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Cecil Aldin. Mac, first edition, half-title, pictorial title and 24 coloured plates, original pictorial boards, 4to, London: Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 1912; Just Among Friends, first edition, 27 plates, original cloth, 4to, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1934 (2).(i) extremities lightly chipped with some loss of surface, light browning (ii) spine faded, lacking dust-jacket.

William Ellis. History of Madagascar, 2 volumes, first edition, 10 full-page lithographed plates, including coloured frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, London: Fisher, Son and Co., 1838; Madagascar Revisited, first edition, plates, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original publisher's cloth, 8vo, London: John Murray, 1867 (3).(i) cloth with loss, but neatly repaired (ii) cloth with surface affected by damp, recased.

Matchbox Superfast Limited Edition Code 3 Issue Datsun 510 Rally Car "Malaya Mini 9th Anniversary Exclusive Dinner Car" - Mint in Near Mint Rigid Perspex Case with outer card sleeve & Excellent Plus plain brown card transit box. Model comes with the following extras as issued: "Malaya Hobby Shop" Tinplate Badge; Anniversary Dinner Unused Window Sticker; Specification Card; Velcro "Malaya Hobby Shop" Patch and 2 x Anniversary Dinner Bags. First time we have offered this model for sale, which is Number 78 of only 180 produced.

Millis: The Complete Sportsman, 1999. First edition hardcover depicting photographs of assorted fishing flies on the dust jacket. 548-pages, a massive of stunning color photos of various flies from five famous American fly dressers: Ray Bergman, Charles De Feo, Preston Jennings, Mary Orvis Marbury, and Carrie Stevens. ISBN: 1-886961-03-4. Artist: Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. SilsDimensions: 14.5"H x 11.5"WEdition Number: First edition Manufacturer: The Complete SportsmanCountry of Origin: United States

George Cruikshank (British, 1792-1878)The Fairy Ring signed, dated and indistinctly inscribed 'GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.1855.--' (on leaf centre right)oil on canvas 74.5 x 96.7cm (29 5/16 x 38 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith International Galleries, The Strand. Private collection, UK. Purchased from the above by the uncle of the current owner in June 1945, and thence by descent.ExhibitedLondon, British Institution, 1856, no. 458.George Cruikshank was born in London as son of Isaac Cruikshank one of the leading caricaturists of the late 1790s. George first worked under his father's tutelage as his apprentice and assistant and his early career would be defined by socio-political caricatures. On the death of James Gilray in 1815, Cruikshank became England's most popular satirist and for the next decade he irreverently caricatured the political policies of the Tories and the Whigs and found ample inspiration in the royal family. Indeed, it is reported that in June 1820, King George IV, having lost patience with the artist, paid him £100 'not to caricature His Majesty in any immoral situation.'In the early 1820s Cruikshank began to work on illustrations and it is estimated that he worked on more than 850 books. He is famed for working closely with his friend Charles Dickens, however in the context of the current lot, his most significant commission was for the first English translation (by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine) of Grimms' Fairy Tales, published in 1823 as German Popular Stories. In illustrating these stories Cruikshank would have been exposed to a fantastical world from which it is easy to imagine the subject of a fairy ring being born. It is also interesting to note that in 1846 John Murray published a group of stories titled The Fairy Ring, by the Grimm Bothers, translated by John Edward Taylor and illustrated by Richard Doyle. The work was republished in 1857, just a year after Cruikshank's The Fairy Ring was exhibited at the British Institution. A preparatory watercolour and two preparatory sketches for the exhibit can be found in the collection of the British Museum and it is easy to imagine these being inspired by the 1846 edition or perhaps to be potential illustrations for the 1857 reprint. The Fairy Ring fits into the uniquely British tradition of fairy painting which began in the late eighteenth century with artists such as William Blake and Henry Fuseli and was continued into Cruikshank's era by the likes of John Anster Fitzgerald, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton. Cruikshank presents his countless fairies hand in hand, dancing in rings around a crowned fairy seated on a central toadstool. More fairies are arriving on the backs of giant bats which are silhouetted against a partially veiled crescent moon which gently lights the scene. The sense of the occult is palpable and unsurprisingly there is a wealth of folklore relating to fairy rings, their origins, significance and portents. The naturally occurring circles, known as fairy rings, seen in grass and woodland areas and caused by the presence of fungi are in English and Celtic traditions attributed the dancing of elves or fairies. Other superstition suggests more sinister origins for the circles, including witches, the imprint of the devil's milk churn and the tails of fiery dragons. Intruding upon a fairy ring is also seen by many as dangerous and is associated with bad luck. The mystery and intrigue of fairy rings is reflected in their countless appearances in literature, sparking the imagination of, amongst others, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Butler Yeats.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)Time Flies: A Reading Diary, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Lisa Mary Wilson with Christina G. Rossetti's love', and dated 'May 27 1885' by Lisa on front free endpaper, ANNOTATED WITH 16 FINE BOTANICAL WATERCOLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS and ink and pencil annotations by Lisa Wilson, 2 four-leaf clovers mounted with paper tabs beside the entry for April 2, other actual pressed flowers or fauna loosely inserted, together with additional loose leaf with autograph inscription 'Lisa M. Wilson with Christina G. Rossetti's grateful love. St Valentine's Day 1888', publisher's decorative gilt cloth, hand-stitched jacket in white and gold-coloured thread over cream silk, presumably made by Lisa Wilson, the upper cover with design incorporating the initials 'C.G.R.[Christina Georgina Rossetti]' and 'I.H.S.', 8vo, S.P.C.K., 1885; Annus Domini: A Prayer for Each Day of the Year, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dear Lisa M. Wilson with Christina G. Rossetti's love, New Year 1889' on the front free endpaper, 3 small silver gelatin print photographs captioned 'Convent of Annunciata' on verso, publisher's cloth, spine detached, split and with loss, 12mo, Oxford and London, James Parker & Co., 1874; The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'With much love to my Lisa* Christina G. Rossetti's dear friend May 4 1892' on the front free endpaper, 8pp. advertisements at end, pressed flower with ribbon pasted to a sheet of paper loosely inserted, publisher's cloth, 8vo, S.P.C.K., 1892; Verses, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Dear Lisa Wilson from Christina G. Rossetti, September 25 1893' on the front free endpaper, publisher's blue buckram, t.e.g., 8vo, S.P.C.K., 1893 (4)Footnotes:POIGNANT ASSOCIATION COPIES INSCRIBED BY ROSSETTI TO LISA WILSON, Christina's 'Fior-de-Lisa', an aspiring poet who was Rossetti's 'most important admirer... close friend and companion' (Jan Marsh, Christina Rossetti. A Literary Biography, 1994, p.538). Having been deeply moved on reading Rossetti's poetry Wilson struck up a correspondence with her in the early 1880s before, on 27 May 1885, paying a visit to the poet at Torrington Square to collect an inscribed copy of Time Flies from the author. 'From that point on, Wilson came to call quite often. Concerning the last years of his sister's life, the years following her mother's death in 1886, William Michael Rossetti writes, 'In these painful years one of the friends whom Christina saw with most satisfaction was Miss Lisa Wilson; a lady accomplished in verse and sketching who had been drawn to my sister by her poetry, and viewed her with deep affection and reverential regard' (Diane D'Amico, 'Lisa Wilson: 'A Friend of Christina Rossetti'', The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Vol. 10, Fall 2001, p.112). In 1896 Wilson published her own volume of lyric poetry, titled Verses, which she dedicated to 'To the sweet and gracious memory of Christina G. Rosetti, who honoured me with the name of friend', and in which the poem 'First Meeting' recalls lovingly the May day on which they first met. Our copy of Time Flies, the very book that brought them together, is handsomely decorated with botanical watercolours by Wilson (see lot 120). Besides many of the poems Wilson has put dates, presumably of meaning to her, including for instance 'C.G.R. 1885' beside the poem for 27 May commemorating the first meeting, and '1894' with 17-lines of poetry ('In the octave of my Christmas my love fell asleep...') beside the poem for 29 December, the date of Christina's death. Other annotations include a pencil correction to a poem (May 1) on the Feast of St. Philip, noting 'Philip the Evangelist - not the Apostle dear Christina!', and beside the entry for 4 April two four-leaf clover 'pressed specimens gathered in Cornwall, which Christina inserted into the volume' (Marsh, ibid, p.538).Provenance: Mary Louisa 'Lisa' Wilson (1850-1934, poet, artist and friend of Christina Rossetti); her god-daughter Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran (1903-1979); thence by descent.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 - M.I.9 'AIDS TO ESCAPE'Per Ardua Libertas, FIRST EDITION, titled on upper cover, printed in red, black and blue, numerous photographic illustrations, 3 tipped-in 'letters', 3 tipped-in silk maps, one tipped-in tissue map, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 7 ADDITIONAL MAPS (3 tissue, 4 silk, one marked 'Secret' in red) and original 'Prisoner's Leisure Hours Fund... Post for Prisoners of War Postkarte' (15 August 1941) loosely inserted, lacks opening 2 leaves of text (one marked 'Most Secret', one ?blank), publisher's red morocco gilt with title lettered on upper cover, folio (398 x 303mm.), [1942]Footnotes:'AIDS TO ESCAPE' - RARE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED RECORD OF SECRET WARTIME GADGETS AND MAPS PRODUCED BY M.I.9 DURING WORLD WAR II, WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE. It reproduces details of 'Aids to Escape - Pre-Capture and Post-Capture' issued to personnel of the three services between February 1940 and February 1942. These include maps printed on silk and tissue, luminous buttons, fountain pen compasses and pipes, 'Special R.A.F. Boot' (with hidden knife), chess, and games sets with hidden escape aids, combs and tooth brushes with hidden maps, replica foreign military costumes, etc. This copy belonged to Clayton Hutton, the technical director of M.I.9, who 'after a brief interview... was appointed to help Norman Crockatt set up a new semi-secret service, MI9, whose tasks included training fighting men in how to evade capture or escape if they found themselves in enemy-held territory' (ODNB).This copy includes 7 extra 'escape maps' and an original code message in the form of a prisoner-of-war letter.Provenance: Christopher William Clayton Hutton (1893–1965), bookplate ('Clayton Hutton') on blank page 1. A real-life 'Q', he was responsible for the invention, or inception of most of the gadgets depicted in this work, managing 'to get all this done in the teeth of every sort of shortage of materials, and of much bureaucratic obstruction' (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 Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, third printing, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication leaf, with number sequence of 10 through to 3 on the verso of the title, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:A FINE SIGNED COPY OF THE THIRD PRINTING OF THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, the first to be issued with a dust-jacket.Provenance: Signed for the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a large Edinburgh book shop. See lot 122 for more details.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

LONDON - EVELYN, THE GREAT FIRE AND POLLUTIONComposite volume, containing the following plans and works:[KITCHIN (THOMAS)] A New and Correct plan of the Cities of London, Westminster, and Borough of Southwark... to the Present Year 1781..., engraved folding map in 12 sections, extending from Islington to Newington Butts, and from Stepney to Hyde Park, with tables of buildings, parishes and churches in corners, heading slightly cropped, one or two tears at folds [Howgego 163 (4)], 448 x 725mm., R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1781HOLLAR (WENCESLAS) A True and Exact Prospect of the Famous Citty of London; Another Prospect of the Sayd Citty Taken... After the Sad Calamitie and Destruction by Fire, engraved folding panorama showing London before and after the fire, single tear affecting image but without loss, 230 x 723mm. 1666 [but John Overton, 1669-1707, state iii][EVELYN (JOHN) and CHRISTOPHER WREN] First Plate. Londinum redivivum. Presented by me to His Majesty, a Week after the Conflagration... J.E.; Another Projection; Second Plate. A Plan of London... described by J. Evelyn; A Plan of the City of London, after the great Fire... according to the design and proposal of Sir Christopher Wren, together 2 folding engraved plans on 4 sheets, Society of Antiquaries, 1748FITZ-STEPHEN (WILLIAM) Description of the City of London, newly translated from the Latin [by Samuel Pegge], translator's name and biographical note added in ink on title-page, B. White, 1772E[VELYN] (J[OHN]] Fumifugium: or the Inconvenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated, editor's name ('Thomas White Esq. F.R.S.') supplied in ink on title, Re-printed for B. White, 1772together 7 items bound in 1 vol., including (at front) the section on London extracted from Lysons' 'Magna Britannia', occasional light soiling, several library stamps to Lysons extract, on reverse of one of the Evelyn plans and in the upper margin of the 'To the Reader' leaf in the last work, contemporary calf, rebacked, 4to, [eighteenth-century]Footnotes:A curious sammelband of works and plans relating to London, several by John Evelyn including the second edition of his work on pollution in the city and the Overton printing of Hollar's panorama.Provenance: Benjamin White, Lambeth (publisher and brother of Gilbert White), circular book label dated 1777; John White, Selborne, bookplate; George Soaper (of Guildford, who purchased Gilbert White's diaries and papers from the family in 1843), bookplate on fly-leaf; Free Public Library, Southampton, ink stamps.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, third printing, WITH ROWLING'S SIGNATURE on a loosely inserted Bloomsbury label, with number line 10 down to 3 on verso of title, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket, 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:An exceptionally fine copy of the third printing of The Philosopher's Stone, the first to be issued in a dust-jacket, with a Bloomsbury adhesive label signed by Rowling loosely inserted.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CARTWRIGHT (JOSEPH)Selections of the Costume of Albania and Greece, with Explanatory Quotations from the Poems of Lord Byron and Gally Knight. Including a Highly Finished Portrait of Ali Pacha, FIRST EDITION, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. Havell after Cartwright (dated February-June 1822, one watermarked 'J. Whatman 1821'), light off-setting onto blank versos, contemporary half morocco over boards, gilt morocco lettering label ('Greek Costumes') on upper cover, worn with some loss to spine and corners, label scuffed [Colas 544; Tooley 131; cf. Abbey, Travel 134, note; not in Atabey, Blackmer or Lipperheide], folio (460 x 310mm.), R. Havell, [1822]Footnotes:VERY RARE COMPLETE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING - only one other complete copy traced at auction in the past fifty years.Known primarily for his marine paintings Joseph Cartwright was Paymaster-General of the British forces in Corfu during 1816-1820, publishing his Views in the Ionian Islands in 1821 and this work on his return to Britain in 1822. Published during the campaign for Greek Independence, eight of the plates are accompanied by quotations from works by Byron, including Childe Harold, The Giaour, and Don Juan.Provenance: Charles Richard Fox, ink inscription 'Charles R. Fox 1822', with price '2£-10' on upper cover. Fox (1796–1873) was an army officer, member of the Society of Dilettanti and numismatist whose important collection of 11,500 Greek coins was purchased after his death by the Royal Museum in Berlin. His early interest in coin collecting was strengthened by his travels in Greece and Turkey in 1820 while aide-de-camp to Sir Frederick Adam at Corfu, at which time he would possibly have become acquainted with Joseph Cartwright.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)Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], 16-page publisher's catalogue at end (September 1893), publisher's decorative cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light soiling (spine slightly darker) [Mason 357], small 4to, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893Footnotes:Provenance: Charles Stevens, pencil ownership inscription dated November 1893 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

WILDE (OSCAR)A House of Pomegranates, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES], pictorial title, endpapers and other illustrations by Charles Ricketts, 4 plates by Charles Shannon, pictorial endpapers, light spotting, modern cloth [Mason 347], James R. Osgood, 1891; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE, [500 copies], publisher's decorative cloth [Mason 346], New York, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1891; Epigrams & Aphorisms, NUMBER 31 OF 50 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPAN PAPER, publisher's boards, t.e.g., soiled and rubbed, small loss to foot of spine [Mason 641, ordinary copy only], Boston, John W. Luce, 1905; Poems... Together with his Lecture on the English Renaissance (Now first Published), NUMBER 104 OF 250 COPIES, modern cloth, Paris, [no publisher], 1903; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., NUMBER 60 OF 200 COPIES, small rust stains on half-title and final leaf, publisher's blue printed wrappers [Mason 611], Privately Printed, [c.1904]--For the Love of the King, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, on hand-made paper, publisher's white buckram gilt, t.e.g., spine soiled, Methuen, [1922]; Letters after Reading. I. Bernaval, NUMBER 4 OF 23 COPIES, signed by the publisher, 1921; Letters after Reading II. Naples and Paris, NUMBER 1 OF 23 COPIES, signed by the publisher, 1921, VYVYAN HOLLAND'S COPIES signed by him on front free endpapers, contemporary morocco-backed buckram gilt lettered on spine, publisher's wrappers bound in, New York, Paul R. Reynolds--HYDE (H. MONTGOMERY, editor) The Trials of Oscar Wilde, second printing, 16 plates, publisher's cloth, soiled, William Hodge, [1948], 8vo; and the chromolithograph of Oscar Wilde ('Oscar') from Vanity Fair, 1884 (10)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WILDE (OSCAR)The Importance of Being Earnest. A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, this copy unnumbered, half-title, uncut in publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, slightly worn, spine faded with some marks, upper cover faded at upper margin and single ink spot, slight rubbing [Mason 381], small 4to, Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899This 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)[Works], 14 vol., FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, ONE 0F 80 COPIES ON JAPANESE VELLUM, from an overall edition of 1080, publisher's limp vellum gilt, design by Charles Ricketts on upper covers, flat spines lettered in gilt, yapp edges, t.e.g., small ink spot on spine of 'Importance' [Mason pp.459-490], 4to, Methuen [except for Dorian Gray which is imprinted Paris, Charles Carrington], 1908Footnotes:ONE OF 80 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM. 'The text is taken in most instances from the last editions issued under the superintendence of the author. In some cases the volumes contain additional matter which had not previously been reprinted, while some of the volumes contain matter here published for the first time' (Mason).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 number 20, foreword by Lieut.-General Sir Miles C. Dempsey, 18 photographic plates (some folding), numerous colour maps (many folding, including 18 with tabs loose as issued in the separate case), illustrations and diagrams, publisher's red morocco, upper covers titled in gilt with blue and white emblem of the Second Army (slight abrasions to 2 emblems, map box one corner split but firm), folio (332 x 215mm.), Compiled by Headquarters Second Army, [August 1945]; sold with 2 photographs of Major Dempsey, and 2 Panora monocular viewing glasses by Wray of London (7)Footnotes: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); 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. 2024 is of course the eightieth anniversary year of the D-Day landings, the liberation of France and the Allies' major land based actions against the Nazis in Holland, Belgium and Germany.Provenance: Major John Whitworth, the ADC to General Dempsey through the campaign; by descent. Accompanying the lot are 2 photographs of Dempsey, including one in which he stands in uniform acting as best man at the wedding of Whitworth. The other (a press photo) shows Dempsey with Churchill, Montgomery and other senior officers.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, ONE OF 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, approximately 30 small 'ticks' in margin in pencil or purple pencil, a few single spots to opening leaves, untrimmed in publisher's white linen-backed cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, light soiling and spotting [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898This 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 (WYNDHAM)Timon of Athens, FIRST EDITION, 16 plates (of which 10 monochrome and 6 in colour), a few light spots or marks, loose as issued in publisher's pictorial printed portfolio wrappers, original ties (one broken, light toning and a few spots to upper cover) [Morrow & Lafourcade A1], folio, Cube Press, [1913]Footnotes:Rare complete set of Wyndham Lewis's Vorticist designs. Originally commissioned by Max Goschen to illustrate an edition of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, the designs were rejected, whereupon Lewis had them published under the imprint of 'The Cube Press'. The original drawings were shown at the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition held at the Grafton Galleries in 1912.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

RICARDO (DAVID)On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation, FIRST EDITION, without publisher's advertisements at end as usual, some spotting to first and last few leaves, occasional faint browning but overall a clean, crisp and unpressed copy, slightly later half calf over marbled boards, gilt panelled spine with red morocco label, very slight rubbing at extremities [Goldsmiths 21734; Kress B7029; PMM 277], 8vo (209 x 128mm.), John Murray, 1817Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF DAVID RICARDO'S LANDMARK CONTRIBUTION TO THE SCIENCE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.Initially inspired by the works of Adam Smith, and encouraged in person by James Mill and other Scottish economists, Ricardo dedicated some six months to the composition of Principles, a systematic account of his theories on production, trade, labour, currency and banking, the last two of which have 'proved of lasting value' (PMM).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

SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM)The Works... Collated and Corrected by the Former Editions, by Mr. [Alexander] Pope, 7 vol., FIRST POPE EDITION, engraved portrait of Shakespeare by G. Vertue, title to volume 1 printed in red and black, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, full dark red levant moroco by Charles McLeish (stamped 'C. McL.' inside lower covers), lettered and decorated in gilt within 7 compartments within raised bands, g.e., 4to, Jacob Tonson [-A. Bettesworth, etc.], 1725Footnotes:The first Pope edition, which was also the first quarto edition of Shakespeare's works. Published by Jacob Tonson in six volumes, this set includes the scarce seventh volume of poems published under a different imprint.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, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed in a secretarial hand 'Dr. Weddell/ Bagnères-de-Bigorre/ from the author' on the front free endpaper, 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), light marks and spots on preliminary leaves, occasional light single spots to text, publisher's green cloth, spine gilt (Freeman variant b, no priority), light brown endpapers, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, lower cover with a few minor marks and light small dampstain in upper gutter corner (showing as small v-shaped shadow to lower endpapers) [Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton 220; Norman 593; PMM 344], 8vo, John Murray, 1859Footnotes:FINE COPY OF AN AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF 'THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE WORK IN SCIENCE' (Dibner), and 'a turning point... in the history of ideas in general' (DSB).Dr H.A. Weddell's name appeared on the manuscript list of persons to receive copies of the first edition of Origin of Species drawn up by Darwin sometime between August and October 1859. Weddell was a distinguished British-born botanist and physician who spent his entire career in France or in the service of France in South America. As early as 1856 Darwin had consulted Weddell's monograph on the Urticaceae 'when he was calculating the number of species and varieties in large and small genera' (Darwin Correspondence, Vol. 8, p.569). DCP cites a letter sent by Weddell to Darwin on 13 May 1863, in which he discusses searching for Ophrys (bee orchids) locally, fertilisation, and other botanical matters suggested by a reading of Darwin's On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, a copy of which he was sent in 1862.Weddell's death in 1877 opened up a place in the botanical section of the Académie des Sciences. Darwin had twice applied unsuccessfully to be a corresponding member; on 5 August 1878, at last, the secretaries wrote to him inviting him to take up the position left by Weddell (DCP).Provenance: Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819-1877), presentation inscription from the author; Louis Devergne, neat ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Presumably this the Louis Devergne (1891-1941), who was archpriest at Loudon, some 40 miles from Poitiers where Weddell had died; private French 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

TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)[The Lord of the Rings] The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King, together 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, 'The Return of the King' with signature mark '4' and sagging text on p.49, folding map printed in red and black at end of each volume, publisher's red cloth (worn, 'Fellowship' with upper cover damp-stained, upper joint split; 'The Two Towers' with lower spine frayed; 'Return' with mild damp-stains to spine and lower parts of cover, spine ends frayed), dust-jackets (all with some soiling, spine of 'Fellowship' with loss to lower third and upper section including author's initials, joints splitting; 'Two Towers' with short tear at lower joint, frayed at spine ends and corners; 'Return' with split at lower joint and front flap, rear flap near loose, spine soiled and frayed affecting a few letters), 8vo, George Allen and Unwin, [1954-1955]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

BORGES (JORGE LUIS)El Aleph, FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S SIGNED AND ANNOTATED COPY, with the author's signature on the title-page, his ink emendations on 22 pages, the otherwise blank 'Indice' page at the end filled with a list of quotes from the book (this also signed), and underscoring throughout, varying degrees of browning to text, untrimmed in publisher's illustrated olive wrappers over limp boards, extremities rubbed, some staining mainly to spine and lower wrapper [Becco 37; Loewenstein 355; Vallely 112], 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada, 1949Footnotes:BORGES'S ANNOTATED COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ALEPH, his 'second great gathering of Ficciones, a worthy successor to the first, and the confirmation of Borges' international stature... Borges himself conceded that, along with Ficciones [1944], this was his major book' (Charles Vallely, Jorge Luis Borges. A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts, Lame Duck Books, 2003). The collection comprises thirteen short stories and an epilogue, including the famous title story, which was first published in the magazine Sur in September 1945, and Deutsches Requiem, a manuscript of which is included in the present sale.In the present copy Borges has underscored words, phrases and sentences on over 50 pages, with authorial deletions and corrections on 22 of them, ranging from a single word to a longer phrase. On the page with the printed heading 'Indice' at the end, he adds a list of 10 phrases taken from the book, with their page references. The corrections and this list appear not to have found their way into modern editions (although it has not been possible to consult the 1952 augmented second edition), but Borges was famous for endlessly revisiting, revising and annotating his manuscripts and books: 'There is no such thing as a first reading; for Borges, a first writing... His texts are always rewritten, never (I think) given once and for all... He insistently declares that texts are not finished, because they need to be completed by generations of readers. I take it that he also thinks that no writer ever really finishes anything' (Daniel Balderston, How Borges Wrote, University of Virginia Press, 2018).Provenance: Private 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

MILNE (A.A.)The House at Pooh Corner, light off-setting from jacket flap to free endpapers, dust-jacket (loss to head of spine), [1928]; Now We Are Six, neat ownership inscription ('1927') on front free endpaper, spine ends faded, [1927], FIRST EDITIONS, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, the first mentioned in a dust-jacket, 8vo, Methuen; and 2 further first edition copies of The House at Pooh Corner (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

BORGES (JORGE LUIS)El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO VICTORIA OCAMPO, inscribed on half-title 'Para Victoria Ocampo, amiga e colaboradora de esta iniciativa feliz, con todo mi agradecimiento y admiración. Jorge Luis Borges. San Isidro, 1942', a little light browning, one short nick to fore-edge of title, untrimmed and partially unopened in publisher's light blue wrappers printed in white, a little light soiling and creasing towards edges, spine slightly faded but otherwise very good [Becco 29; Loewenstein 355; Vallely], 8vo, Buenos Aires, Editorial Sur, 1942 [colophon: 30 December 1941]Footnotes:'ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF MODERN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE': INSCRIBED BY BORGES TO HIS 'COLLABORATOR' VICTORIA OCAMPO, THE DEDICATEE OF THE TITLE STORY AND ONE OF THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN FEMINISTS.'This is Borges's crucial book, arguably the most important work of modern Latin American literature.... it is easy to forget how original, indeed revolutionary, were Borges's procedures, especially in Latin America, which international modernism had yet to penetrate... The light blue wrappers... seem an unmistakable reference to James Joyce's Shakespeare & Co.. Ulysses... of which Borges proclaimed himself the first hispanic explorer in his callow youth' (Charles Vallely, Jorge Luis Borges. A Catalogue of Unique Books and Manuscripts, Lame Duck Books, 2003).El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ('The Garden of Forking Paths') was Borges's first collection of short stories, most of which had previously been published by Victoria Ocampo in Sur. Although it was critically lauded, the book failed to win the literary prizes many expected, leading Ocampo to dedicate a large part of the July 1941 issue of Sur to a 'Reparation for Borges'. The eight stories in El jardín, augmented by nine new ones, were then published as 1944's Ficciones, the work that would herald the author's international breakthrough. One of new stories was 'Funes el memorioso', a manuscript of which is included in the present sale.A key figure in Borges's life as far back as 1925, Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) was an Argentinian writer, publisher, feminist and influential intellectual. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, and is perhaps best known for having founded the most important Latin American literary magazine of the time, Sur, in the 1930s. During the same decade she also developed a close friendship with Virginia Woolf following her involvement in Borges's translations of A Room of One's Own and Orlando, but this ended after Ocampo attempted to persuade the camera-shy author to have her photograph taken. She also radically shifted her political views as the decade progressed. Having shown some initial admiration for Mussolini in Italy, she gave her support to the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, edited an anti-Nazi magazine during World War II, was the only Argentinian to attend the Nuremberg Trials, and spent time in prison for expressing her anti-Peronist views in 1953.In her later life Ocampo became the first woman to be admitted to the Argentine Academy of Letters, and her many famous friends and guests included Stravinsky, Malraux, Tagore and Graham Greene, who dedicated The Honorary Consul to her. 'Elegant and aristocratic, Ocampo was one of the first Latin American feminists, and fought to uphold the rights of women authors; her 'Letter to Virginia' documents her beliefs' (E. Fishburn & P. Hughes, A Dictionary of Borges, Duckworth, 1990).Provenance: Victoria Ocampo, inscribed to her by Borges on half-title; private 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

ORWELL (GEORGE)Animal Farm. A Fairy Story, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with 'May, 1945' on copyright page), publisher's green cloth, lettered in white on spine (spine ends faded), dust-jacket printed in grey and green with white text, with 'Searchlight Books—each 2s net' and train engine printed in red on inside of jacket (spine worn along joints and with loss at ends including 'A' of 'Animal', upper edge of upper cover frayed with short tear) [Fenwick A10a; Connolly 93], 8vo, Secker & Warburg, 1945This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ALBINUS (BERNARD SIEGFRIED)Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body... Translated from the Body [-A Compleat System of the Blood-Vessels and Nerves], 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition in English, large engraved vignette by G. Scotin after N. Blakey on title, 51 engraved plates after Jan Wandelaar and others, lacks title to second part, light dampstaining to title with short marginal tear, a few other light stains, light spotting and off-setting, nineteenth-century cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, worn [Russell 6; cf. Garrison-Morton 399, first edition], folio 645 x 510mm.), Printed by H. Woodfall, for John and Paul Knapton, 1749[-1750]Footnotes:First edition in English of one of 'the most artistically perfect of anatomical atlases.. Wandelaar placed his skeletons and musclemen against lush ornamental backgrounds to give them the illusion of vitality, using contrasts of mass and light to produce a three-dimensional effect. The most famous plate in the atlas depicts a skeletal figure standing in front of an enormous grazing rhinoceros, sketched by Wandelaar from the specimen which had arrived at Amsterdam zoo in 1741' (Norman).Provenance: Bedford General Infirmary Medical Library, 2 stamps on title-page.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER)The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, limited to 1060 copies, photogravure frontispiece portrait in volumes 1, 5 and 7 with tissue guards as issued, titles printed in red and black, publisher's vellum-backed boards, gilt lettered on spine, t.e.g. [cf. Wade 75-82], 8vo, The Shakespeare Head Press, for Chapman & Hall, 1908This 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

HOBHOUSE (J.C.)A Journey through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia to Constantinople, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece and 2 folding double-page maps (one with small tear), 17 hand-coloured aquatints (7 double-page), one plan, 2 plates of facsimile handwriting, 2 plates of sheet music, occasional offsetting and light spotting, calf gilt with ornate roll tooled borders, rebacked, some wear, corners bumped [Atabey 584; Blackmer 821], 4to, James Cawthorn, 1813Footnotes:Provenance: William Rendell Beer, manuscript inscription.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with title-page dated 1843 and printed in red and blue, the text uncorrected, 'Stave I' on p.[1] and light green endpapers, half-title, hand-coloured etched frontispiece and 3 plates after John Leech, 4 wood-engravings by W.J. Linton after Leech in the text, 2pp. advertisements at the end, tissue guards, uneven fading to endpapers, publisher's cinnamon vertically-ribbed cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, g.e., sunned, corners slightly rubbed [Eckel pp.110-115; Smith II:4; William B. Todd, in The Book Collector, Winter 1961, pp.449-454], 12mo (164 x 100mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1843Footnotes:FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS'S FIRST AND MOST ENDURING CHRISTMAS BOOK. A Christmas Carol was published on 19 December 1843, priced at 5s. Dickens initially requested green endpapers but discarded them due to the colour rubbing off. Demand for the book probably grew at such a pace that the stock of yellow endpapers was soon exhausted, necessitating the use of the discarded green endpapers. So although the green endpapers were produced first, the first copies issued had yellow endpapers.William B. Todd concluded that priority was impossible to determine due to the use of different stocks of text and plates, but that priority could be determined by the state of the binding. This is his first impression, first issue, first state, with a gap of 14-15mm. between the closest points of the blind-stamping and gold wreath on the upper cover, and the 'D' of 'Dickens' unbroken.Provenance: Unidentified monogram bookplate inside upper cover; S. Bothemley, ink ownership inscription in upper corner of half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

WILDE (OSCAR)The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3., FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 800 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, untrimmed in publisher's white linen-backed cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, soiling [Mason 371], 8vo, Leonard Smithers, 1898Footnotes:Provenance: E. Hubert Litchfield; The Brother Julian F.S.C. Collection, New York City, 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

DARWIN (CHARLESOn the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection... Third Edition, with Additions and Corrections. (Seventh Thousand), half-title, one folding plate, advertisement leaf at end, pp.121-23 and plate loose, pp.73-120 working loose, ink numeral '5' on front free endaper, paper 'pocket' pasted on front pastedown, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth gilt, with Edmonds & Remnants binders' ticket inside lower cover, rubbed, spine ends turned with short tear at upper edge [Freeman 381], 8vo, John Murray, 1861Footnotes:This third edition ('seventh thousand') edition is the first to include Darwin's 'Historical sketch of the recent progress of opinion of the Origin of Species,' in which he describes his predecessors, those 'few naturalists... [who] believe that species undergo modification, and that existing forms of life have descended by true generation from pre-existing forms'.Provenance: ?T.E. Miln, pencil inscription on half-title.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MILNE (A.A.)Winnie-The-Pooh, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 21 OF 350 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR, printed on hand-made paper, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, large folding map of 100 Acre Wood, 2-page autograph letter signed and dated (12 December 1952) by Shepard loosely inserted, uncut in publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed label on upper cover, publisher's wrappers, toned, preserved in purpose-made blue morocco solander case, gilt spine in 6 compartments (3 lettered, others with Pooh device), small 4to, Methuen, [1926]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)A Woman of No Importance, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER, toning to endpapers, publisher's buckram gilt designed by Charles Shannon, soiled and darkened [Mason 365], 4to, John Lane, 1894Footnotes:Provenance: Thomas Jefferson McKee, bookplate; J.O. Edwards, book label; Estelle Doheny Collection, gilt morocco bookplate; Sotheby's, 19 December 2000, lot 129.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, VERY EARLY ISSUE, 43 etched plates (including frontispiece and additional title) by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and 'Phiz', with half-title and Directions to the Binder leaf, plates with the usual foxing, mostly in margins but heavy and affecting image in some cases, modern red calf gilt, spine with decorative tooling and lettering in gilt, 8vo (212 x 127mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1837Footnotes:AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF 'PICKWICK' IN BOOK FORM: WITH ALL THE EARLY ISSUE TEXT POINTS, ALL THE KEY PLATES IN THE FIRST STATE, AND ONE OF 'THE RAREST OF ALL PICKWICK PLATES'.Text:Rather remarkably, this copy has every first issue point noted by Hatton & Cleaver, with the exception of the impossibly rare early page variant ('only twice has it come under writer's notice', Hatton & Cleaver, p.56), being page 261 with the signature mark N2 rather than the correct X2 as in our copy. Plates:The present copy has the vast majority of the plates in the first state recorded by either Johannsen, Miller & Strange or Hatton & Cleaver (or all three), including the Seymour plates, and also has the two Buss plates. A few of the plates are Hatton & Cleaver's 'second plate', but according to Johannsen at least two of these are not genuine second plates but simply have the page number burnished out.Copies with the first plate ('Mr. Pickwick addressing the Club') in the first state are particularly scarce, John F. Dexter suggesting that of the first issue of 400 copies of part 1, 'I very much doubt whether more than 50 impressions in first state were obtained from the first set of steels' (Johannsen, p.2). Also present here is the extremely scarce Plate 14, one of two incorrectly paginated (as 169): 'In point of rarity, however, none exceed the two plates as originally etched for Part 6. To quote again the words of J.F. Dexter, 'they are the greatest rarity known to me in this book'' (Hatton & Cleaver, p.22). Plate 15 has the correct page number (154).List of plates with Johannsen and Hatton & Cleaver references:1. Mr Pickwick Addresses the Club: Plate A, First state, signature faint but visible.2. The Pugnacious Cabman: Plate A, First state, signature legible. 3. The Sagacious Dog: Plate A, the gun with hammer and trigger and no break in the barrel. Johannsen, Miller & Strange and J. Christian Bay all disagree with Hatton & Cleaver's assertion that the first state has the break in the gun.4. Dr. Slammer's Defiance of Jingle: Plate A, First state.5-7: All Plate A, First state.8-9: The two Buss plates.10. The Breakdown: Plate A, First state (the 'NE' in 'NEMO' just visible under magnification).11. The First Appearance of Mr. Samuel Weller: Plate A1 (cane showing a break), First state, with 'NEMO' signature.12. Mrs. Bardell Faints in Mr Pickwick's Arms: Plate A2 (faces slightly retouched), First state.13. The Election at Eatonswill: Plate A1 (staff faintly etched), First state.14. Mrs. Leo Hunter's Fancy-Dress Dejeune: Plate A (with incorrect page number 169, making it 'the rarest of all Pickwick plates'), First state.15. The Unexpected Breaking-Up of the Seminary for Young Ladies: Plate A (correctly paginated 169), First state.16-21. All Plate A.22. Christmas Eve at M. Wardle's: Plate A, First plate.23. The Goblin and the Sexton: Plate B1 (knot in place of a face in tree trunk), First plate.24. Mr. Pickwick Slides: Plate A, First state.25. The First Interview with Mr. Sergeant Snubbin: Plate B1 (no roll of paper), Second plate.26. The Valentine: Plate A2 (with number burnished out), Second plate, first state. This and all following plates have no etched page number.27. The Trial: Plate B1, Second plate, first state.28. The Card Room at Bath: Plate A, First plate.29. Mr Winkle's situation when the door blew to: Plate B1, Second plate..30. Conviviality at Bob Sawyer's: Plate A, First plate.31. Mr Pickwick Sits for his Portrait: Plate B1, Second plate.32. The Warden's Room: Plate A, First plate.33. Discovery of Jingle in the Fleet: Plate A, First plate.34. The Red-nosed Man Discourseth: Plate B1, Second plate.35. Mrs Bardell Encounters Mr. Pickwick in the Prison: Plate A, First plate.36. Mr Winkle Returns under Extraordinary Circumstances: Plate A, First plate.37. The Ghostly Passengers in the Ghost of a Mail: Plate B1, Second plate.38. Mr. Bob Sawyer's Mode of Travelling: Plate A, First plate.39. The Rival Editors: Plate A, First plate.40. Mary and the Fat Boy: Plate A, First plate.41. Mr. Weller and His Friends Drinking to Mr. Pell: Plate A, First plate.42. Frontispiece: Plate A, First plate.43. Etched title: Plate A: First plate.References:Albert Johannsen, Phiz Illustrations from the Novels of Charles Dickens, 1956; Thomas Hatton & Arthur. H. Cleaver, A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens,, 1933; W. Miller & E.H. Strange, A Centenary Bibliography of the Pickwick Papers, 1936; J. Christian Bay, ('The Pickwick Papers', in Amateur Book Collector I, December 1950, pp.7-8).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

ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)Theatre de l'Univers, engraved allegorical title-page, engraved portrait of Ortelius, 119 double-page engraved maps, with 2 additional maps of France (one from the 1579 Ortelius edition, loosely inserted), some browning and soiling, occasional marginal damp-staining, Burgundy map split at central fold and repaired, the text on the reverse of approximately 6 maps cropped, a few corners creased, eighteenth-century marbled boards over original vellum, worn, loss to spine, lower joint split [Koeman III, Ort 32], folio (420 x 270mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598Footnotes:THE LAST EDITION OF THE 'THEATRUM' TO BE PUBLISHED IN FRENCH. Originally published in 1570 with 53 maps, this French edition was extended to include 119. 'The publication of this atlas [the 1570 first edition] marked an epoch in the history of cartography. It was the first uniformly sized, systematic collection of maps of the countries of the world based only on contemporary knowledge and in that sense may be called the first modern atlas' (Tooley, Maps and Map-Makers, p.30). The Atlas includes Ortelius' famous world map (Typus orbis terrarum), the Americas (Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio) and maps of Asia, Africa and Europe.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

THOMSON (JOHN)Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented, 4 vol., FIRST EDITION, 96 plates of photographic illustrations, publisher's maroon morocco-grain cloth gilt, bevelled edges, corners bumped, rebacked, g.e., folio (480 x 360mm.), Sampson Low, 1873-1874Footnotes:One of the most extensive photobooks of nineteenth-century China. It is thought that only 750 sets were published. Thomson's original photographs are beautifully reproduced by 'autotype', a form of collotype patented by the publisher Sampson Low to maintain the high level of resolution of the original albumen prints. Between 1870 and 1872 Thomson 'undertook four distinct journeys, up the north branch of the Pearl River, up the River Min to the area around Foochow (Fuzhou), to Peking (Beijing), and finally up the great Yangtze (Yangzi) River. The photographs taken on these journeys form one of the most extensive photographic surveys of any region taken in the nineteenth century. The range and depth of his photographic vision mark Thomson out as one of the most important travel photographers' (ODNB). Images include Imperial China, portraits of high government officials, and spectacular architectural and scenic views, showing 'the many sides of China: sweeping landscapes, royalty and ruling classes, merchants and economic activity, everyday life, and the faces of men, women and children' (Western Travellers in China, 91).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 Importance of Being Earnest, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 92 OF 100 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, a few light marks at fore-edge of opening few leaves, off-setting onto front free endpapers, publisher's decorative lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, fore-edges of covers with old damp-stains neatly refurbished [Mason 382], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Johann & Dora Kruse, 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

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, blue crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, g.e. [Mason 328], 8vo, Ward, Lock & Co., [1891]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

BULL (HENRY GRAVES)The Herefordshire Pomona, Containing Original Figures and Descriptions of the Most Esteemed kinds of Apples and Pears, FIRST EDITION, 2 vol., 4 uncoloured plates and 77 chromolithographed plates by Severeyns of Brussels, the majority after Edith E. Bull (daughter of the author) and Alice B. Ellis, fruit cross-section illustrations in the text, errata slip tipped-in, contemporary green half morocco, g.e., joints starting, some wear and loss to covers [Great Flower Books, pp.59-60; Nissen BBI 29], large 4to (375 x 300mm.), Hereford, Jakeman and Carver, and London, Journal of Horticulture Office, 1876-1885Footnotes:'ONE OF THE FINEST FRUIT BOOKS EVER ISSUED' (Great Flower Books), richly illustrated with fine bright chromolithographs.Provenance: Woolhope Naturalists Field Club 1851, 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

JOYCE (JAMES)Ulysses, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, limited to 2000 copies, half-title, 8pp. errata (uncut) at end, later quarter blue morocco gilt, marbled sides, publisher's blue upper and lower wrappers (with flaps) bound in [Slocum & Cahoon A18], 4to, Egoist Press, by John Rodker, 1922This 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, NUMBER 41 OF 250 LARGE PAPER COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, half-title and title designed by Charles Ricketts, publisher's grey parchment-backed bevelled boards, upper cover with gilt design by Ricketts incorporating title and funnel of 'butterflies', gilt lettered spine, t.e.g., others untrimmed, soiled, rebacked preserving most of original spine, neat repairs to endpapers [Mason 329], 4to, Ward, Lock & Co., 1891Footnotes:THE SIGNED LARGE PAPER ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION. This copy has a variant form of the title-page with a full stop after the word 'Gray'; the full stop is not present in Mason's reproduction of the title-page but is seemingly often found.Provenance: Christian Heuer, bookplate; Sotheby's, 18 December 1995, lot 229.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.)Bay. A Book of Poems, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 30 COPIES PRINTED ON JAPANESE VELLUM AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on the half-title, from an overall edition of 200, this copy not numbered, 10 woodcut illustrations (of which 6 hand-coloured) by Anne Estelle Rice, publisher's vellum-backed patterned boards designed by Rice, gilt lettered on spine [Roberts A12c], 8vo, [Printed by Hand at the Press of C.W. Beaumont, 1919]Footnotes:ONE OF THIRTY COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The poems in Bay 'comprise the greater part of Lawrence's literary reaction to the war... Bay was the first of many Lawrence books to be issued in an expensive format from a private press... [it was] illustrated by Anne Estelle Rice, an American, who Lawrence said, belonged to the 'Matisse' crowd in Paris' (Roberts).Provenance: Anne Estelle Rice; thence by descent.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, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket [Errington A9(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [2000]Footnotes:Provenance: Signed for the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a famous large Edinburgh book shop. See lot 122 for further details.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

ROSSETTI (CHRISTINA)The Poetical Works... With Memoir and Notes &c. by William Michael Rossetti, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, with an autograph note 'Presented to Miss Lisa Wilson 'my Fior-di-lisa' of Christina's little poem with affectionate regard by W.M. Rossetti Jan. 1904' on paper headed '3 St. Edmund's Terrace...' pasted on front free endpaper, chemise made from embroidered fabric, Macmillan, 1904; For Remembrance. Daily Selections from the Poems of Christina Rossetti. Compiled by Frances Maclean. With a Preface by Lisa Wilson, EDITOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed to Lisa Wilson (who wrote the preface) 'Lisa from Frances. Dec. 5 1913' above 2-line poetry quotation, annotated by Wilson in margins with the names and dates of friends (i.e. 'Christina 1894' beside the poem for 29 December), Winchester, Warren & Son, and London, Simpkin & Co., [1913]; Sing-Song. A Nursery Rhyme Book... illustrations by Arthur Hughes, inscribed by Lisa Wilson 'Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran with her Godmother's love, Feb 24th 1903', Macmillan, 1893; Speaking Likenesses... with Pictures Thereof by Arthur Hughes, FIRST EDITION, Lisa Wilson's copy inscribed 'Lisa from Jessie, Christmas 1883' on front free endpaper, spine soiled, Macmillan, 1874--ROSSETTI (DANTE GABRIEL) Ballads, PRESENTATION COPY FROM W.M. ROSSETTI, inscribed 'To Miss Lisa Wilson with best regards W.M. Rossetti, Novr. 1899', Ellis & Elvey, 1899--Of the Imitation of Christ... New Edition, PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHRISTINA TO WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI, inscribed in William's hand 'W.M. Rossetti from Christina 1890' inside upper cover, 3 CUT SIGNATURES OF CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, a 2-page note probably by Maria Rossetti and photograph of her loosely inserted, lacks front free endpaper, contemporary half calf, rubbed, Oxford, J.H. Parker, 1845--WILSON (LISA) Verses, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'Maude Corkran from Lisa Wilson with her love, Oct. 12. 1900', sprig of leaves loosely inserted (resulting in light off-setting to 2 pages), Bliss, Sands & Co., 1896--BELL (MACKENZIE) Christina Rossetti. A Biographical and Critical Study, FIRST EDITION, presentation copy with note 'To Miss Lisa Wilson with the good wishes of her friend Mackenzie Bell, Jan 1898' pasted onto the half-title, FLOWERS FROM THE WREATH PLACED ON CHRISTINA'S COFFIN loosely inserted within paper wallet folder inscribed by Lisa Wilson 'Flowers & leaves from the wreath which was laid on my beloved Christina's coffin, and buried with her - Jan 2 1892 - Highgate', a postcard from Mary Rossetti to Lisa Wilson (29 December 1930), a 4-page programme for a dedication service for the Memorial of Christina Rossetti held at Christ Church, Woburn Square on 1 November 1898, and a couple of other items loosely inserted, 2 small pencil annotations by Wilson, Hurst and Blackett, 1898--SANDARS (MARY F.) The Life of Christina Rossetti, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed 'To Miss Lisa Wilson with many thanks for her kind help from Mary F. Sanders, Oct. 10 1930' on the half-title, 3 autograph letters signed by the author to Wilson (12 pages, dated between August to September 1930, discussing the book) loosely inserted, APPROXIMATELY 25 PENCIL ANNOTATIONS AND CORRECTIONS BY LISA WILSON in the margins, Hutchinson, 1930, 8vo; and 13 others, biographies and reference works about Christina Rossetti, including the 4-volume Letters, works inscribed by Jan Marsh and Diane D'Amico, and 3 with the ownership inscription of Lisa Wilson (22)Footnotes:'SHE WOULD NOT HEAR OF FATE!': A group of books by, about and associated with Christina Rossetti belonging to Lisa Wilson, her closest friend in later years, and as her brother William Michael Rossetti notes in one of the volumes, 'the Fior-de-Lisa of Christina's little poem'. Two books are inscribed by William Michael, another has 3 cut signatures by Christina loosely inserted, whilst a third has dried flowers taken from the wreath laid upon her coffin. Christina Rossetti died on 29 December 1894 and Lisa was one of only a handful of guests accompanying the burial party on a snowy day at Highgate Cemetery on 2 January 1895, following a ceremony during which two hymns by Christina were sung. Also between the pages of this book can be found an order of service for Rossetti's memorial service on 1 November 1898. The editor of Rossetti's letters notes that in the last years of her life she was more aware of her growing fame and even joked to her brother William Michael that an annotated copy of Sing-Song would one day be 'priceless', warning him not to disperse her library without looking carefully for inscriptions (Antony H. Harrison, ed., The Letters of Christina Rossetti, Vol. 4: 1887-1894, 2004, xii). Lisa Wilson was consulted by Christina's early biographers, including Mackenzie Bell and Mary F. Sanders, in whose book Lisa has made some 25 revealing comments, such as 'Horrid', 'But she believe in the infinite mercy of God', 'I am sure she never thought this', and 'She would not hear of Fate!'. To Sanders' statement that Lisa was her 'most intimate friend to whom she poured out all her thoughts', Lisa responds tartly 'her thoughts were only poured out to her God'. As Lisa and Christina's correspondence was destroyed, these notes form a rare insight into their relationship. Provenance: Mary Louisa 'Lisa' Wilson (1850-1934, poet, artist and friend of Christina Rossetti); her god-daughter Christina Maude Evelyn Corkran (1903-1979); thence by descent.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, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page, with the sequence of numbers 10 through to 1 on the verso of the title-page, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket [Errington A2(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1998]Footnotes:FINE FIRST EDITION COPY, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, OF THE SECOND OF THE HARRY POTTER SERIES.Provenance: Signed for the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a large Edinburgh book shop. See lot 122 for further details.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)An Ideal Husband, FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES, toning to front endpapers, publisher's lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, light fading to spine, very short tear at foot of spine [Mason 385], 4to, Leonard Smithers, 1899Footnotes:Provenance: Panos Gratsos (1909-1990), 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 FANU (JOSEPH SHERIDAN)Wylder's Hand: A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, publisher's mauve blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt on spine, rebacked preserving original spines (with part loss of a couple of letters to volumes 1 and 2), new endpapers [Sadleir 1389; Wolff 4028] , Richard Bentley, 1864; Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, second issue (with 'Second Edition' on the title of volume 1), half-titles, near contemporary half calf, spines tooled in gilt with morocco lettering labels (one with loss), rubbed [cf. Sadleir 1386; Wolff 4025a], Richard Tinsley, 1864--The Tenants of Malory. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles [Sadleir 1385; Wolff 4024], Tinsley Brothers, 1867; A Lost Name, FIRST EDITION, without advertisements in volume 3 [Sadleir 1381; Wolff 4018], Richard Bentley, 1868, bookplate of Sir. W.G. Gordon Cumming, later morocco-backed cloth by Birdsall & Son of Northampton, 8vo (12)Footnotes:A collection of four of Le Fanu's 1860s triple-deckers, of which Uncle Silas is described by ODNB as 'his best novel'.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

[MOLIERE (JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN DE)]Oeuvres de Monsieur Molier, Tome premier, vol. 1 (of 2), engraved frontispiece, woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, light spotting, contemporary speckled calf gilt, initials PC blind-stamped on each cover, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt panelled spine with raised bands, 8vo, Paris, Estienne Loyson, 1664Footnotes:THE UNRECORDED FIRST VOLUME OF LOYSON'S PRINTING OF MOLIERE WITH A CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH PROVENANCE. Three editions of the collected works by Moliere were published in Paris between 1663 and 1664 without the consent of the author - these are known today as 'éditions collectives factices'. Our edition was previously known only by volume 2 referred to by Guibert in his bibliography, who writes 'le Tome I à son nom n'a été jamais découvert' (Guibert II, p. 560). The works contained in this first volume are:Les Précieuses ridicules, Paris, Claude Barbin, 1660Sganarelle ou Le Cocu imaginaire, Paris, Estienne Loyson, 1665L'École des maris, Paris, Jean Guignard, 1663Les Fâcheux, Paris, Jean Guignard, 1663Provenance: Phillip Constable, early ownership inscription dated 1669 and initials blind-stamped on covers. Philip Constable can be identified as possibly either Philip Constable (b.1622), brother of Sir Marmaduke Constable, 2nd Bt. of Everingham; or Philip Constable (b.1651), son of Sir Marmaduke Constable. The family had ties with the continent, and with Louvain in particular (see A. Hamilton, The Chronicle of the English Augustinian canonesses regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica's in Louvain (now at St. Augustine's priory, Newton Abbot, Devon) 1548[-1644], pp.232-234.).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

COLLINS (WILKIE)No Name, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles in volumes 1 and 2 (as called for), recased in publisher's orange cloth, new endpapers, worn, joints refurbished [Sadleir 601; Wolff 1371], Sampson Low, 1862; Armadale, 2 vol., first published edition, 20 wood-engraved plates by G.H. Thomas, rebacked preserving original spines [Sadleir 588; Wolff 1345], Smith, Elder and Co., 1866; The Two Destinies. A Romance, 2 vol., half-title in volume 1, lacks front free endpaper of volume 1 [Wolff 1376], Chatto & Windus, 1876; The Haunted Hotel. A Mystery of Modern Venice, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 6 wood-engraved plates by Arthur Hopkins, 40pp. publisher's advertisements (dated October 1878) in volume 1, one gathering loose in volume 1 [Wolff 1355], Chatto & Windus, 1879; Jezebel's Daughter, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 32pp. of advertisements (dated Feb. 1880) in volume 1, spines soiled [Wolff 1359], Chatto & Windus, 1880, 8vo; and 6 others by Collins (18)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)A Woman of No Importance, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], a few light spots to opening leaves, publisher's decorative lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, slight fading [Mason 364], 4to, John Lane, 1894This 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

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)The Second World War, 6 vol., third edition of volume 1, others FIRST EDITIONS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES TO LORD MOYNIHAN, INSCRIBED IN EACH VOLUME, 'To Lord Moynihan from Winston S. Churchill 1955' in volume 1, 'From Winston Churchill' in other volumes with date 1955 in volume 3, TYPED LETTER SIGNED BY CHURCHILL GIFTING THE SET tipped on front free endpaper of volume 1, full red morocco gilt by Bumpus of Oxford, g.e., a few dot abrasions on sides of volume 3, 8vo, Cassell, 1950-1954Footnotes:FINE SET INSCRIBED IN EACH VOLUME BY WINSTON CHURCHILL TO LORD MOYNIHAN AS A THANK YOU FOR HIS PART IN CHURCHILL'S EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS. In his letter to the recipient, dated 20 June 1955, Churchill writes 'I send you herewith a set of my war memoirs which I have had bound... This is a very small token of my gratitude for all the kindness and service you have rendered to me in my old age'.Lord Moynihan was the honorary treasurer of the Winston Churchill Eightieth Birthday Presentation Fund, which raised money from subscriptions and donations made from around the globe, honouring his important role as wartime leader. During a ceremony at Downing Street on 30 November 1954 Moynihan handed over a cheque for £150,000 (an interim payment) stating that the contributors were 'anxious that you should spend it in whatever way you... may choose'. He created a Trust, using the money to make an endowment to his home at Chartwell, and other charitable purposes.In 1953, the year prior to the publication of the sixth volume of The Second World War, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 'for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values'.Provenance: Patrick Moynihan, 2nd Baron Moynihan (1906-1965); by descent.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

JACKSON (KEITH ALEXANDER)Views in Affghaunistaun... from Sketches Taken During the Campaign of the Army of the Indus, FIRST EDITION, hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece portrait, lithographed pictorial title, dedication and 22 tinted lithographed plates (of 25) by W. L. Walton, T. Allom and others, one map, some spotting, contents loose, publisher's morocco-backed cloth, gilt lettered on upper cover, spine with some loss, worn [Abbey, Travel 506], folio (380 x 280mm.), W.H. Allen, [1841]This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'to Catriona long time since I have seen one of these!. J.K. Rowling' on the dedication leaf, with numbers 10 through to 1, and 'Joanne Rowling' on the verso of the title-page, small blue ink stain to upper margin of text block on pp.145-173, publisher's white printed wrappers with a yellow band around the middle, and lettered in black (short tear at lower upper joint, a couple of light indentations to upper cover, light handling marks) [Errington AA1(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1997]Footnotes:VERY RARE SIGNED COPY OF THE VERY FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF HARRY POTTER, for which an 'unconfirmed print-run of 200 copies is generally accepted... This is also the figure noted by Bloomsbury' (Errington). We have been unable to trace any other signed and inscribed copies of this book.The elegant inscription reflects the fact that Rowling and the recipient had known each other from almost the beginning of the Harry Potter journey. Catriona was the children's book buyer for a famous book shop in Edinburgh, advocating the merits of Rowling's first book from the moment she read this copy of the uncorrected proof copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in 1997 when she was given it by the publisher's agent.She later met Rowling on several occasions when she visited the shop, first to write in the shop's café, later to sign books or attend events that Catriona helped organise. This copy was actually signed in 1999, at the same time Rowling signed Catriona's copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (see lot 127). The inscription captures the extraordinary changes in the author's literary journey, from the moment the proof of this, her first book, appeared in 1997 to her burgeoning success with publication in 1999 of Azkaban, from which moment 'Harry Potter' truly became the global phenomenon he has been ever since.Provenance: Catriona, the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a famous large Edinburgh book shop. This copy was personally inscribed by Rowling during a visit to the shop in 1999, at the same time that she signed a proof copy of The Prisoner of Azkaban (see lot 126).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

ROWLING (J.K.)The Prisoner of Azkaban, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the dedication page, with the sequence of numbers 10 through to 1 on the verso of the title-page, publisher's pictorial boards, dust-jacket [Errington A7(a)], 8vo, Bloomsbury, [1999]Footnotes:Provenance: Signed for the vendor, who from 1995-2000 was the children's book buyer at a famous large Edinburgh book shop. See lot 122 for further details.Saleroom notices:Should read Errington A7(aa) - this is second state of the first editionThis 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)A Woman of No Importance, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED 'To Rose Le Clercq, as a slight recognition of her brilliant performance in my play. Oscar Wilde' on the front free endpaper, publisher's decorative lilac cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, soiled, hinges, joints and spine ends restored, preserved in fleece-lined morocco-backed solander box [Mason 364], 4to, John Lane, 1894Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WILDE TO ROSE LECLERCQ, THE FIRST ACTRESS TO PLAY LADY BRACKNELL AND LADY HUNSTANTON.Rose Leclercq (1845-1899), born coincidentally in Wilde Street, Liverpool, had a hugely successful acting career, most famously creating the role of Lady Bracknell in the first performance of The Importance of Being Earnest, 'so cast because of her experience playing similar parts. Like Beerbohm Tree's performance of Lord Illingworth, Leclercq's casting ensured instant audience recognition of Lady Bracknell's character' (Heather Marcovitch, The Art of Pose. Oscar Wilde's Performance Theory, 2010). She had previously performed the role of Lady Hunstanton, alongside Beerbohm Tree, for the first performance (19 April 1893) of A Woman of No Importance - referenced by Wilde in his warm inscription as 'a brilliant performance'.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)Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play About a Good Woman, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 500 COPIES], 16-page publisher's catalogue at end (September 1893), front free endpaper loose, publisher's decorative cloth gilt designed by Charles Shannon, soiling, one light old tape mark on each cover, spine frayed at extremities touching gilt decoration, shelf label inside upper cover [Mason 357], small 4to, Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1893Footnotes:Provenance: E. Hubert Litchfield; The Brother Julian F.S.C. Collection, New York, 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

BIBLE, IN LATINBiblia sacra, engraved pictorial title by Abraham de Bruyn after Crispin van den Broeck, 4pp. dedication to Cardinal Albert of Austria, with the blanks NN8 and K6, 3 double-page engraved maps (including World twin-hemisphere, second issue with the verso blank and the word 'gentes' added below 'IEKTAN' in the bottom left-hand panel; 'Terrae Israel'; Canaan), 2 double-page engraved plates, 4 full-page engraved plates on 2 sheets, illustrations in the text, lacks 2 preliminary leaves (**2 and **6, ?a blank), the title and 2 images (a2, one small hole) scuffed to obscure female genitalia, map of Holy Land lightly stained with small abrasion to surface, some marginal damp stains (mostly light, occasionally touching few lines of text at lower section), eighteenth-century half calf over paste-boards, worn [Adams B1089; Darlow & Moule 6173 (note); Shirley World 125; Voet 690 and p. 367], folio (436 x 280mm.), Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1583Footnotes:'One of the most impressive and beautiful editions of the Plantin press' (Voet). A reprint of the Bible of Louvain (1547) Plantin first issued his edition in 1565, again in 1574, before this edition of 1583, for which 36 illustrations were specially cut to enhance those taken from earlier publications. The twin hemisphere world map was originally issued in the eighth volume of the Polyglot Bible (1572). This copy includes the dedication to Cardinal Albert of Austria, which is sometimes missing because Antwerp was at that time under a Calvinist administration (perhaps explaining the partial erasures to female body parts on the title-page).Provenance: J. De Surhon, early ownership inscription in upper margin of title; Julien Nysssens Hart (1859-1910, Belgian engineer); and 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

BORGET (AUGUSTE)Sketches of China and the Chinese, additional pictorial lithograph title and 32 tinted lithograph views on 25 sheets by Eugene Ciceri after Borget, list of plates and 11 pages of descriptive letterpress, marginal light spotting, publisher's cloth, rebacked [Abbey Travel 540], folio (545 x 370mm.), Tilt and Bogue, [1842]Footnotes:IMPORTANT AND EARLY RECORD OF THE PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPE OF CANTON, MACAO AND HONG KONG. This edition, with the text in English, was issued in the same year as the French version published by Goupil and Vibert, whose imprint appears on the plates. Five of the plates depict Hong Kong, which became a British Crown Colony in 1842, the others depicting scenes along the Pearl River, including Macao and Canton.Provenance: Gift inscription on first flyleaf dated 1843.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 FANU (JOSEPH SHERIDAN)The House by the Church-yard, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, half-title in volume 3 only (as issued), occasional spotting, pp.257-278 loosened in volume 3, pencil correction to spelling/printing errors on pp.197 and 307 in volume 1, publisher's Royal blue blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered and tooled in gilt, rubbed [Sadleir 1379, first issue; Wolff 4016], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1863Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE PUBLISHER'S CLOTH of Le Fanu's classic of supernatural fiction. 'The pages of the novel are crimsoned in gore with seasonings of hauntings, apparitions, and brooding menace. There are connoisseurs of the ghostly who put it first among Le Fanu's works' (Tymn, Horror Literature, 1981).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