on title, 24 folding charts, tables and maps (mostly colour-printed), publisher's cloth, spine faded, Germany, [Printed by Printing & Stationary Service, BAOR], 1945, folio (4)Footnotes:TWO EXTREMELY RARE 'TOP SECRET' AND 'RESTRICTED' ACCOUNTS WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE.The Second Army account, one of some only 48 copies printed, and marked 'Secret', is the premier source material for the ground campaign in Europe. The work was compiled by Second Army Headquarters Staff on the instruction of Lieut.-General Sir Miles Dempsey, just after the end of the war whilst memories were fresh ('the staff officers were available, and the orders, instructions and other documents readily accessible', Foreword). It includes details of Belsen Concentration Camp and casualty statistics. Jisc Library Hub lists only the Imperial War Museum copy (no. 37) referred to below; others are located at the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum, whilst the National Archives and Wellcome Institute have only volumes one and two respectively. We have found no copies of the 'Administrative History' of the 21 Army Group sold at auction, or listed on Jisc Library Hub, but one copy is held by the Imperial War Museum.Provenance: Major K. Winckles, MBE, gilt stamped with his name on upper cover of each volume of the Account, and inscribed 'K. Winckles, HQ. BAOR [British Army of the Rhine], Jam. 1924' on front free endpaper of Administrative History.Having joined the British Army as a private at the start of the war Kenneth Winckles (1918-1999) rose quickly to become the youngest Colonel (Acting) in Army. Having helped to plan, then accompany, the Normandy Landings he served in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany up to the first German surrender to Field Marshall Montgomery (OC 21st Army Group) and Lt. General Dempsey (OC 2nd Army) on 4 May 1945. He served as General Staff Officer in Second Army HQ where Dempsey helped him help prepare the Official Account (as attested by Winckles' son). Mentioned in dispatches three times, he was made an MBE in 1945; by descent to the present owners.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)A Middle English Vocabulary... Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, later variant with 'Printed in England' stamped at foot of title-page and advertisements at end undated, publisher's stiff brown wrappers with 184 ornaments forming the border on front cover, spine ends very slightly chipped, 8vo, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1922Footnotes:THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, with the wrappers in unusually good condition.Provenance: Richard and Magdalen Goffin, 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