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WILDE (OSCAR)The Picture of Dorian Gray, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title and title designed by Charles Ricketts, with Preface, 8pp. advertisements at end, slightly browned, untrimmed in original parchment-backed boards gilt, cover design also by Charles Ricketts, rebacked, worn [Mason 328], 8vo, Ward, Lock & Co., 1891Footnotes:Provenance: Phyllis Davies; Fr. Russell Hoare, bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BALLET AND COSTUMESCHNACKENBERG (WALTER) Ballet and pantomime, FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, LIMITED TO 900 COPIES, preface by Alexander von Gleichen-Russwurm, 8pp. text, 20 tipped-in colour costume plates (of 22, lacking nos. 2 and 19), loose as issued in publisher's cloth-backed portfolio cloth, original pictorial label on upper cover (soiled), folio (550 x 400mm.), Munich, Georg Muller, 1920This 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

BURNE-JONES (EDWARD)The Flower Book. Reproductions of Thirty Eight Watercolour Designs, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 232 OF 300 COPIES, half-title, 38 coloured plates by Burne-Jones, text printed in red and green, 4-page facsimile of his list of flower names at end, a few light single spots to half-title and a couple of plates, contemporary dark green morocco gilt by the W.H. Smith bindery (i.e. Douglas Cockerell with 'W.H.S.' stamp inside lower cover), preserved in early velvetine-lined solander box, t.e.g., 4to (325 x 260mm.), Henry Piazza et Cie., for the Fine Art Society, 1905Footnotes:Very good copy of Burne-Jones' Flower Book, the designs for which he worked on from 1882 until his death in 1898. 'The pictures in this book are not of flowers themselves, but of subjects suggested by their names... All the pictures take the same form, a circle about six inches in diameter—a kind of magic mirror in which the vision appears—and he wished them not to be separated, because, wide as is their scope, one spirit, that of pure fantasy, unites them... In some of the pictures details remain unfinished; but both colour and design are always perfectly clear, and are so intimately characteristic of the painter that I have sometimes thought this book contains a fuller expression of himself than exists elsewhere in his work' (Georgiana Burne-Jones, from the 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

BURRA (PETER)Archive of highly-acclaimed critic, essayist and writer Peter Burra (1909-1937), including correspondence, manuscripts, papers, photographs and printed material from throughout his life, and autograph letters from Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and E.M. Forster, comprising:i) Early Life: Group of c.90 autograph letters and postcards home from his schooldays at Bilton Grange and Lancing College (several mentioning Peter Pears and one mentioning dining with Evelyn Waugh), and other material including school reports and printed programmes, c.250pp, 4to and 8vo, 1912 to 1928;ii) Oxford University: Some 48 letters to his mother ('My darling Moo') and sister Nell ('Darling Nell') from Christ Church, particularly on his activities in musical circles ('...Life here could be one continuous musical festival if one could afford it...'), the production of Lovers' Vows in his rooms, his bookish tastes ('...Decline & Fall which is screamingly funny... I am beginning Virginia Woolf's Orlando. There was never anything like it in the world before...'), John Middleton Murry ('...looks indescribably sad and puzzled and generally very inspired...'), amusing college characters ('...one man with a black shirt and red tie, and I gathered that in him fascism and socialism were finding reconciliation...'), gossip ('...Oxford is simply rocking with rage over 'The Well of Loneliness' case...'), much on publication of Farrago and its success ('...Virginia Woolf has sent a subscription! Twice!...'), Michael Redgrave in Henry IV ('...quite beautiful...'), Malcolm Sargent ('...the best conductor... I've ever done anything with...'), Vaughan Williams ('...frantically bad rehearsal...'), Jelly D'Aranyi ('...the most wonderful noise & ravishing sight...') and much else, c.210pp, folio, 4to and 8vo, Christ Church and Long Wall, 1928-1932; with a printed programme for Lover's Vows signed by the cast, various concert programmes, postcards, newspaper cuttings and printed miscellanea, etc.; with an additional group of items relating to the publication of Farrago including a rare specimen prospectus, no. 1, February 1930 and printed pre-publication leaflet for issue no. 4, 1931; two original pen and ink designs by Oliver Holt, c.1930; and various incoming letters (A.J. Symons, Laurence Whistler, Max Beerbohm) commenting on the publication; iii) Germany: Group of some 25 letters and postcards sent home whilst writing for The Times, much on opera and exhibitions ('...Kokoshka the modern German painter...'), having his portrait painted by Heidi Berzlein, politics ('...frantic riots in the Reichshalle... when Communists shot at Hitlerites...') and hearing Hitler speak in Munich ('...It was the most repulsive exhibition I've ever seen... I think it advisable to see as much of the country as possible now. It will certainly be uninhabitable in a few months...'), c.80pp, 4to and 8vo, Cologne and elsewhere, April to September 1932; programmes and correspondence from Salzburg, 1935; with later letters to his mother ('...coming up to town this evening for a concert Benjamin is playing in, going with Christopher Isherwood... I have got a motorbike, BSA, and am very pleased with it...'), including his last on 26 April 1937;iv) Britten, Berkeley and Pears: Group of 13 autograph letters and notecards from Benjamin Britten, making arrangements and thanking him for photographs ('...We couldn't have had a worse evening for listening to Jonah... we were in great danger of being struck by lightning...'), congratulating him on his Forster article ('...Christopher Ish was here last night until very late and we had a grand time...'); including four to John Moody after Burra's death ('...I hope by now you've seen Gloriana & approve...'), 18pp, 4to and 8vo, Frinton on Sea, Newquay, London, Aldeburgh, 22 June 1936 to 14 August 1973; eleven autograph letters and cards from Lennox Berkeley ('...Are you being a good boy or are you a wicked thing spending all night in the Barrio Chino?...'), on Britten ('...a charming creature...') and Burra's work ('...Van Gogh... beautifully done...'), 19pp, 8vo, Madrid, Paris, Painswick, May 1936 to April 1937; letters and postcards from Peter Pears to Nell (8), Peter (1) and Ella (1), on various subjects ('...In going though old letters the other day, I found one from Peter from Barcelona where he had just met Ben. He really brought us together...'), c.18pp, 4to and 8vo,, Lancing, Oxford, Aldeburgh and elsewhere, January 1928 onwards; with a typescript interview with Pears about meeting Britten; with tickets, programmes and articles from the Barcelona Festival, April 1936 and further letters and postcards from Burra to his mother and Nell, one mentioning meeting Edith Sitwell ('...perfectly charming...'); v) E.M. Forster: Series of 15 autograph letters and one postcard from E.M. Forster, signed ('E.M. Forster'), three to Peter Burra, the first written after reading his article on Forster in Nineteenth Century ('...nothing that I have read about myself has ever given me more pleasure... great help at the moment when I am needing it... I have been looking at my books lately, partly on account of your article. I think A Passage to India stands, but the fissures in the others are considerable...'), the second a critique on his own work ('...Howards End I lose patience with...'), the third arranging to meet and discussing Burra's work on Forrest Reid, with three autograph envelopes; the remainder to Ella Burra post-1937 (two to John Moody) beginning with his letter of condolence ('...I am a writer, and so can perhaps realise the unreparable loss that he is to literature as well as to those who loved him. I thought him the best critic of his generation... I knew and appreciated him...'), others discussing his introduction to the unpublished memorial Essays and Poems ('...if the book is to be for private circulation I would like to contribute...') and the inclusion of Burra's essay on Forster in the 1942 Everyman edition of A Passage to India, 22pp, 4to and 8vo, Abinger Hammer and King's College, 29 November [19]34 to 29 October [19]60;vi) Poetry and Plays: Group of c.30 manuscript poems including 'Sonnet of the Seeker' (with primary version), 'Prelude for the Thrush', 'King David at Cambridge', 'Not Even Summer Yet', 'The Poet's Trinity', 'The New Birth', some signed and dated, with a modern typescript; typescripts of 'The Secret Marriage. Cimarosa' (two copies, one annotated by Burra 'Dialogue specially written for the Canticleer Company's Production July 1933 by Peter Burra'), two typescript copies of Burra's translation of Eugen Gurster's 'Weather Changeable' (amended to 'Outlook Unsettled'), and 'A Note on Shakespeare'; For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)Arms and Covenant, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED To George [Lloyd] from Winston, August 1938', portrait frontispiece, publisher's cloth [Wood A44(a)], 8vo, George G. Harrap, [1938]Footnotes:RARE EXAMPLE OF A PRESENTATION COPY INFORMALLY INSCRIBED BY 'WINSTON' TO A CLOSE FRIEND. The recipient, 'George', was Lord Lloyd, who had first entered parliament as an M.P. in 1910, subsequently working closely with Churchill throughout his political career. When Churchill became Prime Minister in May 1940 he appointed Lloyd to his Cabinet as Colonial Secretary, at the same time as he was chosen as leader of the House of Lords. On his death a few months later Churchill addressed the House, stating 'To me the loss is particularly painful. Lord Lloyd and I have been friends for many years and close political associates during the last twelve years. We championed several causes together which did not command the applause of large majorities; but it is just in that kind of cause... that one learns the worth and quality of a comrade and friend' (quoted in Churchill's preface to Life of Lord Lloyd by Colin Forbes, 1948). 'These forty speeches are a sustained effort to maintain the peace in Europe and safety of Britain... If British interests are set in the foremost place, it is only upon the condition that they shall serve the cause of a free and progressive world' (Randolph S. Churchill, introduction).Provenance: George LLoyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran (1879-1941), gift inscription from the author; 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

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED WITH A NOTE BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper, half-title, light spotting (mostly to fore-edge of book block and final 2 leaves), publisher's blue cloth lettered in white, 8vo, Harper & Brothers, 1904Footnotes:INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'Two years of very arduous and anxious work. My feelings on re-reading it can he best expressed in the French saying 'Ne fait pas ce tour qui veut' Joseph Conrad'.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

CONRAD (JOSEPH)The Secret Agent, NUMBER 923 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, photogravure portrait of the author by Emery Walker, publisher's parchment-backed cloth, dust-jacket with printed label on spine (light soiling to spine, T. Werner Laurie Ltd, 1923; The Works, 20 vol., NUMBER 97 OF 780 SETS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on colophon of volume 1, publisher's buckram-backed cloth, light soiling to spines, William Heinemann, [1931-1927]; Within the Tides. Tales, FIRST EDITION, title printed in red and black, vertically ribbed green cloth, J.M. Dent, 1915; The Arrow of Gold, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, dark green cloth gilt, T Fisher Unwin, 1919; The Rover, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, dark green cloth, T. Fisher Unwin, [1923]; The Nature of a Crime [with F.M. HUEFFER], FIRST EDITION, ownership inscription of D.A. Macaulay (1924) on front free endpaper, publisher's red cloth, spine faded, Duckworth, [1924]; Suspense... Introduction by Richard Curle, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, frontispiece, publisher's maroon cloth, J.M. Dent, 1925; Five Letters... Written to Edward Noble in 1895. With a Foreword by Edward Noble, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES signed by the Noble, publisher's wrappers, Privately Printed, 1925; Joseph Conrad's Diary of His Journey Up the Valley of the Congo in 1890, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, spine faded, Privately Printed, 1916--[CURLE (RICHARD)] Notes on Joseph Conrad Written in a Set of His First Editions in the Possession of Richard Curle... with a Preface by Jessie Conrad, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES signed by Jessie Conrad, Privately Printed, 1925; CONRAD (JESSIE) Personal Recollections of Joseph Conrad, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, light spotting, spine label frayed, Privately Printed, 1924, final 3 mentioned publisher's cloth, 8vo; and another by Conrad (31)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

CUNARD (NANCY)Negro Anthology... 1931-1933, FIRST EDITION, large folding map ('Ethnographical Map of Negro Africa') printed in red, blue and black, numerous photographic illustrations throughout, publisher's brown cloth lettered in red on upper cover with map of 'The Black Belt of America' on lower cover (light dampstain in lower inner corner of upper cover and inside cover), 4to, Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934Footnotes:'It was necessary to make this book - and I think in this manner, an Anthology of some 150 voices of both races - for recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro people' (Foreword). The contributors include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Henry Crowder, and Countee Cullen. It is thought that 1000 copies were printed, but it is always stated that many of these were destroyed in a warehouse during the Blitz.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, light spotting to endpapers and edges, publisher's black cloth with red heart on upper cover and lettering on spine, dust-jacket (price-clipped, light age-toning, minor tears to head and foot of spine), black morocco-backed solander box by The Chelsea Bindery [Gilbert A1a(1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1953]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, a few light spots to half-title, final leaf of text and endpapers, publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered spine, first state dust-jacket without credit to the designer Kenneth Lewis (age-toned, slight wear at corners), black morocco-backed solander box by The Chelsea Bindery [Gilbert A2a(1.1.)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1954]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)Moonraker, FIRST EDITION, with 'shoot' on p.10, light toning to gutter margins of paste-down endpapers, text block edges toned, publisher's black cloth with lettering in silver, dust-jacket priced 10s. 6d. on both flaps (a couple of light browning marks to upper cover and inside upper flap), black morocco-backed solander box by The Chelsea Bindery [Gilbert A3a(1.2)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1955]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FLEMING (IAN)Diamonds Are Forever, FIRST EDITION, a few light spots to several pages and (more extensively) in margins, publisher's black cloth stamped in silver-gilt, dust-jacket (slightly rubbed at extremities of spine and corner, section of spine slightly darkened) [Gilbert A4a(1.1)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1956]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

FLEMING (IAN)Dr No, FIRST EDITION, light spotting and old pencil note to endpapers, bookseller's label inside upper cover, publisher's cloth with 'silhouette' design (second state), dust-jacket (frayed at extremities of spine and corners, abrasions and slight loss to fold of lower flap) [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

FLEMING (IAN)Goldfinger, FIRST EDITION, publisher's black gilt-stamped cloth, dust-jacket (price-clipped) [Gilbert A7a(1.2)], 8vo, Jonathan Cape, [1959]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

FOWLES (JOHN)The Collector, author's signature on slip loosely inserted, dust-jacket with slight soiling and creasing at edges, 1963; The Aristos. A Self-portrait in Ideas, Boston, Little, Brown, 1964; idem, first UK edition, 1965; The Magus, some rust marks to free endpapers, ink marks and annotation to dust-jacket inner flaps, 1966; The French Lieutenant's Woman, dust-jacket rubbed and creased at edges, 1969; My Recollections of Kafka, offprint from Mosaic: A Journal for the Comparative Study of Literature and Ideas, [vol.] III / [no.] 4, ONE OF 25 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR at the end, 11pp., stapled as issued in illustrated wrappers, University of Manitoba Press, [1970]; Poems, New York, Ecco Press, 1973; The Ebony Tower, SIGNED (1980), 1974; DURFORT (CLAIRE DE) Ourika. Translated into English with an Introduction and Epilogue by John Fowles, ONE OF 500 COPIES, SIGNED BY FOWLES at the end of the text, original blue morocco-backed boards, Auston, Texas, W. Thomas Taylor, 1977; Mantissa, NUMBER 490 OF 510 SIGNED COPIES, publisher's red cloth, acetate dust-jacket (torn), slipcase with mounted illustration, tall 8vo, Boston, Little, Brown, 1982; idem, first UK edition, 1982; The Falklands and a Death Foretold, offprint from The Georgia Review, vol. XXXVI, No. 4, Winter 1982, 7pp., stapled as issued, title wrapper with 'John Fowles Lyme Regis' blind-stamp, 1982; A Maggot, NUMBER 476 OF 500 SIGNED AND SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, publisher's cloth-backed boards, 1985; Behind the Magus, COPY 'Q', ONE OF 26 WITH AN AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION FROM THE TEXT AND SPECIALLY BOUND, from an overall edition of 232 copies signed by the author, original Nigerian goatskin, Colophon Press, 1994; Wormholes. Essays and Occasional Writings, NUMBER 56 OF 100 SIGNED COPIES, publisher's light blue cloth with matching slipcase, Colophon Press, 1998, FIRST EDTIONS, unless otherwise stated publisher's cloth with dust-jackets, Jonathan Cape, 8vo; and 18 others, later books, collaborative works, a proof copy etc., several signed (33)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

LEONARDO DA VINCIA Treatise of Painting... Translated from the Original Italian... to Which is Prefix'd, the Author's Life, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 35 engraved plates (4 folding), 2 plates shaved just within platemark not touching image, short tear to pp.17/18, light arc of dampstaining to a few leaves towards end, contemporary panelled calf, red morocco spine label, worn, joints weakened, 8vo, J. Senex, and W. Taylor, 1721Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of Leonardo da Vinci's Trattato della pittura, compiled from manuscripts written during his lifetime, but first published in Italian in 1651. In these Leonardo outlined his influential theories regarding anatomical drawing, perspective, and other elements of artistic composition.Provenance: Edward Pawlet (died 1768), barrister at the Middle Temple, inscription dated 1729 inside upper cover, three years after he had been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. His library was dispersed in 1769; J.W. Upham, 1801; D.B. Robinson, 'great great neice [sic] of the above, 1898', all ink inscriptions inside upper cover.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESSKEATS (JOHN) Endymion, number 340 of 500 copies, wood-engravings by John Buckland-Wright, 1947--DE CHAIR (SOMERSET, translator) The First Crusade, number 298 of 500 copies, 1945; Julius Caesar's Commentaries, NUMBER 21 OF 70 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES signed by the translator and illustrator, full morocco gilt, 1951, illustrations by Clifford Webb; The Golden Carpet, number 261 of 500 copies, 1943; The Silver Crescent, number 53 of 500 copies, 1943--QUENNELL (NANCY, editor) A Lovers Progress, number 133 of 215 copies, title printed in gold and black, 1938--PHILBY (H.ST.J.B.) A Pilgrim in Arabia, number 148 copies of 350 copies, 1943--BELL (GERTRUDE) The Arab War, number 219 of 500 copies, 1940--Pertelote. A Sequel to Chanticleer, number 155 of 200 copies signed by Christopher Sandford and Owen Rutter, 1943--SCOTT (WALTER SIDNEY, editor) Shelley at Oxford, 1944; The Athenians, 1943; Harriet & Mary, 1944, EACH ONE OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES signed by the editor, from an overall edition of 500, full morocco, 1943--The Song of Songs, number 229 of 750 copies, illustrations by Eric Gill, publisher's cloth, 1925, unless mentioned publisher's quarter morocco or vellum, small 4to or folio, Golden Cockerel Press (13)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

GOLDING (WILLIAM)Poems, FIRST EDITION, first and last leaves with a few small spots and light browning, stitched in publisher's light greenish-blue card wrappers, some creasing and browning/fading at edges [Gekoski and Grogan A1], 8vo, Macmillan & Co., 1934Footnotes:Golding's first book. The collection of of thirty lyrical poems was published in the Macmillan Contemporary Poets series at 1s. and has never been reprinted.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

GOLDING (WILLIAM)The Lord of the Flies, FIRST EDITION, ownership signature dated November 1954 on front paste-down, exceptionally fresh and clean internally, publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in white (slight leaning, lower outer corner of front cover slightly bumped, very foot of spine slightly faded), pictorial dust-jacket priced 12s 6d (slight browning to spine, folds and top edges, head of spine slightly frayed) [Gekoski & Grogan A2(a)], 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1954Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF GOLDING'S FIRST NOVEL, HIS EVER-RELEVANT AND CHILLING DYSTOPIAN CLASSIC - IN AN UNCLIPPED AND UNRESTORED DUST-JACKET.'Lord of the Flies was written after the devastation of the Second World War, and amidst the threat of nuclear attack, increased surveillance, and fear of totalitarianism. The characters of Ralph, Jack, Piggy and Simon, so fully and individually realised, are timeless archetypes of civilisation. Lord of the Flies continues to hold such allegorical power, and continues to act as a stark warning against the same fears of societal breakdown that still exist today' (Nicola Presley, website of William Golding Limited). Provenance: John L. Thorn, ownership signature dated November 1954; private UK collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GREENE (GRAHAM)The End of the Affair, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper 'For 'you'/ with thanks for all your labours./ From Graham Greene', with pencil annotation in another hand on p.122 (the words 'Not me!!', written in the margin alongside the phrase 'All the secretaries used those unbearable initials', which is underlined in pencil), slight browning to endpapers and adjoining pages, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket (slight creasing at top edge with one short tear in corner) [Wobbe A27a], 8vo, Heinemann, 1951Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY TO 'YOU', PRESUMABLY GREENE'S SECRETARY DORIS YOUNG.It seems natural to assume, from the mention of 'all your labours' in the inscription, and from the pencil annotation, that the recipient of this copy was Doris Young, Greene's secretary in the early 1950s. She apparently came to Greene from Harry Walston, husband of Greene's lover Catherine Walston, the book's dedicatee, and in 1958 was replaced by Josephine Reid, about whom more has been written.Nonetheless, the use of 'For 'you'' suggests a level of intimacy with the recipient, similar occurrences of the phrase usually having been associated with Greene's lovers. As it happens our copy surfaced at auction in 1984 (Sotheby's, 6 December, lot 201), with the recipient unidentified, and another presentation copy of the book was also sold at Sotheby's that year, this time inscribed fully ('For Doris Young with many thanks for your help, from Graham Greene'). So, intriguingly, the present copy is either one of two copies Greene inscribed to Doris Young, or it was inscribed to someone else who helped him with the book. The significance of a pencil note on the rear paste-down, '211. Bexhill!', possibly in the same secretary's hand, is also unclear.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 (spine panel soiled with small water spots, minor wear to edges) [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).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

LAWRENCE (D.H.)Lady Chatterley's Lover, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 498 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, H.G. WELLS' COPY WITH AN INK SKETCH, publisher's boards, rebacked preserving original spine lettering label, extremities of spine and corners refurbished, new endpapers [Roberts A42a], 8vo, Florence, Privately Printed, 1928Footnotes:'MY GOD WHAT STUFF!' - H.G. WELLS' COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, ENLIVENED WITH TWO INK DRAWINGS MOCKING D.H. LAWRENCE. An important association copy, bringing together two of the most important English authors of the twentieth century. Both men are noted for their liberal views on matters relating to sex, and are here conjoined in one of the most notorious books of the century; Lady Chatterley was banned for obscenity in the United Kingdom until 1960.Wells inscribes 'My God what stuff!' on the colophon, and also draws two cartoons, one depicting Lawrence (captioned 'D.H.L. by himself') depicting the author naked with an enormous phallus, urging on his erection with a shout of 'Up Jenkins!', the other depicting Lawrence ('The real D.H.L.') lying at the foot of a tall obelisk staring at his minuscule phallus asking the question 'Well, has any other man the equal of it?', a bottle labelled 'tonic' at his side.In his early life Lawrence was a keen reader and admirer of H.G. Wells, writing of Tono-Bungay (1909) that it was 'the best novel Wells has written - it is the best novel I have read for - oh, how long?'. Wells was likewise a supporter of Lawrence, but it appears that this mutual admiration withered, Lawrence writing a negative review of Wells' The World of William Clissold (1926), and Wells undermining Lawrence's self-image in our volume - suggesting Lawrence may have more in common with the character of the impotent Sir Clifford Chatterley, than Mellors the virile gamekeeper.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

LAWRENCE (T.E.)The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a Triumph, ONE OF 170 COMPLETE COPIES, INSCRIBED BY LAWRENCE 'Complete copy. i.xii.26 TES' on list of illustrations, and with 'Roberts' amended in ink to 'K[ennington]' as usual, this copy additionally inscribed by H.J. Hodgson (one of the printers) on the colophon, printed in red and black, colour frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John and 65 plates (many coloured or tinted, 4 double-page) by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, William Nicholson, Paul Nash and others, 4 folding colour maps (laid on linen), 58 illustrations in text (one colour) by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others, initials by Edward Wadsworth, illustrated endpapers by Kennington, with the four-page 'Some Notes on the Writing of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Shaw' bound in before title, vellum-backed boards by Bumpus (stamped inside upper cover), titled in gilt on lower cover, g.e., original pictorial endpapers, preserved in contemporary fleece-lined morocco-backed solander box (with Leicester Gallery catalogue of the pictures, 1927 held in a sunken pocket inside upper cover), large 4to, [Printed for the author by Manning Pike and H.J. Hodgson], 1926Footnotes:ONE OF 170 'COMPLETE COPIES' OF THE FIRST PRIVATELY PRINTED EDITION OF LAWRENCE'S CELEBRATED MASTERPIECE, 'a personal, emotional narrative of the Arab revolt in which Lawrence reveals how by sheer willpower he made history. It was a testimony to his vision and persistence and a fulfilment of his desire to write an epic... its climax is the Arab liberation of Damascus, a victory which successfully concludes a gruelling campaign and vindicates Lawrence's faith in the Arab' (ODNB).This copy, in common with most of the complete copies, has page XV mis-paginated as VIII, and Kennington's coloured landscape tail-piece ('False Quiet') at the end of page XVIII. The 'Prickly Pear' plate is included, but not the two Paul Nash line drawings called for on pages 92 ('The prophet's tomb') and 208 ('A garden'), or the Blair Hughes-Stanton wood-engraving that in some copies illustrated the dedicatory poem.Provenance: Helen and Michael Oppenheimer (see other Lawrence items in this sale).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

MINIATURE BOOKS - DAVID BRYCEAn extensive collection of some 201 works, published by David Bryce of Glasgow, including six copies of the Koran (one of which is an exceptionally rare example printed entirely in gold), the Khordeh Avesta, four copies of the Ghita-Pancha-Ratna, numerous sets of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (including the famed Ellen Terry series, 'Bryce's greatest achievement as a leading promoter of miniature books' according to Bondy), the Midget Library, three sets of the Mite Series in tartan, three copies of the extremely rare and tiny Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard (the smallest Bryce book, 'exceedingly rare... at one time said not to exist', per Bondy), three copies of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a Holy Bible once owned by Nora Bryce herself (plus 25 other Bibles), numerous copies of the miniature Dictionaries and Thumb Series, and a variety of sets of poetical works by Scott, Tennyson and Burns, some sets housed in their original (sometimes revolving) bookcases, the majority in original publisher's bindings, Glasgow, David Bryce, [various dates]Footnotes:THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MINIATURE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY DAVID BRYCE & SON OF GLASGOW TO HAVE EVER APPEARED ON THE MARKET, containing many of the books described in the chapter devoted to Bryce in Louis Bondy's Miniature Books, 1981.A full list of the collection is available on request, but some of the principle works include:--SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Complete Works, 40 vol., 3 sets, dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry, illustrated frontispiece, gilt cloth bindings (red, dark turquoise and forest green), housed in the original revolving bookcases by Bumpus, 55 x 38mm. [Bondy 114; Spielmann 459], 1904--SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Complete Works, 40 vol., 2 sets, dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry, illustrated frontispiece, India paper, gilt Harlequin leather, housed in revolving bookcases by Bumpus, some covers sunned, 50 x 35mm, [Bondy 114; Spielmann 459], 1904 --SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) and J. TALFORD BLAIR (ed.). Complete Works, 40 vol. illustrated frontispiece, red leather gilt, the majority with dust-jackets, contained in an Art Nouveau gated hanging wooden bookcase with minor wear, 50 x 30mm., 1915--SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) Complete Works, 40 vol. bound in 20, 2 sets, dedicated to the actress Ellen Terry, illustrated frontispiece, red leather, housed in a wooden replica of Shakespeare's desk and in a oak-wood chest with a drop front (to which is fixed a metal bust of Shakespeare), 54 x 33mm, c.1900--[Qur'an] The Koran, PRINTED ENTIRELY IN GOLD, in Arabic, decorated borders to each page, red morocco gilt, housed in a typical 'Bryce style' white metal hinged locket with inset magnifier, a very rare example as only a few were printed in gold, 27 x 19mm [Bondy 111], c.1900 --[Chained Bible] 'Smallest Bible in the World', The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Produced for the Tercentenary Commemoration of the Authorised Version of the English Bible, illustrated frontispiece, brown blind-stamped roan, with magnifier in pocket inside front cover, chained to a model wooden lectern (measuring 139mm.), hinges lose, contained in its original box with a pictorial label which is very rare [Bondy p.109], 42 x 30mm., c.1901--[Midget Library], complete 12 vol. set (German English Dictionary; French English Dictionary; English Dictionary; Tourist's Conversational Guide in English French German Italian; Golden Thoughts from Great Authors; The Koran; New Testament; Robert Burns; English Scots and Irish Songs; Animals; Birds), illustrated frontispieces, limp red morocco gilt, minor wear [Bondy 72, 107, 11, 113], housed in original and very rare Jahncke's tin, with hinged door and fitted glass fronted case set in an angled wooden stand, all measure 26 x 12mm. (except the New Testament which is 18 x 15mm.), 1925--The Allies Bible in Khaki, 5 copies (one with the original dust-jacket and all but one with magnifying glass), prefaced with the national anthems of the Allies, a recessional by Rudyard Kipling, and Neil Munro's 'Evening Prayer of a People', khaki cloth, minor wear [Bondy 110], c.1914 --The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues ... by His majesty's special command, illustrations, inscription by Nora Bryce on first fly-leaves ('Nora Bryce – Given to me by Davie's father on my first visit to 60 Berkeley St. Glasgow – August 1914.'), cream Oxford morocco gilt, yapp edges, with magnifying glass [Spielmann 24-25], 40 x 30mm., c.1900--'Illustrated Miniature Bible': The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Souvenir of the Glasgow Exhibition, illustrations, dark green cloth, minor shelf-wear, 45 x 30mm., c.1901--New Testament, 3 copies, gilt leather (green, charcoal, and red) [Bondy p.111, 'staggeringly small'], 20 x 16mm., 1896--'The Mite Series in Tartan' (including Burns' Poems First Edition 1786; Bryce's English Dictionary; English Scotch and Irish Songs; My Tiny Alphabet Book; My Tiny Alphabet Book), illustrations in colour, tartan paper covers over red cloth, housed in a in fitted plain wooden box divided into six compartments with hinged glazed top, sixth space in the box as a framed portrait of Burns beneath a magnifying glass, 27 x 20mm., 75 x 80mm. (box), c.1905--[The Coronation Bible], Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments Translated out of the Original Tongues ... by His Majesty's Special Command, 5 copies, illustrations, two in purple cloth with round medallion photograph on upper cover, two in dark tan embossed leather, one in dark red buckram [Bondy 109], 43 x 35mm., 1902, 1911 and 1914--English and German Dictionary, red leather, 31 x 19mm., c. 1896--Khordeh Avesta, red morocco gilt, housed in a white metal hinged locket with inset magnifier and engraved floral decoration, overall 26 x 19mm., c.1900--'Smallest English Classic in the World': Thomas Gray, An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 3 copies, maroon leather gilt, 17 x 13mm. [Bondy p.113-4], 1911--Tourist's Conversational Guide in English, French, German, Italian, red leather gilt, housed in a sterling silver hinged locket with embossed floral design around inset magnifier and to rear, 26 x 19mm., c.1900 --Old English Scotch and Irish Songs, illustrated with twenty-four original sketches by A.S. Boyd, red paper wrappers, housed in a sterling silver plain case with inset magnifier and slide hinge, 26 x 19mm., c.1900--Napoleon's Book of Fate, 2 copies, one fold out plate, red leather gilt and blue leather gilt, 50 x 34mm., c.1905 --SCOTT (WALTER) and ROBERT BURNS. Poems, 12 vol. (double set of 6 vols. each), illustrated, early ownership inscription on first fly-leaves with 1895 date, green buckram gilt and embossed, minor wear, 85 x 60mm., housed in a double-hinged and lidded tartanware box, 96 x 75 x 115mm., Fredrick A. Stokes and Brother, New York. c.1890's--BURNS (ROBERT) The Poetical works of Robert Burns, Pearl Edition, illustrated frontispiece, various bookplates, ownership signature and collation markings of bibliographer Edward Gordon Duff and bookplate of Grace Broecker, brown morocco by Fazakerley (Liverpool) with gilt text in Greek on upper cover, fore-edge painting comprising a circular portrait of Burns, flanked by his birthplace at Alloway, and the old 'Brig O Doon', with slipcase, minor wear [not in Bondy or Spielmann; not in NLS collection], 85 x 60mm., c.1890--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 3 copies, green leather gilt, dark green marbled board, cream boards with red and gold print decoration, minor wear, 53 x 35mm. (one copy), 70 x 80mm., c.1904--My Tiny Alphabet Book, 2 copies, colour illustrations, respectively in red and b... 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MINTURN FAMILYMINTURN (WILLIAM) Travels West, FIRST EDITION, publisher's advertisements (September 1876), spine faded, Samuel Tinsley, 1877; George Douglas. A Dramatic Idyll in Three Acts by Defenthy Wright [William Minturn], 72 pages (text on verso only), typescript in purple, dramatis personae underlined in red ink throughout, pencil note 'Minturns own work' on front free endpaper, contemporary tree calf gilt, spine tooled in gilt with green morocco lettering labels, marbled endpapers, 4to (238 x 182mm.), [?c.1878]--BARLOW (JOEL) The Vision of Columbus. A Poem... Fifth Edition, Corrected, MINTURN FAMILY COPY, engraved frontispiece (near loose), some browning to title, early ownership inscription of 'Wm. Minturn Junr. 1798' (father of Robert Browne Minturn) on title-page, note gifting book from Robert's wife Anne Mary to the author William Minturn, who records that the book was 'found in the library at No. 60 Fifth Avenue [the family home], Easter Sunday 1876. Wm. Minturn' inside upper cover, contemporary tree calf, upper joint slightly weakened, Paris, Printed at the English Press, 1793--MINTURN, JR (ROBERT BROWNE) From New York to Delhi, by Way of Rio de Janeiro, Australia and China, third edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS BROTHER, inscribed 'William Minturn from his brother the author, Locust Wood, Oct. 2 1859' on front free endpaper, folding hand-coloured map, contemporary green calf gilt, g.e., New York, D. Appleton, 1859--HOLLAND (J.G.) Kathrina. Her Life and Mine in a Poem, William Minturn's copy with bookplate, an ownership name of his wife, Annie Hemphill, on the half-title, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., New York, Charles Scribner, 1869--DRAPER (JOHN WILLIAM) History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, eighth edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE-PAGE, William Minturn's copy with his bookplate, and cut signature pasted to title-page, New York, D. Appleton, 1877, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, 8vo; and 2 others, both by Reid Mayne, one gifted to William Minturn from his sister in 1865, the other to Minturn from one of his teachers 'as a reward for his application' (8)Footnotes:A group of books by, or belonging to the American author William Minturn, son of the shipping magnate Robert Browne Minturn, who had met Emile Zola in Paris, and Walt Whitman in New York (see the copy of Whitman's Leaves of Grass in this sale). Included is a typescript for a seemingly unpublished play, George Douglas, written under the pseudonym Defenthy Wright, which he also used for Aaron Burr. A Drama (1878), the one play of his published in his lifetime.Provenance: William Minturn (1853-1882), ownership or gift inscriptions, or bookplates.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

NESBIT (EDITH)Something Wrong, inscribed September 1899, upper hinge weakened, A.D. Innes, 1893; A Pomander of Verse, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 2 December 1899, later cloth, John Lane, 1895; The Red House, FIRST EDITION, inscribed 25 February 1903, 7 plates only (of 8, lacks frontispiece), Methuen, 1903, ALL INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ('FROM MOTHER') TO HER DAUGHTER IRIS--ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL) Ballads and Sonnets, INSCRIBED TO EDITH NESBIT FROM HER HUSBAND 'Edith Bland [Nesbit] from H.[enry] B.[land] Aug. 15 - 1887' on the half-title, Edith's bookplate, Ellis and White, 1882--ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA) Poems, inscribed by Henry Bland 'For Iris [Bland] from H.B. Dec. 2 1904', Macmillan, 1901--ARNOLD (EDWIN) The Light of Asia, INSCRIBED TO EDITH NESBIT FROM HER HUSBAND ('To Edith Bland from her husband') followed by 3-line quotation from the text, later cloth, Trubner, 1885--WHITEING (RICHARD) The Island or an Adventure of a Person of Quality, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED to Edith Nesbit's daughter Iris, 'To Mrs Iris Austen Philips, as her mother's daughter the blessed damozel May God continue his goodness to her, as wife... Feb 1907', early half morocco gilt, Grant Richards, 1902, unless otherwise stated publisher's cloth, worn, 8vo (7)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

NICHOLSON (BEN)Drawings Paintings and Reliefs 1911-1968. Introduction by John Russell, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 18 OF 60 COPIES WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING, numerous colour plates, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, the etching loose as issued in folder held within matching cloth solander box, large 4to, Thames and Hudson, 1969Footnotes:Limited edition with the additional etching '1966 (Olympic Fragment)', on wove, numbered (18/60), signed and dated in pencil, 185 x 225mm.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

OLYMPIA PRESS, BURROUGHS AND GREEK LOVEROBINSON (C.J. BRADBURY) Williams Mix, ONE OF ONLY SIX UNCORRECTED PROOF COPIES, THIS COPY SIGNED BY WILLIAM BURROUGHS on the dedication leaf, and additionally inscribed by him on the title-page 'I'd rather read Winny the Poo [sic] Bradbury Robinson', printed on recto only, publisher's brown printed wrappers, small 4to (215 x 180mm.), The Olympia Press, [1971]; together with a small group of manuscript and printed material (including cover design, and TLS from Maurice Girondia) relating to proposals for the publication of the book, see footnote (small quantity)Footnotes:EXTREMELY SCARCE UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF WILLIAMS MIX signed by the dedicatee William Burroughs, who also wrote the introduction and was instrumental in persuading the Olympia Press, which had published The Naked Lunch, to accept the work for publication. Having produced this uncorrected proof in only six copies, such was the controversy of the pederast subject matter that the Olympia Press eventually withdrew their support and never published the title - there being 'no getting away from the fact that this is a book whose literary engine is fuelled by the pleasures and pains of sexual desire for 10 to 12 year old boys, in much the same way that Burroughs' own work is driven by an obsession with addiction and control' (Matthew L. Stevens, Beatdom website, which provides a detailed history of the work and Burroughs' contribution).Bradbury Robinson, at the time a young Cambridge graduate working as Head of the English Department at a Home Counties prep school, had written a first draft in 1967 but, despite interest from Calder & Boyers, not found a publisher at that time. In 1974 Bradbury Robinson and Timothy d'Arch Smith again looked close to publishing the work, as attested to by the material accompanying the lot. Additional material comprises:1. Typed letter signed from Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press, 13 March 1974, to Bradbury Robinson, discussing a proposed publication of a limited edition.2. Two typed letters signed, from the proposed printers (Morrison & Gibb Ltd.), 13 and 30 September 1974, addressed to Timothy D' Arch Smith, about printing costs, etc. for a proposed edition of the book.3. Manuscript description by Bradbury Robinson of his book for the proposed inside flap of the dust wrapper, one-page, on the headed note paper of Ampleforth Abbey, with a printed proof of the text including proposed price of £4.4. An original pencil sketch for the proposed design for the dust-jacket, depicting an indolent school boy seated upon a chair piled high with books.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

OZ MAGAZINE - AUSTRALIAOz Magazine, SYDNEY EDITION, issues 2-41, edited by Richard Neville, Richard Walsh, and Martin Sharp, illustrations, subscription form loose in issue 4, pictorial wrappers, 4to, Sydney, 1963-1969; together with 15 duplicate issues, and 20 rarely found later issues (44, 47-57, 59, 65-67, 71, 72 and 48), retaining 9 Oz postage-paid envelopes, 1970, sold as a periodical (quantity)Footnotes:RARE NEAR COMPLETE RUN of the Australian edition of Oz Magazine, which was first published in Sydney in 1963 under the general editorship of Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp. As an influential counter-culture satirical magazine, its subject matters included homosexuality, police brutality, women's rights, the White Australia policy and the Vietnam War. Issue No. 41 was 'The Final Issue', but subsequent issues did appear, edited by Richard Walsh and Dean Letcher in a much reduced monthly 4-page stapled format, into 1970. Controversy dogged the publication, with obscenity trials brought against the editors on two occasions, the second of which in April 1964 led to a sentence of three months' hard labour, a conviction which was overturned on appeal.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

PINTER (HAROLD)Betrayal, 82 COPIES OF THE EDITION LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, EACH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND SPECIALLY BOUND, comprising 55 numbered and signed copies (including number 1), 14 hors de commerce copies numbered in roman, and 12 signed unnumbered copies, all fine as issued in publisher's black and orange cloth gilt, with acetate dust-jackets, 8vo, Harry Karnac Books, 1978; and a similar hors de commerce copy of Old Times (83)Footnotes:The remaining stock of this signed and specially bound edition, which was published by arrangement with Eyre Methuen and appeared simultaneously with their first 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

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, reverse of title-page with the number sequence from 10 to 1, the author's name given as 'Joanne Rowling' and no space between 'Taylor' and '1997', p.53 with the duplication of '1 wand' on the equipment list, lower cover with misspelling 'philospher's' and 'Wizardry and Witchcraft' reversed, a little very light browning at page edges, publisher's pictorial boards, some faint scratch marks just visible at edges, corner tips slightly rubbed (one on lower cover with crease), spine ends a little bumped, 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1997Footnotes:THE HARDBACK FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST HARRY POTTER NOVEL.Provenance: Sold on behalf of a Yorkshire family, one of whom recounts: 'My husband had the radio on in the car, we think something like Radio 4 Book Club and they were promoting the book. Our son at the time didn't like reading and my husband thought it may be a good book to capture his imagination and get him to be a greater reader like the rest of our family. We ordered the book from a local bookshop call Wades in Halifax. It took a number of weeks to arrive. My son didn't engage with the book but my husband really enjoyed the read. He bought all the other books in the series and we think our youngest son had a newer paperback version whilst the original book has remained in our bookcase until now. We hope that someone will take great pleasure in owning this book'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING, with number line 10 down to 3, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:A VERY FINE COPY of the third printing of The Philosopher's Stone, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, 17th printing, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on half-title 'To J.J. (very cool name) from J.K. (not so cool) JK Rowling', number line from 30 to 17 on copyright page, light damp-staining to right margin of dedication page, publisher's pictorial wrappers, creases to covers, light shelf-wear with corners slightly rubbed, two stickers on front cover (Smarties Book Prize Winner 1997 and Free bookmark inside), 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, FIRST EDITION, 1st printing, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on dedication page 'To JJ (again!) JK Rowling', number line from 10 to 1 on copyright page, previous ownership inscription on inside front cover (JJ's Harry Potter), ink-marks on foredge, first three leaves slightly loose at lower margin, publisher's pictorial wrappers, spine creased, corners slightly rubbed, minor wear, sticker on front cover (Smarties Book Prize Winner 1998), 8vo, Bloomsbury, 1998 (2)Footnotes:In 1998, the dedicatee was attending Abbeyhill Primary School and was invited to Central Hall in Tollcross, Edinburgh during the start of the summer to attend a press event for the book release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which J.K Rowling also attended. On arrival, the dedicatee was given a copy of the new book and, as he also had his copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (his class reading book) with him, J.K. Rowling signed both books at the end of the event.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

SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOKCRADDOCK (HARRY, of The Savoy Hotel, London) The Savoy Cocktail Book... .. Decorations are by Gilbert Rumbold, SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION, number 43 of an unspecified number, and author's signature on colophon page, half-title, numerous illustrations and decorations throughout, printed in colour, additional Bacardi Cocktail slip inserted on p.25, light spotting (heaviest to half-title), publisher's screen-printed cloth-covered boards, title lettered black on gilt on spine, t.e.g., spine ends rubbed, 8vo, Constable, 1930Footnotes:THE SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a variant of the standard first edition of the most celebrated of all cocktail recipe books, its quintessentially Art Deco-style illustrations conjuring up the Jazz Age. Harry Craddock held sway as bartender at the Savoy Hotel throughout the 1920s/early 1930s, and is credited with the creation of several famous cocktails including the White Lady.This copy is first state, with the page numeral on p.1, and Bacardi Cocktail recipe inserted on a slip at p.25, and with the decorative binding only used for this limited 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

THOMAS (DYLAN)The Map of Love. Verse and Prose, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to 'Leo & John... from Dylan Thomas Oxford 1941' in pencil on the front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's purple cloth, spine faded, 8vo, J.M. Dent, [1939]Footnotes:INSCRIBED WITH DYLAN THOMAS'S 'DRUNKEN SIGNATURE' for an Oxford University student. It seems probable that the book was signed when Thomas gave a talk at the English Club at Oxford in November 1941, an event hosted by Philip Larkin, who recalled Dylan at the event as a 'Hell of a fine man: little, snubby, hopelessly pissed bloke who made hundreds of cracks and read parodies of everybody in appropriate voices'.Provenance: Francis Leo Clark (1920-1998), ink ownership inscription 'Leo Clark, St. Pet. H., Oxon', dated 4 November 1941, inside upper cover, with loosely inserted ink label 'F.L. Clark'. Clark, later a barrister and circuit judge, was a student at St. Peter's Hall (now College), Oxford University in 1941 when this book was signed.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, without 'sagging text' and signature mark '4' on p.49 of 'The Return', each with a folding map printed in red and black, bookseller's label ('Blackwell's, Oxford, England') inside upper cover of 'The Fellowship', publisher's red cloth ('Fellowship' with small single damp spot on spine, 2 on lower cover and light white mark and pencil mark on upper cover), dust-jackets (unclipped, age soiling to spines, 'Fellowship' frayed at spine extremities with small loss to lettering 'J.R.R.' at head, splitting at lower joint; 'Two Towers' with short tear at foot of spine and small loss to blank head of spine, small old tape remnants inside cover at spine ends; 'Return' with tear - approx. 65mm. to blank area of upper cover, spine ends frayed with small loss not touching text), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, [1954-1955]Footnotes:Provenance: Ian B. Bishop, inscription dated September 1954 inside upper cover of The Fellowship, and October 1955 inside upper cover of The Return. Bishop (1926-1990) studied Literature at Oxford University and was Barker Exhibitioner. Tolkien was one of his supervisors, and supported Bishop joining Bristol University, where he specialised in the teaching of Medieval literature; by descent to current 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

WELLS (H.G.)Kipps. The Story of a Simple Soul, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO E. NESBIT ('To 'Ernest' affectionately from H.G. Wells') on the half-title, advertisements (first state dated '16.8.05'), light spotting to half-title and endpapers, publisher's green cloth gilt, rubbed [Wells 26], 8vo, Macmillan, 1905Footnotes:INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO EDITH NESBIT, author of The Railway Children, a first edition of Kipps, described by the author as 'the complete study of a life in relation to England's social condition'. Wells first met Nesbit, together with her husband Herbert Bland, as fellow members of the Fabian Society, thereafter visiting the couple at their 'easy-going hospitable Bohemian household at Well Hall, Eltham or their house at Dymchurch' (ODNB) until 1908, when Wells 'made a bid for Bland's daughter, the plump, attractive Rosamund... [They tried to run away together] but Bland caught up with them at Paddington Station, punched Wells, and took Rosamund home' (ODNB).Provenance: Edith Nesbit, presentation inscription from the author, and with her 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

WORLD WAR I - ALBANIAVLASSIS (MILIO AND NICHOLAS) Albanian Vocabulary. Compiled for the War Office, typescript in purple (with a few lines relating to phonetics in red), title and 80 leaves (printed recto only), several corrections in black ink to opening 2 pages and a couple of other pages (spelling, or pronunciations), stitched as issued in wrappers, the upper wrapper with title details and with authors' red wax seal, title lightly soiled and slightly frayed at edges, 4to, London, November 29, 1915--MID'HAT FRASHERI, under his pseudonym LUMO SKENDO. La population de l'Epire, FIRST EDITION, light marginal damp stains, publisher's grey printed wrappers, 8vo, Sophia, L'imprimerie de l'Independance Albanaise, 1915 (2)Footnotes:VERY RARE TYPESCRIPT ENGLISH-ALBANIAN DICTIONARY AND PHRASE BOOK COMPILED FOR THE BRITISH WAR OFFICE DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, the authors identified on the title as 'Natives of Chimarra (Northern Epirus)'. Phrases are organised for practical use in the field under headings such 'Strangers or Suspects' ('Stop or I shall shoot', 'You are a spy!', 'If you behave you will be safe'), 'Inquiries about Troops' ('Take me to the Colonel', 'In which direction have they marched'), 'Wounds and Sickness', 'Billets, Lodgings & Stables', 'Body & Ailments', 'Topographical', 'At the Station', etc. The second title is a scarce pamphlet written during the war by the Albanian Nationalist Mid'hat bey Frashëri.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 - P.O.W. MAGAZINE, AND A.N. MUNBYTouchstone, No. 1-15 (complete), illustrations, publisher's stapled wrappers (some pictorial), light staining to cover of first issue, Eichstätt, Germany VIIB, Autumn 1943-March 1945--MUNBY (A.N.L.) The Four-Poster. A Story. Illustrated by Robin Bagot, NUMBER 6 OF ONLY 25 COPIES, one full-page illustration, publisher's wrappers, woodcut illustrative title label, printed in blue, on upper cover, Eichstätt, [Published by Elliot Viney and printed by J.B. Bassett and R.R. Blades], 1944; and 2 related items, one a typescript 'Criticism' of the first number by the editor, the other the 4-page programme to a prison pantomime (18)Footnotes:A scarce complete set of a prisoner of war magazine, from the collection of one of the contributors, another of whom was A.N.L. Munby, the noted bibliophile, author and librarian of King's College, Cambridge. His writings appeared in five issues, and include his first known ghost story, 'The Four-Poster' (issue 12). This was also printed separately at Eichstätt in a limited edition of only 25 copies 'for presentation'. Of these, one copy is in Cambridge University Library, Munby 'gave a copy to [King's] Library in 1960, and the only other recorded copy appears to be that in the Bodleian...' (Liam Sims, 'A.N.L. Munby's Christmas ghost stories', Cambridge Special Collections blog, 2015).Included with the lot is a typescript sheet headed 'Touchstone', evidently prepared by the magazine's first editor, analysing the reception of the first issue - 'Criticism of the first number of Touchstone showed that the magazine as it stood did not interest a large proportion of the camp...', noting that the popular demand was for 'a cross between 'La Vie Parisienne' and 'Sporting Life'. Such a magazine he [the editor] is not capable of producing nor does he intend to try...'. He does however list twelve suggestions for improvements to the second issue. Provenance: Malcom Fry, inscription to him 'with the editor's compliments' on the upper cover of issue 9. Fry was a contributor of illustrations to the magazine, including 'A linocut' (issue 2) and 'Eichstätt from the East' (issue 5), and 'Two Camp Scenes' (issue 7). He was also the stage director of the Christmas pantomime performance of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors (1944), the programme of which is included in this lot.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ARMENIA - MADRAS PRINTINGBAGHRAMIAN (MOUSES) Nor Terak vor kochi Hordorak [New Book of Exhortation], PRINTED IN ARMENIAN TYPE, FIRST EDITION, title within woodcut typographical border with woodcut ornament, several woodcut head- and tail-pieces and large initials, damp-stain to lower corner of opening 12 leaves, blank fore-edge margin of opening 3 leaves with some loss, without lower free endpaper, contemporary calf over boards, bowed and worn with some loss to spine and margins of covers [Nersessian, no.174], small 4to (187 x 135mm.), Madras [Chennai], Yakob Shahamirian, 1722Footnotes:ONE OF THE EARLIEST BOOKS PRINTED IN ARMENIAN IN INDIA. In 1772 Shahamirian established the first Armenian printing press in Madras in the name of his older son Hagop. 'The first publications of Shahamirian press in 1772 were an Aybbenaran and a geography of Armenia, followed by Nor Tetrak vor Kochi Hordorak... an important work that laid the foundations of Armenian political thinking and literature' (Vazken Ghougassian, The printing Enterprise of Armenians in India, 2012).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

ALBERTI (LEON BATTISTA)Los diez libros de architectura, FIRST SPANISH EDITION, title within architectural woodcut border, woodcut initials, light damp-staining, worming to last few gatherings affecting text, contemporary calf gilt and stamped, some wear to edges, endpapers renewed [Cicognara 377; Palau 5194], 4to (206 x 158mm.), Madrid, Alonso Gómez, 1582Footnotes:Alberti's De re aedificatoria (Florence, 1485) is the most important architectural treatise of the Renaissance. The anonymous translation was edited for publication by Francisco Loranzo.Provenance: The Robin Collection, 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

ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATISDeipnosophistae, in Greek, FIRST EDITION, edited by Marcus Musurus, Greek italic type, capital spaces with guide-letters, dolphin and anchor device on first and last pages, with blank leaf B10 of preliminaries (often lacking), some mostly light dampstaining, final leaf with device laid down, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered on spine [Adams A2096; Ahmanson-Murphy, 123; Renouard p.67; Vicaire 50], folio (304 x 108mm.), Venice, Aldus Manutius and Andreas Torresanus, August 1514Footnotes:EDITIO PRINCEPS OF THE EARLIEST SURVIVING COOKERY TEXT: a valuable source of information on intellectual mores of the classical world, 'magnifiquement exécutée' (Vicaire).The Deipnosophistae ('Banquet of the learned') is the only known work by Athenaeus of Naucratis, a Greco-Egyptian writing in the early part of the 3rd century AD. In it a variety of scholars are invited to dine at a banquet held at the house of Larensius, a wealthy book-collector and patron of the arts. They debate at length a wide spectrum of topics, notably food, wine and cookery (the work is an important source of Greek, Persian, Roman and Sicilian recipes, many of which would have been lost), homosexuality (an unusually candid portrait for the time), sexual mores in general, health, music and philology. Aldus had planned a Greek edition of the work soon after establishing his press, but only got as far as printing a one-page proof in his second Greek type, which was not used after 1499.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, IN GREEKNovum Iesu Christi D.N. Testamentum, 2 parts in 1 vol., text in Greek, title-pages in Greek and Latin, woodcut printer's device on titles and on verso of final leaf, woodcut initials and head-pieces, woodcut borders for the canons, light spotting to title, light damp-stain to upper blank fore-corner of opening and final few leaves, modern panelled calf antique [Adams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622; Renouard, Estienne 75: 1; Schreiber 105], folio (330 x 215mm.), Paris, 1550Footnotes:'The third and most important of R. Stephanus' editions, known as the Edition Regia... The most interesting feature of this Testament is the critical apparatus... which gives various readings and additions from MSS. collated by H. Stephanus' (Darlow & Moule). It is also of importance as this New Testament marks the first use of all three founts of Garamond's grecs du roi type in a single book, and the first use of the largest size.Provenance: H. Dawnay, ownership inscription dated 8 May 1766 on title-page; Richard Hole, with note recording that it was given to him by his father George Hole on 30 August 1857.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

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (MIGUEL DE)El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, 4 vol., 2 (of 4) engraved frontispieces, 31 engraved plates by Antonio Carnicero, Joseph Castillo, Bernardo Barranco, Joseph Brunete, engraved folding map, with most of the original tissue-guards, engraved head- and tail-pieces, some light damp-staining and occasional foxing especially at end of volumes 1 and 2, early twentieth century dark green morocco gilt, g.e., housed in matching slipcases, light shelf-wear [Cohen de Ricci 218-219; Palau 52024; PMM 111.], 4to (292 x 217mm.), Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780Footnotes:The best Spanish edition of Cervantes' 'sweeping panorama of Spanish society' (PMM). First published in 1605, Don Quixote gained immediate popularity in Spain for its 'variety, liveliness, and gibes at the famous' (PMM). Cervantes' universal portrayal of the human condition became 'one of those universal works which are read by all ages at all times' (PMM). The Ibarra edition, illustrated by artists from the Academia de San Fernando and overseen by Cervantes scholar Vincente de los Ríos, became the preferred edition in Spain when it appeared in 1780. The edition is also recognized for the specially designed type, a monument to the golden age of Spanish typography.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

GALLONIO (ANTONIO)Trattato degli instrumenti di martirio, e delle varie maniere di martoriare usate da' gentili contro Christiani, descritte et intagliate in rame, FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 47 full-page engraved illustrations by Antonio Tempesta after Giovanni Guerra, early ownership inscription on title, occasional spotting, minor soiling and some damp-staining, later velvet with blue and gold printed brocade paper endpapers, minor wear [Brunet II 1468; Graesse III 19], 4to (240 x 170mm.), Rome, Ascanio and Girolamo Donangeli, 1591Footnotes:A graphic work on the Roman torture and execution of Christian martyrs. Bound in velvet with brocade paper endpapers - one of the rarest and most valuable types of decorated paper.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

GESSNER (SALOMON)La Mort d'Abel: poeme en cinq chants, first French edition, frontispiece and 5 plates stipple-engraved in colour by Colibert, Casenave & Clement after Nicolas-André Monsiau, minor spotting and browning, contemporary red morocco gilt, rebacked with original spine laid down, green morocco label, g.e., light wear, housed in modern custom clamshell box [Brunet II 1568; Cohen-de Ricci, 436], large 4to (334 x 250mm.) Paris, Defer de Maisonneuve, 1793-- QUERELLES (CHEVALIER DE) Hero et Leandre, poeme nouveau en trois chants, FIRST EDITION, aquatint frontispiece in black and 8 aquatint prints in colour by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, bookseller's stamp on free front endpaper and half-title, occasional foxing, contemporary quarter morocco over red glazed boards, stamped in silver, g.e., modern folding case, boards warped, corners bumped [Cohen-de Ricci, 833], 4to (300 x 230mm.) Paris, Pierre Didot L'aine, 1801-- FÉNELON (FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE) The Adventures of Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, 2 vol. in 1, first English edition, 12 hand-coloured engraved plates after Stothard and Burney, early ownership inscription opposite title, Satinsky collection bookplate, minor spotting and soiling, contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt, g.e., rebacked retaining original spine, hinges starting, corners bumped, worn, modern solander box [Brunet II 1568], 4to (265 x 212 mm.), C. and G. Kearsley, 1795 (3)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GONZALO (ARGOTE DE MOLINA)Nobleza de Andaluzia, FIRST EDITION, woodcut arms on title, numerous woodcuts of coats of arms throughout, early ownership inscription on title, repairs to margins of first leaves, upper and lower corners of A1, and lower corners throughout, some affecting text, last leaf re-margined, scattered browning and spotting, modern calf gilt and blind-stamped [Heredia 3466; Palau I, 16170; Salvà 3540], folio (310 x 215mm.), Seville, Fernando Diaz, 1588Footnotes:Gonzalo Argote de Molina had a colourful career as a military officer, author, and collector of art and antiques during Seville's golden age in the 16th century. He enlisted the services of Juan de Arfe to prepare the woodcuts for this work, probably after seeing de Arfe's illustrations for the Libro de la montería (Book of Hunting), prepared for Alfonso XI of Castile.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

KIRCHER (ATHANASIUS)Turris Babell, sive archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, FIRST EDITION, additional engraved pictorial title, woodcut device on letterpress title, 9 engraved plates (of 12, mostly folding, 3 supplied in facsimile, the 'Tower of Babel' plate defective with lower third supplied in facsimile), 13 engraved illustrations (many full-page), opening few pages softened at blank lower fore-corner with minor loss, light damp stain to upper margin of a few leaves and plates, occasional other small stains, a few early ink annotations including a few words to additional title, contemporary vellum, soiled [Caillet III, 5795], folio (380 x 240mm.), Amsterdam, ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, 1679Footnotes:First edition of Kircher's treatise on the origin of languages, focusing on the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.Provenance: And. Glinde Sielns(?), early ownership inscription on title; Leonhard Raaf, ink signature in margin of p.159 and 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

LAS CASAS (BARTHOLOME DE)Regionum indicarum per hispanos olim devastatarum, engraved title with wide historiated border, 17 large engraved illustrations (depicting acts of violence) by Theodor de Bry, title trimmed at upper margin with small loss of image, 3 single wormholes and with small hole, light dampstain at fore-margin, occasional single brown or damp spots, modern half vellum [John Carter Brown III, p.109; Sabin 11285, calling for additional title and preliminaries not present in this copy], small 4to (185 x 155mm.), Heidelberg, Wilhelm Walter, 1664Footnotes:First Heidelberg and third Latin edition of Las Casas' polemic against the atrocities carried out by the Spanish conquerors in the Americas and West Indies, graphically illustrated with Theodor de Bry's engravings depicting all manner of torture and massacre.Provenance: 'Ex Biblio Barcheous[?]...30', 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

LE CLERC (SÉBASTIEN) and ANDRÉ FÉLIBIENTapisseries du Roy, ou sont representez les quatre elements et les quatre saisons, second edition, 2 engraved section titles bound at front (one laid down), letterpress title with engraved coat-of-arms, extra engraved title-page bound after first section, 32 emblematic half-page engraved illustrations and 8 double-page engraved plates of tapestries by Le Clerc and others after Jacques Bailly and Charles Le Brun, engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials, light marginal soiling, contemporary calf, spine with 6 raised bands and gilt fleur-de-lys decorations, light wear and hinges starting [Brunet I 1443; Landwehr Romantic Emblem Books 286; Praz p.58], folio (425 x 285mm.), Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1679Footnotes:Intended as a testament to the lavish tapestries commissioned by Louis XIV on the themes of the Four Elements and the Four Seasons. The central panels were designed by the painter Le Brun, with emblematic roundels in the borders at each corner after the miniatures of Jacques Bailly. These roundels are visible on each of the plates but are also enlarged and embellished and printed as half-page illustrations, each with letterpress explanatory text above and below.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

PINDARΟλυμπια. Πυθια. Νεμεα. Ισθμια [Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia], with the 2 blank leaves called for, Greek type, 2 woodcut devices on first leaf (that of Kallierges repeated on final leaf), several lines and letters printed in red on 2 leaves (Olympia and Pythia), some early ink marginalia, pagination numeral added in upper fore-corner of opening 104 leaves, spotting and soiling to title and final leaf, modern quarter calf, spine lettered in gilt [cf.Adams O1219-O1221], 4to (215 x 150mm.), Rome, Zacharias Kallierges for Cornelio Benigno, [1515]Footnotes:THE FIRST GREEK BOOK PRINTED AT ROME, and the first edition of this work with the 'Scholia'. Adams describes three variants; the present copy has the reading 'της' ending the penultimate line of B4r, A1-2 are unsigned, and A3 has red printing.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

SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS (GAIUS)Opera [with the commentaries of Laurentius Valla and Joannes Chrysostomus Soldus, edited by Pomponius Laetus and Johannes Britannicus], 119 leaves (of 166, comprising leaf e8, f-t8, v6, without al before e7, and final 8 leaves), 55 lines commentary enclosing text, and headline, decorative initials, EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED THROUGHOUT IN SEVERAL NEAR-CONTEMPORARY HANDS, IN ENGLISH AND LATIN, some manicules, nineteenth century half calf over boards, covers detached, lacks spine [ISTC is00083000; BMC VIII 155; GW M39559; Goff S83], 4to (230 x 165mm.), [Paris, Andre Bocard, 13 January?, 1497]Footnotes:An incomplete Incunable but extensively annotated throughout in English and Latin, in several near contemporary hands. This edition of Sallustius includes the commentaries of Joannes Chrysostomus Soldus, first published in an edition printed at Rome in 1490.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

SCHELLHAMMER (MARIE SOPHIE)Das Brandenburgische Koch-Buch...Der wohl-unterwiesenen Köchinn zufälliger Confect-Tisch, 2 vol. in 1, title-pages in red and black, 2 engraved frontispieces and 18 plates (4 folding), some age-toning and occasional offsetting, nineteenth century half vellum, worn [Bitting, 420; Weiss 3378/3379], small 4to (207 x 107mm.), Berlin and Potsdam, Johann Andreas Rüdigen, 1732Footnotes:Sixth edition of this influential cookbook, with eight illustrations of formal place settings in the first volume. The second volume, first published in 1699, focuses mainly on confectionary and desserts, with illustrations of decorating utensils and designs.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

SERGENT-MARCEAU (ANTOINE FRANCOIS)Portraits des grandes hommes, femmes illustres, et sujets mémorables de France. Gravés et imprimés en couleurs, FIRST EDITION, engraved title and dedication, 192 portraits and engravings printed in colour, most after Sergent-Marceau and engraved by him, Moret, Roger, Ride, et al (one plate bound out of order), extra-illustrated with approximately 35 additional prints, many with manuscript captions, occasional spotting, olive-green morocco gilt by Riviere for Bumpus, g.e., sunned spine, in a custom slipcase, 4to (326 x 250mm.), Paris, Blin, [1786-1792]Footnotes:A REMARKABLE WORK OF COLOUR PRINTING, comprising 96 oval portraits of important French personages each with a corresponding scene illustrating the subject's life. Interestingly, the scene attached to Louis XVI commemorates the independence of the United States, depicting a Native American flanked by portraits of the Franklin, Washington and the French king. With quasi-royal French provenance, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, being the grandson of Louis Philippe I and the Orléanist claimant to the throne following the 1848 revolution.Provenance: Philippe d'Orléans (1838-1894), Comte de Paris, ink stamp on title; Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons, Bart. (1851-1925), 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

SPERONI DEGLI ALVAROTTI (SPERONE)Dialoghi, woodcut printer's device on title page and verso of last leaf, light foxing, nineteenth century vellum, spine with four raised bands, morocco label, some soiling to covers, title label chipped [Adams S-1569; Ahmanson-Murphy 399; EDIT 16 CNCE 26984; Renouard 149:13], 8vo (158 x 101mm.), Venice, sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1550Footnotes:Influential Renaissance humanist Speroni was forced to edit his dialogues, first published in 1542, under pressure from the Inquisition. The result was this edition, which the title page tells us was 'revisited and corrected with great diligence'.Provenance: Leonardo Vitetti (Italian diplomat, 1895-1973), 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

TORRE FARFAN (FERNANDO)Fiestas de la S. Iglesia Metropolitans, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, additional engraved title, engraved portraits of Ferdinand III and Charles II, and 9 engraved plates, with portfolio atlas of 9 folio plates in various sizes, worming to first and last few leaves, some damp-staining, browning, margins slightly trimmed [Hofer 86; Palau 335597; Praz, p 94; Vinet 815], contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, some shelf-wear and abrasions to covers, 4to (300 x 209mm.), plates in modern quarter morocco solander box, Seville, Nicolas Rodriguez, 1671-1672 (2)Footnotes:ONE OF THE FINEST SPANISH FESTIVAL BOOKS OF ITS CENTURY.Spanish festival book produced for the canonization of King Ferdinand III by Pope Clement III, documenting the festivities held in the Cathedral of Seville in 1671. See E. Garvey 'Francisco Herrera the younger: A drawing for a Spanish festival book' in Harvard Library Bulletin, 1978, p.28 (copy loosely inserted).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

VAN DER VENNE (ADRIAEN)Zeeusche Nachtegael ende des selfs dryderley gesang, FIRST EDITION, 4 parts in 1 vol., engraved vignette on first and fourth titles, 16 engraved illustrations in text, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, title re-margined, nineteenth century brown armorial morocco gilt, g.e., 4to (232 X 175mm.), Middelburgh, Ian Petersz van der Venne, 1623Footnotes:Anthology of works by poets of the Western Dutch province of Zeeland. Adriaen van de Venne was a painter, poet, and illustrator who also ran the family printing business with his brother, Ian Petersz van der Venne (Landwehr, Low Countries 588).Provenance: Victor Massena (1836-1910), 3rd Duke of Rivoli, 5th Prince d'Essling, binding.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

VERGILIUS MARO (PUBLIUS)Opera Virgiliana, cum decem commentis, 2 parts in 1 vol., general title printed in red and black within wide decorative woodcut border, fleur-de-lys device on second part title, numerous large woodcut illustrations, full red morocco gilt by R. Petit (stamped inside upper cover), g.e. [Mortimer, Harvard French 538], folio (322 x 215mm.), [Lyon, J. Crespin], 1529Footnotes:A handsome copy of the reprint of the 1517 Saçon edition, lavishly illustrated with woodcuts that first appeared in the Grüninger Strassburg edition of 1502.Provenance: '... Haingadensis: emp. in Spainzhard 1602', inscription in upper margin of title, with later inscription 'Ex Libris Ludwig Feder...' crossed through in lower margin; Helen and Michael Oppenheimer, 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

HERBARIUM - INCUNABULAHerbarius latinus (with German synonyms), 172 leaves (of 174, without final 2 leaves), 31-33 lines, gothic type, 3-line initial spaces with printed guide letters, 150 woodcut botanical illustrations WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING and plant names given in Latin and German, missing leaves loosely supplied in facsimile, title soiled, damp-staining throughout, a few single worm holes to first and final few leaves, small piece of blank lower margin to fol.77 torn away, first and final leaf with old paper strengthening at inner margin, small loss to fore-corner of final leaf, fol.81-88 misbound before fol.65, small early ink drawings of faces on fol.7 & 9, modern morocco-backed cloth [ISTC ih00064000; BMC II 616; Goff H64; GW 12270; HC(Add) 8445*; Nissen 2300], small 4to (210 x 150mm.), Passau, [Johann Petri, 14]85Footnotes:INCUNABLE HERBAL WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING. The first dated edition from the press of Johann Petri, and the first of three Petri editions of his influential Herbarius, illustrated with reverse copies of the woodcuts of Schoeffer's first edition.Provenance: '... habuit f Adamus Tobim(?) dono gratuito... de vergeon sacrista... Ambroniaii 1618'; 'Voyez Brunet la lettre H page 159 du supplement 1848', ink inscriptions on title-page; faint institutional stamp erased from title and blank area of second leaf.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